cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
About the posterior distribution in hidden Markov models with unknown number of states
Creators: name: Gassiat, Elisabeth
name: Rousseau, Judith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider finite state space stationary hidden Markov models (HMMs) in the situation where the number of hidden states is unknown. We provide a frequentist asymptotic evaluation of Bayesian analysis methods. Our main result gives posterior concentration rates for the marginal densities, that is for the density of a fixed number of consecutive observations. Using conditions on the prior, we are then able to define a consistent Bayesian estimator of the number of hidden states. It is known that the likelihood ratio test statistic for overfitted HMMs has a nonstandard behaviour and is unbounded. Our conditions on the prior may be seen as a way to penalize parameters to avoid this phenomenon. Inference of parameters is a much more difficult task than inference of marginal densities, we still provide a precise description of the situation when the observations are i.i.d. and we allow for $2$ possible hidden states.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/13-BEJ550 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
N2 Collisional Broadening Of Methane In The Thz Region Measured At The Soleil Synchrotron
Creators: name: Boudon, V.
name: Gabard, T.
name: Pirali, O.
name: Roy, P.
name: Brubach, J.-B.
name: Manceron, L.
name: Vander Auwerad, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astronomical spectroscopy
HITRAN

description: Recently, we recorded the THz centrifugal distortion-induced spectrum of methane using synchrotron radiation at the SOLEIL facility. Intensities of pure rotation lines of CH4 were precisely measured, from which the induced dipole moment of this weak spectrum, of great interest for planetology, was accurately inferred. This study should in particular help to measure methane concentrations in Titan’s atmosphere. Here, we continue the work by presenting spectra of CH4/N2 mixtures, again recorded with a 150 m optical path in a White cell and a Bruker IFS 125 HR FTIR spectrometer at the AILES beamline of SOLEIL. More precisely, the spectra were recorded with 5 % of CH4 in N2 at various total pressures (ca. 100, 200, 400, 600 and 800 mbar). These spectra will allow to measure collisional broadening and shift coefficients, as well as line-mixing parameters, with N2 as a perturber (like in Titan’s atmosphere).
description: Session V-8.
description: {"references": ["None given"]}
Setting Up a Green Comb: A How to Guide
Creators: name: Abbruzzese, Gianluca
name: ACOMI, Nicoleta
name: ACOMI, OVIDIU
name: GONZALEZ, Marta Burgos
name: Lanzetta, Miriam
name: Mangiullo, Angela
name: Maravelaki, Anastasia
name: Sofianou, Dimitra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Green Hive is a Cooperation partnership in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) field co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Implemented by a consortium of five entities, such as the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest-TUS (Ireland), the companies Lascò (Italy) and Femxa (Spain), and the non-profit and non-governmental organisations KEAN-Cell of Alternative Youth Activities (Greece) and Team 4 Excellence (Romania), the project aims to increase the capacity of VET providers to prepare learners for the green transition by developing a European platform-based ecosystem for sustainability education called the "Green Hive".

The Green Hive will consist of localised hubs for sustainability education, namely the "Green Combs," established within VET providers. While the Hive will be an open and cross-sectoral long-term cooperation network dedicated to innovation, continuous improvement and co-creation in sustainability education, the Combs will make VET providers the managing centre of networks of local stakeholders (i.e., companies, representatives of universities, civil society organisations and professional associations) for learning, networking and cooperating on sustainability challenges.

The document provides a comprehensive guide for setting up a sustainable educational initiative like Green Combs. The guide covers various aspects essential for the successful setup and operation of these hubs, including governance, organization, community management, activities, tools, and collaboration with the broader Green Hive ecosystem.

Overall, the guide offers a robust framework for establishing and advancing sustainability education initiatives by leveraging strategic analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and innovative thinking tools to drive positive change in educational practices towards a more sustainable future. It can be used as a roadmap for individuals or organizations involved in establishing sustainable community hubs under the Green Hive project by providing detailed instructions on governance, organization, community management, activities, tools, and collaboration strategies.

This publication has received funding from the European Commission under Grant Agreement number 2022-2-IE01-KA220-VET-000097215, Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership project "Green Hive".
Gravito-electromagnetic analogies
Creators: name: Costa, L. Filipe O.
name: Natário, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reexamine and further develop different gravito-electromagnetic (GEM) analogies found in the literature, and clarify the connection between them. Special emphasis is placed in two exact physical analogies: the analogy based on inertial fields from the so-called "1+3 formalism", and the analogy based on tidal tensors. Both are reformulated, extended and generalized. We write in both formalisms the Maxwell and the full exact Einstein field equations with sources, plus the algebraic Bianchi identities, which are cast as the source-free equations for the gravitational field. New results within each approach are unveiled. The well known analogy between linearized gravity and electromagnetism in Lorentz frames is obtained as a limiting case of the exact ones. The formal analogies between the Maxwell and Weyl tensors are also discussed, and, together with insight from the other approaches, used to physically interpret gravitational radiation. The precise conditions under which a similarity between gravity and electromagnetism occurs are discussed, and we conclude by summarizing the main outcome of each approach.
description: 60 pages, 2 figures. Improved version (compared to v2) with some re-write, notation improvements and a new figure that match the published version; expanded compared to the published version to include Secs. 2.3 and 4
Setting Up a Green Comb: A How to Guide
Creators: name: Abbruzzese, Gianluca
name: ACOMI, Nicoleta
name: ACOMI, OVIDIU
name: GONZALEZ, Marta Burgos
name: Lanzetta, Miriam
name: Mangiullo, Angela
name: Maravelaki, Anastasia
name: Sofianou, Dimitra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Green Hive is a Cooperation partnership in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) field co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Implemented by a consortium of five entities, such as the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest-TUS (Ireland), the companies Lascò (Italy) and Femxa (Spain), and the non-profit and non-governmental organisations KEAN-Cell of Alternative Youth Activities (Greece) and Team 4 Excellence (Romania), the project aims to increase the capacity of VET providers to prepare learners for the green transition by developing a European platform-based ecosystem for sustainability education called the "Green Hive".

The Green Hive will consist of localised hubs for sustainability education, namely the "Green Combs," established within VET providers. While the Hive will be an open and cross-sectoral long-term cooperation network dedicated to innovation, continuous improvement and co-creation in sustainability education, the Combs will make VET providers the managing centre of networks of local stakeholders (i.e., companies, representatives of universities, civil society organisations and professional associations) for learning, networking and cooperating on sustainability challenges.

The document provides a comprehensive guide for setting up a sustainable educational initiative like Green Combs. The guide covers various aspects essential for the successful setup and operation of these hubs, including governance, organization, community management, activities, tools, and collaboration with the broader Green Hive ecosystem.

Overall, the guide offers a robust framework for establishing and advancing sustainability education initiatives by leveraging strategic analysis, stakeholder collaboration, and innovative thinking tools to drive positive change in educational practices towards a more sustainable future. It can be used as a roadmap for individuals or organizations involved in establishing sustainable community hubs under the Green Hive project by providing detailed instructions on governance, organization, community management, activities, tools, and collaboration strategies.

This publication has received funding from the European Commission under Grant Agreement number 2022-2-IE01-KA220-VET-000097215, Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership project "Green Hive".
Predicting Half-Widths And Line Shifts For Water Vapor Transitions On The Hitemp Database
Creators: name: Gamache, Robert R.
name: Rothman, Laurence S.
name: Gordonb, Iouli E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astronomical spectroscopy
HITRAN

description: The HITEMP database1 provides molecular spectroscopic parameters for high-temperature modeling of the spectra of molecules in the gas phase. Currently there are 5 molecular species on the database; H2O, CO2, CO, NO, OH. For H2O there are now transitions that have rotational quantum numbers up to J=50 and many transitions where the vibrational quantum numbers and prolate and oblate limit pseudo-quantum numbers (Ka and Kc) are not known. Line shape parameters are not available for most of these transitions. We have developed a method to determine these line shape parameters for the 3 most abundant isotopologues of water based on the Semi-empirical approach of Jacquemart etal.2 and an algorithm that estimates the number of vibrational quanta exchanged in the transition. Thus, vibrational dependence of the line shape parameters, which has been found to be important for H2O3, is taken into account for many transitions. When the parameters are not available from this new algorithm, average half-widhts as a function of J” are determined from a polynomial fit of validated calculated data. The results of the new algorithm and the J-averaged half-widths are compared with the values found on the 2008 version of the HITRAN database.
description: Poster session PII-8.
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(Re)constructing (re)settlement: risk reduction and urban development negotiations in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Creators: name: Collado, Jose Rafael Núñez
name: Potangaroa, Regan
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 160599 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified

description: No description supplied
Understanding public service provision using digital technologies during COVID-19 lockdowns in New Zealand through a complexity theory lens
Creators: name: Lips, Anna
name: Eppel, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Complexity theory is used to explore an exemplar of how digital government services evolved under conditions of uncertainty and rapid change created by COVID-19 in 2020. Based on a qualitative, constructivist research design, informed by interviews with key senior public servants and document analysis, the complexity lens helps us to understand how provisions of digital public services were quickly adapted and evolved to meet new and emerging needs experienced because of the pandemic. Means for making collective sense of the unknown from which to plan first steps, learning from doing, agility, co-construction and adaptive leadership are in evidence.[This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43508-022-00057-8]
ISSUES OF IMPROVING LEGAL EDUCATION FOR YOUTH IN UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Head Teacher of the Tashkent Academic Lyceum No. 1 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Candidate of Legal Sciences A.	Kulakhmetov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article provides a thorough scientific analysis of the current state of legal education for youth in the Republic of Uzbekistan, methods to enhance their legal knowledge and literacy, as well as the legal policies implemented in this area by the state.

Key words: Youth, youth policy, legal education, legal literacy, legal upbringing
From duality to determinants for q-TASEP and ASEP
Creators: name: Borodin, Alexei
name: Corwin, Ivan
name: Sasamoto, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove duality relations for two interacting particle systems: the $q$-deformed totally asymmetric simple exclusion process ($q$-TASEP) and the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP). Expectations of the duality functionals correspond to certain joint moments of particle locations or integrated currents, respectively. Duality implies that they solve systems of ODEs. These systems are integrable and for particular step and half-stationary initial data we use a nested contour integral ansatz to provide explicit formulas for the systems' solutions, and hence also the moments. We form Laplace transform-like generating functions of these moments and via residue calculus we compute two different types of Fredholm determinant formulas for such generating functions. For ASEP, the first type of formula is new and readily lends itself to asymptotic analysis (as necessary to reprove GUE Tracy--Widom distribution fluctuations for ASEP), while the second type of formula is recognizable as closely related to Tracy and Widom's ASEP formula [Comm. Math. Phys. 279 (2008) 815--844, J. Stat. Phys. 132 (2008) 291--300, Comm. Math. Phys. 290 (2009) 129--154, J. Stat. Phys. 140 (2010) 619--634]. For $q$-TASEP, both formulas coincide with those computed via Borodin and Corwin's Macdonald processes [Probab. Theory Related Fields (2014) 158 225--400]. Both $q$-TASEP and ASEP have limit transitions to the free energy of the continuum directed polymer, the logarithm of the solution of the stochastic heat equation or the Hopf--Cole solution to the Kardar--Parisi--Zhang equation. Thus, $q$-TASEP and ASEP are integrable discretizations of these continuum objects; the systems of ODEs associated to their dualities are deformed discrete quantum delta Bose gases; and the procedure through which we pass from expectations of their duality functionals to characterizing generating functions is a rigorous version of the replica trick in physics.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP868 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
A large deviation principle for Wigner matrices without Gaussian tails
Creators: name: Bordenave, Charles
name: Caputo, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider $n\times n$ Hermitian matrices with i.i.d. entries $X_{ij}$ whose tail probabilities $\mathbb {P}(|X_{ij}|\geq t)$ behave like $e^{-at^α}$ for some $a>0$ and $α\in(0,2)$. We establish a large deviation principle for the empirical spectral measure of $X/\sqrt{n}$ with speed $n^{1+α/2}$ with a good rate function $J(μ)$ that is finite only if $μ$ is of the form $μ=μ_{\mathrm{sc}}\boxplusν$ for some probability measure $ν$ on $\mathbb {R}$, where $\boxplus$ denotes the free convolution and $μ_{\mathrm{sc}}$ is Wigner's semicircle law. We obtain explicit expressions for $J(μ_{\mathrm{sc}}\boxplusν)$ in terms of the $α$th moment of $ν$. The proof is based on the analysis of large deviations for the empirical distribution of very sparse random rooted networks.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP866 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
PATHOGENIC ROLE OF MICROGLIA-DERIVED MICROVESICLES IN NEURODEGENERATION
Creators: name: JOSHI, POOJA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The characteristic feature of Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is the presence of extracellular amyloid-beta (Abeta) plaques, which are surrounded by activated microglial cells. Microglial cells during the long course of the disease can induce neuroinflammation and drive neurodegeneration. Recent evidence indicates that neuroinflammation negatively co-relates with cognitive state in AD. Furthermore it?s well accepted now that soluble pre-fibrillar Abeta species, rather than insoluble fibrils, are the most toxic forms of Abeta. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that plaque load reaches plateau before the clinical onset of AD. We investigated whether membrane microvesicles (MVs) released extracellularly by reactive microglia may contribute to AD degeneration. We found that production of myeloid MVs is strikingly high in AD patients and in subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and that AD MVs are toxic for cultured neurons. We demonstrated the mechanism responsible for MV neurotoxicity in vitro, using MVs produced by primary microglia. We found that MV lipids can promote formation of soluble A? species from extracellular insoluble aggregates. Moreover we showed that MVs can be carriers of neurotoxic A? forms that are trafficked to MVs after internalization into microglia. Neurotoxicity of MVs was neutralized by the A? interacting protein PrP and anti- A? antibodies, which prevented binding to neurons of neurotoxic soluble A? species. Finally, administration of the MV shedding inhibitor FTY720 for a period of 6 weeks significantly improved memory performance and reduced brain inflammation in APP/PS1 mice. This study identifies microglial MVs as a novel mechanism by which reactive microglia contribute to AD degeneration and suggests that FTY720, by inhibiting MV shedding can ameliorate the pathophisiology and cognitive defects in a mouse AD model.
A. McWhirr, L. Viner and C. Wells, Cirencester Excavations 2
Creators: name: Cleary, Simon Esmonde
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: A. McWhirr, L. Viner and C. Wells, Cirencester Excavations 2. Romano-British Cemeteries at Cirencester. Cirencester Excavations Committee 1982. 220 pages, 5 microfiche
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 184.1984: Bonner Jahrbücher
New Tools For Storing And Accessing Spectroscopic Data: The Development Of An Xml Schema For The Hitran Database
Creators: name: Hill, Christian
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astronomical spectroscopy
HITRAN

description: HITRAN was designed 40 years ago with a fixed-format suitable for punch-cards. Over time this format has expanded but not fundamentally changed, and its inflexibility is now a major constraint on the information that it can store. A new relational database model for HITRAN and the software tools necessary to query it have been developed and a trial version is available at the URL http://msslsc.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/. The selected data can be returned in various popular formats, including as an ASCII text table, VOTable, and the native 160-byte HITRAN line format. An XML Schema, XSAMS, for representing spectroscopic data, developed as part of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) project, is presented. This EU-funded initiative aims to build a flexible and interoperable e-science environment for the communication of atomic and molecular data. Spectroscopic data represented in XSAMS format carries explicit metadata describing its source and accuracy; this format allows data from different sources to be compared and merged, and has been extended to allow the inclusion of absorption cross section data and relaxation matrix elements for the description of line-mixing effects. XSAMS is currently implemented by several other molecular databases including the CDMS/JPL line list and BASECOL.
description: Session VI-2.
description: {"references": ["None given"]}
An Arakelov-Theoretic Approach to Naïve Heights on Hyperelliptic Jacobians
Creators: name: Holmes, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G30, 11G50, 37P30

description: We use Arakelov theory to define a height on divisors of degree zero on a hyperelliptic curve over a global field, and show that this height has computably bounded difference from the Néron-Tate height of the corresponding point on the Jacobian. We give an algorithm to compute the set of points of bounded height with respect to this new height. This provides an `in principle' solution to the problem of determining the sets of points of bounded Néron-Tate heights on the Jacobian. We give a worked example of how to compute the bound over a global function field for several curves, of genera up to 11.
description: 27 pages. Completely rewritten, now includes worked examples over global function fields
CHRONOLOGY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN METAFICTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Creators: name: Sobirova Nurxon Barot kizi Bukhara State University, A PhD student
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Postmodern metafiction has evolved through distinct literary movements, characterized by self-referentiality, intertextuality, and the destabilization of narrative authority. This study examines the chronological development of postmodern metafiction by analyzing key authors and their narrative peculiarities. From the early metafictional experiments of Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov to the self-aware narratives of Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, the paper explores how metafictional techniques have been employed across different decades. Through a comparative analysis, this study identifies the recurring themes and structural innovations that define postmodern metafiction as a literary phenomenon
Strong coupling asymptotics for a singular Schroedinger operator with an interaction supported by an open arc
Creators: name: Exner, Pavel
name: Pankrashkin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a singular Schrödinger operator in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)$ written formally as $-Δ- βδ(x-γ)$ where $γ$ is a $C^4$ smooth open arc in $\mathbb{R}^2$ of length $L$ with regular ends. It is shown that the $j$th negative eigenvalue of this operator behaves in the strong-coupling limit, $β\to +\infty$, asymptotically as \[ E_j(β)=-\frac{β^2}{4} +μ_j +\mathcal{O}\Big(\dfrac{\logβ}β\Big), \] where $μ_j$ is the $j$th Dirichlet eigenvalue of the operator \[ -\frac{d^2}{ds^2} -\frac{κ(s)^2}{4}\, \] on $L^2(0,L)$ with $κ(s)$ being the signed curvature of $γ$ at the point $s\in(0,L)$.
description: 19 pages
Jpl Catalog Upgrades: New Tools, New Formats And New Interfaces
Creators: name: Drouin, Brian J.
name: Yu, Shanshan
name: Pearson, John C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astronomical spectroscopy
HITRAN

description: A makeover of the JPL Millimeter and Submillimeter Spectral Line Catalog has begun. This process is intended to provide ‘single-line-access’ to users and virtual astronomy facilities through a server/query interface. In order to provide these users with the maximum amount of reliability and trace-ability, the database format (traditionally ascii-text files on an http/ftp server) has been expanded to include data and data-sources in a format where the measurement data is listed independently of the model predicted line information. This information, although still accessible through the source textfiles, is also compiled into a MySQL database. This methodology allows merging of measurement and prediction to be done at the meta-data level and gives the user quick access to the literature source. Several databases (inlcuding the NIST rest frequencies and CDMS) with common information are each following a common methodology outlined for unified access to users via a ‘virtual observatory’. Along with common formats, a special internet protocol, ‘Single-Line-Access-Protocol’ (SLAP) is to be instituted on the web-servers where these databases reside. This should enable the next generation of spectroscopic tools (i.e. atmospheric and astrophysical models) to be built on a flexible data layer which can access new database additions and changes without the need for localizing the information. Through the upgrade process we intend to update and improve the current listings of the JPL catalog, with an emphasis on the trace-ability of the data to its source literature. The advent of grand modeling tools that support ever larger projects has the potential of leaving the data sources long forgotten. We intend to vitalize and encourage the linking of spectroscopic observations to the fundamental laboratory spectroscopy that forms the foundation of remote sensing.
description: Session VI-4.
description: {"references": ["None given"]}
Vitamin D Improves Treatment of Feline Chronic Gingivostomatitis by Enhancing Autophagy
Creators: name: Yung-Kai Huang
name: Hung-Ming Chang
name: Ming-Thau Sheu
name: Chung-Wei Chen
name: Shen, Ming-Yi
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Veterinary Medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology
subject: Adjuvant therapy
subject: Autophagy
subject: Combined Modality Therapy
subject: Feline chronic gingivostomatitis (FCGS)
subject: Mucogingival replacement surgery (MGRS)
subject: Mucositis
subject: Oral Health
subject: Stomatitis
subject: Vitamin D

description: Background: While oral mucositis is a common condition in small animals, information on its prevention and treatment is limited. The objective of this study was to elucidate the autophagy pathways involved in developing oral mucositis and whether vitamin D can prevent this pathology. Methods: We examined 18 domestic cats with feline chronic gingivostomatitis (FCGS, a type of oral mucositis) that received surgery treatment and were subsequently administered fat or water-soluble vitamin D (200 ng/kg, PO, BID).
L'INIZIO DELLA CORSA: L'APPRENDISTATO POLITICO DEL GIOVANE BETTINO CRAXI
Creators: name: RIVA, ROBERTO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: ABSTRACT The aim of this elaborate is to reconstruct the political formation of Bettino Craxi. The dissertation is composed by an introduction, eight chapters and a conclusion. In the first chapter Craxi?s education and family behavior is analyzed. Also, it is reconstructed the time when Vittorio, Bettino?s father, is vice prefect of Milan and civil servant in Como. The first chapter analyses Craxi?s first political experience, when his father is candidate for the ?Popular front? in the 1948 elections. After that, it is underlined Craxi?s political activity in the ?Goliardia?, which was the representative university council. The next chapters follow Craxi?s growth in the Italian socialist Party. A particular attention is given to the steps towards the autonomy carried out by the socialist federation of Milan, led by Guido Mazzali, the political secretary. In the fifth chapter, Craxi?s activity in the town council as assessor to the bursary and then to care and benefaction is explored. Craxi assumes a key-role in the socialist group, principally during Aniasi administration. While Craxi is attending his mandate in the town hall, he continues his training in socialist Party?s federation. When he leaves ?Goliardia? and the young socialist movement, he becomes executive in the socialist union of Sesto San Giovanni, a city in which Craxi can experiment the hegemony of the communist Party. In the same years he attends the central committee for the ?autonomists? that are supporters of the national secretary Pietro Nenni. During the sixties, Craxi increases his role in the executive committee of Milan?s federation. Thus, in 1965, he becomes secretary of the province. Next years, he works to prepare the reunification with the social democratic that were separated since Palazzo Barberini congress, in 1947. The efforts of the reunification did not have positive electoral outcomes at the elections of 1968, and after fourteen months social democratic Party has opted for a scission. During those years, Craxi becomes organic to the national direction, but after the political response of 1968, he leaves his responsibility in the Lombard federation to dedicate himself to the national context. Thus, after social democratic disengagement, Craxi is involved in the activity in the central committee and in the direction. In May 1968, the politician is also elected in Italian Parliament. In this role, Craxi participates to some delegations and at the end of 1969, he exposes his agreement to the divorce law. In April 1970, Craxi becomes vice secretary of the socialist party. During his growth, Craxi is influenced by the numerous activities of the socialist federation and by the important figures that have characterized the debate in Milan during the fifty and the sixties.
FOREIGN POLICY CRISES: CASE STUDY OF PERU
Creators: name: LEON COLLANTES, JORGE ISMAEL
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: This research deals with the conditions under which foreign policy crises concerning small and peripheral powers outbreak, pretending by this way to close a literature gap mainly focused on superpowers and/or middle powers. If it is true that this kind of power strongly influences the regional and international environments, this study of other law-ranged power may offer significant information to a better understanding of foreign policy crises at all. Examining 211 cases, we have observed that certain prominent point of crises events and actor behavior are strongly associated to the occurrence of foreign policy crises involving low-ranged powers.
Projective deformations of weakly orderable hyperbolic Coxeter orbifolds
Creators: name: Choi, Suhyoung
name: Lee, Gye-Seon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50 (Primary), 57N16, 53A20, 53C15 (Secondary)

description: A Coxeter $n$-orbifold is an $n$-dimensional orbifold based on a polytope with silvered boundary facets. Each pair of adjacent facets meet on a ridge of some order $m$, whose neighborhood is locally modeled on ${\mathbb R}^n$ modulo the dihedral group of order $2m$ generated by two reflections. For $n \geq 3$, we study the deformation space of real projective structures on a compact Coxeter $n$-orbifold $Q$ admitting a hyperbolic structure. Let $e_+(Q)$ be the number of ridges of order $\geq 3$. A neighborhood of the hyperbolic structure in the deformation space is a cell of dimension $e_+(Q) - n$ if $n=3$ and $Q$ is weakly orderable, i.e., the faces of $Q$ can be ordered so that each face contains at most $3$ edges of order $2$ in faces of higher indices, or $Q$ is based on a truncation polytope.
description: 43 pages with 7 figures, to appear in Geometry & Topology
Spectral Line Parameters In The Ν9 Band Ofethane
Creators: name: Devi, V. Malathy
name: Benner, D. Chris
name: Rinsland, C. P.
name: Smith, M. A. H.
name: Sams, R. L.
name: Blake, T. A.
name: Flaud, J.-M.
name: Sung, K.
name: Brown, L. R.
name: Mantzf, A. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astronomical spectroscopy
HITRAN

description: Spectral line parameters, including line center positions, absolute line intensities, self- and N2-broadened halfwidth coefficients, and the temperature dependences of these halfwidth coefficients, have been measured for more than 1330 transitions in the ν9 band of ethane (C2H6) by applying a multispectrum nonlinear least squares analysis technique.1 We analyzed a total of 43 high-resolution (0.00156-0.005 cm−1) infrared absorption spectra recorded with two different Bruker Fourier transform spectrometers (at PNNL and at JPL) at various sample path lengths, pressures and temperatures. The ν9 fundamental of C2H6 is the strongest band in the terrestrial spectral window, and it is often used for ethane identification and abundance determination in remote sensing of planetary atmospheres. Torsional splittings are fairly large (dependent upon J;K) and measurable in several rQ and pQ sub-band structures. However, in the case of the rQ0 sub-band the two split components are completely obscured because of the overlap of Doppler-broadened J transitions. The results from the present study2 will be compared with other published data.
description: Session VIII-5.
description: {"references": ["None given"]}
Toward A Global Model Of Low-Lying Vibrational States Of Ch3Cn: Overview And Interactions In The Ν4 = 1 State At 920 Cm^-1 With Nearby States
Creators: name: Müller, Holger S. P.
name: Drouin, B. J.
name: Pearson, J. C.
name: Brown, L. R.
name: Kleiner, I.
name: Samsd, R. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Astronomical spectroscopy
HITRAN

description: Methyl cyanide, CH3CN, is an important interstellar molecule, in particular in hot and dense molecular cores, and it may play a role in the atmospheres of planets or of Titan. Therefore, we have recorded extensive rotational and rovibrational spectra up to ~ 1:6 THz and ~ 1500 cm−1, respectively. The present investigation extends our analysis of states with v8 ≤ 2 at vibrational energies below 740 cm−1,1 which will be summarized briefly, and takes into consideration findings from an analysis of the ν4 band and the higher-lying ν7 (at ~1042 cm−1) and 3ν1 8 (at ~1078 cm−1) bands.2 The rotational data extend to J = 87 and K = 15, infrared assignments currently extend to 55 and 12, respectively. Parameters affecting only v7 = 1 or v8 = 3 as well as some additional interaction parameters were kept fixed to values from (b). The largest perturbations of v4 = 1 are caused by a Δk = 0, Δl = 3 interaction with v8 = 3 at K = 8. Despite the inclusion of the interaction parameter and a centrifugal distortion correction, residuals amount to more than 200 MHz very close to the resonance. Removal of these residuals probably requires explicit inclusion of v8 = 3 data. Several additional perturbations exist at lower as well as higher K with v8 = 2, v7 = 1 and v8 = 3. Higher values of K are difficult to reproduce in spite of an extensive set of distortion parameters which, at highest orders, have rather large magnitudes, possibly indicating unaccounted interactions which would probably occur with states even higher than v8 = 3.
description: Session VIII-7.
description: {"references": ["None given"]}
Equivariant Topology of Configuration Spaces
Creators: name: Blagojević, Pavle V. M.
name: Lück, Wolfgang
name: Ziegler, Günter M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14N20, 55M30, 55Q91, 55S91, 52A37

description: We study the Fadell-Husseini index of the configuration space F(R^d,n) with respect to different subgroups of the symmetric group S_n. For p prime and d>0, we completely determine Index_{Z/p}(F(R^d,p);F_p) and partially describe Index{(Z/p)^k}(F(R^d,p^k);F_p). In this process we obtain results of independent interest, including: (1) an extended equivariant Goresky-MacPherson formula, (2) a complete description of the top homology of the partition lattice Pi_p as an F_p[Z_p]-module, and (3) a generalized Dold theorem for elementary abelian groups. The results on the Fadell-Husseini index yield a new proof of the Nandakumar & Ramana Rao conjecture for a prime. For n=p^k a prime power, we compute the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category cat(F(R^d,n)/S_n)=(d-1)(n-1). Moreover, we extend coincidence results related to the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, as obtained by Cohen & Connett, Cohen & Lusk, and Karasev & Volovikov.
description: 40 pages; J. Topology, to appear
Forward-backward asymmetry of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry (A[FB]) of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV is presented. The data sample, collected with the CMS detector, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5 inverse femtobarns. The asymmetry is measured as a function of dilepton mass and rapidity in the dielectron and dimuon channels. Combined results from the two channels are also presented. The A[FB] measurement in the dimuon channel and the combination of the two channels are the first such results obtained at a hadron collider. The measured asymmetries are consistent with the standard model predictions.
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Phylogenetic confidence intervals for the optimal trait value
Creators: name: Bartoszek, Krzysztof
name: Sagitov, Serik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60J70, 60J85, 62F25, 62M05, 62P10, 92B99

description: We consider a stochastic evolutionary model for a phenotype developing amongst n related species with unknown phylogeny. The unknown tree is modelled by a Yule process conditioned on n contemporary nodes. The trait value is assumed to evolve along lineages as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. As a result, the trait values of the n species form a sample with dependent observations. We establish three limit theorems for the sample mean corresponding to three domains for the adaptation rate. In the case of fast adaptation, we show that for large $n$ the normalized sample mean is approximately normally distributed. Using these limit theorems, we develop novel confidence interval formulae for the optimal trait value.
TRATTAMENTO CRONICO ED ASTINENZA DA NICOTINA: EFFETTI IN VIVO SULL'ESPRESSIONE DEI RECETTORI COLINERGICI NICOTINICI E GLUTAMMATERGICI NEL SNC DI RODITORI
Creators: name: PISTILLO, FRANCESCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Like many other drugs of abuse, nicotine has two effects that contribute to its additive properties: its reinforcing or rewarding properties, and the aversive abstinence syndrome that develops when it is precipitously withdrawn. These effects are due to neural adaptations that change whole cell physiology and behavior and are mainly due to nicotine?s interactions with neural nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Mice with different a4 and b2 subunit expression (wild-type, heterozygotes and null-mutant for each gene) where chronically treated with one of four doses of nicotine (0, 0.25, 1 or 4 mg/kg/h), than the mice treated with higher dose were exposed to 1, 4 or 14 days of withdrawal. Chronic nicotine treatment increases the density of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) binding sites both in wild-type and heterozygotes. These increases are most pronounced for the a4b2* nAChR subtype. The extent of the increase is dependent on the dose of nicotine administered and is saturable. Furthermore, the magnitude of the increase varies among brain regions. In the cortex nicotine also increases the expression of the a4b2 subtype with the (a4)2(b2)3 stoichiometry. a4 and b2 KO mice have little detectable nicotinic receptors that contain the a3b4 subunits and these receptors were unaffected by chronic nicotine treatment. We also analysed the expression of glutamatergic receptor subunits at the end of nicotine treatment (4mg/kg/h) and after 1, 4 or 14 days of withdrawal in two areas of mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic system: the Striatum and the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) . We found that after chronic treatment, in VTA synaptosomes there is a selective upregulation of GluA2/3 AMPA receptors whereas during withdrawal there is a significative increase in AMPA GluA1 receptors and NMDA receptors containing GluN1 and GluN2A subunits. In striatal synaptosomes after nicotine treatment there is a significant decrease of GluA2/3 AMPA receptors that is maintained during the 14 days nicotine withdrawal. At 4 days withdrawal there is a transient decrease in GluA1 AMPA and GluN1 and GluN2A containing NMDA receptors Our data suggest that ionotropic glutamate receptors are up regulated in the VTA early during nicotine withdrawal whereas they are down regulated in the striatum. These findings suggest that chronic nicotine selectively changes the levels of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits in a brain region-specific manner.
Search for pair production of first- and second-generation scalar leptoquarks in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented from a search for the pair production of first- and second-generation scalar leptoquarks in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 inverse femtobarns, collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. The search signatures involve either two charged leptons of the same-flavor (electrons or muons) and at least two jets, or a single charged lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse energy, and at least two jets. If the branching fraction of the leptoquark decay into a charged lepton and a quark is assumed to be beta = 1, leptoquark pair production is excluded at the 95% confidence level for masses below 830 GeV and 840 GeV for the first and second generations, respectively. For beta = 0.5, masses below 640 GeV and 650 GeV are excluded. These limits are the most stringent to date.
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ANALYSIS OF NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS AND EFFECTS OF NANDROLONE ADMINISTRATION IN A MOUSE MODEL FOR ALS
Creators: name: CAPPELLO, VALENTINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Several lines of evidence indicate that neuromuscular junction (NMJ) destruction and disassembly is an early phenomenon in the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) neurodegenerative disease. Here we analyzed by confocal and electron microscopy the NMJ structure in the diaphragm of Superoxide dismutase (SOD)1 G93A mice at symptom onset and we compared these observation with animals sacrificed at the pathological end stage. In young transgenic mice, which provide a model for familial ALS, the present findings showed marked denervation both in the diaphragm and in the gastrocnemius, which partially spares soleus muscle. At the clinical end stage even the soleus is slight denervated, but less severely than other muscles. In addition, the size of the synaptic vesicle (SV) pool was found reduced and alterations of mitochondria were observed in approximately 40% of the remaining presynaptic terminals. Treatment of SOD1 G93A mice with the anabolic steroid nandrolone during the presymptomatic stage preserved the diaphragm muscle mass and features indicative of synaptic activity, represented by the number of vesicles docked within 200 nm from the presynaptic membrane and area of acetylcholine receptor clusters. Furthermore, structural preservation of mitochondria was documented in presynaptic terminals, but innervation of diaphragm muscle fibers was only slightly increased in nandrolone-treated SOD1-mutant mice. Altogether the results point out and define fine structural alterations of diaphragm NMJs in the murine model of familial ALS at symptom onset, and indicate that nandrolone may prevent or delay structural alterations in NMJ mitochondria and stimulate presynaptic activity but does not prevent muscle denervation in the disease.
On Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian One-Step WENO Schemes for Stiff Hyperbolic Balance Laws
Creators: name: Dumbser, Michael
name: Uuriintsetseg, Ariunaa
name: Zanotti, Olindo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we present a new family of high order accurate Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian one-step WENO finite volume schemes for the solution of stiff hyperbolic balance laws. High order accuracy in space is obtained with a standard WENO reconstruction algorithm and high order in time is obtained using the local space-time discontinuous Galerkin method recently proposed in Dumbser, Enaux, and Toro (2008). In the Lagrangian framework considered here, the local space-time DG predictor is based on a weak formulation of the governing PDE on a moving space-time element. For the space-time basis and test functions we use Lagrange interpolation polynomials defined by tensor-product Gauss-Legendre quadrature points. The moving space-time elements are mapped to a reference element using an isoparametric approach, i.e. the space-time mapping is defined by the same basis functions as the weak solution of the PDE. We show some computational examples in one space-dimension for non-stiff and for stiff balance laws, in particular for the Euler equations of compressible gas dynamics, for the resistive relativistic MHD equations, and for the relativistic radiation hydrodynamics equations. Numerical convergence results are presented for the stiff case up to sixth order of accuracy in space and time and for the non-stiff case up to eighth order of accuracy in space and time.
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