cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Philips IntelliSpace Cognition digital test battery: equivalence and measurement invariance compared to traditional analog test versions
Creators: name: Vermeent, Stefan
name: Spaltman, Mandy
name: van Elswijk, Gijs
name: Miller, Justin B.
name: Schmand, Ben
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: To collect evidence of validity for a selection of digital tests on the Philips IntelliSpace Cognition (ISC) platform. Method: A total of 200 healthy participants (age 50-80) completed both the ISC battery and an analog version of the battery during separate visits. The battery included the following screeners and cognitive tests: Mini-Mental State Examination (2nd edition), Clock Drawing Test, Trail-Making Test (TMT), Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT), Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT), Letter Fluency, Star Cancellation Test, and Digit Span Test. The ISC tests were administered on an iPad Pro and were automatically scored using designated algorithms. The analog tests were administered in line with existing guidelines and scored by trained neuropsychologists. Criterion validity was established through relative agreement coefficients and raw score equivalence tests. In addition,measurement invariance analysis was used to compare the factor structures of both versions. Finally, we explored effects of demographics and experience with digital devices on performance. Results: We found fair to excellent relative agreement between test versions. Absolute equivalence was found for RAVLT, Letter Fluency, Star Cancellation Test, and Digit Span Test. Importantly, we demonstrated equal loadings of the digital and analog test versions on the same set of underlying cognitive domains. Demographic effects were mostly comparable between modalities, and people’s experience with digital devices was found to only influence performance on TMT B. Conclusions: This study provides several sources of evidence for the validity of the ISC test battery, offering an important step in validating ISC for clinical use. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2021.1974565.
Improved scalar intensity measures in performance-based earthquake engineering
Creators: name: Bianchini, Marcello
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: ICAR/09 Tecnica delle costruzioni

description: An earthquake intensity measure (IM) is a characteristic of a recorded ground motion that quanti…es the severity of a seismic event. In reliability analysis of structural systems subjected to ground shaking, the choice of IM plays a leading role. In probabilistic engineering assessment, the IM is used both as a scale factor for recorded ground motions in incremental dynamic analysis and as that parameter which de…nes the seismic hazard at a speci…ed site. In this paper, the geometric mean of pseudo-spectral acceleration ordinates over a certain range of periods, Sa,avg, is used as a scalar IM to predict inelastic structural response of buildings subjected to recorded ground motions. This average of spectral values is a better predictor than the elastic pseudo-spectral acceleration at fundamental period of structure, Sa, especially for inelastic structural systems. Furthermore, the seismic hazard at the site in terms of Sa,avg as IM is simpler than the one performed for vector-valued and inelastic IMs. Especially for inelastic multi-degree-of-freedom systems with long periods, Sa,avg is very sensitive to higher-mode effects, showing a limited levels of dispersion at different given ductility levels. Sa,avg is studied as a statistical predictor of structural response and is compared with conventional elastic and inelastic scalar IMs. The study is completed with suggestions about the period range over which the average should be calculated, the spacing periods and the necessary number of points of spectral ordinates, in order for Sa,avg to be most effective.
Heat flow in chains driven by thermal noise
Creators: name: Fogedby, Hans C.
name: Imparato, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the large deviation function for a classical harmonic chain composed of N particles driven at the end points by heat reservoirs, first derived in the quantum regime by Saito and Dhar and in the classical regime by Saito and Dhar and Kundu et al. Within a Langevin description we perform this calculation on the basis of a standard path integral calculation in Fourier space. The cumulant generating function yielding the large deviation function is given in terms of a transmission Green's function and is consistent with the fluctuation theorem. We find a simple expression for the tails of the heat distribution which turn out to decay exponentially. We, moreover, consider an extension of a single particle model suggested by Derrida and Brunet and discuss the two-particle case. We also discuss the limit for large N and present a closed expression for the cumulant generating function. Finally, we present a derivation of the fluctuation theorem on the basis of a Fokker-Planck description. This result is not restricted to the harmonic case but is valid for a general interaction potential between the particles.
description: Latex: 26 pages and 9 figures, appeared in J. Stat. Mech. P04005 (2012)
title: ADLAI/ADLAF: Gründung und Anfangsjahre
Creators: name: Gleich, Albrecht
Publisher: name: Iberoamericana/Vervuert
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 17250 Jahre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF, p. 127
title: Die ADLAF und das Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut in Freiburg
Creators: name: Oberndörfer, Dieter
Publisher: name: Iberoamericana/Vervuert
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 17250 Jahre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF, p. 135
Giornata di studio in onore di Ettore Funaioli: 18 luglio 2007
Creators: name: Meneghetti, Umberto
name: Maggiore, Alberto
name: Parenti Castelli, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: ING-IND/13 Meccanica applicata alle macchine

description: In questo volume sono raccolte le memorie presentate in occasione della "Giornata di studio in onore di Ettore Funaioli", che si è tenuta il 18 luglio 2007 presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.
La giornata è stata organizzata dagli ex allievi del Prof. Funaioli con la collaborazione del DIEM, Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle costruzioni meccaniche, nucleari, aeronautiche e di Metallurgia dell’Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna e con il patrocinio del GMA – Gruppo di Meccanica Applicata.
L'incontro scientifico è stato preceduto da una cerimonia commemorativa svoltasi nell'Aula Magna della Facoltà di Ingegneria, alla presenza dei familiari del Prof. Funaioli, del rappresentante del Preside della Facoltà e del Direttore del DIEM.
title: Boselli, Paolo
title: Boselli, Paolo
Creators: name: Wilcox, Vanda
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Boselli, Paolo
subject: Boselli, Paolo, 1838-1932

description: After a long parliamentary career, Paolo Boselli became Italy’s 22nd prime minister in June 1916 after the fall of Antonio Salandra’s government. Charged with forming a unity government, his leadership was uninspiring and he was forced to resign during the defeat at Caporetto in October 1917.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Institutionelle und disziplinäre Herausforderungen an die Lateinamerikanistik (1992-1998)
Creators: name: Kohut, Karl
Publisher: name: Iberoamericana/Vervuert
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 17250 Jahre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF, p. 151
Classification of topological symmetry groups of $K_n$
Creators: name: Flapan, Erica
name: Mellor, Blake
name: Naimi, Ramin
name: Yoshizawa, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 05C10

description: In this paper we complete the classification of topological symmetry groups for complete graphs $K_n$ by characterizing which $K_n$ can have a cyclic group, a dihedral group, or a subgroup of $D_m \times D_m$ where $m$ is odd, as its topological symmetry group.
description: 19 pages; v2 lists authors correctly on arXiv; v3 substantially revises the introduction
title: Rückenwind für die Regionalstudien und organisatorische Umstrukturierung (2005-2006)
Creators: name: Potthast, Barbara
Publisher: name: Iberoamericana/Vervuert
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 17250 Jahre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF, p. 167
title: Bernhardi, Friedrich von
title: Bernhardi, Friedrich von
Creators: name: Pöhlmann, Markus
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bernhardi, Friedrich von
subject: Bernhardi, Friedrich von, 1849-1930

description: Friedrich von Bernhardi was one of the most important and most controversial military writers and armchair generals in pre-1914 Europe. During the First World War, he commanded German forces in Russia and France.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Kontinuität und Wandel (2010-2016)
Creators: name: Nolte, Detlef
Publisher: name: Iberoamericana/Vervuert
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 17250 Jahre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF, p. 179
A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach to Ensemble Weather Forecasting
Creators: name: Cocchi, Daniela
name: Di Narzo, Antonio Fabio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-S/01 Statistica
SECS-S/03 Statistica economica

description: In meteorology, the traditional approach to forecasting employs deterministic models mimicking atmospheric dynamics.
Forecast uncertainty due to the partial knowledge of initial conditions is tackled by Ensemble Predictions Systems (EPS).
Probabilistic forecasting is a relatively new approach which may properly account for all sources of uncertainty.
In this work we propose a hierarchical Bayesian model which develops this idea
and makes it possible to deal with an EPS with non-identifiable members using a suitable definition of the second level of the model.
An application to Italian small-scale temperature data is shown.
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of School Building Performance
Creators: name: Shehata, Ahmed M
Publisher: name: CrossMark
Year: 2025
Subjects: Environmental performance,
functional performance
postoccupancy evaluation
School building design.

description: School buildings are multifunctional structures that accommodate severalfunctions and activities. Such activities require different environmentaland functional characteristics for their hosting spaces. This comprehensiveresearch aims to establish a multi-dimensional post-occupancy evaluation(POE) framework to assess primary school buildings’ functional andenvironmental performance. This framework provides a fast and easytool to evaluate and improve school building performance. To achieve itsobjective, the study explores different POE models, design components,and functional criteria affecting school building performance. Moreover,it discusses the impact of design parameters such as location, spatiallayout, classroom conditions, auxiliary spaces, finishing materials, andenvironmental elements on building performance. Three main factors wereconsidered: first, child development and well-being, which means meetingthe psychological, social, and safety needs of students; second is functionalsuitability, which means making sure that each part of the building isdesigned to fulfill its function and works well with other spaces; and thirdly,environmental suitability, which means creating a comfortable space thatencourages learning. The research concludes with an evaluation frameworkwith relative and absolute values for school building design parameters inseveral performance areas. The proposed model enables digital assessmentand presents evaluation results both numerically and graphically.
Optimization of the baseline and the parent muon energy for a low energy neutrino factory
Creators: name: Dighe, Amol
name: Goswami, Srubabati
name: Ray, Shamayita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the optimal setup for a low energy neutrino factory in order to achieve a 5σ-discovery of a nonzero mixing angle θ_{13}, a nonzero CP phase δ_{CP}, and the mass hierarchy. We explore parent muon energies in the range 5--16 GeV, and baselines in the range 500--5000 km. We present the results in terms of the reach in sin^2θ_{13}, emphasizing the dependence of the optimal baseline on the true value of δ_{CP}. We show that the sensitivity of a given setup typically increases with parent muon energy, reaching saturation for higher energies. The saturation energy is larger for longer baselines; we present an estimate of this dependence. In the light of the recent indications of a large θ_{13}, we also determine how these preferences would change if indeed a large θ_{13} is confirmed. In such a case, the baselines ~2500 km (~1500 km) may be expected to lead to hierarchy determination (δ_{CP} discovery) with the minimum exposure.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures. Matches published version
3-loop 3PI effective action for 3D SU(3) QCD
Creators: name: York, Mark C. Abraao
name: Moore, Guy D.
name: Tassler, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 3PI method is a technique to resum an infinite class of diagrams, which may be useful in studying nonperturbative thermodynamics and dynamics in quantum field theory. But it has never been successfully applied to gauge theories, where there are serious questions about gauge invariance breaking. We show how to perform the 3PI resummation of QCD in 3 Euclidean spacetime dimensions, a warmup problem to the 4 or 3+1 dimensional case. We present the complete details of the technical problems and how they are overcome. We postpone a comparison of gauge invariant correlation functions with their lattice-determined counterparts to a future publication.
description: 44 pages, 13 figures. Version as it appears in JHEP, including the corrected Figure 11
Iterative solution of a mixed finite element discretisation of an incompressible magnetohydrodynamics problem
Creators: name: Wathen, Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The aim of this thesis is to develop and numerically test a large scale preconditioned finite element implementation of an incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model. To accomplish this, a broad-scope code has been generated using the finite element software package FEniCS and the linear algebra software PETSc. The code is modular, extremely flexible, and allows for implementing and testing different discretisations and linear algebra solvers with relatively modest effort. It can handle two- and three-dimensional problems in excess of 20 million degrees of freedom. Incompressible MHD describes the interaction between an incompressible electrically charged fluid governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with electromagnetic effects from Maxwell’s equations in mixed form. We introduce a model problem and a mixed finite element discretisation based on using Taylor-Hood elements for the fluid variables and on a mixed N ́ed ́elec pair for the magnetic unknowns. We introduce three iteration strategies to handle the non-linearities present in the model, ranging from Picard iterations to completely decoupled schemes. Adapting and extending ideas introduced in [Dan Li, Numerical Solution of the Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations and Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics Problems, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of British ii Columbia, 2010], we implement a preconditioning approach motivated by the block structure of the underlying linear systems in conjunction with state of the art preconditioners for the mixed Maxwell and Navier-Stokes subproblems. For the Picard iteration scheme we implement an inner-outer preconditioner. The numerical results presented in this thesis demonstrate the efficient performance of our preconditioned solution techniques and show good scalability with respect to the discretisation parameters.
ESM_figures and table.docx from High dispersal rates in hybrids drive expansion of maladaptive hybridization
Creators: name: Bourret, Samuel L.
name: Kovach, Ryan P.
name: Cline, Timothy J.
name: Strait, Jeffrey T.
name: Muhlfeld, Clint C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Hybridization between native and invasive species, a major cause of biodiversity loss, can spread rapidly even when hybrids have reduced fitness. This paradox suggests that hybrids have greater dispersal rates than non-hybridized individuals, yet this mechanism has not been empirically tested in animal populations. Here, we test if non-native genetic introgression increases reproductive dispersal using a human-mediated hybrid zone between native cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and invasive rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a large and connected river system. We quantified the propensity for individuals to migrate from natal rearing habitats (migrate), reproduce in non-natal habitats (stray), and the joint probability of dispersal as a function of genetic ancestry. Hybrid trout with predominantly non-native rainbow trout ancestry were more likely to migrate as juveniles and to stray as adults. Overall, hybrids with greater than 50% rainbow trout ancestry were 5.7 times more likely to disperse than native or hybrid trout with small amounts of rainbow trout ancestry. Our results show a genetic basis for increased dispersal in hybrids that is likely contributing to the rapid expansion of invasive hybridization between these species. Management actions that decrease the probability of hybrid dispersal may mitigate the harmful effects of invasive hybridization on native biodiversity.
Semisimple orbital integrals on the symplectic space for a real reductive dual pair
Creators: name: McKee, M.
name: Pasquale, A.
name: Przebinda, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a Weyl Harish-Chandra integration formula for the action of a reductive dual pair on the corresponding symplectic space $W$. As an intermediate step, we introduce a notion of a Cartan subspace and a notion of an almost semisimple element in the symplectic space $W$. We prove that the almost semisimple elements are dense in $W$. Finally, we provide estimates for the orbital integrals associated with the different Cartan subspaces in $W$.
title: Die ADLAF und die KAS: eine gute Partnerschaft durch Information, Vernetzung und Nachwuchsförderung
Creators: name: Reismann, Anna
Publisher: name: Iberoamericana/Vervuert
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 17250 Jahre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF, p. 199
Documentation of supplemental files_proc b resubmission.docx from High dispersal rates in hybrids drive expansion of maladaptive hybridization
Creators: name: Bourret, Samuel L.
name: Kovach, Ryan P.
name: Cline, Timothy J.
name: Strait, Jeffrey T.
name: Muhlfeld, Clint C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Hybridization between native and invasive species, a major cause of biodiversity loss, can spread rapidly even when hybrids have reduced fitness. This paradox suggests that hybrids have greater dispersal rates than non-hybridized individuals, yet this mechanism has not been empirically tested in animal populations. Here, we test if non-native genetic introgression increases reproductive dispersal using a human-mediated hybrid zone between native cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and invasive rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a large and connected river system. We quantified the propensity for individuals to migrate from natal rearing habitats (migrate), reproduce in non-natal habitats (stray), and the joint probability of dispersal as a function of genetic ancestry. Hybrid trout with predominantly non-native rainbow trout ancestry were more likely to migrate as juveniles and to stray as adults. Overall, hybrids with greater than 50% rainbow trout ancestry were 5.7 times more likely to disperse than native or hybrid trout with small amounts of rainbow trout ancestry. Our results show a genetic basis for increased dispersal in hybrids that is likely contributing to the rapid expansion of invasive hybridization between these species. Management actions that decrease the probability of hybrid dispersal may mitigate the harmful effects of invasive hybridization on native biodiversity.
title: TRA PAESAGGIO E AMBIENTE COSTRUITO: CUPOLE IN CAMPANIA
Creators: name: De Martino, Gianluigi
Publisher: name: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center
Year: 2017

description: In this essay we meant to point out the important role that churches play in the baroque city and in a territory of great landscape value, especially with their architectural elements such as domes.


In the great baroque monuments, it is a dome on a high drum that creates both an internal and an external space with its architectural values. Moreover, domes in Campania mark many sites of great landscape value such as Sorrento’s and Amalfi’s Coast, where majolica surfaces assume important figurative values bound to the strict relation between architecture and nature. Starting from the role that domes play in natural and built landscape, we developed topics about building technics of domes and especially about majolica. We purpose some dome case studies to analyze kinds of intervention that avoid to damage both the internal surfaces, covered with stucco, and the external ones, covered with majolica. In fact, in the external domes that are more exposed to damages we should search historical and artistic values that determine the meaning of monuments and of the landscapes they are in.




Keywords: domes, restoration, landscape.
description: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center, V. 17 N. 2 (2017): Circular Models for Systemic Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage and Landscape
Stima dell'utenza  della linea People Mover
Stazione FS – Aeroporto a Bologna
Creators: name: Praitoni, G.
name: Micucci, A.
name: Schweizer, J.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: ICAR/05 Trasporti

description: L’iniziativa della Amministrazione Comunale per la realizzazione di un sistema a guida vincolata in sede propria – il People Mover – collegante la Stazione Centrale di Bologna, il nuovo Campus Universitario del Lazzaretto e l'aeroporto G. Marconi (vedi fig.1) ha suscitato un acceso dibattito - largamente riportato dalla stampa - fra le varie componenti politiche ed istituzionali, relativo alla utilità ed alla fattibilità dell’opera, soprattutto per quanto riguarda l’aspetto economico, e la conseguente reperibilità dei fondi, tema questo di grande attualità, considerato il difficile quadro generale nazionale di finanziamento delle grandi opere. 
Gli scriventi hanno effettuato una stima della domanda di trasporto per il collegamento tra la Stazione Centrale e l' Aeroporto, prevedendo un valore minimo ed un valore massimo della stessa, confrontando poi tali stime  con quelle pubblicate dal Comune di Bologna. E’ stata poi calcolata la capacità del sistema, per un necessario confronto con la domanda di punta,  ed infine si è verificato se gli obiettivi raggiungibili con la linea del People Mover giustificano gli investimenti da parte di privati ed Enti Pubblici in questo “high risk business”.
Coastal high-tide shorebird habitat management guidelines - multiple languages
Creators: name: Jackson, Micha V
name: Straw, Phill
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Guidelines for maintaining and managing naturalor artificial (i.e. human-created) coastal wetlands to providesuitable high tide roosting conditions for shorebirds in theEast Asian-Australasian Flyway.
A worldsheet extension of O(d,d;Z)
Creators: name: Bachas, Costas
name: Brunner, Ilka
name: Roggenkamp, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study superconformal interfaces between N=(1,1) supersymmetric sigma models on tori, which preserve a u(1)^{2d} current algebra. Their fusion is non-singular and, using parallel transport on CFT deformation space, it can be reduced to fusion of defect lines in a single torus model. We show that the latter is described by a semi-group extension of O(d,d;Q), and that (on the level of Ramond charges) fusion of interfaces agrees with composition of associated geometric integral transformations. This generalizes the well-known fact that T-duality can be geometrically represented by Fourier-Mukai transformations. Interestingly, we find that the topological interfaces between torus models form the same semi-group upon fusion. We argue that this semi-group of orbifold equivalences can be regarded as the α' deformation of the continuous O(d,d) symmetry of classical supergravity.
description: 71 pages, 1 figure, minor additions and corrections
title: Anhang 2: ADLAF-Arbeitsausschüsse bzw. Vorstände
Creators: name: Birle, Peter
name: Nolte, Detlef
Publisher: name: Iberoamericana/Vervuert
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, vol. 17250 Jahre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF, p. 218
title: MATERA 2019 CAPITALE EUROPEA DELLA CULTURA: CITTÀ DELLA NATURA, CITTÀ DELLA CULTURA, CITTÀ DELLA RIGENERAZIONE
Creators: name: Fusco Girard, Luigi
name: Nocca, Francesca
name: Gravagnuolo, Antonia
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2017

description: Matera è la città della coevoluzione secolare tra uomo-natura-cultura, caratterizzata da un paesaggio particolare, dove ogni singola componente si relaziona ed interdipende con le altre. Assumendo l’approccio unificante del paesaggio come “prisma” nel quale convergono tutte le diverse prospettive rispetto alle quali è possibile interpretare il sistema Matera, il presente paper intende proporre alcune strategie per la rigenerazione della città basate sul modello dell’economia circolare, che ha caratterizzato la storia millenaria della città di Matera. L’attenzione è posta sulla strategia operativa del riuso adattivo del patrimonio culturale, evidenziando la relazione tra valore intrinseco e valori d’uso. In questa prospettiva, l’attività valutativa riveste un ruolo fondamentale per individuare la produttività multidimensionale delle diverse alternative e i relativi impatti, al di là della prospettiva riduttiva del parco archeologico/museale.




Parole chiave: ECoC, città circolare, valore intrinseco
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, V. 17 N. 2 (2017): Circular Models for Systemic Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage and Landscape
Expression, Signaltransduktion und Funktion von Adiponektin und Adiponektinrezeptoren in Präimplantationsembryonen des Kaninchens
Creators: name: Fischer, Sünje
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: 610
subject: 571

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersuchte den Einfluss eines maternalen Diabetes mellitus Typ 1 auf das Adiponektin-Adiponektinrezeptorsystem und dessen Funktion in der Frühschwangerschaft von Kaninchen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit zeigen einen Einfluss des experimentell induzierten Diabetes mellitus Typ 1 auf das Adiponektin-Adiponektinrezeptorsystem der Mutter und des Embryos. Adiponektin und AdipoR1 wurden auf maternaler Seite hochreguliert. In der Blastozyste lag AdipoR1 in der gesamten Blastozyste gesteigert vor. Adiponektin hingegen wurde ausschließlich im Trophoblasten hochreguliert, während im Embryoblasten kein Adiponektin nachweisbar war. Adiponektin ist in der Lage, den Glukosemetabolismus in der Kaninchenblastozyste in vitro zu regulieren. Die Glukoneogenese wird inhibiert und die Glukoseaufnahme über GLUT1 und 4 gesteigert. Unter diabetischen Bedingungen könnte Adiponektin für die Sicherung der Glukoseaufnahme relevant sein, da das dafür zuständige Insulin fehlt. Das Adiponektinsystem stellt unter diabetischen Bedingungen ein Sicherheitsnetz dar, das bei Insulinmangel das weitere Überleben des Embryos sichert.
description: The present study examined the impact of a maternal diabetes mellitus type 1 on the adiponectin-adiponectin-receptor-system and its function in the preimplantation period of rabbits. The results of this study show an influence of an experimentally induced diabetes mellitus type 1 on mother and embryo. On the maternal side adiponectin and adipor1 are increased. In the blastocyst adipor1 was increased in the whole blastocyst, while adiponectin was only increased in the trophoblast and no adiponectin was detectable in the embryoblast. Adiponectin is able to influence the glucose metabolism in the rabbit blastocyst in vitro. Gluconeogenesis gets inhibited and the glucose uptake increases via GLUT1 and 4. Under diabetic conditions adiponectin could be relevant for the coverage of the glucose uptake instead of the missing insulin. The adiponectin system represents a safety net under diabetic conditions to assure the further development of the embryo.
Sleep Disturbance and Daytime Sleepiness in Patients with Cirrhosis: a Case Control Study
Creators: name: Mostacci, Barbara
name: Ferlisi, Monica
name: Baldi Antognini, Alessandro
name: Sama, Claudia
name: Morelli, Cristina
name: Mondini, Susanna
name: Cirignotta, Fabio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: SECS-S/01 Statistica
MED/26 Neurologia

description: Objective: Sleep disturbance and excessive daytime sleepiness have been reported in patients
with hepatic cirrhosis. The objective of this study was to evaluate daytime somnolence and
sleep complaints in a group of 178 patients with cirrhosis compared to a control group.
Method: Sleep features and excessive daytime sleepiness were evaluated by the Basic Nordic
Sleep Questionnaire (BNSQ) and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). We collected clinical
and laboratory data, neurological assessment and EEG recording in cirrhotic patients.
Results: Patients with cirrhosis complained of more daytime sleepiness (p<0.005), sleeping
badly at least three times a week (p<0.005), difficulties falling asleep (p<0.01) and frequent
nocturnal awakening (p<0.005) than controls. We found a poor correlation between sleep
disorders and clinical or laboratory parameters. Conclusion: Our results confirm previous
literature reports suggesting a high prevalence of sleep disturbance in patients with cirrhosis.
Insomnia and daytime sleepiness are the main complaints. Sleep disorders are probably a
multifactorial phenomenon.
On the role of potentials in the Aharonov-Bohm effect
Creators: name: Vaidman, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a consensus today that the the main lesson of the Aharonov-Bohm effect is that a picture of electromagnetism based on the local action of the field strengths is not possible in quantum mechanics. Contrary to this statement it is argued here that when the source of the electromagnetic potential is treated in the framework of quantum theory, the Aharonov-Bohm effect can be explained without the notion of potentials. It is explained by local action of the field of the electron on the source of the potential. The core of the Aharonov-Bohm effect is the same as the core of quantum entanglement: the quantum wave function describes all systems together.
description: Presentation of the result is revised according to the comments of 5 referees. To be published as Rapid Communication in PRA
title: EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR A CIRCULAR ADAPTIVE REUSE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Creators: name: Gravagnuolo, Antonia
name: Fusco Girard, Luigi
name: Ost, Christian
name: Saleh, Ruba
Publisher: name: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center
Year: 2017

description: This article aims to develop a structured reasoning and a first proposal of evaluation criteria to assess the impacts of cultural heritage adaptive reuse projects in the perspective of the circular economy model. Adaptive reuse of cultural heritage can be key in the implementation of circular economy and circular city/territory models. The article explores and clarifies why and how cultural heritage adaptive reuse is key to implement a circular economy in cities and regions, stressing the “multidimensional productivity” of heritage reuse and its contribution to the achievement of a “human sustainable development”. The article addresses first the theoretical aspects comparing and discussing the literature on circular economy and its applications, while proposing a first set of evaluation criteria able to express what can be interpreted/chosen as relevant in this context.




Keywords: adaptive reuse, cultural heritage, circular economy.
description: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center, V. 17 N. 2 (2017): Circular Models for Systemic Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage and Landscape
Die Polymorphismen Arg677Trp und Arg753Gln im TLR-2-Gen und der -94 ins/del ATTG Promotorpolymorphismus im NF-kB-Gen und deren Einfluss auf Parodontitis sowie die subgingivale Keimbesiedlung
Creators: name: Hierse, Lisa Anne Waltraud
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: 611

description: Einleitung und Studienziele: Parodontopathogene Bakterien induzieren die Expression von Genen der Immunantwort unter anderem über den Toll-like-Rezeptor 2 (TLR-2) und nachfolgender intrazellulärer Aktivierung des Transkriptionsfaktors NF-kB. Die Aktivität dieser beiden Faktoren wird unter anderem von genetischen Varianten ihrer kodierenden Gene beeinflusst. Daher war es Ziel dieser Fall-Kontroll-Studie, den Zusammenhang zwischen Polymorphismen dieser Gene und dem Auftreten von chronischer und aggressiver Parodontitis in einem bivariaten und multivariaten Modell zu untersuchen. Weiterhin sollte eine Relation dieser Genpolymorphismen zum Nachweis parodontaler Leitbakterien evaluiert werden. Patienten und Methoden: In dieser Studie wurden 141 Parodontitispatienten (chronisch n=63, aggressiv n=78) und 81 parodontitisfreie Kontrollprobanden untersucht. Die Polymorphismen im TLR-2-Gen (Arg677Trp, Arg753Gln) und NF-kB-Gen (-94 ins/del ATTG) wurden mittels Restriktionsfragmentlängenanalyse und Fragmentlängenanalyse bestimmt. Die subgingivale Bakterienbesiedlung der paroodontopathogenen Leitbakterien Aggregatibacter actinomycetem-comitans, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Tannerella forsythia and Treponema denticola wurde durch Multiplex-PCR und anschließender Hybridisierung mit spezifischen DNA-Sonden bestimmt (micro-IDent®, HAIN Lifescience, Nehren, Deutschland). Ergebnisse: In der gesamten Studiengruppe konnte nur der Arg/Arg-Genotyp des Arg677Trp Polymorphismus im TLR-2-Gen nachgewiesen werden. Bei Trägern des heterozygoten Genotyps TLR-2 753 Arg/Gln wurde im Vergleich zu Arg/Arg positiven Probanden häufiger eine subgingivale Besiedlung mit den Bakterien des roten Komplexes nachgewiesen (90,9% vs. 55,0%, p=0,026). Eine signifikante Assoziation zur Parodontitis lag nicht vor. Der del/del-Genotyp des NF-kB Polymorphismus war im bivariaten und multivariaten Modell unter Berücksichtigung etablierter Kofaktoren für Parodontitis (Alter, Geschlecht, Raucherstatus, Approximaler Plaque Index) bzw. Bakterienbesiedlung (Alter, Geschlecht, Raucherstatus, Sondierungstiefe der bakteriellen Entnhamestelle) sowohl zur aggressiven Parodontitis (odds ratio=2,6, p=0,047, 95% Konfidenzintervall=1,01-6,56) als auch zum Nachweis von Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (odds ratio=2,5, p=0,018, 95% Konfidenzintervall=1,17-5,32) assoziiert. Schlussfolgerung: Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass der del/del Genotyp des NF-kB -94 ins/del ATTG Promotorpolymorphismus ein potentieller Risikoindikator für aggressive Parodontitis und eine Infektion mit A. actinomycetemcomitans ist.
title: MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASSESSMENT FOR URBAN REGENERATION: THE CASE STUDY OF POZZUOLI (ITALY)
Creators: name: De Toro, Pasquale
name: Nocca, Francesca
Publisher: name: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center
Year: 2017

description: Cities are home to a growing percentage of the world’s population. As the world continues to urbanize, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities.


For this reason, the city’s organizational structure is being increasingly questioned. The multidimensional perspective of sustainable development implies a systemic and integrated approach that requires new assessment tools able to capture the multidimensional impacts of cities transformation/regeneration. This paper aims to contribute to the international debate about the role of cities in the achievement of sustainable development and to make operational concepts in the evaluation field driving transformations of cities and territories. The case study of Pozzuoli (Italy) represents a concrete implementation of a proposed methodology for assessing the multidimensional impacts of city regeneration projects using multicriteria evaluation methods.




Keywords: multidimensional indicators, NAIADE method, MacBeth method
description: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center, V. 17 N. 2 (2017): Circular Models for Systemic Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage and Landscape
title: FROM TANGIBLE TO INTANGIBLE: HYBRID TOOLS FOR OPERATIONALIZING HISTORIC URBAN LANDSCAPE APPROACH
Creators: name: Onesti, Anna
name: Bosone, Martina
Publisher: name: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center
Year: 2017

description: UNESCO Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (UNESCO, 2011) introduces a new and systemic approach for the conservation of the cultural heritage. For operationalizing this approach, where the interaction with social, cultural and economic processes and the empowerment of local communities are critical, new tools are needed, capable of addressing the critical issues of both bottom-up and top-down processes. Many communities are enhanced from acting on their physical context, which as cultural heritage in turn become social glue. Through the study of literature and the comparison between some good practices, the paper introduces a methodology for the recovery of built environment and investigates if the actions on the physical dimension of landscape really produce impacts on its immaterial dimension.




Keywords: sustainable development, community, circular economy
description: Bulletin of the Calza Bini Center, V. 17 N. 2 (2017): Circular Models for Systemic Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage and Landscape
Spatio-temporal modelling of zero-inflated deep-sea shrimp data by Tweedie generalized additive
Creators: name: Arcuti, Simona
name: Calculli, Crescenza
name: Pollice, Alessio
name: D’Onghia, Gianfranco
name: Maiorano, Porzia
name: Tursi, Angelo
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: generalized Additive Models; zero-inflated data; Tweedie distribution; spatio-temporal modeling; Demersal resources abundance

description: In theMediterrean Sea the population features of demersal resources fluctuate over spatial and temporal scales due to the variability of abiotic and biotic factors as well as to human activities. The two shrimps Parapenaeus longirostris and Aristaeomorpha foliacea are among the most important deep-sea demersal resources in the North-Western Ionian Sea. Their changes in terms of density, biomass andmedian length induced by anthropogenic and environmental variables (fishing effort, sea surface temperature, precipitations, Winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Annual MediterraneanOscillation (MO) indices) were investigated. Biological data were collected during trawl surveys carried out from 1995 to 2006 as part of the international program MEDITS (International Bottom Trawl Survey in the Mediterranean). Generalized AdditiveModels were used to evaluate the spatio-temporal variation of both species, together with the possible nonlinear effects of biotic and abiotic factors. Density and biomass were assumed to be distributed according to a member of the Tweedie family in order to account for zero-inflation in the relative data. Spacetime interaction was consideredwithin a non-separablemodel with smooth spatio-temporal component based on tensor product splines. The results show significant spatio-temporal and depth effects in the three population parameters of these resources. Winter NAO index significantly influenced the density, biomass and length of P. longirostris. Sea surface temperature significantly influenced the size of this species and the three population features of A. foliacea. The size of this shrimp resulted also influenced negatively by fishing effort and positively by the MO index.
description: Statistica, Vol 73, No 1 (2013)
title: UNA RIFLESSIONE SUL MODELLO DI BUSINESS DELLE VILLE VESUVIANE
Creators: name: Vellecco, Immacolata
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2017

description: L’area vesuviana deve la sua notorietà soprattutto al patrimonio archeologico relativo all’eruzione vulcanica del 79d.c. Il territorio è dotato di altre risorse altresì preziose ma meno note. Le Ville Vesuviane, un insieme di 122 edifici del XVIII secolo, sono testimonianza di un periodo storico di grande splendore legato al regno di Carlo III di Borbone. I risultati di esercizio negativi, sebbene in progressiva riduzione dal 2009, sono attualmente al centro di un dibattito che, come si auspica, dovrebbe contribuire a ridefinire scelte gestionali compatibili con obiettivi di sostenibilità economica. Nel tentativo di contribuire alla riflessione collettiva sul futuro di tale patrimonio culturale, il lavoro si propone di analizzare le logiche e le criticità che hanno ispirato la gestione, con lo scopo di evidenziare possibili scelte di cambiamento e pervenire ad un nuovo e più sostenibile modello di business.




Parole chiave: patrimonio culturale, modello di business, sostenibilità
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, V. 17 N. 2 (2017): Circular Models for Systemic Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage and Landscape
Hemoglobin binding, heme extraction and heme transfer by the Staphylococcus aureus surface protein IsdB
Creators: name: Bowden, Catherine F. M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus is a common member of the normal human flora, but can also cause serious infections. Survival and growth of S. aureus is dependent on the acquisition of iron from the host, wherein the majority of iron occurs as part of the heme molecule in the oxygen-carrier protein hemoglobin (Hb). S. aureus possesses a system of proteins designed to use heme and hemoglobin as an iron source: the iron-regulated surface determinant (Isd) system. IsdB is the primary Hb receptor and extracts heme from Hb at the cell surface for transfer to IsdA or IsdC, which then transfer it to the membrane transporter for internalization. IsdB contains two NEAT domains (IsdB-N1 and IsdB-N2) which were hypothesized to carry out the Hb-binding, heme binding and heme transfer functions of the protein. Heme binding by IsdB-N2 was characterized biochemically and the crystal structure of heme-reconstituted IsdB-N2 was solved. IsdB-N2 bore the canonical eight-stranded β-sandwich NEAT domain fold and used a conserved Tyr residue to coordinate heme-iron, as well as a non-conserved Met residue, resulting in a novel Tyr-Met hexacoordinate heme-iron. Biochemical differences between equivalent mutations produced in IsdBN² and IsdBN¹N² introduced the possibility of intraprotein domain interactions. The molecular mechanism for heme transfer from IsdB-N2 to IsdA-N1 was investigated using stopped-flow spectroscopy and the kinetics of heme transfer from IsdB-N2 to IsdA-N1 were modeled. The rate of heme transfer between the isolated NEAT domains was similar to that measured for the full-length proteins. Only a recombinant construct with both domains in a contiguous unit (IsdBN¹N²) could bind Hb with high affinity. Spectroscopic analysis demonstrated that both domains were also required to extract heme from Hb. In a reconstituted model of the biological heme relay pathway, IsdB catalyzed heme transfer from Hb to IsdA at a rate 370-fold slower than heme transfer from IsdBN² to IsdAN¹, revealing that heme transfer from Hb to IsdB is the rate-limiting step in this pathway. Finally, the serum Hb-binding protein haptoglobin blocked heme uptake from Hb by IsdB, revealing new areas for exploration of function. These studies provide insight into mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions during infection.
Can a regional climate model reproduce observed extreme temperatures?
Creators: name: Craigmile, Peter F.
name: Guttorp, Peter
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: Doksum shift function; generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution; hierarchical Bayesian model; seasonal minima; spatio-temporal modeling

description: Using output from a regional Swedish climate model and observations from the Swedish synoptic observational network, we compare seasonal minimum temperatures from model output and observations using marginal extreme value modeling techniques. We make seasonal comparisons using generalized extreme value models and empirically estimate the shift in the distribution as a function of the regional climate model values, using the Doksum shift function. Spatial and temporal comparisons over south central Sweden are made by building hierarchical Bayesian generalized extreme value models for the observed minima and regional climate model output. Generally speaking the regional model is surprisingly well calibrated for minimum temperatures. We do detect a problem in the regional model to produce minimum temperatures close to 0◦C. The seasonal spatial effects are quite similar between data and regional model. The observations indicate relatively strong warming, especially in the northern region. This signal is present in the regional model, but is not as strong.
description: Statistica, Vol 73, No 1 (2013)