cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Five years of ADCAIJ journal: Emerging Channels for Research Communities
Creators: name: De Páiz, María Isabel
name: Díez-Martínez, Verónica
name: Gómez-Jiménez, Marta
name: Nieto-Malillos, Paula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: ADCAIJ; Bibliometrics tools; Scientific Communication; Visibility; ESCI/WoS

description: After five years of beguinning publication, ADCAIJ has consolidated as one of the prestigious journal that joint research and transfer of knowledge to society. WoS has included the journal in ESCI and the editorial team is working for reach the core collection.
PROFILI SOSPETTI. STRUMENTI DI IDENTIFICAZIONE CRIMINALE E PRATICHE DI CLASSIFICAZIONE: LA BANCA DATI NAZIONALE DEL DNA
Creators: name: MOLTENI, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The empirical research discussed in this thesis is aimed at investigating the establishment and implementation of the Italian DNA databank arranged on the base of the Pr�m treaty and set up with the law n.85 of 30th June 2009. This archive of criminal DNA profiles operates as part of a broader set of tools for the regulation and the government of phenomena and situations that at some point have been presented as a problem and defined as a threat. The implementation of this ?instrument? has been taken into account as an exemplary moment of the production of a larger dispositif of securitization and has been contextualised within a broader process of constitution, development and integration of national databases in the European framework of police and judicial cross-border cooperation. At a more general level the inquiry deals with classifications that define certain "kinds of people" (the criminal, the recidivist, the suspect). Special attention has been devoted to the scientific knowledge that support and justifies them, to the political discourses that makes theme effective and to the technical instruments they use, particularly that peculiar kind of tools represented by genetic and biometrics databases used for personal identification in criminal investigations, and in the management of public security and borders in EU.
Demolizioni. Fare spazio alla citt� nuova
Creators: name: CARPI, PAOLO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: OGGETTO DELLA RICERCA
La citt�, intesa come manufatto, ovvero come ?cosa umana per eccellenza? (L�vi-Strauss), � lo sfondo su cui questa ricerca mette a fuoco, in primo piano, uno strumento particolare per trasformarla: la demolizione.
La storia dell?evoluzione delle citt� (di tutte le citt�) non � altro che la storia del conflitto tra l?inerzia della citt� stessa in quanto luogo dei significati consolidati e la volont� degli uomini di trasformarla nel luogo dei significati possibili. Questa tesi si occupa di progetti di demolizioni: progetti architettonici per la soluzione positiva di quel conflitto nella citt�.

OBIETTIVI
Obiettivo della ricerca � mostrare come, spostando l?attenzione da ci� che viene demolito a ci� che non viene demolito, sia possibile intendere la demolizione come uno strumento costruttivo, volto alla conservazione della citt� nel suo complesso. Questa prospettiva �, contemporaneamente, pi� pertinente alla citt� e pi� promettente per la citt�. Allora, la demolizione potr� apparire come uno strumento utile anche per la trasformazione delle citt� contemporanee.

METODOLOGIA
Nella prima parte della tesi vengono individuate le caratteristiche proprie della demolizione. Esse emergono dallo studio della trasformazione di Parigi, sognata e faticosamente realizzata tra il 1789 e il 1889. In particolare, viene messo a fuoco lo spazio delle demolizioni: lo spazio in cui si materializzarono le forze politiche, sociali ed economiche in atto in quel periodo; lo spazio che fu usato per costruire la citt� moderna/capitalista a partire da una citt� medievale/feudale.
I casi analizzati nella seconda parte della tesi (dalla Roma di Sisto V alla Barcellona di Bohigas) mostrano, pi� in generale, come sia stato possibile usare le demolizioni per trasformare le citt� esistenti in altre citt�. Da un lato, la demolizione si rivela come il detonatore che fa esplodere, in tutti i sensi, il rapporto tra un manufatto (statua, edificio o citt�) e il suo significato consolidato; dall?altro, il disegno dello spazio delle demolizioni si rivela come lo strumento per progettare il suo nuovo significato.

CONCLUSIONI
Lo spazio delle demolizioni � una forma negativa, frutto di una sottrazione di volume. In quanto negativo, quello spazio ha un rapporto con la forma positiva, che giace sia dentro al suo perimetro (i pezzi della citt� nuova che l� vengono costruiti), sia fuori dal suo perimetro (i pezzi superstiti della citt� vecchia). Lo spazio delle demolizioni � aperto nella citt� vecchia per fare spazio alla nuova. Attraverso il suo disegno, � possibile stabilire una relazione precisa tra le due citt�. Per questo, le demolizioni sono lette come atti di architettura; in questo senso, se osservate dal punto di vista della citt�, esse sono atti positivi.
Se ?l'architettura � la volont� di un'epoca, tradotta in spazio? (Mies), la demolizione � uno strumento per aprire quello spazio nella citt�.
Digital Imaging and Halftoning Algorithms Design: Parallel Processing, Printed Image Artifacts Modeling, and Learning-Based Image Analysis
Creators: name: Mao, Yafei
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores four topics in designing imaging processing algorithms. The first one is enhancing computation efficiency and implementation flexibility. We propose a parallel processing architecture for the error diffusion algorithm, allowing it to process multiple rows of image pixels simultaneously. We also develop a new loss function in the training system to minimize the weighted mean squared error in the power spectra. With this new algorithm, better halftone reproductions and higher hardware efficiency can be achieved. The second topic is improving the image quality of printed images. Two novel printer models for the direct binary search (DBS) algorithm are proposed. One is called the dot profile model. It is used to compensate dot shape irregularity errors of inkjet printers. The other one is called the ink drop displacement model. It is intended primarily to compensate for the stochastic ink drop displacement error in the prints. For both models, we first characterize the statistical properties of the printed dots and then integrate this prior knowledge in the fidelity metric which directs the image reproduction of DBS. In so doing, the image quality is greatly enhanced. The third topic is supervised learning algorithms applied to document image analysis. In this application, we develop a set of features to use with a support vector machine model to discriminate document images based on the color information and contents. The last topic is learning-based makeup shade matching. We train machine learning models to predict the best matching foundation shade based on the selfie images of a customer. Besides, a novel color correction algorithm is designed to minimize color inconsistency.
sj-pdf-5-sjs-10.1177_14574969211042457 – Supplemental material for The impact of cirrhosis on the postoperative outcomes of patients undergoing splenectomy: Propensity score matched analysis of the 2011–2017 US hospital database
Creators: name: Lee, David U.
name: Fan, Gregory H.
name: Hastie, David J.
name: Addonizio, Elyse A.
name: Karagozian, Raffi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-5-sjs-10.1177_14574969211042457 for The impact of cirrhosis on the postoperative outcomes of patients undergoing splenectomy: Propensity score matched analysis of the 2011–2017 US hospital database by David U. Lee, Gregory H. Fan, David J. Hastie, Elyse A. Addonizio and Raffi Karagozian in Scandinavian Journal of Surgery
Additional file 1 of Development of an index system for the scientific literacy of medical staff: a modified Delphi study in China
Creators: name: Liang, Shuyu
name: Zhai, Ziyan
name: Feng, Xingmiao
name: Sun, Xiaozhi
name: Jiao, Jingxuan
name: Gao, Yuan
name: Meng, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Oltre la citt� portuale_ La Condizione di Portualit� e il Campo della Soglia
Creators: name: MORETTI, BEATRICE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: Quello di portualit� � un concetto radicato in alcuni centri urbani costieri da tempi molto antichi.
Si tratta di una qualit� territoriale che denota specificatamente quelle citt� che sono nate e si sono sviluppate tramite una forte relazione storica, simbolica, economica e funzionale con il proprio porto. Rappresenta un?urbanit� inedita in grado di incarnare quel legame ineludibile che spesso pone una realt� (citt� o porto) in dipendenza o in contrapposizione all?altra. Si tratta di una condizione che tratteggia i contorni di una dimensione ibrida ed eterogenea che, frutto di
componenti diverse e giustapposte, incarna la complessit� della relazione urbano-portuale attuale.
Questa ricerca supporta il riconoscimento della portualit� come condizione distintiva delle citt� portuali rispetto ad altre forme urbane e si propone di studiarla in un campo di apprendimento specifico, ossia la soglia tra citt� e porto. La soglia urbano-portuale � una figura che si materializza
nella fascia di confine tra le due autorit�, in quel paesaggio ricorrente in cui la citt� e il porto sono affiancati. Questo sistema eterogeneo non ha una configurazione standard ma si plasma in geometrie differenti al variare di aspetti morfologici, funzionali e istituzionali.
Attraverso questo approccio, la ricerca si propone di superare la dicotomia citt�-porto e delineare una nuova versione della relazione urbano-portuale. Indagare diversi modelli e strategie evolutive della soglia urbano-portuale, infatti, permette di fissare caratteri e ricorrenze dell?identit� urbanoportuale contemporanea, e di verificare se la dimensione ambivalente che oggi caratterizza il legame citt�-porto sia riflessa in questa catalogazione o se, invece, serva individuare strumenti per
muovere oltre, verso un?estensione del suoi significati originari.
La Santa Sede nei confronti degli interregni nello stato polacco-lituano della seconda met� del Cinquecento (1572-1589). Politica e diplomazia
Creators: name: GREGOROWICZ, DOROTA MAGDALENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2017

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Selected Topics of Deep Learning Application in Forest Research
Creators: name: Wu, Fanyou
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Forestry sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Digital Forestry uses digital technology and multidisciplinary expertise to measure, monitor, and manage urban and rural forests to maximize social, economic, and ecological benefits.
In chapter 2, we investigated the potential use of CNNs for hardwood lumber identification based on tangential plane images. In chapter 3, we developed deep bark, a lightweight tree species identification application, by using deep learning. In chapter 4, we first introduced a new dataset of images of hardwood species annotated for tree ring detection. We applied the state-of-art semantic segmentation models to the dataset. In chapter 5, we combined the observed classes and non-observed classes by distinguishing the attributes of objects and applied zero-shot learning to microscopic wood images.
 The results above chapters demonstrated the potential and effectiveness of machine learning in many forestry-related tasks. Those applications help both the research community and industry to conduct better digital forestry business. However, we still need to point out that the availability, quality, and quantity of data and annotation are critical factors in conducting meaningful research and applications in forestry.
sj-pdf-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218211047420 – Supplemental material for Lexicality effects on orthographic learning in beginning and advanced readers of Dutch: An eye-tracking study
Creators: name: van Viersen, Sietske
name: Protopapas, Athanassios
name: Georgiou, George K
name: Parrila, Rauno
name: Ziaka, Laoura
name: de Jong, Peter F
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218211047420 for Lexicality effects on orthographic learning in beginning and advanced readers of Dutch: An eye-tracking study by Sietske van Viersen, Athanassios Protopapas, George K Georgiou, Rauno Parrila, Laoura Ziaka and Peter F de Jong in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
A Stepped Care approach for the treatment of Binge Eating Disorder: main outcome analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: BRUGNERA, Agostino
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2018

description: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is a common mental illness, with lifetime prevalence estimates of 3%. BED is usually associated with a higher occurrence of psychological difficulties (e.g. interpersonal problems), and is often comorbid with obesity, poor physical health and somatic diseases. However, due to high treatment costs or the lack of clinicians to treat all existing cases, most of the patients do not receive a specialized care. A possible solution is the wider adoption of stepped care programs, or models of healthcare delivery that use briefer treatments, distributed in different steps. A typical first step consists in self-help (i.e. books), a minimal-care and evidence-based intervention derived from cognitive behavioral therapy. A second step could be a group treatment, which is effective as the individual one and allow to treat more patients at once, thus reducing welfare burden.
The present dissertation examined the efficacy of a stepped care model for Binge Eating Disorder: a total of 135 patients first attended a 10-week program of unguided self-help (USH). After USH, 85 participants were later randomized to either a control no-treatment condition or Group Psychodynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy (GPIP). Outcomes were evaluated up to 6 months after treatment. Results evidenced that USH reduced binge eating frequency and the core eating disorder psychopathology (i.e. over-evaluation of weight, shape, eating). In addition, patients randomized to GPIP experienced a further reduction in binge eating and a greater improvement in attachment avoidance, interpersonal problems and weight concerns.
Our findings provided preliminary evidence on the effectiveness of a stepped care approach for patients with BED, supporting its wider adoption and suggesting that this model could reduce welfare costs and potentially increase the percentage of treated patients. Further investigation should explore changes in other secondary outcomes (e.g. attachment states of mind, reflective functioning) not examined yet, as well as the potential moderating factors of treatment outcomes.
FAZT: FEW AND ZERO-SHOT FRAMEWORK TO LEARN TEMPO-VISUAL EVENTS FROM LITTLE OR NO DATA
Creators: name: Madapana, Naveen
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital processor architectures
Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supervised classification methods based on deep learning have achieved great success in many domains and tasks that are previously unimaginable. Such approaches build on learning paradigms that require hundreds of examples in order to learn to classify objects or events. Thus, their immediate application to the domains with few or no observations is limited. This is because of the lack of ability to rapidly generalize to new categories from a few examples or from high-level descriptions of categories. This can be attributed to the significant gap between the way machines represent knowledge and the way humans represent categories in their minds and learn to recognize them. In this context, this research represents categories as semantic trees in a high-level attribute space and proposes an approach to utilize these representations to conduct N-Shot, Few-Shot, One-Shot, and Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL). This work refers to this paradigm as the problem of general classification (GCP) and proposes a unified framework for GCP referred to as the Few and Zero-Shot Technique (FAZT). FAZT framework is an end-to-end approach that uses trainable 3D convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks to simultaneously optimize for both the semantic and the classification tasks. Lastly, the problem of systematically obtaining semantic attributes by utilizing domain-specific ontologies is presented. The proposed framework is validated in the domains of hand gesture and action/activity recognition, however, this research can be applied to other domains such as video understanding, the study of human behavior, emotion recognition, etc. First, an attribute-based dataset for gestures is developed in a systematic manner by relying on literature in gestures and semantics, and crowdsourced platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ZSL dataset for hand gestures (ZSGL dataset). Next, our framework is evaluated in two experimental conditions: 1. Within-category (to test the attribute recognition power) and 2. Across-category (to test the ability to recognize an unknown category). In addition, we conducted experiments in zero-shot, one-shot, few-shot and continuous learning conditions in both open-set and closed-set scenarios. Results showed that our framework performs favorably on the ZSGL, Kinetics, UIUC Action, UCF101 and HMDB51 action datasets in all the experimental conditions.
Additional file 2 of Development of an index system for the scientific literacy of medical staff: a modified Delphi study in China
Creators: name: Liang, Shuyu
name: Zhai, Ziyan
name: Feng, Xingmiao
name: Sun, Xiaozhi
name: Jiao, Jingxuan
name: Gao, Yuan
name: Meng, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
title: The Impact of Child Access Prevention (CAP) Laws on Pediatric Firearm Injuries: A Systematic Scoping Review
Creators: name: Miller, Bridget
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2025

description: Background Firearm-related deaths and injuries are a significant public health concern in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle accidents, drug overdoses, and cancer as the leading cause of death among adolescents. Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws are designed to mitigate this problem by holding gun owners legally accountable for safely storing firearms and/or for recklessly or knowingly providing firearms to children. This review seeks to understand the impacts of state CAP laws on pediatric firearm injury. Methods PubMed was searched on February 12, 2025, for studies examining the relationship between CAP laws and pediatric firearm injuries. To ensure relevance to current policy discussions and research advancements, results were restricted to studies including data from 2016 or later. Results were narratively synthesized and grouped by comparator. Results A total of 11 studies were included in this review, covering various research designs and time periods. All studies were conducted within the United States, with a national geographic scope. The studies utilized observational, cross-sectional, longitudinal, and cohort methodologies to assess the impact of CAP laws on pediatric firearm injuries. Evidence from this review shows that CAP laws are generally associated with a reduction in pediatric firearm-related deaths and injuries, though the level of effectiveness is closely tied to the stringency of the specific legislation. States with any CAP law in place have shown a decrease in firearm injuries, but ‘strong' CAP laws, particularly those based on negligence, if a child could access a firearm, demonstrated a significant reduction. Moreover, CAP firearm storage laws correlate with significant reductions in youth firearm suicide mortality. While some studies suggest CAP laws can reduce firearm homicide, others found no significant impact. However, restrictive combinations of gun policies that include CAP laws have a high probability of reducing total firearm deaths. Discussion The main limitation of this literature is the challenge of isolating the specific effect of CAP laws from other coexisting state-level factors and the complexities of the policy landscape. Several studies acknowledge that other state firearm regulations could potentially affect the relationship between CAP laws and pediatric firearm injuries while others point out that state policies might reflect underlying gun culture, which can lead to both measurable and unmeasurable confounding factors. This makes it challenging to definitively base observed changes solely on the presence or specific characteristics of CAP legislation.
Prediction of parturition date through the evaluation of ultrasonographic fetal parameters in the bitch
Creators: name: BECCAGLIA, MICHELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2006

description: The aims of this thesis were the determination of the gestational age through ultrasonographic measurement of fetal parameters and the evaluation of their accuracy for the prediction of parturition date in different size dogs. The effects of litter size and fetal sex ratio on the accuracy were also investigated. Encephalic fetal brain structures were identified during pregnancy by ultrasonography and among these, the deep portion of telencephalic vesicle (DPTV) resulted easily measurable, because of its defined margins. Specific growth curves of DPTV were derived in small (?10 kg), medium (11-25 kg) and large size dogs (26-40 kg). In bitches with unknown breeding dates, the accuracy of the prediction, obtained by the application of the formulae derived from the growth curves, resulted similar in different size categories. Moreover, no differences were observed in the accuracy obtained by the measurement of parameters that are usually adopted for predicting the parturition date during the first or the second half of pregnancy, respectively (inner chorionic cavity diameters, ICC; biparietal diameter, BP). These findings suggest that both parameters are equally reliable for prediction, regardless at what stage of pregnancy the bitch is examined. Although DPTV did not result as accurate as ICC and BP, it was easily detectable in the same ultrasonographic scan used for BP measurement. Thus, BP and DPTV can be measured at the same moment, without a further extension of the time of examination and DPTV may contribute to the improvement of the prediction of parturition day in those bitches that are examined during the second half of pregnancy. Concerning the effect of the litter size, the present thesis demonstrated that, using DPTV measurement, a higher accuracy was obtained in normal and large litter size compared to small litters. Moreover, although ICC accuracy was not affected by litter size, BP was significantly more accurate in normal litter size than in small and large litters. Fetal sex ratio did not affect the accuracy of the three parameters. In conclusion, this thesis demonstrated that prediction of parturition day obtained by ultrasonographic measurement of ICC, BP and DPTV is reliable when specific formulae for different size dogs are applied.
PREDICTION OF OPTIMAL WARFARIN MAINTENANCE DOSE USING ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Creators: name: PODDA, GIANMARCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Introduction. The individual response to vitamin K antagonists (VKA) is highly variable, being influenced by clinical factors and genetic variants of enzymes that are involved in the metabolism of VKA (CYP2C)) and vitamin K (VKORC1). Currently, the dose of VKA is adjusted based on measurements of the prothrombin time. In the last years, mathematical algorithms were developed for estimating the appropriate VKA dose, based on different mathematical approaches working on clinical and genetic data. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are computerized algorithms resembling interactive processes of the human brain, which allow to study very complex non-linear phenomena like biological systems. Aim. To evaluate the performance of new generation ANN on a large data base of patients on chronic VKA treatment. Methods. Clinical and genetic data from 377 patients (186 m; 191 f) treated with a VKA (warfarin) average weekly maintenance dose (WMD) of 23.7 mg (11.5 SD) were used to create a dose algorithm. Forty-eight variables, including demographic, clinical and genetic data (5 CYP2C9 and 3 VKORC1 genetic variants) were entered into Twist� system, which can select fundamental variables during their evolution in search for the best predictive model. The final model, based on 23 variables expressed a functional approximation of the actual dose within a validation protocol based on a tripartite division of the data set (training, testing, validation). Results. In the validation cohort, the pharmacogenetic algorithm reached high accuracy, with an average absolute error of 5.7 mg WMD. In the subset of patients requiring ?21 mg (45 % of the cohort) and 21-49 mg (51 % of the cohort) the absolute error was 3.86 mg and 5.45 with a high percentage of subjects being correctly identified (72%, 74% respectively). Conclusion. ANN can be applied successfully for VKA maintenance dose prediction and represent a robust basis for a prospective multicentre clinical trial of the efficacy of genetically informed dose estimation for patients who require VKA.
Additional file 3 of Development of an index system for the scientific literacy of medical staff: a modified Delphi study in China
Creators: name: Liang, Shuyu
name: Zhai, Ziyan
name: Feng, Xingmiao
name: Sun, Xiaozhi
name: Jiao, Jingxuan
name: Gao, Yuan
name: Meng, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Studying Measurement Invariance and Differential Validity of the Short UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale across Racial Groups
Creators: name: Liu, Melissa Ann
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: Previous research has identified impulsive personality traits as significant risk factors for a wide range of risk-taking behavior, substance use, and clinical problems. Most work has been conducted in primarily White samples, leaving it unclear whether these patterns generalize to racial and ethnic minorities, who have higher rates of negative consequences of substance use behavior. The most widely used assessment of impulsive traits is the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior scale, which has strong psychometric properties across demographic subgroups, such as gender and age; however, data supporting its use in racial and ethnic minorities is less well-developed. The aims of this study are to 1) examine the measurement invariance of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale-Short Form (Cyders et al., 2014) across racial minority groups and 2) determine if impulsive personality traits differentially relate to substance use outcomes across racial groups. Participants were 1301 young adults (ages 18-35, fluent in English), recruited through an online survey for both college students at a large public university and Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing online platform. Measurement invariance was assessed using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. Differential validity was assessed using a structural equation modeling framework. I established model fit for each racial group (White group: RMSEA= .067, CFI= .94; Black group: RMSEA= .071, 90% CFI= .952; Asian American group: RMSEA= .073, CFI= .94; Hispanic group: RMSEA=.081, CFI=.934). Based on change in CFI/RMSEA indices, I concluded strong measurement invariance of the Short UPPS-P as a valid scale of impulsive behavior across racial groups. In the White group, findings indicated significant relationships between multiple SUPPS-P traits and alcohol and substance use. In the Asian American group, positive relationships were found between sensation and alcohol use (p=.015) and negative urgency and drug use (p=.020). I found that there were no differences in the relationships between the Short UPPS-P traits and substance use outcomes across White and the racial and ethnic groups studied (p’s>.06).
title: Democracy: a (Non) Artistic Intervention?: Attempts to Perform Democracy through Art
Creators: name: Cruz, Carla
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Democracy, authorship, authority, collaboration, feminist theory, curatorial studies, art practice, political theory, art theory, participation, spectatorship, radical pedagogy, difference, conflict, hegemony, agonism, emancipation

description: In the light of the contemporary discussions of political theory and philosophy, and current demonstrations regarding democracy, this practice-based research aims to examine the role of art at the dawn of new democratic understandings and practices focusing specifically on the function of the artist as author.

Simultaneously an analysis of current and radical theories around democracy and an exercise of criticality from the practice of art, this project searches for ways of practising, experiencing and understanding democratic values.

The function of the author/artist and its possible re-siting proposes an hypothesis of practising democracy in the ‘artworld’ that stems from my own artistic practice. Following the proposition of diluting oneself as an artist, this thesis hopes to clarify why we believe that art practices can fulfil a leading role in putting into practice new modes of democracy.

The path outlined by my artistic projects selected for this research suggests a move towards not only the redefinition of the role of the artist, but also what constitutes an artistic gesture. The consequences of the disarticulation of the given triangulation of the art world authorship, artwork and spectatorship that gives an art project its coefficient of visibility and ultimate inscription in the realm of art, are at stake in this research. This particularly holds true for the displacement of the function of the author.

I am looking for new understandings of democracy in art practices, the role of the artist, and her function in the respective projects and the different modes of relationality with either engaged or removed publics. The enquiry into these understandings is motivated primarily by my practice. 

My conclusion could lead to an understanding of democracy as a series of encounters with the possibility that the question ‘who speaks?’ be of no importance at all, opening up a possibility for a different and perhaps more egalitarian practice and experience of the arts. These conclusions and, subsequently, the types of practice that they might engender can overflow into broader fields and have an effect on different modes of being-together, i.e., the democratic encounter could offer not only a different experience of the arts but also from there be abstracted to a level of experience of other social assemblages.
PERTURBATIVE APPROACH TO INTEGRABILITY IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHERN-SIMONS THEORIES
Creators: name: SCOLERI, STEFANO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: One of the most fascinating discoveries of contemporary Theoretical Physics is
the AdS/CFT correspondence relating gauge theories to gravity theories. Soon after its formulation, tremendous developments allowed to obtain a deep comprehension of the four-dimensional N=4 SYM theory and, in particular, led to the discovery of integrable structures both in the gauge theory itself and in its string counterpart. In
the last few years, much attention was devoted to the study of supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories in three dimensions. In this class of theories a distinguished role is played by the N=6 ABJM model which is a U(N) x U(N) superconformal
gauge theory. Indeed, in the large N limit, the ABJM theory has been conjectured to be the AdS/CFT dual description of M-theory on an
AdS4 x S7/Zk background and, for k << N << k^5, of type IIA string theory on
AdS4 � CP3. For this reason, soon after its discovery the ABJM model has quickly
become the ideal three-dimensional playground to study AdS/CFT as much as N=4 SYM has been in the four-dimensional case. Quite surprisingly, the ABJM model
seems to share a number of notable properties with N=4 SYM theory even though the two theories are a priori different in nature. One of the common features is provided by the fact that also in planar ABJM theory integrable structures naturally show up. In particular, a Bethe Ansatz approach to the computation of anomalous
dimensions is possible and a set of all-loop Bethe equations was formulated. These equations are very similar to those of SYM theory, however, starting at eight loops,
important new features are believed to appear, in particular in connection with the appearance of the dressing phase. With the aim to check such a picture, we analyze for the first time the form of the eight-loop dilatation operator in the SU(2) x SU(2) sector
and, adopting a perturbative approach based on superspace techniques, we directly extract the value of the unknown leading order coefficient of the dressing phase from supergraphs involving maximal interactions.
title: The Aesthetics of Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy
Creators: name: Fazi, Maria-Beatrice
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation, Aesthetics, Deleuze, Whitehead, Turing, Gödel, Contingency, Incomputability, Indeterminacy, Philosophy, Abstraction, Experience, Process, Digital, Digital Aesthetics

description: This thesis offers a philosophical study of computation, which is understood here as a method of abstraction that systematises reality through logico-quantitative means. The thesis challenges the view that computation’s abstractive processes are simple and static ‘formulae’ that capture the world’s dynamism. By engaging with the formal and axiomatic character of computing, it argues that computation is itself dynamic, because it has a potential to actualise itself.

This potentiality is theorised in aesthetic terms. Drawing from Deleuze, aesthetics is viewed as an investigation into the conditions of real experience. For Deleuze, these conditions pertain to virtuality, i.e. to the indeterminacy of sensation, and of thought’s immanence to affect. However, through a novel reading of the ontological significance of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and of Turing’s notion of incomputability, the thesis demonstrates that indeterminacy does not pertain uniquely to virtual life, but rather lies at the axiomatic heart of computational logic. Computation is thus shown to be contingent, because it is always indeterminate. This contingency is formal, not empirical; it is the status of self-sufficient processes of algorithmic determination, which always confront quantitative infinity by means of formal abstraction.

Whitehead’s philosophy is used to extend aesthetics from the sensible to the intelligible. Experience is thereby understood as self-actualisation. Its conditions are tied to physical and conceptual operations of determination. Computational processes are addressed as Whitehead’s ‘actual occasions’: as events that constitute themselves through the dynamic processing of eternal and actual data. This dynamism is not pre-determined a priori, and therefore breaks with the computationalist and cognitivist paradigms, which reduce actualisation to universalising prescriptions. This dynamism cannot be flattened onto sense-empirical factuality either. Instead, an aesthetics of contingent computation conceptualises ‘computational actual occasions’ as discrete processes of determination that conclude with the production of a structure or a ‘form’ of actualisation.
title: 'A Well-Founded fear’: Children’s literature about refugees and its role in the primary classroom
Creators: name: Hope, Julia
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Children’s Literature, refugees, critical literacy, critical pedagogy, reader response, controversial issues, primary school, reading in the primary curriculum, literacy in the primary years

description: This study begins by identifying a new genre in writing for young people which has developed rapidly since the millennium, namely that of children’s literature about refugees.  It questions whether these books have a role to play in understanding and validating the circumstances of refugees in the primary classroom.  Taking as my starting point the UNHCR definition of a refugee as one who has a “well-founded fear” of persecution (1951), I consider the consequences of this position for children and its depiction in two commonly used books in primary schools: Mary Hoffman’s The Colour of Home (2002) and Beverley Naidoo’s The Other Side of Truth (2000).  Making a vertical case study of each book, through an author/ teacher/ child trajectory, I trace the motivations and aims of the two writers, how the books are mediated by teachers in the primary classroom, and how refugee and non-refugee children read, understand and respond to them.  

Using a variety of qualitative methods, I present data suggesting that pupils in five classes gained valuable insight into a complicated and controversial issue.  However viewing children through a refugee/non-refugee binary was reductive, not recognising the multi-layered nuances of meaning which were constructed at all ages.  Furthermore, while the primary curriculum in England does not promote reading for socio-political understanding, but focuses on literacy rather than literature goals, teachers played a powerful role in mediating the texts when sharing them in the classroom, and devised a selection of stimulating resources to aid with planning for reader response and some “critical literacy”.  I also conclude that, as the genre becomes ever more popular with authors, writers need to engage in robust research, give “voice to the voiceless”, and have a responsibility to their readers to present positive images of refugees’ resilience.
sj-doc-1-lap-10.1177_0094582X211037328 – Supplemental material for The Diffusion and Circulation of Marxism in the Periphery: Mariátegui and Dependency Theory
Creators: name: Rubbo, Deni Alfaro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-1-lap-10.1177_0094582X211037328 for The Diffusion and Circulation of Marxism in the Periphery: Mariátegui and Dependency Theory by Deni Alfaro Rubbo in Latin American Perspectives
sj-pdf-1-ccx-10.1177_10732748211041504 – Supplemental Material for Success Rates for the Objectives of US State Cancer Control Plans: A First Look
Creators: name: Williamson, Mark R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ccx-10.1177_10732748211041504 for Success Rates for the Objectives of US State Cancer Control Plans: A First Look by Mark R. Williamson in Cancer Control
North-South Collaboration for a Manufacturing Extension Program Development: Case of Secondary Manufacturing Industries in Indiana and Cameroon
Creators: name: kenfack, Steve martial Wouobong
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Wood processing
Forestry product quality assessment
Wood fibre processing

description: This research was performed to foster collaboration between northern countries (Indiana in the USA) and southern countries (Cameroon in Sub-Saharan Africa) through a manufacturing extension program. The United Nations organization instituted north-south cooperation to transfer knowledge from developed countries to underdeveloped nations. This cooperation has taken many forms, from university cooperation to technical assistance programs. One of the major forms it has embraced today is international extension programs. The extension is not new in the agriculture sector in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The most prominent type of extension practice in this region is the train and visit program. With this program, field agents are charged to move to farm cooperatives and provide them with relevant skills in farming. On the other hand, this form of assistance has not been practiced in the manufacturing sectors. The secondary wood manufacturing industry needs such a program to provide its specialists with innovative furniture and cabinet manufacturing practices to compete within their country and worldwide. Consequently, an analysis of the furniture and cabinet design process was done through a survey, accompanied by an assessment of the manufacturing practices of this sector in Cameroon. The analysis results showed that furniture manufacturers in this sector need to upgrade their knowledge in product design and the usage of computer-aided design software to facilitate this process. Also, the study asserts that production techniques related to drying lumber, processing, assembly, and finishing need a considerable upgrade to reach international standards. Finally, the study proposed a manufacturing extension program through the Cooperation of Purdue University and Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association in the United States of America. Through this cooperation, secondary wood products manufacturers will gain state-of-the-art manufacturing practices to enhance their enterprises’ performance.
Copular Structures In Initial Polish L2
Creators: name: SATURNO, Jacopo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: This contribution is devoted to the learners? processing of copular structures in the earliest stages of the acquisition of Polish as a foreign language. Within the VILLA project, 14 Italian L1 learners participated in a 14-hour Polish course under controlled input conditions and took part in a structured task designed to elicit copular structures. Target structures come in two syntactic types, which in turn are associated with different values of parameters such as frequency, morphosyntactic complexity, semantic scope, proximity to the learners? L1 and form-function association. The study aims to verify which parameters, if any, influence learner preferences in the choice of pronominal and nominal components as well as their accuracy in producing full target structures.
sj-docx-1-cpa-10.1177_07067437211043446 - Supplemental material for Measuring Substance-Related Disorders Using Canadian Administrative Health Databanks: Interprovincial Comparisons of Recorded Diagnostic Rates, Incidence Proportions and Mortality Rate Ratios
Creators: name: Huỳnh, Christophe
name: Kisely, Steve
name: Rochette, Louis
name: Pelletier, Éric
name: Morrison, Kenneth B.
name: Li, Shelley
name: Hopkin, Gareth
name: Smith, Mark
name: Burchill, Charles
name: Lin, Elizabeth
name: Asbridge, Mark
name: Jutras-Aswad, Didier
name: Lesage, Alain
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cpa-10.1177_07067437211043446 for Measuring Substance-Related Disorders Using Canadian Administrative Health Databanks: Interprovincial Comparisons of Recorded Diagnostic Rates, Incidence Proportions and Mortality Rate Ratios by Christophe Huỳnh, Steve Kisely, Louis Rochette, Éric Pelletier, Kenneth B. Morrison, Shelley Li, Gareth Hopkin, Mark Smith, Charles Burchill, Elizabeth Lin, Mark Asbridge, Didier Jutras-Aswad and Alain Lesage in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
“STRUGGLING TO FIND OUR WAY:” RURAL EDUCATORS’ EXPERIENCES WORKING WITH AND CARING FOR LATINX IMMIGRANT STUDENTS
Creators: name: Scherer, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Rural communities across the United States are experiencing a rapid increase in the number of immigrant students. While the number of culturally and linguistically diverse students continues to grow within midwestern states, the demographics of teachers remain white, female, and monolingual. Often teachers have little to no training working with students and their families whose backgrounds differ from their own. Thus, there is a greater urgency for teachers to develop culturally competent teaching practices that address the needs of all students. The purpose of this year-long, school-based narrative inquiry was to examine the beliefs, attitudes, and practices of rural educators as they described their work with Latinx immigrant, elementary students, negotiated the “space” between a professional and personal identity and demonstrated an ethic of care. This inquiry is arranged into “livings, tellings, retellings, and relivings” (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000, p. 70) and serves to shed light on the entwined lived experiences of myself, my participants, and the community in which we reside. Swanson’s Middle Range Theory of Care (1991, 1993) served as the conceptual framework that illuminated how my participants discussed working with and caring for their Latinx immigrant students. Findings from this study support teacher education by providing practical recommendations for promoting culturally responsive practices, grounded in care, for preservice (PST) and in-service teachers.
Patti territoriali e sindacato : gli otto casi della provincia di Torino
Creators: name: GALETTO, MANUELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2008

description: Territorial Pacts and trade unions. The eight cases of the Province of Turin ("Patti territoriali e sindacato. Gli otto casi della Provincia di Torino")
By Manuela Galetto

The present dissertation deals with the role played by trade unions within the Territorial Pacts.
Since the mid ?90s, in Italy Territorial Pacts have been widely adopted ? especially compared to other local policy instruments - as public policy to enhance the competitiveness of the territory. After describing how Territorial Pacts were born, Chapter 1 gives an account of how many pacts we had in Italy, of which kind and where.
Instead of a top-down approach in the definition of the local economic measures, a new bottom-up model is adopted. Territorial pacts have therefore attracted the attention of many scholars and policy makers and we now have a wide literature dealing with this theme. Chapter 2 makes the point on the state of the art of the literature produced and stresses the fact that attention is lacking on the role played by trade unions within Territorial Pacts.
Chapter 3 concentrates on the role played, in general, by Italian trade unions within contexts that are different from the traditional collective bargaining.
Chapter 4 finally presents the results of the research carried out in order to understand the role played by trade unions within the eight pacts signed in the province of Torino. About 20 interviews to trade unionists were carried out in order to investigate why they took part, when they did, to the concertation of territorial pacts, what kind of costs did such participation implied and whether there was a style of participation, according to the actions they accomplished during such experiences.