cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Majorana zero modes in a quantum Ising chain with longer-ranged interactions
Creators: name: Niu, Yuezhen
name: Chung, Suk Bum
name: Hsu, Chen-Hsuan
name: Mandal, Ipsita
name: Raghu, S.
name: Chakravarty, Sudip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A one-dimensional Ising model in a transverse field can be mapped onto a system of spinless fermions with p-wave superconductivity. In the weak-coupling BCS regime, it exhibits a zero energy Majorana mode at each end of the chain. Here, we consider a variation of the model, which represents a superconductor with longer ranged kinetic energy and pairing amplitudes, as is likely to occur in more realistic systems. It possesses a richer zero temperature phase diagram and has several quantum phase transitions. From an exact solution of the model these phases can be classified according to the number of Majorana zero modes of an open chain: 0, 1, or 2 at each end. The model posseses a multicritical point where phases with 0, 1, and 2 Majorana end modes meet. The number of Majorana modes at each end of the chain is identical to the topological winding number of the Anderson's pseudospin vector that describes the BCS Hamiltonian. The topological classification of the phases requires a unitary time-reversal symmetry to be present. When this symmetry is broken, only the number of Majorana end modes modulo 2 can be used to distinguish two phases. In one of the regimes, the wave functions of the two phase shifted Majorana zero modes decays exponentially in space but but in an oscillatory manner. The wavelength of oscillation is identical to the asymptotic connected spin-spin correlation of the XY-model in a transverse field to which our model is dual.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures; brief clarifying comments added; few new references; this version is accepted in Phys. Rev. B
IL MONDO È UNA FIABA: UN PROGETTO INTERCULTURALE PER LA SCUOLA PRIMARIA
Creators: name: Franchino, Silvana
name: Roncaglione, Alessia
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: La fiaba è presente in ogni cultura del mondo, appartiene alla vita, al sogno, ai ricordi, all’esperienza diretta di ogni bambino e proprio per questo risulta rassicurante e familiare. L’articolo prende in considerazione l’importanza dell’utilizzo della fiaba nella didattica dell’italiano L2 con alunni stranieri della scuola elementare.

Dopo una breve digressione sul panorama scolastico dei giorni nostri, si analizza in che modo la fiaba può risultare utile dal punto di vista didattico ma soprattutto di come sia un punto d’incontro tra la cultura italiana e le culture straniere presenti nel nostro paese e di come l’immaginario fiabesco possa arricchire e aiutare nella comprensione dell’altro. La fiaba diventa allora uno strumento per un'educazione multiculturale, transculturale e interculturale. Partendo da questi presupposti si illustra il progetto “Il mondo è una fiaba” e i risultati ottenuti rispetto agli obiettivi prefissati. In calce all’articolo si riporta, a titolo esemplificativo, una delle fiabe facenti parte del progetto e il tabellone del gioco finale.

The world is a fairytale: an intercultural project for the primary school

Fairytales are part of every culture, they are part of life, dreams, memories, the direct experience of every child and because of this they are reassuring and familiar.  This article considers the importance of using fairytales in Italian L2 teaching with foreign elementary school students.

After a brief digression on the current scholastic panorama, we analyze how fairytales can be useful from a didactic point of view and how they are a point of contact between Italian culture and the cultures of foreigners residing in Italy, and how fairytale imagery can enrich and aid in mutual understanding.  Fairytales become tools for multicultural, transcultural and intercultural education.  Starting from these assumptions, we illustrate the project “Il mondo è una fiaba” and the results obtained with respect to the preset objectives.  The article includes one of the fairytales used and the board for the final game.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, No 2 (2011)
Distinct directional modulations of hippocampal theta scale spike timing in areas CA1 and CA3
Creators: name: Yiu, Yuk Hoi
name: Leutgeb, Jill K.
name: Leibold, Christian
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Data analysis, machine learning, neuroinformatics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
ELABORAZIONE DI UN QUESTIONARIO PER LA  RILEVAZIONE DEI BISOGNI COMUNICATIVI DEGLI ADULTI IMMIGRATI
Creators: name: Aquilino, Annamaria
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: L’intensità del fenomeno migratorio in Italia suscita una riflessione critica sui bisogni linguistici di un  nuovo pubblico di apprendenti, spinti verso la conoscenza della lingua italiana da una forte esigenza di integrazione sociale. L’articolo presenta l’elaborazione di un questionario come strumento d’indagine essenziale per la rilevazione dei bisogni comunicativi degli immigrati adulti. Progettato nell’ambito di un corso di italiano L2  presso il CTP di Rozzano (Milano) e sottoposto a un campione di 24 stranieri, il questionario si  è rivelato molto utile per la definizione del profilo dei singoli apprendenti e dell’intera classe che, caratterizzata da una grande differenziazione, non è sempre facile da gestire. L’interpretazione finale dei dati ha messo in luce non solo gli elementi di diversità ma ha anche permesso di cogliere alcuni tratti omogenei molto interessanti, indispensabili per la programmazione del percorso didattico, che sarà tanto efficace quanto più si adatterà alla realtà psicologica e socio-culturale degli apprendenti.

Questionnaire design to Survey the communicative needs of adult immigrants

 Widespread immigration in Italy has brought about critical reflection on the linguistic needs of a new group of learners, highly motivated to learn the Italian language because of their strong need for social integration.  This article presents the designing of a questionnaire as an essential tool for surveying the communicative needs of adult immigrants.  Designed for an Italian L2 course held at the CTP in Rozzano (Milano) and administered to 24 foreigners, the questionnaire was very useful for defining the profile of the single learners and the whole class group, which was dissimilar, and thus not the easiest to conduct.  The final interpretation of the data brought to light not only the elements of diversity but they also allowed us to recognize a few interesting common traits, essential for lesson planning, making the course all the more effective as it is adapted to the psychological and socio-cultural reality of the learners.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, No 2 (2011)
LA ICLASSE – SMARTPHONE E ITALIANO L2/LS
Creators: name: Zanoli, Filippo
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Mai come oggi le classi (di Italiano L2, ma non solo) sono così fortemente colonizzate dal digitale. L’invasione si è palesata sotto forma di telefonini cellulari (smartphone) e tablet dotati di connessione internet e infinite potenzialità sotto forma di applicazioni che possono sia aiutare il discente sia, se male impiegati, ostacolarlo dall’intraprendere un proficuo percorso di apprendimento.

Compito dell’insegnante di lingua è circoscrivere l’influenza e l’uso di tali strumenti – che non sono mero techné, ma un modo di funzionare di una generazione – non  per vietarli ma per proporre un approccio e un loro utilizzo costruttivo quali mezzi dalle grandi potenzialità nell’apprendimento di una lingua straniera.

The 1st class – Smartphones and Italian L2/FL

Classrooms (for Italian L2, but not only) have never before been so strongly digitally oriented. This invasion is made tangible by smartphones and tablets equipped with internet connections and infinite potential thanks to applications which can help students in their studies, or hinder them if used incorrectly.
 The language teacher’s task is to circumscribe the influence and use of these tools– which are not mere techné, but the way an entire generation functions – not to prohibit using them but to propose using them constructively, thanks to their great potential for foreign language learning.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, No 2 (2011)
Search for heavy neutrinos and right-handed W bosons in events with two leptons and jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This letter reports on a search for hypothetical heavy neutrinos, N, and right-handed gauge bosons, WR, in events with two high transverse momentum leptons and at least one high transverse momentum hadronic jet. The results were obtained from data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb^-1 collected in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No excess above the Standard Model background expectation is observed. Excluded mass regions for Majorana and Dirac neutrinos are presented using two approaches for interactions that violate lepton and lepton-flavour numbers. One approach uses an effective operator framework, the other approach is guided by the Left-Right Symmetric Model. The results described in this letter represent the most stringent limits to date on the masses of heavy neutrinos and WR bosons obtained in direct searches.
description: 9 pages plus author list (23 pages total), 4 figures, 3 tables, revised author list, matches version to appear in European Physical Journal C
High channel-count neural recordings in monkeys reveal the diverse underpinnings of novelty detection across brain circuits
Creators: name: Zhang, Kaining
name: Bromberg-Martin, Ethan S.
name: Sogukpinar, Fatih
name: Kocher, Kim
name: Monosov, Ilya E.
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Data analysis, machine learning, neuroinformatics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
A Metamaterial-Inspired Model for Electron Waves in Bulk Semiconductors
Creators: name: Silveirinha, Mario G.
name: Engheta, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on an analogy with electromagnetic metamaterials, we develop an effective medium description for the propagation of electron matter waves in bulk semiconductors with a zincblende structure. It is formally demonstrated that even though departing from a different starting point, our theory gives results for the energy stationary states consistent with Bastard's envelope function approximation in the long-wavelength limit. Using the proposed approach, we discuss the time evolution of a wave packet in a bulk semiconductor with a zero-gap and linear energy-momentum dispersion.
description: 43 pages, 4 figures
title: Percutaneous forceps biopsy for the histological characterisation of biliary strictures
Creators: name: Inchingolo, Riccardo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Biopsy
subject: Drainage
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: •Biliary strictures represent a challenging diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. •Such strictures are related to cholangiocarcinoma, but in 10%–25% of cases, they could be related to benign lesions or other malignancies, which may mimic the...
Dynamics of drifting receptive fields during noisy representation learning
Creators: name: Qin, Shanshan
name: Farashahi, Shiva
name: Lipshutz, David
name: Sengupta, Anirvan M.
name: Chklovskii, Dmitri B.
name: Pehlevan, Cengiz
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Learning, plasticity and memory

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Neutrino Dispersion Relations from a Dark Energy Model
Creators: name: Ciuffoli, Emilio
name: Evslin, Jarah
name: Liu, Jie
name: Zhang, Xinmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a model in which the neutrino is kinetically coupled to a scalar field and study its implications for environmentally dependent neutrino velocities. Following the usual effective field theory logic, this coupling is expected to arise in neutrino dark energy models. It leads to a Lorentz violation in the neutrino sector. The coupling of the scalar field to the stress tensor of the Earth yields terrestrial neutrino dispersion relations distinct from those in interstellar space.
description: 19 pages, no figures, v2 detailed treatment of MSW, motivation from OPERA anomaly deemphasized
title: Stereotactic body radiation therapy: interobserver agreement and diagnostic performance of CT in the diagnosis of recurrence.
Creators: name: Guerreiro, Nicolau
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Stereotactic radiotherapy
subject: Observer performance
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide among men, being the second more common one in developed countries[1, 2]. In the United States, it is the second leading cause of new cancers and the first cause of deaths from cancer in both...
title: Clinical value of PI-RADS 3 lesions in detection of prostate cancer
Creators: name: Bogner, Katja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: Staging

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: PI-RADS scoring was etablished in 2012, with areviewed second version (PI-RADS V2) in the end of 2014 [1]. The purpose of PI-RADS classification is to simplify and standarize multiparametric magnetic resonance reading of the prostate (mpMRI) in a...
Genetic characterization of a hybrid zone in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) : evidence for assortative mating or selection against hybrids
Creators: name: McKenzie, Jessica Lauren
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Hybrid zones act as natural experiments that can provide insights into the factors governing species formation and maintenance. In order to investigate these factors, I examined a hybrid zone between two subspecies of Atlantic killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus. Previous research has shown that these subspecies differ both genetically and phenotypically, but very little work had examined the hybrid zone between them. I used a suite of genetic markers to describe the genetic pattern within this hybrid zone and laboratory breeding experiments to investigate the forces responsible for its maintenance. Based on hybrid indices calculated using microsatellite and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) loci, a trimodal hybrid zone located in Beaverdam Creek (in the Metedeconk river system in New Jersey) separates the two subspecies of killifish, suggesting that while some F1 hybrids are produced, backcross types are rare. This pattern persisted across several sampling sites and across two years, suggesting that this pattern was not a sampling artifact. By investigating the geographical patterns of genetic variation in 30 SNPs along the Atlantic coast, I found that clines in mitochondrial DNA markers and in SNPs in several nuclear genes with mitochondrially-associated functions were coincident, concordant and exceptionally steep compared to those of other loci. I used tension zone analyses to conclude that these clines are likely being maintained either by selection or by assortative mating. The observed cytonuclear disequilibria also suggested a role for cytonuclear epistasis in maintaining this hybrid zone. Within Beaverdam Creek, there was no genetic differentiation between samples taken at locations differing in temperature and salinity, suggesting that habitat specialization on these abiotic variables is not involved in the maintenance of the hybrid zone. However, my results from a "choice" breeding experiment among individuals originating from the extremes of the species' distributions suggested a possible role for positive assortative mating. Taken together, my research provides evidence that differentiation in mitochondrial properties resulting in selection or assortative mating could be involved in the maintenance of distinct subspecies of F. heteroclitus, and points to a potential general role for divergence in energy metabolism as a mechanism in promoting or maintaining species differences.
Characterization of the Hamamatsu S8664 Avalanche Photodiode for X-Ray and VUV-light detection
Creators: name: Lux, T.
name: Freitas, E. D. C.
name: Amaro, F. D.
name: Ballester, O.
name: Jover-Manas, G. V.
name: Martin, C.
name: Monteiro, C. M. B.
name: Sanchez, F.
name: Rico, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first operation of the Avalanche Photodiode (APD) from Hamamatsu to xenon scintillation light and to direct X-rays of 22.1 keV and 5.9 keV. A large non-linear response was observed for the direct X-ray detection. At 415 V APD bias voltage it was of about 30 % for 22.1 keV and about 45 % for 5.9 keV. The quantum efficiency for 172 nm photons has been measured to be 69 +/- 15 %.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Elsevier
"Modelling the experimental heterogeneity of synaptic plasticity"
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Yuri E.
name: Veltz, Romain
name: O'Donnell, Cian
name: Tigaret, Cezar M.
name: Marie, Hélène
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Learning, plasticity and memory

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: Is There A Reliable Approach To Tackle Spine Enumeration And Transitional Lumbosacral Vertebra?
Creators: name: Al-Taie, Alaa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Anatomy
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: MR
subject: Normal variants
subject: Congenital

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Investigate the reliability of spinal attachments of Piriformis and Psoas major muscles as landmarks for lumbar spine numbering. Assess a clinically well known but radiologically not well investigated parameter for the vertebral enumeration purpose;...
Testing the Special Relativity Theory with Neutrino interactions
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Paolo Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent measurement of neutrino velocity by the OPERA experiment and prediction of energy loss of superluminal neutrino via the pair creation process $ν\to νe^+e^-$ stimulated a search of isolated $e^+e^-$ pairs in detectors with good tracking capability traversed by a large flux of high energy neutrino like NOMAD. NOMAD has already searched for similar topologies. These results can be reinterpreted to provide stringent limits on special relativity violating parameters separately for each $ν$ species.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, 1 table Accepted by EPL (Europhysics Letters)
title: Analysis of abnormal heating induced by MR scans in correspondence of skin tattoos
Creators: name: Donalisio, Massimo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: MR physics
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: MR
subject: Safety

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In the past years many Authors have claimed that skin tattoos might expose patients to safety issues related to thermic effects of inks, when undergoing MRI examinations. However, as it is thought that, after an initial phase from tattoo...
Asymptotic Structure of Graphs with the Minimum Number of Triangles
Creators: name: Pikhurko, Oleg
name: Razborov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C35

description: We consider the problem of minimizing the number of triangles in a graph of given order and size and describe the asymptotic structure of extremal graphs. This is achieved by characterizing the set of flag algebra homomorphisms that minimize the triangle density.
description: 22 pages; 2 figures
title: Use of a novel curriculum based on trauma theory to build resilience in radiology and emergency medicine residents
Creators: name: Gibbons, Julie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Professional issues
subject: Experimental
subject: Education
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Education and training
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Workforce

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Burnout is a syndrome caused by chronic occupational stress, characterized by a combination of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a sense of low personal accomplishment [1,2]. While the prevalence of burnout among physicians is...
L’ultima lezione romana di Giorgio Peyrot
Creators: name: De Luca, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Varie

description: Questo scritto riproduce la relazione letta in occasione del Convegno di studio in
onore di Giorgio Peyrot tenutosi a Genova l’8-9 aprile 2011 e destinato alla
pubblicazione degli Atti del convegno.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 20 giugno
Le fonti CSCE/OSCE sulle minoranze nazionali
Creators: name: Barberini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Unione europea e Consiglio d'Europa

description: Tetso della relazione tenuta al Seminario sul tema “La protezione delle minoranze nazionali: le Raccomandazioni di Bolzano e la politica dell’OSCE”, organizzato dalla Delegazione italiana all’Assemblea parlamentare OSCE in collaborazione con la Provincia autonoma di Bolzano (Bolzano, 20 maggio 2011).
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 27 giugno
title: Multiparametric evaluation of physical values in trans-cranial talamothomy
Creators: name: Panebianco, Luca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Physics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Thermoablation of ventral intermediate thalamic nucleus by magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasounds is a non-invasive interventional procedure in the treatment of tremors, particularly essential tremor and Parkinson-related. Ultrasound...
Selection Effects on the Observed Redshift Dependence of GRB Jet Opening Angles
Creators: name: Lu, Rui-Jing
name: Wei, Jun-Jie
name: Qin, Shu-Fu
name: Liang, En-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Apparent redshift dependence of the jet opening angles ($θ_{\rm j}$) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is observed from current GRB sample. We investigate whether this dependence can be explained with instrumental selection effects and observational biases by a bootstrapping method. Assuming that (1) the GRB rate follows the star formation history and the cosmic metallicity history and (2) the intrinsic distributions of the jet-corrected luminosity ($L_{\rm γ}$) and $θ_{\rm j}$ are a Gaussian or a power-law function, we generate a mock {\em Swift}/BAT sample by considering various instrumental selection effects, including the flux threshold and the trigger probability of BAT, the probabilities of a GRB jet pointing to the instrument solid angle and the probability of redshift measurement. Our results well reproduce the observed $θ_{\rm j}-z$ dependence. We find that in case of $L_γ\propto θ_{\rm j}^2$ good consistency between the mock and observed samples can be obtained, indicating that both $L_{\rm γ}$ and $θ_{\rm j}$ are degenerate for a flux-limited sample. The parameter set $(L_{\rm γ}, θ_{\rm j})=(4.9\times 10^{49} \rm {erg\ s}^{-1},\ 0.054 {rad})$ gives the best consistency for the current {\em Swift} GRB sample. Considering the beaming effect, the derived intrinsic local GRB rate accordingly is $2.85\times 10^2$ Gpc$^{-3}$ yr$^{-1}$, inferring that $\sim 0.59%$ of Type Ib/c SNe may be accompanied by a GRB.
description: 25pages, 7 figures. ApJ in press
Constraints on a vacuum energy from both SNIa and CMB temperature observations
Creators: name: Nakamura, Riou
name: Thushari, E. P. Berni Ann
name: Ikeda, Mikio
name: Hashimoto, Masa-aki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cosmic thermal evolution with a vacuum energy which decays into photon at the low-redshift. We assume that the vacuum energy is a function of the scale factor that increases toward the early universe. We put on the constraints using recent observations of both type Ia supernovae (SNIa) by Union-2 compilation and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature at the range of the redshift 0.01 < z < 3. From SNIa, we find that the effects of a decaying vacuum energy on the cosmic expansion rate should be very small but could be possible for z < 1.5. On the other hand, we obtain the severe constraints for parameters from the CMB temperature observations. Although the temperature can be still lower than the case of the standard cosmological model, it should only affect the thermal evolution at the early epoch.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 tables, submitted to Advances in Astronomy
Neural States of Working Memory: Integrating Activity-Based and Activity-Silent Neural Mechanisms in a Large-Scale Spiking Neuron Model
Creators: name: Schwensfeier, Noa N.
name: Akyurek, Elkan G.
name: Borst, Jelmer P.
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Learning, plasticity and memory

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Libertà religiosa e nuove presenze confessionali (ortodossi e islamici): tra cieca deregulation e super-specialità, ovvero del difficile spazio per la differenza religiosa
Creators: name: Ferrari, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Libertà religiosa

description: Questo scritto riproduce la relazione letta in occasione del Convegno Libertà religiosa e declino dello Stato nazionale (Macerata, 28-30 ottobre 2010) ed è destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti del convegno.

SOMMARIO: 1. Preambolo: una (inevitabile) questione di termini – 2. Le minoranze religiose in Italia nell’età federalista – 3. L’associazionismo religioso: il forzato della sussidiarietà orizzontale? – 4. Mimetismo a cascata e processi di istituzionalizzazione - 5 Alcune osservazioni conclusive: riacquistare la vista
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 4 luglio
Measurement of ttbar production with a veto on additional central jet activity in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of the jet activity in ttbar events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented, using 2.05 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The ttbar events are selected in the dilepton decay channel with two identified b-jets from the top quark decays. Events are vetoed if they contain an additional jet with transverse momentum above a threshold in a central rapidity interval. The fraction of events surviving the jet veto is presented as a function of this threshold for four different central rapidity interval definitions. An alternate measurement is also performed, in which events are vetoed if the scalar transverse momentum sum of the additional jets in each rapidity interval is above a threshold. In both measurements, the data are corrected for detector effects and compared to the theoretical models implemented in MC@NLO, POWHEG, ALPGEN and SHERPA. The experimental uncertainties are often smaller than the spread of theoretical predictions, allowing deviations between data and theory to be observed in some regions of phase space.
description: 14 pages plus author list (29 pages total), 7 figures, 3 tables, revised author list, matches version to appear in European Physical Journal C
Verso nuove prospettive del pluralismo religioso nel Magistero della Chiesa cattolica?
Creators: name: Mantineo, Antonino
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: Sommario: 1. Il Concilio Vaticano II e le aperture al dialogo interreligioso - 2. Il concorso offerto dalle nuove piste teologiche del post-Concilio - 3. Alcune valutazioni del magistero di papa Benedetto XVI - 4. Laicità dello Stato e pluralismo religioso - 5. Per una ripresa del dialogo interreligioso.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 4 luglio
Churches and Federal State in Europe: the paradigm of Germany and Switzerland
Creators: name: Pacillo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico comparato e straniero

description: English alternate version of the paper “Libertà religiosa e federalismo in Europa: i precedenti della Repubblica Federale di Germania e della Confederazione elvetica” presented at the 2010 Meeting of ADEC (Associazione dei docenti di diritto ecclesiastico e canonico) that will be published on the review “Il Diritto ecclesiastico”. I want to thank Prof. Enrico Vitali – director of “Il Diritto ecclesiastico” - for the authorization to publish this English version.

SUMMARY: 1. What do we mean about “Federalism”? – 2. Federalism and religions in Germany – 3. Federalism and religions in Switzerland.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 4 luglio
Evolution of entanglement entropy in the D1-D5 brane system
Creators: name: Asplund, Curtis T.
name: Avery, Steven G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the evolution of the geometric entanglement entropy following a local quench in the D1D5 conformal field theory, a two-dimensional theory that describes a particular bound state of D1 and D5 branes. The quench corresponds to a localized insertion of the exactly marginal operator that deforms the field theory off of the orbifold (free) point in its moduli space. This deformation ultimately leads to thermalization of the system. We find an exact analytic expression for the entanglement entropy of any spatial interval as a function of time after the quench and analyze its properties. This process is holographically dual to one stage in the formation of a stringy black hole.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures. v2: added a reference, figures slightly changed. v3: fixed typos, added some discussion in the introduction and four references
title: Role of The Radiographer in A Complex TAVI Procedure’s Planning: “Valve-in-Valve” Procedure with a Self-Expandable Trans-Catheter Heart Valve in a Degenerated Sutureless Bio-Prosthetic Valve
Creators: name: Messina, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Catheters
subject: Arterial access
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the crucial role of non-invasive imaging to correctly plan trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures To describe a case of valve-in-valve (VIV) procedure in a malfunctioning sutureless bio-prosthetic surgical heart...
L’Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti (UAAR), membro associato della International Humanist and Ethical Union, come soggetto stipulante un’intesa con lo Stato, ex art. 8, III Cost.
Creators: name: Bilotti, Domenico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Concordati e intese

description: Contributo segnalato dal Prof. Antonino Mantineo, ordinario di Diritto ecclesiastico nella Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi Magna Graecia di Catanzaro, che ne attesta la scientificità e l’originalità.

SOMMARIO: 1. I limiti dello strumento negoziale nell’esperienza giuridica italiana. una ricognizione sulle aporie evidenziatesi nella prassi politico-legislativa – 2. Verso uno statuto giuridico differenziato per le organizzazioni filosofiche non confessionali. meritevolezza degli interessi in gioco – 3. Il non-confessionismo organizzato come fenomeno associativo culturalmente orientato sul fattore religioso – 4. Permanente capacità attrattiva di una disciplina speciale e di favore: l’inevitabile ricerca di una legislazione generale in tema di libertà religiosa o l’armonizzazione dei trattamenti privilegiati?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 11 luglio
Learning Accurate Path Integration in Ring Attractor Models of the Head Direction System
Creators: name: Vafidis, Pantelis
name: Owald, David
name: D'Albis, Tiziano
name: Kempter, Richard
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Learning, plasticity and memory

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Oltre i culti ammessi. Prime note sulla gestione giuridica del pluralismo religioso nella legislazione coloniale italiana*
Creators: name: Botti, Federica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico

description: Questo saggio comparirà nel volume I diritti culturali religiosi fra l’Africa e l’Europa, a cura di
F. Alicino, F. Botti, in corso di stampa.

Sommario: 1. Premessa – 2. Dimensione unitaria e settoriale del diritto ecclesiastico italiano
nella gestione della libertà religiosa nelle colonie italiane – 3. I primi provvedimenti di tutela
della libertà religiosa e dei culti nella legislazione coloniale 4. – Le linee comuni del “diritto
ecclesiastico coloniale” 5. – L’avventura coloniale e la ricomposizione del conflitto tra stato e
Chiesa cattolica. 6. – Alcune prime sommarie considerazioni
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 11 luglio
Dense Electron-Positron Plasmas and Ultra-Intense Bursts of Gamma-Rays from Laser-Irradiated Solids
Creators: name: Ridgers, C. P.
name: Brady, C. S.
name: Duclous, R.
name: Kirk, J. G.
name: Bennett, K.
name: Arber, T. D.
name: Robinson, A. P. L.
name: Bell, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In simulations of a 10PW laser striking a solid we demonstrate the possibility of producing a pure electron-positron plasma by the same processes as those thought to operate in high-energy astrophysical environments. A maximum positron density of 10^26/m^3 is achieved, seven orders of magnitude greater than achieved in previous experiments. Additionally, 35% of the laser energy is converted to a burst of gamma-rays of intensity 10^22W/cm^2, potentially the most intense gamma-ray source available in the laboratory. This absorption results in a strong feedback between both pair and gamma-ray production and classical plasma physics in the new `QED-plasma' regime.
description: Published in PRL (link:http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v108/i16/e165006)
Coarse and fine grain programmable overlay architectures for FPGAs
Creators: name: Brant, Alexander Dunlop
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Overlay architectures are programmable logic systems that are compiled on top of a traditional FPGA. These architectures give designers flexibility, and have a number of benefits, such as being designed or optimized for specific application domains, making it easier or more efficient to implement solutions, being independent of platform, allowing the ability to do partial reconfiguration regardless of the underlying architecture, and allowing compilation without using vendor tools, in some cases with fully open source tool chains. This thesis describes the implementation of two FPGA overlay architectures, ZUMA and CARBON. These overlay implementations include optimizations to reduce area and increase speed which may be applicable to many other FPGAs and also ASIC systems. ZUMA is a fine-grain overlay which resembles a modern commercial FPGA, and is compatible with the VTR open source compilation tools. The implementation includes a number of novel features tailored to efficient FPGA implementation, including the utilization of reprogrammable LUTRAMs, a novel two-stage local routing crossbar, and an area efficient configuration controller. CARBON is a coarse-grain, time-multiplexed architecture, that directly implements the coarse-grain portion of the MALIBU architecture. MALIBU is a hybrid fine-grain and coarse-grain FPGA architecture that can be built using the combination of both CARBON and ZUMA, but this thesis focuses on their individual implementations. Time-multiplexing in CARBON greatly reduces performance, so it is vital to be optimized for delay. To push the speed of CARBON beyond the normal bound predicted by static timing analysis tools, this thesis has applied the Razor dynamic timing error tolerance system inside CARBON. This can dynamically push the clock frequency yet maintain correct operation. This required developing an extension of the Razor system from its original 1D feed-forward pipeline to a 2D bidirectional pipeline.
title: Interventional radiologic procedures in thoracic infections: what every radiologist should know
Creators: name: Vas, Daniel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Abscess delineation
subject: Drainage
subject: Catheters
subject: Abscess
subject: Infection
subject: Cavitation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the imaging findings, indication criteria, procedures and techniques of radiological interventions in infective pulmonary, pleural and mediastinal diseases. When, why and how should a general/thoracic radiologist...
Perfect discrimination of no-signalling channels via quantum superposition of causal structures
Creators: name: Chiribella, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A no-signalling channel transforming quantum systems in Alice's and Bob's laboratories is compatible with two different causal structures: (A < B) Alice's output causally precedes Bob's input and (B< A) Bob's output causally precedes Alice's input. I show that a quantum superposition of circuits operating within these two causal structures enables the perfect discrimination between no-signalling channels that can not be perfectly distinguished by any ordinary circuit.
description: 5 + 5 pages, published version
Anterior cingulate cortex represents cue relevance in a context-shifting task
Creators: name: Hajnal, Márton A.
name: Szabó, Zsombor
name: Tran, Duy
name: Einstein, Michael
name: Martelo, Mauricio V.
name: Safaryan, Karen
name: Polack, Pierre-Olivier
name: Golshani, Peyman
name: Orbán, Gergő
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Attention, reward, decision making

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
UNA PROPOSTA DIDATTICA PER GLI STUDENTI CINESI: IL FOCUS ON FORM
Creators: name: Da Marco, Anna
name: Mascherpa, Eugenia
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Questo contributo è volto a provare la validità dell’ipotesi della differenza didattica (Rastelli, 2010) che si articola su due punti essenziali: a. un certo tipo di insegnamento può favorire lo sviluppo dell’interlingua; b. l’insegnante può contribuire a migliorare la capacità degli apprendenti di processare l’input e facilitare i processi naturali di acquisizione. In particolare, è stato condotto uno studio pilota che fa leva su un modello di intervento didattico differenziato e specifico per gli studenti cinesi e che muove da tre sostanziali ipotesi: i. il Focus on Form ha effetti positivi sull’acquisizione; ii. l’individuazione e l’esplicitazione della regola asseconda l’efficacia dei meccanismi naturali di acquisizione; iii. il feedback negativo sostiene maggiormente l’acquisizione in classe rispetto al feedback spontaneo.

An educational proposal for Chinese students: the “Focus on Form”

 This paper aims to validate the hypothesis of the “Educational Difference” (Rastelli, 2010) that is articulated in two main points: a) a particular way of teaching can foster  interlanguage development; b) teachers can contribute to improving learners’ ability to process input and facilitate natural learning processes. In particular, we conducted a pilot study based on a model of differentiated and specific instructional intervention for Chinese students. The study was based on three fundamental assumptions: i) the “Focus on Form” has positive effects on acquisition; ii) identifying and explaining a rule supports the efficiency of natural acquisition mechanisms; iii) negative feedback supports more the acquisition in a classroom setting compared to spontaneous feedback.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 3, No 2 (2011)
title: The ICU chest radiograph: Line and tube essentials for radiologists and ICU physicians
Creators: name: Allan, Emma
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Anatomy
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Equipment
subject: Complications
subject: Safety
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Review the indications for lines and tubes in the ICU setting. 2. Identify anatomical landmarks for assessing lines and tubes on CXR. 3. Illustrate misplaced lines and tubes and the associated...
Extraction of optical Bloch modes in a photonic-crystal waveguide
Creators: name: Huisman, S. R.
name: Ctistis, G.
name: Stobbe, S.
name: Herek, J. L.
name: Lodahl, P.
name: Vos, W. L.
name: Pinkse, P. W. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform phase-sensitive near-field scanning optical microscopy on photonic-crystal waveguides. The observed intricate field patterns are analyzed by spatial Fourier transformations, revealing several guided TE- and TM-like modes. Using the reconstruction algorithm proposed by Ha, et al. (Opt. Lett. 34 (2009)), we decompose the measured two-dimensional field pattern in a superposition of propagating Bloch modes. This opens new possibilities to study specific modes in near-field measurements. We apply the method to study the transverse behavior of a guided TE-like mode, where the mode extends deeper in the surrounding photonic crystal when the band edge is approached.
Mass corrections for the bound states in the muonic molecular ions
Creators: name: Frolov, Alexei M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass corrections to the bound state energies of the three-body muonic molecular ions $ppμ, pdμ, ptμ, ddμ, dtμ$ and $ttμ$ are determined numerically from the results of highly accurate computations. The total energies and some other bound state properties of these ions are evaluated to very high accuracy for the bound $S(L = 0)-, P(L = 1)-$ and $D(L = 2)-$states. In these highly accurate calculations we used the most recent and accurate masses of particles $m_p, m_d, m_t$ and $m_μ$ known from high energy experiments.
Glutamatergic afferents to the nucleus accumbens integrate outcome in reward-learning
Creators: name: Iyer, Eshaan S.
name: Muir, Jessie
name: Bagot, Rosemary C.
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Attention, reward, decision making

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
N=1/2 Deformations of Chiral Superspaces from New Quantum Poincare and Euclidean Superalgebras
Creators: name: Borowiec, A.
name: Lukierski, J.
name: Mozrzymas, M.
name: Tolstoy, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a large class of supersymmetric classical r-matrices, describing the supertwist deformations of Poincare and Euclidean superalgebras. We consider in detail new family of four supertwists of N=1 Poincare superalgebra and provide as well their Euclidean counterpart. The proposed supertwists are better adjusted to the description of deformed D=4 Euclidean supersymmetries with independent left-chiral and right-chiral supercharges. They lead to new quantum superspaces, obtained by the superextension of twist deformations of spacetime providing Lie-algebraic noncommutativity of space-time coordinates. In the Hopf-algebraic Euclidean SUSY framework the considered supertwist deformations provide an alternative to the N=1/2 SUSY Seiberg's star product deformation scheme.
description: 17 pages, LaTeX, new (re-worked) revised and extended version
title: White cord syndrome: The unknown complication after cervical decompressive surgery
Creators: name: Begliardo, Fernando
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: MR
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: A 63-year-old woman diagnosed with recurrent meningioma located in the foramen magnum consulted for headache and paraesthesia of the upper limbs. It was decided to perform decompressive surgery and, in the immediate postoperative period, she presented tetraplegia with preservation of consciousness and requirement of mechanical ventilation.

description: 63 years, female