cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dragon Tears : a critical analysis of the political ecology of planteary survival
Creators: name: Parizeau, Bérangère Maïa Natasha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: This thesis is concerned with the social systems, institutional patterns, and political dynamics, which constitute and contextualize the policy challenges relevant to China’s environmental collapse and health crisis. This essay demonstrates that China’s environmental pollution crisis engenders biospheric contamination, human and ecological risks, aggravating climate change, and the current geopolitical trends towards planetary extinction. This scholarly dissertation denounces the failure of neoliberalism, the cultural void of hyper-consumption, or what Dr Ignacio Valero has coined ‘consumer fetishism.’ Through the investigative lens of China’s political structure, the country’s legislative apparatus, and policy environment, this macro/micro policy analysis examines the mechanisms by which western imperialism permeates the Communist Party of China’s fragmented authoritarian iron grip and Party/State economic corporatism. China’s environmental collapse and health crisis are synthesized by means of three case studies: 1) The first case is the hyper-eutrophication of Lake Dianchi in Yunnan Province, Southwestern China. Water pollution threatens China’s economic sustainability; 2) The second case is Liukuaizhuang village in Tianjin Municipality, in Northeast China, which epitomizes the cancer village phenomenon mushrooming nationwide. Cancer is China’s leading cause of death; 3) The third case study is the Dachang Gold Project, a property and access to the richest untapped gold mine in Asia, located on ancestrallandinthe wetland conservation subareas of the Three Rivers Headwaters (San Jiang Yuan) Nature Reserve (SNNR) in Yushu Tibet Autonomous Prefecture (TAP) in Qinghai province on the Tibetan plateau, for which 300,000 Tibetan nomadic pastoralists have been resettled. This inquisitive researching process, includes the production of a documentary on the topic of China’s environmental collapse in light of global causation, human and ecological implications. “Dragon Tears: a film on the political ecology of planetary survival,” is a feature documentary I am directing, currently in production, which intends to communicate creatively to a large audience critical information on China’s ecological collapse and health crisis, criticizing western consumer culture in the context of human extinction. The objective of this heuristic body of work is to radicalize the political discourse and fluidly energize public debates on the topics of ecological justice, climate change, and human evolution.
Engaging with Motor Neurone Disease
Creators: name: King, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2021
Subjects: Motor Neurone Disease

description: Attention to how people engage with biomedical research has increased over the past two decades. A combination of funding mechanisms, activism and policy reports have demonstrated that engaging with those affected by conditions is important for research. Across policy and academic literature, engaging particular groups within research has been considered potentially advantageous in improving the quality and direction of work. Engagements can also ensure that research is accountable. Additionally, those affected by potential clinical outputs are often considered to have a right to be included in conversations about research for which they are potential beneficiaries. This thesis explores the spaces, places, bodies, affects and emotions that determine practices of biomedical research engagements in the context of Motor Neurone Disease (MND). To do this, I use interviews and observations to explore how experiences are shaped and situated. By connecting geography, science studies, disability and applied health research, the project brings together debates around spaces and bodies. It illustrates how spaces of science (engagements) do not always accommodate particular bodies, and why these matter. I go on to suggest that a geographical agenda for embodied engagements might be useful for others seeking to take a spatially and emotionally attentive approach to engagements. This project assembles the components that come together to make engagements and sometimes, to undo them. Informed by the perspectives of those affected by MND, it traces how encounters within engagements are made up of different connections and embodied interactions. Tracing how engagements are built up through relationships with spatial encounters, I explore how they can be thought about with Deleuzian processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization. In doing this, I suggest there are fluid and dynamic ways of framing engagements. In turn, I come to see engagements as spatial, embodied, and always changing.
L?iper-luogo, nuovo fenomeno urbano della mondializzazione: Oriocenter in Lombardia
Creators: name: CONSOLANDI, Elisa
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2022

description: La ricerca nasce dall?assunzione che la mondializzazione produce un territorio reticolare all?interno del quale la citt� rappresenta un nodo in grado di agglutinare molte polarit�, tra cui l?iper-luogo. Quest?ultimo si mostra come un iconema della reticolarit� della mondializzazione e della multipolarit� urbana.
Assumendo la prospettiva analitica dello spatial turn ? che evidenzia il ruolo centrale assunto dall?urbano e dalla reticolarit� quale esito del movimento degli abitanti ?, la tesi ha l?obiettivo di indagare i centri commerciali (in particolare, sull?esempio di Oriocenter) intesi come iper-luoghi, nella loro complessificazione diacronica, per riflettere sia sul loro ruolo urbano, sia sulle relazioni multiscalari che innervano, sia, infine, sulla loro stabilit� e capacit� di far fronte alle perturbazioni ambientali.
Attraverso la applicazione delle teorie geografiche relative all?urbano ? e, nello specifico, inerenti allo studio di quella che � stata definita post-metropoli ?, alla complessit� geografica, alla reticolarit� della mondializzazione e alla rilevanza della riflessivit� nella loro rappresentazione, l?analisi approfondisce lo studio dell?iper-luogo tenendo conto della sua importanza locale e globale e, pi� precisamente, di struttura reticolare mondializzata misurando le sue connessioni reali e virtuali; di luogo pubblico che incide sulla citt� e sull?hinterland in cui � inserito; e, infine, di struttura territoriale autopoietica che raggiunge la sua stabilit� mediante l?adattamento e la resilienza, come dimostrano i cambiamenti indotti dall?epidemia Covid-19 sulla mondializzazione.
High-resolution surface structure determination from bulk X-ray diffraction data
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Nirman
name: Mondal, Swastik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The key to most surface phenomenon lies with the surface structure. Particularly it is the charge density distribution over surface that primarily controls overall interaction of the material with external environment. It is generally accepted that surface structure cannot be deciphered from conventional bulk X-ray diffraction data. Thus, when we intend to delineate the surface structure in particular, we are technically compelled to resort to surface sensitive techniques like High Energy Surface X-ray Diffraction (HESXD), Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED), Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) and Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS). In this work, using aspherical charge density models of crystal structures in different molecular and extended solids, we show a convenient and complementary way of determining high-resolution experimental surface charge density distribution from conventional bulk X-ray diffraction (XRD) data. The usefulness of our method has been validated on surface functionality of boron carbide. While certain surfaces in boron carbide show presence of substantial electron deficient centers, it is absent in others. Henceforth, a plausible correlation between the calculated surface structures and corresponding functional property has been identified.
description: 25 pages, 11 Figures
Horizon Problem Remediation via Deformed Phase Space
Creators: name: Rasouli, S. M. M.
name: Farhoudi, Mehrdad
name: Khosravi, Nima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of a special kind of dynamical deformation between the momenta of the scalar field of the Brans-Dicke theory and the scale factor of the FRW metric. This special choice of deformation includes linearly a deformation parameter. We trace the deformation footprints in the cosmological equations of motion when the BD coupling parameter goes to infinity. One class of the solutions gives a constant scale factor in the late time that confirms the previous result obtained via another approach in the literature. This effect can be interpreted as a quantum gravity footprint in the coarse grained explanation. The another class of the solutions removes the big bang singularity, and the accelerating expansion region has an infinite temporal range which overcomes the horizon problem. After this epoch, there is a graceful exiting by which the universe enters in the radiation dominated era.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, to appear in GERG
Additional file 5 of The impact of wearable continuous vital sign monitoring on deterioration detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Areia, Carlos
name: Biggs, Christopher
name: Santos, Mauro
name: Thurley, Neal
name: Gerry, Stephen
name: Tarassenko, Lionel
name: Watkinson, Peter
name: Vollam, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. GradePro tables
Chemotaxis When Bacteria Remember: Drift versus Diffusion
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Sakuntala
name: da Silveira, Rava Azeredo
name: Kafri, Yariv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: {\sl Escherichia coli} ({\sl E. coli}) bacteria govern their trajectories by switching between running and tumbling modes as a function of the nutrient concentration they experienced in the past. At short time one observes a drift of the bacterial population, while at long time one observes accumulation in high-nutrient regions. Recent work has viewed chemotaxis as a compromise between drift toward favorable regions and accumulation in favorable regions. A number of earlier studies assume that a bacterium resets its memory at tumbles -- a fact not borne out by experiment -- and make use of approximate coarse-grained descriptions. Here, we revisit the problem of chemotaxis without resorting to any memory resets. We find that when bacteria respond to the environment in a non-adaptive manner, chemotaxis is generally dominated by diffusion, whereas when bacteria respond in an adaptive manner, chemotaxis is dominated by a bias in the motion. In the adaptive case, favorable drift occurs together with favorable accumulation. We derive our results from detailed simulations and a variety of analytical arguments. In particular, we introduce a new coarse-grained description of chemotaxis as biased diffusion, and we discuss the way it departs from older coarse-grained descriptions.
description: Revised version, journal reference added
Additional file 6 of The impact of wearable continuous vital sign monitoring on deterioration detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Areia, Carlos
name: Biggs, Christopher
name: Santos, Mauro
name: Thurley, Neal
name: Gerry, Stephen
name: Tarassenko, Lionel
name: Watkinson, Peter
name: Vollam, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Clinical Trial registry flowchart
LDPC Codes for Compressed Sensing
Creators: name: Dimakis, Alexandros G.
name: Smarandache, Roxana
name: Vontobel, Pascal O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a mathematical connection between channel coding and compressed sensing. In particular, we link, on the one hand, \emph{channel coding linear programming decoding (CC-LPD)}, which is a well-known relaxation o maximum-likelihood channel decoding for binary linear codes, and, on the other hand, \emph{compressed sensing linear programming decoding (CS-LPD)}, also known as basis pursuit, which is a widely used linear programming relaxation for the problem of finding the sparsest solution of an under-determined system of linear equations. More specifically, we establis a tight connection between CS-LPD based on a zero-one measurement matrix over the reals and CC-LPD of the binary linear channel code that is obtained by viewing this measurement matrix as a binary parity-check matrix. This connection allows the translation of performance guarantees from one setup to the other. The main message of this paper is that parity-check matrices of "good" channel codes can be used as provably "good" measurement matrices under basis pursuit. In particular, we provide the first deterministic construction of compressed sensing measurement matrices with an order-optimal number of rows using high-girth low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes constructed by Gallager.
description: To appear, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012
From Strong to Weak Coupling Regime in a Single GaN Microwire up to Room Temperature
Creators: name: Trichet, A.
name: Médard, F.
name: Zuniga-Perez, J.
name: Alloing, B.
name: Richard, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large bandgap semiconductor microwires constitute a very advantageous alternative to planar microcavities in the context of room temperature strong coupling regime between exciton and light. In this work we demonstrate that in a GaN microwire, the strong coupling regime is achieved up to room temperature with a large Rabi splitting of 125 meV never achieved before in a Nitride-based photonic nanostructure. The demonstration relies on a method which doesn't require any knowledge á priori on the photonic eigenmodes energy in the microwire, i.e. the details of the microwire cross-section shape. Moreover, using a heavily doped segment within the same microwire, we confirm experimentally that free excitons provide the oscillator strength for this strong coupling regime. The measured Rabi splitting to linewidth ratio of 15 matches state of the art planar Nitride-based microcavities, in spite of a much simpler design and a less demanding fabrication process. These results show that GaN microwires constitute a simpler and promising system to achieve electrically pumped lasing in the strong coupling regime.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Coherent Combination of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Statistics and Peculiar Velocity Measurements from Redshift Survey
Creators: name: Song, Yong-Seon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New statistical method is proposed to coherently combine Baryon Acoustic Oscillation statistics (BAO) and peculiar velocity measurements exploiting decomposed density-density and velocity-velocity spectra in real space from the observed redshift distortions in redshift space, 1) to achieve stronger dark energy constraints, σ(w)=0.06 and σ(w_a)=0.20, which are enhanced from BAO or velocity measurements alone, and 2) to cross-check consistency of dark energy constraints from two different approaches; BAO as geometrical measurements and peculiar velocity as large scale structure formation observables. In addition to those advantages, as power spectra decomposition procedure is free from uncertainty of galaxy bias, this simultaneous fitting is an optimal method to extract cosmological parameters without any pre-assumption about galaxy bias.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, PRD submitted
A crossover for the bad configurations of random walk in random scenery
Creators: name: Blachère, Sébastien
name: Hollander, Frank den
name: Steif, Jeffrey E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we consider a random walk and a random color scenery on Z. The increments of the walk and the colors of the scenery are assumed to be i.i.d. and to be independent of each other. We are interested in the random process of colors seen by the walk in the course of time. Bad configurations for this random process are the discontinuity points of the conditional probability distribution for the color seen at time zero given the colors seen at all later times. We focus on the case where the random walk has increments 0, +1 or -1 with probability epsilon, (1-epsilon)p and (1-epsilon)(1-p), respectively, with p in [1/2,1] and epsilon in [0,1), and where the scenery assigns the color black or white to the sites of Z with probability 1/2 each. We show that, remarkably, the set of bad configurations exhibits a crossover: for epsilon=0 and p in (1/2,4/5) all configurations are bad, while for (p,epsilon) in an open neighborhood of (1,0) all configurations are good. In addition, we show that for epsilon=0 and p=1/2 both bad and good configurations exist. We conjecture that for all epsilon in [0,1) the crossover value is unique and equals 4/5. Finally, we suggest an approach to handle the seemingly more difficult case where epsilon>0 and p in [1/2,4/5), which will be pursued in future work.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOP664 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
The Need to Support of Data Flow Graph Visualization of Forensic Lucid Programs, Forensic Evidence, and their Evaluation by GIPSY
Creators: name: Mokhov, Serguei A.
name: Paquet, Joey
name: Debbabi, Mourad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.7; D.2.11; D.3.2; D.3.4

description: Lucid programs are data-flow programs and can be visually represented as data flow graphs (DFGs) and composed visually. Forensic Lucid, a Lucid dialect, is a language to specify and reason about cyberforensic cases. It includes the encoding of the evidence (representing the context of evaluation) and the crime scene modeling in order to validate claims against the model and perform event reconstruction, potentially within large swaths of digital evidence. To aid investigators to model the scene and evaluate it, instead of typing a Forensic Lucid program, we propose to expand the design and implementation of the Lucid DFG programming onto Forensic Lucid case modeling and specification to enhance the usability of the language and the system and its behavior. We briefly discuss the related work on visual programming an DFG modeling in an attempt to define and select one approach or a composition of approaches for Forensic Lucid based on various criteria such as previous implementation, wide use, formal backing in terms of semantics and translation. In the end, we solicit the readers' constructive, opinions, feedback, comments, and recommendations within the context of this short discussion.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, index; extended abstract presented at VizSec'10 at http://www.vizsec2010.org/posters ; short paper accepted at PST'11
title: Tuberculosis findings in chest computed tomography
Creators: name: Tito, Pedro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Tropical diseases
subject: Infection
subject: Radiobiology
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Tuberculosis has several radiologic manifestations, which difficultthe diagnosis. Tuberculosis radiologic findings are more frequently related to the immune status of the host than with the time of infection; The main chest computed tomography...
Horizontal arc routing collaboration: models and algorithms
Creators: name: FONTANA, Dario
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: In this work, we investigate horizontal collaboration, mainly on road transportation, among different companies, carriers and shippers.
Background motivations are: a still prevalent way of moving around goods in different parts of the world,
 an increasing pressure on logistic providers and an higher customer expectations about requested service.
 Therefore, we examine the existing literature on horizontal collaboration classifying different models and techniques used. An extensive literature review about these problems is given.
 We study profit, benefit and cost allocation procedures in order to better investigate the impact and the effectiveness of collaboration for the collecting of profits and the cutting of costs.
Then, we develop a new profitable arc routing model to address a centralized partial cooperation among multiple carriers.
We study two different formulations of this problem taking into account the impact of collaboration on the stand alone carrier profit.
In the first one the goal is the maximization of the total profit of the coalition of carriers, independently of the individual profit of each carrier.
 The second variant includes a lower bound on the individual profit of each carrier.
 We formulate mixed integer programming models for the two variants of the problem and study their properties and their relations with well-known arc routing problems.
We solve them with a branch-and-cut algorithm and quantify the impact of collaboration on a large set of instances.
 Finally, we develope two metaheuristic solution methods based on a Large Neighborhood Search and a Ruin and Repair heuristic framework. On one hand, we have a Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), on the other hand, we have an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS).
 Both metaheuristics perform very well on a large set of instances solving almost all of them within few seconds.
 Moreover, both find feasible solutions on larger and more realistic instances within few minutes.
Systems of dyadic cubes in a doubling metric space
Creators: name: Hytönen, Tuomas
name: Kairema, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30L99, 42B25, 60D05

description: A number of recent results in Euclidean Harmonic Analysis have exploited several adjacent systems of dyadic cubes, instead of just one fixed system. In this paper, we extend such constructions to general spaces of homogeneous type, making these tools available for Analysis on metric spaces. The results include a new (non-random) construction of boundedly many adjacent dyadic systems with useful covering properties, and a streamlined version of the random construction recently devised by H. Martikainen and the first author. We illustrate the usefulness of these constructions with applications to weighted inequalities and the BMO space; further applications will appear in forthcoming work.
description: v3; some typos corrected
Mindfulness in the workplace : what helps and what hinders
Creators: name: Moodie, Melahnie Elena K.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Work-related stress is prevalent among many working adults and can lead to a host of detrimental health, psychological, and socio-economic consequences (Van Gordon, Shonin, Zangeneh, & Griffiths, 2014). Researchers have begun to look at the benefits of using mindfulness-based interventions in the workplace (Virgili, 2013), but they have yet to further investigate the mindfulness factors that promote or detract from work performance. To address the absence of empirical accounts in this domain, this qualitative study explored the subjective experience of participants applying mindfulness strategies in the workplace. Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT; Butterfield, Borgen, Maglio, & Amundson, 2009), a well-validated framework for data analysis and interpretation, was used to explore mindfulness factors that help or hinder effective work performance. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 participants from Google’s mindfulness-training program, Search Inside Yourself (SIY). Data analysis and interpretation identified common themes, patterns, and emerging categories among positive and negative outcomes on work performance, as well as wish list items of resources that participants felt would improve the SIY course and help them to effectively integrate mindfulness into their workplace. Among the helpful factors of integrating mindfulness, 10 categories emerged: (1) communication and interpersonal skills, (2) self-regulation, (3) optimization of performance, (4) ability to cope with stress, (5) empathy, (6) well-being, (7) self-compassion, (8) leadership skills, (9) creative and critical thinking skills, and (10) passion at work. Among the hindering factors of integrating mindfulness, four categories emerged: (1) misperceptions about mindfulness, (2) suitability, (3) time requirements, and (4) dissonance between work goals and mindfulness. To increase the trustworthiness of the research results, nine credibility checks were conducted throughout the study (Butterfield et al., 2009).
การพัฒนาบทเรียนคอมพิวเตอร์ช่วยสอน (CAI) เรื่องวงดนตรีไทย กลุ่มสาระการเรียนรู้ศิลปะ สําหรับชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 1
Creators: name: อุไร แสงนวล
Publisher: name: The Office of Arts and Culture, Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2013
Subjects: -

description: วารสารศิลปะและวัฒนธรรมลุ่มแม่น้ำมูล, 8, ปีการศึกษา 2556, 8-17
Additional file 7 of The impact of wearable continuous vital sign monitoring on deterioration detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Areia, Carlos
name: Biggs, Christopher
name: Santos, Mauro
name: Thurley, Neal
name: Gerry, Stephen
name: Tarassenko, Lionel
name: Watkinson, Peter
name: Vollam, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Registered studies information
The path towards environmental and social sustainability: the case of manufacturing companies and their suppliers
Creators: name: GUALANDRIS, Jury
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2014

description: In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that two-thirds of the world?s ecosystems were being exploited well beyond sustainable levels. Given that manufacturing firms rely strongly on natural resources to conduct business, it is surprising that many have failed to make their supply chains more sustainable. I believe this occurs not because companies are acting in their own self-interests, but because understanding is still lacking on how to become sustainable. The Key is that good environmental and social performance are not simple to achieve, since ?new? practices have to be developed in a coordinated fashion. That is, most companies do not choose to ignore environmental and social harm, but the complexity is such that their knowledge is often insufficient.
The goal of this dissertation is to offer practical guidelines which help companies to coordinate the complex bundle of practices which have to be adopted along the pathway that lead to high environmental and social performance in the supply chain. To do so, I develop three distinct but compatible papers. The first looks at the role of a company?s willingness/ability to change, i.e. its innovativeness, as a distinguished factor whose absence may hinder, retard or even constrain the development of sustainable practices. The second paper acknowledges the globalization process that supply chains are undergoing, which creates the need for differentiated approaches to the management of sustainability. Third, the last paper looks at the inter-relationship between internal and external practices (i.e., activities without direct supplier involvement vs. activities that include transactions with suppliers) and at their specific impacts on sustainability performance.
Taken as a whole, this dissertation sheds some light on the pathway companies should undertake to boost their environmental and social sustainability while helping suppliers to develop their own capacity to deal with this matter.
Additional file 8 of The impact of wearable continuous vital sign monitoring on deterioration detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Areia, Carlos
name: Biggs, Christopher
name: Santos, Mauro
name: Thurley, Neal
name: Gerry, Stephen
name: Tarassenko, Lionel
name: Watkinson, Peter
name: Vollam, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8. Quality assessment scales
Tecnopatie lavorative: profili evolutivi di rischio e strumenti di tutela. Malattie professionali da esposizione ad agenti chimici, amianto e silice cristallina. Accertamento eziologico tra profili di responsabilit� e tutela
Creators: name: DE VIRGILIO, TIZIANA VALERIANA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: :unkn
Our weekday preachers': humor in Victorian literature (1828-1868)
Creators: name: Cox, Glynnis R.
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2021
Subjects: Victorian novels
theory of humour
incongruity theory
role of the narrator
social commentary
social dynamics

description: This thesis investigates the use of humor in realist Victorian novels published between 1828– 1868. The main hypothesis of this project is that the novelists of this time period rely on humor as a powerful tool not just to divert and amuse, but often as a central rhetorical device to create complex stories, to evoke compelling characters, to depict social problems, and to persuade. The ideas that my work explores are illustrated by analyses of texts by: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Meredith, Margaret Oliphant, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, and Frances Trollope. My research aims have been to answer the following questions: (1) where does humor appear in these texts and how is it employed in the techniques of these narratives? And (2) why is humor used or in relation to which themes is humor employed? In order to answer these questions my first chapter discusses theories of humor and proposes that a version of incongruity theory is the fittest definition to use to understand humor’s presence and role in the texts of the Victorian period. Incongruity theory suggests that the essential, if not sufficient, condition for humor is the presence of the juxtaposition between an incongruity and present or implied congruity. To discuss the technical aspects of humor as incongruity and its role in narrative, this thesis also utilizes some of the vocabulary and theories of Narratology, Structuralism, and Formalism. Chapters two and three seek to use the theories discussed in chapter one to answer (1): where does humor appear in these texts and how is it employed? In chapter two, I demonstrate how different authors of this period introduce humor in their texts and frame incongruity through the focalization of narrators. In chapter three, I discuss the role of humor, both its presence and absence, in texts in relation to central versus peripheral characters and in character development. This chapter particularly highlights the orienting role that humor plays in texts: for or against characters and causes. In chapters four and five, I address question (2): why do authors use humor or what is humor in these texts about? In chapter four, I look at how humor was used to depict conflict within and confused expectations between different social groups. In chapter five, I focus on the use of humor in narrative to critique and persuade. First, I look at various examples of critiques of contemporary ecclesiastical controversy. Second, I compare an example of a critique of Utilitarianism and a critique of the use of literature to persuade. Finally, in my conclusion, I briefly highlight the limits of humor’s role and usefulness in humor-dominated narratives by comparing the presence and absence of humor in scenes depicting death and suffering.
On mass limit for chiral color symmetry $G'$-boson from Tevatron data on $t \bar{t}$ production
Creators: name: Martynov, M. V.
name: Smirnov, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contributions of $G'$-boson predicted by the chiral color symmetry of quarks to the cross section $σ_{t\bar{t}}$ and to the forward-backward asymmetry $A_{\rm FB}^{p \bar p}$ of $t\bar{t}$ production at the Tevatron are calculated with account of the difference of the strengths of the $\bar q q G$ and $\bar q q G'$ interactions. The results are analysed in dependence on two free parameters of the model, the mixing angle $θ_G$ and $G'$ mass $m_{G'}$. The $G'$-boson contributions to $σ_{t\bar{t}}$ and $A_{\rm FB}^{p \bar p}$ are shown to be consistent with the Tevatron data on $σ_{t\bar{t}}$ and $A_{\rm FB}^{p \bar p}$, the allowed region in the $m_{G'} - θ_G$ plane is discussed and around $m_{G'}=1.2 \, TeV, \; θ_G=14^\circ $ the region of $1 σ$ consistency is found.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, misprints in formula (14) are corrected, all the other results are valid
Предложение по сокращению времени пуска двигателей главных циркуляционных насосов АЭС
Creators: name: Владимировна, Шевченко Валентина
name: Соболев А.В.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: электрические машины
АЭС
короткозамкнутый вертикальный электродвигатель
циркуляционные насосы АЭС
частотный пуск

description: На русском: [Шевченко В.В., Соболев А.В. Предложение по сокращению времени пуска двигателей главных циркуляционных насосов АЭС // Тезисы докладов 24-й международной научно-практической конференции "Информационные технологии: наука, техника, технология, образование, здоровье" (MicroCAD-2016), 18-20 мая 2016 года, Харьков (ISSN 2222-2944), часть 2, cекция 9 "Электромеханическое и электрическое преобразование энергии". -  Украина, Харьков: НТУ "ХПИ", 2016. - С. 128. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2594692]

Ключевые слова: электрические машины, АЭС, короткозамкнутый вертикальный электродвигатель, циркуляционные насосы АЭС, частотный пуск.

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WELFARE STATE E SOSTEGNO AL REDDITO TRA UNIVERSALITA? DELLE PRESTAZIONI E BILATERALITA?
Creators: name: DEL DUCA, DANIELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2016

description: La presente ricerca indaga la possibilit� di teorizzare un nuovo e differente modello
di Welfare per il nostro ordinamento, alla luce delle tendenze evolutive individuate
nell?odierno sistema di protezione sociale.
Il c.d. ?Welfare della persona?, basato su di un pardigma nettamente differente da
quello che muove l?attuale sistema di benessere sociale, dovrebbe porsi, quale
obiettivo, quello dell?inclusivit� e dell?investimento sociale, sostenendo la persona
anche attraverso la sua partecipazione universale al mercato del lavoro.
A tale conclusione si � giunti portando avanti due diversi filoni d?indagine.
Il primo ha coinciso con l?analisi della definizione di Welfare State, data dalla
letteratura in campo giuridico, economico e sociale e l?individuazione dei principi
costituzionali, storici ed emergenti, sottesi al sistema stesso.
Il secondo, invece, ha avuto ad oggetto lo studio di una delle tendenze che l?attuale
sistema di protezione sociale ha mostrato sempre pi� di avere nell?ultimo decennio,
vale a dire la devoluzione di parte dei suoi compiti di tutela ad enti ed attori privati.
Questa propensione � emersa, in modo netto, nel campo del sostegno al reddito, dove
la bilateralit� e le sue attitudini sono state individuate quali possibili strumenti
sistematici per un ampliamento, in chiave universalistica, della tutela approntata
dagli ammortizzatori sociali in costanza di rapporto.
Sulla base dei risultati emersi, si � proceduto con una ricognizione delle spinte
esogene che incidono sull?attuale sistema di protezione sociale, quali sono i
cambiamenti demografici, l?evoluzione dei processi tecnologici e la crisi economica,
e delle critiche mosse all?attuale modello, da molti definito disorganico e non
pienamente rispettoso dei principi di uguaglianza e di solidariet�, al fine di poterci
chiedere, se le tendenze dimostrate dal sistema degli ammortizzatori sociali potessero
connotare l?intero sistema di di protezione sociale, e in caso affermativo, quali
caratteristiche il nuovo modello di Welfare della persona avrebbe dovuto avere per
essere in grado di tutelare i cittadini anche contro i c.d. ?nuovi rischi sociali?.
Gutzwiller study of extended Hubbard models with fixed boson densities
Creators: name: Kimura, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied all possible ground states, including supersolid (SS) phases and phase separations of hard-core- and soft-core-extended Bose--Hubbard models with fixed boson densities by using the Gutzwiller variational wave function and the linear programming method. We found that the phase diagram of the soft-core model depends strongly on its transfer integral. Furthermore, for a large transfer integral, we showed that an SS phase can be the ground state even below or at half filling against the phase separation. We also found that the density difference between nearest-neighbor sites, which indicates the density order of the SS phase, depends strongly on the boson density and transfer integral.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. A
Seismic design of timber steel hybrid high-rise buildings
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaoyue
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Timber-steel hybrid systems utilize timber as main construction material, but also take advantage of the ductility and stiffness that steel provides. For a novel hybrid system to gain recognition, experimental data must be supported by numerical analysis to predict its structural performance. “Finding the Forest Through the Trees” (FFTT) is one proposal for a timber-steel hybrid system using mass-timber panels as shear walls and floor slabs connected with steel header beams. This thesis presents research to evaluate the seismic performance of the FFTT hybrid system using experimental methods, numerical modeling, and reliability analysis. The FFTT system was investigated on two levels: i) component design, and ii) system design. On the component level, the strength, stiffness, ductility, and failure mechanisms of the two key connections were evaluated experimentally. CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) wall to steel beam connection tests results demonstrated that appropriate connection layouts can lead to the desired failure mechanism while avoiding crushing of the mass-timber panels. For the hold-down connection, a modified HSK (Holz-Stahl-Komposit) assembly with high force and stiffness capacity together with ductile behaviour was proposed. On the system level, the seismic response of the FFTT system with different ductility values was investigated using nonlinear 2D and 3D models subjected to a number of ground motion acceleration records. The seismic reliability with various uncertainties was analysed in order to investigate the FFTT system from a performance based approach. Based on the results, an appropriate seismic force reduction factor specific to the FFTT system was proposed. Finally, a feasibility study confirmed the possibility of the practical application of this system. This thesis can serve as a precursor for developing design guidelines for tall wood-hybrid building systems in seismic regions.
Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Painlevé IV Equation
Creators: name: Bermudez, David
name: C, David J. Fernández
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As it has been proven, the determination of general one-dimensional Schrödinger Hamiltonians having third-order differential ladder operators requires to solve the Painlevé IV equation. In this work, it will be shown that some specific subsets of the higher-order supersymmetric partners of the harmonic oscillator possess third-order differential ladder operators. This allows us to introduce a simple technique for generating solutions of the Painlevé IV equation. Finally, we classify these solutions into three relevant hierarchies.
description: Proceedings of the Workshop 'Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Spectral Design' (July 18-30, 2010, Benasque, Spain)
ControlVC: Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Time-Varying Controls on Pitch and Speed
Creators: name: Chen, Meiying
name: Duan, Zhiyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent developments in neural speech synthesis and vocoding have sparked a renewed interest in voice conversion (VC). Beyond timbre transfer, achieving controllability on para-linguistic parameters such as pitch and Speed is critical in deploying VC systems in many application scenarios. Existing studies, however, either only provide utterance-level global control or lack interpretability on the controls. In this paper, we propose ControlVC, the first neural voice conversion system that achieves time-varying controls on pitch and speed. ControlVC uses pre-trained encoders to compute pitch and linguistic embeddings from the source utterance and speaker embeddings from the target utterance. These embeddings are then concatenated and converted to speech using a vocoder. It achieves speed control through TD-PSOLA pre-processing on the source utterance, and achieves pitch control by manipulating the pitch contour before feeding it to the pitch encoder. Systematic subjective and objective evaluations are conducted to assess the speech quality and controllability. Results show that, on non-parallel and zero-shot conversion tasks, ControlVC significantly outperforms two other self-constructed baselines on speech quality, and it can successfully achieve time-varying pitch and speed control.
description: Audio samples: https://bit.ly/3PsrKLJ; Code: https://github.com/MelissaChen15/control-vc
Measuring and Processing Biogas Produced in Laboratory-Scale Batch Reactors
Creators: name: STRADA, Carlo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2017

description: In this work the upgrading of biogas into biomethane has been addressed by resorting to the use of the chemical capture of carbon dioxide. We started with the realization of a biodigestion systems used as source of biogas. With this system, we investigated either the production capacity of the different substrates and the main factors (temperature, pH and mixing of the substrate) which influence the biodigestion process. To make accurate measurements of the amount of biogas and biomethane produced, three types of different gas-meters, all based on the principle of liquid displacement, have been devised, assembled and compared. We have also evaluated three different types of gas flow calibrators, based on the principle of thermal mass flow sensing, constant differential pressure and mechanical displacement. At the end, we used the systems built to investigate the capture of carbon dioxide by ammonia in aqueous solution at room temperature and pressure where the volatilization of the ammonia has been limited by non-traditional methods.
Inspiral-merger-ringdown multipolar waveforms of nonspinning black-hole binaries using the effective-one-body formalism
Creators: name: Pan, Yi
name: Buonanno, Alessandra
name: Boyle, Michael
name: Buchman, Luisa T.
name: Kidder, Lawrence E.
name: Pfeiffer, Harald P.
name: Scheel, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calibrate an effective-one-body (EOB) model to numerical-relativity simulations of mass ratios 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, by maximizing phase and amplitude agreement of the leading (2,2) mode and of the subleading modes (2,1), (3,3), (4,4) and (5,5). Aligning the calibrated EOB waveforms and the numerical waveforms at low frequency, the phase difference of the (2,2) mode between model and numerical simulation remains below 0.1 rad throughout the evolution for all mass ratios considered. The fractional amplitude difference at peak amplitude of the (2,2) mode is 2% and grows to 12% during the ringdown. Using the Advanced LIGO noise curve we study the effectualness and measurement accuracy of the EOB model, and stress the relevance of modeling the higher-order modes for parameter estimation. We find that the effectualness, measured by the mismatch, between the EOB and numerical-relativity polarizations which include only the (2,2) mode is smaller than 0.2% for binaries with total mass 20-200 Msun and mass ratios 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. When numerical-relativity polarizations contain the strongest seven modes, and stellar-mass black holes with masses less than 50Msun are considered, the mismatch for mass ratio 6 (1) can be as high as 5% (0.2%) when only the EOB (2,2) mode is included, and an upper bound of the mismatch is 0.5% (0.07%) when all the four subleading EOB modes calibrated in this paper are taken into account. For binaries with intermediate-mass black holes with masses greater than 50Msun the mismatches are larger. We also determine for which signal-to-noise ratios the EOB model developed here can be used to measure binary parameters with systematic biases smaller than statistical errors due to detector noise.
description: 26 pages, 25 figures, published Phys. Rev. D version