cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Diets of Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: coccinellidae) in Utah Alfalfa Fields
Creators: name: Davidson, Lynette Nicole
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Aphidophagous lady beetles rely on multiple sources of food in their environment. Alfalfa fields provide both aphids and many alternate foods, such as other arthropod prey, pollen, and fungi. Alfalfa fields (Medicago sativa L.) in Utah have low aphid densities, which may require lady beetles to consume alternative sources of food. Many methods can be used to determine these diets; frass analysis is used here to compare the diets of the introduced species Coccinella septempunctata L. with two native species, C. transversoguttata richardsoni Brown and Hippodamia convergens Guérin-Méneville, that occur in the Utah alfalfa habitat. In initial laboratory experiments to examine the feasibility of frass analysis, 48 hours at 20oC was sufficient time for adult lady beetles to pass prey cuticle through their guts. When consumed by these adults, pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum [Harris]), alfalfa weevil larvae (Hypera postica [Gyllenhall]), and C. septempunctata larvae produced distinctive fragments in the frass. Such fragments could also be distinguished in frass collected in a field experiment in which aphid densities in plots of alfalfa were manipulated. Furthermore, additional consumed foods could be distinguished in the field experiment, including pollen, fungi, and other types of arthropods. Frass analysis demonstrated higher use of aphid prey by C. septempunctata adults collected from high versus low aphid density plots during the field experiment. Use of other types of prey, such as alfalfa weevil larvae, other arthropods, pollen and fungi, was similar between plots with high and low aphid densities. A field census was performed over two years to track the diets of the three species of lady beetles during the first crop of alfalfa, when two sources of prey in particular were present, aphids and alfalfa weevil larvae. Comparisons of diets revealed that the three species utilized different types of prey to similar degree during both years. In general, however, higher percentages of C. septempunctata adults were found to have consumed aphids and weevils during both years. Also, C. septempunctata was found to produce more frass and consume larger quantities of prey than either native species during the second year.
Additional file 2 of Genome sequencing-based coverage analyses facilitate high-resolution detection of deletions linked to phenotypes of gamma-irradiated wheat mutants
Creators: name: Komura, Shoya
name: Jinno, Hironobu
name: Sonoda, Tatsuya
name: Oono, Youko
name: Handa, Hirokazu
name: Takumi, Shigeo
name: Yoshida, Kentaro
name: Kobayashi, Fuminori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Quantum State Reconstruction in a Noisy Environment via Deep Learning
Creators: name: Morgillo, Angela Rosy
name: Mangini, Stefano
name: Piastra, Marco
name: Macchiavello, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum noise is currently limiting efficient quantum information processing and computation. In this work, we consider the tasks of reconstructing and classifying quantum states corrupted by the action of an unknown noisy channel using classical feedforward neural networks. By framing reconstruction as a regression problem, we show how such an approach can be used to recover with fidelities exceeding 99% the noiseless density matrices of quantum states of up to three qubits undergoing noisy evolution, and we test its performance with both single-qubit (bit-flip, phase-flip, depolarising, and amplitude damping) and two-qubit quantum channels (correlated amplitude damping). Moreover, we also consider the task of distinguishing between different quantum noisy channels, and show how a neural network-based classifier is able to solve such a classification problem with perfect accuracy.
Supplement file 1: brief intervention
Creators: name: Ajumobi, Olufemi
name: Jami, Waleed A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: People have died from e-cigarette smoking (68 deaths as at February, 2020). Here is the link to the video used as brief intervention for the within-subject design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoWIPOXnGtM&feature=youtu.be
Additional file 1 of Baseline atherogenic index of plasma and its trajectory predict onset of type 2 diabetes in a health screened adult population: a large longitudinal study
Creators: name: Sun, Yongbing
name: Lin, Xinbei
name: Zou, Zhi
name: Zhao, Caiwen
name: Liu, Ao
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Li, Zhonglin
name: Wu, Xiaoling
name: Dou, Shewei
name: Zhu, Jiadong
name: Li, Tao
name: Lv, Xue
name: Wang, Yong
name: Li, Yongli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
Structure and magnetic, thermal, and electronic transport properties of single crystal EuPd2Sb2
Creators: name: Das, S.
name: McFadden, K.
name: Singh, Yogesh
name: Nath, R.
name: Ellern, A.
name: Johnston, D. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single crystals of EuPd2Sb2 have been grown from PdSb self-flux. The properties of the single crystals have been investigated by x-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility chi, magnetization M, electrical resistivity rho, Hall coefficient R_H, and heat capacity Cp measurements versus temperature T and magnetic field H. Single crystal x-ray diffraction studies confirmed that EuPd2Sb2 crystallizes in the CaBe2Ge2-type structure. The chi(T) measurements suggest antiferromagnetic ordering at 6.0 K with the easy axis or plane in the crystallographic ab plane. An additional transition occurs at 4.5 K that may be a spin reorientation transition. The Cp(T) data also show the two transitions at 6.1 K and 4.4 K, respectively, indicating the bulk nature of the transitions. The 4.4 K transition is suppressed below 1.8 K while the 6.1 K transition moves down to 3.3 K in H = 8 T. The rho(T) data show metallic behavior down to 1.8 K along with an anomaly at 5.5 K in zero field. The anomaly is suppressed to 2.7 K in an 8 T field. The R_H measurements indicated that the dominant charge carriers are electrons. The M(H) isotherms show three field-induced transitions at 2.75 T, 3.90 T, and 4.2 T magnetic fields parallel to the ab plane at 1.8 K. No transitions are observed in M(H) for fields parallel to the c axis.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev. B
De-Trending Time Series for Astronomical Variability Surveys
Creators: name: Kim, Dae-Won
name: Protopapas, Pavlos
name: Alcock, Charles
name: Byun, Yong-Ik
name: Bianco, Federica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a de-trending algorithm for the removal of trends in time series. Trends in time series could be caused by various systematic and random noise sources such as cloud passages, changes of airmass, telescope vibration or CCD noise. Those trends undermine the intrinsic signals of stars and should be removed. We determine the trends from subsets of stars that are highly correlated among themselves. These subsets are selected based on a hierarchical tree clustering algorithm. A bottom-up merging algorithm based on the departure from normal distribution in the correlation is developed to identify subsets, which we call clusters. After identification of clusters, we determine a trend per cluster by weighted sum of normalized light-curves. We then use quadratic programming to de-trend all individual light-curves based on these determined trends. Experimental results with synthetic light-curves containing artificial trends and events are presented. Results from other de-trending methods are also compared. The developed algorithm can be applied to time series for trend removal in both narrow and wide field astronomy.
description: Revised version according to the referee's second review
6He beta-decay rate and the suppression of the axial constant in nuclear matter
Creators: name: Vaintraub, Sergey
name: Barnea, Nir
name: Gazit, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a microscopic calculation of the 6He beta-decay into the ground state of 6Li. To this end, we use chiral perturbation theory at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order to describe the nuclear weak-currents. The nuclear wave functions are derived from the J-matrix inverse scattering nucleon-nucleon potential (JISP), and the Schroedinger equation is solved using the hyperspherical-harmonics expansion. Our calculation brings the theoretical decay-rate within 3% of the measured one. This success is attributed to the use of chiral-perturbation-theory based mesonic currents, whose contribution is qualitatively different compared to standard nuclear physics approach, where the use of meson exchange currents worsens the comparison to experiment. The inherent inconsistency in the use of the JISP potential together with chiral-perturbation-theory based is argued not to affect this conclusion, though a more detailed investigation is called for. We conclude that any suppression of the axial constant in nuclear matter is included in this description of the weak interaction in the nucleus.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review C
Additional file 2 of Baseline atherogenic index of plasma and its trajectory predict onset of type 2 diabetes in a health screened adult population: a large longitudinal study
Creators: name: Sun, Yongbing
name: Lin, Xinbei
name: Zou, Zhi
name: Zhao, Caiwen
name: Liu, Ao
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Li, Zhonglin
name: Wu, Xiaoling
name: Dou, Shewei
name: Zhu, Jiadong
name: Li, Tao
name: Lv, Xue
name: Wang, Yong
name: Li, Yongli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 2
Additional file 3 of Genome sequencing-based coverage analyses facilitate high-resolution detection of deletions linked to phenotypes of gamma-irradiated wheat mutants
Creators: name: Komura, Shoya
name: Jinno, Hironobu
name: Sonoda, Tatsuya
name: Oono, Youko
name: Handa, Hirokazu
name: Takumi, Shigeo
name: Yoshida, Kentaro
name: Kobayashi, Fuminori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3.
u3Green - Participation and citizen science with young people
Creators: name: schoetz, tim
name: hennig, sabine
name: Vogler, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: citizen science
young people
participation
urban green
child-friendly cities

description: The provision of urban green spaces is becoming increasingly important due to the declining living conditions in cities. However, the demands of young people and adults often vary considerably and are not well understood. Furthermore, there are deficits in the participation of children and young people in urban planning, although their involvement in the relevant processes is becoming increasingly important. One of the reasons for this is the specific involvement of young people in citizen science initiatives. The u3Green project addresses these challenges by following the citizen science co-creation approach.
Lattice Green's Functions for High Order Finite Difference Stencils
Creators: name: Gabbard, James
name: van Rees, Wim M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31B10, 35J05, 35J08, 65N80, 76M20

description: Lattice Green's Functions (LGFs) are fundamental solutions to discretized linear operators, and as such they are a useful tool for solving discretized elliptic PDEs on domains that are unbounded in one or more directions. The majority of existing numerical solvers that make use of LGFs rely on a second-order discretization and operate on domains with free-space boundary conditions in all directions. Under these conditions, fast expansion methods are available that enable precomputation of 2D or 3D LGFs in linear time, avoiding the need for brute-force multi-dimensional quadrature of numerically unstable integrals. Here we focus on higher-order discretizations of the Laplace operator on domains with more general boundary conditions, by (1) providing an algorithm for fast and accurate evaluation of the LGFs associated with high-order dimension-split centered finite differences on unbounded domains, and (2) deriving closed-form expressions for the LGFs associated with both dimension-split and Mehrstellen discretizations on domains with one unbounded dimension. Through numerical experiments we demonstrate that these techniques provide LGF evaluations with near machine-precision accuracy, and that the resulting LGFs allow for numerically consistent solutions to high-order discretizations of the Poisson's equation on fully or partially unbounded 3D domains.
Computation of correlation-induced atomic displacements and structural transformations in paramagnetic KCuF3 and LaMnO3
Creators: name: Leonov, I.
name: Korotin, Dm.
name: Binggeli, N.
name: Anisimov, V. I.
name: Vollhardt, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a computational scheme for ab initio total-energy calculations of materials with strongly interacting electrons using a plane-wave basis set. It combines ab initio band structure and dynamical mean-field theory and is implemented in terms of plane-wave pseudopotentials. The present approach allows us to investigate complex materials with strongly interacting electrons and is able to treat atomic displacements, and hence structural transformations, caused by electronic correlations. Here it is employed to investigate two prototypical Jahn-Teller materials, KCuF3 and LaMnO3, in their paramagnetic phases. The computed equilibrium Jahn-Teller distortion and antiferro-orbital order agree well with experiment, and the structural optimization performed for paramagnetic KCuF3 yields the correct lattice constant, equilibrium Jahn-Teller distortion and tetragonal compression of the unit cell. Most importantly, the present approach is able to determine correlation-induced structural transformations, equilibrium atomic positions and lattice structure in both strongly and weakly correlated solids in their paramagnetic phases as well as in phases with long-range magnetic order.
description: 27 pages, 11 figures
Manual para demarcação de Reserva Legal no Pampa
Creators: name: Both, Arielle
name: Bremer, Ulisses Franz
name: Urruth, Leonardo Marques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cadastro Ambiental Rural
Rural Environmental Registry
Legal Reserves
Environmental legislation
Pampa
Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil

description: Material produzido como parte do trabalho de conclusão do curso de Geografia na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Ulisses Franz Bremer e coorientação do Dr. Leonardo Marques Urruth. No trabalho de conclusão entitulado "Análise de cobertura do solo em Reservas Legais propostas em áreas prioritárias para a conservação da biodiversidade no Bioma Pampa", apresentado em abril de 2023, foi rralizada a análise da situação atual de declaração e cobertura do solo nas Reservas Legais inseridas em Áreas Prioritárias para a Conservação da Biodiversidade (MMA/2018) no Plano de Ação Territorial da Campanha Sul e Serra do Sudeste (SEMA/RS,2021). Este documento foi elaborado como apêndice do trabalho, objetivando apresentar a temática ao público e atender as principais dúvidas de proprietários e possuidores de imóveis rurais, além de técnicos que trabalham com a elaboração do Cadastro Ambiental Rual. Conteúdo: Apresenta as principais informações quanto ao Cadastro Ambeintal Rural e a declaração de Reserva Legal, com enfoque nos imóveis localizados no bioma Pampa e as implicações no CAR. Em seguida são respondidas algumas das principais dúvidas apresentadas pelo público com relação ao tema, além de algumas indicações para a declaração e demarcação de Reserva Legal. Erros e eventuais dúvidas de qualquer natureza podem ser reportados para bothgazzanaarielle@gmail.com para serem corrigidos/respondidas. O trabalho completo está disponível no diretório da UFRGS (https://lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/257986).
title: Inter-Religious Marriage and Migration
Creators: name: Bohm, Maggie Y
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This study analyzes the influence of 1) inter-religious marriage and 2) differing levels of church attendance within a married couple on migration behavior. The study draws from previous research on inter-racial marriage for a framework to examine whether there is reason to expect a relationship between migration and inter-religious marriage. We hypothesize that the propensity for migration is higher for inter-religious couples than for couples constituted by individuals of the same religion and for couples who attend church at different frequencies. To examine the hypotheses, this study uses age, education, and length of residence as controls in logistic models. Theories that have been utilized in examining the effects of inter-group marriages, especially inter-racial marriages, on the behavior of couples provide theoretical guidance for the analysis. Largely, this research, as well as research on other differences between husbands and wives, indicates that inter-group married couples have higher migration rates than intra-groups couples. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 1979 are used to analyze the relationships between these aspects of religious identities and migration and between church attendance and migration. Results actually show slightly lower migration odds for inter-group couples than for intra-group couples. Thus, our hypothesis is rejected.
Additional file 3 of Baseline atherogenic index of plasma and its trajectory predict onset of type 2 diabetes in a health screened adult population: a large longitudinal study
Creators: name: Sun, Yongbing
name: Lin, Xinbei
name: Zou, Zhi
name: Zhao, Caiwen
name: Liu, Ao
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Li, Zhonglin
name: Wu, Xiaoling
name: Dou, Shewei
name: Zhu, Jiadong
name: Li, Tao
name: Lv, Xue
name: Wang, Yong
name: Li, Yongli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 3
The relationship between coaching behaviors and athletes’ burnout in Golestan province futsal super league players
Creators: name: Bai, Nasser
name: Dana, Amir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between coaching behaviors and athletes’ burnout in Golestan province (Iran) super league Futsal players. The research method in this study was Descriptive and correlation method. Statistical population of survey is all players who play in Golestan province Futsal super league (N= 110) that they all participate in the study. There were two questionnaires used for data collection including Martin and Barnes (1999) Coaching Behavior questionnaire And Raedeke & Smith (2001) questionnaire to measure athletes’ burnout. Descriptive and inferential statistics methods for data analysis were used. With 99% confidence, the results showed that: 1. There is a negative and significant correlation between Positive reaction Behavior and futsal players’ burnout (r=-0.646, P≤ 0.001). 2. There is a positive and significant correlation between negative reaction Behavior and futsal players’ burnout (r= 0.566, P≤ 0.001). 3. There is a negative and significant correlation between natural behavior and futsal players’ burnout (r=-0.388, P≤ 0.001). It is recommended that coaches employ adequate leadership styles to decrease athletes’ burnout and other factors affecting athletes’ burnout in training and competition are examined.
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of iodine production from caliche ore in Chile
Creators: name: Roche, Lindsey
name: Muhl, Marco
name: Finkbeiner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk::690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk
subject: life cycle assessment
subject: iodine
subject: caliche
subject: mining
subject: SQM
subject: global warming potential

description: Purpose: Iodine and its compounds have several industrial uses, primarily in nutrition and healthcare. So far, no specific LCA data for industrial iodine production are available. The purpose of this study is to provide the first LCA using primary industry data for iodine production from caliche ore in Chile. Methods: The study is a process-based, attributional LCA and follows the relevant ISO standards 14040/44. Primary data were collected from the world’s main producer representing their production for the years 2019 and 2020. Economic allocation was applied to deal with the by-product sodium nitrate. The impact assessment was performed with a set of CML 2001 indicators. Results and discussion: Cradle-to-gate total LCIA results per 1000 kg of iodine prill product include a GWP100 of 1.48E+04 kg CO2 eq., an AP of 2.53E+02 kg SO2 eq., a POCP of 1.20E+01 kg C2H4 eq., an EP of 9.60E+00 kg PO43− eq., and an ADP fossil of 2.44E+05 MJ. The main contributor across process steps and for most impact categories is electricity consumption. Other hotspots include diesel combustion, hydrogen peroxide, sulfur, sulfuric acid, kerosene, and sodium hydroxide. A scenario analysis with renewable electricity revealed a reduction potential for all impact categories. As an example, the GWP could be reduced by 33–38%. Conclusions: This study is the first LCA for iodine production from caliche ore based on primary industry data. The switch to renewable sources was identified as the main improvement potential for the hotspot electricity consumption, with a potential reduction of at least 25% for all impact categories except ODP.
ERC Days with Our Mythical Childhood, 10th Anniversary of the ERC
Creators: name: Marciniak Katarzyna
name: Deacy Susan
name: Elizabeth, Hale
name: Lisa, Maurice
name: Nkemleke Daniel, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: OurMythicalChildhood

description: In March 2017, the European Research Council (ERC) celebrated its 10th Anniversary. We were most pleased to join the world-wide celebrations with five events organized at our Host Institution and Beneficiary Institutions within the OurMythicalChildhood project.

Typesetting of the materials by Michał Kucharski.
description: The joint programme is in English. The leaflet and the poster for the event at the Host Institution (University of Warsaw) are in Polish.
title: Forensic and Anti-Forensic Techniques for Object Linking and Embedding 2 (OLE2)-Formatted Documents
Creators: name: Daniels, Jason M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Common office documents provide significant opportunity for forensic and anti-forensic work. The Object Linking and Embedding 2 (OLE2) specification used primarily by Microsoft’s Office Suite contains unused or dead space regions that can be over written to hide covert channels of communication. This thesis describes a technique to detect those covert channels and also describes a different method of encoding that lowers the probability of detection. The algorithm developed, called OleDetection, is based on the use of kurtosis and byte frequency distribution statistics to accurately identify OLE2 documents with covert channels. OleDetection is able to correctly identify 99.97 percent of documents with covert channel and only a false positive rate 0.65 percent. The improved encoding scheme encodes the covert channel with patterns found in unmodified dead space regions. This anti-forensic technique allows the covert channel to masquerade as normal data, lowering the ability probability for any detection tool to is able to detect its presence.
Qubit transfer between photons at telecom and visible wavelengths in a slow-light atomic medium
Creators: name: Gogyan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method that enables efficient conversion of quantum information frequency between different regions of spectrum of light based on recently demonstrated strong parametric coupling between two narrow-band single-photon pulses propagating in a slow-light atomic medium [1]. We show that an input qubit at telecom wavelength is transformed into another at visible domain in a lossless and shape-conserving manner while keeping the initial quantum coherence and entanglement. These transformations can be realized with a quantum efficiency close to its maximum value.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. A
Harmony Search as a Metaheuristic Algorithm
Creators: name: Yang, Xin-She
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: optimization and control

description: This first chapter intends to review and analyze the powerful new Harmony Search (HS) algorithm in the context of metaheuristic algorithms. I will first outline the fundamental steps of Harmony Search, and how it works. I then try to identify the characteristics of metaheuristics and analyze why HS is a good meta-heuristic algorithm. I then review briefly other popular metaheuristics such as par-ticle swarm optimization so as to find their similarities and differences from HS. Finally, I will discuss the ways to improve and develop new variants of HS, and make suggestions for further research including open questions.
description: 14 pages in typeset publications
Additional file 5 of Baseline atherogenic index of plasma and its trajectory predict onset of type 2 diabetes in a health screened adult population: a large longitudinal study
Creators: name: Sun, Yongbing
name: Lin, Xinbei
name: Zou, Zhi
name: Zhao, Caiwen
name: Liu, Ao
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Li, Zhonglin
name: Wu, Xiaoling
name: Dou, Shewei
name: Zhu, Jiadong
name: Li, Tao
name: Lv, Xue
name: Wang, Yong
name: Li, Yongli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 5
Dynamic Interpretability for Model Comparison via Decision Rules
Creators: name: Rida, Adam
name: Lesot, Marie-Jeanne
name: Renard, Xavier
name: Marsala, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Explainable AI (XAI) methods have mostly been built to investigate and shed light on single machine learning models and are not designed to capture and explain differences between multiple models effectively. This paper addresses the challenge of understanding and explaining differences between machine learning models, which is crucial for model selection, monitoring and lifecycle management in real-world applications. We propose DeltaXplainer, a model-agnostic method for generating rule-based explanations describing the differences between two binary classifiers. To assess the effectiveness of DeltaXplainer, we conduct experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets, covering various model comparison scenarios involving different types of concept drift.
Investigation of antimicrobial sensitivity in bacteriophage-insensitive mutants of Salmonella enterica
Creators: name: Guy, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Non-typhoidal Salmonella is a leading cause of foodborne diarrheal disease. The prevalence of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) isolates is rising, and the overexpression of the AcrAB–TolC efflux pump is one factor often linked to multidrug resistance. We propose a targeted strategy to elicit structural changes in the TolC protein via bacteriophage (phage) infection. We hypothesize that these alterations in TolC structure will restore antimicrobial sensitivity of the host Salmonella. The purpose of this thesis was to assess changes in AMR of bacteriophage-insensitive mutants (BIMs) of Salmonella Typhimurium resistant to chloramphenicol and tetracycline, following infection with a TolC-binding phage. Using a collection of newly-isolated phages (n=72), TolC dependence was determined via relative efficiency of plating using a ΔtolC mutant of S. Typhimurium ATCC 14028. BIMs were generated by co-inoculating S. Typhimurium with TolC binding phage in tryptic soy broth (TSB) in triplicate. Every day for three days, 5 µL of co-culture and an additional 5 µL of phage lysate (~10⁹ PFU/mL) was transferred to fresh TSB. Cultures were isolated on streak plates and ten colonies selected at random; which were confirmed as phage resistant over five rounds of subculture via spot test. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of BIMs to chloramphenicol and tetracycline were determined via broth microdilution. Additionally, the ability of this phage to alter the frequency of AMR within populations of S. Typhimurium was investigated by a serial co-culture method. One phage, SeKF 80, showed reliance on TolC. Host resistance to this phage arose after three days. Of the ten randomly selected BIMs, #1, #5, and #9 displayed twofold increases in tetracycline resistance compared to the parental strain. In contrast, nine of the ten BIMs had unchanged MICs of chloramphenicol, with only BIM 5 showing a twofold reduction in chloramphenicol resistance. Phage SeKF 80 had minimal effect on the frequency of AMR when used to infect populations of S. Typhimurium. This study demonstrates that forced evolution of the TolC receptor through phage infection can lead to evolutionary trade-offs related to antimicrobial resistance; however, the phenotypes of bacteriophage-insensitive Salmonella mutants are complex and potentially specific to the host-phage pair.
Additional file 1 of Cytokine signatures differentiate systemic sclerosis patients at high versus low risk for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Creators: name: Kolstad, Kathleen D.
name: Khatri, Avani
name: Donato, Michele
name: Chang, Sarah E.
name: Li, Shufeng
name: Steen, Virginia D.
name: Utz, Paul J.
name: Khatri, Purvesh
name: Chung, Lorinda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Principal component analysis plot of 65-plex cytokine array data shows all 182 samples along PC1 and PC2, which represent 63.4% and 4.6% of the variability, respectively, within the data PCA plot distinguished different patient groups. Healthy controls and low risk SSc patients were different from SSc patients with PAH or at high risk of developing PAH. SSc=systemic sclerosis; PAH=pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Additional file 6 of Baseline atherogenic index of plasma and its trajectory predict onset of type 2 diabetes in a health screened adult population: a large longitudinal study
Creators: name: Sun, Yongbing
name: Lin, Xinbei
name: Zou, Zhi
name: Zhao, Caiwen
name: Liu, Ao
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Li, Zhonglin
name: Wu, Xiaoling
name: Dou, Shewei
name: Zhu, Jiadong
name: Li, Tao
name: Lv, Xue
name: Wang, Yong
name: Li, Yongli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 6
Constituent Quarks and the Spin of the Proton
Creators: name: Fritzsch, H.
name: Eldahoumi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The constituent quarks are interpreted as bound states, which have an internal structure. The quark distributions of the proton are related to those of the constituent quarks. The experiments support this hypothesis. Likewise the spin structure of the proton is related to the spin structure of the constituent quarks. We find that about 30% of the spin of a constituent quark is given by the valence quark, and 70% are provided by the gluons.
description: 8 pages
title: Application Of Structural Control For Civil Engineering Structures
Creators: name: Shafieezadeh, Abdollah
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This study presents the application of control methods in seismic mitigation of structural responses. The study consists of two parts. In the first section, fractional order filters are utilized to enhance the performance of the conventional LQR method for optimal robust control of a simple civil structure. The introduced filters modify the state variables fed back to the constant gain controller. Four combinations of fractional order filter and LQR are considered and optimized based on a new performance criterion defined in the paper. Introducing fractional order filters is shown to improve the results considerably for both the artificially generated ground motions and previously recorded earthquake data. In the second part, frequency dependent filters are introduced to improve the effectiveness of active control systems designed to mitigate the seismic response of large scale civil structures. These filters are introduced as band pass pre-filters to the optimally designed H2/LQG controller to reduce the maximum singular value response of input-output transfer matrices over a defined frequency range. Furthermore, a structured uncertainty model is proposed to evaluate robustness of stability and performance considering nonlinear force-deformation behavior of structures. The proposed perturbation model characterizes variations in the stiffness matrix more accurately, thereby reducing overconservatism in the estimated destabilizing perturbations. The aforementioned techniques are applied to the nonlinear SAC three story steel building. Numerical results indicate that introducing filters can enhance the performance of the system in almost all response measures, while preserving robustness of stability and performance.
Additional file 1 of Molecular imprinted polymer-based potentiometric approach for the determination of carvedilol and ivabradine hydrochloride in dosage form, spiked human plasma and in presence of their oxidative degradates
Creators: name: Fares, Nermine V.
name: El Fiky, Haitham A.
name: Ahmed, Dina A.
name: El Ghany, Maha F. Abd
name: Badawey, Amr M.
name: Tantawy, Mahmoud A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
A bridge between the single-photon and squeezed-vacuum state
Creators: name: Jain, Nitin
name: Huisman, S. R.
name: Bimbard, Erwan
name: Lvovsky, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two modes of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen quadrature entangled state generated by parametric down-conversion interfere on a beam splitter of variable splitting ratio. Detection of a photon in one of the beam splitter output channels heralds preparation of a signal state in the other, which is characterized using homodyne tomography. By controlling the beam splitting ratio, the signal state can be chosen anywhere between the single-photon and squeezed state.
title: Development of a Post-Fire Monitoring Protocol for Evaluating Treatment Effectiveness and Cheatgrass Abundance Using Quickbird Imagery and Ground Observations
Creators: name: Bissonette, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages 9.3 million hectares of land in Utah and has implemented an Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ESR) Program to protect life and property, combat soil erosion, and reduce the invasion of exotic/noxious weeds following wildland fire. In highly vulnerable sites, seeding treatments may be applied to establish an interim landcover to stabilize the soil and competitively exclude weed invasions. Monitoring treatment effectiveness is mandated through ESR guidelines and necessary for the submission of annual Accomplishment Reports for the first three years following fire containment. Ground monitoring has been the traditional approach to fulfilling this ESR monitoring mandate. Ground monitoring of vegetation within a large burn can be complicated or rendered infeasible by the logistical constraints presented by size, topography, and remoteness. The inherent weaknesses of ground monitoring in large remote areas provide the impetus for augmenting these approaches with remotely sensed data. The Rattle Fire Complex (RFC) is a 2002 burn that demonstrates a need and an opportunity to develop a remote sensing-based monitoring tool. This project utilized high spatial resolution Quickbird imagery and ground data to monitor treatment effectiveness and vegetative recovery within the RFC ESR project area and shows that remote sensing and statistical modeling can significantly improve knowledge regarding ESR treatment effectiveness when combined with traditional ground monitoring methods. The image acquisition cost and labor investment may be prohibitive, making this approach feasible only on large, high priority projects. This methodology arguably represents the simplest approach from both a remote sensing and statistical modeling approach and was accomplished using software currently available within the Bureau of Land Management computer network. It is unlikely that current technology can provide a cheaper or simpler alternative. Testing of this methodology on other projects will provide better insight into its utility and transferability.
On the generalized Helmholtz conditions for Lagrangian systems with dissipative forces
Creators: name: Crampin, M.
name: Mestdag, T.
name: Sarlet, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70H03, 70F17, 49N45

description: In two recent papers necessary and sufficient conditions for a given system of second-order ordinary differential equations to be of Lagrangian form with additional dissipative forces were derived. We point out that these conditions are not independent and prove a stronger result accordingly.
description: 10 pages, accepted for publ in Z. Angew. Math. Mech.
Additional file 2 of Cytokine signatures differentiate systemic sclerosis patients at high versus low risk for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Creators: name: Kolstad, Kathleen D.
name: Khatri, Avani
name: Donato, Michele
name: Chang, Sarah E.
name: Li, Shufeng
name: Steen, Virginia D.
name: Utz, Paul J.
name: Khatri, Purvesh
name: Chung, Lorinda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figure 2. 65-plex cytokine array results. (A) Multiple hypotheses corrected p-values for each antigen in every pairwise comparison using Tukey’s test. Every antigen was significantly different in at least one comparison. No antigen was significantly different between SSc patients at high risk of PAH or with PAH. (B) Boxplots of expression of each significant antigen in each of the four groups. Boxes represent inter-quartiles (25% and 75% percentile), and whiskers represent maximum and minimum values Number of * indicate p-value by Tukey’s HSD post hoc: *P≤0.05; **P≤0.005; ***P≤0.0005). SSc=systemic sclerosis; PAH=pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Erdős-Hajnal problems for posets
Creators: name: Winter, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06A07, 05D10

description: We say that a poset $(Q,\le_{Q})$ contains an induced copy of a poset $(P,\le_P)$ if there is an injective function $ϕ\colon P\to Q$ such that for every two $X,Y\in P$,\;\;$X\le_P Y$ if and only if $ϕ(X)\le_Q ϕ(Y)$. We denote the Boolean lattice $(2^{[n]},\subseteq)$ by $Q_n$. Given a fixed $2$-coloring $c$ of a poset $P$, the poset Erdős-Hajnal number of this colored poset is the smallest integer $N$ such that every $2$-coloring of the Boolean lattice $Q_N$ contains an induced copy of $P$ colored as in $c$, or a monochromatic induced copy of $Q_n$. We present bounds on the poset Erdős-Hajnal number of general colored posets, antichains, chains, and small Boolean lattices. Let the poset Ramsey number $R(Q_n,Q_n)$ be the least $N$ such that every $2$-coloring of $Q_N$ contains a monochromatic induced copy of $Q_n$. As a corollary, we show that $R(Q_n,Q_n)> 2.02n$, improving on the best known lower bound $2n+1$ by Cox and Stolee \cite{CS}.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures. Published in Order, 2025. Fixed a mistake in the previous version. As a result, the constant 2.24 was replaced by the weaker 2.02
Additional file 3 of Cytokine signatures differentiate systemic sclerosis patients at high versus low risk for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Creators: name: Kolstad, Kathleen D.
name: Khatri, Avani
name: Donato, Michele
name: Chang, Sarah E.
name: Li, Shufeng
name: Steen, Virginia D.
name: Utz, Paul J.
name: Khatri, Purvesh
name: Chung, Lorinda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 1. Cytokine abbreviations.
Fast floating-point filters for robust predicates
Creators: name: Bartels, Tinko
name: Fisikopoulos, Vissarion
name: Weiser, Martin
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: floating-point arithmetic
subject: floating-point filter
subject: roundoff error
subject: computational geometry

description: Geometric predicates are at the core of many algorithms, such as the construction of Delaunay triangulations, mesh processing and spatial relation tests. These algorithms have applications in scientific computing, geographic information systems and computer-aided design. With floating-point arithmetic, these geometric predicates can incur round-off errors that may lead to incorrect results and inconsistencies, causing computations to fail. This issue has been addressed using a combination of exact arithmetic for robustness and floating-point filters to mitigate the computational cost of exact computations. The implementation of exact computations and floating-point filters can be a difficult task, and code generation tools have been proposed to address this. We present a new C++ meta-programming framework for the generation of fast, robust predicates for arbitrary geometric predicates based on polynomial expressions. We combine and extend different approaches to filtering, branch reduction, and overflow avoidance that have previously been proposed. We show examples of how this approach produces correct results for data sets that could lead to incorrect predicate results with naive implementations. Our benchmark results demonstrate that our implementation surpasses state-of-the-art implementations.
Toward One-Second Latency: Evolution of Live Media Streaming
Creators: name: Bentaleb, Abdelhak
name: Lim, May
name: Akcay, Mehmet N.
name: Begen, Ali C.
name: Hammoudi, Sarra
name: Zimmermann, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This survey presents the evolution of live media streaming and the technological developments behind today's IP-based low-latency live streaming systems. Live streaming primarily involves capturing, encoding, packaging and delivering real-time events such as live sports, live news, personal broadcasts and surveillance videos. Live streaming also involves concurrent streaming of linear TV programming off the satellite, cable, over-the-air or IPTV broadcast, where the programming is not necessarily a real-time event.
 The survey starts with a discussion on the latency and latency continuum in streaming applications. Then, it lays out the existing live streaming workflows and protocols, followed by an in-depth analysis of the latency sources in these workflows and protocols. The survey continues with the technology enablers, low-latency extensions for the popular HTTP adaptive streaming methods and enhancements for robust low-latency playback. An entire section is dedicated to the detailed summary and findings of Twitch's grand challenge on low-latency live streaming. The survey concludes with a discussion of ongoing research problems in this space. We expect this survey to be the one-stop reference for those who would like to learn how low-latency live streaming has evolved and works today, and what further developments could happen in the future.
Leading Order QCD Shear Viscosity from the 3PI Effective Action
Creators: name: Carrington, M. E.
name: Kovalchuk, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we calculate the leading order shear viscosity in QCD using the resummed 3PI effective action. We work to 3-loop order in the effective action. We show that the integral equations that resum the pinching and collinear contributions are produced naturally by the formalism. All leading order terms are included, without the need for any kind of power counting arguments.
description: 23 pages, 27 figures
title: Examining the Perceived Benefits for Engaging in Cybersex Behavior among College Students
Creators: name: Rimington, Delores D
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This study examined college students’ cybersex use, perceived benefits of use, time spent online, and compulsive cybersex. Participants consisted of students attending Utah State University Spring semester 2007. Data were collected via an online survey, and 262 surveys were used in the correlation and regression analyses. Results indicated that age, religion and gender are predictive of perceiving more benefits for cybersex participation. A strong positive correlation was found between perceived benefits and compulsive cybersex use. Students’ lack of social skills was predictive of more time spent online. Time spent online for cybersex was predictive of sexually compulsive behavior. There was a positive correlation between sex by phone behaviors, compulsive cybersex, time spent online, and benefits perceived among college students, and cybersex activities were associated with offline relationships.