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This impact was facilitated by the informality of the process, which stimulated participation \"from below\"--of peace movements and human rights groups in particular--while triggering a merging of NGO discourses in support of the main Helsinki idea of a linkage between security and human rights. 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Il lavoro muove dall'osservazione che, nonostante la diffusione di strumenti digitali e l'evoluzione del quadro normativo, la gestione delle informazioni resti spesso vincolata a logiche file-based, poco adatte a sostenere collaborazione, tracciabilità e verifica continua delle decisioni progettuali, soprattutto nella fase esecutiva, in cui anche modifiche localizzate possono produrre effetti su elementi, discipline e requisiti correlati. A fronte di queste criticità, la ricerca propone un approccio fondato sull'integrazione tra un modello ad attori digitali e i Linked Data. Su questa base viene definito un framework metodologico che rilegge gli elementi edilizi non come dati contenuti in un file, ma come entità digitali autonome, dotate di stato, comportamento e identità, capaci di comunicare in modo asincrono, aggiornarsi in maniera incrementale e mantenere una rappresentazione semantica coerente lungo il ciclo di vita del progetto. Il framework è articolato su tre livelli: uno di authoring BIM, uno di attori digitali e uno semantico basato su un sistema di archiviazione RDF, secondo ontologie aperte. La proposta è tradotta in una configurazione prototipale che collega un add-in di intercettazione delle modifiche all'interno del software di authoring BIM, un connettore locale, un sistema ad attori digitalie una archiviazione RDF, integrando una procedura di allineamento ontologico assistito tra parametri di authoring e ontologie e un processo di validazione progressiva articolato in tre livelli -- sintattico, semantico e normativo -- riconducibile ai criteri dell'Allegato I.7 del D.Lgs. 36/2023. Una sperimentazione di tipo proof of concept verifica la coerenza del flusso informativo tra i componenti. Il contributo principale consiste quindi nella definizione di un modello metodologico e implementativo per la gestione distribuita e semanticamente interoperabile dello scambio informativo, durante il processo di progettazione, in continuità con gli strumenti BIM esistenti, con l'obiettivo di ridurre la dipendenza da esportazioni monolitiche, anticipare la verifica delle informazioni e rafforzare il controllo sulle decisioni lungo l'intero ciclo di vita dell'opera.","lang":"ita"},{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"This thesis addresses the issue of information interoperability in the building design process, with particular reference to the AECO sector and BIM-based workflows, considering the digital management of information as a strategic component for controlling the complexity and quality of the building process. The work starts from the observation that, despite the widespread adoption of digital tools and the evolution of the regulatory framework, information management often remains tied to file-based logics, which are poorly suited to supporting collaboration, traceability, and the continuous verification of design decisions, especially during the detailed design phase, where even localized changes can affect related elements, disciplines, and requirements. In response to these critical issues, the research proposes an approach based on the integration of a digital actor model and Linked Data. On this basis, a methodological framework is defined that reinterprets building elements not as data contained in a file, but as autonomous digital entities, endowed with state, behavior, and identity, capable of communicating asynchronously, updating incrementally, and maintaining a coherent semantic representation throughout the project life cycle. The framework is structured into three layers: a BIM authoring layer, a digital actor layer, and a semantic layer based on a RDF repository, built according to open ontologies. The proposal is translated into a prototypical configuration that connects a change-interception add-in in the BIM authoring environment, a local connector, a digital actor-based system, and an RDF repository, integrating an assisted ontological alignment procedure between authoring parameters and ontologies, as well as a progressive validation process -- organized into syntactic, semantic, and regulatory levels -- traceable to the criteria of Annex I.7 of D.Lgs. 36/2023. A proof-of-concept experiment verifies the consistency of the information flow among the components. The main contribution therefore lies in the definition of a methodological and implementation model for the distributed and semantically interoperable management of information exchange during the design process, in continuity with existing BIM tools, with the aim of reducing dependence on monolithic exports, anticipating information verification, and strengthening control over decisions throughout the entire life cycle of the built asset.","lang":"eng"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[{"funderIdentifierType":"ROR","funderName":"Ministero dell'università e della ricerca","funderIdentifier":"0341vw408","awardTitle":"Rome Technopole – Energy Transition, Flagship Project 2  – Energy transition and digital transition in urban regeneration and construction | PNRR Missione 4, Componente 2, Investimento 1.5, finanziato dall'Unione europea – NextGenerationEU","awardNumber":"ECS 0000024 / CUP B83C22002820006"}],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.23167131","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":1,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":1,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T16:59:23Z","registered":"2026-10-05T16:59:23Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T17:02:32Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.23167132","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23167132","identifiers":[{"identifier":"oai:zenodo.org:23167132","identifierType":"oai"},{"identifier":"11573/1776088","identifierType":"Handle"}],"creators":[{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["Sapienza University of Rome"],"givenName":"EDOARDO","familyName":"DE SANTIS","name":"DE SANTIS, EDOARDO","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","nameIdentifier":"0000-0001-6353-0410"}]}],"titles":[{"title":"L'interoperabilità delle informazioni nel processo di progettazione: un approccio linked data in un modello ad attori digitali"},{"titleType":"TranslatedTitle","lang":"eng","title":"Information interoperability in the design process: a linked data approach in a digital actor model"}],"publisher":"Sapienza Università di Roma","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"BIM"},{"subject":"actor model"},{"subject":"Linked Data"},{"subject":"semantic interoperability"},{"subject":"AECO sector"},{"subject":"incremental updates"},{"subject":"progressive validation"},{"subject":"knowledge graph"}],"contributors":[],"dates":[{"date":"2026-09-21","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"it","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":""},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"HasPart","resourceTypeGeneral":"ConferencePaper","relatedIdentifier":"10.35490/ec3.2025.314","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"},{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.23167131","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rights":"Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-nc-nd-4.0"},{"rightsUri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/","rights":"Copyright © 2026 Edoardo De Santis, Sapienza Università di Roma."}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"Questa tesi affronta il problema dell'interoperabilità informativa nel processo di progettazione edilizia, con particolare riferimento al settore AECO e ai flussi basati su BIM, assumendo la gestione digitale dell'informazione come componente strategica per il controllo della complessità e della qualità del processo edilizio. Il lavoro muove dall'osservazione che, nonostante la diffusione di strumenti digitali e l'evoluzione del quadro normativo, la gestione delle informazioni resti spesso vincolata a logiche file-based, poco adatte a sostenere collaborazione, tracciabilità e verifica continua delle decisioni progettuali, soprattutto nella fase esecutiva, in cui anche modifiche localizzate possono produrre effetti su elementi, discipline e requisiti correlati. A fronte di queste criticità, la ricerca propone un approccio fondato sull'integrazione tra un modello ad attori digitali e i Linked Data. Su questa base viene definito un framework metodologico che rilegge gli elementi edilizi non come dati contenuti in un file, ma come entità digitali autonome, dotate di stato, comportamento e identità, capaci di comunicare in modo asincrono, aggiornarsi in maniera incrementale e mantenere una rappresentazione semantica coerente lungo il ciclo di vita del progetto. Il framework è articolato su tre livelli: uno di authoring BIM, uno di attori digitali e uno semantico basato su un sistema di archiviazione RDF, secondo ontologie aperte. La proposta è tradotta in una configurazione prototipale che collega un add-in di intercettazione delle modifiche all'interno del software di authoring BIM, un connettore locale, un sistema ad attori digitalie una archiviazione RDF, integrando una procedura di allineamento ontologico assistito tra parametri di authoring e ontologie e un processo di validazione progressiva articolato in tre livelli -- sintattico, semantico e normativo -- riconducibile ai criteri dell'Allegato I.7 del D.Lgs. 36/2023. Una sperimentazione di tipo proof of concept verifica la coerenza del flusso informativo tra i componenti. Il contributo principale consiste quindi nella definizione di un modello metodologico e implementativo per la gestione distribuita e semanticamente interoperabile dello scambio informativo, durante il processo di progettazione, in continuità con gli strumenti BIM esistenti, con l'obiettivo di ridurre la dipendenza da esportazioni monolitiche, anticipare la verifica delle informazioni e rafforzare il controllo sulle decisioni lungo l'intero ciclo di vita dell'opera.","lang":"ita"},{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"This thesis addresses the issue of information interoperability in the building design process, with particular reference to the AECO sector and BIM-based workflows, considering the digital management of information as a strategic component for controlling the complexity and quality of the building process. The work starts from the observation that, despite the widespread adoption of digital tools and the evolution of the regulatory framework, information management often remains tied to file-based logics, which are poorly suited to supporting collaboration, traceability, and the continuous verification of design decisions, especially during the detailed design phase, where even localized changes can affect related elements, disciplines, and requirements. In response to these critical issues, the research proposes an approach based on the integration of a digital actor model and Linked Data. On this basis, a methodological framework is defined that reinterprets building elements not as data contained in a file, but as autonomous digital entities, endowed with state, behavior, and identity, capable of communicating asynchronously, updating incrementally, and maintaining a coherent semantic representation throughout the project life cycle. The framework is structured into three layers: a BIM authoring layer, a digital actor layer, and a semantic layer based on a RDF repository, built according to open ontologies. The proposal is translated into a prototypical configuration that connects a change-interception add-in in the BIM authoring environment, a local connector, a digital actor-based system, and an RDF repository, integrating an assisted ontological alignment procedure between authoring parameters and ontologies, as well as a progressive validation process -- organized into syntactic, semantic, and regulatory levels -- traceable to the criteria of Annex I.7 of D.Lgs. 36/2023. A proof-of-concept experiment verifies the consistency of the information flow among the components. The main contribution therefore lies in the definition of a methodological and implementation model for the distributed and semantically interoperable management of information exchange during the design process, in continuity with existing BIM tools, with the aim of reducing dependence on monolithic exports, anticipating information verification, and strengthening control over decisions throughout the entire life cycle of the built asset.","lang":"eng"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[{"funderIdentifierType":"ROR","funderName":"Ministero dell'università e della ricerca","funderIdentifier":"0341vw408","awardTitle":"Rome Technopole – Energy Transition, Flagship Project 2  – Energy transition and digital transition in urban regeneration and construction | PNRR Missione 4, Componente 2, Investimento 1.5, finanziato dall'Unione europea – NextGenerationEU","awardNumber":"ECS 0000024 / CUP B83C22002820006"}],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.23167132","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":1,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":1,"created":"2026-10-05T16:59:22Z","registered":"2026-10-05T16:59:23Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T17:02:32Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.13023/etd.2026.436","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.13023/etd.2026.436","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["University of Kentucky"],"givenName":"Elinor","familyName":"Rubin-McGregor","name":"Rubin-McGregor, Elinor","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"titleType":null,"lang":null,"title":"Personality Exceptions"},{"titleType":"Subtitle","lang":null,"title":"Enhancing Character in Narrative Planners with Internal Memory"}],"publisher":"University of Kentucky Libraries","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"classificationCode":"5.1","schemeUri":"https://web-archive.oecd.org/2012-06-15/138575-38235147.pdf","subject":"FOS: Psychology","valueUri":null,"lang":null,"subjectScheme":"Fields of Science and Technology (FOS)"}],"contributors":[],"dates":[],"language":null,"types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"Stories and narratives are powerful tools for forging connections between people, as they induce emotions shared through their audience and help build empathy and understanding through sharing unique perspectives. Interactive stories can do all this and more, as they can be used to better educate and engage their audience. But in such stories, the characters must have consistent personality and human-like emotions in order for the audience to relate to them. Current implementations of personality in interactive narratives either portrays characters with static personality that feel less realistic, or else require a great deal of additional work from the author of the narrative to enable realistic reactions. To improve the performance of character personality in interactive narratives, I introduce the idea of Personality Exceptions as expansions upon personality systems.","lang":null},{"descriptionType":"Other","description":"© 2026 Elinor Rubin-McGregor","lang":null}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/880/","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"fabricaForm","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T16:48:07Z","registered":"2026-10-05T16:48:07Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:48:07Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"uky.lib","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.17863/cam.135396","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.17863/cam.135396","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"Wang, Yizhi","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Efficient Processing with Integrated Photonic Devices"}],"publisher":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"Photonic Integrated Circuit"},{"subject":"Photonic Computing"}],"contributors":[{"name":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","contributorType":"DataManager","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"University of Cambridge","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ROR","schemeUri":"https://ror.org","nameIdentifier":"https://ror.org/013meh722"}],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","affiliation":[]},{"name":"Cheng, Qixiang","contributorType":"Supervisor","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-10-05","dateType":"Issued"},{"date":"2026-07-27","dateType":"Submitted"}],"language":"en","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":"Thesis"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved","rights":"All rights reserved"},{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_f1cf","rights":"embargo"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"Due to the exponential growth in computing demand in the past years, photonic computing has been considered a promising candidate to complement and replace part of the existing electronic digital computing ecosystem for faster computation and lower energy consumption. The low loss, high bandwidth, and compact footprint of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) attract significant interest for computing purposes. Nonetheless, the goal of creating a commercialized integrated photonic processor is still a tremendous challenge due to the complex system construction and limited fabrication/material technology. In parallel to the effort for making increasingly scaled up processors for centralized computation, integrated photonics holds equal potential as lightweight and efficient local processors, directly benefiting the end users. To allow for efficient and lightweight processing, we desire the processor to have reduced operation and computation overheads. In this thesis, we discuss how the system construction of PICs through codesigning the device and the algorithm can facilitate efficient processing. We start by introducing the asymmetrical training (AsyT) method for encapsulated photonic neural networks. It is commonly known that device-to-device and system-to-system variation of photonic neural networks (PNNs) can lead to significant performance degradation. Consequently, many efforts have been made to improve PNNs training. Nonetheless, these existing methods either exhibit high computation overheads or neglect the advantageous properties of photonics. Our AsyT method enables calibration-free training for a deep encapsulated PNN, preserving untruncated optical signal propagation while demonstrating performance recovery with minimum readout requirements. We then discuss the unique architecture of photonic recurrent processors (PRP), where optical feedback acts as the delay memory. The PRP offers non-stop computation, eliminating the optical-electrical-optical conversions for recurrent processing. We demonstrate PRP for eigenvalue computation and ridge regression. In comparison to conventional photonic single-pass processors (PSP), PRP’s untruncated in-propagation processing ability offers systematic improvement in computation speed. PRP highlights how system-level innovation based on the optical properties can aid efficient processing. We also discuss methodologies to counteract the operation challenges of PRP. In the third demonstration, we introduce the photonic encoder-decoder (PED) system. PED serves as a hybrid sensing-computing system, allowing for direct processing of spectrum information. The PED utilizes a reconfigurable PIC sampler as the photonic encoder. The pseudo-random transmission masks generated by the PIC allows for extraction of complex information that can be later learnt and decoded with a neural network. We experimentally demonstrated a surface profiler system with the PED, eliminating the need for intermediate spectra reconstruction. We also showed that the information-rich mask of photonic encoder allows for successful decoding even with limited input information, enabling processing with further reduced overhead. Lastly, we introduce an optoelectronic derivative processor (ODP) based on PIC with microring structures. By converting the input data into appropriate temporal encoding with the aid of fast optoelectronic modulator, the ODP allows for acceleration of the differentiation process. Partial differential equation problems are known to be important yet computation heavy for many engineering tasks. Due to the ODP-enabled differentiation operation, it allows for construction of assisted physics-informed neural network solvers, improving the efficiency and performance significantly compared to standard MVM-assisted MLP networks. ODP highlights how unique characteristics of optical components can be explored for accelerating otherwise complex and computation-heavy tasks. With the aid of further improvements in fabrication, packaging technologies, and algorithmic optimization, we believe PICs hold great potential as lightweight application-specific processors for fast and efficient processing."}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/409244","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T14:45:35Z","registered":"2026-10-05T14:46:24Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:45:36Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"bl.cam","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.17863/cam.135425","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.17863/cam.135425","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"Gill, Premdeep","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Seals from Space: Investigating the feasibility of monitoring Antarctic seals using remote sensing, citizen science and machine learning"}],"publisher":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","container":{},"publicationYear":2025,"subjects":[{"subject":"antarctic science"},{"subject":"ecology"},{"subject":"pinnipeds"},{"subject":"remote sensing"}],"contributors":[{"name":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","contributorType":"DataManager","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"University of Cambridge","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ROR","schemeUri":"https://ror.org","nameIdentifier":"https://ror.org/013meh722"}],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","affiliation":[]},{"name":"Rees, Gareth","contributorType":"Supervisor","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-10-05","dateType":"Issued"},{"date":"2025-11-30","dateType":"Submitted"}],"language":"en","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":"Thesis"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved","rights":"All rights reserved"},{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2","rights":"open.access"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"The accurate monitoring of ice seals is crucial to addressing gaps in the population estimates, population trends, habitat preferences of ice seals and their sensitivity to climate change. Moreover, detecting changes in the abundance and distribution of Antarctic seals provides an insight into the health of the wider Antarctic ecosystem, which is undergoing rapid environmental change with projected declines in sea ice and shifts in the distribution of key prey items and range of meso-predators. Existing traditional aerial and ship-based survey methods of the sea ice zone are spatially restricted, logistically complex, methodologically inconsistent and infrequent, resulting in population estimates with large variances. Very high-resolution satellite imagery provides a potential solution, offering synoptic surveys at near real time, and has been used to remotely study several species including Antarctic seals. However, several challenges limit the use VHR satellite for systematic seal monitoring, including difficulties in visual species discrimination, errors and variability within existing citizen science and deep learning based image processing techniques, and methods that rely large amounts of people (i.e., global citizen science campaigns) or significant amounts of computational resource and non-public commercial imagery. This thesis investigates the extent to which Antarctic ice seals and their habitats can be studied by a combination of remote sensing, citizen science and deep learning. First, I assess whether four Antarctic seal species can be discriminated using body morphology and spatial haul out patterns. Results show that biologically meaningful morphometrics can be obtained remotely for the majority of species, indicating the potential for species discrimination (and sex discrimination for dimorphic species). However, the smallest seal species, the Antarctic fur seal, could not be accurately measured at current available commercial satellite resolution, and the spatial metrics of haul out patterns alone cannot distinguish between the species. Second, I investigate whether spectral signatures can automate and ground-truth satellite-based seal observations. Using a field spectroradiometer, I obtain the first in-situ spectral reflectance measurements of Antarctic seals, and by extension any live Antarctic mammal. Analysis of the spectral data demonstrates that it is feasible to discriminate species at the high spectral resolution of the field data. However, it is not known whether spectral signatures can ground-truth seals from landscape features at the current spectral and spatial resolution of commercial satellite sensors. An Antarctic seal spectral library has been produced for future testing. Third, I compare citizen science and deep learning approaches for seal detection and for ice classification. I develop the first citizen science framework for annotating ice habitats in VHR imagery and show that volunteers can accurately perform fine-scale ice classification of different ice types. The resulting annotations form a new ice habitat benchmark dataset on which a deep training classifier is trained, enabling rapid and accurate ice classification without the need for high performance computing resources. For seal detection, my results reveal that despite high precision both citizen scientists and experts struggle to detect seals located in tracts of ridged pack ice environments. However, a deep learning model fine-tuned on a relatively small training dataset achieved a fourfold increase in the number of seals detected within the ridged pack ice habitat. Though able to analyse large areas rapidly, the seal detection model is prone undercounting seals within dense haul outs and producing false positives, requiring validation. Overall, the methods and datasets developed within this thesis demonstrate that the classification of ice seals and ice types within challenging pack ice habitats can be conducted with modest resources through well designed and finely-tuned citizen science and deep learning approaches. However, as it stands, VHR satellite imagery is not currently feasible of automated, fine-scale, species-level, near real time monitoring of Antarctic seals and their habitats. Future work should focus on devising workflows that combine citizen science and deep learning approaches, such as a “citizen-in-the-loop framework”, and further test the discrimination of species by morphology and spectral signatures."}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[{"funderName":"Natural Environment Research Council","awardNumber":"2083332"}],"url":"https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/409273","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T14:45:35Z","registered":"2026-10-05T14:46:26Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:45:36Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"bl.cam","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.17863/cam.135319","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.17863/cam.135319","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"Lewy, Theo","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","schemeUri":"https://orcid.org","nameIdentifier":"https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6657-7967"}],"affiliation":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Viscoelastic Instabilities of Inertialess Rectilinear Shear Flows"}],"publisher":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"Fluid Dynamics"},{"subject":"Instabilities"},{"subject":"Viscoelastics"}],"contributors":[{"name":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","contributorType":"DataManager","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"University of Cambridge","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ROR","schemeUri":"https://ror.org","nameIdentifier":"https://ror.org/013meh722"}],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","affiliation":[]},{"name":"Kerswell, Richard","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","schemeUri":"https://orcid.org","nameIdentifier":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5460-5337"}],"contributorType":"Supervisor","affiliation":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-10-05","dateType":"Issued"},{"date":"2026-06-24","dateType":"Submitted"}],"language":"en","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":"Thesis"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved","rights":"All rights reserved"},{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2","rights":"open.access"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"Viscoelastic flows are promising candidates for allowing enhanced mixing due to the presence of elastic instabilities that can affect even small, slow systems. This thesis investigates 3 elastic instabilities in inertialess rectilinear shear flows: the polymer diffusive instability (PDI), the centre-mode, and a shear thinning instability. Throughout, we highlight the role of each in various viscoelastic phenomena using a range of tools, including direct numerical simulation, linear stability analysis, bifurcation analysis and identification of exact coherent structures. Firstly, we consider PDI in a concentrated limit in plane Couette and channel flow, where the boundary layer structure of the unstable eigenmode can be analytically found. We compare it to the short-wavelength `sharkskin instability' that affects the surface of extruded polymer melts. Secondly, we demonstrate the centre-mode is present in Kolmogorov flow and that it is responsible for transition to elastic turbulence (ET) there. We isolate 3D spanwise-localised arrowheads and discuss how they are born in a sequence of bifurcations from the centre-mode linear instability. Lastly, we show that concentrated shear thinning fluids are susceptible to a 2D linear instability that causes transition to an ET state distinct from the ET organised around the centre-mode. This shear thinning instability is robust to model and geometry. This thesis also covers work outside of viscoelastics. We discuss a novel self-sustaining process in the presence of an oscillatory shear, and separately uncover the asymptotic properties of Rayleigh-Bénard convection rolls with no-slip boundaries in the limit of large Rayleigh number."}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/409167","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T14:45:34Z","registered":"2026-10-05T14:46:21Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:45:35Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"bl.cam","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.17863/cam.135386","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.17863/cam.135386","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"Dhandha, Jiten","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Constraining the Early Universe with 21-cm and Multi-Wavelength Inference in the JWST and SKA Era"}],"publisher":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"21-cm Cosmology"},{"subject":"Cosmology"},{"subject":"Bayesian Analysis"},{"subject":"Machine Learning"}],"contributors":[{"name":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","contributorType":"DataManager","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"University of Cambridge","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ROR","schemeUri":"https://ror.org","nameIdentifier":"https://ror.org/013meh722"}],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","affiliation":[]},{"name":"Fialkov, Anastasia","contributorType":"Supervisor","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"De Lera Acedo, Eloy","contributorType":"Supervisor","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-10-05","dateType":"Issued"},{"date":"2026-05-29","dateType":"Submitted"}],"language":"en","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":"Thesis"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved","rights":"All rights reserved"},{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2","rights":"open.access"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"This thesis explores the astrophysics of early galaxies and their imprint on high-redshift observables, with a particular focus on the cosmic 21-cm signal. We begin in Part 1 by tracing the cosmic timeline and introduce the cosmic blindspot, which covers the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. We review the key astrophysical processes that govern the formation and evolution of the first luminous sources, and their impact on the intergalactic medium (IGM) and cosmic 21-cm signal (Chapter 1). We then describe the semi-numerical simulation code 21cmSPACE, which we use throughout the thesis (Chapter 2). Part 2 contains the headline results of this thesis. In Chapter 3, we use a suite of 21cmSPACE simulations to shine a light on the cosmic blindspot. We constrain the star-formation efficiency of early galaxies and their X-ray and radio efficiencies using a range of multi-wavelength datasets including UV luminosity functions from HST and JWST, the 21-cm global signal and power spectrum limits from SARAS 3 and HERA respectively, as well as present-day diffuse X-ray and radio backgrounds. Chapter 4 builds upon this analysis to infer the thermal history of the IGM and derive the first lower bound on the cosmic 21-cm signal. Our results highlight the power of multi-wavelength synergies in constraining the early Universe. Part 3 presents a range of studies aimed at deepening our understanding of the cosmic blindspot as we prepare for the SKA era. In Chapter 5, we explore the impact of rotating Pop III stars and their enhanced UV production on the 21-cm signal. We also present the latest limits on the 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn using data from HERA and NenuFAR, and their implications for enhanced radio emissions from early galaxies. In Chapter 6, we discuss the challenges of simulating the 21-cm signal for next-generation experiments like the SKA, and present our efforts to expand simulation capabilities to Gigaparsec scales, exploring both super-resolution methods and simplified models to reduce computational costs. Lastly, in Part 4, we summarise the key conclusions of this thesis and discuss the future prospects for 21-cm cosmology."}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/409234","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T14:45:35Z","registered":"2026-10-05T14:46:23Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:45:35Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"bl.cam","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.17863/cam.135299","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.17863/cam.135299","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"name":"Lindsay, David","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Brain Signatures of General Anaesthetic Agent Induced Amnesia"}],"publisher":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"Anaesthesia"},{"subject":"Sedation"},{"subject":"Memory"}],"contributors":[{"name":"Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository","contributorType":"DataManager","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"University of Cambridge","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ROR","schemeUri":"https://ror.org","nameIdentifier":"https://ror.org/013meh722"}],"contributorType":"HostingInstitution","affiliation":[]},{"name":"Stamatakis, Emmanuel","contributorType":"Supervisor","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-10-05","dateType":"Issued"},{"date":"2026-05-25","dateType":"Submitted"}],"language":"en","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":"Thesis"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved","rights":"All rights reserved"},{"rightsUri":"http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2","rights":"open.access"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"Introduction General anaesthetic agents are drugs which rapidly induce a fully reversible state of unconsciousness. Many of these pharmaceuticals are also observed to cause anterograde amnesia of explicit episodic memories at sub-hypnotic dosages, which may be via a separate mechanism of action to their hypnotic effects, a phenomenon often critical to their safety \u0026amp; efficacy profiles. Neither the pharmacological mechanisms of general anaesthetic agents, nor the physiology of normal memory function are completely understood. How exactly general anaesthetics may cause anterograde amnesia at sub-anaesthetic levels is unknown. It is known, however, that the hippocampi in the medial temporal lobes of the brain are critical for explicit episodic memory formation and are highly likely to represent a key anatomical target location of pharmacologically induced amnesia caused by general anaesthetics. Main Text The first chapter provides an overview of current knowledge, or the limitations thereof, regarding the effects of general anaesthetic agents on memory, as well as general anaesthetic pharmacology, memory physiology, neuroanatomy and magnetic resonance imaging. The second chapter describes the common methodology and dataset upon which the analyses which follow are based. In the third and fourth chapters the influence of general anaesthetics on the hippocampus, a region critical for normal memory function, is investigated. The functional connectivity signatures of the hippocampi and their anatomical subregions are characterised in healthy adult volunteers receiving an amnesic but sub-hypnotic level of propofol infusion using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Memory adjusted hippocampal functional connectivity analysis identified a signature of connectivity changes with the precuneus and thalamus. Intrahippocampal functional connectivity analysis revealed lateral asymmetry in memory associated changes and a core amnesic signature partially sustained across two depths of sedation. Together these demonstrate memory specific subregional effects of general anaesthetics of the propofol type on the extended hippocampal memory system. In the fifth chapter, to investigate differences in onset and offset profiles of general anaesthetic induced amnesia, periods associated with an elevated risk of accidental awareness under general anaesthesia with recall, temporal asymmetry in pharmacologically induced amnesia and its neural correlates were examined. Analysis of memory hysteresis and neural inertia within the hippocampal subregional network, with memory decay modelling, demonstrated a reverse hysteresis pattern of temporal asymmetry with associated functional connectivity signature. This contrast with the classical hysteresis loop of pharmacological hypnosis further supports separate profiles of hypnotic \u0026amp; amnesic general anaesthetic actions \u0026amp; effects. It also suggests that during recovery from anaesthesia memory function may return towards normal more rapidly than hypnotic markers alone might indicate, potentially increasing the risk of accidental awareness and emphasising the importance of considering these effects individually. In the sixth and seventh chapters, structural and functional biomarkers of individual relative susceptibility to general anaesthetic induced amnesia are investigated to further characterise potential mechanisms of action and identify candidate pre-operative imaging features which may be used to assist anaesthetic planning and risk stratification in future. Echoing the analyses above, lateral asymmetry of the hippocampi on structural magnetic resonance imaging, primarily in the CA1 subregion, was identified as a possible biomarker of relative amnesic susceptibility to pharmacologically induced amnesia. Analysis of baseline (awake) resting state functional magnetic resonance images also identified an analogous pre-anaesthetic functional neuroimaging biosignature of amnesic susceptibility. Finally, in the eighth chapter, original theoretical modifications to existing pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic target-controlled infusion models are explored, with a novel separation of the effect-sites for amnesia and hypnosis to reflect their different pharmacological and neurophysiological profiles. These conceptual developments could be implemented with current software, but further data and testing are required before clinical use. Overall, these advances may allow the results above to be factored into future applied anaesthetic delivery systems and techniques in a new generation of advanced pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models, as well as in the development of multi-purpose depth of amnesia monitoring. Conclusions At present a complete theory of general anaesthesia remains beyond the horizon, with the resulting limitations and risks of empirically derived knowledge and techniques. The studies presented in this thesis investigate the brain signatures \u0026amp; mechanisms of general anaesthetic agent induced amnesia at sub-hypnotic levels and from this basis future theoretical advances in applied anaesthetics are proposed. The data and results discussed here are also of relevance beyond anaesthesia, in other areas of medicine such as neurology and neurosurgery, as well as more generally in basic anatomy, physiology and pharmacology research."}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/409147","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"mds","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T14:45:34Z","registered":"2026-10-05T14:46:19Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:45:34Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"bl.cam","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.23094890","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23094890","identifiers":[],"creators":[{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["Universidad César Vallejo"],"givenName":"Carlos Ángel Ramón","familyName":"Frías Coronado","name":"Frías Coronado, Carlos Ángel Ramón","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Factores de permanencia de resultados en proyectos de desarrollo agrícola en América Latina: revisión bibliográfica de condiciones y aprendizajes (2020–2025)"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"Desarrollo Agrícola"},{"subject":"Desarrollo sostenible"},{"subject":"Institucionalización"},{"subject":"Capital social"},{"subject":"Diseño de proyectos"},{"subject":"Permanencia de resultados"},{"subject":"Sostenibilidad post-proyecto"},{"subject":"América Latina"},{"subject":"Gobernanza"}],"contributors":[{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["Universidad Nacional del Altiplano"],"givenName":"Rosario Edely","familyName":"Ortega Barriga","name":"Ortega Barriga, Rosario Edely","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","nameIdentifier":"0000-0001-8575-9849"}],"contributorType":"Supervisor"},{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["Universidad César Vallejo","Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria"],"givenName":"Medali","familyName":"Cueva Rodríguez","name":"Cueva Rodríguez, Medali","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","nameIdentifier":"0000-0002-1301-5477"}],"contributorType":"Supervisor"}],"dates":[{"date":"2026","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"es","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":""},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"HasVersion","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.23094891","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All rights reserved"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"La presente investigación contribuye al Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 2 (Hambre Cero) y al Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 13 (Acción por el Clima), al analizar las condiciones que favorecen la permanencia de resultados en proyectos de desarrollo agrícola en América Latina. El objetivo fue identificar y analizar los factores que inciden en esta permanencia de resultados post-proyecto y proponer lineamientos para su diseño futuro. La investigación tuvo un enfoque cualitativo, descriptivo-analítico, con diseño no experimental y transversal, basado en la revisión documental y el análisis de contenido temático de 40 estudios, evaluaciones e investigaciones desarrolladas entre 2020 y 2025. Los resultados evidenciaron que la permanencia de resultados es un fenómeno multidimensional, con predominancia de factores institucionales y de gobernanza. Asimismo, se identificó que prácticas, innovaciones, capacidades e impactos requieren combinaciones distintas de factores para sostenerse en el tiempo. Un hallazgo relevante fue la emergencia del diseño e implementación del proyecto como un factor explicativo específico de la permanencia, junto con los factores técnicos, económicos, organizativos y ambientales. Se concluye que la sostenibilidad post-proyecto debe construirse desde su propio diseño, mediante mecanismos de apropiación y autogestión local, articulación institucional, gobernanza y construcción diferenciada de permanencia según el tipo de resultado."},{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"The research contributes to Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) and Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action) by analyzing the conditions that favor the outcomes sustainability in agricultural development projects in Latin America. The objective was to identify and analyze the factors that influence this post-project permanence of outcomes and to propose guidelines for their future design. The research adopted a qualitative, descriptive-analytical approach with a non-experimental and cross-sectional design, based on a documentary review and thematic content analysis of 40 studies, evaluations, and researches developed between 2020 and 2025. The results evidenced that the outcomes sustainability is a multidimensional phenomenon, with a predominance of institutional and governance factors. Likewise, it was identified that practices, innovations, capacities, and impacts require different configurations of factors to be sustained over time. A relevant finding was the emergence of project design and implementation as a specific explanatory factor for permanence, alongside technical, economic, organizational, and environmental factors. It is concluded that post-project sustainability must be built from its very design through mechanisms of local ownership and self-management, institutional articulation, governance, and the construction of differentiated sustainability according to the type of outcomes.","lang":"eng"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.23094890","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":1,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T16:42:59Z","registered":"2026-10-05T16:42:59Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:42:59Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.5281/zenodo.23094891","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23094891","identifiers":[{"identifier":"oai:zenodo.org:23094891","identifierType":"oai"}],"creators":[{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["Universidad César Vallejo"],"givenName":"Carlos Ángel Ramón","familyName":"Frías Coronado","name":"Frías Coronado, Carlos Ángel Ramón","nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"title":"Factores de permanencia de resultados en proyectos de desarrollo agrícola en América Latina: revisión bibliográfica de condiciones y aprendizajes (2020–2025)"}],"publisher":"Zenodo","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"Desarrollo Agrícola"},{"subject":"Desarrollo sostenible"},{"subject":"Institucionalización"},{"subject":"Capital social"},{"subject":"Diseño de proyectos"},{"subject":"Permanencia de resultados"},{"subject":"Sostenibilidad post-proyecto"},{"subject":"América Latina"},{"subject":"Gobernanza"}],"contributors":[{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["Universidad Nacional del Altiplano"],"givenName":"Rosario Edely","familyName":"Ortega Barriga","name":"Ortega Barriga, Rosario Edely","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","nameIdentifier":"0000-0001-8575-9849"}],"contributorType":"Supervisor"},{"nameType":"Personal","affiliation":["Universidad César Vallejo","Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria"],"givenName":"Medali","familyName":"Cueva Rodríguez","name":"Cueva Rodríguez, Medali","nameIdentifiers":[{"nameIdentifierScheme":"ORCID","nameIdentifier":"0000-0002-1301-5477"}],"contributorType":"Supervisor"}],"dates":[{"date":"2026","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"es","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":""},"relatedIdentifiers":[{"relationType":"IsVersionOf","relatedIdentifier":"10.5281/zenodo.23094890","relatedIdentifierType":"DOI"}],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"All rights reserved"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"La presente investigación contribuye al Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 2 (Hambre Cero) y al Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 13 (Acción por el Clima), al analizar las condiciones que favorecen la permanencia de resultados en proyectos de desarrollo agrícola en América Latina. El objetivo fue identificar y analizar los factores que inciden en esta permanencia de resultados post-proyecto y proponer lineamientos para su diseño futuro. La investigación tuvo un enfoque cualitativo, descriptivo-analítico, con diseño no experimental y transversal, basado en la revisión documental y el análisis de contenido temático de 40 estudios, evaluaciones e investigaciones desarrolladas entre 2020 y 2025. Los resultados evidenciaron que la permanencia de resultados es un fenómeno multidimensional, con predominancia de factores institucionales y de gobernanza. Asimismo, se identificó que prácticas, innovaciones, capacidades e impactos requieren combinaciones distintas de factores para sostenerse en el tiempo. Un hallazgo relevante fue la emergencia del diseño e implementación del proyecto como un factor explicativo específico de la permanencia, junto con los factores técnicos, económicos, organizativos y ambientales. Se concluye que la sostenibilidad post-proyecto debe construirse desde su propio diseño, mediante mecanismos de apropiación y autogestión local, articulación institucional, gobernanza y construcción diferenciada de permanencia según el tipo de resultado."},{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"The research contributes to Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) and Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action) by analyzing the conditions that favor the outcomes sustainability in agricultural development projects in Latin America. The objective was to identify and analyze the factors that influence this post-project permanence of outcomes and to propose guidelines for their future design. The research adopted a qualitative, descriptive-analytical approach with a non-experimental and cross-sectional design, based on a documentary review and thematic content analysis of 40 studies, evaluations, and researches developed between 2020 and 2025. The results evidenced that the outcomes sustainability is a multidimensional phenomenon, with a predominance of institutional and governance factors. Likewise, it was identified that practices, innovations, capacities, and impacts require different configurations of factors to be sustained over time. A relevant finding was the emergence of project design and implementation as a specific explanatory factor for permanence, alongside technical, economic, organizational, and environmental factors. It is concluded that post-project sustainability must be built from its very design through mechanisms of local ownership and self-management, institutional articulation, governance, and the construction of differentiated sustainability according to the type of outcomes.","lang":"eng"}],"geoLocations":[],"fundingReferences":[],"url":"https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.23094891","contentUrl":null,"metadataVersion":0,"schemaVersion":"http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4","source":"api","isActive":true,"state":"findable","reason":null,"viewCount":0,"downloadCount":0,"referenceCount":0,"citationCount":0,"partCount":0,"partOfCount":0,"versionCount":0,"versionOfCount":0,"created":"2026-10-05T16:42:59Z","registered":"2026-10-05T16:42:59Z","published":null,"updated":"2026-10-05T16:42:59Z"},"relationships":{"client":{"data":{"id":"cern.zenodo","type":"clients"}}}},{"id":"10.20381/ruor-32291","type":"dois","attributes":{"doi":"10.20381/ruor-32291","identifiers":[{"identifier":"http://hdl.handle.net/10393/52108","identifierType":"uri"}],"creators":[{"name":"Peters, Kathleen","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"titles":[{"lang":"","title":"Characterizing Psychomotor Performance Effects of Cognitive Fatigue"}],"publisher":"Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa","container":{},"publicationYear":2026,"subjects":[{"subject":"Cognitive fatigue","lang":""},{"subject":"Psychomotor performance","lang":""},{"subject":"Reaction time","lang":""},{"subject":"Mental fatigue","lang":""},{"subject":"Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation","lang":""},{"subject":"Transcranial magnetic stimulation","lang":""},{"subject":"Electromyography","lang":""}],"contributors":[{"name":"Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa","contributorType":"DataManager","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]},{"name":"Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa","contributorType":"HostingInstitution","affiliation":[],"nameIdentifiers":[]}],"dates":[{"date":"2026-10-05","dateType":"Accepted"},{"date":"2026-10-05","dateType":"Issued"}],"language":"en","types":{"schemaOrg":"Thesis","resourceTypeGeneral":"Dissertation","citeproc":"thesis","bibtex":"phdthesis","ris":"THES","resourceType":"Thesis"},"relatedIdentifiers":[],"relatedItems":[],"sizes":[],"formats":[],"version":null,"rightsList":[{"rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International"},{"rightsIdentifierScheme":"SPDX","rightsUri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode","schemeUri":"https://spdx.org/licenses/","rights":"Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International","rightsIdentifier":"cc-by-nc-sa-4.0"}],"descriptions":[{"descriptionType":"Abstract","description":"Cognitive fatigue (CF) is a state of perceived exhaustion arising from sustained mental effort that is both commonly experienced and consequential. CF negatively affects a broad range of cognitive functions, including working memory, decision making, and attention. It can also impair psychomotor performance, such as the ability to generate timely and accurate goal-directed actions, commonly indexed using reaction time (RT). CF-related psychomotor impairments, including slowed RT, may contribute to the risk of accidents or errors across a range of activities and occupations, including athletics, transportation, construction, and healthcare. Despite this, the mechanisms underlying CF-related psychomotor performance deficits remain poorly understood, and there is limited evidence regarding how these impairments might be mitigated. This thesis addressed these gaps by systematically investigating the effects of CF on multiple psychomotor processes contributing to RT performance and evaluating a potential intervention to attenuate CF-related deficits. Across four experiments using behavioural and neurophysiological approaches, it was found that stimulus perception, response inhibition, and motor preparation were largely preserved under CF, with the latter showing evidence of compensatory activity. In contrast, response selection was found to be selectively vulnerable to CF, with the degree of disruption depending on the overlap in cognitive demands with recent fatiguing mental work. Taken together, findings suggest that response initiation could play a central role in CF-related RT slowing and may present a key target for future investigation. Finally, a fifth experiment provided promising preliminary evidence supporting further investigation of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation as a non-invasive countermeasure for CF-related psychomotor deficits. Overall, this work advances our understanding of the mechanisms underlying CF-related psychomotor performance impairment by characterizing the effects of CF across multiple stages of psychomotor processing. It also provides preliminary support for tVNS as a potential countermeasure for these deficits. 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