cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genotoxic effects of pesticide exposure on farmworkers in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia
Creators: name: Davies, Hugh William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study measured micronuclei in peripheral blood lymphocytes from British Columbia seasonal farmworkers and controls. The farmworkers were employed to harvest berry crops and were occuparionally exposed to pesticides. In British Columbia, seasonal farmworkers are predominately of East Indian ancestry and the majority are female. Cytogenetic analysis was performed on 39 female subjects of East Indian descent; 18 farmworkers employed during 1993 season and 21 age-matched controls. The mean age was 55.9±9.8 years. An average of 2000 binucleated lymphocytes were scored per individual, and micronuclei were also scored for the presence of kinetochores using CREST anti-bodies. There was no significant difference between the farmworker group (21.68 ± 10.42 micronuclei per 1000 binucleates), and the control group (23.60 ± 10.87 micronuclei per 1000 binucleates). However, among the farmworkers employed during 1993, there was a weak positive association between micronucleated cell frequency and weeks worked: 18.46 ± 8.50 micronuclei per 1000 binucleates in those working less than to 20 weeks to 27.87 ± 15.33 micronuclei per 1000 binucleates in those working more than 23 weeks. In those who had ever been employed as farmworkers, there was an elevated frequency of micronucleated cells in the group with the longest history of employment as a farmworker (26.58 ± 10.53 micronuclei per 1000 binucleates) vs. those with the shortest employment history (17.60 ± 9.04 micronuclei per 1000 binucleates). This trend remained evident after adjusting for age, RBC folate, meat and coffee consumption, recent vaccination, and socioeconomic status. A positive association between the consumption of meat and micronucleus frequency was also noted. Non-meat eaters were likely life-long vegetarians. This study indicates that seasonal farmworkers may have an elevated risk of genetic damage, and steps should be taken to mitigate their exposure to pesticides. Further studies employing more subjects, internal controls and utilizing a larger battery of genotoxicity assays are required. Studies on farm sites also need to be undertaken to develop adequate analyses of farmworker tasks and exposure potential. Use of biological monitoring for pesticide metabolites or exposure modeling using dermal transfer coefficients may provide quantitative exposure data.
ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อพฤติกรรมสุขาภิบาลของผู้สัมผัสอาหารในร้านอาหาร ทั้งภายในและรอบ ๆ มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร จังหวัดพิษณุโลก
Creators: name: สุดาวดี ยะสะกะ
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2561
Subjects: พฤติกรรมสุขาภิบาล
ผู้สัมผัสอาหาร
ร้านอาหาร
มหาวิทยาลัย

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 44, 2, 173-184
Full-scale war in Ukraine: reflections of Russian-speaking identities
Creators: name: Sushkevych Olha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Full-scale war, Russian-speaking identities, values, concepts, stereotyping, re-stereotyping

description: The presentation presents the analysis of Russian-speaking identities’ vision and understanding of the war in Ukraine as well as the way it has affected their lives. This armed conflict has become a tragic stage for the Ukrainian people. It has also become a turning point for Russian-speaking identities both living in the RF and immigrating or living in Europe and Great Britain. So, the objective of this article is to address the problem of mental stereotypes and their reconsideration as well as behavioural changes in Russian-speaking identities with the war in Ukraine.
Full-scale war in Ukraine: reflections of Russian-speaking identities
Creators: name: Sushkevych Olha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Full-scale war, Russian-speaking identities, values, concepts, stereotyping, re-stereotyping

description: The presentation presents the analysis of Russian-speaking identities’ vision and understanding of the war in Ukraine as well as the way it has affected their lives. This armed conflict has become a tragic stage for the Ukrainian people. It has also become a turning point for Russian-speaking identities both living in the RF and immigrating or living in Europe and Great Britain. So, the objective of this article is to address the problem of mental stereotypes and their reconsideration as well as behavioural changes in Russian-speaking identities with the war in Ukraine. This presentation reports on research conducted as part of "Connective digital memory in borderlands: a mixed-methods study of cultural identity, heritage communication and digital curation on social networks". The Connective project is funded by the European Social Fund under grant agreement 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-17-0027 with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT).
How much love is there in your word?
Creators: name: Sushkevych Olha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: mode, modality, social media communication, influence, values, believes, stereotypes.

description: This presentation gives an idea of how social media interaction happens among actors in terms of passing values, stereotypes, belives. It reflects the modes of online communication, their influence on interlocutors and social media communities.
TAP-Net: Transport-and-Pack using Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Hu, Ruizhen
name: Xu, Juzhan
name: Chen, Bin
name: Gong, Minglun
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Huang, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3.5; I.2.9

description: We introduce the transport-and-pack(TAP) problem, a frequently encountered instance of real-world packing, and develop a neural optimization solution based on reinforcement learning. Given an initial spatial configuration of boxes, we seek an efficient method to iteratively transport and pack the boxes compactly into a target container. Due to obstruction and accessibility constraints, our problem has to add a new search dimension, i.e., finding an optimal transport sequence, to the already immense search space for packing alone. Using a learning-based approach, a trained network can learn and encode solution patterns to guide the solution of new problem instances instead of executing an expensive online search. In our work, we represent the transport constraints using a precedence graph and train a neural network, coined TAP-Net, using reinforcement learning to reward efficient and stable packing. The network is built on an encoder-decoder architecture, where the encoder employs convolution layers to encode the box geometry and precedence graph and the decoder is a recurrent neural network (RNN) which inputs the current encoder output, as well as the current box packing state of the target container, and outputs the next box to pack, as well as its orientation. We train our network on randomly generated initial box configurations, without supervision, via policy gradients to learn optimal TAP policies to maximize packing efficiency and stability. We demonstrate the performance of TAP-Net on a variety of examples, evaluating the network through ablation studies and comparisons to baselines and alternative network designs. We also show that our network generalizes well to larger problem instances, when trained on small-sized inputs.
How much love is there in your word?
Creators: name: Sushkevych Olha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: mode, modality, social media communication, influence, values, believes, stereotypes.

description: This presentation gives an idea of how social media interaction happens among actors in terms of passing values, stereotypes, belives. It reflects the modes of online communication, their influence on interlocutors and social media communities. This presentation reports on research conducted as part of "Connective digital memory in borderlands: a mixed-methods study of cultural identity, heritage communication and digital curation on social networks". The Connective project is funded by the European Social Fund under grant agreement 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-17-0027 with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT).
Boundary renormalisation group flows of the supersymmetric Lee-Yang model and its extensions
Creators: name: Kormos, Marton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we examine the supersymmetric Lee-Yang model in the presence of boundaries. We determine the reflection factors for the Neveu-Schwarz type boundary conditions from the reduction of the supersymmetric sine-Gordon model and check them by using Boundary Truncated Conformal Space Approach in the massless case. We explore the boundary renormalisation groups flows using boundary TBA and TCSA.
How much love is there in your word?
Creators: name: Sushkevych Olha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: mode, modality, social media communication, influence, values, believes, stereotypes.

description: This presentation gives an idea of how social media interaction happens among actors in terms of passing values, stereotypes, belives. It reflects the modes of online communication, their influence on interlocutors and social media communities.

This presentation reports on research conducted as part of "Connective digital memory in borderlands: a mixed-methods study of cultural identity, heritage communication and digital curation on social networks". The Connective project is funded by the European Social Fund under grant agreement 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-17-0027 with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT).”
A liquid xenon ionization chamber in an all-fluoropolymer vessel
Creators: name: EXO Collaboration
name: LePort, F.
name: Pocar, A.
name: Bartoszek, L.
name: DeVoe, R.
name: Fierlinger, P.
name: Flatt, B.
name: Gratta, G.
name: Green, M.
name: Koffas, T.
name: Diez, M. Montero
name: Neilson, R.
name: O'Sullivan, K.
name: Waldman, S.
name: Wodin, J.
name: Woisard, D.
name: Baussan, E.
name: Breidenbach, M.
name: Conley, R.
name: Fairbank, W.
name: Farine, J.
name: Hall, C.
name: Hall, K.
name: Hallman, D.
name: Hargrove, C.
name: Hodgson, J.
name: Jeng, S.
name: Leonard, D. S.
name: Mackay, D.
name: Martin, Y.
name: Odian, A.
name: Ounalli, L.
name: Piepke, A.
name: Prescott, C. Y.
name: Rowson, P. C.
name: Skarpaas, K.
name: Schenker, D.
name: Sinclair, D.
name: Stekhanov, V.
name: Strickland, V.
name: Virtue, C.
name: Vuilleumier, J. -L.
name: Vuilleumier, J. -M.
name: Wamba, K.
name: Weber, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel technique has been developed to build vessels for liquid xenon ionization detectors entirely out of ultra-clean fluoropolymer. We describe the advantages in terms of low radioactivity contamination, provide some details of the construction techniques, and show the energy resolution achieved with a prototype all-fluoropolymer ionization detector.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Magnetically coupled atmosphere, fast sausage MHD waves, and forced magnetic field reconnection during the SOL2014-09-10T17:45 flare
Creators: name: Meszarosova, Hana
name: Gomory, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the physical properties and behavior of the solar atmosphere during the GOES X1.6 solar flare on 2014 September 10. The steady plasma flows and the fast sausage MHD waves were analysed with the wavelet separation method. The magnetically coupled atmosphere and the forced magnetic field reconnection were studied with the help of the Vertical-Current Approximation Non-linear Force-Free Field code. We studied a mechanism of MHD wave transfer from the photosphere without dissipation or reflection before reaching the corona and a mechanism of the wave energy distribution over the solar corona. We report a common behavior of (extreme)ultraviolet steady plasma flows (speed of 15.3 -> 10.9 km/s) and fast sausage MHD waves (Alfven speed of 13.7 -> 10.3 km/s and characteristic periods of 1 587 -> 1 607 s), propagating in cylindrical plasma waveguides of the individual atmospheric layers (photosphere -> corona) observed by SDO/AIA/HMI and IRIS space instruments. A magnetically coupled solar atmosphere by a magnetic field flux tube above a sunspot umbra and a magnetic field reconnection forced by the waves were analysed. The solar seismology with trapped, leakage, and tunnelled modes of the waves, dissipating especially in the solar corona, is discussed with respect to its possible contribution to the outer atmosphere heating. We demonstrate that a dispersive nature of fast sausage MHD waves, which can easily generate the leaky and other modes propagating outside of their waveguide, and magnetic field flux tubes connecting the individual atmospheric layers can distribute the magnetic field energy across the active region. This mechanism can contribute to the coronal energy balance and to our knowledge on how the coronal heating is maintained.
description: 27 pages, 11 figures
Από την αλληλογραφία Ρόδη Ρούφου και Θ. Δ. Φραγκόπουλου (1946-1959)
Creators: name: Κώστα, Ευαγγελία Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2015
Subjects: Ρούφος, Ρόδης
Φραγκόπουλος, Θεόφιλος Δ.
Αλληλογραφία
Roufos, Rodis
Fragopoulos, Theofilos D.
Correspondence

description: Στην παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία δημοσιεύεται το μεγαλύτερο μέρος της αλληλογραφίας των μεταπολεμικών συγγραφέων Ρόδη Ρούφου (1924-1972) και Θεόφιλου Δ. Φραγκόπουλου (1923-1998). Πιο συγκεκριμένα δημοσιεύονται 120 γράμματα της περιόδου 1946-1959, τα οποία συνιστούν επαρκές δείγμα του περιεχομένου της. Η αλληλογραφία στο σύνολό της περιέχει 156 γράμματα και εκτείνεται ώς το 1968, κατά τα τελευταία της χρόνια, ωστόσο, και κυρίως από το 1961 κ.ε., αρχίζει να ατονεί. Πυρήνας της αλληλογραφίας μπορούν να θεωρηθούν τα χρόνια 1954-1959, οπότε οι δύο συγγραφείς πραγματοποιούν τις πρώτες εμφανίσεις τους στο λογοτεχνικό γίγνεσθαι και λόγω της απόστασής που τους χωρίζει, των στενών φιλικών σχέσεων και της ιδεολογικής τους ταύτισης, συζητούν συστηματικά τα ζητήματα που προκύπτουν κατά τη συγγραφή, την έκδοση και την κριτική αποδοχή των έργων τους. Μέσα από τις παρατηρήσεις και τα σχόλιά τους προκύπτουν χρήσιμες πληροφορίες για τα έργα τους αυτά καθαυτά και τη διαδικασία συγγραφής τους, ενώ ταυτόχρονα αναδεικνύονται ζητήματα σχετικά με τη πνευματική και λογοτεχνική πραγματικότητα της εποχής. Το κείμενο των γραμμάτων συνοδεύεται από διευκρινιστικά σχόλια για πρόσωπα, έργα και πράγματα ενώ στο τέλος παρατίθεται ευρετήριο προσώπων, εφημερίδων, περιοδικών και τίτλων έργων.
description: This thesis presents the greatest part of the correspondence between Rodis Roufos (1924-1972) and Theofilos D. Fragopoulos (1923-1998), both important figures of the Modern Greek postwar literature. It includes 120 letters which span the years 1946-1959 – a period that depicts clearly the framework of their communication. The correspondence extends until 1968 and includes 156 letters in total, but, especially after 1961, it becomes less systematic. The writers’ communication between 1954 and 1959 can be considered as the core of the whole correspondence, as it is then that they both take their first steps in literature. Due to the actual distance (they live and work abroad), their true friendship and their ideological convergence, they feel a deep need to discuss every aspect related to the process of writing, publishing and critical acceptance of their works. Their comments reveal considerable information about their authorship, their thoughts on contemporary authors and generally about the developments in the literary field of their era. Each letter is followed by clarifying annotations when and where needed. An index is also given at the end of the correspondence, including persons, newspapers, magazines and book titles mentioned in the letters or in the annotations.
ประสิทธิผลของการมีส่วนร่วมของชุมชนกับการลดดัชนีลูกน้ำยุงลาย
Creators: name: ศณิษา ตันประเสริฐ
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2561
Subjects: การมีส่วนร่วมของชุมชน
ดัชนีลูกน้ำยุงลาย
โรคไข้เลือดออก
โปรแกรมการป้องกันควบคุมโรค

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 44, 2, 185-196
Inseparability of Quantum Parameters
Creators: name: Chakrabarty, Indranil
name: Adhikari, S.
name: Prashant
name: Choudhury, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we show that 'splitting of quantum information' [6] is an impossible task from three different but consistent principles of unitarity of Quantum Mechanics, no-signalling condition and non increase of entanglement under Local Operation and Classical Communication.
description: 9 pages, Presented in Quantum Computing Back Action in IIT Kanpur (2006). Accepted in International Journal of Theoretical Physics
Προσαρμογή και εκμάθηση σε πολύπλοκα δίκτυα
Creators: name: Φωτίδου, Ευαγγελία Δήμου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2015
Subjects: Προσαρμογή σε πολύπλοκα δίκτυα
Εκμάθηση σε πολύπλοκα δίκτυα
Adaptation over complex networks
Learning over complex networks

description: Η αυτο-οργάνωση είναι ένα φαινόμενο που παρατηρείται σε διάφορα φυσικά και βιολογικά συστήματα στη φύση. Στα συστήματα αυτά αναδύεται ένα καθολικό πρότυπο συμπεριφοράς το οποίο προκύπτει από ορισμένες τοπικές αλληλεπιδράσεις μεταξύ των στοιχείων που τα απαρτίζουν. Τα προσαρμοστικά δίκτυα μοντελοποιούν αυτά τα συστήματα και επιλύουν μια σειρά από προβλήματα βελτιστοποίησης και εκτίμησης, καθώς αποτελούνται από δικτυωμένους πράκτορες οι οποίοι προσαρμόζονται και μαθαίνουν μέσα σε ένα περιβάλλον. Οι πράκτορες μπορούν να επικοινωνούν μεταξύ τους και να διαμοιράζουν τοπικά τις πληροφορίες στις οποίες έχουν πρόσβαση. Στην παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζονται οι προσαρμοστικοί αλγόριθμοι εκπαίδευσης και αναλύονται οι στρατηγικές διάχυσης που οδηγούν στην κατανεμημένη επεξεργασία του δικτύου. Επίσης, μελετώνται τα κινητά προσαρμοστικά δίκτυα, στα οποία οι πράκτορες συνεργάζονται μεταξύ τους με σκοπό την αναζήτηση μιας θέσης στόχου στον χώρο και την ομαλή κίνηση τους προς αυτόν. Για τη βελτίωση της επίδοσης του δικτύου και της μείωσης του μέσου τετραγωνικού σφάλματος χρησιμοποιήθηκαν χρονικές και χωρικές τεχνικές βελτιστοποίησης με χρήση του οριακού μεσαίου, στα δεδομένα που καθορίζουν την κίνηση και τις εκτιμήσεις των πρακτόρων. Τέλος, παρουσιάζονται τα αποτελέσματα των μεθόδων μέσα από τις αντίστοιχες γραφικές παραστάσεις.
description: Self-organization is a phenomenon observed in several physical and biological systems in nature. In such systems, a global pattern of behavior emerges from localized interactions among the individual components that compose them. Adaptive networks can model these systems and solve a series of optimization and estimation problems, as they consist of linked agents with the ability to adapt and learn inside an environment. The agents are capable of communicating with each other and share information locally to which they have access. This report presents the adaptive learning algorithms and the analysis of the diffusion strategies that lead to decentralized information processing. Also, we examine the mobile adaptive networks, in which the agents collaborate with each other in order to find a target location in space and move to it harmoniously. To improve the performance of the network and to reduce the mean square error, we tested temporal and spatial optimization techniques using the marginal median, on data which determine the movement and estimations of each agent. Finally, we present the results of these methods through the respective plots.
Exact solvability of superintegrable Benenti systems
Creators: name: Sergyeyev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish quantum and classical exact solvability for two large classes of maximally superintegrable Benenti systems in $n$ dimensions with arbitrarily large $n$. Namely, we solve the Hamilton--Jacobi and Schrödinger equations for the systems in question. The results obtained are illustrated for a model with the cubic potential.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX 2e, no figures; in the updated version a number of typos were fixed and other minor changes were made
Fundamentals of legislation for autonomous artificial intelligence systems
Creators: name: Romanova, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article proposes a method for forming a dedicated operational context in course of development and implementation of autonomous corporate management systems based on example of autonomous systems for a board of directors. The significant part of the operational context for autonomous company management systems is the regulatory and legal environment within which corporations operate. In order to create a special operational context for autonomous artificial intelligence systems, the wording of local regulatory documents can be simultaneously presented in two versions: for use by people and for use by autonomous systems. In this case, the artificial intelligence system will get a well-defined operational context that allows such a system to perform functions within the required standards. Local regulations that provide for the specifics of the joint work of individuals and autonomous artificial intelligence systems can create the basis of the relevant legislation governing the development and implementation of autonomous systems.
description: in Russian language
การเปลี่ยนแปลงพฤติกรรมการใช้สารเคมีกำจัดแมลงและการเจ็บป่วยของเกษตรกรที่ปลูกพืชผักเชิงพาณิชย์ : การติดตามผล 10 ปี
Creators: name: พัฒนศักดิ์ คำมณีจันทร์
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2561
Subjects: พฤติกรรม
สารเคมีกำจัดแมลง
การเจ็บป่วย

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 44, 2, 197-206
D_{sJ}(2860) as the first radial excitation of the D_{s0}^*(2317)
Creators: name: van Beveren, Eef
name: Rupp, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A coupled-channel model previously employed to describe the narrow $D_{s0}^*$(2317) and broad $D_0^*$(2400) charmed scalar mesons is generalized so as to include all ground-state pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar and vector-vector two-meson channels. All parameters are chosen fixed at published values, except for the overall coupling constant, which is fine-tuned to reproduce the $D_{s0}^*$(2317) mass. Thus, the radial excitations $D_{s0}^*$(2850) and $D_0^*$(2740) are predicted, both with a width of about 50 MeV. The former state appears to correspond to the new $D_{sJ}$(2860) resonance decaying to $DK$ announced by BABAR in the course of this work. Also the $D_0^*$(2400) resonance is roughly reproduced, though perhaps with a somewhat too low central resonance peak.
description: Plain LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 Postscript figures; v2: REVTeX, 4 pages, introduction expanded, "Note added in proof" and references added, figures with more detail and improved quality, version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
The poetics of renga in the selected works of Kawabata Yasunari
Creators: name: Riddington, Nozomi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents a study of Kawabata's poetics of renga, a method derived from the Japanese literary tradition. Chapter One explores the stylistic characteristics of renga sequences and their origin in the kotodama concept. In order to understand Kawabata's desire for a new narrative form, the chapter also surveys works from Classical Japanese literature which have been moved by the renga dynamics. Chapters Two through Five examine representative works from Kawabata's three creative periods. Three short stories chosen from the early period demonstrate the young writer's first encounter with the poetics of renga. They are touched by a temporal and spatial pattern of progression, a kotodama sensibility, and a visionary interest in death-life resolutions. Chapter Three and Four discuss, in particular, the pre-war, middle period masterpiece, Yukiguni, and the post-war work, Yama no oto . Both novels exemplify Kawabata's practice of writing individual episodes over a period of time and later integrating them as a single novel. Each work shows different aspects of renga . Yukiguuni reveals his use of nature description both as a linguistic process and as an epithet function to create a narrative design. Both features are derived from a kotodama sensibility which has been for Kawabata's characters a sometimes negative experience. Yama no oto, on the other hand, proceeds as a believable human drama performed in a post-war Japanese household. Chapter Four demonstrates how, beneath the narrative, there are layers of allusions waiting to interconnect the surface human drama, creating the 'sound of the mountain.' This renga effect is called hibiki (reverberation). Chapter Five presents Nemureru bijo as Kawabata's aesthetic manifesto by following his internal search for an ultimate vision of meaning. The discussion centers on the novel's structural pattern and the integrated imagery of womanhood which leads to the ultimate motherhood achieved by the protagonist's, association of memories. Kawabata's life-long obedience to the disciplines of his literary past is characterised by his interest in the renga and in the kotodama dynamic within that form. This has allowed him to create a unique narrative technique, modern in its effect and classical in its method.
MPEC 2024-A05 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 January 1)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Electrophoresis of a polyelectrolyte through a nanopore
Creators: name: Ghosal, Sandip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hydrodynamic model for determining the electrophoretic speed of a polyelectrolyte through a nanopore is presented. It is assumed that the speed is determined by a balance of electrical and viscous forces arising from within the pore and that classical continuum electrostatics and hydrodynamics may be considered applicable. An explicit formula for the translocation speed as a function of the pore geometry and other physical parameters is obtained and is shown to be consistent with experimental measurements on DNA translocation through nanopores in silicon membranes. Experiments also show a weak dependence of the translocation speed on polymer length that is not accounted for by the present model. It is hypothesized that this is due to secondary effects that are neglected here.
description: 5 pages, 2 column, 2 figures
Westerlund 1: bound or unbound?
Creators: name: Mengel, S.
name: Tacconi-Garman, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Galactic open cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1) represents the ideal local template for extragalactic young massive star clusters, because it is currently the only nearby young cluster which reaches a mass of around 10^5 Msun. The proximity makes spatially resolved studies of its stellar population feasible, and additionally permits direct comparison of its properties with measurements of velocity dispersion and dynamical mass for spatially unresolved extragalactic clusters. Recently, we published the dynamical mass estimate based on spectra of four red supergiants. We have now identified six additional stars which allow a determination of radial velocity from the wavelength covered in our VLT/ISAAC near-infrared spectra (CO bandhead region near 2.29micron), improving statistics significantly. Using a combination of stepping and scanning the slit across the cluster centre, we covered an area which included the following suitable spectral types: four red supergiants, five yellow hypergiants, and one B-type emission line star. Our measured velocity dispersion is 9.2 km/s. Together with the cluster size of 0.86 pc, derived from archival near-infrared SOFI-NTT images, this yields a dynamical mass of 1.5x10^5 Msun. Comparing this to the mass derived via photometry, there is no indication that the cluster is currently undergoing dissolution.
description: 6 pages, 3 figs., to appear in the proceedings of the meeting "Young massive star clusters - Initial conditions and environments", Granada, Spain, 2007
Ascidian cytotoxic cells: from zero to hero
Creators: name: Ballarin, L
Publisher: name: Invertebrate Survival Journal
Year: 2023

description: Until four decades ago, ascidian cytotoxic cells were considered too differentiated to exert any important function in the biology of the organisms. Their unique accepted roles were related to tunic synthesis and storing nutrients (trophocytes) useful to support other processes. Things changed starting from the beginning of the eighties of the last century when it progressively became clear that they are directly involved in inflammatory reactions. In the last decade, it was ascertained that these cells, once neglected, deeply influence ascidian biology, as they are the main source of cytokines modulating the activity of immunocytes, and of the majority of the complement components that assure correct immune responses. Moreover, they can also produce and release antimicrobial peptides that protect the organism from infections.
description: Invertebrate Survival Journal, Vol 20 No 1 (2023)
Investigation of the shortest period Am type eclipsing binary TYC 6408-989-1
Creators: name: Tian, Xiao-man
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first BV bands photometric observations and the low-resolution spectrum of the shortest period Am type eclipsing binary TYC 6408-989-1 have been obtained. The stellar atmospheric parameters of the primary star were obtained through the spectral fitting as follows: $T_{eff}=6990\pm117 K$, $\log g=4.25\pm0.26 cm/s^2$, $[Fe/H]=-0.45\pm0.03 dex$. The original spectra obtained by European Southern Observatory (ESO) were processed with IRAF package by us. Based on the ESO blue-violet spectra, TYC 6408-989-1 was concluded as a marginal Am (Am:) star with a spectral type of kA3hF1mA5 IV-V identified through the MKCLASS program. The observed light curves were analyzed through the Wilson-Devinney code. The final photometric solutions show that TYC 6408-989-1 is a marginal contact binary with a low mass ratio (q=0.27). The temperature of the secondary component derived through the light curve analysis is significantly higher than main sequence stars. In addition, TYC 6408-989-1 is a poor thermal contact binary. The temperature differences between the two components is about 1800K. TYC 6408-989-1 should be located in the oscillation stage predicted by the thermal relaxation oscillations theory (TRO) and will evolve into the shallow contact stage eventually. The very short period (less than one day), marginal Am peculiarity and quit large rotational velocity ($v\sin i \simeq 160 km s^{-1}$) make TYC 6408-989-1 became a challenge to the cut-off of rotation velocities and periods of Am stars. We have collected the well known eclipsing Am binaries with absolute parameters from the literature.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Improving transit facilities through land use planning and urban design
Creators: name: Guppy, Tamsin Wendy Frances Sue
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Transit trips include four parts: the trip from the front door to the transit stop; the wait at the transit stop for the transit vehicle; the transit ride; and the trip from the transit drop off point to the final destination. This thesis explores methods of improving the pedestrian trips to and from the transit stop and the waiting period at the transit stop. People are not satisfied with their transit trips. People want better quality waiting areas, increased safety, comfortable surroundings, transit information, and convenience during the transit trip. This thesis explores the positive relationship between the quality of public streets and transit facilities, and ridership satisfaction. The thesis proposes that the transit trip can be improved by improving transit waiting areas, and the paths people take arriving at and departing from transit stops. BC Transit's Vancouver Regional Transit System's transit facilities are the focus of the study. Transit facilities include: bus stops, bus loops, bus exchanges, SkyTrain stations, and SeaBus terminals. The study reviews people's attitudes towards transit facilities and discusses the items that people consider important to a transit trip. This review includes a survey conducted by the author and a review of surveys conducted for BC Transit. A review of the literature provides further evidence on the basic requirements for transit facilities and a comparison is made with the local situation. The thesis explores the potential for land use planning, urban design and on-site design to improve the safety, comfort, and convenience of transit facilities. The role of BC Transit, in providing adequate transit facilities, is discussed along with the roles and responsibilities of other associated organizations including: the Province, the Greater Vancouver Regional District, municipal governments located within the Vancouver Region, private enterprise, and business improvement districts. The study concludes BC Transit should give more thought to the transit customer in the design and location of transit facilities. And that municipal governments must take action to improve the quality of streets and transit facilities in their own communities.
Antioxidant stress response to fluctuations of dissolved oxygen and temperature in a semi-intensive aquaculture shrimp farm during high summer temperature
Creators: name: González-Ruiz, R
name: Leyva-Carrillo, L
name: Coronado Molina, D
name: Hernández López, J
name: Yepiz-Plascencia, G
Publisher: name: Invertebrate Survival Journal
Year: 2023

description: The enhancement of the antioxidant system in response to oxidative stress caused by environmental conditions has been amply reported in several animals. In many cases, the studies were done in controlled laboratory conditions and few studies are available under natural or semi-natural settings. In a shrimp farm with semi-intensive culture exposed to natural high temperature and oxygen changes, we evaluated selected antioxidant enzymes gene expression and enzymatic activity, as biochemical indicators. Also, for cell stress, carbonylated proteins and caspase-3 were evaluated, and lactate content for the shift to anaerobic metabolism in Litopenaeus vannamei. The shrimp were collected at four time-points: highest temperature (T1); an intermediate time-point (T2, control); lowest dissolved oxygen (T3) and reoxygenation (T4) conditions. In gills, antioxidant enzymes and caspase-3 expression were up-regulated during T3 and T4 compared to the control, carbonylated proteins were reduced, and the activity of antioxidant enzymes was unaffected. At T1, only the expression of mMnSOD was induced and lactate content was maintained in all sampling points. In hepatopancreas, only cMnSOD expression in T3 and T4 was induced. Carbonylated protein levels were unaffected in all sampling points, but at T1 and T4, caspase-3 expression increased, and antioxidant enzymes activity was reduced. Lactate content decreased in T3 and T4. Our results show a rapid response by the antioxidant enzymes of L. vannamei and endurance to cope with environmental changes in a semi-intensive aquaculture pond.
description: Invertebrate Survival Journal, Vol 20 No 1 (2023)
Επιλογή Κεραίας για Συστήματα MIMO με τη Βοήθεια Εξελικτικών Αλγορίθμων
Creators: name: Φουντουκίδης, Κωνσταντίνος Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2015
Subjects: Επιλογή Κεραίας
Αλγόριθμοι Βελτιστοποίησης
Βιογεωγραφικός Αλγόριθμος Βελτιστοποίησης
Antenna Selection
Optimization Algorithms
Biogeography Based Optimization

description: Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία, ο κύριος σκοπός είναι η εκπλήρωση του κριτηρίου επιλογής κεραίας για ένα σύστημα πολλαπλών εισόδων πολλαπλών εξόδων (MIMO), το οποίο, στην περίπτωση μας, είναι η μεγιστοποίηση της χωρητικότητας του καναλιού μετάδοσης. Για να το επιτύχουμε αυτό, παρουσιάζουμε την απόδοση διαφόρων αλγορίθμων βελτιστοποίησης στη συνάρτηση κόστους της χωρητικότητας. Ιδιαίτερη έμφαση δίνεται στo βιογεωγραφικό αλγόριθμο βελτιστοποίησης (BBO) καθώς και στα διαφορετικά μοντέλα μετανάστευσής του. Τα αποτελέσματα, τα οποία παρουσιάζονται, βασίζονται αποκλειστικά σε προσομοιώσεις καναλιών μετάδοσης και υπογραμμίζουν την ανωτερότητα των μοντέλων του βιογεωγραφικού αλγορίθμου βελτιστοποίησης έναντι των υπολοίπων αλγορίθμων βελτιστοποίησης, που εφαρμόστηκαν.
description: In this thesis, the main goal is to fulfill the antenna selection (AS) criterion for a multiple–input multiple-output (MIMO) system, which, in our case, is the maximization of the channel capacity. In order to accomplish this, we display the performance of the different optimization algorithms in the capacity cost function. Particular emphasis is given on biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm as well as its migration models. The results, which are presented, are based exclusively on simulated channels and highlight the superiority of the BBO’s models over the other optimization algorithms, which were applied.
Constants of motion for the finite-dimensional Lohe type models with frustration and applications to emergent dynamics
Creators: name: Ha, Seung-Yeal
name: Kim, Dohyun
name: Park, Hansol
name: Ryoo, Sang Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C15, 34D06, 92B25, 92D25

description: We present constants of motion for the finite-dimensional Lohe type aggregation models with frustration and we apply them to analyze the emergence of collective behaviors. The Lohe type models have been proposed as possible non-abelian and higher-dimensional generalizations of the Kuramoto model, which is a prototype phase model for synchronization. The aim of this paper is to study the emergent collective dynamics of these models under the effect of (interaction) frustration, which generalizes phase-shift frustrations in the Kuramoto model. To this end, we present constants of motion, i.e., conserved quantities along the flow generated by the models under consideration, and, from the perspective of the low-dimensional dynamics thus so obtained, derive several results concerning the emergent asymptotic patterns of the Kuramoto and Lohe sphere models.
Hadron Tomography
Creators: name: Burkardt, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalized parton distributions describe the distribution of partons in the transverse plane. For transversely polarized quarks and/or nucleons, these impact parameter dependent parton distributions are not axially symmetric. These transverse distortions can be related to spin-orbit correlations as well as to (intuitively) to transverse single-spin asymmetries, allowing novel insights into quark orbital angular momentum from measurements of the Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions.
description: 6 pages, invited talk, SPIN2006, Kyoto, October 2006
Offene Sprechstunde Forschungsdatenmanagement Universität Hildesheim (Universitätsbibliothek).
Creators: name: Strauch, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Schulungen
FDM
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Sprechstunde
Open Office Hours
Open Office Hours RDM

description: Bei den Beratungen zum Forschungsdatenmanagement ist es ein Ziel, alle Fragen bestens und schnell zu beantworten. Die Stiftung Universität fördert das Forschungsdatenmanagement. Die Stelle für das FDM in der UB dient als erste Anlaufstelle und beabsichtigt, alle Forscherinnen und Forscher sowie Studierende zum Thema FDM zu erreichen.
Dynamic Road Management in the Era of CAV
Creators: name: Younis, Mohamed
name: Lee, Sookyoung
name: Lalouani, Wassila
name: Tan, Dayuan
name: Gupte, Sanket
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traffic management and on-road safety have been a concern for the transportation authorities and the engineering communities for many years. Most of the implemented technologies for intelligent highways focus on safety measures and increased driver awareness, and expect a centralized management for the vehicular traffic flow. Leveraging recent advances in wireless communication, researchers have proposed solutions based on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication in order to detect traffic jams and better disseminate data from on-road and on-vehicle sensors. Moreover, the development of connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) have motivated a paradigm shift in how traffic will be managed. Overall, these major technological advances have motivated the notion of dynamic traffic management (DTM), where smart road reconfiguration capabilities, e.g., dynamic lane reversal, adaptive traffic light timing, etc. will be exploited in real-time to improve traffic flow and adapt to unexpected incidents. This chapter discusses what the challenges in realizing DTM are and covers how CAV has revolutionized traffic management. Moreover, we highlight the issues for handling human-driven vehicles while roads are transitioning to CAV only traffic. Particularly, we articulate a new vision for inter-vehicle communication and assessment of road conditions, and promote a novel system for traffic management. Vehicle to on-road sensors as well as inter-vehicle connectivity will be enabled through the use of handheld devices such as smartphones. This not only enables real-time data sharing but also expedites the adoption of DTM without awaiting the dominant presence of autonomous vehicle on the road. ...
Comments on spin operators and spin-polarization states of 2+1 fermions
Creators: name: Gavrilov, S. P.
name: Gitman, D. M.
name: Tomazelli, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this brief article we discuss spin polarization operators and spin polarization states of 2+1 massive Dirac fermions and find a convenient representation by the help of 4-spinors for their description. We stress that in particular the use of such a representation allows us to introduce the conserved covariant spin operator in the 2+1 field theory. Another advantage of this representation is related to the pseudoclassical limit of the theory. Indeed, quantization of the pseudoclassical model of a spinning particle in 2+1 dimensions leads to the 4-spinor representation as the adequate realization of the operator algebra, where the corresponding operator of a first-class constraint, which cannot be gauged out by imposing the gauge condition, is just the covariant operator previously introduced in the quantum theory.
description: 6 pages
Towards Cross-modality Medical Image Segmentation with Online Mutual Knowledge Distillation
Creators: name: Li, Kang
name: Yu, Lequan
name: Wang, Shujun
name: Heng, Pheng-Ann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The success of deep convolutional neural networks is partially attributed to the massive amount of annotated training data. However, in practice, medical data annotations are usually expensive and time-consuming to be obtained. Considering multi-modality data with the same anatomic structures are widely available in clinic routine, in this paper, we aim to exploit the prior knowledge (e.g., shape priors) learned from one modality (aka., assistant modality) to improve the segmentation performance on another modality (aka., target modality) to make up annotation scarcity. To alleviate the learning difficulties caused by modality-specific appearance discrepancy, we first present an Image Alignment Module (IAM) to narrow the appearance gap between assistant and target modality data.We then propose a novel Mutual Knowledge Distillation (MKD) scheme to thoroughly exploit the modality-shared knowledge to facilitate the target-modality segmentation. To be specific, we formulate our framework as an integration of two individual segmentors. Each segmentor not only explicitly extracts one modality knowledge from corresponding annotations, but also implicitly explores another modality knowledge from its counterpart in mutual-guided manner. The ensemble of two segmentors would further integrate the knowledge from both modalities and generate reliable segmentation results on target modality. Experimental results on the public multi-class cardiac segmentation data, i.e., MMWHS 2017, show that our method achieves large improvements on CT segmentation by utilizing additional MRI data and outperforms other state-of-the-art multi-modality learning methods.
description: Accepted by AAAI 2020
Robust Symmetry Detection via Riemannian Langevin Dynamics
Creators: name: Je, Jihyeon
name: Liu, Jiayi
name: Yang, Guandao
name: Deng, Boyang
name: Cai, Shengqu
name: Wetzstein, Gordon
name: Litany, Or
name: Guibas, Leonidas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Symmetries are ubiquitous across all kinds of objects, whether in nature or in man-made creations. While these symmetries may seem intuitive to the human eye, detecting them with a machine is nontrivial due to the vast search space. Classical geometry-based methods work by aggregating "votes" for each symmetry but struggle with noise. In contrast, learning-based methods may be more robust to noise, but often overlook partial symmetries due to the scarcity of annotated data. In this work, we address this challenge by proposing a novel symmetry detection method that marries classical symmetry detection techniques with recent advances in generative modeling. Specifically, we apply Langevin dynamics to a redefined symmetry space to enhance robustness against noise. We provide empirical results on a variety of shapes that suggest our method is not only robust to noise, but can also identify both partial and global symmetries. Moreover, we demonstrate the utility of our detected symmetries in various downstream tasks, such as compression and symmetrization of noisy shapes.
description: Project page: https://symmetry-langevin.github.io/