cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Advancing Mixed Reality Game Development: An Evaluation of a Visual Game Analytics Tool in Action-Adventure and FPS Genres
Creators: name: Sargolzaei, Parisa
name: Rastogi, Mudit
name: Zaman, Loutfouz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In response to the unique challenges of Mixed Reality (MR) game development, we developed GAMR, an analytics tool specifically designed for MR games. GAMR aims to assist developers in identifying and resolving gameplay issues effectively. It features reconstructed gameplay sessions, heatmaps for data visualization, a comprehensive annotation system, and advanced tracking for hands, camera, input, and audio, providing in-depth insights for nuanced game analysis.
 To evaluate GAMR's effectiveness, we conducted an experimental study with game development students across two game genres: action-adventure and first-person shooter (FPS). The participants used GAMR and provided feedback on its utility. The results showed a significant positive impact of GAMR in both genres, particularly in action-adventure games. This study demonstrates GAMR's effectiveness in MR game development and suggests its potential to influence future MR game analytics, addressing the specific needs of developers in this evolving area.
description: 32 pages
Experiences of body image in the gender non-binary community: A qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Burstall, J
name: Tan, Kian Jin
name: Garcia, XDLP
name: Anderson, Joel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440102
subject: Anthropology of gender and sexuality
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Body image concerns are prevalent within transgender communities – many transgender people engage in disordered eating to suppress or accentuate secondary sex characteristics and reduce gender dysphoria. However, this research has mostly been conducted with binary transgender people. Here, we examine how non-binary people experience and relate to their bodies. Semi-structured one-on-one interviews were conducted with 13 gender non-binary individuals living in Australia. Photo elicitation techniques were utilised, and the transcribed interview data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Six themes were identified: Expansive Understandings of Body Image, Body Image can be Linked to Gender Dysphoria, Cultivating a Preferred Body can Lead to Gender Euphoria, Appreciating Diversity in Non-Binary Body Ideals, The Androgynous Body Ideal is not Universally Accepted, and Experiencing the Body as Functional rather than Aesthetic. The present findings highlight the diversity of experiences of body image for non-binary people. The non-binary concept of body image was found to be expansive, stressing various physical attributes involved in social gender recognition and physiological sources of gender dysphoria. Some participants valued gender-affirming medical intervention, others were accepting of their bodies as they are, attributing their body confidence to the process of affirming their non-binary gender.
Are you teaching biostatistics with R? Suggestions to help you as work with your students.
Creators: name: Tabares, Olivia
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: Teaching students how to code and analyze data in R is important for the fields of biology and ecology. Olivia Tabares and the Ecological Forecasting Education Working Group created this resource to encourage individuals who are teaching biostatics with R. These infographics are intended to provide encouragement and suggestions for working with students who are learning R.
Evaluation of limited wavelength conversion and deflection routing as methods to reduce blocking probability in optical burst switched networks
Creators: name: Zalesky, Andrew L.
name: Vu, Hai
name: Zukerman, Moshe
name: Rosberg, Zvi
name: Wong, Eric Wing Ming
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Limited wavelength conversion and deflection routing are considered as viable methods to reduce the burst blocking probability in optical burst switched (OBS) networks. The question of which of the two methods is most effective has yet to be resolved. In this paper, an analytical model is derived that provides an accurate and quick means to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of limited wavelength conversion and deflection routing. First, an overflow load fixed point approximation model is derived for a single link in isolation. Then the single link model is integrated into a reduced load fixed point approximation model for a general network topology with deflection routing. The accuracy of the analytical model is verified through simulation.
Microvariation in dative-marking in the Romance and Greek varieties of Southern Italy
Creators: name: Ledgeway, Adam
name: Schifano, Norma
name: Silvestri, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Greek and Romance have been spoken alongside of one another for centuries in
 southern Italy. Even though the Greek-speaking areas have been dramatically reduced over the centuries such that today Greek is now only spoken by a small
 number of increasingly elder speakers in a handful of villages of Calabria and
 southern Apulia (Salentino), the influence of Greek is still undeniable in that it
 has left its mark on the structures of the surrounding Romance dialects. Indeed, in
 this respect Rohlfs aptly coined the phrase spirito greco, materia romanza (literally
 “Greek spirit, Romance material”) to highlight the fact that in many respects the
 syntax of these so-called Romance dialects is underlying Greek, despite employing predominantly Romance lexis. In this paper we draw on two case studies from
 the Romance and Greek varieties spoken in Calabria to illustrate how the syntax
 of argument-marking has variously been subject to contact-induced change, giving rise to significant variation in the marking and distribution of RECIPIENT arguments in accordance with both pragmatic and structural factors. In both cases,
 it will be shown that contact-induced borrowing does not replicate the original
 structure of the lending language but, rather, produces hybrid structures which
 are ultimately neither Greek nor Romance in nature.
Note to T. Bayles Minuse, August 4, 1955
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Stony Brook
Concerts
Music festivals
Drums
Stands (Furniture)

description: This note is written to T. Bayles Minuse on August 4, 1955, in regards to returning drums and stands to Port Jefferson High School.
„Reisen ist der Weg zur Veränderung“
Creators: name: von Miller, Valeria
Publisher: name: Eurac Research
Year: 2022

description: Wie geht Innovation im Tourismus und was braucht es, um sie anzustoßen? Wir haben mit Oliver Puhe, Trendforscher und touristischer Innovationscoach, im Rahmen der [Online-Fachtagung](https://www.eurac.edu/de/institutes-centers/center-for-advanced-studies/news-events/hgj-eurac-research-tagung-2021) der HGJ und des Center for Advanced Studies von Eurac Research gesprochen.
SMART-Plant_MEASURING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY OF WATER SECTOR IN THE THREE-FOLD LINKAGE OF WATER, ENERGY AND MATERIALS
Creators: name: P. Stanchev
name: V. Vasilaki
name: J. Dosta
name: E. Katsou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: 5th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management Abstract
 Circular economy is gaining increased attention over the conventional “make-use-dispose” model. Researchers, industries and institutions recognise circular economy as an approach to increase the economic growth in a sustainable way. Fundamental principles of circular economy strategies focus on reduce, reuse and recycle in order to close the loops of materials and energy flows and eliminate waste. However, there is still lack of appropriate tools and indicators measuring the circular economy performance of a system. The application of circular economy to water sector changes fundamentally the perception of the water supply chains – water is seen as medium of valuable resources, while water infrastructures are considered as a part of an inter-sectoral value chain system, enabling to revamp existing water systems in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. This paper explores the application of circular economy principles to the water sector in the key interlinked pathways of water energy and materials. Furthermore, it analyses the main environmental and sustainability methodologies and indexes and their suitability for evaluation of the circular economy performance of the water systems.
When the applicative needs the antipassive
Creators: name: Basilico, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In some languages, an antipassive morpheme feeds applicativization, in others, it
 bleeds it. The analysis of this asymmetry given here relies on two recent proposals:
 Pylkkänen’s (2008) view that the low applicative must merge with a transitive verb
 and Basilico’s (2012; 2017) claim that that the antipassive marker can introduce an
 internal argument. In those cases where the antipassive feeds the applicative, the
 antipassive marker introduces the internal argument, while in those cases where
 it bleeds it, the antipassive marker is the expected intransitivizer, disallowing an
 internal argument from appearing syntactically. This work provides a parsimonious account of the cross-linguistic differences in applicative formation with the
 antipassive.
Dative constructions in Romance and beyond
Creators: name: M. Rita Manzini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: DOM (Differential Object Marking) arguments in Romance are associated with the
 a/dative morphology typical of goal arguments, because both have the same syntactic structure of embedding (§1). Clitics do not necessarily share the case alignment
 of full pronouns/lexical DPs. Indeed clitics and lexical DPs are separately merged
 each in their domain. The case array may therefore be set differently (§2). DOM
 objects give rise to a number of patterns under cliticization, including the standard Spanish one, leísmo and loísmo/laísmo (the latter typical also of South Italian).
 This variation depends on the fact that lexical DPs may be associated with DOM
 though clitics aren’t (standard Spanish, loísmo/laísmo) or both may be associated
 with DOM (leísmo) (§3).
Experiences of parents whose children participated in a longitudinal follow‐up study
Creators: name: Franke, Nike
name: Rogers, Jennifer
name: Wouldes, Trecia
name: Ward, Kim
name: Brown, Gavin
name: Jonas, Monique
name: Keegan, Peter
name: Harding, Jane
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Abstract Background: Long‐term follow‐up is necessary to understand the impact of perinatal interventions. Exploring parents' motives and experiences in consenting to their children taking part in longitudinal studies and understanding what outcomes are important to families may enhance participation and mitigate the loss to follow‐up. As existing evidence is largely based on investigators' perspectives using Western samples, the present pilot study explored parents' perspectives in a multicultural New Zealand context. Methods: Data were generated using semi‐structured interviews with parents whose children had participated in a longitudinal study after neonatal recruitment. Parents' experiences of being part of the study were analysed thematically using an inductive approach. Results: Parents (n = 16) were generally happy with the outcomes measured. Additionally, parents were interested in lifelong goals such as the impact of parental diabetes. We identified three themes: (1) Facilitators: Research participation was aided by motives and parent and research characteristics such as wishing to help others and straightforward recruitment; (2) Barriers: A hesitancy to participate was due to technical and clinical research aspects, participation burden and cultural barriers, such as complex wording, time commitment and nonindigenous research and (3) Benefits: Children and parents experienced advantages such as the opportunity for education. Conclusions: Parents reported positive experiences and described the unexpected benefit of increasing families' health knowledge through participation. Improvements for current follow‐up studies were identified. Different ethnicities reported different experiences and perspectives, which warrants ongoing research, particularly with indigenous research participants.
title: 02_1097
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
The accusative/dative alternation in Catalan verbs with experiencer object
Creators: name: Royo, Carles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Various Catalan psychological verbs that are part of causative sentences with an
 accusative experiencer (Els nens van molestar la Maria or La van molestar ‘The
 kids annoyed Maria’ or ‘They annoyed her’) alternate with stative sentences that
 change the sentence order and have a dative experiencer (A la Maria li molesta el
 teu caràcter ‘lit. To Maria your character is annoying’). Other psychological verbs,
 however, can form both types of sentence without changing the accusative morphology of the experiencer (Els nens van atabalar la Maria or La van atabalar ‘The
 kids overwhelmed Maria or They overwhelmed her’; A la Maria l’atabala el teu
 caràcter ‘lit. To Maria your character is overwhelming’). I argue that in stative sentences of all these verbs the experiencer is a real dative, regardless of its morphology (dative or accusative). Differential indirect object marking (DIOM) explains
 why accusative morphology is possible in these constructions.
Ways of being a dative across Romance varieties
Creators: name: Cabré, Teresa
name: Fábregas, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In this article, we argue that the term dative can correspond to objects of a very
 different linguistic nature, even in typologically close languages. Specifically, in
 syntactic terms datives can be different from accusatives or identical to them at
 some point in the derivation; in the latter case, clashes between 3rd person clitics
 emerge. Our approach, then, argues that clitic incompatibilities are best explained
 through syntactic tools.
Proposal of nonlinear deadbeat control for boost converter and the experimental verification
Creators: name: Mushi, Aviti Thadei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Deadbeat control
DC-DC boost converter
Disturbance observer
Digital control

description: This thesis discusses the proposal of nonlinear deadbeat control for continuous conduction mode (CCM) boost converter and the experimental verification. First, the nonlinear state equation is derived, and second a nonlinear current reference deadbeat control is proposed. Third, a new nonlinear controller to implement the load disturbance compensation is proposed. Then the simulations using PSIM software and verifications by experiments, it is confirmed that under the conditions of an input voltage 12 V, an output voltage of 20 V, a load resistance of 4 Ω and a sampling frequency of 100 kHz, the voltage command tracking capability of a settling time of 280 µs is achieved, and an output voltage recovery time of 1.46 ms is achieved for a sudden unknown load change. Mathematical analysis is performed to confirm asymptotic stability and robustness of the control method during voltage and current perturbation, disturbance occurrence and parameter variations. It is found that the voltage and current errors eigen values converge towards inside of the unit circle thus maintaining asymptotic stability for each perturbation case investigated. Methods to design the controller parameters are stipulated to be within the physical realization and can be applied to boost converter of any application in CCM. The proposed control method is compared with other literature that applied different digital control methods to boost converters of various applications. It is found that nonlinear deadbeat control proposed in this thesis is about twice as fast for reference tracking response, and can reject disturbances quickly for a load current three times bigger than other literature.
 Therefore, it is concluded that these data are the best even though the proposed control is based
 on nonlinear equations. Few differences are observed between experiments and simulations.
 Further investigations reveal the cause to be time delay in the switching device and other un-
 modeled nonlinear switching device phenomena. Future work will focus on improving the control
 method to compensate for nonlinearities.
Medium density housing in Melbourne: the management of sustainable and democratic local communities under global pressure for increased urban efficiencies
Creators: name: Alves, Tom
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a study – currently still in progress – of the process of redevelopment at higher densities of an inner-metropolitan area of Melbourne hitherto characterised by low density detached housing. Policies of urban consolidation have, for better or worse, been in place in Australia’s capital cities for some time. They have been controversial, but of the alleged benefits by far the most frequently cited are those which appeal to notions of “sustainability”. As part of the ongoing implementation of urban consolidation initiatives, the development of medium density housing wherever it proves economically viable has been cast in the role of improving the sustainability of the urban environment in Australia. Whether or not this outcome can actually be observed to be taking place, medium density residential development has been a deeply divisive issue; highlighting the tensions and trade-offs between economic development, democracy and community which are largely ignored by existing approaches to urban governance; and straining existing systems for managing urban change and development. While a nexus between urban density and sustainability is widely believed to exist, the apparent focus on “sustainability” in recent Australian planning policy may in fact cloud the real issues which continue to have significant implications for local communities and democratic processes. Understanding conflict over medium density housing development is thus central to contemporary debates concerning the roles of both planning and local government in Australia.
Iranian languages
Creators: name: Gazsi, Dénes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Iranian languages, spoken from Turkey to Chinese Turkestan, have been in language
 contact with Arabic since pre-Islamic times. Arabic as a source language has
 provided phonological and morphological elements, as well as a plethora of lexical
 items, to numerous Iranian languages under recipient-language agentivity. New
 Persian, the most significant member of this group, has been a prominent recipient
 of Arabic language elements. This study provides an overview of the historical
 development of this contact, before analyzing Arabic elements in New Persian and
 other New Iranian languages. It also discusses how Arabic has influenced Modern
 Persian dialects, and how Persian vernaculars in the Persian Gulf region of Iran
 have incorporated Arabic lexemes from Gulf Arabic dialects.
MHD waves in homogeneous and continuously stratified atmospheres
Creators: name: Cally, Paul S.
name: Bogdan, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The basic equations, concepts, and modes of linear, ideal, MHD waves -- slow, Alfvén and fast -- are set out and generalised to gravitationally-stratified atmospheres. Particular attention is devoted to mode conversion, wherein the local behavior of a global wave changes from one mode to another in passing through particular atmospheric layers. Exact solutions are explored where available. Eikonal methods -- WKBJ and ray theory -- are described. Although our emphasis is on the theoretical underpinning of the subject, the solar atmospheric heating implications of fast/slow and fast/Alfvén conversions are discussed in detail.
description: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780323956642/magnetohydrodynamic-processes-in-solar-plasmas
Kurdish
Creators: name: Öpengin, Ergin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This chapter provides an overview of the influence of Arabic on Kurdish, especially on its Northern and Central varieties spoken mainly in Turkey–Syria–Iraq and Iraq–Iran, respectively. It summarizes and critically assesses the limited research on the contact-induced changes in the phonology and syntax of Kurdish, and proposes several new dimensions in the morphology and syntax, in addition to providing a first treatment of lexical convergence in Kurdish through borrowings from Arabic.
Large-scale range data acquisition and segmentation
Creators: name: Hesami, Reyhaneh
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The research reported in this thesis aims to devise a cost-effective, robust technology and technique for accurately measuring and segmenting geometric details embedded in the exterior surfaces of large buildings. A diverse range of applications become viable or significantly enhanced by capturing the accurate geometric data of significant buildings and extracting the fine details of such data. Motivations for this thesis stem from the facts that commercially available large-scale data acquisition systems are expensive and existing algorithms for 3D data processing are yet to address the processing complexity associated with the 3D segmentation of large outdoor objects. The contributions of this thesis are threefold. First, a low-cost versatile large-scale rangescanner, capable of capturing range data up to 300 metres, is designed and implemented. An innovative method for system calibration and the data fusion of the intensity and range measurements has been developed. A number of experiments are also conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed rangescanner system and the data fusion technique. The range data obtained by the rangescanner system has been verified using two methods of verification - application checking and equivalence checking. Example results of the verification, presented in this thesis, shows that the laser rangescanner device is capable of providing adequate accuracy and resolution for large-scale civil application with minimum complexity and cost. The design provides portability, flexibility and ease of operation. Secondly, problems associated with range data acquisition and processing of large building exteriors are studied. Key challenges of processing the range data of large buildings, including significant disparities in the size and depth and the existence of substantial construction error in historical buildings, have been identified and their effects for the segmentation task are examined. Thirdly, a computationally effective and robust segmentation technique, capable of extracting geometric details of large building exteriors, is developed. The segmentation algorithm, titled Hierarchical Robust Segmentation (HRS), uses a high breakdown, robust estimator in a hierarchical coarse-to-fine approach. This algorithm is then tested on several range data sets obtained by different laser rangescanners. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm overcomes most of the current problems of large-scale data segmentation presented in this thesis by extracting both coarse and fine details from range data of large building exteriors in a relatively short period of time.
title: The Concept of Integration: A Conceptual Critique of Issues Relating to Curriculum, Policy, Planning & Provision for Pupils with Special Educational Needs
Creators: name: Lloyd, Christine Mary
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis sets out to investigate the concept of integration, with a view to identifying to what degree conceptual misunderstandings, and a lack of clarity about the concept itself and those concepts which underpin it, have led to an exacerbation, a continuation and a legitimation of inferior educational opportunities for those pupils identified as having Special Educational Needs (SEN), in England and Wales. The first part of this work is, therefore, devoted to a critical analysis of the key concepts involved; models of disability; entitlement and empowerment; models of curriculum and the concept of integration itself. The second part of the thesis is concerned with a critical review of recent and current educational policy in education, in the light of this conceptual critique. The Warnock Report (DES 1978) and subsequent policy are critically discussed and evaluated, and current policy is addressed in the form of the 1988 Education Act and its wider implications, and the Code of Practice for SEN introduced in the 1993 Education Act. Finally the issue of teacher education, and in particular current policy in that area, is critically discussed with a view to identifying its potential to address some of the issues raised by the preceding discussion. The underlying rationale for this thesis is that empirical research without a sound conceptual underpinning has proved not only inadequate but often counterproductive in education in general, and in special needs education in particular. Hence the style of the research is largely conceptual, and, while it has been necessary in the critique of current policies and practices to move to a more empirical mode, this has been done to contextualise the discussion by demonstrating the practical inadequacies which have resulted from the lack of conceptual clarity which the research reveals. The major theme which emerges from the thesis is that problems, inequalities and disadvantage in practice in the area of SEN can be seen to be attributable to a lack of any clear understanding or Sound critique of the major concepts which underpin current educational policy in the area.
Northern Domari
Creators: name: Herin, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This chapter provides an overview of the linguistic outcomes of contact between Arabic and Northern Domari. Northern Domari is a group of dialects spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. It remained until very recently largely unexplored. This article presents unpublished first-hand linguistic data collected in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey. It focuses on the Beirut/Damascus variety, with references to the dialects spoken in northern Syria and southern Turkey.
Jerusalem Domari
Creators: name: Matras, Yaron
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Domari
Jerusalem
fusion
compartmentalisation
repertoire

description: Jerusalem Domari is the only variety of Domari for which there is comprehensive documentation. The language shows massive influence of Arabic in different areas of structure –~quite possibly the most extensive structural impact of Arabic on any other language documented to date. Arabic influence on Jerusalem Domari raises theoretical questions around key concepts of contact-induced change as well as the relations between systems of grammar and the components of multilingual repertoires; these are dealt with briefly in the chapter, along with the notions of fusion, compartmentalisation of paradigms, and bilingual suppletion.
New-dialect formation: The Amman dialect
Creators: name: Al-Wer, Enam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: One fascinating outcome of dialect contact is the formation of totally new dialects from scratch, using linguistic stock present in the input dialects, as well as creating new combinations of features, and new features not present in the original input varieties. This chapter traces the formation of one such case from Arabic, namely the dialect of Amman, within the framework of the variationist paradigm and the principles of new-dialect formation.
Piloting a ‘Spatial Isolation’ Index : The Built Environment and Sexual and Drug Use Risks to Sex Workers
Creators: name: Deering, Kathleen N.
name: Rusch, Melanie
name: Amram, Ofer
name: Chettiar, Jill
name: Nguyen, Paul
name: Feng, Cindy X.
name: Shannon, K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background Employing innovative mapping and spatial analyses of individual and neighborhood environment data, we examined the social, physical and structural features of overlapping street-based sex work and drug scenes and explored the utility of a ‘spatial isolation index’ in explaining exchanging sex for drugs and exchanging sex while high. Methods Analyses drew on baseline interview and geographic data (Jan/10-Oct/11) from a large prospective cohort of street and off-street sex workers (SWs) in Metropolitan Vancouver and external publically-available, neighborhood environment data. An index measuring ‘spatial isolation’ was developed from seven indicators measuring features of the built environment within 50m buffers (e.g. industrial or commercial zoning, lighting) surrounding sex work environments. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression was used to examine associations between the two outcomes (exchanged sex for drugs; exchanged sex while high) and the index, as well as each individual indicator. Results Of 510 SWs, 328 worked in street-based/outdoor environments (e.g. streets, parks, alleys) and were included in the analyses. In multivariable analysis, increased spatial isolation surrounding street-based/outdoor SWs’ main places of servicing clients as measured with the index was significantly associated with exchanging sex for drugs. Exchanging sex for drugs was also significantly positively associated with an indicator of the built environment suggesting greater spatial isolation (increased percent of parks) and negatively associated with those suggesting decreased spatial isolation (increased percent commercial areas, increased count of lighting, increased building footprint). Exchanging sex while high was negatively associated with increased percent of commercial zones but this association was removed when adjusting for police harassment. Conclusions The results from our exploratory study highlight how built environment shapes risks within overlapping street-based sex work and drug scenes through the development of a novel index comprised of multiple indicators of the built environment available through publicly available data, This study informs the important role that spatially-oriented responses, such as safer-environment interventions, and structural responses, such as decriminalization of sex work can play in improving the health, safety and well-being of SWs.
title: 03_0113
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Abel Prieto - Il primo della prima corriera
Creators: name: Buzzi, Francesca
name: Gorla, Alessandro
name: Bajini, Irina
Publisher: name: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR
Year: 2020

description: La notizia dell’imminente arrivo dei Rolling Stones all’Avana sconvolge la quotidianità degli avventori dello scombinato “Bar del Pueblo”. Un amore appassionato si intreccia con le vicende e i ricordi di gioventù di Mimí la Tragica, in una Cuba contemporanea caratterizzata dall’insorgere di nuove attività commerciali private. Abel Prieto Jiménez (Pinar del Río 1950) è uno scrittore e politico cubano. Ministro della Cultura dal 1997 al 2013, attualmente dirige la Oficina del Programa Martiano ed è presidente della Sociedad Cultural “José Martí”. In Italia ha pubblicato diversi testi narrativi, tra i quali Il volo del gatto (Tropea editore, 2001).
description: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR, N. V (2019): Potere e Identità nelle Americhe Romanze
Mirta Yáñez - L'hotel e altre poesie
Creators: name: Gambardella, Francesca
name: Cancellier, Antonella
name: Bressan, Francesca
name: De Bernardi, Isabella
name: Pisani, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR
Year: 2020

description: Mirta Yáñez (La Habana 1947) è una poetessa, narratrice e saggista particolarmente impegnata nello studio e riscatto della letteratura femminile cubana. È membro della Academia Cubana de la Lengua e nel 2018 ha ricevuto il Premio Nacional de Literatura.
description: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR, N. V (2019): Potere e Identità nelle Americhe Romanze
Income level and drug related harm among people who use injection drugs in a Canadian setting
Creators: name: Long, Cathy
name: DeBeck, Kora
name: Feng, Cindy
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Background—Higher income is generally associated with better health outcomes; however, among people who inject drugs (IDU) income generation frequently involves activities, such as sex work and drug dealing, which pose significant health risks. Therefore, we sought to examine the relationship between level of income and specific drug use patterns and related health risks. Methods—This study involved IDU participating in a prospective cohort study in Vancouver, Canada. Monthly income was categorized based on non-fixed quartiles at each follow-up with the lowest level serving as the reference category in generalized linear mixed-effects regression. Results—Among our sample of 1,032 IDU, the median average monthly income over the study follow-up was $1050 [Interquartile range=785–2000]. In multivariate analysis, the highest income category was significantly associated with sex work (Adjusted Odds Ratio [AOR]=7.65), drug dealing (AOR=5.06), daily heroin injection (AOR=2.97), daily cocaine injection (AOR=1.65), daily crack smoking (AOR=2.48), binge drug use (AOR=1.57) and unstable housing (AOR=1.67). The high income category was negatively associated with being female (AOR=0.61) andaccessing addiction treatment (AOR=0.64), (all p < 0.05). In addition, higher income was strongly associated with higher monthly expenditure on drugs (>$400) (OR=97.8). Conclusion—Among IDU in Vancouver, average monthly income levels were low and higher total monthly income was linked to high-risk income generation strategies as well as a range of drug use patterns characteristic of higher intensity addiction and HIV risk. These findings underscore the need for interventions that provide economic empowerment and address high intensity addiction, especially for female IDU.
title: The Rhythm-Image: Aesthetic experience in the work of Theo Angelopoulos and Bill Viola
Creators: name: Lakka, Maria
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2006

description: Following the secularization of the world in modernity, art's concomitant fate was the separation of form and content, which has founded art on a split that has entailed the inheritance of an abyss of incommunicability. Secularization, however, has not liberated art from the model of representation, which has now assumed the form of the identification of a self-referential beauty. Moreover, the modernist doctrine of autonomy has deprived art of the possibility of infusing the vital powers of being and society, subsuming it to the demands of the institution and the art market. Nevertheless, twentieth-century art is driven by the will to overcome the schism (form/content, art/society), to touch the viewer, and to become an experience rather than merely an object of vision. Responding to this problem, this thesis explores the notion of rhythm, drawn from Bergson's concept of la duree and Deleuze's rethinking of immanence as difference and repetition. Rhythm, which grants the communicability of the work of art, emphasizes that art can only live in the experience; to conceive it solely in-itself as modernism has done unavoidably leads to its reification. Rhythm considers art in terms of intensity of the work and of the encounter, rather than in identifying art's spatial qualities. It tests the work of art and the encounter, but immanently in the life generated for the body. For this latter is also a rhythm, that is an affective surface which creates itself and reflects the world. Art then lives in the body but it also infuses life to the body. Aspects of the work of a film-maker (Theo Angelopoulos) and a video-artist (Bill Viola) are also elaborated, in order to show how their singular implementation of time in images takes them beyond their representational content and opens them to rhythm as an affective, embodied experience.
Contact and variation in Arabic intonation
Creators: name: Hellmuth, Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Evidence is emerging of differences among Arabic dialects in their intonation patterns, along known parameters of variation in prosodic typology. Through a series of brief case studies, this chapter explores the hypothesis that variation in intonation in Arabic results from changes in the phonology of individual Arabic varieties, triggered by past (or present-day) speaker bilingualism. If correct, variation in intonation should reflect prosodic properties of the specific languages that a particular regional dialect has had contact with.
Nancy Alonso - L'Avana: la città che ci abita
Creators: name: Croce, Alberto
name: Lorenzi, Roberta
name: Zanetti, Alessia
name: Grillo, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR
Year: 2020

description: Nancy Alonso (L’Avana, 1943 – 2018), biologa e docente universitaria. Scoprì la sua vocazione letteraria scrivendo lettere dall’Etiopia, dove si trovava in missione. I suoi racconti, spesso ambientati nell’amatissima Avana, testimoniano il contesto socio-economico della Cuba contemporanea.
description: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR, N. V (2019): Potere e Identità nelle Americhe Romanze
Degrade to Function: Towards Eco-friendly Morphing Devices that Function Through Programmed Sequential Degradation
Creators: name: Lu, Qiuyu
name: Yi, Semina
name: Gan, Mentian
name: Huang, Jihong
name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Yang, Yue
name: Shen, Chenyi
name: Yao, Lining
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While it seems counterintuitive to think of degradation within an operating device as beneficial, one may argue that when rationally designed, the controlled breakdown of materials can be harnessed for specific functions. To apply this principle to the design of morphing devices, we introduce the concept of Degrade to Function (DtF). This concept aims to create eco-friendly and self-contained morphing devices that operate through a sequence of environmentally-triggered degradations. We explore its design considerations and implementation techniques by identifying environmental conditions and degradation types that can be exploited, evaluating potential materials capable of controlled degradation, suggesting designs for structures that can leverage degradation to achieve various transformations and functions, and developing sequential control approaches that integrate degradation triggers. To demonstrate the viability and versatility of this design strategy, we showcase several application examples across a range of environmental conditions.
description: 24 pages, 24 figures, The 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 24)
Nancy Alonso - Storia di una buca
Creators: name: Bussolini, Chiara
name: Gemelli, Martina
name: Gusmaroli, Giulia
name: Grillo, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR
Year: 2020

description: Nancy Alonso (L’Avana 1943 – 2018), biologa e docente universitaria. Scoprì la sua vocazione letteraria scrivendo lettere dall’Etiopia, dove si trovava in missione. I suoi racconti, spesso ambientati nell’amatissima Avana, testimoniano il contesto socio-economico della Cuba contemporanea.
description: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR, N. V (2019): Potere e Identità nelle Americhe Romanze
SAT3D: Image-driven Semantic Attribute Transfer in 3D
Creators: name: Zhai, Zhijun
name: Wang, Zengmao
name: Long, Xiaoxiao
name: Zhou, Kaixuan
name: Du, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: GAN-based image editing task aims at manipulating image attributes in the latent space of generative models. Most of the previous 2D and 3D-aware approaches mainly focus on editing attributes in images with ambiguous semantics or regions from a reference image, which fail to achieve photographic semantic attribute transfer, such as the beard from a photo of a man. In this paper, we propose an image-driven Semantic Attribute Transfer method in 3D (SAT3D) by editing semantic attributes from a reference image. For the proposed method, the exploration is conducted in the style space of a pre-trained 3D-aware StyleGAN-based generator by learning the correlations between semantic attributes and style code channels. For guidance, we associate each attribute with a set of phrase-based descriptor groups, and develop a Quantitative Measurement Module (QMM) to quantitatively describe the attribute characteristics in images based on descriptor groups, which leverages the image-text comprehension capability of CLIP. During the training process, the QMM is incorporated into attribute losses to calculate attribute similarity between images, guiding target semantic transferring and irrelevant semantics preserving. We present our 3D-aware attribute transfer results across multiple domains and also conduct comparisons with classical 2D image editing methods, demonstrating the effectiveness and customizability of our SAT3D.
Luisa Campuzano - L'Avana: giubilo e fuga
Creators: name: Bernardo, Ludovica
name: Croci, Carlotta
name: Palumbo, Andrea
name: Grillo, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR
Year: 2020

description: Luisa Campuzano (L’Avana 1943), professoressa dell’Università di L’Avana, dirige il Centro de Estudios de la Mujer de las Américas presso Casa de las Américas, e la rivista Revolución y Cultura. L’Avana: gioia e fuga: la vita dell’autrice intrecciata alla storia e geografia della città.
description: Criando: la rivista di CRIAR, N. V (2019): Potere e Identità nelle Americhe Romanze
Referential Labeling Can Facilitate Phonetic Learning in Infancy
Creators: name: Yeung, Ho Henny
name: Chen, Ke Heng
name: Werker, Janet Feldman, 1951-
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2019

description: All languages employ certain phonetic contrasts when distinguishing words. Infant speech perception is rapidly attuned to these contrasts before many words are learned, thus phonetic attunement is thought to proceed independently of lexical and/or referential knowledge. Here we provide evidence to the contrary. Nine-month-old English-learning infants were trained to perceive a non-native Cantonese tone contrast. Two audiovisual pairings were consistently presented, which highlighted the target contrast (Object A with Tone X; Object B with Tone Y). Tone discrimination was then assessed. Results showed improved tone discrimination if object-tone pairings were perceived as being referential word labels, although this effect was modulated by vocabulary size. Results suggest how lexical and/or referential knowledge could play a role in phonetic attunement.
Statins proven and associated harms
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 89 examines proven and associated harms with statin use. Proven harms are those that have been established in systematic reviews or randomized controlled trials (RCTs); associated harms are those identified from observational studies, case series and case reports. Conclusions: The action of statins to reduce many compounds in addition to cholesterol is problematic. Harms with statins are often subtle, usually dose related, sometimes serious and require vigilance to detect. The magnitude of most statins harms remains uncertain at this time. It is essential to weigh the potential benefits and the potential harms in all patients taking or being considered for statin therapy.