cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: 01_1778
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Trial-based clinical and economic analyses: the unhelpful quest for conformity
Creators: name: Whitehurst, David G.
name: Bryan, Stirling
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Where there is conformity across the findings, interpretation and implications of 'clinical’ and 'economic’ research, there is limited cause for concern. However, there is often unease when apparent contradictory conclusions are drawn from the same study. Given the ever increasing role for economic evaluation in healthcare decision making, this commentary challenges the necessity of compatibility between clinical and economic evaluation.
title: The form of the informal : a type-morphological analysis of the urban fabric of Paraisopolis favela
Creators: name: Tessari, Alessandro
name: Benatti Alvin, Angelica
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The present work, in development at FAU-Mackenzie in São Paulo under the supervision of Prof. Angelica Benatti Alvim, continues the author's research carried out in Rio de Janeiro and published in the book INFORMAL ROOTING. AN OPEN ATLAS (Tessari, 2020). The focus of the work is the analysis of the morphological and typological configuration of Paraisópolis favela, located in the southwest part of the municipality of São Paulo, from the theoretical and conceptual framework of Urban Morphology, especially from the type-morphological or process typological approach (Kropft, 2009) also known as the Italian School (Moudon, 1997). The main objective of this work is the identification of morphological and typological patterns both public and private dimensions of favelas specifically in Paraisopolis. Starting from the realization that, on a global level, a process of "rooting" of favelas in the metropolises that are structured on themselves is at work, they remain and sediment in the collective imagination, producing an unprecedented sociocultural mutation; in other words, the physical structure of favelas, today, assumes the logic of stabilization and reorganization (Tessari, 2016). The research is divided into two stages: 1) macro territorial scale - verifying the growth and expansion relations of the Paraisopolis favela in interface with the expansion of the metropolis; 2) local micro-scale - to identify and understand the spatial micro-transformations and the evolution syntax of the urban fabric of the favela, responsible for the articulation of the different parts with each other and with the whole. The final product aims to build an unprecedented catalogue that brings together urban forms and spaces generated in the favela, which can be used as an instrument of knowledge and rigorous interpretation of informality.
Cyrtopodion kirmanense
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Cyrtopodion
Cyrtopodion kirmanense

description: Cyrtopodion kirmanense (Nikolsky, 1900)
 Gymnodactylus kirmanensis Nikolsky, 1900: 381.
COMMON NAME. — Kerman Bent-toed Gecko.
LECTOTYPE — ZIL 9330.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Kuh-e Taftan, Sargad, East of Kerman, Iran.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Sistan and Baluchestan and with uncertain records from Kerman and Fars Provinces (Smid et al. 2014).
HABITAT. — According to Szczerbak & Golubev (1996): “sheer rocky cliffs in the mountains, river banks and dry channels; shady terraces, crack, niches; occasionally, on loose fragments of rock boulders. It is most frequently found on granites and, less often, on conglomerates and other rocks.”
IUCN. — Least concern.
 REFERENCES. — Nikolsky (1900); Szczerbak & Golubev (1996); Smid et al. (2014).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on pages 512-513, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Calibrationless Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Joint Sparsity Model
Creators: name: Majumdar, Angshul
name: Chaudhury, Kunal Narayan
name: Ward, Rabab Kreidieh
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: State-of-the-art parallel MRI techniques either explicitly or implicitly require certain parameters to be estimated, e.g., the sensitivity map for SENSE, SMASH and interpolation weights for GRAPPA, SPIRiT. Thus all these techniques are sensitive to the calibration (parameter estimation) stage. In this work, we have proposed a parallel MRI technique that does not require any calibration but yields reconstruction results that are at par with (or even better than) state-of-the-art methods in parallel MRI. Our proposed method required solving non-convex analysis and synthesis prior joint-sparsity problems. This work also derives the algorithms for solving them. Experimental validation was carried out on two datasets—eight channel brain and eight channel Shepp-Logan phantom. Two sampling methods were used—Variable Density Random sampling and non-Cartesian Radial sampling. For the brain data, acceleration factor of 4 was used and for the other an acceleration factor of 6 was used. The reconstruction results were quantitatively evaluated based on the Normalised Mean Squared Error between the reconstructed image and the originals. The qualitative evaluation was based on the actual reconstructed images. We compared our work with four state-of-the-art parallel imaging techniques; two calibrated methods—CS SENSE and l1SPIRiT and two calibration free techniques—Distributed CS and SAKE. Our method yields better reconstruction results than all of them.
title: Study on spatial form types of industrial remains in high-density cities : a case study of Suzhou Creek area in Shanghai
Creators: name: Tong, Chu
name: Yan, Pro Zuo
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Industrial remains in high-density cities are not only important physical carriers of urban development but also historical space with the particularity of spatial form. It is helpful to promote the sustainable transformation of the industrial district by analyzing its spatial form and establishing adaptive renovation measures. This paper focuses on the surrounding area of Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, the main industrial cluster in Shanghai's central city, and takes 129 industrial remains on both sides as samples. Based on the method of urban morphology of Conzenian School and the characteristics of industrial remains in Shanghai, this paper establishes a research framework of spatial morphology from three dimensions of "Unit plan"," Building type" and " Building function", and summarizes four form types of industrial remains: Dense organization, Clustered organization, Scattered organization, and Single-building organization. Analyzing their characteristics and discussing their formation mechanism to provide more possibilities for sustainable development in the future.
title: Reading the change in local urban forms under global processes. Towards the definition of a hybrid lens
Creators: name: Tulumen, Zeynep
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Within the cities in transition, the local forms and realities are being shaped progressively by global trends: the social and technological changes that have characterized our recent decades. Plus, in certain contexts where economic and political circumstances are unstable, market forces are causing more smoothly sharp and controversial transformations. These are portions of urban land where rent gaps are formed as a result of a discrepancy between the supply and demand curve. The change in urban form can be a hint for the closing rent gap, nevertheless alone itself is not sufficient for accurate diagnoses. In other words, a holistic understanding of such realities requires an inquiry of the interplay between non-material and physical features of the urban tissues. In this context, in a broader framework, this study aims to contribute in methodological terms, to the challenge of understanding complex city systems by exploiting the instrumentality of urban morphology for a sophisticated reading of transformation processes. The selected neighborhood of Istanbul, parcel that has experienced gentrification process serves as a sample to argue what should be a trans-disciplinary way of reading and representing contemporary transformation processes. Through a microscopic reading of the fabric, the goal of this paper is to demonstrate how to put in relation systematically both tangible and intangible data of the built environment. For tangible data, morphological information, the plot system, is indented and for intangible data, land values are connoted. Finally, urban morphology as a discipline, if integrated with the urban economy field, could empower its potential to comprehend complex urban realities.
title: Adaptability of urban grids : patterns of morphological change and persistence in Midtown Manhattan, 1884-2011
Creators: name: Tumturk, Onur
name: Karakiewicz, Justyna
name: De Haan, Fjalar
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Urban grid, as an open framework and an adaptable form of spatial organisation, has a capacity to produce infinite complexity and variety through time. This research is about the morphological conditions that affect the generative capacity of urban grids. Arguing that there could be distinctive morphological settings and conditions that may hinder or facilitate further adaptation and change, the research aims to develop an analytical framework to identify possible morphological variables affecting the patterns of change and persistence in the built environment. The study focuses on the Midtown Manhattan, the central part of Manhattan's extensive grid, and traces the morphological changes and continuities between 1884 and 2011 by relying on a comprehensive spatial database. The longitudinal analysis of the site reveals that different characteristic areas in the grid (in terms of plot compositions, syntactic values of the streets, diversity of land uses) show different patterns of change and levels of adaptation to emerging disturbances through time. Identification of the reliable morphological parameters explaining the capacity of spatial change and persistence will contribute to the emerging discussions on the resilience and adaptability of urban form.
title: 01_1293
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: Urban form and the resilience of Chinese villages during rapid rural-to-urban transformation
Creators: name: Utzig, Lukas
name: Misselwitz, Philipp
name: Vaughan, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The rapid urbanisation of the last decades in China has seen many areas transform at record speed from rural to urban built-up land as the cities grow outwards and land is requisitioned. Farmland is turned into swathes of factories, enclosing old villages at the edges of the city, while migrant workers are arriving from the distant rural provinces of western China. This research investigates the changes of the urban form and social structure in the case of the Huangyan-Taizhou region over the last 20 years as the area transformed. Different transformation paths among the villages of the region will be investigated and how unequal distribution of spatial opportunities and adaptability of urban form connect to long-term resilience. For that, computational mapping methods through satellite imagery and accessibility analyses have been combined with qualitative observations and interviews. This has been embedded in the theoretical discourse around urban segregation by Hillier and Vaughan, the concept of operational landscapes by Brenner and informality by De Certeau. The findings show that urban built form has a direct impact on the resilience of villages in the struggle to establish alternative sources of income after their agricultural land is transformed. Adaptability of the surroundings and the potential for informal activities are crucial for villagers' and migrants' livelihoods. The potential of the urban fabric to generate movement from a wider catchment area has an impact on the creation of businesses in the villages. This has shifted to the transformed areas away from the rural parts of the research region. However, on a local scale the villages are still the centres of social activity and identification, especially after they become surrounded by new industrial builtup land, which is not able to create comparable urban characteristics.
Cyrtopodion persepolense Nazarov, Ananjeva & Radjabizadeh 2009
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Cyrtopodion
Cyrtopodion persepolense

description: Cyrtopodion persepolense Nazarov, Ananjeva & Radjabizadeh, 2009
 Cyrtopodion persepolense Nazarov, Ananjeva & Radjabizadeh, 2009: 317.
COMMON NAME. — Persepolis Bent-toed Gecko.
HOLOTYPE. — ZMMU R-12626.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Southern Iran, Fars Province, 60 km North East of Shiraz, Takht-e-Jamshid (Persepolis), 29°55’N, 52°53’E.
DISTRIBUTION. — Only known only from the type locality and likely to be found within the Fars Province.
HABITAT. — Found in vertical surfaces with a lot of shelters.
IUCN. — Not evaluated.
 REFERENCE. — Nazarov et al. (2009).
REMARKS
 This species is closely similar to C. gastropholis.
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 513, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
title: Promotion of education with temple property - Study on the influence of Confucianism and Buddhism on the spatial morphology of temple-hosted academy in Hanyang Town
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
name: Zhao, Ranting
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: During the period of "Promotion of education with temple property", the combination of temples and academy was an important feature of traditional Chinese campus planning and design. The Confucious ideology of "live for the people" was consistent with the Mahayana Buddhism spirit of "To save the world while benefiting the people". The thesis analyzes the main spatial structure of traditional campus planning under the temple-academic system and discusses the evolution process of formation of the traditional campus under the game between "Temple" and "Academy". Based on historical archives, The urban spatial layout of Hanyang is characterized by the spatial game between educational space and ritual space. The changes in urban morphology confirm the demands of power for urban space.
title: From enclave urbanism to sustainable cities : comparing gated and non-gated housings form in China from syntactical and morphological perspectives
Creators: name: Yang, Yufeng
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Aiming to achieve more sustainable cities, a new directive issued by China's government in 2016 announces an upcoming housing reform to halt new gated housing constructions and gradually open the built-up ones. Since then, researchers have been focusing on the policy, management, and benefits of un-gating residential areas. However, there is a need to understand the gated and non-gated housing form through a spatial perspective beyond the physical boundaries. This paper thus attempts to address this point by adopting approaches from space syntax and urban morphology. Taking Wuhan City as a case study, analyses were conducted at three levels. Investigation at the macro level focuses on the overall distribution of gated residences in the urban area and the social logic behind it. At the meso level, six pairs of cases (i.e., twelve cases) were carefully chosen to compare their density and typomorphology via Spacemate diagram. Moreover, two pairs of cases were further selected to compare spatial centrality and movement interface using the space syntax approach. The findings suggested that the distribution of gated housing corresponds to the evolution process of the city. Moreover, the Spacemate diagram also evidenced that compared with non-gated ones, gated estates tend to create a larger proportion of open space for a smaller number of residents. Finally, the non-gated layouts demonstrated higher centrality and greater movement interface than gated layouts at the local, neighbourhood, and city scales. This indicates that the non-gated estates have better connections and embeddedness to the surroundings and a greater probability for encounters. Therefore, simply removing gates or physical boundaries may not change the performance of a gated compound, as its inherent spatial structure would remain the same. This paper provides a new perspective to understand better the gated housing forms and suggestions for the ongoing housing reform in China.
Aggregation and uptake kinetics of gold nanoparticles in biological cells, using plasmon coupling and image correlation spectroscopy
Creators: name: Mohsin, A. S. M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this PhD was to develop a technique to quantify the uptake and aggregation of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using image correlation spectroscopy (ICS). We proposed a non - destructive microscopic optical method using image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) together with plasmon coupling. The combination of these techniques provides an indication of what is happening within cells, both at the microscopic and macroscopic level. This technique could be used in different biological applications including cancer therapy, drug delivery, disease diagnosis and also for probing membrane protein stoichiometry and dynamics. Although visual resolution itself may not be improved, the ability to ‘see’ inside cells may be enhanced by the use of the methods discovered here.
title: Exploring the urban form of Qom (Iran) at the local scale : movement-activity pattern versus network centrality
Creators: name: Zamani, Vahid
name: Ghalehnoee, Mahmoud
name: Mohammadi, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Structural features of the street network - as the intersection of two systems of movement and activity - strongly influence the pedestrian/motorized traffic flow and the distribution of commercial/service (CS) activities throughout large cities. Qom, a large old city in central Iran with a diverse typology of urban form in the historic, middle and peripheral areas, encounters a serious conflict between the functions of the two systems following recently road constructions and increasing automobile dependence. To take a step towards addressing the problem, this paper aims at in-depth explaining the relationship between the street network centrality and the patterns of street layout and CS activity locations in Qom at the local scale of the street network micro-structure, through adopting a quantitative approach by utilising an integration of spatial and statistical tools/techniques. Firstly, ten morphologically-homogenous high-centralised superblocks - called local morphological zones (LMZs) – which are identified through modelling street network centrality index of local closeness (LCNC) using Multiple Centrality Assessment (MCA), are classified employing hierarchical cluster analysis, regarding the street layout and CS activity location patterns by analysing topological/geometrical indicators. Secondly, the relationship between LCNC and the patterns are investigated using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and Lorenz curve. The findings reveal that the LMZs’ patterns of CS activity locations can be obviously classified into two clusters (the older and newer LMZs mostly stand in two different clusters) while regarding the street layout, the LMZ within the city’s historic core stands alone in a cluster; moreover, average LCNC of the LMZs have no significant correlation with indicators of activity location in comparison with the significant correlation with three indicators of street layout pattern, while at the micro-level of the LMZs, CS activity distribution alongside street network segments has more relationship with LCNC compared with the street nodes.
title: The morphological evolution of high-rise residential building plan in Shanghai under urban social changes
Creators: name: Zhang, Dixin
name: He, Yong
name: Jia, Chenchen
name: Wang, Weiran
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: High-rise residential buildings are not simply objective products of cities, which are influenced by urban social changes and national housing standards. Human-oriented design has been continuously paid attention to in the development of contemporary Chinese urban housing. However, the morphology of high-rise housing in China tends to be in a lack of variety. The paper made a summary of the types of high-rise residential building plan in Shanghai from the 1980s to the present, and explained the process of change from the perspective of urban social changes. The form of high-rise residential plan could be divided into three types: gallery apartment building, tower-type apartment building and combined apartment building under the influence of social economy and housing standard in different periods. From 1980 to 1990, the form of high-rise residential plan was diversified, such as gallery and tower-type apartment building. In 1990s, tower housing became mainstream. In 2000s, the type was dominated by tower-type and combined apartment. Since 2016, China has implemented the two-child policy. To meet the need of various families, the form of residential building plan should be more flexible. The evolution of high-rise residential form can partly reflect the changes of urban society. Research on residential morphology can provide a basis for the sustainable development of high-density cities in China.
Design and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Smartphone Pulse Oximeter
Creators: name: Petersen, Christian L.
name: Chen, Tso P.
name: Ansermino, J. Mark
name: Dumont, G. (Guy), 1951-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Infectious diseases such as pneumonia take the lives of millions of children in low- and middle-income countries every year. Many of these deaths could be prevented with the availability of robust and low-cost diagnostic tools using integrated sensor technology. Pulse oximetry in particular, offers a unique non-invasive and specific test for an increase in the severity of many infectious diseases such as pneumonia. If pulse oximetry could be delivered on widely available mobile phones, it could become a compelling solution to global health challenges. Many lives could be saved if this technology was disseminated effectively in the affected regions of the world to rescue patients from the fatal consequences of these infectious diseases. We describe the implementation of such an oximeter that interfaces a conventional clinical oximeter finger sensor with a smartphone through the headset jack audio interface, and present a simulator-based systematic verification system to be used for automated validation of the sensor interface on different smartphones and media players. An excellent agreement was found between the simulator and the audio oximeter for both oxygen saturation and heart rate over a wide range of optical transmission levels on 4th and 5th generations of the iPod TouchTM and iPhoneTM devices.
Hemidactylus romeshkanicus Torki, Manthey & Barts 2011
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Hemidactylus
Hemidactylus romeshkanicus

description: Hemidactylus romeshkanicus Torki, Manthey & Barts, 2011
 Hemidactylus romeshkanicus Torki, Manthey & Barts, 2011: 48.
COMMON NAME. — Lorestan Gecko.
HOLOTYPE. — ZMB 75020.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Western slope of the central Zagros Mountains, Romeshkan region, Lorestan Province (33°16’N, 47°35’E).
DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from the type locality.
HABITAT. — A mountainous area covered with sparse oak forest.
IUCN. — Not evaluated.
 REFERENCE. — Torki et al. (2011a).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on pages 513-514, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
title: Evolution of Danwei system and urban landscape in China's socialist practice after 1949 : a case study in SUNCUN, Shandong province
Creators: name: Zhao, Qianhui
name: Song, Feng
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: As a unique attempt of socialist practice in China, Danwei (the unit) system, which formed in the planned economy and died out with the establishment of socialist market economy, has deeply influenced the social structure and urban form in China. From the perspective of urban landscape, this paper studies and interprets the social evolution and changes of urban form from the establishment of Danwei to its disintegration, exemplified by SUNCUN in Shandong, revealing the particularity and complexity of China’s social and spatial practice
title: Informal settlements and international migrants : the city of Rome (Italy) as case study
Creators: name: Abbasi, Saira
name: Lauri, Cristiana
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Today, urbanization is happening at an unprecedentedly rapid rate, owing heavily to the influx of migrants. Empirical evidence shows the development of informal settlements in cities as a result of migration, including Rome. Furthermore, information on informal settlements is either insufficient or inadequate, which makes it challenging for architects, urban planners, and policymakers to form viable solutions to deal with the situations of informality. The main focus of the research is to study the Authorized Nomadic Camps, illegal and tolerated squatter settlements of the Metropolitan City of Rome from 1990-2021, and the laws, regulations, and policies that have shaped them. Mixed research methodology and descriptive-analytical techniques are used to analyze the data collected via field research, site visit, interviews, and study of existing literature and maps. The analysis of morphological changes of the selected sites is done using images from Goggle Earth Time Lapse dating from 2001 – 2021. This research identifies that most of the settlements have been located by the Municipality in segregated and marginalized areas of the city with poor transport and mobility, and inadequate conditions of housing, access to services. Furthermore, the Gordiani Campo Nomadi need not be entirely evacuated and demolished, as it and the area around Via Gordiani have the potential to be developed in a way that meets the needs of all stakeholders, and most importantly the current dwellers of the camp. This will help alleviate the sense of trauma and loss experienced by uprooting and evicting them. Case studies and urban analysis reveals the involvement of the community, effective communication, and participation between all stakeholders are pertinent to design long-term sustainable solutions.
Mediodactylus aspratilis
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Mediodactylus
Mediodactylus aspratilis

description: Mediodactylus aspratilis (Anderson, 1973)
 Bunopus aspratilis Anderson, 1973: 355.
COMMON NAME. — Iranian Keel-scaled Gecko.
HOLOTYPE. — USNM 193961.
TYPE LOCALITY. — In 35 km East of Gach Saran (30°20’N, 50°48’E), Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Kermanshah, Hamedan, Lorestan and Fars Provinces (Anderson 1999; Kami 1999; Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011; Smid et al. 2014).
HABITAT. — The type and paratype samples were collected by Anderson (1999) under small and flat stones next to a dry stream, in an area with scattered plants (Anderson 1999). It is also found on the wall and ceiling of buildings (Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2011).
IUCN. — Data deficient.
 REFERENCES. — Anderson (1973; 1999); Kami (1999); Červenka et al. (2010); Karamiani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2011); Smid et al. (2014).
REMARKS
 It was first attributed to the genus Bunopus Blanford, 1874. Some authors accept it as Carinatogecko Golubev & Szczerbak, 1981 and some others synonymized with Mediodactylus (Červenka et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 514, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Unmasking Vulnerabilities: Cardinality Sketches under Adaptive Inputs
Creators: name: Ahmadian, Sara
name: Cohen, Edith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cardinality sketches are popular data structures that enhance the efficiency of working with large data sets. The sketches are randomized representations of sets that are only of logarithmic size but can support set merges and approximate cardinality (i.e., distinct count) queries. When queries are not adaptive, that is, they do not depend on preceding query responses, the design provides strong guarantees of correctly answering a number of queries exponential in the sketch size $k$.
 In this work, we investigate the performance of cardinality sketches in adaptive settings and unveil inherent vulnerabilities. We design an attack against the ``standard'' estimators that constructs an adversarial input by post-processing responses to a set of simple non-adaptive queries of size linear in the sketch size $k$. Empirically, our attack used only $4k$ queries with the widely used HyperLogLog (HLL++)~\citep{hyperloglog:2007,hyperloglogpractice:EDBT2013} sketch. The simple attack technique suggests it can be effective with post-processed natural workloads. Finally and importantly, we demonstrate that the vulnerability is inherent as \emph{any} estimator applied to known sketch structures can be attacked using a number of queries that is quadratic in $k$, matching a generic upper bound.
Effect of geopolymer cement stabilisation on fatigue life of pavement sub-bases with recycled demolition aggregates
Creators: name: Mohammadinia, Alireza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recycled Construction and Demolition (C&D) materials have traditionally been considered as waste materials in Australia. This study evaluates the behaviour of C&D materials when stabilized with geopolymers. Fly Ash (FA) and ground granulated blast furnace. A large scale tank test was also carried out to ascertain the fatigue performance of the stabilized C&D materials for pavement base/subbase applications and was also used for verification of the numerical finite element model. A small strain constitutive model was defined to predict settlements under fatigue loading test. This research proposes to replace high quality quarry materials with C&D materials stabilized with geopolymer binder.
title: Towards a sustainable urban form : a comparative analysis on urban regeneration between Crewe (UK) and Barahona de Fresno (Spain)
Creators: name: Al-Saffar, Mazin
name: Pastor, Antonio Blanco
name: Tezer, Zhale
name: Fang, Juntao
name: Sen, Hatice Livanur
name: Su, Zijun
name: Hussein, Malak
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This paper will explore different approaches to sustainable urban form through the comparative analysis of two different locations: Crewe in the UK and Barahona de Fresno in Spain. Despite these locations have different scales, shortcomings, and opportunities, both existing settlements share some issues like the abandonment, isolation, deterioration, or deprivation of the community, which, although experiencing many changes over time, still retain significant aspects of their architectural, urban, and ethnological heritage. In this context, both examples have been redesigned under the same umbrella of sustainable urban regeneration and conservation, by applying the proper treatment that each case requires. In order to cope with such a situation, the urban regeneration of both settlements have been relied on the conservation of their existing local identity, either tangible or intangible, by attempting to reduce the impact of new private or public spaces within or outside its existing urban fabric. Within this framework, the desired balance between the regeneration and conservation of Crewe and Barahona de Fresno has been the main aim of these academic projects, in order to reinvigorate these existing settlements from the standpoint of sustainable urban form.
title: Twin-cities over the Messina Strait : a discussion on Reggio Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage
Creators: name: Altafini, Diego
name: da Costa Braga, Andrea
name: Cutini, Valerio
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The idea of permanent connection and territorial integration between mainland Italy and Sicily across the Messina Strait dates to the 19th century. However, it was not until 1970’s that the area received the first planning regulations. Since then, proposed linkage projects remained limited to economic-based cost analysis and engineering-design feasibility evaluation. Due to the ever-unstable Italian political scenario, public interest on matter decreased in 1990’s and, by then, associated to incipient configurational models and data processing tools, it hindered any further analyses regarding urban agglomerates’ morphological changes deriving from this connection. Strait debates resurfaced in 2020-2021, as territorial integration is on the agenda of Italian economic recovery plans, an ideal scenario to revisit and study existent proposals, drawing from exploratory evaluations on urban morphology and twin-cities dynamics. This paper contributes to this discussion, through the analysis of different proposals for the Messina Strait linkage, using Space Syntax' Integration measures to assess configurational changes connections between the urban agglomerates of Messina and Reggio-Calabria; depicting tendencies for their urban dynamics transformation. Results and discussion contribute towards planning policies, while appointing the potentials to enhance a shared functional centrality for twin-cities.
title: Plan by evidence : targeting territory's talents
Creators: name: Amadei, Giorgio
name: Nicolini, Davide
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: underfunded planning budgets, a condition very common in cities of developing countries, suffer disproportionately from the negative social, economic and environmental externalities of uncontrolled/unregulated development and, at the same time, are unable to benefit from their latent potentials. In these contexts, the implementation of planning philosophies and methods from the Western tradition is neither desirable nor suitable as these cannot match needs, priorities, organisational structures, or financial resources. Alternative models are crucially needed to tackle cogent urban issues, including growing population, territorial extension, informal urbanisation, environmental exploitation, among others. This ambitious goal requires a massive effort, whose results on the ground will likely come to fruition in a long-term horizon. At the same time, even in the absence of more structured planning practices, practical tools capable to adapt to the specific context in which they are implemented and streamline decision-making are urgently needed for the sustainable management of urbanisation. To this end, this article presents an approach for the implementation of streamlined, and practical planning tool, based on immediate evidence, specifically tailored for those countries that are lacking in more established strategies for the management of urban development or that are characterized by high-level needs and limited resources. This is based on reading of the territory as an operative instrument for urban planning at meso - and local - scales. It entails the identification, for each element constituting a given territory, of three fundamental aspects: needs, talents and vocation. These, once identified and defined within their social, economic, environmental contexts, provide the concrete evidence onto which to ground small and medium-scale urban interventions. The described method is part of a wider research aiming the urban Integration of IDP camps in Iraq commissioned by UN-Habitat.
Mediodactylus ilamensis
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Mediodactylus
Mediodactylus ilamensis

description: Mediodactylus ilamensis (Fathinia, Karamiani, Darvishnia, Heidari & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011)
 Carinatogecko ilamensis Fathinia, Karamiani, Darvishnia, Heidari & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011: 62.
COMMON NAME. — Ilam keel-scaled Gecko (designated here).
HOLOTYPE. — RUZM-GC120.1.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Limestone sediments of Western foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Zarin-Abad region, Dehloran Township, Ilam Province, at the coordinates of 32°57’51”N, 47°03’23”E.
DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from the area of the type locality.
 HABITAT. — According to Fathinia et al. (2011) the habitat is composed of gypsum and lime sediment in a semi-desert area. The
samples were collected in the foothills about 200-500 m south of a permanent river.
IUCN. — Not evaluated.
 REFERENCE. — Fathinia et al. (2011).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 514, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
title: Protecting the past and planning the future : conservation planning and urban change in historic city centres
Creators: name: Barrett, Heather
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This paper examines the impact of conservation policy from the late-1960s to the present on the commercial core of the city of Worcester in the U.K. Using data from local authority planning records, it examines the complex relationship between conservation policy and other development concerns through a focus on the outcomes of planning negotiations manifest in the changing nature, location and architectural style of major development proposals. Detailed consideration of major development proposals from the late-1980s onwards reveals the way in which the 'heritage map' of area and asset designation influenced the nature and location of development. Using insights from Conzenian urban morphological approaches to the assessment of townscape character, the paper reflects on the extent to which understanding of the existing urban form and character of the area informed these development proposals and outcomes.
title: The memory of architecture and its continuity behind the urban memory
Creators: name: Batkova, Yuliia
name: Chizzoniti, Domenico
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The problem addressed in this research is that of the representation of socio-political power of the dominating group in the built environment. The city of Warsaw serves as a case study to identify the process of transformation of urban identity through the reconstruction after the war damages. From the lens of European identity some other case studies, such as Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia. All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what was called the Iron Curtain under the Soviet sphere and for various reasons have suffered more or less extensive destruction. Specifically, after major destruction during WW2, the urban form of Warsaw represents the material character of the city's history, largely excluding the main narratives of its former numerous Jewish communities as an important source of identity formation. The purpose of the study is to understand how this process came about, and how a sense of continuity with the past can be re-established. Addressing the case of Warsaw, four main issues are here evaluated: 1) expressions of power represented by zoning and its transfer to the creation of historic districts; 2) the origins of disparity of physical historical and contemporary environment; 3) problems within the field of architecture and urbanism in Eastern Europe and their relationship to the context. Through the linear relationship between architecture, memory and urban transformation this paper reports, works as agent of continuity, which in conjunction with the role of memory in the cross-time experiences brings the full experience of the past still alive in the present, by a projection to the future.
Mediodactylus sagittifer
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Mediodactylus
Mediodactylus sagittifer

description: Mediodactylus sagittifer (Nikolsky, 1900)
 Gymnodactylus sagittifer Nikolsky, 1900: 379.
COMMON NAME. — Jaz Murian Middle-toed Gecko.
LECTOTYPE. — ZIL 9331, designated by Szczerbak & Golubev (1986).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Bampur and Farra, in South East of Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
DISTRIBUTION. — Hormozgan and Sistan and Baluchestan Provinces.
HABITAT. — The species occurs on the trunks and branches of dry Acacia and on the walls of the old underground building (Anderson 1999).
IUCN. — Data deficient.
 REFERENCES. — Nikolsky (1900); Szczerbak & Golubev (1986); Anderson (1999); Nazarov et al. (2012).
REMARKS
 Nazarov et al. (2012) considered the species as a synonym of Cyrtopodion brevipes.
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 514, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795