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The laboratory ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) advances a comprehensive approach to data-based drawing oriented towards architectural and urban co-design processes. This drawing methodology has been key in the contributive design process they have applied over the last seven years, covering a range of scales and contexts, both within the public and private spheres. Contribution has become a relational strategy that unites a diverse range of participants, each hailing from various backgrounds and carrying unique needs, which come together around the drawing. For this reason, the cultivation of a robust drawing culture, from their teaching to their research and design activities, has become a cornerstone of ALICE’s philosophy, where drawing is embraced not merely as a representational tool but as a constructive means for design work. Their methodology has now evolved to include data-based drawing techniques, skillfully merging precise surveying with qualitative data analysis, thereby bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative facets of design. This article explains this data-based approach to drawing through a series of projects developed in the Greater Geneva region. Throughout them, they explain how ALICE’s situated data-based drawings facilitate intricate coordination among students, leading to real-scale interventions; explore the potential of transforming main roads into landscape infrastructures that promote sustainable mobility and urban development; or offer an innovative lens to comprehend the affective connections between citizens and their urban surroundings, transcending traditional cartographic representations. Finally, these efforts are summarised through the analysis of a single drawing showcased at the 2021 Venice Biennale, illustrating the potential of this methodology to harmonize the collective efforts of various stakeholders.

Over the last few decades, computer programming has become an important field of endeavor due to rapid development in the information sector. Despite the importance of programming, there is a growing concern that it is relatively difficult. In the process, researchers have started employing media tools to reduce programming difficulties and motivate learners to approach programming problems. One of the common tools widely used is program animation—an instructional medium that incorporates animated characters. However, little is known about the research trends in this field of study. This article, therefore, employed a systematic mapping method to review this trend to find patterns and gaps left in the literature. The study extracted 48 articles published between 2000 and 2022 from four scientific databases (Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and ERIC) and three digital libraries (ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and Wiley Online Library). The review discovered important trends. First, there is a paucity of research evidence evaluating program animation in the context of secondary and elementary levels; the majority of the extracted studies focused on participants from tertiary institutions. A similar paucity of research evidence employing mixed methods and qualitative approaches was also noted. Scratch programs were used in recent research more often than other program animations. There is also too little evaluation of psychomotor variables. Finally, there exist inconsistent findings on the effect of program animation although plenty of studies revealed positive results in favor of these media tools. The study therefore recommends that future research should be conducted to fill these identified gaps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The laboratory ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l'Espace) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) advances a comprehensive approach to data-based drawing oriented towards architectural and urban co-design processes. This drawing methodology has been key in the contributive design process they have applied over the last seven years, covering a range of scales and contexts, both within the public and private spheres. Contribution has become a relational strategy that unites a diverse range of participants, each hailing from various backgrounds and carrying unique needs, which come together around the drawing. For this reason, the cultivation of a robust drawing culture, from their teaching to their research and design activities, has become a cornerstone of ALICE's philosophy, where drawing is embraced not merely as a representational tool but as a constructive means for design work. Their methodology has now evolved to include data-based drawing techniques, skillfully merging precise surveying with qualitative data analysis, thereby bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative facets of design. This article explains this data-based approach to drawing through a series of projects developed in the Greater Geneva region. Throughout them, they explain how ALICE's situated data-based drawings facilitate intricate coordination among students, leading to real-scale interventions; explore the potential of transforming main roads into landscape infrastructures that promote sustainable mobility and urban development; or offer an innovative lens to comprehend the affective connections between citizens and their urban surroundings, transcending traditional cartographic representations. Finally, these efforts are summarised through the analysis of a single drawing showcased at the 2021 Venice Biennale, illustrating the potential of this methodology to harmonize the collective efforts of various stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ALICE ITS3 project foresees the use of ultra-light MAPS, developed in the 65 nm imaging process, for the vertex detector in the ALICE experiment at the LHC to drastically improve the vertexing performance. This new development, initiated by an international consortium of the ALICE ITS3 collaboration and the CERN EP R&D project, enhances the overall MAPS performance. Small-scale prototypes are designed to study the analogue properties of the TPSCo 65 nm technology and compare the charge collection performance in different processes, pitches, pixel geometries, and irradiation levels. Recent results from lab and test-beam characterisation detailing the efficiency and the spatial resolution of the APTS with different pixel geometries and pitches satisfy the ALICE ITS3 requirements. A quantitative evolution of the charge collection and sharing among pixels is evident in the CE-65 with different in-pixel readouts. Attaining a spatial resolution better than 3 μ m with a 10 μ m pitch and over 99% efficiency in the moderate irradiation environment of ALICE also supports the viability of using 65 nm MAPS for FCC-ee vertex detectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As compras governamentais são realizadas para implementar políticas e prestar serviços públicos de forma satisfatória à sociedade. As compras realizadas pelo Governo Federal Brasileiro correspondem a 1,5% do Produto Interno Bruto nacional em média (R$ 119 bilhões em 2021). Além do grande volume de recursos, o processo de compras públicas é percebido como muito vulnerável a fraudes (OECD, 2018). Considerando a relevância, os valores e os riscos envolvidos a Controladoria-Geral da União criou a Analisadora de Licitações, Contratos e Editais (Alice) com o objetivo agregar valor à gestão pública com uma atuação preventiva e tempestiva em relação às compras públicas. O sistema coleta diariamente, de forma automática, informações sobre os processos em curso nas principais plataformas de compras públicas do Governo Federal, avalia um conjunto de riscos e emite alertas para direcionar a atenção dos auditores e dos gestores envolvidos a situações que fogem ao padrão referencial. É, portanto, uma ferramenta de Auditoria Contínua, com funcionamento de automação robótica de processos, que emite alertas sobre possíveis problemas em compras públicas. A Alice acumula resultados positivos cotidianamente. Já são mais de R$ 9,7 bilhões em compras suspensas a partir de suas indicações, apenas pela CGU. No caminho até o alcance desses resultados a CGU vivenciou grandes desafios descritos nesse relato. O ponto crucial para o sucesso da ferramenta foi a integração de seus resultados ao processo de trabalho ordinário da Casa, com forte patrocínio da alta administração. A ferramenta agora evolui para adição de mais funcionalidades que usam técnicas de inteligência artificial e para a agregação de novas bases de dados.

The ALICE Collaboration completed the upgrade of the detector and is now commissioning for the beginning of the data taking during LHC Run 3. In parallel, R&D activities and simulation studies are being performed to define the future of the experiment beyond LHC Run 3. Two detector upgrades are foreseen for the next long shutdown (LS3). The first is the replacement of the three layers of the inner tracking system closest to the beam with a novel vertex detector consisting of curved wafer-scale ultra-thin silicon sensors arranged in perfectly cylindrical layers to improve impact parameter resolution and significantly extend the physics capability for the study of the heavy-flavor production and the low-mass dielectrons. The second upgrade for the LS3 is the addition of a Forward Calorimeter detector at large rapidity consisting of a Si-W electromagnetic calorimeter with pad and pixel readout, that will equip the experiment with unique capabilities to measure small-x gluon distributions via prompt photon production. A proposal of a next-generation heavy-ion experiment for LHC Run 5 is also in preparation and will be discussed. The aim is to perform novel measurements of the electromagnetic and hadronic probes of the QGP, such as the production of multiply-charmed baryons, which have so far been inaccessible, both because of detector performance and luminosity. The concept of the new apparatus foresees an extensive usage of thin silicon sensors for tracking and a modern particle identification system, combining a silicon-based time of flight detector, a RICH detector, an electromagnetic calorimeter and a muon system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During the Long Shutdown 3 of the LHC (2026–2028) the ALICE experiment foresees an upgrade of the inner barrel of its Inner Tracking System: the ITS3. This new vertex detector is based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors produced in a commercial 65 nm CMOS technology. Each half-layer is realized with a single stitched sensor of 26 cm long and less than 50 µm thick, bent to form a half-cylinder, and held in place with carbon foam supports. The detector is air cooled allowing for an extremely low material budget of 0.09 X/X˙0 per layer. With respect to the current ALICE vertex detector, ITS3 will improve the pointing resolution by 50% and the tracking efficiency by 30% for hadrons of low transverse momentum. Parallelly, ALICE is designing a next generation heavy-ion experiment for LHC Run 5 and 6 (beyond 2035). Its tracking system will be based on a vertex detector, integrated in a retractable structure inside the beam pipe to achieve the best possible pointing resolution, and a large-area outer tracker, surrounding the vertex detector and covering the pseudorapidity range − 4 < η < 4. Both systems will be based on the same MAPS technology developed for ITS3 and will have to satisfy stringent requirements: the innermost vertex detector layer, placed at 5 mm from the interaction point, must withstand an integrated radiation load of 9 × 1 0 15 1 MeV n˙eq/cm2 NIEL and 2.88 MGy TID; the outer tracker, extending from the beam pipe to a maximum radius of about 80 cm, covers almost 60 m2 of area. This proceeding will cover both the ITS3 upgrade and the projects for ALICE3 silicon tracker, highlighting their requirements, sensor specifications, mechanics and integration. It will showcase the results achieved during the ITS3 R&D and outline the challenges expected for the implementation of the ALICE 3 tracking system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is dedicated to the British silent film Alice in Wonderland by Percy Stow and Cecil Hepworth, which was found and restored in 2010. The 12-minute film was unusually long for early cinema. Almost all of the survived credits annotate several short scenes at once, showing their interconnection or, conversely, apartness from each other. This suggests that some scenes were sold not separately, but as a series of scenes united by a credit. Structurally, each fragment of the film, consisting of 2–3 scenes, is similar to one episode of series. Therefore, the origin of the principles of seriality in cinema can be associated with film adaptations of fairy-tale stories. The concept of space demonstrates the inner duality of the Wonderland. The private part of it looks like an English landscape garden, while the space of the Queen and her entourage is designed as a classicist regular park. In his adaptation (2010) of Carroll’s fairy-tale, Tim Burton will further unfold the theme of duality and conflict inside the Wonderland. In the 1903 film adaptation, Alice was played by May Clark, a grown-up girl who worked at the Hepworth studio. The dreamlike nature of the screen reality is emphasized by the restraint of the amateur performers’ play and the unobtrusiveness of the fantastic, when the screen fantasy world is both similar and different from the everyday life. The marriageable age of the heroine and some of the scenes that look like Alice’s “going through the torments” make us interpret the action as the embodiment of her unconscious. The magic garden, where a young girl is so eager to get, a symbol of the desirable joys of an adult life, becomes a nightmare for Alice. The film was released in the same year as the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was established, and it merged into an era of revision of Victorian ideals and rejection of the perception of women in line with patriarchal values. Tim Burton’s film, created in the era of the new emancipation and reconsideration of gender, largely corresponds to the first screen adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, presenting the Victorian world as a generalized image of a society that suppresses the individual and naturally provokes protest. Статья посвящена британскому фильму «Алиса в Стране Чудес» (Alice in Wonderland) Перси Стоу и Сесила Хепуорта, найденному и отреставрированному в 2010 году. 12-тиминутный фильм был нетипично долгим для раннего кино. Каждый титр, как правило, аннотирует сразу несколько коротких сценок, как бы показывая их взаимосвязь или, наоборот, обособленность друг от друга. Это позволяет предположить, что продавались не все сцены по отдельности, а несколько сцен, объединенных общим предваряющим титром. Структурно каждый фрагмент, состоящий из 2–3 сцен, аналогичен серии. Делается вывод о том, что зарождение принципов сериальности в кино правомерно связывать и с экранизациями сказочных историй. Концепция пространства демонстрирует дуальность Страны Чудес. Мир приватный похож на английский сад. А пространство Королевы и ее свиты решено как регулярный парк классицистского типа. Мотив дуальности и конфликта внутри Страны Чудес развернет в своем фильме по мотивам сказки Кэрролла Тим Бёртон (2010). Алису сыграла в фильме 1903 года Мэй Кларк, взрослая девушка, работавшая на киностудии. Сновидческий характер экранной реальности подчеркивает сдержанность игры исполнителей и ненавязчивость фантастического, когда все в кадре и похоже, и не похоже на обычный мир. Брачный возраст героини и селекция сцен, которые выглядят как «хождение по мукам» Алисы, заставляют видеть в действии воплощение бессознательного героини. Волшебный сад, куда так стремится попасть юная девушка, аналогичен мечтаемымм радостям взрослой жизни, которые оборачиваются для Алисы кошмаром. Фильм вышел в год образования Женского социального и политического союза (The Women’s Social and Political Union / WSPU), став частью эпохи пересмотра викторианских идеалов и отказа от восприятия женщины в русле патриархальных ценностей. Картина Тима Бёртона, созданная в эпоху новой волны эмансипации и гендерного раскрепощения, во многом корреспондирует с первой экранизацией «Алисы…», подавая викторианский мир как обобщенный образ социума, подавляющего личность и естественно вызывающего протест.

ALICE is an experiment designed to study heavy-ion collisions at the LHC at CERN. The Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) is one of the major ALICE upgrades installed during the Long Shutdown 2 (2018–2022) to cope with the maximum interaction rate of 50 kHz for Pb–Pb collisions in Runs 3 (2022–2025) and 4 (2029–2032). The MFT is a high-resolution tracking detector consisting of 10 layers of ALPIDE silicon pixel sensors with CMOS technology. The detector was designed to extend the physics program of ALICE by adding vertexing capabilities at forward rapidities and providing track information in front of the absorber of the Muon Spectrometer. This contribution reviews the design of the MFT and provides an overview of the technical aspects of the commissioning phase, outlining hardware and software implementations. It also includes insights into the detector structure, integration into the ALICE experimental setup, and a report on detector performance during 2022 and 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS2), installed in ALICE in May 2021 during a major upgrade campaign, significantly enhances the resolution on the determination of the distance of closest approach to the primary vertex, the tracking efficiency at low transverse momenta, and the read-out rate capabilities with respect to the previous tracker. It is equipped with silicon Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) with a pixel size of 27 × 29 μ m 2 , a spatial resolution of 5 μ m and it features a material budget of 0.36 % X 0 (inner layers). With a total sensitive area of about 10 m 2 , it represents the largest scale application of the MAPS technology in a HEP experiment and the first ever built at the LHC. This article shows the performance results of ITS2 during data taking in the LHC Run 3 where more than 250 billion events have been collected so far in proton–proton (pp) collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV, five times more than Run 2. The detector is characterized by a stable spurious hit rate of about 10−8 hits/event/pixel and an impact parameter resolution of about 50 μ m at a transverse momentum of 500 MeV/ c. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We apply the first-order formalism method to obtaining BPS equations for Alice string. This is done by generalizing the well-known first-order formalism to the case of non-Abelian strings. We do not assume any specific gauge group nor the shape of the kinetic term function, but require only that the fields are axially-symmetric and static. With this formalism we reproduce the BPS equations of S U (2) × U (1) Alice strings (Chatterjee and Nitta, 2017), and present their corresponding numerical solutions. • The BPS equations for Alice strings. • The first use of first-order formalism in non-Abelian defects. • The Bogomolny equations for Alice strings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The relevance of this work is determined by the importance of studying the problem of the child’s linguistic personality as a fiction character in a linguistic-pragmatic manner, from the writer’s linguistic personality intentions and characteristics perspective, and insufficient linguistic aspect knowledge of Lewis Carroll’s works about Alice’s adventures. The work substantiates the following: as opposed to the fact that, due to ontological characteristics, individual mental, psychological and physical development and personality growth, the degree of their language acquisition and communicative skills, primary school age children are usually weak or average linguistic personalities, while fiction characters of this age are able to meet the parameters of a strong linguistic personality. It has been established that the preferred, highly appreciated by L. Carroll qualities of a seven-year-old English girl are as follows: high level of cognitive-speech development, speech-cognitive processes, vocabulary, ability to communicate, reflect, draw conclusions, evaluate and express one's opinion in words, intelligence superior to the development of an average child of this age, as well as Alice’s internal qualities, manifested in her speech activity, taking into account not only speech peculiarities, but also themes and stylistics, communicational strategies and tactics, pragmatics, perception adequacy and the interlocutor’s speech understanding, influencing the opponent with the paralinguistic methods, psycho-emotional background of communication. These qualities make it possible to characterize a given linguistic personality of a literary character as strong. A number of Alice's qualities allow her to be considered as a national-cultural English type of personality.

In Suis-moi ! Maja Kastelic invites us to enter the tale following the steps of a boy who enters the strange building at 34 Andersen Street. As the illustrator says, this is a “homage to literature, illustration, and to the nostalgic beauty of old times and timeless things”. The article explores how a wordless picture book can be a tribute to literature. In a mysterious house, full of accumulated treasures, textual and visual arts merge. The reader goes back to the sources, like the child in the picturebook. Both are drawn into a real treasure hunt, gleaning, step by step, the pictures, the textual clues and the references that abound in the pictures.

O presente artigo tem como objetivo toma como objeto de análise os livros Alice no País das Maravilhas e Através do espelho e o que Alice encontrou por lá, ambos escritos por Lewis Carroll. O objetivo é observar de que forma é construída a utopia e a distopia nessas duas obras, além de promover uma discussão sobre o nonsense como dispositivo narrativo. A proposta se deve à construção de sociedades (País das Maravilhas e Terra dos Espelhos) envolta no uso arbitrário e violento do poder pela Rainha de Copas e pela Rainha Vermelha, anulando a ideia de individualidade e liberdade. Alice é a figura que se sobrepõe ao todo negativo, trazendo por meio de seus questionamentos uma perspectiva de mudança, ainda que improvável. Para tanto, nos valemos, centralmente, das considerações utópicas de Ernst Bloch (2006) e Thomas More (2017).

We study the particle production in the early stage of the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. To this end the Boltzmann kinetic equations for gluons and pions with elastic rescattering are considered together with a simple model for the parton-hadron conversion process (hadronisation). It is shown that the overpopulation of the gluon phase space in the initial state leads to an intermediate stage of Bose enhancement in the low-momentum gluon sector which due to the gluon-pion conversion process is then reflected in the final distribution function of pions. This pattern is very similar to the experimental finding of a low-momentum pion enhancement in the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Relations to the thermal statistical model of hadron production and the phenomenon of thermal and chemical freeze-out are discussed in this context.

Production of charm and beauty quark–antiquark pairs in proton–proton collisions is simulated with the codes generated in the framework of MadGraph5_aMC@NLO. The tree–level partonic processes are taken into account in first three orders of the perturbative quantum chromodynamics. The considered hard processes have two, three, and four partons in the final states. These final states contain one or two heavy quark–antiquark pairs. The calculations are performed with parton distribution functions (PDF) obtained with neural network methods by NNPDF collaboration. Influence of the multiple partonic interactions (MPI), initial– and final–state showers on the cross sections (CSs) is studied consistently taking advantage of Pythia 8 event generator. The CSs are computed in central and forward rapidity regions under conditions of the ALICE and LHCb experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The studied transverse momentum interval of the heavy quarks spreads up to 30 GeV/c. The CSs calculated at the leading order (LO) with Pythia 8, in the tree approximation with MadGraph5, and within Fixed Order plus Next–to–Leading Logarithms (FONLL) approach agree with each other within bands of the uncertainties inherent to underlying theory and methods. Inclusion of next–to–leading order (NLO) and N2LO partonic processes into calculations in addition to LO ones results in growth of the CSs. This increase reduces to some extent discrepancies with the CSs measured by ALICE and LHCb. Variations of the CSs due to renormalization– and factorization–scale dependence are much larger than the increase of the CSs in NLO and N2LO, than the uncertainties springing in the NNPDF model, and then the accuracy achieved in the ALICE and LHCb cross section measurements. Effects of the MPI, the space– and time–like partonic showers on the heavy quark CSs are found to be not very essential.

The article describes the model of teaching object-oriented programming for students of junior courses of IT specialties of higher educational institutions within the framework of two agreed disciplines, one of which is aimed at the formation of basic concepts of the object-oriented paradigm, and the second is aimed at mastering a specific object-oriented language. The peculiarities of the corresponding methodology are revealed, the choice of the visual training media Alice and Scratch is substantiated, the methodical aspects of realization of each of the two specified disciplines are described. The results of a pedagogical experiment conducted at the Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University, which confirms the effectiveness of the proposed methodology for teaching bachelors of applied computer science, are presented.

Nowadays, machine-based conversational systems known as chatbots have emerged for many applications in our lives. Chatbots are intelligent tools that use the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to communicate with humans using their natural languages. The inherent role of chatbots is to understand users' questions and provide the most appropriate responses intelligently and naturally. Chatbots have been very successful in some of the most spoken languages; however, Arabic chatbots have not reached the expected level. Recently, many researchers have attempted to fill the gap in implementing Arabic chatbots trying to overcome the complex linguistic features of Arabic language. Although Arabic chatbots can be utilized as a supportive tool for Saudi university students, their implementation, especially in Arabic language, is surprisingly neglected. Moreover, during changing the mode of education into distance learning due to (COVID-19) pandemic, it did not help the emergence of Arabic chatbots in Saudi universities. This research focuses on language-related challenges and obstacles that hinder the implementation of Arabic chatbots. Additionally, this paper presents fundamental recommendations for implementing effective Arabic chatbots for academic uses. In summary, it is noticed that Arabic chatbots literature suffers from paucity, which means further studies are needed in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report recent results from ALICE on the direct photon and neutral meson measurements in pp, p-Pb and Pb–Pb collisions at several energies and compare them to model calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to investigate the application of main translation methods, namely, foreignization and domestication in the process of translating religious terms in children's literature from English into Arabic. This study aims at finding answers for two question. First, is the translation of religious terms and expressions regulated by norms or not? Second, which translation method did translators opt for when translating religious terms in children's literature translated from English into Arabic? The study attempts to identify whether when translating English children's literature into Arabic, translators opt for a specific method or not. A translated version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a translated version of Hansel and Gretel, and a translated version of Cinderella were analysed at the level of diction and discourse. The researcher adopted specific theoretical frameworks to classify the selected items. After identifying the selected items according to the mentioned theoretical framework, the translation of each item will be classified according to the two major methods that are the focus of the current study, i.e., domestication and foreignization. The findings of the analysis show that the translated versions are not regulated by specific norms, and the three translators did not opt for a specific method as both foreignization and domestication were found in both versions. However, the analysis shows that domestication is more prevalent in these translated stories. The findings of this study have some implications for translators in general, translators of children's literature, and translation students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'articolo mira ad analizzare il movimento del '77 a Bologna e il modo in cui ha fatto del linguaggio la propria cifra rivoluzionaria. A partire dalla presa di distanza dalla politica tradizionale e dalla consapevolezza di una società non più fondata sui sistemi ideologici, bensì sui bisogni e desideri individuali, il movimento agisce sul piano dell'immaginario collettivo, rendendo l'Alice carolliana simbolo di un cambiamento. "Alice desidera una storia e cade in un buco" è lo spunto narrativo che consente di approfondire le diverse linee di ricerca attorno cui ruotano le parole chiave del '77: caduta, linguaggio, desiderio. Queste verranno analizzate con l'ausilio dei testi che rappresentano l'humus teorico del '77 e di quelli prodotti dal movimento stesso.

The next launch of the LHC involves using much more resources than GRID can provide. To solve this problem, ALICE is engaged in a project to expand the existing computing model in order to include additional resources in it, for example, Titan supercomputer. This article explores the interaction technology of the AliEn computing environment and the Titan supercomputer located in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). This technology uses the PanDA (Production and Distributed Analysis System) WMS (Workload management system) to send jobs to the Titan batch processing queue and local data management. Through PanDA and Titan, the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider receive new resources to fulfill the assigned tasks. This implementation was tested using ALICE jobs. AliEn (ALIce ENvironment) is a distributed computing environment developed for the ALICE Offline project. It allows access to distributed computing resources and storage resources for all participants of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Currently, AliEn allows to processing jobs on approximately 100,000 computing processors used in more than 80 GRID sites around the world. The architecture of the computing environment is 99% composed of imported components with open source, which makes possible to use the functionality without changing them. To connect AliEn and Grid infrastructure, used VOBOX service, which allows you to run your own services on computer sites, and also provides direct interaction with the batch processing queue for launching jobs.

Open-charmed mesons are unique tools to study the properties of the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in ultra-relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions. The nuclear modification factor ( R AA ) and elliptic flow ( v 2 ) of D 0 , D + , D ∗ + , and D s + mesons were measured by the ALICE Collaboration in Pb–Pb collisions at s NN = 5. 0 2 TeV. The D-meson R AA provides information on the charm-quark interactions with the medium and the charm-quark energy loss. The D-meson elliptic flow at low transverse momentum ( p T ) gives insight into the participation of charm quarks in the collective expansion of the system and their possible in-medium thermalization. At high p T , the v 2 is sensitive to the path-length dependence of parton energy loss. The role of the recombination mechanism is investigated measuring the p T -differential yield ratios between D-meson species with and without strange-quark content. Finally, the coupling of charm quarks to light quarks of the underlying medium is examined applying the Event-Shape Engineering (ESE) technique to the nonstrange D-meson elliptic flow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]