cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Hybrid Filtering for Micro-video Hashtag Recommendation using Graph-based Deep Neural Network
Creators: name: Bansal, Shubhi
name: Gowda, Kushaan
name: Rehman, Mohammad Zia Ur
name: Raghaw, Chandravardhan Singh
name: Kumar, Nagendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the growing volume of user generated content, hashtags are employed as topic indicators to manage content efficiently on social media platforms. However, finding these vital topics is challenging in microvideos since they contain substantial information in a short duration. Existing methods that recommend hashtags for microvideos primarily focus on content and personalization while disregarding relatedness among users. Moreover, the cold start user issue prevails in hashtag recommendation systems. Considering the above, we propose a hybrid filtering based MIcro-video haSHtag recommendatiON MISHON technique to recommend hashtags for micro-videos. Besides content based filtering, we employ user-based collaborative filtering to enhance recommendations. Since hashtags reflect users topical interests, we find similar users based on historical tagging behavior to model user relatedness. We employ a graph-based deep neural network to model user to user, modality to modality, and user to modality interactions. We then use refined modality specific and user representations to recommend pertinent hashtags for microvideos. The empirical results on three real world datasets demonstrate that MISHON attains a comparative enhancement of 3.6, 2.8, and 6.5 reported in percentage concerning the F1 score, respectively. Since cold start users exist whose historical tagging information is unavailable, we also propose a content and social influence based technique to model the relatedness of cold start users with influential users. The proposed solution shows a relative improvement of 15.8 percent in the F1 score over its content only counterpart. These results show that the proposed framework mitigates the cold start user problem.
Additional file 4 of A powerful microbial group association test based on the higher criticism analysis for sparse microbial association signals
Creators: name: Hyunwook Koh
name: Zhao, Ni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Power estimates for the omnibus (uHCA, wHCA and MiHC) higher criticism tests (n=100) (Unit: %). A. For the randomly selected OTUs (i.e., Λ = {2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% or 12% random OTUs}. B. For the phylogenetically relevant OTUs (i.e., Λ = {2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% or 12% phylogenetically close OTUs}).
Polish crop farms at the background of farms from selected countries
Creators: name: Ziętara, Wojciech
name: Zieliński, Marek
name: Ziętara, Wojciech
name: Zieliński, Marek
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: economic size of a farm
subject: production potential
subject: production efficiency
subject: competitiveness of farms

description: The paper presents an assessment of organisation and economics of Polish crop farms, and their competitiveness has been defined against analogous farms from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. The assessment of researched farms was made on the basis of the Polish FADN and Europe- -wide FADN data of 2010-2012, bearing in mind economic size of farms expressed in EUR thousands of Standard Output (SO). The research used comparative method. Competitiveness of the researched farms was defined with the competitiveness ratio, which illustrates the relation between farm income and the sum of costs of using own factors of production (labour, land and capital. Research results point to a growth in the share of crop farms in the general number of farms. In 2013, the share amounted to 53%. It was stated that there is a positive relation between the economic size of a farm and the UAA, and the share of rented land, and negative relation between the economic size of a farm and labour inputs and value of assets per 1 ha of UAA. It was stated that labour productivity and efficiency as well as land and labour productivity grow, along with an increase in the economic size of farms. The Polish crop farms in individual economic size classes showed, on many occasions, greater competitive capacity as regards analogous farms from the researched countries.
Biasing relation, environmental dependencies and estimation of the growth rate from star forming galaxies
Creators: name: Nusser, Adi
name: Yepes, Gustavo
name: Branchini, Enzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The connection between galaxy star formation rate (SFR) and dark matter (DM) is of paramount importance for the extraction of cosmological information from next generation spectroscopic surveys that will target emission line star forming galaxies. Using publicly available mock galaxy catalogs obtained from various semi-analytic models (SAMs) we explore the SFR-DM connection in relation to the speed-from-light method (Feix et al. 2016) for inferring the growth rate, $f$, from luminosity/SFR shifts. Emphasis is given to the dependence of the SFR distribution on the environment density on scales of 10s-100s Mpc. We show that the application of the speed-from-light method to an Euclid-like survey is not biased by environmental effects. In all models, the precision on the measured $β=f/b$ parameter is $σ_β< 0.17$ at $z=1$. This translates into errors of $σ_f \sim 0.22$ and $σ_{(fσ_8)}\sim 0.1$, without invoking assumptions on the mass power spectrum. These errors are in the same ballpark as recent analyses of the redshift space distortions in galaxy clustering. In agreement with previous studies, the bias factor, $b$ is roughly a scale-independent, constant function of the SFR for star forming galaxies. Its value at $z=1$ ranges from $1.2$ to $1.5$ depending on the SAM recipe. Although in all SAMs denser environments host galaxies with higher stellar masses, the dependence of the SFR on the environment is more involved. In most models the SFR probability distribution is skewed to larger values in denser regions. One model exhibits an inverted trend where high SFR is suppressed in dense environment.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures Accepted for publication in the ApJ
The impact of direct payments on the production area - model view
Creators: name: Sadłowski, Adrian
name: Sadłowski, Adrian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: direct support scheme
subject: direct payments
subject: outlays of factors of production in agriculture
subject: agricultural production volume
subject: agricultural production structure

description: The paper proved, on theoretical grounds, that direct support scheme induces changes in the volume and structure of goods production in relation to production generated by market operations, thus having a reallocation function. Using the constructed model, the paper graphically presents the impact of applying individual instruments co-creating direct support scheme (area payments, production support and historical payments) on the level of land involvement in agricultural activity and agricultural production volume. This analysis was supplemented with a description of the impact of individual forms of aid on the structure of agricultural production.
title: Article_Le Correspondant littéraire des amateurs, chercheurs, auteurs et collectionneurs
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: ID_ARTI_00200
The branching ratio of LIGO binary black holes
Creators: name: Safarzadeh, Mohammadtaher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Formation of binary black holes (BBHs) detected by gravitational-wave (GW) observations could be broadly divided into two categories: those formed through field binary evolution and those assembled dynamically in dense stellar systems. The branching ratio of the BBHs refers to the contribution of each channel. The dynamical assembly channel would predict a symmetric distribution in the effective spins of the BBHs while field formation predicts BBHs to have positive effective spins. By modeling these two populations based on their effective spin distribution we show that in the 10 BBHs detected by LIGO/Virgo the contribution of the dynamically assembled BBHs to be more than about 50\% with 90\% confidence. This result is based on the assumption that the field binaries are born with positive effective spins not restricted to have small values.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Food sovereignty, food security and sustainable development: environmental and economic challenges
Creators: name: Carvalho, Bernardo Reynolds Pacheco De
name: Carvalho, Bernardo Reynolds Pacheco De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food sovereignty
subject: food security
subject: sustainable development
subject: challenge
subject: freedom of choice
subject: quality of life

description: The discussion, academic research and reflection on policy analysis is focused on the role of the agricultural and agri-food related activities in regard to sustainable development and economic growth. The food sector behaviour is crucial for quality of life in any region and, at the same time, agri-related activities are also responsible for a substantial impact on nature in regard to environmental issues and human activities. It is also true that agricultural activities and food production chains are main players and crucial elements for a sustainable growth process and quality of life in any region. Trade and international relations can and should be a tremendous opportunity for growth, but economic growth and development with a sustainable environment and quality of life objectives are important challenges, where freedom of choice of individual and collective actions need to be preserved and enhanced. Food sovereignty and food security are recent concepts to be taken into consideration, explored and revisited in regard to models that can provide “benchmarks” to evaluate performances and provide insights for better policies in the future. Environmental and economic objectives can be convergent and work together, and good examples should be provided, mainly in regard to the development challenges the world is facing. Greater responsibilities are obvious for the main and bigger economies, developed and developing countries, but also at local level. No one can be excluded from the huge scope of challenges the planet and the society will be facing in the nearest future. Global and local perspectives are essential, and food security/food sovereignty analysis is a first step, under the general concern, for a sustainable development process, where freedom of choice and quality of life are clear objectives to be achieved, as strongly as possible.
Electronic supplementary material to support the study from Inequality between identity groups and social unrest
Creators: name: Houle, Christian
name: Ruck, Damian J.
name: Alexander Bentley, R.
name: Gavrilets, Sergey
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supporting modelling details, data analysis and additional simulation results
The computerization of archaeology: survey on AI techniques
Creators: name: Mantovan, Lorenzo
name: Nanni, Loris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper analyses the application of artificial intelligence techniques to various areas of archaeology and more specifically: a) The use of software tools as a creative stimulus for the organization of exhibitions; the use of humanoid robots and holographic displays as guides that interact and involve museum visitors; b) The analysis of methods for the classification of fragments found in archaeological excavations and for the reconstruction of ceramics, with the recomposition of the parts of text missing from historical documents and epigraphs; c) The cataloguing and study of human remains to understand the social and historical context of belonging with the demonstration of the effectiveness of the AI techniques used; d) The detection of particularly difficult terrestrial archaeological sites with the analysis of the architectures of the Artificial Neural Networks most suitable for solving the problems presented by the site; the design of a study for the exploration of marine archaeological sites, located at depths that cannot be reached by man, through the construction of a freely explorable 3D version.
title: Discourses of Widening Participation and Social Inclusion
Creators: name: Carr, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: This thesis explores the relationship between policies and initiatives designed to widen participation in post-compulsory learning and notions of social inclusion. Whilst both widening participation and social inclusion can be viewed as distinct policy areas, the focus for this research are the links between the two, the impact that these links have on the development of specific education policy initiatives and what that means for those implicated in these initiatives. This thesis begins with an examination of the way in which notions of social exclusion, lifelong learning and widening participation are constructed in policy texts and practices. I argue that dominant discourses of social inclusion, which emphasise equality of opportunity brought about through participation in paid employment, lead to an under-valuing in policy terms of learning programmes that seek to promote the wider benefits of learning. I also argue, however, that the potential exists for practitioners and learners to resist and subvert these dominant discourses. Drawing on the work of Bacchi (2002) I highlight how, through theorising the ‘spaces for challenge’, analysts can examine processes of micromanipulation – the unique ways in which marginalised people or groups raise problems or attempt to influence any agenda. Adopting a Foucauldian genealogical approach I explore the ways in which a specific widening participation initiative, that of Adult Learners’ Week (ALW), has been used by practitioners to both engage potential learners and influence Government policy. The range of data drawn on includes archive material relating to the ALW initiative; policy texts and documents; interviews with practitioners and learners involved with ALW and other widening participation initiatives; and, participant and non-participant observations of interactions between practitioners involved in planning for and delivering ALW. In this thesis I use the ALW themes of ‘Community, Culture and Citizenship’, ‘Equality and Diversity’ and ‘Skills for Life’ to explore examples of micromanipulation identified in the analysis of these data. This thesis concludes with reflections on the usefulness of adopting a genealogical approach and a discussion of the lessons that can be learned from the examples of micromanipulations discussed, including the challenges to widening participation that persist.
Additional file 3 of A powerful microbial group association test based on the higher criticism analysis for sparse microbial association signals
Creators: name: Hyunwook Koh
name: Zhao, Ni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Power estimates for the individual (i.e., uHC(h)’s and wHC(h)’s for h ∈ {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}) and local omnibus (uHCA and wHCA) higher criticism tests (n=100) (Unit: %). A. uHC(h)’s and uHCA for the randomly selected OTUs (i.e., Λ = {2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% or 12% random OTUs}). B. wHC(h)’s and wHCA for the phylogenetically relevant OTUs (i.e., Λ = {2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% or 12% phylogenetically close OTUs}). C. uHC(h)’s and uHCA for the randomly selected OTUs (i.e., Λ = {2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% or 12% random OTUs}). D. wHC(h)’s and wHCA for the phylogenetically relevant OTUs (i.e., Λ = {2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10% or 12% phylogenetically close OTUs}).
title: On physical properties of few-photon detectors based on structures with micropillars
Creators: name: Tsarev, D.V.
name: Bazhenov, A. Yu.
name: Odnoblyudov, M.A
name: Alodjants, A.
Publisher: name: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Year: 2021
Subjects: photo detector
micropillar
semiconductor heterostructure

description: We develop the model of micropillar photodetectors operated in infrared domain. The model is based on algorithm, which uses analytical methods and numerical simulation of Schrödinger equation, aimed at calculation of the energy levels and wave functions of a semiconductor micropillar. We define the heterostructure as a combination of different semiconductor materials grown one on top of the other via epitaxial methods. The photon-detecting scheme is based on the fact that electrons in potential wells have different energies, and the transition between them (including tunneling) is induced by the absorption of a quantum of energy. The most probable optical transitions are verified; two particular transitions corresponding to the infrared range are demonstrated and relevant photo-current dependencies are discussed.
Additional file 6 of Effect of flavophospholipol on fecal microbiota in weaned pigs challenged with Salmonella Typhimurium
Creators: name: Saranya Nair
name: Abdolvahab Farzan
name: J. Scott Weese
name: Poljak, Zvonimir
name: Friendship, Robert M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Salmonella shedding in subset of pigs used over the duration of the trial. Based on Salmonella colony forming unit (CFU)/g of feces in nursery pigs, fed a medicated diet with 4 ppm flavophospholipol (n = 12) or a control (non-medicated) diet (n = 9) for the duration of the trial from Day 1 to Day 36. Pigs were also challenged orally with Salmonella Typhimurium DT 104 on Day 7 and 8.
Dificuldade de Adequação às Medidas Técnicas: a percepção das empresas exportadoras de alimentos
Creators: name: Faria, Rosane Nunes De
name: Burnquist, Heloisa Lee
name: Pestana, Maria Helena De Aguiar Pereira E
name: Faria, Rosane Nunes De
name: Burnquist, Heloisa Lee
name: Pestana, Maria Helena De Aguiar Pereira E
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: technical measures
subject: food products export
subject: indexes

description: This article measures the degree of difficulty of compliance to technical measures for firms that export food in Brazil, through the construction of indexes. It has conducted a survey of 117 firms and data collected were analyzed by multivariate analysis. The detailed variables in the article which represent types of technical measures usually required in food export were grouped into two indices: Technical Specification Index (TSI) and Requirements Information Index (RII). The Wilcoxon test revealed that firms have greater difficulty to comply products and processes with technical specifications such as plant and production process requirements, conformity assessment procedures, food safety, product’s characteristics and environmental requirements.
Transverse momentum spectra of fermions and bosons produced in strong abelian fields
Creators: name: Skokov, V. V.
name: Levai, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transverse momentum spectra of fermions and bosons produced in strong, time-dependent abelian field. The transverse size of the abelian field is finite, similarly to color strings and ropes. Different time-dependent field strengths are investigated in a kinetic model, and transverse momentum spectra are calculated for fermions and bosons. These spectra display exponential or polynomial behavior at high p_T, depending on the given time dependence. We compare our spectra to lattice result for a classical gluon field and obtain surprisingly good agreement in certain cases.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Hadron resonance probes of QGP
Creators: name: Torrieri, Giorgio
name: Rafelski, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the indirect and direct role of the short-lived resonances as probes of QGP freeze-out process. The indirect effect is the distortion of stable single particle yields and spectra by contributions of decaying resonances, which alter significantly the parameters obtained in fits to experimental data. We than discuss the direct observation of short-lived resonances as a probe of post-hadronization dynamics allowing to distinguish between different hadronization models.
description: To be published in Nukleonika 2004, vol. 49, Supplement 2. Proceedings of Warsaw workshop on HBT and resonances, October 2003
Σύνταξη Ερμηνευτικού Λεξικού των Αρβανίτικων Ιδιωμάτων: Φωνητικές, Μορφολογικές και Σημασιολογικές Ιδιαιτερότητες του Αρβανίτικου Λεξιλογίου
Creators: name: Μπιλάλι, Ενκελέντ Β.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Λεξικογραφία
Γλωσσικός θάνατος
Γλωσσικές Επαφές
Διαλεκτολογία
Lexicography
Language Death
Language Contact
Dialectology

description: Μέσα από την αποδελτίωση και διερεύνηση μιας σειράς κειμένων, γλωσσαρίων και χειρογράφων, η παρούσα διατριβή έχει ως αντικείμενο μελέτης τα Αρβανίτικα, τη γλώσσα που μιλάνε εδώ και επτά αιώνες οι Αρβανίτες σε διάφορα μέρη της Ελλάδας. Ειδικότερα, πρωταρχικός σκοπός είναι η σύνταξη ενός ολοκληρωμένου ερμηνευτικού λεξικού, το οποίο να συμπεριλαμβάνει όλα τα αρβανίτικα ιδιώματα, και αφετέρου, μέσα από την ανάλυση των λημμάτων, να οδηγηθούμε σε γενικότερα συμπεράσματα για το φωνητικό, μορφολογικό και σημασιολογικό επίπεδο της γλώσσας, όπως επίσης να δοθούν νέες ετυμολογικές προτάσεις, αξιοποιώντας τα νέα ευρήματα μέσα από τη συγκεκριμένη εργασία. Μέχρι σήμερα, δεν έχει εκπονηθεί κάποια διατριβή, αλλά δεν υπάρχει και αντίστοιχο λεξικογραφικό έργο, ούτε στην ελληνική αλλά ούτε και στη διεθνή βιβλιογραφία, στο πλαίσιο του οποίου να συλλέγονται δεδομένα από όλες τις αρβανίτικες ποικιλίες και να μελετάται η προκύπτουσα ετερογένεια των λημμάτων. Υπάρχει σχετική βιβλιογραφία και εξειδικευμένες μονογραφίες για επιμέρους αρβανίτικες διαλέκτους, αλλά δεν έχουμε ένα ολοκληρωμένο ερμηνευτικό λεξικό, με γραμματικές πληροφορίες και παραδείγματα χρήσης των λέξεων, το οποίο να συμπεριλαμβάνει όλα τα επιμέρους αρβανίτικα ιδιώματα προσφέροντας μια συνολική εικόνα του ζητήματος.
description: The present thesis focuses on Arvanitika language, spoken by the Arvanites during the last 7 centuries in various parts of Greece, through indexing and research of a series of textes, glossaries and manuscripts. More specifically, the primary goal is the complition of a comprehensive (explanatory) dictionary which includes all Arvanitika idioms. Moreover, it is designed to lead us to more general conclusions about the phonetic, morphological and semantic level of the language as well as to give new etymological suggestions, by exploiting the novel findings of the present thesis. To date, no such thesis has been written and there is no such corresponding lexical work neither in Greek or international literature which has these characteristics, collection of data regarding all Arvanitika varieties and the study of the arising heterogeneity of the entries. There is relevant bibliography and specialised monographs on inidividual Arvanitika dialects, but there is no complete explanatory dictionary containing grammatical information and word usage examples. Also, there is no work containing all individual Arvanitika idioms, thus offering an overall picture of this issue.
COMPUTATION OF PLASTICITY INDEX OF INORGANIC CLAY USING FIRST AND SECOND NORM OF THE IDEALISED FALL CONE FLOW CURVE
Creators: name: Maregesi, Gerald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401902
subject: Geomechanics and resources geotechnical engineering
classificationCode: 400502
subject: Civil geotechnical engineering
classificationCode: 410603
subject: Soil biology
classificationCode: 410605
subject: Soil physics
classificationCode: 410699
subject: Soil sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A model of computing the plasticity index of inorganic soil using the ratio of the second norm (Euclidian norm) to the first norm (Manhattan distance) of the idealized fall cone flow curve is proposed. The model was developed using 204 controlled Atterberg limit test results of inorganic soils and validated using 74 Atterberg limit test results collected from the literature. The model computes the plasticity index of the inorganic soils within the statistical testing bound of ±8.
Quantum Computing with Very Noisy Devices
Creators: name: Knill, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In theory, quantum computers can efficiently simulate quantum physics, factor large numbers and estimate integrals, thus solving otherwise intractable computational problems. In practice, quantum computers must operate with noisy devices called ``gates'' that tend to destroy the fragile quantum states needed for computation. The goal of fault-tolerant quantum computing is to compute accurately even when gates have a high probability of error each time they are used. Here we give evidence that accurate quantum computing is possible with error probabilities above 3% per gate, which is significantly higher than what was previously thought possible. However, the resources required for computing at such high error probabilities are excessive. Fortunately, they decrease rapidly with decreasing error probabilities. If we had quantum resources comparable to the considerable resources available in today's digital computers, we could implement non-trivial quantum computations at error probabilities as high as 1% per gate.
description: 47 pages
K2K near detector laserball calibration : manipulator motivation, design and results
Creators: name: Berghaus, Frank Olaf
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The K2K experiment uses a muon neutrino (v[sub μ]) beam generated at the KEK accelerator facility, aimed at Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) detector 250 km away, to measure v[sub μ] oscillations first seen from atmospheric v's at Super-K. The measurement is done using two detectors. The near detector measures the v[sub μ] flux 300 m from the origin of the neutrino beam. The far detector (Super-K) measures the neutrino flux 250 km downstream. One main source of error in the oscillation measurement is the understanding of the near detector. After some optical calibrations along the vertical axis of the One Kilo Ton (1KT) detector found problems with the position reconstruction a manipulation system was built. The goal of this manipulation system was to allow exploration of the entire 1KT volume with a calibration source. The design required the manipulation system to place the calibration source to ~1 cm accuracy in the 1KT, and to avoid all contact with the photomultiplier tubes monitoring the tank volume. This manipulation system was built and tested at TRIUMF (Tri-University Meson Facility) and deployed in the 1KT detector at KEK. The results of the optical position reconstruction indicate a reconstruction bias of unknown origin at high occupancy.
O Impacto de Políticas Tributárias Sobre o Arroz do Rio Grande do Sul no Contexto do Mercosul
Creators: name: Oliveira, Camilo Feliciano De
name: Stülp, Valter José
name: Oliveira, Camilo Feliciano De
name: Stülp, Valter José
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rice
subject: Tax policy
subject: Rio Grande do Sul
subject: Mercosur

description: The study evaluates the impact of some tax policies upon the rice sector in the Rio Grande do Sul (RS) state, in the Mercosur context. The impacts of the following decisions, regarding tax policy, are examined: (a) elimination of the fiscal benefits adopted by Brazilian states; (b) concession, by the government of RS, of a fiscal credit to the rice production in the state; (c) equalization of the tax rate related to the value added tax (ICMS) among all the Brazilian states at the rates of 7%, 4% and 0%. The study refers to the year of 2006 and projects some results for 2020. One of the conclusions of the study is that following the present fiscal policy legislation and equating, in all states of Brazil, the tax rate of ICMS at 7% would result in the highest benefits to the rice producers of RS state. On the other hand, given the actual market situation, setting the ICMS tax rate equal to zero, in all the Brazilian states, would result in the lowest price for the rice consumer in Brazil.
PIEMAP: Personalized Inverse Eikonal Model from cardiac Electro-Anatomical Maps
Creators: name: Grandits, Thomas
name: Pezzuto, Simone
name: Lubrecht, Jolijn M.
name: Pock, Thomas
name: Plank, Gernot
name: Krause, Rolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Electroanatomical mapping, a keystone diagnostic tool in cardiac electrophysiology studies, can provide high-density maps of the local electric properties of the tissue. It is therefore tempting to use such data to better individualize current patient-specific models of the heart through a data assimilation procedure and to extract potentially insightful information such as conduction properties. Parameter identification for state-of-the-art cardiac models is however a challenging task. In this work, we introduce a novel inverse problem for inferring the anisotropic structure of the conductivity tensor, that is fiber orientation and conduction velocity along and across fibers, of an eikonal model for cardiac activation. The proposed method, named PIEMAP, performed robustly with synthetic data and showed promising results with clinical data. These results suggest that PIEMAP could be a useful supplement in future clinical workflows of personalized therapies.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
TDIR: Time-Delay Interferometric Ranging for Space-Borne Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Creators: name: Tinto, Massimo
name: Vallisneri, Michele
name: Armstrong, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-borne interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, sensitive in the low-frequency (mHz) band, will fly in the next decade. In these detectors, the spacecraft-to-spacecraft light-travel times will necessarily be unequal and time-varying, and (because of aberration) will have different values on up- and down-links. In such unequal-armlength interferometers, laser phase noise will be canceled by taking linear combinations of the laser-phase observables measured between pairs of spacecraft, appropriately time-shifted by the light propagation times along the corresponding arms. This procedure, known as time-delay interferometry (TDI), requires an accurate knowledge of the light-time delays as functions of time. Here we propose a high-accuracy technique to estimate these time delays and study its use in the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. We refer to this ranging technique, which relies on the TDI combinations themselves, as Time-Delay Interferometric Ranging (TDIR). For every TDI combination, we show that, by minimizing the rms power in that combination (averaged over integration times $\sim 10^4$ s) with respect to the time-delay parameters, we obtain estimates of the time delays accurate enough to cancel laser noise to a level well below the secondary noises. Thus TDIR allows the implementation of TDI without the use of dedicated inter-spacecraft ranging systems, with a potential simplification of the LISA design. In this paper we define the TDIR procedure formally, and we characterize its expected performance via simulations with the \textit{Synthetic LISA} software package.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Gamma-ray constraints on the infrared background excess
Creators: name: Mapelli, M.
name: Salvaterra, R.
name: Ferrara, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the idea that the recently detected near-infrared (1.2-4 micron) excess over the contribution of known galaxies is due to redshifted light from the first cosmic stars (Salvaterra & Ferrara 2003), we have used the effect caused by photon-photon absorption on gamma-ray spectra of blazars to put constraints on extragalactic background light (EBL) from the optical to the far-IR bands. Our analysis is mainly based on the blazar H 1426+428, for which we assume a power-law unabsorbed spectrum. We find that an EBL model with no excess over known galaxies in the near-infrared background (NIRB) is in agreement with all the considered blazars; however, it implies a very peculiar intrinsic spectrum for H 1426+428. Additional data on the blazars 1ES1101-232, H 2356-309 and PKS 2155-304 exclude the existence of a strong NIRB excess consistent with Kelsall's model of zodiacal light subtraction (ZL); the COBE/DIRBE measurements, after Wright's model ZL subtraction, represent a firm NIRB upper limit. The constraints on the optical EBL are weaker, due to the fact that predictions from different optical EBL models are often comparable to the experimental errors. In the mid-infrared the SPITZER measurement at 24 micron gives a good fit for all the considered blazars.
description: 28 pages, 13 figures; revised version accepted for publication in New Astronomy
Additional file 1 of A powerful microbial group association test based on the higher criticism analysis for sparse microbial association signals
Creators: name: Hyunwook Koh
name: Zhao, Ni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The summary of the notations.
title: 'I am Alan Bennett'
title: A personal journey through influence
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ainscough, Andrew
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Alan Bennett
Queer
Theatre
Creative Writing

description: This thesis comprises an original five-part dramatic work, Alan, which represents a new creative engagement with Alan Bennett's literary career and authorial identity. It tells the story of Roger Gray, a man who believes he is Alan Bennett, or should have been. It traces the unpacking of Roger’s self in relation to Bennett and how he discovers identity amongst influence. The play seeks to mirror Bennett’s wide- reaching appeal through both humour and gentle sadness. I explore the enduring popularity of Bennett and writing within his mode of Northern familiarity. The thesis puts a particular emphasis on the role of the queer and how writing with the influence of Bennett raises questions of what happiness means within queer storytelling. It builds towards a new methodology of the ‘Bennettian’ – that being my own personal interpretation of the feeling, aura or reminder of the life and work of Alan Bennett. I place an emphasis on my own personal connections to Bennett in the writing process. I will conclude that using a methodology of the ‘Bennettian’ allows space for sadness in contemporary queer storytelling and can be a method of navigating through personal history and influence. Key Words: Alan Bennett, Queer, Theatre, Creative Writing.
Discrete Morse theory and graph braid groups
Creators: name: Farley, Daniel
name: Sabalka, Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20F36, 57M15, 57Q05, 55R80

description: If Gamma is any finite graph, then the unlabelled configuration space of n points on Gamma, denoted UC^n(Gamma), is the space of n-element subsets of Gamma. The braid group of Gamma on n strands is the fundamental group of UC^n(Gamma). We apply a discrete version of Morse theory to these UC^n(Gamma), for any n and any Gamma, and provide a clear description of the critical cells in every case. As a result, we can calculate a presentation for the braid group of any tree, for any number of strands. We also give a simple proof of a theorem due to Ghrist: the space UC^n(Gamma) strong deformation retracts onto a CW complex of dimension at most k, where k is the number of vertices in Gamma of degree at least 3 (and k is thus independent of n).
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-44.abs.html
Agricultura Familiar e Agroindústria Canavieira: impasses sociais
Creators: name: Carvalho, Simone Pereira De
name: Marin, Joel Orlando Bevilaqua
name: Carvalho, Simone Pereira De
name: Marin, Joel Orlando Bevilaqua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agroenergetic policy
subject: Family farming
subject: Sugarcane agribusiness

description: Agroenergetic Policies for the production of biofuels is presented under the assumptions of sustainable development. The ethanol fuel, produced from sugarcane, appears as a more viable alternative, which stimulates growth of new processes and spatial distribution of the sugarcane production. Goiás state is one of the main routes of expansion of the sugarcane. This article aims to understand the contradictions of the social issues within the official discourse of the National Plan of Agroenergy and the impacts associated with the expansion of sugarcane monoculture in regions of predominance of family farming. The development of the theme is based on a case study, conducted in Itapuranga city (Goiás state), using a qualitative approach and combining the techniques of literature search, observation and interviews. It was found that these policies helped to transform the social context of Itapuranga and cause considerable changes in the organizational dynamics of family farmers.
Additional file 2 of A powerful microbial group association test based on the higher criticism analysis for sparse microbial association signals
Creators: name: Hyunwook Koh
name: Zhao, Ni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. The histograms of the relative abundances (%). A. The real respiratory-track microbiome data. B. The simulated data based on the Dirichlet-multinomial model (n=50). C. The simulated data based on the Dirichlet-multinomial model (n=100).
Ideal triangulations of 3--manifolds I: spun normal surface theory
Creators: name: Kang, Ensil
name: Rubinstein, J. Hyam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57N10

description: In this paper, we will compute the dimension of the space of spun and ordinary normal surfaces in an ideal triangulation of the interior of a compact 3-manifold with incompressible tori or Klein bottle components. Spun normal surfaces have been described in unpublished work of Thurston. We also define a boundary map from spun normal surface theory to the homology classes of boundary loops of the 3-manifold and prove the boundary map has image of finite index. Spun normal surfaces give a natural way of representing properly embedded and immersed essential surfaces in a 3-manifold with tori and Klein bottle boundary [E Kang, `Normal surfaces in knot complements' (PhD thesis) and `Normal surfaces in non-compact 3-manifolds', preprint]. It has been conjectured that every slope in a simple knot complement can be represented by an immersed essential surface [M Baker, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 46 (1996) 1443-1449 and (with D Cooper) Top. Appl. 102 (2000) 239-252]. We finish by studying the boundary map for the figure-8 knot space and for the Gieseking manifold, using their natural simplest ideal triangulations. Some potential applications of the boundary map to the study of boundary slopes of immersed essential surfaces are discussed.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology Monographs at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon7/paper10.abs.html
Geier, Sternsichel und Bacchüsschen: Montagetechnik und ästhetische Positionen in den literarischen Porträts Else Lasker-Schülers = Vulture, crescent star and little Bacchus: montage technique and aesthetic positions in Else Lasker-Schüler’s literary portraits
Creators: name: Bichsel, Sonja
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis analyses the literary portraits written by Else Lasker-Schiiler about her fellow artists, taking into account the process of abstraction in art and literature at the turn of the 20t h century. Of this process the focus will be on two main aspects: the montage techniques that Lasker-Schiiler uses and the aesthetic discourse of the avant-garde reflected in her literature. Else Lasker-Schiiler's writing frequently uses techniques of montage. Therefore photomontages of Dadaist artist Hannah Hoch provide a basis to analyse Lasker- Schiiler's literary portrait technique. This analysis makes it clear that Lasker-Schiiler's literary portrait techniques share significant criteria of the photomontage, for example, the fragmental structure of the "cut" or the infinity of the text through intertextual crossreference. The physiognomic description unravels in the montage structure of the literary portraits. The portraits show a sketch-like description of the artists that includes a description of their works, their appreciation of art as well as Lasker-Schiiler's personal memories and anecdotes of the artists' lives. This approach opens a dimension of metapoetic writing in Lasker-Schiiler's works that reflects on art, rather than just portraying her fellow artists. Through direct and indirect quotes, the literary portraits become readable beyond the boundaries set by the text. When considered as one, her portraits can be read as one large montage within the aesthetic discourse of the avant-garde movements. Within this montage Lasker-Schiiler does not only state her own concept of a contemporary form of the artwork, but at the same time realizes it within the literary portrait. This, is done through a language that works with synaesthesia, simultaneity and the embodiment of the text through metaphors. In addition, Lasker-Schiiler turned her literary artwork into a life-performance where she took over the identity of the characters developed in her writing. Therefore her work can be read as a forceful example of the connection of art and life within the avant-garde movements.
Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects: experience of the first Fetal Cardiology Unit in Mexico
Creators: name: Cruz-Lemini, Monica
name: Belen Nieto-Castro
name: Jonahtan Luna-Garcia
name: Juarez-Martinez, Israel
name: Martínez-Rivera, Magdalena
name: Bermudez-Rojas, Ma De La Luz
name: Rebolledo-Fernández, Carlos
name: Cruz-Martinez, Rogelio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
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

description: The purpose of this article was to describe our experience with the prenatal diagnosis of CHD in patients referred to our Fetal Cardiology Unit. Prospective cohort study of consecutive fetuses referred for advanced fetal echocardiography to our Fetal Cardiology Unit during a 3-year period (September 2015–September 2018). Totally 809 fetuses were evaluated, with 1263 fetal advanced echocardiographies performed. Suspected cardiac abnormality was the most common indication for referral (62.2%). Only 7.3% of patients had known morbidities or risk factors for CHD. Mean gestational age at first examination was 25.6 ± 6.4 weeks. A total of 528 (65.3%) fetuses were found to have a cardiac defect: 40.7% had isolated CHD while 24.6% had associated anomalies. The most common defects found were ventricular septal defects (20.3%), followed by conotruncal defects (9.7%), hypoplastic left heart syndrome (9.3%), fetal arrhythmias (8.9%), and venous anomalies (8.7%). 31.6% presented abnormal genetic studies, the most frequent being Down syndrome (23/212, 10.8%), followed by DiGeorge syndrome (11/212, 5.2%). Prenatal screening and diagnosis of CHD in Mexico are feasible, with suspected cardiac abnormality being the main reason for referral to a specialized Fetal Cardiology Unit. Efforts must be made to make screening available to the general population in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy by fetal medicine or trained specialists, in order to identify fetal CHD and offer advanced echocardiography, genetic studies, timely fetal cardiac intervention in selected cases, and delivery in tertiary centers, to improve overall survival.
title: wein.punkt SÜDSTEIERMARK
Creators: name: Doppler, Tanja
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Architektonischer Entwurf
subject: architectural design

description: Die Diplomarbeit wein.punkt SÜDSTEIERMARK beschäftigt sich mit dem Architekturentwurf zur Neuerrichtung eines Weingutes an der Südsteirischen Weinstraße. Das Gebäude passt sich hierbei an die natürlichen Gegebenheiten der Landschaft an und schmiegt sich an den bis zu 30° steilen Hang. Durch das fallende Gelände entstehen drei Ebenen, die im hinteren Bereich in den Berg gebaut sind. Alle Geschoße sind nach Westen orientert und werden durch ein imposantes, freitragendes Dach begrenzt, das aus der Blattstruktur eines Weinblattes abgeleitet ist. Durch den Schattenwurf der Sonne durch dieses Dach werden in jedem Geschoß die Umrisse des Blattes abgezeichnet und man gewinnt so den Eindruck, als befinde man sich unter einem Weinblatt. Das Weingut ist als multifunktionales Gebäude geplant, in dem die Gäste die Weinherstellung durch kreuzende Sichtbeziehungen der einzelnen Ebenen, miterleben können.
description: The master thesis wein.punkt Suedsteiermark deals with the architectural design for the construction of a winery on the South Styrian wine route. The building hereby adapts to the natural features of the landscape and nestled at the 30° steep slope. Due to the falling terrain, the building creates three levels. All floors are oriented west and bounded by an imposing cantilevered roof, which is derived from the structure of a wine leaf. The shadow cast by the sun through this roof draws the outline of the sheet at each floor and so you will get the impression of being located under a vine leaf. The estate is planned as a multifunctional building where guests can experience the wine making by crossing sightlines of each level.