cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Formal Approaches to a Definition of Agents
Creators: name: Biehl, Martin Andreas
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: artificial life
cellular automata
agents
agency
spatiotemporal patterns
entities
identity
integration
action
perception
sensorimotor loop
sensor-motor loop
perception-action loop
specific local integration
complete local integration

description: This thesis is a contribution to the formalisation of the notion of an agent within the class of finite multivariate Markov chains. In accordance with the literature agents are are seen as entities that act, perceive, and are goaldirected. We present a new measure that can be used to identify entities (called i-entities). The intuition behind this is that entities are spatiotemporal patterns for which every part makes every other part more probable. The measure, complete local integration (CLI), is formally investigated within the more general setting of Bayesian networks. It is based on the specific local integration (SLI) which is measured with respect to a partition. CLI is the minimum value of SLI over all partitions. Upper bounds are constructively proven and a possible lower bound is proposed. We also prove a theorem that shows that completely locally integrated spatiotemporal patterns occur as blocks in specific partitions of the global trajectory. Conversely we can identify partitions of global trajectories for which every block is completely locally integrated. These global partitions are the finest partitions that achieve a SLI less or equal to their own SLI. We also establish the transformation behaviour of SLI under permutations of the nodes in the Bayesian network. We then go on to present three conditions on general definitions of entities. These are most prominently not fulfilled by sets of random variables i.e. the perception-action loop, which is often used to model agents, is too restrictive a setting. We instead propose that any general entity definition should in effect specify a subset of the set of all spatiotemporal patterns of a given multivariate Markov chain. Any such definition will then define what we call an entity set. The set of all completely locally integrated spatiotemporal patterns is one example of such a set. Importantly the perception-action loop also naturally induces such an entity set. We then propose formal definitions of actions and perceptions for arbitrary entity sets. We show that these are generalisations of notions defined for the perception-action loop by plugging the entity-set of the perception-action loop into our definitions. We also clearly state the properties that general entity-sets have but the perception-action loop entity set does not. This elucidates in what way we are generalising the perception-action loop. Finally we look at some very simple examples of bivariate Markov chains. We present the disintegration hierarchy, explain it via symmetries, and calculate the i-entities. Then we apply our definitions of perception and action to these i-entities.
Star-forming S0 Galaxies in SDSS-MaNGA: fading spirals or rejuvenated S0s?
Creators: name: Rathore, Himansh
name: Kumar, Kavin
name: Mishra, Preetish K.
name: Wadadekar, Yogesh
name: Bait, Omkar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the origin of rare star-formation in an otherwise red-and-dead population of S0 galaxies using spatially resolved spectroscopy. Our sample consists of $120$ low redshift ($z<0.1$) star-forming S0 (SF-S0) galaxies from the SDSS-IV MaNGA DR15. We have selected this sample after a visual inspection of deep images from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR9 and the Subaru/HSC-SSP survey PDR3, to remove contamination from spiral galaxies. We also construct two control samples of star-forming spirals (SF-Sps) and quenched S0s (Q-S0s) to explore their evolutionary link with the star-forming S0s. To study star-formation at resolved scales, we use dust-corrected $H_α$ luminosity and stellar density ($Σ_\star$) maps to construct radial profiles of star-formation rate (SFR) surface density ($Σ_{SFR}$) and specific SFR (sSFR). Examining these radial profiles, we find that star-formation in SF-S0s is centrally dominated as opposed to disc dominated star-formation in spirals. We also compared various global (size-mass relation, bulge-to-total luminosity ratio) and local (central stellar velocity dispersion) properties of SF-S0s to those of the control sample galaxies. We find that SF-S0s are structurally similar to the quenched S0s and are different from star-forming spirals. We infer that SF-S0s are unlikely to be fading spirals. Inspecting stellar and gas velocity maps, we find that more than $50\%$ of the SF-S0 sample shows signs of recent galaxy interactions such as kinematic misalignment, counter-rotation, and unsettled kinematics. Based on these results, we conclude that in our sample of SF-S0s, star-formation has been rejuvenated, with minor mergers likely to be a major driver.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, accepted to MNRAS
The VMC survey -- XLVI. Stellar proper motions in the centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Niederhofer, F.
name: Cioni, M. -R. L.
name: Schmidt, T.
name: Bekki, K.
name: de Grijs, R.
name: Ivanov, V. D.
name: Oliveira, J. M.
name: Ripepi, V.
name: Subramanian, S.
name: van Loon, J. Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present proper motion (PM) measurements within the central region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using near-infrared data from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC). This work encompasses 18 VMC tiles covering a total sky area of $\sim$28~deg$^2$. We computed absolute stellar PMs from multi-epoch observations in the $K_s$ filter over time baselines between $\sim$12 and 47 months. Our final catalogue contains $\sim$6,322,000 likely LMC member stars with derived PMs. We employed a simple flat-rotating disc model to analyse and interpret the PM data. We found a stellar centre of rotation ($α_0$ = 79.95 deg +0.22 -0.23, $δ_0$ = -69.31 deg +0.12 -0.11) that is in agreement with that resulting from Hubble Space Telescope data. The inferred viewing angles of the LMC disc (i = 33.5 deg +1.2 -1.3, $Θ$ = 129.8 deg +1.9 -1.9) are in good agreement with values from the literature but suggest a higher inclination of the central parts of the LMC. Our data confirm a higher rotation amplitude for the young ($\lesssim$0.5~Gyr) stars compared to the intermediate-age/old ($\gtrsim$1~Gyr) population, which can be explained by asymmetric drift. We constructed spatially resolved velocity maps of the intermediate-age/old and young populations. Intermediate-age/old stars follow elongated orbits parallel to the bar's major axis, providing first observational evidence for $x_1$ orbits within the LMC bar. In the innermost regions, the motions show more chaotic structures. Young stars show motions along a central filamentary bar structure.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Costeggiando l’Eurasia / Coasting Eurasia. Archeologia del paesaggio e geografia storica tra l’Oceano Indiano e il Mar Mediterraneo
Creators: name: Ramazzotti, Marco
Publisher: name: Sapienza University of Rome
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02be6w209
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: L’opera collettanea terza dell’Atlante del Vicino Oriente antico (= OCAVOA 3) raccoglie gli atti del 1° Congresso di Archeologia del Paesaggio e Geografia Storica che si è tenuto alla Sapienza Università di Roma (5-8 Ottobre 2021) ed è stata pubblicata con il contributo del PRIN 2022 (022BTKA9Y). Il volume presenta 34 ricerche internazionali di archeologia del paesaggio, di archeologia territoriale e di geografia storica sulle antiche culture interposte tra il Mare Arabico e il Mediterraneo centro-orientale, ai margini centro-occidentali dell’Eurasia.
The third collective work of the Atlas of the Ancient Near East (= OCAVOA 3) collects the proceedings of the 1st Congress of Landscape Archaeology and Historical Geography held at the Sapienza University of Rome (5-8 October 2021) and was published with the contribution of PRIN 2022 (022BTKA9Y). The volume presents 34 international researches in landscape archaeology, territorial archaeology and historical geography on the ancient cultures interposed between the Arabian Sea and the central-eastern Mediterranean, on the central-western margins of Eurasia.
Bayesian inference for asymptomatic COVID-19 infection rates
Creators: name: Cahoy, Dexter
name: Sedransk, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62Fxx (Primary) 62F15, 62C10 (Secondary)

description: To strengthen inferences meta analyses are commonly used to summarize information from a set of independent studies. In some cases, though, the data may not satisfy the assumptions underlying the meta analysis. Using three Bayesian methods that have a more general structure than the common meta analytic ones, we can show the extent and nature of the pooling that is justified statistically. In this paper, we re-analyze data from several reviews whose objective is to make inference about the COVID-19 asymptomatic infection rate. When it is unlikely that all of the true effect sizes come from a single source researchers should be cautious about pooling the data from all of the studies. Our findings and methodology are applicable to other COVID-19 outcome variables, and more generally.
Sociality in Autism: Building Social Bridges in Autism Spectrum Conditions through LEGO® Based Therapy
Creators: name: Nguyen, Camilla
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: Autism Spectrum Conditions
LEGO®-based therapy
social skills
high functioning
psychopathology
construing

description: Background: Autism Spectrum Conditions are associated with difficulties in core social communication and social interaction (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) and comorbid psychopathology (Simonoff, Pickles, Charman, Chandler, Loucas & Baird, 2008). These problems are often exacerbated in middle childhood and adolescence owing to the increased complex social milieu for children on the spectrum. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a short-term LEGO®-based therapy for children and adolescents with high functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions. Another interesting and novel aspect of this study is the application of repertory grid technique (Kelly, 1955) to explore psychological changes in construing over the course of the LEGO®-based therapy. Methods: Twenty-five high functioning children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Conditions (M =12.40, SD = 2.02) took part in an eight-week, clinic based LEGO®-based therapy sessions within an outpatient, mental health setting. Baseline, pre- and post-intervention outcome measures, including parent- and self-reports and repertory grid technique, were administered to assess changes during the eight-week baseline period with that during the eight-week intervention period in the area of autism specific social behaviours, adaptive functioning, psychopathology, and construing. Results: On average, participants made significant gains across autism specific social behaviours, adaptive social and maladaptive behaviour, psychopathology, and coping following LEGO®-based therapy but not during the baseline period. In addition, participants also showed some changes in construing, including the way they viewed themselves and person with ASC, a loosening of construing and an overall change in construing from pre- to post- intervention. Effect sizes (Pearson’s r) for these statistical significant results ranged from medium to large. Correlations between construing and psychopathology were also noted but not for autism-specific social behaviours or adaptive functioning. Conclusions: Overall, LEGO®-based therapy was a highly attended group (M = 89.5%) and well received by participants and their parents. These findings suggest that LEGO®-based therapy is feasible, cost-effective and can be set up in mental health services as part of the treatment plan for children and adolescents with high functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions. Future studies should focus on the effectiveness of LEGO®-based therapy with girls on the spectrum or children with social related conditions and conduct large scale randomised controlled trials.
Chemical Composition of a Palomar 12 Blue Straggler
Creators: name: Pasquini, L.
name: Bonifacio, P.
name: Pulone, L.
name: Modigliani, A.
name: Brocato, E.
name: Sbordone, L.
name: Randich, S.
name: Cupani, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the equivalent area of a 16m telescope, ESPRESSO in 4UT mode allows to inaugurate high resolution spectroscopy for solar-type stars belonging to extragalactic globular clusters. We determine the chemical composition of an extragalactic blue straggler. The star has a G magnitude of 19.01 and belongs to the globular cluster Pal12, that is associated to the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. Abundances are computed by using high resolution spectroscopy and LTE analysis. Two 50 minutes ESPRESSO spectra, co-added, provide a Signal to Noise Ratio of 25 with a resolving power R=70000. This allows us to measure with good precision abundance of several (13) elements. Li could help to distinguish between formation models of Blue Stragglers; we are able to set a 3 sigma upper limit of Li=3.1, which is still too high to discriminate between competing models. The abundances we retrieve for the BS are compatible with those of giant stars of Pal 12 published in literature, re-analyzed by us using the same procedure and line list. Small differences are present, that can be ascribed to NLTE effects, but for Mg the BS shows a large under-abundance. The most likely explanation is that the BS atmosphere is dominated by gas processed through the Mg-Al cycle, but we have no suitable Al or Na lines to confirm this hypothesis. We show that ESPRESSO with 4UT can be used to derive precise abundances for solar-type stars fainter than magnitude 19. At these magnitudes a proper sky subtraction is needed and in crowded field the targets must be chosen with outmost care, to avoid contamination of the sky fibre from nearby stars.
description: Accepted for publications in MNRAS
The X-ray Disk/Wind Degeneracy in AGN
Creators: name: Parker, M. L.
name: Matzeu, G. A.
name: Matthews, J. H.
name: Middleton, M. J.
name: Dauser, T.
name: Jiang, J.
name: Joyce, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic Fe K emission lines from accretion disks and from disk winds encode key information about black holes, and their accretion and feedback mechanisms. We show that these two processes can in principle produce indistinguishable line profiles, such that they cannot be disentangled spectrally. We argue that it is likely that in many cases both processes contribute to the net line profile, and their relative contributions cannot be constrained purely by Fe K spectroscopy. In almost all studies of Fe K emission to date, a single process (either disk reflection or wind Compton scattering) is assumed to dominate the total line profile. We demonstrate that fitting a single process emission model (pure reflection or pure wind) to a hybrid line profile results in large systematic biases in the estimates of key parameters, such as mass outflow rate and spin. We discuss various strategies to mitigate this effect, such as including high energy data covering the Compton hump, and the implications for future X-ray missions.
description: 22 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Systemic Consultations in Intellectual Disability Services: Experiences of Care Staff
Creators: name: Johnson, Clair
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: Intellectual Disabilities
Systemic Consultation
Systemic Therapy
Care Staff
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Experiences

description: This research used interviews and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) methodology to explore the experiences of care staff who attended systemic consultations within an Intellectual Disability (ID) service. A systematic literature review revealed limited research in the area of systemic approaches used with people with IDs and their networks. Research questions encompassed ‘How do care staff experience systemic consultations that they have attended in ID services?’, ‘What do care staff find helpful in systemic consultations?’, and, ‘What do care staff find unhelpful in systemic consultations?’. Seven participants were interviewed, and interview data was transcribed and analysed using IPA. Five superordinate themes emerged; ‘Not knowing what to expect; it was something different’, ‘Our relationships improved’, ‘An outside person shone a new light enabling us to think and work differently’, ‘Making sense of what we have achieved’, and ‘They made us feel validated’. The research findings highlighted important clinical implications. These included a need for the context to be ‘warmed’ and relational reflexivity (Bunham, 2005) to be applied in order to help care staff prepare for systemic consultations and feel supported. Future research directions are also discussed in order to develop the evidence-base for systemic approaches within ID services.
comparison of effect of feedback with no feedback
Creators: name: Sheldrake, Rupert
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2015

description: in about half the trials, determined at random with a .5 probability, participants will receive feedback as to whether their guesses are correct to not. In the other trials there will be no feedback. The hypothesis is that feedback may increase their hit rates through a presentiment or precognition effect. This is not something that participants could cheat about, even in unsupervised tests.
New candidates for magnetar counterparts from a deep search with the Hubble Space Telescope
Creators: name: Chrimes, A. A.
name: Levan, A. J.
name: Fruchter, A. S.
name: Groot, P. J.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Lyman, J. D.
name: Tanvir, N. R.
name: Wiersema, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of six new magnetar counterpart candidates from deep near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope imaging. The new candidates are among a sample of nineteen magnetars for which we present HST data obtained between 2018-2020. We confirm the variability of previously established near-infrared counterparts, and newly identify candidates for PSRJ1622-4950, SwiftJ1822.3-1606, CXOUJ171405.7-381031, SwiftJ1833-0832, SwiftJ1834.9-0846 and AXJ1818.8-1559 based on their proximity to X-ray localisations. The new candidates are compared with the existing counterpart population in terms of their colours, magnitudes, and near-infrared to X-ray spectral indices. We find two candidates for AXJ1818.8-1559 which are both consistent with previously established counterparts. The other new candidates are likely to be chance alignments, or otherwise have a different origin for their near-infrared emission not previously seen in magnetar counterparts. Further observations and studies of these candidates are needed to firmly establish their nature.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: 03_0316
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Modulation by the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation of the intensity of the interannual seesaw between the Somali and Australian cross-equatorial flows
Creators: name: Shuanglin LI
name: CHEN, Ying
name: LI, Chen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The decadal variation of the intensity of the interannual opposite connection (seesaw) between the Somali and Australian cross-equatorial flows (CEFs) is investigated. During the period prior to the mid-1960s, and after the early-2000s, the intensity of the interannual seesaw connection is significantly weaker relative to the period between. Such interdecadal shifts in the interannual seesaw intensity bear a resemblance to the decadal shift in ENSO’s strength, and can be further attributed to the phase transition of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). When the AMO is in a positive phase, the ENSO amplitude reduces and the seesaw strength becomes weakened, and vice versa. The historical simulation outputs of the CMIP5 models are used to verify the connection, and a similar result was obtained. Thus, the notion that the intensity of the interannual opposite connection (seesaw) between the CEFs is modulated by the AMO is robust.
On local conservation of information content in Schwarzschild black holes
Creators: name: Kanyolo, Godwill Mbiti
name: Masese, Titus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The central equations in classical general relativity are the Einstein Field Equations, which accurately describe not only the generation of pseudo-Riemannian curvature by matter and radiation manifesting as gravitational effects, but more importantly mass-energy dynamics, evolution and distribution on the space-time manifold. Herein, we introduce a geometric phase in general relativity corresponding to Schwarzschild black hole information content. This quantity appropriately satisfies a local conservation law subject to minimal coupling, with other desirable properties such as the quantization of the black hole horizon in units of Planck area. The local conservation law is imposed by field equations, which not only contain the trace of Einstein Field Equations, but also a complex-valued function with properties analogous to the quantum-mechanical wave function. Such success attests to the utility of the proposed field equations in capturing key aspects of quantum gravity theories.
description: 12 pages
Limitations on concentration measurements and gradient discerning times in cellular systems
Creators: name: Wasnik, Vaibhav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work reports on two results. At first we revisit the Berg and Purcell calculation that provides a lower bound to the error in concentration measurement by cells, by considering the realistic case when the cell starts measuring the moment it comes in contact with the chemoattractants, instead of measuring after equilibrating with the chemotactic concentration as done in the classic Berg and Purcell paper. We find that the error in concentration measurement is still the same as evaluated by Berg and Purcell. We next derive a lower bound on measurement time below which it is not possible for the cell to discern extra-cellular chemotactic gradients through spatial sensing mechanisms. This bound is independent of diffusion rate and concentration of the chemoattracts and is instead set by detachment rate of ligands from the cell receptors. The result could help explain experimental observations.
description: 2 figures
Exploring the Design Space of Real-time LLM Knowledge Support Systems: A Case Study of Jargon Explanations
Creators: name: Liu, Yuhan
name: Shah, Aadit
name: Ackerman, Jordan
name: Saha, Manaswi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knowledge gaps often arise during communication due to diverse backgrounds, knowledge bases, and vocabularies. With recent LLM developments, providing real-time knowledge support is increasingly viable, but is challenging due to shared and individual cognitive limitations (e.g., attention, memory, and comprehension) and the difficulty in understanding the user's context and internal knowledge. To address these challenges, we explore the key question of understanding how people want to receive real-time knowledge support. We built StopGap -- a prototype that provides real-time knowledge support for explaining jargon words in videos -- to conduct a design probe study (N=24) that explored multiple visual knowledge representation formats. Our study revealed individual differences in preferred representations and highlighted the importance of user agency, personalization, and mixed-initiative assistance. Based on our findings, we map out six key design dimensions for real-time LLM knowledge support systems and offer insights for future research in this space.
description: This work is accepted and will be presented at CHI25
Improving the Learnability of Machine Learning APIs by Semi-Automated API Wrapping
Creators: name: Reimann, Lars
name: Kniesel-Wünsche, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A major hurdle for students and professional software developers who want to enter the world of machine learning (ML), is mastering not just the scientific background but also the available ML APIs. Therefore, we address the challenge of creating APIs that are easy to learn and use, especially by novices. However, it is not clear how this can be achieved without compromising expressiveness. We investigate this problem for scikit-learn, a widely used ML API. In this paper, we analyze its use by the Kaggle community, identifying unused and apparently useless parts of the API that can be eliminated without affecting client programs. In addition, we discuss usability issues in the remaining parts, propose related design improvements and show how they can be implemented by semi-automated wrapping of the existing third-party API.
description: The definitive Version of Record was published in New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER'22), May 21-29, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Adapting a behavioral coaching framework for mental toughness development
Creators: name: Anthony, David R.
name: Gordon, Sandy
name: Gucciardi, Daniel F.
name: Dawson, Brian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Mental Toughness (MT) development is an important consideration when seeking to increase and maintain high levels of performance in sport settings. There has been limited research on effective methods to develop MT, and an opportunity exists to incorporate other developmental frameworks in psychology that have shown a positive effect on performance. In this article, we detail a coach-targeted education program aimed at increasing the frequency of desirable mentally tough behaviors (MTb) in elite athletes, which draws on recent work on MTb and an established behavioral coaching model (i.e., GROW) as the guiding framework. The theoretical foundations of behavioral coaching and relationship with improving performance are briefly discussed. We then describe how we applied the behavioral coaching model in a professional team sport environment during the course of a competitive season, including learning points and future considerations for those practitioners looking to develop MT in sporting contexts.
Additional file 1 of Stem vacuole-targetted sucrose isomerase enhances sugar content in sorghum
Creators: name: Liu, Guoquan
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Gong, Hao
name: Li, Shan
name: Pan, Yunrong
name: Davis, Christopher
name: Jing, Hai-Chun
name: Wu, Luguang
name: Godwin, Ian D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Transgenic sorghum lines were grown in a PC2 glasshouse. (a) 1 week; (b) 2 weeks; (c) 3 weeks; (d) 5 weeks; (e) 7 weeks; (f) 10 weeks in the glasshouse; (g) mature T×430; (h) mature A5; (f) mature L9. Fig. S2. The Construct Used for Gene Transformation. Stem-specific Promoter: either A1 resulting in high gene expression in the mature stalk or LSG2 resulting in high gene expression in the loading sucrose section of the stalk. Vacuole leading: encoding a propeptide to guide SI gene products to vacuole, where sucrose accumulates. Non-silence target gene: sucrose isomerase without motifs gene silencing in plants. Multiple terminators: three recombined terminators complex to guarantee the proper termination of gene transcription. Fig. S3. PCR screening of sucrose isomerase gene in transgenic LSG2 lines. The agarose gel displayed PCR results of transgenic lines. M: DNA ladder; NC: negative control; Transgenic lines L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L7, L9, L14, and L16 were positive of the sucrose isomerase gene; Transgenic lines L6, L8, L10, L11, L12, L13,L15, and L17 were negative of the sucrose isomerase gene. Fig. S4. Sugar profile of T1 L9 lines. Sugars, including isomaltulose, were measured 20-day post-anthesis in the middle section of internode 4 (counted from top). L9 is one of the top lines in T0 transgenic lines. L9-2, 9-3, 9-6, 9-7, 9-11, 9-12 are isomaltulose positive samples. Nil-L9-4, 9-8 and 9-9 are null-segregant samples in T1 generation. T×430-1, T×430-2, and T×430-3 are the non-transformed control. Fig. S5. PCR screening of sucrose isomerase gene in T1 lines. The agarose gel displayed PCR results of transgenic lines and controls. M: 1 Kb DNA ladder; Positive A5 T1 progenies: A5-2 and A5-4; Positive L2 T1 progenies: L2-1, L2-3 and L2-6; Positive L9 T1 progenies: L9-2, and L9-4; T×430-1, T×430-2 are non-transgenic control samples; PC: positive plasmid control (LSG2). Table S1. Sugar profile of controls and positive transgenic lines with isomaltulose. Table S2. Sugar profile of F1 hybrid lines of R9188 X L9.
Boundary conditions for isolated asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Christyan C.
name: Mosna, Ricardo A.
name: Pitelli, João Paulo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the propagation of classical scalar fields in a spacetime which is asymptotically anti-de Sitter. The lack of global hyperbolicity of the underlying background gives rise to an ambiguity in the dynamical evolution of solutions of the wave equation, requiring the prescription of extra boundary conditions at the conformal infinity to be fixed. We show that the only boundary conditions tha are compatible with the hypothesis that the system is isolated, as defined by the (improved) energy-momentum tensor, are of Dirichlet and Neumann types.
description: To appear in J. Math. Phys
Link between special schools and mainstream schools: A case study for children with moderate learning difficulties.pdf
Creators: name: Kiarago, Leonard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Education

description: The study was supervised by the University of Birmingham as part fulfilment for the MEd in Inclusion and Special Educational Needs. Purposive sampling was adopted for the case study. Data collection techniques included observations and interviews. Ethical guidelines set by the British Educational Research Association were adhered to in establishing ethical framework for the sampling strategy and data collection techniques.
Relating to the Other in Psychosis: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Creators: name: Walsh, Maria Bernadette
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2016
Subjects: Psychosis
social
interpersonal
relationships
experience of others
qualitative

description: There is little doubt that social and interpersonal processes are key factors in the development and maintenance of, as well as recovery from, psychosis. Many aspects of the social world have been researched in relation to psychotic experiences and much learnt about the impact of early family life, difficulties in social cognition and the importance of social support, rejection and stigma. However, little is understood about the lived experiences of these interpersonal processes from the point of view of those with psychosis themselves. The aim of the following study was to explore how people with psychosis experience other people and make sense of their interpersonal experiences. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two men and five women experiencing psychosis. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse the verbatim transcripts, from which three master themes emerged. These were: ‘Finding a place in society’, ‘Interpersonal mistrust’ and ‘Undermined by inner/outer disturbance’. These findings are discussed in relation to the literature on interpersonal processes and psychosis along with the limitations of the current study. Implications and suggestions for future research and clinical practice are also discussed.
A Step towards Unveiling the Nature of Three Cataclysmic Variables: LS Cam, V902 Mon, and SWIFT J0746.3-1608
Creators: name: Rawat, Nikita
name: Pandey, J. C.
name: Joshi, Arti
name: Yadava, Umesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out detailed time-resolved timing analyses of three cataclysmic variables (CVs) namely LS Cam, V902 Mon, and SWIFT J0746.3-1608, using the long-baseline, high-cadence optical photometric data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Our analysis of LS Cam observations hints the presence of a superorbital period of $\sim$ 4.025$\pm$0.007 d along with negative and positive superhump periods of $\sim$ 3.30 h and 3.70 h, respectively. These results can be explained as an interaction of nodal and apsidal precession of the accretion disc with orbital motion. For the other two sources, V902 Mon and SWIFT J0746.3-1608, we have found evidence of a beat period of 2387.0$\pm$0.6 s and 2409.5$\pm$0.7 s, respectively, which were not found in earlier studies. Our results presented in this study indicate the change in the accretion mode during the entire observing period for both sources. For V902 Mon, an apparent orbital period derivative of (6.09 $\pm$ 0.60) $\times 10^{-10}$ was also found. Moreover, the second harmonic of orbital frequency dominates the power spectrum of SWIFT J0746.3-1608, suggestive of ellipsoidal modulation of the secondary star. Present analyses suggest that LS Cam could be a superhumping CV whereas V902 Mon and SWIFT J0746.3-1608 are likely to be variable disc-overflow accreting intermediate polars.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables (Accepted for publication in MNRAS)
Methylphenidate poisoning: relatively mild symptoms even after high-dose exposure
Creators: name: Rietjens, Saskia J.
name: Hondebrink, Laura
name: Jorna, Terry
name: Vries, Irma De
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Methylphenidate poisoning: relatively mild symptoms even after high-dose exposure
Effect of Atmospheric Ice Accretion on the Dynamic Performance of Wind Turbine Blades
Creators: name: Alsabagh, Abdel Salam
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: Atmospheric ice accretion
wind power
ANSYS
5-MW wind turbine blade
icing scenarios
natural frequency
fatigue life
Standard ISO (12494)
resonance limit
STAR-CCM+
Aerofoil
aerodynamic performance

description: Atmospheric icing presents serious challenges to the development of wind power of the wind energy industry in cold regions. The potential detrimental impact on the safe operation of wind turbines and the energy harvest hasn’t been fully understood and requires further investigation. This thesis presents the research on icing profiles under different weather conditions and their impact on natural frequency, fatigue life, and lift and drag of the wind turbine blade. The research aims to develop a further understanding of the effect of atmospheric ice accretion on the structural integrity and aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades through numerical and aerodynamic investigations to address the challenges facing the industry. A 5-MW NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) wind turbine blade was selected for this study, due to availability of required geometric design parameters and experimental data for verification. The turbine rotor and its three blades were modelled and numerically simulated with commercial finite element software ANSYS. Three icing scenarios were chosen according to the ISO Standard and the corresponding icing profiles were developed to investigate their influence on vibrational behaviours of the wind turbine blade and rotor under different weather conditions. Icing loads were applied on the leading edge of the blade and natural frequency results were compared between clean and iced blades. It was found that harsh icing weather drove the natural frequency down to the near resonance limit, which could lead to significant issue on structural integrity of the wind turbine. The effect of atmospheric ice accretion with additional load due to varying wind speeds on the fatigue life of the wind turbine blade has been investigated. Significant reduction of fatigue life was found due to the increase of the von Mises stresses. Finally, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was carried out to investigate the effect of atmospheric ice accretion on the aerodynamic performance of typical 1-MW and 5-MW wind turbine blades. Results of the drag and lift coefficients and power production under different icing scenarios were obtained for five angles of attack. Compared with the results of the clean aerofoil profile, remarkable reduction in the power generation was observed due to the accreted ice at various aerofoil sections in the spanwise direction of the blade, demonstrating the detrimental impact of atmospheric icing on energy harvest for the wind energy industry.
Additional file 1 of Construction of the optimization prognostic model based on differentially expressed immune genes of lung adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Zhai, Yang
name: Zhao, Bin
name: Wang, Yuzhen
name: Li, Lina
name: Li, Jingjin
name: Li, Xu
name: Chang, Linhan
name: Chen, Qian
name: Liao, Zijun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. A total of 436 differentially expressed genes were identified. Figure S1. PPI network inferred by STRING using 436 differentially expressed immune genes with p.value < 0.05 in cox test. Hub genes were identified by cytoscape. Shown is cluster1 with 31 genes. Figure S2. Mutation landscape of 436 target genes (top50) in 569 tumors. Figure S3. The coefficients for the genes retained in model 4. Table S2. The list of coefficients for genes retained in model 4. Figure S4. Identification of an immune signature predicting prognosis risk of patients in LUAD using each models (A1,B1,C1: A cutoff of risk factor for modle 1, modle 2, modle 3; A2,B2,C2: Survival analysis of the training dataset for modle 1, modle 2, modle 3; A3,B3,C3: Survival analysis in the testing data for modle 1, modle 2, modle 3). Figure S5. Relationships between the risk score and CD8+ T cell markers. Figure S6. Relationships between the risk score and CD4+ T cell markers. Figure S7. Relationships between the risk score and B cell markers. Figure S8. Relationships between the risk score and dendritic cell markers.
A Study of Real-World Data Races in Golang
Creators: name: Chabbi, Milind
name: Ramanathan, Murali Krishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The concurrent programming literature is rich with tools and techniques for data race detection. Less, however, has been known about real-world, industry-scale deployment, experience, and insights about data races. Golang (Go for short) is a modern programming language that makes concurrency a first-class citizen. Go offers both message passing and shared memory for communicating among concurrent threads. Go is gaining popularity in modern microservice-based systems. Data races in Go stand in the face of its emerging popularity. In this paper, using our industrial codebase as an example, we demonstrate that Go developers embrace concurrency and show how the abundance of concurrency alongside language idioms and nuances make Go programs highly susceptible to data races. Google's Go distribution ships with a built-in dynamic data race detector based on ThreadSanitizer. However, dynamic race detectors pose scalability and flakiness challenges; we discuss various software engineering trade-offs to make this detector work effectively at scale. We have deployed this detector in Uber's 46 million lines of Go codebase hosting 2100 distinct microservices, found over 2000 data races, and fixed over 1000 data races, spanning 790 distinct code patches submitted by 210 unique developers over a six-month period. Based on a detailed investigation of these data race patterns in Go, we make seven high-level observations relating to the complex interplay between the Go language paradigm and data races.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the 43rd Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2022)
Spectrum of Primordial Gravitational Waves in Modified Gravities: A Short Overview
Creators: name: Odintsov, S. D.
name: Oikonomou, V. K.
name: Myrzakulov, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we shall exhaustively study the effects of modified gravity on the energy spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves background. S. Weinberg has also produced significant works related to the primordial gravitational waves with the most important one being the effects of neutrinos on primordial gravitational waves. With this sort review, our main aim is to gather all the necessary information for studying the effects of modified gravity on primordial gravitational waves in a concrete and quantitative way and in a single paper. After reviewing all the necessary techniques for extracting the general relativistic energy spectrum, and how to obtain in a WKB way the modified gravity damping or amplifying factor, we concentrate on specific forms of modified gravity of interest. The most important parameter involved for the calculation of the effects of modified gravity on the energy spectrum is the parameter $a_M$ which we calculate for the cases of $f(R,ϕ)$ gravity, Chern-Simons-corrected $f(R,ϕ)$ gravity, Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-corrected $f(R,ϕ)$ gravity, and higher derivative extended Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-corrected $f(R,ϕ)$ gravity. The exact forms of $a_M$ is presented explicitly for the first time in the literature. With regard to Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-corrected $f(R,ϕ)$ gravity, and higher derivative extended Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-corrected $f(R,ϕ)$ gravity theories, we focus on the case that the gravitational wave propagating speed is equal to that of light's in vacuum. We provide expressions for $a_M$ expressed in terms of the cosmic time and in terms of the redshift, which can be used directly for the numerical calculation of the effect of modified gravity on the primordial gravitational wave energy spectrum.
description: Invited review, Symmetry accepted