cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detection of biological signals from a live mammalian muscle using a diamond quantum sensor
Creators: name: Webb, James Luke
name: Troise, Luca
name: Hansen, Nikolaj Winther
name: Olsson, Christoffer
name: Wojciechowski, Adam
name: Achard, Jocelyn
name: Brinza, Ovidiu
name: Staacke, Robert
name: Kieschnick, Michael
name: Meijer, Jan
name: Thielscher, Axel
name: Perrier, Jean-Francois
name: Berg-Sorensen, Kirstine
name: Huck, Alexander
name: Andersen, Ulrik Lund
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability to perform noninvasive, non-contact measurements of electric signals produced by action potentials is essential in biomedicine. A key method to do this is to remotely sense signals by the magnetic field they induce. Existing methods for magnetic field sensing of mammalian tissue, used in techniques such as magnetoencephalography of the brain, require cryogenically cooled superconducting detectors. These have many disadvantages in terms of high cost, flexibility and limited portability as well as poor spatial and temporal resolution. In this work we demonstrate an alternative technique for detecting magnetic fields generated by the current from action potentials in living tissue using nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond. With 50pT/$\sqrt{Hz}$ sensitivity, we show the first measurements of sensing from mammalian tissue with a diamond sensor using mouse muscle optogenetically activated with blue light. We show these measurements can be performed in an ordinary, unshielded lab environment and that the signal can be easily recovered by digital signal processing techniques.
PlatynereisEMnucleiSegmentationBoundaryModel
Creators: name: Pape, Constantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
unet
nuclei
instance-segmentation
electron-microscopy
platynereis
affinity-prediction

description: Download RDF Package
U-Net for nuclei segmentation in platynereis This model segments nuclei in electron microscopy images of Platynereis dumerilii. Training The network was trained on data from Whole-body integration of gene expression and single-cell morphology. The training script can be found here. This folder also includes example usages of this model. Training Data Imaging modality: electron microscopy Dimensionality: 3D Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01249-6 Recommended Validation For validation, please refer to https://github.com/constantinpape/torch-em/tree/main/experiments/platynereis. This model can also be used in ilastik, deepimageJ or other software that supports the bioimage.io model format. Training Schedule n_epochs: 31 batches_per_epoch: 1000 batch_size: 1 loss_function: DiceLoss optimizer: Adam learning_rate: 0.0001 n_train_images: None n_validation_images: None Contact For questions or issues with this models, please reach out by: opening a topic with tags bioimageio and platynereisemnucleisegmentationboundarymodel on image.sc or creating an issue in https://github.com/constantinpape/torch-em
description: {organelle} segmentation in EM of platynereis. (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
No- and low-alcohol beer and the sponsorship of sport in Australia: An audit of sponsorship partnerships and analysis of marketing tactics
Creators: name: Miller, Mia
name: Wright, Cassandra
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Introduction: Alcohol sponsorship of sport is associated with increased alcohol consumption. Little research to date has examined the sponsorship of sport by no- and low-alcohol (NoLo) beverage brands, despite concern that the marketing of these products might be harmful to young people. This study had dual aims: to identify sporting partnerships between NoLo beers and Australian sport, and examine marketing tactics used in social media advertising to promote these partnerships. Methods: Our sample included NoLo beers sold online from three large Australian alcohol retailers. First, we performed a qualitative content analysis of partnerships between NoLo beers and sport using publicly available online information. We then analysed the 118 social media posts of NoLo brands linked to these partnerships using a coding framework adapted from the alcohol literature. Results: Of 34 brands, 13 had sporting sponsorship partnerships across a range of spectator and participatory sports. Key marketing tactics identified on social media were activations, time-and event-specific drinking, influencer marketing, competitions, and corporate social responsibility. In particular, NoLo brands aim to disrupt the sports drink market by advertising their products as healthy recovery drinks, or ‘sports beers’, through activation events. Brands are also using influencer marketing and competitions, two tactics shown to be particularly persuasive for young people. Discussion and Conclusions: NoLo beer brands strategically align with Australian sports to promote NoLo consumption. As they are classified as soft drinks in Australia, NoLo beverages are not regulated like alcohol. Future discussions around sports sponsorship and advertising regulation must consider NoLo products.
Physarum-Inspired Multi-Commodity Flow Dynamics
Creators: name: Bonifaci, Vincenzo
name: Facca, Enrico
name: Folz, Frederic
name: Karrenbauer, Andreas
name: Kolev, Pavel
name: Mehlhorn, Kurt
name: Morigi, Giovanna
name: Shahkarami, Golnoosh
name: Vermande, Quentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In wet-lab experiments, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum has demonstrated its ability to solve shortest path problems and to design efficient networks. For the shortest path problem, a mathematical model for the evolution of the slime is available and it has been shown in computer experiments and through mathematical analysis that the dynamics solves the shortest path problem. In this paper, we introduce a dynamics for the network design problem. We formulate network design as the problem of constructing a network that efficiently supports a multi-commodity flow problem. We investigate the dynamics in computer simulations and analytically. The simulations show that the dynamics is able to construct efficient and elegant networks. In the theoretical part we show that the dynamics minimizes an objective combining the cost of the network and the cost of routing the demands through the network. We also give alternative characterization of the optimum solution.
description: to appear in Theoretical Computer Science
Spatio-temporal bivariate statistical models for atmospheric trace-gas inversion
Creators: name: Zammit-Mangion, Andrew
name: Cressie, Noel
name: Ganesan, Anita L.
name: Doherty, Simon O'
name: Manning, Alistair J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Atmospheric trace-gas inversion refers to any technique used to predict spatial and temporal fluxes using mole-fraction measurements and atmospheric simulations obtained from computer models. Studies to date are most often of a data-assimilation flavour, which implicitly consider univariate statistical models with the flux as the variate of interest. This univariate approach typically assumes that the flux field is either a spatially correlated Gaussian process or a spatially uncorrelated non-Gaussian process with prior expectation fixed using flux inventories (e.g., NAEI or EDGAR in Europe). Here, we extend this approach in three ways. First, we develop a bivariate model for the mole-fraction field and the flux field. The bivariate approach allows optimal prediction of both the flux field and the mole-fraction field, and it leads to significant computational savings over the univariate approach. Second, we employ a lognormal spatial process for the flux field that captures both the lognormal characteristics of the flux field (when appropriate) and its spatial dependence. Third, we propose a new, geostatistical approach to incorporate the flux inventories in our updates, such that the posterior spatial distribution of the flux field is predominantly data-driven. The approach is illustrated on a case study of methane (CH$_4$) emissions in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
description: 39 pages, 8 figures
Near-critical supernova outflows and their neutrino signatures
Creators: name: Friedland, Alexander
name: Mukhopadhyay, Payel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the neutrino-driven outflows inside exploding core-collapse supernovae possess a special property of near-criticality, that is, they are on the edge of forming termination shocks. We derive a novel criterion for the formation of the shock, in terms of the fundamental parameters of the problem: the neutrino luminosity and energy as well as the properties of the protoneutron star. The criterion provides a unified description of the available numerical results and motivates future simulations. The property of near-criticality makes the neutrino signatures of the termination shocks a sensitive diagnostic of the physical conditions around the PNS several seconds into the explosion. The expected signal at DUNE is found to be statistically significant.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, updated version published in Phys. Lett. B
Improving the Health and Safety of a Rural Community with a Scenic Byway
Creators: name: O’Neill, Kathryn Cassi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The National Scenic Byways program was designed to preserve unique archeological, cultural, historic, scenic, natural and recreational resources within a community. Preserving these resources often creates secondary tourism and economic benefits as well. Absent from the original Scenic Byway design concept is consideration for the public health impact that Byway designation and resultant changes to the built environment may have on a community. Communities benefit in quantifiable ways when they manage increased noise and air pollution and traffic safety issues resulting from increased vehicular traffic spurred by increased tourism. . When a community understands the potential of these impacts, it can leverage the Scenic Byway Designation to design and build infrastructure improvements that promote both economic development and a healthier community.
Vibrational density of states of jammed packing: mean-field theory
Creators: name: Ikeda, Harukuni
name: Shimada, Masanari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several mean-field theories predict that Hessian matrices of amorphous solids can be written by using the random matrix in the limit of the large spatial dimensions $d\to\infty$. Motivated by these results, we here propose a way to map a Hessian of the amorphous solid to a random matrix. This is possible by determining the coefficients of a random matrix so that the trace of the random matrix coincides with the Hessian of the original system. We compare our result with that of previous numerical simulations of harmonic spheres in several spatial dimensions $d=3$, $5$, and $9$. For small pressure $p\ll 1$ (near jamming), we find a good agreement even in $d=3$, and obtain better agreements in larger $d$, suggesting that the approximation indeed becomes exact in the limit of large spatial dimensions.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
EnhancerMitochondriaEM3D
Creators: name: Pape, Constantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
unet
mitochondria
electron-microscopy
instance-segmentation
shallow2deep
3d

description: Download RDF Package
#Prediction Enhancer for Mitochondrion Segmentation in EM This model was trained with the Shallow2Deep method to improve ilastik predictions for mitochondria segmentation in EM. It predicts foreground and boundary probabilities. Training The network was trained on data from MitoEM and trained using torch_em. Training Data Imaging modality: Electron Microscopy Dimensionality: f3D Source: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59722-1_7 Recommended Validation It is recommended to validate the instance segmentation obtained from this model using intersection-over-union. Note that this model expects foreground probabilities from a shallow classifer, such as a Random Forest, as input. It can thus be applied to new data of mitochondria, where only a new Random Forest for mitochondria foreground prediction needs to be trained, e.g. using ilastik. This model can be used in ilastik, deepimageJ or other software that supports the bioimage.io model format. Training Schedule n_epochs: 40 batches_per_epoch: 500 batch_size: 1 loss_function: DiceLoss optimizer: Adam learning_rate: 0.0001 n_train_images: None n_validation_images: None Contact For questions or issues with this models, please reach out by: opening a topic with tags bioimageio and the name of this model on image.sc or creating an issue in https://github.com/constantinpape/torch-em
description: Prediction enhancer for segmenting mitochondria in EM images. (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Small-scale combined heat and power as a balancing reserve for wind – The case of participation in the German secondary control reserve
Creators: name: Sorknæs, Peter
name: Lund, Henrik
name: Andersen, Anders N
name: Ritter, Peter
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2015

description: Increasing amounts of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) are being integrated into energy systems worldwide. Due to the nature of these sources, they are found to increase the importance of mechanisms for balancing the electricity system. Small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) plants based on gas have proven their ability to participate in the electricity system balancing, and can hence be used to facilitate an integration of intermittent RES into electricity systems. Within the EU electricity system, balancing reserves have to be procured on a market basis. This paper investigates the ability and challenges of a small-scale CHP plant based on natural gas to participate in the German balancing reserve for secondary control. It is found that CHP plants have to account for more potential losses than traditional power plants. However, it is also found that the effect of these losses can be reduced by increasing the flexibility of the CHP unit.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol 4 (2014)
Widefield Super-resolution (GAN - TxRed)
Creators: name: Hongda Wang
name: Rivenson, Yair
name: Ozcan, Aydogan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
deepimagej
gan
fluorescence-microscopy
super-resolution-microscopy

description: Download RDF Package
Visit: https://innovate.ee.ucla.edu/
description: A trained GAN to transform diffraction-limited input images into super-resolved ones. (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Excitation of Chandrasekhar-Kendall photons in Quark Gluon Plasma by an ultrarelativitsic quark
Creators: name: Tuchin, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quark propagating through the quark gluon plasma and scattering off the thermal gluons can radiate photons in states with definite angular momentum and magnetic helicity. These states, known as the Chandrasekhar-Kendall states, are eigenstates of the curl operator and have a non-trivial topology. I compute spectrum of these states in the ultrarelativistic limit and study its properties.
description: 15 pages, V3: typos fixed, one appendix and one figure added
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: 2004 Presidential Election/Economy/Kerry's Vietnam Actions
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: How much thought given to upcoming election for president (1); do/do not know where people in neighborhood go to vote (1); ever voted in precinct or election district (1); how often vote (1); do/do not plan to vote in presidential election this November (2); John Kerry and John Edwards vs. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (2); John Kerry and John Edwards vs. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney vs. Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo (2); Iowa economy (1); Iraq (1); John Kerry's accounts of his military service in Vietnam (1); 2000 presidential election (1).
The Effect of Tracheostomy on Outcome and Resource Utilization in Trauma Patients at a Level I Trauma Center: An investigation with Propensity Score methodology and systematic review of the literature
Creators: name: Gant, Joshua
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Background: The use of tracheostomy has long been an accepted option in patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation. As its use has continued to increase research has focused primarily on timing, investigating benefits of earlier use and how quickly it should be considered. Less focus has been placed on which patients it should be used for at all. Several recent studies that have investigated this question found none of the assumed survival benefit, with one even showing increased mortality in tracheostomy patients. With the need to better understand which patient populations do benefit more study of specific groups is needed. We studied survival and length of stay outcomes in mechanically ventilated trauma patients in a Level I Trauma Center Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to determine the utility of tracheostomy in this specific population. Methods: This retrospective cohort study of tracheostomy outcomes used data collected from the University Of North Carolina Hospitals Trauma Registry on adult trauma patients admitted between January 2000 and December 2010. All non-burn patients who were mechanically ventilated in the Surgical ICU for at least 24 hours were included for analysis. Patients who received tracheostomies were compared to all other included patients regarding survival to discharge. Time on mechanical ventilation and ICU and hospital lengths of stay were secondarily analyzed. Logistic regression was used in comparison of primary and secondary outcomes, and derived propensity score matching was used to adjust for confounding. Results: Of 2489 patients meeting basic inclusion criteria 509 had tracheostomies performed. Prior to any adjustment tracheostomy was statistically significantly associated with greater survival to discharge (90% vs 76% OR 2.99, p<0.001). Logistic regression resulted in an odds ratio (OR) of 5.36 (P<0.001) and propensity score matching yielded an OR 3.84. ICU length of stay (tracheostomy mean 24.9 days, control mean 5.3) and hospital length of stay (mean 42 vs 12.1) as well as time on mechanical ventilation (mean 20.4 vs 3.6 days) were all statistically associated with longer times for the tracheostomy group. Cost was similarly associated, with mean values $193,173 vs 66,174. Conclusions: Among trauma patients tracheostomy use was associated with greater survival to discharge, but also with longer mechanical ventilation time, ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay and cost. These relationships persisted with propensity score matching to minimize confounding by indication, suggesting a survival benefit from tracheostomy. Longer stays may result in part from lead time before tracheostomy and may be reducible by earlier implementation.
IC MAGE Model 22 - Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion with isotropic small strain stiffness, enhanced hysteresis control and stiffness degradation mechanism
Creators: name: Taborda, David M G
name: Lau, P K
name: Palmieri, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Geotechnical Analysis
Finite Element Analysis
Constitutive Modelling
Geotechnical Engineering
Small-strain Stiffness
Cyclic Loading
Earthquakle Engineering

description: IC MAGE M22 is a user-defined model for PLAXIS built using the IC MAGE UMIP framework. It is based on IC MAGE M04 (Taborda et al., 2023), combining a Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion with the IC.G3S isotropic small strain stiffness model and the nonlinear scaling factor proposed by Taborda & Zdravkovic (2012). It allows for the generation of hysteresis (and energy dissipation) by adopting a cyclic nonlinear elastic framework. An empirical damage mechanism is introduced to replicate the degradation of stiffness due to repeated loading.
Simultaneous Extension of Continuous and Uniformly Continuous Functions
Creators: name: Gutev, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54C20, 54C30, 54C35, 54E40, 46B40, 26A16

description: The first known continuous extension result was obtained by Lebesgue in 1907. In 1915, Tietze published his famous extension theorem generalising Lebesgue's result from the plane to general metric spaces. He constructed the extension by an explicit formula involving the distance function on the metric space. Thereafter, several authors contributed other explicit extension formulas. In the present paper, we show that all these extension constructions also preserve uniform continuity, which answers a question posed by St. Watson. In fact, such constructions are simultaneous for special bounded functions. Based on this, we also refine a result of Dugundji by constructing various continuous (nonlinear) extension operators which preserve uniform continuity as well.
Editorial - International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management Vol 4
Creators: name: Østergaard, Poul Alberg
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2015

description: This editorial introduces the fourth volume of the International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management. Topics include mean-variance approach of energy systems design, the role of heat savings in smart energy systems, analyses of the German secondary reserve market, options for replacing lignite-fired district heating in plants in Greece with biomass-fired district heating plants based on boilers or cogeneration of heat and power. Topics also include how local Norwegian governments engage in local energy planning and how they differ in approach. Finally, this volume addresses characterisation of the building stock with a view to assessing savings potentials with a case from Belgium.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol 4 (2014)
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Post Republican Convention
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: How much thought given to upcoming election for president (1); do/do not know where people in neighborhood go to vote (1); ever voted in precinct or election district (1); how often vote (1); do/do not plan to vote in presidential election this November (1); John Kerry & John Edwards vs. George W. Bush & Dick Cheney (2); vote is more for candidate/against opponent (2); certain to vote for candidate/may change mind (1); John Kerry & John Edwards vs. George W. Bush & Dick Cheney vs. Ralph Nader & Peter Camejo (2); George W. Bush job performance (1); which party's candidate would respondent vote for if elections were being held today (1); overall opinion of some people in the news (7); view of John Kerry & George W. Bush (1); enthusiasm about voting this year (2); candidates' stance on issues/leadership skills and vision will be most important to respondent when deciding who to vote for (1); agree/disagree that George W. Bush has personality and leadership qualities a president should have (1); agree/disagree that John Kerry has personality and leadership qualities a president should have (1); agree/disagree with George W. Bush on issues that matter most to respondent (1); agree/disagree with John Kerry on issues that matter most to respondent(1); most important issues in deciding vote for president (1); think John Kerry/George W. Bush would better handle certain issues (4); characteristics and qualities apply more to John Kerry/George W. Bush (6); George W. Bush's political views are too conservative/about right/too liberal (1); John Kerry's political views are too conservative/about right/too liberal (1); responsibilities of commander-in-chief of military (2); how worried that self/someone in family will become a victim of terrorism(1); satisfaction with the way things are going for U.S. in war on terrorism (1); September 11th (2); likelihood of terrorist attacks against U.S. (1); capturing/Killing Osama bin Laden (2); Republican party has/has not attacked John Kerry unfairly (1); Democratic party has/has not attacked George W. Bush unfairly (1); Republican/Democratic party better represents respondent's values (1); views and policies of political parties (1); Republican/Democratic party is more patriotic (1); this week's Republican National Convention in New York City (5); one issue candidates are not talking about that respondent would like them to talk about (1); 2000 presidential election (1); respondent/any member of household ever served in U.S. military (1).
USA Today/Gallup Poll # 2008-43: Final Pre-Election Poll
Creators: name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: Voter participation and enthusiasm (9); Barack Obama/Joe Biden vs. John McCain/Sarah Palin (3); partisan opinions (4); George W. Bush job performance (1); satisfaction (2); people in the news (4); campaigning (1); church attendance (1); economy (2); Barack Obama vs. John McCain (10); 2008 vice presidential choices (2); War in Iraq (1).
Noise and current correlations in tunnel junctions of Quantum Spin Hall edge states
Creators: name: Dolcini, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The edge channels of two-dimensional topological systems are protected from elastic reflection and are noiseless at low temperature. Yet, noise and cross-correlations can be induced when electron waves partly transmit to the opposite edge via tunneling through a constriction. In particular, in a quantum spin Hall (QSH) system tunnelling occurs via both spin-preserving ($p$) and spin-flipping ($f$) processes, each fulfilling time-reversal symmetry. We investigate the current correlations of a four-terminal QSH setup in the presence of a tunneling region, both at equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium. We find that, although $p$ and $f$ processes do not commute and the generic current correlation depends on both, under appropriate conditions a direct detection of two types of partition noise is possible. In particular, while the spin-preserving partitioning can be probed for any arbitrary tunnel junction with a specific configuration of terminal biases, the spin-flipping partitioning can be directly detected only under suitably designed setups and conditions. We describe two setups where these conditions can be fulfilled, and both types of partitioning can be detected and controlled.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Methodology to characterize a residential building stock using a bottom-up approach: a case study applied to Belgium
Creators: name: Gendebien, Samuel
name: Georges, Emeline
name: Bertagnolio, Stéphane
name: Lemort, Vincent
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2015

description: In the last ten years, the development and implementation of measures to mitigate climate change have become of major importance. In Europe, the residential sector accounts for 27% of the final energy consumption [1], and therefore contributes significantly to CO2 emissions. Roadmaps towards energy-efficient buildings have been proposed [2]. In such a context, the detailed characterization of residential building stocks in terms of age, type of construction, insulation level, energy vector, and of evolution prospects appears to be a useful contribution to the assessment of the impact of implementation of energy policies. In this work, a methodology to develop a tree-structure characterizing a residential building stock is presented in the frame of a bottom-up approach that aims to model and simulate domestic energy use. The methodology is applied to the Belgian case for the current situation and up to 2030 horizon. The potential applications of the developed tool are outlined.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol 4 (2014)
Achievable Degrees of Freedom on K-user MIMO Multi-way Relay Channel with Common and Private Messages
Creators: name: Salah, Mohamed
name: El-Keyi, Amr
name: Mohasseb, Yahya
name: Nafie, Mohammed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the achievable total degrees of freedom (DoF) of the MIMO multi-way relay channel that consists of K users, where each user is equipped with M antennas, and a decode-and-forward relay equipped with N antennas. In this channel, each user wants to convey K-1 private messages to the other users in addition to a common message to all of them. Due to the absence of direct links between the users, communication occurs through the relay in two phases; a multiple access channel phase (MAC) and a broadcast (BC) phase. We drive cut-set bounds on the total DoF of the network, and show that the network has DoF less than or equal to K min(N,M). Achievability of the upper bound is shown by using signal space alignment for network coding in the MAC phase, and zero-forcing precoding in the BC phase. We show that introducing the common messages besides the private messages leads to achieving higher total DoF than using the private messages only.
description: 5 double-column pages, 2 figures, 1 table, the paper will be presented at the IEEE Asilomar Conference Nov. 2015
Hepatic toxicity in a HIV-infected cohort treated with Efavirenz in Malawi
Creators: name: Broadhurst, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV is essential in reducing HIV incidence and prevalence. Many countries have moved to providing universal, lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women regardless of health status, necessitating adequate safety studies. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study to compare risk of hepatic toxicity secondary to initiation of EFV-based ART in a cohort of pregnant and breastfeeding women to risk in a cohort of non-pregnant/breastfeeding women and men. The main outcome of interest was development of hepatic toxicity in 6 months after treatment initiation (September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2016). Bivariable and multivariable analyses were conducted to assess differences across groups and ART regimen types. Results: Pregnant and breastfeeding women group were younger and healthier overall. Hepatic toxicity occurred in 41 (0.51%) out of 7,957 individuals in 6 months after starting ART. Bivariate comparisons revealed differences in comparisons of hepatic toxicity by group (p=0.01) and age category (p=0.04), with non-pregnant/breastfeeding women and older individuals having stronger associations. Multivariate comparisons showed no statistically significant difference in odds of developing hepatic toxicity for pregnant/breastfeeding women compared to men (OR= 0.47 (0.16, 1.39) or other women compared to men (OR= 1.49 (0.70, 3.19). Furthermore, no differences were seen when comparing EFV-based ART to non-EFV-based ART (OR= 0.99 (0.23, 4.19). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that there is no additional concern for hepatic toxicity in pregnant/breastfeeding women initiating EFV-based ART. However, further study of adverse events in women initiating ART while pregnant or breastfeeding remains vital.
The Boostless Bootstrap and BCFW Momentum Shifts
Creators: name: Stefanyszyn, David
name: Supeł, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [1], three-particle interactions without invariance under Lorentz boosts were constrained by demanding that they yield tree-level four-particle scattering amplitudes with singularities as dictated by unitarity and locality. In this brief note, we show how to obtain an independent verification and consistency check of these boostless bootstrap results using BCFW momentum shifts. We point out that the constructibility criterion, related to the behaviour of the deformed amplitude at infinite BCFW parameter z, is not strictly necessary to obtain non-trivial constraints for the three-particle interactions.
description: 5 pages + references Revised version with an additional assumption
CBS News Poll: Economy/Sequester/Same-Sex Marriage
Creators: name: CBS News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); direction of country (1); most important problem (1); Obama handling various issues (5); Congress job performance (1); Supreme Court job performance (1); considering public opinion in Supreme Court cases (1); opinion of political parties (2); rating national economy (1); economy improving or worsening (1); job market (2); feelings about Washington (1); condition of stock market (1); stock market as indicator of economic condition (1); politician to best handle budget deficit (1); effect of reducing budget on economy (1); budget deficit affecting family finances (1); best ways to reduce budget deficit (7); blame for automatic spending cuts (1); long term effects of sequester (1); strictness of gun control laws (1); same-sex marriage legality (4); federal or state government determining marriage laws (1); federal benefits for same-sex spouses (1); Boy Scouts of America allowing gay members (1); nature of homosexuality (2); morality of homosexual acts (2); approval of health care law (1); Iran as threat to United States (1); North Korea as threat to US (1); following violence in Syria (1); US responsibility in Syria (1); ban on semi-automatic weapons (1); background checks for gun purchases (1); feelings about Pope Francis (1); concerns about unemployment (1).
Manipulation of Majorana states in X-junction geometries
Creators: name: Aristov, D. N.
name: Gutman, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum manipulation based on four Majorana bound states in X-junction geometry. The parameter space of this setup is bigger than of the previously studied Y-junction and is described by SO(4) symmetry group. In order for quantum computation to be dephasing free, two Majorana states have to stay degenerate at all times. We find a condition necessary for that and compute the Berry's phase, $2α$, accumulated during the manipulation. We construct simple protocols for the variety of values of $α$, including $π/8$ needed for the purposes of quantum computation. Although the manipulations in general X-junction geometry are not topologically protected, they may prove to be a feasible compromise for aims of quantum computation.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Screening for Intimate Partner Violence: An Evaluation of the USPSTF Systematic Evidence Review and Recommendation
Creators: name: Lang-Furr, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Background: The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued an I recommendation in 2004 for screening for intimate partner violence (IPV); it found insufficient evidence to recommend in favor of or against screening. This recommendation has been criticized. It is inconsistent with the recommendations of the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, both of which recommend that clinicians routinely inquire directly about a history of abuse. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether the I recommendation is consistent with the evidence that exists for IPV screening and whether the criteria used by the USPSTF to evaluate IPV screening were comparable to the criteria used for other health topics. Methods: I used one set of criteria to evaluate the USPSTF's systematic evidence review (SER) on screening for IPV and to compare it to the SER's on screening for depression and alcohol misuse. Another set of criteria was used to evaluate the USPSTF recommendation for IPV screening and to compare it to other USPSTF recommendations. Results: There were important differences in the SER's that may have resulted in adverse effects being given more weight in determining the benefit-harm ratio in the IPV SER than they were given in the other two SER's. However, there was significantly less evidence available on IPV screening than for depression or alcohol misuse screening. Conclusion: Evidence for screening for IPV may not have been assessed in a comparable way to that for depression and alcohol misuse, but due to a shortage of evidence on IPV screening, the I recommendation would likely stand if disparities in the synthesis of the evidence were remedied.
Los Angeles Times Poll # 1996-372: California Pre-Primary
Creators: name: Los Angeles Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Direction of things in California(1); Bill Clinton job performance(1); Governor Wilson job performance(1); California state legislature job performance(1); 1996 Republican primary(1); candidates(2); 1996 election(5); issues for presidential campaign(2); characteristics of candidates(1); people in the news(6); Bill Clinton vs. Bob Dole(11); candidates approach to issues(1); Bob Dole's age(1); Pat Buchanan(2); presidential campaign(1); participation in political activities(1); absentee ballots(1); Congressional elections(1); Proposition 198(2); Proposition 200(2); Proposition 202(2); Proposition 203(2); preference initiative(2); recession(1); personal financial situation(1); California's economy(2); chance of losing a job(1); economic vs. moral climate(1); party best able in California(1); Republican control of state assembly(2); tax cut(1); flat tax(1); US trade(1); V-chip(1); rating system for TV(1); Roe vs. Wade(1); abortion(1); immigration(2); Academy Awards(3); religion(2).
Arabidopsis Leaf Segmentation
Creators: name: Pape, Constantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
zerocostdl4mic
deepimagej
segmentation
unet

description: Download RDF Package
Visit https://github.com/HenriquesLab/ZeroCostDL4Mic/wiki
description: Perform leaf segmentation in light microscopy images of Arabidopsis (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
A Weaker Faithfulness Assumption based on Triple Interactions
Creators: name: Marx, Alexander
name: Gretton, Arthur
name: Mooij, Joris M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the core assumptions in causal discovery is the faithfulness assumption, i.e., assuming that independencies found in the data are due to separations in the true causal graph. This assumption can, however, be violated in many ways, including xor connections, deterministic functions or cancelling paths. In this work, we propose a weaker assumption that we call $2$-adjacency faithfulness. In contrast to adjacency faithfulness, which assumes that there is no conditional independence between each pair of variables that are connected in the causal graph, we only require no conditional independence between a node and a subset of its Markov blanket that can contain up to two nodes. Equivalently, we adapt orientation faithfulness to this setting. We further propose a sound orientation rule for causal discovery that applies under weaker assumptions. As a proof of concept, we derive a modified Grow and Shrink algorithm that recovers the Markov blanket of a target node and prove its correctness under strictly weaker assumptions than the standard faithfulness assumption.
description: Accepted for the 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2021)
The Minnesota Poll: Vacation/Finances/Politics
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Vacation plans (7); money saving ability (7); public assistance programs (8); job opportunities: men vs. women (7); sexual morality (4); Equal Rights Amendment (4); abortion legalization (8); census (6); credit availability (5); attitudes toward people (3); presidential election (3); interest in politics (8); hostage rescue attempt (3).
Improving Pulsar Timing Precision with Single Pulses
Creators: name: Kerr, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement error of pulse times of arrival (TOAs) in the high S/N limit is dominated by the quasi-random variation of a pulsar's emission profile from rotation to rotation. Like measurement noise, this noise is only reduced as the square root of observing time, posing a major challenge to future pulsar timing campaigns with large aperture telescopes, e.g. the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope and the Square Kilometre Array. We propose a new method of pulsar timing that attempts to approximate the pulse-to-pulse variability with a small family of 'basis' pulses. If pulsar data are integrated over many rotations, this basis can be used to measure sub-pulse structure. Or, if high-time resolution data are available, the basis can be used to 'tag' single pulses and produce an optimal timing template. With realistic simulations, we show that these applications can dramatically reduce the effect of pulse-to-pulse variability on TOAs. Using high-time resolution data taken from the bright PSR J0835-4510 (Vela), we demonstrate a 25-40% improvement in TOA precision. Crucially for pulsar timing applications, we further establish that these techniques produce TOAs with gaussian residuals. Improvements of this level halve the telescope time required to reach a desired TOA precision. Although some gains can be achieved with existing data, the greatest improvements result from the 'tagging' approach, which in turn requires online or posthoc analysis of single pulses, an important consideration for the design of future instrumentation.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted to MNRAS; v2 fixed references
Heat Saving Strategies in Sustainable Smart Energy Systems
Creators: name: Lund, Henrik
name: Thellufsen, Jakob Zinck
name: Aggerholm, Søren
name: Wittchen, Kim Bjarne
name: Nielsen, Steffen
name: Mathiesen, Brian Vad
name: Möller, Bernd
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2015

description: This paper investigates to which extent heat should be saved rather than produced and to which extent district heating infrastructures, rather than individual heating solutions, should be used in future sustainable smart energy systems. Based on a concrete proposal to implement the Danish governmental 2050 fossil-free vision, this paper identifies marginal heat production costs and compares these to marginal heat savings costs for two different levels of district heating. A suitable least-cost heating strategy seems to be to invest in an approximately 50% decrease in net heat demands in new buildings and buildings that are being renovated anyway, while the implementation of heat savings in buildings that are not being renovated hardly pays. Moreover, the analysis points in the direction that a least-cost strategy will be to provide approximately 2/3 of the heat demand from district heating and the rest from individual heat pumps.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol 4 (2014)
CAPE in Context: Policy and Practice to Improve Pediatric Resuscitations
Creators: name: Forsythe, C. Scott
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Objective: Rural emergency departments face unique challenges in maintaining staff preparation for pediatric cardiopulmonary arrests, or “codes,” yet federal law creates the expectation that all EDs be prepared to manage any and all critically ill patients. Project CAPE is based on the hypothesis that it takes as little as one intervention and the provision of self-guided learning tools to establish a self-perpetuating educational policy in rural NC emergency departments. The purpose of this study is to determine whether such an intervention demonstrably improves the ability to manage pediatric codes in rural EDs; this analysis concerns the initial step of assessing pre-intervention provider knowledge, experience, and comfort. Methods: We gathered data on baseline provider skill, comfort, and knowledge at five NC hospitals by online survey. Results: Provider knowledge of PALS guidelines is low, regardless of PALS certification. Providers are more comfortable with older pediatric patients than younger patients and have limited exposure to pediatric patients and limited experience performing pediatric procedures. Providers receive little ongoing pediatric education but believe they would benefit from pediatric mock code training. Significance: The initial results suggest that providers at rural NC EDs will benefit from and are receptive to further pediatric emergency training with mock codes. This finding is supportive of Project CAPE and may have broad public policy implications.