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(S)legati (d)al lavoro. Adulti giovani e occupazione tra ricomposizione e frammentazione sociale
2005
First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector
2011
We report on the first search for atmospheric and for diffuse astrophysical neutrino-induced showers (cascades) in the IceCube detector using 257 days of data collected in the year 2007-2008 with 22 strings active. A total of 14 events with energies above 16 TeV remained after event selections in the diffuse analysis, with an expected total background contribution of $8.3\pm 3.6$. At 90% confidence we set an upper limit of $E^2\Phi_{90%CL}<3.6\times10^{-7} GeV \cdot cm^{-2} \cdot s^{-1}\cdot sr^{-1} $ on the diffuse flux of neutrinos of all flavors in the energy range between 24 TeV and 6.6 PeV assuming that $\Phi \propto E^{-2}$ and that the flavor composition of the $\nu_e : \nu_\mu : \nu…
Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts
2022
Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly used for visiting historic places. Research on VR experiences in dark tourism (that focuses on mortality) focuses almost exclusively on adults. No studies were found that used virtual tours to engage children with their own country’s conflicts. The present study addresses this gap by designing and developing virtual tours in four cities of Europe with a troubled past. Virtual tours engage children and youth in historical conflicts using multi-perspective storytelling. The aim of this pre-test post-test comparative case study is to examine the change on students’ perceptions of their country’s troubled past after their interaction with a virtual tour of t…
Benchmarking Wilms’ tumor in multisequence MRI data: why does current clinical practice fail? Which popular segmentation algorithms perform well?
2019
Wilms' tumor is one of the most frequent malignant solid tumors in childhood. Accurate segmentation of tumor tissue is a key step during therapy and treatment planning. Since it is difficult to obtain a comprehensive set of tumor data of children, there is no benchmark so far allowing evaluation of the quality of human or computer-based segmentations. The contributions in our paper are threefold: (i) we present the first heterogeneous Wilms' tumor benchmark data set. It contains multisequence MRI data sets before and after chemotherapy, along with ground truth annotation, approximated based on the consensus of five human experts. (ii) We analyze human expert annotations and interrater varia…
Visualización interactiva de terrenos extensos en entornos distribuidos sobre redes mixtas P2P y cliente-servidor
2010
En los últimos años se ha producido una gran demanda de aplicaciones dedicadas a la visualización interactiva de terrenos en entornos distribuidos. Esta demanda ha estado motivada, entre otros motivos, por el aumento de la cantidad y precisión de la información de las bases de datos del terreno y el aumento de las líneas de conexión de banda ancha y la facilidad de acceso a las mismas. Este tipo de aplicaciones tienen que hacer frente a varios problemas. Uno de ellos es la gestión de la ingente cantidad de información que contienen las bases de datos del terreno que emplean, la cual no puede ser representada simultáneamente en pantalla con una velocidad de refresco adecuada, ya que sobrepas…
Modelling estimation and analysis of dynamic processes from image sequences using temporal random closed sets and point processes with application to…
2010
In this thesis, new models and methodologies are introduced for the analysis of dynamic processes characterized by image sequences with spatial temporal overlapping. The spatial temporal overlapping exists in many natural phenomena and should be addressed properly in several Science disciplines such as Microscopy, Material Sciences, Biology, Geostatistics or Communication Networks. This work is related to the Point Process and Random Closed Set theories, within Stochastic Geometry. The proposed models are an extension of Boolean Models in R2 by adding a temporal dimension. The study has been motivated for its application in a multidisciplinary project that combined Statistics, Computer Scie…
Actores sintéticos en tiempo real: Nuevas estructuras de datos y métodos para su integración en aplicaciones de simulación.
2004
La forma más extendida de implementar una aplicación de simulación es mediante la utilización de un grafo de escena. Este tipo de estructura resulta muy adecuado para definir escenas estáticas, pero presenta serias carencias a la hora de representar estructuras articuladas, u objetos con comportamientos complejos. Ambas circunstancias se dan en el caso de los actores virtuales.Este trabajo define nuevas estructuras de datos y métodos que permiten integrar de una forma adecuada actores virtuales en una aplicación de simulación:1-Se presentan dos nuevos tipos de nodos (Actor y Skeleton), que actúan como elemento modular para la definición y gestión de cualquier tipo de actor virtual. En el di…
The inhibitor of differentiation-1 (Id1) enables lung cancer liver colonization through activation of an EMT program in tumor cells and establishment…
2017
Abstract: Id1 promotes carcinogenesis and metastasis, and predicts prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)-adenocarcionoma patients. We hypothesized that Id1 may play a critical role in lung cancer colonization of the liver by affecting both tumor cells and the microenvironment. Depleted levels of Id1 in LLC (Lewis lung carcinoma cells, LLC shId1) significantly reduced cell proliferation and migration in vitro. Genetic loss of Id1 in the host tissue (Id1(-/-) mice) impaired liver colonization and increased survival of Id1 animals. Histologically, the presence of Idl in tumor cells of liver metastasis was responsible for liver colonization. Microarray analysis comparing liver tumor n…
Update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
2014
We present an update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord (BLHA) to standardise the interface between Monte Carlo programs and codes providing one-loop matrix elements.
AnyDSL: a partial evaluation framework for programming high-performance libraries
2023
This paper advocates programming high-performance code using partial evaluation. We present a clean-slate programming system with a simple, annotation-based, online partial evaluator that operates on a CPS-style intermediate representation. Our system exposes code generation for accelerators (vectorization/parallelization for CPUs and GPUs) via compiler-known higher-order functions that can be subjected to partial evaluation. This way, generic implementations can be instantiated with target-specific code at compile time. In our experimental evaluation we present three extensive case studies from image processing, ray tracing, and genome sequence alignment. We demonstrate that using partial …