cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L’entomologia a Bologna tra didattica e ricerca. Catalogo della Mostra
Creators: name: Rossi, Federica
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2020
Subjects: AGR/11 Entomologia generale e applicata

description: La mostra "L'entomologia a Bologna tra didattica e ricerca", allestita presso la Biblioteca di Agraria "Gabriele Goidanich" tra novembre 2019 e febbraio 2020, è il frutto della collaborazione tra la Biblioteca e l’intera équipe di docenti, ricercatori e tecnici dell’area entomologica DISTAL. Hanno fatto parte del Comitato scientifico e organizzatore: David Baldo, Giovanni Giorgio Bazzocchi, Giovanni Burgio, Francesco Casadei, Carlo Cencini, Maria Luisa Dindo, Luca Dondini, Gianfranco Filippini, Santolo Francati, Roberta Giannotti, Serena Magagnoli, Stefano Maini, Antonio Martini, Antonio Masetti, Davide Montanari, Claudio Porrini, Federica Rossi, Fabrizio Santi, Fabio Sgolastra. Oltre al catalogo del materiale esposto, il presente volume contiene gli interventi presentati il giorno dell'inaugurazione (28 novembre 2019) e i testi introduttivi per le otto sezioni della Mostra: La didattica del passato, Le collezioni di ieri e di oggi, Insetti vivi, Insetti per immagini, Lotta biologica, Api e impollinazione, Altri usi degli insetti, Rassegna bibliografica.
The Rise of Right Wing Populism Throughout Europe: Mechanisms and Outcomes
Creators: name: Cross, Ezra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Many countries in Europe
established welfare states
during and after World
War II that never truly left. Europe is
unique in that many of its countries
have such deeply entrenched systems
of welfare that the traditional
debate between the fiscally conservative
right and the democratic-socialist
left on the issue is absent. Today,
instead of trying to tear down
or block welfare for citizens many
right-wing parties attempt to erect
gates around government assistance.
Thus, right-wing parties can frame
the issue in terms of protecting the
'deserving natives' of their countries
while excluding 'parasitic aliens.'
title: Dalla dommatica astratta all’irrompere del valore del diritto di difesa della Corte Costituzionale
Creators: name: Proto Pisani  , Andrea
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: Dopo aver illustrato la teoria di Emilio Betti sui limiti soggettivi di efficacia della sentenza e, in particolare, sul concetto di ‘subordinazione’, il saggio si concentra sul portato della sentenza 55/1971 della Corte Costituzionale la quale porta a conseguenze l’art. 24 co. 2 della Costituzione italiana che accoglie piuttosto la tesi di Giuseppe Chiovenda. Vengono quindi confrontate le due differenti e divergenti soluzioni elaborate dalla dottrina italiana nel secondo dopoguerra a proposito degli effetti della sentenza resa inter alios. Si propone infine una soluzione che distingue con maggiore precisione i differenti casi.
description: Emilio Betti e il processo civile
Democracy Behind Bars: Guatemalan Prisons
Creators: name: Roche, Mackenzie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: As the world tries its best
to survive the COVID-19
pandemic, high-risk communities
are at the forefront of discussion.
While many communities
most at-risk, such as the elderly,
are met with sympathy and concern,
one certain at-risk group of
people is dismissed because of their
social status: prisoners. Although
they live in communal spaces that
are often crowded, and lack access
to personal protective gear, which
is necessary to avoid spreading the
virus, carceral-centered societies
have little concern for the health of
prisoners specifically. During the
pandemic, instead of caring about
the personal health of the prisoners,
many governments have treated
prisons as a threat to general public
health. This apathy and depersonalization
extends to almost every
issue incarcerated people face, and
the easiest place to determine where
democracy begins to crumble is to
consider how a government treats
its most vulnerable populations.
This evidence of a devolving representative
government is seen notably
in Guatemala. The prison system
in Guatemala is a hindrance to the
country’s democracy, which can be addressed through prison complex
reforms, judicial reforms, and social
reforms.
Within-between decomposition of the Gini index: a novel proposal
Creators: name: Attili, Federico
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2020
Subjects: SECS-S/01 Statistica

description: The socioeconomic impact of spatial concentration has been receiving an increasing attention during the last two decades. Consequently, the necessity of effective measures of this phenomenon has increased too. This paper considers a population partitioned by subgroups and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within and the between group inequality and are also particularly effective to quantify spatial concentration. Indeed, they possess a crucial property which overcomes important issues that may arise using any Gini index decomposition in the spatial context, following a recent approach. In addition, the availability of an only-two highly informative components decomposition provides in numerous applications and several frameworks further significant advantages in the determination of the contributions to global inequality of the intra and the inter groups differences. The ability of the components to capture these phenomena is supported by a parametric bootstrap procedure. This highlights extremely high correlations between the components and two axiomatically derived benchmarks. The presentation of a case study concerning the income distribution in the Italian provinces concludes the works, the informativeness and the interpretative advantages of the proposed decomposition appear evidently.
Guidelines for the adaptation of the project outcomes beyond the project boundaries
Creators: name: Alma Mater Studiorum-Università Di Bologna, UNIBO
name: Stichting Wageningen Research, WER
name: Science, National Research Institute Of
name: Università Degli Studi Di Milano, UMIL
name: Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo Di Bari, IAMB
name: Universidad Politécnica De Madrid, UPM
name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, FHNW
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2020
Subjects: ING-IND/25 Impianti chimici

description: Following the indications reported in Task 6.3.5 of the MADFORWATER project, MADFORWATER partners dedicated a relevant effort to the development of guidelines for the adaptation to other basins in Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia and to other MENA countries of the MADFORWATER tools, technologies and approaches. The general goal of these guidelines is to allow a generic stakeholder (such as a manager of a wastewater treatment plant, a wastewater company, an irrigation company, a farmer, the director of a basin authority, an officer of the Ministry of Irrigation) to perform the necessary activities in order to adapt the MADFORWATER technologies and water management tools to the specific context in which the considered technology or tool needs to be implemented. The adaptation guidelines developed in the framework of MADFORWATER and presented in this deliverable are relative to (i) the MADFORWATER approach for the analysis of water security, (ii) the project’s technologies for wastewater treatment and irrigation, and (iii) the two MADFORWATER decision support tools for wastewater management and for water & land management in agriculture. With regard to these two decision support tools, the adaptation guidelines are integrated by the description of the structure of two training courses that the MADFORWATER partners FHNW, IAMB and UPM can offer to potentially interested stakeholders. The adaptation guidelines presented in this deliverable are integrated by a consistent amount of material – such as the user manuals and computer codes for the decision support tools, the detailed description of the MADFORWATER approach for the assessment of water security and the fact-sheets of the MADFORWATER technologies – freely accessible to any interested stakeholder through the MADFORWATER website or the repositories in which the MADFORWATER dataset have been deposited (mainly, AMS Acta and Zenodo). The links for the direct download of this material are systematically reported in this deliverable.
PROGRESA: Progressive Policy Championing Women and Children in Mexico
Creators: name: Zucker, Alexis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: What started off as a secret
project to alleviate
poverty and inequality
in the 1990s grew into one
of the most successful and widely
acclaimed policy programs globally.
The Mexican program PROGrama
de Educación, Salud, y Alimentación
(PROGRESA) made
monumental progress by taking a
multifaceted approach to capitalize
on the unrealized human capital in
the poorest and most marginalized
rural areas. While I evaluate the
program in limited scope, focusing
on education, I conclude from the
myriad of academic literature and
research that this multifaceted and
targeted program is incredibly effective
as a whole.
Conceptual design and technical specifications of DAQ interfaces for highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters
Creators: name: R. Pöschl
name: V. Boudry
name: K. Krüger
name: Jiri Kvasnicka
name: D. Breton
name: J. Maalmi
name: M. Reinecke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: WP8

description: Prototypes of highly granular calorimeters are also testing grounds for a) DAQ systems that ensure a proper common running of different calorimetric systems and b) readout system that fulfil the tight requirements of future detectors in terms of space. This document reports on the progress of these DAQ systems towards a common system to be tested until Month 36.
Busy bodies: women, power and politics at the court of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603
Creators: name: Howey, Catherine L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this dissertation, Busy Bodies: the Role of Women at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, is to build upon the small, but growing body of scholarship that examines how women exercised political agency at the court of Elizabeth I and how their courtly activities played a part in shaping the reign and Elizabeth's iconography. The dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach to a diverse range of sources such as dress, portraiture, government documents, tomb monuments and letters to explore the various ways Queen Elizabeth I and her court women, especially the women who worked in the queen's privy chamber--the two to three small rooms the monarch used for private repose--mutually constructed each other's power and identity. Until recently, scholars have argued that the Elizabethan privy chamber women were apolitical--an argument based largely upon unquestioned assumptions about gender. However, as this dissertation demonstrates gender did not preclude women from politics, but rather shaped the way women could gain and wield their power. Gender as a category of historical analysis can also expand the definition of "political" and identify new arenas where politics was practiced such as the exchange of news, information, and sartorial gifts.The women who served the queen were important because they were in close physical proximity to the queen, and because the queen often appropriated their bodies, clothes, and service to construct or extend her own monarchical image and power. Since the queen allowed these women to act as queenly surrogates who extended her authority to places outside the palace, privy chamber women acquired higher status and more privileges than they otherwise would have held by birth or marriage. However, this special status and its privileges also created tension between the queen and her uniquely empowered female courtiers. While women were more often part of the processes that connected Elizabeth to larger circles of her subjects, they also had the potential to disrupt these relationships. Therefore, understanding how the queen interacted with other women is necessary if we are to understand Elizabeth's reign as a whole.
A method to deconvolve mass ratio distribution from binary stars
Creators: name: Cure, Michel
name: Rial, Diego F.
name: Christen, Alejandra
name: Cassetti, Julia
name: Boffin, Henri M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To better understand the evolution of stars in binary systems as well as to constrain the formation of binary stars, it is important to know the binary mass-ratio distribution. However, in most cases, i.e. for single-lined spectroscopic binaries, the mass ratio cannot be measured directly but only derived as the convolution of a function that depends on the mass ratio and the unknown inclination angle of the orbit on the plane of the sky. We extend our previous method to deconvolve this inverse problem (Cure et al. 2014), i.e., we obtain as an integral the cumulative distribution function (CDF) for the mass ratio distribution. After a suitable transformation of variables it turns out that this problem is the same as the one for rotational velocities $v \sin i$, allowing a close analytic formulation for the CDF. We then apply our method to two real datasets: a sample of Am stars binary systems, and a sample of massive spectroscopic binaries in the Cyg OB2 Association.} {We are able to reproduce the previous results of Boffin (2010) for the sample of Am stars, while we show that the mass ratio distribution of massive stars shows an excess of small mass ratio systems, contrarily to what was claimed by Kobulnicky et al. (2014). Our method proves very robust and deconvolves the distribution from a sample in just a single step.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 9 pages, 3 figures
Supplementary material
Creators: name: Liu, Sijia
name: xie, jianbo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 : Supplementary figures. Figure S1 Experimental design and the layout of samples in different sampling season.
 Figure S2 Comparative analysis of the alpha diversity of bacterial and fungal community from each soil layer of sampling season.
 Figure S3 Hierarchical clustering based on Jaccard and Euclidean distances of ASVs from bacterial and fungal samples.
 Figure S4 NMDS ordinations based on Bray-Curtis distances of bacterial and fungal community for each soil layer.
 Figure S5 The sampling season has effect on the bacterial and fungal diversity and network complexity of HF.
 Figure S6 The sampling season has effect on the bacterial and fungal diversity and network complexity of OS.
 Figure S7 The different season has effect on the bacterial and fungal diversity and network complexity of OM.
 Figure S8 The relative abundance of different bacterial phyla varied among different soil layers.
 Figure S9 The relative abundance of different fungal class varied for among different soil layers.
 Figure S10 The relative abundance of different bacterial phyla varied among sampling season.
 Figure S11 The relative abundance of different fungal class varied among sampling season.
 Figure S12 The community composition of each sampling season for soil layer.
 Figure S13 The community composition of each soil layer for sampling season.
 Figure S14 Source model showing the potential exchange based on all of samples of different sampling seasons.
 Figure S15 The specific and shared dominant taxa and biomarker taxa of bacterial and fungal microbiome in each soil layer.
 Figure S16 Phylogenetic tree, taxonomic composition, and distribution patterns of sampling season dominant taxa from bacteria microbiome.
 Figure S17 Phylogenetic tree, taxonomic composition, and distribution patterns of sampling season dominant taxa from fungal microbiome.
 Figure S18 The specific and shared and biomarker taxa of bacterial and fungal microbiome in sampling season. Additional file 2: Supplementary datasets. Table S1 The location of the collected P. yunnanensis in Ailao Mountains subtropical forest. Table S2 Effects of soil layer and sampling season on the bacterial and fungal community based on PERMANOVA analysis. Table S3 Effects of soil layer on the bacterial and fungal community of sampling season based on PERMANOVA analysis. Table S4 Effects of season on the bacterial and fungal community of each soil layer based on PERMANOVA analysis. Table S5 Shared dominant taxa of each soil layer of bacterial microbiome. Table S6 Shared dominant taxa of each soil layer of fungal microbiome. Table S7 Shared dominant taxa of sampling season of bacterial microbiome. Table S8 Shared dominant taxa of sampling season of fungal microbiome.
Supplementary material
Creators: name: Liu, Sijia
name: xie, jianbo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary figures: Figure S1 Experimental design and the layout of samples in different sampling season.
 Figure S2 Comparative analysis of the alpha diversity of bacterial and fungal community from each soil layer of sampling season.
 Figure S3 Hierarchical clustering based on Jaccard and Euclidean distances of ASVs from bacterial and fungal samples.
 Figure S4 NMDS ordinations based on Bray-Curtis distances of bacterial and fungal community for each soil layer.
 Figure S5 The sampling season has effect on the bacterial and fungal diversity and network complexity of HF.
 Figure S6 The sampling season has effect on the bacterial and fungal diversity and network complexity of OS.
 Figure S7 The different season has effect on the bacterial and fungal diversity and network complexity of OM.
 Figure S8 The relative abundance of different bacterial phyla varied among different soil layers.
 Figure S9 The relative abundance of different fungal class varied for among different soil layers.
 Figure S10 The relative abundance of different bacterial phyla varied among sampling season.
 Figure S11 The relative abundance of different fungal class varied among sampling season.
 Figure S12 The community composition of each sampling season for soil layer.
 Figure S13 The community composition of each soil layer for sampling season.
 Figure S14 Source model showing the potential exchange based on all of samples of different sampling seasons.
 Figure S15 The specific and shared dominant taxa and biomarker taxa of bacterial and fungal microbiome in each soil layer.
 Figure S16 Phylogenetic tree, taxonomic composition, and distribution patterns of sampling season dominant taxa from bacteria microbiome.
 Figure S17 Phylogenetic tree, taxonomic composition, and distribution patterns of sampling season dominant taxa from fungal microbiome.
 Figure S18 The specific and shared and biomarker taxa of bacterial and fungal microbiome in sampling season. Supplementary datasets Table S1 The location of the collected P. yunnanensis in Ailao Mountains subtropical forest. Table S2 Effects of soil layer and sampling season on the bacterial and fungal community based on PERMANOVA analysis. Table S3 Effects of soil layer on the bacterial and fungal community of sampling season based on PERMANOVA analysis. Table S4 Effects of season on the bacterial and fungal community of each soil layer based on PERMANOVA analysis. Table S5 Shared dominant taxa of each soil layer of bacterial microbiome. Table S6 Shared dominant taxa of each soil layer of fungal microbiome. Table S7 Shared dominant taxa of sampling season of bacterial microbiome. Table S8 Shared dominant taxa of sampling season of fungal microbiome.
Characterizing the Haldane phase in quasi-one-dimensional spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Wierschem, Keola
name: Sengupta, Pinaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the basic properties of the Haldane phase in spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains, including its persistence in quasi-one-dimensional geometries. Using large-scale numerical simulations, we map out the phase diagram for a realistic model applicable to experimental Haldane compounds. We also investigate the effect of different chain coupling geometries and confirm a general mean field universality of the critical coupling times the coordination number of the lattice. Inspired by the recent development of characterization of symmetry protected topological states, of which the Haldane phase of spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain is a preeminent example, we provide direct evidence that the quasi-one-dimensional Haldane phase is indeed a non-trivial symmetry protected topological state.
description: Brief review for Modern Physics Letters B; 23 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
Cold condensation of dust in the ISM
Creators: name: Rouillé, Gaël
name: Jäger, Cornelia
name: Krasnokutski, Serge A.
name: Krebsz, Melinda
name: Henning, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The condensation of complex silicates with pyroxene and olivine composition at conditions prevailing in molecular clouds has been experimentally studied. For this purpose, molecular species comprising refractory elements were forced to accrete on cold substrates representing the cold surfaces of surviving dust grains in the interstellar medium. The efficient formation of amorphous and homogeneous magnesium iron silicates at temperatures of about 12 K has been monitored by IR spectroscopy. The gaseous precursors of such condensation processes in the interstellar medium are formed by erosion of dust grains in supernova shock waves. In the laboratory, we have evaporated glassy silicate dust analogs and embedded the released species in neon ice matrices that have been studied spectroscopically to identify the molecular precursors of the condensing solid silicates. A sound coincidence between the 10 micron band of the interstellar silicates and the 10 micron band of the low-temperature siliceous condensates can be noted.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, Faraday Discussions meeting 168, submitted on 12 Feb 2014, accepted on 13 Feb 2014
Petrochemistry and geochronology of Ngorongoro Volcanic Highland Complex (NVHC) and its relationship to Laetoli and Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Creators: name: Mollel, Godwin F.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The Ngorongoro Volcanic Highland Complex (NVHC) of northern Tanzania is situated at the southern divergence of the Gregory Rift, part of the East African Rift System. The NVHC consists of at least nine major volcanic centers that erupted lavas, ash flows, and other pyroclastic materials from Pliocene to Present. These volcanoes are considered the source of lavas and other volcaniclastic material found interbedded in the adjacent anthropological sites of Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli. This dissertation focuses on the petrochemistry and geochronology of six major NVHC centers: Satiman, Lemagurut, Oldeani, Ngorongoro caldera, Olmoti, and Embagai, as well as Laetoli Ogol lava flows, Olduvai Gorge Bed I lava and the isolated cone of Engelosin. The overall intent is to provide a geochemical and geochronological framework for the NVHC and refine correlations of the NVHC volcanoes with Olduvai and Laetoli. Interpretation of petrographic and x-ray fluorescence data (major element) indicate that the studied volcanoes produced magmas that vary in composition from foidite to phonolite and basalt to rhyolite. Laser ablation data (trace element) from all lavas support an origination from a K-rich peridotite. The Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes (TIMs data) show wide variation in all centers that is considered to indicate crust-magma interaction, an interpretation supported by Ce/Pb ratios ([less than] 25 [plus/minus] 5) lower than expected for mantle derived melts. Lava samples with mantle values (Ce/Pb) have Sr-Nd-Pb isotope ratios that can be explained by mixing between high-µ and enriched mantle reservoirs. 40Ar/39Ar dating of matrix and anorthoclase from the sampled NVHC volcanoes indicates a range in activity from 4.65 Ma to ~ 0.60 Ma. Satiman is the oldest, followed by Engelosin 2.97 Ma, Lemagurut 2.40 Ma, Ngorongoro 2.28 Ma, Olmoti 2.01 Ma, Oldeani 1.61 Ma and Embagai ~1.20 Ma. Overlapping activity is recorded between Lemagurut, Ogol and Ngorongoro as well as between Ngorongoro and Olmoti. Correlation of ages and mineral assemblages from these volcanoes and that of the tephra from Olduvai and Laetoli, confirm a Satiman and Ngorongoro source for the Laetolil and Naibadad Beds in the Laetoli area respectively, whereas, that of Olmoti upper section correlates with Olduvai Bed I lava, confirming an Olmoti source.
Alternativen der parlamentarischen Demokratie
Creators: name: Blankart, Charles B.
name: Mueller, Dennis C.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 320 Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung)

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: It is often said that the parliament should represent the opinions found in the population and that the government should be held accountable for its political program. It is shown in the paper that these two functions rely on two different basic models of democracy which are not fully compatible with each other: the model of a pure representative democracy and the model of a pure two party competition. Unaccountable governments, voter alienation, strategic voting, and governmental instability are shown to be consequences of this institutional mix. These problems may be avoided with reforms towards one or the other basic model.
Calibrating Analytical Models for Semilocal Strings
Creators: name: Lopez-Eiguren, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we calibrate two different analytic models of semilocal strings by constraining the values of their free parameters. In order to do so, we use data obtained from the largest and most accurate field theory simulations of semilocal strings to date, and compare several key properties with the predictions of the models. As this is still work in progress, we present some preliminary results together with descriptions of the methodology we are using in the characterisation of semilocal string networks.
description: 6 pages and 4 figures. Prepared for the Spanish Relativity Meetings ERE2014
Dashboard for the State of the Environment
Creators: name: Adamaki, Angeliki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environment
EnvironmentalIndicators
Dashboard
ClimateChange
ENVRIFAIR
ResearchCommunity
EOSCinPractice
ENVRI

description: The project set out to find a solution for providing information on the state of the environment displaying multi-disciplinary data from multiple sources in a coherent and user-oriented interface. The developing teams had to create interchangeable and rearrangeable frames, each carrying its own customisation menu. When logged in, user preferences need to be saved for easier and faster access to the preferred data and services, allowing the users to configure their own Dashboard with the indicators of their interest.
Intention and Action: Evaluating the Policy Antecedents of Development
Creators: name: Berke, Philip
name: Spurlock, Danielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Development management ordinances are central components of the development process, and yet there is not an established set of principles to guide their evaluation. We build upon the established plan quality literature to develop a protocol to assess ordinances based on their content and their administration. Using substantive and procedural principles enables the examination of how ordinances incorporate both scientific information and administrative practices to support policy implementation. Our cross-sectional study of 22 jurisdictions in two different states compared riparian buffer policies, single-purpose mandates, and sociodemographic variables. We found (1) overall low ordinance quality scores, (2) statistically significant differences between the watersheds at the sub-principle level, and (3) multiple, moderate correlations among ordinance quality scores, population density, and planning capacity. The findings suggest opportunities to increase the usage of best available science and promising administrative practices within ordinances aimed at protecting water quality.
A multi-scale approach to reconstructing landscape history in the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Morris County, New Jersey
Creators: name: Momsen, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: As the cultural value of 'wilderness' has grown, so has the need to understand the forces that create, modify and destroy landscapes. Processes acting separately and in concert drive landscape patterns, making it no simple task to unravel the forces driving current landscape composition and structure.This thesis uses the space-time hierarchy to reconstruct the landscape history of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and to identify driving forces important to current landscape patterns. Pollen and sediment analysis coupled with historical documents were integrated to reconstruct vegetation history at two temporal scales. At the meso-temporal scale, post-glacial processes greatly influenced Great Swamp's abiotic template. Partial drainage of post-glacial lakes and subsequent erosion created a bifurcated landscape, where patterns of post-glacial deposits, soil and peat differed on a distinct east/west basis. Plant communities over this time period were dynamic, responding to local hydrological changes. As a result, a diverse wetland landscape developed across Great Swamp.Meso-scale driving forces also influenced initial land-use patterns. Settlers in the 18th century extensively modified the western region of Great Swamp to create arable land. The eastern area, as a source for timber, initially escaped intense land-use. Agriculture eventually expanded eastward, but the land-use history of Great Swamp remained divided along the east/west bias created by post-glacial driving forces.Land-use of this intensity frequently leaves legacies that persist decades orcenturies following abandonment; Great Swamp is no exception. Old ditches and abandoned fields continue to support unique vegetation assemblages. However, land-use legacies are also patterned on an east/west basis. The west, for example, continues to have greater coverage of agricultural-restricted communities while vegetation patterns in the east are more related to glacial patterning.Integrating the results across temporal scales captures the complex realities of wetland development. In Great Swamp, driving forces have acted alone and together to produce current landscape patterns. Land-use legacies, while important, are coupled to landscape patterns generated by other driving forces. The space-time paradigm, as used here to reconstruct the vegetation history of Great Swamp, forced a long temporal perspective that revealed the interconnectedness and complexity of the forces driving landscape pattern.
Understanding Regulatory Mechanisms of Brain Function and Disease through 3D Genome Organization
Creators: name: Liu, Weifang
name: Hu, Ming
name: Chen, Jiawen
name: Zhong, Wujuan
name: Huang, Bo
name: Li, Yun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The human genome has a complex and dynamic three-dimensional (3D) organization, which plays a critical role for gene regulation and genome function. The importance of 3D genome organization in brain development and function has been well characterized in a region- and cell-type-specific fashion. Recent technological advances in chromosome conformation capture (3C)-based techniques, imaging approaches, and ligation-free methods, along with computational methods to analyze the data generated, have revealed 3D genome features at different scales in the brain that contribute to our understanding of genetic mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric diseases and other brain-related traits. In this review, we discuss how these advances aid in the genetic dissection of brain-related traits.
Secular or non-communal? ideas, debates and criticism of Indian secularism
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440899
subject: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: The article examines the status, controversy and various theories and criticisms of the concept of Indian secularism. Many thinkers question the terminology of secularism and many describes that it is a flawed modernization ideology that has been imposed on Indian society. Influenced by the philosophy of Western Secular State, the concept of Secularism denies the importance of community in the lives of the people who believe in religion. Apart from this, the present article not only explores the concept and features of secularism in India but also discusses and evaluates the ideological and authentic structures of Indian Secularism. Finally, through this article, an attempt has been made to know why the concept of secularism is necessary in India.
Developments in International Standards for the Management of Laboratory Test Results --- Sviluppi negli Standard Internazionali per la gestione dei risultati di esami di laboratorio
Creators: name: Pradella, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: medical laboratory
digital data
CEN standard
ISO standard
CLSI guide

description: The issue of digital medical laboratory data can be approached from two perspectives: that of the laboratory and that of the clinician. The latter is undoubtedly more important for quality and patient safety. The clinical point of view emerges strongly from international standards. The European ones are represented by the international patient summary (IPS) and the pharmacotherapy decision support system. The international ones are mainly on terminology, electronic records, data interoperability, POCT, INR and urine examination results, and artificial intelligence. CLSI makes an important contribution with AUTO17, the guide dedicated to semantic interoperability.
Counting an infinite number of points: a testing ground for renormalization methods
Creators: name: Guo, Li
name: Paycha, Sylvie
name: Zhang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M32, 11H06, 16H15, 52C07, 52B20, 65B15, 81T15

description: This is a leisurely introductory account addressed to non-experts and based on previous work by the authors, on how methods borrowed from physics can be used to "count" an infinite number of points. We begin with the classical case of counting integer points on the non-negative real axis and the classical Euler-Maclaurin formula. As an intermediate stage, we count integer points on product cones where the roles played by the coalgebra and the algebraic Birkhoff factorization can be appreciated in a relatively simple setting. We then consider the general case of (lattice) cones for which we introduce a conilpotent coalgebra of cones, with applications to renormalization of conical zeta values. When evaluated at zero arguments conical zeta functions indeed "count" integer points on cones.
description: 32 pages
International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440899
subject: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: The article examines the status, controversy and various theories and criticisms of the concept of Indian secularism. Many thinkers question the terminology of secularism and many describes that it is a flawed modernization ideology that has been imposed on Indian society. Influenced by the philosophy of Western Secular State, the concept of Secularism denies the importance of community in the lives of the people who believe in religion. Apart from this, the present article not only explores the concept and features of secularism in India but also discusses and evaluates the ideological and authentic structures of Indian Secularism. Finally, through this article, an attempt has been made to know why the concept of secularism is necessary in India.
title: Testing of GLSP-based Web Modeling Tools
Creators: name: Metin, Haydar
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: testing
subject: model engineering
subject: web modeling
subject: GLSP
subject: modleing tools

description: Testing plays an important role in the quality assurance of software applications. It serves as a means to uncover potential issues introduced by code changes. As modern software systems become increasingly complex, manual testing practices often do not guarantee comprehensive coverage. Hence, automated testing has emerged as a solution to ensure thorough evaluation. This thesis delves into the domain of testing diagram editors, particularly focusing on the Graphical Language Server Platform (GLSP), which utilizes the Language Server Protocol, enabling developers to construct web modeling tools. In accordance, this thesis investigates the challenges of testing diagram editors. The investigation delves into the mechanics of browser automation and assesses the strengths and limitations of modern web testing frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright. This evaluation lays the groundwork for developing an extensible and maintainable testing framework tailored to GLSP. Within this context, the thesis addresses essential questions concerning how diagrams can be tested and interactions automated.For this reason, developing a solution that effectively addresses the unique demands of such tools is explored and encompasses various factors, including architectural and design principles, to form a foundation of an efficient and adaptable testing framework.To conclude, a comprehensive test suite is constructed. This suite spans a range of scenarios, each with different aspects of GLSP-based diagram editors to assess the testing framework’s capabilities in addressing those challenges.
Multimodal Diagnostic Approaches to Advance Precision Medicine in Sarcopenia and Frailty
Creators: name: Sumner, Susan
name: Zhang, Janet
name: Nissman, Daniel
name: Spangler, Hillary B.
name: Batsis, John A.
name: Krupenevich, Rebecca L.
name: Li, Yuan-Yuan
name: Lynch, David H.
name: Franz, Jason R.
name: Kim, Hoon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Sarcopenia, defined as the loss of muscle mass, strength, and function with aging, is a geriatric syndrome with important implications for patients and healthcare systems. Sarcopenia increases the risk of clinical decompensation when faced with physiological stressors and increases vulnerability, termed frailty. Sarcopenia develops due to inflammatory, hormonal, and myocellular changes in response to physiological and pathological aging, which promote progressive gains in fat mass and loss of lean mass and muscle strength. Progression of these pathophysiological changes can lead to sarcopenic obesity and physical frailty. These syndromes independently increase the risk of adverse patient outcomes including hospitalizations, long-term care placement, mortality, and decreased quality of life. This risk increases substantially when these syndromes co-exist. While there is evidence suggesting that the progression of sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity, and frailty can be slowed or reversed, the adoption of broad-based screening or interventions has been slow to implement. Factors contributing to slow implementation include the lack of cost-effective, timely bedside diagnostics and interventions that target fundamental biological processes. This paper describes how clinical, radiographic, and biological data can be used to evaluate older adults with sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity and to further the understanding of the mechanisms leading to declines in physical function and frailty.
Sparsity Constrained Graph Regularized NMF for Spectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral Data
Creators: name: Rajabi, Roozbeh
name: Ghassemian, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hyperspectral images contain mixed pixels due to low spatial resolution of hyperspectral sensors. Mixed pixels are pixels containing more than one distinct material called endmembers. The presence percentages of endmembers in mixed pixels are called abundance fractions. Spectral unmixing problem refers to decomposing these pixels into a set of endmembers and abundance fractions. Due to nonnegativity constraint on abundance fractions, nonnegative matrix factorization methods (NMF) have been widely used for solving spectral unmixing problem. In this paper we have used graph regularized NMF (GNMF) method combined with sparseness constraint to decompose mixed pixels in hyperspectral imagery. This method preserves the geometrical structure of data while representing it in low dimensional space. Adaptive regularization parameter based on temperature schedule in simulated annealing method also has been used in this paper for the sparseness term. Proposed algorithm is applied on synthetic and real datasets. Synthetic data is generated based on endmembers from USGS spectral library. AVIRIS Cuprite dataset is used as real dataset for evaluation of proposed method. Results are quantified based on spectral angle distance (SAD) and abundance angle distance (AAD) measures. Results in comparison with other methods show that the proposed method can unmix data more effectively. Specifically for the Cuprite dataset, performance of the proposed method is approximately 10% better than the VCA and Sparse NMF in terms of root mean square of SAD.
description: 10 pages, Journal
Rectovaginal Colonization with Serotypes of Group B Streptococci with Reduced Penicillin Susceptibility among Pregnant Women in León, Nicaragua
Creators: name: Alemán, Teresa
name: Téllez, Evert
name: Becker-Dreps, Sylvia
name: Velasquez, Reymundo
name: Herrera, Roberto
name: Berrios, Tatiana
name: Vilchez, Samuel
name: Aguilar, Samir
name: Vielot, Nadja A.
name: French, Neil
name: Herrera, Andres
name: Toval-Ruíz, Christian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Group B Streptococci (GBS) are important causes of neonatal sepsis and meningitis globally. To elucidate the potential benefits of maternal GBS vaccines, data is needed on the epidemiology of maternal GBS rectovaginal colonization, distribution of serotypes, and resistance to intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP). We collected rectal and vaginal samples from 305 pregnant women in León, Nicaragua between 35 and 40 weeks gestation. Samples were cultured for GBS and confirmed using latex agglutination. GBS isolates underwent serotyping by quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disk diffusion and microdilution following Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute guidelines. Sixty-three women (20.7%) were colonized with GBS in either the rectum or the vagina. Of 91 GBS isolates collected from positive cultures, most were serotypes II (28.6%), Ia (27.5%), and III (20.9%). Most GBS isolates (52.9%) were resistant to penicillin, the first-line prophylactic antibiotic. Penicillin resistance was highly correlated with resistance to vancomycin, ceftriaxone, and meropenem. The results of our study suggest that one-fifth of pregnant women in the urban area of León, Nicaragua are colonized with GBS and risk transmitting GBS to their offspring during labor. High resistance to commonly available antibiotics in the region suggests that prophylactic maternal GBS vaccination would be an effective alternative to IAP.
Classical capacity of Gaussian communication under a single noisy channel
Creators: name: Lee, Jaehak
name: Ji, Se-Wan
name: Park, Jiyong
name: Nha, Hyunchul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A long-standing problem on the classical capacity of bosonic Gaussian channels has recently been resolved by proving the minimum output entropy conjecture. It is also known that the ultimate capacity quantified by the Holevo bound can be achieved asymptotically by using an infinite number of channels. However, it is less understood to what extent the communication capacity can be reached if one uses a finite number of channels, which is a topic of practical importance. In this paper, we study the capacity of Gaussian communication, i.e., employing Gaussian states and Gaussian measurements to encode and decode information under a single-channel use. We prove that the optimal capacity of single-channel Gaussian communication is achieved by one of two well-known protocols, i.e., coherent-state communication or squeezed-state communication, depending on the energy (number of photons) as well as the characteristics of the channel. Our result suggests that the coherent-state scheme known to achieve the ultimate information-theoretic capacity is not a practically optimal scheme for the case of using a finite number of channels. We find that overall the squeezed-state communication is optimal in a small-photon-number regime whereas the coherent-state communication performs better in a large-photon-number regime.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, published version
title: Large Scale Experiments on the Tightness of Boreholes under Cyclic Loading
Creators: name:  Schulz ,  Marcel
name:  Müller ,  Birgit
name:  Schilling ,  Frank
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The transition from nuclear and fossil energy to renewable energy leads to higher fluctuations in energy supply – but storage for power is negligible so far. In underground gas storages (UGS) huge amounts of TWh can be stored to meet the demand consistently. However, this results in increasing injection and extraction frequencies, leading to faster pressure and stress changes and therefore posing additional challenges for reservoir rock, cap rock and technical components. To evaluate the effects of additional cyclic loading on the rock-cement-steel-compound of the UGS infrastructure, we use an autoclave system on a realistic scale. Mainly abandoned drillings are simulated, the system therefore consists of a 2 m long cemented steel casing with an autoclave chamber at each end and surrounding heating mats. To simulate injection and extraction, gas pressure (N2) is applied and released on both ends. Additionally, temperature can be raised to 100 °C. Between loading cycles, permeability can be measured to determine the effect of pressure and temperature variation on the tightness of the system. We present results from the analysis of three cemented casings. Since the hardened cement isn’t connected to the steel casing after experiments, we assume an annular gap as main gas path. This gap is modelled and fitted to the experimental data. After pressure variations between 0 bar and 60 bar, tightness of the system decreased in every experiment, which leads to an increased modelled annular gap width. Temperature variations between 30 °C and 70 °C tend to increased tightness slightly.