cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Natural Deduction for the Sheffer Stroke and Peirce's Arrow (And Any Other Truth-Functional Connective)
Creators: name: Zach, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03A05, 03F03

description: Methods available for the axiomatization of arbitrary finite-valued logics can be applied to obtain sound and complete intelim rules for all truth-functional connectives of classical logic including the Sheffer stroke (NAND) and Peirce's arrow (NOR). The restriction to a single conclusion in standard systems of natural deduction requires the introduction of additional rules to make the resulting systems complete; these rules are nevertheless still simple and correspond straightforwardly to the classical absurdity rule. Omitting these rules results in systems for intuitionistic versions of the connectives in question.
The Thermodynamic Efficiency in Static and Dynamic Black Holes
Creators: name: Jafarzade, Kh.
name: Sadeghi, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We note that, in extended phase space the cosmological constant is a thermodynamic variable. In this paper, this cosmological constant lead us to consider a black hole as a heat engine. So, here we take advantage from holographic heat engine and study two kind of different black holes. We first investigate a static black hole (Dyonic BH) and consider the necessary condition to have high efficiency. Also we continue our investigation for dynamic black hole (rotating charged black hole) and study the effect of rotating parameter on the thermodynamic efficiency of holographic heat engine. We show that the rotating parameter has a more effective role than electric charge in thermodynamic efficiency.
Noise2SR: Learning to Denoise from Super-Resolved Single Noisy Fluorescence Image
Creators: name: Tian, Xuanyu
name: Wu, Qing
name: Wei, Hongjiang
name: Zhang, Yuyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fluorescence microscopy is a key driver to promote discoveries of biomedical research. However, with the limitation of microscope hardware and characteristics of the observed samples, the fluorescence microscopy images are susceptible to noise. Recently, a few self-supervised deep learning (DL) denoising methods have been proposed. However, the training efficiency and denoising performance of existing methods are relatively low in real scene noise removal. To address this issue, this paper proposed self-supervised image denoising method Noise2SR (N2SR) to train a simple and effective image denoising model based on single noisy observation. Our Noise2SR denoising model is designed for training with paired noisy images of different dimensions. Benefiting from this training strategy, Noise2SR is more efficiently self-supervised and able to restore more image details from a single noisy observation. Experimental results of simulated noise and real microscopy noise removal show that Noise2SR outperforms two blind-spot based self-supervised deep learning image denoising methods. We envision that Noise2SR has the potential to improve more other kind of scientific imaging quality.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
title: Гравиразведка: гравитационное поле Земли, аппаратура, методика измерений
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2023

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрена история становления гравиразведки как науки. Описаны теоретические основы гравиразведки, гравиметрическая аппаратура, методика съемки, решение прямых задач и применение гравиразведки для решения геологических задач. Подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению подготовки 21.05.03 «Технологии геологической разведки», профиль подготовки (специализация) «Геофизические методы поисков и разведки месторождений полезных ископаемых» и близких направлений, изучающих дисциплину «Гравиразведка».
Weighted principal component analysis: a weighted covariance eigendecomposition approach
Creators: name: Delchambre, Ludovic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a new straightforward principal component analysis (PCA) method based on the diagonalization of the weighted variance-covariance matrix through two spectral decomposition methods: power iteration and Rayleigh quotient iteration. This method allows one to retrieve a given number of orthogonal principal components amongst the most meaningful ones for the case of problems with weighted and/or missing data. Principal coefficients are then retrieved by fitting principal components to the data while providing the final decomposition. Tests performed on real and simulated cases show that our method is optimal in the identification of the most significant patterns within data sets. We illustrate the usefulness of this method by assessing its quality on the extrapolation of Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar spectra from measured wavelengths to shorter and longer wavelengths. Our new algorithm also benefits from a fast and flexible implementation.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
La pandemia en zonas periféricas de Colombia: control sanitario a manos de ilegales en el Norte del Cauca y la Sierra de La Macarena
Creators: name: dvries, silvio
name: espinosa, nicolas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Como en otros tantos países, el estado colombiano enfrentó la pandemia por Covid-19 en sus inicios por medio de la imposición de cuarentenas, toques de queda y medidas para garantizar el aislamiento social. En algunas localidades del país los controles para la contención y mitigación del contagio fueron asumidos por actores no estatales, entre ellos grupos armados ilegales –algunos insurgentes de naturaleza política, otros con vocación estrictamente criminal– y todos con pretensiones de control territorial. En este artículo nos enfocamos en la manera como fueron gestionadas y tramitadas prácticas sanitarias por fuera de la legalidad en dos regiones del país que padecen el dominio de grupos armados.
 As in many other countries, the Colombian state faced the Covid-19 pandemic in its early days by imposing quarantines, curfews, and measures to guarantee social isolation. In some localities of the country, the controls for the containment and mitigation of contagion were assumed by non-state actors, among them illegal armed groups, some of them insurgents of a political nature, others with a strictly criminal vocation; all with a vocation for territorial control. In this article we focus on the way in which health practices were managed and processed outside the legality in two regions of the country that suffer from the domination of armed groups.
Formal Hardware Verification by Symbolic Ternary Trajectory Evaluation
Creators: name: Bryant, Randal
name: Carl-Johan H. Seger
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Symbolic trajectory evaluation is a new approach to formal hardware verification combining the circuit modeling capabilities of symbolic logic simulation with some of the analytic methods found in temporal logic model checkers. We have created such an evaluator by extending the symbolic switch-level simulator COSMOS. This program gains added efficiency by exploiting the ability of COSMOS to evaluate circuit operation over a ternary logic model, where the third value X represents an unknown logic value. This program can formally verify systems containing complex features such as switch-level models, detailed timing, and pipelining.
Additional file 1 of Models of social prescribing to address non-medical needs in adults: a scoping review
Creators: name: Oster, Candice
name: Skelton, Claire
name: Leibbrandt, Richard
name: Hines, Sonia
name: Bonevski, Billie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy.
T violation in radiative $β$ decay and electric dipole moments
Creators: name: Dekens, W. G.
name: Vos, K. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In radiative $β$ decay, $T$ violation can be studied through a spin-independent $T$-odd correlation. We consider contributions to this correlation by beyond the standard model (BSM) sources of $T$-violation, arising above the electroweak scale. At the same time such sources, parametrized by dimension-6 operators, can induce electric dipole moments (EDMs). As a consequence, the manifestations of the $T$-odd BSM physics in radiative $β$ decay and EDMs are not independent. Here we exploit this connection to show that current EDM bounds already strongly constrain the spin-independent $T$-odd correlation in radiative $β$ decay.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 2 of Models of social prescribing to address non-medical needs in adults: a scoping review
Creators: name: Oster, Candice
name: Skelton, Claire
name: Leibbrandt, Richard
name: Hines, Sonia
name: Bonevski, Billie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Data extraction instrument.
Measurement of hadronic cross section at KLOE/KLOE-2
Creators: name: De Leo, Veronica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of the $σ(e^+e^-\rightarrow π^+π^-)$ cross section allows to determine the pion form factor $| F_π|^2$ and the two pion contribution to the muon anomaly $a_μ$. Such a measurement has been performed with the KLOE detector at $DAΦNE$, the Frascati $ϕ$-factory.The preliminary results on the combination of the last analysis (KLOE12) with two previous published (KLOE08, KLOE10) will be presented in the following.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
THE KINEMATIC AND ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC RESPONSE TO OPTICAL FLOW BALANCE PERTURBATIONS IN WALKING: VISUOMOTOR ADAPTATION AND THE ACUTE EFFECTS OF AGE AND FALLS HISTORY
Creators: name: Thompson, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Visual perturbations can be used to study balance control and balance deficits due to their ability to elicit corrective motor responses. Advanced age increases the reliance on visual feedback for motor planning and execution. Because older adults are more susceptible to these perturbations than young adults, they may represent a promising diagnostic tool for age-associated falls risk. In both studies summarized in this thesis, I used a custom virtual reality environment to apply visual perturbations during treadmill walking. The purpose of my first study was to investigate the propensity for visuomotor adaptation in walking balance control using prolonged exposure to visual perturbations. My second study aimed investigated the effects of age and falls history on leg muscle activity during walking with and without visual perturbations. Ultimately, this research will lead to the development of more effective approaches to diagnosing and mitigating the high risk of falls in our aging population.
Global land use regression and Bayesian Maximum Entropy spatiotemporal estimation of PM2.5 yearly average concentrations across the United States
Creators: name: Reyes, Jeanette M.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: Knowledge of PM2.5 concentrations across the United States is limited due to sparse monitoring across space and time. This work incorporates a land use regression (LUR) mean trend into the Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) framework along with Gaussian-truncated soft data that accounts for sampling incompleteness to provide estimations in the contiguous United States from 1999 to 2009. The LUR model was optimized to explain the most variability as possible given variable hyperparameters. Variables in the final model included elevation, average car miles driven, average traffic through-put, population density, SO2 point source emissions, and NH3 point source emissions. Compared to a kriging method with a constant mean trend this method showed a mean squared error reduction of over 35%. This is one of the few works to successfully develop a LUR model on a domain of this magnitude across space and time and incorporate the BME estimation methodology.
Additional file 3 of Estimation in meta-analyses of response ratios
Creators: name: Bakbergenuly, Ilyas
name: Hoaglin, David C.
name: Kulinskaya, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3 Relation of I2 to parameters underlying our simulations.
Effects of gravitational waves on the polarization of pulsars
Creators: name: Hacyan, Shahen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarization of electromagnetic waves in the presence of a gravitational wave is analyzed. The rotation of the polarization angle and the Stokes parameters are deduced. A possible application to the detection of stochastic background of gravitational waves is proposed as a complement to the pulsar timing method.
Development of an Integrated Process Planning/Production Scheduling Shell for Agile Manufacturing
Creators: name: Sadeh, Norman
name: Hildum, David W.
name: Laliberty, Thomas J.
name: Smith, Stephen
name: McA'Nulty, John
name: Kjenstad, Dag
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Increased reliance on agilemanufacturing techniques has created a demand for systems to solve integrated
process-planning and production-scheduling problems in large-scale dynamic environments. To be effective,
these systems should provide user-oriented interactive functionality for managing the various user tasks and
objectives and reacting to unexpected events. This paper describes the mixed-initiative problem-solving
features of IP3S, an Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling shell for agile manufacturing. IP3S
is a blackboard -based system that supports the concurrent development and dynamic revision of integrated
process-planning and production-scheduling solutions and the maintenance of multiple problem instances and
solutions, as well as other flexible user-oriented decision-making capabilities, allowing the user to control
the scope of the problem and explore alternate tradeoffs (“what-if ” scenarios) interactively. The system is
scheduled for initial deployment and evaluation in a large and highly dynamic machine shop at Raytheon’s
Andover manufacturing facility.
Projective simulation with generalization
Creators: name: Melnikov, Alexey A.
name: Makmal, Adi
name: Dunjko, Vedran
name: Briegel, Hans J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ability to generalize is an important feature of any intelligent agent. Not only because it may allow the agent to cope with large amounts of data, but also because in some environments, an agent with no generalization capabilities cannot learn. In this work we outline several criteria for generalization, and present a dynamic and autonomous machinery that enables projective simulation agents to meaningfully generalize. Projective simulation, a novel, physical approach to artificial intelligence, was recently shown to perform well in standard reinforcement learning problems, with applications in advanced robotics as well as quantum experiments. Both the basic projective simulation model and the presented generalization machinery are based on very simple principles. This allows us to provide a full analytical analysis of the agent's performance and to illustrate the benefit the agent gains by generalizing. Specifically, we show that already in basic (but extreme) environments, learning without generalization may be impossible, and demonstrate how the presented generalization machinery enables the projective simulation agent to learn.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Equilibrium Analysis of Sulphur dioxide Oxidation in a Catalytic Reactor.pdf
Creators: name: Fredrick Bekong, Ugi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400402
subject: Chemical and thermal processes in energy and combustion
classificationCode: 400408
subject: Reaction engineering (excl. nuclear reactions)

description: The research presents sulphur dioxide oxidation from elemental oxygen for a typical study of thermodynamics equilibrium constant of reversible reaction kinetics in a reactor system. A fundamental stoichiometric balanced chemical equation model on the species taking part in the sulphur dioxide SO2 oxidation reaction is applied for the study. Equilibrium compositions of the species involved in the reaction namely; SO3, SO2, O2 with N2 nitrogen gas serving as inert in the reaction process is presented. Consequently, the Van’t equation connecting the equilibrium constant KP of a chemical reaction model is developed and applied for this research. The concentrations of the species are obtained with respect to the number of moles of the species and the partial pressures of the main reaction kinetics. The equilibrium model is achieved on the species by kinetic principles of law of mass action and hence, the equilibrium constant, Kp at the particular temperature of the thermodynamic equilibrium is calculated from the plot approximately 400 K in which depicts the plot of the forward reaction and the reverse reactions of the reversible reaction kinetics of sulphur dioxide oxidation from elemental oxygen. Finally, the studies demonstrates the applications of mass action principles in reversible chemical reactions kinetics.
Additional file 1 of A rank-based marker selection method for high throughput scRNA-seq data
Creators: name: Vargo, Alexander H. S.
name: Gilbert, Anna C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary figures. This file (available in pdf format) contains figures that are supplementary to the data presented in this manuscript. These figures include: Plots of all supervised clustering metrics (see Table 1) for all methods (including edgeRdet, MASTdet, and random marker selection when the relevant data was collected) on all four experimental data sets generated using both the NCC and RFC. Plots of the unsupervised clustering metrics (see Table 1) for all methods (including edgeRdet, MASTdet, and random marker selection when the relevant data was collected) on the Zeisel, Paul, and ZhengFilt data sets. A visualization of the variance in the classification error rate when using the random forests classifier (RFC). Plots of the data that were used to choose the value of k (see the discussion on the selection of Louvain parameters) that was used to compute the unsupervised clustering metrics on the Zeisel and Paul data sets. A comparison of UMAP plots of the ZhengFull data set when labeled by (a) the biologically motivated bulk labels that were used as the “ground truth” cell types for marker selection in this manuscript, and (b) a Louvain clustering that was generated for this work. The Louvain clustering in (b) was used to guide the selection of k (see the discussion on the selection of Louvain parameters) to compute the unsupervised clustering metrics on the ZhengFilt data set. A UMAP plot of the purified CD19+ B cell data set that was used to generate the Simulated data illuminates the precise performance characteristics of marker selection methods in this work combined with the ZhengFull data set.
Performance Evaluation of Parallel Algorithms
Creators: name: Anireh, Donald Ene Vincent Ike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Evaluating how well a whole system or set of subsystems performs is one of the primary objectives of performance testing. We can tell via performance assessment if the architecture implementation meets the design objectives. Performance evaluations of several parallel algorithms are compared in this study. Both theoretical and experimental methods are used in performance assessment as a subdiscipline in computer science. The parallel method outperforms its sequential counterpart in terms of throughput. The parallel algorithm's performance (speedup) is examined, as shown in the result.
description: 4 Pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of The burden of anxiety among people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune, India
Creators: name: Marbaniang, Ivan
name: Shashikala Sangle
name: Nimkar, Smita
name: Zarekar, Kanta
name: Salvi, Sonali
name: Amol Chavan
name: Gupta, Amita
name: Suryavanshi, Nishi
name: Mave, Vidya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Crosstabulation between GAD-7 scores and income when stratified by gender. Crosstabulation between GAD-7 scores and living with a spouse when stratified by gender.
Additional file 3 of Models of social prescribing to address non-medical needs in adults: a scoping review
Creators: name: Oster, Candice
name: Skelton, Claire
name: Leibbrandt, Richard
name: Hines, Sonia
name: Bonevski, Billie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Data summary table.
Given enough choice, simple local rules percolate discontinuously
Creators: name: Waagen, Alex
name: D'Souza, Raissa M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is still much to discover about the mechanisms and nature of discontinuous percolation transitions. Much of the past work considers graph evolution algorithms known as Achlioptas processes in which a single edge is added to the graph from a set of $k$ randomly chosen candidate edges at each timestep until a giant component emerges. Several Achlioptas processes seem to yield a discontinuous percolation transition, but it was proven by Riordan and Warnke that the transition must be continuous in the thermodynamic limit. However, they also proved that if the number $k(n)$ of candidate edges increases with the number of nodes, then the percolation transition may be discontinuous. Here we attempt to find the simplest such process which yields a discontinuous transition in the thermodynamic limit. We introduce a process which considers only the degree of candidate edges and not component size. We calculate the critical point $t_{c}=(1-θ(\frac{1}{k}))n$ and rigorously show that the critical window is of size $O(\frac{n}{k(n)})$. If $k(n)$ grows very slowly, for example $k(n)=\log n$, the critical window is barely sublinear and hence the phase transition is discontinuous but appears continuous in finite systems. We also present arguments that Achlioptas processes with bounded size rules will always have continuous percolation transitions even with infinite choice.
description: Accepted to European Physical Journal B
title: An Exploratory Study of Domestic Violence Attitudes Among Virginia Magistrates
Creators: name: Phillips, Elaine M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2000

description: Currently, 43 states utilize magistrates in the criminal justice response to domestic violence. In Virginia, magistrates have the power to grant emergency protective orders and arrest warrants in domestic violence cases. In 1996, Virginia instituted a new mandatory arrest law. This study explores magistrates' attitudes toward the new law. It also examines their attitudes toward victims and offenders involved in domestic violence cases. The study utilizes data from Crossland's 1998 survey of Virginia magistrates (n=239). Hypotheses based on conflict theory and feminist theory lead to hypotheses that predict that magistrates' attitudes will vary depending on the race, educational level and gender of the magistrates.
Testing Chern-Simons modified gravity with orbiting superconductive gravity gradiometers --- The non-dynamical formulation
Creators: name: Qiang, Li-E
name: Xu, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High precision Superconductivity Gravity Gradiometers (SGG) are powerful tools for relativistic experiments. In this paper, we work out the tidal signals in non-dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity, which could be measured by orbiting SGGs around Earth. We find that, with proper orientations of multi-axes SGGs, the tidal signals from the Chern-Simons modification can be isolated in the combined data of different axes. Furthermore, for three-axes SGGs, such combined data is the trace of the total tidal matrix, which is invariant under the rotations of SGG axes and thus free from axis pointing errors. Following nearly circular orbits, the tests of the parity-violating Chern-Simons modification and the measurements of the gravitomagnetic sector in parity-conserving metric theories can be carried out independently in the same time. A first step analysis on noise sources is also included.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures. To be appeared in Gen.Rel.Grav. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1405.0705
Are Attitudes Predictive of Non-Marital Childbearing? Teenagers' Attitudes toward Motherhood Before Marriage and Their Relationship
to Non-Marital Childbearing
Creators: name: Lucas, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This study makes a unique contribution to the literature on single motherhood by assessing whether favorable attitudes toward single motherhood in adolescence are associated with subsequent childbearing behavior with the use of national data from Add Health. This study employs a longitudinal design, which allows it to link attitudes to behavior over time. Findings indicate important differences in single motherhood attitudes by race and ethnicity, family SES, family structure, religiosity, and future educational expectations. Controlling for theoretical mechanisms known to be associated with single motherhood, including culture (race and religiosity), opportunity costs (educational expectations and SES), and socialization and supervision (family structure), favorable attitudes toward teenage motherhood remain significantly related to the probability of becoming a single mother in early adulthood. Attitudes, therefore, have an impact beyond the theoretical and commonly measured influences upon single motherhood. This independent effect of attitudes is discussed in the paper.
The reconstruction of white supremacy: the Ku Klux Klan in piedmont North Carolina, 1868 to 1872
Creators: name: Proctor, Bradley David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This thesis explores the construction of white supremacy through a close study of Ku Klux Klan violence in the piedmont counties of North Carolina during Reconstruction. It has two central goals. First, it explores the ways Klan violence illustrates competing social and political ideas among North Carolinians during Reconstruction. It contends that the localized, episodic violence committed by the Klan simultaneously mirrored and constructed the public form of white supremacy. Second, this thesis aims to explore tensions within the Klan as well as between its members and its victims. The Klan was not a static ideological bloc. Rather, the Ku Klux Klan was a crucible within which ideologies of white supremacy were forged.
Actores en la implementación del desarrollo sostenible en Colombia. La dimensión ambiental como objetivo común Actors in the implementation of sustainable development in Colombia. The environmental dimension as a common objective.
Creators: name: Argáez, Hyllary Stefanía Trujillo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160509 Public Administration
subject: FOS: Political science

description: El Informe Brundtland presentado en la ONU en 1987 significó una agenda global para el cambio y el desarrollo sostenible en el marco de tres pilares: el crecimiento económico, el avance social y la conservación ambiental. Este texto presenta los resultados de una revisión de fuentes especializadas, que permiten establecer el alcance de tales pilares en Colombia. El análisis arrojó que aunque el estado, las empresas y la sociedad son actores que intervienen en la sostenibilidad, no tienen una articulación clara y definida que permita cumplir con eficacia los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible.
 The Brundtland Report presented at the UN in 1987 meant a global agenda for change and sustainable development within the framework of three pillars: economic growth, social progress, and environmental conservation. This article presents the results of a review of specialized sources for establishing the scope of such bases in Colombia. The analysis showed that although the state, companies, and society are actors that intervene in sustainability, they do not have a clear and defined articulation that allows them to meet the objectives of sustainable development effectively.
Everyday Dependability for Everyday Needs
Creators: name: Shaw, Mary
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Everyday software must be dependable for the needs of everyday people. Everyday people can usually intervene when software misbehaves, and problems with their software are usually irritating but not catastrophic. Everyday software must thus provide cost-effective service with reasonable amounts of human attention. Dependability for these everyday needs arises from matching dependability levels to actual needs, achieving reasonably low failure rates at reasonable cost, providing understandable mechanisms to recognize and deal with failure, and enabling creation of individually-tailored systems and configurations from available resources. This leads to different challenges from mission-critical systems that operate autonomously and risk catastrophic failure.

Much everyday software depends on inexpensive or free information resources available dynamically over the Internet or through retail channels. Much of this software runs on mobile devices with limited power. Increasingly, it is composed by its users rather than by professionals, and the resulting software uses information resources in ways that the resources" creators could not anticipate. In the near future user-managed configurations will have to interact acceptably with configurations managed by other users. Software development in this setting requires methods that tolerate incomplete knowledge, pursue value rather than simply capability, and base reasoning on aggregate rather than fully-detailed information. We will identify research challenges that arise from the need for everyday dependability and give examples of current Carnegie Mellon research that addresses these challenges.
Exploiting Redundancy to Reduce Impact Force
Creators: name: Gertz, Matthew W.
name: Jin-Oh  Kim
name: Khosla, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents strategies for reducing the impact force resulting from the collision of a kinematically redundant manipulator with an object in its environment.  The Premultiplier Diagram, a tool used to derive the impact force reduction strategies presented in this paper, is introduced and discussed. Two strategies for reducing impact force are then presented.  The first strategy involves adding torques to the joints of the redundant manipulator to impede motion into the object with which it collides.  The second strategy involves choosing the best configuration for the impact event.  Simulated results from the testing of either strategy are presented and discussed.
Analysis of Wallace's Proof of the Born Rule in Everettian Quantum Mechanics: Formal Aspects
Creators: name: Mandolesi, André L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To solve the probability problem of the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, D.Wallace has presented a formal proof of the Born rule via decision theory, as proposed by D.Deutsch. The idea is to get subjective probabilities from rational decisions related to quantum measurements, showing the non-probabilistic parts of the quantum formalism, plus some rational constraints, ensure the squared modulus of quantum amplitudes play the role of such probabilities. We provide a new presentation of Wallace's proof, reorganized to simplify some arguments, and analyze it from a formal perspective. Similarities with classical decision theory are made explicit, to clarify its structure and main ideas. A simpler notation is used, and details are filled in, making it easier to follow and verify. Some problems have been identified, and we suggest possible corrections.
description: In comparison with its previous version arXiv:1504.05259v2 [quant-ph], this article has been changed to focus only on the formal aspects of the proof
Transcription model for Lucien Peraire's handwriting (French, 20th century)
Creators: name: Chagué, Alix
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: kraken_pytorch
HTR
Peraire
Manu McFrench
contemporary handwriting
French

description: This model was trained on the peraire-ground-truth dataset (v.2.0.0) and using Manu McFrench as a base model. The peraire-ground-truth dataset contains documents written in French by Lucien Peraire in the late 1920s and in the late 1960s. For more details on the dataset and the transcription guidelines, see https://github.com/alix-tz/peraire-ground-truth
title: Цифровой сторителлинг
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2022

description: Учебник посвящен описанию современного способа предоставления информации — сторителлинга и сфер его применения. Авторы знакомят обучающихся с ключевыми понятиями цифрового сторителлинга, его воздействием на эмоциональный фон слушателя, принципами построения эффективной истории, архетипами героев и сюжетов сторителлинга, композиционными приемами построения историй. Особое внимание уделено видам цифрового сторителлинга: визуальному, аудио-, трансмедийному, аналитическому и иммерсивному, а также мультимедийным и интерактивным элементам и требованиям к ним. Акцент сделан на практическом применении цифровых сервисов и инструментов при составлении цифрового рассказа по функциональному назначению: визуализация данных и инфографика, составление таймлайнов и интерактивных карт, разработка игр и мем-историй и др. Для каждой группы сервисов описаны прикладные возможности и особенности, выделены сравнительные характеристики, приведены пошаговые инструкции по созданию цифровой истории с их использованием. Учебник состоит из четырех глав, в конце каждого параграфа имеются контрольные вопросы для самопроверки, в конце каждой главы — задание для самопроверки. Подготовлен в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Предназначен для студентов, обучающихся по УГНП 37.00.00 «Психологические науки», 38.00.00 «Экономика и управление», 42.00.00 «Средства массовой информации и информационно-библиотечное дело», 43.00.00 «Сервис и туризм», 44.00.00 «Образование и педагогические науки», 45.00.00 «Языкознание и литературоведение», 51.00.00 «Культуроведение и социокультурные проекты», учебными планами которых предусмотрено изучение дисциплины «Цифровой сторителлинг». Может быть использован широкой группой специальностей, а также слушателями программ повышения квалификации по развитию профессиональных компетенций.
Effects of Metformin on the Adaptive Memory Response to Influenza in Obese Individuals
Creators: name: Rezk, Omar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States over the past few decades and now affects more than one-third of the adult population. In recent years, obesity has been linked to increased risk of morbidity and mortality from influenza infection. The influenza vaccine is the most effective way to prevent infection with the influenza virus, however, despite vaccination, obese individuals have twice the risk of influenza or influenza-like-illness. Obesity has been shown to impair T cell activation and function. What is not known is how obesity causes the dysfunction. Recent studies have demonstrated that T cell function is heavily reliant on cellular metabolism and T cells will switch their metabolic profile in response to extracellular stimuli. Inflamed visceral adiposity, caused by inflammatory cells infiltrating hypertrophic adipose tissue, is a major hallmark of obesity. Visceral adipocytes of obese individuals release high levels of leptin and other pro-inflammatory cytokines into the serum. These changes in the extracellular environment of T cells may influence their metabolic profile and in turn, impair their function. Therefore, we hypothesized that the metabolic drug metformin would improve T cell function. We show that, compared to obese adults, influenza-vaccinated obese adults prescribed metformin have improved CD8+ memory T cell responses to in vitro challenge with influenza virus. T cells of obese metformin-treated adults express higher levels of activation and functional markers. These results suggest that metformin may help to restore memory T cell function and act as an immunoenhancing agent for obese individuals at the time of vaccination. Further investigation into the metabolic effects of metformin on T cells is needed to uncover the mechanism(s) for metformin-driven improvements in memory T cell function.
Geometric Intersection Problems
Creators: name: Bentley, John Louis
name: Shamos, Michael I.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate a divide-and-conquer technique in multidimensional space which decomposes a geometric
problem on N points in k dimensions into two problems on N/2 points in k dimensions plus a single problem
on N points in k-1 dimension. Special structure of the subproblems is exploited to obtain an algorithm
for finding the two closest of N points in O(N log N) time in any dimension. Related results are discussed,
along with some conjectures and unsolved geometric problems.
Bayesian Hypothesis Test using Nonparametric Belief Propagation for Noisy Sparse Recovery
Creators: name: Kang, Jaewook
name: Lee, Heung-No
name: Kim, Kiseon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a low-computational Bayesian algorithm for noisy sparse recovery (NSR), called BHT-BP. In this framework, we consider an LDPC-like measurement matrices which has a tree-structured property, and additive white Gaussian noise. BHT-BP has a joint detection-and-estimation structure consisting of a sparse support detector and a nonzero estimator. The support detector is designed under the criterion of the minimum detection error probability using a nonparametric belief propagation (nBP) and composite binary hypothesis tests. The nonzeros are estimated in the sense of linear MMSE, where the support detection result is utilized. BHT-BP has its strength in noise robust support detection, effectively removing quantization errors caused by the uniform sampling-based nBP. Therefore, in the NSR problems, BHT-BP has advantages over CS-BP which is an existing nBP algorithm, being comparable to other recent CS solvers, in several aspects. In addition, we examine impact of the minimum nonzero value of sparse signals via BHT-BP, on the basis of the results of the recent literature. Our empirical result shows that variation of x_min is reflected to recovery performance in the form of SNR shift.
description: 14 page, 11 figures, Digitally Published in IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing at Dec. 2014; IEEE Trans. Signal Process., Dec. 2014
Hand-eye robotic visual servoing around moving objects using active deformable models
Creators: name: Couvignou, Philippe A.
name: N. P. Papanikolopoulos
name: Khosla, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Institute for Software Research
Fabricating Global Chronology Of Food & the Recreation in Globalization
Creators: name: Subhadip Majumder
name: Thapa, Samir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Globalization
Chronology of food
Intellectual limitations
Global History exploitation

description: The history of food is a fascinating story, and it is talked about all over the world. Although they are growing up together, their union is exploding. They come together very easily because each one produces connecting tents that reduce a lot of common connections. As mindboggling themes, however, food and global history come from conflicting sources of exploitation and are disseminated to different aspects of humanity - for different purposes, methods, and racism. Methodology: Significantly, these intricate, scientific, and profound topics of globalization have become the charm of today's intellectual world and are regularly featured in financial predictions, political statements, and social science analysis. Our research is based on books, online journal support, brief reading and analysing of various documents and research papers and of course the verbal discussion with many historians and food anthropologists who helped us to formularise a theory.
Additional file 1 of Midwifery students better approximate their self-efficacy in clinical lactation after reflecting in and on their performance in the LactSim OSCE
Creators: name: Grabowski, Aria
name: Anderson, Olivia S.
name: Zielinski, Ruth
name: Scott, Melisa
name: Hammer, Lisa
name: Bassil, Muriel
name: Chuisano, Samantha A.
name: Sadovnikova, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplement 1. Case 3 Learning Objectives.
Repetition as an Argumentative Technique in the Diagnostic Handbook
Creators: name: Schmidtchen, Eric
Year: 2023
Subjects: divination
ancient Mesopotamia
ancient medicine
repetition
Diagnostic Handbook

description: The showcase discusses the function of repetition as an argumentative technique in Mesopotamian divinatory texts and especially within the 15th Tablet of the so-called Diagnostic Handbook (Sakikkû). Additionally, it is argued that repetition likewise can serve as a means for articulating generalized propositions or statements, whose validity expands beyond the borders of the respective Tablet.
Critical behavior of the Ising model by preparing the thermal state on a quantum computer
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoyang
name: Feng, Xu
name: Hartung, Tobias
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Stornati, Paolo
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: interaction: long-range
subject: Ising model
subject: thermal
subject: critical phenomena
subject: variational
subject: specific heat
subject: quantum algorithm
subject: lattice

description: We simulate the critical behavior of the Ising model utilizing a thermal state prepared using quantum computing techniques. The preparation of the thermal state is based on the variational quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) algorithm. The initial state of QITE is prepared as a classical product state, and we propose a systematic method to design the variational ansatz for QITE. We calculate the specific heat and susceptibility of the long-range interacting Ising model and observe indications of the Ising criticality on a small lattice size. We find the results derived by the quantum algorithm are well consistent with the ones from exact diagonalization, in both the neighborhood of the critical temperature and the low-temperature region.
Additional file 6 of Midwifery students better approximate their self-efficacy in clinical lactation after reflecting in and on their performance in the LactSim OSCE
Creators: name: Grabowski, Aria
name: Anderson, Olivia S.
name: Zielinski, Ruth
name: Scott, Melisa
name: Hammer, Lisa
name: Bassil, Muriel
name: Chuisano, Samantha A.
name: Sadovnikova, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 6: Supplement 6. Self-Efficacy Questions by Case.
A $\mathbb{Q}$--factorial complete toric variety with Picard number 2 is projective
Creators: name: Rossi, Michele
name: Terracini, Lea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is devoted to settle two still open problems, connected with the existence of ample and nef divisors on a Q-factorial complete toric variety. The first problem is about the existence of ample divisors when the Picard number is 2: we give a positive answer to this question, by studying the secondary fan by means of Z-linear Gale duality. The second problem is about the minimum value of the Picard number allowing the vanishing of the Nef cone: we present a 3-dimensional example showing that this value cannot be greater then 3, which, under the previous result, is also the minimum value guaranteeing the existence of non-projective examples.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes following the referee's advise: list of notation suppressed, few typos fixed, references updated. Final version to appear in Advances in Geometry