cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Daniel Laverty in the Navy and Maud Burland in the WRENs
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Daniel was born in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. He served on HMS Alliance as a Petty Officer. One tale Daniel told was that his friend wanted a turkey dinner for Christmas, so they smuggled one on board! It was hidden and fed rations for two weeks before they were discovered!He left the Navy in the late 1960s and was reluctant to talk about the war. Around 2010, the Greek government got in touch to award a medal for his service there. Daniel wasn't sure quite why. It's believed that he may have been there when the Greek Civil War began. He enjoyed plenty of socialising in Greece, so his memories were hazy! While in Greece, Daniel supposedly punched an Admiral, which he blamed for his lack of promotion!Daniel met Maud in North Africa. She was serving in the WRENs and was evacuated from Alderney in the Channel Islands, which were occupied by the Nazis. After the war, the couple lived in Alderney briefly.
On the Robustness of Deep Learning-aided Symbol Detectors to Varying Conditions and Imperfect Channel Knowledge
Creators: name: Chen, Chin-Hung
name: Karanov, Boris
name: van Houtum, Wim
name: Yan, Wu
name: Young, Alex
name: Alvarado, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recently, a data-driven Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv (BCJR) algorithm tailored to channels with intersymbol interference has been introduced. This so-called BCJRNet algorithm utilizes neural networks to calculate channel likelihoods. BCJRNet has demonstrated resilience against inaccurate channel tap estimations when applied to a time-invariant channel with ideal exponential decay profiles. However, its generalization capabilities for practically-relevant time-varying channels, where the receiver can only access incorrect channel parameters, remain largely unexplored. The primary contribution of this paper is to expand upon the results from existing literature to encompass a variety of imperfect channel knowledge cases that appear in real-world transmissions. Our findings demonstrate that BCJRNet significantly outperforms the conventional BCJR algorithm for stationary transmission scenarios when learning from noisy channel data and with imperfect channel decay profiles. However, this advantage is shown to diminish when the operating channel is also rapidly time-varying. Our results also show the importance of memory assumptions for conventional BCJR and BCJRNet. An underestimation of the memory largely degrades the performance of both BCJR and BCJRNet, especially in a slow-decaying channel. To mimic a situation closer to a practical scenario, we also combined channel tap uncertainty with imperfect channel memory knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, our results revealed improved performance when employing the conventional BCJR with an underestimated memory assumption. BCJRNet, on the other hand, showed a consistent performance improvement as the level of accurate memory knowledge increased.
description: Accepted paper at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2024
title: Memoria 2024
Creators: name: Universidad Especializada de las Américas
Publisher: name: Universidad Especializada de las Américas
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01z110311
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5.3
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Luego de la aplicación de las medidas sociosanitarias y de distanciamiento físico impuestas por el Covid-19, durante los años 2020-2021, el período 2022-2023, el quehacer de la UDELAS, se ha caracterizado por el regreso a la presencialidad de forma escalonada. El año 2024, se caracterizó por ser el último año de la gestión del Doctor Juan Bosco Bernal, tras ejercer la Rectoría de la universidad por dos períodos consecutivos 2014-2019 y 2020-2024. El año 2024 también marcó el último año del Plan Estratégico de UDELAS 2020-2024. La velocidad de los cambios en la sociedad y la tecnología de la información, iniciados en la segunda parte de la década de los años noventa del siglo pasado y acelerados en las dos primeras décadas del presente siglo XXI, en plena evolución y desarrollo, hicieron necesario realizar un proceso de reforma institucional de la UDELAS, iniciado en al año 2017, el cual tuvo como su hito principal la aprobación del nuevo Estatuto Orgánico en noviembre del año 2020 y posterior entrada en vigencia en febrero del año 2021. El nuevo Estatuto Orgánico de UDELAS, introdujo cambios de carácter académico como la educación a distancia y el establecimiento de la carrera docente entre los principales. En el plano administrativo, se aprobó el establecimiento de nuevas estructuras en la organización institucional, entre las que se destacan la creación de las Vicerrectorías Académica, de Investigación y Postgrado, de Extensión, de Vida Estudiantil y la Administrativa. Además de lo arriba señalado, el nuevo Estatuto Orgánico de UDELAS incluyó importantes modificaciones en los órganos de gobierno, en la denominación, composición y funciones de su máximo órgano de gobierno; el anterior Consejo Técnico de Administración (CTA) que pasó a denominarse Consejo Superior Universitario (CSU), se incluyeron nuevos miembros y su posibilidad de reuniones virtuales. Un último cambio, no menos importante que los anteriores, fue el del proceso para la elección del Rector, el cual tuvo como principal característica reconocer el hecho que la gestión de las instituciones de educación superior, debe reunir, al Memoria 2024 UDELAS 12 menos, dos elementos, no siempre fáciles de conjugar. Uno de ellos, su carácter eminente público y democrático y, el otro, su carácter científico – académico. El nuevo modelo para la elección del Rector, se denominó Claustro Universitario.
Deroghe al contraddittorio e all'oralità nella formazione della prova
Creators: name: BARBA, ANTONIO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: giusto processo; condotta illecita; contraddittorio; oralità; deroghe; dibattimento; prove; volontà delle parti; dialettica
subject: giusto processo
subject: condotta illecita
subject: contraddittorio
subject: oralità
subject: deroghe
subject: dibattimento
subject: prove
subject: volontà delle parti
subject: dialettica

description: 21. ciclo
Optimal design of unimorph-type cantilevered piezoelectric energy harvesters using level set-based topology optimization by considering manufacturability
Creators: name: Miyajima, Ken
name: Yamada, Takayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we propose a design methodology for a piezoelectric energy-harvesting device optimized for maximal power generation at a designated frequency using topology optimization. The proposed methodology is adapted to the design of a unimorph-type piezoelectric energy harvester, wherein a piezoelectric film is affixed to a singular side of a silicon cantilever beam. Both the substrate and the piezoelectric film components undergo concurrent optimization. Constraints are imposed to ensure that the resultant design is amenable to microfabrication, with specific emphasis on the etchability of piezoelectric energy harvesters. Several numerical examples are provided to validate the efficacy of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method yields optimized substrate and piezoelectric designs with an enhanced electromechanical coupling coefficient, while allowing the eigenfrequency of the device and the minimum output voltage to be set to the desired values. Furthermore, the proposed method can provide solutions that satisfy the cross-sectional shape, substrate-dependent, and minimum output voltage constraints. The solutions obtained by the proposed method are manufacturable in the field of microfabrication.
description: 52 pages, 11 figures
Le pietre fluviali iscritte del Piemonte romano
Creators: name: BERNARDINI, ELENA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Piemonte; Cisalpina; pietra; epitafio; romanizzazione; fluviale
subject: Piemonte
subject: Cisalpina
subject: pietra
subject: epitafio
subject: romanizzazione
subject: fluviale

description: 20. ciclo
description: Fluvial stones of Romanic period in Piemonte region The thesis makes up the corpus of the Latin funeral inscriptions in Piemonte region – cut on fluvial stones – and is divided into two sections: an introduction where the essential features of Piemonte’s territory are described, the main phases of the Romanization of western Cisalpina are examined and the different questions raised about the typology of the epigraphs are presented ( such as typological definitions, dating, ways of execution, addressees); a catalogue which assigns each monument a specific descriptive label – structured according to the “Supplementa Italica” criteria. The corpus includes an overall number of 70 inscriptions, cut on fluvial stones of different sizes – but rather huge on average, which come from the territories of Augusta Bagiennorum, Pollentia, Augusta Taurinorum, Vercellae and Novaria and are kept in museums , stores and private properties. The text mainly deals with the name of the deceased, usually just one, and mentions individuals from different social groups. With reference to other few similar funeral inscriptions, to some details in the text and to the name, they can be approximately dated back to the period between the 1st century B.C. and the first half of the 1st century A.D.The findings of a fluvial stone with Etruscan inscriptions dating back to the 5th century B.C. and of an epitaph from the 6th-7th century A.D. show that the use of this sort of texts, though not continually, has been carried out during the centuries, especially in remote places and where any other “nobler” funeral inscription is lacking.
The Atlas of Living Australia: 59 million species records…and counting
Creators: name: Belbin, Lee
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: A visual tour of some of the key features of the Atlas of Living Australia. This Data Publisher receives biological observation and specimen records from the Australian region from Government, business sources. The Atlas currently has over 60 million records of 112,000 species. It also contains links to species profile information such as images, video, audio, names, genetic records and publications. There are interfaces suited to education levels from age 5 to post graduate. The 'research interface', the Spatial Portal (http://spatial.ala.org.au) provides an efficient environment for examining the distribution of taxa and using around 500 environmental layers including vegetation, climate, soil, marine and freshwater information. The Spatial Portal demonstrates clearly and simply the value of fully integrated biological and environmental data.

Web services are available for most functions and the ALA4R package uses these services from the R environment to access Atlas data.
High School Students’ Perceptions of Their Proficiency with Conflict Resolution after Participation in Peer Mediation Training
Creators: name: Boyle, Shira
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to build the researcher’s understanding of the effect of peer
mediation programs by examining the effectiveness of such programs to determine whether
providing students with the tools for peer mediation and conflict resolution would improve their
self-perceptions of their own abilities regarding conflict resolution. The participants chosen for
the study were 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students who were recommended by their teachers or by
the school’s administration. The measurement tool used was a survey created by the researcher
and designed to determine students’ perceptions regarding their knowledge of the peer mediation
process and conflict resolution abilities once they had completed the peer mediation training.
This qualitative study extended from February 2013, when the students were selected, to March
2013 when the training was completed. The participants reported much improvement in their
knowledge of the peer mediation process as well as their understanding of the underlying causes
of conflict amongst their peers and various methods to reduce or improve these conflicts.
Diavik Waste Rock Project: Geostatistical Analysis of Sulfur, Carbon, and Hydraulic Conductivity Distribution in a Large-Scale Experimental Waste Rock Pile
Creators: name: Wilson, David
name: Smith, Leslie
name: Atherton, Colleen
name: Smith, Lianna J. D.
name: Amos, Richard T.
name: Barsi, David R.
name: Sego, David C.
name: Blowes, David W.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: One of the large-scale field waste rock experiments (test piles) conducted as part of the Diavik Waste Rock Project was deconstructed, providing a spatially located set of geochemical, mineralogical, and particle-size distribution samples. Geostatistical analyses were conducted for sulfur and carbon content and saturated hydraulic conductivity, which affect the geochemical evolution of waste rock, to investigate the spatial dependence of these parameters. Analyses included population statistics, experimental semi-variogram estimation, and theoretical semi-variogram fitting. Population statistics were calculated for additional data sets from samples collected during the construction of the test piles. The population statistical analyses indicated that log-normal distribution provided the best fit for all investigated data sets. Experimental semi-variograms were estimated for the spatially located data set (test pile deconstruction) using the classical estimator, and theoretical semi-variograms were fitted. This investigation showed that the spatial distribution of sulfur, carbon, and hydraulic conductivity within the core of the test-pile experiments can be approximated using a log-normal distribution with a mean and standard deviation calculated using the samples collected during construction of the piles, and that little to no spatial relationship was present for these parameters at the scale of sampling. That the saturated hydraulic conductivity of the matrix material can be represented by the same statistical distribution throughout the test pile is significant because water flow, as well as mineral surface area and reactivity are dominantly controlled within the matrix portion of the test pile. Reactive transport simulations are included to demonstrate the influence of the matrix material on effluent geochemistry.
Amorphous silicon detectors for proton beam monitoring in FLASH radiotherapy
Creators: name: Wyrsch, Nicolas
name: Antognini, Luca
name: Ballif, Christophe
name: Braccini, Saverio
name: Casolaro, Pierluigi
name: Dunand, Sylvain
name: Gottstein, Alexander
name: Large, Matt
name: Mateu, Isidre
name: Thomet, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-high dose rate radiation therapy (FLASH) based on proton irradiation is of major interest for cancer treatments but creates new challenges for dose monitoring. Amorphous hydrogenated silicon is known to be one of the most radiation-hard semiconductors. In this study, detectors based on this material are investigated at proton dose rates similar to or exceeding those required for FLASH therapy. Tested detectors comprise two different types of contacts, two different thicknesses deposited either on glass or on polyimide substrates. All detectors exhibit excellent linear behaviour as a function of dose rate up to a value of 20 kGy/s. Linearity is achieved independently of the depletion condition of the device and remarkably in passive (unbiased) conditions. The degradation of the performance as a function of the dose rate and its recovery are also discussed.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, presented at 29th Internation Conference on Solid-State Dosimetry, 2023
Bonding Grammars
Creators: name: Pshenitsyn, Tikhon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce bonding grammars, a graph grammar formalism developed to model DNA computation by means of graph transformations. It is a modification of fusion grammars introduced by Kreowski, Kuske and Lye in 2017. Bonding is a graph transformation that consists of merging two hyperedges into a single larger one. We show why bonding models interaction between DNA molecules better than fusion. Then, we investigate formal properties of this formalism. Firstly, we study the relation between bonding grammars and hyperedge replacement grammars proving that each of these kinds of grammars generates a language the other one cannot generate. Secondly, we prove that bonding grammars naturally generalise regular sticker systems. Finally, we prove that the membership problem for bonding grammars is NP-complete and, moreover, that some bonding grammar generates an NP-complete set.
description: Submitted to UCNC 2024
Caratterizzazione clinica, metabolica e infiammatoria di una popolazione di coronaropatici senza apparenti disturbi del metabolismo glicidico: studio MIDIAB
Creators: name: RIZZA, STEFANO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: adiponectin; TNF-alfa
subject: diabete; coronaropatia; pioglitazone
subject: adiponectin
subject: TNF-alfa
subject: diabete
subject: coronaropatia
subject: pioglitazone

description: 19. ciclo
Experimental Evaluation of Interactive Edge/Cloud Virtual Reality Gaming over Wi-Fi using Unity Render Streaming
Creators: name: Casasnovas, Miguel
name: Michaelides, Costas
name: Carrascosa-Zamacois, Marc
name: Bellalta, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Virtual Reality (VR) streaming enables end-users to seamlessly immerse themselves in interactive virtual environments using even low-end devices. However, the quality of the VR experience heavily relies on Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) performance, since it serves as the last hop in the network chain. Our study delves into the intricate interplay between Wi-Fi and VR traffic, drawing upon empirical data and leveraging a Wi-Fi simulator. In this work, we further evaluate Wi-Fi's suitability for VR streaming in terms of the Quality of Service (QoS) it provides. In particular, we employ Unity Render Streaming to remotely stream real-time VR gaming content over Wi-Fi 6 using Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), considering a server physically located at the network's edge, near the end user. Our findings demonstrate the system's sustained network performance, showcasing minimal round-trip time (RTT) and jitter at 60 and 90 frames per second (fps). In addition, we uncover the characteristics and patterns of the generated traffic streams, unveiling a distinctive video transmission approach inherent to WebRTC-based services: the systematic packetization of video frames (VFs) and their transmission in discrete batches at regular intervals, regardless of the targeted frame rate. This interval-based transmission strategy maintains consistent video packet delays across video frame rates but leads to increased Wi-Fi airtime consumption. Our results demonstrate that shortening the interval between batches is advantageous, as it enhances Wi-Fi efficiency and reduces delays in delivering complete frames.
description: 17 pages, 26 figures
Poesia ai margini: Luigi Pirandello e le cupe gigantesche necessità
Creators: name: DI MARIA, RAFFAELLA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Pirandello, Luigi; umorismo; poesia; poetica
subject: Pirandello
subject: Luigi
subject: umorismo
subject: poesia
subject: poetica

description: 22. ciclo
NetLLM: Adapting Large Language Models for Networking
Creators: name: Wu, Duo
name: Wang, Xianda
name: Qiao, Yaqi
name: Wang, Zhi
name: Jiang, Junchen
name: Cui, Shuguang
name: Wang, Fangxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many networking tasks now employ deep learning (DL) to solve complex prediction and optimization problems. However, current design philosophy of DL-based algorithms entails intensive engineering overhead due to the manual design of deep neural networks (DNNs) for different networking tasks. Besides, DNNs tend to achieve poor generalization performance on unseen data distributions/environments.
 Motivated by the recent success of large language models (LLMs), this work studies the LLM adaptation for networking to explore a more sustainable design philosophy. With the powerful pre-trained knowledge, the LLM is promising to serve as the foundation model to achieve "one model for all tasks" with even better performance and stronger generalization. In pursuit of this vision, we present NetLLM, the first framework that provides a coherent design to harness the powerful capabilities of LLMs with low efforts to solve networking problems. Specifically, NetLLM empowers the LLM to effectively process multimodal data in networking and efficiently generate task-specific answers. Besides, NetLLM drastically reduces the costs of fine-tuning the LLM to acquire domain knowledge for networking. Across three networking-related use cases - viewport prediction, adaptive bitrate streaming and cluster job scheduling, we showcase that the NetLLM-adapted LLM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms.
description: This paper has been accepted by ACM SIGCOMM 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3651890.3672268
The evolution of the relationship between language and identity politics in contemporary Taiwan
Creators: name: McLean Dreyfus, Marie-Alice
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Taiwan
language
identity
student movements

description: There exists a wide literature on Taiwanese identity. However, less research has been conducted into how language practices and policies have impacted upon Taiwanese identity, that is, the feeling of commonality amongst all those living in Taiwan. This thesis will evaluate the role of language in the evolution of national identity in Taiwan. Through review of Taiwan’s various historical periods, the European, Qing Dynasty, Japanese and then the authoritarian Kuomintang rule this thesis will show how the role of local languages and Mandarin has evolved in Taiwan. Via analysis of survey data and features of the written and spoken language from the March 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan, this thesis argues that in the contemporary era local languages are now a symbolic part of identity while Standard Taiwanese Mandarin has now been accepted as a language of Taiwan. This thesis further argues that the non-linguistic aspects of national identity have become increasingly important. These include identifying with the place Taiwan, respecting Taiwan’s democratic institutions and looking forward to Taiwan’s future. This thesis adds nuance to the wide body of research discussing the relationship between language and national identity.
Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)
Creators: name: Douangboupha, Vannida
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: The National Centre for Laboratory and Epidemiology (NCLE) is responsible for surveillance, outbreak investigation and responses, providing national public health laboratory services, as well as capacity building through a one-year Lao Field Epidemiology Training (FET) program. From March 2019 to 2020, I undertook my MAE field placement within the Epidemiology section at the NCLE. This dissertation illustrates the four field projects, skills, and knowledge I have gained during the 24-month placement. My field projects consist of establishing a Congenital Rubella Syndrome Sentinel Surveillance System; investigating contributing factors to low measles immunization coverage in an outbreak of a hard-to-reach rural village in Xaisomboun province; investigation of first few cases and contacts for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, analysing laboratory findings of the first 1000s cases of reported suspected COVID-19 cases and designing a dengue primary intervention study. I gained additional skills and knowledge during the program through the full literature reviews, teaching, writing for a lay audience, preparing an advanced draft of a paper for publication, preparing an abstract and oral presentation of projects, all of which will be demonstrated in subsequent and relevant chapters. I also successfully completed five MAE coursework units. Lastly, I also attained additional experience and professional development activities during participation in the 2019 Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) Young Scientist Program, Training of Trainers (TOT) for FET graduates and coordinators, weekly Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) meeting, and weekly Surveillance Data Review/Analysis in Lao PDR. These projects, skills, knowledge, and experiences comply with the core requirements for the Australian National University Master of Philosophy (Applied Epidemiology) program.
title: Ruolo della composizione corporea come determinante delle espressioni di forza
title: The Role of the body composition as a decisive factor of the expression of strength
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: SGROI, MAURIZIO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: muscular efficiency; fat mass;lean mass; strength; power; body composition
subject: massa grassa; forza; composizione corporea; potenza; efficienza muscolare
subject: muscular efficiency
subject: fat mass
subject: lean mass
subject: strength
subject: power
subject: body composition
subject: massa grassa
subject: forza
subject: composizione corporea
subject: potenza
subject: efficienza muscolare

description: 20. ciclo
Scavi al Pantanello: proposta per una ricontestualizzazione delle antichità negli ambienti di Villa Adriana
Creators: name: GRANIERI, FRANCESCA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy); sculptural display; excavations; antiquarian market
subject: Villa Adriana (Tivoli, Italy); mercato antiquario; arredo scultoreo; Pantanello; scavi
subject: Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli
subject: Italy)
subject: sculptural display
subject: excavations
subject: antiquarian market
subject: Villa Adriana (Tivoli
subject: mercato antiquario
subject: arredo scultoreo
subject: Pantanello
subject: scavi

description: 20. ciclo
Supplementary document for A scalable, multi-wavelength, broad bandwidth frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy platform for real-time quantitative tissue optical imaging - 5485126.pdf
Creators: name: Stillwell, Roy
name: Kitsmiller, Vincent
name: Wei, Alicia
name: Chong, Alyssa
name: Senn, Lyla
name: O'Sullivan, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medical Devices

description: Supplemental Figure S1 and Table T1
CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE HYDRAULIQUE ET DIMENSIONNEMENTS D'UN RESEAU DE DISTRIBUTION D'EAU DANS UN MILIEU SEMI-PERIPHERIQUE  CAS DE QUARTIER TALANGAYI/COMMUNE DE LA N'lSELE
Creators: name: Mufuta wa Mufuta Joseph
name: Tshangu Titus
name: Nzey Bayina Guy
name: Ngunga Kanzamba Magdala
name: Citenga Kabengele Gaston
name: Lelo Nkenge Joseph
name: Munyinga Lunda Francis
name: Ngalamulume Tshitoka Flarice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Le quartier Talangayi est situé dans la commune de la N sele, ville Province de Kinshasa. Ce nouveau quartier comptait environs 18282 habitants en 2018. Pour les localités rurales, le taux de croissance des populations est exponentiel et est compris entre 1,5 à 3%. Nous avons opté la moyenne de 2,25%. 

Au regard de la loi n 15/026 du 31 décembre 2015 relative à la libération du secteur d’eau, dans son article 23, donne la possibilité aux investisseurs privés de contacter des partenariats publics –privées avec l’état congolais pour envisager la construction des petites unités de distribution et de commercialisation d’eau potable à travers la République. Ce travail permettra d’atténuer les difficultés d’approvisionnement d’eau potable rencontrent dans ce quartier.
Improving access to Foreign Direct Investment for Pacific Island Countries: Pursuit of International Investment Agreements from a development perspective
Creators: name: McKenzie, Caitlyn Jane
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021
Subjects: International Investment Agreements
Small Island Developing States
International Investment Law
International economic Law
Pacific Island Countries
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Goals
Treaties
Arbitration
Investment Promotion

description: With aims of economic development and its associated benefits, most countries have established networks of treaties, inclusively termed International Investment Agreements (IIAs), which liberalise, promote, protect and regulate investment flows between the parties. The average number of Bilateral Investment Treaties concluded and in force per country is around 11. Except for Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Island States each have 1 (three of 16 included States) or no IIAs in force – limiting access and control over incoming international investment in their economies. This paper analyses the potential of IIAs in promoting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), economic development and its associated benefits in Pacific island nations. It examines the existing IIAs reached by Pacific island countries and compares them with IIAs in place in other Small Island Developing States outside the Pacific. Finally, it explores the best practices for the design of a model IIA which might be suited to the investment and development policies, and particular economic conditions of Pacific island states, with the explicit aim of enhancing the contributions to the development outcomes of those economies. This research uses treaty analysis alongside social and political science approaches to development and economic data. Key legal sources include identified treaties and their mapping data from the UNCTAD database, economic data, arbitral proceedings and awards, and public policy statements on foreign investment from Pacific island countries. It will assume underlying principles of sovereign self-determination and pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals. Included economies: Cook Islands; Fiji; Kiribati; Micronesia, Federated States of; Marshall Islands; Nauru; Niue; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Timor; Tonga; Tuvalu; Vanuatu.
The Effect of Exercise on the Behavior of Elementary School Students
Creators: name: Berkey, Matthew
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to discover if a moderate to vigorous physical activity program would have an impact on the behavior of elementary school students. The measurement tool was the number of formal behavior referrals during the two hour time period after the intervention was given. This study involved use of a pretest and posttest design to measure the behavior referral data that was collected. Results showed no significant difference between student referrals prior to the intervention and student referrals after the intervention. Research in this area should continue as there is very little information available regarding participation in physical activity programs and their effects on behavior.
Resistive switching acceleration induced by thermal confinement
Creators: name: Sarantopoulos, Alexandros
name: Lange, Kristof
name: Rivadulla, Francisco
name: Menzel, Stephan
name: Dittmann, Regina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Enhancing the switching speed of oxide-based memristive devices at a low voltage level is crucial for their use as non-volatile memory and their integration into emerging computing paradigms such as neuromorphic computing. Efforts to accelerate the switching speed often result in an energy tradeoff, leading to an increase of the minimum working voltage. In our study, we present an innovative solution: the introduction of a low thermal conductivity layer placed within the active electrode, which impedes the dissipation of heat generated during the switching process. The result is a notable acceleration in the switching speed of the memristive model system SrTiO$_{3}$ by a remarkable factor of 10$^{3}$, while preserving the integrity of the switching layer and the interfaces with the electrodes, rendering it adaptable to various filamentary memristive systems. The incorporation of HfO$_{2}$ or TaO$_{x}$ as heat-blocking layers not only streamlines the fabrication process, but also ensures compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Daniel Laverty in the Navy and Maud Buriand in the WRENs
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Daniel was born in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. He served on HMS Alliance as a Petty Officer. One tale Daniel told was that his friend wanted a turkey dinner for Christmas, so they smuggled one on board! It was hidden and fed rations for two weeks before they were discovered!He left the Navy in the late 1960s and was reluctant to talk about the war. Around 2010, the Greek government got in touch to award a medal for his service there. Daniel wasn't sure quite why. It's believed that he may have been there when the Greek Civil War began. He enjoyed plenty of socialising in Greece, so his memories were hazy! While in Greece, Daniel supposedly punched an Admiral, which he blamed for his lack of promotion!Daniel met Maud in North Africa. She was serving in the WRENs and was evacuated from Alderney in the Channel Islands, which were occupied by the Nazis. After the war, the couple lived in Alderney briefly.
Essays in treasury and procurement auctions
Creators: name: PACINI, RICCARDO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: bundling; procurement; market power; multi-unit auctions; under/overpricing; competition
subject: bundling
subject: procurement
subject: market power
subject: multi-unit auctions
subject: under/overpricing
subject: competition

description: 19. ciclo
Self-Representation and Cultural Expectations: Yogi Chen and Religious Practices of Life-Writing
Creators: name: Payne, Richard K.
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Year: 2016
Subjects: religious life-writing; Buddhism; Pietism; Yogi Chen; Billy Graham; Dalai Lama; autobiography

description: Explores the differences in self-representation as found in the autobiographical writings of Yogi Chen, Billy Graham, and the Dalai Lama. While the latter two are widely recognized in American popular religious culture, the former is virtually invisible outside the immigrant Chinese American community. This invisibility is consistent with fact that the religious praxes of immigrant communities remain largely under-studied.

However, one additional factor appears to be the mismatch between the expectations of the dominant religious culture and the immigrant culture in terms of the ways in which religious leaders represent themselves. Both Billy Graham and the Dalai Lama present themselves in very humble terms, consistent with the expectations of the Pietist background to American popular religion. Yogi Chen on the contrary tends toward a self-aggrandizing style, which although consistent with the competitive nature of premodern Tibetan religious culture is not congruent with the expectations of American popular religion.
description: Entangled Religions, Vol 3 (2016)
Company for an ultra-short period sub-Earth: discovery of two additional planets orbiting GJ 367
Creators: name: Goffo Elisa
name: Gandolfi Davide
name: Hatzes Artie
name: Serrano Luisa Maria
name: KESPRINT Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Ultra-short period small planets (R < 2 R⊕, P < 1 d) are believed to be naked cores of former Neptunian planets that have lost their atmospheres during the migration process from beyond the ice line to their current close-in orbits. How this migration occurred is currently unclear and needs to be explored on a case-by-case basis once the inner architecture of the hosting system is known. GJ 367 is an M1 V star that has been recently found to host a transiting ultra-short period sub-Earth on a 8 h orbit (Lam et al. 2021). With the aim of unveiling the architecture of the system, we performed an intensive RV follow-up campaign with the HARPS spectrograph collecting nearly 300 high-precision radial velocities. We discovered two additional low mass companions with orbital periods of ~11.5 and 34 days and minimum masses of ~4.5 and 6.6 M⊕, respectively, and explored the different secular migration scenarios that could account for the current architecture of the planetary system.
Interazione tra cellule staminali e polimeri per la riparazione del tessuto cardiaco
Creators: name: Cossa, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: cellule staminali; tessuto miocardio; insufficienza cardiaca;
subject: cellule staminali
subject: tessuto miocardio
subject: insufficienza cardiaca

description: 19. ciclo
Supplementary document for A scalable, multi-wavelength, broad bandwidth frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy platform for real-time quantitative tissue optical imaging - 5485126.pdf
Creators: name: Stillwell, Roy
name: Kitsmiller, Vincent
name: Wei, Alicia
name: Chong, Alyssa
name: Senn, Lyla
name: O'Sullivan, Thomas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medical Devices

description: Supplemental Figure S1 and Table T1
Micronutrient status of individuals with overweight and obesity following 3 months’ supplementation with PolyGlycopleX (PGX®) or psyllium: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Pal, Sebely
name: McKay, Jenny
name: Ho, Suleen
name: Jane, Monica
name: Gahler, Roland J.
name: Wood, Simon
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Safe and effective weight control strategies are needed to curtail the current obesity epidemic worldwide. Increasing dietary fibre has shown positive results with weight loss as well as in the reduction of metabolic syndrome risk factors. However, fibre can act as an inhibitor to the bioavailability of micronutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. While there is a substantial amount of scientific research into psyllium fibre, PolyGlycopleX (PGX®) is a novel fibre and as yet the effects of PGX® on micronutrient status is not well researched. Aim To determine whether 3-months’ supplementation with 15 g of psyllium or PGX® fibre daily affects micronutrient status of overweight and obese adults. Methods Overweight and obese individuals with a BMI between 25–40 kg/m2 and aged between 18 and 65 years, but otherwise healthy, were instructed to consume a 5 g sachet of psyllium, PGX® fibre or a rice flour placebo three times a day for 52 weeks as part of a larger long-term study. Blood sample data for the first 3 months were analysed for associations between serum micronutrient levels and psyllium fibre and/or PGX® supplements. Results No significant differences between fibre supplement groups and micronutrient status were found after 3 months at p > 0.05. Dietary intake of vitamin C was significantly lower for PGX® at 3 months compared to baseline and compared to control (p < 0.05). Folate was significantly lower in the control group after 3 months (p < 0.05). In the psyllium group, folate, sodium, zinc and magnesium intake decreased after 3 months (p < 0.05). A limitation of dietary intake data (tertiary measure) is the potential for inaccurate self-reporting, although reduced nutrient intake could be due to the satiating effect of dietary fibre. Conclusions There were no significant between group differences in serum micronutrient concentrations after a 3-month psyllium fibre or PGX® supplementation intervention of 15 g per day. Fibre supplementation is unlikely to compromise the nutritional status of overweight and obese individuals in the short term. Further research is recommended to monitor micronutrient status over a longer period or with a higher fibre dosage.
Monoclinic LaSb$_2$ Superconducting Thin Films
Creators: name: Llanos, Adrian
name: Campisi, Giovanna
name: Show, Veronica
name: Kim, Jinwoong
name: Dorrian, Reiley
name: Salmani-Rezaie, Salva
name: Kioussis, Nicholas
name: Falson, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rare-earth diantimondes exhibit coupling between structural and electronic orders which are tunable under pressure and temperature. Here we present the discovery of a new polymorph of LaSb$_2$ stabilized in thin films synthesized using molecular beam epitaxy. Using diffraction, electron microscopy, and first principles calculations we identify a YbSb$_2$-type monoclinic lattice as a yet-uncharacterized stacking configuration. The material hosts superconductivity with a $T_\mathrm{c}$ = 2 K, which is enhanced relative to the bulk ambient phase, and a long superconducting coherence length of 140 nm. This result highlights the potential thin film growth has in stabilizing novel stacking configurations in quasi-two dimensional compounds with competing layered structures.
El derecho de regreso consiguiente al pago del tercero prohibente debitore: bases romanistas y códigos andinos
Creators: name: Prado Rodríguez, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: cessione dei crediti; surrogazione convenzionale; arricchimento ingiustificato; regresso; dissensiones dominorum; quinquaginta decisiones; dispute giurisprudenziali romane; pagamento del terzo; negotiorum gestio prohibente domino; solutio
subject: cessione dei crediti
subject: surrogazione convenzionale
subject: arricchimento ingiustificato
subject: regresso
subject: dissensiones dominorum
subject: quinquaginta decisiones
subject: dispute giurisprudenziali romane
subject: pagamento del terzo
subject: negotiorum gestio prohibente domino
subject: solutio

description: 20. ciclo
Design of human single chain fragments for antibody direct enzyme prodrug therapy (ADEPT)
Creators: name: ZAMBONI, SILVIA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: scFv; ADEPT
subject: scFv
subject: ADEPT

description: 20. ciclo
description: Introduction - 1. Antibodies - 1.1 Antibodies as new therapeutic proteins - 1.2 Antibodies structure an function - 1.3 Conventional and Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies - 1.4 Antibody Phage Display Technology - 1.4.1 Phage Display Technology - 1.4.2 Phage Display of Antibody Fragments - 1.4.3 Antibody Repertoires - 1.5 Engineered Antibody Fragments - 2 Immunotherapy - 2.1 Enhancing Effector Functions - 2.2 Direct Arming - 2.3 Indirect Arming - 2.4 Pretargeting Prodrug. - 3 ADEPT (Antibody Direct Enzyme Prodrug Therapy) - 3.1 Enzyme in ADEPT - 3.2 Antibodies in ADEPT - 3.3 Prodrugs in ADEPT - 3.4 Cytosine Deaminase - 3.5 5-Fluorouracil. - 4 Carcinoembrionic antigen (CEA) - 4.1 CEA structure - 4.2 CEA and CEA family genes - 4.3 CEA as tumor marker. - Materials and methods - Bacterial Strains - Cell lines - Antibodies and reagents - Primers - Genetic engineered constructs - Expression and Purification - SDS PAGE and WB analysis - ELISA - CEA binding specifity of the scFvE8:yCD - Functional Assay of the scFvE8:yCD on cells - Vector construction - Expression and Purification 2 - NMR - ETH-2 library - Selection of yCD protein specific antibody from ETH-2 library - ELISA 2 - DNA characterization and sequencing - Soluble scFv purification - SDS PAGE and WB analysis 2 - Determination of yCD activity - Cytotoxic assay. - Results - Genetic engineering of the scFv antibodies for ADEPT - The antigen specificity of the engineered fusion proteins - Functional assay of the scFvE8:yCD - Construction of scFv specific to yCD - Expression and purification of yCD protein - Selection and characterization of scFvH5 antibody specific to yCD - Determination of yCD activity - Cytotoxic assay. - Discussion - References
Chatelaine
Creators: name: Cassidy, Bonny
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: 1. This is my third full-length collection of poetry. It collects together single poems written between 2013-2017. In this book I explore the key themes of gender and nation, as they intersect and as they reflect or compete with one another. These concerns develop the speculative narrative of climate change and decolonisation in my second collection, Final Theory. Chatelaine is also a formal exploration of poetic voice through forms including epigram, riddle, and ekphrasis. Its focus on pun, imagism and tightly honed lyricism fully extends the style I have been refining across my first and second collections. 2. In contrast to my previous collections, this book uses the construction of line, image and voice to create a more performative, dramatic sense of personae that is able to complicate its themes. Influenced by Michael Farrell's fabulist poetic treatment of Australian tropes, Toby Fitch and Fiona Hile's poetic uses of found material, and the feminist politics in the poetry of Gig Ryan, the book forges a challenging and tough yet lyrically rich and abstract exploration of mythic and inherited identity. It also combines international cultural influences from US poet Lucie Brock-Broido, to Indian mystic poet, Kabir, to South Korean writer, Yi-Deum Kim, in order to create a work that speaks beyond Australian allusions and contributes to a range of traditions in which poetry confounds simple notions of authenticity. 3. The book is published by Australia's foremost independent literary publisher. It is distributed widely in Australasia, and will be sold at international conferences and book fairs in Wellington, New York and Frankfurt. The book has been launched in Melbourne by senior poetic and critic, Gig Ryan, and in Sydney by highly respected experimental poet, Toby Fitch. A significant portion of the book has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies in Australia and internationally, which have been reported separately.