cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inverse Computational Spectral Geometry
Creators: name: Rodolà, Emanuele
name: Melzi, Simone
name: Cosmo, Luca
name: Bronstein, Michael
name: Ovsjanikov, Maks
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: In the last decades, geometry processing has attracted a growing interest thanks to the wide availability of new devices and software that make 3D digital data available and manipulable to everyone. Typical issues that are faced by geometry processing algorithms include the variety of discrete representations for 3D data (point clouds, polygonal or tet-meshes and voxels), or the type of deformation this data may undergo. Powerful approaches to address these issues come from looking at the spectral decomposition of canonical differential operators, such as the Laplacian, which provides a rich, informative, robust, and invariant representation of the 3D objects. Reasoning about spectral quantities is at the core of spectral geometry, which has enabled unprecedented performance in many tasks of computer graphics (e.g., shape matching with functional maps, shape retrieval, compression, and texture transfer), as well as contributing in opening new directions of research. The focus of this tutorial is on inverse computational spectral geometry. We will offer a different perspective on spectral geometric techniques, supported by recent successful methods in the graphics and 3D vision communities, as well as older, but notoriously overlooked results. Here, the interest shifts from studying the “forward” path typical of spectral geometry pipelines (e.g., computing Laplacian eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a given shape) to studying the inverse path (e.g., recovering a shape from given Laplacian eigenvalues, like in the classical “hearing the shape of the drum” problem). As is emblematic of inverse problems, the ill-posed nature of the reverse direction requires additional effort, but the benefits can be quite considerable as showcased on several challenging tasks in graphics and geometry processing. The purpose of the tutorial is to overview the foundations and the current state of the art on inverse computational spectral geometry, to highlight the main benefits of inverse spectral pipelines, as well as their current limitations and future developments in the context of computer graphics. The tutorial is aimed at a wide audience with a basic understanding of geometry processing, and will be accessible and interesting to students, researchers and practitioners from both the academia and the industry.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Tutorials
description: Tutorials
description: 1
description: 1
description: Emanuele Rodolà, Simone Melzi, Luca Cosmo, Michael Bronstein, and Maks Ovsjanikov
Tunneling Splittings in Mn12-Acetate Single Crystals
Creators: name: del Barco, E.
name: Kent, A. D.
name: Rumberger, E. M.
name: Hendrickson, D. N.
name: Christou, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Landau-Zener multi-crossing method has been used to investigate the tunnel splittings in high quality Mn$_{12}$-acetate single crystals in the pure quantum relaxation regime and for fields applied parallel to the magnetic easy axis. With this method several individual tunneling resonances have been studied over a broad range of time scales. The relaxation is found to be non-exponential and a distribution of tunnel splittings is inferred from the data. The distributions suggest that the inhomogeneity in the tunneling rates is due to disorder that produces a non-zero mean value of the average transverse anisotropy, such as in a solvent disorder model. Further, the effect of intermolecular dipolar interaction on the magnetic relaxation has been studied.
description: Europhysics Letters (in press). 7 pages, including 3 figures
title: Returns to Two-Year Degrees and Certificates in Texas
Creators: name: Hamrock, Caitlin
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: policy brief
subject: college

description: Post-secondary education is increasingly necessary for individuals to earn a living wage, and its expansion is necessary for the nation to remain competitive in a global economy. Simultaneously, tuition at four-year institutions is rising, making this route to a post-secondary credential more financially difficult for students from low-income families. There has a been a resurgence of policy and academic interest in two-year institutions, particularly with respect to the ways in which these institutions may provide education to students for whom the opportunity to attend a four-year university is restricted by academic or financial barriers. As of 2014, 40% of post-secondary students were enrolled at two-year colleges (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016). Community college credentials are an increasingly important part of post-secondary education in the United States. Two-year institutions have been receiving additional attention from students, researchers and policy makers, yet it is still not clear how much labor market value these degrees have. Previous studies have been limited in their ability to differentiate between types of community college credentials (CCCs), and been unable to limit selection bias. Due to the large proportion of post-secondary students that attend community college, and the increasing accessibility of these institutions to low-income and first generation college goers, community colleges are receiving additional attention from policy makers (Ma & Baum, 2016; National Center for Education Statistics, 2011; Shear, 2010). Despite this attention, the existing literature does not agree that community college degrees or certificates.1 increase the earning of community college graduates, relative to students who complete only a high school diploma. This study seeks to determine the value of two-year degrees and certificates in the Texas labor market relative to the value of a high school diploma. This brief addresses the following question: What is the causal effect of community college credentials on earnings? What types of credentials are the most valuable?
Expanding non homogeneous configurations of the $λϕ^4$ model
Creators: name: Braghin, Fabio L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A time dependent variational approach is considered to derive the equations of movement for the $λϕ^4$ model. The temporal evolution of the model is performed numerically in the frame of the Gaussian approximation in a lattice of 1+1 dimensions given non homogeneous initial conditions (like bubbles) for the classical and quantum parts of the field which expands. A schematic model for the initial conditions is presented considering the model at finite fermionic density. The non zero fermionic density may lead either to the restoration of the symmetry or to an even more asymmetric phase. Both kinds of situations are considered as initial conditions and the eventual differences in early time dynamics are discussed. In the early time evolution there is strong energy exchange between the classical and quantum parts of the field as the initial configuration expands. The contribution of the quantum fluctuations is discussed especially in the strong coupling constant limit. The continuum limit is analyzed.
description: 23 pages (latex) plus thirteen figures in eps files
Electroweak-QCD interference in hadronic vector bosons at LHC
Creators: name: Ding, Cathy
name: Fuller, Ben
name: Jones, Eleanor
name: Martin, Aran
name: Murray, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of hadronic vector boson decays at LHC does not normally allow for interference with QCD production. These effects are studied here using the Sherpa package and can move by several GeV/c 2 the peak positions experiments would reconstruct. However, their impact depends strongly on the kinematics involved. The shifts expected in boosted W and Z bosons, which have been the subject of experimental study, are explored for the first time. The effects in the channels examined are all very small or negligible, but this may not true if lower transverse momenta are analysed, for example in the experimental trigger systems.
description: 10 pages, 16 figures
Supersymmetry and Brane Cosmology
Creators: name: Riotto, A.
name: Scarabello, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a five-dimensional brane world scenario where the fifth dimension is compactified on $S^1/Z_2$. We show that the familiar four-dimensional cosmology on our brane is easily recovered during a primordial stage of inflation if supersymmetry is exploited. Even if some vacuum energy density appears localized on our three brane, heavy supersymmetric bulk fields adjust themselves and acquire a nontrivial configuration along the extra-dimension. This phenomenon redistributes uniformly the energy density across the bulk and the resulting energy-momentum tensor does not display any singularity associated to the initial localized energy density on our three-brane. No jumps across the brane are present for the derivatives of the metric and Einstein's equations are solved by constant solutions along the fifth dimension. Our findings make it clear that cosmological phenomena in the supersymmetric brane world scenario must be studied taking properly into account bulk supersymmetric states. This comment is particularly relevant when applied to (super)gravity since in supersymmetric brane world scenarios, even though chiral matter and gauge fields may be restricted to live on boundaries, gravity multiplets always propagate in the bulk.
description: LaTeX file, 12 pages
Volumetric Video - Acquisition, Compression, Interaction and Perception
Creators: name: Zell, Eduard
name: Castan, Fabien
name: Gasparini, Simone
name: Hilsmann, Anna
name: Kazhdan, Misha
name: Tagliasacchi, Andrea
name: Zarpalas, Dimitris
name: Zioulis, Nick
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: Volumetric video, free-viewpoint video or 4D reconstruction refer to the process of reconstructing 3D content over time using a multi-view setup. This method is constantly gaining popularity both in research and industry. In fact, volumetric video is more and more considered to acquire dynamic photorealistic content instead of relying on traditional 3D content creation pipelines. The aim of the tutorial is to provide an overview of the entire volumetric video pipeline. Furthermore, it presents existing projects that may serve as a starting point to this topic at the intersection of computer vision and graphics. The first part of the tutorial will focus on the process of computing 3D models from captured videos. Topics will include content acquisition with affordable hardware, photogrammetry, and surface reconstruction from point clouds. A remarkable contribution of the presenters to the graphics community is that they will not only provide an overview of their topic but have in addition open sourced their implementations. Topics of the second part will focus on usage and distribution of volumetric video, including data compression, streaming or post-processing like pose-modification or seamless blending. The tutorial will conclude with an overview of perceptual studies focusing on quality assessment of 3D and 4D content.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Tutorials
description: Tutorials
description: 3
description: 7
description: Eduard Zell, Fabien Castan, Simone Gasparini, Anna Hilsmann, Misha Kazhdan, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Dimitris Zarpalas, and Nick Zioulis
Begrifflichkeiten zum Thema Rassismus im nationalen und internationalen Verständnis : eine Auslegeordnung unter Berücksichtigung des Völker- und Verfassungsrechts
Creators: name: Naguib, Tarek
Publisher: name: Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern
Year: 2014
Subjects: Fremdenfeindlichkeit
Diskriminierung
Rassismus
Rassendiskriminierung
341: Völkerrecht und Europarecht

description: Unter Mitarbeit von Nadine Bircher und Tiziana Fuchs.

Expertise im Auftrag der Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung FRB, Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern EDI.
Modeling of Individual HRTFs based on Spatial Principal Component Analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Mengfan
name: Ge, Zhongshu
name: Liu, Tiejun
name: Wu, Xihong
name: Qu, Tianshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Head-related transfer function (HRTF) plays an important role in the construction of 3D auditory display. This paper presents an individual HRTF modeling method using deep neural networks based on spatial principal component analysis. The HRTFs are represented by a small set of spatial principal components combined with frequency and individual-dependent weights. By estimating the spatial principal components using deep neural networks and mapping the corresponding weights to a quantity of anthropometric parameters, we predict individual HRTFs in arbitrary spatial directions. The objective and subjective experiments evaluate the HRTFs generated by the proposed method, the principal component analysis (PCA) method, and the generic method. The results show that the HRTFs generated by the proposed method and PCA method perform better than the generic method. For most frequencies the spectral distortion of the proposed method is significantly smaller than the PCA method in the high frequencies but significantly larger in the low frequencies. The evaluation of the localization model shows the PCA method is better than the proposed method. The subjective localization experiments show that the PCA and the proposed methods have similar performances in most conditions. Both the objective and subjective experiments show that the proposed method can predict HRTFs in arbitrary spatial directions.
description: 12 pages with 18 figures. This paper was published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Copyright 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media
Visualization and Graphics in Mixed Reality
Creators: name: Kalkofen, Denis
name: Mori, Shohei
name: Tatzgern, Markus
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: This tutorial will present the challenges and unique aspects of mixed reality visualization applications such as organization of data for visualization, real-world data sources for visualization, real time photo-realistic rendering techniques, diminished reality rendering techniques and cognitive and perceptual issues. We are also interested in ways that the existing body of research in the graphics and visualization community can be applied in this research area. We expect the tutorial to be a working event with both presentation of state-of- the-art followed by lively discussion about the key issues and challenges in this research area. Our tutorial is open both for academia and industry, and expected to be a community hub for both areas that are interested in an introduction to the unique challenges of mixed reality visualization. We welcome a diverse audience consisting of students, researchers and developers that have a basic understanding of computer graphics and computer vision.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Tutorials
description: Tutorials
description: 9
description: 9
description: Denis Kalkofen, Shohei Mori, and Markus Tatzgern
Evidence for Majorana Neutrinos: Dawn of a new era in spacetime structure
Creators: name: Ahluwalia, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that Majorana particles belong to the Wigner class of fermions in which the charge conjugation and the parity operators commute, rather than anticommute. Rigorously speaking, Majorana spinors do not satisfy the Dirac equation [a result originally due to M. Kirchbach, which we re-render here]. Instead, they satisfy a different wave equation, which we derive. This allows us to reconcile Stückelberg-Feynman interpretation with the Majorana construct. We present several new properties of neutral particle spinors and argue that discovery of Majorana particles constitutes dawn of a new era in spacetime structure.
description: Invited Talk and Closing Remarks at conference Beyond the Desert '02, June, 2002, Oulu, Finland
Finite tripotents and finite JBW$^*$-triples
Creators: name: Hamhalter, Jan
name: Kalenda, Ondřej F. K.
name: Peralta, Antonio M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study two natural preorders on the set of tripotents in a JB$^*$-triple defined in terms of their Peirce decomposition and weaker than the standard partial order. We further introduce and investigate the notion of finiteness for tripotents in JBW$^*$-triples which is a natural generalization of finiteness for projections in von Neumann algebras. We analyze the preorders in detail using the standard representation of JBW$^*$-triples. We also provide a refined version of this representation - in particular a decomposition of any JBW$^*$-triple into its finite and properly infinite parts. Since a JBW$^*$-algebra is finite if and only if the extreme points of its unit ball are just unitaries, our notion of finiteness differs from the concept of modularity widely used in Jordan structures so far. The exact relationship of these two notions is clarified in the last section.
description: 66 pages; we corrected some misprints, modified a bit some notation, added one reference and simplified one proof
Eupholidoptera tucherti Harz 1988
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera tucherti

description: Eupholidoptera tucherti Harz, 1988
(Figures 47, 92, 138, 184, 224, 234, 240, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera tucherti Harz, 1988: 134.
 Type information: Holotype M (and paratype M), TURKEY: Mugla, Dalyan, Iztuzu, 36 46 N, 28 38 E, 2.6.1988, (R. Kinzelbach).
 Material examined: TURKEY: Mugla: 1M, Dalaman, Kocagöl, 100 m, 22.6.1998 (B. Yalım) (AUZM); 1M, 1F, unterhalb Bayir (koy) (ca. 17 km sw Marmaris) (36°43'N, 28°8'E), 8.6.2000 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record); Antalya: 1M, Akdeniz University, Social Guest House, 30 m, N 36°53.947, E 030°39.324, August 2006 (B. Çıplak) (in alcohol, AUZM).
 Distribution: This species is restricted to the southern part of Muǧla and western part of Antalya provinces in the western Mediterranean Turkey.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 65
Probing an extended region of Delta m^2 with rapidly oscillating 7Be solar neutrinos
Creators: name: Baltz, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If 7Be solar neutrinos can be observed in real time experiments, then an extended region of Delta m^2 can be probed by a proper analysis of the rapidly changing phase of vacuum oscillations due to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit about the sun. For the case of maximal vacuum mixing, a kind of Fourier analysis of expected data for one year's time could uniquely pick out Delta m^2 if it lies in the region ~10^{-10} - 6 X 10^{-9} (eV)^2.
description: Improved treatment of thermal spreading; added references
Measuring urban road network resilience to extreme events: an application for urban floods
Creators: name: Morelli, André Borgato
name: Cunha, André Luiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Designing and maintaining resilient transportation systems rely on identifying potential vulnerabilities and inefficiencies before crises occur. However, given the complexity of transportation networks, as well as the diversity of ways in which systems can fail, the problem of assessing the impacts of exceptional phenomena still lacks tools and metrics for analysis. Therefore, this paper aims to present a method for assessing the behavior of road networks during crises in which segments are disabled or unusable for a time. The method proposed was structured around two metrics calculated from the road network and trip distribution: network continuity and efficiency of alternative. With these metrics, we assess, as an example, the local and global impacts of various flooding scenarios in a case study at São Carlos, a medium-sized Brazilian city in the state of São Paulo. Our findings indicate that pedestrian movements are significantly less impacted than motorized vehicles by floods in the city, which may be due to the car-oriented nature of the avenues closest to rivers, and the shortest average length of pedestrian trips. These findings and metrics set a framework for further research involving other cities and natural phenomena to enrich the understanding of resilience in urban transportation networks.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Assessment of the Effect of Pre-stressing Steel Strut on Displacement of the Diaphragm Wall and the Soil
Creators: name: Bahrami, Mohammad
name: Khodakarami, Mohammad Iman
name: Abdolhosein Haddad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: In this research, the effects of pre-stressing steel struts on horizontal displacement of the diaphragm wall and settlement of the soil behind the wall are investigated utilizing the FLAC software through implementing the finite difference method and Mohr-Coulomb behavior model. A 20m diaphragm wall with 80 cm thickness and the Young's Modulus of 22000 MPa and the Poisson ratio of 0.15 is modeled. The final depth of excavation is 12 m and the properties corresponding to the concrete stiffness of the diaphragm wall, depth of excavation and arrangement of the struts are taken from (Freiseder and Schweiger, 1998). Modeling is done for 3 types of soils with different modulus of elasticity values including 3 pre-stressing forces and 3 different water levels, so totally 27 models were designed and analyzed. For this purpose 3 types of sandy soils with a Poisson ratio of 0.30 are used for modeling. The soils properties are taken from Chowdhury et al. (2013) and are given in Table 1. In this table 'φ denotes the internal friction angle and C 'denotes the soil's cohesion. This research is conducted for 3 water levels; at the ground level and for depths of 4 and 8 m below the ground level. The models are analyzed for three cases namely non-pre-stressing and pre-stressing forces of 200 and 400 KN.
Cropland Lease Arrangements and Soil Erosion in the U.S.
Creators: name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Information from the USDA's 1978 Resource Economics Survey is used to test the hypothesis that crop--share leasing, when compared to cash leasing, promotes improves conservation management in crop production. Results are discussed in light of public policies to promote soil erosion control on U.S.. cropland
CUDA and Applications to Task-based Programming
Creators: name: Kenzel, Michael
name: Kerbl, Bernhard
name: Winter, Martin
name: Steinberger, Markus
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: Since its inception, the CUDA programming model has been continuously evolving. Because the CUDA toolkit aims to consistently expose cutting-edge capabilities for general-purpose compute jobs to its users, the added features in each new version reflect the rapid changes that we observe in GPU architectures. Over the years, the changes in hardware, growing scope of built-in functions and libraries, as well as an advancing C++ standard compliance have expanded the design choices when coding for CUDA, and significantly altered the directives to achieve peak performance. In this tutorial, we give a thorough introduction to the CUDA toolkit, demonstrate how a contemporary application can benefit from recently introduced features and how they can be applied to task-based GPU scheduling in particular. For instance, we will provide detailed examples of use cases for independent thread scheduling, cooperative groups, and the CUDA standard library, libcu++, which are certain to become an integral part of clean coding for CUDA in the near future.
description: Eurographics 2021 - Tutorials
description: Tutorials
description: 11
description: 15
description: Michael Kenzel, Bernhard Kerbl, Martin Winter, and Markus Steinberger
Ultrahigh energy neutrinos, small x and unitarity
Creators: name: Reno, M. H.
name: Sarcevic, I.
name: Sterman, G.
name: Stratmann, M.
name: Vogelsang, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ultrahigh energy cross section for neutrino interactions with nucleons is reviewed, and unitarity constraints are discussed. We argue that existing QCD extrapolations are self-consistent, and do not imply a breakdown of the perturbative expansion in the weak coupling.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX4, contribution to Snowmass 2001
Value of Information in Probabilistic Logic Programs
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sarthak
name: Ramakrishnan, C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.4

description: In medical decision making, we have to choose among several expensive diagnostic tests such that the certainty about a patient's health is maximized while remaining within the bounds of resources like time and money. The expected increase in certainty in the patient's condition due to performing a test is called the value of information (VoI) for that test. In general, VoI relates to acquiring additional information to improve decision-making based on probabilistic reasoning in an uncertain system. This paper presents a framework for acquiring information based on VoI in uncertain systems modeled as Probabilistic Logic Programs (PLPs). Optimal decision-making in uncertain systems modeled as PLPs have already been studied before. But, acquiring additional information to further improve the results of making the optimal decision has remained open in this context. We model decision-making in an uncertain system with a PLP and a set of top-level queries, with a set of utility measures over the distributions of these queries. The PLP is annotated with a set of atoms labeled as "observable"; in the medical diagnosis example, the observable atoms will be results of diagnostic tests. Each observable atom has an associated cost. This setting of optimally selecting observations based on VoI is more general than that considered by any prior work. Given a limited budget, optimally choosing observable atoms based on VoI is intractable in general. We give a greedy algorithm for constructing a "conditional plan" of observations: a schedule where the selection of what atom to observe next depends on earlier observations. We show that, preempting the algorithm anytime before completion provides a usable result, the result improves over time, and, in the absence of a well-defined budget, converges to the optimal solution.
description: In Proceedings ICLP 2019, arXiv:1909.07646
title: Time trends in survival and causes of death in multiple myeloma: a population-based study from Germany
Creators: name: Eisfeld, Christine
name: Kajüter, Hiltraud
name: Möller, Lennart
name: Wellmann, Ina
name: Shumilov, Evgenii
name: Stang, Andreas
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Background: Steady evolution of therapies has improved prognosis of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) over the past two decades. Yet, knowledge about survival trends and causes of death in MM might play a crucial role in long-term management of this patient collective. Here, we investigate time trends in myeloma-specific survival at the population level over two decades and analyse causes of death in times of prolonged survival. Methods: Age-standardised and age group-specific relative survival (RS) of MM patients aged < 80 years at diagnosis was estimated for consecutive time periods from 2000–2019 using data from the Cancer Registry of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Conditional RS was estimated for patients who already survived one to five years post diagnosis. Causes of death in MM patients were analysed and compared to the general population using standardised mortality ratios (SMR). Results: Three thousand three hundred thirty-six MM cases were included in the time trend analysis. Over two decades, age-standardised 5-year RS increased from 37 to 62%. Age-specific survival improved from 41% in period 2000–2004 to 69% in period 2015–2019 in the age group 15–69 years, and from 23 to 47% in the age group 70–79 years. Conditional 5-year RS of patients who survived five years after diagnosis slightly improved as compared to unconditional 5-year RS at diagnosis. MM patients are two times more likely to die from non-myeloma malignancies (SMR = 1.97, 95% CI 1.81–2.15) and from cardiovascular diseases (SMR = 2.01, 95% CI 1.86–2.18) than the general population. Conclusions: Prognosis of patients with MM has markedly improved since the year 2000 due to therapeutic advances. Nevertheless, late mortality remains a major concern. As survival improves, second primary malignancies and cardiovascular events deserve increased attention.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley, Springer oder Elsevier 2019–2023.
title: Orpheu... e Eurídice
Creators: name: Amado, Nuno
Publisher: name: IELT – Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2015

description: A correspondência entre Pessoa e Côrtes-Rodrigues no final de 1914 e no início de 1915 documenta um período de crise cujos motivos, sem excepções evidentes, não têm sido devidamente escrutinados. Na carta de 19 de Janeiro de 1915, a mais importante da série, essa crise, pelo menos em parte, parece resolvida. Fazendo apelo a um critério de sinceridade que, embora difícil de definir, será operativo em boa parte da sua obra adulta, Pessoa isola ostensivamente a obra heteronímica, privilegiando-a, do resto da sua produção poética. O facto de Orpheu se ter alicerçado em muito daquilo que Pessoa, dois meses antes, parecia disposto a abandonar requer, portanto, justificação. A justificação que proponho, neste ensaio, faz-se acompanhar de uma descrição da obra de Pessoa que procura fugir ao melindre, tão comum quanto desnecessário, de ter de fazer equivaler ao melhor que o poeta produziu aquilo cuja produção, por escrúpulo próprio, passou a deplorar.
description: AMADO, Nuno (2015) “Orpheu… e Eurídice”, Revista Estranhar Pessoa, 2: 57–70. ISSN 2183-4075.
Diamphipnoa undetermined
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Morse, John C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Diamphipnoidae
Diamphipnoa
Diamphipnoa undetermined

description: Diamphipnoa sp. Material. Examined. CHILE: Provincia Aisén, Muncipalidad Cisnes, Area Protegida Lago Copa; S side W Lago Copa, unnamed 2 nd order stream from cascade 1 km W Cliffs Lodge, 44.88752 ° S, 72.63573 ° W, elevation 42 m, 13-14 December 2009, J. Morse, J. Rios, 1 larva. Comments. Three of the four known species of Diamphipnoa are reported from Chile and one of these, D. annulata (Brauer), is known to occur in Aisén Province (Vera & Camousseight 2006).
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Morse, John C., 2013, A New Species Of Neonemura (Plecoptera: Notonemouridae), And Records Of Stoneflies From Aisén Province, Region Xi, Chile, pp. 110-115 in Illiesia 9 (10) on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4753299
description: {"references": ["Vera, A. & A. Camousseight. 2006. Current state of knowledge of Plecoptera of Chile. Gayana, 70: 57 - 64. [Spanish with English abstract]."]}
Shinkan Jinkokuki. Kan no jō
新刊人國記 巻之上
Creators: name: Seki, Sokō, Active 1696-1713
Publisher: name: Edo : Suharaya Mohē
Year: 2021

description: Maps of the 66 provinces and 2 islands; some on multiple pages; 35 maps in v.1, 33 in v.2.
Rg1 alleviates oxidative stress and spermatogonium apoptosis in D-gal-induced testicular toxicity by activating Akt
Creators: name: Wang, Ziling
name: Du, Kunhang
name: Hou, Jiying
name: Xiao, Hanxianzhi
name: Hu, Ling
name: Chen, Xiongbin
name: Wang, Lu
name: Wang, Yaping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Objectives: High reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels lead to cell death, and the testes are among the most vulnerable organs to oxidative damage. Rg1, an active ingredient extracted from the natural medicine ginseng, has potential anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antiapoptotic properties. Our previous studies showed that Rg1 can effectively improve spermatogenic function in mice, but the specific mechanism remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Rg1 on oxidative stress and spermatogonium apoptosis in D-gal-induced testicular toxicity and elucidate the associated mechanism. Methods: Male C57BL/6 mice at 6–8 weeks of age were intraperitoneally injected with D-gal (200 mg/kg) for 42 days to establish a testicular injury model, and on day 16, 40 mg/kg Rg1-rich saline was injected intraperitoneally. Concurrently, we established an in vitro model of D-gal-damaged spermatogonia, which was treated with Rg1. Results: We found that treatment with the ginsenoside Rg1 reduced D-gal-induced oxidative stress and spermatogonium apoptosis in vivo and in vitro. Mechanistically, we found that Rg1 activated Akt/bad signaling and reduced D-gal-induced spermatogonium apoptosis. Discussion: We provide evidence showing that the antioxidant effect of Rg1 is mediated by the Akt/GSK-3β/NRF2 axis. Based on these findings, we consider Rg1 a potential treatment for testicular oxidative damage.
Diamphipnopsis undetermined
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Morse, John C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Diamphipnoidae
Diamphipnopsis
Diamphipnopsis undetermined

description: Diamphipnopsis sp. Material examined. CHILE: Provincia Aisén, Muncipalidad Cisnes, Area Protegida Lago Copa: S side of W Lago Copa, unnamed 2 nd order stream from cascade 1 km W Cliffs Lodge, 44.88752 ° S, 72.63573 ° W, elevation 42 m, 13-14 December 2009, J. Morse, J. Rios, 4 larvae . Comments. Both species, D. beschi Illies and D. samali Illies included in this genus are known from Chile (Regions IX and X) but the genus has not been previously reported from Aisén Province or Region XI (Vera & Camousseight 2006).
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Morse, John C., 2013, A New Species Of Neonemura (Plecoptera: Notonemouridae), And Records Of Stoneflies From Aisén Province, Region Xi, Chile, pp. 110-115 in Illiesia 9 (10) on page 111, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4753299
description: {"references": ["Vera, A. & A. Camousseight. 2006. Current state of knowledge of Plecoptera of Chile. Gayana, 70: 57 - 64. [Spanish with English abstract]."]}
New brane solutions in higher order gravity
Creators: name: Jakobek, A.
name: Meissner, K. A.
name: Olechowski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the higher order gravity with dilaton and with the leading string theory corrections taken into account. The domain wall type solutions are investigated for arbitrary number of space-time dimensions. The explicit formulae for the fixed points and asymptotic behavior of generic solutions are given. We analyze and classify solutions with finite effective gravitational constant. There is a class of such solutions which have no singularities. We discuss in detail the relation between fine tuning and self tuning and clarify in which sense our solutions are fine-tuning free. The stability of such solutions is also discussed.
description: 22 pages, Latex, 3 figures; discussion of effective gravitational constant and of one type of solutions extended; references added
Groupoid of OEIS A001844 Numbers (centered square numbers)
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
OEIS

description: Here we discuss the binary operator of the set made by the OEIS sequence of integers A001844, defined as centered square numbers. This binary operator can be used to have a groupoid. Actually, neutral and opposite elements can be defined too, and a possible group for these numbers can be given.
Few Shot Network Compression via Cross Distillation
Creators: name: Bai, Haoli
name: Wu, Jiaxiang
name: King, Irwin
name: Lyu, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model compression has been widely adopted to obtain light-weighted deep neural networks. Most prevalent methods, however, require fine-tuning with sufficient training data to ensure accuracy, which could be challenged by privacy and security issues. As a compromise between privacy and performance, in this paper we investigate few shot network compression: given few samples per class, how can we effectively compress the network with negligible performance drop? The core challenge of few shot network compression lies in high estimation errors from the original network during inference, since the compressed network can easily over-fits on the few training instances. The estimation errors could propagate and accumulate layer-wisely and finally deteriorate the network output. To address the problem, we propose cross distillation, a novel layer-wise knowledge distillation approach. By interweaving hidden layers of teacher and student network, layer-wisely accumulated estimation errors can be effectively reduced.The proposed method offers a general framework compatible with prevalent network compression techniques such as pruning. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that cross distillation can significantly improve the student network's accuracy when only a few training instances are available.
description: AAAI 2020
The Role of Quantum Interference in Determining Transport Properties of Organic Molecules
Creators: name: Walczak, Kamil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytic approach to the electron transport phenomena in molecular devices is presented. Analyzed devices are composed of organic molecules attached to the two semi-infinite electrodes. Molecular system is described within the tight-binding model, while the coupling to the electrodes is analyzed through the use of Newns-Anderson chemisorption theory. The current-voltage (I-V) characteristics are calculated through the integration of transmission function in the standard Landauer formulation. The essential question of quantum interference effect of electron waves is discussed in three aspects: (i) the geometry of molecular bridge and (ii) the presence of an external magnetic field and (iii) the strength of the molecule-to-electrodes coupling.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Grünräume machen gesund : mit nachhaltigem Management zu gesundheitsfördernden, vielfältigen Grünräumen
Creators: name: Brack, Florian
name: Hagenbuch, Reto
name: Götsch, Martin
Publisher: name: CURAVIVA
Year: 2015
Subjects: Unterhalt
Nachhaltigkeit
Grünraum
Freiraummanagement
362: Gesundheits- und Sozialdienste
712: Landschaftsgestaltung (Landschaftsdesign)

description: Der Grünraum von Gesundheits-, Pflege- und Altersinstitutionen übt auf die Bewohnenden eine gesundheitsfördernde Wirkung aus. Um das ganze Potenzial auszuschöpfen, braucht es allerdings ein professionelles Management und sorgfältige Pflege, schreiben unsere Autoren.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Comparison of Xeric vs. Turf Lawns in San Angelo, Texas
Creators: name: Musick, Darcy J.
name: Musick, Darcy J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: Throughout the past decade, the city of San Angelo, Texas and surrounding areas have experienced extreme drought levels and consequent water shortages that have caused homeowners and businesses to go to great lengths in order to conserve water. This project used cost-effectiveness analysis to compare the economic efficiency of a water conservation method called xeriscaping to the efficiency of traditional turf landscaping. It compares the initial fixed costs, such as materials and installation costs, to variable reoccurring costs, such as maintenance and lawn care expenses. The uniform comparison provides a user-friendly reference guide to aide consumers in the decision making process when comparing various landscaping plans. It was concluded that one hundred percent xeric yards are the most cost efficient, but any of the alternatives presented that involve a portion of xeriscaped area, no matter how small, proved to be more efficient than one hundred percent turf.
Lohnzahlungspflicht während der Corona-Pandemie
Creators: name: Wohlwend, Marc
Publisher: name: Schulthess
Year: 2020
Subjects: 344: Öffentliches Recht (CH), Arbeits-, Sozial-, Bildungs- und Kulturrecht

description: Die rigorosen Massnahmen des Bundesrates zur Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie führen unvermeidlich zu Leistungsstörungen des Arbeitsvertrages in verschiedenen Branchen. Entscheidend für die Fortzahlung der Löhne ist jeweils, ob das die Arbeitsverhinderung verursachende Ereignis in die Risikosphäre der arbeitgebenden oder der arbeitnehmenden Person fällt. Der persönliche Verhinderungsgrund der arbeitnehmenden Person ist folglich in jedem Einzelfall von den betrieblichen und überpersönlichen (objektiven) abzugrenzen. Die Natur der Ursache und die Umstände entscheiden darüber, ob ein Anspruch auf Lohn oder Lohnfortzahlung besteht oder sich der Grundsatz «ohne Arbeit kein Lohn» verwirklicht. Es werden am Schluss des Kommentars Argumente angeführt, weshalb auch ausserordentliche Lagen wie die Corona-Pandemie dem betrieblichen Risiko zuzuordnen sind.
A stable hierarchy from Casimir forces and the holographic interpretation
Creators: name: Garriga, Jaume
name: Pomarol, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in the Randall-Sundrum model the Casimir energy of bulk gauge fields (or any of their supersymmetric relatives) has contributions that depend logarithmically on the radion. These contributions satisfactorily stabilize the radion, generating a large hierarchy of scales without fine-tuning. The logarithmic behaviour can be understood, in a 4D holographic description, as the running of gauge couplings with the infrared cut-off scale.
description: 10 pages
Influence of Regulation on Oil and Gas Well Abandonment Rates in Alberta, Canada
Creators: name: Prescott, Sarah
name: Prescott, Sarah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: As oil and gas wells age, they become unproductive. Proper abandonment of wells is an important process for both public safety and environmental health. However, well abandonment represents an opportunity cost to resource companies, as abandoned wells are more expensive to apply new production techniques to than unabandoned wells. In the early 1980’s, the government body overseeing the oil and gas industry in Alberta, Canada, observed a buildup in the numbers of unproductive, unabandoned wells in the province. From 1986 onward, a number of policies were implemented to attempt to reduce the potential government liability associated with these wells. This paper examines the influence of these different regulatory regimes on both the total number of oil and gas wells abandoned and the time lag between a well’s last production year and its actual abandonment year. The analysis is completed on a dataset of Alberta wells licensed between 1947-2011. The data is analyzed using an OLS regression. Dummy variables are used for the different policy regimes. While the different regimes generally increased the number of wells abandoned, some of the policies appear to have disincentived companies to abandon wells that had been inactive for long periods of time.
Open-source QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions at NLO and NNLO
Creators: name: Walt, Marina
name: Helenius, Ilkka
name: Vogelsang, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams on nuclear targets. In addition, a set of proton baseline PDFs is fitted within the same framework with the same theoretical assumptions. The results of this global QCD analysis are compared to existing nPDF sets and to the fitted cross sections. Also, the uncertainties resulting from the limited constraining power of the included experimental data are presented. The published work is based on an open-source tool, xFitter, which has been modified to be applicable also for a nuclear PDF analysis. The required extensions of the code are discussed as well.
description: 24 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables. v2: v1 updated to align with PRD journal version
Coupling a single atomic quantum bit to a high finesse optical cavity
Creators: name: Mundt, A. B.
name: Kreuter, A.
name: Becher, C.
name: Leibfried, D.
name: Eschner, J.
name: Schmidt-Kaler, F.
name: Blatt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quadrupole S$_{1/2}$ -- D$_{5/2}$ optical transition of a single trapped Ca$^+$ ion, well suited for encoding a quantum bit of information, is coherently coupled to the standing wave field of a high finesse cavity. The coupling is verified by observing the ion's response to both spatial and temporal variations of the intracavity field. We also achieve deterministic coupling of the cavity mode to the ion's vibrational state by selectively exciting vibrational state-changing transitions and by controlling the position of the ion in the standing wave field with nanometer-precision.