cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Convergence of Monte Carlo Tree Search in Simultaneous Move Games
Creators: name: Lisý, Viliam
name: Kovařík, Vojtěch
name: Lanctot, Marc
name: Bošanský, Branislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) in zero-sum extensive-form games with perfect information and simultaneous moves. We present a general template of MCTS algorithms for these games, which can be instantiated by various selection methods. We formally prove that if a selection method is $ε$-Hannan consistent in a matrix game and satisfies additional requirements on exploration, then the MCTS algorithm eventually converges to an approximate Nash equilibrium (NE) of the extensive-form game. We empirically evaluate this claim using regret matching and Exp3 as the selection methods on randomly generated games and empirically selected worst case games. We confirm the formal result and show that additional MCTS variants also converge to approximate NE on the evaluated games.
description: NIPS 2013 paper including appendix
Interview with Thomas L. Miller, M.D.
Creators: name: Oregon Medical Association
Publisher: name: Oregon Medical Association
Year: 2006
Subjects: Oregon Medical Association
Malpractice
History, 20th Century
Managed Care Programs

description: Thomas L. Miller, M.D., was a physician and surgeon who moved to Portland in 1956 to begin his medical career by completing an internship at Providence Hospital and a residency at Physicians & Surgeons Hospital. While continuing his work within the Providence Hospital System, Dr. Miller joined the Oregon Medical Association’s (OMA) Professional Consultation Committee in the early 1970s. The work of the committee initially had to be done in secret until Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 41.675 offered immunity to bodies engaging in peer review. Under the protection of ORS 41.675 the committee was renamed the Malpractice Loss Prevention Education Committee to more accurately reflect the work of Dr. Miller and his colleagues. He continued working with the committee for almost 40 years, sometimes acting as chair.
Dr. Miller was also a member of the OMA Professional Assessment Committee, Liability Claims Review Committee, and Malpractice Negotiating Team. He helped found the Professional Liability Loss Prevention Education Program. As part of his work, he taught workshops instructing physicians how to practice medicine in ways that better served the patient while also helping the physician to avoid malpractice lawsuits. This work included providing case review, workshops, and instructional videos that demonstrated potentially problematic scenarios. He still worked with the program after retiring from active practice in 1997.
In this interview, Miller shares his memories and opinions regarding his personal approach to interacting with patients and how the Malpractice Loss Prevention Education Committee came to exist. He discusses his years of instructing physicians regarding best practices in patient care, the importance of proper documentation in medical records, and cross-departmental communication. Additionally, Miller describes many of the changes he has witnessed in medical care from 1958 to 2006, including anecdotes about providing surgery, pharmaceutical representatives, the decrease in a sense of congeniality, working at Providence Hospital, and the negative impacts of managed care.
Unpaired Majorana modes in the gapped phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model
Creators: name: Petrova, Olga
name: Mellado, Paula
name: Tchernyshyov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the gapped phase of Kitaev's honeycomb model (a Z_2 spin liquid) in the presence of lattice defects. We find that some dislocations and bond defects carry unpaired Majorana fermions. Physical excitations associated with these defects are (complex) fermion modes made out of two (real) Majorana fermions connected by a Z_2 gauge string. The quantum state of these modes is robust against local noise and can be changed by winding a Z_2 vortex around a dislocation. The exact solution respects gauge invariance and reveals a crucial role of the gauge field in the physics of Majorana modes.
A little more Gauge Mediation and the light Higgs mass
Creators: name: Mummidi, V. Suryanarayana
name: Vempati, Sudhir K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider minimal models of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking with an extra $U(1)$ factor in addition to the Standard Model gauge group. A $U(1)$ charged, Standard Model singlet is assumed to be present which allows for an additional NMSSM like coupling, $λH_u H_d S$. The U(1) is assumed to be flavour universal. Anomaly cancellation in the MSSM sector requires additional coloured degrees of freedom. The $S$ field can get a large vacuum expectation value along with consistent electroweak symmetry breaking. It is shown that the lightest CP even Higgs boson can attain mass of the order of 125 GeV.
description: 29 pages, 7 Figures; v2: updated references 30 pages, minor wordings modified, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Consuming the million‐mile electric car
Creators: name: Cook, Matthew
name: Potter, Stephen
name: Catulli, Maurizio
name: Valdez, Alan-Miguel
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: million-mile car
subject: circular economy
subject: product-service systems
subject: modular design

description: Unlike for many consumer products, there has been no strong environmental case for extending the life of internal combustion engine cars as the majority of their environmental impact is fuel consumed in use and not the energy and materials involved in manufacturing. Indeed, with improving fuel efficiency, product life extension is environmentally undesirable; older, less fuel-efficient cars need to be replaced by newer more fuel-efficient models. Electric vehicles (EVs) are predominantly considered environmentally beneficial by using an increasingly decarbonised fuel – electricity. However, LCA analyses show that EVs have substantial environmental impacts in their materials, manufacturing and disposal. The high ‘embedded’ environmental impacts of EVs fundamentally change the case for product life extension. Thus, product life extension is desirable for EVs and they are suited to it. While petrol and diesel cars have an average lifetime mileage of 124,000 miles (200,000 Kilometres), the case for the million-mile (1.6 million Kilometre) electric car appears strong. Although it may be technically possible to produce a million-mile EV, how will such vehicles be consumed given that the car consumption is complex, involving, for example, extracting use and symbolic value? In this contribution we explore the nature of the relationship between cars and the consumer that moves beyond technical and functional value to understand what form of access consumers require to an EV across its entire 50-year life. If such consumption aspects are overlooked then, even if the million-mile car is technically viable, it is unlikely to be adopted and the environmental benefits they may yield will be lost.
Constraining Minimal $U(1)_{B-L}$ model from Dark Matter Observations
Creators: name: Basak, Tanushree
name: Mondal, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $B-L$ gauge extension of the Standard Model which contains a singlet scalar and three right-handed neutrinos. The vacuum expectation value of the singlet scalar breaks the $U(1)_{B-L}$ symmetry. Here the third generation right-handed neutrino is qualified as the dark matter candidate, as an artifact of $Z_2$-charge assignment. Relic abundance of the dark matter is consistent with WMAP9 and PLANCK data, only near scalar resonances where dark matter mass is almost half of the scalar boson masses. Requiring correct relic abundance, we restrict the parameter space of the scalar mixing angle and mass of the heavy scalar boson of this model. Besides this, the maximum value of spin-independent scattering cross-section off nucleon is well-below the {\sc Xenon100} and recent LUX exclusion limits and can be probed by future {\sc Xenon1T} experiment. In addition, we compute the annihilation of the dark matter into two photon final state in detail and compare with the Fermi-LAT upper bound on $\langleσv\rangle_{γγ}$ for NFW and Einasto profile.
description: Title changed, new analysis and figures added, text modified, version to appear in PRD
title: Eine einfache Synthese substitutierter Fulvene aus 6-Fulvenyl-tosylaten
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
name: Bauer, W.
name: Schulz, G.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description: 6-Dimethylamino-fulven[¹] und seine Derivate eignen sich als Ausgangsprodukte fur die Darstellung nichtbenzoider cyclisch konjugierter π-Elektronensysteme [²]. In der Umsetzung von 6-Fulvenyl-tosylaten mit nucleophilen Partnern fanden wir ein einfaches Verfahren zur Einführung funktioneller Gruppen in die 6-Stellung des fulvenoiden Systems.
Zero sound in strange metals with hyperscaling violation from holography
Creators: name: Dey, Parijat
name: Roy, Shibaji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperscaling violating `strange metal' phase of heavy fermion compounds can be described holographically by probe D-branes in the background of a Lifshitz space-time (dynamical exponent $z$ and spatial dimensions $d$) with hyperscaling violation (corresponding exponent $θ$). Without the hyperscaling violation, strange metals are known to exhibit zero sound mode for $z<2$ analogous to the Fermi liquids. In this paper, we study its fate in the presence of hyperscaling violation and find that in this case the zero sound mode exists for $z < 2(1+|θ|/d)$, where the positivity of the specific heat and the null energy condition of the background dictate that $θ<0$ and $z\geq 1$. However, for $z \geq 2(1+|θ|/d)$, there is no well-defined quasiparticle for the zero sound. The systems behave like Fermi liquid for $2|θ|=dz$ and like Bose liquid for $2|θ| = qdz$ (where $q$ is the number of spatial dimensions along which D-branes are extended in the background space), but in general they behave as a new kind of quantum liquid. We also compute the AC conductivity of the systems and briefly comment on the results.
description: 16 pages, no figures; v2: minor changes, references added; v3: eq.(43) and the related text have been corrected, more refs added, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
ВАЖНОСТЬ ОБУЧЕНИЯ ГРАММАТИКЕ И ПОПОЛНЕНИЯ СЛОВАРНОГО ЗАПАСА УЧЕНИКОВ НАЧАЛЬНОЙ ШКОЛЫ ПОСРЕДСТВОМ СКАЗОК
Creators: name: Лилия Бахтияровна Искандарова старший преподаватель  кафедры теории английского  языка и литературы СамГИИЯ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В данной статье рассматривается использование сказок на уроках английского языка в начальной школе при обучении грамматике и пополнении словарного запаса, с учетом особенности обучения на раннем этапе. Материал статьи поможет учителю с выбором сказок, составлением плана урока. Определены ряд мероприятий на основе сказок, для осмысленного обучения, что является способом заставить детей практиковать словарный запас и грамматику в значимом контексте, повествовании. В дополнении к этому, дети вырабатывают самостоятельность и работу в группе, определяют свои возможности и вырабатывают уверенность в себе.
Ключевые слова. Сказки, осмысленное обучение, контекст, словарный запас и грамматика, внимательность, уверенность, самореализация
New Coordinates for the Amplitude Parameter Space of Continuous Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Whelan, John T.
name: Prix, Reinhard
name: Cutler, Curt J.
name: Willis, Joshua L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The parameter space for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) can be divided into amplitude parameters (signal amplitude, inclination and polarization angles describing the orientation of the source, and an initial phase) and phase-evolution parameters. The division is useful in part because the Jaranowski-Krolak-Schutz (JKS) coordinates on the four-dimensional amplitude parameter space allow the GW signal to be written as a linear combination of four template waveforms with the JKS coordinates as coefficients. We define a new set of coordinates on the amplitude parameter space, with the same properties, which is more closely connected to the physical amplitude parameters. These naturally divide into two pairs of Cartesian-like coordinates on two-dimensional subspaces, one corresponding to left- and the other to right-circular polarization. We thus refer to these as CPF (circular polarization factored) coordinates. The corresponding two sets of polar coordinates (known as CPF-polar) can be related in a simple way to the physical parameters. We illustrate some simplifying applications for these various coordinate systems, such as: a calculation of Jacobians between various coordinate systems; an illustration of the signal coordinate singularities associated with left- and right-circular polarization, which correspond to the origins of the two two-dimensional subspaces; and an elucidation of the form of the log-likelihood ratio between hypotheses of Gaussian noise with and without a continuous GW signal. These are used to illustrate some of the prospects for approximate evaluation of a Bayesian detection statistic defined by marginalization over the physical parameter space. Additionally, in the presence of simplifying assumptions about the observing geometry, we are able to explicitly evaluate the integral for the Bayesian detection statistic, and compare it to the approximate results.
description: REVTeX, 18 pages, 8 image files included in 7 figures
THE ROLE OF ENERGY DISSIPATION, SUPERELASTICITY, AND SHAPE MEMORY EFFECTS IN ARCHITECTED MATERIALS FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Hector, Kristiaan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Structural engineering
Architectural engineering

description: The main goal of this thesis research is to expand the range of unique properties of phase transforming cellular materials (PXCMs), a new class of architected materials, and to extend their applicability both in the engineering disciplines and in the medical field. A novel aspect of PXCMs is their unique energy dissipation during loading via a snapping mechanism associated with a geometric transition between one stable configuration to another stable configuration at the unit cell level. Phase transformation is analogous to displacive transformations, such as martensitic transformations in shape memory alloys, with no change in configurational entropy. To accomplish this goal, three problem areas are addressed with the first exploring the effects of length scale as added structural hierarchy on material properties and energy dissipation, the second providing an analysis of the durability of architected materials via a novel additive manufacturing method, and the third, an extension into the medical field. Two examples are provided that demonstrate the effects of length scale as added structural hierarchy on material properties, and a machine learning approach for the feasible design of materials with additional levels of structural hierarchy is presented. A simple design approach coupled with a novel additive manufacturing method is discussed for the design of architected materials with high durability. Lastly, a concept for de-clogging bile stents via a temperature driven, shape-memory mechanism inspired by peristaltic locomotion in the human esophagus is presented.
Novel K Rattling: A New Route to Thermoelectric Materials?
Creators: name: Shoko, Elvis
name: Okamoto, Y.
name: Kearley, Gordon J
name: Peterson, Vanessa K
name: Thorogood, Gordon J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the alkali-metal dynamics in the Al-doped (KAl0.33W1.67O6 and RbAl0.33W1.67O6) and undoped (KW2O6 and RbW2O6) defect pyrochlore tungstates. The K atoms exhibit novel rattling dynamics in both the doped and undoped tungstates while the Rb atoms do not. The KAl0.33W1.67O6 experimental thermal conductivity curve shows an unusual depression between ~ 50 K and ~ 250 K, coinciding with two crossovers in the K dynamics: the first at ~ 50 K, from oscillatory to diffusive, and the second at ~ 250 K, from diffusive back to oscillatory. We found that the low-temperature crossover is a result of the system transitioning below the activation energy of the diffusive dynamics whereas the high-temperature crossover is driven by a complex reconstruction of the local potential around the K atoms due to the cage dynamics. This leads to a hardening of the K potential with increasing temperature. This unusual reconstruction of the potential may have important implications for the interpretation of finite-temperature dynamics based on zero-temperature potentials in similar materials. The key result is that the novel K rattling, involving local diffusion, leads to a significant reduction in the thermal conductivity. We suggest that this may open a new route in the phonon engineering of cage compounds for thermoelectric materials where the rattlers are specifically selected to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity by the mechanism of local diffusion.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Spin heat accumulation induced by tunneling from a ferromagnet
Creators: name: Vera-Marun, I. J.
name: van Wees, B. J.
name: Jansen, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electric current from a ferromagnet into a non-magnetic material can induce a spin-dependent electron temperature. Here it is shown that this spin heat accumulation, when created by tunneling from a ferromagnet, produces a non-negligible voltage signal that is comparable to that due to the coexisting electrical spin accumulation and can give a different Hanle spin precession signature. The effect is governed by the spin polarization of the Peltier coefficient of the tunnel contact, its Seebeck coefficient, and the spin heat resistance of the non-magnetic material, which is related to the electrical spin resistance by a spin-Wiedemann-Franz law. Moreover, spin heat injection is subject to a heat conductivity mismatch that is overcome if the tunnel interface has a sufficiently large resistance.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, plus 5 pages of supplemental material
A double moving average control chart: Discussion
Creators: name: Alevizakos, Vasileios
name: Chatterjee, Kashinath
name: Koukouvinos, Christos
name: Lappa, Angeliki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A double moving average (DMA) control chart has been proposed in the literature for monitoring the process mean. Several studies have also been done based on this scheme. Unfortunately, the variance of DMA statistic that has been used in these studies is not correct. In this article, we provide the correct variance of the DMA chart and through a simulation study, we evaluate its performance. It is shown that the DMA chart is more effective than the moving average (MA) chart in detecting small shifts in the process mean and vice versa for moderate to large shifts. Moreover, the DMA chart, even with a small value of span w, has similar, and in some cases better, detection ability than the EWMA and CUSUM charts, especially for moderate and large shifts.
OPERA MUSICOLOGICA,Выпуск 4 2020
Creators: name: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования "Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория им. Н.А. Римского-Корсакова"
Publisher: name: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования "Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория им. Н.А. Римского-Корсакова"
Year: 2020

description: OPERA MUSICOLOGICA,Выпуск 4 2020
Pharmaceutical innovativeness index: methodological approach for assessing the value of medicines – a case study of oncology drugs
Creators: name: Gargano, Ludmila P.
name: Alvares-Teodoro, Juliana
name: de A. Acurcio, Francisco
name: Guerra, Augusto A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: We propose a framework to assess the value of pharmaceutical innovations, with explicit clinical and methodological parameters, based on the therapeutic value and health needs. The study was based on the adaptation of health technology assessment methods documented in the literature, which was applied to a sample of oncological drugs. Difficulties and issues during the application of those tools were identified and addressed to develop a new framework with new and revised domains and clear classification criterion for each domain. Scores were assigned to each level and domain according to their relevance to generate the final score of innovativeness. The Pharmaceutical Innovation Index (PII) includes four domains, two related to clinical and social dimensions – Therapeutic Need and Added Therapeutic Value – and other two about methodological features – Study Design and Quality (risk of bias). The scores combined after assigned to each domain results Index of the Innovativeness of the medicines represents the degree of pharmaceutical innovation. This work proposes a transparent methodology with well-defined criteria and script; the algorithm developed with authors’ weightings and criteria may be switched to best adjust to other applications, perspective or clinical indications, while keeping the transparency and objectiveness.
A note on the two point function on the boundary of AdS spacetime
Creators: name: Ortíz, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate by a new way the two point function on the boundary of AdS spacetime in 1+2 dimensions for the massless conformal real scalar field. The result agrees with the answer provided by the Boundary-limit Holography and Witten recipe. This is done in Poincaré coordinates. The basic ingredients of this new method are conformal techniques, quantum fields defined on a half of Minkowski spacetime and a limit inspired by the Boundary-limit Holography. We also show that a state in AdS, the global vacuum, in three dimensions induces a state on the conformal boundary of AdS spacetime, which in turn induces a state on the BTZ black hole. On the other hand the same state in AdS induces a state on the BTZ black hole which in turn induces a state on its conformal boundary. The two ways of getting the state on the conformal boundary of the BTZ black hole coincide for the massless conformal real scalar field. We point out that the normalizable modes in the AdS/CFT correspondence for the BTZ black hole give a similar contribution as the non-normalizable modes used in the Witten prescription. We also give some clues on why the Witten and the Boundary-limit Holography prescription coincide.
description: 11 pages
Cost-effectiveness analysis comparing single-pill combination of perindopril/amlodipine/indapamide to the free equivalent combination in patients with hypertension from an Italian national health system perspective
Creators: name: Levy, Pierre
name: Lemański, Tobiasz
name: Crossan, Catriona
name: Lefebvre, Anna
name: Brière, Jean-Baptiste
name: Degli Esposti, Luca
name: Khan, Zeba M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a single-pill combination (SPC) of perindopril/amlodipine/indapamide versus its free equivalent combination (FEC) in adults with hypertension in Italy. A Markov model was developed to perform a cost-utility analysis with a lifetime horizon and an Italian healthcare payer’s perspective. In the model, the additional effect of the SPC on blood pressure level compared with the FEC was translated into a decreased risk of cardiovascular events and CKD, which was modeled via Framingham risk algorithms. Difference in persistence rates of SPC and FEC were modeled via discontinuation rates. A perindopril/amlodipine/indapamide SPC is associated with lower cost and better health outcomes compared to its FEC. Over a lifetime horizon, it is associated with a 0.050 QALY gain and cost savings of €376, resulting from lower cardiovascular event rates. In the alternative scenario, where different approach for modeling impact of adherence was considered, incremental gain of 0.069 QALY and savings of €1,004 were observed. Results were robust to sensitivity and scenario analyses, indicating that use of this SPC is a cost-effective strategy. The findings indicate that a perindopril/amlodipine/indapamide SPC is a cost-saving treatment option for hypertension in Italy, compared to its FEC.
ИНСТРУМЕНТАЛЬНЫЕ И ЛАБОРАТОРНЫЕ МЕТОДЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ДЛЯ ДИАГНОСТИКИ ЭХИНОКОККОЗА
Creators: name: Якубова, Д.М.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: эхинококкоз является одним из наиболее опасных зооантропогельминтозов, который часто имеет эндемическое распространение или регистрируется в виде спорадических случаев. Эхинококковые кисты могут локализоваться в любом органе. Множественное поражение эхинококкозом может привести к тяжелым и опасным для жизни вариантам течения заболевания. Высокая частота послеоперационных осложнений, сопровождается множественными повторными оперативными вмешательствами и приводят к стойкой инвалидизации больных. Ежегодно имеют место летальные случаи от данного заболевания. Поэтому ранняя и своевременная диагностика эхинококкоза остается актуальной медицинской проблемой.
A double moving average control chart: Discussion
Creators: name: Alevizakos, Vasileios
name: Chatterjee, Kashinath
name: Koukouvinos, Christos
name: Lappa, Angeliki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A double moving average (DMA) control chart has been proposed in the literature for monitoring the process mean. Several studies have also been done based on this scheme. Unfortunately, the variance of DMA statistic that has been used in these studies is not correct. In this article, we provide the correct variance of the DMA chart and through a simulation study, we evaluate its performance. It is shown that the DMA chart is more effective than the moving average (MA) chart in detecting small shifts in the process mean and vice versa for moderate to large shifts. Moreover, the DMA chart, even with a small value of span w, has similar, and in some cases better, detection ability than the EWMA and CUSUM charts, especially for moderate and large shifts.
Preferences of people with diabetes for diabetes care in Germany: a discrete choice experiment
Creators: name: Vomhof, Markus
name: Boersma, Anna C.
name: Hertroijs, Dorijn F. L.
name: Kaltheuner, Matthias
name: Krichbaum, Michael
name: Kulzer, Bernhard
name: Icks, Andrea
name: Hiligsmann, Mickael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The objective of this study is to elicit health care preferences of people with diabetes and identify classes of people with different preferences. A discrete choice experiment was conducted among people with diabetes in Germany comprising attributes of role division in daily diabetes care planning, type of lifestyle education, support for correct medication intake, consultation frequency, emotional support, and time spent on self-management. A conditional logit model and a latent class model were used to elicit preferences toward diabetes care and analyze preference heterogeneity. A total of 76 people with diabetes, recruited in two specialized diabetes care centers in Germany (mean age 51.9 years, 37.3% women, 49.1% type 2 diabetes mellitus, 50.9% type 1 diabetes mellitus), completed the discrete choice experiment. The most important attributes were consultation frequency, division in daily diabetes care planning, and correct medication intake. The latent class model detected preference heterogeneity by identifying two latent classes which differ mainly with respect to lifestyle education and medication intake. While the majority of people with diabetes showed preferences in line with current health care provision in Germany, a relevant subgroup wished to strengthen lifestyle education and medication intake support with an aid or website.
Non-Axisymmetric Structure in the Satellite Dwarf Galaxy NGC2976: Implications for its Dark/Bright Mass Distribution and Evolution
Creators: name: Valenzuela, O.
name: Hernández-Toledo, H.
name: Cano-Díaz, M.
name: Puerari, I.
name: Buta, R.
name: Pichardo, B.
name: Groess, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the result of an extensive search for non-axisymmetric structures in the dwarf satellite galaxy of M81: NGC 2976, using multiwavelength archival observations. The galaxy is known to present kinematic evidence for a bysimmetric distortion, anyhow the stellar bar presence is controversial, due to the possible interpretation of NGC 2976 presenting an elliptical disk triggered by a prolate dark matter halo. We applied diagnostics in order to detect stellar bars or spiral arms. The m=2 fourier phase has a jump around 60 arcsecs consistent with a central bar and bisymmetric arms. The CO, 3.6 $μ$ surface brightness and the dust lanes are consistent with a gas rich central bar and possibly with gaseous spiral arms. The kinematic jumps related with the dust lanes suggest that the bar perturbation in the disk kinematics is non-negligible and the reported non-circular motions, the central gas excess and the nuclear X-ray source (AGN/Starburst) might be produced by the central bar. SPH simulations of disks inside triaxial dark halos suggest that the two symmetric spots at 130 arcsecs and the narrow arms may be produced by gas at turning points in an elliptical disk, alternatively the potential ellipticity can be originated by tidally induced strong stellar bar/arms. We conclude that, the gas rich bar and spiral arms triggered by tidal stirring, and primordial halo triaxiality, can explain most of the non-circular motions, mass redistribution and nuclear activity. Distinguishing between them requires detailed modeling of environmental effects. An analysis similar to this may reveal such kind of structures in other nearby dwarf satellite galaxies, and if confirmed, the same evolutionary scenario will be applicable to them. This implies biases constraining their dark matter distribution and also making comparison against theoretical predictions for isolated galaxies.
description: Accepted to appear in AJ, 11 pages, 6 figures
Unification of Bell, Leggett-Garg and Kochen-Specker inequalities: A hybrid spatio-temporal inequality
Creators: name: Das, Siddhartha
name: Aravinda, S.
name: Srikanth, R.
name: Home, Dipankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bell-type (spatial), Kochen-Specker (contextuality) or Leggett-Garg (temporal) inequalities are based on classically plausible but otherwise quite distinct assumptions. For any of these inequalities, satisfaction is equivalent to a joint probability distribution for all observables in the experiment. This implies a joint distribution for all pairs of observables, and is indifferent to whether or not they commute in the theory. This indifference underpins a unification of the above inequalities into a general framework of correlation inequalities. When the physical scenario is such that the correlated pairs are all compatible, the resulting correlation is non-signaling, which may be local or multi-particle, corresponding to contextuality or Bell-type inequalities. If the pairs are incompatible, the resulting correlation corresponds to Leggett-Garg (LG) inequalities. That quantum mechanics (QM) violates all these inequalities suggests a close connection between the local, spatial and temporal properties of the theory. As a concrete manifestation of the unification, we extend the method due to Roy and Singh (J. Phys. A, 11, L167 (1978)) to derive and study a new class of hybrid spatio-temporal inequalities, where the correlated pairs in the experiment are both compatible or incompatible. The implications for cryptography and monogamy inequalities of the unification are briefly touched upon.
description: 7 pages, no figures
Supplementary files for "WingSegment: A Computer Vision-Based Hybrid Approach for Insect Wing Image Segmentation and 3D Printing"
Creators: name: Eshghi, Shahab
name: Rajabi, Hamed
name: Johannes Poser
name: Gorb, Stanislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: WingGram
WingSegment
WingAnalogy
WingMesh
Image Analysis
Image Processing
Computer Vision
Region Growing
Path Finding
Entomology
Junction Detection
Insect Wing

description: WingSegment combines computer vision and graph theory to segment images of insect wings. The algorithm is supported by a user-friendly graphical interface created using Matlab App-designer. It allows for the identification of cells, junctions, Pterostigma, and venation patterns in insect wings. WingSegment employs region-growing, thinning, and Dijkstra's algorithms for boundary detection, junction identification, and vein path extraction. Additionally, it calculates geometric features such as the area, length, and circularity of cells, as well as the length of veins. The algorithm also generates histograms and box plots to visualize the measured geometric features. By utilizing cell centroids, WingSegment creates a Voronoi pattern on the wing. Furthermore, the detected boundaries can be exported as FreeCAD macro files, facilitating 3D modeling and further analysis. The accuracy and efficiency of WingSegment are validated through comparisons with established software tools and manual measurements, demonstrating its effectiveness. The results exhibit precise wing segmentation and enable in-depth analysis of wing properties. WingSegment contributes to the advancement of knowledge in insect wing morphology and its applications across various fields.
CoDesign Culture Lab Summary Report - What will our world be like in 2050?
Creators: name: Haviland, Maya
name: Etheridge, Dan
Publisher: name: Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: This report summarises the activities and data collected at the CoDesign Culture Lab 2019, hosted by the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the ANU. It presents a summary of the events curated by Dr Maya Haviland and Dan Etheridge to bring together a diverse group of people to co-design approaches to educational reform and innovation related to the disciplines of Engineering and Computer Science. It presents findings of codesign processes undertaken with more that 130 participants, and summarises design criteria co-developed in the CoDesign Culture Lab for use in future educational and organisational development processes by the ANU and its collaborators. The report is written for both participants in the event and the broader public and is a document of the event, its methodologies and outcomes. It has been published online and distributed to participants and their organisations.
Analysis of the main themes and inclusion in social networks radio stations, media and broadcast channels based on Wikidata.
Creators: name: Nikulin, Egor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
Applied computing not elsewhere classified
Social and community informatics

description: Purpose: To explore radio stations as objects of Wikidata, as well as related properties and classes of this object, based on the knowledge base of the international Wikidata project. With the help of SPARQL queries, calculated at facilities such as "radio stations", as well as media and broadcasting channels. Establish connections with subjects properties, test hypotheses and study the given object.
 Tasks: 1. explore the basic properties of the "radio station" object; 2. find related classes of objects to the object under study - “radio stations”; 3. determine the most common properties of the objects under study; 4. make an analysis based on the obtained objects and properties; 5. do an analysis of the completeness of the data obtained
The inevitability of unconditionally deleterious substitutions during adaptation
Creators: name: McCandlish, David M.
name: Epstein, Charles L.
name: Plotkin, Joshua B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Studies on the genetics of adaptation typically neglect the possibility that a deleterious mutation might fix. Nonetheless, here we show that, in many regimes, the first substitution is most often deleterious, even when fitness is expected to increase in the long term. In particular, we prove that this phenomenon occurs under weak mutation for any house-of-cards model with an equilibrium distribution. We find that the same qualitative results hold under Fisher's geometric model. We also provide a simple intuition for the surprising prevalence of unconditionally deleterious substitutions during early adaptation. Importantly, the phenomenon we describe occurs on fitness landscapes without any local maxima and is therefore distinct from "valley-crossing". Our results imply that the common practice of ignoring deleterious substitutions leads to qualitatively incorrect predictions in many regimes. Our results also have implications for the substitution process at equilibrium and for the response to a sudden decrease in population size.
description: Corrected typos and minor errors in Supporting Information
Design with skeuomorphism or not: An Investigation of Immersive Experience Based on the Escape Room Game within the VR Framework
Creators: name: Chu, Tianqing
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 80111 Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a noticeable shift towards telecommuting and online entertainment, which has created novel prospects for future employment and recreation. Furthermore, with the continual advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), it is expected that a significant number of models can be easily generated in the near future. In this context, the realization of a meta-universe that offers extraordinary immersive experiences may become a tangible possibility. This paper aims to investigate whether virtual reality (VR) games are more suitable for “simulating reality” or “deviating from reality” by focusing on VR Escape Room, a typical example of an immersive experience. Through multiple rounds of experiments and analysis, this study will compare the effects of “skeuomorphism” and “beyond skeuomorphism” in the game.
Fingerprinting Internet DNS Amplification DDoS Activities
Creators: name: Fachkha, Claude
name: Bou-Harb, Elias
name: Debbabi, Mourad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work proposes a novel approach to infer and characterize Internet-scale DNS amplification DDoS attacks by leveraging the darknet space. Complementary to the pioneer work on inferring Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) activities using darknet, this work shows that we can extract DDoS activities without relying on backscattered analysis. The aim of this work is to extract cyber security intelligence related to DNS Amplification DDoS activities such as detection period, attack duration, intensity, packet size, rate and geo-location in addition to various network-layer and flow-based insights. To achieve this task, the proposed approach exploits certain DDoS parameters to detect the attacks. We empirically evaluate the proposed approach using 720 GB of real darknet data collected from a /13 address space during a recent three months period. Our analysis reveals that the approach was successful in inferring significant DNS amplification DDoS activities including the recent prominent attack that targeted one of the largest anti-spam organizations. Moreover, the analysis disclosed the mechanism of such DNS amplification DDoS attacks. Further, the results uncover high-speed and stealthy attempts that were never previously documented. The case study of the largest DDoS attack in history lead to a better understanding of the nature and scale of this threat and can generate inferences that could contribute in detecting, preventing, assessing, mitigating and even attributing of DNS amplification DDoS activities.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Cost of long-term care and balancing caregiver wellbeing: a narrative review
Creators: name: Duru, Emeka Elvis
name: Ben-Umeh, Kenechukwu C.
name: Mattingly, T. Joseph
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Long-term care (LTC) refers to care and support services that are required by individuals who lack the ability to perform important daily routines and may be dependent on others for personal, social, and medical needs over a sustained period of time. LTC may be broadly categorized into formal and informal care, where formal care is provided by professionals who are compensated to provide these services and informal care captures the care services provided without compensation by family members, friends, or other unpaid individuals. In this narrative review, we identify and synthesize evidence to evaluate the cost of long-term care while balancing the needs of caregivers. We searched Embase and EconLit for studies published from 2010 to November 2023. Our search strategy used a combination of keywords such as ‘long-term care,’ ‘caregiver burden,’ ‘caregiver support,’ ‘cost of care,’ and ‘caregiver wellbeing.’ We include both formal and informal LTC, as well as predictors of caregiver wellbeing. This review highlights the global variability in LTC costs and the significant burden on caregivers, emphasizing the need for policy interventions and comprehensive insurance schemes. Future research should focus on standardized assessment tools, intervention effectiveness, and integrating caregiver support into healthcare models, ensuring holistic and sustainable LTC solutions.
Rethinking International Cooperation: Crime, Policy and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations
Creators: name: McKenzie, Michael John
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: international cooperation
international crime cooperation
transnational policing

description: Scholars have long puzzled over the conditions that promote cooperation between nation-states. This thesis develops a new approach to the puzzle by examining the practice of international cooperation through a socio-legal lens. It is grounded in a qualitative case study of the criminal justice relationship between Australia and Indonesia, focusing on three areas: police cooperation, extradition arrangements, and cooperation relating to detained nationals. The thesis asks: what are the conditions that promote crime cooperation between Australia and Indonesia? Beneath this overarching question, it poses the following sub-questions: What drives the cooperation? How do different actors influence the cooperation? What determines the scope for cooperation? The thesis frames these questions socio-legally by situating the cooperative relationship within transnational legal orders (TLOs) that regulate terrorism and other transnational crimes. The TLO framework has several advantages over existing approaches to studying international cooperation. First, rather than privileging the state as an actor, the framework attends to the multiplicity of actors above and below the state who shape cooperative initiatives. Second, rather than focusing on political dynamics, it also highlights the significance of law and policy in the practice of international cooperation. Third, it embraces the inherent complexity of this practice by integrating various empirical and theoretical perspectives into its analysis. To provide a rich empirical picture of the criminal justice relationship between Australia and Indonesia, the thesis relies on interviews with over 100 current and former participants in the relationship, and extensive archival material, including media reporting and government records. To make sense of this data within the TLO framework, the thesis draws on theories relating to the construction of transnational problems (securitisation), the interplay of domestic and international politics (two-level games), the operation of international police networks (bureaucratic autonomy and culture), and the scope for international cooperation (reciprocity). It also incorporates insights from regulatory studies. Based on this analysis, the thesis argues that there is a structural tension between political and policy interests at the heart of the cooperative relationship. It further argues that cooperation is more likely to occur when these interests are in balance, and that law is a critical institution in enabling this balance to be struck. To conclude, the thesis brings the key findings of the study together to propose a model of the cooperative relationship. It also considers whether the findings could be generalised and their practical implications.
Erwin Cziesla: Drei Holzkeller aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts in der Schlosskirchstraße von Cottbus
Creators: name: Biermann, Felix
Publisher: name: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Erwin Cziesla: Drei Holzkeller aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts in der Schlosskirchstraße von Cottbus. Archäologische Quellen 5. Verlag der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte e. V., Kerpen-Loogh 2021. 124 Seiten und 163 Abbildungen.
description: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte, Bd. 99 (2023): Jahresschrift für Mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte