cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title:  La formazione universitaria a distanza nell’emergenza Coronavirus: una opportunità per gli studenti lavoratori
Creators: name: Casavecchia, Andrea
name: Burgalassi, Marco
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: La pandemia Covid-19 ha comportato conseguenze e trasformazioni prefigurando scenari inediti sul piano economico, sociale e personale, determinando anche nel campo della ricerca l’urgenza di esplorarne le ricadute. Il volume dà quindi conto delle indagini svolte e in corso, sin dai primi giorni del lockdown, dai docenti e dai collaboratori del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università Roma Tre, toccando i temi più diversi: dalla didattica a distanza, all’università e nei diversi ordini di scuola, al futuro dei servizi di orientamento, dal lavoro socio-educativo nelle varie tipologie di servizi all’impatto della pandemia sulle comunità, dalle narrazioni ai linguaggi artistici a contrasto di quest’emergenza non solo sanitaria. Si sono così esplorate le diverse educazioni possibili, riassegnando centralità ai processi formativi e al benessere delle persone, provando a tratteggiare nuovi paradigmi e prospettive.
description: Il paper considera il ruolo avuto dalla formazione universitaria a distanza durante il primo lockdown vissuto in Italia tra marzo e maggio 2020. In particolare, esso si interroga sulle opportunità che si sono aperte per gli studenti-lavoratori. Dopo una descrizione del contesto italiano e della difficoltà degli studenti a completare i cicli di istruzione e, in particolare, raggiungere titoli di formazione terziaria, l’articolo individua un target strategico per contrastare l’abbandono: negli studenti lavoratori. Successivamente sulla base dei dati raccolti da una survey rivolta agli studenti del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione di Roma Tre, viene rilevata l’opinione degli studenti sulle lezioni e gli esami tenuti a distanza. I risultati mostrano il vantaggio riscontrato dagli studenti lavoratori, rispetto agli altri. L’esperienza, imposta dalla pandemia, indica nella didattica blended una possibilità per supportare soprattutto un determinato target di studenti.
FNS-Cloud & Blue-Cloud: synergy factsheet
Creators: name: Giuffrida, Rita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: EOSC
data infrastructure
interoperability
synergy
collaboration
blue economy
marine data
ocean data

description: Blue-Cloud provides a cloud-based, analytical and publishing framework as a federation of computing platforms and analytical services, hosted at leading e-infrastructures, offered through an easy-to-use orchestration system to access cloud computing resources distributed at different cloud providers sites. One of the synergies established by Blue-Cloud is with the FNS-Cloud project.
title:  Qualità d’uso delle piattaforme per la didattica a distanza nel periodo di contenimento del COVID-19: una indagine empirica tra studenti di Roma Tre e LUMSA
Creators: name: Caffaro, Federica
name: Micheletti Cremasco, Margherita
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: La pandemia Covid-19 ha comportato conseguenze e trasformazioni prefigurando scenari inediti sul piano economico, sociale e personale, determinando anche nel campo della ricerca l’urgenza di esplorarne le ricadute. Il volume dà quindi conto delle indagini svolte e in corso, sin dai primi giorni del lockdown, dai docenti e dai collaboratori del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università Roma Tre, toccando i temi più diversi: dalla didattica a distanza, all’università e nei diversi ordini di scuola, al futuro dei servizi di orientamento, dal lavoro socio-educativo nelle varie tipologie di servizi all’impatto della pandemia sulle comunità, dalle narrazioni ai linguaggi artistici a contrasto di quest’emergenza non solo sanitaria. Si sono così esplorate le diverse educazioni possibili, riassegnando centralità ai processi formativi e al benessere delle persone, provando a tratteggiare nuovi paradigmi e prospettive.
description: L’usabilità delle piattaforme E-learning ricopre un ruolo fondamentale nell’accrescere l’engagement dell’utente e la sua intenzione di utilizzo futuro del sistema tecnologico. Il presente studio ha inteso va¬lutare l’esperienza d’uso di piattaforme E-learning, intensificatosi a causa delle misure per il contenimento del COVID-19, in gruppi di studenti di due realtà universitarie romane (Roma Tre, n=24 e LUMSA, n=40). È stato somministrato un questionario relativo alla familiarità, usabilità percepita, gradevolezza dell’interfaccia, engagement percepito ed intenzione d’uso futuro delle piattaforme E-learning disponibili per le attività didattiche nei due atenei (II semestre 2019/2020): due piattaforme Moodle e due di video¬conferenza (Microsoft Teams e Google Meet). I risultati hanno mostrato una esperienza d’uso più agevole e soddisfacente con le piattaforme Moodle, rispetto a quelle per la videoconferenza (tra le quali Meet ha riportato punteggi superiori a Teams), con la piattaforma Moodle di Roma Tre percepita come particolarmente facile da utilizzare e coinvolgente, e più adatta per i lavori di gruppo. La ricerca ha permesso di evidenziare alcuni aspetti che potrebbero beneficiare di espesrienze di riprogettazione partecipata delle interfacce e/o di formazione mirata agli utenti su strategie di utilizzo diversificate, al fine di migliorare l’esperienza d’uso e sostenere l’engagement dell’utente.
Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources in the Most Metal Poor Galaxies
Creators: name: Prestwich, A. H.
name: Tsantaki, M.
name: Zezas, A.
name: Jackson, F. E.
name: Roberts, T. P.
name: Foltz, R.
name: Linden, T.
name: Kalogera, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources (ULX) are X-ray binaries with Lx>1E^39 ergs/s. The most spectacular examples of ULX occur in starburst galaxies and are now understood to be young, luminous High Mass X-ray Binaries. The conditions under which ULX form are poorly understood, but recent evidence suggests they may be more common in low metallicity systems. Here we investigate the hypothesis that ULX form preferentially in low metallicity galaxies by searching for ULX in a sample of Extremely Metal Poor Galaxies (XMPG) observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. XMPG are defined as galaxies with log(O/H)+12<7.65, or less than 5% solar. These are the most metal-deficient galaxies known, and a logical place to find ULX if they favor metal poor systems. We compare the number of ULX (corrected for background contamination) per unit of star formation (Nulx) in the XMPG sample with Nulx in a comparison sample of galaxies with higher metallicities taken from the Spitzer Infrared Galaxy Sample (SINGS). We find that ULX occur preferentially in the metal poor sample with a formal statistical significance of 2.3 sigma. We do not see strong evidence for a trend in the formation of ULX in the high metallicity sample: above 12+log(O/H) ~ 8.0 the efficiency of ULX production appears to be flat. The effect we see is strongest in the lowest metallicity bin. We discuss briefly the implications of these results for the formation of black holes in low metallicity gas.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Application of a New Approach Methodology (NAM)-based Strategy for Genotoxicity Assessment of Data-poor Compounds
Creators: name: Fortin, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Genetic toxicology
TGx-DDI transcriptomic biomarker
New approach methodology
Data-poor compounds
Human health risk assessment
Toxicogenomics
MultiFlow®
MicroFlow®

description: The conventional battery for genotoxicity testing is not well-suited to assessing the large number of chemicals needing evaluation. Traditional in vitro tests lack throughput capacity, provide little mechanistic information, and have poor specificity in predicting in vivo genotoxicity. The Health Canada GeneTox21 research program is developing a multi-endpoint platform for modernized in vitro genotoxicity assessment. The GeneTox21 assays include the TGx-DDI transcriptomic biomarker (i.e., 64-gene expression signature to identify DNA damage-inducing (DDI) substances), the MicroFlow® assay (i.e., a flow cytometry-based micronucleus (MN) test), and the MultiFlow® assay (i.e., a multiplexed flow cytometry-based reporter assay that yields mechanism-of-action (MoA) information). As part of GeneTox21 development, the objective of this study was to investigate the utility of the TGx-DDI transcriptomic biomarker, multiplexed with the MicroFlow® and MultiFlow® assays, as an integrated testing strategy for screening data-poor substances prioritized by Health Canada’s New Substances Assessment and Control Bureau. Human lymphoblastoid TK6 cells were exposed to 3 control and 10 data-poor substances, using a 6-point concentration range. Cells were exposed for 4 hours with or without exogenous metabolic activation. Gene expression profiling was conducted using the targeted TempO-SeqTM assay, and the TGx-DDI classifier was applied to the dataset. Classifications were compared with those based on the MicroFlow® and MultiFlow® assays. Benchmark Concentration (BMC) modeling was used for potency ranking. The results of the integrated hazard calls indicate that five data-poor compounds are genotoxic in vitro, causing DNA damage via a clastogenic MoA, and one is positive via a pan-genotoxic MoA. Two compounds are likely irrelevant positives in the MN test; two are considered possibly genotoxic causing DNA damage via an ambiguous MoA. From quantitative analyses of concentration-response data, we observed nearly identical potency rankings for each assay with two main potency groups being observed. This ranking was maintained when all endpoint BMCs were converted into a single score using the Toxicological Prioritization (ToxPi) approach. Overall, this study contributes to the establishment of a modernized approach for effective genotoxicity assessment and chemical prioritization for further regulatory scrutiny. We conclude that integration of the TGx-DDI biomarker with other GeneTox21 assays is an effective NAM-based strategy for genotoxicity assessment of data-poor compounds.
Laplacian growth in a channel and Hurwitz numbers
Creators: name: Zabrodin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the integrable structure of the 2D Laplacian growth problem with zero surface tension in an infinite channel with periodic boundary conditions in the transverse direction. Similar to the Laplacian growth in radial geometry, this problem can be embedded into the 2D Toda lattice hierarchy in the zero dispersion limit. However, the relevant solution to the hierarchy is different. We characterize this solution by the string equations and construct the corresponding dispersionless tau-function. This tau-function is shown to coincide with the genus-zero part of the generating function for double Hurwitz numbers.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, minor corrections, references added
Herschel-ATLAS/GAMA: What determines the far-infrared properties of radio-galaxies?
Creators: name: Virdee, Jasmeer
name: Hardcastle, Martin
name: Rawlings, Steven
name: Rigopoulou, Dimitra
name: Mauch, Tom
name: Jarvis, Matt
name: Verma, Aprajita
name: Smith, Daniel
name: Heywood, Ian
name: White, Sarah
name: Baes, Martin
name: Cooray, Asantha
name: De Zotti, Gianfranco
name: Eales, Steve
name: Michalowski, Michal
name: Bourne, Nathan
name: Dariush, Ali
name: Dunne, Loretta
name: Hopwood, Rosalind
name: Ibar, Eduardo
name: Maddox, Steve
name: Smith, Matthew
name: Valiante, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a stacking analysis of H-ATLAS data in order to obtain isothermal dust temperatures and rest-frame luminosities at 250um (L250), for 1599 radio sources over the H-ATLAS P1 GAMA area. The radio sample is generated using a combination of NVSS data and K-band UKIDSS-LAS data, over 0.011.5 L_{K}^{*}) may have systematically lower FIR luminosities (~25%) than their colour-matched non radio-detected counterparts. Compact radio sources (<30kpc) are associated with higher L250s and dust temperatures than their more extended (>30kpc) counterparts. The higher dust temperature suggests that this may be attributed to enhanced SFRs, but whether this is directly or indirectly due to radio activity (e.g. jet induced or merger-driven SF) is as yet unknown.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Compulsory te reo Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand schools
Creators: name: Mercury, Monica
name: Wood, Bronwyn
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: While support for compulsory te reo Māori in schools in Aoteaora New Zealand is growing, there is a risk that any future policy could fail, or be only poorly implemented, unless we understand more deeply the factors which shape effective language policy implementation in schools. In this paper we employ a ‘future policy analysis' to explore what it would take to effectively implement a compulsory te reo Māori policy in schools in the future. We report on interviews with twelve purposively selected stakeholders (including Māori, Pākehā, Chinese and Samoan teachers, principals and one Member of Parliament) to elicit from their experiences and reflections the key elements required to implement te reo Māori well in schools. Participants identified that prioritising and valuing te reo Maori was foundational and essential for any potential policy shift at both national and school level. In addition, participants elaborated on how teacher expertise, resourcing, time and leadership support through senior management was integral to successful adoption and implementation. The paper concludes by recommending urgent attention to a range of future-focused strategies that beginning right now could bring about transformational change in our schools and give te reo Māori the mana it deserves.
Inclusive b-jet production in heavy ion collisions at the LHC
Creators: name: Huang, Jinrui
name: Kang, Zhong-Bo
name: Vitev, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical and experimental advances in understanding light jet production and modification in Pb+Pb reactions at a center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV have been a highlight of the LHC heavy ion program. At the same time, the detailed mechanisms of heavy quark energy loss in dense QCD matter are not yet fully understood. With this motivation, we present theoretical predictions for the nuclear-induced attenuation of the differential cross sections for inclusive b-jet production in heavy ion collisions at the LHC for comparison to upcoming data. We find that for transverse momenta pT > 75 GeV both hadronization and mass effects are negligible and this attenuation is comparable to the one observed for light jets. We discuss how the detailed b-jet quenching patterns can be used to gain new insight into the in-medium heavy flavor dynamics.
description: 8 pages, 5 eps figures, as published in PLB
DEEP SKETCH-BASED CHARACTER MODELING USING MULTIPLE CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Creators: name: Aslam, Aleena Kyenat Malik
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer graphics
Computer vision
Modelling and simulation

description: 3D character modeling is a crucial process of asset creation in the entertainment industry, particularly for animation and games. A fully automated pipeline via sketch-based 3D modeling (SBM) is an emerging possibility, but development is stalled by unrefined outputs and a lack of character-centered tools. This thesis proposes an improved method for constructing 3D character models with minimal user input, using only two sketch inputs i.e., a front and side unshaded sketch. The system implements a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), a type of deep learning algorithm extending from artificial intelligence (AI), to process the input sketch and generate multi-view depth, normal and confidence maps that offer more information about the 3D surface. These are then fused into a 3D point cloud, which is a type of object representation for 3D space. This point cloud is converted into a 3D mesh via an occupancy network, involving another CNN, for a more precise 3D representation. This reconstruction step contends with non-deep learning approaches such as Poisson reconstruction. The proposed system is evaluated for character generation on standardized quantitative metrics (i.e., Chamfer Distance [CD], Earth Mover’s Distance [EMD], F-score and Intersection of Union [IoU]), and compared to the base framework trained on the same character sketch and model database. This implementation offers a significant improvement in the accuracy of vertex positions for the reconstructed character models.
title:  Emergenza, controllo, democrazia. Quale inclusione in tempo di pandemia? Esiti di una indagine esplorativa con gli Studenti del CdL in Scienze della Formazione Primaria
Creators: name: De Castro, Martina
name: Zona, Umberto
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: La pandemia Covid-19 ha comportato conseguenze e trasformazioni prefigurando scenari inediti sul piano economico, sociale e personale, determinando anche nel campo della ricerca l’urgenza di esplorarne le ricadute. Il volume dà quindi conto delle indagini svolte e in corso, sin dai primi giorni del lockdown, dai docenti e dai collaboratori del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università Roma Tre, toccando i temi più diversi: dalla didattica a distanza, all’università e nei diversi ordini di scuola, al futuro dei servizi di orientamento, dal lavoro socio-educativo nelle varie tipologie di servizi all’impatto della pandemia sulle comunità, dalle narrazioni ai linguaggi artistici a contrasto di quest’emergenza non solo sanitaria. Si sono così esplorate le diverse educazioni possibili, riassegnando centralità ai processi formativi e al benessere delle persone, provando a tratteggiare nuovi paradigmi e prospettive.
description: Il Canale C del Laboratorio di Didattica Inclusiva che si è tenuto presso il Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università Roma Tre è stato dedicato al tema della pandemia da Covid 19. L’intento era quello di mappare sensazioni e sentimenti scaturiti negli/nelle studenti/esse nel periodo di confinamento forzato vissuto tra marzo e maggio 2020 e di sollecitare un’analisi socio-economico-ambientale sia delle cause che delle conseguenze della pandemia stessa. Dai 74 elaborati pervenuti abbiamo potuto ricavare le macro-aree su cui gli/le studenti/esse si stavano principalmente interrogando: l’inclusione, il controllo, il ritorno alla normalità, la relazione tra crisi ambientale e insorgenza pandemica. È così emerso che i rischi per l’inclusione scolastica e sociale si sono manifestati prevalentemente all’intersezione tra genere, razza, classe e disabilità e che l’auspicio di studenti/esse fosse quello di non tornare a una normalità pre-pandemica, in quanto il sovrasfruttamento delle risorse, l’invadente azione antropica sugli ecosistemi e il modello capitalistico sono tra le cause stesse dell’insorgenza della pandemia.
Additional information on the study population, behaviours for assessment of clan choice, methods to pair males, and detailed model results from Kinship and similarity drive coordination of breeding-group choice in male spotted hyenas
Creators: name: Davidian, Eve
name: Höner, Oliver P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: When and where animals reproduce influences the social, demographic and genetic properties of the groups and populations they live in. We examined the extent to which male spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) coordinate their breeding-group choice. We tested whether their propensity to settle in the same group is shaped by passive processes driven by similarities in their socio-ecological background and genotype or by an adaptive process driven by kin selection. We compared the choices of 148 pairs of same-cohort males that varied in similarity and kinship. We found strong support for both processes. Coordination was highest (70% of pairs) for littermates, who share most cumulative similarity, lower (36%) among peers born in the same group to different mothers, and lowest (7%) among strangers originating from different groups and mothers. Consistent with the kin selection hypothesis, the propensity to choose the same group was density dependent for full siblings and close kin, but not distant kin. Coordination increased as the number of breeding females and male competitors in social groups increased, i.e. when costs of kin competition over mates decreased and benefits of kin cooperation increased. Our results contrast with the traditional view that breeding-group choice and dispersal are predominantly solitary processes.
title: Building Your Best Life: A Workbook for Character and Career Development
Creators: name: McLoughlin, Shane
name: Pendrous, Rosina
name: Henderson, Emerald
name: Kristjánsson, Kristján
Publisher: name: University of Birmingham
Year: 2023

description: This workbook uses character strengths as a guide for self-discovery and career exploration. Based on research at the University of Birmingham, funded by the Society for Educational Studies, it helps you to understand the kind of professional you wish to become, and set out a plan to make it happen.
Parameters of rotating neutron stars with and without hyperons
Creators: name: Bejger, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of a 2 Msun neutron star provided a robust constraint for the theory of exotic dense matter, bringing into question the existence of strange baryons in the interiors of neutron stars. Although many theories fail to reproduce this observational result, several equations of state containing hyperons are consistent with it. We study global properties of stars using equations of state containing hyperons, and compare them to those without hyperons to find similarities, differences, and limits that can be compared with the astrophysical observations. Rotating, axisymmetric, and stationary stellar configurations in general relativity are obtained, and their global parameters are studied. Approximate formulae describing the behavior of the maximum and minimum stellar mass, compactness, surface redshifts, and moments of inertia as functions of spin frequency are provided. We also study the thin disk accretion and compare the spin-up evolution of stars with different moments of inertia.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics in press
Ab initio studies of the tunneling magneto-Seebeck effect: influence of magnetic material
Creators: name: Heiliger, Christian
name: Franz, Christian
name: Czerner, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We found a strong influence of the composition of the magnetic material on the temperature dependence of the tunneling magneto-Seebeck effect in $MgO$ based tunnel junctions. We use \textit{ab initio} alloy theory to consider different $Fe_xCo_{1-x}$ alloys for the ferromagnetic layer. Even a small change of the composition leads to strong changes in the magnitude or even in the sign of the tunneling magneto-Seebeck effect. This can explain differences between recent experimental results. In addition, changing the barrier thickness from six to ten monolayers of $MgO$ leads also to a non-trivial change of the temperature dependence. Our results emphasize that the tunneling magneto-Seebeck effect depends very crucially and is very sensitive to material parameters and show that further experimental and theoretical investigations are necessary.
Connected sum at infinity and 4-manifolds
Creators: name: Calcut, Jack S.
name: Haggerty, Patrick V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R19, 55P57

description: We study connected sum at infinity on smooth, open manifolds. This operation requires a choice of proper ray in each manifold summand. In favorable circumstances, the connected sum at infinity operation is independent of ray choices. For each m at least 3, we construct an infinite family of pairs of m-manifolds on which the connected sum at infinity operation yields distinct manifolds for certain ray choices. We use cohomology algebras at infinity to distinguish these manifolds.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Work and energy gain of heat-pumped quantized amplifiers
Creators: name: Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, David
name: Alicki, Robert
name: Kurizki, Gershon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate heat-pumped single-mode amplifiers of quantized fields in high-Q cavities based on non-inverted two-level systems. Their power generation is shown to crucially depend on the capacity of the quantum state of the field to accumulate useful work. By contrast, the energy gain of the field is shown to be insensitive to its quantum state. Analogies and differences with masers are explored.
New 2- and 3-loop heavy flavor corrections to unpolarized and polarized deep-inelastic scattering
Creators: name: Ablinger, J.
name: Blümlein, J.
name: De Freitas, A.
name: Saragnese, M.
name: Schneider, Carsten
name: Schönwald, K.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: heavy quark
deep inelastic scattering

description: A survey is given on the new 2- and 3-loop results for the heavy flavor contributions to deep-inelastic scattering in the unpolarized and the polarized case. We also discuss related new mathematical aspects applied in these calculations.
Forcoast & Blue-Cloud: synergy factsheet
Creators: name: Giuffrida, Rita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: EOSC
data infrastructure
interoperability
synergy
collaboration
blue economy
marine data
ocean data

description: Blue-Cloud provides a cloud-based, analytical and publishing framework as a federation of computing platforms and analytical services, hosted at leading e-infrastructures, offered through an easy-to-use orchestration system to access cloud computing resources distributed at different cloud providers sites. One of the synergies established by Blue-Cloud is with the Forcoast project.
Supplementary document for Unrolled Primal-Dual Networks for Lensless Cameras - 6063314.pdf
Creators: name: Aksit, Kaan
name: Kingshott, Oliver
name: Antipa, Nick
name: Bostan, Emrah
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Documentation for implementation details
Synthesis of Dispersed Metal Particles for Applications in Photovoltaics, Catalysis, and Electronics
Creators: name: Sevonkaev, I.
name: Privman, V.
name: Goia, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In colloid and nanoparticle chemistry, particle size, shape, crystallinity, surface morphology and composition are controlled by employing the mechanisms of burst nucleation, diffusional growth, aggregation, or their combinations. Here we review and survey practical examples of recently developed methods for preparing metal colloids and nanoparticles for industrial applications such as photovoltaics, catalysis, and consumer electronics. We discuss relevant theoretical models, many of which are general, and identify growth mechanisms that play a major role in other systems and applications as well.
Uvariodendron R. E. Fr., Acta Horti Berg. 10: 51 1930
Creators: name: Couvreur, Thomas L. P.
name: Dagallier, Leo-Paul M. J.
name: Crozier, Francoise
name: Ghogue, Jean-Paul
name: Hoekstra, Paul H.
name: Kamdem, Narcisse G.
name: Johnson, David M.
name: Murray, Nancy A.
name: Sonke, Bonaventure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Magnoliales
Annonaceae
Uvariodendron

description: Uvariodendron (Engl. & Diels) R.E.Fr., Acta Horti Berg. 10: 51, 1930 = Uvaria L. sect. Uvariodendron Engl. et Diels in Engl., Monogr. Afr. Pilanzenf. 6: 8, 1901. Type species. Uvariodendron fuscum (Benth.) R.E.Fr. (≡ Uvaria gigantea Engl.) Description. Trees, 3-20 m tall, d.b.h. up to 20 cm; stilt roots or buttresses absent. Indumentum of simple hairs or absent. Leaves: petiole 4-20 mm long, 1-9 mm in diameter; blade 13-70 cm long, 3.6-15 cm wide, ovate or elliptic or obovate or oblong, apex acuminate to emarginate, acumen 0.7-2 cm long, base acute to rounded; midrib sunken or flat; secondary veins 11 to 36 pairs per side; tertiary venation reticulate. Individuals bisexual; inflorescences cauliflorous or ramiflorous on old leafless branches, axillary, 1 to 3 per inflorescence; pedicel 1-19 mm long; in fruit 6-38 mm long; bracts 2 to 6, several basal and one upper towards the middle of the pedicel; sepals 3, valvate, basally fused, 6-35 mm long, apex acuminate, base truncate; petals free, sub equal; outer petals 3, valvate, 12-33 mm long, 8-25 mm wide, ovate, apex acuminate, base truncate; inner petals 3, valvate, 6.5-26.5 mm long, 5-17 mm wide, ovate, apex acute, base truncate; stamens 200 to 5000, 2-5 mm long, linear to narrowly oblong; connective discoid; staminodes absent; carpels free, 6 to 104, 3-7 mm long, stigma bilobed. Monocarps sessile or shortly stipitate; monocarps (1) 5 to 63, 20-70 mm long, 12-30 mm in diameter, globose or ellipsoid or oblong, apex acute or rounded; seeds 6-29 mm long, 4-21 mm in diameter, ellipsoid to flattened ellipsoid or oblong; aril absent. Taxonomy. Le Thomas (1969b); Dagallier et al. (in prep.). A genus of 14 species from West, Central and East Africa; in Cameroon five species, none endemic.
description: Published as part of Couvreur, Thomas L. P., Dagallier, Leo-Paul M. J., Crozier, Francoise, Ghogue, Jean-Paul, Hoekstra, Paul H., Kamdem, Narcisse G., Johnson, David M., Murray, Nancy A. & Sonke, Bonaventure, 2022, Flora of Cameroon - Annonaceae Vol 45, pp. 1-532 in PhytoKeys 207 on page 384, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.207.61432
description: {"references": ["Le Thomas, A, 1969b. Annonacees. In: Aubreville, A, Ed., Flore du Gabon. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris: 1 - 371"]}
ILIAD & Blue-Cloud: synergy factsheet
Creators: name: Giuffrida, Rita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: EOSC
data infrastructure
interoperability
synergy
collaboration
blue economy
marine data
ocean data

description: Blue-Cloud provides a cloud-based, analytical and publishing framework as a federation of computing platforms and analytical services, hosted at leading e-infrastructures, offered through an easy-to-use orchestration system to access cloud computing resources distributed at different cloud providers sites. One of the synergies established by Blue-Cloud is with the ILIAD project.
Biobanks Europe: Special Issue on Quality
Creators: name: Wutte, Andrea
name: Litton, Jan-Eric
name: Zatloukal, Kurt
name: Oelmüller, Uwe
name: Lavitrano, Marialuisa
name: Krieger, Lena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: biobanking
quality management
quality assurance
QM

description: This edition of Biobanks Europe magazine had a special focus on Quality Management aspects in biobanking and biomolecular resources.
title:  Narrazione digitale, educazione inclusiva e fruizione del patrimonio ai tempi del Covid-19. L’app E-Trouria del Centro di Didattica Museale dell’Università Roma Tre
Creators: name: Caccamo, Alessio
name: Poce, Antonella
name: De Medio, Carlo
name: Amenduni, Francesca
name: Valente, Mara
name: Re, Maria Rosaria
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: La pandemia Covid-19 ha comportato conseguenze e trasformazioni prefigurando scenari inediti sul piano economico, sociale e personale, determinando anche nel campo della ricerca l’urgenza di esplorarne le ricadute. Il volume dà quindi conto delle indagini svolte e in corso, sin dai primi giorni del lockdown, dai docenti e dai collaboratori del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università Roma Tre, toccando i temi più diversi: dalla didattica a distanza, all’università e nei diversi ordini di scuola, al futuro dei servizi di orientamento, dal lavoro socio-educativo nelle varie tipologie di servizi all’impatto della pandemia sulle comunità, dalle narrazioni ai linguaggi artistici a contrasto di quest’emergenza non solo sanitaria. Si sono così esplorate le diverse educazioni possibili, riassegnando centralità ai processi formativi e al benessere delle persone, provando a tratteggiare nuovi paradigmi e prospettive.
description: Negli ultimi anni, i musei hanno sempre più assunto il ruolo di siti educativi con la funzione di promuovere l'integrazione sociale e culturale attraverso diverse metodologie come il Digital Storytelling (DST), la Realtà Virtuale (VR) e la personalizzazione dei percorsi museali. Partendo da questo presupposto, il Centro di Didattica Museale dell'Università Roma TRE, nell’ambito del progetto di Ateneo "Inclusive Memory", ha realizzato la sperimentazione di una mostra etrusca inclusiva e in realtà virtuale volta a favorire la costruzione di una memoria sociale collettiva condivisa, combinando le metodologie del DST con istruzioni di apprendimento basate sul Visual Thinking e sul Pensiero Critico. La sperimentazione pilota, avvenuta durante la diffusione della pandemia di Covid-19 con la partecipazione di studenti del Master “Studi avanzati di educazione museale” e di due corsi nell’ambito del CdL in Scienze della Formazione Primaria e di Scienze Pedagogiche afferenti al Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, offre risultati interessanti in merito alla promozione di percorsi didattici personalizzati.
Imry-Ma criterion for long-range random field Ising model: short-/long-range equivalence in a field
Creators: name: Leuzzi, Luca
name: Parisi, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ising model in a random field and with power-law decaying ferromagnetic bonds is studied at zero temperature. Comparing the scaling of the energy contributions of the ferromagnetic domain wall flip and of the random field a la Imry-Ma we obtain a threshold value for the power $ρ$ of the long-range interaction, beyond which no critical behavior occurs. The critical threshold value is $ρ_c=3/2$, at a difference with the zero field model in which $ρ_c=2$. This prediction is confirmed by numerical computation of the ground states below, at, and above this threshold value. Some possible implications for the critical behavior of spin-glasses in a field are conjectured.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
title: Стилистика и литературное редактирование
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Дашков и К, Ай Пи Эр Медиа
Year: 2019

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены категории стилистики, стилистическая система русского языка, стилеопределяющие факторы, стилистическое значение и окраска (коннотация), экспрессивность речи, стилистические нормы современного русского языка, функциональные стили (научный, официально-деловой, публицистический, разговорная речь), стилистические приемы, способы выражения авторского начала, современные проблемы стилистики; даны практические задания. Составлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом высшего образования (ФГОС ВО) и программой дисциплины «Стилистика и литературное редактирование». Для студентов, обучающихся по направлению подготовки «Журналистика» (академический бакалавриат).
Impact of Disentanglement on Pruning Neural Networks
Creators: name: Shneider, Carl
name: Rostami, Peyman
name: Kacem, Anis
name: Sinha, Nilotpal
name: Shabayek, Abdelrahman
name: Aouada, Djamila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neural Network Compression
Deep learning
Edge computing
Disentangled latent representation
Neural Network Pruning
Variational Autoencoder

description: Efficient model compression techniques are required to deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices for task specific objectives. A variational autoencoder (VAE) framework is combined with a pruning criterion to investigate the impact of having the network learn disentangled representations on the pruning process for the classification task. Poster from the Computer Vision, Imaging, and Machine Intelligence Research Group (CVI2) at SnT, University of Luxembourg. Selected for poster presentation during the first edition of the International Symposium on Computational Sensing ISCS23 in Luxembourg.
description: This work was funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) under the project reference C21/IS/15965298/ELITE.
Analysis of shot noise in the detection of ultrashort optical pulse trains
Creators: name: Quinlan, Franklyn
name: Fortier, Tara M.
name: Jiang, Haifeng
name: Diddams, Scott A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a frequency domain model of shot noise in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains using a time-varying analysis. Shot noise-limited photocurrent power spectral densities, signal-to-noise expressions, and shot noise spectral correlations are derived that explicitly include the finite response of the photodetector. It is shown that the strength of the spectral correlations in the shot noise depends on the optical pulse width, and that these correlations can create orders-of-magnitude imbalance between the shot noise-limited amplitude and phase noise of photonically generated microwave carriers. It is also shown that only by accounting for spectral correlations can shot noise be equated with the fundamental quantum limit in the detection of optical pulse-to-pulse timing jitter.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to JOSA B
On Convexity of Error Rates in Digital Communications
Creators: name: Loyka, Sergey
name: Kostina, Victoria
name: Gagnon, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convexity properties of error rates of a class of decoders, including the ML/min-distance one as a special case, are studied for arbitrary constellations, bit mapping and coding. Earlier results obtained for the AWGN channel are extended to a wide class of noise densities, including unimodal and spherically-invariant noise. Under these broad conditions, symbol and bit error rates are shown to be convex functions of the SNR in the high-SNR regime with an explicitly-determined threshold, which depends only on the constellation dimensionality and minimum distance, thus enabling an application of the powerful tools of convex optimization to such digital communication systems in a rigorous way. It is the decreasing nature of the noise power density around the decision region boundaries that insures the convexity of symbol error rates in the general case. The known high/low SNR bounds of the convexity/concavity regions are tightened and no further improvement is shown to be possible in general. The high SNR bound fits closely into the channel coding theorem: all codes, including capacity-achieving ones, whose decision regions include the hardened noise spheres (from the noise sphere hardening argument in the channel coding theorem) satisfies this high SNR requirement and thus has convex error rates in both SNR and noise power. We conjecture that all capacity-achieving codes have convex error rates. Convexity properties in signal amplitude and noise power are also investigated. Some applications of the results are discussed. In particular, it is shown that fading is convexity-preserving and is never good in low dimensions under spherically-invariant noise, which may also include any linear diversity combining.
description: Accepted by IEEE Information Theory Transactions, 2013
Chen,W Official Thesis Submission.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Winifred X
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Industrial engineering

description: Identification of the phases of a large-scale natural disaster is often clouded by classes and sources of deep uncertainty, further proliferating as disaster events unfold. Focusing on three distinct phases of natural disaster relief operations, it is not necessary nor viable to eliminate all uncertainty from a natural disaster system. Instead, reducing the amount of time taken to minimize particular uncertainties may be sufficient to execute the preparation phase to carry out a response. The goal of this research is to understand the intricacies associated with forecastable and rapid-onset natural disaster events and restructure already-established tools to assist first responders and relevant decision-makers in the planning and response phases. Understanding specific foraging actions will support the considerations that must be made during the preparation phase while tying in other notable concepts, including use of a problem-structuring technique from the decision-making under deep uncertainty literature to contextualize the system of interest. The restructuring of a planning-based to a response-based problem-structuring tool will also highlight the added value in shifting from a static to a dynamic perspective. Following contextualization, utilizing an adaptive pathway approach will serve as a practical decision-support tool, allowing for open and flexible progression through the response phase of a natural disaster as events unfold, inclusive of specific triggers indicating a new event occurrence and thus, a new decision point. This paper addresses conditional criterion-based decision-making, focusing on an adaptive pathways approach in response to flooding incidents.
THE DETECTION OF SHORT-LIVED REACTION INTERMEDIATES IN SOLUTION, CHARACTERIZATION OF METAL COMPLEXES, AND THE CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE OF 1-BROMOPROPANE UPON BINDING TO ΑLPHA-CYCLODEXTRIN
Creators: name: Boulos, Victoria
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Analytical spectrometry

description: The development of a novel technique employing the use of a linear quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer coupled to a Nd:YAG laser and a home-built fast reagent-mixing apparatus is detailed and used to detect the short-lived tetrahedral reaction intermediate of the reaction of acetyl chloride with ethanol in microdroplets. Additionally, tandem and high-resolution mass spectrometry is used to characterize potential precursors for solution-processed metal selenide semiconductors in order to determine a synthetic route to sulfur-free thin films. Lastly, Raman MCR (multivariate curve resolution) spectroscopy is used to study the binding-induced conformational change of 1-bromopropane upon binding to α-cyclodextrin as a model system to examine guest conformational changes upon binding to a host molecule.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HEALTHCARE:AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON USERS' ATTITUDE AND INTENTION TO USE TOWARD A PERSONAL HOME HEALTHCARE ROBOT TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CONDITIONS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND
Creators: name: Waeovisa Thadatritharntip
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2020
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence
Health and Wellness
Home Healthcare
Healthcare Robot
Robotics
Elderly care
Attitude
Intention to use

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 12, 1, 3 - 26
MPEC 2023-M63 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 June 20)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
WW Scattering in the Era of Post Higgs Discovery
Creators: name: Chang, Jung
name: Cheung, Kingman
name: Lu, Chih-Ting
name: Yuan, Tzu-Chiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: More evidences have now been collected at the Large Hadron Collider suggesting the new 125 - 126 GeV boson is likely the long sought Higgs boson in the standard model. One pressing question continued being asked by theorists is whether this Higgs boson is a lone player responsible for the full electroweak symmetry breaking. Current data still allow room for additional Higgs bosons or some other UV physics that may play a partial role in electroweak symmetry breaking as well. We use the WW scattering to investigate such a possibility, using the two-Higgs-doublet model as a prototype. The WW scattering becomes strong when the extra Higgs bosons are very heavy. We study the sensitivity of the partially strong WW scattering signals at the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Killing-Yano tensors in spaces admitting a hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector
Creators: name: Garfinkle, David
name: Glass, E. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methods are presented for finding Killing-Yano tensors, conformal Killing-Yano tensors, and conformal Killing vectors in spacetimes with a hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector. These methods are similar to a method developed by the authors for finding Killing tensors. In all cases one decomposes both the tensor and the equation it satisfies into pieces along the Killing vector and pieces orthogonal to the Killing vector. Solving the separate equations that result from this decomposition requires less computing than integrating the original equation. In each case, examples are given to illustrate the method.
title: 	VI Congresso Internacional: A Voz dos Avós: envelhecimentos, relações intergeracionais e migrações
Creators: name: Ramos, Natália
Publisher: name: Universidade Aberta. CEMRI
Year: 2019

description: O envelhecimento da população, nacional e migrante, constitui um dos maiores desafios das sociedades contemporâneas. Tendo Portugal uma diáspora cada vez mais envelhecida, e sendo o terceiro país mais envelhecido da Europa e um dos mais envelhecidos do mundo, tem igualmente cada vez mais idosos nacionais e imigrantes de diferentes perfis e culturas, principalmente na região de Lisboa, onde reside uma população idosa importante e diversificada, social e culturalmente.A temática coloca desafios importantes, culturais, demográficos, sociais, económicos, educacionais e políticos, para a obtenção de um desenvolvimento sustentável, para a promoção do envelhecimento ativo, digno e saudável da população nacional e imigrante, para a definição de políticas públicas, bem como para a construção de uma sociedade promotora do bem-estar e integração de todas as idades e culturas, onde as populações mais velhas não sejam discriminadas e excluídas e onde as várias gerações e instâncias sociais e políticas contribuam para uma cultura inclusiva, solidária, de cidadania e direitos humanos.