cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Regina Dauser, Stefan Hächler, Michael Kempe, Franz Mauelshagen, Martin Stuber (eds.), Wissen im Netz. Botanik und Pflanzentransfer in europäischen Korrespondenznetzen des 18. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Canadelli, Elena
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: (Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2008, 427 pp. ISBN 978-3-05-004144-5)
di Elena Canadelli
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
ON DEMAND: Classroom Video for Lectures, Learning Media, and Examinations
Creators: name: Kinser, Jason
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2021

description: Multi-purpose video usage in the classroom has been accelerated by the pandemic, and a plethora of tools are becoming available. As the resources improve, so do the opportunities to use videos for delivery of information, organizing student resources, and providing a new avenue for student assessment. This project is participating in the Stearns Center Assessment Redesign program. This presentation will have three components. The first component is the use of technology to create lecture videos from lecture material. Creating videos is a time-consuming process, and this presentation will review the methods used their construction for CDS 411 (Modeling and Simulation II). The second component is born from the recent increase in student honor violations seen after the pivot to online teaching. CDS 411 replaced traditional examinations with student-created video presentations. The first attempt at this method did have some successes and some need for improvements. The third component is spurred by the fact that students in the sciences tend not to read the textbook, but the read only the summary and problems at the end of the chapters. CDS 411 is developing an investigator approach to presenting the course material through multiple mediums, which organizes the information in a linked tree, allowing the students to dive into various depths of the lessons in the same manner in which they use textbooks.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 13 (2021): Fostering Inclusive Excellence
ON DEMAND: Fostering Growth Mindset to Increase Student Motivation, Perseverance, and Success
Creators: name: Stawasz, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2021

description: Today’s students face new and ever-changing obstacles to learning. What do students do when they face a challenge? Do they persist, or do they give up? Growth Mindset is the understanding that we can develop our qualities and abilities. When students have growth mindsets, they are more likely to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, and view effort as the path to mastery. When low-income and minority students are exposed to Growth Mindset concepts, stereotype threat is measurably reduced. Ultimately, students with growth mindsets are more successful learners. This on-demand video will focus on strategies George Mason educators can use to create a Growth Mindset culture in their classrooms. Specifically, it will focus on 1) understanding Growth Mindset, 2) how to use Growth Mindset framing, praise, and feedback, and 3) how to convey to students the science that proves we can strengthen the neural connections in our brains through repeated effort, thereby improving our knowledge and skills. Supplementary resources provided will include: • Slide Deck • Growth Mindset Framing Tool • Growth Mindset Feedback Tool • Sample Growth Mindset Rubric • Sample Growth Mindset Lesson Plans • Links to additional readings and videos about Growth Mindset
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 13 (2021): Fostering Inclusive Excellence
Transverse Spin Structure Function g2(x, Q2 ) in the Valon model
Creators: name: Yazdi, Z. Alizadeh
name: Tahamtan, A.
name: Taghavi-Shahri, F.
name: Arash, F.
name: Zomorrodian, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin dependent structure function, g2ww(x,Q^2), is calculated in the valon model. A simple approach is given for the determination of the twist-3 part of the g2(x, Q^2) in Mellin space; thus, enabling us to obtain the full transverse structure function, g2(x, Q^2) for proton, neutron and the deuteron. In light of the new data, we have further calculated the transversely polarized structure function of g23He(x, Q^2). Our results are checked against the experimental data and nice agreements are observed.
description: 21 pages, 19 figures
Luigi Messedaglia, Il mais e la vita rurale italiana. Saggio di storia agraria
Creators: name: Sulli, Mario
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: (Piacenza, Federazione Italiana dei Consorzi Agrari, 1927, 446 pp.)
di Mario Sulli
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Liouville and Calabi-Yau type theorems for complex Hessian equations
Creators: name: Dinew, Slawomir
name: Kolodziej, Slawomir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a Liouville type theorem for entire maximal $m$-subharmonic functions in $\mathbb C^n$ with bounded gradient. This result, coupled with a standard blow-up argument, yields a (non-explicit) a priori gradient estimate for the complex Hessian equation on a compact Kähler manifold. This terminates the program, initiated by Hou, Ma and Wu, of solving the non-degenerate Hessian equation on such manifolds in full generality. We also obtain, using our previous work, continuous weak solutions in the degenerate case for the right hand side in some $L^p, $ with sharp bound on $p$.
description: minor revisions; to appear in Amer. J. Math
ON DEMAND: Achieve Better Student Writing Outcomes with Less Grading Stress: An Inductive Activity for Student Revision and Error Correction in Writing Assignments
Creators: name: Richardson, Mary
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2021

description: Marking errors and providing feedback on student writing is labor intensive and time consuming for instructors. What’s more, it’s often not fully effective. Students may not understand the feedback and therefore not make thoughtful changes. Alternatively, because this traditional approach is a teacher-initiated sequence, students might make changes in that one instance, but not develop a critical awareness needed for writing effectively in future assignments. Instead, I propose an inductive activity in which the sequence is reversed. Rather than receiving papers with errors marked and comments from instructors, students themselves identify and categorize strong and weak exemplars of writing, co-construct rule based knowledge about exemplary writing, collectively determine strategies for improvement, and apply these strategies to strengthening their own writing. This activity can be done with macro-level elements of writing (e.g, content, development, use of evidence, structure) for any type of writing assignment as well as micro-level grammar, word choice, and sentence structure. It can be done at various stages in the writing process such as before a peer review, after a first draft, or before a final graded draft. It is useful for native English speaking students and multi-lingual students alike.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 13 (2021): Fostering Inclusive Excellence
A yarn/fabric-based microfluidic patch for sweat sensing and monitoring
Creators: name: Yu, Wenze
name: Li, Qiujin
name: Zhao, Zhiqi
name: Gong, Jixian
name: Li, Zheng
name: Zhang, Jianfei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Wearable microfluidic devices have become a popular method in real-time health monitoring, especially for the non-invasive harvest and detection of human sweat, which is closely related to physiological and metabolic status of human body. In this study, a yarn/fabric sweat sensor patch was fabricated based on colorimetric analysis and quantitative analysis of sweat sensing assisted by a smartphone. The microfluidic pattern was composed by the hydrophilic yarn and fabric as the microfluidic channel and reservoir constructed upon the hydrophobic patch. The colorimetric assay of the sensor comprises two aspects, including assessing the content of target analyte through comparison with the reference markers as well as through mobile phone app assistance. The correlation between RGB and content of the biomarkers in human sweat can be established for fast reading of wellness status with high accuracy and effectivity. These sensing patches were deployed on 6 healthy volunteers aged from 20 to 23 to follow the physiological parameter changes during exercise process. After 20 min running, pH, Cl− concentration and glucose concentration was recorded respectively as 5.18–6.92, 56.8–70.0 mM, and 44.9–87.6 µM, which consistent with the normal range of human body. The patch with the yarn/fabric patterned microfluidic analysis system has proposed a simple and feasible approach for non-invasive testing of human wellness assessment, exhibiting great potential in point-of-care diagnosis and healthcare issues.
Londa Schiebinger e Claudia Swan (eds.), Colonial Botany Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Creators: name: Visconti, Agnese
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, 346 pp. ISBN 081-222-009-9 )
di Agnese Visconti
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Genealogy of flows of continuous-state branching processes via flows of partitions and the Eve property
Creators: name: Labbé, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80, 60G09, 60J25

description: We encode the genealogy of a continuous-state branching process associated with a branching mechanism $Ψ$ - or $Ψ$-CSBP in short - using a stochastic flow of partitions. This encoding holds for all branching mechanisms and appears as a very tractable object to deal with asymptotic behaviours and convergences. In particular we study the so-called Eve property - the existence of an ancestor from which the entire population descends asymptotically - and give a necessary and sufficient condition on the $Ψ$-CSBP for this property to hold. Finally, we show that the flow of partitions unifies the lookdown representation and the flow of subordinators when the Eve property holds.
description: 43 pages
Collective phase description of oscillatory convection
Creators: name: Kawamura, Yoji
name: Nakao, Hiroya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a theory for the collective phase description of oscillatory convection in Hele-Shaw cells. It enables us to describe the dynamics of the oscillatory convection by a single degree of freedom which we call the collective phase. The theory can be considered as a phase reduction method for limit-cycle solutions in infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, namely, stable time-periodic solutions to partial differential equations, representing the oscillatory convection. We derive the phase sensitivity function, which quantifies the phase response of the oscillatory convection to weak perturbations applied at each spatial point, and analyze the phase synchronization between two weakly coupled Hele-Shaw cells exhibiting oscillatory convection on the basis of the derived phase equations.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Chaos
Elena Macellari, Eva Mameli Calvino
Creators: name: Bajini, Irina
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: (Perugia, Ali&no Editrice, 2010, 101 pp.
ISBN 978-88-6254-047-6)
di Irina Bajini
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Control of the multiclass $G/G/1$ queue in the moderate deviation regime
Creators: name: Atar, Rami
name: Biswas, Anup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A multi-class single-server system with general service time distributions is studied in a moderate deviation heavy traffic regime. In the scaling limit, an optimal control problem associated with the model is shown to be governed by a differential game that can be explicitly solved. While the characterization of the limit by a differential game is akin to results at the large deviation scale, the analysis of the problem is closely related to the much studied area of control in heavy traffic at the diffusion scale.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AAP971 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Harmonic Systems With Bulk Noises
Creators: name: Bernardin, Cedric
name: Kannan, Venkateshan
name: Lebowitz, Joel L.
name: Lukkarinen, Jani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a harmonic chain in contact with thermal reservoirs at different temperatures and subject to bulk noises of different types: velocity flips or self-consistent reservoirs. While both systems have the same covariances in the nonequilibrium stationary state (NESS) the measures are very different. We study hydrodynamical scaling, large deviations, fluctuations, and long range correlations in both systems. Some of our results extend to higher dimensions.
Dynamics and rheology of sheared two-dimensional foam
Creators: name: Mohammadigoushki, Hadi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Using a shear cell device, we have studied four associated problems in foam by experiments: Bubble-bubble coalescence in sheared two-dimensional foam; lateral migration of a single large bubble in an otherwise monodisperse foam; size segregation of bubbles in sheared bidisperse foam; and the effect of non-Newtonian rheology of foam on lateral migration of bubble. For bubble-bubble coalescence in sheared two-dimensional foam, we observed a threshold of shear rate beyond which coalescence of bubbles happens. The most promising explanation was the model based on the centripetal force with qualitative agreement with experimental results. Next we studied the dynamics of monodisperse foam in the presence of a single bubble whose size is different from the neighboring bubbles. We reported the lateral migration of a larger single bubble away from the wall. We also reported thresholds of shear rate and bubble size ratio beyond which migration occurs. In this study we modified the Chan-Leal model and predicted the experimental trajectories of migrating bubbles. For bidisperse foams, we reported evolution in foam structure to a size segregated structure, in which large bubbles accumulate at the middle of the gap whereas smaller ones close to walls. Then, we adopted a model based on convection-diffusion equation to account for both lateral migration and shear induced diffusion. Finally, we extended the second work by widening the gap of Couette coaxial cylinder geometry. Similar to the second work, we found that large bubble migrates laterally to an equilibrium position close to the inner wall. We believe this new mechanism is the non-Newtonian feature of foam. We characterized our foam by measuring its degree of shear thinning and also estimated its elasticity based on the literature data on foam. Then, we found out for a shear thinning fluid bubble migrated to position even closer to the inner wall than in the foam while a bubble in Boger fluid migrated to a position closer to the outer cylinder. Therefore, for a viscoselastic fluid which has the same feature one would expect to see bubble migration to a position between these two for two fluids.
Approximating stochastic volatility by recombinant trees
Creators: name: Akyıldırım, Erdinç
name: Dolinsky, Yan
name: Soner, H. Mete
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A general method to construct recombinant tree approximations for stochastic volatility models is developed and applied to the Heston model for stock price dynamics. In this application, the resulting approximation is a four tuple Markov process. The first two components are related to the stock and volatility processes and take values in a two-dimensional binomial tree. The other two components of the Markov process are the increments of random walks with simple values in $\{-1,+1\}$. The resulting efficient option pricing equations are numerically implemented for general American and European options including the standard put and calls, barrier, lookback and Asian-type pay-offs. The weak and extended weak convergences are also proved.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AAP977 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
L’utilizzo di immobili per lo svolgimento di attività di culto
Creators: name: Fabbri, Alberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Edifici di culto

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione

SOMMARIO: 1. Inquadramento della problematica - 2. La normativa regionale di settore - 3. Gli interventi giurisprudenziali - 4. L’esperienza islamica come proposta polivalente del fenomeno religioso - 5. Spunti di riflessione.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 16 dicembre
Supplementary document for Initial probe function construction in ptychography based on zone-plate optics - 6302074.pdf
Creators: name: Qin, Zeping
name: Xu, Zijian
name: Li, Ruoru
name: Liu, Haigang
name: Liu, Shilei
name: Wen, Qingcao
name: Chen, Xing
name: Zhang, Xiangzhi
name: Tai, Renzhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary material to the manuscript "Initial probe function construction in ptychography based on zone-plate optics"
Error analysis of a SUPG-stabilized POD-ROM method for convection-diffusion-reaction equations
Creators: name: John, Volker
name: Moreau, Baptiste
name: Novo, Julia
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: convection-diffusion-reaction equations
subject: convection-dominated regime
subject: SUPG-ROM method
subject: error analysis
subject: 65M60

description: A reduced order model (ROM) method based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is analyzed for convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The streamline-upwind Petrov--Galerkin (SUPG) stabilization is used in the practically interesting case of dominant convection, both for the full order method (FOM) and the ROM simulations. The asymptotic choice of the stabilization parameter for the SUPG-ROM is done as proposed in the literature. This paper presents a finite element convergence analysis of the SUPG-ROM method for errors in different norms. The constants in the error bounds are uniform with respect to small diffusion coefficients. Numerical studies illustrate the performance of the SUPG-ROM method.
Another thread in the tapestry of stellar feedback: X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Justham, Stephen
name: Schawinski, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider X-ray binaries (XBs) as potential sources of stellar feedback. XBs observationally appear able to deposit a high fraction of their power output into their local interstellar medium, which may make them a non-negligible source of energy input. The formation rate of the most luminous XBs rises with decreasing metallicity, which should increase their significance during galaxy formation in the early universe. We also argue that stochastic effects are important to XB feedback (XBF) and may dominate the systematic changes due to metallicity in many cases. Large stochastic variation in the magnitude of XBF at low absolute star formation rates provides a natural reason for diversity in the evolution of dwarf galaxies which were initially almost identical, with several percent of such halos experiencing energy input from XBs roughly two orders of magnitude above the most likely value. These probability distributions suggest that the effect of XBF is most commonly significant for total stellar masses between ~10^7 and 10^8 Msun, which might resolve a current problem with modelling populations of such galaxies. We explain how XBs might inject energy before luminous supernovae (SNe) contribute significantly to feedback and how XBs can assist in keeping gas hot long after the last core-collapse SN has exploded. [...] XBF could be especially important to some dwarf galaxies, potentially heating gas without expelling it; the properties of XBF also match those previously derived as allowing episodic star formation. We also argue that the efficiency of SN feedback (SNF) might be reduced when XBF has had the opportunity to act first. In addition, we note that the effect of SNF is unlikely to be scale-free; galaxies smaller than ~100 pc might well experience less effective SNF. (Slightly abbreviated to fit arXiv size limit.)
description: Very belatedly updated to include a note added in proof and additional reference. The definitive version is at: mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/423/2/1641
Problematiche normative della presenza islamica nello spazio sociale italiano ed europeo. Le difficoltà del pluralismo culturale nel modello di laicità contemporaneo
Creators: name: Parisi, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Laicità e pluralismo

description: Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, è destinato alla pubblicazione nella "Revista Crítica de Derecho Canónico Pluriconfesional", curata da Manuel Juan Pelaez Albendea (Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Málaga).
SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione. 2. Laicità dello Stato, libertà religiosa e comunità islamiche nella società italiana: tra diritto comune e legislazione pattizia. 3. I nodi giuridici di maggior rilievo in Italia e in Europa. 4. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 16 dicembre
Historia cultural del algarrobo, desde la cuenca del Mediterráneo hasta la Costa Norte de Perú
Creators: name: Cairati, Elisa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Algarrobo, Perú, Santuario Histórico Bosque de Pómac, mnemotopo, memoria culturale

description: This work aims to analyze the cultural history of the botanical species generally indicated as 'carob three', through the correlation between the Mediterranean carob (Ceratonia siliqua) and its South American relative (Prosopis pallida, affinis, chilensis o julinflora). Although the biological relationship between the two plants is thin, they share a combination of cultural and symbolic significances common to different communities in different geographical and cultural areas. In particular this paper, based on a field research in the Northern coast of Peru, will examine the symbolic characteristics of the South American carob three in the peculiar area of the Santuario Histórico Bosque de Pómac, in the region of Lambayeque.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Fisher information and convergence to stable laws
Creators: name: Bobkov, S. G.
name: Chistyakov, G. P.
name: Götze, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The convergence to stable laws is studied in relative Fisher information for sums of i.i.d. random variables.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/13-BEJ535 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
ON DEMAND: Exploring How International GTA's/GRA's Maneuver Academic Spaces
Creators: name: Aayushi Hingle
name: Adebayo, Adebanke L.
name: Hingle, Ashish
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2021

description: In this session, we discuss some of the experiences and challenges of international GTAs and GRAs, how they maneuver their identities as students and instructors/researchers and seek social support. We explore these intersectionalities through the lenses of Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy, Standpoint Theory, Social Support Theory, and Identity Negotiation Theory. After attending this session, participants will better understand the challenges of international GTAs and GRAs and ways to support them, especially during this pandemic.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 13 (2021): Fostering Inclusive Excellence
Pattern/randomness. Il rapporto fra testo e lettore in Infinite Jest di David Foster Wallace
Creators: name: Panzani, Ugo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest; postmodernism (literature); cognition in literature; complexity in literature, novel

description: David Foster Wallace questioned the previous literary tradition usually defined as “postmodern” through his narrative and non-fiction production. Following Katherine Hayles, it is possible to consider the decreasing prominence of the presence/absence dialectic typical of deconstructionism and postmodernism and, on a parallel plane, the increasing relevance of a pattern/randomness dialectic. From this point of view, one might argue, many postmodern fictions merely diagnosed the presence of a “technological sublime”, without proposing cognitive solutions to actively deal with it. Through a comparison between some key aspects of neural networks and the narrative structure of Infinite Jest (1996), the primary aim of this contribution is to understand how Wallace's novel may be considered as a literary device that helps the reader to become the manufacturer of new cognitive patterns, by processing and selecting information from the huge amount of data contained in the novel.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
On the Minimum/Stopping Distance of Array Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
Creators: name: Rosnes, Eirik
name: Ambroze, Marcel A.
name: Tomlinson, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we study the minimum/stopping distance of array low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. An array LDPC code is a quasi-cyclic LDPC code specified by two integers q and m, where q is an odd prime and m <= q. In the literature, the minimum/stopping distance of these codes (denoted by d(q,m) and h(q,m), respectively) has been thoroughly studied for m <= 5. Both exact results, for small values of q and m, and general (i.e., independent of q) bounds have been established. For m=6, the best known minimum distance upper bound, derived by Mittelholzer (IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Jun./Jul. 2002), is d(q,6) <= 32. In this work, we derive an improved upper bound of d(q,6) <= 20 and a new upper bound d(q,7) <= 24 by using the concept of a template support matrix of a codeword/stopping set. The bounds are tight with high probability in the sense that we have not been able to find codewords of strictly lower weight for several values of q using a minimum distance probabilistic algorithm. Finally, we provide new specific minimum/stopping distance results for m <= 7 and low-to-moderate values of q <= 79.
description: To appear in IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory. The material in this paper was presented in part at the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, June/July 2014
ON DEMAND: Reversing Roles, Expanding Mindsets: A Close Reading Activity
Creators: name: Pugatch, Ana
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2021

description: How can we get our students to discuss and write about texts in more depth? As instructors, we can kickstart this process by taking a backseat and giving our students the autonomy to shape their conversations with one another. This video describes a student-led close reading activity which can be conducted in an in-person or synchronous online course. Genres of text which can be analyzed include primary/secondary sources, literature, scholarly articles, criticism—any complex text that requires deeper digging. The class is broken up into two roles, speakers and writers; while the speakers bring their thought-provoking questions to the table, the writers type up their own reflections on their peers’ dialogue, which they will subsequently post on the discussion board. The two groups then switch roles, giving everyone the opportunity to speak and to write. As the instructor, you merely serve as an organizer and listener throughout. One of the ultimate objectives is to show students how to be proactive in the construction of knowledge in the classroom. The activity draws on a combination of preexisting pedagogical tools, including Jim Burke’s three levels of questions, the Socratic method, and the “fishbowl” format. I have also incorporated my grading methods and personal experiences as an instructor who had to adapt the activity when we moved our classes online during the Spring ’20 semester.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 13 (2021): Fostering Inclusive Excellence
London Epic: Compulsory Environment
Creators: name: Croci, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: London Epic: Compulsory Environment
A conversation with Enrico Masi
(1st August 2013)
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Piante che viaggiano con l'umanità
Creators: name: Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Una conversazione con Luca Cavalli-Sforza
(13 maggio 2013)
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Macroeconomic effects on mortality revealed by panel analysis with nonlinear trends
Creators: name: Ionides, Edward L.
name: Wang, Zhen
name: Granados, José A. Tapia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many investigations have used panel methods to study the relationships between fluctuations in economic activity and mortality. A broad consensus has emerged on the overall procyclical nature of mortality: perhaps counter-intuitively, mortality typically rises above its trend during expansions. This consensus has been tarnished by inconsistent reports on the specific age groups and mortality causes involved. We show that these inconsistencies result, in part, from the trend specifications used in previous panel models. Standard econometric panel analysis involves fitting regression models using ordinary least squares, employing standard errors which are robust to temporal autocorrelation. The model specifications include a fixed effect, and possibly a linear trend, for each time series in the panel. We propose alternative methodology based on nonlinear detrending. Applying our methodology on data for the 50 US states from 1980 to 2006, we obtain more precise and consistent results than previous studies. We find procyclical mortality in all age groups. We find clear procyclical mortality due to respiratory disease and traffic injuries. Predominantly procyclical cardiovascular disease mortality and countercyclical suicide are subject to substantial state-to-state variation. Neither cancer nor homicide have significant macroeconomic association.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOAS624 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
ON DEMAND: Moving Past Written Assignments: Visual Representations of Course Material
Creators: name: Ramsdell, Justin
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2021

description: This presentation reviews the strategies and lessons learned from implementing a "game board" assignment in assignment involving students, working collaboratively, to create their own "Chutes and Ladders" game board that fully explains the moral reasoning of criminal behavior. This assignment also involves incorporating the way temperamental and personality variables, mental illnesses, psychopathy, and situational variables *to name a few) accent moral decision making. This assignment is 7 weeks long, involves multiple submissions and peer feedback, and incorporates all the material from class into a single visual representation of the course material. Since the assignment is added onto weekly (after receiving peer feedback) the students often make many mistakes, redraw the board game, and (in general) are exposed to the information over and over while having to think about that information in a new way (i.e. a visual format as opposed to a written format). This is an assignment for forensic psychology, but can be used by anyone in any discipline, and also works well in a F2F, blended, or asynchronous online learning environment. Examples of student work will be shown
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol. 13 (2021): Fostering Inclusive Excellence
Non fu tutta colpa di padre Giacinto: spiegazioni troppo semplici e realtà (come sempre) complesse nel cammino di Oxalis pes-caprae L. dal Sudafrica al Mediterraneo
Creators: name: Signorini, Maria Adele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Oxalis pes-caprae; Italy; Malta; Europe; Mediterranean; herbaria.

description: Oxalis pes-caprae L. (= Oxalis cernua Thunb.) is a geophyte native to South Africa (Cape region) that was introduced in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century as a cultivated plant. It is currently widely naturalized in many regions with mild climates all over the world and in several countries it has become a very noxious weed, due to its impressive capability of spreading through bulbils. According to a theory reported also in Pignatti’s Flora of Italy, all populations currently growing in Europe and the Mediterranean basin originated from a single plant introduced in the island of Malta by an English lady, who gave the plant collected in South Africa as a present to padre Giacinto, a monk and a botanist who founded the Botanical Garden in La Valletta. Starting from Malta, Oxalis pes-caprae would have subsequently spread along Mediterranean coasts and later in the whole continent. According to this theory, all European and Mediterranean populations would be merely parts of the same clone, made up of individuals genetically identical to the one originally arrived in Malta. An investigation based on original data mainly taken from herbarium specimens and bibliographic sources, definitely contradicts this theory, in favor of a more articulated explanation: the species invasion in the area is most likely the result of several different arrivals – both intentional and unintentional – occurred in different times and different places.
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Exploring immigrant families' perspectives as they access and utilize healthcare services
Creators: name: Tully, Kimberley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Many health care professionals may be unaware of the range and nature of issues that immigrant families who have a child with a disability or chronic health condition (CHC) must address. Anyone may face challenges accessing and utilizing healthcare services or supports. However, barriers facing immigrant families may be varied and multifaceted and be compounded by concurrent challenges of establishing a life in their new home. In addition the perceptions of disability among immigrant groups can have a profound influence on how these families care for their child who has complex care needs. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore what barriers exist for immigrant families as they attempt to access and utilize healthcare services or supports to manage their child’s complex healthcare needs. Data gathered in this study through indepth interviews with 10 caregiving parents of 13 children with complex chronic health conditions, builds upon the limited knowledge and literature that exists about immigrant families’ access and use of the healthcare system for their child with a disability or CHC. The analysis identified key concepts that characterize the experiences of these families. Selected interview vignettes demonstrated the following processes: a desire for a better life and healthcare; experiences with accessing services and the families’ desire for autonomy and independence. With further reflection and interpretation of the data two specific concepts emerged: creating a future and personhood. These concepts served to provide a deeper understanding of immigrant families’ lives. It is hoped this information will further inform professionals’ practice as they collaborate with the families to meet the children’s needs, plan care and strive to achieve good health outcomes for the children while also promoting wellbeing within the family unit.
La Broussonetia papyrifera Una curiosità botanica e storica
Creators: name: Kim, Sooyeon
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Una conversazione con Nella Poggi
(16 Maggio 2013)
di Sooyeon Kim
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
On the birational section conjecture with local conditions
Creators: name: Stix, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H30, 14G05

description: A birationally liftable Galois section s of a hyperbolic curve X/k over a number field k yields an adelic point x(s) in the smooth completion of X. We show that x(s) is X-integral outside a set of places of Dirichlet density 0, or s is cuspidal. The proof relies on $GL_2(F_\ell)$-quotients of $π_1(U)$ for some open U of X. If k is totally real or imaginary quadratic, we prove that all birationally adelic, non-cuspidal Galois sections come from rational points as predicted by the section conjecture of anabelian geometry. As an aside we also obtain a strong approximation result for rational points on hyperbolic curves over Q or imaginary quadratic fields.
description: Theorem C (and Section 7) of the original version have been deleted due to a gap in the proof. This is the journal version
Good Winds chronicle : creativity, metaphor, and life writing
Creators: name: McKerracher, Adrian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation explores a range of metaphors that can be used to understand the concept of creativity. Each metaphor presents a different way of imagining what creativity means and what it means to be creative. Based on my doctoral fieldwork of interviewing fiction writers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I emphasize the search for metaphors as a foundational literacy tool that allows the learner to consider multiple perspectives of a single concept. Drawing on Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) seminal work in Metaphors we live by and merging it with Paulo Freire’s (1970) notions of praxis and critical literacy, I use personal narratives to explore how considering diverse metaphors for creativity opens new possibilities for meaning-making and understanding. Situated in the dynamic tradition of life writing, I use these narrative accounts, or chronicles, to explore and examine the complexity of the concept of creativity. The result is a polyphonic account of fieldwork that blends content and form, combining research on metaphor and creativity with creative writing about metaphor. I conclude that metaphor offers unique possibilities for thinking creatively about creativity, and emphasize that knowledge is an experience of context whereby the greatest learning often happens at the margins of curriculum.
La grande ricchezza botanica del Giardino di Villa Melzi d'Eril a Bellagio
Creators: name: Pelissetti, Laura
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Una conversazione con Ornella Selvafolta
12 Aprile 2013
di Laura Pelissetti
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante
Trends in Chinese FDI in South America: Findings from the regional repository of Chinese investments in Latin America
Creators: name: Urdinez, Francisco
name: Myers, Margaret
Publisher: name: ICLAC
Year: 2025

description: The Regional Repository of Chinese Investments in Latin America is a first of its kind effort to document and visually represent Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region since 2003. The project began in 2024 and has been carried out by Chile's Núcleo Milenio on the Impacts of China in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Dialogue, and an extensive team of interdisciplinary researchers and partner institutions spanning the Americas. The Repository is continuously updated by our network of on-the-ground researchers in pursuit of the most accurate account possible of Chinese investment in the region. At present, it contains 296 instances, or $132 billion, of confirmed Chinese FDI in eight countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay—Latin America, with plans to grow the Repository to visualize Chinese FDI in additional Latin American nations in the coming months. The Repository is intended to supplement existing efforts to document Chinese FDI in several ways. First, it georeferences FDI instances. Using points and vectors, the Repository's interactive map visualizes the extent of Chinese investment (whether greenfield, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures) across the region. Points are used for investments in discrete assets like mines or real estate, while vectors represent projects that span longer distances, such as roads, railways, and stakes in oil fields.
Spot activity of LQ Hya from photometry between 1988 and 2011
Creators: name: Lehtinen, J.
name: Jetsu, L.
name: Hackman, T.
name: Kajatkari, P.
name: Henry, G. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the spot activity of the young chromospherically active main sequence star LQ Hya. Our aims are to identify possible active longitudes, estimate the differential rotation and study long and short term changes in the activity. Our analysis is based on 24 years of Johnson V-band photometry. We use the previously published Continuous Period Search (CPS) method to model the evolution of the light curve of LQ Hya. The CPS fits a Fourier series model to short overlapping subsets of data. This enables us to monitor the spot configuration of the star with a higher time resolution. We find seasonal variability in the mean level and amplitude of the light curve of LQ Hya. The variability of the light curve amplitude seems not to be cyclic, but the long-term variations in the mean magnitude could be explained by an approximately 13 year cycle. Because of the limited length of the observed time series, it is not yet possible to determine whether this structure really is periodic and represents an activity cycle. We estimate the differential rotation of the star to be small, and the star is potentially very close to a rigid rotator. We search for active longitudes and find that on time scales up to six months there are typically one or two relatively stable active areas on the star with limited phase migration. On time scales longer than one year, no stable active longitudes have been present except for the period between 2003 and 2009 and possibly also some time before 1995. We find any signs of flip-flops with a regular period. The mean time scale of change of the light curve during the observation period is determined to be of the same order of magnitude as the predicted convective turnover time for the star.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
The galaxy halo formation in the absence of violent relaxation and a universal density profile of the halo center
Creators: name: Baushev, Anton N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While N-body simulations testify for a cuspy profile of the central region of the dark matter haloes, observations favor a shallow, cored density profile of the central region of, at least, some spiral galaxies and dwarf spheroidals. We show that a central profile, very close to the observed one, inevitably forms in the center of dark matter haloes if we make a supposition about a moderate energy relaxation of the system during the halo formation. If we assume the energy exchange between dark matter particles during the halo collapse to be not too intensive, the profile is universal: it depends almost not at all on the properties of the initial perturbation and is very akin, but not identical, to the Einasto profile with small Einasto index $n\sim 0.5$. We estimate the size of the 'central core' of the distribution, i.e., the extent of the very central region with a respectively gentle profile, and show that the cusp formation is unlikely, even if the dark matter is cold. The obtained profile is in a good agreement with observational data for, at least, some types of galaxies, but clearly disagrees with N-body simulations.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
A non-parametric peak finder algorithm and its application in searches for new physics
Creators: name: Chekanov, S.
name: Erickson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed an algorithm for non-parametric fitting and extraction of statistically significant peaks in the presence of statistical and systematic uncertainties. Applications of this algorithm for analysis of high-energy collision data are discussed. In particular, we illustrate how to use this algorithm in general searches for new physics in invariant-mass spectra using pp Monte Carlo simulations.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Dal Ticino al Paraguai
Creators: name: Isenburg, Teresa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Una conversazione con Danilo Baratti e Patrizia Candolfi
(28 Giugno 2013)

di Teresa Isenburg
description: Altre Modernità, No 10 (2013): Trasmigrazioni e trasferimenti: vicende naturali e vicende umane nella storia delle piante