cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interventions on Socioeconomic and Racial Inequities in Respiratory Pandemics: a Rapid Systematic Review
Creators: name: Aiello, Allison E.
name: Dennis, Alexis C.
name: McClure, Elizabeth S.
name: Noppert, Grace
name: Renson, Audrey
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
Purpose of Review Racial and socioeconomic inequities in respiratory pandemics have been consistently documented, but little official guidance exists on effective action to prevent these. We systematically reviewed quantitative evaluations of (real or simulated) interventions targeting racial and socioeconomic inequities in respiratory pandemic outcomes. Recent Findings Our systematic search returned 10,208 records, of which 5 met inclusion criteria, including observational (n = 1), randomized trial (n = 1), and simulation (n = 3) studies. Interventions studied included vaccination parity, antiviral distribution, school closure, disinfection, personal protective equipment, and paid sick leave, with a focus on Black (n = 3) and/or Latinx (n = 4) or low-SES (n = 2) communities. Results are suggestive that these interventions might be effective at reducing racial and/or SES disparities in pandemics. Summary There is a dearth of research on strategies to reduce pandemic disparities. We provide theory-driven, concrete suggestions for incorporating equity into intervention research for pandemic preparedness, including a focus on social and economic policies.
Global solutions to the supercooled Stefan problem with blow-ups: regularity and uniqueness
Creators: name: Delarue, Francois
name: Nadtochiy, Sergey
name: Shkolnikov, Mykhaylo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 80A22, 35B44, 60H30, 35B05

description: We consider the supercooled Stefan problem, which captures the freezing of a supercooled liquid, in one space dimension. A probabilistic reformulation of the problem allows to define global solutions, even in the presence of blow-ups of the freezing rate. We provide a complete description of such solutions, by relating the temperature distribution in the liquid to the regularity of the ice growth process. The latter is shown to transition between (i) continuous differentiability, (ii) Holder continuity, and (iii) discontinuity. In particular, in the second regime we rediscover the square root behavior of the growth process pointed out by Stefan in his seminal paper [Ste89] from 1889 for the ordinary Stefan problem. In our second main theorem, we establish the uniqueness of the global solutions, a first result of this kind in the context of growth processes with singular self-excitation when blow-ups are present.
description: 41 pages
Wick squares of the Gaussian Free Field and Riemannian rigidity
Creators: name: Dang, Nguyen Viet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T20, 81T08, 53C24, 53C22, 58J50

description: In the present paper, we show that on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $d\leqslant 4$ whose metric has negative curvature, the renormalized partition function $Z_g(λ)$ of a massive Gaussian Free Field determines the length spectrum of $(M,g)$ and imposes some strong geometric constraints on the Riemannian structure of $(M,g)$. In any finite dimensional family of Riemannian metrics of negative sectional curvature bounded from below and above and whose isometry group is trivial, there is only a \textbf{finite number of isometry classes} of metrics with given partition function $Z_g(λ)$. When $d<4$, the same result holds true if the random variable $\int_M:ϕ^2:dv$ has given probability distribution and without the lower bound on the sectional curvatures.
description: Major revision and totally rewritten, corrected several mistakes, expanded the main result to dimension $4$
IMPACT OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN PRAGMATIC USE OF WORD COMBINATIONS
Creators: name: Pardayeva Mahliyo G'ayrat qizi, Karshi State University, Teacher of "Linguistic "department
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article presents the essential theme about relation between culture and pragmatics. Mostly in article pragmatic elemwnts, cross cultural communication with word combinations and impact of culture on various spheres widely discussed. Pragmatic and cultural competence are closely related, and both require learners to "use language in socioculturally appropriate ways" . One of the knottiest considerations in teaching L2 pragmatics is that socio-culturally and contextually appropriate (or inappropriate) communication can take a number of forms, e.g., there can be many pragmatically appropriate ways to ask for information  or schedule an appointment.
Design Principles for Self-forming Interfaces Enabling Stable Lithium Metal Anodes
Creators: name: Zhu, Yingying
name: Pande, Vikram
name: Li, Linsen
name: Pan, Sam
name: Wen, Bohua
name: Wang, David
name: Viswanathan, Venkatasubramanian
name: Chiang, Yet-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The path toward Li-ion batteries with higher energy-densities will likely involve use of thin lithium metal (Li) anode (<50 $μ$m in thickness), whose cyclability today remains limited by dendrite formation and low Coulombic efficiency. Previous studies have shown that the solid-electrolyte-interface (SEI) of Li metal plays a crucial role in Li electrodeposition and stripping. However, design rules for optimal SEIs on lithium metal are not well-established. Here, using integrated experimental and modeling studies on a series of structurally-similar SEI-modifying compounds as model systems, we reveal the relationship between SEI compositions, Li deposition morphology and coulombic efficiency, and identify two key descriptors (ionicity and compactness) for high performance SEIs through integrated experimental and modeling studies. Using this understanding, we design a highly ionic and compact SEI that shows excellent cycling performance in LiCoO$_2$-Li full cells at practical current densities. Our results provide guidance for the rational selection and optimization of SEI modifiers to further improve Li metal anodes.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures and Supplementary Information
Curbing Pandemic Through Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Priority Aware Mobility Scheduling
Creators: name: Roy, Satyaki
name: Ghosh, Preetam
name: Bose, Priyankar
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2022

description:
COVID-19 is a global pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. While swift vaccine development and distribution have arrested the infection spread rate, it is necessary to design public policies that inform human mobility to curb outbreaks from future strains of the virus. While existing non-pharmaceutical approaches employing network science and machine learning offer promising travel policy solutions, they are guided by epidemiological and economic considerations alone and not human itineraries. We introduce an evolutionary algorithm (EA) based mobility scheduler that incorporates the personalized itineraries of individuals to determine the ideal timing of their mobility. We mathematically analyze the computational efficiency versus the optimality trade-off of the mobility scheduler. Through extensive simulations, we demonstrate that the EA-based mobility scheduler can balance the trade-off between (1) optimality and computational cost and (2) fair and preferential human mobility while reducing contagion under lockdown and no-lockdown as well as even and uneven human mobility traffic scenarios. We show that for two human mobility models, the scheduler exhibits lower infection numbers than a baseline trip-planning approach that directs human traffic along the least congested route to minimize contagion. We discuss that the EA scheduler lends itself to intricate mobility schedules of multiple destination choices with varying priorities and socioeconomic and demographic considerations.
Nothrus willmanni Mahunka 1983
Creators: name: Revelo-Tobar, Harol
name: Ojeda, Margarita
name: García-Ayala, Leonardo J.
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Nothridae
Nothrus
Nothrus willmanni

description: Nothrus willmanni Mahunka, 1983.
 Distribution: Neotropical.
 Records in Mexico: Quintana Roo and Veracruz.
 Biogeographic province: Yucatan Peninsula. Veracruzan.
 Habitat: Mangrove. Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Low flooded rainforest soil. Decaying trunks of Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin.
 References: Vázquez (1999): 60; Estrada-Venegas (2000): 20; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 148; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 273; Vázquez (2008): 12; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162.
description: Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, Ojeda, Margarita, García-Ayala, Leonardo J. & Palacios-Vargas, José G., 2024, Checklist Of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) From Mexico, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 5465 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613709
Generation of Thermofield Double States and Critical Ground States with a Quantum Computer
Creators: name: Zhu, D.
name: Johri, S.
name: Linke, N. M.
name: Landsman, K. A.
name: Nguyen, N. H.
name: Alderete, C. H.
name: Matsuura, A. Y.
name: Hsieh, T. H.
name: Monroe, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finite-temperature phases of many-body quantum systems are fundamental to phenomena ranging from condensed-matter physics to cosmology, yet they are generally difficult to simulate. Using an ion trap quantum computer and protocols motivated by the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), we generate nontrivial thermal quantum states of the transverse-field Ising model (TFIM) by preparing thermofield double states at a variety of temperatures. We also prepare the critical state of the TFIM at zero temperature using quantum-classical hybrid optimization. The entanglement structure of thermofield double and critical states plays a key role in the study of black holes, and our work simulates such nontrivial structures on a quantum computer. Moreover, we find that the variational quantum circuits exhibit noise thresholds above which the lowest depth QAOA circuits provide the best results.
Ultrafast molecular orbital tomography of a pentacene thin film using time-resolved momentum microscopy at a free-electron laser
Creators: name: Baumgärtner, K.
name: Reuner, M.
name: Metzger, C.
name: Kutnyakhov, D.
name: Heber, M.
name: Min, C. H.
name: Peixoto, T. R. F.
name: Reiser, M.
name: Kim, C.
name: Lu, W.
name: Shayduk, R.
name: Izquierdo, W. M.
name: Brenner, G.
name: Roth, F.
name: Pressacco, F.
name: Schöll, A.
name: Molodtsov, S.
name: Wurth, W.
name: Reinert, F.
name: Madsen, A.
name: Popova-Gorelova, D.
name: Scholz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use time-resolved momentum microscopy at a free-electron laser (FEL) and extend orbital tomography into the time domain to image the electronic wave functions of excited molecular orbitals. This technique provides unprecedented insight into the ultrafast interplay between structural and electronic dynamics. In this work we prove general applicability and establish the experimental conditions at FEL sources to minimize space charge effects and radiation damage. We investigate a bilayer pentacene film on Ag(110) by optical laser pump and FEL probe experiments. From the momentum microscopy signal, we obtain time-dependent momentum maps of the excited-state dynamics of both pentacene layers separately. Combining experimental observations with a theoretical study, we interpret the observed signal for the bottom layer as resulting from the charge redistribution between the molecule and the substrate induced by excitation. We identify that the dynamics of the top pentacene layer resembles excited-state molecular dynamics.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Cryptic genetic relatedness among 1000 human genomes
Creators: name: Fedorova, Larisa
name: Shuhao Qiu
name: Rajib Dutta
name: Alkhudhair, Ahmed
name: Fedorov, Alexei
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Nucleotide sequence differences on the whole-genome scale have been computed for 1092 people from 14 populations publicly available by the 1000 Genomes Project.  Total number of differences in genetic variants between 96,464 human pairs has been calculated.  We also analyzed the distribution patterns of very rare genetic variants (vrGVs), which have minor allele frequencies less than 0.2%, and used these patterns for revealing cryptic genetic relatedness. Contrary to the existing probabilistic approaches our novel computational method for detecting identical-by-descent (IBD) chromosomal segments between sequenced genomes is rather deterministic, because it considers a group of very rare events which cannot happen together only by chance.  This method has been applied for exhaustive computational search of shared IBD segments among 1092 sequenced individuals from 14 populations. We demonstrated that clusters of vrGVs are unique and powerful markers of genetic relatedness, that uncover IBD chromosomal segments between and within populations, irrespective of whether divergence was recent or occurred hundreds-to-thousands of years ago.  We found that several IBD segments are shared by practically any possible pair of individuals belonging to the same population.  Moreover, shared short IBD segments (median size 183 Kb) were found in 10% of inter-continental human pairs, each comprising of a person from Sub-Saharan Africa and a person from Southern Europe.  The shortest shared IBD segments (median size 54 Kb) were found in 0.42% of inter-continental pairs composed of individuals from Chinese/Japanese populations and Africans from Kenya and Nigeria. Knowledge of inheritance of IBD segments is important in clinical case-control and cohort studies, since unknown distant familial relationships could compromise interpretation of collected data. Clusters of vrGVs should be useful markers for familial relationship and common multifactorial disorders.
Fluctuations of the number of excursion sets of planar Gaussian fields
Creators: name: Beliaev, Dmitry
name: McAuley, Michael
name: Muirhead, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a smooth, stationary, planar Gaussian field, we consider the number of connected components of its excursion set (or level set) contained in a large square of area $R^2$. The mean number of components is known to be of order $R^2$ for generic fields and all levels. We show that for certain fields with positive spectral density near the origin (including the Bargmann-Fock field), and for certain levels $\ell$, these random variables have fluctuations of order at least $R$, and hence variance of order at least $R^2$. In particular, this holds for excursion sets when $\ell$ is in some neighbourhood of zero, and it holds for excursion/level sets when $\ell$ is sufficiently large. We prove stronger fluctuation lower bounds of order $R^α$, $α\in [1,2]$, in the case that the spectral density has a singularity at the origin. Finally, we show that the number of excursion/level sets for the Random Plane Wave at certain levels has fluctuations of order at least $R^{3/2}$, and hence variance of order at least~$R^3$. We expect that these bounds are of the correct order, at least for generic levels.
description: 38 pages, 2 figures
The behavior of harmonic functions at singular points of $\mathsf{RCD}$ spaces
Creators: name: De Philippis, Guido
name: Núñez-Zimbrón, Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note we investigate the behavior of harmonic functions at singular points of $\mathsf{RCD}(K,N)$ spaces. In particular we show that their gradient vanishes at all points where the tangent cone is isometric to a cone over a metric measure space with non-maximal diameter. The same analysis is performed for functions with a Laplacian in $L^{N+\varepsilon}$. As a consequence we show that on smooth manifolds there is no a priori estimate on the modulus of continuity of the gradient of harmonic functions which depends only on lower bounds of the sectional curvature. In the same way we show that there is no a priori Calderón-Zygmund theory for the Laplacian with bounds depending only on lower bounds of the sectional curvature.
description: 11 pages
Von alten Hasen lernen: Methoden und Technologien für den Erfahrungstransfer
Creators: name: Haase, Tina
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2025
Subjects: Erfahrungstransfer
implizites Wissen
Künstliche Intelligenz
Problemlösekompetenz

description: Erfahrungswissen ist für Unternehmen von zentraler Bedeutung und wird zunehmend zum Wettbewerbsvorteil: Es ist die Grundlage für effektive Problemlösungsstrategien. Erfahrene Fachkräfte verfügen über ein tiefes Verständnis für komplexe Systeme und können auf ein breites Spektrum an bewährten Lösungsansätzen zurückgreifen. Diese "alten Hasen" sind oft in der Lage, ihre Maschinen intuitiv zu verstehen, ohne sich dessen bewusst zu sein. In Zeiten des Fachkräftemangels, wo das Einarbeiten neuer Mitarbeitender im Tandem nicht mehr gelebte Praxis ist, und wo Arbeitsaufgaben immer komplexer werden, wird es erforderlich, dieses wertvolle Erfahrungswissen systematisch zu erfassen und weiterzugeben. Wir stellen Ihnen Methoden und Technologien für einen effizienten Wissenstransfer vor. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie das Know-how Ihrer "alten Hasen" identifizieren, erfassen und effizient nutzen können.
Blessing of dimensionality at the edge
Creators: name: Tyukin, Ivan Y.
name: Gorban, Alexander N.
name: McEwan, Alistair A.
name: Meshkinfamfard, Sepehr
name: Tang, Lixin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T05, 68T45, 68Q32

description: In this paper we present theory and algorithms enabling classes of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to continuously and incrementally improve with a-priori quantifiable guarantees - or more specifically remove classification errors - over time. This is distinct from state-of-the-art machine learning, AI, and software approaches. Another feature of this approach is that, in the supervised setting, the computational complexity of training is linear in the number of training samples. At the time of classification, the computational complexity is bounded by few inner product calculations. Moreover, the implementation is shown to be very scalable. This makes it viable for deployment in applications where computational power and memory are limited, such as embedded environments. It enables the possibility for fast on-line optimisation using improved training samples. The approach is based on the concentration of measure effects and stochastic separation theorems and is illustrated with an example on the identification faulty processes in Computer Numerical Control (CNC) milling and with a case study on adaptive removal of false positives in an industrial video surveillance and analytics system.
КИЧИК БИЗНЕС СУБЪЕКТЛАРИ РАҚОБАТБАРДОШЛИГИНИ ОШИРИШНИНГ ТАШКИЛИЙ-ИҚТИСОДИЙ МЕХАНИЗМЛАРИ
Creators: name: Йўлдошев, Шохрух
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Кичик бизнес субъектлари ҳар қандай миллий иқтисодиётда инновацион тараққиёт, иш ўринлари яратиш ва маҳаллий бозорларни фаоллаштиришда муҳим роль ўйнайди. Шу билан бирга, бозордаги рақобат муҳити кучайган сари, кичик бизнеснинг муваффақиятли фаолият юритишига таъсир қилувчи асосий омиллардан бири — рақобатбардошлик даражаси ҳисобланади.
Brans-Dicke Cosmology: Thermodynamic viability
Creators: name: Duary, Tanima
name: Banerjee, Narayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Brans-Dicke cosmological models for a spatially isotropic and homogeneous universe are tested in terms of the validity of the Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics (GSL). The investigation is carried out in the Einstein frame. It is found that the models are thermodynamically viable for negative values of the Brans-Dicke parameter w and thus are quite consistent with the recent accelerated expansion of the universe.
description: 8 pages, to appear in EPJP
title: Conciliation entre le sport et les études chez les élèves-athlètes : comparaison entre le système québécois et celui du canton de Vaud
title: Conciliation entre le sport et les études chez les élèves-athlètes : comparaison entre le système québécois et celui du canton de Vaud
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hofmann, Nora
name: Schwab, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Québec
subject: Vaud
subject: sport-études
subject: élèves-athlètes
subject: satisfaction
subject: conciliation

description: La présente étude a pour objectif d’analyser le degré de satisfaction des élèves-athlètes du secondaire un vis-à-vis de leurs structures sport-études ainsi que de leur niveau de conciliation entre le sport et les études. Dans un premier temps, nous avons tenté de relater les spécificités des différents systèmes sport-études dans le monde. Pour ce faire, nous avons sélectionné trois pôles : le système anglo-saxon avec le « rêve américain », le système de l’ancien bloc soviétique, la « dictature de la performance » et un système relativement hybride représenté par l’Europe. Cette première phase nous a permis de cadrer notre recherche autour de trois questions principales : quel est le degré de satisfaction des structures "sport-études" auprès des élèves-athlètes dans chaque région respective (différences selon le sexe et le type de sport pratiqué) ? La conciliation entre les études et les sports est-elle facilitée grâce aux programmes sport-études dans chaque pays respectif (différences selon le sexe et le type de sport pratiqué) ? Une différence dans le degré de satisfaction et/ou de conciliation peut-elle être relevée entre les deux pays ? Pour notre recueil de données, nous avons choisi de diffuser un questionnaire en ligne auprès d’élèves-athlètes dans les deux régions étudiées, le canton de Vaud et la province du Québec. Nous avons, par la suite, analysé les données récoltées par l’intermédiaire du logiciel statistique Jamovi. Les résultats nous ont montré que les québécois obtenaient de meilleurs scores en ce qui concerne la satisfaction sportive (6,4%) ainsi que la conciliation (4,98%) entre le sport et les études. Pour la différence selon le sexe de l’individu, nous avons relevé que les québécoises avaient une satisfaction scolaire plus élevée que les élèves-athlètes masculins. De plus, les scores suisses ont révélé de meilleurs résultats pour les sports individuels dans le niveau de conciliation entre le sport et les études. Ces résultats confirment, globalement, nos hypothèses initiales. Finalement, ce travail met en parallèle deux systèmes sport-études distincts et cherche à mettre en évidence le ressenti des élèves-athlètes qui en font partie.
R-local unlabeled sensing: A novel graph matching approach for multiview unlabeled sensing under local permutations
Creators: name: Abbasi, Ahmed
name: Tasissa, Abiy
name: Aeron, Shuchin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unlabeled sensing is a linear inverse problem where the measurements are scrambled under an unknown permutation leading to loss of correspondence between the measurements and the rows of the sensing matrix. Motivated by practical tasks such as mobile sensor networks, target tracking and the pose and correspondence estimation between point clouds, we study a special case of this problem restricting the class of permutations to be local and allowing for multiple views. In this setting, namely unlabeled multi-view sensing with local permutation, previous results and algorithms are not directly applicable. In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient algorithm that creatively exploits the machinery of graph alignment and Gromov-Wasserstein alignment and leverages the multiple views to estimate the local permutations. Simulation results on synthetic data sets indicate that the proposed algorithm is scalable and applicable to the challenging regimes of low to moderate SNR.
PRESERVING MOTHER NATURE TO ENLARGE THE PLANT WORLD TODAY IS ONE OF THE MAIN ISSUES OF THE DAY.
Creators: name: Roziyeva, Nazira
name: Chorshambiyeva, Shohida
name: Eshboyeva, Zarina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this article, the issue that is considered urgent today, i.e., increasing the number of plants in the preservation of mother nature is of great importance today, the need to increase the number of plants in preserving the purity of the atmosphere, as a result of which a healthy environment will be created in the future. it is said to give concepts about the basic source for creating a style.
Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of rural households in the community forestry landscape in the Middle Hills of Nepal
Creators: name: Parajuli, Rajan
name: Karki, Rahul
name: Giri, Kalpana
name: Bista, Rajesh
name: Song, Conghe
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description:
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has severely affected all sectors of the economy, and the impacts are expected to last-long. One major impact is that migrants return to their original households in rural communities due to loss of jobs. Since rural communities are highly dependent on forest and agriculture for livelihoods, an influx of return migrants likely increases the consumption of forest products and intensifies the agriculture practices, increasing the pressure on forest resources. Based on in-person interview of 215 in 2018 before the pandemic and a phone interview of the same 215 rural households in 2021 at the peak of the pandemic in Kavrepalanchowk district in Nepal, this study addresses the following research questions: (1) Does COVID-19 exert differential impacts among the socio-economic groups? (2) How do return migrants affect the rural land use? (3) Do return migrants put additional pressure on forests resources? The rare before-and-after dataset provide a precious opportunity to assess the COVID-19 impacts on the livelihoods of rural households in the community forestry landscape in the Middle Hills of Nepal. We found that the impacts of COVID-19 were severe on the households with larger family size, those belonging to the marginalized caste groups, having lower number of livestock, low wellbeing index, those who rely on daily wage-based occupation, with low level of education, and the households with return migrants. A significant number of migrants were found to return to their village of origin. As a result, there was a decrease in abandoned land and an increase in the livestock number and forest product use. These findings provide timely insights for the post-pandemic recovery efforts in better targeting needy household with limited resource in the community forestry landscape in the Middle Hills of Nepal.
FAIR-IMPACT Workshop, introduction to the Skills4EOSC Competence Centres
Creators: name: Di Giorgio, Sara
name: Paolini, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The FAIR Implementation workshop “Introduction to the Skills4EOSC Competence Centres”, part of the second running of the FAIR-IMPACT support programme for National Level Initiatives, was delivered on 20 November 2024. Two keynote speakers, Sara Di Giorgio Coordinator Skills4EOSC Open Science Policy & International Relations Officers - GARR and Gabriella Paolini Training and e-learning manager – GARR introduced the Skills4EOSC initiative, which aims to harmonise Open Science skills training across Europe. The presentation outlined the role of Competence Centres (CCs) as national and regional hubs for FAIR data expertise, Open Science training, and policy engagement. The workshop covered information regarding the training programs, the “Train the Trainers” initiative, and the Recognition Framework, which includes Open Badges and European Digital Credentials (EDC).
Coloring of ($P_5$, $4$-wheel)-free graphs
Creators: name: Char, Arnab
name: Karthick, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For a graph $G$, $χ(G)$ $(ω(G))$ denote its chromatic (clique) number. A $P_5$ is the chordless path on five vertices, and a $4$-$wheel$ is the graph consisting of a chordless cycle on four vertices $C_4$ plus an additional vertex adjacent to all the vertices of the $C_4$. In this paper, we show that every ($P_5$, $4$-wheel)-free graph $G$ satisfies $χ(G)\leq \frac{3}{2}ω(G)$. Moreover, this bound is almost tight. That is, there is a class of ($P_5$, $4$-wheel)-free graphs $\cal L$ such that every graph $H\in \cal L$ satisfies $χ(H)\geq\frac{10}{7}ω(H)$. This generalizes/improves several previously known results in the literature.
description: Revised compact version; Accepted for publication in Discrete Mathematics
MAHALLA VA TA'LIM MUASSASALARI O'RTASIDAGI HAMKORLIK - VOYAGA YETMAGANLAR ORASIDA HUQUQBUZARLIKLAR PROFILAKTIKASINI SAMARALI AMALGA OSHIRISHNING IMKONIYATI SIFATIDA
Creators: name: Yulchixonov, Qudratxo'ja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada mahalla va ta'lim muassasalari o'rtasidagi hamkorlikning voyaga yetmaganlar orasida huquqbuzarliklar profilaktikasini samarali amalga oshirishdagi roli o'rganilgan. Adabiyotlar tahlili asosida hamkorlikning mavjud modellari, yutuq va kamchiliklari, shuningdek, samaradorligini oshirish yo'llari ko'rib chiqilgan. Mahalla va ta'lim muassasalari o'rtasidagi hamkorlikni rivojlantirish orqali huquqbuzarliklar profilaktikasi samaradorligini oshirish bo'yicha tavsiyalar ishlab chiqilgan.
Structure, examples and classification for generalized near-group fusion categories
Creators: name: Dong, Jingcheng
name: Sun, Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D10

description: We describe the structure of a generalized near-group fusion category and present an example of this class of fusion categories which arises from the extension of a Fibonacci category. We then classify slightly degenerate generalized near-group fusion categories. We also prove a structure result for braided generalized Tambara-Yamagami fusion categories.
description: 21 pages. This paper is a refinement of arxiv:1808.04100 and arxiv:1903.08793
Estimating the number of available states for normal and tumor tissues in gene expression space
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Augusto
name: Quintela, Frank
name: Leon, Dario A.
name: Vega, Maria Luisa Bringas
name: Sosa, Pedro Valdes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The topology of gene expression space for a set of 12 cancer types is studied by means of an entropy-like magnitude, which allows the characterization of the regions occupied by tumor and normal samples. The comparison indicates that the number of available states in gene expression space is much greater for tumors than for normal tissues, suggesting the irreversibility of the progression to the tumor phase. The entropy is nearly constant for tumors, whereas exhibits a higher variability in normal tissues, probably due to tissue differentiation. In addition, we show an interesting correlation between the fraction of available states and the overlapping between the tumor and normal sample clouds, interpreted as a way of reducing the decay rate to the tumor phase in more ordered or structured tissues.
Broken detailed balance and entropy production in the human brain
Creators: name: Lynn, Christopher W.
name: Cornblath, Eli J.
name: Papadopoulos, Lia
name: Bertolero, Maxwell A.
name: Bassett, Danielle S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Living systems break detailed balance at small scales, consuming energy and producing entropy in the environment in order to perform molecular and cellular functions. However, it remains unclear how broken detailed balance manifests at macroscopic scales, and how such dynamics support higher-order biological functions. Here we present a framework to quantify broken detailed balance by measuring entropy production in macroscopic systems. We apply our method to the human brain, an organ whose immense metabolic consumption drives a diverse range of cognitive functions. Using whole-brain imaging data, we demonstrate that the brain nearly obeys detailed balance when at rest, but strongly breaks detailed balance when performing physically and cognitively demanding tasks. Using a dynamic Ising model, we show that these large-scale violations of detailed balance can emerge from fine-scale asymmetries in the interactions between elements, a known feature of neural systems. Together, these results suggest that violations of detailed balance are vital for cognition, and provide a general tool for quantifying entropy production in macroscopic systems.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures
Stan Bradford's Logbook
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: The contributor's grandfather, Stan Bradford's logbook from when he flew in 1943-44 with 57 squadron shows that he was a mid-upper gunner. He was based at East Kirkby and Scampton, Lincolnshire. He spoke of the war many times. He was credited with shooting down six German fighters and won the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM), presented to him by King George. He received a congratulatory letter from Bomber Harris. After he finished flying, he served at RAF Abingdon to assist with demobbing British servicemen. A beer was named after him, created by Loose Cannon Brewery, called 'Gunner's Gold'. Stan Bradford died in 2017.
A model-independent analysis of $b \to s μ^+ μ^-$ transitions with GAMBIT's FlavBit
Creators: name: Bhom, J.
name: Chrzaszcz, M.
name: Mahmoudi, F.
name: Prim, M. T.
name: Scott, P.
name: White, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for flavour-changing neutral current effects in $B$-meson decays is a powerful probe of physics beyond the Standard Model. Deviations from SM behaviour are often quantified by extracting the preferred values of the Wilson coefficients of an operator product expansion. We use the FlavBit module of the GAMBIT package to perform a simultaneous global fit of the Wilson coefficients $C_7$, $C_9$, and $C_{10}$ using a combination of all current data on $b \to s μ^+ μ^-$ transitions. We further extend previous analyses by accounting for the correlated theoretical uncertainties at each point in the Wilson coefficient parameter space, rather than deriving the uncertainties from a Standard Model calculation. We find that the best fit deviates from the SM value with a significance of 6.6$σ$. The largest deviation is associated with a vector coupling of muons to $b$ and $s$ quarks.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures. v2: updated including recent experimental measurements (e.g. LHCb angular analysis of $B^+ \to K^{*+} \mu^+ \mu^-$ and LHCb and Belle angular analysis of $B \to K^* e^+ e^-$) in the fit
Exciton diffusion and annihilation in nanophotonic Purcell landscapes
Creators: name: Raziman, T. V.
name: Visser, C. Peter
name: Wang, Shaojun
name: Rivas, Jaime Gómez
name: Curto, Alberto G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excitons spread through diffusion and interact through exciton-exciton annihilation. Nanophotonics can counteract the resulting decrease in light emission. However, conventional enhancement treats emitters as immobile and noninteracting. Here, we go beyond the localized Purcell effect to exploit exciton dynamics. As interacting excitons diffuse through optical hotspots, the balance of excitonic and nanophotonic properties leads to either enhanced or suppressed photoluminescence. We identify the dominant enhancement mechanisms in the limits of high and low diffusion and annihilation to turn their detrimental impact into additional emission. Our guidelines are relevant for efficient and high-power light-emitting diodes and lasers based on monolayer semiconductors, perovskites, or organic crystals.
Speech can produce jet-like transport relevant to asymptomatic spreading of virus
Creators: name: Abkarian, Manouk
name: Mendez, Simon
name: Xue, Nan
name: Yang, Fan
name: Stone, Howard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many scientific reports document that asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals contribute to the spread of COVID-19, probably during conversations in social interactions. Droplet emission occurs during speech, yet few studies document the flow to provide the transport mechanism. This lack of understanding prevents informed public health guidance for risk reduction and mitigation strategies, e.g. the "six-foot rule". Here we analyze flows during breathing and speaking, including phonetic features, using order-of-magnitudes estimates, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments. We document the spatio-temporal structure of the expelled air flow. Phonetic characteristics of plosive sounds like 'P' lead to enhanced directed transport, including jet-like flows that entrain the surrounding air. We highlight three distinct temporal scaling laws for the transport distance of exhaled material including (i) transport over a short distance ($
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
FACTORS AFFECTING FARMERS’ ADOPTION OF QUALITY NAMWA BANANAS PRODUCTION, NAM PHAI SUBDISTRICT, NAM PAT DISTRICT, UTTARADIT PROVINCE
Creators: name: Kullaya Uppapong
Publisher: name: Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
Year: 2024
Subjects: acceptance
farmer
bananas
namwa

description: Life Sciences and Environment Journal, 25, 1, 127-142
Fish lateral line inspired perception and flow-aided control: A review
Creators: name: Zhai, Yufan
name: Zheng, Xingwen
name: Xie, Guangming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Any phenomenon in nature is potential to be an inspiration for us to propose new ideas. Lateral line is a typical example which has attracted more interest in recent years. With the aid of lateral line, fish is capable of acquiring fluid information around, which is of great significance for them to survive, communicate and hunt underwater. In this paper, we briefly introduce the morphology and mechanism of the lateral line first. Then we focus on the development of artificial lateral line which typically consists of an array of sensors and can be installed on underwater robots. A series of sensors inspired by the lateral line with different sensing principles have been summarized. And then the applications of artificial lateral line system in hydrodynamic environment sensing and vortices detection, dipole oscillation source detection, and autonomous control of underwater robots have been surveyed. In addition, the existing problems and future foci in the field have been further discussed in detail. The current works and future foci have demonstrated that artificial lateral line has great potentials of research and contributes to the applications of underwater robots.
description: Accepted by Journal of Bionic Engineering
CoDaSeq: Analyzing HTS using compositional data analysis
Creators: name: Gloor, Greg
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: High throughput DNA sequencing data are count compositions because the total number of reads returned by the instrument is determined by the instrument and is not associated in any meaningful way with the total number of molecules in the original sample. Data of this type have long been known to display both multivariate and univariate pathologies. The most damaging pathologies are scale dependence, spurious correlation and a negative correlation bias. These pathologies make analyses such as correlation, clustering, and differential abundance analysis problematic at best, and unreliable at worst. We are adapting tools for the analysis of compositional data analysis (CoDa) in other domains for use on high throughput sequencing datasets. We show how these tools can be used to extract useful information for exploratory data analysis, differential abundance and for compositional association (correlation). The tools are being packaged into the CoDaSeq toolkit to be available on Bioconductor.
Text-Mining Open-Ended Survey Responses Using Structural Topic Modeling: A Practical Demonstration to Understand Parents’ Coping Methods During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Singapore
Creators: name: Lanier, Paul
name: Rodriguez, Maria
name: Chung, Gerard
name: Gibbs, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022

description:
Open-ended survey questions crucially contribute to researchers’ understandings of respondents’ experiences. However, analyzing open-ended responses using human coders is labor-intensive. Structural topic modeling (STM) is a text mining method that discover topics from textual data. We demonstrate the use of STM to analyze open-ended survey responses to understand how parents coped during the COVID-19 lock-down in Singapore. We administered online surveys to 199 parents in Singapore during the COVID-19 lock-down. To show a STM analysis, we demonstrated a workflow that includes steps in data preprocessing, model estimation, model selection, and model interpretation. An 18-topic model best fit the data based on model diagnostics and researchers’ expertise. Prevalent coping methods described by respondents include “Spousal Support,” “Routines/Schedules,” and “Managing Expectations.” Topic prevalence for some topics varied with respondents’ levels of parenting stress and whether parents were fathers or mothers. STM offers an efficient, valid, and replicable way to analyze textual data such as open-ended survey responses and case notes that can complement researchers’ knowledge and skills. STM can be used as part of a multistage research process or to support other analyses such as clarifying quantitative findings and identifying preliminary themes from qualitative data. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/15228835.2022.2036301 .
An entropy structure preserving space-time formulation for cross-diffusion systems: Analysis and Galerkin discretization
Creators: name: Braukhoff, Marcel
name: Perugia, Ilaria
name: Stocker, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K51, 35K55, 35Q92, 65M60, 41A10

description: Cross-diffusion systems are systems of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations that are used to describe dynamical processes in several application, including chemical concentrations and cell biology. We present a space-time approach to the proof of existence of bounded weak solutions of cross-diffusion systems, making use of the system entropy to examine long-term behavior and to show that the solution is nonnegative, even when a maximum principle is not available. This approach naturally gives rise to a novel space-time Galerkin method for the numerical approximation of cross-diffusion systems that conserves their entropy structure. We prove existence and convergence of the discrete solutions, and present numerical results for the porous medium, the Fisher-KPP, and the Maxwell-Stefan problem.
description: 29 pages, 12 figures
A Thermoplastic Elastomer Belt Based Robotic Gripper
Creators: name: Zheng, Xingwen
name: Hou, Ningzhe
name: Dinjens, Pascal Johannes Daniel
name: Wang, Ruifeng
name: Dong, Chengyang
name: Xie, Guangming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novel robotic grippers have captured increasing interests recently because of their abilities to adapt to varieties of circumstances and their powerful functionalities. Differing from traditional gripper with mechanical components-made fingers, novel robotic grippers are typically made of novel structures and materials, using a novel manufacturing process. In this paper, a novel robotic gripper with external frame and internal thermoplastic elastomer belt-made net is proposed. The gripper grasps objects using the friction between the net and objects. It has the ability of adaptive gripping through flexible contact surface. Stress simulation has been used to explore the regularity between the normal stress on the net and the deformation of the net. Experiments are conducted on a variety of objects to measure the force needed to reliably grip and hold the object. Test results show that the gripper can successfully grip objects with varying shape, dimensions, and textures. It is promising that the gripper can be used for grasping fragile objects in the industry or out in the field, and also grasping the marine organisms without hurting them.
description: Accepted by 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
title: The Use of Graphical Analysis In Education Planning
Creators: name: Evans, David R.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: Education

description: This paper discusses the use of graphical techniques as tools of analysis and projection in planning the growth of an educational system. Graphs are shown to be particularly valuable when used to investigate the implications of alternate growth patterns for various aspects of the school system. The technique is intended to precede and augment the usual forms of statistical analysis. Reasons are suggested why graphs are particularly appropriate to the rapidly growing educational systems in developing countries.