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Novel theory and potential applications of central diastolic pressure decay time constant

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Vasiliki Bikia, Georgios Rovas, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos

Central aortic diastolic pressure decay time constant ( ) is according to the two-element Windkessel model equal to the product of total peripheral resistance (R) times total arterial compliance (C ). As such, it is related to arterial stiffness, which has ...

2024

QCD worldsheet axion from the bootstrap

Victor Gorbenko

The worldsheet axion plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the Yang-Mills confining flux tubes. According to the lattice measurements, its mass is of order the string tension and its coupling is close to a certain critical value. Using the S-matrix Boots ...

Springer Nature2024

How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

Background Early exposure to Computer Science (CS) and Computational Thinking (CT) for all is critical to broaden participation and promote equity in the field. But how does the introduction of CS and CT into primary school curricula impact learning, perce ...

2023

Participatory design of a social robot and robot-mediated storytelling activity to raise awareness of gender inequality among children

Barbara Bruno

Gender inequality is a widespread problem in our society. It can manifest itself in many ways and contexts, and starting as early as primary school. While an increasing number of initiatives aim at tackling gender biases and inequalities, few of them are a ...

IEEE2023

Targeted Influence with Community and Gender-Aware Seeding

Maciej Styczen

When spreading information over social networks, seeding algorithms selecting users to start the dissemination play a crucial role. The majority of existing seeding algorithms focus solely on maximizing the total number of reached nodes, overlooking the is ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Preliminary metadata paper. Data Domotopia: a web-based survey about home-making in a moving world

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss, Garance Clément, Fiona Ines Del Puppo

This questionnaire Data Domotopia is a 100+ multi-purpose items about home-making and stillness in a moving world. The survey covers most of the contemporary issues related to home-making. This includes the domestic space and gender issues; the socio-spati ...

2022

A review of cybersickness in head‐mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

Ronan Boulic, Nana Tian

Cybersickness still poses a significant challenge to the widespread usage of virtual reality, leading to different levels of dis- comfort and potentially breaking the immersive experience. Researchers have attempted to discover the possible fundamental cau ...

2022

How Does Pre-Trained Wav2Vec 2.0 Perform On Domain-Shifted Asr? An Extensive Benchmark On Air Traffic Control Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Recent work on self-supervised pre-training focus on leveraging large-scale unlabeled speech data to build robust end-to-end (E2E) acoustic models (AM) that can be later fine-tuned on downstream tasks e.g., automatic speech recognition (ASR). Yet, few work ...

IEEE2022

Social/dialogical roles of social robots in supporting children's learning of language and literacy-A review and analysis of innovative roles

Barbara Bruno

One of the many purposes for which social robots are designed is education, and there have been many attempts to systematize their potential in this field. What these attempts have in common is the recognition that learning can be supported in a variety of ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Doppelganger-based training: Imitating our virtual self to accelerate interpersonal skills learning

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues, Marion Sandy Curdy

Interpersonal skills require mastering a wide range of competencies such as communication and adaptation to different situations. Effective training includes the use of videos in which role models perform the desired behaviours such that trainees can learn ...

2021

Age- and gender-related differences in brain tissue microstructure revealed by multi-component T2 relaxometry

Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez

In spite of extensive work, inconsistent findings and lack of specificity in most neuroimaging techniques used to examine age- and gender-related patterns in brain tissue microstructure indicate the need for additional research. Here, we performed the larg ...

2021

Indicators for urban sustainability: Key lessons from a systematic analysis of 67 measurement initiatives

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Albert Merino, Valeria Superti, Pekka Jaakko Halla, Anne Frédérique Cécile Noémi Bösch

Today, the centrality of cities in the global sustainability challenge is widely acknowledged, and numerous initiatives have been developed worldwide for monitoring and comparing the sustainability performance of urban areas. However, the escalating abunda ...

2020

A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan's recent decision to switch from Cyrillic to the Latin-based alphabet has resulted in challenges connected to teaching literacy, addressing a rare combination of research hypotheses and technical ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Gender medicine and oncology: report and consensus of an ESMO workshop

Jacques Fellay

Background: The importance of sex and gender as modulators of disease biology and treatment outcomes is well known in other disciplines of medicine, such as cardiology, but remains an undervalued issue in oncology. Considering the increasing evidence for t ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

On Learning to Identify Genders from Raw Speech Signal Using CNNs

Hannah Muckenhirn, Selen Hande Kabil

Automatic Gender Recognition (AGR) is the task of identifying the gender of a speaker given a speech signal. Standard approaches extract features like fundamental frequency and cepstral features from the speech signal and train a binary classifier. Inspire ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2018

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc

Teaching advisors work to sensitize teachers to use inclusive teaching pedagogy because it facilitates learning to all students and makes teachers aware of how the gender composition of a class and its management can promote or hamper student learning and ...

European Society for Engineering Education2018

After how many drinks does someone experience acute consequences-determining thresholds for binge drinking based on two event-level studies: Optimal thresholds for binge drinking

Background and Aims: The threshold of 4+/5+ drinks per occasion has been used for decades in alcohol research to distinguish between non risky versus risky episodic drinking. However, no study has assessed the validity of this threshold using event level d ...

2018

Identification of the primary processes that lead to the drop in divertor target ion current at detachment in TCV

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing

Using SOLPS-ITER, we model a TCV conventional divertor discharge density ramp to understand the role of various processes in the loss of target ion current. We find that recombination is not a strong contributor to the rollover of the target ion current at ...

2018

Role of SEC62 in ER maintenance: A link with ER stress tolerance in SEC62-overexpressing tumors?

Maurizio Molinari

Amplification of the candidate oncogene TLOC1/SEC62 in tumors correlates with reduced patient survival. The recently reported role of SEC62 as an autophagy receptor that controls endoplasmic reticulum (ER) size and function might open new scenarios for und ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2017

Gender-specific alteration of energy balance and circadian locomotor activity in the Crtc1 knockout mouse model of depression

Pierre Magistretti

Obesity and depression are major public health concerns, and there is increasing evidence that they share etiological mechanisms. CREB-regulated transcription coactivator 1 (CRTC1) participates in neurobiological pathways involved in both mood and energy b ...

Springer Nature2017