cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scaling laws to understand tidal dissipation in fluid planetary regions and stars I - Rotation, stratification and thermal diffusivity
Creators: name: Auclair-Desrotour, P.
name: Mathis, S.
name: Poncin-Lafitte, C. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tidal dissipation in planets and stars is one of the key physical mechanisms driving the evolution of star-planet and planet-moon systems. Several signatures of its action are observed in planetary systems thanks to their orbital architecture and the rotational state of their components. Tidal dissipation inside the fluid layers of celestial bodies are intrinsically linked to the dynamics and the physical properties of the latter. This complex dependence must be characterized. We compute the tidal kinetic energy dissipated by viscous friction and thermal diffusion in a rotating local fluid Cartesian section of a star/planet/moon submitted to a periodic tidal forcing. The properties of tidal gravito-inertial waves excited by the perturbation are derived analytically as explicit functions of the tidal frequency and local fluid parameters (i.e. the rotation, the buoyancy frequency characterizing the entropy stratification, viscous and thermal diffusivities) for periodic normal modes. The sensitivity of the resulting possibly highly resonant dissipation frequency-spectra to a control parameter of the system is either important or negligible depending on the position in the regime diagram relevant for planetary and stellar interiors. For corresponding asymptotic behaviors of tidal gravito-inertial waves dissipated by viscous friction and thermal diffusion, scaling laws for the frequencies, number, width, height and contrast with the non-resonant background of resonances are derived to quantify these variations. We characterize the strong impact of the internal physics and dynamics of fluid planetary layers and stars on the dissipation of tidal kinetic energy in their bulk. We point out the key control parameters that really play a role and demonstrate how it is now necessary to develop ab-initio modeling for tidal dissipation in celestial bodies.
description: 24 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Progetti per la città in estensione
Creators: name: Treu, Maria
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Today’s city coincides with large urbanized areas or better with metropolitan regions where the majority of the world population live and work. This urban type is the city in extension, an attribute that refers to a growth process, in constant extension. In this urban type not live only the majority of the world population, but also the youngest. Today the projects have to contend with this kind of city and the themes to consider are: on one side the facilities’ system for the city and the public spaces, on the other a new city landscape integrated with the open green spaces of the urban countryside. Long since the instruments of city’s growth control and urbanization’s quality have tested some project’s practices. These practices can be distinguished in five different complementary approaches: work with the hedges, with structure on a large scale, with ecological networks, with polarities, with new urban paths.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Inner disk clearing around the Herbig Ae star HD\,139614: Evidence for a planet-induced gap ?
Creators: name: Matter, A.
name: Labadie, L.
name: Augereau, J. -C.
name: Kluska, J.
name: Crida, A.
name: Carmona, A.
name: Gonzalez, J. F.
name: Thi, W. F.
name: Bouquin, J. -B. Le
name: Olofsson, J.
name: Lopez, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatially resolving the inner dust cavity of the transitional disks is a key to understanding the connection between planetary formation and disk dispersal. The disk around the Herbig star HD 139614 is of particular interest since it presents a pretransitional nature with an au-sized gap, in the dust, that was spatially resolved by mid-IR interferometry. Using new NIR interferometric observations, we aim to characterize the 0.1-10~au region of the HD~139614 disk further and identify viable mechanisms for the inner disk clearing. We report the first multiwavelength radiative transfer modeling of the interferometric data acquired on HD~139614 with PIONIER, AMBER, and MIDI, complemented by Herschel/PACS photometries. We confirm a gap structure in the um-sized dust, extending from about 2.5 au to 6 au, and constrained the properties of the inner dust component: e.g., a radially increasing surface density profile, and a depletion of 10^3 relative to the outer disk. Since self-shadowing and photoevaporation appears unlikely to be responsible for the au-sized gap of HD~139614, we thus tested if dynamical clearing could be a viable mechanism using hydrodynamical simulations to predict the gaseous disk structure. Indeed, a narrow au-sized gap is expected when a single giant planet interacts with the disk. Assuming that small dust grains are well coupled to the gas, we found that a ~ 3~Mjup planet located at 4.5 au from the star could, in less than 1 Myr, reproduce most of the aspects of the dust surface density profile, while no significant depletion in gas occurred in the inner disk, in contrast to the dust. However, the dust-depleted inner disk could be explained by the expected dust filtration by the gap and the efficient dust growth/fragmentation in the inner disk regions. Our results support the hypothesis of a giant planet opening a gap and shaping the inner region of the HD~139614 disk.
description: Version accepted in A&A, with typos corrections in the text
Responsabilità progettuale e paesaggio dei margini urbani
Creators: name: Palazzo, Danilo
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The paper deals with the theme of design responsibilities. This paper starts from a description of the role played by architects, landscape architects and urban designers in landscape changes. This role assumes the character of specific responsibility that is different from that played by public officials, or single citizen. A designer, in order to face landscape changes, need to deal consciously with three responsibilities: the species responsibility, the generation responsibility and the competence responsibility. Specie and generation responsibilities force us, as human beings, to balance our actions with the heritages left by who lived before. The competence responsibility drives us, as architects, towards a forced choice and the design authority gives us the expertise to accomplish this duty. The paper is closed by a description of six strategies on urban edges, inspired by designs and project implemented al local level both in Europe an in North-America.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Non-spectral fractal measures with Fourier frames
Creators: name: Lai, Chun-Kit
name: Wang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize the compatible tower condition given by Strichartz to the almost-Parseval-frame tower and show that non-trivial examples of almost-Parseval-frame tower exist. By doing so, we demonstrate the first singular fractal measure which has only finitely many mutually orthogonal exponentials (and hence it does not admit any exponential orthonormal bases), but it still admits Fourier frames.
description: Final version
I parchi-margine: una specie di parco per i paesaggi urbani contemporanei1
Creators: name: Lambertini, Anna
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Starting from the definition of the concepts of park’s specie, the article proposes a reading of recent European experiences of construction of urban park. The author focalizes attention over the edge-park, conceived as a mediation open space enter the town and its margins (geographic, natural, administrative) and/or enter parts different for role, function and characters.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Il significato del confine nelle politiche di conservazione della natura
Creators: name: Olivieri, Simona
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: s in the most part of the world, also in Italy the protected areas at first were considered as nature enclosures. This concept, that sharply separate what is in from what is out, at present seems to be unsuitable both to the new social and economical condition and to the growing complexity of the involved issues. That kind of crisis of the traditional conservative politics is well represented by the loss of meaning of the boundary as operative instrument for the conservation of natural values. New opportunities for conservation policies rises from the awardness of the necessity, for the policies themselves to consider the entire system, with its internal and external connections. Many experiences are moving towards alternative approaches where the boundary loose its value as separation element: interesting examples goes from the issues of environmental continuity to the plans of some European parks and so on to the opportunities that rises from the contemporary laws on the landscape subject.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Risky decisions in different contexts: Tax vs. loss gamble decisions
Creators: name: Olsen, Jerome
name: Fiedler, Susann
name: Kogler, Christoph
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This preregistration covers a study that compares risky decisions in two different contexts, namely tax decisions and monetarily equivalent loss gambles. The focal aim of this study is to pretest the materials and paradigm for a planned to follow eye-tracking study. In addition, we already preregister the main hypotheses to be tested in the main study as of now, which can already be tested with this pretest data.
Il governo del territorio e del paesaggio rurale nello spazio “terzo” periurbano. Il parco agricolo come strumento di politiche e di progetto
Creators: name: Fanfani, David
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The recent transformations and evolution of the urban and metropolitan systems in Europe, as well as in Italy, have often produced settlements forms where the edge between urban ad rural spaces goes to fade and where the legacy of the rural society and of the agricultural landscape is often eroded under the urban equipments and housing development pressure. Nevertheless in such as settlements the role of the open spaces remains still pivotal. Infact they can provide very helpful “public goods” - as such as urban ecosystem and urban-rural landscapequality-and -atthesametime-goods,facilitiesandamenitiesfortheurbanpeople–assuchasshort foods supply chain, recreational, tourist, social and cultural services. For planning agenda facing this context of mingled urban-rural patterns and functions means to deal with new planning and governance strategies. Agricultural park device seems to fit with the problems at stake. In many cases in Europe and Italy it permits to pursue the multifunctional and integrated goals for managing the periuban places and to set up the operational framework to develop territory and landscape designs aimed to protect and, sometimes, recreate the identitary, environmental, social and economic values of the open spaces.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
A method for measuring the Neel relaxation time in a frozen ferrofluid
Creators: name: Tackett, R. J.
name: Thakur, J.
name: Mosher, N.
name: Perkins-Harbin, E.
name: Kumon, R. E.
name: Wang, L.
name: Rablau, C.
name: Vaishnava, P. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a novel method of determining the average Neel relaxation time and its temperature dependence by calculating derivatives of the measured time dependence of temperature for a frozen ferrofluid exposed to an alternating magnetic field. The ferrofluid, composed of dextran-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (diameter 13.7 nm +/- 4.7 nm), was synthesized via wet chemical precipitation and characterized by x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. An alternating magnetic field of constant amplitude (H0 = 20 kA/m) driven at frequencies of 171 kHz, 232 kHz and 343 kHz was used to determine the temperature dependent magnetic energy absorption rate in the temperature range from 160 K to 210 K. We found that the specific absorption rate of the ferrofluid decreased monotonically with temperature over this range at the given frequencies. From these measured data, we determined the temperature dependence of the Neel relaxation time and estimate a room-temperature magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant of 40 kJ/m3, in agreement with previously published results.
Il senso del confine – Colloquio con Piero Zanini
Creators: name: Valentini, Antonella
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: This interview with Piero Zanini has a particular interest. At the end of Nineties he firstly faced the theme of boundary, explored through a wide range of sources, not only related to architecture but also referred to geography, moving, literature, anthropology. This argument is now one of the most discussed between planners and designers and therefore the considerations here showed, that send to the complex discussion begun in 1997, are particularly actual and source of suggestions.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Limiti, confini, interfacce – Riflessioni con Pippo Gianoni
Creators: name: Valentini, Antonella
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: This dialogue is the result of a virtual meeting on the theme of limits with Pippo Gianoni. These reflections are the result of an exchange of epistolary opinions - using the contemporary means of communication – suffering perhaps the freshness of a real conversation, but enjoying the possibilities to face this complex and perhaps wandering theme, through a pondered reflection on the distance between mind (the first idea of limit) and action (the registration of that idea). Pippo Gianoni answers the questions expressing some reflection on the sense of limit that come from a comprehension of the reality in which is daily tried the perception of limit, as expert in ecology and planner, based on tradition, and from a wide knowledge of culture in its different forms of expression.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Influences of conferences: Exploring the social and scientific effects of Metascience 2019
Creators: name: Ebersole, Charles
name: Jarvis, Shoshana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This project examines the social and scientific effects of conferences. Specifically, it focuses on the outcomes for attendees of Metascience 2019.
Il limite del territorio costiero nel piano paesaggistico della sardegna
Creators: name: Costa, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The costal area is considered as a border, between see and earth, with its own dimension and physical space, with its history and inhabitants, in a little big word, with its identity. The landscape regions are an instruments to identify territory where it’s possible to recognize similar geographic, historical, social characteristics. Inside these regions it has been identified the costal zone. It has been considered like a public heritage, of all inhabitants. Its identification is based about scientific criterions that consider natural elements, ecosystems and habitats as single units in relationship among them, with environmental, formal and functional dynamics.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Phase transitions in Ising models on directed networks
Creators: name: Lipowski, Adam
name: Ferreira, Antonio Luis
name: Lipowska, Dorota
name: Gontarek, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine Ising models with heat-bath dynamics on directed networks. Our simulations show that Ising models on directed triangular and simple cubic lattices undergo a phase transition that most likely belongs to the Ising universality class. On the directed square lattice the model remains paramagnetic at any positive temperature as already reported in some previous studies. We also examine random directed graphs and show that contrary to undirected ones, percolation of directed bonds does not guarantee ferromagnetic ordering. Only above a certain threshold a random directed graph can support finite-temperature ferromagnetic ordering. Such behaviour is found also for out-homogeneous random graphs, but in this case the analysis of magnetic and percolative properties can be done exactly. Directed random graphs also differ from undirected ones with respect to zero-temperature freezing. Only at low connectivity they remain trapped in a disordered configuration. Above a certain threshold, however, the zero-temperature dynamics quickly drives the model toward a broken symmetry (magnetized) state. Only above this threshold, which is almost twice as large as the percolation threshold, we expect the Ising model to have a positive critical temperature. With a very good accuracy, the behaviour on directed random graphs is reproduced within a certain approximate scheme.
description: 7 pages, Phys. Rev. E (accepted)
Observing performance during activities in persons with upper limb deficits: A scoping review of measures used.
Creators: name: Wanklyn, Tamara
name: Carey, Leeanne
name: Webster, Kate
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Occupational Therapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: Activities of Daily Living
subject: Activity
subject: Arm
subject: Assessment
subject: Hand
subject: Occupation
subject: Occupational Performance
subject: Performance Measurement
subject: Performance Observation
subject: Psychometrics
subject: Upper Limb

description: This scoping review seeks to ascertain what observer-rated measures are available to assess performance in activities of people who have upper limb deficits. Purpose: 1. To establish what measures exist that assess observed performance by a health professional in self-selected activities involving use of the upper limb. 2. To establish what measures exist that assess observed performance by a health professional in test item activities/tasks/occupations involving use of the upper limb. 3. For the measures reported in the literature that meet the inclusion criteria: a. Characterise features of the tools, including target population, focus of measurement, scale construction and standardisation. b. Report the psychometric properties. c. Report the clinical utility. 4. Identify measures according to which population/s they have been tested with.
AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN THE DISTANCE LEARNING AND TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Ismaila Adeleke
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Thailand
Year: 2018
Subjects: Academic performance, Test of Means, Test of Median, Hotelling T-square, Cumulative Point Average, Distance learning

description: SOCIAL SCIENCE ASIA : Official Journal of National Research Council of Thailand in conjunction with ABAC Journal, 4, 1, 26
Luminosity and cooling of highly magnetized white dwarfs: suppression of luminosity by strong magnetic fields
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Mukul
name: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
name: Mukerjee, Subroto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the luminosity and cooling of highly magnetized white dwarfs with electron-degenerate cores and non-degenerate surface layers where cooling occurs by diffusion of photons. We find the temperature and density profiles in the surface layers or envelope of white dwarfs by solving the magnetostatic equilibrium and photon diffusion equations in a Newtonian framework. We also obtain the properties of white dwarfs at the core-envelope interface, when the core is assumed to be practically isothermal. With the increase in magnetic field, the interface temperature increases whereas the interface radius decreases. For a given age of the white dwarf and for fixed interface radius or interface temperature, we find that the luminosity decreases significantly from about $10^{-6}\, L_{\odot}$ to $10^{-9}\, L_{\odot}$ as the magnetic field strength increases from about $10^9$ to $10^{12}\,$G at the interface and hence the envelope. This is remarkable because it argues that magnetized white dwarfs are fainter and can be practically hidden in an observed Hertzsprung--Russell diagram. We also find the cooling rates corresponding to these luminosities. Interestingly, the decrease in temperature with time, for the fields under consideration, is not found to be appreciable.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures; considerably abridged to match published version
La convenzione europea del paesaggio: interpretazioni ed applicazioni
Creators: name: Della Valle, Maria
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The University of Florence, the Municipality of Florence and the Tuscan Region have promoted a conference on “The European Landscape Convention: interpretations and applications” that took place, last June 16, 2006, in the Salone dei Cinquecento of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Academics from the most important Italian universities, experts in law, representatives of the institutions, city-planners and landscape architects took part in the conference. Aim of the conference was to examine principles expressed by the Convention and their integration in the Italian laws. The themes dealt with, in the interventions of the speakers and in the debate, landscape policies, management of the territory, the role played by planning, the relationship between State and local bodies about selfguarding and discipline of landscape, the relationship between the Convention and Codice dei beni culturali e del paesaggio recently changed.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
DIFFERENCES IN POSTURAL CONTROL RESPONSES TO LEVELS OF VISUAL OCCLUSION IN INDIVIDUALS WITH CHRONIC ANKLE INSTABILITY
Creators: name: VanDeMark, Lillian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is a condition characterized by recurrent ankle      sprains. Those with CAI are described as visually reliant due to postural control deficits      observed under fully occluded visual conditions. Little is known about the influence of      partially occluded vision on postural control in those with CAI. The purpose of this study      was to examine the effect of CAI on postural control under progressive levels of visual      occlusion and relate postural control under these conditions to visual function and sensory      integration in those with CAI.      Thirty-five participants with CAI and sixteen controls completed postural control      assessments under four visual conditions:1) eyes-open, 2) low-occlusion, 3) high-occlusion,      and 4) eyes-closed. Participants also completed visual performance (Senaptec Sensory      Station) and sensory integration (Sensory Organization Test) assessments.      Both groups demonstrated worse postural control under limited-vision conditions      compared to eyes-open. Some measures of visual performance predicted postural control      under both eyes-open and limited-vision conditions.
Towards understanding aromatase inhibitory activity via QSAR modeling
Creators: name: Shoombuatong, Watshara
name: Schaduangrat, Nalini
name: Nantasenamat, Chanin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Aromatase
subject: Aromatase inhibitors
subject: Breast cancer
subject: Estrogen
subject: QSAR
subject: Structure-activity relationship
subject: Data mining
subject: 610

description: Aromatase is a rate-limiting enzyme for estrogen biosynthesis that is overproduced in breast cancer tissue. To block the growth of breast tumors, aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are employed to bind and inhibit aromatase in order to lower the amount of estrogen produced in the body. Although a number of synthetic aromatase inhibitors have been released for clinical use in the treatment of hormone-receptor positive breast cancer, these inhibitors may lead to undesirable side effects (e.g. increased rash, diarrhea and vomiting; effects on the bone, brain and heart) and therefore, the search for novel AIs continues. Over the past decades, there has been an intense effort in employing medicinal chemistry and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) to shed light on the mechanistic basis of aromatase inhibition. To the best of our knowledge, this article constitutes the first comprehensive review of all QSAR studies of both steroidal and non-steroidal AIs that have been published in the field. Herein, we summarize the experimental setup of these studies as well as summarizing the key features that are pertinent for robust aromatase inhibition.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Systematic Review of Predictive models of COVID 19 pandamics
Creators: name: Yadav, Arun
name: Subramanian, Shankar
name: chatterjee, Kaustuv
name: Chatterjee, Kaushik
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The first case of COVID 19 was reported in Wuhan on 17 Nov 19. Since then it has spread to all the regions of world. WHO declared it as a Public health emergency of international concern on 30 Jan. Cases have risen to present state where currently (on 10 Jun 2020) 213 countries are affected with approximately 7,311,510 cases and 413,000 deaths. Many epidemiologists/ researchers have tried to estimate the impact and transmission dynamics of this novel disease. As data became available, many groups have tried to make a predictive model of COVID-19 to understand the disease dynamics and make predictions available for policy makers. Hence, many types of predictive models have been published estimating varied outcomes like peak numbers, total infections, inflection point, impact of intervention measures including Lockdown etc. There was no review available which has summarized all the published models, synthesized data and evaluated models at a global level. Thus this study was undertaken to review published predictive models and their outcome with empirical data public available. This protocol lays down the methodology to be adopted for the systematic review of the predictive epidemiological models.
On finding an obstacle with the Leontovich boundary condition via the time domain enclosure method
Creators: name: Ikehata, Masaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35R30, 35L50, 35Q61, 78A46, 78M35

description: An inverse obstacle scattering problem for the wave governed by the Maxwell system in the time domain, in particular, over a finite time interval is considered. It is assumed that the electric field $\mbox{\boldmath $E$}$ and magnetic field $\mbox{\boldmath $H$}$ which are solutions of the Maxwell system are generated only by a current density at the initial time located not far a way from an unknown obstacle. The obstacle is embedded in a medium like air which has constant electric permittivity $ε$ and magnetic permeability $μ$. It is assumed that the fields on the surface of the obstacle satisfy the impedance-or the Leontovich boundary condition $\mbox{\boldmath $ν$}\times\mbox{\boldmath $H$} -λ\,\mbox{\boldmath $ν$}\times(\mbox{\boldmath $E$}\times\mbox{\boldmath $ν$})=\mbox{\boldmath $0$}$ with $λ$ an unknown positive function and $\mbox{\boldmath $ν$}$ the unit outward normal. The observation data are given by the electric field observed at the same place as the support of the current density over a finite time interval. It is shown that an indicator function computed from the electric fields corresponding two current densities enables us to know: the distance of the center of the common spherical support of the current densities to the obstacle; whether the value of the impedance $λ$ is greater or less than the special value $\sqrt{ε/μ}$.
description: 32pages, revised the lines on pages 4-5 following Theorem 1.1
Secure Belonging and Multidimensional Intima’ among Syrian Refugees Resettled in the United States
Creators: name: Dromgold-Sermen, Michelle S
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: What does it mean to belong in a new place? Drawing on twelve months of participant observation and twenty-two interviews with six Syrian refugee families resettled in the southeastern United States, I find that Syrians identify ‘secure belonging’ as a central dimension of their experiences of belonging. Secure belonging is a sense of ‘home,’ safety and protection that persons displaced from their homelands experience at the individual and familial level. Building on previous analytical frameworks of belonging (Fenster 2005; Yuval-Davis 2006; Antonsich 2010), I identify and situate secure belonging as a core dimension that supports and interacts with other dimensions of belonging. Syrian refugees provide evidence that secure belonging can occur relatively quickly in a new place. Furthermore, a sense of secure belonging is central for shaping and supporting individuals’ development of emotional, social and civic belonging that connects them to the geographic place and community of their new home.
Grid of theoretical NLTE equivalent widths of four Ba II lines and barium abundance in cool stars
Creators: name: Korotin, S. A.
name: Andrievsky, S. M.
name: Hansen, C. J.
name: Caffau, E.
name: Bonifacio, P.
name: Spite, M.
name: Spite, F.
name: Francois, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a grid of computed non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) equivalent widths (EW) and NLTE abundance corrections for four Ba II lines: 4554, 5853, 6141, and 6496 A. The grid can be useful in deriving the NLTE barium abundance in stars having parameters in the following ranges: effective temperature from 4000 K to 6500 K, surface gravity log g from 0 to 5, microturbulent velocity 0 km s^-1 to 3 km s^-1, metallicity [Fe/H] from -2 to +0.5, and [Ba/Fe] from -0.4 to +0.6. The NLTE abundance can be either derived by EW interpolation (using the observed Ba II line EW) or by using the NLTE correction applied to a previously determined LTE abundance. Ba II line equivalent widths and the NLTE corrections were calculated using the updated MULTI code and the Ba II atomic model that was previously applied to determine the NLTE barium abundance in different types of stars. The grid is available on-line through the web, and we find that the grid Ba NLTE corrections are almost as accurate as direct NLTE profile fitting (to within 0.05-0.08 dex). For the weakest Ba II line (5853 A) the LTE abundances almost agree with the NLTE abundances, whereas the other three Ba II lines, 4554, 6141, and 6496 A, need NLTE corrections even at the highest metallicities tested here. The 4554 A line is extremely strong and should not be used for abundance analysis above [Fe/H]= -1. Furthermore, we tested the impact of different model atmospheres and spectrum synthesis codes and found average differences of 0.06 dex and 0.09 dex, respectively, for all four lines. At these metallicities we find an average Delta NLTE of +/-0.1 dex for the three useful Ba lines for subsolar cool dwarfs.
description: 9 pages 8 figures submitted to A&A
Unraveling the bioactivity of anticancer peptides as deduced from machine learning
Creators: name: Shoombuatong, Watshara
name: Schaduangrat, Nalini
name: Nantasenamt, Chanin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: cancer
subject: anticancer
subject: antitumor
subject: anticancer peptides
subject: host defense peptides
subject: bioactivity
subject: machine learning
subject: QSAR
subject: 610

description: Cancer imposes a global health burden as it represents one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality while also giving rise to significant economic burden owing to the associated expenditures for its monitoring and treatment. In spite of advancements in cancer therapy, the low success rate and recurrence of tumor has necessitated the ongoing search for new therapeutic agents. Aside from drugs based on small molecules and protein-based biopharmaceuticals, there has been an intense effort geared towards the development of peptide-based therapeutics owing to its favorable and intrinsic properties of being relatively small, highly selective, potent, safe and low in production costs. In spite of these advantages, there are several inherent weaknesses that are in need of attention in the design and development of therapeutic peptides. An abundance of data on bioactive and therapeutic peptides have been accumulated over the years and the burgeoning area of artificial intelligence has set the stage for the lucrative utilization of machine learning to make sense of these large and high-dimensional data. This review summarizes the current state-of-the-art on the application of machine learning for studying the bioactivity of anticancer peptides along with future outlook of the field. Data and R codes used in the analysis herein are available on GitHub at https://github.com/Shoombuatong2527/anticancer-peptides-review.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Il fiume nella città: una rete di esperienze a confronto
Creators: name: Campus, Enrica
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The European Commission promoted, within the context of the InterReg IIIC South program, “The RiverLink”s Project/Program". This particular program is undoubtedly an excellent occasion as an example for a sustainable river-city project. Six European cities are involved in this project: Florence, Bordeaux, Tallinn, Dresden, Seville and Bremen, coordinated by the Environment Direction of Florence. The complete aim of this project is the exchange of experiences and knowledge-base about the management of transformations of this particular urban framework of cities with a river, and the areas surrounding it. Partner cities displayed projects in an International Congress titled, “The River in the City: a networking of experiences to confront and discuss”, that took place in Florence on June, 9th, 2006, and was organized by the Town Planning Department of Environment Direction of Florence Municipality.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 6 No 2 (2006)
Anger in the context of PTSD and depression in a trauma-exposed population: the role of interpersonal sensitivity, resilience, and emotional regulation
Creators: name: Baník, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: anger
subject: depression
subject: emotion
subject: PTSD
subject: trauma

description: In this project will be analyzed the role of anger in PTSD and depression development in trauma-exposed population by taking into account interpersonal sensitivity, resilience, and emotional regulation.
Simulation of Open-loop Plasma Vertical Movement Response in the Damavand Tokamak Using Closed-loop Subspace System Identification
Creators: name: Farahani, N. Darestani
name: Davani, F. Abbasi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A formulation of a multi-input single-output closed-loop subspace method for system identification is employed for the purpose of obtaining control-relevant model of the vacuum-plasma response in the Damavand tokamak. Such a model is particularly well suited for robust controller design. The accuracy of the estimate of the plant dynamics is estimated by different experiments. The method has been described in this paper is a worst-case identification technique, that aims to minimize the error between the identified model and the true plant. The fitness of the identified model around defined operating point is more than 90% and compared with physical-based model it has better root mean square measure of the goodness of fit.
description: 20 pages
Is there an association between coffee consumption and the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)? A systematic review
Creators: name: Sewter, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Systematic review aiming to evaluate the association between coffee consumption and the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
BANYAN. VII. A New Population of Young Substellar Candidate Members of Nearby Moving Groups from the BASS Survey
Creators: name: Gagné, Jonathan
name: Faherty, Jacqueline K.
name: Cruz, Kelle L.
name: Lafrenière, David
name: Doyon, René
name: Malo, Lison
name: Burgasser, Adam J.
name: Naud, Marie-Eve
name: Artigau, Étienne
name: Bouchard, Sandie
name: Gizis, John E.
name: Albert, Loïc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abbreviated] We present the results of a near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic follow-up survey of 182 M4-L7 low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (BDs) from the BANYAN All-Sky Survey (BASS) for candidate members of nearby, young moving groups (YMGs). We confirm signs of low-gravity for 42 new BD discoveries with estimated masses between 8-75 $M_{Jup}$ and identify previously unrecognized signs of low gravity for 24 known BDs. This allows us to refine the fraction of low-gravity dwarfs in the high-probability BASS sample to $\sim$82%. We use this unique sample of 66 young BDs, supplemented with 22 young BDs from the literature, to construct new empirical NIR absolute magnitude and color sequences for low-gravity BDs. We obtain a spectroscopic confirmation of low-gravity for 2MASS J14252798-3650229, which is a new $\sim$27 $M_{Jup}$, L4 $γ$ bona fide member of AB Doradus. We identify a total of 19 new low-gravity candidate members of YMGs with estimated masses below 13 $M_{Jup}$, seven of which have kinematically estimated distances within 40 pc. These objects will be valuable benchmarks for a detailed atmospheric characterization of planetary-mass objects with the next generation of instruments. We find 16 strong candidate members of the Tucana-Horologium association with estimated masses between 12.5-14 $M_{Jup}$, a regime where our study was particularly sensitive. This would indicate that for this association there is at least one isolated object in this mass range for every $17.5_{-5.0}^{+6.6}$ main-sequence stellar member, a number significantly higher than expected based on standard log-normal initial mass function, however in the absence of radial velocity and parallax measurements for all of them, it is likely that this over-density is caused by a number of young interlopers from other moving groups. We identify 12 new L0-L5 field BDs, seven of which display peculiar properties.
description: 52 pages, 26 figures, 9 tables. Accepted for publication in Supplements of the Astrophysical Journal
SPAIN’S CITIZENSHIP SCHEME: HOW EXCEPTIONS BASED ON HISTORICAL PRECEDENT LEAVE OUT WESTERN SAHARA AND RECENT CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT RESPONSES
Creators: name: Ramos, Dillon Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Research focused on the inconsistencies in Spain’s citizenship scheme exceptions states Spain’s political parties will not address the exclusion of Western Sahara from the scheme until there is a Sahrawi referendum for self-determination. My thesis uses documents from 2016, 2017, and 2018 to show that parties within the lower chamber of Spanish Parliament have begun to consistently address the issue, calling into question the belief that the issue will remain unresolved until a future referendum. My research first explains to the reader the exceptions created in Spain’s citizenship scheme to favor applicants from post-colonial space and applicants who have close blood ties to Spain, then shows how this historical link should include Western Sahara. I employ the works of previous researchers and government documents to show why this exclusion has historically occurred, then use the past three years of government action to show how the Spanish government indeed has begun to address the issue, making it impossible to definitively conclude that Spain will continue to deny Sahrawi applicants for Spanish citizenship the expedited process granted to other applicants from post-colonial space.
The binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 during its accretion state - I. Optical variability
Creators: name: Shahbaz, T.
name: Linares, M.
name: Nevado, S. P.
name: Rodríguez-Gil, P.
name: Casares, J.
name: Dhillon, V. S.
name: Marsh, T. R.
name: Littlefair, S.
name: Leckngam, A.
name: Poshyachinda, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present time-resolved optical photometry of the binary millisecond `redback' pulsar PSR J1023+0038 (=AY Sex) during its low-mass X-ray binary phase. The light curves taken between 2014 January and April show an underlying sinusoidal modulation due to the irradiated secondary star and accretion disc. We also observe superimposed rapid flaring on time-scales as short as ~20 s with amplitudes of ~0.1-0.5 mag and additional large flare events on time-scales of ~5-60 min with amplitudes ~0.5-1.0 mag. The power density spectrum of the optical flare light curves is dominated by a red-noise component, typical of aperiodic activity in X-ray binaries. Simultaneous X-ray and UV observations by the Swift satellite reveal strong correlations that are consistent with X-ray reprocessing of the UV light, most likely in the outer regions of the accretion disc. On some nights we also observe sharp-edged, rectangular, flat-bottomed dips randomly distributed in orbital phase, with a median duration of ~250 s and a median ingress/egress time of ~20 s. These rectangular dips are similar to the mode-switching behaviour between disc `active' and `passive' luminosity states, observed in the X-ray light curves of other redback millisecond pulsars. This is the first time that the optical analogue of the X-ray mode-switching has been observed. The properties of the passive and active state light curves can be explained in terms of clumpy accretion from a trapped inner accretion disc near the corotation radius, resulting in rectangular, flat-bottomed optical and X-ray light curves.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Il progetto di paesaggio: argomenti, pratiche e lavori
Creators: name: Barba I Casanovas, Rosa
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: The paper is the Italian edition of Rosa Barba i Casanovas’ s articles Argumentos, practicas y trabajos en el proyecto del paisaje, and ARGUMENTOS en el proyecto del paisaje that are published in the monographic issue Paisaje of the magazine “GEOMETRÍA” in 1995. Rosa Barba, manager of the Master Programme in Landscape Architecture of Barcelona during the years 1993- 2000, with an expressive and passionate language tries to define what landscape and landscape project mean in a period during which in the European Mediterranean countries the discipline of landscape architecture should be revenged. From her words emerges the need of a quiet job, to do together with other disciplines, “in a scientific manner” and with poetic lightness, that there are never discount aims.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 5 No 1 (2006)
A meta-epidemiologic study of power and sample size in randomized controlled trials published in Dermatology journals
Creators: name: Bridgman, Alanna
name: McPhie, Meghan
name: Voineskos, Sophocles
name: Chan, An-Wen
name: Drucker, Aaron
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dermatology
subject: Clinical Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties

description: This study will investigate the quality of power and sample size reporting for randomized controlled trials published in high-impact dermatology journals from 2015 - 2020. This project is being registered before data collection begins.
Riflessioni sulla Quarta Biennale Europea del Paesaggio
Creators: name: Goula, Maria
Publisher: name: Ri-Vista
Year: 2015

description: Many questions come from the fourth Biennal of Landscape Architecture of Barcelona and the attempt to answer when the event appears too near: reflection on contents, on the results of Rosa Barba Prize, on a possible reading or emerging some tendencies in building landscape all over the Europe during the last four years. Really, as Maria Goula underlines, it is difficult to talk about tendencies regards to a very short time from the last Biennal: the issue of artifice, urban square and European identity, memory obsession and public works , are probably steady elements that characterize the European identity.
description: Ri-Vista, Vol 5 No 1 (2006)
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEAVE AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG THE MARRIED FEMALE WORKERS OF READY-MADE GARMENTS INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Faroque, Omar
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Thailand
Year: 2018
Subjects: Job satisfaction, leave, garments, workers, zero order correlation and Bangladesh.

description: SOCIAL SCIENCE ASIA : Official Journal of National Research Council of Thailand in conjunction with ABAC Journal, 4, 1, 71