cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex palustris

description: Sorex palustris Richardson, 1828. Zool. J., 3:517. TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, "from marshy places from Hudson's Bay to the RockyMtns." DISTRIBUTION: Montane and boreal areas of North America below the tree linefrom Alaska to the Sierra Nevada, Rocky, and Appalachian mtns. COMMENT: Hall, 1981:43 noted that alaskanus may be a subspecies ofpalustris. ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018029001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90."]}
Electric Field Conjugation with the Project 1640 coronagraph
Creators: name: Cady, Eric
name: Baranec, Christoph
name: Beichman, Charles
name: Brenner, Douglas
name: Burruss, Rick
name: Crepp, Justin
name: Dekany, Richard
name: Hale, David
name: Hillenbrand, Lynne
name: Hinkley, Sasha
name: Ligon, E. Robert
name: Lockhart, Thomas
name: Oppenheimer, Ben R.
name: Parry, Ian
name: Pueyo, Laurent
name: Rice, Emily
name: Roberts,, Lewis C.
name: Roberts, Jennifer
name: Shao, Michael
name: Sivaramakrishnan, Anand
name: Soummer, Remi
name: Tang, Hong
name: Truong, Tuan
name: Vasisht, Gautam
name: Vescelus, Fred
name: Wallace, J. Kent
name: Zhai, Chengxing
name: Zimmerman, Neil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Project 1640 instrument on the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory is a coronagraphic instrument with an integral field spectrograph at the back end, designed to find young, self-luminous planets around nearby stars. To reach the necessary contrast for this, the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system corrects for fast atmospheric speckles, while CAL, a phase-shifting interferometer in a Mach-Zehnder configuration, measures the quasistatic components of the complex electric field in the pupil plane following the coronagraphic stop. Two additional sensors measure and control low-order modes. These field measurements may then be combined with a system model and data taken separately using a white-light source internal to the AO system to correct for both phase and amplitude aberrations. Here, we discuss and demonstrate the procedure to maintain a half-plane dark hole in the image plane while the spectrograph is taking data, including initial on-sky performance.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, in Proceedings of SPIE, 8864-19 (2013)
Reconstructing Personalized Semantic Facial NeRF Models From Monocular Video
Creators: name: Gao, Xuan
name: Zhong, Chenglai
name: Xiang, Jun
name: Hong, Yang
name: Guo, Yudong
name: Zhang, Juyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel semantic model for human head defined with neural radiance field. The 3D-consistent head model consist of a set of disentangled and interpretable bases, and can be driven by low-dimensional expression coefficients. Thanks to the powerful representation ability of neural radiance field, the constructed model can represent complex facial attributes including hair, wearings, which can not be represented by traditional mesh blendshape. To construct the personalized semantic facial model, we propose to define the bases as several multi-level voxel fields. With a short monocular RGB video as input, our method can construct the subject's semantic facial NeRF model with only ten to twenty minutes, and can render a photo-realistic human head image in tens of miliseconds with a given expression coefficient and view direction. With this novel representation, we apply it to many tasks like facial retargeting and expression editing. Experimental results demonstrate its strong representation ability and training/inference speed. Demo videos and released code are provided in our project page: https://ustc3dv.github.io/NeRFBlendShape/
description: Accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 (Journal Track). Project page: https://ustc3dv.github.io/NeRFBlendShape/
Holography of Wrapped M5-branes and Chern-Simons theory
Creators: name: Gang, Dongmin
name: Kim, Nakwoo
name: Lee, Sangmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study three-dimensional superconformal field theories on wrapped M5-branes. Applying the gauge/gravity duality and the recently proposed 3d-3d relation, we deduce quantitative predictions for the perturbative free energy of a Chern-Simons theory on hyperbolic 3-space. Remarkably, the perturbative expansion is expected to terminate at two-loops in the large N limit. We check the correspondence numerically in a number of examples, and confirm the N^3 scaling with precise coefficients.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Some clarifications, references added, misprint corrected
Fünffzehen Symbola, Welche Zu der höchst betaurlichen Begräbnuß, Auch Durch Thomas Bernhardt de Lillis, seynd componirt worden; 1685
Creators: name: Lilien, Thomas Bernhard von
name: Albert Sigmund Freising, Bischof
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Motto mit Chronogramm auf der Hauptitelseite: Vnser ALbertVs SIgIsMVnD Ist HIn. HersChet Aber NVn EVVig. - Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: M. DC. LXXXV.
title: Viro Juveni Nobili ac Præclarissimo Dno Johanni Erasmo Loeschenkohlio Ratisp. J. U. Candidato Dignissimo, Illustris Domini Dni. Guolffgangi Leopoldi à Löwenberg, S. Cæsareae Majestatis Equitum Turmæe Præfecti Secretario Meritissimo, Die V. Septembris ... morte rebus humanis exempto; [1680]
title: Hoc perenne amoris ac doloris monumentum erectum ivêre Ipsis Exsequiarum solennibus Die IX. mensis ejusdem A. O. R. M. DC. LXXX. Fautores & Amici
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Löschenkohl, Johann Erasmus
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Ratisponæ, Literis Pauli Dalnsteineri.
Additional file 1 of From conceptualising to modelling structural determinants and interventions in HIV transmission dynamics models: a scoping review and methodological framework for evidence-based analyses
Creators: name: Stannah, James
name: Flores Anato, Jorge Luis
name: Pickles, Michael
name: Larmarange, Joseph
name: Mitchell, Kate M.
name: Artenie, Adelina
name: Dumchev, Kostyantyn
name: Niangoran, Serge
name: Platt, Lucy
name: Terris-Prestholt, Fern
name: Singh, Aditya
name: Stone, Jack
name: Vickerman, Peter
name: Phillips, Andrew
name: Johnson, Leigh
name: Maheu-Giroux, Mathieu
name: Boily, Marie-Claude
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Text S1. Additional scoping review methods. Text S2. Additional results of scoping review. Text S3. Definitions of effects that can be estimated using causal mediation analysis.
Broad N2H+ emission towards the protostellar shock L1157-B1
Creators: name: Codella, C.
name: Viti, S.
name: Ceccarelli, C.
name: Lefloch, B.
name: Benedettini, M.
name: Busquet, G.
name: Caselli, P.
name: Fontani, F.
name: Gómez-Ruiz, A.
name: Podio, L.
name: Vasta, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first detection of N2H+ towards a low-mass protostellar outflow, namely the L1157-B1 shock, at about 0.1 pc from the protostellar cocoon. The detection was obtained with the IRAM 30-m antenna. We observed emission at 93 GHz due to the J = 1-0 hyperfine lines. The analysis of the emission coupled with the HIFI CHESS multiline CO observations leads to the conclusion that the observed N2H+(1-0) line originates from the dense (> 10^5 cm-3) gas associated with the large (20-25 arcsec) cavities opened by the protostellar wind. We find a N2H+ column density of few 10^12 cm-2 corresponding to an abundance of (2-8) 10^-9. The N2H+ abundance can be matched by a model of quiescent gas evolved for more than 10^4 yr, i.e. for more than the shock kinematical age (about 2000 yr). Modelling of C-shocks confirms that the abundance of N2H+ is not increased by the passage of the shock. In summary, N2H+ is a fossil record of the pre-shock gas, formed when the density of the gas was around 10^4 cm-3, and then further compressed and accelerated by the shock.
description: ApJ, in press
Normative Data for a Brief Neuropsychological Battery Administered to English- and Spanish-Speaking Community-Dwelling Elders
Creators: Stricks, Laurie
Pittman, John
Jacobs, Diane
Sano, Mary
Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Neurology
Neuropsychology
Neuropsychological tests--Evaluation
Older Hispanic Americans

description: The use of neuropsychological tests in non-English-speaking populations and among those with less education has been limited because most tests have been standardized for English-speaking populations with relatively high levels of education. In effort to establish norms, a battery of neuropsychological tests was administered, in either English or Spanish, to 995 normal elders with a wide range of educational attainment, residing in the community of Washington Heights–Inwood in northern Manhattan. Results indicate that age, education, and language all influence test performance and should be considered when evaluating neuropsychological measures.
Inverse Edelstein Effect
Creators: name: Shen, Ka
name: Vignale, G.
name: Raimondi, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a precise microscopic definition of the recently observed "Inverse Edelstein Effect" (IEE), in which a non-equilibrium spin accumulation in the plane of a two-dimensional (interfacial) electron gas drives an electric current perpendicular to its own direction. The drift-diffusion equations that govern the effect are presented and applied to the interpretation of the experiments.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of Profiling the lncRNA–miRNA–mRNA interaction network in the cold-resistant exercise period of grape (Vitis amurensis Rupr.)
Creators: name: Ma, Weifeng
name: Ma, Lijuan
name: Ma, Zonghuan
name: Li, Wenfang
name: Lu, Shixiong
name: Gou, Huimin
name: Mao, Juan
name: Chen, Baihong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Cognitive Test Performance among Nondemented Elderly African Americans and Whites
Creators: Manly, Jennifer J.
Jacobs, Diane
Sano, Mary
Bell, Karen L.
Merchant, Carol A.
Small, Scott A.
Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Neurology
Neuropsychological tests--Evaluation
Cognition--Age factors
Older people--Mental health

description: We examined the neuropsychological test performance of a randomly selected community sample of English-speaking non-Hispanic African American and white elders in northern Manhattan. All participants were diagnosed as nondemented by a neurologist, whose assessment was made independent of neuropsychological test scores. African American elders obtained significantly lower scores on measures of verbal and nonverbal learning and memory, abstract reasoning, language, and visuospatial skill than whites. After using a stratified random sampling technique to match groups on years of education, many of the discrepancies became nonsignificant; however, significant ethnic group differences on measures of figure memory, verbal abstraction, category fluency, and visuospatial skill remained. Discrepancies in test performance of education-matched African Americans and whites could not be accounted for by occupational attainment or history of medical conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. These findings emphasize the importance of using culturally appropriate norms when evaluating ethnically diverse elderly for dementia.
The mechanism why colliders could create quasi-stable black holes
Creators: name: Torres, R.
name: Fayos, F.
name: Lorente-Espin, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been postulated that black holes could be created in particle collisions within the range of the available energies for nowadays colliders (LHC). In this paper we analyze the evaporation of a type of black holes that are candidates for this specific behaviour, namely, small black holes on a brane in a world with large extra-dimensions. We examine their evolution under the assumption that energy conservation is satisfied during the process and compare it with the standard evaporation approach. We claim that, rather than undergoing a quick total evaporation, black holes become quasi-stable. We comment on the (absence of) implications for safety of this result. We also discuss how the presence of black holes together with the correctness of the energy conservation approach might be experimentally verified.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Comment on "Tropospheric temperature response to stratospheric ozone recovery in the 21st century" by Hu et al. (2011)
Creators: Previdi, Michael
Polvani, Lorenzo M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Atmospheric chemistry

description: Stratospheric ozone recovery is expected to figure prominently in twenty-first century climate change. In a recent paper, Hu et al. (2011) argue that one impact of ozone recovery will be to enhance the warming of the surface-troposphere system produced by increases in well-mixed greenhouse gases. Furthermore, this enhanced warming would be strongest in the Northern Hemisphere, which is surprising since previous studies have consistently shown the effects of stratospheric ozone changes to be most pronounced in the Southern Hemisphere. Hu et al. (2011) base their claims largely on differences in the simulated temperature change between two groups of CMIP3 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 3) climate models, one group which included stratospheric ozone recovery in its twenty-first century simulations and a second group which did not. Both groups of models were forced with the same increases in well-mixed greenhouse gases according to the A1B emissions scenario. In the current work, we compare the surface temperature responses of the same two groups of models in a different experiment in which atmospheric CO2 was increased by 1% per year until doubling. We find remarkably similar differences in the simulated surface temperature change between the two sets of models as Hu et al. (2011) found for the A1B experiment, suggesting that the enhanced warming which they attribute to stratospheric ozone recovery is actually a reflection of different responses of the two model groups to greenhouse gas forcing.
Using an artificial electric field to create the analog of the red spot of Jupiter in light-heavy Fermi-Fermi mixtures of ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Fotso, H. F.
name: Vicente, J.
name: Freericks, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-of-flight images are a common tool in ultracold atomic experiments, employed to determine the quasimomentum distribution of the interacting particles. If one introduces a constant artificial electric field, then the quasimomentum distribution evolves in time as Bloch oscillations are generated in the system and then damped showing a complex series of patterns. Surprisingly, in different mass Fermi-Fermi mixtures, these patterns can survive for long times, and resemble the stability of the red spot of Jupiter in classical nonlinear hydrodynamics. In this work, we illustrate the rich phenomena that can be seen in these driven quantum systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures + supplemental material
Sorex planiceps Miller 1911
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex planiceps

description: Sorex planiceps Miller, 1911. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 24:242. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kashmir, Kuistwar, Dachin, 9000 ft. (2743 m). DISTRIBUTION: Kashmir and N. Pakistan. COMMENT: Considered a subspecies of thibetanus by Dolgov and Hoffmann, 1977, Zool. Zh., 56: 1687- 1692. Retained by Hutterer, 1979, Z. Saugetierk., 44:65-80, who considered thibetanus a nomen dubium.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001
description: {"references": ["Dolgov, V. A., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1977. Tibetskaya burozubka- - Sorex thibetanus Kastchenko, 1905 (Soricidae Mammalia). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 46: 1687 - 1692 (in Russian)."]}
A Learning-oriented Assessment Perspective on Scenario-based Assessment
Creators: Carroll, Brian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Learning
Second language acquisition--Ability testing
Applied linguistics
Educational tests and measurements--Methodology

description: Traditional high-stakes, large-scale language assessments are known for their standardized formats and stable psychometric properties; however, recently researchers have been re-conceptualizing language assessment design and development theories and methodologies to more closely reflect the knowledge, skills and abilities required of 21st century students. Attempting to confront the evolving notions of instruction, learning, and assessment, the learning-oriented assessment (LOA) framework theorizes the dynamic interactions within the classroom. Concurrently, scenario-based assessment (SBA) has emerged as a suite of assessment design and development features and guidelines directed at meeting contemporary assessment needs. This analysis will indicate the extent the theoretical framework of LOA can be used to indicate and theoretically support salient design features included in SBA, and in so doing attempt to align these two perspectives into a unified set of design and development considerations.
Sorex preblei Jackson 1922
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex preblei

description: Sorex preblei Jackson, 1922. J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 12:263. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Oregon, Malheur Co., Jordan Valley, 4200 ft. (1280 m). DISTRIBUTION: Columbia Plateau of Washington, Oregon and Nevada to W. Great Plains of Montana (U.S.A.). ISIS NUMBER: 5301403007018030001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001
Collision Strengths for [O III] Optical and Infrared Lines
Creators: name: Storey, P. J.
name: Sochi, Taha
name: Badnell, N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present electron collision strengths and their thermally averaged values for the forbidden lines of the astronomically abundant doubly-ionized oxygen ion, O^{2+}, in an intermediate coupling scheme using the Breit-Pauli relativistic terms as implemented in an R-matrix atomic scattering code. We use several atomic targets for the R-matrix scattering calculations including one with 72 atomic terms. We also compare with new results obtained using the intermediate coupling frame transformation method. We find spectroscopically significant differences against a recent Breit-Pauli calculation for the excitation of the [O III] lambda 4363 transition but confirm the results of earlier calculations.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables (list of collision strength data is also provided as supplementary material)
Cupressus Funerea, Memoriæ Viri Nobilissimi, Amplissimi, Consultissimi Prudentissimiq[ue] Dni. Christophori Sigismundi Heberlini, J. U. L. Celeberrimi, Et In Illustri Hac Ac Libera S. Rom. Imp. Republica Ratisponensi Senatoris Gravissimi, In ipsâ frequentissimâ funeris Ad D. Petri deductione Pridie Cal. Martias A.O.R. LXXIX mœestis animis Erecta ac consecrata à Fautoribus, Cognatis, Amicis Ac Clientibus; [1679]
Creators: name: Heberl, Christoph Sigmund
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Ratisponæ, Literis Dalnsteinerianis.
Type Ia Supernovae with Bi-Modal Explosions Are Common -- Possible Smoking Gun for Direct Collisions of White-Dwarfs
Creators: name: Dong, Subo
name: Katz, Boaz
name: Kushnir, Doron
name: Prieto, Jose L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discover clear doubly-peaked line profiles in 3 out of ~20 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with high-quality nebular-phase spectra. The profiles are consistently present in three well-separated Co/Fe emission features. The two peaks are respectively blue-shifted and red-shifted relative to the host galaxies and are separated by ~5000 km/s. The doubly-peaked profiles directly reflect a bi-modal velocity distribution of the radioactive Ni56 in the ejecta that powers the emission of these SNe. Due to their random orientations, only a fraction of SNe with intrinsically bi-modal velocity distributions will appear as doubly-peaked spectra. Therefore SNe with intrinsic bi-modality are likely common, especially among the SNe in the low-luminosity part on the Philips relation (Δm15(B) >~ 1.3; ~40% of all SNe Ia). Such bi-modality is naturally expected from direct collisions of white dwarfs (WDs) due to the detonation of both WDs and is demonstrated in a 3D 0.64 M_Sun-0.64 M_Sun WD collision simulation. In the future, with a large sample of nebular spectra and a comprehensive set of numerical simulations, the collision model can be unambiguously tested as the primary channel for type Ia SNe, and the distribution of nebular line profiles will either be a smoking gun or rule it out.
description: To be published by MNRAS Letters. Minor changes of the main text, an Appendix added
A Hybrid System for Real-time Rendering of Depth of Field Effect in Games
Creators: name: Tan, Yu Wei
name: Chua, Nicholas
name: Biette, Nathan
name: Bhojan, Anand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3

description: Real-time depth of field in game cinematics tends to approximate the semi-transparent silhouettes of out-of-focus objects through post-processing techniques. We leverage ray tracing hardware acceleration and spatio-temporal reconstruction to improve the realism of such semi-transparent regions through hybrid rendering, while maintaining interactive frame rates for immersive gaming. This paper extends our previous work with a complete presentation of our technique and details on its design, implementation, and future work.
description: Best Student Paper Award (GRAPP 2022)
Sorex raddei Satunin 1895
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex raddei

description: Sorex raddei Satunin, 1895. Arch. Naturgesch., 1: 109. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Georgian S.S. R., near Kutais. DISTRIBUTION: Transcaucasia; N. Turkey. COMMENT: Includes batis; see Corbet, 1978:21.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001
Hybrid MBlur: A Systematic Approach to Augment Rasterization with Ray Tracing for Rendering Motion Blur in Games
Creators: name: Tan, Yu Wei
name: Cui, Xiaohan
name: Bhojan, Anand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3

description: Motion blur is commonly used in game cinematics to achieve photorealism by modelling the behaviour of the camera shutter and simulating its effect associated with the relative motion of scene objects. A common real-time post-process approach is spatial sampling, where the directional blur of a moving object is rendered by integrating its colour based on velocity information within a single frame. However, such screen space approaches typically cannot produce accurate partial occlusion semi-transparencies. Our real-time hybrid rendering technique leverages hardware-accelerated ray tracing to correct post-process partial occlusion artifacts by advancing rays recursively into the scene to retrieve background information for motion-blurred regions, with reasonable additional performance cost for rendering game contents. We extend our previous work with details on the design, implementation, and future work of the technique as well as performance comparisons with post-processing.
Complex Dynamic Systems and Interlanguage Variability: Investigating Topic, Syntactic Complexity, and Accuracy in NS-NNS Written Interaction
Creators: Dean, Anna Priscilla Ciriani
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Interlanguage (Language learning)
Written communication
Second language acquisition

description: Studies adopting a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory framework have often fallen into one of two camps: those investigating variable linguistic subsystems (namely, CAF studies) and those concerned with non-linguistic variables displaying the characteristics of dynamic systems, with little concern for their connection to linguistic development. Examining asynchronous interactional data in an 8-week email exchange between a bilingual speaker of Spanish and English and an advanced Chinese learner of English, this study attempts to reconcile these two camps by exploring the extent to which syntactic complexity and article accuracy vary situationally as a function of topic and willingness to communicate (WTC) in L2 written performance over time and by investigating any potential relationships between complexity and accuracy. A qualitative, inductive analysis reveals that topic bears the characteristics of a dynamic system. The results also show that, for both the native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS), syntactic complexity, measured as subordinate clauses per T-unit and complex nominals per T-unit, varies situationally with topic, shifting not just over time but within a single email. As might be anticipated, article accuracy exhibits the typical instability of a dynamic system for the NNS but not for the NS, whose stable performance may reflect a permanent attractor state. Both the NNS’ and NS’ article accuracy are subject to cross-linguistic influence. Evolving correlations between complexity and accuracy suggest that certain topics and the WTC associated with them may induce trade-offs between the two subsystems.
Additional file 2 of From conceptualising to modelling structural determinants and interventions in HIV transmission dynamics models: a scoping review and methodological framework for evidence-based analyses
Creators: name: Stannah, James
name: Flores Anato, Jorge Luis
name: Pickles, Michael
name: Larmarange, Joseph
name: Mitchell, Kate M.
name: Artenie, Adelina
name: Dumchev, Kostyantyn
name: Niangoran, Serge
name: Platt, Lucy
name: Terris-Prestholt, Fern
name: Singh, Aditya
name: Stone, Jack
name: Vickerman, Peter
name: Phillips, Andrew
name: Johnson, Leigh
name: Maheu-Giroux, Mathieu
name: Boily, Marie-Claude
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Examples of structural determinants, societal enablers, and structural interventions identified in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 that are important for HIV transmission, and the mechanisms through which they impact HIV. Table S2. Scoping review search terms and hits. Table S3. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist. Table S4. Additional information on the modelling of structural determinants and interventions in the studies identified in the scoping review. Table S5. Empirical evidence used to parameterise models of exposure to structural determinants. Table S6. Data on HIV epidemiology and structural determinants used to calibrate the models.
MPEC 2025-C66 : 2020 XN1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Kaluza-Klein Towers on General Manifolds
Creators: name: Hinterbichler, Kurt
name: Levin, Janna
name: Zukowski, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A higher-dimensional universe with compactified extra dimensions admits a four-dimensional description consisting of an infinite Kaluza-Klein tower of fields. We revisit the problem of describing the free part of the complete Kaluza-Klein tower of gauge fields, p-forms, gravity, and flux compactifications. In contrast to previous studies, we work with a generic internal manifold of any dimension, completely at the level of the action, in a gauge invariant formulation, and without resorting to the equations of motion or analysis of propagators. We demonstrate that the physical fields and Stuckelberg fields are naturally described by ingredients of the Hodge decomposition and its analog for symmetric tensors. The spectrum of states and stability conditions, in terms of the eigenvalues of various Laplacians on the internal manifold, is easily read from the action.
description: 66 pages
Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them
Creators: Lo, Carol Hoi Yee
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Discourse analysis
Second language acquisition

description: To say that discourse analysis is a chameleon in the social sciences would not be an overstatement; it is a research method, a perspective, and a subject in its own right. It is employed and studied by scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, and many more. The multi- and inter-disciplinary nature of discourse analysis, however, is both the reason for its appeal and a source of confusion for beginning analysts. Discourse Analysis: The Questions Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them sets out to identify core inquiries that discourse analysts aspire to answer. Inspired by years of teaching Discourse Analysis at the graduate level, Waring’s goal is to “introduce [the] vastness and diversity [of discourse analysis] to beginning students of discourse” by presenting “the kinds of questions discourse analysts ask and how they answer them” (p. 3-4). This book, then, seeks to help readers cultivate a principled understanding of what it means to do discourse analysis.
Sorex roboratus Hollister 1913
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex roboratus

description: Sorex roboratus Hollister, 1913. Smithson. Misc. Coll., 60(24):2. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Siberia, Altai Mtns., Tapucha. DISTRIBUTION: Altai Mtns. COMMENT: If this species is conspecific with vir, the name roboratus apparently has priority; see Yudin, 1971, [Insectivorous Mammals of Siberia], Nauka, Novosibirsk, p. 105. Considered a subspecies of araneus by Gromov and Baranova, 1981:17.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001
description: {"references": ["Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian)."]}
RTSDF: Real-time Signed Distance Fields for Soft Shadow Approximation in Games
Creators: name: Tan, Yu Wei
name: Chua, Nicholas
name: Koh, Clarence
name: Bhojan, Anand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3

description: Signed distance fields (SDFs) are a form of surface representation widely used in computer graphics, having applications in rendering, collision detection and modelling. In interactive media such as games, high-resolution SDFs are commonly produced offline and subsequently loaded into the application, representing rigid meshes only. This work develops a novel technique that combines jump flooding and ray tracing to generate approximate SDFs in real-time. Our approach can produce relatively accurate scene representation for rendering soft shadows while maintaining interactive frame rates. We extend our previous work with details on the design and implementation as well as visual quality and performance evaluation of the technique.
Complex Dynamic Systems Research: Some Insights on Data Analysis
Creators: Wai Man Lew, Adrienne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Second language acquisition
Applied linguistics
Learning--Research

description: Acquiring a second language (L2) has been increasingly recognized to be an ongoing developmental process, one that progresses in a fluid and non-linear fashion (Larsen-Freeman, 2015). Instead of operating like a mechanical black box that parses incoming linguistic information and outputs oral/written language indiscriminately, the learner’s developing system has been shown to be selectively adaptive (e.g., Han & Selinker, 1999; Schachter, 1974; Slobin, 1996). Where variability in acquisitional data arises, more than one of the following factors are likely involved: crosslinguistic influence, avoidance, conceptual transfer, among others. For this reason, research adopting a Complex Dynamic Systems approach to data analysis has gained sway in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in recent years. Unlike most existing empirical L2 acquisition studies that employ only a single method of data analysis, L2 Complex Dynamic Systems research advocates the application of multiple data analysis methods to the same set(s) of empirical data. In doing so, researchers are more likely to gain a multidimensional and finer-grained grasp of what the empirical L2 data might in fact be suggesting about the learner’s developmental trajectory.
Global Asymptotics for the Christoffel-Darboux Kernel of Random Matrix Theory
Creators: name: Kriecherbauer, Thomas
name: Schubert, Kristina
name: Schüler, Katharina
name: Venker, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60B20, 42C05, 35Q15, 60F05

description: The investigation of universality questions for local eigenvalue statistics continues to be a driving force in the theory of Random Matrices. For Matrix Models [53] the method of orthogonal polynomials can be used and the asymptotics of the Christoffel-Darboux kernel [59] become the key for studying universality. In this paper the existing results on the CD-kernel will be extended in two directions. Firstly, in order to analyze the transition from the universal to the non-universal regime, we provide leading order asymptotics that are global rather than local. This allows e.g. to describe the moderate deviations for the largest eigenvalues of unitary ensembles ($β$ = 2), where such a transition occurs. Secondly, our asymptotics will be uniform under perturbations of the probability measure that defines the matrix ensemble. Such information is useful for the analysis of a different type of ensembles [25], which is not known to be determinantal and for which the method of orthogonal polynomials cannot be used directly. The just described applications of our results are formulated in this paper but will be proved elsewhere. As a byproduct of our analysis we derive first order corrections for the 1-point correlation functions of unitary ensembles in the bulk. Our proofs are based on the nonlinear steepest descent method [20]. They follow closely [17] and incorporate improvements introduced in [36, 64]. The presentation is self-contained except for a number of general facts from Random Matrix theory and from the theory of singular integral operators.
description: 42 pages; references added, fixed typos
Area spectrum and thermodynamics of KS black holes in Hořava gravity
Creators: name: Suresh, Jishnu
name: Kuriakose, V C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the area spectrum of Kehagias-Sfetsos black hole in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity via modified adiabatic invariant $I=\oint p_i d q_i$ and Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule. We find that the area spectrum is equally spaced with a spacing of $ ΔA=4 πl_p ^2$. We have also studied the thermodynamic behavior of KS black hole by deriving different thermodynamic quantities.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Gen Relativ Gravit 2013
Language Learning Beyond the Classrooom
Creators: Durkis, Andrea
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Applied linguistics
Second language acquisition
Learning
Language and education

description: David Nunan and Jack C. Richards have compiled an engaging collection of case studies focusing on out-of-class activities that facilitate autonomous learning for second language (L2) learners. Inspired by years of observing how successful language learners throughout the world are often highly motivated, reflect on their progress, set their own goals, and seek out opportunities for language learning outside the classroom, the editors present a wide range of resources and opportunities currently available for bringing learning beyond the classroom and promoting autonomous learning. Citing learning contexts in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia/Oceania, this book provides information on how out-of-class learning activities can be designed, planned for, and implemented for L2 learners.
Sorex samniticus Altobello 1926
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex samniticus

description: Sorex samniticus Altobello, 1926. Bol. Inst. Zool. Univ. Roma, 3:102. TYPE LOCALITY: Italy, Campobasso Prov., Molise, 700 m. DISTRIBUTION: Italy. COMMENT: Formerly included in araneus; considered a distinct species by Graf et al., 1979, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 30: 14.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Insectivora, pp. 58-106 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353001
description: {"references": ["Graf, J. - D., J. Hausser, A. Farina, and P. Vogel. 1979. Confirmation du statut specifique de Sorex samniticus Altobello, 1926 (Mammalia, Insectivora). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 30: 14 - 21."]}
High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation for patients with extracranial germ cell tumors – experience of two Brazilian pediatric centers
Creators: name: Villela, Neysimelia Costa
name: Seber, Adriana
name: Macedo, Carla Renata Pacheco Donato
name: Zecchin, Victor Gottardello
name: da Costa Guimarães, Renata Fittipaldi
name: Faria, Thaíssa Maria Veiga
name: Vidal, Daniel Onofre
name: Jorge, Gisele Eiras Martins
name: Navarro, George
name: Lopes, Luiz Fernando
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Malignant extracranial germ cell tumors (GCTs) are rare in pediatric patients and are usually extremely sensitive to chemotherapy. Relapsed or refractory tumors, although rare, established the need for second-line therapies, including high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation (HDCT/ASCT). However, there are few data on its use in children with GCTs. We present a retrospective analysis of all patients diagnosed with extracranial GCTs who received HDCT/ASCT at two Brazilian pediatric cancer centers from May 1999 to December 2019. We identified a total of 34 patients with a median age at diagnosis of 2.8 years (range, 0 to 18.8), who received HDCT/ASCT. Most patients (73%) received carboplatin, etoposide and melphalan (CEM) as a HDCT regimen. Fourteen patients received a second-line conventional dose chemotherapy (CDCT), 14 received a third-line CDCT and five received even a fourth-line CDCT prior to HDCT/ASCT. After a median follow-up of 22.7 months (range, 0.3 to 198.1), 16 patients had died after tumor relapse/progression and 2 patients died from HDCT/ASCT toxicity. We observed a 5-year OS of 47.1% and 5-year EFS of 44.1%. The 5-year OS for patients referred for HDCT/ASCT with progressive disease was 10% compared to 62.5% for those who achieved disease control before HDCT/ASCT (p = 0.001). In our experience, heavily pretreated children and adolescents with extracranial GCTs achieved considerable survival rates with HDCT/ASCT since, at least, partial control of their disease was possible before starting HDCT/ASCT. The role of HDCT/ASCT in pediatric patients with GCTs should be investigated in prospective trials.
The role of mutation rate variation and genetic diversity in the architecture of human disease
Creators: name: Eyre-Walker, Ying Chen
name: Eyre-Walker, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We have investigated the role that the mutation rate and the structure of genetic variation at a locus play in determining whether a gene is involved in disease. We predict that the mutation rate and its genetic diversity should be higher in genes associated with disease, unless all genes that could cause disease have already been identified. Consistent with our predictions we find that genes associated with Mendelian and complex disease are substantially longer than non-disease genes. However, we find that both Mendelian and complex disease genes are found in regions of the genome with relatively low mutation rates, as inferred from intron divergence between humans and chimpanzees. Complex disease gene are predicted to have higher rates of non-synonymous mutation than non-disease genes, but the opposite pattern is found in Mendelian disease genes. Finally, we find that disease genes are in regions of significantly elevated genetic diversity, even when variation in the rate of mutation is controlled for. The effect is small nevertheless. Our results suggest that variation in the genic mutation rate and the genetic architecture of the locus play a minor role in determining whether a gene is associated with disease.
Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT
Creators: Sun, Haimei
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Second language acquisition
Language and languages--Study and teaching
Applied linguistics
Teaching

description: If one has to use a catchy word to capture the connection between the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Language Teaching (LT), the word “task” would be most likely to jump to mind. Since its initial proposals in the late 1980s, the concept has now blossomed into a distinct field of research, Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), which is often deemed to be a researched pedagogy that bridges a gap between SLA research and LT. Much of the development in TBLT is due to scholarly presentations and publications, particularly those by Long (1985, 2015), Skehan (1998), and Robinson (2001, 2011), among many others. The book Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT is a comprehensive collection of selected plenary speeches delivered at biennial international conferences on TBLT from 2005 to 2013. Martin Bygate, editor of the book, introduces the book by highlighting the pivotal role of tasks and the research and educational relevance of TBLT, echoed throughout the entire book.
How to suppress the backscattering of conduction electrons?
Creators: name: Kibis, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown theoretically that the strong coupling of electrons to a high-frequency electromagnetic field results in the nulling of electron backscattering within the Born approximation. The conditions of the effect depend only on field parameters and do not depend on concrete form of scattering potential. As a consequence, this phenomenon is of universal physical nature and can take place in various conducting systems. Since the suppression of electron backscattering results in decreasing electrical resistance, the solved quantum-mechanical problem opens a new way to control electronic transport properties of conductors by a laser-generated field. Particularly, the elaborated theory is applicable to nanostructures exposed to a strong monochromatic electromagnetic wave.
description: Published version