cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multiple-Attribute Lorenz Functions and Gini Indices: A Measure Transportation Approach
Creators: name: Hallin, Marc
name: Mordant, Gilles
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Based on measure transportation ideas and the related concepts of quantile functions and regions, we propose multiple-output generalizations of the traditional univariate concepts of Lorenz and concentration functions, and the related Gini and Kakwani coefficients. These new concepts have a natural interpretation, either in terms of contributions of quantile regions to the expectation of some variable of interest, or in terms of the physical notions of work and energy, which sheds new light on the nature of economic and social inequalities. When based on center-outward quantile regions, the proposed concepts pave the way to a statistically sound definition, based on multiple attributes, of the notion, so far limited to bivariate characterizations, of middle-class—a notion of practical importance in various socio-economic and political contexts.
First Operation of a Harmonic Lasing Self-Seeded Free Electron Laser
Creators: name: Schneidmiller, E. A.
name: Faatz, B.
name: Kuhlmann, Marion
name: Roensch-Schulenburg, J.
name: Schreiber, Siegfried
name: Yurkov, M. V.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: (2016).
description: Harmonic lasing is a perspective mode of operation of X-ray FEL user facilities that allows to provide brilliant beams of higher energy photons for user experiments. Another useful application of harmonic lasing is so called Harmonic Lasing Self-Seeded Free Electron Laser (HLSS FEL) that allows to improve spectral brightness of these facilities. In the past, harmonic lasing has been demonstrated in the FEL oscillators in infrared and visible wavelength ranges, but not in high-gain FELs and not at short wavelengths. In this paper we report on the first evidence of the harmonic lasing and the first operation of the HLSS FEL at the soft X-ray FEL user facility FLASH in the wavelength range between 4.5 nm and 15 nm. Spectral brightness was improved in comparison with Self-Amplified Spontaneous emission (SASE) FEL by a factor of six in the exponential gain regime. A better performance of HLSS FEL with respect to SASE FEL in the post-saturation regime with a tapered undulator was observed as well. The first demonstration of harmonic lasing in a high-gain FEL and at short wavelengths paves the way for a variety of applications of this new operation mode in X-ray FELs.
Supplemental Material, Table_S2_PH-assumption_tests_of_different_variables - High TSTA3 Expression as a Candidate Biomarker for Poor Prognosis of Patients With ESCC
Creators: name: Yang, Jie
name: Kong, Pengzhou
name: Yang, Jian
name: Jia, Zhiwu
name: Hu, Xiaoling
name: Wang, Zianyi
name: Cui, Heyang
name: Bi, Yanghui
name: Qian, Yu
name: Li, Hongyi
name: Wang, Fang
name: Yang, Bin
name: Yan, Ting
name: Ma, Yanchun
name: Zhang, Ling
name: Cheng, Caixia
name: Song, Bin
name: Li, Yaoping
name: Xu, Enwei
name: Liu, Haiyan
name: Gao, Wei
name: Wang, Juan
name: Liu, Yiqian
name: Zhai, Yuanfang
name: Chang, Lu
name: Wang, Yi
name: Zhang, Yingchun
name: Shi, Ruyi
name: Liu, Jing
name: Wang, Qi
name: Cheng, Xiaolong
name: Cui, Yongping
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Radiology and Organ Imaging
Biochemistry

description: Supplemental Material, Table_S2_PH-assumption_tests_of_different_variables for High TSTA3 Expression as a Candidate Biomarker for Poor Prognosis of Patients With ESCC by Jie Yang, Pengzhou Kong, Jian Yang, Zhiwu Jia, Xiaoling Hu, Zianyi Wang, Heyang Cui, Yanghui Bi, Yu Qian, Hongyi Li, Fang Wang, Bin Yang, Ting Yan, Yanchun Ma, Ling Zhang, Caixia Cheng, Bin Song, Yaoping Li, Enwei Xu, Haiyan Liu, Wei Gao, Juan Wang, Yiqian Liu, Yuanfang Zhai, Lu Chang, Yi Wang, Yingchun Zhang, Ruyi Shi, Jing Liu, Qi Wang, Xiaolong Cheng, and Yongping Cui in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment
Multiple-Attribute Lorenz Functions and Gini Indices: a measure transportation approach
Creators: name: Hallin, Marc
name: Mordant, Gilles
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Based on measure transportation ideas and the related concepts of quantile functions and regions, we propose multiple-output generalizations of the traditional univariate concepts of Lorenz and concentration functions, and the related Gini and Kakwani coefficients. These new concepts have a natural interpretation, either in terms of contributions of quantile regions to the expectation of some variable of interest, or in terms of the physical notions of work and energy, which sheds new light on the nature of economic and social inequalities. When based on center-outward quantile regions, the proposed concepts pave the way to a statistically sound definition, based on multiple variables, of the notion, so far limited to bivariate characterizations, of middle-class—a notion of practical importance in various socio-economic and political contexts.
Micro-histories and things that matter: opening spaces of possibility in Ngarrindjeri country
Creators: name: Hughes, Karen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At the intersection of biography and micro-history, this paper explores patterns of cross-cultural absence and presence in the testimonies of Indigenous and settler-descended women born around Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, in the period immediately following Australian federation of 1901. When placed in dialogue with one another, new cross-culturally nuanced narratives emerge from within the women's domestic spaces and everyday lives that exhibit agency and negotiation; producing an historical understanding that is localised, embodied, and very often oppositional to federation's imperative to create a nation based on cultural pillars of whiteness.
Additional file 5 of Reconstruction of the gastric cancer microenvironment after neoadjuvant chemotherapy by longitudinal single-cell sequencing
Creators: name: Chen, Yingtai
name: Yin, Jianhua
name: Zhao, Lulu
name: Zhou, Guangyu
name: Dong, Shichen
name: Zhang, Yueming
name: Niu, Penghui
name: Ren, Hu
name: Zheng, Tianjiao
name: Yan, Juan
name: Li, Wenbin
name: Ma, Peiqin
name: Zhang, Cuijuan
name: Wei, Chen
name: Church, George
name: Li, Guibo
name: Zhao, Dongbing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S3. Analysis of changes in the macrophages and monocytes before and after treatment. (A) Comparison of the differently expressed pathways of macrophages and monocytes before and after NACT. (B) DEG analysis of the macrophages and monocytes before and after NACT. (C) Expression of the functional signatures in macrophages and monocytes before and after NACT.
Supplemental Material, pp-2017-0120-Supplementary - Inept: Voter perceptions of party incompetence in German Federal Elections
Creators: name: Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger
name: Rohrschneider, Robert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, pp-2017-0120-Supplementary for Inept: Voter perceptions of party incompetence in German Federal Elections by Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, and Robert Rohrschneider in Party Politics
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ppq-10.1177_1354068818787353 - Do regional governments fulfill fewer election promises than national governments? The case of Quebec in comparative perspective
Creators: name: Pétry, François
name: Duval, Dominic
name: Birch, Lisa
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ppq-10.1177_1354068818787353 for Do regional governments fulfill fewer election promises than national governments? The case of Quebec in comparative perspective by François Pétry, Dominic Duval and Lisa Birch in Party Politics
Effect of cell shape and dimensionality on spindle orientation and mitotic timing
Creators: name: Charnley, Mirren
name: Anderegg, Fabian
name: Holtackers, Rene
name: Textor, Marcus
name: Meraldi, Patrick
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310102
subject: Cell development, proliferation and death
classificationCode: 310502
subject: Cell and nuclear division

description: The formation and orientation of the mitotic spindle is a critical feature of mitosis. The morphology of the cell and the spatial distribution and composition of the cells' adhesive microenvironment all contribute to dictate the position of the spindle. However, the impact of the dimensionality of the cells' microenvironment has rarely been studied. In this study we present the use of a microwell platform, where the internal surfaces of the individual wells are coated with fibronectin, enabling the three-dimensional presentation of adhesive ligands to single cells cultured within the microwells. This platform was used to assess the effect of dimensionality and cell shape in a controlled microenvironment. Single HeLa cells cultured in circular microwells exhibited greater tilting of the mitotic spindle, in comparison to cells cultured in square microwells. This correlated with an increase in the time required to align the chromosomes at the metaphase plate due to prolonged activation of the spindle checkpoint in an actin dependent process. The comparison to 2D square patterns revealed that the dimensionality of cell adhesions alone affected both mitotic timings and spindle orientation; in particular the role of actin varied according to the dimensionality of the cells' microenvironment. Together, our data revealed that cell shape and the dimensionality of the cells' adhesive environment impacted on both the orientation of the mitotic spindle and progression through mitosis.
SPPS708014_suppl_mat - Black Groups Accentuate Hypodescent by Activating Threats to the Racial Hierarchy
Creators: name: Cooley, Erin
name: Brown-Iannuzzi, Jazmin L.
name: Christia Spears Brown
name: Polikoff, Jack
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: SPPS708014_suppl_mat for Black Groups Accentuate Hypodescent by Activating Threats to the Racial Hierarchy by Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Christia Spears Brown, and Jack Polikoff in Social Psychological and Personality Science
The association of insomnia, perceived immune functioning, and irritable bowel syndrome complaints
Creators: name: Balikji, Stephanie
name: Mackus, Marlou
name: Brookhuis, Karel
name: Garssen, Johan
name: Kraneveld, Aletta
name: Roth, Thomas
name: Verster, Joris
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can have a significant negative impact on quality of life, mood and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between experiencing IBS symptoms and insomnia, and perceived health status. Method: An online survey was conducted among n = 1950 Dutch university students (83.6% women). IBS was assessed with the Birmingham IBS Symptom Questionnaire, quality of life with the WHO-5 wellbeing index, and sleep outcomes with the SLEEP-50 questionnaire. Perceived immune functioning and general health were assessed using 1-item scales. Results: IBS symptom severity was significantly associated with insomnia complaints (r = 0.32, p = 0.0001), sleep quality (r = -0.21, p = 0.0001), sleep onset latency (r = 0.11, p = 0.0001) and the number of nightly awakenings (r = 0.24, p = 0.0001). Total sleep time was not significantly associated with IBS symptom severity. Significant correlations were also found between IBS symptom severity and perceived general health (r = -0.30, p = 0.0001), perceived immune functioning (r= -0.25, p = 0.0001), and quality of life (r = -0.24, p = 0.0001). Conclusions: Experiencing IBS complaints is associated with reduced perceived immune functioning, a poorer perception of general health, and sleep disturbances. These effects are reflected in a significantly lower reported quality of life in subjects with more IBS and/or sleep complaints.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria of clinical trials for insomnia
Creators: name: Huls, Hendrikje
name: Abdulahad, Smedra
name: Mackus, Marlou
name: van de Loo, Aurora
name: Roehrs, Timothy
name: Roth, Thomas
name: Verster, Joris
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have eligibility criteria for the inclusion of participants. Ideally, the RCT sample would be representative for the patient population that will use the drug under investigation. However, external validity may be at stake when applying too many or too restrictive eligibility criteria. The current two-part study examined (1) the currently applied eligibility criteria in Phase II and III RCTs examining sleep medication; (2) how these criteria match with the insomnia population as a whole; and (3) how inclusion rates can be changed by an adaptation of these criteria. In the first study, insomnia RCTs were screened at www.clinicaltrials.gov, and relevant eligibility criteria were identified. The second study comprised a survey among self-reported insomnia patients. It was determined to what extent RCT eligibility criteria match the characteristics of this patient population. Of the n = 519 patients that completed the survey only n = 2 (0.4%) met all eligibility criteria of current RCTs. RCT enrolment criteria are not representative for the insomnia patient population as a whole. Being less rigorous in applying upper or lower criteria limits results in a significant increase in the number of eligible patients, and increases the representativeness of RCTs for the insomnia patient population as a whole. The current analysis demonstrates that is important to thoroughly reconsider the use eligibility criteria and their inclusion ranges, and to have a theoretical basis for using them.
A New Class of Geometrically Defined Hypergraphs Arising from the Hadwiger Nelson Problem
Creators: name: Fiscus, Sean
name: Myzelev, Eric
name: Zhang, Hongyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: There is a famous problem in geometric graph theory to find the chromatic number of the unit distance graph on Euclidean space; it remains unsolved. A theorem of Erdos and De-Bruijn simplifies this problem to finding the maximum chromatic number of a finite unit distance graph. Via a construction built on sequential finite graphs obtained from a generalization of this theorem, we have found a class of geometrically defined hypergraphs of arbitrarily large edge cardinality, whose proper colorings exactly coincide with the proper colorings of the unit distance graph on $\mathbb R^d$. We also provide partial generalizations of this result to arbitrary real normed vector spaces.
INR research activity related and interesting for PITZ Collaboration.
Creators: name: Paramonov, Valentin
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: PITZ collaboration meeting, Zeuthen, DESY Zeuthen, Germany, 31 May 2016 - 1 Jun 2016 ; (2016).
Additional file 11 of Comprehensive analysis of pre-mRNA alternative splicing regulated by m6A methylation in pig oxidative and glycolytic skeletal muscles
Creators: name: Tan, Baohua
name: Zeng, Jiekang
name: Meng, Fanming
name: Wang, Shanshan
name: Xiao, Liyao
name: Zhao, Xinming
name: Hong, Linjun
name: Zheng, Enqin
name: Wu, Zhenfang
name: Li, Zicong
name: Gu, Ting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 11: Figure S2. The exon skipping events of genes in tissues were validated by RT-PCR (left panel). The inclusion level of SE events was quantified using ImageJ software (right panel).
Additional file 1 of Prospects of thermotolerant Kluyveromyces marxianus for high solids ethanol fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass
Creators: name: Sengupta, Priya
name: Mohan, Ramya
name: Wheeldon, Ian
name: Kisailus, David
name: Wyman, Charles E.
name: Cai, Charles M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Glucose and ethanol concentrations and corresponding percent of theoretical ethanol yields after 2 days of 37 °C fermentations of 150, 180, and 200 g/L glucose by S. cerevisiae D5A and K. marxianus CBS 6556. Table S2. Peak ethanol concentrations and yields along with the time of occurrence and glucose concentrations at the end of fermentation resulting from application of D5A at 37 °C and CBS 6556 at 37 and 43 °C to SSF of CELF pretreated solids at 13, 17, and 20 wt% solids loadings and corresponding glucan levels using Cellic® CTec2 enzyme at a loading of 15 mg protein/g glucan in raw poplar. Figure S1. Glycerol concentrations (g/L) produced during SSF of CELF pretreated poplar solids by S. cerevisiae (D5A) at 37 °C (top layer in blue) at glucan loadings of 11 (a), 15 (b), and 18 (c) wt% and K. marxianus (CBS 6556) at 37 °C (middle layer in green) at glucan loadings of 11 (d), 15 (e), and 18 (f) wt% and at glucan loadings of 11 (g), 15 (h), and 18 (i) wt% at 43 °C (bottom layer in red). All the experiments were conducted at an enzyme loading of 15 mg protein/ per g glucan in raw poplar in a shake flask with a 25 mL working volume, in duplicates. Error bars indicated in the figure are standard deviation error bars among the duplicates.
Supplemental Material, pp-2017-0093-File002 - Clientelistic parties and satisfaction with democracy
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Ting
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, pp-2017-0093-File002 for Clientelistic parties and satisfaction with democracy by Yi-Ting Wang in Party Politics
Total sleep time, alcohol consumption, and the duration and severity of alcohol hangover
Creators: name: van Schrojenstein Lantman, Marith
name: Mackus, Marlou
name: Roth, Thomas
name: Verster, Joris
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Introduction: An evening of alcohol consumption often occurs at the expense of sleep time. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between total sleep time and the duration and severity of the alcohol hangover.
Methods: A survey was conducted among Dutch University students to collect data on their latest alcohol hangover. Data on alcohol consumption, total sleep time, hangover severity, and duration were collected. Alcohol consumption and hangover severity and duration were compared for participants who (a) slept <5 hours, (b) slept between 5 and 7 hours, or (c) slept >7 hours.
Results: Data from N=578 students (40.1% men and 59.9% women) were included in the statistical analyses. Significant correlations were found between total sleep time and alcohol consumption (r=0.117, p=0.005), hangover severity (r= -0.178, p=0.0001) and hangover duration (r=0.168, p=0.0001). In contrast, total alcohol consumption did not correlate significantly with overall hangover severity or duration. Those who slept longer than 7 hours consumed significantly more alcohol (p=0.016) and reported extended hangover duration (p=0.004). However, they also reported significantly less severe hangovers (p=0.001) than students who slept <7 hours.
Additional file 1 of Construction and case study of a novel lung cancer risk index
Creators: name: Faghani, Ali
name: Guo, Lei
name: Wright, Margaret E.
name: Hughes, M. Courtney
name: Vaezi, Mahdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Urine ethanol concentration and alcohol hangover severity
Creators: name: van de Loo, Aurora
name: Mackus, Marlou
name: Korte-Bouws, Gerdien
name: Brookhuis, Karel
name: Garssen, Johan
name: Verster, Joris
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between urine ethanol concentration and alcohol hangover severity. Methods: N = 36 healthy social drinkers participated in a naturalistic study, comprising a hangover day and a control day. N = 18 of them have regular hangovers (the hangover group), while the other N = 18 claim to be hangover immune (hangover-immune group). On each test day at 9.30 am, urine samples were collected. Participants rated their overall hangover severity on a scale from 0 (absent) to 10 (extreme), as well as 18 individual hangover symptoms. Results: Urine ethanol concentration was significantly higher on the hangover day when compared to the control day (p = 0.006). On the hangover day, urine ethanol concentration was significantly lower in the hangover-immune group when compared to the hangover group (p = 0.027). In the hangover-immune group, none of the correlations of urine ethanol concentration with individual hangover symptoms was significant. In contrast, in the hangover group, significant correlations were found with a variety of hangover symptoms, including nausea, concentration problems, sleepiness, weakness, apathy, sweating, stomach pain, thirst, heart racing, anxiety, and sleep problems. Conclusion: Urine ethanol levels are significantly associated with the presence and severity of several hangover symptoms.
The effectiveness of judicial instructions on eyewitness evidence in sensitizing jurors to suggestive identification procedures captured on video
Creators: name: Skalon, Alena
name: Beaudry, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objectives. One of the legal safeguards designed to educate jurors about eyewitness evidence is judicial instructions. However, their effectiveness in sensitizing jurors to eyewitness accuracy and suggestive identification procedures captured on video is unknown. Methods. Participants (N = 232) watched the video-recorded identification and testimony of one of 16 genuine eyewitnesses. We varied the suggestiveness of the identification procedure, whether they saw an accurate or inaccurate identification, and whether or not they received Victorian judicial instructions about eyewitness evidence. Results. Participants were sensitive to eyewitness accuracy when identification procedures were non-suggestive, with participants more likely to believe accurate eyewitnesses than inaccurate eyewitnesses. This sensitivity to identification accuracy was impaired when participants saw an identification made under suggestive circumstances. Judicial instructions did not significantly affect participants’ judgments with one exception: when they led to confusion. Participants who saw an identification obtained under suggestive circumstances were more willing to believe the eyewitness when they read the judicial instructions compared to those in the control condition. Conclusions. Suggestive identification procedures impaired participants’ sensitivity to eyewitness accuracy. The Victorian judicial instructions did not improve participants’ sensitivity. This is the first test of judicial instructions that used Bayesian analyses to establish the absence of an effect. Thus, judicial instructions might not improve sensitivity to eyewitness accuracy or be an effective remedy for the damaging effects of suggestive identification procedures.
Additional file 2 of Association between the dietary literacy of children's daily diet providers and school-age children's nutritional status and eating behaviours: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Chang, Jun-Jie
name: Xu, Nuo
name: Song, Ling-Ling
name: Li, Yong-Han
name: Yuan, Meng-Yuan
name: Zhang, Ting-Ting
name: He, Yang
name: Chen, Shan-Shan
name: Wang, Geng-Fu
name: Su, Pu-Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Two-Dimensional Boron Sheets as Metal-Free Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Creators: name: Liu, Chuangwei
name: Dai, Zhongxu
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Jin, Yonggang
name: Li, Dongsheng
name: Sun, Chenghua
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Current metal-free catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) are mainly carbon-based. In this work, HER catalytic activity on two-dimensional (2D) boron sheets (α and β12) are explored using periodic density functional theory. Using the binding free energy of H (ΔGH∗) as the descriptor, we found that both α and β12 sheets present superior activity, with ΔGH∗ being close to zero. It is expected that 2D boron sheets would be a promising metal-free catalyst in the electrolysis of water and may offer novel thoughts for the design of new catalysts for other reactions.
title: Writing toward nature: crafting a more-than-human novel & 'Leafskin'
Creators: name: Schmidt, M
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2026

description: This thesis includes the novel, Leafskin, and the contextual research “Writing Toward 
Nature: Crafting a More-than-Human Novel.” The project, as a whole, is my attempt, as 
the contextual describes, to write toward nature, to reach out to the more-than-human 
and create space for it in the craft of the novel as well as its subject. Leafskin is a story 
of characters trying to connect with the more-than-human in our time of ecological 
crisis and I wanted the craft decisions I made while writing the manuscript to support 
and deepen this aspect of the story. To this end, as I wrote, I considered the structure, 
form, and genre of the novel. Chapter One, informed by recent work in econarratology, 
traces my attempts to find a narrative structure for Leafskin inspired by forms in nature. 
Chapter Two explores techniques I employed to allow the more-than-human to shape
the language and form of my novel through the influence of ecopoetics. Chapter Three 
engages with the place of folklore in my novel, exploring the ways that inhabiting the 
spaces between the realistic and the magical can open up liminal spaces that challenge 
human/nature binaries and divisions. The novel itself is the story of a queer poet 
engaging with her connections to nature while living through the realities of climate 
change and creating her family alongside her art. Taken together, this project explores 
nature-inspired craft techniques creatively while also describing the experience of 
employing them and contextualizing them within the sphere of contemporary ecological 
writing.
6 -- X-ray absorption spectroscopy in high-entropy material research
Creators: name: Kuzmin, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This chapter introduces the use of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in studying the local electronic and atomic structure of high-entropy materials. The element selectivity of XAS makes it particularly suitable to address the challenges posed by the study of multicomponent compounds. By analysing different parts of the X-ray absorption spectra for each element, one can obtain information on its chemical state from the X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) and its local environment, distortions, and lattice dynamics from the extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS). The theoretical background underlying X-ray absorption spectra and existing data analysis procedures are briefly described, with particular emphasis on advanced atomistic modelling techniques that enable more reliable extraction of structural information. Finally, an overview of the applications of the XAS technique in studying high-entropy materials is presented.
description: Chpt 6 of "High-Entropy Alloys: Design, Manufacturing, and Emerging Applications"
5_Supple – Supplemental material for Intensive care unit admission protocol controlled by intensivists can reduce transfer delays from the emergency department in critically ill patients
Creators: name: Kim, Ji Eun
name: Lee, Seul
name: Jeong, Jinwoo
name: Lee, Dong Hyun
name: Jeong, Jin-Heon
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: Emergency Medicine

description: Supplemental material, 5_Supple for Intensive care unit admission protocol controlled by intensivists can reduce transfer delays from the emergency department in critically ill patients by Ji Eun Kim, Seul Lee, Jinwoo Jeong, Dong Hyun Lee and Jin-Heon Jeong in Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Additional file 1 of Feasibility and efficacy of TouchCare system using application for older adults living alone: a pilot pre-experimental study
Creators: name: Seok, Jo Woon
name: Kwon, Yu-Jin
name: Lee, Hyangkyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary table S1. Comparing the geriatric assessment between completers and remainders. Supplementary table S2. Comparing the body composition and laboratory tests between completers and remainders.
Multichannel Compressive Sensing MRI Using Noiselet Encoding
Creators: name: Pawar, Kamlesh
name: Egan, Gary
name: Zhang, Jingxin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The incoherence between measurement and sparsifying transform matrices and the restricted isometry property (RIP) of measurement matrix are two of the key factors in determining the performance of compressive sensing (CS). In CS-MRI, the randomly under-sampled Fourier matrix is used as the measurement matrix and the wavelet transform is usually used as sparsifying transform matrix. However, the incoherence between the randomly under-sampled Fourier matrix and the wavelet matrix is not optimal, which can deteriorate the performance of CS-MRI. Using the mathematical result that noiselets are maximally incoherent with wavelets, this paper introduces the noiselet unitary bases as the measurement matrix to improve the incoherence and RIP in CS-MRI, and presents a method to design the pulse sequence for the noiselet encoding. This novel encoding scheme is combined with the multichannel compressive sensing (MCS) framework to take the advantage of multichannel data acquisition used in MRI scanners. An empirical RIP analysis is presented to compare the multichannel noiselet and multichannel Fourier measurement matrices in MCS. Simulations are presented in the MCS framework to compare the performance of noiselet encoding reconstructions and Fourier encoding reconstructions at different acceleration factors. The comparisons indicate that multichannel noiselet measurement matrix has better RIP than that of its Fourier counterpart, and that noiselet encoded MCS-MRI outperforms Fourier encoded MCS-MRI in preserving image resolution and can achieve higher acceleration factors. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed noiselet encoding scheme, two pulse sequences with tailored spatially selective RF excitation pulses was designed and implemented on a 3T scanner to acquire the data in the noiselet domain from a phantom and a human brain.
Appendix_Only_v2018 – Supplemental material for Formal Authority, Persuasive Power, and Effectiveness in State Legislatures
Creators: name: Edwards, Barry
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_Only_v2018 for Formal Authority, Persuasive Power, and Effectiveness in State Legislatures by Barry Edwards in State Politics & Policy Quarterly
‘In the Making’ AHRC Connected Communities Project: An External Evaluation
Creators: name: Nick;, Astle,
name: Ian, Taylor,
Publisher: name: University of Salford
Year: 2019
Subjects: classificationCode: 330399
subject: Design not elsewhere classified

description: This report provides an external evaluation of the ‘In The Making’ Connected Communities Project, an initiative funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/M006026/1). The evaluation is based on evidence collected from in-depth semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and unsolicited emails from participants. The evaluation took place between May and July 2018. The evaluation was framed in this timescale in order to ‘allow a longitudinal cohort study that could identify any long-term impacts and/or behavioural change as a result of participants’ engagement with the project.’
Additional file 1 of HIV- and sex work-related stigmas and quality of life of female sex workers living with HIV in South Africa: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Chen, Claire
name: Baral, Stefan
name: Comins, Carly A.
name: Mcingana, Mfezi
name: Wang, Linwei
name: Phetlhu, Deliwe Rene
name: Mulumba, Ntambue
name: Guddera, Vijay
name: Young, Katherine
name: Mishra, Sharmistha
name: Hausler, Harry
name: Schwartz, Sheree R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table A. Stigma items and corresponding subscale. Table B. WHO Quality of Life-HIV Brief (WHOQOL-HIV BREF) Questionnaire Environmental Domain Items.
Supplemental Material, ROA_741347_Online_Appendices - Disorderly Households, Self-Presentation, and Mortality: Evidence From a National Study of Older Adults
Creators: name: Schafer, Markus H.
name: Upenieks, Laura
name: MacNeil, Andie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, ROA_741347_Online_Appendices for Disorderly Households, Self-Presentation, and Mortality: Evidence From a National Study of Older Adults by Markus H. Schafer, Laura Upenieks and Andie MacNeil in Research on Aging
Additional file 1 of Protective vaccinations in the control and prevention of infectious diseases—knowledge of adult Poles in this field. Preliminary results
Creators: name: Dąbek, Józefa
name: Sierka, Oskar
name: Gąsior, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1:
Framing of climate change impacts and use of management accounting practices
Creators: name: Kumarasiri, Jayanthi
name: Jubb, Christine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350105
subject: Management accounting
classificationCode: 350107
subject: Sustainability accounting and reporting

description: This study examines (i) how companies perceive climate change impacts in terms of opportunities or threats and the reasons for these perceptions, and (ii) use of management accounting practices to manage carbon emissions and the relationship between climate change perceptions and accounting use. The sample consists of Australian companies that participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 2009 survey. We find that how climate change impacts are framed (as threat or opportunity) influences the use of planning and target setting, performance measurement and incentivisation in managing emissions. However, in general, use of accounting practices in managing carbon emissions is limited.
Dragon Quest: An Open Research Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (in Twine, with narrative and slides for live presentation)
Creators: name: Stewart, Sarah
name: Smith, Jennifer
name: Hughes, Jenni
name: Lightfoot, Carly
Publisher: name: St George's, University of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The 'Dragon Quest' Choose-Your-Own-Adventure' was originally developed as a gamified training resource for the inaugural St. George's University of London Research Culture Day held on June 19, 2024. A 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure'-style fantasy narrative was used to outline some key 'best practices' for Open Research, including aspects of research data management and Open Access publishing. The Twine game was presented live along with some slides containing additional information and illustrations to encourage engagement.This resource can be developed further, as needed, and can also be embedded as a web-hosted stand-alone resource.This folder contains drafts of the Twine code, the narrative script for the current version, the Powerpoint slides for the live presentation and the original (hand-drawn and digitised) illustrations.Developed by Sarah Stewart with input from Jennifer Smith, Jenni Hughes and Carly Lightfoot.
Clarifying the characteristics of youth who have engaged in appetitive violence
Creators: name: Ching, Hannah
name: Daffern, Michael
name: Thomas, Stuart
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Appetitive violence is a form of proactive violence; its purpose is to generate or maintain a positive emotional state and, possibly, to strengthen social bonds. Portrayals of an increasing frequency of youth acts of appetitive violence have contributed to a perception that aggressive delinquents are callous and predatory. However, the characteristics of these youth and the nature of their violent behaviour have not been elucidated. This study compared demographic and psychological characteristics of 143 young violent offenders according to whether or not they had a history of appetitive violence. It was hypothesised that youth with a history of appetitive violence would score higher on a measure of psychopathy and that their violence would be perpetrated within the context of a group assault. Results revealed that acts of appetitive violence were perpetrated exclusively by males and were more likely to occur when co-offenders were present. Psychopathy did not differentiate the youth. These results suggest that appetitive violence perpetrated by young offenders is the product of social factors rather than individual psychopathology.
Classification of Adventitious Sounds Combining Cochleogram and Vision Transformers
Creators: name: Mang, Loredana Daria
name: Martinez, Francisco David Gonzalez
name: Munoz, Damian Martinez
name: Galan, Sebastian Garcia
name: Cortina, Raquel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Early identification of respiratory irregularities is critical for improving lung health and reducing global mortality rates. The analysis of respiratory sounds plays a significant role in characterizing the respiratory system's condition and identifying abnormalities. The main contribution of this study is to investigate the performance when the input data, represented by cochleogram, is used to feed the Vision Transformer architecture, since this input classifier combination is the first time it has been applied to adventitious sound classification to our knowledge. Although ViT has shown promising results in audio classification tasks by applying self attention to spectrogram patches, we extend this approach by applying the cochleogram, which captures specific spectro-temporal features of adventitious sounds. The proposed methodology is evaluated on the ICBHI dataset. We compare the classification performance of ViT with other state of the art CNN approaches using spectrogram, Mel frequency cepstral coefficients, constant Q transform, and cochleogram as input data. Our results confirm the superior classification performance combining cochleogram and ViT, highlighting the potential of ViT for reliable respiratory sound classification. This study contributes to the ongoing efforts in developing automatic intelligent techniques with the aim to significantly augment the speed and effectiveness of respiratory disease detection, thereby addressing a critical need in the medical field.
Dictionary Learning with Convolutional Structure for Seismic Data Denoising and Interpolation
Creators: name: Almadani, Murad
name: Waheed, Umair bin
name: Masood, Mudassir
name: Chen, Yangkang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Seismic data inevitably suffers from random noise and missing traces in field acquisition. This limits the utilization of seismic data for subsequent imaging or inversion applications. Recently, dictionary learning has gained remarkable success in seismic data denoising and interpolation. Variants of the patch-based learning technique, such as the K-SVD algorithm, have been shown to improve denoising and interpolation performance compared to the analytic transform-based methods. However, patch-based learning algorithms work on overlapping patches of data and do not take the full data into account during reconstruction. By contrast, the data patches (CSC) model treats signals globally and, therefore, has shown superior performance over patch-based methods in several image processing applications. In consequence, we test the use of CSC model for seismic data denoising and interpolation. In particular, we use the local block coordinate descent (LoBCoD) algorithm to reconstruct missing traces and clean seismic data from noisy input. The denoising and interpolation performance of the LoBCoD algorithm has been compared with that of K-SVD and orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithms using synthetic and field data examples. We use three quality measures to test the denoising accuracy: the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), the relative L2-norm of the error (RLNE), and the structural similarity index (SSIM). We find that LoBCoD performs better than K-SVD and OMP for all test cases in improving PSNR and SSIM, and in reducing RLNE. These observations suggest a huge potential of the CSC model in seismic data denoising and interpolation applications.
description: 56 pages, 19 figures, 7 tables
Flavour breaking effects in the pseudoscalar meson decay constants
Creators: name: Bornyakov, V. G.
name: Horsley, R.
name: Nakamura, Y.
name: Perlt, H.
name: Pleiter, D.
name: Rakow, P. E. L.
name: Schierholz, G.
name: Schiller, A.
name: Stüben, H.
name: Zanotti, J. M.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016

description: (2016).
description: The SU(3) flavour symmetry breaking expansion in up, down and strange quark masses is extended from hadron masses to meson decay constants. This allows a determination of the ratio of kaon to pion decay constants in QCD. Furthermore when using partially quenched valence quarks the expansion is such that SU(2) isospin breaking effects can also be determined. It is found that the lowest order SU(3) flavour symmetry breaking expansion (or Gell-Mann-Okubo expansion) works very well. Simulations are performed for 2+1 flavours of clover fermions at four lattice spacings.
Evaluation of defective sewer pipe-induced internal erosion and associated ground deformation using laboratory model test
Creators: name: Indiketiya, Samanthi
name: Jegatheesan, Piratheepan
name: Rajeev, Pat
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Sinkholes induced by long-term internal erosion around defective sewer pipes have been widely reported. There is a need for an efficient method to understand the influence of pipe defects on internal erosion and ground settlement. This paper presents an approach to the investigation of erosion-induced ground settlement and the susceptibility of pipe bedding materials to internal erosion. A new and efficient erosion test apparatus is introduced, and aided by controlling most of the key influencing parameters. The corresponding ground displacement is tracked by image correlation based on particle image velocimetry (PIV). The basic parameters investigated are: (1) the process of cavity initiation and evolution, (2) the rate of soil loss, (3) the gradation of eroded soil, (4) the corresponding ground displacement. The results indicate that particles less than 0.3 mm are highly vulnerable to erosion through 5mm openings of embedment material with a maximum particle size of 4.75 mm. The proposed method is beneficial, since it allows measurement of the deformation at any time and at any location throughout the test and facilitates checking the resistance to erosion of pipe embedment materials.
Subleading Power Corrections for N-Jettiness Subtractions
Creators: name: Moult, Ian
name: Rothen, Lorena
name: Stewart, Iain W.
name: Tackmann, Frank J.
name: Zhu, Hua Xing
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: scale: interaction
rapidity
soft collinear effective theory
phase space
stability
hadron
thrust

description: (2016).
description: The $N$-jettiness observable $\mathcal{T}_N$ provides a way of describing the leading singular behavior of the $N$-jet cross section in the $\tau =\mathcal{T}_N/Q \to 0$ limit, where $Q$ is a hard interaction scale. We consider subleading power corrections in the $\tau \ll 1$ expansion, and employ soft-collinear effective theory to obtain analytic results for the dominant $\alpha_s \tau \ln\tau$ and $\alpha_s^2 \tau\ln^3\tau$ subleading terms for thrust in $e^+e^-$ collisions and $0$-jettiness for $q\bar q$-initiated Drell-Yan-like processes at hadron colliders. These results can be used to significantly improve the numerical accuracy and stability of the $N$-jettiness subtraction technique for performing fixed-order calculations at NLO and NNLO. They reduce the size of missing power corrections in the subtractions by an order of magnitude. We also point out that the precise definition of $N$-jettiness has an important impact on the size of the power corrections and thus the numerical accuracy of the subtractions. The sometimes employed definition of $N$-jettiness in the hadronic center-of-mass frame suffers from power corrections that grow exponentially with rapidity, causing the power expansion to deteriorate away from central rapidity. This degradation does not occur for the original $N$-jettiness definition, which explicitly accounts for the boost of the Born process relative to the frame of the hadronic collision, and has a well-behaved power expansion throughout the entire phase space. Integrated over rapidity, using this $N$-jettiness definition in the subtractions yields another order of magnitude improvement compared to employing the hadronic-frame definition.