cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Boltzmann Distribution on "Short" Integer Partitions with Power Parts: Limit Laws and Sampling
Creators: name: Peyen, Jean C.
name: Bogachev, Leonid V.
name: Martin, Paul P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05A17 (Primary), 05A16, 60C05, 68Q87, 82B10 (Secondary)

description: The paper is concerned with the asymptotic analysis of a family of Boltzmann (multiplicative) distributions over the set $\check{\varLambda}^{q}$ of strict integer partitions (i.e., with unequal parts) into perfect $q$-th powers. A combinatorial link is provided via a suitable conditioning by fixing the partition weight (the sum of parts) and length (the number of parts), leading to uniform distribution on the corresponding subspaces of partitions. The Boltzmann measure is calibrated through the hyper-parameters $\langle N\rangle$ and $\langle M\rangle$ controlling the expected weight and length, respectively. We study ``short'' partitions, where the parameter $\langle M\rangle$ is either fixed or grows slower than for typical plain (unconstrained) partitions. For this model, we obtain a variety of limit theorems including the asymptotics of the cumulative cardinality in the case of fixed $\langle M\rangle$ and a limit shape result in the case of slow growth of $\langle M\rangle$. In both cases, we also characterize the joint distribution of the weight and length, as well as the growth of the smallest and largest parts. Using these results we construct suitable sampling algorithms and analyse their performance.
description: 62 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables
The lion and the frigate bird: visual encounters in Kiribati
Creators: name: Gilkes, Brian
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: In order to explain some of the paradoxes and mysteries of the artist's cross cultural experience in Kiribati, he constructed an Artist's Book depicting through visuality, anecdote and reflection, his research process, engaging with current visual perceptions through negotiation with the past.

In Kiribati previous encounters with Europeans and Islanders was dominated by English and I Kiribati with significant contributions by French missionaries. Each viewed the other through cultural filters of identity, which were informed by concepts of myth-historical, often heroic pasts, modified by contemporary purpose such as power, trade, evangelism or personal gain. The method of transmission of beliefs about the past differed fundamentally as the Europeans were predominately informed by writing and the I-Kiribati by orality and performance. The non-literary epistemology of the I Kiribati contributed to a cosmology of non-iconic symbols that defined belief systems and social structures. These symbols connected place and space with time, self and group identities. The research found that the all surrounding visual symbol system of sacred meeting house (maneaba), dwelling (bata) and canoe (waa and baurua)) could be partly understood as an ongoing struggle since Deep Time, between the forces of the Ocea n represented by Bakoa, The Shark, and that of the triumph of the coming onto the Land and its people (aba) represented by Tabakea, The Turtle. The performative outcome of this triumph and the spirit of identity (Te Katai ni Kiribati) it engenders is expressed primarily in the ubiquitous I Kiribati Dance. The Artists Book is inspired by the creative classic I Kiribati form of oratory known as Te Kuna, using a structure analogous to the symbolic forms of narrative of Oceanic Voyaging traditionally employed by the I Kiribati.

Differences in visual perceptions across cultural interface are understood not only as having the potential for conflict but also as providing positive dynamic force by the interchange of understood differences.

The project contributes specifically to the ethnography of English and I Kiribati, semiotic systems and visual epistemologies, indicating directions towards positive outcomes in cross-cultural encounters.
Additional file 1 of Blocking the MIF-CD74 axis augments radiotherapy efficacy for brain metastasis in NSCLC via synergistically promoting microglia M1 polarization
Creators: name: Liu, Lichao
name: Wang, Jian
name: Wang, Ying
name: Chen, Lingjuan
name: Peng, Ling
name: Bin, Yawen
name: Ding, Peng
name: Zhang, Ruiguang
name: Tong, Fan
name: Dong, Xiaorong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
HOPE IS ALWAYS IN THE HEART OF ONE WHO DOESN'T STOPS FIGHTING "AVENGERS ENDGAME"
Creators: name: Sanusi, Mohammad Fergy Maulana
name: Fami, Amata
name: Calista, Audry Putri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: 200519 South-East Asian Literature (excl. Indonesian)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 190299 Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190204 Film and Television

description: This research is an analysis of the positive values of the film "THE AVENGERS" this film is very famous and popular throughout the world. This film was produced by a studio called Marvel studio with the help of Walt Disney as the film distributor. There are many positive values that we can take from the Avengers film. This is where it will be made into research. The creation of this research is expected to be used as a motivation for the lives of its readers through several scenes performed by superheroes. In some of the Avengers film series, there must be hard work and cohesiveness in defeating a strong enemy, it is the same as the facts or reality that we experience, imagine if a problem we face alone will certainly feel heavy and difficult, on the contrary, if we can solve a problem. Problems with cooperation, mutual assistance, and compactness will indirectly solve problems quickly and add solidarity, chemistry, and closer friendships.
Direct-write projection lithography of quantum dot micropillar single photon sources
Creators: name: Androvitsaneas, Petros
name: Clark, Rachel N.
name: Jordan, Matthew
name: Peach, Tomas
name: Thomas, Stuart
name: Shabbir, Saleem
name: Sobiesierski, Angela D.
name: Trapalis, Aristotelis
name: Farrer, Ian A.
name: Langbein, Wolfgang W.
name: Bennett, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a process to mass-produce quantum dot micropillar cavities using direct-write lithography. This technique allows us to achieve high volume patterning of high aspect ratio pillars with vertical, smooth sidewalls maintaining a high quality factor for diameters below 2.0 $μ$m. Encapsulating the cavities in a thin layer of oxide (Ta$_2$O$_5$) prevents oxidation in the atmosphere, preserving the optical properties of the cavity over months of ambient exposure. We confirm that single dots in the cavities can be deterministically excited to create high purity indistinguishable single photons with interference visibility $(96.2\pm0.7)\%$.
A Realistic Neutrino mixing scheme arising from $A_4$ symmetry
Creators: name: Dey, Manash
name: Roy, Subhankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a unique lepton mixing scheme and its association with an exact hierarchy-philic neutrino mass matrix texture in the light of Type-I+Type-II seesaw mechanism under the framework of $A_4 \times Z_{10}$ discrete flavour symmetry. The proposed model successfully predicts the normal ordering of neutrino masses and the two Majorana phases. Additionally, the analysis extends to the effective Majorana neutrino mass, in the context of neutrinoless double beta\,($0νββ$)-decay.
The House of Feathers: a design practice observed, documented and represented
Creators: name: Bird, Matthew
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3301
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This invitational PhD by Project is an exploration and examination of the way in which I practice and how this informs what I know about my atelier, Studiobird. The invitation was an opportunity to enquire after my practice methodologies through the observation, documentation and representation of the projects conceived and developed within my atelier.

As an invited candidate I have produced this document as a comprehensive account of how my practice has mastered a particular way of doing and thinking and how this thinking and doing could be framed and focused by the contemplative lens availed by the undertaking of a PhD. This document illustrates my projects, practice associations and practice methodologies from the position of a ‘practitioner’.

Through this PhD undertaking I have exposed my architectural practice by way of presenting my liminal research findings as a ritualistic assemblage termed as ‘The House of Feathers’. The liminal research encompassed the extremes of conventional and non-conventional architecture.

This assemblage is the embodiment of my practice knowledge, practice methodologies and by way of this PhD, practice revelations. The House of Feathers is further mediated by The House of Feathers Interactive Platform, constructed as a digital tool with which to navigate the principles of composition that designate the surfacing of my practice.

This PhD accounts for the ways in which my thinking and doing constitute the conditions by which I define my practice. I offer both analytical and situated methods of enquiry in the form of a documentation of my practice outcomes and the Interactive Platform as both artefact of the enactment of this practice as ways by which I demonstrate the originality of my practice. This PhD, The House of Feathers addresses the explicit and complex entanglement of thinking and doing that manifest themselves within a design practice and how this approach may be tailored to envisage the future of such practices.
Holographic Non-Abelian Flavour Symmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Erdmenger, Johanna
name: Evans, Nick
name: Liu, Yang
name: Porod, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a holographic model for both spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking of non-abelian flavour symmetries. This consists of a bottom-up model inspired by the top-down D3/D7 probe brane model that incorporates the running anomalous dimensions of the fields. We ensure that in the holographic bulk, the full non-abelian flavour symmetries for massless quarks are present. The quark masses are spontaneously generated field values in the bulk and there is a resultant bulk Higgs mechanism. We provide a numerical technique to find the mass eigenvalues for a system of coupled holographic fields. We test this approach using an analytic model of ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric matter. We apply this approach to two-flavour QCD with both $u-d$ quark mass splitting and multi-trace bulk action terms that are expected to break $U(N_f)_V$ to $SU(N_f)_V \times U(1)_V$ away from large $N_c$. We also discuss three-flavour QCD with strange quark mass splitting and applications to more exotic symmetry breaking patterns of potential relevance for composite Higgs models.
Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Pediatric Clinical Practice
Creators: name: Boland, Laura
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Shared decision making
Pediatric
Implementation
Facilitators
Barriers

description: Shared decision making (SDM) is rarely used in pediatric clinical practice. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore factors influencing SDM implementation in pediatric clinical practice. We conducted three studies that were guided by the Ottawa Model of Research Use (OMRU): Study 1 was a systematic review using Cochrane methods and the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool to determine pediatric SDM barriers and facilitators from multiple perspectives. Eighty studies, of low to high quality, were included. At each OMRU level, frequently cited barriers were: option features (decision), poor quality information (innovation), emotional state (adopter), power relations (relational), and insufficient time (environment). Frequently cited facilitators were: lower stake decisions (decision), agreement with SDM (adopter), high quality information (innovation), trust and respect (relational), and SDM tools/resources (environment). Across participant types, frequently cited barriers were: insufficient time (healthcare providers (HCP)), option features (parents), power imbalances (children), and HCPs’ SDM skills (observers). Frequently cited facilitators were: good quality information (HCPs) and agreement with SDM (parents/children). Study 2 was a post-test design that evaluated SDM knowledge and acceptability of learners who completed the Ottawa Decision Support Tutorial (ODST). Most learners were HCPs (62%). Overall, ODST learners had a median knowledge test score of 8/10 (IQR = 7-9; n=6604) and 90% reported good or excellent impressions (n=4276) after completing the tutorial. Few learners suggested improvements. Study 3 used mixed methods to evaluate pediatric HCPs’ perceived SDM barriers and facilitators after training (ODST plus workshop). Participants completed a SDM barrier survey (n=60; 88% response rate) and semi-structured interview (n=11). Their intention to use SDM was high (mean score = 5.6/7, SD=0.8). However, 90% of respondents reported minimal SDM use after training. Main barriers were lack of buy-in (adopter level) and time constraints (environmental level). Healthcare providers wanted a team-based approach to SDM training (training level). Adopters face numerous and diverse barriers to SDM use, before and after SDM training. Pediatric HCPs who completed the ODST were knowledgeable about SDM. Despite positive intentions, training alone was insufficient to achieve routine SDM use. These findings can inform intervention development to promote SDM implementation in pediatric clinical practice.
Additional file 2 of Blocking the MIF-CD74 axis augments radiotherapy efficacy for brain metastasis in NSCLC via synergistically promoting microglia M1 polarization
Creators: name: Liu, Lichao
name: Wang, Jian
name: Wang, Ying
name: Chen, Lingjuan
name: Peng, Ling
name: Bin, Yawen
name: Ding, Peng
name: Zhang, Ruiguang
name: Tong, Fan
name: Dong, Xiaorong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Unsupervised anomaly localization in high-resolution breast scans using deep pluralistic image completion
Creators: name: Konz, Nicholas
name: Dong, Haoyu
name: Mazurowski, Maciej A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated tumor detection in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a difficult task due to natural tumor rarity, breast tissue variability, and high resolution. Given the scarcity of abnormal images and the abundance of normal images for this problem, an anomaly detection/localization approach could be well-suited. However, most anomaly localization research in machine learning focuses on non-medical datasets, and we find that these methods fall short when adapted to medical imaging datasets. The problem is alleviated when we solve the task from the image completion perspective, in which the presence of anomalies can be indicated by a discrepancy between the original appearance and its auto-completion conditioned on the surroundings. However, there are often many valid normal completions given the same surroundings, especially in the DBT dataset, making this evaluation criterion less precise. To address such an issue, we consider pluralistic image completion by exploring the distribution of possible completions instead of generating fixed predictions. This is achieved through our novel application of spatial dropout on the completion network during inference time only, which requires no additional training cost and is effective at generating diverse completions. We further propose minimum completion distance (MCD), a new metric for detecting anomalies, thanks to these stochastic completions. We provide theoretical as well as empirical support for the superiority over existing methods of using the proposed method for anomaly localization. On the DBT dataset, our model outperforms other state-of-the-art methods by at least 10\% AUROC for pixel-level detection.
description: Accepted in Medical Image Analysis (2023). Our code is at https://github.com/mazurowski-lab/picard
sj-docx-1-jdr-10.1177_00220345221126716 – Supplemental material for Bone Sialoprotein Is Critical for Alveolar Bone Healing in Mice
Creators: name: Chavez, M.B.
name: Tan, M. H.
name: Kolli, T. N.
name: Zachariadou, C.
name: Farah, F.
name: Mohamed, F.F.
name: Chu, E.Y.
name: Foster, B.L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jdr-10.1177_00220345221126716 for Bone Sialoprotein Is Critical for Alveolar Bone Healing in Mice by M.B. Chavez, M. H. Tan, T. N. Kolli, C. Zachariadou, F. Farah, F.F. Mohamed, E.Y. Chu and B.L. Foster in Journal of Dental Research
title: Mediation in der Jugendarbeit?
Creators: name: Grandy, Elisabeth
Year: 2009

description: Mediation als Vermittlungsverfahren bei eskalierenden Auseinandersetzungen kam durch ein Seminar von Proksch und Cohen im Jahr 1992 erstmals nach Österreich, seit 2004 gibt es ein Mediationsgesetz. Diese eher neue Art der Konfliktregelung in Österreich wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit durchleuchtet, inwiefern sie in der Jugendarbeit theoretisch einsetzbar ist. Es soll aufgezeigt werden, was Jugendliche von Kindern und Erwachsenen unterscheidet und mit welchen Schwierigkeiten Jugendliche während dem Aufwachsen konfrontiert werden, im Speziellen wird auf Gewalt und Jugenddelinquenz eingegangen. In diesem Zusammenhang tritt Mediation in den Blick. Es soll herausgefunden werden, wie Mediation funktionieren sollte und was dadurch bei den Jugendlichen ausgelöst werden könnte. Mit einer empirischen Untersuchung im Bereich von außergerichtlichen Tatausgleichen, welche eine Form der Mediation sind, soll offengelegt werden, wie Jugendliche diesen Prozess tatsächlich erleben und wie es zu der dargestellten Eskalation kommen konnte. Die Ergebnisse der Interviews in Verbindung mit den theoretischen Grundlagen sollen aufzeigen, wie Mediation derzeit praktiziert wird, wie die Jugendlichen diese aufnehmen und welche Möglichkeiten und Schwierigkeiten für die Jugendarbeit bestehen.
description: Mediation in the sense of alternative dispute resolution was introduced to Austria for the context of escalated disputes for the first time in 1992 in a seminar by Proksch and Cohen. This was followed by the introduction of mediation into an Act of Parliament in 2004. This thesis will address whether this to Austria fairly new kind of conflict regulation may have theoretical applicability to the field of youth work. It will be shown how youths differ from children and adults, as well as what difficulties young persons encounter during their adolescence. Particular attention will be paid to violence and youth delinquency. Mediation becomes relevant in this context, and this study attempts to establish how mediation ought to operate and what it might bring for the young persons. An empirical study of one kind of mediation, viz. out-of-court arbitration proceedings, will reveal the young persons' actual experiences of this process and what initially made the conflict in question escalate. Presenting a synthesis of the outcome of the interviews and the theoretical foundations of mediation, this thesis will show how mediation is currently being practised; how it is received by the young persons; and what opportunities and difficulties mediation offers to youth work.
A generalization of operads based on subgraph contractions
Creators: name: Lyskov, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a generalization of the notion of operad that we call a contractad, whose set of operations is indexed by connected graphs and whose composition rules are numbered by contractions of connected subgraphs. We show that many classical operads, such as the operad of commutative algebras, Lie algebras, associative algebras, pre-Lie algebras, the little disks operad, and the operad of moduli spaces of stable curves $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n+1}$ admit generalizations to contractads. We explain that standard tools like Koszul duality and the machinery of Gröbner bases can be easily generalized to contractads. We verify the Koszul property of the commutative, Lie, associative, and Gerstenhaber contractads.
description: 37 pages; published by International Mathematics Research Notices, a few typos corrected
Reduplication Across Boundaries: The Case Of Mandarin
Creators: name: Melloni, Chiara
name: Basciano, Bianca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: In this chapter, we shed new light on the reduplicative processes of Mandarin Chinese and

assess the structural and interpretive properties of the input/base and output of these word

formation phenomena. In particular, we focus on the categorial status of the base and ad-

dress the issue of whether reduplication applies to category-free roots or full-fledged lex-

emes. Empirically, the privileged domain of research is increasing reduplication of disyllabic

bases, or, as we dub it in the chapter, the AABB pattern, which is compared with diminishing

reduplication, expressed by the template ABAB. The comparison between the two phenom-

ena allows us to show that increasing and diminishing reduplication differ in the nature of

the input units involved. On the grounds of a wide-ranging class of data, we argue that Man-

darin reduplication takes base units of different ‘size’: word/lexeme-like units provided with

category, namely verbs in the case of diminishing reduplication, and categoryless roots in

the case of increasing reduplication. Throughout the chapter, we explore some category neu-

tral properties of increasing reduplication and propose a unitary semantic operation capable

to derive the various interpretive nuances of this phenomenon across lexical categories.
On surjective morphisms to abelian varieties and a generalization of the Iitaka conjecture
Creators: name: Meng, Fanjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D06, 14K05

description: We explore the relationship between fibrations arising naturally from a surjective morphism to an abelian variety. These fibrations encode geometric information about the morphism. Our study focuses on the interplay of these fibrations and presents several applications. Then we propose a generalization of the Iitaka conjecture which predicts an equality of Kodaira dimension of fibrations, and prove it when the base is a smooth projective variety of maximal Albanese dimension.
description: 28 pages; v2: minor changes; final version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2207.08359
The lived experience of transcending burnout as described by community mental health nurses working within a crisis assessment and treatment team (CATT) service
Creators: name: Ross, Alistair
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: This research study was undertaken in order to explore the phenomenon of transcending burnout as described by mental health nurses working as part of Crisis Assessment and Treatment (CAT) Teams (operating in the community) including Enhanced CAT (ECAT) Teams. Community mental health nursing has repeatedly been reported to be a highly stressful and demanding working environment with community mental health nurses being considered to be at high risk of becoming burnt out. This has the potential to contribute to deterioration in the quality of care or service being provided, high rates of job turnover and workforce instability, absenteeism, and low individual and team morale. At a personal level burnout contributes to a variety of personal issues including physical and emotional exhaustion, insomnia, increased use of alcohol and drugs, and marital and family problems. Nurses working on CAT Teams are at high risk of burnout due to the high levels of acuity, risk and unpredictability in the consumers they provide care for.

A descriptive phenomenological approach in the Husserlian tradition was chosen to guide the research process with Colaizzi’s (1978) method utilised to structure the data analysis process. Data was collected via in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 participants. Nine emergent themes were explicated: (1) Personal Strength: Grim Determination, Pragmatism and Optimism, (2) Reaching for Support, (3) Weathering the Storm, (4) Making Sense of the Personal Non-Sense and Re-Finding Clinical Meaning, (5) Regaining Balance and Lost Control, (6) Transcending Through Connection with the World Outside, (7) Rebuilding the Boundaries and Affirming Realistic Expectations, (8) Transcending Burnout as the Road Goes Ever On and (9) Increasing Confidence in Credibility.

Ultimately, transcending burnout involved the participants undergoing an intense though achievable journey. In the earliest phase of the experience, the experience of transcending involved hanging on using whatever came to hand, be it person qualities or reached out reflexively to those around them. As the experience evolved there was a gradual change in the participant’s state of motion, shifted slowly from just holding their position to being able to exert some push back against the adversity that they were facing. In the final phase of the experience individuals experience of transcending broadened out as relationships and activities in the wider world were re-claimed as a source of positive emotion leading to the repairing and rebuilding their intrapersonal and interpersonal boundaries. Most importantly, the participants in the study showed that transcending burnout was possible, with their experiences having the potential to inform future professional developments in both clinical and educational practice.
Additional file 1 of L-DOPA regulates neuroinflammation and Aβ pathology through NEP and ADAM17 in a mouse model of AD
Creators: name: Lee, Hyun-ju
name: Nam, JinHan
name: Hwang, Jeong-Woo
name: Park, Jin-Hee
name: Jeong, Yoo Joo
name: Jang, Ji-Yeong
name: Kim, Su-Jeong
name: Jo, A-Ran
name: Hoe, Hyang-Sook
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Supplemental Material - Anti-inflammatory effects of 9-cis-retinoic acid on β-amyloid treated human microglial cells
Creators: name: Kim, Jae Young
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material for Anti-inflammatory effects of 9-cis-retinoic acid on β-amyloid treated human microglial cells by Sanjay and Jae Young Kim in European Journal of Inflammation.
title: Density calculation of ionic liquids
Creators: name: Vakili-Nezhaad, G. Reza
name: AlAisaee, Aaisha M.
name: AlJabri, Manar A.
name: AlBarwani, Shahd S.
name: AlJahwari, Zainab K.
Publisher: name: СПбПУ
Year: 2017

description: Recently, an interest from both academia and industry has been moved toward ionic liquids due to their environmentally friendly characteristics as green alternative for traditional volatile organic solvents (VOCs). In addition, because of their wide range of physicochemical properties they found unique applications in renewable energy sector. For using such substances, one needs reliable correlations for predicting their physical properties. In the present work, a new method for determining the density of ionic liquids has been proposed. It has been shown that density of ionic liquids appears to be correlated linearly with the refractive index parameter of these liquids. An average error of 12.27% for 45 ionic liquids was obtained. Several equations of state were compared with this method including, SRK, RK, Peng Robinson and Riazi and Roomi [1].Using a sample of 29 ionic liquids, average errors of 88.72%, 65.79%, 39.10% and 66.07% were obtained for these equations of state, respectively. The estimated values from this method seems to be reasonable and can be applied to determine the density of ionic liquids at any temperature.
Alzheimer Disease Classification through ASR-based Transcriptions: Exploring the Impact of Punctuation and Pauses
Creators: name: Gómez-Zaragozá, Lucía
name: Wills, Simone
name: Tejedor-Garcia, Cristian
name: Marín-Morales, Javier
name: Alcañiz, Mariano
name: Strik, Helmer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the world's leading neurodegenerative disease, which often results in communication difficulties. Analysing speech can serve as a diagnostic tool for identifying the condition. The recent ADReSS challenge provided a dataset for AD classification and highlighted the utility of manual transcriptions. In this study, we used the new state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model Whisper to obtain the transcriptions, which also include automatic punctuation. The classification models achieved test accuracy scores of 0.854 and 0.833 combining the pretrained FastText word embeddings and recurrent neural networks on manual and ASR transcripts respectively. Additionally, we explored the influence of including pause information and punctuation in the transcriptions. We found that punctuation only yielded minor improvements in some cases, whereas pause encoding aided AD classification for both manual and ASR transcriptions across all approaches investigated.
Kinder Psychisch Kranker Eltern: Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten Im Rahmen Der Erziehungsbeistandschaft
Creators: name: Kurer, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Kinder psychisch kranker Eltern sind aufgrund des elterlichen Störungsbildes in ihrer Entwicklung gefährdet und weisen ein erhöhtes Risiko auf, selbst psychisch zu erkranken. Es gibt jedoch Kinder, die sich trotz der widrigen Umstände positiv und ohne psychische Auffälligkeiten entwickeln. Die Resilienzforschung bietet Erkenntnisse darüber, was diese Kinder so stark macht. Die sogenannten Schutzfaktoren wirken wie ein Regenschirm, welcher die Kinder vor Belastungen und Risiken schützt. Die Autorin untersucht anhand einer Literaturrecherche, welche Möglichkeiten MandatsträgerInnen haben, die Schutzfaktoren der betroffenen Kinder zu stärken. Ziel aller Interventionen ist, die gesunde Entwicklung des Kindes zu fördern und das Risiko des Kindes, selbst psychisch zu erkranken, zu senken. Die vorgestellten Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten kön-nen unterteilt werden in kind- und familienspezifische Hilfen, sowie in Unterstützung für die Eltern. Die vorliegende Arbeit resümiert, dass Beistandspersonen sich einer Vielzahl von Möglichkeiten bedienen können, um Kinder von psychisch kranken Eltern zu unterstützen. Für eine erfolgreiche Intervention ist eine systemische und mehrniveaunale Sichtweise, gerichtet auf Kind, Familie und Eltern, essentiell. Nicht zuletzt hängt eine erfolgreiche Intervention von der Beziehungsgestaltung zwischen Beistand und Familie ab. Hier-für ist von den Professionellen der Sozialen Arbeit, nebst interdisziplinärem Fachwissen, vor allem Empa-thie, Fingerspitzengefühl und viel Geduld gefragt.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2018 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit, 2018 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201809
Automatic Assessment of Oral Reading Accuracy for Reading Diagnostics
Creators: name: Molenaar, Bo
name: Tejedor-Garcia, Cristian
name: Strik, Helmer
name: Cucchiarini, Catia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Automatic assessment of reading fluency using automatic speech recognition (ASR) holds great potential for early detection of reading difficulties and subsequent timely intervention. Precise assessment tools are required, especially for languages other than English. In this study, we evaluate six state-of-the-art ASR-based systems for automatically assessing Dutch oral reading accuracy using Kaldi and Whisper. Results show our most successful system reached substantial agreement with human evaluations (MCC = .63). The same system reached the highest correlation between forced decoding confidence scores and word correctness (r = .45). This system's language model (LM) consisted of manual orthographic transcriptions and reading prompts of the test data, which shows that including reading errors in the LM improves assessment performance. We discuss the implications for developing automatic assessment systems and identify possible avenues of future research.
Emotionen In Der Offenen Jugendarbeit: Unterstützung Der Entwicklung Emotionaler Kompetenz Bei Jugendlichen In Der Offenen Jugendarbeit
Creators: name: Schär, Mailen
name: König, Nicole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Gefühle sind ein Teil des komplexen vierteiligen Emotionssystems und begleiten uns Menschen ein Leben lang. Besonders im Jugendalter erleben Jugendliche Emotionen intensiv. Das Jugendalter ist die Zeit der Umbrüche und der sozialen Veränderungen. Wenn Jugendliche emotional kompetent sind, können belastende Situationen und Emotionen adäquat bewältigt werden. Diese überfachlichen Kompetenzen, sogenannte Soft Skills, erweitern die Jugendlichen im Jugendalter und werden nicht nur von der Gesellschaft, sondern auch von der Peer-Group gefordert. Die Offene Jugendarbeit bietet Raum für non-formale und informelle Bildung. Sie hat unter anderem den Auftrag, Kinder und Jugendliche in ihrer Entwicklung zu fördern. Daher wird in dieser Bachelorarbeit der Frage nachgegangen, welchen Beitrag Fachpersonen in der Offenen Jugendarbeit zur Unterstützung der Entwicklung emotionaler Kompetenz bei Jugendlichen leisten können. Die Verfasserinnen Nicole König und Mailen Schär kommen nach ihren Literaturrecherchen zum Ergebnis, dass die Offene Jugendarbeit durch das niederschwellige Setting einen geschützten Rahmen bietet, damit Jugendliche mit ihren Emotionen experimentieren können. Wenn Fachpersonen sich ihrer eigenen Emotionen und ihrer Rolle bewusst sind, können sie durch das Animieren wie auch das Arrangieren die Begegnungen mit und unter den Jugendlichen als Möglichkeiten sehen und nutzen, um die Entwicklung der emotionalen Kompetenz der Jugendlichen zu unterstützen. Voraussetzung hierfür ist eine ressourcenorientierte Haltung der Offenen Jugendarbeit bezüglich Emotionen und Wissen darüber.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask be 2018 + Code Diss LU: hslusa basp be 2018 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur & Sozialpädagogik, 2018 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201809
title: Residential scale solar driven cooling systems versus conventional air-conditioning in hot arid areas: a comparative study
Creators: name: Ali, Ahmed Hamza H.
name: Alzaed, Ali Nasser
Publisher: name: СПбПУ
Year: 2017
Subjects: residential scale solar thermal air-conditioning system
Photovoltaic driven air-conditioning system
Global warming assessments and Cost Competitiveness

description: In this study, performance, energy efficiency, cost competitiveness, and global warming assessments of residential scale solar thermal and off-grid Photovoltaic driven DC air-conditioning systems versus conventional AC driven air-conditioning system in hot, arid areas is carried out. The first system is an integrated solar thermal driven residential air-conditioning. This system consists of evacuated tube solar collector arrays of area 36 m2 with high reflective parabolic surface used at the back, a silica gel-water adsorption chiller of 8 kW nominal cooling capacity, and hot and cold-water storage tanks of 1.8 and 1.2 m3 in volume, respectively. While the second system is an off-grid PV electrically driven DC compressor air-conditioning system. This system is a split air-conditioning unit with a cooling capacity of (26000 BTU) 7.62 kW that requires an input power of 1.8 kW with R410a (1550) refrigerant. Those solar-driven systems are compared with a grid connected AC driven vapor compression Air-Conditioning having 8 kW nominal cooling capacity. Experimental results show that the indoor thermal comfort conditions are achieved in the hottest days of the year for space with a floor area of 80 m2 with 14 residences for both systems. Comparison between the systems is based on the lifespan of 20 years, cooling capacity 8 kW and 18 hours’ daily operation in the cooling session. The results clearly indicate that: Compared with conventional vapor AC driven air-conditioning system, the solar thermal driven cooling system has an energy consumption of 10.94%, with the Total Equivalent Warming Impact (TEWI) of 9.96% while the cost per kW cooling is higher by 295.96%, respectively. While, the off-grid PV driven DC air conditioning system has an energy consumption of 0%, with TEWI of 0.65% and cost per kW cooling is lower by 54.88%, respectively. Therefore, the off-grid PV electrically driven DC compressor air-conditioning system can be recommended for use in the residential sector based on its low cost per kW cooling, no grid energy consumption, and very low environmental impact on global warming. However, this system further cost reduction can be cut from the energy storage, battery subsystem, in case this system is on-grid connected.
An ASR-Based Tutor for Learning to Read: How to Optimize Feedback to First Graders
Creators: name: Bai, Yu
name: Tejedor-Garcia, Cristian
name: Hubers, Ferdy
name: Cucchiarini, Catia
name: Strik, Helmer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The interest in employing automatic speech recognition (ASR) in applications for reading practice has been growing in recent years. In a previous study, we presented an ASR-based Dutch reading tutor application that was developed to provide instantaneous feedback to first-graders learning to read. We saw that ASR has potential at this stage of the reading process, as the results suggested that pupils made progress in reading accuracy and fluency by using the software. In the current study, we used children's speech from an existing corpus (JASMIN) to develop two new ASR systems, and compared the results to those of the previous study. We analyze correct/incorrect classification of the ASR systems using human transcripts at word level, by means of evaluation measures such as Cohen's Kappa, Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), precision, recall and F-measures. We observe improvements for the newly developed ASR systems regarding the agreement with human-based judgment and correct rejection (CR). The accuracy of the ASR systems varies for different reading tasks and word types. Our results suggest that, in the current configuration, it is difficult to classify isolated words. We discuss these results, possible ways to improve our systems and avenues for future research.
description: Published (double-blind peer-reviewed) on SPECOM 2021
sj-docx-1-irp-10.1177_26334895221141116 - Supplemental material for Quantitative measures used in empirical evaluations of mental health policy implementation: A systematic review
Creators: name: Pilar, Meagan
name: Jost, Eliot
name: Walsh-Bailey, Callie
name: Powell, Byron J.
name: Mazzucca, Stephanie
name: Eyler, Amy
name: Purtle, Jonathan
name: Allen, Peg
name: Brownson, Ross C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-irp-10.1177_26334895221141116 for Quantitative measures used in empirical evaluations of mental health policy implementation: A systematic review by Meagan Pilar, Eliot Jost, Callie Walsh-Bailey, Byron J. Powell, Stephanie Mazzucca, Amy Eyler, Jonathan Purtle, Peg Allen and Ross C. Brownson in Implementation Research and Practice
title: Investigation of a twin entry mixed flow turbine volume, benefits with regard to the eco-system
Creators: name: Hamel, M.
name: Bencherif, M.M.
name: Hamidou, M. K.
Publisher: name: СПбПУ
Year: 2017
Subjects: mixed inflow turbine
twin-entry volute
C02 emission
pulsed flow

description: Mixed-inflow turbines are suitable for many applications, where compact power sources are required with higher boost pressure. Realizing the growing importance and availability of road vehicles operating over wide range of speeds and loads, our point of particular interest must be a reduction of gas pollutants which could be achieved by exploring different design possibilities in order to increase the machine efficiency. This will certainly lead to a decrease in fuel consumption resulting in a fall of C02 gas emission amount. This paper focuses on the performance predictions of a turbocharger Twin-entry mixed inflow turbine. The ANSYS-CFX code is used to solve the equations of a viscous, compressible, turbulent, highly unsteady and three dimensional turbine inflow. The computed results agree reasonably well with experimental data. Twin-entry turbine provides the best compromise in terms of performances at different pressure ratio, and significant increase in swallowing capacity probably due to the better flow guidance, a more uniform thermodynamic parameters and Mach number around the rotor inlet.
A novel approach to identify and quantify activity and performance in wheelchair rugby
Creators: name: Chua, Julian
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024

description: Existing methods for performance and activity monitoring of court-based wheelchair sports such as wheelchair rugby during actual matches have their limitations. They either require too much manual efforts or they gather insufficient information. Inertia sensors have the ability to measure substantial amounts of movement data but there is no known method to decipher that huge amount of data for quantifying activity or performance.
Based on literature, Fractal dimensions have been applied to signals of physical parameters measured as a time series in the field of sports, biomedical and manufacturing. In all these cases Fractal dimensions of the time-based signals were able to identify different states or conditions accurately. There are several methods of determining Fractal dimensions and for this study, two were narrowed down – one based on Renyi’s generalized dimension (S0) and the other based on Hausdorff dimension (DH).
A feasibility study was first conducted to investigate the Fractal dimensions of forward accelerations during manual wheelchair pushing using the two methods. The outcome showed that generally higher Fractal dimension values were linked to higher push amplitudes and frequencies or a higher activeness level. It was identified that S0 related to energy released to the environment while DH showed a connection with activity level.
This was then taken further by capturing forward/backward accelerations of wheelchairs during actual wheelchair rugby matches. S0 and DH were calculated from the acceleration data, and four methods were developed using S0 and DH values to identify and quantify activity and performance of the wheelchair rugby athletes. Those methods include cumulative plots of S0 and DH; a Decision template formed using a 2D plot of S0 against DH, and Activities Ranking that is also based on the 2D plot.
After the basic process of the methods was developed, steps were taken to optimize the values of S0 and DH such that they are optimal for the identification and quantification outcome of wheelchair rugby activities. The factors that influence S0 and DH values include parameters of the inertia sensing device (sensor resolution and sampling rate), running average window width and amplitude multiplier for calculating DH.
In the end, although the number of athletes that were tested was small, the analysis outcome supported results from previous studies where athletes of higher functional classifications showed higher performance. The analysis of activity ranking which had an accuracy of 95% also highlighted that difference in activities between the athletes related highly with their functional classifications and their role or position in the team. The results of the analysis proved to be relevant for coaching, planning matches and even for talent identification.
Additional file 1 of Clinical accuracy of instrument-based SARS-CoV-2 antigen diagnostic tests: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Manten, Katharina
name: Katzenschlager, Stephan
name: Brümmer, Lukas E.
name: Schmitz, Stephani
name: Gaeddert, Mary
name: Erdmann, Christian
name: Grilli, Maurizio
name: Pollock, Nira R.
name: Macé, Aurélien
name: Erkosar, Berra
name: Carmona, Sergio
name: Ongarello, Stefano
name: Johnson, Cheryl C.
name: Sacks, Jilian A.
name: Faehling, Verena
name: Bornemann, Linus
name: Weigand, Markus A.
name: Denkinger, Claudia M.
name: Yerlikaya, Seda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1