cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cacciatori gravettiani ed epigravettiani nei Colli Berici (Vicenza): due casi di sfruttamento dell’orso delle caverne (Ursus spelaeus)
Creators: name: Nannini, Nicola
name: Romandini, Matteo
Publisher: name: Sezione di Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica
Year: 2015

description: Riassunto - La revisione tassonomica e tafonomica dei resti faunistici provenienti dalla nicchia terminale del Covolo Fortificato di Trene ha arricchito le conoscenze sulle modalità di sussistenza di gruppi di cacciatori dell’Epigravettiano antico presenti sui Colli Berici (Vicenza) nella grande Pianura Padana circa 20.000 14C anni BP. Durante la frequentazione il sito era immerso in un ambiente prevalentemente forestale a clima temperato freddo con presenza di zone umide nella piana sottostante come testimoniano alce, cervo, cinghiale e vertebre di pesce. L’analisi ha rilevato la presenza di tracce antropiche su resti di alce e orso speleo, il quale utilizzava la grotta come tana durante lo svernamento. Lo studio si è concentrato sui resti dell’urside, interessato da tracce di macellazione, rivolte all’acquisizione di pellicce. Un confronto con altri siti coevi e poco distanti, Grotta di Paina e Grotta del Buso Doppio del Broion, associa la presenza di orso delle caverne sia alle punte a cran che alle gravette. Questo potrebbe rivelare indirettamente una probabile continuità nelle strategie di caccia e sussistenza tra i gruppi di cacciatori raccoglitori in un ampio lasso di tempo ed un attardamento nei Colli Berici di Ursus spelaeus durante l’ultimo massimo glaciale (LGM), quando questa specie sembra fosse già estinta in buona parte d’Europa.

Summary - Gravettian and Epigravettian hunters in the Berici Hills (Vicenza): two case of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) exploitation

The taxonomic and taphonomic revision of faunal remains from the terminal niche at Covolo Fortificato di Trene has enriched our knowledge on the subsistence modality of Epigravettian hunters fron Berici hills (Vicenza, Italy) in the great Po plain around 20.000 14C yr BP. During human occupation, the site was in a predominantly forest environment under cold-temperate climate conditions with wetland areas on the underlying plain, as shown by the presence of elk, red deer, wild boar and fish vertebrae. Analyses revealed anthropic traces on the remains of elk and cave-bear, who used the cave as their den for hibernation. The study focused on Ursidae remains, affected by butchering marks due to fur extraction. Moreover, a space-limited comparison with contemporary sites like Grotta di Paina and Grotta del Buso Doppio del Broion associate the presence of cave bear with cran and gravette points. This could possibly reveal a continuity in the hunting and subsistence strategies between hunter-gatherers group durin a wide span of time. These data may also show a possible survival of Ursus spelaeus duringLGM, while it seems to have been extinct in large parts of Europe.
description: Sezione di Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica, Vol 11, N° 2 (2015)
title: Truck Route Access Evaluation
title: Willamette Industries, Hancock County, Site #2659
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Aldridge, Brian
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Aultman-Hall, Lisa
name: Cain, David
name: Stamatiadis, Nikiforos
name: Weber, Joel M.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Freight Movement and lntermodal Access in Kentucky Study (SPR 98-189), undertaken by the Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC) on behalf of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), has two main objectives. These objectives include 1) the evaluation of access for trucks between intermodal or other truck generating sites and the National Highway System (NHS) and 2) furthering the understanding of freight commodity flows throughout the state. This report summarizes the access evaluation for one facility located in Hancock County in the Green River Area Development District (ADD) and KYTC (Kentucky Transportation Cabinet) Highway District #2. The location of the site is shown in Figure 1. Work on other specific sites as well as the freight commodity flow task are on-going and are documented elsewhere.  The sites to be evaluated were selected from two existing databases (a truck facility survey from 1994 and the intermodal facility inventory) based on ADD and KYTC planner recommendations, geographic location, distance to the NHS, and the number of trucks accessing the site. Consideration was also made for the freight type handled and transportation modes used.  The facility for study is Willamette Industries east of Hawesville, and the initial trip to the site revealed that there were no other significant sources of truck traffic in the vicinity. The site was visited for videotaping on July 6, 1998 and the site visit for data collection was on August 14, 1998. Early into the study process, phone surveys were conducted so that the facility manager could identify the truck routes and access problems. The phone survey completed for the facility, which is located in Appendix A, found that approximately 200 trucks per day (400 one-way trips) are accessing the facility. The most common size truck is a 48-foot semi-trailer.
Learning Disentangled Semantic Representation for Domain Adaptation
Creators: name: Cai, Ruichu
name: Li, Zijian
name: Wei, Pengfei
name: Qiao, Jie
name: Zhang, Kun
name: Hao, Zhifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Domain adaptation is an important but challenging task. Most of the existing domain adaptation methods struggle to extract the domain-invariant representation on the feature space with entangling domain information and semantic information. Different from previous efforts on the entangled feature space, we aim to extract the domain invariant semantic information in the latent disentangled semantic representation (DSR) of the data. In DSR, we assume the data generation process is controlled by two independent sets of variables, i.e., the semantic latent variables and the domain latent variables. Under the above assumption, we employ a variational auto-encoder to reconstruct the semantic latent variables and domain latent variables behind the data. We further devise a dual adversarial network to disentangle these two sets of reconstructed latent variables. The disentangled semantic latent variables are finally adapted across the domains. Experimental studies testify that our model yields state-of-the-art performance on several domain adaptation benchmark datasets.
Evaluation Of Corrugated Steel Pipe Culverts KY 55, Shelby County
Creators: name: Fleckenstein, L. John
name: Allen, David L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In February of 1998, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet requested that the Kentucky Transportation Center investigate excessive deflection occurring in three aluminized Type 2 corrugated metal pipe culverts installed during the realigning and widening on KY 55. The pipes were initially inspected in February 1998. The embankments were only 50 percent completed and in several locations only one-half of the total length of the culvert had been installed, The scope of this project was increased after excessive deflections were observed in other structures throughout the project.
Critical curves in conformally invariant statistical systems
Creators: name: Rushkin, I.
name: Bettelheim, E.
name: Gruzberg, I. A.
name: Wiegmann, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider critical curves -- conformally invariant curves that appear at critical points of two-dimensional statistical mechanical systems. We show how to describe these curves in terms of the Coulomb gas formalism of conformal field theory (CFT). We also provide links between this description and the stochastic (Schramm-) Loewner evolution (SLE). The connection appears in the long-time limit of stochastic evolution of various SLE observables related to CFT primary fields. We show how the multifractal spectrum of harmonic measure and other fractal characteristics of critical curves can be obtained.
description: Published version
Reininger, Dorothea: Diakonat der Frau in der einen Kirche: Diskussionen, Entscheidungen und pastoral-praktische Erfahrungen in der christlichen Ökumene und ihr Beitrag zur römisch-katholischen Diskussion
Creators: name: Berlis, Angela
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 53 Nr. 2 (2004): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 53, Heft 2
Studies of regular and random magnetic fields in the ISM: statistics of polarization vectors and the Chandrasekhar-Fermi technique
Creators: name: Falceta-Goncalves, D.
name: Lazarian, A.
name: Kowal, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarimetry is extensively used as a tool to trace the interstellar magnetic field projected on the plane of sky. Moreover, it is also possible to estimate the magnetic field intensity from polarimetric maps based on the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method. In this work, we present results for turbulent, isothermal, 3-D simulations of sub/supersonic and sub/super-Alfvenic cases. With the cubes, assuming perfect grain alignment, we created synthetic polarimetric maps for different orientations of the mean magnetic field with respect to the line of sight (LOS). We show that the dispersion of the polarization angle depends on the angle of the mean magnetic field regarding the LOS and on the Alfvenic Mach number. However, the second order structure function of the polarization angle follows the relation $SF \propto l^α$, $α$ being dependent exclusively on the Alfvenic Mach number. The results show an anti-correlation between the polarization degree and the column density, with exponent $γ\sim -0.5$, in agreement with observations, which is explained by the increase in the dispersion of the polarization angle along the LOS within denser regions. However, this effect was observed exclusively on supersonic, but sub-Alfvenic, simulations. For the super-Alfvenic, and the subsonic model, the polarization degree showed to be intependent on the column density. Our major quantitative result is a generalized equation for the CF method, which allowed us to determine the magnetic field strength from the polarization maps with errors $< 20%$. We also account for the role of observational resolution on the CF method.
description: submitted to ApJ, 42 pages
Applying Part-of-Seech Enhanced LSA to Automatic Essay Grading
Creators: name: Kakkonen, Tuomo
name: Myller, Niko
name: Sutinen, Erkki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a widely used Information Retrieval method based on "bag-of-words" assumption. However, according to general conception, syntax plays a role in representing meaning of sentences. Thus, enhancing LSA with part-of-speech (POS) information to capture the context of word occurrences appears to be theoretically feasible extension. The approach is tested empirically on a automatic essay grading system using LSA for document similarity comparisons. A comparison on several POS-enhanced LSA models is reported. Our findings show that the addition of contextual information in the form of POS tags can raise the accuracy of the LSA-based scoring models up to 10.77 per cent.
COVINFORM - Videos
Creators: name: Svetlana Plasilova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, far-reaching consequences have been observed across the
globe. Nevertheless, the effects of COVID-19 are far beyond physical health. Furthermore, the extent
of the impact on individuals and communities varied depending on multiple factors.
The first animated COVINFORM video aims to highlight the project’s intersectional approach toward
the analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the different forces influencing its impact.
The video targets our main communication audience – the general public. The video will act as a tool
purposefully designed to attract the attention of the chosen audience and further raise awareness
about the objectives of the COVINFORM project.
The video starts with an introduction to the start of the pandemic and further stresses its unequal
impact on communities and marginalised groups. Consequently, the theory of intersectionality is
introduced and explained. Conclusively, COVINFORM's approach to the research of the pandemic is
explained, emphasising the project's research and other activities.
In addition to the first project video, COVINFORM has also published the recording of a joint webinar
on “Vaccination refusal among healthcare workers”, co-organised with the NO-FEAR project, and two

interviews, one on vaccinations in Israel and one on the Italian vaccine development. The latest bi-
monthly report in March 2022 is also provided in video form.

All COVINFORM videos can be watched on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rwiA2bNVRS2tRPVszdaXA
This report describes the videos that have been made for the project so far and will be followed by a
second iteration in April 2023.
Motivation and Autonomy in Global Software Development: An Empirical Study
Creators: name: Noll, John
name: Razzak, Mohammad Abdur
name: Beecham, Sarah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed development involving globally distributed teams in different countries and timezones adds additional complexity into an already complex undertaking. This paper focuses on the effect of global software development on motivation. Specifically, we ask, what impact does misalignment between needed and actual autonomy have on global team motivation? We studied members of two distributed software development teams with different degrees of distribution, both following the Scrum approach to software development. One team's members are distributed across Ireland, England and Wales; the other has members in locations across Europe and North America. We observed the teams during their Scrum "ceremonies," and interviewed each team member, during which asked we asked team members to rate their motivation on a 5 point ordinal scale. Considering both the reported motivation levels, and qualitative analysis of our observations and interviews, our results suggest that autonomy appears to be just one of three job aspects that affect motivation, the others being competence and relatedness. We hypothesize that (1) autonomy is a necessary but not sufficient condition for motivation among experienced team members, and (2) autonomy is not a motivator unless accompanied by sufficient competence.
Δημόσια και ιδιωτική γη στην Αττική την πρώτη δεκαετία μετά την Ανεξαρτησία: η περίπτωση του George Finley
Creators: name: Μπαμίχα, Αναστασία Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Φόροι
Εθνικά κτήματα
Τσιφλίκι
Αττική
Καποδίστριας
Φίνλευ
Taxation
National lands
Chiftlik
Attica
Capodistrias
Finlay

description: Η παρούσα εργασία διερευνά τη διαδικασία εδραίωσης της μεγάλης εγγείου ιδιοκτησίας στην Αττική μετά τη λήξη του πολέμου της Ανεξαρτησίας και την επιχείρηση υπαγωγής της στα εθνικά κτήματα εκ μέρους του ελληνικού δημοσίου. Συγκεκριμένα, εξετάζεται η πορεία των διεκδικήσεων της κυβέρνησης επί του κτήματος του Τζωρτζ Φινλευ, στα Λιόσια μέσω της φορολογικής νομοθεσίας και τα διαβήματα του θιγόμενου ιδιοκτήτη προς αποκατάσταση της κυριότητάς του
description: This thesis aimed to look into both the proceedings towards the establishment of extensive landed property in Attica after the War of Independence and the attempt of the greek state to classify this property as national land. The research concetrated specifically on the goverments claim course upon George Finlays estate at Liossia on grounds of tax legislation as well as the offended proprietaris response
Primitive kimberlite magmas from Jericho, N.W.T., Canada: constraints on primary magma chemistry
Creators: name: Price, Susannah Eloise
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis I present petrographic and geochemical data for six aphanitic kimberlite samples from the Jericho kimberlite pipe, N.W.T., Canada. Three samples derive from chilled margins where kimberlite dykes cooled against wall rock; three samples represent flow differentiated margins of a kimberlite diatreme. The chilled margin samples (JD51, JD69 and JD82) are texturally representative of a melt phase with relatively few microphenocrysts (<30 vol%) set in a groundmass of predominantly calcite and serpentine. The other samples (LGS07, 4S and 4SA) are similar in texture to typical macrocrystal kimberlite (Phase 1 kimberlite at Jericho); they are a mixture of melt and small crystals, although with a higher proportion of melt than macrocrystal kimberlite. Crustal contamination was identified in samples 4S, 4SA, and weakly in JD51, with samples having elevated U and Th attributed to contamination by the U- and Th-bearing host granite (Contwoyto batholith). Based on petrographic and geochemical evidence, samples JD69 and JD82 represent the most primitive melts identified within the Jericho kimberlite to date, with several characteristics indicative of primary melts. They have high Mg#s (86-88), high Cr (1300-1900 ppm) and Ni (800-1400 ppm) contents indicative of primary melts. They also have high CO2 contents (10-17 wt%) suggesting they have suffered little devolatilization, and these values are a minimum for the primary magma. Furthermore, incompatible element contents (Nb, Zr, Y) of aphanitic samples are high relative to other phases of the Jericho kimberlite, suggesting these samples are the closest to a primary magma. The microphenocrysts in these samples are, however, completely serpentinized (and partly altered to other Mg-silicate hydroxides and chlorite), which affects the Mg/Si ratio of the rock. Geochemical comparisons with experimentally generated partial melts from a carbonated garnet lherzolite source indicate that the primary kimberlite magma at Jericho may have been generated from a similar source at a pressure of 6 GPa (approximately 200 km). The Jericho geotherm suggests that the kimberlite melt may have been generated at slightly higher pressures (6.5 GPa; 220 km) and at temperatures greater than 1300°C. [Scientific formulae used in this abstract could not be reproduced.]
Additional file 3 of Accurate and sensitive detection of microbial eukaryotes from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing
Creators: name: Lind, Abigail L.
name: Pollard, Katherine S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. (A) Number of aligned reads to a species versus the median coverage of observed marker genes for that species. Median coverage and aligned read counts was calculated for each species within each of the 7 datasets analyzed in this work (see Methods). Red box indicates region depicted in (B).
Reconstructing the interaction rate in holographic models of dark energy
Creators: name: Sen, Anjan A.
name: Pavon, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconstruct the interaction rate of the holographic dark energy model recently proposed by Zimdahl and Pavón \cite{wd} in the redshift interval $0 < z < 1.8$ with observational data from supernovae type Ia, baryon acoustic oscillations, gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters, and the growth factor. It shows a reasonable behavior in the sense that it increases with expansion from a small or vanishing value in the long past but starts decreasing at recent times. The later feature suggests that the equation of state parameter of dark energy does not cross the phantom divide.
description: 7 pages, three eps figures, Latex Style, Accepted for Publication in Phys.Lett.B
Drift of sensitive direction of Hall-effect devices in (100)-silicon caused by mechanical shear stress
Creators: name: Ausserlechner, Udo
name: Holliber, Michael
name: Kollmitzer, Benjamin
name: Heinz, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The output signal of classical symmetrical Hall plates is an odd function of the magnetic field component acting perpendicular to the plate. At weak magnetic field the Hall plate output is linearly proportional to the perpendicular magnetic field. Magnetic field components parallel to the plate may also contribute to the output signal via the planar Hall effect. It leads to even order terms of the in-plane magnetic field in the output signal. At moderate magnetic field the planar Hall effect adds to the output signal a term proportional to the square of the in-plane magnetic field. This paper reports on linear terms of the in-plane magnetic field component to the output signal of Hall-plates, when they are subjected to mechanical shear stress. The effect is small for Hall plates but large for Vertical Hall devices in (100)-silicon. It is fully described by piezo-resistance and piezo-Hall tensors. We present results of numerical simulations and measurements. Thin devices are less affected than thick devices. If magnetic angle sensors are made of Vertical Hall devices, in-plane shear stress leads to a small orthogonality error which - in contrast to the planar Hall effect - cannot be cancelled out by spinning current schemes. We propose a compensation circuit to eliminate this shear-stress induced orthogonality error.
description: 31 pages, 21 figures
Additional file 4 of Accurate and sensitive detection of microbial eukaryotes from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing
Creators: name: Lind, Abigail L.
name: Pollard, Katherine S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Schematic of the EukDetect pipeline. (PDF)
A few remarks on Colour-Flavour Transformations,truncations of random unitary matrices, Berezin reproducing kernels and Selberg type integrals
Creators: name: Fyodorov, Yan V
name: Khoruzhenko, Boris A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15A52

description: We investigate diverse relations of the colour-flavour transformations (CFT) introduced by Zirnbauer in \cite{Z1,Z2} to various topics in random matrix theory and multivariate analysis, such as measures on truncations of unitary random matrices, Jacobi ensembles of random matrices, Berezin reproducing kernels and a generalization of the Selberg integral due to Kaneko, Kadell and Yan involving the Schur functions. Apart from suggesting explicit formulas for bosonic CFT for the unitary group in the range of parameters beyond that in \cite{Z2}, we also suggest an alternative variant of the transformation, with integration going over an unbounded domain of a pair of Hermitian matrices. The latter makes possible evaluation of certain averages in random matrix theory.
description: one statement about Berezin reproducing kernels is corrected
Iwahori-Hecke model for mod p representations of GL(2,F)
Creators: name: Anandavardhanan, U. K.
name: Jana, Arindam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E50, 11F33

description: For a $p$-adic field $F$, the space of pro-$p$-Iwahori invariants of a universal supersingular mod $p$ representation $τ$ of ${\rm GL}_2(F)$ is determined in the works of Breuil, Schein, and Hendel. The representation $τ$ is introduced by Barthel and Livné and this is defined in terms of the spherical Hecke operator. In earlier work of Anandavardhanan-Borisagar, an Iwahori-Hecke approach was introduced to study these universal supersingular representations in which they can be characterized via the Iwahori-Hecke operators. In this paper, we construct a certain quotient $π$ of $τ$, making use of the Iwahori-Hecke operators. When $F$ is not totally ramified over $\mathbb Q_p$, the representation $π$ is a non-trivial quotient of $τ$. We determine a basis for the space of invariants of $π$ under the pro-p Iwahori subgroup. A pleasant feature of this "new" representation $π$ is that its space of pro-$p$-Iwahori invariants admits a more uniform description vis-à-vis the description of the space of pro-$p$-Iwahori invariants of $τ$.
1999 Safety Belt Usage Survey in Kentucky
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this study was to establish 1999 safety belt and child safety seat usage rates in Kentucky. The 1999 survey continues to document the results after enactment of a statewide mandatory safety belt law in 1994. Data were collected at 200 sites spread across Kentucky. Data from the individual sites were combined into a statewide percentage considering function classification, geographic region, and vehicle miles traveled.  The data show that the usage rate increased in 1999 after a few years where the rate had remained at a stable level below the highest value which occurred in 1994 immediately after enactment of the statewide usage law. The usage rate for front seat occupants was 59 percent in 1999 compared to 54 percent in 1998, 1997 and 1995, 55 percent in 1996, and 58 percent in 1994. The current usage is substantially above the 1993 level, prior to enactment of the statewide law, of 42 percent.  The 1999 statewide usage rate for children under the age of four was determined to be 89 percent. This continues the high rate found for this age category and compares to the previous high of 82 percent in 1997.  The statewide law, except for children, involves secondary enforcement. The higher rate for children could partially be related to primary enforcement. To obtain the maximum possible increase in usage, the current law should be modified to allow primary, rather than secondary, enforcement.
COVINFORM - Videos
Creators: name: Plasilova, Svetlana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, far-reaching consequences have been observed across the
 globe. Nevertheless, the effects of COVID-19 are far beyond physical health. Furthermore, the extent
 of the impact on individuals and communities varied depending on multiple factors.
 The first animated COVINFORM video aims to highlight the project’s intersectional approach toward
 the analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the different forces influencing its impact.
 The video targets our main communication audience – the general public. The video will act as a tool
 purposefully designed to attract the attention of the chosen audience and further raise awareness
 about the objectives of the COVINFORM project.
 The video starts with an introduction to the start of the pandemic and further stresses its unequal
 impact on communities and marginalised groups. Consequently, the theory of intersectionality is
 introduced and explained. Conclusively, COVINFORM's approach to the research of the pandemic is
 explained, emphasising the project's research and other activities.
 In addition to the first project video, COVINFORM has also published the recording of a joint webinar
 on “Vaccination refusal among healthcare workers”, co-organised with the NO-FEAR project, and two interviews, one on vaccinations in Israel and one on the Italian vaccine development. The latest bi-
 monthly report in March 2022 is also provided in video form. All COVINFORM videos can be watched on our YouTube channel:
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rwiA2bNVRS2tRPVszdaXA
 This report describes the videos that have been made for the project so far and will be followed by a
 second iteration in April 2023.
THE MODERN PRINCIPLE OF TREATMENT OF HYPOTHYROIDISM IN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS
Creators: name: Kakhramonova Iroda Islom qizi, student of the  Don Andrey Nikolaevich,  associate professor, Kimyo  International University in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Hypothyroidism is an urgent problem of modern medicine. According to WHO, hypothyroidism ranks second in the world after diabetes mellitus, due to persistent deficiency of thyroid hormones or a decrease in their biological effect at the tissue level.

 Key words: thyroid gland, thyroid hormones, hypothyroidism, treatment
Evaluation Of Superpave In Kentucky
Creators: name: Fleckenstein, L. John
name: Allen, David L.
name: Reitenour, Richard
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Approximately 93 percent of all pavements in the United States are surfaced with hot-mix asphalt (HMA). For many decades, most asphalt pavements were designed using the Marshall mix design method. In 1987, the Strategic Highway Research Program was established with 50 million dollars being allocated for asphalt pavement research. From that research, a new asphalt mix design procedure, called Superpave, was developed. Many states have adopted, or are in the process of adopting, this procedure, including Kentucky. In 1995, Kentucky placed its first Superpave mixture on KY 676 in Franklin County. In 1998, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet requested that the Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC) evaluate the Superpave projects in Kentucky. The objectives of this study were as to develop a database of performance characteristics to assist in the development of prediction models for Superpave, to evaluate construction practices involving Superpave projects, and to attempt to perform a life-cycle cost analysis for Superpave projects.
Heat capacity and magnetocaloric effect in polycrystalline Gd1-xSmxMn2Si2
Creators: name: Kumar, Pramod
name: Singh, Niraj K.
name: Suresh, K. G.
name: Nigam, A. K.
name: Malik, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the magnetocaloric effect in terms of isothermal magnetic entropy change as well as adiabatic temperature change, calculated using the heat capacity data. Using the zero field heat capacity data, the magnetic contribution to the heat capacity has been estimated. The variations in the magnetocaloric behavior have been explained on the basis of the magnetic structure of these compounds. The refrigerant capacities have also been calculated for these compounds.
Entanglement-enhanced classical capacity of two-qubit quantum channels with memory: the exact solution
Creators: name: Daems, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The maximal amount of information which is reliably transmitted over two uses of general Pauli channels with memory is proven to be achieved by maximally entangled states beyond some memory threshold. In particular, this proves a conjecture on the depolarizing channel by Macchiavello and Palma [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 65}, 050301(R) (2002)]. Below the memory threshold, for arbitrary Pauli channels, the two-use classical capacity is only achieved by a particular type of product states.
description: 5 pages
Maximally entangled and GHz-clocked on-demand photon pair source
Creators: name: Hopfmann, Caspar
name: Nie, Weijie
name: Sharma, Nand Lal
name: Weigelt, Carmen
name: Ding, Fei
name: Schmidt, Oliver G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a 1 GHz-clocked, maximally entangled and on-demand photon pair source based on droplet etched GaAs quantum dots using two-photon excitation. By employing these GaP microlensenhanced devices in conjunction with their substantial brightness, raw entanglement fidelities of up to $0.95 \pm 0.01$ and post-selected photon indistinguishabilities of up to $0.93 \pm 0.01$, the suitability for quantum repeater based long range quantum entanglement distribution schemes is shown. Comprehensive investigations of a complete set of polarization selective two-photon correlations as well as time resolved Hong-Ou-Mandel interferences facilitate innovative methods that determine quantities such as photon extraction and excitation efficiencies as well as pure dephasing directly - opposed to commonly employed indirect techniques.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 5 of Accurate and sensitive detection of microbial eukaryotes from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing
Creators: name: Lind, Abigail L.
name: Pollard, Katherine S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Distribution of Blastocystis in the gastrointestinal tract taken from biopsies. Fungi were detected at all sites in the large intestine and terminal ileum, in both lumen and mucosal samples. Slashes indicate no Blastocystis detected in any samples from that site. (PDF)
Bundle methods for regularized risk minimization with applications to robust learning
Creators: name: Teo, Choon-Hui
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Q325.5.T46 2010
subject: Supervised learning (Machine learning)
subject: Risk management
subject: Algorithms

description: Supervised learning in general and regularized risk minimization in particular is about solving optimization problem which is jointly defined by a performance measure and a set of labeled training examples. The outcome of learning, a model, is then used mainly for predicting the labels for unlabeled examples in the testing environment. In real-world scenarios: a typical learning process often involves solving a sequence of similar problems with different parameters before a final model is identified. For learning to be successful, the final model must be produced timely, and the model should be robust to (mild) irregularities in the testing environment. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate ways to speed up the learning process and improve the robustness of the learned model. We first develop a batch convex optimization solver specialized to the regularized risk minimization based on standard bundle methods. The solver inherits two main properties of the standard bundle methods. Firstly, it is capable of solving both differentiable and non-differentiable problems, hence its implementation can be reused for different tasks with minimal modification. Secondly, the optimization is easily amenable to parallel and distributed computation settings; this makes the solver highly scalable in the number of training examples. However, unlike the standard bundle methods, the solver does not have extra parameters which need careful tuning. Furthermore, we prove that the solver has faster convergence rate. In addition to that, the solver is very efficient in computing approximate regularization path and model selection. We also present a convex risk formulation for incorporating invariances and prior knowledge into the learning problem. This formulation generalizes many existing approaches for robust learning in the setting of insufficient or noisy training examples and covariate shift. Lastly, we extend a non-convex risk formulation for binary classification to structured prediction. Empirical results show that the model obtained with this risk formulation is robust to outliers in the training examples.
Μελέτη του σωματιδιακού και υδατο-διαλυτού άνθρακα στα αιωρούμενα σωματίδια της Θεσσαλονίκης:
Creators: name: Φλαρούντζου, Αργυρώ Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2008
Subjects: Αιωρούμενα σωματίδια
Θεσσαλονίκη
Μαύρος καπνός
Οργανικός άνθρακας
Στοιχειακός άνθρακας
Airborne particles
Thessaloniki
Black smoke
Organic carbon
Elemental carbon

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία γίνεται μια μελέτη της συγκέντρωσης του στοιχειακού και υδατο-διαλυτού άνθρακα στα αιωρούμενα σωματίδια της ατμόσφαιρας της Θεσσαλονίκης κατά τη χειμερινή αλλά και θερινή περίοδο.
description: In the present paper an extensive study of the elemental and water-solute carbon concentration on the surface of the airborn particles, is done. The study took place in the city of Thessaloniki during the winter and the summer season.
title: ARTIMIS Telephone Travel Information Service
title: Overall Public Awareness
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Aultman-Hall, Lisa
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report summarizes the results of a random telephone survey of households in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Area. The objective was to determine awareness of the traffic management center and its telephone travel information service. A secondary objective was to determine the public's preference for dialing and recalling phone numbers for travel information. The survey found that 39% were aware of a traffic management center while 55% were aware of a telephone traffic information service. Awareness varied by work location, household characteristics and personal attributes. Some households that could potentially benefit from the service were unaware of its existence. Some minor confusion over traffic management services was found. The majority of both those aware and unaware of the service indicated a preference for 211 over 333-3333 as a dialing code for traffic information (both for recall and ease of dialing).
Smooth Renyi Entropies and the Quantum Information Spectrum
Creators: name: Datta, Nilanjana
name: Renner, Renato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many of the traditional results in information theory, such as the channel coding theorem or the source coding theorem, are restricted to scenarios where the underlying resources are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) over a large number of uses. To overcome this limitation, two different techniques, the information spectrum method and the smooth entropy framework, have been developed independently. They are based on new entropy measures, called spectral entropy rates and smooth entropies, respectively, that generalize Shannon entropy (in the classical case) and von Neumann entropy (in the more general quantum case). Here, we show that the two techniques are closely related. More precisely, the spectral entropy rate can be seen as the asymptotic limit of the smooth entropy. Our results apply to the quantum setting and thus include the classical setting as a special case.
Additional file 7 of Accurate and sensitive detection of microbial eukaryotes from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing
Creators: name: Lind, Abigail L.
name: Pollard, Katherine S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 6: Figure S6. (A) Counts of eukaryotic taxa observed in each Baltic Sea sample. (B) Counts of detected chloroplastid subgroups in different environments. (C) Counts of detected stramenopile subgroups in different environments. (D) Counts of detected metazoan subgroups in different environments.
Additional file 6 of Accurate and sensitive detection of microbial eukaryotes from whole metagenome shotgun sequencing
Creators: name: Lind, Abigail L.
name: Pollard, Katherine S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Distribution of fungal species in the gastrointestinal tract taken from biopsies. Fungi were detected at all sites in the large intestine in both lumen and mucosal samples, and in the lumen of the terminal ileum. One biopsy of gastric antrum mucosa in the stomach contained a Malassezia yeast. Slashes indicate no fungi detected in any samples from that site. (PDF)
Η φιχτειανή θεωρία της συνείδησης υπό το πρίσμα της εγελιανής λογικής της θέτουσας και της προϋποθέτουσας ενεικόνισης. Μία ερμηνευτική προσέγγιση του έργου του Fichte "Ο Προορισμός του Ανθρώπου":
Creators: name: Αβραμίδης, Χρυσάφης Ησαΐα
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Συνείδηση
Ελευθερία
Εμμεση συναγωγή
Ενεικόνιση
Αμφιβολία
Γνώση
Fichte
Consciousness
Subject
Reflection
Freedom

description: Ο Προορισμός του Ανθρώπου (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) του Johann Gottlieb Fichte (Φίχτε), έργο το οποίο ο φιλόσοφος συνέγραψε το 1800, αποτελεί μία εύληπτη και εκλαϊκευτική εκδοχή της θεώρησής του εν σχέσει προς την έννοια της ανθρώπινης συνείδησης. Ο Φίχτε δεν κατανοεί εδώ τη συνείδηση απλώς ως τον τυπικό όρο της υποκειμενικής πρόσληψης ενός θύραθεν δεδομένου αντικειμενικού περιεχομένου της ανθρώπινης γνώσης· αντιθέτως, την εκθέτει ως την καθαρή αυτουργό δύναμη του υποκειμένου, δυνάμει της οποίας το υποκείμενο διασκελίζει τον όντα εαυτό του και τον θέτει ως μία διαφορική σχέση μεταξύ του ίδιου και του αντικειμένου του. Η διαλεκτική πρόβαση της συνείδησης προς την αυτοσυνειδησία συνίσταται στην εργώδη προσπάθεια αποκατάστασης αυτής της διαφοράς, στην τελική εξύψωση της πρωτογενούς ελευθερίας του υποκειμένου σε συνειδησιακό περιεχόμενο του ίδιου του υποκειμένου. Η συνείδηση συλλαμβάνεται ως η ενότητα που θέτει κατ’ ενεικόνιση το περιεχόμενό της ως το έτερο του εαυτού της· τελεί συνεπώς σε συνάφεια προς την εγελιανή έννοια της θέτουσας, ενεικονίζουσας οντότητας ή της „θέτουσας ενεικόνισης“ (setzende Reflexion). Αυτήν ακριβώς τη συνάφεια μεταξύ των εννοιών „συνείδηση“ και „απόλυτη ενεικόνιση“ επιχειρεί να ψηλαφήσει η παρούσα εργασία.
description: Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Vocation of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen), written in 1800, constitutes a comprehensible version of the philosopher’s view on the theoretical topic of consciousness. Fichte does not understand consciousness merely as the formal, subjective condition of knowledge, which differs from the actual objective content of knowledge; on the contrary, he displays it as the pure, self-acting force, which enables its very own division into the differential relation between „subject“ and „object“ or, in other words, its transformation into the conscious subject. The dialectical transition from consciousness to self-consciousness is equivalent to the subject’s constant effort to restore the former difference, to convert its primal, unconscious freedom into the content of its knowledge. Consciousness is here nothing but the unity which reflectively poses its own content as „the other thing“, as something different from itself. In that sense, consciousness seems to be similar to what Hegel defines, in his Science of Logic, as the pure self-posing, reflective entity – the „posing reflection“ (setzende Reflexion). This paper primarily focuses on this similarity.
Replicator-mutator dynamics of linguistic convergence and divergence
Creators: name: Kauhanen, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: People tend to align their use of language to the linguistic behaviour of their own ingroup and to simultaneously diverge from the language use of outgroups. This paper proposes to model this phenomenon of sociolinguistic identity maintenance as an evolutionary game in which individuals play the field and the dynamics are supplied by a multi-population extension of the replicator-mutator equation. Using linearization, the stabilities of all dynamic equilibria of the game in its fully symmetric two-population special case are found. The model is then applied to an empirical test case from adolescent sociolinguistic behaviour. It is found that the empirically attested population state corresponds to one of a number of stable equilibria of the game under an independently plausible value of a parameter controlling the rate of linguistic mutations. An asymmetric three-population extension of the game, explored with numerical solution methods, furthermore predicts to which specific equilibrium the system converges.
description: 30 pages, 4 figures
Evaluation of the ADAPTIR System for Work Zone Traffic Control
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The ADAPTIR system (Automated Data Acquisition and Processing of Traffic Information in Real Time) uses variable message signs (VMS) equipped with radar units, along with a software program to interpret the data, to display appropriate warning and advisory messages to motorists approaching a work zone when certain speed and delay thresholds are met. The overall conclusion of the evaluation is that the ADAPTIR type system is an effective method to provide real time information to motorists approaching a work zone. The information relates to speed reductions, delay, and possible diversions. Drivers who traveled through the work zone when the VMS were in operation understood the messages and thought they were useful. However, there are limitations which must be considered. The accuracy of the messages is a function of the accuracy of the radar data, the number and location of the radar units, and the logic used to analyze the data. Care must be taken to assure that the radar units used have the capability to record very low speeds and that inappropriate speeds are not being recorded. If the lane closure is very long, additional radar units may need to be placed within the lane closure to increase the accuracy of the delay estimates. The logic must be analyzed to insure that motorists are being given appropriate messages.
Primordial Black Holes Around Us Now, Long Before, and Far away
Creators: name: Dolgov, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent astronomical data on Black hole observations are reviewed. The arguments in favor that the observed black holes are predominantly primordial (PBH) are presented. The mass spectrum of PBH is best fit to the log-normal one. A model of PBH formation with log-normal spectrum is briefly described.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; Plenary talk presented at The 5th international conference on particle physics and astrophysics (ICPPA-20)
Scalar Loops in Little Higgs Models
Creators: name: Espinosa, J. R.
name: No, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Loops of the scalar particles present in Little Higgs models generate radiatively scalar operators that have been overlooked before in Little Higgs analyses. We compute them using a technique, recently proposed to deal with scalar fluctuations in non-linear sigma models, that greatly simplifies the calculation. In particular models some of these operators are not induced by loops of gauge bosons or fermions, are consistent with the Little Higgs symmetries that protect the Higgs boson mass, and must also be included in the Lagrangian. In general, scalar loops multiplicatively renormalize the tree-level scalar operators, O_S -> O_S [1- N Λ^2/(4πf)^2] with large N (e.g. N ~ 20 for the Littlest Higgs), suggesting a true UV cutoff Λ< 4 πf/\sqrt{N} significantly below the estimate 4πf of naive dimensional analysis. This can have important implications for the phenomenology and viability of Little Higgs models.
description: 28 pages, LaTeX