cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enabling the PI to solve multi-layered problems of the Last Mile Logistics
Creators: name: Beck, Katharina
name: Esquillor, Javi
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cities challenges
Last mile logistics
Pi gap analysis
Decarbonisation
Sustainability
EU single data market
Common data spaces
Extensive collaboration
Coopetition
Capillarity
Cycle logistics

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: The increase in last mile delivery poses numerous challenges for cities worldwide. Concepts such as the Physical Internet (PI) should support them on their way to more sustainable last mile logistics. Within the EU project DECARBOMILE, different approaches arise from a common overarching framework to decarbonise the last mile logistics and will be tested in four different cities. The measures to be implemented must be adapted to the respective local conditions according to their specific setups. After identifying, analysing and clustering the challenges of the different cities, the methodology involves to identify numerous gaps between the current and the desired situation. In order to close these gaps on the way to decarbonising the last mile logistics, the project proposes a digital infrastructure concept with the two main components of a basic decision-support service with simulation capacities and a public-private digital infrastructure based on a decentralised Data Space architecture that will be developed within DECARBOMILE. The use of other IT tools depends on the specific challenges of the cities. With its architecture, the proposed digital infrastructure core allows each city to operate as a local node of a decentralised, federated, pan-EU network compatible with the PI paradigm
Modeling agricultural non-point source pollution at catchment scale: application, novel calibration and model advancement
Creators: name: Rafiei, Vahid
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2022
Subjects: Groundwater, Surface water, Wetland creation, SWAT-MODFLOW-RT3D, Calibration, Great Barrier Reef

description: Agricultural non-point source pollution is the primary cause of water quality impairment around the world, with far-reaching ecological impacts on aquatic ecosystems and toxicological consequences for humans and living organisms. Especially the Great Barrier Reef (GBR)– the world's largest coral reef– is severely affected by increased sediment and nutrient loads due to agricultural intensification in its coastal catchments. Reducing pollution discharge to the reef is critically essential for reversing the decline of the reef ecosystem and maintaining its economic benefits. However, due to the heterogeneity of natural systems and anthropogenic activities, reducing the pollution discharge to the reef requires developing on-farm and off-farm strategic planning at various scales. Previous studies have investigated and documented the effectiveness of on-farm management strategies. However, on-farm management practices have not been widely adopted by landholders. Modeling studies in the region also indicate that even if all the on-farm management practices were adopted, it would still be inefficient to meet reduction targets under future climate change and land use change scenarios. Therefore, off-farm management practices, including reforestation and wetland restoration/creation, have been recently proposed as supplementary solutions for reducing pollution to the reef, but their effectiveness in reducing pollution needs to be quantified for the catchment scale implementation. My aim in this research is to investigate the impact of reforestation and wetland restoration/ creation on reducing sediment and nutrient loads to the GBR at the catchment scale. I addressed this goal by 1) quantifying the impact of reforestation on the spatiotemporal sources of sediment and soil erosion, 2) quantifying the role of groundwater and surface water in nitrate cycling necessary for implementing effective management practices, and 3) quantifying the role of wetlands restoration and creation in reducing nutrient loads to the GBR. The research also contributes to 1) developing an effective calibration technique to overcome the high dimensionality of complex hydrogeochemical models, 2) advancing a widely known hydrogeochemical model to simulate groundwater-wetland interactions in terms of exchanging flow and nitrate loads.
Additional file 1 of Circulating levels of IL-6 and TGF-β1 in patients with prostate cancer undergoing radiotherapy: associations with acute radiotoxicity and fatigue symptoms
Creators: name: Kopčalić, Katarina
name: Matić, Ivana Z.
name: Besu, Irina
name: Stanković, Vesna
name: Bukumirić, Zoran
name: Stanojković, Tatjana P.
name: Stepanović, Aleksandar
name: Nikitović, Marina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Comparative Effectiveness of Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Using Insulin Analogs and Multiple Daily Injections in Pregnant Women with Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Maruthur, Nisa M.
name: Bass, Eric B.
name: Golden, Sherita Hill
name: Ranasinghe, Padmini D.
name: Berger, Zack
name: Nicholson, Wanda K.
name: Brown, Todd
name: Wilson, Lisa M.
name: Nannes, Elisabeth B.
name: Yeh, Hsin-Chieh
name: Suh, Yong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We systematically reviewed the effectiveness and safety of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) with insulin analogs compared with multiple daily injections (MDI) in pregnant women with diabetes mellitus. We searched Medline®, Embase®, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials through May 2013. Studies comparing CSII with MDI in pregnant women with diabetes mellitus were included. Studies using regular insulin CSII were excluded. We conducted meta-analyses where there were two or more comparable studies based on the type of insulin used in the MDI arm. Seven cohort studies of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes reported improvement in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in both groups. Meta-analysis showed no difference in maternal and fetal outcomes for CSII versus MDI. Results were similar when CSII was compared with MDI with insulin analogs or regular insulin. Studies had moderate to high risk bias with incomplete descriptions of study methodology, populations, treatments, follow up, and outcomes. We conclude that observational studies reported similar improvements in HbA1c with CSII and MDI during pregnancy, but evidence was insufficient to rule out possible important differences between CSII and MDI for maternal and fetal outcomes. This highlights the need for future studies to examine the effectiveness and safety of CSII with insulin analogs and MDI in pregnant women with diabetes mellitus.
On Ruby's solid angle formula and some of its generalizations
Creators: name: Friot, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Mellin-Barnes representation, we show that Ruby's solid angle formula and some of its generalizations may be expressed in a compact way in terms of the Appell F4 and Lauricella Fc functions.
description: 10 pages, accepted in Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A
Outcomes of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Screening and Referrals in a Family Planning Clinic
Creators: name: Keyserling, Thomas C.
name: Moos, Merry-K
name: Farr, Sherry L.
name: Morrow, John
name: Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie
name: Johnston, Larry F.
name: Robbins, Cheryl L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening in Title X settings can identify low-income women at risk of future chronic disease. This study examines follow-up related to newly identified CVD risk factors in a Title X setting.
Traversing double-well potential energy surfaces: photoinduced concurrent intralayer and interlayer structural transitions in XTe2 (X=Mo, W)
Creators: name: Qi, Yingpeng
name: Guan, Mengxue
name: Zahn, Daniela
name: Vasileiadis, Thomas
name: Seiler, Helene
name: Windsor, Yoav William
name: Zhao, Hui
name: Meng, Sheng
name: Ernstorfer, Ralph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Manipulating crystal structure and the corresponding electronic properties in quantum materials provides opportunities for the exploration of exotic physics and practical applications. Here, by ultrafast electron diffraction, structure factor calculation and TDDFT-MD simulations, we report the photoinduced concurrent intralayer and interlayer structural transitions in the Td and 1T' phase of XTe2 (X=Mo, W). Concomitant with the interlayer structural transition by shear displacement, the ultrafast suppression of the intralayer Peierls distortion within 0.3 ps is demonstrated and attributed to Mo-Mo (W-W) bond stretching. We discuss the modification of multiple quantum electronic states associated with the intralayer and interlayer structural transitions, such as the topological band inversion and the higher-order topological state. The twin structure and the stacking fault in XTe2 are identified by the ultrafast structural response. Our work elucidates the pathway of the photoinduced intralayer and interlayer structural transitions in atomic and femtosecond spatiotemporal scale. Moreover, the concurrent intralayer and interlayer structural transitions reveals the traversal of all double-well potential energy surfaces (DWPES) by laser excitation in material system, which may be an intrinsic mechanism in the field of photoexcitation-driven symmetry engineering, beyond the single DWPES transition model and the order-disorder transition model.
Self-Reported Reproductive Tract Infections and Ultrasound Diagnosed Uterine Fibroids in African-American Women
Creators: name: Schoenbach, Victor J.
name: Smith, Jennifer S.
name: Baird, Donna D.
name: Moore, Kristen R.
name: Dittmer, Dirk P.
name: Cole, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Background: For decades, it has been hypothesized that reproductive tract infections (RTIs) are risk factors for uterine fibroids. However, only two recent studies have been conducted. We aimed to investigate the relationship between RTIs and fibroids in a large study using ultrasound screening for fibroids.
Il ruolo delle giurisdizioni nazionali in materia di aiuti di Stato nell’ambito dello Spazio europeo di libertà, sicurezza e giustizia
Creators: name: Marino, Silvia
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2022
Subjects: State Aid
Private enforcement
Non-contractual liability
Determination of jurisdiction
Identification of the applicable law

description: The paper analyses the peculiar issues relating to the determination of jurisdiction and applicable law in cases related to the private enforcement of the EU State Aid rules. Despite a scarce practice, the work distinguishes actions against the State from disputes brought against beneficiaries, due to some peculiar features of these claims with respect to the application of EU regulations in civil judicial cooperation. The analysis shows some limits as to their applicability, some qualification problems, and some contradictions arising from the application of the rules on non-contractual liability (art. 7, no. 2 Regulation no. 1215/2012 and Regulation Rome II).
Halfspace depth for general measures: The ray basis theorem and its consequences
Creators: name: Laketa, Petra
name: Nagy, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The halfspace depth is a prominent tool of nonparametric multivariate analysis. The upper level sets of the depth, termed the trimmed regions of a measure, serve as a natural generalization of the quantiles and inter-quantile regions to higher-dimensional spaces. The smallest non-empty trimmed region, coined the halfspace median of a measure, generalizes the median. We focus on the (inverse) ray basis theorem for the halfspace depth, a crucial theoretical result that characterizes the halfspace median by a covering property. First, a novel elementary proof of that statement is provided, under minimal assumptions on the underlying measure. The proof applies not only to the median, but also to other trimmed regions. Motivated by the technical development of the amended ray basis theorem, we specify connections between the trimmed regions, floating bodies, and additional equi-affine convex sets related to the depth. As a consequence, minimal conditions for the strict monotonicity of the depth are obtained. Applications to the computation of the depth and robust estimation are outlined.
Noblesse de Robe by Marthe Bibesco. Colonization, Decolonization and Recolonization through Fashion
Creators: name: Andras, Sonia D.
Publisher: name: Presa Universitară Clujeană
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fashion--Social aspects
subject: Fashion dolls--History
subject: Fashion and art--History
subject: Fashion--Study and teaching
subject: Bibesco, Marthe, 1886-1973

description: This chapter explores the connections between Marthe Bibesco, her work "Noblesse de Robe", fashion, interwar literature, and the cultural contexts of Romania and France. This study analyzes Princess Marthe Bibesco's 1928-1929 notebook, which contains fifty-six clippings related to her book "Noblesse de Robe," located at the Harry Ransom Center framed around the concept of colonization, decolonization and recolonization with Paris and Bucharest at the center. The methodology is centered on fashion studies with outreach to cultural studies (gender, media studies), history (cultural, social, art histories), and semiotics for visual and written text analysis. This paper emphasizes advancements in Romanian fashion and culture, focusing on the significant contributions of Marthe Bibesco and her connection to Vogue, which reflects both Parisian and Romanian heritage in the context of fashion and Romanian studies.
Can adding the 5th Transport Mode - Capsule Pipelines enable Physical Internet, 15-minute City, Circular Economy, Automatic Retailing, and reduce Climate Impact?
Creators: name: Wandel, Sten
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Last/first/mile/yard transport
Capsule as package/unit-load/vehicle
Automatic micro-fulfilment centers
E-commerce
Waste removal
City logistics
Urban planning
Circular economy
15-minute City
Climate impact

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: Vehicles on streets dominates last-mile transport. With increased e-commerce congestion, emissions, and cost increase. Delivery boxes and sidewalk robots reduce cost, but congestion prevails. Air drones reduce congestion but cannot take the expected volumes and are weather sensitive. Water and rail are not omnipresent. Underground pipes are used for transport of water, sewage, and gas, and was 1853- 2002 used for transport of mail in capsules in 44 large cities. Pipes are now used in hospitals for capsules with test samples, blood, and medicine. This project explores reinstallation of capsule pipelines for the general public. It reduces traffic and operating cost. It can accommodate very large volumes but requires large investments in infrastructure. A 5 kg capsule can, in many cases, automatically do the same job as a motor vehicle with 500 times larger mass and a driver. In one scenario, 30% less traffic and CO2, the freed space paid for installation of the whole system 1.6 times, and cost reductions resulted in a payback period of less than one year. The pipes can also be used for storing which reduces need for space in buildings and enables automatic retailing. Finally, recommendation for further R&D are proposed.
Compressive Sampling Based Interior Reconstruction for Dynamic Carbon Nanotube Micro-CT
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In the computed tomography (CT) field, one recent invention is the so-called carbon nanotube (CNT) based field emission x-ray technology. On the other hand, compressive sampling (CS) based interior tomography is a new innovation. Combining the strengths of these two novel subjects, we apply the interior tomography technique to local mouse cardiac imaging using respiration and cardiac gating with a CNT based micro-CT scanner. The major features of our method are: (1) it does not need exact prior knowledge inside an ROI; and (2) two orthogonal scout projections are employed to regularize the reconstruction. Both numerical simulations and in vivo mouse studies are performed to demonstrate the feasibility of our methodology.
Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence as Dicke Superradiance at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Alcalde, M. Aparicio
name: Quevedo, Hernando
name: Svaiter, Nami Fux
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sonoluminescence is a process in which a strong sound field is used to produce light in liquids. We explain sonoluminescence as a phase transition from ordinary fluorescence to a superradiant phase. We consider a spin-boson model composed of a single bosonic mode and an ensemble of $N$ identical two-level atoms. We assume that the whole system is in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir at temperature $β^{-1}$. We show that, in a ultrastrong-coupling regime, between the two-level atoms and the electromagnetic field it is possible to have a cooperative interaction of the molecules of the gas in the interior of the bubble with the field, generating sonoluminescence.
description: Final version accepted for publication in Physica A. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1011.3075
Additional file 2 of Role Of Ovarian Metastases In Colorectal Cancer (ROMIC): a Dutch study protocol to evaluate the effect of prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy in postmenopausal women
Creators: name: Van der Meer, R.
name: de Hingh, I. H. J. T.
name: Bloemen, J. G.
name: Janssen, L.
name: Roumen, R. M. H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Informed consent form.
Revisiting Francis Galton's Forecasting Competition
Creators: name: Wallis, Kenneth F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This note reexamines the data from a weight-judging competition described in an article by Francis Galton published in 1907. Following the correction of some errors, it is shown that this forecasting competition is an interesting precursor of two more recent developments in the statistical forecasting literature. One is forecast combination, with the mean forecast here exactly coinciding with the outcome, and the second is the use of two-piece frequency and probability distributions to describe asymmetry.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-STS468 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
TIRA: An OpenAPI Extension and Toolbox for GDPR Transparency in RESTful Architectures
Creators: name: Grünewald, Elias
name: Wille, Paul
name: Pallas, Frank
name: Borges, Maria C.
name: Ulbricht, Max-R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transparency - the provision of information about what personal data is collected for which purposes, how long it is stored, or to which parties it is transferred - is one of the core privacy principles underlying regulations such as the GDPR. Technical approaches for implementing transparency in practice are, however, only rarely considered. In this paper, we present a novel approach for doing so in current, RESTful application architectures and in line with prevailing agile and DevOps-driven practices. For this purpose, we introduce 1) a transparency-focused extension of OpenAPI specifications that allows individual service descriptions to be enriched with transparency-related annotations in a bottom-up fashion and 2) a set of higher-order tools for aggregating respective information across multiple, interdependent services and for coherently integrating our approach into automated CI/CD-pipelines. Together, these building blocks pave the way for providing transparency information that is more specific and at the same time better reflects the actual implementation givens within complex service architectures than current, overly broad privacy statements.
description: Accepted for publication at the 2021 International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'21). This is a preprint manuscript (authors' own version before final copy-editing)
Course and Severity of Maternal Depression: Associations with Family Functioning and Child Adjustment
Creators: name: Alpert, Jonathan E.
name: Rush, A. John
name: Garber, Judy
name: Wickramaratne, Priya J.
name: Malloy, Erin
name: Weissman, Myrna M.
name: Trivedi, Madhukar H.
name: Wisniewski, Stephen R.
name: Webster, Melissa C.
name: Hughes, Carroll W.
name: Foster, Cynthia Ewell
name: King, Cheryl A.
name: Fava, Maurizio
name: Pilowsky, Daniel J.
name: Kornstein, Susan G.
name: Cerda, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Number of lifetime episodes, duration of current episode, and severity of maternal depression were investigated in relation to family functioning and child adjustment. Participants were the 151 mother–child pairs in the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) child multi-site study. Mothers were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder; children (80 males and 71 females) ranged in age from 7 to 17 years. Measures of child adjustment included psychiatric diagnoses, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and functional impairment. Measures of family functioning included family cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, organization, and household control; parenting measures assessed maternal acceptance and psychological control. Children of mothers with longer current depressive episodes were more likely to have internalizing and externalizing symptoms, with this association being moderated by child gender. Mothers with more lifetime depressive episodes were less likely to use appropriate control in their homes.
A fast solver for multi-particle scattering in a layered medium
Creators: name: Lai, Jun
name: Kobayashi, Motoki
name: Greengard, Leslie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we consider acoustic or electromagnetic scattering in two dimensions from an infinite three-layer medium with thousands of wavelength-size dielectric particles embedded in the middle layer. Such geometries are typical of microstructured composite materials, and the evaluation of the scattered field requires a suitable fast solver for either a single configuration or for a sequence of configurations as part of a design or optimization process. We have developed an algorithm for problems of this type by combining the Sommerfeld integral representation, high order integral equation discretization, the fast multipole method and classical multiple scattering theory. The efficiency of the solver is illustrated with several numerical experiments.
Sexual Debut Timing and Depressive Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood
Creators: name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
name: Spriggs, Aubrey L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The association between sexual debut timing and depressive symptomatology in adolescence and emerging adulthood was examined using data from Waves I, II and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Respondents who reported never having sexual intercourse at Wave I and were 18–22 years of age at Wave III were included (n=5,061). Twenty percent of respondents experienced early (<age 16) and 49% experienced typical (ages 16–18) sexual debut. In bivariate analyses, pre-debut depressive symptoms were associated with earlier sexual debut among female but not male adolescents. In models adjusting for demographic characteristics and pre-debut depressive symptoms, sexual debut was positively related to adolescent (Wave II) depressive symptomatology, but only among female adolescents age less than sixteen. However, sexual debut timing was unassociated with emerging adult (Wave III) depressive symptomatology for both male and female respondents. Findings suggest sexual debut timing does not have implications for depressive symptomatology beyond adolescence.
Leveraging Customer Conversion Behavior in Hyperconnected Networks
Creators: name: Park, Jisoo
name: Montreuil, Benoit
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: E-commerce
Conversion rate
Web retailing

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: This Paper focuses on how leveraging conversion rates in hyperconnected networks can help retailers face the challenge they face to meet customer expectations with efficient and effective supply chains with increased. The conversion rate is the percentage of visitors to an online platform who finalize a purchase, and understanding and estimating such curves help shape key supply chain decisions. However, decision-making in the industry generally assumes that all customers want their products delivered as soon as possible, overlooking the complexity of customer conversion behavior. This Paper challenges this notion and explores how the concept of different customer behaviors can be leveraged in hyperconnected networks with the Physical Internet (PI) with the added information on conversion rates. The Paper characterizes the diverse types of customer behaviors relative to delivery/pickup time sensitivity, develops the Physical Internet levers to enhance conversion rates, and analyzes how leveraging different customer behavior types in the Physical Internet may lead to higher conversion rates in an efficient and sustainable way. The study contrasts the relative impact of PI’s interconnectivity levels on conversion with three representative scenarios: independent retailer, independent retailer with flexible mode options, and retailers in a hyperconnected network. The Paper provides conclusive insights and avenues for further research.
Asymptotic stage of modulation instability for the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Creators: name: Rybalko, Yan
name: Shepelsky, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the initial value problem for the integrable nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger (NNLS) equation \[ iq_{t}(x,t)+q_{xx}(x,t)+2 q^{2}(x,t)\bar{q}(-x,t)=0 \] with symmetric boundary conditions: $q(x,t)\to Ae^{2iA^2t}$ as $x\to\pm\infty$, where $A>0$ is an arbitrary constant. We describe the asymptotic stage of modulation instability for the NNLS equation by computing the large-time asymptotics of the solution $q(x,t)$ of this initial value problem. We shown that it exhibits a non-universal, in a sense, behavior: the asymptotics of $|q(x,t)|$ depends on details of the initial data $q(x,0)$. This is in a sharp contrast with the local classical NLS equation, where the long-time asymptotics of the solution depends on the initial value through the phase parameters only. The main tool used in this work is the inverse scattering transform method applied in the form of the matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem. The Riemann-Hilbert problem associated with the original initial value problem is analyzed asymptotically by the nonlinear steepest decent method.
On Geometric Infinite Divisibility
Creators: name: Sandhya, E.
name: Pillai, R. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60 E 07, 60 E 10

description: The notion of geometric version of an infinitely divisible law is introduced. Concepts parallel to attraction and partial attraction are developed and studied in the setup of geometric summing of random variables.
description: 7 pages
Escaping Poverty and Securing Middle Class Status: How Race and Socioeconomic Status Shape Mobility Prospects for African Americans During the Transition to Adulthood
Creators: name: Hardaway, Cecily R.
name: McLoyd, Vonnie C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This article draws on extant research from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, and economics to identify linkages between individual, family, community, and structural factors related to social mobility for African Americans during the transition to adulthood. It considers how race and class together affect opportunities for social mobility through where African Americans live, whom they associate with, and how they are impacted by racial and class-related stigma. Of particular interest is social mobility as accomplished through academic achievement, educational attainment, employment, economic independence, and homeownership. Research on five issues is reviewed and discussed: (a) the unique vulnerabilities of newly upwardly mobile African Americans, (b) wealth as a source of inequality, (c) racism and discrimination, (d) the stigma associated with lower-class status, and (e) social and cultural capital. The article concludes with a summary and directions for future research.
Kit Fulfillment Centers Serving Distributed Small-Series Assembly Centers in Hyperconnected Supply Chain Networks
Creators: name: Li, Mingze
name: Campos, Miguel
name: Barenji, Ali
name: McGinnis, Leon F.
name: Montreuil, Benoit
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physical internet
Kitting
Hyperconnected supply chain networks
Distributed small-series Assembly
Modular container
Multi-level kit
Modular workstation design
Line balancing
Labor scheduling

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: In the context of Physical Internet (π, PI) enabled hyperconnected supply chain networks, we focus on the design and performance assessment of π-enabled kit fulfillment centers (KFCs) distributed over a territory to concurrently feed multiple agile assembly centers (AACs) in their region. The AAC production is often associated with the realization of major projects for which short product runs are needed. The KFCs are designed to produce multi-level modular container kits (Montreuil et al., 2015). The multi-level kits of the KFCs have 4 levels, task, skill, workstation, and product. The kit assembly processes are categorized into A, B, and C, according to the shape, weight, and size of their parts. The resource balancing and scheduling is done using a mixed integer programming model, whose performance is validated with a comparison experiment using synthetic data for automobile manufacturing. The process design reduces intermediate inventory space between levels of kit production to encourage space efficiency. The modular design of kitting cells enables easy and quick reconfiguration under variable demand. The multi-level modular container kits allow easy and smart transportation in the hyperconnected supply chain network and handling at AACs.
Varifold solutions of the two-phase three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations
Creators: name: Jing, Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study the three-dimensional two-phase magnetohydrodynamic interface problem in a bounded domain. The two incompressible fluids are both Newtonian and the surface tension is considered. We shall use the Galerkin method to construct the approximate solutions in a bounded domain. Due to the magnetic field in the magnetohydrodynamic equations, we cannot use the method of monotone operators to solve the approximate equations. Instead, we will construct an iterating operator and solve the equations by finding the fixed-point of the operator. To deal with the free interface, we shall prove the compactness of the iterating operator and then use the Schauder fixed-point theorem. The existence of the varifold solution is established by the weak convergence method.
description: 26 pages
Detecting Concept Drift With Neural Network Model Uncertainty
Creators: name: Baier, Lucas
name: Schlör, Tim
name: Schöffer, Jakob
name: Kühl, Niklas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deployed machine learning models are confronted with the problem of changing data over time, a phenomenon also called concept drift. While existing approaches of concept drift detection already show convincing results, they require true labels as a prerequisite for successful drift detection. Especially in many real-world application scenarios-like the ones covered in this work-true labels are scarce, and their acquisition is expensive. Therefore, we introduce a new algorithm for drift detection, Uncertainty Drift Detection (UDD), which is able to detect drifts without access to true labels. Our approach is based on the uncertainty estimates provided by a deep neural network in combination with Monte Carlo Dropout. Structural changes over time are detected by applying the ADWIN technique on the uncertainty estimates, and detected drifts trigger a retraining of the prediction model. In contrast to input data-based drift detection, our approach considers the effects of the current input data on the properties of the prediction model rather than detecting change on the input data only (which can lead to unnecessary retrainings). We show that UDD outperforms other state-of-the-art strategies on two synthetic as well as ten real-world data sets for both regression and classification tasks.
School and Neighborhood Contexts, Perceptions of Racial Discrimination, and Psychological Well-being Among African American Adolescents
Creators: name: Seaton, Eleanor K.
name: Yip, Tiffany
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The present study examined contextual influences on the relationship between racial discrimination (individual, cultural, and collective/institutional) and psychological well-being. Two hundred and fifty two African American adolescents (46% male and 54% female, average age = 16) completed measures of racial discrimination, self-esteem, depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Archival information regarding the racial/ethnic composition of the participants’ neighborhoods and schools was used and increased school diversity was linked to increased perceptions of cultural discrimination. Regardless of school and neighborhood diversity, high perceptions of collective/institutional discrimination were linked to lower self-esteem for students in high diversity settings. Further, high levels of collective/institutional discrimination were associated with lower life satisfaction for African American youth in low diversity settings.
The quantization for Markov-type measures on a class of ratio-specified graph directed fractals
Creators: name: Kesseböhmer, Marc
name: Zhu, Sanguo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A75, 28A80, 94A15

description: We study the asymptotic quantization error of order $r$ for Markov-type measures $μ$ on a class of ratio-specified graph directed fractals. We show that the quantization dimension of $μ$ exists and determine its exact value $s_{r}$ in terms of spectral radius of a related matrix. We prove that the $s_{r}$-dimensional lower quantization coefficient of $μ$ is always positive. Moreover, inspired by Mauldin-Williams's work on the Hausdorff measure of graph directed fractals, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the $s_{r}$-dimensional upper quantization coefficient of $μ$ to be finite.
Demand-supply alignment in supply chain networks with access to hyperconnected production options
Creators: name: Pothen, Ashwin
name: Inan, Mahmut Metin
name: Montreuil, Benoit
name: Lauras, Matthieu
name: Benaben, Frederick
name: Xie, Yao
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Demand-supply alignment
Multi-agent systems
Hyperconnected networks
Supply chain networks
Production options
Physical internet

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: Supply chain networks today comprise of various decentralized actors, subject to constantly evolving challenges and customer expectations, and operate in a volatile, uncertain, and disruption-prone environment. These challenges and complexities bring in informational and material flow distortions, making it hard to align demand and supply with agility. Building a centralized optimization model for such complex systems tends to be computationally expensive and unscalable for real-world application. With this motivation, we propose a novel, real-world applicable multi-agent-based approach for collaborative and agile demand-supply alignment, through dynamic prediction-driven planning and operational decision-making. We first demonstrate the applicability and configurability of our approach with a real-world supply chain network operating in a stochastic and disruptive environment, with the desired characteristics in congruence with the Physical Internet framework. We then demonstrate the simulation-testing capability of our approach by highlighting the potential benefits of leveraging a hyperconnected network of open certified production options.
Early Adolescent Sexual Initiation and Physical/Psychological Symptoms: A Comparative Analysis of Five Nations
Creators: name: Madkour, Aubrey Spriggs
name: Godeau, Emmanuelle
name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
name: Nic Gabhainn, Saoirse
name: Farhat, Tilda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Although most people in developed countries experience sexual initiation during adolescence, little is known about inter-country variability in the psychosocial correlates of early initiation. Population-based samples of 15-year-olds (n = 6,111, 52% female) who participated in the Health Behaviors in School-Aged Children Study (Finland, Scotland, France and Poland, 1997/1998) or the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (United States, 1996) self-reported sexual intercourse experience and physical (headaches, trouble sleeping) or psychological (unhappiness, loneliness, sadness, moodiness) symptoms. Analyses were conducted stratified by gender. Sexual initiation prevalence and symptoms scores varied significantly across nations. In adjusted models, sexual initiation was not related to symptoms among boys in any nation, but significantly positively related to symptoms among girls in Poland and the US. Results support variability by gender and nation in the relationship between adolescents’ sexual initiation and physical/psychological symptoms. Empirically investigating specific features of national contexts that generate these differences should be explored further.
Slides - Computational study of airflow and dispersion of airborne pathogens inside an aircraft cabin
Creators: name: Raposo, Carlos L. S.
name: Sousa, J. M. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cabin air

description: This presentation was made for conference from the paper C. L. S. Raposo and J. M. M. Sousa, “Computational Study of Airflow and Dispersion of Airborne Pathogens inside an Aircraft Cabin,” Sep. 2022, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7086739. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361118720_Computational_Study_of_Airflow_and_Dispersion_of_Airborne_Pathogens_Inside_an_Aircraft_Cabin All of this work is extracted from the MSc. Thesis of Carlos Raposo C. L. S. Raposo, “Bioaerosol Transport and Sensor in Passenger Aircraft,” Instituto Superior Técnico, 2022.
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Modeling and Simulation of an Agile Assembly Center in a Physical Internet inspired Manufacturing System
Creators: name: Campos, Miguel
name: McGinnis, Leon
name: Montreuil, Benoit
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physical internet
Manufacturing
Modeling
Simulation
Logistics systems

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: Globalization, high competitiveness, and highly customized products are factors that increase the complexity of product development and production systems. Such complexity makes conventional mathematical or analytical models unsuitable for properly analyzing such systems, for which simulation emerges as an alternative for evaluating, designing, improving, and operating complex systems. This Paper focuses on the design, modeling, and simulation of an agile assembly center (AAC) that produces durable big-sized products with the capacity of serving several projects and clients concurrently leveraging Physical Internet (PI) concepts while embedding the decision-making agents’ intelligence. This work is the cornerstone for implementing a digital twin of an AAC that will help make operational, tactical, and strategic decisions towards improving the performance of PI inspired assembly facilities.
Additional file 1 of The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning monitoring to safely administer a fluid-restrictive goal-directed treatment protocol to minimize the risk of transfusion during major spine surgery of a Jehovah’s Witness: a case report
Creators: name: Denn, Sara
name: Schneck, Emmanuel
name: Jablawi, Fidaa
name: Bender, Michael
name: Schmidt, Götz
name: Habicher, Marit
name: Uhl, Eberhard
name: Sander, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Patient´s consent on the application of different blood products.
Kinematic Evolution of Field and Cluster Spiral Galaxies
Creators: name: Ziegler, Bodo
name: Boehm, Asmus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of the Tully-Fisher relation out to z=1 with 137 emission-line galaxies in the field that display a regular rotation curve. They follow a linear trend with lookback time being on average brighter by 1.1Bmag and 60% smaller at z=1. For a subsample of 48 objects with very regular gas kinematics and stellar structure we derive a TF scatter of 1.15mag, which is two times larger than local samples exhibit. This is probably due to modest variations in their star formation history and chemical enrichment. In another study of 96 members of Abell 901/902 at z=0.17 and 86 field galaxies with similar redshifts we find a difference in the TFR of 0.42mag in the B-band but no significant difference in stellar mass. Comparing specifically red spirals with blue ones in the cluster, the former are fainter on average by 0.35Bmag and have 15% lower stellar masses. This is probably due to star formation quenching caused by ram-pressure in the cluster environment. Evidence for this scenario comes from strong distortions of the gas disk of red spirals that have at the same time a very regular stellar disk structure.
description: Proceedings of IAU Symp. 311, Galaxy Masses as Constraints of Formation Models, ed. M. Cappellari & S. Courteau, (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), in press
Physical Internet-driven last mile delivery: Performance requirements across people, process and technology
Creators: name: Kayikci, Yasanur
name: Zavitsas, Kostas
name: Franklin, Rod
name: Cebeci, Merve
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Last mile delivery
Physical internet
Collaboration
Hyperconnectivity
Technology
Adoption
Performance
Logistics operations
City logistics

description: Presented at the 9th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2023) 13-15 June 2023, Athens, Greece
description: The concept of the physical internet (PI) is changing and reshaping the business environment of logistics along with the cutting-edge technologies and innovations and is rapidly evolving towards last mile delivery (LMD). Implementing new solutions in LMD are particularly essential to meet growing demand, respond to increased operational complexity and enhance efficiency and sustainability. The PI-driven LMD requires new features and capabilities to combat all these challenges. Therefore, there is a need to understand the performance requirements that contextualize the relationships among people, process, and technology (PPT). In this study, a PI-driven LMD framework based on PPT theory is proposed. First, a systematic literature review is conducted to explore the state of the art of academic and practitioner articles and projects on LMD and PI. Then, a thematic analysis is carried out to analyze the requirements of the PI-driven LMD from the perspective of PPT to interpret performance challenges and successes. The main contribution of this study is to investigate the performance related requirements of PI-driven LMD according to PPT perspectives. The findings show that PI-driven LMD improves delivery performance, security, privacy, transparency, and traceability performance as well as customer service performance.
Older Romantic Partners and Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence
Creators: name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
name: Haydon, Abigail A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Although developmental theory predicts that adolescent romantic relationships have important benefits, empirical evidence suggests that they may also carry substantial psychosocial risk. This study uses data from 4,948 respondents (50% female) in Wave I and Wave II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the association between involvement with an older romantic partner and depressive symptoms during adolescence. Ordinary least squares regression models compared Wave II depressive symptoms among respondents with older partners (defined as an age difference of 2 or more years) to respondents with same-age or younger partners, controlling for baseline depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics. Ten percent of females and two percent of males reported having an older romantic partner at Wave II. Among females only, involvement with an older romantic partner was associated with a modest but significant increase in depressive symptoms between waves. This association was largely mediated by increases in substance use. Findings suggest that involvement with an older male partner during adolescence may increase the risk of poor emotional outcomes among females.