cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Search for the QCD critical point at SPS energies
Creators: name: NA49 Collaboration
name: SHINE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice QCD calculations locate the QCD critical point at energies accessible at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). We present average transverse momentum and multiplicity fluctuations, as well as baryon and anti-baryon transverse mass spectra which are expected to be sensitive to effects of the critical point. The future CP search strategy of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the SPS is also discussed.
description: EPS HEP09 proceedings, July 16-22 2009, Krakow, Poland
Readers' Credits for Volume 15, Issue 2
Creators: name: Seong, Yuna
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2015

description: Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics would like to thank the following individuals for reviewing the contributions for Volume 15, Issue 2 (2015).
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015)
Investigations of novel treatment strategies in atherosclerosis and thrombosis
Creators: name: ALEX LIN-I HUANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110299 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Heart attack is caused by rupture of atherosclerotic plaques and ensuing clot formation. In this project, new approaches to stop blood clotting was investigated. The first approach targeted neutrophils, an immune cell, through a protein called high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1). It was found this approach is effective and safer than current antithrombotic medications. This thesis also demonstrated that inhibiting the protein, proprotein convertase subtilisin convertase type 9 (PCSK9), in addition to lowering cholesterol, also stabilises atherosclerotic plaque. Combined, these findings may improve the outcome of patients with heart attack and stroke.
Characterization of a Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe Using Ethanol with Different Angles.pdf
Creators: name: Al Jubori, Ayad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91505 Heat and Mass Transfer Operations
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91503 Engineering Practice

description: In low-temperature difference, a closed-loop pulsating heat pipe (CLPHP) can be used as a cooling device due to its capability to transfer heat. The thermal performance of the CLPHP is affected by the working fluids. In this work, the effects of some operating parameters such as using ethanol as working fluid with 0.5 filling ratio, orientation, and power inputs are offered based on experimental study. Where the CLPHP was constructed and tested to achieve a better vision into the effect of orientation of 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, and 90°, and power input of 50 W, 115 W, 215 W, and 450 W on the heat transfer characteristics and the thermal performance. The results indicated that the minimum thermal resistance can be reached at 0.1585 (℃/W) with an orientation of 90° and a power input of 450 W. The results revealed that the inclination angles and power inputs had considerable influence on the enhancement of the thermal performance of the CLPHP. For the low boiling temperature of the working fluid, the power input is more favorable because of fast startup compared with a high power input that leads to some difficulties like the dry-out phenomenon.
Action Recognition in Real-World Ambient Assisted Living Environment
Creators: name: Zakka, Vincent Gbouna
name: Dai, Zhuangzhuang
name: Manso, Luis J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The growing ageing population and their preference to maintain independence by living in their own homes require proactive strategies to ensure safety and support. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies have emerged to facilitate ageing in place by offering continuous monitoring and assistance within the home. Within AAL technologies, action recognition plays a crucial role in interpreting human activities and detecting incidents like falls, mobility decline, or unusual behaviours that may signal worsening health conditions. However, action recognition in practical AAL applications presents challenges, including occlusions, noisy data, and the need for real-time performance. While advancements have been made in accuracy, robustness to noise, and computation efficiency, achieving a balance among them all remains a challenge. To address this challenge, this paper introduces the Robust and Efficient Temporal Convolution network (RE-TCN), which comprises three main elements: Adaptive Temporal Weighting (ATW), Depthwise Separable Convolutions (DSC), and data augmentation techniques. These elements aim to enhance the model's accuracy, robustness against noise and occlusion, and computational efficiency within real-world AAL contexts. RE-TCN outperforms existing models in terms of accuracy, noise and occlusion robustness, and has been validated on four benchmark datasets: NTU RGB+D 60, Northwestern-UCLA, SHREC'17, and DHG-14/28. The code is publicly available at: https://github.com/Gbouna/RE-TCN
Evidence of Strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction at the Cobalt/Hexagonal Boron Nitride Interface
Creators: name: El-Kerdi, Banan
name: Thiaville, André
name: Rohart, Stanislas
name: Panigrahy, Sujit
name: Brás, Nuno
name: Sampaio, João
name: Mougin, Alexandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) were measured on four series of Co films (1-2.2 nm thick) grown on Pt or Au and covered with h-BN or Cu. Clean h-BN/Co interfaces were obtained by exfoliating h-BN and transferring it onto the Co film in situ in the ultra-high-vacuum evaporation chamber. By comparing h-BN and Cu-covered samples, the DMI induced by the Co/h-BN interface was extracted and found to be comparable in strength to that of the Pt/Co interface, one of the largest known values. The strong observed DMI despite the weak spin-orbit interaction in h-BN supports a Rashba-like origin in agreement with recent theoretical results. Upon combination of it with Pt/Co in Pt/Co/h-BN heterostructures, even stronger PMA and DMI are found which stabilizes skyrmions at room temperature and a low magnetic field.
Additional file 2 of Clustering pattern and evolution characteristic of microRNAs in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
Creators: name: Niu, Huiqin
name: Pang, Yifan
name: Xie, Lingli
name: Yu, Qiaozhen
name: Shen, Yubang
name: Li, Jiale
name: Xu, Xiaoyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Co-expression networks of modules. (A) A co-expression network of the blue module. (B) A co-expression network of the green module. (C) A co-expression network of the grey module. (D) A co-expression network of the red module. (E) A co-expression network of the brown module. (F) A co-expression network of the yellow module. The orange-filled octagons refer to clustered miRNAs. Red links represent the co-expressed miRNA cluster.
Clinical Outcomes and Predictors in Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
Creators: name: SOUMYA AVIK MAJUMDAR
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110307 Gastroenterology and Hepatology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This thesis examines new and existing methods to identify patients with advanced scarring of the liver and evaluates associated outcomes. It establishes several advances in risk-stratification that apply to the clinical management of these patients.
Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Speech Enhancement Using Complex Gaussian Mixture Models
Creators: name: Fang, Huajian
name: Gerkmann, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Single-channel deep speech enhancement approaches often estimate a single multiplicative mask to extract clean speech without a measure of its accuracy. Instead, in this work, we propose to quantify the uncertainty associated with clean speech estimates in neural network-based speech enhancement. Predictive uncertainty is typically categorized into aleatoric uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty. The former accounts for the inherent uncertainty in data and the latter corresponds to the model uncertainty. Aiming for robust clean speech estimation and efficient predictive uncertainty quantification, we propose to integrate statistical complex Gaussian mixture models (CGMMs) into a deep speech enhancement framework. More specifically, we model the dependency between input and output stochastically by means of a conditional probability density and train a neural network to map the noisy input to the full posterior distribution of clean speech, modeled as a mixture of multiple complex Gaussian components. Experimental results on different datasets show that the proposed algorithm effectively captures predictive uncertainty and that combining powerful statistical models and deep learning also delivers a superior speech enhancement performance.
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title: Arctic Report Card 2020: Executive Summary
Creators: name: Thoman, Richard L.
name: Richter-Menge, Jacqueline
name: Druckenmiller, Matthew L.
name: Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (U.S.)
name: International Arctic Research Center
name: University of Alaska Fairbanks
name: National Snow and Ice Data Center (U.S.)
name: University of Colorado Boulder
name: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
name: Global Ocean Observing System
name: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.)
name: Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (U.S.)
name: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Publisher: name: Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (U.S.) International Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks National Snow and Ice Data Center (U.S.) University of Colorado Boulder United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Global Ocean Observing System Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (U.S.) Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Year: 2020

description: Arctic Report Card
Pathophysiological Effects of High Intraluminal Pressure in Cardiovascular Disease: A Role for Caveolin-1
Creators: name: WALED ASSAM SHIHATA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, is associated with a number of risk factors. However, hypertension, or high blood pressure, contributes to more deaths and disease globally than any other risk factor despite available treatments. Studies have looked at the biochemical events associated with hypertension, however none have looked at the role of pressure itself. This thesis examines the detrimental effects of pressure in the context of heart disease and shows for the first time the role of the caveolin-1 protein as a potential therapeutic target for hypertension-induced heart disease.
Cosmic rays and the magnetic field in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 I. The distribution and transport of cosmic rays
Creators: name: Heesen, V.
name: Beck, R.
name: Krause, M.
name: Dettmar, R. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffusive and convective CR transport in NGC 253 from the disk into the halo is investigated using the local CR bulk speed. The connection between the CR transport and the galactic wind is outlined. We observed NGC 253 with the VLA at lambda 6.2 cm in a mosaic with 15 pointings. The missing zero-spacing flux density of the VLA mosaic was filled in using observations with the 100-m Effelsberg telescope. We also obtained a new lambda 3.6 cm map from Effelsberg observations and reproduced VLA maps at lambda 20 cm and lambda 90 cm. We find a thin and a thick radio disk with exponential scaleheights of 0.3 kpc and 1.7 kpc at lambda 6.2 cm. The equipartition total magnetic field strength between 7 micro G and 18 micro G in the disk is remarkably high. We use the spectral aging of the cosmic ray electrons (CREs) seen in the vertical profiles of the spectral index to determine a lower limit for the global CR bulk speed as (170+/-70) km/s. The linear correlation between the scaleheights and the CRE lifetimes, as evident from the dumbbell shaped halo, requires a vertical CR transport with a bulk speed of (300+/-30) km/s in the northeastern halo, similar to the escape velocity of 280 km/s. This shows the presence of a "disk wind" in NGC253. In the southwestern halo, the transport is mainly diffusive with a diffusion coefficient of (2.0+/-0.2) 10E29 cm^2 s^-1. In the northeastern halo, the CR transport is convective and more efficient than in the southwestern halo. The luminous material is transported by the disk wind, which can explain the different amounts of extra-planar HI, Halpha, and soft X-ray emission in the two halo parts. Future low-frequency radio observations will provide the data to analyze the vertical velocity profile of galactic winds.
description: Replaced with version published in A&A, includes colour figures, caption of Fig. 13 changed
Social Interaction and L2 Classroom Discourse
Creators: name: Carpenter, Lauren
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2015

description: Second language (L2) classroom discourse (CD) refers to the interactional practices employed in teaching language in instructed learning contexts. Since language is both the medium and the content, the teacher plays a central role in the L2 classroom context (Walsh, 2006). Specifically, the teacher uses language to provide comprehensible input, model appropriate pragmatic competence, and effectively facilitate student participation. In his book, Olcay Sert claims it is possible to understand the pedagogical and epistemic phenomena of L2 classroom interaction by applying micro-analytic research methods; therefore, he sets out to familiarize readers with Conversation Analysis (CA) and show its usefulness in studying L2 classroom discourse. This is done by first providing an overview of the framework, followed by utilizing it to analyze his data set of 16 hours of video-recordings from two English language classrooms in Luxembourg.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015)
Possible routes to superconductivity in the surface layers of V-doped Mg$_{1-δ}$Ti$_2$O$_4$ through multiple charge transfers and suppression of Jahn-Teller activity
Creators: name: Dey, Dibyendu
name: Maitra, T.
name: Taraphder, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity in the family of spinel oxides is very rare owing to their robust Mott-insulating nature. About half a century ago, LiTi$_2$O$_4$ became the first reported spinel compound to show superconductivity with a 12K transition temperature. Since then, several unsuccessful attempts were made to enhance the T$_c$ of this family of materials. However, a very recent experiment [arXiv:2209.02053] has reported superconductivity at a higher temperature (below 16K), in the V-doped Mg$_{1-δ}$Ti$_2$O$_4$ thin surface layer while its bulk counterpart remains Mott insulating. The superconducting T$_c$ of this material is significantly higher compared to other engineered MgTi$_2$O$_4$ thin films grown on different substrates. From our first-principles analysis, we have identified that Mg-depletion significantly reduces Jahn-Teller (JT) activity and antiferromagnetic superexchange at the surface layer of V-doped MgTi$_2$O$_4$ due to considerable charge transfer between various ions. The combined effect of a degraded antiferromagnetic order and reduced JT activity weakens the Mottness of the system, leading to the emergence of superconductivity at higher temperatures.
description: Maine article - 12 pages (single column), 4 figures. Supplemental attached
The massive star binary fraction in young open clusters - II. NGC 6611 (Eagle Nebula)
Creators: name: Sana, H.
name: Gosset, E.
name: Evans, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a set of over 100 medium- to high-resolution optical spectra collected from 2003 to 2009, we investigate the properties of the O-type star population in NGC6611 in the core of the Eagle Nebula (M16). Using a much more extended data set than previously available, we revise the spectral classification and multiplicity status of the nine O-type stars in our sample. We confirm two suspected binaries and derive the first SB2 orbital solutions for two systems. We further report that two other objects are displaying a composite spectrum, suggesting possible long-period binaries. Our analysis is supported by a set of Monte-Carlo simulations, allowing us to estimate the detection biases of our campaign and showing that the latter do not affect our conclusions. The absolute minimal binary fraction in our sample is f_min=0.44 but could be as high as 0.67 if all the binary candidates are confirmed. As in NGC6231 (see Paper I), up to 75% of the O star population in NGC6611 are found in an O+OB system, thus implicitly excluding random pairing from a classical IMF as a process to describe the companion association in massive binaries. No statistical difference could be further identified in the binary fraction, mass-ratio and period distributions between NGC6231 and NGC6611, despite the difference in age and environment of the two clusters.
description: Accepted by MNRAS; 15 pages, 17 fig
Identification and treatment of spurious journals in Latindex. Guide for Editors
Creators: name: Abejón-Peña, Teresa
name: Alonso-Gamboa, José Octavio
name: Córdoba-González, Saray
name: Polanco-Cortés, Jorge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Latin American journals,
Predatory Journals
Scholarly journals
Latindex
Fraudulent practices
Characteristics

description: To prevent bad editorial practices that can affect the credibility of all academic publications and harm the scientific community, Latindex is implementing a detection system that implies more scrutiny of the journals. To this end, a work team was set up to identify journals of dubious quality and define the policy to follow with journals that engage in fraudulent practices to unequivocally ensure the integrity of the publications included in Catalog 2.0. This guide is the product of the work of that group. It aims to guide editors, librarians, researchers, and other interested parties, to prevent the authors from being deceived and later defrauded in their efforts to publish in academic and scientific journals that could be fraudulent, with its foreseeable consequences.
description: There is another Spanish version in Zenodo
Pastoral and anti-pastoral music and landscapes in Final Fantasy X, XII, XIII, and XV
Creators: name: Gallagher, Marina Janette
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The worlds of role-playing video games (RPGs) are comprised of a wide variety of locations, from verdant forests to eerie ruins, and music plays a critical role in determining how players feel about (and in) their surroundings. Ludomusicologists have started to investigate how music influences players’ perceptions of landscapes in video games, but the broader study of how particular types of areas and their music affect players remains relatively unexplored. This dissertation examines pastoral and anti-pastoral landscapes and music in Final Fantasy X, XII, XIII, and XV. Through the analysis of selected areas from the four games and a discussion of the results of an empirical research study, it argues that pastoral and anti-pastoral landscapes employ distinct sets of musical and visual features that elicit emotional responses of relaxation and apprehension, respectively. This study traces the visual characteristics of pastoral forests and fields back to ancient poetry, specifically Theocritus’s Idylls and Virgil’s Eclogues, and contends that these areas foster feelings of peacefulness in players owing to their participation in this broader pastoral tradition. Pastoral music in the four Final Fantasy games similarly puts players at ease by drawing upon elements of the pastoral topic in Western art and film music. Anti-pastoral landscapes, on the other hand, are dark, foreboding locations such as caves, ruins, and tombs that resonate with depictions of the Underworld in Ancient epic as well as the disruptive influence of the City in Virgil’s Eclogues. The visual and musical settings of these areas rely upon horror film and video game conventions to unsettle players. There is also a subset of locations in Final Fantasy X, XII, XIII, and XV that do not belong exclusively to either category. These locations have been designated as ambiguous landscapes. They elicit a more complex emotional response from players by employing visual and musical features that conflict with one another or by incorporating ambiguous elements that blur the distinction between pastoral and anti-pastoral.
Targeting Lipids Differentially Regulated in Settings of Physiological Cardiac Hypertrophy and Disease
Creators: name: YOW KEAT THAM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110104 Medical Biochemistry: Lipids
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular Biology

description: The heart enlarges in response to stress such as cardiovascular disease. This is considered “bad” enlargement/growth as it typically progresses to heart failure. “Good” enlargement however, occurs in response to exercise and this is known to be protective. There are many defining traits between good and bad heart enlargement, but little is known about the regulation of lipids. In this thesis, approximately 600 lipids were profiled in various mouse models of good and bad heart enlargement. Differential regulation of lipids were identified, and treatment strategies to modulate specific lipids were conducted. Targeting lipids as a therapeutic strategy warrants further study.
Information Fusion for Anomaly Detection with the Dendritic Cell Algorithm
Creators: name: Greensmith, Julie
name: Aickelin, Uwe
name: Tedesco, Gianni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dendritic cells are antigen presenting cells that provide a vital link between the innate and adaptive immune system, providing the initial detection of pathogenic invaders. Research into this family of cells has revealed that they perform information fusion which directs immune responses. We have derived a Dendritic Cell Algorithm based on the functionality of these cells, by modelling the biological signals and differentiation pathways to build a control mechanism for an artificial immune system. We present algorithmic details in addition to experimental results, when the algorithm was applied to anomaly detection for the detection of port scans. The results show the Dendritic Cell Algorithm is sucessful at detecting port scans.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures, Information Fusion
Health service utilisation among people who inject drugs: the effects of demographics, substance use and health services
Creators: name: DHANYA NAMBIAR DINESH KUMAR
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: People who inject drugs (PWID) experience poor health and are at greater risk of mortality compared to the general population. Yet they are also often stigmatised when they attend health services for care. Dhanya’s research examined patterns and trends in health service use, and factors influencing health service use among PWID. She found heavy service use was related to mental health conditions and socioeconomic disadvantage such as homelessness and unemployment. Recommendations from her research include improving coordination between emergency, tertiary and harm reduction services, eliminating stigma towards PWID, and providing supportive housing.
Watch this Space
Creators: name: Hall, Timothy
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2015

description: There comes a point in every language teacher’s career when practice in the classroom is incongruent with preconceived, sometimes idealistic expectations. This is due in part to the mismatch between those expectations and the psychological realities of second language learning. Moreover, the vagaries of the classroom environment make it all the more difficult to predict how learning will unfold. And yet we continue to teach, all the while striving to refine our intuitive strategies through experience.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015)
Optomechanical coupling in photonic crystal supported nanomechanical waveguides
Creators: name: Pernice, W. H. P.
name: Li, Mo
name: Tang, Hong X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report enhanced optomechanical coupling by embedding a nano-mechanical beam resonator within an optical race-track resonator. Precise control of the mechanical resonator is achieved by clamping the beam between two low-loss photonic crystal waveguide couplers. The low insertion loss and the rigid mechanical support provided by the couplers yield both high mechanical and optical Q-factors for improved signal quality.
WHEN SIZE MATTERS: different roles for blades and bladelets in the Early Ahmarian site of Al-Ansab1 (Jordan)
Creators: name: Gennai, Jacopo
name: Richter, Jürgen
Publisher: name: CRC806-Database
Year: 2019
Subjects: ahmarian
archaeology
blade technology
bladelets
lithic technology
upper palaeolithic

description: Bladelets are suggested as the hallmark of Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) industries. Bladelet-making is central in defining EUP technocomplexes and the debate is still ongoing. Here, new data on a significant sample of the stratified Early Ahmarian site of Al-Ansab 1 (Jordan) are presented. It is shown that bladelets constitute the majority of the blanks and the goal of the lithic production at the site. They are obtained through unipolar knapping of single platform cores, constraining a central area by means of embedded maintenance blade blanks and flank flakes. Bladelets are defined as the laminar blanks less than 12 mm wide. They are overwhelmingly represented in target products, i.e. straighter and more regular, while blades perform maintenance roles. Bladelet negatives are represented on laminar blanks and cores of all sizes. The presented analysis is part of a PhD project focusing on a comparison between bladelet-makings in different EUP sites along the putative “Eastern Trajectory”.
Blood Oxygen Saturation Estimation from Facial Video via DC and AC components of Spatio-temporal Map
Creators: name: Akamatsu, Yusuke
name: Onishi, Yoshifumi
name: Imaoka, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Peripheral blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), an indicator of oxygen levels in the blood, is one of the most important physiological parameters. Although SpO2 is usually measured using a pulse oximeter, non-contact SpO2 estimation methods from facial or hand videos have been attracting attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose an SpO2 estimation method from facial videos based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). Our method constructs CNN models that consider the direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) components extracted from the RGB signals of facial videos, which are important in the principle of SpO2 estimation. Specifically, we extract the DC and AC components from the spatio-temporal map using filtering processes and train CNN models to predict SpO2 from these components. We also propose an end-to-end model that predicts SpO2 directly from the spatio-temporal map by extracting the DC and AC components via convolutional layers. Experiments using facial videos and SpO2 data from 50 subjects demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a better estimation performance than current state-of-the-art SpO2 estimation methods.
description: Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023
Giant nonlinearity of carbon nanotubes in a photonic metamaterial
Creators: name: Nikolaenko, Andrey E.
name: De Angelis, Francesco
name: Boden, Stuart A.
name: Papasimakis, Nikitas
name: Ashburn, Peter
name: Di Fabrizio, Enzo
name: Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metamaterials, artificial media structured on the subwavelength scale offer a rich paradigm for developing unique photonic functionalities ranging from negative index of refraction and directionally asymmetric transmission to slowing light. Here we demonstrate that a combination of carbon nanotubes with a photonic metamaterial offers a new paradigm for the development of nonlinear media with exceptionally strong ultrafast nonlinear response invaluable in photonic applications. It is underpinned by strong coupling between weakly radiating Fano-type resonant plasmonic modes and the excitonic response of single-walled semiconductor carbon nanotubes. Using a "combinatorial" approach to material discovery we show that the optical response of such a composite system can be tailored and optimized by metamaterial design.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Unpacking the Concept of Complexity in Instructed SLA Research: Towards an Acquisitional Definition
Creators: name: Jung, Ji-Yung
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2015

description: Over the past few decades, the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has seen a remarkable increase of interest in the study of instructed second language acquisition (ISLA), which “investigates second language (L2) learning or acquisition that occurs as a result of teaching” (Loewen, 2014, p. 2). The ISLA literature shows that there is an array of pedagogical options that can be used to facilitate adult L2 learning, ranging from implicit to explicit techniques. Furthermore, the effectiveness of an instructional treatment seems to depend largely on the nature of the L2 feature (e.g., Ellis, 2002; Spada & Tomita, 2010). However, extant empirical studies have yielded rather mixed findings on the issue regarding which type of L2 feature benefits more from which type of instruction, rendering it difficult to provide straightforward guidance to L2 classroom teachers. There are several reasons for the disparities in research findings, such as differences in study designs, settings, learner characteristics, etc., but above anything else, the inconsistent findings can primarily be attributed to the varying conceptualizations of complexity. With an aim to enlighten future research in this line of inquiry, the present discussion emphasizes the need for a more integral definition of complexity.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015)
คุณภาพและการยอมรับบะหมี่บุกอบแห้งกึ่งสำเร็จรูปด้วยการเติมแป้งบุกทดแทนแป้งสาลี
Creators: name: ณัฎวลิณคล เศรษฐปราโมทย์
Publisher: name: คณะเทคโนโลยีการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2023
Subjects: แป้งบุก
บะหมี่อบแห้งกึ่งสำเร็จรูป
คุณภาพบะหมี่
การยอมรับผู้บริโภค

description: วารสารเกษตรพระวรุณ, 20, 2, 132-142
Quantum corrections to the Schwarzschild metric from vacuum polarization
Creators: name: Beltrán-Palau, Pau
name: del Río, Adrián
name: Navarro-Salas, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore static and spherically symmetric solutions of the 4-dimensional semiclassical Einstein's equations using the quantum vacuum polarization of a conformal field as a source. These solutions may be of interest for \black{the study of} exotic, compact objects (ECOs). The full backreaction problem is addressed by solving the semiclassical Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations making use of effective equations of state inspired \black{by} the trace anomaly and an extra simplifying and reasonable assumption. We combine analytical and numerical techniques to solve the resulting differential equations, both perturbatively and nonperturbatively in $\hbar$. In all cases the solution is similar to the Schwarzschild metric up to the vicinity of the classical horizon $r=2M$. However, at $r=2M + \varepsilon$, with $\varepsilon\sim O(\sqrt{\hbar})$, we find a coordinate singularity. In \black{the} case of matching with a static star, this leads to an upper bound in the compactness, and sets a constraint on the family of stable ECOs. We also study the corrections that the quantum-vacuum polarization induces on the propagation of waves, and discuss the implications. For the pure vacuum case, we can further extend the solution by using appropriate coordinates until we reach another singular point, where this time a null curvature singularity arises and prevents extending beyond. This picture qualitatively agrees with the results obtained in the effective two-dimensional approach, and reinforces the latter as a reasonable method.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Did the Milky Way dwarf satellites enter the halo as a group?
Creators: name: Metz, Manuel
name: Kroupa, Pavel
name: Theis, Christian
name: Hensler, Gerhard
name: Jerjen, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dwarf satellite galaxies in the Local Group are generally considered to be hosted in dark matter subhalos that survived the disruptive processes during infall onto their host halos. It has recently been argued that if the majority of satellites entered the Milky Way halo in a group rather than individually, this could explain the spatial and dynamical peculiarities of its satellite distribution. Such groups were identified as dwarf galaxy associations that are found in the nearby Universe. In this paper we address the question whether galaxies in such associations can be the progenitors of the Milky Way satellite galaxies. We find that the dwarf associations are much more extended than would be required to explain the disk-like distribution of the Milky Way and Andromeda satellite galaxies. We further identify a possible minor filamentary structure, perpendicular to the supergalactic plane, in which the dwarf associations are located, that might be related to the direction of infall of a progenitor galaxy of the Milky Way satellites, if they are of tidal origin.
description: acc ApJ
Examining the Intersection between Task-Based Learning and Technology
Creators: name: Akbar, Farah S.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2015

description: Less than two decades ago most of the activities in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) were created with a “one-size-fits-all” understanding of how computers could enhance language learning. Across the board, the sole rationale for using technology, mostly computerbased, was that it was useful and motivating for learners. The obvious lack of a solid research base for such practice gradually led both CALL researchers to approach the use of technology in language teaching and learning more empirically. Only recently has the field of CALL begun to undergo self-evaluation (Gónzalez-Lloret & Ortega, 2014), and researchers are now claiming that in order for the field to progress, it is necessary to look to SLA principles that make language teaching effective (Chapelle, 1998; Levy, 1999).
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015)
$0νββ$ nuclear matrix elements and the occupancy of individual orbits
Creators: name: Simkovic, Fedor
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Vogel, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measured occupancies of valence orbits in $^{76}$Ge and $^{76}$Se are used as a guideline for modification of the effective mean field energies that results in better description of these quantities. With them, in combination with the selfconsitent renormalized quasiparticle random phase approximation (SRQRPA) method that ensures conservation of the mean particle number in the correlated ground state, we show that the resulting $0νββ$ nuclear matrix element for the $^{76}$Ge $\to$ $^{76}$Se transition is reduced by $\sim$25% compared to the previous QRPA value, and therefore the difference between the present approach and the interacting shell model predictions becomes correspondingly smaller. Analogous modification of the mean field energies for the A=82 system also results in a reduction of $0νββ$ matrix element for the $^{82}$Se $\to$ $^{82}$Kr transition, making it also closer to the shell model prediction.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF SCIENTISTS ABOUT ATTENTION.
Creators: name: Isakhanova, Mokhidil
name: Zohidova, Muhlisa
name: Xursanova, Diyora
name: Akabarova, Dilzoda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The article discusses the psychological and physiological processes of attention and the opinions of scientists who have scientifically proven the psychological and physiological theories of attention.
Additional file 1 of The three steps method for uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy
Creators: name: Liu, Caiyang
name: Ran, Ran
name: Luo, Lei
name: Li, Xiaoliang
name: Liu, Gaohua
name: Shao, Hong
name: Li, Ji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that operative time and number of reloads correlated with surgical method.
A Framework for Generalizing Critical Heat Flux Detection Models Using Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation
Creators: name: Al-Hindawi, Firas
name: Soori, Tejaswi
name: Hu, Han
name: Siddiquee, Md Mahfuzur Rahman
name: Yoon, Hyunsoo
name: Wu, Teresa
name: Sun, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The detection of critical heat flux (CHF) is crucial in heat boiling applications as failure to do so can cause rapid temperature ramp leading to device failures. Many machine learning models exist to detect CHF, but their performance reduces significantly when tested on data from different domains. To deal with datasets from new domains a model needs to be trained from scratch. Moreover, the dataset needs to be annotated by a domain expert. To address this issue, we propose a new framework to support the generalizability and adaptability of trained CHF detection models in an unsupervised manner. This approach uses an unsupervised Image-to-Image (UI2I) translation model to transform images in the target dataset to look like they were obtained from the same domain the model previously trained on. Unlike other frameworks dealing with domain shift, our framework does not require retraining or fine-tuning of the trained classification model nor does it require synthesized datasets in the training process of either the classification model or the UI2I model. The framework was tested on three boiling datasets from different domains, and we show that the CHF detection model trained on one dataset was able to generalize to the other two previously unseen datasets with high accuracy. Overall, the framework enables CHF detection models to adapt to data generated from different domains without requiring additional annotation effort or retraining of the model.
description: This work has been submitted to the Expert Systems With Applications Journal on Sep 25, 2022
Submillimeter galaxies behind the Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56)
Creators: name: Johansson, Daniel
name: Horellou, Cathy
name: Sommer, Martin W.
name: Basu, Kaustuv
name: Bertoldi, Frank
name: Birkinshaw, Mark
name: Lancaster, Katy
name: Lopez-Cruz, Omar
name: Quintana, Hernan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clusters of galaxies are effective gravitational lenses able to magnify background galaxies and making it possible to probe the fainter part of the galaxy population. Submillimeter galaxies, which are believed to be star-forming galaxies at typical redshifts of 2 to 3, are a major contaminant to the extended Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal of galaxy clusters. For a proper quantification of the SZ signal the contribution of submillimeter galaxies needs to be quantified. The aims of this study are to identify submillimeter sources in the field of the Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56), a massive cluster of galaxies at z~0.3, measure their flux densities at 870 micron, and search for counterparts at other wavelengths to constrain their properties. We carried out deep observations of the submillimeter continuum emission at 870 micron using the Large APEX BOlometer CAmera (LABOCA) on the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) telescope. Several numerical techniques were used to quantify the noise properties of the data and extract sources. In total, seventeen sources were found. Thirteen of them lie in the central 10 arcminutes of the map, which has a pixel sensitivity of 1.2 mJy per 22 arcsec beam. After correction for flux boosting and gravitational lensing, the number counts are consistent with published submm measurements. Nine of the sources have infrared counterparts in Spitzer maps. The strongest submm detection coincides with a source previously reported at other wavelengths, at an estimated redshift z~2.7. If the submm flux arises from two images of a galaxy magnified by a total factor of 75, as models have suggested, its intrinsic flux would be around 0.6 mJy, consistent with an intrinsic luminosity below 10^12 L_sun.
description: Accepted by A&A, 15 pages, 11 figures
Instructed SLA and Task-Based Language Teaching
Creators: name: Sun, Haimei
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2015

description: Although second language acquisition (SLA) and language teaching are two distinct fields, an increasing number of classroom-based SLA research on the effectiveness of different types of instruction, such as focus on forms, focus on meaning, and focus on form (see Norris & Ortega, 2000 for a review), corrective feedback (e.g., Lyster & Ranta, 1997), input enhancement (e.g., White, 1998), etc., has brought about a burgeoning subfield of SLA known as Instructed SLA (ISLA). ISLA, which is often pitted against naturalistic SLA, “occurs in formal settings where language is intentionally taught and intentionally learned – within a limited amount of time” (Spada, 2015, p. 71). Given ISLA’s immediate and potential relevance to second language (L2) pedagogy, Long (2014) made the first attempt to formulate a cognitive-interactionist theory of ISLA. In what follows, this theory will first be presented and then discussed in relation to its significance to and implications for task-based language teaching (TBLT) and syllabus design.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015)
Renormalized spin coefficients in the accumulated orbital phase for unequal mass black hole binaries
Creators: name: Gergely, László Á.
name: Biermann, Peter L.
name: Mikóczi, Balázs
name: Keresztes, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze galactic black hole mergers and their emitted gravitational waves. Such mergers have typically unequal masses with mass ratio of the order 1/10. The emitted gravitational waves carry the inprint of spins and mass quadrupoles of the binary components. Among these contributions, we consider here the quasi-precessional evolution of the spins. A method of taking into account these third post-Newtonian (3PN) effects by renormalizing (redefining) the 1.5 PN and 2PN accurate spin contributions to the accumulated orbital phase is developed.
description: 10 pages, to appear in Class. Quantum Grav. GWDAW13 Proceedings Special Issue, v2: no typos conjecture
No Excess of RR Lyrae Stars in the Canis Major Overdensity
Creators: name: Mateu, Cecilia
name: Vivas, A. Katherina
name: Zinn, Robert
name: Miller, Lissa
name: Abad, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our multi-epoch survey of ~20 sq. deg. of the Canis Major overdensity has detected only 10 RR Lyrae stars (RRLS). We show that this number is consistent with the number expected from the Galactic halo and thick disk populations alone, leaving no excess that can be attributed to the dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy that some authors have proposed as the origin of the CMa overdensity. If this galaxy resembles the dSph satellites of the Milky Way and of M31 and has the putative Mv~-14.5, our survey should have detected several tens of RRLS. Even if Mv10, which is not observed. Either the old stellar population of this galaxy has unique properties or, as others have argued before, the CMa overdensity is produced by the thin and thick disk and spiral arm populations of the Milky Way and not by a collision with a dSph satellite galaxy.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication at the Astronomical Journal