cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Magic and religion as a performative theological unity : the apotropaic 'Ritual of Overthrowing Apophis'
Creators: name: I. Kousoulis, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Magical and ritual sources have characteristically tended to be under-exploited in the study of ancient societies, partly for the superficial inaccessibility, and partly because they have been disreputably attractive to the "esoteric" fringe. They do, however, provide a number of detailed insights into the relations between real and practical behaviour and the ideological/religious explanations of that behaviour. The present study attempts to investigate this interrelation between magical and religious phenomena, having as starting point and basic theme of reference the apotropaic "Ritual of Overthrowing Apophis, " the enemy of Re par excellence. It will examine the function and mechanisms of the ritual from its first appearance in the funerary liturgies of the Middle Kingdom until its acquisition of a complete cultic character within the broader religious environment of the Ptolemaic temples of Edfu and Dendera. The presentation of the available material cannot reach completeness. The present study does not claim to be a integral philological investigation of either the complex nature of the serpentine enemy of the sun god or of the ritual texts referring to his conflict with Re and his final expulsion. Rather, carefully selected texts concerning the Apophis ritual are used as a trigger for re-examining certain areas and aspects of cultic phenomena where religion and magic reaches a "theological, " performative unity. Techniques that are common in both systems, such as the magician's acting and speaking as god ("divine speech"), the enumeration of the human bodily parts that are ascribed to particular deities ("lists"), erasure of names and mutilation of images (damnatio memoria), should be analysed and re-evaluated under this new perspective. Questions concerning the notion of hk3 itself, should also be considered: was hk3 considered to pre-exist as the archetype creative force, or was it a human invention to explain the unexplained and to control and repel hostile forces beyond its nature, or was it a personification of the power of ritual? Such a methodological approach to Egyptian magic will lead into a stage where the main point of reference will be the anthropology and sacred praxis of hk3, rather than a random compilation of superstitions and popular beliefs.
How-to: Write a parton-level Monte Carlo event generator
Creators: name: Papaefstathiou, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article provides an introduction to the principles of particle physics event generators that are based on the Monte Carlo method. Following some preliminaries, instructions on how to build a basic parton-level Monte Carlo event generator for the hard interaction are given through exercises. Indications on how to proceed to full event simulations are given.
description: Matches published version. Exercises and solutions at https://apapaefs.web.cern.ch/apapaefs/mchowto.html. Given as part of the "Advanced Scientific Computing Workshop" at ETH Z\"urich in July 2014
GABAergic and glycinergic inhibitory synaptic transmission in the ventral cochlear nucleus studied in VGAT channelrhodopsin-2 mice
Creators: name: Manis, Paul B.
name: Xie, Ruili
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Both glycine and GABA mediate inhibitory synaptic transmission in the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN). In mice, the time course of glycinergic inhibition is slow in bushy cells and fast in multipolar (stellate) cells, and is proposed to contribute to the processing of temporal cues in both cell types. Much less is known about GABAergic synaptic transmission in this circuit. Electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve or the tuberculoventral pathway evokes little GABAergic synaptic current in brain slice preparations, and spontaneous GABAergic miniature synaptic currents occur infrequently. To investigate synaptic currents carried by GABA receptors in bushy and multipolar cells, we used transgenic mice in which channelrhodopsin-2 and EYFP is driven by the vesicular GABA transporter (VGAT-ChR2-EYFP) and is expressed in both GABAergic and glycinergic neurons. Light stimulation evoked action potentials in EYFP-expressing presynaptic cells, and evoked inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) in non-expressing bushy and planar multipolar cells. Less than 10% of the IPSP amplitude in bushy cells arose from GABAergic synapses, whereas 40% of the IPSP in multipolar neurons was GABAergic. In voltage clamp, glycinergic IPSCs were significantly slower in bushy neurons than in multipolar neurons, whereas there was little difference in the kinetics of the GABAergic IPSCs between two cell types. During prolonged stimulation, the ratio of steady state vs. peak IPSC amplitude was significantly lower for glycinergic IPSCs. Surprisingly, the reversal potentials of GABAergic IPSCs were negative to those of glycinergic IPSCs in both bushy and multipolar neurons. In the absence of receptor blockers, repetitive light stimulation was only able to effectively evoke IPSCs up to 20 Hz in both bushy and multipolar neurons. We conclude that local GABAergic release within the VCN can differentially influence bushy and multipolar cells.
Optical suppression of drug-evoked phasic dopamine release
Creators: name: Roitman, Mitchell F.
name: Fortin, Samantha M.
name: Sinon, Christopher G.
name: Deisseroth, Karl
name: Cone, Jackson J.
name: Witten, Ilana B.
name: Kantak, Pranish A.
name: Stuber, Garret D.
name: McCutcheon, James E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Brief fluctuations in dopamine concentration (dopamine transients) play a key role in behavior towards rewards, including drugs of abuse. Drug-evoked dopamine transients may result from actions at both dopamine cell bodies and dopamine terminals. Inhibitory opsins can be targeted to dopamine neurons permitting their firing activity to be suppressed. However, as dopamine transients can become uncoupled from firing, it is unknown whether optogenetic hyperpolarization at the level of the soma is able to suppress dopamine transients. Here, we used in vivo fast-scan cyclic voltammetry to record transients evoked by cocaine and raclopride in nucleus accumbens (NAc) of urethane-anesthetized rats. We targeted halorhodopsin (NpHR) specifically to dopamine cells by injecting Cre-inducible virus into ventral tegmental area (VTA) of transgenic rats that expressed Cre recombinase under control of the tyrosine hydroxylase promoter (TH-Cre+ rats). Consistent with previous work, co-administration of cocaine and raclopride led to the generation of dopamine transients in NAc shell. Illumination of VTA with laser strongly suppressed the frequency of transients in NpHR-expressing rats, but not in control rats. Laser did not have any effect on amplitude of transients. Thus, optogenetics can effectively reduce the occurrence of drug-evoked transients and is therefore a suitable approach for studying the functional role of such transients in drug-associated behavior.
Spatial organization of excitatory synaptic inputs to layer 4 neurons in mouse primary auditory cortex
Creators: name: Kratz, Megan B.
name: Manis, Paul B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Layer 4 (L4) of primary auditory cortex (A1) receives a tonotopically organized projection from the medial geniculate nucleus of the thalamus. However, individual neurons in A1 respond to a wider range of sound frequencies than would be predicted by their thalamic input, which suggests the existence of cross-frequency intracortical networks. We used laser scanning photostimulation and uncaging of glutamate in brain slices of mouse A1 to characterize the spatial organization of intracortical inputs to L4 neurons. Slices were prepared to include the entire tonotopic extent of A1. We find that L4 neurons receive local vertically organized (columnar) excitation from layers 2 through 6 (L6) and horizontally organized excitation primarily from L4 and L6 neurons in regions centered ~300–500 μm caudal and/or rostral to the cell. Excitatory horizontal synaptic connections from layers 2 and 3 were sparse. The origins of horizontal projections from L4 and L6 correspond to regions in the tonotopic map that are approximately an octave away from the target cell location. Such spatially organized lateral connections may contribute to the detection and processing of auditory objects with specific spectral structures.
Möbius-strip-like columnar functional connections are revealed in somato-sensory receptive field centroids
Creators: name: Favorov, Oleg Vyachesslavovich
name: Bourke, Paul D.
name: Wright, James J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Receptive fields of neurons in the forelimb region of areas 3b and 1 of primary somatosensory cortex, in cats and monkeys, were mapped using extracellular recordings obtained sequentially from nearly radial penetrations. Locations of the field centroids indicated the presence of a functional system in which cortical homotypic representations of the limb surfaces are entwined in three-dimensional Möbius-strip-like patterns of synaptic connections. Boundaries of somatosensory receptive field in nested groups irregularly overlie the centroid order, and are interpreted as arising from the superposition of learned connections upon the embryonic order. Since the theory of embryonic synaptic self-organization used to model these results was devised and earlier used to explain findings in primary visual cortex, the present findings suggest the theory may be of general application throughout cortex and may reveal a modular functional synaptic system, which, only in some parts of the cortex, and in some species, is manifest as anatomical ordering into columns.
QFT on curved spacetimes: axiomatic framework and examples
Creators: name: Fredenhagen, Klaus
name: Rejzner, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this overview article we present a formalism suitable for constructing models of QFT's on curved spacetimes. The leading principle is the emphasis on local properties. It turns out that this requires a reformulation of the standard QFT framework which also yields a new perspective for the theories on Minkowski space. The aim of the present work is to provide an introduction into the framework, which should be accessible for both mathematical physicists and mathematicians.
description: 54 pages, a review written for the Journal of Mathematical Physics. In this version, typos corrected
Knowing a synapse when you see one
Creators: name: Collman, Forrest
name: Micheva, Kristina D.
name: Smith, Stephen J.
name: Weinberg, Richard J.
name: Burette, Alain
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Recent years have seen a rapidly growing recognition of the complexity and diversity of the myriad individual synaptic connections that define brain synaptic networks. It has also become increasingly apparent that the synapses themselves are a major key to understanding the development, function and adaptability of those synaptic networks. In spite of this growing appreciation, the molecular, structural and functional characteristics of individual synapses and the patterning of their diverse characteristics across functional networks have largely eluded quantitative study with available imaging technologies. Here we offer an overview of new computational imaging methods that promise to bring single-synapse analysis of synaptic networks to the fore. We focus especially on the challenges and opportunities associated with quantitative detection of individual synapses and with measuring individual synapses across network scale populations in mammalian brain.
Maternally responsive neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial preoptic area: Putative circuits for regulating anxiety and reward
Creators: name: McHenry, Jenna A.
name: Stuber, Garret D.
name: Rubinow, David R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Postpartum neuropsychiatric disorders are a major source of morbidity and mortality and affect at least 10% of childbearing women. Affective dysregulation within this context has been identified in association with changes in reproductive steroids. Steroids promote maternal actions and modulate affect, but can also destabilize mood in some but not all women. Potential brain regions that mediate these effects include the medial preoptic area (mPOA) and ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (vBNST). Herein, we review the regulation of neural activity in the mPOA/vBNST by environmental and hormonal concomitants in puerperal females. Such activity may influence maternal anxiety and motivation and have significant implications for postpartum affective disorders. Future directions for research are also explored, including physiological circuit-level approaches to gain insight into the functional connectivity of hormone-responsive maternal circuits that modulate affect.
Notice Analyses Output
Creators: name: Uppala, Ashish
name: Rosati, Domenic
name: Nicholson, Josh M.
name: Mordaunt, Milo
name: Grabitz, Peter
name: Rife, Sean C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Raw output from analyses that accompany Uppala et al. (2022).
A Repository of Common Penetration-Testing Weaknesses
Creators: name: Midler, Marisa
name: Chaves, Samantha
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Software Engineering

description: Penetraction testing is an important step in identifying weaknesses in an organization’s IT infrastructure. It is a crucial assessment activity for organizations to use when defending their environments against cyberattacks. The SEI conducts cybersecurity assessments for organizations and designs and develops applications that facilitate the collection and automation of the reporting of findings identified on assessments. This post introduces a penetration-testing findings repository that is now publicly available on GitHub. Findings refer to the vulnerabilities and weaknesses identified during a penetration-testing assessment. The repository standardizes the language of findings and minimizes the time and effort for report writing. Moreover, the standardized finding-name format assists in analyzing aggregated data across multiple penetration-testing assessments.
Surgeries, sharp 4-manifolds and the Alexander polynomial
Creators: name: McCoy, Duncan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Work of Ni and Zhang has shown that for the torus knot $T_{r,s}$ with $r>s>1$ every surgery slope $p/q \geq \frac{30}{67}(r^2-1)(s^2-1)$ is a characterizing slope. In this paper, we show that this can be lowered to a bound which is linear in $rs$, namely, $p/q\geq \frac{43}{4}(rs-r-s)$. The main technical ingredient in this improvement is to show that if $Y$ is an $L$-space bounding a sharp 4-manifold which is obtained by $p/q$-surgery on a knot $K$ in $S^3$ and $p/q$ exceeds $4g(K)+4$, then the Alexander polynomial of $K$ is uniquely determined by $Y$ and $p/q$. We also show that if $p/q$-surgery on $K$ bounds a sharp 4-manifold, then $S^3_{p'/q'}(K)$ bounds a sharp 4-manifold for all $p'/q'\geq p/q$.
description: 22 pages, various improvements and corrections
A midas plugin to enable construction of reproducible web-based image processing pipelines
Creators: name: Hoogstoel, Marion
name: Styner, Martin A.
name: Budin, Francois
name: Grauer, Michael
name: Oguz, Ipek
name: Reynolds, Patrick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Image processing is an important quantitative technique for neuroscience researchers, but difficult for those who lack experience in the field. In this paper we present a web-based platform that allows an expert to create a brain image processing pipeline, enabling execution of that pipeline even by those biomedical researchers with limited image processing knowledge. These tools are implemented as a plugin for Midas, an open-source toolkit for creating web based scientific data storage and processing platforms. Using this plugin, an image processing expert can construct a pipeline, create a web-based User Interface, manage jobs, and visualize intermediate results. Pipelines are executed on a grid computing platform using BatchMake and HTCondor. This represents a new capability for biomedical researchers and offers an innovative platform for scientific collaboration. Current tools work well, but can be inaccessible for those lacking image processing expertise. Using this plugin, researchers in collaboration with image processing experts can create workflows with reasonable default settings and streamlined user interfaces, and data can be processed easily from a lab environment without the need for a powerful desktop computer. This platform allows simplified troubleshooting, centralized maintenance, and easy data sharing with collaborators. These capabilities enable reproducible science by sharing datasets and processing pipelines between collaborators. In this paper, we present a description of this innovative Midas plugin, along with results obtained from building and executing several ITK based image processing workflows for diffusion weighted MRI (DW MRI) of rodent brain images, as well as recommendations for building automated image processing pipelines. Although the particular image processing pipelines developed were focused on rodent brain MRI, the presented plugin can be used to support any executable or script-based pipeline.
Fully automated rodent brain MR image processing pipeline on a Midas server: from acquired images to region-based statistics
Creators: name: Budin, Francois
name: Hoogstoel, Marion
name: Grauer, Michael
name: O'Leary-Moore, Shonagh K.
name: Reynolds, Patrick
name: Oguz, Ipek
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of rodent brains enables study of the development and the integrity of the brain under certain conditions (alcohol, drugs etc.). However, these images are difficult to analyze for biomedical researchers with limited image processing experience. In this paper we present an image processing pipeline running on a Midas server, a web-based data storage system. It is composed of the following steps: rigid registration, skull-stripping, average computation, average parcellation, parcellation propagation to individual subjects, and computation of region-based statistics on each image. The pipeline is easy to configure and requires very little image processing knowledge. We present results obtained by processing a data set using this pipeline and demonstrate how this pipeline can be used to find differences between populations.
bwp@ Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik – online seit 2001: Einblicke in Entwicklung, Ausrichtung und Selbstverständnis eines Open- Access-Formats
Creators: name: Büchter, Karin
name: Gramlinger, Franz
name: Kremer, H.-Hugo
name: Naeve-Stoß, Nicole
name: Wilbers, Karl
name: Windelband, Lars
Publisher: name: Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik
Open-Access
Online-Fachzeitschrift

description: bwp@ existiert seit dem 19. November 2001 unter der Adresse www.bwpat.de und ist damit nun seit über 20 Jahren im Open-Access-Format als Online-Fachjournal der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik aktiv. bwp@ wurde als ein interaktives Medium konzipiert, durch das in der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik nicht nur das Publizieren, sondern auch fachliche Diskussionen einzelner Beiträge über das damals noch junge Internet ermöglicht werden sollten. Ein konstruktiver Austausch über wechselnde berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogische Themen zwischen verschiedenen Zielgruppen von Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagoginnen und -pädagogen an Universitäten in Lehre, Forschung und im Studium, in (berufsbildenden) Schulen, in der betrieblichen und institutionellen Aus- und Weiterbildung und in der Bildungsverwaltung sollte in Gang gesetzt werden. bwp@ wurde als ein Onlineformat eingerichtet, welches sich in der Entwicklung und Entstehungsgeschichte von einer reinen Überführung in eine Fachzeitschrift in einem Open-Access-Format insofern unterscheidet, als es bwp@ nicht in gedruckter Form gab und gibt. Auch nach 20 Jahren ist bwp@ die einzige reine Online-Fachzeitschrift in der Disziplin der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik.
title: Therapiehäufigkeit und Antibiotika-Verbrauchsmengen 2022: Entwicklung in zur Fleischerzeugung gehaltenen Rindern, Schweinen, Hühnern und Puten: Bericht des BfR vom 31. August 2023
Creators: name: Bundesinstitut Für Risikobewertung
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 000

description: BfR-Stellungnahmen
Sufficient Covariate, Propensity Variable and Doubly Robust Estimation
Creators: name: Guo, Hui
name: Dawid, Philip
name: Berzuini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Statistical causal inference from observational studies often requires adjustment for a possibly multi-dimensional variable, where dimension reduction is crucial. The propensity score, first introduced by Rosenbaum and Rubin, is a popular approach to such reduction. We address causal inference within Dawid's decision-theoretic framework, where it is essential to pay attention to sufficient covariates and their properties. We examine the role of a propensity variable in a normal linear model. We investigate both population-based and sample-based linear regressions, with adjustments for a multivariate covariate and for a propensity variable. In addition, we study the augmented inverse probability weighted estimator, involving a combination of a response model and a propensity model. In a linear regression with homoscedasticity, a propensity variable is proved to provide the same estimated causal effect as multivariate adjustment. An estimated propensity variable may, but need not, yield better precision than the true propensity variable. The augmented inverse probability weighted estimator is doubly robust and can improve precision if the propensity model is correctly specified.
title:   Landslide Susceptibility Map of Pike County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Crawford, Matthew M.
name: Koch, Hudson J.
name: Dortch, Jason M.
name: Haneberg, William C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: The purpose of this map is to identify landslide-prone areas in Pike County in order to provide the public, as well as local and state government agencies, with information about where landslides are likely to occur. This map represents geomorphic-based susceptibility modeling that focuses on physical slope characteristics and morphology, the quality of which is dependent on data accuracy and resolution of terrain models. The availability of high-resolution (5-ft digital elevation model) lidar derived datasets allows for the generation of terrain elevation derivatives such as hillshades, slope, aspect, curvature, and roughness, as well as identification of existing landslide deposits. These high-resolution lidar derived datasets, coupled with landslide inventory mapping, enable us to produce detailed, high-resolution landslide susceptibility maps.
description: Report of Investigations 49, Series Xlll
Get Buy and Sell Leads for Agri Trade
Creators: name: Kisandeals
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Get Buy and Sell Leads for Agri Trade KisanDeals provides an online web and mobile-based marketplace platform for connecting farmers & agribusinesses and buyers. Seller can list their produce along with the quantity and prices and buyers can look for products and make a deal with the sellers for procuring agriculture produce. https://www.kisandeals.com +919105050607 support@kisandeals.com Opposite SAI BABA Temple , 2nd Line, Rajendra Nagar Main Rd, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh 522006 agriculture, farming,trading,mandi rates
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The Bell System: A Model of Corporate Innovation and Public Service
Creators: name: Korberg, Gil
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Science Technology and Society
Bell Laboratories
AT&T
Innovation
Monopoly
Antitrust
Basic Science
Stanford University
Applied Science

description: The United States is in the midst of a scientific slowdown, with private funds for research and development set to outpace federal investment for the first time since WWII. Federal funding for basic research has been stagnant for the past twenty years, while accompanying legislation has incentivized academics to leave the university and commercialize their work in industry. This coincides with a trend in corporate spending, marked by a focus on development rather than research. As a result, many fear that a persistent drought in US-based innovation is inevitable. In addition, studies show that as science becomes more specialized, research projects become more costly, and in turn scientific and technological progress become more difficult to attain. This comes during a period in which corporate profits and company valuations have reached all-time highs, and yet there is tremendous income inequality, and the public welfare is suffering in various ways. An analysis of the historically successful case of AT&T and their industrial research operation, the Bell Laboratories, illuminates the factors that make consistent innovation, corporate success, and public service possible in the private sector. Moreover, the example of Bell Laboratories displays what political, regulatory and economic conditions enable this combination of private and public interests to prosper. By placing our current challenges in their historical framework, this thesis hopes to shed light on an exit path from our current innovation crisis, and urge people to realize that many aspects of ‘how things are done’ are in fact entirely new and a departure from historical precedents.
Gravitating non-Abelian cosmic strings
Creators: name: Santos, Antônio de Pádua
name: de Mello, Eugênio R. Bezerra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study regular cosmic string solutions of the non-Abelian Higgs model coupled with the Einstein gravity. In order to do that, we constructed a set of coupled differential ordinary equation. Because there is no closed solution for this set of equations, we solve it numerically. The solutions that we are interested in asymptote to a flat space-time with a planar angle deficit. This model under consideration present two bosonic sectors, besides the non-Abelian gauge one, coupled minimally with the gravitational fields. The two bosonic sectors may present a direct coupling, which plays an important role on the behavior of the matter and gauge fields and also on the behavior on the geometry of the spacetime. We explicitly analyze the behaviors of the energy density and planar angle deficit as function of the energy scale where the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken and the coupling interaction between the bosonic sectors.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Range-Based Data Gathering Algorithm With a Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Alhasanat, Hadıl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been emerged in many important aspects in the real world, such asindustry, agriculture, and military applications. As the main challenge that WSNs facing is the energyconsumption, it is necessary to investigate the suitability of using mobile sinks for data collection in thesenetworks. In this paper, therefore, a new data gathering technique with mobile elements referred to asIntersection Point of Communication Ranges (IPCR) is proposed. The IPCR algorithm endeavours tocompute the optimal trajectory of the mobile sink for which the data collection latency is reduced.Simulation results presented in this study showed that the IPCR algorithm has achieved the optimal TravelSales-Man Problem algorithm. In addition, the IPCR algorithm outperformed the Connectivity Based DataCollection (CBDC) algorithm in terms of data gathering latency and network throughput.
MetaVerse : The New World
Creators: name: Shaikh, Qhubaib
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computer vision
Human-computer interaction
Computer gaming and animation

description:
 Metaverse has been one of the latest digital imagination talks in the field of technology. Metaverse easily integrates the real world with the physical world and allows avatars to create rich activities that include creativity, display, entertainment, social, and commercial. Such tangible situations, though not endless and unconnected, the expected metaverse should be a real society with direct and real interaction, while the concepts of race, gender, and even physical disabilities would be weakened, which would greatly benefit society. The term 'metaverse' was created to promote digital transformation in all aspects of our physical health. The backbone of the metaverse represents the idea of an embedded internet as a large, integrated, persistent, and shared space. While the metaverse may look promising, made with emerging technologies such as extension Reality, 5G, Artificial Intelligence and the emergence of a centralized economic system, the 'big bang' of the cyberspace era is not far off. It is widely expected that the blockchain will bring a vast array of opportunities in the development of Metaverse technology, and launch a new cycle of technological innovation and industrial transformation. On the other hand, recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have brought promising opportunities in overcoming Metaverse development challenges such as big data analysis, AI-generated content, and intelligent Deploym
title:   Landslide Susceptibility Map of Floyd County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Crawford, Matthew M.
name: Koch
name: Dortch, Jason M.
name: Haneberg, William C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: The purpose of this map is to identify landslide-prone areas in Floyd County in order to provide the public, as well as local and state government agencies, with information about where landslides are likely to occur. This map represents geomorphic-based susceptibility modeling that focuses on physical slope characteristics and morphology, the quality of which is dependent on data accuracy and resolution of terrain models. The availability of high-resolution (5-ft digital elevation model) lidar derived datasets allows for the generation of terrain elevation derivatives such as hillshades, slope, aspect, curvature, and roughness, as well as identification of existing landslide deposits. These high-resolution lidar derived datasets, coupled with landslide inventory mapping, enable us to produce detailed, high-resolution landslide susceptibility maps.
description: Report of Investigations 45, Series Xlll
Complementary material - paper "O que revelam os estudos secund ́arios sobre chatbots na educação?"
Creators: name: PASCHOAL, LEO NATAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Material complementar de um artigo publicado no Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação. Referências: e01 - Paschoal, L. N., Loureiro Krassmann, A., Nunes, F. B., Morais de Oliveira, M., Bercht, M., Barbosa, E. F., and do Rocio Senger de Souza, S. (2020). A systematic identification of pedagogical conversational agents. In IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pages 1–9. e02 - Paladines, J. and Ramirez, J. (2020). A systematic literature review of intelligent tutoring systems with dialogue in natural language. IEEE Access, 8:164246–164267. e03 - Bibauw, S., Franc ̧ois, T., and Desmet, P. (2019). Discussing with a computer to practice a foreign language: research synthesis and conceptual framework of dialogue-based CALL. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 32(8):827–877. e04 - Hobert, S. (2019). How are you, chatbot? evaluating chatbots in educational settings – results of a literature review. Lecture Notes in Informatics, pages 259–270. e05 - Perez, J. Q., Daradoumis, T., and Puig, J. M. M. (2020). Rediscovering the use of chatbots in education: A systematic literature review. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 28(6):1549–1565.
ACQ4: an open-source software platform for data acquisition and analysis in neurophysiology research
Creators: name: Kratz, Megan B.
name: Campagnola, Luke
name: Manis, Paul B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The complexity of modern neurophysiology experiments requires specialized software to coordinate multiple acquisition devices and analyze the collected data. We have developed ACQ4, an open-source software platform for performing data acquisition and analysis in experimental neurophysiology. This software integrates the tasks of acquiring, managing, and analyzing experimental data. ACQ4 has been used primarily for standard patch-clamp electrophysiology, laser scanning photostimulation, multiphoton microscopy, intrinsic imaging, and calcium imaging. The system is highly modular, which facilitates the addition of new devices and functionality. The modules included with ACQ4 provide for rapid construction of acquisition protocols, live video display, and customizable analysis tools. Position-aware data collection allows automated construction of image mosaics and registration of images with 3-dimensional anatomical atlases. ACQ4 uses free and open-source tools including Python, NumPy/SciPy for numerical computation, PyQt for the user interface, and PyQtGraph for scientific graphics. Supported hardware includes cameras, patch clamp amplifiers, scanning mirrors, lasers, shutters, Pockels cells, motorized stages, and more. ACQ4 is available for download at http://www.acq4.org.
title: Landslide Susceptibility Map of Johnson County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Crawford, Matthew M.
name: Koch, Hudson J.
name: Dortch, Jason M.
name: Haneberg, William C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: The purpose of this map is to identify landslide-prone areas in Johnson County in order to provide the public, as well as local and state government agencies, with information about where landslides are likely to occur. This map represents geomorphic-based susceptibility modeling that focuses on physical slope characteristics and morphology, the quality of which is dependent on data accuracy and resolution of terrain models. The availability of high-resolution (5-ft digital elevation model) lidar derived datasets allows for the generation of terrain elevation derivatives such as hillshades, slope, aspect, curvature, and roughness, as well as identification of existing landslide deposits. These high-resolution lidar derived datasets, coupled with landslide inventory mapping, enable us to produce detailed, high-resolution landslide susceptibility maps.
description: Report of Investigations 46, Series Xlll
DTIPrep: quality control of diffusion-weighted images
Creators: name: Johnson, Hans J.
name: Styner, Martin
name: Budin, Francois
name: Farzinfar, Mahshid
name: Oguz, Ipek
name: Matsui, Joy
name: Liu, Zhexing
name: Gerig, Guido
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In the last decade, diffusion MRI (dMRI) studies of the human and animal brain have been used to investigate a multitude of pathologies and drug-related effects in neuroscience research. Study after study identifies white matter (WM) degeneration as a crucial biomarker for all these diseases. The tool of choice for studying WM is dMRI. However, dMRI has inherently low signal-to-noise ratio and its acquisition requires a relatively long scan time; in fact, the high loads required occasionally stress scanner hardware past the point of physical failure. As a result, many types of artifacts implicate the quality of diffusion imagery. Using these complex scans containing artifacts without quality control (QC) can result in considerable error and bias in the subsequent analysis, negatively affecting the results of research studies using them. However, dMRI QC remains an under-recognized issue in the dMRI community as there are no user-friendly tools commonly available to comprehensively address the issue of dMRI QC. As a result, current dMRI studies often perform a poor job at dMRI QC. Thorough QC of dMRI will reduce measurement noise and improve reproducibility, and sensitivity in neuroimaging studies; this will allow researchers to more fully exploit the power of the dMRI technique and will ultimately advance neuroscience. Therefore, in this manuscript, we present our open-source software, DTIPrep, as a unified, user friendly platform for thorough QC of dMRI data. These include artifacts caused by eddy-currents, head motion, bed vibration and pulsation, venetian blind artifacts, as well as slice-wise and gradient-wise intensity inconsistencies. This paper summarizes a basic set of features of DTIPrep described earlier and focuses on newly added capabilities related to directional artifacts and bias analysis.
Criminal responsibility of recruited minors and former child soldiers in national jurisdictions
Creators: name: Velásquez Medina, Gabriela
name: Linares Botero, Sofía
name: Lema González, Andrés Felipe
name: Freydell Mesa, Federico
name: Corradine Charry, Daniela
name: Bohórquez Murcia, Daniela
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2020

description: Este artículo es parte del trabajo de investigación de la Clínica de Derecho Internacional, organizado por la Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia y el Instituto Iberoamericano de La Haya para la Paz, los Derechos Humanos y la Justicia Internacional (IIH), en cooperación con la Oficina. de Defensa Pública de Víctimas (OPCV) de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI). Responde a las siguientes preguntas: En relación con el primer motivo de apelación contra la Sala de Primera Instancia I, no hay caso para responder a la decisión en relación con Laurent Gbagbo y Charles Blé Goudé, ¿cuáles son los requisitos del artículo 74 (5) del Estatuto? ¿Son todos obligatorios? ¿Puede una decisión que carece de alguno de esos requisitos producir efectos jurídicamente vinculantes?
Data of Pressure-dependent performance of two CEN-specified condensation particle counters
Creators: name: Bauer, Paulus
name: Spät, Dorian
name: Eisenhut, Martina
name: Gattringer, Andreas
name: Weinzierl, Bernadett
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aerosolphysik
Aerosol physics
ÖFOS 2012 -- NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN (1) -- Physik, Astronomie (103) -- Physik, Astronomie (1030) -- Aerosolphysik (103039)
ÖFOS 2012 -- NATURAL SCIENCES (1) -- Physics, Astronomy (103) -- Physics, Astronomy (1030) -- Aerosol physics (103039)
Aerosol, Measurement Technique, Calibration, CPC, Condensation Particle Counter, CEN

description: Data of the publication: Bauer, P. S., Spät, D., Eisenhut, M., Gattringer, A., and Weinzierl, B.: Pressure-dependent performance of two CEN-specified condensation particle counters, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2023.
Notes on the knot concordance invariant Upsilon
Creators: name: Livingston, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57R58

description: The knot concordance invariant Upsilon, recently defined by Ozsvath, Stipsicz, and Szabo, takes values in the group of piecewise linear functions on the closed interval [0,2]. This paper presents a description of one approach to defining Upsilon and of proving its basic properties related to the knot 3-genus, 4-genus, and concordance genus.
description: This version includes revisions that were made before the final acceptance by AGT
Content and mandatory nature of the requirements under article 74(5) of the icc statute in relation to no case to answer decisions
Creators: name: Mosquera López, Sara
name: Linares Botero, Sofía
name: Jaramillo Gómez, María Fernanda
name: Campos Sánchez, Sofía
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2019

description: Este artículo es parte del trabajo de investigación de la Clínica de Derecho Internacional, organizado por la Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia y el Instituto Iberoamericano de La Haya para la Paz, los Derechos Humanos y la Justicia Internacional (IIH), en cooperación con la Oficina. de Defensa Pública de Víctimas (OPCV) de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI). Este memorando busca dar respuesta a las siguientes tres preguntas sobre el caso Dominic Ongwen: A) ¿Cómo el ser un ex niño soldado (o cualquier circunstancia equivalente en la que un niño sea obligado a cometer delitos o sometido a cualquier tipo de victimización), afecta la gravedad de ¿el crimen? B) ¿Debe la Corte considerar este hecho como parte de la evaluación de la gravedad de los delitos o debe ser considerado como parte de los criterios para determinar la existencia de circunstancias agravantes o atenuantes (siempre que dicho factor pueda ser evaluado una sola vez por un Cámara ya sea como parte de la gravedad o circunstancia agravante, no acumulativa)? C) ¿Qué opción es la más adecuada en el contexto de las disposiciones legales de la CPI?
Sentencing process in cases involving former child soldiers at the ICC
Creators: name: Velásquez Medina, Gabriela
name: Linares Botero, Sofía
name: Lema González, Andrés Felipe
name: Freydell Murcia, Federico
name: Corradine Charry, Daniela
name: Bohórquez Murcia, Daniela
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2020

description: El presente trabajo analiza si se puede calificar el matrimonio forzado como un CLH de esclavitud sexual o de otros actos inhumanos. Así mismo se estudia si es posible aplicar, bajo ciertas circunstancias, la figura de las cumulative convictions, para condenar simultáneamente por ambos delitos, debido a que el matrimonio forzado excede el contenido del tipo penal del CLH de esclavitud sexual porque no todas las afectaciones sufridas por las víctimas son de naturaleza sexual. Para poder analizar esta figura, en el presente trabajo se realizará un estudio jurisprudencial y doctrinal prestando particular atención a los tribunales penales internacionales e híbridos que han conocido de situaciones en las que se ha presentado la práctica del matrimonio forzado.
Multi-atlas segmentation of subcortical brain structures via the AutoSeg software pipeline
Creators: name: Perrot, Emilie
name: Huang, Xuemei
name: Wang, Jiahui
name: Styner, Martin
name: Gouttard, Sylvain
name: Gerig, Guido
name: Vachet, Clement
name: Du, Guangwei
name: Rumple, Ashley
name: Ouziel, Clémentine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Automated segmenting and labeling of individual brain anatomical regions, in MRI are challenging, due to the issue of individual structural variability. Although atlas-based segmentation has shown its potential for both tissue and structure segmentation, due to the inherent natural variability as well as disease-related changes in MR appearance, a single atlas image is often inappropriate to represent the full population of datasets processed in a given neuroimaging study. As an alternative for the case of single atlas segmentation, the use of multiple atlases alongside label fusion techniques has been introduced using a set of individual “atlases” that encompasses the expected variability in the studied population. In our study, we proposed a multi-atlas segmentation scheme with a novel graph-based atlas selection technique. We first paired and co-registered all atlases and the subject MR scans. A directed graph with edge weights based on intensity and shape similarity between all MR scans is then computed. The set of neighboring templates is selected via clustering of the graph. Finally, weighted majority voting is employed to create the final segmentation over the selected atlases. This multi-atlas segmentation scheme is used to extend a single-atlas-based segmentation toolkit entitled AutoSeg, which is an open-source, extensible C++ based software pipeline employing BatchMake for its pipeline scripting, developed at the Neuro Image Research and Analysis Laboratories of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. AutoSeg performs N4 intensity inhomogeneity correction, rigid registration to a common template space, automated brain tissue classification based skull-stripping, and the multi-atlas segmentation. The multi-atlas-based AutoSeg has been evaluated on subcortical structure segmentation with a testing dataset of 20 adult brain MRI scans and 15 atlas MRI scans. The AutoSeg achieved mean Dice coefficients of 81.73% for the subcortical structures.
La calificación del trabajo forzado como crimen de lesa humanidad: ¿esclavitud sexual, otros actos inhumanos o ambos?
Creators: name: Velásquez Aponte, Daniela
name: Gómez Salgado, Valentina
name: Hurtado Fonseca, Andrea Jimena
name: Guzmán Salinas, Laura Daniela
name: Cruz Quispe, Dayanna Margot Petronila
name: Bustamante Chávez, Sol Cristina
name: Bonilla Tovar, María Juliana
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2022

description: La Corte Penal Internacional busca juzgar a los responsables de graves violaciones del derecho penal internacional según su grado de responsabilidad. Evidencia de esto es la persecución y juzgamiento de Señor Dominic Ongwen, uno de los cuatro lugartenientes del Ejército de Resistencia del Señor (LRA), por los crímenes de intento de asesinato, tortura, tratos crueles, actos inhumanos, esclavitud, atentados contra la dignidad personal, saqueo, destrucción de la propiedad y persecución entre otros. Esta situación se configura dentro de un interesante contexto, pues Dominic Ongwen fue abducido a los 10 años de edad por el grupo del cual fue lugarteniente hasta antes de su captura. En razón de lo anterior, la defensa del acusado ha alegado la incapacidad mental como una de las causales eximentes de responsabilidad penal (además del estado de necesidad), de acuerdo a lo consagrado en el Articulo 31 (1)(a) del Estatuto de Roma. Esta defensa se basa en dos elementos que deben probarse; (i) la existencia de una enfermedad o deficiencia mental; y (ii) que dicha enfermedad o deficiencia tenga tales características que lo priven (destruyan) al momento de cometer el hecho ilícito de: (a) su capacidad para apreciar la naturaleza o ilicitud de la conducta; o (b) controlar esa conducta a fin de no transgredir la Ley.
D9.1 - Dissemination and Communication Strategy
Creators: name: Garatzogianni, Alexandra
name: Fribus, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Communication
Dissemination
Media strategy
Social media
Scientific communication
Industrial dissemination

description: This document details the communication and dissemination strategy, listing objectives and messages, target groups, resources, risks and challenges, including the communication methodology to be implemented during the PLATOON project.