cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Federated Future: Mapping of the future directions towards the Cloud Edge IoT fromIoT and Edge community
Creators: name: Rowan, Brendan
name: Robles, Martín
name: Jones, Sam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Internet of Things
EU-IoT
AI
Big Data
Edge Computing
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
NGIoT
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
Reliability
Trustworthy AI
Interoperability
Market
Energy/Power
Components
Foundational Tech
Contextual IoT
Digital Policy
Horizon Europe
NGIoT Framework
AIOTI
NetWorld Europe
6GSNS
ECS
Aeneas
Artemis-Ia
EPoSS
ADRA
BDVA DAIRO
EurAI
EURobotics
Data Act
AI Act
Digital Services Package
Proposal for Cyber Resilience Act

description: A Federated Future: Mapping of the future directions towards the Cloud Edge IoT from IoT and Edge community provides a comprehensive analysis of key trends and priorities in IoT technology. The report analyses 6 Strategic Research and Innovation Actions (SRIAs) under the NGIoT initiative using meta-analysis and mapping using a variety of criteria to provide a comparative assessment including: Type: priority area, application, technology Theme: common priority Position within the EU IoT framework: layer, context The report further analyses key insights and highlights focusing on: Main trends across the SRIAs within the development and maturation of new technologies, industry trends and strategic policy, e.g. Green ICT Priority themes evolution and positioning between the initial analysis and current ranking, e.g. reliability and trustworthy AI A Federated Future is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding how IoT technology is likely to evolve in the coming years. It provides valuable insights into key trends and priorities that will be useful for policymakers, researchers, innovators, and other stakeholders involved in shaping the future of this exciting field.
Implications of Modern Highway Design on Truck Transportation
Creators: name: Breuning, S.M.
name: Clarkeson, John
name: Harvey, Thomas N.
name: Breuning, S.M.
name: Clarkeson, John
name: Harvey, Thomas N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 8th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Sept. 6-9, 1967, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Prediktor Kelulusan Mahasiswa Keperawatan dalam Uji Kompetensi Ners Indonesia (UKNI)
Creators: name: Efendi, Ferry
name: Nafidatun Naafia
name: Wahyuni, Sylvia Dwi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Lulusan mahasiswa keperawatan harus dinyatakan kompeten dalam Uji Kompetensi Ners Indonesia (UKNI) untuk dapat melakukan praktik keperawatan. Angka kegagalan dalam UKNI masih tergolong tinggi, sedangkan penelitian mengenai determinan kelulusan mahasiswa keperawatan dalam UKNI belum banyak dilakukan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui prediktor kelulusan mahasiswa keperawatan dalam UKNI berdasarkan faktor sosiodemografi dan akademik. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian data sekunder menggunakan desain retrospektif korelasional. Sebanyak 547 alumni Fakultas Keperawatan Universitas Airlangga yang mengikuti UKNI pada tahun 2016–2019 sebagai peserta first-taker terpilih sebagai responden. Instrumen yang digunakan berupa dokumentasi data yang diperoleh dari laman resmi UKNI dan Bagian Akademik Fakultas Keperawatan Universitas Airlangga. Analisis data dilakukan dengan uji Chi-Square dan regresi logistik menggunakan IBM SPSS Statistic versi 25. Faktor sosiodemografi tidak memiliki hubungan yang signifikan dengan kelulusan mahasiswa keperawatan dalam UKNI. Faktor akademik berupa IPK Akademik] terbukti secara statistik signifikan dengan kelulusan mahasiswa keperawatan dalam UKNI. IPK Akademik merupakan faktor yang paling dominan dalam kelulusan mahasiswa keperawatan dalam UKNI. Motivasi belajar yang tinggi dari mahasiswa serta intervensi dari institusi pendidikan keperawatan, seperti latihan soal dan mentoring dapat mendorong peningkatan prestasi akademik mahasiswa, sehingga dapat menurunkan probabilitas kegagalan dalam UKNI.
Macroscopic properties of triplon Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Rakhimov, A.
name: Mardonov, S.
name: Sherman, E. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic insulators can be characterized by a gap separating the singlet ground state from the lowest energy triplet, S=1 excitation. If the gap can be closed by the Zeeman interaction in applied magnetic field, the resulting S=1 quasiparticles, triplons, can have concentrations sufficient to undergo the Bose-Einstein condensates transition. We consider macroscopic properties of the triplon Bose-Einstein condensates in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation taking into account the anomalous averages. We prove that these averages play the qualitative role in the condensate properties. As a result, we show that with the increase in the external magnetic field at a given temperature, the condensate demonstrates an instability related to the appearance of nonzero phonon damping and a change in the characteristic dependence of the speed of sound on the magnetic field. The calculated magnetic susceptibility diverges when the external magnetic field approaches this instability threshold, providing a tool for the experimental verification of this approach.
description: published version
BRINGING LESBIAN- AND GAY-FRIENDLINESS INTO THE CORPORATE WORLD: THEDIFFUSION OF CONTROVERSIAL DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES THROUGHTHE LENS OF INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Creators: name: PULCHER, SIMONE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: La diffusione di pratiche organizzative inclusive rivolte alla forza lavoro gay e lesbica � un fenomeno emergente in Italia, un contesto nazionale caratterizzato da pressioni conflittuali rispetto alla deistituzionalizzazione dell?eterosessismo nei luoghi di lavoro. Il presente studio esamina le logiche e i processi attraverso i quali quattordici imprese hanno implementato pratiche inclusive rivolte alla popolazione omosessuale. Basandoci sulla nozione di institutional entrepreneurship mostriamo come l?intervento di due attori chiave ? nei panni di institutional entrepreneurs ? sia risultato decisivo nella definizione di due diversi processi di adozione delle pratiche. Un?associazione datoriale � il punto di riferimento per quanto riguarda un processo top-down supportato dal top management delle organizzazioni; parallelamente, gli uffici dedicati ai diritti delle persone LGBT all?interno di due maggiori sindacati italiani sono il punto di riferimento rispetto ad un processo bottom-up, attivato dai singoli lavoratori. Mentre il primo institutional entrepreneur si rivolge al management per promuovere un cambiamento istituzionale basato su una logica di business case, i secondi giustificano la propria azione sulla base di una logica di giustizia sociale. Nonostante i due processi presentino potenziali complementariet�, gli attori di riferimento (e le loro retoriche) rimangono distanziati al fine di mantenere la legittimit� conferitagli rispettivamente dai datori di lavoro e dal sindacato. Questa ricerca rappresenta il primo studio sul processo di adozione di politiche organizzative inclusive della popolazione LGB(T) in Europa, e va ad arricchire il dibattito sull?institutional entrepreneurship esaminando modi alternativi di approcciare lo stesso processo di cambiamento istituzionale.
STUDIO DI TECNOLOGIE DI AMPLIFICAZIONE E GENOTIPIZZAZIONE DEL GENOMA SU CAMPIONI DI DNA PROVENIENTI DA SANGUE E DA CELLULE DELLA BOCCA PER APPLICAZIONI IN AMBITO EPIDEMIOLOGICO
Creators: name: GABRIELI, ARIANNA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: In epidemiological studies the amount of biological material available is a limiting factor. Many studies use DNA as biological sample obtained by venipuncture, but this collection method is invasive especially if donors are children and the elderly. The use of mouth cells can be an alternative source, although you get DNA of poor quality and quantity. To increase the amount of DNA extracted from buccal cells, you can use the "Whole Genome Amplification?. The aim of my PhD project was to develop a method to extract DNA from buccal cells and to study amplification technologies and subsequent genotyping of DNA extracted from blood and buccal cells. The accuracy of WGA was evaluated with different techniques of molecular biology and genotyping: direct sequencing, allelic discrimination assays, microsatellite genotyping and ?genome wide analysis?. Our analysis showed that the WGA can be used to increase the amount of starting biological material, however, it has some limitations, the fact that direct sequencing and analysis with microsatellites in some cases, may cause a loss of 'genetic information?. According to the data found using DNA from buccal cells and WGA, we have genotyped GSTP1 gene polymorphism Ile105/Val105 about 103 people in the Milan area through Real Time. The study of allele frequencies of this polymorphism in the GSTP1 gene is part of a project aiming to determine whether in patients with respiratory diseases there is an interaction between individual genetic predisposition and exposure to a common external agent coming from urban pollution. The genotypic frequencies obtained in our population were not significantly different from those of Tuscany population genotyped for the HapMap project, so our samples will be used as reference for future studies. Furthermore, we showed that both buccal cells and the WGA can be used in epidemiological analysis for genotyping through Real Time PCR. WGA may be a useful way to increase the amount of DNA; DNA extracted from buccal cells can be a valuable resource for genetic studies.
The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models' predictions
Creators: name: Carpentras, Dino
name: Quayle, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Agent-based models (ABMs) often rely on psychometric constructs such as 'opinions', 'stubbornness', 'happiness', etc. The measurement process for these constructs is quite different from the one used in physics as there is no standardized unit of measurement for opinion or happiness. Consequently, measurements are usually affected by 'psychometric distortions,' which can substantially impact models' predictions. Even if distortions are well known in psychometrics, their existence and nature is obscure to many researchers outside this field. In this paper, we introduce distortions to the ABM community. Initially, we show where distortions come from and how to observe them in real-world data. We then show how they can strongly impact predictions, qualitative comparison with data and the problem they pose for validation of models. We conclude our analysis by discussing how researchers may mitigate this problem and highlight possible future modelling trends that will address this problem.
On the L-infinity description of the Hitchin Map
Creators: name: Dalakov, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B70, 14D15, 14D20

description: Recently, E.Martinengo obtained results on obstructions to deformations of Higgs pairs by describing an L-infinity morphism inducing the Hitchin map. In this note we show that analogous results hold for principal G-Higgs bundles, where G is a complex reductive group. We show that the L-infinity morphism has a Lie-algebraic analogue inducing the adjoint quotient morphism.
description: 12 pages. Comments welcome! Exposition improved. References added. Section 3 expanded and corrected. Typos fixed and some conventions adjusted
Electronic doping of graphene by deposited transition metal atoms
Creators: name: Santos, Jaime E.
name: Peres, Nuno M. R.
name: Santos, Joao M. B. Lopes dos
name: Neto, Antonio H. Castro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a phenomenological analysis of the problem of the electronic doping of a graphene sheet by deposited transition metal atoms, which aggregate in clusters. The sample is placed in a capacitor device such that the electronic doping of graphene can be varied by the application of a gate voltage and such that transport measurements can be performed via the application of a (much smaller) voltage along the graphene sample, as reported in the work of Pi et al. [Phys. Rev. B 80, 075406 (2009)]. The analysis allows us to explain the thermodynamic properties of the device, such as the level of doping of graphene and the ionisation potential of the metal clusters in terms of the chemical interaction between graphene and the clusters. We are also able, by modelling the metallic clusters as perfect conducting spheres, to determine the scattering potential due to these clusters on the electronic carriers of graphene and hence the contribution of these clusters to the resistivity of the sample. The model presented is able to explain the measurements performed by Pi et al. on Pt-covered graphene samples at the lowest metallic coverages measured and we also present a theoretical argument based on the above model that explains why significant deviations from such a theory are observed at higher levels of coverage.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Survey on human milk feeding and enteral feeding practices for very-low-birth-weight infants in NICUs in China Neonatal Network
Creators: name: Hu, Xiaoshan
name: Lu, Junjie
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Zhang, Min
name: Yu, Zhangbin
name: Lee, Shoo K.
name: Han, Shuping
name: Chen, Xiaohui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Dimer of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice
Creators: name: Javanainen, Juha
name: Odong, Otim
name: Sanders, Jerome C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate theoretically the stationary states of two bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice within the Bose-Hubbard model. Starting from a finite lattice with periodic boundary conditions, we effect a partial separation of the center-of-mass and relative motions of the two-atom lattice dimer in the lattice momentum representation, and carefully analyze the eigenstates of the relative motion. In the limit when the lattice becomes infinitely long, we find closed-form analytic expressions for both the bound state and the dissociated states of the lattice dimer. We outline the corresponding analysis in the position representation. The results are used to discuss three ways to detect the dimer: by measuring the momentum distribution of the atoms, by finding the size of the molecule with measurements of atom number correlations at two lattice sites, and by dissociating a bound state of the lattice dimer with a modulation of the lattice depth.
description: This version is very close to the published version. 14 pages, 3 figures
Accurate Measurement of Application-level Energy Consumption for Energy-Aware Large-Scale Simulations
Creators: name: Simsek, Osman Seckin
name: Piccinali, Jean-Guillaume
name: Ciorba, Florina M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sustainability in high performance computing (HPC) is a major challenge not only for HPC centers and their users, but also for society as the climate goals become stricter. A lot of effort went into reducing the energy consumption of systems in general. Even though certain efforts to optimize the energy-efficiency of HPC workloads exist, most such efforts propose solutions targeting CPUs. As HPC systems shift more and more to GPU-centric architectures, simulation codes increasingly adopt GPU-programming models. This leads to an urgent need to increase the energy-efficiency of GPU-enabled codes. However, studies for reducing the energy consumption of large-scale simulations executing on CPUs and GPUs have received insufficient attention. In this work, we enable accurate power and energy measurements using an open-source toolkit across a range of CPU+GPU node architectures. We use this approach in SPH-EXA, an open-source GPU-centric astrophysical and cosmological simulation framework. We show that with simple code instrumentation, users can accurately measure power and energy related data about their application, beyond data provided by HPC systems alone. The accurate power and energy data provide significant insight to users for conducting energy-aware computational experiments and future energy-aware code development.
description: Appeared in Proceedings of the SC 23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis November 2023
THE ACTIVITY DEPENDENT CLEAVAGE AND NUCLEAR FUNCTION OF FEMALE LIMITED EPILEPSY PROTEIN PCDH19
Creators: name: GEROSA, LAURA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: PCDH19-female limited epilepsy is characterized by seizures onset in infancy or early childhood, cognitive impairment and behavioral disturbances. PCDH19 gene, located at the X-chromosome, is the causative gene and till now have been identified more than 100 different pathogenic point mutations. Peculiar features of PCDH19-FLE are the unusual inheritance pattern and the existence of various phenotypic degrees, even between patients carrying the same mutation. There are several hypotheses that try to explain the pathogenic mechanism. However a clear and precise explanation is still lacking. Moreover, little is known about the expression and functions of PCDH19 protein encoded by the FLE causative gene. Thus, the principal aim of our work is to go deeper into PCDH19 physiological functions in order to understand which kind of pathways could be impaired in patients and highlight crucial points altered in pathological conditions that could represent new therapeutic targets. The first part of our work aimed to define PCDH19 expression in rat brain and in neuronal cells. In particular we investigated PCDH19 expression level in different adult rat brain regions and we analyzed the subcellular localization of PCDH19 in cultured hippocampal neurons. In the second part of the work we investigated PCDH19 neuronal functions, in particular we examined a new molecular mechanism by which PCDH19 could link external stimuli with intracellular compartment focusing more on its putative intracellular functions. Then, we investigated the effect of PCDH19 loss in cultured hippocampal neurons. We used a shRNA strategy that induces loss of expression of PCDH19 resembling PCDH19-FLE condition and we analyzed which targets are impaired by PCDH19 knockdown. Once we obtained putative targets, we went deeper into the molecular and functional mechanism that links PCDH19 protein to these targets in order to clarify the pathways in which PCDH19 plays an important role and that could be impaired by the loss of PCDH19 expression. The results would facilitate the identification of new therapeutic targets.
SELF-REPRESENTING PARABLES:THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENT IN PER OLOV ENQUIST'S WORKS
Creators: name: DE MARCO, CATIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: Questa tesi si propone di analizzare l?opera di Per Olov Enquist alla luce di una prospettiva autobiografica. Dopo aver pubblicato numeri romanzi e opere teatrali di grande successo, in cui spesso compaiono elementi e dettagli autobiografici, nel 2008 l?autore svedese ha dato alle stampe un?autobiografia, la cui lettura rafforza l?impressione che le sue esperienze personali abbiano costituito una fondamentale fonte di ispirazione per le opere di finzione. Per inquadrare gli scritti di Enquist in un?ottica autobiografica vengono utilizzate alcune chiavi di lettura offerte dagli stessi testi presi in analisi. Si tratta in primo luogo di due metafore che rappresentano il bisogno di ordinare e di trovare un significato all?esperienza del mondo e della propria identit�, attivit� che parte della critica identifica come motore stesso della scrittura autobiografica: l?assemblare puzzle e il disegnare mappe. In secondo luogo, anche l?uso quasi ossessivo della ripetizione di episodi, immagini ed espressioni viene interpretato come portatore di una valenza autobiografica. A ricorrere sono una serie di �punti dolenti� (sm�rtpunkterna in originale) che da un lato non vengono mai raccontati fino in fondo, dall?altro si ripresentano da un libro all?altro proprio in virt� della loro carica emotiva inespressa. Questo porta a identificare le due forze contrarie all?opera contemporaneamente nella scrittura di Enquist: da un lato l?impulso a nascondere, a negare, dall?altro quello a mostrare, a rivelare. Alla luce di queste chiavi di lettura, vengono prese in esame gran parte delle opere di Enquist, dagli esordi nel 1961 al libro pi� recente del 2013. Questa analisi evidenzia un?evoluzione nelle strategie di auto-rappresentazione utilizzate. In una prima fase (Kristall�gat, F�rdv�gen, Hess, Legion�rerna), gli elementi autobiografici sono isolati e spesso attribuiti a personaggi di finzione. In un secondo gruppo di opere (Sekonden, Musikanternas utt�g, Nedst�rtad �ngel, I lodjurets timma), assistiamo a un aumento del livello di autobiograficit�, pur mantenendo un contesto finzionale. Infine, nell?ultima fase la dimensione autobiografica diventa centrale, sebbene con modalit� diverse nei vari testi presi in considerazione: declinata sotto forma di saggio in Kartritarna, l?auto-rappresentazione assume forma metaforica in Kapten Nemos bibliotek, dichiaratamente autobiografica in Ett annat liv, per poi tornare a una forma ibrida ma a forte componente memorialistica in Liknelseboken. Da questa analisi delle opere di Per Olov Enquist emerge la conclusione che la costante presenza di elementi autobiografici nella sua scrittura � indice di un?esigenza di creare un ordine e trovare un senso al s� e al mondo. Tuttavia, la forma tipicamente autobiografica (cronologica, analitica) non sembra essere la pi� adatta a soddisfare questa esigenza, a cui risponde meglio una rappresentazione basata sulla metafora.
Phase transitions in simplified models with long-range interactions
Creators: name: Filho, T. M. Rocha
name: Amato, M. A.
name: Mello, B. A.
name: Figueiredo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the origin of phase transitions in some simplified models with long range interactions. For the ring model, we show that a possible new phase transition predicted in a recent paper by Nardini and Casetti from an energy landscape analysis does not occur. Instead of such phase transitions we observe a sharp, although without any non-analiticity, change from a core-halo to an only core configuration in the spatial distribution functions for low energies. By introducing a new class of solvable simplified models without any critical points in the potential energy, we show that a similar behaviour to the ring model is obtained, with a first order phase transition from an almost homogeneous high energy phase to a clustered phase, and the same core-halo to core configuration transition at lower energies. We discuss the origin of these features of the simplified models, and show that the first order phase transition comes from the maximization of the entropy of the system as a function of energy an an order parameter, as previously discussed by Kastner, which seems to be the main mechanism causing phase transitions in long-range interacting systems.
Nonlocal Potentials and Crystalline Order in One and Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Alexanian, Moorad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the seminal 1968 proof of the absence of crystalline order in two dimensions and analyze the importance played in the quantum theorem by the assumption of local pair potentials. We relax the assumption of local potentials and consider instead nonlocal pair potentials. We show that the 1/k2-singularity that occurs in the Bogoliubov inequality, which leads to no crystalline order in two dimensions for local potentials and nonzero temperatures, does not occur for nonlocal potentials. Accordingly, crystalline order in one and two dimensions cannot be ruled out for nonlocal pair potentials at finite temperatures.
Additional file 1 of Association between P2Y12 inhibitor reloading and in-hospital outcomes for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome already on chronic P2Y12 receptor inhibitors therapy in China: findings from the CCC–ACS (improving care for cardiovascular disease in China-acute coronary syndrome) project
Creators: name: Wang, Yintang
name: Geng, Yu
name: Zhang, Ou
name: Xu, Qin
name: Xue, Yajun
name: Zhou, Boda
name: Zhang, Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Complete list of CCC–ACS Investigators. Table S2. Baseline characteristics of NSTEMI and UAP patients in reloading P2Y12 inhibitor and non-reloading P2Y12 inhibitor group. Table S3. Multivariable Cox regression analysis models adjusting age, sex and percutaneous coronary intervention. Table S4. Multivariable Cox stepwise regression model for predicting in-hospital MACE adjusting age, sex, previous myocardial infarction, previous heart failure, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors and coronary artery angiography. Table S5 In-hospital outcomes within 14 day after hospitalization for subgroup for reloading ticagrelor vs chronic ticagrelor therapy, as well as reloading clopidogrel vs chronic clopidogrel therapy.
Carbon footprint of cows’ milk: a case study of peri-urban and urban dairy farms within Mekelle milk-shed, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Balcha, Endale
name: Menghistu, Habtamu Taddele
name: Zenebe, Amanuel
name: Hadush, Birhanu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In Ethiopia, there is an urge to enhance milk production where urban and peri-urban farms play important role. Therefore, the role of such production system in Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be known. This study was conducted with the objective of estimating the carbon footprint (CF) of milk within Mekelle milkshed, Ethiopia. 50 urban and 42 peri-urban dairy farms were selected randomly and both primary and secondary data was collected. Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) approach was employed to quantify GHG emissions using cradle to- farm gate approach. The mean GHG emissions per cattle unit (000 kg CO2-e y-1) were 2.84 ± 1.23 and 3.19 ± 1.99 for peri-urban and urban farms, respectively. The share of enteric fermentation was 75.5% and 73.6% for peri-urban and urban farms, respectively. Milk contributed for 88.5% and 90.8% to the economic value of peri-urban and urban farms, respectively. Overall, the CF of milk production in urban and peri-urban farms was 2.2 kg CO2-e/kg and 3.2 kg CO2-e/kg without economic allocation, and 2.0 kg CO2-e/kg and 2.8 kg CO2-e/kg with economic allocation. In order to reduce GHG emission intensity from dairy farms it is important to adopt climate smart dairy practices.
Analysis of greenhouse gas mitigation performance in UK urban areas
Creators: name: Butt, Thomas
name: Mohareb, Eugene
name: Egbor, Kelvin
name: Hashemi, Arman
name: Heidrich, Oliver
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: As the threat of irreversible climate change has increased over time, the UK has continued to set increasingly ambitious policies to reduce its carbon emission. An assessment of mitigation progress to date at the local authority level clarifies the factors that have affected greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the path to carbon neutrality. This research uses regression analyses between local authorities’ GHG emission redcutions and selected explanatory variables (including population density, household income, and manufacturing employment) identified from the literature to explore mitigation performance over time, focusing on GHG emissions changes between 2005 and 2016. Substantial and relatively consistent GHG emissions reductions were achieved in this time frame, with average total reductions across UK local authorities of 31.2%. Population density was moderately-to-strongly correlated with the success of transportation GHG emissions mitigation, though this sector has seen the smallest percentage declines over this period. Local authorities with densities below 25 inhabitants per hectare were generally among the poorest performers in transportation GHG mitigation. This underscores the need to support remote working and electrification of personal transportation in areas where public/active transportation options are not viable alternatives. Furthermore, consideration of population density in conjunction with domestic and urban planning will allow for future emissions reductions to occur across the UK. Fundamentally, GHG emissions reductions to date are largely driven by historic factors (density), shifting economic structures (deindustrialisation), and centralised initiatives (decarbonisation of electricity generation).
Piacenza e la Luna
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy

description: Piacenza è una città che è nata come colonia romana. Essa ha avuto tre deduzioni, nel 218 a.C., nel 190 a.C. ed in epoca augustea. Il centro storico della città mostra ancora molto evidente la caratteristica struttura a scacchiera della colonia romana, fatta da vie parallele che si intersecano ad angolo retto. Se la direzione delle vie di Piacenza ricalca la direzione dei decumani e dei cardi della colonia dedotta nel 190 a.C., come affermato in letteratura, i decumani potrebbero aver avuto uno specifico allineamento astronomico secondo la direzione più meridionale possibile di levata della luna.
Language and history: Essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus
Creators: name: Austin, Peter (Ed.)
name: Dixon, R.M.W. (Ed.)
name: Dutton, Tom (Ed.)
name: White, Isobel (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1990

description: C-116
description: Contents vContributors to this volume vii-viii{ISOBEL WHITE} 1-11Introduction{ELIZABETH KAT} 13-20Publications by Luise A. Hercus{TAMSIN DONALDSON} 21-27Patakirraparaaypuwan in western New South Wales{PETER AUSTIN} 29-48The last words of Pirlatapa{BARRY J. BLAKE} 49-66Languages of the Queensland/Northern Territory border: updating the classification{J.G. BREEN} 67-87Stories from Bennie Kerwin{R.M.W. DIXON} 89-99Reassigning underlying forms in Yidiny - a change during language death{CATHERINE J. ELLIS, LINDA BARWICK AND MEGAN MORAIS} 101-136Overlapping time structures in a Central Australian women's ceremony{NICHOLAS EVANS} 137-155Without this child - some regularities of semantic change in the Australian linguistic area{PHILIP JONES} 157-173Ngapamanha: a case-study in the population history of north-eastern South Australia{R.G. KIMBER} 175-191Mulunga Old Mulunga. 'Good corroboree', they reckon{HAROLD KOCH} 193-208Do Australian languages really have morphemes? Issues in Kaytej morphology{DAVID NASH} 209-220Patrilects of the Warumungu and Warlmanpa and their neighbours{LYNETTE F. OATES} 221-232Aboriginal recording of Aboriginal language{MARGARET SHARPE} 233-242English in Wilcannia{BRUCE SHAW} 243-257Tom Brady, soldier and clever man{JANE SIMPSON} 259-269A note on an inversion marker in Warumungu pronominal clitics{ISOBEL WOLMBY, NOEL PEEMUGGINA, PETER SUTTON} 271-282Donald Thomson at Cape Keerweer{S.A. WURM} 283-289Human categorisation and language. A special situation with Australian Aboriginals
Shape-aware Segmentation of the Placenta in BOLD Fetal MRI Time Series
Creators: name: Abulnaga, S. Mazdak
name: Dey, Neel
name: Young, Sean I.
name: Pan, Eileen
name: Hobgood, Katherine I.
name: Wang, Clinton J.
name: Grant, P. Ellen
name: Turk, Esra Abaci
name: Golland, Polina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI time series with maternal hyperoxia can assess placental oxygenation and function. Measuring precise BOLD changes in the placenta requires accurate temporal placental segmentation and is confounded by fetal and maternal motion, contractions, and hyperoxia-induced intensity changes. Current BOLD placenta segmentation methods warp a manually annotated subject-specific template to the entire time series. However, as the placenta is a thin, elongated, and highly non-rigid organ subject to large deformations and obfuscated edges, existing work cannot accurately segment the placental shape, especially near boundaries. In this work, we propose a machine learning segmentation framework for placental BOLD MRI and apply it to segmenting each volume in a time series. We use a placental-boundary weighted loss formulation and perform a comprehensive evaluation across several popular segmentation objectives. Our model is trained and tested on a cohort of 91 subjects containing healthy fetuses, fetuses with fetal growth restriction, and mothers with high BMI. Biomedically, our model performs reliably in segmenting volumes in both normoxic and hyperoxic points in the BOLD time series. We further find that boundary-weighting increases placental segmentation performance by 8.3% and 6.0% Dice coefficient for the cross-entropy and signed distance transform objectives, respectively. Our code and trained model is available at https://github.com/mabulnaga/automatic-placenta-segmentation.
description: Accepted for publication at the Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA) https://melba-journal.org/2023:017. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2208.02895
Potential greenhouse gas emissions mitigation through increased grazing pressure: a case study in North Portugal
Creators: name: Ameray, Abderrahmane
name: Castro, João Paulo
name: Castro, Marina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Wildfires have been an important process affecting forests and rangelands worldwide. In the Mediterranean region, wildfires burn about half a million hectares of forest and scrubland every year. Fuel loads are the main factor controlling fire risk and its propagation. The reduction of fuel loads by grazing could help to decrease the spread and intensity of wildfires in this region. This study aims to assess the contribution of sheep grazing on fuel load management and their role to the mitigation of wildfire greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The methodological approach is based on a simulation of the grazing pressure required to reduce a given quantity of fuel, under the assumption that if it is not consumed, it becomes fuel. Following, a simulation model was designed to estimate the total GHG emissions prevented through grazing, by reducing the risk of fire. These emissions were estimated based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) framework. The accumulated fuels were estimated to be 3126.65 kg dry matter (DM) ha−1 and the biomass potentially consumed by sheep was 1416.03 kg DM ha−1 yr−1, corresponding to 45.29% of accumulated fuel loads. Our findings suggest a value of 3.88 sheep ha−1 day−1 as the ideal to reduce 4833.63 kg CO2eq ha−1 yr−1 of emissions, distributed between CO2 (−2221.76 kg CO2eq ha−1 yr−1; 45.96%), NOx (−1873.41 kg CO2eq ha−1 yr−1; 38.76%), CO (−454.55 kg CO2eq ha−1 yr−1; 9.40%), CH4 (−186.35 kg CO2eq ha−1 yr−1; 3.86%) and N2O (−97.56 kg CO2eq ha−1 yr−1; 2%). The results of this study also underline that livestock can help to mitigate climate change in areas prone to wildfires.
title: Two Faces of the Bi O Bond: Photochemically and Thermally Induced Dehydrocoupling for Si O Bond Formation
Creators: name: Ramler, Jacqueline
name: Schwarzmann, Johannes
name: Stoy, Andreas
name: Lichtenberg, Crispin
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: Chemistry & allied sciences
Chemie

description: The diorgano(bismuth)alcoholate [Bi((C6H4CH2)2S)OPh] (1-OPh) has been synthesized and fully characterized. Stoichiometric reactions, UV/Vis spectroscopy, and (TD-)DFT calculations suggest its susceptibility to homolytic and heterolytic Bi-O bond cleavage under given reaction conditions. Using the dehydrocoupling of silanes with either TEMPO or phenol as model reactions, the catalytic competency of 1-OPh has been investigated (TEMPO =(tetramethyl-piperidin-1-yl)-oxyl). Different reaction pathways can deliberately be addressed by applying photochemical or thermal reaction conditions and by choosing radical or closed-shell substrates (TEMPO vs. phenol). Applied analytical techniques include NMR, UV/Vis, and EPR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, and (TD)-DFT calculations.
Higher carbon sequestration on Swedish dairy farms compared with other farm types as revealed by national soil inventories
Creators: name: Henryson, Kajsa
name: Meurer, Katharina H. E.
name: Bolinder, Martin A.
name: Kätterer, Thomas
name: Tidåker, Pernilla
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Small changes in the large stock of soil organic carbon (SOC) can have a substantial influence on the climate impact of agriculture. We used information from a Swedish soil monitoring program, in combination with farm census data, to analyze decadal SOC concentrations and SOC stock changes on dairy farms compared with other farm types, and to quantify the climate impact of these changes on dairy farms. Soil monitoring data included topsoil samples from two inventories on 159 dairy farms, 86 beef farms, 318 arable farms, and 13 pig farms, taken at the same locations in 2001–2007 and 2011–2017. Concentrations of SOC on dairy farms (3.0%) were significantly higher than on arable farms (2.3%) and pig farms (2.4%), but not significantly different from beef farms (3.1%). SOC concentration was correlated with proportion of ley at farm scale. SOC stocks in the upper 20 cm increased significantly on dairy, beef, and arable farms, by 0.38, 0.14, and 0.21 Mg C ha−1 year−1, respectively, between 2001–2007 and 2011–2017. For dairy farms, this corresponded to −1.4 Mg CO2 ha−1 and approximately −0.22 kg CO2 kg−1 energy-corrected milk, demonstrating that SOC changes could have a substantial influence on the climate footprint of milk.
Sharp unifying generalizations of Opial's inequality
Creators: name: Klaassen, Chris A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E05, 34A12, 39A13

description: Opial's inequality and its ramifications play an important role in the theory of differential and difference equations. A sharp unifying generalization of Opial's inequality is presented that contains both its continuous and discrete version. This generalization based on distribution functions is extended to the case of derivatives of arbitrary order. This extension optimizes and improves the constant as given in the literature. The special case of derivatives of second order is studied in more detail. Two closely related Opial inequalities with a weight function are presented as well. The associated Wirtinger inequality is studied briefly.
description: 12 pages
Additional file 10: of Comparative transcriptome analysis of the invasive weed Mikania micrantha with its native congeners provides insights into genetic basis underlying successful invasion
Creators: name: Guo, Wuxia
name: Liu, Ying
name: Ng, Wei
name: Liao, Pei-Chun
name: Huang, Bing-Hong
name: Li, Weixi
name: Li, Chunmei
name: Shi, Xianggang
name: Huang, Yelin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: KOG classification for M. micrantha, M. cordata, and M. cordifolia unigenes. A total of 11,127, 11,497, and 29,854 unigenes, respectively, were grouped into 26 clusters of ortholog group terms. (PDF 74Â kb)
Bisimulation for quantum processes
Creators: name: Feng, Yuan
name: Duan, Runyao
name: Ying, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.1; F.3.1

description: In this paper we introduce a novel notion of probabilistic bisimulation for quantum processes and prove that it is congruent with respect to various process algebra combinators including parallel composition even when both classical and quantum communications are present. We also establish some basic algebraic laws for this bisimulation. In particular, we prove uniqueness of the solutions to recursive equations of quantum processes, which provides a powerful proof technique for verifying complex quantum protocols.
description: Journal version
Discriminating Top-Antitop Resonances using Azimuthal Decay Correlations
Creators: name: Baumgart, Matthew
name: Tweedie, Brock
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Top-antitop pairs produced in the decay of a new heavy resonance will exhibit spin correlations that contain valuable coupling information. When the tops decay, these correlations imprint themselves on the angular patterns of the final quarks and leptons. While many approaches to the measurement of top spin correlations are known, the most common ones require detailed kinematic reconstructions and are insensitive to some important spin interference effects. In particular, spin-1 resonances with mostly-vector or mostly-axial couplings to top cannot be easily discriminated from one another without appealing to mass-suppressed effects or to more model-dependent interference with continuum Standard Model production. Here, we propose to probe the structure of a resonance's couplings to tops by measuring the azimuthal angles of the tops' decay products about the production axis. These angles exhibit modulations which are typically O(0.1-1), and which by themselves allow for discrimination of spin-0 from higher spins, measurement of the CP-phase for spin-0, and measurement of the vector/axial composition for spins 1 and 2. For relativistic tops, the azimuthal decay angles can be well-approximated without detailed knowledge of the tops' velocities, and appear to be robust against imperfect energy measurements and neutrino reconstructions. We illustrate this point in the highly challenging dileptonic decay mode, which also exhibits the largest modulations. We comment on the relevance of these observables for testing axigluon-like models that explain the top quark A_FB anomaly at the Tevatron, through direct production at the LHC.
description: 24 pages plus appendices, 6 figures. v2: added references, updated AFB model, expanded discussion of SM interference for spin-0 particle
Bayesian inference via sparse Hamiltonian flows
Creators: name: Chen, Naitong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: A Bayesian coreset is a small, weighted subset of data that replaces the full dataset during Bayesian inference, with the goal of reducing computational cost. Although past work has shown empirically that there often exists a coreset of high quality, efficiently constructing such a coreset remains a challenge. Current methods tend to be slow, require a secondary inference step after coreset construction, and do not provide bounds on the data marginal evidence. In this work, we introduce a new method—sparse Hamiltonian flows—that addresses all three of these challenges. The method involves first subsampling the data uniformly, and then optimizing a Hamiltonian flow parametrized by coreset weights and including periodic momentum quasi-refreshment steps. Theoretical results show that the method enables an exponential compression of the dataset in a representative model, and that the quasi-refreshment steps reduce the KL divergence to the target. Real and synthetic experiments demonstrate that sparse Hamiltonian flows provide accurate posterior approximations with significantly reduced runtime compared with competing dynamical-system-based inference methods.