cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CNN-Based Image Reconstruction Method for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging
Creators: name: Perdios, Dimitris
name: Vonlanthen, Manuel
name: Martinez, Florian
name: Arditi, Marcel
name: Thiran, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ultrafast ultrasound (US) revolutionized biomedical imaging with its capability of acquiring full-view frames at over 1 kHz, unlocking breakthrough modalities such as shear-wave elastography and functional US neuroimaging. Yet, it suffers from strong diffraction artifacts, mainly caused by grating lobes, side lobes, or edge waves. Multiple acquisitions are typically required to obtain a sufficient image quality, at the cost of a reduced frame rate. To answer the increasing demand for high-quality imaging from single unfocused acquisitions, we propose a two-step convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image reconstruction method, compatible with real-time imaging. A low-quality estimate is obtained by means of a backprojection-based operation, akin to conventional delay-and-sum beamforming, from which a high-quality image is restored using a residual CNN with multiscale and multichannel filtering properties, trained specifically to remove the diffraction artifacts inherent to ultrafast US imaging. To account for both the high dynamic range and the oscillating properties of radio frequency US images, we introduce the mean signed logarithmic absolute error (MSLAE) as a training loss function. Experiments were conducted with a linear transducer array, in single plane-wave (PW) imaging. Trainings were performed on a simulated dataset, crafted to contain a wide diversity of structures and echogenicities. Extensive numerical evaluations demonstrate that the proposed approach can reconstruct images from single PWs with a quality similar to that of gold-standard synthetic aperture imaging, on a dynamic range in excess of 60 dB. In vitro and in vivo experiments show that trainings carried out on simulated data perform well in experimental settings.
description: Main: 14 pages (6 figures). Supplement: 9 pages (10 figures). Video provided as ancillary file. This version has been accepted for publication in the the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
The grammaticalization of K(case)Ps: formalism vs functionalism, synchrony vs diachrony
Creators: name: Tse, Keith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Roberts and Roussou (2003) argue that the cross-linguistic distribution of grammaticalization is due to its “simplification”, and the grammaticalization of case-markers displays it since there is a loss of “Agree” relations. Synchronic “simplicity” explains diachronic trends, and formalism and functionalism are not mutually exclusive.
What is 'lateral' grammaticalization?
Creators: name: Tse, Keith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Simpson and Wu (2002) and Wu’s (2004) ‘lateral grammaticalization’ is a Minimalist analysis of Chinese de, which has been re-analysed from a determiner (D) to a verbal suffix (T). Roberts and Roussou (2003) and van Gelderen (2011) deal with grammaticalization within Minimalism, though neither take ‘lateral grammaticalization’ into account (Vincent and Borjars (2010:293)). A comparison between these accounts reveals that Roberts and Roussou’s (2003) and van Gelderen’s (2011) ‘feature economy’ also accounts for the cross-linguistic distribution of ‘lateral grammaticalization’, which is the main theoretical thrust of their accounts (Roberts and Roussou (2003:2-7), van Gelderen (2011:4-17)). However, the lack of ‘upward feature analysis’ (Roberts and Roussou (2003:200)) in ‘lateral grammaticalization’ sets it formally apart from grammaticalization, and this ties in empirically with the lack of ‘phonological weakening’, ‘univerbation’ and ‘semantic bleaching’ in ‘lateral grammaticalization’ when these are the diagnostic traits of grammaticalization (Campbell (2001), Roberts and Roussou (2003:224-232)). All this entails some significant revisions to Minimalism as a model for grammaticalization and ‘lateral grammaticalization’, the former of which involves an upward shift of features while the latter involves a re-analysis of features from pragmatics.
Transcriptomic analyses of bacterial growth on fungal necromass reveal different microbial community niches during degradation
Creators: name: Novak, Jessica K.
name: Kennedy, Peter G.
name: Gardner, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: ASM
Year: 2024

description: Bacteria are major drivers of organic matter decomposition and play crucial roles in global nutrient cycling. Although the degradation of dead fungal biomass (necromass) is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling, the genes and metabolic pathways involved in necromass degradation are less characterized. In particular, how bacteria degrade necromass containing different quantities of melanin, which largely control rates of necromass decomposition in situ, is largely unknown. To address this gap, we conducted a multi-timepoint transcriptomic analysis using three Gram-negative bacterial species grown on low or high melanin necromass of Hyaloscypha bicolor. The bacterial species, Cellvibrio japonicus, Chitinophaga pinensis, and Serratia marcescens, belong to genera known to degrade necromass in situ. We found that while bacterial growth was consistently higher on low than high melanin necromass, the CAZyme-encoding gene expression response of the three species was similar between the two necromass types. Interestingly, this trend was not shared for genes encoding nitrogen utilization, which varied in C. pinensis and S. marcescens during growth on high vs low melanin necromass. Additionally, this study tested the metabolic capabilities of these bacterial species to grow on a diversity of C and N sources and found that the three bacteria have substantially different utilization patterns. Collectively, our data suggest that as necromass changes chemically over the course of degradation, certain bacterial species are favored based on their differential metabolic capacities.
Electron Landau Damping of Kinetic Alfvén Waves in Simulated Magnetosheath Turbulence
Creators: name: Horvath, Sarah A.
name: Howes, Gregory G.
name: McCubbin, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulence is thought to play a role in the heating of the solar wind plasma, though many questions remain to be solved regarding the exact nature of the mechanisms driving this process in the heliosphere. In particular, the physics of the collisionless interactions between particles and turbulent electromagnetic fields in the kinetic dissipation range of the turbulent cascade remains incompletely understood. A recent analysis of an interval of Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) observations has used the field-particle correlation technique to demonstrate that electron Landau damping is involved in the dissipation of turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath. Motivated by this discovery, we perform a high-resolution gyrokinetic numerical simulation of the turbulence in the MMS interval to investigate the role of electron Landau damping in the dissipation of turbulent energy. We employ the field-particle correlation technique on our simulation data, compare our results to the known velocity-space signatures of Landau damping outside the dissipation range, and evaluate the net electron energization. We find qualitative agreement between the numerical and observational results for some key aspects of the energization and speculate on the nature of disagreements in light of experimental factors, such as differences in resolution, and of developing insights into the nature of field-particle interactions in the presence of dispersive kinetic Alfvén waves.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Physics of Plasmas
Supplementary document for IN VIVO TRACKING OF INDIVIDUAL STEM CELLS LABELED WITH NANOWIRE LASERS USING MULTIMODALITY IMAGING - 5975522.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Xuzhou
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Li, Yanxiu
name: Wu, Xiaoqin
name: Wang, Mingyang
name: Tan, Xiaotian
name: Paulus, Yannis
name: Fan, Xudong
name: Wang, Xueding
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
K(case)Ps: ‘configurationality’ and ‘structural simplification'
Creators: name: Tse, Keith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Roberts and Roussou (2003) analyse grammaticalization within Minimalism, and Ledgeway (2011a, 2011b) deals with grammaticalization in Latin/Romance, also within Minimalism. Neither of them analyses the grammaticalization of KPs (case-markers) and so this is the theme of this paper. The grammaticalization of two very important Latin/Romance KPs (de marking genitive, ad marking dative) indeed conforms to both Robert & Roussou’s and Ledgeway’s hypotheses, since they originate from Latin PPs (de denoting separation, ad denoting direction), and within X’-theory complements (e.g. KPs) are ‘simpler’ than adjuncts (e.g. PPs) in that the former require fewer feature place-holders than the latter (Robert & Roussou (2003:106)), and so by Roberts & Roussou’s (2003:200-201) ‘structural simplification’ (reduction of ‘feature syncretisms’) PPs are grammaticalized as KPs. Robert & Roussou’s ‘structural simplification’ assumes configurationality and can only occur in configurational syntax, and so configurationality is a prerequisite for grammaticalization in Minimalism, which conforms to Ledgeway’s argument (2011a:405-434)) that the key syntactic change from Latin to Romance is the rise of configurationality, which gives rise to functional categories in Romance (Ledgeway (2011a:409)). Finally, as configurationality is a controversial notion, alternative scenarios are considered in the appendix where configurationality no longer has explanatory value, and ‘re-analysis’ is argued to be the key to understanding grammaticalization, since it is in itself sufficient to explain grammaticalization, with or without configurationality.
Schizophrenia-mimicking layers outperform conventional neural network layers
Creators: name: Mizutani, Ryuta
name: Noguchi, Senta
name: Saiga, Rino
name: Yamashita, Yuichi
name: Miyashita, Mitsuhiro
name: Arai, Makoto
name: Itokawa, Masanari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have reported nanometer-scale three-dimensional studies of brain networks of schizophrenia cases and found that their neurites are thin and tortuous compared to healthy controls. This suggests that connections between distal neurons are suppressed in microcircuits of schizophrenia cases. In this study, we applied these biological findings to the design of schizophrenia-mimicking artificial neural network to simulate the observed connection alteration in the disorder. Neural networks having a "schizophrenia connection layer" in place of a fully connected layer were subjected to image classification tasks using the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets. The results revealed that the schizophrenia connection layer is tolerant to overfitting and outperforms a fully connected layer. The outperformance was observed only for networks using band matrices as weight windows, indicating that the shape of the weight matrix is relevant to the network performance. A schizophrenia convolution layer was also tested using the VGG configuration, showing that 60% of the kernel weights of the last three convolution layers can be eliminated without loss of accuracy. The schizophrenia layers can be used instead of conventional layers without any change in the network configuration and training procedures; hence, neural networks can easily take advantage of these layers. The results of this study suggest that the connection alteration found in schizophrenia is not a burden to the brain, but has functional roles in brain performance.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, and 1 table
ThreatZoom: CVE2CWE using Hierarchical Neural Network
Creators: name: Aghaei, Ehsan
name: Shadid, Waseem
name: Al-Shaer, Ehab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) represent standard means for sharing publicly known information security vulnerabilities. One or more CVEs are grouped into the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classes for the purpose of understanding the software or configuration flaws and potential impacts enabled by these vulnerabilities and identifying means to detect or prevent exploitation. As the CVE-to-CWE classification is mostly performed manually by domain experts, thousands of critical and new CVEs remain unclassified, yet they are unpatchable. This significantly limits the utility of CVEs and slows down proactive threat mitigation. This paper presents the first automatic tool to classify CVEs to CWEs. ThreatZoom uses a novel learning algorithm that employs an adaptive hierarchical neural network which adjusts its weights based on text analytic scores and classification errors. It automatically estimates the CWE classes corresponding to a CVE instance using both statistical and semantic features extracted from the description of a CVE. This tool is rigorously tested by various datasets provided by MITRE and the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The accuracy of classifying CVE instances to their correct CWE classes are 92% (fine-grain) and 94% (coarse-grain) for NVD dataset, and 75% (fine-grain) and 90% (coarse-grain) for MITRE dataset, despite the small corpus.
description: This is accepted paper in EAI SecureComm 2020, 16th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks
The role of the oviduct environment in embryo survival
Creators: name: Juengel, Jenny
name: Reader, Karen
name: Maclean, Paul
name: Quirke, Laurel
name: Zellhuber-McMillan, Sylvia
name: Haack, Neville
name: Heiser, Axel
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321503
subject: Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: Context: Declining fertility is an issue in multiple mammalian species. As the site of fertilisation and early embryo development, the oviduct plays a critical role in embryo survival, yet there is a paucity of information on how the oviduct regulates this process.Aims: We hypothesised that differences in steroid hormone signalling and/or immune function would be observed in a model of poor embryo survival, the peripubertal ewe.Methods: We examined expression of steroid hormones in systemic circulation, oviductal expression of oestrogen receptor α and genes important in steroid hormone signalling, and immune function in pregnant and cyclic peripubertal and adult ewes on day 3 after oestrus.Key results: Concentrations of progesterone, but not oestradiol, were decreased in the peripubertal ewe compared to the adult ewe. Oestrogen receptor α protein expression was increased in the peripubertal ewe, but pathway analysis of gene expression revealed downregulation of the oestrogen signalling pathway compared to the adult ewe. Differential expression of several genes involved in immune function between the peripubertal and adult ewe was consistent with an unfavourable oviductal environment in the peripubertal ewe lamb. Oestradiol concentration was positively correlated with the expression of multiple genes involved in the regulation of immune function.Conclusions: Differences in the immune environment of the oviduct, potentially linked to differential modulation by steroid hormones, may partially underly the poor fertilisation and early embryo survival observed in the peripubertal ewe.Implications: A unfavourable oviductal environment may play an important role in limiting reproductive success.
Visualizing 3-Dimensional Ptychography Data
Creators: name: Stanford, V. Vianne
name: Bhatt, Lopa
name: Muller, David
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: Ruddlesden-Popper Phases (RP) are a method of growing materials to induce specific properties in the material. In nickelates, the proper RP domain gives superconducting properties to the material. Unfortunately, measuring the distribution of RP domains in a sample in a statistically significant area is tedious and time consuming. To aid in this endeavor, we modified a previously created RP-domain tracking code² ̓ ³ to allow for analysis of ptychography data and to add 3-dimensional visualization capabilities.
Durabilité et performance financière des enterprises: revue de littérature
Creators: name: Aziz EL YADARI
name: Abdelhakim ELJADDAOUI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: La durabilité constitue un enjeu stratégique, auquel toute organisation est confrontée aujourd'hui, impliquant divers débats liés à son effet sur la performance globale et la rentabilité de l'organisation. Le but de cette étude est d'examiner la relation qui réunit la durabilité et la performance financière des entreprises, eu regard des aboutissements de la littérature sur ce sujet. Dans ce cadre, différentes recherches ont été menées au cours de la dernière décennie, pour examiner cette relation, en se référant à des approches théoriques solide, notamment, la théorie des parties prenantes et la théorie des ressources. Les résultats de ces recherches sont mitigés et varient d'une relation positive à une relation négative, voire statistiquement non significative, selon le choix de la mesure des variables et le contexte de l’étude. À ce propos, l’intérêt croissant accordé à l’incorporation de la durabilité dans la stratégie de l’entreprise, a entrainé la nécessité d’évaluer ses effets sur la rentabilité de l’entreprise, et d’approcher ses enjeux en tant que mode de gestion stratégique pouvant apporter de la valeur ajouté aux activités de l’entreprise.
Testing Against the World
Creators: name: Ricci, Donato
name: Allen, Jamie
Publisher: name: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: technology
subject: tools
subject: research
subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: This special issue explores how do we account for the sensitive, intimate ways in which our toolsets ‒ and our choices of these ‒ become the infrastructures that co-produce and co-constitute knowledge and meanings. Testing Against the World aimed at addressing, exploring, and making more explicit the following questions: What drives the choice of toolsets in empir­ical investigations? Why does contemporary research demand to be ‘grounded’ empirically? What professional, personal, and emo­tional attachments afford the selection of particular means of observation and translation? What do we expect from our tools? What do they expect of us? How are tools and technologies instrumen­talized? How have tools and research adapted or been forced to adapt to new empirical demands, and knowledge economies? What have such settings required us to assume, acquire, or impose? How do choices of instruments and tools pre-format worlds under investigation and authorize the creation of new worlds?
title: Directional Charge Separation in Isolated Organic Semiconductor Crystalline Nanowires
Creators: name: Labastide, Joelle A
name: Thompson, Hillary B.
name: Marques, Sarah R.
name: Colella, Nicholas S.
name: Briseno, Alejandro L.
name: Barnes, Michael D.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: atomic and molecular interactions with photons
subject: nanowires

description: One of the fundamental design paradigms in organic photovoltaic device engineering is based on the idea that charge separation is an extrinsically driven process requiring an interface for exciton fission. This idea has driven an enormous materials science engineering effort focused on construction of domain sizes commensurate with a nominal exciton diffusion length of order 10 nm. Here, we show that polarized optical excitation of isolated pristine crystalline nanowires of a small molecule n-type organic semiconductor, 7,8,15,16-tetraazaterrylene, generates a significant population of charge-separated polaron pairs along the π-stacking direction. Charge separation was signalled by pronounced power-law photoluminescence decay polarized along the same axis. In the transverse direction, we observed exponential decay associated with excitons localized on individual monomers. We propose that this effect derives from an intrinsic directional charge-transfer interaction that can ultimately be programmed by molecular packing geometry.
DPCrowd: Privacy-preserving and Communication-efficient Decentralized Statistical Estimation for Real-time Crowd-sourced Data
Creators: name: Ren, Xuebin
name: Yu, Chia-Mu
name: Yu, Wei
name: Yang, Xinyu
name: Zhao, Jun
name: Yang, Shusen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In Internet of Things (IoT) driven smart-world systems, real-time crowd-sourced databases from multiple distributed servers can be aggregated to extract dynamic statistics from a larger population, thus providing more reliable knowledge for our society. Particularly, multiple distributed servers in a decentralized network can realize real-time collaborative statistical estimation by disseminating statistics from their separate databases. Despite no raw data sharing, the real-time statistics could still expose the data privacy of crowd-sourcing participants. For mitigating the privacy concern, while traditional differential privacy (DP) mechanism can be simply implemented to perturb the statistics in each timestamp and independently for each dimension, this may suffer a great utility loss from the real-time and multi-dimensional crowd-sourced data. Also, the real-time broadcasting would bring significant overheads in the whole network. To tackle the issues, we propose a novel privacy-preserving and communication-efficient decentralized statistical estimation algorithm (DPCrowd), which only requires intermittently sharing the DP protected parameters with one-hop neighbors by exploiting the temporal correlations in real-time crowd-sourced data. Then, with further consideration of spatial correlations, we develop an enhanced algorithm, DPCrowd+, to deal with multi-dimensional infinite crowd-data streams. Extensive experiments on several datasets demonstrate that our proposed schemes DPCrowd and DPCrowd+ can significantly outperform existing schemes in providing accurate and consensus estimation with rigorous privacy protection and great communication efficiency.
Additional file 1 of Cardiovascular risks and bleeding with non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant versus warfarin in patients with type 2 diabetes: a tapered matching cohort study
Creators: name: Yu, Dahai
name: Zhao, Zhanzheng
name: Simmons, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mean, variance and skewness between NOAC user group and warfarin user group after entropy matching.
Grieving-Spiritual Experiences as Adaptive Processes: L W Easterling, J Parker, K Adams, B Hyde, & Neimeyer + J MacPhail childhood foresight & Synthesis-Consensus & spiritual-self: W James, V Frankl, C Jung, E Cayce, w/ Dreams of Deceased (from 2100 BC in Egypt to now)
Creators: name: E Peck Jr, Charles
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Blaan (Philippine people)
subject: Grief
subject: Spirit
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Bereavement
subject: Emotional intelligence
subject: Spirituality
subject: Dougy Center for Grieving Children
subject: Filipinos
subject: Spirituality--Buddhism
subject: Grief--Religious aspects--Judaism
subject: Grief--Religious aspects
subject: Grief--Physiological aspects
subject: Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (U.S.)
subject: Consciousness and self-consciousness
subject: Consciousness--Research
subject: Spirituality in art
subject: Spirituality--Social aspects
subject: Spirituality--Health aspects
subject: Spirituality--Psychology

description: Vilbert Vallance: "Excellent, Excellent article!!!".. - The first recorded dream of the deceased dates from 2100 B.C. in Egypt. "Around 2100 B.C., an Egyptian man named Heni wrote a letter to his dead father, asking him for help with his nightmares. Death - a powerful, primal force "in life"! "Death, especially when it takes on the mask of senselessness and meaninglessness, would seem to be the ultimate challenge to the "meaning of life"-Janoff-Bulman and McPherson (1997)

Studies of spirituality in grieving

Kate Adams and Brendan Hyde state "Dreams of the deceased, and those that are related to death in other ways, are thus not uncommon during childhood….particularly given that such dreams can closely reflect stages of the grieving process. (Children's Grief Dreams and the Theory of Spiritual Intelligence, Kate Adams (Bishop Grosseteste University College), Brendan Hyde (Australian Catholic University)) Easterling (et al): 2. 2. "Conversely, experience has shown pastoral caregivers that individuals do seem to cope better if they can "actualize" their spiritual experiences in times of crisis. (Spiritual Experience, Church Attendance, and Bereavement," by Larry W. Easterling, Th. D, Louis A. Gamino, Ph.D., Kenneth W. Sewell, Ph.D., Linda S. Stirman, B.S.N) 2.
Julie Parker: "The findings of this study support the emerging model of grief that posits that maintaining continuing bonds with the deceased can be adaptive. They also support the assertion that spiritual and/or religious belief systems are associated with adaptive outcomes of grief."
Gabriella Kilianova highlights the views of a Catholic priest in Slovakia. The priest "assumed that such dreams help people deal with the loss of their loved ones." That does appear to be part of pastoral folklore as it were. But also because of the priest's reflections and comments about the afterlife and connections with souls departed. (Dreams As Communication Method Between The Living And The Dead Ethnographic Case Study From Slovakia) more studies
Aspects of functoriality in homological mirror symmetry for toric varieties
Creators: name: Hanlon, Andrew
name: Hicks, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D37, 14M25

description: We study homological mirror symmetry for toric varieties, exploring the relationship between various Fukaya-Seidel categories which have been employed for constructing the mirror to a toric variety. In particular, we realize tropical Lagrangian sections as objects of a partially wrapped category and construct a Lagrangian correspondence mirror to the inclusion of a toric divisor. As a corollary, we prove that tropical sections generate the Fukaya-Seidel category, completing a Floer-theoretic proof of homological mirror symmetry for projective toric varieties. In the course of the proof, we develop techniques for constructing Lagrangian cobordisms and Lagrangian correspondences in Liouville domains, which may be of independent interest.
description: 78 pages, 22 Figures. Updates: minor expositional changes following referee report. Version accepted to Advances in Mathematics
The grammaticalization of KPs: synchrony vs diachrony, formalism vs functionalism
Creators: name: Tse, Keith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Roberts and Roussou (2003) argue that the cross-linguistic distribution of grammaticalization is due to its “simplification”, and the grammaticalization of case-markers displays it since there is a loss of “Agree” relations. Synchronic “simplicity” explains diachronic trends, and formalism and functionalism are not mutually exclusive.
Guide pour le développement et la mise en œuvre de curriculums pour une éducation plurilingue et interculturelle
Creators: name: Beacco, Jean-Claude
name: Byram, Michael
name: Cavalli, Marisa
name: Coste, Daniel
name: Egli, Mirjam
name: Goullier, Francis
name: Panthier, Johanna
Publisher: name: Conseil de l'Europe
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: éducation plurilingue et interculturelle
subject: curriculum
subject: transversalité
subject: langues étrangères
subject: langue de scolarisation
subject: 400 - Sprache, Linguistik
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: L’éducation plurilingue et interculturelle répond à la nécessité et aux exigences d’une éducation de qualité: acquisition de compétences, de connaissances et d’attitudes, diversité d’expériences d’apprentissage et constructions d’identités culturelles individuelles et collectives. Il s’agit de rendre plus efficaces les dispositifs d’enseignement et d’améliorer leur contribution à la réussite des élèves les plus vulnérables ainsi qu’à la cohésion sociale. Ce guide a pour objectif d’aider à une meilleure mise en œuvre des valeurs et principes de l’éducation plurilingue et interculturelle dans l’enseignement de toutes les langues: étrangères, régionales ou minoritaires, langues classiques ou langue(s) de scolarisation.
Domain Wall Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons with Shape-Based Configurable Activation Functions
Creators: name: Brigner, Wesley H.
name: Hassan, Naimul
name: Hu, Xuan
name: Bennett, Christopher H.
name: Garcia-Sanchez, Felipe
name: Cui, Can
name: Velasquez, Alvaro
name: Marinella, Matthew J.
name: Incorvia, Jean Anne C.
name: Friedman, Joseph S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices display volatile characteristics, and are not well suited for analog applications such as neuromorphic computing. Spintronic devices, on the other hand, exhibit both non-volatile and analog features, which are well-suited to neuromorphic computing. Consequently, these novel devices are at the forefront of beyond-CMOS artificial intelligence applications. However, a large quantity of these artificial neuromorphic devices still require the use of CMOS, which decreases the efficiency of the system. To resolve this, we have previously proposed a number of artificial neurons and synapses that do not require CMOS for operation. Although these devices are a significant improvement over previous renditions, their ability to enable neural network learning and recognition is limited by their intrinsic activation functions. This work proposes modifications to these spintronic neurons that enable configuration of the activation functions through control of the shape of a magnetic domain wall track. Linear and sigmoidal activation functions are demonstrated in this work, which can be extended through a similar approach to enable a wide variety of activation functions.
Cooling classical many-spin systems using feedback control
Creators: name: Elsayed, Tarek A.
name: Fine, Boris V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a technique for polarizing and cooling finite many-body classical systems using feedback control. The technique requires the system to have one collective degree of freedom conserved by the internal dynamics. The fluctuations of other degrees of freedom are then converted into the growth of the conserved one. The proposal is validated using numerical simulations of classical spin systems in a setting representative of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments. In particular, we were able to achieve 90 percent polarization for a lattice of 1000 classical spins starting from an unpolarized infinite temperature state.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Datenerhebung mit dem OAM bei der Antragstellung für die zweite Phase des DFG-Förderprogramms "Open-Access-Publikationskosten"
Creators: name: Barbers, Irene
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2024

description: Online-Seminar zum DFG Förderprogramm "Open-Access-Publikationskosten", online, Germany, 5 Feb 2024 - 5 Feb 2024; doi:10.34734/FZJ-2024-01622
Grieving: Spiritual Expericnes: Synthesis-Consensus of Williiam James, Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung +Saslow et al, &Edgar Cayce + "People "cope better if they can "actualize" their spiritual experiences” L W Easterling, (et al), & Julie Parker, K Adams, B Hyd
Creators: name: E Peck Jr, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Dougy Center for Grieving Children
subject: Bereavement
subject: Blaan (Philippine people)
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Grief
subject: Spirituality
subject: Spirituality--Buddhism
subject: Filipinos
subject: Emotional intelligence
subject: Spirit

description: The first recorded dream of the deceased dates prior to n750 B.C. A substantial amount of interest in spiritual experiences recently appears to be from a re-emergence of interest from the (unofficial) pastoral school of thought in psychology. Kate Adams and Brendan Hyde state “Dreams of the deceased, and those that are related to death in other ways, are thus not uncommon during childhood….particularly given that such dreams can closely reflect stages of the grieving process. (Children’s Grief Dreams and the Theory of Spiritual Intelligence, Kate Adams (Bishop Grosseteste University College), Brendan Hyde (Australian Catholic University)) Easterling (et al): “Conversely, experience has shown pastoral caregivers that individuals do seem to cope better if they can "actualize" their spiritual experiences in times of crisis.  (Spiritual Experience, Church Attendance, and Bereavement,” by Larry W. Easterling, Th. D, Louis A. Gamino, Ph.D., Kenneth W. Sewell, Ph.D., Linda S. Stirman, B.S.N)  2.	Julie Parker: "The findings of this study support the emerging model of grief that posits that maintaining continuing bonds with the deceased can be adaptive. They also support the assertion that spiritual and/or religious belief systems are associated with adaptive outcomes of grief." 3.	Gabriella Kilianova highlights the views of a Catholic priest in Slovakia. The priest “assumed that such dreams help people deal with the loss of their loved ones.” That does appear to be part of pastoral folklore as it were.  But also because of the priest’s reflections and comments about the afterlife and connections with souls departed. (Dreams As Communication Method Between The Living And The Dead Ethnographic Case Study From Slovakia) more studies ,....
Obtaining trees of tangles from tangle-tree duality
Creators: name: Elbracht, Christian
name: Kneip, Jakob
name: Teegen, Maximilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C83, 05C40, 05C05

description: We demonstrate the versatility of the tangle-tree duality theorem for abstract separation systems by using it to prove tree-of-tangles theorems. This approach allows us to strengthen some of the existing tree-of-tangles theorems by bounding the node degrees in them. We also present a slight strengthening and simplified proof of the duality theorem, which allows us to derive a tree-of-tangles theorem also for tangles of different orders.
description: 29 pages
Stress-Induced Cubic-to-Hexagonal Phase Transformation in Perovskite Nanothin Films
Creators: name: Wu, Hong-Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics
subject: Computational Physics
subject: 20401 Condensed Matter Characterisation Technique Development
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20403 Condensed Matter Modelling and Density Functional Theory
subject: 20402 Condensed Matter Imaging
subject: Condensed Matter Physics

description: The strong coupling between crystal structure and mechanical deformation can stabilize low-symmetry phases from high-symmetry phases or induce novel phase transformation in oxide thin films. Stress-induced structural phase transformation in oxide thin films has drawn more and more attention due to its significant influence on the functionalities of the materials. Here, we discovered experimentally a novel stress-induced cubic-to-hexagonal phase transformation in the perovskite nanothin films of barium titanate (BaTiO3) with a special thermomechanical treatment (TMT), where BaTiO3 nanothin films under various stresses are annealed at temperature of 575 °C. Both high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy show a higher density of hexagonal phase in the perovskite thin film under higher tensile stress. Both X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy does not detect any change in the valence state of Ti atoms, thereby excluding the mechanism of oxygen vacancy induced cubic-to-hexagonal (c-to-h) phase transformation. First-principles calculations show that the c-to-h phase transformation can be completed by lattice shear at elevated temperature, which is consistent with the experimental observation. The applied bending plus the residual tensile stress produces shear stress in the nanothin film. The thermal energy at the elevated temperature assists the shear stress to overcome the energy barriers during the c-to-h phase transformation. The stress-induced phase transformation in perovskite nanothin films with TMT provides materials scientists and engineers a novel approach to tailor nano/microstructures and properties of ferroelectric materials.
Landmark and IMU Data Fusion: Systematic Convergence Geometric Nonlinear Observer for SLAM and Velocity Bias
Creators: name: Hashim, Hashim A.
name: Eltoukhy, Abdelrahman E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Navigation solutions suitable for cases when both autonomous robot's pose (\textit{i.e}., attitude and position) and its environment are unknown are in great demand. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) fulfills this need by concurrently mapping the environment and observing robot's pose with respect to the map. This work proposes a nonlinear observer for SLAM posed on the manifold of the Lie group of $\mathbb{SLAM}_{n}\left(3\right)$, characterized by systematic convergence, and designed to mimic the nonlinear motion dynamics of the true SLAM problem. The system error is constrained to start within a known large set and decay systematically to settle within a known small set. The proposed estimator is guaranteed to achieve predefined transient and steady-state performance and eliminate the unknown bias inevitably present in velocity measurements by directly using measurements of angular and translational velocity, landmarks, and information collected by an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Experimental results obtained by testing the proposed solution on a real-world dataset collected by a quadrotor demonstrate the observer's ability to estimate the six-degrees-of-freedom (6 DoF) robot pose and to position unknown landmarks in three-dimensional (3D) space. Keywords: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, Nonlinear filter for SLAM, Nonlinear filter for SLAM on Matrix Lie group, pose, asymptotic stability, prescribed performance, adaptive estimate, feature, inertial measurement unit, inertial vision unit, IMU, SE(3), SO(3), noise.
Reducing Flow Resistance via Introduction and Enlargement of Microcracks in Convection Enhanced Delivery (CED) in Porous Tumors
Creators: name: Naseem, Md Jawed
name: Ma, Ronghui
name: Zhu, Liang
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024
Subjects: nanofluid
convection-enhanced delivery (CED)
microcrack
porous tumors
tumor tissue deformation
drug delivery
flow resistance

description: A theoretical simulation is performed to evaluate how microcracks affect the flow resistance in tumors during the convection-enhanced delivery (CED) of nanofluids. Both Darcy’s law and the theory of poroelasticity are used to understand fluid transport with or without microcrack introduction and/or enlargement. The results demonstrate significantly altered pressure and velocity fields in a spherical tumor with a radius of 10 mm due to the presence of a microcrack with a radius of 0.05 mm and length of 3 mm. The non-uniform fluid pressure field enlarges the original cylindrical microcrack to a frustum, with the crack volume more than doubled. Due to the larger permeability and porosity in the microcrack, flow in the tumor is much easier. One finds that the flow resistance with the enlarged microcrack is reduced by 14% from the control without a microcrack. Parametric studies are conducted to show that larger crack radii, longer crack lengths and higher infusing pressures result in further resistance reductions. The largest resistance reduction occurs when the infusing pressure is 4 × 10⁵ Pa and the microcrack is 9 mm long, up to 18% from the control. We conclude that introducing a microcrack is an effective way to facilitate nanofluid delivery in porous tumors using CED.
新型神经保护活性化合物设计与合成
Creators: name: Nick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340503
subject: Organic chemical synthesis

description: 本研究旨在高效，绿色合成均三嗪类化合物，为进一步筛选具有神经保护作用的分子提供探索空间。首先，在 DMSO 溶剂中，以碱来活化二甲双胍类化合物，使其与腈类化合物反应来合成均三嗪类化合物，探索最佳的碱的种类和反应温度。然后在最优条件下，扩充反应底物，得到了 12种目标产物。
Model-free readout-error mitigation for quantum expectation values
Creators: name: Berg, Ewout van den
name: Minev, Zlatko K.
name: Temme, Kristan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements on current quantum processors are subject to hardware imperfections that lead to readout errors. These errors manifest themselves as a bias in quantum expectation values. Here, we propose a very simple method that forces the bias in the expectation value to appear as a multiplicative factor that can be measured directly and removed at the cost of an increase in the sampling complexity for the observable. The method assumes no specific form of the noise, but only requires that the noise is `weak' to avoid excessive sampling overhead. We provide bounds relating the error in the expectation value to the sample complexity.
(Un)balance Sheet
Creators: name: Carver, Louise Emily
name: Allen, Jamie
Publisher: name: Tropic Editions
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 700 - Künste und Unterhaltung

description: What follows is a ledger that demonstrates the attempts we make to equalize incommensurable entities and values, to balance and exchange differences in kind: varied orders of worth in increasingly disorientating settlements.
On the classical capacity of quantum Gaussian measurement
Creators: name: Holevo, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the classical capacity problem for Gaussian measurement channels without imposing any kind of threshold condition. We prove Gaussianity of the average state of the optimal ensemble in general and discuss the Hypothesis of Gaussian Maximizers concerning the structure of the ensemble. The proof uses an approach of Wolf, Giedke and Cirac adapted to the convex closure of the output differential entropy. Then we discuss the case of one mode in detail, including the dual problem of accessible information of a Gaussian ensemble. In quantum communications there are several studies of the classical capacity in the transmission scheme where not only the Gaussian channel but also the receiver is fixed, and the optimization is performed over certain set of the input ensembles. These studies are practically important in view of the complexity of the optimal receiver in the Quantum Channel Coding (HSW) theorem. Our findings are relevant to such a situation where the receiver is Gaussian and concatenation of the channel and the receiver can be considered as one Gaussian measurement channel. Our efforts in this and preceding papers are then aimed at establishing full Gaussianity of the optimal ensemble (usually taken as an assumption) in such schemes.
description: 19 pages, 2 tables, presentation improved
Dance- A Sportive Phenomenon of Cultural Value for Self-Owned Development? A dialogue on Dancing Culture with Social Agents in Durban Townships
Creators: name: Rix, Birgit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Art
subject: Language
subject: Performing Arts
subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: This study is based on an appreciative look on local dance cultures in South Africa. The general discourse on dance and in the Sport and Development (SD) community reflects a tendency of post-colonial assumptions about local values and needs of people’s cultures they talk about and interfere in. Dance experiences a high level of categorisations, from what categories it falls under until categorisations within dance. The central interest is on South African township dance cultures within Durban. The dance styles within seem to fall under all valuation categories of a low status. This underestimates its abilities and values for the dancers themselves but also community development. But those types of dance represent all requirements to count themselves into the recognised and widely supported category of sport. The values and valuation of this local dance culture got discovered in an appreciative research. The first interest is on the personal and contextual meanings and valuations of dance in the South African context. It discovered multiple personal and communal values that can be found throughout the different categories in the dance discourse and the ability to resist post-colonial tendencies and legacies. But the valuation of such local capacities seems lacking in the country. There are no obvious support systems and the focus on a mainstream sport mission towards unity and cultural diversity seem to rather create a suppressive atmosphere towards local sport systems of cultural value. The second field investigated is the SD community. Sport systems and the development directions get widely criticised but without providing authentic alternatives. Local dance cultures, within the South African example, provide authentic alternatives of post-colonial resistance to both critical aspects. They do not ask for interference but seem to struggle with the lack of recognition and depression through the ongoing domination of western values systems. The SD movement with its universal tendency rather seems to support this domination.