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Synthesis of pincer-ligated metal complexes for dehydrogenation, nitrogen reduction, and OLED applications
Creators: name: Casuras, Andrea Frances Koslow
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: After the initial development of pincer complexes in the 1960’s, a significant amount of research has been placed into the understanding and applications of pincer complexes. To this day, new applications of pincer-ligated complexes are being discovered. While most commonly used in catalysis, recently pincer-ligated complexes have expanded to other fields, such organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). This thesis will focus on the synthesis of several pincer-ligated complexes and their application towards dehydrogenation, nitrogen reduction, and OLEDs. Synthesis of the reported Nishibayashi molybdenum-dimer, the (tBuPNP)MoNCl, and the (tBuPPP)MoNCl complexes were attempted for use in electrochemical nitrogen reduction. Due to the ability of the Nishibayashi complexes to reduce dinitrogen to ammonia chemically, we synthesized them in attempt to do the reduction electrochemically instead. In addition, synthesis of (tBuPPP)RuNCl and (tBuPPP)ReNCl complexes were attempted for comparison to the molybdenum analogue. Lastly, we attempted to synthesize a pyrene-PNP ligand for potential ligand-electrode interactions. After the attempt reported here, the pyrene-PNP ligand was successful synthesized by a different route in our laboratory.After DFT calculations and experiments showed that ruthenium was not a good choice for nitrogen reduction, the (tBuPPP)Ru complex was then considered for dehydrogenation work. Several new (tBuPPP)Ru complexes were synthesized and characterized via NMR. Preliminary studies have shown that the (tBuPPP)RuH4 complex is an effective catalyst for alcohol dehydrogenation and has good potential for alkane dehydrogenation as well. Another aspect of dehydrogenation work is the acceptor that is used during catalysis. With the goal of doing dehydrogenation electrochemically, benzoquinone was chosen as a potential acceptor. The interactions of benzoquinone, and several benzoquinone derivatives, with (tBuPCP)IrH2/H4 were studied.  It was observed that quinones are extremely efficient hydrogen acceptors; however, the excess quinone can then strongly bind to iridium, inhibiting any alkane dehydrogenation. We were able to achieve a slow production of ketone from alcohol dehydrogenation, showing that, while strong, the quinone-metal bond can be broken, allowing catalysis. While (tBuPCP)Ir complexes are extremely well known in the literature for catalysis, their photoluminescence is not usually considered. Several different (tBuPCP)Ir complexes with polycyclic aromatic ligands were studied for their photoluminescence. By making small variations on the polycyclic ligand, we were able to observe the effects these variations had on the emission wavelength. Additionally, each complex was mixed with polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and spin coated on a glass surface to examine their performance and lifetime in the solid state, as they would be in an OLED.
ПРАВОСЛАВНЫЕ МОНАСТЫРИ В КОНТЕКСТЕ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ ТЕМНИКОВСКОГО УЕЗДА В XVI – СЕРЕДИНЕ XVIII ВВ.
Creators: name: Шитова Татьяна Васильевна
name: Першин Сергей Викторович
Publisher: name: Гуманитарные и политико-правовые исследования
Year: 2020
Subjects: монастырь
Русская православная церковь
крещение
христианизация
внутренняя политика

description: В статье изучена роль православных монастырей в социально-экономическом развитии полиэтничного региона. Хронологически исследование ограничено XVI – XVIII вв., территориально – Темниковским уездом, относившимся к Азовской губернии, Шацкой провинции Азовской (затем Воронежской) губернии. Представлен комплексный анализ (богослужебной, мессионерской, хозяйственной и др.) деятельности Рождественского пурдышевского и Санаксарского монастырей. Выделены основные этапы истории духовных обителей, которые рассмотрены во взаимосвязи с основными направлениями внутренней политикой российского самодержавия и мероприятиями, реализуемыми Русской православной церковью. В результате проведенного исследования сделан вывод о том, что распространение влияния монастырей на исследуемой территории по времени совпадало с усилением позиций РПЦ. В качестве позитивных итогов деятельности черного духовенства выделено духовное окормление зарождавшихся православных общин. Рассмотрев изменение структуры земельной собственности и характер взаимоотношений в региональном социуме, авторы обратили внимание на то, что, получая от благотворителей и правительства значительные земельные угодья, местные монастыри в силу малочисленности своей братии часто были не в состоянии обработать землю и защитить ее от притязаний прежних владельцев и конкурентов. Активизация хозяйственной деятельности и расширение монастырских угодий в Темниковском уезде приводили к росту социальной напряженности.
Additional file 1 of FTO and MC4R polymorphisms, and selected pre-, peri- and postnatal factors as determinants of body mass index and fatness in children: a thorough analysis of the associations
Creators: name: Bryl, Ewa
name: Szcześniewska, Paula
name: Dutkiewicz, Agata
name: Słopień, Agnieszka
name: Dmitrzak-Węglarz, Monika
name: Hanć, Tomasz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Correlations between BMI z scores, FMI z scores, FFMI z scores, FatM z scores and covariates. Prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity diagnosed according to IOTF (Body weight status) and according to McCarthy criteria (Body fat status), and association between body composition parameters and parental, environmental and genetic factors – statistically significant results. Interactions between ACEs and polymorphisms of FTO and MC4R genes.
К ВОПРОСУ О КОНСТИТУЦИОННО-ПРАВОВОМ СТАТУСЕ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО СОВЕТА РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
Creators: name: Тихонова Елена Сергеевна
Publisher: name: Гуманитарные и политико-правовые исследования
Year: 2020
Subjects: Государственный Совет РФ; совещательный орган; совет; конституционно-правовой статус; Президент РФ; глава государства

description: В статье рассмотрен проект закона «О Государственном совете Российской Федерации», который определяет основы функционирования публичной власти и статус этого органа. Упоминание о Государственном Совете РФ появилось в Конституции РФ после внесения поправок в Основной закон в 2020 году [5]. Раньше, отдельного закона, регулирующего деятельность Государственного Совета РФ, не существовало. Согласно законопроекту, Государственный Совет РФ может стать реальным механизмом единой публичной власти в России, остаться совещательным органом с расширенным функционалом или площадкой согласования интересов центра и регионов. Все будет зависеть от того, какие задачи будут перед ним поставлены. Государственный Совет РФ получил новый статус, теперь он конституционный государственный орган. Автором проведено сравнительно-правовое исследование Государственного Совета РФ, действующего на основании Указа Президента РФ от 01.09.2000г. и законопроекта, принятого 11.11.2020 г. Государственной Думой РФ в первом чтении. Анализ нормативно-правовых актов позволил выявить ряд новелл, а также юридических противоречий действующему законодательству.
Reimagining responsibility : how human rights due diligence practices could inform judicial responses to climate accountability litigation
Creators: name: Higham, Catherine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Climate Change has been described as the greatest human rights issue of our time. As communities around the world struggle to adapt to life in a warming world, a growing movement has started to call for those who have contributed most to the climate problem – a small handful of major fossil fuel and cement companies now known as the Carbon Majors – to be held responsible for their “fair share” of the costs of climate adaptation. This movement has already resulted in litigation being brought against fossil fuel producers in common law courts. To date, these actions have been unsuccessful. However, I argue that the new norms around corporate responsibility contained in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) could help plaintiffs to change that outcome. Relying on rights-based theories of tort law, I argue that the norms in the UNGPs could help plaintiffs to establish the existence of a duty of care on the part of the Carbon Majors. After reviewing close to 200 corporate documents and statements, I conclude that the Carbon Majors’ public statements suggest a widespread acceptance of the responsibility to respect human rights contained in the UNGPs, and a widespread acceptance of the serious risks posed by climate change. A number of recent cases have seen common law courts demonstrate a new willingness to hold corporate actors accountable to the standards they claim to uphold in their corporate social responsibility reports. Relying on these recent precedents, plaintiffs could rely on the evidence reviewed for this thesis to establish that Carbon Majors have assumed a responsibility to prevent, mitigate, or remediate impacts to their human rights caused by climate change.
Spontaneous Pattern Formation in a Polariton Condensate
Creators: name: Manni, F.
name: Lagoudakis, K. G.
name: Liew, T. C. H.
name: André, R.
name: Deveaud-Plédran, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polariton condensation can be regarded as a self-organization phenomenon, where phase ordering is established among particles in the system. In such condensed systems, further ordering can possibly occur in the particle density distribution, under particular experimental conditions. In this work we report on spontaneous pattern formation in a polariton condensate under non-resonant optical pumping. The slightly elliptical ring-shaped excitation laser we employ is such to force condensation to occur in a single-energy state with periodic boundary conditions, giving rise to a multi-lobe standing wave patterned state.
On the causality of real-valued semigroups and diffusion
Creators: name: Kowar, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 47D06, 35K05, 60G99, 35Q72

description: In this paper we show that a process modeled by a strongly continuous real-valued semigroup (that has a space convolution operator as infinitesimal generator) cannot satisfy causality. We present and analyze a causal model of diffusion that satisfies the semigroup property at a discrete set of time points $M:=\{τ_m\,|\,m\in\N_0\}$ and that is in contrast to the classical diffusion model not smooth. More precisely, if $v$ denotes the concentration of a substance diffusing with constant speed, then $v$ is continuous but its time derivative is discontinuous at the discrete set $M$ of time points. It is this property of diffusion that forbids the classical limit procedure that leads to the noncausal diffusion model in Stochastics. Furthermore, we show that diffusion with constant speed satisfies an inhomogeneous wave equation with a time dependent coefficient.
ТЕХНОЛОГИЯ ПРИМИРИТЕЛЬНОЙ РЕЧЕВОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ В АЛЬТЕРНАТИВНОМ РАЗРЕШЕНИИ ПРАВОВЫХ СПОРОВ И КОНФЛИКТОВ
Creators: name: Усманова Елена Фанильевна
Publisher: name: Гуманитарные и политико-правовые исследования
Year: 2020
Subjects: альтернативные способы разрешения правовых споров и конфликтов
медиация
речевая коммуникация
примирительная речевая коммуникация
юридический конфликт
технология примирительной речевой коммуникации

description: Разрешение спора в рамках альтернативных форм подразумевает более упрощенное разрешение конфликта, при этом медиатор должен обладать достаточно высоким уровнем не только правовых знаний, но и иметь развитые речевые коммуникативные умения и навыки. Автором подчеркивается, что технологии примирительной речевой коммуникации в альтернативном разрешении правовых споров и конфликтов – это опирающаяся на определенный план, схему, целенаправленная, системно организованная, коммуникативная деятельность субъектов, представляющая собой систему процедур, средств, правил и построений речи, позволяющих сторонам спора прийти к согласию и примирению. Отмечается, что примирительная речевая коммуникация при разрешении конфликта строится с учетом следующих правил: использование общепринятых организационных схем: изложение рациональных доводов, сравнение достоинств и мотивация; конкретное и четкое выражение того, во что должны поверить стороны или что они должны сделать; использование правильных психологических приемов и построений речевых выражений; формулирование цели и подача информации, ориентируясь на установки, которых придерживаются стороны конфликта; речь должна содержать в себе хорошие, разумные доводы и доказательства, которые выстраиваются в соответствии с предполагаемой реакцией сторон.
A new test for the Galactic formation and evolution -- prediction for the orbital eccentricity distribution of the halo stars
Creators: name: Hattori, Kohei
name: Yoshii, Yuzuru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical calculations for the differential distribution of stellar orbital eccentricity in a galaxy halo, assuming that the stars constitute a spherical, collisionless system in dynamical equilibrium with a dark matter halo. In order to define the eccentricity e of a halo star for given energy E and angular momentum L, we adopt two types of gravitational potential, such as an isochrone potential and a Navarro-Frenk-White potential, that could form two ends covering in-between any realistic potential of dark matter halo. Based on a distribution function of the form f(E,L) that allows constant anisotropy in velocity dispersions characterized by a parameter β, we find that the eccentricity distribution is a monotonically increasing function of e for the case of highly radially anisotropic velocity dispersions (β> 0.6), while showing a hump-like shape for the cases from radial through tangential velocity anisotropy (β< 0.6). We also find that when the velocity anisotropy agrees with that observed for the Milky Way halo stars (β= 0.5-0.7), a nearly linear eccentricity distribution of N(e) αe results at e < 0.7, largely independent of the potential adopted. Our theoretical eccentricity distribution would be a vital tool of examining how far out in the halo the dynamical equilibrium has been achieved, through comparison with kinematics of halo stars sampled at greater distances. Given that large surveys of the SEGUE and Gaia projects would be in progress, we discuss how our results would serve as a new guide in exploring the formation and evolution of the Milky Way halo.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Negative refraction in natural ferromagnetic metals
Creators: name: Engelbrecht, Sebastian
name: Shuvaev, Alexey Mikhailovich
name: Luo, Y.
name: Moshnyaga, V.
name: Pimenov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally believed that Veselago's criterion for negative refraction cannot be fulfilled in natural materials. However, considering imaginary parts of the permittivity (ε) and permeability (μ) and for metals at not too high frequencies the general condition for negative refraction becomes extremely simple: Re(μ) < 0 --> Re(n) < 0. Here we demonstrate experimentally that in such natural metals as pure Co and FeCo alloy the negative values of the refractive index are achieved close to the frequency of the ferromagnetic resonance. Large values of the negative refraction can be obtained at room temperature and they can easily be tuned in moderate magnetic fields.
title: Blaue Energie und thermokapazitiver Effekt: Energiegewinnung aus Mischentropie
Creators: name: Schad, Adrian
Publisher: name: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Year: 2024

description: Die Erforschung alternativer Energiequellen ist eine zentrale Aufgabe, mit der sich die Wissenschaft zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels auseinandersetzt. Energie aus Mischprozessen zurück zu gewinnen, ist dabei eine spannende und verfügbare aber bislang wenig genutzte Möglichkeit.
Diese Abschlussarbeit beschäftigt sich mit zwei Möglichkeiten, elektrische Energie aus dem Mischen von Salz- und Süßwasser zu gewinnen. Einerseits kann eine osmotische Druckdifferenz verwendet werden, um einen Generator zu betreiben. Anderseits kann ein sogenannter kapazitiver Kreisprozess genutzt werden. Hier wird die Abhängigkeit des elektrischen Potentials in
elektrischen Doppelschichten von der Ionenkonzentration ausgenutzt. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit werden Experimente zum osmotischen Druck durchgeführt. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit werden ¨
mithilfe der klassischen Dichtefunktionaltheorie Kreisprozesse berechnet. Abschließend wurden
die Ergebnisse beider Teile verglichen und ein Unterrichtsentwurf mit Demonstrationsversuch
zum Thema Blaue Energie erstellt.
Bereits mit einem einfachen Aufbau konnte im Experiment mechanische Arbeit verrichtet werden. Die dabei erhaltene Energie liegt hinter den berechneten Werten fur den Kreisprozess. Mit
der hier entwickelten Unterrichtseinheit kann eine technische Anwendung der Osmose anschaulich vermittelt werden.
Planning seismic inner areas in Central Italy
Creators: name: Marinelli, Giovanni
name: Domenella, Luca
name: Galasso, Marco
name: Rotondo, Francesco
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: Natural calamities that repeatedly hit the Country, ranging from earthquake to climate change induced events – like landslides and floods – resulted in huge damages, worsened by the infrastructural degrade and by the abandonment of some territories, especially in the inner areas of the Country. There is therefore a pressing need to improve the infrastructural resiliency, focusing on extraordinary manutention, on the technological development of the monitoring activities and of the supporting infrastructure, on the prevention, the civil protection and the public aid. Peripheral urban contexts of the Inner Areas are exposed to “isolation Risks” in case of catastrophic events, as witnessed after the 2016 seismic events, where secondary infrastructure network was heavily affected, bringing great problems for those living in the areas. The paper explores experimental methodologies to bring substantial modifications to the villages and minor urban areas structure (for the damaged buildings as for the infrastructural network) that the reconstruction makes possible, making of it a unique occasion to renew and reorganize the territory.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Enhancing driver visibility at night: an advanced glass-powder paint technology approach
Creators: name: Abejide, Samuel
name: Mostafa, Mohamed
name: Shittu, Abdulhakim Adeoye
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: Driving in low visibility regions, especially at night along a transportation facility, can be particularly dangerous. Related issues include reduced illumination leading to reducing visibility and the objects fading away into obscure darkness. In such situations, albeit some drivers suffer from deficiency (including nearsightedness and cataracts), poor visibility due to road markings becoming blur could result in several problems, including damaged night vision. This study aims at addressing these issues by providing alternative measures to improve driver visibility at night using innovative glass-powder paint technology (GPPT). An introduced driveway section located at Eastern Cape Province-South Africa is selected as reference application to compare the proposed road marking paint in the current research against the conventional one. This was conducted via a developed, grouped multinomial logistics and non-parametric, quantitative analysis model in quantum flow theory. In this study, results revealed that based on a 95% confidence level assumed equivalent to 0.05 significance level, the null hypothesis was rejected, proving that driving behaviour at night on the test section is significantly improved with the introduction of the innovative GPPT. Hence, the enhanced illumination index obtained and reduction in the blur level on the road markings indicate improved glare and night illumination.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Soft mobility planning for university cities: the case of Pavia
Creators: name: De Lotto, Roberto
name: Greco, Alessandro
name: Moretti, Marsilia
name: Pietra, Caterina
name: Venco, Elisabetta Maria
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: University City concept means a specific urban structure characterized by the maximum expression of the relations system (social, environmental, economic) that can exist between university institution and administrative/political institution: in particular, the physical connections linked to the spatial location of university structures within the urban fabric. In Pavia, between Municipality and University the development of common mobility strategies has been practically developed since the seventies of the XX century by Giancarlo De Carlo plan. From this period on, the centrality of the city emerged as magnet for the first and second tiers of adjacent Municipalities. The need to implement forms of sustainable mobility aimed at improving the connections between university and city center, useful also to trigger deep urban regeneration processes, carried to experiment a collaborative planning process between university, Municipality and the main involved stakeholders. The main aim is to develop an overall strategy throughout the entire municipal territory and to define lines of actions (tactics) for the creation of a soft mobility network within the Pavia context as University City. The participatory process is implemented with the use of a Collaborative Planning tool based on Google functionalities. In the paper, authors describe the main elements of this project.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
On a theorem of Castelnuovo and applications to moduli
Creators: name: Castoreña, Abel
name: Ciliberto, Ciro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we prove a theorem stated by Castelnuovo which bounds the dimension of linear systems of plane curves in terms of two invariants, one of which is the genus of the curves in the system. Then we classify linear systems whose dimension belongs to certain intervals which naturally arise from Castelnuovo's theorem. Finally we make an application to the following moduli problem: what is the maximum number of moduli of curves of geometric genus $g$ varying in a linear system on a surface? It turns out that, for $g\ge 22$, the answer is $2g+1$, and it is attained by trigonal canonical curves varying on a balanced rational normal scroll.
description: 8 pages
ВЫДЕЛЕНИЕ УГОЛОВНОГО ДЕЛА ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ ОСНОВАНИЙ ДЛЯ ПРИОСТАНОВЛЕНИЯ ПРОИЗВОДСТВА ПО УГОЛОВНОМУ ДЕЛУ В ОТНОШЕНИИ ОТДЕЛЬНЫХ ПОДОЗРЕВАЕМЫХ, ОБВИНЯЕМЫХ
Creators: name: Шигурова Елена Ивановна
name: Шигуров Александр Викторович
Publisher: name: Гуманитарные и политико-правовые исследования
Year: 2020
Subjects: уголовный процесс
уголовное дело
выделение
обвиняемый
приостановление
производство
основания
порядок

description: В статье проанализированы проблемы института выделения уголовных дел при наличии оснований для приостановления производства по уголовному делу в отношении отдельных обвиняемых (подозреваемых). Проведенное исследование позволило сделать следующие выводы и предложения. Во-первых, при использовании института выделения уголовного дела следователь должен помнить, что закон не обязывает его выделять уголовные дела даже при наличии оснований, предусмотренных ст. 154 УПК РФ. При принятии такого решения должностное лицо должно руководствоваться, в частности, положениями о разумном сроке производства по уголовному делу. Следует учитывать, что вступившее в законную силу судебное решение по делу одного из соучастников не может предрешать виновность другого соучастника. Во-вторых, содержание основания для приостановления предварительного следствия, предусмотренное в п. 1 ч. 1 ст. 208 УПК РФ, не согласуется с формулировкой основания для выделения уголовного дела, закрепленного в п. 1 ч. 1 ст. 154 УПК РФ. Противоречие заключается в том, что рассматриваемое основание для выделения уголовного дела может применяться лишь в отношении конкретных подозреваемых или обвиняемых по уголовному делу, т.е. лиц, в отношении которых у органов расследования есть данные об их личности и достаточные доказательства, подтверждающие подозрение или обвинение. В то же время п. 1 ч. 1 ст. 208 УПК РФ допускает приостановление производства по уголовному делу в отношении лица, личность которого не установлена, которому еще не было предъявлено обвинение. Предлагаем уточнить формулировку п. 1 ч. 1 ст. 154 УПК РФ с тем, чтобы она соответствовала п. 1 ч. 1 ст. 208 УПК РФ, изложив его начало в следующей редакции: «1) отдельных подозреваемых, обвиняемых или не установленных лиц, совершивших запрещенные уголовным законом деяния, по уголовным делам…».
Hamlets, environment and landscape
Creators: name: Ronzoni, Maria Rosa
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: I will describe a multi-scalar project concerning the municipality of Castelnovo ne' Monti, where I try to develop spaces for socializing in compliance with the distancing constraints that are required at us. The project strengthens structuring elements of this territory by resorting to various interventions. The organization of the small villages connected together working as an integrated system, the insertion of a new central place, the eco-camping project and the three pine forests regeneration without forgetting the desire to spread the interest in two authentic treasures: Pietra of Bismantova and Gessi Triassici of the Secchia valley.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
The 15-minute city as a hybrid model for Milan
Creators: name: Abdelfattah, Lamia
name: Deponte, Diego
name: Fossa, Giovanna
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: With a special focus on Milan, we explore the interpretation of the 15-minute city as a hybrid model, where soft mobility is integrated in a holistic urbanism approach. Contemporary urban challenges, synthetized in the 15-minute city model, look for a sustainable “proximity mix”: mix of uses (overcoming rigid zoning and building codes), mix of inhabitants and users, mix of time schedules and multi-purpose open space. The proposed hybrid approach considers the living-working urban experience as a whole: it proposes to consider, as a starting point for measuring the timeframe of 15 minutes, not only homes but workplaces as well. It welcomes innovative working facilities among those to be considered as essential services reachable within the 15-minute walking timeframe and it integrates open spaces within urban infrastructures by mixing the neighborhood “eco-system” –both of environment and mobility– and designing them around the central role of walking.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Post-Covid cities and mobility
Creators: name: Ravagnan, Chiara
name: Cerasoli, Mario
name: Amato, Chiara
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: Mobility is considered a central topic for urban regeneration in metropolitan cities, in relation to the impact on traffic congestion, air pollution, public space quality, social inclusion. During the Covid-19 pandemic, mobility patterns have been strongly affected by the spread of the virus and the social distancing measures. In the last months, many cities have adopted mobility strategies for urban resilience, to face the crisis by the reorganization of infrastructures and networks with a glance at a prevention of an unsustainable return to private transport in the post-covid phase. In this context, the research illustrated in this paper, developed within a collaboration between Sapienza University of Rome and Roma Tre University, aims to propose an "anti-fragile" strategy for “post covid Rome”, adaptable to other contexts of European cities, starting from an integrated approach to urban planning and mobility. The research methodology has articulated the activities into three phases. The phase of analysis of the phenomena and the main scientific references relating to urban resilience and antifragility, highlighting the the relationship between urban form and mobility models. The second phase relates to the study of the main ongoing strategies and practices in some European metropolitan cities. The third phase proposes an operational hypothesis of an antifragile strategy for Rome highlighting the relevance of mobility transition. In the conclusion, the paper defines guidelines for urban regeneration combining the results of the case studies and the experimentation.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Some reflections between city form and mobility.
Creators: name: Balletto, Ginevra
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: Urban development is closely linked by a continuous cause - effect alternation of technology that finds its maximum application in the city, and in particular in the transport system to support the multiple forms of mobility. From the historical reading of urban processes, it is in fact possible to extrapolate strengths and weaknesses, positive and negative externalities, of mobility and recognize the recurring elements in the evolution of the city form. The aim of the paper is to build a reorganization of knowledge between literature and comparisons of city forms to extrapolate from the past possible approaches to evaluate the present on the occasion of multiple and contextual transitions such as energy, digital and ecological ones.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Well-being, greenery, and active mobility
Creators: name: Fior, Marika
name: Galuzzi, Paolo
name: Vitillo, Piergiorgio
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: The paper summarizes the results obtained from the action research conducted at Politecnico di Milano (2018-2020) for Milan Municipality and MM4 SpA. It is a Masterplan for reorganizing areas and public spaces along the new M4 metro line route. The paper aims to highlight the positive effects that planning at various scales brings to the city in terms of new green areas, new spaces for inhabitants and users, and new routes to get around the city. The three concerns are at the basis of a conscious process of improvement of living conditions in the major urban areas worldwide, which are increasingly characterized not only by climate, environmental and social inclusion problems but also by health problems. Without disturbing the pandemic issue, important urban matters must be addressed from an urban health perspective to support the prevention of chronic degenerative diseases. Policies for the re-greening of the city and the extension of slow mobility routes help in this task. The paper shows how these strategic actions can be adapted to the dense and stratified fabric of Milan city to achieve and boost a model of a healthy, active, and sustainable city.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Synthetic magnetic field effects on neutral bosonic condensates in quasi three-dimensional anisotropic layered structures
Creators: name: Zaleski, T. A.
name: Polak, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a system of dilute Bose gas confined in a layered structure of stacked square lattices (slab geometry). A derived phase diagram reveals a non-monotonic dependence of the ratio of tunneling to on-site repulsion on the artificial magnetic field applied to the system. The effect is reduced when more layers are added, which mimics a two- to quasi-three-dimensional geometry crossover. Furthermore, we establish a correspondence between anisotropic infinite (quasi three-dimensional) and isotropic finite (slab geometry) systems that share exactly the same critical values, which can be an important clue for choosing experimental setups that are less demanding, but still leading to the identical results. Finally, we show that the properties of the ideal Bose gas in a three-dimensional optical lattice can be closely mimicked by finite (slab) systems, when the number of two-dimensional layers is larger than ten for isotropic interactions or even less, when the layers are weakly coupled.
description: http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v83/i2/e023607
New scenarios for safe mobility in urban areas: emerging topics from an international debate
Creators: name: Pezzagno, Michèle
name: Richiedei, Anna
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: The paper presents the emerging topics of the international debate for safe mobility in urban areas with an innovative interpretation. This is the bibliometric mapping of the most recurrent concepts (keywords) of almost 80 scientific publications. The paper framework moves from the issue of the “sustainability” of cities to the “safe” and “innovative” city through a mobility lens. In Europe by 2030 cities have to become climate-neutral and some main urban strategy to achieve this result is focused on transport and mobility sectors. The interpretation of the bibliometric mapping results leads to highlighting the shortcomings of some topics within the scientific debate. The Qualiquantitaive Data Analysis was applied to set the interdependency among research fields and better understand the interrelation among the different topics. The key concepts of ‘time’ and ‘innovation’ don’t emerge clearly as an object of research and they will be included in future reflections about the transformative capacity of the city through sustainability and in the development of city strategies.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Une base de données phénotypiques : un prérequis pour la mise en place de programmes de sélection des races locales
Creators: name: MERCAT, Marie-José
name: ZAHLAN, Elias
name: PETIG, Matthias
name: LENOIR, Herveline
name: CHEVAL, Pascal
name: ČANDEK-POTOKAR, Marjeta
name: ŠKRLEP, Martin
name: KASTELIC, Andrej
name: LUKIĆ, Boris
name: NUNES, João
name: PIRES, Preciosa
name: LEBRET, Bénédicte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Currently, breeding programs exist only for few local pig breeds in Europe. For some of them, no or very few phenotypes are recorded. To promote phenotyping, a dedicated database and a website were developed as part of the TREASURE H2020 project. This is the first step towards implementing breeding programs in European local pig breeds, based on standardised recording of growth, carcass and meat quality traits. First, the required variables were collected for six local breeds: Basque (FR), Bísara (PT), Crna slavonska (HR), Gascon (FR), Krškopolje (SI) and Schwäbisch-Hällisches (DE). In total, 74 variables were identified representing animal herdbook information (10), rearing and growth (22), carcass (22) and meat quality (20) attributes. The database is compatible with the various identifiers (IDs) used in the different countries: animal IDs, breed, farm, etc. codifications. Great attention was paid to describing methods for measuring traits. Thus, each carcass and meat quality phenotype is associated with a method description representing 35 additional variables. The website can be easily translated into several languages: English, Croatian, French, German and Slovenian languages are already available, and other languages can be easily included. Stakeholders of all the breeds studied in TREASURE are free to use these tools. Data can be hosted in a common database or in duplicate partner-specific databases. Once enough data have been recorded, genetic parameters (heritabilities, genetic correlations between traits) can be estimated and selection objectives defined for each local breed.
Effects of soil temperature regimes after fire on seed dormancy and germination in six Australian Fabaceae species
Creators: name: Santana, Victor M.
name: Bradstock, Ross A.
name: Ooi, Mark
name: Denham, Andrew J.
name: Auld, Tony D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: 60203 Ecological Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Preprint of article published in:Australian Journal of Botany, 2010, 58 (7), 539-545.
Abstract:In addition to direct fire cues such as heat, smoke and charred wood, the passage of fire leads indirectly to changes in environmental conditions which may be able to break physical dormancy in hard-coated seeds. After a fire, the open canopy and the burnt material lying on the surface alter the thermal properties of the soil, resulting in elevated soil temperatures for long periods of time. We simulated daily temperature regimes experienced at different depths of soil profile after a summer fire. Our aim was to determine whether these temperature regimes and the duration of exposure (5, 15 and 30 days) play an important role breaking physical seed dormancy in six legumes from south-eastern Australia. Our results showed that simulated temperature regimes break seed dormancy. This effect is specially pronounced at temperatures that are expected to occur near the soil surface (0–2 cm depth). The duration of exposure interacts with temperature to break dormancy, with the highest germination rates reached after the longest duration and highest temperatures. However, the germination response varied among species. Therefore, this indirect post-fire cue could play a role in the regeneration of plant communities, and could stimulate seedling emergence independent of direct fire cues as well as in interaction with direct cues.
Sustainability charter and sustainable mobility
Creators: name: Spadaro, Ilenia
name: Pirlone, Francesca
name: Candia, Selena
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: In order to make our cities more sustainable, the paper describes a research aimed at defining a new urban tool in the context of Agenda 2030. It is the 'Sustainability Charter', a tool that already exists at the international level, but here is analyses at the local level as a result of decision-making process which refers to a set of interactions between academia (the university), industry and local community. One of the priority of the Sustainability Charter is to analyse all the sustainable services that an administration has to implement in order to help citizens to have virtuous lifestyles. The authors developed a methodological approach to better define, implement and asses these sustainable actions related to different urban topics (mobility, waste management, energy production…). In particular, the paper proposes to adopt different indicators to measure the sustainability of each action using a specific chart defined as sustainability map. The method proposed by the authors aims to be easily adaptable and scalable to different local administrations. To give a concrete example of the results that can be obtained from its application, the paper proposes the experience of the Sustainability Charter of Sestri Levante, a medium-sized municipality in Italy in the Ligurian Riviera. Thanks to this experience, the Municipality of Sestri Levante can improve its mobility-related sustainability services.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Production of high purity TeO2 single crystals for the study of neutrinoless double beta decay
Creators: name: Arnaboldi, C.
name: Brofferio, C.
name: Bryant, A.
name: Bucci, C.
name: Canonica, L.
name: Capelli, S.
name: Carrettoni, M.
name: Clemenza, M.
name: Dafinei, I.
name: Di Domizio, S.
name: Ferroni, F.
name: Fiorini, E.
name: Ge, Z.
name: Giachero, A.
name: Gironi, L.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Gorla, P.
name: Guardincerri, E.
name: Kadel, R.
name: Kazkaz, K.
name: Kogler, L.
name: Kolomensky, Y.
name: Larsen, J.
name: Laubenstein, M.
name: Li, Y.
name: Maiano, C.
name: Martinez, M.
name: Maruyama, R.
name: Nisi, S.
name: Nones, C.
name: Norman, Eric B.
name: Nucciotti, A.
name: Orio, F.
name: Pattavina, L.
name: Pavan, M.
name: Pessina, G.
name: Pirro, S.
name: Previtali, E.
name: Rusconi, C.
name: Scielzo, Nicholas D.
name: Sisti, M.
name: Smith, Alan R.
name: Tian, W.
name: Vignati, M.
name: Wang, H.
name: Zhu, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High purity TeO2 crystals are produced to be used for the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. Dedicated production lines for raw material synthesis, crystal growth and surface processing were built compliant with radio-purity constraints specific to rare event physics experiments. High sensitivity measurements of radio-isotope concentrations in raw materials, reactants, consumables, ancillaries and intermediary products used for TeO2 crystals production are reported. Production and certification protocols are presented and resulting ready-to-use TeO2 crystals are described.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Urban regeneration effects on walkability scenarios
Creators: name: Carra, Martina
name: Rossetti, Silvia
name: Tiboni, Michela
name: Vetturi, David
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2022

description: International programs have shown that implementing people-and-climate oriented cities goes through two processes in physical contexts: (i) urban regeneration of the existing city, particularly on public services for each urban unit, and (ii) planning of their accessibility. Therefore, there is a strong relationship between the goals of people-and-climate oriented and temporal-and-proximity perspectives. Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic emergency highlighted the relevance of proximity again through the (not new) concept of “15 minutes cities”. Nevertheless, an evaluation of how urban regeneration projects can contribute to achieving sustainability goals in ordinary practice still struggles to consolidate. Consequently, according to both perspectives, this contribution aims to observe and evaluate the effects of local urban regeneration projects on pedestrian mobility. Therefore, it presents a space-time and GIS-based methodology to assess the walkability scenarios in public open spaces. The analysis consists of double temporal analysis: (i) it analyses pedestrian accessibility in a cells grid and through a backtracking algorithm that measures the spatialized isochronous of access time, and (ii) it evaluates accessibility in two temporal moments, ex-ante and ex-post. The assessment framework proposed is applied to the case study of unit Tintoretto tower in Brescia. Results show how urban design produces different space-time effects on pedestrian accessibility and proximity connection within 15 minutes.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2022: Special Issue. New Scenarios for Safe Mobility in Urban Areas
Evaluation of a competency-based education framework for police recruit training in British Columbia
Creators: name: Houlahan, Nora
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Police training is traditionally delivered in a didactic, para-military style that contrasts with modern day public expectations of patrol level police officers. The predominant methods of instruction and assessment for police recruits remain lecture-based and memorization-driven. In British Columbia, all municipal, transit, and tribal police recruits are trained at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) Police Academy. In 2016, the JIBC Police Academy implemented a recruit-training program that is centred on the development and assessment of the Police Sector Council (PSC) National Framework of Constable Competencies. The core aspects of this program include: integrated delivery of materials focused around common patrol-level calls, application and performance through case-based and scenario-based learning activities, development of individualized training plans with instructors mentoring recruits over the course of training, performance-based assessment exam scenarios, and assessment portfolios at the end of each component of training. This is the first police recruit training program in Canada to directly integrate the PSC competencies. This project used a quantitative approach to evaluate the first component (Block I) of the new training delivery model through surveying recruits and their Field Training Officers (FTOs) from one class trained in the old lecture-based delivery model and two classes trained in the new competency-based delivery model. The survey used the PSC constable competencies as the reference point and, for each of the nine core competencies, asked about the recruits’ ability and how well their Block I training prepared them for Block II. Recruits in the lecture-based delivery model rated their ability significantly higher than those from the competency-based delivery model in: adaptability, ethical accountability, organizational awareness, problem solving, risk management, stress tolerance, and teamwork. No significant difference in how FTOs rated recruits in the lecture-based and competency-based delivery models was identified. Analysis of the comments indicate the recruits in the lecture-based delivery model may have a less robust understanding of the role of a patrol level police officer due to their limited exposure to scenarios and the lack of formative feedback on their performance, and may over-estimate their own ability. The impacts of organizational cynicism and change management are included in the discussion.