cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Riflessioni geografiche sul disaster management a L’Aquila
Creators: name: Forino, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2017

description: Geographical considerations regarding the disaster management in L’Aquila
The aim of the paper is to shed light on disaster management and housing
practices after the L’Aquila earthquake on 6th April 2009. After a brief introduc-
tion regarding disaster management and housing issues, the Author analyzes
post disaster strategies enacted by Italian Government and Civil Protection in
L’Aquila. Particularly, the Author describes the new earthquake-proof building
project for recovering evacuees, called C.A.S.E. project, and he proposes some
reflections about the future reuse of these buildings after the end of emergen-
cy period. Finally, the paper seeks to emphasize the necessity of integrating the
complexes of the C.A.S.E. project in the economic, social and environmental
context of the city of L’Aquila.
Keywords
L’Aquila, disaster management, earthquake, post emergency period.

Réflexions géographiques sur le disaster management à L’Aquila
L’objectif de cet article est de décrire les procédures de gestion du désastre
après le tremblement de terre de L’Aquila du 6 avril 2009. Après une brève in-
troduction sur la gestion de l’émergence, l’Auteur analyse les stratégies post-
séisme adoptés à L’Aquila par le Gouvernement Italien et par la Protection Civile.
L’Auteur s’arrête notamment sur les nouveaux projets de constructions antisis-
miques destinées aux évacués, appelé projet C.A.S.E., et il propose quelques réflexions sur l’éventuelle réutilisation de ces structures. Enfin, l’article cherche à rappeler la nécessité de compléter les complexes du projet C.A.S.E. dans le conteste environnemental, économique et social de la ville de L’Aquila.

Mots-clés
L’Aquila, gestion des catastrophes, période successive à l’émergence, tremble-
ment de terre.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 1 (2012): L'Aquila e il cratere sismico a cura di Cristiano Pesaresi
Additional file 1 of Distribution of virulence genes and SCCmec types among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus of clinical and environmental origin: a study from community of Assam, India
Creators: name: Bhowmik, Deepshikha
name: Chetri, Shiela
name: Das, Bhaskar Jyoti
name: Debadatta Dhar Chanda
name: Amitabha Bhattacharjee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. General Characteristics of 63 methicillin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus isolates from hospital –community- environment in Southern Assam, India. Table S2. SCCmec types and their origin.
Robustness and complexity
Creators: name: Frank, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: When a biological system robustly corrects component-level errors, the direct pressure on component performance declines. Components may become less reliable, maintain more genetic variability, or drift neutrally in design, creating the basis for new forms of organismal complexity. This article links the protection-decay dynamic to other aspects of robust and complex systems. Examples include the hourglass pattern of biological development and Doyle's hourglass architecture for robustly complex systems in engineering. The deeply and densely connected wiring architecture in biology's cellular controls and in machine learning's computational neural networks provide another link. By unifying these seemingly different aspects into a unified framework, we gain a new perspective on robust and complex systems.
Additional file 1 of Production of cadmium sulfide quantum dots by the lithobiontic Antarctic strain Pedobacter sp. UYP1 and their application as photosensitizer in solar cells
Creators: name: V. Carrasco
name: V. Amarelle
name: S. Lagos-Moraga
name: C. P. Quezada
name: R. Espinoza-González
name: R. Faccio
name: E. Fabiano
name: Pérez-Donoso, J. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1: Dataset S1. Production of H2S and bacterial growth in medium with Cd2+ of the lithobiont collection.
Designing Noise-Robust Quantum Networks Coexisting in the Classical Fiber Infrastructure
Creators: name: Thomas, Jordan M.
name: Kanter, Gregory S.
name: Kumar, Prem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scalability of quantum networking will benefit from quantum and classical communications coexisting in shared fibers, the main challenge being spontaneous Raman scattering noise. We investigate the coexistence of multi-channel O-band quantum and C-band classical communications. We characterize multiple narrowband entangled photon pair channels across 1282 nm-1318 nm co-propagating over 48 km installed standard fiber with record C-band power (>18 dBm) and demonstrate that some quantum-classical wavelength combinations significantly outperform others. We analyze the Raman noise spectrum, optimal wavelength engineering, multi-photon pair emission in entangled photon-classical coexistence, and evaluate the implications for future quantum applications.
description: Added a reference, corrected affiliations, paper formatting, and fixed a typo in section 2B
Broadening processes in GaAs delta-doped quantum wire superlattices
Creators: name: Ferrus, T.
name: Goutiers, B.
name: Galibert, J.
name: Michelini, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use both Quantum Hall and Shubnikov de Haas experiments at high magnetic field and low temperature to analyse broadening processes of Landau levels in a delta-doped 2D quantum well superlattice and a 1D quantum wire superlattice generated from the first one by controlled dislocation slips. We deduce first the origin of the broadening from the damping factor in the Shubnikov de Haas curves in various configurations of the magnetic field and the measured current for both kinds of superlattice. Then, we write a general formula for the resistivity in the Quantum Hall effect introducing a dephasing factor we link to the process of localization.
Precision Entropy of Spinning Black Holes
Creators: name: Castro, Alejandra
name: Davis, Joshua L.
name: Kraus, Per
name: Larsen, Finn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct spinning black hole solutions in five dimensions that take into account the mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons term and its supersymmetric completion. The resulting entropy formula is discussed from several points of view. We include a Taub-NUT base space in order to test recent conjectures relating 5D black holes to 4D black holes and the topological string. Our explicit results show that certain charge shifts have to be taken into account for these relations to hold. We also compute corrections to the entropy of black rings in terms of near horizon data.
description: 30 pages. v2: typos corrected
An Automated Method to Enrich Consumer Health Vocabularies Using GloVe Word Embeddings and An Auxiliary Lexical Resource
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Mohammed
name: Gauch, Susan
name: Salman, Omar
name: Alqahatani, Mohammed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: Clear language makes communication easier between any two parties. A layman may have difficulty communicating with a professional due to not understanding the specialized terms common to the domain. In healthcare, it is rare to find a layman knowledgeable in medical terminology which can lead to poor understanding of their condition and/or treatment. To bridge this gap, several professional vocabularies and ontologies have been created to map laymen medical terms to professional medical terms and vice versa. Objective: Many of the presented vocabularies are built manually or semi-automatically requiring large investments of time and human effort and consequently the slow growth of these vocabularies. In this paper, we present an automatic method to enrich laymen's vocabularies that has the benefit of being able to be applied to vocabularies in any domain. Methods: Our entirely automatic approach uses machine learning, specifically Global Vectors for Word Embeddings (GloVe), on a corpus collected from a social media healthcare platform to extend and enhance consumer health vocabularies (CHV). Our approach further improves the CHV by incorporating synonyms and hyponyms from the WordNet ontology. The basic GloVe and our novel algorithms incorporating WordNet were evaluated using two laymen datasets from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Open-Access Consumer Health Vocabulary (OAC CHV) and MedlinePlus Healthcare Vocabulary. Results: The results show that GloVe was able to find new laymen terms with an F-score of 48.44%. Furthermore, our enhanced GloVe approach outperformed basic GloVe with an average F-score of 61%, a relative improvement of 25%. Furthermore, the enhanced GloVe showed a statistical significance over the two ground truth datasets with P
description: 24 pages, 7 figures, 7 Tables, Journal
Coelorinchus hubbsi Matsubara 1936
Creators: name: Iwamoto, Tomio
name: Nakayama, Naohide
name: Shao, Kwang-Tsao
name: Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Coelorinchus
Coelorinchus hubbsi

description: Coelorinchus hubbsi Matsubara, 1936
Coelorhynchus hubbsi Matsubara, 1936:358 (holotype, FAKU. Owase, Mie-ken, Japan, 100–200 fm [about 183–366 m]).— Okamura in Okamura et al., 1982:166 (photograph of fresh specimen), 169 (comparison with C. matsubarai).
Coelorinchus hubbsi: Okamura in Masuda et al., 1984:96, pl. 82–L (photograph).— Shen et al., 1993:169.— Shao et al., 2008: table 2 (2 spec., NET, 100–400 m).
Caelorinchus hubbsi: Chiou et al., 2004b:37, 47 (in key, list).
MATERIAL EXAMINED (2 spec.).— NET: ASIZP 63189 (1, 260 TL), Diao-yu-tai; ASIZP 64536 (1, 162 TL), Diao-yu-tai.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.— 1D II, 8–10; P i15–i18; GR-I (inner) 8–10 total; scales below midbase 1D 4.0–4.5, below 2D 5.5–6.5; pyl.caeca 20–28. Snout produced and sharply pointed, length 38–45% HL, 1.26–1.65 times orbit; anterolateral margin of snout incompletely supported by bone; orbit 26–32% HL, upper jaw 22–27% HL. Nasal fossa scaled ventrally; underside of head naked except for overlapping scales on anterolateral snout margin; body scales with slender, sharp spinules, arranged in slightly divergent to subparallel rows. Light organ long, extending forward nearly to isthmus, Group IV of Iwamoto (1990). Rays of 2D well developed, about equal to opposites of anal fin. Ground color grayish, silvery on sides of head and trunk; three dark longitudinal streaks on side of body; underside of head and abdomen densely peppered; fins blackish to light dusky; mouth and gill cavities blackish. Attains at least 260 mm TL.
DISTRIBUTIONs.— Known from s. Japan to ne. Taiwan; restricted in Taiwan to off a small island called “Fishing Island [Uotsuri-shima of the Senkaku Shoto],” at depths less than 400 m.
REMARKS.— This species has an apparently restricted distribution; it was not captured during the Japanese expeditions off the Kyushu-Palau Ridge (Okamura et al. 1982) and the Okinawa Trough (Okamura and Kitajima 1984). The prominent body stripes on this species distinguish it from all other Taiwan Coelorinchus.
description: Published as part of Iwamoto, Tomio, Nakayama, Naohide, Shao, Kwang-Tsao & Table, Hsuan-Ching Ho, 2015, Synopsis of the Grenadier Fishes (Gadiformes; Teleostei) of Taiwan, pp. 31-126 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 62 (3) on page 57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512126
Composite Biomarker Image for Advanced Visualization in Histopathology
Creators: name: Shafique, Abubakr
name: Babaie, Morteza
name: Gonzalez, Ricardo
name: Batten, Adrian
name: Sikdar, Soma
name: Tizhoosh, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Immunohistochemistry (IHC) biomarkers are essential tools for reliable cancer diagnosis and subtyping. It requires cross-staining comparison among Whole Slide Images (WSIs) of IHCs and hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides. Currently, pathologists examine the visually co-localized areas across IHC and H&E glass slides for a final diagnosis, which is a tedious and challenging task. Moreover, visually inspecting different IHC slides back and forth to analyze local co-expressions is inherently subjective and prone to error, even when carried out by experienced pathologists. Relying on digital pathology, we propose Composite Biomarker Image (CBI) in this work. CBI is a single image that can be composed using different filtered IHC biomarker images for better visualization. We present a CBI image produced in two steps by the proposed solution for better visualization and hence more efficient clinical workflow. In the first step, IHC biomarker images are aligned with the H&E images using one coordinate system and orientation. In the second step, the positive or negative IHC regions from each biomarker image (based on the pathologists recommendation) are filtered and combined into one image using a fuzzy inference system. For evaluation, the resulting CBI images, from the proposed system, were evaluated qualitatively by the expert pathologists. The CBI concept helps the pathologists to identify the suspected target tissues more easily, which could be further assessed by examining the actual WSIs at the same suspected regions.
Per una valorizzazione dell'archivio fotografico del Dipartimento di Geografia umana dell'Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Creators: name: Capuzzo, Ester
name: Maggioli, Marco
name: Morri, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2018

description: Questo breve contributo è teso a rendere sinteticamente ragione delle numerose attività didattiche e di ricerca che nel corso del tempo hanno contraddistinto l'evoluzione dell'insegnamento e dello studio delle discipline geografiche nell'ambito del Dipartimento di Geografia Umana. Il sapere progressivamente stratificatosi può ovviamente essere documentato ed estratto dalle molte e importanti pubblicazioni di cui sono stati autori non solo gli illustri studiosi sopra menzionati, ma anche i tanti allievi formati da questa scuola e poi approdati presso altri Atenei. Tuttavia, gli stessi locali che ora ospitano il Dipartimento presentano ben visibili i segni di questa storia, costituendo tracce neanche tanto indirette delle linee di ricerca, e degli oggetti su cui queste ricerche si concentravano, nelle diverse epoche. Un patrimonio fatto di carte geografiche, plastici, atlanti, libri e riviste, teche, strumenti che rappresentano una testimonianza visiva e fattuale di quei cambiamenti di paradigma che con il passare degli anni pure hanno coinvolto l'epistemologia e le tecniche di analisi delle scienze geografiche.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2005)
Immunohistochemistry Biomarkers-Guided Image Search for Histopathology
Creators: name: Shafique, Abubakr
name: Babaie, Morteza
name: Gonzalez, Ricardo
name: Tizhoosh, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Medical practitioners use a number of diagnostic tests to make a reliable diagnosis. Traditionally, Haematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained glass slides have been used for cancer diagnosis and tumor detection. However, recently a variety of immunohistochemistry (IHC) stained slides can be requested by pathologists to examine and confirm diagnoses for determining the subtype of a tumor when this is difficult using H&E slides only. Deep learning (DL) has received a lot of interest recently for image search engines to extract features from tissue regions, which may or may not be the target region for diagnosis. This approach generally fails to capture high-level patterns corresponding to the malignant or abnormal content of histopathology images. In this work, we are proposing a targeted image search approach, inspired by the pathologists workflow, which may use information from multiple IHC biomarker images when available. These IHC images could be aligned, filtered, and merged together to generate a composite biomarker image (CBI) that could eventually be used to generate an attention map to guide the search engine for localized search. In our experiments, we observed that an IHC-guided image search engine can retrieve relevant data more accurately than a conventional (i.e., H&E-only) search engine without IHC guidance. Moreover, such engines are also able to accurately conclude the subtypes through majority votes.
Fabrication and characterization of advanced Organic Thin Film Transistors
Creators: name: Scaldaferri, Rossana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2009

description: The thesis aims to the development of Organic Thin Film Transistors and more complex devices based on organic materials.
The experimental work demonstrates the possibility to manufacture transistors and more complex circuits with innovative polymers and technologies, leading to an experimental validation of the possibility to realize all-organic devices.
L'evoluzione della morfologia e del rischio vulcanico attraverso le foto antiche e moderne
Creators: name: Giacomelli, Lisetta
name: Pesaresi, Cristiano
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2018

description: Per sottolineare l'importanza della lettura-interpretazione delle foto durante gli studi sulla morfologia e sul rischio vulcanico, sono stati sintetizzati, nelle Tabb. 1 e 2, alcuni vantaggi che derivano dall'osservazione di immagini relative a un preciso momento storico o a uno specifico evento vulcanico e quelli che si ottengono confrontando fotografie, riguardanti uno stesso soggetto, scattate in periodi diversi. In questo ambito il territorio italiano può essere considerato un laboratorio di indubbio valore; la compresenza, in Italia centro-meridionale e insulare, di edifici vulcanici presumibilmente estinti (Vulcani Laziali, Roccamonfina, Vulture, ecc.) e di apparati in attività persistente (Stromboli ed Etna) o in fase di quiescenza (Vesuvio, Campi Flegrei, Vulcano) e la complessità della loro storia evolutiva rendono la fotografia un valido strumento, che può concorrere alla ricostruzione delle principali tappe succedutesi nel tempo.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2005)
Role of effective mass anisotropy in realizing a hybrid nodal-line fermion state
Creators: name: Patra, Bikash
name: Verma, Rahul
name: Huang, Shin-Ming
name: Singh, Bahadur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the role of lattice geometry in shaping topological states and their properties is of fundamental importance to condensed matter and device physics. Here we demonstrate how an anisotropic crystal lattice drives a topological hybrid nodal line in transition metal tetraphosphides $Tm$P$_4$ ($Tm$ = Transition metal). $Tm$P$_4$ constitutes a unique class of black phosphorus materials formed by intercalating transition metal ions between the phosphorus layers without destroying the characteristic anisotropic band structure of the black phosphorous. Based on the first-principles calculations and $k \cdot p$ theory, we show that $Tm$P$_4$ harbor a single hybrid nodal line formed between oppositely-oriented anisotropic $Tm~d$ and P states unhinged from the high-symmetry planes. The nodal line consists of both type-I and type-II nodal band crossings whose nature and location are determined by the effective-mass anisotropies of the intersecting bands. We further discuss a possible topological phase transition to exemplify the formation of the hybrid nodal line state in $Tm$P$_4$. Our results offer a comprehensive study for understanding the interplay between structural motifs-driven mass anisotropies and topology in anisotropic lattice materials to realize hybrid semimetal states.
Generic Features in the Spectral Decomposition of Correlation Matrices
Creators: name: Stepanov, Yuriy
name: Herrmann, Hendrik
name: Guhr, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that correlation matrices with particular average and variance of the correlation coefficients have a notably restricted spectral structure. Applying geometric methods, we derive lower bounds for the largest eigenvalue and the alignment of the corresponding eigenvector. We explain how and to which extent, a distinctly large eigenvalue and an approximately diagonal eigenvector generically occur for specific correlation matrices independently of the correlation matrix dimension.
Aquila bella mè...
Creators: name: Leonardi, Sandra
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2017

description: Aquila bella mè...
It is a wound that tears the heart out of this abused, caged, offended town. Only a few eternal seconds destroyed the history of L’Aquila and the inhabitants’
normal life. We continue to discuss the possibility of rebuilding L’Aquila where it
was and as it was, whereas the historical center was transformed into a black
hole where neglect and abandonment along with rain, snow and cold, continue
to compromise the existence of its cultural heritage, while some futuristic projects go ahead and the promises of adoption have failed.
Keywords
L’Aquila, cultural heritage, historical city.

Aquila bella mè...
C’est une blessure qui déchire le coeur que cette ville étayée, mise en cage, offensée.
Peu de secondes, interminables, ont détruit l’histoire de L’Aquila et de
ses habitants. On continue à discuter sur la possibilité de reconstruire L’Aquila
où elle était et comme elle était, tandis que l’ancienne ville s’est transformée en un trou noir où l’abandon, ensemble avec la pluie, la neige et le gel, ne cessent de compromettre l’existence des monuments historiques, entre un projet futuriste et une adoption manquée.
Mots-clés
L’Aquila, ancienne ville, monuments historiques.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 1 (2012): L'Aquila e il cratere sismico a cura di Cristiano Pesaresi
Designing and Evaluating Search and Rescue Management Applications using the Rapid Application Development Approach and the Technology Acceptance Model
Creators: name: Arief, Wibowo
name: Abdul Haris, Achadi
name: Julaiha Probo, Anggraini
Publisher: name: International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science
Year: 2023

description: This research evaluates the acceptance of a web-based application for search and rescue (SAR) activities among National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas Indonesia) volunteers, utilizing the Rapid Application Development method. The expanded Technology Accep- tance Model (TAM) includes perceived usefulness, attitude towards using technology, perceived ease of use, and behavioral intention to use. With a quantitative approach involving one hundred respon- dents, Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis indicates that per- ceived usefulness, attitude towards using technology, and behavioral intention to use significantly influence the actual technology use of the aplotSAR application. However, the Perceived Ease of Use variable does not have a significant impact. The proposed relationships align with research models, providing insights into user perceptions toward adopting the technology.
Extremely massive young clusters in NGC1365
Creators: name: Galliano, E.
name: Alloin, D.
name: Pantin, E.
name: Granato, G. L.
name: Delva, P.
name: Silva, L.
name: Lagage, P. O.
name: Panuzzo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous work, three bright MIR/radio sources were discovered in the nuclear region of NGC1365. We here confirm that these sources are young and massive ``embedded'' clusters, and derive their parameters, such as extinction, age and mass. Using ISAAC and VISIR at the VLT we obtained NIR and MIR maps and LR spectra. The dataset is first interpreted by comparing the observations with images and spectra of the close-by young cluster R136 in the LMC and then by using model predictions for both the nebular emission lines and the spectral energy distribution of the sources. We produce maps of the region containing the three sources in the R, J, Ks, L' bands and at 12.8micro. We also provide spectra in K, L and N. The spectral energy distribution of the three sources rises with wavelength. Emission lines from ionised hydrogen and molecular hydrogen are detected, as well as PAH emission. Conspicuous [NeII]12.8 line is also present, while neither the [ArIII] 8.9 nor the [SIV] 10.4 lines are detected. This provides a stringent constraint on the age of the sources: they are relatively evolved young clusters (6-8 Myr). Owing to their ionising photon rates and ages, they must be extremely massive clusters (around 10^7 solar masses). Their MIR spectral energy distribution suggests the presence of two components: (1) an optically thin component, with a continuum comparable to that of R136, and (2) an optically thick component which might be related to subsequent or on-going episodes of star formation. These sources are good candidates for evolving according to a bi-modal hydrodynamical regime, in which matter is trapped at the centre of a compact and massive cluster.
description: A&A accepted, 23 pages, 22 figures and 1 table
States of estrangement : the novels of D.H. Lawrence, 1912-1917
Creators: name: Templeton, Wayne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The general intent of this dissertation is to investigate the correlation between urban industrialism and the failure of individuals, particularly women, to achieve personal fulfillment and autonomy. Specifically, it analyzes a selection of Lawrence's novels, the settings of which are most often an oppressive and alienating society; the main characters, and how they perceive themselves, each other and their environment; and the conflict between the desire to reject and the pressure to conform to moral convention and economic necessity. My first chapter establishes the socio-historical context in which Lawrence wrote these novels, and discusses alienation, not as a sociological or psychological theory, but as a symptom of contemporary urban experience, the subtle yet concrete effects of which I contend with in the chapters following. Alienation, then, as I define it, is a pervasive phenomenon within the novels, and an experience, therefore, unique in many respects to Lawrence's characters. At the same time, however, it, and the characters themselves, are familiar, for they represent a common social experience as well. The body of this work analyzes the specific nature of that experience, which I see as being of two basic varieties or states: social alienation—the sense of being a foreigner amongst one's contemporaries—and personal or psychological estrangement—the sense of being identified exclusively in terms of social roles, morals, and conventions. My dissertation attempts as well to discuss and to determine the plausibility of those alternatives Lawrence offers as solutions to the problems of estrangement, aborted relationships and repression, alternatives which become an integral and important part of his novels because of the way they inform the characters and reflect the enigma and contradictions of urban social experience. Because Lawrence changed after WW I, largely in fact as a result of that war, from a novelist concerned with the suffering, the often frustrated goals, the complexities of individuals to one primarily concentrating on the reformation or the mystical transcendence of society, my work will examine only those novels written before and during the war (that is: from 1912 to 1917), novels which are as well, I think, his finest, most complex works: The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love.
Effetto della 3,5-Diiodo-L-Tironina sullo sviluppo dell’obesità, sulla tolleranza al glucosio e sulla steatosi epatica in ratti alimentati con dieta iperlipidica
Creators: name: Cavaliere, Gina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2009

description: L'obiettivo di questa tesi è stato quello di valutare l'utilizzo della 3,5 diodo-L-tironina (T2) come potenziale farmaco nella prevenzione e nella cura di patologie associate all'obesità, quali resistenza all'insulina e steatosi epatica, mediante somministrazione in ratti alimentati con dieta iperlipidica. Nel loro complesso, i risultati di questa tesi dimostrano che il trattamento con T2 in ratti alimentati con una dieta ad alto contenuto di grassi influenza il bilancio energetico dell’organismo agendo in particolare sul guadagno energetico corporeo e su una componente della spesa energetica, come il metabolismo basale. Il trattamento con T2 è anche in grado di prevenire e far regredire i danni indotti dalla dieta iperlipidica a livello epatico. 
Da un punto di vista applicativo, questi risultati aggiungono un ulteriore dato in favore di un possibile utilizzo della T2 non solo nel prevenire lo sviluppo della steatosi epatica come dimostrato nel momento in cui viene somministrata contemporaneamente all’inizio del trattamento con la dieta iperlipidica, ma anche di far regredire questa patologia nel momento in cui è già sviluppata a causa di un precedente trattamento con la dieta iperlipidica.
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue
Creators: name: Huang, Qing
name: Li, Zishuai
name: Xing, Zhenchang
name: Zuo, Zhengkang
name: Peng, Xin
name: Xu, Xiwei
name: Lu, Qinghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Developers' API needs should be more pragmatic, such as seeking suggestive, explainable, and extensible APIs rather than the so-called best result. Existing API search research cannot meet these pragmatic needs because they are solely concerned with query-API relevance. This necessitates a focus on enhancing the entire query process, from query definition to query refinement through intent clarification to query results promoting divergent thinking about results. This paper designs a novel Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialog agent (KAHAID) which guides the developer to clarify the uncertain, under-specified query through multi-round question answering and recommends APIs for the clarified query with relevance explanation and extended suggestions (e.g., alternative, collaborating or opposite-function APIs). We systematically evaluate KAHAID. In terms of human-AI dialogue efficiency, it achieves a high diversity of question options and the ability to guide developers to find APIs using fewer dialogue rounds. For API recommendation, KAHAID achieves an MRR and MAP of 0.769 and 0.794, outperforming state-of-the-art methods BIKER and CLEAR by at least 47% in MRR and 226.7% in MAP. For knowledge extension, KAHAID obtains an MRR and MAP of 0.815 and 0.864, surpassing ZaCQ by at least 42% in MRR and 45.2\% in MAP. Furthermore, we conduct a user study. It shows that explainable API recommendations, as implemented by KAHAID, can help developers identify the best API approach more easily or confidently, improving inspiration of clarification question options by at least 20.83% and the extensibility of extended APIs by at least 12.5%.
Testing limits to airflow perturbation device (APD) measurements
Creators: name: Lopresti, Erika R
name: Johnson, Arthur T
name: Koh, Frank C
name: Scott, William H
name: Jamshidi, Shaya
name: Silverman, Nischom K
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2008
Subjects: Resistance Measurement
Airway Resistance
Time Domain Analysis
Ventilator Tube
Nasal Resistance

description: The Airflow Perturbation Device (APD) is a lightweight, portable device that can be used to measure total respiratory resistance as well as inhalation and exhalation resistances. There is a need to determine limits to the accuracy of APD measurements for different conditions likely to occur: leaks around the mouthpiece, use of an oronasal mask, and the addition of resistance in the respiratory system. Also, there is a need for resistance measurements in patients who are ventilated. Ten subjects between the ages of 18 and 35 were tested for each station in the experiment. The first station involved testing the effects of leaks of known sizes on APD measurements. The second station tested the use of an oronasal mask used in conjunction with the APD during nose and mouth breathing. The third station tested the effects of two different resistances added in series with the APD mouthpiece. The fourth station tested the usage of a flexible ventilator tube in conjunction with the APD. All leaks reduced APD resistance measurement values. Leaks represented by two 3.2 mm diameter tubes reduced measured resistance by about 10% (4.2 cmH2O·sec/L for control and 3.9 cm H2O·sec/L for the leak). This was not statistically significant. Larger leaks given by 4.8 and 6.4 mm tubes reduced measurements significantly (3.4 and 3.0 cm cmH2O·sec/L, respectively). Mouth resistance measured with a cardboard mouthpiece gave an APD measurement of 4.2 cm H2O·sec/L and mouth resistance measured with an oronasal mask was 4.5 cm H2O·sec/L; the two were not significantly different. Nose resistance measured with the oronasal mask was 7.6 cm H2O·sec/L. Adding airflow resistances of 1.12 and 2.10 cm H2O·sec/L to the breathing circuit between the mouth and APD yielded respiratory resistance values higher than the control by 0.7 and 2.0 cm H2O·sec/L. Although breathing through a 52 cm length of flexible ventilator tubing reduced the APD measurement from 4.0 cm H2O·sec/L for the control to 3.6 cm H2O·sec/L for the tube, the difference was not statistically significant. The APD can be adapted for use in ventilated, unconscious, and uncooperative patients with use of a ventilator tube and an oronasal mask without significantly affecting measurements. Adding a resistance in series with the APD mouthpiece has an additive effect on resistance measurements, and can be used for qualitative calibration. A leak size of at least the equivalent of two 3.2 mm diameter tubes can be tolerated without significantly affecting APD measurements.
Single-model uncertainty quantification in neural network potentials does not consistently outperform model ensembles
Creators: name: Tan, Aik Rui
name: Urata, Shingo
name: Goldman, Samuel
name: Dietschreit, Johannes C. B.
name: Gómez-Bombarelli, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neural networks (NNs) often assign high confidence to their predictions, even for points far out-of-distribution, making uncertainty quantification (UQ) a challenge. When they are employed to model interatomic potentials in materials systems, this problem leads to unphysical structures that disrupt simulations, or to biased statistics and dynamics that do not reflect the true physics. Differentiable UQ techniques can find new informative data and drive active learning loops for robust potentials. However, a variety of UQ techniques, including newly developed ones, exist for atomistic simulations and there are no clear guidelines for which are most effective or suitable for a given case. In this work, we examine multiple UQ schemes for improving the robustness of NN interatomic potentials (NNIPs) through active learning. In particular, we compare incumbent ensemble-based methods against strategies that use single, deterministic NNs: mean-variance estimation, deep evidential regression, and Gaussian mixture models. We explore three datasets ranging from in-domain interpolative learning to more extrapolative out-of-domain generalization challenges: rMD17, ammonia inversion, and bulk silica glass. Performance is measured across multiple metrics relating model error to uncertainty. Our experiments show that none of the methods consistently outperformed each other across the various metrics. Ensembling remained better at generalization and for NNIP robustness; MVE only proved effective for in-domain interpolation, while GMM was better out-of-domain; and evidential regression, despite its promise, was not the preferable alternative in any of the cases. More broadly, cost-effective, single deterministic models cannot yet consistently match or outperform ensembling for uncertainty quantification in NNIPs.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures, Supporting Information (22 pages)
Organic LEDs: from limits analysis to device performances improvement
Creators: name: Nenna, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is centred on the study of opto-electronic devices and their characteristics to give a right understanding on the injection and transport mechanisms of charge carriers. Temperature dependence and high field limits are analyzed and the failure mechanisms during the glass transition phenomena in simple OLED structure are investigated by using variable temperature and AC impedance measurements.  By these data, for the archetypal OLED structure ITO/TPD/Alq3/Al discussed in this thesis, temperatures around 328-329 K appear as a separation point between two different working regimes. Moreover, different possible approaches in the improvement of the photons extraction are analyzed to pick up the device performances. A modelling of the output coupling and some methods, like adopting microlenses or light scattering layers, to increase the external efficiency are discussed. Several kind of polystyrene-ZnO nanocomposites have been characterized to study the optical parameters of this mixture to be used as scattering film in lighting application. The optical parameters have been investigated and the anisotropy factor evaluated. We have found that increasing the thickness or the percentage in weight of ZnO nanoparticles there is an improvement of device efficiency. In particular, with a thickness of around 12μm is possible to reach 1.7 times the initial OLED efficiency value.
Roma tra continuità, trasformazione e recupero
Creators: name: Marta, Miriam
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2018

description: Obiettivo del lavoro è delineare lo sviluppo e le principali trasformazioni urbane avvenute a Roma dall'Unità d'Italia ad oggi con l'ausilio di alcune lastre fotografiche dell'archivio del Dipartimento di Geografia Umana dell'Università la Sapienza di Roma, che raffigurano la città nei primi decenni del Novecento.
description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 2 (2005)
Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory
Creators: name: Gaiotto, Davide
name: Witten, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study boundary conditions in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory that preserve one-half the supersymmetry. The obvious Dirichlet boundary conditions can be modified to allow some of the scalar fields to have a ``pole'' at the boundary. The obvious Neumann boundary conditions can be modified by coupling to additional fields supported at the boundary. The obvious boundary conditions associated with orientifolds can also be generalized. In preparation for a separate study of how electric-magnetic duality acts on these boundary conditions, we explore moduli spaces of solutions of Nahm's equations that appear in the presence of a boundary. Though our main interest is in boundary conditions that are Lorentz-invariant (to the extent possible in the presence of a boundary), we also explore non-Lorentz-invariant but half-BPS deformations of Neumann boundary conditions. We make preliminary comments on the action of electric-magnetic duality, deferring a more serious study to a later paper.
description: 88 pp, additional references and enhanced analysis of Nahm's equations
Additional file 3 of Production of cadmium sulfide quantum dots by the lithobiontic Antarctic strain Pedobacter sp. UYP1 and their application as photosensitizer in solar cells
Creators: name: V. Carrasco
name: V. Amarelle
name: S. Lagos-Moraga
name: C. P. Quezada
name: R. Espinoza-González
name: R. Faccio
name: E. Fabiano
name: Pérez-Donoso, J. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 3: Dataset S3. Tolerance of strain UYP1 of different metal salts.
A new method using deep learning to predict the response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
Creators: name: Larsena, Kristoffer
name: He, Zhuo
name: Zhao, Chen
name: Zhang, Xinwei
name: Sha, Quiying
name: Mesquitad, Claudio T
name: Paeze, Diana
name: Garciaf, Ernest V.
name: Zou, Jiangang
name: Peix, Amalia
name: Zhou, Weihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background. Clinical parameters measured from gated single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT MPI) have value in predicting cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) patient outcomes, but still show limitations. The purpose of this study is to combine clinical variables, features from electrocardiogram (ECG), and parameters from assessment of cardiac function with polarmaps from gated SPECT MPI through deep learning (DL) to predict CRT response. Methods. 218 patients who underwent rest gated SPECT MPI were enrolled in this study. CRT response was defined as an increase in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) > 5% at a 6-month follow up. A DL model was constructed by combining a pre-trained VGG16 module and a multilayer perceptron. Two modalities of data were input to the model: polarmap images from SPECT MPI and tabular data from clinical features and ECG parameters. Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) was applied to the VGG16 module to provide explainability for the polarmaps. For comparison, four machine learning (ML) models were trained using only the tabular features. Results. Modeling was performed on 218 patients who underwent CRT implantation with a response rate of 55.5% (n = 121). The DL model demonstrated average AUC (0.83), accuracy (0.73), sensitivity (0.76), and specificity (0.69) surpassing the ML models and guideline criteria. Guideline recommendations presented accuracy (0.53), sensitivity (0.75), and specificity (0.26). Conclusions. The DL model outperformed the ML models, showcasing the additional predictive benefit of utilizing SPECT MPI polarmaps. Incorporating additional patient data directly in the form of medical imagery can improve CRT response prediction.
Asemum striatum
Creators: name: Webster, Reginald
name: McCoqrquodale, David
name: Majka, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Asemum
Asemum striatum

description: Asemum striatum (Linnaeus, 1758) Prince Edward Island: Queens Co., Rice Point, 20.I.2009, David Carmichael (1, ACPE).
description: Published as part of Webster, Reginald, McCoqrquodale, David & Majka, Christopher, 2009, New records of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, Canada, pp. 285-308 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on page 291, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.122, http://zenodo.org/record/576540
Stabilisation of long-period periodic orbits using time-delayed feedback control
Creators: name: Postlethwaite, Claire M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pyragas method of feedback control has attracted much interest as a method of stabilising unstable periodic orbits in a number of situations. We show that a time-delayed feedback control similar to the Pyragas method can be used to stabilise periodic orbits with arbitrarily large period, specifically those resulting from a resonant bifurcation of a heteroclinic cycle. Our analysis reduces the infinite-dimensional delay-equation governing the system with feedback to a three-dimensional map, by making certain assumptions about the form of the solutions. The stability of a fixed point in this map corresponds to the stability of the periodic orbit in the flow, and can be computed analytically. We compare the analytic results to a numerical example and find very good agreement.
description: 18 pages, to appear in SIADS