cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(401141) Thomas Walker
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Response of picocyanobacterial communities to hydrographical changes in the coastal waters of Off-Kochi, southwest Coast of India
Creators: name: MOHAN, Arya P.
name: BIJU, Abraham
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: The response of picoplanktonic cyanobacteria to hydrographical changes in the coastal waters of Kochi was studied from January 2014 to December 2015. Abundance of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus was higher during the non-monsoon period compared to the southwest monsoon from June to September. In particular, the Synechococcus community included several pigment types that showed noticeable shifts in their abundance during the different seasons. During the pre-monsoon, the coastal Synechococcus phycoerythrin- rich ecotype dominated the total community, while the Synechococcus offshore ecotype and the phycocyanin- rich one showed lower contribution. During the southwest monsoon, even though the total cell abundance of the Synechococcus community drastically decreased, the different ecotypes were still present in the environment, but with a relatively higher abundance of offshore Synechococcus compared to the coastal and estuarine ecotypes. Interestingly, the presence of offshore phycoerythrin-rich ecotypes of Synechococcus was concomitant with the upwelled offshore water. We suggest that the upwelling associated with monsoon is an efficient vector of transport of the offshore ecotype to the coastal waters.
POLITICS, PUBLIC POLICY AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS: THE CASE OF HEALTHCARE IN ITALY AND SPAIN.
Creators: name: RAZETTI, FEDERICO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Under the effect of both exogenous and endogenous pressures, the territorial organization of political power has been deeply transformed in many Western States. In such a context, intergovernmental relations (IGR) have become increasingly salient, adding (or redefining) a new dimension of politics within multi-tiered domestic arenas. Different institutional tools for managing transformed intergovernmental relations (Intergovernmental Arrangements) are both theoretically possible and empirically observable. In this dissertation, the causes and the consequences of these institutional structures are investigated in two neo-regional countries ? Spain and Italy ? in one of the public policy sectors most affected by the process of territorial re-scaling: health care. Grounded on a historical new-institutional perspective and based on the adoption of a Most Similar System research Design (MSSD), the comparative analysis explores firstly why, in spite of similar levels of health care decentralization, Intergovernmental Arrangements at work in this policy field in these two countries differ on many respects; and, secondly, whether these differences can account for variations in the processes of intergovernmental policy-making channeled through them. The analysis shows the relevance, for understanding IGAs? differences, of a set of factors at play in the early stages of decentralization: the degree of symmetry in the allocation of healthcare competences among subnational units as well as the kind of intragovernmental relations within the constitutive arenas; moreover, it suggests that the timing by which causal conditions come into play is a relevant question to be considered. By assessing the impact exerted by Intergovernmental Arrangements on IGR, and particularly on the kind of coalitions emerging in IGR processes, the analysis shows that, in line with previous studies in the field, the general question "do intergovernmental institutions matter?" can be positively answered.
Cost modelling in collaborative aircraft design: a retrofitting cost estimation methodology
Creators: name: Sorrentino, I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aircraft Design
Retrofitting
Cost estimation

description: Collaborative aircraft design is a process where the product is designed through close collaboration of designers from several disciplines usually co-dependent. A substantial part of the cost of a new product is committed in the early design phase, therefore, cost modelling should be integrated into the multidisciplinary design process to attain longer-timescale and cost-effective projects. The aviation industry needs innovative solutions, disruptive technologies to make economic growth compatible with sustainability and environmental constraints in terms of new noise rules, emission trading and increasing fuel prices. The main thesis motivation is to assess a cost estimation methodology for aircraft retrofitting at industrial level. The thesis is the result of a collaboration between University of Naples Federico II and the Leonardo Company - Aerostructure Division in the framework of the AGILE 4.0 research project.
(401140) William Walker
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: The use of photo-identification for moray eel monitoring
Creators: name: SÈBE, Maxime
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: Recent studies highlighted that the moray eel contribution to ecosystems might be underestimated. Due to the difficulties in monitoring these species, their abundance is often miscalculated, and their contribution to ecosystems deemed low. Moray eels spend most of their daytime in crevices, challenging any study of these species. In this study, I determined the long-term viability of a standardized photo-identification protocol on the moray eel Gymnothorax moringa. Results showed that photo-identification could be used up to 176 days. The low rate of change in characteristic marks used (2.4%) suggests that the protocol could be used for a more extended period to monitor moray eels. This protocol highlighted some hypotheses on the habitat use-related behavior of moray eels. The protocol can be used for density or behavior studies on this species.
Prospettive di attuazione del regionalismo differenziato o asimmetrico nel post emergenza Covid-19
Creators: name: Nacci, Maria Grazia
Publisher: name: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review
Year: 2020
Subjects: Regionalismo italiano; art.116, comma 3, Cost.; differenziazione regionale; leale collaborazione; Italian regionalism; art.116, paragraph 3, of the Constitution; regional differentiation; loyal cooperation

description: L’epidemia provocata dal nuovo Coronavirus (2019 – nCoV) ha imposto allo Stato e alle Regioni uno sforzo congiunto per far fronte alla grave crisi sanitaria, economica e sociale che ne è derivata. Il lavoro mira, innanzitutto, ad indagare le possibili ricadute che le difficoltà registrate nella gestione dell’emergenza potranno avere sull’attuazione dell’art.116, comma 3, Cost., evidenziando come l’implementazione della “leale collaborazione” rappresenti la principale chiave di volta della differenziazione regionale. The epidemic caused by the new Coronavirus (2019 - nCoV) required the State and the Regions to work together to face the consequent serious health, economic and social crisis. The work aims, first of all, to investigate the possible repercussions of the difficult emergency management on the implementation of Article 116, paragraph 3 of the Constitution, highlighting how “loyal cooperation” can be the main key to regional differentiation.
description: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review, N. 2 (2020): Fascicolo 2
(401139) Catherine [Henderson]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
“L’integrazione europea nei Balcani occidentali: il ruolo delle organizzazioni dei lavoratori per favorire il dialogo sociale”
Creators: name: Di Matteo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review
Year: 2020

description: SEMINARIO INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI EUROPEI BUCAREST - ROMANIA 5 – 6 Febbraio 2020
description: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review, N. 2 (2020): Fascicolo 2
Whole cell tracking through the optimal control of geometric evolution laws
Creators: name: Blazakis, Konstantinos N.
name: Madzvamuse, Anotida
name: Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino-Carlos
name: Styles, Vanessa
name: Venkataraman, Chandrasekhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Cell tracking algorithms which automate and systematise the analysis of time lapse image data sets of cells are an indispensable tool in the modelling and understanding of cellular phenomena. In this study we present a theoretical framework and an algorithm for whole cell tracking. Within this work we consider that "tracking" is equivalent to a dynamic reconstruction of the whole cell data (morphologies) from static image datasets. The novelty of our work is that the tracking algorithm is driven by a model for the motion of the cell. This model may be regarded as a simplification of a recently developed physically meaningful model for cell motility. The resulting problem is the optimal control of a geometric evolution law and we discuss the formulation and numerical approximation of the optimal control problem. The overall goal of this work is to design a framework for cell tracking within which the recovered data reflects the physics of the forward model. A number of numerical simulations are presented that illustrate the applicability of our approach.
E-LEARNING IN ORDER TO IMPROVE DRUG PRESCRIPTION FOR HOSPITALIZED ELDERLY PATIENTS:A CLUSTER-RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY
Creators: name: FRANCHI, CARLOTTA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of an e-learning educational program meant to foster the quality of drug prescription in hospitalized elderly patients. Methods: A pilot study was undertaken before starting the full project in order to demonstrate its feasibility and to estimate the study sample size. Given that the feasibility of the study was demonstrated, the full study was performed. In the latter, 20 geriatric and internal medicine wards were randomized to intervention (e-learning educational program) or control (basic geriatric pharmacology notions). Logistic regression analysis was used in order to assess the effect of the intervention on the use of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM, primary outcome) at hospital discharge. Secondary outcomes were a reduced prevalence of at least one potential drug-drug interaction (DDI) and potentially severe DDI at discharge. Mortality rate and incidence of rehospitalizations were other secondary outcomes assessed at 12-month follow-up. Results: In final study a total of 697 patients (347 in the intervention and 350 in the control arms) were enrolled. No statistically significant difference in the prevalence of PIM at discharge was found between arms (OR 1.29 95%CI 0.87-1.91). We also found no decrease in the prevalence of DDI (OR 0.67 95%CI 0.34-1.28) and potentially severe DDI (OR 0.86 95%CI 0.63-1.15) at discharge, nor in mortality rates and incidence of re-hospitalization at 12 month follow-up. Conclusions: This e-learning educational program had no clear effect on the quality of drug prescription and clinical outcomes in hospitalized elderly patients. Given the high prevalence of PIMs and potential DDIs recorded in the frame of this study, other approaches should be developed in order to improve the quality of drug prescription in this population. Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT02339792; Agenzia Italiana del farmaco (AIFA) code: FARM87SA2B
Effect of 3-Year Weight History on Blood Pressure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Creators: name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Stevens, June
name: Truesdale, Kimberly P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The objective of this study was to examine the effect of weight history on blood pressure. Extant data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study were used to compare blood pressure in women (n = 5,675) and men (n = 4,893) with different 3-year weight histories, but similar current BMI. We used mixed models regression adjusted for ethnicity, age, education, field center, smoking, alcohol consumption, antihypertensive medications, interval length, and BMI at follow-up. We also examined associations between 3-year weight history and blood pressure within weight status categories (normal weight (≥ 18.5 to <25.0 kg/m2), overweight (≥ 25.0 to <30.0 kg/m2), and obese (≥ 30.0 kg/m2)). We found weight history affected both systolic and diastolic blood pressures. Compared to men at the same BMI who had maintained their weight, men who had experienced a 10% weight gain over the previous 3 years had systolic and diastolic blood pressures that were 2.6 and 1.9 mm Hg higher, respectively (P < 0.001 for both). Associations in women were in the same direction, but smaller at 0.9 and 0.6 mm Hg (P < 0.001). With the exception of diastolic blood pressure in normal weight women, we found no significant interactions between weight change and current weight status. In conclusion, some of the variation in blood pressure among individuals at the same BMI may be due to weight change history. Effects of 3-year weight change history appear to be stronger and more consistent in men than in women, and generally similar regardless of current weight status.
TIME-DEPENDENT METHODS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF URBAN SPRAWL ON GROUNDWATER QUALITY
Creators: name: STEVENAZZI, STEFANIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: As groundwater resources are becoming more vulnerable due to the increasing number of contamination sources in developed and developing countries (such as urbanization and agricultural activities), practical actions, strategies and solutions to protect the resource are widely required. The most efficient tool, which helps supporting land use development, while protecting groundwater from contamination, is represented by groundwater vulnerability assessment. European Directives require member states, for the protection of groundwater quality, to assess the current groundwater quality status, detect changes or trends in groundwater quality, assess the threat of deterioration and predict future changes in groundwater quality. In order to cope with the EU requirements, this study focuses on the development of a time-dependent approach, which could take into account both the current groundwater quality status and its changes, assessing groundwater vulnerability to nitrate contamination in the Po Plain area of Lombardy Region, through a Bayesian spatial statistical method (Weights of Evidence). In addition, an innovative dataset to delineate urban areas with satellite scatterometer data (QuikSCAT-DSM) is explored. To evaluate its reliability in groundwater vulnerability assessments, QuikSCAT-DSM dataset is compared with population density and land use derived from aerial images. Results showed that: a) urbanization prevails on agricultural activities in causing the degradation of groundwater quality; b) QuikSCAT-DSM data is a reliable variable to represent urban nitrate sources, with the advantages of a worldwide coverage, a continuous data collection and an adequate resolution; c) the time-dependent approach allows to identify areas both affected by nitrate contamination and characterized by an upward concentration trend of contamination; d) the time-dependent approach allows to determine what could happen to groundwater resources if land use policies are maintained or new ones will be proposed and/or if natural factors are changing under climatic or anthropogenic stresses.
Generation of cluster states in optomechanical quantum systems
Creators: name: Houhou, O.
name: Aissaoui, H.
name: Ferraro, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an optomechanical quantum system composed of a single cavity mode interacting with N mechanical resonators. We propose a scheme for generating continuous-variable graph states of arbitrary size and shape, including the so-called cluster states for universal quantum computation. The main feature of this scheme is that, differently from previous approaches, the graph states are hosted in the mechanical degrees of freedom rather than in the radiative ones. Specifically, via a 2N-tone laser drive, we engineer a linear Hamiltonian which is instrumental to dissipatively drive the system to the desired target state. The robustness of this scheme is assessed against finite interaction times and mechanical noise, confirming it as a valuable approach towards quantum state engineering for continuous-variable computation in a solid-state platform.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. v2: short section added, minor modifications, close to published version
Soliton generation by internal tidal beams impinging on a pycnocline: laboratory experiments
Creators: name: Mercier, Matthieu J.
name: Mathur, Manikandan
name: Gostiaux, Louis
name: Gerkema, Theo
name: MagalhÃ£es, Jorge M.
name: Da Silva, José C. B.
name: Dauxois, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present the first laboratory experiments that show the generation of internal solitary waves by the impingement of a quasi-two-dimensional internal wave beam on a pycnocline. These experiments were inspired by observations of internal solitary waves in the deep ocean from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, where this so-called mechanism of 'local generation' was argued to be at work, here in the form of internal tidal beams hitting the thermocline. Nonlinear processes involved here are found to be of two kinds. First, we observe the generation of a mean flow and higher harmonics at the location where the principal beam reflects from the surface and pycnocline; their characteristics are examined using particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements. Second, we observe internal solitary waves that appear in the pycnocline, detected with ultrasonic probes; they are further characterized by a bulge in the frequency spectrum, distinct from the higher harmonics. Finally, the relevance of our results for understanding ocean observations is discussed.
ARCHIVI E ARCHIVISTI MILANESI TRA SETTECENTO E OTTOCENTO
Creators: name: LANZINI, MARCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The dissertation explores the work and activities of archives and archivists in Milan during the 18th and the first half of the 19th Centuries, paying particular attention to the social, political and cultural background. The five chapters are each dedicated to a different historical phase and deal with a number of common themes: archival method and procedure, legislation, utility of archival material, management and organization of archival institutions, development of the profession of archivist.
(401138) William George [Colebroke] Walker
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: MgCO3 levels in skeletal components of crinoids across various depths and latitudes
Creators: name: MCCLINTOCK, James
name: AMSLER, Margaret
name: ANGUS, Robert
name: LAMBERTSEN, Payton
name: GENEVIERE, Anne-Marie
name: AMÉZIANE, Nadia
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: The major skeletal components of six species of stalked crinoids were analyzed for Mg-calcite to compare their levels and evaluate possible correlations between Mg-calcite levels and depth and latitude of collection. An additional four species of unstalked crinoids were also examined. Mg-calcite levels in the major skeletal elements of both stalked and unstalked crinoids were three- to four-times above the accepted criterion for 'high magnesium' (i.e., > 4 mol% Mg-calcite) marine invertebrates. Intraspecific Mg-calcite levels of stalked crinoid body components (calyx, stalk, pinnules, arms, cirri) were similar to one another. Unstalked crinoids also had similar intraspecific levels of Mg-calcite in their body components (calyx, pinnules, arms, cirri), but significantly lower levels of Mg-calcite than did stalked crinoids. Average levels of Mg-calcite in the combined skeletal components of stalked crinoids declined with increasing depth. This difference is important as stalked crinoids generally occur at deeper depths where the polymorphs of calcium carbonate are already largely undersaturated making it more difficult to compensate for skeletal dissolution.
(401137) Ann Henderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Description of new species of Acantholaimus Allgén, 1933 (Nematoda) from Jiaozhou Bay of Qingdao, China
Creators: name: ZHAI, Hongxiu
name: HUANG, Yong
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: One unrecorded species of genus Acantholaimus from shallow water of Jiaozhou Bay of the Yellow Sea is described as Acantholaimus brevicaudatus sp. nov. The present species is characterized by having short outer labial setae, short and stout somatic setae, conico-cylindrical tail not filiform, lateral differentiation consisting of large dots distributed of the disordered form in pharyngeal region, and two longitudinal rows of large dots in the rest body part except cylindrical portion of tail. The new species distinguishes from other congeners mainly by its short anterior sensory setae, short conico-cylindrical tail and the pattern of lateral differentiation.
Modern emigration: negative effects in albanian economy 70
Creators: name: Karma, Emiljan
Publisher: name: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review
Year: 2020
Subjects: emigration; labor force; social protection; remittances; RER; export competitiveness

description: Albania's history is closely related to the migratory waves that have accompanied its people for centuries. It can be said that Albania remains a certain source of emigration (if it is not forced by political circumstances to act differently). Therefore, the characteristics of such a important phenomenon constitute a very interesting field of study. The object of this paper is related to the modern emigration of Albanians or to migratory waves after 1990. The fall of communism and the socio-economic collapse of the following years caused an exodus of the Albanian population to the western countries. The size of this exodus is not known precisely because mass emigration has been partly legal. Referring to data different sources of data, it can be estimated that about one third of the Albanian population has migrated in other countries. This emigration was accompanied by an increase of cash flow to Albania in form of remittances. This study tries to argue that the phenomenon of emigration, besides the positive effects in Albanian society, has also had negative effects which partially re-dimension its positive effects.
description: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review, N. 2 (2020): Fascicolo 2
Obesity and Vital Exhaustion: Analysis of the Atherosclerosis Risk in the Communities Study
Creators: name: Truesdale, Kimberly P.
name: Mosley, Thomas
name: Stevens, June
name: Chambless, Lloyd
name: Bryant, Maria J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This study aimed to determine whether vital exhaustion (VE) was associated with BMI cross-sectionally and after 3 and 6 years of follow-up. Extant data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study were used to examine the relationship between VE and BMI among 13,727 white and African-American adults cross-sectionally (baseline) and longitudinally (3 and 6 years later). We used adjusted and nonadjusted general linear regression models. Associations with excess weight gain (≥5.0%) were also examined using logistic regression. Results showed that BMI was significantly higher among both white and African-American men and women in the highest VE quartile compared to those with no VE. Similarly, high VE at baseline was associated with higher BMI 3 and 6 years later, although VE was not able to predict future BMI after adjusting for baseline BMI. Baseline VE predicted future excess weight gain in white men and women, but not in African Americans. These results suggest that reducing VE levels may play an important role in reducing the prevalence of obesity. High VE was associated with higher current BMI (all races) and excess weight gain (whites only). Although high VE predicted future weight gain without baseline BMI adjustment, the magnitude of change in BMI over time was similar among those with low and high VE; suggesting that any relationship between VE and BMI was already established at baseline. Assessment of VE and BMI over time would help to elucidate uncertainties between the temporal nature of the relationship between them.
Bounded Littlewood identities
Creators: name: Rains, Eric M.
name: Warnaar, S. Ole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05, 05E10, 17B67, 33D67

description: We describe a method, based on the theory of Macdonald-Koornwinder polynomials, for proving bounded Littlewood identities. Our approach provides an alternative to Macdonald's partial fraction technique and results in the first examples of bounded Littlewood identities for Macdonald polynomials. These identities, which take the form of decomposition formulas for Macdonald polynomials of type $(R,S)$ in terms of ordinary Macdonald polynomials, are $q,t$-analogues of known branching formulas for characters of the symplectic, orthogonal and special orthogonal groups. In the classical limit, our method implies that MacMahon's famous ex-conjecture for the generating function of symmetric plane partitions in a box follows from the identification of $(\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{R}),\mathrm{O}(n))$ as a Gelfand pair. As further applications, we obtain combinatorial formulas for characters of affine Lie algebras; Rogers-Ramanujan identities for affine Lie algebras, complementing recent results of Griffin et al.; and quadratic transformation formulas for Kaneko--Macdonald-type basic hypergeometric series.
description: 114 pages; Expanded version to appear in Memoirs of the AMS. New material includes: (1) a discussion of symmetric plane partitions and Gelfand pairs (2) formulas for multiple basic hypergeometric series (3) new open problems including a (conjectural) connection between bounded Littlewood identities and q,t-Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, (4) An appendix on limits of elliptic beta integrals
Successful Weight-loss Maintenance in Relation to Method of Weight Loss
Creators: name: Raynor, Hollie A.
name: Fava, Joseph L.
name: Gorin, Amy A.
name: Marinilli Pinto, Angela
name: Tate, Deborah F.
name: Wing, Rena R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This study examined the relation between method of weight loss and long-term maintenance among successful weight losers enrolled in a weight loss maintenance trial. Participants were 186 adults (mean age=51.6 ± 10.7 years, mean BMI=28.6 ± 4.7 kg/m2) enrolled in the STOP Regain trial who had lost at least 10% of their body weight in the prior two years using a very low calorie diet (VLCD; n=24), commercial program (n=95), or self-guided approach (n=67). Participants were randomized to a weight maintenance intervention delivered face-to-face or over the internet or to a newsletter control condition, and followed for 18 months. At study entry, individuals who had used a VLCD had achieved a weight loss of 24% of their maximum weight within the last two years compared to 17% achieved by those who had used a commercial program or self-guided approach (p<.001). However, individuals who had used a VLCD regained significantly more weight than the other two groups and by six months, there were no significant differences in overall percent weight loss (i.e., initial weight loss and maintenance) between VLCD, commercial, and self-guided methods. In contrast, individuals who had used a self-guided approach maintained their weight losses from baseline through 18 months. The large initial weight losses achieved by individuals who had used a VLCD were not maintained over time, while individuals who had used a self-guided approach maintained their initial weight losses with the greatest success. The generalizability of these findings is limited by the sizeable weight losses achieved by study participants.
INCOLLOCABILI. ANTROPOLOGIA APPLICATA IN CONTESTI DI DROGA E CRONICIT�
Creators: name: SEVERI, IVAN
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation offers a contribution to the debate on drug anthropology and anthropology of social services, with a particular focus on their application in the field of drug abusers. Furthermore, it advances propositions on the professionalization of the discipline in these contexts. The question leading this research arises from a prior experience at a rehabilitation center for drug addicts located in the suburbs of Bologna, and from an additional fieldwork research among at-risk-subjects who autonomously assembled in a cultural association. Refusing the hierarchical approaches typical of drug treatments, this study aims at applying relational tools developed during the fieldwork drawing on the studies of the intentional community. For this reason, a second fieldwork was conducted in Arcosanti (USA), in order to learn and optimize the researcher?s toolbox. My work intends to use anthropology as a specialized expertise for the reconstruction of compromised social relationships, using the discipline?s distinctive methodologies in connection with those of other disciplines and professional approaches.
Human security and human rights during the Coronavirus pandemic
Creators: name: Kodra, Luljeta
Publisher: name: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review
Year: 2020
Subjects: human security; human rights; pandemic situation

description: Human security, defined as a state to relieve people of the traumas that accompany human development, is closely linked to human rights. The treatment of the concept of human security enables the narrowing of the gap between the citizen and the state. At the time of a pandemic, the task of protecting life forces states to take special measures. The response of states to coronavirus has consisted of restrictive measures, which often conflict with human rights. International Human Rights Law allows the restrictions on freedom in cases of national emergencies, but necessary and proportionate. Health security, as an integral part of human security, aims to guarantee a necessary minimum of protection against diseases, especially infectious, epidemic and poor living conditions. State institutions have a responsibility to guarantee medical treatment as needed. Ignoring or refusing this service, even to a single citizen, can have fatal consequences for national security. The Covid-19 pandemic also caused collapse in developed countries, with advanced health systems. It is still too early to make final analyzes, studies and evaluations regarding this pandemic. Experience and lessons learned should serve to make such a situation as less emergency as possible in the future. Important for this, among other things, is the evaluation and respect of professional communities.
description: Euro-Balkan Law and Economics Review, N. 2 (2020): Fascicolo 2
(401136) William Walker
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(401135) Barbara Steven
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
IDENTIFICATION OF NEOANTIGENS RELEASED BY SALMONELLA-INFECTED TUMOR CELLS FOR A NOVEL APPROACH TO CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY
Creators: name: MELACARNE, ALESSIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: ?Identification of neoantigens released by Salmonella-infected tumor cells for a novel approach to cancer immunotherapy? Advancement in cancer immunotherapy has revealed the importance of targeting neoantigens: tumor specific antigens that prompt a strong antitumor response escaping from the central T tolerance. Our laboratory has previously shown that infection of mouse tumor cell lines with Salmonella induces the transfer of antigens between adjacent cells, specifically through hemichannels. Now we demonstrate that Salmonella not only leads to the transfer of immunogenic antigens between adjacent cells but also the release of peptides in the extracellular milieu. A mass spectrometry analysis of proteins and peptides released by infected murine melanoma cells revealed that among them there are novel tumor epitopes and potential neoantigens. We tested the released peptides as components of a vaccine formulation given to prevent tumor progression in a murine model of melanoma and we demonstrated that are immunogenic. We attested that also human melanoma cell lines infected with Salmonella release peptides; these induce the expansion of CD8-T cell from peripheral blood mononuclear cells that specifically kill human melanoma cells in vitro. We propose the treatment with Salmonella of patients-derived tumor cells as a strategy to obtain neoantigens that could be applied in clinical studies as a vaccine formulation. Encouraging preliminary results have been obtained with the therapeutic treatment of pet dogs with spontaneous osteosarcoma and high grade sarcoma with a vaccine formulation based on peptides released by their own tumor cells following Salmonella infection.
title: Reproductive cycle and fecundity of Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 from the Moroccan Mediterranean coast
Creators: name: AJANA, Rabia
name: TECHETACH, Mohamed
name: SAOUD, Younes
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is the most important cephalopod in fisheries along the Moroccan Mediterranean coast. The study aims to determine the reproductive cycle and fecundity of Octopus vulgaris which are essential for fishery management. Monthly samples were collected from commercial catches of trawling fleet operating between M'diq and Jebha from June 2013 to May 2014. The sex-ratio was 1:0.91 with no significant difference with the 1:1 expectation (P > 0.05). Males ready to reproduce were present throughout the year, with earlier sexual maturity (size 9.87 cm; weight 458.97 g) as compared to females (size 11.62 cm; weight 816.66 g). The spawning season extended from March to August as shown by the gonadosomatic index. The potential fecundity was significantly correlated with female length.
(401134) james Hodge
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Geometrical vs wave optics under gravitational waves
Creators: name: Angélil, Raymond
name: Saha, Prasenjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present some new derivations of the effect of a plane gravitational wave on a light ray. A simple interpretation of the results is that a gravitational wave causes a phase modulation of electromagnetic waves. We arrive at this picture from two contrasting directions, namely null geodesics and Maxwell's equations, or, geometric and wave optics. Under geometric optics, we express the geodesic equations in Hamiltonian form and solve perturbatively for the effect of gravitational waves. We find that the well-known time-delay formula for light generalizes trivially to massive particles. We also recover, by way of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation, the phase modulation obtained under wave optics. Turning then to wave optics - rather than solving Maxwell's equations directly for the fields, as in most previous approaches - we derive a perturbed wave equation (perturbed by the gravitational wave) for the electromagnetic four-potential. From this wave equation it follows that the four-potential and the electric and magnetic fields all experience the same phase modulation. Applying such a phase modulation to a superposition of plane waves corresponding to a Gaussian wave packet leads to time delays.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D, matches published version
A Longitudinal Study of Sedentary Behavior and Overweight in Adolescent Girls
Creators: name: Baggett, Chris D.
name: Pratt, Charlotte A.
name: Going, Scott B.
name: Treuth, Margarita S.
name: Webber, Larry S.
name: Charneco, Eileen Y.
name: Elder, John P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To examine sedentary and light activity in relation to overweight in adolescent girls.
A QTL on 12q Influencing an Inflammation Marker and Obesity in White Women: The NHLBI Family Heart Study
Creators: name: North, Kari E.
name: Tracy, Russell P.
name: Myers, Richard H.
name: Province, Michael A.
name: Borecki, Ingrid B.
name: Wu, Jun
name: Pankow, James S.
name: Feitosa, Mary E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: It has been recognized that obese individuals are intrinsically in a state of chronic inflammation, as indicated by positive correlations between serum levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and various anthropometric measures of obesity. To explore the hypothesis that a gene(s) may underlie this relationship, we conducted bivariate linkage analyses of BMI and CRP in white and African-American (AA) families of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Family Heart Study (FHS). Variance components linkage analysis as implemented in SOLAR was performed in 1,825 whites (840 men and 985 women) and 548 AAs (199 men and 351 women). CRP exhibited significant genetic correlations with BMI in women (0.54 ± 0.10 for white and 0.53 ± 0.14 for AA) and the combined samples (0.37 ± 0.09 for white and 0.56 ± 0.13 for AA), but not in men. We detected a maximum bivariate lod score of 3.86 on chromosome 12q24.2–24.3 at 139 cM and a suggestive linkage signal (lod = 2.19) on chromosome 19p13.1 (44 cM) in white women. Both bivariate peaks were substantially higher than their respective univariate lods at the same locus for each trait. No significant lod scores were detected in AAs. Our results indicate that chromosome 12q may harbor quantitative trait loci (QTLs) jointly regulating BMI and CRP in white women.
Urinary Incontinence in older men: protocol for a scoping review of risk factors
Creators: name: Gibson, William
name: Kung, Janice
name: Wagg, Adrian
name: Olagundoye, Olawunmi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This is the protocol for a scoping review that specifically focuses on older men's risk factors for urinary incontinence by synthesizing and mapping the evidence comprehensively and systematically. As part of a larger study, it will synthesize evidence on risk factors as the starting point for the creation of a self-management intervention targeting older men.
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1992-1993
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1992

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.
(401133) Ann Smith
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1993-1994
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1993

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.
Orbital decay of hot Jupiters due to nonlinear tidal dissipation within solar-type hosts
Creators: name: Essick, Reed
name: Weinberg, Nevin N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the orbital evolution of hot Jupiters due to the excitation and damping of tidally driven $g$-modes within solar-type host stars. Linearly resonant $g$-modes (the dynamical tide) are driven to such large amplitudes in the stellar core that they excite a sea of other $g$-modes through weakly nonlinear interactions. By solving the dynamics of large networks of nonlinearly coupled modes, we show that the nonlinear dissipation rate of the dynamical tide is several orders of magnitude larger than the linear dissipation rate. We find stellar tidal quality factors $Q \approx 10^5-10^6$ for systems with planet mass $M_p \geq 0.5 M_\mathrm{J}$ and orbital period $P \leq 2$ days, which implies that such systems decay on timescales that are small compared to the main-sequence lifetime of their solar-type hosts. According to our results, there are $\approx 10$ currently known exoplanetary systems, including WASP-19b and HAT-P-36-b, with orbital decay timescales shorter than a Gyr. Rapid, tidally induced orbital decay may explain the observed paucity of planets with $M_p \ge M_\mathrm{J}$ and $P < 2$ days around solar-type hosts and could generate detectable transit-timing variations in the near future.
description: 23 pages, 13 figures, 1 table