cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Propagating beliefs in spin glass models
Creators: name: Kabashima, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate dynamics of an inference algorithm termed the belief propagation (BP) when employed in spin glass (SG) models and show that its macroscopic behaviors can be traced by recursive updates of certain auxiliary field distributions whose stationary state reproduces the replica symmetric solution offered by the equilibrium analysis. We further provide a compact expression for the instability condition of the BP's fixed point which turns out to be identical to that of instability for breaking the replica symmetry in equilibrium when the number of couplings per spin is infinite. This correspondence is extended to a SG model of finite connectivity to determine the phase diagram, which is numerically supported.
Additional file 1 of The relationship between sexual function and mental health in Iranian pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Effati-Daryani, Fatemeh
name: Shayesteh Jahanfar
name: Mohammadi, Azam
name: Somayeh Zarei
name: Mirghafourvand, Mojgan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire. English language versions of Female Sexual Function Inventory (FSFI).
Proposal : Engineering and construction management services for the Tri- University Meson Facility
Creators: name: International Power And Engineering Consultants Ltd.
name: Canadian Bechtel Ltd.
Publisher: name: TRIUMF
Year: 2017

description: This document presents a Joint Venture proposal for the development, engineering, construction, and testing of the Tri- University Meson Facility (TRIUMF) to be located at the University of British Columbia, by International Power and Engineering Consultants Limited (IPEC) and Canadian Bechtel Limited (CBL). The proposal, which is intended to be fully responsive to the needs of the University of British Columbia and its associates, includes a Statement of Work to be performed, Technical and Management Plans, and a Summary of IPEC-CBL background and experience. IPEC-CBL is aware of the significant development work already performed by those associated with the TRIUMF project. The purpose of this proposal is to present a plan to translate the scientific concepts so developed into an operational facility. IPEC-CBL will furnish engineering, procurement, and construction management services required for completion of the TRIUMF project. The principal engineering offices will be located in Vancouver, B. C. The suggested plan is based upon experience growing out of the design and construction of many other complex, highly technical, extensive facilities and will provide a highly effective method of completing the TRIUMF project within the requirements of the TRIUMF Board.
title: New insights into the unique Australian Leishmania macropodum parasite: Investigations into the animal and human seroprevalence, human immune responses and transmitting vector
Creators: name: Panahi, Elina
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: leishmania
subject: biting midges
subject: reservoir host
subject: parasites

description: The leishmaniases are a complex group of vector-borne diseases caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania Ross, 1903 (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) and are transmitted between vertebrate hosts by phlebotomine sandflies. These diseases contribute to a significant One Health burden globally. In Australia, the finding of a novel Leishmania (Mundinia) macropodum Barratt, Kaufer & Ellis, 2017 with evidence of a distinct transmission dynamic, has raised interesting questions. In contrast to other Leishmania species, day-biting midges Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) Kieffer, 1921 have been suspected as the vector responsible for transmitting cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL; a disease affecting the skin) to marsupial species in the Northern Territory (NT). In addition to an unidentified vector, the life cycle of L. macropodum has so far been based on assumptions with no knowledge of other possible hosts (in addition to macropods) and geographical range. The findings described in this thesis contribute new information on the transmission dynamics of L. macropodum, with a particular focus on the interplay between vector biology, parasite characteristics, and host immune factors. Specifically, this thesis i) examined and characterised the natural exposure of L. macropodum in humans and non-human vertebrate hosts in an Australian region of Leishmania endemicity within marsupial populations, and ii) assessed the competence of the incriminated vector of L. macropodum transmission.
Mid-IR and CO Observations of the IR/X-Ray Luminous Seyfert I Galaxy NGC985: The Making or Breaking of a ULIRG?
Creators: name: Appleton, P. N.
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: Gao, Y.
name: Combes, F.
name: Ghigo, F.
name: Horellou, C.
name: Mirabel, I. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe ISO and BIMA observations of the z=0.04 Seyfert 1 ring galaxy NGC985 which suggest close parallels with some quasar host galaxies. NGC985 contains two closely spaced nuclei embedded in an R$^{1/4}$--law stellar bulge and an outer ring, evidence of an ongoing merger. The system contains \~1.8x10^{10}Msolar of highly disturbed molecular gas which lies in an asymmetric bar-like structure with the peak in observed CO column densities significantly offset from the compact double nucleus. In contrast to this, the ISO observations show strong dust emission centered on the AGN, located in one of the two nuclei. Fainter CO, MIR, and radio continuum emission provide a glimpse of the complexities of star formation in the outer ring. An analysis of the kinematics of the main CO emission reveal evidence for two dynamically distinct molecular components within NGC985. The first is a set of isolated super-giant molecular clouds (SGMCs) which are concentrated within 9-10kpc of the active nucleus. Although randomly distributed about the center, the clouds may form part of a clumpy highly-disturbed disk which may be either just forming around double-nucleus (the making of a ULIRG), or alternatively may be in the process of being disrupted-perhaps as a result of a powerful nuclear outflow (the breaking of a ULIRG). A second major concentration of CO lies offset from the double-nucleus in a dynamically coherent ridge of emission in which powerful star formation is occurring. We tentatively associate CO emission with two out of six UV absorption-lines seen in the blue wing of the very broad Lyman alpha emission. Such an association would imply a complex inter-relationship between the nuclear CO cloud population in colliding systems, and AGN-driven winds.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal on Sep. 24, 2001. A version of the paper with higher resolution figures from http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~vassilis/papers/ngc985.ps.gz
Learning and identity development through integrated engineering instruction in secondary science classrooms
Creators: name: Chu, Lawrence
name: 0000-0002-5682-1057
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Assessment development
Validation
Rasch measurement
Engineering integration
Instructional models
Quantitative methods
Mixed methods
Engineering identity
Multilevel modeling

description: One of the purposes of this dissertation was to describe the development of an assessment – the ScEnario-Based Assessment of Design (SEAD) – that can be used to measure ability to design solutions to problems using disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices. Another was to understand how teacher use of an integrated engineering instructional model – Argument-Driven Engineering (ADE) – during 8th grade science courses affects students’ (a) ability as represented by scores on the SEAD and (b) understanding of science concepts. I also sought to examine how the performance of female students and underrepresented minority (URM) students compared to that of their counterparts in this context. A final purpose was to study the ways integrated instruction affects students’ engineering identity over time. The inclusion of engineering as a core science discipline in national standards is a result of affordances that engineering integration can have on learning outcomes. It is also a response to the call for broadened participation in the engineering workforce. ADE was developed in light of recommendations in the literature to support these outcomes. In this dissertation, I discuss the development of the SEAD and examine student learning and identity development through integrated engineering instruction. The SEAD was designed using an evidence-centered design approach and Rasch methods. I analyze testing and rating scale data using multiple regression and longitudinal multilevel modeling. Focus group data was also collected and analyzed. Students whose teachers enacted the ADE model with high adherence outperformed comparison students on nearly all performance expectations and on a test of science content knowledge. These students also increased more in their engineering recognition over time than comparison students. However, no interactions between enactment group and gender or underrepresented minority status were found on any outcomes. Results provide further evidence that engineering integration benefits relevant learning outcomes and aspects of engineering identity. But less is known about its impacts on improving outcomes for groups underrepresented in the field. This dissertation pushes researchers to examine how combining the use of instructional models with educating teachers on inclusive pedagogical practices can bring about more equitable learning experiences in science classrooms.
Additional file 2 of The relationship between sexual function and mental health in Iranian pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Effati-Daryani, Fatemeh
name: Shayesteh Jahanfar
name: Mohammadi, Azam
name: Somayeh Zarei
name: Mirghafourvand, Mojgan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Questionnaire. English language versions of Stress, Depression, and Anxiety Scales (DASS).
Bridging disciplines : a case study of interdisciplinary design-based learning between undergraduate artists and engineers
Creators: name: Harron, Jason Robert
name: 0000-0002-8197-328X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Activity theory
Arts
Creativity
Engineering
Interdisciplinary learning
PCK
Special effects
Slack
STEAM

description: This dissertation’s original contribution to knowledge is a cultural-historical examination of an authentic interdisciplinary partnership at the intersection of the arts and engineering. This observational case study focuses on how creativity activity and interdisciplinary learning emerged as part of a College of Fine Arts course. Course participants included 23 undergraduate fine arts, communication, and engineering majors and their two instructors. This observational case study followed these participants for 14 weeks as they collaborated to design, build, film, and edit practical movie special effects. Within the cultural-historical context of this course, it was the practitioners who made interdisciplinary learning possible. This study found that creativity activity (i.e., those activities that result in new motives, goals, and operations) emerged through artistic constraints as metaconditions. Weekly routines enabled creative activity along with the use of shared spaces and consistent communication protocols. Routines inhibited creative activity when they blocked access, led to scheduling conflicts, and caused delays. The instructors established the pedagogical structure of the course, which provided students with enough scaffolding for creative activity to thrive. Interdisciplinary learning took place when a knowledgeable peer would step back to allow a learner to step up to a task. These steps are part of The Six Steps of Interdisciplinary Learning, which are outlined in this dissertation as a distributed pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) learning model. This interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and engineers influenced perceptions about each other’s disciplines. These findings include that engineers working in an arts-based context were able to put theory into practice in a way that is “not supposed to be perfect.” This interdisciplinary collaboration allowed engineers and fine art majors to gain an appreciation for each other’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. However, some tensions did arise between artists and engineers that led to gatekeeping and resentment. Despite this resentment, the rallying point of the study became the universal respect that emerged when engineers began painting. Findings also include the elicitation of peer and instructor feedback via Slack. Discussion includes suggestions for researcher-practitioner partnerships and a reflection about the current state of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) in higher education.
Flexible and Comprehensive Patient-Specific Mitral Valve Silicone Models with Chordae Tendinae Made From 3D-Printable Molds
Creators: name: Engelhardt, Sandy
name: Sauerzapf, Simon
name: Preim, Bernhard
name: Karck, Matthias
name: Wolf, Ivo
name: De Simone, Raffaele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given the multitude of challenges surgeons face during mitral valve repair surgery, they should have a high confidence in handling of instruments and in the application of surgical techniques before they enter the operating room. Unfortunately, opportunities for surgical training of minimally-invasive repair are very limited, leading to a situation where most surgeons undergo a steep learning curve while operating the first patients. In order to provide a realistic tool for surgical training, a commercial simulator was augmented by flexible patient-specific mitral valve replica. In an elaborated production pipeline, finalized after many optimization cycles, models were segmented from 3D ultrasound and then 3D-printable molds were computed automatically and printed in rigid material, the lower part being water-soluble. After silicone injection, the silicone model was dissolved from the mold and anchored in the simulator. To our knowledge, our models are the first to comprise the full mitral valve apparatus, i.e. the annulus, leaflets, chordae tendineae and papillary muscles. Nine different valve molds were automatically created according to the proposed workflow (seven prolapsed valves and two valves with functional mitral insufficiency). From these mold geometries, 16 replica were manufactured. A material test revealed that Ecoflex\textsuperscript{TM} 00-30 is the most suitable material for leaflet-mimicking tissue out of seven mixtures. Production time was around 36h per valve. Twelve surgeons performed various surgical techniques, e.g. annuloplasty, neo-chordae implantation, triangular leaflet resection and assessed the realism of the valves very positively. The standardized production process guarantees a high anatomical recapitulation of the silicone valves to the segmented models and the ultrasound data...
description: Accepted for IJCARS Special Issue IPCAI 2019 (Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions)
Neocompsa thelgema Martins 1971
Creators: name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Botero, Juan Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Neocompsa
Neocompsa thelgema

description: Neocompsa thelgema Martins, 1971
(Fig. 1)
 Neocompsa thelgema Martins 1971: 166; Chemsak et al. 1992: 52 (cat.); Monné 1993: 67 (cat.); Monné and Giesbert 1994: 81 (checklist); Turnbow et al. 2003: 12 (distr.); Monné 2005a: 384 (cat.); Monné and Hovore 2006: 99 (checklist); Swift et al. 2010: 21 (distr.); Monné 2020a: 554 (cat.); Bezark 2020a: 132 (checklist).
 Neocompsa thelgema was described based on a single male from Costa Rica. Monné and Giesbert (1994) recorded the species from Honduras based, probably, on material from the collection of Edmund F. Giesbert (currently deposited at FSCA).
The female was never formally described, but the two specimens figured in Bezark (2020b) as well as the female examined by us are mostly blackish and not reddish-brown as the holotype male, including antennae and legs. The other features are nearly identical to the holotype male, except the antennae are distinctly shorter. In the holotype male, the antennae reach the elytral apex at about the apex of antennomere VII, while in the female they reach the apex about the apex of antennomere IX.
 Material examined. PANAMA, BOCAS DEL TORO: Bastimentos Island, near Red Frog Beach, 9.3471ºN / 82.1788ºW, 1 female, 4. VI.2019, A. Kozlov and Y. Kovaleva col. (MZSP).
description: Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio & Botero, Juan Pablo, 2020, A new species of Pteroplatus Buquet, 1840 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and taxonomical notes in Neotropical Cerambycidae, pp. 1-10 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (772) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458880
Additional file 1 of A novel adenylate isopentenyltransferase 5 regulates shoot branching via the ATTTA motif in Camellia sinensis
Creators: name: Zhang, Liping
name: Li, Menghan
name: Yan, Peng
name: Fu, Jianyu
name: Zhang, Lan
name: Li, Xin
name: Han, Wenyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The 3′ RACE and 5′ RACE PCR amplification of tea plant CsA-IPT. Figure S2. Analysis of the ORF and regulatory elements of the full-length cDNA of CsA-IPT. Figure S3. Multiple sequence alignment of the nucleotide sequences among the cloned full-length CsA-IPT cDNA in cv. Longjing 43 and the reported CsA-IPT5 in cv. Shuchazao, and phylogenetic tree construction of A-IPT in several plant species. Figure S4. Alignment of 5′ RACE and 3′ RACE AS of tea plant CsA-IPT5, respectively. Figure S5. The nucleotide sequences and specific motifs in the GFP fluorescence of CsA-IPT5 UTR splice variants. Figure S6. The qPCR detection of GFP. Data are means ±standard deviation (SD) (n = 6). In each figure, letters indicate significant differences among the GFP constructs (P < 0.05, Duncan’s multiple range test). Figure S7. Amplification of the different primer pairs for the 3′ UTR-AS and 5′ UTR-AS of CsA-IPT5.
Exploiting comparative advantage in agriculture and resources: the way forward for Small Island States
Creators: name: Mahadevan, Renuka
name: Asafu-Adjaye, John
name: Mahadevan, Renuka
name: Asafu-Adjaye, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: agriculture
subject: commodity prices
subject: computable general equilibrium model
subject: Papua New Guinea

description: Using Papua New Guinea as a case study, this paper investigates the macroeconomic and sectoral impacts of various developments in its agricultural and resource sector. It was found that commodity booms from 2004 to 2009 and the proposed large liquefied natural gas project increase output growth substantially but with Dutch disease consequences. The output expansion of the agricultural and fishery sectors on the other hand has limited positive impacts and the challenge lies in raising the productivity growth in these sectors and the better use of foreign aid. Lastly, the optimal policy strategy for sustainable development in the agricultural, fishery and resource sectors lies in the packaging of appropriate complementary policies (both institutional and economic) that support one another and the coherent implementation of these policies in a timely manner.
Fusus sulcatus Lamarck 1816
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fusus
Fusus sulcatus

description: Fusus sulcatus Lamarck, 1816
(Figure 19B)
 1816 Fusus sulcatus Lamarck: 6, pl. 424, fig. 3
 1822 Fusus sulcatus Lamarck: 125, sp. no. 10
 1832 Fusus sulcatus (Lamarck) Deshayes: 150
1840a Kiener; 26, pl. 13, figs. 1, 2
 Type locality: not stated.
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: holotype MHNG INVE 51713 (ex MHNG 1098 /15) (figured herein, Fig. 19B), 119 mm. This specimen is probably the one figured in the Tableau, and the one subsequently figured by Kiener (who did not illustrate it in actual size). No locality was given.
 Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, her father’s collection contained only one specimen.
 Current taxonomic position: Penion sulcatus (Lamarck, 1816); placed in Penion [Buccinidae] by Ponder (1973): 416. Locality is New Zealand.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
FLASHForward: Plasma-wakefield accelerator science for high-average-power applications
Creators: name: D'Arcy, R.
name: Aschikhin, A.
name: Bohlen, S.
name: Boyle, G.
name: Brümmer, T.
name: Chappell, J.
name: Diederichs, S.
name: Foster, B.
name: Garland, M. J.
name: Goldberg, L.
name: Gonzalez, P.
name: Karstensen, S.
name: Knetsch, A.
name: Kuang, P.
name: Libov, V.
name: Ludwig, K.
name: de la Ossa, A. Martinez
name: Marutzky, F.
name: Meisel, M.
name: Mehrling, T. J.
name: Niknejadi, P.
name: Poder, K.
name: Pourmoussavi, P.
name: Quast, M.
name: Röckemann, J. -H.
name: Schaper, L.
name: Schmidt, B.
name: Schröder, S.
name: Schwinkendorf, J. -P.
name: Sheeran, B.
name: Tauscher, G.
name: Wesch, S.
name: Wing, M.
name: Winkler, P.
name: Zeng, M.
name: Osterhoff, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The FLASHForward experimental facility is a high-performance test-bed for precision plasma-wakefield research, aiming to accelerate high-quality electron beams to GeV-levels in a few centimetres of ionised gas. The plasma is created by ionising gas in a gas cell either by a high-voltage discharge or a high-intensity laser pulse. The electrons to be accelerated will either be injected internally from the plasma background or externally from the FLASH superconducting RF front end. In both cases the wakefield will be driven by electron beams provided by the FLASH gun and linac modules operating with a 10 Hz macro-pulse structure, generating 1.25 GeV, 1 nC electron bunches at up to 3 MHz micro-pulse repetition rates. At full capacity, this FLASH bunch-train structure corresponds to 30 kW of average power, orders of magnitude higher than drivers available to other state-of-the-art LWFA and PWFA experiments. This high-power functionality means FLASHForward is the only plasma-wakefield facility in the world with the immediate capability to develop, explore, and benchmark high-average-power plasma-wakefield research essential for next-generation facilities. The operational parameters and technical highlights of the experiment are discussed, as well as the scientific goals and high-average-power outlook.
Consumer demand for diet quality: evidence from the healthy eating index
Creators: name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: demand
subject: diet quality
subject: healthy eating index
subject: translog cost function

description: Few studies have been performed to use the detailed healthy eating index (HEI) to estimate consumer demand for diet quality. In this article, we apply household production theory to systematically estimate consumer demand for diet quality using the HEI developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The results show that consumers have insufficient consumption of food containing dark green and orange vegetables, legumes and whole grains. Age and education have a significant impact on consumer demand for diet quality, but income does not. The own-price elasticities of demand for diet quality are inelastic. Simulation of tax scenarios indicates that a tax on sugar-sweetened beverage may be more efficient than a tax on fats, oils and salad dressing in improving consumer diet quality. This information is critical for policies and programs that are designed to improve healthy food choices, thereby reducing the social cost of public health.
Diagrams in the mod $p$ cohomology of Shimura curves
Creators: name: Dotto, Andrea
name: Le, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a local-global compatibility result in the mod $p$ Langlands program for $\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbf{Q}_{p^f})$. Namely, given a global residual representation $\bar{r}$ that is sufficiently generic at $p$, we prove that the diagram occurring in the corresponding Hecke eigenspace of completed cohomology is determined by the restrictions of $\bar{r}$ to decomposition groups at $p$. If these restrictions are moreover semisimple, we show that the $(φ,Γ)$-modules attached to this diagram by Breuil give, under Fontaine's equivalence, the tensor inductions of the duals of the restrictions of $\bar{r}$ to decomposition groups at $p$.
description: 60 pages, minor changes and fixes
High Frequency Domain Wall Oscillations in Ferromagnetic Nanowire with a Nanoscale Dzyaloshinskii Moriya Interaction (DMI) Region
Creators: name: Kumar, Durgesh
name: Sbiaa, Rachid
name: Sengupta, Pinaki
name: Piramanayagam, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dzyaloshinskii Moriya Interaction (DMI) has laid the foundation for many novel chiral structures such as Skyrmions. In most of the studies so far, the DMI is present in the whole of the magnetic layer. Here, we report our investigations on a ferromagnetic nanowire where DMI is confined to a nanoscale region. We observe that the local modulation of magnetic properties causes oscillation of domain walls under the influence of spin-transfer torque. The oscillation frequency is tunable within a few GHz, making this observation potentially useful for applications in neuromorphic computing.
Space-Time is the Key: For Expressing Spatial-Temporal Computing
Creators: name: Shook, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: This paper outlines a new spatial-temporal programming model. The model builds on key-value programming models such as MapReduce by enabling bounded space and time to be keys and a collection of spatial-temporal data to be values. This reconceptualization of key-value programming exploits spatial-temporal characteristics in data to facilitate the parallelization of spatial methods and models. This paper outlines the new space-time key-collection programming model and a proof-of-concept implementation For Expressing Spatial-Temporal computation in parallel,called ForEST. Three use cases for the programming model and ForEST language are outlined. First, as a platform to advance research in geospatial computing and algorithm development for spatial problems. Second, as a teaching tool to help learners understand the complexitiesaround handling data, expressing computation, and executing code in spatial-temporal applications. Third, as a language to help process, mine, and analyze spatial-temporal data in a number of fields including GeoComputation, Geographic Information Science, and Spatial Data Science.
Pore Stability and Dynamics in Polymer Membranes
Creators: name: Bermudez, Harry
name: Aranda-Espinoza, Helim
name: Hammer, Daniel A.
name: Discher, Dennis E.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Vesicles self-assembled from amphiphilic diblock copolymers exhibit a wide diversity of behavior upon electroporation, due to competitions between edge, surface and bending energies that drive the system, while different viscous dissipation mechanisms determine the timescales. These effects are manifestations of the varying membrane thickness d from what are essentially chemically identical molecules. For smaller d, we find large unstable pores and the resulting membrane fragments reassemble into vesicles within minutes. Vesicles with larger d form long-lived pores of nanometer dimension that could be potentially useful for sieving applications and drug delivery.
description: submitted to PRL
From Server-Based to Client-Based Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Survey
Creators: name: Gu, Renjie
name: Niu, Chaoyue
name: Wu, Fan
name: Chen, Guihai
name: Hu, Chun
name: Lyu, Chengfei
name: Wu, Zhihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: A.1; I.2.6; I.2.11

description: In recent years, mobile devices have gained increasing development with stronger computation capability and larger storage space. Some of the computation-intensive machine learning tasks can now be run on mobile devices. To exploit the resources available on mobile devices and preserve personal privacy, the concept of client-based machine learning has been proposed. It leverages the users' local hardware and local data to solve machine learning sub-problems on mobile devices and only uploads computation results rather than the original data for the optimization of the global model. Such an architecture can not only relieve computation and storage burdens on servers but also protect the users' sensitive information. Another benefit is the bandwidth reduction because various kinds of local data can be involved in the training process without being uploaded. In this article, we provide a literature review on the progressive development of machine learning from server based to client based. We revisit a number of widely used server-based and client-based machine learning methods and applications. We also extensively discuss the challenges and future directions in this area. We believe that this survey will give a clear overview of client-based machine learning and provide guidelines on applying client-based machine learning to practice.
description: Accepted to ACM CSUR 2021, Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 6:1 - 6:36
Measuring similarity between geo-tagged videos using largest common view
Creators: name: Ding, Wei
name: Yang, KwangSoo
name: Nam, Kwang Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel problem for discovering the similar trajectories based on the field of view (FoV) of the video data. The problem is important for many societal applications such as grouping moving objects, classifying geo-images, and identifying the interesting trajectory patterns. Prior work consider only either spatial locations or spatial relationship between two line-segments. However, these approaches show a limitation to find the similar moving objects with common views. In this paper, we propose new algorithm that can group both spatial locations and points of view to identify similar trajectories. We also propose novel methods that reduce the computational cost for the proposed work. Experimental results using real-world datasets demonstrates that the proposed approach outperforms prior work and reduces the computational cost.
description: 2 pages
Isotonic Distributional Regression
Creators: name: Henzi, Alexander
name: Ziegel, Johanna F.
name: Gneiting, Tilmann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Isotonic distributional regression (IDR) is a powerful nonparametric technique for the estimation of conditional distributions under order restrictions. In a nutshell, IDR learns conditional distributions that are calibrated, and simultaneously optimal relative to comprehensive classes of relevant loss functions, subject to isotonicity constraints in terms of a partial order on the covariate space. Nonparametric isotonic quantile regression and nonparametric isotonic binary regression emerge as special cases. For prediction, we propose an interpolation method that generalizes extant specifications under the pool adjacent violators algorithm. We recommend the use of IDR as a generic benchmark technique in probabilistic forecast problems, as it does not involve any parameter tuning nor implementation choices, except for the selection of a partial order on the covariate space. The method can be combined with subsample aggregation, with the benefits of smoother regression functions and gains in computational efficiency. In a simulation study, we compare methods for distributional regression in terms of the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) and $L_2$ estimation error, which are closely linked. In a case study on raw and postprocessed quantitative precipitation forecasts from a leading numerical weather prediction system, IDR is competitive with state of the art techniques.
Fasciolaria filamentosa Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria
Fasciolaria filamentosa

description: Fasciolaria filamentosa (Röding, 1798)
 1798 Fusus filamentosus Röding, 1798: 118, no. 1524
 1816 Fasciolaria filamentosa (Röding) Lamarck: 6, pl. 424, fig. 5
 1822 Fasciolaria filamentosa (Röding) Lamarck: 120, sp. no. 5
 1830 Fasciolaria filamentosa (Röding) Deshayes: 126
1840b Kiener: 11, pl. 8, fig. 1
 Type locality: l’Océan des Grandes Indes.
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 3 specimens MHNG INVE 51700 (ex MHNG 1098/2); 1098/2/1: 89 x 34 mm (? Kiener, pl. 8, fig. 1: 95 mm); 1098/2/2: 107 x 44 mm (? Lamarck (1816): pl. 424, fig. 5: measured specimen?); 1098/2/3: 102 x 38 mm. Locality on label: Australie.
 Current taxonomic position: Pleuroploca filamentosa (Röding, 1798); placed in Pleuroploca by Allan (1950): 161. Locality is Indo – Pacific and northern Australia.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
HAWQ: Hessian AWare Quantization of Neural Networks with Mixed-Precision
Creators: name: Dong, Zhen
name: Yao, Zhewei
name: Gholami, Amir
name: Mahoney, Michael
name: Keutzer, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model size and inference speed/power have become a major challenge in the deployment of Neural Networks for many applications. A promising approach to address these problems is quantization. However, uniformly quantizing a model to ultra low precision leads to significant accuracy degradation. A novel solution for this is to use mixed-precision quantization, as some parts of the network may allow lower precision as compared to other layers. However, there is no systematic way to determine the precision of different layers. A brute force approach is not feasible for deep networks, as the search space for mixed-precision is exponential in the number of layers. Another challenge is a similar factorial complexity for determining block-wise fine-tuning order when quantizing the model to a target precision. Here, we introduce Hessian AWare Quantization (HAWQ), a novel second-order quantization method to address these problems. HAWQ allows for the automatic selection of the relative quantization precision of each layer, based on the layer's Hessian spectrum. Moreover, HAWQ provides a deterministic fine-tuning order for quantizing layers, based on second-order information. We show the results of our method on Cifar-10 using ResNet20, and on ImageNet using Inception-V3, ResNet50 and SqueezeNext models. Comparing HAWQ with state-of-the-art shows that we can achieve similar/better accuracy with $8\times$ activation compression ratio on ResNet20, as compared to DNAS~\cite{wu2018mixed}, and up to $1\%$ higher accuracy with up to $14\%$ smaller models on ResNet50 and Inception-V3, compared to recently proposed methods of RVQuant~\cite{park2018value} and HAQ~\cite{wang2018haq}. Furthermore, we show that we can quantize SqueezeNext to just 1MB model size while achieving above $68\%$ top1 accuracy on ImageNet.
description: ICCV 2019
Second order perturbations in the radius stabilized Randall-Sundrum two branes model
Creators: name: Kudoh, Hideaki
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonlinear gravitational interaction is investigated in the Randall-Sundrum two branes model with the radius stabilization mechanism. As the stabilization model, we assume a single scalar field that has a potential in the bulk and a potential on each brane. We develop a formulation of the second order gravitational perturbations under the assumption of a static and axial-symmetric five-dimensional metric that is spherically symmetric in the four-dimensional sense. After deriving the formal solutions for the perturbations, we discuss the gravity on each brane induced by the matter on its own side, taking the limit of large coupling of the scalar field interaction term on the branes. We show using the Goldberger-Wise stabilization model that four-dimensional Einstein gravity is approximately recovered in the second order perturbations.
description: 23 pages, no figures, typos corrected
Collateral, bank monitoring and firm performance: the case of newly established wine farmers
Creators: name: Cadot, Julien
name: Cadot, Julien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: bank monitoring
subject: collateral
subject: disciplinary effect
subject: incentives
subject: lazy bank effect

description: The present study aims to learn how collateral affects firm performance in the case of newly established wine producers. The issue is to identify the effects of collateral in situations of asymmetric information when the bank is the main financial partner of the entrepreneurs involved. On the one hand, the use of collateral may reduce the risk of overinvestment by entrepreneurs and thereby reduce the risk of repayment default. On the other hand, collateral may induce bad performance linked to a reduced monitoring of the investments by the bank. We herein test both hypotheses in two different cases: when the bank monitors the investments and when the bank does not.
Additional file 3 of Investigation of the impact of a broad range of temperatures on the physiological and transcriptional profiles of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 for high-temperature-tolerant recombinant strain development
Creators: name: Li, Runxia
name: Shen, Wei
name: Yang, Yongfu
name: Du, Jun
name: Li, Mian
name: Yang, Shihui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. List of eleven up-regulated genes of ZM4 cultured at 24 °C and 45 °C compared with 30 °C. Ratio (24/30) is the log2-based expression difference between ZM4 cultured at 24 °C and 30 °C. Ratio (45/30) is the log2-based expression difference between ZM4 cultured at 45 °C and 30 °C. P-value is − log10(P-value).
Rieppelophis Scanferla & Smith & Schaal 2016, GEN. NOV.
Creators: name: Scanferla, Agustín
name: Smith, Krister T.
name: Schaal, Stephan F. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Boidae
Rieppelophis

description: GENUS RIEPPELOPHIS GEN. NOV.   Etymology
In honour of Olivier Rieppel, who contributed extensively to our understanding of the evolution of snakes.
description: Published as part of Scanferla, Agustín, Smith, Krister T. & Schaal, Stephan F. K., 2016, Revision of the cranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the Eocene minute boas Messelophis variatus and Messelophis ermannorum (Serpentes, Booidea), pp. 182-206 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (1) on page 203, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12300, http://zenodo.org/record/5458789
Determination of limits on disc masses around six pulsars at 15 and 90 microns
Creators: name: Koch-Miramond, Lydie
name: Haas, Martin
name: Pantin, Eric
name: Podsiadlowski, Philipp
name: Naylor, Tim
name: Sauvage, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have searched for evidence of emission at 15 microns with ISOCAM and at 90 microns with ISOPHOT from dust orbiting six nearby pulsars, both in binaries and in isolation, located at distances between about 100 to 1000 pc. No emission was detected at any of the pulsar positions, and for the nearest pulsar J0108-1431 the 3 sigma upper limits on the flux density is about 66 mJy at 15 microns and 22.5 mJy at 90 microns. Upper limits on the masses of circumpulsar dust are inferred at a given temperature using a simple modelling of the radiated flux; they are compared to upper limits of orbiting mass obtained with the dust heating model of Foster & Fisher (1996). These results suggest that it is unlikely that any of them have sufficiently massive, circumpulsar discs out of which planets may form in the future.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in A&A
Fasciolaria trapezium Lamarck
Creators: name: Finet, Yves
name: Snyder, Martin Avery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria
Fasciolaria trapezium

description: Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus, 1758)
 1758 Murex trapezium Linnaeus: 755, sp. no. 493
 1816 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 7, pl. 431, figs. 3a, b
 1822 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus) Lamarck: 119, sp. no. 3
 1830 Fasciolaria trapezium (Linnaeus)) Deshayes: 125
1840b Kiener: 8, pl. 6
 Locality of Lamarck’s material: l’Océan des grandes Indes.
 Material in MHNG, Lamarck collection: 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51694 (ex MHNG 1097/96), 95.5 mm. 1 specimen MHNG INVE 51698 (ex MHNG 1097/100), 18 cm, bearing a faded handwritten label inside the aperture of the shell, Fasc. Trapezium, written by Lamarck. Locality on label of specimen 51694: Océan Indien. Label of specimen 51698 missing.
 Remarks: According to Rosalie de Lamarck, two specimens were in her father’s collection. Neither of these specimens seems to match Lamarck’s or Kiener’s figures.
 Current taxonomic position: Pleuroploca trapezium (Linnaeus, 1758); type species of Pleuroploca Fischer, 1884 [Fasciolariidae]. Locality is Indo – Pacific.
description: Published as part of Finet, Yves & Snyder, Martin Avery, 2012, Illustrations and taxonomic placement of the Recent Fusus and Fasciolaria in the Lamarck collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3507 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3507.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5879682
Additional file 1 of In-depth characterization of a mouse model of post-traumatic epilepsy for biomarker and drug discovery
Creators: name: Di Sapia, Rossella
name: Moro, Federico
name: Montanarella, Marica
name: Iori, Valentina
name: Micotti, Edoardo
name: Tolomeo, Daniele
name: Wang, Kevin K. W.
name: Vezzani, Annamaria
name: Ravizza, Teresa
name: Zanier, Elisa R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1: Representative ECoG traces of control mice; Figure S2: Locomotor activity, anxiety-like behavior and cognitive deficits in mice with and without spontaneous seizures; Figure S3: AD, RD and MD in mice with and without spontaneous seizures using DTI; Figure S4: Quantification of while matter volume in mice with and without spontaneous seizures using DTI; Figure S5: Neurodegeneration in the CA1 pyramidal layer, striatum, thalamus and entorhinal cortex of mice with and without spontaneous.
Effective use of public funding in the Murray-Darling Basin: a comparison of buybacks and infrastructure upgrades
Creators: name: Wittwer, Glyn
name: Dixon, Janine
name: Wittwer, Glyn
name: Dixon, Janine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: CGE modelling
subject: regional economies
subject: water buybacks

description: Policy instruments designed to increase environmental flows in the Murray–Darling Basin are compared using TERM-H2O, a detailed, dynamic regional CGE model. Voluntary and fully compensated buybacks are much less costly than infrastructure upgrades as a means of obtaining a target volume of environmental water, even during drought, when highly secure water created by infrastructure upgrades is more valuable. As an instrument of regional economic management, infrastructure upgrades are inferior to public spending on health, education and other services in the Basin. For each job created from upgrades, the money spent on services could create between three and four jobs in the Basin.