cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Conceptual design of the PERLE injector
Creators: name: Hounsell, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The injector is one of the key components in an ERL as ERL beam quality is source limited. ERL injectors must be capable of delivering high average current beams while mitigating the emittance growth due to effects such as space charge. In this thesis the conceptual design of the PERLE injector is investigated. The injector consists of a 350 kV direct current (DC) photoelectron gun, a low energy section containing two solenoids and a buncher cavity, an superconducting radio frequency (SRF) booster linac and a merger to transport the beam into the main ERL loop. The electrode geometry of the electron gun was optimised for performance at both 350 kV and 220 kV. Then the beam dynamics from the cathode to the exit of the booster linac were optimised and it was shown that it was possible to achieve the specification at that point. However at booster exit an “M” shaped longitudinal phase space developed. Variant injectors with the addition of higher harmonic cavities were explored to see if it was possible to linearise the longitudinal phase space. It was shown that it is possible while still achieving the required transverse emittances. Finally the design of the merger was investigated. Four merger schemes were optimised and compared and two of them were capable of meeting the specification. Once all of the subsections of the injector had been optimised a baseline design without higher harmonic cavities and using a U-bend merger was selected. This design met the specification achieving final emittances of 4.3 mm mrad in the horizontal plane and 3.8 mm mrad in the vertical plane
New results on subgradient methods for strongly convex optimization problems with a unified analysis
Creators: name: Ito, Masaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C25, 68Q25, 49M37

description: We develop subgradient- and gradient-based methods for minimizing strongly convex functions under a notion which generalizes the standard Euclidean strong convexity. We propose a unifying framework for subgradient methods which yields two kinds of methods, namely, the Proximal Gradient Method (PGM) and the Conditional Gradient Method (CGM), unifying several existing methods. The unifying framework provides tools to analyze the convergence of PGMs and CGMs for non-smooth, (weakly) smooth, and further for structured problems such as the inexact oracle models. The proposed subgradient methods yield optimal PGMs for several classes of problems and yield optimal and nearly optimal CGMs for smooth and weakly smooth problems, respectively.
description: 36 pages. v2: Major revision
Additional file 4 of The efficacy and safety of patent Foramen Ovale Closure for Refractory Epilepsy (PFOC-RE): a prospectively randomized control trial of an innovative surgical therapy for refractory epilepsy patients with PFO of high-grade right-to-left shunt
Creators: name: Shuming, Ji
name: Hua, Li
name: Yusha, Tang
name: Lei, Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 4
2D Kac-Moody Symmetry of 4D Yang-Mills Theory
Creators: name: He, Temple
name: Mitra, Prahar
name: Strominger, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering amplitudes of any four-dimensional theory with nonabelian gauge group $\mathcal G$ may be recast as two-dimensional correlation functions on the asymptotic two-sphere at null infinity. The soft gluon theorem is shown, for massless theories at the semiclassical level, to be the Ward identity of a holomorphic two-dimensional $\mathcal G$-Kac-Moody symmetry acting on these correlation functions. Holomorphic Kac-Moody current insertions are positive helicity soft gluon insertions. The Kac-Moody transformations are a $CPT$ invariant subgroup of gauge transformations which act nontrivially at null infinity and comprise the four-dimensional asymptotic symmetry group.
description: 18 pages; v2: Corrected typos; v3: Added references and a footnote
Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region
Creators: name: Deponte, Diego
name: Fossa, Giovanna
name: Gorrini, Andrea
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: In the Milan experience, Covid-19 emergency crucial issues were already hidden weaknesses of the city and its region: the limited capacity of transit transport, roads and public spaces, with crowding problems for both work and leisure. The challenge is to regenerate the competitive “human measure” of Milan, based on its unique relationship between public spaces and mobility, overcoming its health risk. The report raises a question on the established transit-oriented development approach, focusing on spaces “in between” and not only on nodes and networks. The traditional “invariants” welcome changes: the spatial structure of the public realm becomes a platform for ever-changing mobility and services, providing quality of life for communities, users and tourists. With this respect, streets represent by far the most strategic asset of the urban public realm. They can be reshaped in resilient infrastructure capable to respond to new forms of mobility based on a renewed Mobility-as-A-Service paradigm, as final result of different travel behaviors of the post pandemic scenario, among which an expected reduction of the overall “mobility consumption” (space) and new temporal urban rhythms (time). To this end, short-term and responsive planning becomes a crucial opportunity to enable rapidly deployed responses, through an extensive use of new analytical tools based on Open and Big data analytics and computer-based simulations.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020: Special Issue. Covid-19 vs City-20
Additional file 3 of The efficacy and safety of patent Foramen Ovale Closure for Refractory Epilepsy (PFOC-RE): a prospectively randomized control trial of an innovative surgical therapy for refractory epilepsy patients with PFO of high-grade right-to-left shunt
Creators: name: Shuming, Ji
name: Hua, Li
name: Yusha, Tang
name: Lei, Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 3
title: Lighting design for open-plan offices
Creators: name: Newsham, G. R.
name: Veitch, J. A.
name: Reinhart, C. F.
name: Sander, D. M.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Office lighting
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0615
subject: Éclairage de bureau
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0615
subject: Open-plan offices [cubicles]
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0620
subject: Bureaux à aires ouvertes
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0620

description: Good office lighting is a key element in assuring worker satisfaction and performance. This Update provides guidance on lighting design for open-plan offices based on current best practice and the results of research conducted by NRC's Institute for Research in Construction.
description: Un bon éclairage de bureau est un facteur clé de la satisfaction et du rendement des travailleurs. Ce numéro fournit des conseils en matière d'éclairage des bureaux à aire ouverte, fondés sur les meilleures pratiques actuelles et les résultats des recherches effectuées par l'Institut de recherche en construction du CNRC.
Phishing Detection in IMs using Domain Ontology and CBA - An innovative Rule Generation Approach
Creators: name: Qaseem, Mohammad S.
name: Govardhan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Q99

description: User ignorance towards the use of communication services like Instant Messengers, emails, websites, social networks etc. is becoming the biggest advantage for phishers. It is required to create technical awareness in users by educating them to create a phishing detection application which would generate phishing alerts for the user so that phishing messages are not ignored. The lack of basic security features to detect and prevent phishing has had a profound effect on the IM clients, as they lose their faith in e-banking and e-commerce transactions, which will have a disastrous impact on the corporate and banking sectors and businesses which rely heavily on the internet. Very little research contributions were available in for phishing detection in Instant messengers. A context based, dynamic and intelligent phishing detection methodology in IMs is proposed, to analyze and detect phishing in Instant Messages with relevance to domain ontology (OBIE) and utilizes the Classification based on Association (CBA) for generating phishing rules and alerting the victims. A PDS Monitoring system algorithm is used to identify the phishing activity during exchange of messages in IMs, with high ratio of precision and recall. The results have shown improvement by the increased percentage of precision and recall when compared to the existing methods.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures
title: Blistering in SBS polymer modified bituminous roofs
Creators: name: Liu, K. K. Y.
name: Paroli, R. M.
name: Smith, T. L.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Toits
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374

description: In hot-applied bituminous roof membranes, voids built into the roof during installation become blisters. These voids can result from skips in bitumen mopping, entrapped moisture, uneven substrates, and several other causes. Entrapped moisture, for example, expands and contracts, growing into an ever larger blister. The best safeguard against blistering often lies in good membrane installation: this includes maintaining the requisite temperature for the mopping asphalt, applying it uniformly and thinly, flattening the membrane before rolling it out, and heeding several other forethoughts.
description: Les vides qui se créent dans les membranes de couverture en bitume appliquées à chaud, lors de la pose, deviennent des boursouflures. Ils peuvent être dus entre autres à des défauts d'application du bitume, à l'humidité emprisonnée ou aux irrégularités du support. Par exemple, la vapeur d'eau présente dans un vide peut se contracter ou se dilater, augmentant dans ce dernier cas le volume de la boursouflure. Une bonne façon d'empêcher la formation de boursouflures est de bien poser la membrane en choisissant la température appropriée dans le cas du bitume de collage, en étendant bien la membrane, et en appliquant le bitume de collage de manière uniforme et en couche mince.
The resilient city and adapting to the health emergency
Creators: name: Pirlone, Francesca
name: Spadaro, Ilenia
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: The concept of a resilient city is an increasingly critical one. Resilience represents the ability of an urban system to adapt to an external event. In the past, urban resilience was mainly addressed to natural rather than anthropic risks. Considering the Covid-19 pandemic emergency, the relationship between urban resilience and anthropic risk, especially health risk, has inevitably distorted the “normality” to which we were accustomed. The emergency has had significant long-term effects on the times, uses and organization of cities. Adaptability requires the synergic work of all actors who live or work in a city. This mobility-focused research aims to highlight the importance of the Quadruple Helix principle by analysing the specific measures that each actor -Public Authorities, Research, Enterprises and Citizens- can implement to reduce health risk. The paper outlines the contribution of the University of Genoa within the confines of a ministerial project to promote sustainable mobility for students, when travelling between home and university, using prizes/incentives. This good practice will play an increasingly important role in the return to normality.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020: Special Issue. Covid-19 vs City-20
Additional file 1 of CXCL5 suppression recovers neovascularization and accelerates wound healing in diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Chen, Ching
name: Lin, Liang-Yu
name: Chen, Jaw-Wen
name: Chang, Ting-Ting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Clinical characteristics of the study population. Figure S1. Morphology and characterization of human EPCs from peripheral blood. Figure S2. CXCL5 exerted pro-inflammatory and anti-angiogenic effects via ERK/p65 activation through CXCR2. Figure S3. The effects of CXCL5 neutralizing antibody on body weight, blood glucose, and H&E staining of section from matrigel plugs and wound areas in type 1 DM mice. Figure S4. The effects of CXCL5 neutralizing antibody on body weight, blood glucose, and H&E staining of section from matrigel plugs and wound areas in type 2 DM mice. Figure S5. The body weight, blood glucose, and H&E staining of section from matrigel plugs and wound areas in STZ-induced CXCL5KO diabetic mice. Figure S6. Complete Western blotting gels in this study.
QED and accretion flow models effect on optical appearance of Euler-Heisenberg black holes
Creators: name: Zeng, Xiao-Xiong
name: He, Ke-Jian
name: Li, Guo-Ping
name: Liang, En-Wei
name: Guo, Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Taking the quantum electrodynamics (QED) effect into account, we investigate the geometrical-optics appearance of the Euler-Heisenberg (EH) black hole (BH) under the different accretion flows context, which depends on the BH space-time structure and different sources of light. The more significant magnetic charge leads to the smaller shadow radius for the EH BH, while the different values of the EH parameter do not ruin it. Different features of the corresponding two-dimensional shadow images are derived for the three optically thin accretion flow models. It is shown that the total observed intensity in the static spherical accretion flow scenario leads than that of the infalling spherical accretion flow under same parameters, but the size and position of the EH BH shadows do not change in both of these accretions flows, implying that the BH shadow size depends on the geometric space-time and the shadows luminosities rely on the accretion flow morphology. Of particular interest is that a thin disk accretion model illuminated the BH, we found that the contribution of the lensing ring to the total observed flux is less than 5\%, and the photon ring is less than 2\%, indicating that the direct emission dominates the optical appearance of the EH BH. It is also believed that the optical appearance of the BH image depends on the accretion disk radiation position in this scenario, which can serve as a probe for the disk structure around the active galactic nucleus (AGN) of M87^{*} like.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
title: Traffic vibrations in buildings
Creators: name: Hunaidi, Osama
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Traffic noise
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0860
subject: Bruit de la circulation
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0860
subject: Vibrations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0810
subject: Vibrations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0810

description: Traffic-induced vibrations are a frequent problem with buildings. When a heavy vehicle such as a bus or a truck strikes an irregularity in a road surface, an impact load is generated which, in turn, gives rise to vibrations that travel through the soil. Soil - particularly its type and stratification - is but one factor influencing the transmission of vibrations. They are usually worst in areas underlain by a thick but soft clay soil layer. Vibrations rarely cause direct damage and are actually more of an annoyance for homeowners than anything else. For activities that require a vibration-free work area, structures can be built that absorb traffic-induced vibrations.
description: Les vibrations dues à la circulation constituent souvent un problème, dans les bâtiments. Lorsqu'un véhicule lourd, par exemple un autobus ou un camion, passe sur une irrégularité de la chaussée, il produit une charge d'impact qui provoque des vibrations se propageant dans le sol. Le type et la stratification du sol constituent un des facteurs qui influent sur la transmission des vibrations. Celles-ci sont habituellement plus fortes dans les zones comportant une épaisse couche d'argile plastique. Il est rare que les vibrations soient directement à l'origine des dommages; elles constituent plutôt un désagrément pour les propriétaires de maisons. Dans le cas d'activités qui exigent une aire de travail exempte de vibrations, on peut construire des ouvrages qui absorbent les vibrations dues à la circulation.
Physical spacing and spatial planning
Creators: name: Pontrandolfi, Piergiuseppe
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: After several months of total emergency, many of the countries concerned seem to have the Covid-19 pandemic under control. Measures and policies have been implemented almost worldwide to support the difficult economic and social recovery. The different national systems will be tested in terms of the degree of overall resilience and capacity and effectiveness of actions. In this sense, the reform of local autonomous areas and Regions becomes today even more necessary to start a long and complex process of decision-making and government-level reorganization fostering new relations, in terms of political representation and competences of the different institutional levels. The responses to limit the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the country's growth and development imply a reconfiguration of territorial and institutional geographies. In this context, the discipline of spatial planning can promote some useful reflections at two different scales of intervention: territorial and urban. This study follows these two trajectories, starting from the consideration that the choice of forcing so-called "physical distancing" (better than the ambiguous term "social distancing") has certainly represented one of the most effective ways of contrasting the contagion.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020: Special Issue. Covid-19 vs City-20
"Passata è la tempesta …”. A land use planning vision for the Italian Mezzogiorno in the post pandemic
Creators: name: La Greca, Paolo
name: Martinico, Francesco
name: Nigrelli, Fausto Carmelo
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: The Covid-19 pandemic event can activate a comprehensive reflection on the change of development models, overcoming the current unsustainable ones. Present events in Italy are mainly affecting Northern Regions but also the Southern ones will suffer from economic consequences, related to the pandemic. This is particularly relevant for the marginal areas of the Italian Mezzogiorno. The article highlights issues that are deemed relevant for including inner areas of Italian Southern regions into the process of economic recovery after the pandemic, in order to avoid the deepening of the long lasting North South imbalance, in the light of the growing depopulation of this part of the Country. The focus is on the role of Health Services, Education, Built up Environment and Transports, systems considered as key elements for promoting a well-balanced use of existing territorial assets. The real challenge is to reverse this terrible threat into an opportunity, introducing effective changes into the way we waste our limited planetary resources, especially the territorial ones. In this direction, Southern regions can play a fundamental role for increasing the resilience of the entire nation.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020: Special Issue. Covid-19 vs City-20
Traffic Prediction and Fast Uplink for Hidden Markov IoT Models
Creators: name: Eldeeb, Eslam
name: Shehab, Mohammad
name: Kalor, Anders E.
name: Popovski, Petar
name: Alves, Hirley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we present a novel traffic prediction and fast uplink framework for IoT networks controlled by binary Markovian events. First, we apply the forward algorithm with hidden Markov models (HMM) in order to schedule the available resources to the devices with maximum likelihood activation probabilities via fast uplink grant. In addition, we evaluate the regret metric as the number of wasted transmission slots to evaluate the performance of the prediction. Next, we formulate a fairness optimization problem to minimize the age of information while keeping the regret as minimum as possible. Finally, we propose an iterative algorithm to estimate the model hyperparameters (activation probabilities) in a real-time application and apply an online-learning version of the proposed traffic prediction scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms outperform baseline models such as time division multiple access (TDMA) and grant-free (GF) random-access in terms of regret, the efficiency of system usage, and age of information.
description: in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022
Additional file 1 of CXCL5 suppression recovers neovascularization and accelerates wound healing in diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Chen, Ching
name: Lin, Liang-Yu
name: Chen, Jaw-Wen
name: Chang, Ting-Ting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Clinical characteristics of the study population. Figure S1. Morphology and characterization of human EPCs from peripheral blood. Figure S2. CXCL5 exerted pro-inflammatory and anti-angiogenic effects via ERK/p65 activation through CXCR2. Figure S3. The effects of CXCL5 neutralizing antibody on body weight, blood glucose, and H&E staining of section from matrigel plugs and wound areas in type 1 DM mice. Figure S4. The effects of CXCL5 neutralizing antibody on body weight, blood glucose, and H&E staining of section from matrigel plugs and wound areas in type 2 DM mice. Figure S5. The body weight, blood glucose, and H&E staining of section from matrigel plugs and wound areas in STZ-induced CXCL5KO diabetic mice. Figure S6. Complete Western blotting gels in this study.
title: Influence of air diffuser layout on the ventilation of workstations
Creators: name: Shaw, C. Y.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Institute for Research in Construction
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Open-plan offices [cubicles]
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0620
subject: Bureaux à aires ouvertes
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0620
subject: Ventilation
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0642
subject: Ventilation
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0642

description: The supply air in an open-plan office, whose floor space is usually subdivided into a warren of small, partitioned work areas, is normally distributed through diffusers. The quest is one of providing adequate ventilation for every work area. Based on IRC research, most, if not all, assumptions about the possible role that the layout of diffusers may play in air distribution can be safely dismissed. Only one condition concerning diffuser layouts must be observed for the sake of expedient removal of air contaminants.
description: Dans les bureaux en espace fonctionnel, où l'on trouve habituellement toute une série de postes de travail séparés par des cloisons à hauteur d'homme, l'air soufflé est normalement distribué par les diffuseurs. Encore faut-il assurer une ventilation adéquate à tous les travailleurs. D'après les recherches réalisées par l'IRC, on ne doit pas hésiter à réfuter la plupart, sinon la totalité des hypothèses touchant l'influence que peut avoir, sur le plan de la distribution de l'air, la disposition des diffuseurs. Il n'y a qu'une condition à respecter : celle-là doit permettre d'assurer le piégeage d'une bonne part des contaminants de l'air.
Homological stability for families of Coxeter groups
Creators: name: Hepworth, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F55, 20J06

description: We prove that certain families of Coxeter groups and inclusions $W_1\hookrightarrow W_2\hookrightarrow...$ satisfy homological stability, meaning that in each degree the homology $H_\ast(BW_n)$ is eventually independent of $n$. This gives a uniform treatment of homological stability for the families of Coxeter groups of type $A_n$, $B_n$ and $D_n$, recovering existing results in the first two cases, and giving a new result in the third. The key step in our proof is to show that a certain simplicial complex with $W_n$-action is highly connected. To do this we show that the barycentric subdivision is an instance of the 'basic construction', and then use Davis's description of the basic construction as an increasing union of chambers to deduce the required connectivity.
description: 16 pages
Take advantage of the black swan to improve the urban environment
Creators: name: Leone, Antonio
name: Balena, Pasquale
name: Pelorosso, Raffaele
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus for all humanity is a typical example of the birth of the black swan, a metaphor that indicates the event of very low probability, therefore unpredictable and a source of crisis. Statistics and probability theory teach that any deterministic hypothesis of forecasting this type of event is a chimera. More concretely, it is necessary to pay attention to the resilience of the system, so the goal must be the robustness (and perhaps even anti-fragility) of the socio-ecosystem with respect to any crisis advent, not the pursuit of the specific black swan, which, by the way, takes different forms: from financial perfect storms to pandemics, to the unpredictable effects of climate change etc. During the nineteenth century Europe was involved in various pandemics, which, among other things, stimulated the birth of regulatory plans and “hygienist” urban planning approach. Similarly, the present bursting of COVID-19 leads to ever greater efforts in the direction of environmental quality, which is also the protection of health. The paper refers to the health risk due to the urban characteristics, investigating the process of Urban Heat Island (UHI) which is a cause of health risk and of the increase in air pollution, while, at the moment, there is debate about the link between air pollution and COVID-19 diffusion, also if the first scientific papers on this topic seem to confirm the correlation. In any case, the precautionary principle pushes to take the opportunity of the crisis for a more sustainable city in terms of air breathing and wellness. This paper shows that it is possible to distinguish areas of the city with different UHI-air pollution hazard, according to their shape and land use. These results allow to support the choices of the planners to pursue mitigation of climatic extremes and air pollution, contributing to health of citizens and saving money from the health system.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020: Special Issue. Covid-19 vs City-20
Isotropic matroids I: Multimatroids and neighborhoods
Creators: name: Brijder, Robert
name: Traldi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C31

description: Several properties of the isotropic matroid of a looped simple graph are presented. Results include a characterization of the multimatroids that are associated with isotropic matroids and several ways in which the isotropic matroid of G incorporates information about graphs locally equivalent to G. Specific results of the latter type include a characterization of graphs that are locally equivalent to bipartite graphs, a direct proof that two forests are isomorphic if and only if their isotropic matroids are isomorphic, and a way to express local equivalence indirectly, using only edge pivots.
description: 41 pages, 3 figures
Dynamics and Correlations among Soft Excitations in Marginally Stable Glasses
Creators: name: Yan, Le
name: Baity-Jesi, Marco
name: Mueller, M.
name: Wyart, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Marginal stability is the notion that stability is achieved, but only barely so. This property constrains the ensemble of configurations explored at low temperature in a variety of systems, including spin, electron and structural glasses. A key feature of marginal states is a (saturated) pseudo-gap in the distribution of soft excitations. We study how such a pseudo-gap appears dynamically in the case of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) spin glass. After revisiting and correcting the multi-spin-flip criterion for local stability, we show that stationarity along the hysteresis loop requires that soft spins are frustrated among each other, with a correlation that diverges as $C(λ)\sim 1/λ$, where $λ$ is the larger of two considered local fields. We explain how this arises spontaneously in a marginal system and develop an analogy between the spin dynamics in the SK model and random walks in two dimensions. We discuss the applicability of these findings to hard sphere packings.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Diversification of the Pristimantis conspicillatus group (Anura: Craugastoridae) within distinct neotropical areas throughout the Neogene
Creators: name: Fouquet, Antoine
name: Réjaud, Alexandre
name: Rodrigues, Miguel T.
name: Ron, Santiago R.
name: Chaparro, Juan C.
name: Osorno, Mariela
name: Werneck, Fernanda P.
name: Hrbek, Tomas
name: Lima, Albertina P.
name: Camacho-Badani, Teresa
name: Jaramillo-Martinez, Andres F.
name: Chave, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Determining the relative importance of dispersal and vicariance events across neotropical regions is a major goal in biogeography. These events are thought to be related to important landscape changes, notably the transition of Amazonia toward its modern hydrological configuration ca. 10 million years ago. We investigated the spatio-temporal context of the diversification of one of the major lineages of Pristimantis, a widespread and large genus of direct-developing Neotropical frogs. We gathered a spatially and taxonomically extensive sampling of mitochondrial DNA sequences from 754 Pristimantis gr. conspicillatus specimens, which led to delimiting 75 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs). Complete mitogenomes of 35 of these OTUs were assembled and collated with two nuDNA loci to reconstruct a time-calibrated phylogeny. We identified five major clades that diverged around the Oligocene-Miocene transition and that are largely restricted to distinct Neotropical regions i.e. Western Amazonia (P. conspicillatus clade), the Brazilian Shield (P. fenestratus clade), the Atlantic Forest (P. ramagii clade), the Guiana Shield (P. vilarsi clade) and the northern Andes (P. nicefori clade). The majority of the diversification events within these clades occurred in-situ from the early Miocene onward. Yet, a few ancient dispersal/vicariance events are inferred to have occurred among trans-Andean forests, the Atlantic Forest, the Brazilian and the Guiana Shields, but almost none in the last 10 Ma. The radical landscape transformations during the Miocene caused by the Andean orogeny and hydrological barriers such as the Pebas System and the subsequent transcontinental configuration of the Amazon drainage is a likely explanation for the isolation of the different clades within the P. gr. conspicillatus.
Weather on Other Worlds. II. Survey Results: Spots Are Ubiquitous on L and T Dwarfs
Creators: name: Metchev, Stanimir
name: Heinze, Aren
name: Apai, Dániel
name: Flateau, Davin
name: Radigan, Jacqueline
name: Burgasser, Adam
name: Marley, Mark S.
name: Artigau, Étienne
name: Plavchan, Peter
name: Goldman, Bertrand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from the "Weather on Other Worlds" Spitzer Exploration Science program to investigate photometric variability in L and T dwarfs, usually attributed to patchy clouds. We surveyed 44 L3-T8 dwarfs, spanning a range of $J-K_s$ colors and surface gravities. We find that 14/23 (61%; 95% confidence interval: 41%-78%) of our single L3-L9.5 dwarfs are variable with peak-to-peak amplitudes between 0.2% and 1.5%, and 5/16 (31%; 95% confidence interval: 14%-56%) of our single T0-T8 dwarfs are variable with amplitudes between 0.8% and 4.6%. After correcting for sensitivity, we find that 80% (95% confidence interval: 53%-100%) of L dwarfs vary by >0.2%, and 36% (95% confidence interval: 19%-52%) of T dwarfs vary by >0.4%. Given viewing geometry considerations, we conclude that photospheric heterogeneities causing >0.2% 3-5-micron flux variations are present on virtually all L dwarfs, and probably on most T dwarfs. A third of L dwarf variables show irregular light curves, indicating that L dwarfs may have multiple spots that evolve over a single rotation. Also, approximately a third of the periodicities are on time scales >10 h, suggesting that slowly-rotating brown dwarfs may be common. We observe an increase in the maximum amplitudes over the entire spectral type range, revealing a potential for greater temperature contrasts in T dwarfs than in L dwarfs. We find a tentative association (92% confidence) between low surface gravity and high-amplitude variability among L3-L5.5 dwarfs. Although we can not confirm whether lower gravity is also correlated with a higher incidence of variables, the result is promising for the characterization of directly imaged young extrasolar planets through variability.
description: 42 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, accepted by ApJ
MOESM2 of Activation peptide of the coagulation factor XIII (AP-F13A1) as a new biomarker for the screening of colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Peltier, Julien
name: Roperch, Jean-Pierre
name: StĂŠphane Audebert
name: Borg, Jean-Paul
name: Camoin, Luc
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2. Table of synthetic light and heavy stables isotope for tAP-F13A1 during inclusion mass screening and PRM-based assays.
Additional file 2 of Using a theory-informed approach to guide the initial development of a post-tuberculosis care package in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Romanowski, Kamila
name: Cook, Victoria Jane
name: Gilbert, Mark
name: Johnston, James Cameron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Table 1. Potential post-TB care package components presented during workshops with healthcare providers (Step 1). Supplemental Table 2. Healthcare provider survey questions, their corresponding domain, and the distribution of responses (Step 2). Supplemental Table 3. Demographic characteristics of the healthcare provider survey participants (Step 2). Supplemental Figure 1. Beliefs on which components should be incorporated as part of the post-TB care from the healthcare provider survey (Step 2).
Passenger experience of security at UK airports as a result of terrorism
Creators: name: Wood, Stephen
Publisher: name: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 9/11 created a new paradigm of international terrorism that consequently required a new global risk assessment of terrorism. 9/11 transformed airport security checks for citizens internationally and, for some minorities, these checks have had an impact on their experience of the security process. The West responded to 9/11 at home by creating national legislation to counter terrorism. The UK initially focused on trying to deport suspicious foreign nationals who had the slightest involvement with terrorism, but following 7/7 the government’s focus was to counter terrorism nationally amongst British Muslims extremists consequently impacting at times disproportionately on local Muslim communities. This research is concerned with the effects of security changes since 9/11 at UK airports on the young passenger experience. Airport security is twofold, when embarking on a journey; the first phase is the electronic screening of passengers by airport security. The second is the potential of passengers being stopped and screened by the police. When disembarking, passengers are subject to immigration checks and possible police checks. In both cases of the police checks, Schedule 7 is the legal means to determine whether the passenger is a terrorist. University students aged 16-25 were surveyed to obtain data. A number of university students have either carried out terrorist attacks or supported such causes and most terrorists since 9/11 have been aged 16-35. The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (CTSA 2015) now imposes duties on universities to prevent radicalisation; it also strengthens security arrangements in relation to the border and to aviation. There are three hypotheses in this research that will test the research questions. The first is whether it takes younger respondents longer to travel through security, and if so why. The second hypothesis asks whether in the opinion of these respondents all passengers are treated the same or should be. Finally, whether passengers agree to the high level of security at UK airports. The findings of these hypotheses will show that first, young respondents in this research did take longer to go through airport security and the reasons why will be explained. Second, that whilst there is overwhelming support for airport security, there is a significant difference in how the white and non-white respondents in this research perceive airport security and how some aspects of security, such as confiscation of liquids, are unpopular and contribute to delays.
Additional file 2: of Assessment of glucose metabolism and cellular proliferation in multiple myeloma: a first report on combined 18F-FDG and 18F-FLT PET/CT imaging
Creators: name: C. Sachpekidis
name: H. Goldschmidt
name: K. Kopka
name: A. Kopp-Schneider
name: A. Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Table S2. Descriptive statistics of kinetic parameters in reference bone marrow for the tracers 18F-FDG and 18F-FLT. The parameters K1, k2, k3, k4 and influx are expressed in 1/min. (DOCX 55 kb)
Geographic Information and Covid-19 Outbreak Does the spatial dimension matter?
Creators: name: Campagna, Michele
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: The Covid-19 pandemic in Europe started its outbreak in Italy in January 2020, and since early March 2020, it rapidly spread in most European Countries with growing diffusion rates. EU Countries applied lock-down measures accordingly. While Government across Europe relied in experts’ advice, scientific advisory teams were often lead by virologists and epidemiologists, and no evidence is easily found about the involvement of experts in spatial planning and design in emergency response. Often in the uncertainty of a new hazard emergency response, lock-down measures were based on national or regional scale planning, applying to large administrative units boundaries with little or no local differentiations. This paper argues that a large-scale approach may be more effective in emergency response planning and management as it may better take into account local variations. This approach might be an important and still missing step for balancing the conflict between the two most urgent goals in the current emergency response: public health and safety vs economy re-start after the emergency lock-down.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020: Special Issue. Covid-19 vs City-20
Geographical analyses of Covid-19's spreading contagion in the challenge of global health risks
Creators: name: Murgante, Beniamino
name: Balletto, Ginevra
name: Borruso, Giuseppe
name: Las Casas, Giuseppe
name: Castiglia, Paolo
name: Dettori, Marco
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: This research develops from a set of basic geographical questions about the outbreak of Covid-19 out of China in Europe. The questions dealt with why and why with such strength Italy has been seriously hit, one of the most important cases in terms of death toll out of Hubei Province and mainland China, in the world, making the country a worldwide study case for epidemic concentration and diffusion. Questions were also related to geographical similarities among the areas hit, and particularly the Po Valley region and Wuhan metropolitan region in Hubei province, and also related to why such a divide of the virus spreading was identified in Italy between Northern and Central and Southern regions and provinces. In order to try to give an answer these questions, authors realized a vast and articulated database of indicators at provincial level in Italy, performing several geographical analyses - ecological approach - based on Spatial autocorrelation and Geographical Weighted Regression, coming to the conclusion that aspects such as land take, pollution can seriously influence the phenomenon and justify a pattern as that observable in Italy. The analyses and observation of the phenomenon also suggests that policies based on urban regeneration, sustainable mobility, green infrastructures, ecosystem services can create a more sustainable scenario able to support the quality of public health.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2020: Special Issue. Covid-19 vs City-20
Barriers to and opportunities for the uptake of soil carbon management practices in European sustainable agricultural production
Creators: name: Mills, Jane
name: Ingram, Julie
name: Dibari, Camilla
name: Merante, Paolo
name: Karaczun, Zbigniew
name: Molnar, Andras
name: Sánchez, Berta
name: Iglesias, Ana
name: Ghaley, Bhim Bahadur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Soil carbon management practices are those that add and maintain organic carbon in the soil. These agricultural practices can potentially both contribute to climate change mitigation and increase the soil’s resilience to physical and biological stresses. The paper draws on research findings from five regions across Europe to identify regionally-specific barriers to and opportunities for the adoption of soil carbon management practices. Data were derived from 50 interviews with policy-makers and advisers and 5 stakeholder workshops in Denmark, Italy, Hungary, Poland and Spain. Several barriers to the uptake of soil carbon management practices were common across all regions, however, regional variations were also identified highlighting the importance of understanding the context into which these practices are introduced. Key barriers related to existing biophysical conditions, lack of financial support, farmer knowledge and experience, and the quality of the advisory service. Opportunities included providing economic incentives, harmonizing regulation, supporting long term thinking and planning for resilience and providing good quality advice. We conclude that in addition to persuasive mechanisms for encouraging the adoption of these practices, what is required is a more process-oriented approach that focuses on a series of experiential changes and fosters farmer learning through interactive models of communicative intervention.
Additional file 4 of Machine learning in Huntington’s disease: exploring the Enroll-HD dataset for prognosis and driving capability prediction
Creators: name: Ouwerkerk, Jasper
name: Feleus, Stephanie
name: van der Zwaan, Kasper F.
name: Li, Yunlei
name: Roos, Marco
name: van Roon-Mom, Willeke M. C.
name: de Bot, Susanne T.
name: Wolstencroft, Katherine J.
name: Mina, Eleni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 4: Detected outliers: A figure of the detected numerical errors within the selected cohort. Each red bar indicates the threshold of a potential error being detected.