cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exact finite-size corrections in the dimer model on a cylinder
Creators: name: Papoyan, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact finite-size corrections to the free energy $F$ of the dimer model on lattice $\mathcal{M} \times \mathcal{N}$ with cylindrical boundary conditions have been derived for three cases where the lattice is completely covered by dimers: $\mathcal{M} = 2M$, $\mathcal{N} = 2N$; $\mathcal{M} = 2M - 1$, $\mathcal{N} = 2N$; and $\mathcal{M} = 2M$, $\mathcal{N} = 2N - 1$. For these types of cylinders, ratios $r_p(ρ)$ of the $p$th coefficient of $F$ have been calculated for the infinitely long cylinder (${\mathcal M} \rightarrow \infty$) and infinitely long strip (${\mathcal N} \rightarrow \infty$) at varying aspect ratios. As in previous studies of the dimer model on the rectangular lattice with free boundary conditions and for the Ising model with Brascamp-Kunz boundary conditions, the limiting values $p \to \infty$ exhibit abrupt anomalous behaviour of ratios $r_p(ρ)$ at certain values of $ρ$. These critical values of $ρ$ and the limiting values of the finite-size expansion coefficient ratios vary between the different models.
description: Supplementary material included with the paper
POREMAPS: A finite difference based Porous Media Anisotropic Permeability Solver for Stokes flow
Creators: name: Krach, David
name: Ruf, Matthias
name: Steeb, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Porous materials are ubiquitous in various engineering and geological applications, where their permeability plays a critical role in viscous fluid flow and transport phenomena. Understanding and characterizing the microscale properties, the effective hydraulic parameters, and also the anisotropy of porous materials are essential for accurate modeling and predicting fluid flow behavior. The study pursues the Digital Rock Physics approach to retrieve intrinsic permeability and its evolution in anisotropic configurations of porous media, which are subjected to pore space alterations. Therefore, we discuss the development and implementation of a computational framework based on the finite difference method to solve the pseudo-unsteady Stokes equations for fluid flow on the pore scale. We present an efficient and highly parallelized implementation of this numerical method for large voxel-based data sets originating from different image-based experimental setups. A comprehensive variety of benchmarks has been conducted to assess and evaluate the performance of the proposed solver. The solver's compatibility with huge domain sizes generated by state-of-the-art imaging techniques is demonstrated. We investigate an open-cell foam undergoing deformation, observing that contrary to initial expectations, no anisotropy emerges. Further, we examine a microfluidic cell experiencing precipitation within its pore space, resulting in clear anisotropic development during the clogging process.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures
CONTROLLING ION TRANSPORT PATHWAYS IN POLYMER MIXED ION/ELECTRON CONDUCTING DEVICES
Creators: name: Khan, Tamanna
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: Mixed ionic and electronic transport in organic materials is being explored in a wide range of technologies from bioelectronics to energy applications. Their performance critically relies on the interaction of ion channels with conjugated molecules responsible for charge transport. This raises the question whether ion transport can be separated and controlled through film architecture and thus control charge transport as well. Here, differential surface energies between polyelectrolyte components are used to create a nanoscale hydrophilic channel in a mixed conduction thin film device. This channel concentrates ion transport into an ion super-highway with the ion mobility measured to be nearly an order of magnitude higher than previous measurements in similar films. Ion access to this interfacial channel is, furthermore, gated through local surface energy, where gate materials of increasing hydrophobicity drive ions out of the channel, significantly hindering both ion and charge transport. This mechanism is further applied in a novel sensing device where UV-induced chemical changes local to the buried channel actively switches on the ion super highway due to the change in local surface energy. Understanding and controlling this mechanism via device architecture and polymer nanostructure will enable novel functionalities in future electronic, sensing, and medical applications.
Additional file 3 of Letrozole ovulation regimen for frozen-thawed embryo transfer in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Xie, Yanqiu
name: Deng, Min
name: Deng, Weifen
name: Fan, Qi
name: Shi, Yuhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Composition of the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC).
Didunculus strigirostris CR
Creators: name: Ghiraldi, Luca
name: Aimassi, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Columbiformes
Columbidae
Didunculus
Didunculus strigirostris

description: TOOTH-BILLED PIGEON Didunculus strigirostris CR
 Gnathodon strigirostris Jardine, 1845
MZUT AV19159; mount; adult female; Samoan Islands, no date; purchased from J. C. Godeffroy in 1870.
 Remarks.—On 18 February 1870 the MZUT purchased a collection of 62 birds from Johann Cesar Godeffroy of Hamburg (Germany). In addition to the skin of specimen MZUT AV19159, the skeleton was also preserved (Salvadori 1915).
description: Published as part of Ghiraldi, Luca & Aimassi, Giorgio, 2019, Extinct and endangered (' E & E') birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy, pp. 28-45 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 139 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11637476
The Claytons
Creators: name: Sui, Margaret
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Hixon Writing Center
English
Mary A. Earl McKinney Prize in Literature - Prose

description: [Prologue] To the North, tucked beside the Adirondack Mountains, lay the suburban town of Bethlehem, an average town filled with ordinary people. The nearest city, Albany, was a small city with few attractions, so that natives who saw the tourist stand at the airport would wonder why tourists would ever visit. Indeed, few did. Despite the mediocrity that existed in the place, the people of Bethlehem held for it a fierce pride – they bragged about its boredom rather than renounced it.
sj-docx-1-cmg-10.1177_26317745241231102 – Supplemental material for Concordance between nice classification and histopathology in colonic polyps: a tertiary center experience
Creators: name: Buitrago-Tamayo, Andrea C.
name: Lombo-Moreno, Carlos E.
name: Ursida, Valentina
name: Leguizamo-Naranjo, Ana M.
name: Muñoz-Velandia, Oscar M.
name: Vargas-Rubio, Rómulo D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Endocrinology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cmg-10.1177_26317745241231102 for Concordance between nice classification and histopathology in colonic polyps: a tertiary center experience by Andrea C. Buitrago-Tamayo, Carlos E. Lombo-Moreno, Valentina Ursida, Ana M. Leguizamo-Naranjo, Oscar M. Muñoz-Velandia and Rómulo D. Vargas-Rubio in Therapeutic Advances in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Precise synchronization of a free-running Rubidium atomic clock with GPS Time for applications in experimental particle physics
Creators: name: Dalmazzone, Claire
name: Guigue, Mathieu
name: Mellet, Lucile
name: Popov, Boris
name: Russo, Stefano
name: Voisin, Vincent
name: Abgrall, Michel
name: Chupin, Baptiste
name: Lim, Caroline B.
name: Pottie, Paul-Éric
name: Ulrich, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of our study devoted to the development of a time correction algorithm needed to precisely synchronize a free-running Rubidium atomic clock with the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This R&D is performed in view of the Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) experiment currently under construction in Japan, which requires a synchronization with UTC and between its different experimental sites with a precision better than $100$ ns. We use a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver to compare a PPS and a $10$ MHz signal, generated by a free-running Rubidium clock, to the Global Positioning System (GPS) Time signal. We use these comparisons to correct the time series (time stamps) provided by the Rubidium clock signal. We fit the difference between Rubidium and GPS Time with polynomial functions of time over a certain integration time window to extract a correction of the Rubidium time stamps in offline or online mode. In online mode, the latest fit results are used for the correction until a new comparison to GPS Time becomes available. We show that with an integration time window of around $10^4$ seconds, we can correct the time stamps drift, caused by the frequency random walk noise and the deterministic frequency drift of the free running Rubidium clock, so that the time difference with respect to GPS Time stays within a $\pm5$ ns range in both offline or online correction mode. Presented results could be of interest for other experiments in the field of neutrino physics and multi-messenger astrophysics.
description: 32 pages, 15 figures, manuscript prepared for submission to NIM A
Using LLMs to Establish Implicit User Sentiment of Software Desirability
Creators: name: Weitl-Harms, Sherri
name: Hastings, John D.
name: Lum, Jonah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; D.2.8; I.2.6; H.5.2

description: This study explores the use of LLMs for providing quantitative zero-shot sentiment analysis of implicit software desirability, addressing a critical challenge in product evaluation where traditional review scores, though convenient, fail to capture the richness of qualitative user feedback. Innovations include establishing a method that 1) works with qualitative user experience data without the need for explicit review scores, 2) focuses on implicit user satisfaction, and 3) provides scaled numerical sentiment analysis, offering a more nuanced understanding of user sentiment, instead of simply classifying sentiment as positive, neutral, or negative.
 Data is collected using the Microsoft Product Desirability Toolkit (PDT), a well-known qualitative user experience analysis tool. For initial exploration, the PDT metric was given to users of two software systems. PDT data was fed through several LLMs (Claude Sonnet 3 and 3.5, GPT4, and GPT4o) and through a leading transfer learning technique, Twitter-Roberta-Base-Sentiment, and Vader, a leading sentiment analysis tool. Each system was asked to evaluate the data in two ways, by looking at the sentiment expressed in the PDT word/explanation pairs; and by looking at the sentiment expressed by the users in their grouped selection of five words and explanations, as a whole. Each LLM provided a sentiment score, its confidence (low, medium, high) in the score, and an explanation of the score.
 All LLMs tested were able to statistically detect user sentiment from the users' grouped data, whereas TRBS and Vader were not. The confidence and explanation of confidence provided by the LLMs assisted in understanding user sentiment. This study adds deeper understanding of evaluating user experiences, toward the goal of creating a universal tool that quantifies implicit sentiment.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, updated to incorporate feedback
Supplemental Material - Understanding Australian Pharmacists’ Perceptions on the Utilisation of Oral 5-HT3 Antagonists as Pharmacist-Only Anti-Emetics in Comparison to Oral D2 Antagonists
Creators: name: Hendry, Aiden
name: Janetzki, Jack
name: Chai, Wern Chern
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for Understanding Australian Pharmacists’ Perceptions on the Utilisation of Oral 5-HT3 Antagonists as Pharmacist-Only Anti-Emetics in Comparison to Oral D2 Antagonists by Aiden Hendry, Jack Janetzki, and Wern Chern Chai in Journal of Pharmacy Practice.
Additional file 4 of Letrozole ovulation regimen for frozen-thawed embryo transfer in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Xie, Yanqiu
name: Deng, Min
name: Deng, Weifen
name: Fan, Qi
name: Shi, Yuhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Inform and consent.
Stability in Isolated Grids: Implementation and Analysis of the Dead-Zone Virtual Oscillator Control in Simulink and Typhoon HIL
Creators: name: Sapkota, Dixant Bikal
name: Neupane, Puskar
name: Shiwakoti, Bivek
name: Baral, Saugat
name: Bhattarai, Panas
name: Gautam, Basanta Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper explores the analysis and implementation of the Virtual Oscillator Control (VOC) strategy for inverters aiming to enhance stability amidst the ever-increasing generation of renewable energy sources like solar PV. Key objectives include implementation and analysis of a Dead-Zone VOC (DZVOC) three-phase battery-inverter system with an additional voltage control loop, study of its stability and performance in an isolated micro-grid and exploration of their use alongside widely used grid following PV-inverter system. By modeling independent microgrids under various cases with scenarios: VOC inverters of varying capacities and VOC inverters in conjunction with PV inverters, this research addresses critical aspects of power-sharing, compatibility, response times, and fault ride-through potential, as well as improving the voltage droop profile of a general DZVOC control. The simulation is executed in MATLAB SIMULINK and validated with real-time simulation using the Typhoon-HIL 404.
description: This paper has been accepted for presentation at the 16th IEEE Powercon, 2024
Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) and IoT Use Cases in Universities, Campuses, and Educational Institutions: A Research Analysis
Creators: name: Taruc, Lyberius Ennio F.
name: De La Cruz, Arvin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The main objective of this research paper is to analyze the available use cases of Narrowband-IoT and IoT in universities, campuses, and educational institutions. A literature review was conducted using multiple databases such as IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, and Scopus. The study explores the benefits of IoT adoption in higher education. Various use cases of NB-IoT in educational institutions were analyzed, including smart campus management, asset tracking, monitoring, and safety and security systems. Of the six use cases assessed, three focused on the deployment of IoT Things, while three focused on NB-IoT Connectivity. The research paper concludes that NB-IoT technology has significant potential to enhance various aspects of educational institutions, from smart campus management to improving safety and security systems. The study recommends further exploration and implementation of NB-IoT technology in educational settings to improve efficiency, security, and overall campus management. The research highlights the potential applications of NB-IoT in universities and educational institutions, paving the way for future studies in this area. The social implications of this research could involve enhancing the overall learning experience for students, improving campus safety, and promoting technological advancements in educational settings.
 Keywords: narrowband-IoT, Internet-of-Things, smart campus, smart institutions
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
New Physics at Tera-$Z$: Precision Renormalised
Creators: name: Allwicher, Lukas
name: McCullough, Matthew
name: Renner, Sophie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the power of a Tera-$Z$ run at FCC-ee for indirectly detecting or constraining heavy new physics. Our main finding is that nearly every new particle which matches at tree level to dimension-six operators of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) affects electroweak precision observables (EWPOs) at either tree level or via one loop renormalisation group (RG) running. This is true almost regardless of the structure of couplings to the Standard Model; just a handful of exceptions are identified which can produce zeroes in the EWPO RG equations. Under simple flavour assumptions, we perform fits of each state to projected FCC-ee $Z$ pole measurements, showing that all scenarios can be tested at the TeV scale or better, with many projected exclusions reaching tens of TeV. Tera-$Z$ is argued to provide an almost inescapable probe of heavy new physics.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures. Version published in JHEP
title: Die Sprachentwicklung von CODA-Kindern und der Sprachinput durch ihre gehörlosen Eltern
Creators: name: Gruber, Carina
Year: 2010

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit setzt sich mit der (Laut-)Sprachentwicklung von hörenden Kindern gehörloser Eltern, die auch als CODAs bezeichnet werden, auseinander. Außerdem wird der Sprachinput durch die gehörlosen Eltern betrachtet. CODA-Kinder haben in der Gehörlosenkultur einen ganz besonderen Stellenwert. Sie selbst fühlen sich häufig zwischen hörender und gehörloser Welt hin- und hergerissen. Die Erforschung der CODA-Thematik ist noch nicht weit fortgeschritten. Die in der Vergangenheit durchgeführten Studien sind meist nicht repräsentativ, da die Anzahl der Stichproben oftmals zu klein war. Amerika und Großbritannien können in puncto Forschung als Vorreiterländer gesehen werden, während die Erforschung der Thematik in Österreich in den Kinderschuhen steckt. Eine weitere Untersuchung dieses Gebiets ist immens wichtig und sollte vorangetrieben werden. Diese Diplomarbeit gibt zunächst eine Einführung in die CODA-Thematik. Die allgemeine Sprachentwicklung des Kindes wird behandelt. Die gehörlosen und hörenden Familienmitglieder und deren Einfluss auf das hörende Kind werden genau betrachtet. Außerdem werden die Erkenntnisse der Forschung zum Thema Lautsprachentwicklung von CODA-Kindern anhand einer Literaturanalyse zusammengefasst und gegenübergestellt. Der Fokus der Diplomarbeit liegt auf dem Sprachinput durch die gehörlosen Eltern und auf der lautsprachlichen Entwicklung von CODA-Kindern. Abschließend werden ebenfalls Möglichkeiten der Frühförderung behandelt, wobei vor allem auf die Strategien der gehörlosen Eltern eingegangen wird.
description: This thesis is a critical revision of the (spoken) language acquisition of hearing children of deaf adults (CODA). Furthermore it deals with the language input of the deaf parents. CODAs play a vital role in Deaf Culture. Often they feel torn between the hearing and the deaf world because they are part of both worlds. Unfortunately, research on this topic was – and still is – rare and mostly not representative which can be ascribed to the fact that most sample groups are too small to reach any general conclusion. Compared to Austria, the United States and Great Britain play more of a leading role in CODA research, which should be duly noted. Further research on this field is of extreme importance and should be enforced. First of all, this thesis delivers a short introduction to CODA and first language acquisition in general. In addition, both deaf and hearing family members and their influence on the hearing child are exploited. An analysis of existing literature illustrates the outcome concerning language acquisition of CODAs. The main focus of this thesis lies on language input of the deaf parents and the (spoken) language acquisition of the hearing children. As a closure, the early advancement of the child is discussed with special attention to parenting strategies of deaf parents.
Symmetry induced enhancement in finite-time thermodynamic trade-off relations
Creators: name: Funo, Ken
name: Tajima, Hiroyasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry imposes constraints on open quantum systems, affecting the dissipative properties in nonequilibrium processes. Superradiance is a typical example in which the decay rate of the system is enhanced via a collective system-bath coupling that respects permutation symmetry. Such model has also been applied to heat engines. However, a generic framework that addresses the impact of symmetry in finite-time thermodynamics is not well established. Here, we show a symmetry-based framework that describes the fundamental limit of collective enhancement in finite-time thermodynamics. Specifically, we derive a general upper bound on the average jump rate, which quantifies the fundamental speed set by thermodynamic speed limits and trade-off relations. We identify the symmetry condition which achieves the obtained bound, and explicitly construct an open quantum system model that goes beyond the enhancement realized by the conventional superradiance model.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures. (v2) 23 pages, 7 figures
Guía para docentes: Mellorar as competencias ecolóxicas, a sostibilidade e o atractivo da FP Marítima
Creators: name: Oliveira, Ana Beatriz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Esta guía elaborouse para ofrecer aos educadores do sector da Formación Profesional (FP) valiosos coñecementos e recursos sobre a incorporación do Curso de competencias verdes ás súas actividades de desenvolvemento profesional. Comezando cunha breve introdución ás Competencias verdes, a guía afonda nunha visión global do curso, os seus módulos e obxectivos. Ademais, describe as versátiles aplicacións do curso en diversas materias educativas e destaca o seu papel como ferramenta educativa complementaria en ámbitos específicos da FP.
description: Completando a guía inclúense as presentacións empregadas para impartir o Curso de Habilidades Verdes en 2023
Constructing Existential Uncertainty in the Cancer Context: A Deductive Thematic Analysis
Creators: name: Dwan, Conor
name: Willig, Carla
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Notwithstanding ever-increasing reservoirs of scientific knowledge, uncertainty is a fundamental part of human existence that will never be eliminated. This paper focuses on the concept of existential uncertainty by exploring how people living with cancer construct their sense of the unknown. We interviewed six people who had received a cancer diagnosis in the last five years on the subject of their uncertainty, inviting them to talk about objects that were related to this uncertainty and to answer questions about their experience of uncertainty. A deductive thematic analysis of the interviews generated commonalities in the way they expressed the existential aspect of their uncertainty, namely: a struggle to put it into words; a resort to metaphorical modes of expression; and a sense that the process of doing so was somehow “weird.” We suggest that it is difficult for people to express their existential uncertainty directly and in the conventional terms of a medico-scientific discourse, and that they resort to alternative discourses that are more amenable to metaphor to do so. It is important for clinicians offering psychological support to be aware that clients may express uncertainty in this way so they can deepen rather than thwart their meaning-making process.
sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873241234238 – Supplemental material for Risk of major adverse cardiovascular events and stroke associated with treatment with GLP-1 or the dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist tirzepatide for type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Stefanou, Maria-Ioanna
name: Theodorou, Aikaterini
name: Malhotra, Konark
name: Aguiar de Sousa, Diana
name: Katan, Mira
name: Palaiodimou, Lina
name: Katsanos, Aristeidis H
name: Koutroulou, Ioanna
name: Lambadiari, Vaia
name: Lemmens, Robin
name: Giannopoulos, Sotirios
name: Alexandrov, Andrei V
name: Siasos, Gerasimos
name: Tsivgoulis, Georgios
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873241234238 for Risk of major adverse cardiovascular events and stroke associated with treatment with GLP-1 or the dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist tirzepatide for type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Maria-Ioanna Stefanou, Aikaterini Theodorou, Konark Malhotra, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Mira Katan, Lina Palaiodimou, Aristeidis H Katsanos, Ioanna Koutroulou, Vaia Lambadiari, Robin Lemmens, Sotirios Giannopoulos, Andrei V Alexandrov, Gerasimos Siasos and Georgios Tsivgoulis in European Stroke Journal
MPEC 2024-W102 : 2024 WL2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 WL2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Kommunikative Sprechkompetenz im Spanischunterricht in der aktuellen Diskussion
Creators: name: Wolf, Jacinta Maria
Year: 2010

description: Es wird untersucht welchen Stellenwert eine kommunikative mündliche Sprachkompetenz im heutigen Spanischunterricht einnimmt, woraus sie sich zusammensetzt, wie man diese im Unterricht trainieren kann und inwieweit sie in die Benotung einfließt.
A SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL APPROACH FOR POLICY ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL
Creators: name: Martinez, Lina Pilr
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecosystem services
Policies and programs
Renewable fuels
Supply chain configuration
Sustainable aviation fuel
System dynamics

description: Renewable fuels are a critical component of global strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is essential in a hard-to-decarbonize industry like aviation. Despite advances in modeling and simulation of biorefinery location siting, transportation network design, co-products development and use, and contracting mechanisms, current supply chains for renewable fuel production do not result in competitive costs with fossil fuels. This work focuses on the supply chain configuration of renewable fuels, studying the conceptual components needed to make SAF production systems financially viable. We emphasize the impact of monetization of the ecosystem and social services on the feasibility and investment risk of SAF production. This work conceptualized and developed a financial model that uses a system dynamic approach to analyze the effects of various policies and programs, some of which target CO2e reductions through criteria or purpose. Deterministic and stochastic analyses were performed. The production of SAF from municipal solid waste in the U.S. is used as a case study to demonstrate the model’s capabilities. The results indicate that the SAF business model could be improved by including ecosystem and social services to generate additional revenue. The deployment of the SAF industry requires strong support during the first years of production. After which, it might be competitive with market-based initiatives or leveraging economies of scale. Fuel yield enhancement and emission reductions strategies need to be aligned to maximize profits. The stacking of policies and programs reduces investment risks by approximately 75% in the middle of the plant’s lifetime. Robust private support is needed to ensure the probability of a positive net present value greater than 90 percent in the first half of the production period. This study demonstrates the importance of the valuation and inclusion of ecosystem services for renewable fuels’ project success. This is the first dissertation in the supply chain configuration of renewable fuels field and constitutes a conceptual foundation for the supply chain configuration of renewable fuels and a practical application of system dynamics tools. This approach is expected to provide recommendations for investment decisions and policymaking that help develop a bioeconomy and SAF deployment.
Criterion bias and search sequence bias in word recognition
Creators: name: O'Connor, Rodney Evan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This thesis was concerned to test the adequacy of criterion bias explanations of the word frequency effect and the semantic priming effect under conditions where the identity of word letters is easily determined.

 Evidence to support the action of criterion bias was provided by the first four experiments which employed the lexical decision task. There it was found that nonwords which were misspelled versions of high frequency words (e.g. MOHTER) were more likely to be misidentified as words than were nonwords that were misspelled versions of low frequency words (e.g. BOHTER). It was also found that more errors occurred for misspelled words preceded by a semantically related word (e.g. LETTER ENVLEOPE) than for those preceded by an unrelated word (e.g. POLICE ENVLEOPE). These results would be expected if high frequency and semantic priming cause words to be identified before all stimulus information is processed.

 The next two experiments involved a further test of the criterion bias approach by determining whether frequency and priming effects survive a task which demands an unusually detailed examination of the stimuli. This task was the misspelling decision task, where subjects were required to determine whether letter sequences were misspelled words (for example the item MOTHER should receive a no response, MOHTER a yes response, and MIRPREAT a no response). It was found that frequency and priming effects were largely unaffected by this process, and it was suggested that a modified search model (employing search sequence bias) would provide a better account of the results of the misspelling decision experiments.

 The final three experiments examined whether the misspelling decision results were changed if items were presented in randomly mixed case (e.g. mOhTer). It was found that case mixing did not alter the magnitude of frequency or priming effects, and it was argued that this opposed conventional criterion bias models (e.g. Morton, 1970) and ruled out the possibility that the detailed checking required by misspelling decision could have been carried out using a physical representation of the raw stimulus (Becker, 1976).

 In the final chapter it was argued that criterion bias has little value in explaining the results outlined and that word recognition models should appeal to alternative principles of explanation.
Additional file 1 of “Are we working (too) comfortably?”: a focus group study to understand sedentary behaviour when working at home and identify intervention strategies
Creators: name: Morton, Sarah
name: Fitzsimons, Claire
name: Sivaramakrishnan, Divya
name: Jepson, Ruth
name: Niven, Ailsa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Stabilizer Entanglement Distillation and Efficient Fault-Tolerant Encoders
Creators: name: Shi, Yu
name: Patil, Ashlesha
name: Guha, Saikat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is essential for quantum information processing, but is limited by noise. We address this by developing high-yield entanglement distillation protocols with several advancements. (1) We extend the 2-to-1 recurrence entanglement distillation protocol to higher-rate n-to-(n-1) protocols that can correct any single-qubit errors. These protocols are evaluated through numerical simulations focusing on fidelity and yield. We also outline a method to adapt any classical error-correcting code for entanglement distillation, where the code can correct both bit-flip and phase-flip errors by incorporating Hadamard gates. (2) We propose a constant-depth decoder for stabilizer codes that transforms logical states into physical ones using single-qubit measurements. This decoder is applied to entanglement distillation protocols, reducing circuit depth and enabling protocols derived from high-performance quantum error-correcting codes. We demonstrate this by evaluating the circuit complexity for entanglement distillation protocols based on surface codes and quantum convolutional codes. (3) Our stabilizer entanglement distillation techniques advance quantum computing. We propose a fault-tolerant protocol for constant-depth encoding and decoding of arbitrary states in surface codes, with potential extensions to more general quantum low-density parity-check codes. This protocol is feasible with state-of-the-art reconfigurable atom arrays and surpasses the limits of conventional logarithmic depth encoders. Overall, our study integrates stabilizer formalism, measurement-based quantum computing, and entanglement distillation, advancing both quantum communication and computing.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 2 of “Are we working (too) comfortably?”: a focus group study to understand sedentary behaviour when working at home and identify intervention strategies
Creators: name: Morton, Sarah
name: Fitzsimons, Claire
name: Sivaramakrishnan, Divya
name: Jepson, Ruth
name: Niven, Ailsa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: THE INTERSECTION OF PHOTOPHYSICS AND SINGLE MOLECULE TRACKING
title: INSTRUMENTATION, EXPERIMENTS, AND GROUP XIV RHODAMINES
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Taylor, Evan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: FCS
Photophysics
Single molecule tracking
Biophysics
Fluorescence

description: Single molecule tracking studies through fluorescence time-lapse microscopy and the resulting kinetic that can be determined from such tracking studies present an opportunity to directly observe molecules walking the stochastic path. However, to observe these molecules there must be some label present such as a synthetic fluorophore. These fluorophores have a quantum mechanical nature and when interacting with light can prompt the fluorescence transitions along with spin forbidden transitions to the long-lived triplet state. The transition to the triplet state causes the molecule to temporarily no longer emission of photons, the molecule from here can become permanently non-emitting if it undergoes photo-bleaching. These phenomena need to be probed and measured for the full utility of the fluorophore to be elucidated. A full photophysical characterization is required, the fluorescence spectrum, absorption spectrum, the fluorescent lifetime, fluorescent quantum yield, the intersystem crossing rate, and the phosphorescence rate must be determined. All of these rates are involved in describing the observable phenomenon for an accurate description of the probe for use in biophysical kinetics studied through single molecule tracking. Presented in this dissertation is the construction of a single molecule tracking microscope with time-lapse imaging for the measurement of kinetic studies. Also presented is the instrumental design, construction, and troubleshooting for a confocal fluorescence microscope that can be used to do time-correlated measurements through fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. This microscope facilitates the ability to directly measure the photophysical rates of fluorescence probes. Finally, a study is presented for the full photophysical characterization of single molecule dyes, silicon and germanium rhodamine, highlighting the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the triplet state involved rates. Ultimately the utility of direct observation is reliant on the ability to understand single molecule fluorophores and presented here are methods to accomplish a full photophysical characterization of important single molecule fluorophores.
TacSL: A Library for Visuotactile Sensor Simulation and Learning
Creators: name: Akinola, Iretiayo
name: Xu, Jie
name: Carius, Jan
name: Fox, Dieter
name: Narang, Yashraj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For both humans and robots, the sense of touch, known as tactile sensing, is critical for performing contact-rich manipulation tasks. Three key challenges in robotic tactile sensing are 1) interpreting sensor signals, 2) generating sensor signals in novel scenarios, and 3) learning sensor-based policies. For visuotactile sensors, interpretation has been facilitated by their close relationship with vision sensors (e.g., RGB cameras). However, generation is still difficult, as visuotactile sensors typically involve contact, deformation, illumination, and imaging, all of which are expensive to simulate; in turn, policy learning has been challenging, as simulation cannot be leveraged for large-scale data collection. We present TacSL (taxel), a library for GPU-based visuotactile sensor simulation and learning. TacSL can be used to simulate visuotactile images and extract contact-force distributions over $200\times$ faster than the prior state-of-the-art, all within the widely-used Isaac Simulator. Furthermore, TacSL provides a learning toolkit containing multiple sensor models, contact-intensive training environments, and online/offline algorithms that can facilitate policy learning for sim-to-real applications. On the algorithmic side, we introduce a novel online reinforcement-learning algorithm called asymmetric actor-critic distillation (AACD), designed to effectively and efficiently learn tactile-based policies in simulation that can transfer to the real world. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of our library and algorithms by evaluating the benefits of distillation and multimodal sensing for contact-rich manipulation tasks, and most critically, performing sim-to-real transfer. Supplementary videos and results are at https://iakinola23.github.io/tacsl/.
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X241232778 - Supplemental material for Evaluation of Saudi Juniperus procera Extracts Cytotoxicity and Regulatory Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis Against Two Breast Cancer Cell Lines
Creators: name: Al-Zahrani, Ateeq A.
name: Ibraheem, Farag
name: El-Hefny, Mohamed
name: El-Senduny, Fardous
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X241232778 for Evaluation of Saudi Juniperus procera Extracts Cytotoxicity and Regulatory Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis Against Two Breast Cancer Cell Lines by Ateeq A. Al-Zahrani, Farag Ibraheem, Mohamed El-Hefny and Fardous El-Senduny in Natural Product Communications
Internal Dialogical Activity Scale - Revised (IDAS-R): A Portuguese Adaptation Study
Creators: name: Salomé, Filipa
name: Gonçalves, Miguel M.
name: Canário, Catarina
name: Henriques, Margarida Rangel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: According to the Dialogical Self Theory, the Self can move along the imaginal landscape of the mind and adopt different I-positions, endowing each position with a voice and enabling dialogical relationships (e.g., agreement, disagreement) among each other. Internal dialogues may have an important role regarding identity construction, self-regulation, and support, among others. However, if internal dialogues are not efficient or meaningful voices are suppressed, they may cause psychological problems. The current study aims to adapt and validate the Portuguese version of the Internal Dialogical Activity Scale - Revised (IDAS-R) and explore its correlations with personality dimensions and psychological indicators. The 397 participants, aged 15-73 years old, completed the IDAS-R and questionnaires to assess Well-Being, Satisfaction with Life, and the Big-Five Personality dimensions. Confirmatory factor analyses identified a factorial structure different than the one originally proposed. The CFA provided a best-fit model with four subscales – Identity Dialogues, Spontaneous Dialogues, Social and Supportive Dialogues, and Distressing Dialogues. All internal dialogues, except Identity Dialogues, correlated negatively with Well-Being and Satisfaction with Life and correlated positively with Neuroticism. We discuss these results, the possibility of assessing such dynamic processes by quantitative methods and point to new directions in the research of internal dialogicality.
Additional file 3 of “Are we working (too) comfortably?”: a focus group study to understand sedentary behaviour when working at home and identify intervention strategies
Creators: name: Morton, Sarah
name: Fitzsimons, Claire
name: Sivaramakrishnan, Divya
name: Jepson, Ruth
name: Niven, Ailsa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3
Thermal pasteurization of vegetables and organ meat: safety and quality
Creators: name: Qu, Zhi
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022
Subjects: food quality
organ meat
thermal pasteurization
Food Safety
Vegetables
Engineering

description: Thermal pasteurization is an effective method to achieve food safety and extend the shelf life. But the heat applied also causes food quality degradation. It is equally necessary to ensure that the pasteurized food maintains the highest possible quality by selecting different pasteurization technologies or conditions. The goal of this research was to study the effects of thermal pasteurization on safety and quality of selected foods. Green beans and chicken livers were chosen as representative vegetable and protein-based food products.Processing conditions for the 915 MHz microwave-assisted pasteurization and conventional hot water pasteurization were designed to deliver two different levels of pasteurization, severe (F_90^10=10 min) and mild (F_70^7.5=2 min), for green beans. During the pasteurization, the green beans suffered significant losses in green color, chlorophyll, ascorbic acid, and total phenolics content. Microwave pasteurization caused significantly less degradation in green color, ascorbic acid, and total phenolics content than hot water pasteurization. The quality of green beans continued deterioration during storage at 10, 7, and 2 °C. The higher the storage temperature, the faster the quality deterioration. For both severe and mild pasteurization, microwave pasteurization showed superiority in preserving the green color of green beans both during pasteurization and post-pasteurization chilled storage.
description: Thermal inactivation kinetics of Salmonella and Campylobacter in chicken livers during heating were studied to justify cooking recommendations for food safety. A parallel study on quality changes in chicken livers during heating was also conducted. Salmonella is more heat resistant than Campylobacter for chicken livers; thus, Salmonella should be selected as the target pathogen in designing thermal treatments of chicken livers. Validation tests confirmed that the D-values obtained could effectively eliminate Salmonella to ensure chicken liver safety. Combining the thermal resistance D-values of Salmonella in chicken livers and the kinetics of quality changes during heating, cooking livers to an internal temperature of 70–73.9 °C and hold for 1.6–0.2 s is recommended. The suggested cooking condition by USDA FSIS (cooking chicken livers to an internal temperature of 73.9 °C) is adequate to achieve microbial safety concerning Salmonella and provide cooked livers with desired texture and pink color.
sj-pdf-1-rrr-10.1177_0034673X241233507 – Supplemental material for The Demographic Makeup of Congregations and Clergy Mental Health:A Research Note
Creators: name: Schwadel, Philip
name: Shadoan, Katelynn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-rrr-10.1177_0034673X241233507 for The Demographic Makeup of Congregations and Clergy Mental Health:A Research Note by Philip Schwadel and Katelynn Shadoan in Review of Religious Research
sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380241229745 – Supplemental material for Measuring Healing and Recovery After Gender-Based Violence: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Sinko, Laura
name: Dubois, Claire
name: Thorvaldsdottir, Karen Birna
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Criminology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380241229745 for Measuring Healing and Recovery After Gender-Based Violence: A Scoping Review by Laura Sinko, Claire Dubois and Karen Birna Thorvaldsdottir in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse