cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Governing spatial disparities in school infrastructure by numbers : investments in form, tensions, new compromises?
Creators: name: Bartl, Walter
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 371

description: Given that education infrastructure has been a crucial element of the infrastructural power of the welfare state, surprisingly little is known about how spatial disparities in school infrastructure have been governed. While emphasis has recently been placed on the role of numbers in governing the education system, there have been contradictory results on the use of numbers for measuring spatial disparities in schooling on the one hand and on allocating school infrastructure by numbers on the other. What role have indicators played in the governance of regional disparities in education and how can we explain changes to this role? Assuming that indicators typically fulfil two functions in decision making processes (information gathering and allocation of resources), this article develops an ideal–typical distinction between four ways of (not) using numbers for governance purposes. This typology is applied to a historical case study of indicators as a device for governing spatial disparities in education in Germany. Cognitive investments in indicators for observing spatial disparities in education and for administering schools have been made in Germany since the early 19th century. However, conceptual flaws and conservative education policies have kept them from being put to effective practice in school infrastructure policies. It was not until the 1970s that demographic and administrative indicators became institutionalized as part of decentralized but fairly standardized school planning practices. While the use of indicators in the spatial allocation of education resources seemed to work well during periods of educational expansion, this calculative practice produced tension with the civic idea of spatial justice when enrolments declined.
Circulating tumor DNA in gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer
Creators: name: Paschold, Lisa
name: Binder, Mascha
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 614

description: Tumor cells shed DNA into the plasma. “Liquid biopsy” analysis of mutations or other genomic alterations in circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) may provide us with a tool to detect minimal residual cancer, comprehensively profile the genomic tumor landscape in search of druggable targets, and monitor cancers non-invasively over time for treatment failure or emerging treatment-resistant tumor subclones. While liquid biopsies have not yet entered routine clinical management in patients with gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers, this group of diseases may benefit from such advanced diagnostic tools due to their pronounced genetic spatiotemporal heterogeneity and limitations in imaging sensitivity. Moreover, as the armamentarium of targeted treatment approaches and immunotherapies expands, cfDNA analyses may reveal their utility not only as a biomarker of response but also for precision monitoring. In this review, we discuss the different applications of cfDNA analyses in patients with gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer and the technical challenges that such liquid biopsies have yet to overcome.
Education level and income inequality: the decomposition of Gini and the generalized entropy measures
Creators: name: Costa, M.
name: Morales, F. M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This research deals with the Italian and Spanish income distribution disaggregated by title of study of the familyhead. The main methodological reference is represented by a new Gini ratio decomposition introduced by Dagum. By using this decomposition it is possible to measure the inequality between subpopulations more correctly and efficiently than the traditional approach that works with particular cases of the generalized entropy inequality measure. In Italy and in Spain the main contribution to the global inequality is, if using the Gini ratio decomposition, the inequality between subpopulations and the title of study of the familyhead proves to be a very useful tool in the income inequality analysis. On the contrary, with the generalized entropy measures decomposition, the inequality within subpopulations presents a very large contribution to the overall inequality.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 3 (1997)
The divergence and convergence of autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders: neurophysiological evidence for a shared phenotype through MEG and 1H-MRS
Creators: name: Ford, Talitha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Autism and schizophrenia are heterogeneous, spectrum disorders that have substantial symptom overlap. This thesis investigates whether the relationship between the disorders, at a non-clinical trait level, reflects a cluster of shared symptoms, and whether these shared symptoms are associated with auditory processing and/or excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter abnormalities. A symptom cluster called Social Disorganisation was revealed, and nonclinical high Social Disorganisation scorers differed in auditory change processing and excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter concentrations than low scorers. These findings provide important, novel evidence that Social Disorganisation links the autism and schizophrenia spectra, and may have underlying neural connectivity and neurotransmission abnormalities.
All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus : A Population-based Study
Creators: name: Moghaddam, Bahar
name: Marozoff, Shelby
name: Li, Lingyi
name: Sayre, E. C.
name: Aviña-Zubieta, J. Antonio
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: Objective: To investigate all-cause and cause-specific mortality in SLE patients between two time periods, 1997-2005 and 2006-2014. Methods: We used an administrative health database from the province of British Columbia, Canada to match all incident SLE patients to 10 non-SLE individuals on sex, age and index date. Cohorts were divided into two sub-groups, according to diagnosis year: early cohort 1997-2005 and late cohort 2006-2014. The outcome was death (all-cause, renal disease, cancer, infection, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and other). Hazard ratios (HR and 95% confidence intervals) were estimated using univariate and multivariable Cox models. Results: Among 6,092 SLE patients and 60,920 non-SLE individuals, there were 451 and 1,910 deaths, respectively. The fully-adjusted all-cause mortality HR (95% CI) in the overall SLE cohort was 1.85 (1.66-2.06), with no statistically significant improvement between early and late cohorts (1.95 (1.69-2.26) versus 1.74 (1.49-2.04). There was excess mortality from renal disease (3.04 (2.29-4.05)), infections (2.74 (2.19-3.43)) and CVD (2.05 (1.77-2.38)), but not cancer (1.18 (0.96-1.46)), in the overall SLE cohort. There was no statistically significant improvement in cause-specific mortality between early and late cohorts for renal disease (3.57 (2.37-5.36) versus 2.65 (1.78-3.93)), infection (2.94 (2.17-3.98) versus 2.54 (1.84-3.51)), and CVD (1.95 (1.60-2.38) versus 2.18 (1.76-2.71)). There was no increase in cancer-related mortality in either cohort (1.27 (0.96-1.69) versus 1.10 (0.82-1.48)). Conclusion: This population-based study demonstrates a persisting mortality gap in all-cause and cause-specific deaths in SLE patients, compared to the general population.
09 - O. Schützler: Comparing methods for the evaluation of cluster structures in multidimensional analyses
Creators: name: Schlüter, Julia
name: Schützler, Ole
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2021

description: Supplementary material for Schützler (2022) "Comparing Methods for the Evaluation of Cluster Structures in Multidimensional Analyses." In: Schützler and Schlüter, eds. Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics: Comparative Approaches. CUP.
BRILIAN Training and capacity building actions (First report) D7.4
Creators: name: Kubankova, Marie
name: Perouli, Anastasia
name: Palaioroutis, Nikolaos
name: BIOEAST HUB CZECH REPUBLIC (BHCZ)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In order to increase the knowledge transfer activities to local stakeholders on bioeconomy, training materials and methodologies will be produced related toBRILIAN’s activities. The training material will be rooted in practice and focused on the design of new circular value streams, tailored for farmers and rural communities.Business and models and support regulation developed in WP2, WP3 and WP4 will be fully utilized and offered as replicable good practices. D.7.10 will brief results andfeedback from trainings, that is planned in 4 series of thematic webinars tailored to wide spectrum of regional stakeholders in the EU. The topics initially proposed cover inparticular: 1) sustainability of the bioeconomy, 2) combining private and/or public funding instruments, 3) the role of governance and stakeholder engagement for aneffective bioeconomy, 4) policy alignment: toward a coherent and supportive framework, 5) biorefineries as nodes for rural bioeconomy. The webinars will be uploaded in the BRILIAN website, and all training materials will be integrated in a guidebook.
Yushania bomdilaena H. B. Naithani, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Naithani, Harsh B.
name: Meena, Rajendra K.
name: Bhandari, Maneesh S.
name: Deka, Bibhuti
name: Barthwal, Santan
name: Ginwal, Harish S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Yushania
Yushania bomdilaena

description: Yushania bomdilaena H.B. Naithani, sp. nov.
 Diagnosis:—Allied to Yushania pantlingii (Gamble) Majumdar (syn. Arundinaria pantlingii Gamble), differs by lower nodes bearing circle of recurved stiff roots; internodes striated purple and green in lower half; culm-sheaths blade without bristles at the mouth proper, ligule of culm-sheaths entire.
 Description:—Erect shrubby bamboo, 2–4 m tall, with distinct sympodial culms. Lower nodes raised, bearing circle of recurved stiff roots; internodes striated, purple and green in lower half, 15–22 cm long up to 6 cm in girth at base, higher up rather thin; branches chiefly from the upper nodes, many, middle branches slightly thicker than others. Culm sheaths thin, glabrous on both surfaces, up to 20 × 3–6 cm, veins prominent, upper portion with faint transverse veinlets; imperfect blade recurved, 8–10 cm long, 8 mm broad near the narrower base, glabrous on both surfaces; ligule prominent, 2 mm high, entire. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 5–18 cm long, 5–15 mm broad, narrowed at both ends, base slightly oblique; petiole up to 4 mm long; main vein prominent, pale shining; secondary veins 4 at each side of main vein; transverse veinlets inconspicuous; sheath striate, glabrous, without bristles at mouth; ligule broad. Inflorescence not seen (Figure 1 & 2).
 Type:— INDIA. Arunachal Pradesh: West Kameng district, Bamdila, near Salari village, 9.5 km after Bamdila on Tawang Road, 27°18’9.38”N, 92°25’15.68”E, 2229 m, 14 December 2022, R.K. Meena & M.S. Bhandari, 106, Acc. No. 173965 (Holotype DD!).
Distribution:—Endemic to West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Habitat:—Hill slope of wet evergreen temperate forest.
Etymology:—The taxon is named to the place Bomdila (Bomdi La), Head Quarter of West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, famous for China-India war 1962.
description: Published as part of Naithani, Harsh B., Meena, Rajendra K., Bhandari, Maneesh S., Deka, Bibhuti, Barthwal, Santan & Ginwal, Harish S., 2024, Yushania bomdilaena-A New Species of Bamboo from Arunachal Pradesh, India, pp. 171-176 in Phytotaxa 644 (2) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.644.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13214664
Robust tests for ARCH and GARCH components
Creators: name: Fasso, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Two robust one-sided tests are proposed for detecting ARCH and GARCH components. The first one is distribution free being a rank test based on the van der Waerden scores. The related test statistic has mean and variance known in closed form; moreover, it is shown to be asymptotically normal and its finite sample critical values have been estimated via the Monte Carlo method. The second test is the one sided modification of the Gregory test which is of course more powerful than the corresponding original two sided version. An extensive Monte Carlo analysis has been performed and - as long as it is generalizable - the following conclusions can be drawn. The new rank test performs well both for ARCH observations and ARCH residuals. From robustness point of view, under the null hypothesis, some bias appears for ARCH residuals from heavily asymmetric distributions. In this case the modified Gregory test is recommended. In the other situations i.e. ARCH observations from symmetric or asymmetric distributions and ARCH residuals from symmetric distributions the rank test is shown to be robust under the null hypothesis and more powerful with respect to the modified Gregory test. The rank test can be recommended as a useful alternative to the standard Lee and King test, which is the reference test for normal observations. As a matter of fact, it seems more robust under the null hypothesis and more powerful for non normal distributions. For normal distributions neither of these two dominates the other.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 3 (1997)
Fiducial estimates of unknown probabilities
Creators: name: Agati, P.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The much debated fiducial argument, developed by R.A.Fischer in the thirties, makes the inductive reasoning possible even on the basis of a single sample observation. It allows, when suitably adapted, to describe a personal uncertainty about a probability value (not approximate by an empirical frequency) through second order probability distributions: the proposed models, arisen from the application of fiducial principles to suitable probability transforms (odds and log-odds), required in fact solely a subjective starting evaluation of the unknown probability.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 3 (1997)
AS CONSEQUÊNCIAS DO AVANÇO TECNOLÓGICO NA EDUCAÇÃO, TRABALHO E SAÚDE: REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA COM METANÁLISE
Creators: name: Silva, Elirez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Desde o surgimento da internet, há cerca de 50 anos, observamos o acesso a níveis de informações jamais vistos antes. A evolução tecnológica viabilizou novas formas de interação do ser humano, criando uma relação de colaboração e descentralização entre homem e máquina, existindo, assim, uma visível transformação da relação entre o homem e o trabalho. (Araújo e Vilaça, 2016). Com a abundância da informação, as tecnologias digitais são a base para a construção de novos processos oportunizando a reestruturação global da economia, da educação e da sociedade como um todo. Observa-se um dos efeitos da tecnologia sobre a saúde, quando se Cconsiderando o estresse como uma situação que resulta da interação entre o indivíduo e o meio ambiente (ZEIDNER, MATTHEWS, AND ROBERTS, 2004). Diante do exposto, o GP ET&S apresenta esta proposta com o objetivo de realizar uma revisão sistemática com ou sem metanálise para verificar as consequências do avanço tecnológico sobre a educação, trabalho e saúde.
Misspecification in dynamic models
Creators: name: Forni, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Within the class of ARMAX models we consider the effects that omitted explanatory processes have on the dynamic shape and the exogeneity properties of economic relations. We show that, under suitable assumptions, a well defined "misspecified" ARMAX model exists and is unique. The parameters of this model depend on the joint covariance structure of the omitted and the included variables. We completely characterize the properties of the misspecified model when no restrictions are imposed on this covariance structure. Moreover, we give necessary and sufficient conditions in order that the misspecified model may preserve (I) the same prediction error as the "true" model, (II) unidirectional causation, (III) the same dynamic multipliers and dynamic shape, (IV) cointegration. Our results apply to various misspecification problems, such as measurement errors, unobserved components, aggregation over agents, systematic sampling and temporal aggregation.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 3 (1997)
Is specialization in tourism Harmful to economic growth?
Creators: name: Lanza, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A comparison between the growth-effect of specialization in tourism to the growth-effect associated with specialization in manufacturing, could lead to the conclusion that specialization in tourism is detrimental to economic growth. The continuous creation and introduction of new methods and products characterizes the manufacturing sector to an extent unknown to other sectors. The endogenous component of technical progress in manufacturing is of ten regarded as the factor that makes the whole economy grow at a non-diminishing rate in the long run. So, how can an economy without a manufacturing sector, and therefore deprived of its main "engine of growth", grow at rates comparable to chose of economies specialized in manufacturing? The answer lies in how the price of the tourist good changes over time in relation to the price of the manufacturing good so as to partially or entirely offset the sectoral gap in productivity growth. This point can easily be shown by means of a simple two-sector model of endogenous growth, where the growth effects of international specialization are analysed and tested by means of an econometric model.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 3 (1997)
First order autoregressive semi-a-Lailace process
Creators: name: Jayakumar, K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: First order autoregressive process with semi-a-Laplace marginal distributions is developed. This extends the Linnik process of Anderson and Arnold (1993). Extensions to higher orders are also discussed.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
The transmission mechanism among italian interest rates
Creators: name: Amisano, C.
name: Cesura, M.
name: Giannini, C.
name: Seghelini, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A Structural VAR model is built for a set of Italian interest rates in order to investigate their dynamic interactions. After a univariate analysis, which revealed the unexpected presence of seasonality, we focus on the description of how monetary impulses propagate through the system. This aim is accomplished by suitably determining the long-run relationships, i.e. identifying the cointegration space, and modelling the short run interactions. Dynamic simulations give then the linkage between short and long run properties. Our analysis emphasises the role of the rate on repurchasing operations; this seems ta be the driving farce of the Italian monetary market.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
Econometric modelling of international tourist flows: some methodological remarks
Creators: name: Carraro, C.
name: Manente, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper analyses some reasons that may be behind the unsatisfactory performance of many international tourism flows forecasts. Two main issues are addressed. The low quality of available statistical information, above all the shortness of tourism time series, and the lack of an adequate theoretical and econometric framework which represents a tourist's decision process. The paper proposes some new approaches and methodologies that may help improving the forecast efficiency in the presence of short time series and discusses theoretical models that may better capture the dynamics of international tourist flows.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
Profile likelihood and its modifications in the random effect model
Creators: name: Migliorati, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In order to eliminate nuisance parameters several methods based on adjustments of the profile likelihood have recently been proposed. The present paper makes a compari-son among them analyzing their behavior in the random effect model from the analyti-cal and inferential points of view and through simulation. The conclusion is that the different adjusted versions do not behave so better as to justify the theoretical and computing difficulties they involve.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
Projection pursuit density estimation and cluster analysis: an interaction
Creators: name: Calò, D. G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Since it does not require large sample size to dimensionality ratios, projection pur-suit density estimation (ppde) could enlarge the applicability of clustering methods based on nonparametric density estimation. In this paper we attempt to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of ppde when used in Wong and Lane's clustering procedure (1983) instead of the nearest neigbour density estimator. In order to adapt their algorithm to ppde, a new clustering criterion has been proposed; its performances have been investigated through a simulation study and illustrated on a real data set.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
Asymptotic inference for reflected Brownian motions
Creators: name: Cavaliere, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this work, estimation and testing methods for Brownian motions in the presence of two reflecting barriers are analysed. By deriving the autocovariance function of the reflected Brownian motion, the asymptotic distributions of ordinary least squares esti-mators and Dickey-Fuller test statistics are obtained and the presence of inconsistency problems is evaluated analytically. A special attention is paid to the problem of testing for reflected Brownian motion dynamics in the presence of a non-zero drift and a test, which is based on the sample first-order autoregressive coefficient, is proposed.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
Resources assessment and feedstock mobilisation D2.2.
Creators: name: Maider, Gomez
name: Zapata, Sebastián
name: CIRCE - Centro Tecnológico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The first step to promote bio-based value chains is connected to the biomass assessment to identify potential biomass resources and side-streams or by-productsthat can be exploited for different bio-applications. The performance of the biomass assessment contributes to facilitate the assessment of the suitability of utilizing biomass for bio-based commodities. The outcomes obtained will support better-informed choices regarding the potential region that could be candidate to establish and replicate the bio-based business models developed in the pilot regions and the keys for success identified in each case.The deliverable D2.2 summarizes all the information collected from the pilots to evaluate the potential of the feedstocks targeted in the pilot regions and BIOEAST regionto produce different bio-products such as the bioplastics, vegan protein, bio-stimulants, etc. The document describes the process to design the data collection jointly with WP3, to carry out the compilation and the assessment of the data gathered, additional request of information when needed and performance of the potential assessment.Based on the outcomes of the assessment, the regions with the highest potential to replicate the Spanish pilot business model are in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany,Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, and Romania. Considering that the share of rejected material that could be valorised to extract starch is significantly higher when potatoesare processed to ready prepared products, countries where this kind of agro-industries are relevant could have a better chance to replicate the business model, Belgium forinstance. The regions with the highest potential to replicate the Danish pilot business model are located mainly in France, Denmark, Sweden, central regions in Spain and easterncountries such as Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria.The regions with the highest potential to replicate the business model developed by the Italian pilot focusing on sunflower are located mainly in Spain, France, and easterncountries such as Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria while the business model focusing on safflower cake shows a relevant potential to be replicated in Belgium,Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. The biomass assessment in this case was performed at NUT0 level due to the production data availability constraints at NUT2 level.

In the BIOEAST region, the most relevant crops have been identified (wheat, barley, and maize) and potential side streams and residues assessed, considering that the business models developed by the BRILIAN pilot cases could be adapted. Additionally, keys for success highlighted in each pilot could also provide valuable inputs although the feedstocks are different (straw from wheat and barley and stalk and cob from maize).These feedstocks have a very wide distribution in the European territory too and all three can be found in practically all BIOEAST region.
MAPS: machine-assisted phenotype scoring enables rapid functional assessment of genetic variants by high-content microscopy
Creators: name: Chao, Jesse T.
name: Roskelley, Cal
name: Loewen, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Genetic testing is widely used in evaluating a patient’s predisposition to hereditary diseases. In the case of cancer, when a functionally impactful mutation (i.e. genetic variant) is identified in a disease-relevant gene, the patient is at elevated risk of developing a lesion in their lifetime. Unfortunately, as the rate and coverage of genetic testing has accelerated, our ability to assess the functional status of new variants has fallen behind. Therefore, there is an urgent need for more practical, streamlined and cost-effective methods for classifying variants. Results: To directly address this issue, we designed a new approach that uses alterations in protein subcellular localization as a key indicator of loss of function. Thus, new variants can be rapidly functionalized using high-content microscopy (HCM). To facilitate the analysis of the large amounts of imaging data, we developed a new software toolkit, named MAPS for machine-assisted phenotype scoring, that utilizes deep learning to extract and classify cell-level features. MAPS helps users leverage cloud-based deep learning services that are easy to train and deploy to fit their specific experimental conditions. Model training is code-free and can be done with limited training images. Thus, MAPS allows cell biologists to easily incorporate deep learning into their image analysis pipeline. We demonstrated an effective variant functionalization workflow that integrates HCM and MAPS to assess missense variants of PTEN, a tumor suppressor that is frequently mutated in hereditary and somatic cancers. Conclusions: This paper presents a new way to rapidly assess variant function using cloud deep learning. Since most tumor suppressors have well-defined subcellular localizations, our approach could be widely applied to functionalize variants of uncertain significance and help improve the utility of genetic testing.
The beauty of sound: Timbre as grounds for aesthetic and artistic value in music
Creators: name: Hugh, Ben Mc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: sound
music
timbre
aesthetic value
artistic value
perception
experience
philosophy

description: This thesis explores the concept of timbre through the lens of analytic philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of music. I argue that timbre should be thought of as providing the grounds for artistic and aesthetic values in music. To this end and firstly, I critique the physical sense of timbre in favour of two anti-realist senses of timbre. These two are the qualitative and the semantic senses which are developed from two of Siedenburg and McAdams’ four senses of timbre (Siedenburg & McAdams, 2017). I argue that the qualitative sense of timbre is the experience of the unique qualities of sounds. The semantic sense is that which associates timbres to objects and concepts. Within the semantic sense, I argue for what I call a genealogical sense of timbre which relates timbres to sources and concepts through a history of built up associations. Secondly, these two senses are situated within the artform of music by demonstrating the functions they may fulfil there and how these ground artistic and aesthetic values. Regarding these values, I employ Robert Stecker’s definitions of artistic and aesthetic value. (Stecker, 2019) Finally, I summarise the two arguments for why we should think that timbre can provide grounds for aesthetic and artistic value in music.
Optical fibre sensor for measuring the dynamic mechanical properties of viscoleastic solids
Creators: name: Carland, Emma Marie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Changes in the health of tissue can be correlated with changes in the stiffness of the tissue. However, tissue stiffness is difficult to measure accurately, as tissue displays both viscous and elastic material properties. The contribution of each of the characteristics changes depending on the rate at which they are measured. This thesis developed and tested a new method to measure these properties across a range of frequencies, based on an optical fibre sensor. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method, which offers the potential for a small, reliable and non-invasive portable measurement system for early disease diagnosis.
Biophida Pascoe 1860
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melandryidae
Biophida

description: Biophida Pascoe, 1860
[18 species; Afrotropical]
 Biophida Pascoe 1860: 53. Type species: Biophida unicolor Pascoe, 1860, by original monotypy. Psilonycha Fåhraeus 1870: 321. Type species: Psilonycha campestris Fåhraeus, 1870, here designated. Synonymized with Biophida Pascoe by Pic (1931: 302).
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Some relationships between the generalized logistic and other distributions
Creators: name: Ojo, M. O.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, relationships between the generalized logistic and other distributions are given. Some known relationships are first sumrized and some characterization theorems are then proved. A possible application of one of the theorems is mentioned.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
Temporal evolution of tourists arrivals in Spain
Creators: name: Gonzàlez, P.
name: Moral, P.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper studies the evolution of the external demand for spanish tourist services. The analysis is carried out within the framework of Structural Time Series Models that are formulated in terms of unobserved components stochastically specified. The first aim of this work is to analyse tourism trends. A measure of the underlying rate of growth of the international demand is derived in order to evaluate whether the sector is in a period of expansion or recession. The empirical results show that the worst period of the crisis suffered at the end of the eighties by the tourist industry is over now and the future prospects are quite optimistic in the short run. The second aim of this paper is to perform an econometric analysis of the tourism demand in Spain in order to understand the major facts which influence visitation levels. The estimated structural model includes as explanatory variables an income index, two price indexes (one with respect to client countries and another with respect to competitor countries), a stochastic trend, representing the changes in tourist tastes, and a stochastic seasonal component. The forecasting performance of the estimated structural model compares well with the forecasting performance of two alternative dynamic models, the transfer function and error correction models.
description: Statistica; Vol 57, No 4 (1997)
Joint Goals in Older Couples : Associations With Goal Progress, Allostatic Load, and Relationship Satisfaction
Creators: name: Ungar, Nadine
name: Michalowski, Victoria Izabela.
name: Baehring, Stella
name: Pauly, Theresa
name: Gerstorf, Denis
name: Ashe, Maureen C.
name: Madden, Kenneth M.
name: Hoppmann, Christiane A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Older adults often have long-term relationships, and many of their goals are intertwined with their respective partners. Joint goals can help or hinder goal progress. Little is known about how accurately older adults assess if a goal is joint, the role of over-reporting in these perceptions, and how joint goals and over-reporting may relate to older partners' relationship satisfaction and physical health (operationally defined as allostatic load). Two-hundred-thirty-six older adults from 118 couples (50% female; Mage = 71 years) listed their three most important goals and whether they thought of them as goals they had in common with and wanted to achieve together with their partner (self-reported joint goals). Two independent raters classified goals as “joint” if both partners independently listed open-ended goals of the same content. Goal progress and relationship satisfaction were assessed 1 week later. Allostatic load was calculated using nine different biomarkers. Results show that 85% self-reported at least one goal as joint. Over-reporting– the perception that a goal was joint when in fact it was not mentioned among the three most salient goals of the spouse – occurred in one-third of all goals. Multilevel models indicate that the number of externally-rated joint goals was related to greater goal progress and lower allostatic load, but only for adults with little over-reporting. More joint goals and higher over-reporting were each linked with more relationship satisfaction. In conclusion, joint goals are associated with goal progress, relationship satisfaction, and health, but the association is dependent on the domain of functioning.
Standardization of the individual Zulliger test on non-clinical Italian population
Creators: name: Caporale, Riccardo
name: Allone, Cettina
name: Maccarone, Antonio
name: Faraci, Palmira
name: Craparo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Individual administration; Projective methods; Standardization; Zulliger test.

description: Background: The Zulliger test (Z-test) is a projective technique, mainly used in the selection and evaluation of human resources, through a collective administration. It offers the possibility to investigate personality, assessing cognitive, affective, and interpersonal functioning, and the presence of psychopathology. The lack of normative data on the individual administration mode have encouraged this work. This is an extension of a previous work and includes statistical additional information on data obtained from the administration of the test on a non-clinical Italian population.


Method: The sample consisted of 360 healthy subjects (180 male and 180 female, mean age 38.25), divided into age (18-30; 31-45; 46-60) and education (high and low) groups. All subjects were individually administered the Z-test. The ANOVA was performed to determine if there were statistically significant differences between the analyzed groups.


Results: Results indicate a distribution of key test variables including whole and detail responses, determinants, contents and particular manifestations. Location tables were revised based on frequency of area usage. Specifically, a descriptive analysis was conducted on the responses, considering the total number, whole and detailed responses, formal quality, and movement responses for each group. Additionally, the frequency of use of different areas of the cards was examined through location tables. Regarding determinants, the frequency for each card was reported, along with the occurrence of the main specific manifestations. Statistical analysis did not reveal significant differences between groups in any of the examined variables: total number of responses (F = 0.26, p = 0.99), whole responses (F = 0.31, p = 0.89), detailed responses (F = 0.44, p = 0.78), formal quality (FQ), movement responses (M), and color responses (C, CF, FC). These findings suggest a homogeneous distribution of responses across demographic variables, confirming the stability of the test in non-clinical populations.

Conclusion: The Z-test, like the Rorschach test, is a projective test based mainly on numerical and statistical support. The availability of statistical data focused on individual administration will allow a wider use of the test, with the future aim of comparing these data with a clinical sample.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
Biophidina Champion 1916
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Biophidina

description: Biophidina Champion, 1916
[2 species; southern Africa]
 Biophidina Champion 1916: 273. Type species: Biophida minor Pic, 1908, by original designation.
 Biophinina [lapsus calami]: Pic 1953: 77.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Smoothing methods for short-term trend analysis: cubic splines and Henderson  filters
Creators: name: Dagum, E. B.
name: Capitanio, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This study compares the smoothing properties of cubic splines functions with a very well known short-term trend estimator, the 13-term Henderson filter, and a new procedure developed by Dagum (1996) for the analysis of current economic conditions. The cubic smoothing spline (CSS) trend-cycles are estimated in two ways, namely, (I) using the smoothing parameter obtained with the generalized cross validation criterion and (II) imposing a fixed value found to fit well streches of volatile data present in the series.
The comparison, done with a sample of Italian and Canadian series, is based on the number of unwanted ripples and time lag to detect a true turning point. The results are illustrated with four typical cases.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 1 (1998)
Emotion and Stress Related Eating and Personality Dimensions Predict Food Addiction: Implications for Personalized Weight Management and Primary Prevention
Creators: name: Klanduchova, Eva
name: Adamovska, Lucia
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Coping; Emotional eating; Food addiction; Neuroticism; Personality.

description: Background: Food addiction constitutes a novel health concern with potential consequences for both psychological and physical well-being. While the etiology of Food addiction is likely multifactorial, additional factors beyond obesogenic environments need to be explored. Therefore, we sought to examine the relationships between five-factor personality domains, Food addiction and coping styles related to eating (Emotion and stress related eating) starting from the hypothesis that Food addiction may be determined by coping styles related to eating (based on a Transactional Model of Stress and Coping) as well as specific personality traits


Methods and Material: A correlational, quantitative, non-experimental design was employed. A self-report assessment battery was used to evaluate participants’ demographics, Food addiction (the Yale Food Addiction Scale), Emotion and stress related eating (the Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress Questionnaire), personality dimensions (the Mini-IPIP) and BMI.


Results: The research sample comprised 114 participants aged 18-72 years (Mage = 42.7 years). The sample was predominantly female (71.9%). Additionally, 26.3% of participants were overweight, and 22.9% were obese. We found a strong relationship between Neuroticism and Emotion and stress related eating (Ability and Resources to Cope), with Neuroticism explaining 35.6% of the variance in impaired Ability and Resources to Cope. Neuroticism and Conscientiousness (inverse) were identified as moderate predictors of Emotion and Stress-Related Eating. These personality domains explain 21.5% of the variance in Emotion and Stress-Related Eating.  Neuroticism and Conscientiousness (inverse) were also significantly related to Food addiction. Neuroticism emerged as a moderate predictor of Food addiction. Moderate relationships were identified between Food addiction, Emotion and Stress-Related Eating and Ability and Resources to Cope.  Emotion and Stress-Related Eating emerged as a strong predictor of Food addiction, accounting for 29.4% of its variance. 

Conclusions: These findings highlight the significance of personality domains (Neuroticism and Conscientiousness) and coping styles related to eating (Ability and Resources to Cope and Emotion and Stress-Related Eating) in understanding risk and protective factors for Food addiction. Such insights can inform the diagnostic process and development of personalized and targeted therapeutic interventions.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
Analisi econometrica della produzione di servizi turistici nell'Unione Europea
Creators: name: Gardini, A.
name: Freo, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The present work analyzes productive technologies and tourist supply systems' efficiency of European countries through estimation of tourist cost functions in 1970-1992. It also considers the omogeneity measure of tourist production functions. The results sbow relevant differences charactterizing tourist industries in European countries and production costs' influence to their supplies' productivity. In this productive system the analysis of investments, labour cost and capital points out the peculiar instability of Italian tourist system. In fact, in spite of other European countries, it amplifies shocks in a non convergent disequilibrium process. In European Union, tourist total productivity analysis also shows another relevant anomaly in Italian tourist industry: productivity decrenses when activities' scale increases, in contrast with all the other European countries but in agreament with the particular investments behaviour.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 1 (1998)
A blind spot in the assessment of POP/PBT/vPvB properties
Creators: name: Priegnitz, Jan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Stoffwechselprodukt
subject: Abbau
subject: metabolite
subject: Degradation
subject: reaction product
subject: regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009
subject: hazardous substances
subject: POP/PBT/vPvB assessment
subject: active substances
subject: Chemicals

description: This paper relates to the assessment of transformation products (i.e. metabolites, degradation or reaction products), which are formed from plant protection products. It addresses a detail in Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009 which is not in line with other substance regulations for ⁠REACH⁠, medicinal products, and biocides.Our concern: Also transformation products can be hazardous substances. Meanwhile, they are not yet covered within the ⁠POP⁠/⁠PBT⁠/vPvB assessment and the approval criteria for active substances.Our proposal: At least transformation products occurring in a relevant amount should be included in the assessment and the approval criteria in the same way as active substances.
A narrative review of the current literature into the impacts of fasting on levels of impulsivity and psychological stress
Creators: name: Batt, Emily
name: Asif-Malik, Aman
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2025
Subjects: Intermittent Fasting, Dietary Restriction, Impulsivity, Psychological Stress, Ritualisation.

description: The impacts of dietary fasting on humans remains relatively under researched despite a biological basis for its function in human life. This narrative mini-review aims to summarise the current, limited, research and make future recommendations. Studies were identified using the databases, Psych Info and Web of Science, and search engine Google Scholar; those concerned with eating disorders or disordered eating were excluded. The paper demonstrates how there is largely now more evidence to suggest that dietary fasting would have beneficial outcomes in humans, whilst highlighting various methodological flaws in this area of research. We summarise the assumptions that have been made from animal models and insufficiently replicated with human subjects and identify where further contradictory findings have been reported in areas such as psychological wellbeing due to the heterogeneity of the methodologies used. We conclude that more stringent controls and mixed methodology longitudinal studies are required, looking at both neurophysiological and psychosocial factors simultaneously over time.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 13, No 3 (2025)
Canifa LeConte 1866
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Canifa

description: Canifa LeConte, 1866
[3 species; eastern North America]
 Canifa LeConte 1866: 144. Type species: Scraptia pallipes Melsheimer, 1846, here designated. Note:Apparently synonymized with Scraptia Latreille by Pic (1898: 122) with a reversal of nomenclatural priority. Made a subgenus of Scraptia Latreille by Pic (1902: 334) and again synonymized with Scraptia Latreille by Pic (1911: 4) but revalidated as a full genus by Schaeffer (1917: 359).
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902