cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Awareness of Changes in Fat Content of Milk by Consumers
Creators: name: Pohar, Jurij
name: Sedlar, Sasa
name: Pohar, Jurij
name: Sedlar, Sasa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
Production Economics

description: During the harmonization of Slovene legislation with legislation of European Union new categories of milk were set. Therefore the percentage of milk fat in some types of liquid milk products had to be changed. The intention of our research was to find out whether consumers know the content of milk fat in products they buy. The question whether consumers were aware of the change in milk fat content introduced by new legislation was also investigated. It was found out that more than 70% of consumers precisely identify the number written on packaging which is associated with fat content, but no one knows the real meaning of this number. Almost half of consumers who bought milk with 3,5% of milk fat thought that they bought milk with 3,2% milk fat.
Paths Explored, Paths Omitted, Paths Obscured: Decision Points & Selective Reporting in End-to-End Data Analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Althoff, Tim
name: Heer, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Drawing reliable inferences from data involves many, sometimes arbitrary, decisions across phases of data collection, wrangling, and modeling. As different choices can lead to diverging conclusions, understanding how researchers make analytic decisions is important for supporting robust and replicable analysis. In this study, we pore over nine published research studies and conduct semi-structured interviews with their authors. We observe that researchers often base their decisions on methodological or theoretical concerns, but subject to constraints arising from the data, expertise, or perceived interpretability. We confirm that researchers may experiment with choices in search of desirable results, but also identify other reasons why researchers explore alternatives yet omit findings. In concert with our interviews, we also contribute visualizations for communicating decision processes throughout an analysis. Based on our results, we identify design opportunities for strengthening end-to-end analysis, for instance via tracking and meta-analysis of multiple decision paths.
Development of a SERS Sandwich Assay Platform for Rapid Detection of Bacteria
Creators: name: Pearson, Brooke
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: The increased incidence of food pathogen outbreaks placed a new emphasis on the requirement of a rapid, sensitive, and reliable detection method for pathogens in food samples. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a technique that tremendously enhances the weak Raman scattering of an analyte by using a metallic nano-substrate. Herein, we developed an innovative SERS sandwich assay platform which is based on 3-mercaptophenylboronic acid (3-MPBA) or aptamer as a capturer, and 3-MPBA and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as the reporter for non-selective and selective detection of bacteria. Both optical and chemical (SERS mapping) imaging were used as mechanisms for bacterial detection and quantification. Using Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes as the model bacteria, we have identified a unique bacterial SERS signal upon the interaction between the captured bacteria, 3-MBPA and AgNPs, which was used as the base for reliable detection of bacteria using SERS mapping. The non-specific assay also possesses unique optical properties allowing for the enhanced visualization of bacteria at low microscope magnifications (10 and 20x objective lenses). Using 3-MBPA owe achieved sensitive detection and quantification of as low as 102 CFU/mL and a capture efficiency of 92.1% for nonselective detection of Salmonella. The capability of the assay method to detect specific bacteria using an aptamer was also demonstrated. Besides the SERS applications of this assay, it was discovered that the 3-MPBA coated gold chip developed for this assay enhances the visualization of bacteria under a light microscope allowing for facile and rapid detection and quantification. In anticipation for industrial applications, sample preparation methods and strategies were developed for simple and carbohydrate food matrices.
Influence of Physical States (Crystalized Versus Solubilized) of Bioactive Components And Oil Composition on Bioaccessibility And Bioavailability
Creators: name: Xia, Ziyuan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Three systems were compared in the first case study: (1). pre-dissolved β-carotene nanoemulsion (d< 200nm); (2). corn oil emulsion (d< 200nm) with β-carotene crystals being added before digestion; (3). phosphate buffer saline with β-carotene being added before digestion. Oil-in-water nanoemulsions were formed by high-pressure homogenization using Tween 20 as emulsifier and corn oil as carrier oil and then they were subjected to a simulated mouth, stomach and small intestine digestion. The rate and extent of free fatty acid production in small intestine decreased in the order (2)>(1)>(3); whereas the β-carotene bioaccessibility decreased in the order (1)>>(2)>(3). In system (3), even without any fat content, there is still noticeable consumption of NaOH, which is due to the ester bonds existing in the non-ionic surfactant (Tween 20). In the second case study, we developed two comparing groups by differentiating their oil concentration (20%, 4% respectively). The bioaccessibility of the high fat group is only half of the low fat group due to the insufficient digestion of fat in the former group. In the third case study, the bioaccessibility of nobiletin with different physical states (crystalized vs solubilized) and in different delivery system (conventional emulsion vs nanoemulsion) was compared. Not like β-carotene, the bioaccessibility of nobiletin as crystals in slightly lower than it is as solubilized state. Meanwhile, in conventional emulsion, the bioaccessibility is slightly lower than in nanoemulsion. This study provides important information for developing effective delivery systems for lipophilic bioactive components in food and beverage applications.
Chronology Protection in Generalized Godel Spacetime
Creators: name: Huang, Wung-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective action of a free scalar field propagating in the generalized Godel spacetime is evaluated by the zeta-function regularization method. From the result we show that the renormalized stress energy tensor may be divergent at the chronology horizon. This gives a support to the chronology protection conjecture.
description: Latex 6 pages, typos corrected
Legal Problems of the Generic Advertising in Agriculture
Creators: name: Avsec, Franci
name: Avsec, Franci
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty

description: Generic promotion, financed by mandatory assessments from producers, is often an instrument used by the agricultural policy in order to further the demand and to broaden the market of agricultural products. The generic promotion generates also some legal problems. The first among them is the relation between mandatory assessments and the constitutionally warranted freedom of the speech. The most numerous judgments about this issue are found in USA, where the courts have developed various criteria within the theory of »commercial speech« and the theory of »government's speech«. In the European Community (European Union), the Commission as well as the Court of Justice have dealt with the question under what conditions the mandatory assessments for promotion of agricultural products should be qualified as measures, which have equivalent effect as prohibited quantitative restrictions in free movements of goods between Member States, as well as with the problem of products double charged with mandatory assessments for generic promotion, firstly in the Member State of origin, and secondly, in the Member State of destination.
Infinite Time Turing Machines: Supertask Computation
Creators: name: Hamkins, Joel David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03D30; 03D60; 68Q05

description: Infinite time Turing machines extend the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. By doing so, they provide a natural model of infinitary computability, a theoretical setting for the analysis of the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.
description: 25 pages. This is an expository account of infinite time Turing machines for a philosophical audience
An Eclectic Method: A Cooperative Task-Based Learning Method in Developing Students' English Speaking Skills at Phitsanulok Pittayakom School
Creators: name: Dabon, Jade Oliver
name: Sakon Kerdpol
name: Weerapong Inthong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The research data were collected using the test task design that elicits communicative competence and performances. These skills are measured using CEFR external rating scales, which serve as pre-test/post-test without a control group. The purpose of the two tests is to gather significant data about the English speaking skills of the participants of the study, before and after the implementation of the blended method. Similarly, the researcher wanted to emphasize how effective is the CTBL method in developing the English speaking skills of Thai students.
Cicurina (Cicurella) mckenziei Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina mckenziei

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) mckenziei Gertsch 1992
(Figs 54–55, 136)
 Cicurina mckenziei Gertsch 1992: 115, figs 139–140 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Bandera County, Fog Fissure, 5 mi. N of Vanderpool, October 30, 1963 D. McKenzie coll.”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.77; carapace length: 2.00; carapace width: 1.30; opisthosoma length: 2.35. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise (the two large ones are fused at base); retromargin right side with 6 denticles (2 large, 4 small), left side with 7 denticles (2 large, 5 small). Leg I: total length: 6.65; femur: 1.89; patella: 0.70; tibia: 1.58; metatarsus: 1.55; tarsus: 0.95; leg IV: missing. Tarsal claw IV: missing. Epigynum: 0.378. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, two-thirds intruded by straight dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa enlarge, not fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe light-bulb shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, internally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Fog Fissure (Bandera County, Texas, Fig. 136).
 Remarks. Male unknown.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 30
Estimation of the Offer of Organic Products in Slovenia: Exploratory Analysis
Creators: name: Slabe, Anamarija
name: Bratusa, Alenka
name: Tratar-Supan, Ariana-Lucija
name: Slabe, Anamarija
name: Bratusa, Alenka
name: Tratar-Supan, Ariana-Lucija
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Relations/Trade

description: In one national and one EU research project, the offer and selling paths of organic products in Slovenia with special emphasis on domestic products have been investigated. Organic production volume has been estimated; market paths, their share and importance, and demand for organic products have been investigated. Although organic sector has been growing to reach 2% farms and 4,7 % total utilized agricultural area (end 2004), only 15 - 20% of farms are producing for the organic market. Main weaknesses are insufficient production esp. for most demanded products (fresh vegetables and fruits, grain, processed products), lack of market organisation of producers, difficulties in the marketing of meat and meat products, dispersed and limited production, low consumers’ awareness. A significant demand and potentials for of sales domestic organic products have been identified. Areas of policy measures have been suggested to enhance the development of organic production and market.
Market Research for Sale of Steer Meat
Creators: name: Repic, Milan
name: Repic, Milan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty

description: In the past the oxen were used as working animals, but nowadays in some countries there have been trading with young fattened steer meat. With the help of trading questionnaire we wanted to find out the actual possibilities for sale of breaded steer meat in our country. We used the method of the questionnaire and interview. The results of our research show, how more and more consumers are being aware of the breeding technology and healthier diet. Those consumers would also be prepared to buy such products with higher retail price, but they have to be accessible on more locations.
Determinants of Food Away From Home
Creators: name: Curk, Dejan
name: Kuhar, Ales
name: Curk, Dejan
name: Kuhar, Ales
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: Developed countries have been researching food expenditure patterns of population for a longer period of time. They found out that importance of food away from home (FAFH) was growing. The latter was mostly a result of development or influence of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of a consumer (household). In Slovenia there are none or rather few studies about FAFH. Therefore the object of this study is to estimate FAFH in Slovenia with Household budget survey, the most commonly used data set in this kind of analysis. Our research showed similar tendencies of FAFH, compared with developed countries. The only exception were nontraditional households (single or two-member). Nontraditional slovenian households purchase less of FAFH than other households (more than two-member), in comparison with households in developed countries.
On The Expected Photon Spectrum in B -> X_s + gamma and Its Uses
Creators: name: Bigi, Ikaros
name: Uraltsev, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measuring the photon energy spectrum in radiative B decays provides essential help for gaining theoretical control over semileptonic B transitions. The hadronic recoil mass distribution in B -> X_u \ellνpromises the best environment for determining |V_ub|. The theoretical uncertainties are largest in the domain of low values of the lepton pair mass q^2. Universality relations allow to describe this domain reliably in terms of the photon spectrum in B -> X_s + γ. A method is proposed to incorporate 1/m_b corrections into this relation. The low-E_γtail in radiative decays is important in the context of extracting |V_ub|. We argue that CLEO's recent fit to the spectrum underestimates the fraction of the photon spectrum below 2 GeV. Potentially significant uncertainties enter in the theoretical evaluation of the integrated end-point lepton spectrum or the B -> X_u \ellνwidth with a too high value of the lower cut on q^2 in alternative approaches to |V_ub|.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX. Revised: Complete version. Numerical predictions are improved and the estimate for the decay fraction revised. The theoretical expectations for the decay fraction and the spectrum itself are given on the plots
Propagators in Noncommutative Instantons
Creators: name: Lee, Bum-Hoon
name: Yang, Hyun Seok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly construct Green functions for a field in an arbitrary representation of gauge group propagating in noncommutative instanton backgrounds based on the ADHM construction. The propagators for spinor and vector fields can be constructed in terms of those for the scalar field in noncommutative instanton background. We show that the propagators in the adjoint representation are deformed by noncommutativity while those in the fundamental representation have exactly the same form as the commutative case.
description: 28 pages, Latex, v2: A few typos corrected
Cicurina (Cicurella) machete Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina machete

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) machete Gertsch 1992
(Figs 48–49, 130)
 Cicurina machete Gertsch 1992: 114, figs 125–126 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; San Saba Co. Whiteface Cave, 20 mi. South of Richland Springs, February 9, 1964 J. Reddell; D. McKenzie & K. Garrett ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.68; carapace length: 2.43; carapace width: 1.53; opisthosoma length: 2.25. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 5 denticles (3 large, 2 small), left side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small). Leg I: total length: 7.45; femur: 2.05; patella: 0.65; tibia: 1.85; metatarsus: 1.80; tarsus: 1.10; leg IV: total length: 8.98; femur: 2.35; patella: 0.75; tibia: 2.20; metatarsus: 2.48; tarsus: 1.20. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.365. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, indentation absent; atrium rectangular, two-thirds intruded by slightly rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts separated at mid-point, reaching over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores visible (1 seen); stalk short, straight, horizontal, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe kidney-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Whiteface Cave (San Saba County, Texas, Fig. 130).
 Remarks. Male unknown. The data given in Gertsch (1992) “ 30 mi. South” slightly differs from the data found on the label. The description of the epigynum is somewhat incomplete: the primary pore position is not given because these structures are displaced from their original position on the damaged holotype.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 28
Makalah kelompok dan makalah individu
Creators: name: Isra' Hayati
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Inspirasi, indikasi, peluang, usaha, kewirausahaan

description: Makalah kelompok menjelaskan tentang inspirasi dan indikasi peluang usaha Makalah individu menjelaskan tentang karakteristik dan prinsip kewirausahaan
description: Makalah kelompok ditulis oleh Rizky Septiansyah, Chandra M. Hanif, dan Isra' Hayati Makalah individu ditulis oleh Isra' Hayati (11812045)
On the Contrary: Subverting the Canon with Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
Creators: name: Pellegrini, Christina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: This written portion of my thesis is aimed at documenting and synthesizing how I, as director, staged an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler through ongoing collaboration with a creative team comprised of dramaturges, designers, and actors.
I walk the reader through my exploration of Ibsen’s life and work through travel to the International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Norway, and describe how I endeavored to lead the production’s creative team by applying feminist theories in directing and embracing the possibility of failure as a means of discovery. I discuss the casting process and establishment of an all-women ensemble, explore the major themes I identified in the play, and reflect on how the creative team strove to subvert the societal expectation of a historical production rooted in realism through designs and artistic choices inspired by the western canon’s ongoing grasp on contemporary theater programming.
INCORPORATING SEASONAL WIND RESOURCE AND ELECTRICITY PRICE DATA INTO WIND FARM MICROSITING
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Timothy A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Currently, most micrositing techniques aim to maximize annual energy production (AEP) or minimize cost of energy (COE) with no direct regard to revenue. This research study developed a method that utilizes the seasonal electricity price and wind data to microsite wind farms in terms of profitability. To accomplish this, six candidate wind farms with differing layouts and spacing were selected at a given location. They were then simulated using a wake modeling software to produce expected power outputs at different wind speeds, wind directions, and turbulence intensities. By interpolating the power output tables with wind data, a power time-series was created for each wind farm over a multi-year period. Electrical price was then incorporated with the power time-series to produce a revenue time-series of the revenue produced at each hour over the same time-period. Each relative wind farm was then rotated in increments to evaluate new candidate wind farms and revenue totals. This method is site specific and results may differ dependent on location and seasonal correlation between wind and electrical data. Overall, the method looks to exploit a different approach to the micrositing problem.
Cicurina (Cicurella) leona Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina leona

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) leona Gertsch 1992
(Figs 44–45, 128)
 Cicurina leona Gertsch 1992: 129, figs 165–166 (description of female).
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Nuevo Leon: Cueva de Cuchillo, 2.5 km S. of Minas Viejas, 1270m. 22 April 1988. Peter Sprouse”. Examined (AMNH).
 Additional material examined. MEXICO: Nuevo Leon: Pozo la Gloria, 1 km WSW Minas Viejas, 21.i.1989, 1♀, 1280m. P. Sprouse (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.11; carapace length: 1.346; carapace width: 0.99. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 6 denticles (2 large, 4 small) left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 4.45; femur: 1.27; patella: 0.47; tibia: 1.13; metatarsus: 0.99; tarsus: 0.59; leg IV: total length: 5.25; femur: 1.42; patella: 0.47; tibia: 1.23; metatarsus: 1.32; tarsus:0.81. Tarsal claw IV: 0.11. Epigynum: 0.394. Epigynum with bursa enlarged; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores not visible; stalk, short, procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore elongated; primary lobe kidney-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, reaching the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Known from two caves in Nuevo Leon (Mexico): Cueva de Cuchillo (type locality) and Pozo la Gloria (see remarks) (Fig. 128).
 Remarks. Male unknown. The vial that contains the holotype label of C. leona in the AMNH type collection does not match the data published by Gertsch (1992) for this species. The label reads “ Mexico; Nuevo Leon; Pozo la Gloria, 1 km WSW Minas Viejas, 1280m. 21 Jan. 1989 P. Sprouse”. However, in Gertsch’s synoptic collection we located a specimen identified as C. leona that bears the data pertaining to the holotype. It appears that the holotype label was not assigned to the correct specimen, i.e., the specimen that matches the data published for the holotype of that species. We corrected the situation by adding a holotype label to the type specimen. These data, however, add a second location for the species. Unfortunately the description provided here is incomplete given that the epigynum of the type was damaged.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 27
Partial Compilation of Variational Algorithms for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Machines
Creators: name: Gokhale, Pranav
name: Ding, Yongshan
name: Propson, Thomas
name: Winkler, Christopher
name: Leung, Nelson
name: Shi, Yunong
name: Schuster, David I.
name: Hoffmann, Henry
name: Chong, Frederic T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Quantum computing is on the cusp of reality with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines currently under development and testing. Some of the most promising algorithms for these machines are variational algorithms that employ classical optimization coupled with quantum hardware to evaluate the quality of each candidate solution. Recent work used GRadient Descent Pulse Engineering (GRAPE) to translate quantum programs into highly optimized machine control pulses, resulting in a significant reduction in the execution time of programs. This is critical, as quantum machines can barely support the execution of short programs before failing. However, GRAPE suffers from high compilation latency, which is untenable in variational algorithms since compilation is interleaved with computation. We propose two strategies for partial compilation, exploiting the structure of variational circuits to pre-compile optimal pulses for specific blocks of gates. Our results indicate significant pulse speedups ranging from 1.5x-3x in typical benchmarks, with only a small fraction of the compilation latency of GRAPE.
description: Appearing in the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-52), October 12-16, 2019, Columbus, OH, USA
MMTM: Multimodal Transfer Module for CNN Fusion
Creators: name: Joze, Hamid Reza Vaezi
name: Shaban, Amirreza
name: Iuzzolino, Michael L.
name: Koishida, Kazuhito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In late fusion, each modality is processed in a separate unimodal Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) stream and the scores of each modality are fused at the end. Due to its simplicity late fusion is still the predominant approach in many state-of-the-art multimodal applications. In this paper, we present a simple neural network module for leveraging the knowledge from multiple modalities in convolutional neural networks. The propose unit, named Multimodal Transfer Module (MMTM), can be added at different levels of the feature hierarchy, enabling slow modality fusion. Using squeeze and excitation operations, MMTM utilizes the knowledge of multiple modalities to recalibrate the channel-wise features in each CNN stream. Despite other intermediate fusion methods, the proposed module could be used for feature modality fusion in convolution layers with different spatial dimensions. Another advantage of the proposed method is that it could be added among unimodal branches with minimum changes in the their network architectures, allowing each branch to be initialized with existing pretrained weights. Experimental results show that our framework improves the recognition accuracy of well-known multimodal networks. We demonstrate state-of-the-art or competitive performance on four datasets that span the task domains of dynamic hand gesture recognition, speech enhancement, and action recognition with RGB and body joints.
Cicurina (Cicurella) maya Gertsch 1977
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina maya

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) maya Gertsch 1977
(Figs 52–53, 128)
 Cicurina maya Gertsch 1977: 127, fig. 86 (description of the female). — Reddell 1977: 232; Reddell 1981: 136; Gertsch 1992: 119, figs 161–162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Mexico: Yucatan Actun Tucil, 2 km S Muna, 27 March 1973 J. Reddell ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.13; carapace length: 1.43; carapace width: 0.95; opisthosoma length: 1.70. Four eyes highly reduced to pale remnant spots. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 9 denticles, left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 6.64; femur: 1.43; patella: 0.45; tibia: 0.90; metatarsus: 0.75; tarsus: 0.49; leg IV: total length: 4.15; femur: 1.15; patella: 0.45; tibia: 0.95; metatarsus: 1.05; tarsus:0.55. Tarsal claw IV: 0.12. Epigynum: 0.294 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, indentation absent; atrium rectangular, half intruded by slightly rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts separated at midpoint, reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk, short, procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe hat-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, internally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only known from the type locality Actun Tucil, Yucatan, Mexico (Fig. 128).
 Remarks. Male unknown. Gertsch mentioned that this species is an eyeless troglobite, but the female known specimen of the species. However, it is not clear that figure 161 is a ventral view as the spermathecal stalks are not illustrated (compare to Fig. 52, present paper), and looks as the figure could be of a dorsal view. However, the obvious atrium and the ventral position of the connecting ducts in relation to the spermathecae, suggest that this is simply an inaccurate illustration, likely inspired from Gertsch (1977): fig. 86 of the original description. Gertsch (1992): fig. 162 matches Fig. 53 (present paper), and allows the recognition of the type specimen.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 29
Trans-gender Themes in Japanese Literature From the Medieval to Meiji Eras
Creators: name: Riggan, Jessica
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze various texts from Japanese literary history and extract the instances of trans-gender performances from those texts. I define “trans-gender” behaviors as actions that are culturally expected of the gender opposite that of the gender assigned to the performer at birth.
In each text, I identify which character or characters perform actions that go against the expectations of the gender they were assigned at birth. I analyze how their performance is portrayed within the narrative, as well as how other characters in the narrative react to their performance. In this way, nuances are extracted that relate to the trope of gender play in these four historical eras.
The literary representations of this trans-gender play respond to the needs and values systems of the time periods within which they exist. In the Heian period, this play is caused by external forces and ends due to sexual acts. In the Muromachi period, the character chooses to perform, but eventually revokes the world.
By the Edo period, performance is more widely accepted and culturally ingrained because of the availability of spaces where trans-gender performance is allowed. The performers in Edo period literature usually perform in the context of receiving privileges or being allowed into gendered spaces. Finally, In the Meiji period, heteronormative gender roles are strictly enforced, and the literature reflects negative reactions to non-normative behavior. Trans-gender performers in the Meiji period are often punished in the narratives they inhabit.
Test of quantum atmosphere in the dimensionally reduced Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Eune, Myungseok
name: Kim, Wontae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested by Giddings that the origin of Hawking radiation in black holes is a quantum atmosphere of near-horizon quantum region by investigating both the total emission rate and the stress tensor of Hawking radiation. Revisiting this issue in the exactly soluble model of a dimensionally reduced Schwarzschild black hole, we shall confirm that the dominant Hawking radiation in the Unruh vacuum indeed occurs at the quantum atmosphere, not just at the horizon by exactly calculating the out-temperature responsible for outgoing Hawking particle excitations. Consequently we show that the out-temperature vanishes at the horizon and has a peak at a scale whose radial extent is set by the horizon radius, and then decreases to the Hawking temperature at infinity. We also discuss bounds of location of the peak for the out-temperature in our model.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure, published version in Phys. Lett. B
A Prospective Study of Physical Activity and Fecundability
Creators: name: Russo, Lindsey M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Background:
Physical activity (PA) may influence fecundability through alterations in endocrine function. The limited studies that have evaluated PA and fecundability in non-clinical populations have utilized internet-based recruitment, contain potential issues in measurement, and have yielded inconclusive results.
Methods:
We evaluated the association between PA and time-to-pregnancy in the Effects of Aspirin in Gestation and Reproduction trial, which included 1228 women attempting pregnancy ages 18–40 with prior pregnancy loss. PA was measured at baseline using the short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire to determine hours/week of activity (vigorous, moderate, and walking) and hours/day of sedentary (sitting) behavior. Pregnancy was assessed using urine hCG assays. Discrete time Cox models were used to estimate fecundability odds ratios (FORs) adjusted for marital status and parity, accounting for left truncation and right censoring.
Results:
We observed a positive association between fecundability and vigorous PA of ≥ 4 hrs/week vs. none (FOR= 1.55, 95% CI: 1.17, 2.07) adjusted for marital status and parity. In stratified multivariable models, this association was most pronounced among overweight/obese women reporting vigorous PA of ≥ 4 hrs/week compared to none (FOR=2.27, 1.41, 3.65); however, there was no significant effect modification. Fecundability was not associated with categorical measures of moderate PA, walking, or sitting.
Conclusion:
In this study, fecundability was positively associated with vigorous PA. Further study is necessary to clarify possible mechanisms to explain the relationship through which vigorous PA might affect time-to-pregnancy; however, such improvements in fecundability may be related to a reduction in ovulatory disorders.
A comparative analysis of the stability of homogeneous and non-homogeneous soil slopes subject to various surcharge loading conditions
Creators: name: Leeworthy, Thomas
name: Alireza Ahangar Asr
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Slope stability is a topic of great importance within the scope of civil engineering, this study investigates the differences between homogeneous and non-homogenous soil slopes when various surcharge loading conditions are applied. To analyse slope stability the finite element method is used, this method uses the shear strength reduction method. This method gradually reduces the cohesion and friction angle of the soil until failure occurs in the model. Typically, the limit equilibrium method is used by civil engineers, which splits the model into slices to identify the failure mechanisms and the factor of safety. However, as the software improves, and the accuracy of analysis increases, finite element analysis will become the more commonly used method [1, 2]. In this study 6 different models are used in the analysis, three homogenous soil slopes and three nonhomogenous soil slopes to aid in the analysis, the soil properties were obtained from [3]. Each model was subject to surcharge loading, which was incrementally increased until failure occurred, recording the factor of safety at each point. The results gathered suggest that point loads caused failure in models to occur much quicker than surcharge loading from a uniformly distributed load, however, the failure area is much smaller. The comparison of homogenous and non-homogenous soil slopes shows that stability is dependent on three key properties including cohesion, unit weight, and friction angle, with the properties of the soil slope influencing the maximum surcharge loading that can be applied to a model. The results indicate that homogenous soils can withstand higher surcharge loading conditions compared to that of nonhomogenous soil slopes, except for homogenous models consisting of silty sand.
Theory of the flow-induced deformation of shallow compliant microchannels with thick walls
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaojia
name: Christov, Ivan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long, shallow microchannels embedded in thick soft materials are widely used in microfluidic devices for lab-on-a-chip applications. However, the bulging effect caused by fluid--structure interactions between the internal viscous flow and the soft walls has not been completely understood. Previous models either contain a fitting parameter or are specialized to channels with plate-like walls. This work is a theoretical study of the steady-state response of a compliant microchannel with a thick wall. Using lubrication theory for low-Reynolds-number flows and the theory for linearly elastic isotropic solids, we obtain perturbative solutions for the flow and deformation. Specifically, only the channel's top wall deformation is considered, and the ratio between its thickness $t$ and width $w$ is assumed to be $(t/w)^2 \gg 1$. We show that the deformation at each stream-wise cross-section can be considered independently, and that the top wall can be regarded as a simply supported rectangle subject to uniform pressure at its bottom. The stress and displacement fields are found using Fourier series, based on which the channel shape and the hydrodynamic resistance are calculated, yielding a new flow rate--pressure drop relation without fitting parameters. Our results agree favorably with, and thus rationalize, previous experiments.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures; v2 minor revisions
Mobilizing the Advantaged to Protest Injustice with the Disadvantaged
Creators: name: Selvanathan, Hemapreya
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: The participation of advantaged group members in collective action with the disadvantaged group to challenge inequality is crucial to building a social movement. Although prior work has found that an invitation to participate in collective action is a strong predictor of participation, the extent to which advantaged group members are influenced by such invitations is not known. The present research investigates the effect of the race of an inviter (White vs. Black) on Whites’ willingness to participate in collective action for racial justice as a function of their underlying prejudicial attitudes. Study 1 found that greater internal motivation to respond without prejudice (IMS) was associated with greater willingness to participate in collective action for racial justice. Study 2 found a marginal interaction between race and IMS in predicting collective action, such that for Whites high on IMS, a Black (vs. White) inviter evoked greater willingness to participate in collective action; however, this effect was not replicated in Study 3. Instead, Study 3 found that IMS and the Black (vs. White) inviter independently predicted greater willingness for collective action. Study 3 also found initial evidence of conferred psychological standing to explain how inviter’s race shapes collective action. Specifically, a Black (vs. White) inviter was perceived to have greater psychological standing on issues of racial justice, which increased Whites’ personal standing, and subsequently, Whites’ willingness to participate in collective action for racial justice.
DATABASE SECURITY LAYER
Creators: name: Costa, Elder
name: Siqueira, João Pedro Lorenzo de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cryptography
Security
Integrity

description: With the enforce of new legislation that discuss how user data must be collected, processed, stored and protected, it is increasingly necessary to design and develop projects taking into account the security of information that will travel in the systems. Given the fact that cryptographic functions available in database management systems are limited to some types of data, this work proposes a complement to add data security, through an integrity-breaking library, acting one not commonly used pillars of information security, integrity.
description: Monografia apresentada ao Curso de Graduação em Sistemas de Informação, do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, CEFET/RJ Campus Nova Friburgo, como parte dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do certificado de Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação. Orientador(a): Nilson Mori Lazarin Coorientador(a): Carlos Eduardo Pantoja
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Storytelling in the Age of Post-socialism: Wang Xiaoshuai’s “Third Front Trilogy”
Creators: name: Shao, Xuesong
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: China, for the past six decades, has witnessed two massive population movements in reversed directions: the government-imposed relocation to rustic hinterlands during the Mao era, and the market-driven rural-to-urban migration in the post-socialist age. Revolving around a group of socialist workers’ relocation and homecoming, Wang Xiaoshuai’s王小帅 trilogy, comprising Shanghai Dreams (Qinghong青红, 2005), Eleven Flowers (Wo shiyi我11, 2012), and Red Amnesia (Chuangruzhe闯入者, 2014), connects the two movements through its visual representations. By examining the embedded dichotomies, namely the inland area against coastal cities, socialist remnants against post-socialist prosperity, and personal recollections against collective amnesia, I explore the geographical, historical, and historiographical Other implemented in the trilogy’s visual narratives. This elusive yet omnipresent discourse of otherness replaces the impression of documentary realism, the hallmark of Wang’s cinematic style as exemplified in pervious works, with a sense of Benjaminian storytelling. Additionally, in his tales of two cities, the director grapples with aporias of a post-socialist China through the discourse of woman. In this regard, I investigate how the female body, once the recipient of male gaze and the object of desire, has become the masculine other’s outlet of revenge, thereby providing narrative closure to the tension-ridden tales.
Semiclassical gravitation and quantization for the Bianchi type I universe with large anisotropy
Creators: name: Huang, Wung-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a perturbative method to evaluate the effective action of a free scalar field propagating in the Bianchi type I spacetime with large space anisotropy. The zeta- function regularization method is used to evaluate the action to the second order in the Schwinger perturbative formula. As the quantum corrections contain fourth derivative in the metric we apply the method of iterative reduction to reduce it to the second-order form to obtain the self-consistent solution of the semiclassical gravity theory, The reduced Einstein equation shows that the space anisotropy, which will be smoothed out during the evolution of universe, may play an important role in the dynamics of early universe. We quantize the corresponding minisuperspace model to investigate the behavior of the space anisotropy in the initial epoch. From the wavefunction of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation we see that the probability for the Bianchi type I spacetime with large anisotropy is less then that with a small anisotropy.
description: Latex 15 pages