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Lower bound limit analysis by bem: Convex optimization problem and incremental approach
2013
Abstract The lower bound limit approach of the classical plasticity theory is rephrased using the Multidomain Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method, under conditions of plane and initial strains, ideal plasticity and associated flow rule. The new formulation couples a multidomain procedure with nonlinear programming techniques and defines the self-equilibrium stress field by an equation involving all the substructures (bem-elements) of the discretized system. The analysis is performed in a canonical form as a convex optimization problem with quadratic constraints, in terms of discrete variables, and implemented using the Karnak.sGbem code coupled with the optimization toolbox by MatLab…
Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: development assistance and domestic spending on health between 1990 and 2026
2023
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in health surveillance systems, disease prevention, and treatment globally. Among the many factors that might have led to these gaps is the issue of the financing of national health systems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), as well as a robust global system for pandemic preparedness. We aimed to provide a comparative assessment of global health spending at the onset of the pandemic; characterise the amount of development assistance for pandemic preparedness and response disbursed in the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic; and examine expectations for future health spending and put into context the expected ne…
Measurement of top-quark polarisation observables and a search for dark matter in single-top-quark production with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
2022
Esta tesis presenta dos análisis diferentes basados en los datos resultantes de colisiones protón-protón a una energía en el centro de masas de 13 TeV recolectados con el detector ATLAS del LHC, correspondientes a una luminosidad integrada de 139 fb$^{-1}$. El primer análisis presenta una medida de secciones eficaces diferenciales normalizadas del canal de producción de quarks top en solitario $t$-channel, donde el quark top se desintegra leptónicamente, como función de los tres ángulos de polarización del leptón para eventos con quarks top y quarks antitop tanto separadamente como de forma inclusiva. Estos observables son particularmente sensibles a efectos de nueva física en el vértice $t…
Children's exploration of the concepts of home and belonging: Capturing views from five European countries.
2021
Understanding one's sense of belonging is a central part of identity formation and self-awareness; feeling safe somewhere, with specific people is identified as a basic human need. This paper explores the ideas of children from three age groups in five different European as they discussed the concepts of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’. Findings showed that the children's ideas could be organised into six interrelated aspects: Spatiality, Materiality, Multiplicity, Social Relations, Affect, and Dislocation. Whilst there were differences in the ways that the children conceptualised home across the classes, even the youngest children were able to describe their ideas using metaphors and abstract conce…
The Relationship between Minority Stress and Depressive Symptoms in the LGBTQA Population from Poland
2023
The cross-sectional study examines minority stress and depression symptoms regarding various sexual and gender minority (SGM) identities in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA) individuals from Poland. The online survey was conducted among 509 people. Participants aged between 18 and 47 (M = 22.39, SD = 4.78). Gender identity included 262 cisgender women, 74 cisgender men, 31 transgender women, 53 transgender men, and 89 nonbinary individuals. Sexual identity comprises 197 bisexual, 150 homosexual, 78 pansexual, 33 asexual, 21 undefined, 14 heterosexual, 9 demisexuals, 6 queer, and 1 sapiosexual individual. The Daily Heterosexist Experiences Questionnaire (DHEQ) …
Omontrasfobia: bavaglio a misura dei genitori
2020
Dietro la proposta di Legge dell’on. Zan c’è un attacco alla libertà di pensiero tutelata dall’art. 21 della Costituzione italiana e una limitazione alla libertà educativa dei genitori. Nei Paesi dove leggi analoghe sono in vigore lo Stato è già intervenuto a modificare l’orientamento sessuale dei giovani appoggiandosi unicamente su psicologi e medici favorevoli alla fluidità sessuale e senza il consenso parentale. Behind the Zan law proposal, there is an attack on freedom of thought protected by art. 21 of the Italian Constitution and a restriction on the educational freedom of parents. In countries, where similar laws already exist, the State has already intervened to change the sexual or…
Strain energy evaluation in structures having zone-wise physical-mechanical quantities
2013
Kultura muzyczna Zgromadzenia Sióstr Karmelitanek Dzieciątka Jezus na podstawie śpiewnika Florete flores
2022
Wśród wielu obecnych w Polsce zgromadzeń zakonnych odnaleźć można te, które budują swoją tożsamość wokół duchowej spuścizny proroka Eliasza i Najświętszej Maryi Panny z Góry Karmel. Pierwotnie był to pustelniczy zakon braci karmelitów, następnie dołączyły do nich siostry karmelitanki bose. Od 100 lat do rodziny karmelitańskiej należy także Zgromadzenie Sióstr Karmelitanek Dzieciątka Jezus. Muzyka stanowi istotny element życia wspólnotowego sióstr. W trosce o zachowanie od zapomnienia najdawniejszych śpiewów oraz podtrzymywanie zwyczajów wspólnoty, karmelitanki przygotowały zbiór Floreteflores... Śpiewnik Zgromadzenia Sióstr Karmelitanek Dzieciątka Jezus. Został on wydany w 2015 roku w Marka…
Shared feature representations of LiDAR and optical images: Trading sparsity for semantic discrimination
2015
This paper studies the level of complementary information conveyed by extremely high resolution LiDAR and optical images. We pursue this goal following an indirect approach via unsupervised spatial-spectral feature extraction. We used a recently presented unsupervised convolutional neural network trained to enforce both population and lifetime spar-sity in the feature representation. We derived independent and joint feature representations, and analyzed the sparsity scores and the discriminative power. Interestingly, the obtained results revealed that the RGB+LiDAR representation is no longer sparse, and the derived basis functions merge color and elevation yielding a set of more expressive…