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L’autonomia nel progettare: la valutazione formativa come aiuto alla progettazione
Creators: name: Felappi, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2021

description: Tema di ricerca - L’importanza della valutazione formativa nelle materie artistiche al fine di poter aiutare il ragazzo e la ragazza a progredire nel proprio elaborato in maniera autonoma. La ricerca ha permesso di individuare una serie di strumenti utili da utilizzare durante l’anno scolastico. Metodologia di ricerca considerata – Si privilegia una metodologia di ricerca di tipo qualitativo attraverso la somministrazione di formulari e rubriche valutative. Il target preso in analisi sono le classi di prima media di Educazione alle Arti Plastiche della Scuola media di Chiasso e Pregassona. Relatore: Davide Antognazza.
Further analysis of the connected moments expansion
Creators: name: Amore, Paolo
name: Fernández, Francisco M.
name: Rodriguez, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the connected moments expansion to simple quantum--mechanical examples and show that under some conditions the main equations of the approach are no longer valid. In particular we consider two--level systems, the harmonic oscillator and the pure quartic oscillator.
description: 19 pages; 2 tables; 4 figures
Impact of an interprofessional population health course and clinical immersion experience: Students and practice outcomes
Creators: name: Zomorodi, M.
name: Wilfert, R.
name: Byerley, J.
name: de Saxe Zerden, L.
name: Nance-Floyd, B.
name: Alexander, L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of an interprofessional (IP) population health course and accompanying clinical immersion experience. Outcomes related to IP learning, team-based communication, and clinical practice outcomes are discussed. Graduate students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and social work participated in a blended learning didactic course followed by a clinical immersion experience in primacy care. Students worked in interprofessional teams to complete a needs assessment, and design and implement quality improvement projects with primary care partners. Student assessment included evaluation of teamwork and collaboration and reflective practice. Overall impact of the course was measured by course outcomes, the impact of the quality improvement project at the practice site, and clinical satisfaction working with the student teams. This model demonstrates a clear need to continue to develop educational curricula aimed at building collaborations between health professionals and communities to provide care to populations that is cost effective and quality and outcomes based.
Bottomonium Spectrum with Coupled-Channel Effects
Creators: name: Liu, Jia-Feng
name: Ding, Gui-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the bottomonium spectrum in the nonrelativistic quark model with the coupled-channel effects. The mass shifts and valence $b\bar{b}$ component are evaluated to be rather large. We find that the hadronic loop effects can be partially absorbed into a reselection of the model parameters. No bottomonium state except $Υ(5\,^1S_0)$ and $Υ(5\,^3S_1)$ with mass around 10890 MeV is found in the quark models both with and without coupled-channel effects, so we suggest that $Y_{b}(10890)$ is an exotic state beyond the quark model, if it is confirmed to be a new resonance. The predictions for the $χ_b(3P)$ masses are consistent with the ATLAS measurements. If some new bottomonium-like states are observed at LHCb or SuperB in the future, we can determine whether they are conventional bottomonium or exotic states by comparing their masses with the mass spectrum predicted in our work.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures
A characterization of positive linear maps and criteria of entanglement for quantum states
Creators: name: Hou, Jinchuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Let $H$ and $K$ be (finite or infinite dimensional) complex Hilbert spaces. A characterization of positive completely bounded normal linear maps from ${\mathcal B}(H)$ into ${\mathcal B}(K)$ is given, which particularly gives a characterization of positive elementary operators including all positive linear maps between matrix algebras. This characterization is then applied give a representation of quantum channels (operations) between infinite-dimensional systems. A necessary and sufficient criterion of separability is give which shows that a state $ρ$ on $H\otimes K$ is separable if and only if $(Φ\otimes I)ρ\geq 0$ for all positive finite rank elementary operators $Φ$. Examples of NCP and indecomposable positive linear maps are given and are used to recognize some entangled states that cannot be recognized by the PPT criterion and the realignment criterion.
description: 20 pages
Chiral Symmetry Restoration in Holographic Noncommutative QCD
Creators: name: Nakajima, Tadahito
name: Ohtake, Yukiko
name: Suzuki, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the noncommutative deformation of the Sakai--Sugimoto model at finite temperature and finite baryon chemical potential. The space noncommutativity is possible to have an influence on the flavor dynamics of the QCD. The critical temperature and critical value of the chemical potential are modified by the space noncommutativity. The influence of the space noncommutativity on the flavor dynamics of the QCD is caused by the Wess--Zumino term in the effective action of the D8-branes. The intermediate temperature phase, in which the gluons deconfine but the chiral symmetry remains broken, is easy to be realized in some region of the noncommutativity parameter.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures; v2: minor corrections and improvements, conclusions unchanged; v3: minor corrections, version accepted for publication in JHEP
Computational Studies of Quantum Spin Systems
Creators: name: Sandvik, Anders W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lecture notes introduce quantum spin systems and several computational methods for studying their ground-state and finite-temperature properties. Symmetry-breaking and critical phenomena are first discussed in the simpler setting of Monte Carlo studies of classical spin systems, to illustrate finite-size scaling at continuous and first-order phase transitions. Exact diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo (stochastic series expansion) algorithms and their computer implementations are then discussed in detail. Applications of the methods are illustrated by results for some of the most essential models in quantum magnetism, such as the S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet in one and two dimensions, as well as extended models useful for studying quantum phase transitions between antiferromagnetic and magnetically disordered states.
description: 207 pages, 91 figures. Lecture notes for course given at the 14th Training Course in Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems, Salerno (Vietri sul Mare), Italy, in October 2009
Le emozioni alla Scuola dell’Infanzia: come vengono considerate nell'insegnamento e nell'apprendimento
Creators: name: Jurietti, Dania
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2012

description: Negli ultimi 20 anni le emozioni sono state oggetto di molti studi e si è arrivati alla conclusione che quest’ultime hanno un ruolo molto importante all’interno della nostra vita. Per questo motivo si sta cercando di considerare le emozioni anche nell’insegnamento, poiché quest’ultime possono aiutare il bambino a controllare il proprio comportamento, a riconoscere cosa succede dentro di lui e a instaurare e gestire le relazioni interpersonali. Il mio lavoro di ricerca consiste nell’indagare se le docenti di Scuola dell’Infanzia sono consapevoli del ruolo importante delle emozioni nel processo di insegnamento e apprendimento, e di conseguenza quanta importanza gli danno. Ho intervistato sei docenti di Scuola dell’Infanzia, le quali hanno dimostrato una grande sensibilità e interesse nei confronti di questa tematica. Esse sostengono che considerare le emozioni le aiuta molto nel gestire le relazioni, il gruppo classe, poiché riconoscendo come stanno i bambini, si possono cogliere i loro bisogni, desideri, interessi, e dunque di conseguenza regolare gli interventi. Inoltre loro stesse hanno potuto verificare dei benefici nell’apprendimento, come una maggiore attenzione, un maggiore interesse nello svolgere le attività, inoltre si crea un clima di classe sereno e tranquillo, in cui i bambini vengono rispettati e ascoltati, senza paura di essere giudicati. Relatore: Davide Antognazza
Investigation of element-specific and bulk magnetism, electronic and crystal structures of La{0.70}Ca{0.30}Mn{1-x}Cr{x}O{3}
Creators: name: Terashita, H.
name: Cezar, J. C.
name: Ardito, F. M.
name: Bufaical, L. F.
name: Granado, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic interactions in La{0.70}Ca{0.30}Mn{1-x}Cr{x}O{3} (x = 0.15, 0.50 and 0.70) are investigated by x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), high-resolution x-ray powder diffraction, and bulk magnetization measurements. XAS in the Mn and Cr L{2,3} edges support stable single valent Cr{3+} ions and a varying Mn valence state with x, while the O K edge XAS spectrum reveals local maxima in the O 2p density of states close to the Fermi level due to mixing with Mn and Cr 3d states. A robust antiferromagnetic state is found for x=0.70 below TN = 258 K. For x=0.15, combined XMCD and bulk magnetization measurements indicate a fully polarized ferrimagnetic state for the Mn and Cr spins below Tc=224 K. For x=0.50, a reduced ferrimagnetic component dominated by Mn spins is present below Tc=154 K. No evidence of lattice anomalies due to cooperative charge and orbital orderings is found by x-ray diffraction for all samples. The magnetic properties of this system are rationalized in terms of a competition of ferromagnetic Mn-Mn double exchange and antiferromagnetic Cr-Cr and Cr-Mn superexchange interactions.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
Reduction of periodic one-dimensional hopping model
Creators: name: Zhang, Yunxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this research, methods of reducing a general periodic one-dimensional hopping model to a one- or two-state model, which keeps the basic properties of the original process, are discussed. This reduction also implies that, to some extent, many processes can be well described by simple two-state or even one-state models.
Microwave-assisted catalytic pyrolysis of refuse-derived fuel to improve pyrolysis performance and biochar properties
Creators: name: Yang, Pu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Solid waste disposal and soil contamination remain severe environmental issues in many regions. Biochar can be produced via pyrolysis of solid waste and further applied for soil amendment. Microwave-assisted catalytic pyrolysis (MACP) is an innovative technology to improve pyrolysis performance and biochar quality compared with conventional pyrolysis. This project focuses on investigating the feasibility of using MACP to produce high quality biochar from refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which is generated through pre-processing of municipal solid waste (MSW). Two main catalysts, K₂CO₃ and K₃PO₄, and their combination with bentonite and clinoptilolite, were selected to mix with RDF in a fixed bed reactor exposed to microwave radiation. By comparing heating rate and biochar properties, the optimal catalyst was identified and further evaluated under various operating conditions, i.e., microwave power input, targeted pyrolysis temperature and microwave radiation time, in order to establish the relationship between these parameters and biochar yield and properties. The produced biochar was mainly characterized by specific surface area and pore size distribution based on N₂ adsorption/desorption isotherm. K₂CO₃ showed higher heating rate and larger specific surface area of biochar than that of K₃PO₄ due to its prominent activation effect. Synergistic effect was observed when bentonite or clinoptilolite was added into K₃PO₄ which significantly improved microwave heating rate. The optimal catalyst case was identified as 20% K₂CO₃ + 10% bentonite due to its high heating rate (163 ℃/min) and large specific surface area (206 m²/g) of biochar. Too low a microwave power (600W) could not initiate the reaction. The optimum targeted pyrolysis temperature was determined as 500 ℃ to produce biochar with the highest specific surface area (265 m²/g) and, based on statistical analysis, pyrolysis temperature was the main factor that influenced biochar yield and specific surface area, followed by microwave radiation time. Biochar produced from 30 wt.% K₂CO₃ could act as a precursor of potential adsorbent, while K₃PO₄ remaining in the produced biochar could serve as essential nutrient sources for plant growth and had the potential in adsorbing and immobilizing heavy metal contents in contaminated soil.
Cosmic rays and tests of fundamental principles
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Mestres, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is now widely acknowledged that cosmic rays experiments can test possible new physics directly generated at the Planck scale or at some other fundamental scale. By studying particle properties at energies far beyond the reach of any man-made accelerator, they can yield unique checks of basic principles. A well-known example is provided by possible tests of special relativity at the highest cosmic-ray energies. But other essential ingredients of standard theories can in principle be tested: quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle, energy and momentum conservation, effective space-time dimensions, hamiltonian and lagrangian formalisms, postulates of cosmology, vacuum dynamics and particle propagation, quark and gluon confinement, elementariness of particles... Standard particle physics or string-like patterns may have a composite origin able to manifest itself through specific cosmic-ray signatures. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, but also cosmic rays at lower energies, are probes of both "conventional" and new Physics. Status, prospects, new ideas, and open questions in the field are discussed. The Post Scriptum shows that several basic features of modern cosmology naturally appear in a SU(2) spinorial description of space-time without any need for matter, relativity or standard gravitation. New possible effects related to the spinorial space-time structure can also be foreseen. Similarly, the existence of spin-1/2 particles can be naturally related to physics beyond Planck scale and to a possible pre-Big Bang era.
description: Talk given at the Cosmic Ray International Seminar - CRIS 2010, Catania, 13-17 September 2010. A Post Scriptum added to the version published by Nuclear Physics Proceedings. 13 pages
Musica sì, musica no?
Creators: name: Bazzi, Elia
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2013

description: La mia ricerca vuole analizzare in che modo la presenza di musica (genere dance) influenza la motivazione degli allievi durante attività di educazione fisica, dove sono poste in risalto la dimensione biologica e la dimensione cognitiva. Inoltre viene analizzato come il variare della motivazione influenza la performance degli allievi nelle due dimensioni sopracitate. Dalla ricerca è emerso che la presenza di musica ha incentivato la motivazione degli allievi nello svolgimento delle attività, rispetto a quando la musica era assente; questo aumento di motivazione però non sempre è corrisposto ad un aumento della performance. Infatti, quando la musica era presente, gli allievi hanno migliorato la loro performance nelle attività della dimensione biologica, mentre la presenza della musica nelle attività dove è posta in risalto la dimensione cognitiva ha influenzato la performance in maniera negativa. Relatori: Alejandro Arigoni e Flavio Rossi
A EXT 1362 no STF: Prescritibilidade de crimes contra a humanidade, o processo de extradição no Brasil e Jus Cogens
Creators: name: Formiga, Pedro
name: Ponzilacqua, Marcio Henrique Pereira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180116 International Law (excl. International Trade Law)
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Law
subject: 180108 Constitutional Law
subject: 180106 Comparative Law
subject: 180114 Human Rights Law
subject: 180119 Law and Society

description: O texto visa a apresentar e tratar a questão do entendimento da prescritibilidade de crimes contra a humanidade no Brasil, abordando os aspectos mais relevantes do tema, notadamente acerca do processo de extradição e do caráter cogente das normas internacionais relativas a esses crimes. Metodologicamente realizamos uma pesquisa qualitativa num estudo de caso do Processo de Extradição n. 1362, em que obtivemos como resultado que os crimes contra a humanidade são imprescritíveis, em discordância com a decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal no supracitado processo de extradição. A importância desse tema se dá pelo caráter instrumental e essencialmente jurisdicional do tema.
Exploratory Analysis of Functional Data via Clustering and Optimal Segmentation
Creators: name: Hébrail, Georges
name: Hugueney, Bernard
name: Lechevallier, Yves
name: Rossi, Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose in this paper an exploratory analysis algorithm for functional data. The method partitions a set of functions into $K$ clusters and represents each cluster by a simple prototype (e.g., piecewise constant). The total number of segments in the prototypes, $P$, is chosen by the user and optimally distributed among the clusters via two dynamic programming algorithms. The practical relevance of the method is shown on two real world datasets.
Constant mean curvature and totally umbilical biharmonic surfaces in 3-dimensional geometries
Creators: name: Ou, Ye-Lin
name: Wang, Ze-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that a totally umbilical biharmonic surface in any $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold has constant mean curvature. We use this to show that a totally umbilical surface in Thurston's 3-dimensional geometries is proper biharmonic if and only if it is a part of $S^2(1/\sqrt{2})$ in $S^3$. We also give complete classifications of constant mean curvature proper biharmonic surfaces in 3-dimensional geometries and in 3-dimensional Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu spaces, and a complete classifications of proper biharmonic Hopf cylinders in 3-dimensional Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu spaces.
description: 15 pages
Optimal algorithms for experts and mixtures of Gaussians
Creators: name: Liaw, Christopher Vui
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: This thesis makes contributions to two problems in learning theory: prediction with expert advice and learning mixtures of Gaussians. The problem of prediction with expert advice can be cast as a sequential game between an algorithm and an adversary as follows. At each time step, an algorithm chooses one of n options (or experts) and the adversary sets a cost for each expert. The algorithm's goal is to minimize its regret, i.e. its cost relative to the best expert in hindsight. The celebrated multiplicative weights algorithm is known to be optimal if the the game is terminated at a fixed, known time and the number of experts is large. Optimal algorithms are also known when the number of experts is 2, 3, or 4. If the game does not terminate at a known time or is run indefinitely, the optimal algorithm is not known for any number of experts. We contribute to this problem by giving the optimal algorithm when there are 2 experts. Our algorithm is designed by considering a continuous analogue of the problem, which is solved using ideas from stochastic calculus. In the second part of the thesis, we look at distribution learning, which is a fundamental task in statistics that has been studied for over a century. We consider such a problem where the distribution is a mixture of k Gaussians in d dimensions. The objective is density estimation: given i.i.d. samples from the unknown distribution, produce a distribution whose total variation from the unknown distribution is within some desired accuracy. We contribute to this problem by designing an algorithm with near-optimal sample complexity.
Optomechanically induced transparency
Creators: name: Weis, S.
name: Riviere, R.
name: Deleglise, S.
name: Gavartin, E.
name: Arcizet, O.
name: Schliesser, A.
name: Kippenberg, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent interaction of laser radiation with multilevel atoms and molecules can lead to quantum interference in the electronic excitation pathways. A prominent example observed in atomic three-level-systems is the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), in which a control laser induces a narrow spectral transparency window for a weak probe laser beam. The concomitant rapid variation of the refractive index in this spectral window can give rise to dramatic reduction of the group velocity of a propagating pulse of probe light. Dynamic control of EIT via the control laser enables even a complete stop, that is, storage, of probe light pulses in the atomic medium. Here, we demonstrate optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT)--formally equivalent to EIT--in a cavity optomechanical system operating in the resolved sideband regime. A control laser tuned to the lower motional sideband of the cavity resonance induces a dipole-like interaction of optical and mechanical degrees of freedom. Under these conditions, the destructive interference of excitation pathways for an intracavity probe field gives rise to a window of transparency when a two-photon resonance condition is met. As a salient feature of EIT, the power of the control laser determines the width and depth of the probe transparency window. OMIT could therefore provide a new approach for delaying, slowing and storing light pulses in long-lived mechanical excitations of optomechanical systems, whose optical and mechanical properties can be tailored in almost arbitrary ways in the micro- and nano-optomechanical platforms developed to date.
Engaging Students in the Development of an Interprofessional Population Health Management Course
Creators: name: Nance-Floyd, B.
name: Zomorodi, M.
name:  Alexander, L.
name: De Saxe Zerden, L.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2017

description: It has been well established that interprofessional (IP) teams improve quality, safety, and efficiency. When taught consistently, IP education (IPE) can challenge students to problem-solve collaboratively, impart attitudinal changes, and reduce stereotypes between health professionals. As a result, there has been an impetus to provide more IP learning experiences for students in the health affairs schools. The World Health Organization defines IPE as “learning about, learning from, and learning with other professions.” This definition, along with the identified barriers to implementation of IP courses, challenges faculty to think about how to develop these courses successfully. Research has shown that having well-trained prevention and population health professionals outside the traditional public health field is important because of the focus on prevention across health settings. Because health professionals work in IP teams clinically, training and educating all health professionals within IP models are a fundamental first step in preparing these health providers.
Going mobile with primary care: smartphone-telemedicine for asthma management in young urban adults (TEAMS)
Creators: name: Mammen, Jennifer R.
name: Schoonmaker, Judith D.
name: Java, James
name: Halterman, Jill
name: Berliant, Marc N.
name: Crowley, Amber
name: Reznik, Marina
name: Feldman, Jonathan M.
name: Fortuna, Robert J.
name: Frey, Sean M.
name: Turgeon, Kelsey
name: Philibert, Ashley
name: Arcoleo, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The majority of adults with persistent asthma have chronically uncontrolled disease and interventions to improve outcomes are needed. We evaluated the efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability of a multi-component smartphone-telemedicine program (TEAMS) to deliver asthma care remotely, support provider adherence to asthma management guidelines, and improve patient outcomes. TEAMS utilized: (1) remote symptom monitoring, (2) nurse-led smartphone-telemedicine with self-management training for patients, and (3) Electronic medical record-based clinical decision support software. Adults aged 18-44 (N = 33) and primary care providers (N = 4) were recruited from a safety-net practice in Upstate New York. Asthma control, quality of life, and FEV1 were measured at 0, 3 and 6 months. Acceptability was assessed via survey and end-of-study interviews. Paired t-test and mixed effects modeling were used to evaluate the effect of the intervention on asthma outcomes. At baseline, 80% of participants had uncontrolled asthma. By 6-months, 80% classified as well-controlled. Improvements in control and quality of life were large (d = 1.955, d = 1.579). FEV%pred increased 4.2% (d = 1.687) with the greatest gain in males, smokers, and lower educational status. Provider adherence to national guidelines increased from 43.3% to 86.7% (CI = 22.11-64.55) and patient adherence to medication increased from 45.58% to 85.29% (CI = 14.79-64.62). Acceptability was 95.7%; In follow up interviews, 29/30 patients and all providers indicated TEAMS worked better than usual care, supported effective self-management, and reduced symptoms over time, which led to greater self-efficacy and motivation to manage asthma. Based on these findings, we conclude that smartphone telemedicine could substantially improve clinical asthma management, adherence to guidelines, and patient outcomes.
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description: In this work we study highly efficient robust Qnâestimates of scale for various values of the distribution quantile. General concepts of the theory of robustness are given. The class of MQnâestimates, the approximations of Qnâestimates by Huberâs M-estimates of scale, is considered. The analytical expression for the efficiency of Qnâestimates depending on the value of a distribution quantile is obtained. Among Qnâestimates, the median Qnâestimate corresponding to the quantile value 0.5 and called as the Qmedâestimate, has the maximum efficiency 86% and breakdown point 50% at the normal distribution.
Shearer's measure and stochastic domination of product measures
Creators: name: Temmel, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15 (primary), 60G60, 82B20, 05D40

description: Let G=(V,E) be a locally finite graph. Let \vec{p}\in[0,1]^V. We show that Shearer's measure, introduced in the context of the Lovasz Local Lemma, with marginal distribution determined by \vec{p} exists on G iff every Bernoulli random field with the same marginals and dependency graph G dominates stochastically a non-trivial Bernoulli product field. Additionaly we derive a lower non-trivial uniform bound for the parameter vector of the dominated Bernoulli product field. This generalizes previous results by Liggett, Schonmann & Stacey in the homogeneous case, in particular on the k-fuzz of Z. Using the connection between Shearer's measure and lattice gases with hardcore interaction established by Scott & Sokal, we apply bounds derived from cluster expansions of lattice gas partition functions to the stochastic domination problem.
Association analysis of the surfactant protein-C gene to childhood asthma
Creators: name: Nefzi, Malek
name: Wahabi, Imen
name: Fredj, Sondess Hadj
name: Othmani, Rym
name: Dabboubi, Rym
name: Boussetta, Khedija
name: Fanen, Pascale
name: Messaoud, Taieb
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: This study aims to describe the molecular variability in the SFTPC gene in a childhood chronic respiratory disease, asthma, in the Tunisian population and to identify the implications based on a case-control study of p.Thr138Asn (T138N) and p.Ser186Asn (S186N) variants. We used direct sequencing for the genotyping of the SFTPC gene within 101 asthmatic children. The study of T138N and S186N variants in 110 controls is conducted by the PCR-RFLP technique. The molecular study revealed 26 variants including 24 intronic variations and 2 exonic variations (T138N and S186N) with respective frequencies of 16.8% and 18.3%. We conducted a case-control study of the two identified exonic variations. A different genotypic and allelic distribution between the two groups was noted. Only the T138N polymorphism showed a significant association with asthma disease (p −3). Statistical analysis elaborated four haplotypes with the following frequencies in patients vs controls: 138Thr-186Ser (79.5% vs 57.6%), 138Thr-186Asn (3.7% vs 7.8%), 138Asn-186Thr (2.2% vs 20.2%) and 138Asn-186Asn (14.6% vs 14.4%). A significant difference (p −3) was highlighted in haplotype distribution. The 138Asn-186Ser (OR [95%CI] = 0.14[0.04-0.54], p = 0.004, R2=0.93) and 138Thr-186Asn (OR [95%CI] = 0.35[0.12-0.54], p = 0.047, R2=0.88) haplotypes showed a negative association with asthma which may constitute a protective factor against the disease. In Tunisia, this work constitutes the first report interested in the SFTPC gene and highlights the genetic variability of the SFTPC gene in asthma. Therefore, the case-controls analysis may be useful in the study of surfactant proteins dysfunction in chronic respiratory disease at an early age.
Association between asthma and caries-related salivary factors: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Hatipoğlu, Ömer
name: Hatipoğlu, Fatma Pertek
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This meta-analysis aimed to examine the comprehensive conclusive evidence of association between asthma and caries-related salivary factors including salivary pH (SpH), salivary flow rate (SFR), salivary buffer capacity (SBC), and other salivary components. Electronic databases (Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and Open Gray databases) were searched for relevant studies. After screening, studies were selected and data were collected from each study. The risk of bias in individual studies and across studies was evaluated. Mean differences (MD) were used to measure the effect estimates in the comparisons of SFR, SpH, SBC, and other salivary components. Additional analyses, namely sensitivity, subgroup, and Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation analyses, were also conducted. Eighteen and fourteen studies were included in the qualitative and quantitative synthesis, respectively. Significantly higher SFR (MD = −0.3, 95% CI [−0.39, −0.2], p p = 0.01) were found in the reference group compared to the group with asthma. A significant difference in SBC was found only for unstimulated saliva (MD = −0.20, 95% CI [−0.24, −0.15], p p > 0.05). Notwithstanding the limitations of this study, the evidence showed that SFR whether stimulated or unstimulated was significantly reduced in asthma patients. SBC and SpH were significantly reduced in asthma patients only when saliva was unstimulated. No evidence was found regarding the association between asthma and other salivary components.
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Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
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description: This paper presents examples of using methods for calculating power flows, calculating short-circuit currents with the subsequent selection of electrical equipment and designing relay protection for an electric motor based on the BMRZ terminal. There are also examples of the use of methods for calculating electromechanical transients in the plantâs own needs system.
Comparison of Dualizing Complexes
Creators: name: Zhong, Changlong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F20, 14C25, 11G25, 19E15

description: We prove that there is a map from Bloch's cycle complex to Kato's complex of Milnor K-theory, which induces a quasi-isomorphism from étale sheafified cycle complex to the Gersten complex of logarithmic de Rham--Witt sheaves. Next we show that the truncation of Bloch's cycle complex at -3 is quasi-isomorphic to Spiess' dualizing complex.
description: 34 pages, In the new version, we correct a mistake found by the referee. Theorem 1.3, Theorem 2.5 (the Beilinson-Lichtenbaum Conjecture) and Theorem 2.6 (Kummer isomorphism) are now proved subject to some truncation condition. The structure of proofs in section 3 and section 4 have a slight change
Comunicare la scienza con gli strumenti del design, applicazione spotmap
Creators: name: Dal Bianco, Eugenia
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2022

description: La comunicazione di argomenti scientifici legati al territorio è un tassello fondamentale, non solo per comprenderne l’evoluzione, ma anche per capirne l’impatto che questo ha avuto sull’uomo nel corso dei millenni. Riflettendo sulle diverse modalità per costruire una comunicazione efficace, mi sono posta le seguenti domande: è possibile per un comunicatore visivo individuare gli elementi determinanti per il successo di una comunicazione riguardante dati scientifici? Quanto è importante il ruolo del designer nella visualizzazione della scienza? E quale ruolo gioca l’aspetto emotivo quando si comunicano dei dati scientifici? Con il mio progetto di tesi “Comunicare la scienza con gli strumenti del design, applicazione spotmap” tento di avvicinare il pubblico alla storia della vegetazione, coniugando i risultati di ricerca scientifica con l’intervento collaborativo degli utenti. Il mio compito sarà quello di veicolare delle informazioni che ruotano attorno ad una serie di dati e di progettare un linguaggio in grado di valorizzarli.
Embedding Secret Data in HTML Web Page
Creators: name: Dey, Sandipan
name: Al-Qaheri, Hameed
name: Sanyal, Sugata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we suggest a novel data hiding technique in an HTML Web page. HTML Tags are case insensitive and hence an alphabet in lowercase and one in uppercase present inside an HTML tag are interpreted in the same manner by the browser,i.e., change in case in an web page is imperceptible to the browser. We basically exploit this redundancy and use it to embed secret data inside an web page, with no changes visible to the user of the web page, so that he can not even suspect about the data hiding. The embedded data can be recovered by viewing the source of the HTML page. This technique can easily be extended to embed secret message inside any piece of source-code where the standard interpreter of that language is case-insensitive.
description: 10 Pages, 6 Figures, 2 Algorithms,1st International Conference on Image Processing and Communications, September 16-18, 2009, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Unraveling racial disparities in asthma emergency department visits using electronic healthcare records and machine learning
Creators: name: Adejare, Adeboye A.
name: Gautam, Yadu
name: Madzia, Juliana
name: Mersha, Tesfaye B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Hospital emergency department (ED) visits by asthmatics differ based on race and season. The objectives of this study were to investigate season- and race-specific disparities for asthma risk, and to identify environmental exposure variables associated with ED visits among more than 42,000 individuals of African American (AA) and European American (EA) descent identified through electronic health records (EHRs). We examined data from 42,375 individuals (AAs = 14,491, EAs = 27,884) identified in EHRs. We considered associated demographic (race, age, gender, insurance), clinical (smoking status, ED visits, FEV1%), and environmental exposures data (mold, pollen, and pollutants). Machine learning techniques, including random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting (XGB), and decision tree (DT) were used to build and identify race- and -season-specific predictive models for asthma ED visits. Significant differences in ED visits and FEV1% among AAs and EAs were identified. ED visits by AAs was 32.0% higher than EAs and AAs had 6.4% lower FEV1% value than EAs. XGB model was used to accurately classify asthma patients visiting ED into AAs and EAs. Pollen factor and pollution (PM2.5, PM10) were the key variables for asthma in AAs and EAs, respectively. Age and cigarette smoking increase asthma risk independent of seasons. In this study, we observed racial and season-specific disparities between AAs and EAs asthmatics for ED visit and FEV1% severity, suggesting the need to address asthma disparities through key predictors including socio-economic status, particulate matter, and mold.
Rindler horizon entropy from nonstationarity
Creators: name: Culetu, Hristu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finite entropy and energy are obtained for the horizon of a Rindler observer on the grounds of the nonstatic character of the geometry beyond the horizon. Edery - Constantineau prescription is used to find the dynamical phase space of this particular spacetime. The number of microstates rooted from the ignorance of a Rindler observer of the parameter $t$ from the nonstationary region is calculated. We suggest that the gravitational energy density constructed by means of the horizon energy and using the Holographic Principle is proportional to $g^{2}$, similar with a result recently obtained by Padmanabhan and with the energy density of the electromagnetic field.
description: 8 pages, no figures, version published in PLB 703(5),(2011) pp. 641-644, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.08.068
Hepatitis C coinfection and extrahepatic cancer incidence among people living with HIV
Creators: name: Kim, H.N.
name: Hurt, C.
name: Tien, P.C.
name: Christopoulos, K.A.
name: Cachay, E.R.
name: Moore, R.D.
name: Willis, S.J.
name: Franco, R.A.
name: Marcus, J.L.
name: Silverberg, M.
name: Crane, H.M.
name: Westreich, D.
name: Achenbach, C.J.
name: Kitahata, M.M.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2022

description: Objectives: We assessed the incidence of extrahepatic cancer among people with HIV/HCV coinfection and the potential impact of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) on extrahepatic cancer risk among people with HIV/HCV coinfection. Design: Our study cohort included adults who initiated HIV care at a CNICS site in the US during 1995–2017, excluding those with previous cancer and without HCV testing. Methods: We used Cox regression to estimate hazard ratios for extrahepatic cancer incidence among patients with HIV/HCV coinfection compared with those with HIV monoinfection. Standardized morbidity ratio (SMR) weights were used to create a ‘pseudopopulation’ in which all patients were treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART), and to compare extrahepatic cancer incidence among patients with untreated HIV/HCV coinfection with the incidence that would have been observed if they had been successfully treated for HCV. Results: Of 18 422 adults, 1775 (10%) had HCV RNA and 10 899 (59%) were on ART at baseline. Incidence rates of any extrahepatic cancer among patients with HIV/HCV coinfection and HIV monoinfection were 1027 and 771 per 100 000 person-years, respectively. In SMR-weighted analyses, the risk of any extrahepatic cancer among patients with untreated HCV coinfection at baseline was similar to the risk if they had been successfully treated for HCV. Patients with untreated HCV coinfection at baseline had higher incidence of kidney, lung and inflammation-related cancers than if their HCV had been successfully treated, but these associations were not statistically significant. Conclusions: We did not find evidence that treating HCV coinfection with DAAs would reduce the incidence of extrahepatic cancers among people with HIV receiving ART.
Perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of short-acting beta2 agonist users: an Australian cross-sectional community pharmacy-based study
Creators: name: Azzi, Elizabeth
name: Kritikos, Vicky
name: Peters, Matthew
name: Price, David
name: Cvetkovski, Biljana
name: Alphonse, Pamela Srour
name: Bosnic-Anticevich, Sinthia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: High use of short-acting beta-2-agonist (SABA) medication is a significant problem. Attitudes and perceptions toward asthma of over-the-counter (OTC) reliever users are unknown. The study aimed to describe the asthma attitudes, perceptions, medication knowledge and information gathering behavior of people with asthma with recent high SABA use (i.e. SABA use > twice a week in the last 4 weeks) and compare them to people with asthma with no recent high SABA use. A real-world cross-sectional observational study in Australian community pharmacies was conducted; surveying patients ages ≥ 16 years requesting SABA medication OTC. Data collected included; demographics, medication usage, asthma control, asthma-related perceptions and behaviors. Data were summarized by using descriptive analyses. 375 participants completed the survey, 73.9% were high SABA users. Of the 375, 90.4% reported that their asthma symptoms were controlled or somewhat controlled and 56.0% felt that their asthma was not serious. However, only 17.6%, had controlled asthma according to GINA-defined criteria. High SABA users tended to be more anxious about their asthma and worried about its impact in the future (50.5% vs. 28.6%, p p p = 0.007) and using (29.2% vs 18.4%, p = 0.036) their asthma inhaler. This study revealed the extent of uncontrolled asthma and uncovered an anxious and socially conscious group of OTC SABA users. There is a need to better understand patient perceptions and their relationships to high-SABA use, to ensure targeted educational interventions are developed and implemented.