cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leaving the public sector for a new private venture - creating context from a gender perspective
Creators: name: Kurvinen, Jaana
name: Brunaker, Svante
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper deals with the issue of entrepreneurship and new venture creation. More specifically, it is about women, who have left their jobs in the public sector and started a new venture within the same professional field as their former employment. We perceive leaving a job in the public sector and starting a new venture as an entrepreneurial act in the sense that the norms and values of the public sector do not always support local initiatives. Previous research has shown that the received view of entrepreneurship and gender has a tendency to recreate women's subordination. Even attempts to apply a gender perspective contain the potential hazard of recreating what we want to challenge. The question then arises if it is at all possible to approach entrepreneurship and gender without recreating the received view in the field. Our conclusion is that by acknowledging the fact that there are multiple narratives to be told, there are also several ways to contribute to our knowledge about entrepreneurship and gender. The intention here is to widen the concept of entrepreneurship to also include nuances that otherwise run the risk of being neglected. The theoretical basis is a discussion about the ways that norms and conceptions of entrepreneurship affect women who are entrepreneurs, how they perceive their roles as entrepreneurs considering that entrepreneurship is a male gendered concept (Ogbor, 2000). The subordinate position in society of women who are business owners, is recreated by means of various strategies, such as ignoring similarities and exaggerating differences between women and men. Another strategy is to describe women who are entrepreneurs as exceptions; e.g. they are not like women in general. They are different in some way. Yet another practice is to distinguish between 'typical' and 'extraordinary' women who run their own businesses. The typical ones are women with small businesses that make small profits in industries traditionally occupied by women. The extraordinary ones - and hence untypical - direct profitable enterprises in industries traditionally occupied by men, which is what is generally thought of as typical businesses. (Ahl, 2002) However, several studies suggest that there are more similarities than differences between sexes considering personality and psychological factors (e.g. Sexton and Bowman-Upton 1990/2006), or that differences are caused by business and industry choices (Holmquist and Sundin 2002).
Workplace-Based Organizational Interventions Promoting Mental Health and Happiness among Healthcare Workers: A Realist Review
Creators: name: Gray, Patricia
name: Senabe, Sipho
name: Naicker, Nisha
name: Kgalamono, Spo
name: Yassi, Annalee
name: Spiegel, Jerry M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Mental illness, deemed globally to account for 32% of years lived with a disability, generates significant impacts on workplaces. In particular, healthcare workers experience high rates of mental ill health such as burnout, stress, and depression due to workplace conditions including excessive workloads, workplace violence and bullying, which also produces negative effects on patients as well as on the happiness and wellbeing of those who remain at work. This review was undertaken to synthesize the evidence on workplace-based interventions at the organizational level promoting mental health and wellbeing among healthcare workers, to identify what has been receiving attention in this area and why, especially considering how such positive effects are produced. A search of three premier health-related databases identified 1290 articles that discussed healthcare workers, workplace interventions, and mental health. Following further examination, 46 articles were ultimately selected as meeting the criteria specifying interventions at the organizational level and combined with similar studies included in a relevant Cochrane review. The 60 chosen articles were then analyzed following a realist framework analyzing context, mechanism, and outcome. Most of the studies included in the realist review were conducted in high-income countries, and the types of organizational-level interventions studied included skills and knowledge development, leadership development, communication and team building, stress management as well as workload and time management. Common themes from the realist review highlight the importance of employee engagement in the intervention development and implementation process. The literature review also supports the recognized need for more research on mental health and happiness in low- and middle-income countries, and for studies evaluating the longer-term effects of workplace mental health promotion.
Photometric redshifts for the Kilo-Degree Survey: Machine-learning analysis with artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Bilicki, M.
name: Hoekstra, H.
name: Brown, M. J.I.
name: Amaro, V.
name: Blake, Chris
name: Cavuoti, S.
name: De Jong, J. T.A.
name: Georgiou, C.
name: Hildebrandt, H.
name: Wolf, C.
name: Amon, A.
name: Brescia, M.
name: Brough, S.
name: Costa-Duarte, M. V.
name: Erben, T.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Grado, A.
name: Heymans, C.
name: Jarrett, T.
name: Joudaki, Shahab
name: Kuijken, K.
name: Longo, G.
name: Napolitano, N.
name: Parkinson, D.
name: Vellucci, C.
name: Verdoes Kleijn, G. A.
name: Wang, L.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a machine-learning photometric redshift (ML photo-z) analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey Data Release 3 (KiDS DR3), using two neural-network based techniques: ANNz2 and MLPQNA. Despite limited coverage of spectroscopic training sets, these ML codes provide photo-zs of quality comparable to, if not better than, those from the Bayesian Photometric Redshift (BPZ) code, at least up to zphot ≲ 0:9 and ≲ 23:5. At the bright end of r ≲ 20, where very complete spectroscopic data overlapping with KiDS are available, the performance of the ML photo-zs clearly surpasses that of BPZ, currently the primary photo-z method for KiDS. Using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) spectroscopic survey as calibration, we furthermore study how photo-zs improve for bright sources when photometric parameters additional to magnitudes are included in the photo-z derivation, as well as when VIKING and WISE infrared (IR) bands are added. While the fiducial four-band ugri setup gives a photo-z bias 〈δz/(1 + z)〉 = -2 × 10-4 and scatter σδz/(1+z) < 0:022 at mean 〈z〉 = 0.23, combining magnitudes, colours, and galaxy sizes reduces the scatter by ∼7% and the bias by an order of magnitude. Once the ugri and IR magnitudes are joined into 12-band photometry spanning up to 12 μm, the scatter decreases by more than 10% over the fiducial case. Finally, using the 12 bands together with optical colours and linear sizes gives 〈δz/(1 + z)〉 < 4 × 10-5 and σδz=(1+z) < 0:019. This paper also serves as a reference for two public photo-z catalogues accompanying KiDS DR3, both obtained using the ANNz2 code. The first one, of general purpose, includes all the 39 million KiDS sources with four-band ugri measurements in DR3. The second dataset, optimised for low-redshift studies such as galaxy-galaxy lensing, is limited to ≲ 20, and provides photo-zs of much better quality than in the full-depth case thanks to incorporating optical magnitudes, colours, and sizes in the GAMA-calibrated photo-z derivation. ESO 2018.
Design, synthesis, and applications of novel phenyl/acetylenic cyclophanes.
Creators: name: Collins, Shawn K.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: The synthesis of a novel family of acetylenic cyclophanes via Pd, Cu and Zn catalyzed cross-coupling reactions is described. The cyclophanes were constructed in good yields and X-ray crystal analysis revealed a twisted helical geometry. The nature of the geometry and the ability to complex solvent molecules within the lattice varied upon the number of acetylenic linkages present. Functionalized cyclophanes bearing long alkyl chains based on the helical structures 191 and 213 were also synthesized with potential as novel liquid crystals. Cyclophane 280 showed LC-like behavior when melting was observed under a polarized light microscope. Intramolecular cyclization of paracyclophanes was observed and resulted in cyclophanes, 192 and 203. X-ray crystallographic analysis of the carboxylic acid derivative, 203 revealed the strained nature of the butadiyne bridge. The triple bonds were distorted with bond angles of 163.7° and 163.5°. A novel method for the synthesis of diynes and tetraynes using an in situ desilylation/dimerization procedure was developed but was unsuccessful in producing linear hexaynes. Attempted dimerization of 281 for the synthesis of 282 failed due to a competing intramolecular producing 283. Derivative 307 revealed another highly strained butadiyne bridge possessing bond angles of 164.1° and 153.4°. Metacyclophanes with a termini separation of approximately between 7.8 and 10 A did not undergo intramolecular cyclization. A sequential coupling procedure involving a double dimerization of acetylenes produced traces of the desired cyclophane 282 and no competing intramolecular cyclization products were observed. Progress towards 327, a structural isomer of 282, using an alternative sequential coupling protocol involving a double Sonogashira cyclization is detailed. Attempts to prepare acetylenic cyclophanes bearing metaphenyl/acetylene linkages are described. Initial investigations into the incorporation of thiophenes to acetylenic cyclophanes were thwarted by the instability of the precursor, 372.* *Please refer to dissertation for diagram.
The role of IAA and its transport in the complex streptophyte algae Chara braunii
Creators: name: Kurtović, Katarina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This dataset includes the raw images and videos for the article "The role of IAA and its transport in the complex streptophyte algae Chara braunii".

 
description: Katarina Kurtović1, Stanislav Vosolsobě1 *, Daniel Nedvěd1,2, Karel Müller2, Petre Dobrev2, Vojtěch Schmidt1,2, Piotr Piszczek3, Andre Kuhn4,5, Adrijana Smoljan6, Tom J. Fisher7,8, Dolf Weijers4, Jiří Friml6, John L. Bowman7,8 and Jan Petrášek2

1 Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 5, 128 44 Prague 2, Czech Republic

2 Laboratory of Hormonal Regulations in Plants, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 263, 165 02 Prague 6, Czech Republic

3 Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383 Wroclaw, Poland

4 Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen, the Netherlands

5 Present address: Department of Plant Cell Biology, Green Life Sciences Cluster, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098XH, the Netherlands

6 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria

7 School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia

8 ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia

* Corresponding author

Stanislav Vosolsobě, vosolsob@natur.cuni.cz
From the geometry of pre-existing to the construction knowledge: an updated recovery from BIM
Dalla geometria delle preesistenze alla conoscenza della costruzione: un’esperienza di recupero aggiornata dalla metodologia BIM
Creators: name: Lo Turco, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
geometry; renovation; survey; design; BIM; laser scanner
geometria; recupero; rilievo; progetto; BIM; laser scanner

description: Lexically, the verb  to construct means to reorder the individual parts of the operation following  grammatical and logical connections, linking and arranging  them according to the rules and the use of language. Similarly, today's BIM have the capability to develop projects by following the rules of good constructor, and a precise control of geometry and of the different representations types. It will be also analyzed  the renewed relationship between Survey and Design, in a particularly fertile background in which  Geometry is investigated in its versatile properties and Drawing plays a role of greater visibility and effective relevance.
description: Il termine costruire (lessicalmente) equivale a riordinare le singole parti dell’operazione secondo il nesso logico e grammaticale; ed altresì disporle e collegarle secondo le regole e l’uso della lingua. Analogamente gli odierni strumenti BIM possiedono nelle loro corde sia una riconoscibile capacità di sviluppare progetti seguendo le regole del buon costruire, sia un puntuale controllo della geometria da cui derivano le molteplici rappresentazioni di tipo grafo-numerico. Ci si interrogherà inoltre sul rinnovato rapporto tra Rilievo e Progetto, in un ambiente particolarmente fertile ove la Geometria è indagata nelle sue poliedriche proprietà e al Disegno è affidato un ruolo di maggiore visibilità e di effettiva rilevanza.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, n. 9 (2012) - Geometria - Costruzione - Architettura, a cura di Riccardo Migliari; 227 - 234
Operational (in-field) calibration methodology of video quality evaluation of MPEG2 compressed data for broadcast.
Creators: name: Hassan, Husam R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This Thesis discusses the different techniques used in subjective and objective measurement for MPEG-2 compressed video for broadcast according to the ITU-R BT-500 recommendation for both world standards ATSC and DVB. The technique for subjective/objective quality correlation described in ITU recommendations and VQEG work [VQEG00] for Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale (DSCQS) & Single Stimulus Continuous Quality Evaluation (SSCQE) is used to generalize an application for In-Field operational calibration standard of subjective/objective digital video evaluation for TV network and broadcast stations. A practical experiment for validating the correlation between the subjective evaluations of some MPEG2 coded streams vs. the objective measurement obtained using the IFN/Rohde & Schwarz single stimulus blockiness measurement algorithm is realized, demonstrating the correlation to other measurements and the ease and applicability to perform this in the field.
Conjugated geometries
Geometrie coniugate
Creators: name: Paris, Leonardo; Università La Sapienza Di Roma
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
conjugated geometries; descriptive geometry; gears; curves; surfaces; 3D modelling
geometrie coniugate; geometria descrittiva; ingranaggi; curve; superfici; modellazione informatica

description: The study of the gears is based on the conjugated geometries in which two curves or two surfaces are maintained in constant contact even if in mutual movement. The geometric theory of the gears until the end of the nineteenth century was one of many branches in the applications of descriptive geometry. The study is based on knowledge of the main properties of plane curves and humps and their derivatives. The specificity of the theme is that these geometries when you have to relate with their conjugated, must meet the constraints that would otherwise not have. We want to highlight through case studies the role of descriptive geometry in the transition from the theoretical to the practical reinventing key information, issues and procedures of investigation often passed into the background if not forgotten.
description: Lo studio degli ingranaggi si basa sulle geometrie coniugate in cui due curve o due superfici si mantengono costantemente in contatto pur se in movimento reciproco. La teoria geometrica degli ingranaggi fino alla fine del XIX secolo era uno dei molteplici rami nelle applicazioni della Geometria Descrittiva. Lo studio si basa sulla conoscenza delle principali proprietà delle curve piane e gobbe e delle loro derivate. La specificità del tema è che queste geometrie nel momento in cui si devono relazionare con le loro coniugate, devono rispettare dei vincoli che altrimenti non avrebbero. Si vuole evidenziare attraverso casi concreti il ruolo della geometria descrittiva nel passaggio dal teorico al pratico riproponendo in chiave informatica, temi e procedure di indagine spesso passati in secondo piano se non addirittura dimenticati.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, n. 9 (2012) - Geometria - Costruzione - Architettura, a cura di Riccardo Migliari; 235 - 244
A scoping review on post graduate certificates in healthcare.
Creators: name: Oliver, Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 420309
subject: Health management
classificationCode: 420311
subject: Health systems

description: Conducting a scoping review on post graduate certificates in healthcare, aims to identify their current value in enhancing professional development, career advancement, and personal growth. Graduate certificates are perceived to improve clinical practice, boost confidence in research, hone critical thinking and evaluation, providing specialised knowledge tailored to healthcare needs. Furthermore, helping to identify the breadth and depth of existing literature on the topic, highlighting gaps and areas which need further investigation or development.
Evaluation of quality and variety of Indonesian cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
Creators: name: Amarullah
name: Amarullah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Evaluation
subject: Quality
subject: Cassava variety

description: The evaluating cassava varieties for productivity necessary to assess the cassava stem characteristics for their suitability as planting material and to improve the capability of cassava farmers to select good quality cassava varieties. Cassava varieties are generally distinguished from each other by their morphological characteristics, which include leaf, stem and tuber colour. The cassava planting material used in this study and some of characteristics by five cassava varieties, consisted of mature stem cuttings of about 20 cm in length, containing between 10 and 12 nodes and planted in a vertical position along the top of the ridges. Each plot consisted of 30 plants, with date being taken from ten plants within each plot. Cassava varieties Malang-6 presented the highest yield average is 13.81 tones ha-1 followed by Singgah and Adira-4 i.e. 11.98 t ha-1 and 11.11 t ha-1 of different varieties 1 yang Ketan, which only weighs 6.63 t ha-1. Harvest index varieties of Adira-4, Malang-6, UJ 5 and Singgah were found 0.78, 0.77, 0.77 and 0.76, respectively higher and significantly different IP varieties of glutinous Ketan is 0.58. Malang varieties and Malang-6 that produces the highest tuber weight, has a low dry matter content is 5.65% and 5.62%. The Ketan varieties and UJ-5 has a tuber weight was significantly lower with dry matter content higher than that dried 8.69% and 8.68%. The UJ-5 varieties has a tuber weight starch HCN 230,17 higher and significantly other variety.
Pseudorapidity dependence of charged hadron transverse momentum spectra in d+Au collisions at sqrt[SNN]=200 GeV
Creators: name: Back, B. B.
name: Baker, M. D.
name: Ballintijn, M.
name: Barton, D. S.
name: Becker, B.
name: Betts, R. R.
name: Bickley, A. A.
name: Bindel, R.
name: Busza, W.
name: Carroll, A.
name: Decowski, M. P.
name: Garcia, E.
name: Gburek, T.
name: George, N.
name: Gulbrandsen, K.
name: Gushue, S.
name: Halliwell, C.
name: Hamblen, J.
name: Harrington, A. S.
name: Henderson, C.
name: Hofman, D. J.
name: Hollis, R. S.
name: Holynski, R.
name: Holzman, B.
name: Iordanova, A.
name: Johnson, E.
name: Kane, J. L.
name: Khan, N.
name: Kulinich, P.
name: Kuo, C. M.
name: Lee, J. W.
name: Lin, W. T.
name: Manly, S.
name: Mignerey, A. C.
name: Nouicer, R.
name: Olszewski, A.
name: Pak, R.
name: Park, I. C.
name: Pernegger, H.
name: Reed, C.
name: Roland, C.
name: Roland, G.
name: Sagerer, J.
name: Sarin, P.
name: Sedykh, I.
name: Skulski, W.
name: Smith, C. E.
name: Steinberg, P.
name: Stephans, G. S. F.
name: Sukhanov, A.
name: Tonjes, M. B.
name: Trzupek, A.
name: Vale, C.
name: Van Nieuwenhuizen, G. J.
name: Verdier, R.
name: Veres, G. I.
name: Wolfs, F. L. H.
name: Wosiek, B.
name: Wozniak, K.
name: Wyslouch, B.
name: Zhang, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have measured the transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons in d+Au collisions at sqrt sNN = 200 GeV in the range of 0.5 < p_T < 4.0 GeV/c. The total range of pseudorapidity, eta, is 0.2 < eta < 1.4, where positive eta is in the deuteron direction. The data has been divided into three regions of pseudorapidity, covering 0.2 < eta < 0.6, 0.6 < eta < 1.0, and 1.0 < eta < 1.4 and has been compared to charged hadron spectra from p+pbar collisions at the same energy. There is a significant change in the spectral shape as a function of pseudorapidity. As eta increases we see a decrease in the nuclear modification factor RdAu.
Design and Development of a Quote Validation Tool for Arabic Scripts
Creators: name: Alshareef, Abdulrhman
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: verification algorithm
Arabic Scripts
Quote Validation Tool
fundamental text authenticity
e-content credibility
Arabic scripts authenticity

description: Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous development in e-publishing tools. The Arab world tendency towards electronic publishing has facilitated the prosperity of Arabic e-publishing over the Internet. Likewise, it has enabled the ordinary user to deploy documents, letters, opinions, and ideas with freedom and ease of use. Although freedom of expression should be guaranteed to everyone, it may be used to disseminate false or distorted information. This may lead to the loss of ordinary user's confidence in e-content. However, the user's confidence in e-content will increase if the credibility of the content is emphasized. There are many factors that challenge this task including not only the rapidly growth of Arabic digital publishing, the absent from control over electronic content, and the lack of e-publishing regulations and laws, but also how to develop an efficient framework to confirm the digital content authenticity. Therefore, the need to monitor the credibility of Internet content while maintaining freedom of expression to its users has become an urgent matter of debate. A flexible framework needs to be developed that will overcome these issues and allow for a comprehensible and comfortable content validation environment that would satisfy the end users' desires. This thesis proposes a framework that serves to confirm fundamental text authenticity in Arabic scripts on the Internet. This framework will demonstrate the design and the development of new quotes verification algorithm and the necessary components of framework design, development and implementation based on Service Oriented architecture.
The role of descriptive geometry in graphic design
Il ruolo della geometria descrittiva nel graphic design
Creators: name: Chiarenza, Stefano; Università Di Napoli Federico II
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
graphic communication; graphic design. image; projective geometry; descriptive geometry; homological transformations
comunicazione grafica; graphic design; immagine; geometria proiettiva; geometria descrittiva; trasformazioni omologiche

description: Frequently it has been discussed the role of descriptive geometry in the process of analysis and configuration of architecture, recognizing it an unquestioned even in the information age. Less investigated is rather the role of this discipline in the graphic design, a field in which the image is the essence of communication. Then, in the image definition, especially when this must become part of a multi-directional communication the contribution of the geometry seems crucial. This paper, on the basis of the teaching and research experience specifically oriented to graphic design, intends to highlight the deep connections between the structuring of the graphic image (lettering, corporate image, brand image, product image etc.) and the projective and descriptive geometry.
description: Frequentemente si è discusso sul ruolo della geometria descrittiva nel processo di analisi e di configurazione dell’architettura, riconoscendovi un indiscusso valore anche nell’era dell’informatica. Meno indagato appare invece il ruolo di questa disciplina nel campo del graphic design, un settore nel quale l’immagine è essenza della comunicazione.Nella definizione, allora, di una immagine che deve assurgere a ruolo di comunicazione pluridirezionale il contributo della geometria appare sostanziale.Il presente contributo sulla base di una esperienza didattica e di ricerca, specificamente orientata al graphic design, intende mettere in luce i profondi legami tra la strutturazione dell’immagine grafica (lettering, corporate image, brand image, product image etc.) e la geometria proiettiva e descrittiva.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, n. 9 (2012) - Geometria - Costruzione - Architettura, a cura di Riccardo Migliari; 245 - 254
Contemporary architectures of Light
Architetture contemporanee di luce
Creators: name: Liva, Gabriella; IUAV Venezia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
spaces of the perception; light projections; Anthony McCall
spazi della percezione; proiezioni luminose; Anthony McCall

description: Contemporary architecture has made us accustomed to focus our attention on the constructed space that, in its rapid evolution, has been profoundly reconfigured.Today a new kind of architecture is overwhelmingly appearing, generated by installative components closely related to our perception, able to exploit the most sophisticated tools in computing, digital and robotic. Anthony McCall interprets in a personal way, through the projection of light, the basic elements of the descriptive geometry, translating lines, words, thoughts in sculptural spaces not only in the condition of being observed, but also passed through and experienced.
description: L'architettura contemporanea ci ha abituato a focalizzare la nostra attenzione sullo spazio costruito che, nel suo rapido percorso evolutivo, è stato profondamente riconfigurato.Oggi si sta prepotentemente affacciando una nuova architettura, generata da componenti installative strettamente legate alla nostra percezione, in grado di sfruttare gli strumenti più sofisticati nell'ambito informatico, digitale e robotico.Anthony McCall interpreta in maniera del tutto personale, attraverso la proiezione di luce, gli elementi base della geometria descrittiva, traducendo linee, parole, pensieri in spazi scultorei in grado di essere non solo osservati, ma anche attraversati e vissuti.
description: DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, n. 9 (2012) - Geometria - Costruzione - Architettura, a cura di Riccardo Migliari; 261 - 268
New applications of descriptive geometry: PQ meshes in contemporary architecture
Nuove applicazioni della geometria descrittiva: le PQ mesh nell’architettura contemporanea
Creators: name: Baglioni, Leonardo; Università La Sapienza Di Roma
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
descriptive geometry, architectural geometry, discrete differential geometry, free form surfaces, quad mesh, polyhedral, lines of curvature
geometria descrittiva, architectural geometry, geometria differenziale discreta, superfici free-form, mesh quadrilatere, poliedri, linee di curvatura

description: New modeling tools available for designers lead to big changes in the way architecture is done. One of the main application of descriptive Geometry is the approximation of continuous shapes in discrete surfaces called mesh. Every continuous surface can be tessellated in polyhedral surface with planar faces. Designers are becoming interested in quadrilateral planar mesh (PQ mesh) that can hold important offset properties. The study of quad mesh with planar faces in architecture seems to be the natural evolution of the important and ancient subject of polyhedra, brought back to vitality by the development of computers and that affects the entire discipline of descriptive Geometry.
description: I modellatori informatici oggi a disposizione di tutti i progettisti, hanno portato ad un profondo cambiamento dell’intero processo del fare architettura. Tra i nuovi temi delle applicazioni di Geometria descrittiva, va sicuramente annoverato il passaggio della approssimazione delle superfici continue in superfici discrete. Ogni superficie continua può essere discretizzata in una superficie poliedrica composta da facce piane. L’attenzione dei progettisti si sta dirigendo verso le superfici piane quadrilatere (PQ mesh), che permettono la generazione di mesh parallele. Lo studio delle PQ mesh applicate all’architettura sembra essere una naturale evoluzione del grande tema dei poliedri, argomento ampiamente radicato nella storia della matematica e che trova nel computer una linfa vitale che alimenta, oggi più che mai, l’intera area della Geometria descrittiva.
Water Management in Germany
Creators: name: Richter, Simone
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: water
subject: waste water disposal
subject: drinking water
subject: drinking water supply
subject: Wasser
subject: Water

description: In Germany, ensuring water supply is a mandatory duty of the state. Responsibility lies with the municipalities, which can use a range of organisational and legal forms to comply with this duty. Applied to the abstracted water volumes this means that the public water supply abstracted around 5,1 billion cubic meters of water to supply the population with drinking water. Groundwater reserves are the most important source of drinking water. In Germany, ensuring water supply is a mandatory duty of the state. Responsibility lies with the municipalities, which can use a range of organisational and legal forms to comply with this duty. A total of 10 billion cubic meters of waste water was treated in public sewage plants in 2010, almost exclusively through biological waste water treatment.
From rectilinear line to curve: graphic constructions to transform a polyline in a curved line
Da retta a curva: costruzioni grafiche di trasformazione di una retta spezzata in una linea curva
Creators: name: Carpiceci, Marco; Università La Sapienza Di Roma
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
polyline, curve, polar transformation
poligonale, curve policentriche, trasformazione polare

description: Which curves can better describe a polyline? Circle and ellipse are the simplest curves and the only  ones used in this paper. An elliptical line is more complex than circumference: in fact many graphic softwares can’t use it in polylines. The best solution is certainly the "simulation" of elliptical shapes using only circular arcs. The final construction included in this paper shows the possibility of constructing, point to point, a pseudo-elliptical curve with an original type of transformed curve: the conjunction by polar transformation. This function is analyzed in its both graphic and numerical aspects in order to completely map its behavior, beyond the contingent utility of architectural drawing.
description: Proviamo a pensare quali sequenze di tratti curvilinei possono meglio descrivere una poligonale. Le curve più semplici sono la circonferenza e l’ellisse, e queste sono le due linee curve che vengono utilizzate in questo saggio. La linea ellittica ha una complessità in più rispetto alla circonferenza: la sua utilizzazione all’interno di polilinee non è sempre tollerata dai software grafici. La soluzione migliore quindi è senz’altro la "simulazione" della forma ellittica mediante il numero minore possibile di tratti circolari.Un’ultima costruzione fornisce la possibilità di costruire, per punti, una curva di forma apparentemente ellittica ma determinata come un originale tipo di trasformata: la congiunzione per trasformazione polare. Di questa funzione viene analizzato sia l’aspetto grafico, sia quello analitico; consentendone una visione completa, al di là della contingente utilità per il disegno.
Castelli di carta. La piega per la costruzione di superfici articolate
House of cards. The fold for the construction of articulated surfaces
Creators: name: Casale, Andrea; Università La Sapienza Di Roma
name: Calvano, Michele; Università La Sapienza Di Roma
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
origami, piegare, superficie tassellata, movimento, architettura responsiva, architettura, design, forma
origami, folding, tessellated surface, movement, responsive buildings, architecture, design, shape

description: L’antica arte del piegare la carta, l’Origami, sta vivendo un rinnovato interesse che coinvolge molti aspetti della ricerca.  Con il termine origami, si intende lo studio del modo di piegare il foglio di carta per imporgli una specifica forma.  La superficie tassellata per mezzo di specifiche pieghe, si propone come un nuovo soggetto di studio: la superficie piegata articolata. La forma congiunta al movimento, assume un particolare interesse nella contemporanea ricerca geometrica e architettonica. Il panorama contemporaneo, propone opere di architettura “responsiva”, capaci di modificare le proprie caratteristiche per adeguarsi a nuove condizioni. La superficie piegata articolata sembra particolarmente adatta a descrivere questo modo d’intendere l’architettura, reagendo a diverse volontà e di conseguenza modificando la propria conformazione attraverso un attento controllo progettuale della forma.
description: The ancient art of folding paper, Origami, is experiencing a renewed interest that involves various aspects of research. By the term origami, we mean the study of how to fold the sheet of paper to impose a specific shape. The tessellated surface by means of specific folds, is proposed as a new subject of study called folded and articulated surface. The form and its movement, has a special interest in the contemporary architectural and geometric research. The contemporary scene, presents responsive buildings: they react to stimuli by changing their formal and functional features to adapt itself to new conditions. The folded and articulated surface seems particularly suitable to describe this way of understanding the architecture, this is because it can react to different actions by modifying, consequently, its conformation through a careful control of the shape.
Additional file 1 of Novel developmental bases for the evolution of hypobranchial muscles in vertebrates
Creators: name: Kusakabe, Rie
name: Higuchi, Shinnosuke
name: Tanaka, Masako
name: Mitsutaka Kadota
name: Nishimura, Osamu
name: Kuratani, Shigeru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figures. S1-S10. Skeletal muscle formation during lamprey embryogenesis (Fig. S1). Genomic structure of LjLbx-A gene and positions of CRISPR/Cas9 targets (Fig. S2). Phylogenetic analysis of the cyclostome and catshark Lbx genes (Fig. S3). Expression of LjLbx-A in the dorsal median fin muscle primordia (Fig. S4). Workflow and additional data for lamprey genome editing experiments (Fig. S5-S8). Expression of catshark Lbx2 in the extending HBM precursor cells (Fig. S9). ZO-1 staining of HBM primordium in the catshark embryo (Fig. S10).
Development of a sensitive trial-ready poly(GP) CSF biomarker assay for C9orf72-associated frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Wilson, Katherine M
name: Katona, Eszter
name: Glaria, Idoia
name: Carcolé, Mireia
name: Swift, Imogen J
name: Sogorb-Esteve, Aitana
name: Heller, Carolin
name: Bouzigues, Arabella
name: Heslegrave, Amanda J
name: Keshavan, Ashvini
name: Knowles, Kathryn
name: Patil, Saurabh
name: Mohapatra, Susovan
name: Liu, Yuanjing
name: Goyal, Jaya
name: Sanchez-Valle, Raquel
name: Laforce, Robert
name: Synofzik, Matthis
name: Rowe, James B
name: Finger, Elizabeth
name: Vandenberghe, Rik
name: Butler, Christopher R
name: Gerhard, Alexander
name: Van Swieten, John C
name: Seelaar, Harro
name: Borroni, Barbara
name: Galimberti, Daniela
name: De Mendonça, Alexandre
name: Masellis, Mario
name: Tartaglia, M Carmela
name: Otto, Markus
name: Graff, Caroline
name: Ducharme, Simon
name: Schott, Jonathan M
name: Malaspina, Andrea
name: Zetterberg, Henrik
name: Boyanapalli, Ramakrishna
name: Rohrer, Jonathan D
name: Isaacs, Adrian M
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Frontotemporal dementia
subject: Motor neuron disease
subject: Cerebrospinal fluid
subject: Biomarkers
subject: Frontotemporale Demenz
subject: Myatrophische Lateralsklerose
subject: Motoneuron
subject: Biomarker

description: ObjectiveA GGGGCC repeat expansion in the C9orf72 gene is the most common cause of genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). As potential therapies targeting the repeat expansion are now entering clinical trials, sensitive biomarker assays of target engagement are urgently required. Our objective was to develop such an assay.MethodsWe used the single molecule array (Simoa) platform to develop an immunoassay for measuring poly(GP) dipeptide repeat proteins (DPRs) generated by the C9orf72 repeat expansion in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of people with C9orf72-associated FTD/ALS.Results and conclusionsWe show the assay to be highly sensitive and robust, passing extensive qualification criteria including low intraplate and interplate variability, a high precision and accuracy in measuring both calibrators and samples, dilutional parallelism, tolerance to sample and standard freeze–thaw and no haemoglobin interference. We used this assay to measure poly(GP) in CSF samples collected through the Genetic FTD Initiative (N=40 C9orf72 and 15 controls). We found it had 100% specificity and 100% sensitivity and a large window for detecting target engagement, as the C9orf72 CSF sample with the lowest poly(GP) signal had eightfold higher signal than controls and on average values from C9orf72 samples were 38-fold higher than controls, which all fell below the lower limit of quantification of the assay. These data indicate that a Simoa-based poly(GP) DPR assay is suitable for use in clinical trials to determine target engagement of therapeutics aimed at reducing C9orf72 repeat-containing transcripts.
eHealth Supported Decentralized Multi-Disciplinary Care for Gout Involving Rheumatology, Pharmacy, and Dietetics : Proof-of-concept Study
Creators: name: Howren, Alyssa
name: Tsao, Nicole W.
name: Choi, Hyon
name: Shojania, Kam
name: Kydd, Alison
name: Friesen, Russell
name: Aviña-Zubieta, J. Antonio
name: De Vera, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Objective: To conduct quantitative and qualitative evaluation of an electronic health (eHealth)-supported decentralized multi-disciplinary care model for gout involving rheumatologists, pharmacist, and dietitian. Methods: We conducted a 12-month proof-of-concept study. Gout patients with ≥1 flare in the past year and serum urate (SUA) ≥360 μmol/L within the previous 2 months were followed by participating community rheumatologists on an as needed-basis, received monthly telephone consults with a pharmacist, and one telephone consult with a dietitian. Health care professionals were not co-located but had shared access to the rheumatologists’ electronic medical records (EMR) for remote communication and collaboration. In quantitative evaluation, the primary outcome was the proportion of patients with SUA <360 μmol/L at 12 months. In qualitative evaluation, we conducted semi-structured interviews with a sub-set of patients and applied constructivist grounded theory to gather patients’ perspectives. Results: Overall, 35 gout patients (86% males, mean age 60.9 ± 14.9 years) participated. At 12 months, 72% of patients achieved target SUA <360 μmol/L. Qualitative analysis of interviews with a subset of 12 patients resulted in two themes: 1) experiences with receiving care, including categories of improved knowledge about gout, receiving personalized support, and knowing someone cares; and 2) practical considerations, including categories of optimizing timing of care and coordination and accessibility. Conclusion: Our multi-method study shows that a decentralized, multi-disciplinary care for gout involving rheumatology, pharmacy, and dietetics with shared EMR access led to gout patients achieving target SUA. It was well-received by patients who perceived better education about gout and personalized care.
Artifacts in evolution. The mathematical representation between generative design and numerical practices
Artefatti in evoluzione. La rappresentazione matematica fra design generativo e pratiche numeriche
Creators: name: Ciammaichella, Massimiliano; IUAV Venezia
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: ICAR17 - Disegno
generative design, parametric modeling, mathematical and numerical representation
design generativo, modellazione parametrica, rappresentazione matematica e numerica

description: In last years is increased the interest in design practices inspired to natural organisms and forms, to hybridize in synthetic shells and structures.The digital representation directs design processes concentred on the evolutive process of form, allowing a sculptural approach to modelling.The paper describe how folding of box shaped volumes, deconstructed and fragmented, it was melted in static embryos to inhabit.Thanks to the computer potentiality, which may influence more than serve the design, we passed to the programmable deformation of surfaces, written by codes for the definition of recursive patterns on structures, however the construction of artifacts named “generative architecture” does nothing of different that follow consolidated methods and knowledge of Representation, blending them with current available techniques.
description: Negli ultimi anni è cresciuto l'interesse verso pratiche progettuali ispirate a fenomeni e organismi naturali, da ibridare in sintetici gusci e strutture. La rappresentazione digitale guida progetti concentrati sull'aspetto evolutivo della forma, consentendo un approccio scultoreo alla modellazione.L’articolo racconta di come la piega dei volumi scatolari, decostruiti e frammentati, si sia liquefatta in statici embrioni da abitare. Grazie alle potenzialità del computer, che forse condizionano più che servire la progettazione, così siamo passati alla programmabile deformazione degli involucri e alla scrittura di codici per la definizione di strutture a pattern ricorsivi, tuttavia la costruzione di artefatti noti come “architetture generative” non fa che ricalcare consolidati metodi e saperi della rappresentazione, coniugandoli con le attuali tecniche disponibili.
An Efficient Hybrid Objects Selection Protocol for 3D Streaming over Mobile Devices
Creators: name: Alja'afreh, Mohammad Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: MMOGs
3D Streaming
Object selection
Wireless Networks
MANET

description: With the rapid development in the areas of mobile manufacturing and multimedia communications, there is an increasing demand for Networked Virtual Environment (NVE) applications, such as Augmented Reality (AR), virtual walk-throughs, and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), on hand-held devices. Unfortunately, downloading and rendering a complex 3D scene is very computationally intensive and is not compatible with current mobile hardware specifications nor with available wireless bandwidth. Existing NVE applications deploy client/server based 3D streaming over thin mobile devices, which suffer from single point of failure, latency, and scalability issues. To address these issues, image-based rendering (IBR) and cloud-based 3D streaming have been introduced. The former introduces visual artifacts that reduce, and usually cancel, the realistic behaviors of the Virtual Environment (VE) application, while the latter is considered very expensive to implement. Peer-to-peer (P2P) 3D streaming is promising and affordable, but it has to tackle issues in object discovery and selection as well as content provider strategies. Distributing VE content over a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) makes the system difficult to update due to the dynamic nature of the mobile clients. In order to tackle these issues, we came up with a novel protocol that combines the pros of both central and distributed approaches. Our proposed hybrid protocol, called OCTET, enables 3D scene streaming over thin devices in a way that can cope with current mobile hardware capabilities and mitigate the challenges of client/server and P2P 3D streaming. In fact, OCTET provides strategies that select, prioritize, and deliver only those objects that contribute to the user’s visible scene. OCTET is implemented using the "ns-2" simulation environment, and extensive experiments have clearly demonstrated significant achievements in mobile resource utilization, throughput, and system scalability.
Checklist on the quality of the repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (rPMS) methods in research: an international delphi study
Creators: name: Schneider, Cyril
name: Zangrandi, Andrea
name: Sollmann, Nico
name: Bonfert, Michaela Veronika
name: Beaulieu, Louis-David
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation
subject: Delphi study
subject: rPMS checklist
subject: non-invasive neurostimulation
subject: peripheral neurostimulation
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Magnetic brain stimulation
subject: Nervenstimulation

description: An increasing number of clinical research studies have used repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (rPMS) in recent years to alleviate pain or improve motor function. rPMS is non-invasive, painless, and administrated over peripheral nerve, spinal cord roots, or a muscle using a coil affixed to the skin and connected to a rapid-rate magnetic stimulator. Despite the clinical impact and scientific interest, the methodological inconsistencies or incomplete details and findings between studies could make the rPMS demonstration difficult to replicate. Given the lack of guidelines in rPMS literature, the present study aimed at developing a checklist to improve the quality of rPMS methods in research. An international panel of experts identified among those who had previously published on the topic were enrolled in a two-round web-based Delphi study with the aim of reaching a consensus on the items that should be reported or controlled in any rPMS study. The consensual rPMS checklist obtained comprises 8 subject-related items (e.g., age, sex), 16 methodological items (e.g., coil type, pulse duration), and 11 stimulation protocol items (e.g., paradigm of stimulation, number of pulses). This checklist will contribute to new interventional or exploratory rPMS research to guide researchers or clinicians on the methods to use to test and publish rPMS after-effects. Overall, the checklist will guide the peer-review process on the quality of rPMS methods reported in a publication. Given the dynamic nature of a consensus between international experts, it is expected that future research will affine the checklist.