cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Distortion-aware Monocular Depth Estimation for Omnidirectional Images
Creators: name: Chen, Hong-Xiang
name: Li, Kunhong
name: Fu, Zhiheng
name: Liu, Mengyi
name: Chen, Zonghao
name: Guo, Yulan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A main challenge for tasks on panorama lies in the distortion of objects among images. In this work, we propose a Distortion-Aware Monocular Omnidirectional (DAMO) dense depth estimation network to address this challenge on indoor panoramas with two steps. First, we introduce a distortion-aware module to extract calibrated semantic features from omnidirectional images. Specifically, we exploit deformable convolution to adjust its sampling grids to geometric variations of distorted objects on panoramas and then utilize a strip pooling module to sample against horizontal distortion introduced by inverse gnomonic projection. Second, we further introduce a plug-and-play spherical-aware weight matrix for our objective function to handle the uneven distribution of areas projected from a sphere. Experiments on the 360D dataset show that the proposed method can effectively extract semantic features from distorted panoramas and alleviate the supervision bias caused by distortion. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the 360D dataset with high efficiency.
description: Preprint
Re-transcription of Goddard notebook texts
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Lee-Wynant, Tyler
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-060519-01: Re-transcription and translation of texts transcribed by P.E. Goddard, American Philosophical Society Na20a.2, notebook #10, pp. 120-127.
Nine Decades Later: Idaho Women Reflect on the Meaning of the Nineteenth Amendment
Creators: name: Canfield-Davis, Kathy
name: Tenuto, Penny
name: Joki, Russell
name: Hadley, Erik
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Reflecting on the 90th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment (ratified August, 1920), this narrative inquiry explored its significance to women in leadership positions residing in Idaho. Idaho's status as a forerunner approving suffrage underscored the foundation for the study. The researchers also wanted to investigate whether women have reached equal citizenship in aspects other than the right to vote. Findings indicate that the Nineteenth Amendment was pivotal in not only giving women a voice in governmental decisions, but also paved the way for other political and social breakthroughs. However, few participants linked passage of the Amendment with their rise to leadership. In some instances, full equality has not been achieved and gender discrimination still occurs, primarily when seeking leadership positions
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 31 (2011)
Actinocyclus tenuissimus Cleve 1878
Creators: name: Lobban, Christopher S.
name: Witkowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Nudibranchia
Actinocyclidae
Actinocyclus
Actinocyclus tenuissimus

description: Actinocyclus tenuissimus Cleve
Reported by Lobban et al. (2012), still a valid species but in view of discussion in J.S. Park et al. (2022), we reconsidered the specimens. While the size and stria density are in the range of A. tenuissimus, the central area and instinct interfascicular rows are characteristic of A. subtilis (Gregory) Ralfs, to which we now refer all our Guam specimens (see also Lobban & Tharngan in prep.).
description: Published as part of Lobban, Christopher S. & Witkowski, Andrzej, 2023, Marine benthic diatoms of Guam: new records, Dictyoneis apapae sp. nov., and updates to the checklist, pp. 1-75 in Micronesica 2023 (2) on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12118784
Clinical diagnosis and multidisciplinary management in the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Creators: name: Salvioni, Cristina
name: Stanich, Patricia
name: Oda, Adriana
name: Carvalho, Eduardo
name: Persilia Alves
name: Rosinete Silva
name: Borges, Rosana
name: Acary Oliveira
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a loss of motor neurons in the cerebral cortex, brainstem and spinal cord, leading to skeletal muscle atrophy, paralysis and death. The clinical onset can be bulbar, affecting swallowing and phonation, or spinal, presenting as skeletal muscle atrophy. Dysphagia is a condition that leads to decreased food intake and body mass, malnutrition and dehydration. Weight and muscle loss are related to the disease progression. The changes in respiratory function may negatively affect the quality of life and the survival of ALS patients. For this reason, one multi-professional program was implemented in order to classify patients at different stages of the disease.

Discussion and conclusion: A multidisciplinary palliative approach can prolong survival and maintain the quality of life of ALS patients. Multiple problems require a multidisciplinary approach including rehabilitation to maintain motor function, nutritional support (enteric feeding, gastrostomy), respiratory support, augmentative communication devices and palliative care. The evaluation systematically helps in controlling the symptoms and facilitates early intervention so as to minimize the evolution of disease.
Turbulent Structure of a Stratified Supernova-Driven Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: Joung, M. K. Ryan
name: Mac Low, Mordecai-Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To study how supernova feedback structures the turbulent interstellar medium, we construct 3D models of vertically stratified gas stirred by discrete supernova explosions, including vertical gravitational field and parametrized heating and cooling. The models reproduce many observed characteristics of the Galaxy such as global circulation of gas (i.e., galactic fountain) and the existence of cold dense clouds in the galactic disk. Global quantities of the model such as warm and hot gas filling factors in the midplane, mass fraction of thermally unstable gas, and the averaged vertical density profile are compared directly with existing observations, and shown to be broadly consistent. We find that energy injection occurs over a broad range of scales. There is no single effective driving scale, unlike the usual assumption for idealized models of incompressible turbulence. However, >90% of the total kinetic energy is contained in wavelengths shortward of 200 pc. The shape of the kinetic energy spectrum differs substantially from that of the velocity power spectrum, which implies that the velocity structure varies with the gas density. Velocity structure functions demonstrate that the phenomenological theory proposed by Boldyrev is applicable to the medium. We show that it can be misleading to predict physical properties such as the stellar initial mass function based on numerical simulations that do not include self-gravity of the gas. Even if all the gas in turbulently Jeans unstable regions in our simulation is assumed to collapse and form stars in local freefall times, the resulting total collapse rate is significantly lower than the value consistent with the input supernova rate. Supernova-driven turbulence inhibits star formation globally rather than triggering it.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, submitted to ApJ; corrected typos
Variations of Fatigue Due to Unevenly Loaded Axles within Tridem Groups
Creators: name: Southgate, Herbert F.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The effect of unevenly distributed loads on the axles within a tridem has been shown to be very significant. Equations are presented that enable the equivalent load effect for equal load distribution to be adjusted for uneven loading. Considering the relative increase and the relatively small volume of trucks currently using tridems, the equation for all tridems without regard to locations on the vehicle is recommended at this time. Consideration should be given to using equations for individual load patterns as the volume of trucks using tridems increases and more weight data become available.
Ardissonea fulgens Grunow ex De Toni 1892
Creators: name: Lobban, Christopher S.
name: Witkowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Ardissoneales
Ardissoneaceae
Ardissonea
Ardissonea fulgens

description: Ardissonea fulgens (Greville) Grunow ex De Toni
Reported by Lobban et al. (2012), still a valid species but Lobban et al. (2022) showed that it differs from the species in our flora and renamed our species Ardissoneopsis fulgicans Lobban & Ashworth.
description: Published as part of Lobban, Christopher S. & Witkowski, Andrzej, 2023, Marine benthic diatoms of Guam: new records, Dictyoneis apapae sp. nov., and updates to the checklist, pp. 1-75 in Micronesica 2023 (2) on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12118784
Transcription of story about Verdena's house fire
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Lee-Wynant, Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-050519-08a: transcribing story about a fire that destroyed Verdena's house when she and her family moved to Oregon, file VP-090812-02 starting at 27:56.
Towards More Human-like AI Communication: A Review of Emergent Communication Research
Creators: name: Brandizzi, Nicolo'
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.2.7; I.2.11

description: In the recent shift towards human-centric AI, the need for machines to accurately use natural language has become increasingly important. While a common approach to achieve this is to train large language models, this method presents a form of learning misalignment where the model may not capture the underlying structure and reasoning humans employ in using natural language, potentially leading to unexpected or unreliable behavior. Emergent communication (Emecom) is a field of research that has seen a growing number of publications in recent years, aiming to develop artificial agents capable of using natural language in a way that goes beyond simple discriminative tasks and can effectively communicate and learn new concepts. In this review, we present Emecom under two aspects. Firstly, we delineate all the common proprieties we find across the literature and how they relate to human interactions. Secondly, we identify two subcategories and highlight their characteristics and open challenges. We encourage researchers to work together by demonstrating that different methods can be viewed as diverse solutions to a common problem and emphasize the importance of including diverse perspectives and expertise in the field. We believe a deeper understanding of human communication is crucial to developing machines that can accurately use natural language in human-machine interactions.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
Indra: a Public Computationally Accessible Suite of Cosmological $N$-body Simulations
Creators: name: Falck, Bridget
name: Wang, Jie
name: Jenkins, Adrian
name: Lemson, Gerard
name: Medvedev, Dmitry
name: Neyrinck, Mark C.
name: Szalay, Alex S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Indra is a suite of large-volume cosmological $N$-body simulations with the goal of providing excellent statistics of the large-scale features of the distribution of dark matter. Each of the 384 simulations is computed with the same cosmological parameters and different initial phases, with 1024$^3$ dark matter particles in a box of length 1 Gpc/h, 64 snapshots of particle data and halo catalogs, and 505 time steps of the Fourier modes of the density field, amounting to almost a petabyte of data. All of the Indra data are immediately available for analysis via the SciServer science platform, which provides interactive and batch computing modes, personal data storage, and other hosted data sets such as the Millennium simulations and many astronomical surveys. We present the Indra simulations, describe the data products and how to access them, and measure ensemble averages, variances, and covariances of the matter power spectrum, the matter correlation function, and the halo mass function to demonstrate the types of computations that Indra enables. We hope that Indra will be both a resource for large-scale structure research and a demonstration of how to make very large datasets public and computationally accessible.
description: matches published version. Indra is available on SciServer at http://sciserver.org
Linear rotor in an ideal Bose gas near the threshold for binding
Creators: name: Dome, Tibor
name: Volosniev, Artem G.
name: Ghazaryan, Areg
name: Safari, Laleh
name: Schmidt, Richard
name: Lemeshko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a linear rotor in a bosonic bath within the angulon formalism. Our focus is on systems where isotropic or anisotropic impurity-boson interactions support a shallow bound state. To study the fate of the angulon in the vicinity of bound-state formation, we formulate a beyond-linear-coupling angulon Hamiltonian. First, we use it to study attractive, spherically symmetric impurity-boson interactions for which the linear rotor can be mapped onto a static impurity. The well-known polaron formalism provides an adequate description in this limit. Second, we consider anisotropic potentials, and show that the presence of a shallow bound state with pronounced anisotropic character leads to a many-body instability that washes out the angulon dynamics.
description: version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Evaluation of Full-Depth Asphaltic Concrete Pavements
Creators: name: Southgate, Herbert F.
name: Sharpe, Gary W.
name: Anderson, Justin S.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This study was initiated to verify a newly-developed set of design curves for full-depth asphaltic concrete pavements. Quality control during construction was checked using nuclear density testers, Benkelman beams, and a Road Rater. During the course of this study, an analysis system was developed to interpret the dynamic deflections as measured by the Road Rater and was confirmed by elastic theory. The thickness design curves were verified within the accuracy of construction variations.  Rut depths measured in 1979 were analyzed in terms of potential rut depth resulting from consolidation under traffic due to lack of obtaining 100-percent of Marshall density during compaction immediately after paving. Potential rutting was calculated as the decimal equivalent of the quantity of 100 percent minus percent compaction times the layer thickness and the results accumulated from the surface downward.  Advances in technology under this study have led to greater advances under succeeding studies.  Traffic was monitored using automatic traffic counters, manual classification/volume counts, and weigh-in-motion scales installed in the pavement.
Additional file 3 of A random-sampling approach to track cell divisions in time-lapse fluorescence microscopy
Creators: name: Amarteifio, Saoirse
name: Fallesen, Todd
name: Pruessner, Gunnar
name: Sena, Giovanni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig S3. Performance for multiple root samples: box plots show the meantracker score, averaged over 200 frames for each root.
Water-Induced Surface Failures on I 65, Hardin County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Williams, Ellis G.
name: Southgate, Herbert F.
name: Deen, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report documents an investigation of water-related distress on portions of I 65 in Hardin County, Kentucky, on Muldraugh Hill. An open-graded surface placed on a full-depth asphaltic concrete pavement had shown areas of flushing and shallow shear failures in the outer lanes after one year of service. Cores were obtained from the outer lanes in areas exhibiting no problems to shear and flow failures. Core sites also were chosen across the lane to represent edge, wheel track, and between wheel track conditions. Visual inspection of the cores was made under normal lighting and an ultraviolet light and photographs were taken. Construction data and records indicated no abnormal construction problems. Results of laboratory density, extraction, and gradation tests coupled with nuclear density tests and visual inspection of the cores indicate water had caused the asphalt to be stripped from the aggregate. Soft particles in the dense-graded surface course below the open-graded course had deteriorated. The stripped asphalt and deteriorated soft particles had migrated toward the surface causing the pores to be filled in most locations. Where the asphalt/matrix was particularly weak, heavy truck tireloads had caused the material to move laterally over the adjacent stiffer material. Water is being held in the pores of the open-graded course and allowing the dense-graded surface course below to become saturated causing the asphalt to be stripped from the aggregate and softer particles to become deteriorated.
Empowering Future Women Leaders Through GATE: The Way Forward
Creators: name: Bissessar, Charmaine
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: The underlying premise of the human capital theory in education is that higher education and training are costly but there are concomitant tangible and intangible benefits to the microcosm and macrocosm. The aforementioned theoretical underpinning of this study set the tone for this qualitative research project which encompasses informal face-to-face interviews with 61 full-time and part-time-female students at the University of the West Indies School of Business and Applied Studies Limited (trading as ROYTEC) concerning their experiences with Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE). The positive impact of GATE on each female student's life is unquestionable as her empowerment, development, and commitment are reflected in her answers to three open-ended questions. Further expenditure in higher education would be of benefit to any country seeking to improve its citizen's quality of life and standard of living.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 31 (2011)
Geometric phases and hidden local gauge symmetry
Creators: name: Fujikawa, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of geometric phases associated with level crossing is reduced to the familiar diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in the second quantized formulation. A hidden local gauge symmetry, which is associated with the arbitrariness of the phase choice of a complete orthonormal basis set, becomes explicit in this formulation (in particular, in the adiabatic approximation) and specifies physical observables. The choice of a basis set which specifies the coordinate in the functional space is arbitrary in the second quantization, and a sub-class of coordinate transformations, which keeps the form of the action invariant, is recognized as the gauge symmetry. We discuss the implications of this hidden local gauge symmetry in detail by analyzing geometric phases for cyclic and noncyclic evolutions. It is shown that the hidden local symmetry provides a basic concept alternative to the notion of holonomy to analyze geometric phases and that the analysis based on the hidden local gauge symmetry leads to results consistent with the general prescription of Pancharatnam. We however note an important difference between the geometric phases for cyclic and noncyclic evolutions. We also explain a basic difference between our hidden local gauge symmetry and a gauge symmetry (or equivalence class) used by Aharonov and Anandan in their definition of generalized geometric phases.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure. Some typos have been corrected. To be published in Phys. Rev. D
Polychromatic angle resolved IBIC analysis of silicon power diodes
Creators: name: Pezzarossa, M.
name: Cepparrone, E.
name: Cosic, D.
name: Jakšić, M.
name: Provatas, G.
name: Vićentijević, M.
name: Vittone, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes both an experimental methodology based on the Ion Beam Induced Charge (IBIC) technique and the relevant interpretative model, which were adopted to characterize the electronic features of power diodes. IBIC spectra were acquired using different proton energies (from 1.2 to 2.0 MeV), angles of incidence, and applied bias voltages. The modulation of the ion probe range, combined with the modulation of the extensions of the depletion layer, allowed the charge collection efficiency scale to be accurately calibrated, the dead layer beneath the thick (6 micrometer) Al electrode and the minority carrier lifetime to be measured. The analysis was performed by using a simplified model extracted from the basic IBIC theory, which proved to be suitable to interpret the behaviour of the IBIC spectra as a function of all the experimental conditions and to characterize the devices, both for what concerns the electrostatics and the recombination processes.
description: 24 pagese,10 figures
Absorption to Fluctuating Bunching States in Non-Unitary Boson Dynamics
Creators: name: Mochizuki, Ken
name: Hamazaki, Ryusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that noisy nonunitary dynamics of bosons drives arbitrary initial states into a novel fluctuating bunching state, where all bosons occupy one time-dependent mode. We propose a concept of the noisy spectral gap, a generalization of the spectral gap in noiseless systems, and demonstrate that the exponentially fast absorption to the fluctuating bunching state takes place asymptotically. The fluctuating bunching state is unique to noisy nonunitary dynamics, with no counterpart in any unitary dynamics and nonunitary dynamics described by a time-independent generator. We also argue that the times of relaxation to the fluctuating bunching state obey a universal power law as functions of the noise parameter in generic noisy nonunitary dynamics.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Ardissonea fulgens Grunow ex De Toni 1892
Creators: name: Lobban, Christopher S.
name: Witkowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Ardissoneales
Ardissoneaceae
Ardissonea
Ardissonea fulgens

description: Ardissonea fulgens var. (Lobarzewsky) Rabenhorst
Reported by Lobban et al. (2012), Lobarzewsky’s diatom proved to be a valid but dubious species and not what we have here, so Lobban et al. (2022) renamed our species Ardissoneopsis appressata Lobban & Ashworth.
description: Published as part of Lobban, Christopher S. & Witkowski, Andrzej, 2023, Marine benthic diatoms of Guam: new records, Dictyoneis apapae sp. nov., and updates to the checklist, pp. 1-75 in Micronesica 2023 (2) on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12118784
An Analysis of Stress Levels of Female Graduate Students in an Online Program
Creators: name: Arric, Lynne
name: Young, Ken
name: Harris, Sandra
name: Farrow, Vicky
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: This quantitative study was designed to investigate the differences in stressors and demographic variables of women enrolled in an online master's degree program in education. Participants were women with multiple personal, career, and family responsibilities. Survey data and demographic data were used to identify which stressors were most frequently experienced and whether there was a significant difference between stress scale scores and demographic variables. Seven hundred and fifty women completed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale — Revised (Hobson, 1998) and non-parametric tests were used to analyze the data. Findings indicated the stressors most common to female graduate students were related to family, finances, and health-related issues. The results also suggested there were significant differences among the demographic variables of age, ethnicity, program start date, number of courses completed, and marital status. For institutions of higher education these findings may offer insight for incorporating student services such as learning communities, flexible financing options, and accelerated programs to allow for increased retention of women in online programs. For women seeking to enroll into an online graduate program, this study may provide insight into assessing their resources for successful completion of an online master's degree
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 31 (2011)
Invariant manifolds as building blocks for the formation of spiral arms and rings in barred galaxies
Creators: name: Romero-Gomez, M.
name: Athanassoula, E.
name: Masdemont, J. J.
name: Garcia-Gomez, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theory to explain the formation of spiral arms and of all types of outer rings in barred galaxies, extending and applying the technique used in celestial mechanics to compute transfer orbits. Thus, our theory is based on the chaotic orbital motion driven by the invariant manifolds associated to the periodic orbits around the hyperbolic equilibrium points. In particular, spiral arms and outer rings are related to the presence of heteroclinic or homoclinic orbits. Thus, R1 rings are associated to the presence of heteroclinic orbits, while R1R2 rings are associated to the presence of homoclinic orbits. Spiral arms and R2 rings, however, appear when there exist neither heteroclinic nor homoclinic orbits. We examine the parameter space of three realistic, yet simple, barred galaxy models and discuss the formation of the different morphologies according to the properties of the galaxy model. The different morphologies arise from differences in the dynamical parameters of the galaxy.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, in the proceedings of the conference: "Chaos in Astronomy", Athens, September 2007, G. Contopoulos and P.A. Patsis (eds), to be published by Springer
Teaching Leadership to Female Students in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alexander, Neva Helena
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Education in Saudi Arabia has become a great interest to many of its people. Additionally, women's education and leadership have become a dynamic interest to many. This research gives light to how females perceive and their understanding of leadership at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU). The central focus of this research project was to evaluate the impact of a leadership course on improving leadership outcomes for female students studying at PMU in Saudi Arabia. In order to achieve this goal, a pre-test/post-test quantitative design was employed. The sample for this investigation was drawn from undergraduate female students enrolled in a leadership course at PMU taught by the researcher.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 31 (2011)
Study of flavor dependence of the baryon-to-meson ratio in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production cross sections of ${\rm D^0}$ and $Λ^+_{\rm c}$ hadrons originating from beauty-hadron decays (i.e. non-prompt) were measured for the first time at midrapidity ($|y|<0.5$) by the ALICE Collaboration in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. They are described within uncertainties by perturbative QCD calculations employing the fragmentation fractions of beauty quarks to baryons measured at forward rapidity by the LHCb Collaboration. The ${\rm b\overline{b}}$ production cross section per unit of rapidity at midrapidity, estimated from these measurements, is ${\rm d}σ_{\rm b\overline{b}}/{\rm d}y|_{|y|<0.5} = 83.1 \pm 3.5 (\mathrm{stat.}) \pm 5.4(\mathrm{syst.}) ^{+12.3}_{-3.2} (\mathrm{extrap.})\,μ$b. The baryon-to-meson ratios are computed to investigate the hadronization mechanism of beauty quarks. The non-prompt $Λ^+_{\rm c}/{\rm D^0}$ production ratio has a similar trend to the one measured for the promptly produced charmed particles and to the p$/π^+$ and $Λ/{\rm K^0_S}$ ratios, suggesting a similar baryon-formation mechanism among light, strange, charm, and beauty hadrons. The $p_{\rm T}$-integrated non-prompt $Λ_{\rm c}/{\rm D^0}$ ratio is found to be significantly higher than the one measured in e$^+$e$^-$ collisions.
description: 26 pages, 6 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 20, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/9559
Additional file 1 of A random-sampling approach to track cell divisions in time-lapse fluorescence microscopy
Creators: name: Amarteifio, Saoirse
name: Fallesen, Todd
name: Pruessner, Gunnar
name: Sena, Giovanni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig S1. Four representative frames: A, “good” image; B, noisy image; C, noisy image with a low number of objects and some noise; D, over-saturated image to be marked as degenerate.
Charm production and fragmentation fractions at midrapidity in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the production cross sections of prompt ${\rm D^0}$, ${\rm D^+}$, ${\rm D^{\ast +}}$, ${\rm D_s^+}$, ${\rm Λ_{c}^{+}}$, and ${\rm Ξ_{c}^{+}}$ charm hadrons at midrapidity in proton$-$proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ALICE detector are presented. The D-meson cross sections as a function of transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) are provided with improved precision and granularity. The ratios of $p_{\rm T}$-differential meson production cross sections based on this publication and on measurements at different rapidity and collision energy provide a constraint on gluon parton distribution functions at low values of Bjorken-$x$ ($10^{-5}-10^{-4}$). The measurements of ${\rm Λ_{c}^{+}}$ (${\rm Ξ_{c}^{+}}$) baryon production extend the measured $p_{\rm T}$ intervals down to $p_{\rm T}=0(3)$~GeV$/c$. These measurements are used to determine the charm-quark fragmentation fractions and the ${\rm c\overline{c}}$ production cross section at midrapidity ($|y|<0.5$) based on the sum of the cross sections of the weakly-decaying ground-state charm hadrons ${\rm D^0}$, ${\rm D^+}$, ${\rm D_s^+}$, ${\rm Λ_{c}^{+}}$, ${\rm Ξ_{c}^{0}}$ and, for the first time, ${\rm Ξ_{c}^{+}}$, and of the strongly-decaying J/$psi$ mesons. The first measurements of ${\rm Ξ_{c}^{+}}$ and ${\rm Σ_{c}^{0,++}}$ fragmentation fractions at midrapidity are also reported. A significantly larger fraction of charm quarks hadronising to baryons is found compared to e$^+$e$^-$ and ep collisions. The ${\rm c\overline{c}}$ production cross section at midrapidity is found to be at the upper bound of state-of-the-art perturbative QCD calculations.
description: 47 pages, 13 captioned figures, 7 tables, authors from page 42, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/9560
Top Quark Measurements
Creators: name: Juste, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ten years after its discovery at the Tevatron collider, we still know little about the top quark. Its large mass suggests it may play a key role in the mechanism of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB), or open a window of sensitivity to new physics related to EWSB and preferentially coupled to it. To determine whether this is the case, precision measurements of top quark properties are necessary. The high statistics samples being collected by the Tevatron experiments during Run II start to incisively probe the top quark sector. This report summarizes the experimental status of the top quark, focusing in particular on the recent measurements from the Tevatron Run II.
description: Talk presented at the XXII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energy, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2005. Latex2e with ws-procs10x7.cls (included). 12 pages, 8 figures. Minor typos corrected
Pair structure of heavy tetraquark systems
Creators: name: Huang, Guojun
name: Zhao, Jiaxing
name: Zhuang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pair description of heavy tetraquark systems $|QQ\bar Q \bar Q\rangle$ in the frame of a non-relativistic potential model. By taking the two heavy quark pairs $(Q\bar Q)$ as colored clusters, the four-quark Schrödinger equation is reduced to a two-pair equation, when the inner motion inside the pairs can be neglected. Taking into account all the Casimir scaling potentials between two quarks and using the lattice QCD simulated mixing angle between the two color-singlet states for the tetraquark system, we extracted a detailed pair potential between the two heavy quark pairs.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Physical Review D, in production
Auricula complexa Cleve
Creators: name: Lobban, Christopher S.
name: Witkowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Acteonidae
Auricula
Auricula complexa

description: Auricula complexa (Gregory) Cleve
Still a valid species but not what we have here; see Auricula densistriata above.
description: Published as part of Lobban, Christopher S. & Witkowski, Andrzej, 2023, Marine benthic diatoms of Guam: new records, Dictyoneis apapae sp. nov., and updates to the checklist, pp. 1-75 in Micronesica 2023 (2) on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12118784
A User-centered Security Evaluation of Copilot
Creators: name: Asare, Owura
name: Nagappan, Meiyappan
name: Asokan, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Code generation tools driven by artificial intelligence have recently become more popular due to advancements in deep learning and natural language processing that have increased their capabilities. The proliferation of these tools may be a double-edged sword because while they can increase developer productivity by making it easier to write code, research has shown that they can also generate insecure code. In this paper, we perform a user-centered evaluation GitHub's Copilot to better understand its strengths and weaknesses with respect to code security. We conduct a user study where participants solve programming problems (with and without Copilot assistance) that have potentially vulnerable solutions. The main goal of the user study is to determine how the use of Copilot affects participants' security performance. In our set of participants (n=25), we find that access to Copilot accompanies a more secure solution when tackling harder problems. For the easier problem, we observe no effect of Copilot access on the security of solutions. We also observe no disproportionate impact of Copilot use on particular kinds of vulnerabilities. Our results indicate that there are potential security benefits to using Copilot, but more research is warranted on the effects of the use of code generation tools on technically complex problems with security requirements.
description: To be published in ICSE 2024 Research Track
A radio-frequency WIMP search with the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey
Creators: name: Lavis, Natasha
name: Sarkis, Michael
name: Beck, Geoff
name: Knowles, Kenda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio-frequency, indirect dark matter searches have recently been gaining prevalence, due to the high sensitivity and resolution capabilities of the new generation of radio interferometers. MeerKAT is currently one of the most sensitive instruments of its kind, making it ideal for indirect dark matter searches. By making use of publicly available data from the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey we are able to use both the observed diffuse synchrotron emission and non-detections to constrain the WIMP dark matter parameter space. In addition to a subset of generic WIMP annihilation channels, we probe the dark matter candidate within the 2HDM+S particle physics model, which was developed as an explanation for anomalies observed in the Large Hadron Collider data from runs 1 and 2. By undertaking a statistical analysis of the radio flux densities within galaxy clusters we are able to exclude the thermal relic value for WIMP masses $< \, \sim 1000 $ GeV for annihilation into bottom quarks with our median case. This is competitive with the best constraints in the current literature.
description: 23 pages, 14 figures
Axion-driven hybrid inflation over a barrier
Creators: name: Gong, Jinn-Ouk
name: Jeong, Kwang Sik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scenario where an axion-like field drives inflation until a potential barrier, which keeps a waterfall field at the origin, disappears and a waterfall transition occurs. Such a barrier separates the scale of inflation from that of the waterfall transition. We find the observed spectrum of the cosmic microwave background indicates that the decay constant of the inflaton is well below the Planck scale, with the inflationary Hubble parameter spanning a wide range. Further, our model involves dark matter candidates including the inflaton itself. Also, for a complex waterfall field, we can determine cosmologically the Peccei-Quinn scale associated with the strong CP problem.
description: (v1) 12 pages, 2 figures; (v2) 11 pages, to appear in Physical Review D
The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship: Two Canadian Stories
Creators: name: Lynes, Jennifer
name: Wismer, Susan
name: Andrachuk, Mark
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: The role that education and training plays in entrepreneurial success is one that is subject to lively debates in the literature. In the first half of this paper, we explore the essence of this debate, with a particular focus on women entrepreneurs in Canada. In the second half of the paper, we tell the stories of these two Canadian entrepreneurs who have started technology-based businesses and were participants in a unique Canadian non-profit educational enterprise, Shad Valley Centre for Creative Technology. The stories of these two successful entrepreneurs - Thelma Zee, who started a freelance web design business while she was still in high school, and Jennifer Corriero, who started a now world-renowned non-profit organization for youth - aim to shed light on the role they see for education in entrepreneurship. Our cases suggest that personal characteristics are important — persistence, self-confidence, initiative, creative thinking, and as Thelma said, a certain kind of intelligence that isn't really about being "book-smart," although it often includes that too. Our research also asked the question, "Is learning important?" Traditional formal education plays a relatively small role in these two cases and the others that we have gathered through our study. Based on our research, we would argue this reflects the relatively low importance of formal education as specific preparation for entrepreneurship for women. In our stories, the informal learning that young people receive from family and friends was important. Furthermore, participation in the Shad Valley program - its intensity, level of challenge, and focus on experiential and applied learning — played a key role in inspiring these women to take on the entrepreneurial initiatives.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 31 (2011)
Climacosphenia moniligera Ehrenberg.
Creators: name: Lobban, Christopher S.
name: Witkowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Ardissoneales
Ardissoneaceae
Climacosphenia
Climacosphenia moniligera

description: Climacosphenia moniligera Ehrenberg.
Reported by Navarro & Lobban (2009). Still a valid species but Lobban et al. (2022) show that the curved Climacosphenia in Guam is C. scimiter A.Mann.
description: Published as part of Lobban, Christopher S. & Witkowski, Andrzej, 2023, Marine benthic diatoms of Guam: new records, Dictyoneis apapae sp. nov., and updates to the checklist, pp. 1-75 in Micronesica 2023 (2) on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12118784
A response to space in the natural environment : painting as a phenomenological study of the Blue Mountains, NSW
Creators: name: Tsai, Wendy
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Place (Philosophy) in art
subject: Place attachment Psychological aspects
subject: Art, Australian Australia Blue Mountains (N.S.W.)
subject: Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962 Influence
subject: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 Influence
subject: Winnicott, D. W. 1896-1971 (Donald Woods), Influence
subject: Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Gallery Exhibitions

description: My Masters research engages with the ways as a painter, I increasingly struggle to give form to my relationship with the Blue Mountains. Although it is a familiar natural environment, this struggle has articulated my research question: Can problems associated with representing vast natural environments like the Blue Mountains be overcome through an analysis of personal embodied experience? This thesis examines the complexities of translating the perceptual and corporeal experience of the Blue Mountains. This site is rich in social history, from Indigenous occupation through to the listing of its status as a World Heritage Area in 2000. It is also a place of early childhood memories and has been my home for the last 20 years. My research has investigated these histories and the physical landscape in an organically responsive practice of both charcoal drawing and watercolour on paper. The written exegesis of 20,000 words, describes the outcome of the research in four bodies of work on paper: Nests, Vertigo, Absence and Presence and Keepsake. The Nests works explore the symbolism of the nature of nests, while also providing the opportunity to more ambiguously trace the labyrinthine form of the mountains. Vertigo considers the implications of edges, and of distance and intimacy. In Absence and Presence, I advocate for what is hidden in the landscape, including the competing and forgotten stories about place. The final works identify how I have brought the horizon and vastness into intimate images that can also become objects to be held in the palm of the hand. I have argued in the exegesis from the perspective of psychoanalytic theory and phenomenology, how the development of a personal symbolism originating in an embryonic nest has enabled me to approach some of the more problematic concepts of vastness that this natural environment holds. This trope evolved through my studio research, and was developed through a series of constructed and productive binaries, such as intimacy and distance, past and present, and loss and attachment. I argue through the studio practice and writing that the development of these approaches have contributed to the renewed accessibility, for my audience, and myself, of a distinctly over-represented and culturally determined site.
Evolutionary algorithms for hyperparameter optimization in machine learning for application in high energy physics
Creators: name: Tani, Laurits
name: Rand, Diana
name: Veelken, Christian
name: Kadastik, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of vast amounts of data constitutes a major challenge in modern high energy physics experiments. Machine learning (ML) methods, typically trained on simulated data, are often employed to facilitate this task. Several choices need to be made by the user when training the ML algorithm. In addition to deciding which ML algorithm to use and choosing suitable observables as inputs, users typically need to choose among a plethora of algorithm-specific parameters. We refer to parameters that need to be chosen by the user as hyperparameters. These are to be distinguished from parameters that the ML algorithm learns autonomously during the training, without intervention by the user. The choice of hyperparameters is conventionally done manually by the user and often has a significant impact on the performance of the ML algorithm. In this paper, we explore two evolutionary algorithms: particle swarm optimization (PSO) and genetic algorithm (GA), for the purposes of performing the choice of optimal hyperparameter values in an autonomous manner. Both of these algorithms will be tested on different datasets and compared to alternative methods.
description: Corrected typos. Removed a remark on page 2 regarding the similarity of minimization and maximization problem. Removed a remark on page 9 (Summary) regarding thee ANN, since this was not studied in the paper
A New Sherriff in Town: The Barriers of Structural Discrimination Facing Women Leaders
Creators: name: Hughes, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: In the current world of organizations, it is no surprise that discrimination exists against women. Many organizations, however, exhibit structural discrimination and little is done to combat this. This is no more evident than within law enforcement organizations. This research focuses on the disparate treatment, as defined by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as the barrier keeping women becoming Sheriff. Current data show women make up less than one-half of one percent of all sheriffs nationwide. This research suggests women hold leadership competencies that the field of law enforcement is seeking. By more women becoming the top executive of these agencies, the discriminatory landscape within law enforcement agencies will begin to change.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 31 (2011)