cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Numerical Methods for Zoning Computation
Creators: name: Lalande, P.
name: Delannoy, A.
Publisher: name: ONERA
Year: 2012

description: Zoning consists in establishing lightning strike zones to locate and classify surfaces
on an aircraft which are exposed to a part of the lightning current components. The
current standard used to certify aircraft is empirical and qualitative, and fails to predict
certain features, such as lightning attachment on the middle of the wing. Furthermore,
the standard will be difficult to apply to the next generation of aircraft having geometry,
engines and fuselage material that will be very different from current designs. Two
approaches have been developed to elaborate a zoning around an aircraft. An empirical
developed by BAe is based on the rolling sphere model. The input parameter is the
radius of the sphere which is evaluated by service lightning strike experience for a given
aircraft. The second approach is based on the physical description of the lightning
strike on an aircraft. From the physical modelling of lightning discharge, Onera has
developed a general method to compute a probabilistic zoning. This method takes into
account the fundamental processes occurring during a lightning strike on an aircraft.
The attachment process is computed from the aircraft geometry and the atmospheric
electric field direction leading to the lightning inception. The results of this computation
give the initial points on the fuselage where a lightning can develop and their probability
of inception as a function of the skin geometry and the field direction. These inputs are
used in a swept model to compute, for each attachment point, the lightning attachment
point displacement due to the aircraft motion, the airflow and the lightning channel
geometry. The model is based, for computing power purposes, on a macroscopic description
of the lightning channel during the continuous current phase. For a given single
aisle aircraft, we compute and record in a database several million cases of lightning
strikes. By using the distribution of lightning stroke arrival times, the probability that a
specific zone of this aircraft will be struck by a stroke is computed.
description: Journal Aerospace Lab, Issue 5, December 2012; ISSN: 2107-6596
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 54.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.03.2010, 10:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Relaxation dynamics in a transient network fluid with competing gel and glass phases
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Pinaki
name: Hurtado, Pablo I.
name: Berthier, Ludovic
name: Kob, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use computer simulations to study the relaxation dynamics of a model for oil-in-water microemulsion droplets linked with telechelic polymers. This system exhibits both gel and glass phases and we show that the competition between these two arrest mechanisms can result in a complex, three-step decay of the time correlation functions, controlled by two different localization lengthscales. For certain combinations of the parameters, this competition gives rise to an anomalous logarithmic decay of the correlation functions and a subdiffusive particle motion, which can be understood as a simple crossover effect between the two relaxation processes. We establish a simple criterion for this logarithmic decay to be observed. We also find a further logarithmically slow relaxation related to the relaxation of floppy clusters of particles in a crowded environment, in agreement with recent findings in other models for dense chemical gels. Finally, we characterize how the competition of gel and glass arrest mechanisms affects the dynamical heterogeneities and show that for certain combination of parameters these heterogeneities can be unusually large. By measuring the four-point dynamical susceptibility, we probe the cooperativity of the motion and find that with increasing coupling this cooperativity shows a maximum before it decreases again, indicating the change in the nature of the relaxation dynamics. Our results suggest that compressing gels to large densities produces novel arrested phases that have a new and complex dynamics.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 148.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.07.2010, 09:15, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Hopping, Landing, and Balancing with Springs
Creators: name: GAMBA CAMACHO, JUAN DAVID
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: This work investigates the interaction of a planar double pendulum robot and springs, where the lower body (the leg) has been modified to include a spring-loaded passive prismatic joint. The thesis explores the mechanical advantage of adding a spring to the robot in hopping, landing, and balancing activities by formulating the motion problem as a boundary value problem; and also provides a control strategy for such scenarios. It also analyses the robustness of the developed controller to uncertain spring parameters, and an observer solution is provided to estimate these parameters while the robot is performing a tracking task. Finally, it shows a study of how well IMUs perform in bouncing conditions, which is critical for the proper operation of a hopping robot or a running-legged one.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 65.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 24.03.2010, 09:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
title: Direct Effects of Lightning on Aircraft Structure: Analysis of the Thermal, Electrical and Mechanical Constraints
Creators: name: Chemartin, L.
name: Lalande, P.
name: Peyrou, B.
name: Chazottes, A.
name: Elias, P.Q.
name: Cheron, B.G.
name: Lago, F.
Publisher: name: ONERA
Year: 2012

description: This paper deals with the direct effects of lightning strike on aircraft structures. In a
first part, the phenomenology of lightning arc attachment on aircraft is introduced.
Some specific features of lightning arcs observed in flight or created in the laboratory
are presented. Some recent developments and results from numerical simulations are
shown. The shapes, the behaviors and other specific points are compared with experiments,
in order to bring to light some explanations on the complex features of lightning
arcs. The second section presents the direct effects of lightning on aircraft skins. Both
thermal and mechanical constraints are introduced and illustrated with experimental
and numerical results. The negative effects of the paint layer on the damaging of composite
and metallic materials are illustrated. The last section is focused on the direct
effects of lightning on fasteners. The main mechanisms occurring during sparking
phenomena are presented.
description: Journal Aerospace Lab, Issue 5, December 2012; ISSN: 2107-6596
Diet and Sleep Patterns in Newborn Infants
Creators: name: Yogman, M.W.
name: Zeisel, S.H.
name: Strain, G.W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1984

description: To the Editor: In their study of diet and sleep patterns (Nov. 10 issue)* Yogman and Zeisel attempt to examine the effects of two amino acids, tryptophan and valine, on sleep patterns in newborns. From their methodologic description it cannot be ascertained whether the three formulas (tryptophan in 10 per cent glucose, valine in 5 per cent glucose, and Similac 20, the standard) were isocaloric or whether they were consumed in equal amounts. Not only is the caloric density an important consideration in feeding studies, but doubling the sugar concentration of the tryptophan formula in contrast to the valine formula
(502213) William Winship
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Choline Content of Mothers' Milk in Ecuador and Boston
Creators: name: Wurtman, R.J.
name: Brigida, M.
name: Zeisel, S.H.
name: Fierro-Benitez, R.
name: Stanbury, J.B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1982

description: To the Editor: We have found that the free choline concentration of human milk varies during postnatal development and is sometimes markedly depressed in samples from women thought to be ingesting a choline-deficient diet. Choline is a precursor in the biosyntheses of phospholipids1 and of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.2,3 In animals, ingestion of a diet deficient in choline results in hepatic, renal, growth, and memory disorders.4 Neonates must ingest choline-containing foods like milk in order to maintain blood choline concentrations at high levels5; these levels may be needed to supply adequate choline to rapidly growing tissues.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 287.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 31.12.2010, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Identification of common lymphoid precursors cells in tumor tissues and peripheral blood of cancer patients.
Creators: name: PERRONE, CAROLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: PURPOSE: Identification of novel Common Lymphoid Precursors (CLP) cells in peripheral blood and tissue derived from cancer patients characterized by the expression of Lin-CD34+DNAM-1bright CXCR4+ markers and Lin-CD34-CD16+CD7- markers, previously identified in peripheral blood of patients with chronic inflammation and not found in healthy donors. In vitro culture of CLPs cells derived from tumor samples. METHODS: Phenotypic and functional analyses on novel CLPs were performed by multiparametric cytofluorimetric assays. RESULTS: Analysis of peripheral blood and tissue samples of cancer patients revealed the presence of Lin-CD34+DNAM-1bright CXCR4+ and Lin-CD34-CD16+CD7- inflammatory CLPs. In addition, an increase of Lin-CD34DNAM-1brightCXCR4+ inflammatory lymphoid precursors is shown in peripheral blood of cancer patients following NSCLC therapeutic treatment. Characterization of in vitro derived progenies from CLP cells derived from cancer patients highlighted the presence of mature and functional T progenies. DISCUSSION: The identification of novel CLPs not only in peripheral blood of patients with chronic inflammation but also in peripheral blood and tissue of cancer patients (Lymphoma, Kaposi?s Sarcoma, NSCLC) suggests that these lymphoid precursors are released in peripheral blood during inflammatory condition and could be involved in tumor progression control. CONCLUSION: The presence of precursor cells in tumor samples is a starting point for discovering their role in tumor pathogenesis.
Two-Dimensional Magnetotransport in a Black Phosphorus Naked Quantum Well
Creators: name: Tayari, V.
name: Hemsworth, N.
name: Fakih, I.
name: Favron, A.
name: Gaufrès, E.
name: Gervais, G.
name: Martel, R.
name: Szkopek, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black phosphorus (bP) is the second known elemental allotrope with a layered crystal structure that can be mechanically exfoliated down to atomic layer thickness. We have fabricated bP naked quantum wells in a back-gated field effect transistor geometry with bP thicknesses ranging from $6\pm1$ nm to $47\pm1$ nm. Using an encapsulating polymer superstrate, we have suppressed bP oxidation and have observed field effect mobilities up to 600 cm$^2$/Vs and on/off current ratios exceeding $10^5$. Importantly, Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations observed in magnetotransport measurements up to 35 T reveal the presence of a 2-D hole gas with Schrödinger fermion character in an accumulation layer at the bP/oxide interface. Our work demonstrates that 2-D electronic structure and 2-D atomic structure are independent. 2-D carrier confinement can be achieved in layered semiconducting materials without necessarily approaching atomic layer thickness, advantageous for materials that become increasingly reactive in the few-layer limit such as bP.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 105.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.05.2010, 08:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Experimental studies on dispersion processes in periodic flows
Creators: name: DE LEO, ANNALISA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this thesis Experimental studies on dispersion processes in periodic flows is to study the hydrodynamics and asses the mixing properties of periodic flows, through extensive experimental campaigns. With mixing, we refer to the field of environmental fluid mechanic that seeks to provide tools to assess the flow of nutrients needed for the survival of an ecosystem, limit toxic pollutants and minimize the anthropic impact. Over the last twenty years, a lot of literature had been devoted to asses mixing processes occurring in uniform flows but less on periodic ones. A periodic flow is an oscillatory flow whose characteristics assume the same sequence of values exactly after a fixed length of time, known as the period. These repetitive velocity patterns produce in the hydrodynamics a periodical occurrence and, eventually, destruction of flow structures responsible for the dispersion or the entrainment of pollutants/ nutrients within the domain considered. Coastal areas provide a typical example of regions dominated by period flows, such as those induced by tidal currents and sea waves. These areas are also characterised by a massive human development, and biodiverse ecosystems, making the study of the mixing of paramount importance for their sustainment and preservation.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 162.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.07.2010, 10:30, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 121.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.06.2010, 06:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 79.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.04.2010, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Optogenetics strategies for high-efficiency all-optical interrogation using blue-light sensitive opsins
Creators: name: PISONI, MATTEO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: To investigate how the coordinated activity of groups of neurons (?neuronal ensembles?) drives behavior, two-photon all-optical interrogation is increasingly recognized as a potent approach which provides simultaneous imaging and manipulation of brain circuits with high spatial resolution. Most two-photon all-optical methods couple two-photon microscopy and digital holography to stimulate opsin-expressing neurons with limited photodamage and heating, while recording the activity of the same cells using a fluorescent functional indicator. However, the spectral properties of the most popular opsins and indicators used in two-photon all-optical methods are prone to crosstalk between imaging and stimulation. In this thesis work, we aim to develop a method for high-efficiency stimulation of neurons which decreases crosstalk between imaging and stimulation. To this aim, we generated stCoChR, a soma-tagged variant of the blue light-sensitive opsin CoChR. In anesthetized mice, we show efficient stimulation of cortical neurons expressing stCoChR. For these experiments, we performed holographic two-photon stimulation with both a high repetition rate laser and with a low repetition rate amplified laser tuned at the excitation peak of the opsin (920 nm). We found that stCoChR allowed neuronal stimulation with a 10-fold reduction in average power per cell compared to previously characterized blue light sensitive opsins. Moreover, we combined holographic stimulation of stCoChR with two-photon imaging of the red-shifted indicator jRCaMP1a at 1100 nm. Importantly, we found that this choice of opsins, indicator, and excitation wavelengths significantly limited crosstalk between imaging and photostimulation. Altogether the results presented in this thesis demonstrate that co-expression of stCoChR with red-shifted functional indicators and combined to tuned amplified lasers is a promising tool to perform efficient interrogation of large-scale neuronal networks in the intact brain with limited crosstalk between imaging and photostimulation.
(502206) Jane Veiner
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Full-scale monitoring of the wind-induced response of vertical slender structures, with fixed and rotating masses
Creators: name: ORLANDO, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2021

description: Nowadays, structural monitoring is gaining more and more attention in the field of wind engineering. On the wake of these developments, the thesis develops and applies a comprehensive structural monitoring procedure tailored for the validation and investigation in full-scale of the wind-induced response of vertical slender structures, with fixed and rotating masses. All the main aspects of the monitoring practice are discussed, regarding the number, location and type of the sensors, the acquisition and the transmission of the full-scale data, as well as the management of the experimental database by following an encoded scheme. In addition, the thesis highlights a number of issues typical of the monitoring activity that are not addressed in literature, providing inspiration to solve them. The defined procedure finds application in two monitoring campaigns launched by the Wind Engineering group at the University of Genoa: one slender structure with fixed masses (a light tower) and one slender structure with rotating masses (a small vertical axis wind turbine). As regards the light tower, a reference calculation model of the wind-induced response of poles and towers is selected from literature and is validated in full-scale. The input parameters needed for the application of the model are identified from experimental surveys, intersecting wind tunnel tests and dynamic identification techniques. The results highlight the goodness of the selected model and the large uncertainties associated to the input parameters. As regards the wind turbine, the full-scale data are used to investigate the contribution of the rotating parts to the dynamic behavior. In addition, the fatigue damage of the supporting tower is calculated under stationary and non-stationary excitation due to wind, turbine rotation, emergency stop and start. The results highlight the importance of the detail modeling, the fundamental role played by the non-stationary conditions and the errors committed when using conventional models of the load.
title: Indirect Effects of Lightning on Aircraft and Rotorcraft
Creators: name: Parmantier, J.-P.
name: Issac, F.
name: Gobin, V.
Publisher: name: ONERA
Year: 2012

description: This article discusses issues related to indirect lightning on aircraft/rotorcraft. The
standard waveforms used for qualifying the vulnerability of a system are introduced,
with their frequency spectrum. The identification of the elementary EM coupling phenomenon
allows the understanding of the key drivers of the current distribution and field
scattering on a complex structure. The system level EM coupling analysis starts with
examples of cable-measurements on real aircraft/rotorcraft, from which simple models
are derived in order to understand the origin of the resulting waveforms. Various ways
of protection are then proposed, ranging from passive to active solutions. Finally, despite
limitations, 3D EM modeling is presented as an efficient complement to scale-one
tests. The article concludes on the validity of current knowledge on indirect lightning for
future aircraft designs.
description: Journal Aerospace Lab, Issue 5, December 2012; ISSN: 2107-6596
Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: cytogenetic and genomic approaches
Creators: name: PISCIOTTA, LIVIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2021

description: Introduction: Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are a heterogeneous class of conditions involving the brain, including intellectual disability (ID) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), that affect about 1%-3% of children (Miller et al., 2010). The genetics of NDDs is complex and include copy number variations (CNVs), pathogenetic mutations in single genes. To date, more than 1000 genes have been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of NNDs. Preliminary investigations have suggested that the majority of Developmental Disorders, in particular ASD, are actually polygenic; in addition, the genetic and environmental interplay in defining the phenotype clearly classifies NDDs such as ID and ASD as complex disorders. In this dissertation, I sought to explore the contribution of rare de novo and inherited coding variation in neurodevelopmental disorders and use these genetic variations to identify neurodevelopmental disorder associated genes and new/unknown oligogenic mechanisms. Methods: In a retrospective review of data, we re-evaluated all the results of diagnostic array-CGH tests on 700 cases with NDDs, focusing on variants previously interpreted as VOUS. Furthermore a series of 68 patients with autism spectrum disorder were recruited to perform whole exome sequencing and eventual whole genome sequencing. A deep analysis of VOUS, mainly consisting in a revision of gene expression/function annotation, and chromatine organization data, was performed. New candidate genes were analysed by GeneCodis4 to evidence enrichment for known NDD-associated GeneOntology terms and pathways. Whole exome sequencing was performed and potentially deleterious variants prioritized by custom filtering strategies including the use of ORVAL (Oligogenic Resource for Variant Analysis Platform) and enrichment analysis of candidate genes with GeneCodis4. Results: In about 42% of cases pathogenic CNVs were found, while in 58% identified CNVs remained initially VOUS. New potential genes and mechanisms such as double-hit mechanisms were found in our patients. In our 34 analysed ASD patients 11 cases showed possible deleterious rare variants, in different and, in the majority of cases, in multiple genes. The role of X chromosome and neurotransmitter pathways appears important. Conclusion: In our cohort of NDDs patients CNV-mediated double-hit mechanisms seem to play a relevant role in elucidate complex phenotypes. About 10% of patients from our ASD cohort also showed rare deleterious variants in multiple genes that seem to fully explain their complex phenotype.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 14.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.01.2010, 11:45, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 33.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 10.02.2010, 09:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Carbohydrate craving in obese people: Suppression by treatments affecting serotoninergic transmission
Creators: name: Zeisel, S.H.
name: Growdon, J.H.
name: Wurtman, J.J.
name: Wurtman, R.J.
name: Lipscomb, A.
name: Henry, P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1981

description: We examined the existence of carbohydrate cravings, and the effects on such cravings of treatments that enhance serotonin release, among 24 obese subjects who claimed to have excessive appetites for carbohydrates. Subjects living in a college dormitory for four weeks were given three fixed meals daily and allowed to choose at will among five protein‐rich or five carbohydrate‐rich isocaloric snack foods, provided via a vending machine. For two weeks, they received no treatment (study 1) or a placebo (study 2); for the next two weeks, they received placebo, d‐1 fenfluramine or 1‐tryptophan. All but one of the subjects exhibited a marked preference for carbohydrate‐rich over protein‐rich snacks during the first two weeks of the study. The average daily intake of carbohydrate‐rich snacks was 4.1 ± 0.4 and of protein‐rich snacks 0.8 ± 0.3. Seventeen of the subjects failed to consume any protein snacks on most days during the baseline or test periods, thus it was not possible for us to examine the effect of test treatments on protein snack intake. Fenfluramine administration significantly reduced carbohydrate snacking in six of nine test subjects, as well as in the group as a whole (2.4 ± 0.6 snacks/day vs 4.2 ± 0.6 during the two‐week baseline period). Tryptophan significantly diminished carbohydrate intake in three of the eight treated subjects, and increased it in one subject; it did not significantly modify snacking patterns in the group as a whole. Placebo administration did not affect carbohydrate intake in any of the seven test subjects. These observations show that some obese people do consume carbohydrate‐rich snacks frequently and preferentially, and that this behavior can sometimes be diminished by treatments thought to enhance serotonin's release (fenfluramine) or synthesis (tryptophan).
Impact of Vaccination Status on 24-H Behavior: A Research Proposal
Creators: name: Carey, Grayson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: BACKGROUND: With increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates, public spaces have become more accessible to fully vaccinated individuals, while some remain restricted for the unvaccinated. This may result in differences in 24-hour (24-h) activity behaviors. 24-h activity behaviors can be classified as the synthesis of three main behaviors: sedentary behavior (SB), physical activity (PA), and sleep. These activity behaviors are important indicators of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this proposed research study is to investigate the behavioral differences between fully vaccinated and unvaccinated populations over the 24-h day. METHODS: In Spring 2022, male and female adults (n=≥50 fully vaccinated, n=≥50 unvaccinated), age 18-35 years old who own and habitually wear their Apple watches (series 4, 5, or 6) will be recruited from the UNC Chapel Hill community. All participants will be asked to self-report demographic information (age, biological sex, race, and ethnicity), sleep, SB, and PA data for 5 days. Data will be collected over 5 days to model an average workweek. Rather than counting each day as a midnight-to-midnight period, each day will begin at the waking time and conclude after one period of nightly sleep. Individual days may not consist of 24 hours; however, data will be reported as a percentage of time, so any discrepancies in the total time of each day will be accounted for. To be included in the data, each day must have 20-28 hours of data. All data will be obtained through an online survey. A young and healthy sample was chosen to limit the potential age-related differences in health status and behavioral patterns. Sleep, SB, and PA percentages will be averaged for each individual, and the mean percentages of all participants within both groups will be reported and compared using independent samples t-tests. ANTICIPATED RESULTS: We hypothesize that individuals that are fully vaccinated will report higher rates of physical activity, lower rates of sedentary behavior and more sleep across the 5 days as compared with unvaccinated individuals.
(502200) Florence Isa Donkin
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Audio-Visual Learning for Scene Understanding
Creators: name: SANGUINETI, VALENTINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: Multimodal deep learning aims at combining the complementary information of different modalities. Among all modalities, audio and video are the predominant ones that humans use to explore the world. In this thesis, we decided to focus our study on audio-visual deep learning to mimic with our networks how humans perceive the world. Our research includes images, audio signals and acoustic images. The latter provide spatial audio information and are obtained from a planar array of microphones combining their raw audios with the beamforming algorithm. They better mimic human auditory systems, which cannot be replicated using just one microphone, not able alone to give spatial sound cues. However, as microphones arrays are not so widespread, we also study how to handle the missing spatialized audio modality at test time. As a solution, we propose to distill acoustic images content to audio features during the training in order to handle their absence at test time. This is done for supervised audio classification using the generalized distillation framework, which we also extend for self-supervised learning. Next, we devise a method for reconstructing acoustic images given a single microphone and an RGB frame. Therefore, in case we just dispose of a standard video, we are able to synthesize spatial audio, which is useful for many audio-visual tasks, including sound localization. Lastly, as another example of restoring one modality from available ones, we inpaint degraded images providing audio features, to reconstruct the missing region not only to be visually plausible but also semantically consistent with the related sound. This includes also cross-modal generation, in the limit case of completely missing or hidden visual modality: our method naturally deals with it, being able to generate images from sound. In summary we show how audio can help visual learning and vice versa, by transferring knowledge between the two modalities at training time, in order to distill, reconstruct, or restore the missing modality at test time.
Chemokine functionalized nanoparticles interactions with acute monocytic leukemia cells.
Creators: name: PISANI, ANISSA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: Biodegradable nanoparticles (NPs) aimed at drug/gene delivery can be functionalized with different molecules to have specific characteristics, like short bio-persistence, protection of the NP cargo and controlled release, specific cell/tissue targeting, as well as modulation of cellular signaling. To specifically improve NP selective targeting and modulation of immune responses, I focused my PhD project on the interactions between biocompatible NPs and immune cells. This goal was pursued by PLGA/Pluronic NP-surface decoration with two different chemokines, namely CXCL12 and CCL5. The first is a key mediator of homeostatic cell trafficking and it is involved in several pathologies, including cancers? metastasis. On the contrary, CCL5 is an induced chemokine attracting leukocytes during the inflammatory leukocyte effector phase. The rationale of the project relies on these molecules? roles to drive NPs towards specific cells exclusively expressing their cognate receptors, CXCR4 and CCR5. During the first two years I functionalized, characterized and tested the biological activity of chemokine-decorated PLGA-NPs in CXCR4 and CCR5 expressing human monocytic cells in vitro. I demonstrated CXCL12/CCL5-NPs stability in cell culture media and I proved that CXCL12-NPs enhanced binding/internalization abrogating CXCR4-mediated THP-1 leukemia cell chemotaxis. This result contributes to the search of biocompatible nanotools to quench tumor cell dysregulated migration. In the last year I optimized CCL5-NPs, further enhancing their cell targeting and internalization. I proved the dependence of CCL5-NP binding/internalization on the amount of surface-linked CCL5 and the unspecific adhesion of ?naked? PLGA/Pluronic-NPs.
Cosmic Web and Environmental Dependence of Screening: Vainshtein vs. Chameleon
Creators: name: Falck, Bridget
name: Koyama, Kazuya
name: Zhao, Gong-bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theories which modify general relativity to explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe often use screening mechanisms to satisfy constraints on Solar System scales. We investigate the effects of the cosmic web and the local environmental density of dark matter halos on the screening properties of the Vainshtein and chameleon screening mechanisms. We compare the cosmic web morphology of dark matter particles, mass functions of dark matter halos, mass and radial dependence of screening, velocity dispersions and peculiar velocities, and environmental dependence of screening mechanisms in $f(R)$ and nDGP models. Using the ORIGAMI cosmic web identification routine we find that the Vainshtein mechanism depends on the cosmic web morphology of dark matter particles, since these are defined according to the dimensionality of their collapse, while the chameleon mechanism shows no morphology dependence. The chameleon screening of halos and their velocity dispersions depend on halo mass, and small halos and subhalos can be environmentally screened in the chameleon mechanism. On the other hand, the screening of halos in the Vainshtein mechanism does not depend on mass nor environment, and their velocity dispersions are suppressed. The peculiar velocities of halos in the Vainshtein mechanism are enhanced because screened objects can still feel the fifth force generated by external fields, while peculiar velocities of chameleon halos are suppressed when the halo centers are screened.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, matches version accepted to JCAP; ORIGAMI code available at http://icg.port.ac.uk/~falckb
title: The Interaction of Lightning with Aircraft and the Challenges of Lightning Testing
Creators: name: Morgan, D.
name: Hardwick, C. J.
name: Haigh, S. J.
name: Meakins, A. J.
Publisher: name: ONERA
Year: 2012

description: Aircraft are struck by lightning in flight with some regularity and are required to have demonstrated protection against this threat; much of this demonstration is provided by simulating in test the effects of lightning on aircraft structures, components and systems. Clearly these tests need to be carried out in a representative manner and guidance on how to do this is provided in the Aerospace lightning standards and guidance materials produced by the SAE/EUROCAE committees. Nevertheless, there are challenges; for example, due to dramatic differences in both scale and conditions between a lab and the inside of a cloud, achieving sufficient representation of every aspect of the lightning phenomena can be difficult. Before considering these challenges we discuss the phenomenology and effects of lightning and how they are addressed in the lightning standards, in order to provide some background.
description: Journal Aerospace Lab, Issue 5, December 2012; ISSN: 2107-6596
(502204) Charlotte Freeman Forsyth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 277.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 15.12.2010, 09:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2010

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 1.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
(502205) Robert Forsyth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(502207) Elizabeth [King]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Canadian Gallup Poll # 468-1
Creators: name: Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion (Gallup)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Federal election vote intent(1); past federal elections vote(1); economic situation(4); US cruise missiles tests(2); wage/price controls(3); role of husband in Canadian family(3); Prime Minister and the opposition leader job performances(3); approval ratings of major party leaders(3). Note: Demographics(17).