cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Markov Decision Process Based Energy-Efficient On-Line Scheduling for Slice-Parallel Video Decoders on Multicore Systems
Creators: name: Mastronarde, Nicholas
name: Kanoun, Karim
name: Atienza, David
name: Frossard, Pascal
name: van der Schaar, Mihaela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of energy-efficient on-line scheduling for slice-parallel video decoders on multicore systems. We assume that each of the processors are Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) enabled such that they can independently trade off performance for power, while taking the video decoding workload into account. In the past, scheduling and DVFS policies in multi-core systems have been formulated heuristically due to the inherent complexity of the on-line multicore scheduling problem. The key contribution of this report is that we rigorously formulate the problem as a Markov decision process (MDP), which simultaneously takes into account the on-line scheduling and per-core DVFS capabilities; the power consumption of the processor cores and caches; and the loss tolerant and dynamic nature of the video decoder's traffic. In particular, we model the video traffic using a Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) to capture the precedence constraints among frames in a Group of Pictures (GOP) structure, while also accounting for the fact that frames have different display/decoding deadlines and non-deterministic decoding complexities. The objective of the MDP is to minimize long-term power consumption subject to a minimum Quality of Service (QoS) constraint related to the decoder's throughput. Although MDPs notoriously suffer from the curse of dimensionality, we show that, with appropriate simplifications and approximations, the complexity of the MDP can be mitigated. We implement a slice-parallel version of H.264 on a multiprocessor ARM (MPARM) virtual platform simulator, which provides cycle-accurate and bus signal-accurate simulation for different processors. We use this platform to generate realistic video decoding traces with which we evaluate the proposed on-line scheduling algorithm in Matlab.
Le traduzioni di letteratura inglese in Italia dal 1943 ai primi anni sessanta. Una ricognizione preliminare.
Creators: name: Sullam, Sara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Traduzioni; letteratura inglese; modernismo; romanzo

description: Come si configura il campo di ricezione della letteratura inglese novecentesca nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra? Quali sono le linee di continuità con la stagione dell’entre deux guerres e quali i fattori di innovazione?
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Un romanzo d’addio. "Giovanni e le mani" di Franco Fortini
Creators: name: Daino, Luca
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Franco Fortini; Giovanni e le mani; teologia della crisi; esistenzialismo; marxismo

description: L‟articolo ha per oggetto l‟unico romanzo scritto da Franco Fortini, Giovanni e le mani, apparso a stampa nel 1948. Guida l‟analisi la persuasione che il libro, al contrario di quanto si è soliti rite-nere, non occupi nella produzione fortiniana una posizione periferica, o peggio ambiguamente contradditoria; svolge, invece, una funzione disvelante rispetto a una fase cruciale, come è l‟immediato dopoguerra, all‟interno della carriera del suo autore. Tale efficacia ermeneutica si dispiega se il romanzo viene interrogato in stretta relazione con l‟attività anteriore – ossia quella giovanile, risalente al periodo prebellico e fiorentino –, e soltanto ricordando che è nato in con-comitanza con la cesura, intellettuale e nel contempo esistenziale, sopravvenuta nell‟itinerario di Fortini con l‟abbandono della fede cristiana a favore dell‟utopia marxista.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Gas pile-up, gap overflow, and Type 1.5 migration in circumbinary disks: application to supermassive black hole binaries
Creators: name: Kocsis, Bence
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interaction of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary and a standard radiatively efficient thin accretion disk. We examine steady-state configurations of the disk and migrating SMBH system, self-consistently accounting for tidal and viscous torques and heating, radiative diffusion limited cooling, gas and radiation pressure, and the decay of the binary's orbit. We obtain a "phase diagram" of the system as a function of binary parameters, showing regimes in which both the disk structure and migration have a different character. Although massive binaries can create a central gap in the disk at large radii, the tidal barrier of the secondary causes a significant pile-up of gas outside of its orbit, which can lead to the closing of the gap. We find that this spillover occurs at an orbital separation as large as ~200 M_7^{-1/2} gravitational radii, where M = 10^7 M_7 Msun is the total binary mass. If the secondary is less massive than ~10^6 Msun, then the gap is closed before gravitational waves (GWs) start dominating the orbital decay. In this regime, the disk is still strongly perturbed, but the piled-up gas continuously overflows as in a porous dam, and crosses inside the secondary's orbit. The corresponding migration rate, which we label Type 1.5, is slower than the usual limiting cases known as Type I and II migration. Compared to an unperturbed disk, the steady-state disk in the overflowing regime is up to several hundred times brighter in the optical bands. Surveys such as PanSTARRS or LSST may discover the periodic variability of this population of binaries. Our results imply that the circumbinary disks around SMBHs can extend to small radii during the last stages of their merger, when they are detectable by LISA, and may produce coincident electromagnetic (EM) emission similar to active galactic nuclei (AGN).
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Biometry of the fetal eyes on MR Imaging
Creators: name: Tavares, Óscar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Radiation physics
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Foetus

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In recent years the knowledge and understanding of normal fetal craniofacial development has progressed, thus improving prenatal diagnostis. Although an ultrasonography still remais the primary prenatal investigation technique for the assessment of...
Effects of manganese on the biophysical and biochemical properties of biologically relevant membranes and yeast
Creators: name: Sule, Kevin Charles Macam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Lipids
subject: Metals
subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biology
subject: Biophysics

description: Metal ion-membrane interactions have gained appreciable attention over the years with increasing interest in the mode of action of toxic and essential metals. Lipids are a potential metal binding targets leading to altered lipid-lipid interactions or lateral membrane organization. Despite its essentiality, manganese (Mn2+) stress can induce deleterious impact towards cell survival. The mechanisms by which Mn2+ exert damage at the biomolecular level are not fully understood. Thus, the goal of this thesis was to investigate the effects of the essential trace metal Mn2+ on model lipid systems comprised of zwitterionic and anionic glycerophospholipids, complex biological extracts and yeast (S. cerevisiae). The data shows that Mn2+ was able to rigidify bilayer membranes containing negatively charged lipids, in a dose dependent manner, in both simple and complex model membranes. In simple model membranes, liposome swelling, and extensive aggregation were also detected for some lipids. This documents that on top of electrostatic attraction, the detailed lipid structure in terms or charge location and side chain architecture needs to be considered. Moreover, Mn2+ caused both an expansion and condensation of phosphoinositide containing monolayers, whilst inducing lateral disorganization by abolishing lipid domains. The potential negatively impacting such domains that are essential for a multitude to signalling processes is an important result as well. Mn2+ was able to alter the impact of binary metal mixtures with Ca2+ and Mg2+ on selected liposomes. Metal induced changes in membrane rigidity depended on the details of lipid structure and differed for single metals or binary mixtures. This suggests that the impact of metals will depend on the localized lipid composition and the presence of other ions. Mn2+ was also found to catalyze lipid peroxidation in complex systems via Fenton reaction. Lastly, growth, organelle morphology, and lipid content were disrupted by Mn2+ stress on the model cell S. cerevisiae, suggesting both direct and indirect effects on membrane properties. This thesis contributed to a better understanding of Mn2+ effects on biological membranes and yeast that can be consequential for their proper structural and signalling functions and ultimately cell survival. This work also opens avenues for future research in these areas.
Remembering Msit No'kmaq: Self-in-Relation Métissage
Creators: name: Scott, Michelle Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: ethical relationality
subject: self-in-relation
subject: critical self-reflection
subject: Indigenous Métissage
subject: kinship relationality
subject: Mi'kmaw
subject: Education--Curriculum and Instruction

description: In the spirit of relationship renewal and repair, I ask the question: How can we begin to enact our responsibilities to learn how to be good relatives to each other, the Land, and our other-than-human kin that is outside of the settler-colonial violence that Canada is built on? I suggest a necessary first step is to take our own self-reflective journey(s) of self-in-relation (Graveline, 1998) to locate our unique kinship networks of relationality and responsibility across time and space. In my research, I centred my embodied personal theory-making (Simpson, 2017), kinship relationality (Donald, 2021) and relationships to Land (Simpson, 2014, 2017; Styres, 2011, 2017, 2019) as a Mi’kmaw and Irish/English woman who has lived in Moh’kins’tsis for twenty-two years, was born and raised in Oniatari:io, and has ancestral and kinship ties to my Mi’kmaw relatives in Ktaqmkuk. Through the process of creating my métissage, I came to know and conceptualize colonial shrapnel as the ways in which colonial violence is embedded within our bodies through generations of spiritual, emotional, and blood and bone memory, and Elemental Kinship as a way to repair and heal through direct relationship with the elements – water, fire, earth, and air. I offer these concepts as curricular apertures with an invitation to others who are interested in moving beyond a fractured identity (personally, and collectively) toward a curriculum of remembering msit no’kmaq (all my [their] relations) at their own sacred fire.
title: Iconographic study of ultrasound findings in female pelvic pain
Creators: name: Gama, Camila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Comparative studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Power Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Abdomen
subject: Perception image
subject: Cancer
subject: Infection
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: General: • Establish the use of ultrasonography (USG) in the early detection and diagnosis of female pelvic pain. Specific: • Characterize the ultrasound findings with the presented symptoms; • Expose by means of pictorial test the diagnoses...
The effect of ISM turbulence on the gravitational instability of galactic discs
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Volker
name: Romeo, Alessandro B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the gravitational instability of galactic discs, treating stars and cold interstellar gas as two distinct components, and taking into account the phenomenology of turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM), i.e. the Larson-type scaling relations observed in the molecular and atomic gas. Besides deriving general properties of such systems, we analyse a large sample of galaxies from The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS), and show in detail how interstellar turbulence affects disc instability in star-forming spirals. We find that turbulence has a significant effect on both the inner and the outer regions of the disc. In particular, it drives the inner gas disc to a regime of transition between two instability phases and makes the outer disc more prone to star-dominated instabilities.
description: MNRAS, in press. Moderate revision to match the accepted version
title: Difference in clinical outcome in robot-assisted laparoscopic varicocelectomy (RALV) and percutaneous transcatheter embolization of the spermatic vein in varicoceles
Creators: name: Akkermans, Paul
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Embolisation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Varices

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The incidence ofvaricoceles in thepopulation is about 15% and even up to 40% in men with infertility [1-9]. As a result of persistent retrograde blood flow, there is a plaiting of dilated veins on top of the epididymis [1,2,10]. A varicocele is...
"Traitors to the Queen and the Realm": Treason and Catholics in Elizabethan England, 1569-1590
Creators: name: Wygiera, Hannah Jennie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: treason
subject: law
subject: Elizabeth
subject: English Church
subject: excommunication
subject: Catholics
subject: legislation
subject: papacy
subject: England
subject: History
subject: History--Church
subject: History--European
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In 1570, Pope Pius V issued a bull of excommunication against Queen Elizabeth I of England. In the bull, Elizabeth was declared to be a “pretended” queen and had falsely claimed the authority of the English crown. Therefore, all English subjects were free to disobey her and declare their loyalty to another ruler. In doing this, the pope declared temporal authority over Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth viewed this as an attack on her sovereignty and declared papists – English Catholics who were politically loyal to the papacy instead of the queen – to be traitors. This thesis examines the treason policies made against English Catholics between 1569 and 1590. During that time, various forms of legislation, such as proclamations and statutes, passed to revise existing treason legislation. Previous legislation was insufficient in dealing with the papal threat because the pope believed his power over earthly rulers came from God. Therefore, quicker and harsher measures were needed to punish English Catholics who proclaimed loyalty to the papacy and encouraged sedition and rebellion against Elizabeth, going so far as to plot her death. Signal cases during this period demonstrate how these laws functioned in practice and also highlight the political language used by both the court officials and the offenders. Other publications supported these legislative acts and encouraged loyalty to Elizabeth. Previously, historians have claimed that Elizabeth was slow to respond to her excommunication and that her government did not take it seriously. This thesis engages with this claim, arguing that the creation of new treason legislation indicates the severity of the papal threat. Ultimately, this thesis argues that these treason policies were political acts; they were not formed out of a desire to control religious beliefs but rather as a way to preserve Elizabeth’s political authority against the pope, who claimed political authority over the queen.
title: PULMONARY INFECTIONS AFTER SOLID ORGANS AND HEMATOPOIETIC STEMCELL TRANSPLANTATION. Temporal sequence and differential diagnosis
Creators: name: Plata Ariza, Diana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Transplantation
subject: Infection
subject: Grafts
subject: Complications
subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: Thorax

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review infectious pulmonary complications in transplant patients according to the chronological sequence and the differential diagnosis with noninfectious...
The Iwasawa decomposition and the Bruhat decomposition of the automorphism group on certain exceptional Jordan algebra
Creators: name: Nishio, Akihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G41 (Primary), 17C30, 57S20 (Secondary)

description: Let $\mathcal{J}^1$ be the real form of a complex simple Jordan algebra such that the automorphism group is $\mathrm{F}_{4(-20)}$. By using some orbit types of $\mathrm{F}_{4(-20)}$ on $\mathcal{J}^1$, for $\mathrm{F}_{4(-20)}$, explicitly, we give the Iwasawa decomposition, the Oshima--Sekiguchi's $K_ε-$Iwasawa decomposition, the Matsuki decomposition, and the Bruhat and Gauss decompositions.
description: v3, 30 pages, 1 figure, major changes from v2 by separating section 9--14, reformatted, and the title changed to appear in Tsukuba J. of Math
Brief mindfulness training for counselling psychology students : effects on self-compassion and reperceiving
Creators: name: Phipps, Arthur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Teaching mindfulness to counselling students may provide another avenue for developing their clinical skills. Current research supports the idea that mindfulness can be beneficially introduced into graduate training in counselling. How and why this training should take place remains an underexplored phenomenon. The current study investigates whether a brief introduction to mindfulness training and practice can impact counselling students’ ability to take a compassionate attitude toward themselves (self-compassion) and their ability to be a witness to their own experience (reperceiving). Participants received one hour of training in mindfulness practices and then took part in 15 minutes of these practices each week before they saw clients in their first clinical experience. Two studies were conducted, each using different approaches to test the question of whether this intervention could have an effect on self-report scores in self-compassion, reperceiving and/or mindfulness. In study A, a concurrent, repeated measures design found indications that self-compassion scores increased after 12 weeks of mindfulness practice but did not find any changes in reperceiving or mindfulness scores. In study B, a concurrent, single-case design found no evidence to support a functional relationship between the intervention and any of the three dependent measures. Limitations in study design may be the cause of this insufficiency. Overall this project provides evidence for increases in self-compassion scores after one semester of brief mindfulness practice while no changes were found in reperceiving or mindfulness scores.
Effective noise theory for the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with disorder
Creators: name: Michaely, Erez
name: Fishman, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the Nonlinear Shrödinger Equation with disorder it was found numerically that in some regime of the parameters Anderson localization is destroyed and subdiffusion takes place for a long time interval. It was argued that the nonlinear term acts as random noise. In the present work the properties of this effective noise are studied numerically. Some assumptions made in earlier work were verified, the dependence of various quantities on the localization length of the linear problem were computed. A scenario for the possible breakdown of the theory for a very long time is outlined.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
Two-component uniform spin susceptibility in superconducting HgBa$_{2}$CuO$_{4+δ}$ single crystals determined with $^{63}$Cu and $^{199}$Hg NMR
Creators: name: Haase, Jürgen
name: Rybicki, Damian
name: Slichter, Charles P.
name: Greven, Martin
name: Yu, Guichuan
name: Li, Yuan
name: Zhao, Xudong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $^{63}$Cu and $^{199}$Hg NMR shifts for an optimally and underdoped HgBa$_{2}$CuO$_{4+δ}$ single crystal are reported, and the temperature dependence dictates a two-component description of the uniform spin susceptibility. The first component, associated with the pseudogap phenomenon in the NMR shifts, decreases already at room temperature and continues to drop as the temperature is lowered, without a drastic change at the transition temperature into the superconducting state. The second component is temperature independent above the superconducting transition temperature and vanishes rapidly below it. It increases with doping and is a substantial part of the total spin susceptibility measured at both nuclei.
title: Deminalised bone matrix effects on bone regeneration in a critical size-defect model in rats: histology, stereology and cone beam CT analysis
Creators: name: LÓPEZ ARCAS CALLEJA, JOSÉ MARÍA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Animal (veterinary) studies
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Head and neck
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Grafts
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Osteoporosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Bone regeneration is an extremely complex process where different factors such as bone morphogenetic proteins, consistently found in the bone matrix, play a fundamental role. Many experimentalstudieshavebeenconductedto try toelucidatethe role...
Fundamental quantum limits in optical metrology from rate-distortion theory
Creators: name: Nair, Ranjith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive fundamental lower bounds on the performance of optical metrology and communication systems in a Bayesian framework. The derivation uses classical rate-distortion theory in conjunction with bounds on the capacity to transmit classical information of various optical channels specified by the system design. The bounds are expressed in terms of the system parameters, the prior probability distribution of the parameter, and the average energy, i.e., number of photons $E$ in the probe state. For phase estimation, the bounds pertain to a cyclic mean squared error criterion incorporating the cyclic nature of the phase. In the absence of optical loss, our bounds are applicable to multimode linear phase modulation schemes (including ancilla-assisted ones), and to nonlinear modulations on a single mode. The bounds display inverse-quadratic Heisenberg-limit scaling of the cyclic mean square error with respect to $E$. In the presence of any finite amount of loss, a lower bound on ancilla-assisted phase estimation with standard-quantum-limit (SQL) scaling is derived, which is shown to be little different from a similar bound for coherent-state probes. For systems involving a single optical mode, we also obtain lower bounds on the mean squared error of estimating any classical parameter, and on the average error probability of any $M$-ary communication system under an average energy constraint. The bounds are valid for arbitrary quantum measurements, for any prior probability distribution, and do not rely on unbiasedness assumptions.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures; approximates published version. Improved presentation, updated references and added new results on multimode multipass phase estimation, $M$-ary optical communication, and general single-mode estimation. The bounds for phase estimation are now in terms of the cyclic mean squared error criterion
title: MSCT Imaging of cholangiocarcinoma
Creators: name: jurjevic, nikolina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this educational poster is to characterize the MSCT features of...
Felix Dominy Watch Paper with Illegible Notations
Creators: name: Clock, Felix Dominy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1800
Subjects: Clock & watch industry
Clock & watch making
Watch papers
Clocks & watches
Labels
Maintenance & repair
Dominy Family

description: Watch paper from a watch serviced by one of the Dominy Family clock makers. This decorative watch paper carries the name of Felix Dominy Clock & Watch Maker based in East Hampton, New York. Stephen Manheimer notes watch papers were really as much a form of decorative material as they were advertising. The papers would have also helped the watch components fit together. Papers from a prior watch maker would have been removed and repaired when a watch was repaired or serviced. At the point of repair, the business performing the maintenance would then place a watch paper advertising their own business inside the watch. This collection of watch papers were acquired as a lot from an antique dealer in Southampton selling many documents from the Dominy workshop. The Dominy accounts in the holdings at Winterthur offer corresponding details for many of the watch papers in this collection, as per Stephen Manheimer. The reverse of this watch paper carries multiple notations, including numbers and names, although the notations are illegible due to the stains and discoloration of the watch paper. One of the notations could be a name or title that begins with a "C," such as "Caspar," "Captain," or "Caesar."
description: Part of a private collection of materials on the Dominy Family lent to the Long Island Collection by Stephen Manheimer for digitization purposes only. The Dominy Family were prominent woodworkers, mechanics, and craftsmen, known for their clocks and other furniture. The family was also involved in operating a mill.
Police Brutality in Canada: A Framing Analysis
Creators: name: Puplampu, Adiki
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Police Brutality
subject: Framing Theory
subject: News Media
subject: Black Lives Matter
subject: Social Movements
subject: Critical Race Theory
subject: Social Construction of Reality
subject: Journalism
subject: History--Canadian
subject: Ethnic and Racial Studies
subject: History--Black

description: This thesis examines the framing of police brutality in Canadian news media within the context of the social moment created by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The BLM movement has been integral in the mainstreaming of police brutality discourse and, in partnership with increasingly publicized incidents of police brutality, has served as a catalyst for discourse reignition around the issue. Within the context of social movements and cultural transformations, news media is an essential artifact to examine social problem construction and discourse shifts. But discussions of and literature examining media representation and police brutality focus primarily on the American context. By examining news articles from mainstream Canadian outlets with an orientation toward the Canadian cultural context, this research aims to fill a Canadian content gap in the literature. The analysis relies on framing as both theory and method in conjunction with critical race theory (CRT) to examine news produced during two critical junctures in the history of the BLM movement: 2013, when the movement began, and 2020, when it experienced a global resurgence. My examination finds clear problematization of police brutality in both time frames but with a stronger emphasis on race in the 2020 articles, which enhances the problem identification. In addition to theorizing cultural and journalistic barriers to the integration of racial discourse in the 2013 content, I argue that our current social climate supports more effective problematization of police brutality in Canadian news media but that even recent 2020 coverage fails to provide solutions or examine the nuances of modern police brutality beyond its often racial character.
title: Simplicity, efficacy and usefulness in the characterization of dysphagia: The videofluoroscopy swallow study.
Creators: name: ALARCON, RAQUEL
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Swallowing disorders
subject: Dynamic swallowing studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Anatomy
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To explain the technique and protocol of the Videofluoroscopy swallow study, its advantages, disadvantages, and main indications. To show real cases examples evaluated in our center, and analyze the radiological findings of these studies by using...
title: BORDER NATURES. The Environment as Weapon at the Edges of Greece
Creators: name: Levidis, Stefanos
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2021

description: This practice-based PhD critically investigates the complex imbrications of political violence and environmental processes resulting in the construction of so-called “natural” borders: national boundaries where nature is understood to delimit and fortify the nation-state. Taking the frontiers of Greece as a case study, the thesis seeks to demonstrate that, contrary to conceptions of natural borders as spaces that operate devoid of human intervention, their materiality and natural processes are in fact hybridized and engineered by states to perform the specific, deadly tasks of deterrence, exclusion and erasure. Part I (Ghost Habitats) explores the mountainous, trilateral border area of the Prespa/Prespa/Prespës lakes between Greece, North Macedonia, and Albania, to consider how the delineation and enforcement of the border reconfigures regional ecosystems to render them into “wild” frontiers, subject to different legal orders than the remainder of sovereign territory. Part II (Anáchoma), co-researched with colleague Ifor Duncan (PhD, CRΑ/Post-doctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) considers the Evros/Meriç/Maritsa river between Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria as an apparatus of border violence and obfuscation, as well as a body which records, stores, and occasionally reveals this violence through seasonal shifts in its hydrological cycle. Part III (Grey Rocks, Black Waves) examines the archipelagic border of the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, to discuss how its geographically and historically dense materiality is mobilized as a defensive infrastructure against contemporary migration at sea, and to reflect on a spatial and visual practice that attempts to decode this matter to reveal traces of state violence. In each case sovereign power organises, and is organised around, specific ecological processes to disperse the causal agencies of violence enacted against disempowered border subjects, and aspiring crossers. Incorporating a methodology that borrows from disciplines as diverse as forensics, filmmaking, archaeology, botany, and oceanography, the thesis contests commonplace understandings of territorial limits as lines that are simply scripted over natural backdrops, to critically include the multiple human agencies and their insidious use of ecological dynamics for the work of border defence. To describe these hybrid boundary environments, and the complex causal relationships they engender, the thesis introduces the operative concept of “border natures”: a synthesis of nature, space, technology and law, and connecting actors as diverse as border authorities, fences, technologies of surveillance, political and legal orders, human and more-than-human forms of life - rivers, waves, and mountains.
Infinite graphs in systematic biology, with an application to the species problem
Creators: name: Alexander, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 92B10, 05C63

description: We argue that C. Darwin and more recently W. Hennig worked at times under the simplifying assumption of an eternal biosphere. So motivated, we explicitly consider the consequences which follow mathematically from this assumption, and the infinite graphs it leads to. This assumption admits certain clusters of organisms which have some ideal theoretical properties of species, shining some light onto the species problem. We prove a dualization of a law of T.A. Knight and C. Darwin, and sketch a decomposition result involving the internodons of D. Kornet, J. Metz and H. Schellinx. A further goal of this paper is to respond to B. Sturmfels' question, "Can biology lead to new theorems?"
description: 16 pages, 7 figures. Fixing incorrect date in preprint
title: Size doesn’t (always) matter! RECIST vs CHOI. Radiological evaluation of anti-angiogenic therapy in metastatic renal carcinoma
Creators: name: Verardo, Ilaria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Monoclonal antibodies
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Staging
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Kidney

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In the field of oncology, the evaluation of the response to therapy is one of the essential moments both for prognostic purposes and for orienting the therapeutic choice. Currently, four possible first-line treatment options are available for the...
Generation of strong magnetic fields by r-modes in millisecond accreting neutron stars: induced deformations and gravitational wave emission
Creators: name: Cuofano, Carmine
name: Dall'Osso, Simone
name: Drago, Alessandro
name: Stella, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Differential rotation induced by the r-mode instability can generate very strong toroidal fields in the core of accreting, millisecond spinning neutron stars. We introduce explicitly the magnetic damping term in the evolution equations of the r-modes and solve them numerically in the Newtonian limit, to follow the development and growth of the internal magnetic field. We show that the strength of the latter can reach large values, $B \sim 10^{14} $ G, in the core of the fastest accreting neutron stars. This is strong enough to induce a significant quadrupole moment of the neutron star mass distribution, corresponding to an ellipticity $|ε_B}| \sim 10^{-8}$. If the symmetry axis of the induced magnetic field is not aligned with the spin axis, the neutron star radiates gravitational waves. We suggest that this mechanism may explain the upper limit of the spin frequencies observed in accreting neutron stars in Low Mass X-Ray Binaries. We discuss the relevance of our results for the search of gravitational waves.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Small Communities and Anonymization - Challenges in Data Protection in Qualitative Research
Creators: name: Rieser, Rebekka
Publisher: name: Project consortium RDM curriculum Campus Luzern
Year: 2025
Subjects: research data management
MasteringRDMCampusLU

description: Presentation slides on how to do meaningful research and protect data in qualitative research, especially in small communities.

The slides are part of the "Mastering RDM Advanced Module II: Qualitative Research Data". This course was provided in the context of the project "RDM curriculum Campus Luzern", which was partially funded by swissuniversities
description: Mastering RDM Advanced Module II: Qualitative Research Datahttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14284731
title: Imaging findings of nontraumatic adrenal haemorrhage
Creators: name: Jover Sánchez, Juan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Acute
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describing the imaging findings of nontraumatic adrenal haemorrhage on ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging...
The Mentorship Guide for Teaching and Learning
Creators: name: Barrette-Ng, Isabelle H.
name: Nowell, Lorelli
name: Anderson, Sarah J.
name: Arcellana-Panlilio, Mayi
name: Brown, Barbara
name: Chalhoub, Serge
name: Clancy, Tracey L.
name: Desjardine, Patricia
name: Dorland, AnneMarie
name: Dyjur, Patti
name: Mueller, Katherine
name: Reid, Leslie
name: Squance, Rod T.
name: Towers, Jo
name: Wilcox, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
Year: 2019

description: Research guide
description: Rooted in evidence, this guide will provide you with a unique perspective on supporting mentoring relationships for teaching and learning development. You will explore mentoring relationships, assessing readiness for mentorship, initiating mentorship, developing and sustaining mentoring relationships and mentoring transitions while ultimately improving student learning. You will also reflect on your mentoring relationships as you work through a series of guided questions and practical worksheets. Research on academic mentorship often measures success in terms of mentee research productivity (Feldman, Arean, Marshall, Lovett & O’Sullivan, 2010; Kalet, Fletcher, Ferdman & Bicknell, 2006; Sambunjak, Straus & Marušić, 2006). Teaching mentorship produces different measures of success, including the development of reflective practice and, most importantly, improvements in student learning. Although there are many resources for mentorship in academia (Johnson, 2015; Straus & Sackett, 2014), none of them aim specifically at supporting mentorship for teaching and learning development. Mentorship in teaching and learning differs from research mentorship in terms of aims, approaches and measures of success, which is why we offer this resource.
title: Can Automatic Exposure Control be Used Effectively for Paediatric Pelvis Radiography?
Creators: name: Matthews, Kate
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Radiographers
subject: Paediatric
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Physics
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Published in 1996, the European Guidelines on Quality Criteria for Diagnostic Radiographic Images in Paediatrics discouraged the use of Automatic Exposure Control (AEC) when imaging small children [1]. This is on the basis that a child's anatomy is...
Opinion formation in time-varying social networks: The case of the naming game
Creators: name: Maity, Suman Kalyan
name: Manoj, T. Venkat
name: Mukherjee, Animesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the dynamics of the naming game as an opinion formation model on time-varying social networks. This agent-based model captures the essential features of the agreement dynamics by means of a memory-based negotiation process. Our study focuses on the impact of time-varying properties of the social network of the agents on the naming game dynamics. In particular, we perform a computational exploration of this model using simulations on top of real networks. We investigate the outcomes of the dynamics on two different types of time-varying data - (i) the networks vary on a day-to-day basis and (ii) the networks vary within very short intervals of time (20 seconds). In the first case, we find that networks with strong community structure hinder the system from reaching global agreement; the evolution of the naming game in these networks maintains clusters of coexisting opinions indefinitely leading to metastability. In the second case, we investigate the evolution of the naming game in perfect synchronization with the time evolution of the underlying social network shedding new light on the traditional emergent properties of the game that differ largely from what has been reported in the existing literature.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:physics/0511201 by other authors
title: Ductal plate malformations- A pictorial review
Creators: name: Flor de Lima, Beatriz
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cysts
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To present the most important aspects of the ductal plate development in fetal life. To review the imaging findings of the ductal plate malformations in different imaging modalities and present some of the differential diagnosis that have to be...
Brownian dynamics: from glassy to trivial
Creators: name: Jacquin, Hugo
name: Kim, Bongsoo
name: Kawasaki, Kyozi
name: Van Wijland, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We endow a system of interacting particles with two distinct, local, Markovian and reversible microscopic dynamics. Using common field-theoretic techniques used to investigate the presence of a glass transition, we find that while the first, standard, dynamical rules lead to glassy behavior, the other one leads to a simple exponential relaxation towards equilibrium. This finding questions the intrinsic link that exists between the underlying, thermodynamical, energy landscape, and the dynamical rules with which this landscape is explored by the system. Our peculiar choice of dynam- ical rules offers the possibility of a direct connection with replica theory, and our findings therefore call for a clarification of the interplay between replica theory and the underlying dynamics of the system.
3D Printed Interdigitated Capacitor based Tilt Sensor
Creators: name: Wahlbom, Anders
name: Dahiya, Ravinder
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Published article: 3D Printed Interdigitated Capacitor based Tilt Sensor
The Intersection of Scientific Misinformation on Social Media and the COVID-19 Pandemic and 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak
Creators: name: Dalton, Maria Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: misinformation
subject: infodemic
subject: social media
subject: COVID-19
subject: monkeypox
subject: scientific misinformation
subject: Public Health
subject: Information Science

description: The propagation, and rapid increase of misinformation online, resulted in the World Health Organization declaring an “infodemic” in 2020. The 2022 monkeypox outbreak, alongside the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, resulted in new discussions surrounding the current misinformation outbreak online – primarily on social media. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the presence of misinformation online, and the direct impacts misinformation can have on action, for example, racially motivated attacks and profiling, and the burning of 5G towers in Europe. Beginning in May of 2022, the monkeypox outbreak was initially reported as a cluster of cases in the United Kingdom following travel to the African continent whereby the spread of misinformation surrounding the disease followed, with dialogues focused on men who have sex with men. A thematic analysis of Instagram posts under #monkeypox and #justsayno was conducted to critically evaluate the dominant themes present on social media related to both the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2022 Monkeypox outbreak. While posts related to COVID-19 were more likely to be flagged as misinformation, posts related to the monkeypox outbreak were typically classified as anti-misinformation or factual, perhaps signifying a shift, and algorithmic changes, in the way Instagram flags information shared on the platform. By increasing our awareness of misinformation spread, we can work to develop strategies to curb its spread and quantify areas for improvement related to social media algorithms.
“Delitto al voto”. Evoluzione e contraddizioni del sistema politico e del processo elettorale in Guatemala. Una missione di monitoraggio elettorale
Creators: name: Tovaglieri, Luna
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: “Delitto al voto”. Evoluzione e contraddizioni del sistema politico e del processo elettorale in Guatemala. Una missione di monitoraggio elettorale
description: Altre Modernità, No 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
title: Preoperative prediction of cosmetic result in large volume displacement oncoplastic surgery and mastectomy in breast cancer treatment
Creators: name: Conti, Marco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Surgery
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Today breast-conserving surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy is the gold standard treatment for early-stage breast cancer, with disease free survival and overall survival equivalent to mastectomy (M) [1, 2]. A further aim of BCS is to ensure...
Norme redazionali/Normas redaccionales/Normes rédactionnelles/Stylesheet
Creators: name: Monegato, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: Norme redazionali/Normas redaccionales/Normes rédactionnelles/Stylesheet
description: Altre Modernità, No 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni
Comunicare le passioni: la costruzione dello spazio politico
Creators: name: Morgante, Jole
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2009

description: CfP#3 - Comunicare le passioni: la costruzione dello spazio politico a cura di Jole Morgante
description: Altre Modernità, No 2 (2009): Letterature e migrazioni