cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identifying barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccination uptake among People Who Use Drugs in Canada: a National Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Martel-Laferrière, Valérie
name: Rehm, Jürgen
name: Bonn, Matthew
name: Ali, Farihah
name: Bruneau, Julie
name: Kaura, Ashima
name: Dasgupta, Nabarun
name: Russell, Cayley
name: Shahin, Rita
name: Imtiaz, Sameer
name: Elton-Marshall, Tara
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description:
Background People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) have lower vaccination uptake than the general population, and disproportionately experience the burden of harms from vaccine-preventable diseases. We conducted a national qualitative study to: (1) identify the barriers and facilitators to receiving COVID-19 vaccinations among PWUD; and (2) identify interventions to support PWUD in their decision-making. Methods Between March and October 2022, semi-structured interviews with PWUD across Canada were conducted. Fully vaccinated (2 or more doses) and partially or unvaccinated (1 dose or less) participants were recruited from a convenience sample to participate in telephone interviews to discuss facilitators, barriers, and concerns about receiving COVID-19 vaccines and subsequent boosters, and ways to address concerns. A total of 78 PWUD participated in the study, with 50 participants being fully vaccinated and 28 participants partially or unvaccinated. Using thematic analysis, interviews were coded based on the capability, opportunity, and motivation-behavior (COM-B) framework. Results Many partially or unvaccinated participants reported lacking knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccine, particularly in terms of its usefulness and benefits. Some participants reported lacking knowledge around potential long-term side effects of the vaccine, and the differences of the various vaccine brands. Distrust toward government and healthcare agencies, the unprecedented rapidity of vaccine development and skepticism of vaccine effectiveness were also noted as barriers. Facilitators for vaccination included a desire to protect oneself or others and compliance with government mandates which required individuals to get vaccinated in order to access services, attend work or travel. To improve vaccination uptake, the most trusted and appropriate avenues for vaccination information sharing were identified by participants to be people with lived and living experience with drug use (PWLLE), harm reduction workers, or healthcare providers working within settings commonly visited by PWUD. Conclusion PWLLE should be supported to design tailored information to reduce barriers and address mistrust. Resources addressing knowledge gaps should be disseminated in areas and through organizations where PWUD frequently access, such as harm reduction services and social media platforms.
title: Objektiviertes Beurteilungsverfahren für Sichtbeton mittels automatisierter Bildverarbeitung unter Berücksichtigung von Beleuchtungsvariationen
Creators: name: Stanke, Gerd
name: Hoske, P.
name: Damme, D.
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Sichtbeton
subject: Beurteilung
subject: Bildverarbeitung
subject: 620

description: Es wird ein Verfahren vorgestellt, das erlaubt, die Vermessung von Porengrößen in Sichtbetonflächen sowie die Beurteilung von Farbeindrücken automatisiert durchzuführen. Subjektive Einflüsse bei der Bewertung werden ausgeschlossen, gleichzeitig werden Einsparungseffekte von 80% und mehr gegenüber Handauszählungen von Lunkern nachgewiesen. Die verwendeten Techniken sind ein spezieller Markierungsrahmen, eine hochauflösende Digitalkamera und spezielle Bildanalyseprozeduren. Letztere leisten die notwendigen Vorverarbeitungsfunktionen, wie geometrische Entzerrung, Kalibrierung sowie einen Helligkeitsausgleich, und nehmen die durchzuführenden Bewertungen vor. Das sind Porengrößen- und verteilungsanalyse sowie Farbvergleiche mit definierten Normalen zur Beurteilung von Farbhomogenitäten über den zu analysierenden Sichtbetonflächen. Die Ergebnisprotokollierung erfolgt sowohl bildlich als auch datentechnisch, letzteres z. B. in einem Excelfile. Die Durchgängigkeit des Verfahrens wird an einer Reihe von in Sichtbetonbauweise ausgeführten Bauten veranschaulicht, z. B. dem Bundeskanzleramt und dem Hörsaalzentrum der TU-Dresden. Wesentliche Einflussparameter wie Beleuchtungsgeometrie oder Helligkeitsschwellen werden diskutiert und Vergleiche zu durchgeführten Handmessungen gezogen. Der vorgestellte Ansatz ist in weiterer Forschung anwendungsorientiert aufzubereiten, vergleichende Untersuchungen zu durch Experten durchgeführten Messungen sind zu Validierungszwecken vorzunehmen. Der Ansatz kann einen Beitrag zu Normungsfragen liefern. Seine Nutzbarkeit ist auch für spezielle Bereiche der Entwicklung von Betonmischtechnologien oder in der Fertigelementefertigung gegeben. Im Beitrag sind die relevanten Verfahrensschritte bildlich und in tabellarischer Form untersetzt.
description: Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen : 10. bis 12.06.2003, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vol. 16, 2003
Paracladius conversus
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Paracladius
Paracladius conversus

description: Paracladius conversus (Walker, 1856)
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Sæther and Spies 2005).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
A BDF2-Semismooth Newton Algorithm for the Numerical Solution of the Bingham Flow with Temperature Dependent Parameters
Creators: name: González-Andrade, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is devoted to the numerical solution of the non-isothermal instationary Bingham flow with temperature dependent parameters by semismooth Newton methods. We discuss the main theoretical aspects regarding this problem. Mainly, we focus on existence of solutions and a multiplier formulation which leads us to a coupled system of PDEs involving a Navier-Stokes type equation and a parabolic energy PDE. Further, we propose a Huber regularization for this coupled system of partial differential equations, and we briefly discuss the well posedness of these regularized problems. A detailed finite element discretization, based on the so called (cross-grid $\mathbb{P}_1$) - $\mathbb{Q}_0$ elements, is proposed for the space variable, involving weighted stiffness and mass matrices. After discretization in space, a second order BDF method is used as a time advancing technique, leading, in each time iteration, to a nonsmooth system of equations, which is suitable to be solved by a semismooth Newton algorithm. Therefore, we propose and discuss the main properties of a SSN algorithm, including the convergence properties. The paper finishes with two computational experiment that exhibit the main properties of the numerical approach.
Colombian ocular infectious epidemiology study (COIES): presumed ocular tuberculosis incidence and sociodemographic characterization, 2015–2020
Creators: name: Cifuentes-González, Carlos
name: Barraquer-López, Doménico
name: Mejía-Salgado, Germán
name: Reyes-Guanes, Juliana
name: Rojas-Carabali, William
name: Polanía-Tovar, Diego
name: de-la-Torre, Alejandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: This study aims to describe the incidence and geographical distribution of presumed ocular tuberculosis (POTB) in Colombia between 2015 and 2020 based on the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection data. We conducted a claims-based study using the Integrated Social Protection Information System database from the Colombian Ministry of Health. We used the specific code of the International Classification of Diseases for Ocular Tuberculosis (A18.5) and tuberculosis from 2015 to 2020 to estimate the incidence and the demographic status of the disease in Colombia. We used STROBE guidelines. During the 6 years of study, the crude unadjusted incidence was 0.2 new cases of POTB in one million consulting patients and 55 new cases of POTB in 100,000 patients with TB showing a decreasing pattern of the disease. From the 28 new cases, the mean age of presentation was 41.4 years (SD ± 25.3) with a female predominance (60.7% of the cases). Distribution by age shows a higher proportion of cases in groups 15–19 (14%), 20–24 (11%), 55–59 (11%), and 60–64 (11%) years of age. The geographic analysis showed a higher number of cases in Andean region, followed by the Caribbean and Pacific regions. This is the first study that determines the incidence of POTB in a developing country from Latin America. POTB incidence in Colombia is lower than the reported worldwide. It could be attributed to a low burden of Tuberculosis in Colombia, underdiagnosis, and a low rate of immigration from countries with a high burden of TB.
Toric varieties and Gröbner bases: the complete Q-factorial case
Creators: name: Rossi, Michele
name: Terracini, Lea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present two algorithms determining all the complete and simplicial fans admitting a fixed non-degenerate set of vectors $V$ as generators of their 1-skeleton. The interplay of the two algorithms allows us to discerning if the associated toric varieties admit a projective embedding, in principle for any values of dimension and Picard number. The first algorithm is slower than the second one, but it computes all complete and simplicial fans supported by $V$ and lead us to formulate a topological-combinatoric conjecture about the definition of a fan. On the other hand, we adapt the Sturmfels' arguments on the Gröbner fan of toric ideals to our complete case; we give a characterization of the Gröbner region and show an explicit correspondence between Gröbner cones and chambers of the secondary fan. A homogenization procedure of the toric ideal associated to $V$ allows us to employing GFAN and related software in producing our second algorithm. The latter turns out to be much faster than the former, although it can compute only the projective fans supported by $V$. We provide examples and a list of open problems. In particular we give examples of rationally parametrized families of $\Q$-factorial complete toric varieties behaving in opposite way with respect to the dimensional jump of the nef cone over a special fibre.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures. Final version accepted for publication in the special issue of the Journal AAAECC, concerning "Algebraic Geometry from an Algorithmic point of View"
Anthropogenic emission inventory and spatial analysis of greenhouse gases and primary pollutants for the Galapagos Islands
Creators: name: Flor, Daniela
name: Mateus, Cristina
name: Guerrero, Christian A.
name: Parra, René
name: Córdova, Ximena
name: Ochoa-Herrera, Valeria
name: Benitez, Fátima L.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description:
Climate change and air pollution are critical challenges that humanity is currently facing. Understanding the sources of emissions released into the atmosphere is of great importance to evaluate the local footprint, the impacts of human activities, and the opportunities to develop and implement solutions to mitigate emissions and adapt to climate change particularly in vulnerable places like the Galapagos Islands. In this study, we present an anthropogenic emissions inventory for Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, and Isabela Islands in which emissions were spatially mapped for greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and primary pollutants (PP). Emissions were estimated for the energy stationary sources, energy mobile sources, waste, and other sectors, and emissions for 2019 were spatially distributed along with an uncertainty assessment. Results demonstrated that energy mobile sources which are aerial, terrestrial, and maritime transportation generated the most significant emissions in the Galapagos Islands in terms of PP and GHGs. In fact, maritime transportation was the highest one in 2019, at 41% of total CO2 emissions for Galapagos, with the most predominant PP being NOx and CO. The aerial transportation made up 36% of emissions, and the electricity generation contributed 15%. Emissions from waste and other sectors comprise a smaller percentage relative to the rest of the emission sectors. These results highlight the strong dependency of the islands on fossil fuels for transportation and electricity generation. Alternatives to mitigate and reduce emissions from the islands are discussed. This spatially mapped emissions inventory for the Galapagos Islands represents a powerful tool to make informed decisions to contribute to the long-term sustainability of the archipelago.
From compact localized states to many-body scars in the random quantum comb
Creators: name: Hart, Oliver
name: De Tomasi, Giuseppe
name: Castelnovo, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the effects of configurational disorder on the eigenstates and dynamical properties of a tight-binding model on a quasi-one-dimensional comb lattice, consisting of a backbone decorated with linear offshoots of randomly distributed lengths. We show that all eigenstates are exponentially localized along the backbone of the comb. Moreover, we demonstrate the presence of an extensive number of compact localized states with precisely zero localization length. We provide an analytical understanding of these states and show that they survive in the presence of density-density interactions along the backbone of the system where, for sufficiently low but finite particle densities, they form many-body scar states. Finally, we discuss the implications of these compact localized states on the dynamical properties of systems with configurational disorder, and the corresponding appearance of long-lived transient behaviour in the time evolution of physically relevant product states.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures; title updated to match published version in v3
Digital Humanities and/as Media Studies
Creators: name: Moreshead, Abigail
name: Salter, Anastasia
Publisher: name: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Digital media
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Feminist theory

description: This chapter of The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities addresses how frameworks from intersectional feminist media studies scholarship can be productively applied to address limitations of digital humanities. We argue here that the interconnection between media studies and digital humanities has often existed only on a rhetorical level, and that a deeper engagement with critiques of platforms common to media studies is necessary to continue to expand the scope of scholarship that falls under the term "digital humanities."
Incorporating protected areas into global fish biomass projections under climate change
Creators: name: Cheung, William W.L.
name: Mook, Anne
name: Roberts, Sarah M.
name: Brink, Talya ten
name: Palacios-Abrantes, Juliano
name: Cashion, Tim
name: Nguyen, Tu
Publisher: name: Canadian Science Publishing
Year: 2023

description:
The world has set ambitious goals to protect marine biodiversity and improve ocean health in the face of anthropogenic threats. Yet, the efficiency of spatial tools such as marine reserves to protect biodiversity is threatened as climate change shifts species distributions globally. Here, we investigate the ability of global marine reserves to protect fish biomass under future climate change scenarios. Moreover, we explore regional patterns and compare worlds with and without marine reserves. We rely on computer modeling to simulate an utopian world where all marine reserves thrive and ocean governance is effective. Results suggest that climate change will affect fish biomass in most marine reserves and their surrounding waters throughout the 21st century. The biomass change varies among regions, with tropical reserves losing biomass, temperate ones gaining, and polar reserves having mixed effects. Overall, a world with marine reserves will still be better off in terms of fish biomass than a world without marine reserves. Our study highlights the need to promote climate resilient conservation methods if we are to maintain and recover biodiversity in the ocean under a changing world.
Two-layer Thermally Driven Turbulence: Mechanisms for Interface Breakup
Creators: name: Liu, Hao-Ran
name: Chong, Kai Leong
name: Wang, Qi
name: Ng, Chong Shen
name: Verzicco, Roberto
name: Lohse, Detlef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is commonly accepted that the breakup criteria of drops or bubbles in turbulence is governed by surface tension and inertia. However, also {\it{buoyancy}} can play an important role at breakup. In order to better understand this role, here we numerically study Rayleigh-Bénard convection for two immiscible fluid layers, in order to identify the effects of buoyancy on interface breakup. We explore the parameter space spanned by the Weber number $5\leq We \leq 5000$ (the ratio of inertia to surface tension) and the density ratio between the two fluids $0.001 \leq Λ\leq 1$, at fixed Rayleigh number $Ra=10^8$ and Prandtl number $Pr=1$. At low $We$, the interface undulates due to plumes. When $We$ is larger than a critical value, the interface eventually breaks up. Depending on $Λ$, two breakup types are observed: The first type occurs at small $Λ\ll 1$ (e.g. air-water systems) when local filament thicknesses exceed the Hinze length scale. The second, strikingly different, type occurs at large $Λ$ with roughly $0.5 < Λ\le 1$ (e.g. oil-water systems): The layers undergo a periodic overturning caused by buoyancy overwhelming surface tension. For both types the breakup criteria can be derived from force balance arguments and show good agreement with the numerical results.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Reproducing kernel-based support vector machine for structural reliability analysis
Creators: name: Lu, Da-Gang
name: Li, Gong-Bo
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: How to choose a kernel function for a support vector machine (SVM) is an important ingredient for high-dimensional and nonlinear classification and regression problems to overcome the curse of dimension. In this paper, a reproducing kernel of Sobolev Hilbert space is introduced to be an admissible kernel for SVMs. Then a support vector regression (SVR) machine based on the reproducing kernel (RKSVR) is constructed, and a hybrid approach to structural reliability analysis is proposed. To minimize the number of simulation and fill in the basic random variable space uniformly, the uniform design (UD) is applied to choose experiment points in the space of basic random variables. The Genetic algorithm (GA) incorporating the gradient information in FORM is employed to search for the global design point to avoid fall into the local optimal solutions. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency and applicability of the new reproducing kernel-based support vector regression meta-model for structural reliability analysis, compared with the support vector regression machine based on the Gaussian kernel.
Encuesta: Nivel de conocimiento de la población urbana sobre los alimentos agroecológicos
Creators: name: Alvear, Noemi
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023

description: En el presente informe de lectura hablaremos sobre la importancia de la agroecología como disciplina que busca comprender los principios ecológicos de los sistemas agrícolas tradicionales y promover el desarrollo sostenible de los agroecosistemas. Se menciona que las prácticas agroindustriales intensivas han generado una crisis ecológica a nivel mundial, lo que ha llevado a la necesidad de evaluar la eficiencia de los sistemas productivos desde una perspectiva ecológica.
Predicting Nominal Data in Presence of Poor Information. An Application to Air Tickets
Creators: name: Stacchini, Annalisa <1984>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: SECS-S/03 Statistica economica

description: This thesis proposes an original interpretative key to a crucial problem of business travel: minimizing the flights cost, managing change and cancellation risk, choosing the optimal fare. Hitherto this topic was addressed only with reference to the revenue management of airlines, possibly because getting the information needed to model the traveler’s behavior, which, as highlighted by a qualitative study, is determined by one-off events, private life and business snags, is nearly impossible. Given that available data, collected by a travel management company for other purposes, concern mainly the tickets and flights’ characteristics, the results obtained in this work are very satisfying. For coping with the informative limitations, some original solutions were developed.
First, as the literature suggests a seasonal pattern, tied to vacations, an attempt was made to insert a guess, for a vacation eﬀect, not precise enough to be exploited within a Bayesian framework, directly in estimated models. This improved all the models’ predicting capability, but the value of a business-specific loss function, to assess predictors economically, was disappointing. Therefore, a new classiﬁcation algorithm, amplifying faint signals, exploiting the whole matrix of estimated probabilities, for each prediction, was conceived. It is very ﬂexible, as it can be applied to any matrix of probabilities, estimated by any classiﬁer, and very effective. In fact, it improved the predictive performance of all the predictors and yielded an estimated global gain of 109,011 euros. Finally, a problem for selecting the best models for two nodes emerged, as all the candidates displayed identical forecasting performance, as assessed through the traditional measures for nominal data, based only on the predicted outcomes. Thus, a Predictive Accuracy Score is elaborated, for evaluating estimated probabilities, which are important, because, when the cost data is available, the expected value of the ﬂights cost will be computable.
Supplementary document for Observation of Carrier Transfer in Vertical 0D-CsPbBr₃/2D-MoS₂ Mixed-Dimensional van der Waals Heterojunction - 6211259.pdf
Creators: name: Qin, Chaochao
name: Geng, Yujie
name: Zhou, Zhongpo
name: Song, Jian
name: Ma, Shuhong
name: Guangrui, Jia
name: Jiao, Zhaoyong
name: Zhu, ZunLue
name: JIANG, Y. H.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Rowley's Ghost: A Checklist of Creative Works Inspired by Thomas Chatterton's Life and Writings, 1770-2020
Creators: name: Goodridge, John
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Romanticism
subject: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
subject: Poetry

description: This is a discursive checklist of poems, novels, plays, paintings, musical and other creative works inspired by the life and works of the poet Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), Wordsworth's 'Marvellous Boy'. It is a much-expanded and revised second edition, posted to commemorate the 250th anniversary in 2020 of Chatterton's early death in 1770. It has been further revised in 2023 and will continue to be developed and improved.
Rowley’s Ghost: A Checklist of Creative Works Inspired by Thomas Chatterton’s Life and Writings, 1770-2020
Creators: name: Goodridge, John
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Poetry
subject: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
subject: Romanticism

description: This is a discursive checklist of poems, novels, plays, paintings, musical and other creative works inspired by the life and works of the poet Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), Wordsworth's 'Marvellous Boy'. It is a much-expanded and revised second edition, posted to commemorate the 250th anniversary in 2020 of Chatterton's early death in 1770. It has been further revised in 2023 and will continue to be developed and improved.
Glide Symmetry Protected Higher-Order Topological Insulators from Semimetals with butterfly-like Nodal Lines
Creators: name: Zhou, Xiaoting
name: Hsu, Chuang-Han
name: Huang, Cheng-Yi
name: Iraola, Mikel
name: Mañes, Juan L.
name: Vergniory, Maia G.
name: Lin, Hsin
name: Kioussis, Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most topological insulators discovered today in spinful systems can be transformed from topological semimetals (TSMs) with vanishing bulk gap via introducing the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which manifests the intrinsic links between the gapped TI phases and the gapless TSMs. Recently, we have proposed a new family of TSMs in time-reversal invariant {\it spinless} systems, which host butterfly-like nodal-lines (NLs) consisting of a pair of identical concentric intersecting coplanar ellipses (CICE). In this Communication, we unveil the intrinsic link between this exotic class of nodal-line semimetals (NLSMs) and a $\mathbb{Z}_{4}$ = 2 topological crystalline insulator (TCI), by including substantial SOC. We demonstrate that in three space groups ({\it i.e.} $Pbam$ (No.55), $P4/mbm$ (No.127) and $P4_2/mbc$ (No.135)), the TCI supports a fourfold Dirac fermion on the (001) surface protected by two glide symmetries, which originates from the intertwined drumhead surface states of the CICE NLs. The higher order topology is further demonstrated by the emergence of one-dimensional helical hinge states, indicating a new higher order topological insulator protected by a glide symmetry.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Biodiversity Study on Wild Food Plants Traditionally Consumed in the Area of Bologna (Emilia romagna Region, Italy) and in the Middle Agri Valley (Basilicata Region, Potenza Province, Italy)
Creators: name: Sansanelli, Sabrina <1979>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: BIO/01 Botanica generale

description: The aim of this project was to record the Traditional Local Knowledge (TLK) concerning the traditional uses of wild food plants together with all the practices linked as gathering, processing, cooking, including the therapeutic uses, to re-discover plant species often under-utilized or neglected and to identify those with new or underestimated healthy effects for human people. 
This research was performed in two areas belonging to the province of the city of Bologna (Emilia-Romagna region, Northern Italy) and in the Middle Agri Valley (Potenza province, Basilicata region, Southern Italy). 
Up to now no research has been carried out on the use of wild edibles in these territories and, therefore, this study represents the first attempt to collect and save from oblivion an important part of the cultural heritage preserved by these populations.
Using an ethnobotanical approach, people still retaining TLK about wild food plants were interviewed recording the edible species and related practices used. 
By means of the Relative Frequency of Citation index (RFC), it was possible to state that Crepis vesicaria subsp. taraxacifolia (Thuill) Thell and Cichorium intybus L. were the most recognised and important wild food species respectively in the area of Bologna and in the Middle Agri Valley. 
The results of the two investigated areas were compared. 
The ethnobotanical study was followed by a metabolic screening of 34 plants samples mentioned by the informants (13 collected in Bologna’s area and 21 in Middle Agri Valley).
Sanguisorba minor Scop. showed the highest antioxidant activity and polyphenol content; Mentha spicata L. exhibited the highest flavonoid content; Sinapis arvensis L. revealed the highest content of chlorophylls and carotenoids and Clematis vitalba L. the highest protein content. 
Finally, the most considerable and cited species in the area of Bologna, Crepis vesicaria subsp. taraxacifolia (Thuill) Thell, was analysed by an untargeted metabolomics approach.
Psectrocladius (Psectrocladius) limbatellus
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Psectrocladius
Psectrocladius limbatellus

description: Psectrocladius (Psectrocladius) limbatellus (Holmgren, 1869)
Notes
Morpho identification. New record for Lithuania.
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
Stochastic gound motion simulation for crustal earthquakes in Japan
Creators: name: Itoi, Tatsuya
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In this study, an empirical simulation model of stochastic ground motion for crustal earthquakes in Japan is proposed based on the ground motion records observed by K-NET in Japan from 1997 to 2011. The proposed model is developed based on that by Rezaeian & Der Kiureghian (2010). The characteristics of ground motion depends on various parameters such as magnitude, distance from source to site and local site conditions (shallow soil as well as deep subsurface structure), which is included in the parameters in the proposed model. The proposed model is considered useful when conducting probabilistic risk analysis of structures such as base-isolated or vibration-controlled buildings.
Future trajectory of respiratory infections following the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Zhang, Qingpeng
name: Chen, Yifan
name: Cheng, Weibin
name: Cao, Zhidong
name: Jing, Fengshi
name: Zhou, Hanchu
name: Ye, Yang
name: Zeng, Daniel Dajun
Publisher: name: AIP Publishing
Year: 2023

description:
The accumulation of susceptible populations for respiratory infectious diseases (RIDs) when COVID-19-targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were in place might pose a greater risk of future RID outbreaks. We examined the timing and magnitude of RID resurgence after lifting COVID-19-targeted NPIs and assessed the burdens on the health system. We proposed the Threshold-based Control Method (TCM) to identify data-driven solutions to maintain the resilience of the health system by re-introducing NPIs when the number of severe infections reaches a threshold. There will be outbreaks of all RIDs with staggered peak times after lifting COVID-19-targeted NPIs. Such a large-scale resurgence of RID patients will impose a significant risk of overwhelming the health system. With a strict NPI strategy, a TCM-initiated threshold of 600 severe infections can ensure a sufficient supply of hospital beds for all hospitalized severely infected patients. The proposed TCM identifies effective dynamic NPIs, which facilitate future NPI relaxation policymaking.
Information on Cognitive AI Assistants for Visually Impaired Navigation Support
Creators: name: Researchscholar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Navigational independence remains one of the most pressing challenges faced by visually impaired individuals. Traditional tools such as white canes and guide dogs, while valuable, offer limited assistance in dynamic urban environments. Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly cognitive AI systems, have led to the development of intelligent navigation assistants capable of perceiving, understanding, and responding to real-world scenarios. These systems leverage computer vision, natural language processing, spatial mapping, and edge computing to provide real-time situational awareness and guidance to users. This paper explores the core technologies behind cognitive AI assistants for visually impaired navigation, examining their architecture, sensory integration, and user interaction models. It discusses use cases in indoor and outdoor mobility, obstacle avoidance, and context-aware pathfinding. Case studies from pilot programs and commercial applications are presented to illustrate effectiveness and accessibility. Ethical and societal considerations such as privacy, autonomy, and inclusivity are critically analyzed. Technical challenges including environmental variability, localization accuracy, and real-time processing are addressed. Finally, the paper outlines future innovations in multimodal input integration, wearable AI devices, and community-informed design. Cognitive AI assistants hold the potential to enhance independence, safety, and quality of life for individuals with visual impairments in an increasingly digital world.
microPhantom: Playing microRTS under uncertainty and chaos
Creators: name: Richoux, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This competition paper presents microPhantom, a bot playing microRTS and participating in the 2020 microRTS AI competition. microPhantom is based on our previous bot POAdaptive which won the partially observable track of the 2018 and 2019 microRTS AI competitions. In this paper, we focus on decision-making under uncertainty, by tackling the Unit Production Problem with a method based on a combination of Constraint Programming and decision theory. We show that using our method to decide which units to train improves significantly the win rate against the second-best microRTS bot from the partially observable track. We also show that our method is resilient in chaotic environments, with a very small loss of efficiency only. To allow replicability and to facilitate further research, the source code of microPhantom is available, as well as the Constraint Programming toolkit it uses.
Advanced Oxidation Processes Based on Photocatalysis for the Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Water
Creators: name: Saracino, Michela <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: CHIM/12 Chimica dell'ambiente e dei beni culturali

description: Many organic pollutants are daily released into the environment or pass through the wastewater treatment plants contaminating surface and drinkable water. Part of these pollutants belongs to the category of the emerging organic contaminants since they are still unregulated or in process of regularization. They give cause of concern since they are dangerous for human health and for the survivor of a large number of living organisms. The implementation of wastewater treatment plants against the emerging contaminants is one of the challenges for the enhancement of the water quality, and advanced oxidation processes represent new technologies very promising as tertiary treatments. The research activity carried out during my PhD course focused on degradation test on aqueous solutions contaminated with different class of pollutants such as surfactants, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, both as single compound solutions and mixture of contaminants. The photocatalytic process was studied developing a new pre-industrial pilot plant and testing new TiO2-based photocatalysts in a view of a technological transfer of the photocatalytic methodology. The reuse of a photocatalyst consisting of TiO2 supported on a solid substrates was also investigated with the aim to avoid some problems related to the use of a dispersed catalyst. Photocatalytic process coupled with ultrasounds was also examined in order to speed up the decomposition of the pollutants. The disappearance of every pollutant was followed by HPLC analysis and the mineralization was assessed by the determination of total organic carbon. 
In the end, the energy consumption related to the processes tested on the mixture of contaminants was calculated in order to establish the best methodology to obtain good degradation rate with reasonable costs.
Psectrocladius (Psectrocladius) psilopterus Thienemann 1906
Creators: name: Stasiukynas, Laurynas
name: Laurindo da Silva, Fabio
name: Havelka, Jekaterina
name: Podėnas, Sigitas
name: Lekoveckaitė, Aistė
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Psectrocladius
Psectrocladius psilopterus

description: Psectrocladius (Psectrocladius) psilopterus Thienemann, 1906)
Notes
Morpho identification. First record for Lithuania (Grigelis 1999).
description: Published as part of Stasiukynas, Laurynas, Laurindo da Silva, Fabio, Havelka, Jekaterina, Podėnas, Sigitas & Lekoveckaitė, Aistė, 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera) of the Šventoji and Žeimena sub-basins in Lithuania, pp. e 130218 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130218, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130218
Solid Organs Laparoscopic Surgery: Adrenalectomy and Splenectomy. 74 cases. Hospital San José, Bogotá, Colombia. 2008-2015.
Creators: name: Aldana, Guillermo
name: Hernandez, Andrea
name: Barrera, Adriana
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Splenectomy and Adrenalectomy Laparoscopic are the "gold standard" for treatment of surgical pathology of these organs. Between 2008 to 2015, 74  (19 adrenalectomies and 55 splenectomies)  were performed at Hospital San José, Bogotá, Colombia. Data about epidemiology, surgical technique, morbility and mortality are presented.
Time trends in infectious and chronic disease consultations in Dakar, Senegal: Impact of COVID-19 sanitary measures
Creators: name: Lassale, Camille
name: Sattler, Elisabeth LP
name: Cene, Crystal
name: Diop, Ibrahima Bara
name: Jouven, Xavier
name: Diop, Massamba
name: Diop, Awa Ba
name: Geoffroy, Audrey
name: Gaye, Bamba
name: Asselin, Anouk
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description:
Background: The impact of COVID-19 sanitary measures on the time trends in infectious and chronic disease consultations in Sub-Saharan Africa remains unknown. Methods: We conducted a cohort study on all emergency medical consultations from January 2016 to July 2020, from SOS Medecins in Dakar, Senegal. The consultation records provided basic demographic information such as age, ethnicity (Senegalese or Caucasian), and sex as well as the principal diagnosis using an ICD-10 classification ("infectious", "chronic", and "other"). We first investigated how the pattern in emergency consultation differed from March to July 2020 compared to previous years. Then, we examined any potential racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 consultation. Results: We obtained data on emergency medical consultations from 53 583 patients of all ethnic origins. The mean age of patients was 37.0 (standard deviation (SD) = 25.2) and 30.3 (SD = 21.7) in 2016-2019 and 45.5 (SD = 24.7) and 39.5 (SD = 23.3) in 2020 for Senegalese and Caucasian patients, respectively. The type of consultations between January and July were similar from 2016 to 2019; however, in 2020, there was a drop in the number of infectious disease consultations, particularly from April to May 2020, when sanitary measures for COVID-19 were applied (average of 366.5 and 358.2 in 2016-1019 and 133.0 and 125.0 in 2020). The prevalence of chronic conditions remained steady during the same period (average of 381.0 and 394.7 in 2016-2019 and 373.0 and 367.0 in 2020). In a multivariate analysis adjusted for age and sex, infectious disease consultations were significantly more likely to occur in 2016-2019 compared to 2020 (2016 odds ratio (OR) = 2.39, 2017 OR = 2.74, 2018 OR = 2.39, 2019 OR = 2.01). Furthermore, the trend in the number of infectious and chronic consultations was similar among Senegalese and Caucasian groups, indicating no disparities among those seeking treatment. Conclusions: During the implementation of COVID-19 sanitary measures, infectious disease rates dropped as chronic disease rates remained stagnant in Dakar. We observed no racial/ethnic disparities among the infectious and chronic consultations.
Foundations for Bayesian inference with engineered likelihood functions for robust amplitude estimation
Creators: name: Koh, Dax Enshan
name: Wang, Guoming
name: Johnson, Peter D.
name: Cao, Yudong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present mathematical and conceptual foundations for the task of robust amplitude estimation using engineered likelihood functions (ELFs), a framework introduced in Wang et al. [PRX Quantum 2, 010346 (2021)] that uses Bayesian inference to enhance the rate of information gain in quantum sampling. These ELFs, which are obtained by choosing tunable parameters in a parametrized quantum circuit to minimize the expected posterior variance of an estimated parameter, play an important role in estimating the expectation values of quantum observables. We give a thorough characterization and analysis of likelihood functions arising from certain classes of quantum circuits and combine this with the tools of Bayesian inference to give a procedure for picking optimal ELF tunable parameters. Finally, we present numerical results to demonstrate the performance of ELFs.
description: 56 pages, 5 figures
Violations of the v-representability condition underlying Kohn-Sham density-functional theory
Creators: name: Trushin, Egor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Outputs of the calculations, as well as the Jupyter notebook used to generate the figures and tables for the article:

E. Trushin, J. Erhard, and A. Görling Phys. Rev. A 110, L020802 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.110.L020802
Evaluation of E-learning for faculty development in emergency medicine
Creators: name: Qotb, Mohamed
name: Farook, Saleem
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: We evaluated the use of an interactive E-learning platform based on the open source software called MOODLE. The learning platform was adapted using a blended learning strategy to assist the implementation of a dedicated faculty development program for Emergency Physicians in Qatar. We sought feedback using a MOODLE-based online questionnaire of the learners to evaluate satisfaction, usage patterns and feedback of their E-learning experience.

Results: Out of 20 participants, 90% (n=18) completed the questionnaire. Two thirds declared proficiency in computer skills and enthusiastic about technology, and their prior experience was related to certified courses rather than forum based E-learning. Most of them preferred to access once or twice per week with 20% accessing on a daily basis. 75% of them accessed MOODLE through their Smartphone and 12.5 % through tablet. About their current experience with MOODLE, 86.7% of participants found it an easy to use with no major technical problems. All areas were useful; Discussion/ communication area was highly rated, and overall packages were perceived as appropriate and well designed. 93.75% stated E-learning is time saving. Two thirds of candidates liked blended learning, one third wish to replace traditional method with E-learning and only one candidate preferred traditional learning.

Conclusion: Learners involved in this E-learning initiative are overall satisfied by the current implementation of MOODLE and with a third of users preferring to completely replace traditional learning. The use of smartphones is widespread and hence any E-learning implementation should be adapted for use on these devices.
Higher-order topological pumping and its observation in photonic lattices
Creators: name: Benalcazar, Wladimir A.
name: Noh, Jiho
name: Wang, Mohan
name: Huang, Sheng
name: Chen, Kevin P.
name: Rechtsman, Mikael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of the quantization of particle transport in adiabatic pumping cycles of periodic structures by Thouless [Phys. Rev. B 27, 6083 (1983)] linked the Chern number, a topological invariant characterizing the quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gases, with the topology of dynamical periodic systems in one dimension. Here, we demonstrate its counterpart for higher-order topology. Specifically, we show that adiabatic cycles in two-dimensional crystals with vanishing dipole moments (and therefore zero overall particle transport) can nevertheless be topologically nontrivial. These cycles are associated with higher-order topology and can be diagnosed by their ability to produce corner-to-corner transport in certain metamaterial platforms. We experimentally verify the corner to corner transport associated with this topological pump by using an array of photonic waveguides adiabatically modulated in their separations and refractive indices. By mapping the dynamical phenomenon demonstrated here from two spatial and one temporal dimensions to three spatial dimensions, our observations are equivalent to the observation of chiral hinge states in a three-dimensional second-order topological insulator.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
title: Vision eines mitwachsenden Geometriemodells für die computergestützte Bauaufnahme
Creators: name: Thurow, Torsten
name: Donath, Dirk
name: Petzold, Frank
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Bauaufnahme
subject: CAD
subject: Modellierung
subject: 620

description: Die digitale Unterstützung der Planungsprozesse ist ein aktueller Forschungs- und Arbeitsschwerpunkt der Professur Informatik in der Architektur (InfAR) und der Juniorprofessur Architekturinformatik der Fakultät Architektur an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Verankert in dem DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 524 >Werkzeuge und Konstruktionen für die Revitalisierung von Bauwerken< entstehen Konzepte und Prototypen für eine fachlich orientierte Planungsunterstützung. Als ein Teilaspekt wird in diesem Beitrag die Vision eines mitwachsenden Geometriemodells für das computergestützte Bauaufmaß gezeigt, welches den Aufnehmenden von der Erstbegehung an begleitet. Die bei jeder Phase der Bauaufnahme gewonnenen Geometrieinformationen sollen in den anschließenden Phasen wiederverwendet, konkretisiert bzw. korrigiert werden. Aufmaßtechniken und Geometriemodell sind dabei eng gekoppelt. Verschiedene Sichten auf ein gemeinsames Geometriemodell haben zum Ziel, den Nutzer die Vorteile planarer Abbildungen nutzen zu lassen, ohne die dreidimensionale Übersicht zu verlieren oder entsprechende räumliche Manipulationen zu missen. Das Geometriemodell ist dabei in ein dynamisches Bauwerksmodell eingebettet. Der folgende Beitrag bezieht sich auf die Bauaufnahme mit folgenden Vorgaben: - die Bauaufnahme dient der Vorbereitung der Bauplanung im Bestand - es wird nur eine Genauigkeitsstufe (im Bereich von +/- 10 cm) unterstützt - die Geometrieabbildung des aufzunehmenden Bauwerkes beruht ausschließlich auf ebenen Oberflächen
description: Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen : 10. bis 12.06.2003, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vol. 16, 2003