cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary materials to: Nano-Strainer: a workflow for identification of single-copy nuclear loci for plant systematic studies, using target capture kits and Oxford Nanopore long reads
Creators: name: Scheunert, Agnes
name: Lautenschlager, Ulrich
name: Ott, Tankred
name: Oberprieler, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: single-copy nuclear marker
target capture
probe kit
Nanopore
Polyploidization
CompCOS loci
Leucanthemum
BASH script
Python script
R script

description: In the paper associated with this dataset, a workflow is presented which enables the identification of single-/low-copy nuclear molecular markers for a plant group of interest, by mining data from a small representative target capture experiment done using a commercial probe kit and Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing. The proposed pipeline first assesses sequence variability contained in the data from targeted loci and assigns reads to their respective genes, via a combined BLAST/clustering procedure. Cluster consensus sequences are then examined based on four pre-defined criteria presumably indicative for absence of paralogy. This is done by calculating four specialized indices; loci are ranked according to their performance in these indices, and top-scoring loci are considered putatively single- or low-copy. The approach can be applied to any probe set. As it relies on long reads, the contribution also provides template workflows for processing Nanopore-based target capture data. Identified loci can be used for NGS amplicon sequencing. For detection of possibly remaining paralogy in these data, which might occur in groups with rampant paralogy, the long-read assembly tool CANU is employed. The presented workflow can be useful for researchers dealing with reticulate or polyploidization phylogenetic histories in plants. The present dataset contains several documents supplementing the original paper. Its most important elements are a detailed description (alongside two graphical workflow figures) of all methods employed in the study, suitable for reproducing the steps of the workflow and also the wet-lab work. The workflow employs a collection of BASH, Python and R scripts which is available here, together with a detailed account on command line use in Linux. Also, reference sequences for the identified markers can be found as well as sequence alignments derived from the amplicon sequencing.
description: For opening of the files included with this submission, the following programs are required: Microsoft Office or an open-source alternative for viewing DOCX and XLSX files, a PDF viewer, a standard sequence alignment program and a file archive unpacking tool capable of handling ZIP files and GZIPPED tar archives.Funding provided by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
Award Number: OB 155/13-1
РИСКОВАННОЕ ПОВЕДЕНИЕ КАК ФАКТОР СТАНОВЛЕНИЯ ЛИЧНОСТИ ПОДРОСТКА
Creators: name: Ростокинский А.В.
name: Аккаева Х.А.
Publisher: name: Право и управление
Year: 2022
Subjects: Аддикции. Девиантное поведение. Криминал. Опасность. Подростки. Риск. Удовольствия.

description: В данной статье анализируются причины, признаки и основные формы рискованного поведения подростков и определяемые им девиантные и конфликтные явления формированием личности. Обосновывается вывод о том, что основными потребностями, удовлетворяемыми при преодолении реальных или имитационных (игровых) опасностей является получение эмоциональной разрядки, удовольствий, а также осовение подростком новых для него статусов и социальных ролей. Предложена типологизация рискованного поведения по признакам преобладающей мотивации субъекта и его отношению к другим видам деятельности, не связанной с риском: увлеченности, зависимости (аддикции) и саморазрушение, определены их основные криминогенные признаки.
Perception of personal protective equipment availability and mental health outcomes in workers from two national hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Villarreal-Zegarra, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services

description: Background: During the first wave of the pandemic, a constant concern of healthcare workers, who are more vulnerable to contagion, is their personal safety. This is directly related to the availability of adequate PPE, which led to a perception of dissatisfaction and inequality with government responses. We aim to determines whether perception of adequate PPE availability is associated with depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms in different types of healthcare workers.Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study surveyed clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers in two third-level hospitals in Lima, Peru. An online self-survey assessed the perception of adequate PPE availability, using a Likert scale question, which was then dichotomized for the analysis. In addition, we assessed the depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms using validated questionnaires.Results: 563 participants were included. In general, there is no association between perception of PPE availability and three mental health outcomes. However, in the subgroup analysis, physicians with better perception of PPE availability had less moderate-severe outcomes in mental health; in contrast, nurses had higher moderate-severe outcomes. The type of profession in healthcare workers may modify the effect of this association.Conclusion: The association between perception of PPE availability and mental health outcomes is complex in healthcare workers from two third-level hospitals. This association can vary according to the type of work.
Supplement: An Agnostic Approach to Gender Patterns in Parliamentary Speech by Raiber and Spierings 2022
Creators: name: Raiber, Klara
name: Spierings, Niels
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplement material/appendix for the article "An Agnostic Approach to Gender Patterns in Parliamentary Speech: A Question of Representation by Topic and Style " accepted in the European Journal of Politics and Gender (2022) by Klara Raiber and Niels Spierings.
Curatorial authority and mediation of culture: Moscow art exhibitions 1974–1993
Creators: name: Maximova, Marina
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis offers a critical history of curation in Moscow in the period between 1974 and 1993, arguing that the history of curation can be used as a lens through which to examine how culture is negotiated during a period of social change and transformation. By making use of oral history and primary archival research, the thesis locates the beginnings of a particular approach to curating that emerges in the social and cultural context of late Soviet Russia. The thesis challenges the commonly held view among scholars that contemporary forms of curating emerged in the wake of Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalisation policies of the late 1980s and the corollary dissolution of the USSR. Rather than viewing the development of curation as a product of ‘unofficial’ culture, this thesis argues that it was part of a wider and more sequential process rooted in the reshaping of public life starting in the Brezhnev era. Although the term kurator was absent in the Soviet art context until the early 1990s, the thesis uncovers a set of ‘curatorial’ concerns about the negotiation of the process of communication between art and its publics. The history of exhibitions therefore is seen as a forum comprised by the dynamic interactions between artists, their works, art institutions and their different publics. To illustrate this, the thesis introduces a typology of five curatorial roles in the late Soviet period: gatekeeper, impresario, tusovshchik, tastemaker and auteur. Each avatar represents a new phase in understanding of art publics and the modes of communication that they require.
“That's a good question”: University researchers' views on ownership and retention of human genetic specimens
Creators: name: Sterling, Rene
name: Davis, Arlene M
name: Henderson, Gail
name: Cadigan, R Jean
name: Dobson, Allison W
name: Rothschild, Barbra B
name: Easter, Michele M
name: Zimmer, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: To explore the views of university-based investigators conducting genetic research with human specimens regarding ownership and retention of specimens, and knowledge of related institutional review board and university policies.
Associated jet and subjet rates in light-quark and gluon jet discrimination
Creators: name: Bhattacherjee, Biplob
name: Mukhopadhyay, Satyanarayan
name: Nojiri, Mihoko M.
name: Sakaki, Yasuhito
name: Webber, Bryan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in studies of light quark- and gluon-initiated jet discrimination, it is important to include the information on softer reconstructed jets (associated jets) around a primary hard jet. This is particularly relevant while adopting a small radius parameter for reconstructing hadronic jets. The probability of having an associated jet as a function of the primary jet transverse momentum ($p_T$) and radius, the minimum associated jet $p_T$ and the association radius is computed upto next-to-double logarithmic accuracy (NDLA), and the predictions are compared with results from Herwig++, Pythia6 and Pythia8 Monte Carlos (MC). We demonstrate the improvement in quark-gluon discrimination on using the associated jet rate variable with the help of a multivariate analysis. The associated jet rates are found to be only mildly sensitive to the choice of parton shower and hadronization algorithms, as well as to the effects of initial state radiation and underlying event. In addition, the number of $k_T$ subjets of an anti-$k_T$ jet is found to be an observable that leads to a rather uniform prediction across different MC's, broadly being in agreement with predictions in NDLA, as compared to the often used number of charged tracks observable.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures; v2: Figures of 2D joint distributions included, additions to text and Refs., version to appear in JHEP
Consideration of patient preferences and challenges in storage and access of pharmacogenetic test results
Creators: name: Kawamoto, Kensaku
name: Agans, Robert
name: Ginsburg, Geoffrey S.
name: Haga, Susanne B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing is one of the primary drivers of personalized medicine. The use of PGx testing may provide a lifetime of benefits through tailoring drug dosing and selection of multiple medications to improve therapeutic outcomes and reduce adverse responses. We aimed to assess public interest and concerns regarding sharing and storage of PGx test results that would facilitate the re-use of PGx data across a lifetime of care.
BaF molecules in neon ice: trapping, spectroscopy and optical control of electron spins
Creators: name: Li, Samuel J.
name: Ramachandran, Harish D.
name: Anderson, Rhys
name: Vutha, Amar C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have trapped BaF molecules in neon ice, and used laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy to map out optical transitions in the trapped molecules. Our measurements show that the neon lattice does not significantly perturb certain optical transitions in the trapped molecules. We used one of these transitions to polarize the electron spins, detect spin flips and measure hyperfine transitions in the trapped molecules, entirely using lasers. This demonstration with heavy polar molecules opens up new opportunities for precision measurements of beyond-standard-model physics.
Towards a Better Understanding of OPD Limitations for Higher Sensitivity and Contrast at the VLTI
Creators: name: Courtney-Barrer, Benjamin
name: Woillez, Julien
name: Laugier, Romain
name: Bigioli, Azzurra
name: Schuhler, Nicolas
name: Guajardo, Patricia
name: Lizana, Vicente
name: Behara, Natalię
name: Eisenhauer, Frank
name: Ireland, Michael
name: Haubois, Xavier
name: Defrère, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precise control of the optical path differences (OPD) in the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) was critical for the characterization of the black hole at the center of our Galaxy - leading to the 2020 Nobel prize in physics. There is now significant effort to push these OPD limits even further, in-particular achieving 100nm OPD RMS on the 8m unit telescopes (UT's) to allow higher contrast and sensitivity at the VLTI. This work calculated the theoretical atmospheric OPD limit of the VLTI as 5nm and 15nm RMS, with current levels around 200nm and 100nm RMS for the UT and 1.8m auxillary telescopes (AT's) respectively, when using bright targets in good atmospheric conditions. We find experimental evidence for the $f^{-17/3}$ power law theoretically predicted from the effect of telescope filtering in the case of the ATs which is not currently observed for the UT's. Fitting a series of vibrating mirrors modelled as dampened harmonic oscillators, we were able to model the UT OPD PSD of the gravity fringe tracker to $<1nm/\sqrt{Hz}$ RMSE up to 100Hz, which could adequately explain a hidden $f^{-17/3}$ power law on the UTs. Vibration frequencies in the range of 60-90Hz and also 40-50Hz were found to generally dominate the closed loop OPD residuals of Gravity. Cross correlating accelerometer with Gravity data, it was found that strong contributions in the 40-50Hz range are coming from the M1-M3 mirrors, while a significant portion of power from the 60-100Hz contributions are likely coming from between the M4-M10. From the vibrating mirror model it was shown that achieving sub 100nm OPD RMS for particular baselines (that have OPD$\sim$200nm RMS) required removing nearly all vibration sources below 100Hz.
Combustion and Evaporation of Deformable Fuel Droplets
Creators: name: Setiya, Meha
name: Palmore, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: \textit{This study focuses on combustion and evaporation of an isolated freely deforming fuel droplet under convective flow. The droplet shape is modified by varying Weber number at moderate Reynolds numbers. A simplified chemical reaction mechanism is used for combustion modelling.} \textit{The Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) results show a net positive effect of Weber number on total evaporation rate ($\dot{m}$) for both pure evaporation and combustion cases. The enhancement in $\dot{m}$ for higher Weber number reaches upto $9 \%$ for combustion. A non-spherical envelope flame is observed which grows with time. The Damköhler number is higher than 1 for this flame type which leads to faster reaction rates in comparison to evaporation. Hence, the combustion process is seen to be unaffected by droplet shape. An additional comparison between 3-D and 2-D combustion results is performed to understand if 2-D studies can reflect the right physical aspects of this problem. It is found that local evaporation flux in 2-D is $ 42.5 \%$ lower due to lower temperature gradients near the droplet surface for the same inflow velocity. The deformation of droplet is significantly different in 2-D which affects the boundary layer development and the wake flow. This is seen to affect the flame shape at the downstream of droplet. Hence, the 2-D simulations do not recover the correct behaviors.}
Public attitudes toward ancillary information revealed by pharmacogenetic testing under limited information conditions
Creators: name: Lipkus, Isaac R.
name: Tindall, Genevieve M.
name: OʼDaniel, Julianne M.
name: Agans, Robert
name: Haga, Susanne B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing can inform drug dosing and selection by aiding in estimating a patient’s genetic risk of adverse response and/or failure to respond. Some PGx tests may generate ancillary clinical information unrelated to the drug treatment question for which testing is done – an informational “side effect.” We aimed to assess public interest and concerns about PGx tests and ancillary information.
СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ АДМИНИСТРАТИВНЫХ ПРОЦЕДУР ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ КАДРОВОГО СОСТАВА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ СЛУЖБЫ
Creators: name: Геляхова Л.А.
name: Мошкина Н.А.
Publisher: name: Право и управление
Year: 2022
Subjects: государственная служба
государственная гражданская служба
формирование кадрового состава
административные процедуры
российское законодательство.

description: Эффективность функционирования органов государственной власти требует от российского государства пристального внимания к профессиональной компетентности гражданских служащих. Важнейшим аспектом данного процесса выступает формирование кадрового состава государственной гражданской службы, целями которого является обеспечение системности в обучении кадров, повышения квалификации, компетентности и ответственности государственных служащих, повышение их правовой и общечеловеческой культуры, формирование среди них устойчивых ценностей, имеющих конституционное значение. В представленной статье проанализированы отдельные административные процедуры формирования кадрового состава государственной гражданской службы, выявлены законодательные и правоприменительные проблемы их применения, сформулированы авторские предложения по их совершенствованию. На основе проведенного анализа сделан вывод о многообразии современных процедур формирования кадрового состава государственной гражданской службы, среди которых особое значение приобретают те процедуры, которые направлены на практическое взаимодействие служащих лиц (служебные стажировки, наставничество и др.), поскольку они в большей мере способствуют развитию профессиональных знаний и навыков сотрудников органов государственной власти.
Impact of Stimulated Raman Scattering on Dark Soliton Generation in a Silica Microresonator
Creators: name: Choi, Gwangho
name: Su, Judith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generating a coherent optical frequency comb at an arbitrary wavelength is important for fields such as spectroscopy and optical communications. Dark solitons which are coherent states of optical frequency combs in normal dispersion microresonators can extend the operating wavelength and be excited via intermodal coupling. They have been investigated over the last decade due to their high conversion efficiency and deterministic excitation with no need for dispersion engineering. While the existence and dynamics of dark solitons has been examined extensively, requirements on the modal interaction for accessing the soliton state in the presence of a strong Raman interaction at near-IR wavelengths has been less explored. Here, analysis on the parametric and Raman gain in a silica microresonator is performed, revealing that parametric gain can be created by an additional frequency due to modal interaction and exceed the Raman gain. More complex interaction dynamics of the parametric and stimulated Raman scattering process is studied using numerical simulations based on the Lugiato-Lefever equation. It is found that exciting a dark soliton requires not only appropriate modal coupling but also a range of pump powers. The existence range of the dark soliton is analyzed as a function of pump power and detuning for given modal coupling conditions. We anticipate these results will benefit fields requiring optical frequency combs with high efficiency and selectable wavelength in a material with a strong Raman gain.
Topological Quantum Programming in TED-K
Creators: name: Sati, Hisham
name: Schreiber, Urs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: While the realization of scalable quantum computation will arguably require topological stabilization and, with it, topological-hardware-aware quantum programming and topological-quantum circuit verification, the proper combination of these strategies into dedicated topological quantum programming languages has not yet received attention. Here we describe a fundamental and natural scheme that we are developing, for typed functional (hence verifiable) topological quantum programming which is topological-hardware aware -- in that it natively reflects the universal fine technical detail of topological q-bits, namely of symmetry-protected (or enhanced) topologically ordered Laughlin-type anyon ground states in topological phases of quantum materials. What makes this work is: (1) our recent result that wavefunctions of realistic and technologically viable anyon species -- namely of su(2)-anyons such as the popular Majorana/Ising anyons but also of computationally universal Fibonacci anyons -- are reflected in the twisted equivariant differential (TED) K-cohomology of configuration spaces of codimension=2 nodal defects in the host material's crystallographic orbifold; (2) combined with our earlier observation that such TED generalized cohomology theories on orbifolds interpret intuitionistically-dependent linear data types in cohesive homotopy type theory (HoTT), supporting a powerful modern form of modal quantum logic. In this short note we give an exposition of the basic ideas, a quick review of the underlying results and a brief indication of the basic language constructs for anyon braiding via TED-K in cohesive HoTT. The language system is under development at the "Center for Quantum and Topological Systems" at the Research Institute of NYU, Abu Dhabi.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure; extended abstract for contribution to: PlanQC2022 https://icfp22.sigplan.org/home/planqc-2022
Am I a control?: Genotype-driven research recruitment and self-understandings of study participants
Creators: name: Beskow, Laura M.
name: Cadigan, R. Jean
name: Henderson, Gail
name: Michie, Marsha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Genotype-driven research recruitment complicates traditional study roles and may leave those recruited worried about unwelcome surprises from their DNA. This study investigated the ways that individuals experience genotype-driven recruitment, and conceptualize their roles as research participants.
Charting ELSI’s future course: lessons from the recent past
Creators: name: Morrissey, Clair
name: Walker, Rebecca L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: PURPOSE: We sought to examine the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) literature research and scholarship types, topics, and contributing community fields of training as a first step to charting the broader ELSI community's future priorities and goals.

METHODS: We categorized 642 articles and book chapters meeting inclusion criteria for content in both human genetics or genomics and ethics or ELSI during a 5-year period (2003-2008) according to research and scholarship types, topics, and the area of advanced training of the first-listed author. Research and scholarship type categories were developed and characterized through in-depth review of 95 randomly sampled publications from the larger group.

RESULTS: There is a single dominant approach to ELSI, which focuses on ethical and other social issues "downstream" of advances in genomics, the contributors to which predominately have advanced training in medicine or science fields other than social science. A comparatively low percentage of publications primarily offer policy recommendations, and these are much more likely to be written by those with advanced training in law than is the case for the literature as a whole. Social science studies predominately employ qualitative methods and vary significantly with respect to the extent and types of recommendations offered. Two further types of ELSI research and scholarship offer alternative models for so-called "normative" work in this field.

CONCLUSION: Considering topics, training, and types of ELSI research and scholarship from the most recent past allows for a baseline perspective that is sorely needed in charting this field's future course.
Exploring concordance and discordance for return of incidental findings from clinical sequencing
Creators: name: Krantz, Ian
name: Green, Robert C.
name: Berry, Gerard T.
name: Grody, Wayne W.
name: Miller, David T.
name: Jacob, Howard J.
name: Kalia, Sarah
name: Berg, Jonathan S.
name: Biesecker, Leslie G.
name: McGuire, Amy L.
name: Rehm, Heidi L.
name: Murray, Michael F.
name: Korf, Bruce R.
name: Evans, James P.
name: Hegde, Madhuri R.
name: Nussbaum, Robert L.
name: Dimmock, David P.
name: Plon, Sharon E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: To explore specific conditions and types of genetic variants that specialists in genetics recommend should be returned as incidental findings in clinical sequencing.
IRB perspectives on the return of individual results from genomic research
Creators: name: Markey, Janell M.
name: Ponsaran, Roselle
name: Juengst, Eric
name: Press, Nancy
name: Smolek, Sondra
name: Wiesner, Georgia L.
name: Gerson, Nancy
name: Starks, Helene
name: Lewis, Susan
name: Dressler, Lynn G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Return of individual research results from genomic studies is a hotly debated ethical issue in genomic research. However, the perspective of key stakeholders—Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviewers—has been missing from this dialogue. This study explores the positions and experiences of IRB members and staff regarding this issue.
Effect of water injection on boiler performance
Creators: name: Kane, Mitchell
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: A 20kW commercial boiler has been modified to enable the injection of water into its combustion air, with the aim of reducing the emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and increasing heat transfer efficiency.It was identified that water injection had been used for efficiency and emissions control in both gas turbine and internal combustion engines. NOx reductions were consistently achieved however CO reductions were application dependant. The lack of literature relating to water injection in boilers provided an opportunity for novel research.An experimental setup was designed to investigate the effect of water injected into the combustion air on the heat-transfer efficiency of the boiler system, as well as its emissions of CO and NOx. The differences between liquid water and steam, injecting at points internal and external to the burner, and with or without the use of nozzles was also explored.NOx and CO reductions of up to 40% and 93% were achieved with water injected inside the burner through a nozzle with no significant change in heat-transfer efficiency. The CO reduction effectiveness was found to be dependent on several factors. These included: the method and location of the injection, whether the fluid was vaporised, and the air-to-fuel equivalence ratio. The majority of experimental cases resulted in NOx reductions.
Cyclic Entropy: An Alternative to Inflationary Cosmology
Creators: name: Frampton, Paul Howard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address how to construct an infinitely cyclic universe model. A major consideration is to make the entropy cyclic which requires the entropy to be reset to zero in each cycle expansion to turnaround, to contraction, to bounce, etc. Here we reset entropy at the turnaround by selecting the introverse (visible universe) from the extroverse which is generated by the accelerated expansion. In the model, the observed homogeneity is explained by the low entropy at the bounce, The observed flatness arises from the contraction together with the reduction in size between the expanding and contracting universe. The present flatness is predicted to be very precise.
description: 14 pages LaTeX. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1411.7887
Lightweight Spatial-Channel Adaptive Coordination of Multilevel Refinement Enhancement Network for Image Reconstruction
Creators: name: Cai, Yuxi
name: Lai, Huicheng
name: Jia, Zhenghong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Benefiting from the vigorous development of deep learning, many CNN-based image super-resolution methods have emerged and achieved better results than traditional algorithms. However, it is difficult for most algorithms to adaptively adjust the spatial region and channel features at the same time, let alone the information exchange between them. In addition, the exchange of information between attention modules is even less visible to researchers. To solve these problems, we put forward a lightweight spatial-channel adaptive coordination of multilevel refinement enhancement networks(MREN). Specifically, we construct a space-channel adaptive coordination block, which enables the network to learn the spatial region and channel feature information of interest under different receptive fields. In addition, the information of the corresponding feature processing level between the spatial part and the channel part is exchanged with the help of jump connection to achieve the coordination between the two. We establish a communication bridge between attention modules through a simple linear combination operation, so as to more accurately and continuously guide the network to pay attention to the information of interest. Extensive experiments on several standard test sets have shown that our MREN achieves superior performance over other advanced algorithms with a very small number of parameters and very low computational complexity.
Lifelong Reinforcement Learning with Modulating Masks
Creators: name: Ben-Iwhiwhu, Eseoghene
name: Nath, Saptarshi
name: Pilly, Praveen K.
name: Kolouri, Soheil
name: Soltoggio, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lifelong learning aims to create AI systems that continuously and incrementally learn during a lifetime, similar to biological learning. Attempts so far have met problems, including catastrophic forgetting, interference among tasks, and the inability to exploit previous knowledge. While considerable research has focused on learning multiple supervised classification tasks that involve changes in the input distribution, lifelong reinforcement learning (LRL) must deal with variations in the state and transition distributions, and in the reward functions. Modulating masks with a fixed backbone network, recently developed for classification, are particularly suitable to deal with such a large spectrum of task variations. In this paper, we adapted modulating masks to work with deep LRL, specifically PPO and IMPALA agents. The comparison with LRL baselines in both discrete and continuous RL tasks shows superior performance. We further investigated the use of a linear combination of previously learned masks to exploit previous knowledge when learning new tasks: not only is learning faster, the algorithm solves tasks that we could not otherwise solve from scratch due to extremely sparse rewards. The results suggest that RL with modulating masks is a promising approach to lifelong learning, to the composition of knowledge to learn increasingly complex tasks, and to knowledge reuse for efficient and faster learning.
description: Code available at https://github.com/dlpbc/mask-lrl
A survey of informatics approaches to whole-exome and whole-genome clinical reporting in the electronic health record
Creators: name: Yang, Yaping
name: Lebo, Matthew
name: Aronson, Samuel J.
name: Amendola, Laura
name: Garraway, Levi
name: Jarvik, Gail
name: White, Peter S.
name: Hindorff, Lucia A
name: Van Allen, Eliezer
name: Weck, Karen E.
name: Plon, Sharon E.
name: Grundmeier, Robert W.
name: Tarczy-Hornoch, Peter
name: Gray, Stacy
name: Karavite, Dean
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Genome-scale clinical sequencing is being adopted more broadly in medical practice. The National Institutes of Health developed the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) program to guide implementation and dissemination of best practices for the integration of sequencing into clinical care. This study describes and compares the state of the art of incorporating whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing results into the electronic health record, including approaches to decision support across the six current CSER sites.
СТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ИНСТИТУТА НЕОБХОДИМОЙ ОБОРОНЫ В РОССИИ
Creators: name: Боев Д.В.
Publisher: name: Право и управление
Year: 2022
Subjects: необходимая оборона
преступное посягательство
возникновение института необходимой обороны
защита жизни
защита собственности
Соборное Уложение
Русская Правда.

description: Несмотря на многочисленные научные исследование проведенные российскими учеными института необходимой обороны, в настоящее время остается много нерешенных проблем. Возбуждение уголовных дел в отношении лиц, отразивших преступное посягательство, обвинительные приговоры в их отношении, негативно сказываются на правосознании граждан. При таких обстоятельствах жертвы преступных посягательств и свидетели преступной агрессии опасаются применять свои легитимные права на необходимую оборону, а в случае отражения преступного посягательства скрываются с места совершения преступления, не сообщая в правоохранительные органы о случившемся. Именно по этой причине, на наш взгляд, рассмотрение выбранной нами темы имеет важнейшее значение.
Pluralidad en las aulas a través del ChatGPT
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: comunicación
inteligencia
artificial
Universidad
Educación
diversidad

description: Publicación en la sección de opinión del diario digital hora 32 https://hora32.com.ec/ que se edita en Loja (Ecuador)
Mantis: Enabling Energy-Efficient Autonomous Mobile Agents with Spiking Neural Networks
Creators: name: Putra, Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana
name: Shafique, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous mobile agents such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and mobile robots have shown huge potential for improving human productivity. These mobile agents require low power/energy consumption to have a long lifespan since they are usually powered by batteries. These agents also need to adapt to changing/dynamic environments, especially when deployed in far or dangerous locations, thus requiring efficient online learning capabilities. These requirements can be fulfilled by employing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) since SNNs offer low power/energy consumption due to sparse computations and efficient online learning due to bio-inspired learning mechanisms. However, a methodology is still required to employ appropriate SNN models on autonomous mobile agents. Towards this, we propose a Mantis methodology to systematically employ SNNs on autonomous mobile agents to enable energy-efficient processing and adaptive capabilities in dynamic environments. The key ideas of our Mantis include the optimization of SNN operations, the employment of a bio-plausible online learning mechanism, and the SNN model selection. The experimental results demonstrate that our methodology maintains high accuracy with a significantly smaller memory footprint and energy consumption (i.e., 3.32x memory reduction and 2.9x energy saving for an SNN model with 8-bit weights) compared to the baseline network with 32-bit weights. In this manner, our Mantis enables the employment of SNNs for resource- and energy-constrained mobile agents.
description: To appear at the 2023 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), February 2023, Abu Dhabi, UAE. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2206.08656
Matrix product ansatz for Fermi fields in one dimension
Creators: name: Chung, Sangwoo S.
name: Sun, Kuei
name: Bolech, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an implementation of a continuous matrix product state for two-component fermions in one-dimension. We propose a construction of variational matrices with an efficient parameterization that respects the translational symmetry of the problem (without being overly constraining) and readily meets the regularity conditions that arise from removing the ultraviolet divergences in the kinetic energy. We test the validity of our approach on an interacting spin-1/2 system and observe that the ansatz correctly predicts the ground state magnetic properties for the attractive spin-1/2 Fermi gas, including the phase-oscillating pair correlation function in the partially polarized regime.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
ACMG clinical laboratory standards for next-generation sequencing
Creators: name: Friez, Michael J.
name: Rehm, Heidi L.
name: Funke, Birgit H.
name: Hegde, Madhuri R.
name: Brown, Kerry K.
name: Lyon, Elaine
name: Berg, Jonathan S.
name: Deignan, Joshua L.
name: Bayrak-Toydemir, Pinar
name: Bale, Sherri J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Next-generation sequencing technologies have been and continue to be deployed in clinical laboratories, enabling rapid transformations in genomic medicine. These technologies have reduced the cost of large-scale sequencing by several orders of magnitude, and continuous advances are being made. It is now feasible to analyze an individual's near-complete exome or genome to assist in the diagnosis of a wide array of clinical scenarios. Next-generation sequencing technologies are also facilitating further advances in therapeutic decision making and disease prediction for at-risk patients. However, with rapid advances come additional challenges involving the clinical validation and use of these constantly evolving technologies and platforms in clinical laboratories. To assist clinical laboratories with the validation of next-generation sequencing methods and platforms, the ongoing monitoring of next-generation sequencing testing to ensure quality results, and the interpretation and reporting of variants found using these technologies, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has developed the following professional standards and guidelines.
3D printed microfluidic devices for particle and cell analysis
Creators: name: Hampson, Sarah
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Particle/cell analysis is crucial in many health, industrial and environmental monitoring processes. Its integration into miniaturised lab-on-a-chip systems enables a host of portable technologies. However, current lab-on-a-chip lithographical fabrication methods are costly, time-consuming and restrictive in design, impeding their widespread implementation. This has led to 3D printing being explored as an alternative in recent years, due to its ability to form devices in a single step, and its three-dimensional freedom. [Continues.]
Bump-hunting in the diffuse flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos
Creators: name: Fiorillo, Damiano F. G.
name: Bustamante, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the bulk of the high-energy astrophysical neutrinos seen by IceCube, with TeV--PeV energies, is unknown. If they are made in photohadronic, i.e., proton-photon, interactions in astrophysical sources, this may manifest as a bump-like feature in their diffuse flux, centered around a characteristic energy. We search for evidence of this feature, allowing for variety in its shape and size, in 7.5 years of High-Energy Starting Events (HESE) collected by the IceCube neutrino telescope, and make forecasts using larger data samples from upcoming neutrino telescopes. Present-day data reveals no evidence of bump-like features, which allows us to constrain candidate populations of photohadronic neutrino sources. Near-future forecasts show promising potential for stringent constraints or decisive discovery of bump-like features. Our results provide new insight into the origins of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, complementing those from point-source searches.
description: 29 pages, 13 figures
СУЩНОСТЬ УГОЛОВНО-ПРАВОВОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ, ЕЕ МЕСТО В СИСТЕМЕ ПОЛИТИКИ ГОСУДАРСТВА
Creators: name: Хорольский В.В.
Publisher: name: Право и управление
Year: 2022
Subjects: уголовная политика
уголовное законодательство
уголовное право
политико-правовая система
история.

description: Автор исследует принципы уголовно-правовой политики современной России сквозь призму политико-правовых реформ отечественного строительства. Авторы внимательно прослеживают эволюцию принципов уголовной политики на фоне исторических преобразований российского государства.
ACMG recommendations for reporting of incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing
Creators: name: Watson, Michael S.
name: Green, Robert C.
name: Biesecker, Leslie G.
name: Berg, Jonathan S.
name: McGuire, Amy L.
name: Rehm, Heidi L.
name: Nussbaum, Robert L.
name: Ormond, Kelly E.
name: Kalia, Sarah S.
name: Grody, Wayne W.
name: Martin, Christa L.
name: Williams, Marc S.
name: O’Daniel, Julianne M.
name: Korf, Bruce R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: In clinical exome and genome sequencing, there is potential for the recognition and reporting of incidental or secondary findings unrelated to the indication for ordering the sequencing but of medical value for patient care. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recently published a policy statement on clinical sequencing, which emphasized the importance of disclosing the possibility of such results in pretest patient discussions, clinical testing, and reporting of results. The ACMG appointed a Working Group on Incidental Findings in Clinical Exome and Genome Sequencing to make recommendations about responsible management of incidental findings when patients undergo exome or genome sequencing. This Working Group conducted a year-long consensus process, including review by outside experts, and produced recommendations that have been approved by the ACMG Board. Specific and detailed recommendations, and the background and rationale for these recommendations, are described herein. We recommend that laboratories performing clinical sequencing seek and report mutations of the specified classes or types in the genes listed here. This evaluation and reporting should be performed for all clinical germline (constitutional) exome and genome sequencing, including the ‘normal’ of tumor-normal subtractive analyses in all subjects, irrespective of age, but excluding fetal samples. We recognize that there are insufficient data on clinical utility to fully support these recommendations and we encourage the creation of an ongoing process for updating these recommendations at least annually as further data are collected.
ТАКТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ПРОИЗВОДСТВА ОТДЕЛЬНЫХ СЛЕДСТВЕННЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ ПРИ РАССЛЕДОВАНИИ ПРЕСТУПЛЕНИЙ ПО «ГОРЯЧИМ СЛЕДАМ»
Creators: name: Ардавов М.М.
name: Бозиев М.В.
Publisher: name: Право и управление
Year: 2022
Subjects: расследование по «горячим следам»
следственные действия
преступление
преступник
тактические особенности.

description: В рамках статьи автор подробно рассмотрел тактические особенности производства отдельных следственных действий при расследовании преступлений по «горячим следам». Подчеркивается важность заблаговременного планирования и подготовки к следственным действиям, учет необходимости привлечения узких специалистов для проведения следственных действий . Автор акцентирует свое внимание на проведении осмотров и допросов, как наиболее информативных следственных действиях.
An informatics approach to analyzing the incidentalome
Creators: name: Bizon, Chris
name: Evans, James P.
name: Berg, Jonathan S.
name: Schmitt, Charles P.
name: Lee, Kristy
name: Wilhelmsen, Kirk C.
name: Nassar, Nassib
name: Adams, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has transformed genetic research and is poised to revolutionize clinical diagnosis. However, the vast amount of data and inevitable discovery of incidental findings require novel analytic approaches. We therefore implemented for the first time a strategy that utilizes an a priori structured framework and a conservative threshold for selecting clinically relevant incidental findings.
Coexistence of Fermi arcs with two dimensional gapless Dirac states
Creators: name: Grushin, Adolfo G.
name: Venderbos, Jörn W. F.
name: Bardarson, Jens H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a physical scenario in which both Fermi arcs and two-dimensional gapless Dirac states coexist as boundary modes at the same two-dimensional surface. This situation is realized in topological insulator-Weyl semimetal interfaces in spite of explicit time reversal symmetry breaking. Based on a heuristic topological index, we predict that the coexistence is allowed when (i) the corresponding states of the Weyl semimetal and topological insulator occur at disconnected parts of the Brillouin zone separated by the Weyl nodes and (ii) the time-reversal breaking vector defining the Weyl semimetal has no projection parallel to the domain wall. This is corroborated by a numerical simulation of a tight binding model. We further calculate the optical conductivity of the coexisting interface states, which can be used to identify them through interference experiments.
description: 4+3 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes; version as published