cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Functional Multiplex PageRank
Creators: name: Iacovacci, Jacopo
name: Rahmede, Christoph
name: Arenas, Alex
name: Bianconi, Ginestra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently it has been recognized that many complex social, technological and biological networks have a multilayer nature and can be described by multiplex networks. Multiplex networks are formed by a set of nodes connected by links having different connotations forming the different layers of the multiplex. Characterizing the centrality of the nodes in a multiplex network is a challenging task since the centrality of the node naturally depends on the importance associated to links of a certain type. Here we propose to assign to each node of a multiplex network a centrality called Functional Multiplex PageRank that is a function of the weights given to every different pattern of connections (multilinks) existent in the multiplex network between any two nodes. Since multilinks distinguish all the possible ways in which the links in different layers can overlap, the Functional Multiplex PageRank can describe important non-linear effects when large relevance or small relevance is assigned to multilinks with overlap. Here we apply the Functional Page Rank to the multiplex airport networks, to the neuronal network of the nematode c.elegans, and to social collaboration and citation networks between scientists. This analysis reveals important differences existing between the most central nodes of these networks, and the correlations between their so called "pattern to success".
description: (7 pages, 5 figures)
operational challenges and opportunities of interest free banking in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Wondwosen, Teshome
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The main objective of this study is to examine operational challenges and opportunities of interest free banking in Ethiopia. Interest free banking was introduced in Ethiopia as an alternative to the banking industries within the existing conventional bank in window bases, and strictly operates in line with the principles of Shari'ah. However, its operations have been constrained partly by, legal and regulation framework, misunderstanding and lack of standardization, limited market, and sharia experts and man power. The study used descriptive methods of analysis, Primary data was used by preparing questionnaires to test stated research hypotheses and to answer the research questions. To achieve the objectives of the study respondents were drawn from one government banks and four private commercial banks since they started IFB financing and saving service. Data was collected through questionnaire by using random sampling from a sample of 180 IFB staffs 126 were properly filled and returned the questionaries. The data collected from the questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS version 20 statistical tools such as percentages and frequency. The result showed that proper legal and regulatory framework is the major setback to the operation of interest free banking, lack of sheria experts and man power significantly lagged the operations of Interest free banking; limited market makes very limited provision for the operation of Islamic banking in Ethiopia; and these key findings show that a major setback to the operation of IFB in Ethiopia and above all, misunderstanding and lack of standardization of IFB concept are the major challenges of IFB operation in Ethiopia. Further the finding of the study showed that interest free banking is an effective mechanism to subjugate the liquidity and inflation problem. Thus, regulatory governance and banks should give more emphasis for the challenges that they face on the operation to have those mentioned opportunities and inclusive growths.
The compliance of the upper critical field in magic-angle multilayer graphene with the Pauli limit
Creators: name: Talantsev, E. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pauli limiting field represents fundamental magnetic field at which superconducting state collapses due to the spin-paramagnetic Cooper pair-breaking effect. Cao et al [1] reported that the upper critical field (i.e., the magnetic field at which the superconducting state collapses in experiment) in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATNG, N=3) in 2-3 times exceeds the Pauli limiting field in this material. This observation was interpreted as a violation of the Pauli-limiting field in MAT3G. Similar conclusions were recently reported by the same research group in MATNG (N=4,5) superlattices [2]. Here we point out that Cao et al [1] calculated the Pauli limiting field by the use of reduce (to the weak-coupling limit) full equation of the electron-phonon mediated superconductivity. Considering, that in the same paper, Cao et al [1] reported that MATNGs are strong coupled superconductors, we calculate the Pauli limiting field for strong coupled case and show that the observed upper critical fields in MATNGs comply with the Pauli limit. This implies that there is no violation of the Pauli limiting field in the Moire multilayer graphene superlattices.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, Supplementary Information
Additional file 1 of L1077P CFTR pathogenic variant function rescue by Elexacaftor–Tezacaftor–Ivacaftor in cystic fibrosis patient-derived air–liquid interface (ALI) cultures and organoids: in vitro guided personalized therapy of non-F508del patients
Creators: name: Lo Cicero, Stefania
name: Castelli, Germana
name: Blaconà, Giovanna
name: Bruno, Sabina Maria
name: Sette, Giovanni
name: Pigliucci, Riccardo
name: Villella, Valeria Rachela
name: Esposito, Speranza
name: Zollo, Immacolata
name: Spadaro, Francesca
name: Maria, Ruggero De
name: Biffoni, Mauro
name: Cimino, Giuseppe
name: Amato, Felice
name: Lucarelli, Marco
name: Eramo, Adriana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Cystic fibrosis (CF) -“culture reprogramming condition” (CRC) characterization and generation of ALI-culture differentiated respiratory cell models. Results from one representative preparation (L1077P/L1077P genotype according to Table 1) are reported. A) Flow cytometry analysis of the basal cell markers nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR) and integrin α-6 (ITGA6) in CF-CRC and 4 weeks differentiated cells in air–liquid interface (ALI) culture condition. B) Immunofluorescence and confocal analysis for differentiation markers acetylated α-tubulin (green) and mucin5B (red) after ALI-culture differentiation. Magnification is 60× and orthogonal projection (Z) shows tissue thickness with nuclei (stained in blue with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) at the bottom and differentiation antigens at the apical side. C) Immunoblot showing the loss of basal stem cell marker cytokeratin 5 (CK-5) and the acquisition of the differentiation markers of mature ciliated cells FOXJ and acetylated α-tubulin, after ALI differentiation; β-actin is shown for equal loading.
(202244) Mary Aline Bradshaw
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Symmetric invariants related to representations of exceptional simple groups
Creators: name: Panyushev, Dmitri I.
name: Yakimova, Oksana S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14L30, 17B08, 17B20, 22E46

description: We classify the finite-dimensional rational representations $V$ of the exceptional algebraic groups $G$ with $\mathfrak g={\sf Lie}(G)$ such that the symmetric invariants of the semi-direct product $\mathfrak g\ltimes V$, where $V$ is an Abelian ideal, form a polynomial ring.
description: 13 pages
Letter from Mary Butts to Douglas Goldring and Malin Goldring, December 1930
Creators: name: Butts, Mary, 1890-1937
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Goldring, Malin
subject: Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1798259
subject: Butts, Mary, 1890-1937
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/144414
subject: People referenced (in letter): Butts, Mary, 1890-1937; Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960; Golding, Malin
subject: Texts referenced (in letter): Fall of the House of Usher
subject: Places referenced (in letter): England--Romney Marsh; England--London; England--Rye--Iden--Iden 22--Thornsdale
subject: Topics referenced (in letter): Holiday greetings

description: Mary Butts writes to Douglas Goldring and Malin Goldring regarding Christmas greetings and Butts's time in England . Sent from (location): England--Rye--Iden--Iden 22--Thornsdale
La Place d'Aline et Valcour dans l'oevre de Sade
Creators: name: Wood, William T.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
A functional renormalization group study of the two dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubbard model
Creators: name: Yang, Qing-Geng
name: Wang, Da
name: Wang, Qiang-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Hubbard model on the square lattice coupled in addition to the optical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) phonons, using the singular-mode functional renormalization group method. At half-filling and in the absence of the Hubbard interaction $U$, we find the degenerate spin-density-wave (SDW)/charge-density-wave (CDW)/s-wave superconductivity (sSC) state at smaller electron-phonon coupling strength $λ$ and higher phonon frequency $ω$, and the valence bond solid (VBS) state at larger $λ$ and lower $ω$. After switching on a positive $U$, the VBS state is suppressed, while the SDW state is enhanced. At finite doping, the SSH phonon is found to favor sSC at $U=0$. With increasing positive $U$, we find d-wave superconductivity (dSC) and incommensurate SDW states. In a narrow window of moderate $U$ and $λ$, we also find the incommensurate VBS state. The sSC and dSC here can be naturally related to the CDW and SDW fluctuations, both of which can be triggered by the SSH phonons. In contrast, the repulsive interaction $U$ enhances SDW but suppresses CDW fluctuations. Our results at half filling are consistent with quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), and provide insights at finite doping where QMC may suffer from the minus sign problem.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
(202245) Cicely Gladys Bradshaw
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Microscopic response theory for strongly-coupled superfluid fermionic systems
Creators: name: Litvinova, Elena
name: Zhang, Yinu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A consistent microscopic theory for the response of strongly-coupled superfluid fermionic systems is formulated. After defining the response as a two-point two-fermion correlation function in the basis of the Bogolyubov's quasiparticles, the equation of motion (EOM) method is applied using the most general fermionic Hamiltonian with a bare two-body interaction, also transformed to the quasiparticle space. As a superfluid extension of the case of the normal phase, the resulting EOM is of the Bethe-Salpeter-Dyson form with the static and dynamical interaction kernels, where the former determines the short-range correlations and the latter is responsible for the long-range ones. Both kernels as well as the entire EOM have the double dimension as compared to that of the normal phase. Non-perturbative approximations via the cluster decomposition of the dynamical kernel are discussed, with the major focus on a continuous derivation of the quasiparticle-phonon coupling variant of the latter kernel, where the phonons (vibrations) are composite correlated two-quasiparticle states unifying both the normal and pairing modes. The developed theory is adopted for nuclear structure applications, such as the nuclear response in various channels. In particular, the finite-amplitude method generalized beyond the quasiparticle random phase approximation, taking into account the quasiparticle-vibration coupling, is formulated for prospective calculations in non-spherical nuclei.
description: Article: 15 pages, 2 figures
Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time
Creators: name: Portenoy, Jason
name: Hullman, Jessica
name: West, Jevin D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.2

description: Assessing the influence of a scholar's work is an important task for funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for generating dynamic visualizations of scholars' careers. This approach uses an animated node-link diagram showing the citation network accumulated around the researcher over the course of the career in concert with key indicators, highlighting influence both within and across fields. We developed our design in collaboration with one funding organization---the Pew Biomedical Scholars program---but the methods are generalizable to visualizations of scholarly influence. We applied the design method to the Microsoft Academic Graph, which includes more than 120 million publications. We validate our abstractions throughout the process through collaboration with the Pew Biomedical Scholars program officers and summative evaluations with their scholars.
Cattaneo, Arturo, Questioni fundamentali della canonistica nel pensiero di Klaus Mörsdorf, Navarra-Pamplona 1986
Creators: name: May, Georg
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (1988): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 4, Heft 1
(202247) Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Factors influencing loan repayment performance of Micro and small enterprise borrowers financed by Micro-finance institution; the case of Oromia credit and saving S.C (OCSSCO).
Creators: name: Tesfaye, Sisay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Microfinance institutions in Ethiopia are playing an important role in poverty reduction strategies initiated by the government of Ethiopia. These institutions have a mission of creating and facilitating credit and other financial schemes to enhance self-employment opportunities and poverty reduction. There have been challenges in the microfinance institutions' regarding reducing the high rate of default by their clients specifically with micro and small enterprise borrowers. Thus, the study objective was to identify factors influencing the loan repayment performance of MSE's financed by MFI, in the Case of Oromia Credit and Saving S.C (OCSSCO).To address the main objectives of the study, four zonal offices of Oromia credit and saving Share Company were selected for the study purpose. Accordingly, in order to achieve the objective 329 sample borrowers were selected from the total of MSE borrowers served by those selected MF zonal offices. The data were collected using a structured questionnaires, and interviews. The descriptive statistics analysis and probit regression model were employed to estimate the model and analyze the results of findings. The result shows that eight variables including constant: monitoring utilization of other members in a enterprises, loan disbursement timeliness, repayment schedule suitability, repayment trend on monthly basis, repayment trend in irregular basis supervision on monthly basis and training adequacy are found significantly influence loan repayment performance of borrowers. Thus, it is recommended that the lending institutes need to focus on monitoring loan utilization systems of borrowers and technical support needs of the target borrowers through delivering better awareness creation to organize the more viable borrowers, close supervision, and follow-ups and strengthening their internal and external weaknesses through better training.
A First Look at Dataset Bias in License Plate Recognition
Creators: name: Laroca, Rayson
name: Santos, Marcelo
name: Estevam, Valter
name: Luz, Eduardo
name: Menotti, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Public datasets have played a key role in advancing the state of the art in License Plate Recognition (LPR). Although dataset bias has been recognized as a severe problem in the computer vision community, it has been largely overlooked in the LPR literature. LPR models are usually trained and evaluated separately on each dataset. In this scenario, they have often proven robust in the dataset they were trained in but showed limited performance in unseen ones. Therefore, this work investigates the dataset bias problem in the LPR context. We performed experiments on eight datasets, four collected in Brazil and four in mainland China, and observed that each dataset has a unique, identifiable "signature" since a lightweight classification model predicts the source dataset of a license plate (LP) image with more than 95% accuracy. In our discussion, we draw attention to the fact that most LPR models are probably exploiting such signatures to improve the results achieved in each dataset at the cost of losing generalization capability. These results emphasize the importance of evaluating LPR models in cross-dataset setups, as they provide a better indication of generalization (hence real-world performance) than within-dataset ones.
description: Accepted for presentation at the Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI) 2022
An analysis of the nature of inter-state violence and of the motivational and environmental factors which affect its incidence, frequency and intensity
Creators: name: Camilleri, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Modulation of unpolarized light in planar aligned subwavelength-pitch deformed-helix ferroelectric liquid crystals
Creators: name: Kesaev, Vladimir V.
name: Kiselev, Alexei D.
name: Pozhidaev, Evgeny P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electro-optic properties of subwavelength-pitch deformed-helix ferroelectric liquid crystals (DHFLC) illuminated with unpolarized light. In the experimental setup based on the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, it was observed that the reference and the sample beams being both unpolarized produce the interference pattern which is insensitive to rotation of in-plane optical axes of the DHFLC cell. We find that the field-induced shift of the interference fringes can be described in terms of the electrically dependent Pancharatnam relative phase determined by the averaged phase shift, whereas the visibility of the fringes is solely dictated by the phase retardation.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, revised version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1508.04964
(202248) Anne Louise Matilda O'Rorke
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A vanishing result for tautological classes on the moduli of K3 surfaces
Creators: name: Petersen, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Looijenga's vanishing theorem on the moduli space of curves $M_g$ says that the tautological ring vanishes above degree $g-2$. We prove an analogous result for the tautological cohomology ring of the moduli space of K3 surfaces.
description: 3 pages. v2: Reference added. To appear in Amer J Math
Letter from Mary Butts to Douglas Goldring, April, 1924 - October, 1925
Creators: name: Butts, Mary, 1890-1937
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: West, Irene
subject: Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1433744
subject: Goodwin, Murray
subject: Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/55431
subject: Dunlop, Geoffrey
subject: Friendship
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/935174
subject: Butts, Mary, 1890-1937
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/144414
subject: Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1798259
subject: Places referenced (in letter): England--London--7 St James Terrace; France--Paris
subject: People referenced (in letter): Butts, Mary, 1890-1937; Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960; Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976; Dunlop, Geoffrey; Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981; Goodwin, Murray (?); West, Irene
subject: Topics referenced (in letter): Friendship

description: Mary Butts writes to Douglas Goldring regarding the most recent news about various acquaintances. Sent from (location): England--London--7 St James Terrace
Dunkl-Graphene in constant magnetic field
Creators: name: Hamil, B.
name: Lütfüoğlu, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene-based materials are thought to revolutionize entire industries. Therefore, many research are being carried on graphene theoretically and experimentally. On the other hand, recent studies show that the use of Dunkl derivative, instead of ordinary derivative, allows the concept of parity to be interpreted together with other physical quantities. In this manuscript, we investigate the thermal quantities of graphene under the constant magnetic field with the Dunkl-formalism. We observe that only at low temperatures Dunkl-parameters, thus parity, modify the conventional results.
description: 11 pages, 4 Figures
A physical scenario for the high and low X-ray luminosity states in the transitional pulsar PSR J1023+0038
Creators: name: Campana, S.
name: Zelati, F. Coti
name: Papitto, A.
name: Rea, N.
name: Torres, D. F.
name: Baglio, M. C.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PSR J1023+0038 (J1023) is a binary system hosting a neutron star and a low mass companion. J1023 is the best studied transitional pulsar, alternating a faint eclipsing millisecond radio pulsar state to a brighter X-ray active state. At variance with other Low Mass X-ray binaries, this active state reaches luminosities of only ~$10^{34}$ erg s$^{-1}$, showing strong, fast variability. In the active state, J1023 displays: i) a high state ($L_X\sim7\times10^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$, 0.3-80 keV) occurring ~80% of the time and during which X-ray pulsations at the neutron star spin period are detected (pulsed fraction ~8%); ii) a low state ($L_X~10^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$) during which pulsations are not detected (~<3%); and iii) a flaring state during which sporadic flares occur in excess of ~$10^{34}$ erg s$^{-1}$, with no pulsation too. The transition between the high and the low states is very rapid, on a ~10 s timescale. Here we put forward a plausible physical interpretation of the high and low states based on the (fast) transition among the propeller state and the radio pulsar state. We modelled the XMM-Newton spectra of the high, low and radio pulsar states, finding a good agreement with this physical picture.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. Note added in proof included
Autômatos celulares bidimensionais estocásticos aplicados à evacuação de pedestres
Creators: name: Nunes, Nayara Terezinha
name: Castro, Andre Pereira de
name: Araújo Lima, Danielli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Behavioral Neuroscience
Organizational Behavioral Psychology

description: A dinâmica populacional é um assunto bastante recorrente atualmente, uma vez que o ser humano apresenta uma tendência natural a viver em sociedade, desencadeando aglomerações. Desse modo, é necessário o desenvolvimento de estratégias para garantir a segurança dos indivíduos dentro de construções, no trânsito ou em qualquer ambiente que gere multidões. Caso ocorra um incidente no ambiente que ofereça risco para as pessoas, o tempo de evacuação é um fator crucial na garantia da integridade física dos indivíduos. Desse modo, simulações de evacuações emergenciais, baseadas em sistemas computacionais, são muito utilizadas atualmente, pois influenciam no projeto arquitetônico de segurança predial Burstedde et al. (2001) ou até mesmo no planejamento urbano, para solucionar conflitos entre veículos e pedestres Li et al. (2012) e na criação de ambientes públicos com saídas inteligentes, como em terminais de metrôs e ônibus Hu et al. (2013). As simulações são estruturadas a partir de abstrações da realidade e o estudo delas determinam melhores estratégias de evacuação, que servem como base para o nivelamento de segurança de uma estrutura Perez et al. (2002). Neste trabalho, os autômatos celulares (ACs) são utilizados para simular o processo de evacuação de pedestres em ambientes variados. Além de simulações computacionais, são utilizadas situações reais de evacuações nos ambientes selecionados. As características principais do modelo bidimensional proposto por Varas et al. (2007) são preservadas, bem como algumas características do modelo precursor Castro e Lima (2013) e Carneiro (2012). Para avaliação do modelo sugerido, testes em diferentes situações foram efetuados, permitindo a investigação de sua aplicabilidade. Com relação aos experimentos realizados, tanto os testes reais quanto os computacionais foram projetados em ambientes com proporções similares. Após a aplicação de diferentes testes do modelo computacional e análise dos resultados, percebe-se que há um aumento do tempo de simulação devido aos conflitos resultantes. A implementação de modelos 3D e outras metodologias para gerar os dados, além de projetos que melhorem a precisão dos resultados., podem ser considerados como um trabalho de pesquisa posterior.
Deep learning-based denoising for fast time-resolved flame emission spectroscopy in high-pressure combustion environment
Creators: name: Yoon, Taekeun
name: Kim, Seon Woong
name: Byun, Hosung
name: Kim, Younsik
name: Carter, Campbell D.
name: Do, Hyungrok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A deep learning strategy is developed for fast and accurate gas property measurements using flame emission spectroscopy (FES). Particularly, the short-gated fast FES is essential to resolve fast-evolving combustion behaviors. However, as the exposure time for capturing the flame emission spectrum gets shorter, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) decreases, and characteristic spectral features indicating the gas properties become relatively weaker. Then, the property estimation based on the short-gated spectrum is difficult and inaccurate. Denoising convolutional neural networks (CNN) can enhance the SNR of the short-gated spectrum. A new CNN architecture including a reversible down- and up-sampling (DU) operator and a loss function based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) coefficients is proposed. For training and testing the CNN, flame chemiluminescence spectra were captured from a stable methane-air flat flame using a portable spectrometer (spectral range: 250 - 850 nm, resolution: 0.5 nm) with varied equivalence ratio (0.8 - 1.2), pressure (1 - 10 bar), and exposure time (0.05, 0.2, 0.4, and 2 s). The long exposure (2 s) spectra were used as the ground truth when training the denoising CNN. A kriging model with POD is trained by the long-gated spectra for calibration, and then the prediction of the gas properties taking the denoised short-gated spectrum as the input: The property prediction errors of pressure and equivalence ratio were remarkably lowered in spite of the low SNR attendant with reduced exposure.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, accepted to Combustion and Flame
Letter from Mary Butts to Douglas Goldring, Between September 1926 and June 1930. Regarding a crossed cheque etc.
Creators: name: Butts, Mary, 1890-1937
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Goldring, Malin
subject: Finance, Personal
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/924449
subject: Households
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/962162
subject: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/3701
subject: Lasell, Phil
subject: Butts, Mary, 1890-1937
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/144414
subject: Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1798259
subject: People referenced (in letter): Butts, Mary, 1890-1937; Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960; Golding, Malin; Lasell, Phil; V. T. (Thompson, Virgil? 1896-1989)
subject: Places referenced (in letter): England--London; France--Paris--14 Rue de Monttessuy
subject: Topics referenced (in letter): Finance; Domestic life

description: Mary Butts writes to Douglas Goldring regarding a crossed cheque he sends her and her time with a child (unnamed). Sent from (location): France--Paris--14 Rue de Monttessuy
The use of a readability formula in assessing the difficulty of French texts
Creators: name: Quinn, Terence John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Nuclear magnetic resonance polarization and coherence echoes in static and rotating solids
Creators: name: Suter, Dieter
name: Tomaselli, M.
name: Hediger, S.
name: Ernst, R. R.
Publisher: name: American Institute of Physics
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: 530

description: The mechanisms of defocusing and refocusing of spin order in extended dipolar coupled nuclear spin systems are investigated by experiments on static and on rotating solids. It is demonstrated that polarization or coherence echoes are possible also under magic-angle sample spinning. The dipolar interactions, averaged by the spinning, are recovered by rotor-synchronized multiple-pulse sequences. By a simple modification of the pulse sequences, it is possible to reverse the sign of the effective dipolar Hamiltonian and to induce the refocusing of polarization or coherence. The creation of multiple-spin order in the course of polarization evolution or free precession is monitored by a modified echo experiment. Experimental results for a polycrystalline sample of calcium formate are presented.
String networks with junctions in competition models
Creators: name: Avelino, P. P.
name: Bazeia, D.
name: Losano, L.
name: Menezes, J.
name: de Oliveira, B. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we give specific examples of competition models, with six and eight species, whose three-dimensional dynamics naturally leads to the formation of string networks with junctions, associated with regions that have a high concentration of enemy species. We study the two- and three-dimensional evolution of such networks, both using stochastic network and mean field theory simulations. If the predation, reproduction and mobility probabilities do not vary in space and time, we find that the networks attain scaling regimes with a characteristic length roughly proportional to $t^{1/2}$, where $t$ is the physical time, thus showing that the presence of junctions, on its own, does not have a significant impact on their scaling properties.
description: v2, 10 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 1 of L1077P CFTR pathogenic variant function rescue by Elexacaftor–Tezacaftor–Ivacaftor in cystic fibrosis patient-derived air–liquid interface (ALI) cultures and organoids: in vitro guided personalized therapy of non-F508del patients
Creators: name: Stefania, Lo Cicero
name: Germana, Castelli
name: Giovanna, Blaconà
name: Maria, Bruno Sabina
name: Giovanni, Sette
name: Riccardo, Pigliucci
name: Rachela, Villella Valeria
name: Speranza, Esposito
name: Immacolata, Zollo
name: Francesca, Spadaro
name: Ruggero, De Maria
name: Mauro, Biffoni
name: Giuseppe, Cimino
name: Felice, Amato
name: Marco, Lucarelli
name: Adriana, Eramo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Cystic fibrosis (CF) -“culture reprogramming condition” (CRC) characterization and generation of ALI-culture differentiated respiratory cell models. Results from one representative preparation (L1077P/L1077P genotype according to Table 1) are reported. A) Flow cytometry analysis of the basal cell markers nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR) and integrin α-6 (ITGA6) in CF-CRC and 4 weeks differentiated cells in air–liquid interface (ALI) culture condition. B) Immunofluorescence and confocal analysis for differentiation markers acetylated α-tubulin (green) and mucin5B (red) after ALI-culture differentiation. Magnification is 60× and orthogonal projection (Z) shows tissue thickness with nuclei (stained in blue with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) at the bottom and differentiation antigens at the apical side. C) Immunoblot showing the loss of basal stem cell marker cytokeratin 5 (CK-5) and the acquisition of the differentiation markers of mature ciliated cells FOXJ and acetylated α-tubulin, after ALI differentiation; β-actin is shown for equal loading.
Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Quantum Memory
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Ding, Dong-Sheng
name: Sheng, Yu-Bo
name: Zhou, Lan
name: Shi, Bao-Sen
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum communication provides an absolute security advantage, and it has been widely developed over the past 30 years. As an important branch of quantum communication, quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) promotes high security and instantaneousness in communication through directly transmitting messages over a quantum channel. The full implementation of a quantum protocol always requires the ability to control the transfer of a message effectively in the time domain; thus, it is essential to combine QSDC with quantum memory to accomplish the communication task. In this paper, we report the experimental demonstration of QSDC with state-of-the-art atomic quantum memory for the first time in principle. We used the polarization degrees of freedom of photons as the information carrier, and the fidelity of entanglement decoding was verified as approximately 90%. Our work completes a fundamental step toward practical QSDC and demonstrates a potential application for long-distance quantum communication in a quantum network.
description: To appear in PRL
Spatio-Temporal Wind Speed Forecasting using Graph Networks and Novel Transformer Architectures
Creators: name: Bentsen, Lars Ødegaard
name: Warakagoda, Narada Dilp
name: Stenbro, Roy
name: Engelstad, Paal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study focuses on multi-step spatio-temporal wind speed forecasting for the Norwegian continental shelf. The study aims to leverage spatial dependencies through the relative physical location of different measurement stations to improve local wind forecasts. Our multi-step forecasting models produce either 10-minute, 1- or 4-hour forecasts, with 10-minute resolution, meaning that the models produce more informative time series for predicted future trends. A graph neural network (GNN) architecture was used to extract spatial dependencies, with different update functions to learn temporal correlations. These update functions were implemented using different neural network architectures. One such architecture, the Transformer, has become increasingly popular for sequence modelling in recent years. Various alterations have been proposed to better facilitate time series forecasting, of which this study focused on the Informer, LogSparse Transformer and Autoformer. This is the first time the LogSparse Transformer and Autoformer have been applied to wind forecasting and the first time any of these or the Informer have been formulated in a spatio-temporal setting for wind forecasting. By comparing against spatio-temporal Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) models, the study showed that the models using the altered Transformer architectures as update functions in GNNs were able to outperform these. Furthermore, we propose the Fast Fourier Transformer (FFTransformer), which is a novel Transformer architecture based on signal decomposition and consists of two separate streams that analyse the trend and periodic components separately. The FFTransformer and Autoformer were found to achieve superior results for the 10-minute and 1-hour ahead forecasts, with the FFTransformer significantly outperforming all other models for the 4-hour ahead forecasts.
description: (Please cite this version): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120565 Code Available at https://github.com/LarsBentsen/FFTransformer
(202242) Marie Voldengen
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A brief description of the Kalkatungu language
Creators: name: Blake, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Dialogue Modeling in Embodied Communicational Agents
Creators: name: Laufer, László
name: Tatai, Gábor
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: dialogue Modelling
subject: affective Computing
subject: ECA
subject: 430

description: We are developing an ECA (Embodied Communicational Agent) system in Hungarian language. The ECA has to be able to carry out general chat conversations and domain specific discussions as well. The structure of the dialogue graph and the attributes of the graph nodes have to support the success of the conversation: user utterance understanding and responding, as well as repairing the 'non-understandins' situations. In the following sections we are briefly depicting the system and describe its dialogue knowledge base focusing on the different user interfaces we developed for its testing and building.
High resolution water isotope data from ice cores
Creators: name: Gkinis, Vasileios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: ice cores, paleoclimate, Antarctica, Laser Spectroscopy

description: Abstract:
 We here present a new technique for the measurement of water isotope ratios in an online fashion using Cavity Ring Down spectroscopy in the Near Infra-Red region. The technique reaches a level of precision comparable or better to what can be achieved with traditional Mass Spectrometry achieving very low instrumental drifts. Attached to an ice core melter the system can offer water isotope measurements of unprecedented resolution. We demonstrate the feasibility of the technique by deploying the system on the Greenland ice sheet during the NEEM ice core project. The online nature of the data calls for a different approach regarding data analysis. We outline the methods we use in order to put the water isotope time series on a depth scale. Based on a step response analysis we are able to derive transfer functions that describe the attenuation of signals with different wavelengths. Allan variance analysis is also used to assess the precision and long term stability of the analytical system. Results are compared to discrete samples and an overall agreement is observed. The high resolution obtained with this technique can be useful for temperature reconstructions based on the study of the isotopic diffusion in firn. In this work we describe the process of water isotope firn diffusion and derive expressions for the diffusion length. Based on a diffusivity parametrization and a series of different temperature history scenarios we are able to model the diffusion length history. Spectral estimation techniques applied on the time series can yield the diffusion length value. We show how this is practically done and exemplify it by using available water isotope high resolution data from Dome C. We compare the model and data outcome and based on that we infer past isotope slopes for the last 90 kyr for the Dome C site. Our results indicate a variable isotope slope during this period. The temperature history inferred from the estimated isotope slope shows a glacial– interglacial step of approximately 9 K and warming events during Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 4 that reach Holocene levels in terms of temperature.
Visualisation Impact Ranking
Creators: name: Cuevas, Rodrigo
name: Cisternas, Carla
name: González-Bustamante, Bastián
name: Olivares, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chile
subject: scientific impact
subject: political science
subject: bibliometrics

description: Chilean Political Science Ranking (CPS-Ranking) figures.