cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PRODUCT SPECIFICITY AND INHIBITION OF PROTEIN N-TERMINAL METHYLTRANSFERASE 1/2
Creators: name: Dong, Guangping
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Protein N-terminal methyltransferases (NTMTs) are a family of enzymes that methylate the α-N-terminus of a variety of protein substrates. Both NTMT1 and NTMT2 recognize a unique N-terminal X-P-K/R motif (X represents any amino acid other than D/E) to install 1-3 methyl group(s) on the substrates. NTMT1 plays important roles in mitosis regulation, chromatin interactions, and DNA damage repair. Another member NTMT2 shares ~50% sequence similarity and the same substrate recognition motif although NTMT2 was initially characterized as a mono-methyltransferase. To understand the molecular mechanism of NTMT2, we obtained the first co-crystal structure of NTMT2 in complex with its peptide substrate. After an extensive investigation of substrate recognition and methylated products of NTMT1/2, we found out that NTMT2 can fully methylate G/P-PKRIA peptides despite a predominant mono-methyltransferase. Moreover, we identified a gatekeeper N89 in NTMT2 that controls the substrate entry and the product specificity of NTMT2.To elucidate the biological functions of NTMT1/2-catalyzed N-terminal methylation, we applied two different strategies to discover cell-potent inhibitors. Guided by the co-crystal structures of NTMT1 in complex with previously reported inhibitors, we designed and synthesized a series of new peptidomimetic inhibitors. By introducing more hydrophobic groups, the most cell-potent peptidomimetic inhibitor GD562 (IC50 = 0.93 ± 0.04 µM) exhibited over 2-fold increased inhibition on cellular N-terminal methylation levels with an IC50 value of ~50 µM compared to previously reported peptidomimetic inhibitor DC541. Meanwhile, we also discovered the first potent small molecule inhibitor Genz-682452 (IC50 = 0.5 ± 0.04 µM) after screening ~58,000 compounds. Subsequent structural modifications led to the discovery of GD433 (IC50 = 27 ± 0.5 nM) with a 20-fold increased potency compared to the initial hit Genz-682452. Inhibition mechanism indicated both inhibitors bind to peptide-binding pocket and co-crystal structures of both Genz-682452 and GD433 with NTMT1 confirmed their binding modes. Furthermore, GD433 shows over 7-fold selectivity over other major 40 protein methyltransferases and DNA methyltransferase and exhibits improved selectivity for NTMT1 over glucosylceramide synthase (GCS). GD433 significantly decreases the cellular N-terminal methylation level of NTMT1 substrates RCC1 and SET at 10 nM in both HEK293 and HCT116 cells, providing a valuable probe for cell-based studies in the future.
Fabrication and Characterization of Silicon Photonic Devices
Creators: name: Noman, Abdullah Al
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications
Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Silicon photonics has become one of the leading candidates for the next generation optical communication platform. In addition to being an inexpensive material and compatible with Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing, silicon exhibits low absorption at optical telecommunication bands. However, high propagation loss and poor light confinement in narrow Si waveguides have limited high-density optical integration.
In this work, we show the fabrication and characterization of a novel type of devices named E-skid devices that can reduce the skin depth and suppress the large spatial content of evanescent light. These devices use artificial anisotropic dielectric metamaterial to suppress the evanescent waves. Beside E-skid devices, we also discuss the fabrication and experimental characterization of mode filters using Silicon on Insulator that can block the fundamental TE0 and allow the higher order modes to pass through using Multi Mode Interference.
In this work, the mode is filtered using radiation, not by reflection.
Beside Silicon, Silicon Nitride has also gained much interest because of its low loss, smaller nonlinear absorption and higher Kerr effect. Silicon Nitride waveguides have widely
been used for lots of applications specially the optical frequency comb generation. One special case of coherent optical frequency comb is Soliton in which case the non-linearity and dispersion cancel each other’s effect and keep the pulse without distortion. In this work, we described the Silicon Nitride fabrication process and did a comparative analysis with other research groups who fabricates similar devices. We tried to improve our process by inserting a few additional steps in our fabrication process. We also investigated our process step by step and found out reasons for our low quality factor and low yield. We found a few factors that might be responsible for the low quality factor and addressed them. We fabricated real devices using our modified process and saw improvement in quality factors, yield and thermal performance of the devices.
Finally, we describe an edge polishing method for Silicon Nitride microring resonator devices, which we developed from scratch and we can polish edges down to sub-micron level. Thus, the edges become optically flat and it allowed us to do heterogeneous integration with an Indium Phosphide chip. This paves away for some exciting opportunities like on-chip frequency comb generation.
sj-pdf-1-eab-10.1177_00139165211045095 – Supplemental material for The Relationship Between City “Greenness” and Homicide in the US: Evidence Over a 30-Year Period
Creators: name: Sanciangco, Jonnell C.
name: Breetzke, Gregory D.
name: Lin, Zihan
name: Wang, Yuhao
name: Clevenger, Kimberly A.
name: Pearson, Amber L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eab-10.1177_00139165211045095 for The Relationship Between City “Greenness” and Homicide in the US: Evidence Over a 30-Year Period by Jonnell C. Sanciangco, Gregory D. Breetzke, Zihan Lin, Yuhao Wang, Kimberly A. Clevenger and Amber L. Pearson in Environment and Behavior
RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS: A CROSSDOMAIN APPROACH TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA IN INDIANA
Creators: name: Valencia, Manuel Eduardo Mar
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified
Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)
Applied statistics
Environment and resource economics

description: The pandemic scenario caused by COVID-19 is an event with no precedent. Therefore, it
is a phenomenon that can be studied to observe how electricity loads have changed during the stayat-home order weeks. The data collection process was done through online surveys and using
publicly available data. This study is focusing on analyzing household energy units such as
appliances, HVAC, lighting systems. However, collecting this data is expensive and timeconsuming since dwellings would have to be studied individually. As a solution, previous studies
have shown success in characterizing residential electricity using surveys with stochastic models.
This characterized electricity consumption data allows the researchers to generate a predictive
model, make a regression and understand the data. In that way, the data collection process will not
be as costly as installing measuring instruments or smart meters. The input data will be the
behavioral characteristics of each participant; meanwhile, the output of the analysis will be the
estimated electricity consumption "kWh." After generating the "kWh" target, a sensitivity analysis
will be done to observe the electricity consumption through time and examine how people evolved
their load during and after the stay-at-home order.
This research can help understand the change in electricity consumption of people who
worked at home during the pandemic and generate energy indicators and costs such as home office
electricity cost kWh/year. In addition to utilities and energy, managers can benefit from having a
clear understanding of domestic consumers during emergency scenarios as pandemics.
Automated Analysis of Synchronization in Human Full-body Expressive Movement
Creators: name: ALBORNO, PAOLO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: The research presented in this thesis is focused on the creation of computational models for the study of human full-body movement in order to investigate human behavior and non-verbal communication. In particular, the research concerns the analysis of synchronization of expressive movements and gestures. Synchronization can be computed both on a single user (intra-personal), e.g., to measure the degree of coordination between the joints? velocities of a dancer, and on multiple users (inter-personal), e.g., to detect the level of coordination between multiple users in a group. The thesis, through a set of experiments and results, contributes to the investigation of both intra-personal and inter-personal synchronization applied to support the study of movement expressivity, and improve the state-of-art of the available methods by presenting a new algorithm to perform the analysis of synchronization.
Intra-View Revelations: A Contemplative Journey into Human-Food  Resonance in Public Canteens
Creators: name: Ramisch, Mabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Intra-views
human-food-relationship

description: Essay 20, August 2024, URBNANCE Blog (https://urbnance.ioer.info/en/blog/)
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-2-ptd-10.1177_08968608211047332 - An exploratory study of the relationship between systemic microcirculatory function and small solute transport in incident peritoneal dialysis patients
Creators: name: Williams, Jennifer
name: Gilchrist, Mark
name: Strain, William David
name: Fraser, Donald
name: Shore, Angela
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-2-ptd-10.1177_08968608211047332 for An exploratory study of the relationship between systemic microcirculatory function and small solute transport in incident peritoneal dialysis patients by Jennifer Williams, Mark Gilchrist, William David Strain, Donald Fraser and Angela Shore in Peritoneal Dialysis International
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211044593 - Supplemental material for Respiratory syncytial virus infection in children and its correlation with climatic and environmental factors
Creators: name: Zhi, Wanying
name: Xu, Qiuyan
name: Chen, Zhengrong
name: Jiang, Wujun
name: Wang, Ting
name: Zhou, Yewen
name: Yu, Haifei
name: Yan, Yongdong
name: Pan, Tao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Health and Community Services
subject: Cardiology
subject: Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Emergency Medicine
subject: Endocrinology
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Sports Medicine
subject: Otorhinolaryngology
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Respiratory Diseases
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211044593 for Respiratory syncytial virus infection in children and its correlation with climatic and environmental factors by Wanying Zhi, Qiuyan Xu, Zhengrong Chen, Wujun Jiang, Ting Wang, Yewen Zhou, Haifei Yu, Yongdong Yan and Tao Pan in Journal of International Medical Research
Control Techniques for Optimal Management of Microgrids in the Presence of Uncertainty
Creators: name: ZANVETTOR, GIOVANNI GINO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Siena
Year: 2021

description: Recent years have witnessed an increasing adoption of renewables and electric vehicles (EVs) to overcome issues caused by carbon-fossil resources. In fact, renewable generation makes possible to produce clean energy without impact on the environment. On the other hand, EVs are capable of reducing gas emissions by fully exploiting these new resources. However, both of these technologies are an intrinsic source of uncertainty. Indeed, renewables represent uncontrollable and intermittent energy resources whose production strictly depends on meteorological conditions. Concerning EVs, their energy demand depends on several factors such as traffic conditions and user preferences. In this context, the concept of microgrid plays a key role, since it represents the simplest aggregation level of different components and players of the grid for optimal management and control of the electricity system in the presence of these uncertainties. Indeed, the development of optimization algorithms and novel power system protocols leads to a proper integration of EVs and renewables. In this setting, the aim of this thesis is to design novel control techniques for dealing with the uncertainty in microgrids. Two main aspects are considered. The first one is focused on providing solutions to overcome the uncertainty affecting EVs. The addressed problems are focused on reducing the daily peak power consumption, providing a competitive selling price and ensuring grid technical constraints. The second one is related to the optimal energy management of a smart building under environmental forecast uncertainty. In particular, the problem of cost-optimal operation of a centralized heating and air conditioning system is studied. Building participation in a Demand-Response program is also considered. Numerical simulations are provided to assess the performance and computational feasibility of the proposed solutions.
sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465211038712 – Supplemental material for Inconsistencies in Controlling for Risk Factors for Recurrent Shoulder Instability After Primary Arthroscopic Bankart Repair: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Trasolini, Nicholas A.
name: Dandu, Navya
name: Azua, Eric N.
name: Garrigues, Grant E.
name: Verma, Nikhil N.
name: Yanke, Adam B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465211038712 for Inconsistencies in Controlling for Risk Factors for Recurrent Shoulder Instability After Primary Arthroscopic Bankart Repair: A Systematic Review by Nicholas A. Trasolini, Navya Dandu, Eric N. Azua, Grant E. Garrigues, Nikhil N. Verma and Adam B. Yanke in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
Additional file 1 of Activated FGFR3 suppresses bone regeneration and bone mineralization in an ovariectomized mouse model
Creators: name: Kawashima, Itaru
name: Matsushita, Masaki
name: Mishima, Kenichi
name: Kamiya, Yasunari
name: Osawa, Yusuke
name: Ohkawara, Bisei
name: Ohno, Kinji
name: Kitoh, Hiroshi
name: Imagama, Shiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465211042310 – Supplemental material for An Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture Increases Levels of Urine N-terminal Cross-linked Telopeptide of Type I Collagen, Urine C-terminal Cross-linked Telopeptide of Type II Collagen, Serum Aggrecan ARGS Neoepitope, and Serum Tumor Necrosis Factor–α
Creators: name: Hagemans, Frans J.A.
name: Larsson, Staffan
name: Reijman, Max
name: Frobell, Richard B.
name: Struglics, Andre
name: Meuffels, Duncan E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465211042310 for An Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture Increases Levels of Urine N-terminal Cross-linked Telopeptide of Type I Collagen, Urine C-terminal Cross-linked Telopeptide of Type II Collagen, Serum Aggrecan ARGS Neoepitope, and Serum Tumor Necrosis Factor–α by Frans J.A. Hagemans, Staffan Larsson, Max Reijman, Richard B. Frobell, Andre Struglics and Duncan E. Meuffels in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
Additional file 1 of Pregnenolone and progesterone production from natural sterols using recombinant strain of Mycolicibacterium smegmatis mc2 155 expressing mammalian steroidogenesis system
Creators: name: Karpov, Mikhail
name: Strizhov, Nicolai
name: Novikova, Ludmila
name: Lobastova, Tatyana
name: Khomutov, Sergey
name: Shutov, Andrei
name: Kazantsev, Alexey
name: Donova, Marina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Additional Figures S1–S14.
Circular fertilizers for healthy soils
Creators: name: Pigoli, Ambrogio
name: Eva, Lopez Hernández
name: Gambuzzi, Elisa
name: Martín, Soriano Disla
name: Aiman, Anwar
name: Wim, Moerman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Since the 1950s, European agriculture has increased yields signifcantly thanks to synthetic fertilizers. The Haber-Bosch process and the industrial scale extraction and transformation of phosphate rock allowed the right amount of requested nutrients into the felds.Nowadays, when the agricultural yield has reached a maximum, the focus has moved to environmental sustainability, and maintaining high yields while decreasing the environmental impact. In this article, we present the scope and the first results of the FER-PLAY project: the 7 selected value chains to be submitte to environmenta, social and economic assessment.
Three essays on disequilibrium dynamics and the evolution of macroeconomics in the '50s and '60s
Creators: name: GALEOTTI, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Siena
Year: 2021

description: The work reappraises an extremely relevant debate in economic theory, as the current
state of the dominant theory in its Neo-Walrasian reformulation; especially, its incapability
to offer a proper discussion of disequilibrium dynamics. The candidate does so by critically
examining some of the contributions that, since the middle of the last century, allowed the
consolidation of this version of the theory, as the works of Clower (1965, 1969) and
Patinkin ([1956] 1965). Furthermore, through an exam of one of the most influential marginalist authors
of the XX century, such as J.R. Hicks, the work also contributes to clarifying the conditions
that allowed the marginalist theory in its traditional version (long-period version) to study
the working of real economies.
Atmospheric emissions profiles of geothermal energy production to minimise the environmental footprint: an innovative methodological investigation based on LCA approach
Creators: name: FERRARA, NICOLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Siena
Year: 2021

description: The fight against the climate change is the biggest challenge of the 21st century. The keyword in this context is ?decarbonisation?: the development and management of an economic system with low Greenhouses Gases emissions. In this thesis, the environmental assessment of power generation technologies exploiting a renewable and environmentally friendly energy source, namely the geothermal energy, is presented. To evaluate the advantages and hot-spots of implementing such technologies the Life Cycle Assessment method was employed as the most powerful analytical tool for environmental sustainability analysis with a life cycle approach.
With this method, it is possible to investigate a system with a multi-criteria approach, not limited to climate change only, but overarching a wide portfolio of environmental impact categories and indicators such as acidification, use of fresh water and depletion of natural resources.
A rigorous scientific analysis should always be based on high-quality and robust data. Therefore, the atmospheric emissions of all the geothermal plants currently operating in Italy were carefully collected and analysed. In addition to direct emissions information, an extensive work to build the complete Life Cycle inventory of a state-of-the-art geothermal power plant.
From the methodological point of view, the application of the Life Cycle Assessment to geothermal power plants allowed to point out a critical aspect method itself. To this purpose, special relevance in this work is given to the results related to the toxicity issue because they are the ones that attract the most public opinion and at the same time are more uncertain and unreliable.
To improve the dissemination of LCA results and the diffusion of correct information, an essential step could be the implementation of methodological advances that facilitate the use LCA. In this work the development of simplified LCA models is presented and discussed in terms of the support that can provide both for decision-makers in their function, but also for experienced LCA practitioners.
TUM Research Data Hub: A new service structure for generic and project-specific RDM with Data Stewards
Creators: name: Thielen, Sonja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In 2023, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) established the TUM Research Data Hub as a central entity for all institutional research data management (RDM) services. The University Library (UB) operates the hub in cooperation with the cross-faculty Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI) to offer practical, tailored solutions for sustainable RDM. These include not only institutional RDM services but also a pool of Data Stewards responsible for RDM in large-scale projects.To our knowledge, this innovative staffing concept is new and unique in the German university landscape. It creates new personnel resources within the University Library: Data Steward positions approved within the framework of third-party-funded large projects are supplemented by central funds from TUM. Data Stewards hired for these positions are organizationally assigned either to the UB or the MDSI and are integrated into research projects after training.In these projects, Data Stewards implement RDM for and with project members while also addressing the general RDM needs of TUM. The organizational affiliation with the Hub promotes the exchange of experiences and results from the projects as well as collegial support in developing project-related or generic RDM solutions. This generates synergy effects, makes insights centrally available to all, and provides resources for university-wide RDM support coordinated by the Hub beyond project-specific requirements. The poster depicts the structure of the TUM Research Data Hub and its integration within the Technical University of Munich. It describes the staffing concept of the Data Stewards located within the Hub, the service portfolio, and initial experiences with this new service structure.
sj-docx-2-hss-10.1177_15563316211041613 – Supplemental material for 21st Century Cures Act, an Information Technology-Led Organizational Initiativee
Creators: name: Magid, Steven K.
name: Cohen, Karen
name: Katzovitz, Larry S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-hss-10.1177_15563316211041613 for 21st Century Cures Act, an Information Technology-Led Organizational Initiative by Steven K. Magid, Karen Cohen and Larry S. Katzovitz in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
A POPULATION IGNORED: FOSTER PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF GIFTEDNESS AND ITS ROLE IN THE EXPERIENCES OF YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE
Creators: name: Cress, Alissa P
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified
Educational psychology
Social work not elsewhere classified

description: In this dissertation, I sought to understand foster parents’ perceptions of giftedness, how foster children’s strengths, gifts, and talents affect their experiences and those of their foster parents, and what resources and information foster parents have for supporting their foster children’s education and gifts. To understand these beliefs, I analyzed quantitative and qualitative survey data from 53 foster parents throughout the United States and analyzed interviews from 14 of those foster parents. Most foster parents surveyed perceived their foster children as a little or very different academically and in other ways than their peers not in foster care, and perceived they had different educational experiences than their peers, largely attributed to their lived experiences prior to entering and during foster care. Most participants felt their foster children’s abilities, strengths, and talents affected foster parents a little or very much. Interviewed and surveyed foster parents defined giftedness as including the following attributes: academic achievement, natural ability or innate talent, intelligence, domain-specific capabilities, performance or skills above average for their age or above their peers, unique approaches to learning, and motivation for learning. Interviewees also addressed non-academic forms of giftedness, socioemotional characteristics of children with gifts and talents, and noted that these students may have some difficulties in school. Foster parents explained the adaptations they have made to their parenting because of their foster children’s strengths, talents, and abilities, and highlighted the unique life experiences of foster children, which were not only hinderances but also could help them succeed academically and in life. Participants also expressed why they think foster children are not identified for gifted education programming. Foster parents had many needs related to their foster children’s education and strengths, talents, and abilities. They made recommendations to those who train new foster parents and provide ongoing training to current foster parents; to schools and teachers of foster children; and to new foster parents about how to best meet the needs of foster children and encourage their gifts and talents.
sj-docx-1-cvd-10.1177_20480040211047742 - Supplemental material for Reduced physical activity and weight gain are associated with an increase of depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. A general practitioners’ prospective observational study
Creators: name: Wernhart, Simon
name: Weihe, Eberhard
name: Rassaf, Tienush
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cvd-10.1177_20480040211047742 for Reduced physical activity and weight gain are associated with an increase of depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. A general practitioners’ prospective observational study by Simon Wernhart, Eberhard Weihe and Tienush Rassaf in JRSM Cardiovascular Disease
Mappe media citt�. Territorializzazioni e orizzonti di progetto nell'epoca dei Big Data
Creators: name: CENTANARO, CHIARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: La ricerca identifica la relazione tra nuovi sistemi di comunicazione e strategie di progetto analizzando le implicazioni per la pratica
progettuale attraverso le diverse categorie di controllo dei dispositivi spaziali che oggi vengono utilizzati per la mappatura dei
territori. L?attenzione � rivolta alla mappatura dei luoghi soggetti a fenomeni emergenziali come terremoti e alluvioni.
L?oggetto della ricerca sono quindi le citt� mutevoli: sistemi colpiti da fenomeni calamitosi, come dissesto causato dall?attivit� fluviale
e torrentizia, che hanno caratteristiche estremamente variabili e danno luogo a processi complessi, i cui parametri non sempre
risultano facilmente individuabili.
L?analisi dell?evoluzione spazio-temporale degli eventi e dei loro effetti, pu� essere studiata attraverso l?utilizzo di un sistema informativo integrato che riconsideri le forme di mappatura e di analisi del territorio e che riporti l?esperienza umana degli eventi, la simbolizzazione dei luoghi e la leggibilit� del territorio, fruibile non solo da parte degli specialisti ma anche dei cittadini. Una redazione cartografica real-time, che permetta un legame
stretto tra le tecnologie satellitari di monitoraggio e la condivisione di esperienze dei luoghi abitati attraverso i nuovi mezzi di comunicazione, apre ai cittadini la possibilit� di partecipare alla redazione della cartografia di progetto.
Promoting motivational needs to improve academic engagement in the primary
      classroom: using homework completion rates to measure the efficacy of
      classroom behaviour management strategies
Creators: name: Storti, Dawn
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2018

description: Engaging primary aged children in academic tasks beyond the school gates
      is an age-old problem for many teachers and ubiquitous across many school
      settings. While the process can be felt as intrusive in the home
      environment (Edwards and Warin 1999) the benefits have been associated
      with more than subject specific academic achievement. Homework can develop
      fundamental learning behaviours (Bempechat 2004) which include the
      encouragement of independent learning, intrinsic engagement and life-long
      learning skills which can improve academic achievement in secondary school
      and beyond. However, around a third of children were found to regularly
      not complete homework tasks at primary school (Cooper et al 1998) which
      may disadvantage these pupils and harm their life choices when they are
      older.

      Homework is an integral part of the UK primary curriculum but its
      completion involves a complex list of motivational factors which can be
      influenced by rewards and punishments in the classroom. This project
      explored the efficacy of some common rewards systems, using homework
      completion rates as the measuring instrument. The project focuses on the
      impact of ClassDojo, a popular internet-based program, as a classroom
      behaviour management tool that incorporates homework completion as an
      important requirement of the pupils’ practice. The system’s efficacy is
      compared in two ways. The study was done over two school terms and
      involved twin classes (a Comparison and a focus class). In term one both
      classes were treated the same, following the school policy of using a Zone
      Board for behaviour management and house points to reward classwork and
      homework completion. In term two the Focus class used ClassDojo to reward
      all of these while the Comparison class continued as in term one.

      The findings suggest that when a classroom behaviour management system
      incorporates homework, school work and classroom behaviour within the same
      reward structure, while consistently supporting the motivational factors
      important for intrinsic engagement and pupil self-worth, homework turn-in
      rates can be improved within a few weeks. ClassDojo in itself was not
      found to be the motivationally pertinent factor but the way it was used to
      address and support all pupil learning and behaviour that influenced the
      children’s homework completion rates and classroom academic engagement.
      Alternative behaviour management systems could be equally effective if
      they address the needs identified in the motivational model and support
      intrinsic motivational engagement.
Additional file 1 of RISEinFAMILY project: the integration of families at neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to empower them as primary caregivers: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster controlled trial
Creators: name: Alferink, M. T.
name: Moreno-Sanz, B.
name: Cabrera-Lafuente, M.
name: Ergenekon, E.
name: de Haan, T. R.
name: van Kempen, A. A. M. W.
name: Lakhwani, J.
name: Rabe, H.
name: Zaharie, G. C.
name: Pellicer, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
ADVANCEMENTS IN CHRONIC BACK PAIN MANAGEMENT AND PHYSIOTHERAPY
Creators: name: Fatmah Saeed Baqar, Mouhab Rafiq Jamalaldeen, Saud Rajis Aloqayli, Abdulaziz Sharif Adam, Ayman Mohammed Aljehani, Madinh Ahmed Alasiri, Abdulaziz Abdullah Almousa, Maryam Ali Aqdi, Fateh Ammar Kayali, Shatha Ibrahim Alfrasani, Bayan Ibrahim Al Khalaf, Halah Hashem Alnasser, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, Ahmed Nabil Mohamed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Background: The term LBP, which stands for low back pain, describes a well-known and intricate condition. It has multiple diagnoses, causes, and treatments. Accurate assessment and treatment selection are vital for each patient. This issue discusses key topics such as differentiating chronic from acute LBP, therapy connections, psychological factors, and the impact of body weight on LBP, especially in youth. Managing chronic pain in physical therapy and rehabilitation requires specialized expertise.

Objective overview of the types, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of Back Pain.

Methods: a comprehensive review of Back Pain and therapy. The PUBMED and Google Scholar search engines were the main databases used for the search process, with articles collected from 1999 to 2024.

Conclusion: the multifaceted management of chronic low back pain (CLBP) has evolved into a sophisticated, patient-centered approach that combines traditional treatments, advanced surgical techniques, minimally invasive procedures, physiotherapy, and personalized care. This comprehensive framework addresses not only the physical aspects of pain but also the significant psychological and social dimensions that exacerbate CLBP. Conventional methods like NSAIDs, physical therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy remain foundational, while innovations such as Spinal Cord Stimulation, regenerative therapies, and the Intercept Procedure provide targeted relief for those unresponsive to standard treatments. Physiotherapy interventions, including supervised exercises, hydrotherapy, and manual therapies, enhance mobility and self-management, empowering patients to take an active role in their recovery. The rise of personalized care further enables customized treatment plans tailored to individual needs, supported by digital tools and patient-specific devices that foster effective, long-term management. Together, these integrative approaches underscore the importance of adapting treatment to the complex nature of CLBP, ultimately enhancing the quality of life for those affected and pointing toward a more accessible, effective, and patient-centered future in chronic pain management.

Keywords: low back pain, Classification, Clinical Presentation, Management, Physiotherapy.
title: Investigating Temporal and Melodic Aspects of Musical Imagery
Creators: name: Jakubowski, Kelly Joan
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Music psychology, musical imagery, earworms, tempo

description: Musical imagery, the mental replay of music in the absence of a perceived stimulus, is a common experience in the everyday lives of both musicians and non-musicians. The present research investigated aspects of the temporal and melodic content of musical imagery in an attempt to better understand factors underlying the genesis, stability, and potential functions of imagined music. Specifically, this research explored how factors such as one’s current state of mood and arousal, level of musical experience, self-reported imagery abilities, and the musical properties of a song itself can influence the generation and stability of a musical image. The first three studies of the thesis were conducted in a laboratory context, in which participants deliberately imagined familiar tunes. The second two studies extended existing quantitative methods to examine the experience of involuntary musical imagery—music that is recalled spontaneously and repetitively within the mind—in more naturalistic contexts. The findings of the research have revealed that factors known to affect time perception, such as physiological arousal, can affect tempo representations within both voluntarily and involuntary musical imagery. The recall of tempo for imagined songs that exist in definitive versions was found to be fairly veridical in both voluntary and involuntary imagery, although temporal veridicality was also influenced by motor engagement with the imagery, a participant’s musical background, and the original tempo of a song stimulus itself. Additionally, the occurrence of an involuntarily generated musical image was predicted by both extra-musical factors, such as song popularity, as well as intra-musical features related to a song’s melodic contour and tempo. The results of this research suggest several parallels between voluntarily and involuntarily generated musical imagery and contribute a variety of novel findings regarding features underlying the genesis and possible functions of musical imagery.
PHAST Library - A Productive Solution to Program Heterogeneity
Creators: name: PECCERILLO, BIAGIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Siena
Year: 2020

description: Oggigiorno, le architetture parallele sono ovunque: computer desktop, dispositivi mobile, workstation ad alte prestazioni e server sono solo alcuni esempi. Oltre ai classici multi-core, anche GPU, FPGA, TPU e altri dispositivi vengono utilizzati in un ampio spettro di applicazioni. In questa era post-PC, i programmatori devono necessariamente sfruttare l'eterogeneit� per utilizzare pienamente l'hardware e raggiungere prestazioni senza precedenti.
Scrivere codice eterogeneo pu� essere difficile: ogni dispositivo pu� avere i suoi linguaggi, i suoi framework e i suoi stili di programmazione. Pertanto, per essere produttivi, bisognerebbe preferire degli approcci eterogenei che consentano la scrittura di codice una volta sola. Questi approcci devono fornire come minimo la portabilit� del codice tra dispositivi, ma anche la portabilit� delle prestazioni, cos� da ridurre la necessit� di programmare e ottimizzare diverse architetture in maniera specifica. Nonostante l'ampia diffusione di dispositivi eterogenei, tali framework sono ancora di l� da venire.
Questa tesi di Dottorato presenta il mio contributo alla programmazione parallela ed eterogenea. In una prima parte viene discusso approfonditamente lo stato dell'arte dell'ambito di appartenenza. In seguito viene presentato un framework che mira a porsi come punto di riferimento, tentando di conciliare i punti forti delle diverse soluzioni concorrenti, limitandone le debolezze.
Questo framework, dal nome PHAST Library, � una libreria di programmazione single-source in C++ moderno che fornisce produttivit� e portabilit� di codice e prestazioni tra dispositivi paralleli. In questo lavoro si discutono le caratteristiche in maniera approfondita e se ne valuta il valore tramite confronto con altri framework eterogenei ad alto livello di astrazione, sia da un punto di vista prestazionale che di produttivit�. Dal confronto, che annovera esempi semplici e applicazioni reali, emerge che il framework � maturo. Inoltre, PHAST Library rappresenta un miglioramento misurabile dello stato dell'arte e perci� pu� essere utilizzato per lo sviluppo di applicazioni parallele ed eterogenee in maniera produttiva e portabile. La tesi si conclude con la discussione delle sue possibili evoluzioni.
Additional file 2 of RISEinFAMILY project: the integration of families at neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to empower them as primary caregivers: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster controlled trial
Creators: name: Alferink, M. T.
name: Moreno-Sanz, B.
name: Cabrera-Lafuente, M.
name: Ergenekon, E.
name: de Haan, T. R.
name: van Kempen, A. A. M. W.
name: Lakhwani, J.
name: Rabe, H.
name: Zaharie, G. C.
name: Pellicer, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
title: Indifference. Art, Liberalism and the Politics of Place
Creators: name: Ferguson, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Site specific art, Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Place, Indifference

description: Against a backdrop of territorial expansion, land enclosure and laissez-faire economic policy in eighteenth-century England, a mode of perception was imagined that would disrupt conventional acts of looking which, to the critical mind, were linked to an economy of selfhood. There emerged a theory of a gaze that might resist tendencies to private authority, as well as the absolutism of public power. The gaze would, with time, come to be identified with artistic vision and is here labelled indifference.

This thesis seeks to characterise indifference, to use it as an optic onto liberal orthodoxies, and to evaluate its capability as a disruptor of neoliberal ideology. Selected for analysis is liberalism’s valorisation of place, to which twenty-first century cultural production has contributed. Through case studies of contemporary art, it is shown that artworks produced in order to cultivate a sense of place in the name of social welfare and a crowded public sphere may not in practice serve such ends. Rather, they threaten to reinforce hierarchies already operative in the concept of place. If they do so, their instigators are arguably complicit in the very inequalities that they propose to eliminate.

The thesis examines the disruptive potential of the artist’s indifference through an analysis of artworks by Robert Smithson and Thomas Hirschhorn. Both these artists, albeit in different ways, claim indifference to site, thereby promising to negate the authority of a body politic that is sustained by place production. However, in the case of Hirschhorn, whose public commission in Holland, 2009, serves as a case study, the promise is undermined by the fact that his indifference coincided with the interests of his corporate and state backers. Consequently, his art functioned not to sublimate selfhood in the interests of the polis, but to facilitate the liberty of corporations and the Dutch state.
DEM Parameter Calibration Methodology for Cohesive Powders Using A Ring Shear Tester
Creators: name: Sankhe, Prathamesh Nilesh
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Discrete element method (DEM) modeling is a common way to model particulate systems and processes. Since the number of particles in most pharmaceutical processes is incredibly large, modeling these substantial magnitudes of particles individually using DEM is not computationally reasonable. To simplify the DEM modeling, agglomerates or groups of particles are modeled instead. This change creates a disconnect between the real particle parameter values and the simulated particle parameter values. Thus, efficient and accurate calibration is needed for effective modeling. The methodology proposed in this thesis utilized a single commonly used bulk flowability measurement device, an annular shear cell, to calibrate for these DEM parameters with the help of dimensional analysis, design of experiments, and statistical tools. Three bulk responses were studied from the ring shear cell: the incipient yield internal friction angle, the critical state internal friction angle, and the bulk cohesion. The most important DEM parameters were isolated and subjected to a dimensional analysis to increase the generality of the results. A modified full-factorial study was then set up using the identified dimensionless parameters. The final calibration results were then validated using an independent flow through an orifice test using a FlodexTM. This thesis demonstrates this proposed calibration methodology using three different powder samples, lactose, (hydroxypropyl) methyl cellulose (HPMC), and ABT-089. Using the DEM simulation results and the experimental measurements, predictive models were created for all three powder samples. For HPMC, the calibration errors were large while using spherical particles, so a non-spherical particle shape was introduced using the glued-sphere model in DEM. The calibration process was repeated with simulated non-spherical particles with an aspect ratio of two to create a new model for HPMC. The overall calibration procedure and the three models, when validated with the Flodex simulations and measurements, successfully predicted the Flodex results within one Flowability index range for all three powder samples. This demonstrates that this methodology can be used to successfully calibrate various DEM simulation parameters.
title: Whose Pictures Are These? Re-framing the promise of participatory photography
Creators: name: Fairey, Tiffany
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: visual sociology, photography, participatory methods, visual studies, participatory visual methods, participatory photography, NGOs

description: Participatory photography initiatives promise to ‘empower’, ‘give voice’ and ‘enable social change’ for marginalised communities through photography. This thesis questions this promise, demonstrating participatory photography to be a contested practice defined as much by inherent tension, ethical complexity and its limitations as by its potential. Caught up in governmental practices and instrumental discourses, ‘NGO-ised’ participatory photography has lost its purpose and politics. Using multiple case-studies and presenting empirical research on TAFOS, a pioneering Peruvian participatory photography project, this thesis explores under examined areas of participatory photography practice, including its governmentality, spectatorship and long term impact on participants. It establishes the effectiveness of photography as a tool for fomenting an enduring critical consciousness (Freire 1970, 1973) while questioning the romantic narrative of participatory photography’s inherently empowering qualities and capacity to enable change. Pluralism is used as a theoretical and conceptual framework for re-framing the promise of participatory photography. It is argued that a pluralized notion of participatory photography highlights the paradoxical, uncertain and negotiated character of the practice. It re-conceptualises the method as a mode of mediation that enables a plurality of seeing, that supports emerging and unrecognized claims and that cultivates a critical engagement with difference; qualities that are vital to democratic pluralism. The notion of a ‘Photography of Becoming’ re-imagines the critical and political character of participatory photography and the complex and vulnerable politics of voice in which it is immersed.