cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dance undergraduate curriculum in Body Knowledge in Israel: Based on American courses
Creators: name: Bickels, Shelly
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360402
subject: Dance and dance studies
classificationCode: 390110
subject: Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 390111
subject: Physical education and development curriculum and pedagogy

description: This thesis will provide an analysis of a projected undergraduate Body Knowledge program for dance in an Israeli university. Nineteen dance programs in American universities were studied, as well as the two existing Israeli undergraduate dance programs at Seminar Hakibutzim and the Jerusalem Rubin Academy. In addition, major Somatic systems in the United States, and their use in dance were reviewed. The integration of Somatics into the American Body Knowledge courses was analyzed. The curriculum developed in this thesis is designed as a one-year course, and it is hoped that the two undergraduate programs in Israel will find it a valuable proposal to be integrated into the dance program in the near future.
Headline Indicators For Monitoring The Performance Of Healthcare Systems: Findings From The European Health Systems_Indicator (Euhs_I) Survey
Creators: name: , Perić
name: Hofmarcher
name: , Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: health system performance assessment
indicators
health information
policy making
international comparisons
European Union

description: This presentation was held at the 3rd ATHEA-Conference for Health Economics „Health services research in patients with complex needs“ in Vienna.

Abstract:

Background: Cross-country comparisons of healthcare system performance have become increasingly important. Clear evidence is needed on the prioritization of healthcare system performance assessment (HSPA) indicators. Selected “leading” or “headline” HSPA indicators may provide early warnings of policy impacts. The goal of this paper is to propose a set of headline indicators to frame and describe healthcare system performance.

Methods: We identified overlaps and gaps in the availability of reported indicators by looking at HSPA initiatives in Member States (MSs) of the European Union (EU), the European Commission as well as international institutions (e.g. OECD, WHO-EUR). On that basis, we conducted a two-stage online survey, the european Health System_Indicator (euHS_I) survey. The survey sought to elicit preferences from a wide range of HSPA experts on i) the most relevant HSPA domain(s), i.e. access, efficiency, quality of care, equity, for a specific indicator, and ii) the importance of indicators regarding their information content, i.e. headline, operational, explanatory. Frequency analysis was performed.

Results: We identified 2168 health and health system indicators listed in 43 relevant initiatives. After adjusting for overlaps, a total of 361 indicators were assessed by 28 experts in the 1st stage of the survey. In the 2nd stage, a more balanced set of 95 indicators was constructed and assessed by 72 experts from 22 EU MSs and 3 non-EU countries. In the domains access and equity, experts assessed share of population covered by health insurance as top headline indicator. In the domain efficiency, the highest rank was given to Total health care expenditure by all financing agents, and in the domain quality of care to vaccination coverage.

Conclusions: HSPA indicators from different initiatives largely overlap and public health indicators dominate over health systems aspects. The survey allowed to quantify overlaps and gaps in HSPA indicators, their expert allocation to domain areas and establishment of an informed hierarchy structure. Yet, results show that more multidisciplinary work is needed to ensure the availability of accurate efficiency indicators which are comparable across countries.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 7243.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.10.1915, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1915

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 7245.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.10.1915, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1915

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Bruchidius murinus
Creators: name: Stojanova, Anelia
name: György, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Bruchidius
Bruchidius murinus

description: Br. murinus (Boheman, 1829):
Borowiec (1983, 1987b), Wendt (1984), Chochev (1988), Chochev & Chochev (1991), Borowiec & Anton (1993), Delobel & Delobel (2007), Anton (2010)
description: Published as part of Stojanova, Anelia & György, Zoltán, 2011, Checklist of the Bulgarian Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-7 in ZooNotes 25 (25) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8301861
Semi-Synchronous Federated Learning for Energy-Efficient Training and Accelerated Convergence in Cross-Silo Settings
Creators: name: Stripelis, Dimitris
name: Ambite, Jose Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.5.1; K.6.4
subject: 68T07, 68T09, 68M14, 68W15

description: There are situations where data relevant to machine learning problems are distributed across multiple locations that cannot share the data due to regulatory, competitiveness, or privacy reasons. Machine learning approaches that require data to be copied to a single location are hampered by the challenges of data sharing. Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach to learn a joint model over all the available data across silos. In many cases, the sites participating in a federation have different data distributions and computational capabilities. In these heterogeneous environments, existing approaches exhibit poor performance: synchronous FL protocols are communication efficient, but have slow learning convergence and high energy cost; conversely, asynchronous FL protocols have faster convergence with lower energy cost, but higher communication. In this work, we introduce a novel energy-efficient Semi-Synchronous Federated Learning protocol that mixes local models periodically with minimal idle time and fast convergence. We show through extensive experiments over established benchmark datasets in the computer-vision domain as well as in real-world biomedical settings that our approach significantly outperforms previous work in data and computationally heterogeneous environments.
description: 30 pages, 12 figures
title: Ständig erreichbar - Über die Auswirkungen von Smartphones auf die sozialen Beziehungen von Jugendlichen"
Creators: name: Temper, Rhea
Year: 2014

description: Kaum ein anderes Kommunikationsmedium scheint je so große Bedeutung erlangt zu haben, wie Jugendliche sie heute dem Smartphone zuschreiben. Mobile Kommunikation ist allgegenwärtig und hat längst Einzug in unseren Alltag gefunden. Jugendliche sind heute, völlig losgelöst von Zeit und Raum, ständig erreichbar. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, welche Auswirkungen diese ständige Erreichbarkeit auf die sozialen Beziehungen Jugendlicher hat. Es soll eruiert werden, inwieweit sich Kommunikation anhand des Smartphones verändert, in welchem Ausmaß mobile Kommunikation vor allem auch Einfluss auf die direkte Kommunikation nimmt. Dabei wird speziell auf die freundschaftlichen Beziehungen der 14- bis 19-Jährigen eingegangen. Die Untersuchung der vorliegenden Arbeit erfolgt mittels qualitativen Leitfaden-Interview und ermöglicht somit direkte Einblicke in jugendliche Umgangsweisen.
description: Hardly any communication medium seems to have gained as much importance as the smart-phone for teenagers today. Mobile communication is ever-present and has long since found its way into our everyday life. Nowadays teenagers are, fully free and no longer bound by the laws of space and time, permanently reachable. In the presented paper, the question on the effects this constant reachability has on social relationships will be examined. It shall be reviewed how far communication has changed due to the smart-phone and to what extent mobile communication influences direct communication. Thereby the focus especially lies on the friendly relationships of 14- to 19-year-olds. The examination of the presented paper shall be made according to qualitative guideline interviews and thus enables direct insight into the teenage approaches.
title: Von Nähe zu Distanz und zurück
Creators: name: Kribbel, Liselotte
Year: 2014

description: Intensität, Emotionalität und Verzückung in der Repräsentation von Frauen in religiösen Kontexten sind gängig im Film. Genauso gibt es aber distanzierte Darstellungen von gleichgültigen, apathischen Frauen. Die vorliegende Analysearbeit beschäftigt sich mit Nähe und Distanz in der Darstellung von Frauen in acht französischen Filmen mit klarem Bezug zu Religion – meistens zum katholischen Christentum. Von Carl Th. Dreyers La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) bis zu Bruno Dumonts Hadewijch (2009) wird ein weiter Bogen gespannt. Es soll gezeigt werden, welche Rolle Nähe und Distanz in den religiösen Beziehungen der Narrative und in der Filmsprache spielt. Dabei geht die inhaltliche Analyse vor allem auf das Verhältnis der Protagonistinnen zu ihrem jeweiligen religiösen Gegenüber ein: der Kirchenrepräsentanz und Gott. Gleichermaßen kann auch die Darstellungsweise unter dem Blickwinkel von Nähe und Distanz betrachtet werden, insofern sie die Protagonistinnen einschränkt oder ihnen Raum gibt und auf die Zusehenden eindringlich oder zurückhaltend wirkt. In der Arbeit wird keine eindeutig positive oder negative Bedeutung von Nähe oder Distanz für die Frauen ersichtlich; weder das religiöse Gegenüber, noch die ästhetische Form betreffend. Eher werden ihre unterschiedlichen Umsetzungsformen und Wirkungen erkennbar. Außerdem zeigt sich in der chronologischen Abhandlung der Filme eine Pendelbewegung von narrativer und formaler Nähe zu immer größerer Distanz und eine Wende zurück zur Intensität von Erfahrungen in den neuesten Filmen.
Bruchidius nanus
Creators: name: Stojanova, Anelia
name: György, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Bruchidius
Bruchidius nanus

description: Br. nanus (Germar, 1824):
Joakimov (1904), Borowiec (1983, 1987b), Wendt (1984), Chochev (1988), Delobel & Delobel (2007), Anton (2010)
description: Published as part of Stojanova, Anelia & György, Zoltán, 2011, Checklist of the Bulgarian Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-7 in ZooNotes 25 (25) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8301861
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 7163.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.07.1915, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1915

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Telling a good story: presenting living intangible cultural heritage in Chinese and African museums
Creators: name: Gao, Chang
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper looks into Chinese and African museum practices to engage inheritors and audiences in living heritage restoration through six case studies, emphasizing the living characteristic of intangible heritage and its connection to people through the museum as facilitators. China and the Africa continent have abundant intangible cultural heritage assets but less developed museum system support than those in the western world. Whilst thorough research was conducted regarding to intangible heritage with growing awareness of the humanities' legacy in these areas, the intangible heritage is dead and stuffed in archives and documentations. Museums play a vital role in presenting living intangible cultural heritage to the public and restoring the transmission of living heritage between generations.
Downlink Channel Reconstruction for Spatial Multiplexing in Massive MIMO Systems
Creators: name: Lee, Hyeongtaek
name: Choi, Hyuckjin
name: Kim, Hwanjin
name: Kim, Sucheol
name: Jang, Chulhee
name: Choi, Yongyun
name: Choi, Junil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To get channel state information (CSI) at a base station (BS), most of researches on massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems consider time division duplexing (TDD) to get benefit from the uplink and downlink channel reciprocity. Even in TDD, however, the BS still needs to transmit downlink training signals, which are referred to as channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) in the 3GPP standard, to support spatial multiplexing in practice. This is because there are many cases that the number of transmit antennas is less than the number of receive antennas at a user equipment (UE) due to power consumption and circuit complexity issues. Because of this mismatch, uplink sounding reference signals (SRSs) from the UE are not enough for the BS to obtain full downlink MIMO CSI. Therefore, after receiving the downlink CSI-RSs, the UE needs to feed back quantized CSI to the BS using a pre-defined codebook to support spatial multiplexing. In this paper, possible approaches to reconstruct full downlink MIMO CSI at the BS are proposed by exploiting both the SRS and quantized downlink CSI considering practical antenna structures with reduced downlink CSI-RS overhead. Numerical results show that the spectral efficiencies by spatial multiplexing based on the proposed downlink MIMO CSI reconstruction techniques outperform the conventional methods solely based on the quantized CSI.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
A canonical transformation to eliminate resonant perturbations I
Creators: name: Deme, Barnabás
name: Kocsis, Bence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dynamical systems which admit action-angle variables at leading order which are subject to nearly resonant perturbations. If the frequencies characterizing the unperturbed system are not in resonance, the long-term dynamical evolution may be integrated by orbit-averaging over the high-frequency angles, thereby evolving the orbit-averaged effect of the perturbations. It is well known that such integrators may be constructed via a canonical transformation, which eliminates the high frequency variables from the orbit-averaged quantities. An example of this algorithm in celestial mechanics is the von Zeipel transformation. However if the perturbations are inside or close to a resonance, i.e. the frequencies of the unperturbed system are commensurate, these canonical transformations are subject to divergences. We introduce a canonical transformation which eliminates the high frequency phase variables in the Hamiltonian without encountering divergences. This leads to a well-behaved symplectic integrator. We demonstrate the algorithm through two examples: a resonantly perturbed harmonic oscillator and the gravitational three-body problem in mean motion resonance.
description: Some minor errors have been corrected. Published in AJ
Telling a good story: presenting living intangible cultural heritage in Chinese and African museums
Creators: name: Gao, Chang
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4302
subject: Heritage, archive and museum studies
classificationCode: 430203
subject: Cultural heritage management (incl. world heritage)

description: This paper looks into Chinese and African museum practices to engage inheritors and audiences in living heritage restoration through six case studies, emphasizing the living characteristic of intangible heritage and its connection to people through the museum as facilitators. China and the Africa continent have abundant intangible cultural heritage assets but less developed museum system support than those in the western world. Whilst thorough research was conducted regarding to intangible heritage with growing awareness of the humanities' legacy in these areas, the intangible heritage is dead and stuffed in archives and documentations. Museums play a vital role in presenting living intangible cultural heritage to the public and restoring the transmission of living heritage between generations.
Bruchidius nudus
Creators: name: Stojanova, Anelia
name: György, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Bruchidius
Bruchidius nudus

description: Br. nudus (Allard, 1868):
Borowiec (1983, 1987b), Wendt (1984), Delobel & Delobel (2007)
description: Published as part of Stojanova, Anelia & György, Zoltán, 2011, Checklist of the Bulgarian Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-7 in ZooNotes 25 (25) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8301861
West-Life: Second Deployment Of The Consolidated Platform
Creators: name: Verlato, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Structural biology
virtual research environment
Single sign on
cloud

description: Development of automated portal setup and operation via cloud orchestration services continued. We followed the directions outlined in D4.1, using Cloudify as the primary tool. We use the deployment of Gromacs portal [4] as the showcase, which demonstrates all the supported features, and where the primary documentation and usage guidelines are maintained. Besides numerous minor improvements and bug fixes, two principal features were added:  Support for GPU: the templates may request GPU enabled cloud machines via OCCI at sites where this functionality is supported. Appropriate vendor (NVIDIA™) kernel drivers and libraries are installed, both CUDA and accelerated OpenGL remote rendering is available.  Deployment via Cloudify Manager: unlike "one shot" deployment with Cloudify CLI, Cloudify Manager is a permanently running service which monitors the whole deployment and can react to various events (e.g. a node is restarted automatically when it dies). Also the deployment (e.g. number of worker nodes) can grow or shrink dynamically. Alternate approach using solutions of H2020 INDIGO-DataCloud project was tested as well. Unfortunately, these project products appear not to be mature enough to be usable without extensive support of the INDIGO team. Therefore this direction of development in West-life was abandoned for the time being.
Toward a Scalable Upper Bound for a CVaR-LQ Problem
Creators: name: Chapman, Margaret P.
name: Lessard, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We study a linear-quadratic, optimal control problem on a discrete, finite time horizon with distributional ambiguity, in which the cost is assessed via Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). We take steps toward deriving a scalable dynamic programming approach to upper-bound the optimal value function for this problem. This dynamic program yields a novel, tunable risk-averse control policy, which we compare to existing state-of-the-art methods.
description: This version of the article makes almost-everywhere notions explicit (Lemma 3, Theorem 2)
Frege's rationalist epistemology
Creators: name: Burke, Dennis Dale
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
classificationCode: 500305
subject: Epistemology
classificationCode: 500308
subject: Logic

description: This thesis examines the rationalist epistemology of the German logicist mathematician Gottlob Frege (1868-1925), whose principal contribution to mathematical logic was the invention of the logical quantifier and application of mathematical functions to propositional functions of logic. Frege is revered for his seminal investigations into semantics. His work is credited by some as having inaugurated the 'linguistic turn.' It has been held that Frege's interests were primarily semantic and not epistemological. The extreme realistic views attributed to him make it seem that he was interested in ontology and an ally of Russell and Moore in the revolt against idealism. He rejected formalism, empiricism and psychologism in logic and mathematics. I argue controversially that Frege was indeed a psychologistic and rationalist philosopher with strong ties to Neo-Kantianism and was concerned with the epistemology of mathematical truth.
Frege's rationalist epistemology
Creators: name: Burke, Dennis Dale
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the rationalist epistemology of the German logicist mathematician Gottlob Frege (1868-1925), whose principal contribution to mathematical logic was the invention of the logical quantifier and application of mathematical functions to propositional functions of logic. Frege is revered for his seminal investigations into semantics. His work is credited by some as having inaugurated the 'linguistic turn.' It has been held that Frege's interests were primarily semantic and not epistemological. The extreme realistic views attributed to him make it seem that he was interested in ontology and an ally of Russell and Moore in the revolt against idealism. He rejected formalism, empiricism and psychologism in logic and mathematics. I argue controversially that Frege was indeed a psychologistic and rationalist philosopher with strong ties to Neo-Kantianism and was concerned with the epistemology of mathematical truth.
Bruchidius obscuripes
Creators: name: Stojanova, Anelia
name: György, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Bruchidius
Bruchidius obscuripes

description: Br. obscuripes (Gyllenhal, 1839):
Wendt (1984), Borowiec (1987b), Delobel & Delobel (2007), Anton (2010)
description: Published as part of Stojanova, Anelia & György, Zoltán, 2011, Checklist of the Bulgarian Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-7 in ZooNotes 25 (25) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8301861
Full Page Handwriting Recognition via Image to Sequence Extraction
Creators: name: Singh, Sumeet S.
name: Karayev, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a Neural Network based Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model architecture that can be trained to recognize full pages of handwritten or printed text without image segmentation. Being based on Image to Sequence architecture, it can extract text present in an image and then sequence it correctly without imposing any constraints regarding orientation, layout and size of text and non-text. Further, it can also be trained to generate auxiliary markup related to formatting, layout and content. We use character level vocabulary, thereby enabling language and terminology of any subject. The model achieves a new state-of-art in paragraph level recognition on the IAM dataset. When evaluated on scans of real world handwritten free form test answers - beset with curved and slanted lines, drawings, tables, math, chemistry and other symbols - it performs better than all commercially available HTR cloud APIs. It is deployed in production as part of a commercial web application.
description: Appeared in ICDAR 2021
Women's empowerment through community-based reproductive health programs: A case study in Peru
Creators: name: Coe, Anna-Britt Christina
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This MA thesis examines the ability of women-centered and community-based reproductive health programs to fulfill the reproductive health needs of poor and marginalized women and lead to their empowerment. The ReproSalud project in Peru serves as a case study. ReproSalud is a USAID-funded project being implemented by the Peruvian feminist organization Movimiento Manuela Ramos. Field research was conducted using participant observation and qualitative interviewing for four months. The findings provide an in-depth description of the project, outcomes from the implementation process of ReproSalud's model, participants' perceptions of the project and its preliminary impact. By presenting a concrete example from the field, this research contributes to building the body of knowledge on community-based and women-centered reproductive health programs, a necessary step to implement the commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development.
Bruchidius olivaceus Germar 1824
Creators: name: Stojanova, Anelia
name: György, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Bruchidius
Bruchidius olivaceus

description: Br. olivaceus Germar, 1824:
Anton (2010)
description: Published as part of Stojanova, Anelia & György, Zoltán, 2011, Checklist of the Bulgarian Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-7 in ZooNotes 25 (25) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8301861
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 7122.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.05.1915, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1915

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Domain-Incremental Continual Learning for Mitigating Bias in Facial Expression and Action Unit Recognition
Creators: name: Churamani, Nikhil
name: Kara, Ozgur
name: Gunes, Hatice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems become integrated into our daily lives, these systems need to prioritise making fair decisions instead of aiming at higher individual accuracy scores. Ranging from surveillance systems to diagnosing mental and emotional health conditions of individuals, these systems need to balance the accuracy vs fairness trade-off to make decisions that do not unjustly discriminate against specific under-represented demographic groups. Identifying bias as a critical problem in facial analysis systems, different methods have been proposed that aim to mitigate bias both at data and algorithmic levels. In this work, we propose the novel usage of Continual Learning (CL), in particular, using Domain-Incremental Learning (Domain-IL) settings, as a potent bias mitigation method to enhance the fairness of FER systems while guarding against biases arising from skewed data distributions. We compare different non-CL-based and CL-based methods for their classification accuracy and fairness scores on expression recognition and Action Unit (AU) detection tasks using two popular benchmarks, the RAF-DB and BP4D datasets, respectively. Our experimental results show that CL-based methods, on average, outperform other popular bias mitigation techniques on both accuracy and fairness metrics.
Women's empowerment through community-based reproductive health programs: A case study in Peru
Creators: name: Coe, Anna-Britt Christina
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 440509
subject: Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)
classificationCode: 441001
subject: Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment

description: This MA thesis examines the ability of women-centered and community-based reproductive health programs to fulfill the reproductive health needs of poor and marginalized women and lead to their empowerment. The ReproSalud project in Peru serves as a case study. ReproSalud is a USAID-funded project being implemented by the Peruvian feminist organization Movimiento Manuela Ramos. Field research was conducted using participant observation and qualitative interviewing for four months. The findings provide an in-depth description of the project, outcomes from the implementation process of ReproSalud's model, participants' perceptions of the project and its preliminary impact. By presenting a concrete example from the field, this research contributes to building the body of knowledge on community-based and women-centered reproductive health programs, a necessary step to implement the commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development.
A boundary-value problem for a mixed type equation involving hyper-Bessel fractional differential operator and Hilfer's bi-ordinal fractional derivative
Creators: name: Karimov, E.
name: Ruzhansky, M.
name: Toshtemirov, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35M10, 34A12

description: In a rectangular domain, a boundary-value problem is considered for a mixed-type equation with a regularized Caputo-like counterpart of hyper-Bessel differential operator and the bi-ordinal Hilfer's fractional derivative. Using the method of separation of variables, Laplace transform, a unique solvability of the considered problem has been established. Moreover, we have found the explicit solution of initial problems for a differential equation with the bi-ordinal Hilfer's derivative and regularized Caputo-like counterpart of the hyper-Bessel differential operator with the non-zero starting point.
description: 18 pages
Bruchidius pauper
Creators: name: Stojanova, Anelia
name: György, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Bruchidius
Bruchidius pauper

description: Br. pauper (Boheman, 1829):
Wendt (1984), Borowiec (1987b), Delobel & Delobel (2007)
description: Published as part of Stojanova, Anelia & György, Zoltán, 2011, Checklist of the Bulgarian Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-7 in ZooNotes 25 (25) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8301861
title: Kino als politischer Raum
Creators: name: Meixner, Astrid
Year: 2014

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Fragestellung, ob Filmkritik immer auch Gesellschaftskritik ist beziehungsweise sein muss. Von Beginn der Filmkritik an wurden filmtheoretische und gesellschaftskritische Überlegungen in Zusammenhang gebracht, was anhand zahlreicher theoretischer Abhandlungen deutlich gemacht wird. Nach Klärung der Begrifflichkeiten werden Literatur- und Kunstkritik als Basis für die späteren Entwicklungen der Filmkritik vorgestellt. Unterschiedliche Definitionsansätze werden aufgezeigt, bevor die Anfänge der Filmkritik dargestellt und ihre Entwicklung, vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum, beschrieben wird. Schwerpunkt der Arbeit bilden die theoretischen Schriften von FilmtheoretikerInnen wie PraktikerInnen aber auch LiteratInnen oder WissenschaftlerInnen in der Auseinandersetzung mit Filmkritik und Kino. Der Raum Kino, der mit zahlreichen Bedeutungen aufgeladen ist, taucht hierbei immer wieder als zentraler Aspekt bei der Betrachtung von Film auf. Der Bogen wird von den Anfängen der Filmkritik bis zu aktuellen filmtheoretischen Diskursen gespannt und historische Perspektiven mit gegenwärtigen Sichtweisen auf die Filmkritik in Beziehung gesetzt.
Reconstructuring Kazakhstan: Creating boundaries and national identities. A Braudelian analysis
Creators: name: Fink, Michael T.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430301
subject: Asian history
classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: The subject of this thesis is the reorganization of national identity in Kazakhstan. The dimensions of change I examine concern the formation, legitimation, and reproduction of Kazakh national identity vis-a-vis post-colonial and post-Soviet histories. My scope will subsequently look at Kazakh relations with a substantial Russian population. I investigate the empirical levels of Kazakh tribal structure, the impact of Russian and Soviet colonization, and the post-independence period, which addresses how Kazakh identity is informed through official practices, in order to understand the diachronic process in Kazakhstan. I rely on Fernand Braudel's placement of history in short, medium, and long intercycles as the framework of my analysis. Additional theory is drawn from Max Weber and other scholars to articulate further interactions of ethnicity and nationhood. The utility of this theoretical approach is to extrapolate an alternative interpretation of identity reconstruction, which finds that Kazakh identity has both created and retrieved new forms of national power.
Reconstructuring Kazakhstan: Creating boundaries and national identities. A Braudelian analysis
Creators: name: Fink, Michael T.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The subject of this thesis is the reorganization of national identity in Kazakhstan. The dimensions of change I examine concern the formation, legitimation, and reproduction of Kazakh national identity vis-a-vis post-colonial and post-Soviet histories. My scope will subsequently look at Kazakh relations with a substantial Russian population. I investigate the empirical levels of Kazakh tribal structure, the impact of Russian and Soviet colonization, and the post-independence period, which addresses how Kazakh identity is informed through official practices, in order to understand the diachronic process in Kazakhstan. I rely on Fernand Braudel's placement of history in short, medium, and long intercycles as the framework of my analysis. Additional theory is drawn from Max Weber and other scholars to articulate further interactions of ethnicity and nationhood. The utility of this theoretical approach is to extrapolate an alternative interpretation of identity reconstruction, which finds that Kazakh identity has both created and retrieved new forms of national power.
Topological parafermion corner states in clock-symmetric non-Hermitian second-order topological insulator
Creators: name: Ezawa, Motohiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parafermions are a natural generalization of Majorana fermions. We consider a breathing Kagome lattice with complex hoppings by imposing $\mathbb{Z}_{3}$ clock symmetry in the complex energy plane. It is a non-Hermitian generalization of the second-order topological insulator characterized by the emergence of topological corner states. We demonstrate that the topological corner states are parafermions in the present $\mathbb{Z}_{3}$ clock-symmetric model. It is also shown that the model is realized in electric circuits properly designed, where the parafermion corner states are observed by impedance resonance. We also construct $\mathbb{Z}_{4}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{6}$ parafermions on breathing square and honeycomb lattices, respectively.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
OnionNet-2: A Convolutional Neural Network Model for Predicting Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity based on Residue-Atom Contacting Shells
Creators: name: Wang, Zechen
name: Zheng, Liangzhen
name: Liu, Yang
name: Qu, Yuanyuan
name: Li, Yong-Qiang
name: Zhao, Mingwen
name: Mu, Yuguang
name: Li, Weifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: One key task in virtual screening is to accurately predict the binding affinity ($\triangle$$G$) of protein-ligand complexes. Recently, deep learning (DL) has significantly increased the predicting accuracy of scoring functions due to the extraordinary ability of DL to extract useful features from raw data. Nevertheless, more efforts still need to be paid in many aspects, for the aim of increasing prediction accuracy and decreasing computational cost. In this study, we proposed a simple scoring function (called OnionNet-2) based on convolutional neural network to predict $\triangle$$G$. The protein-ligand interactions are characterized by the number of contacts between protein residues and ligand atoms in multiple distance shells. Compared to published models, the efficacy of OnionNet-2 is demonstrated to be the best for two widely used datasets CASF-2016 and CASF-2013 benchmarks. The OnionNet-2 model was further verified by non-experimental decoy structures from docking program and the CSAR NRC-HiQ data set (a high-quality data set provided by CSAR), which showed great success. Thus, our study provides a simple but efficient scoring function for predicting protein-ligand binding free energy.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Empis (Anacrostichus) verralli Collin 1927
Creators: name: Shamshev, I. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Empis
Empis verralli

description: Empis (Anacrostichus) verralli Collin, 1927
Fig. 36.
 Empis (Anacrostichus) verralli Collin, 1927: 21 (♂ and ♀). Type localities: UK, England: Snowdon (Carnarvon), Yorkshire; Scotland.
 Empis (Anacrostichus) minor Frey, 1953: 35 (♂ and ♀). Type locality: Russia, Kamchatka: Ozernaya.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. USA. Alaska: Unalakleet [63°52′N 160°47′W], 29.vi.1961, B.S. Heming (1 ♂); same locality and collector, 23.vi.1961 (2 ♂♂), same data: 20.vi.1961 (7 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀), 29.vi.1961 (1 ♀), 5.vii.1961 (1 ♂, 1 ♀); same locality, 22.vi.1961, R. Madge (3 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀), 24.vi.1961 (1 ♀); Nome [64°30′N 165°24′W], 2.vii.1951, D.P. Whillans (1 ♂); same locality and collector, 20.vi.1951 (1 ♂), 15.vi.1951 (1 ♂), 6.vi.1951 (1 ♂), 18.vi.1951 (3 ♂♂), 19.vi.1951 (4 ♂♂), 12.vi.1951 (18 ♂♂, 1 ♀); Naknek [58°43′N 157°00′W], on tundra, 18.vii.1952, J.B. Hartley (1 ♂); same locality, 3.vii.1952, W. R. Mason (1 ♂).
 REMARKS. It seems that this species was not described by the North American authors. Main differences of E. verralli from other Nearctic species of Anacrostichus are indicated in the key. Empis verralli was redescribed by Collin [1961] and Chvála [1994]. The wing venation of E. verralli is unstable (as both these authors have noted), including different degree of a reduction of the radial fork (R 4+5) and some other veins, extra crossveins, etc. In addition, the frons of the female sometimes is entirely pruinose (usually shiny on the middle).
 DISTRIBUTION. Holarctic. In Eurasia, E. verralli is known from British Isles, extreme north of the European part of Russia, Siberia (including subarctic areas) and the Russian Far East [Shamshev, 2016]. In North America, E. verralli is known only from the western part of Alaska.
description: Published as part of Shamshev, I. V., 2023, Review of the Nearctic species of the subgenus Anacrostichus Bezzi, 1909 (Diptera: Empididae), pp. 330-355 in Russian Entomological Journal 32 (3) on page 350, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.32.3.09, http://zenodo.org/record/13179128
IPAPRec: A promising tool for learning high-performance mapless navigation skills with deep reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Zhang, Yunfeng
name: Liu, Ning
name: Ren, Kai
name: Wang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper studies how to improve the generalization performance and learning speed of the navigation agents trained with deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Although DRL exhibits huge potential in robot mapless navigation, DRL agents performing well in training scenarios are often found to perform poorly in unfamiliar scenarios. In this work, we propose that the representation of LiDAR readings is a key factor behind the degradation of agents' performance and present a powerful input pre-processing (IP) approach to address this issue. As this approach uses adaptively parametric reciprocal functions to pre-process LiDAR readings, we refer to this approach as IPAPRec and its normalized version as IPAPRecN. IPAPRec/IPAPRecN can highlight important short-distance values and compress the range of less-important long-distance values in laser scans, which well address the issues induced by conventional representations of laser scans. Their high performance was validated by extensive simulation and real-world experiments. The results show that our methods can substantially improve navigation agents' generalization performance and greatly reduce the training time compared to conventional methods.
description: This article has been accepted for publication in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. This is the author's version which has not been fully edited and content may change prior to final publication
Structural adjustment, its economic and social impact: The experience of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Egziabher, Kidane Mariam G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Ethiopia, after a long period of civil war and centralized economic management, has turned in 1991/92 into a market economy, supported by the International Monetary Funds stabilization and World Bank structural adjustment loans. The government has shown its determination to completely change the economic system and bring rapid economic growth to its people. Accordingly, radical reforms have been taken to deregulate markets and prices, liberal investment bills have passed to encourage investors, new labor codes have been introduced to bring the labor market into alignment with free market principles, public enterprises have been divested, and agriculture has been freed from all types of price and production regulations. The private sector, after twenty years of discrimination, now has started actively to participate in the economic life of the country. As a result of these policy measures, the Ethiopian economy for the first time in over a decade not only stopped shrinking but started to register positive economic growth and lay the groundwork for future market-oriented development. However, much remains to be done.
Meta-learning Based Beamforming Design for MISO Downlink
Creators: name: Xia, Jingyuan
name: Deniz, Gunduz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Downlink beamforming is an essential technology for wireless cellular networks; however, the design of beamforming vectors that maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) is an NP-hard problem and iterative algorithms are typically applied to solve it. The weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE) algorithm is the most widely used one, which iteratively minimizes the WSR and converges to a local optimal. Motivated by the recent developments in meta-learning techniques to solve non-convex optimization problems, we propose a meta-learning based iterative algorithm for WSR maximization in a MISO downlink channel. A long-short-term-memory (LSTM) network-based meta-learning model is built to learn a dynamic optimization strategy to update the variables iteratively. The learned strategy aims to optimize each variable in a less greedy manner compared to WMMSE, which updates variables by computing their first-order stationary points at each iteration step. The proposed algorithm outperforms WMMSE significantly in the high signal to noise ratio(SNR) regime and shows the comparable performance when the SNR is low.
description: conference
title: Schülergerechte Einführung in die Programmierung und in das algorithmische Denken anhand von visuellen Programmiersprachen
Creators: name: Mayr, Doris
Year: 2014

description: Es wird immer wichtiger, dass Schüler und Schülerinnen Programmieren lernen, denn sie lernen beim Programmieren viel mehr als das bloße Erstellen von Programmen. Daher sind die zentralen Fragestellungen dieser Diplomarbeit „Wie können SchülerInnen Programmieren lernen?“ und „Warum sollen SchülerInnen Pro-grammieren lernen?“. Es werden auf die Probleme von ProgrammieranfängerInnen eingegangen und daraus begründet, warum Schüler und Schülerinnen mit visuellen Programmiersprachen programmieren lernen sollen. Zusätzlich werden allgemeine Begründungen für das Programmieren erörtert. Die Vor- und Nachteile von Scratch und Snap! gegenüber Java werden aufgezeigt, indem die Programmiersprachen anhand von einfachen Beispielen verglichen werden. Zum Abschluss werden 40 Aufgabenstellungen für den Programmierunterricht erstellt, mit denen man die einzelnen Grundkonzepte der Programmierung erlernen kann. Die Forschungsfragen werden mit Hilfe von Literaturrecherche beantwortet, aber ebenso sind eigene Ideen und Erläuterungen in diese Diplomarbeit eingearbeitet.