cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
C-Nash: A Novel Ferroelectric Computing-in-Memory Architecture for Solving Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium
Creators: name: Qian, Yu
name: Ni, Kai
name: Kämpfe, Thomas
name: Zhuo, Cheng
name: Yin, Xunzhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The concept of Nash equilibrium (NE), pivotal within game theory, has garnered widespread attention across numerous industries. Recent advancements introduced several quantum Nash solvers aimed at identifying pure strategy NE solutions (i.e., binary solutions) by integrating slack terms into the objective function, commonly referred to as slack-quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (S-QUBO). However, incorporation of slack terms into the quadratic optimization results in changes of the objective function, which may cause incorrect solutions. Furthermore, these quantum solvers only identify a limited subset of pure strategy NE solutions, and fail to address mixed strategy NE (i.e., decimal solutions), leaving many solutions undiscovered. In this work, we propose C-Nash, a novel ferroelectric computing-in-memory (CiM) architecture that can efficiently handle both pure and mixed strategy NE solutions. The proposed architecture consists of (i) a transformation method that converts quadratic optimization into a MAX-QUBO form without introducing additional slack variables, thereby avoiding objective function changes; (ii) a ferroelectric FET (FeFET) based bi-crossbar structure for storing payoff matrices and accelerating the core vector-matrix-vector (VMV) multiplications of QUBO form; (iii) A winner-takes-all (WTA) tree implementing the MAX form and a two-phase based simulated annealing (SA) logic for searching NE solutions. Evaluations show that C-Nash has up to 68.6% increase in the success rate for identifying NE solutions, finding all pure and mixed NE solutions rather than only a portion of pure NE solutions, compared to D-Wave based quantum approaches. Moreover, C-Nash boasts a reduction up to 157.9X/79.0X in time-to-solutions compared to D-Wave 2000 Q6 and D-Wave Advantage 4.1, respectively.
title: Correspondence: C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., November 7, 1952-November 10, 1952
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006

description: letter A: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm); letter B: typescript signed, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm); letter C: typescript unsigned, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Correspondence between C. Harrison Mann, Jr. and Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Editor, regarding an editorial published in the Winchester Evening Star which mentioned Senator Willis Robertson and the Virginia Democratic Party. Mann is offering advice to Byrd about how zealously written editorials can be viewed negatively. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 3.02
Evolving Understandings of Bingo in Four Decades of Literature: From Eyes Down to New Vistas
Creators: name: Maltzahn, Kathleen
name: Cox, John
name: MacLean, Sarah
name: Whiteside, Mary
name: Lee, Helen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Bingo is a distinct, enduring but understudied form of gambling. It provides comfort and pleasure to many of its players while also causing harm to some. While traditionally seen as low harm, it is being reshaped by technological and regulatory change. Despite this, there is no recent overview of the literature on bingo. This narrative review seeks to fill this gap by exploring the development of literature on bingo since the 1980s, first providing a chronological overview of writing on bingo and then a brief account of major themes in the literature. The literature reviewed was primarily identified through searches of academic databases using search terms such as betting, bingo, electronic and gambling. We find that bingo research makes a number of important contributions: it allows better understanding of groups of overlooked gamblers, corrects biases in gambling literature, highlights the importance of social and structural factors in understanding gambling and employs methodological approaches that are congruent with the people and practices being studied.  Additionally, it provides new perspectives on gambling in terms of skill, affect, harm and control and offers a distinct viewpoint to analyse gambling and other phenomena.
Some Minimal Notes on Notation and Minima: A Comment on "How Particular is the Physics of the Free Energy Principle?" by Aguilera, Millidge, Tschantz, and Buckley
Creators: name: Ramstead, Maxwell J D
name: Sakthivadivel, Dalton A R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We comment on a technical critique of the free energy principle in linear systems by Aguilera, Millidge, Tschantz, and Buckley, entitled "How Particular is the Physics of the Free Energy Principle?" Aguilera and colleagues identify an ambiguity in the flow of the mode of a system, and we discuss the context for this ambiguity in earlier papers, and their proposal of a more adequate interpretation of these equations. Following that, we discuss a misinterpretation in their treatment of surprisal and variational free energy, especially with respect to their gradients and their minima. In sum, we argue that the results in the target paper are accurate and stand up to rigorous scrutiny; we also highlight that they, nonetheless, do not undermine the FEP.
description: Four pages. Invited comment
title: Reviving Mourning Culture: Status in Victorian Mourning Material Culture and Its Resurgence
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Victorian
subject: Mourning
subject: Material culture
subject: 19th century
subject: Victorians
subject: Mourning culture

description: This thesis investigates the concept of Victorian Mourning Culture and how its resurgence has initiated new conversations about status and material culture. Material culture, or the study of objects through a social historical lens, helps scholars and other researchers properly situate these objects into proper context. This research thesis discusses changes of social conventions and material culture and introduces the stages of mourning. Specialized clothing and jewelry were created specifically for the display of the stages of mourning. These aspects of material culture provide a visual analysis of a range of styles of Victorian mourning jewelry and discuss the significance of mourning artifacts. Museums have created recent exhibitions on Victorian Mourning culture and 21st century scholars. Artists still utilize the same methods from over a hundred years ago when creating hair jewelry based on the practices of Victorians. This has created a resurgence of Victorian Mourning culture in contemporary society. The information collected for this thesis was gathered from the primary and secondary sources on Victorian mourning culture. The purpose for this research is to highlight the everyday practices of a forgotten culture who chose to embrace all aspects of the natural occurrences of death and mourning.
Supplementary document for Efficient adiabatic-coupler-based silicon nitride waveguide crossings for photonic quantum computing - 6404402.pdf
Creators: name: Sommer, Timo
name: Mange, Nirav
name: Wegmann, Peter
name: Poot, Menno
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document 1
Osteoarthritis management care pathways are complex and inefficient: A qualitative study of physiotherapist perspectives from specialised osteoarthritis services
Creators: name: Gibbs, Alison
name: Wallis, Jason
name: Taylor, Nicholas
name: Kemp, Joanne
name: Barton, Christian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing

description: Objective: Hip and knee osteoarthritis guidelines internationally provide consistent first-line care recommendations. However, uptake of these recommendations remains suboptimal. This qualitative study explores factors influencing guideline-based care from the perspectives of physiotherapists working in specialised osteoarthritis services across different models of care. Methods: Nineteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with physiotherapists working in specialist osteoarthritis services across three different Australian models of care (OsteoArthritis Hip and Knee Service n = 10; OsteoArthritis Chronic Care Programme n = 4; Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Screening Clinics and Multidisciplinary Services n = 5). Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were coded and analysed inductively using thematic analysis. Results: The overarching theme to emerge was that accessing first-line osteoarthritis care is complex and difficult, regardless of model of care. Subthemes indicated that: (i) services are either unavailable or inadequately funded, (ii) referral pathways are labyrinthine and lengthy, (iii) patients and other health professionals often believe that surgery is the only/best option and (iv) managing patient co-morbidities is challenging. Conclusion: Physiotherapists working in specialised osteoarthritis services perceive multiple and complex factors influencing adherence to first-line care. Barriers occur at various levels in all models of care, including patient and health professional beliefs, health service, and system levels. These results suggest improving healthcare for people with osteoarthritis requires urgent system reform.
Simple Techniques Work Surprisingly Well for Neural Network Test Prioritization and Active Learning (Replicability Study)
Creators: name: Weiss, Michael
name: Tonella, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Test Input Prioritizers (TIP) for Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are an important technique to handle the typically very large test datasets efficiently, saving computation and labeling costs. This is particularly true for large-scale, deployed systems, where inputs observed in production are recorded to serve as potential test or training data for the next versions of the system. Feng et. al. propose DeepGini, a very fast and simple TIP, and show that it outperforms more elaborate techniques such as neuron- and surprise coverage. In a large-scale study (4 case studies, 8 test datasets, 32'200 trained models) we verify their findings. However, we also find that other comparable or even simpler baselines from the field of uncertainty quantification, such as the predicted softmax likelihood or the entropy of the predicted softmax likelihoods perform equally well as DeepGini.
description: Accepted at ISSTA 2022
title: Combining microcosm biodegradation and reactive transport modeling to explore the feasibility of ATES-bioremediation approaches
Creators: name: Wienkenjohann, Henning
name: Bin Hudari, Mohammad Sufian
name: Mosthaf, Klaus
name: Vogt, Carsten
name: Nijenhuis, Ivonne
name: Rolle, Massimo
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2025

description: This study presents a process-based model analysis of non-isothermal biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes in batch microcosm setups and field-scale remediation, combining Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage with in situ bioremediation (ATES-ISB). The features of the proposed modeling framework include: (i) kinetic multi-phase mass transfer and temperature-dependent biodegradation in batch systems, and (ii) multi-dimensional non-isothermal fluid flow, heat transport, and contaminant transport in a physically and chemically heterogeneous aquifer combined with temperature-dependent microbial kinetics. The model was used to analyze an experimental microcosm dataset of temperature-dependent reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated ethenes, from which maximum specific degradation rates were derived. A scenario modeling investigation is presented, considering an ATES-ISB intervention in an aquifer contaminated with trichloroethene, where heated groundwater is injected and lactate is delivered to stimulate in situ microbial activity and contaminant transformation. Four scenario parameters were varied to identify the optimal conditions for efficient bioremediation. High lactate concentrations and temperatures at 20°C and 30°C led to more complete transformation of chlorinated ethenes in the considered heterogeneous aquifer system. Furthermore, the pumping rate and the natural groundwater flow velocity were found to control the delivery of heated water and solutes, including lactate, in the aquifer. The outcomes of the scenario simulations performed in this study are useful for designing non-isothermal bioremediation interventions in groundwater systems polluted with organic contaminants.
Improving access to COVID-19 information by ensuring the readability of government websites
Creators: name: Serry, Tanya
name: Stebbins, Tonya
name: Martchenko, Andrew
name: Araujo, Natalie
name: McCarthy, Brigid
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3210
subject: Nutrition and dietetics
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Issue addressed: This study evaluated the readability of web pages from two public-facing Victorian government websites that were responsible for communicating key health messages relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Methods: Webpages were downloaded and filtered to identify relevant materials (English language materials containing HTML files that referred to COVID-19). The files were converted to text files and two Python packages, SpaCy and TextStat were used to obtain the data presented here. In addition to running two well-established readability tests, SMOG Index (Simple Measure of Gobbledygook) and Flesch Reading Ease formula, we also calculated the figures for sentence length and word length, which drive the readability measures and allow a disaggregated view of the data. Type token ratio measures were conducted as a reflection of the breadth of vocabulary used in the web pages. Results: Derived measures of text complexity were higher than recommended levels of text complexity for health promotion materials, which are generally set at senior primary school levels. This did not vary depending on the intended audience (public or professional). A senior secondary reading level was required for effective engagement with the text published on both sites. Conclusions: Improving the readability of materials on key government websites where information about COVID-19 is being communicated to the public, represents a low cost and potentially effective means of improving public understanding of the pandemic and the steps individuals need to take to protect themselves and the community. So what?: Given the challenges widely identified in ensuring compliance with protective behaviours, confidence in seeking vaccination and increasing distrust of government, it would be strategic to improve public communication to ensure health messages are simple and readily understood. Summary: The complexity and readability of text contained in web pages during 2020 from two Victorian government departments were evaluated. Communication regarding the restrictions and the management of risks associated with COVID-19 was the main focus of these 367 individual web pages from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Department of Education and Training (DET). Results indicated that across both sites and on both readability measures used, an education level equivalent to senior secondary school would be required to readily understand the contents.
title: Smithsonian 2.0
Creators: name: Cohen, Dan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Conferences and workshops
subject: Museums

description: Originally published by Dan Cohen on Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog (www.dancohen.org). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
Extraction of matooke genotypes with superior quality traits from the breeding populations, using the RTBfoods SOPs.
Creators: name: Nowakunda, Kephas
name: Asiimwe, Amos
name: Namuddu, Mary Gorreth
name: KHAKASA, ELIZABETH
name: ASASIRA, Moreen
name: Kisakye, Sarah
name: TUKASHABA, Living
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Accurate selection of matooke (East African Highland banana, Musa spp.) hybrids with end-user quality traits is essential for the development of improved cultivars. This report presents results of a study whose aim was to deploy colour and texture screening SOPs developed during Phase 1 of the RTBFoods project to extract hybrids with end-user acceptable colour and texture from an existing breeding population. Thirty-six matooke genotypes were screened using SOPs. The genotypes included twenty one hybrids and 15 landrace genotypes. A combination of sensory evaluations (Quantitative descriptive analysis) and instrumental analyses (TPA and Chroma meter) were employed to screen the genotypes. Statistical tools (XLSTAT) were used to identify genotypes with consistently desirable attributes.Results of quantitative descriptive sensory analysis and texture profile analysis showed significant differences (p<0.05) among the different matooke genotypes. The instrumentally and sensorially assessed colour and texture parameters of most matooke hybrid were outside the acceptability thresholds, implying that they would not be selected for advancement. However the instrumental and sensory parameters of matooke hybrid NARITA 17 and NAROBAN 4 were not significantly different from that of most local genotypes (p>0.05). The sensory yellowness and colour homogeneity of hybrid NARITA17 and NAROBAN were close to that of Mbwazirume, one of the most preferred landrace genotype qualifying them for selection for advancement in the breeding pipeline and eventual variety release. Both NAROBAN 4 and NARITA 17 have been released to farming communities, confirming the usefulness of the SOPs to pick genotypes that satisfy consumer preference.The use of the SOPs is being mainstreamed into the selection process of matooke breeding programme in NARO as medium throughput tools.
Making homes more accessible for people with mobility impairment: A lived experience perspective
Creators: name: Goodwin, I
name: Davis, Elise
name: Winkler, Dianne
name: Douglas, Jacinta
name: Wellecke, Cornelia
name: D'Cruz, Kate
name: Mulherin, Peter
name: Liddicoat, Stephanie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: People with mobility impairment have the right to live in accessible housing that meets their needs. Although the Australian National Construction Code for residential housing will be amended to include minimum accessibility standards in September 2022, some states have chosen not to adopt these standards (New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia). The inclusion of people with lived experience in decisions surrounding accessible housing design is lacking. This study sought the perspective of people with mobility impairment on the most important modifications they would make to the design of their own homes, and the homes of their friends and family, to make them more accessible. An online survey was completed from February to March 2021 by 145 people living in Australia including 112 people with mobility impairment, and 33 family members. Results indicated that 71 per cent of the participants were living in housing that did not fully meet their accessibility needs. Descriptive qualitative analyses demonstrated that commonly reported modifications included a step-free entrance, wider internal doors and corridors, and level access throughout the home. These modifications would promote social inclusion, functioning, independence and overall quality of life. These results have policy implications for the implementation of accessibility standards in the National Construction Code.
Chiral anomaly in noncentrosymmetric systems induced by spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Cheon, Suik
name: Cho, Gil Young
name: Kim, Ki-Seok
name: Lee, Hyun-Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chiral anomaly may be realized in condensed matter systems with pairs of Weyl points. Here we show that the chiral anomaly can be realized in diverse noncentrosymmetric systems even without Weyl point pairs when spin-orbit coupling induces nonzero Berry curvature flux through Fermi surfaces. This motivates the condensed matter chiral anomaly to be interpreted as a Fermi surface property rather than a Weyl point property. The spin-orbit-coupling-induced anomaly reproduces the well-known charge transport properties of the chiral anomaly such as the negative longitudinal magnetoresistance and the planar Hall effect in Weyl semimetals. Since it is of spin-orbit coupling origin, it also affects the spin transport and gives rise to anomaly-induced longitudinal spin currents and the magnetic spin Hall effect, which are absent in conventional Weyl semimetals.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Making homes more accessible for people with mobility impairment: A lived experience perspective
Creators: name: Goodwin, I
name: Davis, Elise
name: Winkler, Dianne
name: Douglas, Jacinta
name: Wellecke, C
name: D'Cruz, Kate
name: Mulherin, Peter
name: Liddicoat, Stephanie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: People with mobility impairment have the right to live in accessible housing that meets their needs. Although the Australian National Construction Code for residential housing will be amended to include minimum accessibility standards in September 2022, some states have chosen not to adopt these standards (New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia). The inclusion of people with lived experience in decisions surrounding accessible housing design is lacking. This study sought the perspective of people with mobility impairment on the most important modifications they would make to the design of their own homes, and the homes of their friends and family, to make them more accessible. An online survey was completed from February to March 2021 by 145 people living in Australia including 112 people with mobility impairment, and 33 family members. Results indicated that 71 per cent of the participants were living in housing that did not fully meet their accessibility needs. Descriptive qualitative analyses demonstrated that commonly reported modifications included a step-free entrance, wider internal doors and corridors, and level access throughout the home. These modifications would promote social inclusion, functioning, independence and overall quality of life. These results have policy implications for the implementation of accessibility standards in the National Construction Code.
HelixADMET: a robust and endpoint extensible ADMET system incorporating self-supervised knowledge transfer
Creators: name: Zhang, Shanzhuo
name: Yan, Zhiyuan
name: Huang, Yueyang
name: Liu, Lihang
name: He, Donglong
name: Wang, Wei
name: Fang, Xiaomin
name: Zhang, Xiaonan
name: Wang, Fan
name: Wu, Hua
name: Wang, Haifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate ADMET (an abbreviation for "absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity") predictions can efficiently screen out undesirable drug candidates in the early stage of drug discovery. In recent years, multiple comprehensive ADMET systems that adopt advanced machine learning models have been developed, providing services to estimate multiple endpoints. However, those ADMET systems usually suffer from weak extrapolation ability. First, due to the lack of labelled data for each endpoint, typical machine learning models perform frail for the molecules with unobserved scaffolds. Second, most systems only provide fixed built-in endpoints and cannot be customised to satisfy various research requirements. To this end, we develop a robust and endpoint extensible ADMET system, HelixADMET (H-ADMET). H-ADMET incorporates the concept of self-supervised learning to produce a robust pre-trained model. The model is then fine-tuned with a multi-task and multi-stage framework to transfer knowledge between ADMET endpoints, auxiliary tasks, and self-supervised tasks. Our results demonstrate that H-ADMET achieves an overall improvement of 4%, compared with existing ADMET systems on comparable endpoints. Additionally, the pre-trained model provided by H-ADMET can be fine-tuned to generate new and customised ADMET endpoints, meeting various demands of drug research and development requirements.
Let'S Talk About Docs (Ncsa Edition)
Creators: name: Sick, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: lsst

description: User documentation is an essential part of delivering great software. This presentation frames how we should think about user documentation (as software developers and researchers). It covers the three types of documentation (tutorials, user guides and references), and how these formats work together. Finally, the presentation gives some advice on effective technical writing and editing.
description: Presented at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Strategies to manage working from home during the pandemic: the employee experience.
Creators: name: Oakman, Jodi
name: Kinsman, Natasha
name: Graham, Melissa
name: Stuckey, Margaret
name: Weale, Victoria
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3505
subject: Human resources and industrial relations
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Many Australian workers were mandated to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative approach, this study aimed to identify optimal work from home management strategies, by analysing the experience of Australian employees working from home (WFH) during this time. A purposive sample, drawn from the Australian Employees Working from Home Study, of managers and non-managers from a range of sectors, was invited to participate in focus groups. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and mapped to the work-systems framework approach to determine strategies implemented to support WFH. Most participants' experiences were more negative than positive, in part due to extreme lockdowns including curfews, with childcare and school closures compounding their WFH experiences. Effective workplace-initiated strategies to optimise WFH included: management support of flexible work hours; provision of necessary equipment with ICT support; regular online communication; performance management adjustments; and manager training.
Resonant Beam Enabled DoA Estimation in Passive Positioning System
Creators: name: Guo, Yixuan
name: Jiang, Qingwei
name: Xu, Mengyuan
name: Fang, Wen
name: Liu, Qingwen
name: Yan, Gang
name: Yang, Qunhui
name: Lu, Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The rapid advancement of the next generation of communications and internet of things (IoT) technologies has made the provision of location-based services for diverse devices an increasingly pressing necessity. Localizing devices with/without intelligent computing abilities, including both active and passive devices is essential, especially in indoor scenarios. For traditional RF positioning systems, aligning transmission signals and dealing with signal interference in complex environments are inevitable challenges. Therefore, this paper proposed a new passive positioning system, the RF-band resonant beam positioning system (RF-RBPS), which achieves energy concentration and beam alignment by amplifying echoes between the base station (BS) and the passive target (PT), without the need for complex channel estimation and time-consuming beamforming and provides high-precision direction of arrival (DoA) estimation for battery-free targets using the resonant mechanism. The direction information of the PT is estimated using the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm at the end of BS. The feasibility of the proposed system is validated through theoretical analysis and simulations. Results indicate that the proposed RF-RBPS surpasses RF-band active positioning system (RF-APS) in precision, achieving millimeter-level precision at 2m within an elevation angle of 35$^\circ$, and an error of less than 3cm at 2.5m within an elevation angle of 35$^\circ$.
Upgrading social housing to meet the socio-economic needs of today's dwellers, and the environmental needs of the planet: A framework beyond retrofit
Creators: name: Furman, Saskia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Abstract presented at New Housing Researchers Colloquium (NHRC) at the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Conference 2022. Barcelona, Spain, 30 August 2022.

(This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956082)
title: Article: Anonymous, 17 August 1964.
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Washington World
Year: 1964
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Article: photocopy, 11" x 8.5" (27.9cm x 21.6cm)
description: Article titled The Reston, Virginia Story, Anonymous, printed in Washington World, 17 August 1964. The article details Reston's history, from farm land to blue-print for future planned communities; planning stages; Robert E. Simon's participation at nearly every level of development; and its projected growth plans of residential, commercial, and industrial areas. The last page details specifics of the community including: number of townhomes, single family homes, and apartment units; recreational facilities such as golf courses; religious houses; and cultural amenities like the library and art gallery. Planned Communitiy Archives Collection, 444.03.
Patient Judgement of Change with Elective Surgery Correlates with Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life
Creators: name: Morris, Meg
name: Atkinson, V
name: Woods, Jeffrey
name: Myles, PS
name: Hodge, Anita
name: Jones, CH
name: Lloyd, Damien
name: Rovtar, V
name: Clifford, AM
name: Brusco, Natasha
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description: Obtaining pre‐surgery PROM measures is not always feasible. The aim of this study was to examine if self‐reports of change following elective surgery correlate with change scores from a validated PROM (15‐item Quality of Recovery (QoR‐15)). This cross‐sectional study across 29 hospitals enrolled elective surgery patients. PROMs were collected one‐week pre‐surgery, as well as one‐ and four‐weeks post‐surgery via an electronic survey. We examined associations between patient “judgement of change” at one and four‐weeks after surgery and the actual pre‐to post‐surgery PROM change scores. A total of 4177 surveys were received. The correlation between patient judgement of change, and the actual change score was moderately strong at one‐week (n = 247, rs = 0.512, p < 0.001), yet low at four‐weeks (n = 241, rs = 0.340, p < 0.001). Patient judgement was aligned to the direction of the PROM change score from pre‐ to post‐surgery. We also examined the correlation between the QoR‐15 (quality of recovery) and the EQ‐5D‐5L (QOL). There was a moderately strong positive correlation between the two PROMs (n = 356, rs = 0.666, p < 0.001), indicating that change in quality of recovery was related to change in QOL. These findings support the use of a single “judgement of change” recall question post‐surgery.
Self-localized topological states in three dimensions
Creators: name: Li, Rujiang
name: Li, Pengfei
name: Jia, Yongtao
name: Liu, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional (3D) topological materials exhibit much richer phenomena than their lower-dimensional counterparts. Here, we propose self-localized topological states (i.e., topological solitons) in a 3D nonlinear photonic Chern insulator. Despite being in the bulk and self-localized in all 3D, the topological solitons at high-symmetry points K and K' rotate in the same direction, due to the underlying topology. Specifically, under the saturable nonlinearity the solitons are stable over a broad frequency range. Our results highlight how topology and nonlinearity interact with each other and can be extended to other 3D topological systems.
title: DIffusion Maps for Manifolds with Boundary
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Diffusion maps and other graph Laplacian based methods in machine learning have a long history of pointwise consistency results. This work provides rigorous formulation for diffusion maps for manifolds with boundary. We show that different normalizations of graph Laplacians are asymptotically unbiased for manifolds with boundary when viewed in a variational sense. A crucial component of this work is the introduction of semigeodesic coordinates, which allow for more systematic treatment of boundary points. In particular, we derive new pointwise expansions which relate first-order error to the mean curvature of the boundary of M.
The association between statistical shape modeling-defined hip morphology and features of early hip osteoarthritis in young adult football players: Data from the femoroacetabular impingement and hip osteoarthritis cohort (FORCe) study
Creators: name: van Buuren, MMA
name: Heerey, Joshua
name: Smith, A
name: Crossley, Kay
name: Kemp, Joanne
name: Scholes, Mark
name: Lawrenson, Peter
name: King, Matthew
name: Gielis, WP
name: Weinans, H
name: Lindner, C
name: Souza, RB
name: Verhaar, JAN
name: Agricola, R
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences

description: OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between radiographic hip shape and features of early hip osteoarthritis (OA) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in young male and female football players without radiographic hip OA. DESIGN: We used baseline data from a cohort of symptomatic and asymptomatic football players aged 18-50 years. Hip shape was assessed on anteroposterior radiographs with statistical shape modeling (SSM) for men and women separately. Cartilage defects and labral tears were graded using the Scoring Hip Osteoarthritis with MRI (SHOMRI) system. We used logistic regression with generalized estimating equations to estimate associations between each hip shape variant, called shape modes, and cartilage defects or labral tears. RESULTS: We included 229 participants (446 hips, 77.4% male). For each sex, 15 shape modes were analyzed. In men, three shape modes were associated with cartilage defects: adjusted odds ratios (aOR) 0.75 (95%CI 0.58-0.97) per standard deviation (SD) for mode 1; 1.34 (95%CI 1.05-1.69) per SD for mode 12; and 0.61 (95%CI 0.48-0.78) per SD for mode 15; and one also with labral tears: aOR 1.30 (95%CI 1.01-1.69) per SD for mode 12. These modes generally represented variations in the femoral neck and subtypes of cam morphology, with and without pincer morphology. For women, there was no evidence for associations with the outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Several hip shape variants were associated with cartilage defects on MRI in young male football players. Specifically, one subtype of cam morphology was associated with both cartilage defects and labral tears. Hip shape was not associated with early OA features in women.
title: Remembering Trauma: The Ethical Implications of Memory Dampening for Sexual Assault Survivors
Creators: name: Denton, Sarah W
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sexual assault
subject: Memory dampening
subject: Propranolol
subject: Relational harm
subject: Narrative
subject: Moral injury

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 5 years. It will not be available until July 2022 at the earliest.
description: Healthcare providers are increasingly treating sexual assault survivors with memory dampening neurotechnology to alleviate psychiatric conditions caused by sexual assault (Cabrera 2011). However, the effects of memory dampening on the selfnarratives— particularly the narratives of sexual assault survivors—has not received much attention in the neuroethics literature. In this paper, I explore the ethical implications of treating sexual assault survivors with memory dampening neurotechnology. Although treating sexual assault survivors with memory dampening technology seems consistent with the ethical obligation to promote patient welfare, and other ethical principles such as fidelity and responsibility (APA 2013, Moses and Illes 2017), I argue that treating sexual assault survivors with this method may generate harm. Memory dampening treatments for sexual assault may generate harm by perpetuating a reductionist view of the psychiatric problems resulting from sexual assault. A reductionist view misunderstands the problem of sexual assault as a strictly medical problem requiring medical interventions, rather than as a social problem that encompasses gender norms. The psychiatric problems resulting from sexual assault are not merely rooted in emotional dysregulation. Rather, these psychiatric problems are also contingent on one’s social environment. Sexual assault impacts survivors in a variety of ways that are best understood in a social context. For example, stigma, problems creating and maintaining meaningful relationships, and moral injury are all relational harms that negatively impact how survivors relate to others in their social environment (Miller 2009, Nazarov et al. 2015). In a social context, sexual assault survivors construct their idea of who they are as persons through narration (Nelson 2001). Healthcare providers may be increasingly tempted to view sexual assault survivors through the lens of the reductionist model and apply memory dampening treatments. Yet, without addressing the social context of sexual assault, such interventions may exacerbate harm instead of relieving it. I argue that a more appropriate and ethically defensible response to treating psychiatric conditions associated with sexual assault is to situate survivors and their treatment in their social context. This allows healthcare providers to treat sexual assault survivors by crafting counterstories to the biographical narratives that harm sexual assault survivors in the social context, rather than using memory dampening interventions to affect the emotional coloring of the autobiographical narratives of sexual assault.
Neurotoxic amyloidogenic peptides in the proteome of SARS-COV2: potential implications for neurological symptoms in COVID-19
Creators: name: Charnley, Mirren
name: Islam, Saba
name: Bindra, Guneet
name: Engwirda, Jeremy
name: Ratcliffe, Julian
name: Zhou, Jiangtao
name: Mezzenga, Raffaele
name: Hulett, Mark
name: Han, Kyunghoon
name: Berryman, Joshua T
name: Reynolds, Nicholas
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3102
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology

description: COVID-19 is primarily known as a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. However, neurological symptoms such as memory loss, sensory confusion, severe headaches, and even stroke are reported in up to 30% of cases and can persist even after the infection is over (long COVID). These neurological symptoms are thought to be produced by the virus infecting the central nervous system, however we don't understand the molecular mechanisms triggering them. The neurological effects of COVID-19 share similarities to neurodegenerative diseases in which the presence of cytotoxic aggregated amyloid protein or peptides is a common feature. Following the hypothesis that some neurological symptoms of COVID-19 may also follow an amyloid etiology we identified two peptides from the SARS-CoV-2 proteome that self-assemble into amyloid assemblies. Furthermore, these amyloids were shown to be highly toxic to neuronal cells. We suggest that cytotoxic aggregates of SARS-CoV-2 proteins may trigger neurological symptoms in COVID-19.
On the problem of entity matching and its application in automated settlement of receivables
Creators: name: Czekaj, Lukasz
name: Biegus, Tomasz
name: Kitlowski, Robert
name: Raczynski, Stanislaw
name: Olszewski, Mateusz
name: Dziedzic, Jakub
name: Tomasik, Paweł
name: Kozera, Ryszard
name: Prokopenya, Alexander
name: Olszewski, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper covers automated settlement of receivables in non-governmental organizations. We tackle the problem with entity matching techniques. We consider setup, where base algorithm is used for preliminary ranking of matches, then we apply several novel methods to increase matching quality of base algorithm: score post processing, cascade model and chain model. The methods presented here contribute to automated settlement of receivables, entity matching and multilabel classification in open-world scenario. We evaluate our approach on real world operational data which come from company providing settlement of receivables as a service: proposed methods boost recall from 78% (base model) to >90% at precision 99%.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
title: “The Glass That Decorates": The History, Designers, and Stained-Glass of the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York
Creators: name: Wingerson, Amber L
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Stained glass
subject: Glass
subject: Church Glass and Decorating Company
subject: New York
subject: Windows
subject: John Hardman and Company

description: In operation between 1899 and 1914, the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York manufactured a variety of decorative and stained-glass windows for various churches, academic institutions, and other private and public buildings. One of several stained-glass companies that emerged during this time period, the firm produced opalescent glass windows in addition to being the sole American agent for John Hardman and Company, a well-known English stained-glass firm. Additionally, Church Glass and Decorating Company produced what the firm described as “ornamental windows,” which consisted of non-figural stained-glass window designs of opalescent glass and colorless glass with intricate leading patterns, which were marketed to hotels, public buildings, and private homes. In studying the history of the Church Glass and Decorating Company, a more complete picture and understanding of the turn-of-the-century American Stained-Glass Movement can be found as well.
Rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament and meniscal injuries: A best-evidence synthesis of systematic reviews for the OPTIKNEE consensus
Creators: name: Culvenor, Adam
name: Girdwood, Michael
name: Juhl, CB
name: Patterson, Brooke
name: Haberfield, Melissa
name: Holm, PM
name: Bricca, A
name: Whittaker, JL
name: Roos, Ewa
name: Crossley, Kay
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology

description: Objective: Synthesise evidence for effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions following ACL and/or meniscal tear on symptomatic, functional, clinical, psychosocial, quality of life and reinjury outcomes. Design: Overview of systematic reviews with Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation certainty of evidence. Data sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus and Cochrane Library. Eligibility criteria: Systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials investigating rehabilitation interventions following ACL and/or meniscal tears in young adults. Results: We included 22 systematic reviews (142 trials of mostly men) evaluating ACL-injured individuals and none evaluating isolated meniscal injuries. We synthesised data from 16 reviews evaluating 12 different interventions. Moderate-certainty evidence was observed for: (1) neuromuscular electrical stimulation to improve quadriceps strength; (2) open versus closed kinetic chain exercises to be similarly effective for quadriceps strength and self-reported function; (3) structured home-based versus structured in-person rehabilitation to be similarly effective for quadriceps and hamstring strength and self-reported function; and (4) postoperative knee bracing being ineffective for physical function and laxity. There was low-certainty evidence that: (1) preoperative exercise therapy improves self-reported and physical function postoperatively; (2) cryotherapy reduces pain and analgesic use; (3) psychological interventions improve anxiety/fear; and (4) whole body vibration improves quadriceps strength. There was very low-certainty evidence that: (1) protein-based supplements improve quadriceps size; (2) blood flow restriction training improves quadriceps size; (3) neuromuscular control exercises improve quadriceps and hamstring strength and self-reported function; and (4) continuous passive motion has no effect on range of motion. Conclusion: The general level of evidence for rehabilitation after ACL or meniscal tear was low. Moderate-certainty evidence indicates that several rehabilitation types can improve quadriceps strength, while brace use has no effect on knee function/laxity.