cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Correlazione e omof ilia parziale secondo la teoria della concordanza di Gini: una rivisitazione
Creators: name: Bettuzzi, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In a series of records that have been published in the 1914-1916 period, Corrado Gini has laid the foundations of the discussion on a methodology for studying the statistical relations concerning the association of two characters. Gini's theory of concordance, which makes a distinction between the notion of absolute and relative maximum, allowed the definition of a multiplicity of correlation indexes and homophilia which are to be connected to the various cognitive applications that are to be found in the substantial research context. Gini's theory, at the same time, has performed a critical deepening which permitted to obtain a complete framework together with a reinterpretation of already known indexes such as Bravais-Pearson's correlation coefficient and Spearman's rank correlation. In our work, by extending Gini's concordance theory to multiple statistical distribu-tions and in the light of the simplest algebraic language, some partial correlation indexes, which have been previously defined by means of the geometric instrumenta-tion of tensorial calculus, are here reconsidered, and, therefore, the partial homophilia indexes are introduced.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 4 (1998)
Il ruolo del quozíente di rilevanza nelle inferenze lambda-predittive
Creators: name: Brizzi, M.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This study deals with the probabilistic framework proposed by Johnson e Carnap, which leads to lambda-predictive inference, where prior probabilities are to be modified, after observing a sample evidence, following an additive pattern focused on a parameter, usually denoted by lambda, which represents the weight of prior information. This procedure is suitable only when an important condition holds: the invariance of the relevance quotient, which is fundamental in this context; therefore, the meaning and the use of such quotient in lambda-predictive inference are thoroughly developed. Finally, a sequential sample technique is proposed, based on the value of the relevance quotient.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 4 (1998)
Stime fiduciali di probabilità nell'aggregazione bayesiana di informazioni
Creators: name: Agati, P.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Among the aggregative algorithms suitable to compose various probability densities in a single synthesis distribution - which abstracts information, evaluations, opinions coming from different sources about an unknown quantity -, the bayesian scheme suggested by Peter A. Morris is characterized by the recourse to a "calibration function": a kind of probabilistic balancer, technically configurable like second order prob-ability density and consequently specifiable by fiducial models for estimating probabilities.
description: Statistica; Vol 58, No 4 (1998)
Transforming a large-lecture course into an active, engaging, and collaborative learning environment
Creators: name: Stoerger, Sharon
name: Kreiger, Denise
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Collaboration
Communities
Emerging technology
Online learning
Pedagogy
Education
Teaching
Student-centered learning
Virtual teams

description: Traditionally, a large lecture hall course follows a teacher-centered approach to instruction. This was the case for the “gateway” course in the undergraduate Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) major in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This paper describes the journey and collaboration between the course instructor and the instructional design/technology specialist to transform a large lecture hall course (with up to 450 students) into an active, collaborative learning experience – one that engages students in learning, emphasizes higher-order thinking skills, and creates a sense of community that can be lacking in such a format. This transformation was realized when the boundaries of the classroom extended into the “online” environment.
Il reddito femminile nelle scelte di vita delle donne
Creators: name: Pasquini, P.
name: Samoggia, A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper we have used the "1991 Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income" in order to identifi homogeneous groups of women as to life choices.
Inside every group the weight and the meaning of individual income have been analyzed.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 1 (1999)
title: Three Manifestations of Transparency in International Investment Law
title: A Story of Sources, Stakeholders and Structures
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Shirlow, Esmé
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2017

description: The notion of transparency manifests in three contexts in international investment law. It manifests first at the point of norm creation, regulating the public availability of information about the norms included in investment treaties and the capacity for interested stakeholders to view or participate in the creation of those norms. Transparency secondly features in the content of substantive investment obligations. In this incarnation, transparency norms empower foreign investors to bring proceedings against States for failures of transparency in State dealings with investors. Finally, transparency features as a procedural requirement for investment arbitration proceedings. Here, transparency refers to the extent to which individual dispute settlement proceedings are publicly accessible or documents produced in those proceedings made publicly available. The precise features of transparency in each of these contexts differ, as do the stakeholders which stand to benefit from transparency. Studying these three distinct manifestations of transparency offers insights into the development of international investment law and the sources, stakeholders and structures which shape it. This article considers each manifestation of transparency in turn (Section I), before considering what they reveal about the nature and structure of international investment law and arbitration (Section II).
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 8, no. 1, page 73-99
Endothelial cells and angiogenesis in the horse in health and disease—A review
Creators: name: Rieger, Juliane
name: Kaessmeyer, Sabine
name: Masri, Salah Al
name: Hünigen, Hana
name: Plendl, Johanna
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: angiogenesis
subject: endothelium
subject: vascular
subject: horses
subject: neovascularization
subject: pathologic
subject: physiologic
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::632 Schäden, Krankheiten, Schädlinge an Pflanzen

description: The cardiovascular system is the first functional organ in the embryo, and its blood vessels form a widespread conductive network within the organism. Blood vessels develop de novo, by the differentiation of endothelial progenitor cells (vasculogenesis) or by angiogenesis, which is the formation of new blood vessels from existing ones. This review presents an overview of the current knowledge on physiological and pathological angiogenesis in the horse including studies on equine endothelial cells. Principal study fields in equine angiogenesis research were identified: equine endothelial progenitor cells; equine endothelial cells and angiogenesis (heterogeneity, markers and assessment); endothelial regulatory molecules in equine angiogenesis; angiogenesis research in equine reproduction (ovary, uterus, placenta and conceptus, testis); angiogenesis research in pathological conditions (tumours, ocular pathologies, equine wound healing, musculoskeletal system and laminitis). The review also includes a table that summarizes in vitro studies on equine endothelial cells, either describing the isolation procedure or using previously isolated endothelial cells. A particular challenge of the review was that results published are fragmentary and sometimes even contradictory, raising more questions than they answer. In conclusion, angiogenesis is a major factor in several diseases frequently occurring in horses, but relatively few studies focus on angiogenesis in the horse. The challenge for the future is therefore to continue exploring new therapeutic angiogenesis strategies for horses to fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle.
Distance between random points in a cube
Creators: name: Mathai, A. M.
name: Moschopoulos, P.
name: Pederzoli, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The explicit forms of the exact density and the exact arbitrary moments of the distance between two random points when the points are independently and uniformly distributed inside a cube are given. Special cases considered include the density and arbitrary moments of the distance between two independent random points where one is inside the cube and the other is on a face, points on adjacent faces, points on opposite faces and random points inside a square. Exact arbitrary moments are obtained in terms of Gauss'hypergeometric functions and Appell's functions or Lauricella functions.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 1 (1999)
Cardiogenesis with a focus on vasculogenesis and angiogenesis
Creators: name: Borasch, Katrin
name: Richardson, Kenneth
name: Plendl, Johanna
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: angiogenesis
subject: cardiogenesis
subject: development
subject: heart
subject: vasculogenesis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::632 Schäden, Krankheiten, Schädlinge an Pflanzen

description: The initial intraembryonic vasculogenesis occurs in the cardiogenic mesoderm. Here, a cell population of proendocardial cells detaches from the mesoderm that subsequently generates the single endocardial tube by forming vascular plexuses. In the course of embryogenesis, the endocardium retains vasculogenic, angiogenic and haematopoietic potential. The coronary blood vessels that sustain the rapidly expanding myocardium develop in the course of the formation of the cardiac loop by vasculogenesis and angiogenesis from progenitor cells of the proepicardial serosa at the venous pole of the heart as well as from the endocardium and endothelial cells of the sinus venosus. Prospective coronary endothelial cells and progenitor cells of the coronary blood vessel walls (smooth muscle cells, perivascular cells) originate from different cell populations that are in close spatial as well as regulatory connection with each other. Vasculo‐ and angiogenesis of the coronary blood vessels are for a large part regulated by the epicardium and epicardium‐derived cells. Vasculogenic and angiogenic signalling pathways include the vascular endothelial growth factors, the angiopoietins and the fibroblast growth factors and their receptors.
Untethering an unusual cause of kidney injury in a teenager with Down syndrome
Creators: name: Tyagi, Rachana
name: Miele, Niel
name: Barone, Joseph
name: Weiss, Lynne
name: Yen, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Acute kidney injury
Chronic kidney disease
Hydronephrosis
Obstructive uropathy
Tethered cord syndrome

description: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is characterized by the acute nature and the inability of kidneys to maintain fluid homeostasis as well as adequate electrolyte and acid-base balance, resulting in an accumulation of nitrogenous waste and elevation of serum blood urea nitrogen and creatinine values. Acute kidney injury may be a single isolated event, yet oftentimes, it results from an acute chronic kidney disease. It is critical to seek out the etiology of AKI and to promptly manage the underlying chronic kidney disease to prevent comorbidities and mortality that may ensue. We described a case of a 16-year-old adolescent girl with Down syndrome who presented with AKI and electrolyte aberrance.Abdominal and renal ultrasounds demonstrated a significantly dilated bladder as well as frank hydronephrosis and hydroureter bilaterally. Foley catheter was successful in relieving the obstruction and improving her renal function. However, a magnetic resonance imaging was pursued in light of her chronic constipation and back pain, and it revealed a structural defect (tethered cord) that underlies a chronic process that was highly likely contributory to her AKI. She was managed accordingly with a guarded result and required long-term and close monitoring.
Un criterio generalizzato per l'imputazione di dati mancanti in indagini congiunturali
Creators: name: Gismondi, R.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The analysis of non response effects in longitudinal and conjunctural surveys is a widely discussed topic. Neverthless, use of traditional tools originally
thought of for cross section frameworks could cause bad performances and often ignores additional information concerning units under observation.
In this paper, after a short resume about advantages and risks due to the use of imputation techniques or subjective matching rules for estimating missing
values, we introduce a simple estimation criterion based on the well known donor method. Original contributions concern the attempt to generalize a previous version of the proposed estimator; the possibility to take into account both the previous response pattern for non respondents and their features, in terms of some known quantitative variables picked up from the same survey or coming from other sources; a wide discussion on practical problems that occur while attempting to calculate the estimates for missing values; finally, proposal on qualitative indexes to be computed to better analyze the global efficiency of the procedure. The article ends with a concrete application on hypermarkets monthly sales for the year 1996, from which other useful considerations have been drawn in order to steer additional theoretical proposal.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 1 (1999)
Isolation and characterisation of coral mucus bacilli with quorum quenching potential as a biocontrol agent for shrimp gut protection against Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS)
Creators: name: Tan, Angelica Fiona
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A shrimp disease, known commonly as Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS), has been a major problem for shrimp aquaculture in Southeast Asia due to its epizootic prevalence within the region since it was first reported in 2009. In this study, Bacilli strains isolated from coral mucus were tested for antagonistic effects against quorum sensing and the causative pathogen. Phenotypic characterisation was carried out, including bacilli biofilms characterisation, temperature-growth responses and biosurfactant production. Three phenotypically distinct strains showing notable potential were chosen to undergo coevolution as a method for strain improvement via long term exposure to the pathogen.
MPEC 2025-E62 : 2025 EP
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 EP

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Effects of Exercise-Based Interventions on Urogenital Outcomes in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury : A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhou, Xueqing
name: Williams, Alison M. M.
name: Lam, Tania
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Year: 2022

description: Study Design: Systematic review. Objectives: To investigate dropout rates, adverse events, and effects of exercise-based therapies on urogenital function and quality of life (QoL) in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Methods: Database searches were conducted on MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL for studies examining any form of exercise intervention on urogenital function and/or QoL in adults with SCI. Quality of publications was evaluated using the Joanna Briggs Institute critical evaluation tools. When possible, Hedges’ g was calculated for overall effect sizes. Subgroup analyses were conducted on sex and injury severity. Results: Ten studies (228 participants) were included in this review. Three studies examined pelvic floor muscle training and 7 studies examined locomotor training. The overall quality of evidence was low due to small sample sizes and non-randomized designs in most studies. Dropout rates ranged from 12 to 25% and adverse events were reported only in some studies investigating locomotor training. For lower urinary tract (LUT) outcomes, urodynamic findings were mixed despite moderately positive changes in maximum bladder capacity (g=0.50) and bladder compliance (g=0.37). Fairly consistent but small improvements were observed in LUT symptoms, primarily bladder awareness and incontinence. LUT QoL improved in most cases. Fewer data were available for sexual outcomes and only minor improvements were reported. Subgroup analyses based on sex and severity of injury were inconclusive. Conclusions: There is some indication for the potential benefit of exercise on urogenital outcomes in people with SCI, but there is insufficient evidence given the number of studies and heterogeneity of outcome measures.
Steady streaming as a method for drug delivery to the inner ear
Creators: name: Sumner, Laura
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Sensorineural hearing damage occurs when the hair cells which transduce mechanical input to electrical become damaged in the cochlea. Current drug therapies, whilst being promising in their ability to heal these cells, are limited by the inability to reliably administer them to their target sites. This work looks at the phenomenon of steady streaming, a non-zero net motion in a fluctuating flow with non-conservative body forces, and investigates whether or not it is possible to harness the effect in order to deliver and potentially even specifically target damaged hair cells in the cochlea. Using the WKB model for the basilar membrane waves alongside experimental data to a create computational fluid dynamic simulation of the guinea pig cochlea, particle tracking was undertaken in order to find individual particle trajectories in the flows under pure tone, pitch change and multiple pitch stimulation. The steady streaming velocities and relative efficacy of the different stimuli were then determined and multiple frequency stimulation found to be superior as a method of drug transportation due to the setup of a so-called `streaming channel' along which particles flow.
COVETOUS: Building a Concept Art Portfolio
Creators: name: Carroll, Sydney
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: concept art
art
portfolio
video game
character
creature

description: As an aspiring concept artist, I used this honors project as an opportunity to build a character concept art portfolio for professional consideration and artistic development. Concept art generally fits into the pipeline of a TV show, film, or video game’s development after initial ideas are proposed and before integration of the final design into the medium is made. Naturally, character concept art is made with each decision towards body type, hairstyle, costume, and more being carefully crafted in consideration of the project’s narrative. This required me to create my own intellectual property (IP) to design the characters for. Therefore, inspired by my own experiences growing up moving to different countries every few years and consequently wrestling with feelings of belonging, the project is set in a dystopian scenery largely focused on a few main characters while it explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and societal upheaval. Through design and iteration, the resulting portfolio aims to showcase my own artistic ability, investigate my personal struggles with stability and belonging, and pay homage to my decades abroad in different countries and cultures.
Structural studies of proteins conferring nutrient uptake and drug efflux
Creators: name: Qu, Feng
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Bacterial transporters play fundamental roles in nutrient acquisition and drug efflux. Determining the structures of these transport proteins is essential for understanding the mechanisms bacteria use to ensure cell survival. In E. coli, TauABCD is a taurine-sulfur assimilation system upregulated during conditions of sulfur starvation. The substrate-binding protein TauA is required for the initial step of taurine recognition followed by its delivery to the ABC transporter TauBC. In this work, structures of TauA in complex with taurine and three analogues have been determined. Structural comparison shows that the size of the binding site dictates substrate selectivity of TauA. Desolvation of the TauA binding site is likely to be a key determinant in the binding of taurine and its analogues. Under conditions of nutrient starvation, bacteria also produce and release antibacterial peptides like MccC7/C51. MccC7/C51 hijacks the ABC importer YejABEF to enter sensitive bacteria. However, the mechanism for MccC7/C51 internalisation and the physiological function of YejABEF have yet to be defined. In this work, the structure of YejA has been determined in a peptide-bound state, suggesting YejA is likely to be an oligopeptide-binding protein. Furthermore, interrogation of the bound peptide sequence provides a rationale for prodrug design of novel antibiotics. Finally, the AcrAB-TolC efflux system is a major reason for multidrug resistance in E. coli. AcrB is a major component of the system, responsible for energy transduction and substrate recognition. However, to date, no inhibitor against bacterial efflux pumps has been clinically licensed as a drug. Here, using a combination of transport and MIC assays, one compound has been highlighted as a potential AcrAB-TolC inhibitor. In addition, well diffracting crystals have been produced for AcrB in the conformation favouring ligand binding. These crystals were applied to the XChem fragment screening platform for ligand soaking. AcrB represents the first example of a membrane protein tested using this platform.
A new estimator with two auxiliary variables for stratified sampling
Creators: name: Dalabehera, M.
name: Sahoo, L. N.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Using the classical regression approach, we offer a new estimator for the population total, utilizing the available information on two auxiliary variables under a stratified sampling. Performance of this estimator over other estimators, based on a single auxiliary variable, has also been studied.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 1 (1999)
Classes of almost unbiased ratio and product type estimators in two phase sampling
Creators: name: Singh, H. P.
name: Gangele, R. K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper suggests classes of almost unbiased ratio type and product -type estimators for estimating the population mean in two phase (or double) sampling and analyses their properties. Empirical studies, are carried out to demonstrate the performances of the suggest estimators over others.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 1 (1999)
Anomalous temperature and seasonality of mortality in the United States
Creators: name: Parks, Robbie Michael Ignatius
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Measuring and identifying the correlates and drivers of mortality are key functions of public health research. Information on seasonal mortality, and its inter-annual variations, enables prioritising and evaluating interventions during particular times of the year. It also provides the basis to study the association of death rates with seasonal temperature. My thesis aimed to provide and apply a statistical framework to characterise seasonality of death rates by cause of death, month, sex and age group, and to understand the role of temperature as a predictor, and possibly determinant, of how seasonal mortality changes from year to year and geographically. I generated death rates from geo-coded vital registration data on all 85.5 million deaths in the entire contiguous United States over a 37-year period (1980-2016). I grouped the underlying causes of death into mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive broad causes (cardiorespiratory diseases, cancers, injuries, other) along with further sub-causes for cardiorespiratory diseases and injuries. I processed ERA-Interim reanalysis weather data to create population-weighted monthly temperature statistics. I applied wavelet, centre of gravity and circular statistics methods to analyse seasonal dynamics of mortality. I found that overall death rates for those 45 years and older were highest in the winter, mostly due to cardiorespiratory disease deaths. In contrast, death rates in adolescents and young adults peaked in the summer, mostly due to injury deaths. Seasonal differences in older age groups have changed little over time, whereas in young children they have largely disappeared. I then formulated a Bayesian spatio-temporal model to estimate how anomalous monthly temperature – defined as temperature deviation compared to long-term norm for each state and month – affects deaths from different causes. A 1°C anomalously warm year in the entire contiguous United States would be associated with an estimated 941 (95% credible interval (CrI) 831, 1,053) additional injury deaths (0.5% of total injury deaths in 2016), concentrated in adolescent to middle-aged males. There would be an estimated 4,369 (4,024, 4,706) fewer cardiorespiratory disease deaths (0.4% of total cardiorespiratory disease deaths in 2016), concentrated in those 55 years and older. There would be a decrease of cardiorespiratory disease deaths in all but summer months. I found no association between anomalous monthly temperature and cancer deaths. Continued efforts are necessary to address seasonal peaks in mortality, particularly in older age groups, across the United States, especially in a changing climate.
Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm
Creators: name: Hegyi, Thomas
name: Lewis, Michael
name: DeMarco, J. Kevin
name: Carmody, Dennis P.
name: Bendersky, Margaret
name: Dunn, Stanley M.
name: Hiatt, Mark
Publisher: name: Society for Research in Child Development
Year: 2006
Subjects: fMRI
Prematurity
Premature infants
Environmental risk
Attention
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

description: The relations among early cumulative medical risk, cumulative environmental risk, attentional control, and brain activation were assessed in 15 – 16-year-old adolescents who were born preterm. Functional magnetic resonance imaging found frontal, temporal, and parietal cortex activation during an attention task with greater activation of the left superior-temporal and left supramarginal gyri associated with better performance. Individual differences in early cumulative risk are related to patterns of brain activation such that medical risk is related to left parietal cortex activation and environmental risk is related to temporal lobe activation. The findings suggest that early risk is related to less mature patterns of brain activation, including reduced efficiency of processing and responding to stimuli.
Solution processed nickel oxide for photovoltaics applications
Creators: name: Xu, Shengda
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Metal oxides are of great importance to the research and application of semiconductor devices. Solution processed metal oxides, especially nickel oxide, have been applied extensively as the interlayers in solar cells. The aim of this thesis was to develop understanding to the post annealing process of solution processed nickel oxide (s-NiOx). Perovskite solar cells were fabricated to investigate the optimised post annealing temperature for s-NiOx in perovskite photovoltaic applications. Owing to its unique electronic structure, nickel oxide has been extensively studied in the past decades. Literatures related to this work were reviewed in the beginning (Chapter 1), followed by a summary of experimental methods (Chapter 2). The experimental work began by investigating the decomposition routine of the sol-gel precursor (Chapter 3). The major decomposition event was found to end at 350 °C, but 250 °C appeared to be as sufficient to form nickel oxide nano-crystallites. At 250 °C, the resulting s-NiOx was embedded in organic residuals, and its disordered nature was further elucidated by the Urbach edge in optical characterisations. With increasing temperatures, the width of the band tail states was reduced, and overall demonstrated a stronger p-type character. During thermal annealing, the changes in s-NiOx composition was investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, Chapter 4). s-NiOx oxygen 1s and nickel 2p core level spectra were studied by spectral peak fittings, from which the oxygen to nickel atomic ratio was found to be greater than one overall. Analysis of Auger LVV spectra further revealed the existence of nickel oxide at 250 °C. With understanding of the annealing process, a series of perovskite solar cells were made to suggest an optimised annealing temperature for s-NiOx (Chapter 5). Although s-NiOx crystallinity and p-type character were enhanced with temperature, 250 °C was found to produce the best solar cell performance, which was attributed to the lower series resistance of the device. The understanding of the annealing process developed in this work has implications to the temperature selection in post annealing of other solution processed metal oxide interlayers in solar cell applications. Additionally, aiming to further optimise solar cell performance, optical modelling was employed to suggest an ideal thickness for the nickel oxide interlayer and perovskite active layer (Chapter 6). Together with experimental results, it demonstrated that the purposely designed active layer thickness is a practical method to improve the solar cell short circuit current density (Jsc) output. General concluding remarks and suggestions to further works were discussed in the end (Chapter 7).
Cultural and creative industries and employment growth in urban and rural Catalonia
Creators: name: Maddah, Lina S.
name: Arauzo-Carod, Josep-Maria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Despite the acknowledgement of the role of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in European policy frameworks, there is limited research on their association with local employment growth outside metropolitan areas. Using municipal-level employment data from Catalonia, we explore this relationship, differentiating between urban/intermediate/rural settings and accounting for spatial dynamics likely to occur on a regional level. Our findings suggest that specialisation in CCIs is positively associated with employment growth in most sectors, but only for rural areas. We also highlight differences among production-oriented activities, producer and consumer services. Tailored economic development strategies are thus needed, considering specific industries and municipalities.
Zoianaspis Franciscolo 1993
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Naczi, Robert F. C.
name: Gimmel, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scraptiidae
Zoianaspis

description: Zoianaspis Franciscolo, 1993
[1 species; Kenya]
 Zoianaspis Franciscolo 1993: 12. Type species: Zoianaspis subaptera Franciscolo, 1993, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Naczi, Robert F. C. & Gimmel, Matthew L., 2024, Review of North American Scraptiidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), with a Catalog of World Genera, pp. 171-200 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.171, http://zenodo.org/record/13243902
Intelligent automated grid generation for numerical simulations
Creators: name: Yao, Ke-Thia
name: Gelsey, Andrew
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: Numerical simulation of partial differential equations (PDEs) plays a crucial role in predicting the behavior of physical systems and in modern engineering design. However, in order to produce reliable results with a PDE simulator, a human expert must typically expend considerable time and effort in setting up the simulation. Most of this effort is spent in generating the grid, the discretization of the spatial domain which the PDE simulator requires as input. To properly design a grid, the gridder must not only consider the characteristics of the spatial domain, but also the physics of the situation and the peculiarities of the numerical simulator. This paper describes an intelligent gridder that is capable of analyzing the topology of the spatial domain and predicting approximate physical behaviors based on the geometry of the spatial domain to automatically generate grids for computational fluid dynamics simulators. Typically gridding programs are given a partitioning of the spatial domain to assist the gridder. Our gridder is capable of performing this partitioning. This enables the gridder to automatically grid spatial domains of arbitrary configurations.
title: Modification of Renewable Energy Support Schemes Under the Energy Charter Treaty
title: Eiser and Charanne in the Context of Climate Change
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Restrepo, Tomás
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2017

description: Nearly half of the claims brought under the Energy Charter Treaty1 raise issues related to the modification of the Renewable Energy Support Schemes (RESs), but only two decisions have been published: Charanne and Eiser. This paper evaluates these decisions in light of the existing general practice on expropriation and Fair and Equitable Treatment, as well as from a pragmatic perspective in the context of climate change. The article concludes that tribunals should recognize reinforced stability to RESs under the ECT.
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 8, no. 1, page 101-137
Growth genes are implicated in the evolutionary divergence of sympatric piscivorous and insectivorous rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Creators: name: Grummer, Jared A.
name: Whitlock, Michael C.
name: Schulte, Patricia M.
name: Taylor, Eric B., 1958-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Identifying ecologically signifcant phenotypic traits and the genomic mechanisms that underly them are crucial steps in understanding traits associated with population divergence. We used genome-wide data to identify genomic regions associated with key traits that distinguish two ecomorphs of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)—insectivores and piscivores—that coexist for the non-breeding portion of the year in Kootenay Lake, southeastern British Columbia. “Gerrards” are large-bodied, rapidly growing piscivores with high metabolic rates that spawn north of Kootenay Lake in the Lardeau River, in contrast to the insectivorous populations that are on average smaller in body size, with lower growth and metabolic rates, mainly forage on aquatic insects, and spawn in tributaries immediately surrounding Kootenay Lake. We used pool-seq data representing ~ 60% of the genome and 80 fsh per population to assess the level of genomic divergence between ecomorphs and to identify and interrogate loci that may play functional or selective roles in their divergence. Results: Genomic divergence was high between sympatric insectivores and piscivores (FST = 0.188), and in fact higher than between insectivorous populations from Kootenay Lake and the Blackwater River (FST = 0.159) that are > 500 km apart. A window-based FST analysis did not reveal “islands” of genomic diferentiation; however, the window with highest FST estimate did include a gene associated with insulin secretion. Although we explored the use of the “Local score” approach to identify genomic outlier regions, this method was ultimately not used because simulations revealed a high false discovery rate (~ 20%). Gene ontology (GO) analysis identifed several growth processes as enriched in genes occurring in the ~ 200 most divergent genomic windows, indicating many loci of small efect involved in growth and growth-related metabolic processes are associated with the divergence of these ecomorphs. Conclusion: Our results reveal a high degree of genomic diferentiation between piscivorous and insectivorous populations and indicate that the large body piscivorous phenotype is likely not due to one or a few loci of large efect. Rather, the piscivore phenotype may be controlled by several loci of small efect, thus highlighting the power of whole-genome resequencing in identifying genomic regions underlying population-level phenotypic divergences.
A Lagrange multiplier test for seasonal fractional integration
Creators: name: Silvapulle, P.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper develops an outer product gradient (OPG) form of the Lagrange multiplier (LM) statistic for testing fractional integration at zero and seasonal frequencies in quarterly time series model. A simulation study finds that the OPG-LM test has desirable size and power properties in finite sample with the exception that this test is slightly undersized in the presence of AR(1); the power of the test is not notably affected by this size property. The OPG-LM statistic is used for testing seasonal fractional integration of quarterly Australian income and unemployment series at different frequencies and found that the former is not fractionally integrated at any frequency, and the latter is fractionally integrated at some frequencies.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 1 (1999)
title: A Theoretical Introduction an d Legal Perspective on Rule of Law Transfers
Creators: name: Holterhus, Till Patrik
Publisher: name: Institut für Völker- und Europarecht, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Year: 2018

description: 9 Theoretical Introduction and Legal Perspective This Special Issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) deals with the theme of The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers . Transfers of the rule of law between legal orders have been studied extensively in academia. Yet, so far scholarship has, in this regard, predominantly centered around the socio- political questions. There is, however, more to explore. The GoJIL Special Issue, therefore, departs from common scholarly paths and intends to assess and explain rule of law transfers as a legal phenomenon, applying a particular doctrinal perspective. Such an analytical perspective is based on the assumption that rule of law transfers do not only consider the law but, although being ontological processes, encompass a legal dimension themselves . The following introduction will establish the theoretical basis on which such a legal approach shall be carried out. Four arguments will be developed: First, that there exists a plurality of state and non-state legal orders which interact on a global scale (A.). Second, that one particular way of such interaction is the transfer of legal items between legal orders (B.). Third, that the rule of law , as a fundamental legal concept, is such an item and subject to legal transfers (C.). And fourth, that – without doubting the influence of many social and political factors – the law itself plays an underestimated role with respect to rule of law transfers in the global plurality of legal orders (D.). Subsequently, the wide range of legal perspectives on the topic of rule of law transfers contained in this special issue shall briefly be outlined (E.).
description: Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 9, no. 1, page 7-33
description: Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
Static Type Determination for C++
Creators: name: Pande, Hemant D.
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1990

description: Static type determination involves compile time calculation of the type of object a pointer may point to at a particular program point during some execution. We show that the problem of precise interprocedural type determination is NP-hard in the presence of inheritance, virtual methods and pointers. We highlight the signicance of type determination in improving code eciency and precision of other static analyses. We present a safe, approximate algorithm for C++ programs with single level pointers, using the conditional analysis technique [LR91]. We discuss the generalization of our approach to analyze programs with multiple levels of pointer dereferencing.
Su alcuni nuovi contributi alla teoria dei test secondo Neyman-Pearson
Creators: name: Landenna, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Given two simple hypotheses H0:Teta=Teta0 and H1: Teta=Teta1 concerning the unknown parameter Teta which characterizes the probability distribution
Fi(x;Teta) of a random variable X, it is well known that Neyman-Pearson lemma ensure the existence and the uniqueness of the most powerful test.
In this paper, following Migliorati, it is demonstrated that the most powerful test is not unique whenever the probability distribution of X can be factored as
Fi(x;Teta)= f(x)h(Teta). Besides, in this case there exists a perfect negative linear relationship between the probabilities of first and second type errors alfa e
beta. Finally, it is shown that the theorem based on monotone likelihood ratio, which is considered a sort of generalization of Neyman-Pearson lemma, generates some "irregularities".
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 2 (1999)
Prototipo detección automática de uso de tapabocas usando técnicas de ML.
Creators: name: Eraso, Diego
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: 80199 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified

description: "Este documento contiene una versión de 3 páginas que abarca el proyecto de construir un detector de uso de tapabocas de principio a fin dejando constancia de la información relevante. Version completa en: https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Diego_Fernando_Eraso_Rodriguez_-_Proyecto_de_grado_2021-3/19701655 " Diego Fernando Eraso Rodriguez Ingeniero Electrónico, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Bogotá. Contenido La aparición del COVID 19, convirtió el uso de tapabocas en una medida obligatoria para la contención del virus, una medida que no siempre se respeta y es de vital cumplimiento. Usando medios convencionales verificar el uso de tapabocas continuamente en lugares públicos o dentro de las instalaciones de por ejemplo una universidad requiere personal humano observado rostros permanentemente. Siendo esta solución en muchos casos demasiado demandante de recursos y sujeta al error humano, una solución que involucre un sistema autónomo electrónico de detección de uso de tapabocas es más conveniente. Este proyecto presenta el diseño, implementación y pruebas de un prototipo de sistema de detección de tapabocas. La motivación principal para este trabajo fue y continúa siendo la situación actual, en otro escenario el uso de tapabocas no se habría generalizado y no existiría la misma necesidad de construir un detector de bajo presupuesto que permita un monitoreo continúo.
Una nota sul lemma di Neyman-Pearson
Creators: name: Migliorati, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Given two simple hypotheses concerning the value of the parameter on which the distribution function of a random variable depends, Neyman-Pearson's lemma gives the form of the most powerful test of dimension alfa(existence) and, under certain conditions, the lemma also assures the uniqueness of the most powerful test. This note gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the non uniqueness of the most powerful test, that is for the existence of tests different from Neyman-Pearson's, but characterized by the same dimension and power.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 2 (1999)
Tipping elements and climate-economic shocks: Pathways toward integrated assessment
Creators: name: Kopp, Robert E.
name: Shwom, Rachael
name: Wagner, Gernot
name: Yuan, Jiacan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Abrupt climate change
Risk

description: The literature on the costs of climate change often draws a link between climatic ‘tipping points’ and large economic shocks, frequently called ‘catastrophes’. The phrase ‘tipping points’ in this context can be misleading. In popular and social scientific discourse, ‘tipping points’ involve abrupt state changes. For some climatic ‘tipping points,’ the commitment to a state change may occur abruptly, but the change itself may be rate-limited and take centuries or longer to realize. Additionally, the connection between climatic ‘tipping points’ and economic losses is tenuous, though emerging empirical and process-model-based tools provide pathways for investigating it. We propose terminology to clarify the distinction between ‘tipping points’ in the popular sense, the critical thresholds exhibited by climatic and social ‘tipping elements,’ and ‘economic shocks’. The last may be associated with tipping elements, gradual climate change, or non-climatic triggers. We illustrate our proposed distinctions by surveying the literature on climatic tipping elements, climatically sensitive social tipping elements, and climate-economic shocks, and we propose a research agenda to advance the integrated assessment of all three.
Hardening Oven IVA RH 655
Creators: name: Frank, Michael
name: TU Darmstadt
Publisher: name: Technical University of Darmstadt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data Sheets
subject: 405-01 Metallurgische, thermische und thermomechanische Behandlung von Werkstoffen
subject: 405-01 Metallurgical, Thermal and Thermomechanical Treatment of Materials
subject: 620

description: Data sets of the hardening oven IVA RH 655 of the ETA Research Factory.
Estimation of the trace of the scale matrix of a multivariate t-model under a squared error loss
Creators: name: Joarder, A. H.
name: Beg, G. K.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The trace of the scale matrix of the multivariate t-distribution is considered for estimation. The estimation strategy is developed assuming a quadratic loss function. The conditions under which the proposed estimator outperforms the usual estimators are derived. Exact expressions for the risk functions of the estimators are also derived. Numerical examples are considered as well.
description: Statistica; Vol 59, No 2 (1999)