cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Age on the Association between Body-Mass Index and Mortality
Creators: name: Thun, Michael J.
name: Pamuk, Elsie R.
name: Stevens, June
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Williamson, David F.
name: Wood, Joy L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: BACKGROUND: The effect of age on optimal body weight is controversial, and few studies have had adequate numbers of subjects to analyze mortality as a function of body-mass index across age groups.

METHODS: We studied mortality over 12 years among white men and women who participated in the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study I (from 1960 through 1972). The 62,116 men and 262,019 women included in this analysis had never smoked cigarettes, had no history of heart disease, stroke, or cancer (other than skin cancer) at base line in 1959-1960, and had no history of recent unintentional weight loss. The date and cause of death for subjects who died were determined from death certificates. The associations between body-mass index (defined as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) and mortality were examined for six age groups in analyses in which we adjusted for age, educational level, physical activity, and alcohol consumption.

RESULTS: Greater body-mass index was associated with higher mortality from all causes and from cardiovascular disease in men and women up to 75 years of age. However, the relative risk associated with greater body-mass index declined with age. For example, for mortality from cardiovascular disease, the relative risk associated with an increment of 1 in the body-mass index was 1.10 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.04 to 1.16) for 30-to-44-year-old men and 1.03 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.02 to 1.05) for 65-to-74-year-old men. For women, the corresponding relative risk estimates were 1.08 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.05 to 1.11) and 1.02 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.02 to 1.03).

CONCLUSIONS: Excess body weight increases the risk of death from any cause and from cardiovascular disease in adults between 30 and 74 years of age. The relative risk associated with greater body weight is higher among younger subjects.
A Perception-Aware NMPC for Vision-Based Target Tracking and Collision Avoidance with a Multi-Rotor UAV
Creators: name: Dmytruk, Andriy
name: Silano, Giuseppe
name: Bicego, Davide
name: Licea, Daniel Bonilla
name: Saska, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A perception-aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) strategy aimed at performing vision-based target tracking and collision avoidance with a multi-rotor aerial vehicle is presented in this paper. The proposed control strategy considers both realistic actuation limits at the torque level and visual perception constraints to enforce the visibility coverage of a target while complying with the mission objectives. Furthermore, the approach allows to safely navigate in a workspace area populated by dynamic obstacles with a ballistic motion. The formulation is meant to be generic and set upon a large class of multi-rotor vehicles that covers both coplanar designs like quadrotors as well as fully-actuated platforms with tilted propellers. The feasibility and effectiveness of the control strategy are demonstrated via closed-loop simulations achieved in MATLAB.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, conference
Ten lessons learned on improving the open data reusability of bioinformatics knowledge bases
Creators: name: De Farias, Tarcisio Mendes
name: Wollbrett, Julien
name: Robinson-Rechavi, Marc
name: Bastian, Frederic
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: Background, enhancing interoperability of bioinformatics knowledge bases is a high priority requirement to maximize open data reusability, and thus increase their utility such as the return on investment for biomedical research. A knowledge base may provide useful information for life scientists and other knowledge bases, but it only acquires exchange value once the knowledge base is (re)used, and without interoperability the utility lies dormant. Results, in this talk, we discuss several approaches to boost interoperability depending on the interoperable parts. The findings are driven by several real-world scenario examples that were mostly implemented by Bgee, a well-established gene expression database. Moreover, we discuss ten general main lessons learnt. These lessons can be applied in the context of any bioinformatics knowledge base to foster open data reusability. Conclusions, this work provides pragmatic methods and transferable skills to promote reusability of bioinformatics knowledge bases by focusing on interoperability.
DeepCAM: A Fully CAM-based Inference Accelerator with Variable Hash Lengths for Energy-efficient Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Nguyen, Duy-Thanh
name: Bhattacharjee, Abhiroop
name: Moitra, Abhishek
name: Panda, Priyadarshini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With ever increasing depth and width in deep neural networks to achieve state-of-the-art performance, deep learning computation has significantly grown, and dot-products remain dominant in overall computation time. Most prior works are built on conventional dot-product where weighted input summation is used to represent the neuron operation. However, another implementation of dot-product based on the notion of angles and magnitudes in the Euclidean space has attracted limited attention. This paper proposes DeepCAM, an inference accelerator built on two critical innovations to alleviate the computation time bottleneck of convolutional neural networks. The first innovation is an approximate dot-product built on computations in the Euclidean space that can replace addition and multiplication with simple bit-wise operations. The second innovation is a dynamic size content addressable memory-based (CAM-based) accelerator to perform bit-wise operations and accelerate the CNNs with a lower computation time. Our experiments on benchmark image recognition datasets demonstrate that DeepCAM is up to 523x and 3498x faster than Eyeriss and traditional CPUs like Intel Skylake, respectively. Furthermore, the energy consumed by our DeepCAM approach is 2.16x to 109x less compared to Eyeriss.
description: Accepted to Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, 2023
The effect of secular galactic growth on the evolution of star clusters
Creators: name: Renaud, Florent
name: Gieles, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growth of galaxies through adiabatic accretion of dark matter is one of the main drivers of galaxy evolution. By isolating it from other processes like mergers, we analyse how it affects the evolution of star clusters. Our study comprises a fast and approximate exploration of the orbital and intrinsic cluster parameter space, and more detailed monitoring of their evolution, through N-body simulations for a handful of cases. We find that the properties of present-day star clusters and their tidal tails differ very little, whether the clusters are embedded in a growing galactic halo for 12 Gyr, or in a static one.
description: MNRAS accepted
Urban landscape assessment: a perceptual approach combining virtual reality and crowdsourced photo geodata
Creators: name: Alampi Sottini, Veronica
name: Barbierato, Elena
name: Bernetti, Iacopo
name: Capecchi, Irene
name: Cipollaro, Maria
name: Sacchelli, Sandro
name: Saragosa, Claudio
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2019

description: The paper focuses on the evaluation of the visual quality of the cityscape of Livorno, in Italy. Using an algorithm based on Flickr’s Application Programming Interface, the coordinates of 7,453 shooting points of a shared photo were downloaded. A direct survey was conducted to assess the perception of urban landscape. The geographical spaces to be evaluated were measured using 78 spherical images played in virtual reality through a virtual reality headset. The data were processed with the Principal Components Analysis. A Visual Quality Index (VQI) was developed to spatialise the results. Saliency maps were calculated to survey typical patterns in areas with high VQI. The results demonstrate how subjective visual perception helps identifying the criteria for the design of high-quality public spaces.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 73 (2018)
Pulido-methods-tables-figs ESM from Combined effects of mutualistic rhizobacteria counteract virus-induced suppression of indirect plant defences in soya bean.
Creators: name: Hannier Pulido
name: Mauck, Kerry E.
name: Moraes, Consuelo M. De
name: Mescher, Mark C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary methods, table S1, to S3, Figures S1 to S6
A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategy for Autonomous Racing of Scale Vehicles
Creators: name: Cataffo, Vittorio
name: Silano, Giuseppe
name: Iannelli, Luigi
name: Puig, Vicenç
name: Glielmo, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) strategy aimed at controlling a small-scale car model for autonomous racing competitions is presented in this paper. The proposed control strategy is concerned with minimizing the lap time while keeping the vehicle within track boundaries. The optimization problem considers both the vehicle's actuation limits and the lateral and longitudinal forces acting on the car modeled through the Pacejka's magic formula and a simple drivetrain model. Furthermore, the approach allows to safely race on a track populated by static obstacles generating collision-free trajectories and tracking them while enhancing the lap timing performance. Gazebo simulations using the F1/10 simulator showcase the feasibility and validity of the proposed control strategy. The code is released as open-source making it possible to replicate the obtained results.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, conference
New Double Soft Emission Theorems
Creators: name: Cachazo, Freddy
name: He, Song
name: Yuan, Ellis Ye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behavior of the tree-level S-matrix of a variety of theories as two particles become soft. By analogy with the recently found subleading soft theorems for gravitons and gluons, we explore subleading terms in double soft emissions. We first consider double soft scalar emissions and find subleading terms that are controlled by the angular momentum operator acting on hard particles. The order of the subleading theorems depends on the presence or not of color structures. Next we obtain a compact formula for the leading term in a double soft photon emission. The theories studied are a special Galileon, DBI, Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar, NLSM and Yang-Mills-Scalar. We use the recently found CHY representation of these theories in order to give a simple proof of the leading order part of all these theorems
description: 10 pages plus references. For a supplementary note, see https://ellisyeyuan.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/double-soft-theorems-subleading/
Degradation of the Palladian landscape
Creators: name: Tempesta, Tiziano
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2018

description: Between 1994 and 1996, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) placed 24 villas designed by Andrea Palladio on the World Heritage List. In this way, the universal value of Palladio’s works has been recognised. The analysis of Palladio’s villas provides evidence that in its thinking, the villa was a building deeply integrated in the surrounding landscape. Whereas in the past, a great deal of attention was devoted to preserving the Palladian villas, the Italian public authorities extended the prohibition on modifying the property to the landscape in only a small number of cases. The aim of the paper is to analyse the transformation of the landscape surrounding the Palladian villas inscribed in the World Heritage list from the beginning of the 19th century until today.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 72 (2018)
Optimum Trajectory Planning for Multi-Rotor UAV Relays with Tilt and Antenna Orientation Variations
Creators: name: Licea, Daniel Bonilla
name: Silano, Giuseppe
name: Ghogho, Mounir
name: Saska, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) need to tilt in order to move; this modifies the UAV's antenna orientation. We consider the scenario where a multi-rotor UAV serves as a communication relay between a Base Station (BS) and another UAV. We propose a framework to generate feasible trajectories for the multi-rotor UAV relay while considering its motion dynamics and the motion-induced changes of the antenna orientation. The UAV relay's trajectory is optimized to maximize the end-to-end number of bits transmitted. Numerical simulations in MATLAB and Gazebo show the benefits of accounting for the antenna orientation variations due to the UAV tilt.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, conference
(1262) Edith Mary Upton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Calcium Supplements for the Prevention of Colorectal Adenomas
Creators: name: Snover, D. C.
name: Pearson, L.
name: Haile, R. W.
name: Bond, J. H.
name: Van Stolk, R. U.
name: Summers, R. W.
name: Rothstein, R.
name: Sandler, R. S.
name: Beach, M.
name: Beck, G. J.
name: Frankl, H.
name: Baron, J. A.
name: Greenberg, E. R.
name: Mandel, J. S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Laboratory, clinical, and epidemiologic evidence suggests that calcium may help prevent colorectal adenomas. We conducted a randomized, double-blind trial of the effect of supplementation with calcium carbonate on the recurrence of colorectal adenomas. We randomly assigned 930 subjects (mean age, 61 years; 72 percent men) with a recent history of colorectal adenomas to receive either calcium carbonate (3 g [1200 mg of elemental calcium] daily) or placebo, with follow-up colonoscopies one and four years after the qualifying examination. The primary end point was the proportion of subjects in whom at least one adenoma was detected after the first follow-up endoscopy but up to (and including) the second follow-up examination. Risk ratios for the recurrence of adenomas were adjusted for age, sex, lifetime number of adenomas before the study, clinical center, and length of the surveillance period.

RESULTS: The subjects in the calcium group had a lower risk of recurrent adenomas. Among the 913 subjects who underwent at least one study colonoscopy, the adjusted risk ratio for any recurrence of adenoma with calcium as compared with placebo was 0.85 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.74 to 0.98; P=0.03). The main analysis was based on the 832 subjects (409 in the calcium group and 423 in the placebo group) who completed both follow-up examinations. At least one adenoma was diagnosed between the first and second follow-up endoscopies in 127 subjects in the calcium group (31 percent) and 159 subjects in the placebo group (38 percent); the adjusted risk ratio was 0.81 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.67 to 0.99; P=0.04). The adjusted ratio of the average number of adenomas in the calcium group to that in the placebo group was 0.76 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.60 to 0.96; P=0.02). The effect of calcium was independent of initial dietary fat and calcium intake.

CONCLUSIONS: Calcium supplementation is associated with a significant - though moderate - reduction in the risk of recurrent colorectal adenomas.
The choice experiment and the stochastic profit frontier: a methodological approach for groundwater preservation policies
Creators: name: Sardaro, Ruggiero
name: Bozzo, Francesco
name: Fucilli, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2018

description: Apulia is the fifth Italian region in terms of irrigated area and irrigation water used in agriculture. However, inefficiencies in the management of the regional irrigation consortia force most of farmers to use groundwater by private wells, with negative consequences on soil and crop characteristics, and with grave desertification risk. In the first instance, through a choice experiment survey, the study investigated the aptitude of the regional farmers toward the abandonment of their farm wells in exchange for an improved consortium irrigation network and additional services. Then, through a stochastic profit frontier, the impact of these choices was assessed on the economic performance of farms, providing useful information for suitable and fair groundwater preservation policies.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 72 (2018)
Pulido-methods-tables-figs ESM from Combined effects of mutualistic rhizobacteria counteract virus-induced suppression of indirect plant defences in soya bean
Creators: name: Hannier Pulido
name: Mauck, Kerry E.
name: Moraes, Consuelo M. De
name: Mescher, Mark C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary methods, table S1, to S3, Figures S1 to S6
La valutazione monetaria dei servizi ecosistemici marini: un’indagine sulle trezze nell’Alto Adriatico e i Millennials
Creators: name: Marangon, F.
name: Troiano, S.
name: Nassivera, F.
name: Cosmina, M.
name: Gallenti, G.
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2018

description: The aim of this paper is to explore the monetary value of marine ecosystem services provided by coralligenous habitats in the Adriatic sea. The paper describes the development of a contingent valuation survey and examines the perspective of Millennials. Even if this group of citizens presents environmental attitudes, external factors and individual characteristics may prevent effective environmental friendly behaviour. Prior academic research regarding monetary evaluation of coralligenous habitats has not focused on Millennials behaviour. We carried out the survey to a sample of 897 Italian students. The findings will be of interest to academic researchers, to institutional decision makers, and to people in general who are concerned with marine ecosystem services. This study encourages future empirical researches trying to refine and apply the finding to support decision makers in identifying management alternatives.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 72 (2018)
Zeno: An Interactive Framework for Behavioral Evaluation of Machine Learning
Creators: name: Cabrera, Ángel Alexander
name: Fu, Erica
name: Bertucci, Donald
name: Holstein, Kenneth
name: Talwalkar, Ameet
name: Hong, Jason I.
name: Perer, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning models with high accuracy on test data can still produce systematic failures, such as harmful biases and safety issues, when deployed in the real world. To detect and mitigate such failures, practitioners run behavioral evaluation of their models, checking model outputs for specific types of inputs. Behavioral evaluation is important but challenging, requiring that practitioners discover real-world patterns and validate systematic failures. We conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with ML practitioners to better understand the challenges of behavioral evaluation and found that it is a collaborative, use-case-first process that is not adequately supported by existing task- and domain-specific tools. Using these findings, we designed Zeno, a general-purpose framework for visualizing and testing AI systems across diverse use cases. In four case studies with participants using Zeno on real-world models, we found that practitioners were able to reproduce previous manual analyses and discover new systematic failures.
Defining community health services in Australia: a qualitative exploration
Creators: name: Lewis, Virginia
name: Macmillan, Jenny
name: Harris-Roxas, B
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: The Community Health Program of the 1970s was an attempt to introduce a national community health model. However, although community-based health care is an important element of the health systems of all Australian states and territories, the definition of what constitutes a 'community health service' in Australia today is not clear. Methods: A search of government websites failed to provide information about the types and characteristics of services that would be included in the term. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 key informants in roles with responsibility for primary and community health services from health departments in all Australian states and territories. Questions explored their understanding of community health services as they operated in their jurisdiction. The study adopted a blended inductive and deductive orientation within a qualitative descriptive method. Results: There was little consistency in the way community health services were described across jurisdictions. The defining attributes of a 'community health centre' described by an international peak body did not apply to services in the majority of jurisdictions in Australia. Victoria was more aligned with the description than other jurisdictions, with organisations defined through legislation and a separate funding stream to support aspects of service delivery. Conclusions: Those designing and implementing national health system programs and reforms need to be aware that terms, such as 'community health', do not mean the same thing across jurisdictions; attempts to create consistency have to recognise differences that will affect new initiatives, as well as the spread of successful policies and programs from one jurisdiction to another. Without a consistent description, it is difficult to explore the current role of community-based health care across Australia in improving access to health care.
Non-Cosmological FRBs from Young Supernova Remnant Pulsars
Creators: name: Connor, Liam
name: Sievers, Jonathan
name: Pen, Ue-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new extragalactic but non-cosmological explanation for fast radio bursts (FRBs) based on very young pulsars in supernova remnants. Within a few hundred years of a core-collapse supernova the ejecta is confined within $\sim$1 pc, providing a high enough column density of free electrons for the observed 375-1600 pc cm$^{-3}$ of dispersion measure (DM). By extrapolating a Crab-like pulsar to its infancy in an environment like that of SN 1987A, we hypothesize such an object could emit supergiant pulses sporadically which would be bright enough to be seen at a few hundred megaparsecs. We hypothesize that such supergiant pulses would preferentially occur early in the pulsar's life when the free electron density is still high, which is why we do not see large numbers of moderate DM FRBs ($\lesssim300$ pc cm$^{-3}$). In this scenario Faraday rotation at the source gives rotation measures (RMs) much larger than the expected cosmological contribution. If the emission were pulsar-like, then the polarization vector could swing over the duration of the burst, which is not expected from non-rotating objects. In this model, the scattering, large DM, and commensurate RM all come from one place which is not the case for the cosmological interpretation. The model also provides testable predictions of the flux distribution and repeat rate of FRBs, and could be further verified by spatial coincidence with optical supernovae of the past several decades and cross-correlation with nearby galaxy maps.
description: 5 pages
(1263) Margaret Maud Reed
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A Multi-Layer Software Architecture for Aerial Cognitive Multi-Robot Systems in Power Line Inspection Tasks
Creators: name: Silano, Giuseppe
name: Bednar, Jan
name: Nascimento, Tiago
name: Capitan, Jesus
name: Saska, Martin
name: Ollero, Anibal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a multi-layer software architecture to perform cooperative missions with a fleet of quadrotors providing support in electrical power line inspection operations. The proposed software framework guarantees the compliance with safety requirements between drones and human workers while ensuring that the mission is carried out successfully. Besides, cognitive capabilities are integrated in the multi-vehicle system in order to reply to unforeseen events and external disturbances. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed architecture are demonstrated by means of realistic simulations.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, conference
A Vision-Based Algorithm for a Path Following Problem
Creators: name: Terlizzi, Mario
name: Silano, Giuseppe
name: Russo, Luigi
name: Aatif, Muhammad
name: Basiri, Amin
name: Mariani, Valerio
name: Iannelli, Luigi
name: Glielmo, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A novel prize-winner algorithm designed for a path following problem within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field is presented in this paper. The proposed approach exploits the advantages offered by the pure pursuing algorithm to set up an intuitive and simple control framework. A path fora quad-rotor UAV is obtained by using downward facing camera images implementing an Image-Based Visual Servoing (IBVS) approach. Numerical simulations in MATLAB together with the MathWorks Virtual Reality (VR) toolbox demonstrate the validity and the effectiveness of the proposed solution. The code is released as open-source making it possible to go through any part of the system and to replicate the obtained results.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures, conference
Ecosystem Health Assessment in urban contexts: a proposal for the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Italy)
Creators: name: De Toro, Pasquale
name: Iodice, Silvia
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2018

description: The concept of urban resilience describes the capacity of a system to recover its functionality after a disturbance. Considering that every city is unique, the aim of the paper is to apply the concept of ecosystem health to the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Italy), classifying the territory according to its urban health. Three different perspectives have been considered: “vigour”, “organisation” and “resilience” and according to this framework, a system of indicators has been developed, identifying their territorial distribution. The application provides a subdivision of the Metropolitan Area in different zones with various degrees of resistance to risks and vulnerabilities. The evaluation has been carried out integrating Geographic Information System and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 72 (2018)
Aprender jugando: estrategias de  gamificación para el aula. (JIDUCYL 2024)
Creators: name: Houze, Adeline
name: Grande-de-Prado, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Taller sobre gamificación en II Jornada de Innovación Docente de las Universidades Públicas de Castilla y León 02/01/2024. Grupo Interuniversitario de Formación e Innovación Docente
Estimating preferences for controlling beach erosion in Sicily
Creators: name: De Salvo, Maria
name: Signorello, Giovanni
name: Cucuzza, Giuseppe
name: Begalli, Diego
name: Agnoli, Lara
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2018

description: This study applied discrete-choice experiments to estimate preferences for a program aimed at reducing the retreatment of the sandy beach at “Lido di Noto”, a renowned Sicilian bathing resort close to Noto (Italy). Econometric analysis of data was based on Multinomial Logit (MNL), Latent Class (LC) and Mixed Logit (MXL) models. Findings shown that users appreciated the advancement of the current coastline through nourishment, and negatively perceived the construction of emerged sea barriers. MXL and LC models revealed that preferences were heterogeneous.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 72 (2018)
Supplementary materials from Inferring collective behaviour from a fossilized fish shoal.
Creators: name: Mizumoto, Nobuaki
name: Miyata, Shinya
name: Pratt, Stephen C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary text and figure S1-7 and table S1 are available.
All Who Wander: On the Prevalence and Characteristics of Multi-community Engagement
Creators: name: Tan, Chenhao
name: Lee, Lillian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.4; H.2.8

description: Although analyzing user behavior within individual communities is an active and rich research domain, people usually interact with multiple communities both on- and off-line. How do users act in such multi-community environments? Although there are a host of intriguing aspects to this question, it has received much less attention in the research community in comparison to the intra-community case. In this paper, we examine three aspects of multi-community engagement: the sequence of communities that users post to, the language that users employ in those communities, and the feedback that users receive, using longitudinal posting behavior on Reddit as our main data source, and DBLP for auxiliary experiments. We also demonstrate the effectiveness of features drawn from these aspects in predicting users' future level of activity. One might expect that a user's trajectory mimics the "settling-down" process in real life: an initial exploration of sub-communities before settling down into a few niches. However, we find that the users in our data continually post in new communities; moreover, as time goes on, they post increasingly evenly among a more diverse set of smaller communities. Interestingly, it seems that users that eventually leave the community are "destined" to do so from the very beginning, in the sense of showing significantly different "wandering" patterns very early on in their trajectories; this finding has potentially important design implications for community maintainers. Our multi-community perspective also allows us to investigate the "situation vs. personality" debate from language usage across different communities.
description: 11 pages, data available at https://chenhaot.com/pages/multi-community.html, Proceedings of WWW 2015 (updated references)
Effects of Thyroxine as Compared with Thyroxine plus Triiodothyronine in Patients with Hypothyroidism
Creators: name: Kažanavičius, Gintautas
name: Bunevičius, Robertas
name: Prange Jr., Arthur J.
name: Žalinkevičius, Rimas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: BACKGROUND: Patients with hypothyroidism are usually treated with thyroxine (levothyroxine) only, although both thyroxine and triiodothyronine are secreted by the normal thyroid gland. Whether thyroid secretion of triiodothyronine is physiologically important is unknown.

METHODS: We compared the effects of thyroxine alone with those of thyroxine plus triiodothyronine (liothyronine) in 33 patients with hypothyroidism. Each patient was studied for two five-week periods. During one period, the patient received his or her usual dose of thyroxine. During the other, the patient received a regimen in which 50 microg of the usual dose of thyroxine was replaced by 12.5 microg of triiodothyronine. The order in which each patient received the two treatments was randomized. Biochemical, physiologic, and psychological tests were performed at the end of each treatment period.

RESULTS: The patients had lower serum free and total thyroxine concentrations and higher serum total triiodothyronine concentrations after treatment with thyroxine plus triiodothyronine than after thyroxine alone, whereas the serum thyrotropin concentrations were similar after both treatments. Among 17 scores on tests of cognitive performance and assessments of mood, 6 were better or closer to normal after treatment with thyroxine plus triiodothyronine. Similarly, among 15 visual-analogue scales used to indicate mood and physical status, the results for 10 were significantly better after treatment with thyroxine plus triiodothyronine. The pulse rate and serum sex hormone-binding globulin concentrations were slightly higher after treatment with thyroxine plus triiodothyronine, but blood pressure, serum lipid concentrations, and the results of neurophysiologic tests were similar after the two treatments.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with hypothyroidism, partial substitution of triiodothyronine for thyroxine may improve mood and neuropsychological function; this finding suggests a specific effect of the triiodothyronine normally secreted by the thyroid gland.
La doppia stima degli immobili
Creators: name: Milazzo, Laura
name: Rubuano, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2018

description: In the traditional methodology the two main approaches to estimate the market value are the synthetic procedure and the analytic procedure, that correspond respectively to the market comparison approach and to the method for direct capitalization, according to the valuation standards. In professional practice, the two procedures are often used to confirm the final result of he appraisal or to verify the results of one with the other. However the main purpose of using the two procedures independently in the estimate of the market value is to incorporate more data and market information and to work with a broader range of methodological tools.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 71 (2017)
(1258) Stanley Everard Upton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An Assessment of the Financial Viability of Small-scale Commercial Aquaponic Systems in Barbados
Creators: name: Collymore-Taylor, Waynelle
name: Collymore-Taylor, Waynelle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Aquaponics
subject: Financial viability
subject: Barbados
subject: Farms

description: The aquaponics technology has grown in interest over the years. Within Barbados, persons are opting to use this system for growing their crops and also offer those crops for sale. Aquaponics incorporates both hydroponics and aquaculture where crops and aquatic species are grown in a recirculating system without the use of soil. This farming technique has been considered in various literature as sustainable and efficient in the use of resources. Although it is promoted as a technique by which farmers can earn an income, it is unclear as to whether this form of production is financially viable despite the positive environmental aspects. This paper, therefore, assesses whether or not aquaponics production in Barbados is financially viable and whether it should be promoted to farmers in the country. To determine the viability, two existing aquaponic farms were studied and were compared and contrasted to the other. The start-up and operational costs were identified as the financial costs. The benefits were the revenue gained from selling the fish and the crops. Both the financial benefits and costs identified for the two farms were analysed using the benefit cost analysis and based on the results from the benefit cost analysis, both aquaponic systems were found to be viable within a Barbados context.
Phase transitions in Pareto optimal complex networks
Creators: name: Seoane, Luís F
name: Solé, Ricard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The organization of interactions in complex systems can be described by networks connecting different units. These graphs are useful representations of the local and global complexity of the underlying systems. The origin of their topological structure can be diverse, resulting from different mechanisms including multiplicative processes and optimization. In spatial networks or in graphs where cost constraints are at work, as it occurs in a plethora of situations from power grids to the wiring of neurons in the brain, optimization plays an important part in shaping their organization. In this paper we study network designs resulting from a Pareto optimization process, where different simultaneous constraints are the targets of selection. We analyze three variations on a problem finding phase transitions of different kinds. Distinct phases are associated to different arrangements of the connections; but the need of drastic topological changes does not determine the presence, nor the nature of the phase transitions encountered. Instead, the functions under optimization do play a determinant role. This reinforces the view that phase transitions do not arise from intrinsic properties of a system alone, but from the interplay of that system with its external constraints.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Spatial Structures In the Globular Cluster Distribution of the Ten Brightest Virgo Galaxies
Creators: name: D'Abrusco, R.
name: Fabbiano, G.
name: Zezas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of significant localized structures in the projected two-dimensional (2D) spatial distributions of the Globular Cluster (GC) systems of the ten brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. We use catalogs of GCs extracted from the HST ACS Virgo Cluster Survey (ACSVCS) imaging data, complemented, when available, by additional archival ACS data. These structures have projected sizes ranging from $\sim\!5$ arcsec to few arc-minutes ($\sim\!1$ to $\sim\!25$ kpc). Their morphologies range from localized, circular, to coherent, complex shapes resembling arcs and streams. The largest structures are preferentially aligned with the major axis of the host galaxy. A few relatively smaller structures follow the minor axis. Differences in the shape and significance of the GC structures can be noticed by investigating the spatial distribution of GCs grouped by color and luminosity. The largest coherent GC structures are located in low-density regions within the Virgo cluster. This trend is more evident in the red GC population, believed to form in mergers involving late-type galaxies. We suggest that GC over-densities may be driven by either accretion of satellite galaxies, major dissipationless mergers or wet dissipation mergers. We discuss caveats to these scenarios, and estimate the masses of the potential progenitors galaxies. These masses range in the interval $10^{8.5}\!-\!10^{9.5}$ solar masses, larger than those of the Local Group dwarf galaxies.
description: 28 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Causes and Outcomes of the Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease
Creators: name: Dean, Deborah
name: Bellevue, Rita
name: McKie, Virgil
name: Orringer, Eugene
name: Moncino, Mark
name: Ware, Russell
name: Vichinsky, Elliott P.
name: Earles, Ann N.
name: Neumayr, Lynne D.
name: Williams, Roger
name: Abboud, Miguel
name: Ballas, Samir
name: Nickerson, Bruce
name: Daeschner, Charles
name: Lennette, Evelyne T.
name: Manci, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: Background The acute chest syndrome is the leading cause of death among patients with sickle cell disease. Since its cause is largely unknown, therapy is supportive. Pilot studies with improved diagnostic techniques suggest that infection and fat embolism are underdiagnosed in patients with the syndrome. Methods In a 30-center study, we analyzed 671 episodes of the acute chest syndrome in 538 patients with sickle cell disease to determine the cause, outcome, and response to therapy. We evaluated a treatment protocol that included matched transfusions, bronchodilators, and bronchoscopy. Samples of blood and respiratory tract secretions were sent to central laboratories for antibody testing, culture, DNA testing, and histopathological analyses. Results Nearly half the patients were initially admitted for another reason, mainly pain. When the acute chest syndrome was diagnosed, patients had hypoxia, decreasing hemoglobin values, and progressive multilobar pneumonia. The mean length of hospitalization was 10.5 days. Thirteen percent of patients required mechanical ventilation, and 3 percent died. Patients who were 20 or more years of age had a more severe course than those who were younger. Neurologic events occurred in 11 percent of patients, among whom 46 percent had respiratory failure. Treatment with phenotypically matched transfusions improved oxygenation, with a 1 percent rate of alloimmunization. One fifth of the patients who were treated with bronchodilators had clinical improvement. Eighty-one percent of patients who required mechanical ventilation recovered. A specific cause of the acute chest syndrome was identified in 38 percent of all episodes and 70 percent of episodes with complete data. Among the specific causes were pulmonary fat embolism and 27 different infectious pathogens. Eighteen patients died, and the most common causes of death were pulmonary emboli and infectious bronchopneumonia. Infection was a contributing factor in 56 percent of the deaths. Conclusions Among patients with sickle cell disease, the acute chest syndrome is commonly precipitated by fat embolism and infection, especially community-acquired pneumonia. Among older patients and those with neurologic symptoms, the syndrome often progresses to respiratory failure. Treatment with transfusions and bronchodilators improves oxygenation, and with aggressive treatment, most patients who have respiratory failure recover.
(1257) John Henry Upton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Mission Planning and Execution in Heterogeneous Teams of Aerial Robots supporting Power Line Inspection Operations
Creators: name: Calvo, Alvaro
name: Silano, Giuseppe
name: Capitan, Jesus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A software architecture aimed at coordinating a team of heterogeneous aerial vehicles for inspection and maintenance operations in high-voltage power line scenarios is presented in this paper. A hierarchical approach deals with high-level tasks by planning and executing complex missions requiring vehicles to support human operators. A resource-constrained problem allows distributing tasks among the team taking into account vehicles' capabilities and battery constraints. Besides, Behavior Trees (BTs) are in charge of mission execution, triggering replanning operations in case of unforeseen events, such as vehicle faults or communication drop-outs. The feasibility and validity of the approach are showcased through realistic simulations achieved in Gazebo.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, conference