cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improvement and Characterisation of the ArCLight Large-Area Dielectric Light Detector for Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers
Creators: name: Bürgi, Jonas
name: Calivers, Livio
name: Diurba, Richard
name: Frieden, Fabian
name: Gauch, Anja
name: Iacob, Laura Francesca
name: Kreslo, Igor
name: Kunzmann, Jan
name: Parsa, Saba
name: Weber, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of scintillation light in noble-liquid detectors is necessary for identifying neutrino interaction candidates from beam, astrophysical, or solar sources. Large monolithic detectors typically have highly efficient light sensors, like photomultipliers, mounted outside their electric field. This option is not available for modular detectors that wish to maximize their active volume. The ArgonCube light readout system detectors (ArCLights) are large-area thin-wavelength-shifting (WLS) panels that can operate in highly proximate modular detectors and within the electric field. The WLS plastic forming the bulk structure of the ArCLight has Tetraphenyl Butadiene (TPB) and sheets of dichroic mirror layered across its surface. It is coupled to a set of six silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). This publication compares TPB coating techniques for large surface areas and describes quality control methods for large-scale production.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Assessing the monetary relevance of land value capture: the case for charges for additional building rights in São Paulo, Brazil
Creators: name: Smolka, Martim Oscar
name: Maleronka, Camila
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land value capture; public financing; urban planning; São Paulo

description: Land value capture (LVC) provides a mechanism for communities to recover financial windfalls accruing to landowners from public investments in infrastructure and services or from beneficial changes in land use norms and regulations. This progressive public financing option is gaining noteworthy traction in nations worldwide. This article argues that a major new value capture tool—charges for building rights—can be a significant source of public revenue. This type of fee has the advantage not only of generating much-needed financing for urban infrastructure and services, but also of addressing a fundamental social equity issue in land policy. After briefly explaining the argument for value capture, the article describes the groundbreaking implementation of building rights charges in São Paulo, Brazil, with specific examples of how those charges are calculated. Also described is the successful use of Certificates of Additional Building Potential (CEPACs) an innovative tool to collect land value increments resulting from large-scale urban redevelopment projects. The article then recommends several changes that would help to maximize the revenues from building rights charges and promote more equitable urban development.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Demand driven Revitalization of Industrial Parks: the key role of Restructuring Agencies in achieving high private investments and creating employment
Creators: name: Bugge, K.E.
name: Sloot, M.J.W.
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: revitalization; industrial parks; demand driven; effective working methods

description: Effective revitalization leads to economically vital and future proof industrial parks. This short paper tells how revitalization can be effectively performed. Preliminary results are presented of a four year study of the Restructuring Agency of Overijssel, active in revitalization in the Province of Overijssel in the Netherlands. The study identifies, presents and reflects on the effectiveness of working methods used by the restructuring agency in seven revitalization projects of industrial parks. The value of continuously focusing on willingness to invest is identified as a key working method and success factor. Other working methods illustrate the importance and effectiveness of goal-oriented choices that aim at snowball effects, the use of dynamic opportunity maps, choosing own role based on complementarity, always developing business cases that contribute to value cases, and managing the important relationship between effective working methods and capability of individuals and organizations. Ongoing research aims at further underpinning provisional conclusions about the use and effectiveness of working methods, and the development of a toolbox for practitioners that will contain and integrate capability profiles, working methods, and the related change management approach.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
The chromatin remodeling protein ATRX is required for interneuron survival in the mammalian retina
Creators: name: Medina, Chantal
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Neuroscience.

description: ATRX is a SWI/SNF-like chromatin remodeling protein mutated in several X-linked mental retardation syndromes. In addition to severe mental retardation, athalassemia and urogenital abnormalities, several vision defects are present in patients, although these have been greatly under reported. Upon closer examination, visual defects were noted in 23% of patients, with optic atrophy, pale disc and refractive errors being the most commonly reported abnormalities. We report here that Atrx is abundantly expressed in the neuroprogenitor pool during retinal differentiation as well as in all cell types of the mature retina with the exception of rod photoreceptors. To further investigate the impact of ATRX ablation on vision, we used a conditional gene-targeting approach to generate transgenic mice in which inactivation of Atrx occurs under the control of the retina specific element of murine Pax6. Our results show that inactivation of Atrx results in a ∼25-30% reduction in amacrine and horizontal interneurons. The loss of amacrine and horizontal cells resulted from increased cell death in a period which corresponds with a change in Atrx nuclear localization and retinal synaptogenesis in these cell types. Furthermore, our work illustrates that Atrx inactivation is associated with attenuated b-wave amplitude as measured by ERG analysis. Based on these findings it seems that ATRX may play a critical role in the mediation of retinal synaptogenesis and that increased cell loss may contribute to the visual defect observed in ATRX patients.
Graph Edit Distance with General Costs Using Neural Set Divergence
Creators: name: Jain, Eeshaan
name: Roy, Indradyumna
name: Meher, Saswat
name: Chakrabarti, Soumen
name: De, Abir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph Edit Distance (GED) measures the (dis-)similarity between two given graphs, in terms of the minimum-cost edit sequence that transforms one graph to the other. However, the exact computation of GED is NP-Hard, which has recently motivated the design of neural methods for GED estimation. However, they do not explicitly account for edit operations with different costs. In response, we propose GRAPHEDX, a neural GED estimator that can work with general costs specified for the four edit operations, viz., edge deletion, edge addition, node deletion and node addition. We first present GED as a quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that incorporates these four costs. Then, we represent each graph as a set of node and edge embeddings and use them to design a family of neural set divergence surrogates. We replace the QAP terms corresponding to each operation with their surrogates. Computing such neural set divergence require aligning nodes and edges of the two graphs. We learn these alignments using a Gumbel-Sinkhorn permutation generator, additionally ensuring that the node and edge alignments are consistent with each other. Moreover, these alignments are cognizant of both the presence and absence of edges between node-pairs. Experiments on several datasets, under a variety of edit cost settings, show that GRAPHEDX consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods and heuristics in terms of prediction error.
description: Published at NeurIPS 2024
Relativistic diffusion model for hadron production in p-Pb collisions at the LHC
Creators: name: Schulz, Philipp
name: Wolschin, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate charged-hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions of asymmetric systems within a nonequilibrium-statistical framework. Calculated centrality-dependent pseudorapidity distributions for p-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=5.02 and 8.16 TeV are compared with data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our approach combines a relativistic diffusion model with formulations based on quantum chromodynamics while utilizing numerical solutions of a Fokker-Planck equation to account for the shift and broadening of the fragmentation sources for particle-production with respect to the stopping (net-baryon) rapidity distributions. To represent the centrality dependence of charged-hadron production in asymmetric systems over a broad region of pseudorapidities, the consideration and precise modelling of the fragmentation sources - along with the central gluon-gluon source - is found to be essential. Specifically, this results in an inversion of the particle-production amplitude from backward- to forward-dominance when transitioning from central to peripheral collisions, in agreement with recent ATLAS and ALICE p-Pb data at sqrt(s_NN)=5.02 TeV.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 new references and added text, as accepted for Phys. Rev. C
Beautiful one day, untouched the next
Creators: name: Currie, Sara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Just a few weeks ago, the London Independent published a list of "the most dangerous places in the world to go on holiday." Included in the top twenty danger spots, alongside Iraq, Syria and Somalia, was the small half-island nation of Timor-Leste, just 640 kilometres northwest of Darwin. My first response was to congratulate myself on my bravery; I have lived and worked in Timor-Leste for the past five years. But that's avoiding what became obvious to me during those years: Timor-Leste is no more dangerous a place to live in or visit than most other developing nations to which I’ve travelled.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): Management Structure and Performance
Creators: name: Omokhomion, Itua
name: Egbu, Charles
name: Robinson, Herbert
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: REITs; agency conflicts; management structure; externally management; internal management; performance

description: The REIT concept originates from the United States and invests in an income-producing real estate. Tax Return Act of 1986 allowed conversion of externally managed REITs to internal management structure to reduce conflict of interest and increase efficiency. Significant findings give merit to internally managed REITs showing they outperform externally managed REITs and have stronger corporate governance. However, REITs regimes in Asia Pacific region (Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia) are exclusive externally managed structure either by default or requirement highlighting some merits exist to the approach. With the rising number of REITs regimes, academic understanding of the effects of management structure and performance of REITs is required. This paper contributes to existing literature by exploring the impact of management structures on the performance of REITs regimes. This study adopts a systematic review of selected academic journal papers using Scopus. Empirical findings point to the benefits of internal managed REITs over externally managed REITs. Corporate governance proxies unique to external managed REIT such as; REIT organisations, remuneration, fees and related party transactions need improvement to boost performance. We find evidence that external managed REITs try to emulate internally managed REITs, increasing institutional investor carrying out more monitoring, employing less leverage and link compensation to performance to increase REITs value. As externally managed REITs become popular, similar results as internally managed REITs are obtainable and may be more applicable to REITs with smaller market capitalisation. To achieve this, high quality of corporate governance, skilled management team and transparency in fee structure become crucial.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Neural Collaborative Filtering to Detect Anomalies in Human Semantic Trajectories
Creators: name: Liu, Yueyang
name: Kennedy, Lance
name: Amiri, Hossein
name: Züfle, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human trajectory anomaly detection has become increasingly important across a wide range of applications, including security surveillance and public health. However, existing trajectory anomaly detection methods are primarily focused on vehicle-level traffic, while human-level trajectory anomaly detection remains under-explored. Since human trajectory data is often very sparse, machine learning methods have become the preferred approach for identifying complex patterns. However, concerns regarding potential biases and the robustness of these models have intensified the demand for more transparent and explainable alternatives. In response to these challenges, our research focuses on developing a lightweight anomaly detection model specifically designed to detect anomalies in human trajectories. We propose a Neural Collaborative Filtering approach to model and predict normal mobility. Our method is designed to model users' daily patterns of life without requiring prior knowledge, thereby enhancing performance in scenarios where data is sparse or incomplete, such as in cold start situations. Our algorithm consists of two main modules. The first is the collaborative filtering module, which applies collaborative filtering to model normal mobility of individual humans to places of interest. The second is the neural module, responsible for interpreting the complex spatio-temporal relationships inherent in human trajectory data. To validate our approach, we conducted extensive experiments using simulated and real-world datasets comparing to numerous state-of-the-art trajectory anomaly detection approaches.
description: Accepted for publication in the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Anomaly Detection (GeoAnomalies'24)
The equity and fixed income characteristics of Asian REITs: Evidence from Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong
Creators: name: Wong, Woon Weng
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: REITs; securitised property; listed property trusts; capital asset pricing; Autoregressive Distributed Lag models (ARDL); time series analysis; bounds testing; financial risk factors; inflation risk; property investment

description: The factors that govern the returns generating process for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have been the focus of much research in recent years. On the one hand, certain REIT markets have been found to possess equity like characteristics such as aggressive returns with commensurately high rates of volatility and exposure to market risk, interest rates and general macroeconomic factors. Conversely, other REIT markets exhibit bond like characteristics such as inflation hedging and other defensive properties which make them attractive to investors with conservative risk appetites. Compared to Western markets, REITs are a relatively recent entrant to Asian security markets with relatively less research examining their performance and associated risk factors. This study explores the equity and fixed income characteristics of Asian REITs across three key markets: Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong which represent the largest and most mature sectors in the region. Utilising the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) and the associated bounds testing approach developed by Persaran et al., Singporean REITs were found to exhibit the most equity like characteristics while Hong Kong REITs were found to exhibit the most bond like (defensive) characteristics. Evidence from the Japanese market was less clear, which may be the result of recent deflationary cycles. Additionally, there is a high degree of inter-relatedness between the three markets limiting the potential benefits of risk mitigation through diversification. Lastly, the speed of adjustment was found to be relatively high with up to 35 percent of disequilibrium being corrected within one period.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
The Bilingual Canadian Dictionary: What? How? Why?
Creators: name: Curties, Hazel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Language, Modern.
subject: Canadian Studies.

description: Although Canada is an officially bilingual country, in which French is stated to be the mother tongue of almost 6.8 million people and English of 17.5 million people (2001 Canadian census), there is not a single general bilingual French-English dictionary on the market of Canadian origin. This means that Canadians are forced to use European-produced bilingual dictionaries of English and French such as the Collins-Robert and the Oxford-Hachette, which, since they are intended principally for the European and U.S. markets, do not include many elements of English and French that are used in Canada. When these elements---these "Canadianisms"---are included in European dictionaries, their treatment is often unsatisfactory as they may be presented in an unsystematic, sometimes incomplete and even confusing manner. The Bilingual Canadian Dictionary Project aims to remedy this situation by providing Canadians and more particularly Canadian writers, editors, translators and interpreters, as well as advanced second-language learners with a linguistic tool specially designed to meet their particular needs. This thesis describes the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary Project and its methodology, as well as the Dictionary itself, its source materials, especially its electronic corpora, and the computer tools used in its compilation. The thesis then discusses the particular features that distinguish Canadian French and Canadian English and summarizes the significant events in the evolution of Canadian unilingual and bilingual lexicography. Finally, examples of regional usage from Canada, North America, France and Britain are presented and their entries in two European dictionaries analyzed and compared with their entries in the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary.
Social support influences on recovery from sport injury.
Creators: name: Bianco, Theresa.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Rehabilitation and Therapy.

description: Although social support has been recognized as an important coping resource in the psychological adjustment to injury and illness, the possible benefits of social support in recovery from sport injury have received minimal attention. The present study, therefore, set out to investigate the role of social support in recovery from sport injury. In open-ended interview sessions, 12 current and former members of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, who had sustained serious injuries, discussed their perceptions of the social support received during recovery and its effect on coping with injury. Inductive analyses of interview transcripts revealed that the experience of sport injury was a process which spanned three phases: the occurrence of injury, treatment and rehabilitation, and the return to sport. The presence of social support during each of the stages contributed to enhanced coping manifested through increased motivation, better treatment adherence and a more positive outlook toward the injury and recovery. Support needs included emotional support, information support and tangible support and were met by various members of the athletes' social support network. Identified as important sources of social support were: family and friends, medical personnel, current and former ski team members, coaches, and the team management. In addition to highlighting the breadth of the impact of social support and the number of potential support providers, the present findings suggest that increasing social support during recovery can be an effective psychosocial strategy in the treatment of sport injuries. The identification of support needs during specific periods in the sport injury process represents an important step in the development of such interventions. The current findings support the transactional view of social support and indicate the further investigation of this process can also be beneficial to the development of rehabilitation interventions.
Constraining the low-energy cosmic ray flux in the central molecular zone from MeV nuclear deexcitation line observations
Creators: name: Liu, Bing
name: Yang, Ruizhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-energy cosmic rays (LECRs) dominate the ionization in dense regions of molecular clouds in which other ionizers such as UV or X-ray photons are effectively shielded. Thus it was argued that the high ionization rate at the central molecular zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy is mainly caused by LECRs. However, the required LECR flux is orders of magnitude higher than the extrapolation of GeV cosmic ray (CR) flux derived from GeV gamma-ray observations. In this paper, we considered two types of additional LECR components and found that only very soft anomalous CR components can explain such a high ionization rate. This LECR component will inevitably produce MeV nuclear deexcitation lines due to their inelastic scattering with the ambient gas. We calculated the MeV line emission and discussed the detectability of next-generation MeV instruments. We found that future MeV observations can be used to pin down the origin of the high ionization rate in the CMZ.
description: Published in Physical Review D
Protein kinase C modulates mitogenic signalling by epidermal growth factor in T51B rat liver cells.
Creators: name: Sharma, Rakesh.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: The regulation of the proliferation of non-neoplastic T51B rat liver epitheloid cells involves a complex interplay between the epidermal growth factor (EGF) and the protein kinase C (PKC) signal-transduction pathways. T51B cells can be made proliferatively quiescent upon prolonged serum deprivation, which results in their growth-arrest at the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Addition of EGF (1.5$\eta$M) or, re-addition of serum (10% BCS) to the conditioned medium initiates DNA synthesis, within 8 hours, which reaches a maximum by 18-24 hours, when a significant number of cells are in the S phase. The DNA synthetic responses of EGF and serum are additive. Growth factor or, serum-stimulated DNA synthesis is followed by an increase in cell number. The mitogenic response of EGF can be blocked by 15-20$\mu$M genistein, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. EGF activates particulate PKC within 15 minutes, and the stimulation reaches a maximum by 35-45 minutes. PKC activity then remains elevated for up to 24 hours. The tumour promoting phorbol ester, TPA, which is known to activate PKC, is not mitogenic to T51B cells. TPA modulates the responses of EGF or, serum depending upon the culture conditions. When TPA is added to serum-deprived cells in the presence of EGF or serum, it potentiates DNA synthesis within 18 hours, during which time it down-regulates PKC. On the other hand, if TPA is present in the medium during serum-deprivation, the response to EGF in these PKC-inactivated cells is as mitogenic as that caused by serum. However, TPA pretreatment makes the cells less responsive to EGF or serum in that, the net DNA synthesis is significantly reduced ($>$30%) in control, and in treated cells. The inhibitory response of genistein is slightly attenuated in the presence of EGF and TPA. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Willingness to pay for efficient homes: an analysis for Barcelona
Creators: name: Marmolejo-Duarte, Carlos
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Energy efficiency; energy performance certificates; contingent valuation

description: The Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) implemented, since 15 years ago, by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive foster informed rental and buying decisions in order to achieve a more efficient real estate stock. In general, empirical evidence has found a positive relationship between prices and energy-performance stated in EPCs; nonetheless, in Spain, such correlation is very small in relation to other EU countries. Such finding is not surprising in a national context where EPCs are seen as mere requisites to accomplish in the transaction of real estate assets. Using stated preferences techniques, this paper tries to explore to which extend households know and understand what exactly is measured by EPCs and the economic and environmental implications derived from energy-efficiency, and finally, the repercussions of such elements over the willingness to pay for efficient buildings. Results suggest that in general people do not understand what is measured by EPCs nor the architectonic attributes that have an incidence of energy-performance. Such situation is aggravated in the case of elder and poor-educated people. Nonetheless, when people are informed about the repercussions of energy-performance using illustrative figures, then declare to be ready to pay for efficient homes.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
A theoretical model for compressible bubble dynamics considering phase transition and migration
Creators: name: Zhang, A-Man
name: Li, Shi-Min
name: Xu, Run-Ze
name: Pei, Shao-Cong
name: Li, Shuai
name: Liu, Yun-Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel theoretical model for bubble dynamics is established that simultaneously accounts for the liquid compressibility, phase transition, oscillation, migration, ambient flow field, etc. The bubble dynamics equations are presented in a unified and concise mathematical form with clear physical meanings and extensibility. The bubble oscillation equation can be simplified to the Keller-Miksis equation by neglecting the effects of phase transition and bubble migration. The present theoretical model effectively captures the experimental results for bubbles generated in free fields, near free surfaces, adjacent to rigid walls, and in the vicinity of other bubbles. Based on the present theory, we explore the effect of the bubble content by changing the vapor proportion inside the cavitation bubble for an initial high-pressure bubble. It is found that the energy loss of the bubble shows a consistent increase with increasing Mach number and initial vapor proportion. However, the radiated pressure peak by the bubble at the collapse stage increases with the decreasing Mach number and increasing vapor proportion. The energy analyses of the bubble reveal that the presence of vapor inside the bubble not only directly contributes to the energy loss of the bubble through phase transition but also intensifies the bubble collapse, which leads to greater radiation of energy into the surrounding flow field due to the fluid compressibility.
Naviguer en eau trouble: Recours aux contraventions au Règlement sur l'évacuation et les traitement des eaux usées des résidences isolées
Creators: name: DesRosiers, P. Philippe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Law.
subject: Environmental Sciences.

description: La présente étude est centrée sur les différents recours offerts à l'occasion d'une contravention au Règlement sur l'évacuation et le traitement des eaux usées des résidences isolées, particulièrement ceux prévus à la Loi sur la qualité de l'environnement, la Loi sur l'aménagement et l'urbanisme et au droit commun ainsi que la garantie générale du Code civil du Québec en matière de trouble de voisinage. L'obligation de la municipalité à voir à l'application du Règlement ainsi que la responsabilité de l'inspecteur municipal et son devoir d'information face à l'application de celui-ci sont aussi analysés. La Loi et le Règlement sont finalement étudiés en tant que limitation de droit public au sens du Code civil du Québec. Les recours de l'acheteur contre son vendeur sont étudiés en fonction de la garantie contre l'éviction de l'article 1725 C.c.Q. et de la limitation de droit public en tant que vice selon l'article 1726 C.c.Q.
Stress e benessere occupazionale in una popolazione di lavoratori operanti nei presidi materno infantili di una grande azienda ospedaliera piemontese
Creators: name: Marini, Simone
Publisher: name: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso
Year: 2024

description: Tra i fattori di rischio maggiormente presenti nella realtà lavorativa contemporanea vi è lo stress lavoro correlato. Secondo indagini europee, il 51% dei lavoratori europei pensa
che lo stress sia comune nei luoghi di lavoro, e si stima che sia responsabile di 20 miliardi di euro di costi complessivi annui.
Secondo la letteratura scientifica, uno dei settori maggiormente esposti è quello sanitario.
Lo studio si propone di indagare le variabili socio-demografiche e lavorative associate a livelli elevati di stress, e proporre alcune soluzioni volte alla prevenzione e mitigazione
del rischio di stress lavoro-correlato.
Lo studio, condotto in un presidio ospedaliero materno infantile, ha previsto la somministrazione di questionari volti alla valutazione di variabili socio demografiche e
occupazionali con scale validate: Brief Resilient 4 Scale Coping (BRSC), Work Ability Index (WAI), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)).
description: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso, No. 11 (2024): Prevenzione in Corso - PINC 2024
Examining the categorical structure of the knowledge of expert ice hockey coaches: A prototype theory of category structure applied to qualitative analysis.
Creators: name: Draper, Sean P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.

description: A qualitative analysis methodology refined to account for prototypical as well as classical category structure was used in the analysis of interview transcripts from four expert ice hockey coaches. Coaches were interviewed about their knowledge about the process of coaching elite level athletes. The interviews were transcribed and broken down into meaning units following the process outlined by Cote et al., (1993). The meaning units were grouped together and similar meaning units were given the same content label. This process reflected the belief that knowledge was organized in the middle of a hierarchy from general to specific (Lakoff, 1987). Considering prototyping effects in category structure, each of the 64 content labels was compared to each other, and a similarity rating on a seven point scale was assigned by the researcher. Category structures were generated from four non-hierarchical cluster analyses performed on the matrix of similarity judgements between the 64 resulting content labels. The relationships both within and between the categories were examined through an investigation of the distance to cluster center provided by the cluster analysis. These relationships provided insight into the structure, if not the content, of the categories that emerged from the data. The utility of this methodology as a preliminary step towards identifying the categorical structure of the data at hand, and the effect of both basic level categorization of knowledge and prototype effects in categorization were discussed.
Etichettatura dei prodotti alimentari: metodi e strumenti del controllo ufficiale per la verifica delle indicazioni obbligatorie e volontarie
Creators: name: Mortara, Marina
Publisher: name: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso
Year: 2024

description: Lo studio intende verificare le indicazioni presenti nelle etichette alimentari, utilizzando le procedure operative promosse dalla sottocommissione regionale al corso di
formazione PRISA del 2021 per il personale addetto al controllo ufficiale, mediante l’applicazione delle relative check list, predisposte in via sperimentale su un congruo
numero di etichette alimentari appartenenti a differenti categorie di prodotti.
L’obiettivo è verificare, la corretta applicazione delle disposizioni del Reg. (UE) 1169/2011 e, in presenza di indicazioni nutrizionali o sulla salute, la corretta applicazione delle
disposizioni del Reg. (CE) 1924/2006 mediante confronto tra le indicazioni in etichetta e i claims previsti dagli articoli 13 e 14 del Reg. (CE) 1924/2006, autorizzati ed inseriti negli elenchi
del Reg. (CE) 432/2012. Lo studio evidenzia che l’impiego delle check list consente, in caso di rilevazioni di non conformità, didare uniformità nell’identificazione e nella definizione delle azioni da adottare da parte del personale addetto ai controlli ufficiali e, inoltre, lo strumento consente di adottare misure e provvedimenti proporzionati al rischio effettivo rilevato, aumentando l’efficacia degli interventi di prevenzione facendo sì che l’operatore alimentare ponga rimedio e ne impedisca il ripetersi.
description: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso, No. 11 (2024): Prevenzione in Corso - PINC 2024
The issue of site selection of service sectors and its influence on firms’ competitive advantage
Creators: name: Spyridonidou, Sofia
name: Kalogeresis, Thanasis
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Site selection process; Optimal location; Economic activities; Competitive advantage

description: The process of finding the optimal location is an issue that concerns the overwhelming majority of economic activities. The paper analyzes the factors influencing site selection of firms in the service sector in the context of modern competitive conditions. The above is accomplished through the case study of the development of “Mikel” coffee company outlet network. The work is based on qualitative research in the form of interviews conducted with key executives and the owners of the company. In the first part of the paper, the relevance of Porter’s “Diamond” model with the site selection model that was adopted by “Mikel” company for the development of its establishments is presented. In doing so, we question the importance of the role of government which is highlighted in Porter’s model. In the second part of the study, the six determinants of site selection of the firm are presented, which stem from the competitive environment. Specifically, agglomeration economies - commerciality, transport systems, existing competition, social capital - population, the time value of the location and the direction of traffic - distinctiveness of the site. The research results presented in this study, shape a rather detailed picture of the processes of finding the optimal location for economic activities, producing significant benefit for the firms as well as for the local economies and societies, in which they operate and grow.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Uncertainty-Aware Environment Simulation of Medical Devices Digital Twins
Creators: name: Sartaj, Hassan
name: Ali, Shaukat
name: Gjøby, Julie Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Smart medical devices are an integral component of the healthcare Internet of Things (IoT), providing patients with various healthcare services through an IoT-based application. Ensuring the dependability of such applications through system and integration-level testing mandates the physical integration of numerous medical devices, which is costly and impractical. In this context, digital twins of medical devices play an essential role in facilitating testing automation. Testing with digital twins without accounting for uncertain environmental factors of medical devices leaves many functionalities of IoT-based healthcare applications untested. In addition, digital twins operating without environmental factors remain out of sync and uncalibrated with their corresponding devices functioning in the real environment. To deal with these challenges, in this paper, we propose a model-based approach (EnvDT) for modeling and simulating the environment of medical devices' digital twins under uncertainties. We empirically evaluate the EnvDT using three medicine dispensers, Karie, Medido, and Pilly connected to a real-world IoT-based healthcare application. Our evaluation targets analyzing the coverage of environment models and the diversity of uncertain scenarios generated for digital twins. Results show that EnvDT achieves approximately 61% coverage of environment models and generates diverse uncertain scenarios (with a near-maximum diversity value of 0.62) during multiple environmental simulations.
L’impatto ambientale e sulla salute pubblica delle aziende a rischio d’incidente rilevante: elaborazione di una nuova Istruzione Operativa per coordinare i Piani di Emergenza Esterna e i Piani di Funzione
Creators: name: Noro, Eleonora
Publisher: name: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso
Year: 2024

description: Attraverso un’indagine di tipo qualitativo, mediante un’intervista mirata ai dipendenti ARPA che operano nell’ambito della gestione delle aziende a rischio d’incidente rilevante,
è stata valutata l’attuale gestione della tematica, sia dal punto di vista documentale che operativo. Inoltre, sono state raccolte sia criticità che suggerimenti volti al miglioramento della modalità lavorativa all’interno dell’Agenzia. Lo studio ha fatto emergere la necessità di elaborare un’Istruzione Operativa per la redazione dei Piani di Funzione ARPA che
fornisca indicazioni su come strutturare il documento, quali informazioni contenute nel PEE riportare e come rielaborarne altre in modo da avere un documento completo,
concreto e preciso per una gestione dell’emergenza veloce, efficiente ed efficace. Il documento realizzato in fase di studio è strutturato in paragrafi che compongonoil modello di Piano di Funzione ideale. Nel dettaglio: informazioni generali in relazione al PEE di riferimento, descrizione del ciclo produttivo dell’Azienda e sostanze pericolose impiegate, ipotesi incidentali e codifica PEE sulla base dei dati raccolti dai Rapporti di Sicurezza (RdS) dell’Azienda, analisi delle  vulnerabilità territoriali ed infine modalità operative di ARPA.
description: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso, No. 11 (2024): Prevenzione in Corso - PINC 2024
A century of contested ownership: Land tenure in Alexandra, South Africa 1912 - 2011
Creators: name: Hooghiemstra, G.
name: Cloete, C.E.
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Alexandra; forced removals; apartheid; ownership patterns; land tenure; South Africa

description: Purpose of the paper: Alexandra was proclaimed in 1912 as the first formal township in South Africa where blacks could obtain ownership. Over the past century, a number of watershed changes in layout and ownership have taken place, most notably the promulgation of the 1913 Land Act that prohibited the proclamation of land for black ownership and a series of expropriations, resulting from apartheid policies that took place from 1950 onwards, culminating in a consolidation in 1985 that led to further expropriations. In 2011, former land owners established land claims. These claims were complicated by the fact that a number of residents had received legal right of ownership. Investigation of the validity of the claims required a comprehensive study of the change of ownership from the original proclamation (1912) to the situation in 2011. Methodology. An analysis of current and historical development and management of Alexandra is provided, supplemented by a visual overview of the changing patterns of ownership and densification. The present status of land claims and their legal implications is summarized and a reliable estimate of the present population of Alexandra is provided. Findings: The total population as determined by this study is more than 60 per cent more than the formal 2011 census estimate, resulting in a density of more than 44 400 persons per hectare. It was also found that Occupiers on one stand can have different kind of rights. However, adequate documentation has been assembled to drive the process of land tenure upgrading. Practical implications: The higher than previously estimated population density has severe implications - physical as well as political - for future planning of this vibrant area. The importance of a reliable estimate of the ownership of property in Alexandra becomes even more apparent when the implications of the Restitution Act are considered.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
2927559.pdf
Creators: name: Sozanski, Krzysztof
name: Sisamakis, Evangelos
name: Zhang, Xuzhu
name: Holyst, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The document contains additional details on the models and data analysis methods used, description of experimental details, illumination and detection profile visualizations, as well as supplementary experimental results.
title:  La diglossia nella didattica e certificazione dell’arabo: problemi e proposte
Creators: name: Durand, Olivier
name: Ventura, Annamaria
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2018

description: L’articolo analizza i problemi didattici relativi alla diglossia della lingua araba in relazione ai modelli di certificazione sviluppati per le lingue europee e affronta i problemi di adattamento delle certificazioni di livello alla lingua araba evidenziando le discrepanze con il QCER.

La ricerca avanza due proposte sperimentali per una didattica integrata: strutturare un livello preparatorio precedente all’A1 del QCER; applicare un modello di slittamento diglottico sul piano fonetico, fonologico, morfologico e sintattico tra arabo classico e neoarabo, impiegando lo strumento didattico della trascrizione semitistica.
description: Didattica dell’arabo e certificazione linguistica: riflessioni e iniziative
A Spatial Decision Support System for Tourism Land Use Planning
Creators: name: Lazoglou, Miltiades
name: Angelides, Demos C.
Publisher: name: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land use planning; Ontologies; Tourism; Decision-support; Knowledge-management

description: One of the most complex challenges the tourism industry faces is keeping up to date with information technology developments caused by the globalisation of information and advances in technology. The development of robust decision support systems for tourism land use planning is a way to address this challenge. This paper demonstrates how a spatial decision support system (SDSS), called the Land Use Decision sUpport System (LUDUS), can contribute in allocating complex forms of tourism. The system combines an artificial intelligence technique, called ontologies, with Geographic Information Systems and object-oriented programming to support decision-making in spatial planning. The system consists of two subsystems: the Insert Data Subsystem and the Graphic Imaging and Decision Support Subsystem. The core of the system is an ontology that is aligned to a standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium, called Geosparql. The case study of this paper is the Mastichochoria area of Chios Island, Greece. Therefore, the structure of the ontology was modelled according to the provisions of Greek legislation. The results produced confirmed the correct coding and application of the system’s criteria. The validity, accuracy and reliability of the results were also confirmed. The adopted approach facilitates the identification of alternative options for allocating, among other land use types, complex forms of tourism development in suburban areas, by examining the provisions of the legal framework as well as their geology and terrain.
description: RELAND: International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, Vol 1 (2018)
Predisposizione di una nuova check-list a supporto dell'attività di vigilanza e di controllo sulla gestione del rischio correlato all'esposizione a polveri di legno duro nel comparto legno
Creators: name: Piumatti, Gabriele
Publisher: name: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso
Year: 2024

description: A seguito della recente modifica del valore limite di esposizione professionale per gli operatori del settore, passato da 3 mg/m³ a 2 mg/m³ (a partire dal 17 gennaio 2023), il presente
studio si proponeva di mettere a punto una lista di controllo volta a supportare l'attività di vigilanza e controllo sulla gestione del rischio correlato all'esposizione alle polveri di legno duro. Sono state coinvolte 23 aziende del settore legno della provincia di Cuneo.
La lista di controllo è stata sviluppata con l'intento di migliorare le condizioni di lavoro in temini di prevenzione e sicurezza in relazione all'esposizione al rischio da polveri di legno duro e prende in considerazione vari aspetti, tra cui: i requisiti strutturali degli ambienti di lavoro, la gestione di macchine e impianti,
la gestione del rischio cancerogeno e la disposizione delle misure preventive per la gestione di tale rischio.
description: PinC | Prevenzione in Corso, No. 11 (2024): Prevenzione in Corso - PINC 2024