cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Broschüre "Wandel in Wädenswil" : inhaltliche, konzeptionelle und gestalterische Grundlagen
Creators: name: Hollenstein, Sandra
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2018
Subjects: Transition Towns
Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation
Umweltpsychologie
Umweltsoziologie
Value – Action Gap
Broschüre
Suffizienz
Kulturwandel
Kapitalismuskritik
Kampagne
307: Gemeinschaften
333.7: Landflächen, Naturerholungsgebiete

description: Globale und lokale ökologische, soziale und auch wirtschaftliche Probleme gehen mit unserer Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweise einher. Wir scheinen wissentlich am eigenen Ast zu sägen, unfähig den momentanen zerstörerischen Weg zu verlassen.  
Die Grassroots Bewegung «Transition Towns» arbeitet überall auf der Welt am Wandel hin zur Nachhaltigkeit auf lokaler Ebene, indem sie mit Realexperimenten das alte Modell schrittweise durch ein besseres ersetzt. Auch in Wädenswil gibt es seit 2017 eine Transition Gruppe, die bereits unterschiedliche Experimente gestartet hat.  
Doch wie gelingt es, den Prozess in der Stadt relevant für den Grossteil der Bevölkerung zu machen und eben nicht in der «grünen Nische» zu verharren? Was sind die individuellen, gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Treiber, die uns auf dem Pfad der Zerstörung halten? Und wie kann diesen Herausforderungen kommunikativ begegnet werden?
description: Global and regional ecological, social and even economic problems are in line with our way of living and our economic system. We seem to be unable to leave the destructive path we’re on. 
The grassroots movement “Transition Towns” is working towards the local sustainable change with real world experiments, in order to replace the old model step by step by a better one. So does 2017 founded Transition Wädenswil, which started already some experiments in this regard. 
But how will it be possible to make this process relevant for the majority of the citizens of Wädenswil, so that they won’t stay in the “green niche”? What are the individual, societal and institutional drivers that keep us on our destructive path? And how can we face these challenges by means of communication?
Effet de la biocalcification par MICP sur les propriétés mécaniques des argiles
Creators: name: Maston, Olivier
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2024

description: L'intérêt croissant pour l'utilisation de la terre crue en tant que matériau de construction durable a incité les chercheurs à explorer des moyens d'améliorer sa viabilité dans l'industrie de la construction. Une approche innovante qui a captivé l'attention au cours de la dernière décennie est l'utilisation de la précipitation de calcite induite par les microbes (MICP) pour renforcer et stabiliser principalement les sols inertes. Cette étude vise à appliquer préventivement le MICP par la méthode du "Soil-Mixing" dans une argile chargée, nommée "Kaolin P300". Tous les échantillons ont été soumis à une batterie de tests destructifs pour évaluer l'amélioration des propriétés mécaniques de l'argile, passant d’une préparation de l'état liquide à l'état solide. Les résultats ont démontré une amélioration de la résistance du Kaolin P300 grâce au traitement MICP. La corrélation des résultats a souligné une cohésion renforcée par le MICP, particulièrement à la limite plastique des échantillons. La précipitation de CaCO3 a été confirmée et quantifiée à l'aide d'un calcimètre. De plus, l'analyse microscopique par spectroscopie infrarouge à réflectance totale atténuée et la diffraction des rayons X ont confirmé la présence de CaCO3 sous forme de calcite, tout en mettant en évidence la présence résiduelle d'urée et d'acétate de calcium.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 42 No 1 (2024): Special Issue - RUGC 2024
Festival Das Águas de Serra Negra
Creators: name: FILHO, HENRIQUE VIEIRA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: arte
projeto
cultural
proposta

description: Publicado na íntegra em https://henriquevieirafilho.com.br/2023/08/30/festival-das-aguas-de-serra-negra/ Henrique Vieira Filho, agente cultural, diretor de arte propõe a realização do Festival das Águas de Serra Negra Ficha técnica: Nome: Festival Das Águas de Serra Negra - evento gratuito, com música, dança, exposições e espetáculos com figurinos em homenagem às águas e, paralelamente, ocorrerão concursos de fantasia e participações VIP (presencial ou virtual) . Local: Fontana de Trevi - Av. Dep. Romeu Campos Vergal - s/n, Serra Negra/SP. Direção de Arte: Henrique Vieira Filho (MTE 0058368/SP);  Elenco (sujeito a alterações): Mirella Ferraz, Dayana Brunhara, Carol Invencioni, Naiara Godoi, Thiá Sguoti. Figurino (sujeito a alterações): Maria Goretti Direção musical: Banda Lira Produção executiva: Henrique Vieira Filho e Fabiana Vieira Assessoria de imprensa: Henrique Vieira Filho (Jornalista - MTE 080467/SP) Produção Audiovisual: Sociedade Das Artes (ANCINE: 49361) Realização: Ponto de Cultura “Sociedade Das Artes” (SNIIC: SP-21915) Captação necessária: de R$ 53.000,00 a R$ 80.000,00 Relevância: Serra Negra é mundialmente conhecida por suas águas minerais e possui réplica da Fontana De Trevi, que foi centro das atenções e de mídia espontânea, sendo importante novos eventos sequenciais para manter a repercussão e este é o caso do Festival Das Águas, com a apresentação de sereias profissionais e amadoras, no papel da mitológica Iara, a sereia de água doce, em um show de beleza, música e dança. Os lojistas e a gastronomia terão oportunidade extra de negócios ao criarem produtos relacionados ao tema. Além de conquistar um público novo, haverá um retorno extra dos turistas convencionais para acompanhar este espetáculo visual, que merece cobertura espontânea da mídia. Público alvo: Os 300 mil habitantes da região e os cerca de 200 mil turistas habituais serão alvos de divulgação em jornais, rádio, televisão e internet, via assessoria de imprensa, reforçada por publicidade local. Os milhares de adeptos do Sereismo serão captados em suas redes sociais.
description: Publicado na íntegra em https://henriquevieirafilho.com.br/2023/08/30/festival-das-aguas-de-serra-negra/
Central Mass Profiles of the Nearby Cool-core Galaxy Clusters Hydra A and A478
Creators: name: Okabe, N.
name: Umetsu, K.
name: Tamura, T.
name: Fujita, Y.
name: Takizawa, M.
name: Matsushita, K.
name: Fukazawa, Y.
name: Futamase, T.
name: Kawaharada, M.
name: Miyazaki, S.
name: Mochizuki, Y.
name: Nakazawa, K.
name: Ohashi, T.
name: Ota, N.
name: Sasaki, T.
name: Sato, K.
name: Tam, S. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a weak-lensing study of the nearby cool-core galaxy clusters, Hydra A ($z=0.0538$) and A478 ($z=0.0881$), of which brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) host powerful activities of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). For each cluster, the observed tangential shear profile is well described either by a single Navarro--Frenk--White model or a two-component model including the BCG as an unresolved point mass. For A478, we determine the BCG and its host-halo masses from a joint fit to weak-lensing and stellar photometry measurements. We find that the choice of initial mass functions (IMFs) can introduce a factor of two uncertainty in the BCG mass, whereas the BCG host halo mass is well constrained by data. We perform a joint analysis of weak-lensing and stellar kinematics data available for the Hydra A cluster, which allows us to constrain the central mass profile without assuming specific IMFs. We find that the central mass profile ($r<300$kpc) determined from the joint analysis is in excellent agreement with those from independent measurements, including dynamical masses estimated from the cold gas disk component, X-ray hydrostatic total mass estimates, and the central stellar mass estimated based on the Salpeter IMF. The observed dark-matter fraction around the BCG for Hydra A is found to be smaller than those predicted by adiabatic contraction models, suggesting the importance of other physical processes, such as the the AGN feedback and/or dissipationless mergers.
description: accepted for the publication in MNRAS, 15 pages 10 figures
Natural F-theory constructions of Standard Model structure from $E_7$ flux breaking
Creators: name: Li, Shing Yan
name: Taylor, Washington
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a broad class of 4D F-theory models in which an $E_7$ gauge group is broken through fluxes to the Standard Model gauge group. These models are ubiquitous in the 4D F-theory landscape and can arise from flux breaking of most models with $E_7$ factors. While in many cases the $E_7$ breaking leads to exotic matter, there are large families of models in which the Standard Model gauge group and chiral matter representations are obtained through an intermediate $\mathrm{SU}(5)$ group. The number of generations of matter appearing in these models can easily be small. We demonstrate the possibility of getting three generations of chiral matter as the preferred matter content.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure; v4: Published version in PRD; v2: Incorporated intermediate SU(5) and remainder hypercharge breaking to fix issues with flux breaking pattern in the initial version
Von Schönheit im Garten : das Schöne gemeinsam hervorbringen und entdecken
Creators: name: Hagen Hodgson, Petra
name: Eberhard, Peter
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Agrar- und Umweltpädagogik
Year: 2017
Subjects: 712: Landschaftsgestaltung (Landschaftsdesign)

description: Gartenkunst war jahrhundertelang das Privileg einer kleinen Schicht, der es vorbehalten war, kunstvolle Gärten anlegen zu lassen. Die Mehrzahl der Menschen hingegen war damit beschäftigt, Obst und Gemüse anzubauen. Dies änderte sich grundlegend erst mit der modernen Konsumgesellschaft nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Als Phänomen des Wohlstands begann sich das Meer der Einfamilienhäuser mit im Verhältnis kleinen Gärten auszubreiten, von denen heute viele durch „Amateurgärtner“ angelegt werden.
Adaptive R-Peak Detection on Wearable ECG Sensors for High-Intensity Exercise
Creators: name: De Giovanni, Elisabetta
name: Teijeiro, Tomas
name: Millet, Grégoire P.
name: Atienza, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U35

description: Objective: Continuous monitoring of biosignals via wearable sensors has quickly expanded in the medical and wellness fields. At rest, automatic detection of vital parameters is generally accurate. However, in conditions such as high-intensity exercise, sudden physiological changes occur to the signals, compromising the robustness of standard algorithms. Methods: Our method, called BayeSlope, is based on unsupervised learning, Bayesian filtering, and non-linear normalization to enhance and correctly detect the R peaks according to their expected positions in the ECG. Furthermore, as BayeSlope is computationally heavy and can drain the device battery quickly, we propose an online design that adapts its robustness to sudden physiological changes, and its complexity to the heterogeneous resources of modern embedded platforms. This method combines BayeSlope with a lightweight algorithm, executed in cores with different capabilities, to reduce the energy consumption while preserving the accuracy. Results: BayeSlope achieves an F1 score of 99.3% in experiments during intense cycling exercise with 20 subjects. Additionally, the online adaptive process achieves an F1 score of 99% across five different exercise intensities, with a total energy consumption of 1.55+-0.54~mJ. Conclusion: We propose a highly accurate and robust method, and a complete energy-efficient implementation in a modern ultra-low-power embedded platform to improve R peak detection in challenging conditions, such as during high-intensity exercise. Significance: The experiments show that BayeSlope outperforms a state-of-the-art algorithm up to 8.4% in F1 score, while our online adaptive method can reach energy savings up to 38.7% on modern heterogeneous wearable platforms.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables
LipSound2: Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Lip-to-Speech Reconstruction and Lip Reading
Creators: name: Qu, Leyuan
name: Weber, Cornelius
name: Wermter, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The aim of this work is to investigate the impact of crossmodal self-supervised pre-training for speech reconstruction (video-to-audio) by leveraging the natural co-occurrence of audio and visual streams in videos. We propose LipSound2 which consists of an encoder-decoder architecture and location-aware attention mechanism to map face image sequences to mel-scale spectrograms directly without requiring any human annotations. The proposed LipSound2 model is firstly pre-trained on $\sim$2400h multi-lingual (e.g. English and German) audio-visual data (VoxCeleb2). To verify the generalizability of the proposed method, we then fine-tune the pre-trained model on domain-specific datasets (GRID, TCD-TIMIT) for English speech reconstruction and achieve a significant improvement on speech quality and intelligibility compared to previous approaches in speaker-dependent and -independent settings. In addition to English, we conduct Chinese speech reconstruction on the CMLR dataset to verify the impact on transferability. Lastly, we train the cascaded lip reading (video-to-text) system by fine-tuning the generated audios on a pre-trained speech recognition system and achieve state-of-the-art performance on both English and Chinese benchmark datasets.
description: ACCEPTED IN IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Contribution de la mécanique de la rupture et des techniques ultrasonores pour l’inspection et la surveillance des ouvrages en bois
Creators: name: AFOUTOU, JEROME SONAGNON
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2024

description: L’utilisation et la durée de vie des structures en bois sont souvent mises en cause par les problématiques liées à l’humidité et à la fissuration. La thèse, objet de cet article, s’inscrit dans la logique d’apporter des outils pour le monitoring de la santé structurale des ouvrages bois en service, notamment l’évaluation des propriétés mécaniques résiduelles et le suivi d’une fissuration volumique. Ces structures étant généralement sous sollicitations complexes, une approche numérique, permet de quantifier la contribution de chaque mode élémentaire de rupture dans le processus de fissuration et d’avoir leur distribution dans l’épaisseur. L’approche expérimentale repose sur le modèle de Hankinson 3D développé et validé sur la base des mesures de vitesses de propagation d’ondes ultrasonores. Appliqué à la localisation 3D des sources d’émission acoustique, les algorithmes développés ont permis de localiser avec succès lesdites sources. Une autre application du modèle a permis de déterminer la totalité des composantes de la matrice de rigidité du matériau bois, et ce, uniquement à partir des ondes de compression et d’un seul échantillon.  
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 42 No 1 (2024): Special Issue - RUGC 2024
Seeded PageRank Solution Paths
Creators: name: Kloster, Kyle
name: Gleich, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.3; G.1.3; F.2.2
subject: 91D30 (Primary)

description: We study the behavior of network diffusions based on the PageRank random walk from a set of seed nodes. These diffusions are known to reveal small, localized clusters (or communities) and also large macro-scale clusters by varying a parameter that has a dual-interpretation as an accuracy bound and as a regularization level. We propose a new method that quickly approximates the result of the diffusion for all values of this parameter. Our method efficiently generates an approximate $\textit{solution path}$ or $\textit{regularization path}$ associated with a PageRank diffusion, and it reveals cluster structures at multiple size-scales between small and large. We formally prove a runtime bound on this method that is independent of the size of the network, and we investigate multiple optimizations to our method that can be more practical in some settings. We demonstrate that these methods identify refined clustering structure on a number of real-world networks with up to 2 billion edges.
description: 29 pages, 8 figures
Quandle Coloring Quivers of (p, 2)-Torus Links
Creators: name: Basi, Jagdeep
name: Caprau, Carmen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57K10, 57K12

description: A quandle coloring quiver is a quiver structure, introduced by Karina Cho and Sam Nelson, which is defined on the set of quandle colorings of an oriented knot or link by a finite quandle. We study quandle coloring quivers of (p, 2)-torus knots and links with respect to dihedral quandles.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures; corrected small typos
Gesichter einer Stadt - Orte der Ruhe erkunden
Creators: name: Hagen Hodgson, Petra
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Agrar- und Umweltpädagogik
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ruhe
Raum
Stadtentwicklung
Zürich
Schweiz
Grünraum
307: Gemeinschaften
711: Raumplanung (Städtebau)

description: Zürich soll laut neuem Richtplan dichter wachsen. Das bedeutet dichtere Bebauung, Steigerung des Verkehrs- und Baulärms. Ruhige Orte im hektischen Alltag zu finden wird schwieriger. Studierende befassen sich mit dem Thema aus der Perspektive urbaner Freiräume. Sie erkunden Alltagsqualitäten Zürcher Freiräume und stellen ihre Ergebnisse öffentlich aus.
Mesure du coefficient de migration à l'état stationnaire de géopolymères contenant des matériaux à changement de phase microcapsulés
Creators: name: EL MOUSTAPHA, Bouha
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2024

description: L'objectif de cette recherche est d'évaluer les propriétés de migration du chlorure à l'état stationnaire des mortiers géopolymères à base de laitier de haut fourneau (MGPs) et des mortiers de ciment (MCs). Trois taux de matériaux à changement de phase microencapsulés (MCPM) : 0 %, 5 % et 10 % ont été incorporés dans les deux types de mortiers. En outre, trois taux de métakaolin (MK) : 0 %, 10 % et 20 %, ont été ajoutés pour étudier leur effet sur la performance des MGPs après l'ajout de MCPM. Les résultats ont montré que l'ajout de MK a augmenté la résistance en compression des MGPs-MCPM d'environ 10 MPa.  Ces effets sont dus à la grande réactivité du MK, qui a favorisé une bonne dissolution de la silice et de l'aluminium dans le MK, qui a bien participé avec le calcium dans le laitier de haut fourneau pour créer les gels NASH et CASH. Ces gels ont amélioré les performances mécaniques des MGPs. D'autre part, l’ajout de MK a montré une réduction du coefficient de migration des ions chlorure (Dss). Cette diminution est due à une liaison physique et chimique sur les gels CASH et NASH du géopolymère après l'ajout de MK. Enfin, tous les MGPs-MCPM ont montré des performances mécaniques et une durabilité améliorée par rapport aux MCs.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 42 No 1 (2024): Special Issue - RUGC 2024
Induction and inhibition of rat hepatic drug metabolism by imidazoles.
Creators: name: Ritter, Joseph Kraft
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pharmacokinetics
Metabolism
Drug Effects

description: The characteristics of inhibition and induction by imidazoles, and their possible relationship, were investigated. The N-substituted imidazole clotrimazole (CloTZ) was a strong inhibitor of in vitro cytochrome P-450 associated monooxygenase activity. So potent was its inhibition of monooxygenase activity that the concentration required for 50% inhibition (IC50) was similar to half the concentration of cytochrome P-450 used in the assay. CloTZ was also a strong inducer of drug metabolizing enzymes. Investigation of the dose dependence of induction by CloTZ revealed that its inducing properties changed as the dose was increased. Microsomes from rats induced with low doses of CloTZ (10-25 mg/kg) were associated with a different set of induced monooxygenase activities than those from rats induced with higher doses (45-75 mg/kg). These data suggest the existence of multiple and dose-differentiated mechanisms of cytochrome P-450 induction. Like CloTZ, other N-substituted imidazoles including miconazole (MCZ), tioconazole (TCZ), and ketoconazole (KCZ) bound to and inhibited cytochrome P-450 in a highly potent manner. In contrast, imidazole and cimetidine were 1000 fold less potent. These data were paralleled by those of in vivo induction studies, where the strongly inhibiting N-substituted imidazoles induced enzymes involved in oxidative and conjugative drug metabolism, and the weakly inhibiting cimetidine and imidazole lacked detectable inducing ability. Among N-substituted imidazoles, MCZ, TCZ, and KCZ induced cytochrome P-450 to an extent much less than CloTZ. Based on SDS-PAGE profiles of microsomal protein and on ratios of induced monooxygenase activities, the selectivity of induction by MCZ and TCZ also differed from that of CloTZ. Differences in the extent and selectivity of drug metabolizing enzyme induction by imidazoles with similar inhibitory properties therefore do not support a relationship between inhibition and induction. N-Substituted imidazoles also induced enzymes involved in conjugations, including glutathione S- and UDP-glucuronosyl-transferases, but not sulfotransferase. Marked differences in the specificity of induction of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase activity by these agents toward a series of aglycones were not predictable from their inductive effects on cytochrome P-450. Together with Phase I induction data, these findings indicate that structually related N-substituted imidazoles cannot be considered as a single class of inducing agents.
The $\ell^p$-Gaussian-Grothendieck problem with vector spins
Creators: name: Dominguez, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the vector spin generalization of the $\ell^p$-Gaussian-Grothendieck problem. In other words, given integer $κ\geq 1$, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the ground state energy associated with the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Hamiltonian indexed by vector spin configurations in the unit $\ell^p$-ball. The ranges $1\leq p\leq 2$ and $2
Real-world challenges for multi-agent reinforcement learning in grid-interactive buildings
Creators: name: Nweye, Kingsley
name: Liu, Bo
name: Stone, Peter
name: Nagy, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Building upon prior research that highlighted the need for standardizing environments for building control research, and inspired by recently introduced challenges for real life reinforcement learning control, here we propose a non-exhaustive set of nine real world challenges for reinforcement learning control in grid-interactive buildings. We argue that research in this area should be expressed in this framework in addition to providing a standardized environment for repeatability. Advanced controllers such as model predictive control and reinforcement learning (RL) control have both advantages and disadvantages that prevent them from being implemented in real world problems. Comparisons between the two are rare, and often biased. By focusing on the challenges, we can investigate the performance of the controllers under a variety of situations and generate a fair comparison. As a demonstration, we implement the offline learning challenge in CityLearn and study the impact of different levels of domain knowledge and complexity of RL algorithms. We show that the sequence of operations utilized in a rule based controller (RBC) used for offline training affects the performance of the RL agents when evaluated on a set of four energy flexibility metrics. Longer offline learning from an optimized RBC leads to improved performance in the long run. RL agents that learn from a simplified RBC risk poorer performance as the offline learning period increases. We also observe no impact on performance from information sharing amongst agents. We call for a more interdisciplinary effort of the research community to address the real world challenges, and unlock the potential of grid-interactive building
description: under review
Measurement of the top pair production cross-section in 8 TeV proton-proton collisions using kinematic information in the lepton+jets final state with ATLAS
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement is presented of the $t\bar{t}$ inclusive production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement was performed in the lepton+jets final state using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb$^{-1}$. The cross-section was obtained using a likelihood discriminant fit and $b$-jet identification was used to improve the signal-to-background ratio. The inclusive $t\bar{t}$ production cross-section was measured to be $260\pm 1{\textrm{(stat.)}} ^{+22}_{-23} {\textrm{(syst.)}}\pm 8{\textrm{(lumi.)}}\pm 4{\mathrm{(beam)}}$ pb assuming a top-quark mass of 172.5 GeV, in good agreement with the theoretical prediction of $253^{+13}_{-15}$ pb. The $t\bar{t}\to (e,μ)+{\mathrm{jets}}$ production cross-section in the fiducial region determined by the detector acceptance is also reported.
description: Published version, 19 pages plus author list (35 pages total), 3 figures, 2 tables, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2013-06/
Caring for those with Parkinson’s Disease: The Effect of Social Networks on the Family Carer’s Role
Creators: name: Say, Jane Elizabeth
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2022
Subjects: Carers
Informal Care
Parkinson’s Disease
Social Networks
Social Capital
Bourdieu
Framework Method

description: This study explored the social networks of informal carers for those with Parkinson’s Disease and how these impacted on their caring role. An increasing ageing population in the UK means that demand for informal care is growing. Family carers are therefore providing greater amounts of care against a backdrop of social change with smaller, more diverse family structures and diminishing public sector resources. A case study design was used with 20 carers who were recruited through Parkinson’s UK. Social network data, carer diaries and interviews acted as complementary data collection methods. The diary-interview method alongside visualisation of the network sociograms at interview offered a valuable means of developing and exploring the data with the carer. Individual case and cross case analyses were undertaken using the Framework Method. An in-depth view of the carers’ networks was possible, that uncovered the structural features, and the detailed intricate practices and interactions that occurred in relation to the caring role. Using network approaches and a Bourdieusian lens, the findings demonstrated that the carers are uniquely positioned in relation to their Personal Community (the informal sector), and the state and the market as the providers of formal health and social care. Third Sector Organisations were viewed as a ‘lifeline’ by the carers with the support offered through these groups acting synergistically with the formal care sector. As the care trajectory progressed the carers increasingly acted as network bridges, brokers, and co-ordinators as they navigated and negotiated across the various networks of care. The carers engaged in a complex series of transactional processes to access assistance and support through bonding, bridging, and linking social capital whilst also drawing on other personal resources of economic and cultural health capital. Trust, reciprocity, mutuality, and carer recognition acted as facilitators of support, whereas tensions, conflict and ambivalence arose when expectations of support and recognition were lacking. This study has given new insights into the evolving networks of those caring for a family member with Parkinson’s Disease. Co-ordinating these networks through navigation and negotiation is complex and forms part of the ‘work’ of care. The findings can inform the practice of health and social care professionals to aid carer recognition, assessment, and partnership working.
Understanding the Experiences of Black Birthmothers who have had their Child(ren) Removed from their Care
Creators: name: Larcombe, Francesca
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2022
Subjects: black
ethnic minority
global majority
birthmothers
child removal
critical race theory
IPA
qualitative research

description: Research on the experiences of birthmothers who have had their child(ren) removed from their care is scant. Of that which is available, the majority has focused on the experiences of White women. It is well understood that within the UK and internationally, Black children are over-represented in child protection systems when compared to their non-Black peers. Despite this, no research to date has focused on the specific experiences of Black birthmothers. This is in the context of well-known structural and systemic inequalities within the UK and child protection systems, leaving Black families at significant disadvantage. This qualitative study aimed to explore the experiences of Black birthmothers who have had their child(ren) removed from their care. Five women from across England participated in semi-structured interviews exploring how they have made sense of their child being removed; additionally, it sought to better understand potential impacts of their ethnicity on this process. Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, four master themes were identified: ‘ (M)othering from the margins’; ‘Birthmothers vs the state’; “If I looked like you…”: Navigating a racist system’ and ‘Finding the riverbank’. These themes reflect the recognised disadvantage of the birthmother population, as well as highlighting the additional deleterious impacts of ‘race’ and racism. Through a Critical Race Theory lens, areas of convergence and divergence with existing literature is identified, and further clinical and research implications discussed.
Small doubling in ordered groups: generators and structure
Creators: name: Freiman, Gregory A.
name: Herzog, Marcel
name: Longobardi, Patrizia
name: Maj, Mercede
name: Plagne, Alain
name: Stanchescu, Yonutz V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove several new results on the structure of the subgroup generated by a small doubling subset of an ordered group, abelian or not. We obtain precise results generalizing Freiman's 3k-3 and 3k-2 theorems in the integers and several further generalizations.
description: 25 pages
Towards process-figurational theory in organization studies
Creators: name: Van Krieken, Robert
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2019

description: This paper outlines the significance of Elias’s work as an alternative solution for many of the core conceptual problems in organization studies as well as the distinctive contribution of The Court Society, sketches the main elements of the ways in which his ideas have been taken up by organisation scholars to date, concentrating on a selection of studies drawing on Elias, and concludes with some reflections on the future directions that process-figurational theory might take in organization studies. The core line of argument is that Elias provides a range of powerful theoretical resources to transcend many of the problems usually addressed through the work of Foucault, actor-network theory, postmodernist and post-structuralist theory, especially the supposed agency/structure problem, constituting an alternative and effective analysis of organizational life that is anchored in the relational and processual strands of classical sociological theory.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol 8 No 16 (2018): Varieties of Professionalism in a Globalising World: New Theoretical Perspectives and Analytical Approaches
Topologically driven nonequilibrium phase transitions in diagonal ensembles
Creators: name: Wang, Pei
name: Kehrein, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify a new class of topologically driven phase transitions when calculating the Hall conductance of two-band Chern insulators in the long-time limit after a global quench of the Hamiltonian. The Hall conductance is expressed as the integral of the Berry curvature in the diagonal ensemble. Even if the topological invariant of the wave function is conserved under unitary evolution, the Hall conductance as a function of the energy gap in the post-quench Hamiltonian displays a continuous but nonanalytic behavior, that is it has a logarithmically divergent derivative as the gap closes. The coefficient of this logarithmic function is the ratio of the change of Chern number in the ground state of the post-quench Hamiltonian to the energy gap in the initial state. This nonanalytic behavior is universal in two-band Chern insulators.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, including supplementary materials. In the new version, we generalize our results to a general two-band Chern insulator and provide a strict proof of it
WECHSEL: Effective initialization of subword embeddings for cross-lingual transfer of monolingual language models
Creators: name: Minixhofer, Benjamin
name: Paischer, Fabian
name: Rekabsaz, Navid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large pretrained language models (LMs) have become the central building block of many NLP applications. Training these models requires ever more computational resources and most of the existing models are trained on English text only. It is exceedingly expensive to train these models in other languages. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a novel method -- called WECHSEL -- to efficiently and effectively transfer pretrained LMs to new languages. WECHSEL can be applied to any model which uses subword-based tokenization and learns an embedding for each subword. The tokenizer of the source model (in English) is replaced with a tokenizer in the target language and token embeddings are initialized such that they are semantically similar to the English tokens by utilizing multilingual static word embeddings covering English and the target language. We use WECHSEL to transfer the English RoBERTa and GPT-2 models to four languages (French, German, Chinese and Swahili). We also study the benefits of our method on very low-resource languages. WECHSEL improves over proposed methods for cross-lingual parameter transfer and outperforms models of comparable size trained from scratch with up to 64x less training effort. Our method makes training large language models for new languages more accessible and less damaging to the environment. We make our code and models publicly available.
description: NAACL 2022
Additional file 3 of Differential gene regulatory pattern in the human brain from schizophrenia using transcriptomic-causal network
Creators: name: Yazdani, Akram
name: Mendez-Giraldez, Raul
name: Yazdani, Azam
name: Kosorok, Michael R.
name: Roussos, Panos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Modules.
กระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญาสำหรับเด็กและเยาวชน (ภาคต่อ)
Creators: name: ภรณี เกราะแก้ว
Publisher: name: สำนักวิชานิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง
Year: 2566
Subjects: การกระทำผิดของเด็กและเยาวชน
การเบี่ยงเบนคดี
การแก้ไขบำบัดฟื้นฟู
การกระทำผิดซ้ำ

description: วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง, ุ6, 1, 269-294
การแข่งขันโต้เถียงปัญหากฎหมายโดยการแถลงการณ์ด้วยวาจาในชั้นอุทธรณ์ ระดับประเทศ ครั้งที่ 8 ประจำปีการศึกษา 2564: ความประสงค์และความคาดหวังของคณะกรรมการออกข้อสอบและตัดสิน
Creators: name: วรัญญา ตรงพิสุทธิ์ศักดิ์
Publisher: name: สำนักวิชานิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง
Year: 2566
Subjects: การแข่งขันแถลงการณ์ด้วยวาจาในชั้นอุทธรณ์
ปัญหาข้อกฎหมาย
ศาลจำลอง

description: วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง, 6, 1, 295-322
ประเทศญี่ปุ่น เหรียญสองด้านของการเป็นสังคมแห่งความกลมเกลียวและไม่นิยมซึ่งข้อพิพาท
Creators: name: สุวลักษณ์ ขันธ์ปรึกษา
Publisher: name: สำนักวิชานิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง
Year: 2566
Subjects: สังคมวิทยากฎหมาย
สังคมญี่ปุ่น
ความกลมเกลียว
สังคมไม่นิยมซึ่งข้อพิพาท

description: วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง, 6, 1, 323-333
Wake Potential in Strong Coupling Plasma from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Liu, Lian
name: Liu, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the dielectric function computed from AdS/CFT correspondence, we studied the wake potential induced by a fast moving charge in strong coupling plasma, and compared it with the weak coupling wake potential for different particle velocities as $v=0.55c$ and $v=0.99c$. The most prominent difference between strong and weak wake potential is that when $v=0.99c$ the remarkable oscillation due to Cerenkov-like radiation and Mach cone in weak coupling disappears in strong coupling, which implies that the plasmon mode with phase velocity lower than the speed of light dose not exist in strong coupling plasma.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Differential gene regulatory pattern in the human brain from schizophrenia using transcriptomic-causal network
Creators: name: Yazdani, Akram
name: Mendez-Giraldez, Raul
name: Yazdani, Azam
name: Kosorok, Michael R.
name: Roussos, Panos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Previously identified SCZ-associated genes with in/outdegree in this study. Table 2. List of the genes influenced by genetic variants or IVs together with in/out-degrees. Table 3. Loss of mediator genes with biased expression in the human brain and their upstream and downstream genes in the network. Table 4. Interactions of the proteins encoded by the loss of mediator genes and upstream and downstream genes in Table 3. Table 5. Genes with loss of mediator expressed in different human tissues together with their downstream and upstream genes. Table 6. Interactions of the proteins encoded by the loss of mediator genes and their upstream and downstream genes in Table 5.
The spectrum and convergence rates of exclusion and interchange processes on the complete graph
Creators: name: Forsström, Malin P.
name: Jonasson, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J10, 05C81

description: We give a short and completely elementary method to find the full spectrum of the exclusion process and a nicely limited superset of the spectrum of the interchange process (a.k.a.\ random transpositions) on the complete graph. In the case of the exclusion process, this gives a simple closed form expression for all the eigenvalues and their multiplicities. This result is then used to give an exact expression for the distance in $ L^2 $ from stationarity at any time and upper and lower bounds on the convergence rate for the exclusion process. In the case of the interchange process, upper and lower bounds are similarly found. Our results strengthen or reprove all known results of the mixing time for the two processes in a very simple way.
description: 16 pages
Ecoulements biphasiques dans les matériaux granulaires : suivi spatio-temporel de l’interface et de la réponse mécanique
Creators: name: AL NEMER, Rana
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2024

description: L'accélération de la transition énergétique s'appuie largement sur les sources d'énergie renouvelables et sur le stockage de l'excès de cette énergie en sous sol. Cependant, lors des opérations d'injection ou de soutirage, les écoulements biphasiques qui se manifestent peuvent devenir instables et menacer l'intégrité du réservoir. Ces phénomènes impliquent différents couplages (thermo-chemo-hydro-mécanique) et sont complexes à traiter. Cette étude examine, à l'échelle du laboratoire, les écoulements biphasiques instables à travers un matériau granulaire, en se concentrant sur le couplage hydro-mécanique. L'impact de ces instabilités hydrauliques sur une squelette solide qui subit un chargement mécanique est une nouveauté dans le domaine. Une nouvelle et unique machine biaxiale a été conçue afin de générer ces écoulements instables et en parallèle filmer cette infiltration grâce à la conception originale de la machine ainsi qu'au système optique de haute résolution mis en place. Le recours à la méthode de corrélation d'images numériques et le développement d'une nouvelle approche pour la détection de l'interface sont les piliers pour extraire les données pertinentes. Ainsi, les résultats obtenus révèlent une corrélation entre la propagation de la digitation et les déformations générées. La déformation volumétrique moyenne calculée à l'intérieur du doigt indique une dilatation du milieu lors du drainage.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 42 No 1 (2024): Special Issue - RUGC 2024
The matrix in focus: new directions in extracellular matrix research from the 2021 ASMB hybrid meeting
Creators: name: Nerger, Bryan A
name: Jones, Tia M
name: Rose, Keron WJ
name: Barqué, Anna
name: Weinbaum, Justin S
name: Petrie, Ryan J
name: Chang, Joan
name: Vanhoutte, Davy
name: LaDuca, Kendra
name: Hubmacher, Dirk
name: Naba, Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex assembly of macromolecules that provides both architectural support and molecular signals to cells and modulate their behaviors. Originally considered a passive mechanical structure, decades of research have since demonstrated how the ECM dynamically regulates a diverse set of cellular processes in development, homeostasis, and disease progression. In September 2021, the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) organized a hybrid scientific meeting, integrating in-person and virtual formats, to discuss the latest developments in ECM research. Here, we highlight exciting scientific advances that emerged from the meeting including (1) the use of model systems for fundamental and translation ECM research, (2) ECM-targeting approaches as therapeutic modalities, (3) cell-ECM interactions, and (4) the ECM as a critical component of tissue engineering strategies. In addition, we discuss how the ASMB incorporated mentoring, career development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in both virtual and in-person events. Finally, we reflect on the hybrid scientific conference format and how it will help the ASMB accomplish its mission moving forward.
Practical Quantum K-Means Clustering: Performance Analysis and Applications in Energy Grid Classification
Creators: name: DiAdamo, Stephen
name: O'Meara, Corey
name: Cortiana, Giorgio
name: Bernabé-Moreno, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we aim to solve a practical use-case of unsupervised clustering which has applications in predictive maintenance in the energy operations sector using quantum computers. Using only cloud access to quantum computers, we complete a thorough performance analysis of what some current quantum computing systems are capable of for practical applications involving non-trivial mid-to-high dimensional datasets. We first benchmark how well distance estimation can be performed using two different metrics based on the swap-test, using angle and amplitude data embedding. Next, for the clustering performance analysis, we generate sets of synthetic data with varying cluster variance and compare simulation to physical hardware results using the two metrics. From the results of this performance analysis, we propose a general, competitive, and parallelized version of quantum $k$-means clustering to avoid some pitfalls discovered due to noisy hardware and apply the approach to a real energy grid clustering scenario. Using real-world German electricity grid data, we show that the new approach improves the balanced accuracy of the standard quantum $k$-means clustering by $67.8\%$ with respect to the labeling of the classical algorithm.
An Overview of Electron Geometry
Creators: name: Whitefoot, Alan D
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: electron geometry, toroidal electron, electron radii, Compton wavelength, fine structure constant, CMB temperature, Planck constant, electron orbit, atomic orbit, Bohr radius, classical radius, Compton radius, Boltzmann constant, Microwave Background, toroidal helix

description: A supplement to "Electron Geometry"
Méthode d’évaluation structurale post-incendie des monuments en pierre
Creators: name: Guenser, Colin
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2024

description: La maçonnerie constituait jusqu’au XIXe siècle le moyen privilégié de bâtir durablement. Aujourd'hui, les questions relatives à l’aptitude au service en tant qu’Établissement Recevant du Public des bâtiments anciens après un incendie restent sans réponse. La rénovation de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris suite à l’incendie de 2019 en fait un sujet d'actualité. Dans le cadre du projet ANR DEMMEFI, une nouvelle approche numérique pour l'analyse structurelle de la maçonnerie est développée, combinant les approches éléments finis (code CAST3M) et éléments discrets (code LMGC90). Les travaux de cette thèse consistent en l’élaboration d’une méthode de diagnostic structurel des structures maçonnées ayant subi un incendie. Les différentes phases de cette méthode sont décrites : (i) phase de recueil des données historiques et techniques de l’ouvrage, (ii) phase comprenant des essais expérimentaux in-situ et en laboratoire pour le calage numérique d’une loi de comportement thermomécanique homogène de la maçonnerie, et (iii) phase de construction d’un jumeau numérique de l’ouvrage pouvant être utilisé à des fins de diagnostic (évaluation des dommages et de la stabilité post-incendie de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris) ou de pronostic (évaluation de la stabilité future et des renforcements).
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 42 No 1 (2024): Special Issue - RUGC 2024
Structure and bonding in amorphous iron carbide thin films
Creators: name: Furlan, Andrej
name: Jansson, Ulf
name: Lu, Jun
name: Hultman, Lars
name: Magnuson, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the amorphous structure, chemical bonding, and electrical properties of magnetron sputtered Fe1-xCx (0.21
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1409.5912