cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Posterior Matching Scheme for Gaussian Multiple Access Channel with Feedback
Creators: name: Truong, Lan V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Posterior matching is a method proposed by Ofer Shayevitz and Meir Feder to design capacity achieving coding schemes for general point-to-point memoryless channels with feedback. In this paper, we present a way to extend posterior matching based encoding and variable rate decoding ideas for the Gaussian MAC with feedback, referred to as time-varying posterior matching scheme, analyze the achievable rate region and error probabilities of the extended encoding-decoding scheme. The time-varying posterior matching scheme is a generalization of the Shayevitz and Feder's posterior matching scheme when the posterior distributions of the input messages given output are not fixed over transmission time slots. It turns out that the well-known Ozarow's encoding scheme, which obtains the capacity of two-user Gaussian channel, is a special case of our extended posterior matching framework as the Schalkwijk-Kailath's scheme is a special case of the point-to-point posterior matching mentioned above. Furthermore, our designed posterior matching also obtains the linear-feedback sum-capacity for the symmetric multiuser Gaussian MAC. Besides, the encoding scheme in this paper is designed for the real Gaussian MAC to obtain that performance, which is different from previous approaches where encoding schemes are designed for the complex Gaussian MAC. More importantly, this paper shows potential of posterior matching in designing optimal coding schemes for multiuser channels with feedback.
description: submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. A shorter version has been accepted to IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2014
title: Ileal tumors (IT) in MSCT-enterography (MSCT-E) and in MRI-enterography (MRI-E): a reviews of 15 years of clinical application in a referred center for gastrointestinal pathology.
Creators: name: Gozzo, Cecilia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Enterography
subject: CT-Enterography
subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: to show an image atlas of pitfalls encountered on CT-enterography and MRI-enterography of Ileal Tumors. tobe helpful for Radiologists aren’t expert in gastrointestinal imaging. to provide a Guide of Radiology Reporting for Radiology...
De Mammona iniquitatis. Spiritually poor: the Sturzian roots of the Encyclical “Caritas in veritate” of Benedict XVI
Creators: name: Barbieri, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: The present work has been done for the scope of Study in honor of Professor Franco Bolognini.

SUMMARY: The spirit of the present contribution: “the economics as if the person would count1” – 1. Essential notes on the “popular capitalism” in the thought of Luigi Sturzo - 2. The economical liberty and the rules’ liberalism – 3. Synthesis considerations.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 16 gennaio
title: A Sustainable Development of Inflation in Euro Area Requires Continuously Improving Labor Market
Creators: name: Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: E31 Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
subject: E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital
subject: inflation dynamics
subject: inflation expectations
subject: passthrough unit labor costs
subject: monetary policy
subject: euro area

description: In the past five years, the inflation in the euro area has been well below the European Central Bank’s (ECB) aimed inflation rate of close to but below two percent for achieving its objective of price stabilization in the medium term. The present analysis shows that expectations of low inflation, rising cyclical unemployment, and external factors such as low crude oil prices were responsible. In the middle of this year euro area price development picked up again. At its meeting in June this year the Governing Council of the ECB decided to end the asset purchase programme (APP) by December of this year and held out the prospect of a first rise in key ECB interest rates after the summer 2019. This necessitates a continuing, sustained inflation momentum. However, core inflation excluding energy and food prices has remained relatively low until now. The ECB is primarily relying on increasing wage momentum to drive core inflation in the near future. As DIW calculations show, this relationship exists but it is quantitatively rather weak. For core inflation to support the medium term price stability in the upcoming years, wages must continue to grow considerably.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 43, S. 429-437
Searching for High Energy Neutrino counterpart signals; The case of the Fermi Bubbles signal and of Dark Matter annihilation in the inner Galaxy
Creators: name: Cholis, Ilias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent uncovering of the \textit{Fermi} Bubbles/haze in the \textit{Fermi} gamma-ray data has generated theoretical work to explain such a signal of hard $γ$-rays in combination with the \textit{WMAP} haze signal. Many of these theoretical models can have distinctively different implications with regards to the production of high energy neutrinos. We discuss the neutrino signals from different models proposed for the explanation of the \textit{Fermi} Bubbles/haze, more explicitly, from Dark Matter annihilation in the galactic halo with conditions of preferential CR diffusion, from recent AGN jet activity, from periodic diffusive shock acceleration, from stochastic 2nd order Fermi acceleration and from long time-scale star formation in the galactic center in combination with strong galactic winds. We find that some of these models will be probed by the IceCube DeepCore detector. Moreover, with a km$^3$ telescope located at the north hemisphere, we will be able to discriminate between the hadronic, leptonic and the DM models. Additionally using the reconstructed neutrino spectra we will probe annihilation of TeV scale dark matter towards the galactic center.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, changes in v2: in agreement with PRD version, small revisions in text, addition of table, conclusions unchanged
Squark Flavor Implications from B --> K(*) l+ l-
Creators: name: Behring, Arnd
name: Gross, Christian
name: Hiller, Gudrun
name: Schacht, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental and theoretical progress regarding B --> K(*) l+ l- decays led to improved bounds on the Wilson coefficients C_9 and C_10 of four-fermion operators of the |Delta B|=|Delta S|=1 effective Hamiltonian. We analyze the resulting implications on squark flavor violation in the MSSM and obtain new constraints on flavor-changing left-right mixing in the up-squark-sector. We find the dimensionless flavor mixing parameter (delta^u_23)_LR, depending on the flavor-diagonal MSSM masses and couplings, to be as low as \lesssim 0.1. This has implications for models based on radiative flavor violation and leads to BR(B_s --> mu+ mu-) \gtrsim 1 x 10^-9. Rare top decays t --> c gamma, t --> c g, t --> c Z have branching ratios predicted to be below \lesssim few times 10^-8, 10^-6 and 10^-7, respectively.
description: v2: 21 pages, 5 figures; Eq (A.2) and chirality-flipping mass insertion results clarified, references added, conclusions unchanged
A Multiscale Computational Model of Levodopa Medication Effect on Arm Reaching in Parkinson's Disease
Creators: name: Nair, Sandeep S.
name: Muddapu, Vignayanandam R.
name: Chakravarthy, V. Srinivasa
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Motor control, movement, navigation

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: PERPLEXING OSTEOCHONDROSIS OF LOWER EXTREMITY –Made Easy
Creators: name: Chellathurai, Amarnath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Bones

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review about the clinical features & imaging findings of some of the rare osteochondrosis of lower extremity whose typical imaging findings in the clinical background will help in early diagnosis of these...
Energy spectrum and Landau levels in bilayer graphene with spin-orbit interaction
Creators: name: Mireles, Francisco
name: Schliemann, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical study of the bandstructure and Landau levels in bilayer graphene at low energies in the presence of a transverse magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the regime of negligible trigonal distortion. Within an effective low energy approach (Löwdin partitioning theory) we derive an effective Hamiltonian for bilayer graphene that incorporates the influence of the Zeeman effect, the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, and inclusively, the role of the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction on the same footing. Particular attention is spent to the energy spectrum and Landau levels. Our modeling unveil the strong influence of the Rashba coupling $λ_R $ in the spin-splitting of the electron and hole bands. Graphene bilayers with weak Rashba spin-orbit interaction show a spin-splitting linear in momentum and proportional to $λ_R $, but scales inversely proportional to the interlayer hopping energy $γ_1$. However, at robust spin-orbit coupling $λ_R $ the energy spectrum shows a strong warping behavior near the Dirac points. We find the bias-induced gap in bilayer graphene to be decreasing with increasing Rashba coupling, a behavior resembling a topological insulator transition. We further predict an unexpected assymetric spin-splitting and crossings of the Landau levels due to the interplay between the Rashba interaction and the external bias voltage. Our results are of relevance for interpreting magnetotransport and infrared cyclotron resonance measurements, including also situations of comparatively weak spin-orbit coupling.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Comparison of HPGR - ball mill and HPGR - stirred mill circuits to the existing AG/SAG mill - ball mill circuits
Creators: name: Wang, Chengtie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: In the past 20 years, the energy-efficient comminution technologies, including high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) and high speed stirred mill, have been developed and adopted in the hard-rock mining operation in order to reduce the energy consumption and improve the process performance. The combination of HPGR and stirred mill in a single flowsheet without tumbling mills has been demonstrated to be technically feasible. This research focused on the energy and cost comparisons of the existing AG/SAG ball mill circuits with two proposed comminution circuits, including an HPGR - ball mill circuit and a novel HPGR - stirred mill circuit. The main objective of this research was to advance the understanding of the potential benefits of the proposed HPGR stirred mill-based comminution circuits for low-grade, high -tonnage base metal operation. Samples and operating data were collected directly from the existing SAB/AGBC/SABC circuits to establish a base case for comparison. To support the base case, the existing circuits were fitted and simulated using a JK SimMet® model. Specific energy requirements for the proposed HPGR - ball mill circuit and HPGR - stirred mill circuit were determined from a pilot-scale HPGR and stirred mill test, in association with a JK SimMet® simulation. Results obtained from the research showed that the HPGR - ball mill circuit and HPGR - stirred mill circuit achieved a substantial reduction in energy, with considerable cost advantage over the existing SAB/AGBC/SABC circuits.
title: A game of thrombi: differential diagnosis of abdominal venous thrombosis in MDCT imaging
Creators: name: CABO BOLADO, JORGE
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Abdomen
subject: eLearning
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe and illustrate the types of venous thrombi than can be found in an abdominal CT exam and to state the MDCT key findings that can help the radiologist in the abdominal venous thrombi differential...
Stability Analysis and Area Spectrum of 3-Dimensional Lifshitz Black Holes
Creators: name: Cuadros-Melgar, Bertha
name: de Oliveira, Jeferson
name: Pellicer, C. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we probe the stability of a $z=3$ three-dimensional Lifshitz black hole by using scalar and spinorial perturbations. We found an analytical expression for the quasinormal frequencies of the scalar probe field, which perfectly agree with the behavior of the quasinormal modes obtained numerically. The results for the numerical analysis of the spinorial perturbations reinforce the conclusion of the scalar analysis, i.e., the model is stable under scalar and spinor perturbations. As an application we found the area spectrum of the Lifshitz black hole, which turns out to be equally spaced.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures. References added. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Principi di diritto internazionale nella teologia cattolica
Creators: name: Barberini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. S. Agostino - 3. S. Tommaso d’Aquino - 4. Francisco de Vitoria - 5. Francisco Suarez - 6. Problemi attuali.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 23 gennaio
title: Trap of infant CT examination using bowtie-filter (Phantom study)
Creators: name: Oku, Takayuki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: Radiation effects
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Kv imaging

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pediatric CT examination plays an important role in the diagnosis of pediatric patients, and establishment of intervention management. However, the most serious drawback of CT is radiation exposure- which leads to an increased risk of cancer 1-4)...
title: Refugees in Germany with Children Still Living Abroad Have Lowest Life Satisfaction
Creators: name: Gambaro, Ludovica
name: Kreyenfeld, Michaela
name: Schacht, Diana
name: Spieß, C. Katharina
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: H31 Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
subject: I31 General Welfare
subject: J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
subject: Refugees
subject: family structure
subject: family reunification
subject: children
subject: well-being

description: Family strongly influences personal well-being—especially in the case of refugees, whose family members often remain in their homeland. This report is the first to closely examine the well-being and family structures of refugees who came to Germany between January 2013 and January 2016. It uses data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany. Among individuals aged between 18 and 49, nine percent have minor children living outside Germany, whereas twelve percent have a husband or wife living abroad. If the nuclear family is living in Germany—which is more often the case for women than men—refugees are measurably more satisfied with their lives. These findings are also confirmed when accounting for other potential factors for well-being. These findings should be given greater consideration—not least in the debate on family reunification—to enable successful migration, integration, and family policies.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 42, S. 415-425
Active sensing in navigation
Creators: name: Olieslagers*, Jeroen
name: Kang*, Yul H.
name: Wolpert†, Daniel M.
name: Lengyel†, Máté
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Motor control, movement, navigation

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Exit time tails from pairwise decorrelation in hidden Markov chains, with applications to dynamical percolation
Creators: name: Hammond, Alan
name: Mossel, Elchanan
name: Pete, Gábor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Consider a Markov process ω_t at equilibrium and some event C (a subset of the state-space of the process). A natural measure of correlations in the process is the pairwise correlation \Pr[ω_0,ω_t \in C] - \Pr[ω_0 \in C]^2. A second natural measure is the probability of the continual occurrence event \{ω_s \in C, \forall s\in [0,t]\}. We show that for reversible Markov chains, and any event C, pairwise decorrelation of the event C implies a decay of the probability of the continual occurrence event \{ω_s \in C, \forall s \in [0,t]\} as t\to\infty. We provide examples showing that our results are often sharp. Our main applications are to dynamical critical percolation. Let C be the left-right crossing event of a large box, and let us scale time so that the expected number of changes to C is order 1 in unit time. We show that the continual connection event has superpolynomial decay. Furthermore, on the infinite lattice without any time scaling, the first exceptional time with an infinite cluster appears with an exponential tail.
description: 20 pages. In this version, small modifications throughout; in particular, a more detailed proof of Corollary 4.4
Evangelo, Impero, Cristianità. Ambiguità di un incontro
Creators: name: Zanchini Di Castiglionchio, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: Testo della comunicazione letta al XIX Convegno internazionale dell’Accademia
Costantiniana (Perugia-Spello, giugno 2009) sul tema Organizzare, sorvegliare, punire: il
controllo dei corpi e delle menti nel diritto della Tarda antichità.

SOMMARIO: 1. Paganesimo e monoteismi mediorientali - 2. Sinagoga e chiesa - 3.
Chiesa e regno di Dio. Critiche recenti al sistema costantiniano  - 4. I dati biblici.
L’orizzonte del regno di Dio - 5 Tutti i popoli e tutte le lingue (Is. 66, 19) - 6 Il regno
come escatologia inaugurata - 7. L’ideologia neo-davidica sottostante al regime di
cristianità.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 23 gennaio
title: Imapct of social media on radiology.
Creators: name: Agarwal, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Teleradiology
subject: eHealth
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1- Recognizing the social media as key medium for enhanced learning in radiology. 2-To be informed about the on-going evolution in social media and its utility. 3-To get an overview of the most popular and useful social media...
title: International Treaties Insufficiently Curb Global Tax Evasion
Creators: name: Menkhoff, Lukas
name: Miethe, Jakob
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: H26 Tax Evasion
subject: tax evasion
subject: international information exchange treaties
subject: international bank deposits
subject: tax havens

description: In recent years, the global community has promoted several initiatives aimed at breaking bank secrecy in tax havens. Such treaties for the exchange of information among tax offices can be effective. A treaty between country A and tax haven B reduces deposits from A in banks of B by approximately 30 percent. However, the analysis shows that tax evaders react to such treaties not by becoming honest taxpayers but rather by adapting their practice of tax evasion. Consequently, the international community must crack down on tax evasion more aggressively – for example, by disclosing the final beneficiaries of assets in tax havens or making it difficult for financial institutions in tax havens to access international capital markets.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 42, S. 407-414
title: Examining the GAO Report on Expectations of Government Support for Bank Holding Companies
Creators: name: Admati, Anat
Publisher: name: U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
Year: 2014

description: In July 2014, Anat Admati testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection on the issue of whether large banks receive implicit support and funding from the public as a result of their “Too Big to Fail” status.
Inertial frames without the relativity principle
Creators: name: Baccetti, Valentina
name: Tate, Kyle
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ever since the work of von Ignatowsky circa 1910 it has been known (if not always widely appreciated) that the relativity principle, combined with the basic and fundamental physical assumptions of locality, linearity, and isotropy, leads almost uniquely to either the Lorentz transformations of special relativity or to Galileo's transformations of classical Newtonian mechanics. Thus, if one wishes to entertain the possibility of Lorentz symmetry breaking within the context of the class of local physical theories, then it seems likely that one will have to abandon (or at the very least grossly modify) the relativity principle. Working within the framework of local physics, we reassess the notion of spacetime transformations between inertial frames in the absence of the relativity principle, arguing that significant and nontrivial physics can still be extracted as long as the transformations are at least linear. An interesting technical aspect of the analysis is that the transformations now form a groupoid/pseudo-group --- it is this technical point that permits one to evade the von Ignatowsky argument. Even in the absence of a relativity principle we can nevertheless deduce clear and compelling rules for the transformation of space and time, rules for the composition of 3-velocities, and rules for the transformation of energy and momentum. As part of the analysis we identify two particularly elegant and physically compelling models implementing "minimalist" violations of Lorentz invariance --- in the first of these minimalist models all Lorentz violations are confined to carefully delineated particle physics sub-sectors, while the second minimalist Lorentz-violating model depends on one free function of absolute velocity, but otherwise preserves as much as possible of standard Lorentz invariant physics.
description: V1: 42 pages; V2: now 43 pages; added 8 references, added brief discussion of Carroll kinematics, added brief discussion of Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl framework, added various minor clarifications. V3: now 51 pages; added another 34 references; more discussion of DSR and relative locality; various clarifications and extensions; this version accepted for publication in JHEP
Redundancy in cerebellar circuits facilitates rapid online learning
Creators: name: Perez Rotondo, Adriana
name: Raman, Dhruva V.
name: O'Leary, Timothy
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Motor control, movement, navigation

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Development and implementation of a limit equilibrium procedure for the three-dimensional analysis of asymmetric landslides
Creators: name: Burden, Justin Matthewson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Two-dimensional limit equilibrium types of analysis have been used in engineering practice for decades and are the most commonly adopted analysis technique for assessing the stability of slopes. These methods compute a factor of safety based on a comparison of available to required shear strength along a prescribed failure surface. Forces and static equilibrium conditions are only considered in the plane of movement. However, in reality, all slope failures occur in three-dimensions. Every sliding mass has a finite length and shear forces acting at the lateral extents of the mass contribute to the resistance to movement. Errors introduced by neglecting the three-dimensional character of a slide cannot be overlooked in all cases. Examples include deep narrow excavations, convex/concave slope geometries, slopes that fail by narrow localized failure and structurally controlled failures in rock. Consideration of threedimensional effects may be of particular importance where computed two-dimensional factors of safety are marginal or when back-analyzing slope failures where derived shear strengths should reflect the influence of end effects. This thesis details the development, implementation and evaluation of a general limit equilibrium method of columns procedure suitable for analyzing the three-dimensional stability of asymmetric landslides. The proposed method, termed the three-dimensional asymmetric Spencer method, uses internal force functions to satisfy the equilibrium conditions. Unlike many of its predecessors, the algorithm satisfies force and moment equilibrium in both horizontal directions. The direction of sliding is not assumed, but rather determined explicitly in the analysis. The solution scheme is implemented in the computer program J3D. A moment balancing procedure is developed and used to investigate the effect of enforcing moment equilibrium about a vertical axis of rotation on the analysis results. Analyses completed using J3D are compared with solutions derived using existing limit equilibrium methods and three-dimensional distinct element models for several asymmetric slide examples, including the Kettleman Hills Landfill case history. Preliminary results indicate that the three-dimensional asymmetric Spencer method is well suited for the analysis of general slope stability cases, including asymmetric problems. Application of the proposed moment balancing algorithm may only be suitable for problems involving specialized slope and slip surface geometries.
L’insegnamento della religione cattolica nelle scuole pubbliche tra  amministrazione ecclesiastica e pubblici poteri. Brevi note sullo  status dei docenti
Creators: name: Madonna, Michele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Istruzione e IRC

description: Testo ampliato e corredato di note della comunicazione presentata al XIV
Congresso internazionale di diritto canonico (Varsavia, 14-18 settembre 2011),
destinato alla pubblicazione degli Atti.

SOMMARIO 1. Premessa  – 2. Il Codice del 1983 e la recente prassi concordataria
della Santa Sede in Europa - 3. La vicenda italiana - 4. Osservazioni conclusive
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 30 gennaio
title: Weather Index Insurance Can Help Households Recover from Extreme Weather Events
Creators: name: Krähnert, Kati
name: Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
subject: O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
subject: Q14 Agricultural Finance
subject: Extreme weather events
subject: impact evaluation
subject: index insurance
subject: livestock
subject: Mongolia

description: Weather index insurance is considered a promising international climate policy instrument that can help households adapt better to climate change. This is especially true in developing countries where households often suffer severely from the consequences of extreme weather events. This report is one of the first to evaluate the impact of a globally recognized index insurance, Mongolia’s Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI). The empirical study is based on econometric methods and uses data from a survey of almost 1,800 households. It shows that index insurance has a clear positive effect on households: in the first three years after an extremely cold and snowy winter, insured Mongolian households are significantly better off than uninsured households in terms of their livestock, which is the key indicator of income and wealth in this context. Two years after the disaster, their herds were almost a third larger than those of uninsured households. In many places, index insurance could be a suitable measure to prevent poverty after extreme weather events.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 40, S. 385-391
title: Side effects of steroidal treatment. Findings in neuroradiology images.
Creators: name: De la Barra, Camila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Complications
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Recognize the findings of frequent side effects due to systemic glucocorticoids use. Comprehend the dynamic and reversibility ofglucocorticoids side...
Modelling the generation of human upper-limb reaching trajectories: an extended behavioural attractor dynamics approach
Creators: name: Sziburis, Tim
name: Blex, Susanne
name: Glasmachers, Tobias
name: Rano, Inaki
name: Iossifidis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Motor control, movement, navigation

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: Extreme Weather Events Drastically Reduce School Completion by Mongolian Children
Creators: name: Krähnert, Kati
name: Groppo, Valeria
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
subject: Children
subject: education
subject: extreme weather events
subject: Mongolia

description: As climate change progresses, extreme weather events are occurring more often, with developing countries suffering the brunt. Using Mongolia as an example, this study examines how extremely cold and snowy winters—which lead to high livestock mortality and thus threaten the livelihood of many households—impact children’s school completion. The results, based on a representative household survey conducted by DIW Berlin and the Mongolian National Statistical Office, show that Mongolian children who experienced an extreme winter while of schooling age and lived in a severely affected district had a 20.1 to 26.1 percentage point lower probability of completing the nine years of mandatory education compared to their peers in unaffected areas. As education is a significant determinant of an individual’s income, extreme weather events are likely to have long-lasting consequences for the children examined in this study. Policymakers should therefore implement support measures, including emergency aid, to enable children in affected households to attend school without interruption and complete their education.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 40, S. 377-384
The evolution of massive black holes and their spins in their galactic hosts
Creators: name: Barausse, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] [...] We study the mass and spin evolution of massive black holes within a semianalytical galaxy-formation model that follows the evolution of dark-matter halos along merger trees, as well as that of the baryonic components (hot gas, stellar and gaseous bulges, and stellar and gaseous galactic disks). This allows us to study the mass and spin evolution of massive black holes in a self-consistent way, by taking into account the effect of the gas present in galactic nuclei both during the accretion phases and during mergers. Also, we present predictions, as a function of redshift, for the fraction of gas-rich black-hole mergers -- in which the spins prior to the merger are aligned due to the gravito-magnetic torques exerted by the circumbinary disk -- as opposed to gas-poor mergers, in which the orientation of the spins before the merger is roughly isotropic. These predictions may be tested by LISA or similar spaced-based gravitational-wave detectors such as eLISA/NGO or SGO.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures. This version includes minor changes to figs 10 and 11 (left-hand panels) described in erratum (MNRAS 440, 1295, 2014, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu361), see also http://www2.iap.fr/users/barausse/erratum.pdf
title: Extremely Harsh Winters Threaten the Livelihood of Mongolia’s Herders
Creators: name: Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina
name: Krähnert, Kati
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
subject: O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
subject: Assets
subject: extreme weather events
subject: growth rates
subject: post-shock recovery
subject: Mongolia

description: Households in developing countries are exposed to increasingly extreme weather events that could endanger their prosperity. This study examines the impact of the unusually cold, snowy winter of 2009/2010 on the livestock of Mongolian households. Livestock represents on average more than 90 percent of the value of all assets owned. It is essential for current consumption and—due to the insufficient financial infrastructure—the most important means to provide for the future. The econometric analysis is based on three waves of a household panel survey that the German Institute for Economic Research carried out in collaboration with the National Statistical Office of Mongolia two to five years after the extreme event. The extremely hard winter dramatically depleted the livestock of rural herder households. Many of those affected stopped herding as a result of the extreme winter, settling in cities to earn their wages as hired hands—which in turn had a negative impact on their wealth. Even five years after the event, severely affected households that continued to herd animals recorded lower herd growth than those that were moderately affected, likely increasing inequality further in the future. The findings show that extreme weather events have long-term negative consequences on households and underscore the need for systematic aid for those affected.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 40, S. 369-375
title: STRESS FRACTURES in CURIOUS CORRIDORS
Creators: name: Chellathurai, Amarnath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Bones
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review about the undiagnosed and unrecognised stress fractures like, Acetabular stress fractures which are rare and therefore unrecognized, but do occur and may be a cause for activity-related hip pain. Also to review about the isolated cunieform...
title: Policy Responses to Turkey’s Crisis: Independent Central Bank and International Credit
Creators: name: Kriwoluzky, Alexander
name: Rieth, Malte
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: E52 Monetary Policy
subject: E58 Central Banks and Their Policies
subject: F31 Foreign Exchange
subject: Monetary policy
subject: exchange rates
subject: fiscal policy
subject: inflation targeting
subject: emerging markets

description: The presently tenuous situation in Turkey will worsen if the government does not take appropriate policy action. In view of foreign investors’ loss of confidence, the cost of external financing is likely to rise while consumption and investment will fall, and the Turkish lira would depreciate further. The influx of foreign capital would dry up as well. Conservative estimates show that the country’s growth would decline by five percent in the first year. These are the results of simulations with an equilibrium model developed by the German Institute for Economic Research. However, adopting measures such as budget consolidation, interest rate hikes, or lowering the target inflation rate could prevent a crisis. The most effective and efficient measure is lowering the perceived inflation target by restoring central bank’s independence, thereby regaining investor confidence. Loans from international partners would also stabilize Turkey’s currency, inflation, and economy – and support the country’s reform process.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 38/39, S. 355-363
PAROLE, LINGUE E ALFABETI NELLA CLASSE MULTICULTURALE
Creators: name: Favaro, Graziella
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Il bilinguismo è soprattutto un’opportunità e una ricchezza perché la padronanza di due lingue amplia le frontiere delle possibilità e il mondo si allarga di conseguenza. Ma che cosa succede quando in epoche diverse della vita – nella prima infanzia, nell’infanzia o nell’adolescenza – a causa del viaggio di migrazione, una nuova lingua entra a far parte del patrimonio linguistico dei bambini? Quali rapporti profondi  di concorrenza, conflitto, complementarietà, integrazione  si stabiliscono tra i due codici, tra i diversi significati e i significanti? E se la lingua madre diventa improvvisamente muta e una nuova lingua sostituisce quella originaria, quali cambiamenti e perdite si verificano nella vita emotiva dei bambini venuti da lontano? Sono queste alcune delle domande a cui il contributo si propone di rispondere, analizzando la condizione bilingue  variegata e molteplice  degli alunni stranieri in Italia e presentando alcuni progetti significativi e materiali innovativi per valorizzare la pluralità linguistica della classe.

WORDS, LANGUAGES AND ALPHABETS IN THE MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM

Bilingualism is above all an opportunity and a richness, since mastering two languages creates greater possibilities and the world expands as a consequence. But what happens in different stages of life- in childhood or adolescence- due to migration, when a new language becomes part of a child’s heritage? What profound relationships –competition, conflict, complementarity, integration- are established between the two codes, between different meanings and signifiers? And if the new language renders the mother tongue mute, what changes and losses take place in the emotional sphere of migrant children? These are a few of the questions which the paper attempts to answer, by analyzing the varied and multifaceted bilingual condition of foreign students in Italy. The paper presents a few important projects and innovative materials to give value to the plurality of languages in classrooms.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
DUE PROGETTI NELLA SCUOLA PLURILINGUE E INTERCULTURALE
Creators: name: Bosc, Franca
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Per rispondere alle esigenze sempre più crescenti di una scuola plurilingue e interculturale alcuni anni fa nelle scuole torinesi sono stati realizzati due progetti, a cura della Divisione Servizi educativi del Comune di Torino. Il primo “Guarda, ce la fai” ha riunito scuole elementari e medie in un lavoro finalizzato alla realizzazione di un percorso multimediale di insegnamento dell’Italiano come L2 che permettesse il raggiungimento del livello A2 del Quadro comune europeo di riferimento (QCER), fosse facilmente utilizzabile, risultasse ampliabile e modificabile in funzione delle esigenze della singola realtà e costituisse un modello per i docenti su come costruire materiali per l’insegnamento della L2. Il risultato è un CD-Rom con sequenze video ed esercizi. Il secondo “Guarda come abbiamo fatto” raccoglie 14 percorsi interculturali di altrettante scuole elementari e medie e riflette sui curricula scolastici nelle diverse aree geografiche culturali, sulla metodologia interculturale e sui possibili percorsi per affrontare la lingua delle discipline. Gli apprendenti stranieri costituiscono il target privilegiato cui è rivolto il progetto, anche se esso ha finalità educative che riguardano anche gli studenti italofoni. Il DVD prodotto presenta in modo completo e dettagliato i percorsi attuati dalle scuole; ciascun percorso si è proposto di affrontare in chiave interculturale un tema disciplinare.

TWO PROJECTS IN A MULTILINGUAL, INTERCULTURAL SCHOOL SETTING

To meet the growing needs of a multilingual, intercultural school setting, a few years ago two projects were implemented by the Educational Services Department of the Municipality of Turin. The first, “Guarda, ce la fai” was aimed at elementary and middle school students and focused on teaching Italian L2 using multimedia materials in order to reach an A2 level (Quadro comune europeo di riferimento - QCER), that was easy to put into effect and could be modified based on the reality of each class group, offering a model for teachers on how to construct L2 teaching materials. The result was a CD-Rom with video clips and exercises. The second project, “Guarda come abbiamo fatto” is a collection of 14 intercultural experiences in 14 elementary and middle schools and reflects on the school curricula in the different cultural geographic areas, intercultural methodologies and the possible ways to deal with the language of different disciplines. The foreign learners were the targets of these projects, even if the educational aims also regarded Italian mother tongue students. The DVD presents the experiences of each school; each one dealt with a different discipline from a multicultural perspective.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
title: Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor: A Review of a Rare Entity
Creators: name: Jugovec, Vesna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To shortly present the scope of clinical, pathological and radiological features of tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TSGCT) - a group of rare proliferative lesions occurring mostly in young and middle-aged...
title: Enhancement of nucleate boiling heat transfer by micro-structured chromium nitride surfaces
Creators: name: Fischer, S.
name: Slomski, E. M.
name: Stephan, P.
name: Oechsner, M.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: In the present work, the influence of micro-structured chromium nitride (CrN) surfaces on boiling heat transfer during nucleate boiling of FC-72 at saturation temperature was investigated. The CrN thin coatings of 4.5 μm thickness in average were deposited by Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) as a combination of High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS) and Direct Current Magnetron Sputtering (DCMS) on polished copper surfaces. Due to variation of the applied bias voltage to the substrates different sizes and orientations of the CrN crystals were realized. The typical dimensions of the hereby generated surface structures are in the order of a few hundred nm to a few μm. It was found that all employed micro-structured CrN surfaces yield an increase of the critical heat flux (CHF) compared to an uncoated reference surface. The maximum ratio of the CHF of a CrN structured surface to the CHF of the uncoated copper surface reached within this study was CHFmax/CHFref = 2.5.
LA FORMAZIONE DEGLI INSEGNANTI PER UNA EDUCAZIONE PLURILINGUE E INTERCULTURALE
Creators: name: Lugarini, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Dalla la Guida per lo sviluppo e l’attuazione di curricoli per una educazione plurilingue e interculturale del Consiglio d’Europa è possibile trarre una serie di indicazioni per disegnare un profilo professionale e, di conseguenza, una serie di indicazioni per la formazione iniziale e in servizio dell’insegnate di lingua (L1, L2, LS). In questo intervento si suggeriscono, senza alcuna pretesa di esaustività, degli indicatori relativi alle competenze professionali che l’insegnante dovrebbe possedere per poter svolgere la sua attività nella scuola italiana di oggi in considerazione dei bisogni linguistici delle nuove generazioni e degli obiettivi linguistici proposti dal Consiglio d’Europa nell’ambito delle politiche educative orientate a favorire la mobilità, una più efficace comunicazione internazionale, il rispetto dell’identità e della diversità delle culture, a sviluppare l’educazione alla cittadinanza democratica ed europea. Dalle riflessioni condotte emerge la necessità di una formazione disciplinare e didattica articolata e complessa che renda l’insegnante “professionista riflessivo” e “ricercatore sperimentale”

TRAINING TEACHERS FOR MULTILINGUISTIC, INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

From the Council of Europe’s Guide for the development and implementation of curricula for multilingual and intercultural education, it is possible to draw a series of explicit or implicit characteristics for teachers, and consequently, a series of indications for initial and in-service language (L1, L2, FL) teacher training. This paper offers a brief view of the professional competences teachers should possess in order to carry out their roles in Italian schools considering the linguistic needs of the young generations and the language objectives set out by the Council of Europe regarding education policies that promote mobility, more effective International communication and respect for cultural identity and diversity, in an effort to develop European democratic citizenship education. The need for articulated disciplinary and didactic teacher training to create “reflective professionals” and “experimental researchers” becomes clear.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)