cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Banging heads onboard buses: Assessment scheme to improve injury mitigation for bus passengers
Creators: name: Edwards, Mervyn
name: Edwards, Alix
name: Appleby, Josh
name: Beaumont, Dean
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Objective: Although bus travel is one of the safest modes of transport, a substantial number of bus passengers in London are still injured in collision and harsh maneuver incidents, in particular emergency braking. It is not well understood how these passengers are injured. The objective was to better understand the injury mechanisms and develop countermeasures with a test and assessment procedure to prevent or mitigate these injuries. Methods: The UK national STATS19 data were used to determine the size of the problem. Data, including CCTV footage, in combination with inspection of current buses, were used to determine injury mechanisms and identify features and areas in buses associated with more injuries. An assessment system based on visual inspection was developed to encourage a reduction in the number of features associated with injury. Results: The STATS19 analysis showed that three quarters of all injured casualties occurred in incidents where there was no impact, with this proportion rising for seriously injured casualties. Overrepresentation of older females was also seen. The CCTV analysis and bus examinations highlighted issues with poorly positioned handrails, lack of compartmentalization (restraint), and objects with sharp edges and corners. It also showed that a much higher proportion of passengers seated in the area close to the middle doors and wheelchair area were injured compared to other areas of the bus. Factors contributing to this result were that this area contained more features associated with injury and that persons with reduced mobility have greater exposure in this area; that is, more vulnerable passengers currently sit in the less safe areas of the bus. Conclusions: A novel analysis of CCTV footage has enabled a better understanding of injury mechanisms for bus passengers to be developed. In combination with inspection of current buses, this has been used to develop an assessment system to improve the safety of buses in London.
title: Warum fällt das Positive so schwer? Beschreibung von Herausforderungen bei der Gestaltung einer positiven User Experience
Creators: name: Burmester, Michael
name: Laib, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2019

description: Für die Gestaltung von Technologie für positive Erlebnisse während der Nutzung liegen mittlerweile fundierte Vorgehensweisen und Methoden vor. Dennoch zeigt sich, dass immer wieder Schwierigkeiten bei Gestaltungsvorhaben entstehen, Erlebniskonzepte zu entwickeln, die tatsächlich zum positiven Erleben beitragen. Es wurden sechs Problematiken identifiziert: Positives wird nicht als eigener Wert gesehen, häufig werden eher pragmatische als hedonische Konzepte entwickelt, spezielle Methoden und Instrumente können nicht angemessen eingesetzt werden, Konzepte positiver User Experience werden häufig oberflächlich entwickelt, potenzielle negative Konsequenzen werden zu wenig bei der Entwicklung beachtet und positive User Experience wird instrumentalisiert um beispielsweise durch positive Erlebnisse Verhalten zu ändern. In diesem Beitrag werden diese Probleme näher erläutert und zu den Problemfeldern Lösungen vorgestellt. Abschließend geben wir einen Ausblick auf die Weiterentwicklung der Gestaltung für positive User Experience in Hinblick auf betriebliche Umsetzung sowie auf wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Lösungen.
Mechanics of Rotating Isolated Horizons
Creators: name: Ashtekar, Abhay
name: Beetle, Christopher
name: Lewandowski, Jerzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black hole mechanics was recently extended by replacing the more commonly used event horizons in stationary space-times with isolated horizons in more general space-times (which may admit radiation arbitrarily close to black holes). However, so far the detailed analysis has been restricted to non-rotating black holes (although it incorporated arbitrary distortion, as well as electromagnetic, Yang-Mills and dilatonic charges). We now fill this gap by first introducing the notion of isolated horizon angular momentum and then extending the first law to the rotating case.
description: 31 pages REVTeX, 1 eps figure; Minor typos corrected and a footnote added
title: Implementierung eines mitarbeiterrollenbasierten Informations-systems in einer modularen Produktionsumgebung mittels einer menschenzentrierten Verwaltungsschale
Creators: name: Birtel, Max
name: Motsch, William
name: Ruskowski, Martin
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2019

description: Aufgrund sich schnell ändernder Kundenwünsche und den damit verbundenen Kundenanforderungen muss die Produktion von Produkten immer flexibler werden. Modulare Produktionsumgebungen haben sich hier als ein Lösungsansatz etabliert. Diese basieren auf Produktionslinien, die aus modularen Produktionsmodulen, sogenannten Cyber-physischen Produktionsmodulen (CPPM), bestehen. Durch die erreichte Flexibilisierung liegen Informationen zunehmend umfangreicher aber auch dezentraler vor. Dadurch wird es für Mitarbeiter auf dem Shopfloor immer schwieriger an genau die Informationen zu kommen, die für ihre Aufgabe relevant sind. Durch den Ansatz der Verwaltungsschale (VWS) für CPPM werden Produktionsmodule befähigt Informationen in strukturierter Form vorhalten zu können. Allerdings mangelt es derzeit an einer Klassifizierung von Informationen auf dem modularen Shopfloor sowie einer Klassifizierung von Mitarbeitern und deren Informationsbedarfe. Dieser Sachverhalt wird aufgearbeitet und Informations- sowie Mitarbeiterklassen identifiziert. Diese werden im Anschluss gegenübergestellt und bewertet, welche Informationsklasse welchen Mitarbeitern voraussichtlich den meisten Mehrwert bringen kann. In einer prototypischen Implementierung erfolgt die Spezifizierung und Implementierung der VWS für eine solche mitarbeiterrollenbasierte Informationsbereitstellung. Es erfolgt eine Beschreibung ausgewählter Mitarbeiterklassen, eine Zuordnung der dazugehörigen Visualisierungen auf einem mobilen Endgerät und die dazugehörige Implementierung in der verwendeten Systemstruktur.
{\bf $τ$-Function Evaluation of Gap Probabilities in Orthogonal and Symplectic Matrix Ensembles}
Creators: name: Forrester, P. J.
name: Witte, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15A52;33E17;58F07

description: It has recently been emphasized that all known exact evaluations of gap probabilities for classical unitary matrix ensembles are in fact $τ$-functions for certain Painlevé systems. We show that all exact evaluations of gap probabilities for classical orthogonal matrix ensembles, either known or derivable from the existing literature, are likewise $τ$-functions for certain Painlevé systems. In the case of symplectic matrix ensembles all exact evaluations, either known or derivable from the existing literature, are identified as the mean of two $τ$-functions, both of which correspond to Hamiltonians satisfying the same differential equation, differing only in the boundary condition. Furthermore the product of these two $τ$-functions gives the gap probability in the corresponding unitary symmetry case, while one of those $τ$-functions is the gap probability in the corresponding orthogonal symmetry case.
description: AMS-Latex
Nephius argus Grebennikov 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Grebennikov, Vasily V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dryophthoridae
Nephius
Nephius argus

description: Nephius argus sp. nov.
Figs 2A–K
 Diagnostic description. Holotype male (Fig. 2); length between anterior edge of pronotum and elytral apex 5.95 mm; body background color (not considering whitish pilosity) black (Figs 2A–D); rostrum in lateral view more curved (Fig. 2C); eyes ventrally clearly separated (Fig. 2E); central longitudinal groove on pronotum absent (Fig. 2A); disk of pronotum nearly smooth, with only occasional shallow and small punctures separated by smooth areas 2–3 times their diameter (Fig. 2A); elytra widest at middle (Fig. 2A); odd interstriae about twice as wide and high, as even interstriae (Fig. 2A); interstriae 2 and 3 at elytral apex each with sizable hemispherical projection (Fig. 2A); male genitalia as in Figs 2H–K; DNA data as in Table 2.
 Material examined. Holotype male (CNC): “ VIETNAM, Tam Dao, N 2127'48" E10538'46", 16.v.2012, 1229m, sift06, V.Grebennikov, “CNCCOLVG00004402.
 Distribution. Known only from the Tam Dao Mountains, northern Vietnam. Elevation: 1,229 m.
 Etymology. The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of an Argonaut, co-builder (with the goddess Athena) of Argo; noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2018, Dryophthorinae weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) of the forest floor in Southeast Asia: DNA analysis of two new Nephius from Vietnam and Taiwan suggests non-monophyly of Stromboscerini, pp. 381-387 in Zootaxa 4500 (3) on pages 385-386, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5297723
Pauli blocking factors in quantum pumps
Creators: name: Kim, Sang Wook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Pauli blocking factor in quantum pumps using Floquet formalism. Even though the time dependent potentials in quantum pumping can not only cause inelastic scatterings but also break the micro-reversibility, i.e. $T^+(E',E) \neq T^-(E,E')$, the Pauli blocking factor is unnecessary when the scattering process through the scatterer is coherent. The well defined scattering states extending from one reservoir to the others form a complete non-orthogonal set. Regardless of the non-orthogonality one can obtain the pumped currents using the field operator formalism. The current expression finally obtained do not contain Pauli blocking factor.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
title: A WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE INFORMATION HUB FOR FUTURE VEHICLE ENGINEERING
Creators: name: Fachbach, Bernd
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2019

description: Mobility must change drastically within the next 5 to 10 years especially in urban areas. It must fit to societal and ecological requirements and expectations. Therefore, also vehicles and transportation products will change as well as related business models. New players and start-ups have to be integrated within the collaboration framework, approaches for cooperation, organization and process design have to be thought out in a new way. As a consequence, vehicle development itself has to look different. Complexity of product, process and cooperation will still rise [1] due to new product functions, increased individualization of mobility products and dynamic market changes. Players who are able to handle complexity and permanent changes and uncertainties ("VUCA") in a proper way will win this competition. An important aspect will be the question of how data and information can be provided efficiently, interdisciplinary and user-oriented over the entire lifecycle. Within the "Future Engineering Lab" research project, VIRTUAL VEHICLE, together with well-known partners from industry and research, addresses aspects of how vehicle development and the development environment should look in the future. These approaches will be presented in a laboratory environment in order to make them more tangible and to better support decision-making processes. One result is a demonstrator that graphically depicts information in the context of arbitrary views, allowing for intuitive and hassle-free navigation and exploration of engineering data for developers. This paper explains the objective, concept and claims of the demonstrator application.
Multi-modal Predictive Models of Diabetes Progression
Creators: name: Ramazi, Ramin
name: Perndorfer, Christine
name: Soriano, Emily
name: Laurenceau, Jean-Philippe
name: Beheshti, Rahmatollah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: With the increasing availability of wearable devices, continuous monitoring of individuals' physiological and behavioral patterns has become significantly more accessible. Access to these continuous patterns about individuals' statuses offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying complex diseases and health conditions such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). T2D is a widely common chronic disease that its roots and progression patterns are not fully understood. Predicting the progression of T2D can inform timely and more effective interventions to prevent or manage the disease. In this study, we have used a dataset related to 63 patients with T2D that includes the data from two different types of wearable devices worn by the patients: continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices and activity trackers (ActiGraphs). Using this dataset, we created a model for predicting the levels of four major biomarkers related to T2D after a one-year period. We developed a wide and deep neural network and used the data from the demographic information, lab tests, and wearable sensors to create the model. The deep part of our method was developed based on the long short-term memory (LSTM) structure to process the time-series dataset collected by the wearables. In predicting the patterns of the four biomarkers, we have obtained a root mean square error of 1.67% for HBA1c, 6.22 mg/dl for HDL cholesterol, 10.46 mg/dl for LDL cholesterol, and 18.38 mg/dl for Triglyceride. Compared to existing models for studying T2D, our model offers a more comprehensive tool for combining a large variety of factors that contribute to the disease.
title: Cyber-Physical Systems as Enablers in Manufacturing Communication andWorker Support
Creators: name: Gursch, Heimo
name: Cemernek, David
name: Wuttei, Andreas
name: Kern, Roman
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2019

description: The increasing potential of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) drives higher degrees of digitisation in the manufacturing industry. Such catchphrases as “Industry 4.0” and “smart manufacturing” reflect this tendency. The implementation of these paradigms is not merely an end to itself, but a new way of collaboration across existing department and process boundaries. Converting the process input, internal and output data into digital twins offers the possibility to test and validate the parameter changes via simulations, whose results can be used to update guidelines for shop-floor workers. The result is a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) that brings together the physical shop-floor, the digital data created in the manufacturing process, the simulations, and the human workers. The CPS offers new ways of collaboration on a shared data basis: the workers can annotate manufacturing problems directly in the data, obtain updated process guidelines, and use knowledge from other experts to address issues. Although the CPS cannot replace manufacturing management since it is formalised through various approaches, e. g., Six-Sigma or Advanced Process Control (APC), it is a new tool for validating decisions in simulation before they are implemented, allowing to continuously improve the guidelines.
title: IT-unterstützte Datenerfassung zur Ableitung persönlicher Produktivitätsfaktoren: eine systematische Literaturanalyse
Creators: name: Poppe, Michael
name: Lambusch, Fabienne
name: Fellmann, Michael
name: Lichtwark, Martin
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2019

description: Durch die Einführung neuer Methoden und Werkzeuge oder die Veränderung von Arbeitsprozessen, werden neue Anforderungen an die davon betroffenen Mitarbeitenden gestellt. Das kann deren Produktivität, kognitive Performance oder Stresslevel beeinflussen. Um solche Veränderungen erfolgreich umsetzen zu können und gleichzeitig hohe Wirkungen mit geringen individuellen Nebenwirkungen zu erzielen, müssen die Auswirkungen von diesen Veränderungen auf die Mitarbeitenden untersucht werden. Hierfür ist ein Untersuchungsaufbau notwendig, der die Probanden nicht spürbar beeinflusst. Durch den sinkenden Platzbedarf moderner Technik ist es möglich, mehrere verschiedene Sensoren in kleinen Geräten wie Uhren und Stirnbändern zu verbauen, die eine Aufzeichnung unterschiedlicher Parameter ermöglichen und den Nutzer dabei nicht beeinflussen. Diese Parameter wie Herzratenvariabilität (HRV), elektrischer Hautleitwert und physische Aktivität lassen Rückschlüsse auf verschiedene persönliche Produktivitätsfaktoren wie kognitive Performance oder Stress zu. Die in dieser Arbeit durchgeführte systematische Literaturanalyse dient dazu, den aktuellen Stand der Forschung auf diesem Gebiet zu erfassen und darzustellen.
title: A Research Agenda to Deploy Technology Enhanced Learning with Augmented Reality in Industry
Creators: name: Spitzer, Michael
name: Gsellmann, Inge
name: Hebenstreit, Matthias
Damalas
name: Ebner, Martin
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2019

description: To apply Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) with Augmented Reality (AR) in industry, a suitable methodology is necessary. This work focuses on how to deploy and evaluate AR learning scenarios in industrial environments. The methodology evolved within the two EU projects FACTS4WORKERS and iDEV40 and has been improved iteratively. The first step is to investigate the use case at the industry partner. Then the appropriate concept is defined. The next step is to develop a first prototype. This prototype is then improved during several iterations according to the feedback of the industry partner. When the prototype reaches an appropriate Technology Readiness Level (TRL), a final evaluation is carried out to verify the software artifact against the gathered requirements.
Shared Landscape Model Integrating the Management of Culture and Nature: Thesis and Exegesis
Creators: name: Francis, Keven Ronald
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Landscape Management Culture Nature Arts

description: PhD project (the Project) includes a Thesis and an associated Exegesis. The Project is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural investigation of shared management landscapes that considers the integration of cultural and natural heritage management. The aim of the research is to propose a management model to address failures in the sustainability and effectiveness of shared management partnerships, manifest in damage to both the heritage and historic fabric. The Case Studies are the Australian world heritage locations of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Purnululu National Park and Reserve, and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The research reveals that within Australia, the approach to managing the relationship of culture and nature within a landscape is dominated by the outmoded Western dualist model that manifests in the separation of the management of cultural and natural heritage, whilst simultaneously separating historic fabric and heritage management. This model is in stark contrast to the Australian traditional Aboriginal partners approach of managing landscapes as ‘Country’, which recognises the symbiosis and integration of culture and nature. The Thesis provides evidence for a new landscape management model integrating the management of Culture, Nature and Art (CNA) focused on the intangible of heritage as the primary driver of policy development and management delivery. In engaging with CNA simultaneously the Western dualist model is shifted closer to the holistic traditional Aboriginal perspective of ‘Country’ thus opening the potential for greater cross-cultural understanding and reciprocity. The Exegesis provides an exploration of the concept of negotiation as encountered through the experience of sense of place within the landscape to provide an intangible qualitative basis on which to informed landscape management priorities. The visual practice is pursued through the mediums of photography, drawing, painting, firedrawings, sculpture and installation that engage with a reciprocity between mediums and cyclic movement between field and studio. The continual shifting dialogue between mediums and locations produces an engagement with ‘the liminal’ relating to the decisions required to transverse cultural thresholds and become enveloped within the process of cross-cultural negotiations.
Vizcayaptera Heiss 2018, gen.nov.
Creators: name: Heiss, Ernst
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Vizcayaptera

description: Vizcayaptera gen.nov.
 Type species: Vizcayaptera minuta sp.nov.
 Etymology. Refers to the Philippine Province of Nueva Vizcaya in Central Luzon where this new taxon was found.
 Diagnosis. Apterous, small sized; body egg-shaped, surface smooth and shiny, finely granulate along lateral margins of body, the median thoracic ridge and elevation of tergal disk; coloration piceous, legs and antennae yellowish brown; legs and antennal segment I beset with sparse short erect bristles.
 Description. Head: Larger than wide, clypeus short reaching one quarter of antennal segment I; antenniferous lobes acute: antennae more than twice the width of head, segment I longest; rostrum short, arising from an open atrium reaching half-length of head.
 Pronotum: Trapezoidal, lateral granulate margins converging anteriorly, disk with a longitudinal furrow and smooth ovate plates laterally; meso—and metanotum split at middle by a longitudinal bottle-shaped granulate ridge separated by deep furrows from lateral ovate plates, the lateral margins granulate; metanotum posteriorly fused to narrow granulate transverse mtg I, this fused to mtg II which is split medially by a ridge.
 Abdomen: Tergal plate smooth, only slightly elevated along midline; deltg II+III fused, deltg III–VII separated by sutures, their surface with two round smooth callosities each and granulate margins; spiracles II–VII lateral on dorsally reflexed vltg II–VII and visible from above, VIII lateral on ptg VIII.
 Venter: Prosternum with an inverted T-shaped carina, median part of meso- and metasternum smooth, fused to sterna II+III; IV–VI separated by deep transverse furrows; sternite VI with a concave posterior incision for the reception of the medially split sternite VII.
 Legs: Unarmed, trochanters fused to femora but fusion line distinct.
 Comparative notes and discussion. Only two apterous Carventinae are recorded so far from Philippine Islands: Ainocoris dybasi (Drake, 1957) from Sulu Island and Trigonaptera pandani Kormilev, 1968 from Palawan. Vizcayaptera differs from both and all other apterous Aradidae genera described to date from Oriental and Indosaustralian Regions by a combination of characters such as small size, oval habitus, open rostral atrium, structure of head and thorax and position of spiracles.
Although only a single female specimen is available which is not resembling any other flatbug, these differences justify the erection and introduction of a new genus for it.
description: Published as part of Heiss, Ernst, 2018, Two new genera and species of flat bugs from the Philippines (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae), pp. 426-432 in Zootaxa 4500 (3) on pages 428-429, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5297737
Quantum cosmology with a curvature squared action
Creators: name: Sanyal, A. K.
name: Modak, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correct quantum description for a curvature squared term in the action can be obtained by casting the action in the canonical form with the introduction of a variable which is the negative of the first derivative of the field variable appearing in the action, only after removing the total derivative terms from the action. We present the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and obtain the expression for the probability density and current density from the equation of continuity. Furthermore, in the weak energy limit we obtain the classical Einstein equation. Finally we present a solution of the wave equation.
description: 8 pages, revtex
Stochastic Sampling Simulation for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
Creators: name: Anderson, Cyrus
name: Du, Xiaoxiao
name: Vasudevan, Ram
name: Johnson-Roberson, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Urban environments pose a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs) as they must safely navigate while in close proximity to many pedestrians. It is crucial for the AV to correctly understand and predict the future trajectories of pedestrians to avoid collision and plan a safe path. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown promising results in accurately predicting pedestrian trajectories, relying on large amounts of annotated real-world data to learn pedestrian behavior. However, collecting and annotating these large real-world pedestrian datasets is costly in both time and labor. This paper describes a novel method using a stochastic sampling-based simulation to train DNNs for pedestrian trajectory prediction with social interaction. Our novel simulation method can generate vast amounts of automatically-annotated, realistic, and naturalistic synthetic pedestrian trajectories based on small amounts of real annotation. We then use such synthetic trajectories to train an off-the-shelf state-of-the-art deep learning approach Social GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) to perform pedestrian trajectory prediction. Our proposed architecture, trained only using synthetic trajectories, achieves better prediction results compared to those trained on human-annotated real-world data using the same network. Our work demonstrates the effectiveness and potential of using simulation as a substitution for human annotation efforts to train high-performing prediction algorithms such as the DNNs.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures and 2 tables
Lie brackets on affine bundles
Creators: name: Grabowski, Janusz
name: Grabowska, Katarzyna
name: Urbanski, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A15 (Primary); 17B66, 17B99, 53D17 (Secondary)

description: Natural analogs of Lie brackets on affine bundles are studied, based on natural examples from differential geometry and analytical mechanics. In particular, a close relation to Lie algebroids and, by a sort of duality, to affine analogs of Poisson structures is established as well as affine versions of the complete lift of a section and the Cartan exterior calculus.
description: 22 pages, Lamstex. The revised version, to appear in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
Smicridea (Rhyacophylax) jundiai Almeida & Flint 2002
Creators: name: Alves, André Almeida
name: Santos, Allan Paulo Moreira
name: Nessimian, Jorge Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydropsychidae
Smicridea
Smicridea jundiai

description: Smicridea (Rhyacophylax) jundiai Almeida & Flint 2002
 Material examined. BRAZIL: Mato Grosso: Barra do Garças, Córrego dos Índios, Pousada Cachoeira Cristal, 15°43’03.2”S, 52°36’51.5”W, 368 m a.s.l., 07.ii.2015, A.P.M. Santos & D.M. Takiya leg., 7 males (DZRJ).
 Distribution. BRAZIL [Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo (Almeida & Flint 2002; Dumas et al. 2010; Souza et al. 2017), Mato Grosso (new record)].
description: Published as part of Alves, André Almeida, Santos, Allan Paulo Moreira & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2018, A new species of Smicridea McLachlan 1871 (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from the Caatinga biome and new distributional records from Brazil, pp. 388-396 in Zootaxa 4500 (3) on page 393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5297731
Electrically tuneable exciton energy exchange between spatially separated 2-dimensional semiconductors in a microcavity
Creators: name: Fernandez, Henry A.
name: Withers, Freddie
name: Russo, Saverio
name: Barnes, William L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical control over the energy exchange between exciton states mediated by cavity-polaritons at room temperature is demonstrated. Spatially separated field effect transistors based on monolayers of WS$_2$ and MoS$_2$ are placed in a tuneable Fabry-Pérot microcavity. This device is specially designed for the formation of exciton-polaritons that combine the two exciton species and a tuneable cavity mode. It is further shown that the tuning of the free carrier density in the WS$_2$ film leads to a strong modulation of the Rabi splitting that modifies the excitonic and photonic nature of exciton-polaritons. Electrical control of polaritonic devices may lead to technological applications using switchable quantum states.
description: Submitted
Accurate kinetic energy evaluation in electronic structure calculations with localised functions on real space grids
Creators: name: Skylaris, Chris-Kriton
name: Mostofi, Arash A.
name: Haynes, Peter D.
name: Pickard, Chris J.
name: Payne, Mike C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for calculating the kinetic energy of localised functions represented on a regular real space grid. This method uses fast Fourier transforms applied to restricted regions commensurate with the simulation cell and is applicable to grids of any symmetry. In the limit of large systems it scales linearly with system size. Comparison with the finite difference approach shows that our method offers significant improvements in accuracy without loss of efficiency.
description: Standard Latex article format, 16 pages, 3 figures. Published in Computer Physics Communications vol.140 (2001) pp. 315-322
Constraining the quintessence equation of state with SnIa data and CMB peaks
Creators: name: Corasaniti, P. S.
name: Copeland, E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quintessence has been introduced as an alternative to the cosmological constant scenario to account for the current acceleration of the universe. This new dark energy component allows values of the equation of state parameter $w_{Q}^0\geq-1$, and in principle measurements of cosmological distances to Type Ia supernovae can be used to distinguish between these two types of models. Assuming a flat universe, we use the supernovae data and measurements of the position of the acoustic peaks in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectra to constrain a rather general class of Quintessence potentials, including inverse power law models and recently proposed Supergravity inspired potentials. In particular we use a likelihood analysis, marginalizing over the dark energy density $Ω_{Q}$, the physical baryon density $Ω_{b}h^2$ and the scalar spectral index $n$, to constrain the slopes of our Quintessence potential. Considering only the first Doppler peak the best fit in our range of models gives $w_{Q}^0\sim-0.8$. However, including the SnIa data and the three peaks, we find an upper limit on the present value of the equation of state parameter, $-1\leq w_{Q}^0\leq-0.93$ at $2σ$, a result that appears to rule out a class of recently proposed potentials.
description: Accepted for pubblication in PRD, 7 pages, 6 figures. New revised analysis
Decidability of quantified propositional intuitionistic logic and S4 on trees
Creators: name: Zach, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03B20 (Primary), 03B25, 03B45 (Secondary)

description: Quantified propositional intuitionistic logic is obtained from propositional intuitionistic logic by adding quantifiers \forall p, \exists p over propositions. In the context of Kripke semantics, a proposition is a subset of the worlds in a model structure which is upward closed. Kremer (1997) has shown that the quantified propositional intuitionistic logic Hπ+ based on the class of all partial orders is recursively isomorphic to full second-order logic. He raised the question of whether the logic resulting from restriction to trees is axiomatizable. It is shown that it is, in fact, decidable. The methods used can also be used to establish the decidability of modal S4 with propositional quantification on similar types of Kripke structures.
description: v2, 9 pages, corrections and additions; v1 8 pages
The detection of drowsiness using a driver monitoring system
Creators: name: Schwarz, Chris
name: Gaspar, John
name: Miller, Thomas
name: Yousefian, Reza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objective: Drowsiness is a major cause of driver impairment leading to crashes and fatalities. Research has established the ability to detect drowsiness with various kinds of sensors. We studied drowsy driving in a high-fidelity driving simulator and evaluated the ability of an automotive production-ready driver monitoring system (DMS) to detect drowsy driving. Additionally, this feature was compared to and combined with signals from vehicle-based sensors. Methods: The National Advanced Driving Simulator was used to expose drivers to long, monotonous drives. Twenty participants drove for about 4 h in the simulator between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. They were allowed to use cruise control and traffic was sparse and semirandom, with both slower- and faster-moving vehicles. Observational ratings of drowsiness (ORDs) were used as the ground truth for drowsiness, and several dependent measures were calculated from vehicle and DMS signals. Drowsiness classification models were created that used only vehicle signals, only driver monitoring signals, and a combination of the 2 sources. Results: The model that used DMS signals performed better than the one that used only vehicle signals; however, the combination of the two performed the best. The models were effective at discriminating low levels of drowsiness from moderate to severe drowsiness; however, they were not effective at telling the difference between moderate and severe levels. A binary model that lumped drowsiness into 2 classes had an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.897. Conclusions: Blinks and saccades have been shown to be predictive of microsleeps; however, it may be that detection of microsleeps and lane departures occurs too late. Therefore, it is encouraging that the model was able to distinguish mild from moderate drowsy driving. The use of automation may make vehicle-based signals useless for characterizing driver states, providing further motivation for a DMS. Future improvements in impairment detection systems may be expected through a combination of improved hardware, physiological measures from unobtrusive sensors and wearables, and the intelligent integration of environmental variables like time of day and time on task.
Entomobrya lanuginosa
Creators: name: H. - J
name: Burkhardt, U.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Entomobryidae
Entomobrya
Entomobrya lanuginosa

description: Entomobrya lanuginosa (NICOLET 1842)
M a t e r i a l: 2 Expl. Vai Palm Beach, 6 Expl. Kritsa Katharo Plateau/2.
Eine Art Zentral- und Nordeuropas, die vor allen Dingen Streuschichten und Grasflächen offener Habitate bewohnt (JORDANA 2012). Erstnachweis für Kreta.
description: Published as part of H. - J & Burkhardt, U., 2012, Interessante Collembolennachweise aus Ostkreta (Hexapoda, Collembola), pp. 1669-1676 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on page 1670, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10106991
Smicridea (Rhyacophylax) marlieri Flint 1978
Creators: name: Alves, André Almeida
name: Santos, Allan Paulo Moreira
name: Nessimian, Jorge Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydropsychidae
Smicridea
Smicridea marlieri

description: Smicridea (Rhyacophylax) marlieri Flint 1978
 Material examined. BRAZIL: Roraima: Amajari, Estação Ecológica de Maracá, Rio Uraricoera, White sheet, 03°20’59”N, 61°25’22”W, 83 m a.s.l., 24.iii.2016, A.P.M. Santos, A.L.D. Ferreira & F. Xavier-Filho legs., 1 male (DZRJ); Amajari, Rio Amajari, White sheet, 03°39’50”N, 61°21’24”W, 92 m a.s.l., 30.iii.2016, A.P.M. Santos, R. Boldrini & A.L.D. Ferreira leg., 2 males (DZRJ).
 Distribution. BRAZIL [Amazonas, Pará (Flint 1978), Roraima (new record)], VENEZUELA.
description: Published as part of Alves, André Almeida, Santos, Allan Paulo Moreira & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2018, A new species of Smicridea McLachlan 1871 (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from the Caatinga biome and new distributional records from Brazil, pp. 388-396 in Zootaxa 4500 (3) on page 393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5297731
Human Sexual Contact Network as a Bipartite Graph
Creators: name: Ergun, Guler
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A simple model to encapsulate the essential growth properties of \emph{the web of human sexual contacts} is presented. In the model only heterosexual connection is considered and represented by a random growing bipartite graph where both male-female contact networks grow simultaneously. The time evolution of the model is analysed by a rate equation approach leading to confirm that male and female sexual contact distributions decay as power laws with exponents depending on influx and charisma of the sexes.
description: Corrected typos, to be published in Physica A
SurfaceBrush: From Virtual Reality Drawings to Manifold Surfaces
Creators: name: Rosales, Enrique
name: Rodriguez, Jafet
name: Sheffer, Alla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Popular Virtual Reality (VR) tools allow users to draw varying-width, ribbon-like 3D brush strokes by moving a hand-held controller in 3D space. Artists frequently use dense collections of such strokes to draw virtual 3D shapes. We propose SurfaceBrush, a surfacing method that converts such VR drawings into user-intended manifold free-form 3D surfaces, providing a novel approach for modeling 3D shapes. The inputs to our method consist of dense collections of artist-drawn stroke ribbons described by the positions and normals of their central polylines, and ribbon widths. These inputs are highly distinct from those handled by existing surfacing frameworks and exhibit different sparsity and error patterns, necessitating a novel surfacing approach. We surface the input stroke drawings by identifying and leveraging local coherence between nearby artist strokes. In particular, we observe that strokes intended to be adjacent on the artist imagined surface often have similar tangent directions along their respective polylines. We leverage this local stroke direction consistency by casting the computation of the user-intended manifold surface as a constrained matching problem on stroke polyline vertices and edges. We first detect and smoothly connect adjacent similarly-directed sequences of stroke edges producing one or more manifold partial surfaces. We then complete the surfacing process by identifying and connecting adjacent similarly directed edges along the borders of these partial surfaces. We confirm the usability of the SurfaceBrush interface and the validity of our drawing analysis via an observational study. We validate our stroke surfacing algorithm by demonstrating an array of manifold surfaces computed by our framework starting from a range of inputs of varying complexity, and by comparing our outputs to reconstructions computed using alternative means.
description: Accepted at SIGGRAPH 2019
A hybrid neural network model based on improved PSO and SA for bankruptcy prediction
Creators: name: Azayite, Fatima Zahra
name: Achchab, Said
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Predicting firm's failure is one of the most interesting subjects for investors and decision makers. In this paper, a bankruptcy prediction model is proposed based on Artificial Neural networks (ANN). Taking into consideration that the choice of variables to discriminate between bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms influences significantly the model's accuracy and considering the problem of local minima, we propose a hybrid ANN based on variables selection techniques. Moreover, we evolve the convergence of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) by proposing a training algorithm based on an improved PSO and Simulated Annealing. A comparative performance study is reported, and the proposed hybrid model shows a high performance and convergence in the context of missing data.
description: 13 pages
Smicridea (Rhyacophylax) palmar Sganga 2005
Creators: name: Alves, André Almeida
name: Santos, Allan Paulo Moreira
name: Nessimian, Jorge Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydropsychidae
Smicridea
Smicridea palmar

description: Smicridea (Rhyacophylax) palmar Sganga 2005
 Material examined. BRAZIL: Goiás: Caiapônia, 16°51’53”S, 51°39’31.7”W, 639 m a.s.l., 29.ii.2012, L. Sgarbi A.P.M. Santos & E. Raimundi leg., 1 male (DZRJ).
 Distribution. ARGENTINA, BRAZIL [Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pernambuco (Albino et al. 2011; Barcelos-Silva et al. 2012; Souza et al. 2013; Desidério et al. 2017), Goiás (new record)].
description: Published as part of Alves, André Almeida, Santos, Allan Paulo Moreira & Nessimian, Jorge Luiz, 2018, A new species of Smicridea McLachlan 1871 (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from the Caatinga biome and new distributional records from Brazil, pp. 388-396 in Zootaxa 4500 (3) on page 393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5297731
Land, ancestors and men : social structures in the making
Creators: name: Filloux, Arlette
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Social structure Indonesia Piling
subject: Kinship Indonesia Piling
subject: Piling (Indonesia) Social life and customs
subject: Piling (Indonesia) Social conditions

description: This thesis centers upon the maintenance of the social structures through the norms and values forming the ethos of a Balinese village. It is focused primarily upon the husband and wife pair during the active period of their life, because the conjugal unit is the agency who contributes to the preservation of the normative status quo through its actions in the social, economic and ritual domains. The welfare of the village community rests upon the ability and willingness of this unit to discharge its social duties and fulfil its social roles in a manner which is both appropriate to the situation of the moment and in accordance with the existing norms. The status of the conjugal unit within the village illustrates fundamental Balinese ideas about the purpose of human existence and the nature of human action. Human life is conceived as a transitional period when the ancestral soul incarnates "to fetch food" (ngalih nasi), and a distinction is made between two dimensions of the person. One dimension is intimately linked with consciousness and social interactions, and is the prerogative of human existence from birth to death. The second dimension is identified with the continuity of the descent line and is associated with ancestry, from the time of death until reincarnation. Together, they constitute two complementary aspects of the ancestral group which moves as a single body managed by the living in the name of the dead. All human actions entail an alteration of the social and/or material environment and have a similar bearing upon the visible and invisible worlds. In order to be effective, human activities must have a ritual as well as an instrumental aspect. The legitimacy of an action depends as much upon the efficacy of its ends as on its conformity to the established norms. The village ethos rests entirely upon the interplay between the fundamental unity of purpose of the Balinese ancestral group and the perceived impact of human action upon the world. As such the social structures must be flexible enough to adapt to the changing requirements of the moment without losing their relevance for the community.
Carrier-induced Antisymmetric-symmetric Tendencies of Spin Stiffness in Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons
Creators: name: Prayitno, Teguh Budi
name: Ishii, Fumiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalized Bloch theorem was applied to calculate the spin stiffness and to consider its tendencies when introducing the doping in zigzag graphene nanoribbons. To reach the intentions, two different flat spin spiral formations were constructed by fixing the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin arrangements at the two different edges by applying a constraint scheme method. A spin stiffness was then calculated by means of a quadratic order function, which maps the total energy difference in the self-consistent calculations onto the Heisenberg Hamiltonian. We found a very high spin stiffness, as predicted previously by the supercell calculation. We also showed that the antisymmetric-symmetric tendencies of spin stiffness are induced by the hole-electron doping. The dependence of ribbon widths of zigzag graphene nanoribbon on the spin stiffness was also provided with similar tendencies when the doping is taken into account.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures