cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of carbon isotope fractionation during anaerobic reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated and brominated benzenes
Creators: name: Sohn, Seo Yean
name: Kuntze, Kevin
name: Nijenhuis, Ivonne
name: Häggblom, Max M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Compound specific carbon isotope analysis
Halogenated benzenes
Microbial reductive dehalogenation
Anaerobic
Aquatic sediments

description: Compound specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) has been established as a useful tool to evaluate in situ biodegradation. Here, CSIA was used to determine microbial dehalogenation of chloro- and bromobenzenes in microcosms derived from Hackensack River sediments. Gas chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-IRMS) was used to measure carbon isotope fractionation during reductive dehalogenation of hexachlorobenzene (HCB), pentachlorobenzene (PeCB), 1,2,3,5-tetrachlorobenzene (TeCB), 1,2,3,5-tetrabromobenzene (TeBB), and 1,3,5-tribromobenzene (TriBB). Strong evidence of isotope fractionation coupled to dehalogenation was not observed in the substrate, possibly due to the low solubilities of the highly halogenated benzene substrates and a dilution of the isotope signal. Nonetheless, we could measure a depletion of the δ13C value in the dichlorobenzene product during dechlorination of HCB, the sequential depletion and enrichment of δ13C value for trichlorobenzene in TeCB dechlorinating cultures, and the enrichment of δ13C during debromination of TriBB. This indicates that a measurable isotope fractionation occurred during reductive dehalogenation of highly halogenated chloro- and bromobenzenes in aquatic sediments. Thus, although more quantitative measurements will be needed, the data suggests that CSIA may have application for monitoring in situ microbial reductive dehalogenation of highly halogenated benzenes.
Eriopinae
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae

description: Subfam. Eriopinae    * Methorasa latreillei (Duponchel, 1827)
 Nc: Zagrilla Baja (24-X-2005); río Guadalquivir (17-VI-2015, oruga).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
The Wild Bunch: Scourges or Ministers?
Creators: name: Triggs, Jeffery A.
Publisher: name: Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Year: 1991
Subjects: Western films
Wild bunch (Motion picture)
World War, 1914-1918
German influence in Mexico
Elizabethan cosmology
Peckinpah, Sam, 1925-1984

description: When The Wild Bunch first appeared in the summer of 1969, it created something of a scandal with its raw, unleavened violence and hyper-realistic treatment of the western subject matter. This treatment seemed to scorn deliberately the usual dictates of the western genre, a traditional repository of American values which called for idealized if not mythological handling. Americans used to finding genteel gunfights and unambiguous morality in their westerns were shocked by Peckinpah’s depiction of the west as a squalid, messily bloody place, marked not by the confrontation of good and evil but by layers of badness. Where the traditional western offered, at the safe distance of legend, a morality corresponding to the perceived moral clarity of the Second World War, Peckinpah’s western reflected the moral ambiguity and discomfort of the war in Vietnam. Setting his film in the early twentieth century rather than the idealized post-Civil War period common in earlier westerns, Peckinpah suggested an incipient but recognizably modern world that is still very much with us.
Ordinary Spaces and Public Life in the City of Fragments
Spazi ordinari e vita pubblica nella città di frammenti
Creators: name: Giovannoni, Giulio; Università Di Firenze
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: public spaces; periphery; sprawl; urban design
ICAR21 - Urbanistica
spazi pubblici; periferie; sprawl; progettazione urbana

description: The Urban Design Studio held in the fall 2012 within the International Curriculum in Architectural Design at the University of Florence coped with the design of peripheries. These are the least-known parts of Florence but are still the places where most of people live. Here the traditional ideas of the city and of public spaces collapse. Public life mainly shows in ordinary spaces with no particular value. The Urban Design Studio tried to discover public life in peripheries and enhance it through design.
description: L’Urban Design Studio tenutosi nell’autunno 2012 nell’ambito dell’International Curriculum in Architectural Design all’Università di Firenze ha affrontato la progettazione delle periferie. Queste sono la parte meno conosciuta di Firenze ma sono tuttavia il luogo dove vive la maggior parte della popolazione. Qui le idee tradizionali di città e di spazio pubblico svaniscono. La vita pubblica si manifesta in luoghi ordinari privi di particolare valore. Con l’Urban Design Studio si è cercato di scoprire la vita pubblica delle periferie e di rafforzarla attraverso il progetto.
description: IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l'architettura; Vol. 4, n. 1 (2013) - THE PUBLIC SPACE OF EDUCATION, numero speciale a cura di Luisa Bravo e Claudio Sgarbi; 227 - 248
Leucochlaena oditis
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Leucochlaena
Leucochlaena oditis

description: Leucochlaena oditis (Hübner, [1822])
  Citada de Bujalance: imagos en octubre, poco abundantes (REDONDO & PÉREZ, 2001b; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
 Nc: Cerro Muriano (1-X-2014); casco urbano de Córdoba (28-X-2019).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
La sfida del Guasto
The Challenge of Guasto
Creators: name: Naldi, Milena; Comune Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: spazio pubblico; Giardino del Guasto; Bologna; Associazione Il Giardino del Guasto

description: L’Associazione Il Giardino del Guasto è nata nel 1998 dalla volontà di un gruppo di cittadini singoli e famiglie di restituire alla città uno spazio di incontro e di gioco, in collaborazione con il Quartiere San Vitale che, attraverso una convenzione, ha assegnato loro la cura del giardino.Dopo lavori di ripristino a cura del Comune, dall’ anno 2000 l’Associazione è impegnata nella tutela del giardino e nella progettazione e organizzazione di attività rivolte in primo luogo ai bambini e ai ragazzi, ma anche di iniziative aperte a tutta la cittadinanza, sempre in collaborazione con le istituzioni pubbliche, mediante anche la costruzione di reti di azione comune con altre associazioni del territorio.
description: The Association “Il Garden del Guasto” (The Garden of Guasto) was founded in 1998 by the will of a group of individual citizens and families in order to give the city a place to meet and play, in collaboration with the San Vitale District who, through an agreement, gave them the care of the garden.After restoration work by the Municipality, since 2000 the Association is committed to the protection of the garden and to the definition and organization of activities aimed primarily at children and young people, but also initiatives open to all citizens, always in collaboration with public institutions, through the construction of joint action networks with other local associations.
description: IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l'architettura; Vol. 4, n. 1 (2013) - THE PUBLIC SPACE OF EDUCATION, numero speciale a cura di Luisa Bravo e Claudio Sgarbi; 249 - 254
NFAT5-Mediated Signalling Pathways in Viral Infection and Cardiovascular Dysfunction
Creators: name: Zhao, Guangze
name: Aghakeshmiri, Sana
name: Chen, Yankuan T.
name: Zhang, Huifang M.
name: Yip, Fione
name: Yang, Decheng
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5) is well known for its sensitivity to cellular osmolarity changes, such as in the kidney medulla. Accumulated evidence indicates that NFAT5 is also a sensitive factor to stress signals caused by non-hypertonic stimuli such as heat shock, biomechanical stretch stress, ischaemia, infection, etc. These osmolality-related and -unrelated stimuli can induce NFAT5 upregulation, activation and nuclear accumulation, leading to its protective role against various detrimental effects. However, dysregulation of NFAT5 expression may cause pathological conditions in different tissues, leading to a variety of diseases. These protective or pathogenic effects of NFAT5 are dictated by the regulation of its target gene expression and activation of its signalling pathways. Recent studies have found a number of kinases that participate in the phosphorylation/activation of NFAT5 and related signal proteins. Thus, this review will focus on the NFAT5-mediated signal transduction pathways. As for the stimuli that upregulate NFAT5, in addition to the stresses caused by hyperosmotic and non-hyperosmotic environments, other factors such as miRNA, long non-coding RNA, epigenetic modification and viral infection also play an important role in regulating NFAT5 expression; thus, the discussion in this regard is another focus of this review. As the heart, unlike the kidneys, is not normally exposed to hypertonic environments, studies on NFAT5-mediated cardiovascular diseases are just emerging and rapidly progressing. Therefore, we have also added a review on the progress made in this field of research.
Caradrina noctivaga Bellier 1863
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Caradrina
Caradrina noctivaga

description: Caradrina noctivaga Bellier, 1863    Citada de Bujalance (PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
American Society of Biomechanics Journal of Biomechanics Award 2013: Cortical bone tissue mechanical quality and biological mechanisms possibly underlying atypical fractures
Creators: name: Geissler, Joseph R.
name: Bajaj, Devendra
name: Fritton, J. Christopher
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2015
Subjects: Antiresorptives
Bone remodeling
Osteoblasts
Osteoclasts
Osteocytes
Osteoporosis

description: The biomechanics literature contains many well-understood mechanisms behind typical fracture types that have important roles in treatment planning. The recent association of "atypical" fractures with long-term use of drugs designed to prevent osteoporosis has renewed interest in the effects of agents on bone tissue-level quality. While this class of fracture was recognized prior to the introduction of the anti-resorptive bisphosphonate drugs and recently likened to stress fractures, the mechanism(s) that lead to atypical fractures have not been definitively identified. Thus, a causal relationship between these drugs and atypical fracture has not been established. Physicians, bioengineers and others interested in the biomechanics of bone are working to improve fracture-prevention diagnostics, and the design of treatments to avoid this serious side-effect in the future. This review examines the mechanisms behind the bone tissue damage that may produce the atypical fracture pattern observed increasingly with long-term bisphosphonate use. Our recent findings and those of others reviewed support that the mechanisms behind normal, healthy excavation and tunnel filling by bone remodeling units within cortical tissue strengthen mechanical integrity. The ability of cortical bone to resist the damage induced during cyclic loading may be altered by the reduced remodeling and increased tissue age resulting from long-term bisphosphonate treatment. Development of assessments for such potential fractures would restore confidence in pharmaceutical treatments that have the potential to spare millions in our aging population from the morbidity and death that often follow bone fracture.
title: Generating new product recommendations in online shops with topic models
Creators: name: Fischer, Johanna
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: M31 Marketing
subject: Empfehlungssystem
subject: Electronic commerce
subject: Datenaufbereitung

description: Recommending products that are helpful to customers and tailored to their needs is of pivotal importance for successful online retailing. Online purchase data is typically used to generate such recommendations. This dissertation studies two topic models that use purchase data to make product recommendations. The Author Topic Model (ATM) and Sticky Author Topic Model (Sticky ATM) are applied to the purchase data of an online retailer of animal health products, and their predictive performances are contrasted with those of the benchmark methods Unigram, Bigram, and Collaborative Filtering (CF). This work focuses on the generation of new product recommendations. To increase novelty in recommendations, a new pre-processing approach is presented. The data is prepared prior to model application such that more novel products are included in the recommendations. A total of six data preparation variants are tested. The key finding is that topic models are very competitive with the benchmark methods and outperform them with the data preparation variant, where repetitively purchased items (repeat items) and customers with one item transaction (single-item customers) are eliminated from the data. Marketing practitioners should consider this pre-processing when implementing topic models as recommender models in their online shops. Produktempfehlungen, die für Kunden hilfreich und auf ihre Bedürfnisse zugeschnitten sind, sind von zentraler Bedeutung für einen erfolgreichen Onlinehandel. Onlinebestelldaten werden in der Regel zur Generierung solcher Empfehlungen verwendet. In dieser Dissertation werden zwei Topic Modelle untersucht, die Bestelldaten für die Erstellung von Produktempfehlungen nutzen. Das Author Topic Model (ATM) und das Sticky Author Topic Model (Sticky ATM) werden auf Bestelldaten eines Onlinehändlers von Tiergesundheitsprodukten angewendet und ihre Vorhersagegenauigkeiten werden mit denen der Benchmark-Methoden Unigram, Bigram und Collaborative Filtering (CF) verglichen. Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Generierung neuer Produktempfehlungen. Um die Neuartigkeit der Empfehlungen zu erhöhen, wird ein neuer Ansatz der Datenaufbereitung vorgestellt. Die Daten werden vor der Modellanwendung so aufbereitet, dass mehr neuartige Produkte in die Empfehlungen aufgenommen werden. Insgesamt werden sechs Varianten der Datenaufbereitung getestet. Der zentrale Erkenntnisgewinn ist, dass Topic Modelle mit den Benchmark-Methoden sehr gut mithalten können und diese mit der Datenaufbereitungsvariante übertreffen, bei der wiederholt gekaufte Produkte (repeat items) und Kunden mit nur einem bestellten Produkt (single-item customers) aus den Daten eliminiert werden. Marketingpraktiker sollten diese Datenaufbereitung bei der Implementierung von Topic Modellen als Empfehlungsmodelle in ihren Onlineshops berücksichtigen.
Caradrina clavipalpis
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Caradrina
Caradrina clavipalpis

description: Caradrina clavipalpis (Scopoli, 1763)
  Citada de Bujalance (PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
 Nc: La Paz (23-IX-2008 / 8-V-2010 / 10-V-2010).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
The substellar neighborhood: a stunningly diverse population of brown dwarfs
Creators: name: Marocco, Federico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract: The census of the coldest constituents of the Solar Neighborhood remains incomplete. Completing such census is one of the driving goals for the CatWISE and "Backyard Worlds: Planet Nine" teams, who have discovered hundreds of new late-T and Y dwarfs using data from WISE/NEOWISE. In this poster we present the results of our on-going observing campaign, which is revealing a stunning diversity among the substellar population, a diversity that atmospheric models suggest is driven by metallicity.

Theme(s): Cool Stars as Stellar Systems, Brown Dwarfs and Giant Exoplanets: Future Prospects and Thirty Years of Discovery
Jambalaya: Using Multicast for Blind Distributed Web
Creators: name: Navas, Julio C.
name: Hirsh, Haym
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998

description: Currently, the communication protocols for the World Wide Web are based on a form of unicasting called the Transport Control Protocol (TCP). One of the assumptions of unicasting, which is point-to-point only, is that the address of the remote endpoint is known in advance. This assumption, however, severely constrains the design of web information systems by forcing them to accept certain compromises, such as being highly centralized. This paper proposes the use of multicast as an underlying technology on which more robust web applications can be based. By using multicast, web information systems gain flexibility and shed the constraints imposed by unicasting. We also describe Jambalaya, a web information system that is based on the multicast protocol and demonstrates these ideas in two ways: by allowing users to perform sender-blind broadcasting of information requests, and by allowing information servers to perform sender-blind advertising of their most-often requested information.
What is the Impact of Transnational Migration on Family Life? Women's Comparisons of Internal and International Migration in a Small Town in Ghana
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Transnational Migration
Gender Roles
Elderly
Care
Emigration and immigration
Transnationalism
Family
Older People
Ghana

description: Much scholarship on women’s transnational migration has explored whether women’s roles as wives and mothers have been challenged and transformed by transnational migration. The research presented here explores more closely the differences that transnational migration brings for women as daughters of elderly parents, by comparing their constraints and challenges to those of women who migrate within Ghana. In particular, I examine how migration fits into the life course of women in southeastern Ghana, both in the contemporary period and in the past. I conclude that female transnational migrants face similar challenges to female internal migrants, although their experiences are different in the specifics.
Caradrina flavirena Guenee 1852
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Caradrina
Caradrina flavirena

description: Caradrina flavirena Guenée, 1852    Citada de Bujalance (PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
 Nc: Zagrilla Baja (23-IX-2005 / 24-V-2006); La Paz (23-IX-2008 / 9-V-2010); casco urbano de
 Córdoba (30-III-2019).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on pages 324-325, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Bruised with Adversity: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors
Creators: name: Akhimie, Patricia
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: Shakespeare
Race
Comedy of Errors
Violence
Bruise
Servant
Slave
Drama
Renaissance
Early modern

description: Bruised with Adversity: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which individuals may be grouped with others who merely share the same somatic markers, and the ease with which somatic markers may be stigmatized. The play’s complex mistaken-identity plot allows characters of varying social rank to discuss the experience of being labelled or mislabelled. The essay focuses on the treatment of the bruised bodies of the two servant/slaves, Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse, arguing that the bruise is perceived as temporary, but is in fact experienced as an indelible somatic mark, endured from birth, and indicating both a moral and a social inferiority that is hereditary and insurmountable.
Wealth distribution models: analisys and applications
Creators: name: Dagum, Camilo
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2008

description: After Pareto developed his Type I model in 1895, a large number of income distribution models have been specified. However, the important issue of wealth distribution called the attention of researchers more than sixty years later. It started with the contributions by Wold and Whittle, and Sargan, both published in 1957. The former authors proposed the Pareto Type I model and the latter the lognormal distribution, but they did not empirically validate them. Afterward, other models were proposed: in 1969 the Pareto Types I and II by Stiglitz; in 1975, the loglogistic by Atkinson and the Pearson Type V by Vaughan. In 1990 and 1994, Dagum developed a general model and his type II as models of wealth distribution. They were validated with real life data from the U.S.A., Canada, Italy and the U.K. In
1999, Dagum further developed his general model of net wealth distribution with support (??,?) which contains, as particular cases, his Types I and II model of income and wealth distributions. This study presents and analyzes the proposed models of wealth distribution and their properties. The only model with the flexibility, power, and economic and stochastic foundations to accurately fit net and total wealth distributions is the Dagum general model and its particular cases as validated with the case studies of Ireland, U.K., Italy and U.S.A.
description: Statistica; Vol 66, No 3 (2006); 235-268
Transient behaviour of the M/M/2 queue with catastrophes
Creators: name: Krishna Kumar, B.
name: Pavai Madheswari, S.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: This paper presents a transient solution for the system size in the M/M/2 queue with the possibility of catastrophes at the service stations. The state probability of the system size at time t, where the queue starts with any number of customers, in obtained. Asymptotic behaviour of the probability of the server being idle and mean system size are discussed.
description: Statistica; Vol 62, No 1 (2002); 129-136
La mobilità dei lavoratori da fonti amministrative e da surveys sulle famiglie: un'analisi comparata
Creators: name: Baretta, P.
name: Trivellato, U.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In Italy most of the research on worker and job mobility is carried out on social secu-rity (INPS) administrative databases. We investigate the possibility of using the Italian Quarterly Labour Force Survey (RTFL) as an additional source for currently measuring worker mobility. In principle, the motivation for using the RTFL is twofold: it covers (al-most) the whole employment, while INPS data are restricted to dependent employment in the private non-agricultural sector; it is timely, while INPS data are available with a lag of 4-5 years. The RTFL suffers, however, from a serious hindrance: the observation plan of the questionnaire provides fragmentary information on work histories. First, we identify and, to al large extent, control for the main reasons of discrepancy of worker mobility measures from the two sources, i.e., differences in the reference population and in the ob-servation plan. Second, we propose a method capable of largely reconciling the evidence from the two sources. The ‘three-waves linkage’ method – as we call it – exploits the ro-tating panel design of the survey and uses linked data over three waves of the RTFL within a calendar year. Its salient features are presented and some main results are discussed. The empirical analysis is carried out for the year 1995. The evidence suggests that the three-waves linkage method, and thus the corresponding longitudinal datasets from RTFL, cap-tures large part of the worker mobility documented by INPS databases: entirely as worker reallocation measures are concerned; with a significant, but moderate underestimation with respect to gross worker turnover.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 23-55
Maximun entropy Leuven estimators and multicollinearity
Creators: name: Paris, Q.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: A novel class of estimators, called maximum entropy Leuven (MEL) estimators, is pre-sented and its performance is illustrated by Monte Carlo experiments. These estimators are inspired by the theory of light. The MEL estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal. They rival the generalized maximum entropy estimator (GME). Based on the mean squared error criterion, the MEL estimators outperform the ordinary least-squares estimator in the presence of multicollinerity.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 3-22
Grey literature publishing in public policy: production and management, costs and benefits
Creators: name: Lawrence, Amanda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Public policy and practice, and policy research, relies on diverse forms and types of information and communication, both traditional publications and a myriad of other documents and resources including reports, briefings, legislation, discussion papers, submissions and evaluations and much more. This is sometimes referred to as 'grey literature', a collective term for the wide range of publications produced and published directly by organisations, either in print or digitally, outside of the commercial or scholarly publishing industry. In the digital era grey literature has proliferated, and has become a key tool in influencing public debate and in providing an evidence-base for public policy and practice. Despite its ubiquity and influence, grey literature's role is often overlooked as a publishing phenomenon, ignored both in scholarly research on media and communications and in the debate on the changing nature of open access and academic publishing. This paper looks at the production of grey literature for public policy and practice where the changes enabled by computers and the internet are causing a hidden revolution in the dissemination of knowledge and evidence. It explores the production, dissemination and management of publications by organizations, their nature, purpose and value, and investigates the benefits and the challenges of publishing outside of the commercial or scholarly publishing enterprises. The paper provides estimates of the economic value of grey literature based on online surveys and valuations and considers the costs and benefits of self-publishing by organisations which provides both a dynamic, flexible and responsive publishing system and one in which link rot, duplication and highly varying standards abound. The findings are part of a broader research project looking at role and value of grey literature for policy and practice including consumption, production and collection. It will be of interest to a wide range of policy makers and practitioners as well as academics working in media and communications, public administration and library and information management.
Estimating the parameters of the normal, exponential and gamma distributions using median and extreme ranked set samples
Creators: name: Shaibu, A.
name: Muttlak, H. A.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: In this paper, we propose maximum likelihood estimators (mle’s) as well as linear un-biased estimators (lue’s) of the parameters of the normal, exponential and gamma distri-butions in the light of the location-scale family of distributions - i.e. distributions with cumulative distribution functions of the form F ((x – µ)/?), using median ranked set sam-pling (MRSS) and extreme ranked set sampling (ERSS). MRSS and ERSS are modifica-tions of ranked set sampling (RSS), which are more practicable and less prone to prob-lems resulting from erroneous ranking. The mle’s of the normal mean and the scale pa-rameters of the exponential and gamma distributions under MRSS are shown to dominate all other estimators, while the mle of the normal standard deviation under ERSS is the most efficient. A similar trend is observed in the lue’s. A modification of ERSS namely partial extreme ranked set sampling (PERSS) is proposed for odd set sizes to generate even-sized samples. The lue of the normal standard deviation under this modification is shown to be the most efficient of all the lue’s of the same parameter. Among the lue’s considered, the PERSS lue’s are the most efficient when the sample size per cycle is two.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 75-98
The role of ideational system on the kind of partnership in Southern Europe
Creators: name: Pasquini, L.
name: Samoggia, A.
name: Miglio, R.
name: Soffritti, G.
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2007

description: This paper belongs to the studies regarding the determinants of the new family behav-iours. Particularly, we have turned our attention to the analysis of the factors that induce men and women to choose marriage or cohabitation in Italy and Spain. These are two countries of the Mediterranean Europe where family behaviours are very different from those characterizing Western Europe. The analysis highlighted the important role of both individuals' ideational system and sociodemographic condition on the kind of partnership chosen.
description: Statistica; Vol 64, No 1 (2004); 99-125
Are first impressions lasting? Some consequences of schooling delay for immigrants’ descendants in Italy
Creators: name: MUSSINO, ELEONORA; ISTAT, National Institute Of Statistics
name: STROZZA, SALVATORE; Department Of Theories And Methods Of Human And Social Sciences-University Of Naples Federico II
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The presence of foreign students in the Italian system has increased rapidly in the last few years. Today, they account for 7 per cent of the total student population. The enrollment of foreign students is characterized by a widespread schooling delay that increases for higher educational levels. Here, we would like to investigate if this delay for foreign students is influencing the perception of their school performance and the concentration in less demanding educational paths. Data from a national survey (ITAGEN2) involving more than 20,000 lower secondary school students, half of whom foreigners, are used to explore the factors affecting the perception of one’s performance and the level of future educational aspirations, evaluating the role of the migratory generation and the educational pathway. In particular, having more than one year’s delay leads to a negative perception of one’s abilities and possibly of schooling’s usefulness itself, and to the choice of low-profile educational pathways.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 1 (2011); 95-112
Does a diagnosis of atrophic vaginitis on Papanicolaou test signify the presence of inflammation?
Creators: name: Heller, Debra
name: Weiss, Gerson
name: Bittman, Sara
name: Goldsmith, Laura T.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Atrophic vaginitis
Neutrophils
Papanicoulaou test

description: Objective: Vaginal atrophy of menopause shows increased parabasal cells on cytology. This may be accompanied by abundant neutrophils. A shift in the maturation index in the absence of significant inflammation is more accurately termed atrophic pattern. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the diagnoses “atrophic vaginitis” or “atrophic pattern” rendered on a pap were reliable indicators of what was present on the slide. Methods: A retrospective review of pap smear slides from University Hospital, Newark was performed. Cases that had been diagnosed with either “atrophic vaginitis” (n=100) or “atrophic pattern” (n=100) were selected. Exclusion criteria included any additional diagnosis of neoplasia. Slides were re-reviewed and scored based on abundance of neutrophils (0-5, 5-10, or >10 neutrophils/high power (40x) field, with 10 fields per slide reviewed. Data were analyzed by Chi squared analysis. Results: Among the 200 cases with “atrophic vaginitis” or "atrophic pattern", the proportion of those diagnosed with "atrophic vaginitis" versus "atrophic pattern" increased across three increasing neutrophil categories (p<0.0001). Conclusion: A diagnosis of “atrophic vaginitis” on a pap smear was reliably associated with increased numbers of neutrophils. A diagnosis of “atrophic pattern” was indicative of low numbers of neutrophils. As the pap diagnosis of atrophic vaginitis does not correlate with clinical symptomatology, a single diagnostic term that does not suggest a disease process would more reliably communicate the cytology findings to clinicians.
A numerical method for the inverse steady state diffusion problem, part I
Creators: name: Richter, Gerard
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1978

description: The partial differential equation Div (a grad u) = f is the governing equation for isotropic steady state diffusion processes. Among its applications are heat conduction, the dispersion of fluids of varying concentration, and fluid flow through porous media. Typically one wishes to determine a "solution" u for a prescribed f, subject to certain boundary conditions. The "diffusivity" is a an intrinsic property of the medium in which the diffusion process occurs. In many cases, it varies spatially in a manner which one can hope to determine only by measuring the solution produced by a known f and then attempting to solve the inverse problem, which amounts to a first order hyperbolic partial differential equation for a. Considerable attention has been paid to this inverse problem, especially within the context of underground flow of fluids through porous media. This is exemplified by the work of Frind and Pinder [2], who describe a Galerkin procedure for the inverse problem and also impart a sense of perspective on the problem from a hydrogeologic viewpoint. From a more theoretical vantage point, Chavent [1] has established well-posed ness of the inverse problem in the Lw sense in the case where the Laplacian of u is bounded away from zero. Our basic objective is to provide a numerical scheme for the inverse problem whose stability and convergence can be guaranteed under appropriate conditions. We independently establish Chavent's continuous dependence result via a quite straightforward maximum principle approach. A discrete version of the maximum principle is then used to prove O(h) convergence for a modified Upwind-downwind differencing scheme depending on the sign of the Laplacian of U. The scheme is explicit in the direction of increasing grid values of U. Its implementation is thus preceded by a sorting of these values, whereupon the discrete solution is developed in a pattern determined by the characteristics of the continuous problem for a. The scheme requires initial data for a along the "inflow" portion of the boundary, and for problems in which there is no inflow, it generates initial data internally at points where Vu=o. Several illustrative examples are included.
Hoplodrina ambigua
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Hoplodrina
Hoplodrina ambigua

description: Hoplodrina ambigua ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)    Citada de Bujalance (PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 325, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
A spatio-temporal analysis of migration rates in the Emilia-Romagna Region
Creators: name: MAZZOCCHETTI, ANGELINA; Statistics Bureau-Emilia-Romagna Region
name: GRECO, FEDELE; Department Of Statistics-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Migration – the movement of people from one location to another on any geographic scale – affects both the areas of origin and of destination. The aim of the present analysis is to understand how municipalities’ net migration rates are influenced by the demographic structure of the population. The analysis is conducted on the 341 municipalities within the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy, by means of a spatio-temporal Bayesian hierarchical model. The need to take account for spatial dependence is demonstrated by comparing a spatial and a non-spatial model. Model hierarchy enables us to highlight province-specific temporal trends for both Italian and foreign flows: a decreasing trend is evident for Italians, while an increasing trend is observed for foreigners. At a spatial level, we show that the contribution of foreigners to population growth is higher than that of Italians migrants. Italian net migration rates are also negative in many municipalities that are losing their Italian population and increasing the number of foreigners residing there.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 1 (2011); 113-124
Flow splitting approach for path provisioning and path protection problems
Creators: name: Izmailov, Rauf
name: Niculescu, Dragos
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Path protection
Flow splitting
Routing
Recovery
Provisioning
Optical network
Linear Programming

description: We consider off-line versions of path provisioning and path protection problems for general circuit switched networks. Both problems deal with a given network topology and a list of integral demand flows. The objective is to route the flows and to allocate the bandwidth in a way that minimizes the total amount of bandwidth used for working and protection paths. We consider path-based protection where, in case of a single link failure, all the flows utilizing the failed link can be rerouted to a precomputed set of paths. We demonstrate that flow splitting can bring significant advantages for both provisioning and protection problems. Since the problem is NP-complete, we propose and analyze two simple heuristics. We show that one of these heuristics performs almost as well as the optimal solution.
Trends in labor market participation and fertility behavior: a first look to the Italian experience in recent
Creators: name: ANGELI, AURORA; Department Of Statistics -University Of Bologna
name: BAILO, NICOLA; Department Of Statistics -University Of Bologna
name: CAZZOLA, ALBERTO; Department Of Statistics -University Of Bologna
name: PASQUINI, LUCIA; Department Of Statistics -University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between fertility and labor market participation in the different geographic areas of Italy. Moreover, we wish to explore if the recent economic crisis has affected the Italians fertility behavior. To this purpose we have characterized an economic model of fertility and labor market participation, applying contemporary time series method to aggregate data from Italian regions over the decades 1995-2010.Results show that the economic recession in the last years has probably influenced the dynamics of fertility because of raising uncertainty about the future, even if in different way in the three areas of the country.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 1 (2011); 125-148
ВЛИЯНИЕ ПРЕПАРАТОВ КОМБИНАЦИИ ФЛУРБИПРОФЕНА, ЭНОКСОЛОНА И ХЛОРГЕКСИДИНА НА ЦЕНТРАЛЬНУЮ НЕРВНУЮ СИСТЕМУ
Creators: name: Хасанов, У.Л.
name: Алимджанова, Г.А.
name: Мавланов, Ш.Р.
name: Газиева, Ш.Р.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Препараты комбинации флурбипрофена, эноксолона и хлоргексидина являются одними из ведущих препаратов на фармацевтическом рынке Республики Узбекистан, а так же в соседних странах при симптоматической терапии ОРВИ и дыхательных путей. В связи с высоким спросом на данные препараты, актуальным вопросом стало изучение их влияния на центральную нервную систему. В данном докладе представлены результаты исследований, проведённых на базе вивария Научного Центра Стандартизации Лекарственных средств.
Spodoptera exigua
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Spodoptera
Spodoptera exigua

description: Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, [1808])
  Habitual en los cultivos de algodón y alfalfa de la vega del Guadalquivir (GUIMARÃES et al., 1995; OBALLE et al., 1995). También resulta muy coṁn en La Campiña (REDONDO & PÉREZ, 2000a; HUERTAS DIONISIO & FUENTES, 2004; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011). Las capturas de imagos aumentan de mayo a septiembre, orugas en septiembre-octubre (GUIMARÃES et al., 1995). La mortalidad larvaria supera el 30% y se debe principalmente a parasitoides y patógenos (GUIMARÃES et al., 1995, 1996; OBALLE et al., 1995).
 Nc: Casco urbano de Córdoba (31-X-2019).
  * Spodoptera cilium (Guenée, 1852)
 Nc: Arroyo de Pedroches (8-IX-2009); casco urbano de Córdoba (28-X-2013 / 5-6-XI-2013, Fig. 3e / 8-XI-2013 / 15-IX-2014 / 20-XI-2014 / 5-X-2016 / 20-X-2016 / 28-VII-2017 / 24-25-VIII-2017 / 15-16-IX-2017 / 4-5-X-2017 / 27-IX-2018 / 9-IX-2019); Majaneque (8-XI-2014 / 22-X-2016).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 325, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Assessment of Sortability Using a Dual-Energy X-ray Transmission System for Studied Sulphide Ore
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiran
name: Yoon, Nawoong
name: Holuszko, M. E.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: In hard rock mining, sensor-based sorting can be applied as a pre-concentration method before the material enters the mill. X-ray transmission sensors have been explored in mining since 1972. Sorting ore of acceptable grade and waste material before processing at the mill can reduce the amount of tailings per unit of valuable metal in the mining operation and have many economic benefits. Ore samples used in this paper are from a polymetallic carbonate replacement deposit (gold-silver-lead-zinc sulphide) in Southeast Europe. This paper focuses on how the Dual-Energy X-ray Transmission (DE-XRT) data is generated and used for ore characterization and sortability for this sulphide ore. The method used in the DE-XRT analysis in this project is based on the dual-material decomposition method, which is used in the medical industry for radiology. This technique can distinguish sulphides from non-sulphides. However, the correlation developed between the DE-XRT response and the metal content is lacking. As a result, the DE-XRT response can only classify the material effectively but cannot reliably predict the metal content.
Fifteen years of labour market regulations and policies in Italy: What have we learned from their evaluation?
Creators: name: TRIVELLATO, UGO; Department Of Statistics-University Of Padova And IRVAPP
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: During the last fifteen years a notable number of labour market interventions took place in Italy, under two main headings: new regulations and implementation of active and/or passive programmes. The paper reviews a fair number of subjectively selected impact evaluation studies published in the last ten years. The framework is provided by counterfactual analysis; preliminary, its barebones are sum up. The focus of the review in on two aspects. First, a blend of empirical and analytical issues critical for credible impact evaluations are discussed. They emerge from the fact that the reviewed studies are carried out in an observational setting, and refer to prospective vs. retrospective evaluation, availability (or lack) of adequate data, over-identification tests in order to corroborate (or falsify) the identifying restriction on which the evaluation strategy rests, and heterogeneous effects. Second, the substantive evidence offered by the reviewed studies is summarized. It points to generally minor policy effects; some tentative explanations for that lack of effectiveness are suggested.
description: Statistica; Vol 71, No 2 (2011); 167-187
Hector UI: A Flexible Human-Robot User Interface for (Semi-)Autonomous Rescue and Inspection Robots
Creators: name: Fabian, Stefan
name: von Stryk, Oskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The remote human operator's user interface (UI) is an important link to make the robot an efficient extension of the operator's perception and action. In rescue applications, several studies have investigated the design of operator interfaces based on observations during major robotics competitions or field deployments. Based on this research, guidelines for good interface design were empirically identified. The investigations on the UIs of teams participating in competitions are often based on external observations during UI application, which may miss some relevant requirements for UI flexibility. In this work, we present an open-source and flexibly configurable user interface based on established guidelines and its exemplary use for wheeled, tracked, and walking robots. We explain the design decisions and cover the insights we have gained during its highly successful applications in multiple robotics competitions and evaluations. The presented UI can also be adapted for other robots with little effort and is available as open source.