cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The radiological investigation of upper tract transitional cell tumours – a retrospective audit.
Creators: name: OBrien, Helen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Observer performance
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Current guidelines in our trust recommend ultrasound (US) as the initial imaging modality in the investigation of painless macroscopic haematuria. We aimed to consider the effectiveness of this current pathway by determining the sensitivity of US...
Inuit encounters with colonial capital : Nanisivik - Canada's first high Arctic mine
Creators: name: Lim, Tee Wern
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Mineral development has a long history of occurring in the territory of Indigenous communities. In Canada’s North, mineral exploration and mine development has become the most significant economic development strategy for Nunavut, with unprecedented levels of investment taking place today. However, broader and long-term implications of mineral development, and relevant historical experiences, are not well understood or documented. This thesis investigates a historically significant case: Canada’s first high Arctic mine, the Nanisivik lead-zinc mine, which operated near the Inuit community of Arctic Bay from 1976-2002. Across two papers, this thesis focuses on the mine’s development in the early 1970s, and closure in the 2000s. Through a Marxian analysis utilizing the constructs of primitive accumulation and modes of production, chapter 2 outlines non-renewable resource-based industrial capitalism (exemplified by Nanisivik) as a distinct and severe structure of dispossession. This is contrasted with prior periods of similarly colonial but merchant capitalist resource extraction, namely whaling and the fur trade. I explain how the State and capital combined to impose capitalist relations of production on a predominantly noncapitalist Inuit social formation. Aspects of structural resistance to this imposition are also discussed. Archival materials demonstrate in particular the intention of the Canadian State to institute a mineral-based wage economy in the region, to facilitate capital accumulation, and Inuit assimilation and labour formation. Chapter 3 explores Nanisivik’s closure and post-closure phases after operations ceased in 2002. It argues that, given the demolition of $50 million worth of industrial and residential infrastructure at Nanisivik, carried out against the wishes of the community of Arctic Bay, the mine represents a case of ‘closure failure.’ Research findings demonstrate a clear gap between the rhetoric and actual implementation of recent government and industry approaches to ‘sustainable’ mining, and socially responsibly mine closure. Analyses of relevant policy documents and interviews with residents of Arctic Bay suggest that economic concerns were consistently prioritized over socially responsible closure concerns. Profound and lingering disappointment and loss within the community over the outcome is also evident. Expanded mine closure regulation is called for in response.
Τα μουσεία σύγχρονης τέχνης ως ένας τόπος πολιτικού αναστοχασμού
Creators: name: Καίσαρη, Μαρία Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Μουσεία
Κοινά
Έννοια πολιτικού
Museums
Commons
Political concept

description: Στον σύγχρονο κόσμο τα μουσεία δείχνουν να υποτάσσονται στην οικονομική σφαίρα και την κυριαρχία της αγοράς, παραγκωνίζοντας με αυτόν τον τρόπο την ενεργή συμμετοχή του πολίτη σε αυτά και αντιμετωπίζοντας τον ως καταναλωτή. Η προτεινόμενη εργασία θα εστιάσει στο ΜOMus (Mητροπολιτικό Οργανισμό Εικαστικών Τεχνών), και πιο συγκεκριμένα στο Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης - Συλλογές Μακεδονικού Μουσείου Σύγχρονης Τέχνης και Κρατικού Μουσείου Σύγχρονης Τέχνης στην πόλη της Θεσσαλονίκης δίνοντας έμφαση στο στοιχείο του πολιτικού που ενυπάρχει σε αυτά και παράλληλα εξετάζοντας τα ως τόπους «κοινών» του πολιτισμού που στοχεύουν στο άνοιγμα της τέχνης στο δημόσιο χώρο και μάλιστα ως τόπους πολιτικού αναστοχασμού και δημιουργίας. Κατανοώντας την έννοια των κοινών ως μια εναλλακτική πρακτική πέραν του κεφαλαίου ερχόμαστε αντιμέτωποι με κάποια ερωτήματα που μας γέννησαν την ανάγκη να ασχοληθούμε με αυτή τη θεματική: Πώς διαμορφώνεται το πολιτικό στα σύγχρονα μουσεία; Πώς μπορούμε να μετατρέψουμε τα μουσεία σε τόπους πολιτικού αναστοχασμού; Κλείνοντας για να απαντηθούν αυτά τα ερωτήματα θα αξιοποιήσουμε «την ποιοτική έρευνα, η οποία περιλαμβάνει μια ερμηνευτική προσέγγιση για τον κόσμο και πραγματοποιείται σε πραγματικές και όχι τεχνικές συνθήκες» (Πούρκος & Δάφερμος 2010: 30).
description: In the modern world, museums seem to submit to the economic sphere and market domination, thus marginalizing the active participation of the citizen in them and facing him as a consumer. The present research focuses on the museums of contemporary art, and especially on Museum of Contemporary Art that are based in the city of Thessaloniki, emphasizing the political element inherent in them and at the same time examining them as "common" places of culture that aim to open art in public and even as places of political rethinking and creation. Understanding the concept of the commons as an alternative practice beyond capital, we are faced with some questions: How is politics shaped in modern museums? How can we turn museums into places of political rethinking? Finally, to answer all these questions we will use "qualitative research, which includes an interpretive approach to the world and is carried out in real rather than technical conditions" (Pourkos & Dafermos 2010: 30).
Il capitalismo non è un termine evangelico. Una breve riflessione “sturziana” rileggendo l’Enciclica Caritas in veritate di Benedetto XVI
Creators: name: Barbieri, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Economia e religione - 2. L’etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo - 3. L’etica cattolica e il capitalismo - 4. Il capitalismo buono e l’umanizzazione dell’economia - 5. Il capitalismo cattivo - 6. La riflessione di Luigi Sturzo.Brevi cenni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 15 ottobre
Leptogenesis via hypermagnetic fields and baryon asymmetry
Creators: name: Dvornikov, Maxim
name: Semikoz, Victor B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study baryon asymmetry generation originated from the leptogenesis in the presence of hypermagnetic fields in the early Universe plasma before the electroweak phase transition (EWPT). For the simplest Chern-Simons (CS) wave configuration of hypermagnetic field we find the baryon asymmetry growth when the hypermagnetic field value changes due to alpha^2-dynamo and the lepton asymmetry rises due to the Abelian anomaly. We solve the corresponding integro-differential equations for the lepton asymmetries describing such self-consistent dynamics for lepto- and baryogenesis in the two scenarios : (i) when a primordial lepton asymmetry sits in right electrons e_R; and (ii) when, in addition to e_R, a left lepton asymmetry for e_L and nu_eL arises due to chirality flip reactions provided by inverse Higgs decays at the temperatures, T
description: Erratum added, version to be published in JCAP
title: LGBTQI* People on the Labor Market: Highly Educated, Frequently Discriminated Against
Creators: name: Vries, Lisa De
name: Fischer, Mirjam
name: Kasprowski, David
name: Kroh, Martin
name: Kühne, Simon
name: Richter, David
name: Zindel, Zaza
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: J01 Labor Economics: General
subject: J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: LGBTQI*
subject: sexual orientation
subject: gender identity
subject: labor market
subject: education
subject: discrimination

description: Societal acceptance of the LGBTQI* people has greatly improved over the past decades in Germany and legal equal treatment on the labor market has been improved by the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG). However, about 30 percent of those who identify as LGBTQI* report experiencing discrimination in their work life, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Socio-Economic Panel and Bielefeld University. Similarly, around a third of LGBTQI* people are either not out or are only partly out to their colleagues. Trans* people in particular report experiencing discrimination more frequently in their work life. An LGBTQI*-friendly corporate climate is one of the most important criteria when LGBTQI* people are picking a future employer. A more LGBTQI*-friendly work environment may reduce short- and long-term labor market disadvantages of (potential) employees substantially and may increase the appeal of companies for LGBTQI* people, who are higher educated on average than the heterosexual population.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 10 (2020), 36, S. 375-383
title: Cardiac-MRI Imaging in the follow-up of Adult Congenital Heart Disease: our experience of late complications
Creators: name: Finetto, Giovanni
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Technical aspects
subject: MR
subject: Cardiac

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Purpose of this paper is to describe the role of Cardiac MRI in defining late complications in adult patients with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) who underwent surgery. With the development of diagnostic and therapeutic tools in neonatal...
Additional file 2 of Histological, radiological, and clinical outcomes of sinus floor elevation using a lateral approach for pre-/post-extraction of the severely compromised maxillary molars: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Yue, Zhaoguo
name: Liu, Qi
name: Zhang, Haidong
name: Yang, Jingwen
name: Hou, Jianxia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2. Record of protocol amendments.
title: Appendix-unusual presentations
Creators: name: Sonara, Gautami
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Anatomy
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review and illustrate rare variations in the anatomy of appendix. To illustrate imaging findings of unusual pathologies of the...
Hubbard exciton revealed by time-domain optical spectroscopy
Creators: name: Novelli, Fabio
name: Fausti, Daniele
name: Reul, Julia
name: Cilento, Federico
name: van Loosdrecht, P. H. M.
name: Nugroho, A. A.
name: Palstra, T. T. M.
name: Grüninger, Markus
name: Parmigiani, Fulivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use broadband ultra-fast pump-probe spectroscopy in the visible range to study the lowest excitations across the Mott-Hubbard gap in the orbitally ordered insulator YVO3. Separating thermal and non-thermal contributions to the optical transients, we show that the total spectral weight of the two lowest peaks is conserved, demonstrating that both excitations correspond to the same multiplet. The pump-induced transfer of spectral weight between the two peaks reveals that the low-energy one is a Hubbard exciton, i.e. a resonance or bound state between a doublon and a holon. Finally, we speculate that the pump-driven spin-disorder can be used to quantify the kinetic energy gain of the excitons in the ferromagnetic phase.
description: 5 pages and 6 figures, 9 pages and 12 figures with additional materials
L'esercizio dell'attività sindacale dei ministri di culto nella Chiesa ortodossa romena
Creators: name: Botti, Federica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo

description: Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, è destinato alla pubblicazione in una raccolta di saggi sui rapporti tra Stato e Confessioni religiose in Romania che apparirà nella Collana di Diritto Ecclesiastico Comparato e Diritti Umani diretta da G. Cimbalo e pubblicata dalla Bononia University Press di Bologna
SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. La costituzione di organizzazioni sindacali di ministri di culto e laici appartenenti alla BOR - 3. Il riconoscimento della personalità giuridica civile al “Sindicatul Pǎstorul cel Bun”- 4. La questione davanti alla Corte EDU: la preminenza del diritto alla tutela attraverso l’azione sindacale - 5. La Corte EDU e l’esistenza di un “besoin social impérieux” - 6. La risposta della Chiesa ortodossa romena alla sentenza CEDU e l’appello alla Grand Chambre - 7. Alcune considerazioni conclusive
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 15 ottobre
title: Bank Levies Can Make Bank Balance Sheets More Resilient, but High Corporate Tax Rates Dampen the Effect
Creators: name: Bremus, Franziska
name: Tonzer, Lena
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: G21 Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
subject: G28 Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
subject: L51 Economics of Regulation
subject: Bank leverage
subject: bank levy
subject: debt bias of taxation

description: Following the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, many European countries introduced bank levies to enable financial institutions to share in the costs of future banking crises via resolution and restructuring funds. Simultaneously, bank levies can set an incentive for banks to reduce their leverage, thereby achieving a more stable capital structure. Using information from banks’ balance sheets, this report investigates to what extent bank levies have reduced leverage ratios and what role the corporate income tax rate plays in this. Preferential tax treatment of debt capital means that higher corporate tax rates favor a higher leverage ratio. The empirical findings show that banks in countries with a bank levy on bank debt have lower leverage and thus higher capital buffers than banks in countries without a levy. The higher the corporate tax rate, however, the less bank levies reduce leverage. To ensure regulatory levies are effective, how they interact with other taxes must be taken into account.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 10 (2020), 35, S. 367-371
title: Social Integration of Refugees Is Improving
Creators: name: Schmidt, Katja
name: Jacobsen, Jannes
name: Pagel, Lisa
name: Krieger, Magdalena
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: J18 Demographic Economics: Public Policy
subject: J19 Demographic Economics: Other
subject: F22 International Migration
subject: O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
subject: R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
subject: J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
subject: refugees
subject: concerns about immigration
subject: trust
subject: integration
subject: bridging ties

description: Five years ago, almost a million people came to Germany seeking refuge. Chancellor Angela Merkel responded to public concern over such a large influx of refugees with her well-known saying, “Wir schaffen das” (We can do this!). Much has happened since then. As this report shows, the German population’s concerns over immigration have been decreasing since 2016. Nevertheless, refugees are increasingly concerned about xenophobia. At the same time, although their trust in key state institutions is high, they are less trusting of Germany’s public administration system. One way of building mutual reliance might be to foster personal contact between refugees and local populations. However, the present study indicates that, so far, only around half of refugees have regular contact with Germans. Female refugees, in particular, have less contact with Germans. Government initiatives to create diverse social networks could be an important step toward greater integration.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 10 (2020), 34, S. 355-363
title: Integration of Refugee Children and Adolescents in and out of School: Evidence of Success but Still Room for Improvement
Creators: name: Gambaro, Ludovica
name: Kemptner, Daniel
name: Pagel, Lisa
name: Schmitz, Laura
name: Spieß, C. Katharina
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: I24 Education and Inequality
subject: I28 Education: Government Policy
subject: J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: Z18 Cultural Economics: Public Policy
subject: refugees
subject: children
subject: youth
subject: social integration
subject: non-formal activities

description: Germany has seen the arrival of a large number of displaced children and adolescents in recent years. Integration is vital for their lives today and in the future. Key indicators of successful integration are a sense of belonging to school, participation in extracurricular activities, both within school and outside it, and social contacts. The present report examines these indicators based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the IAB-SOEP Migration Samples, and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. The findings show that the integration of 12-, 14-, and 17-year-old refugees who came to Germany with their families is essentially moving in the right direction: These young people feel a sense of belonging to their school community and are increasingly attending after-school programs (provided by the school). This gives them the opportunity to spend the whole day with peers who have lived in Germany for longer. The relatively low levels of participation in schoolbased extracurricular activities among young refugees, however, shows that these programs are not being fully exploited. In this context, further efforts should be made to increase participation. Similarly, there is also untapped potential when it comes to organized leisure and sport activities outside school. Sports clubs, for example, should actively reach out to refugee children and adolescents encouraging them to participate
description: DIW Weekly Report, 10 (2020), 34, S. 345-354
title: Refugees’ High Employment Expectations: Partially Met
Creators: name: Graeber, Daniel
name: Schikora, Felicitas
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: D84 Expectations; Speculations
subject: F22 International Migration
subject: J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
subject: refugees
subject: expectation formation
subject: integration
subject: expectation error

description: This report compares employment expectations among refugees in Germany in 2016 with their actual employment situation in 2018, using the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany. In 2016, the majority of refugees reported that the probability they would find employment within two years was high. Employment expectations were met by 54 percent of all refugees; yet 35 percent of refugees who articulated high expectations in 2016, had no job in 2018. The findings show that both structural factors, such as a lack of childcare, and individual level characteristics, such as mental health, impacted entry into employment. Extra support for refugees seeking employment—the provision of information and advice on the German labor market, better childcare options, or support for those with mental health issues, for example—could help ensure that employment expectations are met more frequently. Further studies are needed to provide a better understanding of the different mechanisms at play here.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 10 (2020), 34, S. 337-343
title: A retrospective audit of acute out of hours MRI and its impact on patient management
Creators: name: OBrien, Helen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Acute
subject: Surgery
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Emergency

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In 2015 the British Association of Spinal Surgeons published standards of care for suspected and confirmed compressive cauda equine syndrome (CES) 1 . In this publication, they recommend urgent MRIscans are performed in cases of suspected CES. In...
Observable non-gaussianity from gauge field production in slow roll inflation, and a challenging connection with magnetogenesis
Creators: name: Barnaby, Neil
name: Namba, Ryo
name: Peloso, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In any realistic particle physics model of inflation, the inflaton can be expected to couple to other fields. We consider a model with a dilaton-like coupling between a U(1) gauge field and a scalar inflaton. We show that this coupling can result in observable non-gaussianity, even in the conventional regime where inflation is supported by a single scalar slowly rolling on a smooth potential: the time dependent inflaton condensate leads to amplification of the large-scale gauge field fluctuations, which can feed-back into the scalar/tensor cosmological perturbations. In the squeezed limit, the resulting bispectrum is close to the local one, but it shows a sizable and characteristic quadrupolar dependence on the angle between the shorter and the larger modes in the correlation. Observable non-gaussianity is obtained in a regime where perturbation theory is under control. If the gauge field is identified with the electromagnetic field, the model that we study is a realization of the magnetogenesis idea originally proposed by Ratra, and widely studied. This identification (which is not necessary for the non-gaussianity production) is however problematic in light of a strong coupling problem already noted in the literature.
description: 28 pages, no figures. Final version
title: European Bank Deposit Insurance Could Cushion Impact of Corona-Induced Corporate Insolvencies
Creators: name: Clemens, Marius
name: Gebauer, Stefan
name: König, Tobias
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: E61 Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
subject: F42 International Policy Coordination and Transmission
subject: G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies
subject: G28 Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
subject: Banking union
subject: deposit insurance
subject: risk-sharing

description: The European banking union has so far lacked its third pillar: a joint insurance fund for bank savings deposits. As the present study shows, this could be a major disadvantage in dealing with the economic impact of the corona pandemic. A scenario in which a wave of corporate insolvencies leads to loan and deposit losses reaching six percent over a year would over- whelm Germany’s national deposit insurance scheme. Even if the government were to step in and guarantee all deposits, a European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) would be by far the better option. With EDIS in place, private consumption would fall by 20 percent less and lending by around ten percent less than if the government were to initiate a bailout, which would also significantly increase public debt. From a German perspective, a swift introduction of EDIS would greatly increase risk-sharing. However, it is important to develop an efficient EDIS funding mechanism in order to minimize the burden on banks. Precautions should also be taken to prevent banks from taking greater risks as a result of EDIS being implemented.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 10 (2020), 32/33, S. 325-333
title: Integration of a newmobile application for medical communication in an academic radiology department
Creators: name: Lavrova, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Workforce
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Teleradiology
subject: eHealth
subject: Computer applications

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Radiologists are facing daily a plethora of interruptions from different sources during their working process, which may be associated with negative outcomes or an increased quantity of medical errors. This pilot evaluated the impact of a secure...
Investigating stellar-mass black hole kicks
Creators: name: Repetto, Serena
name: Davies, Melvyn B.
name: Sigurdsson, Steinn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate whether stellar-mass black holes have to receive natal kicks in order to explain the observed distribution of low-mass X-ray binaries containing black holes within our Galaxy. Such binaries are the product of binary evolution, where the massive primary has exploded forming a stellar-mass black hole, probably after a common envelope phase where the system contracted down to separations of order 10-30 Rsun. We perform population synthesis calculations of these binaries, applying both kicks due to supernova mass-loss and natal kicks to the newly-formed black hole. We then integrate the trajectories of the binary systems within the Galactic potential. We find that natal kicks are in fact necessary to reach the large distances above the Galactic plane achieved by some binaries. Further, we find that the distribution of natal kicks would seem to be similar to that of neutron stars, rather than one where the kick velocities are reduced by the ratio of black hole to neutron-star mass (i.e. where the kicks have the same momentum). This result is somewhat surprising; in many pictures of stellar-mass black-hole formation, one might have expected black holes to receive kicks having the same momentum (rather than the same speed) as those given to neutron stars.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Nuove leggi per vecchie intese
Creators: name: Canonico, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Concordati e intese

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. L’insperato recupero di alcune intese - 2. Le novità degne di nota - 3. Osservazioni conclusive
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 15 ottobre
The fine-structure of volatility feedback I: multi-scale self-reflexivity
Creators: name: Chicheportiche, Rémy
name: Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We attempt to unveil the fine structure of volatility feedback effects in the context of general quadratic autoregressive (QARCH) models, which assume that today's volatility can be expressed as a general quadratic form of the past daily returns. The standard ARCH or GARCH framework is recovered when the quadratic kernel is diagonal. The calibration of these models on US stock returns reveals several unexpected features. The off-diagonal (non ARCH) coefficients of the quadratic kernel are found to be highly significant both In-Sample and Out-of-Sample, but all these coefficients turn out to be one order of magnitude smaller than the diagonal elements. This confirms that daily returns play a special role in the volatility feedback mechanism, as postulated by ARCH models. The feedback kernel exhibits a surprisingly complex structure, incompatible with models proposed so far in the literature. Its spectral properties suggest the existence of volatility-neutral patterns of past returns. The diagonal part of the quadratic kernel is found to decay as a power-law of the lag, in line with the long-memory of volatility. Finally, QARCH models suggest some violations of Time Reversal Symmetry in financial time series, which are indeed observed empirically, although of much smaller amplitude than predicted. We speculate that a faithful volatility model should include both ARCH feedback effects and a stochastic component.
The Structure of Scientific Knowledge
Creators: name: Misner, Charles W.
Publisher: name: DFG Research Training Group, University of Bremen
Year: 2012
Subjects: Reductionist views
Emergent properties
Evanescent laws
Popper -- falsified
Kuhn -- paradigms
correspondence principiles

description: Slides shown during an invited talk at the Inaugural Meeting http://www.models-of-gravity.org
description: This talk proposes that the best theories, called certified theories, are to be found as a subset of falsified theories, i.e. those that remain insightful and useful within known limits.
Validating a realist grounded theory : using an example of the double-labeling phenomenon in special education
Creators: name: Lo, Chih-Shen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this dissertation study was two-fold. On one hand, it set out to investigate the newly emerged double-labeling phenomenon shared by twice-exceptional students in order to parcel out factors that affect the labeling process and to understand how these students perceive and cope with educational labels. On the other hand, this study sought to provide better understanding and tangibility of a realist grounded theory (RGT) approach, especially with respect to a validation model that could be used to guide RGT research practices. In the first stage, three major grounded theory approaches were compared based on different ontological stances and an RGT validation model with a set of strategies was proposed. The validation model suggests that the degree of validity of RGT is contingent on the closeness between a theoretical account and social reality, which is rudimentarily suggested by the “groundedness” of a study (concurrent procedural validity) and subsequently reinforced by external testing studies and/or practices (incremental procedural validity). In the second stage, the RGT validation model was adopted to study the interactive and dynamic process of double-labeling, which resulted in a theoretical model that is fortified with four theoretical propositions. This theoretical model highlights the interplay of individual agency, contextual factors, and developmental considerations and theorizes the pedagogical perspectives of educational labeling. Labeling practice is situated in and endorsed by a social context that carries explicit theory about, and educational policies regarding, labels. Taking a developmental perspective, labeling practice often results in some short-lived emotional responses and triggers a meaning-generating process that results in gradually formatted self-knowledge. Positive academic and social adjustment behaviors are contingent on this self-knowledge. In this regard, labeling practice reconciles a constructed reality (consensual field knowledge) and a lived reality (self-knowledge). Through implementing the RGT validation model in an empirical study and testing out the suggested strategies, the validation model was found to provide not only tangible operational terms that guided the research process but also a rendition of validation evidence that suggested the original GT canons—fit, work, and relevance.
Plant-related subsistence in the Pearl River Delta, Southern China, from 6,000 BP to 3,000 BP
Creators: name: Li, Zhao
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In South China, there is limited evidence for prehistoric plant-related subsistence practices, due to poor macrofossils preservation in the acid soils and humid climate and the limitation of phytoliths analysis. The Pearl River Delta has an important sea-land transition position in South China, where the native Neolithic cultures had weak cultural continuity but easily adopted external features from other regions. To understand prehistoric plant-related subsistence, especially starch plant use, in the Pearl River Delta, the analysis of archaeological starch grains recovered from plant processing tools is selected as the main research approach of this thesis.A total of 61 grinding and pounding tools were selected as archaeological samples from two sites from around 6,000 to 5,000 BP (Guye site and Haogang site (the second phase)) and five settlements during 4,500 to 3,000 BP (Haogang site (the third phase), Yuanzhou site, Cuntou site, Yinzhou site, and Hengling site) in the Pearl River Delta.The results show that from 6,000 to 3,000 BP, acorns and geophytes were important food sources in the Pearl River Delta. In the early phase (from 6,000 BP to 5,000 BP), the proportion of acorn/oak-chestnut starch was higher than that of geophytes (in this thesis, it refers to the plants with starch-rich underground storage organs), but that after 4,500 BP the role of geophytes in the diet appears to have increased. The starch granule data from grinding and pounding tools combined with other archaeological site data strongly suggest that during the mid-Holocene small, sedentary, village settlements were heavily dependent on hunting and gathering, with only limited impact from cereal cultivation (e.g. rice and millets).
A Refined QSO Selection Method Using Diagnostics Tests: 663 QSO Candidates in the LMC
Creators: name: Kim, Dae-Won
name: Protopapas, Pavlos
name: Trichas, Markos
name: Rowan-Robinson, Michael
name: Khardon, Roni
name: Alcock, Charles
name: Byun, Yong-Ik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 663 QSO candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) selected using multiple diagnostics. We started with a set of 2,566 QSO candidates from our previous work selected using time variability of the MACHO LMC lightcurves. We then obtained additional information for the candidates by crossmatching them with the Spitzer SAGE, the MACHO UBVI, the 2MASS, the Chandra and the XMM catalogs. Using this information, we specified six diagnostic features based on mid-IR colors, photometric redshifts using SED template fitting, and X-ray luminosities in order to further discriminate high confidence QSO candidates in the absence of spectra information. We then trained a one-class SVM (Support Vector Machine) model using the diagnostics features of the confirmed 58 MACHO QSOs. We applied the trained model to the original candidates and finally selected 663 high confidence QSO candidates. Furthermore, we crossmatched these 663 QSO candidates with the newly confirmed 144 QSOs and 275 non-QSOs in the LMC fields. On the basis of the counterpart analysis, we found that the false positive rate is less than 1%.
description: 13 pages, 17 figures. accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging (WB-MRI) for staging Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH): a retrospective survey at the italian referral centre.
Creators: name: Bernardini, Azzurra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Biopsy
subject: MR
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Oncology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Current knowledge redefined Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) as an inflammatory myeloid neoplasia driven by activating mutations in the MAPK pathway [1]. Clinical presentations of LCH may vary widely, from a single-system disease, often with...
La convivenza coniugale quale elemento ostativo alla delibazione della sentenza ecclesiastica di nullità matrimoniale alla luce delle recenti evoluzioni giurisprudenziali
Creators: name: Mioli, Graziano
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Matrimonio

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione
Il contenuto dei §§ 1-2-6, con alcune modifiche ed in versione ridotta nelle note, è destinato alla pubblicazione su Ius Ecclesiae come nota a sentenza di Cass., 4 giugno 2012, n. 8926
SOMMARIO: 1. La critica della (non) critica della ragion giuridica – 2. Il riesame del merito: un pericolo incombente – 3. La rilevabilità d'ufficio delle questioni di contrarietà all'ordine pubblico – 4. Le inquietanti derive delle corti di merito – 5. Il riproporsi di una vexata quaestio, ossia il divieto di attività istruttoria – 6. Per una soluzione definitiva di una storia infinita
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 15 ottobre
Constraining Quasar and IGM Properties Through Bubble Detection in Redshifted 21-cm Maps
Creators: name: Majumdar, Suman
name: Bharadwaj, Somnath
name: Choudhury, T. Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The infrared detection of a z>7 quasar has opened up a new window to directly probe the IGM during the epoch of reionization. In this paper we theoretically consider the possibility of detecting the ionized bubble around a z=8 quasar using targeted redshifted 21-cm observations with the GMRT. The apparent shape and size of the ionized bubble, as seen by a distant observer, depends on the parameters \dot{N}_{phs}/C, x_HI/C and τ_Q where \dot{N}_{phs}, τ_Q, x_HI and C are respectively the photon emission rate, age of the quasar, the neutral fraction and clumping factor of the IGM.Here we have analytically estimated the shape and size of a quasar's ionized bubble assuming an uniform IGM and ignoring other ionizing sources besides the quasar, and used this as a template for matched filter bubble search with the GMRT visibility data. We have assumed that \dot{N}_{phs} is known from the infrared spectrum and C from theoretical considerations, which gives us two free parameters x_HI and τ_Q for bubble. Considering 1,000 hr of observation, we find that there is a reasonably large region of parameter space where a 3σdetection is possible. We also find that it will be possible to place lower limits on x_HI and τ_Q with this observation. Deeper follow up observations can place upper limits on τ_Q and x_HI. Value of C affect the estimation of x_HI but the estimation of τ_Q remains unaffected.We have used a semi-numerical technique to simulate the apparent shape and size of quasar ionized bubbles considering the presence of other ionizing sources and inhomogeneities in the IGM. The presence of other sources increase the size of the quasar bubble, leading to underestimation of x_HI. Clustering of other ionizing sources around the quasar can produce severe distortions in bubble's shape. However, this does not severely affect parameter estimation in the bubbles that are large.
description: 18 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables. Minor change in text. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Poster abstract: Pictorial review of fat containing pulmonary lesions on adult chest computed tomography (CT).
Creators: name: Nasir, Muhammad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Screening
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Characteristics of different pulmonary fat containing lesions identified on CT images in adult thoracic imaging. To demonstrate the pathognomic features of benign fat containinglesions in order to differentiate them from the malignant lesions on CT...
A Pipeline for the ROTSE-IIId Archival Data
Creators: name: Güçsav, B. B.
name: Yeşilyaprak, C.
name: Yerli, S. K.
name: Aksaker, N.
name: Kızıloğlu, Ü.
name: Çoker, D.
name: Dikicioğlu, E.
name: Aydın, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have constructed a new, fast, robust and reliable pipeline to detect variable stars from the ROTSE-IIId archival data. Turkish share of ROTSE-III archive contains approximately one million objects from a large field of view (1.85\dgr) and it considerably covers a large portion of northern sky ($δ>-25\dgr$). The unfiltered ROTSE-III magnitude of the objects ranges from 7.7 to 16.9. The main stages of the new pipeline are as follows: Source extraction, astrometry of the objects, light curve generation and inhomogeneous ensemble photometry. A high performance computing (HPC) algorithm has also been implemented into the pipeline where we had a good performance even on a personal computer. Running the algorithms of the pipeline on a cluster decreases analysis time significantly from weeks to hours. The pipeline is especially tested against long period variable stars with periods of a few hundred days (e.g Mira and SR) and variables having periods starting from a few days to a few hundred days were detected.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures 2 tables; last revision before published
A spherical fuzzy based decision making framework with Einstein aggregation for comparing preparedness of SMEs in Quality 4.0
Creators: name: Biswas, Sanjib
name: Božanić, Darko
name: Pamučar, Dragan
name: Marinković, Dragan
Publisher: name: University of Nis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: Quality 4.0
subject: Spherical Fuzzy Sets
subject: SFS
subject: Einstein aggregation
subject: Simple Ranking Process
subject: SRP
subject: Symmetry Point of Criterion
subject: SPC

description: Researchers work hard to embrace technological changes and redefine the quality management as Quality 4.0 (Q 4.0). In this context, the purpose of the current work is twofold. First, it aims to compare the preparedness of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for sustaining in Q4. Second, it intends to propose a novel hybrid spherical fuzzy based multi-criteria group decision-making (MAGDM) framework with Einstein aggregation (EA). A real-life case study on six SMEs is carried out with the help of three experts. For aggregating the individual responses (using spherical fuzzy numbers or SFNs), EA is used. Then two very recent models such as Simple Ranking Process (SRP) and Symmetry Point of Criterion (SPC) are extended using SFN to rank the SMEs. Finally, the validation tests and sensitivity analysis are carried out. It is noted that the application of analytical tools, knowledge management and use of technology under the support and mentorship of visionary leadership are the key criteria for building up the capability to embrace Q 4.0. Interestingly, it is noted that medium scale firms are better prepared than small-scale enterprises. This work is apparently a first of its kind that focuses on SMEs for assessing their quality management practices in Industry 4.0 era.
title: Millionaires under the Microscope: Data Gap on Top Wealth Holders Closed: Wealth Concentration Higher than Presumed
Creators: name: Schröder, Carsten
name: Bartels, Charlotte
name: Göbler, Konstantin
name: Grabka, Markus M.
name: König, Johannes
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
subject: D14 Personal Finance
subject: C83 Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
subject: top wealth
subject: wealth
subject: asset portfolio
subject: oversampling
subject: SOEP

description: Individuals with assets in the millions of euros have been underrepresented in population surveys and accordingly little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the existing data gap, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) integrated a special sample in which individuals with high assets are overrepresented. New calculations using this data and a national rich list show that the concentration of individual net assets in Germany is higher than previously thought. The top ten percent possess over two thirds of all individual net assets, while previously it was thought to only be 59 percent. The richest percent of the population has around 35 percent of the wealth, not 22 percent as previously thought. Around 1.5 percent of adults in Germany have assets in the amount of at least one million euros. These individuals do not only differ from the rest of the population in terms of wealth: They are also more often older men, more highly educated, self-employed, and more satisfied with their lives. The government could encourage wealth accumulation in the lower half of the distribution in various ways, such as in the form of individual savings accounts into which the state also pays.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 10 (2020), 30/31, S. 313-322
L’educazione religiosa nella scuola pubblica. Il modello concordatario-pattizio nei paesi latini europei
Creators: name: Benigni, Rita
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico comparato e straniero

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. I Concordati del primo novecento: definizione dei tratti tipici del modello – 3. La revisione concordataria del secondo dopoguerra: libertà di scelta educativa e pluralismo religioso - 4. L’istruzione religiosa “nell’ambito delle finalità della scuola”. Il caso Italia - 5. (segue) … l’esperienza di Spagna e Portogallo.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 22 ottobre
title: Role of PSA density (PSAD) and PIRADS score v2 as co-variables in the identification of clinically significant prostate cancers: our experience
Creators: name: Gianneramo, Camilla
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Prostate cancer accounts for about 20% of all cancers diagnosed among men aged 50 and older. At the base of this phenomenon, there is the greatest probability of diagnosing this disease, which is present in a latent form in 15-30% of the subjects...
Symmorphocerus beloni Power 1879
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Colonnelli, Enzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Symmorphocerus
Symmorphocerus beloni

description: Symmorphocerus beloni Power, 1879
Distribution in Iran. Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, Kordestan (Orbach, 2019).
General distribution. Iraq, Turkey.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Colonnelli, Enzo, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4759 (2) on page 171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3737365