cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Harnack inequalities and Bôcher-type theorems for conformally invariant fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations
Creators: name: Li, YanYan
name: Nguyen, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a generalization of a theorem of Bôcher for the Laplace equation to a class of conformally invariant fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations. We also prove a Harnack inequality for locally Lipschitz viscosity solutions and a classification of continuous radially symmetric viscosity solutions.
description: to appear in CPAM
La laicità dello Stato e le nuove interrelazioni tra etica e diritto
Creators: name: Valentini, Valentina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Laicità e pluralismo

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il principio di laicità dello Stato. Cenni storico-comparatistici - 2. Segue: dallo Stato liberale allo Stato laico sociale - 3. La laicità dello Stato e l’indipendenza delle Chiese - 4. Le istituzioni democratiche e la pluralità delle scelte etiche - 5. Il ruolo della riflessione etica nel diritto - 6. Laicità e biodiritto - 7.
Le questioni bioetiche ed il principio di laicità.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 9 luglio
Majorana Spin Liquids on a two-leg ladder
Creators: name: Lai, Hsin-Hua
name: Motrunich, Olexei I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We realize a gapless Majorana Orbital Liquid (MOL) using orbital degrees of freedom and also an SU(2)-invariant Majorana Spin Liquid (MSL) using both spin and orbital degrees of freedom in Kitaev-type models on a 2-leg ladder. The models are exactly solvable by Kitaev's parton approach, and we obtain long-wavelength descriptions for both Majorana liquids. The MOL has one gapless mode and power law correlations in energy at incommensuare wavevectors, while the SU(2) MSL has three gapless modes and power law correlations in spin, spin-nematic, and local energy observables. We study the stability of such states to perturbations away from the exactly solvable points. We find that both MOL and MSL can be stable against allowed short-range parton interactions. We also argue that both states persist upon allowing $Z_2$ gauge field fluctuations, in that the number of gapless modes is retained, although with an expanded set of contributions to observables compared to the free parton mean field.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures. Revised version
Synthetic sequence generator for recommender systems - memory biased random walk on sequence multilayer network
Creators: name: Antulov-Fantulin, Nino
name: Bosnjak, Matko
name: Zlatic, Vinko
name: Grcar, Miha
name: Smuc, Tomislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.4.1; H.2.8; G.3

description: Personalized recommender systems rely on each user's personal usage data in the system, in order to assist in decision making. However, privacy policies protecting users' rights prevent these highly personal data from being publicly available to a wider researcher audience. In this work, we propose a memory biased random walk model on multilayer sequence network, as a generator of synthetic sequential data for recommender systems. We demonstrate the applicability of the synthetic data in training recommender system models for cases when privacy policies restrict clickstream publishing.
description: The new updated version of the paper
La laicità francese secondo Nicolas Sarkozy
Creators: name: D'Arienzo, Maria
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico comparato e straniero

description: Il contributo è destinato agli Studi in onore del Professore Piero Pellegrino.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premesse sul concetto di laicità – 2. Le radici della laicità in Francia – 3. Laicità e sentimento religioso nel discorso di Sarkozy – 4. La laicità positiva di Sarkozy. Un modello nuovo per la Francia?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 14 luglio
Simbolismo religioso e nuove prospettive per lo studio del diritto ecclesiastico dello Stato
Creators: name: Coppola, Raffaele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico

description: Sommario: 1. L'occasione – 2. I suggerimenti – 3. Le prospettive in senso proprio.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 14 luglio
Collisionless kinetic theory of rolling molecules
Creators: name: Holm, Darryl D.
name: Putkaradze, Vakhtang
name: Tronci, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a collisionless kinetic theory for an ensemble of molecules undergoing nonholonomic rolling dynamics. We demonstrate that the existence of nonholonomic constraints leads to problems in generalizing the standard methods of statistical physics. In particular, we show that even though the energy of the system is conserved, and the system is closed in the thermodynamic sense, some fundamental features of statistical physics such as invariant measure do not hold for such nonholonomic systems. Nevertheless, we are able to construct a consistent kinetic theory using Hamilton's variational principle in Lagrangian variables, by regarding the kinetic solution as being concentrated on the constraint distribution. A cold fluid closure for the kinetic system is also presented, along with a particular class of exact solutions of the kinetic equations.
description: Revised version; 31 pages, 1 figure
Implications of a 125 GeV Higgs scalar for LHC SUSY and neutralino dark matter searches
Creators: name: Baer, Howard
name: Barger, Vernon
name: Mustafayev, Azar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have reported an excess of events in the γγ, ZZ^*\to 4\ell and WW^* search channels at an invariant mass m \simeq 125 GeV, which could be the first evidence for the long-awaited Higgs boson. We investigate the consequences of requiring m_h\simeq 125 GeV in both the mSUGRA and NUHM2 SUSY models. In mSUGRA, large values of trilinear soft breaking parameter |A_0| are required, and universal scalar m_0\agt 0.8 TeV is favored so that we expect squark and slepton masses typically in the multi-TeV range. This typically gives rise to an "effective SUSY" type of sparticle mass spectrum. In this case, we expect gluino pair production as the dominant sparticle creation reaction at LHC. For m_0< 5 TeV, the superpotential parameter μ> 2 TeV and m_A> 0.8 TeV, greatly restricting neutralino annihilation mechanisms. These latter conclusions are softened if m_0\sim 10-20 TeV or if one proceeds to the NUHM2 model. The standard neutralino abundance tends to be far above WMAP-measured values unless the neutralino is higgsino-like. We remark upon possible non-standard (but perhaps more attractive) cosmological scenarios which can bring the predicted dark matter abundance into accord with the measured value, and discuss the implications for direct and indirect detection of neutralino cold dark matter.
description: 24 pages including 23 .eps figures; updated version 3 contains also b-> tau+nu branching fraction
title: MRI, knee tibial tuberosity distance measurements
Creators: name: Aghaghazvini, Leila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: PACS
subject: Image compression
subject: Developmental disease
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: There are several theories about the multifactorial causes of patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Malalignment in the lower extremity, Abnormal patellar tracking quadriceps muscle weakness, especially vastus medialis obliqus, can be effective in...
On the Hochschild and cyclic (co)homology of rapid decay group algebras
Creators: name: Ji, Ronghui
name: Ogle, Crichton
name: Ramsey, Bobby
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L80, 46M18, 20F65

description: We show that the technical condition of solvable conjugacy bound, introduced in \cite{JOR1}, can be removed without affecting the main results of that paper. The result is a Burghelea-type description of the summands $HH_*^t(\BG)_{}$ and $HC_*^t(\BG)_{}$ for any bounding class $\B$, discrete group with word-length $(G,L)$ and conjugacy class $\in $. We use this description to prove the conjecture $\B$-SrBC of \cite{JOR1} for a class of groups that goes well beyond the cases considered in that paper. In particular, we show that the conjecture $\ell^1$-SrBC (the Strong Bass Conjecture for the topological $K$-theory of $\ell^1(G)$) is true for all semihyperbolic groups which satisfy SrBC, a statement consistent with the rationalized Bost conjecture for such groups.
title: MRI for assessment of muscle-fat and verterbral-fat content after breast cancer surgery; comparison to BMD, functional capacity and dietary intake. Preliminary results.
Creators: name: Ezponda Casajús, Ana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Eating disorders
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become less dense and more likely to fracture.Risk factors for developing osteoporosis include being postmenopausal or having had an early menopause, the prolonged use of certain medications, the low...
Life cycle analysis of an integrated biogas-based agriculture energy system
Creators: name: Zhang, Siduo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Large quantity of manure is generated in the livestock industry in British Columbia (BC) and natural gas is being consumed intensively in BC’s agriculture sector. We proposed to integrate the livestock farms and the greenhouses to promote waste-to-energy and waste-to-material exchanges following the principles of Industrial Ecology (IE). Natural gas consumptions on farms are replaced by renewable biogas generated from anaerobic digestion (AD) of farm wastes (mainly livestock manure). CO₂ for plant enrichment in greenhouses is supplied by biogas combustion flue gases and the residues (digestate) from digesters are used as animal bedding materials, plant growing media, and liquid fertilizers. An integrated dairy farm and greenhouse was first modeled. Co-digestion of manure with a variety of organic farm wastes was further evaluated with an aim to enhance the biogas production. To address the problems of too much digestate surplus and high CO₂ demand for greenhouse CO2 enrichment, the mushroom farm was further introduced into the integrated system. In this way, the digestate surplus can be used as a growing media for growing mushrooms and the CO₂–rich ventilation air from the mushroom can be directed to the greenhouse for CO₂ enrichment. A Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) was conducted to quantify the environmental impacts of each of the proposed cases in comparison to the conventional agriculture practices. The LCA results showed that the integrated dairy farm-greenhouse system reduces non-renewable energy consumption, climate change, acidification, respiratory effects from organic emissions, and human toxicity by more than 50% compared to conventional operations; among which the reductions in non-renewable energy consumption, climate change, and human toxicity are the most significant. If the digestate surplus is treated as a waste, the integrated system has a ~20% increase in eutrophication and respiratory effects from inorganic emissions. When other organic wastes are codigested with dairy manure, all the impacts can be further reduced in all cases. If a mushroom farm is introduced to form an integrated dairy farm-greenhouse-mushroom farm system, a large greenhouse can be facilitated and the digestate can be largely reused; thus all the analyzed impacts are significantly reduced compared to the base scenario.
La “Dichiarazione di intenti per la federazione dell’Islam italiano”: un primo commento
Creators: name: Fantelli, Paola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Confessioni religiose

description: Contributo segnalato dal Prof. Paolo Moneta.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 21 luglio
Protapion ononidis
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Colonnelli, Enzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Protapion
Protapion ononidis

description: Protapion ononidis (Gyllenhal, 1827)
Distribution in Iran. Iran (no exact locality cited) (Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017).
General distribution. Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, European Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Colonnelli, Enzo, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4759 (2) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3737365
Osservazioni a margine dell’IRC: la valutabilità dell’insegnamento di“attività alternativa” al vaglio dei giudici amministrativi
Creators: name: Gattaponi, Matteo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Istruzione e IRC

description: Contributo segnalato dalla Prof. Anna Talamanca.

SOMMARIO: 1. La fattispecie - 2. La valutabilità a fini concorsuali dell’ IRC e della ”attività alternativa”, nella giurisprudenza del Consiglio di Stato e della Corte costituzionale - 3. ”Attività alternativa” e dintorni, tra silenzi del legislatore, disciplina amministrativa e orientamenti del giudice - 4. Le conclusioni del TAR Lazio e del Consiglio di Stato sul caso di specie - 5. Alcune considerazioni finali.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 21 luglio
Undecidable problems: a sampler
Creators: name: Poonen, Bjorn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03D35 (Primary) 00A05 (Secondary)

description: After discussing two senses in which the notion of undecidability is used, we present a survey of undecidable decision problems arising in various branches of mathematics.
description: 28 pages; reference to publication added
La libertà religiosa alla prova dell’Islām: la peste dell’intolleranza
Creators: name: Casuscelli, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Libertà religiosa

description: Testo, senza varianti e con il corredo delle note bibliografiche di base, della relazione al Convegno su Identità religiosa e integrazione dei Musulmani in Italia e in Europa, omaggio alla memoria di Francesco Castro (Roma, 22 maggio 2008), destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti.

SOMMARIO: 1. Libertà religiosa e indirizzo politico delle maggioranze di governo - 2. Dall’intransigenza all’intolleranza: la religione civile come risposta al tema della sicurezza – 3. Le “minoranze confessionali” – 4. Per un piena attuazione del
principio costituzionale della libertà di religione – 5. Il filtro della “lealtà democratica” e il limite della “sicurezza” – 6. Stereotipi e pregiudizi - 7. La peste dell’intolleranza.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 28 luglio
Liberté d’expression et religion en France. Les démarches de la laïcité à la française
Creators: name: Alicino, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico comparato e straniero

description: Il contributo, segnalato dal Prof . Nicola Colaianni, è destinato alla pubbl icazione negli At ti della Conferenza internazionale, «La Constitution française / La Costituzione francese» (22-23 maggio 2008, Università degli Studi di Bari)
SOMMAIRE: 1. Les coordonnées (constitutionnelles) de la liberté d’expression – 2. La liberté d’expression en matière religieuse – 3. La religion? Un objet susceptible d’être commenté, critiqué, discuté … – 3.1. … ou bien la «sacro-sainte» liberté d’expression ne doit pas céder devant la religion – 3.2. Le pluralisme comme distinction entre critique (anti)religieuse et diffamation – 4. La religion? Un objet susceptible d’être caricaturé – 4.1. Droit de satire, liberté d’expression et laïcité: un lien réciproque de cause à effet – 5. Les limites – 5.1. L’ordre public comme limite à la liberté d’expression – 5.2. La liberté d’autrui comme limite à la liberté d’expression – 6. Religion, liberté d’expression et ethnicité. «Ils» étaient Arabes, ils deviennent musulmans – 6.1. L’école laïque et laïcité de l’État – 6.2. Le rôle du Conseil d’État – 7. Universalisme des droits fondamentaux et dimension collective de la religion – 7.1. Conclusion: de la tolérance au pluralisme. Le temps de la laïcité comme «médiation».
ora nel volume collettaneo (a cura di M. Calamo Specchia) La Costituzione francese / La constitution Française, 2 voll., Giappichelli, Torino,  2009, pp. 29-57.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 16 settembre
Operator algebras for analytic varieties
Creators: name: Davidson, Kenneth R.
name: Ramsey, Christopher
name: Shalit, Orr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the isomorphism problem for the multiplier algebras of irreducible complete Pick kernels. These are precisely the restrictions $\mathcal M_V$ of the multiplier algebra $\mathcal M$ of Drury-Arveson space to a holomorphic subvariety $V$ of the unit ball $\mathbb{B}_d$. We find that $\mathcal M_V$ is completely isometrically isomorphic to $\mathcal M_W$ if and only if $W$ is the image of $V$ under a biholomorphic automorphism of the ball. In this case, the isomorphism is unitarily implemented. This is then strengthend to show that, when $d
description: 39 pages. It has come to light that a result of Davidson and Pitts, that the fibre of the maximal ideal space of the multiplier algebra over a point in the open ball consists only of point evaluation, is not true for $d = \infty$. Version 5 addresses this with some minor changes to the $d=\infty$ case. To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc
UNA LINGUA “SECONDA E ADOTTIVA”. L’ITALIANO DELLE SECONDE GENERAZIONI
Creators: name: Favaro, Graziella
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Si assiste nella scuola italiana  ad un cambiamento  importante che riguarda i bambini e i ragazzi stranieri inseriti: aumentano di anno in anno  coloro che sono nati in Italia e che entrano nel sistema scolastico  nei tempi e modi comuni ai coetanei autoctoni  mentre  diminuisce il numero di  coloro che arrivano qui dal paese d’origine per ricongiungersi ai famigliari. Ma come parlano i bambini stranieri nati in Italia ? Quali caratteristiche interlinguistiche ha l’italiano dei “futuri cittadini”?

Una ricerca osservativa  ha coinvolto alcuni  bambini stranieri di cinque anni inseriti nella scuola dell'infanzia  e ha  cercato di  descrivere l’italiano delle  seconde generazioni, tra esitazioni, silenzi, conquiste e  creatività linguistica.

 A “second and adopted” language. Second generation Italian speakers.

In Italian schools there is an important change which regards foreign children enrolled: every year there are more and more of them who were born in Italy and they enter the school system following the same rhythms as their native classmates while fewer and fewer foreigners arrive from their home countries to reunite with their families.  How do foreign children, born in Italy, speak?  What interlinguistic characteristics does the Italian spoken by these “future citizens” have?  This observational study focused on some foreign 5-year-old children in Italian preschools and attempted to describe the language used by these second-generation speakers, between hesitations, silences, achievements and linguistic creativity.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
GLI ERRORI DI ITALIANO L1 ED L2: INTERFERENZA E APPRENDIMENTO
Creators: name: Solarino, Rosaria
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Si può oggi affrontare il tema degli errori di italiano da una prospettiva che possa giovare contemporaneamente a docenti di italiano L1 ed L2? Noi pensiamo di sì: la ricerca glottodidattica sembra aver ormai apprestato un terreno comune alle due situazioni di apprendimento, sgombrando il campo da vecchi pregiudizi e distinzioni che appaiono ormai superate. Attraverso la contrapposizione di concetti quali “lingua parlata/lingua scritta”,  “errori di lingua / errori di linguaggio”, “apprendimento spontaneo/apprendimento guidato”, “italiano L1/italiano L2”, “errori di apprendimento/errori di interferenza, si indicano diversi criteri per la interpretazione degli errori e la loro valutazione in relazione alle cause, alle situazioni comunicative, ai contesti o allo stadio di evoluzione dell’apprendimento della lingua.

Errors in italian L1 and L2: interference and learning

Can errors in Italian be approached in a way that benefits both L1 and L2 Italian teachers? We believe so: glottodidactic research seems to have prepared a common terrain for these two learning situations, clearing the field of old prejudices and obsolete distinctions.  Through the juxtaposition of concepts like “spoken language/written language”, “language errors/speech errors”, “spontaneous learning/guided learning”, “L1 Italian/L2 Italian”, “learning errors/interference errors”, different criteria for interpreting errors and evaluating them in relation to their causes, to communicative situations, to contexts and the developmental state in learning a language are singled out.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
COME AIUTARE L’ACQUISIZIONE DELLA MORFOSINTASSI DEL SINTAGMA NOMINALE ITALIANO: CONFRONTO FRA TRE PERCORSI GLOTTODIDATTICI RIVOLTI A STUDENTI ANGLOFONI.
Creators: name: Della Putta, Paolo
name: Visigalli, Manuela
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Alcuni aspetti della lingua italiana sono di particolare difficoltà d’acquisizione da parte degli studenti anglofoni. Uno di questi, conformemente agli studi acquisizionali in contesto non guidato e all’esperienza di classe degli insegnanti, è l’accordo morfologico genere – numero del sintagma nominale.

L’articolo si propone di riflettere sui risultati di tre sperimentazioni didattiche condotte con studenti universitari anglofoni in contesto di L2, in cui il tratto in oggetto è stato presentato ed esercitato in modi e tempi diversi.

Dall’analisi dei dati emersi da questa sperimentazione si daranno alcune indicazioni per facilitare l’insegnamento e l’acquisizione di un aspetto della morfosintassi italiana che risulta comunemente molto problematico per questo tipo di apprendenti.

How to aid morphosyntax of the Italian noun phrases: a comparision between glottodidactic processes for English-speaking students.

A few aspects of the Italian language are particularly difficult for English-speaking students. One of them, according to studies in un-guided contexts and based on teachers’experiences, is the morphological agreement between gender and number in noun phrases.

This article proposes to reflect on the results of three didactic experiences conducted with English-speaking university students in L2 contexts, where the subject under study was presented and practiced in different ways and times.

From the analysis of the data of these experiments, we will offer a few suggestions to facilitate the teaching and acquisition of an aspect of Italian morphosyntax which is problematic for these learners.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
Identifying cost-effective decarbonisation pathways for South Africa's power sector (EMP-A 2023) - Presentation
Creators: name: Reppin, Lilly Mercedes
name: Ntonyane, Lungile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OSeMOSYS
Power sector
Decarbonisation
Energy modelling
Policy planning

description: Identifying cost-effective decarbonisation pathways for South Africa's power sector (EMP-A 2023) - Presentation
L’ARTICOLO ITALIANO NELL’INTERLINGUA DI APPRENDENTI  SINOFONI: PROBLEMATICHE  ACQUISIZIONALI E CONSIDERAZIONI GLOTTODIDATTICHE
Creators: name: Chiapedi, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Quali sono le principali problematiche acquisizionali che caratterizzano l’apprendimento dell’articolo italiano da parte di apprendenti sinofoni? Da cosa dipende la forte variabilità che si riscontra nello sviluppo di tale categoria linguistica ai livelli iniziali di apprendimento? Il presente contributo tenta di rispondere a questi due quesiti, presentando i diversi strumenti linguistici a disposizione di italiano e cinese per esprimere il concetto di definitezza e mettendo in luce quali sono i principali aspetti coinvolti nella selezione dell’articolo indeterminativo e determinativo italiano. Il contributo si conclude fornendo alcuni spunti relativi alla didattica di questo elemento linguistico: in particolare si vuole riflettere sulla necessità di un insegnamento mirato e su quali potrebbero essere le metodologie più adeguate affinché l’intervento didattico possa risultare efficace.

 Italian articles in chinese speaking learners’ interlanguage: acquisitional problems and glottodidactic reflections

 What are the main learning challenges which characterize Chinese speakers when learning Italian articles? What causes the great variability in the development of this linguistic category at the beginning stages of learning? This article attempts to respond to these two questions, presenting the different linguistic tools available for Italian and Chinese to express the concepts of definiteness and highlights the main aspects involved in choosing the indefinite and definite articles in Italian.  The article concludes with a few teaching suggestions regarding this linguistic element:  especially on the need for targeted teaching and which methodologies are most appropriate for effective teaching.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-like correlation on a coherent-state basis and inseparability of two-mode Gaussian states
Creators: name: Namiki, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strange property of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlation between two remote physical systems is a primitive object on the study of quantum entanglement. In order to understand the entanglement in canonical continuous-variable systems, a pair of the EPR-like uncertainties is an essential tool. Here, we consider a normalized pair of the EPR-like uncertainties and introduce a state-overlap to a classically correlated mixture of coherent states. The separable condition associated with this state-overlap determines the strength of the EPR-like correlation on a coherent-state basis in order that the state is entangled. We show that the coherent-state-based condition is capable of detecting the class of two-mode Gaussian entangled states. We also present an experimental measurement scheme for estimation of the state-overlap by a heterodyne measurement and a photon detection with a feedforward operation.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. A part of the materials in Sec. VI B of previous versions was moved into another paper: Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2012, 854693 (2012). http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jamop/2012/854693/
Topologically induced avoided band crossing in an optical chequerboard lattice
Creators: name: Ölschläger, Matthias
name: Wirth, Georg
name: Kock, Thorge
name: Hemmerich, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the condensation of bosons in the 4th band of an optical chequerboard lattice providing a topologically induced avoided band crossing involving the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Bloch bands. When the condensate is slowly tuned through the avoided crossing, accelerated band relaxation arises and the zero momentum approximately $C4$-invariant condensate wave function acquires finite momentum order and reduced $C2$ symmetry. For faster tuning Landau-Zener oscillations between different superfluid orders arise, which are used to characterize the avoided crossing.
description: 4 figs, Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
IL MIO MONDO VISTO DA FUORI: UN’OPPORTUNITÀ INTERCULTURALE
Creators: name: Messina, Alida
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: La questione centrale da cui si sviluppa l’intero articolo è dimostrare come ascoltare la voce dell’altro e riconoscerne l’identità costituisce il compito più importante che la società odierna ci chiede di svolgere. Tuttavia, ascoltare l’altro che parla di noi e del nostro universo culturale è un’impresa complessa e difficile, ma, al tempo stesso, una grande opportunità interculturale.

L’identità personale dell’individuo è un concetto complesso e multi-sfaccettato, il suo percorso di costruzione dipende da molteplici fattori. Il legame con il luogo d’appartenenza gioca sicuramente un ruolo molto importante, così come altrettanto significativo è il confronto con l’altro da me attraverso il quale scaturisce una più chiara definizione e consapevolezza di noi stessi. Questo confronto sicuramente avviene attraverso la narrazione e si spinge ancora oltre se l’altro non si limita a raccontare il suo mondo, ma inizia a parlare del nostro, ossia di una società che inizialmente non gli appartiene ma nella quale si trova a vivere. Così facendo, l’altro, ai suoi occhi, siamo noi.

MY WORLD FROM THE OUTSIDE: AN INTERCULTURAL

OPPORTUNITY

The main issue dealt with in this article is to demonstrate how listening to the voice of the other and recognizing identity is the most important task which current society asks of us.  Yet listening to others who talk about us and our cultural universe is complex and difficult, although it offers a great intercultural opportunity.
 An individual’s personal identity is a complex, multi-faceted concept and its creation depends on many factors.  The link to one’s place of origin undoubtedly plays an important role, and comparison with those who differ from me triggers a clearer definition and awareness of ourselves in a meaningful way.  This comparison takes place through narration and goes beyond, if the speaker does not merely limit him or herself to telling about their world, but also ours, of an initially unfamiliar society where the foreigner finds him or herself living. Thus the other, in a foreigner’s eyes, is us.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
title: Scrotal pain after vasectomy: a review of sonographic findings.
Creators: name: Pasetto, Stefano
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Oedema
subject: Inflammation
subject: Abscess
subject: Observer performance
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This study presents changes in the testis and epididymis after a vasectomy as well as illustrate the early and late risks associated with the...
A study of the consumer market for duck and quail egg products : the case of Chinese Canadians in Vancouver, British Columbia
Creators: name: Arthur, Jennifer Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: With the growing ethnic diversity in metropolitan areas of North America, ethnic food niche markets, traditionally served by imports, may represent opportunities for local producers and processors. This study profiles the Chinese Canadian consumer market in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) for salted and preserved duck eggs and fresh quail eggs. After initial focus group research, a random sample survey of ethnic Chinese households yielded a net of 410 respondents (28.9%). Logistic regression analysis, including a measurement of acculturation, and cluster analysis based on beliefs, were used to describe buyer behaviour, predict purchase, and identify key buyer groups and opportunities. Results indicated that 73% of respondents purchased at least one of the duck or quail egg products in the past year, but only 15% purchased fresh quail eggs. Most purchased infrequently, however, the duck egg products’ market shares were divided approximately 40% - 40% between low and high frequency buyers, respectively. The sample’s mean acculturation score was medium-low on the created scale, suggesting a tendency to hold on to their Chinese cultural heritage. Results also indicated a significant, negative association between acculturation and product purchase. Logistic regression analysis yielded a model that correctly predicted 77% of purchases: Acculturation, and household size (positive association), were significant predictor variables. Cluster analyses suggested 4 buyer segments for each duck egg product. Significant differences were found between the segments. Results indicated an opportunity may exist to maintain and grow the market by addressing health concerns, particularly for salted duck egg buyers. Respondents indicated a willingness to pay at least 10% more for BC produced duck egg products versus imports, all other characteristics equal. The low number of fresh quail egg buyers prevented a meaningful market segmentation. However, an opportunity to provide a smaller package size may exist: Median preferred size was 12 eggs. Opportunities exist for local producers and processors; however, results suggest that due to acculturation, new immigrants will be required to sustain the market. Few Chinese Canadians appear to buy fresh quail eggs for at home consumption: Industry is recommended to concentrate efforts in the hotel/restaurant segment or investigate other consumer segments.
Holographic Entanglement Entropy in Insulator/Superconductor Transition
Creators: name: Cai, Rong-Gen
name: He, Song
name: Li, Li
name: Zhang, Yun-Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the behaviors of entanglement entropy in the holographical insulator/superconductor phase transition. We calculate the holographic entanglement entropy for two kinds of geometry configurations in a completely back-reacted gravitational background describing the insulator/superconductor phase transition. The non-monotonic behavior of the entanglement entropy is found in this system. In the belt geometry case, there exist four phases characterized by the chemical potential and belt width.
description: v2: 18 pages, 12 figures, references and figures added, minor corrections made
title: Assessment of Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction Parameters for Computed Tomography Angiography after Carotid Artery Stenting
Creators: name: Shimada, Sayaka
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Blood
subject: Stents
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is an important medical treatment for carotid stenosis [1, 2]. An overview of CAS and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) before and after stenting is shown in Fig 1. A follow up CT angiography (CTA) is routinely...
title: Ruptured Intracranial Dermoid Cysts
Creators: name: Jacków, Jagoda
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Intracranial dermoid cysts are rare, benign, congenital, slow-growing cystic lesions. They are composed of mature squamous epithelium and can contain apocrine, eccrine and sebaceous glands as well as other exodermal structures.Rupture of...
STRUMENTI E TECNOLOGIE IN RETE PER L’INSEGNAMENTO E L’APPRENDIMENTO DELLA LINGUA
Creators: name: Santalucia, Diego
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo analizza il processo di sviluppo delle tecnologie finalizzate alla comunicazione in rete nel web 2.0 e alcune possibilità della loro utilizzazione a fini didattici. La prima parte illustra la situazione attuale del web, con le sue risorse in ambito tecnologico e le sue peculiarità rispetto a una didattica che dovrebbe tener conto, in maniera sempre maggiore, dei nuovi strumenti di comunicazione basati sulla percezione sociale della rete.  Nella sua parte centrale, l’articolo propone alcune possibilità d’uso di strumenti web in situazioni “non ideali” - dal punto di vista della disponibilità oggettiva delle nuove tecnologie in classe - e illustra alcuni esempi di utilizzo degli stessi in situazioni, invece, “ideali”.

Tra gli strumenti oggetto di questo lavoro c’è una piattaforma didattica utilizzata per attività di apprendimento assistito dell’Italiano per Stranieri con riferimenti ai suoi strumenti di amministrazione dei contenuti, con approfondimenti sulla presentazione di attività video, audio e scrittura attraverso software di gestione e presentazione dei materiali.

Oltre a fornire un quadro, si spera, concreto e sintetico delle prospettive dell’uso di strumenti in continuo divenire, un altro obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di mostrare la possibilità di uno sviluppo ulteriore della già sostanziale funzione autoriale di un docente di lingua, attraverso la creazione di materiali specifici per un corso con strumenti che possano favorirne il riutilizzo e l’aggiornamento.

Online tools and technologies for teaching and learning languages

This article analyzes the development of technologies aimed at online communication in the 2.0 web ambient and a few ways they can be used for teaching. The first part describes the current situation of the Internet, with its technological resources and peculiarities with respect to teaching.  It is more and more important to keep in mind the new communication tools based on the social perception of the Internet. The main part proposes a few uses for web tools in “non-ideal” situations- from the point of view of the availability of new technologies in classrooms- and gives a few examples of their use in “ideal” situations.

Among the tools considered in this article are the didactic platform used for assisted learning activities in teaching Italian as a Foreign Language- with references to the tools for administering the content- with in-depth investigations regarding the presentation of video, audio and writing activities using management software and the presentation of materials.

Besides offering a concrete and brief overview of the possibilities for using continuously developing tools, another aim of the article is to show the possible further development of the authorial function of the language teacher, through the creation of specific materials for a course using tools which can easily be reused and updated.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
title: Risk Management and Patient Safety in Interventional Radiology: team building and team working as multidisciplinary team fundamental role to prevent, mitigate and avoid possible errors and complications in procedures
Creators: name: Migliorini, Matteo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Management
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Intraoperative
subject: Forensics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe principles in Risk Management, Patient Safety and Safety Attitudes in Interventional Radiology . Fig. 2 To identify Multidisciplinary Team Working Fundamentals to achieve Safe, Reliable, Effective interventional procedures. To perform a...
Corrections to Pauling residual entropy and single tetrahedron based approximations for the pyrochlore lattice Ising antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Singh, Rajiv R. P.
name: Oitmaa, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study corrections to single tetrahedron based approximations for the entropy, specific heat and uniform susceptibility of the pyrochlore lattice Ising antiferromagnet, by a Numerical Linked Cluster (NLC) expansion. In a tetrahedron based NLC, the first order gives the Pauling residual entropy of ${1\over 2}\log{3\over 2}\approx 0.20273$. A 16-th order NLC calculation changes the residual entropy to 0.205507 a correction of 1.37 percent over the Pauling value. At high temperatures, the accuracy of the calculations is verified by a high temperature series expansion. We find the corrections to the single tetrahedron approximations to be at most a few percent for all the thermodynamic properties.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures. Version as published in PRB
title: Breast implants late collections, ultrasound approach
Creators: name: PIZZOLON, MARIA FLAVIA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Puncture
subject: Inflammation
subject: Infection
subject: Epidemiology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Characterize the imaging features of peri-implant collections, enummerate thir causes, time of onset and...
GUARDA E IMPARA… UN NUOVO APPROCCIO ALL’USO DI SUPPORTI AUDIOVISIVI IN CLASSE. RIFLESSIONI ED ESEMPI
Creators: name: Guidi, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: Come proporre un supporto video a lezione? Come le nuove tecnologie possono entrare a far parte di un percorso didattico? Qual è l’evoluzione del rapporto docente-discente alla luce dell’utilizzo di materiale video e delle nuove tecnologie in classe?

L’articolo risponde a queste domande e illustra anche il risultato di un percorso di ricerca e di applicazione didattica dell’autrice nella sua esperienza di docente di italiano L2 presso l’Università della Bicocca di Milano.

Look and learn…

A new approach to using audiovisual materials in the classroom. Reflections and examples

How can teachers use videos during lessons? How can new technologies become part of the didactic process? How has the teacher-student relationship evolved in light of video and new technologies being used in the classroom?

This article answers these questions and illustrates the result of a research process in didactic application by the author based on her experience as a L2 Italian teacher at the Università Bicocca in Milan.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
Hopf type rigidity for thermostats
Creators: name: Assylbekov, Yernat M.
name: Dairbekov, Nurlan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show a Hopf type rigidity for thermostats without conjugate points on a 2-torus
description: 9 pages; minor revisions to reflect published version
Dental health needs and related factors in inner-city Vancouver elementary school aged children
Creators: name: Samim, Firoozeh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Objectives: The aims of the study were: to describe the dental health and treatment needs of inner-city Vancouver elementary-school-aged children and to examine differences in dental health between socioeconomic and ethnic groups. Methods: Principals of all 10 elementary schools in inner-city Vancouver were approached. Principals of 7/10 inner-city Vancouver elementary agreed to have their schools participate in this project. Consent letters were sent to parents/guardians. The clinical data included assessment of dental health and treatment needs. Self-reported data comprised information about ethnicity, gender, place of birth, years lived in Canada, dental insurance, family education and income. Results: A total of 561 children of age 5-12 year were examined (kindergarten and grades 1-7). Of the children from ethnic minorities, 20% were Filipino, 18% south Asia and 14% Vietnamese. Overall, 57% of children had experienced caries. The mean number per child of decayed, missing or filled teeth was 2.67. In total, 32% of children needed dental treatment. Overall, there were no statistically significant differences among different demographic groups regarding dental treatment needs or dental health status, except that children born outside Canada had more decayed teeth as compared to their Canadian born counterparts. Conclusion: With the information from this study it is possible to conclude that there is a difference in dental health status between children born in Canada and foreign born children. On average, foreign born children present with poorer dental health status than their native counterparts. Further research should also aim to determine the cause of the disparity, so that a more targeted approach can be taken to improve dental health status.
Samara no. 2 [Spanish].
Creators: name: Millennium Seed Bank Project
Publisher: name: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Year: 2002
Subjects: Egypt
Seeds for Life Project (SFL)
Ex situ conservation
Madagascar
Seed banks
Plant conservation
Seed collecting
Training
Namibia
Burking Faso
Capacity building
Botswana
Western Australia
China
Orchidaceae
Millennium Seed Bank Project
Kenya
Chile

description: IF = none
description: Ardingly, West Sussex
Electrochemical ferroelectric switching: The origin of polarization reversal in ultrathin films
Creators: name: Bristowe, N. C.
name: Stengel, Massimiliano
name: Littlewood, P. B.
name: Pruneda, J. M.
name: Artacho, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Against expectations, robust switchable ferroelectricity has been recently observed in ultrathin (1 nm) ferroelectric films exposed to air [V. Garcia $et$ $al.$, Nature {\bf 460}, 81 (2009)]. Based on first-principles calculations, we show that the system does not polarize unless charged defects or adsorbates form at the surface. We propose electrochemical processes as the most likely origin of this charge. The ferroelectric polarization of the film adapts to the bound charge generated on its surface by redox processes when poling the film. This, in turn, alters the band alignment at the bottom electrode interface, explaining the observed tunneling electroresistance. Our conclusions are supported by energetics calculated for varied electrochemical scenarios.
description: Updated, 7 pages