cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Elfter Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
name: Einem, Herbert Von
name: Pée, Herbert
name: Fleischhauer, Werner
name: Schreiner, Ludwig
name: Wundram, Manfred
name: Winner, Matthias
name: Fischer, Manfred
name: Hoffmann, Konrad
name: Kroos, Renate
name: Buddensieg, Tilmann
name: Holländer, Hans
name: Goetz, Hermann
name: Franz, Heinrich Gerhard
name: Fischer, Klaus
name: Gaehtgens, Thomas
name: Dittmann, Lorenz
name: Fehring, Günther P.
name: Wurm, Heinrich
name: Arndt, Karl
name: Döry, Ludwig Von
name: Chapeaurouge, Donat De
name: Gamer, Jörg
name: Mittig, Hans-Ernst
name: Plagemann, Volker
name: Wortmann, Reinhard
name: Lehmbruck, Wilhelm
name: Rupprecht, Bernhard
name: Falk, Tilman
name: Bushart, Bruno
name: Kotrba, Viktor
name: Busch, Günter
name: Heimann, Adelheid
name: Beseler, Hartwig
name: Osten, Gert Von Der
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Vol. 21 No. 12 (1968): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
A New Metal-poor Globular Cluster and Resolved Stars in the Outer Disk of the Black Eye Galaxy M64: Implication for the Origin of the Type III Disk Break
Creators: name: Kang, Jisu
name: Kim, Yoo Jung
name: Lee, Myung Gyoon
name: Jang, In Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M64 is a nearby spiral galaxy with a Type III anti-truncation component. To trace the origin of the Type III component, we present Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys $F606W/F814W$ photometry of resolved stars in a field located in the outer disk ($2.5' \lesssim r \lesssim 6.5'$) of M64. At $r\approx 5.5'$ (7 kpc) to the east, we discover a new metal-poor globular cluster ($R_{\rm eff}=5.73\pm0.02$ pc and $M_V=-9.54\pm0.09$ mag), M64-GC1. This is the first globular cluster found in M64. The color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the resolved stars in M64-GC1 is well matched by 12 Gyr isochrones with [Fe/H] $=-1.5\pm0.2$, showing that this cluster belongs to a halo. The CMD of the resolved stars in the entire ACS field shows two distinguishable red giant branches (RGBs): a curved metal-rich RGB and a vertical metal-poor RGB. The metal-rich RGB represents an old metal-rich ([Fe/H] $\approx -0.4$) disk population. In contrast, the CMD of the metal-poor RGB stars is very similar to the CMD of M64-GC1, showing that the metal-poor RGB represents a halo population. The radial number density profile of the metal-rich RGB stars is described by an exponential disk law, while the profile of the metal-poor RGB stars is described by a de Vaucouleurs's law. From these, we conclude that the origin of the Type III component in M64 is a halo which has a much lower metallicity than a disk or bulge population.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 16 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables
A framework for assessing innovation potential as a function of procurement mode in infrastructure project delivery
Creators: name: Tawiah, Paul Adu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The delivery of infrastructure projects in almost all cases is impacted by critical issues of budget constraints, programme delays, quality and safety concerns, and an increasingly complex stakeholder environment. Innovation as it relates to the physical, process, organisational/contractual and financial dimensions of a project has a central role to play in not only meeting the demands of a wide variety of project performance metrics (e.g. technical, economic, quality, etc.) but also improving upon them and overall project efficiency. The use of public-private partnerships, or P3's has increased in popularity with governments on a worldwide basis as a means of driving innovation and efficiency to overcome the procurement and performance challenges of delivering infrastructure such as highways, water supply, and hospitals. One of several arguments forwarded by P3 advocates in support of one or more of its variants as a procurement mode, in place of traditional design-bid-build procurement for delivering such infrastructure, is the ability of P3 to harness more of the innovative capability of the private sector. It is asserted that this capability results in lower capital and/or life cycle costs and shorter delivery time, and in enhanced long-term project performance. This thesis examines the notion that the innovation potential of a project is a function of delivery mode, and describes findings from case studies to identify evidence that supports / contradicts such a viewpoint. Identified and defined here are 22 factors or conditions and their states that can act as drivers or inhibitors of innovation for infrastructure projects as a function of procurement mode and project context (e.g. project type, project scale, nature of competition). The thesis, thus presents a framework to assist with the selection and structuring of procurement mode to maximise innovation/efficiency potential for a specific project from the perspective of a government agency making decision to procure an infrastructure facility. The product, process, organizational / contractual, and financial / revenue innovations achieved on 3 major transportation projects are reviewed to test the concepts developed in the framework. The factors and conditions influencing the choice of procurement mode for a large-scale student housing facility are also discussed.
Additional file 1 of Another piece of the Zika puzzle: assessing the associated factors to microcephaly in a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Gallo, Luciana Guerra
name: Martinez-Cajas, Jorge
name: Peixoto, Henry Maia
name: Pereira, Ana Carolina Esteves Da Silva
name: Carter, Jillian E.
name: McKeown, Sandra
name: Schaub, Bruno
name: Ventura, Camila V.
name: Giovanny Vinícius Araújo De França
name: Pomar, Léo
name: Ventura, Liana O.
name: Nerurkar, Vivek R.
name: Wildo Navegantes De Araújo
name: Velez, Maria P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Additional Table 1. PRISMA Checklist.
Algorithmic Decision Making with Conditional Fairness
Creators: name: Xu, Renzhe
name: Cui, Peng
name: Kuang, Kun
name: Li, Bo
name: Zhou, Linjun
name: Shen, Zheyan
name: Cui, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays fairness issues have raised great concerns in decision-making systems. Various fairness notions have been proposed to measure the degree to which an algorithm is unfair. In practice, there frequently exist a certain set of variables we term as fair variables, which are pre-decision covariates such as users' choices. The effects of fair variables are irrelevant in assessing the fairness of the decision support algorithm. We thus define conditional fairness as a more sound fairness metric by conditioning on the fairness variables. Given different prior knowledge of fair variables, we demonstrate that traditional fairness notations, such as demographic parity and equalized odds, are special cases of our conditional fairness notations. Moreover, we propose a Derivable Conditional Fairness Regularizer (DCFR), which can be integrated into any decision-making model, to track the trade-off between precision and fairness of algorithmic decision making. Specifically, an adversarial representation based conditional independence loss is proposed in our DCFR to measure the degree of unfairness. With extensive experiments on three real-world datasets, we demonstrate the advantages of our conditional fairness notation and DCFR.
description: KDD 2020
"Missing Link" Clouds in the Southern Galactic Plane Survey
Creators: name: Kavars, D. W.
name: Dickey, J. M.
name: McClure-Griffiths, N. M.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Green, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an automated routine to search for HI self-absorption features within the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS). The data were taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Parkes Radio Telescope and encompass 3 deg by 105 deg of sky in the Galactic plane. We apply our routine to this entire region and derive spin temperatures and column densities for 70 of the larger HISA complexes, finding spin temperatures ranging from 6-41 K with HI number densities of a few cm^-3. These `missing link' clouds fill in the spin temperature and density gaps between dense molecular clouds and diffuse atomic clouds. We compare the HI emission with 12CO emission and find that 60% of detected HI self-absorption is correlated in space and in velocity with a molecular counterpart. This is potentially due to a molecular/atomic gas transition. We also compare HI self-absorption with Galactic spiral arms and discuss the possibility of using it as a spiral arm tracer.
description: 37 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables; Accepted for publication in ApJ
Hydrobiosidae G Ulmer 1905
Creators: name: Johanson, Kjell Arne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydrobiosidae

description: Key to the males of New Caledonian Hydrobiosidae 1 Spurs 0, 4, 4; fore wing R 1 simple; crossvein R–M present; abdominal filament well developed; in genitalia, lateral process of proctiger situated proximally on proctiger; filopod slender; parapod present ........................................................ Xanthochorema 2 ­ Spurs 2, 4, 4; fore wing R 1 distally bifurcated; crossvein R–M absent; abdominal filament absent; in genitalia, lateral process of proctiger situated distally on proctiger; filopod broad; parapod absent ............................................ Apsilochorema caledonicum 2 In genitalia, inferior appendage present....................................................................... 3 ­ In genitalia, inferior appendage absent........................................................................ 4 3 In genitalia, gonocoxite divided into coxopodite and harpago... .................. X. celadon ­ In genitalia, gonocoxite not divided into coxopodite and harpago ............... X. caledon 4 In genitalia, parapod divided into equally long dorsal and ventral branches............... 5 ­ In genitalia, parapod simple, but may have small dorsal, trianguloid processes.......... 6 5 In genitalia, parapod with dorsally oriented dorsal branch ........... X. neocaledonia sp.n. ­ In genitalia, parapod with posteriorly oriented dorsal branch ................... X. bifurcatum 6 In genitalia, parapod dorsal margin smooth ................................................. X. paniensis ­ In genitalia, parapod with dorsal, trianguloid processes .......................... X. calcaratum
description: Published as part of Johanson, Kjell Arne, 2002, A new species of the New Caledonian endemic genus Xanthochorema Kimmins, 1953 (Insecta: Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae), pp. 1-6 in Zootaxa 42 on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619850
Additional file 2 of Improving communication between the general practitioner and the oncologist: a key role in coordinating care for patients suffering from cancer
Creators: name: Druel, Vladimir
name: Gimenez, Laetitia
name: Paricaud, Kim
name: Delord, Jean-Pierre
name: Grosclaude, Pascale
name: Boussier, Nathalie
name: Bugat, Marie-Eve Rougé
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Patients’ perspective on the role of their general practitioner in cancer management – English version. Questionnaire.
ZFAND6 promotes TRAF2-dependent mitophagy to restrain cGAS-STING signaling
Creators: name: Shaikh, Kashif
name: Bowman, Melissa
name: M McCormick, Sarah
name: Gao, Linlin
name: Zhang, Jiawen
name: White, Jesse
name: Tawil, John
name: Kapoor, Arun
name: Arav-Boger, Ravit
name: C Norbury, Christopher
name: W Harhaj, Edward
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320407
subject: Innate immunity

description: This file represents raw data for a paper published in iScience by Shaikh et al., with the title of "ZFAND6 promotes TRAF2-dependent mitophagy to restrain cGAS-STING signaling. In this study, the authors identify ZFAND6 as a novel regulator of mitophagy.
An alternative to the dark matter paradigm: relativistic MOND gravitation
Creators: name: Bekenstein, Jacob D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MOND, invented by Milgrom, is a phenomenological scheme whose basic premise is that the visible matter distribution in a galaxy or cluster of galaxies alone determines its dynamics. MOND fits many observations surprisingly well. Could it be that there is no dark matter in these systems and we witness rather a violation of Newton's universal gravity law ? If so, Einstein's general relativity would also be violated. For long conceptual problems have prevented construction of a consistent relativistic substitute which does not obviously run afoul of the facts. Here I sketch TeVeS, a tensor-vector-scalar field theory which seems to fit the bill: it has no obvious conceptual problems and has a MOND and Newtonian limits under the proper circumstances. It also passes the elementary solar system tests of gravity theory.
description: 18 pages, invited talk at the 28th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, June 2004, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Corrections to Sec.7 for error pointed out by D. Giannios. To appear online in JHEP Proceedings of Science
Nonparametric and high-dimensional functional graphical models
Creators: name: Solea, Eftychia
name: Dette, Holger
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: undirected graphical models
subject: brain networks
subject: EEG data
subject: lasso
subject: additive models
subject: functional data
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We consider the problem of constructing nonparametric undirected graphical models for highdimensional functional data. Most existing statistical methods in this context assume either a Gaussian distribution on the vertices or linear conditional means. In this article we provide a more flexible model which relaxes the linearity assumption by replacing it by an arbitrary additive form. The use of functional principal components offers an estimation strategy that uses a group lasso penalty to estimate the relevant edges of the graph. We establish statistical guarantees for the resulting estimators, which can be used to prove consistency if the dimension and the number of functional principal components diverge to infinity with the sample size. We also investigate the empirical performance of our method through simulation studies and a real data application.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;9/2021
Analysis of U$_A$(1) symmetry-breaking and restoration effects on the scalar-pseudoscalar spectrum
Creators: name: Costa, Pedro
name: Ruivo, M. C.
name: de Sousa, C. A.
name: Kalinovsky, Yu. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore patterns of effective restoration of the chiral U$_A$(1) symmetry using an extended three-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model that incorporates explicitly the axial anomaly through the 't Hooft interaction, and assuming that the coefficient of the anomaly term is temperature and density dependent. The special case of explicit breaking of chiral symmetry without U$_A$(1) anomaly is also considered, since this scenario can provide additional information allowing to understand the interplay between the U$_A$(1) anomaly and (spontaneous) chiral symmetry breaking effects. The pseudoscalar and scalar sectors are analyzed in detail bearing in mind the identification of chiral partners and the study of its convergence. We also concentrate on the behavior of the mixing angles that give us relevant information on the issue under discussion. In the region of temperatures (densities) studied, we do not observe signs indicating a full restoration of U(3)$\otimes$U(3) symmetry as, for instance, the degeneracy of both $a_0$ and $f_0$ mesons with the pion. As we work in a real world scenario ($m_u=m_d<
description: 43 pages, 12 figures; PRD version
Additional file 3 of Identification of carnivore kill sites is improved by verified accelerometer data
Creators: name: Petroelje, Tyler R.
name: Belant, Jerrold L.
name: Beyer, Dean E.
name: Svoboda, Nathan J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3. Designation of carnivore GPS clusters investigated by two personnel with (n = 1,143) or without (n = 1,448) a detection dog. Clusters were identified as ≥ 4 GPS locations occurring ≤ 24 hours apart and within a 50 m radius. Included is the percentage of bed sites, predation sites, scavenging sites, foraging sites (including evidence for vegetation or fruit consumption), and unknown sites for American black bears (Ursus americanus; n = 936), bobcats (Lynx rufus; n = 405), coyotes (Canis latrans; n = 636) and wolves (C. spp.; n = 614) clusters. Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, 2013–2015.
Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit im Haushalts-, Gebäude- und Verkehrssektor: Ein kurzer Überblick
Creators: name: Frondel, Manuel
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Treibhausgasemissionen
subject: Rebound-Effekt
subject: Energieeinsparung
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Der Digitalisierung wird ein großes Potential zur Senkung des Energieverbrauchs und der damit einhergehenden Umwelteffekte zugeschrieben. Die in diesem Beitrag zusammengetragene empirische Evidenz deutet jedoch darauf hin, dass damit häufig lediglich geringe Effekte einhergehen. So fallen die Energieeinsparwirkungen von Smart- Home- und Smart-Metering-Technologien eher moderat aus und bewegen sich im niedrigen einstelligen Prozentbereich. Dementsprechend gering sind auch die mit der Energieeinsparung verbundenen Umwelteffekte. In Bezug auf den Ausstoß an Kohlendioxid sind wegen des Wasserbetteffektes gar keinerlei Minderungseffekte in Sektoren zu erwarten, die in den EU-Emissionshandel integriert sind. Dieser Beitrag argumentiert, dass in Kombination mit der Etablierung von Mautsystemen die größten Effekte in dem noch nicht in den EU-Emissionshandel integrierten Sektor Verkehr zu erwarten sein dürften.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;10/2021
Social aspects of water management during the Maha season 1985/86 in Dewahuwa and Mahaweli H-2 Block 305: precept and practice
Creators: name: Bulankulame, Senarath
name: Bulankulame, Senarath
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Water management
subject: Farmer-agency interactions
subject: Cropping systems
subject: Water distribution
subject: Irrigation programs
subject: Settlement

description: The International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) began research projects in Dewahuwa Tank and Mahaweli 11-2 during the Yala season (May-Aug.) of 1985. The research focussed initially on agricultural economics (e.g., farmers' use of agricultural inputs and returns from different crops) and on irrigation engineering (water distribution and flow rates). In the second season (Maha 1985/86) of research a social science component was added to address issues of farmers' management decisions and the institutional arrangements by which farmers and agency officials operate and maintain the irrigation works. This report summarizes the research results of the social science component for the Maha season, from October 1985 to April 1986.
Chiral gravity as a covariant formulation of massive gravity
Creators: name: Nibbelink, Stefan Groot
name: Peloso, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a covariant nonlinear completion of the Fierz-Pauli (FP) mass term for the graviton. The starting observation is that the FP mass is immediately obtained by expanding the cosmological constant term, i.e. the determinant of the vielbein, around Minkowski space to second order in the vielbein perturbations. Since this is an unstable expansion in the standard case, we consider an extended theory of gravity which describes two vielbeins that give rise to chiral spin--connections (consequently, fermions of a definite chirality only couple to one of the gravitational sectors). As for Einstein gravity with a cosmological constant, a single fine-tuning is needed to recover a Minkowski background; the two sectors then differ only by a constant conformal factor. The spectrum of this theory consists of a massless and a massive graviton, with FP mass term. The theory possesses interesting limits in which only the massive graviton is coupled to matter at the linearized level.
description: 1+16 pages LaTeX, typos corrected, and some references added
The spectral impact of magnetic activity on disk-integrated HARPS-N solar observations: exploring new activity indicators
Creators: name: Thompson, A. P. G.
name: Watson, C. A.
name: Haywood, R. D.
name: Costes, J. C.
name: de Mooij, E.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Dumusque, X.
name: Phillips, D. F.
name: Saar, S. H.
name: Mortier, A.
name: Milbourne, T. W.
name: Aigrain, S.
name: Cegla, H. M.
name: Charbonneau, D.
name: Cosentino, R.
name: Ghedina, A.
name: Latham, D. W.
name: López-Morales, M.
name: Micela, G.
name: Molinari, E.
name: Poretti, E.
name: Sozzetti, A.
name: Thompson, S.
name: Walsworth, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar activity is the major roadblock on the path to finding true Earth-analogue planets with the Doppler technique. Thus, identifying new indicators that better trace magnetic activity (i.e. faculae and spots) is crucial to aid in disentangling these signals from that of a planet's Doppler wobble. In this work, we investigate activity related features as seen in disk-integrated spectra from the HARPS-N solar telescope. We divide high-activity spectral echelle orders by low-activity master templates (as defined using both log R'HK and images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO), creating "relative spectra". With resolved images of the surface of the Sun (via SDO), the faculae and spot filling factors can be calculated, giving a measure of activity independent of, and in addition to, log R'HK. We find pseudo-emission (and pseudo-absorption) features in the relative spectra that are similar to those reported in our previous work on alpha Cen B. In alpha Cen B, the features are shown to correlate better to changes in faculae filling factor than spot filling factor. In this work we more confidently identify changes in faculae coverage of the visible hemisphere of the Sun as the source of features produced in the relative spectra. Finally, we produce trailed spectra to observe the RV component of the features, which show that the features move in a redward direction as one would expect when tracking active regions rotating on the surface of a star.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
title: Shotgun metagenomics based exploration of Irish soil microbiome
Creators: name: Edwin, Niranjana Rose
Publisher: name: University of Galway
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Soil microbiome
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Taxonomy classifiers
subject: Antimicrobial resistance
subject: Metagenome assembled genomes
subject: Natural Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The soil microbiome plays a crucial role in an array of important ecological processes, such as biogeochemical cycling, drought resilience, and the formation of soil structure. Metagenomics has revolutionised our understanding of diverse and predominantly unculturable microbial communities in soil, shedding light on their essential ecosystem functions. However, metagenomic techniques for soil microbiomes remain relatively new, and broader applications require considerable optimisation of pipelines. This thesis examines the Irish soil microbiome through metagenomic analysis of 131 soil samples. Taxonomy classification for soil metagenomics was first optimised by developing an in-silico mock community comprising all known soil-specific bacteria, archaea, and fungi. In-silico metagenomic datasets created using this mock community facilitated the identification of optimal taxonomy classification parameters, including tools, thresholds, and a custom database, which were then applied to map the Irish microbiomes comprehensively. Comparing these taxonomic profiles from shotgun and corresponding amplicon sequencing data, we found that both methods provide moderately similar results, including consistent identification of major phyla, similar patterns of community differentiation, and a similar relationship between nitrogen functions and phyla. Differences between the two methods mainly stemmed from differences in reference taxonomy, underscoring the need for a unified taxonomic framework to ensure reliability and comparability of metagenomic analyses. Next, 107 Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) were recovered from 32 deeply sequenced subsamples, revealing antimicrobial resistance in unculturable yet abundant microbial fractions. Alongside elongation factor Tu, K+ transport activator, and arsenic resistance transporter, abundant genes conferring resistance to antibiotics like isoniazid, spectinomycin, and rifamycin, common antibiotics used in cattle, were identified, indicating potential bidirectional transfer of genes between soil and its surrounding environment. This study also recovered a novel Thaumarchaeota MAG that encodes an ammonia-oxidising gene, enhancing our understanding of ammonia-oxidising archaea in agricultural soils. Overall, this thesis, advances knowledge in soil metagenomics as well as microbial diversity and potential functions in Irish soils and identifies novel genomic assemblies, crucial for updating soil-specific databases and managing microbial activity amid global environmental changes.
Structural stability of spherical horizons
Creators: name: Alvarez, Enrique
name: Anero, Jesus
name: Santos-Garcia, Raquel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is concerned with the structural stability of spherical horizons. By this we mean stability with respect to variations of the second member of the corresponding differential equations, corresponding to the inclusion of the contribution of operators quadratic in curvature. This we do both in the usual second order approach (in which the independent variable is the spacetime metric) and in the first order one (where the independent variables are the spacetime metric and the connection field). In second order, it is claimed that the generic solution in the asymptotic regime (large radius) can be matched not only with the usual solutions with horizons (like Schwarzschild-de Sitter) but also with a more generic (in the sense that it depends on more arbitrary parameters) horizonless family of solutions. It is however remarkable that these horizonless solutions are absent in the {\em restricted} (that is, when the background connection is the metric one) first order approach.
description: 42 pages, references added
Additional file 1 of Improving communication between the general practitioner and the oncologist: a key role in coordinating care for patients suffering from cancer
Creators: name: Druel, Vladimir
name: Gimenez, Laetitia
name: Paricaud, Kim
name: Delord, Jean-Pierre
name: Grosclaude, Pascale
name: Boussier, Nathalie
name: Bugat, Marie-Eve Rougé
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Patients’ perspective on the role of their general practitioner in cancer management – French version. Questionnaire.
title: Designing educative curriculum materials for primary mathematics teachers for use during curriculum reform
Creators: name: Porcenaluk, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Galway
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: primary education
subject: curriculum design
subject: mathematics
subject: reform
subject: Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
subject: Education

description: Mathematics curricula internationally and in Ireland are undergoing significant changes to ensure students possess critical 21st-century skills. Teachers must develop the necessary pedagogical knowledge to enact reformed curricula. Unfortunately, time, capacity, school culture, and choice often impede teachers’ participation in continued professional development (CPD) beneficial to their pedagogical growth, issues often exacerbated by reform. Existing design models for CPD do not fully describe their effectiveness during reform, signalling a need to further understand and identify effective CPD models for use during periods of change. Educative curriculum materials (ECMs) are one method of CPD that aims to support teachers in progressing their practice while improving student learning. While research suggests that ECMs can positively impact teachers’ professional learning, limited research exists on how they can be designed and used during curriculum reform. Employing a design-based research (DBR) methodology, this study collaboratively investigates the design and implementation of ECMs for primary teachers in Ireland. ECMs were designed and refined throughout four iterative design cycles by combining relevant literature, educational theories, and stakeholder input. The ECMs targeted questioning in mathematics lessons to promote students’ critical thinking skills development. The emerging theoretically informed MACE design framework and data from surveys, focus groups, and observations guided the design. Findings indicate that the ECMs taught teachers the value of questioning and how to implement it in lessons. Teachers appreciated the non-prescriptive nature of the ECMs and their simplistic design. Moreover, individualised support from the researcher was identified as invaluable to professional learning. This project’s contributions include the identified potential for ECMs to be a practical approach to CPD, particularly during curriculum reform. In addition, the emerging MACE design model provides four key design criteria and five design informants for developing and implementing ECMs. Although beyond the immediate scope of this research, the MACE design model could be adapted to inform the design of other forms of CPD.
Entwicklung schreibt sich selber fort!
Creators: name: Heinrich, Martin
name: Schweitzer, Julia
name: Streblow, Lilian
Publisher: name: Die Materialwerkstatt. Zeitschrift für Konzepte und Arbeitsmaterialien für Lehrer*innenbildung und Unterricht.
Year: 2021

description: Im Editorial zum dritten Jahrgang der Zeitschrift „Die Materialwerkstatt. Zeitschrift für Konzepte und Arbeitsmaterialien für Lehrer*innenbildung und Unterricht“ wird die Fortschreibung der eingeschlagenen Pfade der Strukturentwicklung der Zeitschrift beschrieben. Dabei werden der Trend zur Materialentwicklung in Form von inhaltlich bündelnden Themenheften, das phasenverbindende Moment der Materialien im Kontext einer zunehmend phasenübergreifenden Lehrer*innenbildung sowie die sich steigernde Verschränkung von Open Access, Digitalisierung und Digitalität beleuchtet. Im Anschluss an den Ausblick finden sich am Ende des Editorials auch die Abstracts zu allen Beiträgen der diesjährigen regulären Ausgabe sowie zu denen der Themenhefte des Jahrgangs.
description: Die Materialwerkstatt. Zeitschrift für Konzepte und Arbeitsmaterialien für Lehrer*innenbildung und Unterricht., Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2021): Die Materialwerkstatt – Ausgabe 3
Separation of correlated astrophysical sources using multiple-lag data covariance matrices
Creators: name: Bedini, L.
name: Herranz, D.
name: Salerno, E.
name: Baccigalupi, C.
name: Kuruouglu, E. E.
name: Tonazzini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper deals with a source separation strategy based on second-order statistics, namely, on data covariance matrices estimated at several lags. In general, ``blind'' approaches to source separation do not assume any knowledge on the mixing operator; however, any prior information about the possible structure of the mixing operator can improve the solution. Unlike ICA blind separation approaches, where mutual independence between the sources is assumed, our method only needs to constrain second-order statistics, and is effective even if the original sources are significantly correlated. Besides the mixing matrix, our strategy is also capable to evaluate the source covariance functions at several lags. Moreover, once the mixing parameters have been identified, a simple deconvolution can be used to estimate the probability density functions of the source processes. To benchmark our algorithm, we used a database that simulates the one expected from the instruments that will operate onboard ESA's Planck Surveyor Satellite to measure the CMB anisotropies all over the celestial sphere. The assumption was made that the emission spectra of the galactic foregrounds can be parametrised, thus reducing the number of unknowns for system identification to the number of the foreground radiations. We performed separation in several sky patches, featuring different levels of galactic contamination to the CMB, and assuming several noise levels, including the ones derived from the Planck specifications.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures, submitted to EURASIP JASP in the Special Issue "Applications of Signal Processing in Astrophysics and Cosmology". Higher resolution figures can be asked for to diego.herranz@isti.cnr.it
Search for wormhole candidates in active galactic nuclei: radiation from colliding accreting flows
Creators: name: Piotrovich, M. Yu.
name: Krasnikov, S. V.
name: Buliga, S. D.
name: Natsvlishvili, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The underlying hypothesis of this work is that the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are wormhole mouths rather than supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Under some - quite general - assumptions such wormholes may emit gamma radiation as a result of a collision of accreting flows inside the wormholes. This radiation has a distinctive spectrum much different from those of jets or accretion disks of AGNs. An observation of such radiation would serve as evidence of the existence of wormholes.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Finite flat commutative group schemes over complete discrete valuation fields: classification, structural results; application to reduction of Abelian varieties
Creators: name: Bondarko, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14L15, 14L05, 14K15, 11G10, 11S31

description: This paper is a summary of author's results on finite flat commutative group schemes. The properties of the generic fibre functor are discussed. A complete classification of finite local flat commutative group schemes over mixed characteristic complete discrete valuation rings in terms of their Cartier modules (defined by Oort) is given. We also state several properties of tangent space of these schemes. These results are applied to the study of reduction of Abelian varieties. A finite $p$-adic semistable reduction criterion is formulated. It looks especially nice in the ordinary reduction case. The plans of the proofs are described.
description: A survey of author's results on finite group schemes
Mixing and tight polyhedra
Creators: name: Ward, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22D40, 22D40 (Primary) 52B11 (Secondary)

description: Actions of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ by automorphisms of compact zero-dimensional groups exhibit a range of mixing behaviour. Schmidt introduced the notion of mixing shapes for these systems, and proved that non-mixing shapes can only arise non-trivially for actions on zero-dimensional groups. Masser has shown that the failure of higher-order mixing is always witnessed by non-mixing shapes. Here we show how valuations can be used to understand the (non-)mixing behaviour of a certain family of examples. The sharpest information arises for systems corresponding to tight polyhedra.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921706000000194 in the IMS Lecture Notes--Monograph Series (http://www.imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Finite element modeling and parametric studies of a chevron braced frame with a vertical slotted connection detail
Creators: name: Seeton, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents the findings of comprehensive parametric sensitivity studies of a series of three-dimensional finite element models. The models considered relate to a steel chevron braced frame system with an innovative vertical slotted connection (VSC) detail that ideally improves the seismic performance of the system by precluding the application of an unbalanced load to the mid-span of the beam upon buckling of either brace. Since simplified models of a prototype specimen of the system were unsuccessful in predicting the experimentally observed behaviour, a sophisticated three-dimensional modeling investigation was undertaken. The primary lateral load resistance and energy dissipation qualities of the chevron braced frame system are provided by the bracing elements. Therefore, these members constituted the initial focus of the modeling investigation. Stub column simulations were undertaken to determine the sensitivity of the predicted local buckling behaviour to an extensive set of modeling-related parameters. Next, a single brace model was developed, to investigate the sensitivity of global buckling predictions to the modeling parameters. The results from the parametric studies of the stub column and single brace models enabled a well-informed approach to the modeling of the full chevron braced frame system with the VSC detail, which itself was also subjected to parametric study. Refined three-dimensional modeling of the VSC detail including material, geometric, and contact nonlinearities enabled the kinematic behaviour of the system to be carefully scrutinized. The general purpose finite element program LS-DYNA was used to conduct the investigation. Five analysis methods were used, including: eigenvalue vibration analysis, eigenvalue buckling analysis, implicit static analysis, implicit dynamic analysis, and explicit dynamic analysis. The capabilities of the analysis methods were tested, and particular focus was placed on the use of the explicit method. While stability considerations limit the maximum allowable time step size for explicit time stepping methods, it was determined that quasi-static solutions could be obtained, so long as a sensitivity study was paired with the analysis in order to quantify the extent to which time scaling procedures affect the results. Although an exact match between the experimental and analytical results was ultimately not achieved, the finite element model was able to capture the key characteristics of the lateral loading response of the proposed chevron braced frame system with a VSC detail.
Degree-dependent intervertex separation in complex networks
Creators: name: Dorogovtsev, S. N.
name: Mendes, J. F. F.
name: Oliveira, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mean length $\ell(k)$ of the shortest paths between a vertex of degree $k$ and other vertices in growing networks, where correlations are essential. In a number of deterministic scale-free networks we observe a power-law correction to a logarithmic dependence, $\ell(k) = A\ln [N/k^{(γ-1)/2}] - C k^{γ-1}/N + ...$ in a wide range of network sizes. Here $N$ is the number of vertices in the network, $γ$ is the degree distribution exponent, and the coefficients $A$ and $C$ depend on a network. We compare this law with a corresponding $\ell(k)$ dependence obtained for random scale-free networks growing through the preferential attachment mechanism. In stochastic and deterministic growing trees with an exponential degree distribution, we observe a linear dependence on degree, $\ell(k) \cong A\ln N - C k$. We compare our findings for growing networks with those for uncorrelated graphs.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Theory of classical metastability in open quantum systems
Creators: name: Macieszczak, Katarzyna
name: Rose, Dominic C.
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
name: Garrahan, Juan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general theory of classical metastability in open quantum systems. Metastability is a consequence of a large separation in timescales in the dynamics, leading to the existence of a regime when states of the system appear stationary, before eventual relaxation toward a true stationary state at much larger times. In this work, we focus on the emergence of classical metastability, i.e., when metastable states of an open quantum system with separation of timescales can be approximated as probabilistic mixtures of a finite number of states. We find that a number of classical features follow from this approximation, for the manifold of metastable states, long-time dynamics between them, and symmetries of the dynamics. Namely, those states are approximately disjoint and thus play the role of metastable phases, the relaxation toward the stationary state is approximated by a classical stochastic dynamics between them, and weak symmetries correspond to their permutations. Importantly, the classical dynamics is observed not only on average, but also at the level of individual quantum trajectories: We show that time coarse-grained continuous measurement records can be viewed as noisy classical trajectories, while their statistics can be approximated by that of the classical dynamics. Among others, this explains how first-order dynamical phase transitions arise from metastability. Finally, to verify the presence of classical metastability in a given open quantum system, we develop an efficient numerical approach that delivers the set of metastable phases together with the effective classical dynamics. Since the proximity to a first-order dissipative phase transition manifests as metastability, the theory and tools introduced in this work can be used to investigate such transitions through the metastable behavior of many-body systems of moderate sizes accessible to numerics.
description: 28 pages (89 pages with Supplemental Material), 7 figures
Additional file 2 of Identification of carnivore kill sites is improved by verified accelerometer data
Creators: name: Petroelje, Tyler R.
name: Belant, Jerrold L.
name: Beyer, Dean E.
name: Svoboda, Nathan J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2. Mean activity levels ($$ \overline{x} $$x¯) for summed X- and Y-axis accelerometer values (unit-less; 0–255) collected on collars worn by captive carnivores including two American black bears (Ursus americanus), a bobcat (Lynx rufus), and two wolves (Canis spp.) for 5 observed behavior groups with 95% confidence intervals (CI), Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, 2011 and 2013.
Multi-Stage Hybrid Federated Learning over Large-Scale D2D-Enabled Fog Networks
Creators: name: Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali
name: Azam, Sheikh Shams
name: Brinton, Christopher G.
name: Michelusi, Nicolo
name: Aggarwal, Vaneet
name: Love, David J.
name: Dai, Huaiyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning has generated significant interest, with nearly all works focused on a "star" topology where nodes/devices are each connected to a central server. We migrate away from this architecture and extend it through the network dimension to the case where there are multiple layers of nodes between the end devices and the server. Specifically, we develop multi-stage hybrid federated learning (MH-FL), a hybrid of intra- and inter-layer model learning that considers the network as a multi-layer cluster-based structure. MH-FL considers the topology structures among the nodes in the clusters, including local networks formed via device-to-device (D2D) communications, and presumes a semi-decentralized architecture for federated learning. It orchestrates the devices at different network layers in a collaborative/cooperative manner (i.e., using D2D interactions) to form local consensus on the model parameters and combines it with multi-stage parameter relaying between layers of the tree-shaped hierarchy. We derive the upper bound of convergence for MH-FL with respect to parameters of the network topology (e.g., the spectral radius) and the learning algorithm (e.g., the number of D2D rounds in different clusters). We obtain a set of policies for the D2D rounds at different clusters to guarantee either a finite optimality gap or convergence to the global optimum. We then develop a distributed control algorithm for MH-FL to tune the D2D rounds in each cluster over time to meet specific convergence criteria. Our experiments on real-world datasets verify our analytical results and demonstrate the advantages of MH-FL in terms of resource utilization metrics.
description: This paper is accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking