cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radiation Oncology Resident Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: An Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology Equity and Inclusion Subcommittee Inaugural Resident Survey
Creators: name: Siker, Malika L
name: Elmore, Shekinah N C
name: Rivera, Amanda
name: Deville, Curtiland
name: Toumbou, Kadiata
name: Sim, Austin J
name: Halasz, Lia M
name: Jagsi, Reshma
name: Tye, Karen E
name: Balogun, Onyinye D
name: Suneja, Gita
name: Franco, Idalid
name: Vapiwala, Neha
name: Oladeru, Oluwadamilola T
name: Williams, Vonetta M
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description:
PURPOSE: In this study, radiation oncology residents were surveyed on perceptions of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in their residency training programs. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A 23-item survey was developed by the Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology Equity and Inclusion Subcommittee resident members and faculty advisors. The survey was divided into 4 sections: institutional culture, support and resources, interview and recruitment, and experiences of bias. The survey was sent individually to residents from all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited radiation oncology programs. RESULTS: The survey was issued to 757 residents. A total of 319 residents completed the survey, for a response rate of 42%. All postgraduate years and geographic regions were represented. Significant racial, ethnic, and gender differences were present in survey response patterns. White residents (94%, 164 of 174) and male residents (96%, 186 of 194) were more likely to strongly agree/agree that they were treated with respect by their colleagues and their coworkers than other racial groups (P < .005) or gender groups (P < .008). Only 3% (5 of 174) of White residents strongly agreed/agreed that they were treated unfairly because of their race/ethnicity, while 31% (5 of 16) of Black residents and 10% (9 of 94) of Asian residents strongly agreed/agreed (P < .0001). Similarly, Hispanic residents were more likely to strongly agree/agree (24%, 5 of 21) than non-Hispanic residents (7%, 20 of 298) (P = .003). Regarding mentorship, there were no differences by gender or ethnicity. There were differences by race in residents reporting that they had a supportive mentor (P = .022), with 89% (154 of 174) of White residents who strongly agreed/agreed, 88% (14 of 16) of Black residents, and 91% of Asian residents (86 of 94). CONCLUSIONS: This survey reveals that experiences of support, mentorship, inclusion, and bias vary significantly among radiation oncology residents based on race, ethnicity, and gender. Radiation oncology has opportunity for growth to ensure an equitable experience for all residents.
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Creators: name: George, Ayden
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper introduces the Principle of Most Action as a conceptual counterpart to the well-established Principle of Least Action. Together, these form a dual framework governing the wave-like behavior of constrained systems across physics, biology, and computation. The proposed “geodesic wave” arises as the natural path negotiated between these extremes—least and most action—giving rise to quantum coherence, biological efficiency, and scalable superposition. A novel mathematical interpretation is offered: least action aligns with continuous calculus, while most action maps onto number theory and modular arithmetic. This discrete-continuous tension is posited as the source of quantum stability and emergent order. The wave is not merely descriptive—it is ontological, the universal resolution of constraint.
Supplementary document for Switchable Preamplifier for Dual Modal Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging - 6175218.pdf
Creators: name: Yoo, Jinhee
name: Oh, Donghyeon
name: Kim, Chulhong
name: Kim, Hyung Ham
name: Um, Ji-Yong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Figures (S1-S6)
Structural Setting of Argentiferous Veins, Cariboo Gold District, East-Central British Columbia
Creators: name: Gavin, Rachel A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The Cariboo Gold District (CGD) in east-central British Columbia is a hotbed for gold exploration and production. The Cariboo gold rush began in the late 1850s with the discovery of placer-gold in streams near Likely and the Wells-Barkerville area, and lode-gold was discovered not long after. To date, the CGD has yielded an estimated 118 - 134 tonnes of gold (Levson and Giles, 1993). Although structural controls appear to be similar throughout the CGD, not all mineralized veins are gold-bearing. Silver Mine, Penny Creek, and Cariboo Hudson are three veins in a cluster of argentiferous quartz veins, located 23 km southeast of Barkerville Gold Mines’ Cow Mountain deposit; these veins are dominated by silver, copper, lead, zinc and tungsten minerals with little to no gold mineralization. The Silver Mine vein is the best-exposed vein in the cluster and is the focal point of this study. The Silver Mine vein is a 2 m wide, steeply-dipping, north-northeast striking, fault-filling Ag-W polymetallic quartz-carbonate vein hosted within the Hardscrabble Mountain succession of the Barkerville subterrane. Structural analysis of the Silver Mine and surrounding veins suggest it may be a ‘strike vein’, similar to the B.C. Vein situated 23 km northwest. The Silver Mine vein may have formed by exploiting a preexisting thrust fault and, under sustained northeast-directed regional shortening, gradually rotating and continuously reactivating an area of rheological contrast at a high angle to the inferred direction of maximum regional stress. Relatively fresh lamprophyre dikes, some containing xenoliths of quartz vein fragments, intrude close to and cross-cut the vein at Silver Mine; Ar⁴⁰/Ar³⁹ geochronology confirms that these intrusions are ~20 Mya younger than the vein. The Au-Ag-Pb-Zn ± Cu-W tenor of Silver Mine and nearby veins is distinct from the Au ± Pb-Bi tenor of ore in veins in the Wells-Barkerville camp. Many of the Ag-W polymetallic veins are located within, or very near to, the relatively more carbonaceous and fissile Hardscrabble Mountain Succession, whereas Au veins tend to be hosted by the Downey Succession. Host rock lithology may be an important factor in vein ore mineralogy.
D2.3: Second Annual Report of WP2
Creators: name: Fagerholm, Juha
name: Kennedy, Alison
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure

description: This document, the “Second Annual Report of WP2”, of the PRACE Second Implementation Phase Project (PRACE-2IP) reports on the work undertaken in the final 12 month period from 1 September 2012 to 31 August 2013.
 Work package 2 has built up the offering of access to diverse high-end national Tier-1 HPC resources to European researchers within the PRACE framework. The report elucidates the work in enhancing the management of the calls, the scientific evaluations, the allocation of resources and the monitoring of progress of the DECI projects. The goal has been to build an infrastructure both sustainable and scalable as the process adapts to a larger number of participants on both the service side and the researcher side. The number of participating sites, amount of resources and the number of proposals has been growing. The work has also been motivated by the continuation of the DECI programme in PRACE-3IP and by the negotiations on a Tier-1 Optional Programme by PRACE AISBL.
 This document describes in detail the progress made in the second year, discusses problems met and solved, and proposes measures to enhance the processes in the future.
 During the second year, a new system for project proposal submission has been prepared, with the help of other work packages. This system should be used and refined for subsequent DECI calls. A new peer review panel has been created and used for scientific evaluations for those proposals which are not nationally reviewed.
 The document also discusses expanding the range of Tier-1 offerings to community and industry support, as described in the Description of Work.
 The document lists statistics on the DECI proposals received and the DECI projects accepted during the PRACE-2IP project. The success of the DECI programme among the European researchers also indicates the need of such a service by PRACE.
 The work done by PRACE-2IP WP2 has enabled the provision of shared Tier-1 resources to the European research community to be incorporated into the PRACE framework. The work will be continued by PRACE-3IP WP2, based on the practices established in this project, and probably later by a PRACE Tier-1 Optional Programme.
Perspective: The role of diversity advisory boards in autism research
Creators: name: Williams, Ed-Dee G
name: Smith, Matthew J
name: Boyd, Brian
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2022

description:
In this perspective, we argue that the regular use of diversity advisory boards in autism research will improve the inclusivity and participation of marginalized groups in autism research and intervention development. We define a diversity advisory board as a representative group of community members, scholars, policymakers, and area experts that specifically discuss and examine research and interventions for accurate representation and consideration of underrepresented and marginalized identities such as racial, gender, sexual minorities, and dis/abilities who are often excluded from the research process. We present three arguments for forming and integrating diversity advisory boards in autism research and intervention development. First, diversity advisory boards would encourage scholars and interventionists to be intentional in considering how their intervention will work for culturally, racially, gendered, and dis/ability diverse groups. Second, diversity advisory boards will lead to increased diverse samples of autistic participants if members of the board are incentivized to support recruitment efforts from their local communities and networks. Finally, the regular use of diversity advisory boards will improve the research-to-practice gap by including a wider range of community members in the early development and implementation of autism interventions. Recommended actions researchers could take to select, maintain, and meaningfully engage a diversity advisory board are included in this perspective.

description:
LAY ABSTRACT: This article argues that using groups of individuals that specifically focus on addressing issues with diversity in autism research and autism intervention development are key in ensuring that a greater amount of racial, ethnic, and gender diverse autistic individuals are included in the research and that the research is addressing the needs of these individuals and groups. We call these groups a diversity advisory board. A diversity advisory board will help improve diversity in autism research and intervention development by making sure that autism researchers (1) are intentional about addressing issues of diversity in their research and (2) are able to recruit a greater number of autistic individuals with diverse identities, and (3) by giving greater consideration to the context of diverse autistic individuals which will help autism-focused interventions work better in community settings. We give a short description of these arguments and ideas for how to form and use a diversity advisory board.
Citizen Science in Data-Intensive Physics: PUNCH4NFDI Perspective
Creators: name: Tokareva, Victoria
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Haungs, Andreas
name: Karuppusamy, Ramesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: citizen science
subject: open science
subject: Astronomy
subject: astroparticle physics
subject: Nuclear physics
subject: Particle physics
subject: particle physics
subject: PUNCH4NFDI
subject: outreach
subject: tutorials
subject: data publication
subject: Data processing

description: In recent years, citizen science projects have garnered widespread participation globally, fostering collaboration between enthusiastic individuals and professional researchers. Recent studies indicate that such collaborations yield a positive impact on social well-being by promoting continuous education, rational thinking, and active engagement in local and international social initiatives.

This contribution delves into the realm of citizen science projects within the data-intensive physics domain, specifically focusing on initiatives related to research within PUNCH4NFDI (Particles, Universe, NuClei and Hadrons for Nationale Forschungs-Daten Infrastruktur) scientific communities, such as astrophysics, astroparticle and particle physics, nuclear physics, and related fields. Our analysis aims to explore the experiences gained from citizen science projects across diverse research domains. This exploration aims to uncover the transformative potential of such collaborations, both within the realm of scientific inquiry and in the broader societal context.

This work is supported by the DFG fund ”NFDI 39/1” for the PUNCH4NFDI consortium.
Kääritään hihat! Palkokasviketjujen kehittämiseksi löytyy ratkaisuja
Creators: name: Kaljonen, Minna
name: Lonkila, Annika
name: Kuusela, Jutta
name: Schauman, Casimir
name: Savikko, Riitta
name: Lamminen, Marjukka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Alkutuotannon vahvistamiseksi tarvitaan tutkimusta, kokeiluviljelmiä, viljelyohjeita, tiedotusta, neuvontaa ja viljelijöiden kokemusten vaihtoa. Kotimaiseen kasvinjalostukseen on satsattava edelleen, jotta saataisiin viljelyvarmempia, nopeammin tuleentuvia ja lakoontumattomia lajikkeita. Työpajassa esitettiin, että kestävän elvytyksen tutkimus- ja innovaatiotoimintaan suunnattua rahoitusta voisi suunnata uusien, kestävää ruokajärjestelmää tukevien lajikkeiden kehittämiseen. Teollisuuden puolelta toivottiin selkeää viestiä siitä, millaista laatua se toivoo sadolta. To strengthen primary production, research, experimental plantations, growing guidelines, information, advice and the exchange of farmers' experiences are needed. Further investment is needed in domestic plant breeding to produce varieties that are more reliable, faster growing and resistant to blight. The workshop suggested that funding for research and innovation in sustainable regeneration could be directed towards the development of new varieties that support a sustainable food system. The industry was asked to send a clear message about the quality they want from their crops.
Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Isotopic Abundance Ratio in Biofield Energy Treated Thymol
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: Thymol is a natural monoterpenoid phenol possessing various pharmacological activities such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, etc. The stable isotope ratio analysis has drawn attention in numerous fields such as agricultural, food authenticity, biochemistry, metabolism, medical research, etc. An investigation of the effect of the biofield energy treatment (The Trivedi Effect®) on the isotopic abundance ratios of PM+1/PM and PM+2/PM in thymol using gas chromatography - mass spectrometry was attempted in this study. The sample, thymol was divided into two parts - one part was denoted as control and another part was referred as biofield energy treated sample that was given Mr. Trivediꞌs unique biofield energy. T1, T2, T3, and T4 were represented to different time interval analysis of the biofield treated thymol. The GC-MS spectra of the both control and biofield treated thymol indicated the presence of molecular ion peak [M+] at m/z 150 (calculated 150.10 for C10H14O) along with the similar pattern of fragmentation. The relative intensities of the parent molecule and other fragmented ions of the biofield treated thymol were enhanced as compared to the control thymol. The percentage change of the isotopic abundance ratio of PM+1/PM in the biofield treated thymol at T1, T2, T3 and T4 was increased by 3.25, 6.31, 96.75, and 140.25%, respectively as compared to the control thymol. In addition, the percentage change of the isotopic abundance ratio of PM+2/PM was increased in the biofield treated thymol at T1, T2, T3, and T4 by 5.33, 8.00, 101.33, and 140.00%, respectively with respect to the control sample. In summary, 13C, 2H, and 17O contributions from (C10H14O) + to m/z 151 and 18O contribution from (C10H14O) + to m/z 152 in the biofield treated thymol were significantly increased gradually with respect to the time and was found that biofield energy treatment has time dependent effect on it. Hence, the biofield energy treated thymol might display altered isotope effects such as physicochemical and thermal properties, binding energy and the reaction kinetics with respect to the control sample. So, biofield energy treated thymol could be advantageous for designing the synthetic scheme for the preparation of pharmaceuticals through its kinetic isotope effects. Besides, biofield treated thymol might be useful to overcome the problems associated with thymol for e.g. pungent flavor, high dose requirement for the activity through understanding its isotope effects and the determination of its pharmacokinetic profile, bioavailability.
Template for a letter to remind participants about keeping their appointment
Creators: name: Katsonouri, Andromachi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: HBM study
HBM
study material
HBM4EU
Human Biomonitoring
population survey
communication material
template
reminder letter
reminder

description: This template can be used to develop a letter for reminding participants in HBM4EU studies about keeping their appointment with the fieldworker. Changes can be introduced as required by the study design and national requirements.
 This document is also included as an annex in HBM4EU Deliverable D7.4. The document is available under this DOI in English (original), French and German (translated). General Disclaimer: The researcher responsible for each study using the provided materials must ensure the suitability of the materials, including the readability of the translations provided, and must oversee any further adaptations, as deemed necessary.
description: This document has been created for the HBM4EU project. HBM4EU has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 733032. This document was originally an annex to a HBM4EU project deliverable. This annex is here provided also as single files for easier use and accessibility.
A Conversation on Race and Colorism in Social Forces
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Shannon Malone
name: Hargrove, Taylor
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2022

description:
It is now widely recognized in sociology that racialized inequality is a persistent structural phenomenon that infiltrates every aspect of life. However, at the inception of Social Forces in 1922, dominant perspectives on race and inequality spanned a continuum, from biological racism — focused on inherent biological inferiorities — to paternalistic attitudes guided by desires to help those deemed less fortunate. The leadership of the journal originally held similar views (see Kalleberg and Newell 2022). Yet, with significant changes to society, politics, and culture, scholarship published in the journal on race and racism incorporated different perspectives of racialized inequality and helped to capture the consequences of its ubiquity.
Heat treatment of Lignin Electro-spun Carbon Nano-Fibers
Creators: name: Rey, Delphine
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The electrospinnability of lignin with the help of Polytheylene oxide, to produce electrospun carbon nanofibers, used for electrodes of various energy storage devices, is seducing the scientific community for its abundance, renewability, cost and the simplest, industrially scalable process. As for each and every technical lignin available in nature, the native lignin used here is the least energy consuming. A detailed, reproducible method is recorded, and a personalized heat treatment following electrospinning is produced to present the best conductivity of the electrospun carbon nanofiber. Further analysis and applications of the electrodes produced from these nanofibers are investigated. A promising upgrade seeks to filling the many pores in the fibers produced to increase the capacity of the electrodes crafted from these carbon nanofibers.
title: Profiling Cybercriminals: Behavioral Analysis and Motivations Behind Cybercrime Activities
Creators: name: Reynolds, A'shya Latrice
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The study of cybercriminal behavior and motivations is crucial for understanding and combating the evolving landscape of digital crime. This paper delves into the intricate realm of cybercrime profiling, employing a multidisciplinary approach to dissect the behavioral patterns and underlying motivations of cybercriminals. Drawing from psychology, sociology, and criminology, the research examines the intricate interplay of individual traits, social dynamics, and technological factors that shape cybercriminal activities.

Through analysis of case studies and research, this paper uncovers the diverse range of motivations driving individuals towards engaging in cybercrime. From financial gain and ideological extremism to thrill-seeking and revenge, cybercriminals exhibit a myriad of motivations that defy simplistic categorization. By understanding these underlying drivers, law enforcement agencies, policymakers, and cybersecurity professionals can develop targeted strategies to detect, prevent, and mitigate cyber threats effectively. This paper contributes to the ongoing discourse on cybercrime by providing valuable insights into the behavioral intricacies and motivational factors shaping the digital underworld, paving the way for more nuanced and effective approaches to combating cyber threats.
title: The Severe Health Shocks and Financial Well-Being
Creators: name: Majlesi, Kaveh
name: Molin, Elin
name: Roth, Paula
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: financial distress
subject: health shocks
subject: household debt
subject: household saving
subject: JEL classification: I12, G51, G22
subject: 610
subject: 330

description: We examine the effect of fatal and nonfatal health shocks on household debt defaults. Fatal shocks significantly cause defaults, especially among surviving spouses lacking sufficient resources, namely housing wealth. Our findings suggest that this behavior is not due to inattention. These shocks also have intergenerational consequences, as children of resource-poor surviving spouses become more likely to face debt collection. These findings in a country with a relatively generous welfare system manifest the graveness of background risks among poorer households and suggest the potential for improving social insurance programs. Nonfatal health shocks lead to an immediate but temporary increase in default likelihood.
description: CINCH working paper series, vol. 2024, no. 02
D7.4: Unified European Applications Benchmark Suite
Creators: name: Bull, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure
Benchmark Suite

description: This deliverable describes the Unified European Application Benchmark Suite (UEABS), a set of 12 application codes taken from the existing PRACE and DEISA application benchmark suites to form a single suite, with the objective of providing a set of scalable, currently relevant and publically available codes and datasets, of a size which can realistically be run on large systems, and maintained into the future. This work has been undertaken by Task 7.4 “Unified European Applications Benchmark Suite for Tier-0 and Tier-1” in the PRACE Second Implementation Phase (PRACE-2IP) project.
 The selection process, which was determined by the consensus of partners in Workpackage 7, and which is described here in detail, took into account the criteria of open licensing, public availability of suitable datasets, support from developers, portability, scalability and relevance to science communities.
 The selected codes are: ALYA, Code_Saturne, CP2K, GADGET, GENE, GROMACS, GPAW, NAMD, NEMO, QCD, Quantum Espresso and SPECFEM3D.
 For each code either one or two test case datasets have been selected. These are described in this document, along with a brief introduction to the application codes themselves. For each code some sample results are presented, from several PRACE Tier-0 and Tier-1 systems.
Stakeholder Analysis of the Beaty Biodiversity Green Roof
Creators: name: Chalanuchpong, Wasin
name: Chan, Joyce
name: Chisholm, Maria
name: Nguyen, Michelle
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: As a publicly accessible green roof at the University of British Columbia’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum, numerous stakeholders utilize this space for a variety of functions and purposes. To enhance its use to the community, it is necessary to determine the possibility for a more focused and diverse range of uses that may be valuable to its stakeholders. Based on the analysis of a public questionnaire regarding current perceptions and suggestions for future uses, as well as a field assessment of the plant species identified on the green roof. Results showed that passive activities such as eating and relaxing are the primary interest for stakeholders. This assessment created baseline data for the management team of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum to use as a guide for maintaining the green roof in a manner that will benefit stakeholders.
Mario Maffi,  Città di memoria. Viaggi nel passato e nel presente di sei metropoli
Creators: name: Vallorani, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Mario Maffi,
Città di memoria. Viaggi nel passato e nel presente di sei metropoli
(Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2014, ISBN 978-884281698-0)

di Nicoletta Vallorani
description: Altre Modernità, N. 15 (2016): La finzione della legge.  Crimine, giustizia, fatti e finzione.
Brain–Body Pathways Linking Racism and Health
Creators: name: Bonar, Adrienne S.
name: Cardenas, Megan N.
name: Starks, Maurryce D.
name: Alvarez, Gabriella M.
name: Galvan, Manuel J.
name: Merritt, Carrington C.
name: Muscatell, Keely A.
Publisher: name: American Psychological Association (APA)
Year: 2022

description:
Racial disparities in health are a major public health problem in the United States, especially when comparing chronic disease morbidity and mortality for Black versus White Americans. These health disparities are primarily due to insidious anti-Black racism that permeates American history, current culture and institutions, and interpersonal interactions. But how does racism get under the skull and the skin to influence brain and bodily processes that impact the health of Black Americans? In the present article, we present a model describing the possible neural and inflammatory mechanisms linking racism and health. We hypothesize that racism influences neural activity and connectivity in the salience and default mode networks of the brain and disrupts interactions between these networks and the executive control network. This pattern of neural functioning in turn leads to greater sympathetic nervous system signaling, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation, and increased expression of genes involved in inflammation, ultimately leading to higher levels of proinflammatory cytokines in the body and brain. Over time, these neural and physiological responses can lead to chronic physical and mental health conditions, disrupt well-being, and cause premature mortality. Given that research in this area is underdeveloped to date, we emphasize opportunities for future research that are needed to build a comprehensive mechanistic understanding of the brain-body pathways linking anti-Black racism and health.
Nudges, Regulations and Liberty
Creators: name: Oprea, Alexandra
name: Dowding, Keith
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Year: 2022

description:
Nudge advocates contend that nudges are liberty preserving, while government regulations are not. We interrogate that assumption by considering negative liberty in the forms suggested by the proponents of nudges. Specifically, we examine three ways of measuring negative liberty – liberty as freedom of choice, liberty as absence of coercion and liberty as absence of interference – applying the measures to a case study relevant to the nudge literature: regulations governing healthy food manufacture. We show that, depending on the liberty measure adopted and the estimated impact on producer and consumer behaviour, some regulations can be liberty reducing, while others are liberty preserving or liberty enhancing. When it comes to comparing nudges and more traditional policies aimed at increasing the health and welfare of citizens, there is no a priori negative liberty ground for preferring nudges.
Supplementary document for Classification of Quantum Correlation Using Deep Learning - 6175352.pdf
Creators: name: Jin, Xianmin
name: Wu, Shi-Bao
name: Li, Zhan-Ming
name: Gao, Jun
name: Zhou, Heng
name: Wang, Changshun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental material
A Clinical Framework for Sexual Minority Couple Therapy
Creators: name: Baucom, Donald H.
name: Pentel, Kimberly Z.
Publisher: name: American Psychological Association (APA)
Year: 2022

description:
Sexual minority (SM) couples share similar predictors of relationship distress and dissolution with couples with two heterosexual partners, highlighting a need for quality couple therapy. Though many SM couples desire culturally tailored couple care and most couple and family therapists have worked with SM clients, most therapists report feeling underprepared to deliver tailored couple therapy that best meets SM couples’ needs. Effective, evidence-based couple therapies exist to treat relationship distress, yet these treatments have been overwhelmingly developed for and studied with mixed-gender, heterosexual couples. Consequently, most couple therapists are left tailoring therapy for SM couples ad hoc, without a guiding framework. This article offers a clinical framework to guide the systematic tailoring of evidence-based couple therapy for SM couples, specifically encouraging couple therapists to attend to (a) universal factors relevant to all couples’ relationship functioning, (b) SM-specific factors impacting couple functioning including differentiating between the environmental-level origin of SM stress and its multilevel impact on couple well-being, and (c) within-group diversity and meaningful subgroups of SM couples to ensure we do not view SM couples as monolithic. We highlight key nonspecific/common factors that underlie SM-affirming couple therapy. Finally, we discuss the couples field’s progress in offering tailored SM couple care and consider broader clinical implications of this framework in expanding the reach of evidence-based couple therapy to historically underserved groups.
Predicting European cities’ climate mitigation performance using machine learning
Creators: name: Goyal, Nihit
name: Wang, Xuewei
name: Toh, Wayne
name: Hsu, Angel
name: Tan, Jonas
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
Although cities have risen to prominence as climate actors, emissions’ data scarcity has been the primary challenge to evaluating their performance. Here we develop a scalable, replicable machine learning approach for evaluating the mitigation performance for nearly all local administrative areas in Europe from 2001-2018. By combining publicly available, spatially explicit environmental and socio-economic data with self-reported emissions data from European cities, we predict annual carbon dioxide emissions to explore trends in city-scale mitigation performance. We find that European cities participating in transnational climate initiatives have likely decreased emissions since 2001, with slightly more than half likely to have achieved their 2020 emissions reduction target. Cities who report emissions data are more likely to have achieved greater reductions than those who fail to report any data. Despite its limitations, our model provides a replicable, scalable starting point for understanding city-level climate emissions mitigation performance.
Template for the certificate of informed consent for people legally able to provide consent
Creators: name: Katsonouri, Andromachi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: HBM study
HBM
study material
HBM4EU
Human Biomonitoring
population survey
communication material
template
informed consent
consent

description: This template can be used to develop a tailored certificate of informed consent for participants in HBM4EU surveys, who are legally eligible to provide their informed consent. According to GDPR, this applies to ages over 16. GDPR-compliant changes can be introduced as required by the study design and national requirements. For an explanation of the term GDPR, please refer to the document itself.
 This document is also included as an annex in HBM4EU Deliverable D7.4. The document is available under this DOI in English (original), French and German (translated). General Disclaimer: The researcher responsible for each study using the provided materials must ensure the suitability of the materials, including the readability of the translations provided, and must oversee any further adaptations, as deemed necessary.
description: This document has been created for the HBM4EU project. HBM4EU has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 733032. This document was originally an annex to a HBM4EU project deliverable. This annex is here provided also as single files for easier use and accessibility.
EMBER: multi-label prediction of kinase-substrate phosphorylation events through deep learning
Creators: name: Kirchoff, Kathryn E
name: Gomez, Shawn M
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2022

description:
MOTIVATION: Kinase-catalyzed phosphorylation of proteins forms the backbone of signal transduction within the cell, enabling the coordination of numerous processes such as the cell cycle, apoptosis, and differentiation. Although on the order of 105 phosphorylation events have been described, we know the specific kinase performing these functions for <5% of cases. The ability to predict which kinases initiate specific individual phosphorylation events has the potential to greatly enhance the design of downstream experimental studies, while simultaneously creating a preliminary map of the broader phosphorylation network that controls cellular signaling. RESULTS: We describe Embedding-based multi-label prediction of phosphorylation events (EMBER), a deep learning method that integrates kinase phylogenetic information and motif-dissimilarity information into a multi-label classification model for the prediction of kinase-motif phosphorylation events. Unlike previous deep learning methods that perform single-label classification, we restate the task of kinase-motif phosphorylation prediction as a multi-label problem, allowing us to train a single unified model rather than a separate model for each of the 134 kinase families. We utilize a Siamese neural network to generate novel vector representations, or an embedding, of peptide motif sequences, and we compare our novel embedding to a previously proposed peptide embedding. Our motif vector representations are used, along with one-hot encoded motif sequences, as input to a classification neural network while also leveraging kinase phylogenetic relationships into our model via a kinase phylogeny-weighted loss function. Results suggest that this approach holds significant promise for improving the known map of phosphorylation relationships that underlie kinome signaling. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The data and code underlying this article are available in a GitHub repository at https://github.com/gomezlab/EMBER. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Winter marine birds in False Creek : a spatial analysis of bird distributions and anthropogenic disturbances
Creators: name: Bandara, Sandamini
name: Barrette, Nicole
name: Carss, Jordyn
name: Fendick, Grace
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The City of Vancouver has the ambition to be one of the greenest cities in the world (City of Vancouver, 2012). Through bylaws and policy changes, they have committed to reduce their ecological footprint, enhance urban sustainability and meet objectives like protecting natural spaces from development and restoring natural habitat. In order to achieve their goals, the City needs to make sustainable development decisions, informed by research about surrounding ecosystems and the species that live there. False Creek, a saltwater inlet on the south end of downtown, is of particular interest for both its urban and natural roles within the city landscape. Proposed development plans for the northeast corner of False Creek created interest for the City to collect more information about the status of the ecosystem. To learn more about the health of the False Creek ecosystem, marine birds were chosen as an indicator because they are highly integrated in both the aquatic and terrestrial features of the landscape, are sensitive to climate change, and are easily identifiable. Because Vancouver is a stopover on a major north-south bird migration route and contains regions that have been identified as Important Bird Areas (IBAs) according to internationally recognized standards, the city’s role in providing habitat to both migratory and resident species is globally significant. False Creek is one such area within an IBA, but no detailed studies about which marine birds use the area and how human activities disturb different species has been attempted to date. This project was established to help fill information gaps by conducting a baseline survey of the marine birds present in False Creek during the winter months. The research questions driving our study were: 1) Which marine bird species are present in False Creek between November and February? 2) What are the distributions of the observed species and how many are observed in the field? 3) What are human activities that disturb marine birds in False Creek?
Analysis of Spotify Spanish spoken profiles in Twitter - Bobcatsss Presentation + datasets - May 2022 - Debrecen
Creators: name: Juan-José Boté-Vericad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bobcatsss, datasets, presentation

description: Here you can find the presentation and the datasets (RDS format) from my contribution to Bobcatsss conference held in Debrecen at the University of Debrecen in Hungary.
PERCEPTUAL PHENOMENA IN ENGLISH
Creators: name: Karabayeva, Barno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Perception verbs (see, hear, feel, taste, smell) anchor the relation between bodily experience and linguistic expression in English. This article surveys the scientific and theoretical bases that explain how these verbs encode sensory information, epistemic stance, and metaphorical meaning. It synthesises four major strands – generative event‑structure models, cognitive‑linguistic embodiment theories, usage‑based corpus findings, and psycholinguistic evidence on sensorimotor simulation – and shows how each illuminates different facets of perceptual language. By integrating these perspectives, the paper offers a comprehensive framework for analysing perception in English and identifies research directions in pedagogy, cross‑linguistic comparison, and multimodal natural‑language processing.
Template for a withdrawal form for general population studies
Creators: name: Katsonouri, Andromachi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: HBM study
HBM
study material
HBM4EU
Human Biomonitoring
population survey
communication material
template
withdrawal
withdrawal form

description: This template can be used for documenting the wish of a participant to withdraw from an HBM4EU survey. Changes can be introduced as required by the study design and national requirements.
 This document is also included as an annex in HBM4EU Deliverable D7.4. The document is available under this DOI in English (original), French and German (translated). General Disclaimer: The researcher responsible for each study using the provided materials must ensure the suitability of the materials, including the readability of the translations provided, and must oversee any further adaptations, as deemed necessary.
description: This document has been created for the HBM4EU project. HBM4EU has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 733032. This document was originally an annex to a HBM4EU project deliverable. This annex is here provided also as single files for easier use and accessibility.
Cultivating Resilience : Assessing Vancouver’s Local Food System
Creators: name: Tung, Audrey
name: Ginther, Bryana
name: Shen, Lucy
name: Hinds, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Current agricultural systems account for approximately 20% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC, 2014). A growing population, depleting key resources (oil and phosphorous1), loss of farm lands and the risk of changing climatic conditions highlight the need for a dramatic change to our global food network. As a response to this globalized, industrial model of agriculture, localized food systems are less fossil fuel intensive due to reduced transport and processing needs, as well as small-scale farming methods (Neff et al., 2011). Local food systems are not only ecologically sustainable, but also socially just, increasing the availability of food, creating livelihoods, and strengthening the relationship between farmers and consumers in the community. Project Objectives: 1. Identify a successful policy environment for small-scale urban food systems to flourish and improve farmer livelihoods 2. Assess the role of non-governmental actors in influencing policy development 3. Learn how small-scale urban farms and related stakeholders develop resilience against climate change and fossil fuel related contingencies This project is completed in partnership with Village Vancouver Transition Society. The goal of this project is to inform further policy development to create a more resilient food system within the Village Vancouver Transition Society’s overarching timeline of 2040. This research project identifies local, sustainable food initiatives in Vancouver and evaluates the public policies that enable the initiatives’ successful implementation. Through examining policy documents and interviewing local food system actors, current laws, bylaws and strategies governing urban food systems were assessed. Barriers to growth were identified from survey and interview responses, and are broadly categorized into economic, resource, and marketplace barriers (summarized below). Addressing these barriers, increasing awareness and continuing sustainable farming practices will allow small scale farmers to scale up their production and operations to build a more resilient local urban food system. The findings of this research lead to a plethora of recommendations to local food system actors and governmental organizations to develop resilience to climate change and oil scarcity.
:unas
Creators: name: Verein Für Sozialgeschichte Des. Und. Jahrhunderts E.V.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 900
subject: 320
subject: 100

description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2024, no. 37
Job Security, Gender, and Sales Performance: Evidence from a Retail Sales Context
Creators: name: Lim, Noah
name: Salazar, Diego F.
name: Koch, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Year: 2025

description:
This paper investigates the impact of job stability on the performance of workers, specifically women. This paper investigates the impact of job stability on the performance of workers, specifically women. In our context, job stability is defined as the attainment of a permanent contract protected by legal provisions. We exploit a unique panel data set that contains daily sales output of 536 sales agents, 86% of whom are female, at a large retail firm in Indonesia. Each agent was initially employed on a temporary contract for 18 months; at the end of this period, about half the agents were offered permanent employment, whereas the rest continued on temporary contracts. We exploit this event and estimate a two-way fixed effects model. The results show that female agents who received a permanent contract increased their daily sales by 6% in the next 30 days and by 6.7% in the next 180 days. Furthermore, an examination of the distributional effects of job stability by gender indicates no discernible differences in the behavioral responses of women and men. Our findings suggest that enhanced intrinsic motivation, rather than environmental factors or extrinsic incentives, is the primary driver of agents’ behavioral responses. Furthermore, our study highlights several contextual factors that elucidate when female workers are most likely to respond positively to job stability. Results suggest that policies promoting job stability equally across genders can significantly improve worker productivity and overall firm performance while advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) objectives. History: K. Sudhir served as the senior editor for this article. This paper has been accepted for the Marketing Science Special Section on DEI. Funding and Competing Interests: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or nonfinancial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this article. The authors have no funding to report. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2023.0233 .
High-dimensional Biomarker Identification for Interpretable Disease Prediction via Machine Learning Models
Creators: name: Carroll, Ian
name: Zou, Fei
name: Dai, Yifan
name: Wu, Di
name: Zou, Baiming
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2025

description:
MOTIVATION: Omics features, often measured by high-throughput technologies, combined with clinical features, significantly impact the understanding of many complex human diseases. Integrating key omics biomarkers with clinical risk factors is essential for elucidating disease mechanisms, advancing early diagnosis, and enhancing precision medicine. However, the high dimensionality and intricate associations between disease outcomes and omics profiles present substantial analytical challenges. RESULTS: We propose a High-dimensional Feature Importance Test (HiFIT) framework to address these challenges. Specifically, we develop an ensemble data-driven biomarker identification tool, Hybrid Feature Screening (HFS), to construct a candidate feature set for downstream machine learning models. The pre-screened candidate features from HFS are further refined using a computationally efficient permutation-based feature importance test employing machine learning methods to flexibly model the potential complex associations between disease outcomes and molecular biomarkers. Through extensive numerical simulation studies and practical applications to microbiome-associated weight changes following bariatric surgery, as well as the examination of gene-expression-associated kidney pan-cancer survival data, we demonstrate HiFIT's superior performance in both outcome prediction and feature importance identification. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: An R package implementing the HiFIT algorithm is available on GitHub (https://github.com/BZou-lab/HiFIT). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary materials are available at Bioinformatics online.