cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Use of independent runs for the improvement of the response of Shewhart control charts
Creators: name: Iacobini, Alberto
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The paper deals with an extension of standard Shewhart control charts witch provide independent runs of given length, or IR-charts, with the purpose of improving the performance of the former by allowing a faster detection of small and medium shifts in a process mean. The author purposely chooses to remain in the field of indipendent sample observations, which are much more frequently used in SPC compared to other types of charts due to their simplicity, and shows how careful choice of independent runs, formed by the same sample means used in a standard X-chart, can be adopted in order to reduce ARL values and, therefore, the expected time of detection of out-of-control situations. The result is obtained without the main drawback of dependent runs procedures as summarised in the Western Electric Company runs rules and others recalled in the paper, with lies in the fact that their "in-control" ARL is too low, thus providing a too short expected time before a false "out-of control" alarm occurs.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 117-128
Stimatori col metodo della regressione in caso di non rispondenti con un campionamento doppio
Creators: name: Pollastri, Angiola
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The aim of this paper is to study the procedures to estimate the mean of a variable in presence of non-respondents in a first sampling using the informations of a seconde sample among the non-respondents and the informations regarding the means of one or more auxiliaries variables. It is shown the variance of the regression estimator. Then it is proposed the estimation of the parameters of the linear model using the information of the first and the second sample.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 137-144
ПРИВАТИЗАЦИЯ В РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЙ СИСТЕМЕ ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНОГО ТРАНСПОРТА КАК ФАКТОР ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ СТАБИЛЬНОСТИ СТРАНЫ
Creators: name: Маткаримов С.Р.
name: Джалилов Б.Б.
Publisher: name: Ресурсосберегающие технологии на транспорте
Year: 2021
Subjects: Экономическая безопасность
приватизация
транспортные коридоры
транзит
долговая нагрузка
подвижной состав
грузовые вагоны

description: В статье рассматриваются основные этапы, а также проблемы развития железнодорожного транспорта (далее ж/д) Республики Узбекистан (далее РУз), дается анализ экономических и организационных результатов приватизации отрасли в мире, исследуются современное состояние железных дорог страны и перспективы их развития до 2030 года.
On Laplacianness of Hermitian quadratic and bilinear forms in complex normal variables
Creators: name: Sultan, Shagufta A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: A set of results are obtained which will give the necessary and sufficient (NS) conditions for a Hermitian quadratic expression or a Hermitian bilinear expression to be distributed as a noncentral generalized Laplacian. The NS conditions are also obtained for Hermitian bilinear forms to be distributed as an Erlang difference.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 145-154
Identifying multivariate outliers - a medical example
Creators: name: Szustalewicz, Adam
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: Many data sets, especially medical data, consist of a two-dimensional table Xnxp containing p variables measured for every of n individuals. We are concerned with values of p=9 traits, such as Age, Height and other spirometric variables like RV, VC, VC%, FEV1, FEF,... recorded for n=125 patients. Such table can be interpreted as a cloud of n points in the p-dimensional Euclidean space Rp. The analysed data contain outliers both in size and structure. Especially the last type could not be detected when considering each variable individually. We demonstrate the usefulness of modern visualization methods for multivariate data, as grand tour with a count plot (Bartkowiak and Szustalewicz, 1997) which finds a set of points suspected to be outliers, and then, the complete linkage method (based on angular distances) and parallel coordinate plot - which additionally confirm the obtained results.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 157-165
A statistical comparison of signal representations and spectral estimators of heart rate variability in hypertensive patients
Creators: name: Congi, Marco
name: Calcagnini, Giovanni
name: Lino, Stefano
name: Cerutti, Sergio
name: Damiani, Silvio
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: The paper compares different methods for the estimation of the spectrum in the heart rate variability time series. Studying 32 hypertensive patients it is shown that the low-pass filtering of event series technique drives to an over estimation of the higt frequency component of the heart beat when compared with the results of both cubic spline interpolation and interval tachogram techniques. No differences are founded between the spectrum estimation obtained by autoregressive models and non parametric methods like the Fourier transform.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 167-174
ИЗУЧЕНИЕ АНТИПРОЛИФЕРАТИВНОГО АКТИВНОСТИ СУХОГО ЭКСТРАКТА, ПРИГОТОВЛЕННОГО ИЗ НАДЗЕМНОЙ ЧАСТИ МЕСТНОГО ЛОФАНТА АНИСОВОГО (LOPHANTHUS ANISATUS BENTH)
Creators: name: Қодирберганова, С.У.
name: Нормуротова, М. М.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Воспаление- представляет собой сложную комплексную реакцию организма в целом, имеет защитно-приспособительный характер и формируется в процессе эволюции, выражаясь преимущественно локальными изменениями тканей - альтерацией, экссудацией, обусловленными нарушением местного кровообращения, эмиграцией и пролиферацией лейкоцитов. В народной медицине лофант анисовый используют при воспалительных процессах дыхательных органов бронхите, для повышения иммунной системы, при гастрите, гепатите, расстройствах ЖКТ, как укрепляющее и предупреждающее старение средство.
Thermocapillary Multidewetting of Thin Films
Creators: name: Nitzsche, Michael P.
name: Saro-Cortes, Valeria
name: Lei, Lin
name: Ma, Tianxing
name: Gamboa, Arielle R.
name: Singer, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018

description: Thermocapillary dewetting of liquids and molten films has recently emerged as a viable alternative to conventional microprocessing methods. As this thermal gradient-induced mechanism is universal, it can be applied to any material. This work explores the sequential dewetting of materials with varying melting points, including polymers and metals, to create aligned morphologies. The variation in melting point allows for the dewetting of single layers at a time or mobility-limited simultaneous dewetting. As a result, a variety of multimaterial structures can be produced with built-in alignment, such as arrays of concentric circles, lines with periodic segmentation, or islands on holes. This approach employs photothermal methods to induce the necessary thermal gradient, manipulating several variables in order to influence the consequent structures. Adjusting laser power and light intensity allows for the control of temperature for selective dewetting of films; altering beam size and exposure time affects the extent of dewetting in terms of diameter size; overlap effects and simultaneous dewetting can result in complex architectures. This controlled writing of patterns also presents a technique to create both masks at low temperatures for conductive multilayers as well as templates for electrospray deposition.
Mechanical memory based biofabrication of hierarchical elastic cardiac tissue
Creators: name: Li, Zhitong
name: Kovács, Panna
name: Le Friec, Alice
name: Nørrehvedde Jensen, Bjarke
name: Nygaard, Jens Vinge
name: Chen, Menglin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Tissue engineering
subject: Bionics
subject: 3d scaffold
subject: Biofabrication

description: Mimicking the multilayered, anisotropic, elastic structure of cardiac tissues for controlled guidiance of 3D cellular orientation is essential in designing bionic scaffolds for cardiac tissue biofabrication. Here, a hierarchically organized, anisotropic, wavy and conductive polycaprolactone/Au scaffold was created in a facile fashion based on mechanical memory during fabrication. The bionic 3D scaffold shows good biocompatibility, excellent biomimetic mechanical properties that guide myoblast alignment, support the hyperelastic behavior observed in native cardiac muscle tissue, and promote myotube maturation, which holds potential for cardiac muscle engineering and the establishment of an in vitro culture platform for drug screening.
title: Data-informed community engagement
title: the Newark Public Safety Collaborative
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gimenez Santana, Alejandro
name: Caplan, Joel M
name: Kennedy, Leslie W
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2023
Subjects: Crime
Police
Data-Informed
Community Engagement
Public Safety
Crime Prevention

description: This chapter will discuss a program that brought evidence-based practices to a community public safety initiative in Newark, NJ. The Newark Public Safety Collaborative (NPSC) bridges the gap between academic research and local community stakeholders through a collaborative process of data analysis that maximizes existing resources to prevent crime and enhance public safety in evidence-based ways. After a one-year period, a total of 28 community partner organizations joined the NPSC, representing groups of varying sizes and capacities, as well as corporations, healthcare providers, real estate developers, law enforcement, city hall officials, among others. The strong working relationship between NPSC data analysts and community organizations creates opportunities to deeply understand local needs, and to inform current efforts with reliable data insights. As part of this process, community groups participate in a monthly forum where everyone is presented with updated data and analytics to engage in a conversation that identifies new priorities and immediate solutions to the most pressing crime problems.
Populism runs up against electoral reality
Creators: name: Hoffman, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Last week was not a great one for nativist populism. Coming off the high of Brexit and Trump, fellow travellers across the globe have been angling for their own successes, but these are proving elusive. In two distinct disappointments, Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom, or PVV, polled poorly in the Dutch general election, and the high-profile intervention of Pauline Hanson and One Nation in Western Australian politics proved something of an own goal. Taken together, these failures help illustrate the limitations of populism as an electoral platform.
Microbial colonies associated with Zoea-2 syndrome and White feces syndrome in P. vannamei farming
Creators: name: Jangam, Ashok Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Metagenomic study on two diseases, zoea-2 syndrome and white feces syndrome has been carried out to find microbial colonies associated with diseases
Elaborative feedback: Engaging reward and task-relevant brain regions promotes learning in pseudoword reading aloud
Creators: name: Mattheiss, Samantha R.
name: Alexander, Edward J.
name: Graves, William W.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Orthography
Phonology
Reward
Feedback
Reading

description: Although much is known about the cognitive and neural basis of establishing letter-sound mappings in learning word forms, relatively little is known about what makes for the most effective feedback during this process. We sought to determine the neural basis by which elaborative feedback (EF), which contains both reward-related and content-specific information, may be more helpful than feedback containing only one kind of information (simple positive feedback, PF) or the other (content feedback, CF) in learning orthography-phonology (spelling-sound) mappings for novel letter strings. Compared to CF, EF activated the ven- tromedial prefrontal cortex, implicated in reward processing. Compared to PF, EF activated the posterior middle temporal, superior temporal, and supramarginal gyri—regions implicated in orthography-phonology conversion. In the same comparison, EF also activated the left fusiform gyrus/visual word form area—implicated in orthographic processing. Also EF, but not CF or PF, modulated activity in the caudate nucleus. In a postscan questionnaire, EF and PF were rated as more pleasant than CF, suggesting that modulation of the caudate for EF may be due to the coupling of reward and skill content. These findings suggest the enhanced effectiveness of EF may be due to concurrent activation of reward-related and task-relevant brain regions.
30-month-olds use the distribution and meaning of adverbs to interpret novel adjectives
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
name: Lidz, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Adverbs
Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverb
Gradable adjectives
Distributional cues
Language Acquisition

description: We examine the acquisition of subcategories of Gradable Adjectives (GAs). We first show that robust patterns of adverbial modification in natural language sort GAs according to scalar structure: proportional modifiers (e.g., completely) tend to modify absolute maximum standard GAs (e.g., full), while intensifiers (e.g., very) tend to modify relative GAs (e.g., big). We then show in a word-learning experiment that 30-month-olds appear to be aware of such distributional differences and recruit them in word learning, assigning an interpretation to a novel adjective based on its modifier. We argue that children track both the range of adjectives modified by a given adverb and the range of adverbs modifying a given adjective, and use such surface-level information to classify new words according to possible pre-existing semantic representations.
Combining Peer-to-Peer and Cloud Computing for large scale on-line games
Creators: name: Carlini, Emanuele
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2012
Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

description: This thesis investigates the combination of Peer-to-Peer (P2P)and Cloud Computing to support Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). MMOGs are large-scale distributed  applications where a large number of users concurrently share a real-time virtual environment. Commercial MMOG infrastructures are sized to support peak loads, incurring in high economical cost. Cloud Computing represents an attractive solution, as it lifts MMOG operators from the burden of buying and maintaining hardware, while offering the illusion of infinite machines. However, it requires balancing the tradeoff between resource provisioning and operational costs. P2Pbased solutions present several advantages, including the inherent scalability, self-repairing, and natural load distribution capabilities. They require additional mechanisms to suit the requirements of a MMOG, such as backup solutions to cope with peer unreliability and heterogeneity. We propose mechanisms that integrate P2P and Cloud Computing combining their advantages. Our techniques allow operators to select the ideal tradeoff between performance and economical costs. Using realistic workloads, we show that hybrid infrastructures can reduce the economical effort of the operator, while offering a level of service comparable with centralized architectures.
Amygdala intercalated neurons are required for expression of fear extinction
Creators: name: Likhtik, Ekaterina
name: Popa, Daniela
name: Apergis-Schoute, John
name: Paré, Denis
name: Fidacaro, George A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Fear
Amygdaloid body
Interneurons

description: Here we test the hypothesis that ITC neurons mediate extinction by lesioning them with a toxin that selectively targets cells expressing micro-opioid receptors (microORs).
description: F31 MH76415
Specification and analysis of systems with dynamic structure
Creators: name: Vandin, Andrea
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2013
Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

description: In many areas of Computer Science we face systems with dynamic structure, i.e. where components and resources may  dynamically join and leave, or even get combined. When analyzing these systems one is not only interested in properties about global behaviours (e.g. correctness or safety), but also about the evolution of single components or of their interrelations. In order to achieve this, logic-based specification languages and techniques equipped with a neat handling of components and their dynamicity are needed. Our solution belongs to the family of quantified μ-calculi, i.e. languages combining quantifiers with the fix-point and modal operators of temporal logics, for which we propose a novel approach to their semantics. We use counterpart models as semantic domain, i.e. labeled transition systems where states are algebras, and transitions are enriched with counterpart relations (partial morphisms) between states, explicitly encoding  the evolution of components. Formulae are interpreted as  sets of assignments, associating formula variables to state components. Our proposal allows to deal with the peculiarities of the considered systems, and avoids limitations of existing approaches, often enforcing restrictions of the transition relation. Unfortunately, dynamicity may easily lead to infinite-state systems, paradigmatic examples being those with unbounded creation of components. Verification can become intractable,  calling for approximation techniques. In this direction, we  propose a general notion of model approximation, and exploit  it by resorting to a type system which denotes formulae as  reflected or preserved, together with an approximated model  checking technique based on sets of approximations.
Clews-Based Comparative Analysis for Power Sector and Land Use Change Scenarios in Ghana
Creators: name: Gyamfi, Samuel
name: Tankpa, Vitus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Renewable Energy Transition
Built-up Land
CLEWs
OSeMOSYS
Ghana National Energy Transition
Carbon Emission
Land Cover

description: This study examines the effects of applying an integrated systems approach, with an emphasis on energy and land systems in Ghana. Three scenarios were developed —the Base Case Scenario, the Built-up Land Scenario, and the Renewable Energy Target Scenario – which were created through modelling exercises using the CLEWs framework and OSeMOSYS tool.Findings from the base case scenario reveal that the renewable energy (solar, wind) and nuclear power sources added in the modelling were not shown as part of the power-producing technologies through the modelling years after the model run. However, when the renewable energy target was implemented, it forced investment in renewable energy power plants resulting in a reduction in C02 emission, and water demand for power generation. Also increasing land for built-up areas led to reduced agricultural land and a slight increase in the demand for public water supply.Recommendations include a policy that halts the land for built-up areas by 2050 to conserve the lands for forests which would serve as a carbon sink. Land use policies that balance the need for built-up areas with the preservation of land for renewable energy projects should be developed and enforced. Also, the study recommends policies that incentivize the adoption and integration of renewable energy technologies, such as solar and wind, into the national grid. This could include subsidies, tax incentives, or feed-in tariffs to make renewable energy more attractive to investors and developers
title: Methodenkonvention 3.0 zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten
title: Methodenkonvention 3.0 zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bünger, Björn
name: Matthey, Astrid
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Umweltschutzkosten
subject: Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung
subject: Methodenkonvention
subject: umweltkosten
subject: Klimakosten
subject: Kosten unterlassenen Umweltschutzes
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Die Methodenkonvention 3.0 zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten enthält Empfehlungen für Methoden zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten (Teil "Methodische Grundlagen") sowie neue Kostensätze zu den Themen Treibhausgase, Luftschadstoffe, Lärm, Verkehr und Energie (Teil "Kostensätze"). Die Kostensätze machen deutlich, welchen Nutzen Umweltschutz für die Gesellschaft hat und, welche Kosten der Gesellschaft durch unterlassenem Umweltschutz entstehen. Sie ermöglichen eine bessere Abschätzung der Folgen von gesetzlichen Regelungen und öffentlichen Investitionen sowie der Ausgestaltung von ökonomischen Instrumenten. In Unternehmen können sie u. a. verwendet werden, um die Umweltkosten von Produkten zu bestimmen und die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung zu ergänzen. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Methodenkonvention 3.0 zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten enthält Empfehlungen für Methoden zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten (Teil „Methodische Grundlagen“) sowie neue Kostensätze zu den Themen Treibhausgase, Luftschadstoffe, Lärm, Verkehr und Energie (Teil „Kostensätze“). Die Kostensätze machen deutlich, welchen Nutzen Umweltschutz für die Gesellschaft hat und, welche Kosten der Gesellschaft durch unterlassenem Umweltschutz entstehen. Sie ermöglichen eine bessere Abschätzung der Folgen von gesetzlichen Regelungen und öffentlichen Investitionen sowie der Ausgestaltung von ökonomischen Instrumenten. In Unternehmen können sie u. a. verwendet werden, um die Umweltkosten von Produkten zu bestimmen und die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung zu ergänzen.
Live fast, die young: a massive 'dead red' galaxy seen for the first time
Creators: name: Glazebrook, Karl
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The discovery of massive galaxy that stopped making any new stars by the time the Universe was only 1.65 billion years old means we may have to rethink our theories on how galaxies formed. The galaxy, known as ZF-COSMOS-20115, formed all of its stars (more than three times as many as our Milky Way has today) through an extreme starburst event. But it stopped forming stars to become a “red and dead” galaxy not much more than a billion years after the Big Bang. Such galaxies are common in our Universe today but not expected to have existed at this ancient epoch. Galaxies turn red when they stop forming stars due to the resulting absence of hot, blue stars that have very short lifetimes. This discovery by our team sets a new record for the earliest massive red galaxy, with details published in Nature this month. It is an incredibly rare find that poses a new challenge to galaxy evolution models to accommodate the existence of such galaxies much earlier in the Universe.
5G Wireless Communication: Simulation and Analysis of Microstrip Patch Antenna
Creators: name: Prakash Yelaki, Mounica Komaravalli, Vaishnavi Tadiparthi, Abhinaya Valemoni, Sreehitha Botta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The growing demand for optimized modes of communication arises from comparisons between the currently prevalent 4G devices and the revolutionary5G communication models with their impactful features. This makes it essential to develop better communication equipment for 5G technology to evolve further. Microstrip Patch Antennas serve as invaluable tools for facilitating 5G communication across diverse applications and devices. This study focused on investigating and modeling a microstrip patch antenna with an operating frequency of 28 GHz. Ansys HFSS Software was utilized for the antenna simulation due to its versatile and comprehensive capabilities. The proposed antenna uses the substrate Rogers/RT Duroid 5880, whose dielectric constant of 2.2 ensures uniform electrical properties across various external conditions. The simulated antenna resulted in a return loss of -28.5413 dB, a VSWR of 1.24, a band- width of 5.4 GHz, and a gain of 5.7317 dBi. The high return loss, substantial antenna gain, and a near-ideal VSWR, among other features, suggest that this antenna’s specifications cater to the requirements of 5G communication systems. Beyond the scope of antenna fabrication and testing, the proposed antenna parameters align well with previous research findings at similar operating frequencies.
Essays on the spatial analysis of the housing market
Creators: name: Cimen, Begum
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2012
Subjects: HB Economic Theory

description: The housing unit always has been a great interest of the  researchers because of its unique nature of being regarded as an investment good but also a durable good. Although, the most important point is that the housing unit cannot be imported, exported or transported, the literature has ignored this feature of housing unit, the feature that location matters for the housing market. Therefore, this work of three essays focuses on this feature of the housing market and aims to develop a better analysis of the housing market by considering the location based parameters as well. The first essay analyzes determinants of housing prices with respect to the spatial differences among  regions of the England for the period of 2003-2011 by using  spatial econometrics. The second essay develops the spatial  volatility methodology with the help of DCC M-GARCH model.  Finally, the third essay generates the spatial supply – demand model of housing. The results of the first essay imply that the effect of neighborhood and location matter for the house prices such that the house prices in any region co-move with the house prices of the neighborhood. Indeed, the location is regarded as the most important determinant of the house prices. Besides this, the results of the second essay provide the consistent conclusions  with the first essay by showing that regional house prices comove. The most important contribution of the second essay has been the development of the spatial volatility model and turning the multivariate volatility to bivariate volatility model for the regional analysis. Moreover, the third essay results in the generation of a better demand – supply model for the housing market by considering the spatial parameters as well.
Public Grants and Venture Capital investments as complementary sources for SME financing
Creators: name: Bellucci, Andrea
name: Gucciardi, Gianluca
name: Nepelski, Daniel
Publisher: name: Argomenti
Year: 2021

description: We analyze the different characteristics of companies, and in particular of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), having access to forms of public subsidy or private financing. We then examine one of the most widespread public subsidies aimed at young and innovative SMEs of the European Union (i.e., Horizon 2020) and compare it with Venture Capital, a financial instrument typically oriented to fund equity of similar companies. Conversely, by comparing the characteristics of the companies that receive one or the other types of instruments, we find significant differences in the corporate characteristics of the funded companies both in terms of size (revenues, assets) and development phase.
description: Argomenti, No. 20 (2021): settembre - dicembre
La sinistra italiana e il processo d’integrazione europea:  la transizione del Pci attraverso il suo discorso sull’Europa
Creators: name: Cirulli, Carlo Giuseppe
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2012
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: La ricerca si è sviluppata intorno al tema del rapporto tra il Partito comunista italiano e il processo d’integrazione  europea. La scelta di indagare tale questione è nata  dall’esigenza di ricercare un punto di osservazione  originale che permettesse di studiare l’identità del partito  da una prospettiva ben precisa, quella della sua relazione  con il processo d’integrazione. L’analisi è stata condotta  focalizzandosi su tutti quegli elementi che hanno  contribuito alla formazione di un “discorso” sull’Europa da  parte del partito, prima in senso nettamente antieuropeo e  poi in una direzione pienamente europeista. Così, ampio  spazio è stato dato agli atti ufficiali del partito, ai discorsi e alla memorialistica dei leader e degli intellettuali d’area che nel corso degli anni si sono resi protagonisti delle varie tappe del processo. Attraverso tale analisi si è potuto verificare come l’Europa si presentasse, al tempo stesso, come un elemento di legittimazione, ma anche di “spersonalizzazione” per il partito stesso. La ricerca – condotta su fonti archivistiche e documenti del partito, sugli atti parlamentari, sulla stampa, oltre che sulla letteratura esistente, tanto in ambito storiografico, quanto in quello della scienza politica e della storia del pensiero politico – ha consentito di offrire una sistematizzazione in una prospettiva di longue durée del rapporto oggetto della  nostra analisi. Questo ha reso possibile individuare alcuni  spunti interpretativi, almeno in parte, originali. La “scoperta” dell’Europa, da parte del partito, ha permesso un’articolazione dei suoi fini, attraverso un processo di path shaping che però non è riuscito, giunti sul  finire degli anni ’80, a “salvare” il partito, se non rendendolo “altro da esso”. Il Pci, che per anni aveva rivendicato con orgoglio la propria diversità, doveva, abbandonando ogni proposito di terza via, accettare di“omologarsi” ai cugini socialdemocratici e l’Europa sarebbe stata il luogo di tale incontro.
Sustainable debt instruments: green bonds and beyond
Creators: name: Fatica, Serena
name: Panzica, Roberto Calogero Panzica
Publisher: name: Argomenti
Year: 2021

description: Sustainable debt instruments play an increasingly important role in scaling up financing of private investment for the low carbon transition and the other ambitious environmental and social goals set at the EU and global level. Having already emerged as the star of climate finance, green bonds are becoming increasingly popular as companies need to fund operations that are more environmentally friendly in the context of a sustainable recovery from the coronavirus crisis. After an overview of the literature on this new asset class, the paper highlights that reporting on the use of proceeds is considered a crucial element for the success of green bond markets, as it provides investors with an unprecedented degree of transparency. Finally, the paper provides some evidence on the Italian green bond market in the European context.
description: Argomenti, No. 20 (2021): settembre - dicembre
Use of a comprehensive postfall assessment tool to prevent falls
Creators: name: Gray-Miceli, Deanna
name: Ratcliffe, Sarah J.
name: Johnson, Jerry
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2010
Subjects: Falls (Accidents)--Prevention
Older people--Long-term care
Post fall assessment

description: Nursing research in fall prevention should not only identify etiologic risk factors to fall, but seek to identify underlying causes, whenever possible. Few studies have investigated the use of a comprehensive post fall assessment tool (PFAT) by nurses as an intervention for the prevention of recurrent falls, especially one that prompts nurses to consider all potential causes through a categorization scheme. This study tested use of a comprehensive PFAT as an intervention, prospectively, facility-wide for 1 year by RNs using a pre-post-test design. A 29.4% reduction in the fall rate (z=3.89; p <0.001), 27.6% decline in total falls experienced by all fallers (p<0.001) and a 34.0% decline for recurrent fallers (p = 0.025) from pre-intervention to intervention year was observed when trained nurses categorized falls according to perceived causes. These declines are likely due to consistent and rigorous use by trained nursing staff, prompting their critical examination of each fall.
Determinants of cross-border acquisitions in the EU
Creators: name: Gregori, Wildmer Daniel
name: Martinez Cillero, Maria
Publisher: name: Argomenti
Year: 2021

description: This study empirically investigates the determinants of the probability that a European Union firm received and completed a takeover bid. Our identification strategy relies on the logit method-ology, using cross-border acquisitions and firm level balance sheet data for the years 2008-2018. We find that higher productivity in-creases the probability of acquisition, except for large firms. Higher firm liquidity, and listing status also increase the probability of a cross-border acquisition. On the other hand, age, profitability, higher indebtedness and equity levels are negatively related to the probability of acquisition. Some sectoral variation, dividing high vs low tech sectors, is also observed in our estimates.
description: Argomenti, No. 20 (2021): settembre - dicembre
title: The small-molecule protein ligand interface stabiliser E7820 induces differential cell line specific responses of integrin α2 expression
Creators: name: Hülskamp, Michael David
name: Kronenberg, Daniel
name: Stange, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Background: The mechanism of small-molecule stabilised protein-protein interactions is of growing interest in the pharmacological discovery process. A plethora of different substances including the aromatic sulphonamide E7820 have been identified to act by such a mechanism. The process of E7820 induced CAPERα degradation and the resultant transcriptional down regulation of integrin α2 expression has previously been described for a variety of different cell lines and been made responsible for E7820’s antiangiogenic activity. Currently the application of E7820 in the treatment of various malignancies including pancreas carcinoma and breast cancer is being investigated in pre-clinical and clinical trials. It has been shown, that integrin α2 deficiency has beneficial effects on bone homeostasis in mice. To transfer E7820 treatment to bone-related pathologies, as non-healing fractures, osteoporosis and bone cancer might therefore be beneficial. However, at present no data is available on the effect of E7820 on osseous cells or skeletal malignancies. Methods: Pre-osteoblastic (MC3T3 and Saos-2) cells and endothelial (eEnd2 cells and HUVECs) cells, each of human and murine origin respectively, were investigated. Vitality assay with different concentrations of E7820 were performed. All consecutive experiments were done at a final concentration of 50 ng/ml E7820. The expression and production of integrin α2 and CAPERα were investigated by quantitative real-time PCR and western blotting. Expression of CAPERα splice forms was differentiated by semi-quantitiative reverse transcriptase PCR.
Results: Here we present the first data showing that E7820 can increase integrin α2 expression in the preosteoblast MC3T3 cell line whilst also reproducing canonical E7820 activity in HUVECs. We show that the aberrant activity of E7820 in MC3T3 cells is likely due to differential activity of CAPERα at the integrin α2 promoter, rather than due to differential CAPERα degradation or differential expression of CAPERα spliceforms. Conclusion: The results presented here indicate that E7820 may not be suitable to treat certain malignancies of musculoskeletal origin, due to the increase in integrin α2 expression it may induce. Further investigation of the differential functioning of CAPERα and the integrin α2 promoter in cells of various origin would however be necessary to more clearly differentiate between cell lines that will positively respond to E7820 from those that will not.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley 2019-2022.
The Party of Power of Kazakhstan: the origins, resources and regime-supporting functions of Nur Otan
Creators: name: Del Sordi, Adele
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2012
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: Firmly guided by the strong leadership of the President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the contemporary political system of Kazakhstan is characterized by the presence of a prominent political party. Commonly labelled as a party of power, Nur Otan dominates the national parliament, boasts an ever-increasing membership and a capillary organizational structure. Nur Otan maintains a close relationship with the ruling elites who played a crucial role in its creation. These members continue to sustain it with a constant flow of resources, including the design of ad hoc institutional constraints, privileged access to the media, the adoption of a flexible ideology, and the association with the popular figure of the leader, the President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Secondly, the consolidation of Nur Otan’s dominant position coincided with the establishment of a ‚soft authoritarian‛ regime. I look at Nur Otan’s contribution to this process. It is argued that the ruling elites used the party, and enacted their party-supporting strategies, in order to face a series of regime-threatening challenges, such as legislative rebellions and elite splits. Finally, drawing hypotheses from the literature on new authoritarianism, I look at the specific ways Nur Otan contributes to regime stability: these authoritarian functions include managing elite competition, organizing youth activism and giving the regime an invincible image.  A collateral question stems from the close relation of Kazakhstan with neighbouring Russia and from striking commonalities between their ruling parties. I investigate the possibility that the model of the party of power has been exported from Russia to the Central Asian state, together with authoritarian values.
Vida campesina LGBTQIA+: panoramas globais em análise
Creators: name: PEREIRA, Natalian Mota
name: PEREIRA, Viviane Guimarães
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Para compreendermos a diversidade da comunidade LGBTQIA+ e a vida campesina em suas pluralidades relacionais e ambientais, essa pesquisa apresenta como objetivo geral a investigação da situação global campesina da comunidade LGBTQIA+ a partir de uma revisão sistemática e bibliométrica. Os objetivos específicos são de levantar dados e estudos que ajudem a perceber a realidade da pessoa LGBTQIA+ no meio rural, além de compreender quais situações e condições contribuem para a experiência LGBTQIA+ campesina e as questões migratórias. No presente estudo foi utilizado o método de revisão bibliométrica e revisão sistemática. A coleta de dados foi feita na base de dados dos periódicos Web of Science e Scopus. A análise de dados foi quantitativa e qualitativa. Os principais resultados foram divididos em dois segmentos: migração e panorama global. Foi levantado os seguintes resultados para ambos segmentos: autores mais relevantes, palavras mais relevantes, documentos mais citados globalmente e as análises qualitativas onde os principais pontos percebidos foram o maior foco de estudo em homens gays/homens que fazem sexo com homens no meio rural, mostrando que o gênero masculino é mais estudado que o gênero feminino, podendo assim acarretar na invisibilidade lésbica e da mulher trans no campo.
Remodeling sensory cortical maps implants specific behavioral memory
Creators: name: Weinberger, Norman M.
name: Miasnikov, Alexandre A.
name: Bieszczad, Kasia M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Acetylcholine
Auditory cortex
Brain stimulation
Neurophysiology
Nucleus basalis

description: Neural mechanisms underlying the capacity of memory to be rich in sensory detail are largely unknown. A candidate mechanism is learning-induced plasticity that remodels the adult sensory cortex. Here, expansion in the primary auditory cortical (A1) tonotopic map of rats was induced by pairing a 3.66-kHz tone with activation of the nucleus basalis, mimicking the effects of natural associative learning. Remodeling of A1 produced de novo specific behavioral memory, but neither memory nor plasticity was consistently at the frequency of the paired tone, which typically decreased in A1 representation. Rather, there was a specific match between individual subjects' area of expansion and the tone that was strongest in each animal's memory, as determined by post-training frequency generalization gradients. These findings provide the first demonstration of a match between the artificial induction of specific neural representational plasticity and artificial induction of behavioral memory. As such, together with prior and present findings for detection, correlation and mimicry of plasticity with the acquisition of memory, they satisfy a key criterion for neural substrates of memory. This demonstrates that directly remodeling sensory cortical maps is sufficient for the specificity of memory formation.
Financing, Small and Medium Entities and Social Media
Creators: name: Ghio, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Argomenti
Year: 2021

description: This article examines the relationship between corporate social media communication and financing for Small and Medium Entities (SMEs). First, it provides a critical analysis of prior literature on the use of corporate social media and the potential benefit and costs for SMEs. It then discusses current evidence on the relationship between corporate social media, the cost of equity and the cost of debt. Next, it provides empirical evidence on the impact of corporate social media use on the cost of debt for a set of small and medium firms listed on the Alternative Investment Market London. Lastly, it proposes future research avenues about the association between corporate social media communication and corporate financing. This study provides important theoretical and empirical evidence on how social media are revolutionizing corporate disclosure and the important implications for SMEs and their financing.
description: Argomenti, No. 20 (2021): settembre - dicembre
Political and socio-economic liberalizations in Morocco: genuine democratization or smart authoritarianism?
Creators: name: Sacchetti, Fabiana
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2012
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: “Regime change” in the Arab world has attracted strands of literature which, especially in the last 20 years, variously tried to explain a general “reluctance to democratize” and/or the singular “resilience of  authoritarianism” that most Arab countries were showing, at times when other areas of the world were experiencing wide processes of democratization and political/economic liberalization. Among them, Morocco has so far been reported as one of the most “successful” cases of gradual democratization: partly since its independence in 1956 but mostly in the last two decades, Morocco has indeed been fairly responsive to the mainly external pressures toward political liberalization, endorsing a transition path marked by top-down liberalizing reforms on the political and economic spheres, along with attempts to improve unsatisfactory levels of social indicators and reduce poverty and inequality across the country. Though, this path - far from being linear and incremental – hinder tensions and contradictions which question the easy hypothesis of a country inscribed on a pattern of simultaneous successful democratization and structural change. Besides, Morocco also showed somewhat of a “partial” resilience to the revolutionary upheaval which has been shaking the Arab World since the eve of 2011: mass protests did spread out - leading the King to make concessions in terms of the adoption of a new constitution – but were much milder than in the neighbouring countries and no “revolution” as such took place. This partial resilience represents a further puzzle to explain, in so far as it can be read as a natural outcome in either one or the other of the two contrasting views presented above.  By analysing thus the dynamics of political and socio-economic transformations occurred in Morocco during the last few decades, this work aims at answering to two interrelated questions: 1) Should Morocco be defined as a country embarked in a comprehensive path of democratization (of which the recent adoption of the new constitution represent a major significant step), or rather as trapped into a stalled democratization, or even as just pursuing a piecemeal strategy of ad hoc and often superficial reforms which cannot be described as an overall coherent process of transition (in which both cases the new constitution  would be read as just cosmetic change)? 2) Morocco’s partial resilience to the recent revolutionary upheaval in the Arab world should be read as the result of a substantial (satisfied) acceptance by the population of the country’s socio-economic conditions and ongoing path of democratization (with thus protests calling for just  reforms and not for radical regime change) or it is rather the result of a particularly smart and successful “survival strategy” by part of an authoritarian monarchy able to suffocate real demands for change coming from the masses, even when it appears to respond to them?
Using inconsistency detection to overcome structural ambiguity
Creators: name: Tesar, Bruce
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Language learnability
Optimality theory
Phonology
Stress

description: The Inconsistency Detection Learner (IDL) is an algorithm for language learning that addresses the problem of structural ambiguity. If an overt form is structurally ambiguous, the learner must be capable of inferring which interpretation of the overt form is correct by reference to other overt data of the language. IDL does this by attempting to construct grammars for combinations of interpretations of the overt forms, and discarding those combinations that are inconsistent. The potential of this algorithm for overcoming the combinatorial growth in combinations of interpretations is supported by computational results from an implementation of IDL using an Optimality theoretic system of metrical stress grammars.
Common sense and 'national emergency': neoliberal hegemony in 1990s Italy
Creators: name: Bradanini, Davide
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2012
Subjects: JA Political science (General)

description: The object of this analysis is the moment of consensus that was achieved in the Italian political economy in the 1990s, which allowed the élite to implement 'neoliberal' reforms of industrial relations, pensions, labour market, as well as austerity measures. In contrast to previous work on these issues, I apply a neo-Gramscian theoretical approach that is able to overcome the limitations of an institutionalist paradigm without at the same time taking refuge in a form of determinism. The notion of 'common sense' is fruitfully applied to the Italian case: through a 'common sense' analysis of interviews with representatives of social forces and parties, I show that the genesis of consensus can be both described and explained. A second - related - aim of the research is to explore the 'common sense' underpinnings of the Left's ideological transformation in 1990s Italy. The main finding of the research is that the shared 'common sense' assumption among the social actors was that Italy suffers from economic vulnerability and thus unilateral sacrifices (including - crucially - wage moderation) on the part of labour are necessary in order to adapt the national political economy to 'the international'.