cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Verification of a clinical decision support system for the diagnosis of headache disorders based on patient–computer interactions: a multi-center study
Creators: name: Han, Xun
name: Wan, Dongjun
name: Zhang, Shuhua
name: Yin, Ziming
name: Huang, Siyang
name: Xie, Fengbo
name: Guo, Junhong
name: Qu, Hongli
name: Yao, Yuanrong
name: Xu, Huifang
name: Li, Dongfang
name: Chen, Sufen
name: Wang, Faming
name: Wang, Hebo
name: Chen, Chunfu
name: He, Qiu
name: Dong, Ming
name: Wan, Qi
name: Xu, Yanmei
name: Chen, Min
name: Yan, Fanhong
name: Wang, Xiaolin
name: Wang, Rongfei
name: Zhang, Mingjie
name: Ran, Ye
name: Jia, Zhihua
name: Liu, Yinglu
name: Chen, Xiaoyan
name: Hou, Lei
name: Zhao, Dengfa
name: Dong, Zhao
name: Yu, Shengyuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Satisfaction Survey Questions.
A case report of carboxymethylcellulose allergy: exploring tolerance based on administration route
Creators: name: Piotin, Anays
name: Poirot, Anh
name: Wurm, Maxence
name: Lutz, Celine
name: Khayath, Naji
name: de Blay, Frédéric
name: Metz-Favre, Carine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The management of hypersensitivity to excipients and food additives remains a significant issue for healthcare professionals and patients. Avoiding carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) can be a considerable challenge for patients allergic to CMC due to its widespread use. We assessed the tolerance of CMC through different route of administration in a patient with a confirmed CMC allergy. We conducted a literature review to analyze all relevant cases of patients allergic to CMC, focusing on tolerance through non-injectable routes. Skin tests, basophil activation tests, oral and nasal provocation tests with CMC were performed to evaluate patient’s hypersensitivity. Skin tests and basophil activation tests with CMC were positive and confirmed IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to CMC in the patient. While the patient tolerated oral administration of CMC and CMC-containing eye drops, nasal provocation test resulted in asthma exacerbation and rhinitis. Tolerance of CMC appears to be route-dependent. Provocation tests with CMC through various routes of administration are essential for assessing tolerance and providing appropriate recommendations for patients with CMC allergy.
Scalar geometry and masses in Calabi-Yau string models
Creators: name: Farquet, Daniel
name: Scrucca, Claudio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the geometry of the scalar manifolds emerging in the no-scale sector of Kahler moduli and matter fields in generic Calabi-Yau string compactifications, and describe its implications on scalar masses. We consider both heterotic and orientifold models and compare their characteristics. We start from a general formula for the Kahler potential as a function of the topological compactification data and study the structure of the curvature tensor. We then determine the conditions for the space to be symmetric and show that whenever this is the case the heterotic and the orientifold models give the same scalar manifold. We finally study the structure of scalar masses in this type of geometries, assuming that a generic superpotential triggers spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. We show in particular that their behavior crucially depends on the parameters controlling the departure of the geometry from the coset situation. We first investigate the average sGoldstino mass in the hidden sector and its sign, and study the implications on vacuum metastability and the mass of the lightest scalar. We next examine the soft scalar masses in the visible sector and their flavor structure, and study the possibility of realizing a mild form of sequestering relying on a global symmetry.
description: 36 pages, no figures
Supplementary materials to Journal of Insects as Food and Feed manuscript JIFF2022.0143: Entomophagy in western Kenya: consumption patterns and the role of psychological and socio-cultural factors
Creators: name: Mulungu, K.
name: Macharia, I.
name: Abro, Z.
name: Kassie, M.
name: Tanga, C.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: Food sciences not elsewhere classified
Consumer behaviour

description: Owing to its potential as an alternative source of protein, entomophagy (insect eating) has received substantial attention from researchers and development actors. However, despite its relatively high acceptance in some regions, such as western Kenya, there is a limited understanding of the factors that drive entomophagy. Therefore, we conducted a study in western Kenya in Bungoma and Trans-Nzoia counties utilising data from a random sample of 442 households to analyse consumption patterns and determinants of insect-eating behaviour. The analysis used the extended theory of planned behaviour and structural equation modelling to determine entomophagy. Termites, grasshoppers, locusts, dung beetles, crickets, and black ants are examples of insects eaten by these communities. Termites are the most known and consumed insect among households. Most households prefer to eat the insects as a whole and not processed. Results indicate that attitude (ATT), perceived behavioural control (PBC), social norms and objective knowledge (OK) positively and significantly influence households’ intention to eat insects, whereas environmental concerns and perceived barriers (neophobia) have no significant effect. In the model where we include objective knowledge and environmental concern, the effects of ATT and PBC are lower. PBC reduces the effect of ATT on behavioural intention while directly negatively affecting entomophagy. Intention to eat is positively associated with insect-eating behaviour. In addition to these psychological factors, we found that culture significantly explains entomophagy. Once we condition on psychological factors, socioeconomic factors do not have any influence on entomophagy. ATT and OK about insects and culture significantly predict preference for termites over beef – suggesting the positive role of nutrition information. These results show the importance of psychological variables and culture in influencing entomophagy.
Modeling multidimensional large strain consolidation of tailings
Creators: name: Priestley, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Mine sites generate large volumes of tailings materials, requiring storage in tailings impoundments. Large strain consolidation of tailings materials represents a major factor in determining how a tailings impoundment will behave over time. Being able to accurately model these phenomena ensures that the effects of long term consolidation may be considered in the design of future tailings impoundments. SoilVision Systems has created an internal version of the SVOFFICE 2009 finite element modeling software capable of evaluating these scenarios. Prior to this research, preliminary benchmarks have been established, but the software had not yet been applied to multidimensional scenarios to benchmark the results. The goal of this research was to first benchmark the software against literature case studies. Following this, the software could then be applied to multidimensional tailings impoundments to study how the modeling could be performed and what factors require further consideration. Benchmarking of the software showed that the software is capable of recreating a wide variety of case studies from the literature. Further test were used to determine the effects of various material parameters on the material. Applications to multidimensional scenarios show that the software is capable of analyzing a wide variety of scenarios and considering numerous factors not found in other software packages. While the software does require additional functionality, it has been found to be a viable tool for examining multidimensional consolidation effects in tailings impoundments.
Relative Flatness and Generalization
Creators: name: Petzka, Henning
name: Kamp, Michael
name: Adilova, Linara
name: Sminchisescu, Cristian
name: Boley, Mario
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Flatness of the loss curve is conjectured to be connected to the generalization ability of machine learning models, in particular neural networks. While it has been empirically observed that flatness measures consistently correlate strongly with generalization, it is still an open theoretical problem why and under which circumstances flatness is connected to generalization, in particular in light of reparameterizations that change certain flatness measures but leave generalization unchanged. We investigate the connection between flatness and generalization by relating it to the interpolation from representative data, deriving notions of representativeness, and feature robustness. The notions allow us to rigorously connect flatness and generalization and to identify conditions under which the connection holds. Moreover, they give rise to a novel, but natural relative flatness measure that correlates strongly with generalization, simplifies to ridge regression for ordinary least squares, and solves the reparameterization issue.
EVOLUCIÓN DE LOS TIPOS DE SOSTENIMIENTO PARA LA EXCAVACIÓN DE TÚNELES EN ROCA EN LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS EN MÉXICO
Creators: name: Jiménez, Antonio Alonso
name: Fino, Francisco Suarez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Actualmente en México está disciplina de los túneles y obras subterráneas tiene un gran auge, experimentado una notable evolución tecnológica. Estos grandes avances se han presentado tanto en el diseño como en la construcción de este tipo de obras; hoy en día contamos con programas informáticos muy completos que nos permiten elaborar modelos matemáticos cada vez más precisos y confiables, maquinaria de construcción y sistemas de estabilización y sostenimiento del terreno de gran versatilidad y eficiencia, que han permitido a la ingeniería de túneles y obras subterráneas convertirse en una auténtica industria de alta tecnología.
Finite-size left-passage probability in percolation
Creators: name: Ikhlef, Yacine
name: Ponsaing, Anita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain an exact finite-size expression for the probability that a percolation hull will touch the boundary, on a strip of finite width. Our calculation is based on the q-deformed Knizhnik--Zamolodchikov approach, and the results are expressed in terms of symplectic characters. In the large size limit, we recover the scaling behaviour predicted by Schramm's left-passage formula. We also derive a general relation between the left-passage probability in the Fortuin--Kasteleyn cluster model and the magnetisation profile in the open XXZ chain with diagonal, complex boundary terms.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
EL PROYECTO DE LA CENTRAL HIDROELECTRICA RENACE II
Creators: name: Alonso Jiménez, Antonio
name: Espina, Sheila
name: Quiroga, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: El Proyecto Hidroeléctrico Renace II, ubicado en el municipio de San Pedro Carchá, departamento de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, se encuentra situado inmediatamente aguas abajo de la Casa de Máquinas de Renace I, construida y en funcionamiento desde abril de 2004, constituyendo el segundo de los tres elementos previstos de la cascada del aprovechamiento del Río Cahabón. Dicho proyecto engloba la construcción de dos túneles, denominados Túnel 1 y Túnel 2. El Túnel 1 posee unos 3,5 km de longitud y comunica la obra de toma con el desarenador, mientras que el Túnel 2 posee 3,9 km y se proyectó en sustitución del canal de conducción presente en el diseño inicial. El trazado horizontal de ambos túneles ha sido diseñado en base a los siguientes criterios: disminución máxima de la intersección o afección con las dolinas presentes en el área de implantación, minimización de la afección sobre el túnel de las fallas presentes en el área de implantación y minimización de la longitud del trazado. En cuanto al trazado en alzado posee una limitación de la pendiente máxima del túnel al 12%, con objeto de facilitar las labores de construcción del mismo, así como una dotación de cobertera suficiente para no suponer un condicionante sobre la estabilidad de la excavación.
Search for starless clumps in the ATLASGAL survey
Creators: name: Tackenberg, J.
name: Beuther, H.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Schuller, F.
name: Wienen, M.
name: Motte, F.
name: Wyrowski, F.
name: Bontemps, S.
name: Bronfman, L.
name: Menten, K.
name: Testi, L.
name: Lefloch, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we present an unbiased sample of the earliest stages of massive star formation across 20 square-degree of the sky. Within the region 10deg < l < 20deg and |b| < 1deg, we search the ATLASGAL survey at 870 micron for dense gas condensations. These clumps are carefully examined for indications of ongoing star formation using YSOs from the GLIMPSE source catalog as well as sources in the 24 micron MIPSGAL images, to search for starless clumps. We calculate the column densities as well as the kinematic distances and masses for sources where the v_lsr is known from spectroscopic observations. Within the given region, we identify 210 starless clumps with peak column densities > 1 x 10e23 cm^(-2). In particular, we identify potential starless clumps on the other side of the Galaxy. The sizes of the clumps range between 0.1 pc and 3 pc with masses between a few tens of solar masses up to several ten thousands of solar masses. Most of them may form massive stars, but in the 20 square-degree we only find 14 regions massive enough to form stars more massive than 20 solar masses and 3 regions with the potential to form stars more massive than 40 40 solar masses. The slope of the high-mass tail of the clump mass function for clumps on the near side of the Galaxy is 2.2 and, therefore, Salpeter-like. We estimate the lifetime of the most massive starless clumps to be 60000 yr. The sample offers a uniform selection of starless clumps. In the large area surveyed, we only find a few potential precursors of stars in the excess of 40 solar masses. It appears that the lifetime of these clumps is somewhat shorter than their free-fall times, although both values agree within the errors. In addition, these are ideal objects for detailed studies and follow-up observations.
description: 15 pages plus appendix, in total 44 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, full tables will be added soon
Classes of codes from quadratic surfaces of PG(3,q)
Creators: name: Mellinger, Keith E
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: We examine classes of binary linear error correcting codes constructed from certain sets of lines defined relative to one of the two classical quadratic surfaces in $PG(3,q)$.  We give an overview of some of the properties of the codes, providing proofs where the results are new.  In particular, we use geometric techniques to find small weight codewords, and hence, bound the minimum distance.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol 2, No 1 (2007)
Delayed Yielding in Creep, Time - Stress Superposition and Effective Time Theory for a Soft Glass
Creators: name: Baldewa, Bharat
name: Joshi, Yogesh M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate creep flow of aqueous suspension of Laponite, a model soft glassy material, at different aging times and stresses. We observe that this system shows time - aging time - stress superposition over a range of aging times and stresses when real time scale is transformed into effective time scale. Existence of superposition in an effective time domain facilitates prediction of long and very short time rheological behavior. Analysis of the observed behavior from effective time approach suggests that superposition is possible only when the shape of a relaxation time spectrum is preserved at various aging times and stresses. We also observe that creep curves at low aging times and greater stresses demonstrate delayed but sudden yielding. The critical time, at which material yields, increases with increase in aging time and decrease in stress. We argue that local rejuvenation of part of the glassy material causes variation in the rate of evolution of relaxation modes. The resulting interplay between aging and rejuvenating modes lead to delayed yielding as observed experimentally.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures
MOESM1 of Prevalence, resistance pattern, and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from healthy animals and sick populations in Henan Province, China
Creators: name: Liu, Baoguang
name: Sun, Huarun
name: Pan, Yushan
name: Zhai, Yajun
name: Cai, Tian
name: Yuan, Xiaoling
name: Gao, Yanling
name: He, Dandan
name: Liu, Jianhua
name: Yuan, Li
name: Hu, Gongzheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of the 143 S. aureus isolates.
Assessing the Use of Insecure ICS Protocols via IXP Network Traffic Analysis
Creators: name: Barbieri, Giovanni
name: Conti, Mauro
name: Tippenhauer, Nils Ole
name: Turrin, Federico
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Modern Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) allow remote communication through the Internet using industrial protocols that were not designed to work with external networks. To understand security issues related to this practice, prior work usually relies on active scans by researchers or services such as Shodan. While such scans can identify publicly open ports, they cannot identify legitimate use of insecure industrial traffic. In particular, source-based filtering in Network Address Translation or Firewalls prevent detection by active scanning, but do not ensure that insecure communication is not manipulated in transit. In this work, we compare Shodan-only analysis with large- scale traffic analysis at a local Internet Exchange Point (IXP), based on sFlow sampling. This setup allows us to identify ICS endpoints actually exchanging industrial traffic over the Internet. Besides, we are able to detect scanning activities and what other type of traffic is exchanged by the systems (i.e., IT traffic). We find that Shodan only listed less than 2% of hosts that we identified as exchanging industrial traffic, and only 7% of hosts identified by Shodan actually exchange industrial traffic. Therefore, Shodan does not allow to understand the actual use of insecure industrial protocols on the Internet and the current security practices in ICS communications. We show that 75.6% of ICS hosts still rely on unencrypted communications without integrity protection, leaving those critical systems vulnerable to malicious attacks.
Taraxacum petiolulatum
Creators: name: Uhlemann, Ingo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Taraxacum
Taraxacum petiolulatum

description: Taraxacum petiolulatum HUTER
 in sched. lithograph., cum diagn. (1878/1879; als „ T. (off. var.) petiolulatum mihi“); SOEST, Acta Bot. Neerl. 8 (2): 93 (1959). –
Abb. 7 E, F.
 Syn.: Taraxacum parsennense Soest, Acta Bot. Neerl. 8 (2): 91 (1959), syn. novum. Anmerkung: Auch wenn die Art und Weise der Veröffentlichung des HUTERschen Artnamens nicht heutigen Anforderungen entspricht, muss sie als wirksam und gültig (Artikel 30 und 32 der Nomenklaturregeln) angesehen werden (das Etikett des Exsikkats wurde als „unauslöschbare Autographie“ hergestellt und ist mit einer zwar kurzen, aber eindeutigen Diagnose versehen); die zum Artrang alternativ angebotene Einstufung als Varietät von „ T.officinale “ steht nur in Klammern und ist als sekundär anzusehen ist. Spätestens seit SOEST ist der für die verbreitete Art sehr bezeichnende Name allgemein anerkannt.
 Österreich, Salzburg: Lungau, zwischen Schmalzscharte und Albertbiwak, Rasen mit Schneebodencharakter, 2409 m s.m., 25. 7.2009, leg. W. Diewald (Hb. Diewald 6611).
 Österreich, Tirol: Stubaier Alpen, oberstes Gschnitztal, Bremer Hütte, 2420 m s.m., Silikat, 17.8. 1967, leg. Podlech (Hb. L 0065544). — Arlberg, Arlensattel, Ulmerhütte, 1800 m s.m., 5. 8. 1930, leg. Cohrs (Hb. DR 000630).
Besonders auffällig zeigt sich die Ausbildung der Blätter bei dieser Art, welche von verkehrt eiförmig, ganzrandig oder gezähnt bis irregulär gelappt – oft an ein und derselben Pflanze – reicht (Abb. 7 F). Der Blattstiel ist ungeflügelt, grün und auffallend lang im Verhältnis zur Blattspreite. Die nur 1–2 mm breiten äußeren Involukralblätter stehen aufrecht und haben zurückgebogene Spitzen. Die Griffeläste sind graugrün gefärbt.
 Nach dem Studium lebender Pflanzen am locus classicus (Schweiz, Parsenn-Hütte bei Davos) und potenziellem Typusmaterial von T. petiolulatum in Hb. W, loc. class.: Pusteria, Sexten, brevissime graminos. aqua nivali irrigati in Glivenglabl, sol. calc., 2300 m s.m., 21.8. 1878, Huter, müssen die beiden Arten als konspezifisch angesehen werden.
description: Published as part of Uhlemann, Ingo, 2011, Notizen zur Taraxacum-Flora Österreichs und Südtirols, pp. 27-53 in Neilreichia 6 on pages 39-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.303107
Radiative corrections and explicit perturbations to the tetra-maximal neutrino mixing with large theta_13
Creators: name: Zhang, He
name: Zhou, Shun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tetra-maximal neutrino mixing pattern predicts a relatively large reactor mixing angle theta_13 \approx 8.4^\circ, which is in good agreement with the latest best-fit value theta_13 = 9^\circ. However, its prediction for theta_12 \approx 30.4^\circ is inconsistent with current oscillation data at the 3sigma C.L. We show that explicit perturbations to the tetra-maximal mixing can naturally enhance theta_12 to its best-fit value theta_12 = 34^\circ. Furthermore, we demonstrate that if the tetra-maximal mixing is produced by a certain flavor symmetry at a high-energy scale Lambda = 10^14 GeV, significant radiative corrections in the minimal supersymmetric standard model can modify theta_12 to be compatible with experimental data at the electroweak scale Lambda_EW = 10^2 GeV. The predictions for theta_13 \approx 8.4^\circ and theta_23 = 45^\circ, as well as the CP-violating phases rho = sigma = -delta = 90^\ciic, are rather stable against radiative corrections.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures; matches published version
Slowly-rotating stars and black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity
Creators: name: Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine
name: Chen, Yanbei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity is an extension to general relativity (GR) in which the metric is coupled to a scalar field, resulting in modified Einstein field equations. In the dynamical theory, the scalar field is itself sourced by the Pontryagin density of the space-time. In this paper, the coupled system of equations for the metric and the scalar field is solved numerically for slowly-rotating neutron stars described with realistic equations of state and for slowly-rotating black holes. An analytic solution for a constant-density nonrelativistic object is also presented. It is shown that the black hole solution cannot be used to describe the exterior spacetime of a star as was previously assumed. In addition, whereas previous analysis were limited to the small-coupling regime, this paper considers arbitrarily large coupling strengths. It is found that the CS modification leads to two effects on the gravitomagnetic sector of the metric: (i) Near the surface of a star or the horizon of a black hole, the magnitude of the gravitomagnetic potential is decreased and frame-dragging effects are reduced in comparison to GR. (ii) In the case of a star, the angular momentum J, as measured by distant observers, is enhanced in CS gravity as compared to standard GR. For a large coupling strength, the near-zone frame-dragging effects become significantly screened, whereas the far-zone enhancement saturate at a maximum value max(Delta J) ~ (M/R) J. Using measurements of frame-dragging effects around the Earth by Gravity Probe B and the LAGEOS satellites, a weak but robust constraint is set to the characteristic CS lengthscale, xi^{1/4}
description: 14 pages, 11 figures. Comments are welcome
vBump: Securing Ethernet-based Industrial Control System Networks with VLAN-based Traffic Aggregation
Creators: name: Tippenhauer, Nils Ole
name: Chen, Binbin
name: Mashima, Daisuke
name: Nicol, David M.
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Bump-in-the-wire (bump) devices can be used to protect critical endpoints in Industrial Control System (ICS) networks. However, bump devices cannot be used to authenticate incoming broadcast traffic, are complex to manage, and one bump is needed per host. In this work, we propose a virtual bump-like solution called vBump, which allows to insert virtual bumps in front of Ethernet- based legacy ICS devices. The vBumps can be used to limit traffic to whitelisted destinations, inspect all traffic on or above Link- layer like a centralized intrusion detection systems (or monitoring systems), or even police the traffic like a centralized intrusion pre- vention systems. In particular, this also allows the network to apply fine-grained control on traffic between nodes that need to be in the same Link-layer broadcast domain. Compared to traditional bumps, vBumps do not require any changes in physical network topology, and the central server’s global view allows for more informed deci- sion, with less computational constraints. We implement the system in a high-fidelity ICS testbed, and demonstrate its capabilities to support even time-critical protection control traffic in smart grids. Our system can handle traffic rates of 150Mbps with one-way delay of ≈ 1ms.
OnabotulinumtoxinA in Chronic Migraine: A Profile of Its Use
Creators: name: Frampton, James
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Acknowledgements During the peer review process, the manufacturer of onabotulinumtoxinA was offered an opportunity to review this article. Changes resulting from comments received were made on the basis of scientific and editorial merit. Declarations
 Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
 Authorship and Conflict of interest James Frampton is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content.
 Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability not applicable

Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here
Abstract OnabotulinumtoxinA (Botox®; a formulation of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT/A)] is indicated for the prevention of headaches in adults with chronic migraine (CM) in numerous countries, including those of Europe. In clinical trials, intramuscular administration of BoNT/A (155–195 units at 12-week intervals) to patients with CM was generally well tolerated and associated with sustained and clinically meaningful improvements in multiple assessments of headache symptoms, headache-related impact and/or disability and migraine-specific health-related quality of life over a period of 1 year (in the pivotal PREEMPT 1 and 2 studies) and 2 years (in the phase IV COMPEL study). The efficacy and safety of BoNT/A therapy have been confirmed in a number of large, prospective, real-world studies conducted in Europe, including the 2-year REPOSE study. Intramuscular BoNT/A has also demonstrated greater clinical utility than the oral prophylactic medication topiramate in a clinical practice setting (FORWARD study). © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Number of relevant directions in Principal Component Analysis and Wishart random matrices
Creators: name: Majumdar, Satya N.
name: Vivo, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute analytically, for large $N$, the probability $\mathcal{P}(N_+,N)$ that a $N\times N$ Wishart random matrix has $N_+$ eigenvalues exceeding a threshold $Nζ$, including its large deviation tails. This probability plays a benchmark role when performing the Principal Component Analysis of a large empirical dataset. We find that $\mathcal{P}(N_+,N)\approx\exp(-βN^2 ψ_ζ(N_+/N))$, where $β$ is the Dyson index of the ensemble and $ψ_ζ(κ)$ is a rate function that we compute explicitly in the full range $0\leq κ\leq 1$ and for any $ζ$. The rate function $ψ_ζ(κ)$ displays a quadratic behavior modulated by a logarithmic singularity close to its minimum $κ^\star(ζ)$. This is shown to be a consequence of a phase transition in an associated Coulomb gas problem. The variance $Δ(N)$ of the number of relevant components is also shown to grow universally (independent of $ζ)$ as $Δ(N)\sim (βπ^2)^{-1}\ln N$ for large $N$.
description: 5 pag., 2 fig
An explicit treatment of biquadratic function fields
Creators: name: Wu, Qingquan
name: Scheidler, Renate
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: We provide a comprehensive description of biquadratic function

fields and their properties, including a characterization of the

cyclic and radical cases as well as the constant field. For the

cyclic scenario, we provide simple explicit formulas for the

ramification index of any rational place, the field discriminant,

the genus, and an algorithmically suitable integral basis. In terms

of computation, we only require square and fourth power testing of

constants, extended gcd computations on polynomials, and the

squarefree factorization of polynomials over the ground field.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol 2, No 1 (2007)
On the rigidity of regular bicycle (n,k)-gons
Creators: name: Csikós, Balázs
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: A bicycle (n, k)-gon is an equilateral n-gon whose k-diagonals are equal. In this paper, the order of infinitesimal flexibility of the regular n-gon within the family of bicycle (n, k)-gons is studied. An equation characterizing first order flexible regular bicycle (n, k)-gons were computed by S. Tabachnikov in [7]. This equation was solved by R. Connelly and the author in [4]. S. Tabachnikov has also constructed nontrivial deformations of the regular bicycle (n, k)-gon for certain pairs (n, k). The main result of the paper is that if the regular bicycle (n, k)-gon is first order flexible, but is not among Tabachnikov’s examples of deformable regular bicycle (n, k)-gons, then this bicycle polygon is second order flexible as well, however, it is third order rigid.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol 2, No 1 (2007)
Priestley duality for some algebras with a negation operator
Creators: name: Celani, Sergio A.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: In \cite{Celani} it was introduced the variety of $\lnot$-lattices as bounded

distributive lattice $\boldsymbol{A}$ endowed with a unary operation $\lnot$,

satisfying the axioms $\lnot0\approx1$ and $\lnot\left(  a\vee b\right)

\approx\lnot a\wedge\lnot b$. In this paper we shall apply the Priestley

duality developed in \cite{Celani} to give a unified, short and self-contained

Priestley duality for semi-De Morgan algebras, demi-$p$-lattices, almost

$p$-lattices, and weak Stone algebras.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol 2, No 2 (2007)
title: Encarcelar los cuerpos. Mujeres novohispanas, siglo XVIII
Creators: name: Galicia Isasmendi, Erika
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2023

description: La presente proposta analizzerà le cause per le quali le donne novo ispaniche furono recluse durante il XVIII secolo. Per esemplificare tale problematica la proposta è stata articolata in cinque paragrafi. Il primo ci farà conoscere gli spazi in cui queste sono state imprigionate e quindi si farà riferimento alle Casas de Recogimiento (Case di Rieducazione). In quegli spazi le donne furono tenute sotto stretto controllo, non solo fisico ma anche spirituale. Per quanto riguarda i paragrafi secondo, terzo e quarto, essi ci serviranno da riferimento e da dimostrazione per conoscere le trasgressioni compiute dalle donne. Per questo si catalogano e riprendono azioni legate con gli aspetti socio-economici (vendita di bevande vietate), sociali (il furto, l'aggressività, l'abbandono della casa e gli omicidi) e il criterio religioso per la classificazione di certi atteggiamenti e comportamenti nelle pratiche sessuali (l'incontinenza urinaria, l'adulterio, l'amicizia illecita, il concubinato, il cattivo comportamento e la prostituzione). Riguardo al quinto paragrafo intitolato Punire il corpo. Con la vergogna negli occhi, lo spirito umile e silenzioso, osserveremo le strategie che furono utilizzate per correggere le donne dissolute, facendo riferimento ai compiti spirituali e ai lavori domestici con cui si cercò di rieducare le donne da correggere.
Class number approximation in cubic

function fields
Creators: name: Scheidler, Renate
name: Stein, Andreas
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: We develop explicitly computable bounds for the order of the

Jacobian of a cubic function field. We use approximations via

truncated Euler products and thus derive effective methods

of computing the order of the Jacobian of a cubic function field.

Also, a detailed discussion of the zeta function of a cubic

function field extension is included.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol 2, No 2 (2007)
On the Computational Tractability of a Geographic Clustering Problem Arising in Redistricting
Creators: name: Cohen-Addad, Vincent
name: Klein, Philip N.
name: Marx, Dániel
name: Wheeler, Archer
name: Wolfram, Christopher
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Redistricting is the problem of dividing up a state into a given number k of regions (called districts) where the voters in each district are to elect a representative. The three primary criteria are: that each district be connected, that the populations of the districts be equal (or nearly equal), and that the districts are "compact". There are multiple competing definitions of compactness, usually minimizing some quantity. One measure that has been recently been used is number of cut edges. In this formulation of redistricting, one is given atomic regions out of which each district must be built (e.g., in the U.S., census blocks). The populations of the atomic regions are given. Consider the graph with one vertex per atomic region and an edge between atomic regions with a shared boundary of positive length. Define the weight of a vertex to be the population of the corresponding region. A districting plan is a partition of vertices into k pieces so that the parts have nearly equal weights and each part is connected. The districts are considered compact to the extent that the plan minimizes the number of edges crossing between different parts. There are two natural computational problems: find the most compact districting plan, and sample districting plans (possibly under a compactness constraint) uniformly at random. Both problems are NP-hard so we consider restricting the input graph to have branchwidth at most w. (A planar graph’s branchwidth is bounded, for example, by its diameter.) If both k and w are bounded by constants, the problems are solvable in polynomial time. In this paper, we give lower and upper bounds that characterize the complexity of these problems in terms of parameters k and w. For simplicity of notation, assume that each vertex has unit weight. We would ideally like algorithms whose running times are of the form O(f(k,w) n^c) for some constant c independent of k and w (in which case the problems are said to be fixed-parameter tractable with respect to those parameters). We show that, under standard complexity-theoretic assumptions, no such algorithms exist. However, the problems are fixed-parameter tractable with respect to each of these parameters individually: there exist algorithms with running times of the form O(f(k) n^{O(w)}) and O(f(w) n^{k+1}). The first result was previously known. The new one, however, is more relevant to the application to redistricting, at least for coarse instances. Indeed, we have implemented a version of the algorithm and have used to successfully find optimally compact solutions to all redistricting instances for France (except Paris, which operates under different rules) under various population-balance constraints. For these instances, the values for w are modest and the values for k are very small.
The cop density of a graph
Creators: name: Bonato, Anthony
name: Hahn, Geňa
name: Wang, Changping
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: We consider the game of Cops and Robber played with infinitely

many cops on countable graphs. We give a sufficient condition -

the strongly $1$-e.c.\ property - for the cop number to be

infinite. The cop density of a finite graph, defined as the ratio

of the cop number and the number of vertices, is investigated. In

the infinite case, the limits of the cop densities of chains of

finite graphs are studied. For a strongly $1$-e.c.\ graph, any

real number in $[0,1]$ may be realized as a cop density of the

graph. We prove that if the cop number is infinite, then there is

a chain with cop density $1;$ however, we give an example with cop

number $1$ and cop density $1.$ We consider the cop density of

finite connected graphs, and prove that for the $G(n,p)$ random

graph, almost surely the cop density is concentrated around

$\frac{\ln }{n}.$
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol 2, No 2 (2007)
On the Impossibility of Purely Algebraic Signatures
Creators: name: Döttling, Nico
name: Hartmann, Dominik
name: Hofheinz, Dennis
name: Kiltz, Eike
name: Schäge, Sven
name: Ursu, Bogdan
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: The existence of one-way functions implies secure digital signatures, but not public-key encryption (at least in a black-box setting). Somewhat surprisingly, though, efficient public-key encryption schemes appear to be much easier to construct from concrete algebraic assumptions (such as the factoring of Diffie-Hellman-like assumptions) than efficient digital signature schemes. In this work, we provide one reason for this apparent difficulty to construct efficient signature schemes. Specifically, we prove that a wide range of algebraic signature schemes (in which verification essentially checks a number of linear equations over a group) fall to conceptually surprisingly simple linear algebra attacks. In fact, we prove that in an algebraic signature scheme, sufficiently many signatures can be linearly combined to a signature of a fresh message. We present attacks both in known-order and hidden-order groups (although in hidden-order settings, we have to restrict our definition of algebraic signatures a little). More explicitly, we show: the insecurity of all algebraic signature schemes in Maurer’s generic group model (in pairing-free groups), as long as these schemes do not rely on other cryptographic assumptions, such as hash functions. the insecurity of a natural class of signatures in hidden-order groups, where verification consists of linear equations over group elements. We believe that this highlights the crucial role of public verifiability in digital signature schemes. Namely, while public-key encryption schemes do not require any publicly verifiable structure on ciphertexts, it is exactly this structure on signatures that invites attacks like ours and makes it hard to construct efficient signatures.
ExoMol: molecular line lists for exoplanet and other atmospheres
Creators: name: Tennyson, Jonathan
name: Yurchenko, Sergei N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of extrasolar planets is one of the major scientific advances of the last two decades. Hundreds of planets have now been detected and astronomers are beginning to characterise their composition and physical characteristics. To do this requires a huge quantity of spectroscopic data most of which is not available from laboratory studies. The ExoMol project will offer a comprehensive solution to this problem by providing spectroscopic data on all the molecular transitions of importance in the atmospheres of exoplanets. These data will be widely applicable to other problems and will be used for studies on cool stars, brown dwarfs and circumstellar environments. This paper lays out the scientific foundations of this project and reviews previous work in this area. A mixture of first principles and empirically-tuned quantum mechanical methods will be used to compute comprehensive and very large rotation-vibration and rotation-vibration-electronic (rovibronic) line lists. Methodologies will be developed for treating larger molecules such as methane and nitric acid. ExoMol will rely on these developments and the use of state-of-the-art computing.
description: MNRAS (in press)
Bounds on the f-vectors of tight spans
Creators: name: Joswig, Michael
name: Herrmann, Sven
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: The tight span $T_d$ of a metric $d$ on a finite set is the subcomplex of bounded faces of an unbounded polyhedron defined by $d$. If $d$ is generic then $T_d$ is known to be dual to a regular triangulation of a second hypersimplex. A tight upper and a partial lower bound for the face numbers of $T_d$ (or the dual regular triangulation) are presented.
description: Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Vol 2, No 2 (2007)
Life review with student counsellors : exploring therapeutically meaningful experiences in a guided autobiography group
Creators: name: Gerlitz, Julia Estelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This narrative inquiry explored the meaning that graduate students in a counselling psychology program ascribed to the experience of life review. Life review is defined as an evaluative process of intentionally revisiting past events and memories in order to integrate these experiences into the present. The particular method of life review employed in this study was guided autobiography, a group-based approach to life review in which participants write autobiographical stories, read the stories aloud in a group setting, and receive comments and feedback from fellow group members. Previous research in the life review literature has predominately focused on investigating the use of life review with older adults nearing the end of life, has relied heavily on quantitative research methods, and has identified the outcomes of life review, rather than explored the process. The current research contributes to the literature by exploring life review from a qualitative perspective with a younger demographic, by focusing on the underlying meaning- making processes of life review, and by exploring therapeutically meaningful experiences fostered in a guided autobiography group. Participants’ narrative accounts of their experiences in a guided autobiography workshop are presented in this document, and contribute to understanding the viability of life review to promote personal change in the lives of adults in young to mid-adulthood. Twelve thematic findings were generated in this research, which confirm and extend prior research. Novel contributions to the literature include identifying key therapeutic processes that occurred in each phase of the guided autobiography process and the frequency with which they occurred. The most frequently occurring therapeutic processes were a sense of connection, new awareness and insight, and making sense or new meaning out of past experiences. Based on these findings, the study concludes that life review is beneficial for a younger population and suggests it can promote experiences that support personal change in the lives of individuals in young to mid-adulthood. Specific recommendations are made for the therapeutic application of life review, most notably the proposal that an individual follow-up interview be added as a final phase to the guided autobiography process to enhance therapeutic gains.
Three-body breakup within the fully discretized Faddeev equations
Creators: name: Rubtsova, O. A.
name: Pomerantsev, V. N.
name: Kukulin, V. I.
name: Faessler, Amand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel approach is developed to find the three-body breakup amplitudes and cross sections within the modified Faddeev equation framework. The method is based on the lattice-like discretization of the three-body continuum with a three-body stationary wave-packet basis in momentum space. The approach makes it possible to simplify drastically all the three- and few-body breakup calculations due to discrete wave-packet representations for the few-body continuum and simultaneous lattice representation for all the scattering operators entering the integral equation kernels. As a result, the few-body breakup can be treated as a particular case of multi-channel scattering in which part of the channels represents the true few-body continuum states. As an illustration for the novel approach, an accurate calculations for the three-body breakup process $n+d\to n+n+p$ with non-local and local $NN$ interactions are calculated. The results obtained reproduce nicely the benchmark calculation results using the traditional Faddeev scheme which requires much more tedious and time-consuming calculations.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures
Rate-1 Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Creators: name: Chardouvelis, Orestis
name: Döttling, Nico
name: Malavolta, Giulio
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2023

description: Secure function evaluation (SFE) allows Alice to publish an encrypted version of her input m such that Bob (holding a circuit C) can send a single message that reveals C(m) to Alice, and nothing more. Security is required to hold against malicious parties, that may behave arbitrarily. In this work we study the notion of SFE in the quantum setting, where Alice outputs an encrypted quantum state ∣∣????⟩ | ψ ⟩ and learns ????(∣∣????⟩) C ( | ψ ⟩ ) after receiving Bob’s message. We show that, assuming the quantum hardness of the learning with errors problem (LWE), there exists an SFE protocol for quantum computation with communication complexity (|∣∣????⟩|+|????(∣∣????⟩)|)⋅(1+????(1)) which is nearly optimal. This result is obtained by two main technical steps, which might be of independent interest. Specifically, we show (i) a construction of a rate-1 quantum fully-homomorphic encryption and (ii) a generic transformation to achieve malicious circuit privacy in the quantum setting.