cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Mindfulness to enhance quality of life and support advance care planning: a pilot randomized controlled trial for adults with advanced cancer and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Mosher, Catherine E.
name: Beck-Coon, Kathleen A.
name: Wu, Wei
name: Lewson, Ashley B.
name: Stutz, Patrick V.
name: Brown, Linda F.
name: Tang, Qing
name: Helft, Paul R.
name: Levoy, Kristin
name: Hickman, Susan E.
name: Johns, Shelley A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 1: Checklists for skill ratings and fidelity monitoring (Tables showing the checklists used for mindfulness facilitation skill ratings and fidelity monitoring)
Valutazione dell'efficacia delle procedure di Pushover
convenzionali, modali ed adattive applicate a telai piani
in c.a. regolari ed irregolari in elevazione.
Creators: name: Pollio, Bernardino <1976>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010
Subjects: ICAR/09 Tecnica delle costruzioni

description: The research performed during the PhD and presented in this thesis, allowed to make judgments on pushover analysis method about its application in evaluating the correct structural seismic response. In this sense, the extensive critical review of existing pushover procedures (illustrated in chapter 1) outlined their major issues related to assumptions and to hypothesis made in the application of the method. Therefore, with the purpose of evaluate the effectiveness of pushover procedures, a wide numerical investigation have been performed. In particular the attention has been focused on the structural irregularity on elevation, on the choice of the load vector and on its updating criteria. In the study eight pushover procedures have been considered, of which four are conventional type, one is multi-modal, and three are adaptive. The evaluation of their effectiveness in the identification of the correct dynamic structural response, has been done by performing several dynamic and static non-linear analysis on eight RC frames, characterized by different proprieties in terms of regularity in elevation. The comparisons of static and dynamic results have then permitted to evaluate the examined pushover procedures and to identify the expected margin of error by using each of them. Both on base shear-top displacement curves and on considered storey parameters, the best agreement with the dynamic response has been noticed on Multi-Modal Pushover procedure. Therefore the attention has been focused on Displacement-based Adative Pushover, coming to define for it an improvement strategy, and on modal combination rules, advancing an innovative method based on a quadratic combination of the modal shapes (QMC). This latter has been implemented in a conventional pushover procedure, whose results have been compared with those obtained by other multi-modal procedures. The development of research on pushover analysis is very important because the objective is to come to the definition of a simple, effective and reliable analysis method, indispensable tool in the seismic evaluation of new or existing structures.
Serendipitous XMM-Newton Detection of X-ray Emission from the Bipolar Planetary Nebula Hb 5
Creators: name: Montez, Rodolfo
name: Kastner, Joel H.
name: Balick, Bruce
name: Frank, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the serendipitous detection by the XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory of an X-ray source at the position of the Type I (He- and N-rich) bipolar planetary nebula Hb 5. The Hb 5 X-ray source appears marginally resolved. While the small number of total counts (~170) and significant off-axis angle of the X-ray source (~7.8') precludes a definitive spatial analysis, the morphology of the X-ray emission appears to trace the brightest features seen in optical images of Hb 5. The X-ray spectrum is indicative of a thermal plasma at a temperature between 2.4 and 3.7 MK and appears to display strong Neon emission. The inferred X-ray luminosity is L_X = 1.5 x 10^32 ergs/s. These results suggest that the detected X-ray emission is dominated by shock-heated gas in the bipolar nebula, although we cannot rule out the presence of a point-like component at the position of the central star. The implications for and correspondence with current models of shock-heated gas in planetary nebulae is discussed.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
title: Co-designing a 3D-Printed Tactile Campus Map With Blind and Low-Vision University Students
Creators: name: Crawford, Kirk Andrew
name: Posada, Jennifer
name: Okueso, Yetunde Esther
name: Higgins, Erin
name: Lachin, Laura
name: Hamidi, Foad
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: UMBC Human-Centered Computing Program

description: ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, St. John's NL Canada, October 27 - 30, 2024
description: Blind and low-vision (BLV) university students often encounter campus accessibility challenges that impede their ability to navigate campus environments effectively. The lack of customization offered by some navigational-focused assistive technologies (ATs) often falls short in addressing their diverse and specific navigational needs. 3D printing, a promising tool for creating affordable and personalized aids, has been explored as a method to create customized tactile maps to aid BLV individuals with general navigation. However, the use of 3D-printed tactile maps by BLV university students and the impact of their direct involvement in the design process remain largely unexplored. We employed a participatory design (PD) approach to engage BLV students from a university in the United States (U.S.) through semi-structured interviews and a co-design session to create a prototype 3D-printed tactile map. Additionally, we consulted with a blind rehabilitation and independence expert for insight into their perspective on AT and, more specifically, tactile maps and showed the prototype to a group of visually impaired youth and instructors visiting our university for feedback. We present and discuss our findings, provide an overview of the prototype design process, and outline future work.
Translating neutron star observations to nuclear symmetry energy via artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Krastev, Plamen G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most significant challenges involved in efforts to understand the equation of state of dense neutron-rich matter is the uncertain density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy. Because of its broad impact, pinning down the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy has been a longstanding goal of both nuclear physics and astrophysics. Recent observations of neutron stars, in both electromagnetic and gravitational-wave spectra, have already constrained significantly the nuclear symmetry energy at high densities. Training deep neural networks to learn a computationally efficient representation of the mapping between astrophysical observables of neutron stars, such as masses, radii, and tidal deformabilities, and the nuclear symmetry energy allows its density dependence to be determined reliably and accurately. In this work we use a deep learning approach to determine the nuclear symmetry energy as a function of density directly from observational neutron star data. We show for the first time that artificial neural networks can precisely reconstruct the nuclear symmetry energy from a set of available neutron star observables, such as, masses and radii as those measured by, e.g., the NICER mission, or masses and tidal deformabilities as measured by the LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors. These results demonstrate the potential of artificial neural networks to reconstruct the symmetry energy, and the equation of state, directly from neutron star observational data, and emphasize the importance of the deep learning approach in the era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. Invited article for Galaxies for the Special Issue "Neutron Stars and Hadrons in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics". Published version
title: An Ecosystem of Support: A U.S. State Government-Supported DIY-AT Program for Residents with Disabilities
Creators: name: Higgins, Erin
name: Sakowicz, Marie E.
name: Hamidi, Foad
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: UMBC Human-Centered Computing Program

description: ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, St. John's NL Canada, October 27 - 30, 2024
description: While Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approaches to producing customized assistive technology (AT) have been shown to support end-user agency and further technology democratization, research has shown that the utilization of digital fabrication tools requires a high level of technical expertise as well as financial investment. Facilitation of collaborations between end users and makers is a possible solution to these issues, however, previous efforts have uncovered issues around shared language, lack of consistent communication, and liability concerns. A promising direction for addressing these issues is to conceive of new types of multi-organizational collaborations that draw on complementary strengths. We explored these possibilities through an Action Research study in which we collaborated with the Maryland department of disability to launch a state level DIY-AT program. Through developing and supporting this program, we studied motivations for participation, relationships to creating and customizing AT, how individuals participated in and grew the program, and how the program allowed for individuals to reflect on their disabilities and AT use. Our findings generated an ecosystem model describing the interdependent relationships between and roles held by each stakeholder in the state DIY-AT program as well as a description of how this ecosystem encouraged expanding and transcending the understandings and definitions of AT and disability. We offer lessons learned for the design of future government-supported DIY-AT programs and reflections on the role of HCI researchers within these ecosystems.
Attivazione del sistema Wnt in linee cellulari di medulloblastoma umano: valutazione della risposta biologica e della risposta alle radiazioni ionizzanti
The Wnt activation in human medulloblastoma cell lines: biological response and ionizing radiation response
Creators: name: Ronchi, Alice <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: MED/06 Oncologia medica
BIO/12 Biochimica clinica e biologia molecolare e clinica

description: Medulloblastoma (MB) is a paediatric malignant brain tumour, sensitive to ionizing radiations (IR). However radiotherapy has detrimental effects on long-term survivors and the tumour is incurable in a third of patients, due to intrinsic radioresistance. Alterations of the Wnt pathway distinguish a molecular subgroup of MBs and nuclear beta-catenin, indicative of activated Wnt, is associated with good outcome in MB. Therefore there are increasing evidences about Wnt involvement in radio-response: IR induce activation of Wnt signalling with nuclear translocation of beta-catenin in MB cell lines.
We studied effects of Wnt pathway activation in a MB cell line with p53 wild-type: UW228-1. Cells were stably transfected with a beta-catenin constitutively active and assessed for growth curves, mortality rate, invasiveness and differentiation. Firstly, activation of Wnt pathway by itself induced a slower cell growth and a higher mortality. After IR treatment, nuclear beta-catenin further inhibited cell growth, increasing mortality. Cell invasiveness was strongly inhibited by Wnt activation. Furthermore, Wnt cell population was characterized by club shaped cells with long cytoplasmic extensions containing neurofilaments, suggesting a neural differentiation of this cell line. These findings suggest that nuclear beta-catenin may leads to a less aggressive phenotype and increases radio-sensitivity in MB, accounting for its favourable prognostic value. In the future, Wnt/beta-catenin signalling will be considered as a molecular therapeutic target to develop new drugs for the treatment of MB.
title: Exploring the Relationship Between Nursing Staff and Family Members? Appraisal of Resident Care in Nursing Homes: The Role of Facility Ownership
Creators: name: Millar, Roberto
name: Diehl, Christin
name: Kusmaul, Nancy
name: Stockwell, Ian
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 4569
Subjects: subject: UMBC Health Data Lab
subject: long-term care
subject: nurse qualification
subject: nursing home
subject: family engagement

description: Background/Objectives: To address long-standing staffing challenges and elevating care standards in the United States, new legislation will require a minimum of 0.55 h per resident day (HPRD) of registered nurse (RN) care, 2.45 HPRD of certified nursing aide (CNA) care, and a combined total of 3.48 HPRD across any combination of nursing staff. We examine differences in family members? views of care quality between facilities meeting the minimum staffing requirements and those that do not and whether there is any difference in those associations by facility ownership. Methods: This cross-sectional study utilized public data from 218 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in Maryland, collected in 2023. We used regression analyses to examine the association between staffing requirements and quality of care ratings, considering facility ownership status as a potential moderator. Results: Compared to facilities with CNA staffing levels below the cut off, facilities that met the CNA staffing requirement were rated more favorably by family members in overall quality and across the subdomains of staffing, care, activities, and security. In contrast, meeting the RN 0.55 cut off was not associated with family ratings across any quality domain. A facility for-profit status did not moderate the relationship between staffing and family ratings. Conclusions: These results suggest that CNA staff time is a significant driver of care quality and that non-profit facilities may already be closer to meeting new federal requirements. These findings highlight the need for regulations that support the minimum nursing staffing requirements to enhance care quality. Future research should identify the specific factors contributing to higher quality care in non-profit facilities and explore ways to implement these practices in for-profit settings.
Additional file 2 of Mindfulness to enhance quality of life and support advance care planning: a pilot randomized controlled trial for adults with advanced cancer and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Mosher, Catherine E.
name: Beck-Coon, Kathleen A.
name: Wu, Wei
name: Lewson, Ashley B.
name: Stutz, Patrick V.
name: Brown, Linda F.
name: Tang, Qing
name: Helft, Paul R.
name: Levoy, Kristin
name: Hickman, Susan E.
name: Johns, Shelley A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 2: Patient outcomes (Table with descriptive statistics and effect sizes for outcomes for patients who completed study surveys)
Stream Productivity by Outermost Termination
Creators: name: Zantema, Hans
name: Raffelsieper, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Streams are infinite sequences over a given data type. A stream specification is a set of equations intended to define a stream. A core property is productivity: unfolding the equations produces the intended stream in the limit. In this paper we show that productivity is equivalent to termination with respect to the balanced outermost strategy of a TRS obtained by adding an additional rule. For specifications not involving branching symbols balancedness is obtained for free, by which tools for proving outermost termination can be used to prove productivity fully automatically.
title: Supporting Campus Activism through Creating DIY-AT in a Social Justice Aligned Makerspace
Creators: name: Higgins, Erin
name: Oliver, Zaria
name: Hamidi, Foad
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: UMBC Human-Centered Computing Program

description: Utilizing digital fabrication methods (e.g., 3D printing) has exciting implications for the design and production of customized assistive technology (AT). However, utilizing these tools currently requires a high level of technical expertise as well as time and money investments. Furthermore, facilitating collaboration between end users and makers needs effective and inclusive approaches with shared language and support for asynchronous, dispersed communication of design requirements. While these Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approaches are shown to support end-user agency and furthering technology democratization, research has to yet explore how they can further align with social justice values and practices. We explored these possibilities by facilitating DIY-AT design with students with disabilities, activist staff members, and community members within a university makerspace. By explicitly encouraging participants to consider social justice issues important to them as they engaged in DIY-AT design, we studied the considerations and supports needed for facilitating flexible co-design activities and broader conversations about accessibility barriers at the university. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, we offer lessons learned about the potential of co-designing DIY-ATs as a way to investigate questions of social justice, inclusion, and access in academic contexts. We show how these created DIY-ATs can be leveraged by students and staff as tangible artifacts to encourage more funding and support from university administration for accessibility initiatives.
Oliver Arnhold, Entjudung – Kirche im Abgrund. Die Thüringer Kirchenbewegung Deutsche Christen 1928-1939 und das „Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben“ 1939-1945
Creators: name: Scherzberg, Lucia
Publisher: name: theologie.geschichte
Year: 2012

description: theologie.geschichte, Bd. 7 (2012)
Validazione dell'accuratezza di diagnostica di una rete neurale artificiale nella predizione della fibrosi epatica da epatite HCV stadiata con biopsia epatica ecoguidata
Creators: name: Donati, Gabriele <1970>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2007
Subjects: MED/09 Medicina interna

description: Nelle epatopatie croniche l’estensione della fibrosi è il principale determinante della prognosi. Sebbene la biopsia epatica rimanga il gold standard ai fini di una stadiazione, il crescente interesse nei confronti di metodi diagnostici non invasivi di fibrosi ha portato allo sviluppo di diversi modelli predittivi basati su parametri clinicolaboratoristici quali Fibrotest, indice APRI, indice Forns. Gli scopi dello studio sono: di stabilire l’accuratezza di un’analisi con rete neurale artificiale (ANN), tecnica di cui è stata dimostrata l’efficacia predittiva in situazioni biologiche complesse nell’identificare lo stadio di fibrosi, di confrontarne i risultati con quelli ottenuti dal calcolo degli indici APRI e Forns sullo stesso gruppo di pazienti e infine di validarne l’efficacia diagnostica in gruppi esterni.
Designing the Topology of Graph Neural Networks: A Novel Feature Fusion Perspective
Creators: name: Wei, Lanning
name: Zhao, Huan
name: He, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown superior performance on diverse real-world applications. To improve the model capacity, besides designing aggregation operations, GNN topology design is also very important. In general, there are two mainstream GNN topology design manners. The first one is to stack aggregation operations to obtain the higher-level features but easily got performance drop as the network goes deeper. Secondly, the multiple aggregation operations are utilized in each layer which provides adequate and independent feature extraction stage on local neighbors while are costly to obtain the higher-level information. To enjoy the benefits while alleviating the corresponding deficiencies of these two manners, we learn to design the topology of GNNs in a novel feature fusion perspective which is dubbed F$^2$GNN. To be specific, we provide a feature fusion perspective in designing GNN topology and propose a novel framework to unify the existing topology designs with feature selection and fusion strategies. Then we develop a neural architecture search method on top of the unified framework which contains a set of selection and fusion operations in the search space and an improved differentiable search algorithm. The performance gains on eight real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of F$^2$GNN. We further conduct experiments to show that F$^2$GNN can improve the model capacity while alleviating the deficiencies of existing GNN topology design manners, especially alleviating the over-smoothing problem, by utilizing different levels of features adaptively.
Additional file 3 of Mindfulness to enhance quality of life and support advance care planning: a pilot randomized controlled trial for adults with advanced cancer and their family caregivers
Creators: name: Mosher, Catherine E.
name: Beck-Coon, Kathleen A.
name: Wu, Wei
name: Lewson, Ashley B.
name: Stutz, Patrick V.
name: Brown, Linda F.
name: Tang, Qing
name: Helft, Paul R.
name: Levoy, Kristin
name: Hickman, Susan E.
name: Johns, Shelley A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 3: Caregiver outcomes (Table with descriptive statistics and effect sizes for outcomes for caregivers who completed study surveys)
Dynamics of quantum-classical hybrid system: effect of matter-wave pressure
Creators: name: Shen, J.
name: Huang, X. L.
name: Yi, X. X.
name: Wu, Chunfeng
name: Oh, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiation pressure affects the kinetics of a system exposed to the radiation and it constitutes the basis of laser cooling. In this paper, we study {\it matter-wave pressure} through examining the dynamics of a quantum-classical hybrid system. The quantum and classical subsystem have no explicit coupling to each other, but affect mutually via a changing boundary condition. Two systems, i.e., an atom and a Bose-Einstein condensate(BEC), are considered as the quantum subsystems, while an oscillating wall is taken as the classical subsystem. We show that the classical subsystem would experience a force proportional to $Q^{-3}$ from the quantum atom, whereas it acquires an additional force proportional to $Q^{-2}$ from the BEC due to the atom-atom interaction in the BEC. These forces can be understood as the {\it matter-wave pressure}.
description: 7 pages, 6 figues
title: Delivery of Tempol from Polyurethane Nanocapsules to Address Oxidative Stress Post-Injury
Creators: name: Ale, Temitope
name: Ale, Tolulope
name: Baker, Kimberly J.
name: Zuniga, Kameel M.
name: Hutcheson, Jack
name: Lavik, Erin
Publisher: name: ACS
Year: 2025

description: Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) result in significant morbidity and mortality due to the cascade of secondary injuries involving oxidative stress and neuroinflammation. The development of effective therapeutic strategies to mitigate these effects is critical. This study explores the fabrication and characterization of polyurethane nanocapsules for the sustained delivery of Tempol, a potent antioxidant. The nanocapsules were designed to extend the release of Tempol over a 30-day period, addressing the prolonged oxidative stress observed post-TBI. Tempol-loaded polyurethane nanocapsules were synthesized using interfacial polymerization and nanoemulsion techniques. Two generations of nanocapsules were produced, differing in Tempol loading and PEGylation levels. The first generation, with lower Tempol loading, exhibited an average size of 159.8 � 12.61 nm and a Z-average diameter of 771.9 � 87.95 nm. The second generation, with higher Tempol loading, showed an average size of 141.4 � 6.13 nm and a Z-average diameter of 560.7 � 171.1 nm. The zeta potentials were ?18.9 � 5.02 mV and ?11.9 � 3.54 mV for the first and second generations, respectively. Both generations demonstrated the presence of urethane linkages, confirmed by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Loading studies revealed Tempol concentrations of 61.94 � 3.04 ?g/mg for the first generation and 77.61 � 3.04 ?g/mg for the second generation nanocapsules. Release profiles indicated an initial burst followed by a sustained, nearly linear release over 30 days. The higher PEGylation in the second generation nanocapsules is advantageous for intravenous administration, potentially enhancing their therapeutic efficacy in TBI treatment. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using polyurethane nanocapsules for the prolonged delivery of Tempol, offering a promising approach to manage oxidative stress and improve outcomes in TBI patients. Future work will include testing these nanocapsules in vivo to determine their potential at modulating recovery from TBI.
Additional file 1 of Empowering sustainable hotels: a guest-centric optimization for vehicle-to-building integration
Creators: name: Valett, Lynne
name: Bollenbach, Jessica
name: Keller, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary material: 1. Model Parameters: General Information. 2. Model Input: Objective Function. 3. Model Parameters: Non-controllable Appliances. 4. Model Parameters: Controllable Appliances. 5. Model Parameters: Thermal Appliances. 6. Model Parameters: Storage. 7. Model Parameters: Generation. 8. Model Overview. 9. Nomenclature. 10. Mathematical Formulation.
Dark Matter in B-L Extended MSSM Models
Creators: name: Khalil, S.
name: Okada, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the dark matter problem in the context of supersymmetric U(1)_{B-L} model. In this model, the lightest neutalino can be the B-L gaugino widetilde {Z}_{B-L} or the extra Higgsinos widetilde{chi}_{1,2} dominated. We compute the thermal relic abundance of these particles and show that, unlike the LSP in MSSM, they can account for the observed relic abundance with no conflict with other phenomenological constraints. The prospects for their direct detection, if they are part of our galactic halo, are also discussed.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. Published version
title: Carry-on for Consciousness: An Embodied Travel Writer Trainer
Creators: name: Ables, Brandon
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Embedded Computing
subject: Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms
subject: Travel Writing
subject: Human-centered computing
subject: Embodied Interaction
subject: Tangible Computing
subject: Mindfulness|Text-input
subject: Interaction design
subject: Consciousness

description: TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Bordeaux/Talence France, March 4-7, 2025
description: The Carry-on for Consciousness is a hard shell wheeled carry-on luggage bag with embedded electronics to allow for embodied travel writing during the most mundane aspects of a flying vacation. A traveler can wheel the carry-on around the airport and look down at the luggage to see eight motorized faders moving left and right toggling through each letter of the alphabet. The faders? movements are powered by sensors mounted on the glasses, chin, wrist, and ankle of the traveler. As the traveler blinks, chews gum, swings their arm by their belt in a natural motion, or walks and moves their ankle past their opposite ankle the accompanying faders will move. The traveler can type an up to eight letter word as an intentionality or goal statement to help them remain centered at the airport and reflect on their journey once they return from their destination.
Secure gossiping techniques and components
Creators: name: Jesi, Gian Paolo <1975>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2007
Subjects: INF/01 Informatica

description: Gossip protocols have proved to be a viable solution to set-up and manage largescale
P2P services or applications in a fully decentralised scenario.
The gossip or epidemic communication scheme is heavily based on stochastic
behaviors and it is the fundamental idea behind many large-scale P2P protocols.
It provides many remarkable features, such as scalability, robustness to failures,
emergent load balancing capabilities, fast spreading, and redundancy of information.
In some sense, these services or protocols mimic natural system behaviors
in order to achieve their goals.
The key idea of this work is that the remarkable properties of gossip hold
when all the participants follow the rules dictated by the actual protocols. If one
or more malicious nodes join the network and start cheating according to some
strategy, the result can be catastrophic.
In order to study how serious the threat posed by malicious nodes can be
and what can be done to prevent attackers from cheating, we focused on a general
attack model aimed to defeat a key service in gossip overlay networks (the
Peer Sampling Service [JGKvS04]). We also focused on the problem of protecting
against forged information exchanged in gossip services.
We propose a solution technique for each problem; both techniques are general
enough to be applied to distinct service implementations. As gossip protocols,
our solutions are based on stochastic behavior and are fully decentralized.
In addition, each technique’s behaviour is abstracted by a general primitive function
extending the basic gossip scheme; this approach allows the adoptions of our
solutions with minimal changes in different scenarios.
We provide an extensive experimental evaluation to support the effectiveness
of our techniques. Basically, these techniques aim to be building blocks or P2P
architecture guidelines in building more resilient and more secure P2P services.
Dynamical crossover behavior in the relaxation of quenched quantum many-body systems
Creators: name: Makki, Aamir Ahmad
name: Bandyopadhyay, Souvik
name: Maity, Somnath
name: Dutta, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A crossover between different power-law relaxation behaviors of many-body periodically driven integrable systems has come to light in recent years. We demonstrate using integrable quantum systems, that similar kinds of dynamical transitions may also occur in the relaxation of such systems following a sudden quench. Particularly, we observe two distinct power-law relaxation behaviors following a sudden quench in the integrable XY model, depending upon whether the quenched Hamiltonian lies in the commensurate or the incommensurate phase. The relaxation behavior for quenches at and near the boundary line, called the disorder line (DL), separating these phases is also characterized. The relaxation at the DL shows a new scaling exponent previously unexplored. The transitions occur through a crossover from the commensurate/incommensurate scaling behavior to the DL scaling behavior. The crossover time diverges like a power law as the parameters of the final quenched Hamiltonian approach the DL. The transitions are also observed to be robust under weak integrability breaking perturbations but disappear following strongly chaotic quenches.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
Prolegomena to the diffusion of winemaking in antiquity: a study in cultural geography
Creators: name: Winton, Ivor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This is a study of wine in antiquity. An attempt to describe the spatial diffusion of winemaking in ancient times and to acknowledge the principal factors which spurred that diffusion has produced a study which is simple in structure, but wide-ranging in temporal and geographical compass as well as in its topical diversity. Basically, it consists of two sections, corresponding to the dual preoccupation of diffusion and function. Part I traces winemaking's diffusion from its likely beginnings to the end of the Roman Empire. Although casual Palaeolithic fermentation was probably practised, organised winemaking awaited the systematic viticulture which arrived with the Neolithic, From a generally agreed origin in Armenia, winemaking's story is followed through a series of lands: Babylonia and Assyria, Egypt, Anatolia, Persia, the Levant, Greece, Italy, and the Roman Empire in Africa and Europe. The oenological variety of these lands is made apparent. Major patterns of wine trading and their influence or lack of it on winemaking's spread are studied. What emerges from this account is the startling vigour of this diffusion story, indicative of the high esteem in which ancient man held wine. Part II attempts to identify the reasons for such esteem in order to understand the diffusion momentum of winemaking. The utility of wine to the ancients is examined systematically in some detail. The following themes are treated: wine for the body, that is, wine as liquid, wine as food, wine as medicine (and aphrodisiac); wine for recreational drinking--its value to the individual and its role in society; wine for religious observance and man's existential well-being. An endeavour is made to avoid mere cataloguing of examples in favour of assessing wine's role in these various domains. At every turn, the great importance of the beverage in ancient life becomes apparent. A wide range of writing—ancient and modern, primary and interpretative—has been culled for information, including materials drawn from the biological, medical, and social sciences, technology, archaeology and epigraphy, art history, classical literature, linguistics, comparative religion, and Biblical exegesis. Even so, it would be unwise to consider the present examination more than an introduction to a rich and complex theme in the history of Western man.
Table 7 Test statistics speed differences from Waiting and walking with strangers: a socio-psychological pedestrian experiment on joint action in anonymous situations
Creators: name: Konya, Krisztina
name: Sieben, Anna
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemetary material, Table 7
0-$π$ transition in magnetic triplet superconductor Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Brydon, P. M. R.
name: Manske, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine a Josephson junction involving two arbitrary equal-spin-pairing unitary triplet superconductors and a ferromagnetic tunneling barrier. Using perturbation theory, we show how the interaction of the barrier moment with the spin of the tunneling triplet Cooper pairs can reverse the sign of the Josephson charge current. This also results in a Josephson spin current, which contains a phase-independent contribution due to reflection processes at the barrier. We verify our analytic predictions using a non-perturbative Bogoliubov-de Gennes method.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX, version accepted to PRL
Artifacts for the Comparison of DeCov, C2V, and Cod for the ICSE submission #966
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Artifacts for the Comparison of DeCov, C2V, and Cod for the ICSE submission #966 DeCov: Code Coverage Profiler Validation with Debugging Support C2V: Hunting for bugs in code coverage tools via randomized differential testing Cod: Automatic Self-Validation for Code Coverage Profilers Table of Contents Background Install Usage Experiment Data Background We re-run DeCov, C2V, and Cod for Gcov-7 and LLVM-cov-6.0 along with Gcc-7 and LLVM-6.0 over the test programs in the Gcc-7.4.0 testsuites. Install This project uses gcc-7, gdb, llvm-6.0 and lldb. Go check them out if you don't have them locally installed. apt install python3 gcc-7 llvm-6.0 gdb lldb Usage First, download the gcc-7.4.0.tar.xz: wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-7.4.0/gcc-7.4.0.tar.xz  Then, unzip gcc-7.4.0: tar -xvf gcc-7.4.0.tar.xz  Finally, Use the following command for running the experiment for the comparison: python3 main.py -s gcc-7.4.0/gcc/testsuite/  Note that: We recommend to use the parallel option if your computer has multi-cores: python3 main.py --parallel -s gcc-7.4.0/gcc/testsuite/ Data Experimental data are in the Expr folder: C2V/files-DIFFCOV-C2V.txt: the filenames when the coverage statistics is inconsistent for Gcov-7 and LLVM-cov-6.0 C2V/files-SAMECOV-C2V.txt: the filenames when the coverage statistics is consistent for for Gcov-7 and LLVM-cov-6.0 Cod/files-DIFFCOV-gcov-Cod.txt and Cod/files-DIFFOUT-gcov-Cod.txt: the filenames when the coverage statistics and the output of the original program and the equivalent mutant violate the metamorphic relations for Gcov-7 Cod/files-DIFFCOV-lcov-Cod.txt and Cod/files-DIFFOUT-lcov-Cod.txt: the filenames when the coverage statistics and the output of the original program and the equivalent mutant violate the metamorphic relations for LLVM-cov-6.0 Cod/files-SAMECOV-gcov-Cod.txt and Cod/files-SAMECOV-lcov-Cod.txt: the filenames when the coverage statistics of the original and the equivalent mutant consistent with the metamorphic relations for Gcov-7 and LLVM-cov-6.0 DeCov/files-DIFFCOV-gcov-DeCov.txt and DeCov/files-SAMECOV-gcov-DeCov.txt: the filenames when the coverage statistics from Gcov-7 and the hit count from GDB is inconsistent and consistent, respectively DeCov/files-DIFFCOV-lcov-DeCov.txt and DeCov/files-SAMECOV-lcov-DeCov.txt: the filenames when the coverage statistics from LLVM-6.0 and the hit count from LLDB is inconsistent and consistent, respectively
title: Key Governance Practices That Facilitate the Use of Remote Sensing Information for Wildfire Management: A Case Study in Spain
Creators: name: Prados, Ana
name: Allen, Mackenzie
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: capacity building
subject: governance
subject: Spain
subject: wildfire
subject: risk
subject: remote sensing
subject: translational science

description: We present results from a comprehensive analysis on the use of Earth Observations (EO) in Spain for wildfire risk management. Our findings are based on interviews with scientists, firefighters, forest engineers, and other professionals from government and private sector organizations in nine autonomous regions in Spain. Our aim is to identify the key governance practices facilitating or hindering the use of remote sensing (RS) information and to provide recommendations for improving their integration into landscape management and fire suppression activities to reduce wildfire risk. We share several case studies detailing activities and institutional arrangements facilitating the translation of satellite science and research into decision-making environments, with a focus on how this knowledge flows among the various stakeholder categories. Among the barriers faced by fire management teams in Spain, we identified institutional silos, lack of technical skills in satellite data processing and analysis, and the evolving acceptance of satellite data by decision makers.
No Significant Correlation between Line-emission and Continuum Substructures in the Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales Program
Creators: name: Jiang, Haochang
name: Zhu, Wei
name: Ormel, Chris W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) ALMA Large Program reported a high number of line emission substructures coincident with dust rings and gaps in the continuum emission, suggesting a causal link between these axisymmetric line emission and dust continuum substructures. To test the robustness of the claimed correlation, we compare the observed spatial overlap fraction in substructures with that from the null hypothesis, in which the overlap is assumed to arise from the random placement of line emission substructures. Our results reveal that there is no statistically significant evidence for a universal correlation between line emission and continuum substructures, questioning the frequently-made link between continuum rings and pressure bumps. The analysis also clearly identifies outliers. The chemical rings and the dust gaps in MWC 480 appear to be strongly correlated (${>}4σ$), and the gaps in the CO isotopologues tend to moderately (${\sim}3σ$) correlate with dust rings.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJL
title: Evaluación de las diferentes técnicas de preparación, realización y los métodos de visualización para la CT-Colonografía.
Creators: name: de Lara Bendahan, Victoria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Colonography CT
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Realizar una revisión bibliográfica del protocolo de realización,
técnicas de preparación y métodos de visualización de la CT-Colonografía (CTC),
así como en base a nuestra experiencia,
para que sea llevada a cabo en condiciones...
On the analytic continuation of the critical line
Creators: name: Cea, Paolo
name: Cosmai, Leonardo
name: D'Elia, Massimo
name: Manneschi, Chiara
name: Papa, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a numerical study of the systematic effects involved in the determination of the critical line at real baryon chemical potential by analytic continuation from results obtained at imaginary chemical potentials. We present results obtained in a theory free of the sign problem, three-color QCD with finite isospin chemical potential, and comment on general features which could be relevant also to the continuation of the critical line in real QCD at finite baryon density.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, Contribution to The XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Beijing, July 25-31, 2009
Table 5 All questionnaire items with mean values from Waiting and walking with strangers: a socio-psychological pedestrian experiment on joint action in anonymous situations
Creators: name: Konya, Krisztina
name: Sieben, Anna
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplementary material, Table 5
title: Malformaciones vasculares cerebrales: las claves diagnósticas que el radiólogo debe conocer
Creators: name: Mendiola Arza, Josu
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
-Detallar las claves que ayudarán al radiólogo a realizar un diagnóstico preciso de cada una de las malformaciones vasculares cerebrales (MVC) mediante el empleo de las diferentes herramientas diagnósticas (TC,
RM,
angiografía). -Contribuir por...
Cell crawling on a compliant substrate: a biphasic relation with linear friction
Creators: name: Chelly, H.
name: Jahangiri, A.
name: Mireux, M.
name: Étienne, J.
name: Dysthe, D. K.
name: Verdier, C.
name: Recho, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A living cell actively generates traction forces on its environment with its actin cytoskeleton. These forces deform the cell elastic substrate which, in turn, affects the traction forces exerted by the cell and can consequently modify the cell dynamics. By considering a cell constrained to move along a one-dimensional thin track, we take advantage of the problem geometry to explicitly derive the effective law that describes the non-local frictional contact between the cell and the deformable substrate. We then couple such a law with one of the simplest model of the active flow within the cell cytoskeleton. This offers a paradigm that does not invoke any local non-linear friction law to explain that the relation between the cell steady state velocity and the substrate elasticity is non linear as experimentally observed. Additionally, we present an experimental platform to test our theoretical predictions. While our efforts are still not conclusive in this respect as more cell types need to be investigated, our analysis of the coupling between the substrate displacement and the actin flow leads to friction coefficient estimates that are in-line with some previously reported results.
title: Global linearization without hyperbolicity
Creators: name: Kvalheim, Matthew D.
name: Sontag, Eduardo D.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mathematics - Dynamical Systems
subject: Computer Science - Systems and Control
subject: Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control

description: We give a proof of an extension of the Hartman-Grobman theorem to nonhyperbolic but asymptotically stable equilibria of vector fields. Moreover, the linearizing topological conjugacy is (i) defined on the entire basin of attraction if the vector field is complete, and (ii) a $C^{k\geq 1}$ diffeomorphism on the complement of the equilibrium if the vector field is $C^k$ and the underlying space is not $5$-dimensional. We also show that the $C^k$ statement in the $5$-dimensional case is equivalent to the $4$-dimensional smooth Poincar\'{e} conjecture.
Late Time Decay of the False Vacuum, Measurement, and Quantum Cosmology
Creators: name: Krauss, Lawrence M.
name: Dent, James
name: Starkman, Glenn D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent suggestion that late time quantum dynamics may be important for resolving cosmological issues associated with our observed universe requires a consideration of several subtle issues associated with quantum cosmology, as we describe here. The resolution of these issues will be important if we are to be able to properly ascribe probability measures associated with eternal inflation, and a string landscape.
description: GRF 2008 essay, IJMPD, in press