cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CenteringPregnancy®: Reducing Infant Mortality with Group Prenatal Care – A Policy Recommendation
Creators: name: Valdar, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: North Carolina’s infant mortality rate remains high, largely as a result of preterm birth and persistent racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes. While the content and style of routine prenatal care has for the most part remained the same for several decades, CenteringPregnancy®, a new creative model of prenatal care conducted in groups, has been growing in popularity. The CenteringPregnancy® program satisfies all North Carolina Division of Public Health prenatal care and education requirements and recommendations. As programs are implemented across the country, the benefits are becoming increasingly apparent through analysis of perinatal outcomes, and quantitative and qualitative research studies. This model of group prenatal care been shown to reduce the risk of preterm birth, lengthen gestation and increase birth weight of infants that are born preterm, increase the rate of breastfeeding initiation, and rate highly in terms of participant and provider satisfaction. It also holds promise for reaching the women at highest risk of poor outcomes by taking a life-course perspective, providing social support and encouraging community building, and has the potential to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality. CenteringPregnancy® compares favorably with individual prenatal care from a financial perspective. This policy recommendation proposes that CenteringPregnancy® be considered the new gold standard for prenatal care in North Carolina.
Breaking of Spatial Diffeomorphism Invariance, Inflation and the Spectrum of Cosmological Perturbations
Creators: name: Graef, Leila
name: Brandenberger, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard inflationary models yield a characteristic signature of a primordial power spectrum with a red tensor and scalar tilt. Nevertheless, Cannone et al recently suggested that, by breaking the assumption of spatial diffeomorphism invariance in the context of the effective field theory of inflation, a blue tensor spectrum can be achieved without violating the Null Energy Condition. In this context, we explore in which cases a blue tensor tilt can be obtained along with a red tilt in the scalar spectrum. Ultimately, we analyze under which conditions this model can reproduce the specific consistency relation of String Gas Cosmology.
description: 6 pages
A scoping review of the health equity impacts of digital interventions designed to improve access and utilization of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection testing.
Creators: name: Iyamu, Ihoghosa
name: Koehoorn, Mieke
name: Salmon, Amy
name: Estcourt, Claudia
name: Gilbert, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Digital health; health equity; sexually transmitted infections; public health; scoping review

description: This scoping review aims to document the reported health equity effects of digital interventions for STBBI testing.
Enzymes for Greener Products (FNR-16 Cluster) Policy Brief February 2023
Creators: name: Tobin, Lesley
name: Berga, Gro
name: Ferrer, Manuel
name: Hidalgo, Aurelio
name: Peñalva, Carolina
name: Molina, Patricia
name: Müller, Markus
name: Weber, Ryan
name: Hollmann, Susanne
name: Dominguez, Pablo
name: Klement, Tobias
name: Nejda, Nargisse
name: Picinetti, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: enzymes
xylan
oxidoreductase
environment

description: This policy brief outlines consumer concerns about the environment, the issues and challenges of specific industries in aligning with environmental, social and economic EC strategies, directives and policies, and how four projects funded by the EC are addressing these challenges by developing novel enzyme technologies to make targeted products greener, more sustainable and environmentally friendly. In turn, the work of the projects is supporting and will inform current and future policy.
Best bang for your buck: GPU nodes for GROMACS biomolecular simulations
Creators: name: Kutzner, Carsten
name: Páll, Szilárd
name: Fechner, Martin
name: Esztermann, Ansgar
name: de Groot, Bert L.
name: Grubmüller, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The molecular dynamics simulation package GROMACS runs efficiently on a wide variety of hardware from commodity workstations to high performance computing clusters. Hardware features are well exploited with a combination of SIMD, multi-threading, and MPI-based SPMD/MPMD parallelism, while GPUs can be used as accelerators to compute interactions offloaded from the CPU. Here we evaluate which hardware produces trajectories with GROMACS 4.6 or 5.0 in the most economical way. We have assembled and benchmarked compute nodes with various CPU/GPU combinations to identify optimal compositions in terms of raw trajectory production rate, performance-to-price ratio, energy efficiency, and several other criteria. Though hardware prices are naturally subject to trends and fluctuations, general tendencies are clearly visible. Adding any type of GPU significantly boosts a node's simulation performance. For inexpensive consumer-class GPUs this improvement equally reflects in the performance-to-price ratio. Although memory issues in consumer-class GPUs could pass unnoticed since these cards do not support ECC memory, unreliable GPUs can be sorted out with memory checking tools. Apart from the obvious determinants for cost-efficiency like hardware expenses and raw performance, the energy consumption of a node is a major cost factor. Over the typical hardware lifetime until replacement of a few years, the costs for electrical power and cooling can become larger than the costs of the hardware itself. Taking that into account, nodes with a well-balanced ratio of CPU and consumer-class GPU resources produce the maximum amount of GROMACS trajectory over their lifetime.
Dimension Reduction with Non-degrading Generalization
Creators: name: Hartono, Pitoyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visualizing high dimensional data by projecting them into two or three dimensional space is one of the most effective ways to intuitively understand the data's underlying characteristics, for example their class neighborhood structure. While data visualization in low dimensional space can be efficient for revealing the data's underlying characteristics, classifying a new sample in the reduced-dimensional space is not always beneficial because of the loss of information in expressing the data. It is possible to classify the data in the high dimensional space, while visualizing them in the low dimensional space, but in this case, the visualization is often meaningless because it fails to illustrate the underlying characteristics that are crucial for the classification process. In this paper, the performance-preserving property of the previously proposed Restricted Radial Basis Function Network in reducing the dimension of labeled data is explained. Here, it is argued through empirical experiments that the internal representation of the Restricted Radial Basis Function Network, which during the supervised learning process organizes a visualizable two dimensional map, does not only preserve the topographical structure of high dimensional data but also captures their class neighborhood structures that are important for classifying them. Hence, unlike many of the existing dimension reduction methods, the Restricted Radial Basis Function Network offers two dimensional visualization that is strongly correlated with the classification process.
Uhlich Preregistration 2022
Creators: name: Uhlich, Maximiliane
name: Joel, Samantha
name: Maxwell, Jessica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Couple
subject: Relationship Transition
subject: Sexuality

description: This preregistration details our hypotheses for how sexual growth and destiny beliefs predict sexual satisfaction and sexual expectations after two major relationship transitions (moving in with a partner and getting married). At the time of preregistration (January 04 2021), all data have already been collected.
Compressive Sensing with Prior Support Quality Information and Application to Massive MIMO Channel Estimation with Temporal Correlation
Creators: name: Rao, Xiongbin
name: Lau, Vincent K. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the problem of compressive sensing (CS) recovery with a prior support and the prior support quality information available. Different from classical works which exploit prior support blindly, we shall propose novel CS recovery algorithms to exploit the prior support adaptively based on the quality information. We analyze the distortion bound of the recovered signal from the proposed algorithm and we show that a better quality prior support can lead to better CS recovery performance. We also show that the proposed algorithm would converge in $\mathcal{O}\left(\log\mbox{SNR}\right)$ steps. To tolerate possible model mismatch, we further propose some robustness designs to combat incorrect prior support quality information. Finally, we apply the proposed framework to sparse channel estimation in massive MIMO systems with temporal correlation to further reduce the required pilot training overhead.
description: 14 double-column pages, accepted for publication in IEEE transactions on signal processing in May, 2015
Unitarity implications of diboson resonance in the TeV region for Higgs physics
Creators: name: Cacciapaglia, Giacomo
name: Frandsen, Mads T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the implications of a putative new resonance in the TeV region coupled to the weak bosons. By studying perturbative unitarity in longitudinal WW scattering, we find that a weakly coupled spin-1 resonance, that explains the ATLAS diboson excesses, is allowed with a SM-like Higgs. On the other hand, larger values of the resonance couplings, preferred in models of strong dynamics, would imply either sizeable reduction of the Higgs couplings or new physics, beyond the diboson resonance, at a few TeV.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
A Systematic Review of the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine System and its use for Women with Heavy or Prolonged Bleeding
Creators: name: Barnett-Howell, Keri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: ABSTRACT Objective: To determine from the literature whether it is safe for women with heavy or prolonged bleeding to use the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) and to update the evidence prepared for the 2014 MEC Guideline Development Group meeting. Methods: We searched MEDLINE and Cochrane databases for articles (in all languages) published in peer-reviewed journals from April 2006 to July 2013 for articles relevant to heavy or prolonged bleeding and LNG-IUSs. We also used articles identified from a previous systematic review that spanned January 1966 to March 2006. We used standard abstract forms and grading systems to summarize and assess the quality of the evidence. Results: Our search from April 2006 to July 2013 resulted in 218 articles, from which we identified 24 studies that met our systematic review criteria. The previous systematic review identified 20 studies and 2 systematic reviews, of which 12 met our inclusion criteria. Overall we included 36 articles from January 1966 to July 2013. "Good" quality evidence from these articles suggested that women with menorrhagia who use LNG-IUSs usually experience decreases in bleeding quantity and pain and increases in hemoglobin and serum ferritin levels. Evidence suggests that some women experience reduction in fibroid size. The studies reported few serious adverse events. Conclusion: "Good" quality evidence suggests that it is safe and potentially beneficial for women with heavy or prolonged bleeding to use LNG-IUSs. Body of Evidence Grading: II-3, Good
Detection of spin torque magnetization dynamics through low frequency noise
Creators: name: Cascales, Juan Pedro
name: Herranz, David
name: Ebels, Ursula
name: Katine, Jordan
name: Aliev, Farkhad G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparative study of high frequency dynamics and low frequency noise in elliptical magnetic tunnel junctions with lateral dimensions under 100 nm presenting current-switching phenomena. The analysis of the high frequency oscillation modes with respect to the current reveals the onset of a steady-state precession regime for negative bias currents above $J=10^7 A/cm^2$, when the magnetic field is applied along the easy axis of magnetization. By the study of low frequency noise for the same samples, we demonstrate the direct link between changes in the oscillation modes with the applied current and the normalised low frequency (1/f) noise as a function of the bias current. These findings prove that low frequency noise studies could be a simple and powerful technique to investigate spin-torque based magnetization dynamics.
Entropy Bound of Horizons for Accelerating, Rotating and Charged Plebanski-Demianski Black Hole
Creators: name: Debnath, Ujjal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first review the accelerating, rotating and charged Plebanski-Demianski (PD) black hole, which includes the Kerr-Newman rotating black hole and the Taub-NUT spacetime. The main feature of this black hole is that it has 4 horizons like event horizon, Cauchy horizon and two accelerating horizons. In the non-extremal case, the surface area, entropy, surface gravity, temperature, angular velocity, Komar energy and irreducible mass on the event horizon and Cauchy horizon are presented for PD black hole. The entropy product, temperature product, Komar energy product and irreducible mass product are found for event horizon and Cauchy horizon. Also their sums are also found for both horizons. All these relations are found to be depend on mass of the PD black hole and other parameters. So all the products are not universal for PD black hole. The entropy and area bounds for two horizons are investigated. Also we found the Christodoulou-Ruffini mass for extremal PD black hole. Finally, using first law of thermodynamics, we also found the Smarr relation for PD black hole.
description: 6 pages
Social Influence and Partisan Conformity
Creators: name: Ehlinger, J
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a pre-registration for a social conformity experiment designed to show whether people engage in social conformity with respect to partisanship and attitudes about the parties. IRB #21-1509.
Measuring the use of the Lactational Amenorrhea Method as a postpartum family planning method in urban Nigeria: challenges in measurement and recommendations for future MIYCN-FP integrated programs
Creators: name: Alvey, Jeniece
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the use postpartum contraception, particularly LAM, among urban women with a birth in the 24 months prior to their interview, including women who actively report LAM use and those who report Passive LAM practices (i.e., EBF or Full BF, no menses return, and <6 months postpartum, but no FP method). Methods: This study uses endline household survey data for 2,765 women with a birth in the past two years from the Measurement, Learning and Evaluation Project (MLE) for the Nigerian Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) which was collected in 2014. Women's knowledge and use of LAM, and possible factors associated, were explored. Descriptive analysis to describe study variables and F-tests were conducted to determine significant differences between groups. Results: Knowledge of all three LAM criteria was very low among this population. Passive LAM practices were evident among women reporting no use of a family planning method, and accurate use of LAM among those who did report LAM as their current method was low. Place of delivery and counseling on exclusive breastfeeding as a form of contraception was explored among these women. Prolonged LAM use beyond 6 months was also prevalent within this study population. Conclusions: Knowledge of LAM criteria and accurate use of LAM is low among urban postpartum women in Nigeria. The integration of MIYCN-FP programs can improve the health and nutrition of women.
Gravitational Dust Collapse in $f(R)$ Gravity
Creators: name: Shamir, M. Farasat
name: Ahmad, Zahid
name: Raza, Zahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to investigate gravitational collapse of dust in metric $f(R)$ gravity. We take FRW metric for the interior region while the Schwarzchild spacetime is considered for the exterior region of a star. The junction conditions have been derived to match interior and exterior spacetimes. The assumption of constant scalar curvature is used to find a solution of field equations. Gravitational mass is found by using the junction conditions. It is concluded that the constant curvature term $f(R_0)$ plays the role of the cosmological constant involved in the field equations of general relativity.
description: 17 Pages
Bombay before Bollywood: the history and significance of fantasy and stunt film genres in Bombay cinema of the pre-Bollywood era
Creators: name: Thomas, Katharine
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: This PhD by Published Work comprises nine essays and a 10,000-word commentary. Eight of these essays were published (or republished) as chapters within my monograph Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies, which aimed to outline the contours of an alternative history of twentieth-century Bombay cinema. The ninth, which complements these, was published in an annual reader. This project eschews the conventional focus on India’s more respectable genres, the so-called ‘socials’ and ‘mythologicals’, and foregrounds instead the ‘magic and fighting films’ – the fantasy and stunt genres – of the B- and C-circuits in the decades before and immediately after India’s independence. Drawing on an extensive body of my own field research that has spanned more than three decades, the essays also indicate how the visceral attractions of these fantastical B- and C-circuit films migrated into Bombay’s mainstream A-circuit cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. The project draws on and analyses a variety of archival traces – from silent film fragments, shooting scripts, newspaper advertisements, memoirs, posters and publicity stills to full-length movies, gossip and my own ethnographic field-notes from the 1980s and early 1990s. The project’s central argument is that the B- and C-circuit ‘magic and fighting’ films were more significant than has previously been recognised: (i) they influenced the development of film form in India throughout the decades, and especially in the 1970s/80s ‘masala’ era; (ii) they engaged with modernity just as much as – but in different ways from – the A-grade socials in the pre- and early post-independence era. I conclude that alongside nationalist orthodoxies, this significant stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in cultural hybridity, borrowing voraciously from global popular culture and engaging with transcultural flows of cosmopolitan modernity and postmodernity.
Sperimentare e simulare la fisica attraverso la manipolazione e l’uso di tecnologie didattiche
Creators: name: Bossio, Eugenia Lucia
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Nell'ambito di una ricerca volta a investigare la possibilità di presentare la teoria del caos, un tema della fisica assai ostico per i non specialisti, a studenti di scuole medie e superiori, sono stati sviluppati e raccolti una serie di materiali didattici. Il presente lavoro descrive gli strumenti utilizzati per le sperimentazioni nelle scuole descritte in un altro articolo1 contenuto in questo stesso numero della rivista. Le tematiche scientifiche sono state poste sotto una veste accattivante al fine di suscitare curiosità. Si è provveduto, inoltre, a strutturare i materiali didattici in maniera da proporre dei percorsi formativi poliedrici e diversificati anche tramite l'uso delle tecnologie informatiche. Lo sviluppo e la raccolta di applicativi multimediali, facilmente reperibili in rete, ha contribuito alla realizzazione di un pacchetto di strumenti che, nel suo insieme, consente un’applicazione didattica efficace realizzata più volte nel corso delle sperimentazioni compiute presso le scuole. Nel seguito saranno descritti gli elementi elettrici ed elettronici per la costruzione di un circuito elettronico che mostra un comportamento caotico e le varie operazioni necessarie per realizzarlo, gli strumenti informatici utili per la visualizzazione, su di un calcolatore, del segnale di tensione prodotto dal circuito, infine, i diversi software attraverso cui è possibile realizzare la simulazione del circuito elettronico e la visualizzazione delle traiettorie caotiche. Sono presentati, infine, i test di verifica e alcuni altri materiali didattici utilizzati durante le sperimentazioni già realizzate.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 11 No. 76 (2011)
Strobeus de Koninck 1881
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Soleniscidae
Strobeus

description: Strobeus de Koninck, 1881 Australian Carboniferous species. Strobeus ovalis n.sp., from 'Marohn' (= Ianthinopsis sp. Yoo, 1988: 238).
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
description: {"references": ["Koninck, L. G. de, 1881. Faune du calcaire Carbonifere de la Belgique. Gasteropodes. Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique Annales 6: 1 - 157.", "Yoo, E. K., 1988. Early Carboniferous Mollusca from Gundy, Upper Hunter, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 40 (4): 233 - 264."]}
Where to Go on Your Next Trip? Optimizing Travel Destinations Based on User Preferences
Creators: name: Kiseleva, Julia
name: Müller, Melanie J. I.
name: Bernardi, Lucas
name: Davis, Chad
name: Kovacek, Ivan
name: Einarsen, Mats Stafseng
name: Kamps, Jaap
name: Tuzhilin, Alexander
name: Hiemstra, Djoerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recommendation based on user preferences is a common task for e-commerce websites. New recommendation algorithms are often evaluated by offline comparison to baseline algorithms such as recommending random or the most popular items. Here, we investigate how these algorithms themselves perform and compare to the operational production system in large scale online experiments in a real-world application. Specifically, we focus on recommending travel destinations at Booking.com, a major online travel site, to users searching for their preferred vacation activities. To build ranking models we use multi-criteria rating data provided by previous users after their stay at a destination. We implement three methods and compare them to the current baseline in Booking.com: random, most popular, and Naive Bayes. Our general conclusion is that, in an online A/B test with live users, our Naive-Bayes based ranker increased user engagement significantly over the current online system.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures in SIGIR 2015, SIRIP Symposium on IR in Practice
LogDet Rank Minimization with Application to Subspace Clustering
Creators: name: Kang, Zhao
name: Peng, Chong
name: Cheng, Jie
name: Chen, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Low-rank matrix is desired in many machine learning and computer vision problems. Most of the recent studies use the nuclear norm as a convex surrogate of the rank operator. However, all singular values are simply added together by the nuclear norm, and thus the rank may not be well approximated in practical problems. In this paper, we propose to use a log-determinant (LogDet) function as a smooth and closer, though non-convex, approximation to rank for obtaining a low-rank representation in subspace clustering. Augmented Lagrange multipliers strategy is applied to iteratively optimize the LogDet-based non-convex objective function on potentially large-scale data. By making use of the angular information of principal directions of the resultant low-rank representation, an affinity graph matrix is constructed for spectral clustering. Experimental results on motion segmentation and face clustering data demonstrate that the proposed method often outperforms state-of-the-art subspace clustering algorithms.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Giovani e ricerca: il progetto WebValley
Creators: name: Furlanello, Cesare
name: De Filippi, Riccardo
name: Dolci, Claudia
name: Jurman, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: WebValley è un'iniziativa di avvicinamento dei giovani alla ricerca scientifica interdisciplinare. Ha come azione principale l’organizzazione di una scuola estiva che permette a studenti delle superiori, di 18 anni, di lavorare in team con ricercatori ed esperti internazionali a un progetto di ricerca per tre settimane, in un'atmosfera vivace e interattiva, caratterizzata dal lavoro in gruppo e dall’uso di tecnologie web per risolvere un problema scientifico a forte connotazione etica, proposto da un esperto esterno. Vengono inizialmente fornite competenze tecniche, con forte attenzione all’open source per il calcolo scientifico e per trattare dati complessi. Si definisce da queste basi un progetto in cui sono gli stessi studenti a organizzarsi in gruppi, selezionare le tecnologie e sviluppare nuove soluzioni. Al termine essi restituiscono al committente e a specialisti del settore i loro risultati in una presentazione pubblica, negli ultimi anni, in lingua inglese e in teleconferenza. WebValley si caratterizza anche per il luogo in cui si svolge: a rotazione, in piccoli paesi di montagna del Trentino, per mostrare come sia possibile sviluppare innovazione in località periferiche disponendo di strumenti tecnici, connessione e conoscenze. Dal 2001, hanno frequentato la scuola circa 220 studenti, molti dei quali si sono poi indirizzati verso una carriera in materie scientifiche e tecnologiche, hanno tenuto i contatti tra loro, collaborando con i ricercatori anche nell’organizzazione della
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 11 No. 76 (2011)
La costruzione sociale del paesaggio rurale: l'approccio del «milieu innovateur»
Creators: name: De Rosa, Marcello
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: The paper analyses social dimension in modelling rural landscape. Starting point is the identification of landscape as a resource and the activation of social leverages for its valorisation. A milieu innovateur approach is utilised to test all the components play a role in this dynamics: innovative, territorial and organisational. From the innovative point of view, we are in presence of a cultural innovation that attributes to landscape the role of resource; to valorise it, an organisational adjustment is necessary to foster cooperation among all the actors involved. But, not all territories express the same capability to this end: some of them could show different social attitudes. By crossing interaction and learning dimension, four different kinds of milieu and four different capabilities to socially build landscape resource are derived.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 49 (2006)
Early Childhood Screening Project
Creators: name: Palmer, Alyssa
name: Distefano, Rebecca
name: Masten, Ann
name: Kalstabakken, Amanda
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Developmental Readiness
subject: EF
subject: Screening
subject: Self Regulation

description: There is growing recognition that self-regulation is an important domain of developmental competence for preschool-aged children with significant implications for readiness to enter kindergarten. In particular, there has been a focus on the developmental skills associated with executive functioning (EF). EF is defined as a collection of heterogeneous and top-down processes involved in goal-directed behaviors. Common subcomponents of EF include inhibition, working memory, and attention shifting. Inhibition is the ability to stop a prepotent response or behavior. Working memory is the ability to hold limited amounts of information in the mind and manipulate that information. Attention shifting is the ability to flexibly shift the focus of your attention and adjust to changing task demands (Diamond, 2013; Miyake et al., 2000). EF skills begin emerging very early in life, with most children demonstrating some capacity in their use of the aforementioned skills before the age of 2 (Espy, Kaufamann, McDiarmid, & Clisky, 1999; Kochanska, Coy, & Murray, 2001; Reznick et al., 2004). Moreover, EF skills show rapid development during the preschool-age period (Hendry et al., 2016; Mulder et al., 2014; Zelazo & Carlson, 2012, 2020). There is growing interest among educators to assess individual variation in EF during early childhood to assess school readiness and predict variation in normative developmental trajectories (Hendry et al., 2016; Hughes et al., 2020; McHarg et al., 20202; Perez-Edgar et al., 2020). However, in the context of developmental screening and practice, indices of EF need to be short and efficient. Measures included in early childhood screeners should yield helpful information, while minimizing time, effort, and attention. The current study evaluated a brief new EF scale with the aim of evaluating how a parent-report measure of children’s normative range EF skills functioned during early childhood screening in an urban school district context.
Preconception Health: A Strategy to Improve Birth Outcomes in Northeastern North Carolina
Creators: name: Carlucci, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Northeastern North Carolina, which consists of seventeen counties that surround Albemarle Sound and share a border with Virginia, has some of the least favorable birth outcomes in the state, including low birth weight and high infant mortality. Since North Carolina (NC) ranked 39th of the 50 states in infant mortality in 2016, poor outcomes within the state must be explored to find interventions that will push the needle forward in improving outcomes for women and their families. The average infant mortality rate among the 17 Northeastern counties was 8.3 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the period 2012-2016, compared to a rate of 7.2 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same time period in NC. However, the range within the counties varies greatly, with Camden County reporting an infant mortality rate of 0 per 1,000 live births, and Hertford County reporting a rate of 19 per 1,000 live births. The previous five-year period saw a slightly higher infant mortality rate in the region, with an average infant mortality rate of 10.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. However, in five counties, the infant mortality rate increased, indicating some geographic disparities. Traditionally, interventions to prevent maternal and infant mortality and morbidity focus on prenatal and intrapartum care, and this is the primary period a woman receives healthcare. However, there are limitations to focusing resources and care on the prenatal period. Fortunately, a paradigm shift has occurred over the past few decades, recognizing that to improve birth outcomes, proactive measures must be taken preconception and interconception to ensure women and men of reproductive age achieve optimal health and wellness. Using a life course approach, the PCH framework understands that the health of the mother prior to conception impacts her health during and after pregnancy, and the health of her offspring from conception into adulthood. Preconception health care (PCHC) involves a wide spectrum of interventions and health promotion, with the overall aim of reducing risk factors that could affect future pregnancies. This paper outlines the challenges women and infants face in the Northeastern NC region, and then discusses the advancement of PCH in the area as a solution to improve birth outcomes. It then discusses how the NC Preconception Health Strategic Plan can provide a way to look at the status of PCH in Northeastern NC, and how the strategies can be adapted to suit the needs of that specific region.
Critical mass renormalization in renormalized phi4 theories in two and three dimensions
Creators: name: Pelissetto, Andrea
name: Vicari, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the O(N)-symmetric phi4 theory in two and three dimensions and determine the nonperturbative mass renormalization needed to obtain the phi4 continuum theory. The required nonperturbative information is obtained by resumming high-order perturbative series in the massive renormalization scheme, taking into account their Borel summability and the known large-order behavior of the coefficients. The results are in good agreement with those obtained in lattice calculations.
description: 4 pages
Node Labels in Local Decision
Creators: name: Fraigniaud, Pierre
name: Hirvonen, Juho
name: Suomela, Jukka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The role of unique node identifiers in network computing is well understood as far as symmetry breaking is concerned. However, the unique identifiers also leak information about the computing environment - in particular, they provide some nodes with information related to the size of the network. It was recently proved that in the context of local decision, there are some decision problems such that (1) they cannot be solved without unique identifiers, and (2) unique node identifiers leak a sufficient amount of information such that the problem becomes solvable (PODC 2013). In this work we give study what is the minimal amount of information that we need to leak from the environment to the nodes in order to solve local decision problems. Our key results are related to scalar oracles $f$ that, for any given $n$, provide a multiset $f(n)$ of $n$ labels; then the adversary assigns the labels to the $n$ nodes in the network. This is a direct generalisation of the usual assumption of unique node identifiers. We give a complete characterisation of the weakest oracle that leaks at least as much information as the unique identifiers. Our main result is the following dichotomy: we classify scalar oracles as large and small, depending on their asymptotic behaviour, and show that (1) any large oracle is at least as powerful as the unique identifiers in the context of local decision problems, while (2) for any small oracle there are local decision problems that still benefit from unique identifiers.
description: Conference version to appear in the proceedings of SIROCCO 2015
Science and Identity Political Discrimination in STEM
Creators: name: Hoagland, Noah
name: Lane, Kristin
name: Heffron, Emma
name: Q, Ana
name: Boyd, Rachel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Investigation of how the political orientation of participants influences perceived bias against conservative students in STEM compared to humanities.
Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Creators: name: Perou, Charles
name: The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer. Here, we describe the genomic landscape of 496 PTCs. We observed a low frequency of somatic alterations (relative to other carcinomas) and extended the set of known PTC driver alterations to include EIF1AX, PPM1D, and CHEK2 and diverse gene fusions. These discoveries reduced the fraction of PTC cases with unknown oncogenic driver from 25% to 3.5%. Combined analyses of genomic variants, gene expression, and methylation demonstrated that different driver groups lead to different pathologies with distinct signaling and differentiation characteristics. Similarly, we identified distinct molecular subgroups of BRAF-mutant tumors, and multidimensional analyses highlighted a potential involvement of oncomiRs in less-differentiated subgroups. Our results propose a reclassification of thyroid cancers into molecular subtypes that better reflect their underlying signaling and differentiation properties, which has the potential to improve their pathological classification and better inform the management of the disease.
Equivalence relations among some inequalities on operator means
Creators: name: Wada, Shuhei
name: Yamazaki, Takeaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A64, 47A30, 47A63

description: We will consider about some inequalities on operator means for more than three operators, for instance, ALM and BMP geometric means will be considered. Moreover, log-Euclidean and logarithmic means for several operators will be treated.
description: 13 pages
Tomo II: La valutazione come riferimento per la pianificazione: Cagliari e il suo contesto - «La scala di ferro»: riqualificazione urbana in un sito ad elevata valenza archeologica
Creators: name: Angioni, Antonello
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIII Incontro di Studio (2003)
title: Implementation and the impact of audit committees within the framework of corporate governance in Saudi Arabia
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Bin Salman, Abdulrahman
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2023

description: The key objective of this work is to investigate different stakeholders’ perceptions of the practices of audit committees in the field of corporate governance in Saudi Arabia. This research focuses on the role of audit committees, which are important governance mechanisms implemented by companies. In addition, consideration is given to how audit committees work in practice, and whether any barriers exist in relation to these committees fulfilling their duties.

Additionally, this work investigates perceptions of the audit committees, current practices and the effects that social, cultural and economic factors have on the current situation surrounding audit committees in Saudi listed companies. By doing this, the researcher aims to examine how improvements in audit committee standards can address the underlying issues. This thesis draws on institutional theory to answer the following research questions: (i) How have recent changes in the Saudi corporate governance code impacted audit committees in Saudi Arabia?, (ii) To what extent have these changes enhanced corporate governance in Saudi Arabia?, (iii) To what extent are Saudi audit committees capable of supporting Saudi Vision 2030?, (iv) What are the areas for development in audit committee rules and practices in Saudi Arabia?.

In order to address the aims and questions of this research, a multi-method qualitative approach was employed. This involved the use of a questionnaire that was completed and returned by 170 participants. Semi-structured interviews were also held with 32 participants to enrich the findings of the questionnaire. The participants in the study consisted of various members of board and audit committee members from listed companies in Saudi Arabia, as well as academic researchers, members of regulatory bodies and both internal and external auditors of listed companies.

The findings suggest that the audit committees in Saudi listed companies have been positively influenced by coercive pressures. Moreover, the findings also imply that social, cultural and economic factors have an impact on audit committee procedures and that directors' boards are dominated by prominent shareholders. However, this can pose significant challenges for audit committees. Several policy recommendations for improving audit committee applications in Saudi listed companies are made in this research to help the Saudi economy grow in line with Saudi Vision 2030.
Political Sophistication and Emotions
Creators: name: Rebasso, Isabella
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: emotions
subject: experimental research
subject: framing
subject: political communication
subject: political sophistication

description: Not all people get equally emotional about politics. Sophisticates care more and pay closer attention to politics. However, the relationship is more complex: while people with high political sophistication care most about politics, they are most likely to be pre-treated and have the strongest affective cognitive structures. This study examines the relationship between political sophistication and emotions in two main ways. First, I apply Zaller’s (1992) model of political learning to emotional framing and propose that we should actually expect to find the strongest framing effects among the modestly sophisticated. Second, I previously conducted three studies that experimentally manipulated the appraisals that theoretically evoke anger and fear -- certainty, control and responsibility -- and asked participants to self-report their own appraisals of political issues. This allows me to further test: Are self-reported appraisals made by sophisticates more consistent with their self-reported emotions, i.e. do sophisticates really have more consistent and resistant affective structures than low sophisticates? This pre-analysis plan includes the theory building up to my expectations, a detailed analysis strategy and power analysis. I will conducted the analysis of this paper in December 2021.
Deep photometry of galaxies in the VEGAS survey: the case of NGC 4472
Creators: name: Spavone, Marilena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The VST-VEGAS project is aimed at observing and studying a rich sample of nearby early-type galaxies in order to systematically characterize their properties over a wide baseline of sizes and out to the faint outskirts where data are rather scarce so far. The external regions of galaxies more easily retain signatures about the formation and evolution mechanisms which shaped them, as their relaxation time are longer, and they are more weakly influenced by processes such as mergers, secular evolution, central black hole activity, and supernova feedback on the ISM, which tend to level age and metallicity gradients. The collection of a wide photometric dataset of a large number of galaxies in various environmental conditions, may help to shed light on these questions. To this end VEGAS exploits the potential of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) which provides high quality images of one square degree field of view in order to satisfy both the requirement of high resolution data and the need of studying nearby, and thus large, objects. We present a detailed study of the surface photometry of the elliptical galaxy NGC4472 and of smaller ETGs in its field, performed by using new g and i bands images to constrain the formation history of this nearby giant galaxy, and to investigate the presence of very faint substructures in its surroundings.
description: Refereed Proceeding of the "The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys" conference held at the INAF - Observatory of Capodimonte, Naples, on 25th-28th november 2014, to be published on Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, edited by Longo, Napolitano, Marconi, Paolillo, Iodice
Digitizing the Jingdian shiwen《經典釋文》: Deriving a Lexical Database from Ancient Glosses
Creators: name: Tharsen, Jeffrey R.
name: Wang, Hantao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Jingdian shiwen
subject: digital lexicography

description: Sometime around the year 589, the scholar Lu Deming 陸德明 presented to the Chinese imperial library a new and important work: his Jingdian shiwen 經典釋文, or "Glosses on the Classics". It contained Lu's word-by-word exegeses, glosses and phonetic annotations (in the form of fanqie 反切 phonetic spellings) of fourteen of the greatest classics of ancient China. As the Jingdian shiwen predates all known extant Chinese rhyme dictionaries, it contains a wealth of extremely valuable information for modem scholars and linguists. Unfortunately, the Jingdian shiwen has remained largely understudied, partly because it was composed in an expository style (rather than as a dictionary), and partly because until now the only proofed digital edition of the work has been the version included in the digital Siku quanshu 四庫全書 collectanea, accessible solely by subscription and via its own user interface which presents very limited search options. Our project has thus been to create a plain-text Unicode edition of the entire Jingdian shiwen (all 30 volumes), fully annotated, systematized and designed specifically for inclusion in the online Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (edoc.uchicago.edu) database so scholars will begin to be able to do targeted searches of its contents and compare Lu Deming's glosses and exegeses with those of other early Chinese dictionaries and reference works.