cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L’italiano degli immigrati ispanofoni. L’influenza della lingua1 nell’apprendimento di lingue affini
Creators: name: Ferrario, Gloria Maria
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: A causa di un costante aumento dei flussi migratori provenienti dal Sud America, gli ispanofoni formano oggigiorno uno dei gruppi più consistenti di stranieri che apprendono l’italiano. Considerando la notevole somiglianza fra le due lingue, a livello non solo lessicale ma anche strutturale, risulta immediato ipotizzare che la loro competenza nella L2 possa raggiungere, in tempi relativamente brevi, livelli molto elevati. Il lavoro si propone due obiettivi principali: quello di analizzare le diverse fasi del processo di acquisizione dell’italiano da parte di ispanofoni e quello di verificare il loro effettivo raggiungimento della piena competenza in L2. Per fare ciò, è stata condotta un’indagine su un campione di settantadue immigrati, ai quali è stato proposto un test scritto, costituito da esercizi mirati, atti a verificare le interferenze con lo spagnolo e le strategie linguistiche utilizzate nel tentativo di apprendere l’italiano.

The italian language spoken by spanish-speaking immigrants. The influence of mother tongue on the learning of similar languages

Because of the steady increase inthe flow of migration from South America, Spanish-speakers are nowadays one of the largest groups of foreigners who learn Italian. Considering the remarkable similarity between the two languages, not only in terms of vocabulary but also in terms of structure, it iseasy to assumethat Spanish-speakers can achieve very high levels of competence in Italian L2 in a relatively short time. This paper has two main objectives. The first is to analyze the different phases of Italian language acquisition by Spanish-speaking immigrants. The second is to verify their actual competence in Italian L2. A study was conducted involving a sample of seventy-two immigrants. This group completed a written test consisting of specific exercises designed to check for interference from the Spanish language in order to consider the strategies they adoptedin their attempt to learn Italian.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
Isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from pigeon excreta in Nakhon Ratchasima College, Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Creators: name: Tanit Boonsiri
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cryptococcus neoformans
pigeon droppings

description: Progress in Applied Science and Technology, 11, 2, 6-9
SnO2 Coatings on Porous LiAl5O8 by Simple Thermal Evaporation Process
Creators: name: Yotin Kallayalert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi
Year: 2021
Subjects: Simple thermal evaporation
SnO2
Poroua LiAl5O8
Electrical conductivity

description: Progress in Applied Science and Technology, 11, 2, 50-54
Effects of predators on the carbon dioxide dynamics of freshwater ecosystems
Creators: name: Atwood, Trisha Brooke
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Freshwater ecosystems are important natural emitters of the greenhouse gas CO₂. The magnitude and direction of the exchange of CO₂ between freshwaters and the atmosphere, or flux, is influenced by the concentration of CO₂ in the water. Every organism within a freshwater ecosystem influences the net CO₂ balance of that ecosystem either through respiration, photosynthesis or both. Thus, large changes in populations due to natural or anthropogenic stressors and the underlying food web structure of the ecosystem have the potential to alter CO₂ fluxes of aquatic ecosystems. To evaluate the influences of species loss on food web structure and CO₂ fluxes of aquatic ecosystems, I experimentally manipulated species from different consumer trophic levels (predator, grazer, or detritivore) and tested the effects of these losses on CO₂ fluxes of experimental streams, ponds and bromeliads. In streams, I found that influences on CO₂ emissions were most sensitive to the loss of a predatory insect compared to other trophic levels, including a tadpole grazer and an insect detritivore. Similarly, the removal of a fish predator to ponds or an insect predator to bromeliads resulted in trophic cascades that significantly influenced the CO₂ flux of the ecosystem. Both the identity of the predator and interspecific competition among predatory insects influenced the strengths of cascading effects of predators on CO₂ emissions from bromeliads. However, across all three ecosystems (streams, ponds, and bromeliads) predators, via trophic cascades, had surprisingly consistent effects on the CO₂ flux of the ecosystem. Finally, as alterations to predator abundance often occurs in concert with increasing water temperatures and nutrient loading, I determined the individual and interactive effects of these stressors on pond communities. I found that nutrients often increased top-down control of predators on CO₂ fluxes, but the individual effect of warming and its combined effects with nutrients had negative effects on both consumers and primary producers making predictions about CO₂ fluxes complicated. My results provide novel insights into the influence of predators and food web structure on CO₂ fluxes and the potential for predator loss to markedly alter CO₂ fluxes of freshwaters.
Conformal symmetry breaking and degeneracy of high-lying unflavored mesons
Creators: name: Kirchbach, Mariana
name: Pallares-Rivera, Adrian
name: Compean, Cliffor
name: Raya, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that though conformal symmetry can be broken by the dilaton, such can happen without breaking the conformal degeneracy patterns in the spectra. We departure from R^1XS^3 slicing of AdS_5 noticing that the inverse radius, R, of S^3 relates to the temperature of the deconfinement phase transition and has to satisfy, \hbar c/R >> Λ_{QCD}. We then focus on the eigenvalue problem of the S^3 conformal Laplacian, given by 1/R^2 (K^2+1), with K^2 standing for the Casimir invariant of the so(4) algebra. Such a spectrum is characterized by a (K+1)^2 fold degeneracy of its levels, with K\in [0,\infty). We then break the conformal S^3 metric as, d\tilde{s}^2=e^{-bχ} ((1+b^2/4) dχ^2 +\sin^2χ(dθ^2 +\sin^2θdφ^2)), and attribute the symmetry breaking scale, b\hbar^2c^2/R^2, to the dilaton. We show that such a metric deformation is equivalent to a breaking of the conformal curvature of S^3 by a term proportional to b\cot χ, and that the perturbed conformal Laplacian is equivalent to (\tilde{K}^2 +c_K), with c_K a representation constant, and \tilde{K}^2 being again an so(4) Casimir invariant, but this time in a representation unitarily inequivalent to the 4D rotational. In effect, the spectra before and after the symmetry breaking are determined each by eigenvalues of a Casimir invariant of an so(4) algebra, a reason for which the degeneracies remain unaltered though the conformal group symmetry breaks at the level of the representation of its algebra. We fit the S^3 radius and the \hbar^2c^2b/R^2 scale to the high-lying excitations in the spectra of the unflavored mesons, and observe the correct tendency of the \hbar c /R=373 MeV value to notably exceed Λ_{QCD}. The size of the symmetry breaking scale is calculated as \hbar c \sqrt{b}/R=673.7 MeV.
description: Presented at the "XIII Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields", Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 2011
L’apprendimento della lingua della medicina in L2: due manuali a confronto
Creators: name: Polita, Maria
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Insegnare la lingua speciale della medicina ad una classe di apprendenti L2 implica considerare diverse problematiche relative alle peculiarità del codice settoriale (variazioni diafasiche, particolarità del lessico, tecnicismi collaterali), ma anche relative al pubblico di apprendenti non italofono (tipologia, interessi, livello di apprendimento). Il panorama editoriale italiano offre pochi strumenti dedicati: tra questi Donatella Troncarelli, Dica 33. Il linguaggio della medicina, Bonacci, 1994 e Daniela Forapani, Italiano per medici, Alma edizioni, 2004. Questo studio intende mettere a confronto i due testi sottolineandone le caratteristiche e l’impostazione glottodidattica ed evidenziando come il contenuto linguistico sia proposto, quali siano le abilità favorite, quali gli obiettivi di apprendimento e quali gli strumenti forniti. Particolare attenzione viene prestata al lessico registrato nei glossari dei volumi.

Learning the language of medicine in l2: a comparison of two textbooks

Teaching the special language of medicine to a class of L2 learners implies considering various issues related to the peculiarities of the sector-specific jargon (diphasic variations, peculiarities of vocabulary, collateral technicalities), also related to non-Italian-speaking learners (type, interests, level of learning). Italian publishers offer few dedicated tools: these include Donatella Troncarelli, Dica 33.Il linguaggio della medicina, Bonacci, 1994 and Daniela Forapani, Italiano per medici, Alma editions, 2004. This study aims to compare the two texts, highlighting their features and language teaching setting, showing how linguistic content is proposed, which skills are promoted, what the learning objectives are and what tools are provided. Particular attention is paid to the vocabulary in the glossaries.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
$ω$-recurrence in cocycles
Creators: name: Chaika, Jon
name: Ralston, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: After relating the notion of $ω$-recurrence in skew products to the range of values taken by partial ergodic sums and Lyapunov exponents, ergodic $\mathbb{Z}$-valued cocycles over an irrational rotation are presented in detail. First, the generic situation is studied and shown to be $1/n$-recurrent. It is then shown that for any $ω(n) 1/2$, there are uncountably many infinite staircases (a certain specific cocycle over a rotation) which are \textit{not} $ω$-recurrent, and therefore have positive Lyapunov exponent. A further section makes brief remarks regarding cocycles over interval exchange transformations of periodic type.
Private Decayed Sum Estimation under Continual Observation
Creators: name: Bolot, Jean
name: Fawaz, Nadia
name: Muthukrishnan, S.
name: Nikolov, Aleksandar
name: Taft, Nina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In monitoring applications, recent data is more important than distant data. How does this affect privacy of data analysis? We study a general class of data analyses - computing predicate sums - with privacy. Formally, we study the problem of estimating predicate sums {\em privately}, for sliding windows (and other well-known decay models of data, i.e. exponential and polynomial decay). We extend the recently proposed continual privacy model of Dwork et al. We present algorithms for decayed sum which are $\eps$-differentially private, and are accurate. For window and exponential decay sums, our algorithms are accurate up to additive $1/\eps$ and polylog terms in the range of the computed function; for polynomial decay sums which are technically more challenging because partial solutions do not compose easily, our algorithms incur additional relative error. Further, we show lower bounds, tight within polylog factors and tight with respect to the dependence on the probability of error.
Biancaneve a Marrakesh
Creators: name: Ottaviani, Manuela
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: In ambito glottodidattico Glottodrama e Process Drama sono solo due delle molteplici declinazioni in cui  trovano spazio tecniche e metodi teatrali. Come in ogni approccio l’insegnante deve saper creare di volta in volta la commistione giusta dei vari strumenti per rispondere in modo adeguato e con successo alle specifiche esigenze apprenditive di gruppi di apprendenti differenti. Dopo un’introduzione teorica, l’autrice illustra un progetto innovativo di teatro e lingua seconda realizzato tra aprile e giugno 2012 nel comune di Gorla Maggiore (Va) con un gruppo di immigrate magrebine. Dalla lettura emerge come l’analisi dettagliata dei bisogni linguistici-comunicativi e la riflessione sociolinguistica e metacognitiva del gruppo delle apprendenti consenta l’integrazione di modelli e tecniche diverse per un approccio teatrale alla lingua italiana “su misura”.

Snow White in Marrakesh

In the field of language teaching Glottodrama and Process Drama are just two of the many ways in which theater techniques and methods are implemented. As with any approach, the teacher must be able to create the right mixture of various tools to respond appropriately and successfully to the specific needs of groups of different learners. After a theoretical introduction, the author describes an innovative theater and second language project carried out April and June 2012 in the municipality of Gorla Maggiore (Va) with a group of North African immigrants. There is a detailed analysis of the linguistic-communicative needs and sociolinguistic and metacognitive reflection by the group of learners whichallows for the integration of models and techniques for a theatrical approach to “tailored” Italian language teaching.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
Constructing Cubature Formulas of Degree 5 with Few Points
Creators: name: Meng, Zhaoliang
name: Luo, Zhongxuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper will devote to construct a family of fifth degree cubature formulae for $n$-cube with symmetric measure and $n$-dimensional spherically symmetrical region. The formula for $n$-cube contains at most $n^2+5n+3$ points and for $n$-dimensional spherically symmetrical region contains only $n^2+3n+3$ points. Moreover, the numbers can be reduced to $n^2+3n+1$ and $n^2+n+1$ if $n=7$ respectively, the later of which is minimal.
description: 13 pages
Assessing the discovery potential of directional detection of Dark Matter
Creators: name: Billard, J.
name: Mayet, F.
name: Santos, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a worldwide effort toward the development of a large TPC (Time Projection Chamber) devoted to directional Dark Matter detection. All current projects are being designed to fulfill a unique goal : identifying weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) as such by taking advantage of the expected direction dependence of WIMP-induced events toward the constellation Cygnus. However such proof of discovery requires a careful statistical data treatment. In this paper, the discovery potential of forthcoming directional detectors is adressed by using a frequentist approach based on the profile likelihood ratio test statistic. This allows us to estimate the expected significance of a Dark Matter detection. Moreover, using this powerful test statistic, it is possible to propagate astrophysical and experimental uncertainties in the determination of the discovery potential of a given directional detection experiment. This way, we found that a 30 kg.year CF$_4$ directional experiment could reach a 3$σ$ sensitivity at 90% C.L. down to $10^{-5}$ pb and $3.10^{-4}$ pb for the WIMP-proton axial cross section in the most optimistic and pessimistic scenario respectively.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
A path to poor coherence in heavy fermions from Mott physics and hybridization
Creators: name: Amaricci, A.
name: de Medici, L.
name: Sordi, G.
name: Rozenberg, M. J.
name: Capone, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the anomalous metal arising by hole doping the Mott insulating state of the periodic Anderson model. Using Dynamical Mean-Field Theory we show that, as opposed to the electron-doped case, in the hole-doped regime the hybridization between localized and delocalized orbitals leads to the formation of composite quasi-particles reminiscent of the Zhang-Rice singlets. We compute the coherence temperature of this state, showing its exponentially small value at low dopings. As a consequence the weakly-doped Mott state deviates from the predictions of Fermi-liquid theory already at small temperatures. The onset of the Zhang-Rice state and of the consequent poor coherence is due to the electronic structure in which both localized and itinerant carriers have to be involved in the formation of the conduction states and to the proximity to the Mott state. By investigating the magnetic properties of this state, we discuss the relation between the anomalous metallic properties and the behavior of the magnetic degrees of freedom.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures
Additional file 1 of Structural equation modeling for identification of patient safety antecedents in primary care
Creators: name: Kosiek, Katarzyna
name: Staniec, Iwona
name: Godycki-Cwirko, Maciej
name: Depta, Adam
name: Kowalczyk, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table A1. Measurement of constructs and characteristic.
Branching rate expansion around annihilating random walks
Creators: name: Benitez, Federico
name: Wschebor, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present some exact results for branching and annihilating random walks. We compute the nonuniversal threshold value of the annihilation rate for having a phase transition in the simplest reaction-diffusion system belonging to the directed percolation universality class. Also, we show that the accepted scenario for the appearance of a phase transition in the parity conserving universality class must be improved. In order to obtain these results we perform an expansion in the branching rate around pure annihilation, a theory without branching. This expansion is possible because we manage to solve pure annihilation exactly in any dimension.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of A mixed-methods systematic review of the prevalence, reasons, associated harms and risk-reduction interventions of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines misuse, abuse and dependence in adults
Creators: name: Algarni, Mohammad
name: Hadi, Muhammad Abdul
name: Yahyouche, Asma
name: Mahmood, Sajid
name: Jalal, Zahraa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The systematic review search terms. Table S2. Characteristics of the studies included in the systematic review.
Non-conformal Hydrodynamics in Einstein-dilaton Theory
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Shailesh
name: Lee, Bum-Hoon
name: Park, Chanyong
name: Roychowdhury, Raju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Einestein-dilaton theory with a Liouville potential parameterized by $η$, we find a Schwarzschild-type black hole solution. This black hole solution, whose asymptotic geometry is described by the warped metric, is thermodynamically stable only for $0 \le η< 2$. Applying the gauge/gravity duality, we find that the dual gauge theory represents a non-conformal thermal system with the equation of state depending on $η$. After turning on the bulk vector fluctuations with and without a dilaton coupling, we calculate the charge diffusion constant, which indicates that the life time of the quasi normal mode decreases with $η$. Interestingly, the vector fluctuation with the dilaton coupling shows that the DC conductivity increases with temperature, a feature commonly found in electrolytes.
description: 27 pages and 2 figures, published in JHEP
Floer cohomology in the mirror of the projective plane and a binodal cubic curve
Creators: name: Pascaleff, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D37, 53D40

description: We construct a family of Lagrangian submanifolds in the Landau--Ginzburg mirror to the projective plane equipped with a binodal cubic curve as anticanonical divisor. These objects correspond under mirror symmetry to the powers of the twisting sheaf O(1), and hence their Floer cohomology groups form an algebra isomorphic to the homogeneous coordinate ring. An interesting feature is the presence of a singular torus fibration on the mirror, of which the Lagrangians are sections. The algebra structure on the Floer cohomology is computed by counting sections of Lefschetz fibrations. Our results agree with the tropical analog proposed by Abouzaid--Gross--Siebert. An extension to mirrors of the complements of components of the anticanonical divisor is discussed.
description: 72 pages, 13 figures; v2 has a reorganized introduction, expanded discussion of gradings, and several clarifications
Dynamic Tardos Traitor Tracing Schemes
Creators: name: Laarhoven, Thijs
name: Doumen, Jeroen
name: Roelse, Peter
name: Skoric, Boris
name: de Weger, Benne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68P30, 94B60

description: We construct binary dynamic traitor tracing schemes, where the number of watermark bits needed to trace and disconnect any coalition of pirates is quadratic in the number of pirates, and logarithmic in the total number of users and the error probability. Our results improve upon results of Tassa, and our schemes have several other advantages, such as being able to generate all codewords in advance, a simple accusation method, and flexibility when the feedback from the pirate network is delayed.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Bubbles and Black Branes in Grand Canonical Ensemble
Creators: name: Wu, Chao
name: Xiao, Zhiguang
name: Xu, Jianfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When the phase structure of the black brane in grand canonical ensemble is discussed, a new bubble phase with the same boundary data is found to exist in this structure. As such, the phase transitions among bubble, black brane and "hot flat space" are possible, therefore giving a much enriched phase structure. We argue that under some conditions, either the grand canonical ensemble itself is unstable or there are some unknown new phases.
description: v2. 12 pages. Expanded discussion, references added, typos corrected, published version
Spline interpolation and contour error pre-compensation for 5-axis machining
Creators: name: Alexander, Yuen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis presents experimentally verified smooth spline interpolation and contour error pre-compensation algorithms developed for 5-axis machine tools. In the smooth spline interpolation algorithm, the cutter location data from the computer-aided manufacturing system is first fitted independently to decouple the relative changes in position and orientation. The tool tip positions are fitted to a quintic B-spline, achieving geometric jerk continuity. Next, the tooltip orientations are fitted to another quintic B-spline in spherical coordinates, achieving geometric jerk continuity and feasible orientations at all points of the spline. The nonlinear relationship between spline parameters and displacement are approximated with 9th order and seventh order feed correction splines for position and orientation, respectively. The 9th order feed correction spline is fit adaptively to minimize fitting error while preserving C³ continuity. The seventh order feed correction spline is optimized to minimize jerk while preserving C³ continuity as well. In the contour error pre-compensation algorithm, the position commands generated in the smooth spline interpolation algorithm, are first fitted to piecewise quintic splines while respecting velocity, acceleration and jerk continuity at the spline joints. The transfer function of each servo drive is kept linear by compensating the disturbance effect of friction with a feed-forward block. Using the analytically represented 5-axis, splined tool path, splined tracking errors and kinematic model of the five-axis machine tool, contouring errors are predicted ahead of axis control loops. The contouring errors are decoupled into three linear and two rotary drives, and the position commands are modified before they are sent to servo drives for execution. The methods developed in this thesis have been evaluated on a 5-axis machining center with a tilting-table configuration, and are directly applicable to other 5-axis kinematic configurations such as spindle-tilting or hybrid configurations. The experiments show improvements in fitting accuracy, reduction in vibrations, reduction in tracking errors, and significant reductions in contour error for five-axis tool paths.
Additional file 1 of Cost of provision of essential health Services in Public Health Centers of Jimma zone, Southwest Ethiopia; a provider perspective, the pointer for major area of public expenditure
Creators: name: Feyisa, Diriba
name: Yitbarek, Kiddus
name: Daba, Teferi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of The use of biomarkers associated with leaky gut as a diagnostic tool for early intervention in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review
Creators: name: Al-Ayadhi, Laila
name: Zayed, Naima
name: Bhat, Ramesa Shafi
name: Moubayed, Nadine M. S.
name: Al-Muammar, May N.
name: El-Ansary, Afaf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. English editing certificate.
Exponential Decay of Correlations Implies Area Law
Creators: name: Brandao, Fernando G. S. L.
name: Horodecki, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that a finite correlation length, i.e. exponential decay of correlations, implies an area law for the entanglement entropy of quantum states defined on a line. The entropy bound is exponential in the correlation length of the state, thus reproducing as a particular case Hastings proof of an area law for groundstates of 1D gapped Hamiltonians. As a consequence, we show that 1D quantum states with exponential decay of correlations have an efficient classical approximate description as a matrix product state of polynomial bond dimension, thus giving an equivalence between injective matrix product states and states with a finite correlation length. The result can be seen as a rigorous justification, in one dimension, of the intuition that states with exponential decay of correlations, usually associated with non-critical phases of matter, are simple to describe. It also has implications for quantum computing: It shows that unless a pure state quantum computation involves states with long-range correlations, decaying at most algebraically with the distance, it can be efficiently simulated classically. The proof relies on several previous tools from quantum information theory - including entanglement distillation protocols achieving the hashing bound, properties of single-shot smooth entropies, and the quantum substate theorem - and also on some newly developed ones. In particular we derive a new bound on correlations established by local random measurements, and we give a generalization to the max-entropy of a result of Hastings concerning the saturation of mutual information in multiparticle systems. The proof can also be interpreted as providing a limitation on the phenomenon of data hiding in quantum states.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures; v2 minor corrections; v3 published version
Une progression sans révolution dans l’appréhension européenne des persécutions religieuses
Creators: name: Hervieu, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Unione europea e Consiglio d'Europa

description: Le texte, déjà publié dans la Revue des Droits de l'Homme (Lettre “Actualités Droits-Libertés” du CREDOF, 11 juin 2013), est reproduit avec l'aimable autorisation de l'Auteur et l'Editeur.

SOMMAIRE: 1. Introduction - 2. Une issue retentissante: la concrétisation d’une protection conventionnelle contre les persécutions religieuses - 3. Un raisonnement parcellaire: les apories de l’analyse européenne à l’aune de la liberté de religion - 4. Conclusion - 5. Jurisprudence liée - 6. Appendice.

ABSTRACT: By banning deporting of a coptic christian by France to Egypt, where he might suffer persecution, European court of human rights has made an important contribution to the protection of foreigners against measures involving expulsion. The European solution is important because it deals with a complex, but crucial, concept: religious persecution. Unfortunatly, the opportunity offered by this case hase not been fully exploited. Freedom of religion was at the heart of this case, but European court did’nt use it enough.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 17 giugno
Additional file 1 of On the timing of interventions to preserve hospital capacity: lessons to be learned from the Belgian SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020
Creators: name: Faes, Christel
name: Hens, Niel
name: Gilbert, Marius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1.
Gli obblighi contabili degli enti ecclesiastici tra attività non profit e for profit
Creators: name: Piccolo, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Enti ecclesiastici

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione

SOMMARIO: 1. L’ente ecclesiastico quale ente non commerciale – 2. Gli adempimenti contabili dell’ente ecclesiastico tra attività non profit e attività for profit – 3. Modalità di tenuta e conservazione delle scritture contabili – 4. Il "ramo Onlus" dell’ente ecclesiastico ed i relativi adempimenti contabili – 5. Gli obblighi contabili per il "ramo impresa sociale" dell’ente ecclesiastico – 6. Considerazioni conclusive.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 17 giugno
Modeling the red sequence: Hierarchical growth yet slow luminosity evolution
Creators: name: Skelton, Rosalind E.
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effects of mergers on the evolution of massive early-type galaxies by modeling the evolution of their stellar populations in a hierarchical context. We investigate how a realistic red sequence population set up by z~1 evolves under different assumptions for the merger and star formation histories, comparing changes in color, luminosity and mass. The purely passive fading of existing red sequence galaxies, with no further mergers or star formation, results in dramatic changes at the bright end of the luminosity function and color-magnitude relation. Without mergers there is too much evolution in luminosity at a fixed space density compared to observations. The change in color and magnitude at a fixed mass resemble that of a passively evolving population that formed relatively recently, at z~2. Mergers amongst the red sequence population ("dry mergers") occurring after z=1 build up mass, counteracting the fading of the existing stellar populations to give smaller changes in both color and luminosity for massive galaxies. By allowing some galaxies to migrate from the blue cloud onto the red sequence after z=1 through gas-rich mergers, younger stellar populations are added to the red sequence. This manifestation of the progenitor bias increases the scatter in age and results in even smaller changes in color and luminosity between z=1 and z=0 at a fixed mass. The resultant evolution appears much slower, resembling the passive evolution of a population that formed at high redshift (z~3-5) and is in closer agreement with observations. Measurements of the luminosity and color evolution alone are not sufficient to distinguish between the purely passive evolution of an old population and cosmologically motivated hierarchical growth, although these scenarios have very different implications for the mass growth of early-type galaxies over the last half of cosmic history.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures. Final version accepted for publication in ApJ (2012, ApJ 753, 44)
Arturo Carlo Jemolo: una voce di “coscienza laica” nella società italiana del Novecento
Creators: name: Lariccia, Sergio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Varie

description: Il contributo, accettato dal Direttore, riproduce la Relazione al convegno Maestri del Novecento (Torino, 9 marzo 2013), ed è in corso di stampa negli atti del convegno
SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La vita e l'opera di Jemolo negli anni 1905-1943 - 3. Oltre il 1944. Il contributo di Jemolo allo sviluppo della vita democratica in Italia - 4. Il principio di separazione tra stato e chiese. Il "dominio" delle chiese sulle coscienze - 5. La voce della coscienza: la "coscienza laica". Rassegna sulla laicità in Italia - 6. La partecipazione di Jemolo al "tentativo di revisione del concordato". Un motto spesso evocato: "Fa quel che devi, avvenga quel che può" - 7. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 24 giugno
Additional file 1 of The first 1000 symptomatic pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infections in an integrated health care system: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Howard, Leigh M.
name: Garguilo, Kathryn
name: Gillon, Jessica
name: LeBlanc, Kerry
name: Seegmiller, Adam C.
name: Schmitz, Jonathan E.
name: Byrne, Daniel W.
name: Domenico, Henry J.
name: Moore, Ryan P.
name: Webber, Steven A.
name: Halasa, Natasha B.
name: Banerjee, Ritu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Clinical features of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among 1000 pediatric patients overall and by age group. Supplementary Table 2. Clinical characteristics of hospitalizations among the first 1000 symptomatic pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infections in our network (n = 41 patients hospitalized). Supplementary Table 3. Predictive Model of Hospitalization. Supplementary Figure 1. Histogram presenting age distribution (years) among 1000 symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 positive children and adolescents diagnosed between 3/12/2020 and 9/28/2020. Supplementary Figure 2. Tree diagram of the factors in the model for hospitalization. This classification and regression tree illustrated how the risk factors are related to hospitalization. Among the 1000 children with COVID-19, 4.1% (41) were hospitalized (1), 95.9% were not hospitalized. The strongest predictor of hospitalization was presence of a pre-existing condition (PEC). Among the 177 patients with a PEC, 15.3% were hospitalized vs. 1.7% of those without a PEC. Among those with a PEC, the next best predictor of hospitalization was shortness of breath (SOB). The hospitalization rate was 53.5% among those with both a PEC and SOB vs. 8.1% among those with a PEC but no SOB. Patients who are black or Hispanic were at increased risk of hospitalization among both those with and without PEC. Supplementary Figure 3. Tree diagram of ‘pre-existing conditions’ in the model for hospitalization, and the relative contributions of immunologic, neurologic, and renal conditions to the predictive model. Supplementary Figure 4. Association between Age, Weight, and Hospitalization. The locally weighted scatter plot smoothing lines illustrate the relationship between weight and age in the hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients. The dark bands represent the 95% confidence interval of each line. Supplementary Figure 5. Calibration curve for multivariate model predicting hospitalization. Calibration plot showing predicted probability of hospitalization vs. observed rate of hospitalization
A study of metal phosphides for the hydrodeoxygenation of phenols and pyrolysis oil
Creators: name: Whiffen, Victoria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This dissertation addresses the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of the model compound 4-methylphenol and pyrolysis oil, over alternative, non-sulfided catalysts. The HDO of 4-methylphenol was studied over unsupported, low surface area MoS₂, MoO₂, MoO₃, and MoP catalysts. The initial turn over frequency (TOF) for the HDO of 4-methylphenol decreased in the order MoP > MoS₂ > MoO₂ > MoO₃. Among the catalysts examined, MoP had the highest hydrogenating selectivity, lowest activation energy, and per site activity (TOF) for the HDO of 4-methylphenol. However, the observed conversion over MoP was limited by its low surface area and CO uptake. Addition of citric acid (CA) improved the properties of unsupported MoP. CA acted as a structural promoter and formed a metal citrate during the catalyst preparation, which increased the surface area and CO uptake of the MoP. High surface area Ni₂P catalysts were prepared similarly and based on initial TOFs, Ni₂P was 6 times more active than MoP for the HDO of 4-methylphenol. The HDO of 4-methylphenol was found to be structure insensitive over both MoP and Ni₂P. However, the Ni₂P catalysts deactivated due to C deposition on the catalyst surface. A kinetic model of the direct deoxygenation and hydrogenation reaction pathways for the HDO reaction over MoP showed the former to have a higher barrier energy (Ea = 106 kJ/mol) than the latter (Ea = 85 kJ/mol). Finally, to validate the use of model compounds to screen catalysts, the HDO of 4-methylphenol was compared to the HDO of pyrolysis oil over sulfide, oxide, and phosphide catalysts. MoP was found to have the highest yield of O-free liquid and the lowest coke yield, followed by Ni₂P, NiMoS/Al₂O₃, MoS₂, and MoO₃ for the HDO of pyrolysis oil. Those catalysts displaying high hydrogenating abilities had a high degree of O free liquid and a low yield of coke (MoP), while those catalysts displaying high isomerization abilities (MoO₃) had a high coke yield. Overall, this thesis identified phosphide catalysts as a new class of catalysts for HDO reactions with strong hydrogenating abilities, and their activity was superior to commercial NiMoS/Al₂O₃ for the HDO of pyrolysis oil.
Additional file 9 of Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals
Creators: name: Ramgopal, Sriram
name: Macy, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9: Table S8. Exploratory analysis of factors associated with clinically important outcomes, analyzed by individual outcome measures; outcome 4: skull fractures, intracranial/orbital injury.
Approaching finite-temperature phase diagrams of strongly correlated materials: a case study for V2O3
Creators: name: Grieger, Daniel
name: Piefke, Christoph
name: Peil, Oleg E.
name: Lechermann, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Examining phase stabilities and phase equilibria in strongly correlated materials asks for a next level in the many-body extensions to the local-density approximation (LDA) beyond mainly spectroscopic assessments. Here we put the charge-self-consistent LDA+dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) methodology based on projected local orbitals for the LDA+DMFT interface and a tailored pseudopotential framework into action in order to address such thermodynamics of realistic strongly correlated systems. Namely a case study for the electronic phase diagram of the well-known prototype Mott-phenomena system V$_2$O$_3$ at higher temperatures is presented. We are able to describe the first-order metal-to-insulator transitions with negative pressure and temperature from the self-consistent computation of the correlated total energy in line with experimental findings.
description: 12 pages, 15 figures, new data added
Blind physics: a catalogue of unverified hypotheses
Creators: name: Dzhunushaliev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some hypotheses in modern theoretical physics that have not any experimental verification are listed. The goal of the paper is not to criticize or be lawyers any of these hypotheses. The purpose is focus physicists attention on that now there are too much hypotheses which are not confirmed experimentally.
description: 1 subsection is added
Additional file 1 of Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals
Creators: name: Ramgopal, Sriram
name: Macy, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Diagnoses, by groupings of International Classification of Disease, 9th revision (ICD-9) codes.
Asymptotics of uniformly random lozenge tilings of polygons. Gaussian free field
Creators: name: Petrov, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study large-scale height fluctuations of random stepped surfaces corresponding to uniformly random lozenge tilings of polygons on the triangular lattice. For a class of polygons (which allows arbitrarily large number of sides), we show that these fluctuations are asymptotically governed by a Gaussian free (massless) field. This complements the similar result obtained in Kenyon [Comm. Math. Phys. 281 (2008) 675-709] about tilings of regions without frozen facets of the limit shape. In our asymptotic analysis we use the explicit double contour integral formula for the determinantal correlation kernel of the model obtained previously in Petrov [Asymptotics of random lozenge tilings via Gelfand-Tsetlin schemes (2012) Preprint].
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOP823 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 11 of Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals
Creators: name: Ramgopal, Sriram
name: Macy, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11: Table S10. Exploratory analysis of factors associated with clinically important outcomes, analyzed by individual outcome measures; outcome 6: death.
Critical points of the optimal quantum control landscape: a propagator approach
Creators: name: Ho, Tak-San
name: Rabitz, Herschel
name: Turinici, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical and experimental realizations of quantum control are closely connected to the properties of the mapping from the control to the unitary propagator. For bilinear quantum control problems, no general results are available to fully determine when this mapping is singular or not. In this paper we give suffcient conditions, in terms of elements of the evolution semigroup, for a trajectory to be non-singular. We identify two lists of "way-points" that, when reached, ensure the non-singularity of the control trajectory. It is found that under appropriate hypotheses one of those lists does not depend on the values of the coupling operator matrix.
Additional file 4 of The CAMP study: feasibility and clinical correlates of standardized assessments of substance use in a youth psychiatric inpatient sample
Creators: name: Halladay, Jillian
name: Horricks, Laurie
name: Amlung, Michael
name: MacKillop, James
name: Munn, Catharine
name: Nasir, Zil
name: Woock, Rachel
name: Georgiades, Katholiki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Reporting guidelines.
Additional file 10 of Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children’s hospitals
Creators: name: Ramgopal, Sriram
name: Macy, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Table S9. Exploratory analysis of factors associated with clinically important outcomes, analyzed by individual outcome measures; outcome 5: skin/soft tissue infection.
Phase soliton and pairing symmetry of a two-band superconductor: Role of the proximity effect
Creators: name: Vakaryuk, Victor
name: Stanev, Valentin
name: Lee, Wei-Cheng
name: Levchenko, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a mechanism which promotes the existence of a phase soliton -- topological defect formed in the relative phase of superconducting gaps of a two-band superconductor with s+- type of pairing. This mechanism exploits the proximity effect with a conventional s-wave superconductor which favors the alignment of the phases of the two-band superconductor which, in the case of s+- pairing, are pi-shifted in the absence of proximity. In the case of a strong proximity such effect can be used to reduce soliton's energy below the energy of a soliton-free state thus making the soliton thermodynamically stable. Based on this observation we consider an experimental setup, applicable both for stable and metastable solitons, which can be used to distinguish between s+- and s++ types of pairing in the iron-based multiband superconductors.
description: New references, added discussion about self-consistency of the GL description of a phase soliton in the presence of a proximity patch