cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Girard's mimetic theory and the image of God in man: A preliminary theological perspecitve of human mimesis
Creators: name: Stork, Peter
Publisher: name: Australian Catholic University
Year: 2002

description: This study seeks to establish a link between Girard's mimetic anthropology and the Biblical notion that man is created in the image and likeness of God. While Girard developed deliberately an anthropology without reference to theology, this study - in an attempt to show that human mimesis makes also sense theologically - has taken creation theology as its starting point. By reviewing three Girardian authors, Alison, Bailie and Schwager, the thesis that mimesis belongs to man as a creature before God and is therefore inseparable from his response to God and from man's representational role in creation was further developed. To test it, the Genesis Prologue, contemporary trinitarian discourse and the life of Jesus were probed for the presence of mimetic patterns. The findings showed that the phenomenon of human mimesis seems to be profoundly linked to the purposes of God in creation and redemption. The Biblical dictum of man's creation in God's image means that humanity was conceived in and created as the earthly counterpart of trinitarian love. Therefore, the conclusion that the origin of human mimesis must ultimately be traced to the Trinity itself in whose image human existence has its being is seen as reasonable. At the same time, human mimesis in its present condition, represents at best a structure of hope for man's inner core of imitative desire fixated in acquisitive mode may be converted to one that imitates Christ's sacrificial love so that in the final analysis, human mimesis exists for doxological reasons.
Drosophila hawaiiensis Grimshaw 1901
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila hawaiiensis

description: Drosophila hawaiiensis Grimshaw, 1901
Distribution: Endemic: Hawaii
 Additional References: Carson & Kaneshiro (1976); Carson & Stalker (1968a); Craddock et al. (2018); Hardy (1965); Hardy & Kaneshiro (1968); Montgomery (1975); Spieth (1982, 1984)
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841
Additional file 4 of CLK1/SRSF5 pathway induces aberrant exon skipping of METTL14 and Cyclin L2 and promotes growth and metastasis of pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Chen, Shi
name: Yang, Can
name: Wang, Zu-Wei
name: Hu, Jian-Fei
name: Pan, Jing-Jing
name: Liao, Cheng-Yu
name: Zhang, Jia-Qiang
name: Chen, Jiang-Zhi
name: Huang, Yi
name: Huang, Long
name: Zhan, Qian
name: Tian, Yi-Feng
name: Shen, Bai-Yong
name: Wang, Yao-Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4I. CLK1 and SRSF5 had prognostic values for PDAC patients. (A) The quantification of the expression level of p-SRSF5 in different PC cell lines. (B) The quantification of the results of Fig. 4L. (C) The quantification of the results of Fig. 4M. (D, E) The phosphorylation level of SRSF5 on Ser250 rely on the expression of CLK1. (B-J) Kaplan–Meier analyses of the correlations between CLK1/SRSF5 expression and overall survival or disease-free survival of PDAC patients.
Time-periodic phases in populations of nonlinearly coupled oscillators with bimodal frequency distributions
Creators: name: Bonilla, L. L.
name: Vicente, C. J. Perez
name: Spigler, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean field Kuramoto model describing the synchronization of a population of phase oscillators with a bimodal frequency distribution is analyzed (by the method of multiple scales) near regions in its phase diagram corresponding to synchronization to phases with a time periodic order parameter. The richest behavior is found near the tricritical point were the incoherent, stationarily synchronized, ``traveling wave'' and ``standing wave'' phases coexist. The behavior near the tricritical point can be extrapolated to the rest of the phase diagram. Direct Brownian simulation of the model confirms our findings.
description: Revtex,16 pag.,10 fig., submitted to Physica D
Additional file 8 of CLK1/SRSF5 pathway induces aberrant exon skipping of METTL14 and Cyclin L2 and promotes growth and metastasis of pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Chen, Shi
name: Yang, Can
name: Wang, Zu-Wei
name: Hu, Jian-Fei
name: Pan, Jing-Jing
name: Liao, Cheng-Yu
name: Zhang, Jia-Qiang
name: Chen, Jiang-Zhi
name: Huang, Yi
name: Huang, Long
name: Zhan, Qian
name: Tian, Yi-Feng
name: Shen, Bai-Yong
name: Wang, Yao-Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 8: Figure S8. CyclinL2△exon6.3 skipping functioned downstream of the CLK1 signaling to control the malignant behaviors of pancreatic cancer cells. (A-C) PANC-1 cells were infected with control lentivirus, or lentivirus expressing shRNA-specific to SRSF5 alone or together with overexpression of CCNL2-L or CCNL2-S. The cell proliferation ability (A), colony-formation ability (B), and migration and invasion ability (C) of the indicated stable cells were evaluated. (D-F) PANC-1 cells were infected with control lentivirus, or lentivirus expressing shRNA-specific to CLK1 alone or together with overexpression of CCNL2-L or CCNL2-S. The cell proliferation ability (D), colony-formation ability (E), and migration and invasion ability (F) of the indicated stable cells were evaluated. (G-I) PANC-1 cells were infected with control lentivirus, or lentivirus expressing CLK1 alone or CLK1 together with lentivirus expressing shRNA-specific to CCNL2-L. The cell proliferation ability (G), colony-formation ability (H), and migration and invasion ability (I) of the indicated stable cells were evaluated. (J-L) PANC-1 cells were treated with TG003 alone or together with lentivirus infection-mediated overexpression of CCNL2-L or CCNL2-S. The cell proliferation ability (J), colony-formation ability (K), and migration and invasion ability (L) of the indicated stable cells were evaluated. (M) The quantification of the results of Fig. 8n, o. n = 3 for each group; data are shown as mean ± SD from three independent experiments. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001, between the indicated groups.
Restoring betatron phase coherence in a beam-loaded laser-wakefield accelerator
Creators: name: Köhler, A.
name: Pausch, R.
name: Bussmann, M.
name: Cabadağ, J. P. Couperus
name: Debus, A.
name: Krämer, J. M.
name: Schöbel, S.
name: Zarini, O.
name: Schramm, U.
name: Irman, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Matched beam loading in laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), characterizing the state of flattening of the acceleration electric field along the bunch, leads to the minimization of energy spread at high bunch charges. Here, we demonstrate by independently controlling injected charge and acceleration gradients, using the self-truncated ionization injection scheme, that minimal energy spread coincides with a reduction of the normalized beam divergence. With the simultaneous confirmation of a constant beam radius at the plasma exit, deduced from betatron radiation spectroscopy, we attribute this effect to the reduction of chromatic betatron decoherence. Thus, beam loaded LWFA enables highest longitudinal and transverse phase space densities.
The effect of the electric field on the nucleation of the nanometer periodic structure of adatoms in GaAs semiconductor under the action of laser irradiation
Creators: name: Peleshchak, R. M.
name: Kuzyk, O. V.
name: Dan'kiv, O. O.
name: Guba, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the paper, the effect of the electric field on the conditions of formation and on the period of the surface superlattice of adatoms in $n$-GaAs semiconductor is investigated. It is established that in GaAs semiconductor, an increase in the electric field strength, depending on the direction, leads to an increase or decrease of the critical temperature (the critical concentration of adatoms), at which the formation of self-organized nanostructure is possible. It is shown that in strongly alloyed $n$-GaAs semiconductor, an increase of the electric field strength leads to a monotonous change (decrease or increase depending on the direction of the electric field) of the period of self-organized surface nanostructures of adatoms.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1512.07801
title: Iris reticulata M. Bieb.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Braunschweig : Univ.-Bibl.
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder : Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Uncemented or cemented revision stems? Analysis of 2,296 first-time hip revision arthroplasties performed due to aseptic loosening, reported to the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register
Creators: name: Tyson, Yosef
name: Rolfson, Ola
name: Kärrholm, Johan
name: Hailer, Nils P
name: Mohaddes, Maziar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Background and purpose — Uncemented stems are increasingly used in revision hip arthroplasty, but only a few studies have analyzed the outcomes of uncemented and cemented revision stems in large cohorts of patients. We compared the results of uncemented and cemented revision stems. Patients and methods — 1,668 uncemented and 1,328 cemented revision stems used in first-time revisions due to aseptic loosening between 1999 and 2016 were identified in the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register. Kaplan–Meier analysis was used to investigate unadjusted implant survival with re-revision for any reason as the primary outcome. Hazard ratios (HR) for the risk of re-revision were calculated using a Cox regression model adjusted for sex, age, head size, concomitant cup revision, surgical approach at primary and at index revision surgery, and indication for primary total hip arthroplasty. Results — Unadjusted 10-year survival was 85% (95% CI 83–87) for uncemented and 88% (CI 86–90) for cemented revision stems. The adjusted HR for re-revision of uncemented revision stems during the first year after surgery was 1.3 (CI 1.0–1.6), from the second year the HR was 1.1 (CI 0.8–1.4). Uncemented stems were most often re-revised early due to infection and dislocation, whereas cemented stems were mostly re-revised later due to aseptic loosening. Interpretation — Both uncemented and cemented revision stems had satisfactory long-term survival but they differed in their modes of failure. Our conclusions are limited by the fact that femoral bone defect size could not be investigated within the setting of the current study.
Drosophila heedi Hardy and Kaneshiro 1971
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila heedi

description: Drosophila heedi Hardy and Kaneshiro, 1971
Distribution: Endemic: Hawaii
 Additional References: Carson & Kaneshiro (1976); Craddock et al. (2018); Kambysellis (1993); Kaneshiro et al. (1973); Montgomery (1975); Spieth (1982)
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841
Topological charge fluctuations in the Glasma
Creators: name: Guerrero-Rodríguez, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The early-time evolution of the system generated in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is dominated by the presence of strong color fields known as Glasma fields. These can be described following the classical approach embodied in the Color Glass Condensate effective theory, which approximates QCD in the high gluon density regime. In this framework we perform an analytical first-principles calculation of the two-point correlator of the divergence of the Chern-Simons current at proper time $τ\!=\!0^+$, which characterizes the early fluctuations of axial charge density in the plane transverse to the collision axis. This object plays a crucial role in the description of anomalous transport phenomena such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect. We compare our results to those obtained under the Glasma Graph approximation, which assumes gluon field correlators to obey Gaussian statistics. While this approach proves to be equivalent to the exact calculation in the limit of short transverse separations, important differences arise at larger distances, where our expression displays a remarkably slower fall-off than the Glasma Graph result ($1/r^4$ vs.\ $1/r^8$ power-law decay). This discrepancy emerges from the non-linear dynamics mapping the Gaussianly-distributed color source densities onto the Glasma fields, encoded in the classical Yang-Mills equations. Our results support the conclusions reached in a previous work, where we found indications that the color screening of correlations in the transverse plane occurs at relatively large distances.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1808.00795
Integration of Bicycle Commuting to Public Transit in New York City
Creators: Han, Zhiyuan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bicycle commuting
Bicycle sharing programs
Local transit--Evaluation
City planning
Public health

description: In this thesis, the author is dedicated to exploring the bicycle commuting trend in New York City and discussing the integration of bike-share system to public transit modes. Rather than looking into the whole population of cyclists, the analysis focuses on the group using Citi Bike, the bike-share system in NYC, as a commuting tool. Determinants of Citi Bike usage is examined through bivariate and multivariate correlation analysis. Specifically, the thesis consists of 6 parts. Chapter 1 goes through an overview on the basic development of trend of bicycle commuting. Chapter 2 looked into a bunch of early studies researching on the determinants of cycling level and statistical analysis methods. Extra attention is paid to the discussion about what has been influencing the usage of bike-share system. Chapter 3 overall introduces the data sources and ideas about data preprocessing. Research question is raised and the basic hypothesis described. More importantly, the principle and techniques of the two major analysis in this study is explained in detail. Implementation process and findings of the major analysis, the temporal and spatial analysis as well as the correlation analysis, are discussed separately in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5. Eventually, Chapter 6 concludes on the findings and arguments the author has proposed through the whole study and raises some of the ideas for further studies.
Cessation of collisional tectonism and rapid crustal uplift recorded by 430–420 Ma igneous rocks in the South Kunlun belt, northwest China
Creators: name: Chen, Jing
name: Wang, Bing-Zhang
name: Yu, Fu-Cheng
name: Han, Jie
name: Li, Wu-Fu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: The Wanbaogou granitic plutons are exposed along with coeval volcanic rocks, and provide an opportunity to investigate Silurian tectonism in the South Kunlun belt, northwest China. This study presents new whole-rock geochemical, and zircon U–Pb geochronological and Lu–Hf isotope data for Silurian intrusive rocks of the Wanbaogou area. We analysed four samples: a porphyritic monzogranite and dioritic dike from the Wanbaogou pluton and a granodiorite and monzogranite from the Wudaogou pluton. Zircon U–Pb dating yielded similar ages of 423.8 ± 1.9, 422.9 ± 1.9, 424.9 ± 2.0, and 425.3 ± 2.6 Ma, respectively. indicating that the intrusions were coeval. The granitic samples are mostly transitional between the high-K and shoshonite series. The Wanbaogou monzogranite is metaluminous and has features typical of A-type granites in terms of trace element geochemistry, whereas the Wudaogou granitoids are metaluminous to weakly peraluminous I-type granites. The Wanbaogou dikes are intermediate to mafic in composition and belong to the low- to medium-K series. The four intrusive samples have εHf(t) values of −10.62 to +0.99 (average = −2.52), similar to the εHf(t) values of intraplate volcanic rocks (−6.35 to +2.89; average = −1.82) and, combined with the geochemical data, indicate the 430–420 Ma magmatism could have been generated by crustal melting with input from mantle-derived materials, followed by crustal contamination. Data for the Wanbaogou and Wudaogou plutons, dikes, and volcanic rocks from the same area suggest rapid orogenic uplift at 430–420 Ma. Our data and the results of previous research on the Kunlun high- to ultra-high-pressure metamorphic belt and coeval volcanic and intrusive rocks elsewhere in the region suggest that collisional tectonism ceased abruptly at 430–420 Ma. Slab break-off may be responsible for this termination of tectonism and rapid uplift.
Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy
Creators: name: Strominger, A.
name: Vafa, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy relation $S_{BH}=A/4$ is derived for a class of five-dimensional extremal black holes in string theory by counting the degeneracy of BPS soliton bound states.
description: 12 pages. Relatively minor corrections and additions to discussion
On the Distribution of the Length of the Longest Increasing Subsequence of Random Permutations
Creators: name: Baik, Jinho
name: Deift, Percy
name: Johansson, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05A05, 15A52, 33D45, 45E05, 60F99

description: The authors consider the length, $l_N$, of the length of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation of $N$ numbers. The main result in this paper is a proof that the distribution function for $l_N$, suitably centered and scaled, converges to the Tracy-Widom distribution [TW1] of the largest eigenvalue of a random GUE matrix. The authors also prove convergence of moments. The proof is based on the steepest decent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems, introduced by Deift and Zhou in 1993 [DZ1] in the context of integrable systems. The applicability of the Riemann-Hilbert technique depends, in turn, on the determinantal formula of Gessel [Ge] for the Poissonization of the distribution function of $l_N$.
description: 60 pages, 14 figures, AMS-LaTeX, typo correstions, new references
New Avenues for Thermal Inversions in hot Jupiters
Creators: name: Gandhi, Siddharth
name: Madhusudhan, Nikku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal emission spectra of hot Jupiters have led to key constraints on thermal inversions (or 'stratospheres') in their atmospheres with important implications for their atmospheric processes. Canonically, thermal inversions in hot Jupiters have been suggested to be caused by species such as TiO and VO which have strong visible opacity to absorb incident starlight. We explore two new avenues for thermal inversions in hot Jupiters, exploring both the visible and infrared opacities in their atmospheres. Firstly, by exploring a range of metal-rich species we find that four species (AlO, CaO, NaH and MgH) provide visible opacities comparable to TiO/VO and can cause strong inversions with reasonable abundances. Secondly, we show that a low infrared opacity caused by a low H$_2$O abundance, e.g. through a C/O~1, can also lead to strong thermal inversions even with low abundances of the visible absorbers mentioned above. We find that increasing the C/O ratio towards unity requires almost 2 orders of magnitude lower abundances for the visible absorbers in order for an inversion to form. Finally, we explore the thermal inversion in WASP-121b and find that it can be explained by all the visible absorbers listed above for different C/O ratios. Our study demonstrates the importance of both the refractory and volatile species in governing the physicochemical processes in hot Jupiter atmospheres. Spectroscopic observations in the visible have the potential to detect the newly proposed refractory species that can cause thermal inversions in addition to TiO and VO.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational waves from a first-order electroweak phase transition
Creators: name: Gould, Oliver
name: Kozaczuk, Jonathan
name: Niemi, Lauri
name: Ramsey-Musolf, Michael J.
name: Tenkanen, Tuomas V. I.
name: Weir, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first end-to-end nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational wave power spectrum from a thermal first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT), using the framework of dimensionally reduced effective field theory and pre-existing nonperturbative simulation results. We are able to show that a first-order EWPT in any beyond the Standard Model (BSM) scenario that can be described by a Standard Model-like effective theory at long distances will produce gravitational wave signatures too weak to be observed at existing and planned detectors. This implies that colliders are likely to provide the best chance of exploring the phase structure of such theories, while transitions strong enough to be detected at gravitational wave experiments require either previously neglected higher-dimension operators or light BSM fields to be included in the dimensionally reduced effective theory and therefore necessitate dedicated nonperturbative studies. As a concrete application, we analyze the real singlet-extended Standard Model and identify regions of parameter space with single-step first-order transitions, comparing our findings to those obtained using a fully perturbative method. We discuss the prospects for exploring the electroweak phase diagram in this model at collider and gravitational wave experiments in light of our nonperturbative results.
description: 18 pages + references, 6 figures
On some gravitomagnetic spin-spin effects for astronomical bodies
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we look at the gravitational spin--spin interaction between macroscopic astronomical bodies. In particular, we calculate their post--Newtonian orbital effects of order $\mathcal{O}(c^{-2})$ on the trajectory of a spinning particle with proper angular momentum ${\bf s}$ moving in the external gravitomagnetic field generated by a central spinning mass with proper angular momentum ${\bf J}$. It turns out that, at order $\mathcal{O}(e)$ in the orbiter's eccentricity, the eccentricity the pericenter and the mean anomaly rates of the moving particle are affected by long--term harmonic effects. If, on one hand, they are undetectable in the Solar System, on the other, maybe that in an astrophysical context like that of the binary millisecond pulsars there will be some hopes of measuring them in the future.
description: LaTex2e, World Scientific macros, no figures, 3 tables, 9 pages. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D
A Survey on Federated Learning Systems: Vision, Hype and Reality for Data Privacy and Protection
Creators: name: Li, Qinbin
name: Wen, Zeyi
name: Wu, Zhaomin
name: Hu, Sixu
name: Wang, Naibo
name: Li, Yuan
name: Liu, Xu
name: He, Bingsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning has been a hot research topic in enabling the collaborative training of machine learning models among different organizations under the privacy restrictions. As researchers try to support more machine learning models with different privacy-preserving approaches, there is a requirement in developing systems and infrastructures to ease the development of various federated learning algorithms. Similar to deep learning systems such as PyTorch and TensorFlow that boost the development of deep learning, federated learning systems (FLSs) are equivalently important, and face challenges from various aspects such as effectiveness, efficiency, and privacy. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive review on federated learning systems. To achieve smooth flow and guide future research, we introduce the definition of federated learning systems and analyze the system components. Moreover, we provide a thorough categorization for federated learning systems according to six different aspects, including data distribution, machine learning model, privacy mechanism, communication architecture, scale of federation and motivation of federation. The categorization can help the design of federated learning systems as shown in our case studies. By systematically summarizing the existing federated learning systems, we present the design factors, case studies, and future research opportunities.
description: Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
Integration of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy into the Science Learning Progression Framework
Creators: Bernardo, Cyntra
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Science--Study and teaching
Multicultural education
Education

description: This study integrated elements of culturally relevant pedagogy into a science learning progression framework, with the goal of enhancing teachers’ cultural knowledge and thereby creating better teaching practices in an urban public high school science classroom.  The study was conducted using teachers, an administrator, a science coach, and students involved in science courses in public high school.  Through a qualitative intrinsic case study, data were collected and analyzed using traditional methods.  Data from primary participants (educators) were analyzed through identification of big ideas, open coding, and themes.  Through this process, patterns and emergent ideas were reported.  Outcomes of this study demonstrated that educators lack knowledge about research-based academic frameworks and multicultural education strategies, but benefit through institutionally-based professional development.  Students from diverse cultures responded positively to culturally-based instruction.  Their progress was further manifested in better communication and discourse with their teacher and peers, and increased academic outcomes.  This study has postulated and provided an exemplar for science teachers to expand and improve multicultural knowledge, ultimately transferring these skills to their pedagogical practice.
Integration of Functional Genomic Data in Genetic Analysis
Creators: Chen, Siying
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Medical genetics--Research
subject: Human genome
subject: Epigenetics
subject: Autism spectrum disorders--Genetic aspects

description: Identifying disease risk genes is a central topic of human genetics. Cost-effective exome and whole genome sequencing enabled large-scale discovery of genetic variations. However, the statistical power of finding new risk genes through rare genetic variation is fundamentally limited by sample sizes. As a result, we have an incomplete understanding of genetic architecture and molecular etiology of most of human conditions and diseases. In this thesis, I developed new computational methods that integrate functional genomics data sets, such as epigenomic profiles and single-cell transcriptomics, to improve power for identifying genetic risks and gain more insights on etiology of developmental disorders. The overall hypothesis that disease risk genes contributing to developmental disorders are bottleneck genes under normal development and subject to precise transcriptional regulations to maintain spatiotemporal specific expression during development. In this thesis I describe two major research projects. The first project, Episcore, predicts haploinsufficient genes based on a large integrated epigenomic profiles from multiple tissues and cell lines by supervised machine learning methods. The second one, A-risk, predicts plausibility of being risk genes of autism spectrum disorder based on single-cell RNA-seq data collected in human fetal midbrain and prefrontal cortex. Both methods were shown to be able to improve gene discovery in analysis of de novo mutations in developmental disorders. Overall, my thesis represents an effort to integrate functional genomics data by machine learning to facilitate both discovery and interpretation of genetic studies of human diseases. We believe that such integrative analysis can help us better understand genetic variants and disease etiology.
Polymer Geometry at Planck Scale and Quantum Einstein Equations
Creators: name: Ashtekar, Abhay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last two years, the canonical approach to quantum gravity based on connections and triads has been put on a firm mathematical footing through the development and application of a new functional calculus on the space of gauge equivalent connections. This calculus does not use any background fields (such as a metric) and is thus well-suited to a fully non-perturbative treatment of quantum gravity. Using this framework, quantum geometry is examined. Fundamental excitations turn out to be one-dimensional, rather like polymers. Geometrical observables such as areas of surfaces and volumes of regions have purely discrete spectra. Continuum picture arises only upon coarse graining of suitable semi-classical states. Next, regulated quantum diffeomorphism constraints can be imposed in an anomaly-free fashion and the space of solutions can be given a natural Hilbert space structure. Progress has also been made on the quantum Hamiltonian constraint in a number of directions. In particular, there is a recent approach based on a generalized Wick transformation which maps solutions to the Euclidean quantum constraints to those of the Lorentzian theory. These developments are summarized. Emphasis is on conveying the underlying ideas and overall pictures rather than technical details.
description: 23 pages, Plain TeX, to appear in the Proceedings of GR-14
PREFERENCE AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR DROUGHT ASSISTANCE IN CALIFORNIA’S CENTRAL VALLEY
Creators: name: Xu, Pei
name: Lone, Todd
name: Xu, Pei
name: Lone, Todd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Drought Assistance, California’s Central Valley, WTP, Drought Resistance,
subject: Drought Stress

description: The study uses conjoint-analysis and a contingent valuation method to estimate Central California farmers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for various attributes of drought assistance programs. It focuses on farmers’ valuations about each attribute and the combinations of attributes in a hypothetical environment, and analyzes their rankings of choices when groundwater availability is declining; the current situation for agricultural irrigation in the valley. The online survey with farmers in spring 2019 shows that WTP estimation for drought assistance changes with the type of crop grown: 1) tree-nut growers have the highest, positive WTP; 2) fruit growers have a negative WTP; and 3) other food producers have the lowest, negative WTP. Thus, differentiating between crop growers and planning for assistance accordingly may increase awareness and improve participation of state and federal funded drought assistance programs in Central California.
Integration of Germline and Somatic Variation in Tumor Data
Creators: Dewal, Ninad Pradeep
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Tumors
subject: Germ cells
subject: Somatic cells

description: During tumor inception and progression, culprit gene variants confer selective advantage to progenitor cancer cells, allowing them to outcompete normal cells and proliferate uncontrollably.  Both regions of somatic amplification as well as germline DNA sequence changes may be variants that are positively selected by the tumor.  Traditionally, these two variant classes have been studied independently.  While many discoveries have been made in such a manner, independent examination of these classes possesses certain limitations.  Integrated examination of these two classes holds the potential to reveal specific nucleotide alleles that are amplified in the tumor, which in turn may reveal proximal genes.  We present methods that focus on such integration.  The first, the Amplification Distortion Test (ADT), aims to detect nucleotide alleles that are selectively amplified across tumor samples.  Motivated to apply ADT on nascent next generation sequencing data, we developed a novel Hidden Markov Model-based method - Haplotype Amplification in Tumor Sequences (HATS) - that analyzes tumor and matched normal sequence data, along with training data for linkage information, to infer amplified alleles and haplotypes in regions of copy number gain.  HATS is designed to handle biases in read data as well as accommodate rare variants.  We demonstrate that HATS infers the amplified alleles more accurately on simulated and real tumor data than does an alternate naïve approach, especially at low to intermediate sequence coverage levels, and when allele-specific biases or stromal contamination is present.  We present these methods with the motivation that they may aid the cancer community in identifying novel causal or associated putative variants.
Oil & gas wellsite reclamation criteria in Alberta : bioremediation of invert drilling waste
Creators: name: Shergill, Ranju
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The fundamental principle of wellsite reclamation criteria is that reclaimed site conditions are to be assessed by comparing them to documented pre-disturbance conditions, or adjacent lands. The differences must not interfere with normal land use and must support comparable self-sustainable growth. Proper waste management and disposal methods which permit drilling operations to take place with temporary effects on the land, while also reducing the cost and time required to obtain final reclamation, are integral steps in successful site reclamation. The goal of all disposal options is to protect the environment and return the disposal site and any affected areas to equivalent land capability. Landfarming is a drilling waste disposal option for heavy invert mud system. By applying the drilling wastes over a selected plot of land and keeping the waste application within loading limits set by ERCB, landfarming is a productive efficient method of reclaiming contaminated sites. Landfarming may take place in either the topsoil or the subsoil, although the topsoil has been shown to provide a more favorable environment for microbial biodegradation of hydrocarbons in invert drilling muds. Due to the soil texture, nutrient availability and increased aeration, landfarming in the topsoil may lead to a more efficient and faster degradation rate of the drilling waste.
Drosophila nukea Magnacca 2012
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila nukea

description: Drosophila nukea Magnacca, in Magnacca and Price, 2012
Distribution: Endemic: Molokai
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841
Pauli's Theorem and Quantum Canonical Pairs: The Consistency Of a Bounded, Self-Adjoint Time Operator Canonically Conjugate to a Hamiltonian with Non-empty Point Spectrum
Creators: name: Galapon, Eric A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In single Hilbert space, Pauli's well-known theorem implies that the existence of a self-adjoint time operator canonically conjugate to a given Hamiltonian signifies that the time operator and the Hamiltonian possess completely continuous spectra spanning the entire real line. Thus the conclusion that there exists no self-adjoint time operator conjugate to a semibounded or discrete Hamiltonian despite some well-known illustrative counterexamples. In this paper we evaluate Pauli's theorem against the single Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics, and consequently show the consistency of assuming a bounded, self-adjoint time operator canonically conjugate to a Hamiltonian with an unbounded, or semibounded, or finite point spectrum. We point out Pauli's implicit assumptions and show that they are not consistent in a single Hilbert space. We demonstrate our analysis by giving two explicit examples. Moreover, we clarify issues sorrounding the different solutions to the canonical commutation relations, and, consequently, expand the class of acceptable canonical pairs beyond the solutions required by Pauli's theorem.
description: contains corrections to minor typographical errors of the published version
The Dating of Timber Framed Vernacular Architecture in Sussex
Creators: name: Mason, R
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 113, 1-6
description: The dating of artefacts is a fundamental duty of the archaeologist; study is ineffective without it. The pre-historian is fortunate as to the wide limits within which his dates may be set; the medievalist needs far greater precision if his results are to be of service. The following remarks are an attempt to apply to vernacular buildings similar methods to those so long used in other fields, that is, dating by style and typology.
An LP-Based Approach for Goal Recognition as Planning
Creators: name: Santos, Luísa R. de A.
name: Meneguzzi, Felipe
name: Pereira, Ramon Fraga
name: Pereira, André Grahl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Goal recognition aims to recognize the set of candidate goals that are compatible with the observed behavior of an agent. In this paper, we develop a method based on the operator-counting framework that efficiently computes solutions that satisfy the observations and uses the information generated to solve goal recognition tasks. Our method reasons explicitly about both partial and noisy observations: estimating uncertainty for the former, and satisfying observations given the unreliability of the sensor for the latter. We evaluate our approach empirically over a large data set, analyzing its components on how each can impact the quality of the solutions. In general, our approach is superior to previous methods in terms of agreement ratio, accuracy, and spread. Finally, our approach paves the way for new research on combinatorial optimization to solve goal recognition tasks.
description: 8 pages, 4 tables, 3 figures. Published in AAAI 2021. Updated final authorship and text
Application of Clumpy Torus Model to Broadband X-ray Spectra of Two Seyfert 1 Galaxies: IC 4329A and NGC 7469
Creators: name: Ogawa, Shoji
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Yamada, Satoshi
name: Tanimoto, Atsushi
name: Kawaguchi, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a new X-ray clumpy torus model called XCLUMPY (Tanimoto et al. 2019), where the clump distribution is assumed to be the same as in the infrared clumpy torus model (CLUMPY) by Nenkova et al. 2008, to the broadband X-ray spectra of type-1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) for the first time. We analyze the archival data of IC 4329A and NGC 7469 observed with NuSTAR/Suzaku and NuSTAR/XMM-Newton, respectively, whose infrared spectra were studied with CLUMPY by Ichikawa et al. 2015 and optical extinctions ($A_{\rm V}$) of the tori were estimated. We consider two models, invoking (Model 1) a relativistic reflection component from the accretion disk and (Model 2) a partial absorber. Assuming that the narrow Fe K$α$ emission line at 6.4 keV originates from the torus, we separate the contribution of the torus reflection components in the total spectra. Our models yield equatorial hydrogen column densities of the tori to be $N^{\rm Equ}_{\rm H} =$ (0.53--1.43) $\times 10^{23}~\rm cm^{-2}$ and $N^{\rm Equ}_{\rm H} =$ (0.84--1.43) $\times 10^{24}~\rm cm^{-2}$, for IC 4329A and NGC 7469, respectively. We find that the $N_{\rm H}/A_{\rm V}$ ratios in the tori are by factors of 25--68 (IC 4329A) and 2.4--3.9 (NGC 7469) smaller than that in the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM). These results suggest that a non-negligible fraction of AGNs are 'dust-rich' compared with the Galactic ISM, as opposite to the general trend previously reported in many obscured AGNs.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, (accepted in the Astrophysical Journal, ApJ)
scLV code and supplementary data
Creators: name: Jin, Hokyung
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: # Superficial-cervical-lymphatic-systemThis Repository provides code for our work on “Increased cerebrospinal fluid drainage by noninvasive manipulation of superficial cervical lymphatics".

# Source code1. R script for analysis and producing the results.2. MatLab code for analysis of in vivo physiologic properties of superficial cervical lymphatic vessels   findCRpeaks: function for finding contraction and relaxation peaks   getAmp: function for calculating the average amplitude   getEF: function for calculating the average ejection fraction   getFreq: function for calculating the average frequency   getMeanDiameter: function for calculating the average diameter   getSync: function for calculating cross-correlation at five different locations for measuring synchronous contraction and relaxation of lymphatic vessel3. Arduino code for data analysis of force-regulated mechano-stimulator4. Labview code for data analysis of force-regulated mechano-stimulator5. MatLab code for data analysis of force-regulated mechano-stimulator6. Supplementary information for force-regulated mechano-stimulator   

# Data availabilityThe scRNA-seq data of this study are available in the NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus under accession codes GSM8493731 (adult mice) and GSM8493732 (aged mice). 

# ContactContact Hokyung Jin (hkjinlife@icloud.com) for any questions
A review on resilience assessment of energy systems
Creators: name: Gasser, Patrick
name: Lustenberger, Peter
name: Cinelli, Marco
name: Wansub Kim
name: Spada, Matteo
name: Burgherr, Peter
name: Hirschberg, Stefan
name: Božidar Stojadinovic
name: Sun, Tian Yin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Energy systems are regularly subject to major disruptions affecting economic activities, operation of infrastructure and the society as a whole. Resilience assessment comprises the pre-event oriented classical risk assessment as a central element, but it goes beyond that because it also includes and evaluates post-event strategies to improve the functioning of the system during its future operation. First, an overview of resilience definitions used across various scientific disciplines is presented, followed by an in-depth analysis of resilience assessment and quantification for energy systems. The relevant literature is classified by approach and according to four key functions of resilience: resist, restabilize, rebuild, and reconfigure. Findings show that irrespective of the research field, a resilient system always operates with an aim to minimize the potential consequences resulting from a disruptive event and to efficiently recover from a potential system performance loss.
Drosophila recticilia Hardy and Kaneshiro 1968
Creators: name: Rampasso, Augusto Santos
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Psathyrellaceae
Drosophila
Drosophila recticilia

description: Drosophila recticilia Hardy and Kaneshiro, 1968
Distribution: Endemic: Maui, possibly Oahu
 Additional References: Carson & Stalker (1968a); Craddock et al. (2018); Montgomery (1975); Rockwood et al. (1971); Spieth (1982, 1984)
description: Published as part of Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O'Grady, Patrick Michael, 2022, Distribution and Taxonomy of Endemic and Introduced Drosophilidae in Hawaii, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5106 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5106.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6336841