cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tra blog, Twitter e social network
Creators: name: Bruni, Filippo
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Quali sono gli scenari possibili per i blog didattici? I social network in generale e servizi di microblogging più in particolare costituiscono una radicale alternativa o sono pensabili processi di integrazione? Il tentativo di individuare similitudini e differenze tra blog e social network/microblogging apre la prospettiva di una valorizzazione del microblogging per le attività di formazione in una logica di integrazione con altri strumenti.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 11 No. 75 (2011)
Bombus terrestris
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus terrestris

description: Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)
VII.1999, 429; IV. 2003, 22♀; V.2003, 79; VI.2003, 49; VII.2003, 19; VIII.2003, 109; IX.2003, 29.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Generation of heralded entanglement between distant hole spins
Creators: name: Delteil, Aymeric
name: Zhe, Sun
name: Gao, Wei-bo
name: Togan, Emre
name: Faelt, Stefan
name: Imamoglu, Atac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement emerges naturally in interacting quantum systems and plays a central role in quantum information processing. Remarkably, it is possible to generate entanglement even in the absence of direct interactions: provided that which path information is erased, weak spin-state dependent light scattering can be used to project two distant spins onto a maximally entangled state upon detection of a single photon. Even though this approach is necessarily probabilistic, successful generation of entanglement is heralded by the photon detection event. Here, we demonstrate heralded quantum entanglement of two quantum dot heavy-hole spins separated by 5 meters using single-photon interference. Thanks to the long coherence time of hole spins and the efficient spin-photon interface provided by self-assembled quantum dots embedded in leaky microcavity structures, we generate 2300 entangled spin pairs per second, which represents an improvement approaching three orders of magnitude as compared to prior experiments. Delayed two-photon interference scheme we developed allows for efficient verification of quantum correlations. Our results lay the groundwork for the realization of quantum networks in semiconductor nanostructures. Combined with schemes for transferring quantum information to a long-lived memory qubit, fast entanglement generation we demonstrate could also impact quantum repeater architectures.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
title: Palm Readings
Creators: name: Aponte, Maru
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plein air painting
subject: Watercolor painting
subject: Colour
subject: Climate change
subject: Landscape painting

description: This thesis document titled Palm Readings is informed by entangled topics that take up plein air painting, watercolour as a primary medium and the relationship of colour to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. The specific questions that I address in the work are: How can plein air painting in the Caribbean function as a form of deep acknowledgement of place? What is the potential of watercolour as a contemporary artistic medium? How can colour represent the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico and its culture? Each chapter of this thesis addresses these questions and is anchored by different visual examples of my Thesis Project. My research questions are informed predominately by visual research, observation and thinking through doing. While I do integrate various citations in this text, I am inspired predominantly by the physicality of experiential learning. My research occurs in the action of painting and what comes up in the process.
Quale valore per la scuola nell’esperienza di WiRoni?
Creators: name: Menichetti, Laura
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: La scuola moderna si è appropriata da sempre della tecnologia della scrittura su carta. I nuovi media digitali nati nel XX secolo, invece, sono stati accolti talvolta disattendendone le potenzialità, talvolta concentrandosi soltanto su aspetti tecnologici, spesso inserendoli in rigide architetture precostituite. WiRoni, e in particolare WiFiabe, intendono cogliere due opportunità rilevanti: le nuove pratiche sociali connesse all’interazione diretta offerta dai più recenti dispositivi digitali, infatti, da una parte abilitano un più stretto rapporto con l’extrascuola, l’incontro con la net generation, la valorizzazione delle esperienze pregresse dei discenti e, dall’altra, realizzano tool per una rappresentazione attiva della conoscenza, per la creazione di nuovi schemi conoscitivi, per una cooperazione interpersonale a più livelli. WiRoni è un esempio di esperienza progettata e sviluppata contemporaneamente all’interno e all’esterno di un ambiente formativo istituzionale: le funzionalità primitive di strumenti digitali e le potenzialità di artefatti pubblici sono state trascese per dare vita a una nuova modalità collaborativa con la quale bambini e ragazzi si sono fatti autori di nuove produzioni.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 12 No. 77 (2012)
Detection and clearing of trapped ions in the high current Cornell photoinjector
Creators: name: Full, Steven
name: Bartnik, Adam
name: Bazarov, Ivan
name: Dobbins, John
name: Dunham, Bruce
name: Hoffstaetter, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently performed experiments to test the effectiveness of three ion-clearing strategies in the Cornell high intensity photoinjector: DC clearing electrodes, bunch gaps, and beam shaking. The photoinjector reaches a new regime of linac beam parameters where high CW beam currents lead to ion trapping. Therefore ion mitigation strategies must be evaluated for this machine and other similar future high current linacs. We have developed several techniques to directly measure the residual trapped ions. Our two primary indicators of successful clearing are the amount of ion current removed by a DC clearing electrode, and the absence of bremsstrahlung radiation generated by beam-ion interactions. Measurements were taken for an electron beam with an energy of 5 MeV and CW beam currents in the range of 1-20 mA. Several theoretical models have been developed to explain our data. Using them, we are able to estimate the clearing electrode voltage required for maximum ion clearing, the creation and clearing rates of the ions while employing bunch gaps, and the sinusoidal shaking frequency necessary for clearing via beam shaking. In all cases, we achieve a maximum ion clearing of at least 70 percent or higher, and in some cases our data is consistent with full ion clearing.
rCRUX Generated Leray CO1-searchterm Reference Database
Creators: name: Curd, Emily
name: Gold, Zachary
name: Gal, Luna
name: Gallego, Ramon
name: Nielsen, Shaun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: environmental DNA
metabarcoding
rCRUX

description: rCRUX generated reference database using NCBI mitochondrial and nt blast databases downloaded in December 2022, and a CO1 search term database generated by downloading all hits to the searchterm “cytochrome c oxidase 1” with a length of 500 - 20k bp (available September 14, 2023) . Primer Name: Leray CO1
 Gene: CO1
 Length of Target: ~313
 get_seeds_local() minimum length: 140
 get_seeds_local() maximum length: 500
 blast_seeds() minimum length: 200
 blast_seeds() maximum length: 450
 max_to_blast: 100
 Forward Sequence (5'-3'): GGWACWGGWTGAACWGTWTAYCCYCC
 Reverse Sequence (5'-3'): TANACYTCnGGRTGNCCRAARAAYCA
 Reference: Leray, M., Yang, J. Y., Meyer, C. P., Mills, S. C., Agudelo, N., Ranwez, V., ... & Machida, R. J. (2013). A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents. Frontiers in zoology, 10(1), 34. We chose default rCRUX parameters for get_seeds_local() of percent coverage of 70, percent identity of 70, evalue 3e+7, and max number of blast alignments = '100000000' and for blast_seeds() of coverage of 70, percent identity of 70, evalue 3e+7, rank of genus, and max number of blast alignments = '10000000'.
 We used a blast formatted CO1 search term database for get_seeds_local() and the NCBI mitochondrial and nt blast database for blast_seeds().
WiFiabe: un’esperienza di storytelling dal territorio al web 2.0
Creators: name: Carnesecchi, Marco
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: L’impatto iniziale di WiRoni sulla popolazione di Monteroni d’Arbia (Siena) è stato limitato alla fruizione dei contenuti caricati dal team di design, in particolare le storie per i bambini. Mancavano infatti brani audio prodotti dalla comunità locale. In realtà, però, la competenza tecnica necessaria a trasmettere i contenuti nel parco e in rete è minima (upload da CMS wordpress) e anche le tecnologie per registrare e arricchire l’audio con effetti sonori sono alla portata di tutti, se opportunamente guidati da esperti. Da queste osservazioni è nato il progetto WiFiabe. Nel corso dell’anno scolastico 2010/2011 20 bambini tra 6 e 13 anni, coordinati da un’educatrice durante l’attività di doposcuola del Comune, hanno lavorato in gruppi e creato storie di fantasia. In seguito, alcuni studenti dell’Università di Siena, con l’aiuto di un musicista per la parte degli effetti sonori, hanno assistito i ragazzi nel diventare autori digitali e apprendere in prima persona come trasformare le loro storie in contenuti audio. In questo modo i partecipanti hanno interagito con il web non in quanto fruitori ma come autori, e messo in moto un processo per rendere WiRoni uno strumento per dare voce alle varie anime della comunità.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 12 No. 77 (2012)
COST Action SAGA_Newsletter 3
Creators: name: Kukela, Agnese
name: Cuenca-Garcia, Carmen
name: D'Amico, Sebastiano
name: De Smedt, Philippe
name: Horak, Jan
name: Spassov, Simo
name: Solla, Mercedes
name: Aidona, Elina
name: Mezgeen Rasol
name: Sarris, Apostolos
name: Kiersnowski, Krzysztof
name: Grison, Hana
name: Ivanovic, Radomir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: COST Action SAGA
CA17131
archaeogeophysics

description: Dear reader,
 It is my pleasure to offer to your attention SAGA’s third and final newsletter. As per usual, we are giving an update on the Working Groups’ activities, supported Short Term Scientific Missions and Virtual Networking. Traditionally, the Chairman of our Action gives a brief introduction to the main results of SAGA and highlights some of the future plans for our network. Two members of SAGA’s team from Spain and France are revealing their thoughts and experience on being a researcher that you might find interesting and exciting. In this newsletter you will also find an introduction and a brief description of SAGA’s Database that is now open to the public.
 For more than four years SAGA’s multidisciplinary international scientific team has worked on numerous outputs of the Action, such as training schools, publications, meetings and many more. We are
 happy and proud to mark the end of SAGA COST Action and welcome a united network of scientists who are willing and ready to continue further cooperation.
 Have a pleasant read!
Bombus pratorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus pratorum

description: Bombus pratorum (Linnaeus, 1761):
VII.1999, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Global Public Health Leadership: Adaptation of the Maternal and Child Health Public Health Leadership Institute Curriculum for India
Creators: name: Bradford, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives: This study addresses the adaptation of the Maternal and Child Health Public Health Leadership Institute (MCH PHLI) curriculum in an international setting within the context of India. Methods: A qualitative study design was used consisting of an electronic survey, exploratory and semi-structured interviews with Indian MCH professionals. Field notes were manually coded to look for emerging themes and topics related to the study objectives. Results: Analysis revealed four emerged themes: leadership attributes; perceived need for MCH leadership training; culturally relevant leadership competencies; and perceived barriers to MCH PHLI adaptation. Conclusions: There is a perceived need for MCH leadership training in India. The MCH PHLI curriculum will need to be adapted to address program and cultural barriers identified in study analysis. Keywords: Leadership, India, workforce development, maternal and child health
Machine Learning Based Auto-tuning for Enhanced OpenCL Performance Portability
Creators: name: Falch, Thomas L.
name: Elster, Anne C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Heterogeneous computing, which combines devices with different architectures, is rising in popularity, and promises increased performance combined with reduced energy consumption. OpenCL has been proposed as a standard for programing such systems, and offers functional portability. It does, however, suffer from poor performance portability, code tuned for one device must be re-tuned to achieve good performance on another device. In this paper, we use machine learning-based auto-tuning to address this problem. Benchmarks are run on a random subset of the entire tuning parameter configuration space, and the results are used to build an artificial neural network based model. The model can then be used to find interesting parts of the parameter space for further search. We evaluate our method with different benchmarks, on several devices, including an Intel i7 3770 CPU, an Nvidia K40 GPU and an AMD Radeon HD 7970 GPU. Our model achieves a mean relative error as low as 6.1%, and is able to find configurations as little as 1.3% worse than the global minimum.
description: This is a pre-print version an article to be published in the Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW). For personal use only
Cosa sappiamo circa l’efficacia della LIM nel contesto scolastico?
Creators: name: Salvadori, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Il presente contributo si sofferma sulle evidenze relative all’efficacia della lavagna interattiva multimediale nel contesto didattico, allo scopo di individuare potenzialità e rischi connessi al suo impiego. La letteratura internazionale presa in considerazione mostra una serie di affordances comprovanti una sostanziale utilità della LIM nell’insegnamento e apprendimento con esempi di esperienze didatticamente valide, in modo particolare per la lingua straniera inglese. Tuttavia, questi studi sono stati di tipo prevalentemente qualitativo e non sono emerse prove a dimostrare con certezza il raggiungimento di obiettivi formativi mediante l’uso delle LIM. In sostanza non si può affermare che gli apprendimenti realizzati con questi strumenti tecnologici siano migliori e più duraturi rispetto a esperienze condotte in modo tradizionale. Gli effetti positivi, quando rilevati, derivano più da un’aneddotica descrizione generica di benefici riportata da insegnanti e studenti che da ricerche basate su evidenze scientificamente fondate. Studi di tipo quantitativo e meta-analisi, per valutare gli effetti prodotti nell’apprendimento e individuare cosa funzioni in ambito educativo, rilevano dei limiti nell’impiego degli strumenti tecnologici in genere e non sono stati ancora ampiamente effettuati per le lavagne interattive multimediali.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 12 No. 78 (2012)
Nomada ferruginata
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada ferruginata

description: Nomada ferruginata (Linnaeus, 1767)
6.V.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Traditional Birth Attendants and How They Can Be Used Most Effectively
Creators: name: Sadighi, Naomi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In the poorest parts of the world, a woman's lifetime risk of dying from pregnancy or childbirth is approximately 1 in 160 vs 1 in 3700 in developing countries. Developing countries suffer from weak health systems and poor access to high quality medical care. While medical clinics and innovations have increased in rural areas, they may still remain inaccessible causing women to continue choosing traditional birth attendants (TBAs) at their births. Program managers have sought ways to improve TBA skill, while increasing use of medical centers by women who suffer birthing complications. This review attempts to shed light on controversy around traditional and modern medicine, while providing insight on how they may be combined to provide women the most efficient and affordable pregnancy, labor, and post partum care.
Acoustic signatures of the phases and phase transitions in Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Subhro
name: Erfanifam, S.
name: Green, E. L.
name: Naumann, M.
name: Wang, Zhaosheng
name: Granovski, S.
name: Doerr, M.
name: Wosnitza, J.
name: Zvyagin, A. A.
name: Moessner, R.
name: Maljuk, A.
name: Wurmehl, S.
name: Büchner, B.
name: Zherlitsyn, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on measurements of the sound velocity and attenuation in a single crystal of the candidate quantum- spin-ice material Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ as a function of temperature and magnetic field. The acoustic modes couple to the spins magneto-elastically and, hence, carry information about the spin correlations that sheds light on the intricate magnetic phase diagram of Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and the nature of spin dynamics in the material. Particularly, we find a pronounced thermal hysteresis in the acoustic data with a concomitant peak in the specific heat indicating a possible first-order phase transition at about $0.17$ K. At low temperatures, the acoustic response to magnetic field saturates hinting at the development of magnetic order. Furthermore, mean-field calculations suggest that Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ undergoes a first-order phase transition from a cooperative paramagnetic phase to a ferromagnet below $T\approx 0.17$ K.
description: 8 pages
The Fragmented Body and the Artwork of Berlinde De Bruyckere
Creators: name: Granziol-fornera, Manuela
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: This thesis examines, from an affective and art historical perspective, the sculptural practice of Berlinde De Bruyckere, positioning her fragmented figures in the context of contemporary art debates and exploring the role of the artist in changing the visual representation of the body fragment. De Bruyckere’s fragmented figures, often inspired by actual events and problems, reflect on art, as well as on what transcends it, in order to highlight deeper issues within humanity. Therefore, I argue that through the capacity of the body fragment, as a way of magnifying and drawing attention to the edge of the human condition, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s sculptures convey both the fluidity between the psychological inner life and the physical exteriority, as well as other existential concerns. By looking closely at De Bruyckere’s artwork from 2004-2013, this research shows how the viewers’ reception of the body fragments presented in De Bruyckere’s sculptures, is particularly related to an embodied form of perception, evoking a multitude of physical and emotional reactions. De Bruyckere’s representations of the body as vulnerable and fragmented, engage the spectator through abjection as well as through compassionate empathy, which in turn heightens intra-subjective awareness through affective knowledge. The investigation highlights the profound influence that feminist scholars and artists had in opening up the opportunities available to artists today. I will particularly focus upon feminism’s impact in shaping the representation and perception of the body, as well as the important, yet often forgotten, contribution of female artists in shaping contemporary art discourses through materiality.
La Lavagna Interattiva Multimediale a supporto degli studenti disabili e con DSA all’Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Creators: name: Guaraldi, Giacomo
name: Genovese, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Negli ultimi anni l’introduzione delle moderne tecnologie ha consentito agli studenti con disabilità di raggiungere un maggior grado di autonomia e ha favorito un mutamento nella didattica che è diventata sempre più una «didattica inclusiva», incentrata sui bisogni educativi speciali di tali soggetti e soprattutto sulle potenzialità nascoste in essi. I software per l’apprendimento, le sintesi vocali, le lavagne interattive multimediali (LIM), i netbook, i tablets, gli Ipad creano una «rete integrata» che permette, grazie a linguaggi diversi e multimodali, di accrescere l’autostima dei soggetti con disabilità e favorire la loro autonomia. La lavagna è uno strumento che stimola l’apprendimento, in quanto utilizza un linguaggio più vicino alla modalità comunicativa delle nuove generazioni, riducendo così la distanza docente e discente. Questo è tanto più importante nel caso di studenti con disabilità o con disturbo specifico dell’apprendimento: il disabile sensoriale può utilizzare la modalità comunicativa residua, il disabile motorio può «sfogliare» un testo, farselo leggere, prendere appunti, il ragazzo con DSA può usufruire della sintesi vocale per la lettura e/o per il supporto alla scrittura.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 12 No. 78 (2012)
title: Chasing the light
Creators: name: Landry, Marion
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Painting
subject: Light in art
subject: Perception
subject: Installations (Art)

description: The thesis titled Chasing the Light, delves into the experience of art through a phenomenological approach to painting. By examining the relationship between painting, embodied experiences, and the built environment, the artist incorporates the concept of the expanded field of painting into her practice, creating site-adjusted installations that utilize light, temperature, and traditional painting tactics to elicit an immersive experience. Through the progression of her research and artistic output, the thesis demonstrates how lighting conditions can shape the perception of an installation and lead to a haptic, retinal, temperature, and atmospheric shift in the viewer's experience. The goal is to understand the relationship between the viewer, the artwork, and the environment, and how this relationship can be used to create a more meaningful and impactful experience for the viewer.
Nomada flava Panzer 1798
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada flava

description: Nomada flava Panzer, 1798
6.V.2003, FSW2, 1J, FSWƽ, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
rCRUX Generated Leray CO1-combined Reference Database
Creators: name: Curd, Emily
name: Gold, Zachary
name: Gal, Luna
name: Gallego, Ramon
name: Nielsen, Shaun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: environmental DNA
metabarcoding
rCRUX
CO1

description: rCRUX generated by combining and de-replicating the following databases: Leray CO1-ncbi-mitochondrial (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8407603) Leray CO1-embl (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8407606) Leray CO1-searchterm (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8407620) Primer Name: Leray CO1
 Gene: CO1
 Length of Target: ~313
 Forward Sequence (5'-3'): GGWACWGGWTGAACWGTWTAYCCYCC
 Reverse Sequence (5'-3'): TANACYTCnGGRTGNCCRAARAAYCA
 Reference: Leray, M., Yang, J. Y., Meyer, C. P., Mills, S. C., Agudelo, N., Ranwez, V., ... & Machida, R. J. (2013). A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents. Frontiers in zoology, 10(1), 34.
title: Extraction of attenuation and backscattering coefficient along hollow core fiber length using two-way optical time domain backscattering
Creators: name: Wei, Xuhao
name: Numkam Fokoua, Eric
name: Poletti, Francesco
name: SlavÃ­k, Radan
Publisher: name: University of Southampton
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: fiber optics, characterization of hollow-core fiber, backscattering coefficient, distributed loss, Optical Time Domain Reflectometry

description: Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) is a key technique to characterize fabricated and installed optical fibers. It is also widely used for distributed sensing. OTDR of emerging hollow-core fibers (HCFs) has been demonstrated only very recently, being almost 30 dB weaker than in the glass-core optical fibers. However, it has been challenging to extract useful data from the OTDR traces of HCFs, as the longitudinal variation in the fiberâs geometry, notably the core size or the longitudinal variations of the air pressure within the core result in commensurate changes of the backscattering strength. This is, however, necessary for continuous improvement of HCFs fabrication and subsequently improvement in their performance such as minimum achievable loss, potentially enabling use of HCF in a significantly broader range of applications than used today. Here, we demonstrate, for the first time, that the distributed loss and backscattering coefficient in antiresonant HCFs can be separated, obtaining key data about the fiber distributed loss and uniformity. This is enabled by using OTDR traces obtained from both ends of the HCF.
Nomada flavoguttata
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada flavoguttata

description: Nomada flavoguttata (Kirby, 1802)
4.VI.2003, 3♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Nomada panzeri Lepeletier 1841
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada panzeri

description: Nomada panzeri Lepeletier, 1841
3.V.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Effetti della figura decorativa sulla comprensione
Creators: name: Paoletti, Gisella
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Talvolta la figura decorativa è solo tale ― non chiarisce o aggiunge contenuto, non guida l’elaborazione del testo. Anche così svolge spesso una funzione utile per i lettori light, alleggerendo la pagina, scandendola in segmenti significativi. Ma più spesso fornisce una chiave di interpretazione, suggerendo il tema del testo e così facendo attivando conoscenze precedenti utili per l’interpretazione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 12 No. 80 (2012)
Accordo sulla riforma della valutazione della ricerca
Creators: name: Mura, Francesca
name: Cicatiello, Clara
name: Gavioli, Laura
name: Roma, Elisa
name: Sganga, Caterina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Traduzione italiana dell'Accordo sulla riforma della valutazione della ricerca, ARRA

Italian translation of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, ARRA
Ashtekar-Barbero holonomy on the hyperboloid: Immirzi parameter as a Cut-off for Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Charles, Christoph
name: Livine, Etera R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of the geometrical interpretation of the spin network states of Loop Quantum Gravity, we look at the holonomies of the Ashtekar-Barbero connection on loops embedded in space-like hyperboloids. We use this simple setting to illustrate two points. First, the Ashtekar-Barbero connection is not a space-time connection, its holonomies depend on the spacetime embedding of the canonical hypersurface. This fact is usually interpreted as an inconvenience, but we use it to extract the extrinsic curvature from the holonomy and separate it from the 3d intrinsic curvature. Second, we show the limitations of this reconstruction procedure, due to a periodicity of the holonomy in the Immirzi parameter, which underlines the role of a real Immirzi parameter as a cut-off for general relativity at the quantum level in contrast with its role of a mere coupling constant at the classical level.
description: 8 pages
Gruppi di insegnanti in Facebook. Un’indagine esplorativa su una comunità professionale
Creators: name: Frumiento, Filippo
name: Ranieri, Maria
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Questo articolo si propone di sondare in via del tutto esplorativa il potenziale dei social network, in particolare Facebook, a supporto di processi formativi orientati allo sviluppo e all’aggiornamento professionale. Più specificamente, esso illustra i risultati di un’indagine quanti-qualitativa su un gruppo di insegnanti in Facebook, focalizzando l’attenzione su una comunità attiva da circa due anni e prendendo in esame la messaggistica prodotta nell’arco di un periodo di quattro settimane con l’obiettivo generale di comprendere le dinamiche socio-relazionali del gruppo e valutarne le eventuali implicazioni per il lifelong learning. Il lavoro si apre con una breve presentazione del contesto di riferimento e degli obiettivi della ricerca, accompagnati dalla descrizione dei metodi e delle procedure seguite. Vengono poi presentati e discussi i risultati, che seppur ancora molto limitati lasciano intravvedere piste di ricerca e ambiti applicativi interessanti.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2013): I social network nello sviluppo professionale
Andrena carantonica Perez 1902
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena carantonica

description: Andrena carantonica Pérez, 1902
6.V.2003, 1♀; 4.VI.2003, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Time optimal information transfer in spintronics networks
Creators: name: Langbein, Frank
name: Schirmer, Sophie
name: Jonckheere, Edmond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Propagation of information encoded in spin degrees of freedom through networks of coupled spins enables important applications in spintronics and quantum information processing. We study control of information propagation in networks of spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ particles with uniform nearest neighbour couplings forming a ring with a single excitation in the network as simple prototype of a router for spin-based information. Specifically optimising spatially distributed potentials, which remain constant during information transfer, simplifies the implementation of the routing scheme. However, the limited degrees of freedom makes finding a control that maximises the transfer probability in a short time difficult. We show that the structure of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors must fulfill a specific condition to be able to maximise the transfer fidelity, and demonstrate that a specific choice among the many potential structures that fulfill this condition significantly improves the solutions found by optimal control.
description: accepted for CDC 2015
Andrena chrysosceles
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena chrysosceles

description: Andrena chrysosceles (Kirby, 1802)
6.V.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Two sample inference for the second-order property of temporally dependent functional data
Creators: name: Zhang, Xianyang
name: Shao, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Motivated by the need to statistically quantify the difference between two spatio-temporal datasets that arise in climate downscaling studies, we propose new tests to detect the differences of the covariance operators and their associated characteristics of two functional time series. Our two sample tests are constructed on the basis of functional principal component analysis and self-normalization, the latter of which is a new studentization technique recently developed for the inference of a univariate time series. Compared to the existing tests, our SN-based tests allow for weak dependence within each sample and it is robust to the dependence between the two samples in the case of equal sample sizes. Asymptotic properties of the SN-based test statistics are derived under both the null and local alternatives. Through extensive simulations, our SN-based tests are shown to outperform existing alternatives in size and their powers are found to be respectable. The tests are then applied to the gridded climate model outputs and interpolated observations to detect the difference in their spatial dynamics.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/13-BEJ592 in the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Nicholas Carr, Internet ci rende stupidi? Come la rete sta cambiando il nostro cervello. Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore (2010)
Creators: name: Micheletta, Silvia
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2013): I social network nello sviluppo professionale
Andrena dorsata
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena dorsata

description: Andrena dorsata (Kirby, 1802)
6.V.2003, 1♀; 11.VIII.2003, 4♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Split identity implications: perception of identity and future orientation of Maronite Christian adolescents in Israel
Creators: name: EID, Jawdat
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2016
Subjects: Split identity
Minority
Maronites
Cristians in Israel
Adolecents identity
Israeli Christian Maronites

description: This research examines the identity perception of Maronite adolescents in Israel as part of the Israeli Palestinian Arab Christian community. The research was carried out between the years 2009-2011, involving 25 Maronite adolescents ranging from ages 16 – 18 years. Views on identity were also sought from the parents of this group. The research looks at the implications of their identity perception on their future orientation, career, place of residence, culture and heritage amidst the ongoing unstable social and political situation in the region. The research is inductive in nature and follows a non-positivist, qualitative, ethnographic approach, seeking depth in capturing and presenting the elusive nature of the “soft data” of the self-identity construct. The data were gathered and triangulated by a variety of methods: adolescents’ in-depth interview, parents’ semi–structured ethnographic interview, narrative text tools and a focus group. Findings revealed that the two leading components in the identity perception of the participants were the “Israeli Arab” national component, and the “Christian” religious component. Findings also indicated that the identity perception influences the choice of the participants’ careers; choosing from what was offered to them, rather than pursuing what they liked, and their place of residence having to deal with the limitations imposed on minorities regarding where they can, or cannot live. The participants expressed their need for leadership, religious or secular, to strengthen their involvement in the social and political agendas, educate the younger generation about their identity and heritage, offer a supportive and empowering framework for their ambitions and future plans and improve their socio-political presence among the other communities. The outcomes of this research contribute to a better understanding of the identity perception among Maronite adolescents and constitute a basis for understanding how they can be better supported as a minority group within a multi-cultural society in an unstable region. Further research is required to gain a deeper understanding of how the unstable periods influence belonging and identity issues among Christians in Israel and the Arab world, and to consider gender, socioeconomic and place of living variables.
Friends with benefits: the emergence of the Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp (ARA) polycentric port region
Creators: name: Van den Berghe, Karel
name: Peris, Antoine
name: Meijers, Evert
name: Jacobs, Wouter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper enacts a dialogue between planning literature on polycentric urban regions (PUR) and port geography literature on multi-port gateways. The main proposition is that polycentric systems are the emergent outcome of the interactions between three dimensions of polycentricity: morphological, functional and institutional. The focus is on the Dutch–Belgian Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp (ARA) port–industrial region: one of the world’s largest concentrations of oil refining and petrochemical activity. The central question is to what extent is the ARA region a polycentric system and what explains this observed polycentricity? Our analyses demonstrate a high degree of morphological and functional polycentricity with each of the constituent (firms located in) ports connected through flows and specialization in processing and trading oil (products). However, this is not the intended result of formalized spatial planning, nor did the ARA ever became a frame of reference among planning agencies. Rather, it is the result of self-organization in the oil industry that has culminated in the emergence of the ARA as an internationally recognized spot market, later institutionally formalized in delivery contracts (oil futures) traded on international commodity exchanges. We conclude that polycentric systems could be understood as emergent systems that obtained generative capacities, in turn influencing its different constituting dimensions.
Andrena fulva
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena fulva

description: Andrena fulva (Müller, 1776)
4.IV.2003, 3J; 6.V.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Voluntary regional cooperation in Swiss polycentric regions
Creators: name: Wittwer, Stefan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Science Policy

description: This paper extends the recent research on the increasing economic and political importance of small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) in polycentric urban regions (PURs). It does so by examining the kind of governance mechanisms Swiss SMSTs in PURs voluntarily engage in to partake in regional economic development and analyses macro-level data for all Swiss SMSTs and smaller cities to determine which political, economic and spatial factors explain polycentric cooperation. Combining concepts from political science, public administration and economic geography and taking the bottom-up perspective of SMSTs sheds a light on the question of how and why some SMSTs in PURs decide to cooperate while others do not. While recent research shows how SMSTs benefit from their proximity to each other, research on how and why they make use of this proximity is scarce. The paper offers new insights into the determinants of voluntary cooperation in regional economic development that are relevant for the appropriate planning of cooperation in fragmented PURs beyond the Swiss context. The findings support the theoretical arguments that the assessment of potential gains and division and information costs of a cooperation helps to explain voluntary cooperation with other SMSTs.
Andrena haemorrhoa
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena haemorrhoa

description: Andrena haemorrhoa (Fabricius, 1781)
4.IV.2003, 1J, 4♀; 6.V.2003, 21J, 7♀; 4.VI.2003, 1J, ƽ ♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 112, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Light atom quantum oscillations in UC and US
Creators: name: Yiu, Yuen
name: Aczel, A. A.
name: Granroth, G. E.
name: Abernathy, D. L.
name: Stone, M. B.
name: Buyers, W. J. L.
name: Lin, J. Y. Y.
name: Samolyuk, G. D.
name: Stocks, G. M.
name: Nagler, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High energy vibrational scattering in the binary systems UC and US is measured using time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering. A clear set of well-defined peaks equally separated in energy is observed in UC, corresponding to harmonic oscillations of the light C atoms in a cage of heavy U atoms. The scattering is much weaker in US and only a few oscillator peaks are visible. We show how the difference between the materials can be understood by considering the neutron scattering lengths and masses of the lighter atoms. Monte Carlo ray tracing is used to simulate the scattering, with near quantitative agreement with the data in UC, and some differences with US. The possibility of observing anharmonicity and anisotropy in the potentials of the light atoms is investigated in UC. Overall the observed data is well accounted for by considering each light atom as a single atom isotropic quantum harmonic oscillator.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Ten Kepler Eclipsing Binaries Containing the Third Components
Creators: name: Zasche, P.
name: Wolf, M.
name: Kucakova, H.
name: Vrastil, J.
name: Jurysek, J.
name: Masek, M.
name: Jelinek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analyzing the available photometry from the Kepler satellite and other databases, we performed detailed light curve modeling of 10 eclipsing binary systems that were found to exhibit a periodic modulation of their orbital periods. All of the selected systems are detached Algol type, with orbital periods from 0.9 to 2.9 days. In total, 9448 times of minimum for these binaries were analyzed in an attempt to identify the period variations caused by the third bodies in these systems. The well-known method of the light-travel time effect was used for the analysis. The orbital periods of the outer bodies were found to be between 1 and 14 years. This hypothesis makes such systems interesting for future prospective detections of these components, despite their low predicted masses. Considering the dynamical interaction between the orbits, the system KIC 3440230 seems to be the most interesting, in which one would expect the detection of some effects (i.e., changing the inclination) even after a few years or decades of observations.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, published in: 2015AJ....149..197Z
Andrena helvola
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena helvola

description: Andrena helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
4.IV.2003, 12♀, 27♀; 6.V.2003, 19J, 23♀; 4.VI.2003, 1J, 8♀; 3.VII.2003, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631