cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Analysis of National Patterns of Learning Platform Use by Students in Schools and Academies
Creators: name: Albin, Wallace
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: The United Church Schools Trust and the United Learning Trust comprise a national group of 12 independent schools and 17 academies across a wide range of geographic and demographic areas of England. In 2008, the decision to implement a learning platform (also known as a Virtual Learning Environment or VLE) across the group was made. Although a fully supported technical solution was provided along with a sustained programme of continuous professional development, the decision as to how the learning platform was to be used was owned by each individual school and academy according to its own priorities.
L’intervento statale acceleratore del risanamento aziendale
Creators: name: Mazzoleni, Alberto
name: Girgis Sorial, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Accounting and Business Adm.

description: La ricerca si pone l’obiettivo di contestualizzare gli interventi statali di natura finanziaria volti alla soluzione della crisi d’impresa, definendone le specificità, i vantaggi e gli svantaggi e le possibilità di soluzione della problematica in un’ottica sistemica. A tal fine, è stata effettuata un’indagine empirica sugli interventi statali compiuti dal Ministero nelle situazioni di crisi del periodo 2014-2019. E’ emerso che il sostegno dello Stato (grazie alle garanzie emesse dallo Stato a favore del sistema bancario per agevolare l’accesso al credito) non appare il mezzo idoneo per agevolare l’uscita dalla crisi. Al contrario, esistono delle scelte di intervento più articolate – è il caso dell’ingresso di enti di emanazione statale nel capitale dell’impresa – che sembrano essere la via corretta per evitare l’insolvenza dell’impresa. Il lavoro di ricerca è caratterizzato da una serie di implicazioni teoriche in quanto la ricerca ha contribuito a creare una mappatura sistematizzata degli effetti che gli interventi statali potrebbero avere sull’economicità dell’azienda. Le implicazioni pratiche riguardano sia il management e la proprietà, sia il legislatore. Le limitazioni della ricerca sono fondamentalmente legate al campione di riferimento.
Spectroscopy of Orbitally Excited Bs Mesons with the CDF II Detector
Creators: name: Heck, Martin
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: Spektroskopie
orbitale Anregung
HQET
heavy-light meson systems
CDF
Tevatron

description: Die Arbeit beschreibt die weltbeste Messung der Masse der orbital angeregten Bs Mesonen, die in einer D Welle in ein Kaon und ein Bu Meson zerfallen. Massenresultate der Arbeit sind in das PDG Buch eingegangen. Darueberhinaus wurde ein maximales Limit auf die Breite gesetzt, und die Produktions- und Zerfallsverzweigungen der untersuchten Zustaende betrachtet.
An Investigation into the Radial Velocity Variations of CoRoT-7
Creators: name: Hatzes, A. P.
name: Dvorak, R.
name: Wuchterl, G.
name: Guterman, P.
name: Hartmann, M.
name: Fridlund, M.
name: Gandolfi, D.
name: Guenther, E.
name: Paetzold, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CoRoT-7b, the first transiting ``superearth'' exoplanet, has a radius of 1.7 R_Earth and a mass of 4.8 M_Earth. Ground-based radial velocity measurements also detected an additional companion with a period of 3.7 days (CoRoT-7c) and a mass of 8.4 M_Earth. The mass of CoRoT-7b is a crucial parameter for planet structure models, but is difficult to determine because CoRoT-7 is a modestly active star and there is at least one additional companion. A Fourier analysis was performed on spectral data for CoRoT-7 taken with the HARPS spectrograph. These data include RV measurements, spectral line bisectors, the full width at half maximum of the cross-correlation function, and Ca II emission. The latter 3 quantities vary due to stellar activity and were used to assess the nature of the observed RV variations. An analysis of a sub-set of the RV measurements where multiple observations were made per night was also used to estimate the RV amplitude from CoRoT-7b that was less sensitive to activity variations. Our analysis indicates that the 0.85-d and 3.7-d RV signals of CoRoT-7b and CoRoT-7c are present in the spectral data with a high degree of statistical significance. We also find evidence for another significant RV signal at 9 days. An analysis of the activity indicator data reveals that this 9-d signal most likely does not arise from activity, but possibly from an additional companion. If due to a planetary companion the mass is m = 19.5 M_Earth, assuming co-planarity with CoRoT-7b. A dynamical study of the three planet system shows that it is stable over several hundred millions of years. Our analysis yields a RV amplitude of 5.04 +/- 1.09 m/s for CoRoT-7b which corresponds to a planet mass of m = 6.9 +/- 1.4 M_Earth. This increased mass would make the planet CoRoT-7b more Earth-like in its internal structure.
description: 20 pages, 20 figures
Online Workspaces to Support Teacher Communities in Secondary Schools
Creators: name: Wilfried, Admiraal; Patricia, Brouwer; Marjolein, Dobber; Inne, Vandyck; Ditte, Lockhorst
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: Teacher communities are claimed to contribute to the improvement in the practices of  teaching and schooling as well as individual teacher development and the collective capacity schools. How to define, design and support teacher communities is however still unclear. In this expert study, experts - both practitioners and researchers - discussed the design of teacher communities in Dutch secondary education. Implications for online workspaces to facilitate teacher communities are discussed.
IN THE LINE OF FIRE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META ANALYSIS OF JOB BURNOUT AMONG NURSES
Creators: name: Zahra Ghasemi Kooktapeh
name: Hakimeh Dustmohammadloo
name: Hooman Mehrdoost
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Job Burnout, Nurses, COVID-19 Pandemic, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

description: Abstract
The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on job burnout prevalence among nurses.  By following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines for reviewing healthcare articles, we aim to identify the key aspects of burnout experienced by nurses during the pandemic and explore the contributing factors. The search for relevant sources was performed on three open-access databases, namely, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar, during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The inclusion criteria for studies were those that utilized the Maslach Burnout questionnaire to measure job burnout in nurses, focusing on emotional burnout, personal failure, and depersonalization dimensions. Two independent reviewers screened abstracts and full-text, extracted data, and assessed the risk of bias. The analysis revealed a job burnout prevalence of 2.75% among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, with reported rates ranging from 1.87% to 7.75%, and a 95% confidence interval. These findings emphasize the urgent need for interventions to address the impact of the pandemic on job burnout among nurses with the aim of promoting the well-being of healthcare providers and ensure the provision of high-quality healthcare services. Developing optimal strategies requires considering individual, organizational, and contextual factors contributing to burnout among healthcare workers. Future research should focus on identifying effective interventions to reduce burnout in nurses and other healthcare professionals during pandemics and high-stress situations.
Prevenzione della diffusione dei contagi COVID-19 nei luoghi di lavoro. L?esperienza di un cantiere di grandi opere nel periodo gennaio-novembre 2021
Creators: name: MASSA, EMANUELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: Prevention of COVID-19 spread in the workplace. The experience of a major construction site in the period January-November 2021
Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic determined a remarkable impact also in workplaces. The present study reported data relating to COVID-19 cases that occurred between January and November 2021 in a major construction site.
Objectives: The study aims to evaluate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the study population, to describe its demographic characteristics and to evaluate any significant associations between the variables investigated.
Material and methods: An observational cross-sectional study was conducted using demographic, clinical and laboratory data. The study was conducted from 1st January to 3th November 2021 and involved the working population belonging to a large infrastructure site. The study population is represented by workers tested by antigen rapid test during the observation study period, either for asymptomatic screening or clinical suspicion reasons. Different jobs have been divided in three sectors: Construction Site, Services, Office. Regarding age, workers were divided into three groups: Group 1 (18-30 years), Group 2 (31-50 years), Group 3 (51-70 years).
Results and conclusions: The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the sample was 4.59% (95% CI 4.33 - 4.84). Among COVID-19 cases, the most represented job was the Construction Site (79.71%), followed by the Office (18.84%) and finally by the Services (1.45%). Regarding age, Group 3 (57.97%) is the most common, followed by Group 2 (31.88%) and Group 1 (10.15%). A correct management of COVID-19 in workplaces is essential to prevent the spread of the infection among workers. In this case adoption of preventive measures guaranteed the maintenance of the operations in safety and avoiding secondary cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The results of this study could be useful in order to plan further prevention and testing/ screening interventions aimed to ensuring the mitigation of the infection in the workplaces during the next phases of the epidemic characterized by a progressive endemization of the virus.
Axion field and the quark nugget's formation at the QCD phase transition
Creators: name: Liang, Xunyu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: We study a testable dark matter (DM) model outside of the standard WIMP paradigm in which the observed ratio Ωdark ≃ Ω visible for visible and dark matter densities finds its natural explanation as a result of their common QCD origin when both types of matter (DM and visible) are formed at the QCD phase transition and both are proportional to ΛQCD. Instead of the conventional ``baryogenesis" mechanism we advocate a paradigm when the ``baryogenesis'' is actually a charge separation process which occur in the presence of the CP odd axion field a(x). In this scenario the global baryon number of the Universe remains zero, while the unobserved antibaryon charge is hidden in form of heavy nuggets, similar to Witten's strangelets and compromise the DM of the Universe. In the present work we study in great detail a possible formation mechanism of such macroscopically large heavy objects. We argue that the nuggets will be inevitably produced during the QCD phase transition as a result of Kibble-Zurek mechanism on formation of the topological defects during a phase transition. Relevant topological defects in our scenario are the closed bubbles made of the NDW=1 axion domain walls. These bubbles, in general, accrete the baryon (or antibaryon) charge, which eventually result in formation of the nuggets and anti-nuggets carrying a huge baryon (anti-baryon) charge. A typical size and the baryon charge of these macroscopically large objects is mainly determined by the axion mass ma. However, the main consequence of the model, Ωdark ≈ Ωvisible is insensitive to the axion mass which may assume any value within the observationally allowed window 10-⁶ eV ≲ ma ≲ 10-³ eV. We also estimate the baryon to entropy ratio η ≡ nB/nγ ∼ 10-¹⁰ within this scenario. Finally, we comment on implications of these results to the axion search experiments, including microwave cavity and the Orpheus experiments.
Surface Chemistry of Lead and Lead Free Metal Halide Nanocrystals
Creators: name: ZHANG, BAOWEI
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: In this thesis, the surface chemistry of different metal halide NCs were investigated. Two new synthesis approaches to produce LHP NCs were developed by employing phosphonic acids (either alkyl or oleyl PAs) as the sole surfactants. The NMR analysis of these samples indicated the steric binding state of PA. PA-capped NCs show near unity PLQY with uncommon truncated shape, and high stability against dilution. We also investigated the interaction between neutral ligands and LHP NCs. Among various neutral ligands, it was found out that oleyl PAs are able to strip a large fraction of original surface species. Surprisingly, after such loss of ligands, the PLQY, morphology and phase of CsPbBr3 NCs remain unaltered, empirically confirming the defect tolerance of LHP NCs. We also studied the surface chemistry of Pb-free double perovskite NCs. We optimized the optical properties of Bi-doped Cs2(NaxAg1-x)InCl6 NCs by systematically varying the amine and acid. We found out that both ligands are anchored to the surface of the NCs. Moreover, we observed that even with a high ligands density, the PLQY of the NCs was still low indicating that ?normal? surface passivation is not enough to efficiently passivate these NCs, which suggest that such DP NCs is sensitivity to non-radiative surface traps. We also investigated the optical physical behavior of Sb3+ centers in different coordination environment. The Rb7Sb3Cl16 NCs were composed by isolated [SbCl6]3- octahedra and [Sb2Cl10]4- dimer. The isolated [SbCl6]3- octahedra show dual emission under different excitation, whereas the [Sb2Cl10]4- dimer is non-emissive even in cryogenic temperature. In the final part, we have investigated a special LHP species, so called nanoclusters (NCLs), which was regard as intermediate between molecular precursors and solid LHP NCs. We here firstly revealed their shape and structure by SXAX, WAXS and PDF analysis.
Invariants of complex and p-adic origami-curves
Creators: name: Kremer, Karsten
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: translation surfaces
moduli space
Teichmüller curves
Mumford curves
p-adic Schottky groups

description: Origamis (also known as square-tiled surfaces) are Riemann surfaces which are constructed by glueing together finitely many unit squares. By varying the complex structure of these squares one obtains easily accessible examples of Teichmüller curves in the moduli space of Riemann surfaces.
Different Teichmüller curves can be distinguished by several invariants, which are explicitly computed. The results are then compared to a p-adic analogue where Riemann surfaces are replaced by Mumford curves.
Theory of quantum transport in Josephson junctions with a ferromagnetic insulator
Creators: name: Kawabata, Shiro
name: Asano, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Josephson transport through ferromagnetic insulators (FIs) by taking into account the band structure of FIs explicitly. Using the recursive Green's function method, we found the formation of a pi-junction in such systems. Moreover the atomic-scale 0-pi oscillation is induced by increasing the thickness of FI and its oscillation period is universal, i.e., just single atomic layer. Based on these results, we show that stable pi-state can be realized in junctions based on high-Tc superconductors with La$_2$BaCuO$_5$ barrier. Such FI-based Josephson junctions may become an element in the architecture of future quantum computers.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, an invited paper in Low. Temp. Phys., special topics issue on "Quantum coherent effects in superconductors and normal metals"
Potential-density pairs for bent bars
Creators: name: Vogt, D.
name: Letelier, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method is presented to bend a thin massive line when the curvature is small. The procedure is applied to a homogeneous thin bar with two types of curvatures. One of them mimics a galactic bar with two spiral arms at its tips. It is showed that if the bending function is a linear combination of Legendre polynomials, then the bent potential is an exact solution of the Laplace equation. A transformation is applied on the thin bent bars to generate three-dimensional potential-density pairs without singularities. The potentials of the thin bent bars are also used to generate non-axisymmetric planar distributions of matter.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Design Guidelines for DoD Historic Buildings and Districts - Report (Legacy 07-382)
Creators: name: McDonald, Heather
name: Michael, Michelle
Publisher: name: DoD Legacy Resource Management Program
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: United States
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/10460/united-states
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Department of Defense
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/123614/department-of-defense
subject: Secretary of Interior's Standards
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/165951/secretary-of-interiors-standards
subject: Historic Context
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/42191/historic-context
subject: Military Architecture
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/37793/military-architecture
subject: Cultural Resources Stewardship
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/165860/cultural-resources-stewardship
subject: Historic District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/4035/historic-district
subject: National Historic Preservation Act
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/46790/national-historic-preservation-act
subject: Historic Buildings
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/10151/historic-buildings
subject: Design Guidelines
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/165836/design-guidelines
subject: Cultural Resources Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/7068/cultural-resources-management
subject: Design Standards
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/163978/design-standards
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/6/methodology-theory-or-synthesis
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: This document provides assistance to installation-level staff who are not trained in historic architecture by providing a better understanding of why it is important to preserve the resources, what they are, the vocabulary to describe the resources, and how to interpret the Secretary of the Interior's Standards to appropriately manage the resources. The guidelines provide sound guidance and necessary tools for individuals to facilitate the Section 106 review process of the National Historic Preservation Act through the avoidance of adverse effects to historic buildings and districts.
Hexadecapolar Kondo effect in URu$_2$Si$_2$?
Creators: name: Toth, Anna I.
name: Kotliar, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the coupling of a localized hexadecapolar mode to conduction electrons in tetragonal symmetry. The derivation can be easily adapted to arbitrary multipoles in arbitrary environment. We relate our model to the two-channel Kondo (2CK) model and show that for an $f^2$-configuration, a relevant crystal field splitting in addition to the 2CK interaction is intrinsic to tetragonal symmetry. We discuss possible realizations of a hexadecapolar Kondo effect in URu$_2$Si$_2$. Solving our model we find good agreement with susceptibility and specific heat measurements in Th$_{1-x}$U$_x$Ru$_2$Si$_2$ ($x\ll1$).
description: 4+ pages and 1 page of supplementary material
A Look at the Historic Real Property Inventory in the DoD - Slideshow (Legacy 07-376)
Creators: name: Hall, Joanna
Publisher: name: DoD Legacy Resource Management Program
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: United States
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/10460/united-states
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Department of Defense
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/123614/department-of-defense
subject: Real Property Inventory
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/165952/real-property-inventory
subject: National Register of Historic Places
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1572/national-register-of-historic-places
subject: Historic Properties
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/31316/historic-properties
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: This slideshow summarizes the content, organization, and progress of DoD's 2006 Historic Real Property Inventory data, including the number and status of structures that are over 50 years old.
Ultraviolet Extension of a Model with Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking by Both Top-Quark and Technifermion Condensates
Creators: name: Ryttov, Thomas A.
name: Shrock, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct and analyze an ultraviolet extension of a model in which electroweak symmetry breaking is due to both technifermion and top-quark condensates. The model includes dynamical mechanisms for all of the various gauge symmetry breakings. We discuss certain aspects in which it requires additional ingredients to be more realistic.
description: 14 pages, latex
Angular constraint on light-trapping absorption enhancement in solar cells
Creators: name: Yu, Zongfu
name: Fan, Shanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light trapping for solar cells can reduce production cost and improve energy conversion efficiency. Understanding some of the basic theoretical constraints on light trapping is therefore of fundamental importance. Here, we develop a general angular constraint on the absorption enhancement in light trapping. We show that there is an upper limit for the angular integration of absorption enhancement factors. This limit is determined by the number of accessible resonances supported by an absorber.
Covid-19 e performance economico-finanziarie delle imprese turistiche
Creators: name: Fontana, Federico
Publisher: name: Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Accounting and Business Adm.

description: The socio-economic impact of Covid-19 is extremely shocking, due to the suspensions, limitations, and contractions of many economic activities. Tourism is certainly one of the most affected sectors, heavily penalized by the constraints imposed on the mobility of people. Considering the importance and complexity of the sector, this paper intends to verify the pandemic impact on the financial performance of businesses engaged in various tourism activities, through an analysis of 2020 interim reports of a sample of listed companies. Although limited to the first phase of the pandemic and to large companies, this analysis seems significant to assess the severity of the crisis and to identify useful solutions for the prospective recovery of tourism activity.
The partition bundle of type A_{N-1} (2, 0) theory
Creators: name: Henningson, Mans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Six-dimensional (2, 0) theory can be defined on a large class of six-manifolds endowed with some additional topological and geometric data (i.e. an orientation, a spin structure, a conformal structure, and an R-symmetry bundle with connection). We discuss the nature of the object that generalizes the partition function of a more conventional quantum theory. This object takes its values in a certain complex vector space, which fits together into the total space of a complex vector bundle (the `partition bundle') as the data on the six-manifold is varied in its infinite-dimensional parameter space. In this context, an important role is played by the middle-dimensional intermediate Jacobian of the six-manifold endowed with some additional data (i.e. a symplectic structure, a quadratic form, and a complex structure). We define a certain hermitian vector bundle over this finite-dimensional parameter space. The partition bundle is then given by the pullback of the latter bundle by the map from the parameter space related to the six-manifold to the parameter space related to the intermediate Jacobian.
description: 15 pages. Minor changes, added references
Word Learning and Language Impairment (McGregor et al., 2013)
Creators: name: McGregor, Karla K.
name: Licandro, Ulla
name: Arenas, Richard
name: Eden, Nichole
name: Stiles, Derek
name: Bean, Allison
name: Walker, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Language

description: Purpose: To determine whether word learning problems associated with developmental language impairment (LI) reflect deficits in encoding or subsequent remembering of forms and meanings.Method: Sixty-nine 18- to 25-year-olds with LI or without (the normal development [ND] group) took tests to measure learning of 16 word forms and meanings immediately after training (encoding) and 12 hr, 24 hr, and 1 week later (remembering). Half of the participants trained in the morning, and half trained in the evening.Results: At immediate posttest, participants with LI performed more poorly on form and meaning than those with ND. Poor performance was more likely among those with more severe LI. The LI–ND gap for word form recall widened over 1 week. In contrast, the LI and ND groups demonstrated no difference in remembering word meanings over the week. In both groups, participants who trained in the evening, and therefore slept shortly after training, demonstrated greater gains in meaning recall than those who trained in the morning.Conclusions: Some adults with LI have encoding deficits that limit the addition of word forms and meanings to the lexicon. Similarities and differences in patterns of remembering in the LI and ND groups motivate the hypothesis that consolidation of declarative memory is a strength for adults with LI.
Study of gold induced heavy ion collisions using isospin dependent QMD model
Creators: name: Sharma, Bhawna
name: Kumar, Sanjeev
name: Kumar, Suneel
name: Puri, Rajeev K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the fragment production mechanism in the set of four reactions 197Au79+12C6, 197Au79+26Al13, 197Au79+63Cu29 and 197Au79+208Pb82. The reactions are simulated at an energy 600 MeV/nucleon and collision geometry is varied from central to peripheral (= b/bmax = 0 to 1). A theoretical investigation has been carried out on the study of mass dependence of intermediate mass fragments (5\leqA\leqAtot/6) and other fragments. It is observed that multiplicity shows a good agreement for low Zbound, but it fails for high Zbound. This failure is due the method of analysis MST which we had used in our analysis, because MST method gives one heavy cluster at the time of high density. The discrepancy between theory and experiments can be removed by using reduced isospin dependent NN cross section and sophisticated clustrization algorithm SACA.
description: 2 Figures and 2 pages
Platinum nanoparticles therapeutic strategy for the prevention of oxidative stress in retinal dystrophies
Creators: name: CAVALLI, ALESSIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: Neurodegenerations are a complex pool of diseases united by a progressive loss of neuronal cells. Retinal neurodegenerations cause several visual impairment conditions worldwide, burdening the healthcare systems and lowering patients? quality of life. Several retinal degenerations are associated with reactive oxygen species overproduction, a well-known condition that, in the long term, has a detrimental effect on the degeneration progression.
While the neuronal cells loss is irreversible, several therapeutic approaches are currently used to prevent retinal degeneration, with contained and heterogeneous effects depending on both disease and patient. In addition to the preventive therapies available in clinical practice, the scientific community has investigated several therapeutic and preventative solutions, from gene therapy to dietary supplements. Nanomedicine has excellent potential for retinal degeneration prevention. Nanoparticles with ROS scavenging capability, such as gold or cerium-oxide nanoparticles, have been proven effective as neurodegeneration counteractors, leading to intensive research to find more efficient materials for nanoparticles core. Thanks to its high antioxidant activity, solubility and stability, platinum has proven to be a valuable candidate for NPs? core. Unfortunately, due to different protocols of synthesis, stabilization and coating, platinum nanoparticles display contrasting results in both in vitro and in vivo studies. This controversy induced a slowdown around the research on their applications.
In this thesis, we demonstrate that citrate capped platinum nanoparticles, produced by seeded-growth approach and stabilized with an RSA corona, are stable in physiological solution, preserve their catalytic activity, without inducing neuronal death in vitro. Furthermore, in vivo experiments enlightened a preservation effect on retinal electrophysiology, without altering the morphology or the inflammation levels in the retina. These data together suggest that PtNPs are safe to use in vivo and have the potential to be used in medicine.
Recurrent Wilms\' tumour in a young girl: a case report
Creators: name: Rossi, Piercarlo
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal wall
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Kidney
subject: Liver
subject: Oncology
subject: Paediatric
subject: Pelvis
subject: CT
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Cysts
subject: Metastases
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 18 years
description: Clinical History: An 18-year-old woman came to our attention because of recurrent abdominal pain arising after the right nephrectomy performed for Wilms' tumour of the right kidney. At age of 14 the girl was diagnosed with Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour of the right ovary and ... Final Diagnosis: Recurrent Wilms' tumour
The statistical dynamics of classic particles ensemble in gravitational field
Creators: name: Ignatyev, Yurii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70E55, 70F45, 70S05, 70K65, 82B40, 83C55, 85A30

description: The article is the translation of authors paper, printed earlier in inaccessible edition and devoted to the formulation of basic concepts of dynamic description of particles' statistic ensemble in a gravitational field. Later on, the results of this article were used by numbers of authors in papers of relativistic kinetics.
description: 23 pages
I processi di ibridazione delle imprese: dall’ibridazione interna alla meso-ibridazione
Creators: name: Dameri, Renata Paola
Publisher: name: Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Accounting and Business Adm.

description: La crescente complessità dei problemi e dei contesti, l’esigenza di rispondere ai bisogni emergenti coniugando logiche economiche, sociali ed ambientali e facendo fronte alle istanze di una pluralità di soggetti promuove nuove organizzazioni secondo processi morfogenetici interpretabili in base alle categorie concettuali dell’ibridazione. Anche i processi di ibridazione tuttavia evolvono: escono dai confini delle singole organizzazioni e danno luogo a meta-organizzazioni, entità complesse dai confini sfumati che incorporano una pluralità di logiche istituzionali e devono comporre obiettivi e comportamenti manageriali eterogenei e talvolta conflittuali. La nota sviluppa l’intervento presentato al webinar di Impresa Progetto del 20 maggio 2021 su “I fini e la natura dell’impresa: una frontiera in divenire" e introduce le chiavi di lettura ed i codici interpretativi necessari per affrontare questi temi.
Alkaline-encrusted pyelitis and cystitis
Creators: name: RUBIO HERVAS, CARLOS
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Kidney
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Infection
subject: Transplantation

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 61 years
description: Clinical History: The patient was admitted for thigh mass study. Previously, he had bladder cancer treated by transurethral resection, without having undergone any other urologic procedures. Mass biopsy result was a high grade pleomorphic sarcoma. Neither fever nor abdomin... Final Diagnosis: Alkaline-encrusted pyelitis and cystitis
Il viaggio del corporate reporting verso la sostenibilità
Creators: name: Lai, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Accounting and Business Adm.

description: La nota delinea l’evoluzione del corporate reporting verso la “sostenibilità”. Dopo alcune esperienze iniziali in tema di bilanci sociali ed ambientali negli anni ’80 e ’90 del secolo scorso, nei primi due decenni del nuovo secolo questa reportistica si è fatta più ampia e sistematica includendo anche temi di governance, investendo l’organizzazione delle funzioni impegnate nelle attività di reporting ed evidenziando il rilievo strategici dei temi della sostenibilità. Ulteriori tappe sono oggi preannunciate da una iniziativa dell’IFRS per stabilire nuovi standard di sostenibilità e dalla fusione tra l’International Integrated Reporting Council ed il Sustainability Accounting Standards Board che ha portato alla costituzione della Value Reporting Foundation. L’Unione Europea infine ha preannunciato una nuova Direttiva sulle informazioni di sostenibilità, destinata ad innovare il quadro normativo delineato dalla precedente Direttiva sulle non financial information.
Nephrocalcinosis in a case of end-stage renal failure and recurrent ureteric calculi
Creators: name: Huang, Dean
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 41 years
description: Clinical History: A 41-year-old man was admitted with a two week history of diarrhoea and vomiting. Laboratory assessments revealed: calcium = 2.16 mmol/L, creatinine = 695 mm/l, eGFR = 8.2 ml/min and urine protein/creatinine ratio = 135.1. He was haemofiltered in intensiv... Final Diagnosis: End stage renal failure secondary to nephrocalcinosis and ureteric calculi
State policy, settlement services, and employment prospects : an ethnographic investigation of immigrant women's social and economic integration in Canada
Creators: name: Holroyd, Heather
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Drawing on over 150 hours of participant-observation and 41 semi-structured interviews conducted between September 2013 and April 2014 with the participants and organizers of an employment and leadership skills program for immigrant women at two Neighbourhood Houses in Vancouver, this ethnographic study examines the influence of Canadian immigration policies and settlement services on the employment trajectories of immigrant women. A key research finding concerns how women with precarious legal status and/or limited English language skills negotiate gaps accessing services and employment opportunities, and thus how the prompt provision of settlement supports and work permits would improve immigrant women’s labour market participation and economic standing in Canada. A second key finding concerns the value of settlement-oriented employment programs that recognize and emphasize newcomers’ skills rather than deficits, and that leverage this human capital to promote participants’ social integration and sense of citizenship in Canada. This dissertation is sociologically significant in its contribution to explicating the distinctive institutionalized racial and gender barriers that research participants encountered in their attempts to achieve meaningful employment and full citizenship in Canada. The policy recommendations suggested by this research include: 1) more efficient federal-level procedures for processing immigration applications and issuing work permits, 2) improved access to provincially-funded healthcare services and English language for employment training programs, 3) affordable, employer-recognized programs for assessing foreign credentials, and 4) greater outreach and education about multiculturalism, cultural sensitivity and inclusivity at the local level of settlement service agencies and neighbourhood-based community organizations.
Proposal and theoretical formalism for studying baryon radiative decays from J/ψ\to B^*\bar B + \bar{B^*}B \to γB\bar B
Creators: name: Dulat, Sayipjamal
name: Wu, Jia-Jun
name: Zou, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With accumulation of high statistics data at BESIII, one may study many new interesting channels. Among them, J/ψ\to B^*\bar B + \bar{B^*}B \to γB\bar B processes may provide valuable information of the radiative decays of the excited baryons (N^*,Λ^*,Σ^*,Ξ^*), and may shed light on their internal quark-gluon structure. Our estimation for the branching ratios of the nucleon excitations N^*(1440), N^*(1535) and N^*(1520) from the reaction J/ψ\to N^*\bar p + \bar N^* p \to γp\bar p, indicates that these processes can be studied at BESIII with 10^{10} J/ψevents. Explicit theoretical formulae for the partial wave analysis (PWA) of the J/ψ\to B^*\bar B +\bar B^* B with B^*\to B γand \bar B^*\to \bar Bγwithin covariant L-S Scheme are provided.
description: 25 pages
Additional file 1 of Suppressive effects of plumbagin on the growth of human bladder cancer cells via PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathways and EMT
Creators: name: Zhang, Renjie
name: Wang, Zijian
name: You, Wenjie
name: Zhou, Fengfang
name: Guo, Zicheng
name: Qian, Kaiyu
name: Xiao, Yu
name: Wang, Xinghuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. PL inhibits proliferation and migration in T24 and UMUC3 cells. (a) Representative images of clonogenic BCa cells (T24 and UMUC3) after plumbagin treatment; (b) Quantitative analysis of clonogenic survival assay for T24 and UMUC3 cells; (c) The anti-migration activity of plumbagin for T24 cells was further evaluated using wound healing assay; (d) Quantitative analysis of wound healing assay for T24 cells. Table S1. Primer sequences used for qRT-PCR. Table S2. List of primary antibodies and secondary antibodies.
D5.3 Evaluation Criteria
Creators: name: Ilias, Panagiotis
name: Coppens, Tuna
name: Orlickas, Tomas
name: Simkus, Liutauras
name: Philips, Sebastian
name: Roggemans, Pieter
name: Vignjevic, Bojana Lendvaji
name: Vitomirovic, Svetlana
name: Groutas, George
name: Farkonis, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: WP5 main objective is to deploy, test and evaluate ENVISION data products and services developed in WP3 and WP4. More specific within WP5: Products and services developed within WP3 and WP4 are used and tested under different conditions by the Business Customers (BC) and the Lighthouse customers (LC). Product and services are evaluated for each business case individually and from three different perspectives related to: o The performance, usability and effectiveness. We rate the ability of the product and services to cover PAs and CB’s identified needs using co-developed criteria within WP2 describing user requirements (functional and non). o The business value and acceptance. We evaluate product business value and acceptance for each business case, using criteria co-developed with the BC actors within the WP5 and indicators that quantify the business value and acceptance. o The impact on an economic, environmental, and societal level. Using impact indicators, we evaluate the impact at an economic, environmental, and societal level.
On Detecting New Worlds: The Art of Doppler Spectroscopy with Iodine Cells
Creators: name: Wang, Sharon Xuesong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: exoplanet
radial velocity
Doppler spectroscopy
iodine cell

description: The first discovery of an extra-solar planet (exoplanet) around a main-sequence star, 51 Peg b, discovered using Doppler spectroscopy, opened up the field of exoplanets. For more than a decade, the dominant way for finding exoplanets was using precise Doppler spectroscopy to measure the radial velocity (RV) changes of stars. Today, precise Doppler spectroscopy is still crucial for the discovery and characterization of exoplanets, and it has a great chance for finding the first rocky exoplanet in the Habitable Zone of its host star. However, such endeavor requires an exquisite precision of 10-50 cm/s while the current state of the art is 1 m/s. This thesis set out to improve the RV precision of two precise Doppler spectrometers on two 10-meter class telescopes: HET/HRS and Keck/HIRES. Both of these spectrometers use iodine cells as their wavelength calibration sources, and their spectral data are being analyzed via forward modeling to estimate stellar RVs. Neither HET/HRS or Keck/HIRES deliver an RV precision at the photon-limited level, meaning that there are additional RV systematic errors caused by instrumental changes or errors in the data analysis. HET/HRS has an RV precision of 3-5 m/s, while Keck/HIRES has about 1-2 m/s. I have found that the leading cause behind HET/HRS’s “under-performance” in comparison to Keck/HIRES is temperature changes of the iodine gas cell (and thus an inaccurate iodine reference spectrum). Another reason is the insufficient modeling of the HET/HRS instrumental profile. While Keck/HIRES does not suffer from these problems, it also has several RV systematic error sources of considerable sizes. The work in this thesis has revealed that the errors in Keck/HIRES’s stellar reference spectrum add about 1 m/s to the error budget and are the major drivers behind the spurious RV signal at the period of a sidereal year and its harmonics. Telluric contamination and errors caused by the spectral fitting algorithm also contribute on the level of 20-50 cm/s. The strategies proposed and tested in this thesis will improve the RV precision of HET/HRS and Keck/HIRES, including their decade worth of archival data. This thesis also documents my work on characterizing exoplanet orbits using RV data and the discovery of HD 37605c. It concludes with a summary of major findings and an outline of future plans to use future precise Doppler spectrometers to move towards the goal of 10 cm/s and detecting Earth 2.0.
Model-based Design of Experiments for Large Dataset
Creators: name: PESCE, ELENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2021

description: The first part of this thesis presents the motivation for adapting ideas and methods from the theory of the model-based optimal design of experiments in the context of Big Data while guarding against different sources of bias. In particular, the key focus is on the issue of guarding against bias from confounders and how to use the theory of the design of experiment and randomization to remove bias depending on the constraints in the design. Starting with A/B experiments, largely used by major Tech Companies in online marketing, the theory of circuits is introduced and an algebraic methods which gives a wide choice of randomization schemes is presented. Furthermore, a robust exchange algorithm to deal with the problem of outliers in a Big Dataset is proposed.
The second part is based on a marine insurance use case sponsored by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, commercial insurance division of the Swiss Re Group. Several temporal disaggregation methods for dealing with time series collected at different time frequencies are reviewed and applied to real data in order to obtain a curated dataset for predicting future losses.
Intrarenal teratoma
Creators: name: Onate Miranda, Marta
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cysts

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 57 years
description: Clinical History: A 57-year-old woman was referred to us for the characterisation of an abdominal mass discovered on an ultrasound examination performed because of renoureteral colics. The abdominal exploration was unremarkable and she was asymptomatic. Final Diagnosis: Mature cystic intrarenal teratoma