cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High harmonics from backscattering of delocalized electrons
Creators: name: Yu, Chuan
name: Saalmann, Ulf
name: Rost, Jan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that electron backscattering can enhance high-harmonic generation in periodic systems with broken translational symmetry. Paradigmatically, we derive for a finite chain of atoms the harmonic cutoff due to electrons backscattered from the edges of the chain and demonstrate a maximum in the harmonic yield if twice the quiver amplitude of the driven electrons equals the chain length. For an intuitive understanding of our quantum results we develop a refined semiclassical trajectory model with finite electron-hole separation after tunneling. We demonstrate that the same "tunnel exit" also holds for interband harmonics in conventional periodic solid-state systems.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4.2
Semi-Supervised Federated Peer Learning for Skin Lesion Classification
Creators: name: Bdair, Tariq
name: Navab, Nassir
name: Albarqouni, Shadi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Globally, Skin carcinoma is among the most lethal diseases. Millions of people are diagnosed with this cancer every year. Sill, early detection can decrease the medication cost and mortality rate substantially. The recent improvement in automated cancer classification using deep learning methods has reached a human-level performance requiring a large amount of annotated data assembled in one location, yet, finding such conditions usually is not feasible. Recently, federated learning (FL) has been proposed to train decentralized models in a privacy-preserved fashion depending on labeled data at the client-side, which is usually not available and costly. To address this, we propose \verb!FedPerl!, a semi-supervised federated learning method. Our method is inspired by peer learning from educational psychology and ensemble averaging from committee machines. FedPerl builds communities based on clients' similarities. Then it encourages communities members to learn from each other to generate more accurate pseudo labels for the unlabeled data. We also proposed the peer anonymization (PA) technique to anonymize clients. As a core component of our method, PA is orthogonal to other methods without additional complexity and reduces the communication cost while enhancing performance. Finally, we propose a dynamic peer-learning policy that controls the learning stream to avoid any degradation in the performance, especially for individual clients. Our experimental setup consists of 71,000 skin lesion images collected from 5 publicly available datasets. We test our method in four different scenarios in SSFL. With few annotated data, FedPerl is on par with a state-of-the-art method in skin lesion classification in the standard setup while outperforming SSFLs and the baselines by 1.8% and 15.8%, respectively. Also, it generalizes better to unseen clients while being less sensitive to noisy ones.
description: Accepted for publication at the Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA) [https://www.melba-journal.org%E2%80%9D]https://www.melba-journal.org
Higher-order topological superconductors from Weyl semimetals
Creators: name: Jahin, Ammar
name: Tiwari, Apoorv
name: Wang, Yuxuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that doped Weyl semimetals with four Weyl points are natural candidates to realize higher-order topological superconductors, which exhibit a fully gapped bulk while the surface hosts robust gapless chiral hinge states. We show that in such a doped Weyl semimetal, a featureless finite-range attractive interaction favors a $p+ip$ pairing symmetry. By analyzing its topological properties, we identify such a chiral pairing state as a higher-order topological superconductor, which depending on the existence of a four-fold roto-inversion symmetry $\mathsf{R}_{4z}$, is either intrinsic (meaning that the corresponding hinge states can only be removed by closing the bulk gap, rather than modifying the surface states) or extrinsic. We achieve this understanding via various methods recently developed for higher-order topology, including Wannier representability, Wannier spectrum, and defect classification approaches. For the $\mathsf{R}_{4z}$ symmetric case, we provide a complete classification of the higher-order topological superconductors. We show that such second-order topological superconductors exhibit chiral hinge modes that are robust in the absence of interaction effects but can be eliminated at the cost of introducing surface topological order.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures
UPSS: a User-centric Private Storage System with its applications
Creators: name: Bozorgi, Arastoo
name: Jadidi, Mahya Soleimani
name: Anderson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Operating Systems (cs.OS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Strong confidentiality, integrity, user control, reliability and performance are critical requirements in privacy-sensitive applications. Such applications would benefit from a data storage and sharing infrastructure that provides these properties even in decentralized topologies with untrusted storage backends, but users today are forced to choose between systemic security properties and system reliability or performance. As an alternative to this status quo we present UPSS: the user-centric private sharing system, a cryptographic storage system that can be used as a conventional filesystem or as the foundation for security-sensitive applications such as redaction with integrity and private revision control. We demonstrate that both the security and performance properties of UPSS exceed that of existing cryptographic filesystems and that its performance is comparable to mature conventional filesystems - in some cases, even superior. Whether used directly via its Rust API or as a conventional filesystem, UPSS provides strong security and practical performance on untrusted storage.
Semicontinual synthesis of alkyl galactosides using β-galactosidase entrapped in polyvinylalcohol hydrogel
Creators: name: Hronská, Helena
name: Mastihuba, Vladimír
name: Tokošová, Silvia
name: Rosenberg, Michal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Fungal β-galactosidase from Aspergillus oryzae was immobilized into polyvinylalcohol (PVA) hydrogel by LentiKats® technology and used for the production of short-chain alkyl glycosides. Ethyl- and propyl-β-d-galactopyranosides were prepared from lactose (100 g/L) and varying initial amounts of alcohol (10–30% v/v) at 40 °C and pH 4.5. The entrapped β-galactosidase preserved 50% of the initial transgalactosylation activity after 25 repeated cycles in the production of ethyl β-d-galactopyranoside. When 5% (v/v) propanol was used as an acceptor, the enzyme activity (30–32 U/g immobilized enzyme) remained constant for 25 repeated batch runs. These findings suggest that entrapped β-galactosidase into LentiKats® has a great potential to be one effective, reusable and easy producible biocatalyst for the production of alkyl glycosides in a large scale.
title: 01_1498
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Facilitation and interference of phoneme repetition and phoneme similarity in speech production
Creators: name: Monaco, Elisa
name: Cheneval, Pauline Pellet
name: Laganaro, Marina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: Speakers know that it is hard to produce tongue-twister-like utterances involving repeated and similar phonemes (“She sells socks in a small shoe shop”). While utterances involving phonologically similar phonemes consistently give rise to speech errors, repeated phonemes have been shown to interfere as well as to facilitate production. Here we try to shed light on this paradox by investigating brain processes underlying planning utterances involving similar and repeated phonemes (tongue-twister-like) and utterances with only repeated phonemes elicited with picture naming during electroencephalographic/event-related potentials (EEG/ERP) recording. Tongue-twister-like utterances increased error rates while repeated onset phonemes decreased reaction times. Both types of utterances modulated ERPs after 370 ms following picture onset by shortening a period of stable electrophysiological pattern. Another microstate was lengthened for tongue-twister-like utterances only, wiping out the timing difference of the previous microstate. These results indicate priming of repeated phonemes and cost of encoding similar phonemes, both phenomena co-occurring in tongue-twisters.
Contour Exploration with Potentiostatic Kinematics
Creators: name: Waters, Michael J.
name: Rondinelli, James M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a method of exploring potential energy contours in complex dynamical systems based on potentiostatic kinematics wherein the systems are evolved with minimal changes to their potential energy. We construct a simple iterative algorithm for performing potentiostatic kinematics, which uses an estimate curvature to predict new configurations space coordinates on the potential energy contour and a potentiostat term component to correct for errors in prediction. Our methods are then applied to atomic structure models using an interatomic potential for energy and force evaluations as would commonly be invoked in a molecular dynamics simulation. Using several model systems, we assess the stability and accuracy of the method on different hyperparameters in the implementation of the potentiostatic kinematics. Our implementation is open source and available within the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) package for atomic simulation.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Imaging Se diffusion across the FeSe/SrTiO$_3$ interface
Creators: name: O'Sullivan, Samantha
name: Kang, Ruizhe
name: Gardener, Jules A.
name: Akey, Austin J.
name: Matt, Christian E.
name: Hoffman, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monolayer FeSe on SrTiO$_3$ superconducts with reported $T_\mathrm{c}$ as high as 100 K, but the dramatic interfacial $T_\mathrm{c}$ enhancement remains poorly understood. Oxygen vacancies in SrTiO$_3$ are known to enhance the interfacial electron doping, electron-phonon coupling, and superconducting gap, but the detailed mechanism is unclear. Here we apply scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) to FeSe/SrTiO$_3$ to image the diffusion of selenium into SrTiO$_3$ to an unexpected depth of several unit cells, consistent with the simultaneously observed depth profile of oxygen vacancies. Our density functional theory (DFT) calculations support the crucial role of oxygen vacancies in facilitating the thermally driven Se diffusion. In contrast to excess Se in the FeSe monolayer or FeSe/SrTiO$_3$ interface that is typically removed during post-growth annealing, the diffused Se remains in the top few unit cells of the SrTiO$_3$ bulk after the extended post-growth annealing that is necessary to achieve superconductivity. Thus, the unexpected Se in SrTiO$_3$ may contribute to the interfacial electron doping and electron-phonon coupling that enhance $T_\mathrm{c}$, suggesting another important role for oxygen vacancies as facilitators of Se diffusion.
Immobilization of Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) on surface-modified rice husk ashes (RHA) via physical adsorption and cross-linking methods
Creators: name: Ulker, Cansu
name: Nurefsan Gokalp
name: Yuksel Guvenilir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the present study, the recovery of activity of Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) immobilized onto surface-modified rice husk ash (RHA) was 90% for both cross-linking and adsorption methods. Both cross-linked and adsorbed immobilized preparations were very stable, retaining more than 48% of their activity over the range of temperatures studied. The optimum temperature and optimum pH values were 37 °C and 7.0, respectively for both immobilized preparations, while the relative activities after storage at 4.0 °C for 60 days were 55% and 65% using cross-linking and adsorption methods, respectively. Also, the activity of the immobilized lipase began to decrease after 10 cycles, more than 58% of the initial activities were still retained after 10 cycles for both immobilization methods. These results indicated that lipase immobilized by cross-linking and adsorption not only effected activity recovery, but also remarkably effected stability, reusability and application adaptability. It can be concluded that, surface-modified RHA can be used as alternative supports for immobilization of CALB for polymerization reactions.
Crossed modules
Creators: name: Huebschmann, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 01A60 12G05 18G45 20J05 57M10

description: This is an overview of the idea of a crossed module. For a group, the triple that consists of the group, its group of automorphisms, and the canonical homomorphism from the group to its group of automorphisms constitutes a crossed module. Crossed modules arise from the identities among the relations of the presentation of a group, from the extension problem for groups and, more generally, in low dimensional topology. Also, the (successful) attempt to extend the idea of a normal extension of commutative fields to the realm of non-commutative algebras leads to crossed modules. Crossed modules appear implicitly in a forgotten paper by A. Turing which in principle settles the extension problem for groups. Crossed modules make perfect sense for Lie algebras.
description: 17 pages
Soils of Barbués and Torres de Barbués, Ebro Basin, NE Spain
Creators: name: Castañeda, Carmen
name: Herrero, Juan
name: Nogués, Jesús
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Irrigation is needed for profitable agriculture in the central Ebro valley, one of the driest regions in Europe. In this region, aridity and outcrops of saliferous strata induce soil salinity in some irrigated districts. We present a soil map of two municipalities (about 32 km2) coping with soil salinity and currently changing their irrigation from flood to pressurized systems. The 1:25,000 scale map displays 27 Soil Series following the Soil Taxonomy approach and records local pedodiversity for the first time. The scale of the map and its delineation on orthophotographs enables users to locate each agricultural plot (typical size ∼1 ha) and to assign the soil information relevant for irrigation, and then a Soil Phase for salinity. Saline soils occur in irrigated areas totaling 24% of the total surface of the two municipalities studied. The salinity mapping plus other soil features used for map unit definition (texture, stoniness, and available water holding capacity), allow recommendations about the design of irrigation system enhancements.
Deep Gaussian Covariance Network with Trajectory Sampling for Data-Efficient Policy Search
Creators: name: Bogoclu, Can
name: Vosshall, Robert
name: Cremanns, Kevin
name: Roos, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Probabilistic world models increase data efficiency of model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) by guiding the policy with their epistemic uncertainty to improve exploration and acquire new samples. Moreover, the uncertainty-aware learning procedures in probabilistic approaches lead to robust policies that are less sensitive to noisy observations compared to uncertainty unaware solutions. We propose to combine trajectory sampling and deep Gaussian covariance network (DGCN) for a data-efficient solution to MBRL problems in an optimal control setting. We compare trajectory sampling with density-based approximation for uncertainty propagation using three different probabilistic world models; Gaussian processes, Bayesian neural networks, and DGCNs. We provide empirical evidence using four different well-known test environments, that our method improves the sample-efficiency over other combinations of uncertainty propagation methods and probabilistic models. During our tests, we place particular emphasis on the robustness of the learned policies with respect to noisy initial states.
Q-balls Formation and the Production of Gravitational Waves With Non-minimal Gravitational Coupling
Creators: name: Wang, Fei
name: Wang, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to introduce non-minimal couplings of Affleck-Dine (AD) field to gravity by adding the coupling of AD field to the Ricci scalar curvature. As the Jordan frame supergravity always predict $|Φ|^2 {\cal R}/6$ type coupling for scalars with canonical kinetic terms, we propose a way to realize the required $c_0|Φ|^2 {\cal R}$-type couplings with generic $c_0$ for canonical complex scalar fields after SUSY breaking. The impacts of such non-minimal gravitational couplings for AD field is shown, especially on the Q-balls formation and the associated gravitational wave (GW) productions. New form of scalar potential for AD field in the Einstein frame is obtained. By numerical simulations, we find that, with non-minimal gravitational coupling to AD field, Q-balls can successfully form even with the choice of non-negative $K$ parameter for $ξ>0$. The associated GW productions as well as their dependences on the $ξ$ parameter are also discussed.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures. Published version in EPJC
Observation of the dual quantum spin Hall insulator by density-tuned correlations in a van der Waals monolayer
Creators: name: Tang, Jian
name: Ding, Thomas Siyuan
name: Chen, Hongyu
name: Gao, Anyuan
name: Qian, Tiema
name: Huang, Zumeng
name: Sun, Zhe
name: Han, Xin
name: Strasser, Alex
name: Li, Jiangxu
name: Geiwitz, Michael
name: Shehabeldin, Mohamed
name: Belosevich, Vsevolod
name: Wang, Zihan
name: Wang, Yiping
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Bell, David C.
name: Wang, Ziqiang
name: Fu, Liang
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Qian, Xiaofeng
name: Burch, Kenneth S.
name: Shi, Youguo
name: Ni, Ni
name: Chang, Guoqing
name: Xu, Su-Yang
name: Ma, Qiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The convergence of topology and correlations represents a highly coveted realm in the pursuit of novel quantum states of matter. Introducing electron correlations to a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator can lead to the emergence of a fractional topological insulator and other exotic time-reversal-symmetric topological order, not possible in quantum Hall and Chern insulator systems. However, the QSH insulator with quantized edge conductance remains rare, let alone that with significant correlations. In this work, we report a novel dual QSH insulator within the intrinsic monolayer crystal of TaIrTe4, arising from the interplay of its single-particle topology and density-tuned electron correlations. At charge neutrality, monolayer TaIrTe4 demonstrates the QSH insulator that aligns with single-particle band structure calculations, manifesting enhanced nonlocal transport and quantized helical edge conductance. Interestingly, upon introducing electrons from charge neutrality, TaIrTe4 only shows metallic behavior in a small range of charge densities but quickly goes into a new insulating state, entirely unexpected based on TaIrTe4's single-particle band structure. This insulating state could arise from a strong electronic instability near the van Hove singularities (VHS), likely leading to a charge density wave (CDW). Remarkably, within this correlated insulating gap, we observe a resurgence of the QSH state, marked by the revival of nonlocal transport and quantized helical edge conduction. Our observation of helical edge conduction in a CDW gap could bridge spin physics and charge orders. The discovery of a dual QSH insulator introduces a new method for creating topological flat minibands via CDW superlattices, which offer a promising platform for exploring time-reversal-symmetric fractional phases and electromagnetism.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures, submitted version
Solo Performance "Sure Fire" Concerto for Horn and Wind Orchestra - Australian Premiere
Creators: name: Luff, Peter
name: Likhuta, Catherine
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing

description: Australian premier performance of an original work by Catherine Likhuta. Performed live on December 10, 2023 with the QLD Wind Orchestra at the Old Museum, Brisbane Australia. Recorded for archival purposes.Sure Fire notes reproduced here with permission.
QCSP on Reflexive Tournaments
Creators: name: Larose, Benoit
name: Markovic, Petar
name: Martin, Barnaby
name: Paulusma, Daniel
name: Smith, Siani
name: Zivny, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We give a complexity dichotomy for the Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problem QCSP(H) when H is a reflexive tournament. It is well-known that reflexive tournaments can be split into a sequence of strongly connected components H_1,...,H_n so that there exists an edge from every vertex of H_i to every vertex of H_j if and only if i
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.09486
WHO framework convention on tobacco control articles 9 and 10 implementation for sustainable tobacco control—a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Goel, Sonu
name: Walia, Diksha
name: Rajkhowa, Priyobrat
name: Goel, Chirag
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025

description: Introduction Tobacco consumption continues to pose a substantial global public health threat, resulting in more than 8 million preventable deaths annually. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) negotiated as the frst global public health treaty under the auspices of the WHO, which serves as a critical instrument in combating the global tobacco epidemic. The WHO FCTC prioritizes a comprehensive approach that addresses both the demand for and supply side interventions for curbing tobacco epidemic globally. Strong evidence demonstrates the efcacy of these measures in safeguarding individuals, regardless of age, from tobacco initiation, and the associated harms. WHO FCTC Article 9 and 10 emphasizes upon testing and disclosure of tobacco product contents. This scoping review aims to explore the Implementation Landscape of WHO FCTC Articles 9 and 10 globally by adopting Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) framework.Methods The planned scoping review will adhere to the methodology outlined by “Arksey and O’Malley and Levac et al.” Through an exhaustive search strategy, relevant literature published from 2013 onwards will be sourced from databases including PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, Web of Science, Scopus, government websites, and reports. A predetermined set of criteria for study inclusion and exclusion will be applied independently by four reviewers to assess study eligibility. The fndings will be synthesized narratively and qualitatively analyzed, incorporating the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) framework for discussion and outlining. The review will adhere to the reporting standards outlined in the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Extension for Scoping Review (PRISMA-ScR)” guidelines.Conclusions/discussion Analyzing the implementation of FCTC Articles 9 and 10 across global contexts is expected to ofer valuable insights into the need for context-specifc adjustments and customized interventions. Understanding regional variations in eforts to regulate tobacco products is crucial for formulating specifc strategies that efectively address cultural, economic, and regulatory challenges. This comparative examination has the potential to guide policymakers, public health professionals, and researchers in optimizing tobacco control initiatives to expedite progress toward efective implementation of Articles 9 and 10 in both the WHO-SEAR region and globally.Ethics approval This review will identify the landscape of the implementation of WHO FCTC Article 9 and 10. This review will also identify the best practices, policies, and strategies across the globe. An ethics committee approval was not sought for this since this involve secondary data.
Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good
Creators: name: Huang, Yu
name: Ford, Denae
name: Zimmermann, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When inspiring software developers to contribute to open source software, the act is often referenced as an opportunity to build tools to support the developer community. However, that is not the only charge that propels contributions -- growing interest in open source has also been attributed to software developers deciding to use their technical skills to benefit a common societal good. To understand how developers identify these projects, their motivations for contributing, and challenges they face, we conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with OSS for Social Good (OSS4SG) contributors. From our interview analysis, we identified themes of contribution styles that we wanted to understand at scale by deploying a survey to over 5765 OSS and Open Source Software for Social Good contributors. From our quantitative analysis of 517 responses, we find that the majority of contributors demonstrate a distinction between OSS4SG and OSS. Likewise, contributors described definitions based on what societal issue the project was to mitigate and who the outcomes of the project were going to benefit. In addition, we find that OSS4SG contributors focus less on benefiting themselves by padding their resume with new technology skills and are more interested in leaving their mark on society at statistically significant levels. We also find that OSS4SG contributors evaluate the owners of the project significantly more than OSS contributors. These findings inform implications to help contributors identify high societal impact projects, help project maintainers reduce barriers to entry, and help organizations understand why contributors are drawn to these projects to sustain active participation.
description: 13 pages, 6 tables
Fast Parallel Hypertree Decompositions in Logarithmic Recursion Depth
Creators: name: Gottlob, Georg
name: Lanzinger, Matthias
name: Okulmus, Cem
name: Pichler, Reinhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern trends in data collection are bringing current mainstream techniques for database query processing to their limits. Consequently, various novel approaches for efficient query processing are being actively studied. One such approach is based on hypertree decompositions (HDs), which have been shown to carry great potential to process complex queries more efficiently and with stronger theoretical guarantees. However, using HDs for query execution relies on the difficult task of computing decompositions of the query structure, which guides the efficient execution of the query. From theoretical results we know that the performance of purely sequential methods is inherently limited, yet the problem is susceptible to parallelisation. In this paper we propose the first algorithm for computing hypertree decompositions that is well-suited for parallelisation. The proposed algorithm log-k-decomp requires only a logarithmic number of recursion levels and additionally allows for highly parallelised pruning of the search space by restriction to balanced separators. We provide detailed experimental evaluation over the HyperBench benchmark and demonstrate that our approach is highly effective especially for complex queries.
Critical Function of AP-2gamma/TCFAP2C in Mouse Embryonic Germ Cell Maintenance
Creators: name: Weber, Susanne
name: Eckert, Dawid
name: Nettersheim, Daniel
name: Gillis, Ad
name: Schäfer, Sabine
name: Kuckenberg, Peter
name: Ehlermann, Julia
name: Werling, Uwe
name: Biermann, Katharina
name: Looijenga, Leendert
name: Schorle, Hubert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 60802 Animal Cell and Molecular Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60803 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 60103 Cell Development, Proliferation and Death
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pathology

description: Formation of the germ cell lineage involves multiple processes, including repression of somatic differentiation and reacquisition of pluripotency as well as a unique epigenetic constitution. The transcriptional regulator Prdm1 has been identified as a main coordinator of this process, controlling epigenetic modification and gene expression. Here we report on the expression pattern of the transcription factor Tcfap2c, a putative downstream target of Prdm1, during normal mouse embryogenesis and the consequences of its specific loss in primordial germ cells (PGCs) and their derivatives. Tcfap2c is expressed in PGCs from Embryonic Day 7.25 (E 7.25) up to E 12.5, and targeted disruption resulted in sterile animals, both male and female. In the mutant animals, PGCs were specified but were lost around E8.0. PGCs generated in vitro from embryonic stem cells lacking TCFAP2C displayed induction of Prdm1 and Dppa3. Upregulation of Hoxa1, Hoxb1, and T together with lack of expression of germ cell markers such Nanos3, Dazl, and Mutyh suggested that the somatic gene program is induced in TCFAP2C-deficient PGCs. Repression of TCFAP2C in TCam-2, a human PGCresembling seminoma cell line, resulted in specific upregulation of HOXA1, HOXB1, MYOD1, and HAND1, indicative of mesodermal differentiation. Expression of genes indicative of ectodermal, endodermal, or extraembryonic differentiation, as well as the finding of no change to epigenetic modifications, suggested control by other factors. Our results implicate Tcfap2c as an important effector of Prdm1 activity that is required for PGC maintenance, most likely mediating Prdm1-induced suppression of mesodermal differentiation.
Modeling the inner part of the jet in M87: Confronting jet morphology with theory
Creators: name: Yang, Hai
name: Yuan, Feng
name: Li, Hui
name: Mizuno, Yosuke
name: Guo, Fan
name: Lu, Rusen
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Lin, Xi
name: Zdziarski, Andrzej A.
name: Wang, Jieshuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of jets in black hole accretion systems is a long-standing problem. It has been proposed that a jet can be formed by extracting the rotation energy of the black hole ("BZ-jet") or the accretion flow ("disk-jet"). While both models can produce collimated relativistic outflows, neither has successfully explained the observed jet morphology. By employing general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, and considering nonthermal electrons accelerated by magnetic reconnection that is likely driven by magnetic eruption in the underlying accretion flow, we obtain images by radiative transfer calculations and compared them to millimeter observations of the jet in M87. We find that the BZ-jet originating from a magnetically arrested disk around a high-spin black hole can well reproduce the jet morphology, including its width and limb-brightening feature.
description: 46 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables, published in Science Advances on 22 Mar 2024. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2206.05661
Virtual Clinical Simulation of Teleconsultation as Experiential Practice of Active Learning in Higher Nursing Education: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Castro, Luiza Sheyla Evenni Porfirio Will
name: Da Silva, Rhaissa Lainara Macedo
name: De Lara Comann, Ana Carolina
name: Lino, Monica Motta
name: Andrade, Gabriel Silva
name: Amadigi, Felipa Rafaela
name: Guesser, Joice Cristina
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2024

description: Increasing awareness about the available virtual care options for the nursing profession has become essential in a digital society. This can be achieved through the integration of teleconsultation into undergraduate nursing curricula, thereby providing a solid foundation for the incorporation of these innovative practices into patient care. Considering that simulation is a method of testing, experimenting, or rehearsing that seeks to artificially or controlledly reproduce real situations or processes. This pedagogical strategy, in healthcare educational institutions, occurs both in simulation laboratories and in the actual care environment, where scenarios are recreated to provide practical learning. Clinical simulation allows students to develop skills such as clinical reasoning, decision-making, and action sequencing.
Characterisation of the hydrophobic collapse of polystyrene in water using free energy techniques
Creators: name: Drenscko, Mihaela
name: Loverde, Sharon M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We characterise the hydrophobic collapse of single polystyrene chains in water using molecular dynamics simulations. Specifically, we calculate the potential of mean force for the collapse of a single polystyrene chain in water using metadynamics, comparing the results between all atomistic with coarse-grained (CG) molecular simulation. We next explore the scaling behaviour of the collapsed globular shape at the minimum energy configuration, characterised by the radius of gyration, as a function of chain length. The exponent is close to one third, consistent with that predicted for a polymer chain in bad solvent. We also explore the scaling behaviour of the solvent accessible surface area (SASA) as a function of chain length, finding a similar exponent for both all atomistic and CG simulations. Furthermore, calculation of the local water density as a function of chain length near the minimum energy configuration suggests that intermediate chain lengths are more likely to form dewetted states, as compared to shorter or longer chain lengths.
Ramanujan type congruences for quotients of Klein forms
Creators: name: Huber, Timothy
name: Mayes, Nathaniel
name: Opoku, Jeffery
name: Ye, Dongxi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11P83, 11F11, 11F33, 05A17

description: In this work, Ramanujan type congruences modulo powers of primes $p \ge 5$ are derived for a general class of products that are modular forms of level $p$. These products are constructed in terms of Klein forms and subsume generating functions for $t$-core partitions known to satisfy Ramanujan type congruences for $p=5,7,11$. The vectors of exponents corresponding to products that are modular forms for $Γ_{1}(p)$ are subsets of bounded polytopes with explicit parameterizations. This allows for the derivation of a complete list of products that are modular forms for $Γ_{1}(p)$ of weights $1\le k \le 5$ for primes $5\le p \le 19$ and whose Fourier coefficients satisfy Ramanujan type congruences for all powers of the primes. For each product satisfying a congruence, cyclic permutations of the exponents determine additional products satisfying congruences. Common forms among the exponent sets lead to products satisfying Ramanujan type congruences for a broad class of primes, including $p> 19$. Canonical bases for modular forms of level $5\le p \le 19$ are constructed by summing weight one Hecke Eisensten series of levels $5\le p \le 19$ and expressing the result as a quotient of Klein forms. Generating sets for the graded algebras of modular forms for $Γ_{1}(p)$ and $Γ(p)$ are formulated in terms of permutations of the exponent sets. A sieving process is described by decomposing the space of modular forms of weight $1$ for $Γ_{1}(p)$ as a direct sum of subspaces of modular forms for $Γ(p)$ of the form $q^{r/p}\Bbb Z[[q]]$. Since the relevant bases generate the graded algebra of modular forms for these groups, the weight one decompositions determine series dissections for modular forms of higher weight that lead to additional classes of congruences.
Tilt sub-grain boundaries and sub-grain to grain boundary transition from Investigation of nucleation processes during dynamic recrystallization of ice using cryo-EBSD
Creators: name: T. Chauve
name: M. Montagnat
name: F. Barou
name: K. Hidas
name: A. Tommasi
name: D. Mainprice
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mechanics
subject: 40602 Glaciology

description: This ESM provide a detailled description of some tilt sub-grain boundary observed, and a reflexion, and energy calculation, supporting the selected transition between sub-grain boundary and grain boundary
On the Role of Out-of-Equilibrium Phonons in Gated Superconducting Switches
Creators: name: Ritter, M. F.
name: Crescini, N.
name: Haxell, D. Z.
name: Hinderling, M.
name: Riel, H.
name: Bruder, C.
name: Fuhrer, A.
name: Nichele, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments suggest the possibility to tune superconductivity in metallic nanowires by application of modest gate voltages. It is largely debated whether the effect is due to an electric field at the superconductor surface or small currents of high-energy electrons. We shed light on this matter by studying the suppression of superconductivity in sample geometries where the roles of electric field and electron-current flow can be clearly separated. Our results show that suppression of superconductivity does not depend on the presence or absence of an electric field at the surface of the nanowire, but requires a current of high-energy electrons. The suppression is most efficient when electrons are injected into the nanowire, but similar results are obtained also when electrons are passed between two remote electrodes at a distance $d$ to the nanowire (with $d$ in excess of $1~\mathrm{μm}$). In the latter case, high-energy electrons decay into phonons which propagate through the substrate and affect superconductivity in the nanowire by generating quasiparticles. We show that this process involves a non-thermal phonon distribution, with marked differences from the loss of superconductivity due to Joule heating near the nanowire or an increase in the bath temperature.
Transcription Factor TFAP2C Regulates Major Programs Required for Murine Fetal Germ Cell Maintenance and Haploinsufficiency Predisposes to Teratomas in Male Mice
Creators: name: Arauzo-Bravo, Marcos
name: Hass, Natalie
name: Schäfer, Sabine
name: Weber, Susanne
name: Becker, Astrid
name: Eckert, Dawid
name: Zimmer, Andreas
name: Nettersheim, Daniel
name: Schorle, Hubert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 60802 Animal Cell and Molecular Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60803 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60403 Developmental Genetics (incl. Sex Determination)
subject: 60404 Epigenetics (incl. Genome Methylation and Epigenomics)
subject: 60405 Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pathology

description: Maintenance and maturation of primordial germ cells is controlled by complex genetic and epigenetic cascades, and disturbances in this network lead to either infertility or malignant aberration. Transcription factor TFAP2C has been described to be essential for primordial germ cell maintenance and to be upregulated in several human germ cell cancers. Using global gene expression profiling, we identified genes deregulated upon loss of Tfap2c in embryonic stem cells and primordial germ cell-like cells. We show that loss of Tfap2c affects many aspects of the genetic network regulating germ cell biology, such as downregulation of maturation markers and induction of markers indicative for somatic differentiation, cell cycle, epigenetic remodeling and pluripotency. Chromatin-immunoprecipitation analyses demonstrated binding of TFAP2C to regulatory regions of deregulated genes (Sfrp1, Dmrt1, Nanos3, c-Kit, Cdk6, Cdkn1a, Fgf4, Klf4, Dnmt3b and Dnmt3l) suggesting that these genes are direct transcriptional targets of TFAP2C in primordial germ cells. Since Tfap2c deficient primordial germ cell-like cells display cancer related deregulations in epigenetic remodeling, cell cycle and pluripotency control, the Tfap2c-knockout allele was bred onto 129S2/Sv genetic background. There, mice heterozygous for Tfap2c develop with high incidence germ cell cancer resembling human pediatric germ cell tumors. Precursor lesions can be observed as early as E16.5 in developing testes displaying persisting expression of pluripotency markers. We further demonstrate that mice with a heterozygous deletion of the TFAP2C target gene Nanos3 are also prone to develop teratomas. These data highlight TFAP2C as a critical and dose-sensitive regulator of germ cell fate.
Persuasion or Insulting? Unpacking Discursive Strategies of Gender Debate in Everyday Feminism in China
Creators: name: Deng, Yue
name: Chen, Zheng
name: He, Changyang
name: Lu, Zhicong
name: Li, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speaking out for women's daily needs on social media has become a crucial form of everyday feminism in China. Gender debate naturally intertwines with such feminist advocacy, where users in opposite stances discuss gender-related issues through intense discourse. The complexities of gender debate necessitate a systematic understanding of discursive strategies for achieving effective gender communication that balances civility and constructiveness. To address this problem, we adopted a mixed-methods study to navigate discursive strategies in gender debate, focusing on 38,636 posts and 187,539 comments from two representative cases in China. Through open coding, we identified a comprehensive taxonomy of linguistic strategies in gender debate, capturing five overarching themes including derogation, gender distinction, intensification, mitigation, and cognizance guidance. Further, we applied regression analysis to unveil these strategies' correlations with user participation and response, illustrating the tension between debating tactics and public engagement. We discuss design implications to facilitate feminist advocacy on social media.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24)