cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding Data Refinement Using Procedural Refinement
Creators: name: Kearns, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Computer science

description: Data refinement is converting a program that uses one set of variables to an equally correct program that uses another set of variables, usually of different types. There have been a number of seemingly different mathematical definitions of data refinement. We present a unifying view of data refinement as a special case of procedural refinement, which is simpler to understand. All the data refinement theories in the literature are shown to be instances of two formulas, but we show that there are actually an infinite number of theories. In addition, we introduce the concepts of nonlocal data refinement, data refinement using semi-invariants, and procedural optimization using data refinement.
Additional file 3 of Evaluation of different deployment strategies for larviciding to control malaria: a simulation study
Creators: name: Runge, Manuela
name: Mapua, Salum
name: Nambunga, Ismail
name: Smith, Thomas A.
name: Chitnis, Nakul
name: Okumu, Fredros
name: Pothin, Emilie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Flowchart from operational to effective larviciding coverage.
Extended Functional Unification ProGrammars
Creators: name: Elhadad, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: Functional Unification Grammars (PUGs) are popular for natural language applications because the formalism uses very few primitives and is uniform and expressive. In our work on text generation, we have found that it also has annoying limitations: it is not adapted to the expression of simple yet very common taxonomic relations and it does not allow easy manipulation of complex data-structures like lists or sets. We present in this paper a set of extensions that keep the desirable properties of the formalism but make it more flexible and easier to use. We first introduce the notion of typed features and typed constituents. Types define a structure over the set of primitive symbols used by the formalism. We then introduce extended unification: specialized unification methods can be defined for user-defined data-types. This extends the power of the system to handle complex data-structures efficiently. Taking advantage of a structured set of primitives and of specialized unification methods, the resulting formalism is more flexible, easier to use and produces better documented grammars than traditional functional unification. It can therefore be used to address deeper levels of text generation than was possible before.
Solanum havanense var. vacciniifolium Griseb.
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum havanense
Solanum havanense jacq. var. vacciniifolium (dunal) griseb., cat. pl. cub. 189. 1866

description: Solanum havanense Jacq. var. vacciniifolium (Dunal) Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub. 189. 1866 Type: Based on Solanum vacciniifolium Dunal. Distribution. Endemic to the West Indies, found on Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, in coastal woodlands on calcareous soils. Representative specimen. Cuba, Cienfuegos, Webster & al. 51 (A).
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Spatial Filter with Volume Gratings for High-peak-power Multistage Laser Amplifiers
Creators: name: Tan, Yi-zhou
name: Yang, Yi-sheng
name: Zheng, Guang-wei
name: Shen, Ben-jian
name: Pan, Heng-yue
name: Li, Liu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The regular spatial filters comprised of lens and pinhole are essential component in high power laser systems, such as lasers for inertial confinement fusion, nonlinear optical technology and directed-energy weapon. On the other hand the pinhole is treated as a bottleneck of high power laser due to harmful plasma created by the focusing beam. In this paper we present a spatial filter based on angular selectivity of Bragg diffraction grating to avoid the harmful focusing effect in the traditional pinhole filter. A spatial filter consisted of volume phase gratings in two-pass amplifier cavity were reported. Two-dimensional filter was proposed by using single Pi-phase-shifted Bragg grating, numerical simulation results shown that its angular spectrum bandwidth can be less than 160urad. The angular selectivity of photo-thermo-refractive glass and RUGATE film filters, construction stability, thermal stability and the effects of misalignments of gratings on the diffraction efficiencies under high-pulse-energy laser operating condition are discussed. Keywords: spatial filter, pinhole spatial filter, RUGATE filter, angular selectivity of volume phase grating, Pi-phase-shifted Bragg grating, high-energy pulsed laser, multi-pass laser amplifier
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
Haptic Object Recognition Using A Multi-Fingered Dextrous Hand
Creators: name: Allen, Peter K.
name: Roberts, Kenneth S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Computer science

description: It is becoming increasingly clear that robotic systems need to have capabilities similar to the human haptic system in order to perform complex grasping, manipulation and object recognition tasks using dextrous hands. This paper is an exploration of using a dextrous, multi-fingered hand for high-level object recognition tasks. The paradigm is model-base recognition in which the objects are modeled and recovered as superquadrics, which are shown to have a number of important attributes that make them well suited for such a task. Experiments have been performed to recover the shape of objects using sparse contact point data from the hand with promising results. We also present our approach to using tactile data in conjunction with the dextrous hand to build a library of grasping and exploration primitives that can be used in recognizing and grasping more complex multi-part object.
Effects of Disturbance and Forest Structure on the Functional Diversity and Abundance of Lemur Communities in a Fragmented Landscape
Creators: name: Narváez Torres, Pamela Rosalía
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Zoology

description: Lemurs are strongly affected by forest loss, fragmentation and degradation because of their high dependence on tropical forest habitat. At the same time, these primates are critical for the functioning of forest ecosystems of Madagascar. While the effects of disturbance on biodiversity are often evaluated with measures of taxonomic diversity, functional diversity takes into account a variety of traits that define species’ ecological roles, and is thus more closely linked with ecosystem function. For this thesis, I analyzed the effects of direct anthropogenic disturbance, variation in forest structure, and edge effects on the functional diversity of lemur communities in five forest fragments in the Kianjavato-Vatovavy (KV) region. I found that forest structure, measured as mean tree diameter (DBH), was positively correlated with the functional diversity of the overall lemur community. However, the variables used for anthropogenic disturbance and edge effects did not seem to affect lemur functional diversity. In addition, I studied the effects of forest fires on the functional diversity of diurnal lemur communities, as well as on the relative abundance of individual species. Lemur surveys were conducted before and after three forest fragments were partially burned in 2015. While there was not a significant difference in functional diversity between the pre- and the post-fire periods, there was a significant decrease in abundance of two frugivores, Varecia variegata editorum and Eulemur rufifrons, and one omnivore, Microcebus jollyae. Severely reduced food supply and the loss of habitat connectivity could explain these decreases in abundance for individual species. The decline in abundance may put these species at risk of extirpation, likely affecting the functional diversity of the community, and, therefore, the functioning of the ecosystem. Individual species and functional diversity studies are useful in understanding the responses of lemur communities to habitat change and disturbance.
The Galactic WC stars: Stellar parameters from spectral analyses indicate a new evolutionary sequence
Creators: name: Sander, Andreas
name: Hamann, Wolf-Rainer
name: Todt, Helge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] [...] AIMS: We aim to establish the stellar parameters and mass-loss rates of the Galactic WC stars. These data provide the empirical basis of studies of (i) the role of WC stars in the evolution of massive stars, (ii) the wind-driving mechanisms, and (iii) the feedback of WC stars as input to models of the chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies. Methods: We analyze the nearly complete sample of un-obscured Galactic WC stars, using optical spectra as well as ultraviolet spectra when available. The observations are fitted with theoretical spectra, using the Potsdam Wolf-Rayet (PoWR) model atmosphere code. A large grid of line-blanked models has been established for the range of WC subtypes WC4 - WC8, and smaller grids for the WC9 parameter domain. Both WO stars and WN/WC transit types are also analyzed using special models. Results: Stellar and atmospheric parameters are derived for more than 50 GalacticWC and two WO stars, covering almost the whole GalacticWC population as far as the stars are single, and un-obscured in the visual. In the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, theWC stars reside between the hydrogen and the helium zero-age main sequences, having luminosities L from 10^4.9 to 10^5.6 Lsun. The mass-loss rates scale very tightly with L^0.8. The two WO stars in our sample turn out to be outstandingly hot (\approx200 kK) and do not fit into the WC scheme. Conclusions: By comparing the empirical WC positions in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with evolutionary models, and from recent supernova statistics, we conclude that WC stars have evolved from initial masses between 20 solar masses and 45 Msun. In contrast to previous assumptions, it seems that WC stars in general do not descend from the most massive stars. Only the WO stars might stem from progenitors that have been initially more massive than 45 Msun.
description: 19+4 pages, 12 figures, A&A, in press, without spectral fits in the appendix (due to arXiv limitations), the complete online appendix is available at http://www.astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~www/research/abstracts/galwc.html PoWR grid models are available online at http://www.astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de/PoWR.html (v3: the comments on individual stars are now in the appendix on editor's request)
A Characterization of Bispecial Sturmian Words
Creators: name: Fici, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68R15

description: A finite Sturmian word w over the alphabet {a,b} is left special (resp. right special) if aw and bw (resp. wa and wb) are both Sturmian words. A bispecial Sturmian word is a Sturmian word that is both left and right special. We show as a main result that bispecial Sturmian words are exactly the maximal internal factors of Christoffel words, that are words coding the digital approximations of segments in the Euclidean plane. This result is an extension of the known relation between central words and primitive Christoffel words. Our characterization allows us to give an enumerative formula for bispecial Sturmian words. We also investigate the minimal forbidden words for the set of Sturmian words.
description: Accepted to MFCS 2012
High performance clear-coat systems for wood used outdoors
Creators: name: Vollmer, Stephan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Wood is one of the main materials of choice to reduce the environmental footprint of the building and construction sector. Wood is aesthetically pleasing and hence there is great demand for finishing systems that do not mask wood’s color and texture. Unfortunately, clear coatings used on wood outdoors fail within one to two years mainly because of photodegradation of the underlying wood substrate. The performance of clear coatings on wood can be enhanced by photostabilizing the wood before coating or by modifying the clear coating to improve its photostability and flexibility. However, these approaches have seldom been combined. In this thesis I hypothesized that pre-treatments that can photostabilize wood without adversely affecting coating performance could, when combined with state-of-the-art clear coatings, create coating systems that are a significant improvement on those that are currently available. I compared the ability of nine different chemical treatments to photostabilize wood. I examined the effect of the same wood pretreatments on coating properties (wettability and adhesion) and the permeability of three different coating types. The most effective photostabilizing pre-treatments were benzoyl chloride, vinyl benzoate and chromic acid, and a PF-resin containing a hindered amine light stabilizer. The solvent based polyurethane was more compatible than the water-based acrylic and alkyd coatings with treated wood surfaces. Wood treatments had no effect on coating adhesion, but coating adhesion was highest for the polyurethane. Subsequently, I examined the outdoor performance of seven different clear coatings on photostabilized wood substrates. Benzoyl chloride, vinyl benzoate, chromic acid and the PF-resin/HALS treatments effectively enhanced the clear coat performance during a year-long weathering trial in Australia. Clear coat performance was also improved by using coatings with double the amount of UVA/HALS additives. My findings confirm that clear coat performance on wood exposed outdoors depends on the combination of wood retreatment and coating type. I conclude that superior clear coat systems (pretreatment plus coating) for wood can be developed by combining very effective treatments that can photostabilize wood together with state-of-the-art photostable and flexible clear coatings.
From Aggregate Betting Data to Individual Risk Preferences
Creators: name: Chiappori, Pierre A.
name: Salanie, Bernard
name: Salanie, Francois
name: Gandhi, Amit
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: As a textbook model of contingent markets, horse races are an attractive environment to study the attitudes towards risk of bettors. We innovate on the literature by explicitly considering heterogeneous bettors and allowing for very general risk preferences, including non-expected utility. We build on a standard single-crossing condition on preferences to derive testable implications; and we show how parimutuel data allow us to uniquely identify the distribution of preferences among the population of bettors. We then estimate the model on data from US races. Within the expected utility class, the most usual specfications (CARA and CRRA) fit the data very badly. Our results show evidence for both heterogeneity and nonlinear probability weighting.
Additional file 4 of Evaluation of different deployment strategies for larviciding to control malaria: a simulation study
Creators: name: Runge, Manuela
name: Mapua, Salum
name: Nambunga, Ismail
name: Smith, Thomas A.
name: Chitnis, Nakul
name: Okumu, Fredros
name: Pothin, Emilie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Re-simulated larviciding study in Mbita, western Kenya between 2002 and 2006.
Bioinformatical and biochemical analyses on the protective role of traditional Chinese medicine against age-related macular degeneration
Creators: name: Cao, Yanqun
name: Li, Xiao-Ya
name: Tchivelekete, Gabriel Mbuta
name: Li, Xing
name: Zhou, Xinzhi
name: He, Zhiming
name: Reilly, James
name: Tan, Zhoujin
name: Shu, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the commonest cause of permanent vision loss in the elderly. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long been used to treat AMD, although the underlying functional mechanisms are not understood. This study aims to predict the active ingredients through screening the chemical ingredients of anti-AMD Decoction and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. We collected the prescriptions for effective AMD treatment with traditional Chinese medicine and screened several Chinese medicines that were used most frequently in order to compose "anti-AMD decoction". The pharmacologically active ingredients and corresponding targets in this anti-AMD decoction were mined using the Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology (TCMSP) database. Subsequently, the AMD-related targets were identified through the GeneCards database. Network pharmacology was performed to construct the visual network of anti-AMD Decoction-AMD protein-protein interaction (PPI). Further, the Autodock software was adopted for molecular docking on the core active ingredients and core targets. The function of core ingredients against oxidative stress and inflammation in retinal pigment epithelial cells was assessed using biochemical assays. We screened out 268 active ingredients in anti-AMD Decoction corresponding to 258 ingredient targets, combined with 2160 disease targets in AMD, and obtained 129 drug-disease common targets. The key core proteins were predominantly involved in inflammation. Furthermore, molecular docking showed that four potential active ingredients (Quercetin, luteolin, naringenin and hederagenin) had good affinity with the core proteins, IL6, TNF and MAPK3. Quercetin, luteolin and naringenin demonstrated capacities against oxidative stress and inflammation in human retinal pigment epithelial cells. The data suggests that anti-AMD Decoction has multiple functional components and targets in treating AMD, possibly mediated by suppression of oxidative stress and inflammation.
Solanum maestrense Urb. 2009, Spec. Nov.
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum maestrense

description: Solanum maestrense Urb., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21: 221. 1925 Type: Cuba. Oriente: Sierra Maestra, on the water divide between Rio Yara and Río Palmamocha, at the foot of Loma Joaquim, on the slope towards Rio Palmamocha, 19 Jul 1922, E. Ekman 14456 (lectotype, S [S04-2941], designated here; isolectotype, S [S04- 2942]). Distribution. Endemic to Cuba, known only from the type. Representative specimen. Cuba, Oriente, Ekman 14456 (S). It is clear from the protologue that Urban did not have at his disposal a specimen with a flower (“flores non vidi”, Urban, 1925), and that he was describing this species from material in B that is no longer extant. The two rather scrappy sheets at S are both annotated “type”, but only one (S04-2941) has reproductive parts (one flower and two fruits in the packet). This sheet (Fig. 3c) is chosen here as the lectotype.
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
description: {"references": ["Urban, I. 1925. Sertum antillanum XXIII. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 21: 213 - 230."]}
Hall effect of spin-chirality origin in a triangular-lattice helimagnet Fe1.3Sb
Creators: name: Shiomi, Y.
name: Mochizuki, M.
name: Kaneko, Y.
name: Tokura, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a topological Hall effect possibly induced by scalar spin chirality in a quasi-two- dimensional helimagnet Fe$_{1+x}$Sb. In the low-temperature region where the spins on interstitial- Fe (concentration $x=0.3$) intervening the $120^\circ$ spin-ordered triangular planes tend to freeze, a non-trivial component of Hall resistivity with opposite sign of the conventional anomalous Hall term is observed under magnetic field applied perpendicular to the triangular-lattice plane. The observed unconventional Hall effect is ascribed to the scalar spin chirality arising from the heptamer spin-clusters around the interstitial-Fe sites, which can be induced by the spin modulation by the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction.
It’s All About “We”: Negotiating Accounts of We-Building Therapy Interactions and Preferred “We” Identities with Families in Therapy
Creators: name: Rogers-De Jong, Marnie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Family therapy
subject: Family identity
subject: Identity
subject: Narrative
subject: Discourse
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: I was curious about specific interactions that facilitated we-ness (or mutuality and togetherness) for families in therapy. I was also interested in how families defined their “we” identities, or preferred sense of who they are together. Family identity research often privileges individuals and neglects the responsive interactions through which families negotiate “we” identity claims. Similarly, researchers tend to define we-ness as a stable relationship orientation, without regard for particular exchanges that facilitate a family’s dynamic sense of mutuality and togetherness. Seven families at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre participated in a video-recorded therapy session and then identified specific we-building interactions. Families later took part in a joint interview, during which we viewed their selected conversations. I invited families to account for these we-building interactions, including how members talked and acted together, and for their broader “we” identities. Drawing on social constructionism (e.g., Shotter, 1997, 2008, 2011), I approached families’ accounts as dynamic, relationally negotiated, and informed by socio-cultural circumstances. I used the narrative practice approach (e.g., Bamberg, 2004, 2012b; Bamberg & Georgakopoulou, 2008) to analyze families’ interview talk, storytelling, and bodily responses. I considered what families said about their we-building interactions and “we” identities, how members interacted with one another and with me during the research interviews, and how their accounts related to dominant discourses and master narratives about family. I describe four themes across families’ accounts of we-building therapy interactions, in which members were depicted as taking a fun, light, or humorous tone, communicating effectively, noticing positive changes or progress, and creating new shared understandings. I then outline how four families negotiated particular preferred “we” identity claims, with a focus on how members demonstrated coordination and agreement during the joint interviews. I end with implications for family therapy and family identity research. For instance, I propose that the concept of we-building interactions could be useful for therapists and families, by orienting them to specific exchanges that contribute to we-ness for those involved – exchanges that could perhaps be more readily noticed, joined with, and facilitated in future conversations.
Power-Pipelining for Enhanced Query Performance
Creators: name: Rao, Jun
name: Ross, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Computer science

description: As random access memory gets cheaper, it becomes increasingly affordable to build computers with large main memories. In this paper, we consider processing queries within the context of a main memory database system and try to enhance the query execution engine of such a system. An execution plan is usually represented as an operator tree. Traditional query execution engines evaluate a query by recursively iterating each operator and returning exactly one tuple result for each iteration. This generates a large number of function calls. In a main-memory database system, the cost of a function call is relatively high. We propose a new evaluation method called power-pipelining. Each operator processes and passes many tuples instead of one tuple each time. We keep the number of matches generated in a join in a local counter array. We reconstitute the run-length encoding of the join result (broken down by input tables) at the end of the join processing or when necessary. We describe an overflow handling mechanism that allows us to always evaluate a query without using too much space. Besides the benefit of reducing the number of function calls, power-pipelining compresses the join result automatically and thus can reduce the transmission cost. However, power-pipelining may not always outperform the traditional pipelining method when the join selectivity is low. To get the benefit of both techniques, we propose to use them together in an execution engine and let the optimizer choose the preferred execution. We discuss how to incorporate this in a cost-based query optimizer. We implemented power-pipelining and the reconstitution algorithm in the Columbia main memory database system. We present a performance study of power-pipelining and the traditional pipelining method. We show that the improvement of using power-pipelining can be very significant. As a result, we believe that power-pipelining is a useful and feasible technique and should be incorporated into main memory database query execution engines.
PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud
Creators: name: Armbrust, Michael
name: Curtis, Kristal
name: Kraska, Tim
name: Fox, Armando
name: Franklin, Michael J.
name: Patterson, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Newly-released web applications often succumb to a "Success Disaster," where overloaded database machines and resulting high response times destroy a previously good user experience. Unfortunately, the data independence provided by a traditional relational database system, while useful for agile development, only exacerbates the problem by hiding potentially expensive queries under simple declarative expressions. As a result, developers of these applications are increasingly abandoning relational databases in favor of imperative code written against distributed key/value stores, losing the many benefits of data independence in the process. Instead, we propose PIQL, a declarative language that also provides scale independence by calculating an upper bound on the number of key/value store operations that will be performed for any query. Coupled with a service level objective (SLO) compliance prediction model and PIQL's scalable database architecture, these bounds make it easy for developers to write success-tolerant applications that support an arbitrarily large number of users while still providing acceptable performance. In this paper, we present the PIQL query processing system and evaluate its scale independence on hundreds of machines using two benchmarks, TPC-W and SCADr.
description: VLDB2012
Additional file 1 of Exploring clinicians’ experiences and perceptions of end-user roles in knowledge development: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Verville, Leslie
name: Cancelliere, Carol
name: Connell, Gaelan
name: Lee, Joyce
name: Munce, Sarah
name: Mior, Silvano
name: Kay, Robin
name: Côté, Pierre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guide.
Bioinformatical and Biochemical Analyses on the Protective Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine against Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Creators: name: Cao, Yanqun
name: Li, Xiao-Ya
name: Tchivelekete, Gabriel Mbuta
name: Li, Xing
name: Zhou, Xinzhi
name: He, Zhiming
name: Reilly, James
name: Tan, Zhoujin
name: Shu, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the commonest cause of permanent vision loss in the elderly. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long been used to treat AMD, although the underlying functional mechanisms are not understood. This study aims to predict the active ingredients through screening the chemical ingredients of anti-AMD decoction and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. We collected the prescriptions for effective AMD treatment with traditional Chinese medicine and screened several Chinese medicines that were used most frequently in order to compose "anti-AMD decoction." The pharmacologically active ingredients and corresponding targets in this anti-AMD decoction were mined using the Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology (TCMSP) database. Subsequently, the AMD-related targets were identified through the GeneCards database. Network pharmacology was performed to construct the visual network of anti-AMD decoction-AMD protein-protein interaction (PPI). Further, the Autodock software was adopted for molecular docking on the core active ingredients and core targets. The function of core ingredients against oxidative stress and inflammation in retinal pigment epithelial cells was assessed using biochemical assays. We screened out 268 active ingredients in anti-AMD decoction corresponding to 258 ingredient targets, combined with 2160 disease targets in AMD, and obtained 129 drug-disease common targets. The key core proteins were predominantly involved in inflammation. Furthermore, molecular docking showed that four potential active ingredients (Quercetin, luteolin, naringenin and hederagenin) had good affinity with the core proteins, IL-6, TNF, VEGFA and MAPK3. Quercetin, luteolin and naringenin demonstrated capacities against oxidative stress and inflammation in human retinal pigment epithelial cells. The data suggests that anti-AMD decoction has multiple functional components and targets in treating AMD, possibly mediated by suppression of oxidative stress and inflammation.
On Human Capital and Team Stability
Creators: name: Chiappori, Pierre A.
name: Galichon, Alfred
name: Salanie, Bernard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Human capital
Matching theory
Economics

description: In many economic contexts, agents from a same population team up to better exploit their human capital. In such contexts (often called “roommate matching problems”), stable matchings may fail to exist even when utility is transferable. We show that when each individual has a close substitute, a stable matching can be implemented with minimal policy intervention. Our results shed light on the stability of partnerships on the labor market. Moreover, they imply that the tools crafted in empirical studies of the marriage problem can easily be adapted to many roommate problems.
Primary sulfonamide as a coupling partner: Copper(I)-catalyzed regioselective cross-coupling of 2-nitro benzenesulfonamides with thiol through the cleavage of Ar–SO2NH2 bonds
Creators: name: Chen, Junmin
name: Zhang, Kuo
name: Zhao, Yongli
name: Pu, Shouzhi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: In this article, we have presented a novel and efficient method for the direct synthesis of unsymmetrical sulfides through the copper(I)-catalyzed cross-coupling of 2-nitro benzenesulfonamides with thiols in the presence of catalytic amount of CuI in DMF as solvent at 100 °C. In addition, the products were obtained in high to excellent yields. More importantly, the novel system showed the primary 2-nitro benzenesulfonamides as a new coupling partner and regioselectively promoted C–S bond-forming transformations through the cleavage of Ar–SO2NH2 bonds.
Interaction between dark matter sub-halos & galactic gaseous disk
Creators: name: Kannan, Rahul
name: Macciò, Andrea V.
name: Pasquali, Anna
name: Moster, Benjamin P.
name: Walter, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the idea that the interaction of Dark Matter (DM) sub-halos with the gaseous disk of galaxies can be the origin for the observed holes and shells found in their neutral hydrogen (HI) distributions. We use high resolution hydrodynamic simulations to show that pure DM sub-halos impacting a galactic disk are not able to produce holes; on the contrary, they result in high density regions in the disk. However, sub-halos containing a small amount of gas (a few percent of the total DM mass of the sub-halo) are able to displace the gas in the disk and form holes and shells. The size and lifetime of these holes depend on the sub-halo gas mass, density and impact velocity. A DM sub-halo of mass $10^8$ $M_{\odot}$ and a gas mass fraction of $\sim 3$%, is able to create a kpc scale hole, with a lifetime similar to those observed in nearby galaxies. We also register an increase in the star formation rate at the rim of the hole, again in agreement with observations. Even though the properties off these simulated structures resemble those found in observations we find that the number of predicted holes (based on mass and orbital distributions of DM halos derived from cosmological N-body simulations) falls short compared to the observations. Only a handful of holes are produced per Giga year. This leads us to conclude that DM halo impact is not the major channel through which these holes are formed.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Distributed Data Mining: The JAM system architecture
Creators: name: Prodromidis, Andreas L.
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
name: Tselepis, Shelley
name: Truta, Terrance
name: Sherwin, Jeffrey
name: Kalina, David
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Computer science

description: This paper describes the system architecture of JAM (Java Agents for Meta-learning), a distributed data mining system that scales up to large and physically separated data sets. An earlyversion of the JAM system was described in Stolfo-et-al-97-KDD-JAM. Since then, JAM has evolved both architecturally and functionally and here we present the final design and implementation details of this system architecture. JAM is an extensible agent-based distributed data mining system that supports the remote dispatch and exchange of agents among participating datasites and employs meta-learning techniques to combine the multiple models that are learned. One of JAM's target applications is fraud and intrusion detection in financial information systems. A brief description of this learning task and JAM's applicability and summary results are also discussed.
An examination of front line nurse leaders' project work: 1) What types of issues are front line nursing leaders in British Columbia being expected to address within their practice environments? 2) Do the types of front line nursing leader responsibilities (as reflected in project work) change over time?
Creators: name: Piddocke, Pamela
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The learning initiative called the British Columbia Nursing Administrative Leadership Institute (BCNLI) for first line nurse leaders was developed to address the need for educating and mentoring new nurse leaders. The program was a joint project between the Ministry of Health Services Nursing Directorate, British Columbia’s Chief Nursing Officers and the School of Nursing at UBC. The BCNLI program is evidenced based and included information on leadership, management concepts and relevant issues for leaders, (MacPhee & Bouthillette, 2008). The front line nurse leaders who participated were provided education and mentoring, to increase their skills. The front line nursing leaders selected year long projects as part of the program. This study examined if there was any change to the types and scope of control of projects front line nurse leaders chose as part of learning and mentoring initiative. 211 nurse leaders’ projects from the BCNLI project data web pages were examined for scope of control, type of project, and Donabedian’s (1982) structure process outcomes framework using content analysis (Graneheim & Lundman, 2004). These projects provide a window to the types of issues that were relevant and seen as important to the front line nurse leader participants in each cohort of the BCNLI program from 2007 to 2010. This research found that there was no change between the nine cohorts as to structure or process coding. The majority of the projects were structure coded. The content analysis identified five main themes of recruitment/retenton, communication, education, care delivery evaluation, and tool development. The ability to identify the scope of projects of front line nurse leaders was important as very little research exists on scope of control for front line nurse leaders. Only 61% of the projects are at the nursing unit or front line (level two) position. There are concerns that front line nurse leaders were working beyond the nursing unit level. This research will help to understand if nurse leaders are taking on issues or problems that are beyond their roles and the type of projects that exist in the British Columbia Health Care.
An Experiment with the Student Advisor System
Creators: name: Lim, Jong G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Computer science

description: This report summarizes a trial of the Student Advisor, a natural language question-answering system developed at Columbia University to assist computer science majors in course selection, carried out during the Spring '88 registration period with students from the Department of Computer Science. Included in this report are a brief overview of the current status of the system, a description of the circumstances present at the time of the trial, a list of answered and unanswered questions, and a statistical summary of all the questions asked. The report is useful as a benchmark for future development of the system and as a casual reference on the behavior and appropriateness of a natural language Q/A system for anyone who is working towards building one.
Music recommendation system based on facial expressions, with or without face mask
Creators: name: Wimalaweera, Rakhitha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Deep learning
Image processing
Data structures and algorithms

description: This music recommendation system that utilizes facial expressions to determine the user's mood and preferences. The device is made to function both with and without a face mask, making it useful and adaptable in the pandemic situation of today .Although prior studies have looked at music suggestion and facial emotion identification separately, the particular setting of face masks poses a special problem as well previous research did not focus on the accuracy of the models and they did not used multiple emotions[3]. This issues necessitates research into how emotions are perceived and expressed when a mask is partially covering the face through outward facial features like the eyes and brows[7]. In order to accurately recognize facial emotions and offer music, a revolutionary strategy combining cutting-edge methods, specialized convolutional neural network (CNN) layers, and modified activation keys must be developed. Face masks offer a challenge, thus the solution uses cutting-edge methods to evaluate the remaining exposed facial features, like the eyes and brows, in order to efficiently capture emotional information[5]. The researcher suggests modifying current CNN designs to do this by adding specialized layers that concentrate solely on the visible facial regions[11]. The solution tries to improve the network's capacity to derive meaningful emotional information from the observable face features by customizing the network's design, for as by including attention mechanisms or feature fusion modules.The researcher also investigates the usage of unique activation keys that direct the network's focus on pertinent face regions and emotional cues while ignoring masked regions. The technique seeks to enhance the accuracy and robustness of facial emotion recognition by providing customized activation keys that emphasize the visible facial areas and suppress the impact of face masks.
Solanum microphyllum Dunal
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum microphyllum

description: Solanum microphyllum (Lam.) Dunal, Hist. Solan. 187. 1813 Type: Based on Aquartia microphylla Lam.
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Optimal Sizing and Geographic Placement of the Components of a Microgrid
Creators: name: Molina Bacca, Edna Johanna
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microgrids
subject: GIS/MCDA
subject: Optimization
subject: Green Energy
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: In the last decade, the concept of the integration of distributed generation and storage technologies in microgrids has gained considerable interest as a sustainable way to produce and supply electrical energy. The primary objective of this study is to design and test an optimization model capable of finding the suitable geographic allocation, size, and configuration of distributed energy resources (DERs). The methodology used consisted of two main parts. The first one is the implementation of a Geographic Information System/Multicriteria decision analysis (GIS/MCDA) to determine the suitable locations for the installation of DERs. The second part is the formulation and solution of an optimization problem to determine the sizes and final installation locations of the DERs. The relevant geographic information of the locations found with the GIS/MCDA is embedded in the optimization problem. The methodology was tested on a region of southwestern Ontario. As a result, two different optimization models were created: a mixed integer linear model (MIP) specifically designed for the case study; and a mixed integer nonlinear problem (MINLP) that adds generality to the MIP formulation. Finally, sensitivity analyses were executed to elucidate the influence that different policies, microgrids’ minimal contribution, and other parameters have over the final architecture, cost, and allocation of the project.
Supersymmetric Gauge Theories on the Five-Sphere
Creators: name: Hosomichi, Kazuo
name: Seong, Rak-Kyeong
name: Terashima, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct Euclidean 5d supersymmetric gauge theories on the five-sphere with vector and hypermultiplets. The SUSY transformation and the action are explicitly determined from the standard Noether procedure as well as from off-shell supergravity. Using localization techniques, the path-integral is shown to be restricted to the integration over a generalization of instantons on CP^2 and the Coulomb moduli.
description: 22 pages; v2: a reference added
gSketch: On Query Estimation in Graph Streams
Creators: name: Zhao, Peixiang
name: Aggarwal, Charu C.
name: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many dynamic applications are built upon large network infrastructures, such as social networks, communication networks, biological networks and the Web. Such applications create data that can be naturally modeled as graph streams, in which edges of the underlying graph are received and updated sequentially in a form of a stream. It is often necessary and important to summarize the behavior of graph streams in order to enable effective query processing. However, the sheer size and dynamic nature of graph streams present an enormous challenge to existing graph management techniques. In this paper, we propose a new graph sketch method, gSketch, which combines well studied synopses for traditional data streams with a sketch partitioning technique, to estimate and optimize the responses to basic queries on graph streams. We consider two different scenarios for query estimation: (1) A graph stream sample is available; (2) Both a graph stream sample and a query workload sample are available. Algorithms for different scenarios are designed respectively by partitioning a global sketch to a group of localized sketches in order to optimize the query estimation accuracy. We perform extensive experimental studies on both real and synthetic data sets and demonstrate the power and robustness of gSketch in comparison with the state-of-the-art global sketch method.
description: VLDB2012
Modification of conduction, drug interactions and gating in skeletal muscle sodium channels by -conotoxins
Creators: name: Sierralta, Ivan Eliodoro
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Sodium channels
subject: Muscles - Electric properties
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Peptides

description: Bibliogrpahy: p. 98-112.
description: incomplete title - a symbol in front of '-conotoxins', not recognized in the Gencat database