cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
papaya2: 2D Irreducible Minkowski Tensor computation
Creators: name: Schaller, Fabian M.
name: Wagner, Jenny
name: Kapfer, Sebastian C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A common challenge in scientific and technical domains is the quantitative description of geometries and shapes, e.g. in the analysis of microscope imagery or astronomical observation data. Frequently, it is desirable to go beyond scalar shape metrics such as porosity and surface to volume ratios because the samples are anisotropic or because direction-dependent quantities such as conductances or elasticity are of interest. Minkowski Tensors are a systematic family of versatile and robust higher-order shape descriptors that allow for shape characterization of arbitrary order and promise a path to systematic structure-function relationships for direction-dependent properties. Papaya2 is a software to calculate 2D higher-order shape metrics with a library interface, support for Irreducible Minkowski Tensors and interpolated marching squares. Extensions to Matlab, JavaScript and Python are provided as well. While the tensor of inertia is computed by many tools, we are not aware of other open-source software which provides higher-rank shape characterization in 2D.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, published in the Journal of Open Source Software, code available at https://morphometry.org/software/papaya2/
Characteristics of the adolescent father
Creators: name: Kim, Amanda L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Adolescent pregnancy and sexuality has traditionally been approached from the female point of view. Research has extensively documented characteristics, antecedents and consequences of adolescent pregnancy for the female, but very little is known about the male. Here, this study begins to describe the adolescent father. Comparisons were made between adolescent males who are and are not sexually active, as well as between those sexually active males who have and have not caused a pregnancy in order to provide clues for the prevention and counseling regarding initiation of sexual intercourse or adverse sequelae of sexual activity. Data from the British Columbia Adolescent Health Survey was utilized. The survey was held in 1992 among 12 to 18 year old students in British Columbia. This survey had collected data from 7,254 young males. In this group, 2,345 (31.9 percent) were sexually active, of whom 181 (7.7 percent) had caused one or more pregnancies. An additional 100 (4.3 percent) indicated they were unsure about having caused a pregnancy. The associations of sexual activity and fatherhood with six categories of variables were studied: individual and family demographics; school achievement and self-esteem; physical and mental health; risk taking behaviours; alcohol, tobacco and recreational drug use; and sexuality and sexual practice. Engaging in sexual activity was independently associated with provincial region, having academic difficulties (such as skipping school), and use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other recreational drugs. Furthermore, it was associated with risk taking behaviours such as binge drinking and involvement in physical fights. These Canadian findings confirm reports from the United States. Among the sexually active young men, fatherhood was not only associated with use of contraceptives, early age of sexual activity and history of sexually transmitted infections, but also with physical health problems and history of sexual abuse. Religiosity was associated with delayed sexual activity, whereas among the sexually active, religious youth were more likely to be fathers. These finding have not been reported previously. They are significant in providing clues for prevention and counseling, and are the basis for the recommendations made in this thesis.
FedMVA: Enhancing Software Vulnerability Assessment via Federated Multimodal Learning
Creators: name: Liu, qy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 461208
subject: Software testing, verification and validation
classificationCode: 461206
subject: Software architecture
classificationCode: 461201
subject: Automated software engineering

description: This study introduces FedMVA, a privacy-preserving framework for software vulnerability assessment that leverages federated learning and multimodal data fusion. To tackle the challenges of data heterogeneity and privacy in distributed environments, FedMVA enables decentralized training across multiple clients without sharing raw source code or annotations.The model integrates three complementary modalities:Lexical features (tokenized code)Structural representations (from code property graphs)Developer comments (semantic context)To enhance model performance and robustness, FedMVA incorporates:A weighted variance minimization loss to reduce divergence between local and global modelsA momentum-based client weighting strategyA dynamic learning rate mechanism to handle non-IID dataExperimental results on a tri-modal dataset constructed from CVE and GitHub repositories show that FedMVA outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in accuracy, F1-score, and MCC, while ensuring data privacy. This work highlights the power of integrating multimodal feature representations under federated settings for effective and scalable software vulnerability assessment.
Additional file 3 of RNA-Sequencing Reveals Differentially Expressed Rice Genes Functionally Associated with Defense against BPH and WBPH in RILs Derived from a Cross between RP2068 and TN1
Creators: name: Dhanasekar Divya
name: Nihar Sahu
name: P. Sairam Reddy
name: Nair, Suresh
name: Bentur, J. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Tables S1. Genetic similarities among the selected TR RILs*. Table S2. Overview of raw reads and mapped sequences for all the nine samples. Table S3. Sequence information of primers used for qRT-PCR of the shortlisted DEGs identified from the RNA-seq data
The entrainment matrix of a superfluid neutron-proton mixture at a finite temperature
Creators: name: Gusakov, M. E.
name: Haensel, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entrainment matrix (also termed the Andreev-Bashkin matrix or the mass-density matrix) for a neutron-proton mixture is derived at a finite temperature in a neutron star core. The calculation is performed in the frame of the Landau Fermi-liquid theory generalized to account for superfluidity of nucleons. It is shown, that the temperature dependence of the entrainment matrix is described by a universal function independent on an actual model of nucleon-nucleon interaction employed. The results are presented in the form convenient for their practical use. The entrainment matrix is important, e.g., in kinetics of superfluid nucleon mixtures or in studies of the dynamical evolution of neutron stars (in particular, in the studies of star pulsations and pulsar glitches).
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Grammatical elicitation: Questions and relative clauses
Creators: name: Kipkoech, Linus
name: Bossi, Madeline
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: sgc

description: Two .wav files (I with lavalier mic, M with in-recorder mic). See Notebook 2 (file bundle 2019-26.002). Elicitation of wh-questions in ditransitive and various relative clauses.
Dynamical complexity of the Teleparallel gravity cosmology
Creators: name: Rave-Franco, Geovanny A.
name: Escamilla-Rivera, Celia
name: Said, Jackson Levi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exploration of teleparallel gravity has been done from a dynamical systems point of view in order to be tested against the cosmological evolution currently observed. So far, the proposed autonomous systems have been restrictive over a constant dynamical variable, which contains information related to the dynamics on the $H_0$ value. It is therefore that in this paper we consider a generalization of the dynamical system by imposing a nonconstant degree of freedom over it which allows us to rewrite a generic autonomous dynamical analysis. We describe the treatment of our nonlinear autonomous system by studying the hyperbolic critical points and discuss an interesting phenomenological feature in regards to $H_0$: the possibility to obtain a best-fit value for this parameter in a cosmologically viable $f(T,B)$ model, a mixed power law. This result allows us to present a generic scenario in which it is possible to fix constraints to solve the $H_0$ tension at late times where its linearized solutions are considered.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures
The Distribution of Neutral Hydrogen in the Color-Magnitude Plane of Galaxies
Creators: name: Dutta, Saili
name: Khandai, Nishikanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the conditional HI (neutral hydrogen) Mass Function (HIMF) conditioned on observed optical properties, $M_{\text{r}}$ ($r$-band absolute magnitude) and $C_{\text{ur}}$ ($u-r$ color), for a sample of 7709 galaxies from ALFALFA (40% data release - $α.40$) which overlaps with a common volume in SDSS DR7. Based on the conditional HIMF we find that the luminous red, luminous blue and faint blue populations dominate the total HIMF at the high-mass end, knee and the low-mass end respectively. We use the conditional HIMF to derive the underlying distribution function of $Ω_{\text{HI}}$ (HI density parameter), $p(Ω_{\text{HI}})$, in the color-magnitude plane of galaxies. The distribution, $p(Ω_{\text{HI}})$, peaks in the blue cloud at $M_{\text{r}}^{\text{max}}=$ $-19.25, C_{\text{ur}}^{\text{max}}=1.44$ but is skewed. It has a long tail towards faint blue galaxies and luminous red galaxies. We argue that $p(Ω_{\text{HI}})$ can be used to reveal the underlying relation between cold gas, stellar mass and the star formation rate (SFR) in an unbiased way; that is the derived relation does not suffer from survey or sample selection.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Advanced simulation code for alpha spectrometry
Creators: name: Siiskonen, T.
name: Pollanen, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Monte Carlo code, known as AASI, is developed for simulating energy spectra in alpha spectrometry. The code documented here is a comprehensive package where all the major processes affecting the spectrum are included. A unique feature of the code is its ability to take into account coincidences between the particles emitted from the source. Simulations and measurements highlight the importance of coincidences in high-resolution alpha spectrometry. To show the validity of the simulated results, comparisons with measurements and other simulation codes are presented.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A
Island Finder and Entropy Bound
Creators: name: Bousso, Raphael
name: Shahbazi-Moghaddam, Arvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Identifying an entanglement island requires exquisite control over the entropy of quantum fields, which is available only in toy models. Here we present a set of sufficient conditions that guarantee the existence of an island and place an upper bound on the entropy computed by the island rule. This is enough to derive the main features of the Page curve for an evaporating black hole in any spacetime dimension. Our argument makes use of Wall's maximin formulation and the Quantum Focusing Conjecture. As a corollary, we derive a novel entropy bound.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures
Grammatical elicitation: Verbal agreement and reflexives
Creators: name: Kipkoech, Linus
name: Bossi, Madeline
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: sgc

description: Two .wav files (I with lavalier mic, M with in-recorder mic). See Notebook 2 (file bundle 2019-26.002). Elicitation of verbal agreement paradigms and reflexives.
Additional file 1 of Research perspectives on animal health in the era of artificial intelligence
Creators: name: Ezanno, Pauline
name: Picault, Sébastien
name: Beaunée, Gaël
name: Bailly, Xavier
name: Muñoz, Facundo
name: Duboz, Raphaël
name: Monod, Hervé
name: Jean-François Guégan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Systematic literature review, interviews, previous publication in French.
Naturally Speaking: The Naturalness Criterion and Physics at the LHC
Creators: name: Giudice, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A non-technical discussion of the naturalness criterion and its implications for new physics searches at the LHC. To be published in the book "LHC Perspectives", edited by G. Kane and A. Pierce.
description: 22 pages
title: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Band 93, Heft 3, Dezember 2015
title: Band 93, Heft 3, Dezember 2015
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bundesministerium Für Ernährung Und Landwirtschaft
Publisher: name: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2015

description: Das ruminale Mikrobiom des Rindes (1. Teil)
Das ruminale Mikrobiom des Rindes (Teil 2)
Das ruminale Mikrobiom des Rindes (3. Teil)
Osteuropa als Quelle für landwirtschaftliche Fachkräfte in Deutschland?
Evaluierung von Winterzwischenfrüchten vor Mais zur Biogasnutzung
Biological Functioning, Natural Living oder Welfare-Quality: Untersuchungen zum Tierwohlverständnis deutscher Landwirte
Der Einfluss von Windkraftanlagen auf landwirtschaftliche Bodenpreise
Die 14 Aspekte des MECA-Frameworks zur Konkretisierung sozialer Nachhaltigkeit in Organisationen
Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines I : Production of coadded frames
Creators: name: Mullaney, J. R.
name: Makrygianni, L.
name: Dhillon, V.
name: Littlefair, S.
name: Ackley, K.
name: Dyer, M.
name: Lyman, J.
name: Ulaczyk, K.
name: Cutter, R.
name: Mong, Y. L.
name: Steeghs, D.
name: Galloway, D. K.
name: O'Brien, P.
name: Ramsay, G.
name: Poshyachinda, S.
name: Kotak, R.
name: Nuttall, L.
name: Pallé, E.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Thrane, E.
name: Aukkaravittayapun, S.
name: Awiphan, S.
name: Breton, R.
name: Burhanudin, U.
name: Chote, P.
name: Chrimes, A.
name: Daw, E.
name: Duffy, C.
name: Eyles-Ferris, R.
name: Gompertz, B.
name: Heikkilä, T.
name: Irawati, P.
name: Kennedy, M.
name: Killestein, T.
name: Levan, A.
name: Marsh, T.
name: Mata-Sanchez, D.
name: Mattila, S.
name: Maund, J.
name: McCormac, J.
name: Mkrtichian, D.
name: Rol, E.
name: Sawangwit, U.
name: Stanway, E.
name: Starling, R.
name: Tooke, S.
name: Wiersema, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide field, high cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. So new is the field of systematic time-domain survey astronomy, however, that major scientific insights will continue to be obtained using smaller, more flexible systems than the LSST. One such example is the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), whose primary science objective is the optical follow-up of Gravitational Wave events. The amount and rate of data production by GOTO and other wide-area, high-cadence surveys presents a significant challenge to data processing pipelines which need to operate in near real-time to fully exploit the time-domain. In this study, we adapt the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines to process GOTO data, thereby exploring the feasibility of using this "off-the-shelf" pipeline to process data from other wide-area, high-cadence surveys. In this paper, we describe how we use the LSST Science Pipelines to process raw GOTO frames to ultimately produce calibrated coadded images and photometric source catalogues. After comparing the measured astrometry and photometry to those of matched sources from PanSTARRS DR1, we find that measured source positions are typically accurate to sub-pixel levels, and that measured L-band photometries are accurate to $\sim50$ mmag at $m_L\sim16$ and $\sim200$ mmag at $m_L\sim18$. These values compare favourably to those obtained using GOTO's primary, in-house pipeline, GOTOPHOTO, in spite of both pipelines having undergone further development and improvement beyond the implementations used in this study. Finally, we release a generic "obs package" that others can build-upon should they wish to use the LSST Science Pipelines to process data from other facilities.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in PASA
Global Modeling of Spur Formation in Spiral Galaxies
Creators: name: Shetty, Rahul
name: Ostriker, Eve C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the formation of substructure in spiral galaxies using global MHD simulations, including gas self-gravity. Our models extend previous local models by Kim and Ostriker (2002) by including the full effects of curvilinear coordinates, a realistic log-spiral perturbation, self-gravitational contribution from 5 radial wavelengths of the spiral shock, and variation of density and epicyclic frequency with radius. We show that with realistic Toomre Q values, self-gravity and galactic differential rotation produce filamentary gaseous structures with kpc-scale separations, regardless of the strength -- or even presence -- of a stellar spiral potential. However, the growth of sheared features distinctly associated with the spiral arms, described as spurs or feathers in optical and IR observations of many spiral galaxies, requires a sufficiently strong spiral potential in self gravitating models. Unlike independently-growing ''background'' filaments, the orientation of arm spurs depends on galactic location. Inside corotation, spurs emanate outward, on the convex side of the arm; outside corotation, spurs grow inward, on the concave side of the arm. Based on spacing, orientation, and the relation to arm clumps, it is possible to distinguish ''true spurs'' that originate as instabilities in the spiral arms from independently growing ''background'' filaments. Our models also suggest that magnetic fields are important in preserving grand design spiral structure when gas in the arms fragments via self-gravity into GMCs.
description: 36 pages, 17 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ. PDF version with high resolution figures available at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~shetty/Research/
Nemoura nankinensis Wu 1926
Creators: name: Chen, Zhi-Teng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Nemouridae
Nemoura
Nemoura nankinensis

description: Nemoura nankinensis Wu, 1926
Fig. 11.
 Nemoura nankinensis Wu, 1926. J. Sci. Arts., 5: 332; Wu, 1938. Plecopt. Sin., 182; Illies, 1966. Das Tierreich, 82: 208. Baumann, 1975. Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 211: 21; Yang, Li & Zhu, 2015. Fauna Sinica Insecta, 58: 376; Chen & Du, 2017b. Zootaxa, 4254(2): 298; Chen & Du, 2017c. Illiesia, 13(10): 102; Yang & Li, 2018. Species Catalogue of China. Vol. 2. Animals, Insecta (III), Plecoptera 20; Chen, 2020. Zootaxa, in press.
 Material examined. Forty-nine males, five females, four larvae, China: Jiangsu Province, Jurong City, Mt. Maoshan (Fig. 1), 31°47′15″N, 119°18′23″E, 160 m, 5 March 2020, leg. Zhi-Teng Chen (ICJUST).
 Biological notes. Nemoura nankinensis and R. vespertilio were the only two stonefly species collected during our trip at Mt. Maoshan. Larvae of N. nankinensis inhabited leaf packs and also undersides of small stones (Fig. 11A). The newly emerged male adults, typical of many nemourids, could be found on top of dry rocks (Fig. 11 B–D). Apparently, males drummed by bending the abdomen and tapping rock surfaces (Fig. 11 E–F). Adults and larvae of N. nankinensis were collected along most sections of the mainstream flowing from the peak of the mountain into the valley. This species occurred from rapid-flowing sections of the stream to areas where the stream became subterranean. Several adults were found even along a valley section with no flow and much submerged filamentous algae and macrophytes. Several years ago, this section of the stream was a fast flowing (Fig. 11 G–H).
 Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Prof. Yu-Zhou Du and Yangzhou University for teaching me the taxonomy of the Plecoptera. I am also grateful to Dr. Boris Kondratieff and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and manuscript improvement. This work is funded by the Start-up Funding of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (1182931901).
description: Published as part of Chen, Zhi-Teng, 2020, The larvae of Rhopalopsole vespertilio Chen & Du (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) with biological notes on sympatric Nemoura nankinensis Wu (Plecoptera Nemouridae), pp. 578-588 in Zootaxa 4767 (4) on pages 586-587, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4767.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3774967
Der Einfluss von Windkraftanlagen auf landwirtschaftliche Bodenpreise
Creators: name: Ritter, Matthias
name: Hüttel, Silke
name: Walter, Marian
name: Odening, Martin
Publisher: name: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2015

description: Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Entwicklung der landwirtschaftlichen Bodenpreise in Brandenburg zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2010. Neben allgemeinen preisbestimmenden Merkmalen wird dabei der Einfluss der Windkrafterzeugung gesondert berücksichtigt. Mittels einer Regressionsanalyse zeigt sich, dass ein signifikanter positiver Zusammenhang zwischen dem Umfang der Windenergie und der Höhe der Kaufpreise besteht. Die Effekte lassen sich zudem untergliedern
in einen Bestands-, Zubau- sowie einen Potenzialeffekt. Es zeigt sich, dass die Windenergienutzung in Brandenburg die Bodenpreise im Schnitt um etwa fünf Prozent erhöht hat. Dieser Effekt schwankt regional in Abhängigkeit der lokalen Turbinendichte.

The influence of wind energy on agricultural land prices

This study sets out to analyze the trend in farmland prices in one of the eastern states of Germany, Brandenburg, between the years 2000 and 2010. Apart from the usual price determinants, we consider especially the influence of wind power generation. Based on regression analysis, we find a significant positive correlation between the scope of the wind energy and the level of the purchasing prices. The effects are also broken down into a stock, extension and potential effect. It is shown that, on average, the use of wind energy in Brandenburg led to an increase of farmland prices of about five percent, although this effect has regional differences depending on the local wind turbine density.

Influence de l‘énergie éolienne sur le prix des terres agricoles

Cet article analyse l’évolution des prix des terres agricoles au Brandebourg, l’un des lands situés à l’est de l’Allemagne fédérale, au cours des années 2000 à 2010. A côté des paramètres qui déterminent habituellement ces prix, nous prenons en compte l’influence de la production d’énergie éolienne. L’analyse de régression effectuée établit qu’il existe une relation significative positive entre l’importance de l’énergie éolienne et le niveau des prix d’achat. Nous décomposons ces effets en effets de stock, effets d’extension et en effet potentiel. Il apparaît que l’utilisation d’énergie éolienne au Brandebourg a entraîné une augmentation moyenne des prix des terres d’environ cinq pour cent, bien que l’on relève des différences régionales en fonction de la densité locale des turbines.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Band 93, Heft 3, Dezember 2015
Editorial - Revelando-se Projetos Educacionais nas Práticas Pedagógicas Atuais e seus Impactos na Aprendizagem
Creators: name: Garcia, Marilene
name: Di Grado Hessel, Ana Maria
name: José M. Mathias, Maria Otília
Publisher: name: Interacções
Year: 2021

description: O dossiê “Revelando-se projetos educacionais nas práticas pedagógicas atuais e seus impactos na aprendizagem: Educação Superior, Outros Projetos e Formação de Profissionais da Educação”, da Revista Interacções, contempla 12 artigos, com temáticas orientadas ao ensino superior, projetos de formação de docentes, bem como variados projetos educacionais.
description: Interacções, Vol. 17 N.º 58 (2021): Revelando-se Projetos Educacionais nas Práticas Pedagógicas Atuais e seus Impactos na Aprendizagem: Educação Superior, Outros Projetos e Formação de Profissionais da Educação
Additional file 1 of Minimal important difference and patient acceptable symptom state for pain, Constant-Murley score and Simple Shoulder Test in patients with subacromial pain syndrome
Creators: name: Kanto, Kari
name: Lähdeoja, Tuomas
name: Paavola, Mika
name: Aronen, Pasi
name: Järvinen, Teppo L. N.
name: Jokihaara, Jarkko
name: Ardern, Clare L.
name: Karjalainen, Teemu V.
name: Taimela, Simo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Baseline characteristics of the participants according to study group. Table S2 Correlations between GRC and baseline, post scores and change scores*. Table S3 MID estimates from the ROC analysis at 6, 12, 24 months. Table S4 MID values calculated by the mean difference of change (MDoC) and the mean change (MC) methods and their respective 95% confidence intervals (CI). Fig. S1 VAS figure from the original questionnaire (translated from Finnish to English). Fig. S2 MID ROC curves. Fig. S3 PASS ROC curves.
title: The current state of teachers’ ICT use in classrooms in boys’ secondary schools in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alharbi, Abdulwahab Rabah
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Secondary education, Saudi Arabia.

description: The field of education has witnessed many changes and reforms in policy as well as numerous Information and Communication Technology (ICT) operational initiatives attempting to improve the process of teaching and learning. The interest of schools’ stakeholders in the potential advantages that ICT offers to the teaching and learning process has been rising (Kong et al., 2014). However, in Saudi Arabia, the ICT use by teachers for teaching and learning is still low, despite many ICT initiatives that the Ministry of Education (MOE) has introduced to improve education quality. Therefore, this study investigated teachers’ ICT use in classrooms in boys’ secondary schools in the city of Al-Rass in Saudi Arabia. This research aims to understand the current state of ICT in education in Saudi Arabia; and to understand how ICT is used by teachers in classroom for the process of teaching and learning; and to reveal any factors hindering ICT integration in the classroom. The Human Capital Theory (HCT) and Capabilities Approach (CA) were the basis of understanding why ICT is important in the educational process. The methodology adopted is an interpretivist qualitative approach using a triangulation method to analyse different methods and sources. Interviews were conducted at all levels of the education system: Five policy makers within the MOE; five secondary schools in Al-Rass city in Saudi Arabia were visited and interviews were conducted with five head teachers, 25 teachers who participated in 25 classroom observations and 25 student focus groups (100 students in total) who attended the classroom observations. The findings were analysed based on thematic analysis. The study’s findings using the triangulation method indicated that the government has paid huge attention to ICT for education development through relevant initiatives. However, the findings revealed the current situation of ICT is unsatisfactory and has not reflected the expectations and goals of the educational development initiatives. The findings revealed the absence of ICT policy, lack of teachers’ ICT use in the educational process, and internal and external barriers hindering the successful ICT integration in the process of teaching and learning. This included the absence of ICT policy, lack of professional development training, especially on how ICT can be used in relation to pedagogy and subject, and school management support, especially in terms of the teachers’ workload and ICT resource provision requests from authorities. The main implication the study concludes with is once ICT policy is well designed, all hindering factors could be addressed and as a result the integration of ICT into teaching and learning process could improve.
WASP-127b: A misaligned planet with a partly cloudy atmosphere and tenuous sodium signature seen by ESPRESSO
Creators: name: Allart, R.
name: Pino, L.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Casasayas-Barris, N.
name: Osorio, M. R. Zapatero
name: Cretignier, M.
name: Palle, E.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Cristiani, S.
name: Rebolo, R.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Borsa, F.
name: Bourrier, V.
name: Demangeon, O. D. S.
name: Ehrenreich, D.
name: Lavie, B.
name: Lillo-Box, J.
name: Micela, G.
name: Oshagh, M.
name: Sozzetti, A.
name: Tabernero, H.
name: Adibekyan, V.
name: Prieto, C. Allende
name: Alibert, Y.
name: Amate, M.
name: Benz, W.
name: Bouchy, F.
name: Cabral, A.
name: Dekker, H.
name: D'Odorico, V.
name: Di Marcantonio, P.
name: Dumusque, X.
name: Figueira, P.
name: Santos, R. Genova
name: Hernández, J. I. González
name: Curto, G. Lo
name: Manescau, A.
name: Martins, C. J. A. P.
name: Mégevand, D.
name: Mehner, A.
name: Molaro, P.
name: Nunes, N. J.
name: Poretti, E.
name: Riva, M.
name: Mascareño, A. Suárez
name: Udry, S.
name: Zerbi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of exoplanet atmospheres is essential to understand the formation, evolution and composition of exoplanets. The transmission spectroscopy technique is playing a significant role in this domain. In particular, the combination of state-of-the-art spectrographs at low- and high-spectral resolution is key to our understanding of atmospheric structure and composition. Two transits of the close-in sub Saturn-mass planet,WASP-127b, have been observed with ESPRESSO in the frame of the Guaranteed Time Observations Consortium. Transit observations allow us to study simultaneously the system architecture and the exoplanet atmosphere. We found that this planet is orbiting its slowly rotating host star (veq sin(i)=0.53+/-0.07 km/s) on a retrograde misaligned orbit (lambda=-128.41+/-5.60 deg). We detected the sodium line core at the 9-sigma confidence level with an excess absorption of 0.3+/-0.04%, a blueshift of 2.7+/-0.79 km/s and a FWHM of 15.18+/-1.75 km/s. However, we did not detect the presence of other atomic species but set upper-limits of only few scale heights. Finally, we put a 3-sigma upper limit, to the average depth of the 1600 strongest water lines at equilibrium temperature in the visible band, of 38 ppm. This constrains the cloud-deck pressure between 0.3 and 0.5 mbar by combining our data with low-resolution data in the near-infrared and models computed for this planet. To conclude, WASP-127b, with an age of about 10 Gyr, is an unexpected exoplanet by its orbital architecture but also by the small extension of its sodium atmosphere (~7 scale heights). ESPRESSO allows us to take a step forward in the detection of weak signals, thus bringing strong constraints on the presence of clouds in exoplanet atmospheres. The framework proposed in this work can be applied to search for molecular species and study cloud-decks in other exoplanets.
description: Accepted in A&A, 19 pages, 20 figures
Determining the CP Violation Angle $γ$ in $B_s$ Decays without Hadronic Uncertainty
Creators: name: Hong, Bi-Hai
name: Lu, Cai-Dian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the rare decays $B_s^0\to D^\pm π^\mp$ and $\bar B_s^0\to D^\mp π^\pm$, which can occur only via annihilation type $W$ exchange diagrams in the standard model. The time-dependent decay rates of the four channels can provide four CP parameters, which are experimentally measurable. We show that the CKM angle $ϕ_3=γ$ can be determined from these parameters without any theoretical model dependence. These channels can be measured in future LHCb experiments to provide a clean way for $γ$ measurement.
description: 4 pages, including 2 figures, Revtex
Editorial - Revelando-se Projetos Educacionais nas Práticas Pedagógicas Atuais e seus Impactos na Aprendizagem
Creators: name: Garcia, Marilene
name: Di Grado Hessel, Ana Maria
name: José M. Mathias, Maria Ot´ília
Publisher: name: Interacções
Year: 2021

description: No acolhimento de diversificados estudos, conseguimos elaborar um retrato atual da realidade do âmbito educacional pelas lentes dos projetos e das pesquisas no campo da educação. Alguns deles ainda mostraram as experiências vividas por conta da CoViD-19, bem como se lançaram a cultivar processos e novas interações com o que se pode considerar como “tomar novos rumos”, fazer profundas revisões e retomada de ações. Então, o momento dessa publicação é bastante relevante e adequado, pois ainda há muito do que se beneficiar desses artigos para pesquisas presentes e futuras. Em um curto espaço de tempo houve muita aprendizagem, tanto para quem pesquisa quanto para quem ensina. O presente número traz as temáticas tratadas no âmbito da escola básica e educação infantil. Inclui 16 artigos que tratam de práticas, pesquisas que se apoiam no uso de novas metodologias, usos de tecnologias digitais educacionais, aparando uma variedade de assuntos relacionados ao bullying, autismo, altas capacidades dos estudantes, bem como temas relacionados às experiências educacionais realizadas no período pandêmico, os quais ainda necessitam de avaliações e discussão das aprendizagens, entre outros aspectos, que principalmente buscam soluções em projetos inovadores para o referido contexto.
description: Interacções, Vol. 17 N.º 57 (2021): Revelando-se Projetos Educacionais nas Práticas Pedagógicas Atuais e seus Impactos na Aprendizagem: Ambiente Educacional da Escola na Educação Básica
Einstein Gravity from Conformal Gravity in 6D
Creators: name: Anastasiou, Giorgos
name: Araya, Ignacio J.
name: Olea, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend Maldacena's argument, namely, obtaining Einstein gravity from Conformal Gravity, to six dimensional manifolds. The proof relies on a particular combination of conformal (and topological) invariants, which makes manifest the fact that 6D Conformal Gravity admits an Einstein sector. Then, by taking generalized Neumann boundary conditions, the Conformal Gravity action reduces to the renormalized Einstein-AdS action. These restrictions are implied by the vanishing of the traceless Ricci tensor, which is the defining property of any Einstein spacetime. The equivalence between Conformal and Einstein gravity renders trivial the Einstein solutions of 6D Critical Gravity at the bicritical point.
description: 29 pages, no figures
High precision determination of the atmospheric parameters and abundances of the COROT main targets
Creators: name: Gillon, M.
name: Magain, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the main goals of the COROT mission is to get precise photometric observations of selected bright stars in order to allow the modelling of their interior through asteroseismology. However, in order to interpret the asteroseismological data, the effective temperature, surface gravity, and chemical composition of the stars must be known with sufficient accuracy. To carry out this task, we have developed a spectroscopic method called APASS (Atmospheric Parameters and Abundances from Synthetic Spectra) which allows precise analysis of stars with a moderate to high rotational velocity, which is the case for most primary COROT targets. Our method is based on synthetic spectra and works differentially with respect to the Sun. Using high signal-to-noise spectra and the APASS method, we determined the atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of 13 primary COROT targets. Our results agree well with those obtained by Bruntt using his software VWA and with those obtained with the software TEMPLOGG. However, in both cases, our error bars are significantly smaller than those of other methods. Our effective temperatures are also in excellent agreement with those obtained with the IR photometry method. For five stars with relatively low rotational velocity, we also performed an analysis with a classical equivalent-width method to test agreement with APASS results. We show that equivalent-width measurements by Gaussian or Voigt profile-fitting are sensitive to the rotational broadening, leading to systematic errors whenever the projected rotation velocity is non-negligible. The APASS method appears superior in all cases and should thus be preferred.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. Accepted in A&A
Ensino Remoto como Possibilidade de Enriquecimento Extracurricular para Alunos com Altas Habilidades/Superdotação:
Creators: name: Devalle Rech, Andréia Jaqueline
name: Negrini, Tatiane
Publisher: name: Interacções
Year: 2021

description: A educação é um direito dos estudantes com altas habilidades/superdotação (AH/SD), sendo que podem ser organizadas diferentes estratégias para este fim. Nesse contexto, este artigo objetiva relatar as experiências desenvolvidas junto a estudantes com AH/SD, por meio da oferta de enriquecimento extracurricular, mediadas pelas Tecnologias Digitais, como possibilidade de aprendizagens e interação social, no período pandêmico causado pelo Covid-19. Logo, por meio de nossas experiências, enquanto coordenadoras de uma ação extensionista, pretendemos socializar os desafios e possibilidades que se apresentaram durante a (re)configuração do programa de enriquecimento. O estudo em discussão configura-se como uma abordagem qualitativa do tipo relato de experiência. Os encontros com os estudantes aconteceram uma vez ao mês, de junho a dezembro de 2020, com duração de 1h e 30min, pela plataforma digital Jitsi Meet. O projeto contou com a participação de nove estudantes com AH/SD, cinco do sexo masculino e quatro do feminino, com idades entre seis e 11 anos. Durante as ações remotas, a equipe do projeto lançou desafios aos estudantes, sendo que para este artigo selecionamos três deles para análise. Os desafios foram analisados mediante as filmagens e fotografias enviadas pelos familiares no grupo de WhatsApp administrado pela equipe executora. A partir da exploração dos desafios, observamos que os estudantes tiveram a oportunidade de ampliar, aprofundar e enriquecer suas áreas de interesses, além de trocar conhecimentos entre eles. Consideramos que as ações desenvolvidas de forma remota atingiram os objetivos de promover o enriquecimento extracurricular, apesar dos desafios enfrentados no início do processo.
description: Interacções, Vol. 17 N.º 57 (2021): Revelando-se Projetos Educacionais nas Práticas Pedagógicas Atuais e seus Impactos na Aprendizagem: Ambiente Educacional da Escola na Educação Básica
Spatial and temporal dynamics of forest disturbance: a stochastic simulation model
Creators: name: Lessard, Robert B.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Forest systems are made up of a large number of processes interacting in complex spatial and temporal scales. Simulation can be used to study the way processes interact in space and time. A model, which approximates a system of forest growth, forest fire, bark beetle dynamics and harvesting, is constructed to observe spatial and temporal behaviour. System performance is analyzed through a sensitivity analysis of response indicators under different management regimes designed to simulate harvest and fire suppression. Variability between simulated landscapes is averaged to determine trends in model behaviour. Normalized spectral density estimates are used to detect periodicity in simulated behaviour. Harvest is found to lessen the impact of fire and beetle outbreaks whereas fire suppression is found to increase beetle populations. Periodic behaviour of beetles and forest spatial structure are found to be affected by harvest whereas fire suppression is found to be responsible for changes in periodic behaviour of live biomass.
Multiwavelength Observations of EXO 0748-676 - I. Reprocessing of X-ray Bursts
Creators: name: Hynes, R. I.
name: Horne, K.
name: O'Brien, K.
name: Haswell, C. A.
name: Robinson, E. L.
name: King, A. R.
name: Charles, P. A.
name: Pearson, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first high time-resolution simultaneous X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical observations of X-ray bursts in UY Vol, the optical counterpart of the low mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676, obtained with RXTE, HST, and Gemini-S. Strong reprocessed signals are present in the ultraviolet (a factor of 4) and optical (a factor of 2.5). These signals are lagged with respect to the X-rays and appear significantly smeared as well. The addition of far-ultraviolet coverage for one burst, together with the high quality of the dataset, allow much tighter constraints upon the temperature and geometry of the reprocessing region than previously possible. A single-zone black body reprocessing model for this burst suggests a rise in temperatures during the burst from 18,000 to 35,000K and an emitting area comparable to that expected for the disk and/or irradiated companion star. The lags, a mean of 4.0s and range of 2.5s, are consistent with those expected within the binary. The single-zone black body model cannot reproduce the ratio of optical to ultraviolet flux during the burst, however. The discrepancy, corresponding to underpredicting the optical by more than a factor of two, seems too large to explain with deviations from a local black body spectrum and more likely indicates that a range of reprocessing temperatures are required, as would be expected, with cooler regions not contributing to the UV. Comparable results are derived from other bursts, and in particular the lag and smearing both appear shorter when the companion star is on the near side of the disk as predicted. The burst observed by HST also yielded a spectrum of the reprocessed light. [Abridged]
description: 15 pages, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Effective one body multipolar waveform model for spin-aligned, quasi-circular, eccentric, hyperbolic black hole binaries
Creators: name: Nagar, Alessandro
name: Bonino, Alice
name: Rettegno, Piero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Building upon recent work, we present an improved effective-one-body (EOB) model for spin-aligned, coalescing, black hole binaries with generic orbital configurations, i.e. quasi-circular, eccentric or hyperbolic orbits. The model relies on the idea of incorporating general Newtonian prefactors, instead of the usual quasi-circular ones, in both radiation reaction and waveform. The major advance with respect to previous work is that the quasi-circular limit of the model is now correctly informed by numerical relativity (NR) quasi-circular simulation. This provides EOB/NR unfaithfulness for the dominant quadrupolar waveform, calculated with Advanced LIGO noise, at most of the order of $1\%$ over a meaningful portion of the quasi-circular NR simulations calculated by the Simulating eXtreme Spacetime (SXS) collaboration. In the presence of eccentricity, the model is similarly NR-faithful, $\lesssim 1\%$, all over the 28 public SXS NR datasets, with initial eccentricity up to $\simeq 0.2$ , mass ratio up to $q=3$ and dimensionless spin magnitudes as large as $+0.7$. Higher multipoles, up to $\ell=5$ are also reliably modeled through the eccentric inspiral, plunge merger and ringdown. For hyperbolic-like configurations, we also show that the EOB computed scattering angle is in excellent agreement with all currently available NR results.
description: 23 pages, 21 figures. Improved version with additional appendix reporting code performance. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 1 of Human neural stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles mitigate hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Apodaca, Lauren A.
name: Baddour, Al Anoud D.
name: Garcia, Camilo
name: Alikhani, Leila
name: Giedzinski, Erich
name: Ru, Ning
name: Agrawal, Anshu
name: Munjal M. Acharya
name: Baulch, Janet E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1.
Quantum-to-classical correspondence in open chaotic systems
Creators: name: Schomerus, Henning
name: Jacquod, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review properties of open chaotic mesoscopic systems with a finite Ehrenfest time tau_E. The Ehrenfest time separates a short-time regime of the quantum dynamics, where wave packets closely follow the deterministic classical motion, from a long-time regime of fully-developed wave chaos. For a vanishing Ehrenfest time the quantum systems display a degree of universality which is well described by random-matrix theory. In the semiclassical limit, tau_E becomes parametrically larger than the scattering time off the boundaries and the dwell time in the system. This results in the emergence of an increasing number of deterministic transport and escape modes, which induce strong deviations from random-matrix universality. We discuss these deviations for a variety of physical phenomena, including shot noise, conductance fluctuations, decay of quasibound states, and the mesoscopic proximity effect in Andreev billiards.
description: 23 pages, contribution for the special issue of J.Phys.A on "Trends in Quantum Chaotic Scattering"