cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Piccolo teatro della città di Milano: per una mappatura delle strategie di relazione con il pubblico
"Piccolo Teatro di Milano": a map of relational strategies between stage and audience
Creators: name: Colciago, Sara <1987>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: L-ART/05 Discipline dello spettacolo

description: La ricerca è costituita dal tentativo di realizzare una mappatura delle attività del Piccolo Teatro di Milano relative alle strategie di relazione con il pubblico, tanto in termini di formazione dello spettatore quanto di concezione dello stesso come elemento partecipe di una comunità. Sono stati presi in esame tre distinti nuclei, in parte sovrapponibili a tre fasi della storia del teatro milanese ed esemplificativi di differenti tipologie di azione. 
1) Fondazione del Piccolo Teatro e il background progettuale che la precede, analizzata attraverso i contributi giornalistici di Paolo Grassi e Giorgio Strehler, in cui vengono esplicitate le linee guida che si concretizzeranno del progetto anche con largo anticipo rispetto al 1947; 2) Iniziative di contatto e creazione di un rapporto con il pubblico attuate negli anni Sessanta, considerate in parallelo con le grandi polemiche di stampo extra-teatrale che a partire dall'attività del Piccolo Teatro coinvolgono l'ambiente culturale e politico intorno al tema dell'autonomia artistica; 3) Sviluppo di una presenza digitale costituita dagli spazi promozionali/informativi (sito web), relazionali (social network) e didattico/divulgativi (archivio multimediale).
description: The aim of this research is to create a map of all the strategies of “Piccolo Teatro di Milano” related to theatre/audience relationship, about audience education and belonging of the spectator to the community.  Three distinct units have been taken into examination, and these are partially superimposable on three historical periods of Piccolo Teatro's history, and are examples of different methods of action.
1) Foundation of “Piccolo Teatro di Milano”, and the planning background that precedes it, analyzed through the various newspaper articles by Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler. In these articles, the major project guidelines are explained sooner than 1947; 2) Initiatives concerning the contact with a main audience, and creation of a connection with said audience, in the contemporary era of the Sixties. This has to be taken into consideration together with the great protest of an extra-theater context, that starting from the activity of the Piccolo Teatro, involve both the cultural and political milieu which surrounded the independence of artistic activity; 3) Development of a web activity, through social networks, websites and digital archives.
Diet: Microbiota Interaction in the Gut-Focus on Amino Acid Metabolism
Creators: name: Ceppa, Florencia Andrea <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: CHIM/11 Chimica e biotecnologia delle fermentazioni

description: This study aims to measure the impact of protein and amino acid fermentation on the composition and metabolic output of gut microbiota. Although dissimilatory pathways have been described for most amino acids, microbial degradation routes within the gut microbiota are relatively unexplored. The objectives were (1) to characterize amino acid breakdown by the colonic microbiota, (2) to determine the fermentation products formed from individual amino acids/protein (3) to examine how amino acid metabolism is impacted by the presence of a fermentable fiber (prebiotic inulin) and finally (4) to evaluate with an in vivo model (trout fish) diet:microbe interactions and the development of gut microbiota during fish farming. Interactions between the healthy human intestinal microbiota of the distal colon and different combinations of nutrients were simulated using in vitro pH-controlled anaerobic batch cultures of human faeces. Combining high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA amplicons, with high-throughput 1H NMR, changes in faecal microbiota composition and metabolic output were measured. During exogenous substrate microbial fermentation (e.g. beef, Trp or fish feed) in the large bowel bioactive compounds (harmful or beneficial) are produced. Many factors affect the gut-microbial metabolism including pH, type and quantity of growth substrate (e.g. protein/carbohydrate) and make up of the gut microbiota. Considerable interindividual variation was observed in response to different digested substrates but over all, the beneficial impact of prebiotic fiber fermentation on production of bioactive compounds from amino acids/proteins was confirmed in this study. In trout, although our dietary intervention with essential oils had little impact on the gut microbiota, the study showed for the first time a dramatic shift in the composition and diversity of the gut microbiota in juvenile, compared to adult fish. Thse observations may have relevance in designing dietary strategies to reduce chronic diseases like colon cancer and heard disease and for fish farming respectively.
Personality Traits and Investment Behaviour
Creators: name: Cecchini, Marco <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: SECS-P/09 Finanza aziendale

description: In this thesis I construct a unique dataset to test the role of individual characteristics in affecting the investor behaviour. In particular, I present two empirical research papers that investigate trading patterns unlikely to be driven by rational models, and a literature review in which are summarized the main findings within the new field of “personality finance”. Using an experimental analysis that combine a trading simulation with a Big-Five personality questionnaire, Paper 1 and Paper 2 illustrate how personality affects the individual level of disposition effect and trading volume respectively. In detail, among a sample of 230 students, in the first paper I find strong heterogeneity in the level of disposition effect recorded. In explaining these differences and controlling for demographic variables, I show that the trait of extroversion is positively related with tendency to sell stocks at gain rather than at loss, while subjects with high conscientiousness and openness to experience are less biased. In a different sample of 176 students, from Paper 2, I demonstrate that emotionally stable investors are more likely to exhibit higher trading volume, while high-conscientiousness seems to weaker it. Demographics and risk-attitude measures moderate the individual in- vestment choices. Finally, in the third paper I introduce a literature review on those works in which the personality of the investors is used to explain subjects trading performance and specific financial phenomena. I try to organize the main findings from this new field, named “personality finance”, identifying the psychological sources that can predict the heterogeneity in the individual investment behaviour.
Using Grassy Narrows in a Live Classroom with Clicker Questions and Interactive Histogram: Sampling Distributions, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing
Creators: name: Akin, Jonathan
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions, p-values, and hypothesis testing. Using both simulated and real data for methylmercury level in fish populations, students will determine whether observations fall within government safety guidelines for safe consumption.
On Equivalences, Metrics, and Computational Indistinguishability
Creators: name: Cappai, Alberto <1988>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: INF/01 Informatica

description: The continuous technological progress and the constant growing of information flow we observe every day, brought us an urgent need to find a way to defend our data from malicious intruders; cryptography is the field of computer science that deals with security and studies techniques to protect communications from third parties,
but in the recent years there has been a crisis in proving the security of cryptographic protocols, due to the exponential increase in the complexity of modeling proofs.
In this scenario we study interactions in a typed lambda-calculus properly defined to fit well into the key aspects of a cryptographic proof: interaction, complexity and probability. This calculus, RSLR, is an extension of Hofmann's SLR for probabilistic polynomial time computations and it is perfect to model cryptographic primitives and adversaries. In particular, we characterize notions of context equivalence and
context metrics, when defined on linear contexts, by way of traces, making proofs easier. Furthermore we show how to use this techniqe to obtain a proof methodology
for computational indistinguishability, a key notion in modern cryptography; finally we give some motivating examples of concrete cryptographic schemes.
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Effects on Financial Market Volatility: A Case Study of Emerging Economies
Creators: name: Zibahalat Monfared, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy
Financial Market Volatility
Emerging Economies
GMM
VAR Model
Policy Effectiveness

description: This study examines the dynamic effects of monetary and fiscal policies on financial market volatility in emerging economies, a subject of growing significance amid increasing global economic uncertainty. Financial markets in these economies are highly sensitive to policy interventions due to structural vulnerabilities, capital flow volatility, and weaker institutional frameworks. This research aims to analyze how interest rate adjustments, quantitative easing, government spending, and taxation policies impact stock market fluctuations, exchange rate instability, and bond market volatility in selected emerging markets.

The study employs a panel data approach, covering a sample of ten emerging economies over the period 2005–2023. Using Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimators and Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models, the research identifies both the short-term and long-term effects of policy measures on market volatility indicators. Empirical findings reveal that expansionary monetary policies, particularly aggressive interest rate cuts, tend to reduce market volatility in the short run but may increase risk-taking behavior and asset price bubbles in the long run. On the fiscal side, excessive government spending without adequate revenue generation exacerbates fiscal deficits, leading to increased bond market volatility and currency depreciation risks.

The significance of this research lies in its contribution to the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of macroeconomic policies in stabilizing financial markets in emerging economies. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, investors, and international financial institutions by highlighting the importance of balanced and coordinated policy frameworks. Effective policy design can mitigate excessive market volatility, enhance investor confidence, and promote sustainable economic growth in emerging markets.
Heterogeneous Architectures For Parallel Acceleration
Creators: name: Conti, Francesco <1988>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: To enable a new generation of digital computing applications, the greatest challenge is to provide a better level of energy efficiency (intended as the performance that a system can provide within a certain power budget) without giving up a systems's flexibility.
This constraint applies to digital system across all scales, starting from ultra-low power implanted devices up to datacenters for high-performance computing and for the "cloud".
In this thesis, we show that architectural heterogeneity is the key to provide this efficiency and to respond to many of the challenges of tomorrow's computer architecture - and at the same time we show methodologies to introduce it with little or no loss in terms of flexibility.
In particular, we show that heterogeneity can be employed to tackle the "walls" that impede further development of new computing applications: the utilization wall, i.e. the impossibility to keep all transistors on in deeply integrated chips, and the "data deluge", i.e. the amount of data to be processed that is scaling up much faster than the computing performance and efficiency.
We introduce a methodology to improve heterogeneous design exploration of tightly coupled clusters; moreover we propose a fractal heterogeneity architecture that is a parallel accelerator for low-power sensor nodes, and is itself internally heterogeneous thanks to an heterogeneous coprocessor for brain-inspired computing.
This platform, which is silicon-proven, can lead to more than 100x improvement in terms of energy efficiency with respect to typical computing nodes used within the same domain, enabling the application of complex algorithms, vastly more performance-hungry than the current state-of-the-art in the ULP computing domain.
Hacia una ciencia ciudadana más social: Aspectos prácticos y experiencias diversas de una ciencia ciudadana inclusiva
Creators: name: Perelló, Josep
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Desde Medialab UGR, a través de la Coordinación de Ciencia Ciudadana, se lanza una nueva edición del Programa Formativo de Ciencia Ciudadana 2025, una propuesta abierta a toda persona interesada en desarrollar o participar en proyectos de ciencia ciudadana, con prioridad para quienes formen parte de equipos promotores de ideas vinculadas a esta línea.

El programa, que se desarrollará entre abril y mayo de 2025, en el Espacio V Centenario (sala por confirmar), contará con ponentes de referencia nacional e internacional como Raquel Ajates, Josep Perelló, Ismael Peña-López, Patricia Horrillo o Daniel Torres Salinas. Las sesiones abordarán aspectos prácticos clave como la inclusión de la ciencia ciudadana en propuestas europeas y nacionales, la ciencia abierta, la comunicación de proyectos, el impacto social o la sostenibilidad.

Se adjuntan las slides de la presentación de Josep Perelló el día 25 de abril de 2025. Se presentan aspectos de una ciencia ciudadana inclusiva y abordando temas sociales.
title: Neuropathology of Dual Transgenic Alzheimer’s Type Mice Following Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: Barkey, Rachel
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer’s disease
subject: Traumatic brain injury
subject: Mouse model
subject: Amyloid
subject: Tau
subject: RmTBI

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) share many common pathological features and sustaining a TBI may increase the likelihood of developing AD later in life. Mild traumatic brain injuries are the most common form of TBI and once one injury occurs, the brain is more vulnerable to a second concussive impact. This study examined the effects of repetitive mild TBI (rmTBI) paradigm during adolescence on the deposition of amyloid and tau and neuronal loss in dual tg AD mice at 8 months of age. Mice were subjected to 5 mTBIs at 48-hour intervals at 3 months of age, then aged to 8 months for brain analysis. Amyloid deposition was measured through Congo Red staining. Thioflavin-S staining was performed to visualize tau tangles. Cresyl-Violet/Luxol Fast Blue staining was used to measure neuronal loss and white matter degeneration. rmTBI mice showed increased tangle formation in several cortical and hippocampal areas, while there were no differences in amyloid plaque formation. There was decreased cell density in AD type mice in hippocampal regions, and increased cell density in AD mice in cortical regions compared to wildtype mice. rmTBI lead to lower cell density in motor and visual association cortex and infralimbic cortex. This study demonstrated that rmTBI in adolescence can progress AD pathology later in life.
title: Seeking Racial Reconciliation and Justice in Multiracial, Evangelical Churches of Washington, DC
Creators: name: Grant, Anna Laura
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Racial reconciliation
subject: Evangelical Christian
subject: Reparations
subject: Racial justice
subject: Washington, DC
subject: Multiracial churches

description: This thesis explores how multiracial churches in Washington, DC engage in racial reconciliation and justice within their congregations and local community. The Christian faith has been used justify racism and oppression throughout the history of the USA. Furthermore, continued levels of segregation in churches and problematic understandings of race and reconciliation complicate the possibility for religious racial reconciliation. Washington, DC provides the ideal setting for investigating these challenges. Four pastors of multiracial churches within the city were interviewed in-depth. The three major findings included a process and theory of reconciliation, the understanding that faith can be expressed as justice in a place, and the framework that diverse community is essential for true faith. The theory of reconciliation includes an awareness of harm, lament, confession/apology/repentance, reparations, forgiveness, and transformation. The implications for churches include implementing acts of reparations, confronting White cultural normativity, and centering of marginalized voices as essential to reconciliation.
Development and Assessment of Large Eddy Simulation Methodology for Internal Combustion Engines
Creators: name: Catellani, Cristian <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-IND/08 Macchine a fluido

description: Large Eddy Simulation (LES) represents nowadays one of the most promising techniques for the evaluation of the dynamics and evolution of turbulent structures characterizing Internal Combustion Engines (ICE).
The demand for a high level of resolution accuracy as well as the need to evaluate different scenarios and system configurations lead to considerable computational and economic costs for both the hardware infrastructure and  the licensing fees of commercial codes.
In such context, the present Doctoral project has the objective to define the most suitable numerical methodology to perform LES analysis of ICE flows and to implement such methodology in an efficient, accurate and robust CFD code, based on open-source components.
An evaluation of freely available CFD codes has led to the choice of the open-source CFD package OpenFOAM as the most suited code for the project’s objective.
The LES modeling of interest for ICE applications has been then studied and three Sub-grid scale models particularly suited for such flows have been implemented and assessed into OpenFOAM. Moreover, Python scripts have been developed in order to automate and speed-up both pre-processing and post-processing phases.
The CFD methodology has been then applied to a real world ICE systems such as a stationary flow bench, for which prior RANS simulations had shown some predictive deficiencies. The quality of the analyses has been assessed through specific LES quality estimators and the computational results have been validated against measurements, showing pretty good agreement.
Finally, LES simulations have allowed the accurate investigation of the flow bench fluid-dynamic behavior and, thanks to the insights gained, an alternative RANS approach based on the Reynolds Stress Tensor Modeling has been proposed and tested in order to alleviate the aforementioned
 predictive deficiencies.
Evaluation of Ecosystem Services production under different Agricultural Policy Scenarios
Creators: name: Chatzinikolaou, Parthena <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: AGR/01 Economia ed estimo rurale

description: The objective of this study is to test a methodology for the classification of areas according to the provision of ecosystem services (ES) and for the evaluation of the effects of different agricultural policy scenarios on such classification. The framework was applied to the classification of the 26 municipalities of the province of Ferrara, Italy. The case study area can be considered a traditional cultural landscape, characterised by historical-cultural sites, agricultural areas and protected areas of natural importance. The evaluation focuses on the different categories of ES and applies a set of indicators available from secondary data sources assessing different aspects of ES. From the policy perspective, the context was represented by the pre-2014 CAP and represented the Baseline scenario. In the next stage, the model simulated a New CAP scenario, based on the measures of the RDP 2014-2020 that are addressed on restoring and enhancing ecosystems. The classification approach in each of the two scenarios was implemented under two weighting solutions. As a general remark, it is observed that the provision of ES varies greatly from one municipality to the next. All the municipalities offer a significant number of provisioning and cultural services, mainly connected to recreational opportunities. From the experience carried out in this study, we can conclude that the application of the PROMETHEE, in particular with the integration of the weights for the ES indicators, has shown the potential to support the characterisation of agricultural land in terms of the provision of multiple ES. The study presents MCDA as a suitable tool to illustrate the differences in the provision of ES in different case study areas. To some extent, in spite of the limitations of this work, this also applies to analyzing the consequences of different agricultural policy scenarios in the provision of these services.
Correspondence, 1925
Creators: name: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Correspondence and other textual material, including manuscript drafts of promotional texts by MacDonell, accounts received by MacDonell of Hebridean settlers travelling expenses, and memoranda by MacDonell regarding requirements for settlers. Also includes specifications for cottages constructed for settlers and farm workers in Alberta by the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society, a Scottish newspaper cartoon depicting Scots answering 'The Call of the West', a pamphlet copy of the Immigration Act and Regulations. Additionally, 'Months diary May 1925' is included along with other draft monthly and yearly reports to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society prepared in 1925 by MacDonell, as well as minutes of Society meetings, and a copy of an agreement in 1925 between the Society and the Department of Immigration and Colonization.
Supplementary document for Linear polarization-separating metalens at long-wavelength infrared - 6382505.pdf
Creators: name: Ishizuka, Noe
name: Li, Jie
name: Fuji, Wataru
name: Ikezawa, Satoshi
name: Iwami, Kentaro
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Derivation of transmittance and phase delay from COMSOL results
Power Optimization for Sensor Hubs in Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Casamassima, Filippo <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: The design and development of wearable inertial sensor systems for health monitoring has garnered
a huge attention in the scientific community and the industry during the last years. Such
platforms have a typical architecture and common building blocks to enable data collection,
data processing and feedback restitution. In this thesis we analyze power optimization techniques
that can be applied to such systems. When reducing power consumption in a wearable
system, different trade-offs have to be inevitably faced. We thus propose software techniques
that span from well known duty cycling, frequency scaling, data compression to new paradigm
such as radio triggering, heterogeneous multi-core and context aware power management.
Stress Field and Seismicity at Campi Flegrei Caldera
Creators: name: Cristiano, Elena <1988>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: GEO/10 Geofisica della terra solida

description: Aim of this work is the study of the stress field in the Campi Flegrei caldera during the bradyseismic crisis of 1982-1984.
n the first part of the work has been analysed old cretaceous and digital seismic datasets relative to 70th years, and the bradyseismic crisis of 1982-1984 where has been recorded the earthquakes linked to uplifts that interested Campi flegrei caldera during 1969-72 and 1982-84.
The seismicity dataset has been used to made some analysis as location and focal mechanisms generation. The focal mechanisms are than analysed using two software to determine the principal state of stress that was predominant in that period.
Then, starting from ground deformation data, relative to 1100 optical levelling measure done during the bradyseismic crisis, has been use the inversion method to modelling the source of the deformation. Has been used many model as the Mogi model, the penny shaped-crack, and the rectangular crack of Okada. 
Consequently, a joint inversion was applicate on ground deformation data and seismicity together to better understand the dynamic of the stress in the area.In the last part of the work, has been determined the excess of pore pressure in the Flegrean area, using focal mechanisms to study the influence of fluid pore pressure on change in the Coulomb stress of the area.
Has been used the Coulomb-Navier criterion  and Terakawa method (2010) to estimate the excess of pore pressure.
Finally, in order to evaluate the reliability of the calculated pore pressures, was done thermo-fluid dynamic simulation and analysed the hydrothermal system of Campi Flegrei caldera. So, has been performed a series of simulation thermo-fluid dynamic injecting a flow in the system varying temperature, pressure and injection rate to model the Campi Flegrei caldera during the unrest.
Human-Centric Wireless Communication Networks
Creators: name: Cavallari, Riccardo <1986>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-INF/03 Telecomunicazioni

description: This thesis covers two main topics: the design and performance
evaluation of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), and the simulation
and mathematical modeling of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs).

Different Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for WBANs are
implemented on dedicated hardware in order to evaluate, through
extensive measurement campaigns, the performance of the network in
terms of packet loss rate, delay and energy consumption. Novel
solutions to cope with body shadowing and to improve the coexistence
with other wireless technologies, are presented and evaluated. An
analytic model for the CSMA/CA protocol defined in the IEEE 802.15.6
standard is also presented.

The benefits of offloading part of the traffic carried by a wireless
backbone to a DTN composed of mobile nodes in a urban environment, is
also investigated. A more analytic approach, mainly using tools from
stochastic geometry and Markov chains theory, is used to develop a
mathematical framework for the evaluation of the performance of
routing rules for DTNs.
Supplementary document for Design of a multilayered metamaterial based on a chirped Bragg grating for radiative cooling enhancement - 6383483.pdf
Creators: name: Ruiz, David Osuna
name: Lezaun, Carlos
name: Torres-García, Alicia
name: Beruete, Miguel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document is a single document including subsections for each refered topic in the main text document (a table of content is included)
Multiscale Multiphysics Coupling on a Finite Element Platform
Creators: name: Cerroni, Daniele <1988>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-IND/19 Impianti nucleari

description: In recent years numerical simulations are becoming fundamental for the design of many engineering components.  For this reason many  multiphysical and multiscale problems are investigated by coupling different existent software created specifically for  solving  each single problem. However, because of the intrinsic differences among these codes,  such coupling  is very challenging. In this thesis we develop a computational platform that can be used to integrate different computing tools  into the common  framework of the SALOME platform. Inside this platform  various codes are coupled through numerical libraries with the purpose of exchanging data and melting intrinsic  differences. After a description of the generic code integration procedure into the numerical platform, we introduce three classes of problems where different codes have been coupled and complex computational problems are studied. In the  irst problem  class, the computational platform is used to study a nuclear reactor system. We study the dynamics of a multiscale  primary loop of a liquid metal reactor by coupling a mono-dimensional system code with the high resolution three-dimensional full scale core components models. Also we investigate a  thermal-hydraulic-neutron multiphysics problem. The heat energy production in the reactor core, obtained by solving  the neutron code DRAGON-DONJON, is coupled  with the solution of the thermal-hydraulics conservative equations implemented in a in-house code. In the second problem class, we consider multiscale multiphysics Fluid Structure Interaction problems implemented in different modules of the FEMUs code. The mechanics of a three-dimensional  particular component of the cardiovascular system is  coupled with a mono-dimensional model that takes into account the remaining parts of a simplified circulatory system. Finally, in the last class of problems, Multiphase Fluid  tructure Interaction problems are investigated by coupling  the solution of a multiphase fluid interface  advection VOF module with a FSI solver.
Programming models and tools for many-core platforms
Modelli e strumenti di programmazione parallela per piattaforme many-core
Creators: name: Capotondi, Alessandro <1983>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: The negotiation between power consumption, performance, programmability, and portability drives all computing industry designs, in particular the mobile and embedded systems domains.
Two design paradigms have proven particularly promising in this context: architectural heterogeneity and many-core processors.
Parallel programming models are key to effectively harness the computational power of heterogeneous many-core SoC.
This thesis presents a set of techniques and HW/SW extensions that enable performance improvements and that simplify programmability for heterogeneous many-core platforms.
The thesis contributions cover vertically the entire software stack for many-core platforms, from hardware abstraction layers running on top of bare-metal, to programming models; from hardware extensions for efficient parallelism support to middleware that enables optimized resource management within many-core platforms.

First, we present mechanisms to decrease parallelism overheads on parallel programming runtimes for many-core platforms, targeting fine-grain parallelism.
Second, we present programming model support that enables the offload of computational kernels within heterogeneous many-core systems.
Third, we present a novel approach to dynamically sharing and managing many-core platforms when multiple applications coded with different programming models execute concurrently.

All these contributions were validated using STMicroelectronics STHORM, a real embodiment of a state-of-the-art many-core system. Hardware extensions and architectural explorations were explored using VirtualSoC, a SystemC based cycle-accurate simulator of many-core platforms.
ОИЛАВИЙ-ҲУҚУҚИЙ МУНОСАБАТЛАРДА ТУҒИЛИШНИ ҚАЙД
Creators: name: Холмуминов, О.Ж.
name: Қаршибаева, З.Ш.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Мамлакатимизда ҳар бир оилаларнинг фаровонлиги, тинчлиги, осойишталиги ва тинч-тотув ҳаёт кечириши жуда кенг муносабатларни ўз ичига оладиган жараёнлардир. Фикримиз исботи сифатида айтиб ўтишимиз лозимки, мамлакатимизда 1998 йил “Оила йили”, 1999 йил “Аёллар йили”, 2001 йил “Оналар ва болалар йили”, 2007 йил “Ижтимий ҳимоя йили”, 2008 йил “Ёшлар йили”, 2012 йил “Мустаҳкам оила йили”, 2014 йил “Соғлом бола йили”, 2016 йил “Соғлом она ва бола йили”,  2023 йил “Инсонга эътибор ва сифатили таълим йили” ҳамда 2024 йил эса “Ёшлар ва кичик бизнесни қўллаб қувватлаш йили” деб номланганлиги ва бу бўйича бир қатор давлат дастурлари қабул қилинганлиги, амалиётга жорий этилганлигини алоҳида қайд этишимиз зарур.
title: Molecular Clock Analysis of Human Adenovirus
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021

description: Human adenovirus (HAdV) is a diverse pathogen with global circulation that causes sporadic epidemics of acute respiratory disease, keratoconjunctivitis, and gastrointestinal disease. Recombination is a significant driver of adenovirus evolution, generating novel intertypic types. Advances in sequencing technology provides an opportunity to increase the number and availability of genomic samples. Accordingly, this dissertation developed programming libraries to warehouse sequences, standardize metadata, and automate molecular clock analysis. The resulting biosurveillance platform analyzed HAdV genomic sequence data, focusing primarily on species B genotype 55.
Contextualising Cholera in Nigeria: Contemporary Epidemiology, Determinants and Recommendations
Creators: name: Olusola Bamidele Ojo
name: Abideen M. Gbolahan
Publisher: name: ISA Publisher
Year: 2025

description: In 2024, Nigeria reported the highest cholera mortalities among other African countries. From 1 January to 24 November, Nigeria recorded 702 deaths out of 19,178 cholera cases and a case fatality rate of 3.7%.  WHO recommends a case fatality rate of less than 1% for cholera management globally. In this light, we highlight the contemporary epidemiology of cholera in Nigeria and expose the determinants of recurrent outbreaks from geopolitical zone contexts. By deploying descriptive analysis of primary data from the Nigerian Center for Disease and Control Prevention (NCDC), we computed an average case fatality ratio of 2.9 % for cholera between 2017 and 2 March 2025. We discovered that the northwest and northeast geopolitical zones had the highest incidences of cholera outbreaks due to disproportionate poverty and religious conflicts. Lagos constituted roughly 46 % of the cases in 2024 due to overstretching water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) amenities and flagrant disregard for sanitary practices, which enhance frequent flooding. As of 2 March 2025, the south-south geopolitical zone had the highest incidences of cholera infections. Most of their areas are low-lying and proximal to many river channels and the Atlantic Ocean, predisposing them to recurrent flooding. Hence, we maintain that the main determinants of cholera in Nigeria are poverty, religious conflicts, incessant flooding, and inadequacy of WASH amenities. A study of this caliber would enhance targeted intervention against the menace of cholera based on regional peculiarities. We believe this is a viable step in stemming recurrent cholera epidemics in Nigeria.
title: "Los Deportados”: The Transnational Blowback of the United States Deportation Practices and the Hidden Costs of Mass Deportation
Creators: name: Aguilar, Hansel Alejandro
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Deportation
subject: Transnational
subject: Repatriation
subject: Reintegration
subject: Deportado
subject: Blowback

description: The narratives of deportees’ experiences as they are forcibly returned “home” deserves more attention especially if the United States government fails to achieve comprehensive immigration reform in the near future. What is happening to los deportados we have been sending to their “homes” in Latin America that are struggling to maintain their societal structure with their current populations? This thesis explores how Honduran immigrant deportees are being reintegrated in their “homeland”. Through ethnographic research of the practices of the Honduran agency responsible for receiving the migrants and general observations of Honduran society, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with deportees and content analysis of major United States and Honduran newspapers, this thesis explores how the systemic inefficiencies of the United States deportation practices result in a transnational blowback affecting both the United States and the Honduran societies. Moreover, the study explores how Honduran institutions are playing a role in the reintegration of their returned migrants and how these migrants are forming or reforming their identities post deportation. The findings of this study allude to an unspoken and undiscussed transnational blowback that has severe social, economic, and political costs. Moreover, the study outlines how neither the current United States deportation system nor the receiving Honduran society have a successful mechanism for individuals to be reintegrated into their native societies thus resulting in: 1) the recidivism of immigration violations (i.e. reentry); 2) marginalization of returned migrants which leads to the creation of “floating populations”; and 3) negative economic ramifications for both Honduran society and US society.
title: Rethinking HIV Stigma: Locating Intersectionality and Agency in the Experience of Social Exclusion
Creators: name: Pavletic, Nevia
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: HIV/AIDS
subject: Stigma

description: The aim of this thesis is to provide a “thick description” of HIV stigma within the United States cultural context, a topic that has received relatively little attention from anthropologists. Since the early days of the epidemic, HIV/AIDS has been symbolically linked with the “dangerous other,” and the stigma associated with the disease has had devastating consequences for both individuals and communities. Through a combination of semi-structured interviews, textual analysis, and a literature review, I examine how the embodied experience of HIV stigma intersects with other forms of social exclusion and discrimination, and also how people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) challenge and resist stigmatization. Specifically, I bring to light how agency is put into practice through the process of disclosure and also through the strategies that PHA employ to transform their illness experiences into a meaningful life narrative. My research builds on the existing scholarship on stigma and structural violence, while simultaneously bringing to light the power of PHA to resist the shame, secrecy, silence, and isolation that usually accompany an HIV diagnosis. I argue that by shifting our interpretive lens towards agency and subjectivity and away from vulnerability and passivity, we can begin to view PHA and other marginalized groups as less Other.
title: Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors
Creators: name: Cook, John
name: Ellerton, Peter
name: Kinkead, David
Publisher: name: Environmental Research Letters
Year: 2018

description: Misinformation can have significant societal consequences. For example, misinformation about climate change has confused the public and stalled support for mitigation policies. When people lack the expertise and skill to evaluate the science behind a claim, they typically rely on heuristics such as substituting judgment about something complex (i.e. climate science) with judgment about something simple (i.e. the character of people who speak about climate science) and are therefore vulnerable to misleading information. Inoculation theory offers one approach to effectively neutralize the influence of misinformation. Typically, inoculations convey resistance by providing people with information that counters misinformation. In contrast, we propose inoculating against misinformation by explaining the fallacious reasoning within misleading denialist claims. We offer a strategy based on critical thinking methods to analyse and detect poor reasoning within denialist claims. This strategy includes detailing argument structure, determining the truth of the premises, and checking for validity, hidden premises, or ambiguous language. Focusing on argument structure also facilitates the identification of reasoning fallacies by locating them in the reasoning process. Because this reason-based form of inoculation is based on general critical thinking methods, it offers the distinct advantage of being accessible to those who lack expertise in climate science. We applied this approach to 42 common denialist claims and find that they all demonstrate fallacious reasoning and fail to refute the scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic global warming. This comprehensive deconstruction and refutation of the most common denialist claims about climate change is designed to act as a resource for communicators and educators who teach climate science and/or critical thinking.
Supplementary document for Generation of vector elliptical perfect optical vortices with mixed modes in free space - 6383876.pdf
Creators: name: Kang, Xiangyu
name: Shan, Xinzhi
name: Chen, Keyu
name: sun, xiaojie
name: Wang, Guanxue
name: Gao, Xiumin
name: Liu, Yi
name: Zhuang, Songlin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A supplement to the manuscript
A novel metric for hyperparameter optimization in Hi-C matrix prediction using linear regression
Creators: name: Wolff, Joachim
name: Heidel, Florian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: models_regression.zip: Archive of trained regression models

merged_df.csv: The file containing all the scores and the human ranking per matrix of 'predicted_matrices_for_regression_25kb.zip'

predicted_matrices_for_regression_25kb.zip: Predicted Hi-C contact matrices at 25kb resolution, used for input of regression-based models.

image_rankings.csv: Ranking of matrices for predicted_matrices_for_regression_25kb.zip done by a human expert

100kb_evaluation_matrices.zip: Contains evaluation matrices for Hi-C data at 100kb resolution, used for benchmarking prediction performance.

50kb_evaluation_matrices.zip: Evaluation matrices for Hi-C data at 50kb resolution, used for benchmarking prediction performance..

image_rankings_100kb.csv: Image rankings specific to 100kb resolution evaluation data. Ranking by a human expert.

image_rankings_50kb.csv: Image rankings specific to 50kb resolution evaluation data. Ranking by a human expert.

GM12878_25kb_cooler_coarsen.cool: Cooler-format Hi-C data for GM12878 cell line at 25kb resolution. Original Hi-C data by Rao et al. 2014 (GSE63525).

GM12878_25kb_cooler_coarsen_chr1.ginteractions.tsv: TSV of genomic interactions for chromosome 1 derived from the 25kb resolution Hi-C data. Original Hi-C data by Rao et al. 2014 (GSE63525).

GM12878_25kb_cooler_coarsen_chr1.gz: Compressed version of genomic interaction data for chromosome 1, data in integer format. Original Hi-C data by Rao et al. 2014 (GSE63525).

GM12878_25kb_cooler_coarsen_chr1.cool: Cooler-format Hi-C matrix specifically for chromosome 1 at 25kb resolution. Original Hi-C data by Rao et al. 2014 (GSE63525).

scored_50kb.zip: Data to be processed with the notebook 50kb_vs_elo.ipynb

scored_50kb.zip: Data to be processed with the notebook 100kb_vs_elo.ipynb
Determination of the Side-Reaction Coefficient of Desferrioxamine B in Trace-Metal-Free Seawater
Creators: name: Schijf, Johan
name: Burns, Shannon M.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: desferrioxamine B
siderophore
potentiometric titration
stability constant
side-reaction coefficient
seawater
magnesium, calcium

description: Electrochemical techniques like adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry with
competitive ligand equilibration (ACSV-CLE) can determine total concentrations of
marine organic ligands and their conditional binding constants for specific metals, but
cannot identify them. Individual organic ligands, isolated from microbial cultures or
biosynthesized through genomics, can be structurally characterized via NMR and tandem
MS analysis, but this is tedious and time-consuming. A complementary approach is
to compare known properties of natural ligands, particularly their conditional binding
constants, with those of model organic ligands, measured under suitable conditions.
Such comparisons cannot be meaningfully interpreted unless the side-reaction
coefficient (SRC) of the model ligand in seawater is thoroughly evaluated. We conducted
series of potentiometric titrations, in non-coordinating medium at seawater ionic strength
(0.7 M NaClO4) over a range of metal:ligand molar ratios, to study complexation of the
siderophore desferrioxamine B (DFOB) with Mg and Ca, for which it has the highest
affinity among the major seasalt cations. From similar titrations of acetohydroxamic acid
in the absence and presence of methanesulfonate (mesylate), it was determined that
Mg and Ca binding to this common DFOB counter-ion is not strong enough to interfere
with the DFOB titrations. Stability constants were measured for all DFOB complexes
with Mg and Ca including, for the first time, the bidentate complexes. No evidence was
found for Mg and Ca coordination with the DFOB terminal amine. From the improved
DFOB speciation, we calculated five SRCs for each of the five (de)protonated forms of
DFOB in trace-metal-free seawater, yet we also present a more convenient definition of a
single SRC that allows adjustment of all DFOB stability constants to seawater conditions,
no matter which of these forms is selected as the “component” (reference species). An
example of Cd speciation in seawater containing DFOB illustrates the non-trivial use of
different SRCs for polyprotic, polydentate organic ligands.
title: Using Carbon Nanotubes in Separating Middle Distillate Fuels
Creators: name: Boni, Katharine A
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Middle distillate fuels
subject: Carbon nanotubes
subject: GCIMS
subject: Fuel instability
subject: Organic nitrogen

description: This thesis describes a novel purification technique using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as a filtering medium for a middle distillate fuel, Spanish fuel No. 2, for the removal of nitrogen-containing compounds. Two extracts were used, dichloromethane (DCM) and methanol (MeOH), after filtering the fuel through the CNTs, to determine the compounds that were captured. The compounds from the extracts were identified via gas chromatography-mass spectrum analysis (GC/MS). The extracts were compared for both their nitrogen content distribution and their hydrocarbon content distribution. In the DCM extract, the major nitrogen constituents were other cyclic nitrogen compounds such as piperidine and the most common type of hydrocarbon was alkanes with heptadecane and its isomers being the most prevalent type of alkane. In the MeOH extract, the most common nitrogen class was quinolines and the most common hydrocarbon class was benzenes. Overall, there was only a single pyrrole present in the study in the DCM extract that could be identified from the chromatogram, however there may be more present in the background noise of the chromatogram without any baseline smoothing operations (see Appendix). The MeOH extract had the lowest nitrogen content with only eleven nitrogen compounds identifiable by the CNTs compared to the twenty-nine nitrogen compounds present in the MeOH extract, however more nitrogen compounds may be present if the ability to separate all the compounds present in the chromatograms.