cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On conditions for asymptotic stability of dissipative infinite-dimensional systems with intermittent damping
Creators: name: Hante, Falk
name: Sigalotti, Mario
name: Tucsnak, Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We study the asymptotic stability of a dissipative evolution in a Hilbert space subject to intermittent damping. We observe that, even if the intermittence satisfies a persistent excitation condition, if the Hilbert space is infinite-dimensional then the system needs not being asymptotically stable (not even in the weak sense). Exponential stability is recovered under a generalized observability inequality, allowing for time-domains that are not intervals. Weak asymptotic stability is obtained under a similarly generalized unique continuation principle. Finally, strong asymptotic stability is proved for intermittences that do not necessarily satisfy some persistent excitation condition, evaluating their total contribution to the decay of the trajectories of the damped system. Our results are discussed using the example of the wave equation, Schrödinger's equation and, for strong stability, also the special case of finite-dimensional systems.
An examination of the influence of threat on judgments of contaminant spread
Creators: name: Herba, Joanna Karoline
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Concern about the spread of infectious agents and associated washing and avoidance behaviour vary widely across individuals. Extremes on either end of the spectrum can have negative consequences: overconcern can lead to undue distress and excessive cautionary behaviour, and underconcern can lead to the contraction and spread of disease. The purpose of this series of four studies was to examine variables that contribute to individual differences in judgments of contaminant spread. Specifically, I examined whether threat influenced judgments of spread. Studies 1 and 2 were conducted with a general (unselected) sample of participants recruited from a university campus (N = 75 and N = 77 respectively), while Studies 3 and 4 extended the research to two specific populations of interest (49 nursing students in Study 3 and 21 participants with contamination-related OCD in Study 4). Participants were randomly assigned to judge the spread of either a: threatening contaminant (disease-causing bacteria), non-threatening contaminant (harmless bacteria) or non-contaminant (vegetable juice in Study 1, yogurt containing probiotic bacteria in Studies 2, 3 and 4). To ensure participants’ safety, these substances were not actually present—rather participants were led to believe that one of these substances was placed on a cutting board and then spread to a series of objects. Findings varied depending on the specific facet of spread examined and the population under study. Among the general university sample and participants with OCD, identification as a contaminant increased judgments of physical spread, but threat did not. Among nursing students, there was a trend for threat to increase judgments of physical spread. With regard to danger along the chain of contagion, threat increased danger ratings for the general university sample and nursing students, but not for participants with OCD. Rather, the OCD group viewed danger as elevated along the chain of contagion for both contaminants. Threat also increased avoidance for the general university sample and nursing students, but not the OCD group. Participants with OCD tended to engage in high levels of avoidance regardless of which condition they were in. Discussion focuses on the studies’ implications for understanding fear of contamination and hygiene behaviour.
Effect of partitioning time on microstructural evolution of a C-Mn-Si steel in two-step quenching and partitioning process
Creators: name: Ghazvinloo, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Journal of Materials and Environmental Science
2014, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 1988-1993
title: Rare idiopathic interstitial pneumonias – radiologic findings and pathologic correlations
Creators: name: Silva,  Miguel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Inflammation
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the radiologic findings of the rare idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) and how they correlate with their histologic patterns ; To provide some differential diagnosis of these...
L’Archivio Giovanni Sacchi: tra documenti, modelli e memoria immateriale
Creators: name: Anzivino, Valeria
name: Mazzoni, Stefano
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: L’Archivio Giovanni Sacchi: tra documenti, modelli e memoria immateriale (Archivio Giovanni Sacchi)
di Valeria Anzivino e Stefano Mazzoni
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Giulio Cesare Opera in tre atti (1724)
Creators: name: Pitrolo, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Giulio Cesare
Opera in tre atti (1724)

Musica di Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Libretto di Nicola Francesco Haym, da un’idea di
Giacomo Francesco Bussani

Direzione musicale: Emmanuelle Haïm
Regia e costumi: Laurent Pelly
Scenografia: Chantal Thomas
Luci: Joël Adam
Drammaturgia e collaborazione alla regia: Agathe Mélinand
Direzione del coro: Alessandro Di Stefano
Giulio Cesare: Lawrence Zazzo
Cornelia: Varduhi Abrahamyan
Sesto: Isabel Leonard
Cleopatra: Natalie Dessay/Jane Archibald
Tolomeo: Christophe Dumaux
Nireno: Dominique Visse
Curio: Aimery Lefèvre
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Something Blue: Disability, Dystopia, and Autoimmunity
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Amy J
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Illness
subject: Autoimmunity
subject: Pandemics
subject: Short stories
subject: Literature
subject: Literature--Modern
subject: Literature--English

description: Something Blue is a work of fiction in the form of interconnected short stories. The work presents an alternate history set in Canada in the years between SARS and H1N1. In this imagined time period, genetic bio-services are used to ascertain whether any genetic abnormalities or illnesses may be passed down through a parent’s genetic material to their offspring. Because of these services, rates of illness and disability are lowered in certain (more affluent) communities as prospective parents can decide whether or not to terminate a pregnancy that could have resulted in a child with an illness. In other communities, rates of illness and disability continue as before. Something Blue is a fictional collection of paper-based artifacts that were, in the world of the novel, collected and donated to a historical society studying the time of the Cerulean Fever. The fictional Cerulean Fever is based on Typhoid Fever, but is imagined as having a zoological basis, spreading from infected blue jays to human beings and causing flu- like symptoms with a blue discolouration of the cheeks. In the worst and most fatal of cases, Cerulean Fever causes a cytokine storm, an autoimmune response where the immune system attempts to attack the fever, but fills the lungs with fluid in the process. Because of the immune system’s cytokine storm response to Cerulean Fever, those with pre-existing conditions like autoimmune diseases are actually best placed to survive the fever as the medications used to treat their conditions will not allow their immune systems to drown them from the inside out.
title: Biliary variants and their surgical relevance
Creators: name: Cannataci, Christine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cholangiography
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: MR
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To delineate the normal anatomy, common and uncommon variants of biliary tree anatomy To highlight the MRI protocols used to depict the biliary tree. To address the relevance of these variants to hepatobiliary...
Catalogare & comprare: la nuova gioventù dei pezzi da museo
Creators: name: Caponi, Paolo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Catalogare & comprare: la nuova gioventù dei pezzi da museo∗

John Soane, Per una storia della mia casa. Primo abbozzo. A cura di Caroline Patey, Palermo, Sellerio Editore, 2010, pp.128, ISBN 88-389-2342-6

Caroline Patey, Laura Scuriatti (eds), The Exhibit in the Text. The Museological Practices of Literature, Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 282, ISBN 978-3-03911-377-4

di Paolo Caponi

∗ First published in: Caponi, Paolo. "Catalogare & comprare: la nuova gioventù dei pezzi da museo." Altre
Modernità [Online], 0.4 (2011): 321-323. Web. 27 Mar. 2011
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Bounding Program Benefits When Participation is Misreported
Creators: name: Tommasi, Denni
name: Zhang, Lina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 380202
subject: Econometric and statistical methods
classificationCode: 380299
subject: Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: In empirical research, measuring correctly the benefits of welfare interventions is incredibly relevant for policymakers as well as academic researchers. Unfortunately, the endogenous program participation is often misreported in survey data and standard instrumental variable techniques are not sufficient to point identify and consistently estimate the effects of interest. In this paper, we focus on the weighted average of local average treatment effects (LATE) and (i) derive a simple relationship between the causal and the identifiable parameter that can be recovered from the observed data, (ii) provide an instrumental variable method to partially identify the heterogeneous treatment effects, (iii) formalize a strategy to combine administrative data on the misclassification probabilities of treated individuals to further tighten the bounds. Finally, we use our method to reassess the benefits of participating to the 401(k) pension plan on savings.
Hydrodynamics in full general relativity with conservative AMR
Creators: name: East, William E.
name: Pretorius, Frans
name: Stephens, Branson C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is great interest in numerical relativity simulations involving matter due to the likelihood that binary compact objects involving neutron stars will be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, as well as to the possibility that binary compact object mergers could explain short-duration gamma-ray bursts. We present a code designed for simulations of hydrodynamics coupled to the Einstein field equations targeted toward such applications. This code has recently been used to study eccentric mergers of black hole-neutron star binaries. We evolve the fluid conservatively using high-resolution shock-capturing methods, while the field equations are solved in the generalized-harmonic formulation with finite differences. In order to resolve the various scales that may arise, we use adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) with grid hierarchies based on truncation error estimates. A noteworthy feature of this code is the implementation of the flux correction algorithm of Berger and Colella to ensure that the conservative nature of fluid advection is respected across AMR boundaries. We present various tests to compare the performance of different limiters and flux calculation methods, as well as to demonstrate the utility of AMR flux corrections.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures; revised according referee comments, PRD in press
Dal flâneur alla flâneuse. Evoluzione di un profilo urbano dal XIX secolo in avanti
Creators: name: Tagliabue, Alice
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Dal flâneur alla flâneuse. Evoluzione di un profilo urbano dal XIX secolo in avanti
di Alice Tagliabue

RELATORI: Prof.ssa Nicoletta Vallorani: Prof. Dino Gavinelli
CORSO DI LAUREA: Laurea Magistrale in Lingue, Culture e Comunicazione Internazionale
ISTITUZIONE ACCADEMICA: Università degli Studi di Milano
ANNO ACCADEMICO: 2008/2009
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Detecting changes in cross-sectional dependence in multivariate time series
Creators: name: Bücher, Axel
name: Kojadinovic, Ivan
name: Rohmer, Tom
name: Segers, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Classical and more recent tests for detecting distributional changes in multivariate time series often lack power against alternatives that involve changes in the cross-sectional dependence structure. To be able to detect such changes better, a test is introduced based on a recently studied variant of the sequential empirical copula process. In contrast to earlier attempts, ranks are computed with respect to relevant subsamples, with beneficial consequences for the sensitivity of the test. For the computation of p-values we propose a multiplier resampling scheme that takes the serial dependence into account. The large-sample theory for the test statistic and the resampling scheme is developed. The finite-sample performance of the procedure is assessed by Monte Carlo simulations. Two case studies involving time series of financial returns are presented as well.
description: 32 pages, 6 tables
title: Fibromatosis colli, an uncommon neck mass in infants: A case series
Creators: name: Ahmad, Waqas
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Paediatric
subject: Musculoskeletal system

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Diagnosis of fibromatosis colliusing ultrasound and differentiating from other neck...
A Massive S-duality in 4 dimensions
Creators: name: Catal-Ozer, Aybike
name: Deliduman, Cemsinan
name: Saka, Ulas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reduce the Type IIA supergravity theory with a generalized Scherk-Schwarz ansatz that exploits the scaling symmetry of the dilaton, the metric and the NS 2-form field. The resulting theory is a new massive, gauged supergravity theory in four dimensions with a massive 2-form field and a massive 1-form field. We show that this theory is S-dual to a theory with a massive vector field and a massive 2-form field, which are dual to the massive 2-form and 1-form fields in the original theory, respectively. The S-dual theory is shown to arise from a Scherk-Schwarz reduction of the heterotic theory. Hence we establish a massive, S-duality type relation between the IIA theory and the heterotic theory in four dimensions. We also show that the Lagrangian for the new four dimensional theory can be put in the most general form of a D=4, N=4 gauged Lagrangian found by Schon and Weidner, in which (part of) the SL(2) group has been gauged.
description: 20 pages, references added
Including the Fermion Vacuum Fluctuations in the $(2+1)$ flavor Polyakov Quark Meson Model
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Sandeep
name: Mohan, Kirtimaan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the $(2+1)$ flavor Polyakov Quark Meson Model and study the effect of including fermion vacuum fluctuations on the thermodynamics and phase diagram. The resulting model predictions are compared to the recent QCD lattice simulations by the HotQCD and Wuppertal-Budapest collaborations. The variation of the thermodynamic quantities across the phase transition region becomes smoother. This results in better agreement with the lattice data. Depending on the value of the mass of the sigma meson, including the vacuum term results in either pushing the critical end point into higher values of the chemical potential or excluding the possibility of a critical end point altogether.
description: 15 figures, some parts rewritten, new figures added
title: The spinal cord tumor-like lesions: a pictorial review
Creators: name: Kobryń, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Inflammation
subject: Fistula
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology spine

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To familiarize with the spinal MRI diagnostic protocol . To get acquainted with MRI spinal artifacts and how to avoid them. To review the most common spinal cord tumor-like...
title: Multi-detector computed tomography in assessment of tetralogy of Fallot patients, is it a must?
Creators: name: Tantawy, Sara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: · Stress on the essential role of MDCT in identifying anatomic variants, and asociated intracardiac and extracardiac anomalies in TOF before surgical repair. · Delineate the role of MDCT in palliative treatment of TOF as in cases of systemic...
La memoria della dittatura in Cile: il contributo di Michelle Bachelet
Creators: name: Bisi, Marta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Lamemoria della dittatura in Cile: il contributo di Michelle Bachelet
di Marta Bisi

RELATORE: Prof.ssa Marzia Rosti
CORRELATORE: Prof.ssa Emilia Perassi
CORSO DI LAUREA: Lingue, Culture e Comunicazione Internazionale
UNIVERSITÀ: Università degli Studi di Milano
ANNO ACCADEMICO: 2008/2009
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
title: Flow-diverting stents for the treatment of Fusiform Aneurysm of the Vertebrobasilar Arterial System: early single center experience
Creators: name: Brauna, Katrina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Aneurysms

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With the development of endovascular devices, intracranial stents and flow diverters have become major options for treating vertebral fusiform aneurysms. Flow-diverter devices (FDDs) are new-generation stents placed in the parent artery at the level...
Technical Specification of the Community Platform D5.1
Creators: name: Gértrudix-Barrio, Manuel
name: Rivas-Rebaque, Begoña
name: Romero-Luis, Juan
name: Carbonell-Alcocer, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Community platform; Citizen Science; EU project; Horizon 2020

description: This deliverable contains the specifications document that describes the technical requirements and the plan for implementation of the Community Platform based on the technical and user needs from the consortium partners.
Velocity Polytopes of Periodic Graphs and a No-Go Theorem for Digital Physics
Creators: name: Fritz, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 05C38, 05C22, Secondary: 52C07, 68R10

description: A periodic graph in dimension $d$ is a directed graph with a free action of $\Z^d$ with only finitely many orbits. It can conveniently be represented in terms of an associated finite graph with weights in $\Z^d$, corresponding to a $\Z^d$-bundle with connection. Here we use the weight sums along cycles in this associated graph to construct a certain polytope in $\R^d$, which we regard as a geometrical invariant associated to the periodic graph. It is the unit ball of a norm on $\R^d$ describing the large-scale geometry of the graph. It has a physical interpretation as the set of attainable velocities of a particle on the graph which can hop along one edge per timestep. Since a polytope necessarily has distinguished directions, there is no periodic graph for which this velocity set is isotropic. In the context of classical physics, this can be viewed as a no-go theorem for the emergence of an isotropic space from a discrete structure.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure. See also http://pirsa.org/12100100/. Corrigendum in v3: most mathematical results were obtained earlier by other authors, references have been included
Monitoring of the operating parameters of the KATRIN Windowless Gaseous Tritium Source
Creators: name: Babutzka, M.
name: Bahr, M.
name: Bonn, J.
name: Bornschein, B.
name: Dieter, A.
name: Drexlin, G.
name: Eitel, K.
name: Fischer, S.
name: Glück, F.
name: Grohmann, S.
name: Hötzel, M.
name: James, T. M.
name: Käfer, W.
name: Leber, M.
name: Monreal, B.
name: Priester, F.
name: Röllig, M.
name: Schlösser, M.
name: Schmitt, U.
name: Sharipov, F.
name: Steidl, M.
name: Sturm, M.
name: Telle, H. H.
name: Titov, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will measure the absolute mass scale of neutrinos with a sensitivity of $\m_ν$ = 200 meV/c$^2$ by high-precision spectroscopy close to the tritium beta-decay endpoint at 18.6 keV. Its Windowless Gaseous Tritium Source (WGTS) is a beta-decay source of high intensity ($10^{11}$/s) and stability, where high-purity molecular tritium at 30 K is circulated in a closed loop with a yearly throughput of 10 kg. To limit systematic effects the column density of the source has to be stabilised at the 0.1% level. This requires extensive sensor instrumentation and dedicated control and monitoring systems for parameters such as the beam tube temperature, injection pressure, gas composition and others. Here we give an overview of these systems including a dedicated Laser-Raman system as well as several beta-decay activity monitors. We also report on results of the WGTS demonstrator and other large-scale test experiments giving proof-of-principle that all parameters relevant to the systematics can be controlled and monitored on the 0.1% level or better. As a result of these works, the WGTS systematics can be controlled within stringent margins, enabling the KATRIN experiment to explore the neutrino mass scale with the design sensitivity.
description: 32 pages, 13 figures. modification to title, typos corrected
Void of Expression
Creators: name: Beaulieu, Braydon P. S.
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Creative Writing
subject: Fiction
subject: Poetry
subject: Poems
subject: Conceptualism
subject: Conceptual Writing
subject: Science Fiction
subject: Scifi
subject: Science Fantasy
subject: Fabulism
subject: Language Death
subject: Language Attrition
subject: Viral Language
subject: Appropriation
subject: Colonialism
subject: Loss
subject: Grief
subject: Narrative
subject: Literature
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Literature--General
subject: Language
subject: Language--General
subject: Language--Linguistics
subject: Fine Arts
subject: Folklore

description: Void of Expression is a collection of creative fiction and poetry about a linguistic extinction that results from a first contact event with an alien species that colonize stars to convert them to supercomputers in a galactic network, and the people first affected by this extraterrestrial, memetic retrovirus. Poetry and prose work in tandem to propel a narrative that explores communication, loss, grief, and appropriation. Interrogating colonialist tropes in both science fiction and Conceptualist creative practices—with features of fabulism and body horror—this collection employs the techniques of Conceptual writing (and other forms of poetic experimentation) to position itself as a work of Conceptual science fiction. As a result, Void of Expression forms a basis for Conceptual writing as prosaic fiction, in contrast to the movement’s default, poetic mode.
Extreme events and event size fluctuations in biased random walks on networks
Creators: name: Kishore, Vimal
name: Santhanam, M. S.
name: Amritkar, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Random walk on discrete lattice models is important to understand various types of transport processes. The extreme events, defined as exceedences of the flux of walkers above a prescribed threshold, have been studied recently in the context of complex networks. This was motivated by the occurrence of rare events such as traffic jams, floods, and power black-outs which take place on networks. In this work, we study extreme events in a generalized random walk model in which the walk is preferentially biased by the network topology. The walkers preferentially choose to hop toward the hubs or small degree nodes. In this setting, we show that extremely large fluctuations in event-sizes are possible on small degree nodes when the walkers are biased toward the hubs. In particular, we obtain the distribution of event-sizes on the network. Further, the probability for the occurrence of extreme events on any node in the network depends on its 'generalized strength', a measure of the ability of a node to attract walkers. The 'generalized strength' is a function of the degree of the node and that of its nearest neighbors. We obtain analytical and simulation results for the probability of occurrence of extreme events on the nodes of a network using a generalized random walk model. The result reveals that the nodes with a larger value of 'generalized strength', on average, display lower probability for the occurrence of extreme events compared to the nodes with lower values of 'generalized strength'.
n.6 -11/2011 Le Americhe “al nero”. La letteratura, la musica e l’arte afrolatinoamericana tra denuncia sociale e rappresentazione del sé
Creators: name: Irina Bajini, (A Cura Di)
name: Laura Scarabelli, (A Cura Di)
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Le Americhe “al nero”. La letteratura, la musica e l’arte afrolatinoamericana tra denuncia sociale e rappresentazione del sé.

Las Américas a lo negro. Literatura, música, artes afrolatinoamericanas entre denuncia social y autorepresentación.

Les Amériques “au noir”. Littérature, musique et art afrolatino-américains entre dénonciation sociale et représentation de soi.
Black Americas Afro-Latin American literature, music and art between social denunciation and self representation.
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Norme redazionali/Normas redaccionales/Normes rédactionnelles/Stylesheet
Creators: name: Monegato, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Norme redazionali/Normas redaccionales/Normes rédactionnelles/Stylesheet
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
Deterministic Feature Selection for $k$-means Clustering
Creators: name: Boutsidis, Christos
name: Magdon-Ismail, Malik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study feature selection for $k$-means clustering. Although the literature contains many methods with good empirical performance, algorithms with provable theoretical behavior have only recently been developed. Unfortunately, these algorithms are randomized and fail with, say, a constant probability. We address this issue by presenting a deterministic feature selection algorithm for k-means with theoretical guarantees. At the heart of our algorithm lies a deterministic method for decompositions of the identity.
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Bibliografia/Bibliografía/ Bibliographie/Works cited #5
Creators: name: Monegato, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Bibliografia/Bibliografía/ Bibliographie/Works cited #5
description: Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione
There isn’t any Real you in you: il personaggio come sguardo sull’identità. Il caso di Invisible Monsters
Creators: name: De Blasio, Serena
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: A partire dai modelli identitari proposti dalla psicoanalisi, e in particolare dalla teoria lacaniana dei registri, descriverò una modalità di studio del personaggio basata sui processi di identificazione, illustrati dallo schema L.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 4 (2011)
Noise calculations within the second-order von Neumann approach
Creators: name: Zedler, Philipp
name: Emary, Clive
name: Brandes, Tobias
name: Novotny, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the second-order von Neumann approach within the generalized master equation formalism for quantum electronic transport to include the counting field. The resulting non-Markovian evolution equation for the reduced density matrix of the system resolved with respect to the number of transported charges enables the evaluation of the noise and higher-order cumulants of the full counting statistics. We apply this formalism to an analytically solvable model of a single-level quantum dot coupled to highly biased leads with Lorentzian energy-dependent tunnel coupling and demonstrate that, although reproducing exactly the mean current, the resonant tunneling approximation is not exact for the noise and higher order cumulants. Even if it may fail in the regime of strongly non-Markovian dynamics, this approach generically improves results of lower-order and/or Markovian approaches.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure; little changes; very similar to the published version
title: Spatial Pattern of Chinese Package Tours to the UK and Northern Ireland and Their Implication on Tourist Congestion
Creators: name: Mingjie Ji, Kate
name: Reynold, Jonathan
name: Chen, Zhihao
Publisher: name: Oxford Brookes University
Year: 2021

description: The document provides an excutive summary of our research project funded by the British Acadamy (2019-2021). It also serves as a reference to the seminar we delivered on 14 Sep 2021 to the industry and the research community.
Examination of Childhood Adversities, Adverse Health, Health Service Utilization, and Mortality in Adulthood
Creators: name: Bhattarai, Asmita
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health And Environmental Sciences

description: Objective:This project aimed to characterize the association between childhood adversities and a range of adverse health outcomes, health service utilization, and mortality in adulthood.Methods:The dissertation used data from various sources, including large, linked survey datasets and administrative health data. A variety of epidemiologic techniques and statistical methods were used, including methods based on estimation and prediction, to address the study objectives, employing both cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches.Results:Some childhood adversities studied, such as physical abuse, parental substance use, and prolonged trauma were significantly associated with adult health outcomes such as adverse mental health indicators, health risk behaviors, hospitalization, emergency department visits, and even potentially avoidable mortality. The effect of childhood adversity on health and health service utilization varied depending on the nature of the early adversity and the health outcome studied. One type of adversity (peer bullying) even showed a possible resiliency effect in interacting with a specific set of stressful events related to the COVID-19 pandemic in post-secondary students. The adverse effect of childhood adversities was more prominent on presumably proximal health outcomes such as health risk behaviors, mental health concerns, and adult socioeconomic deprivation than more distal outcomes such as mortality. Furthermore, there was some evidence that some of these proximal factors may mediate the association of childhood adversities with distal outcomes such as hospitalizations and mortality. Despite highly significant associations being observed, the childhood adversity items included in the Adverse Childhood Experiences checklist did not predict emergency department visits among children and adolescents with existing mental health concerns.Conclusion:The findings confirm the potential impact of childhood adversities on later health outcomes; However, caution should be taken in treating childhood adversities as a single or unitary construct. The connection between childhood adversities and later health outcomes is more complex and nuanced than previously understood. Identifying a differential effect of specific childhood adversities on specific health outcomes provides important context and nuance to general theories of stress sensitivity via early adversity.
The classification of semi-stable plane sheaves supported on sextic curves
Creators: name: Maican, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D20, 14D22

description: We classify all Gieseker semi-stable sheaves on the complex projective plane that have dimension 1 and multiplicity 6. We decompose their moduli spaces into strata which occur naturally as quotients modulo actions of certain algebraic groups. In most cases we give concrete geometric descriptions of the strata.
description: Corrections to the proofs of 3.1.6 and 5.1.6. Contains short versions of my previous three submissions plus the last case of multiplicity six sheaves. To appear in the Kyoto Journal of Mathematics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1109.3918, arXiv:1105.0112, arXiv:1202.0065
Testo e narrazione: uno sguardo secondo il desiderio
Creators: name: Diazzi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Il presente saggio propone una sintetica analisi del concetto di desiderio inteso quale strumento utile per un’analisi critico-teorico delle opere letterarie; partendo dalla visione di Peter Brooks di desiderio quale lente d’ingrandimento per comprendere a fondo le dinamiche testuali e i movimenti delle trame ci si muove verso una proposta più fluida e dinamica che permetta di avvicinarsi alla complessità eterogenea del discorso letterario, superando un certo tipo di strutturalismo eccessivamente rigido. Dopo un breve excursus sulla nozione di desiderio il concetto viene utilizzato per una descrizione del testo che cerca di considerarne, a tutto tondo, gli aspetti che lo rendono fruibile da uno sguardo secondo il desiderio.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 4 (2011)
Optimal issuing policies for hospital blood inventory
Creators: name: Slofstra, Anyu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Red blood cells (RBCs) are the most common type of blood cells and the primary means of delivering oxygen throughout the body. They are perishable with a permitted storage time of forty-two days in Canada and in the United States. RBCs undergo a series of pathological changes while in storage. These pathological changes are known as storage lesions, and they have a negative impact on the amount of oxygen delivered to the tissue during transfusion. As a result, many studies have been conducted on the age of blood used in transfusion to patient outcomes over the past two decades. Although conflicting results have been found, most studies find that the age of blood used in transfusion plays a role in disease recurrence and mortality. Therefore, we are interested in studying hospital blood issuing policies, and in finding ones that can minimize hospital blood shortages and wastages while reducing the age of blood used in transfusion. In this thesis, we first formulate our problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model, and find optimal policies that minimize blood shortages, wastages, and age of blood used in transfusion, individually. We then use simulation to compare eleven policies, including a Myopic policy derived from the MDP model. We find policies that minimize the average expected total cost of blood shortages, wastages, and age of blood used in transfusion for various shortage and wastage costs. We also perform sensitivity analyses of total costs with respect to varying threshold and cost parameters.
Effect of partitioning time on microstructural evolution of C-Mn-Si steel in one-step quenching and partitioning process
Creators: name: Ghazvinloo, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Journal of Materials and Environmental Science
2015, Volume 6, Issue 1, Page 22-27 
A CANDELS WFC3 Grism Study of Emission-Line Galaxies at z~2: A Mix of Nuclear Activity and Low-Metallicity Star Formation
Creators: name: Trump, Jonathan R.
name: Weiner, Benjamin J.
name: Scarlata, Claudia
name: Kocevski, Dale D.
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: McGrath, Elizabeth J.
name: Koo, David C.
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Laird, Elise S.
name: Mozena, Mark
name: Rangel, Cyprian
name: Yan, Renbin
name: Yesuf, Hassen
name: Atek, Hakim
name: Dickinson, Mark
name: Donley, Jennifer L.
name: Dunlop, James S.
name: Ferguson, Henry C.
name: Finkelstein, Steven L.
name: Grogin, Norman A.
name: Hathi, Nimish P.
name: Juneau, Stephanie
name: Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Nandra, Kirpal
name: Newman, Jeffrey A.
name: Rodney, Steven A.
name: Straughn, Amber N.
name: Teplitz, Harry I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 slitless grism spectroscopy of 28 emission-line galaxies at z~2, in the GOODS-S region of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). The high sensitivity of these grism observations, with 1-sigma detections of emission lines to f > 2.5x10^{-18} erg/s/cm^2, means that the galaxies in the sample are typically ~7 times less massive (median M_* = 10^{9.5} M_sun) than previously studied z~2 emission-line galaxies. Despite their lower mass, the galaxies have OIII/Hb ratios which are very similar to previously studied z~2 galaxies and much higher than the typical emission-line ratios of local galaxies. The WFC3 grism allows for unique studies of spatial gradients in emission lines, and we stack the two-dimensional spectra of the galaxies for this purpose. In the stacked data the OIII emission line is more spatially concentrated than the Hb emission line with 98.1 confidence. We additionally stack the X-ray data (all sources are individually undetected), and find that the average L(OIII)/L(0.5-10 keV) ratio is intermediate between typical z~0 obscured active galaxies and star-forming galaxies. Together the compactness of the stacked OIII spatial profile and the stacked X-ray data suggest that at least some of these low-mass, low-metallicity galaxies harbor weak active galactic nuclei.
description: ApJ accepted. 8 pages, 6 figures
Collodi, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Carlo Lorenzini, Volume II
Creators: name: Paone, Pina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Presentiamo il secondo volume della collana, Collodi, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Carlo Lorenzini, Giunti, Firenze, 2010. Corredato da una Prefazione di Ernesto Ferrero e da un’Introduzione di Renato Bertacchini, il volume contiene l’opera Macchiette, una raccolta di sette racconti scritti dall’autore toscano nell’arco di vent’anni. Esaminando i principali tratti dell’opera, attraverso molteplici rimandi al precedente volume della collana, si forniranno ulteriori elementi per arricchire e colorare con nuove sfumature il profilo di uno scrittore che ha segnato la storia della letteratura italiana.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 4 (2011)
Former Foster Youths' Experience of the Transition into Post-secondary Education
Creators: name: Duska, Danielle I.
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Former Foster Youths
subject: Post-secondary Education
subject: Transition into Post-secondary Education
subject: Former Foster Youth Students
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social Sciences

description: The transition into post-secondary education is a particularly stressful and trying time for students. Despite extensive research on the transition into post-secondary education, it remains unknown how Canadian former foster youths experience this transition, and therefore, my aim for the current study was to understand how former foster youths’ experience the transition into post-secondary education. A qualitative research method, Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), was used. Through purposive sampling, six participants (ages 22 to 25), who aged out of the Alberta foster care system and were enrolled in a degree-based or transfer to degree-based post-secondary educational program, were recruited and interviewed. Interviews were analyzed using IPA. A set of themes was developed, including five overarching themes: (a) Challenges, (b) Coping Strategies, (c) Beneficial Social Supports, (d) Self-Identity, and (e) Goals for Future Success. The findings were examined within the context of relevant literature to provide a deeper understanding of how former foster youth make sense of their experience of the transition into post-secondary education. Implications for future research and counselling practices are discussed.
C*-algebras for categories of paths asociated to the Baumslag-Solitar groups
Creators: name: Spielberg, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L05 (Primary) 46L80, 46L55 (Secondary)

description: In this paper we describe the C*-algebras associated to the Baumslag-Solitar groups with the ordering defined by the usual presentations. These are Morita equivalent to the crossed product C*-algebras obtained by letting the group act on its directed boundary. We use the method of categories of paths to define the algebras, and to deduce the presentation by generators and relations. We obtain a complete description of the Toeplitz algebras, and we compute the K-theory of the Cuntz-Kreiger algebras.
description: To appear in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society
"Dreams in High Places": Humanism and the Haunted House Motif, and “The Ranch Hand,” a Novella
Creators: name: Bews, Jacob J
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: haunting
subject: literature
subject: lovecraft
subject: ghost
subject: creative
subject: novella
subject: narrative
subject: moreno-garcia
subject: mexico
subject: USA
subject: Canada
subject: ranching
subject: cowboy
subject: alberta
subject: western
subject: horror
subject: gothic
subject: poe
subject: film
subject: weird
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Literature

description: The haunted house motif in gothic and horror literature is uniquely poised to critique ideologies such as humanism. Understood as the position that humans are on top of an ontological hierarchy above other forms of life, the humanist approach to the world obscures the deeper connections between all life, and the limitations of a human subject. Looking to 2 haunted house narratives, “The Dreams in the Witch-House” by H P Lovecraft and Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, this thesis’ exegesis demonstrates how both confront humanism by revealing deeper connections with nonhuman entities, and the ways humans are limited, both physically and mentally. “Witch-House” shows its mathematics student protagonist as inept, and dreams as the key source of truth, presenting humanist scientific endeavors as leading to an inevitable realization of humanity’s smallness. Mexican Gothic follows an urban socialite confronting a eugenicist English family in their remote manse, and discovering humanism’s goals for social good to be a matter of occluding the self-interest at heart. Dreams also reveal the truth of the novel’s paranormal activity, as dreams in both narratives are key features of undermining the humanist stance. The creative component which opens this thesis, The Ranch Hand, is a novella following Tabitha, a laborer whose agency is challenged as she continues to work on the Bar S, the strange aging acreage belonging to an old acquaintance. The Ranch Hand is a dreamlike exploration of the dynamics of gender and labor in a ranching environment. Taken together, these 3 narratives explore the limitations of humanist thinking in light of ongoing environmental collapse and turmoil, when opening dialogues on how humans position themselves towards ecologies is urgent.