cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets. II. Physical properties
Creators: name: Southworth, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present an homogeneous determination of the physical properties of 14 transiting extrasolar planetary systems for which good data are available. The input quantities for each system are the results of the light curve analyses (Paper 1), and published measurements of the stellar velocity amplitude, Teff and [Fe/H]. The physical properties are determined by interpolating within tabulated predictions from stellar theory. Statistical uncertainties are found using a perturbation algorithm, which gives a detailed error budget for every output quantity. Systematic uncertainties are assessed for each quantity by comparing the values found using different stellar models. As a theory-free alternative, physical properties are also calculated using an empirical mass-radius relation constructed using low-mass eclipsing binary stars. The properties of the planets depend mostly on parameters measured from the light and velocity curves, and have only a minor sensitivity to theoretical predictions. In contrast, the orbital semimajor axes and stellar masses have a strong dependence on theoretical predictions, and their systematic uncertainties can be substantially larger than the statistical ones. Using the empirical mass--radius relation instead, their values are smaller by up to 15%. Thus our understanding of extrasolar planets is currently limited by our lack of understanding of low-mass stars. Using all known transiting planets, I find that correlations between their orbital periods, masses and surface gravities are significant at the 2-3 sigma level. However, the separation of the known planets into two classes according to their Safronov number is weaker than previously found, and may not be statistically significant (abridged).
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS (24 pages plus appendix, 9 figures and 24 tables)
Dynamical spin-spin correlation functions in the Kondo model out of equilibrium
Creators: name: Schuricht, Dirk
name: Schoeller, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the dynamical spin-spin correlation functions of a Kondo dot coupled to two noninteracting leads held at different chemical potentials. To this end we generalize a recently developed real-time renormalization group method in frequency space (RTRG-FS) to allow the calculation of dynamical correlation functions of arbitrary dot operators in systems describing spin and/or orbital fluctuations. The resulting two-loop RG equations are analytically solved in the weak-coupling regime. This implies that the method can be applied provided either the voltage $V$ through the dot or the external magnetic field $h_0$ are sufficiently large, $\max\{V,h_0\}\gg T_K$, where the Kondo temperature $T_K$ is the scale where the system enters the strong-coupling regime. Explicitly, we calculate the longitudinal and transverse spin-spin correlation and response functions as well as the resulting fluctuation-dissipation ratios. The correlation functions in real-frequency space can be calculated in Matsubara space without the need of any analytical continuation. We obtain analytic results for the line-shape, the small- and large-frequency limits and several other features like the height and width of the peak in the transverse susceptibility at $Ω\approx\tilde{h}$, where $\tilde{h}$ denotes the reduced magnetic field. Furthermore, we discuss how the developed method can be generalized to calculate dynamical correlation functions of other operators involving reservoir degrees of freedom as well.
description: 30 pages
Growth and deformation of copper whiskers
Creators: name: Shetty, Mangalore Nagappa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Copper whiskers were grown by the hydrogen reduction of the halide vapours. The substrate and the whiskers were examined for growth morphologies. Whiskers of (100), (110) and (111) orientations in the diameter range 30-400μ were tested in tension. Differences in the work hardening characteristics of (111) and (100) whiskers were discussed in terms of the different kinds of jogs formed in the two orientations. Analysis of the diameter dependence of the yield stress resulted in a 1/d relation based on the assumption of surface nucleation of dislocations. Temperature and strain rate change experiments were made on (110) whiskers. Activation distance and activation energies were used to determine a rate controlling mechanism. At low temperatures, cross slip and intersection processes were indistinguishable, while at higher temperatures, cross slip is rate controlling. From the calculated activation distance and for a given rate controlling dislocation mechanism, stacking fault energies were estimated for copper and other FCC metals. A twinning model was proposed based on the idea of failure by recombination of a Lomer-Cottrell barrier.
Evaluation of Propeller Inspection Using Different Deployment Strategies
Creators: name: Ikmel, Ghita
name: Harras, Mohamed Salim
name: Hardt, Wolfram
name: El Amrani El Idrissi, Najiba
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for various applications has increased significantly. Among these applications, the inspection of infrastructures using UAVs has become a prominent area of research. This paper evaluates the efficiency of the YOLOv5 algorithm for propeller inspection. The algorithm's deployment across various platforms such as PC, Google Colab, and Jetson Nano is examined, with a focus on different deployment formats like PyTorch, ONNX, TensorFlow Lite, and others. The study
highlights the often-overlooked importance of the deployment phase in the development of AI models and underscores its significance for the practical application of AI in real-world scenarios.
Keywords— Computer vision, algorithm deployment, propeller inspection, Deployment strategies, efficiency improvement
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 8 (2023): AI-driven Solutions for Sustainable Environment Monitoring
Avian and human influenza virus compatible sialic acid receptors in little brown bats
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Animals
Chiroptera
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Gene Expression
Humans
Immunohistochemistry
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Influenza A Virus, H5N2 Subtype
Influenza A virus
Neuraminidase
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
Receptors, Cell Surface
Receptors, Virus
Respiratory Mucosa
Virus Attachment

description: © 2017 The Author(s). Influenza A viruses (IAVs) continue to threaten animal and human health globally. Bats are asymptomatic reservoirs for many zoonotic viruses. Recent reports of two novel IAVs in fruit bats and serological evidence of avian influenza virus (AIV) H9 infection in frugivorous bats raise questions about the role of bats in IAV epidemiology. IAVs bind to sialic acid (SA) receptors on host cells, and it is widely believed that hosts expressing both SA α2,3-Gal and SA α2,6-Gal receptors could facilitate genetic reassortment of avian and human IAVs. We found abundant co-expression of both avian (SA α2,3-Gal) and human (SA α2,6-Gal) type SA receptors in little brown bats (LBBs) that were compatible with avian and human IAV binding. This first ever study of IAV receptors in a bat species suggest that LBBs, a widely-distributed bat species in North America, could potentially be co-infected with avian and human IAVs, facilitating the emergence of zoonotic strains.
title: A Strategic Plan for Transportation Statistics: 2003-2008
Creators: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2006
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97445
subject: Data sharing
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97023
subject: Statistical analysis
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92130
subject: Transportation departments
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92125
subject: Federal government agencies
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89740
subject: Strategic planning
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87904
subject: Transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97446
subject: Information services
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88887
subject: Policy

description: 30p. in various pagings
description: As one of the federal statistical agencies, BTS maintains a special degree of objectivity and independence. Our products include reports to Congress and the Secretary of Transportation along with stakeholders in the transportation community. Special protections are in place to maintain confidentiality in our data collection. We do not advocate policies or programs. Our efforts focus on getting—and helping to objectively interpret—data that can be used to better inform decision-making, regardless of what the data show.
Interlayer exchange coupling in Co2FeAl0.5Si0.5/Cr/Co2FeAl0.5Si0.5 trilayers
Creators: name: Furubayashi, T.
name: Kodama, K.
name: Goripati, H. S.
name: Takahashi, Y. K.
name: Inomata, K.
name: Hono, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interlayer exchange couplings were examined for Co2FeAl0.5Si0.5(CFAS)/Cr/CFAS trilayered films grown on MgO (001) single crystal and thermally oxidized Si substrates. The films were (001) epitaxial on MgO and (110) textured polycrystalline on SiO2. Strong exchange couplings were observed for the films with the 1.5 nm thick Cr spacer layer. A 90 degree coupling is dominant in the (001) epitaxial film. In contrast, an antiparallel coupling exists in the polycrystalline one. The relationship of interlayer couplings with the structure is discussed.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, to be published in J. Appl. Phys
Adjoint Modeling: A Brief Introduction
Creators: name: Fukumori, Ichiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: adjoint
ECCO
numerical modeling
estimation
optimization
oceanography

description: Adjoints allow efficient computation of sensitivity between input and output. While popularly known for their use in estimation and optimization, adjoint models are increasingly used to investigate the workings of complex systems. Here, we describe what an adjoint model is, how it is useful, and how it is derived.
Evaluation of YOLOv7 Deployment Performance on Various Platforms (CPUs, GPUs) and Strategies
Creators: name: Abouzid, Fatima
name: Saleh, Shadi
name: Harras, Salim Harras
name: Hardt, Wolfram
name: Hicham, Ghennioui
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: In the past few years, machine learning (ML) has evolved from academic research curiosity into a practical domain capable of addressing tangible business challenges.
Deploying machine learning (ML) models to production with an equivalent degree of thoroughness and automation as conventional software systems has proven to be a complex endeavor, demanding additional attention and infrastructure to address the unique challenges involved.
Building and training machine learning models is just one part of the process. Deploying models into production is a critical step that brings the potential of these models to life and allows them to deliver value to organizations and end users.
It's the bridge between the theoretical work in the research and the practical application of machine learning in real-world scenarios. This research paper presents an original study focused on deploying a traffic sign detection and recognition system utilizing the YOLOv7 algorithm. The study evaluates the algorithm's performance across diverse platforms and determines a robust production deployment strategy for YOLOv7.
Index Terms—Traffic sign, Detection, Classification, Deep Neural networks, YOLOv7, Deployment
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 8 (2023): AI-driven Solutions for Sustainable Environment Monitoring
title: Konpetentzia digitalak. Graduko ikasleentzako formakuntza materialak: 5. Arazoak konpontzea 5.1. Arazo teknikoak konpontzea: 5.1.1. Gailu eta ingurune digitalen erabilerarekin loturiko arazo teknikoak identifikatzea eta konpontzea
title: Competencias digitales. Materiales de formación para estudiantes de grado: 5. Resolución de problemas 5.1. Resolución de problemas técnicos: 5.1.1. Identificar problemas técnicos y resolverlos en el uso de dispositivos y entornos digitales
Creators: name: CRUE-REBIUN
name: Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Publisher: name: Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Year: 2020

description: - Gailu, tresna, ingurune eta zerbitzu digitalen ezaugarri teknikoak
- Zure gailuen konfigurazioa eta konexioa
- Wifi konexioa
- Wifi konexioa: Eduroam
- Arazo teknikoak konpontzea
- Segurtasuna: zergatik eta zertarako?
description: - Características técnicas de los dispositivos, herramientas, entornos y servicios digitales
- Configuración y conexión de tus dispositivos
- Conexión Wi-Fi
- Conexión Wi-Fi: Eduroam
- Solución de problemas técnicos
- Seguridad: ¿por qué y para qué?
Experimental Uhrig Dynamical Decoupling using Trapped Ions
Creators: name: Biercuk, Michael J.
name: Uys, Hermann
name: VanDevender, Aaron P.
name: Shiga, Nobuyasu
name: Itano, Wayne M.
name: Bollinger, John J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed experimental study of the Uhrig Dynamical Decoupling (UDD) sequence in a variety of noise environments. Our qubit system consists of a crystalline array of $^{9}$Be$^{+}$ ions confined in a Penning trap. We use an electron-spin-flip transition as our qubit manifold and drive qubit rotations using a 124 GHz microwave system. We study the effect of the UDD sequence in mitigating phase errors and compare against the well known CPMG-style multipulse spin echo as a function of pulse number, rotation axis, noise spectrum, and noise strength. Our results agree well with theoretical predictions for qubit decoherence in the presence of classical phase noise, accounting for the effect of finite-duration $π$ pulses. Finally, we demonstrate that the Uhrig sequence is more robust against systematic over/underrotation and detuning errors than is multipulse spin echo, despite the precise prescription for pulse-timing in UDD.
Role of S100A3 in human hepatocellular carcinoma and the anticancer effect of sodium cantharidinate
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: S100 calcium binding protein A3
hepatocellular carcinoma
sodium cantharidinate

description: The fifth most common cancer worldwide is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which has an annual mortality rate of ~800,000. Although surgical procedures for HCC, such as hepatic resection and liver transplantation, have progressed and the outcomes of patients have improved, HCC is still characterized by frequent recurrence, even after liver transplantation. In the present study the expression of the protein coding gene, S100 calcium binding protein A3 (S100A3), was observed in 62 HCC tissues and tumor-surrounding tissues. The present study indicated that S100A3 activation was involved in tumorigenesis and tumor aggressiveness. The protein and mRNA expression levels of S100A3 in the human HCC cell line (HepG2) were investigated using western blotting and reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis, respectively. The function of sodium cantharidinate in inducing HCC cell apoptosis was also investigated. Sodium cantharidinate inhibited the protein and gene expression of S100A3 in HepG2 cells in vitro. These data suggested that S100A3 has an important role in human HCC. The present study indicates that the functional properties of sodium cantharidinate are promising for the development of a novel drug that may control the expression of S100A3 and improve the treatment of human HCC in the near future.
Oxidative assimilation of glucose by aerobic bacteria
Creators: name: Tomlinson, Geraldine Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Oxidative assimilation of glucose-U-C¹⁴ by several aerobic bacteria was found to involve the assimilation of radioactivity into nitrogenous cell components, principally proteinaceous, in conjunction with the reincorporation of endogenously produced ammonia. In one of these bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, if the cells were starved or treated with chloramphenicol/ prior to glucose-C¹⁴ the amount of assimilation, especially into protein, was decreased. The incorporation into nucleic acids and lipids was increased by the antibiotic, but was only slightly affected by starvation. A determination of the cytological sites of the assimilated material showed that, in control cell extracts, the soluble proteins of the cytoplasm contained most of the C¹⁴. Starved or antibiotic treated cell fractions had substantially less of the label in these proteins, whereas the radioactivity incorporated into the ribosomal ribonucleic acid and the "membrane" lipids was greater. A study of the aminoacyl-soluble ribonucleic acid synthetases in P. aeruginosa revealed that these enzymes were present only in the cytoplasm. Starving the cells resulted in decreased activity of the synthetases, but they were rapidly reactivated during oxidative assimilation. The large amount of heterologous reactions between bacterial soluble ribonucleic acids and synthetases indicated that little species specificity existed. However, cross reactions between the systems in bakers' yeast and the bacteria were poor, showing that some degree of species specificity was present in these instances. Preliminary experiments on the route of assimilation of ammonia in P. aeruginosa and in P. fluorescens gave no evidence for the direct amination of pyruvate by alanine dehydrogenase, but did demonstrate a requirement for concurrent substrate oxidation while ammonia was being incorporated. In contrast, several lines of evidence indicated that ammonia was assimilated via ∝-ketoglutarate in P. aeruginosa.
Cosmological dynamics with propagating Lorentz connection modes of spin zero
Creators: name: Chen, Hsin
name: Ho, Fei-Hung
name: Nester, James M.
name: Wang, Chih-Hung
name: Yo, Hwei-Jang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Poincare gauge theory of gravity has a Lorentz connection with both torsion and curvature. For this theory two good propagating connection modes, carrying spin-$0^+$ and spin-$0^-$, have been found. The possible effects of the spin-$0^+$ mode in cosmology were investigated in a previous work by our group; there it was found that the $0^+$ mode could account for the presently accelerating universe. Here, we extend the analysis to also include the spin-$0^-$ mode. The resulting cosmological model has three degrees of freedom. We present both the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian form of the dynamic equations for this model, find the late-time normal modes, and present some numerical evolution cases. In the late time asymptotic regime the two dynamic modes decouple, and the acceleration of the Universe oscillates due to the spin-$0^+$ mode.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures, the final version for the publication in JCAP
Starburst evolution: free-free absorption in the radio spectra of luminous IRAS galaxies
Creators: name: Clemens, M. S.
name: Scaife, A.
name: Vega, O.
name: Bressan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe radio observations at 244 and 610 MHz of a sample of 20 luminous and ultra-luminous IRAS galaxies. These are a sub-set of a sample of 31 objects that have well-measured radio spectra up to at least 23 GHz. The radio spectra of these objects below 1.4 GHz show a great variety of forms and are rarely a simple power-law extrapolation of the synchrotron spectra at higher frequencies. Most objects of this class have spectral turn-overs or bends in their radio spectra. We interpret these spectra in terms of free-free absorption in the starburst environment. Several objects show radio spectra with two components having free-free turn-overs at different frequencies (including Arp 220 and Arp 299), indicating that synchrotron emission originates from regions with very different emission measures. In these sources, using a simple model for the supernova rate, we estimate the time for which synchrotron emission is subject to strong free-free absorption by ionized gas, and compare this to expected HII region lifetimes. We find that the ionized gas lifetimes are an order of magnitude larger than plausible lifetimes for individual HII regions. We discuss the implications of this result and argue that those sources which have a significant radio component with strong free-free absorption are those in which the star formation rate is still increasing with time. We note that if ionization losses modify the intrinsic synchrotron spectrum so that it steepens toward higher frequencies, the often observed deficit in fluxes higher than ~10 GHz would be much reduced.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS
The lay apostolate, its need today :an address of Pope Pius XII to the World Congress of the Lay Apostolate, October 14, 1951.
Creators: name: Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 On cover: An address of His Holiness Pope Pius XII to the World Congress of the Lay Apostolate, October 14, 1951.
 De quelle consolation.
Kriitikatules on rahvamajandusteadus kui majanduspoliitiliste otsuste baas. Sissejuhatavaid mõtteid hetkeolukorrast.
Creators: name: Hennies, Manfred O.E.
name: Raudjärv, Matti
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014

description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
Die Volkswirtschaftslehre als Grundlage der Wirtschaftspolitik in der Kritik. Gedanken zur gegenwärtigen Situation.
Creators: name: Hennies, Manfred O.E.
name: Raudjärv, Matti
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014

description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
Hochschulpolitik als Komplement von Wettbewerbspolitik. Education Policy as a Complement Competition Policy
Creators: name: Dötsch, Jörg
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: competition policy; competitiveness; knowledge economy; knowledge society; entrepreneuship education; evolutionary economics

description: The current economic development in europe is a continuous cause for concern. First and foremoust in terms of the dept crisis, having a closer view regarding disbalances of competitiveness. Investigations concerning regional competitiveness agree on the importance of knowledge. Only “knowledge-economies” seem to be able to create sustainable prosperity. However, the question is crucial, which kind of knowledge is decisive. The knowledge which ensures material prosperity has to be discovered by competition. At the same time, firms are confronted with the continuously increasing dynamics of the global economy. Starting from the Hayekian concept of knowledge-based competition this article examines, why education policy should be seen as a reasonable complement of competition policy and defines the relevant academic voids.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
Performance Management of Academic Staff on the Example of the Faculties of Economics in University of Tartu and in Tallinn University of Technology
Creators: name: Türk, Kulno
name: Killumets, Elar
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: performance management; performance appraisal; pay-for-performance; academic staff; university; performance appraisal indicators and methods; perfor-mance appraisal and remuneration systems

description: In order to continue its mission in preparing educated work force needed for supporting implementation of Estonian economic policy, universities need to improve the usage of its scarce resources. We study the expectation and attitudes of academic staff towards performance appraisal and related reward systems. Our survey and focus-group interviews revealed that although the systems deployed in those two Universities were different by its nature – Tartu had adopted performance-based approach, where performance appraisal results were closely connected to salary, and Tallinn University of Technology had taken position-based approach, where general salary condition on the time of appointment play pivotal role – the expectations of staff were similar. In both universities, leaders preferred more measurable performance-based systems, but the rest of staff favoured more loose and stable approaches. Implications of results towards appraisal and rewards systems for academic staff are discussed.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
Agrargeschichte als historische Kulturanthropologie?
Creators: name: Ortmayr, Norbert
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes
Year: 2022

description: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, Bd. 2 (2005): Reguliertes Land. Agrarpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1930–1960
Additional file 1 of Vitrectomy combined with intravitreal antifungal therapy for posttraumatic fungal endophthalmitis in eastern China
Creators: name: Zhuang, Hong
name: Ding, Xinyi
name: Zhang, Ting
name: Chang, Qing
name: Xu, Gezhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Supplemental table 1. Visual outcomes of eyes divided into two groups according to the latent period (Time from trauma to endophthalmitis).
title:  La Rai e le coproduzioni internazionali. La produzione de La lotta dell’uomo per la sua sopravvivenza e l’assetto transnazionale rosselliniano
Creators: name: Moro, Margherita
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Il contributo intende indagare le modalità produttive adottate da Roberto Rossellini in televisione a partire dalla metà degli anni Sessanta fino alla seconda metà degli anni Settanta. Grazie alla consultazione di preziosi materiali d’archivio rinvenuti nel corso della ricerca, come budget e contratti di coproduzione, è possibile identificare una sorta di modello produttivo a cui il regista cerca di dare forma nel 1964 e che riesce a consolidare nel 1966 con la produzione delle dodici puntate de La lotta dell'uomo per la sua sopravvivenza. Attingendo a mercati diversi, come scuola e industria, e muovendosi tra paesi differenti, come Italia, Francia e America, Rossellini spera di costruire un modello di produzione transnazionale che gli consenta una maggiore autonomia nella resa finale dei suoi progetti televisivi legati alla diffusione del sapere.

The following contribution wishes to investigate the modes of production adopted by Roberto Rossellini in television from the mid-1960s until the second half of the 1970s. Thanks to the consultation of valuable archival material found in the course of the research, such as budgets and coproduction contracts, it is possible to identify a kind of production model to which the director tried to give shape in 1964 and which was consolidated in 1966 with the production of the twelve episodes of La lotta dell’uomo per la sua sopravvivenza. By drawing from different markets, such as schools and industries, and moving between different countries, such as Italy, France, and America, Rossellini hopes to build a transnational production model that will allow him more autonomy in the final output of his television projects related to the dissemination of knowledge.
description: IMAGO. Studi di cinema e media. Nuova serie – Vol. 29
Recruiting Community partners for Veggie Van: Strategies and lessons learned from a mobile market intervention in North Carolina, 2012-2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Commerce
Community Health Services
Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-Institutional Relations
Food Supply
Fruit
Health Promotion
Humans
North Carolina
Vegetables

description: Background Food access interventions are promising strategies for improving dietary intake, which is associated with better health. However, studies examining the relationship between food access and intake are limited to observational designs, indicating a need for more rigorous approaches. The Veggie Van (VV) program was a cluster-randomized intervention designed to address the gap between food access and intake. In this article, we aim to describe the approaches involved in recruiting community partners to participate in VV. Community Context The VV mobile market aimed to improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables by providing subsidized, high-quality, local produce in low-resource communities in North Carolina. This study describes the strategies and considerations involved in recruiting community partners and individual participants for participation in the VV program and evaluation. Methods To recruit partners, we used various strategies, including a site screener to identify potential partners, interest forms to gauge future VV use and prioritize enrollment of a high-need population, marketing materials to promote VV, site liaisons to coordinate community outreach, and a memorandum of understanding between all invested parties. Outcome A total of 53 community organizations and 725 participants were approached for recruitment. Ultimately, 12 sites and 201 participants were enrolled. Enrollment took 38 months, but our approaches helped successfully recruit a low-income, low-access population. The process took longer than anticipated, and funding constraints prevented certain strategies from being implemented. Interpretation Recruiting community partners and members for participation in a multi-level, community-based intervention was challenging. Strategies and lessons learned can inform future studies.
Formation of the off-center bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A collision with a dark satellite ?
Creators: name: Bekki, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations on structural properties of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on the Deep Near-Infrared Southern Sky Survey (DENIS) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) have revealed that the LMC has an off-center bar even in the older stellar populations. Previous dynamical models including tidal interaction between the LMC, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and the Galaxy, however, did not reproduce so well the older off-center bar. We here show that the off-center bar can be formed if the LMC with an already existing bar can collide with a low-mass Galactic subhalo as massive as 5 * 10^8 M_sun (corresponding roughly to a few % of the LMC mass). The simulated stellar distribution after the collision appears to show an ``off-center bar'', not because the center of the bar significantly deviates from the dynamical center of the LMC, but because the underlying stellar distribution of the disk is significantly asymmetric with respect to the center of the bar. We discuss whether off-center bars observed in Magellanic-type dwarf galaxies can be formed as a result of tidal interaction with low-mass halos with no or little visible matters.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS Letters
First-principle solubilities of alkali and alkaline earth metals in Mg-B alloys
Creators: name: Chepulskii, Roman
name: Curtarolo, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By devising a novel framework, we present a comprehensive theoretical study of solubilities of alkali (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs) and alkaline earth (Be, Ca, Sr, Ba) metals in the he boron-rich Mg-B system. The study is based on first-principle calculations of solutes formation energies in MgB$_2$, MgB$_4$, MgB$_7$ alloys and subsequent statistical-thermodynamical evaluation of solubilities. The advantage of the approach consists in considering all the known phase boundaries in the ternary phase diagram. Substitutional Na, Ca, and Li demonstrate the largest solubilities, and Na has the highest (0.5-1 % in MgB$_7$ at $T=650-1000$ K). All the considered interstitials have negligible solubilities. The solubility of Be in MgB$_7$ can not be determined because the corresponding low-solubility formation energy is negative indicating the existence of an unknown ternary ground state. We have performed a high-throughput search of ground states in binary Mg-B, Mg-$A$, and B-$A$ systems, and we construct the ternary phase diagrams of Mg-B-$A$ alloys based on the stable binary phases. Despite its high temperature observations, we find that Sr$_{9}$Mg$_{38}$ is not a low-temperature equilibrium structure. We also determine two new possible ground states CaB$_{4}$ and RbB$_{4}$, not yet observed experimentally.
description: 5 figures
Souvenir of dedication of the new publishing plant of Our Sunday Visitor, Incorporated, September 20, 1961, Huntington, Indiana: dedicated by His Excellency The Most Reverend Egidio Vagnozzi, D.D., Titular Archbishop of Myra and Apostolic Delegate to the United States.
Creators: name: Not Assigned
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: Not Assigned
Recovery of an oxidized majorite inclusion from Earth's deep asthenosphere
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mantle petrology
eclogite xenoliths
high-pressure experiment
mantle asthenosphere
mantle convection
mantle majorite

description: Minerals recovered from the deep mantle provide a rare glimpse into deep Earth processes. We report the first discovery of ferric iron-rich majoritic garnet found as inclusions in a host garnet within an eclogite xenolith originating in the deep mantle. The composition of the host garnet indicates an ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic origin, probably at a depth of ~200 km. More importantly, the ferric iron-rich majoritic garnet inclusions show a much deeper origin, at least at a depth of 380 km. The majoritic nature of the inclusions is confirmed by mineral chemistry, x-ray diffraction, and Raman spectroscopy, and their depth of origin is constrained by a new experimental calibration. The unique relationship between the majoritic inclusions and their host garnet has important implications for mantle dynamics within the deep asthenosphere. The high ferric iron content of the inclusions provides insights into the oxidation state of the deep upper mantle.
Austeritätspolitik in Estland: die Reaktionen der Wähler auf die Genommene Sparmassnhamen Während der Finanz – und Wirtschaftskrise 2008-2011
Creators: name: Kulu, Liina
name: Veebel, Viljar
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: euro area; austerity; fiskal consolidation;social impact; electoral behavior

description: During the latest global financial crisis, austerity as a concept has been described as the best possible and inevitable solution to achieve fiscal consolidation in Europe and in the euro zone. But even considering austerity as an economically rational measure, the politicians of most EU member states’ have introduced the austerity measures only to a limited extent or have chosen less stressful and politically less risky strategies. Estonian politicians, having earlier shock therapy experience from the years of re-independence, were among few European governments, who decided to adopt austerity measures with its economic and social consequences. Against all theoretical and rhetorical expectations they remained in power. The aim of the article is to analyze why austerity has not triggered negative political reaction of citizens, as expected in theoretical models as well feared by politicians, and was it caused by specific socio-cultural factors or well-planned strategy of government
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
Estland: im Wirtschaftlichen Aufholprozess Steckengeblieben?
Creators: name: Laaser, Claus-Friedrich
name: Reiljan, Janno
name: Schrader, Klaus
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: catching-up;social security;growth and structural change

description: Estonia is widely regarded as a paramount example for a successful transformation of a socialist economic system to a functioning market economy. Against the backdrop of this positive image which contrasts strongly with the crisis scenarios in Southern Europe the remaining problems of Estonia are often ignored. Estonia has hardly succeeded in catching-up economically with the richer countries of the euro area. Correspondingly, the level of social security is rather limited. In this paper the authors raise the question what the causes of the sluggish catching-up process are, and which opportunities Estonian economic policy has in order to close the wealth gap.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
Continuity and injectivity of optimal maps for non-negatively cross-curved costs
Creators: name: Figalli, Alessio
name: Kim, Young-Heon
name: McCann, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60, 35B65

description: Consider transportation of one distribution of mass onto another, chosen to optimize the total expected cost, where cost per unit mass transported from x to y is given by a smooth function c(x,y). If the source density f^+(x) is bounded away from zero and infinity in an open region U' \subset R^n, and the target density f^-(y) is bounded away from zero and infinity on its support clV \subset R^n, which is strongly c-convex with respect to U', and the transportation cost c is non-negatively cross-curved, we deduce continuity and injectivity of the optimal map inside U' (so that the associated potential u belongs to C^1(U')). This result provides a crucial step in the low/interior regularity setting: in a subsequent paper [15], we use it to establish regularity of optimal maps with respect to the Riemannian distance squared on arbitrary products of spheres. The present paper also provides an argument required by Figalli and Loeper to conclude in two dimensions continuity of optimal maps under the weaker (in fact, necessary) hypothesis A3w [17]. In higher dimensions, if the densities f^\pm are Hölder continuous, our result permits continuous differentiability of the map inside U' (in fact, C^{2,α}_{loc} regularity of the associated potential) to be deduced from the work of Liu, Trudinger and Wang [33].
description: 37 pages, 7 figures
Prognostic Significance of Interleukin-34 (IL-34) in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure With or Without Renal Insufficiency
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: heart failure
interleukin-34
prognosis
renal insufficiency

description: BACKGROUND: Renal dysfunction, commonly associated with cardiac dysfunction, has predictive value for adverse long-term outcomes in heart failure (HF). We previously identified a novel renal biomarker, interleukin-34 (IL-34), elevated in HF patients and associated with kidney dysfunction and coronary artery disease during HF. However, the prognostic value of IL-34 in HF remains unclear, so that the present study aimed to determine it. METHODS AND RESULTS: This prospective, observational study included 510 consecutive HF patients with their serum IL-34 as well as other variables measured at baseline, and they were followed up for 2 years. The primary end point was a composite of cardiovascular death or a first HF hospitalization, with cardiovascular death, HF hospitalization, and all-cause mortality as secondary outcomes. There was a significant and gradual increase in risk as IL-34 increased, determined by log-rank tests with Kaplan-Meier curves. Serum IL-34 was also a significant prognostic predictor of the primary end point (1.301 [1.115-1.518]; P=0.001), cardiovascular death (1.347 [1.096-1.655]; P=0.005), HF hospitalization (1.234 [1.018-1.494]; P=0.032), and all-cause mortality (1.343 [1.115-1.618]; P=0.002) in HF as per SD increase in the log IL-34 level after adjusting for age, sex, traditional risk factors, and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide. Especially, IL-34 had a more-significant prognostic value in HF patients with kidney impairment than those without. CONCLUSIONS: IL-34 is a significant predictor of cardiovascular death, HF hospitalization, and all-cause mortality in chronic HF, especially when concomitant with renal dysfunction. Serum IL-34 measurement may provide new insights linking kidney impairment to poor HF outcomes beyond other renal markers.
Violation of Richardson's Criterion via Introduction of a Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Lecoanet, Daniel
name: Zweibel, Ellen G.
name: Townsend, Richard H. D.
name: Huang, Yi-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shear flow instabilities can profoundly affect the diffusion of momentum in jets, stars, and disks. The Richardson criterion gives a sufficient condition for instability of a shear flow in a stratified medium. The velocity gradient $V'$ can only destabilize a stably stratified medium with squared Brunt-Vaisala frequency $N^2$ if $V'^2/4>N^2$. We find this is no longer true when the medium is a magnetized plasma. We investigate the effect of stable stratification on magnetic field and velocity profiles unstable to magneto-shear instabilities, i.e., instabilities which require the presence of both magnetic field and shear flow. We show that a family of profiles originally studied by Tatsuno & Dorland (2006) remain unstable even when $V'^2/4
description: Accepted to ApJ, 48 pages, 9 figures
Baltic Listed Companies´ disclosure quality – far ahead or lagging behind?
Creators: name: Karmo, Imbi
name: Laidroo, Laivi
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: disclosure quality; stock exchanges; Baltics; regulations

description: The objective of this paper is to determine the level of average quality of disclosures made in English by biggest companies listed on Baltic stock exchanges and to analyse it in the context of biggest companies listed on other Central and Eastern European (CEE) and three developed European (EU) stock exchanges. Content analysis reveals that the disclosure quality level of Baltic listed companies outperforms that of other CEE peers by at least 30% and in the context of stock exchange web page disclosures 50 to 80%. Compared to companies listed on developed EU stock exchanges, the disclosure quality of Baltic listed companies is slightly lower in the company home page category, however, it outperforms in the context of stock exchange web page disclosures. This result raises concerns about possibly too restrictive stock exchange web page disclosure regulations which may have a negative impact on the future outlook of Baltic stock exchanges.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
Measurement of the cross section and longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for dijet production in polarized pp collisions at s =200 GeV
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: hep-ex
nucl-ex

description: © 2017 American Physical Society. We report the first measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry ALL for midrapidity dijet production in polarized pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=200 GeV. The dijet cross section was measured and is shown to be consistent with next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD predictions. ALL results are presented for two distinct topologies, defined by the jet pseudorapidities, and are compared to predictions from several recent NLO global analyses. The measured asymmetries, the first such correlation measurements, support those analyses that find positive gluon polarization at the level of roughly 0.2 over the region of Bjorken-x>0.05.
Regional Development Sustainability Analysis Consept
Creators: name: Reiljan, Janno
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2014
Subjects: sustainability; sustainable development; regional development

description: Problems associated with the qualitative analysis and quantitative measurement of sustainability, and opportunities for connecting the concept with the methodological basis of development assessment and the essence of the subject that values sustainability are dealed. The goal of article is to work out the basics for analysis of the regional development in a country in terms and framework of sustainability concept. The article starts by outlining the definition of sustainability, which is followed by an analysis of the nature of sustainability. The third subsection highlights the demands of the decision-making process in guaranteeing sustainability and then considers sustainability in a competitive environment. In the second part of article the sustainable development conception is implemented in regional development sustainability analysis.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 22, No 1 (2014)
A study of variation in the genus Alaria Greville
Creators: name: Widdowson, Thomas Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Field collections and observations of Alaria (Order Laminariales) were made throughout the intertidal zones of the temperate areas in the Northern Hemisphere. In addition a study was made of all available herbarium material. Morphology was chosen as the basis of the systematic study of the genus. The systematics of the genus were studied by a discriminant and distance function analysis, using an IBM 1620 computer. From this analysis, the characteristics of 10 species were defined. Four other species were described from herbarium material, but were not sampled in sufficient quantity for statistical analysis. The dividing lines drawn between the various species are meaningful but essentially arbitrary. Confusion in the taxonomy of the genus has two main sources. First, the taxa are not completely differentiated into distinct species. Second, differences of environment appear to play a greater role as a cause of morphological variation than do differences of genotype. The names of 107 specific and subspecific taxa of the genus Alaria, including recombinations, were discovered in an exhaustive search of the literature. Of these 107 names, 19 were eliminated as illegitimate under the rules of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, or were removed from the genus. The genus Pleuropterum Miyabe et Nagai was reduced to synonomy under the genus Alaria. The conservation of the generic name Alaria was re-examined and found to be adequate. A thorough search was made for possible holotypes or lectotypes of the 88 taxa remaining. Material was either shown to be the holotype or found and designated as the lectotype for 66 taxa. No relevant material could be found for 11 more of these taxa and possible material for another 11 was judged inadequate for practical systematic purposes.