cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Esercizi di laicità. Ovvero de-finire (giuridicamente) lo Stato laico
Creators: name: Alicino, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Laicità e pluralismo

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il perché dello Stato laico: la matrice liberal-democratica – 2. Le “definizioni” giuridiche – 2.1. È lingua artificiale il diritto – 3. Il mos italicus dello Stato laico – 3.1. Genesi della laicità all’italiana – 3.2. 1929: conciliati in nome della SS.MA Trinità ... – 3.3. ... ovvero il ritorno a “un’antica espressione medioevale” – 4. De-finire (giuridicamente) la laicità nell’ordinamento repubblicano – 5. Il ruolo della giurisprudenza costituzionale – 5.1 L’operazione definitoria della Corte – 5.2. Una lettura laica dell’art. 3 Cost. – 5.3. Laicità = aconfessionalità – 5.4. Il côté “neutrale” dello Stato laico – 6. Laicità fluida e modellabile ad oggetto disponibile –7. Le “autentiche” e “sane” laicità ... – 8. ... e l’idioma laico della Corte
ora nel volume collettaneo a cura di G. LEZIROLI, La Carta e la Corte. La tutela penale del fatto religioso fra normativa costituzionale e diritto vivente, Atti del Convegno di Ferrara (26-27 ottobre 2007), Pellegrini Editore, Cosenza, 2009,  p. 215 ss.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 14 gennaio
Cosmophobia: Urania’s Lament and Lessons Learned
Creators: name: Larsen, Kristine
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: pseudoscience; astronomy; science literacy; science outreach; apocalypse

description: NASA astrobiologist David Morrison coined the term cosmophobia – fear of the cosmos – in response to the plethora of 2012 disaster scenarios that depict Urania, the muse of astronomy, as a wicked destroyer rather than a beautiful inspiration. The purveyors of these scenarios relied on the public’s lack of science literacy and ability to tell the difference between science and pseudoscience, as well as the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and social media, in their effort to sell books, DVDs, and subscription-only web content. Also adding to the public’s inability to critically analyze the veritable flood of 2012 apocalypse suppositions is the lamentable disconnect between the average 21st century citizen and the night sky (in part due to light pollution). The result is a general public who views the astronomical knowledge of ancient cultures as mystical and even supernatural, adding to the fear factor of December 21, 2012. While this date passed with neither the end of the world nor the rash of suicides and murders some feared, the 2012 apocalypse hoax proved to be one of the most important teachable moments in recent memory in terms of science education and outreach.
description: Altre Modernità, No 9 (2013): Apocalisse 2012
title: Initial experiences with amide proton transfer imaging: correlation between quantitative MTRasym ratio, rCBV and rCBF values in brain tumours
Creators: name: Venugopal, Vasanthakumar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Amide proton transfer (APT) imaging is a new molecular MRI technique based on chemical exchange saturation transfer mechanism with proposed use as an imaging biomarker in brain tumours. We evaluated the correlation between Asymmetric magnetization...
Ipazia d’Alessandria come anello della grande tradizione filosofica greca. Μῆτερ καὶ ἀδελφὴ καὶ διδάσκαλε
Creators: name: Teruel, Pedro Jesús
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In this paper we are moving from the analysis of the historiographical and literary aspects of the figure of Hypatia of Alexandria in order to get to the reconstruction of her personal and intellectual trajectory. We enunciate the guidelines of her thought, which we base on her methodological approach to mathematics, geometry and astronomy; on the basic beliefs of the cosmological model to which she would have given her support; and finally, on the global vision which defines her manner of philosophizing as search for theoretical unity as well as practical engagement.
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
Per un’altra retorica della φιλοτιμία: voci femminili, uomini politici e discorsi pubblici. Considerazioni sulla presenza dell’etera nell’opera di Platone
Creators: name: Bergomi, Mariapaola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of my paper is to express effective hypotheses on the charac­ter of the hetaira in some of Plato’s dialogues, particularly in the Sympo­sium – where its presence is implicit in the role of Alcibiades as the lover – and in the Menexenus, my starting point to investigate the character of Aspasia, the greatest courtesan of ancient Greece. I will also underline the relation between the courtesan and the sophistic rhetoric. My final remarks will provide some concise analysis of the history of women and of gender studies in Italy.
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
Shear Viscosity of a Hot Pion Gas
Creators: name: Lang, Robert
name: Kaiser, Norbert
name: Weise, Wolfram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shear viscosity of an interacting pion gas is studied using the Kubo formalism as a microscopic description of thermal systems close to global equilibrium. We implement the skeleton expansion in order to approximate the retarded correlator of the viscous part of the energy-momentum tensor. After exploring this in $gϕ^4$ theory we show how the skeleton expansion can be consistently applied to pions in chiral perturbation theory. The shear viscosity $η$ is determined by the spectral width, or equivalently, the mean free path of pions in the heat bath. We derive a new analytical result for the mean free path which is well-conditioned for numerical evaluation and discuss the temperature and pion-mass dependence of the mean free path and the shear viscosity. The ratio $η/s$ of the interacting pion gas exceeds the lower bound $1/4π$ from AdS/CFT correspondence.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures. Revision includes additional Appendix B. Matches published version
The disposition of fluoxetine in newborn lambs up to one year of age
Creators: name: Chow, Timothy W. Y.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: While drugs are commonly used in the pediatric population, their disposition is not well studied. The passive transfer of drugs administered to pregnant women to the fetus constitutes a major route of drug exposure in newborns. The fetus has maternal routes for drug disposition; however, newborns must rely on their own immature mechanisms. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the ability of newborns to absorb, distribute, metabolize. and excrete drugs, and the ontogeny of drug disposition is essential to determine the development of these mechanisms from birth to adult life with the goal of providing clinicians with guidelines for optimal drug dosing. The lifetime incidence of depression in women is approximately 10-25% with a greater vulnerability for the onset or recurrence of depression during childbearing years. Approximately 30-35% of pregnant women diagnosed with depression are on an antidepressant, such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI). One of the most prescribed SSRIs that is also used during pregnancy is fluoxetine. The prevalence of SSRI use during pregnancy results in 5% of all newborns in our population with antenatal SSRI exposure. Stereoselective disposition of fluoxetine has been demonstrated in sheep and humans. This thesis utilized the chronically catheterized lamb animal model to study fluoxetine disposition ability from newborn to one year of life. This model builds upon previous research in our group that used pregnant, non-pregnant, and newborn sheep to characterize the maternal, fetal, and neonatal disposition of clinically relevant compounds. The studies in this thesis on postnatal fluoxetine disposition build upon previous research on maternal-fetal fluoxetine stereoselective disposition in our group. These studies reported no metabolism of fluoxetine in the fetus, and their disposition depended on maternal routes. The disposition of fluoxetine in newborn lambs was limited compared to adults but was developed compared to the fetus. A gender difference was observed in the newborn group where females had a greater metabolic capacity for fluoxetine. A significant maturation in drug disposition was observed at approximately 3 months, which coincided with the time of weaning. Fluoxetine disposition was stereoselective from newborn to one year of age.
Il filosofo e la città
Creators: name: Colombo, Raffaella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: If the few sources at our disposal on the life and the works of Hypatia of Alexandria leave many unanswered questions about her role on the history of philosophy, her death, brought about a Christian mob, gives space to some possible analogies between the Alexandrine philosopher and Socrates, timeless paradigm of injustice against the wise. This paper, following Leo Strauss’s analyses on classical political philosophy, aims at inquiring this suggestion to reveal the hard, if not impossible, relationship between philosophy, place of an anarchist and irreligious search, and the city, place of an endless struggle between different traditions.
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
Positivity of the English language
Creators: name: Kloumann, Isabel M.
name: Danforth, Christopher M.
name: Harris, Kameron Decker
name: Bliss, Catherine A.
name: Dodds, Peter Sheridan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the last million years, human language has emerged and evolved as a fundamental instrument of social communication and semiotic representation. People use language in part to convey emotional information, leading to the central and contingent questions: (1) What is the emotional spectrum of natural language? and (2) Are natural languages neutrally, positively, or negatively biased? Here, we report that the human-perceived positivity of over 10,000 of the most frequently used English words exhibits a clear positive bias. More deeply, we characterize and quantify distributions of word positivity for four large and distinct corpora, demonstrating that their form is broadly invariant with respect to frequency of word use.
description: Manuscript: 9 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures; Supplementary Information: 12 pages, 3 tables, 8 figures
Effect of Cu(II) compound containing dipicolinic acid on DNA damage: a study of antiproliferative activity and DNA interaction properties by spectroscopic, molecular docking and molecular dynamics approaches
Creators: name: Heidari, Ameneh
name: Dehghanian, Effat
name: Razmara, Zohreh
name: Shahraki, Somaye
name: Delarami, Hojat Samareh
name: Majd, Mostafa Heidari
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: A polymeric compound formulized as [Cu(µ-dipic)2{Na2(µ-H2O)4]n.2nH2O (I), where dipic is 2,6-pyridine dicarboxylic acid (dipicolinic acid, H2dipic), was synthesized by sonochemical irradiation. The initial in-vitro cytotoxic activity of this complex compared with renowned anticancer drugs like cisplatin, versus HCT116 colon cell lines, shows promising results. This study investigated the interaction mode between compound (I) and calf-thymus DNA utilizing a range of analytical techniques including spectrophotometry, fluorimetry, partition coefficient analysis, viscometry, gel electrophoresis and molecular docking technique. The results obtained from experimental methods reveal complex (I) could bind to CT-DNA via hydrogen bonding and van der Waals forces and the theoretical methods support it. Also, complex (I) indicates nuclease activity in the attendance of H2O2 and can act as an artificial nuclease to cleave DNA with high efficiency.
A quantum relay chip based on telecommunication integrated optics technology
Creators: name: Martin, A.
name: Alibart, O.
name: De Micheli, M. P.
name: Ostrowsky, D. B.
name: Tanzilli, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate an integrated optical circuit on lithium niobate designed to implement the teleportation-based quantum relay scheme for one-way quantum communication at a telecom wavelength. Such an advanced quantum circuit merges for the first time, both optical-optical and electro-optical non-linear functions necessary to implement the desired on-chip single qubit teleportation. On one hand, spontaneous parametric down-conversion is used to produce entangled photon-pairs. On the other hand, we take advantage of two photon routers, consisting of electro-optically controllable couplers, to separate the paired photons and to perform a Bell state measurement, respectively. After having validated all the individual functions in the classical regime, we have performed a Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) experiment to mimic a one-way quantum communication link. Such a quantum effect, seen as a prerequisite towards achieving teleportation, has been obtained, at one of the routers, when the chip was coupled to an external single photon source. The two-photon interference pattern shows a net visibility of 80%, which validates the proof of principle of a "quantum relay circuit" for qubits carried by telecom photons. In case of optimized losses, such a chip could increase the maximal achievable distance of one-way quantum key distribution links by a factor 1.8. Our approach and results emphasize the high potential of integrated optics on lithium niobate as a key technology for future reconfigurable quantum information manipulation.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Relaxation in driven integer quantum Hall edge states
Creators: name: Kovrizhin, D. L.
name: Chalker, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A highly non-thermal electron distribution is generated when quantum Hall edge states originating from sources at different potentials meet at a quantum point contact. The relaxation of this distribution to a stationary form as a function of distance downstream from the contact has been observed in recent experiments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056803 (2010)]. Here we present an exact treatment of a minimal model for the system at filling factor ν=2, with results that account well for the observations.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, including 4 pages of supplementary material, final version as published
title: MRI features of cholangiocarcinoma
Creators: name: Belhadj, Mohamed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: Colonography MR
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The objective of this study was to describe the contribution of cholangiography-MRI in the positive diagnosis and the pre-therapeutic extension assessment of cholangiocarcinoma...
title: Pre-operative cochlear implant imaging: Nothing should be missed
Creators: name: Siala, Selima
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - Know cochlear implant indications. - Specify key points of preoperative radiological assessment in cochlear implant candidates. - Illustrate through a rich iconography radiological findings that preclude or complicate cochlear implant...
title: Imaging of complications after sinonasal surgery and normal findings
Creators: name: García Santana, Ernesto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Surgery
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Outcomes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses normal anatomy and frequent anatomic variants. To describe normal post-surgical image findings after functional endoscopic sinus-nose surgery (FESS) and open surgery (OS). To expose the most common image...
La “superficialità” del Pop. Dall’ironia di Duchamp all’umorismo di Warhol
Creators: name: Rozzoni, Claudio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Starting from Arthur Danto’s The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, we take into consideration two works of art – Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain and Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box – where the notion of interpretation, according to the American philosopher, plays a prominent role in the process of creation. By focusing on the legacy of Duchamp’s and Warhol’s works, in the light of the Deleuzian notions of Humor and Irony, this paper shows that the two artists can be considered as the first promoters of the “aesthetics of surfaces”. Particularly, Warhol seems to listen to the “superficial claim” of the artificial, that is to say a copy of a copy, that can be brought «to the point where is reversed into the simulacrum».
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
Numerical determination of the entanglement entropy for free fields in the cylinder
Creators: name: Huerta, Marina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate numerically the logarithmic contribution to the entanglement entropy of a cylindrical region in three spatial dimensions for both, free scalar and Dirac fields. The coefficient is universal and proportional to the type $c$ conformal anomaly in agreement with recent analytical predictions. We also calculate the mass corrections to the entanglement entropy for scalar and Dirac fields in a disk. These apparently unrelated problems make contact through the dimensional reduction procedure valid for free fields whereby the entanglement entropy for the cylinder can be calculated as an integral over masses of the disk entanglement entropies. Coming from the same numerical evaluation in the lattice, each coefficient is cross checked by the other, testing in this way the two results simultaneously.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected in equations and figures labels
Una chiacchierata con Serena Sinigaglia
Creators: name: Gennari, Alessia
name: Colombo, Raffaella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Nell'anno accademico 2011-2012, Serena Sinigaglia ha collaborato con la cattedra di Estetica e di Estetica dello Spettacolo alla realizzazione di un laboratorio teorico-pratico sulla figura di Ipazia d'Alessandria finalizzato alla messa in scena di testi elaborati dagli studenti. Intervista a Serena Sinigaglia realizzata da Alessia Gennari e Raffaella Colombo il 20 aprile 2012 nel foyer del Teatro Ringhiera.
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
Additional file 3 of Evidence for implementation of interventions to promote mental health in the workplace: a systematic scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Paterson, Charlotte
name: Leduc, Caleb
name: Maxwell, Margaret
name: Aust, Birgit
name: Amann, Benedikt L.
name: Cerga-Pashoja, Arlinda
name: Coppens, Evelien
name: Couwenbergh, Chrisje
name: O’Connor, Cliodhna
name: Arensman, Ella
name: Greiner, Birgit A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Outline of the step-wise review methodology.
Precision Mass Measurements beyond $^{132}$Sn: Anomalous behaviour of odd-even staggering of binding energies
Creators: name: Hakala, J.
name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Gorelov, D.
name: Eronen, T.
name: Jokinen, A.
name: Kankainen, A.
name: Kolhinen, V. S.
name: Kortelainen, M.
name: Moore, I. D.
name: Penttilä, H.
name: Rinta-Antila, S.
name: Rissanen, J.
name: Saastamoinen, A.
name: Sonnenschein, V.
name: Äystö, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic masses of the neutron-rich isotopes $^{121-128}$Cd, $^{129,131}$In, $^{130-135}$Sn, $^{131-136}$Sb, and $^{132-140}$Te have been measured with high precision (10 ppb) using the Penning trap mass spectrometer JYFLTRAP. Among these, the masses of four r-process nuclei $^{135}$Sn, $^{136}$Sb, and $^{139,140}$Te were measured for the first time. The data reveals a strong $N$=82 shell gap at $Z$=50 but indicates the importance of correlations for $Z>50$. An empirical neutron pairing gap expressed as the odd-even staggering of isotopic masses shows a strong quenching across $N$=82 for Sn, with the $Z$-dependence that is unexplainable by the current theoretical models.
description: 4 Pages, 5 figures. Revised version which focuses on odd-even staggering
Multiplicative excellent families of elliptic surfaces of type E_7 or E_8
Creators: name: Kumar, Abhinav
name: Shioda, Tetsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 14J27, Secondary 11G05, 12F10, 13A50

description: We describe explicit multiplicative excellent families of rational elliptic surfaces with Galois group isomorphic to the Weyl group of the root lattices E_7 or E_8. The Weierstrass coefficients of each family are related by an invertible polynomial transformation to the generators of the multiplicative invariant ring of the associated Weyl group, given by the fundamental characters of the corresponding Lie group. As an application, we give examples of elliptic surfaces with multiplicative reduction and all sections defined over Q for most of the entries of fiber configurations and Mordell-Weil lattices in [Oguiso-Shioda '91], as well as examples of explicit polynomials with Galois group W(E_7) or W(E_8).
description: 23 pages. Final version
Field-induced Confined States in Graphene
Creators: name: Moriyama, S.
name: Morita, Y.
name: Watanabe, E.
name: Tsuya, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an approach to confine the carriers in single-layer graphene, which leads to quantum devices with field-induced quantum confinement. We demonstrated that the Coulomb-blockade effect evolves under a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene device. Our experimental results show that field-induced quantum dots are realized in graphene, and a quantum confinement-deconfinement transition is switched by the magnetic field.
Exploring the role of TLK2 mutation in tropical calcific pancreatitis: an in silico and molecular dynamics simulation study
Creators: name: Shrivastava, Ashish
name: Magani, Sri Krishna Jayadev
name: Lokhande, Kiran Bharat
name: Chintakhindi, Madhusudan
name: Singh, Ashutosh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Tropical calcific pancreatitis (TCP) is a juvenile form of non-alcoholic chronic pancreatitis seen exclusively in tropical countries. The disease poses a high risk of complications, including pancreatic diabetes and cancer, leading to significant mortality due to poor diagnosis and ineffective treatments. This study employed whole exome sequencing (WES) of 5 TCP patient samples to identify genetic variants associated with TCP. Advanced computational techniques were used to gain atomic-level insights into disease progression, including microsecond-scale long MD simulations and essential dynamics. In silico virtual screening was performed to identify potential therapeutic compounds targeting the mutant protein using the Asinex and DrugBank compound library. WES analysis predicted several single nucleotide variants (SNVs) associated with TCP, including a novel missense variant (c.T1802A or p.V601E) in the TLK2 gene. Computational analysis revealed that the p.V601E mutation significantly affected the structure of the TLK2 kinase domain and its conformational dynamics, altering the interaction profile between ATP and the binding pocket. These changes could impact TLK2's kinase activity and functions, potentially correlating with TCP progression. Promising lead compounds that selectively bind to the TLK2 mutant protein were identified, offering potential for therapeutic interventions in TCP. These findings hold great potential for future research.
title: Are cephalic radiation doses to interventional radiologists too high?
Creators: name: Ploussi, Agapi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Vertebroplasty
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: ♦The chronic exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation has raised serious concerns regarding the potential development of occupational cataract and eye lens opacities [1-3], as well as the development of brain disorders [4,5]. ♦Based on recent...
On the Symmetric Feedback Capacity of the K-user Cyclic Z-Interference Channel
Creators: name: Tandon, Ravi
name: Mohajer, Soheil
name: Poor, H. Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The K-user cyclic Z-interference channel models a situation in which the kth transmitter causes interference only to the (k-1)th receiver in a cyclic manner, e.g., the first transmitter causes interference only to the Kth receiver. The impact of noiseless feedback on the capacity of this channel is studied by focusing on the Gaussian cyclic Z-interference channel. To this end, the symmetric feedback capacity of the linear shift deterministic cyclic Z-interference channel (LD-CZIC) is completely characterized for all interference regimes. Using insights from the linear deterministic channel model, the symmetric feedback capacity of the Gaussian cyclic Z-interference channel is characterized up to within a constant number of bits. As a byproduct of the constant gap result, the symmetric generalized degrees of freedom with feedback for the Gaussian cyclic Z-interference channel are also characterized. These results highlight that the symmetric feedback capacities for both linear and Gaussian channel models are in general functions of K, the number of users. Furthermore, the capacity gain obtained due to feedback decreases as K increases.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Is a 4-bit synaptic weight resolution enough? - Constraints on enabling spike-timing dependent plasticity in neuromorphic hardware
Creators: name: Pfeil, Thomas
name: Potjans, Tobias C.
name: Schrader, Sven
name: Potjans, Wiebke
name: Schemmel, Johannes
name: Diesmann, Markus
name: Meier, Karlheinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Large-scale neuromorphic hardware systems typically bear the trade-off between detail level and required chip resources. Especially when implementing spike-timing-dependent plasticity, reduction in resources leads to limitations as compared to floating point precision. By design, a natural modification that saves resources would be reducing synaptic weight resolution. In this study, we give an estimate for the impact of synaptic weight discretization on different levels, ranging from random walks of individual weights to computer simulations of spiking neural networks. The FACETS wafer-scale hardware system offers a 4-bit resolution of synaptic weights, which is shown to be sufficient within the scope of our network benchmark. Our findings indicate that increasing the resolution may not even be useful in light of further restrictions of customized mixed-signal synapses. In addition, variations due to production imperfections are investigated and shown to be uncritical in the context of the presented study. Our results represent a general framework for setting up and configuring hardware-constrained synapses. We suggest how weight discretization could be considered for other backends dedicated to large-scale simulations. Thus, our proposition of a good hardware verification practice may rise synergy effects between hardware developers and neuroscientists.
Morphological characterization and chemical composition of PM2.5 and PM10 collected from four typical Chinese restaurants
Creators: name: Li, Yuanju
name: Wu, Aihua
name: Wu, Yuandong
name: Xu, Jie
name: Zhao, Ziwei
name: Tong, Mengxue
name: Shengji, Luan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: It is widely known that cooking contributes particulate matter (PM) to outdoor and indoor air. To research the morphology and chemical composition of PM10 and PM2.5 in cooking fumes, four Chinese restaurants with distinct cooking styles were sampled. A Zeiss Merlin Compact (FE-SEM) with EDS system was used to determine the morphology and chemical composition of individual PM. The results show six types of particles with different morphologies: rectangular, flocculent, flat, irregular, spheroidal and spherical, and they are primarily Ca-rich, C-rich, and Si-rich particles. The most abundant PM was Ca-rich particles with rectangular shape, thus, Chinese style cooking may be an important source of rectangular Ca-S particles The amount of these particles was affected by the cooking style and method: water-based cooking methods emitted more rectangular Ca-S particles, C-rich particles with spherical shapes were abundant in cooking fumes from oil-based cooking methods, and the spheroidal particles in cooking fumes are closely associated with roasting. Copyright © 2019 American Association for Aerosol Research
${\cal O}(α_s)$ corrections to the B-hadron energy distribution of the top decay in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model considering GM-VFN scheme
Creators: name: Nejad, S. Mohammad Moosavi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our analytic results for the NLO corrections to the partial decay width $t\to H^+b$ followed by $b\to BX$ for nonzero b-quark mass ($m_b\neq 0$) in the Fixed-Flavor-Number scheme (FFNs). To make our predictions for the energy distribution of the outgoing bottom-flavored hadron (B-hadron) as a function of the normalized B-energy fraction $x_B$, we apply the General-Mass Variable-Flavor-Number scheme (GM-VFNs) in the two-Higgs-doublet model. To extract the results we use data from $e^+e^-$ machines in order to describe both the b-quark and the gluon hadronizations in top decay. We find that the most reliable prediction for the B-hadron energy spectrum is made in the GM-VFN scheme.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0911.3027, arXiv:1110.1601
Additional file 1 of Evidence for implementation of interventions to promote mental health in the workplace: a systematic scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Paterson, Charlotte
name: Leduc, Caleb
name: Maxwell, Margaret
name: Aust, Birgit
name: Amann, Benedikt L.
name: Cerga-Pashoja, Arlinda
name: Coppens, Evelien
name: Couwenbergh, Chrisje
name: O’Connor, Cliodhna
name: Arensman, Ella
name: Greiner, Birgit A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P checklist.
Unraveling the crystal structure, stability and drug likeness of 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives against Myelofibrosis: a combined experimental and computational investigation
Creators: name: Nagarajappa, Lohith Tumakuru
name: Chikkappaiahnayaka, Santhosh
name: Leoma, Mofeli Benedict
name: Isamura, Bienfait Kabuyaya
name: Venkatesh, Karthik
name: Singh, Krishna Ravi
name: Sindogi, Kishorkumar
name: Anandalwar, Sridhar Mandayam
name: Sadashiva, Maralinganadoddi P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Herein, we report the synthesis and characterization of novel 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives, 2-methoxybenzyl 5-(4-chlorophenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-carboxylate (C1) 2-methoxybenzyl 5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-carboxylate (C2), and methoxybenzyl 5-(3-chlorophenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-carboxylate (C3) obtained through desulfurative cyclization reaction. The compound C2 was crystallized, and its crystal structure was elucidated using single-crystal X-ray diffraction technique. The Hirshfeld surface analysis was carried out to analyze, visualize and globally appreciate the weak interactions involved in crystal packing. These analyses were complemented by Quantum Theory of Atoms In Molecules (QTAIM) and Reduced Density Gradient (RDG), which allowed us to decipher the nature and types of attractive forces that contribute to maintain the crystal structure of the titled compound. Moreover, the ADME profile of the compound was predicted to assess its drug likeness. Finally, in silico studies were performed to explore the binding affinity of the compounds (C1–3) against Myelofibrosis through molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulations.
title: Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. The Radiological approach
Creators: name: Pugliesi, Alba Rosa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Thorax
subject: Bones
subject: CT
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education
subject: Staging
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Metastases
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To illustrate the spectrum of manifestations of Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. -To examine the latest guidelines and recommendations. [2] -To highlight the impact of imaging techniques in the diagnosis, the staging and the follow up of Hodgkin...
Ipazia, eroina tragica o vittima melò? Un viaggio estetico nel mito letterario dell’alessandrina
Creators: name: Scanu, Roberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: If it is true that ancient historical sources about Hypatia are terribly run out, the same cannot be said for modern literature and narrative sources that dealt with her story and created a veritable literary legend that will be shortly rebuilt in this essay. Special attention will be devoted to the possible and varied meanings of the story of the ancient philosopher, to its many interpretations and to the different aesthetic universes of reference involved in its narrative. The final remarks will claim that the contributions of previous authors, rather than return the face of Hypatia, tend to offer a mirror through which the reader actually gazes at his society, his subjectivity and his cultural history.
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
Conformational analysis of lipid membrane mimetics modified with Aβ42 peptide by Raman spectroscopy and computer simulations
Creators: name: Mamatkulov, Kahramon
name: Zavatski, Siarhei
name: Arynbek, Yersultan
name: Esawii, Heba A.
name: Burko, Aliaksandr
name: Bandarenka, Hanna
name: Arzumanyan, Grigory
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Peptide-lipid interactions play an important role in maintaining the integrity and function of the cell membrane. Even slight changes in these interactions can induce the development of various diseases. Specifically, peptide misfolding and aggregation in the membrane is considered to be one of the triggers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), however its exact mechanism is still unclear. To this end, an increase of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide concentration in the human brain is widely accepted to gradually produce cytotoxic Aβ aggregates (plaques). These plaques initiate a sequence of pathogenic events ending up in observable symptoms of dementia. Understanding the mechanism of the Aβ interaction with cells is crucial for early detection and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. Hence, in this work, a comprehensive Raman analysis of the Aβ42 conformational dynamics in water and in liposomes and lipodiscs that mimic the membrane system is presented. The obtained results show that the secondary structure of Aβ42 in liposomes is dominated by the α–helix conformation, which remains stable over time. However, it comes as a surprise to reveal that the lipodisc environment induces the transformation of the Aβ42 secondary structure to a β-turn/random coil. Our Raman spectroscopy findings are supported with molecular dynamics (MD) and density functional theory (DFT) simulations, showing their good agreement.
Universal probes of two-dimensional topological insulators: Dislocation and pi-flux
Creators: name: Juricic, Vladimir
name: Mesaros, Andrej
name: Slager, Robert-Jan
name: Zaanen, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the pi-flux and the dislocation represent topological observables that probe two-dimensional topological order through binding of the zero-energy modes. We analytically demonstrate that pi-flux hosts a Kramers pair of zero modes in the topological Gamma (Berry phase skyrmion at the zero momentum) and M (Berry phase skyrmion at a finite momentum) phases of the M-B model introduced for the HgTe quantum spin Hall insulator. Furthermore, we analytically show that the dislocation acts as a pi-flux, but only so in the M phase. Our numerical analysis confirms this through a Kramers pair of zero modes bound to a dislocation appearing in the M phase only, and further demonstrates the robustness of the modes to disorder and the Rashba coupling. Finally, we conjecture that by studying the zero modes bound to dislocations all translationally distinguishable two-dimensional topological band insulators can be classified.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; version accepted in Physical Review Letters
title: Usefulness of ultrasonography for gout
Creators: name: Elouaer, Wafa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Laboratory tests
subject: History
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Look for signs suggestive of gout on standard x-rays. Look for the frequency of specific and non-specific ultrasound signs in patients with gout and whether these characteristics differ according to the serum uricemia and the duration of the...
Spin-orbit resonance, transit duration variation and possible secular perturbations in KOI-13
Creators: name: Szabó, Gy. M.
name: Pál, A.
name: Derekas, A.
name: Simon, A. E.
name: Szalai, T.
name: Kiss, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: KOI-13 is the first known transiting system exhibiting light curve distortions due to gravity darkening of the rapidly rotating host star. In this paper we analyze publicly available Kepler Q2--Q3 short-cadence observations, detecting a continuous light variation with a period of Prot = 25.43 +- 0.05 hour and a half-amplitude of 21 ppm, which is linked to stellar rotation. This period is in exact 5:3 resonance with the orbit of KOI-13.01, which is the first detection of a spin-orbit resonance in a host of a substellar companion. The stellar rotation leads to stellar oblateness, which is expected to cause secular variations in the orbital elements. We indeed detect the gradual increment of the transit duration with a rate of (1.14 +- 0.30) * 10^{-6} day/cycle. The confidence of this trend is 3.85-sigma, the two-sided false alarm probability is 0.012%. We suggest that the reason for this variation is the expected change of the impact parameter, with a rate of db/dt = -0.016 +- 0.004/yr. Assuming b~0.25, KOI-13.01 may become a nontransiting object in 75--100 years. The observed rate is compatible with the expected secular perturbations due to the stellar oblateness yielded by the fast rotation.
description: Accepted by MNRAS Letters. Parts related to stellar rotation has been polished. 5 pages 3 figures
Puccini e Simoni: non solo Turandot
Creators: name: Bentoglio, Alberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This essay aims to the reassessment of Renato Simoni’s work, providing a new reading of his relationship with Giacomo Puccini, further than the undoubtedly very important – as widely studied – composition of Turandot. Although for almost forty years he was, not only the theatre critic for the most important national newspaper (Il corriere della sera), but also one of the greatest representatives of Early Twentieth Century theatre culture and society, few researches are dedicated to Renato Simoni’s activities. Dramatist, critic, librettist and director, Simoni – born in Verona in 1875 and passed away in Milan in 1952, age 67 – is mainly mentioned for his collaboration with Puccini to the Turandot’s libretto, as the thick collection of letters kept in the Livia Simoni Libary testifies.
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
Direct photon results from PHENIX at RHIC
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Yorito
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: icnfp18
phenix
direct photon
thermal photon
p+p
d+au
au+au
flow
cu+cu
multiplicity
scaling
p+au

description: Talk presented at the International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2018
Compassione e linguaggio nelle riflessioni di Montaigne sugli animali
Creators: name: Mormino, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The study presents Montaigne’s considerations about the status of non-human animals. In his Essais the French philosopher describes compassion as the capability to pay attention to the claims for justice of weaker beings, showing how cruelty derives from the refusal or from the incapacity to listen to the voice of the “Other”; Montaigne’s fundamental thesis, according to which language is the most important vehicle of any correct ethical relationship, is thus confirmed. Empathy is not a “classical” virtue, grounded on fortitude, but rises, instead, from a weakness, which acquires a positive value inasmuch as it poses us on the same level of all other creatures. It has the quality of being grounded on the personal experience of the negativity of pain, which we share with all living beings, and is therefore incontrovertible.
description: Itinera, No 4 (2012)
In silico screening of selective ATP mimicking inhibitors targeting the Plasmodium falciparum Grp94
Creators: name: Stofberg, Melissa Louise
name: Muzenda, Florence Lisa
name: Achilonu, Ikechukwu
name: Strauss, Erick
name: Zininga, Tawanda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Plasmodium falciparum parasites export more than 400 proteins to remodel the host cell environment and increase its chances of surviving and reproducing. The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays a central role in protein export by facilitating protein sorting and folding. The ER resident member of the Hsp90 family, glucose-regulated protein 94 (Grp94), is a molecular chaperone that facilitates the proper folding of client proteins in the ER lumen. In P. falciparum, Grp94 (PfGrp94) is essential for parasite survival, rendering it a promising anti-malarial drug target. Despite this, its druggability has not been fully explored. Consequently, this study sought to identify small molecule inhibitors targeting the PfGrp94. Potential small molecule inhibitors of PfGrp94 were designed and screened using in silico studies. Molecular docking studies indicate that two novel compounds, Compound S and Compound Z selectively bind to PfGrp94 over its human homologues. Comparatively, Compound Z had a higher affinity for PfGrp94 than Compound S. Further interrogation of the inhibitor binding using molecular dynamics (MD) analysis confirmed that Compound Z formed stable binding poses within the ATP-binding pocket of the PfGrp94 N-terminal domain (NTD) during the 250 ns simulation run. PfGrp94 interacted with Compound Z through hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions with residues Asp 148, Asn 106, Gly 152, Ile 151 and Lys 113. Based on the findings of this study, Compound Z could serve as a competitive and selective inhibitor of PfGrp94 and may be useful as a starting point for the development of a potential drug for malaria.
title: Endometriosis: Why does a benign condition have such malignant effects?
Creators: name: Walker, Carolina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pelvic floor dysfunction
subject: Education and training
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To learn how endometriosis can affect the female body To recognise the disease patterns of endometriosis- common appearances and radiological pitfalls- especially in non-gynaecological sites. To understand that endometriosis can lead to fibrosis and...