cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Strategie di digitalizzazione di settori quali Industria 4.0. Pubblica Amministrazione, sanità, scuola e formazione
Creators: name: Orazi, Francesco
name: Sofritti, Federico
Publisher: name: Università di Pisa
Year: 2020

description: The Covid-19 pandemic has further shown that managing the digital transition of society and economy is one of the major challenges posed by the New Technologies (NTs). An advanced digital economy is conditioned by the presence of a technological infrastructure capable of interconnecting socio-economic and institutional systems. In Italy, is crucial to align the different systems through active digitalization policies. Drawing on secondary data about Industry 4.0, Public
Administration, healthcare and education, this article provides an overview of the digitalization of the Italian economy, institutions and society before the pandemic emergency, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses. Afterwords, some features of the digital transition imposed by the pandemic in Italy are addressed. The analysis aims to introduce the idea of a technologically-oriented welfare, in which the NTs connect the different systems enhancing services’ efficiency and efficacy, supporting individuals’ empowerment and reducing inequalities.
title: Does It Count? Pre-School Children’s Spontaneous Focusing on Numerosity and Their Development of Arithmetical Skills at School
Creators: name: Poltz, Nadine
name: Quandte, Sabine
name: Kohn, Juliane
name: Kucian, Karin
name: Wyschkon, Anne
name: von Aster, Michael
name: Esser, Günter
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Background: Children’s spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) is related to numerical skills. This study aimed to examine (1) the developmental trajectory of SFON and (2) the interrelations between SFON and early numerical skills at pre-school as well as their influence on arithmetical skills at school. Method: Overall, 1868 German pre-school children were repeatedly assessed until second grade. Nonverbal intelligence, visual attention, visuospatial working memory, SFON and numerical skills were assessed at age five (M = 63 months, Time 1) and age six (M = 72 months, Time 2), and arithmetic was assessed at second grade (M = 95 months, Time 3). Results: SFON increased significantly during pre-school. Path analyses revealed interrelations between SFON and several numerical skills, except number knowledge. Magnitude estimation and basic calculation skills (Time 1 and Time 2), and to a small degree number knowledge (Time 2), contributed directly to arithmetic in second grade. The connection between SFON and arithmetic was fully mediated by magnitude estimation and calculation skills at pre-school. Conclusion: Our results indicate that SFON first and foremost influences deeper understanding of numerical concepts at pre-school and—in contrast to previous findings –affects only indirectly children’s arithmetical development at school.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 777
title: Self-harm in residential care : a consideration of the evidence and the implications for practice
Creators: name: Burnand, Lily
name: Johnson, Dan
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2022

description: Young people in residential care settings are disproportionately affected by self-harm. This has an impact on other residents and care staff as well as the young people engaging in self-harming behaviours. Research into the efficacy of care strategies in these contexts is scarce, which makes developing and implementing effective practice challenging. This paper reviews the existing literature to identify important themes for young people and residential care staff in relation to self-harm support and management, and to outline potential areas for further research and policy development.
title: Book review : Marginalised Communities in Higher Education: Disadvantage, Mobility and Indigeneity by Neil Harrison and Graeme Atherton (Eds)
Creators: name: Brady, Eavan
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2022

description: In this edited book, Harrison, Atherton, and the contributing authors highlight the importance of developing understandings of the lived experiences of groups experiencing/at risk of marginalisation in higher education. While acknowledging that the term 'marginalisation' is 'slippery' (p.3), in the opening chapter the editors point to the importance of conceptualising this term, particularly in the context of higher education. The focus in this edited book is not on issues of gender, class, and disability, but rather on other groups at risk of marginalisation that have received less attention to date. To that end many of the chapters report on findings of small-scale, exploratory research studies, or desk-based analyses drawing on demographic information, policy documents etc. The result is a highly engaging text that provides the reader with a glimpse into the experiences of groups/populations at risk of/experiencing marginalisation in higher education who have not traditionally been at the forefront of discourse in relation to this issue.
Matching the Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function Using Log-normal Star Formation Histories
Creators: name: Abramson, Louis E.
name: Gladders, Michael D.
name: Dressler, Alan
name: Oemler, Augustus
name: Poggianti, Bianca
name: Vulcani, Benedetta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a model consisting of individual, log-normal star formation histories for a volume-limited sample of $z\approx0$ galaxies reproduces the evolution of the total and quiescent stellar mass functions at $z\lesssim2.5$ and stellar masses $M_*\geq10^{10}\,{\rm M_\odot}$. This model has previously been shown to reproduce the star formation rate/stellar mass relation (${\rm SFR}$--$M_*$) over the same interval, is fully consistent with the observed evolution of the cosmic ${\rm SFR}$ density at $z\leq8$, and entails no explicit "quenching" prescription. We interpret these results/features in the context of other models demonstrating a similar ability to reproduce the evolution of (1) the cosmic ${\rm SFR}$ density, (2) the total/quiescent stellar mass functions, and (3) the ${\rm SFR}$--$M_*$ relation, proposing that the key difference between modeling approaches is the extent to which they stress/address diversity in the (starforming) galaxy population. Finally, we suggest that observations revealing the timescale associated with dispersion in ${\rm SFR}(M_*)$ will help establish which models are the most relevant to galaxy evolution.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; submitted to ApJ Letters
Length Dependence of Ionization Potentials of Trans-Acetylenes: Internally-Consistent DFT/GW Approach
Creators: name: Pinheiro, Max
name: Caldas, Marilia J.
name: Rinke, Patrick
name: Blum, Volker
name: Scheffler, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We follow the evolution of the Ionization Potential (IP) for the paradigmatic quasi-one-dimensional trans-acetylene family of conjugated molecules, from short to long oligomers and to the infinite polymer trans-poly-acetylene (TPA). Our results for short oligomers are very close to experimental available data. We find that the IP varies with oligomer length and converges to the given value for TPA with a smooth, coupled inverse-length-exponential behavior. Our prediction is based on an "internally-consistent" scheme to adjust the exchange mixing parameter $α$ of the PBEh hybrid density functional, so as to obtain a description of the electronic structure consistent with the quasiparticle approximation for the IP. This is achieved by demanding that the corresponding quasiparticle correction, in the GW@PBEh approximation, vanishes for the IP when evaluated at PBEh($α^{ic}$). We find that $α^{ic}$ is also system-dependent and converges with increasing oligomer length, allowing to capture the dependence of IP and other electronic properties.
description: 22 pages with 9 figures, submitted to Physical Review B
State of the Art in Exoplanets Observing Methods: Radial Velocity and Transit
Creators: name: Dumusque, Xavier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Exoplanets, Radial velocity, Transit, Stellar activity

description: Slides presented at the Exoplanets Astrostatistics Summer School organised in Geneva, from September the 12th to the 16th 2022.
title: Co-teaching and the Development of Pupil Identity in the Bilingual Primary Classroom: A case study of a Hong Kong School
Creators: name: Williams, Natasha
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2023

description: This research study explores pupil experiences of co-teaching within a bilingual international primary school in Hong Kong. The majority of pupils are first language Cantonese speakers, studying in an English and Putonghua bilingual programme. Within Hong Kong, the historical context and political situation following the change of sovereignty, has shaped educational policy and views about valued languages, shaping the practices of the school and therefore pupil experiences of language learning. The school supports pupil language development through a bilingual programme (one teacher, one language), supported by co-teaching (in English and Putonghua). The aims of the study were to understand how co-teaching is understood and enacted by co-teachers to support pupil language learning identities. Two co-taught classrooms were the focus of the research (one in Year 3 (Y3) and one in Year 5 (Y5)). Research data for this case study were collected through formal classroom observations over a five-month period, pupil interviews (three from each class) and interviews with the two co-teachers of each class. A broad sample of pupil language experiences was collected as part of a questionnaire to all pupils in Y3 and Y5. Questionnaire data served as an opportunity for data triangulation and rich, detailed analysis. Qualitative data analysis consisted of open coding to find emerging themes, these themes then becoming the focus of the discussion. The findings of the study revealed that enactment of co-teaching is shaped by teacher perceptions of their classroom roles. An identity of a co-teacher, for example, was found to facilitate mutual understanding and respect for shared practices that further supported pupil language development. Co-teaching enactment, perceived teacher language valuations and English language dominance within the classroom were all found to shape pupil language learning identities. The study also found that the co-teaching model, Team Teaching, was effective in teaching and learning because of the opportunities for pupil translanguaging and because it positions the classroom languages with equal status, supporting pupil investment and motivation to learn. Since co-teaching model effectiveness was not the focus of this study, it is recommended as an area of further research.
title: Kropotkin. Mutualismo e Anarchia
Creators: name: Benvenga, Luca
name: Longo, Michele
Publisher: name: Università di Pisa
Year: 2020

description: Through the analysis of Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin's thought, this paper attempts to conduct an analysis of the macro-processes (biological, historical and political) through which micro processes (especially social relations) are organised. The analysis of the concept of mutual support allows to create a cognitive bridge between the macro and micro
dimensions, through which it is possible to understand how, on a general level, both planes are organised by the evolution-revolution dialectic. To analyse this logic, it is necessary to define individuals as social animals endowed with reason and, through the analysis of these attributed, to articulate a historical, political and biological analysis of the processes that structure social relations and those that interpose their natural evolution.
Confirming the need, shared with Kropotkin, for a multidisciplinary approach to sociological issues, it is possible to see how the motions of reproduction and, therefore, of evolution of social structures necessarily follow an order that is not social as it is produced by man, but as an expression of the natural dimension of individuals, connected to cooperativity. Human society is therefore one of the living societies present on earth and in order to understand its logic and implement its emancipation it is necessary to underline, as Kropotkin does, the intrinsic relationship between social and natural and between conflict and cooperation.
Yingjin Zhang, China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature
Creators: Lupke, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2000

This is a review of the volume China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature, edited by Yingjin Zhang. The essays grew out of one of the conferences of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) from the late 1990s. Although the essays are on widely different topics, Zhang attempts to bring them all together in a cohesive framework that foregrounds and problematizes the comparative treatment of China and the West. The result of this overarching framework is somewhat uneven but nevertheless laudable. Nevertheless, the book contains many interesting and astute essays when they are considered on their own.
Spectral atlas of A-type supergiants
Creators: name: Klochkova, V. G.
name: Sendzikas, E. G.
name: Chentsov, E. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on high-spectral-resolution observations (R=60000) performed with the 6-m BTA telescope in combination with the echelle spectrograph NES, we have studied the optical spectra of three A-type supergiants: a peculiar supergiant 3 Pup, a post-AGB star BD+48 1220, and a massive $α$ Cyg, which belong to essentially different stages of evolution. A spectral atlas for these stars is prepared in the wavelength interval of 3920 to 6720 Å.
description: 56 pages, 2 tables, 10 figures
title: Book review : Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families - and How to Mend Them by Polly Curtis
Creators: name: Anderson, David
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2022

description: When approaching this book review, I initially started to write a 'classic' review in the time-honoured tradition that includes all the usual components. However, as I neared the end, the feeling grew that I should forego that road and take a different path. Because to be honest, there are other classic reviews of this book out there that are better than anything I could come up with. And so, I offer up my own 'novel' approach. I want to share how this book made me feel, what it means to be someone who cares about what this book concerns, what I learned, and what I agree and disagree with. The book – Behind Closed Doors by Polly Curtis – is a deep dive into the English Child Protection System.
The confluent supersymmetry algorithm for Dirac equations with pseudoscalar potentials
Creators: name: Contreras-Astorga, Alonso
name: Schulze-Halberg, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the confluent version of the quantum-mechanical supersymmetry (SUSY) formalism for the Dirac equation with a pseudoscalar potential. Application of the formalism to spectral problems is discussed, regularity conditions for the transformed potentials are derived, and normalizability of the transformed solutions is established. Our findings extend and complement former results.
SCI-BUS D5.2 Use-cases specification document
Creators: name: Takacs, Eva
name: Sciacca, Eva
name: Tuomisto, Julius
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this deliverable is to identify the main use cases for the gateway itself and for each scientific gateway on which the test specifications are created. These test specifications are the basis of acceptance test implementations.
title:  Bloch e il criticismo
Creators: name: Rampinini ,  Federico
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Questo studio pone l’attenzione sul rapporto che Bloch instaura con gli scritti kantiani del periodo critico. Gli studiosi hanno più volte messo in luce l’apprezzamento di Bloch per la filosofia pratica e il Sollen kantiano, considerato come un impulso alla trasformazione utopica, da contrapporsi all’immobilismo che può scaturire dal panlogismo hegeliano. Tuttavia, grazie all’analisi delle lezioni tenute a Leipzig, è possibile precisare questo rapporto, e rilevare come il giudizio di Bloch sull’etica kantiana si faccia, dopo l’adesione al marxismo, più analitico e al contempo più severo. L’unica componente del pensiero kantiano che, nel corso degli anni, continuerà a godere della stima di Bloch è la riflessione sulla storia.
description: B@belonline vol. 5 Ernst Bloch e il principio utopico ieri e oggi
Thermal stability and long term hydrogen/deuterium release from soft to hard amorphous carbon layers analyzed using in-situ Raman spectroscopy. Comparison with Tore Supra deposits
Creators: name: Pardanaud, C.
name: Martin, C.
name: Giacometti, G.
name: Mellet, N.
name: Pégourié, B.
name: Roubin, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal stability of 200 nm thick plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposited a-C:H and a-C:D layers ranging from soft to hard layers has been studied and compared to that of deposits collected on the Tore Supra tokamak plasma facing components by means of in-situ Raman spectroscopy. Linear ramp heating and long term isotherms (from several minutes to 21 days) have been performed and correlations between spectrometric parameters have been found. The information obtained on the sp 2 clustering has been investigated by comparing the G band shift and the 514 nm photon absorption evolution due to the thermal treatment of the layer. The effects of isotopic substitution have also been investigated.
description: appears in Thin Solid Films, Elsevier, 2014
title: Antibody correlates of protection from SARS-CoV-2 reinfection prior to vaccination: a nested case-control within the SIREN study (accepted)
Creators: name: Atti, Ana
name: Insalata, Ferdinando
name: Carr, Edward J
name: Otter, Ashley D
name: Castillo-Olivares, Javier
name: Wu, Mary
name: Harvey, Ruth
name: Howell, Michael
name: Chan, Andrew
name: Lyall, Jonathan
name: Temperton, Nigel J.
name: Cantoni, Diego
name: da Costa, Kelly
name: Nadesalingam, Angalee
name: Taylor-Kerr, Andrew
name: Hettiarachchi, Nipunadi
name: Tranquillini, Caio
name: Hewson, Jacqueline
name: Cole, Michelle J
name: Foulkes, Sarah
name: Munro, Katie
name: Monk, Edward J M
name: Milligan, Iain D
name: Linley, Ezra
name: Chand, Meera A
name: Brown, Colin S
name: Islam, Jasmin
name: Semper, Amanda
name: Charlett, Andre
name: Heeney, Jonathan L
name: Beale, Rupert
name: Zambon, Maria
name: Hopkins, Susan
name: Brooks, Tim
name: Hall, Victoria
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: Objectives: To investigate serological differences between SARS-CoV-2 reinfection cases and contemporary controls, to identify antibody correlates of protection against reinfection. Methods: We performed a case-control study, comparing reinfection cases with singly infected individuals pre-vaccination, matched by gender, age, region and timing of first infection. Serum samples were tested for anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike (anti-S), anti-SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (anti-N), live virus microneutralisation (LV-N) and pseudovirus microneutralisation (PV-N). Results were analysed using fixed effect linear regression and fitted into conditional logistic regression models. Results: We identified 23 cases and 92 controls. First infections occurred before November 2020; reinfections occurred before February 2021, pre-vaccination. Anti-S levels, LV-N and PV-N titres were significantly lower among cases; no difference was found for anti-N levels. Increasing anti-S levels were associated with reduced risk of reinfection (OR 0•63, CI 0•47-0•85), but no association for anti-N levels (OR 0•88, CI 0•73-1•05). Titres >40 were correlated with protection against reinfection for LV-N Wuhan (OR 0•02, CI 0•001-0•31) and LV-N Alpha (OR 0•07, CI 0•009-0•62). For PV-N, titres >100 were associated with protection against Wuhan (OR 0•14, CI 0•03-0•64) and Alpha (0•06, CI 0•008-0•40). Conclusions: Before vaccination, protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection was directly correlated with anti-S levels, PV-N and LV-N titres, but not with anti-N levels. Detectable LV-N titres were sufficient for protection, whilst PV-N titres >100 were required for a protective effect.
description: Author's Accepted Manuscript
title:  Il circolo e l’origineLa questione del significato e delle categorie nella Habilitationsschriftdi Martin Heidegger
Creators: name:  Valdarchi  ,  Matteo
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Partendo dalla domanda centrale del giovane Heidegger (“come elaborare un sistema di categorie rilevanti per la vita storica?”), l’articolo intende gettare luce su uno scritto ben noto ma poco studiato, in cui questa domanda trova una elaborazione e sviluppo originale: la tesi di abilitazione di Heidegger Die Kategorien- und Bedeutungslehre des Duns Scotus (La dottrina delle categorie e del significato di Duns Scoto). Essa contiene la prima proposta autonoma di sviluppo concettuale del giovane filosofo tedesco, e pone le basi per il progetto che, a partire dal Kriegsnotsemester del 1919, prenderà il nome di “scienza originaria” della vita. Vale quindi la pena di indagare questo testo giovanile, che non si limita a ripetere i risultati dei maestri (come, ad esempio, La dottrina del giudizio nello psicologismo), ma apre nuovi scenari di riflessione, non ultimo l'appropriazione originale della fenomenologia husserliana da parte del giovane Heidegger.
description: B@belonline vol. 5 Ernst Bloch e il principio utopico ieri e oggi
Estimation of Groundwater Conservation Values
Creators: name: Shin, Hiojung
name: Shin, Hiojung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: double bounded contingent valuation
subject: groundwater
subject: conservation value

description: The purpose of this research is to estimate the conservation values of Jeju groundwater by using the double bounded contingent valuation (DBCV) method, which is one of main methodologies to tackle non-use values of public goods. Jeju groundwater has been at the center of dispute over its development and conservation in recent years. The Samdasoo company, which extracts groundwater from Jeju Island and which occupies over 40% market share of the domestic water market, has a plan to expand the amount of groundwater extraction, while the conservation side continuously points out that the conservation value of Jeju groundwater is also as important as its market value now. With respect to this issue, the Dong-seo Research Group conducted a face-to-face survey (DBCV questionnaire) of 600 Jeju residents from July 13 to August 5, 2010. The result of the one-off conservation fund payment mechanism applied here found that the amount of additional WTP is ￦11,023 on average per household. The expanded total conservation benefit to all 219,771 households in Jeju is about ￦2.4billion. The result shows that ￦11,023 of WTP is at the equivalent level to its use value, the monthly tap water cost of ￦12,530 per household in 2008, and that the benefit of conserving groundwater in Jeju is no less than the present market value.
On the Roles of Escape Erosion and the Relaxation of Craters on Pluto
Creators: name: Stern, S. Alan
name: Porter, Simon
name: Zangari, Amanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pluto and its satellites will be the most distant objects ever reconnoitered when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducts its intensive flyby of this system in 2015. The size-frequency distribution (SFD) of craters on the surfaces in the Pluto system have long been expected to provide a useful measure of the size distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) down to much smaller size scales than presently observed. However, currently predicted escape rates of Pluto's atmosphere suggest that of order one-half to several kilometers of nitrogen ice has been removed from Pluto's surface over geologic time. Because this range of depths is comparable to or greater than most expected crater depths on Pluto, one might expect that many craters on Pluto's surface may have been removed or degraded by this process, biasing the observed crater SFD relative to the production-function crater SFD. Further, if Pluto's surface volatile layer is comparable to or deeper than crater depths, and if the viscosity of this layer surface ice is low like the viscosity of pure N2 ice at Pluto's measured 35 K surface temperature (or as low as the viscosity of CH4 ice at warmer but plausible temperatures on isolated pure-CH4 surfaces on Pluto), then craters on Pluto may also have significantly viscously relaxed, also potentially biasing the observed crater SFD and surface crater retention age. Here we make a first exploration of how these processes can affect the displayed cratering record on Pluto. We find that Pluto's surface may appear to be younger owing to these effects than it actually is. We also find that by comparing Pluto's cratering record to Charon's, it may be possible to estimate the total loss depth of material from Pluto's surface over geologic time, and therefore to estimate Pluto's time-averaged escape rate.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Icarus
Supplemental materials for "Magnetofossils and benthic foraminifera record changes in food supply and deoxygenation of the coastal marine seafloor during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum" by Wagner, Stassen, et al.
Creators: name: Wagner, Courtney
name: Stassen, Peter
name: Thomas, Ellen
name: Lippert, Peter
name: Lascu, Ioan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 40406 Magnetism and Palaeomagnetism
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40305 Marine Geoscience
subject: Paleoclimatology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)

description: Here are the supplemental materials for "Magnetofossils and benthic foraminifera record changes in food supply and deoxygenation of the coastal marine seafloor during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum" by authors Wagner, Stassen, Thomas, Lippert, and Lascu. These materials include supplemental Word and Excel files.
BIGG: The need for harmonizing input data and AI Toolbox revolution in context of smart building management
Creators: name: Sampath Mukherjee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: big data
artificial intelligence
ontology
standardization
interoperability
data analytics
machine learning
IoT
BEMS

description: In December 2020, the BIGG project (Building Information aGGregation, harmonization, and analytics platform) was launched to demonstrate the utilization of big data technologies and data analytic techniques on buildings's life cycle in over 4,000 buildings across six different pilot testbeds, located in Spain (Catalonia Province) and Greece (Athens, Volos, and Thessaloniki). 
However, proper implementation of new technologies on big data needs standardization of input data coming from different sources. The uniqueness of the BIGG concept lies in its creation and utilization of a distinctive Ontology. This Ontology is designed to facilitate semantic interoperability of data and empower big data analytics within buildings. In this article we will explore the aim, advantages and key components of the harmonization layer of BIGG.
After harmonizing the input data, a data analytics framework is envisioned to seamlessly incorporates state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods and decision support tools, facilitating the analysis of high-quality, anonymized, and interoperable building-related data gathered within the project. In order to achieve that, several innovative technologies/algorithm have emerged and are collectively named as the AI Toolbox for Buildings (AITB). This article delves into the origin, principles, and transformative potential of the AITB in driving energy efficiency and sustainability in the building sector. The AITB was conceived with a clear vision - to develop practical solutions tailored to the unique characteristics of building data. It emerged from a problem-based methodology, where applications became the starting point for the toolbox's development. Collaboration with key stakeholders in the energy sector, played a pivotal role in identifying specific energy-saving challenges and designing AI tools to address them effectively.
SCI-BUS D8.2 Application-specific gateways, developed in the first release
Creators: name: Kunszt Peter
name: Tuomisto Julius
name: Ferhat, Kaya
name: Eva, Sciacca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: The main objective of WP8 (JRA2) is to develop the application-specific gateways based on the generic gateway technology provided by JRA1. The gateways will be deployed and operated by WP4 (SA1). This deliverable reports on the development of the first release of the application-specific gateways. Deliverable D8.1 is the actual software and documentation of the developed gateways.
The isoperimetric problem of a complete Riemannian manifolds with a finite number of $C^0$-asymptotically Schwarzschild ends
Creators: name: Flores, Abraham Henrique Muñoz
name: Nardulli, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49Q20, 58E99, 53A10, 49Q05

description: We study the problem of existence of isoperimetric regions for large volumes, in $C^0$-locally asymptotically Euclidean Riemannian manifolds with a finite number of $C^0$-asymptotically Schwarzschild ends. Then we give a geometric characterization of these isoperimetric regions, extending previous results contained in [EM13b], [EM13a], and [BE13]. Moreover strengthening a little bit the speed of convergence to the Schwarzschild metric we obtain existence of isoperimetric regions for all volumes for a class of manifolds that we named $C^0$-strongly asymptotic Schwarzschild, extending results of [BE13]. Such results are of interest in the field of mathematical general relativity.
description: Revised version, 23 pages, 6 figures
Chiral Mirror-Baryon-Meson Model and Nuclear Matter beyond Mean-Field
Creators: name: Weyrich, Johannes
name: Strodthoff, Nils
name: von Smekal, Lorenz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a chiral baryon-meson model for nucleons and their parity partners in mirror assignment interacting with pions, sigma and omega mesons to describe the liquid-gas transition of nuclear matter together with chiral symmetry restoration in the high density phase. Within the mean-field approximation the model is known to provide a phenomenologically successful description of the nuclear-matter transition. Here, we go beyond this approximation and include mesonic fluctuations by means of the functional renormalization group. While these fluctuations do not lead to major qualitative changes in the phase diagram of the model, beyond mean-field, one is no-longer free to adjust the parameters so as to reproduce the binding energy per nucleon, the nuclear saturation density, and the nucleon sigma term all at the same time. However, the prediction of a clear first-order chiral transition at low temperatures inside the high baryon-density phase appears to be robust.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
Flat band analogues and flux driven extended electronic states in a class of geometrically frustrated fractal networks
Creators: name: Nandy, Atanu
name: Pal, Biplab
name: Chakrabarti, Arunava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate, by explicit construction, that a single band tight binding Hamiltonian defined on a class of deterministic fractals of the b = 3N Sierpinski type can give rise to an infinity of dispersionless, flat-band like states which can be worked out analytically using the scale invariance of the underlying lattice. The states are localized over clusters of increasing sizes, displaying the existence of a multitude of localization areas. The onset of localization can, in principle, be delayed in space by an appropriate choice of the energy of the electron. A uniform magnetic field threading the elementary plaquettes of the network is shown to destroy this staggered localization and generate absolutely continuous sub-bands in the energy spectrum of these non-translationally invariant networks.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, 1 Table
Flintknapping and measuring: A protocol for evaluating quality in knappable raw materials through quantitative values of fragility and homogeneity
Creators: name: Felipe Cuartero
name: Javier Llamazares Gonzalez
name: Jesus Rodriguez
name: Maria Isabel Sarró
name: Marina Martinez de Pinillos
name: Mohamed Sahnouni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: flintknapping; raw materials; microscopy; Testing Machine

description: In this poster we present a protocol developed at CENIEH (Burgos, Spain) for the description under quantitative values of several features that affect to the quality of the raw materials used in flintknapping during Prehistoric times. The quality of several rocks as obsidian, opal, flint, chert and quartzite are examinated under flintknapping experiments and compared by devices as an Olympus DSX1000 3D digital microscope, a Leeb D scale durometer, and a Universal Testing Machine Shimadzu AGS-X 100 kN.
Recensione: GIOVANNI MARGINESU, Il costo del Partenone. Appalti e affari dell’arte greca, Salerno Editrice, 2020
Creators: name: D'Aco, Domenico
Publisher: name: LANX. Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia - Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: Il saggio di Giovanni Marginesu segna una novità nella ricerca relativa all’economia dell’antica Grecia. L’autore fonde nel testo la storia dell’arte, i più recenti studi economici, le prospettive epigrafiche e le testimonianze degli scrittori antichi. Il libro sintetizza la storia dell’arte antica, dall’età arcaica fino alla caduta dell’Impero romano, con un occhio di riguardo alla fase classica. Il focus principale è infatti indirizzato verso Atene. Il cantiere dell’Acropoli nell’età di Pericle è fase paradigmatica e ricca di testimonianze. I costi e le quotazioni relative ai principali edifici sacri della rocca, al Partenone, alla statua della Parthenos e ai Propilei non restano semplici dati e cifre. L’indagine si amplia, infatti, ai retroscena dei rapporti tra committenti e artisti, all’importanza del mercato dell’arte nel mondo antico, alle dinamiche di impiego e tesaurizzazione dei fondi delle poleis nei complessi architettonici, statue e quadri, alle conseguenze della conquista romana della Grecia sulla percezione e sul valore dei capolavori dell’arte e dell’artigianato ellenici.
description: LANX. Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia - Università degli Studi di Milano, N. 28 (2020)
title: Ortung von Schienenfahrzeugen und Kartierung von Bahntrassen unter Ausnutzung geometrischer Trassierungselemente
Creators: name: Winter, Hanno
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: Die sichere Durchführung von Zugfahrten ist aufgrund der langen Bremswege im Schienenverkehr nur mit einem technischen Sicherungssystem möglich. Eine zentrale Rolle bei der Sicherung kommt der Ortung der Schienenfahrzeuge zu. Die momentan etablierten Ortungssysteme arbeiten mit streckenseitig installierten Sensoren und haben sich seit Jahrzehnten bewährt, allerdings erschweren sie eine kapazitätsoptimale und gleichzeitig wirtschaftliche Nutzung des Schienennetzes. Deswegen wird aktuell an neuen Ortungsverfahren geforscht, die eine deutlich effizientere und flexiblere Nutzung des Schienennetzes erlauben. Vor allem bordautonome Ortungssysteme, bei denen die Ortung direkt auf dem Schienenfahrzeug stattfindet, gelten als ein vielversprechender Kandidat, dieses Ziel zu erreichen. Eine der größten Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung dieser sind die hohen Anforderungen an die zu erreichende Genauigkeit und Verfügbarkeit der Ortungslösung. Es muss permanent eine Genauigkeit von ±1,5 m erreicht werden, damit stets zwischen zwei parallel verlaufenden Gleisen unterschieden werden kann. Momentan existiert noch kein System, das diese Anforderungen dauerhaft erfüllen kann. Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich deswegen mit der Entwicklung einer bordautonomen Ortungslösung für Schienenfahrzeuge, basierend auf den Messdaten von IMU und GPS, die diese Anforderungen möglichst lange einhalten soll. Außerdem wird aufbauend auf der Ortungslösung eine Methode zur Erzeugung von Streckenkarten vorgestellt. Die Ortungslösung wird durch einen Filter berechnet, der die Sensordaten in zwei Stufen zu einer Ortungslösung fusioniert. In der ersten Stufe wird die aktuell befahrene Gleisgeoemetrie identifiziert und in der zweiten Stufe wird mit diesem Zusatzwissen eine verbesserte Ortungslösung berechnet. Auf diese Weise kann vor allem das Ortungsergebnis in Gleis-Querrichtung verbessert werden, wodurch die Verfügbarkeit einer gleisgenauen Ortungslösung gesteigert werden kann. Eine Möglichkeit zur weiteren Verbesserung des Ortungsergebnisses bietet die Integration einer Streckenkarte in den Ortungsfilter. Da geeignete Streckenkarten jedoch noch nicht flächendeckend zur Verfügung stehen, wird neben dem Ortungsfilter auch eine Methode zur Erzeugung von Streckenkarten vorgestellt, die auf den Ergebnissen des Ortungsfilters beruhen. Beide Ansätze werden mithilfe von realen Messdaten evaluiert, die im Rahmen von drei Messkampagnen aufgenommen und veröffentlicht wurden.
Solving the inhomogeneous Bethe-Salpeter Equation in Minkowski space: the zero-energy limit
Creators: name: Frederico, T.
name: Salme', G.
name: Viviani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time, the inhomogeneous Bethe-Salpeter Equation for an interacting system, composed by two massive scalars exchanging a massive scalar, is numerically investigated in ladder approximation, directly in Minkowski space, by using an approach based on the Nakanishi integral representation. In this paper, the limiting case of zero-energy states is considered, extending the approach successfully applied to bound states. The numerical values of scattering lengths, are calculated for several values of the Yukawa coupling constant, by using two different integral equations that stem within the Nakanishi framework. Those low-energy observables are compared with (i) the analogous quantities recently obtained in literature, within a totally different framework and (ii) the non relativistic evaluations, for illustrating the relevance of a non perturbative, genuine field theoretical treatment in Minkowski space, even in the low-energy regime. Moreover, dynamical functions, like the Nakanishi weight functions and the distorted part of the zero-energy Light-front wave functions are also presented. Interestingly, a highly non trivial issue related to the abrupt change in the width of the support of the Nakanishi weight function, when the zero-energy limit is approached, is elucidated, ensuring a sound basis to the forthcoming evaluation of phase-shifts.
description: 23 pages and 4 figures. Minor changes in the abstract, typos fixed and added a figure. Submitted for publication
title: Handling Non-detects with Imputation in a Nested Design: A Simulation Study
Creators: name: Adjei, Rose
name: Stevens, John R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, a simulation study was conducted to assess whether it is ideal to address the issue of non-detects in data using a traditional substitution approach for non-detects, imputation, or a non-imputation based approach. Simulated data used were simple nested designs motivated by a real-life data in a study of bumble bee activity in a commercial cherry orchard by Kuivila et al. (2021). The simulated data were generated at different thresholds or censoring levels and at different effect sizes. For each simulated data, seven popular existing techniques to handle non-detects were applied: (i) Zero substitution, (ii) Substitution with half Limit of Detection (LOD/2), (iii) Substitution with LOD/√ 2, (iv) Multiple Imputation (MI), (v) Regression on Order Statistics (ROS) (Imputation approach), and (vi) Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) (likelihood estimation approach) and (vii) Kaplan-Meier (KM). Multiple Imputation (MI) was not applicable as the design of the simulated data violated the assumption of having a multivariate distribution. By comparative analysis of the simulated data, substituting with LOD/2 seemed appropriate for the design simulated, as it outperformed the other techniques (i.e ROS, MLE, KM, LOD/√ 2, and zero substitution) by yielding a lower Type I error, lower bias, and a better power across increasing effect sizes.
Income Inequality and Poverty Reduction Effects of Transfer Income: A Comparative Analysis of Farm and Forestry Household
Creators: name: Kang, Sungho
name: Kang, Sungho
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: income transfer program
subject: income inequality
subject: poverty reduction effects

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of transfer income system in Korea, in terms of income inequality and poverty reduction effects. Using ‘Family income and expenditure survey’, ‘Farm household economy survey’, and ‘Forestry household Economy Survey’, this study estimates poverty ratio and Gini-coefficients as the main indicators of the effectiveness. Main findings of the research are as follows: first, poverty ratio of farm household and forestry household is higher than general household's poverty ratio. Secondly, the poverty reduction effects of public transfer programs are the highest in farm household, forestry household, and general household. And commonly, as age is getting higher, the poverty reduction effects of public transfer programs are higher. And the poverty reduction effects of private transfer are higher than public transfer programs in only general household. These results suggest that the poverty reduction effects of public transfer programs will be higher if we include farm and forestry household. And based on these results, it is needed to supplement elder's income support system for farm and forestry household.
title: Random Regression for Modeling Semen Fertility in HF Purebred and Crossbred Bulls Using a Bayesian Framework
Creators: name: Ambike, Vrinda
name: Venkataramanan, R.
name: Karthickeyan, S. M. K.
name: Tirumurugaan, K. G.
name: Bhave, Kaustubh
name: Swaminathan, M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Data on insemination records of Holstein Friesian (HF) purebred (n=45,497) and crossbred (n=58,497) collected from the BAIF Research Foundation were utilized. The conception rate was modeled as a binary trait, using linear repeatability models. Random regression models (RRM) were used to obtain the trajectory of variance components across age of the bulls. Legendre Polynomials up to order of fit of 4 were used for the random effects of additive genetic and permanent environmental effects. 200,000 Gibbs samples were generated with a burn-in of 20,000 and thinning interval of 50 using the THRGIBBS1F90 program. Heritability estimates were very low (0.1) in both breeds but peaked at the extreme ages. Heritability and repeatability estimates ranged between 0.038 (8 years) to 0.627 (10 years) and 0.060 to 0.809 respectively in purebreds. Narrower ranges of 0.010 (4 years) to 0.087 (11 years) and 0.532 to 0.832 for heritability and repeatability respectively, were obtained in crossbreds. Effect of permanent environment was low in purebreds compared to the crossbreds. The study using RRM was able to provide genetic parameter estimates of fertility for all ages throughout the productive lifespan of bulls.
The flavin reductase ActVB from Streptomyces coelicolor: characterization of the electron transferase activity of the flavoprotein form
Creators: name: Filisetti, Laurent
name: Valton, Julien
name: Fontecave, Marc
name: Nivière, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The flavin reductase ActVB is involved in the last step of actinorhodin biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor. Although ActVB can be isolated with some FMN bound, this form was not involved in the flavin reductase activity. By studying the ferric reductase activity of ActVB, we show that its FMN-bound form exhibits a proper enzymatic activity of reduction of iron complexes by NADH. This shows that ActVB active site exhibits a dual property with regard to the FMN. It can use it as a substrate that goes in and off the active site or as a cofactor to provide an electron transferase activity to the polypeptide.
AI technology: what it is and what it's not, and how it can (potentially) help us solve the climate crisis
Creators: name: Hengl, T.
name: Consoli, D.
name: Bagić, M.
name: Brocca, L.
name: Herold, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Artificial intelligence
Machine Learning
Climate crisis
Consciousness

description: AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology, with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (the fastest growing app ever) and similar, is now a buzz: a new technological jump of the human race, but potentially a Pandora box for information manipulation and misuse. AI could soon replace thousands of jobs and revolutionize how we travel (self-driving cars), purchase items, do admin/office work, communicate with computers (and people), but also how governments fight wars and control people. AI is making a lot of people enthusiastic, but even more nervous. We review the potentials and perils of AI tech; how it can also help us with extremely important things such as solving the climate crisis and better monitoring and conservation of natural resources. Links and references are extensive and hopefully will motivate you to read more on the topic.
SCI-BUS D8.4 Application-specific gateways, developed in the second release
Creators: name: Kunszt Peter
name: Takacs Eva
name: Becciani Ugo
name: Eva, Sciacca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: The main objective of WP8 (JRA2) is to develop the application-specific gateways based on the generic gateway technology provided by WP7 (JRA1). The gateways are deployed and operated by WP4 (SA1). This deliverable reports on the development of the second release of the application-specific gateways, based on the experience with the first release and on user requests.