cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 181.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.08.2015, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 254.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 30.11.2015, 09:15, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 226.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 30.10.2015, 08:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 113.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.06.2015, 10:00, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Observational Viability and Stability of Nonlocal Cosmology
Creators: name: Deser, S.
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a class of nonlocal gravity models, proposed to explain current cosmic acceleration without dark energy, passes two major tests: First, they can be defined so as not to alter the, observationally correct, general relativity predictions for gravitationally bound systems. Second, they are stable, ghost-free, with no additional excitations beyond those of general relativity. In this they differ from their, ghostful, localized versions. The systems' initial value constraints are the same as in general relativity, and our nonlocal modifications never convert the original gravitons into ghosts.
description: 13 pages, no figures, uses LaTeX2e. Version 2 is significantly expanded (16 pages) for publication in JCAP
You Must Construct Additional Hypermassive Neutron Stars
Creators: Fahlman, Steven
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

We examine the long-term evolution of accretion tori around the remnants of compact object mergers and the explosions of highly magnetized massive stars to better understand their roles in the creation of optical transients and the synthesis of r-process elements. We begin by modifying the FLASH4.5 code to evolve magnetohydrodynamics with simple neutrino transport and a realistic equation of state in 3D spherical coordinates, and provide verification tests. With this new framework, we evolve post-merger systems of tori around black holes and hypermassive neutron stars. We find that magnetic stresses, neutrino driven winds, and thermal effects eject outflows with a broad range of electron fractions, velocities and entropies, sufficient to power kilonovae and produce up to 3rd peak r-process elements. While the ejecta from our simulations cannot match the masses and velocities inferred from two component kilonova modelling of GW170817, more detailed multidimensional kilonova models are needed to see if our outflows are consistent with observations of the blue kilonova. Finally, we detail the modifications to the neutrino scheme and treatment of gravity in FLASH4.5 necessary to run simulations of magnetorotational supernovae, along with further verification tests.
Future sensitivity to new physics in B_d, B_s and K mixings
Creators: name: Charles, Jerome
name: Descotes-Genon, Sebastien
name: Ligeti, Zoltan
name: Monteil, Stephane
name: Papucci, Michele
name: Trabelsi, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate, in a large class of scenarios, the sensitivity to new physics in B_d and B_s mixings achievable with 50 ab-1 of Belle II and 50 fb-1 of LHCb data. We find that current limits on new physics contributions in both B_{d,s} systems can be improved by a factor of ~5 for all values of the CP violating phases, corresponding to over a factor of 2 increase in the scale of new physics probed. Assuming the same suppressions by CKM matrix elements as those of the standard model box diagrams, the scale probed will be about 20 TeV for tree-level new physics contributions, and about 2 TeV for new physics arising at one-loop. We also explore the future sensitivity to new physics in K mixing. Implications for generic new physics and for various specific scenarios, such as minimal flavor violation, light third-generation dominated flavor violation, or U(2) flavor models are studied.
description: 12 pages; discussion of MFV extended; a fit for a hypothetical future new physics signal is added for illustration; first plot in figure 5 corrected; v3 is (essentially) identical to the published article
La lacuna di Notre-Dame come paradigma della complessità
Creators: name: Morezzi, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The architectural preservation project regarding Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris in the mid-19th century by Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc constitutes a case-study of great interest not only for the analysis of the constructional choices that led to the final result but, above all, for the design managing and attitude that the two architects have maintained throughout the course of the intervention on the building. Analysing these restorations, and in particular the design methodology on the building, it could be of high interest due to the future restorations that the building will undergo, following the fire of April 2019. The main purpose of this article is therefore to make a careful critique of the design approach of restorations that are only apparently stylistic, in order to understand how the transformation of an asset is an architectural intervention that requires clear methodological rules in order to achieve the objectives related not only to the transformation or completion of the asset but also to its enhancement.

description: MDCCC 1800
Accrual accounting and IPSAS implementation in developing countries: The Moroccan case
Creators: name: AZEGAGH, Jalal
name: ZYANI, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Developing countries; IPSAS; Accrual accounting; Moroccan public finances; Financial governance

description: For more than a decade, organizations around the world, as well as international financial institutions, have been pushing governments to provide the public with more comprehensive budget, and reporting information. The movement for greater public finance transparency has been gaining motion in recent years; the recent global financial crisis has put even more emphasis on the importance of budget transparency (ACCA,2017). Calls for transparency, accountability, and equality have emerged in the whole world, especially in developing countries. Several countries have therefore started the implementation of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) in order to improve the quality of the financial information of public sector entities; to empower decisions based on more reliable information, and thus to improve financial transparency and accountability in this area.

Morocco has launched a wide range of reform initiatives in the area of public finances over the past ten years: the redesign of the organic budget law in 2015 and therefore the whole accounting system. It has mobilized the support of regional and worldwide institutions in order to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of public finance management (OECD, 2015).

This article has analyzed the current status and challenges of full IPSAS implementation in developing countries and especially in Morocco as well as it has examined its role in enhancing transparency and accountability.

The method adopted in this article is a descriptive one. A text mining and a library method was used. Literature and research history were reviewed by referring to books, reports, scientific articles and other pertinent documents.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 147.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.07.2015, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
La Real Academia de San Fernandoy la devolución de los bienes eclesiásticos tras la Guerra de Independencia
Creators: name: Moraleda Gomero, Maria
name: García Sánchez, Jorge
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

With this article we intend to show the policy adopted by the king Fernando VII regarding to the restitution of the artistic patrimony confiscated to the religious communities during the Independence War’s conflicting years, as well as the part played in this process by the Real Academia de San Fernando. When the project of founding the Museo Fernandino failed, the Academy, receiver of many of the paintings dispersed during the French Government, tried to increase his pictorial collection to the detriment of their legitimate proprietors, although laws promulgated from 1814 favoured the works of art were recovered by the religious establishments. In the case of the Hospital de la Caridad of Seville, the Academy kept paintings until the 20th century, based on the agreement of the clergymen with the French.

description: MDCCC 1800
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 140.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.07.2015, 08:15, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Il mercato artistico nel carteggio fra Michelangelo Gualandi e Charles Lock Eastlake (1855-1865): un’introduzione
Creators: name: Mazzaferro, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

Born in Bologna in the late XIX century, Michelangelo Gualandi was trained as a tradesman. Studying art as a self-taught, he was able to establish himself as an art amateur and as a learned man, without however really ever abandoning his involvement in art trade. From 1855 he was agent of Charles Lock Eastlake, the first director of the National Gallery, and collaborated with him in the acquisition of paintings until the death of the Englishman, in 1865. Based on the recently rediscovered correspondence between Eastlake, other English connoisseurs and Gualandi, this article presents brand new information we can gain from the correspondence on both successful and failed purchases. Particular attention is paid to the aspects related to the modalities through which the sales took place.

description: MDCCC 1800
Aromatic Butcher Series
Creators: name: Munthe-Kaas, Hans
name: Verdier, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C80, 37C10, 41A58, 15A72

description: We show that without other further assumption than affine equivariance and locality, a numerical integrator has an expansion in a generalized form of Butcher series (B-series) which we call aromatic B-series. We obtain an explicit description of aromatic B-series in terms of elementary differentials associated to aromatic trees, which are directed graphs generalizing trees. We also define a new class of integrators, the class of aromatic Runge-Kutta methods, that extends the class of Runge-Kutta methods, and have aromatic B-series expansion but are not B-series methods. Finally, those results are partially extended to the case of more general affine group equivariance.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 20.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.01.2015, 10:15, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Naturaleza y artificio en los paisajes de Flaubert
Creators: name: Calatrava, Juan
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

This paper focuses on the evolution of the sentiment of landscape in Gustave Flaubert’s work, both in his travel stories (in Brittany and, especially, in Near East, with the famous Voyage en Orient) and in his major literary works (Salammbô, Madame Bovary, L’éducation sentimentale, Bouvard et Pécuchet). It is part of a more general and collective research in the School of Architecture of Granada about the image of architecture, town and landscape in literature and painting.

description: MDCCC 1800
The Concept of Religious Pluralism in a Globalized World: An Analytical and Comparative Study of John Hick and Hossein Nasr's Theories
Creators: name: Ebrahimi, Amir Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Religious Pluralism, Perennialism, Traditionalism, Hossein Nasr, John Hick

description: As a researcher and author in the field of comparative religion, I have dedicated my academic journey to the study of philosophy and religion. It is through this pursuit that I have developed a deep passion for expanding my knowledge and understanding of various religious traditions, beliefs, and practices. My academic pursuits have granted me the opportunity to delve into the intricate complexities of different religious systems, exploring their historical, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. I find great fulfillment in unraveling the mysteries and nuances of religious texts, rituals, and the diverse ways in which individuals and communities express their spiritual beliefs. For me, the joy of studying and learning is an ongoing process that extends far beyond the confines of formal education. Each day presents an opportunity to discover new insights, engage with different perspectives, and broaden my intellectual horizons. Whether it's through reading scholarly articles, participating in academic conferences, or engaging in thought-provoking discussions with fellow scholars, I am constantly seeking to deepen my understanding of the human quest for meaning and the diverse religious expressions that shape our world. The pursuit of knowledge is a lifelong journey, and I am committed to embracing the ever-evolving nature of my field. By continuously immersing myself in research, critical analysis, and interdisciplinary exploration, I strive to contribute to the academic discourse and promote greater intercultural understanding. Ultimately, my passion for comparative religion fuels my desire to contribute valuable insights, foster dialogue, and promote mutual respect among individuals from different faith traditions. I believe that through a comprehensive understanding of religious diversity, we can foster empathy, bridge divides, and cultivate a more inclusive and harmonious society. In essence, my devotion to the study of comparative religion is not merely an academic pursuit but a lifelong commitment to continuous learning, personal growth, and the promotion of interfaith understanding.
Nueva York, 1783-1811: el nacimiento de una metrópolis
Creators: name: Del Cid, Ana
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

This essay reviews and connects different events, urban constructions and historical cartographies concerning New York in the chronological framework defined by 1783, the year of the signing of the Treaty of Paris – ending the American Revolutionary War –, and 1811, when the Commissioners’ Plan established the urban planning model to make the city a metropolis on a par with the great European capitals. During this brief but intense period – not as studied as it is sometimes thought – the material and immaterial (the physical and identity) foundations of the current New York were laid. This work focuses on the active and important contribution that two disciplines, architecture and cartography, made to the mentioned process.

description: MDCCC 1800
Grounding Concepts to Vision via Descriptions
Creators: Ogezi, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

This thesis introduces a new approach for grounding concepts to vision using visual descriptions, which are text-based descriptions of visual attributes. We hypothesize that these descriptions can enhance the grounding of concepts to vision, thereby improving performance in vision-language tasks. We also suggest that these descriptions can be effectively produced using pre-trained language models. Toward validating our hypotheses, we conduct two studies.

In the first study, we address the task of visual word sense disambiguation. This task aims to select the image that best represents the meaning of a word in context. Here, we demonstrate that augmenting the original context with rich visual descriptions produced by a language model significantly improves performance.

In the second study, we attempt to produce visual descriptions for arbitrary, concrete concepts, focusing on two downstream tasks: zero-shot image classification and zero-shot class-conditional image generation. Primarily, we demonstrate that conditioning a large language model with lexico-semantic knowledge from a semantic knowledge base produces richer, and better grounded visual descriptions than previous methods. Furthermore, these visual descriptions result in substantial empirical improvements in the aforementioned downstream tasks.

Overall, this thesis confirms our initial hypothesis and demonstrates that visual descriptions offer a robust mechanism for grounding concepts to the visual domain.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 1.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 01.01.2015, 11:15, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Using Data to Understand the STEAM Curriculum Priorities of K-12 Schools
Creators: name: Bott, Ian
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: STEAM
subject: Education
subject: Curriculum

description: In recent years, interest in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) Education has increased as an approach to teaching and learning that guides student inquiry, collaboration, and problem-solving. However, there is limited understanding of which benefits of STEAM education schools prioritize when adopting a curriculum. This study takes an empirical approach towards understanding the priorities of K-12 schools, by employing a mixed-methods design. First, quantitative data is collected from the email marketing campaigns from a leading STEAM curriculum provider, to evaluate how emphasizing different proposed benefits of STEAM education influences the behavioral responses of 21,079 international school contacts. Additionally, qualitative survey response data is gathered from 709 of these contacts who ranked their priorities for implementing a STEAM curriculum. The results reveal that "Building 21st-Century Skills" is reported as the most highly prioritized aspect of a STEAM curriculum, reflecting educators' recognition of the increasing importance of these skills in today's technologically advanced and globalized society. This was followed by "Interdisciplinary Learning" and "Project-based Learning", pointing towards a shift in educational focus towards a more holistic and hands-on approach. School contacts also place a high priority on “Alignment with Standards”, although this was more clearly evidenced in behavioral data from email campaigns than in survey responses. Meanwhile, traditional markers of educational success, such as “Career Preparation” and “College Readiness”, are less likely to be prioritized.
Robustness of community structure to node removal
Creators: name: Amancio, Diego R.
name: Oliveira, Osvaldo N.
name: Costa, Luciano da F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The identification of modular structures is essential for characterizing real networks formed by a mesoscopic level of organization where clusters contain nodes with a high internal degree of connectivity. Many methods have been developed to unveil community structures, but only a few studies have probed their suitability in incomplete networks. Here we assess the accuracy of community detection techniques in incomplete networks generated in sampling processes. We show that the walktrap and fast greedy algorithms are highly accurate for detecting the modular structure of incomplete complex networks even if many of their nodes are removed. Furthermore, we implemented an approach that improved the time performance of the walktrap and fast greedy algorithms, while retaining the accuracy rate in identifying the community membership of nodes. Taken together our results show that this new approach can be applied to speed up virtually any community detection method in dense complex networks, as it is the case of similarity networks.
Linguistic Indicators of the Growth Mindset
Creators: name: Kamath, Akshatha
name: Demszky, Dora
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Language and education
subject: Computational linguistics
subject: Essays
subject: growth mindset
subject: Mindset (Dweck, Carol S.)
subject: liwc

description: We use data from the synergistic mindsets intervention to find how language in student essays might correlate with self-reported stress levels n= 2000. We use word count based approaches, topic modeling, and word embedding based methods to find the linguistic patterns that correlate with stress levels. Our results show that in comparison to students who cope poorly with stress, those that cope well make greater use of negative over positive emotions, past and present tense over future tense, higher cognitive processing words, and more action over bodily sensation words in their writing. Our text classification models predict stress appraisals with an accuracy of 68 ± 0.4%. However, the length of the text students write is a major confounder in all our results. We discuss the text length as a confounder along with our other qualitative findings in relation to previous linguistic studies of mindfulness and stress.
RESCUING POTENTIAL DROPOUTS IN MOROCCO : DROPOUT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (DEWS)
Creators: name: Bensouda Koraichi, Othman
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Educational Data Mining
subject: Dropouts--Education
subject: Machine learning

description: Morocco faces a critical challenge with its student dropout rates. While dropout rate stands at 3.6% in primary school, is escalates to 14.3% in middle-school, and 10.4% in high school as of 2019. Precise identification of students vulnerable to academic discontinuation offers an opportunity for proactive remedial intervention, enabling schools to orchestrate timely preventive measures. This study focuses on utilizing data mining and machine learning techniques to predict academic dropouts and facilitate timely intervention in middle school and high school. By leveraging a comprehensive dataset encompassing academic, demographic, and socio-economic information for 336,135 students in the region of Fes-Meknes in 2015-2019, the research aims to achieve two primary objectives: (1) modeling machine learning algorithms to forecast student dropout, aiding in early detection and intervention for at-risk students, and (2) identifying key data features that encapsulate the risk factors leading to dropout, aiding in early detection and intervention for at-risk students. Through a comparative analysis of different machine learning methodologies, the study reveals promising results, demonstrating the ability to correctly identify 84% of potential dropouts by filtering just 19% of the dataset using Gradient Boosted Trees. The research identifies unauthorized absences, Grade Point Average (GPA), and class rank as crucial indicators for predicting school dropout. These findings offer valuable insights and pave the way for implementing predictive data science in the education sector, potentially mitigating dropout rates and promoting academic success in Morocco.
Quantum enigma machines and the locking capacity of a quantum channel
Creators: name: Guha, Saikat
name: Hayden, Patrick
name: Krovi, Hari
name: Lloyd, Seth
name: Lupo, Cosmo
name: Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
name: Takeoka, Masahiro
name: Wilde, Mark M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The locking effect is a phenomenon which is unique to quantum information theory and represents one of the strongest separations between the classical and quantum theories of information. The Fawzi-Hayden-Sen (FHS) locking protocol harnesses this effect in a cryptographic context, whereby one party can encode n bits into n qubits while using only a constant-size secret key. The encoded message is then secure against any measurement that an eavesdropper could perform in an attempt to recover the message, but the protocol does not necessarily meet the composability requirements needed in quantum key distribution applications. In any case, the locking effect represents an extreme violation of Shannon's classical theorem, which states that information-theoretic security holds in the classical case if and only if the secret key is the same size as the message. Given this intriguing phenomenon, it is of practical interest to study the effect in the presence of noise, which can occur in the systems of both the legitimate receiver and the eavesdropper. This paper formally defines the locking capacity of a quantum channel as the maximum amount of locked information that can be reliably transmitted to a legitimate receiver by exploiting many independent uses of a quantum channel and an amount of secret key sublinear in the number of channel uses. We provide general operational bounds on the locking capacity in terms of other well-known capacities from quantum Shannon theory. We also study the important case of bosonic channels, finding limitations on these channels' locking capacity when coherent-state encodings are employed and particular locking protocols for these channels that might be physically implementable.
description: 37 pages
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 173.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.08.2015, 08:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Using Large Language Models to Examine Family Stresses During Pandemic
Creators: name: Zhao, Priscilla
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Early childhood development
subject: COVID-19 (Disease)
subject: Well-being
subject: Natural language processing

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed families with young children to various difficulties and challenges, significantly affecting children’s early experiences and overall development. Despite numerous studies investigating the pandemic's impact through quantitative measures, they potentially overlook the dynamic, evolving experiences, perspectives, and challenges families confront. To address the research gap, the current study utilizes a dataset from the Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development (RAPID) project. I leverage OpenAI's GPT-3, a state-of-the-art NLP model, to examine open-ended responses to the question “What is challenging during the pandemic for your family”. This approach not only offers a richer and more dynamic understanding of the pandemic's impacts but also uncovers disparities in challenges across different racial and income demographics. By identifying challenge categories and analyzing their prevalence, the study would further provide actionable insights for stakeholders, facilitating corresponding support for diverse caregiver groups and aiding long-term early childhood program and policy development.
Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Analysis of 4D Brain Images in Ischemic Stroke Diagnosis and Assessment
Creators: Soltan Pour, Mohsen
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS), a devastating cerebrovascular disorder, is one of the

leading causes of disability and mortality worldwide. It occurs when the blood supply

to a part of the brain is interrupted, resulting in the deprivation of oxygen and nutrients, leading to neuronal damage and functional impairment. With its widespread

occurrence and significant impact on individuals and society, ischemic stroke substantially burdens healthcare systems. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that stroke affects approximately 13.7 million individuals worldwide annually, of which nearly 85% are attributed to ischemic strokes. Moreover, stroke-related deaths account for about 11% of global deaths, making it a critical public health concern.

Timely and accurate diagnosis and a comprehensive assessment of ischemic stroke are crucial for guiding appropriate treatment strategies and improving patient outcomes. Despite their efficacy, conventional diagnostic methods often depend on subjective interpretation and may not fully capture the dynamic nature of stroke progression. Therefore, there is a growing need for advanced machine learning techniques to aid in the analysis of 4D dynamic brain images, enabling precise diagnosis and assessment of AIS. Computed Tomography Perfusion (CTP) imaging is the most common technique in assessing ischemic stroke. It provides information about cerebral hemodynamics, tissue perfusion, and blood volume. Utilizing the swift acquisition of sequential CT images immediately after the administration of a contrast agent, CTP serves as a valuable technique for accurately identifying at-risk (penumbra) and already damaged (core) viable tissue in an AIS patient’s brain. Quantitative measurements derived from CTP, such as Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) and Mean Transit Time (MTT), aid in estimating AIS outcomes and guiding treatment decisions.

This thesis aims to explore and develop novel machine-learning methods for analyzing 4D brain images to enhance AIS diagnosis and assessment, ultimately improving patient care and outcomes. The main objective is to develop an automatic AIS baseline\follow-up lesion segmentation\prediction. By utilizing advanced machine learning techniques and analyzing medical imaging data, accurate identification and assessment of ischemic lesions can be achieved. This information guides effective treatment decisions, determines intervention timing, and predicts outcomes, while also tailoring treatment plans and optimizing resource allocation. Additionally, it aids in clinical trials by identifying suitable patients for targeted interventions, thus enhancing stroke management and benefiting both patients and healthcare systems.
A Relação Ciência e Arte e a Exposição NeuroSensações
Creators: name: Thalles Yvson Alves de Souza
name: Grazielle Rodrigues Pereira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Os museus e centros de ciência, a partir do século XX, tornam-se locais mais interativos, propagando e divulgando conhecimentos. Seus módulos expositivos são capazes de atrair a curiosidade do visitante através de linguagens artísticas e das esculturas, levando o conceito científico a experiências sensíveis, despertando no sujeito interesse pela Ciência. Este trabalho tem como objetivo observar as interações de estudantes do curso de Licenciatura em Arte da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro na Exposição “NeuroSensações” do Espaço Ciência InterAtiva, bem como investigar se a visita contribuiu para promoção do interesse dos alunos pela temática da exposição. A observação não participante foi utilizada para a coleta de dados. Como resultados, vimos que o estudante estabeleceu uma interação frente aos módulos, ficando evidente seu aproveitamento, contentamento na visitação, sensibilização e consequentemente, seu entendimento.
Camillo Boito consulente di Giorgio Franchetti. Una lettera inedita sul restauro del porticato d’approdo della Ca’ d’Oro di Venezia
Creators: name: Concina, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The article analyzes the history of restoration and decoration, at the end of the nineteenth century, of the entrance porch and ground-floor mosaic of the Ca’ d’Oro Palace on the Grand Canal in Venice. A letter written in 1897 by Camillo Boito to Giorgio Franchetti, recently found, confirms the involvement of Boito, so far only mentioned in literature, on the restoration of the building.

description: MDCCC 1800
Anastilosi. Un dibattito fondativo per il restauro dei monumenti antichi nella Grecia di fine Ottocento
Creators: name: Mannoni, Chiara
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The debate on the anastylosis, which is still alive nowadays, met fundamental points within the Athens Charter of Restoration of 1931 and the Venice Charter of Restoration of 1964. However, the earlier use of this term in connection to restoration is to be found in the late Nineteenth century. In this study the origin of the concept and the practice of anastylosis is contextualized within the discussions that arose on the restoration of the Parthenon of Athens between 1890 and 1905. The conflicts on the works to carry out on the ancient temple are connected to the conceptual ambiguities, the misinterpretations and the inconsistent uses of ‘restoration’, ‘reconstruction’ and ‘anastylosis’ within the international debate. The earlier equivocal understanding of these terms is explained in relation to their different understanding by scholars with diverse background and provenance in Europe.

description: MDCCC 1800
L'innovation des modèles d'affaires : Un cadre conceptuel axé sur la notion de la Valeur
Creators: name: ASSARRAJ Imad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Innovation des modèles d'affaires ; valeur ; Innovation de la proposition de la valeur ; Innovation de la création de la valeur ; innovation de la capture de la valeur

description: L’innovation des modèles d’affaire baptisé en anglais « Business Model Innovation » est un objet de recherche récent dans la littérature en management en général et en management stratégique en particulier. Les recherches académiques récentes se sont focalisées sur les mécanismes ainsi que les l’influence de certains autres concepts comme la transformation numérique sur l’innovation des modèles d’affaires, mais avec des difficultés de cerner même le concept de l’innovation des modèles d’affaire à cause au départ de la pluralité et diversification des définitions et conceptions du modèle d’affaire.

L’objectif de cette article est de proposer un cadre conceptuel de l’innovation des modèles d’affaires basée sur la notion de la valeur, cette notion est omniprésente dans plusieurs définitions et théories qui ont traité le concept de l’innovation du modèle d’affaire, ainsi on passer en relief au début l’origine et la pluralité de définition de la notion du modèle d’affaire et par la suite, on va proposer notre cadre conceptuel en proposant trois composantes de l’innovation du modèle d’affaires axé sur la valeur : Innovation de la proposition de la valeur, Innovation de la création de la valeur et innovation de la capture de la valeur
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 122.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 19.06.2015, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Alberta Advantage?: An examination of the long-term challenges of Alberta’s non-renewable resource wealth governance
Creators: Salomons, Geoffrey H
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

This dissertation applies an intergenerational lens to investigate the historical record of Alberta’s resource wealth governance from Premier Lougheed to Premier Klein. It explores how Alberta has collected, saved, and distributed its resource wealth in order to examine the explicit and implicit intergenerational trade-offs that resulted from key policy decisions made during this forty-year period. To aid in the intergenerational analysis I differentiate between future residents and future descendants of Alberta as two distinct populations of future generations. Future residents are anyone living in Alberta at a future period regardless of their origin. Conversely, future descendants are the descendants of whomever happens to be living in Alberta at a given point in time, regardless of where they reside in the future.

The research for this dissertation finds that despite the dramatic differences in reputation between Premiers Lougheed and Klein there are remarkable commonalities. The starkest differences stem from the fact that Lougheed viewed the state as a shaper of the economy. Many of his legacies, such as the Heritage Fund and his province-building investments, benefited future residents precisely because of the role of the state in shaping the economy. In contrast, Klein sought to eliminate government involvement in the economy, preferring a more passive approach relying on deregulation and tax cuts to shape economic activity. Despite these differences, this research demonstrates that the single most consistent and troubling policy regarding Alberta’s resource wealth governance is the low tax, high spending fiscal policy initiated by Lougheed and rebranded and entrenched in Alberta’s political culture by Klein as the Alberta Advantage. This fiscal policy framework has become the single biggest handicap to Alberta’s ability govern its resource wealth for the long-term.

This dissertation concludes with key policy recommendations. In particular, the Alberta government needs to get to a point where it can save 100% of its resource wealth. This will significantly reduce the fiscal policy challenges for the province that is overly reliant on a very volatile source of revenue and, as a result, lurches and stumbles from one oil price boom to the next. Options are then presented to allow for the use of those funds in ways that will benefit BOTH future residents – through investments in physical and human capital – and future descendants – by establishing a reliable and consistent dividend policy that will grow over time.
Grand Hotels Around the Kvarner Bay: Seaside Hospitality Between Austria and Hungary
Creators: name: Gudelj, Jasenka
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The hotel architecture around the Kvarner bay represents a specific Austro-Hungarian response to the Riviera phenomenon, made possible by the railway connections to the continental capitals of the Empire with the port of Rijeka. Through a detailed comparison between different investments and realisations, the article explores the ways of dealing with the hotellerie in the coastal area administratively divided between Austria, Hungary and Croatia in the last decades of the 19th century and the years leading to WWI.

description: MDCCC 1800
Characterizing and Modeling the Dynamics of Activity and Popularity
Creators: name: Zhang, Peng
name: Li, Menghui
name: Gao, Liang
name: Fan, Ying
name: Di, Zengru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social media, regarded as two-layer networks consisting of users and items, turn out to be the most important channels for access to massive information in the era of Web 2.0. The dynamics of human activity and item popularity is a crucial issue in social media networks. In this paper, by analyzing the growth of user activity and item popularity in four empirical social media networks, i.e., Amazon, Flickr, Delicious and Wikipedia, it is found that cross links between users and items are more likely to be created by active users and to be acquired by popular items, where user activity and item popularity are measured by the number of cross links associated with users and items. This indicates that users generally trace popular items, overall. However, it is found that the inactive users more severely trace popular items than the active users. Inspired by empirical analysis, we propose an evolving model for such networks, in which the evolution is driven only by two-step random walk. Numerical experiments verified that the model can qualitatively reproduce the distributions of user activity and item popularity observed in empirical networks. These results might shed light on the understandings of micro dynamics of activity and popularity in social media networks.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables