cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Toward a Rational and Ethical Sociotechnical System of Autonomous Vehicles: A Novel Application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Creators: name: Dubljević, Veljko
name: List, George F.
name: Milojevich, Jovan
name: Ajmeri, Nirav
name: Bauer, William
name: Singh, Munindar P.
name: Bardaka, Eleni
name: Birkland, Thomas
name: Edwards, Charles
name: Mayer, Roger
name: Muntean, Ioan
name: Powers, Thomas
name: Rakha, Hesham
name: Ricks, Vance
name: Samandar, M. Shoaib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems has shown the potential to generate enormous social good while also raising serious ethical and safety concerns. AI technology is increasingly adopted in transportation. A survey of various in-vehicle technologies found that approximately 64% of the respondents used a smartphone application to assist with their travel. The top-used applications were navigation and real-time traffic information systems. Among those who used smartphones during their commutes, the top-used applications were navigation and entertainment. There is a pressing need to address relevant social concerns to allow for the development of systems of intelligent agents that are informed and cognizant of ethical standards. Doing so will facilitate the responsible integration of these systems in society. To this end, we have applied Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to develop a formal Multi-Attribute Impact Assessment (MAIA) questionnaire for examining the social and ethical issues associated with the uptake of AI. We have focused on the domain of autonomous vehicles (AVs) because of their imminent expansion. However, AVs could serve as a stand-in for any domain where intelligent, autonomous agents interact with humans, either on an individual level (e.g., pedestrians, passengers) or a societal level.
TabularNet: A Neural Network Architecture for Understanding Semantic Structures of Tabular Data
Creators: name: Du, Lun
name: Gao, Fei
name: Chen, Xu
name: Jia, Ran
name: Wang, Junshan
name: Zhang, Jiang
name: Han, Shi
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tabular data are ubiquitous for the widespread applications of tables and hence have attracted the attention of researchers to extract underlying information. One of the critical problems in mining tabular data is how to understand their inherent semantic structures automatically. Existing studies typically adopt Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to model the spatial information of tabular structures yet ignore more diverse relational information between cells, such as the hierarchical and paratactic relationships. To simultaneously extract spatial and relational information from tables, we propose a novel neural network architecture, TabularNet. The spatial encoder of TabularNet utilizes the row/column-level Pooling and the Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (Bi-GRU) to capture statistical information and local positional correlation, respectively. For relational information, we design a new graph construction method based on the WordNet tree and adopt a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) based encoder that focuses on the hierarchical and paratactic relationships between cells. Our neural network architecture can be a unified neural backbone for different understanding tasks and utilized in a multitask scenario. We conduct extensive experiments on three classification tasks with two real-world spreadsheet data sets, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed TabularNet over state-of-the-art baselines.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, to be published in the proceedings of KDD 2021
[Small-group elicitation session]
Creators: name: Thang, Ni Luai
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Kamholz, David
name: Spence, Justin
name: Todd, Heather
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cfm

description: Re-elicitation of some vocabulary items from 09 Sep 2007; noun-noun compounds (for purpose of tone combinations); simple transitive verbs; foods and how they taste.
Η θέση της λαπαροσκοπικής χολοκυστεκτομής σε συνδυασμό με την ενδοσκοπική αφαίρεση χολόλιθων, στην αντιμετώπιση της λιθίασης των χοληφόρων
Creators: name: Μαλγαρινός, Γεώργιος Κ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2006
Subjects: Ενδοσκοπική αφαίρεση λίθων
Ενδοσκοπική σφιγκτηροτομή
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography(ERCP)
Endoscopic sphincterotomy(ES)

description: Σκοπός της μελέτης είναι η αξιολόγηση της προεγχειρητικής η μετεγχειρητικής ERCP σε συνδυασμό με την ενδοσκοπική σφιγκτηροτομή ως συμπληρωματικής της λαπαροσκοπικής χολοκυστεκτομής σε ασθενείς με λιθίαση των εξωηπατικών χοληφόρων οδών. Στην μελέτη συμπεριελήφθησαν 526 ασθενείς(229 αρ., 279 θηλ.)στους οποίους διενεργήθηκε ERCP/EΣ λόγω χοληδοχολιθίασης κατά την πενταετία Ιανουάριος 1999-Οκτώβριος 2004. 309 ασθενείς(58,7%) που προγραμματίστηκαν για λαπαροσκοπική χολοκυστεκτομή υποβλήθηκαν σε προεγχειρητική ERCP/EΣ(Ομάδα Ι) και 217 ασθενείς(41,3%) υποβλήθηκαν σε μετεγχειρητική ΕRCP/EΣ(Ομάδα ΙΙ). Η κάθε ομάδα περιελάμβανε δύο υποομάδες ασθενών.. Από την μελέτη των περιστατικών επιβεβαιώθηκε ότι α)ασθενείς με χολαγγειίτιδα, αποφρακτικό ίκτερο η οξεία λιθ. παγκρεατίτιδα θα πρέπει να υποβάλλονται σε προεγχειρητική ERCP/ΕΣ 2)το ποσοστό αρν. ERCP στην προεγχειρητική ομάδα ασθενών ήταν μεγαλύτερο(23,6%). Από το ποσοστό της μετεγχειρητικής ομάδας(20,3%) 3)η διαφορά στα ποσοστά επιτυχούς αφαίρεσης των λίθων με προ-η μετεγχειρητική ERCP/ΕΣ από τον χοληδόχο πόρο δεν είναι στατιστικά σημαντική 4) η διαφορά στα ποσοστά επιτυχούς αφαίρεσης των λίθων από την χοληδόχο πόρο δεν είναι στατιστική σημαντική 5)το μεγαλύτερο μειονέκτημα της μετεγχειρητικής μεθόδου είναι οτι σε περίπτωση αποτυχίας θα πρέπει ο ασθενής να υποβληθεί σε νέα εγχείρηση
description: The aim of this study is to determine whether ERCP/ES should be performed selectively before of after LC in patients with cholelithiasis associated with knoen or suspected choledocholithiasis. Methods : over as 5-year period(January 1999 to October 2004), a total of 526 patients underwent ERCP in conjuction with L.C. 309 patients(58,7%) had symotimatic gallblader stones and were scheduled for L.C. these 309 patients underwent preoperative ERCP/ES for suspected CBD stones. 217 patients (41,3%) who underwent ERCP/ES. After they had undergone LC are group II. Each group included 2 subgroups of patients(subgroup a and subgroup b). Conclusion 1)patients with (holangitis obstructive) aundice, or severe biliary pancreatitis must undergo preoperative ERCP/ES 2) the percentage of negative ERCP in the preoperative group of patient was greater at 23,6% from the percentage of the postoperative group at 20,3%, with a subsequent reduction of costs and complications 3) the percentage of complications i.e. pancreatitis, cholangitis, etc in the two study groups is similar. In addition, the percentage of morbility-mortality rates is analogous 4)the difference in the percentage of successfully extracteds CBD stones is not statistically significant 5)the greatest disadvantage of postoperative ERCP/ES is that in cases where CBD stones have not been extracted successfully the patient will, therefore, need further surgery
Generalized Impurity Pinch in Partially Magnetized Multi-Ion Plasma
Creators: name: Mlodik, M. E.
name: Kolmes, E. J.
name: Ochs, I. E.
name: Fisch, N. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a two-ion-species plasma with disparate ion masses, heavy ions tend to concentrate in the low-temperature region of collisionally magnetized plasma and in the high-temperature region of collisionally unmagnetized plasma, respectively. Moreover, collisional magnetization can be determined as the ratio of the light ion gyrofrequency to the collision frequency of light and heavy ion species, and the behavior of this effect in the intermediate regime of partially magnetized plasma is predominantly dependent on this Hall parameter. Multi-ion cross-field transport has been described before in the collisionally magnetized plasma regime, and generalized pinch relations, which describe densities of ion species in equilibrium in that plasma, are found in the literature. In this paper, the role of collisional magnetization and Larmor magnetization in multi-ion collisional transport is clarified and generalized pinch relations are extended to the partially magnetized regime, in which the ion Hall parameter may be small, as long as electrons remain collisionally magnetized. Equilibrium ion density profiles have the same dependence on external forces and on each other regardless of collisional magnetization of ions. The expansion of the range of validity of multi-ion collisional transport models makes them applicable to a wider range of laboratory plasma conditions. In particular, ion density profiles evolve sufficiently fast for radial impurity transport to be observable around stagnation on MagLIF, leading to expulsion of heavy ion impurities from the hotspot as long as plasma becomes sufficiently collisionally magnetized during the implosion.
description: 10 pages, submitted to Physics of Plasmas
Καθορισμός τιμών αναφοράς των αιματολογικών παραμέτρων σε νεογνά βρέφη και παιδιά
Creators: name: Καρασαββίδου, Αικατερίνη Ι.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2006
Subjects: Αιματολογικές παράμετροι
Ερυθροκυτταρικοί δέκτες/αιμοσφαιρίνη/αιματοκρίτης
Λευκά αιμοσφαίρια/αιμοπετάλια
Haematological values
Red blood cell indices
Leucocytes/platelets

description: Οι τιμές των αιματολογικών παραμέτρων είναι γνωστό ότι διαφέρουν ανάλογα με την ηλικία, το φύλο, τη φυλή, το υψόμετρο. Υπάρχουν λίγες πρόσφατες αναφορές Ελλήνων και ξένων ερευνητών για τις φυσιολογικές τιμές των αιματολογικών παραμέτρων σε παιδιά. Οι περισσότερες από αυτές είτε αφορούν σε περιορισμένο εύρος ηλικών, είτε δεν συμπεριέλαβαν σημαντικό ποσοστό του υπό μελέτη πληθυσμού στην προσπάθεια να αποκλειστούν οι περιπτώσεις αναιμίας ή αιμοσφαιρινοπαθειών. Θεωρήθηκε συνεπώς αναγκαίο να καθοριστούν τιμές αναφοράς των αιματολογικών παραμέτρων που αφορούν στα Ελληνόπουλα και θα πληρούν τα ανωτέρω κριτήρια, ώστε να είναι χρήσιμες στον Ελληνα παιδίατρο στην καθημερινή κλινική πράξη. Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι ο προσδιορισμός των αιματολογικών παραμέτρων που χρησιμοποιούνται συχνότερα στην Παιδιατρική και είναι η αιμοσφαιρίνη, ο αιματοκρίτης, ο αριθμός των ερυθροκυττάρων, ο μέσος όγκος των ερυθροκυττάρων, η μέση συγκέντρωση της αιμοσφαιρίνης στα ερυθροκύτταρα, το εύρος κατανομής του όγκου των ερυθρών αιμοσφαιρίων, τα λευκά αιμοσφαίρια και ο τύπος τους και, τέλος, τα αιμοπετάλια και ο μέσος όγκος τους
description: There are few recent reports of haematological reference ranges in children and most of them extend over a small age range or have excluded a considerable proportion of the study population in an effort to omit those with haemoglobinopathies or anemia. Blood samples were analyzed from 4398 children aged from the first day of life through 16 years of age in order to determine the reference ranges for red cells, white cells, platelets and red cell indices. Eight hundred fifty three children were excluded from the study because were healthy according to history and physical examination...
Relational Abstract Domains for the Detection of Floating-Point Run-Time Errors
Creators: name: Miné, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a new idea to adapt relational abstract domains to the analysis of IEEE 754-compliant floating-point numbers in order to statically detect, through abstract Interpretation-based static analyses, potential floating-point run-time exceptions such as overflows or invalid operations. In order to take the non-linearity of rounding into account, expressions are modeled as linear forms with interval coefficients. We show how to extend already existing numerical abstract domains, such as the octagon abstract domain, to efficiently abstract transfer functions based on interval linear forms. We discuss specific fixpoint stabilization techniques and give some experimental results.
description: (update: reversed author first and last names)
Severity Stages in Essential Tremor: A Long-Term Retrospective Study Using the Glass Scale
Creators: name: Gironell, Alexandre
name: Ribosa-Nogué, Roser
name: Gich, Ignasi
name: Martín-Lahoz, Juan
name: Pascual-Sedano, Berta
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2015

description: Background: Few prospective studies have attempted to estimate the rate of decline of essential tremor (ET) and these were over a relatively short time period (less than 10 years). We performed a long-term study of severity stages in ET using the Glass scale scoring system. Methods: Fifty consecutive patients with severe ET were included. We retrospectively obtained Glass Scale scores throughout the patient’s life. Common milestone events were used to help recall changes in tremor severity. Results: According to the Glass Scale, the age distributions were as follows: score I, 40±17 years, score II, 55±12 years, score III, 64±9 years, and score IV, 69±7 years. A significant negative correlation between age at first symptom and rate of progression was found (r=−0.669, p<0.001). The rate of progression was significantly different (p<0.001) when the first symptom appeared at a younger age (under 40 years of age) compared with older age (40 years or older). Discussion: Our results support the progressive nature of ET. Age at onset was a prognostic factor. The Glass Scale may be a useful tool to determine severity stages during the course of ET in a manner similar to the Hoehn and Yahr Scale for Parkinson’s disease.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Wroclaw neutrino event generator
Creators: name: Nowak, Jaroslaw A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A neutrino event generator developed by the Wroclaw Neutrino Group is described. The physical models included in the generator are discussed and illustrated with the results of simulations. The considered processes are quasi-elastic scattering and pion production modelled by combining the $Δ$ resonance excitation and deep inelastic scattering.
description: Talk given at 2nd Scandanavian Neutrino Workshop (SNOW 2006), Stockholm, Sweden, 2-6 May 2006. 3 pages, 6 figures
Effective Field Theory of Triangular-Lattice Three-Spin Interaction Model
Creators: name: Otsuka, Hiromi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss an effective field theory of a triangular-lattice three-spin interaction model defined by the ${\mathbb Z}_p$ variables. Based on the symmetry properties and the ideal-state graph concept, we show that the vector dual sine-Gordon model describes the long-distance properties for $p\ge5$; we then compare its predictions with the previous argument. To provide the evidences, we numerically analyze the eigenvalue structure of the transfer matrix for $p=6$, and we check the criticality with the central charge $c=2$ of the intermediate phase and the quantization condition of the vector charges.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Flavour from accidental symmetries
Creators: name: Ferretti, Luca
name: King, Stephen F.
name: Romanino, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a new approach to fermion masses and mixings in which no special "horizontal" dynamics is invoked to account for the hierarchical pattern of charged fermion masses and for the peculiar features of neutrino masses. The hierarchy follows from the vertical, family-independent structure of the model, in particular from the breaking pattern of the Pati-Salam group. The lightness of the first two fermion families can be related to two family symmetries emerging in this context as accidental symmetries.
description: 15 pages, 1 eps figure, references added
Ερευνα των περιβαλλοντικών διεργασιών εξέλιξης των υγρότοπων και της πεδιάδας του Μαραθώνα κατά το Ολόκαινο με τη χρήση Γεωγραφικών Συστημάτων πληροφοριών(G.I.S.)
Creators: name: Μαργώνη, Σοφία Γρ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2006
Subjects: Περιβαλλοντική εξέλιξη
Σχινιάς
Schinias
Environmental evolution

description: Στη διατριβή αυτή ερευνώνται η ολοκαινική εξέλιξη της πεδιάδας του Μαραθώνα, η οποία οφείλεται στο συνδυασμό των φυσικών και ανθρωπογενών διεργασιών. Η όλη έρευνα βασίστηκε στις κλασσικές γεωγραφικές και γεωλογικές μεθόδους με τη χρήση Γεωγραφικών Συστημάτων Πληροφοριών(G.I.S.). Η πληρέστερη παρουσίαση των αποτελεσμάτων της έρευνας επέβαλε το χωρισμό της διατριβής σε δύο μέρη α)το μέρος Ι , το οποίο αναφέρεται στις φυσικές διεργασίες εξέλιξης της πεδιάδας του Μαραθώνα κατά το Ολόκαινο. Το μέρος ΙΙ, το οποίο αναφέρεται στις ανθρωπογενείς διεργασίες και τις επιπτώσεις τους στο περιβάλλον της πεδιάδας του μαραθώνα, από τους προϊστορικούς χρόνους μέχρι και σήμερα
description: The Holocene evolution of the plain of Marathon, (Attica, Greece) is investigated in this thesis. This was due to the combination of both natural and anthropogenic processes in the area. The methodology of the research was based both on classical geographical and geological practices in the field as well as in the laboratory, in combination with modern G.I.S. practices. For the best presentation of the thesis, it is divided into two parts : part i, includes the natural processes involved in the Holocene of the marathon plain. Part ii, includes the human processe and their impact on the environment of the Marathon plain, from the prehistoric time till today
Chorea Associated with High Titers of Antiphospholipid Antibodies in the Absence of Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Creators: name: Safarpour, Damoun
name: Buckingham, Sarah
name: Jabbari, Bahman
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2015

description: Background: Chorea associated with high titers of antiphospholipid antibodies in the absence of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome has been seldom reported. Case report: An 89-year-old female developed persistent right side chorea associated with high titers of anticardiolipin antibody(antiphospholipid antibosies immunoglobulin(Ig)M, 45 MPL and 112 IgM aCL(MPL) after 3 months) but normal lupus anticoagulants. Her magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) showed no abnormality, but positron emission tomography(PET) demonstrated increased bilateral striatal metabolic activity, more on the left side. Her MRI showed no cause for chorea. The PET scan demonstrated a marked increase in the metabolic activity of the left basal ganglia. Discussion: Her chorea remained unchanged over a 9-month follow-up period. The literature on chorea associated with high titers of antiphospholipid antibodies in the absence of antiphospholipid syndrome is reviewed.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Improving jet distributions with effective field theory
Creators: name: Bauer, Christian W.
name: Schwartz, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain perturbative expressions for jet distributions using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET). By matching SCET onto QCD at high energy, tree level matrix elements and higher order virtual corrections can be reproduced in SCET. The resulting operators are then evolved to lower scales, with additional operators being populated by required threshold matchings in the effective theory. We show that the renormalization group evolution and threshold matchings reproduce the Sudakov factors and splitting functions of QCD, and that the effective theory naturally combines QCD matrix elements and parton showers. The effective theory calculation is systematically improvable and any higher order perturbative effects can be included by a well defined procedure.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure; typos corrected and notation updated to match hep-ph/0607296
[Small-group elicitation session]
Creators: name: Thang, Ni Luai
name: Campbell, Amy
name: Ellsworth, Michael
name: Yu, Dominic
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cfm

description: Elicitation of possession/exchange verbs; Swadesh 200 List from 'count' to 'dirty'.
Focal Task-specific Dystonia among Professional Musicians in Latin America
Creators: name: Gatto, Emilia Mabel
name: Chade, Anabel
name: Persi, Gabriel
name: Parisi, Virginia
name: Ayarza, Ana
name: Campuzzano, Miguel
name: Garcia, Silvia
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2015

description: This letter was written in response to: Frucht SJ. Focal task-specific dystonia—from early descriptions to a new, modern formulation. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov. 2014; 4. doi: 10.7916/D8VD6WHP
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Analysing the use of graphs to represent the results of Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering
Creators: name: Felizardo, Katia Romero
name: Riaz, Mehwish
name: Sulayman, Muhammad
name: Mendes, Emília
name: MacDonell, Stephen G.
name: Maldonado, José Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The presentation of results from Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) is generally done using tables. Prior research suggests that results summarized in tables are often difficult for readers to understand. One alternative to improve results' comprehensibility is to use graphical representations. The aim of this work is twofold: first, to investigate whether graph representations result is better comprehensibility than tables when presenting SLR results; second, to investigate whether interpretation using graphs impacts on performance, as measured by the time consumed to analyse and understand the data. We selected an SLR published in the literature and used two different formats to represent its results - tables and graphs, in three different combinations: (i) table format only; (ii) graph format only; and (iii) a mixture of tables and graphs. We conducted an experiment that compared the performance and capability of experts in SLR, as well as doctoral and masters students, in analysing and understanding the results of the SLR, as presented in one of the three different forms. We were interested in examining whether there is difference between the performance of participants using tables and graphs. The graphical representation of SLR data led to a reduction in the time taken for its analysis, without any loss in data comprehensibility. For our sample the analysis of graphical data proved to be faster than the analysis of tabular data. However , we found no evidence of a difference in comprehensibility whether using tables, graphical format or a combination. Overall we argue that graphs are a suitable alternative to tables when it comes to representing the results of an SLR.
description: Conference paper, 10 pages, 8 tables, 2 figures
Theoretical introduction to express way of the complex determination of the thermophysical parameters of metals
Creators: name: Kornyushin, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method to measure thermophysical characteristics (TPC) of conductive materials is described. The method is based upon controlled bulk (e.g., Ohmic) heating and measurement of the averaged over the volume of a sample temperature and the temperature of the surface of a sample. To measure averaged over a sample volume temperature a dilatometric technique could be used and surface temperature could be measured by x-ray method. This allows one to avoid distortion of the temperature field by the thermocouples and directly takes into account heat losses from the surface of a sample. The treatment of the experimental data should be based upon theoretical calculations presented in this paper. The measured values of the averaged over the volume of a sample temperature and a surface temperature allow for the calculation of TPC of the material. The experimental data obtained on the iron-based materials prove the high accuracy of the described approach [1-3].
description: Theoretic basis of the topic in English
Uncommon Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation in Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders
Creators: name: Smith, Kara M.
name: Spindler, Meredith A.
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2015

description: Background: In addition to the established indications of tremor and dystonia, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been utilized less commonly for several hyperkinetic movement disorders, including medication-refractory myoclonus, ballism, chorea, and Gilles de la Tourette (GTS) and tardive syndromes. Given the lack of adequate controlled trials, it is difficult to translate published reports into clinical use. We summarize the literature, draw conclusions regarding efficacy when possible, and highlight concerns and areas for future study. Methods: A Pubmed search was performed for English-language articles between January 1980 and June 2014. Studies were selected if they focused primarily on DBS to treat the conditions of focus. Results: We identified 49 cases of DBS for myoclonus-dystonia, 21 for Huntington's disease, 15 for choreacanthocytosis, 129 for GTS, and 73 for tardive syndromes. Bilateral globus pallidus interna (GPi) DBS was the most frequently utilized procedure for all conditions except GTS, in which medial thalamic DBS was more common. While the majority of cases demonstrate some improvement, there are also reports of no improvement or even worsening of symptoms in each condition. The few studies including functional or quality of life outcomes suggest benefit. A limited number of studies included blinded on/off testing. There have been two double-blind controlled trials performed in GTS and a single prospective double-blind, uncontrolled trial in tardive syndromes. Patient characteristics, surgical target, stimulation parameters, and duration of follow-up varied among studies. Discussion: Despite these extensive limitations, the literature overall supports the efficacy of DBS in these conditions, in particular GTS and tardive syndromes. For other conditions, the preliminary evidence from small studies is promising and encourages further study.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
A Baseline Model for Software Effort Estimation
Creators: name: Whigham, Peter A.
name: Owen, Caitlin A.
name: MacDonell, Stephen G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software effort estimation (SEE) is a core activity in all software processes and development lifecycles. A range of increasingly complex methods has been considered in the past 30 years for the prediction of effort, often with mixed and contradictory results. The comparative assessment of effort prediction methods has therefore become a common approach when considering how best to predict effort over a range of project types. Unfortunately, these assessments use a variety of sampling methods and error measurements, making comparison with other work difficult. This article proposes an automatically transformed linear model (ATLM) as a suitable baseline model for comparison against SEE methods. ATLM is simple yet performs well over a range of different project types. In addition, ATLM may be used with mixed numeric and categorical data and requires no parameter tuning. It is also deterministic, meaning that results obtained are amenable to replication. These and other arguments for using ATLM as a baseline model are presented, and a reference implementation described and made available. We suggest that ATLM should be used as a baseline of effort prediction quality for all future model comparisons in SEE.
description: Journal Paper, 8 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure, 2 algorithms
[Class elicitation session]
Creators: name: Thang, Ni Luai
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cfm

description: Elicitation of basic greeting formula, consultant's name; ethnographic/biographic info about the consultant, information about the region and town of Falam; elicitation of carrier phrase "I said X"; numerals (1-10, 10s up until 100, 1000); body parts; the possessive pronoun paradigm; transitive verb 'hit' and intransitive verb 'leave' verbal paradigms combined with nominative personal pronouns; some wh-words and simple question formation; some adjectives; started Swadesh 200 List with inquiry into semantic fields related to Swadesh tokens; elicitation of kinship terms. Note: audio from 4 Sep 2007 through 12 Sep 2007 was not recorded, however various handwritten documentation was kept.
Nonlinear Saturation of the Weibel Instability in a Dense Fermi Plasma
Creators: name: Haas, F.
name: Shukla, P. K.
name: Eliasson, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an investigation for the generation of intense magnetic fields in dense plasmas with an anisotropic electron Fermi-Dirac distribution. For this purpose, we use a new linear dispersion relation for transverse waves in the Wigner-Maxwell dense quantum plasma system. Numerical analysis of the dispersion relation reveals the scaling of the growth rate as a function of the Fermi energy and the temperature anisotropy. The nonlinear saturation level of the magnetic fields is found through fully kinetic simulations, which indicates that the final amplitudes of the magnetic fields are proportional to the linear growth rate of the instability. The present results are important for understanding the origin of intense magnetic fields in dense Fermionic plasmas, such as those in the next generation intense laser-solid density plasma experiments.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Using Visual Text Mining to Support the Study Selection Activity in Systematic Literature Reviews
Creators: name: Felizardo, Katia Romero
name: Salleh, Norsaremah
name: Martins, Rafael M.
name: Mendes, Emília
name: MacDonell, Stephen G.
name: Maldonado, José Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: A systematic literature review (SLR) is a methodology used to aggregate all relevant existing evidence to answer a research question of interest. Although crucial, the process used to select primary studies can be arduous, time consuming, and must often be conducted manually. Objective: We propose a novel approach, known as 'Systematic Literature Review based on Visual Text Mining' or simply SLR-VTM, to support the primary study selection activity using visual text mining (VTM) techniques. Method: We conducted a case study to compare the performance and effectiveness of four doctoral students in selecting primary studies manually and using the SLR-VTM approach. To enable the comparison, we also developed a VTM tool that implemented our approach. We hypothesized that students using SLR-VTM would present improved selection performance and effectiveness. Results: Our results show that incorporating VTM in the SLR study selection activity reduced the time spent in this activity and also increased the number of studies correctly included. Conclusions: Our pilot case study presents promising results suggesting that the use of VTM may indeed be beneficial during the study selection activity when performing an SLR.
description: Conference paper, 11 pages, 1 table, 6 figures
Coleoptera Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Szawaryn, Karol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera

description: Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758  Suborder Polyphaga Emery, 1886
description: Published as part of Szawaryn, Karol, 2019, Unexpected diversity of whitefly predators in Eocene Baltic amber-new fossil Serangium species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 270-276 in Zootaxa 4571 (2) on page 271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2608337
Peak Luminosities of the Hard States of GX 339-4: Implications for the Accretion Geometry, Disk Mass, and Black Hole Mass
Creators: name: Yu, Wenfei
name: Lamb, Frederick K.
name: Fender, Robert
name: van der Klis, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed observations of the black hole transient {GX 339$-$4} made with the {\it Rossi} X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on board the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory (CGRO). We have found a nearly linear relation between the peak flux during the low/hard (LH) state that occurs at the beginning of an outburst and the time since the flux peak of the latest LH state identified in the previous outburst. Assuming that the rate at which mass accumulates in the accretion disk between these peaks is constant and that any mass that remains in the disk after an outburst has a negligible effect on the next outburst, this nearly linear relation suggests that the peak flux during the LH state that occurs at the beginning of an outburst is related to the mass in the disk, and thus that the entire disk is probably involved in powering these LH states. We have also found a positive correlation between the peak luminosities of the LH state in the three recent outbursts of {GX 339$-$4} and the peak luminosities of the following HS state. This correlation is similar to the correlations reported previously for {Aql X$-$1}, {4U 1705$-$44}, and {XTE J1550$-$564}, providing further support that the accretion flow that powers the LH state is related to the accretion flow that powers the following HS state. Although the luminosity of the LH-to-HS transition varies by up to an order of magnitude, the neutron stars and the black holes are distinguishable in the state transition luminosity. We discuss the implications for the mass determination of the compact stars in the ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs).
description: to appear in ApJ
Gate control, g-factors and spin orbit energy of p-type GaSb nanowire quantum dot devices
Creators: name: Dorsch, Sven
name: Yeo, In-Pyo
name: Lehmann, Sebastian
name: Dick, Kimberly
name: Thelander, Claes
name: Burke, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Proposals for quantum information applications are frequently based on the coherent manipulation of spins confined to quantum dots. For these applications, p-type III-V material systems promise a reduction of the hyperfine interaction while maintaining large $g$-factors and strong spin-orbit interaction. In this work, we study bottom-gated device architectures to realize single and serial multi-quantum dot systems in Schottky contacted p-type GaSb nanowires. We find that the effect of potentials applied to gate electrodes on the nanowire is highly localized to the immediate vicinity of the gate electrode only, which prevents the formation of double quantum dots with commonly used device architectures. We further study the transport properties of a single quantum dot induced by bottom-gating, find large gate-voltage dependent variations of the $g^*$-factors up to $8.1\pm 0.2$ as well as spin-orbit energies between $110$-$230\,μ$eV.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Does Collateral Value Affect Asset Prices? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Texas
Creators: name: Zevelev, Albert Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Does the ability to pledge an asset as collateral, after purchase, affect its price? This paper identifies the impact of collateral service flows on house prices, exploiting a plausibly exogenous constitutional amendment in Texas which legalized home equity loans in 1998. The law change increased Texas house prices 4%; this is price-based evidence that households are credit-constrained and value home equity loans to facilitate consumption smoothing. Prices rose more in locations with inelastic supply, higher pre-law house prices, higher income, and lower unemployment. These estimates reveal that richer households value the option to pledge their home as collateral more strongly.
Stationary massive disks around black holes: realistic equation of state and bifurcation
Creators: name: Kulczycki, Wojciech
name: Mach, Patryk
name: Malec, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study stationary and axially symmetric black hole-disk systems, assuming a combination of the DD2 and Timmes-Swesty equations of state and a three-parameter family of rotation laws. There exist two branches of solutions that are shown to bifurcate, for a suitable specific entropy and a parameter in the rotation law. Low entropy nuclear matter allows for the existence of moderately massive Keplerian disks.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Vascular Risk Factors and Clinical Progression in Spinocerebellar Ataxias
Creators: name: Lo, Raymond Y.
name: Figueroa, Karla P.
name: Pulst, Stefan M.
name: Lin, Chi-Ying
name: Perlman, Susan
name: Wilmot, George
name: Gomez, Christopher M.
name: Schmahmann, Jeremy
name: Paulson, Henry
name: Shakkottai, Vikram G.
name: Ying, Sarah H.
name: Zesiewicz, Theresa
name: Bushara, Khalaf
name: Geschwind, Michael
name: Xia, Guangbin
name: Subramony, S S. H.
name: Ashizawa, Tetsuo
name: Kuo, Sheng-Han
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2015

description: Background: The contributions of vascular risk factors to spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) are not known. Methods: We studied 319 participants with SCA 1, 2, 3, and 6 and repeatedly measured clinical severity using the Scale for Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) for 2 years. Vascular risk factors were summarized by CHA2DS2-VASc scores as the vascular risk factor index. We employed regression models to study the effects of vascular risk factors on ataxia onset and progression after adjusting for age, sex, and pathological CAG repeats. Our secondary analyses took hyperlipidemia into account. Results: Nearly 60% of SCA participants were at low vascular risks with CHA2DS2-VASc = 0, and 31% scored 2 or greater. Higher CHA2DS2-VASc scores were not associated with either earlier onset or faster progression of ataxia. These findings were not altered after accounting for hyperlipidemia. Discussion: Vascular risks are not common in SCAs and are not associated with earlier onset or faster ataxia progression.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Ultrashort filaments of light in weakly-ionized, optically-transparent media
Creators: name: Berge, L.
name: Skupin, S.
name: Nuter, R.
name: Kasparian, J.
name: Wolf, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern laser sources nowadays deliver ultrashort light pulses reaching few cycles in duration, high energies beyond the Joule level and peak powers exceeding several terawatt (TW). When such pulses propagate through optically-transparent media, they first self-focus in space and grow in intensity, until they generate a tenuous plasma by photo-ionization. For free electron densities and beam intensities below their breakdown limits, these pulses evolve as self-guided objects, resulting from successive equilibria between the Kerr focusing process, the chromatic dispersion of the medium, and the defocusing action of the electron plasma. Discovered one decade ago, this self-channeling mechanism reveals a new physics, widely extending the frontiers of nonlinear optics. Implications include long-distance propagation of TW beams in the atmosphere, supercontinuum emission, pulse shortening as well as high-order harmonic generation. This review presents the landmarks of the 10-odd-year progress in this field. Particular emphasis is laid to the theoretical modeling of the propagation equations, whose physical ingredients are discussed from numerical simulations. Differences between femtosecond pulses propagating in gaseous or condensed materials are underlined. Attention is also paid to the multifilamentation instability of broad, powerful beams, breaking up the energy distribution into small-scale cells along the optical path. The robustness of the resulting filaments in adverse weathers, their large conical emission exploited for multipollutant remote sensing, nonlinear spectroscopy, and the possibility to guide electric discharges in air are finally addressed on the basis of experimental results.
description: 50 pages, 38 figures
Estimation and Inference on Time-Varying FAVAR Models *
Creators: name: Fu, Zhonghao
name: Su, Liangjun
name: Wang, Xia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: We introduce a time-varying (TV) factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model to capture the TV behavior in the factor loadings and the VAR coefficients. To consistently estimate the TV parameters, we first obtain the unobserved common factors via the local principal component analysis (PCA) and then estimate the TV-FAVAR model via a local smoothing approach. The limiting distribution of the proposed estimators is established. To gauge possible sources of TV features in the FAVAR model, we propose three L2 -distance-based test statistics and study their asymptotic properties under the null and local alternatives. Simulation studies demonstrate the excellent finite sample performance of the proposed estimators and tests. In an empirical application to the U.S. macroeconomic dataset, we document overwhelming evidence of structural changes in the FAVAR model and show that the TV-FAVAR model outperforms the conventional time-invariant FAVAR model in predicting certain key macroeconomic series.
Error-Resistant Distributed Quantum Computation in Trapped Ion Chain
Creators: name: Braungardt, Sibylle
name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider experimentally feasible chains of trapped ions with pseudo-spin 1/2, and find models that can potentially be used to implement error-resistant quantum computation. Similar in spirit to classical neural networks, the error-resistance of the system is achieved by encoding the qubits distributed over the whole system. We therefore call our system a ''quantum neural network'', and present a ''quantum neural network model of quantum computation''. Qubits are encoded in a few quasi-degenerated low energy levels of the whole system, separated by a large gap from the excited states, and large energy barriers between themselves. We investigate protocols for implementing a universal set of quantum logic gates in the system, by adiabatic passage of a few low-lying energy levels of the whole system. Naturally appearing and potentially dangerous distributed noise in the system leaves the fidelity of the computation virtually unchanged, if it is not too strong. The computation is also naturally resilient to local perturbations of the spins.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX4; v2: another noise model analysed, published version
The Role of Dopamine and Dopaminergic Pathways in Dystonia: Insights from Neuroimaging
Creators: name: Karimi, Morvarid
name: Perlmutter, Joel S.
Publisher: name: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Year: 2015

description: Background: Dystonia constitutes a heterogeneous group of movement abnormalities, characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing abnormal postures. Overwhelming data suggest involvement of basal ganglia and dopaminergic pathways in dystonia. In this review, we critically evaluate recent neuroimaging studies that investigate dopamine receptors, endogenous dopamine release, morphology of striatum, and structural or functional connectivity in cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical and related cerebellar circuits in dystonia. Methods: A PubMed search was conducted in August 2014. Results: Positron emission tomography(PET) imaging offers strong evidence for altered D2/D3 receptor binding and dopaminergic release in many forms of idiopathic dystonia. Functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging(DTI) data reveal likely involvement of related cerebello-thalamo-cortical and sensory-motor networks in addition to basal ganglia. Discussion: PET imaging of dopamine receptors or transmitter release remains an effective means to investigate dopaminergic pathways, yet may miss factors affecting dopamine homeostasis and related subcellular signaling cascades that could alter the function of these pathways. fMRI and DTI methods may reveal functional or anatomical changes associated with dysfunction of dopamine-mediated pathways. Each of these methods can be used to monitor target engagement for potential new treatments. PET imaging of striatal phosphodiesterase and development of new selective PET radiotracers for dopamine D3-specific receptors and Mechanistic target of rampamycin(mTOR) are crucial to further investigate dopaminergic pathways. A multimodal approach may have the greatest potential, using PET to identify the sites of molecular pathology and magnetic resonance methods to determine their downstream effects.
description: Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Boson stars in Palatini $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity
Creators: name: Masó-Ferrando, Andreu
name: Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas
name: Font, José A.
name: Olmo, Gonzalo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore equilibrium solutions of spherically symmetric boson stars in the Palatini formulation of $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity. We account for the modifications introduced in the gravitational sector by using a recently established correspondence between modified gravity with scalar matter and general relativity with modified scalar matter. We focus on the quadratic theory $f(\mathcal{R})=R+ξR^2$ and compare its solutions with those found in general relativity, exploring both positive and negative values of the coupling parameter $ξ$. As matter source, a complex, massive scalar field with and without self-interaction terms is considered. Our results show that the existence curves of boson stars in Palatini $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity are fairly similar to those found in general relativity. Major differences are observed for negative values of the coupling parameter which results in a repulsive gravitational component for high enough scalar field density distributions. Adding self-interactions makes the degeneracy between $f(\mathcal{R})$ and general relativity even more pronounced, leaving very little room for observational discrimination between the two theories.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, RevTex4-1