cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing Complexity as an Indicator of Frailty in Older Adult Smart Home Residents
Creators: name: Wuestney, Katherine Ann
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026

description: Background: In the context of older adults’ health, the idea of complexity consists of two seemingly opposite phenomena. On one hand, health needs become more complex with age and on the other, the body’s systems and processes tend toward less complexity. The theory of complexity and aging suggests that (1) measuring the complexity of the body’s physiological and behavioral signals can illuminate a person’s adaptive capacity, and (2) one’s decreasing complexity is indicative of decreased adaptability and increasing frailty. I hypothesize that if a person’s underlying complexity, and therefore adaptive capacity, could be estimated using continuous unobtrusive environmental sensor-based monitoring it would open opportunities for early identification of incipient frailty, underpinning interventions aimed at maintaining older adults’ ability to age-in-place safely. This dissertation consists of three manuscripts exploring how complexity may be used as a key indicator of older adult health within the context of a long-term sensor-based remote monitoring system. Method: Manuscript 1 is a Principle-Based Concept Analysis of the use of complexity as a concept in gerontological nursing literature. Manuscript 2 reports results of simulations mimicking smart home sensor data to validate measurements of complexity taken from complexity science. Manuscript 3 is an exploratory multiple method case series study using real-world historic sensor-based data and nursing assessment data gathered from community-dwelling smart home residents age 65+ to measure the complexity of their daily activities, describe complexity changes over time, and relate these changes to frailty. Implications for Nursing: This dissertation expands and clarifies the conceptualization of complexity in relation to frailty within a nursing-centered lens. Study findings (1) resulted in tools nurses can use for measuring and interpreting the complexity of sensor data; (2) add clarity on the conceptualization of complexity in gerontological nursing; and, (3) generate important questions for future nurse-driven smart home research.
sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848211037849 – Supplemental material for Dynamics of serum concentrations of antibodies to infliximab: a new approach for predicting secondary loss of response in inflammatory bowel diseases
Creators: name: Grasmeier, Melina K.
name: Langmann, Anna F.
name: Langmann, Peter
name: Treiber, Matthias
name: Thaler, Markus A.
name: Luppa, Peter B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848211037849 for Dynamics of serum concentrations of antibodies to infliximab: a new approach for predicting secondary loss of response in inflammatory bowel diseases by Melina K. Grasmeier, Anna F. Langmann, Peter Langmann, Matthias Treiber, Markus A. Thaler and Peter B. Luppa in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
MECHANICAL AND BONDING PERFORMANCE OF CLT PANELS MANUFACTURED FROM THERMALLY MODIFIED LUMBER
Creators: name: Clark, Matthew
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bend Performance
CLT Manufacturing
Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)
Mechanical Properties of CLT
Thermally Modified Wood
Western Hemlock

description: Driven by a growing emphasis on sustainability in construction and a surge in demand for timber structural members, such as cross laminated timber (CLT), as eco-friendly alternatives to steel and concrete materials, methods to enhance the durability of mass timber products against moisture and decay have attracted considerable attention in recent years. Thermal modification of wood has shown promise in improving moisture resistance and decay resilience. However, using thermally modified mass timber products in structural applications necessitates a comprehensive understanding of their mechanical properties, durability, and bond performance. This knowledge gap currently hinders its integration into design codes and standards. This study focuses on the critical aspects of thermally modified Western Hemlock used to manufacture CLT panels, contributing to the development of design guidelines for incorporating these products in sustainable building practices. The findings could revitalize Western Hemlock use in the Pacific Northwest, potentially boosting the region's forestry and wood products sectors economically.
description: Experimental tests were conducted on small clear specimens, sawn lumber specimens, and full CLT specimens to assess the mechanical properties and bond performance of thermally modified CLT panels. These tests followed ASTM D143, ASTM D198, and PRG-320-19 standards. The results, supported by analytical investigation, aim to develop design recommendations and establish allowable design values for thermally modified CLT panels. This study's outcomes will directly influence building codes and design standards, promoting the broader adoption of thermally modified CLT panels in sustainable construction.
description: This research demonstrates that 3-ply CLT panels made from thermally modified Western Hemlock lumber meet the mechanical and structural performance requirements for flexural and shear strength according to PRG-320 standard. The panels also passed block shear and delamination tests, meeting bond performance criteria for thermally modified CLT panels.
description: This study concluded that thermally modified Western Hemlock CLT panels met performance requirements and possess high mechanical properties, paving the way for future research and design. It should be noted that more testing on a larger specimen population is necessary to gain higher confidence in the results, as the material available for this research was limited.
Fairness and Robustness in Machine Unlearning
Creators: name: Tran, Khoa
name: Woo, Simon S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine unlearning poses the challenge of ``how to eliminate the influence of specific data from a pretrained model'' in regard to privacy concerns. While prior research on approximated unlearning has demonstrated accuracy and efficiency in time complexity, we claim that it falls short of achieving exact unlearning, and we are the first to focus on fairness and robustness in machine unlearning algorithms. Our study presents fairness Conjectures for a well-trained model, based on the variance-bias trade-off characteristic, and considers their relevance to robustness. Our Conjectures are supported by experiments conducted on the two most widely used model architectures, ResNet and ViT, demonstrating the correlation between fairness and robustness: \textit{the higher fairness-gap is, the more the model is sensitive and vulnerable}. In addition, our experiments demonstrate the vulnerability of current state-of-the-art approximated unlearning algorithms to adversarial attacks, where their unlearned models suffer a significant drop in accuracy compared to the exact-unlearned models. We claim that our fairness-gap measurement and robustness metric should be used to evaluate the unlearning algorithm. Furthermore, we demonstrate that unlearning in the intermediate and last layers is sufficient and cost-effective for time and memory complexity.
description: 5 pages
Laphyragogus kohlii
Creators: name: Mokrousov, Mikhail V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Laphyragogus
Laphyragogus kohlii

description: Laphyragogus kohlii (Bingham, 1897)
Leianthrena kohlii Bingham in Kohl, 1897: 381, ♀, ♂. Lectotype, ♀: India, Deesa xi.1901, coll Nurse, designated by Schmid-Egger 2022: 310 [The Natural History Museum, London, Great Britain].
Lianthrena kohlii Bingham, 1897: 213, ♀, ♂. Syntypes: India or Pakistan: Punjab: no specific locality [The Natural History Museum, London, Great Britain]. Objective synonym of Leianthrena kohlii Bingham, 1897.
Laphyragogus turanicus Gussakovskij, 1952: 227, ♀, ♂. Lectotype, ♀: Tajikistan, Ayvaj at Kafirnigan River [ZISP], designated by Kazenas 2000: 50. Synonymized with Laphyragogus kohlii by Kazenas 2000: 50.
Distribution. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, Northern India.
description: Published as part of Mokrousov, Mikhail V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2025, A new genus and species of the subfamily Laphyragoginae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) with analysis of the relationship of Eremiaspheciinae and Laphyragoginae, stat. resurr., pp. 521-532 in Zootaxa 5631 (3) on page 530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15370958
Azobenzene derivatives with two aliphatic chains: mesogenic and photoisomerisation studies of (E)-4-[(4-heptyloxyphenyl)diazenyl]phenyl alkanoates (7OABOOCm)
Creators: name: Piwowarczyk, Marcin
name: Deptuch, Aleksandra
name: Drzewicz, Anna
name: Juszyńska-Gałązka, Ewa
name: Gałązka, Mirosław
name: Galewski, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Compounds from the homologous series of (E)-4-[(4-heptyloxyphenyl)diazenyl]phenyl alkanoates (7OABOOCm) for m = 1–19, were synthesised. The phase behaviour was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, polarised light (optical) microscopy, and thermo-optical analysis. The enantiotropic nematic, smectic C and crystal G phases were found for derivatives with m = 1–18, m = 7–17, and m = 4, respectively. In addition, during cooling, smectic F, crystal G, and unknown X phases were observed for derivatives with m = 7–9, m = 3,8,9, and m = 4, respectively. The X-ray diffraction results suggest that the X phase is presumably monotropic crystal H or a second crystal phase. The E–Z photoisomerisation process was observed during UV light irradiation. A photostationary state was reached after exposure time equal to approximately 80 s. The derived kinetic constant k of this process was of the order of 10−2 s−1.
Soft-photon theorem for pion-proton elastic scattering revisited
Creators: name: Lebiedowicz, Piotr
name: Nachtmann, Otto
name: Szczurek, Antoni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the reactions $πp \to πp$ and $πp \to πp γ$ from a general quantum field theory (QFT) point of view, describing these reactions in QCD and lowest relevant order of electromagnetism. We consider the pion-proton elastic scattering both off shell and on shell. The on-shell amplitudes for $π^{\pm} p \to π^{\pm} p$ scattering are described by two invariant amplitudes, while the off-shell amplitudes contain eight invariant amplitudes. We study the photon emission amplitudes in the soft-photon limit where the c.m. photon energy $ω\to 0$. The Laurent expansion in $ω$ of the $π^{\pm} p \to π^{\pm} p γ$ amplitudes is considered and the terms of the orders $ω^{-1}$ and $ω^{0}$ are derived. These terms can be expressed by the on-shell invariant amplitudes and their partial derivatives with respect to $s$ and $t$. The pole term $\propto ω^{-1}$ in the amplitudes corresponds to Weinberg's soft-photon theorem and is well known from the literature. We derive the next-to-leading term $\propto ω^{0}$ using only rigorous methods of QFT. We give the relation of the Laurent series for $π^{0} p \to π^{0} p γ$ and Low's soft-photon theorem. Our formulas for the amplitudes in the limit $ω\to 0$ are valid for photon momentum $k$ satisfying $k^{2} \geqslant 0$, $k^{0} = ω\geqslant 0$, that is, for both real and virtual photons. Here we consider a limit where with $ω\to 0$ we have also $k^{2} \to 0$. We discuss the behavior of the corresponding cross-sections for $π^{-} p \to π^{-} p γ$ with respect to $ω$ for $ω\to 0$. We consider cross sections for unpolarized as well as polarized protons in the initial and final states.
description: 36 pages, 5 figures, v3 accepted for publication in PRD
Additional file 1 of Leaf functional traits and resource use strategies facilitate the spread of invasive plant Parthenium hysterophorus across an elevational gradient in western Himalayas
Creators: name: Sharma, Padma
name: Rathee, Sonia
name: Ahmad, Mustaqeem
name: Siddiqui, Manzer H.
name: Alamri, Saud
name: Kaur, Shalinder
name: Kohli, Ravinder K.
name: Singh, Harminder Pal
name: Batish, Daizy R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Pretend the Ball is Named Jim Crow
Creators: name: Hairston, Dorian
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: African American Studies
subject: English Language and Literature
subject: Poetry

description: The poems that form this collection titled, Pretend the Ball is Named Jim Crow, are written in the persona of Negro League Baseball’s Josh Gibson (1911-1947) and those closest to him. Gibson is credited with hitting over 800 home runs in his career and was the first Negro League Baseball Player to be inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame without ever playing an inning of Major League Baseball.
Maternal Mortality: Spatial and Racial Disparities in United States
Creators: name: Chakrovorty, Sanchita
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Agricultural economics

description: Over the last century, developed countries have been successful in enhancing maternal health and reducing Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR). By 2018, MMR across OECD countries and World Bank Group Regions have converged towards very low levels, averaging more than 5 deaths per 100,000 live births. The United States has become an outlier among the developed countries in maternal deaths and compares unfavorably to a number of poorer countries where the ratio has declined. In 2017, the US ranked worst in MMR among the 39 industrialized nations. United States has experienced almost a 142 percent increase in MMR from 1987-2018. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every year in the US, more than 700 women die due to the pregnancy or childbirth-related complications, with 60 percent of these deaths being preventable. Within the US, MMR varies considerably, leaving large disparities across states as well as between all racial groups. This research study aims to understand the interplay of spatial and racial impacts on the variation of maternal mortality ratios within the US. The paper estimates Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Spatial Lag Models for MMR using cross-sectional US state data for 2012-2017, taken from CDC. The results show that the dominant root causes of high maternal mortality differ between black and white women.
Shadows near supermassive black holes: from a theoretical concept to GR test
Creators: name: Zakharov, Alexander F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General relativity (GR) passed many astronomical tests but in majority of them GR predictions have been tested in a weak gravitational field approximation. Around 50 years ago a shadow has been introduced by J. Bardeen as a purely theoretical concept but due to an enormous progress in observational and computational facilities this theoretical prediction has been confirmed and the most solid argument for an existence of supermassive black holes in Sgr A* and M87* has been obtained.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, presented as a talk at The 6th International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA-2022), accepted in IJMPD
sj-pdf-3-ltj-10.1177_02655322211038977 – Supplemental material for A comparative judgment approach to assessing Chinese Sign Language interpreting
Creators: name: Han, Chao
name: Xiao, Xiaoyan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education
Language Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-ltj-10.1177_02655322211038977 for A comparative judgment approach to assessing Chinese Sign Language interpreting by Chao Han and Xiaoyan Xiao in Language Testing
title: Narcissism and Affirmation of the Ideal Self on Social Media in Thailand
Creators: name: Isaranon, Yokfah
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Narcissism, Affirmation, Ideal self, Social media

description: Narcissists, characterised by an excessive need for admiration, are among the most prolific users of social media as it may aid narcissists reach their goals of being admired by many people, without needing to build intimacy. Adapted from the Michelangelo phenomenon, this thesis proposes to test the Facebook affirmation model in Thailand. The model asserts that individuals, particularly those with high levels of narcissism, can benefit from using Facebook to receive affirmation of the ideal self and move closer to their ideal selves.  

Given that the benefits of Facebook for narcissists may depend on their cultural background, a cross-cultural correlational study was conducted in Study 1. A comparison between Thai and British Facebook users found basic support for the model and showed a similar pattern of the Facebook affirmation model across cultures. The application of cognitive and behavioural strategies was further investigated in Study 2 using an experimental design. The findings suggest that Facebook offers benefits for communal narcissists under specific circumstances, such as when they engage in other-oriented behaviours. The mechanisms underlying the Facebook affirmation process was also examined in Study 3. Results provide evidence that self-esteem influences the way in which communal narcissists experience Facebook affirmation. Lastly, the association between selfie-posting behaviour and affirmation of the ideal self was explored to test whether affirmation of the ideal self can occur under specific activities on other social media platforms. Results demonstrate that selfie-posting on Instagram helps agentic narcissists experience affirmation of the ideal self. 

In general, findings provide new evidence that social media facilitates agentic and communal narcissists to feel their best and move towards their ideal self, particularly when cognitive and behavioural strategies used on social media match their orientation towards goals.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ehp-10.1177_01632787211040859 - Interdisciplinary Health Care Evaluation Instruments: A Review of Psychometric Evidence
Creators: name: Kang, Hosung (Joel)
name: Flores-Sandoval, Cecilia
name: Law, Benson
name: Sibbald, Shannon
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ehp-10.1177_01632787211040859 for Interdisciplinary Health Care Evaluation Instruments: A Review of Psychometric Evidence by Hosung (Joel) Kang, Cecilia Flores-Sandoval, Benson Law and Shannon Sibbald in Evaluation & the Health Professions
Laphyragogus pectinatus de Beaumont 1959
Creators: name: Mokrousov, Mikhail V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Laphyragogus
Laphyragogus pectinatus

description: Laphyragogus pectinatus de Beaumont, 1959
Laphyragogus pectinatus de Beaumont, 1959: 728, ♀, ♂. Holotype, ♂: Israel, Revivim [Lausanne].
Distribution. Algeria, Israel, Egypt, Libya.
description: Published as part of Mokrousov, Mikhail V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2025, A new genus and species of the subfamily Laphyragoginae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) with analysis of the relationship of Eremiaspheciinae and Laphyragoginae, stat. resurr., pp. 521-532 in Zootaxa 5631 (3) on page 531, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15370958
ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลกระทบต่อความล่าช้าของรถไฟไทย
Creators: name: จิรภัทร จำรัสรักษ์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2559
Subjects: การเดินทางทางรถไฟ, ความล่าช้าของรถไฟ, การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย

description: วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม, ฉบับพิเศษ,
title: Configuring Corporeality: Performing bodies, vibrations and new musical instruments.
Creators: name: Donnarumma, Marco
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: sound, performance art, physiological computing, biosignals, body theory, technological embodiment, NIME

description: How to define the relationship of human bodies, sound and technological instruments in musical performance? This enquiry investigates the issue through an iterative mode of research. Aesthetic and technical insights on sound and body art performance with new musical instruments combine with analytical views on technological embodiment in philosophy and cultural studies. The focus is on corporeality: the physiological, phenomenological and cultural basis of embodied practices. 

The thesis proposes configuration as an analytical device and a blueprint for artistic creation. Configuration defines the relationship of the human being and technology as one where they affect each other's properties through a continuous, situated negotiation. In musical performance, this involves a performer's intuition, cognition, and sensorimotor skills, an instrument's material, musical and computational properties, and sound's vibrational and auditive qualities. 

Two particular kinds of configuration feature in this enquiry. One arises from an experiment on the effect of vibration on the sensorimotor system and is fully developed through a subsequent installation for one visitor at a time. The other emerges from a scientific study of gesture expressivity through muscle physiological sensing and is consolidated into an ensuing body art performance for sound and light. Both artworks rely upon intensely intimate sensorial and physical experiences, uses and abuses of the performer's body and bioacoustic sound feedback as a material force. 

This work contends that particular configurations in musical performance reinforce, alter or disrupt societal criteria against which human bodies and technologies are assessed. Its contributions are: the notion of configuration, which affords an understanding of human-machine co-dependence and its politics; two sound-based artworks, joining and expanding musical performance and body art; two experiments, and their hardware and software tools, providing insights on physiological computing methods for corporeal human-computer interaction.
Liquid crystal trimers containing secondary amide groups
Creators: name: Strachan, Grant J.
name: Majewska, Magdalena M.
name: Pociecha, Damian
name: Gorecka, Ewa
name: Storey, John M.D.
name: Imrie, Corrie T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: We report the synthesis and phase behaviour of a series of liquid crystalline trimers containing secondary amide groups. These materials form nematic, smectic and twist-bend nematic phases and their liquid crystal behaviour appears to be primarily driven by their molecular shape, with little evidence for the influence of hydrogen bonding between the amide groups. The results show that suitable molecular design can allow for amides to be included into mesogenic materials in an analogous manner to more commonly used linking groups, such as esters and imines, offering new synthetic routes to liquid crystalline materials.
Robust Humanoid Walking on Compliant and Uneven Terrain with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Singh, Rohan P.
name: Morisawa, Mitsuharu
name: Benallegue, Mehdi
name: Xie, Zhaoming
name: Kanehiro, Fumio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For the deployment of legged robots in real-world environments, it is essential to develop robust locomotion control methods for challenging terrains that may exhibit unexpected deformability and irregularity. In this paper, we explore the application of sim-to-real deep reinforcement learning (RL) for the design of bipedal locomotion controllers for humanoid robots on compliant and uneven terrains. Our key contribution is to show that a simple training curriculum for exposing the RL agent to randomized terrains in simulation can achieve robust walking on a real humanoid robot using only proprioceptive feedback. We train an end-to-end bipedal locomotion policy using the proposed approach, and show extensive real-robot demonstration on the HRP-5P humanoid over several difficult terrains inside and outside the lab environment. Further, we argue that the robustness of a bipedal walking policy can be improved if the robot is allowed to exhibit aperiodic motion with variable stepping frequency. We propose a new control policy to enable modification of the observed clock signal, leading to adaptive gait frequencies depending on the terrain and command velocity. Through simulation experiments, we show the effectiveness of this policy specifically for walking over challenging terrains by controlling swing and stance durations. The code for training and evaluation is available online at https://github.com/rohanpsingh/LearningHumanoidWalking. Demo video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgfNzGAkk2Q.
description: 2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
A smooth, efficient representation of reflectance
Creators: name: Kameya, Masaki
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Reflectance

description: Reflectance plays an important role in computer graphics. It describes the appearance of an object with two directional parameters. Reflectance is critical, because it determines the appearance of the object to be synthesized. Reflectance can be determined either by an analytical model, or by evaluating a fit to a measured reflectance data set. In general, analytical models are complex and computationally expensive to evaluate and it is difficult to control the parameters of the model to obtain a desired appearance. A popular method of fitting data is by using a basis function expansion. However, this method requires many basis functions to represent the strongly-peaked data and the result is computationally expensive. We propose a method to overcome this problem by using a modified N-dimensional multilevel B-spline approximation. Our method fits various reflectance data very well. Multilevel architecture makes it possible to control the accuracy of the fit. A higher level fit uses a denser control mesh and fits more accurately. In addition, the resulting fit is very smooth and efficient to evaluate. The time complexity of evaluation is a constant regardless of the fit level. A higher level fit requires more storage than a lower level fit. The storage might be a problem on memory intensive applications. To overcome this, we represent a data set with two fits, a diffuse fit and a specular fit and we can successfully compress the storage for finer fit without losing major performance from the original method. In addition, by utilizing minimal perfect hashing, we can retrieve the value of each control point efficiently from compressed table.
: Etude De L'Équilibre Financier
Creators: name: Narjess ZIADI BEN ROMDHANE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: fonds de roulement, besoin en fonds de roulement, trésorerie, équilibre, déséquilibre, croissance.

description: Les analystes financiers procèdent à des regroupements et à des sous totaux pour analyser le bilan (après retraitements)  et en déduire les différentes situations de l'équilibre financier que peut connaitre l'entreprise
Quotient Quiver Subtraction
Creators: name: Hanany, Amihay
name: Kalveks, Rudolph
name: Kumaran, Guhesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the diagrammatic technique of quiver subtraction to facilitate the identification and evaluation of the $\mathrm{SU}(n)$ hyper-Kähler quotient (HKQ) of the Coulomb branch of a $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ unitary quiver theory. The target quivers are drawn from a wide range of theories, typically classified as ''good'' or ''ugly'', which satisfy identified selection criteria. Our subtraction procedure uses quotient quivers that are ''bad'', differing thereby from quiver subtractions based on Kraft-Procesi transitions. The procedure identifies one or more resultant quivers, the union of whose Coulomb branches corresponds to the desired HKQ. Examples include quivers whose Coulomb branches are moduli spaces of free fields, closures of nilpotent orbits of classical and exceptional type, and slices in the affine Grassmanian. We calculate the Hilbert Series and Highest Weight Generating functions for HKQ examples of low rank. For certain families of quivers, we are able to conjecture HWGs for arbitrary rank. We examine the commutation relations between quotient quiver subtraction and other diagrammatic techniques, such as Kraft-Procesi transitions, quiver folding, and discrete quotients.
description: Shorter title
การเมืองของการอนุรักษ์ป่าอย่างยั่งยืนว่าด้วยการคืนสิทธิต้นไม้ให้ผู้ปลูกและชุมชน: การเข้าถึงและข้อจำกัดการทำไม้อย่างถูกต้อง
Creators: name: วนิดา พรมหล้า
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2559
Subjects: การอนุรักษ์ป่าอย่างยั่งยืน, สิทธิต้นไม้, การเข้าถึง, ข้อจำกัด, การทำไม้

description: วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม, ฉบับพิเศษ,
การวิเคราะห์ค่าครองชีพระหว่างประเทศด้วยดัชนีลาเต้สตาร์บัคส์
Creators: name: มะลิวัลย์ สารภาพ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2559
Subjects: ค่าครองชีพ, ธุรกิจระหว่างประเทศ, ดัชนีลาเต้สตาร์บัคส์

description: วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม, ฉบับพิเศษ,
Laphyragogus pictus Kohl 1889
Creators: name: Mokrousov, Mikhail V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Laphyragogus
Laphyragogus pictus

description: Laphyragogus pictus Kohl, 1889
Laphyragogus pictus Kohl, 1889: 190, ♀. Holotype, ♀: Egypt, no specific locality [Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, currently Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany].
Distribution. Morocco, Egypt, Israel.
description: Published as part of Mokrousov, Mikhail V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2025, A new genus and species of the subfamily Laphyragoginae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) with analysis of the relationship of Eremiaspheciinae and Laphyragoginae, stat. resurr., pp. 521-532 in Zootaxa 5631 (3) on page 531, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15370958
แบบจำลองทางเศรษฐมิติของปัจจัยที่มีผลกระทบต่อการออมในกลุ่มอาเซียน
Creators: name: มะลิสา มีสุข
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2559
Subjects: การเจริญเติบโตทางเศรษฐกิจ, การออม, อาเซียน

description: วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม, ฉบับพิเศษ,
การวิเคราะห์ความรุนแรงของการเกิดอุบัติเหตุทางรถยนต์ในช่วง "7 วันอันตราย" ของเทศกาลปีใหม่และสงกรานต์
Creators: name: รุจิรา สอนวงษา
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2559
Subjects: 7 วันอันตราย, ความสูญเสียจากอุบัติเหตุ, อุบัติเหตุทางรถยนต์

description: วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม, ฉบับพิเศษ,
A coupling prescription for post-Newtonian corrections in Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Hartong, Jelle
name: Have, Emil
name: Obers, Niels A.
name: Pikovski, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between quantum theory and general relativity remains one of the main challenges of modern physics. A renewed interest in the low-energy limit is driven by the prospect of new experiments that could probe this interface. Here we develop a covariant framework for expressing post-Newtonian corrections to Schrödinger's equation on arbitrary gravitational backgrounds based on a $1/c^2$ expansion of Lorentzian geometry, where $c$ is the speed of light. Our framework provides a generic coupling prescription of quantum systems to gravity that is valid in the intermediate regime between Newtonian gravity and General Relativity, and that retains the focus on geometry. At each order in $1/c^2$ this produces a nonrelativistic geometry to which quantum systems at that order couple. By considering the gauge symmetries of both the nonrelativistic geometries and the $1/c^2$ expansion of the complex Klein--Gordon field, we devise a prescription that allows us to derive the Schrödinger equation and its post-Newtonian corrections on a gravitational background order-by-order in $1/c^2$. We also demonstrate that these results can be obtained from a $1/c^2$ expansion of the complex Klein--Gordon Lagrangian. We illustrate our methods by performing the $1/c^2$ expansion of the Kerr metric up to $\mathcal{O}(c^{-2})$, which leads to a special case of the Hartle--Thorne metric. The associated Schrödinger equation captures novel and potentially measurable effects.
description: 43 pages incl. 1 appendix, 1 figure; v2: updated to published version
Developing A Decision-Making Framework For A District Energy System Manager
Creators: name: Schuster, Daniel
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified
Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)

description: Managing the highly dynamic and interdependent systems within a district energy system is an intricately complex undertaking. A district energy manager is expected to make decisions that will result in the achievement of the district’s goals, often with limited capital and personnel resources. What has been lacking in the tools available to a district energy manager is an established decision-making framework with which to process the complex internal and external variables involved to effectively develop and evaluate options to make successful decisions.
 While capitalizing on the experience of seasoned district energy managers and a literature review of current methodologies, this dissertation assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the methodologies currently available to managers of district energy systems and presents a new and more comprehensive decision-making framework. A system of systems engineering approach is applied, and multiple relevant case studies are analyzed. Procedures for significantly mitigating many of the external risks to a district energy system are developed and documented. The main contribution of this dissertation is a unique decision-making framework with a holistic approach encompassing the complexity, emergence, and interdependency of district energy subsystems. This framework will aid a district energy manager in making successful decisions which meet the goals of the district.
New properties of elastic $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ scattering at high energies
Creators: name: Selyugin, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data-driving determination of the new properties of elastic scattering at small angles on the basis on all existing experimental data for $dσ/dt$ of $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ at $\sqrt{s} \geq 540$ GeV allows us to obtain the main characteristics of the nonstandard terms of the elastic scattering amplitude. It was shown that the oscillation term has a different sign for $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ reactions; hence, it is part of the Odderon amplitude. The energy dependence of the oscillation term and the term with an extremely large slope is determined. The period of the oscillation term agrees with the scaling properties predicted by the Auberson - Kinoshita - Martin (AKM) theorem. The high quality quantitative description of all data at $\sqrt{s} \geq 540$ GeV in the framework of the HEGS model supports such a phenomenon which can be connected with peripheral hadron interaction.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures; typos corrected, minor clarifications added, Journal version
Additional file 1 of Reliability and validity of an innovative high performing healthcare system assessment tool
Creators: name: Aqil, Anwer
name: Saldana, Kelly
name: Mian, Naeem uddin
name: Ndu, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
sj-pdf-1-eab-10.1177_00139165211036991 – Supplemental material for Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Nationwide Lockdown on Mental Health, Environmental Concern, and Prejudice Against Other Social Groups
Creators: name: Schiller, Bastian
name: Tönsing, Daniel
name: Kleinert, Tobias
name: Böhm, Robert
name: Heinrichs, Markus
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eab-10.1177_00139165211036991 for Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Nationwide Lockdown on Mental Health, Environmental Concern, and Prejudice Against Other Social Groups by Bastian Schiller, Daniel Tönsing, Tobias Kleinert, Robert Böhm and Markus Heinrichs in Environment and Behavior
Effect of lateral substituents on the properties of polymerisable liquid crystals with bistolane core
Creators: name: Chai, Xingxuan
name: Che, Zhaoyi
name: Li, Juanli
name: Hu, Minggang
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Wan, Danyang
name: Mo, Lingchao
name: Xia, Huiyun
name: Li, Jian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A new series of polymerisable liquid crystals based on bistolane core and different lateral substituent groups (F, Cl, CH3 and C2H5) were synthesised and characterised by1H-NMR and13C-NMR. The properties of these compounds were tested by DSC, POM and Abbe refractometer. The results indicate that all of these compounds display a stable nematic phase, and the introduction of lateral substituents has a significant impact on the phase behaviour and birefringence. As the size of lateral substituents gradually increases the clearing point and birefringence of the liquid crystals both show a decreasing trend. The birefringence of these new compounds reaches 0.36 ~ 0.49, which is about 2 ~ 3 times that of the commercial compounds RM257. These new polymerisable liquid crystals with extremely high birefringence provide a choice for developing devices based on planar optics.
sj-docx-1-tar-10.1177_00375497211040074 – Supplemental material for Impact of COVID-19 on social determinants of health for adults with cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Albon, Dana
name: Bruschwein, Heather
name: Soper, Morgan
name: List, Rhonda
name: Jennings, Deirdre
name: Gettle, Lucy
name: Compton, Martina
name: Bailey, Molly
name: Starheim, Elissa
name: Murray, Rachel
name: Kalmanek, John
name: Somerville, Lindsay
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tar-10.1177_00375497211040074 for Impact of COVID-19 on social determinants of health for adults with cystic fibrosis by Dana Albon, Heather Bruschwein, Morgan Soper, Rhonda List, Deirdre Jennings, Lucy Gettle, Martina Compton, Molly Bailey, Elissa Starheim, Rachel Murray, John Kalmanek and Lindsay Somerville in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
MatFuse: Controllable Material Generation with Diffusion Models
Creators: name: Vecchio, Giuseppe
name: Sortino, Renato
name: Palazzo, Simone
name: Spampinato, Concetto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Creating high-quality materials in computer graphics is a challenging and time-consuming task, which requires great expertise. To simplify this process, we introduce MatFuse, a unified approach that harnesses the generative power of diffusion models for creation and editing of 3D materials. Our method integrates multiple sources of conditioning, including color palettes, sketches, text, and pictures, enhancing creative possibilities and granting fine-grained control over material synthesis. Additionally, MatFuse enables map-level material editing capabilities through latent manipulation by means of a multi-encoder compression model which learns a disentangled latent representation for each map. We demonstrate the effectiveness of MatFuse under multiple conditioning settings and explore the potential of material editing. Finally, we assess the quality of the generated materials both quantitatively in terms of CLIP-IQA and FID scores and qualitatively by conducting a user study. Source code for training MatFuse and supplemental materials are publicly available at https://gvecchio.com/matfuse.
ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อรายได้ของ 100 อันดับภาพยนตร์ทำเงินของฮอลลีวูด
Creators: name: สมฤดี หลักทอง
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2559
Subjects: เศรษฐกิจภาพยนตร์, หนังทำเงิน, ฮอลลีวูด

description: วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม, ฉบับพิเศษ,
Laboratory Load-Based Testing, Performance Mapping and Rating of Residential Cooling Equipment
Creators: name: Cheng, Li
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)

description: In the U.S., unitary residential air conditioners are rated using standard AHRI 210/240 that is inadequate to credit equipment with advanced controls and variable-speed components since the ratings are based on results of steady-state laboratory tests. Contrarily, a load-based testing and rating approach is presented in this work that can capture equipment performance with its integrated controls and thermostat responses that is more representative of the field. In this approach, representative building sensible and latent loads are emulated in a psychrometric test facility at different indoor and outdoor test conditions utilizing a virtual building model. The indoor test room conditions are continuously adjusted to emulate the dynamic response of the virtual building to the test equipment sensible and latent cooling rates and the equipment dynamic response is measured. Meanwhile, the inlet temperatures to the test equipment thermostat are independently controlled to track the same virtual building response using a thermostat environment emulator that encloses the test thermostat, that provides typical flow conditions and of which the design and control are presented in this work. Climate-specific cooling seasonal performance ratings can be determined by propagating load-based test results through a temperature-bin method to estimate a seasonal coefficient of performance (SCOP). In addition, a next-generation rating approach is developed that extends load-based testing for performance mapping, such that the SCOP can be obtained using building simulations that incorporate specific building types, climates and an equipment-specific performance map. In this work, the proposed approaches were implemented to test and rate a variable-speed residential heat pump operating in cooling mode. Trained with results from only 12 load-based test intervals carried out using the test equipment, a quasi-steady-state mapping model was able to map the equipment performance across almost the entire operating envelope within $\pm10\%$ errors and the $R^2$ values were very close to 1. Using the identified performance map, the next-generation SCOP was obtained based on an annual simulation deployed in EnergyPlus, where the map was coupled to a typical single-family building in Albuquerque,NM. Compared to the temperature-bin-based rating, this simulation-based rating is able to comprehensively and appropriately reflect equipment annual field performance associated with a specific building type and climate, as the rating is extended from automated laboratory load-based testing and performance mapping.
sj-pdf-1-ipe-10.1177_20416695211038265 - Supplemental material for The Impact of Face Masks on the Emotional Reading Abilities of Children—A Lesson From a Joint School–University Project
Creators: name: Carbon, Claus-Christian
name: Serrano, Martin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ipe-10.1177_20416695211038265 for The Impact of Face Masks on the Emotional Reading Abilities of Children—A Lesson From a Joint School–University Project by Claus-Christian Carbon and Martin Serrano in i-Perception
Laphyragogus strakai Schmid-Egger 2011
Creators: name: Mokrousov, Mikhail V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Laphyragogus
Laphyragogus strakai

description: Laphyragogus strakai Schmid-Egger, 2011
Laphyragogus strakai Schmid-Egger, 2011: 543, ♂. Holotype, ♂: United Arab Emirates, Um al-Quwain at 25°32‘N 55°32‘E [Ch. Schmid-Egger personal collection, Berlin, Germany].
Distribution. United Arab Emirates, Iran.
description: Published as part of Mokrousov, Mikhail V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2025, A new genus and species of the subfamily Laphyragoginae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) with analysis of the relationship of Eremiaspheciinae and Laphyragoginae, stat. resurr., pp. 521-532 in Zootaxa 5631 (3) on page 531, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15370958