cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Autonomous Systems' Safety Cases for use in UK Nuclear Environments
Creators: name: Anderson, Christopher R.
name: Dennis, Louise A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An overview of the process to develop a safety case for an autonomous robot deployment on a nuclear site in the UK is described and a safety case for a hypothetical robot incorporating AI is presented. This forms a first step towards a deployment, showing what is possible now and what may be possible with development of tools. It forms the basis for further discussion between nuclear site licensees, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), industry and academia.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
title: Landslides in clays
Creators: name: Eden, W. J.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: landslides
subject: glissement de terrains argileux
subject: land retention works
subject: ouvrage de retenue des terres
subject: erosion
subject: érosion
subject: drainage
subject: clay soils
subject: sol argileux

description: It is the purpose of this Digest to direct attention to the slope stability problem as it relates to clays and to present information on the factors that affect the stability of slopes. Recommendations are given as to the precautions that should be taken to prevent tragedies. Although the clays of the St. Lawrence valley are emphasized, the method of analysis and the corrective measures described can be applied to clays in general.
Rollout Heuristics for Online Stochastic Contingent Planning
Creators: name: Blumenthal, Oded
name: Shani, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP) are a useful model for decision-making under partial observability and stochastic actions. Partially Observable Monte-Carlo Planning is an online algorithm for deciding on the next action to perform, using a Monte-Carlo tree search approach, based on the UCT (UCB applied to trees) algorithm for fully observable Markov-decision processes. POMCP develops an action-observation tree, and at the leaves, uses a rollout policy to provide a value estimate for the leaf. As such, POMCP is highly dependent on the rollout policy to compute good estimates, and hence identify good actions. Thus, many practitioners who use POMCP are required to create strong, domain-specific heuristics. In this paper, we model POMDPs as stochastic contingent planning problems. This allows us to leverage domain-independent heuristics that were developed in the planning community. We suggest two heuristics, the first is based on the well-known h_add heuristic from classical planning, and the second is computed in belief space, taking the value of information into account.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science
Creators: name: Shi, Feng
name: Dokshin, Fedor A.
name: Shi, Yongren
name: Macy, Michael W.
name: Evans, James A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Passionate disagreements about climate change, stem cell research and evolution raise concerns that science has become a new battlefield in the culture wars. We used data derived from millions of online co-purchases as a behavioural indicator for whether shared interest in science bridges political differences or selective attention reinforces existing divisions. Findings reveal partisan preferences both within and across scientific disciplines. Across fields, customers for liberal or ‘blue’ political books prefer basic science (for example, physics, astronomy and zoology), whereas conservative or ‘red’ customers prefer applied and commercial science (for example, criminology, medicine and geophysics). Within disciplines, ‘red’ books tend to be co-purchased with a narrower subset of science books on the periphery of the discipline. We conclude that the political left and right share an interest in science in general, but not science in particular. This underscores the need for research into remedies that can attenuate selective exposure to ‘convenient truth’, renew the capacity for science to inform political debate and temper partisan passions.
Additional file 1 of Mobile X-ray services in nursing homes as an enabler to healthcare-in-place for residents: informal carers’ views
Creators: name: Dollard, Joanne
name: Edwards, Jane
name: Yadav, Lalit
name: Gaget, Virginie
name: Tivey, David
name: Maddern, Guy J.
name: Visvanathan, Renuka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
The quarries’ landscape: environmental and productional valorization, between extraction and building
Creators: name: Bagnato, Vincenzo Paolo
name: Paris, Spartaco
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2013

description: The essay suggests an interpretation on the topic of relationship between landscape and places of extraction, through the declination of re-cycling as an approach at different scales, to define strategies and metodological activities, which allow to update and innovate the principles upon which is based the relationship between exploitation, transformation and disposal of the quarries. The case of Apulia represents a significant field, considering at least for two issues: the role assumed by the activity of stone extraction in the regional economy, although nowdays is not implemented by activities of transformation of the matter in loco; also for the dimensional relevance of the landscapes of quarries, mainly connected to private interests, and for the activities, and resulting environmental implications (1).
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 5 (2013): Environment emergency
15–17 ЁШЛИ ЎСМИРЛАР ОРАСИДА ҚОМАТ БУЗИЛИШЛАРИНИНГ ТАРҚАЛИШИ ВА ЖИСМОНИЙ ФАОЛЛИК БИЛАН БОҒЛИҚЛИГИ
Creators: name: Олимбоева, Д.А.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ушбу тадқиқот Тошкент шаҳрининг Миробод ва Шайхонтоҳур туманларида яшовчи 15–17 ёшли 4019 нафар мактаб ўқувчиси иштирокида ўтказилди. Тадқиқотда ўсмирлар жисмоний фаоллик даражаси ва қомат ҳолати ўртасидаги боғлиқлик, ортопедик муаммоларнинг тарқалиши, уларнинг эҳтимолий сабаблари ва асосий омиллари таҳлил қилинди. Натижаларга кўра, жисмоний фаоллик даражаси паст бўлган ўсмирларда қомат бузилишлари сезиларли даражада юқори эканлиги аниқланди. Корреляция таҳлили компьютер ва смартфондан ортиқча фойдаланиш, камҳаракатли ҳаёт тарзи, нотўғри пойабзал кийиш ва стресс каби омилларнинг қомат бузилишларига таъсирини кўрсатди.
Evaluating Heuristic Search Algorithms in Pathfinding: A Comprehensive Study on Performance Metrics and Domain Parameters
Creators: name: Kherrour, Aya
name: Robol, Marco
name: Roveri, Marco
name: Giorgini, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of some heuristic search algorithms in the context of autonomous systems and robotics. The objective of the study is to evaluate and compare the performance of different search algorithms in different problem settings on the pathfinding domain. Experiments give us insight into the behavior of the evaluated heuristic search algorithms, over the variation of different parameters: domain size, obstacle density, and distance between the start and the goal states. Results are then used to design a selection algorithm that, on the basis of problem characteristics, suggests the best search algorithm to use.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
Additional file 2 of Mobile X-ray services in nursing homes as an enabler to healthcare-in-place for residents: informal carers’ views
Creators: name: Dollard, Joanne
name: Edwards, Jane
name: Yadav, Lalit
name: Gaget, Virginie
name: Tivey, David
name: Maddern, Guy J.
name: Visvanathan, Renuka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Space heating and energy conservation
Creators: name: Stephenson, D. G.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Heating
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0630
subject: Chauffage
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0630
subject: energy conservation
subject: conservation de l'énergie
subject: heat losses
subject: déperdition de chaleur
subject: heating equipment
subject: installation de chauffage
subject: district heating
subject: chauffage urbain

description: This Digest points out some ways by which building designers and utility planners can help to conserve fuel. The conservation of fuel for space heating is primarily a matter of minimizing losses. It includes minimizing the amount of energy that leaves a building by conduction through the building envelope, air leakage or exhaust from the building, and the discharge of heat by the cooling system. It goes even further, and involves reducing wastage of heat from power stations by having the heat rejected at a sufficiently high temperature to enable it to be utilized for heating buildings. The implementation of all these concepts can result in very significant savings in the amount of fuel used for space heating in Canada.
Proximate transition temperatures amplify linear magnetoelectric coupling in strain-disordered multiferroic BiMnO3
Creators: name: Mickel, Patrick R.
name: Jeen, Hyoungjeen
name: Kumar, Pradeep
name: Biswas, Amlan
name: Hebard, Arthur F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a giant linear magnetoelectric coupling in strained BiMnO3 thin films in which the disorder associated with an islanded morphology gives rise to extrinsic relaxor ferroelectricity that is not present in bulk centrosymmetric ferromagnetic crystalline BiMnO3. Strain associated with the disorder is treated as a local variable which couples to the two ferroic order parameters, magnetization M and polarization P. A straightforward "gas under a piston" thermodynamic treatment explains the observed correlated temperature dependencies of the product of susceptibilities and the magnetoelectric coefficient together with the enhancement of the coupling by the proximity of the ferroic transition temperatures close to the relaxor freezing temperature. Our interpretation is based on a trilinear coupling term in the free energy of the form L(PXM) where L is a hidden antiferromagnetic order parameter, previously postulated by theory for BiMnO3. This phenomenological invariant not only preserves inversion and time reversal symmetry of the strain-induced interactions but also explains the pronounced linear magnetoelectric coupling without using the more conventional higher order biquadratic interaction proportional to (PM)^2.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Observation of Electrically Tunable van der Waals Interaction in Graphene-Molecule Complex
Creators: name: Muruganathan, Manoharan
name: Sun, Jian
name: Imamura, Tomonori
name: Mizuta, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: van der Waals (vdW) interaction plays a fundamental role in the surface-molecules related phenomena. Tuning of the correlated charge fluctuation in the vdW complex is a plausible way to modulate the molecules interaction at the atomic surface. We report vdW interaction tunability of the graphene-CO$_2$ complex by combining the first principle calculations with the vdW exchange correlation density functionals and the time evaluation measurements of CO$_2$ molecules adsorption/desorption on graphene under an external electric field. The field-dependent charge transfer within the complex unveils the controllable tuning of CO$_2$ from acceptor to donor. Meanwhile the configuration of the adsorbed molecule - the equilibrium distance from graphene and O-C-O bonding angle - is modified accordingly. The range of electrical tunability is a unique feature for each type of molecules.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Flammability of lining and insulating materials
Creators: name: Rose, A.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: thermal insulating materials
subject: isolant thermique
subject: expanded plastic
subject: plastique dilaté
subject: wall coverings
subject: revêtement mural
subject: wood chipboards
subject: panneau de particles
subject: wood (materials)
subject: bois (matériau)
subject: plywood
subject: contreplaque
subject: flame spread ratings
subject: indice de propagation (flamme)
subject: flammability
subject: inflammabilité

description: The proliferation of new lining materials and composite structural products, modification of established products which lead to higher flammabilities, and greater difficulties in testing, and application of the ASTM E84 test to materials for which it was never intended, have presented tunnel furnace operators with serious problems. In the case of thin plywoods and other semi-rigid lining materials (self-supporting across the width of the furnace), new methods of mounting may be required to assure both good reproducibility of results and a realistic appraisal of the behaviour of the material in an actual fire. In some cases it may be necessary to test such materials as part of a structure or assembly. ASTM E84 has probably not attained its final and immutable form.
Soft-core particles freezing to form a quasicrystal and a crystal-liquid phase
Creators: name: Archer, A. J.
name: Rucklidge, A. M.
name: Knobloch, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Systems of soft-core particles interacting via a two-scale potential are studied. The potential is responsible for peaks in the structure factor of the liquid state at two different but comparable length scales, and a similar bimodal structure is evident in the dispersion relation. Dynamical density functional theory in two dimensions is used to identify two novel states of this system, the crystal-liquid state, in which the majority of the particles are located on lattice sites but a minority remains free and so behaves like a liquid, and a 12-fold quasicrystalline state. Both are present even for deeply quenched liquids and are found in a regime in which the liquid is unstable with respect to modulations on the smaller scale only. As a result the system initially evolves towards a small scale crystal state; this state is not a minimum of the free energy, however, and so the system subsequently attempts to reorganize to generate the lower energy larger scale crystals. This dynamical process generates a disordered state with quasicrystalline domains, and takes place even when this large scale is linearly stable, i.e., it is a nonlinear process. With controlled initial conditions a perfect quasicrystal can form. The results are corroborated using Brownian dynamics simulations.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures
Online Proactive Multi-Task Assignment with Resource Availability Anticipation
Creators: name: Nedelmann, Déborah Conforto
name: Lacan, Jérôme
name: Chanel, Caroline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the emergence of services and online applications as taxi dispatching, crowdsourcing, package or food delivery, industrials and researchers are paying attention to the online multi-task assignment optimization field to quickly and efficiently met demands. In this context, this paper is interested in the multi-task assignment problem where multiple requests (e.g. tasks) arrive over time and must be dynamically matched to (mobile) agents. This optimization problem is known to be NP-hard. In order to treat this problem with a proactive mindset, we propose to use a receding-horizon approach to determine which resources (e.g. taxis, mobile agents, drones, robots) would be available within this (possibly dynamic) receding-horizon to meet the current set of requests (i.e. tasks) as good as possible. Contrarily to several works in this domain, we have chosen to make no assumption concerning future locations of requests. To achieve fast optimized online solutions in terms of costs and amount of allocated tasks, we have designed a genetic algorithm based on a fitness function integrating the traveled distance and the age of the requests. We compared our proactive multi-task assignment with resource availability anticipation approach with a classical reactive approach. The results obtained in two benchmark problems, one synthetic and another based on real data, show that our resource availability anticipation method can achieve better results in terms of costs (e.g. traveled distance) and amount of allocated tasks than reactive approaches while decreasing resources idle time.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
Reasoning about Intuitionistic Computation Tree Logic
Creators: name: Catta, Davide
name: Malvone, Vadim
name: Murano, Aniello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we define an intuitionistic version of Computation Tree Logic. After explaining the semantic features of intuitionistic logic, we examine how these characteristics can be interesting for formal verification purposes. Subsequently, we define the syntax and semantics of our intuitionistic version of CTL and study some simple properties of the so obtained logic. We conclude by demonstrating that some fixed-point axioms of CTL are not valid in the intuitionistic version of CTL we have defined.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
ORTAC+ : A User Friendly Domain Specific Language for Multi-Agent Mission Planning
Creators: name: Bonhomme, Caroline
name: Dufour, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A tactical military unit is a complex system composed of many agents such as infantry, robots, or drones. Given a mission, an automated planner can find an optimal plan. Therefore, the mission itself must be modeled. The problem is that languages like PDDL are too low-level to be usable by the end-user: an officer in the field. We present ORTAC+, a language and a planning tool designed for this end-user. Its main objective is to allow a natural modeling of the mission, to minimize the risk of bad modeling, and thus obtain reliable plans. The language offers high-level constructs specifically designed to describe tactical missions, but at the same time has clear semantics allowing a translation to PDDL, to take advantage of state-of-the-art planners.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2023, arXiv:2310.00333
Essential spectra of tensor product Hilbert complexes, and the $\overline\partial$-Neumann problem on product manifolds
Creators: name: Berger, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 58J50, Secondary 35N15, 58J10, 47A13

description: We investigate tensor products of Hilbert complexes, in particular the (essential) spectrum of their Laplacians. It is shown that the essential spectrum of the Laplacian associated to the tensor product complex is computable in terms of the spectra of the factors. Applications are given for the $\overline\partial$-Neumann problem on the product of two or more Hermitian manifolds, especially regarding (non-) compactness of the associated $\overline\partial$-Neumann operator.
description: 22 pages
The role of social media in cultural relations: an analysis of whether the British Council's social media strategy coheres with the organisation’s core purpose
Creators: name: Howe, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: In 2010, in response to the announcement that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) would be reducing the annual grant given to the British Council, the organisation announced it would increase its virtual presence. This thesis examines the organisation’s new social media strategy and evaluates whether it is aligned with the British Council’s core purposes. Using case study analysis, three British Council country office social media channels are reviewed. The analysis is informed by a table of components that are used to evaluate the British Council’s social media. These components and subsequent presentation of results were constructed through research carried out on the British Council, social media and the theoretical perspective of Alexander Vuving’s soft power currencies. Through studying the organisation’s approach to building trust and making relationships worldwide, and also placing the organisation into the context of a contributor to UK “soft power”, this research explores the role this modern means of communication has for a cultural relations organisation.
Event-Enhanced Multi-Modal Spiking Neural Network for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
name: Dong, Bo
name: Zhang, Yuji
name: Zhou, Yunduo
name: Mei, Haiyang
name: Wei, Ziqi
name: Yang, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous obstacle avoidance is of vital importance for an intelligent agent such as a mobile robot to navigate in its environment. Existing state-of-the-art methods train a spiking neural network (SNN) with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to achieve energy-efficient and fast inference speed in complex/unknown scenes. These methods typically assume that the environment is static while the obstacles in real-world scenes are often dynamic. The movement of obstacles increases the complexity of the environment and poses a great challenge to the existing methods. In this work, we approach robust dynamic obstacle avoidance twofold. First, we introduce the neuromorphic vision sensor (i.e., event camera) to provide motion cues complementary to the traditional Laser depth data for handling dynamic obstacles. Second, we develop an DRL-based event-enhanced multimodal spiking actor network (EEM-SAN) that extracts information from motion events data via unsupervised representation learning and fuses Laser and event camera data with learnable thresholding. Experiments demonstrate that our EEM-SAN outperforms state-of-the-art obstacle avoidance methods by a significant margin, especially for dynamic obstacle avoidance.
description: In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2023)
A stochastic model and Monte Carlo algorithm for fluctuation-induced H$_2$ formation on the surface of interstellar dust grains
Creators: name: Sabelfeld, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A stochastic algorithm for simulation of fluctuation-induced kinetics of H$_2$ formation on grain surfaces is suggested as a generalization of the technique developed in our recent studies where this method was developed to describe the annihilation of spatially separate electrons and holes in a disordered semiconductor. The stochastic model is based on the spatially inhomogeneous, nonlinear integro-differential Smoluchowski equations with random source term. In this paper we derive the general system of Smoluchowski type equations for the formation of H$_2$ from two hydrogen atoms on the surface of interstellar dust grains with physisorption and chemisorption sites. We focus in this study on the spatial distribution, and numerically investigate the segregation in the case of a source with a continuous generation in time and randomly distributed in space. The stochastic particle method presented is based on a probabilistic interpretation of the underlying process as a stochastic Markov process of interacting particle system in discrete but randomly progressed time instances. The segregation is analyzed through the correlation analysis of the vector random field of concentrations which appears to be isotropic in space and stationary in time.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Technological retrofit of existing buildings: dwelling quality, environmental sustainability, economic rising
Creators: name: Bellomo, Mariangela
name: Pone, Sergio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2011

description: Redevelopment can stand as an effective response to the converging ecological, energy and economic crises if the energy efficiency of the built heritage can be enhanced using renewable energy and innovative technologies with a low environmental impact. To this end, the Research Unit Technology and Environment, University of Naples Federico II, is undertaking a structured set of studies addressing the issue of retrofit technology of buildings in Campania put up in the second half of the 20th century to help in defining best practices for planning, design and production.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 1 (2011): Beyond the crisis
title: Acoustical design of open-planned offices
Creators: name: Hegvold, L. W.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Office/Workstation design
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0621
subject: Conception des bureaux
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0621
subject: Open-plan offices [cubicles]
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0620
subject: Bureaux à aires ouvertes
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0620
subject: Office acoustics
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0850
subject: Acoustique des bureaux
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0850
subject: offices (rooms)
subject: bureau (salles)
subject: open spaces (interior)
subject: espace libre intérieur
subject: room acoustics
subject: acoustique des salles
subject: speech intelligibility
subject: intelligibilité de la parole
subject: background noise
subject: bruit ambient

description: This Digest examines the acoustical environment of an open office plan, and discusses its problems and the elements that can be utilised to obtain acceptable results. A design procedure follows that allows the condition at any point within an open office to be determined at the planning stage.
Trends in energy intake in U.S. between 1977 and 1996: Similar shifts seen across age groups
Creators: name: Nielsen, Samara Joy
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Popkin, Barry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Objective: To determine the trends in locations and food sources of Americans stratified by age group for both total energy and the meal and snack subcomponents. Research Methods and Procedures: Nationally representative data was taken from the 1977 to 1978 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey and the 1989 to 1991 and 1994 to 1996 (and 1998 for children age 2 through 9) Continuing Surveys of Food Intake by Individuals. The sample consisted of 63,380 individuals, age 2 and up. For each survey year, the percentage of total energy intake from meals and snacks was calculated separately for 2‐ to 18‐year‐olds, 19‐ to 39‐year‐olds, 40‐ to 59‐year‐olds, and those 60 years and older. The percentage of energy intake by location (at‐home consumption or preparation, vending, store eaten out, restaurant/fast‐food, and school) and by specific food group was computed for all age groups separately. Results: The trends in location and food sources were almost identical for all age groups. Key dietary behavior shifts included greater away‐from‐home consumption; large increases in total energy from salty snacks, soft drinks, and pizza; and large decreases in energy from low‐ and medium‐fat milk and medium‐ and high‐fat beef and pork. Discussion: Total energy intake has increased over the past 20 years, with shifts away from meals to snacks and from at‐home to away‐from‐home consumption. The similarity of changes across all age groups furthers the assertion that broad‐based environmental changes are needed to improve the diets of Americans.
The crisis in figures
Creators: name: Antonini, Ernesto
name: Primiceri, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2011

description: Economic data on construction market performance culled from recently published analysis and studies, have served to highlight and quantify the phenomena that have driven the negative global economic downturn, affecting the construction sector in particular, over the last two years, with obvious repercussions also for Italy. Although there were a few rallying signs that the downward trend was easing off slightly in early 2011 – both in Europe and, albeit rather more hesitantly, in Italy – those tenuous hopes for recovery were not backed up by actual statistical indicators, potentially providing some indication of promising development trends. Of the few emerging dynamics in the American market, which is recovering more swiftly than in Europe, there seems to have been a marked increase in the production of sustainable or “green” buildings, which are taking over increasingly larger slices of the market.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 1 (2011): Beyond the crisis
title: Air-supported structures
Creators: name: Lutes, D. A.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Building envelope
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: Enveloppe du bâtiment
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: inflatable structures
subject: structure gonflable
subject: anchoring
subject: ancrage (procédé)

description: This Digest discusses single-wall, air-supported structures consisting of four basic components: envelope, anchorage, inflation equipment, and doors. These components must be selected in accordance with carefully specified design criteria to provide for and ensure adequate safety and operation.
Textbooks for Teaching
Creators: name: Allegri, Francesca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: In a previous column (MRSQ v. 8, no. 4, Winter 1989), I introduced several resources for teaching that have proven extremely useful over the past few years. In this column, I would like to add those texts that have served as reference sources. Although not used as heavily as the items on the prior list, these have answered questions or inspired ideas to help solve a particular instructional problem. This is a partial list and will be completed in a future column.
Birth Weight and Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index and the Risk of Childhood Type I Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies of over Ten-Million Participants
Creators: name: Li, Zhenzuo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Background: The relationship between maternal pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index (BMI), Birth weight and risk of Type 1 diabetes in children (T1DM) is controversial. Purpose: This dose-response meta-analysis was performed to investigate the association between maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body-Mass Index, Birth Weight and the Risk of Childhood Type I Diabetes. Data Sources: MEDLINE/PubMed, SCOPUS, Cochrane, and Web of Science databases Study Selection: Studies were included that had cohort design and investing relation Pre-Pregnancy Body-Mass Index or Birth Weight and the Risk of Childhood Type I Diabetes Data Extraction: Relevant data were extracted according to extraction forms by two researchers, independently.
The plan as a project comprehending its process
Creators: name: Ridolfi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2011

description: The article outlines a methodology for the building planning, which is the result of studies and applied research carried out by the author over recent decades for the reorganisation of school networks, intermunicipal multipolar universities, university campuses and parallel experiences for the reshaping of hospital centres and structural healthcare systems on a large scale. The method reproposes the open project and metaproject making its operability topical in light of the recent paradigms of rational methods of practice and the opportunities offered by IT and value management. The aim is to present the project-related nature of the plan as a project comprehending its process, focusing on designing a dynamic and interactive pathway, one that might even be disconnected, capable of highlighting, interacting and composing the majority of material and immaterial resources for the construction of sense and consensus.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 2 (2011): Technological design
Definition of metabolic syndrome: report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association conference on scientific issues related to definition
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: The National Cholesterol Education Program’s Adult Treatment Panel III report (ATP III)1 identified the metabolic syndrome as a multiplex risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) that is deserving of more clinical attention. The cardiovascular community has responded with heightened awareness and interest. ATP III criteria for metabolic syndrome differ somewhat from those of other organizations. Consequently, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, convened a conference to examine scientific issues related to definition of the metabolic syndrome. The scientific evidence related to definition was reviewed and considered from several perspectives: (1) major clinical outcomes, (2) metabolic components, (3) pathogenesis, (4) clinical criteria for diagnosis, (5) risk for clinical outcomes, and (6) therapeutic interventions.
The Vita of Ioann of Novgorod and the Vita of Antonij the Roman. Evidence of a regional path in the development of Eastern Slavic hagiography?
Creators: name: Romoli, Francesca
Publisher: name: Studi Slavistici
Year: 2012

description: The article focuses on the Vita of Ioann from Novgorod (Žitie Ioanna Novgorodskogo) and on the Vita of Antonij the Roman (Žitie Antonija Rimljanina). Both texts were composed in Novgorod, the former at the end of the 15th century, the latter at the end of 16th century. The author considers them within the historical context of their genesis and analyzes their literary form and function. The Vita of Ioann was collected just before the Muscovite State annexed Novgorod; the text became the symbol of the political independence of the town. The Vita of Antonij was written after the loss of independence, to defend Novgorodian cultural identity. These two vitae were thus created in different historical contexts but with similar ideological intentions. From the literary point of view, they resulted from the gathering and (re-)elaboration of pre-existing materials. Their inclusion in the biographies created apparently anomalous vitae. Textual analysis shows the repetition and the unifying role of some topics (i.e. miracles) and the lack of others. It also shows the presence in each text of three autonomous and well-defined narrative units. The hypothesis of a regional path in the development of Eastern Slavic hagiography seems thus possible. Before their inclusion in the Pan-Russian hagiographic tradition, the texts were partially rearranged to make their structures more regular.
description: Studi Slavistici, Studi Slavistici VIII • 2011
title: Concrete in sulphate environments
Creators: name: Swenson, E. G.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: salts
subject: sel (chimie)
subject: sulphate
subject: sulfate
subject: chemical attack
subject: aggressivité chimique
subject: concrete (materials)
subject: béton (matériau)
subject: Portland cement
subject: ciment Portland

description: The rate and degree of sulphate attack depend on the concentration of sulphate present, the type and availability of the sulphate ion, the accessibility of water, and the type of cement and quality of concrete. Preventive measures include the following: use of sulphate-resisting cement, low water-cement ratio, minimum cement content, air- entrainment, waterproof coatings, drainage features, and special attention to reinforcing cover.
Impact of ESA on latent and manifest sensitization of dorsal horn neurons to myofascial input from the low back in rats
Creators: name: Singaravelu, Sathish Kumar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: One of the most common chronic pain conditions is non-specific low back pain and stress is known to induce or enhance chronic low back pain. To study pain, numerous experimental animal models have been developed that attempt to imitate several human pain conditions. Recent animal experiments have shown that stress itself is sufficient to sensitize nociceptive neurons in the spinal cord. We are interested to investigate and compare the role of early social adversity and stress on the sensitization process of the dorsal horn neurons in an animal model of myofascial low back pain.
A New Perspective for Gulag Literature Studies: the Gulag Press
Creators: name: Gullotta, Andrea
Publisher: name: Studi Slavistici
Year: 2012

description: This article focuses on a fruitful line of research that has so far been largely neglected, namely literary production within the Soviet prisons and camps. After a few considerations on the state of research onlagernaja literatura, the article delves deep into the history of the press in the Soviet places of detention, depicting the ideological and historical context that made such publications possible. A description of its features, followed by the presentation of a few poetical compositions found in certain Gulag publications, aims to show the academic community a number of samples of the literary texts that were published within the camps. The article is based on a few unpublished archival documents.
description: Studi Slavistici, Studi Slavistici VIII • 2011
Is an arbitrary diffused Borel probability measure in a Polish space without isolated points Haar measure?
Creators: name: Pantsulaia, Gogi Rauli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: H.5.3
subject: 22D40, 28D05, 22E60

description: It is introduced a certain approach for equipment of an arbitrary set of the cardinality of the continuum by structures of Polish groups and two-sided (left or right) invariant Haar measures. By using this approach we answer positively Maleki's certain question(2012) {\it what are the real $k$-dimensional manifolds with at least two different Lie group structures that have the same Haar measure.} It is demonstrated that for each diffused Borel probability measure $μ$ defined in a Polish space $(G,ρ,\mathcal{B}_ρ(G))$ without isolated points there exist a metric $ρ_1$ and a group operation $\odot$ in $G$ such that $\mathcal{B}_ρ(G)=\mathcal{B}_{ρ_1}(G)$ and $(G,ρ_1, \mathcal{B}_{ρ_1}(G), \odot)$ stands a compact Polish group with a two-sided (left or right) invariant Haar measure $μ$, where $\mathcal{B}_ρ(G)$ and $\mathcal{B}_{ρ_1}(G)$ denote Borel $σ$ algebras of subsets of $G$ generated by metrics $ρ$ and $ρ_1$, respectively. Similar result is obtained for construction of locally compact non-compact or non-locally compact Polish groups equipped with two-sided (left or right) invariant quasi-finite Borel measures.
description: 18 pages
The obesity epidemic is a worldwide phenomenon
Creators: name: Popkin, Barry
name: Doak, Colleen M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: Obesity is not just a disease of developed nations. Obesity levels in some lower-income and transitional countries are as high as or higher than those reported for the United States and other developed countries, and those levels are increasing rapidly. Shifts in diet and activity are consistent with these changes, but little systematic work has been done to understand all the factors contributing to these high levels. The goal of this review is to provide an understanding of the patterns and trends of obesity arounnd the world and some of the major forces affecting these trends. Several nationally representative and nationwide surveys are discussed.
To what extent has research conducted by the GaWC Research Network aided our understanding of large EU law firm geography?
Creators: name: Parnham, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: This thesis explores whether a specific group of large EU law firms exhibited multiple common behaviours regarding their EU geographies between 1998 and 2009. These potentially common behaviours included their preferences for trading in certain EU locations, their usage of law firm alliances, and the specific reasons why they opened or closed EU branch offices. If my hypothesis is confirmed, this may indicate that certain aspects of large law firm geography are predictable – a finding potentially of interest to various stakeholders globally, including legal regulators, academics and law firms. In testing my hypothesis, I have drawn on research conducted by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network to assist me. Between 1999 and 2010, the GaWC published seven research papers exploring the geographies of large US and UK law firms. Several of the GaWC’s observations arising from these studies were evidence-based; others were speculative – including a novel approach for explaining legal practice branch office change, not adopted in research conducted previously or subsequently. By distilling the GaWC’s key observations these papers into a series of “sub-hypotheses”, I been able to test whether the geographical behaviours of my novel cohort of large EU law firms reflect those suggested by the GaWC. The more the GaWC’s suggested behaviours are observed among my cohort, the more my hypothesis will be supported. In conducting this exercise, I will additionally evaluate the extent to which the GaWC’s research has aided our understanding of large EU law firm geography. Ultimately, my findings broadly support most of the GaWC’s observations, notwithstanding our cohort differences and the speculative nature of several of the GaWC’s propositions. My investigation has also allowed me to refine several of the GaWC’s observations regarding commonly-observable large law firm geographical behaviours, while also addressing a key omission from the group’s research output.
“Delusion about History” as a Socio-Cultural Diagnosis of the 1960-1970s: Andrej Sinjavskij and Arkadij Belinkov
Creators: name: Кукулин, Илья
Publisher: name: Studi Slavistici
Year: 2012

description: Arkadij Belinkov (1921-1970) and Andrej Sinjavskij (1925-1997) were not members of one literary movement, but their works are often considered jointly as samples of “dissident criticism”. In this article I hope to argue that they can both be interpreted as successors to the Russian Formalism methodology of the 1960s. But they used the results of philological interpretations to solve the existential problem – i.e. the self-identification of a subject in the historical process. It was necessary for Belinkov and Sinjavskij because they both rejected the Soviet (and Hegelian) image of history as the teleologically aimed stream. Belinkov and Sinjavskij independently invented the new – personal and existential – justification of the history of culture.
description: Studi Slavistici, Studi Slavistici VIII • 2011
title: Consideration of the physically disabled
Creators: name: Henning, D. N.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: handicapped persons
subject: handicapé
subject: accessibility
subject: accessibilité
subject: aged
subject: personne agée
subject: bathrooms
subject: salle de bains
subject: doors
subject: porte

description: Buildings are designed for the able bodied. As a result many disabled and elderly people find building facilities hazardous, awkward, frustrating or unusable. Even minor modifications at the design stage could result in facilities suitable for both the able and many of the disabled population.
An Important Contribution to the Studies on Apocryphal Literature. The Gospel of Nicodemus in Poland: Latin Textual Tradition and Polish Translation
Creators: name: Piacentini, Marcello
Publisher: name: Studi Slavistici
Year: 2012

description: The critical edition of Gesta Pilati in the Polish translation, which was edited together with a Latin text of this famous account, is one of the most important outcomes for studies on apocryphal literature. Medievalist scholar Zbigniew Izydorczk points out that the 1509 Latin manuscript kept in the Jagellonian Library reflects the traces of the earliest Latin translation of this account. Polish philologist Wiesław Wydra demonstrates that the Polish translation dating back to the end of XV Century derives from the same redaction of the Latin text handed down by the 1509 manuscript. Yet some differences suggest that the 1509 manuscript is not the direct antigraph of the translation. Indeed there exists another witness (PAU 1713) which belongs to the same family as the 1509. The Polish translation clearly agrees partly with the 1509 one, partly with the PAU 1713 one.
description: Studi Slavistici, Studi Slavistici VIII • 2011
Italian Translations of Ukrainian Poetry and Prose from the End of the 20th to the First Decade of the 21st Century
Creators: name: Brogi Bercoff, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Studi Slavistici
Year: 2012

description: This is an outline of the translations of Ukrainian literary works published in Italy over the last twenty years. The Author also gives some information about translations published in the periods following the First and Second World Wars. Moreover, the Author presents the difficulties translators and publishers face in their efforts to make Ukrainian literature better known in Italy, and briefly touches upon the translations of Russian-language Ukrainian literature and of literature on Ukrainian subjects written in other languages.
description: Studi Slavistici, Studi Slavistici VIII • 2011