cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Getting patients in the door: medical appointment reminder preferences
Creators: name: Crutchfield, Trisha M.
name: Kistler, Christine E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Between 23% and 34% of outpatient appointments are missed annually. Patients who frequently miss medical appointments have poorer health outcomes and are less likely to use preventive health care services. Missed appointments result in unnecessary costs and organizational inefficiencies. Appointment reminders may help reduce missed appointments; particular types may be more effective than other types. We used a survey with a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to learn why individuals miss appointments and to assess appointment reminder preferences.
Conformal Complex Singlet Extension of the Standard Model: Scenario for Dark Matter and a Second Higgs Boson
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Wei
name: Steele, T. G.
name: Hanif, T.
name: Mann, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a conformal complex singlet extension of the Standard Model with a Higgs portal interaction. The global $U(1)$ symmetry of the complex singlet can be either broken or unbroken and we study each scenario. In the unbroken case, the global $U(1)$ symmetry protects the complex singlet from decaying, leading to an ideal cold dark matter candidate with approximately 100 GeV mass along with a significant proportion of thermal relic dark matter abundance. In the broken case, we have developed a renormalization-scale optimization technique to significantly narrow the parameter space and in some situations, provide unique predictions for all the model's couplings and masses. We have found there exists a second Higgs boson with a mass of approximately $550\,\rm{GeV}$ that mixes with the known $125\,\rm{GeV}$ Higgs with a large mixing angle $\sinθ\approx 0.47$ consistent with current experimental limits. The imaginary part of the complex singlet in the broken case could provide axion dark matter for a wide range of models. Upon including interactions of the complex scalar with an additional vector-like fermion, we explore the possibility of a diphoton excess in both the unbroken and the broken cases. In the unbroken case, the model can provide a natural explanation for diphoton excess if extra terms are introduced providing extra contributions to the singlet mass. In the broken case, we find a set of coupling solutions that yield a second Higgs boson of mass $720\,\rm{GeV}$ and an $830\,\rm{GeV}$ extra vector-like fermion $F$, which is able to address the $750\,\rm{GeV}$ LHC diphoton excess. We also provide criteria to determine the symmetry breaking pattern in both the Higgs and hidden sectors.
description: 12 pages and 1 figure. Published in JHEP
Exploration of photon-number entangled states using weak nonlinearities
Creators: name: He, Yingqiu
name: Ding, Dong
name: Yan, Fengli
name: Gao, Ting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for exploring photon-number entangled states with weak nonlinearities is described. We show that it is possible to create and detect such entanglement at various scales, ranging from microscopic to macroscopic systems. In the present architecture, we suggest that the maximal phase shift induced in the process of interaction between photons is proportional to photon numbers. Also, in the absence of decoherence we analyze maximum error probability and show its feasibility with current technology.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Plant moisture stress in Hottentots Holland, Jakkalsrivier Catchment experiment, site 3419AA/1/29
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
plant moisture stress
Jakkalsrivier Catchment
Hottentots Holland

description: This is a scanned copy of a document on plant moisture stress in Hottentots Holland, Jakkalsrivier Catchment experiment, site 3419AA/1/29. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Presentation at the LCRDM (Landelijk Coördinatiepunt Research Data Management ) Network Day - Citizen Science: What it is, and what it is not
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Citizen Science

description: LCRDM Networking DAY: Citizen Science and Communities, Tuesday November 1, 2022 Citizen Science: what it is and what is not Margaret Gold(Citizen Science Lead within the Open Science Programme of Leiden University, and Coordinator of the Citizen Science Lab. Her research focus is Citizen Science as a collaborative transdisciplinary practice that engages society in scientific research across a wide range of areas of application.
Monte Carlo studies of the properties of the Majorana quantum error correction code: is self-correction possible during braiding?
Creators: name: Pedrocchi, Fabio L.
name: Bonesteel, N. E.
name: DiVincenzo, David P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Majorana code is an example of a stabilizer code where the quantum information is stored in a system supporting well-separated Majorana Bound States (MBSs). We focus on one-dimensional realizations of the Majorana code, as well as networks of such structures, and investigate their lifetime when coupled to a parity-preserving thermal environment. We apply the Davies prescription, a standard method that describes the basic aspects of a thermal environment, and derive a master equation in the Born-Markov limit. We first focus on a single wire with immobile MBSs and perform error correction to annihilate thermal excitations. In the high-temperature limit, we show both analytically and numerically that the lifetime of the Majorana qubit grows logarithmically with the size of the wire. We then study a trijunction with four MBSs when braiding is executed. We study the occurrence of dangerous error processes that prevent the lifetime of the Majorana code from growing with the size of the trijunction. The origin of the dangerous processes is the braiding itself, which separates pairs of excitations and renders the noise nonlocal; these processes arise from the basic constraints of moving MBSs in 1D structures. We confirm our predictions with Monte Carlo simulations in the low-temperature regime, i.e. the regime of practical relevance. Our results put a restriction on the degree of self-correction of this particular 1D topological quantum computing architecture.
description: Main text: 20 pages, Supplementary Material: 66 pages. Short version: arXiv:1505.03712
Editorial
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: As a part of this year’s call for submissions to the journal, we invite contributions that reflect on the role of Architecture Images Studies (AIS) on the current “Liminal” times. Questions of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Were and how Architecture Images Studies relate with a polarized world? Which/whose are the limits of Architecture Images Studies concepts and how this discussion contribute to the present global challenges? What methodological experiments are you undertaking and what methods are being developed? Which novel theoretical insights can we draw upon to bring the Architecture Images Studies (AIS) forward? In addition to this specific themed call for submissions we also welcome contributions that deal in a more general way with issues pertaining to AIS. We remind that AIS Journal is focused on the image production realms that are connected with Architecture and Design, among others architectural and design photography, 2D and 3D drawing technologies (CAD) project and inspirational illustration.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Liminal Spaces
Women’s experiences and preferences regarding breast imaging after completing breast cancer treatment
Creators: name: Erosenberg, Dori
name: Henderson, Louise
name: Bush, Mary
name: Onega, Tracy
name: Demartini, Wendy
name: Nekhlyudov, Larissa
name: Johnson, Dianne
name: Kerlikowske, Karla
name: Brandzel, Susan
name: Wernli, Karen J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: After treatment for breast cancer, most women receive an annual surveillance mammography to look for subsequent breast cancers. Supplemental breast MRI is sometimes used in addition to mammography despite the lack of clinical evidence for it. Breast imaging after cancer treatment is an emotionally charged experience, an important part of survivorship care, and a topic about which limited patient information exists. We assessed women’s experiences and preferences about breast cancer surveillance imaging with the goal of determining where gaps in care and knowledge could be filled.
Sprouter Survey Swartboskloof - Aulax pallasia, Brunia nodiflora, Erica coccinea, Leucadendron salignum, Mimetes cucculatus in Jonkershoek, Swartboskloof, site 3318DD/7/12
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Sprouter Survey
Jonkershoek
Swartboskloof
Leucadendron salignum
Aulax pallasia
Brunia nodiflora
Widdringtonia nodiflora
Erica coccinea
Mimetes cucullatus

description: This is a scanned copy of a document, including diagrams and maps, on a sprouter survey, Swartboskloof - Aulax pallasia, Brunia nodiflora, Erica coccinea, Leucadendron salignum, Mimetes cucculatus in Jonkershoek, Swartboskloof, site 3318DD/7/12. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.  SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Recent results on the nucleon resonance spectrum and structure from the CLAS detector
Creators: name: Mokeev, Victor
name: Aznauryan, Inna
name: Burkert, Volker
name: Gothe, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab has provided the dominant part of all available worldwide data on exclusive meson electroproduction off protons in the resonance region. New results on the $γ_{v}pN^*$ transition amplitudes (electrocouplings) are available from analyses of the CLAS data and will be presented. Their impact on understanding of hadron structure will be discussed emphasizing the credible access to the dressed quark mass function that has been achieved for the first time by a combined analysis of the experimental results on the electromagnetic nucleon elastic and $N \rightarrow N^*$ transition form factors. We will also discuss further convincing evidences for a new baryon state $N^{\, '}(1720)3/2^+$ found in a combined analysis of charged double pion photo- and electroproduction cross sections off the protons.
description: Invited Talk Paper for the 21st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the VASI Sibayi Camp AWS station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Vasi
Meteorological
Automatic Weather Station CS
Wind speed
Wind direction
Air temperature
relative humidity
rainfall

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at VASI's Sibayi Camp AWS station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Chat GPT AIS “Interview” 1, December 2022
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: What do you know about architecture image studies ? Architecture image studies is a field that focuses on the visual representation of architectural spaces and structures. This can include the study of architectural drawings and plans, photographs of buildings, and computer-generated images of proposed designs. The goal of architecture image studies is to understand how architects and other design professionals use visual media to communicate their ideas and to analyze the impact of these images on the way that people perceive and experience buildings and other built environments. Some specific topics that might be covered in architecture image studies include the history of architectural representation, the aesthetics of architectural imagery, and the use of digital media in architectural design.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2022): Liminal Times
Project Khepri: Asteroid Mining Project
Creators: Groh, Aaron
Miklaucic, Brieanna
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Much like outer space, our legal system consists of many unknowns. This is especially true for new developments in emerging technologies, particularly those related to the exploration, exploitation, and utilization of space resources. The recently developed technical feasibility of space mining has advanced ahead of existing international space treaties. While certain articles of the major UN treaties can be interpreted to adapt to the utilization of space resources, most of these provisions were not originally designed to be applied to a space mining regime. Keeping in mind this context, this paper sets out the current international law landscape, including the areas which require further development, and provides guidance and

recommendations for governments, international communities, and private actors interested in space resources. To this end, the existing international legal framework is summarized by detailing the significance of the United Nations Space Treaties, the role of customary international law, relevant principles, environmental law, the role of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and previous attempts to govern areas known as res communis. Next, Canadian and United States national law is outlined, including relevant aspects of Canadian national mining law.

The paper continues on to analyze various approaches to developing a legal framework for space resource extraction and provides recommendations for industry, national and international actors. Given the widespread support at UN discussions, and years of private actors’ development and involvement in related projects, the necessary societal desire for space

mining regulation is present. To work towards enabling space mining, it is suggested that industry set aside a portion of profits to later be used for the ‘benefit of all’ and work with the Canadian government. At a national level, it is recommended that Canada consider passing national legislation similar to that passed by the United States, Luxembourg, the United Arab

Emirates, and Japan. Finally, it is recommended that Canada continue to cooperate through international fora to develop non-legally binding principles, otherwise known as ‘soft law’ to contribute to a bottom-up approach.
Brain atlas fusion from high-thickness diagnostic magnetic resonance images by learning-based super-resolution
Creators: name: Xiang, Lei
name: Zhou, Xiaodong
name: Zhang, Lichi
name: Shao, Yeqin
name: Zhang, Jinpeng
name: Wang, Qian
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Wu, Guorong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: It is fundamentally important to fuse the brain atlas from magnetic resonance (MR) images for many imaging-based studies. Most existing works focus on fusing the atlases from high-quality MR images. However, for low-quality diagnostic images (i.e., with high inter-slice thickness), the problem of atlas fusion has not been addressed yet. In this paper, we intend to fuse the brain atlas from the high-thickness diagnostic MR images that are prevalent for clinical routines. The main idea of our works is to extend the conventional groupwise registration by incorporating a novel super-resolution strategy. The contribution of the proposed super-resolution framework is two-fold. First, each high-thickness subject image is reconstructed to be isotropic by the patch-based sparsity learning. Then, the reconstructed isotropic image is enhanced for better quality through the random-forest-based regression model. In this way, the images obtained by the super-resolution strategy can be fused together by applying the groupwise registration method to construct the required atlas. Our experiments have shown that the proposed framework can effectively solve the problem of atlas fusion from the low-quality brain MR images.
REVIEW of THE HISTORY AND RESTORATION of MOR EFREM MONASTERY IN MARDIN - TURKIYE
Creators: name: Sedes, Fatma -
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: Architectural structures that are the product of different cultures in Mardin, present very rich images in terms of architectural form, construction technique and ornamentation. These values, shaped by geography as well as cultural richness and diversity, are the works that shape the city identity unique to Mardin. One of them is Mor Efrem Monastery, which is one of the most important of the Mardin monasteries. As Mor Efrem Monastery is a cultural and religious work, it is important to consider it as a humanitarian duty to keep it alive and move it to the next times. With this study, it is aimed to transfer the structure to the next times. In the archive records scan of Mor Efrem Monastery, no information or document was found that the restoration project was drawn. Within the scope of this study, the architectural features were examined and the deteriorations in the building were specified, the stages of the restoration work in which traditional construction techniques and consolidation methods were applied will be explained. The building will be strengthened structurally, and the structural elements with wear and deterioration will be repaired by adhering to the original condition.The basis of interventions in restoration ; Cleaning, rehabilitating and reintegration works.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2022): Liminal Times
Two-dimensional electron gas at the PbTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface: an ab initio study
Creators: name: Yin, Binglun
name: Aguado-Puente, Pablo
name: Qu, Shaoxing
name: Artacho, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the polar catastrophe scenario, polar discontinuity accounts for the driving force of the formation of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the interface between polar and non-polar insulators. In this paper, we substitute the usual, non-ferroelectric, polar material with a ferroelectric thin film and use the ferroelectric polarization as the source for polar discontinuity. We use ab initio simulations to systematically investigate the stability, formation and properties of the two-dimensional free-carrier gases formed in PbTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ heterostructures under realistic mechanical and electrical boundary conditions. Above a critical thickness, the ferroelectric layers can be stabilized in the out-of-plane monodomain configuration due to the electrostatic screening provided by the free-carriers. Our simulations also predict that the system can be switched between three stable configurations (polarization up, down or zero), allowing the non-volatile manipulation of the free charge density and sign at the interface. Furthermore, the link between ferroelectric polarization and free charge density demonstrated by our analysis constitutes compelling support for the polar catastrophe model that is used to rationalize the formation of 2DEG at oxide interfaces.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Detecting Direct Collapse Black Holes: making the case for CR7
Creators: name: Agarwal, Bhaskar
name: Johnson, Jarrett L.
name: Zackrisson, Erik
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Bosch, Frank C. van den
name: Natarajan, Priyamvada
name: Khochfar, Sadegh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that one of the sources in the recently detected system CR7 by Sobral et al. (2015) through spectro-photometric measurements at $z = 6.6$ harbors a direct collapse blackhole (DCBH). We argue that the LW radiation field required for direct collapse in source A is provided by sources B and C. By tracing the LW production history and star formation rate over cosmic time for the halo hosting CR7 in a $Λ$CDM universe, we demonstrate that a DCBH could have formed at $z\sim 20$. The spectrum of source A is well fit by nebular emission from primordial gas around a BH with MBH $\sim 4.4 \times 10^6 \ \rm M_{\odot}$ accreting at a 40 % of the Eddington rate, which strongly supports our interpretation of the data. Combining these lines of evidence, we argue that CR7 might well be the first DCBH candidate.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Interplay of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in the low temperature phase of 1T-TaS2
Creators: name: Cho, Doohee
name: Cho, Yong-Heum
name: Cheong, Sang-Wook
name: Kim, Ki-Seok
name: Yeom, Han Woong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interplay of the electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in the electronic structure of an exotic insulating state in the layered dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2, where the charge-density-wave (CDW) order coexists with a Mott correlation gap. Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements with high spatial and energy resolution determine unambiguously the CDW and the Mott gap as 0.20-0.24 eV and 0.32 eV, respectively, through the real space electron phases measured across the multiply formed energy gaps. An unusual local reduction of the Mott gap is observed on the defect site, which indicates the renormalization of the on-site Coulomb interaction by the electron-phonon coupling as predicted by the Hubbard-Holstein model. The Mott-gap renormalization provides new insight into the disorder-induced quasi-metallic phases of 1T-TaS2.
Robust multi-atlas label propagation by deep sparse representation
Creators: name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Wu, Guorong
name: Shi, Yonghong
name: Liang, Peipeng
name: Wang, Zhengxia
name: Zhang, Daoqiang
name: Zu, Chen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Recently, multi-atlas patch-based label fusion has achieved many successes in medical imaging area. The basic assumption in the current state-of-the-art approaches is that the image patch at the target image point can be represented by a patch dictionary consisting of atlas patches from registered atlas images. Therefore, the label at the target image point can be determined by fusing labels of atlas image patches with similar anatomical structures. However, such assumption on image patch representation does not always hold in label fusion since (1) the image content within the patch may be corrupted due to noise and artifact; and (2) the distribution of morphometric patterns among atlas patches might be unbalanced such that the majority patterns can dominate label fusion result over other minority patterns. The violation of the above basic assumptions could significantly undermine the label fusion accuracy. To overcome these issues, we first consider forming label-specific group for the atlas patches with the same label. Then, we alter the conventional flat and shallow dictionary to a deep multi-layer structure, where the top layer (label-specific dictionaries) consists of groups of representative atlas patches and the subsequent layers (residual dictionaries) hierarchically encode the patchwise residual information in different scales. Thus, the label fusion follows the representation consensus across representative dictionaries. However, the representation of target patch in each group is iteratively optimized by using the representative atlas patches in each label-specific dictionary exclusively to match the principal patterns and also using all residual patterns across groups collaboratively to overcome the issue that some groups might be absent of certain variation patterns presented in the target image patch. Promising segmentation results have been achieved in labeling hippocampus on ADNI dataset, as well as basal ganglia and brainstem structures, compared to other counterpart label fusion methods.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak Weir 05 station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cathedral Peak
Hydrological
Pressure transducer OTT
Streamflow
Water temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at Cathedral Peak's Weir 05 station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
A Dramaturgical Analysis of Contingence in the Out of Orbit Festival 2021
Creators: name: Shepherd, Diana J
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: The exploration of bodies and communication through the virtual medium was explored within this improvisational dance piece inspired by Cork, Ireland. Working in public spaces all over the world, the international set of dancers used an improvisational movement score to challenge and stretch the limits of communicating virtually and how it mirrors communication in the physical world. Taking into account body language as well and where it fits into both types of communication, the dancers worked with concepts of dissemination of information without speaking. Within the performance, the producer asked: How does the virtual stage allow for more malleable artistic processes through dance improvisation in a globalized context, while additionally recognizing the importance of the body in online communication? Through theories of globalization, programming, self-producing and risk, improvisation was explored and these findings led to conclusions on expanding the definition of ‘stage’, the importance of risk in performance and daily life and new questions on what is not seen and who does not do the seeing in improvisational performances.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2022): Liminal Times
Population dynamics of Widdringtonia Cederbergensis in the Cederberg Wilderness Area, site 3219AC/13
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Widdringtonia cedarbergensis
Widdringtonia wallichii
Population dynamics
Cederberg
Cederberg Wilderness Area

description: This is a scanned copy of a document, including a map, noting the population dynamics of Widdringtonia Cedarbergensis in the Cederberg Wilderness Area, site 3219AC/13. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Analyzing housing market and price fluctuation among 22 regions in Tehran: An assessment between 2015 and 2018
Creators: name: Jafarpour, Kamran Ghalehteimouri
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: An unusual/unprecedented housing market fluctuation was investigated in Tehran. According to the report published by the Central Bank in Iran, “Changes in Tehran housing market in May 2018” shows a significant drop in the housing market. The Economic Research and Policy Department of The Central Bank Iran https://tsd.cbi.ir/display/content.aspx published a report based on Tenement Management Information System (TMIS) (http://www.iranamlaak.ir/) data. These reports show an uneven housing market growth in terms of price and units sold in Tehran. The objective of this paper is to investigate the facts involved in the housing sector as the safest-growing sector by over 42% inflation. To identify the qualitative and quantitative parameters in the housing market. Therefore, data were analyzed by G.I.S and SPSS software. The Exponential Growth model and Aggregated Indices Randomization Method (AIRM) to forecast the future unit demand. Two important changes in the 2018 report are the main points in this research. First, the total number of units sold by the real estate agents was 14900 which dramatically dropped in comparison to a month before by, 22.1% and in comparison to last year at the same time at 3.1%. Second, the price of each apartment unit in comparison to the last month was 8.9%, and in comparison to the same time in last year, 45.8% increased. Results: However, these changes among 22 regions of Tehran are not the same, and regions 1, 2, 4, 5, 7,8,10, 11, 14, and 15 have the biggest share in the housing sold in the market by a total of 71.6% of sold units in May 2018. In particular, Region 5 is one of the most attractive (invest and living) and fast-growing regions in Tehran. The analysis shows that region 5 in the north part of Tehran is developing faster than other regions due to geographical location and its situation in Tehran spatial organization. This research showed that under economic crisis and very high inflation housing is the safest and fast-growing sector. Moreover, Tehran's spatial organization and ecological foundations introduce the land suitability and different quality of living, and the housing market in Tehran growing uneven and these two introduce and guide the housing market in Tehran.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2022): Liminal Times
Drawing the Other ‘Other’
Creators: name: Almaç, Bihter
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: A Conversation from the [X] is a set of drawings that are conceived and built as a visual transcript. The imagined conversation is between John Hejduk and myself through the mechanism of his Masques and by my interventions. In this paper, I discuss the Masques of John Hejduk as representing architecture’s otherness, set alongside Michael Hays’ discussions of the Late Avant-Garde and Roland Barthes’ ideas about the creation of the new. And within this context, the conversation piece aims to greet the Masques in their peculiar way that they demand; by the blurring of authorship in an a-synchronous collaborative creative work in which the others/observers stimulate the outcome as a performance. A Conversation from the [X] is thus an experiment resides at the initial point of departure from normative architecture by meeting instead the other condition where speculation is in fact the only accurate act of engagement.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Liminal Spaces
History of an specific area Historic Zeyrek District, Fatih , Istanbul
Creators: name: Sedes, Fatma -
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: Major factors which effect the change of -physical formation in historical Zeyrek- Istanbul are the fires that occurred in various periods and their destructions beginning from 1960’s. Gradually increasing immigration from rural areas to urban areas with industrialization was also another major factor. Though there were always developing activities in walled city, beginning from the second half of 19th century to the end of 20th century these developments caused the disappearance of many of the cultural assets, streets and neighborhoods. The factors which caused to a destruction in Zeyrek in those days are very important, because traditional Ottoman wooden architecture was going into extinction. So the samples of traditional Ottoman wooden architecture and restoration programs on such buildings gained great importance. Within this context, the Governorship of Istanbul, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Istanbul 1st Regional Directorate for Foundations, Fatih Municipality and by partnership with several related non-governmental organizations the restorations have been carried out, and the restoration works of the Molla Zeyrek Mosque(Pantocrator Church) is being completed by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Istanbul 1st Regional Directorate for Foundations.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Liminal Spaces
Evaluatıon of Restoratıon and Revıtalısatıon Opportunıtıes of Hıstorıcal Industrıal Herıtage in Protected Area of Bilecik-Sögüt (Türkiye)
Creators: name: Sedes, Fatma -
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: The concept of protection has lasted since Ottoman Empire Period and the interest belonged to this concept started with the discoveries of the archeological areas in 19th Century. The rich historical heritage at each district of Turkey includes wide range of timeframe from pre-historical periods to now. The excess type and amount of cultural assets urge all the pieces in this field are needed to be filed, protected and saved. The theme of the research is; to give information about the recent situation of factory structures in Bilecik – Söğüt region on the basis of protection sense and to form completeness by refunctioning with the urban fabric. In other word, the goal is; how the archeological heritage areas can be integrated into the inventories of Turkey with the properties and recommendations decided by predicating on universal definitions. On this thesis study, the region where the factory buildings exist in Bilecik – Söğüt protection area is reviewed. The locations, identities and architectural features of factory structures in the region are elaborated. After the evaluation of the recent situation of structures, evaluation of restoration and revitalisation (refunctioning) and the changes in the protected areas of region are discussed with the various suggestions. With the framework of the sustainability of the industrial heritage, the protection of the factory buildings, which are densely deployed in the region, is targeted. At the same time, by bringing the structures into force, it is aimed that the local people who worked in the structures which are among the most important employment centres of city in due course of time, can refresh their memories, lay claim to structures and protect the cultural integrity. Splitting the historical factory buildings in Söğüt region into requisite fields at urban fabric and solution suggestions about usage are evaluated. With the idea of keeping the region alive with these structures by approaching holistically, revitalisation is aimed on this study.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Liminal Spaces
Predicting Environmental Risks of Pharmaceuticals from Wholesales Data: An Example from Norway
Creators: name: Welch, Samuel
name: Olsen, Kristine
name: Moe, S.
name: Sharikabad, Mohammad
name: Tollefsen, Knut
name: Grung, Merete
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health
subject: Other Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health
subject: Life Sciences

description: Uploaded input data (where possible), code and output data, in association with manuscript for submission to ET&C.
Important of International Treaties and Declarations for Adaptive Reuse in Historical Buildings: Berlin Parliament Building and Santral Istanbul Examples
Creators: name: Cenik, İrem
name: Sirel, Ayse
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: Today, a number of historical buildings, which lost their original functions that were relevant in the period they were built, are subject to the process of "adaptation for reuse" with a new function or an addition. The aim of adaptive reuse is to allow those buildings meet the prevailing needs that emerge as a result of the social, economic, political, and cultural factors of the time. There are international treaties, statutes, declarations, and standards, which specify the fundamentals and principles of conserving historical buildings during adaptive reuse process. The “conservation principles and principles” provided in the aforementioned documents are important in the context of serving as a guide for additions and new functional applications to historical buildings. The present article aimed to discuss the issue of intervention by additions and new functions based on the two public buildings selected from Germany and Turkey. The study first investigated the extent to which historical buildings were integrated with their surroundings on a contextual scale and what factors determined the said integration. International agreements, declarations, and directives were used as the determining framework for the purposes of the study. In the context thereof, the provisions governing additions and new functions as specified in international treaties, which were entered so far, were reviewed. Those provisions were adopted as the determining criteria in the assessment of the two historical buildings, including Berlin Parliament Building and Santral Istanbul. It was seen as a result of the study that both historical buildings, which received additions and new functions upon adaptive reuse intervention, complied with the criteria provided in international treaties. The two examples both maintained their values associated with historical heritage and became a focal point across their location, thanks to the adaptive use, which adhered the relevant provisions of the international treaties.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Liminal Spaces
Investigation of Redshift- and Duration-Dependent Clustering of Gamma-ray Bursts
Creators: name: Ukwatta, T. N.
name: Wozniak, P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are detectable out to very large distances and as such are potentially powerful cosmological probes. Historically, the angular distribution of GRBs provided important information about their origin and physical properties. As a general population, GRBs are distributed isotropically across the sky. However, there are published reports that once binned by duration or redshift, GRBs display significant clustering. We have studied the redshift- and duration-dependent clustering of GRBs using proximity measures and kernel density estimation. Utilizing bursts detected by BATSE, Fermi/GBM and Swift/BAT, we found marginal evidence for clustering in very short duration GRBs lasting less than 100 ms. Our analysis provides little evidence for significant redshift-dependent clustering of GRBs.
description: Accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal (10 pages, 15 figures)
Presentation at the LCRDM Network Day - Citizen Science in the Future: What's Next for CS?
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: LCRDM Networking DAY: Citizen Science and Communities, Tuesday November 1, 2022 Citizen Science in the Future Margaret Gold (Citizen Science Lead within the Open Science Programme of Leiden University, and Coordinator of the Citizen Science Lab.
Introduction Modeling Of Deaf Facades In The Design Of The Facades Of Buildings With The Index To Renewable Energy Generation
Creators: name: Çok, Beyza
Publisher: name: AIS - Architecture Image Studies
Year: 2023

description: The concept of sustainability that emerged and influenced architecture has created serious environmental problems. In this study, the reasons for the use of solar energy in passive systems and the importance of passive systems in sustainable buildings are discussed. Furthermore, the construction of integrated models with passive systems was evaluated using a computer program. This study consists of eight chapters. Explain the purpose, the question and the necessity of the research. Assess why and why sustainability, its methods and alternative energy sources emerged. Exposes the design parameters of sustainable buildings, urban planning, ecology, intelligence, zero energy consumption, energy saving buildings and other types. Methods for harnessing solar energy in buildings, called active and passive systems, and their related types, discusses solar energy in buildings under several headings. The use of passive solar energy in buildings, the design parameters of buildings and spaces and the precautions or steps to be considered in different situations. Integrating the house and greenhouse as a simulation study and evaluating the efficiency of the system through a computer program, presenting the changes in tables and graphs. Conclusions and recommendations for evaluation.
description: AIS - Architecture Image Studies, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Liminal Spaces
Initial Evaluation of the Pediatric PROMIS® Health Domains in Children and Adolescents With Sickle Cell Disease: Pediatric PROMIS in SCD
Creators: name: Gross, Heather E.
name: Dewalt, Darren A.
name: Barry, Vaughn
name: Thornburg, Courtney D.
name: Dampier, Carlton
name: Lui, Yang
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) has developed pediatric self-report scales measuring several unidimensional health attributes (domains) suitable for use in clinical research, but these measures have not yet been validated in sickle cell disease (SCD).
Data-Driven Approach for Distribution Network Topology Detection
Creators: name: Cavraro, Guido
name: Arghandeh, Reza
name: von Meier, Alexandra
name: Poolla, Kameshwar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a data-driven approach to detect the switching actions and topology transitions in distribution networks. It is based on the real time analysis of time-series voltages measurements. The analysis approach draws on data from high-precision phasor measurement units ($μ$PMUs or synchrophasors) for distribution networks. The key fact is that time-series measurement data taken from the distribution network has specific patterns representing state transitions such as topology changes. The proposed algorithm is based on comparison of actual voltage measurements with a library of signatures derived from the possible topologies simulation. The IEEE 33-bus model is used for the algorithm validation.
description: 5 Pages, Submitted to IEEE PES GM 2015, Denver, CO
title: Explorations of head injury, trauma and disabilities within criminal justice settings, with consideration of gender
Creators: name: Brodie, Caroline
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: head injury, traumatic brain injury, TBI, disability, prisoners, female prisoners, Scottish prisons, gender differences, forensic mental health.

description: Background: Although studies report a high prevalence of HI within prisons, evidence has not extended to associated disability. Non-prison studies identify gender differences in disability outcomes and there is concern that women prisoners recover less well after HI. Aim: To explore gender differences in disability, associated with HI or from any cause, in prisoners in Scotland. Methods: Secondary data on 200 prisoners across six Scottish prisons was analysed for outcomes related to HI, gender, disability, and covariates (anxiety, depression, substance use) using ordinal logistic regressions. Results: Gender was associated with disability from any cause, with females experiencing poorer outcomes on the Glasgow Outcome at Discharge Scale. No gender differences were found with disability associated with HI. Overall, psychological distress was associated with more severe disability, and substance use with disability from any cause in males. Conclusions: Investigations of disability from any cause informs research on HI given the high numbers reporting HI as a causal factor. Female prisoners have poorer disability outcomes, from any cause, highlighting gender difference in recovery. Further research into HI, disability, mood, and mediators of female disability, is important.
Compressed self-avoiding walks, bridges and polygons
Creators: name: Beaton, Nicholas R.
name: Guttmann, Anthony J.
name: Jensen, Iwan
name: Lawler, Gregory F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G50, 82B41

description: We study various self-avoiding walks (SAWs) which are constrained to lie in the upper half-plane and are subjected to a compressive force. This force is applied to the vertex or vertices of the walk located at the maximum distance above the boundary of the half-space. In the case of bridges, this is the unique end-point. In the case of SAWs or self-avoiding polygons, this corresponds to all vertices of maximal height. We first use the conjectured relation with the Schramm-Loewner evolution to predict the form of the partition function including the values of the exponents, and then we use series analysis to test these predictions.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures