cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Molecular Analysis of Soil Mesofaunal Diversity and the Effects of Natural Capital in Agroecosystems
Creators: name: Sahdra, Angeli
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024
Subjects: DNA metabarcoding
Soil biodiversity
Mesofauna

description: Soil biodiversity is key to maintaining ecosystem functions, but is threatened by anthropogenic changes. To help mitigate these risks, retaining small habitat patches within agroecosystems is a promising method, but it can be challenging to study due to the vast diversity of soil organisms. One important, but understudied, group that contributes to ecosystem functions, such as contributing to soil structure and cycling nutrients in the soil, is the soil mesofauna (~0.2 - 2 mm in size), mainly consisting of mites and springtails. DNA metabarcoding is a tool that is increasingly used to expand our knowledge of biodiversity, but it is still a work in progress with respect to investigating soil mesofaunal communities. A comparison of this technique performed on bulk mesofauna specimens versus bulk soil samples, collected in 2021 from an intensively farmed area of Eastern Ontario, found differences in species richness, but nonetheless, similarities were detected in community composition between both methods (Chapter 2). Identifying specimens morphologically gave different results compared to both molecular methods. During the summer of 2022, a survey of mesofauna in four types of non-field habitats (ditch margins with and without trees, small forest patches, and larger forest patches) was conducted in the same region (Chapter 3). Although the number of mesofaunal species was highly variable across all the sites surveyed, differences were detected in community composition between forested and unforested sites. The communities were highly variable within each habitat type. The lack of overlap in species presence between the different sites could be due to a variety of factors, such as the small-scale habitat features of the sites or differences in microhabitats between samples. As well, there was no clear separation between small and large forest patches with respect to mesofaunal community composition, which showcases the value that even small patches of natural habitat can have within agroecosystems. Soil physicochemical properties, particularly organic matter, moisture, and cation exchange capacity (CEC), also influenced these communities, while there was little evidence that the mesofaunal community varied over the growing season. This thesis improves understanding of soil mesofaunal diversity and community composition within agroecosystems in Canada, which remain largely uncharacterized. DNA metabarcoding yields insights into species composition of soil mesofaunal communities that are elusive, at best, using traditional morphological techniques.
Axillary lymphadenopathy: An unusual presentation of metastatic colorectal carcinoma
Creators: name: Hall, Emma
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: CT
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Staging
subject: Metastases

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 79 years
description: Clinical History: A 79-year-old woman was referred to breast clinic with non-specific breast pain. Her clinical breast examination was normal. She was referred to our department for mammography, which showed incidental unilateral axillary lymphadenopathy which had develope... Final Diagnosis: Axillary lymph node metastases secondary to colorectal carcinoma.
Additional file 2 of Large variations in atrial fibrillation screening practice after ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack in Sweden: a survey study
Creators: name: Strååt, Kajsa
name: Isaksson, Eva
name: Laska, Ann Charlotte
name: Rooth, Elisabeth
name: Svennberg, Emma
name: Åsberg, Signild
name: Wester, Per
name: Engdahl, Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Cardiology

description: Supplementary Material 2
THE EFFECT OF FACEMASK TYPES ON THE INHALED DEPOSITED DOSE RATE OF PATHOGENIC BIOAEROSOLS IN MEDICAL FACILITIES
Creators: name: Kim, Jun Ho
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Evidence exists for the airborne transmission of contagious pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, influenza A virus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in indoor environments. These pathogens are carried in the respiratory droplets and transmitted through airborne route to infect individuals. An important element in risk assessment for pathogenic bioaerosol exposure is a determination of the inhaled deposited dose rate – the number of deposited pathogenic particles per minute – received by each respiratory region and the fractional reduction of dose rate by different material facemasks. This paper presents an aerosol physics-based modeling framework to estimate the fractional reduction of regional dose rate in diverse indoor healthcare environments. The fractional reduction of dose rate is a useful metric to evaluate the facemask effectiveness in reducing the inhaled dose rate. Data extraction of pathogenic bioaerosol size distributions and size-dependent facemask filtration efficiency curve combined with deposition fraction model become the baseline to calculate the fractional reduction of dose rate by 10 different facemasks. Facemask leakage is also considered for the realistic representation of its impact on reduction fraction as current studies focus on mask material filtration efficiency. This analysis considers how the fractional reduction of dose rate is influenced by the pathogenic bioaerosol size distribution, age-dependent respiratory parameters, age-specific deposition fraction, facemask filtration efficiency and mask leakage. Different factors drove variations in the reduction fraction of various sized-pathogenic bioaerosols received by each respiratory region for each age group. This framework can be a useful tool for decision-makers in evaluating the mask’s effectiveness in reducing deposition of pathogenic bioaerosols.
Present Indicative plural forms in some plays of the Bodleian MSS Digby
Creators: name: MACI, Stefania Maria
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2003

description: Lo scopo di questo studio � di descrivere le forme con cui viene indicato il presente indicativo plurale in quattro opere teatrali del tardo Medio Inglese appartenenti ad alcuni testi contenuti nel Bodleian Digby MSS 133, e cio� The Conversion of St Paul, Mary Magdalene, The Killing of the Children, e Wisdom, tutte scritte nel dialetto dell?East Anglia, e di stabilire i motivi che giustifichino la scelta di una forma piuttosto che un?altra. In Medio Inglese, la grafia e le forme grammaticali dell?inglese variavano non solo a seconda dell?autore e della provenienza geografica, ma anche nello stesso autore e nella stessa area geografica. Tuttavia, nella zona attorno a Londra, si stava gradualmente realizzando un processo di standardizzazione linguistica. Uno degli aspetti pi� evidenti di questa standardizzazione era rappresentato dalla perdita delle flessioni grammaticali presenti nelle sillabe finali di molti vocaboli. Tuttavia, alla fine del quindicesimo secolo si trovavano ancora delle flessioni: in particolare, nell?area delle Midlands, alcuni testi presentavano ancora la desinenza del presente indicativo plurale.
Additional file 3 of Large variations in atrial fibrillation screening practice after ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack in Sweden: a survey study
Creators: name: Strååt, Kajsa
name: Isaksson, Eva
name: Laska, Ann Charlotte
name: Rooth, Elisabeth
name: Svennberg, Emma
name: Åsberg, Signild
name: Wester, Per
name: Engdahl, Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Cardiology

description: Supplementary Material 3
La teoria della marcatezza in fonologia. Risultati di un?indagine comparata condotta sul consonantismo delle variet� standard di italiano e inglese
Creators: name: BRUZZOLO, GIORGIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2003

description: La teoria della marcatezza nasce in fonologia nel 1939 grazie a N.S. Trubeckoj: un fonema marcato si distingue da uno non-marcato perch� il primo contiene una marca o tratto (?tratto distintivo? ? distinctive feature ? nella successiva terminologia di R Jakobson) di cui il secondo � privo. Dopo qualche rapido cenno alla storia e all?evoluzione della teoria della marcatezza attraverso il pensiero di N.S. Trubeckoj, R. Jakobson e J.H. Greenberg, questo articolo mostra e commenta i risultati dell?applicazione di una delle ultime versioni della teoria, cos� come � stata proposta da W. Croft. Seguendo quattro criteri di marcatezza (?versatilit� paradigmatica?, ?versatilit� sintagmatica?, ?neutralizzazione? e ?frequenza testuale?) ci occupiamo dell?analisi del sistema consonantico dell?italiano standard e dell?inglese RP, considerati sia singolarmente sia in chiave comparativa ? nonch�, in una prospettiva pi� ampia, in termini interlinguistici (con riferimento a lavori di P. Ladefoged, R. Lass e I. Maddieson). Tra i temi affrontati il contrasto di sonorit� nel settore delle ostruenti ? con particolare attenzione alla posizione finale di parola ? e la preferenza per il luogo di articolazione dentale.
Additional file 4 of Large variations in atrial fibrillation screening practice after ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack in Sweden: a survey study
Creators: name: Strååt, Kajsa
name: Isaksson, Eva
name: Laska, Ann Charlotte
name: Rooth, Elisabeth
name: Svennberg, Emma
name: Åsberg, Signild
name: Wester, Per
name: Engdahl, Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Cardiology

description: Supplementary Material 4
sj-pdf-1-dst-10.1177_19322968211043550 – Supplemental material for Accuracy of Foot Pressure Measurement on Predicting the Development of Foot Ulcer in Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: de Castro, João Pedro Wardani
name: Ferreira, Felipe Camargo
name: Vargas, João Gustavo Franco
name: Bosso, Lucas Bressan
name: Nabozny, Nathan
name: Martins, Camila Marinelli
name: Farhat, Gabriel
name: Gomes, Ricardo Zanetti
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-dst-10.1177_19322968211043550 for Accuracy of Foot Pressure Measurement on Predicting the Development of Foot Ulcer in Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by João Pedro Wardani de Castro, Felipe Camargo Ferreira, João Gustavo Franco Vargas, Lucas Bressan Bosso, Nathan Nabozny, Camila Marinelli Martins, Gabriel Farhat and Ricardo Zanetti Gomes in Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology
D�veloppement financier et croissance economique en Mauritanie: opportunit�s et conditions
Creators: name: EL MOUSTAPHA, OULD SIDI MOHAMED
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2008

description: Financial sector development should be positively judged as it improves effectiveness
of the financial system and widens the savings and credit products offer; which improves long term economic growth. In this view; and with reference to the pressures of the modernisation and development processes related to globalisation; it is interesting to know if the Mauritanian financial system can bear the risk of opening to other countries and of the global integration and what are the conditions for its contribution to the country economic growth. This is the purpose of this article. The analysis of Mauritanian economy from 1985 to 2004 shows a marginal positive effect of banking sector on economic growth. This weak contribution can be explained by the absence of a dynamic banking system; able to transform available financial resources in profitable projects. Financial openness is an opportunity for developing countries to improve their funding but the recent financial crises have demonstrated the need to mobilise local resources to foster healthy economic growth less dependent on foreign funds.
Foreign direct investment in Africa: what are the key factors of attraction other than natural resources?
Creators: name: BLANCHETON, BERTRAND
name: OPARA OPIMBA, LAMBERT
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: This paper, essentially empirical in nature, analyses the FDI determinants in Africa, independently from the already clearly identified attraction of natural resources. Do powers of anticipation, with respect to the general prospects for these economies, influence incoming flows of capital? What role is played by socio-political instability connected to the social consequences caused by conflicts? Are the processes of regionalisation enhancing the appeal of countries that are going down that path? From a panel of 28 African countries, the results from estimations obtained using the Hausman-Taylor method of instrumental variables show that the impact of projections on any ongoing decision to invest in the continent is not statistically significant. Our results also show that, although negative, the direct correlation between social risk, a proxy of socio-political instability, and flows of foreign investment is not systematically significant. However, the fact remains that these instabilities undermine national competencies (human capital) and compound certain ills such as HIV/Aids, whose impact on foreign investment increases along a negative curve in the presence of social risk. However, the simultaneous introduction of regionalisation processes into our estimations tends to lower the adverse effects of instability on certain explicative FDI variables.
Elementi di filosofia giuridico-penale
Creators: name: Fornasari, Gabriele
name: Macillo, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2015

description: Questa opera, frutto di un Corso di Dottorato realizzato nel 2013 come Visiting Professor e Research Fellow dell?Universit� di Trento, espone e sviluppa sinteticamente i principali temi della Filosofia giuridico-penale: definizione, caratteri, natura e relazioni del Diritto penale con gli altri rami dell?ordinamento giuridico; indole delle scienze che se ne occupano; natura dello ius puniendi, con la controversia concernente la sua giustificazione; elementi universali, concetti necessari e principi fondamentali del Diritto penale; correnti metodologiche della scienza punitiva; il problema del senso della pena.
Il libro offre una introduzione all?insieme di teorie fondamentali sul Diritto penale, trattando i suoi problemi dalla prospettiva della Filosofia generale e della Filosofia del Diritto, e non come questioni dogmatiche o politico-criminali, conservando il tono dinamico e diretto delle lezioni da cui ha tratto spunto.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-4-ptd-10.1177_08968608211047332 - An exploratory study of the relationship between systemic microcirculatory function and small solute transport in incident peritoneal dialysis patients
Creators: name: Williams, Jennifer
name: Gilchrist, Mark
name: Strain, William David
name: Fraser, Donald
name: Shore, Angela
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-4-ptd-10.1177_08968608211047332 for An exploratory study of the relationship between systemic microcirculatory function and small solute transport in incident peritoneal dialysis patients by Jennifer Williams, Mark Gilchrist, William David Strain, Donald Fraser and Angela Shore in Peritoneal Dialysis International
Three Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity
Creators: name: Saral, Ali Seyhun
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation aims to contribute to the literature of cooperation and social preferences. We use experimental and computational methods to understand the role and extent of reciprocity on cooperation.

The first paper is a methodological contribution to the large literature on conditional preferences of cooperation. Cooperation generated by this type of preferences is notoriously unstable, as individuals reduce their contributions to the public good in reaction to other subjects' free-riding. This has led to the widely-shared conclusion that cooperation observed in experiments (and its collapse) is mostly driven by imperfect reciprocity. In this study, we explore the possibility that reciprocally cooperative preferences may themselves be unstable. We do so by observing the evolution of subjects' preferences in an anonymously repeated social dilemma. Our unsettling result is that, in the course of the experiment, a significant fraction of reciprocally cooperative subjects become egoistic, while the reverse is rarely observed. The non-selfish preferences that appear to be more stable are those most easily attributed to confusion. We are thus driven to the conclusion that egoism is more resistant to exposure to social dilemmas than reciprocity.

The second paper the evolutionary success of conditional preferences by using simulations. We use an agent-based model in which agents play a variation of the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. We estimate the likelihood of cooperation levels as well as the likelihood of the existence of conditional types for different continuation probabilities. We show that an all-or-none type of conditional cooperation strategy together with the perfect conditional cooperation strategy are most likely to emerge when the continuation probability is sufficiently high. Our most surprising finding is related to the so-called hump-shaped strategy, a conditional type that is commonly observed in experiments. Our simulations show that those types are likely to thrive for intermediate levels of the continuation probability due to their relative advantage when probability of interaction is not enough to sustain a full-cooperation, but instead merely sustains mid-level cooperation.

The third paper aims to understand the underlying reciprocal motives in altruistic behavior. We argue that the altruism that is revealed in dictator games can be explained by what we call presumptive reciprocity. Subjects may display non-selfish preferences because they presume that the other subjects would have revealed similar, non-selfish preferences if the roles had been reversed. This kind of intuitive reasoning, although partially captured by indirect reciprocity, is overlooked in the literature on social preferences, especially when it comes to explaining the behavior that appears to be purely altruistic. The experimental evidence we provide shows that people's choices reveal mostly presumptive reciprocity, while purely altruistic preferences play a much smaller role.
sj-pdf-2-msj-10.1177_13524585211040222 – Supplemental material for ADEM after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine: A case report
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Virginia
name: Bellucci, Gianmarco
name: Romano, Andrea
name: Bozzao, Alessandro
name: Salvetti, Marco
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-msj-10.1177_13524585211040222 for ADEM after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine: A case report by Virginia Rinaldi, Gianmarco Bellucci, Andrea Romano, Alessandro Bozzao and Marco Salvetti in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_09567976211015182 – Supplemental material for Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues
Creators: name: Cialdini, Robert B.
name: Lasky-Fink, Jessica
name: Demaine, Linda J.
name: Barrett, Daniel W.
name: Sagarin, Brad J.
name: Rogers, Todd
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_09567976211015182 for Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues by Robert B. Cialdini, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Linda J. Demaine, Daniel W. Barrett, Brad J. Sagarin and Todd Rogers in Psychological Science
Avventure da non credere: romanzo e formazione
Creators: name: Nardon, Walter
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Year: 2013

description: Il carattere sorprendente, a volte incredibile delle avventure scritte in un romanzo rimane anche in epoca contemporanea uno dei migliori inter�mediari fra l?autore e il lettore e dunque un aspetto centrale della pas�sione romanzesca. A causa di questa passione e delle sue possibili con�seguenze, dalla prima et� moderna al Novecento il romanzo � stato os�servato con sospetto e spesso chiamato in giudizio da parte di autorit� politiche, religiose e formative che, nel caso in cui il limite tra finzione e realt� quotidiana non risultasse evidente, lo hanno imposto con forti re�strizioni e con la censura. Il timore che il romanzo non fosse ricono�sciuto a sufficienza come ?cosa da non credere? si � mostrato estrema�mente diffuso: il rischio di identificazione e quindi di emulazione dei comportamenti dei personaggi da parte dei lettori era ritenuto troppo ele�vato, rischio che interessava una societ� poco alfabetizzata in cui le rare letture, per lo pi� devozionali o edificanti, di norma esortavano proprio all?emulazione. Pi� il romanzo si � avvicinato al realismo, pi� questa preoccupazione � cresciuta. Questo singolare timore per l?identificazione nei personaggi, dietro l?attenzione per le fragili coscienze dei lettori na�sconde a stento la diffidenza nei confronti dell?autonomia di pensiero, diffidenza che trova nel romanzo un antagonista irriducibile. Per secoli trascurato, osteggiato dalle istituzioni formative e posto ai margini della cultura alta, il romanzo ha favorito l?espressione individuale e la diffu�sione sociale della lettura, promuovendola nel senso di una pratica silen�ziosa, privata e non istituzionale. In questo modo � risultato rilevante an�che in termini formativi. Questo libro riflette sull?esperienza narrativa e sui suoi frutti da diverse prospettive, grazie al contributo di scrittori, sag�gisti e critici letterari. In che modo le avventure possono essere prese alla lettera? Qual � la lezione di queste avventure? Quale saggezza inse�gna il romanzo? Come influenza la nostra conoscenza del reale e la no�stra espressione?
sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_09567976211013045 – Supplemental material for Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance
Creators: name: Pomper, Ulrich
name: Ansorge, Ulrich
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_09567976211013045 for Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance by Ulrich Pomper and Ulrich Ansorge in Psychological Science
sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316211041613 – Supplemental material for 21st Century Cures Act, an Information Technology-Led Organizational Initiative
Creators: name: Magid, Steven K.
name: Cohen, Karen
name: Katzovitz, Larry S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316211041613 for 21st Century Cures Act, an Information Technology-Led Organizational Initiative by Steven K. Magid, Karen Cohen and Larry S. Katzovitz in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
Demographic structure and private savings: some evidence from emerging markets
Creators: name: YASIN, JEHAD
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2008

description: This paper tests the life cycle hypothesis that private saving rises with a higher percentage of working population and fall with higher percentages of the young and retired groups. Consistent with this hypothesis, our results from annual data for fourteen emerging markets suggest that age structure is a prime determinant of national saving. The results reveal a significant positive (negative) relationship between the national saving ratio and the percentage of working (children) population groups in the majority of the countries. The results are less conclusive regarding the statistical relationship between national saving and the elderly population group and several explanations for the apparent weak relationship are discussed.
sj-docx-1-asn-10.1177_17590914211038441 - Supplemental material for A Protective Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor Superfamily-15 in Intracerebral Hemorrhage-Induced Secondary Brain Injury
Creators: name: Yang, Gui-Li
name: Wang, Shizhao
name: Zhang, Shu
name: Liu, Ye
name: Liu, Xiao
name: Wang, Dong
name: Wei, Huijie
name: Xiong, Jianhua
name: Zhang, Zhi-Song
name: Wang, Zengguang
name: Li, Lu-Yuan
name: Zhang, Jianning
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-asn-10.1177_17590914211038441 for A Protective Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor Superfamily-15 in Intracerebral Hemorrhage-Induced Secondary Brain Injury by Gui-Li Yang, Shizhao Wang, Shu Zhang, Ye Liu, Xiao Liu, Dong Wang, Huijie Wei, Jianhua Xiong, Zhi-Song Zhang, Zengguang Wang, Lu-Yuan Li and Jianning Zhang in ASN Neuro
Nuove sfide tra terrorismo, sviluppo tecnologico e garanzie fondamentali: note introduttive
Creators: name: Di Paolo, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2017

description: L'autore introduce brevemente alle "sfide" poste dall'impiego di indagini informatiche o delle "tecnologie del controllo" ai fini della prevenzione ed accertamento di reati di matrice terroristica.
A Content-Based Recommendation System for Leisure Activities
Creators: name: Rodas Britez, Marcelo Dario
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: People?s selection of leisure activities is a complex choice because of implicit human factors and explicit environmental factors. Satisfactory participation in leisure activities is an important task since keeping a regular active lifestyle can help to maintain and improve the wellbeing of people. Technology could help in selecting the most appropriate activities by designing and implementing activities, collecting people profiles and their preferences relations. In fact, recommendation systems, have been successfully used in the last years in similar tasks with different types of recommendation systems. This thesis aims at the design, implementation, and evaluation of recommendation systems that could help us to better understand the complex choice of selecting leisure activities. In this work, we first define an evaluation framework for different recommendations systems. Then we compare their performances using different evaluation metrics. Thus, we explore and try to better understand the user?s preferences over leisure activities. After, having a comprehensive analysis of modelling recommended items and leisure activities, we also design and implement a content-based leisure activity recommendation system to make use of a taxonomy of activities. Moreover, in the course of our research, we have collected and evaluated two datasets obtained one from the Meetup social network and the other from crowd-workers and made them available as open data sources for further evaluation in the recommendation system research community.
Theoretical Studies of Anisotropic Melting of Ice Induced by Ultrafast Nonthermal Heating
Creators: name: Dawod, Ibrahim
name: Patra, K
name: Cardoch, S
name: Jönsson, HO
name: Sellberg, JA
name: Martin, AV
name: Binns, J
name: Grånäs, O
name: Mancuso, Adrian
name: Caleman, C
name: Timneanu, Nicusor
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 340602
subject: Chemical thermodynamics and energetics
classificationCode: 3407
subject: Theoretical and computational chemistry

description: Water and ice are routinely studied with X-rays to reveal their diverse structures and anomalous properties. We employ a hybrid collisional-radiative/molecular-dynamics method to explore how femtosecond X-ray pulses interact with hexagonal ice. We find that ice makes a phase transition into a crystalline plasma where its initial structure is maintained up to tens of femtoseconds. The ultrafast melting process occurs anisotropically, where different geometric configurations of the structure melt on different time scales. The transient state and anisotropic melting of crystals can be captured by X-ray diffraction, which impacts any study of crystalline structures probed by femtosecond X-ray lasers.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ON ENERGY AND DEVELOPMENT NEXUS & RIM FACILITY DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Josuenny
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The role of energy in wealth and development is evident but the manner that a population’s access to energy effects overall growth is unclear. Understanding the role of energy in society can impact policies to push improvement in underdeveloped countries. Therefore, it is necessary to know how energy improves quality of life and what improvements need to be made to provide the necessary resources to underdeveloped populations. The first half of the thesis focuses on the role of energy use in society and its effect on human development. It is established that underdeveloped countries are in fact positively affected from increased energy access. Additionally, that the use of renewables will improve all the aspects of human development: health, wealth, and education. These results suggest that policy makers should focus on increasing clean energy in developing countries to also improve overall development. The second half shifts to the design and characterization of a water tunnel and the role it has in understanding fluid flow for near-wall visualization. Using refractive index matching (RIM) this experimental method can be used to study micro-surfaces that could improve efficiency in transportation or renewable energy. The water tunnel herein can achieve turbulent flows, unlike previous RIM designs.
Sex differences in hepatitis C virus infection: characterisation of 17,?-estradiol-modulated antiviral defences in an HCV cell culture system
Creators: name: BARBAGLIA, Matteo Nazzareno
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2021

description: Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most widespread liver diseases in the world, with over 170 million individuals infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Several clinical studies have observed a protective effect of female sex against HCV infection and HCV-related liver diseases. Our group have demonstrated that 17,?-estradiol (E2) is able to inhibit HCV life cycle in vitro but the antiviral mechanisms are still unknown. In the first part of the present study, we evaluated the E2-mediated activation of hepatocytes innate immunity. Several studies showed the relationship between hypoxia and E2 signaling pathway and the cellular hypoxic state appears to influence HCV infection and may play a significant role in viral hepatocarcinogenesis. In the second part of the study, we evaluated the relationship between HCV infection, hypoxia (induced by dimethyloxalylglycine (DMOG) treatment) and E2.
We evaluated the persistence of the E2-mediated antiviral status after treatment removal and its impact on the infection susceptibility. The E2 antiviral activity loss resulted to be time-treatment dependent. Gene expression analysis of interferon-related genes was performed on E2-treated cells (w and w/o infection). We demonstrated that E2 up-regulate the innate immune gene transcription in na�ve or infected cells. Also the conditioned medium (CM) produced by HuH7 cells post E2 treatment showed antiviral properties. Adding to E2 and CM treatment the an inhibitor of the IFN-?/IFNAR interaction, we obtained the complete antiviral effect loss; demonstrating that the E2-induced antiviral agents are linked to the interferon type I system.
In the second part of the study, we found that the DMOG exerts opposite effects on viral infection, depending on exposure timing. Using the estrogen receptor (ER) agonist (E2) and antagonist (fulvestrant) compounds in combination with DMOG, we demonstrated a mutual interaction between the ER pathway and DMOG treatment effect on viral infection.
DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMODAL FUSION-BASED VISUAL DATA ANALYTICS FOR ROBOTIC INSPECTION AND CONDITION ASSESSMENT
Creators: name: Mondal, Tarutal Ghosh
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation broadly focuses on autonomous condition assessment of civil infrastructures using vision-based methods, which present a plausible alternative to existing manual techniques. A region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) is exploited for the detection of various earthquake-induced damages in reinforced concrete buildings. Four different damage categories are considered such as surface crack, spalling, spalling with exposed rebars, and severely buckled rebars. The performance of the model is evaluated on image data collected from buildings damaged under several past earthquakes taking place in different parts of the world. The proposed algorithm can be integrated with inspection drones or mobile robotic platforms for quick assessment of damaged buildings leading to expeditious planning of retrofit operations, minimization of damage cost, and timely restoration of essential services.
 Besides, a computer vision-based approach is presented to track the evolution of a damage over time by analysing historical visual inspection data. Once a defect is detected in a recent inspection data set, its spatial correspondences in the data collected during previous rounds of inspection are identified leveraging popular computer vision-based techniques. A single reconstructed view is then generated for each inspection round by synthesizing the candidate corresponding images. The chronology of damage thus established facilitates time-based quantification and lucid visual interpretation. This study is likely to enhance the efficiency structural inspection by introducing the time dimension into the autonomous condition assessment pipeline.
 Additionally, this dissertation incorporates depth fusion into a CNN-based semantic segmentation model. A 3D animation and visual effect software is exploited to generate a synthetic database of spatially aligned RGB and depth image pairs representing various damage categories which are commonly observed in reinforced concrete buildings. A number of encoding techniques are explored for representing the depth data. Besides, various schemes for fusion of RGB and depth data are investigated to identify the best fusion strategy. It was observed that depth fusion enhances the performance of deep learning-based damage segmentation algorithms significantly. Furthermore, strategies are proposed to manufacture depth information from corresponding RGB frame, which eliminates the need of depth sensing at the time of deployment without compromising on segmentation performance. Overall, the scientific research presented in this dissertation will be a stepping stone towards realizing a fully autonomous structural condition assessment pipeline.
Additional file 10 of CircXRN2 suppresses tumor progression driven by histone lactylation through activating the Hippo pathway in human bladder cancer
Creators: name: Xie, Bo
name: Lin, Juntao
name: Chen, Xianwu
name: Zhou, Xuejian
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Fan, Mengjing
name: Xiang, Jiayong
name: He, Ning
name: Hu, Zhenghui
name: Wang, Feifan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 10: Figure S3. LCN2 attenuates antitumor effects induced by glycolysis inhibition. a. Cell viability was measured in LDH-deficient cells with or without overexpression of LCN2. b. Colony formation assay indicated the rescue effect of LCN2 on LDH silencing. c-d. Transwell migration assays and wound healing assays were performed in LDH-deficient cells with or without overexpression of LCN2. All the data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (n=3). *P <0.05, **P<0.01, compared with the control group.
ACCURATE APPROXIMATION OF UNSTRUCTURED GRID INTO REGULAR GRID WITH COMPLEX BOUNDARY HANDLING
Creators: name: Rushaidat, Dana M El
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer graphics

description: Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations often produce datasets defined over unstructured grids with solid boundaries. Though unstructured grids allow for the flexible representation of this geometry and the refinement of the grid resolution, they suffer from high storage cost, non-trivial spatial queries, and low reconstruction smoothness. Rectilinear grids, in contrast, have a negligible memory footprint and readily support smooth data reconstruction, though with reduced geometric flexibility.This thesis is concerned with the creation of accurate reconstruction of large unstructured datasets on rectilinear grids with the capability of representing complex boundaries. We present an efficient method to automatically determine the geometry of a rectilinear grid upon which a low-error data reconstruction can be achieved with a given reconstruction kernel. Using this rectilinear grid, we address the potential ill-posedness of the data fitting problem, as well as the necessary balance between smoothness and accuracy, through a bi-level smoothness regularization. To tackle the computational challenge posed by very large input datasets and high-resolution reconstructions, we propose a block-based approach that allows us to obtain a seamless global approximation solution from a set of independently computed sparse least-squares problems. We endow the approximated rectilinear grid with boundary handling capabilities that allows for accommodating challenging boundaries while supporting high-order reconstruction kernels. Results are presented for several 3D datasets that demonstrate the quality of the visualization results that our reconstruction enables, at a greatly reduced computational and memory cost. Our data representation enjoys all the benefits of conventional rectilinear grids while addressing their fundamental geometric limitations.
On effects of discretization on estimators of drift parameters for diffusion processes
Creators: name: Kloeden, Peter E.
name: Platen, Eckhard
name: Schurz, Henri
name: Sørensen, Michael
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Discrete time sampling
subject: Inference for stochastic processes
subject: Maximum likelihood estimation
subject: Numerical methods
subject: Simulation
subject: Stochastic differential equations
subject: Stochastic Taylor expansions
subject: 60H10
subject: 62F12
subject: 65U05

description: In this paper statistical properties of estimators of drift parameters for diffusion processes are studied by modern numerical methods for stochastic differential equations. This is a particularly useful method for discrete time samples, where estimators can be constructed by making discrete time approximations to the stochastic integrals appearing in the maximum likelihood estimators for continuously observed diffusions. A review is given of the necessary theory for parameter estimation for diffusion processes and for simulation of diffusion processes. Three examples are studied.
title: Exploring for the Future - Australia's transformational geoscience program
Creators: name: T., Steeper
name: Geoscience Australia
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EFTF – Exploring for the Future
subject: Officer-Musgrave-Birrindudu
subject: National Groundwater Systems
subject: Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian
subject: Australia’s Resources Framework
subject: Australia’s Future Energy Resources
subject: Barkly-Isa-Georgetown
subject: Geoscience Knowledge Sharing
subject: Enhanced Data Delivery
subject: precompetitive geoscience
subject: groundwater
subject: Minerals
subject: Resource geoscience
subject: Isotope geochemistry
subject: Soil sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Applied geophysics
subject: Other Earth Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Published_External

description: The Exploring for the Future program, led by Geoscience Australia, was a $225 million Australian Government investment over 8 years, focused on revealing Australia’s mineral, energy, and groundwater potential by characterising geology.  This report provides an overview of activities, results, achievements and impacts from the Exploring for the Future program, with a particular focus on the last four years (2020-2024).
sj-docx-2-pss-10.1177_09567976211007788 – Supplemental material for Boosting Understanding and Identification of Scientific Consensus Can Help to Correct False Beliefs
Creators: name: van Stekelenburg, Aart
name: Schaap, Gabi
name: Veling, Harm
name: Buijzen, Moniek
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-pss-10.1177_09567976211007788 for Boosting Understanding and Identification of Scientific Consensus Can Help to Correct False Beliefs by Aart van Stekelenburg, Gabi Schaap, Harm Veling and Moniek Buijzen in Psychological Science
DEVELOPMENT OF MASS SPECTROMETRIC METHODS FOR THE CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDENSATE OILS, THE DETECTION OF REACTION INTERMEDIATES IN SOLUTION AND FOR THE FAST IDENTIFICATION OF DRUG METABOLITES
Creators: name: Alzarieni, Kawthar Zeyad
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Analytical chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation presents several examples of diverse applications of mass spectrometry. For example, high-resolution mass spectrometry was utilized for qualitative and quantitative chemical characterization of ionized compounds in petrochemical samples, specifically, in condensate-like oil samples. Further, the ability to use tandem mass spectrometry to rapidly detect trace amounts of short-lived reaction intermediates in solution reactions is demonstrated. Finally, selective tandem mass spectrometry methods based on diagnostic gas-phase ion-molecule reactions were developed for the identification of carboxylic acid functionalities in protonated analytes.
Classification and Integration of Software Component Models for Robotics
Creators: name: LUZZANA, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: The Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) allows the realization of modular and flexible systems composed by reusable software components. In the robotics field, the CBSE principles struggle to become spread used due to the extreme variability in functionality, applications and involved hardware that characterize the domain. This variability directly impacts on the component implementations limiting their reuse capability. The component model concept plays a fundamental role since it defines the rules that supervise the components definitions and their interactions. These rules strongly influences the capability of components to cope with the variability of the robotics domain.
The high number of proposed component models, both in literature and in the industrial field, claims for a model for their comparison and classification in order to highlight commonalities and differences among different approaches.
In this work we propose a feature-based classification model that exploits a clear separation of concerns when analyzing different component models. The four identified concerns refer to the Communication, the Computation, the Configuration and the Coordination aspects. This approach allows for a better understanding of the constructs provided by different models in order to manage the variability of the system.
From the classification, it results clear that robotic domain specific models offer constructs that are well suited for addressing the specific issues of robotics although they lack in providing a sufficient level of flexibility. On the other hand, general purpose models offer a higher level of flexibility without offering relevant robotic specific features.
We propose the integration of component models as a key to overcome this limitation. In particular, the integration between the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and the Robot Operating System (ROS) allows the developers to fully exploit the benefits of both approaches while mitigating their deficiencies.
We present the control software of the BART robot as a proof of the benefits of this approach.
Additional file 2 of Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of endoscopic ultrasound guided celiac plexus neurolysis (EUS-CPN) with vs without bupivacaine
Creators: name: Esmail, Eslam
name: Paquin, Sarto C
name: Sahai, Anand V
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2. SPIRIT checklist.