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102. The XGIS imaging system onboard the THESEUS mission
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Gasent-Blesa, José Luis, Reglero, Víctor, Connell, Paul, Pinazo-Herrero, Benjamín, Navarro-González, Javier, Rodríguez-Martínez, Pedro, Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Caballero-García, María Dolores, Amati, Lorenzo, Labanti, Claudio, Mereghetti, Sandro, Frontera, Filippo, Campana, Riccardo, Orlandini, Mauro, Stephen, John, Terenzi, Luca, Evangelisti, Federico, Squerzanti, Stefano, Melchiorri, Michele, Fuschino, Fabio, De Rosa, Adriano, and Morgante, Gianluca
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Within the scientific goals of the THESEUS ESA/M5 candidate mission, a critical item is a fast (within a few s) and accurate (<15 arcmin) Gamma-Ray Burst and high-energy transient location from a few keV up to hard X-ray energy band. For that purpose, the signal multiplexing based on coded masks is the selected option to achieve this goal. This contribution is implemented by the XGIS Imaging System, based on that technique. The XGIS Imaging System has the heritage of previous payload developments: LEGRI/Minisat-01, INTEGRAL, UFFO/Lomonosov and ASIM/ISS. In particular the XGIS Imaging System is an upgrade of the ASIM system in operation since 2018 on the International Space Station. The scientific goal is similar: to detect a gamma-ray transient. But while ASIM focuses on Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, THESEUS aims for the GRBs. For each of the two XGIS Cameras, the coded mask is located at 630 mm from the detector layer. The coding pattern is implemented in a Tungsten plate (1 mm thickness) providing a good multiplexing capability up to 150 keV. In that way both XGIS detector layers (based on Si and CsI detectors) have imaging capabilities at the medium - hard X-ray domain. This is an improvement achieved during the current THESEUS Phase-A. The mask is mounted on top of a collimator that provides the mechanical assembly support, as well as good cosmic X-ray background shielding. The XGIS Imaging System preliminary structural and thermal design, and the corresponding analyses, are included in this contribution, as it is a preliminary performance evaluation., Comment: Proceedings of the SPIE 2020, paper 11444-278
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- 2021
103. The X/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) on-board THESEUS: design, main characteristics, and concept of operation
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Labanti, Claudio, Amati, Lorenzo, Frontera, Filippo, Mereghetti, Sandro, Gasent-Blesa, José Luis, Tenzer, Christoph, Orleanski, Piotr, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Campana, Riccardo, Fuschino, Fabio, Terenzi, Luca, Virgilli, Enrico, Morgante, Gianluca, Orlandini, Mauro, Butler, Reginald C., Stephen, John B., Auricchio, Natalia, De Rosa, Adriano, Da Ronco, Vanni, Evangelisti, Federico, Melchiorri, Michele, Squerzanti, Stefano, Fiorini, Mauro, Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Mele, Filippo, Gandola, Massimo, Malcovati, Piero, Grassi, Marco, Bellutti, Pierluigi, Borghi, Giacomo, Ficorella, Francesco, Picciotto, Antonino, Zanini, Vittorio, Zorzi, Nicola, Demenev, Evgeny, Rashevskaya, Irina, Rachevski, Alexander, Zampa, Gianluigi, Vacchi, Andrea, Zampa, Nicola, Baldazzi, Giuseppe, La Rosa, Giovanni, Sottile, Giuseppe, Volpe, Angela, Winkler, Marek, Reglero, Victor, Connell, Paul H., Pinazo-Herrero, Benjamin, Navarro-González, Javier, Rodríguez-Martínez, Pedro, Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Santangelo, Andrea, Hedderman, Paul, Lorenzi, Paolo, Sarra, Paolo, Pedersen, Søren M., Tcherniak, Denis, Guidorzi, Cristiano, Rosati, Piero, Trois, Alessio, and Piazzolla, Raffaele
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
THESEUS is one of the three missions selected by ESA as fifth medium class mission (M5) candidates in its Cosmic Vision science program, currently under assessment in a phase A study with a planned launch date in 2032. THESEUS is designed to carry on-board two wide and deep sky monitoring instruments for X/gamma-ray transients detection: a wide-field soft X-ray monitor with imaging capability (Soft X-ray Imager, SXI, 0.3 - 5 keV), a hard X-ray, partially-imaging spectroscopic instrument (X and Gamma Imaging Spectrometer, XGIS, 2 keV - 10 MeV), and an optical/near-IR telescope with both imaging and spectroscopic capability (InfraRed Telescope, IRT, 0.7 - 1.8 $\mu$m). The spacecraft will be capable of performing fast repointing of the IRT to the error region provided by the monitors, thus allowing it to detect and localize the transient sources down to a few arcsec accuracy, for immediate identification and redshift determination. The prime goal of the XGIS will be to detect transient sources, with monitoring timescales down to milliseconds, both independently of, or following, up SXI detections, and identify the sources performing localisation at < 15 arcmin and characterize them over a broad energy band, thus providing also unique clues to their emission physics. The XGIS system consists of two independent but identical coded mask cameras, arranged to cover 2 steradians . The XGIS will exploit an innovative technology coupling Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) with crystal scintillator bars and a very low-noise distributed front-end electronics (ORION ASICs), which will produce a position sensitive detection plane, with a large effective area over a huge energy band (from soft X-rays to soft gamma-rays) with timing resolution down to a few $\mu$s.Here is presented an overview of the XGIS instrument design, its configuration, and capabilities., Comment: Proceedings of the SPIE 2020, paper 11444-303
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- 2021
104. Nitrogen Rate Assessment for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation and Quality Maintenance in Sustainable Turf Management
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Leonardo Verdi, Lisa Caturegli, Simone Magni, Marco Volterrani, Anna Dalla Marta, Simone Orlandini, and Ada Baldi
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carbon dioxide ,nitrous oxide ,Zoysia matrella ,fertilization ,Global Warming Potential ,Agriculture (General) ,S1-972 - Abstract
Turfgrass systems hold significant climate change mitigation value, but their management often negates the beneficial effects due to the intense adoption of external inputs. The research objective in this paper was to assess the nitrogen fertilization rate able to maintain the ideal esthetic characteristics of Zoysia turfgrass, reducing the environmental impacts associated with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A two-year open field experiment was conducted. Nitrogen was added to the soil at six rates (0, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 kg ha−1). The GHG emissions were monitored using a portable gas analyzer and the static chamber methodology. Cumulative environmental impacts were calculated from the inclusion of CO2, CH4, and, N2O using the Global Warming Potential (GWP). The quality assessment of the turf was assessed through a visual and instrumental approach. Higher CO2 and N2O fluxes were linked to high nitrogen rates, ranging from 83.55 to 87.50 and from 0.046 to 0.047 g N-N2O ha−1 day−1 for 200 and 250 kg N ha−1, respectively. CH4 emissions were not correlated to nitrogen rates. Higher GWP impacts were linked to high N rate treatments. A rate of 100 kg N ha−1 is recommended as the best strategy to reduce GHG emissions while maintaining high turf quality.
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- 2024
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105. A Waveguide Port Boundary Condition based on approximation space restriction for Finite Element Analysis.
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Francisco T. Orlandini, Philippe R. B. Devloo, and Hugo E. Hernández-Figueroa
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- 2024
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106. Extending h adaptivity with refinement patterns.
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Giovane Avancini, Nathan Shauer, Francisco T. Orlandini, Paulo Cesar A. Lucci, and Philippe R. B. Devloo
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- 2024
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107. X-ray reprocessing in accreting pulsar GX 301-2 observed with Insight-HXMT
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Ji, L., Doroshenko, V., Suleimanov, V., Santangelo, A., Orlandini, M., Liu, J., Ducci, L., Zhang, S. N., Nabizadeh, A., Gavran, D., Zhang, S., Ge, M. Y., Li, X. B., Tao, L., Bu, Q. C., Qu, J. L., Lu, F. J., Chen, L., Song, L. M., Li, T. P., Xu, Y. P., Cao, X. L., Chen, Y., Liu, C. Z., Cai, C., Chang, Z., Chen, T. X., Chen, Y. P., Cui, W. W., Du, Y. Y., Gao, G. H., Gao, H., Gu, Y. D., Guan, J., Guo, C. C., Han, D. W., Huang, Y., Huo, J., Jia, S. M., Jiang, W. C., Jin, J., Kong, L. D., Li, B., Li, C. K., Li, G., Li, W., Li, X., Li, X. F., Li, Z. W., Liang, X. H., Liao, J. Y., Liu, B. S., Liu, H. X., Liu, H. W., Liu, X. J., Lu, X. F., Luo, Q., Luo, T., Ma, R. C., Ma, X., Meng, B., Nang, Y., Nie, J. Y., Ou, G., Ren, X. Q., Sai, N., Song, X. Y., Sun, L., Tan, Y., Tuo, Y. L., Wang, C., Wang, L. J., Wang, P. J., Wang, W. S., Wang, Y. S., Wen, X. Y., Wu, B. Y., Wu, B. B., Wu, M., Xiao, G. C., Xiao, S., Xiong, S. L., Yang, R. J., Yang, S., Yang, Yan-Ji, Yang, Yi-Jung, Yi, Q. B., Yin, Q. Q., You, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, J., Zhang, P., Zhang, W., Zhang, W. C., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Y. H., Zhao, H. S., Zhao, X. F., Zheng, S. J., Zheng, Y. G., and Zhou, D. K.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We investigate the absorption and emission features in observations of GX 301-2 detected with Insight-HXMT/LE in 2017-2019. At different orbital phases, we found prominent Fe Kalpha, Kbeta and Ni Kalpha lines, as well as Compton shoulders and Fe K-shell absorption edges. These features are due to the X-ray reprocessing caused by the interaction between the radiation from the source and surrounding accretion material. According to the ratio of iron lines Kalpha and Kbeta, we infer the accretion material is in a low ionisation state. We find an orbital-dependent local absorption column density, which has a large value and strong variability around the periastron. We explain its variability as a result of inhomogeneities of the accretion environment and/or instabilities of accretion processes. In addition, the variable local column density is correlated with the equivalent width of the iron Kalpha lines throughout the orbit, which suggests that the accretion material near the neutron star is spherically distributed., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
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- 2020
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108. Human-Aware Goal-Oriented Autonomy through ROS-Integrated Timeline-based Planning and Execution.
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Alessandro Umbrico, Amedeo Cesta, and Andrea Orlandini
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- 2023
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109. Combining Clinical and Spatial Constraints into Temporal Planning to Personalize Physical Rehabilitation.
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Alessandro Umbrico, Marco Benadduci, Roberta Bevilacqua, Amedeo Cesta, Francesca Fracasso, Elvira Maranesi, Andrea Orlandini, and Gabriella Cortellessa
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- 2023
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110. HerMeS - HERitage sMart social mEdia aSsistant: from Requirement Elicitation to Data Modelling for Feeding Artificial Intelligence Recommendation System.
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Alberto Bucciero, Alessandra Chirivi, Mohamed Ali Jaziri, Irene Muci, Andrea Orlandini, and Alessandro Umbrico
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- 2023
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111. HerMeS: HERitage sMart Social mEdia aSsistant.
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Alberto Bucciero, Donatella Capaldi, Alessandra Chirivi, M. Codella, M. A. Jaziri, Laura Leopardi, Saverio Giulio Malatesta, Irene Muci, Andrea Orlandini, Augusto Palombini, Andrea Pandurino, Emanuele Panizzi, and Alessandro Umbrico
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- 2023
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112. A Preliminary Field-trial Investigation of Enhancing a Commercial Telepesence Robot with Semi-autonomous Navigation @Home (regular paper).
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Gloria Beraldo, Andrea Orlandini, Riccardo De Benedictis, Gabriella Cortellessa, and Amedeo Cesta
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- 2023
113. HerMeS: HERitage sMart Social mEdia aSsistant
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Bucciero, A., Capaldi, D., Chirivi, A., Codella, M., Jaziri, M.A., Leopardi, L., Malatesta, S.G., Muci, I., Orlandini, A., Palombini, A., Pandurino, A., Panizzi, E., Umbrico, A., Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, De Paolis, Lucio Tommaso, editor, Arpaia, Pasquale, editor, and Sacco, Marco, editor
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- 2023
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114. Intersectionality in Feminist Hashtags and Democracy: How the Black Women’s Day in Brazil Mobilizes Specificities within the Feminist Movement
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de Oliveira, Bruna Silveira, Orlandini, Maiara, Thomas, Pradip, Series Editor, van de Fliert, Elske, Series Editor, and Wiesslitz, Carmit, editor
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- 2023
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115. Enhancement of Mediterranean Greenhouses Facilities: Heat Power Pump Assessment for Bedding Plant Production by Coaxial Basal Heating
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Cacini, Sonia, Orlandini, Alessandro, Burchi, Gianluca, Cutini, Maurizio, Brambilla, Massimo, Bisaglia, Carlo, Massa, Daniele, Fedrizzi, Marco, di Prisco, Marco, Series Editor, Chen, Sheng-Hong, Series Editor, Vayas, Ioannis, Series Editor, Kumar Shukla, Sanjay, Series Editor, Sharma, Anuj, Series Editor, Kumar, Nagesh, Series Editor, Wang, Chien Ming, Series Editor, Ferro, Vito, editor, Giordano, Giuseppe, editor, Orlando, Santo, editor, Vallone, Mariangela, editor, Cascone, Giovanni, editor, and Porto, Simona M. C., editor
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- 2023
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116. Service Learning and LifeComp Framework: Analysis of Experiences in Distance Education
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Lotti, Patrizia and Orlandini, Lorenza
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In the context of the COVID-19 emergency, the closure of Italian schools from March 2020 has imposed the full use of distance learning, as well as a general rethinking of time, space and teaching/learning methodologies. In this study, we will introduce the outcomes of an analysis carried out on the planning of Service Learning (SL) activities that took place during the professional training course called 'All'Avanguardia per l'innovazione'. The course, which was designed before the pandemic, has been redesigned during the health emergency and required teachers to write a project work on didactic planning in SL. From the perspective of distance learning, didactic planning has integrated the 'virtual' component and become E-Service Learning or Virtual-Service Learning. This planning has been analysed in relation to the LifeComp framework because it fosters the development of the competences that are necessary to manage the complexity of the current scenario, it perfectly integrates with the identifying elements of SL and includes some indicators of the DigComp framework that aims at the development of student, teacher and school digital skills that are necessary to manage distance learning. The first outcomes of the analysis highlight how didactic planning covers the development of the different competences promoted by the LifeComp framework.
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- 2022
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117. Quantum ESPRESSO towards performance portability: GPU offload with OpenMP
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Ruffino, Fabrizio Ferrari, Bellentani, Laura, Rossi, Giacomo, Affinito, Fabio, Baroni, Stefano, Baseggio, Oscar, Delugas, Pietro, Giannozzi, Paolo, Kurzak, Jakub, Luo, Ye, O'Reilly, Ossian, Orlandini, Sergio, and Carnimeo, Ivan
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- 2024
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118. A dichotomic approach to adaptive interaction for socially assistive robots
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Benedictis, Riccardo De, Umbrico, Alessandro, Fracasso, Francesca, Cortellessa, Gabriella, Orlandini, Andrea, and Cesta, Amedeo
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- 2023
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119. A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI
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Umbrico, Alessandro, De Benedictis, Riccardo, Fracasso, Francesca, Cesta, Amedeo, Orlandini, Andrea, and Cortellessa, Gabriella
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- 2023
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120. Flexibilidad Laboral en Pandemia y sus Efectos en Estrés, Inseguridad y Satisfacción Laboral
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Jesús Yeves, Mariana Bargsted, Eduardo Orlandini, and Santiago Ureta
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flexibilidad laboral ,satisfacción laboral ,estrés percibido ,inseguridad laboral ,covid-19 ,Psychology ,BF1-990 - Abstract
Los arreglos laborales flexibles (FWA) han sido algo esencial durante este último tiempo por la pandemia del COVID-19. La implementación acelerada de estas medidas tiene ventajas y riesgos que es pertinente analizar, pues pueden aumentar la vulnerabilidad laboral. Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar los efectos que tienen los FWA en los niveles de estrés, inseguridad y satisfacción laboral, considerando que algunos se orientan al empleador y otros a los empleados. Adicionalmente, se buscó identificar si estas medidas afectan de forma distinta a las personas según edad, sexo, escolaridad y tipo de organización (estatal o privada). Para ello, se aplicó una encuesta telefónica a una muestra probabilística de adultos a nivel nacional de Chile, participando 748 trabajadores dependientes. Se pudo identificar que el FWA orientado al trabajador, la flexibilidad de horario, se asoció positivamente con satisfacción laboral y negativamente con estrés e inseguridad. Por el contrario, medidas que se orientan al empleador, como la suspensión de contrato y reducción de sueldo, se asociaron a mayor inseguridad y estrés y menor satisfacción laboral. Adicionalmente, la medida de reducción de jornada no tuvo relación con inseguridad y estrés, pero si una relación positiva con satisfacción laboral. La relación negativa entre flexibilidad horaria e inseguridad laboral fue mayor para los trabajadores jóvenes; la relación entre teletrabajo parcial e inseguridad laboral fue positiva para los jóvenes y negativa para los mayores y la relación positiva entre teletrabajo parcial y estrés laboral fue mayor en los que tienen un nivel educativo alto. Se discuten las implicaciones teóricas y prácticas de los resultados obtenidos.
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- 2024
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121. Topological disentanglement of linear polymers under tension
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Caraglio, Michele, Marcone, Boris, Baldovin, Fulvio, Orlandini, Enzo, and Stella, Attilio L.
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Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics ,Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter ,Physics - Biological Physics ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules - Abstract
We develop a theoretical description of the topological disentanglement occurring when torus knots reach the ends of a semi-flexible polymer under tension. These include decays into simpler knots and total unknotting. The minimal number of crossings and the minimal knot contour length are the topological invariants playing a key role in the model. The crossings behave as particles diffusing along the chain and the application of appropriate boundary conditions at the ends of the chain accounts for the knot disentanglement. Starting from the number of particles and their positions, suitable rules allow reconstructing the type and location of the knot moving on the chain. Our theory is extensively benchmarked with corresponding Molecular Dynamics simulations and the results show a remarkable agreement between the simulations and the theoretical predictions of the model., Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures
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- 2020
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122. Modelling the deceleration of COVID-19 spreading
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Barzon, Giacomo, Manjunatha, Karan Kabbur Hanumanthappa, Rugel, Wolfgang, Orlandini, Enzo, and Baiesi, Marco
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Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution ,Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics - Abstract
By characterising the time evolution of COVID-19 in term of its "velocity" (log of the new cases per day) and its rate of variation, or "acceleration", we show that in many countries there has been a deceleration even before lockdowns were issued. This feature, possibly due to the increase of social awareness, can be rationalised by a susceptible-hidden-infected-recovered (SHIR) model introduced by Barnes, in which a hidden (isolated from the virus) compartment $H$ is gradually populated by susceptible people, thus reducing the effectiveness of the virus spreading. By introducing a partial hiding mechanism, for instance due to the impossibility for a fraction of the population to enter the hidden state, we obtain a model that, although still sufficiently simple, faithfully reproduces the different deceleration trends observed in several major countries., Comment: v2: published version; more countries analysed
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- 2020
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123. Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation
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Consortium, The Cherenkov Telescope Array, Abdalla, H., Abe, H., Acero, F., Acharyya, A., Adam, R., Agudo, I., Aguirre-Santaella, A., Alfaro, R., Alfaro, J., Alispach, C., Aloisio, R., B, R. Alves, Amati, L., Amato, E., Ambrosi, G., Angüner, E. O., Araudo, A., Armstrong, T., Arqueros, F., Arrabito, L., Asano, K., Ascasíbar, Y., Ashley, M., Backes, M., Balazs, C., Balbo, M., Balmaverde, B., Larriva, A. Baquero, Martins, V. Barbosa, Barkov, M., Baroncelli, L., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Batista, P., Becerra, J., Becherini, Y., Beck, G., Tjus, J. Becker, Belmont, R., Benbow, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Berton, M., Bertucci, B., Beshley, V., Bi, B., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Bissaldi, E., Biteau, J., Blanch, O., Bocchino, F., Boisson, C., Bolmont, J., Bonanno, G., Arbeletche, L. Bonneau, Bonnoli, G., Bordas, P., Bottacini, E., Böttcher, M., Bozhilov, V., Bregeon, J., Brill, A., Brown, A. M., Bruno, P., Bruno, A., Bulgarelli, A., Burton, M., Buscemi, M., Caccianiga, A., Cameron, R., Capasso, M., Caprai, M., Caproni, A., Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R., Caraveo, P., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Casanova, S., Cascone, E., Cauz, D., Cerny, K., Cerruti, M., Chadwick, P., Chaty, S., Chen, A., Chernyakova, M., Chiaro, G., Chiavassa, A., Chytka, L., Conforti, V., Conte, F., Contreras, J. L., Coronado-Blazquez, J., Cortina, J., Costa, A., Costantini, H., Covino, S., Cristofari, P., Cuevas, O., D'Ammando, F., Daniel, M. K., Davies, J., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., de Lavergne, M. de Bony, De Caprio, V., Anjos, R. de Cássia dos, Pino, E. M. de Gouveia Dal, De Lotto, B., De Martino, D., de Naurois, M., Wilhelmi, E. de Oña, De Palma, F., de Souza, V., Delgado, C., Della Ceca, R., della Volpe, D., Depaoli, D., Di Girolamo, T., Di Pierro, F., Díaz, C., Díaz-Bahamondes, C., Diebold, S., Djannati-Ataï, A., Dmytriiev, A., Domínguez, A., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Dournaux, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Ebr, J., Eckner, C., Einecke, S., Ekoume, T. R. N., Elsässer, D., Emery, G., Evoli, C., Fairbairn, M., Falceta-Goncalves, D., Fegan, S., Feng, Q., Ferrand, G., Fiandrini, E., Fiasson, A., Fioretti, V., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fontaine, G., Franco, F. J., Coromina, L. Freixas, Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., Fukui, Y., Gaggero, D., Galanti, G., Gammaldi, V., Garcia, E., Garczarczyk, M., Gascon, D., Gaug, M., Gent, A., Ghalumyan, A., Ghirlanda, G., Gianotti, F., Giarrusso, M., Giavitto, G., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Glicenstein, J., Goldoni, P., González, J. M., Gourgouliatos, K., Grabarczyk, T., Grandi, P., Granot, J., Grasso, D., Green, J., Grube, J., Gueta, O., Gunji, S., Halim, A., Harvey, M., Collado, T. Hassan, Hayashi, K., Heller, M., Cadena, S. Hernández, Hervet, O., Hinton, J., Hiroshima, N., Hnatyk, B., Hnatyk, R., Hoffmann, D., Hofmann, W., Holder, J., Horan, D., Hörandel, J., Horvath, P., Hovatta, T., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Hütten, M., Iarlori, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Insolia, A., Ionica, M., Iori, M., Jacquemont, M., Jamrozy, M., Janecek, P., Martínez, I. Jiménez, Jin, W., Jung-Richardt, I., Jurysek, J., Kaaret, P., Karas, V., Karkar, S., Kawanaka, N., Kerszberg, D., Khélifi, B., Kissmann, R., Knödlseder, J., Kobayashi, Y., Kohri, K., Komin, N., Kong, A., Kosack, K., Kubo, H., La Palombara, N., Lamanna, G., Lang, R. G., Lapington, J., Laporte, P., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Lenain, J., Leone, F., Leto, G., Leuschner, F., Lindfors, E., Lloyd, S., Lohse, T., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, A., López, M., López-Coto, R., Loporchio, S., Lucarelli, F., Luque-Escamilla, P. L., Lyard, E., Maggio, C., Majczyna, A., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Mandat, D., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Manicò, G., Marcowith, A., Marculewicz, M., Markoff, S., Marquez, P., Martí, J., Martinez, O., Martínez, M., Martínez, G., Martínez-Huerta, H., Maurin, G., Mazin, D., Mbarubucyeye, J. D., Miranda, D. Medina, Meyer, M., Micanovic, S., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mitchell, A., Mizuno, T., Mode, B., Moderski, R., Mohrmann, L., Molina, E., Montaruli, T., Moralejo, A., Merino, J. Morales, Morcuende-Parrilla, D., Morselli, A., Mukherjee, R., Mundell, C., Murach, T., Muraishi, H., Nagai, A., Nakamori, T., Nemmen, R., Niemiec, J., Nieto, D., Nievas, M., Nikołajuk, M., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nosek, D., Nozaki, S., O'Brien, P., Ohira, Y., Ohishi, M., Oka, T., Ong, R. A., Orienti, M., Orito, R., Orlandini, M., Orlando, E., Osborne, J. P., Ostrowski, M., Oya, I., Pagliaro, A., Palatka, M., Paneque, D., Pantaleo, F. R., Paredes, J. M., Parmiggiani, N., Patricelli, B., Pavletić, L., Pe'er, A., Pech, M., Pecimotika, M., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Petruk, O., Pfrang, K., Piatteli, P., Pietropaolo, E., Pillera, R., Pilszyk, B., Pimentel, D., Pintore, F., Pita, S., Pohl, M., Poireau, V., Polo, M., Prado, R. R., Prast, J., Principe, G., Produit, N., Prokoph, H., Prouza, M., Przybilski, H., Pueschel, E., Pühlhofer, G., Pumo, M. L., Punch, M., Queiroz, F., Quirrenbach, A., Rando, R., Razzaque, S., Rebert, E., Recchia, S., Reichherzer, P., Reimer, O., Reimer, A., Renier, Y., Reposeur, T., Rhode, W., Ribeiro, D., Ribó, M., Richtler, T., Rico, J., Rieger, F., Rizi, V., Rodriguez, J., Fernandez, G. Rodriguez, Ramirez, J. C. Rodriguez, Vázquez, J. J. Rodríguez, Romano, P., Romeo, G., Roncadelli, M., Rosado, J., de Leon, A. Rosales, Rowell, G., Rudak, B., Rujopakarn, W., Russo, F., Sadeh, I., Saha, L., Saito, T., Greus, F. Salesa, Sanchez, D., Sánchez-Conde, M., Sangiorgi, P., Sano, H., Santander, M., Santos, E. M., Sanuy, A., Sarkar, S., Saturni, F. G., Sawangwit, U., Scherer, A., Schleicher, B., Schovanek, P., Schussler, F., Schwanke, U., Sciacca, E., Scuderi, S., Arroyo, M. Seglar, Sergijenko, O., Servillat, M., Seweryn, K., Shalchi, A., Sharma, P., Shellard, R. C., Siejkowski, H., Sinha, A., Sliusar, V., Slowikowska, A., Sokolenko, A., Sol, H., Specovius, A., Spencer, S., Spiga, D., Stamerra, A., Stanič, S., Starling, R., Stolarczyk, T., Straumann, U., Strišković, J., Suda, Y., Świerk, P., Tagliaferri, G., Takahashi, H., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Taylor, L., Tejedor, L. A., Temnikov, P., Terrier, R., Terzic, T., Testa, V., Tian, W., Tibaldo, L., Tonev, D., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Tosti, L., Tothill, N., Tovmassian, G., Travnicek, P., Truzzi, S., Tuossenel, F., Umana, G., Vacula, M., Vagelli, V., Valentino, M., Vallage, B., Vallania, P., van Eldik, C., Varner, G. S., Vassiliev, V., Acosta, M. Vázquez, Vecchi, M., Veh, J., Vercellone, S., Vergani, S., Verguilov, V., Vettolani, G. P., Viana, A., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vorobiov, S., Vovk, I., Vuillaume, T., Wagner, S. J., Walter, R., Watson, J., White, M., White, R., Wiemann, R., Wierzcholska, A., Will, M., Williams, D. A., Wischnewski, R., Wolter, A., Yamazaki, R., Yanagita, S., Yang, L., Yoshikoshi, T., Zacharias, M., Zaharijas, G., Zaric, D., Zavrtanik, M., Zavrtanik, D., Zech, A., Zechlin, H., Zhdanov, V. I., and Živec, M.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new-generation ground-based observatory for $\gamma$-ray astronomy, provides unique capabilities to address significant open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. We study some of the salient areas of $\gamma$-ray cosmology that can be explored as part of the Key Science Projects of CTA, through simulated observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and of their relativistic jets. Observations of AGN with CTA will enable a measurement of $\gamma$-ray absorption on the extragalactic background light with a statistical uncertainty below 15% up to a redshift $z=2$ and to constrain or detect $\gamma$-ray halos up to intergalactic-magnetic-field strengths of at least 0.3pG. Extragalactic observations with CTA also show promising potential to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. The best limits on Lorentz invariance violation from $\gamma$-ray astronomy will be improved by a factor of at least two to three. CTA will also probe the parameter space in which axion-like particles could constitute a significant fraction, if not all, of dark matter. We conclude on the synergies between CTA and other upcoming facilities that will foster the growth of $\gamma$-ray cosmology., Comment: 71 pages (including affiliations and references), 13 figures, 6 tables. Accepted in JCAP; matches published version. Corresponding authors: Jonathan Biteau, Julien Lefaucheur, Humberto Martinez-Huerta, Manuel Meyer, Santiago Pita, Ievgen Vovk
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124. Constraining the transient high-energy activity of FRB180916.J0158+65 with Insight-HXMT followup observations
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Guidorzi, C., Orlandini, M., Frontera, F., Nicastro, L., Xiong, S. L., Liao, J. Y., Li, G., Zhang, S. N., Amati, L., Virgilli, E., Zhang, S., Bu, Q. C., Cai, C., Cao, X. L., Chang, Z., Chen, L., Chen, T. X., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. P., Cui, W. W., Du, Y. Y., Gao, G. H., Gao, H., Gao, M., Ge, M. Y., Gu, Y. D., Guan, J., Guo, C. C., Han, D. W., Huang, Y., Huo, J., Jia, S. M., Jiang, W. C., Jin, J., Kong, L. D., Li, B., Li, C. K., Li, T. P., Li, W., Li, X., Li, X. B., Li, X. F., Li, Z. W., Liang, X. H., Liu, B. S., Liu, C. Z., Liu, H. X., Liu, H. W., Liu, X. J., Lu, F. J., Lu, X. F., Luo, Q., Luo, T., Ma, R. C., Ma, X., Meng, B., Nang, Y., Nie, J. Y., Ou, G., Qu, J. L, Ren, X. Q., Sai, N., Song, L. M., Song, X. Y., Sun, L., Tan, Y., Tao, L., Tuo, Y. L., Wang, C., Wang, L. J., Wang, P. J., Wang, W. S., Wang, Y. S., Wen, X. Y., Wu, B. Y., Wu, B. B., Wu, M., Xiao, G. C., Xiao, S., Xu, Y. P., Yang, R., Yang, S., Yang, Y. J., Yi, Q. B., Yin, Q. Q., You, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, J., Zhang, P., Zhang, W. C., Zhang, W., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Y. H., Zhao, H. S., Zhao, X. F., Zheng, S. J., Zheng, Y. G., and Zhou, D. K.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
A link between magnetars and fast radio burst (FRB) sources has finally been established. In this context, one of the open issues is whether/which sources of extra galactic FRBs exhibit X/gamma-ray outbursts and whether it is correlated with radio activity. We aim to constrain possible X/gamma-ray burst activity from one of the nearest extragalactic FRB sources currently known over a broad energy range, by looking for bursts over a range of timescales and energies that are compatible with being powerful flares from extragalactic magnetars. We followed up the as-yet nearest extragalactic FRB source at a mere 149 Mpc distance, the periodic repeater FRB180916.J0158+65, during the active phase on February 4-7, 2020, with the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). Taking advantage of the combination of broad band, large effective area, and several independent detectors available, we searched for bursts over a set of timescales from 1 ms to 1.024 s with a sensitive algorithm, that had previously been characterised and optimised. Moreover, through simulations we studied the sensitivity of our technique in the released energy-duration phase space for a set of synthetic flares and assuming different energy spectra. We constrain the possible occurrence of flares in the 1-100 keV energy band to E<10^46 erg for durations <0.1 s over several tens of ks exposure. We can rule out the occurrence of giant flares similar to the ones that were observed in the few cases of Galactic magnetars. The absence of reported radio activity during our observations does not allow us to make any statements on the possible simultaneous high-energy emission., Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted by A&A
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125. Testing Comptonization as the origin of the continuum in nonmagnetic Cataclysmic Variables. The photon index of X-ray emission
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Maiolino, T., Titarchuk, L., D'Amico, F., Cheng, Z. Q., Wang, W., Orlandini, M., and Frontera, Filippo
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
X-ray spectra of nonmagnetic cataclysmic variables (nmCVs) in the ~ 0.3$-$15 keV energy band have been described either by one or several optically thin thermal plasma components, or by cooling flow models. We tested if the spectral continuum in nmCVs could be successfully described by Comptonization of soft photons off hot electrons presented in a cloud surrounding the source [the transition layer, (TL)]. We used publicly XMM-Newton Epic-pn, Chandra HETG/ACIS and LETG/HRC, and RXTE PCA and HEXTE observations of four Dwarf Novae (U~Gem, SS~Cyg, VW~Hyi and SS~Aur) observed in the quiescence and outburst states. In total, we analyzed 18 observations, including a simultaneous 0.4$-$150 keV Chandra/RXTE spectrum of SS~Cyg in quiescence. We fitted the spectral continuum with up to two thermal Comptonization components (compTT or compTB models in XSPEC), using only one thermal plasma temperature and one optical depth. In this framework the two seed photon components are coming presumably from the innermost and outer parts of the TL (or innermost part of the disk). We obtained that the thermal Comptonization can successfully describe the spectral continuum of these nmCV in the ~ 0.4$-$150 keV energy band. Moreover, we present the first principal radiative transfer model which explains the quasi-constancy of the spectral photon index observed around 1.8, which strongly supports the Comptonization framework in nmCVs., Comment: 34 pages, 8 figures
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126. Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre
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Consortium, The Cherenkov Telescope Array, Acharyya, A., Adam, R., Adams, C., Agudo, I., Aguirre-Santaella, A., Alfaro, R., Alfaro, J., Alispach, C., Aloisio, R., Batista, R. Alves, Amati, L., Ambrosi, G., Angüner, E. O., Antonelli, L. A., Aramo, C., Araudo, A., Armstrong, T., Arqueros, F., Asano, K., Ascasíbar, Y., Ashley, M., Balazs, C., Ballester, O., Larriva, A. Baquero, Martins, V. Barbosa, Barkov, M., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Bastieri, D., Becerra, J., Beck, G., Tjus, J. Becker, Benbow, W., Benito, M., Berge, D., Bernardini, E., Bernlöhr, K., Berti, A., Bertucci, B., Beshley, V., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Bissaldi, E., Biteau, J., Blanch, O., Blazek, J., Bocchino, F., Boisson, C., Arbeletche, L. Bonneau, Bordas, P., Bosnjak, Z., Bottacini, E., Bozhilov, V., Bregeon, J., Brill, A., Bringmann, T., Brown, A. M., Brun, P., Brun, F., Bruno, P., Bulgarelli, A., Burton, M., Burtovoi, A., Buscemi, M., Cameron, R., Capasso, M., Caproni, A., Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R., Caraveo, P., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Casanova, S., Cascone, E., Cassol, F., Catalani, F., Cauz, D., Cerruti, M., Chadwick, P., Chaty, S., Chen, A., Chernyakova, M., Chiaro, G., Chiavassa, A., Chikawa, M., Chudoba, J., Çolak, M., Conforti, V., Coniglione, R., Conte, F., Contreras, J. L., Coronado-Blazquez, J., Costa, A., Costantini, H., Cotter, G., Cristofari, P., D'Aì, A., D'Ammando, F., Damone, L. A., Daniel, M. K., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Caprio, V., Anjos, R. de Cássia dos, Pino, E. M. de Gouveia Dal, De Lotto, B., De Martino, D., Wilhelmi, E. de Oña, De Palma, F., de Souza, V., Delgado, C., Giler, A. G. Delgado, della Volpe, D., Depaoli, D., Di Girolamo, T., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Diebold, S., Dmytriiev, A., Domínguez, A., Donini, A., Doro, M., Ebr, J., Eckner, C., Edwards, T. D. P., Ekoume, T. R. N., Elsässer, D., Evoli, C., Falceta-Goncalves, D., Fedorova, E., Fegan, S., Feng, Q., Ferrand, G., Ferrara, G., Fiandrini, E., Fiasson, A., Filipovic, M., Fioretti, V., Fiori, M., Foffano, L., Fontaine, G., Fornieri, O., Franco, F. J., Fukami, S., Fukui, Y., Gaggero, D., Galaz, G., Gammaldi, V., Garcia, E., Garczarczyk, M., Gascon, D., Gent, A., Ghalumyan, A., Gianotti, F., Giarrusso, M., Giavitto, G., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giuliani, A., Glicenstein, J., Gnatyk, R., Goldoni, P., González, M. M., Gourgouliatos, K., Granot, J., Grasso, D., Green, J., Grillo, A., Gueta, O., Gunji, S., Halim, A., Hassan, T., Heller, M., Cadena, S. Hernández, Hiroshima, N., Hnatyk, B., Hofmann, W., Holder, J., Horan, D., Hörandel, J., Horvath, P., Hovatta, T., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Hütten, M., Iarlori, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Iocco, F., Iori, M., Jamrozy, M., Janecek, P., Jin, W., Jouvin, L., Jurysek, J., Karukes, E., Katarzyński, K., Kazanas, D., Kerszberg, D., Kherlakian, M. C., Kissmann, R., Knödlseder, J., Kobayashi, Y., Kohri, K., Komin, N., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamanna, G., Lapington, J., Laporte, P., de Oliveira, M. A. Leigui, Lenain, J., Leone, F., Leto, G., Lindfors, E., Lohse, T., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, A., López, M., López-Coto, R., Loporchio, S., Luque-Escamilla, P. L., Mach, E., Maggio, C., Maier, G., Mallamaci, M., de Almeida, R. Malta Nunes, Mandat, D., Manganaro, M., Mangano, S., Manicò, G., Marculewicz, M., Mariotti, M., Markoff, S., Marquez, P., Martí, J., Martinez, O., Martínez, M., Martínez, G., Martínez-Huerta, H., Maurin, G., Mazin, D., Mbarubucyeye, J. D., Miranda, D. Medina, Meyer, M., Miceli, M., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Mizuno, T., Mode, B., Moderski, R., Mohrmann, L., Molina, E., Montaruli, T., Moralejo, A., Morcuende-Parrilla, D., Morselli, A., Mukherjee, R., Mundell, C., Nagai, A., Nakamori, T., Nemmen, R., Niemiec, J., Nieto, D., Nikołajuk, M., Ninci, D., Noda, K., Nosek, D., Nozaki, S., Ohira, Y., Ohishi, M., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Okumura, A., Ong, R. A., Orienti, M., Orito, R., Orlandini, M., Orlando, S., Orlando, E., Ostrowski, M., Oya, I., Pagano, I., Pagliaro, A., Palatiello, M., Pantaleo, F. R., Paredes, J. M., Pareschi, G., Parmiggiani, N., Patricelli, B., Pavletić, L., Pe'er, A., Pecimotika, M., Pérez-Romero, J., Persic, M., Petruk, O., Pfrang, K., Piano, G., Piatteli, P., Pietropaolo, E., Pillera, R., Pilszyk, B., Pintore, F., Pohl, M., Poireau, V., Prado, R. R., Prandini, E., Prast, J., Principe, G., Prokoph, H., Prouza, M., Przybilski, H., Pühlhofer, G., Pumo, M. L., Queiroz, F., Quirrenbach, A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzaque, S., Recchia, S., Reimer, O., Reisenegger, A., Renier, Y., Rhode, W., Ribeiro, D., Ribó, M., Richtler, T., Rico, J., Rieger, F., Rinchiuso, L., Rizi, V., Rodriguez, J., Fernandez, G. Rodriguez, Ramirez, J. C. Rodriguez, Rojas, G., Romano, P., Romeo, G., Rosado, J., Rowell, G., Rudak, B., Russo, F., Sadeh, I., Hatlen, E. Sæther, Safi-Harb, S., Greus, F. Salesa, Salina, G., Sanchez, D., Sánchez-Conde, M., Sangiorgi, P., Sano, H., Santander, M., Santos, E. M., Santos-Lima, R., Sanuy, A., Sarkar, S., Saturni, F. G., Sawangwit, U., Schussler, F., Schwanke, U., Sciacca, E., Scuderi, S., Seglar-Arroyo, M., Sergijenko, O., Servillat, M., Seweryn, K., Shalchi, A., Sharma, P., Shellard, R. C., Siejkowski, H., Silk, J., Siqueira, C., Sliusar, V., Słowikowska, A., Sokolenko, A., Sol, H., Spencer, S., Stamerra, A., Stanič, S., Starling, R., Stolarczyk, T., Straumann, U., Strišković, J., Suda, Y., Suomijarvi, T., Świerk, P., Tavecchio, F., Taylor, L., Tejedor, L. A., Teshima, M., Testa, V., Tibaldo, L., Peixoto, C. J. Todero, Tokanai, F., Tonev, D., Tosti, G., Tosti, L., Tothill, N., Truzzi, S., Travnicek, P., Vagelli, V., Vallage, B., Vallania, P., van Eldik, C., Vandenbroucke, J., Varner, G. S., Vassiliev, V., Acosta, M. Vázquez, Vecchi, M., Ventura, S., Vercellone, S., Vergani, S., Verna, G., Viana, A., Vigorito, C. F., Vink, J., Vitale, V., Vorobiov, S., Vovk, I., Vuillaume, T., Wagner, S. J., Walter, R., Watson, J., Weniger, C., White, R., White, M., Wiemann, R., Wierzcholska, A., Will, M., Williams, D. A., Wischnewski, R., Yanagita, S., Yang, L., Yoshikoshi, T., Zacharias, M., Zaharijas, G., Zakaria, A. A., Zampieri, L., Zanin, R., Zaric, D., Zavrtanik, M., Zavrtanik, D., Zdziarski, A. A., Zech, A., Zechlin, H., Zhdanov, V. I., and Živec, M.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology - Abstract
We provide an updated assessment of the power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to search for thermally produced dark matter at the TeV scale, via the associated gamma-ray signal from pair-annihilating dark matter particles in the region around the Galactic centre. We find that CTA will open a new window of discovery potential, significantly extending the range of robustly testable models given a standard cuspy profile of the dark matter density distribution. Importantly, even for a cored profile, the projected sensitivity of CTA will be sufficient to probe various well-motivated models of thermally produced dark matter at the TeV scale. This is due to CTA's unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolutions, and the planned observational strategy. The survey of the inner Galaxy will cover a much larger region than corresponding previous observational campaigns with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. CTA will map with unprecedented precision the large-scale diffuse emission in high-energy gamma rays, constituting a background for dark matter searches for which we adopt state-of-the-art models based on current data. Throughout our analysis, we use up-to-date event reconstruction Monte Carlo tools developed by the CTA consortium, and pay special attention to quantifying the level of instrumental systematic uncertainties, as well as background template systematic errors, required to probe thermally produced dark matter at these energies. "Full likelihood tables complementing our analysis are provided here [ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4057987 ]", Comment: 68 pages (including references) and 26 figures; text identical to the version published in JCAP
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127. Separation of Geometrical and Topological Entanglement in Confined Polymers Driven Out-Of-Equilibrium
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Michieletto, Davide, Orlandini, Enzo, Turner, Matthew S, and Micheletti, Cristian
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Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter ,Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics - Abstract
We use Brownian dynamics simulations and advanced topological profiling methods to characterize the out-of-equilibrium evolution of self-entanglement in linear polymers confined into nano-channels and under periodic compression. We distinguish two main forms of entanglement, geometrical and topological. The latter is measured by the number of (essential) crossings of the physical knot detected after a suitable bridging of the chain termini. The former is instead measured as the average number of times a linear chain appears to cross itself when viewed under all projections, and is irrespective of the physical knotted state. The key discovery of our work is that these two forms of entanglement are uncoupled and evolve with distinct dynamics. While geometrical entanglement is typically in phase with the compression-elongation cycles and it is primarily sensitive to its force f, the topological measure is mildly sensitive to cyclic modulation but strongly depends on both compression force f and duration k. The findings could assist the interpretation of experiments using fluorescence molecular tracers to track physical knots in polymers. Furthermore, we identify optimal regions in the experimentally-controllable parameter space in which to obtain more/less topological and geometrical entanglement; this may help designing polymers with targeted topology.
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128. A search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts to fast radio bursts in the Insight-HXMT data
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Guidorzi, C., Marongiu, M., Martone, R., Nicastro, L., Xiong, S. L., Liao, J. Y., Li, G., Zhang, S. N., Amati, L., Frontera, F., Orlandini, M., Rosati, P., Virgilli, E., Zhang, S., Bu, Q. C., Cai, C., Cao, X. L., Chang, Z., Chen, G., Chen, L., Chen, T. X., Chen, Y. B., Chen, Y. P., Cui, W., Cui, W. W., Deng, J. K., Dong, Y. W., Du, Y. Y., Fu, M. X., Gao, G. H., Gao, H., Gao, M., Ge, M. Y., Gu, Y. D., Guan, J., Guo, C. C., Han, D. W., Huang, Y., Huo, J., Jia, S. M., Jiang, L. H., Jiang, W. C., Jin, J., Jin, Y. J., Kong, L. D., Li, B., Li, C. K., Li, M. S., Li, T. P., Li, W., Li, X., Li, X. B., Li, X. F., Li, Y. G., Li, Z. W., Liang, X. H., Liu, B. S., Liu, C. Z., Liu, G. Q., Liu, H. W., Liu, X. J., Liu, Y. N., Lu, B., Lu, F. J., Lu, X. F., Luo, Q., Luo, T., Ma, R. C., Ma, X., Meng, B., Nang, Y., Nie, J. Y., Oui, G., Qu, J. L, Sai, N., Shang, R. C., Song, L. M., Song, X. Y., Sun, L., Tani, Y., Tao, L., Tuo, Y. L., Wang, C., Wang, G. F., Wang, J., Wang, W. S., Wang, Y. S., Wen, X. Y., Wu, B. Y., Wu, B. B., Wu, M., Xiao, G. C., Xiao, S., Xu, Y. P., Yang, J. W., Yang, S., Yang, Y. J., Yi, Q. B., Yin, Q. Q., You, Y., Zhang, A. M. Zhang C. M., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, J., Zhang, T., Zhang, W. C., Zhang, W., Zhang, W. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. L., Zhang, H. S., Zhang, X. F., Zheng, S. J., Zhou, D. K., Zhou, J. F., Zhu, Y. X., Zhu, Y., and Zhuang, R. L.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
No robust detection of prompt electromagnetic counterparts to fast radio bursts (FRBs) has yet been obtained, in spite of several multi-wavelength searches carried out so far. Specifically, X/gamma-ray counterparts are predicted by some models. We planned on searching for prompt gamma-ray counterparts in the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) data, taking advantage of the unique combination of large effective area in the keV-MeV energy range and of sub-ms time resolution. We selected 39 FRBs that were promptly visible from the High-Energy (HE) instrument aboard Insight-HXMT. After calculating the expected arrival times at the location of the spacecraft, we searched for a significant excess in both individual and cumulative time profiles over a wide range of time resolutions, from several seconds down to sub-ms scales. Using the dispersion measures in excess of the Galactic terms, we estimated the upper limits on the redshifts. No convincing signal was found and for each FRB we constrained the gamma-ray isotropic-equivalent luminosity and the released energy as a function of emission timescale. For the nearest FRB source, the periodic repeater FRB180916.J0158+65, we find $L_{\gamma,iso}<5.5\times 10^{47}$ erg/s over 1 s, whereas $L_{\gamma,iso}<10^{49}-10^{51}$ erg/s for the bulk of FRBs. The same values scale up by a factor of ~100 for a ms-long emission. Even on a timescale comparable with that of the radio pulse itself no keV-MeV emission is observed. A systematic association with either long or short GRBs is ruled out with high confidence, except for subluminous events, as is the case for core-collapse of massive stars (long) or binary neutron star mergers (short) viewed off axis. Only giant flares from extra-galactic magnetars at least ten times more energetic than Galactic siblings are ruled out for the nearest FRB., Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables, accepted by A&A
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129. Translocation of links through a pore: effects of link complexity and size
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Caraglio, Michele, Orlandini, Enzo, and Whittington, Stuart G
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Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics ,Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter ,Physics - Biological Physics ,Physics - Computational Physics ,Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules - Abstract
We have used Langevin dynamics to simulate the forced translocation of linked polymer rings through a narrow pore. For fixed size (i.e. fixed number of monomers) the translocation time depends on the link type and on whether the rings are knotted or unknotted. For links with two unknotted rings, the crossings between the rings can slow down the translocation and are responsible for a delay as the crossings pass through the pore. The results fall on a set of relatively smooth curves for different link families with the translocation time not always increasing with crossings number within the same family. When one ring is knotted the results depend on whether the link is prime or composite and, for the composite case, they depend on whether the knotted or unknotted ring enters the pore first. We find a similar situation for 3-component links where the results depend on whether the link is prime or composite. These results contribute to our understanding of how the entanglement complexity between filaments impacts their translocation dynamics and should be useful for extending nanopore-sensing techniques to probe the topological properties of these systems., Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures
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130. Beryllium-9 in Cluster Effective Field Theory
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Filandri, Elena, Andreatta, Paolo, Manzata, Carlo A., Ji, Chen, Leidemann, W., and Orlandini, G.
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Nuclear Theory - Abstract
We study the 9 Be ground-state energy with non-local ${\alpha}-$n and ${\alpha}-{\alpha}$ potentials derived from Cluster Effective Field Theory. The short-distance dependence of the interaction is regulated with a momentum cutoff. The potential parameters are fitted to reproduce the scattering length and effective range. We implement such potential models in a Non-Symmetrized Hyperspherical Harmonics (NSHH) code in momentum space. In addition we calculate ground state energies of various alpha nuclei. Work is in progress on a calculation of the photodisintegration of 9Be with the Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) method.
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131. Aging of living polymer networks: a model with patchy particles
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Iubini, Stefano, Baiesi, Marco, and Orlandini, Enzo
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Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter - Abstract
Microrheology experiments show that viscoelastic media composed by wormlike micellar networks display complex relaxations lasting seconds even at the scale of micrometers. By mapping a model of patchy colloids with suitable mesoscopic elementary motifs to a system of worm-like micelles, we are able to simulate its relaxation dynamics, upon a thermal quench, spanning many decades, from microseconds up to tens of seconds. After mapping the model to real units and to experimental scission energies, we show that the relaxation process develops through a sequence of non-local and energetically challenging arrangements. These adjustments remove undesired structures formed as a temporary energetic solution for stabilizing the thermodynamically unstable free caps of the network. We claim that the observed scale-free nature of this stagnant process may complicate the correct quantification of experimentally relevant time scales as the Weissenberg number.
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132. Phylogenetics of Brazilian phyllocladiferous Phyllanthus (Phyllanthaceae): a new section exclusive from the Atlantic Rain Forest, with morphological and molecular support
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Orlandini, Priscila, da Silva, Otávio Luis Marques, Cordeiro, Inês, and Souza, Vinicius Castro
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133. Pathogenetic role of the pain threshold Hypothetical therapeutic perspectives based on the use of drugs to elevate it
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Guido Orlandini
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pain ,threshold. canalopathy ,nav1.7 ,ngf ,tanezumab ,Anesthesiology ,RD78.3-87.3 ,Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,RM1-950 - Abstract
The pain threshold determines the extent of pain perception, and in some cases, its manifestation. Therefore, it is important in certain situations to increase the pain threshold. Measuring the pain threshold is challenging due to its approximate nature. The threshold depends on the number and function of Nav1.7 sodium channels and nerve growth factor (NGF). Unfortunately, we lack therapeutic tools to selectively act on these sodium channels. The clinical use of tanezumab, a drug that can counteract NGF, has not been approved. It is potentially dangerous to misuse drugs that can increase the pain threshold as it may divert attention from treating the underlying cause of pain or even dangerously limit its protective function. However, they can be particularly useful in pathologies where the main pathogenetic mechanism is a reduced pain threshold, such as migraine, musculotensive headache, trigeminal neuropathy, phantom limb pain, fibromyalgia, and others. They are also helpful in situations where pain is no longer useful for diagnostic purposes and when it is due to an incurable condition like cancer.
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134. AUTOMATED AND MANUAL LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNTS IN HEALTHY EQUINES
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Maria Fernanda Cazini Silva, Luma Maria Rovina Brito, Beatriz de Azevedo Martins, Laryssa Eduarda de Campos Lopes, Yasmin Cunha Duarte, Matheus Nogueira Morais, Laura Arduino Vasconcelos, Mariana Orlandini Mendonça, Tainara de Oliveira Martins, Daniela Fernandez Montechiesi, and Breno Fernando Martins de Almeida
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Horse ,Leukogram ,Impedance ,Veterinary medicine ,SF600-1100 - Abstract
The speed and convenience provided by automated cell counters are reasons for the increasing use of this technology in veterinary practice, with impedance methodology being one of the most commonly used in Brazil. In this regard, the objective of this study was to compare the automated differential leukocyte count obtained by impedance with the manual count obtained from the evaluation of blood smears in healthy horses. For this purpose, the automated differential leukocyte count using a veterinary cell counter (Abx Micros ESV 60, Horiba) was compared to the manual count using optical microscopy in 545 blood samples from healthy horses. Paired t-tests or Wilcoxon tests, Deming regression, Pearson or Spearman correlations, and Bland-Altman analysis were used, considering differences significant when p
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135. Quality by design in the optimization of the ultrasonic assisted solvent extraction for the GC-MS determination of plasticizers in sediments and shells
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Elise Lorre, Nicolò Riboni, Federica Bianchi, Serena Orlandini, Sandra Furlanetto, Maria Careri, and Mindaugas Zilius
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Phthalate esters ,Adipate ,Quality by design ,Ultrasonic-assisted solvent extraction ,Sediment ,Mollusc shells ,Analytical chemistry ,QD71-142 - Abstract
Phthalate esters (PAEs) are the most widely used plasticizers worldwide and are considered as ubiquitous environmental contaminants. Due to both their ubiquity and potential health and environmental risks, their determination is a matter of worldwide concern. In the present study, an efficient method based on ultrasonic-assisted solvent extraction followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry is proposed for the simultaneous determination of PAEs and di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate in estuarine sediments and shells. Method optimization was successfully carried out according to Quality by Design principles. Shaking time, ultrasonic time, extractant volume, and solvent type were selected as Critical Method Parameters. Validation proved method reliability for the determination of the investigated analytes, achieving detection limits in the 0.1–0.7 ng g–1 and 0.1–0.5 ng g–1 range for sediments and shells, respectively. A good precision was obtained with RSD < 20% and trueness (recovery) in the 73(±7)–120(±10)% and 70(±10)–111(±3)% range, for sediments and shells, respectively. Finally, the method was applied to analyze sediment samples and mollusc shells, collected from the Curonian Lagoon (Southeast Baltic Sea). Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate was present in all the analyzed samples, thus pointing out its ubiquity in estuarine environment. PAEs were also found in shell debris or living mussels, highlighting them as a hotspot of organic contaminants, especially in transitional environments, where accumulation of organic rich deposits is limited.
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136. Folding kinetics of an entangled protein.
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Leonardo Salicari, Marco Baiesi, Enzo Orlandini, and Antonio Trovato
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Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
The possibility of the protein backbone adopting lasso-like entangled motifs has attracted increasing attention. After discovering the surprising abundance of natively entangled protein domain structures, it was shown that misfolded entangled subpopulations might become thermosensitive or escape the homeostasis network just after translation. To investigate the role of entanglement in shaping folding kinetics, we introduce a novel indicator and analyze simulations of a coarse-grained, structure-based model for two small single-domain proteins. The model recapitulates the well-known two-state folding mechanism of a non-entangled SH3 domain. However, despite its small size, a natively entangled antifreeze RD1 protein displays a rich refolding behavior, populating two distinct kinetic intermediates: a short-lived, entangled, near-unfolded state and a longer-lived, non-entangled, near-native state. The former directs refolding along a fast pathway, whereas the latter is a kinetic trap, consistently with known experimental evidence of two different characteristic times. Upon trapping, the natively entangled loop folds without being threaded by the N-terminal residues. After trapping, the native entangled structure emerges by either backtracking to the unfolded state or threading through the already formed but not yet entangled loop. Along the fast pathway, trapping does not occur because the native contacts at the closure of the lasso-like loop fold after those involved in the N-terminal thread, confirming previous predictions. Despite this, entanglement may appear already in unfolded configurations. Remarkably, a longer-lived, near-native intermediate, with non-native entanglement properties, recalls what was observed in cotranslational folding.
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137. Feasibility of delta radiomics–based pCR prediction for rectal cancer patients treated with magnetic resonance–guided adaptive radiotherapy
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Junxiang Wu, Juan Xiao, Yihong Li, Fan Wu, Qian Peng, Churong Li, Bin Tang, and Lucia Clara Orlandini
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delta radiomics ,pathological complete response ,rectal cancer ,MRgART ,neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy ,MR-Linac ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
Magnetic resonance–guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART) represents the latest frontier in precision radiotherapy. It is distinguished from other modalities by the possibility of acquiring high-contrast soft tissue images, combined with the ability to recalculate and re-optimize the plan on the daily anatomy. The extensive database of available images offers ample scope for using disciplines such as radiomics to try to correlate features and outcomes. This study aimed to correlate the change of radiomics feature along the treatment to pathological complete response (pCR) for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) patients. Twenty-eight LARC patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) with a short course (25 Gy, 5 Gy × 5f) MRgART at 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac were enrolled. The T2-weighted images acquired at each fraction, corresponding target delineation, pCR result of the surgical specimen, and clinical variables were collected. Seven families of features [First Order, Shape, Gray-level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Gray-level Dependence Matrix (GLDM), Gray-level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM), Gray-level Size Zone Matrix (GLSZM), and Neighborhood Gray Tone Difference Matrix (NGTDM)] were extracted, and delta features were calculated from the ratio of features of each successive fraction to those of the first fraction. Mann-Whitney U test and LASSO were utilized to reduce the dimension of features and select those features that are most significant to pCR. At last, the radiomics signatures were established by linear regression with the final set of features and their coefficients. A total of 581 radiomics features were extracted, and 2,324 delta features were calculated for each patient. Nineteen features and delta features, and one clinical variable (cN) were significant (p< 0.05) to pCR; seven predictive features were further selected and included in the linear regression to construct the radiomics signature significantly discriminating pCR and non-pCR groups (p< 0.05). Delta features based on MRI images acquired during a short course MRgART could potentially be used to predict treatment response in LARC patients undergoing nCRT.
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138. Magnetic Polymer Models for Epigenetics-Driven Chromosome Folding
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Colì, Davide, Michieletto, Davide, Marenduzzo, Davide, and Orlandini, Enzo
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Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter ,Physics - Biological Physics - Abstract
Epigenetics is a driving force of important and ubiquitous phenomena in nature such as cell differentiation or even metamorphosis. Oppositely to its widespread role, understanding the biophysical principles that allow epigenetics to control and rewire gene regulatory networks remains an open challenge. In this work we study the effects of epigenetic modifications on the spatial folding of chromosomes -- and hence on the expression of the underlying genes -- by mapping the problem to a class of models known as magnetic polymers. In this work we show that a first-order phase transition underlies the simultaneous spreading of certain epigenetic marks and the conformational collapse of a chromosome. Further, we describe Brownian Dynamics simulations of the model in which the topology of the polymer and thermal fluctuations are fully taken into account and that confirms our mean-field predictions. Extending our models to allow for non-equilibrium terms yields new stable phases which qualitatively agrees with observations in vivo. Our results show that statistical mechanics techniques applied to models of magnetic polymers can be successfully exploited to rationalize the outcomes of experiments designed to probe the interplay between a dynamic epigenetic landscape and chromatin organization., Comment: to appear in PRE
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139. Quality by design in the optimization of the ultrasonic assisted solvent extraction for the GC-MS determination of plasticizers in sediments and shells
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Lorre, Elise, Riboni, Nicolò, Bianchi, Federica, Orlandini, Serena, Furlanetto, Sandra, Careri, Maria, and Zilius, Mindaugas
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140. Innovative thermally assisted on-line solid phase extraction-reversed phase liquid chromatography applied to targeted nutrimetabolomics in human biofluids
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Renai, Lapo, Marzullo, Luca, Bonaccorso, Giulia, Orlandini, Serena, Mattivi, Fulvio, Bruzzoniti, Maria Concetta, and Del Bubba, Massimo
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141. Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants
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Acero, F., Acharyya, A., Adam, R., Aguasca-Cabot, A., Agudo, I., Aguirre-Santaella, A., Alfaro, J., Aloisio, R., Crespo, N. Álvarez, Batista, R. Alves, Amati, L., Amato, E., Ambrosi, G., Angüner, E.O., Aramo, C., Arcaro, C., Armstrong, T., Asano, K., Ascasibar, Y., Aschersleben, J., Backes, M., Baktash, A., Balazs, C., Balbo, M., Ballet, J., Larriva, A. Baquero, Martins, V. Barbosa, de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J.A., Bastieri, D., Baxter, J.R., Tjus, J. Becker, Benbow, W., Bernardos-Martín, M.I., Bernete, J., Berti, A., Bertucci, B., Beshley, V., Bhattacharjee, P., Bhattacharyya, S., Biland, A., Bissaldi, E., Biteau, J., Blanch, O., Bordas, P., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Brose, R., Bucciantini, N., Bulgarelli, A., Capasso, M., Dolcetta, R.A. Capuzzo, Caraveo, P., Cardillo, M., Carosi, R., Casanova, S., Cascone, E., Cassol, F., Catalani, F., Cerruti, M., Chadwick, P., Chaty, S., Chen, A., Chernyakova, M., Chiavassa, A., Chudoba, J., Coimbra-Araujo, C., Conforti, V., Contreras, J.L., Costa, A., Costantini, H., Cristofari, P., Crocker, R., D’Amico, G., D’Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Caprio, V., de Gouveia Dal Pino, E.M., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., de Souza, V., Delgado, C., della Volpe, D., Depaoli, D., Di Girolamo, T., Di Pierro, F., Di Tria, R., Di Venere, L., Diebold, S., Djuvsland, J.I., Donini, A., Doro, M., Dos Anjos, R.d.C., Dwarkadas, V.V., Einecke, S., Elsässer, D., Emery, G., Evoli, C., Falceta-Goncalves, D., Fedorova, E., Fegan, S., Ferrand, G., Fiandrini, E., Filipovic, M., Fioretti, V., Fiori, M., Foffano, L., Fontaine, G., Fukami, S., Galanti, G., Galaz, G., Gammaldi, V., Gasbarra, C., Ghalumyan, A., Ghirlanda, G., Giarrusso, M., Giavitto, G., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Giuliani, A., Giunti, L., Godinovic, N., Coelho, J. Goulart, Gréaux, L., Green, D., Grondin, M.-H., Gueta, O., Gunji, S., Hassan, T., Heller, M., Hernández-Cadena, S., Hinton, J., Hnatyk, B., Hnatyk, R., Hoffmann, D., Hofmann, W., Holder, J., Horan, D., Horvath, P., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Inada, T., Incardona, F., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Jamrozy, M., Janecek, P., Martínez, I. Jiménez, Jin, W., Jung-Richardt, I., Jurysek, J., Kaaret, P., Karas, V., Katz, U., Kerszberg, D., Khélifi, B., Kieda, D.B., Kissmann, R., Kleiner, T., Kluge, G., Kluzniak, W., Knödlseder, J., Kobayashi, Y., Kohri, K., Komin, N., Kornecki, P., Kubo, H., La Palombara, N., Láinez, M., Lamastra, A., Lapington, J., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Lenain, J.-P., Leone, F., Leto, G., Leuschner, F., Lindfors, E., Liodakis, I., Lohse, T., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López-Coto, R., López-Moya, M., López-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Luque-Escamilla, P.L., Macias, O., Mackey, J., Majumdar, P., Mandat, D., Manganaro, M., Manicò, G., Marconi, M., Martí, J., Martínez, G., Martinez, M., Martinez, O., Mello, A.J.T.S., Menchiari, S., Meyer, D.M.-A., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Miceli, M., Michalowski, J., Miener, T., Miranda, J.M., Mitchell, A., Mode, B., Moderski, R., Mohrmann, L., Molina, E., Montaruli, T., Morcuende, D., Morlino, G., Morselli, A., Mosè, M., Moulin, E., Mukherjee, R., Munari, K., Murach, T., Nagai, A., Nagataki, S., Nemmen, R., Niemiec, J., Nieto, D., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nikolajuk, M., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Novosyadlyj, B., Nozaki, S., Ohishi, M., Ohm, S., Ohtani, Y., Okumura, A., Olmi, B., Ong, R.A., Orienti, M., Orito, R., Orlandini, M., Orlando, E., Orlando, S., Ostrowski, M., Oya, I., Pantaleo, F.R., Paredes, J.M., Patricelli, B., Pecimotika, M., Peresano, M., Pérez-Romero, J., Persic, M., Petruk, O., Piano, G., Pietropaolo, E., Pirola, G., Pittori, C., Pohl, M., Ponti, G., Prandini, E., Principe, G., Priyadarshi, C., Pueschel, E., Pühlhofer, G., Pumo, M.L., Quirrenbach, A., Rando, R., Razzaque, S., Reichherzer, P., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Renaud, M., Reposeur, T., Ribó, M., Richtler, T., Rico, J., Rieger, F., Rigoselli, M., Riitano, L., Rizi, V., Roache, E., Romano, P., Romeo, G., Rosado, J., Rowell, G., Rudak, B., Sadeh, I., Safi-Harb, S., Saha, L., Sailer, S., Sánchez-Conde, M., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Saturni, F.G., Scherer, A., Schovánek, P., Schussler, F., Schwanke, U., Scuderi, S., Seglar-Arroyo, M., Sergijenko, O., Servillat, M., Shang, R.-Y., Sharma, P., Siejkowski, H., Sliusar, V., Słowikowska, A., Sol, H., Specovius, A., Spencer, S.T., Spengler, G., Stamerra, A., Stanič, S., Starecki, T., Starling, R., Stolarczyk, T., Pereira, L.A. Stuani, Suda, Y., Suomijarvi, T., Sushch, I., Tajima, H., Tam, P.-H.T., Tanaka, S.J., Tavecchio, F., Testa, V., Tian, W., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D.F., Tothill, N., Vallage, B., Vallania, P., van Eldik, C., van Scherpenberg, J., Vandenbroucke, J., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vecchi, M., Vercellone, S., Verna, G., Viana, A., Vignatti, J., Vitale, V., Vodeb, V., Vorobiov, S., Vuillaume, T., Wagner, S.J., Walter, R., White, M., Wierzcholska, A., Will, M., Williams, D., Yang, L., Yoshida, T., Yoshikoshi, T., Zaharijas, G., Zampieri, L., Zavrtanik, D., Zavrtanik, M., Zhdanov, V.I., and Z̆ivec, M.
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142. Patient safety implications of wearing a face mask for prevention in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and consensus recommendations
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Balestracci, Beatrice, La Regina, Micaela, Di Sessa, Domenico, Mucci, Nicola, Angelone, Francesca Donatella, D’Ecclesia, Aurelio, Fineschi, Vittorio, Di Tommaso, Mariarosaria, Corbetta, Lorenzo, Lachman, Peter, Orlandini, Francesco, Tanzini, Michela, Tartaglia, Riccardo, and Squizzato, Alessandro
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143. Effects of the Application of Decellularized Amniotic Membrane Solubilized with Hyaluronic Acid on Wound Healing
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Corrêa, Maria Eduarda Anastácio Borges, Mendes, Carolini, Bittencourt, João Vitor Silvano, Takejima, Aline, de Souza, Isio Carvalho, de Carvalho, Simone Cristina Dizaró, Orlandini, Ingrid Gabriela, de Andrade, Thiago Antonio Moretti, Guarita-Souza, Luiz César, and Silveira, Paulo Cesar Lock
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144. Functional outcomes, extent of resection, and bright/vague fluorescence interface in resection of glioblastomas involving the motor pathways assisted by 5-ALA
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Muscas, Giovanni, Orlandini, Simone, Bonaudo, Camilla, Dardo, Maddalena, Esposito, Alice, Campagnaro, Luca, Carrai, Riccardo, Fainardi, Enrico, Ciccarino, Pietro, and Della Puppa, Alessandro
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145. Optimization of a vibrating MEMS electromagnetic energy harvester using simulations
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Lecerf, Ilona, Moritz, Pierre, Angulo-Cervera, José Elías, Mathieu, Fabrice, Bourrier, David, Nicu, Liviu, Leïchlé, Thierry, Orlandini-Keller, Frederico, Devillers, Thibaut, Dempsey, Nora M., Viau, Guillaume, Lacroix, Lise-Marie, and Blon, Thomas
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146. A dichotomic approach to adaptive interaction for socially assistive robots.
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Riccardo De Benedictis, Alessandro Umbrico, Francesca Fracasso, Gabriella Cortellessa, Andrea Orlandini, and Amedeo Cesta
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147. A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI.
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Alessandro Umbrico, Riccardo De Benedictis, Francesca Fracasso, Amedeo Cesta, Andrea Orlandini, and Gabriella Cortellessa
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148. A Regional 100 m Soil Grid-Based Geographic Decision Support System to Support the Planning of New Sustainable Vineyards
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Roberto Barbetti, Irene Criscuoli, Giuseppe Valboa, Nadia Vignozzi, Sergio Pellegrini, Maria Costanza Andrenelli, Giovanni L’Abate, Maria Fantappiè, Alessandro Orlandini, Andrea Lachi, Lorenzo Gardin, and Lorenzo D’Avino
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A WebGis tool called GoProsit has been developed to support winegrowers in planning a new sustainable vineyard and in the identification of high-quality terroir in Tuscany, Central Italy, by providing various information on soils, climate, hydrological risks, and fertilization. GoProsit, hosted by the web platform GEAPP, is a free, user-friendly, and interactive Geographic Decision Support System (GDSS). Soil data behind the WebGis tool has a 1 ha resolution, achieved by processing the legacy vector-type soil database of the Tuscany Region with the DSMART (Disaggregation and Harmonization of Soil Map Units Through Resampled Classification Trees as supervised classification) algorithm, which disaggregated the map to 297,023 vineyard grid cells. Each grid cell holds climatic and pedologic information, along with physical and chemical features for each horizon of the most probable soil. GoProsit also provides soil maps in image format obtained by georeferencing about 50 historical soil maps (1969–2012). Finally, GoProsit runs and returns the outputs of six models: (a) carbon footprint, (b) potential erosion and maximum vine row length compatible with tolerable erosion, (c) potential water stress, (d) risk of runoff/waterlogging, (e) identification of suitable rootstocks, and (f) nutritional needs before planting. Statistics of the main model results for the investigated area are reported. This promising tool will soon be usable for the whole Italian territory; however, its potential makes it suitable for use in any wine-growing district.
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149. Trichoderma atroviride Enhances Impatiens walleriana Hook. f Growth and Flowering in Different Growing Media
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Silvia Traversari, Mariateresa Cardarelli, Massimo Brambilla, Maurizio Cutini, Gianluca Burchi, Marco Fedrizzi, Daniele Massa, Alessandro Orlandini, and Sonia Cacini
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Trichoderma spp. are widely reported to regulate plant growth by improving nutrient uptake, photosynthesis, and abiotic stress tolerance. However, their possible application for bedding plants is little explored, especially when comparing different growing media. Considering that coconut coir dust is finding broader application in the ornamental plants sector as a peat substitute, this work was aimed to test the combination of Trichoderma atroviride AT10 and coconut coir dust on Impatiens walleriana plants. Four treatments were tested as a mix of: (i) two growing media (70:30), peat:perlite or coconut coir dust:perlite; and (ii) the absence or presence of a T. atroviride treatment. At the end of the production cycle, the biomass and ornamental parameters, leaf pigments, nutrient content of the plant tissues, and Trichoderma abundance were assessed. The results revealed that T. atroviride can readily colonize coir, and the same positive effects of inoculum were found in plants grown on both substrates. The biostimulant effect of T. atroviride was observed as an increase in the aboveground biomass, number and weight of flowers, pigments and nutrient concentration, thereby improving the commercial quality of I. walleriana. Thus, T. atroviride has shown its potential in making bedding plant cultivation more sustainable and improving the yield and aesthetic parameters of plants grown on peat and coconut coir dust substrates.
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150. Risk factors and prevention of choking
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Sabina Saccomanno, Stefano Saran, Licia Coceani Paskay, Martina De Luca, Augusto Tricerri, Samuele Mafucci Orlandini, Francesca Greco, and Giuseppe Messina
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Choking ,foreign body ,food ,chewing ,airway obstruction ,prevention ,Medicine ,Human anatomy ,QM1-695 - Abstract
Choking (or foreign body airway obstruction) is a widespread phenomenon with serious consequences of morbidity and mortality. Choking (often also called suffocation) can be caused by food or inedible objects and leads to various degrees of asphyxiation or lack of oxygen in the blood stream. The incidence is very high in both young children and adults, especially seniors. However, since not all choking episodes end up in the emergency room or become fatalities, they often escape statistics. Although episodes of choking from non-edible bodies are infrequent, they affect mostly young children. Three of the most common risks for choking in general are neurological disorders, dysphagia and dental issues (few or no teeth, unstable or unsuitable prosthesis or orthodontic appliances). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk factors of choking and ways to reduce/avoid this event. We reported data on a series of 138 patients admitted to the emergency department following a choking event, at a hospital in Rome, Italy. The age group of the analyzed population ranged from 1 to 88 years, with the most represented age group of these between 40 and 59, with a similar distribution between males and females. The types of foods on which people choked reflected the seasonal, traditional and local foods: 67% of patients reported choking on fish bones followed by meat bones (9%) and artichokes (3%). Three relevant non-food choking elements reported were: orthodontic items, toothpicks and pins (one occurrence each). We also reported on two clinical cases of patients choking on meat and a chicken bone. In conclusion, choking awareness and prevention are essential for implementing potential life-saving precautions. Prevention is the first tool to reduce the occurrence of this event, therefore it is necessary to analyze the risk factors and educate the population to eliminate them. Proper chewing and oral manipulation are paramount functions in preventing choking, along with meal-time supervision if little children and elderly. Then, it behooves the healthcare professionals to disseminate knowledge
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- 2023
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