cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Teachers' distress tolerance experiences associated with teaching dilemmas: A hermeneutic phenomenological exploration
Creators: name: Hargreaves, Lorette
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: distress tolerance, teaching dilemmas, hermeneutic phenomenology
classificationCode: 390412
subject: Teacher and student wellbeing

description: School teaching today occurs within extraordinarily complex contexts with increasing pressures influencing teaching practice. The present research explores experienced teachers’ lived experiences of distress tolerance associated with their teaching dilemmas. Teaching dilemmas are inherent within teaching contexts. They represent situations where the teacher is faced with two or more competing values or commitments and actions are required in the knowledge that there is no “right” solution and that the consequences will disadvantage some involved. These dilemmas are associated with psychological discomfort for teachers and have negative associations with teachers’ wellbeing. The extant literature lacks sufficient research into experiential knowledge relevant to coping with this discomfort in teaching practice. The present research involved two studies with the first involving individual interviewing of experienced teachers. Two phases of interviews provided opportunities for participants to present additional experiences of distress tolerance and to check my interpretations of their data. The second study utilized synectics protocols to elicit teachers’ conceptual metaphors within a focus group context. The hermeneutic phenomenological methodology of Max van Manen provided a suitable framework for this exploratory research. Data was interpreted through the existential lenses of corporeality, spatiality, relationality, and temporality. Themes were identified that represented commonalities within the data. Findings indicated that distress tolerance provided an embodied means of sustaining teaching practice. The present research suggested that the concept of distress overtolerance may provide a useful explanatory concept for the discomfort articulated by the experienced teacher participants. Future research may explore possible relationships between the embodiment of teachers’ coping and their implicit knowledge, given that coping within complex contexts such as teachers’ dilemmatic spaces can involve the use of implicit strategies. Conceptual metaphors may provide a research method of value in exploring these hypothesized connections. Exploration and development of this understanding may have ramifications for wellbeing practices, not only within teaching, but also other contexts of high complexity.
The entropic basis of collective behaviour
Creators: name: Mann, Richard P.
name: Garnett, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we identify a radically new viewpoint on the collective behaviour of groups of intelligent agents. We first develop a highly general abstract model for the possible future lives that these agents may encounter as a result of their decisions. In the context of these possible futures, we show that the causal entropic principle, whereby agents follow behavioural rules that maximise their entropy over all paths through the future, predicts many of the observed features of social interactions between individuals in both human and animal groups. Our results indicate that agents are often able to maximise their future path entropy by remaining cohesive as a group, and that this cohesion leads to collectively intelligent outcomes that depend strongly on the distribution of the number of future paths that are possible. We derive social interaction rules that are consistent with maximum-entropy group behaviour for both discrete and continuous decision spaces. Our analysis further predicts that social interactions are likely to be fundamentally based on Weber's law of response to proportional stimuli, supporting many studies that find a neurological basis for this stimulus-response mechanism, and providing a novel basis for the common assumption of linearly additive 'social forces' in simulation studies of collective behaviour.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Assessing climate change and urban heat island vulnerabilities in a built environment
Creators: name: Chiesa, Giacomo
name: Palme, Massimo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: A methodology is presented to assess local criticalities and resilience to climate changes (CC) and UHI (Urban Heat Island). This analysis will consider the expected impacts on the local energy demand of the built environment due to climate-related variations. Climate-related indicators are proposed to assess a vulnerability index to CC and UHI in specific building-design contexts. Furthermore, these indicators will be applied to a set of locations in the Mediterranean climate while taking into consideration different local contexts to evaluate the resilience of a sample residential building by using, among other strategies, dynamic energy simulations.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
NU-Wave 2: A General Neural Audio Upsampling Model for Various Sampling Rates
Creators: name: Han, Seungu
name: Lee, Junhyeok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conventionally, audio super-resolution models fixed the initial and the target sampling rates, which necessitate the model to be trained for each pair of sampling rates. We introduce NU-Wave 2, a diffusion model for neural audio upsampling that enables the generation of 48 kHz audio signals from inputs of various sampling rates with a single model. Based on the architecture of NU-Wave, NU-Wave 2 uses short-time Fourier convolution (STFC) to generate harmonics to resolve the main failure modes of NU-Wave, and incorporates bandwidth spectral feature transform (BSFT) to condition the bandwidths of inputs in the frequency domain. We experimentally demonstrate that NU-Wave 2 produces high-resolution audio regardless of the sampling rate of input while requiring fewer parameters than other models. The official code and the audio samples are available at https://mindslab-ai.github.io/nuwave2.
description: Accepted to Interspeech 2022
SPIDER X - Environmental effects in central and satellite early-type galaxies through the stellar fossil record
Creators: name: La Barbera, F.
name: Pasquali, A.
name: Ferreras, I.
name: Gallazzi, A.
name: de Carvalho, R. R.
name: de la Rosa, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed analysis of how environment affects the star formation history of early-type galaxies (ETGs) is undertaken via high signal to noise ratio stacked spectra obtained from a sample of 20,977 ETGs (morphologically selected) from the SDSS-based SPIDER survey. Two major parameters are considered for the study: the central velocity dispersion (sigma), which relates to local drivers of star formation, and the mass of the host halo, which relates to environment-related effects. In addition, we separate the sample between centrals (the most massive galaxy in a halo) and satellites. We derive trends of age, metallicity, and [alpha/Fe] enhancement, with sigma. We confirm that the major driver of stellar population properties in ETGs is velocity dispersion, with a second-order effect associated to the central/satellite nature of the galaxy. No environmental dependence is detected for satellite ETGs, except at low sigma - where satellites in groups or in the outskirts of clusters tend to be younger than those in the central regions of clusters. In contrast, the trends for centrals show a significant dependence on halo mass. Central ETGs in groups (i.e. with a halo mass >10^12.5 M_Sun) have younger ages, lower [alpha/Fe], and higher internal reddening, than "isolated" systems (i.e. centrals residing in low-mass, <10^12.5 M_Sun, halos). Our findings imply that central ETGs in groups formed their stellar component over longer time scales than "isolated" centrals, mainly because of gas-rich interactions with their companion galaxies.
description: 22 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
BURSTT: Bustling Universe Radio Survey Telescope in Taiwan
Creators: name: Lin, Hsiu-Hsien
name: Lin, Kai-yang
name: Li, Chao-Te
name: Tseng, Yao-Huan
name: Jiang, Homin
name: Wang, Jen-Hung
name: Cheng, Jen-Chieh
name: Pen, Ue-Li
name: Chen, Ming-Tang
name: Chen, Pisin
name: Chen, Yaocheng
name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Hashimoto, Tetsuya
name: Hwang, Yuh-Jing
name: King, Sun-Kun
name: Kubo, Derek
name: Kuo, Chung-Yun
name: Mills, Adam
name: Nam, Jiwoo
name: Oshiro, Peter
name: Shen, Chang-Shao
name: Tseng, Hsien-Chun
name: Wang, Shih-Hao
name: Wu, Vigo Feng-Shun
name: Bower, Geoffrey
name: Chang, Shu-Hao
name: Chen, Pai-An
name: Chen, Ying-Chih
name: Chiang, Yi-Kuan
name: Fedynitch, Anatoli
name: Gusinskaia, Nina
name: Ho, Simon C. -C.
name: Hsiao, Tiger Y. -Y.
name: Hu, Chin-Ping
name: De Huang, Yau
name: Garcia, Jose Miguel Jauregui
name: Kim, Seong Jin
name: Kuo, Cheng-Yu
name: Ling, Decmend Fang-Jie
name: On, Alvina Y. L.
name: Peterson, Jeffrey B.
name: Raquel, Bjorn Jasper R.
name: Su, Shih-Chieh
name: Uno, Yuri
name: Wu, Cossas K. -W.
name: Yamasaki, Shotaro
name: Zhu, Hong-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond-duration radio transients that appear about 1,000 times per day, all-sky, for a fluence threshold 5 Jy ms at 600 MHz. The FRB radio-emission physics and the compact objects involved in these events are subjects of intense active debate. To better constrain source models, the Bustling Universe Radio Survey Telescope in Taiwan (BURSTT) is optimized to discover and localize a large sample of rare, high-fluence, nearby FRBs. This is the population most amenable to multi-messenger, multi-wavelength follow-up, allowing deeper understanding of source mechanisms. BURSTT will provide horizon-to-horizon sky coverage with a half power field-of-view (FoV) of $\sim$10$^{4}$ deg$^{2}$, a 400 MHz effective bandwidth between 300-800 MHz, and sub-arcsecond localization, made possible using outrigger stations hundreds to thousands of km from the main array. Initially, BURSTT will employ 256 antennas. After tests of various antenna designs and optimization of system performance we plan to expand to 2048 antennas. We estimate that BURSTT-256 will detect and localize $\sim$100 bright ($\geq$100 Jy ms) FRBs per year. Another advantage of BURSTT's large FoV and continuous operation will be greatly enhanced monitoring of FRBs for repetition. The current lack of sensitive all-sky observations likely means that many repeating FRBs are currently cataloged as single-event FRBs.
description: Published version
Generalized Bagley-Torvik Equation and Fractional Oscillators
Creators: name: Naber, M. G.
name: Lymburner, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 26A33, 34A08, 34A25, 34K11, 70J99

description: In this paper the Bagley-Torvik Equation is considered with the order of the damping term allowed to range between one and two. The solution is found to be representable as a convolution of trigonometric and exponential functions with the driving force. The properties of the effective decay rate and the oscillation frequency with respect to the order of the fractional damping are also studied. It is found that the effective decay rate and oscillation frequency have a complex dependency on the order of the derivative of the damping term and exhibit properties one might expect of a thermodynamic Equation of state: critical point, phase change, and lambda transition.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0908.1683
Meta-Analysis of the INSIG2 Association with Obesity Including 74,345 Individuals: Does Heterogeneity of Estimates Relate to Study Design?
Creators: name: Illig, Thomas
name: Engert, James C.
name: Boeing, Heiner
name: Hinney, Anke
name: Hubacek, Jaroslav A.
name: Bouchard, Claude
name: Adamkova, Vera
name: Kaakinen, Marika
name: Francès, Francesc
name: Humphries, Steve E.
name: Dina, Christian
name: Heid, Iris M.
name: Ardlie, Kristin
name: Froguel, Philippe
name: Kollerits, Barbara
name: Corella, Dolores
name: Hebebrand, Johannes
name: Fisher, Eva
name: Hu, Frank B.
name: Cooper, Jackie A.
name: Ciullo, Marina
name: Järvelin, Marjo-Riita
name: Kronenberg, Florian
name: Biebermann, Heike
name: Hoehe, Margret R.
name: Krude, Heiko
name: Hegele, Robert A.
name: Loos, Ruth J. F.
name: Anand, Sonia S.
name: Hunt, Steven C.
name: Huth, Cornelia
name: Bjerregaard, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The INSIG2 rs7566605 polymorphism was identified for obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2) in one of the first genome-wide association studies, but replications were inconsistent. We collected statistics from 34 studies (n = 74,345), including general population (GP) studies, population-based studies with subjects selected for conditions related to a better health status (‘healthy population’, HP), and obesity studies (OB). We tested five hypotheses to explore potential sources of heterogeneity. The meta-analysis of 27 studies on Caucasian adults (n = 66,213) combining the different study designs did not support overall association of the CC-genotype with obesity, yielding an odds ratio (OR) of 1.05 (p-value = 0.27). The I2 measure of 41% (p-value = 0.015) indicated between-study heterogeneity. Restricting to GP studies resulted in a declined I2 measure of 11% (p-value = 0.33) and an OR of 1.10 (p-value = 0.015). Regarding the five hypotheses, our data showed (a) some difference between GP and HP studies (p-value = 0.012) and (b) an association in extreme comparisons (BMI≥32.5, 35.0, 37.5, 40.0 kg/m2 versus BMI<25 kg/m2) yielding ORs of 1.16, 1.18, 1.22, or 1.27 (p-values 0.001 to 0.003), which was also underscored by significantly increased CC-genotype frequencies across BMI categories (10.4% to 12.5%, p-value for trend = 0.0002). We did not find evidence for differential ORs (c) among studies with higher than average obesity prevalence compared to lower, (d) among studies with BMI assessment after the year 2000 compared to those before, or (e) among studies from older populations compared to younger. Analysis of non-Caucasian adults (n = 4889) or children (n = 3243) yielded ORs of 1.01 (p-value = 0.94) or 1.15 (p-value = 0.22), respectively. There was no evidence for overall association of the rs7566605 polymorphism with obesity. Our data suggested an association with extreme degrees of obesity, and consequently heterogeneous effects from different study designs may mask an underlying association when unaccounted for. The importance of study design might be under-recognized in gene discovery and association replication so far.
On the mass-function of GWTC-2 binary black hole systems and their progenitors
Creators: name: Park, Hye-Jin
name: Kim, Shin-Jeong
name: Kim, Shinna
name: van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of LIGO black hole binaries (BBH) shows an intermediate-mass range consistent with the Salpeter Initial Mass Function (IMF) in black hole formation by core-collapse supernovae, subject to preserving binary association. They are effectively parameterized by mean mass $μ$ with Pearson correlation coefficient $r = 0.93\,\pm\,0.06$ of secondary to primary masses with mean mass-ratio $\bar{q}\simeq 0.67$, $q=M_2/M_1$, consistent with the paucity of intermediate-mass X-ray binaries. The mass-function of LIGO BBHs is well-approximated by a broken power-law with a tail $μ\gtrsim 31.4M_\odot$ {in the mean binary mass $μ=\left(M_1+M_2\right)/2$}. Its power-law index $α_{B,true}=4.77\pm 0.73$ inferred from the tail of the observed mass-function is found to approach the upper bound $2α_S=4.7$ of the uncorrelated binary initial mass-function, defined by the Salpeter index $α_S=2.35$ of the Initial Mass Function of stars. The observed low scatter in BBH mass ratio $q$ evidences equalizing mass-transfer in binary evolution prior to BBH formation. At the progenitor redshift $z^\prime$, furthermore, the power-law index satisfies $α_B^\prime>α_B$ in a flat $Λ$CDM background cosmology. The bound $α_{B,true}^\prime \lesssim 2α_S$ hereby precludes early formation at arbitrarily high redshift $z^\prime \gg1$, that may be made more precise and robust with extended BBH surveys from upcoming LIGO O4-5 observations.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Project anticipation as a tool for built environment social resilience
Creators: name: Fanzini, Daniele
name: Rotaru, Irina
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: The researches of Adger (2000), Martini (2015) and Malcevschi et al. (2017) suggest that there is an indissoluble relationship between society, territory and economy, factors which have reciprocal influence on each other in the creation of a specific ecosystem. The connection between these three elements feeds the built environment processes, predisposing its life cycle to various types of resilience. By analysing certain case studies, this paper aims to illustrate various forms of social resilience comforted by the anticipatory approach. The solutions proposed are presented together with details of the process models adopted and subsequently linked to different project and management methodologies which can be connected to the specifics of the technological project.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Nuclear pasta structures at high temperatures
Creators: name: Xia, Cheng-Jun
name: Maruyama, Toshiki
name: Yasutake, Nobutoshi
name: Tatsumi, Toshitaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate nuclear pasta structures at high temperatures in the framework of relativistic mean field model with Thomas-Fermi approximation. Typical pasta structures (droplet, rod, slab, tube, and bubble) are obtained, which form various crystalline configurations. The properties of those nuclear pastas are examined in a three-dimensional geometry with reflection symmetry, where the optimum lattice constants are fixed by reproducing the droplet/bubble density that minimizes the free energy adopting spherical or cylindrical approximations for Wigner-Seitz cells. It is found that different crystalline structures can evolve into each other via volume conserving deformations. For fixed densities and temperatures, the differences of the free energies per baryon of nuclear pasta in various shapes and lattice structures are typically on the order of tens of keV, suggesting the possible coexistence of those structures. As temperature increases, the thermodynamic fluctuations are expected to disrupt the long-range ordering in nuclear pasta structures. We then estimate the critical conditions for nuclear pasta to become disordered and behave like liquid, which are found to be sensitive to the densities, temperatures, proton fractions, and nuclear shapes. If we further increase temperature, eventually the nonuniform structures of nuclear pasta become unstable and are converted into uniform nuclear matter. The phase diagrams of nuclear matter are then estimated, which should be useful for understanding the evolutions of neutron stars, supernova dynamics, and binary neutron star mergers.
Resilience and sustainability for the reuse of cultural heritage
Creators: name: Besana, Daniela
name: Greco, Alessandro
name: Morandotti, Marco
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: The contribution analyses the themes related to the concept of resilience, as an indispensable premise for a conscious intervention of reuse, conservation and enhancement. The cultural heritage is analysed in relation to three main factors: the environmental context, its knowledge and the users’ needs. The essay proposes a first methodological interpretation, apt to define some synthetic indicators through which evaluate the degree of accessibility, transformability and adaptability of the heritage, for its sustainable reuse. The principle goal is to provide a forecast of the transformative impacts that the project could trigger on the architectural heritage.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Climate vulnerability, impact scenarios and adaptation strategies for resilient cities
Creators: name: D'Ambrosio, Valeria
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: This paper deals with the results of the Research Project “METROPOLIS – Integrated and sustainable methods and technologies for resilience and safety in urban systems”, funded under PONREC 2007-2013. Among all the results of the work, the paper is focused on the development of a model to measure climate vulnerability in urban areas. The application of the model provides the assessment of impacts and the subsequent planning of corrective actions to increase building and urban resilience by means of technological retrofitting. The testing of the model for heat waves and pluvial flooding has been implemented in the urban system of Naples City which has been divided into the physical subsystem and the population subsystem.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Petawatt laser absorption bounded
Creators: name: Levy, Matthew C.
name: Wilks, Scott C.
name: Tabak, Max
name: Libby, Stephen B.
name: Baring, Matthew G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction of petawatt ($10^{15}\ \mathrm{W}$) lasers with solid matter forms the basis for advanced scientific applications such as table-top particle accelerators, ultrafast imaging systems and laser fusion. Key metrics for these applications relate to absorption, yet conditions in this regime are so nonlinear that it is often impossible to know the fraction of absorbed light $f$, and even the range of $f$ is unknown. Here using a relativistic Rankine-Hugoniot-like analysis, we show for the first time that $f$ exhibits a theoretical maximum and minimum. These bounds constrain nonlinear absorption mechanisms across the petawatt regime, forbidding high absorption values at low laser power and low absorption values at high laser power. For applications needing to circumvent the absorption bounds, these results will accelerate a shift from solid targets, towards structured and multilayer targets, and lead the development of new materials.
Resilience and green economies for the future of architecture and the built environment
Creators: name: Tucci, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: Over the past decade, the concept of resilience has been strategically and inextricably linked to the main aims of the Green Economy and ‘process circularity’ as applied to the field of the built environment and buildings, starting with the international policy documents published by UNEP in 2008 and by the OECD in 2010. This debate has only just been outlined and there is still plenty of research to be done, but the potential contribution of Technological Design in Architecture seems key. This paper critically analyses the principles, the method- and design-based approaches and the structural strategic measures that can improve the resilience of the built environment, as requested by the European Commission, and considers the prospects for its development in this country, both at a national institutional level and at a local level, primarily gravitating around the strategic working axes that have been outlined – and continue to be pursued – by the States General of the Green Economy.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Resilience and open urban environments. Comparing adaptation and mitigation measures
Creators: name: Marrone, Paola
name: Orsini, Federico
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: Public space, understood as the system of open urban spaces, is assuming an increasingly important role in environmental redevelopment processes. Recent experiences show how it is possible to rethink resilient cities, addressing some of the urban issues behind the deterioration of the territory in which we live, starting by upgrading public space. Based on these assumptions, our research investigates the potential of open space as an environment in which adaptation and mitigation measures can be adopted. The research was conducted on a case study, developed using simulation models (Envi-met, SWMM) and compared scenarios using different innovative technology systems.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Structure in the 3D Galaxy Distribution: II. Voids and Watersheds of Local Maxima and Minima
Creators: name: Way, M. J.
name: Gazis, P. R.
name: Scargle, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The major uncertainties in studies of the multi-scale structure of the Universe arise not from observational errors but from the variety of legitimate definitions and detection methods for individual structures. To facilitate the study of these methodological dependencies we have carried out 12 different analyses defining structures in various ways. This has been done in a purely geometrical way by utilizing the HOP algorithm as a unique parameter-free method of assigning groups of galaxies to local density maxima or minima. From three density estimation techniques (smoothing kernels, Bayesian Blocks and self organizing maps) applied to three data sets (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7, the Millennium Simulation and randomly distributed points) we tabulate information that can be used to construct catalogs of structures connected to local density maxima and minima. The resulting sizes follow continuous multi-scale distributions with no indication of the presence of a discrete hierarchy. We also introduce a novel void finder that utilizes a method to assemble Delaunay tetrahedra into connected structures and characterizes regions very nearly empty of galaxies in the source catalog.
description: 54 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
Numerics for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Help from the Physical Entropy
Creators: name: Zinner, Carl Philipp
name: Öttinger, Hans Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stable numerical simulations for a hyperbolic system of conservation laws of relaxation type but not in divergence form are obtained by incorporating the physical entropy into the simulations. The entropy balance is utilized as an additional equation to eliminate the numerically critical terms with simple substitutions. The method has potential for a wider applicability than the particular example presented here.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Bayesian networks as a resilience tool for decision-making processes in uncertainty conditions
Creators: name: Novi, Federico
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: Project management through process technologies has taken on a key role in recent decades as a planning and control tool for building processes. However, a wide divergence between expectations and results emerges from the available literature. The existing tools, behind apparent efficiency, proved to be inadequate, detached from practical reality and unable to handle complexity. The processes that govern the buildings in fact must be related to a turbulent and complex context that leads to uncertainty of process and outcomes. The research carried out aims to strengthen the existing tools, through the development and testing of new tools that can rigorously and objectively govern the risk and the uncertainty of the construction sector.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Bologna resilient city: from the adaptation plan to local actions
Creators: name: Boeri, Andrea
name: Fini, Giovanni
name: Gaspari, Jacopo
name: Gianfrate, Valentina
name: Longo, Danila
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: The possible effects of climate change in urbanized areas – evidenced by several studies – led the City of Bologna to adopt a Climate Change Adaptation Plan to assess potential risks and vulnerabilities as a basis for adaptation actions prioritizing interventions through a coordinated local strategy. This paper summarizes some measures implemented at local level in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna and, in particular, the pilot actions for urban greening developed within the European project H2020 - ROCK and the proposals for intervention included made during the “Design for Adaptation” project. Resilient Urban Communities” PhD Climate KIC summer school.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
SANE-TTS: Stable And Natural End-to-End Multilingual Text-to-Speech
Creators: name: Cho, Hyunjae
name: Jung, Wonbin
name: Lee, Junhyeok
name: Woo, Sang Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present SANE-TTS, a stable and natural end-to-end multilingual TTS model. By the difficulty of obtaining multilingual corpus for given speaker, training multilingual TTS model with monolingual corpora is unavoidable. We introduce speaker regularization loss that improves speech naturalness during cross-lingual synthesis as well as domain adversarial training, which is applied in other multilingual TTS models. Furthermore, by adding speaker regularization loss, replacing speaker embedding with zero vector in duration predictor stabilizes cross-lingual inference. With this replacement, our model generates speeches with moderate rhythm regardless of source speaker in cross-lingual synthesis. In MOS evaluation, SANE-TTS achieves naturalness score above 3.80 both in cross-lingual and intralingual synthesis, where the ground truth score is 3.99. Also, SANE-TTS maintains speaker similarity close to that of ground truth even in cross-lingual inference. Audio samples are available on our web page.
description: Accepted to Interspeech 2022
Tangent space symmetries in general relativity and teleparallelism
Creators: name: Lawrence, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper looks at how changes of coordinates on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold induce homogeneous linear transformations on its tangent spaces. We see that a pseudo-orthonormal frame in a given tangent space is the basis for a set of Riemann normal coordinates. A Lorentz subgroup of the general linear transformations preserves this pseudo-orthonormality. We borrow techniques from the methodology of non-linear realizations to analyze this group-subgroup structure. `Parallel maps' are used to relate tangent space at different points. `Parallelisms' across a finite region of the manifold may be built up from them. These are used to define Weitzenböck connections and Levi-Civita connections. This provides a new formulation of teleparallel gravity, in which the tetrad field is viewed as a field-valued group element relating the coordinate basis to the frame basis used in defining a parallelism. This formulation separates the metric degrees of freedom from those associated with the choice of parallelism. The group element can be combined by matrix multiplication with Lorentz transformations of frame or with other Jacobian matrices. We show how this facilitates a new understanding of inertial forces and local Lorentz transformations. The analysis is also applied to translations of the coordinates. If they are constant across spacetime, this has no effect on the tangent space bases. If the translation parameters become fields, they induce general linear transformations of the coordinate basis; however, the tetrad components can only be expressed in terms of translations on a flat spacetime.
description: 36 pages, 1 figure. Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (IJGMMP), Volume No. 18, Issue No. supp01, Article No. 2140008, Year 2021, 36 pages, doi.org/10.1142/S0219887821400089. Copyright World Scientific Publishing Company https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijgmmp
NRXN3 Is a Novel Locus for Waist Circumference: A Genome-Wide Association Study from the CHARGE Consortium
Creators: name: Mitchell, Braxton D.
name: Launer, Lenore J.
name: McKnight, Barbara
name: Shuldiner, Alan R.
name: Harris, Tamara B.
name: Gyllensten, Ulf
name: McArdle, Patrick F.
name: Brancati, Fred
name: Monda, Keri L.
name: Campbell, Harry
name: Boerwinkle, Eric
name: Eiriksdottir, Gudny
name: Chen, Yii-Der Ida
name: Fu, Mao
name: Heard-Costa, Nancy L.
name: Rotter, Jerome I.
name: Pramstaller, Peter P.
name: Pankow, James S.
name: Aspelund, Thor
name: Psaty, Bruce M.
name: Pattaro, Cristian
name: Zillikens, M. Carola
name: Garcia, Melissa
name: Johansson, Åsa
name: Smith, Albert V.
name: Demerath, Ellen W.
name: Bielinski, Suzette J.
name: Feitosa, Mary F.
name: Arnold, Alice M.
name: Glazer, Nicole L.
name: Amin, Najaf
name: Haritunians, Talin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Central abdominal fat is a strong risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To identify common variants influencing central abdominal fat, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association analysis for waist circumference (WC). In total, three loci reached genome-wide significance. In stage 1, 31,373 individuals of Caucasian descent from eight cohort studies confirmed the role of FTO and MC4R and identified one novel locus associated with WC in the neurexin 3 gene [NRXN3 (rs10146997, p = 6.4×10−7)]. The association with NRXN3 was confirmed in stage 2 by combining stage 1 results with those from 38,641 participants in the GIANT consortium (p = 0.009 in GIANT only, p = 5.3×10−8 for combined analysis, n = 70,014). Mean WC increase per copy of the G allele was 0.0498 z-score units (0.65 cm). This SNP was also associated with body mass index (BMI) [p = 7.4×10−6, 0.024 z-score units (0.10 kg/m2) per copy of the G allele] and the risk of obesity (odds ratio 1.13, 95% CI 1.07–1.19; p = 3.2×10−5 per copy of the G allele). The NRXN3 gene has been previously implicated in addiction and reward behavior, lending further evidence that common forms of obesity may be a central nervous system-mediated disorder. Our findings establish that common variants in NRXN3 are associated with WC, BMI, and obesity.
Site-specific circular methodology for the resilience of existing districts: the Green City Circle
Creators: name: Boulanger, Saveria Olga Murielle
name: Marcatili, Marco
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: The paper aim is to describe the major findings of a PhD research having the objective of defining and developing an instrument (Green City Circle) for the design of existing urban districts, through a circular approach and with the point of view of resilience and energy efficiency. The research approach is multi-disciplinary, aiming to evaluate both risk resilience and slower processes on an eco-systemic perspective. The paper aims to reflect upon these questions by deepening the study of a set of Key Performance Indicator and of alternative scenarios composition. The instrument’s target has been selected into local public bodies as major enablers of local regeneration.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Integrating IoT-Sensing and Crowdsensing with Privacy: Privacy-Preserving Hybrid Sensing for Smart Cities
Creators: name: Zhu, Hanwei
name: Chau, Sid Chi-Kin
name: Guarddin, Gladhi
name: Liang, Weifa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data sensing and gathering is an essential task for various information-driven services in smart cities. On the one hand, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors can be deployed at certain fixed locations to capture data reliably but suffer from limited sensing coverage. On the other hand, data can also be gathered dynamically through crowdsensing contributed by voluntary users but suffer from its unreliability and the lack of incentives for users' contributions. In this paper, we explore an integrated paradigm called "hybrid sensing" that harnesses both IoT-sensing and crowdsensing in a complementary manner. In hybrid sensing, users are incentivized to provide sensing data not covered by IoT sensors and provide crowdsourced feedback to assist in calibrating IoT-sensing. Their contributions will be rewarded with credits that can be redeemed to retrieve synthesized information from the hybrid system. In this paper, we develop a hybrid sensing system that supports explicit user privacy -- IoT sensors are obscured physically to prevent capturing private user data, and users interact with a crowdsensing server via a privacy-preserving protocol to preserve their anonymity. A key application of our system is smart parking, by which users can inquire and find the available parking spaces in outdoor parking lots. We implemented our hybrid sensing system for smart parking and conducted extensive empirical evaluations. Finally, our hybrid sensing system can be potentially applied to other information-driven services in smart cities.
description: To appear in ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
Rethinking the edge: the built environment and resilience in the informal city
Creators: name: Gallo, Paola
name: Romano, Rosa
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: The article presents a design research experience concerning the requalification of the Serrinha favela in Florianópolis, conducted as part of an international collaboration agreement between Florence University and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil. The aim of this work is to highlight how a process involving the virtuous regeneration of the informal city can be launched, aimed at increasing resilience and reducing the environmental impact of the solutions chosen, with particular attention to the social and economic sustainability of the actions proposed and based on the definition of technological solutions for sustainable requalification, promoting the involvement of inhabitants and local players.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Raman scattering investigation of the electron-phonon coupling in superconducting Nd(O,F)BiS$_2$
Creators: name: Wu, S. F.
name: Richard, P.
name: Wang, X. B.
name: Lian, C. S.
name: Nie, S. M.
name: Wang, J. T.
name: Wang, N. L.
name: Ding, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed polarized Raman scattering measurements on the newly discovered superconductor Nd(O,F)BiS$_2$ ($T_c = 4$ K). We observe 2 Raman active modes, with frequencies in accordance with first-principles calculations. One A$_{1g}$ phonon mode at 112.4 cm$^{-1}$ exhibits a Fano line shape due to electron-phonon coupling. We find a resonance for this mode at 2.45 eV excitation energy. We estimate a 0.68 contribution of this mode to the electron-phonon coupling constant $λ$. Our Raman results suggest that the BiS$_2$-based superconductors are possibly phonon-mediated BCS superconductors.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Buildings as an urban risk factor
Creators: name: Castelluccio, Roberto
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2018

description: Due to the risk exposure of urban centers, built in dystonia with the environmental context, it is necessary to implement territorial development policies which consider risk analysis as an essential condition for planning. The innovative approach proposed by the D.I.C.E.A. for the drafting of the Emergency Plan of the Municipality of Pozzuoli, considered the residential system as a further intrinsic risk factor, determined by the buildings characteristics and by the relationship with the urban environment. As an experiment the Building Vulnerability Charter was created to define critical areas, in which priority should be given to strategic planning of interventions aimed at increasing urban resilience.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Systematic Identification of Balanced Transposition Polymorphisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Creators: name: Pickrell, Joseph K.
name: Lieb, Jason D.
name: McCoach, Caroline
name: Ganko, Eric W.
name: Mann, Frederick G.
name: Jones, Corbin D.
name: Vision, Todd J.
name: Faddah, Dina A.
name: Mieczkowska, Joanna O.
name: Hanlon, Sean E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: High-throughput techniques for detecting DNA polymorphisms generally do not identify changes in which the genomic position of a sequence, but not its copy number, varies among individuals. To explore such balanced structural polymorphisms, we used array-based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH) to conduct a genome-wide screen for single-copy genomic segments that occupy different genomic positions in the standard laboratory strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S90) and a polymorphic wild isolate (Y101) through analysis of six tetrads from a cross of these two strains. Paired-end high-throughput sequencing of Y101 validated four of the predicted rearrangements. The transposed segments contained one to four annotated genes each, yet crosses between S90 and Y101 yielded mostly viable tetrads. The longest segment comprised 13.5 kb near the telomere of chromosome XV in the S288C reference strain and Southern blotting confirmed its predicted location on chromosome IX in Y101. Interestingly, inter-locus crossover events between copies of this segment occurred at a detectable rate. The presence of low-copy repetitive sequences at the junctions of this segment suggests that it may have arisen through ectopic recombination. Our methodology and findings provide a starting point for exploring the origins, phenotypic consequences, and evolutionary fate of this largely unexplored form of genomic polymorphism.
Transition and Continuance in Science Production: Authorship Flow in Chemistry
Publisher: name: Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc)
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this article is to study authorship flow in Iranian ISI articles in the field of chemistry based on Price’s model. Price divided authors in each given period in any field into four groups including newcomers, transients, continuants, and terminators. He maintained that actuarial statistics could be applied to authorship to calculate death rate and birth rate in scientific fields. A total 25,573 articles written by 59,661 Iranian chemistry authors between 1973 and 2012 were downloaded from Web of Science and were subjected to statistical analysis. The average birth rate was 66.7%, the average death rate was 19.4%, infant mortality rate was 51.2%, average natural increase was 47.3%, the average life expectancy was 1.98 years and the longest scientific age was 22 years. The results show that although a large number of people start their scientific activity, the number of those who terminate their activity in the same year as they start (infant death rate) is also large and little continuity exist in publishing activities of Iranian chemists. The overall labor force in the field of chemistry in Iran was not satisfactory as the majority of authors in each period are transients. Policy makers need to take measures to improve the situation.