cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Unterscheidet sich die Wahlbeteiligung bei der Europawahl zwischen Ost-und Westdeutschland?
Creators: name: Eicheler, Jakob Jonathan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 5.6
subject: FOS: Political science

description:

Eine Kurzanalyse zur Europawahl in Deutschland aus regionalstruktureller Perspektive

Die Europawahl 2024 fand vom 6. bis zum 9. Juni 2024 in den 27 Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Union statt. Dabei wurden die 720 Abgeordneten des Europäischen Parlaments gewählt. Deutschland stellt mit 96 Abgeordneten die größte nationale Gruppe.

In diesem Blogbeitrag gehe ich der Frage nach, welche Merkmale der Kreise und kreisfreien Städte (ab hier wird mit „Kreisen“ beides bezeichnet) mit der Wahlbeteiligung bei der Europawahl 2024 zusammenhängen. Dazu nutze ich die Ergebnisse der Europawahl und Strukturdaten, die von der Bundeswahlleiterin (2024) veröffentlicht werden.
title: Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip (HOBITSS V)
Creators: name: Barker, Daniel H. N.
name: Wallace, Laura M.
name: Woods, K.
name: Savage, M.
name: TAN 1809 Science Party
Publisher: name: GNS Science
Year: 2019

description: HOBITSS V was a 12-day (6–18 October 2018) Wellington to Wellington R/V Tangaroa voyage (TAN1809). Objectives of TAN1809 were to undertake seafloor geodetic and seismic instrument deployments, recoveries, and surveys offshore the Gisborne, Mahia, and Wairarapa coasts. The seafloor geodetic aims involve using Bottom Pressure Recorders (BPRs) to determine the cm-level vertical movement (upward or downward) of the seafloor during slow slip events and to deploy two new precision transponder arrays to monitor cmlevel horizontal tectonic movements of the seafloor (using GPS-Acoustic techniques) near the Hikurangi Trench. We also surveyed an existing seafloor transponder array offshore Gisborne using GPS-Acoustic methods. Ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) were deployed and will be used to compare the generation of “fast-slip” earthquakes with slow-slip earthquakes and will complement data coming from the BPRs and monitoring instruments installed in International Ocean Discovery Program boreholes offshore Gisborne. Next generation seafloor instruments (developed by Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory) that combine pressure and seismic sensors (POBS) were also deployed to test their effectiveness. The offshore Gisborne to Hawkes Bay region was targeted due to the large and frequent slow slip events that occur there. Offshore Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay were targeted for GPS-A array deployments to determine the degree of locking near the Hikurangi Trench, which is currently not constrained. Five Bottom Pressure Recorders (BPRs) belonging to Kyoto University and four BPRs belonging to University of Texas and GNS Science were recovered during the voyage (nine recoveries). These BPRs were deployed in June 2017 (on TAN1705), and recorded data for one year. Five BPRs belonging to Kyoto University, five BPRs belonging to Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and five BPRs belonging to the University of Texas and GNS Science were deployed. Five OBS belonging to the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo (ERI) were deployed on the voyage; these will be retrieved on a voyage planned for 2019. Two new GPS-A transponder arrays (consisting of three precision transponders per array) were deployed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and GNS Science. They will be surveyed with a Waveglider in January of 2019. In all, 15 BPRs, five OBS, three POBS and two GPS-A arrays (consisting of a total of six transponders) were deployed (29 instrument deployments). A GPS-A survey of a transponder array offshore Gisborne was undertaken for approximately 22 hours, which will result in a position for the array accurate to within a few cm. All voyage objectives underpin research funded by an MBIE Endeavour Fund programme: “Diagnosing peril posed by the Hikurangi subduction zone: New Zealand’s largest plate boundary fault.” (auth)
edTPA: An Assessment that Reduces the Quality of Teacher Education
Creators: name: Chiu, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Teachers--Training of
Teachers--Certification--Standards
Student teachers--Evaluation
Education

description: As one of the first students in my TESOL teacher education program to complete my edTPA submission, I recently shared my experience with a class where the majority of the students were at the beginning of their program. Afterwards, one of my classmates expressed that while my presentation was informative, it was also very depressing. My student teaching seminar this past semester should have been one of the most valuable and insightful experiences of my teacher development program. My class consisted of peers whom I have grown to respect over the course of our program, and a legendary professor who is able to espouse the ideals of teaching and working with emergent bilinguals and their families, while also tackling the realities of teaching in an urban public school. Nonetheless, my peers and I ended the semester describing our edTPA-focused student teaching seminar not as “inspiring” or “practical for our teaching,” but rather as “painful” and “as smooth as possible” considering the circumstances.
The effects of weight loss and salt reduction on visit-to-visit blood pressure variability: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Diaz, Keith
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Levintan, Emily B.
name: Brown, Michael D.
name: Babbitt, Dianne M.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Weight loss
Sodium
Blood pressure
Medicine

description: Objectives: As evidence suggests visit-to-visit variability (VVV) of blood pressure (BP) is associated with cardiovascular events and mortality, there is increasing interest in identifying interventions that reduce VVV of BP. We investigated the effects of weight loss and sodium reduction, alone or in combination, on VVV of BP in participants enrolled in phase II of the Trials of Hypertension Prevention. Methods: BP readings were taken at 6-month intervals for 36 months in 1820 participants with high-normal DBP who were randomized to weight loss, sodium reduction, combination (weight loss and sodium reduction), or usual care groups. VVV of BP was defined as the SD of BP across six follow-up visits. Results: VVV of SBP was not significantly different between participants randomized to the weight loss (7.2 ± 3.1 mmHg), sodium reduction (7.1 ± 3.0 mmHg), or combined (6.9 ± 2.9 mmHg) intervention groups vs. the usual care group (6.9 ± 2.9 mmHg). In a fully adjusted model, no difference (0.0 ± 0.2 mmHg) in VVV of SBP was present between individuals who successfully maintained their weight loss vs. individuals who did not lose weight during follow-up (P = 0.93). Also, those who maintained a reduced sodium intake throughout follow-up did not have lower VVV of SBP compared to those who did not reduce their sodium intake (0.1 ± 0.3 mmHg; P = 0.77). Results were similar for VVV of DBP. Conclusions: These findings suggest that weight loss and sodium reduction may not be effective interventions for lowering VVV of BP in individuals with high-normal DBP.
GLISSANDO 2: GLauber Initial-State Simulation AND mOre..., ver. 2
Creators: name: Rybczynski, Maciej
name: Stefanek, Grzegorz
name: Broniowski, Wojciech
name: Bozek, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extended version of GLISSANDO, a Monte-Carlo generator for Glauber-like models of the initial stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The increased functionality of the code incorporates a parametrization of shape of nuclei, including light nuclei needed in the NA61 experiment, the nuclear deformation, a possibility of using correlated distributions of nucleons in nuclei read from external files, an option of overlaying distributions of produced particles dependent on the space-time rapidity, the inclusion of the core-corona effect, or the output of the source distributions that can be used in event-by-event hydrodynamics. Together with other features, such as incorporation of various variants of Glauber models, or the implementation of a realistic NN collision profile, the generator offers a realistic and practical approach to describe the early phase of the collision in 3+1 dimensions; the predictions may later be used in modeling the intermediate evolution phase, e.g., with hydrodynamics. The software is integrated with the ROOT platform. The supplied scripts compute and plot numerous features of the distributions, such as the multiplicity distributions and centrality classes, harmonic asymmetry coefficients and their correlations, forward-backward correlations, etc. The code can also be used for the proton-nucleus and deuteron-nucleus collisions.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures, the code is available at http://www.ujk.edu.pl/homepages/mryb/GLISSANDO/index.html
R Scripts for the manuscript: Associations of Leukocyte Telomere Length with Trait Resilience, ACEs, and Psychological Distress among Expecting Parents in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort
Creators: name: Mondolin, Viivi
name: Karlsson, Hasse
name: Perasto, Laura
name: Paunio, Tiina
name: Vitikainen, Emma
name: Martens, Dries S.
name: Karlsson, Linnea
name: Tuulari, Jetro J.
name: Kataja, Eeva-Leena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description:  This zenodo sumbission contains R scripts for statistical analyses in the manuscript entitled “Associations of Leukocyte Telomere Length with Trait Resilience, ACEs, and Psychological Distress among Expecting Parents in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort" by Viivi Mondolin, Hasse Karlsson, Laura Perasto, Tiina Paunio, Emma Vitikainen, Dries S. Martens, Linnea Karlsson, Jetro J. Tuulari and Eeva-Leena Kataja

The "Data Modification" script must be run first. The remaining scripts can be executed in any order. 

The results in Table 2 as well as the sensitivity analyses (including those who did not use SSRI or corticosteroid medication at 14 gw) were obtained using the script "Mediation analyses (stratified)". 

The results in Table 3 as well as the sensitivity analyses were obtained using the script "Main effect between resilience and LTL (stratified)".

The results in Table 4 as well as the sensitivity analyses were obtained using the script "Moderation analyses (stratified)".
Soft vortex matter in a type-I/type-II superconducting bilayer
Creators: name: Komendová, L.
name: Milošević, M. V.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic flux patterns are known to strongly differ in the intermediate state of type-I and type-II superconductors. Using a type-I/type-II bilayer we demonstrate hybridization of these flux phases into a plethora of unique new ones. Owing to a complicated multi-body interaction between individual fluxoids, many different intriguing patterns are possible under applied magnetic field, such as few-vortex clusters, vortex chains, mazes or labyrinthal structures resembling the phenomena readily encountered in soft matter physics. However, in our system the patterns are tunable by sample parameters, magnetic field, current and temperature, which reveals transitions from short-range clustering to long-range ordered phases such as parallel chains, gels, glasses and crystalline vortex lattices, or phases where lamellar type-I flux domains in one layer serve as a bedding potential for type-II vortices in the other - configurations clearly beyond the soft-matter analogy.
Applications of IoT Technology and Computer Vision in Higher Education – A Literature Review
Creators: name: M, Lakshaga Jyothi
name: Dr. R.S.Shanmugasundaram
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Nowadays, Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are adopting new technologies even before they are recognized educationally making them compulsory technological parts of the educational system. To sustain with the rapid educational changes and technological advancements, IoT seems to be the possible solution. IoT system senses, collects and manipulates the data over Internet using its Unique Identifiers (UID). After few years, sum of devices worldwide with IoT connections, ten years ahead will be approximately 75 billion worldwide. Its future lies with its implementation. Raspberry Pi, a typical learning platform to study IoT technology has been explored. The Human brain performs complex image processing functions, whereas the eye functions similar to a digital camera. Computer Vision (CV) applications in Higher Education will date back to the 1980s. So, Computer Vision when coupled with IoT technology in a Higher Education can give rise to smart, intelligent campuses improving student experiences and positively enhancing educational perceptions. In this review paper, the literature works related to what/how different styles, principles, and technologies that are not only related to IoT and Computer Vision technology but also any new technological research works that can be possibly adopted into Higher Educational Environment will be discussed, thus exploring its future with building automated intelligence in HEIs.
Fundamental limitations in spin-ensemble quantum memories for cavity fields
Creators: name: Julsgaard, Brian
name: Mølmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inhomogeneously broadened spin ensembles play an important role in present-day implementation of hybrid quantum processing architectures. When coupled to a resonator such an ensemble may serve as a multi-mode quantum memory for the resonator field, and by employing spin-refocusing techniques the quantum memory time can be extended to the coherence time of individual spins in the ensemble. In the present paper we investigate such a memory protocol capable of storing an unknown resonator-field state, and we examine separately the various constituents of the protocol: the storage and read-out part, the memory hold time with the spin ensemble and resonator field decoupled, and the parts employing spin refocusing techniques. Using both analytical and numerical methods we derive how the obtainable memory performance scales with various physical parameters.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
What’s the Hardest Part of edTPA?
Creators: name: Theoharides, Niove
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Teachers--Certification--Standards
Student teachers--Training of
Student teachers--Evaluation
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Education

description: The idea for my edTPA unit came to me while watching the news. Diane Sawyer was interviewing Malala Yousafzai on ABC’s 20/20 and I immediately realized that this paralleled perfectly to the book we had just begun in my third grade ESL self-contained class. A text-to-world connection! I thought to myself, “If this idea doesn’t persuade edTPA that I am worthy of being a teacher, then I don’t know what they want.” Then again, at the time, none of us knew (or know now) what edTPA wants from us. Despite the endless depths of knowledge questions we bombarded our professors with, who did their best to negotiate the meaning of the new and vague edTPA, there was no way to prepare for the unit I was about to design. I saw the news. I made the connection. I immediately began planning for the next day’s lesson.
Obesity in older adults -supplemets 23.11.20.docx
Creators: name: ASSAF BUCH
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental file following a review article on obesity managment in older adults
Insufficiency of Linear-Feedback Schemes In Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Common Message
Creators: name: Wu, Youlong
name: Minero, Paolo
name: Wigger, Michèle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the $K\geq 2$-user memoryless Gaussian broadcast channel (BC) with feedback and common message only. We show that linear-feedback schemes with a message point, in the spirit of Schalkwijk & Kailath's scheme for point-to-point channels or Ozarow & Leung's scheme for BCs with private messages, are strictly suboptimal for this setup. Even with perfect feedback, the largest rate achieved by these schemes is strictly smaller than capacity $C$ (which is the same with and without feedback). In the extreme case where the number of receivers $K\to \infty$, the largest rate achieved by linear-feedback schemes with a message point tends to 0. To contrast this negative result, we describe a scheme for \emph{rate-limited} feedback that uses the feedback in an intermittent way, i.e., the receivers send feedback signals only in few channel uses. This scheme achieves all rates $R$ up to capacity $C$ with an $L$-th order exponential decay of the probability of error if the feedback rate $R_{\textnormal{fb}}$ is at least $(L-1)R$ for some positive integer $L$.
description: submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Reflections on an edTPA Experience: A Disappointing, Anticlimactic Conclusion
Creators: name: Proulx, Amy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Teachers--Certification--Standards
Student teachers--Evaluation
Student teachers--Training of
Teachers--Training of
Education

description: Implemented as a high-stakes Teacher Performance Assessment, in my opinion, edTPA holds great promise for evaluating novice teachers’ readiness. However, in its current stage, this pre-service assessment is better in theory than practice. I do not want this paper to evolve into a ranting diatribe against edTPA, rather, I hope my insight will shed some light on how we can collectively move forward with sound strategies that best support our teachers and students in the field we all love: education.
Solution of Extremal Problems in Bergman Spaces Using the Bergman Projection
Creators: name: Ferguson, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30H20

description: In this paper we discuss the explicit solution of certain extremal problems in Bergman spaces. In order to do this, we develop methods to calculate the Bergman projections of various functions. As a special case, we deal with canonical divisors for certain values of $p$.
description: 25 pages, to appear in Computational Methods and Function Theory
Introduction: Pre-service TESOL Teachers Speak Out About edTPA
Creators: name: McKenna, Amanda
name: Box, Catherine Marie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Student teachers--Training of
Public schools
Teachers--Training of
Education

description: We are stalwart advocates of public school education, and not just because we hold dear the notion of all citizens having access to the body of knowledge and critical thinking skills that they will use for the rest of their lives. We support it because we love it. There is nothing quite like walking through the doors of a bustling public school, and immediately being hit with the slightly musty smell of aging linoleum floors, seeing the sometimes crumbling but often lovingly decorated walls, and hearing what sounds like the chaotic noises of the students. When we step closer, however, we usually hear and see something that isn’t so much chaotic, but rather, remarkable: growth-in-action. We see children– younger or older– who represent a plethora of cultures, speak many languages, and come from all walks of life. Within earshot or line of vision of these children, we see someone else, too. We see someone who cares deeply about learning, someone who has probably spent hours upon hours drawing up lesson plans and grading papers, and most importantly, someone who sincerely cares about these children, and thinks and worries about them far beyond the confines of the classroom. We call that person the teacher.
Parsimonious Topic Models with Salient Word Discovery
Creators: name: Soleimani, Hossein
name: Miller, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.7.0; I.5.3; G.3; I.5.2

description: We propose a parsimonious topic model for text corpora. In related models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), all words are modeled topic-specifically, even though many words occur with similar frequencies across different topics. Our modeling determines salient words for each topic, which have topic-specific probabilities, with the rest explained by a universal shared model. Further, in LDA all topics are in principle present in every document. By contrast our model gives sparse topic representation, determining the (small) subset of relevant topics for each document. We derive a Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), balancing model complexity and goodness of fit. Here, interestingly, we identify an effective sample size and corresponding penalty specific to each parameter type in our model. We minimize BIC to jointly determine our entire model -- the topic-specific words, document-specific topics, all model parameter values, {\it and} the total number of topics -- in a wholly unsupervised fashion. Results on three text corpora and an image dataset show that our model achieves higher test set likelihood and better agreement with ground-truth class labels, compared to LDA and to a model designed to incorporate sparsity.
Neutral and Ionized Hydrides in Star-forming Regions -- Observations with Herschel/HIFI
Creators: name: Benz, Arnold O.
name: Bruderer, Simon
name: van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
name: Staeuber, Pascal
name: Wampfler, Susanne F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmic abundance of hydrides depends critically on high-energy UV, X-ray, and particle irradiation. Here we study hydrides in star-forming regions where irradiation by the young stellar object can be substantial, and density and temperature can be much enhanced over interstellar values. Lines of OH, CH, NH, SH and their ions OH+, CH+, NH+, SH+, H2O+, and H3O+ were observed in star-forming regions by the HIFI spectrometer onboard the Herschel Space Observatory. Molecular column densities are derived from observed ground-state lines, models, or rotational diagrams. We report here on two prototypical high-mass regions, AFGL 2591 and W3 IRS5, and compare them to chemical calculations making assumptions on the high-energy irradiation. A model assuming no ionizing protostellar emission is compared with (i) a model assuming strong protostellar X-ray emission and (ii) a two-dimensional (2D) model including emission in the far UV (FUV, 6 -- 13.6 eV) irradiating the outflow walls that separate the outflowing gas and infalling envelope material. We confirm that the effect of FUV in two dimensional models with enlarged irradiated surfaces is clearly noticeable. A molecule that is very sensitive to FUV irradiation is CH+, enhanced in abundance by more than 5 orders of magnitude. The HIFI observations of CH+ lines agree with the two-dimensional FUV model by Bruderer et al. which computes abundances, non-LTE excitation and line radiative transfer.{Ref 20} It is concluded that CH+ is a good FUV tracer in star-forming regions. The effect of potential X-ray irradiation is not excluded, but cannot be demonstrated by the present data.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, Journal of Physical Chemistry in press
Dusicyon griseus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Dusicyon
Dusicyon griseus

description: Dusicyon griseus (Gray, 1837). Mag. Nat. Hist., 1:578. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Coast of Magellan Straits. DISTRIBUTION: Atacama (Chile) and Santiago del Estero (Argentina) south to Tierra del Fuego. COMMENT: Subgenus Dusicyon or Pseudalopex; see Cabrera, 1958:233; Van Gelder, 1978:7. Pseudalopex has been considered a synonym of Dusicyon by Cabrera, 1958:229, and Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3): 166; a subgenus of Dusicyon by Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., 179: 176; a subgenus of Canis by Langguth, 1975:193, and Van Gelder, 1978:7. Includes fulvipes; see Corbet and Hill, 1980:93; Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., p. 179. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as D. griseus. CITES - Appendix II as D. fulvipes. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001007002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.", "Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.", "Clutton-Brock, J., G. B. Corbet, and M. Hills. 1976. A review of the family Canidae, with classification by numerical methods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 29 (3): 119 - 199.", "Langguth, A. 1969. Die sudamerikanischen Canidae unter besonderer Bercksichtigung des Mohnenwolfes, Chrysocyon brachyurus Illiger. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 179: 1 - 188.", "Langguth, A. 1975. Ecology and evolution in the South American canids. Pp. 192 - 206, in The wild canids: Their systematics, behavioral ecology, and evolution (M. W. Fox, ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY, 508 pp.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
Approaches to modelling irradiation-induced processes in transmission electron microscopy
Creators: name: Skowron, Stephen T.
name: Lebedeva, Irina V.
name: Popov, Andrey M.
name: Bichoutskaia, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent progress in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) has given rise to the possibility of in situ observations of nanostructure transformations and chemical reactions induced by electron irradiation. In this article we briefly summarise experimental observations and discuss in detail atomistic modelling of irradiation-induced processes in HRTEM, as well as mechanisms of such processes recognised due to modelling. Accurate molecular dynamics (MD) techniques based on first principles or tight-binding models are employed in the analysis of single irradiation-induced events, and classical MD simulations are combined with a kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate continuous irradiation of nanomaterials. It has been shown that sulphur-terminated graphene nanoribbons are formed inside carbon nanotubes as a result of an irradiation-selective chemical reaction. The process of fullerene formation in HRTEM during continuous electron irradiation of a small graphene flake has been simulated, and mechanisms driving this transformation analysed.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Visit-to-visit and 24-h blood pressure variability: association with endothelial and smooth muscle function in African Americans
Creators: name: Diaz, Keith
name: Veerabhadrappa, P.
name: Kashem, M. A.
name: Thakkar, S. R.
name: Feairheller, D. L.
name: Sturgeon, K. M.
name: Ling, C.
name: Williamson, S. T.
name: Kretzschmar, J.
name: Lee, H.
name: Grimm, H.
name: Babbit, D. M.
name: Vin, C.
name: Fan, X.
name: Crabbe, D. L.
name: Brown, M. D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Vascular smooth muscle
African Americans
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Blood pressure
Medicine

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of visit-to-visit and 24-h blood pressure (BP) variability with markers of endothelial injury and vascular function. We recruited 72 African Americans who were non-diabetic, non-smoking and free of cardiovascular (CV) and renal disease. Office BP was measured at three visits and 24-h ambulatory BP monitoring was conducted to measure visit-to-visit and 24-h BP variability, respectively. The 5-min time-course of brachial artery flow-mediated dilation and nitroglycerin-mediated dilation were assessed as measures of endothelial and smooth muscle function. Fasted blood samples were analyzed for circulating endothelial microparticles (EMPs). Significantly lower CD31+CD42− EMPs were found in participants with high visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure (SBP) variability or high 24-h diastolic blood pressure (DBP) variability. Participants with high visit-to-visit DBP variability had significantly lower flow-mediated dilation and higher nitroglycerin-mediated dilation at multiple time-points. When analyzed as continuous variables, 24-h mean arterial pressure variability was inversely associated with CD62+ EMPs; visit-to-visit DBP variability was inversely associated with flow-mediated dilation normalized by smooth muscle function and was positively associated with nitroglycerin-mediated dilation; and 24-h DBP variability was positively associated with nitroglycerin-mediated dilation. All associations were independent of age, gender, body mass index and mean BP. In conclusion, in this cohort of African Americans visit-to-visit and 24-h BP variability were associated with measures of endothelial injury, endothelial function and smooth muscle function. These results suggest that BP variability may influence the pathogenesis of CV disease, in part, through influences on vascular health.
Investigation on enabling Intelligence through Deep Learning and Computer Vision-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems in a Classroom Environment
Creators: name: M, Lakshaga Jyothi
name: Dr. R.S.Shanmugasundaram
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80104 Computer Vision

description: Some of the recent researches in Higher Education is making its way to figure out how things can be done more efficiently and smartly. They are making their foot-mark in adopting new technologies inside the college educational settings, while it’s yet in the development stage. Some of the technological advancements have already been adopted and made compulsory for the proper functioning of the educational system. Besides, maintaining a stable functioning in the college community, to cope up with the increased demand for new technological adaptation in the Higher Educational society, technological terminologies and the recent trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to reach the goal and seems to be the possible solution. Classroom Assets or knowledge on the historical patterns in the classroom data which prevails in a traditional classroom can be collected via an IoT system that uses sensors to generate a huge volume of data and that assets could be used to make decisions on the interpretations to satisfy our needs. According to a report, the total number of IoT devices worldwide will be approximately 75 billion worldwide. But then the transformation from the theoretical conceptualization to the implementation is yet in its budding stage. Deep Learning as a whole is a subset of AI and Machine Learning, which will help the educational sector to make better decisions at the right time. Deep Learning along with Computer Vision is another trend set to possibly apply AI in every use case specifically for monitoring and investigating and analytic systems. Hence, to fill the gap between the two ends, Higher Educational Classrooms and the Technological Growth, we have made an investigation to figure out the possible applications of IoT and Deep Learning in the Classroom environment. An amalgam of Computer Vision (CV), IoT, and Deep Learning in the Educational Classrooms can promisingly give rise to smart, intelligent classrooms thus improving the staff and the student experiences by positively uplifting the educational perceptions
Flickers Forecasting In CRT Using Stochastic Analysis
Creators: name: Khan, Adnan Alam
name: Soomro, Safeeullah
name: Memon, Abdul Ghafoor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Videos are composed of sequence of interrelated frames. There is a minute difference among frames. Flicker is an error which is found in every video. It is like a checker box in a video, there are several reasons behind flickers generation, one of the main reasons is refresh rate of the monitor and second reason is number of frames per second in a video. The main objective of this study is to propose and develop a framework that identifies flicker location and minimizes the flickers rate. Analysis shows that flickers can be minimize by adjusting the persistence of pixel and higher refresh rate of CRT monitor. Further we have compared different isotopes of phosphorous pixels and generate its graphs. This paper highlighted the cause of flicker and its avoidance .Statistical research proves that proposed algorithm improves the video quality and reduce flickers ratio up to 90%.
title: Bioactive Extracts of the Brown Seaweed Laminaria Japonica to Improve Gut Health
Creators: name: Gao, Yifan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Chronic diseases including cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes and cancer have become worldwide health issues. Unhealthy lifestyle may aggravate inflammation of the system, which could be the main cause of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential health benefits of bioactive compounds extracted from Laminaria japonica to protect against different chronic diseases. Laminaria japonica is a famous type of brown algae, which is widely used with its outstanding health benefits. However, there is limited research studying about the health benefits of different bioactive extracts from Laminaria japonica. Here, the study was made up of two core contents to investigate the health effects of bioactive extracts from Laminaria japonica. First part focused on fat-soluble bioactive compounds, such as phenolic compounds, which were divided into extractable fraction and non-extractable fraction. They were studied on the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects of cell culture study. The second part focused on water-soluble bioactive compounds, for instance, polysaccharides. They were extracted by polar solvents like water and were studied on the influences on human gut microbiota. Human gut microbiota is the system that various microorganisms, such as bacteria, archaea, and eukarya inhabiting the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Diet is one of the major factors to affect the composition of gut microbiota, which could further influence the effect of modulating immunity and preventing diseases.
For the study of phenolic compounds, the results of TPC, FC and TC measurements revealed that the content of phenolic compounds in extractable fraction was higher than that in non-extractable fraction. The results of the measurement of anti-inflammatory effects in macrophages RAW 264.7 cells suggested that the inhibition capacity of extractable fractions to NO production induced by LPS was stronger than that of non- extractable fractions. However, the inhibition capacity of extractable fractions to the growth of human colon cancer cell HCT 116 was weaker than that of non-extractable fractions. Moreover, for the study of polysaccharides, during the experiment of in vitro fermentation to mimic GI tract, the polysaccharide of fraction C, alginate, was more effectively utilized, with the significant reduction of pH and total carbohydrate content. Overall, our results suggested compounds extracted from Laminaria japonica were bioactive and were potential to be developed as functional foods in the future.
title: Fat Lowering Effects of Fisetin in Caenorhabditis elegans
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Nikolas J
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Fisetin, a flavanol with anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, and anti-aging properties, has shown promise for reducing fat accumulation in tissue culture and animal models. This plant sourced compound has limited studies supporting its effects on fat accumulation. Therefore, this study was completed to determine fisetin’s role in fat reduction along with its mechanism of action using Caenorhabditis elegans. C. elegans is a small roundworm with roughly 65% of its genes being conserved in humans related to disease. In this study, 100 and 200 µM fisetin has shown to reduce fat accumulation in wild-type worms. Body size, locomotion, and pumping rate were assessed in wild-type worms to determine if fisetin modified worm size, speed, and feed behavior, respectively. Mutant strains were tested to elucidate a potential pathway, of which tub-1 knockout mutants failed to reduce fat accumulation after fisetin treatment, suggesting this gene’s involvement. Gene expression of tub-1 was not altered by fisetin treatment, suggesting potential post-transcriptional regulation of fisetin. This study serves as an introduction to fisetin’s fat reducing effects via a tub-1 dependent mechanism.
title: Lecture Video Transformation through An Intelligent Analysis and Post-processing System
Creators: name: Wang, Xi
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Lecture videos are good sources for people to learn new things. Students commonly use online videos to explore various domains. However, some recorded videos are posted on online platforms without being post-processed due to technology and resource limitations. In this work, we focus on the research of developing an intelligent system to automatically extract essential information, including the main instructor and screen, in a lecture video in several scenarios by using modern deep learning techniques. This thesis aims to combine the extracted essential information to render the videos and generate a new layout with a smaller file size than the original one. Another benefit of using this approach is that the users may save video post-processing time and costs. State-of-the-art object detection models, an algorithm to correct screen display, tracking the instructor, and other deep learning techniques were adopted in the system to detect both the main instructor and the screen in given videos without much of the computational burden.
There are four main contributions:
1. We built an intelligent video analysis and post-processing system to extract and reframe detected objects from lecture videos.
2. We proposed a post-processing algorithm to localize the frontal human torso position in processing a sequence of frames in the videos.
3. We proposed a novel deep learning approach to distinguish the main instructor from other instructors or audiences in several complex situations.
4. We proposed an algorithm to extract the four edge points of a screen at the pixel level and correct the screen display in various scenarios.
Factors associated with the mental wellbeing of medical professionals.
Creators: name: Milroy, Corinna
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: This doctoral thesis explores several important factors relating to the poor psychological health reported in medical professionals and highlights opportunities to intervene. Section one reports a quantitative systematic literature review exploring the relationship between self-compassion and mental wellbeing in doctors and medical students. Four databases were searched (CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and PubMed) and thirteen studies were included. High self-compassion was significantly associated with a reduced risk of burnout and stress and increased levels of work engagement, emotional wellbeing and compassion satisfaction. Effect sizes were comparable to those reported in other healthcare professionals. Two interventions were efficacious in increasing self-compassion and improving mental health. To advance on the findings of this review, further research is needed to understand the nature of the relationship and to explore interventions in controlled trials. Section two reports an empirical study investigating the relationship between perfectionistic concerns, psychological safety, and mental wellbeing in doctors. Participants (N = 121) completed an online survey comprising of self-report measures. In a regression model, low perfectionistic concerns and high psychological safety predicted better mental wellbeing, accounting for 44.5% of the variance. Psychological safety was not found to moderate the relationship between the other two variables, though this could be due to a type-II error. The findings highlight two important factors that could be targeted for mental wellbeing initiatives, although further research is needed to understand the relationship further. Section three includes a reflection of the challenges and decisions made during the thesis process, and reflections on my positionality
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1961-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Exact WKB analysis and cluster algebras
Creators: name: Iwaki, Kohei
name: Nakanishi, Tomoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop the mutation theory in the exact WKB analysis using the framework of cluster algebras. Under a continuous deformation of the potential of the Schrödinger equation on a compact Riemann surface, the Stokes graph may change the topology. We call this phenomenon the mutation of Stokes graphs. Along the mutation of Stokes graphs, the Voros symbols, which are monodromy data of the equation, also mutate due to the Stokes phenomenon. We show that the Voros symbols mutate as variables of a cluster algebra with surface realization. As an application, we obtain the identities of Stokes automorphisms associated with periods of cluster algebras. The paper also includes an extensive introduction of the exact WKB analysis and the surface realization of cluster algebras for nonexperts.
description: v1:88 pages. v2: 98 pages. Appendix B added and minor revisions. v3: 100 pages. The notion of labeled Stokes triangulation changed; accordingly, Sections 5.3, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 8.3 modified. v4: 104 pages, minor revisions, the version to appear in J. Phys. A
The radius discrepancy in low mass stars: single vs. binaries
Creators: name: Spada, F.
name: Demarque, P.
name: Kim, Y. -C.
name: Sills, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A long-standing issue in the theory of low mass stars is the discrepancy between predicted and observed radii and effective temperatures. In spite of the increasing availability of very precise radius determinations from eclipsing binaries and interferometric measurements of radii of single stars, there is no unanimous consensus on the extent (or even the existence) of the discrepancy and on its connection with other stellar properties (e.g. metallicity, magnetic activity). We investigate the radius discrepancy phenomenon using the best data currently available (accuracy about 5%). We have constructed a grid of stellar models covering the entire range of low mass stars (0.1-1.25 M_sun) and various choices of the metallicity and of the mixing length parameter α. We used an improved version of the Yale Rotational stellar Evolution Code (YREC), implementing surface boundary conditions based on the most up-to-date PHOENIX atmosphere models. Our models are in good agreement with others in the literature and improve and extend the low mass end of the Yale-Yonsei isochrones. Our calculations include rotation-related quantities, such as moments of inertia and convective turnover time scales, useful in studies of magnetic activity and rotational evolution of solar-like stars. Consistently with previous works, we find that both binaries and single stars have radii inflated by about 3% with respect to the theoretical models; among binaries, the components of short orbital period systems are found to be the most deviant. We conclude that both binaries and single stars are comparably affected by the radius discrepancy phenomenon.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
title: Birthweight and risk of Autoimmune and Thyroid Conditions Within the Women’s Health Initiative
Creators: name: Monahan, Brian c
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Autoimmune and thyroid conditions account for a substantial proportion of the morbidity and mortality experienced in the United States, affecting >40 million Americans combined. Co-occurrence of both an autoimmune and thyroid condition is also likely, particularly among women. Epidemiologic studies on both sets of conditions have examined many risk factors, including demographic, lifestyle, genetic, and environmental risk factors. However, one area which has been neglected is the effect of early life exposures on the development of autoimmune and thyroid conditions. To investigate the potential association between an individual’s birth weight (by category;in uteroand early childhood, extending the hypothesis to include thyroid conditions.
Recurrence in resonant transmission of one-dimensional array of delta potentials
Creators: name: Cordourier-Maruri, Guillermo
name: Gupta, Virendra
name: de Coss, Romeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resonant transmission of a moving particle which interacts with an one-dimensional array of N delta-function potentials is investigated. A suitable transfer matrix formulation is used to obtain the particle transmission. We give the parameters for perfect tunnelling and the transcendental equation for the quasi-bound state energies for N = 2, 3 and 4. Conditions for perfect tunnelling and resonant transmission are discussed for arrays with arbitrary N. A model to explain how the tunnelling energy filter works in these systems is proposed here.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, Accepted in Modern Physics Letters B