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Ο Ύμνος του Παλαικάστρου (IC III ii 2): έκδοση και σχολιασμός της επιγραφής
Creators: name: Μεϊμάρογλου, Ελπινίκη Δήμητρα Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Επιγραφική
Κρήτη
Ύμνος
Epigraphy
Crete
Hymn

description: Αντικείμενο μελέτης της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας αποτελεί ο ύμνος του Παλαικάστρου (IC III ii 2). Η επιγραφή αυτή διασώζει έναν κλητικό ύμνο στον Δικταίο Δία, έναν τοπικό Κρητικό θεό. Η επιγραφή ανακαλύφθηκε τον Μάιο του 1904 στο Παλαίκαστρο και έκτοτε κατέχει μια ιδιαίτερη θέση ανάμεσα στους σωζόμενους λατρευτικούς ύμνους. Στόχος της εργασίας είναι μια συνολική προσέγγιση του αρχαιολογικού μνημείου, με έμφαση στο ζήτημα της ταυτότητας του θεού του ύμνου. Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο της εργασίας αποτελείται από την έκδοση του κειμένου, η οποία προέκυψε από τη μελέτη εκτύπων και φωτογραφιών υψηλής ανάλυσης της επιγραφής. Κρίθηκε προτιμητέα η έκδοση των κειμένων βάση από τις πλάκες που διασώζουν το κείμενο και όχι από συμπίλημα των στίχων των δύο πλευρών όπως συνηθίζεται. Σκοπός ήταν να δοθεί μια ακριβής εικόνα για το πως έχει χαραχθεί ο ύμνος πάνω στον κάθε λίθο. Μετά τον σχολιασμό του μέτρου και της γλώσσας του κειμένου, η συζήτηση στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο επικεντρώνεται στο ζήτημα της ταυτότητας της θεότητας στην οποία αναφέρεται ο ύμνος. Σε πλήρη αντίθεση με την πλειονότητα των υμνικών κειμένων, το σωζόμενο κείμενο δεν κατονομάζει τη θεότητα στην οποία απευθύνεται, ενώ επιστρατεύει φρασεολογία που με μια πρώτη ματιά δεν συνάδει με την παραδοσιακή εικόνα του θεού Δία. Για τον λόγο αυτό, στην εργασία δίνεται έμφαση στην ιδιαίτερη ταυτότητα του θεού, όπως αυτή παρουσιάζεται στον ύμνο, εξετάζοντας την περίπτωση η λατρεία του Δικταίου Δία να έφερε και χθόνια στοιχεία, κληρονομημένα από το μινωικό παρελθόν.
description: The thesis focuses on the study of the Palaikastro Hymn, a cletic hymn that survives on five fragments of bluish limestone. The Hymn was found in Palaikastro, Crete and it celebrates a local deity, possibly the Dictaean Zeus. The present thesis concentrates on the surviving text in order to provide some answers to the issue of the identity of the local god. Firstly, the thesis presents an edition of the hymn based on epigraphic squeezes and high quality photos of the hymn provided by the Workshop of Epigraphy (ErEP Lab AUTh). Secondly, it explores the topography of Palaikastro by offering an analysis of the valuable archaeological findings of the area and by analyzing the possible definitions of the Dikte toponym. In the third and final chapter, the thesis offers commentary on the hymn. More specifically, it investigates the lettering and the engraving, the dialect and the orthography, the meter, and the chronology of the text and the stone. Focal points of the thesis also entail the Minoan heritage of the god of Dikte, the cycle of life and death to which the god possibly participates, the references to the god’s regenerative powers and abilities, and the importance of the god’s genealogy to the local cult.
Are multiple-choice questions used in summative assessment of undergraduate medical students in Vietnam able to discriminate students with different levels?
Creators: name: Chế Hoàng Thái
name: Ngo Thi Thuy  Dung
name: Nguyen Thanh  Hiep
name: Binh, Dao Thi Thanh
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: MCQs are the most suitable method for assessing students in an overcrowded curriculum with limited teachers, and their discrimination depends on students’ academic levels. Implementing faculty development programs focused on effective MCQs writing is crucial.
Ένα σχολείο για όλους. Γνώσεις και απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών Πρωτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης για την Ενταξιακή Εκπαίδευση
Creators: name: Νικήτα, Ηρώ Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ενταξιακή Εκπαίδευση
Ειδικές Εκπαιδευτικές Ανάγκες
Ειδική Αγωγή
Inclusive Education
Special Education Needs
Special Education

description: H παρούσα εργασία πραγματεύεται την πορεία της ειδικής αγωγής, εξετάζοντας περισσότερο την ενταξιακή εκπαίδευση στην Ελλάδα. Σκοπός της είναι να αποτυπώσει την εξέλιξη της ειδικής αγωγής στην Ελλάδα αλλά και διεθνώς, να περιγράψει την παρούσα κατάσταση και τις απόψεις των εν ενεργεία εκπαιδευτικών γενικής και ειδικής αγωγής σχετικά με την διδασκαλία των μαθητών με ειδικές εκπαιδευτικές ανάγκες, τη συνεργασία τόσο μεταξύ τους όσο και με ειδικούς φορείς για την ειδική εκπαίδευση. Η εργασία αποτελείται από δύο μέρη: το θεωρητικό και το ερευνητικό μέρος. H εν λόγω έρευνα επιχειρεί να διερευνήσει τις αντιλήψεις των εκπαιδευτικών για τον ρόλο τους σε ένα σχολείο για όλους και την ικανότητα ανταπόκρισής τους στον ρόλο αυτό εστιάζοντας στη συνεκπαίδευση των μαθητών με ειδικές εκπαιδευτικές ανάγκες και αναπηρία. Στο τέλος, γίνεται σύγκριση μεταξύ των απόψεων των εκπαιδευτικών της γενικής και της ειδικής εκπαίδευσης. Για την επίτευξη του σκοπού της μελέτης διενεργήθηκε ποσοτική έρευνα και ως ερευνητικό εργαλείο χρησιμοποιήθηκε το ερωτηματολόγιο κατασκευασμένο από την ερευνήτρια ώστε να πληροί τον σκοπό και τους στόχους που τίθενται για τη μελέτη του υπό διερεύνηση θέματος. Το ερωτηματολόγιο απευθύνεται σε δασκάλους γενικής και ειδικής αγωγής.
description: The purpose of this study is to discuss the history of development of special education, giving emphasis in the inclusive education in Greece. Its purpose is to capture the development of special education both in Greece and internationally, to describe the current situation and the views of typical education and special education teachers regarding the teaching of students with special educational needs, the cooperation between teachers and organizations for special education. This study consists of two parts: the theoretical and the research part. Throw this research an attempt is being made in order to explore teachers' perceptions of their role in a school for everyone and their ability to respond to this role by focusing on the co-education of students with special educational needs and disabilities. In the end, a comparison is made between the views of teachers of typical education and special education. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a quantitative research was conducted and the research questionnaire made by the researcher was used as a research tool to meet the purpose and objectives set for the study of the subject under investigation. The questionnaire is addressed to general and special education teachers.
Exploring students’ and examiners’ perceptions of the sequential OSCE: A qualitative study
Creators: name: Lim, Jun Jie
name: Roberts, Chris
name: Ali, Shareen Nisha Jauhar
name: Collini, Paul
name: Burney, Amir
name: Dyfrig Hughes
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: This study explores the factors influencing medical students' self-efficacy in sequential Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), a widely used assessment method in health professions education. Using semi-structured interviews with medical students (n=22) across their third and final years, the research applies self-efficacy and attribution theory to understand how candidates' beliefs about their capabilities shape their performance. This qualitative study fills a gap in OSCE research by providing insights into the psychological aspects of sequential testing, offering actionable strategies for educators to enhance student support and assessment design.
MOESM1 of Regulators of Salmonella-host interaction identified by peripheral blood transcriptome profiling: roles of TGFB1 and TRP53 in intracellular Salmonella replication in pigs
Creators: name: Huang, Tinghua
name: Huang, Xiali
name: Shi, Bomei
name: Wang, Fangfang
name: Feng, Wenzhao
name: Yao, Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. GEREA. Gene expression regulator enrichment analysis.
Data-Driven Predictive Control for Linear Parameter-Varying Systems
Creators: name: Verhoek, Chris
name: Abbas, Hossam S.
name: Tóth, Roland
name: Haesaert, Sofie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Based on the extension of the behavioral theory and the Fundamental Lemma for Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems, this paper introduces a Data-driven Predictive Control (DPC) scheme capable to ensure reference tracking and satisfaction of Input-Output (IO) constraints for an unknown system under the conditions that (i) the system can be represented in an LPV form and (ii) an informative data-set containing measured IO and scheduling trajectories of the system is available. It is shown that if the data set satisfies a persistence of excitation condition, then a data-driven LPV predictor of future trajectories of the system can be constructed from the IO data set and online measured data. The approach represents the first step towards a DPC solution for nonlinear and time-varying systems due to the potential of the LPV framework to represent them. Two illustrative examples, including reference tracking control of a nonlinear system, are provided to demonstrate that the data-based LPV-DPC scheme, achieves similar performance as LPV model-based predictive control.
description: Accepted to 4th IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter-Varying Systems
Repositório de dissertações da rede PROFCIAMB
Creators: name: Ferreira, Manuella Marinho
name: Jesus, Edilza Laray De
name: Martins, Lúcia Helena Pinheiro
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2022

description: A presente pesquisa é resultado da análise quantitativa e qualitativa, com abordagem descritiva e exploratório a fim de evidenciar a importância do repositório de acesso aberto sobre dissertações do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Rede Nacional para o Ensino das Ciências Ambiantais (PROFCIAMB) – ambiente virtual que promove a quebra de barreiras e a livre circulação da produção intelectual sobre o sistema e a educação ambiental no Brasil. Com os resultados obtidos, foi possível verificar a acessibilidade e usabilidade do repositório, proporciondo ao usuário maior flexbilidade de encontro a informação por meio da interoperabilidade, além de apresentar uma rede de novos saberes compostos por produtos educacionais voltados para a educação básica e para o conhecimento interdisciplinar sobre o sistema ambiental.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 1-2 (2021): Atas da 12ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Ciência Aberta (ConfOA)
INFLUENCE OF PREDOMINANT RISK FACTORS ON OPERATIONAL BUILDING PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN THE SELECTED FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA.
Creators: name: Chukwuenye, Agatha Tochukwu
name: Nwagbara, Augustine Okey
name: Obuka, E.N
Publisher: name: SADI Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Risk Management Practice, Operational Performance, Management Challenges, Institutional Buildings.

description: The study focused on the influence of predominant risk factors on operational building project performance in the selected Federal Universities in South East Nigeria. The broad objective is aimed at examining the influence of predominant risk factors on operational building project performance in the selected Federal Universities in South East Nigeria. The specific objectives are to identify the risk management challenges that affect the operational performance in the selected federal university building projects in Enugu, Anambra and Imo state; to determine the impact of risk management practice in the selected federal university building projects. The study adopted descriptive survey and ex-post facto research design. The population under this study comprises of 102 registered construction professionals working in the physical planning unit under the study area. They are the people who were actively involved in the planning and management of construction projects within the university premises. The study also built multiple regression model and make use of statistical procedures in estimating the relationship between the choice variables. The variables under study are building project performance as the dependent variable whereas risk identification, risk assessment, risk response and control are the independent variables and test using ordinary least square techniques. The findings of the study reveal the identified predominant risk factors that influence building construction project performance in Nigeria are the lack of consistency between bill of quantity drawing and specifications, environmental risk factors, financial risk factor, legal risk factor and several others. the result of the study concludes also that risk management practice has a positive relationship on the building project performance. The study recommends that the relationship as indicated in the result that risk management has a positive and significant impact on the building project performance which implies that an increase in the risk management practice will lead to a significant increase in the building project performance. Hence, there is need to improve the risk management strategies already in place so as to improve the performance of building construction project in the South Eastern Nigeria
The Notre-Dame Cube: An active-target time-projection chamber for radioactive beam experiments and detector development
Creators: name: Ahn, T.
name: Randhawa, J. S.
name: Aguilar, S.
name: Blankstein, D.
name: Delgado, L.
name: Dixneuf, N.
name: Henderson, S. L.
name: Jackson, W.
name: Jensen, L.
name: Jin, S.
name: Koci, J.
name: Kolata, J. J.
name: Lai, J.
name: Levano, J.
name: Li, X.
name: Mubarak, A.
name: O'Malley, P. D.
name: Martin, S. Rameriz
name: Renaud, M.
name: Serikow, M. Z.
name: Tollefson, A.
name: Wilson, J.
name: Yan, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active-target detectors have the potential to address the difficulties associated with the low intensities of radioactive beams. We have developed an active-target detector, the Notre Dame Cube (ND-Cube), to perform experiments with radioactive beams produced at $\mathit{TwinSol}$ and to aid in the development of active-target techniques. Various aspects of the ND-Cube and its design were characterized. The ND-Cube was commissioned with a $^{7}$Li beam for measuring $^{40}$Ar + $^{7}$Li fusion reaction cross sections and investigating $^{7}$Li($α$,$α$)$^{7}$Li scattering events. The ND-Cube will be used to study a range of reactions using light radioactive ions produced at low energy.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Η λογοτεχνία της οικονομικής κρίσης: Η πρόσληψη από την ελληνική κριτική
Creators: name: Ραφτοπούλου, Χριστίνα Μαρία Σπύρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Οικονομική κρίση
Λογοτεχνική κριτική
Θεωρία της Πρόσληψης
Financial crisis
Literary review
The Reception Theory

description: Στόχος της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η εξέταση του τρόπου που προσλήφθηκε η πεζογραφία της οικονομικής κρίσης από την ελληνική κριτική. To έναυσμα για τη συγκεκριμένη έρευνα αποτέλεσε το γεγονός ότι η οικονομική κρίση είναι ένα πρόσφατο κι επίκαιρο φαινόμενο, που η επίδρασή της στον χώρο της λογοτεχνίας δεν έχει μελετηθεί διεξοδικά. Μέσα από το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο της Θεωρία της Πρόσληψης και των παρατηρήσεων των κριτικών, επιχειρήσαμε να ερευνήσουμε τον τρόπο με τον οποίο παρουσιάζεται η οικονομική κρίση στην πεζογραφία της εξαετίας 2010 – 2016. Αρχικά, στο θεωρητικό μέρος μελετήσαμε τη Θεωρία της Πρόσληψης, η οποία μας προσέφερε τα μεθοδολογικά εργαλεία για την έρευνά μας. Έπειτα, αναλύσαμε τον όρο λογοτεχνική κριτική και εξετάσαμε την πορεία της από την έντυπη στην ηλεκτρονική μορφή. Στη συνέχεια, αναφερθήκαμε εν συντομία στα αίτια και τις συνέπειες της οικονομικής κρίσης και τέλος κάναμε λόγο για τις Πολιτισμικές Σπουδές. Στο ερευνητικό μέρος, επιλέξαμε έξι σημαντικά λογοτεχνικά έργα και τα εξετάσαμε με βάση τις κριτικές που γράφτηκαν γι’ αυτά, προκειμένου να απαντήσουμε στο ερώτημα του κατά πόσο και με ποιον τρόπο η οικονομική κρίση επηρέασε τη λογοτεχνία. Τέλος, στο πλαίσιο των Πολιτισμικών Σπουδών προτείναμε ένα σενάριο διδασκαλίας της λογοτεχνίας της οικονομικής κρίσης για το μάθημα της Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας για τις τάξεις του Λυκείου.
description: This dissertation aims to examine the literature of the financial crisis through the reception of the Greek literary review. The impact of the financial crisis in Greek Literature has not been examined in detail yet, because the phenomenon of the financial crisis is recent. This is the main reason for our research. Through the theoretical background of The Reception Theory and the Greek literary review, we scout the way the literature of years 2010 – 2016 speaks about the crisis. In the theoretical part, we presented The Reception Theory, the term of Literary review, the causes and the consequences of the financial crisis and the theory of Cultural Studies. In the research part, we chose six books which theme is the crisis and we tried to answer the question in which way the crisis is reflected in them. In the end, we suggested a High School teaching scenario for the literature of financial crisis.
Lagrangian diffusion properties of a free shear turbulent jet
Creators: name: Viggiano, Bianca
name: Basset, Thomas
name: Solovitz, Stephen
name: Barois, Thomas
name: Gibert, Mathieu
name: Mordant, Nicolas
name: Chevillard, Laurent
name: Volk, Romain
name: Bourgoin, Mickael
name: Cal, Raul Bayoan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Lagrangian experimental study of an axisymmetric turbulent water jet is performed to investigate the highly anisotropic and inhomogeneous flow field. The measurements were conducted within a Lagrangian exploration module, an icosahedron apparatus, to facilitate optical access of three cameras. The stereoscopic particle tracking velocimetry results in three component tracks of position, velocity and acceleration of the tracer particles within the vertically-oriented jet with a Taylor-based Reynolds number $\mathcal R_λ\simeq 230$. Analysis is performed at seven locations from 15 diameters up to 45 diameters downstream. Eulerian analysis is first carried out to obtain critical parameters of the jet and relevant scales, namely the Kolmogorov and large turnover (integral) scales as well as the energy dissipation rate. Lagrangian statistical analysis is then performed on velocity components stationarised following methods inspired by Batchelor (\textit{J. Fluid Mech.}, vol. 3, 1957, pp. 67-80) which aim to extend stationary Lagrangian theory of turbulent diffusion by Taylor to the case of self-similar flows. The evolution of typical Lagrangian scaling parameters as a function of the developing jet is explored and results show validation of the proposed stationarisation. The universal scaling constant $C_0$ (for the Lagrangian second-order structure function), as well as Eulerian and Lagrangian integral time scales are discussed in this context. $C_0$ is found to converge to a constant value (of the order of $C_0 = 3$) within 30 diameters downstream of the nozzle. Finally, the existence of finite particle size effects are investigated through consideration of acceleration dependent quantities.
Additional file 2: of Baby Steps â a structured group education programme with accompanying mobile web application designed to promote physical activity in women with a history of gestational diabetes: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Sukumar, Nithya
name: Dallosso, Helen
name: Saravanan, Ponnusamy
name: Yates, Tom
name: Telling, Carol
name: Shorthose, Karen
name: Northern, Alison
name: Schreder, Sally
name: Brough, Christopher
name: Gray, Laura
name: Davies, Melanie
name: Khunti, Kamlesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology

description: Baby Steps Mobile Web Application. (PDF 327 kb)
Iterative LP-based Methods for the Multiperiod Optimal Electricity and Gas Flow Problem
Creators: name: Mhanna, Sleiman
name: Saedi, Isam
name: Mancarella, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In light of the increasing coupling between electricity and gas networks, this paper introduces two novel iterative methods for efficiently solving the multiperiod optimal electricity and gas flow (MOEGF) problem. The first is an iterative MILP-based method and the second is an iterative LP-based method with an elaborate procedure for ensuring an integral solution. The convergence of the two approaches is founded on two key features. The first is a penalty term with a single, automatically tuned, parameter for controlling the step size of the gas network iterates. The second is a sequence of supporting hyperplanes together with an increasing number of carefully constructed halfspaces for controlling the convergence of the electricity network iterates. Moreover, the two proposed algorithms use as a warm start the solution from a novel polyhedral relaxation of the MOEGF problem, for a noticeable improvement in computation time as compared to a cold start. Unlike the first method, which invokes a branch-and-bound algorithm to find an integral solution, the second method implements an elaborate steering procedure that guides the continuous variables to take integral values at the solution. Numerical evaluation demonstrates that the two proposed methods can converge to high-quality feasible solutions in computation times at least two orders of magnitude faster than both a state-of-the-art nonlinear branch-and-bound (NLBB) MINLP solver and a mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) relaxation of the MOEGF problem. The experimental setup consists of five test cases, three of which involve the real electricity and gas transmission networks of the state of Victoria with actual linepack and demand profiles.
description: Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Τα μνημεία Unesco της Θεσσαλονίκης και η σκοτεινή πλευρά της Ιστορίας. Σχεδιάζοντας μια Dark Tourism αστική διαδρομή
Creators: name: Μυταυτσή, Ιωάννα Κήρυκα
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Σκοτεινός τουρισμός
Σκοτεινός τουρίστας
Μνημεία Unesco της Θεσσαλονίκης
Dark Tourism
Dark Tourist
Unesco Monuments Thessaloniki

description: Η παρούσα εργασία επικεντρώνεται στην ανάπτυξη ενός τουρισμού ειδικού ενδιαφέροντος και συγκεκριμένα σε αυτόν του «σκοτεινού τουρισμού»-darktourism. Γίνεται βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση σχετικά με τον ορισμό του σκοτεινού τουρισμού, την πορεία εξέλιξής του καθώς και τα κίνητρα των «σκοτεινών τουριστών»-darktourists που τους παρακινούν να επισκεφθούν σκοτεινούς προορισμούς. Είναι ένα είδος τουρισμού που αναπτύχθηκε τα τελευταία χρόνια στην προσπάθεια του σύγχρονου τουρίστα να αναζητήσει νέους προορισμούς και νέες εμπειρίες. Γίνεται αναφορά, στις κατηγορίες του σκοτεινού τουρισμού, την τυπολογία του, το σκοτεινό φάσμα του τουρισμού και επισημαίνονται θέματα ηθικής και δεοντολογίας που προκύπτουν από το συγκεκριμένο είδος τουρισμού και τον αντίκτυπό του στην κοινωνία. Σημειώνεται η προσπάθεια της Θεσσαλονίκης να γίνει τουριστικός προορισμός και συγκεκριμένα εξετάζεται η περίπτωση να χαρακτηριστεί ως dark destination. Οι χώρες και οι πόλεις που έχουν εν δυνάμει σκοτεινούς προορισμούς μπορούν να στοχεύουν στην τουριστική τους ανάπτυξη μέσα από αυτό το είδος τουρισμού και ο σχεδιασμός μιας σκοτεινής πολιτιστικής διαδρομής μπορεί σίγουρα να βοηθήσει σε αυτήν την ανάπτυξη.
description: This thesis concentrates on the growth of the tourism industry that offers a attraction, namely that of Dark Tourism. A bibliographical study is presented to understand the definition of dark tourism, the development as well as the motives of these distinctive dark tourists who are inspired to explore the dark side of their holiday destinations. This is a category of tourism which has emerged in recent years to explore new horizons and establish an alternative category of travel for the modern tourist. Reference is made to the classifications of dark tourism which include the typology, and the evaluation of the dark spectrum involved in this case study. Highlights include the principles originating from this type of tourism and its influence on society. Efforts applied by the city of Thessaloniki to serve as a dark tourism destination are specifically addressed to offer travel excursions for these tourists within the parameters of the city.
A homogenized damping model for the propagation of elastic wave in a porous solid
Creators: name: Meng, Kangpei
name: Li, Qingming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: F.2.2; I.2.7
subject: 14J60 (Primary) 14F05, 14J26 (Secondary)

description: This paper develops an averaging technique based on the combination of the eigenfunction expansion method and the collaboration method to investigate the multiple scattering effect of the SH wave propagation in a porous medium. The semi-analytical averaging technique is conducted using Monto Carlo method to understand the macroscopic dispersion and attenuation phenomena of the stress wave propagation in a porous solid caused by the multiple scattering effects. The averaging technique is verified by finite element analysis. Finally, a simple homogenized elastic model with damping is proposed to describe the macroscopic dispersion and attenuation effects of SH waves in porous media.
description: 33 pages, 16 figures
The social construction of child neglect
Creators: name: Marshall, Georgina A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Using a feminist standpoint perspective, this qualitative study began with a review of child neglect theory and child welfare policy, incorporating an analysis of the ideologies under pinning the constructs of motherhood and the family. This highlighted how children's welfare is inextricably bound to the welfare of women, and how mother work is not valued in the ruling relations of patriarchy. Next, drawing upon Dorothy Smith's methodology of examining the conceptual practices of the ruling apparatuses, data from eighteen case files from the 1991 child neglect caseload of one B.C. Family and Child Service office were analyzed. The case families were predominantly headed by poor,single mothers, seven of whom were identified by the ministry as Native. Themes emerging from the analysis show that mothers' behaviors, considered out of context, are used routinely as the indicators of neglect, and that mother-blaming in assessment and intervention is common. Examples of institutional racism were found, and intervention was shown to function in many situations as a policing strategy. Neither the effects of poverty, nor the violence by male family members were factored into the assessments of women's ability to care for their children. The absence of the women's voices stood out in the data. The implications for social work praxis are discussed, in terms of reframing the relevance to practice of gender, 'race', class, and other determinants of social inequality.
Capacity of non-Markovianity to boost the efficiency of molecular switches
Creators: name: Spaventa, Giovanni
name: Huelga, Susana F.
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum resource theory formulations of thermodynamics offer a versatile tool for the study of fundamental limitations to the efficiency of physical processes, independently of the microscopic details governing their dynamics. Despite the ubiquitous presence of non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems at the nanoscale, rigorous proofs of their beneficial effects on the efficiency of quantum dynamical processes at the bio-molecular level have not been reported yet. Here we combine the resource theory of athermality with concepts from the theory of divisibility classes for quantum channels, to prove that memory effects can increase the efficiency of photoisomerization to levels that are not achievable under a purely thermal Markovian (i.e. memoryless) evolution. This provides rigorous evidence that memory effects can provide a resource in biological quantum dynamics, and, more generally, quantum thermodynamics at the nanoscale.
description: v2: Added authors email addresses, corrected mistake in first line of Appendix D, by replacing "Markovian" with "embeddable"; v3: Presentation improved
Additional file 8: of Transmembrane protein GRINA modulates aerobic glycolysis and promotes tumor progression in gastric cancer
Creators: name: Xu, Dan-Hua
name: Li, Qing
name: Hu, Hao
name: Ni, Bo
name: Liu, Xu
name: Huang, Chen
name: Zhang, Zi-Zhen
name: Zhao, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S2. KMplotter database demonstrated that patients with high GRINA expression had worse overall survival (OS) than those with low GRINA expression. (DOCX 19 kb)
A fuzzy take on the logical issues of statistical hypothesis testing
Creators: name: Booth, Matthew
name: Paillusson, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Statistical Hypothesis Testing (SHT) is a class of inference methods whereby one makes use of empirical data to test a hypothesis and often emit a judgment about whether to reject it or not. In this paper we focus on the logical aspect of this strategy, which is largely independent of the adopted school of thought, at least within the various frequentist approaches. We identify SHT as taking the form of an unsound argument from Modus Tollens in classical logic, and, in order to rescue SHT from this difficulty, we propose that it can instead be grounded in t-norm based fuzzy logics. We reformulate the frequentists' SHT logic by making use of a fuzzy extension of modus Tollens to develop a model of truth valuation for its premises. Importantly, we show that it is possible to preserve the soundness of Modus Tollens by exploring the various conventions involved with constructing fuzzy negations and fuzzy implications (namely, the S and R conventions). We find that under the S convention, it is possible to conduct the Modus Tollens inference argument using Zadeh's compositional extension and any possible t-norm. Under the R convention we find that this is not necessarily the case, but that by mixing R-implication with S-negation we can salvage the product t-norm, for example. In conclusion, we have shown that fuzzy logic is a legitimate framework to discuss and address the difficulties plaguing frequentist interpretations of SHT.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures. Preprint version of an amended version of the article published in Philosophies 2021, 6(1), 21
The hot circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way: evidence for super-virial, virial, and sub-virial temperature, non-solar chemical composition, and non-thermal line broadening
Creators: name: Das, Sanskriti
name: Mathur, Smita
name: Gupta, Anjali
name: Krongold, Yair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time, we present the simultaneous detection and characterization of three distinct phases at $>10^5$ K in $z=0$ absorption, using deep $\it{Chandra}$ observations toward Mrk 421. The extraordinarily high signal-to-noise ratio ($\geqslant60$) of the spectra has allowed us to detect a $\it{hot}$ phase of the Milky Way circumgalactic medium (CGM) at 3.2$^{+1.5}_{-0.5}\times$ 10$^7$ K, coexisting with a $\textit{warm-hot}$ phase at 1.5$\pm$0.1$\times$10$^6$ K and a $\textit{warm}$ phase at 3.0$\pm$0.4$\times$10$^5$ K. The $\textit{warm-hot}$ phase is at the virial temperature of the Galaxy, and the $\textit{warm}$ phase may have cooled from the $\textit{warm-hot}$ phase, but the super-virial $\textit{hot}$ phase remains a mystery. We find that [C/O] in the $\textit{warm}$ and $\textit{warm-hot}$ phases, [Mg/O] in the $\textit{warm-hot}$ phase and [Ne/O] in the $\textit{hot}$ phase are super-solar, and the $\textit{hot}$ and the $\textit{warm-hot}$ phases are $α-$enhanced. Non-thermal line broadening is evident in the $\textit{warm-hot}$ and the $\textit{hot}$ phases and it dominates the total line broadening. Our results indicate that the $>10^5$ K CGM is a complex ecosystem. It provides insights on the thermal and chemical history of the Milky Way CGM, and theories of galaxy evolution.
description: 18 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures, 2 appendices (with 1 figure), accepted for publication in ApJ (main)
Latinx comix: graphic memoirs and comic biographies as counter history
Creators: name: Caroccio Maldonado, Jennifer
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: My dissertation is the first study of Latinx graphic life stories. I address the gap in scholarship on graphic memoirs and comic biographies by and about Latinx people. I compare four graphic narratives, two biographical comics, Who is Ana Mendieta? (2011) by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron, and Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker (2015) by Julian Voloj and Claudia Ahlering; and two graphic memoirs, Spit and Passion (2012) by Cristy C. Road, and Darkroom: A Memoir (2012) by Lila Quintero Weaver. As Latinx cultural products, I explore how all four narratives deal with social movements that have taken place throughout the United States, spanning the 1960s-1990s. I contend that each comic is deeply situated in various social moments of U.S. history. Latinx Comix further explores how each of these graphic narratives uses the genre of life writing to reflect the cultural and societal flux of the time.I participate in the shift in comics studies scholarship that engages in gender studies and critical race theory. The narrative capabilities of Latinx graphic memoirs and comic biographies reclaim a Latinx subjectivity in the United States that presents the multiplicity of Latinx stories. My project places Latinx identity and subjecthood formation within a cultural, literary, and visual context. I argue that a comparative examination of these graphic narratives reveals how they contest dominant histories that either erase U.S. Latinx communities from social movements or characterize them as passive participants of history. Reading these four books together reveals how they present a counternarrative of Latinx experiences in the United States. The counternarratives that they offer are significant because they show the variety of Latinx identities while also speaking to the specificity of each group’s struggle.
Polarization Guided Specular Reflection Separation
Creators: name: Wen, Sijia
name: Zheng, Yingqiang
name: Lu, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since specular reflection often exists in the real captured images and causes deviation between the recorded color and intrinsic color, specular reflection separation can bring advantages to multiple applications that require consistent object surface appearance. However, due to the color of an object is significantly influenced by the color of the illumination, the existing researches still suffer from the near-duplicate challenge, that is, the separation becomes unstable when the illumination color is close to the surface color. In this paper, we derive a polarization guided model to incorporate the polarization information into a designed iteration optimization separation strategy to separate the specular reflection. Based on the analysis of polarization, we propose a polarization guided model to generate a polarization chromaticity image, which is able to reveal the geometrical profile of the input image in complex scenarios, such as diversity of illumination. The polarization chromaticity image can accurately cluster the pixels with similar diffuse color. We further use the specular separation of all these clusters as an implicit prior to ensure that the diffuse components will not be mistakenly separated as the specular components. With the polarization guided model, we reformulate the specular reflection separation into a unified optimization function which can be solved by the ADMM strategy. The specular reflection will be detected and separated jointly by RGB and polarimetric information. Both qualitative and quantitative experimental results have shown that our method can faithfully separate the specular reflection, especially in some challenging scenarios.
Acessibilidade web para usuários com deficiência nos repositórios institucionais
Creators: name: Cadmiel Amaral Da Costa, Levi
name: Ferreira Campos, Arthur
name: José Bastos Guimarães, Ítalo
name: Roberto Ferreira De Sousa, Marckson
Publisher: name: Cadernos BAD
Year: 2022

description: Frequentemente são identificadas barreiras com as quais usuários com deficiência se deparam ao tentar integir em ambientes digitais, incluinse no que diz respeito aos repositórios institucionais. Esta pesquisa visa responder o seguinte questionamento: Quais as barreiras de acesso à informação com as quais usuários com deficiência se deparam ao tentarem interagir com repositórios institucionais? Desta forma, objetivo desta investigação é apresentar as barreiras de acesso à informação com as quais usuários com deficiência se deparam ao interagir com repositórios institucionais. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, bibliográfica e exploratória. Os resultados apresentam as barreiras: páginas não estruturadas adequadamente, elementos visuais sem descrição textual, páginas inadaptáveis às tecnologias assistivas, inviabilidade de utilizar apenas o teclado para navegar na página, despadronização em nomes de arquivos, informações organizadas de forma imprópria, ausência de recursos de acessibilidade, ausência de opções de alterações de contraste e cor, ausência de opções de alterações de tamanho da fonte, cabeçalhos mal demarcados, erros em tabelas e listas, links quebrados e documentos inacessíveis. Conclui-se que os repositórios geralmente não são desenvolvidos considerando as necessidades das pessoas com deficiência, sendo necessária a aplicação de aspectos de acessibilidade nestes repositórios, visando que todos os sujeitos inseridos no meio científico tenham acesso à informação científica.
description: Cadernos BAD, N.º 1-2 (2021): Atas da 12ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Ciência Aberta (ConfOA)
Additional file 1 of NK cell-derived exosomes carry miR-207 and alleviate depression-like symptoms in mice
Creators: name: Li, Dongping
name: Wang, Ying
name: Jin, Xinrong
name: Hu, Die
name: Xia, Chunlei
name: Xu, Hanmei
name: Hu, Jialiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. NK cell isolation and exosome tracing. (A) The isolation and purity of NK cells from stressed mice and unstressed mice. CD49b+CD3- was used to sort cells by flow cytometry. Both groups of cells had a purity in excess of 90%. (B) Fluorescence distribution in the liver, spleen, kidney and hippocampus 12 hours after exosomes stained with PKH26 fluorescent dye were intravenously injected into mice. 12h-PKH26 indicates fluorescence distribution in the liver, spleen, kidney and hippocampus 12 hours after PKH26 fluorescent dye was intravenously injected into mice; 12h-exosomes-PKH26 indicates fluorescence distribution in the liver, spleen, kidney and hippocampus 12 hours after exosomes marked by PKH26 dye were intravenously injected into mice. (C) Fluorescence distribution in the liver, spleen, kidney and hippocampus 24 hours after exosomes stained with PKH26 fluorescent dye were intravenously injected into mice. 24h-PKH26 indicates the fluorescence distribution in the liver, spleen, kidney and hippocampus 24 hours after PKH26 fluorescent dye was intravenously injected into mice; 24h-exosomes-PKH26 indicates the fluorescence distribution in the liver, spleen, kidney and hippocampus 24 hours after exosomes marked by PKH26 dye were intravenously injected into mice. (D) Fluorescence of cells in the hippocampus 12 hours after exosomes stained with PKH26 fluorescent dye were intravenously injected into mice. 12h-PKH26 indicates the fluorescence of cells in hippocampus 12 hours after PKH26 fluorescent dye was intravenously injected into mice; 12h-exosomes-PKH26 indicates the fluorescence of cells in hippocampus 12 hours after exosomes marked by PKH26 dye were injected into mice (Bar=20μm). (E) Fluorescence of cells in the hippocampus 24 hours after exosomes stained with PKH26 fluorescent dye were intravenously injected into mice. 24h-PKH26 indicates the fluorescence of cells in the hippocampus 24 hours after PKH26 fluorescent dye was intravenously injected into mice; 24h-exosomes-PKH26 indicates the fluorescence of cells in the hippocampus 24 hours after exosomes marked by PKH26 dye were intravenously injected into mice (Bar=20μm).
Θεία Λατρεία και Μέσα Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης
Creators: name: Μαστορέκας, Θεόδωρος Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2020
Subjects: Λατρεία
Θρησκευτική
Μέσα Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης
Divine worship
Religious
Media

description: Η εργασία αρχικά κάνει μια ιστορική αναδρομή στη σχέση της θείας λατρείας και των ΜΜΕ. Όσον αφορά τη χρήση των ΜΜΕ στη θεία λατρεία, έχουν διατυπωθεί επιχειρήματα τόσο υπέρ, όσο και κατά. Όπως και να' χει το πράγμα, η Ορθοδοξία έχει δυναμική παρουσία στο διαδίκτυο, το οποίο μάλιστα προσφέρει τη δυνατότητα για άσκηση ποιμαντικής εξ αποστάσεως. Σε γενικές γραμμές, η χρήση των ηλεκτρονικών μέσων στη σύγχρονη λατρεία έχει δημιουργήσει πολλούς εκκλησιολογικούς και θεολογικούς προβληματισμούς.
description: This tesis initially makes a historical review of the relationship between the religious adoration and the media. There are arguments which support the use of the media and arguments against it. In any way, the Orthodoxy has a dynamic presence on the internet, which in fact offers the possibility of practicing pastoral care from distance, In general, the use of electronic media in modern religious adoration has created many ecclesiological ant theological dilemmas.
Nonlinear MPC for Offset-Free Tracking of systems learned by GRU Neural Networks
Creators: name: Bonassi, Fabio
name: da Silva, C. F. Oliveira
name: Scattolini, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The use of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for system identification has recently gathered increasing attention, thanks to their black-box modeling capabilities.Albeit RNNs have been fruitfully adopted in many applications, only few works are devoted to provide rigorous theoretical foundations that justify their use for control purposes. The aim of this paper is to describe how stable Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), a particular RNN architecture, can be trained and employed in a Nonlinear MPC framework to perform offset-free tracking of constant references with guaranteed closed-loop stability. The proposed approach is tested on a pH neutralization process benchmark, showing remarkable performances.
description: This work is the extended version of the article accepted at the Third IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON 2021) for publication under a Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-ND
Punk and Situationism in Britain : investigating the ‘secret history’ of punk
Creators: name: King, Liam
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2024
Subjects: Punk
Situationism
Manchester
London
Visual culture

description: Greil Marcus’s 1989 book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century argued that punk was a response to the ‘cultural impulse’ produced by Dadaism, Surrealism, and Situationism. This thesis investigates the role of Situationism in the development of punk in Britain through the music, visual culture, and the conceptual history of punk. It integrates methodologies from cultural history, intellectual history, art history, and sociology. It argues that punk can only be defined within distinct contexts due to the conflicts that surround these definitions, and demonstrates how punk historians have contributed to new generations of Situationist punks by exposing them to Situationism. The punk scenes in London and Manchester are examined using Nick Crossley’s ‘Music Worlds’ theory to demonstrate how the countercultural spaces in the two locations led to differences in the content and penetration of Situationist influence. In London, Situationist ideas helped to inform the music and behaviour of the Sex Pistols through manager Malcolm McLaren and art director Jamie Reid. Due to the availability of locations for punks to meet and perform, the spread of Situationist ideas was limited. The relative lack of countercultural spaces in Manchester required their creation by figures like Tony Wilson and Richard Boon. As both men were Situationists, this resulted in more prominent Situationist influence in Manchester. The Haçienda is identified as an attempted realisation of Situationist theory. The thesis considers the visual art of punk, analysing the artists who developed the punk aesthetic. It demonstrates the importance of Situationist techniques to artists including Jamie Reid and Linder Sterling. These techniques are investigated in the wider visual culture of punk, highlighting how they shaped punk fanzines and fashion. This thesis posits that Situationist techniques and ideas shifted as they passed through the punk subculture, often leading to a loss of meaning even when techniques were retained.