cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electronic systems for the restoration of the sense of touch in upper limb prosthetics
Creators: name: FRANCESCHI, MARTA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: In the last few years, research on active prosthetics for upper limbs focused
on improving the human functionalities and the control. New methods have
been proposed for measuring the user muscle activity and translating it into
the prosthesis control commands. Developing the feed-forward interface so
that the prosthesis better follows the intention of the user is an important
step towards improving the quality of life of people with limb amputation.
However, prosthesis users can neither feel if something or someone is
touching them over the prosthesis and nor perceive the temperature or
roughness of objects. Prosthesis users are helped by looking at an object,
but they cannot detect anything otherwise. Their sight gives them most
information. Therefore, to foster the prosthesis embodiment and utility,
it is necessary to have a prosthetic system that not only responds to the
control signals provided by the user, but also transmits back to the user
the information about the current state of the prosthesis.
This thesis presents an electronic skin system to close the loop in prostheses
towards the restoration of the sense of touch in prosthesis users. The
proposed electronic skin system inlcudes an advanced distributed sensing
(electronic skin), a system for (i) signal conditioning, (ii) data acquisition,
and (iii) data processing, and a stimulation system. The idea is to integrate
all these components into a myoelectric prosthesis.
Embedding the electronic system and the sensing materials is a critical issue
on the way of development of new prostheses. In particular, processing
the data, originated from the electronic skin, into low- or high-level information
is the key issue to be addressed by the embedded electronic system.
Recently, it has been proved that the Machine Learning is a promising
approach in processing tactile sensors information. Many studies have
been shown the Machine Learning eectiveness in the classication of input
touch modalities.More specically, this thesis is focused on the stimulation system, allowing
the communication of a mechanical interaction from the electronic skin
to prosthesis users, and the dedicated implementation of algorithms for
processing tactile data originating from the electronic skin. On system
level, the thesis provides design of the experimental setup, experimental
protocol, and of algorithms to process tactile data. On architectural level,
the thesis proposes a design
ow for the implementation of digital circuits
for both FPGA and integrated circuits, and techniques for the power
management of embedded systems for Machine Learning algorithms.
From sensory perception to spatial cognition
Creators: name: AGGIUS-VELLA, ELENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: To interact with the environmet, it is crucial to have a clear space representation. Several findings have shown that the space around our body is split in several portions, which are differentially coded by the brain. Evidences of such subdivision have been reported by studies on people affected by neglect, on space near (peripersonal) and far (extrapersonal) to the body position and considering space around specific different portion of the body. Moreover, recent studies showed that sensory modalities are at the base of important cognitive skills.
However, it is still unclear if each sensory modality has a different role in the development of cognitive skills in the several portions of space around the body. Recent works showed that the visual modality is crucial for the development of spatial representation.
This idea is supported by studies on blind individuals showing that visual information is fundamental for the development of auditory spatial representation. For example, blind individuals are not able to perform the spatial bisection task, a task that requires to build an auditory spatial metric, a skill that sighted children acquire around 6 years of age.
Based these prior researches, we hypothesize that if different sensory modalities have a role on the devlopment of different cognitive skills, then we should be able to find a clear correlation between availability of the sensory modality and the cognitive skill associated.
In particular we hypothesize that the visual information is crucial for the development of auditory space represnetation; if this is true, we should find different spatial skill between front and back spaces.
In this thesis, I provide evidences that spaces around our body are differently influenced by sensory modalities. Our results suggest that visual input have a pivotal role in the development of auditory spatial representation and that this applies only to the frontal space. Indeed sighted people are less accurated in spatial task only in space where vision is not present (i.e. the
back), while blind people show no differences between front and back spaces. On the other hand, people tend to report sounds in the back space, suggesting that the role of hearing in allertness could be more important in the back than frontal spaces. Finally, we show that natural training, stressing the integration of audio motor stimuli, can restore spatial cognition, opening new possibility for rehabilitation programs. Spatial cognition is a well studied topic.
However, we think our findings fill the gap regarding how the different availibility of sensory information, across spaces, causes the development of different cognitive skills in these spaces. This work is the starting point to understand the strategies that the brain adopts to maximize its resources by processing, in the more efficient way, as much information as possible.
Learning with Privileged Information using Multimodal Data
Creators: name: DA CRUZ GARCIA, NUNO RICARDO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2020

description: Computer vision is the science related to teaching machines to see and understand digital images or videos. During the last decade, computer vision has seen tremendous progress on perception tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, and video action recognition, which lead to the development and improvements of important industrial applications such as self-driving cars and medical image analysis. These advances are mainly due to fast computation offered by GPUs, the development of high capacity models such as deep neural networks, and the availability of large datasets, often composed by a variety of modalities. In this thesis, we explore how multimodal data can be used to train deep convolutional neural networks. Humans perceive the world through multiple senses, and reason over the multimodal space of stimuli to act and understand the environment. One way to improve the perception capabilities of deep learning methods is to use different modalities as input, as it offers different and complementary information about the scene. Recent multimodal datasets for computer vision tasks include modalities such as depth maps, infrared, skeleton coordinates, and others, besides the traditional RGB. This thesis investigates deep learning systems that learn from multiple visual modalities. In particular, we are interested in a very practical scenario in which an input modality is missing at test time. The question we address is the following: how can we take advantage of multimodal datasets for training our model, knowing that, at test time, a modality might be missing or too noisy? The case of having access to more information at training time than at test time is referred to as learning using privileged information. In this work, we develop methods to address this challenge, with special focus on the tasks of action and object recognition, and on the modalities of depth, optical flow, and RGB, that we use for inference at test time. This thesis advances the art of multimodal learning in three different ways. First, we develop a deep learning method for video classification that is trained on RGB and depth data, and is able to hallucinate depth features and predictions at test time. Second, we build on this method and propose a more generic mechanism based on adversarial learning to learn to mimic the predictions originated by the depth modality, and is able to automatically switch from true depth features to generated depth features in case of a noisy sensor. Third, we develop a method that learns a single network trained on RGB data, that is enriched with additional supervision information from other modalities such as depth and optical flow at training time, and that outperforms an ensemble of networks trained independently on these modalities.
HPL-MxP Image Configuration on Clould Brain II
Creators: name: Xue, Weicheng
name: Yang, Kai
name: Xu, Pengxiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The HPL-MxP image configuration on Cloud Brain II is tailored for high-performance computing tasks, specifically designed to leverage the power of Huawei's Ascend processors. Users can access the image via the Cloud Brain II container image service platform, where the image includes the CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) toolkit with compatible drivers for Cloud Brain II. This custom image lacks a pre-configured terminal or commonly used high-performance computing software, requiring users to set up the environment themselves. The configuration process involves pulling the initial image, updating/installing necessary software packages such as SSH, setting up SSH keys for passwordless login, and installing essential libraries and compilers like OpenBLAS, ucx, openmpi, and the Kunpeng GCC compiler. Users can also compile their own operator libraries and software packages within the image. Additionally, the image setup includes SSH service setup, directory setup, software package installation, environment variable configuration, and finally saving the configured image for future use.
Additional file 2 of Rubber plantations are impermeable to an avian understory specialist in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Dayananda, Salindra K.
name: Athukorala, Harsha F.
name: Peabotuwage, Indika
name: Kumara, Chandralal
name: Ranasinghe, Tharindu
name: Samarasinghe, Dhammithra
name: Gouveia, Ana
name: Kotagama, Sarath W.
name: Mammides, Christos
name: Jiang, Aiwu
name: Goodale, Eben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2: Document including Supplemental Table 1 (sampling details for home range study), Supplemental Figure 1 (home range convergence plots), and Supplemental Figure 2 (movement trajectories of all translocated individuals).
53723: Ferns collected on Passchendale Ridge by Albert Rawson, Army Service Corps
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Ferns collected on Passchendale Ridge by my granduncle, Albert Rawson. He was one of 8 children, my grandfather, Frank, being his brother. He was born in 1874 at Hebdon Bridge, Todmorden, Yorkshire. The family eventually moved to Blackpool, Lancashire. Albert Rawson was stationed at supply depot in France as a Private during 1914-18 war. Home address given as Sheaf Street, Poulton-le-Fylde. Occupation: worked at Alkali Works. In 1901, residence: 156 Warbrick Road, Blackpool, Lancs.; occupation: Yeast merchant, self employed.Editor's Comment:
Pte. 22492 Albert Rawson, Army Service Corps, later served with the Labour Corps (Regt. No. 300641).
Studio osservazionale caso-controllo sugli outcome neonatali in donne gravide con infezione da HIV: Genova San Martino 2015-2018
Creators: name: GRIGNOLO, SARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) in pregnancy was associated with a drastic reduction in HIV mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), but the risk of preterm birth (PTB) and low birth weight (LBW) remained high in HIV-infected pregnant women. The objective of the study was to evaluate neonatal outcomes (PTB, LBW and small for gestational age infants (SGA)) and hematological and hepatic adverse events in HIV-infected pregnant women and to compare these outcomes with those of infants born to HIV-uninfected women. Neonatal outcomes were analyzed in two contemporary cohorts of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected pregnant women attending to San Martino Hospital in Genoa between 2015 and 2018. Multivariate logistic regression will be used to estimate the adjusted effect of HIV status on neonatal outcomes.
Overall, 16 infants born to HIV-infected women and 80 infants born to HIV-uninfected women were included in the study. No differences statistically significant in demographic and clinical characteristics were found in two cohorts of women (median age was 31.6 years in HIV-infected group vs. 33.2 years in HIV-uninfected group of women), except for foreign women who were 85.7% in HIV-infected group and 17.5% in HIV-uninfected group (p<0.001). The diagnosis of HIV infection was performed before pregnancy in the majority of cases (72%). Nine (65%) patients were on ART at conception and almost all (86%) had been treated during pregnancy. Observed neonatal outcomes in infants born to HIV-infected women were: 31.3% PTB (vs. 10% in infants born to HIV-uninfected women, p=0.04), 31.3% LBW (vs. 6.3% in infants born to HIV-uninfected women, p=0.03), 18.8% SGA (vs. 11.3% in infants born to HIV-uninfected women, p=0.41). In the multivariate analysis, mother?s HIV infection was associated with LBW (OR=5.8; CI95%, 1.3-24.7; p=0.02). Biochemical adverse effects in infants born to HIV-infected women were: liver function test abnormalities (53%), anemia (31%) and thrombocytopenia (6%).
In conclusion, rates of PTB and LBW were higher among infants born to HIV-infected women than in those born to HIV-uninfected women. Mother?s HIV infection was associated with an increased risk of LBW, but not with PTB.
60869: Turkish Artillery Instrument, in box made for Lt. Froud
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: The attached photographs are of a Turkish Rangefinder which belonged to a Lieutenant Robert Froud. The box was carved by his bat man whilst in the trenches during the war.
Bob Froud was from Seaham Harbour in Co.Durham and after the war he returned and lived with my grandparents.
He gave this and his baton (which I also still have) to my father when he was a child. My father always called it a Turkish rangefinder but I am not sure if the writing is Arabic.

My father was born in 1924 and his favourite stories were of Christopher Robin which Bob Froud read to him. In the Christopher Robin birthday book the entry on his birthday was "A soldier's life is terrible hard".

Editor's Comment:

Turkish Artillery Director, used to measure angle of direction and elevation (parts missing). Engraved with Turkish numbers etc. written in Arabic script.
Des modèles de formation professionnelle d’origine étrangère à l’épreuve des spécificités sociétales marocaines Une application au secteur de l’artisanat
Creators: name: Jallal El Adnani, Mohamed
name: Verdier, Eric
Publisher: name: Critique économique
Year: 2013
Subjects: Apprentissage, Apprentissage sur le tas, Formation en alternance, Formation professionnelle, Compétences et qualifications, Approche par compétences, Artisanat.

description: Le système actuel de formation professionnelle (FP) marocain est un assemblage de modèles et de catégories d’action publique en grande partie inspiré de dispositifs mis en oeuvre dans différents pays de l’OCDE. Si le choix du système résidentiel français est né des liens historiques avec la France, l’application des autres modèles (dual et par apprentissage organisé, inspirés de l’Allemagne et de la Belgique) montre une configuration composite qui résulte d’un processus socio-politique. Ces deux modèles reposent sur une autre conception de la régulation de la relation formation-emploi, en termes de « marché professionnel » qui implique que l’entreprise marocaine soit appelée à participer activement à la production des compétences et des qualifications dans un cadre structuré par les règles de l’alternance écoleentreprise, ce qui distingue cette formule de l’apprentissage traditionnel. L’introduction de l’approche par compétence, d’origine canadienne, relève d’une autre conception de la coordination entre centres de formation et ateliers de production. L’artisanat, ancré au Maroc dans une tradition multiséculaire, sert de « secteur analyseur » de cette complexe configuration. Ce choix se justifie d’autant plus qu’il permet de confronter les dispositifs « modernes » de formation des jeunes au traditionnel apprentissage sur le tas, et ainsi de révéler le résultat de la coexistence entre modèles d’origine étrangère et formes « classiques » de construction des compétences.
description: Critique économique, No 23 (2009)
Nanoparticelle paramagnetiche: vantaggi, rischi e prevenzione terziaria.
Creators: name: LEDDA, BERNARDETTA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: The ever-increasing interest in nanotechnologies has led to a strong push towards the production of these products, although there is still much to understand and investigate about the characteristics and mechanisms of action of nanomaterials. Numerous indications on the toxicity of nanoparticles are emerging from the literature, linked above all to the large number of variables that influence it: dimensions, chemical composition, shape, structure and surface charge. Because of this it must be emphasized that each nanoparticle is a case in itself and as such it must be studied individually. Relevant are the possible applications in the biomedical field, which range from innovative and more effective drug delivery systems, especially in the field of oncology, to biosensors, to molecular nanotechnology.
The purpose of this work is to characterize paramagnetic Fe2O3 nanoparticles to be used in drug delivery. In particular we wanted to characterize PEGylate magnetite nanoparticles to ascertain their possible toxicity on human somatic and tumor cells. Secondly, we wanted to tackle the problems due to cancer therapies to try to lengthen the periods without disease and improve the quality of life of patients. In this context we wanted to combine our nanoparticles with the chemotherapy drug Taxol Paclitaxel or Taxotere to try to obtain a reduction in the dose applied and applicable during cancer therapy and the consequent chronic degenerative pathologies related to it (eg cardiomyopathies).
sj-docx-2-tab-10.1177_1759720X221091359 – Supplemental material for Risk factors associated with the occurrence of total knee arthroplasty in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a nested case–control study
Creators: name: Pelletier, Jean-Pierre
name: Dorais, Marc
name: Paiement, Patrice
name: Raynauld, Jean-Pierre
name: Martel-Pelletier, Johanne
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-tab-10.1177_1759720X221091359 for Risk factors associated with the occurrence of total knee arthroplasty in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a nested case–control study by Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Marc Dorais, Patrice Paiement, Jean-Pierre Raynauld and Johanne Martel-Pelletier in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848221093873 – Supplemental material for Application of artificial intelligence in diagnosis of pancreatic malignancies by endoscopic ultrasound: a systemic review
Creators: name: Goyal, Hemant
name: Sherazi, Syed Ali Amir
name: Gupta, Shweta
name: Perisetti, Abhilash
name: Achebe, Ikechukwu
name: Ali, Aman
name: Tharian, Benjamin
name: Thosani, Nirav
name: Sharma, Neil R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848221093873 for Application of artificial intelligence in diagnosis of pancreatic malignancies by endoscopic ultrasound: a systemic review by Hemant Goyal, Syed Ali Amir Sherazi, Shweta Gupta, Abhilash Perisetti, Ikechukwu Achebe, Aman Ali, Benjamin Tharian, Nirav Thosani and Neil R. Sharma in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Additional file 1 of How to protect long-term care facilities from pandemic-like events? - A systematic review on the effectiveness of non-pharmacological measures to prevent viral respiratory infections
Creators: name: Arnold, Laura
name: Bimczok, Simon
name: Schütt, Hannah
name: Lisak-Wahl, Stefanie
name: Buchberger, Barbara
name: Stratil, Jan M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
title: องค์ประกอบของประสิทธิภาพการปฏิบัติงานของผู้บริหารวิทยาลัย สังกัดสถาบันพระบรมราชชนก
Creators: name: พีระ ดีเลิศ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาจุฬาลงกรณราชวิทยาลัย วิทยาเขตนครสวรรค์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: ประสิทธิภาพการปฏิบัติงาน
ผู้บริหารวิทยาลัย
สังกัดสถาบันพระบรมราชชนก

description: The Journal of Research and Academics, 8, 2, 161
Nuove specificit� nell'ambito degli Autoanticorpi Antinucleo: anticorpi anti-DFS70
Creators: name: MARCHIANO, MANUELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: In recent years, a new specificity of ANA has been described on HEp2 cells, with a fluoroscopic pattern called "Dense fine speckled" (DFS). Since the antigen associated with this fluoroscopic pattern is a protein of 70 kDa this antigen has been referred to as DFS70 and, among the 28 fluoroscopic pattern is identified by ICAP, AC-02 is the frame of reference. Recently it has been suggested a role of DFS70 in association with conditions of Thrombophilia. In a French multicentric study Marler and collaborators highlighted in IFI a frequency of anti-DFS70 equal to 11% in subjects affected by thrombotic events or obstetric complications, towards 3% found in the control population. The aim of the study was to verify, in a wide case, the association between anti-DFS70 and thrombotic events.
A total of 633 sera of which 413 of patients affected by thrombotic events and 220 control sera were analysed. 116 sera of PCs with antiphosphopid antibody (APS) syndrome have been investigated; 77 sera of PZ with obstetric complications (ABO); 130 sera of pz with deep venous thrombosis; 68 sera of PZ with arterial thrombosis; 22 sera of PZ with arterial or venous thrombosis in heiric therapy. For control we have been studied: 92 sera of PZ in TAO/NAO for atrial fibrillation; 28 Sera of PZ in heiric therapy but without thrombosis; And 100 sera of donors. 12 centers participated in the collection of sera, of which 2 were involved in dosages and 1 center for data collection. The study was conducted in double blind in the two different dosing centers. Center number 1 has performed the IFI on the collected sera (HEp-2 Euroimmun). Center number 2 has performed, on the same sera, the specific research of anti-DFS70 with CLIA (Inova) method on Bioflash.
The results show that: IFI DFS70 positive patients with thrombosis are only 5.5% compared to 11% indicated in the French study. In Our study, patients with thrombosis however have a double prevalence compared to controls when analyzed in IFI and triple if analyzed in CLIA. IFI has shown many unconfirmed false positives in CLIA and not even with the Immunoblot method subsequently executed and therefore we confirm that the data provided in the French study cannot be considered reliable. Only sera with double positivity for DFS70 in IFI and CLIA can be considered true positive and, despite the differences observed between the two samples (PZ with thrombosis/Controli 6/1), no statistical significance is reached.
A reversible carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1) inhibitor offsets chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cell proliferation
Creators: name: GUGIATTI, ELENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: Crucial for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) development and progression are the iterative cycles of cell re-activation and proliferation that take place in lymphoid tissues. These iterative cycles are fundamental for the development and the progression of the disease.
Since cellular fatty acid (FA) import and oxidation (FAO) were recently reported to be upregulated in CLL, compared to normal B lymphocytes, we explored the in vitro effects of ST1326, a reversible inhibitor of carnitine-palmitoyl transferase 1A (CPT1A), on leukaemic cells subject to activating microenvironment-mimicking stimuli.
ST1326 induced dose-dependent mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death, which were remarkably higher in activated/proliferating than quiescent CLL cells. Drug sensitivity was observed irrespective of the presence of TP53 alterations or chromosomal abnormalities, which are known to cause chemoresistance in CLL patients.
The treatment of normal B lymphocytes with ST1326, at doses lethal to CLL cells, causes only a slight inhibition of cell activation/proliferation, indicating a modest cytostatic, not cytotoxic, effect.
ST1326 cytotoxicity in CLL was associated with decreased levels of intracellular Acetyl-CoA and down-regulation of signalling pathways that are crucial for leukaemic cell survival, activation and proliferation. In particular, environment-induced activation of STAT3 and STAT6 transcription factors, known to upregulate anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members Mcl-1 and Bcl-xL, was impaired by ST1326. As a consequence, drug combination experiments with the BH3-mimetic ABT-199/Venetoclax, whose effects are counteracted by Mcl-1/Bcl-xL and cell proliferation, showed strong ST1326-mediated potentiation of ABT-199 cytotoxicity in activated/proliferating CLL cells. We also observed that ST1326 showed a synergic effect with Fludarabine in activated/proliferating CLL cells.
The data indicate that CLL cells turning to an activated/proliferating state become more dependent on FAO and more sensitive to FAO-antagonists, and pave the way for ST1326 as an adjuvant tool in anti-CLL drug-combination regimens with drugs that lose efficacy on proliferating leukaemic cells.
Permuting Sparse Square Matrices Into Block Diagonal Form With Overlap
Creators: name: Acer, Seher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: BDO, , oGPVS

description: In this whitepaper, we describe the problem of permuting sparse square matrices into block diagonal form with overlap (BDO)

and propose a graph partitioning algorithm for solving this problem. A block diagonal matrix with overlap is a block diagonal

matrix whose consecutive diagonal blocks may overlap. The objective in this permutation problem is to minimize the total

overlap size, whereas the permutation constraint is to maintain balance on the number of nonzeros in the diagonal blocks. This

permutation problem arises in the parallelization of an explicit formulation of multiplicative Schwarz preconditioner. We define

ordered Graph Partitioning by Vertex Separator (oGPVS) problem as an equivalent problem to this permutation problem. oGPVS

problem is a restricted version of Graph Partitioning by Vertex Separator (GPVS) problem and the aim is to find a partition of the

vertices into K ordered vertex parts and K-1 ordered separators where each two consecutive parts can be connected through only

a separator, a separator can only connect two consecutive parts, and each two consecutive separators can be adjacent. The

objective in the oGPVS problem is to minimize the total number of vertices in the separators, whereas the partitioning objective

is to maintain balance on the part weights where part weight is defined as the sum of the weights of vertices in that part. To solve

oGPVS problem, we utilized recursive bipartitioning paradigm and fixed vertices in our proposed oGPVS algorithm. We tested

the performance of our algorithm in a wide range of matrices in comparison to another graph partitioning algorithm that solves

the same problem. Results showed that the oGPVS algorithm performs better than the other algorithm in terms of overlap size.
60873: Photographs of War memorial to killed and missing German airmen in Jenin, Palestine
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: On a recent visit to Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied Palestine West Bank, my wife, Dr. Janet Powney, chanced on a memorial to eleven German airmen [photos attached]. Translating the inscriptions on the memorial, eight were killed and three missing in the year between October 1917 and October 1918. Presumably, these casualties were the result of air battles between the German LuftstreitkrÃ¤fte and the RFC (RAF from 1st April 1918) as Allenby was advancing against the Turkish army. But how did the German planes get to a battlefield so far from home? Were they flown down through the Balkans and Turkey, in a sequence of short hops? Or were they transported by rail? The latter might have been practicable: at the time, there was a continuous rail link from Constantinople (now Istanbul), with the Hejaz line running right through Palestine. Aerial conflict in the Middle East seems to be a little known aspect of the First World War.
In Pursuit of Institutional Legitimation: Structuration of an Offshoring Decision
Creators: name: Mirani, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014

description: This article applies structuration theory and institutional theory to analyze the organizational dynamics behind a financial services company’s decision to initiate information technology services offshoring. The analysis finds the decision to have been an emergent one, crystallizing from interactions between upper management’s actions and an evolving structural context. Further, their actions were driven more by a legitimation-oriented desire to adhere to various institutional norms rather than purely rational considerations. These findings of isomorphism question the notion that offshoring decisions result from straightforward objectives such as cost savings or quality enhancement. Particularly under uncertainty, they may be subtly shaped by institutional influences in antecedent contexts. The implication is that the planning, execution, and evaluation of offshored projects must take into account the dynamic imperatives embedded in these contexts, and not be anchored solely to static expressions of short-term or long-term objectives.
description: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rajesh_Mirani/publication/265380396_In_Pursuit_of_Institutional_Legitimation_Structuration_of_an_Offshoring_Decision/links/5523e41c0cf24f160943b1b6/In-Pursuit-of-Institutional-Legitimation-Structuration-of-an-Offshoring-Decision.pdf
Biological characterization of human MSCs secretome and extracellular vesicles (EVs): from 2D-cultures to robotic systems
Creators: name: PALAMA', MARIA ELISABETTA FEDERICA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are a promising cell therapy candidate for the treatment of several clinical conditions. In recent years, the use of extracellular ves-icles emerges for therapeutic purposes. Most of cells indeed release a wide range of extracellular vesicles of different size, content and functions, which interact with target cells by modifying the phenotype or function.
Manufacture of hMSCs requires in vitro isolation and expansion to increase the avail-able number of final products to meet clinical demand. Through Autostem (EU-H2020 proposal) European academic and industrial group worked in collaboration to enable large-scale hMSCs production, at clinical-grade quality, by implementing a robotic auto-mated pipeline for cell isolation and culture. The goal is to develop an automated, closed and good manufacturing practice (GMP) MSC cell technology, a ?StromalCellFactory? to produce allogenic hBMSCs to use in therapy.
We developed a ?donor-to-patient? system for aseptic therapeutic cell manufacturing using a xeno-free medium. We characterized cells, secretome and extracellular vesicles of hBMSCs, isolated in plastic adherence and grown in FBS and in a chemically defined xeno-free medium, compared to hBMSCs isolated in a 3D-bioreactor, demonstrating that our serum-free system allow to select a highly proliferating-hBMSC population with a strong osteogenic potential, both in vitro and in vivo. These cells have also a secretion pattern characterized by biological factors involved in homeostasis, wound healing and angiogenesis, beside showing a stronger extracellular vesicles secretion.
We validated also the potential therapeutic benefits of secreted factors, conditioned medium and exosomes isolated from hBMSCs cultured in our culture system, for carti-lage repair.
In a damaged tissue, the initial inflammatory response plays a key role triggering tissue repair and homeostasis, but can be detrimental in the long term, causing fibrosis. We observed that under inflammatory condition human Articular Chondrocytes (hACs) are able to internalize and recruit more MSC-derived exosomes, compare to the control chondrocytes. We investigated the effects of conditioned medium and extracellular ves-icles in the activation of different regeneration pathways (IL6, IL8, COX2 and NF-kB).
The effect of MSCs-derived conditioned media and exosomes revealed to be regener-ating and protective for the articular cartilage and they may be a possible therapy for osteoarthritis.
sj-docx-1-tia-10.1177_23312165221088398 - Supplemental material for The Development of Sound Localization Latency in Infants and Young Children with Normal Hearing
Creators: name: Eklöf, Martin
name: Asp, Filip
name: Berninger, Erik
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tia-10.1177_23312165221088398 for The Development of Sound Localization Latency in Infants and Young Children with Normal Hearing by Martin Eklöf, Filip Asp and Erik Berninger in Trends in Hearing
52402: Wilfred, George, Sam, and Jor Oliver (Brothers)
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My father Wilfred Oliver survived the war after serving as a Lewis gunner with the 2nd Royal Berkshire Reg in France and Belgium. Note the black button on his uniform signifying the loss of his elder brother.
My uncle George William Oliver York and Lanks Reg was killed in action on the 1st July 1916 (Somme), he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
The picture of his death penny is attached, I have this memorial in my possession.
My uncle Samuel was the one brother to be kept in England as per rule, he served in the army.
Great uncle Joe survived the war.
sj-docx-1-cos-10.1177_00207152221093519 – Supplemental material for Financialization, confidence, and sovereign debt markets: The role of Credit Default Swaps in the Southern European debt crisis
Creators: name: Massó, Matilde
name: Fernández-Casal, Rubén
name: Taboadela, Obdulia
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cos-10.1177_00207152221093519 for Financialization, confidence, and sovereign debt markets: The role of Credit Default Swaps in the Southern European debt crisis by Matilde Massó, Rubén Fernández-Casal and Obdulia Taboadela in International Journal of Comparative Sociology
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_19375867211063481 - Lighting the Patient Room of the Future: Evaluating Different Lighting Conditions From the Patient Perspective
Creators: name: DuBose, Jennifer
name: Davis, Robert G.
name: Campiglia, Gabrielle
name: Wilkerson, Andrea
name: Zimring, Craig
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_19375867211063481 for Lighting the Patient Room of the Future: Evaluating Different Lighting Conditions From the Patient Perspective by Jennifer DuBose, Robert G. Davis, Gabrielle Campiglia, Andrea Wilkerson and Craig Zimring in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal
Variations des taux de change et facteurs de sensibilité des entreprises exportatrices marocaines
Creators: name: Alaoui Ismaili, Abderrahman
name: El M’kaddem, Abdellatif
Publisher: name: Critique économique
Year: 2013
Subjects: Variations taux de change, profil de risque, facteurs de sensibilité, entreprises industrielles exportatrices.

description: Les variations des taux de change peuvent atteindre aussi bien les valeurs des créances et des dettes exprimées en devises (approche comptable) que les marges bénéficiaires et la compétitivité de l’entreprise (approche économique). Face aux limites de l’approche comptable, pour l’évaluation des effets des variations des taux de change sur la position concurrentielle et la valeur de l’entreprise, nous avons développé une approche plus globale en termes de « profil de risque ». L’analyse de cette approche nous a permis de dégager, sur le plan théorique, les facteurs de sensibilité d’une entreprise industrielle aux variations des taux de change. Sur la base d’une étude empirique, menée auprès d’un échantillon d’entreprises industrielles exportatrices marocaines, cinq facteurs peuvent être considérés comme paramètres de sensibilité, par ordre d’importance : degré d’implication à l’exportation ; l’expérience de l’entreprise ; la diversification des débouchés ; le degré de la concurrence et la situation de l’entreprise à l’égard du commerce extérieur.
description: Critique économique, No 23 (2009)
Le financement semi-formel du secteur informel au Maroc Le micro-crédit, une alternative à l’impasse ?
Creators: name: Mourji, Fouzi
Publisher: name: Critique économique
Year: 2013

description: Cet article étudie les raisons de l’émergence du financement « semi-formel » du secteur informel. Il distingue, pour ce faire, les raisons financières des raisons économiques. Il focalise l’attention sur les unités de production du secteur informel (et non sur les unités de consommation). Il expose ensuite quelques méthodes d’analyse des programmes de financement des micro-entreprises et montre, sur un exemple, comment l’émergence d’institutions de micro-crédit peut constituer un moyen d’atténuer les difficultés des micro-entrepreneurs, non seulement en leur donnant accès à des sources pérennes de financement, mais aussi en constituant des réseaux qui favorisent leur épanouissement. Cet exemple est basé sur les résultats d’enquêtes exhaustives auprès des clients d’une importante institution de micro-crédit au Maroc.
description: Critique économique, No 23 (2009)
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-fnb-10.1177_03795721221088817 - Barriers to Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition Among Children Aged 6 to 59 Months in Damot Pulassa, Wolaita, South Ethiopia: A Phenomenological Study of Mothers and Health Service Providers
Creators: name: Nane, Debritu
name: Hatløy, Anne
name: Lindtjørn, Bernt
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-fnb-10.1177_03795721221088817 for Barriers to Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition Among Children Aged 6 to 59 Months in Damot Pulassa, Wolaita, South Ethiopia: A Phenomenological Study of Mothers and Health Service Providers by Debritu Nane, Anne Hatløy and Bernt Lindtjørn in Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Magnetic and Newtonian noises in Advanced Virgo: evaluation and mitigation strategies
Creators: name: CIRONE, ALESSIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2020

description: In the present study, I table the first detailed estimation of the magnetic noise contribution to the Advanced Virgo sensitivity to gravitational waves.
I tackle the topic by performing experimental assessments and numerical finite element simulations, all accompanied by careful data analysis.
Results suggest that the magnetic noise impact for Advanced Virgo is not dramatic, but it will eventually be a considerable issue once the detector will approach its final design.
In anticipation of that, I propose a mitigation strategy based on passive magnetic field shielding.
In the second part, I deal with seismic newtonian noise, focusing on two crucial aspects involving the noise cancellation pipeline. These are the choice of the subtraction filter and the optimization of the seismic sensor array placement.
The former issue required the definition of a machine learning algorithm based on deep neural networks, and its fine tuning.
Results give some indication of good performances compared to the standard Wiener filter approach.
The problem of the sensors deployment is instead addressed with the finite element analysis of the actual Virgo infrastructure and underground soil layers surrounding the test masses.
MafB silencing in macrophages does not influence the initiation and growth of lung cancer induced by urethane
Creators: name: Nemoto, Takako
name: Shibata, Yoko
name: Inoue, Sumito
name: Igarashi, Akira
name: Tokairin, Yoshikane
name: Yamauchi, Keiko
name: Kimura, Tomomi
name: Sato, Masamichi
name: Sato, Kento
name: Nakano, Hiroshi
name: Abe, Shuichi
name: Nishiwaki, Michiko
name: Kobayashi, Maki
name: Yang, Sujeong
name: Minegishi, Yukihiro
name: Furuyama, Kodai
name: Machida, Hiroyoshi
name: Kubota, Isao
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2017
Subjects: MafB
lung cancer
urethane
tumor-associated macrophages
gene targeted mouse

description: An increased number of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) that exhibit the M2 macrophage phenotype is related to poorer prognosis in cancer patients. MafB is a transcription factor regulating the differentiation of macrophages. However, involvement of MafB for the development of TAMs is unknown. This study was designed to investigate the role of MafB in a murine urethane-induced lung cancer model. Urethane was injected intraperitoneally into wild-type and dominant-negative MafB transgenic mice. Twenty-four weeks later, mice were sacrificed and their lungs removed for pathological analysis. The numbers and mean areas of lung cancer were evaluated. In addition, the numbers of Mac-3-positive macrophages were evaluated in each tumor. The numbers and mean areas of lung cancer induced by urethane administration were not significantly different between wild-type and dominant-negative MafB transgenic mice. The numbers of TAMs in lung cancer tissue were not significantly different between the two groups. MafB silencing using dominant-negative MafB did not influence the initiation and growth of lung cancer in mice exposed to urethane. These data suggest that MafB may not be related to the development of TAMs.
description: EXCLI Journal; 16:Doc914; ISSN 1611-2156
sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873221094705 – Supplemental material for One-year healthcare costs of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage treated in the intensive care unit
Creators: name: Smeds, Marika
name: Skrifvars, Markus B
name: Reinikainen, Matti
name: Bendel, Stepani
name: Hoppu, Sanna
name: Laitio, Ruut
name: Ala-Kokko, Tero
name: Curtze, Sami
name: Sibolt, Gerli
name: Martinez-Majander, Nicolas
name: Raj, Rahul
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873221094705 for One-year healthcare costs of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage treated in the intensive care unit by Marika Smeds, Markus B Skrifvars, Matti Reinikainen, Stepani Bendel, Sanna Hoppu, Ruut Laitio, Tero Ala-Kokko, Sami Curtze, Gerli Sibolt, Nicolas Martinez-Majander and Rahul Raj in European Stroke Journal
Spectral Analysis of Instrumented Ore Car Data for Railway Track Condition Monitoring
Creators: name: Yuen, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Instrumented Ore Cars (IOCs) developed by the Institute of Railway Technology, Monash University have been widely used in railway operations in Australia. The IOC continuously monitors the condition of the track from the response of the vehicle to the track. In this study, side-frame accelerometer data from IOCs was analysed in the spectral domain in order to determine the condition of Insulated Rail Joints (IRJs). Features were extracted from the transformed spectral data as vectors. Clustering was conducted using one of these features and it was found that there was a strong correlation between the cluster numbers and IRJ maintenance records.
STUDIO E MIGLIORAMENTO DELL?INCERTEZZA DEI METODI DI MISURA DELLA CONDUTTANZA VERSO TERRA DEL BINARIO
Creators: name: BONGIORNO, JACOPO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: Track conductance measurement is an important topic addressed by several international standards. In particular IEC 62128-2 (EN 50122-2) suggests some measurement methods in its annex A. A deep analysis about methods suggested was performed, considering measurement uncertainty. Several on site measurements are performed to assess the measurement variability and validate a lumped element model; used to evaluate measurement systematic uncertainty due to test set up. Some validation methods of simulation results by on site measurements are reviewed and assessed. An underestimating of the similarity in case of very similar data was found and some improvement is suggested about FSV method. Once validated the model a corrective coefficient to compensate the systematic error due to measurement test set up is proposed and applied
Additional file 1 of Genetic correlations of direct and indirect genetic components of social dominance with fitness and morphology traits in cattle
Creators: name: Tuliozi, Beniamino
name: Mantovani, Roberto
name: Schoepf, Ivana
name: Tsuruta, Shogo
name: Mancin, Enrico
name: Sartori, Cristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. In-depth description of the single-trait models for milk yield, somatic cell score, fertility and morphological traits [34, 49–53, 103, 104].