cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Amorphinopsis Carter 1887
Creators: name: Santos, George Garcia
name: Nascimento, Elielton
name: Pinheiro, Ulisses
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Suberitida
Halichondriidae
Amorphinopsis

description: Genus Amorphinopsis Carter, 1887
For synonyms see Erpenbeck & van Soest (2002).
Definition. Halichondriidae with ectosomal tangential skeleton of intercrossing megascleres single or in tracts. Spicules differentiated into oxeas and/or styles and derived forms, smaller oxeas and small styles concentrated at the surface. Confusing choanosomal skeleton with high spicular density and little or no spongin (Erpenbeck & van Soest 2002; Alvarez & Hooper 2011). Type species. Amorphinopsis excavans Carter, 1887 (by monotypy).
description: Published as part of Santos, George Garcia, Nascimento, Elielton & Pinheiro, Ulisses, 2018, Halichondriidae Gray, 1867 from the Northeastern Brazil with description of a new species, pp. 556-566 in Zootaxa 4379 (4) on page 562, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1175098
Reentrant polar phase induced by the ferro-ionic coupling in Bi$_{1-x}$Sm$_x$FeO$_3$ nanoparticles
Creators: name: Morozovska, Anna N.
name: Eliseev, Eugene A.
name: Fesych, Igor V.
name: Zagorodniy, Yuriy O.
name: Pylypchuk, Oleksandr S.
name: Leonenko, Evgenii V.
name: Rallev, Maxim V.
name: Yaremkevych, Andrii D.
name: Yurchenko, Lesya P.
name: Demchenko, Lesya
name: Kalinin, Sergei V.
name: Fesenko, Olena M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the model of four sublattices, the Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire-Kittel phenomenological approach and the Stephenson-Highland ionic adsorption model for the description of coupled polar and antipolar long-range orders in ferroics, we calculated analytically the phase diagrams and polar properties of Bi$_{1-x}$Sm$_x$FeO$_3$ nanoparticles covered by surface ions in dependence on their size, surface ions density, samarium content "x" and temperature. The size effects and ferro-ionic coupling govern the appearance and stability conditions of the long-range ordered ferroelectric, reentrant ferrielectric and antiferroelectric phases in the Bi1-xSmxFeO3 nanoparticles. Calculated phase diagrams are in a qualitative agreement with the X-ray diffraction phase analysis, electron paramagnetic resonance, infra-red spectroscopy and electrophysical measurements of the Bi$_{1-x}$Sm$_x$FeO$_3$ nanopowders sintered by the solution combustion method. The combined theoretical-experimental approach allows to establish the influence of the ferro-ionic coupling and size effects in Bi$_{1-x}$Sm$_x$FeO$_3$ nanoparticles on their polar properties.
description: 53 pages, including 13 figures and 2 Appendixes, Revised version, Resubmitted to Physical Review B
Hello, Robots. Roboter in der neuen Arbeitswelt.
Creators: name: Endrissat, Nada
name: Dégallier Rochat, Sarah
Publisher: name: BFH
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neue Arbeits- und Organisationsformen
Roboter

description: Von einigen als Dystopie gefürchtet, von anderen als Utopie herbeigewünscht: der Einsatz von Robotern in der neuen Arbeitswelt. Während Ökonomen häufig Fragen der Auswirkungen auf die Quantität von Arbeit diskutieren, also inwieweit die Automatisierung von Prozessen und der Einsatz von Robotern zu einem Abbau oder Aufbau von Arbeitsplätzen führt, widmet sich das aktuelle SNF-Projekt «A future that works – Cobotics, digital skills and the re-humanization of the workplace» Fragen der Qualität.
Kontrapunkt: Holzfassaden: Konstruktion + Gestaltung = Baukultur?
Creators: name: Sauter, Marion
Year: 2023

description: Die Schweiz ist von einer langen Holzbautradition geprägt. Die historischen Holzbauten haben im Laubsäglistil- Chalet und schliesslich im banalen Ferienhausbau Fortsetzung gefunden. Der alpine Holzfassadencharme stiftet Identität, erfüllt Sehnsüchte und ist damit auch ein relevanter Wirtschaftsfaktor. Ich denke, es besteht ein breiter Konsens: Dies ist Schweizer Baukultur. In den letzten drei Dekaden hat sich der Schweizer Holzbau konstruktiv und technisch völlig neu aufgestellt. Wie müssen diese neuen Holzbauten aussehen, damit sie als Holzbau erkannt werden, ebenso identitätsstiftend sind und eine neue (Holz-)Baukultur initiieren?
Third quantization with Hartree approximation for open-system bosonic transport
Creators: name: Espinoza-Ortiz, Fernando
name: Chien, Chih-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The third quantization (3rd Q) for bosons provides the exact steady-state solution of the Lindblad equation with quadratic Hamiltonians. By decomposing the interaction of the Bose Hubbard model (BHM) according to Hartree approximation, we present a self-consistent formalism for solving the open-system bosonic Lindblad equation with weak interactions in the steady state. The 3rd Q with Hartree approximation takes into account the infinite Fock space of bosons while its demand of resource scales polynomially with the system size. We examine the method by analyzing three examples of the BHM, including the uniform chain, interaction induced diode effect, and Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) Hubbard model. When compared with the simulations with capped boson numbers for small systems, the 3rd Q with Hartree approximation captures the qualitative behavior and suggests an upper bound of the steady-state value. Finite-size scaling confirms the results from the 3rd Q with Hartree approximation converge towards the thermodynamic limit. Thus, the manageable method allows us to characterize and predict large-system behavior of quantum transport in interacting bosonic systems relevant to cold-atom experiments.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Affecauda Hall & Chambers 1999
Creators: name: Hall, Kathryn A.
name: Cribb, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Gyliauchenidae
Affecauda

description: Genus Affecauda Hall & Chambers, 1999
Emended Diagnosis: Body elongate, noticeably narrow posterior to gonads; pronounced curve dorsoventrally. Tegumental annulations present. Ventral sucker round, at posterior extremity of body, protuberant. Pharynx elongate, subterminal. Oesophagus long, sigmoid, sometimes with single loop, invested with glands along entire length; lining distinctive, thick. Oesophageal bulb ovoid, distinct. Intestinal bifurcation immediately posterior to oesophageal bulb; caeca terminate just posterior to level of genital aperture. Testes 2, entire, ovoid, tandem, in middle or posterior third of body. Seminal vesicle external, bipartite. Pars prostatica large, cylindrical, tapering posteriorly, surrounded by profuse prostatic gland cells which partially penetrate cirrus­sac. Cirrus­sac spherical, ventral to caeca. Ejaculatory duct short, simple, expanding distally. Genital atrium large, convoluted. Genital pore median, ventral to caeca. Ovary ovoid, inter­ or pretesticular. Vitellarium follicular; follicles largely restricted to anterior half of body, extend from posterior margin of pharynx to immediately anterior to anterior testis; dorsal, ventral and lateral fields confluent. Uterus entirely pre­ovarian. Opening of uterus unspecialised; metraterm absent. Excretory papilla prominent. Excretory vesicle globular. Primary collecting ducts arise laterally. Intestinal parasites of herbivorous marine fishes (Acanthuridae and Siganidae only) in the Indo­West Pacific. Type­species Affecauda annulata Hall & Chambers, 1999.
description: Published as part of Hall, Kathryn A. & Cribb, Thomas H., 2004, Revision of Affecauda Hall & Chambers, 1999 (Digenea: Gyliauchenidae Fukui, 1929), including the description of two new species from fishes of the Indo­West Pacific, pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 778 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158586
title: Global Campus of Human Rights Magazine n 2 (March 2021)
Creators: name: Global Campus of Human Rights
Publisher: name: Global Campus of Human Rights
Year: 2021
Subjects: Global Campus of Human Rights

description: In 1982, Antonio Papisca and Marco Mascia founded the Human Rights Centre at the University of Padua. It was one of the first university-based human rights teaching and re-search centres in the world. In 1988, Veneto was the first region in Italy to adopt a regional bill to promote a culture of human rights, peace and development. Since that time, the Veneto Region has employed a councillor with a special mandate to implement the bill. This important role is cur-rently entrusted to Cristiano Corazzari. In 1998, the Vene-to Region adopted another bill aimed at providing regular support to the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA), which had just been founded by the University of Padua on the initiative of the European Union, and in cooperation with other universi-ties in EU member States. The EMA also received financial support from the Veneto Region and soon found its home at the beautiful Monastery of San Nicolò thanks to the City of Venice’s generous offer. It also became the first of sev-en regional inter-disciplinary Master’s Programmes and the flagship site for the Global Campus of Human Rights. Even under the difficult circumstances resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the EMA team made sure its students could complete their first semester in person at the Mon-astery of San Nicolò in January 2021. The interviews with Councillor Corazzari and Professor Mascia shed a light on the long, successful and close cooperation between the Veneto Region, the University of Padua, the EMA pro-gramme and the Global Campus of Human Rights. We are delighted to participate in the Veneto Region’s Human Rights Defenders programme by providing shelter to human rights defenders belonging to the academic commu-nity who are under attack in their home countries. The interviews with Jane da Mosto (We are here Venice) and Carlotta Giordani (EMA Ambassador in Venice) un-derline the need for Venice to resist over-tourism and large cruise ships and to change its image from a mass-tourism destination to a sustainable human rights city that is at-tractive to students, professors, artists, scientists, and the wider global academic community. This requires the City of Venice to make fundamental changes to its environmen-tal, housing and tourism policies, inspired by UN Sustain-able Development Goal 4 (global citizenship education), 11 (sustainable cities and communities), 13 (climate ac-tion), and 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions). The Global Campus of Human Rights – a network of 100 pres-tigious universities in regions all over the world – is ready to advise and support the City of Venice in its aspirations to become a successful and sustainable human rights city of the twenty-first century.
Phase space analysis and cosmography of a two-fluid cosmological model
Creators: name: Mandal, Goutam
name: Biswas, Sujay Kr.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) space-time, we investigate a two-fluid cosmological model where a tachyon scalar field with self-interacting potential and a modified chaplygin gas with non-linear equation of state are taken as the background fluids. We perform phase space analysis of the autonomous system obtained from the cosmological governing equations by a suitable transformation of variables. Linear stability theory is employed to characterise the stability criteria for hyperbolic critical points. Numerical investigation is carried out for non-hyperbolic points. Our study reveals that modified chaplygin fluid dominated solutions cannot provide the late-time evolution. Late-time accelerated evolution is obtained only when the solution is dominated by tachyon fluid. This study also yields a late-time scaling attractor providing similar order of energy densities in its evolution. The adiabatic sound speed is evaluated for both the fluids and test the stability of the models independently. Further, we perform cosmographic analysis in the model independent way by evaluating all the cosmographic parameters and then $Om$ diagnostic is also found to compare our model with $Λ$CDM model.
description: 22 pages, 12 captioned figures, accepted for publication in Physica Scripta
Wie Designprinzipien aus der Wirtschaft bei der digitalen Transformation des Gesundheitswesens helfen
Creators: name: Thilo, Friederike J.S.
name: Riedl, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft
Year: 2023

description: Die Digitalisierung des Gesundheitswesens wird stark vorangetrieben – in der Praxis jedoch oft unsorgfältig und planlos. Um den Transformationsprozess erfolgreich zu gestalten, braucht es nicht nur Fachexpertise aus dem Gesundheitswesen, sondern auch Designexpertise aus der Wirtschaft.
Nurses' accuracy and self-perceived ability using the Emergency Severity Index triage tool: a cross-sectional study in four Swiss hospitals
Creators: name: Jordi, Karin
name: Grossmann, Florian
name: Gaddis, Gary M.
name: Cignacco Müller, Eva
name: Denhaerynck, Kris
name: Schwendimann, René
name: Nickel, Christian
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is an English language emergency department patient triage tool. After translation, it has been adapted for use to triage patients in growing numbers of emergency departments in non-English-speaking countries. Few reports of the proficiency of triage nurses to score an ESI exist. We sought to determine accuracy, inter-rater reliability, and subjective confidence of triage nurses at four hospitals to determine an ESI from standardized ESI scenarios. Methods Triage nurses assigned an ESI score to each of 30 standard ESI (ESI Implementation Handbook Version 4) translated teaching case scenarios. Accuracy and Inter-rater reliability (Krippendorff’s alpha) of the ESI scoring was measured. Nurses’ subjective confidence applying the ESI algorithm was obtained by a Likert scale. Results Sixty-nine nurses from four EDs participated in the study. They scored 59.6 % of the case scenarios correctly. Inter-rater reliability was 0.78 (Krippendorff’s alpha). Most (54/69, 78 %) felt confident in their ability to apply the ESI. Conclusions Low accuracy of ESI score assignment was observed when nurses scored an ESI for 30 standard written case scenarios, translated into nurses’ native language, despite a good inter-rater reliability and high nurse confidence in their ability to apply the ESI. Although feasible, using standard written case scenarios to determine ESI triage scoring effectiveness may not be the optimum means to rate nurses’ triage skills.
Affecauda Hall & Chambers 1999
Creators: name: Hall, Kathryn A.
name: Cribb, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Gyliauchenidae
Affecauda

description: Key to species of Affecauda Hall & Chambers, 1999
1 Oesophagus not looped; ovary intertesticular; Laurer’s canal exits dorsal to ovary....... .............................................................................. A. annulata Hall & Chambers, 1999
– Oesophagus looped; ovary pretesticular; Laurer’s canal exits dorsal to posterior testis. ....................................................................................................................................... 2
2 Tegumental annulations extend from level of oesophagus to immediately anterior to ventralsucker;oesophagealbulbdistinctlysmallerthanpharynx;seminalvesicleunipartite ............................................................................................... A. rugosa n. sp. (Figure 1)
– Tegumental annulations restricted to small patch at level of posterior testis, immediately anterior to ventral sucker; oesophageal bulb approximately same size as pharynx; seminal vesicle bipartite .................................................. A. salacia n. sp. (Figures 2–3)
description: Published as part of Hall, Kathryn A. & Cribb, Thomas H., 2004, Revision of Affecauda Hall & Chambers, 1999 (Digenea: Gyliauchenidae Fukui, 1929), including the description of two new species from fishes of the Indo­West Pacific, pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 778 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158586
Nesodynerus sociabilis
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Nesodynerus
Nesodynerus sociabilis

description: sociabilis (Perkins)
Odynerus sociabilis Perkins 1899: 39, pl. 1 fig. 20, male, female—“Maui; Hawaii (mountains from 4000–10000 ft.)” (London, no. 18.374); 1902: 134, 137 (key).— Dalla Torre 1904: 54 (in subgenus Lionotus; cat.).— Alfken 1904: 573 (Hawaii).— Perkins, 1906b: 67, 68 (key); 1907: 97 (Hawaii); 1913a: xci (nesting).— Giffard 1913e: 229 (Hawaii).— Nishida 1992: 185 (Maui; Hawaii); 1994: 173 (Molokai; Lanai; Maui; Hawaii); 1997: 149 (Molokai; Lanai; Maui; Hawaii); 2002: 182 (Molokai; Lanai; Maui; Hawaii).
Nesodynerus sociabilis; Evenhuis 2005: 50 (list).— Carpenter 2008: 18.— Wilson & Holway 2010: 3294–3302 (displacment by Vespula pensylvanica; Hawaii).— Dal Pos et al. 2022: 47, 99 (type material).
Distr.: Hawaii.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 401-455 in Zootaxa 5315 (5) on page 429, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8142377
Flow Matching for Optimal Reaction Coordinates of Biomolecular System
Creators: name: Zhang, Mingyuan
name: Zhang, Zhicheng
name: Wu, Hao
name: Wang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present flow matching for reaction coordinates (FMRC), a novel deep learning algorithm designed to identify optimal reaction coordinates (RC) in biomolecular reversible dynamics. FMRC is based on the mathematical principles of lumpability and decomposability, which we reformulate into a conditional probability framework for efficient data-driven optimization using deep generative models. While FMRC does not explicitly learn the well-established transfer operator or its eigenfunctions, it can effectively encode the dynamics of leading eigenfunctions of the system transfer operator into its low-dimensional RC space. We further quantitatively compare its performance with several state-of-the-art algorithms by evaluating the quality of Markov state models (MSM) constructed in their respective RC spaces, demonstrating the superiority of FMRC in three increasingly complex biomolecular systems. In addition, we successfully demonstrated the efficacy of FMRC for bias deposition in the enhanced sampling of a simple model system. Finally, we discuss its potential applications in downstream applications such as enhanced sampling methods and MSM construction.
description: For Supporting Information, please see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c01139
THE PROSPECT OF DIGITALISATION FUELLING RISE IN FARM INCOME DIMENSIONS AND ISSUES
Creators: name: Ramachandran, Subramanian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300201
subject: Agricultural hydrology
classificationCode: 300202
subject: Agricultural land management
classificationCode: 300203
subject: Agricultural land planning
classificationCode: 300205
subject: Agricultural production systems simulation
classificationCode: 300207
subject: Agricultural systems analysis and modelling
classificationCode: 300208
subject: Farm management, rural management and agribusiness
classificationCode: 300210
subject: Sustainable agricultural development
classificationCode: 300299
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 350301
subject: Business analytics
classificationCode: 350302
subject: Business information management (incl. records, knowledge and intelligence)
classificationCode: 350303
subject: Business information systems
classificationCode: 350307
subject: Technology management
classificationCode: 350399
subject: Business systems in context not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 350705
subject: Innovation management
classificationCode: 350712
subject: Production and operations management
classificationCode: 350718
subject: Strategy
classificationCode: 350909
subject: Supply chains
classificationCode: 350999
subject: Transportation, logistics and supply chains not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 350903
subject: Logistics

description: In general, food production in many countries is largely determined by the size of the population. The increase of population along with urbanization unduly stresses arable land and water sources. Scientific approaches for sustainable increase in crop production through the adoption of modern techniques improve efficiency and effectiveness that amplifies the magnitude of resilience even if challenged by climate change. Agriculture has a significant impact on employment rates in India, as approximately 58 per cent of the workforce is involved in this sector, either directly or indirectly. Today, though India ranks among the top five largest producers and exporters of agricultural goods, the yield per hectare is low when compared to other countries. The issue of losses before and after crop harvest accounts for approximately one-third of the total global food production. Effectively handling these losses can increase the farmers' income and ensure food security, while alleviating strain on scarce land and depleting water sources. This article discusses problems faced by Indian agriculture and examines the potential advantages and prospects of utilizing scientific knowledge and digital technologies to overcome challenges in farming. Despite the notable advancements and rapid growth in digital adoption and transformation in Indian economy, the agricultural sector is still in its nascent stage of development phase.
Parton distribution functions and transverse momentum dependence of heavy mesons
Creators: name: Serna, Fernando E.
name: El-Bennich, Bruno
name: Krein, Gastão
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The leading Fock state light-front wave functions of heavy quarkonia and $D$ and $B$ mesons are obtained from the projections of their Bethe-Salpeter wave functions on the light front. We compute therefrom their leading-twist time-reversal even transverse momentum distributions and parton distribution functions. Mirroring the behavior of parton distribution amplitudes, the support of both distributions is increasingly narrower and shifted towards larger $x$ as a function of the meson mass. The dependence of $x$ and $\k_\perp^2$ of the transverse distributions does not factorize into separate functions, and their fall-off with $\k_\perp^2$ is much slower than that of light mesons.
Why and how is Scrum being adapted in practice: A systematic review
Creators: name: Obwegeser, Nikolaus
name: Hron, Michal
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021
Subjects: Scrum Agile development Systematic literature review Information systems development

description: Scrum, recognized today as the most popular agile development methodology, has been used in a wide range of settings and for varying purposes, in- and outside of the traditional software development context. The use of Scrum in non-traditional settings and for different needs led to a considerable corpus of academic literature that investigates, presents, and discusses modifications to the original method, aimed to make it fit to such novel forms of application. Based on a large-scale review of extant literature, this study systematically analyses why and how Scrum was reportedly modified in different instances and contributes with a synthesis that can serve as a basis for a more systematic approach to future research and practice. We explicate nine common modification objectives for change (e.g., attaining high performance, non-standard contexts, distributed development) mapped against seven generic modification strategies (e.g., method guidance, new procedures or artifacts). Building on our extensive analysis of the literature we highlight research gaps and identify promising areas for future research.
GOPT: Generalizable Online 3D Bin Packing via Transformer-based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Xiong, Heng
name: Guo, Changrong
name: Peng, Jian
name: Ding, Kai
name: Chen, Wenjie
name: Qiu, Xuchong
name: Bai, Long
name: Xu, Jianfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotic object packing has broad practical applications in the logistics and automation industry, often formulated by researchers as the online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP). However, existing DRL-based methods primarily focus on enhancing performance in limited packing environments while neglecting the ability to generalize across multiple environments characterized by different bin dimensions. To this end, we propose GOPT, a generalizable online 3D Bin Packing approach via Transformer-based deep reinforcement learning (DRL). First, we design a Placement Generator module to yield finite subspaces as placement candidates and the representation of the bin. Second, we propose a Packing Transformer, which fuses the features of the items and bin, to identify the spatial correlation between the item to be packed and available sub-spaces within the bin. Coupling these two components enables GOPT's ability to perform inference on bins of varying dimensions. We conduct extensive experiments and demonstrate that GOPT not only achieves superior performance against the baselines, but also exhibits excellent generalization capabilities. Furthermore, the deployment with a robot showcases the practical applicability of our method in the real world. The source code will be publicly available at https://github.com/Xiong5Heng/GOPT.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. This paper has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Using Skin Markers for Spinal Curvature Quantification in Main Thoracic Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: An Explorative Radiographic Study
Creators: name: Schmid, Stefan
name: Studer, Daniel
name: Hasler, Carol-Claudius
name: Romkes, Jacqueline
name: Taylor, William R.
name: Brunner, Reinald
name: Lorenzetti, Silvio
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Year: 2015

description: Background and Purpose Although the relevance of understanding spinal kinematics during functional activities in patients with complex spinal deformities is undisputed among researchers and clinicians, evidence using skin marker-based motion capture systems is still limited to a handful of studies, mostly conducted on healthy subjects and using non-validated marker configurations. The current study therefore aimed to explore the validity of a previously developed enhanced trunk marker set for the static measurement of spinal curvature angles in patients with main thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. In addition, the impact of inaccurate marker placement on curvature angle calculation was investigated. Methods Ten patients (Cobb angle: 44.4±17.7 degrees) were equipped with radio-opaque markers on selected spinous processes and underwent a standard biplanar radiographic examination. Subsequently, radio-opaque markers were replaced with retro-reflective markers and the patients were measured statically using a Vicon motion capture system. Thoracolumbar / lumbar and thoracic curvature angles in the sagittal and frontal planes were calculated based on the centers of area of the vertebral bodies and radio-opaque markers as well as the three-dimensional position of the retro-reflective markers. To investigate curvature angle estimation accuracy, linear regression analyses among the respective parameters were used. The impact of inaccurate marker placement was explored using linear regression analyses among the radio-opaque marker- and spinous process-derived curvature angles. Results and Discussion The results demonstrate that curvatures angles in the sagittal plane can be measured with reasonable accuracy, whereas in the frontal plane, angles were systematically underestimated, mainly due to the positional and structural deformities of the scoliotic vertebrae. Inaccuracy of marker placement had a greater impact on thoracolumbar / lumbar than thoracic curvature angles. It is suggested that spinal curvature measurements are included in marker-based clinical gait analysis protocols in order to enable a deeper understanding of the biomechanical behavior of the healthy and pathological spine in dynamic situations as well as to comprehensively evaluate treatment effects.
Mobile remote presence robots for medical consultation and social connectedness
Creators: name: Lueg, Christopher
name: Jungo, Valérie
Publisher: name: IOSPress
Year: 2021

description: We demonstrate that Mobile Remote Presence systems (MRP) aka telepresence robots can be successfully used in certain types of medical consultation such as consultation from a distance with residents of nursing homes. We argue that MRP afforded media richness also allows for supporting social connectedness during medically recommended isolation regimes similar to the ones that are implemented in residential care homes around the world during the SARS-CoVID- 2 pandemic. Specifically, our research found that MRP are perceived as a more natural medium compared to typical telephones or videoconferencing via computers or tablets. MRP allow conversations to become more dynamic and engaging since remote participants are able to adjust their remote position and perspective during a conversation. Participants in our experiments reported they would be willing to engage even in difficult or emotional topics when using MRP however there are also certain types of situations that would still ask for face-to-face conversations.
Nesodynerus soror
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Nesodynerus
Nesodynerus soror

description: soror (Perkins)
Odynerus soror Perkins 1899: 58, female—“Kauai, mountains (3000 ft.)” (London, no. 18.402).— Dalla Torre 1904: 54 (in subgenus Lionotus; cat.).— Perkins 1906b: 69 (key; Kauai).— Fullaway 1947: 53 (Niihau).— Nishida 1992: 185 (Niihau; Kauai); 1994: 174 (Niihau; Kauai); 1997: 149 (Niihau; Kauai); 2002: 182 (Niihau; Kauai).
Nesodynerus soror; Evenhuis 2005: 50 (list).— Carpenter 2008: 18.
Distr.: Hawaii.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 401-455 in Zootaxa 5315 (5) on pages 429-430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8142377
Evaluation of National e-Government Development Levels in Thailand
Creators: name: Lent, Bogdan
name: Keretho, Somnuk Bogdan
name: Suchaiya, Sasithorn
name: Naklada, Saisamorn
Year: 2015
Subjects: e-Government
Evaluation
Online Service Index
e-Participation Index

description: More than 2,000 governmental agencies and public organizations in Thailand pose a challenge in conducting evaluation of e-government development levels, especially as to be assessed and monitored along with the National Information and Communication Technology Policy Directives (2011-2020). This paper presents a method of data collection along with two evaluation schemes, namely, the United Nations e-Government Online Service Index (OSI) and the e-Participation Index (EPI). The elaborated results, e.g. Mean OSI of 45%, led to the conclusions validated by the ongoing development along the OSI and EPI indicators of the governmental agencies and the current ASEAN ICT Master plan 2016-2020.
Managing Secrets in the EGI Infrastructure with EGI Secrets Store
Creators: name: Viet, Tran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this session, we will explore the EGI Secrets Store, a powerful solution designed to help you securely manage credentials, tokens, passwords, and other sensitive information required by your applications and services during deployment and operation. Traditional methods of storing these secrets in clear text within code repositories or configuration files pose significant security risks and make rotation cumbersome. EGI Secrets Store addresses these challenges by providing a secure, efficient, and standardized way to handle secrets.

Key features of the EGI Secrets Store include:

Simplification and Standardization: It simplifies and secures the process of storing secrets, ensuring they are encrypted both in transit and at rest.

Easy Rotation and Access Management: It allows for easy rotation of secrets and provides administrators with tools to track usage and manage access effectively.

Seamless Integration: The store integrates with EGI Check-in, enabling users to access it using their home organization credentials without additional registration. 

High Availability: The service ensures high availability, making it reliably accessible to users, applications, and other services.

Ease of Maintenance: Built on well-known open-source software, the store is easy to maintain, upgrade, and extend, with strong community support and numerous client tools and libraries.

 

We will also delve into core concepts such as secret objects and their structure, providing practical examples to illustrate how secrets can be managed effectively within your service.

In the subsequent parts of the webinar, we will cover:

Secrets Store Web Interface: Navigating and using the web interface of EGI Secrets Store.

Secrets Store Command-Line Interface: Accessing and managing secrets via the command-line interface.

Secrets Store API: Utilizing the programmatic interface for more advanced use cases.

Secrets Store Architecture: Understanding the architecture that underpins the EGI Secrets Store.
D2-MLP: Dynamic Decomposed MLP Mixer for Medical Image Segmentation
Creators: name: Yang, Jin
name: Yu, Xiaobing
name: Qiu, Peijie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Convolutional neural networks are widely used in various segmentation tasks in medical images. However, they are challenged to learn global features adaptively due to the inherent locality of convolutional operations. In contrast, MLP Mixers are proposed as a backbone to learn global information across channels with low complexity. However, they cannot capture spatial features efficiently. Additionally, they lack effective mechanisms to fuse and mix features adaptively. To tackle these limitations, we propose a novel Dynamic Decomposed Mixer module. It is designed to employ novel Mixers to extract features and aggregate information across different spatial locations and channels. Additionally, it employs novel dynamic mixing mechanisms to model inter-dependencies between channel and spatial feature representations and to fuse them adaptively. Subsequently, we incorporate it into a U-shaped Transformer-based architecture to generate a novel network, termed the Dynamic Decomposed MLP Mixer. We evaluated it for medical image segmentation on two datasets, and it achieved superior segmentation performance than other state-of-the-art methods.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Ichthydium diacanthum Balsamo & Todaro 1995
Creators: name: Kånneby, Tobias
name: Todaro, Antonio
name: Jondelius, Ulf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Gastrotricha
Chaetonotida
Chaetonotidae
Ichthydium
Ichthydium diacanthum

description: Ichthydium diacanthum Balsamo & Todaro, 1995
(Figures 8A, B; Table 2)
Localities: Bog close to E14, Jämtland, Sweden (63º21.248’N; 12º35.403’E).
Material: 1 specimen.
Remarks: The Swedish specimen of I. diacanthum agrees well with the morphometric data given by Balsamo & Todaro (1995). This species is characterized by a fine pattern of cuticular microsculptures which gives the cuticle a granulated appearance. PhIJ at U29; ASB at U22; PSB at U75.
Associated gastrotrich fauna: Chaetonotus oculifer and Ichthydium skandicum n. sp.
description: Published as part of Kånneby, Tobias, Todaro, Antonio & Jondelius, Ulf, 2009, One new species and records of Ichthydium Ehrenberg, 1830 (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida) from Sweden with a key to the genus, pp. 26-46 in Zootaxa 2278 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191157
Das Buch als Hypertext: Zur medialen Prägung von Bildkonstellationen.
Creators: name: Felsing, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Verein Kunsttexte e. V.
Year: 2016

description: Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von Bildgefügen und medialem Kontext am Beispiel des Ausstellungskatalogs und Künstlerbuchs Constantin. Er fragt nach theoretischen Möglichkeiten, Bildgefüge in Bezug zu ihrem spezifischen medialen Zusammenhang zu beschreiben. Auf welche Weisen werden Bezüge zwischen Bildern hergestellt und inwiefern prägt das buchmediale Bezugssystem diese Bildgefüge? Im Anschluss an Nelson Goodmans Symboltheorie werden unterschiedliche Bezugnahmepraktiken erläutert. Goodmans Begriff der Bezugnahme ist so weit gefasst, dass sich über ihn sowohl die Interaktion zwischen den Bildern als auch das Verhältnis von Bildgefüge und Buchmedium bestimmen lässt. So etwa über den Begriff der ‚Anspielung‘, der ‚Variation‘ und über ‚Multiple und komplexe Bezugnahmen‘. Über die Exemplifikation buchspezifischer Merkmale nehmen die Bilder Bezug auf den medialen Kontext. Constantin präsentiert die gleichnamige Installation von Olaf Nicolai, die er für den Kunstraum Dornbirn, Österreich entwickelt hat und die dort von August bis November 2006 gezeigt wurde. Das Zentrum des Katalogs bildet ein ganzseitiges, gerahmtes Installationsfoto, das die Installation, eine Leichtwindanlage in der Montagehalle zeigt. Um dieses Foto in der Mitte des Katalogs spannt sich ein Kräftefeld, das aus drei untereinander korrespondierenden Teilkomplexen – ‚Figur – geometrisch‘, ‚Constantin‘ und ‚In space‘ – montiert wurde. Diese Konstellation eröffnet die unterschiedlichsten Interpretationsmöglichkeiten, denn sie ist, wie Felix Thürlemann unter dem Begriff Hyperimage erläutert, „aus autonomen Einzelwerken zusammengesetzt“. Wie entstehen dennoch Bezüge innerhalb der Bildgefüge und welche Rolle spielt dabei das Buchmedium? Schafft es nicht gerade Festigkeit, Abgeschlossenheit und Begrenztheit und damit einen Gegenpol zum offenen Interpretationsraum? Druck, Bindung und Seitenfolge fixieren und stabilisieren die Auswahl der Themenaspekte, ihre spezifische Anordnungslogik und die damit getroffenen bildlichen Aussagen. Dieser Finalisierung arbeiten die multiplen und komplexen intertextuellen Bezugnahmen in Constantin jedoch konsequent entgegen. Die Bezüge erzeugen Offenheit und Mehrdeutigkeit, sie halten die bildlichen Aussagen in der Schwebe. Die kontinuierlichen Bedeutungsverschiebungen werden dabei von unterschiedlichen Darstellungsmodalitäten (technischen Zeichnungen, Filmstills und Fotografien) unterstützt.
First Resolution of Microlensed Images of a Binary-Lens Event
Creators: name: Wu, Zexuan
name: Dong, Subo
name: Mérand, A.
name: Kochanek, Christopher S.
name: Mróz, Przemek
name: Shangguan, Jinyi
name: Christie, Grant
name: Tan, Thiam-Guan
name: Bensby, Thomas
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Buder, Sven
name: Eisenhauer, Frank
name: Gould, Andrew P.
name: Kos, Janez
name: Natusch, Tim
name: Sharma, Sanjib
name: Udalski, Andrzej
name: Woillez, J.
name: Buckley, David A. H.
name: Thompson, I. B.
name: Dayem, Karim Abd El
name: Berdeu, Anthony
name: Berger, Jean-Philippe
name: Bourdarot, Guillaume
name: Brandner, Wolfgang
name: Davies, Richard I.
name: Defrère, Denis
name: Dougados, Catherine
name: Drescher, Antonia
name: Eckart, Andreas
name: Fabricius, Maximilian
name: Feuchtgruber, Helmut
name: Schreiber, Natascha M. Förster
name: Garcia, Paulo
name: Genzel, Reinhard
name: Gillessen, Stefan
name: Heißel, Gernot
name: Hönig, Sebastian
name: Houlle, Mathis
name: Kervella, Pierre
name: Kreidberg, Laura
name: Lacour, Sylvestre
name: Lai, Olivier
name: Laugier, Romain
name: Bouquin, Jean-Baptiste Le
name: Leftley, James
name: Lopez, Bruno
name: Lutz, Dieter
name: Mang, Felix
name: Millour, Florentin
name: Montargès, Miguel
name: Nowacki, Hugo
name: Nowak, Mathias
name: Ott, Thomas
name: Paumard, Thibaut
name: Perraut, Karine
name: Perrin, Guy
name: Petrov, Romain
name: Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier
name: Pourre, Nicolas
name: Rabien, Sebastian
name: Ribeiro, Diogo C.
name: Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie
name: Bordoni, Matteo Sadun
name: Santos, Daryl
name: Sauter, Jonas
name: Scigliuto, Jules
name: Shimizu, Taro T.
name: Straubmeier, Christian
name: Sturm, Eckhard
name: Subroweit, Matthias
name: Sykes, Calvin
name: Tacconi, Linda
name: Vincent, Frédéric
name: Widmann, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We resolve the multiple images of the binary-lens microlensing event ASASSN-22av using the GRAVITY instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The light curves show weak binary-lens perturbations, complicating the analysis, but the joint modeling with the VLTI data breaks several degeneracies, arriving at a strongly favored solution. Thanks to precise measurements of angular Einstein radius θ_E = 0.724 +/- 0.002 mas and microlens parallax, we determine that the lens system consists of two M dwarfs with masses of M_1 = 0.258 +/- 0.008 M_sun and M_2 = 0.130 +/- 0.007 M_sun, a projected separation of r_\perp = 6.83 +/- 0.31 au and a distance of D_L = 2.29 +/- 0.08 kpc. The successful VLTI observations of ASASSN-22av open up a new path for studying intermediate-separation (i.e., a few astronomical units) stellar-mass binaries, including those containing dark compact objects such as neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes.
description: Published in ApJ. See the ancillary file for animation associated with Fig. 8
Nesodynerus subegens
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Nesodynerus
Nesodynerus subegens

description: subegens (Perkins)
Odynerus subegens Perkins 1910: 610 —“ Hawaii (4000 ft.)” (London).— Nishida 1992: 185 (Hawaii); 1994: 174; 1997: 149 (Hawaii); 2002: 182 (Hawaii).
Nesodynerus subegens; Evenhuis 2005: 50 (list).— Carpenter 2008: 18.
Distr.: Hawaii.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 401-455 in Zootaxa 5315 (5) on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8142377
GPU-Accelerated Solution of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation for Large and Heterogeneous Systems
Creators: name: Yu, Victor Wen-zhe
name: Jin, Yu
name: Galli, Giulia
name: Govoni, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a massively parallel, GPU-accelerated implementation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for the calculation of the vertical excitation energies (VEEs) and optical absorption spectra of condensed and molecular systems, starting from single-particle eigenvalues and eigenvectors obtained with density functional theory. The algorithms adopted here circumvent the slowly converging sums over empty and occupied states and the inversion of large dielectric matrices, through a density matrix perturbation theory approach and a low-rank decomposition of the screened Coulomb interaction, respectively. Further computational savings are achieved by exploiting the nearsightedness of the density matrix of semiconductors and insulators to reduce the number of screened Coulomb integrals. We scale our calculations to thousands of GPUs with a hierarchical loop and data distribution strategy. The efficacy of our method is demonstrated by computing the VEEs of several spin defects in wide-band-gap materials, showing that supercells with up to 1000 atoms are necessary to obtain converged results. We discuss the validity of the common approximation that solves the BSE with truncated sums over empty and occupied states. We then apply our GW-BSE implementation to a diamond lattice with 1727 atoms to study the symmetry breaking of triplet states caused by the interaction of a point defect with an extended line defect.
Assessment of intensity, prevalence and duration of everyday activities in Swiss school children: a cross-sectional analysis of accelerometer and diary data
Creators: name: Bringolf-Isler, Bettina
name: Grize, Leticia
name: Mäder, Urs
name: Ruch, Nicole
name: Sennhauser, Felix H.
name: Braun-Fahrländer, Charlotte
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2009
Subjects: Assessment of intensity Everyday activitiy Swiss school children Accelerometer

description: Background: Appropriately measuring habitual physical activity (PA) in children is a major challenge. Questionnaires and accelerometers are the most widely used instruments but both have well-known limitations. The aims of this study were to determine activity type/mode and to quantify intensity and duration of children's everyday PA by combining information of a time activity diary with accelerometer measurements and to assess differences by gender and age. Methods: School children (n = 189) aged 6/7 years, 9/10 years and 13/14 years wore accelerometers during one week in winter 2004 and one in summer 2005. Simultaneously, they completed a newly developed time-activity diary during 4 days per week recording different activities performed during each 15 min interval. For each specific activity, the mean intensity (accelerometer counts/min), mean duration per day (min/d) and proportion of involved children were calculated using linear regression models. Results: For the full range of activities, boys accumulated more mean counts/min than girls. Adolescents spent more time in high intensity sports activities than younger children (p < 0.001) but this increase was compensated by a reduction in time spent playing vigorously (p = 0.04). In addition, adolescents spent significantly more time in sedentary activities (p < 0.001) and accumulated less counts/min during these activities than younger children (p = 0.007). Among moderate to vigorous activities, children spent most time with vigorous play (43 min/day) and active transportation (56 min/day). Conclusion: The combination of accelerometers and time activity diaries provides insight into age and gender related differences in PA. This information is warranted to efficiently guide and evaluate PA promotion.