cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Continuous ErrP detections during multimodal human-robot interaction
Creators: name: Kim, Su Kyoung
name: Maurus, Michael
name: Trampler, Mathias
name: Tabie, Marc
name: Kirchner, Elsa Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human-in-the-loop approaches are of great importance for robot applications. In the presented study, we implemented a multimodal human-robot interaction (HRI) scenario, in which a simulated robot communicates with its human partner through speech and gestures. The robot announces its intention verbally and selects the appropriate action using pointing gestures. The human partner, in turn, evaluates whether the robot's verbal announcement (intention) matches the action (pointing gesture) chosen by the robot. For cases where the verbal announcement of the robot does not match the corresponding action choice of the robot, we expect error-related potentials (ErrPs) in the human electroencephalogram (EEG). These intrinsic evaluations of robot actions by humans, evident in the EEG, were recorded in real time, continuously segmented online and classified asynchronously. For feature selection, we propose an approach that allows the combinations of forward and backward sliding windows to train a classifier. We achieved an average classification performance of 91% across 9 subjects. As expected, we also observed a relatively high variability between the subjects. In the future, the proposed feature selection approach will be extended to allow for customization of feature selection. To this end, the best combinations of forward and backward sliding windows will be automatically selected to account for inter-subject variability in classification performance. In addition, we plan to use the intrinsic human error evaluation evident in the error case by the ErrP in interactive reinforcement learning to improve multimodal human-robot interaction.
A suggested search for doubly charmed baryons of $J^P=3/2^+$ via their electromagnetic transitions
Creators: name: Cui, Er-Liang
name: Chen, Hua-Xing
name: Chen, Wei
name: Liu, Xiang
name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the method of light-cone sum rules to study the electromagnetic transition of the $Ξ^{*++}_{cc}$ into $Ξ^{++}_{cc}γ$, whose decay width is estimated to be $13.7~{^{+17.7}_{-~7.9}}$ keV. This value is large enough for the $Ξ^{*++}_{cc}$ to be observed in the $Ξ^{++}_{cc}γ$ channel, and we propose to continually search for it in future LHCb and BelleII experiments.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, accepted by PRD
Generalizability Analysis of Graph-based Trajectory Predictor with Vectorized Representation
Creators: name: Lu, Juanwu
name: Zhan, Wei
name: Tomizuka, Masayoshi
name: Hu, Yeping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trajectory prediction is one of the essential tasks for autonomous vehicles. Recent progress in machine learning gave birth to a series of advanced trajectory prediction algorithms. Lately, the effectiveness of using graph neural networks (GNNs) with vectorized representations for trajectory prediction has been demonstrated by many researchers. Nonetheless, these algorithms either pay little attention to models' generalizability across various scenarios or simply assume training and test data follow similar statistics. In fact, when test scenarios are unseen or Out-of-Distribution (OOD), the resulting train-test domain shift usually leads to significant degradation in prediction performance, which will impact downstream modules and eventually lead to severe accidents. Therefore, it is of great importance to thoroughly investigate the prediction models in terms of their generalizability, which can not only help identify their weaknesses but also provide insights on how to improve these models. This paper proposes a generalizability analysis framework using feature attribution methods to help interpret black-box models. For the case study, we provide an in-depth generalizability analysis of one of the state-of-the-art graph-based trajectory predictors that utilize vectorized representation. Results show significant performance degradation due to domain shift, and feature attribution provides insights to identify potential causes of these problems. Finally, we conclude the common prediction challenges and how weighting biases induced by the training process can deteriorate the accuracy.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 12: The Politics of Decarbonization
Creators: name: Katz-Rosene, Ryan
name: Andrée, Peter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Proposing a new metaphor for decarbonization, Dr. Steven Bernstein (Toronto) and Dr. Matthew Hoffmann (Toronto) discuss how we might challenge carbon lock-in from local action to global governance. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Figure S1. Determination of NlVgR transcript levels (in fold) after knockdown of NlRpns or NlRacs by qRT-PCR. from Proteolytic activity of the proteasome is required for female insect reproduction
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
name: Yang, Rui-Rui
name: Peng, Lu-Yao
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Yao, Yue-Lin
name: Bao, Yan-Yuan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021

description: Non-ATPase regulatory subunits (Rpns) are components of the 26S proteasome involved in polyubiquitinated substrate recognition and deubiquitination in eukaryotes. Here, we identified 15 homologues sequences of Rpn and associated genes by searching the genome and transcriptome databases of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, a hemipteran rice pest. Temporospatial analysis showed that NlRpn genes were significantly highly expressed in eggs and ovaries but were less-highly expressed in males. RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated depletion of NlRpn genes decreased the proteolytic activity of proteasome and impeded the transcription of lipase and vitellogenin genes in the fat bodies and ovaries in adult females, and reduced the triglyceride content in the ovaries. Decrease of the proteolytic activity of the proteasome via knockdown of NlRpns also inhibited the transcription of halloween genes, including NlCYP307A2, NlCYP306A2 and NlCYP314A1, in the 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) biosynthetic pathway in the ovaries, reduced 20E production in adult females, and impaired ovarian development and oocyte maturation, resulting in reduced fecundity. These novel findings indicate that the proteolytic activity of the proteasome is required for female reproductive processes in N. lugens, thus furthering our understanding of the reproductive and developmental strategies in insects.
Machine Learning Prediction of Human Activity Recognition
Creators: name: Yilam, Getinet
name: Kumar, Dileep
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2019

description: Wearable computation is getting integrated into our daily life. It has got wide acceptance due to their small sizes, and reasonable computation power. These wearable devices loaded with sensors are good candidates to monitor user’s daily behavior (walking, jogging, sleeping…). Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has the potential to benefit the development of assistive technologies in order to support care of the chronically ill and people with special needs. Activity recognition can be used to provide information about patients’ routines to support the development of e-health systems, like Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). Despite human activity recognition being an active field for more than a decade; the development of context-aware systems, there are still key aspects that, if addressed, would constitute a significant turn in the way people interact with mobile devices. The study discusses the principal issues and challenges of HAR systems. A general and data acquisition architecture for HAR systems are presented. HAR systems made use of machine learning techniques and tools, which are helpful to build patterns to describe, analyze, and predict data. Since a human activity recognition system should return a label such as walking, sitting, running, etc., most HAR systems work in a supervised fashion. The objective of proposed study is applying multiple machine learning algorithms on the HAR dataset from Groupware. Out of the 5 machine learning algorithms that random forest yields the highest accuracy in predicting activities correctly, results showed the accuracy of 100%. All the models were also ensembled to improve overall accuracy.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 5 No 1 (2018): EJSSD
Additional file 4 of Impact of a “vegetables first” approach to complementary feeding on later intake and liking of vegetables in infants: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Rapson, Jeanette P.
name: von Hurst, Pamela R.
name: Hetherington, Marion M.
name: Conlon, Cathryn A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*.
The Securitization of Migration in Lebanon: Lebanese Securitization of Syrian Refugees since 2011
Creators: name: Saraya, Reem
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: This paper seeks to examine the securitization of Syrian refugees in Lebanon by using securitization theory with a sociological approach, to determine the extent and success of securitization of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and mass migration of Syrians in 2011. By analyzing Lebanese history and context, and the securitizing speech acts and policy performed by government and media, the extent, success, and impact of securitization of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is demonstrated. The lack of comprehensive migration policy by the Lebanese government in combination with the greater political objectives of Lebanese politicians, has created an environment of highly politicized and securitized rhetoric regarding Syrian refugees. The collective history and current day context of life in Lebanon has made the Lebanese public highly receptive to such narratives, ultimately facilitating the continuance of such discourse throughout Lebanese social and political arenas. This research finds that the securitization of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has been quite successful due to the overlap and intersection of several sociocultural and historical factors, along with the dynamic between different actors in the securitization process. This paper concludes that despite the framing of Syrian refugees as social and national security threats, the securitization of this population is largely performed by political elite for greater political purposes, rather than legitimate concern for security. The Government of Lebanon has effectively used Syrian refugees as a scapegoat for social malcontent surrounding longstanding governance and development issues, and has leveraged its role as a host to secure international funding.
Collisional interaction limits between dark matters and baryons in `cooling flow' clusters
Creators: name: Hu, Jian
name: Lou, Yu-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Presuming weak collisional interactions to exchange the kinetic energy between dark matter and baryonic matter in a galaxy cluster, we re-examine the effectiveness of this process in several `cooling flow' galaxy clusters using available X-ray observations and infer an upper limit on the heavy dark matter particle (DMP)$-$proton cross section $σ_{\rm xp}$. With a relative collisional velocity $V-$dependent power-law form of $σ_{\rm xp}=σ_0(V/10^3 {\rm km s^{-1}})^a$ where $a\leq 0$, our inferred upper limit is $σ_0/m_{\rm x}\lsim 2\times10^{-25} {\rm cm}^2 {\rm GeV}^{-1}$ with $m_{\rm x}$ being the DMP mass. Based on a simple stability analysis of the thermal energy balance equation, we argue that the mechanism of DMP$-$baryon collisional interactions is unlikely to be a stable nongravitational heating source of intracluster medium (ICM) in inner core regions of `cooling flow' galaxy clusters.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS accepted
Additional file 1 of Acute and 28-days subacute toxicity studies of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor
Creators: name: Beladiya, Jayesh V.
name: Mehta, Anita A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Table 1. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on mortality. Table 2.Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on locomotion. Table 3. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on muscle co-ordination. Table 4. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on catatonia. Table 5. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on convulsive episode. Table 6. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on visual place response. Table 7. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on writhing response. Table 8. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on tail pinch response. Table 9. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on piloerection. Table 10. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on lacrimation. Table 11. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on salivation. Table 12. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on sniffing. Table 13. Effect of single oral dose treatment of Gαq-RGS2 signaling inhibitor on defecation.
A Theory of Generative Models and Robustness via Regularization
Creators: name: Husain, Hisham
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: Regularization in Machine Learning (ML) is a central technique with great practical significance, whose motivations depend on the learning setting. For example, the popular entropic regularization scheme for Reinforcement Learning (RL) is used to aid in disambiguating optimal policies. On the other hand, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) employ regularization for computational purposes, avoiding instability in training. Despite the widespread use and multi-faceted motivation of regularization, extensive evidence has suggested that regularization is a crucial method towards empirical success. Therefore, it is natural that a formal study of regularization would present results that aid in closing the gap between theory and practice. In this thesis, we study a range of different learning problems from the unifying perspective of regularization and uncover various results that contribute to our understanding of machine learning methods. First, we focus on generative modelling and discover a primal-dual relationship between two pioneering methods in the literature of generative modelling, namely Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Autoencoders. The discovery not only explicates a bridge between existing results but proves to be helpful in algorithmic guidance. The study on generative models is then extended to build a boosting-based model that can generate samples compliant with local differential privacy. We then focus on machine learning robustness, where one is interested in understanding the susceptibility of a model in the face of adversarial threats. We show that regularization is intimately connected to distributional robustness, which subsumes existing results and extends them to a great deal of generality, including applications to the unsupervised learning setting. We continue this narrative to the RL setting and similarly expose the robustifying benefits of using regularization, which sheds light on the widely-used entropy-regularized schemes, amongst others. In summary, this thesis's study of regularization contributes substantially within the literature of generative modelling, machine learning robustness, and RL while touching upon additional domains such as privacy and boosting.
Cascades of high-energy SM particles in the primordial thermal plasma
Creators: name: Mukaida, Kyohei
name: Yamada, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-energy standard model (SM) particles in the early Universe are generated by the decay of heavy long-lived particles. The subsequent thermalization occurs through the splitting of high-energy primary particles into lower-energy daughters in primordial thermal plasma. The principal example of such processes is reheating after inflation caused by the decay of inflatons into SM particles. Understanding of the thermalization at reheating is extremely important as it reveals the origin of the hot Universe, and could open up new mechanisms for generating dark matter and/or baryon asymmetry. In this paper, we investigate the thermalization of high-energy SM particles in thermal plasma, taking into account the Landau--Pomeranchuk--Migdal effect in the leading-log approximation. The whole SM particle content and all the relevant SM interactions are included for the first time, i.e., the full gauge interactions of SU(3)$_c\times$SU(2)$_L\times$U(1)$_Y$ and the top Yukawa interaction. The distribution function of each SM species is computed both numerically and analytically. We have analytically obtained the distribution function of each SM species after the first few splittings. Furthermore, we demonstrate that, after a sufficient number of splittings, the particle distributions are asymptotic to certain values at low momentum, independent of the high-energy particles injected by inflaton decay. The results are useful to calculate the DM abundance produced during the pre-thermal phase. An example is provided to illustrate a way to calculate the DM abundance from the scattering between the thermal plasma and high-energy particles in the cascade.
description: 41 pages, 7 figures; v2: minor comments added, published version; v3: numerical errors corrected (see the main text for detail)
All-Norms and All-Lp-Norms Approximation Algorithms
Creators: name: Golovin, Daniel
name: Gupta, Anupam
name: Kumar, Amit
name: Tangwongsan, Kanat
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many optimization problems, a solution can be viewed as ascribing a “cost” to each client and the goal is to optimize some aggregation of the per-client costs. We often optimize some Lp-norm (or some other symmetric convex function or norm) of the vector of costs—though different applications may suggest different norms to use. Ideally, we could obtain a solution that optimized several norms simultaneously.
Synthesis and Luminescent Characteristics of (Ca4-x-yzBaySrz)(PO4)2O:xEu2+ Phosphors as a Potential Application for White-Light Emitting Diode
Creators: name: G. Deressa, G.
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2019

description: A novel tunable red- to yellow- emitting phosphor,(Ca4-x-y-zBaySrz)(PO4)2O:xEu2+is reported that displays a broad emission from 500 to 800nm, and its emission can be adjusted from red to yellow by changing Ba2+ and Sr2+ doping concentration. X-ray powder diffraction analysis confirmed the phase formation. Excitation and emissionspectra, and concentration dependence of emission intensity of the phosphor were investigated. The results showed that with increasing Ba2+/Sr2+ concentration, the emission peak wavelength blue-shift from 594 to 567 nm, and the color can be tuned from red to yellow. When single- phase (Ca2.95Ba0.5Sr0.5)(PO4)2O:0.05Eu2+phosphor is pumped by a blue InGaN light-emitting diode we obtain white light with color rending index between 80.0 and 88.0 and color temperatures between 3500 and 5450 K, suggesting that this material is competitive as a color conversion material for solid state lighting.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 5 No 1 (2018): EJSSD
Studying the interaction between microquasar jets and their environments
Creators: name: Perucho, M.
name: Bosch-Ramon, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In high-mass microquasars (HMMQ), strong interactions between jets and stellar winds at binary system scales could occur. In order to explore this possibility, we have performed numerical 2-dimensional simulations of jets crossing the dense stellar material to study how the jet will be affected by these interactions. We find that the jet head generates strong shocks in the wind. These shocks reduce the jet advance speed, and compress and heat up jet and wind material. In addition, strong recollimation shocks can occur where pressure balance between the jet side and the surrounding medium is reached. All this, altogether with jet bending, could lead to the destruction of jets with power $<10^{36} \rm{erg/s}$. The conditions around the outflow shocks would be convenient for accelerating particles up to $\sim $TeV energies. These accelerated particles could emit via synchrotron and inverse Compton (IC) scattering if they were leptons, and via hadronic processes in case they were hadrons.
description: 4 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows, held in Dublin, Ireland, September 24-28, 2007
The Penrose Inequality as a Constraint on the Low Energy Limit of Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Folkestad, Åsmund
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct initial data violating the Anti-deSitter Penrose inequality using scalars with various potentials. Since a version of the Penrose inequality can be derived from AdS/CFT, we argue that it is a new swampland condition, ruling out holographic UV completion for theories that violate it. We produce exclusion plots on scalar couplings violating the inequality, and we find no violations for potentials from string theory. In the special case where the dominant energy condition holds, we use GR techniques to prove the AdS Penrose inequality in all dimensions, assuming spherical, planar, or hyperbolic symmetry. However, our violations show that this result cannot be generically true with only the null energy condition, and we give an analytic sufficient condition for violation of the Penrose inequality, constraining couplings of scalar potentials. Like the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound, this gives a necessary condition for the stability of AdS.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. v3: published version, added clarifications. v4: added inconsequential missing term in eq. 7, 8. v5: fixed a sign error in the presentation of eq (16), the correct formula was used in numerics - no conclusions changed
Psicolingüística
Creators: name: Marín Díaz, Norma Constanza
name: Rojas Valbuena, Liliana
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2021

description: Objetivos generales: Identificar los temas fundamentales relacionados con las particularidades del aprendizaje de segundas lenguas, los aprendientes y sus implicaciones para la práctica docente. Objetivos específicos: *Introducir el concepto de Lingüística Aplicada (LA) en relación con la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas. *Identificar las similitudes y las diferencias entre los procesos de adquisición de la lengua materna y la lengua extranjera, y sus incidencias en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas. *Tomar conciencia de los procesos de adquisición tanto de la lengua materna como de la lengua meta con miras a organizar la práctica docente.*Reflexionar sobre el desarrollo de la interlengua y de los procesos que la caracterizan. *Comprender los factores individuales de aprendizaje y su incidencia en el desarrollo de estrategias de aprendizaje.
description: En este curso de 96 horas se presentaran cuatro aspectos básicos en relación con la adquisición de segundas lenguas (ASL), siempre ligados a las implicaciones que tienen sobre la práctica docente.
Oromo Indigenous Knowledge: Past experiences, current situation & future prospects for promoting sustainable sociopolitical development in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tufa, Shelema Regasa
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2019

description: This article seeks to vindicate the significance of utilizing overlooked indigenous knowledge of the Oromo to promote socio-political development. This circumstance has consistently been resisted and actively contested by dominant partisan interests. As a consequence, today’s Ethiopia is identified with the practice of conceiving and implementing social, economic and p olitical policies of developed states which has proven to produce failed experiences and false starts. The main cause is that elites and policy experts alienate domestic cultures in its entirety assuming; they couldn’t make meaningful contributions to the way out of sophisticated socio-political predicaments. As per the concern of critical social philosophy, however, theories/policies are constructive when it is founded on, or theorized out of its own traditions, or conceived theories executed according to domestic realities and qualities. Premised by this view, the article seeks to show the significance of exploring, restoring and reproducing thus integrating indigenous knowledge into socio-political program of the state. To this end, I seek to provide the decisive role that Oromo indigenous knowledge may play in promoting sustainable social development and envisioning emancipatory politics. It is, therefore, far from, nor is intended to be, a descriptive account other than to define theoretical problematic in the context of ongoing intellectual and political program in the nation-state.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 5 No 1 (2018): EJSSD
Kooperative Mobilitätskonzepte im Ländlichen Raum
Creators: name: Spitzley, Anne
name: Jahnel, Isabelle
name: Dietrich, Tabea
name: Zanzinger, Julian
name: Burkard, Benjamin
name: Stöffler, Sonja
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Kooperative Mobilitätskonzepte
Ländlicher Raum
Handlungsempfehlungen
Carsharing
Elektromobilität
Ladeinfrastruktur
Autonomes Fahren
Bürgerbeteiligung

description: Aus der Mobilitätswende ergeben sich veränderte Anforderungen der Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft an die Mobilität. Eine wichtige Rolle dabei spielen die Entwicklung und die praktische Erprobung innovativer und integrierter Lösungen für passgenaue Mobilitätskonzepte. Zum Ausbau des Mobilitätsangebots in Baden-Württemberg wurde der Ideenwettbewerb »Kooperative Mobilitätskonzepte im Ländlichen Raum« initiiert. Im Rahmen des Ideenwettbewerbs wurden sechs Pilotprojekte mit neuen Ideen und Konzepten für die Kooperation und Entwicklung tragfähiger Geschäftsmodelle für nachhaltige Mobilitätskonzepte im Ländlichen Raum ausgewählt: Automatisierte Bürgershuttles Künzelsau, Mobilitätskonzept Pfalzgrafenweiler, Bürgerladenetz BW Sigmaringen, Geht´s noch (besser)? – alternativ mobil in Renningen, Elektro-mobiler Bürger im Kreis Calw und Vereins-Shuttle Oftersheim. Im Handlungsleitfaden werden die sechs Pilotprojekte vorgestellt. Dabei wird beschrieben, wie die Mobilitätsangebote aufgebaut wurden, welche Hindernisse überwunden werden mussten und welche Faktoren Einfluss auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit und Nutzungsakzeptanz hatten. Die Pilotprojekte wurden hinsichtlich ihrer sozialen, ökologischen und ökonomischen Einbettung in die jeweilige Region untersucht. Daraus wurden Erfolgsfaktoren für den Aufbau eines Mobilitätsangebots abgeleitet. Diese Erfolgsfaktoren sowie Handlungsempfehlungen für den Aufbau eines Mobilitätsangebots werden im Handlungsleitfaden dargestellt. Dies kann anderen zur Inspiration und Unterstützung für den Aufbau neuer kooperativer Mobilitätsangebote dienen. Abschließend wird das Thema Bürgerbeteiligung beleuchtet und ein Ausblick gegeben.
Assessment of Hepatitis B Virus and Associated Risk Factors Among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at Arsi University Asella Referral and Teaching Hospital, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tumsa, Nigatu
name: Degefu, Tulu
name: Belay, Zerihun
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2019

description: Hepatitis B virus is a public health problem worldwide. Vertical transmission from mother to baby is an important route of transmission for hepatitis B virus infection. Consequently, screening pregnant women and realizing the sero-prevalence of hepatitis B virus during pregnancy is vital to prevent the infection of new born baby from positive mother. The objective of this study was to assess the sero-prevalence of hepatitis B virus among pregnant women and to identify potential risk factors associated with the infection. The study was conducted from January to May, 2016 using data from pregnant women attending the antenatal care unit of Arsi University Asella Referral and Teaching Hospital, Arsi Zone,Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. Blood samples were collected from 454 pregnant women and tested for hepatitis B surface antigen using rapid strip test which is a qualitative solid phase two site sandwich immunoassay. A pre-structured questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic data and to find out possible risk factors. The overall study subjects with hepatitis B surface antigen positive were 44(9.7%). Most 301(66.3%) of study participants live in urban and 442(97.4%) were married. The socio-demographic status of the participants shows that high hepatitis B surface antigen positivity was among the urban 29(65.9%) and those who were house wife. All except the gestational age of 3rd trimester (p<0.05) the participants demographic characteristic had no significant association with Hepatitis B Virus. None of the risk factors had statistically significant association with hepatitis B virus (P>0.05). It can be concluded that high prevalence of hepatitis B virus among pregnant women was found in this study as compared to the previous studies in different regions of Ethiopia. This high prevalence indicates the importance of implementing preventive measures including vaccination to women in the child bearing age as they are at increased risk of acquiring HBV compared to the general population.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 5 No 1 (2018): EJSSD
Size Scaling of Neutral Polymers and Charged Polymers in Nanochannels
Creators: name: Lee, Yu-Lin
name: Hsiao, Pai-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We expand the blob theory for freely-jointed chains and perform molecular dynamics simulations to study the behavior of polymers confined in cylindrical channels. From weak to strong confinement, five scaling regimes, de Gennes, extended de Gennes, transition, backfolding, and Odijk regimes, are distinguished for neutral polymers.The size scalings in each regime are derived as a function of the channel width. The scaling exponents $-1$ and $-1/3$ are obtained for the transition and backfolding regimes, respectively, which result from the reduction of the excluded volume of the segments by restriction of the segment's orientation in the narrowed channels. For charged flexible chains, the de Gennes regime is split into Flory-de Gennes and electro-de Gennes regimes owing to strong Coulomb repulsion in electrostatic blobs. Nonetheless, the extended de Gennes and transition regimes are shrunken. The study of the fluctuations of the chain size shows consistent scaling demarcations for both the neutral and charged chain systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted
Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus among Tuberculosis Patients Visiting Metehara Sugar Factory Hospital, Oromia Regional State:
Creators: name: Mekuria, Bizuayehu
name: Debelo, Daniel Getahun
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2019

description: Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death for HIV-infected patients, and HIV is the most important risk factor for developing active TB. The risk of death from TB is significantly higher in the HIV-infected population. The interaction between TB - HIV co-infected person is bidirectional and synergistic: HIV infection predisposes to the development of active TB, and the course of HIV-related immunodeficiency is worsened by active TB infection. The aim of this five-year retrospective study was to assess the prevalence of TB - HIV co-infections among patients who visited Metehara Sugar Factory Hospital (MSFH) from March 2012 to April 2017. In total 1165 TB patients visited MSFH from March 2012 to April 2017 and of these 1028 (88 %) who had a documented HIV test results were included in the study. Data were collected from medical records of all TB patients who were on antituberculosis treatment during the aforementioned period. About 21 % of them were found HIV-positive. The percentage of TB/HIV co-infection was higher in females than males, single than married individuals, unemployed than employed and active working force than other age groups. The ART coverage of the TB/HIV co-infected patients was 78 % which was lower than WHO target of 100 %. Interventions to prevent HIV transmission among TB patients include counseling for patients and preventive intervention programs that attempt to change high-risk behavior.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 5 No 1 (2018): EJSSD
Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of gamma-ray emission from the direction of supernova iPTF14hls
Creators: name: Yuan, Qiang
name: Liao, Neng-Hui
name: Xin, Yu-Liang
name: Li, Ye
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Hu, Hong-Bo
name: Bi, Xiao-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The remnant of supernova explosion is widely believed to be the acceleration site of high-energy cosmic ray particles. The acceleration timescale is, however, typically very long. Here we report the detection of a variable $γ$-ray source with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, which is positionally and temporally consistent with a peculiar supernova, iPTF14hls. A quasi-stellar object SDSS J092054.04+504251.5, which is probably a blazar according to the infrared data, is found in the error circle of the $γ$-ray source. More data about the $γ$-ray source and SDSS J092054.04+504251.5 are needed to confirm their association. On the other hand, if the association between the $γ$-ray source and the supernova is confirmed, this would be the first time to detect high-energy $γ$-ray emission from a supernova, suggesting very fast particle acceleration by supernova explosions.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in ApJL
Falta de cobertura en pensiones o inexistencia del ISS y sus consecuencias para los trabajadores, empleadores y responsabilidad del gobierno nacional y comparación con el convenio de pensión de vejez de la OIT N° C128
Creators: name: Manrique Villanueva, Paola Vanessa
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Seguridad social
subject: Derecho laboral
subject: Jurisdicción - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Falta de cobertura
subject: Aportes
subject: Pensionales
subject: Convenio 128 OIT

description: La monografía consiste en el estudio de antecedentes históricos de la implementación del Instituto de Seguros Sociales en Colombia, desarrollando lo referido al modelo pensional en cabeza del empleador, las leyes del sistema y la cobertura de dicho Instituto. Así mismo, se hace un análisis de la tensión entre principios de la Seguridad Social, para pasar a desarrollar las diferentes posturas jurisprudenciales de la Corte Suprema de Justicia y la Corte Constitucional acerca del tema, las cuales oscilaron entre la desprotección total de los trabajadores hasta la responsabilidad total y luego compartida entre empleador-estado-trabajador, e igualmente, realizando una crítica a las mismas y tocando lo atinente con la responsabilidad del Estado, y presentando a grandes rasgos lo relacionado con el Convenio 128 de la OIT relacionado con pensiones y cierra con un breve compendio normativo de avances legales en el tema de la omisión de la afiliación a pensiones.
description: The monograph consists of a study of the historical background of the implementation of the Social Security Institute in Colombia, developing what refers to the pension model headed by the employer, the laws of the system and the coverage of said Institute. Likewise, an analysis is made of the tension between the principles of Social Security, to develop the different jurisprudential positions of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court on the subject, which ranged from the total lack of protection of workers to the total responsibility and then shared between employer-state-worker, and also, criticizing them and touching on the responsibility of the State, and presenting in broad strokes what is related to the ILO Convention 128 related to pensions and closes with a brief regulatory compendium of legal developments on the issue of the omission of affiliation to pensions.
Algorithms for solvents of matrix polynomials
Creators: name: J. E.(John E.) Dennis
name: J. F.(Joseph Frederick) Traub
name: R. P. Weber
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computer Science Department
How has The Globe and Mail described missing and murdered Aboriginal women compared to Caucasian women between 2014 and 2018?
Creators: name: Gilbert-Girard, Sabrina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: A high number of Indigenous women in Canada go missing or are murdered every year, in part due to underlying conditions such as homelessness, poverty, and poor education. Despite this reality and national need to take action, the media have been criticized for under representing and misrepresenting such cases. By using keywords to screen 463 out of over a thousand articles published by The Globe and Mail between 2014 and 2018, and subsequently manually coding them using data-driven codes, this major research paper (MRP) aims to compare the reporting (of The Globe and Mail between 2014 and 2018) of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in comparison with such cases involving White women. I can conclude that I have potentially observed a certain negative bias towards Aboriginal women, but that there does not seem to be any significant or clearly defined discrimination by The Globe and Mail during the aforementioned time frame.
Additional file 1 of Magma reservoir beneath Azumayama Volcano, NE Japan, as inferred from a three-dimensional electrical resistivity model explored by means of magnetotelluric method
Creators: name: Ichiki, Masahiro
name: Kaida, Toshiki
name: Nakayama, Takashi
name: Miura, Satoshi
name: Yamamoto, Mare
name: Morita, Yuichi
name: Uyeshima, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics

description: Additional file 1. Discussion of Peacock et al. (2012)’s and Heise et al. (2007, 2008)’s phase tensor residual ellipse natures in a large phase tensor ellipticity case.
Meta Pattern Concern Score: A Novel Evaluation Measure with Human Values for Multi-classifiers
Creators: name: Wang, Yanyun
name: Du, Dehui
name: Liu, Yuanhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.0

description: While advanced classifiers have been increasingly used in real-world safety-critical applications, how to properly evaluate the black-box models given specific human values remains a concern in the community. Such human values include punishing error cases of different severity in varying degrees and making compromises in general performance to reduce specific dangerous cases. In this paper, we propose a novel evaluation measure named Meta Pattern Concern Score based on the abstract representation of probabilistic prediction and the adjustable threshold for the concession in prediction confidence, to introduce the human values into multi-classifiers. Technically, we learn from the advantages and disadvantages of two kinds of common metrics, namely the confusion matrix-based evaluation measures and the loss values, so that our measure is effective as them even under general tasks, and the cross entropy loss becomes a special case of our measure in the limit. Besides, our measure can also be used to refine the model training by dynamically adjusting the learning rate. The experiments on four kinds of models and six datasets confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of our measure. And a case study shows it can not only find the ideal model reducing 0.53% of dangerous cases by only sacrificing 0.04% of training accuracy, but also refine the learning rate to train a new model averagely outperforming the original one with a 1.62% lower value of itself and 0.36% fewer number of dangerous cases.
description: Published at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC); 9 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 2 of Magma reservoir beneath Azumayama Volcano, NE Japan, as inferred from a three-dimensional electrical resistivity model explored by means of magnetotelluric method
Creators: name: Ichiki, Masahiro
name: Kaida, Toshiki
name: Nakayama, Takashi
name: Miura, Satoshi
name: Yamamoto, Mare
name: Morita, Yuichi
name: Uyeshima, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics

description: Additional file 2. Comparisons between the observed and calculated MT, GDS responses. Figure S2.1: Map of site number for Figure S2.2. Figure S2.2: MT apparent resistivity and phase responses of each site. Top left number is site number as is shown in Figure S2.1. Observed responses of each component are represented by each character in the legend. Solid curves represent calculated responses with the final resistivity model (Figs. 5 to 7). Figure S2.3: Observed (left column), calculated (center column), and difference between the observed and calculated (right column) in-phase Parkinson vectors (Equation 11) at each site and various period or frequency. The calculated vector is obtained with the final resistivity model (Figs. 5 to 7). Figure S2.4: Observed (left column), calculated (center column), and difference between the observed and calculated (right column) quadrature-phase Parkinson vectors (Equation 12) at each site and various period or frequency. The calculated vector is obtained with the final resistivity model (Figs. 5 to 7).
Incorporación en la legislación nacional de las disposiciones sobre educación ambiental presentes en los tratados internacionales ratificados por Colombia
Creators: name: Mantilla Piñeros, Sandra Johanna
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Derecho ambiental
subject: Derecho internacional
subject: Cultura de paz
subject: Educación ambiental
subject: Sensibilización del público
subject: Derecho internacional ambiental
subject: Normatividad nacional en educación ambiental
subject: Instrumentos internacionales ratificados por Colombia

description: La educación ambiental se ha considerado un tema de relevancia para el alcance de los objetivos propuestos en los diferentes escenarios de reducción de la contaminación o de los impactos generados por los seres humanos. En los diferentes instrumentos resultado de las conferencias de la ONU, se hace referencia en su mayoría de manera enunciativa o a modo de principios generales del derecho, mientras que en las conferencias organizadas por la UNESCO y el PNUMA se produjo el mayor desarrollo conceptual, metodológico y de intercambio de experiencias en educación ambiental. Tanto en los instrumentos internacionales como en la normatividad interna en Colombia, existen elementos comunes constitutivos de la educación ambiental: sensibilización de la ciudadanía, acceso a la información, y el desarrollo de procesos de investigación. En Colombia, el desarrollo de la educación ambiental fue fuertemente influenciado por el escenario internacional, la primera referencia normativa sobre el rol de la educación para la protección ambiental, aparece en el Decreto Ley 2811 de 1974 que fue sancionado luego de la participación del país en la CNUMH. A partir de allí, la educación ambiental ha sido desarrollada en un total de quince instrumentos internos tanto de política pública como de tipo normativo.
description: Environmental education has been considered a topic of relevance for the achievement of the objectives proposed in the different scenarios of reduction of pollution or of the impacts generated by human beings. In the different instruments resulting from the UN conferences, reference is made mostly in an illustrative manner or as general principles of law, while the conferences organized by UNESCO and PNUMA produced the greatest conceptual, methodological and exchange of experiences in environmental education. Both in international instruments and in internal regulations in Colombia, there are common elements constituting environmental education: citizen awareness, access to information, and the development of research processes. In Colombia, the development of environmental education was strongly influenced by the international scenario. The first normative reference on the role of education for environmental protection appears in Decree Law 2811 of 1974, which was sanctioned after the country's participation in CNUMH. From there, environmental education has been developed in a total of fifteen internal instruments, both public policy and normative.