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Pascasii Grosippi Rudimenta Grammaticae Philosophicae et eiusdem Mercurius biblinguis in usum Tironum paucis mensibus linguam Latinam perdiscere auientium /

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Statistical matrix techniques and their application to the directional correlation of radiations /

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Mixed partitions of sets of triples into small planes

We continue our study of partitions of the set of all ((v)(3)) triples chosen from a v-set into pairwise disjoint planes with three points per line. We develop further necessary conditions for the existence of partitions of such sets into copies of PG(2, 2) and copies of AG(2, 3), and deal with the cases v = 13, 14, 15 and 17. These partitions, together with those already known for v = 12, 16 and 18, then become starters for recursive constructions of further infinite families of partitions. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Tunable molecular resonances of a double quantum dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometer

We investigate resonant tunnelling through molecular states of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer composed of two coupled quantum dots. The conductance of the system shows two resonances associated with the bonding and the antibonding quantum states. We predict that the two resonances are composed of a Breit-Wigner resonance and a Fano resonance, of which the widths and Fano factor depend on the AB phase very sensitively. Further, we point out that the bonding properties, such as the covalent and ionic bonding, can be identified by the AB oscillations.

Effetto delle condizioni ambientali nella presenza di Escherichia coli in vongole lupino (Chamelea gallina L.)

Lo scopo di questo elaborato è stato individuare una possibile correlazione tra le condizioni ambientali e la presenza di Escherichia coli in vongole lupino. I dati relativi a campioni raccolti nel periodo 2008-2015 nella zona tra Cervia e Fano sono stati messi in relazione con alcuni parametri quali salinità dell’acqua, temperatura, ossigeno di fondo, pH e livello del fiume Marecchia. Sono stati presi in considerazione oltre 350 campioni, in cui i conteggi di E. coli mediante tecnica MPN sono stati suddivisi in tre categorie: cariche basse (<50 MPN/100g); cariche intermedie (50-230 MPN/100g); cariche alte, ossia non conformi al regolamento europeo (>230 MPN/100g). L’eventuale significatività della relazione tra E. coli e le variabili considerate è stata valutata attraverso il test chi-quadrato e il test di Kruskal-Wallis. Per quanto riguarda il test chi-quadrato, eseguito in relazione ad anno, mese e stagione, si è visto che i campioni più inquinati derivano dagli anni 2010 e 2012, dai mesi novembre/dicembre e in generale dalla stagione autunnale. L’analisi della varianza tramite test di Kruskal-Wallis ha evidenziato che le frequenze dei campioni nelle tre categorie non sono significative in relazione alla salinità. Al contrario, per i parametri temperatura e livello del fiume Marecchia sono stati ottenuti risultati significativi: infatti, le cariche microbiche più alte corrispondono a temperature più basse delle acque e a periodi di maggiore portata del fiume. Questo episodio riflette sicuramente un aspetto biologico legato al ciclo vitale di Chamelea gallina, che vive la sua fase riproduttiva nella stagione più calda, diminuendo quindi la sua attività filtrante, fonte di contaminazione. Al contempo questo andamento è anche spiegabile dall’apporto di contaminanti dalle precipitazioni e dai fiumi che trascinano sostanze organiche inquinanti di natura antropica, che costituiscono fonte di nutrimento per le specie microbiche come E. coli ed altri enterobatteri.

Meiofaunal abundance, biomass, taxon richness and indices of nematode diversity of samples from the Santa Maria di Leuca Bank (southern Adriatic margin)

Deep-water coral ecosystems are hot spots of biodiversity and provide habitats and refuges for several deep-sea species. However, their role in shaping the biodiversity of the surrounding open slopes is still poorly known. We investigated how meiofaunal biodiversity varies with and is related to the occurrence of deep-water living scleractinian corals and coral rubble in two deep-sea areas (the Rockall Bank, northeastern Atlantic) and the Santa Maria di Leuca (central Mediterranean). In both areas, replicated sampling on alive and dead coral areas and from the adjacent slope sediments without corals (at the same and increasing depths) allowed us to demonstrate that sediments surrounding the living corals and coral rubble were characterised by higher meiofaunal biodiversity (as number of higher taxa, and nematode species richness) than the slope sediments. Despite the soft sediments surrounding the living coral having a higher nutritional value than those not associated with corals, with the opposite seen for coral rubble, the presence of both alive and dead corals had a significant effect on nematode assemblages. Our data suggest that, due particularly to the effects on habitat heterogeneity/complexity, both living coral and coral rubble promoted higher biodiversity levels than in surrounding slope sediments. We conclude that the protection of deep-water corals can be crucial to preserve the biodiversity of surrounding open slopes, and that the protection of dead corals, a so-far almost neglected habitat in terms of biological conservation, can further contribute to the maintenance of a high deep-sea biodiversity along continental margins.

Aspects of Motives: Finite-dimensionality, Chow-Kunneth Decompositions and Intersections of Cycles

This thesis analyzes the Chow motives of 3 types of smooth projective varieties: the desingularized elliptic self fiber product, the Fano surface of lines on a cubic threefold and an ample hypersurface of an Abelian variety. For the desingularized elliptic self fiber product, we use an isotypic decomposition of the motive to deduce the Murre conjectures. We also prove a result about the intersection product. For the Fano surface of lines, we prove the finite-dimensionality of the Chow motive. Finally, we prove that an ample hypersurface on an Abelian variety possesses a Chow-Kunneth decomposition for which a motivic version of the Lefschetz hyperplane theorem holds.

Designing Massive Open Online Learning Processes: The importance of the social element

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A new construction of Calabi–Yau manifolds: Generalized CICYs

We present a generalization of the complete intersection in products of projective space (CICY) construction of Calabi–Yau manifolds. CICY three-folds and four-folds have been studied extensively in the physics literature. Their utility stems from the fact that they can be simply described in terms of a ‘configuration matrix’, a matrix of integers from which many of the details of the geometries can be easily extracted. The generalization we present is to allow negative integers in the configuration matrices which were previously taken to have positive semi-definite entries. This broadening of the complete intersection construction leads to a larger class of Calabi–Yau manifolds than that considered in previous work, which nevertheless enjoys much of the same degree of calculational control. These new Calabi–Yau manifolds are complete intersections in (not necessarily Fano) ambient spaces with an effective anticanonical class. We find examples with topology distinct from any that has appeared in the literature to date. The new manifolds thus obtained have many interesting features. For example, they can have smaller Hodge numbers than ordinary CICYs and lead to many examples with elliptic and K3-fibration structures relevant to F-theory and string dualities.

MULTI-BAND BOSE HUBBARD MODELS AND EFFECTIVE THREE-BODY INTERACTIONS

Experiments with ultracold atoms in optical lattice have become a versatile testing ground to study diverse quantum many-body Hamiltonians. A single-band Bose-Hubbard (BH) Hamiltonian was first proposed to describe these systems in 1998 and its associated quantum phase-transition was subsequently observed in 2002. Over the years, there has been a rapid progress in experimental realizations of more complex lattice geometries, leading to more exotic BH Hamiltonians with contributions from excited bands, and modified tunneling and interaction energies. There has also been interesting theoretical insights and experimental studies on “un- conventional” Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices and predictions of rich orbital physics in higher bands. In this thesis, I present our results on several multi- band BH models and emergent quantum phenomena. In particular, I study optical lattices with two local minima per unit cell and show that the low energy states of a multi-band BH Hamiltonian with only pairwise interactions is equivalent to an effec- tive single-band Hamiltonian with strong three-body interactions. I also propose a second method to create three-body interactions in ultracold gases of bosonic atoms in a optical lattice. In this case, this is achieved by a careful cancellation of two contributions in the pair-wise interaction between the atoms, one proportional to the zero-energy scattering length and a second proportional to the effective range. I subsequently study the physics of Bose-Einstein condensation in the second band of a double-well 2D lattice and show that the collision aided decay rate of the con- densate to the ground band is smaller than the tunneling rate between neighboring unit cells. Finally, I propose a numerical method using the discrete variable repre- sentation for constructing real-valued Wannier functions localized in a unit cell for optical lattices. The developed numerical method is general and can be applied to a wide array of optical lattice geometries in one, two or three dimensions.