cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
International society and the establishment of new states : the practice of state recognition in the era of national self-determination
Creators: name: Fabry, Mikulas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The dissertation examines recognition of new states, the practice historically employed to regulate membership in international society. The last fifteen years have witnessed novel or reinvigorated demands for statehood in many areas of the world. The claims of some, like those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eritrea, Croatia, Moldova, Georgia or East Timor, achieved recognition; those of others, like Kosovo, Krajina, Bouganville, Abkhazia, Somaliland or Chechnya, did not. However, even as most of these claims gave rise to serious conflicts, the practice has elicited little systematic scholarly reflection. Drawing upon writings of international society theorists, the dissertation looks at the criteria that have guided recognition of new states. It charts the practice from the late eighteenth century until the present. Its central finding is that state recognition has always been tied to the idea of self-determination of peoples and not, as is conventionally assumed, only since the end of the First World War. State recognition can be said to have (1) emerged as a coherent practice in response to this idea and (2) evolved chiefly as a result of the continuous necessity to come to terms with the dilemmas presented by this idea. Two versions of the idea have guided the practice - selfdetermination as a natural and as a positive right. The former, dominant from the 1820s to the 1950s, took as the standard for acknowledgment the achievement of de facto statehood by a people desiring independence. The latter, prevalent since the 1950s, took as the basis of recognition a positive right to independence in international law. The development of self-determination as a positive right, however, has not led to a disappearance of claims of statehood that stand outside of its confines. Groups that feel unhappy within the states they belong to have continued to make demands for independence irrespective of the fact that they may not have an international right to it. The study concludes by expressing doubt that contemporary international society can find a sustainable basis for recognition of new states other than de facto statehood.
Die Generation Silber im Fokus der zukünftigen Lebensmittelproduktion – Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Agrarwirtschaft
Creators: name: Michael, Harth
name: Michael, Harth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Konsumentenverhalten
subject: demografischer Wandel
subject: Best Ager
subject: Conjoint-Analyse

description: Aufgrund des demografischen Wandels wird sich in Deutschland die Bevölkerungsstruktur in den kommenden Jahrzehnten grundlegend verändern. Insbesondere wird dabei die Altersgruppe der über 65-Jährigen, häufig als „Senioren“, „Best Ager“ oder „Generation Silber“ bezeichnet“ (Winkler 2008), zunehmen. Sie stellen die einzige Konsumenten bzw. Verbrauchergruppe dar, die in Zukunft deutlich wachsen wird. In dieser Studie steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, wie sich der aufgezeigte demografische Wandel auf die Agrarwirtschaft, insbesondere auf die landwirtschaftliche Erzeugung auswirken wird. Hat dies beispielsweise Konsequenzen für das Anbauspektrum der Kulturpflanzen, für die Art der Tierhaltung oder generell für die Produktionsweise?
Best Doctor Near Me in Delhi | Visit SRC Medical Centre
Creators: name: SRC MEDICAL AND MATERNITY CENTRE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: health
doctor
medical

description: Are you looking for a trusted doctor near you in Delhi? SRC Medical and Maternity Centre is home to experienced gynecologists, pulmonologists, and general physicians who provide expert consultations and personalized treatments. From routine checkups to specialized care, we offer comprehensive healthcare services with modern diagnostics and a patient-first approach. Choose SRC for reliable, affordable, and compassionate medical care near you.
Filling the PID - Datenimport in VIVO
Creators: name: Schnieders, Kathrin
name: Mierz, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: vivo
kdsf
datacite
datacitecommons

description: Im gemeinsamen Forschungsvorhaben TAPIR untersuchen die TIB Hannover und die Universität Osnabrück das Teil-automatisierte Persistent Identifier (PID)-basierte Reporting für universitäre und außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen. Hierbei wird analysiert wie teilautomatisiertes Reporting und die dazu notwendige Datenaggregation auf Basis offen verfügbarer Forschungsinformationen/-daten durchgeführt werden kann, basierend auf PIDs wie beispielsweise ROR, ORCID, DOI. In diesem Vortrag möchten wir einen Überblick über das Projektvorhaben geben und erste Schritte präsentieren, wie durch Schnittstellenanbindung der Datenimport in lokale VIVO-Systeme stattfinden kann.
description: Diese Arbeit ist im Projekt TAPIR entstanden. TAPIR wird unter den Förderkennzeichen 01PH20001A und 01PH20001B in der Förderlinie "Qualitätsentwicklungen in der Wissenschaft (Meso-Ebene)" teilweise durch das BMBF gefördert.
Impact of rural poverty reduction strategies: The case of smallholders in Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Sammeth, Frank
name: Lakoh, Alpha
name: Michel, Baudouin
name: Hites, Gisele
name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
name: Sammeth, Frank
name: Lakoh, Alpha
name: Michel, Baudouin
name: Hites, Gisele
name: Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Agriculture
subject: Poverty
subject: Official Development Assistance
subject: Sierra Leone

description: The present analysis, which exploits one of the first empirical data collected from smallholders in Sierra Leone since the end of the civil war, compares the impact of two poverty reduction strategies targeting smallholders in Sierra Leone: support to rice production is compared with support to coffee and cocoa production in terms of sustainable income generation and contributing to macroeconomic stability and growth. Supporting rice production is intended to help the country regain self-sufficiency in its traditional principle staple. This will help towards improving food security and reducing dependency on volatile world market prices which, for example, with respect to the recent global spike has had dramatic effects on the lowest incomes. Support to cocoa and coffee production on the other hand aims to create and increase income by producing exportable commodities with higher value added. This research addresses strategic options most successful in improving food security and accelerating economic development. Additionally, bottlenecks in terms of inputs, infrastructure and social and economic factors are identified and analysed in order to isolate those which once improved will impact most on productivity. The results are discussed within a broader economic and socio-economic context in particular with respect to enhanced targeting and impact of Official Development Assistance.
Three theories for facial paedomorphosis in human evolution and the preference for facial underdevelopment
Creators: name: Wehr, Paul Arthur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Human faces are relatively underdeveloped compared to both ancestral human populations, and to other modern primates. Several researchers have noted a relationship between facial juvenilization and facial attractiveness in humans. Three theories were developed to account for what seems to be the co-evolution of underdevelopment in human morphology and mating preferences. In the baby-face overgeneralization hypothesis, facial underdevelopment stimulated altruistic behaviour and inhibited aggression. The youthful mimic hypothesis proposes that underdevelopment mimicked facial cues associated with youth and fertility. In the big brain hypothesis, facial underdevelopment was a necessary antecedent to brain expansion and human cognition. Predictions were generated from each hypothesis with regards to how the juvenilization preference would change as a function of context, mating strategy, and sex. Composite faces were manipulated to appear either more or less underdeveloped (juvenilized). Results indicated that the preference for juvenilized features was stronger in a mating context, stronger for male judges evaluating female targets, and stronger for a short-term mating strategy. Results were most supportive of the youthfulness hypothesis, but some support was also found for the big brain hypothesis. While the youthfulness hypothesis may explain the preference for facial underdevelopment, the big brain hypothesis might provide a more satisfactory explanation for the evolution of facial underdevelopment.
Simulating Crowds and Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Charlton, John
name: Gonzalez, Luis Rene Montana
name: Maddock, Steve
name: Richmond, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding how people view and interact with autonomous vehicles is important to guide future directions of research. One such way of aiding understanding is through simulations of virtual environments involving people and autonomous vehicles. We present a simulation model that incorporates people and autonomous vehicles in a shared urban space. The model is able to simulate many thousands of people and vehicles in real-time. This is achieved by use of GPU hardware, and through a novel linear program solver optimized for large numbers of problems on the GPU. The model is up to 30 times faster than the equivalent multi-core CPU model.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1908.10107
Teaching Reform of Courses for Ideological and Political Education Based on Simulation Information Technology: Taking the Course Group of Engineering Valuation in Jiangxi Normal University for Example
Creators: name: ZENG Wenhai
name: ZHONG Wentao
name: LIANG Yifeng
name: WANG Chen
name: LIU  Zhangsheng
name: ZENG Wenhai
name: ZHONG Wentao
name: LIANG Yifeng
name: WANG Chen
name: LIU  Zhangsheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Engineering Valuation, Courses for ideological and political education, Case design

description: In higher engineering education, professional courses and ideological and political theory courses go in the same direction, which is an important task of the current professional curriculum construction. This paper introduces the key and difficult problems in the teaching content of the course Engineering Valuation in the Department of Engineering Management and Real Estate of Jiangxi Normal University. Based on the characteristics of simulation information technology such a s BIM and VR and the differences of ideological and political elements, it updates and improves the cases of courses for ideological and political education, gives full play to the synergistic effect, and realizes the "triple" talent training goal of knowledge, ability and literacy.
Rasmussen invariant, Slice-Bennequin inequality, and sliceness of knots
Creators: name: Shumakovitch, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: We use recently introduced Rasmussen invariant to find knots that are topologically locally-flatly slice but not smoothly slice. We note that this invariant can be used to give a combinatorial proof of the slice-Bennequin inequality. Finally, we compute the Rasmussen invariant for quasipositive knots and show that most of our examples of non-slice knots are not quasipositive and, to the best of our knowledge, were previously unknown.
description: 9 pages, 4 tables and 1 figure. Updated to match the published version: Corollary 1.D is made more general to work with links instead of knots, a comment on the relation between the total rank of the reduced Khovanov homology and computations of the Rasmussen invariant is added. Journal reference is added and references are updated
Additional file 1 of Open versus arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Tsz Ngai Mok
name: Qiyu He
name: Soundarya Panneerselavam
name: Huajun Wang
name: Huige Hou
name: Xiaofei Zheng
name: Jinghua Pan
name: Li, Jieruo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Methodological Index for Non-randomized Studies (MINORS) Assessment.
Anomalous reaction-diffusion equations for linear reactions
Creators: name: Lawley, Sean D
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K37, 26A33, 60G22, 92C05, 92C37

description: Deriving evolution equations accounting for both anomalous diffusion and reactions is notoriously difficult, even in the simplest cases. In contrast to normal diffusion, reaction kinetics cannot be incorporated into evolution equations modeling subdiffusion by merely adding reaction terms to the equations describing spatial movement. A series of previous works derived fractional reaction-diffusion equations for the spatiotemporal evolution of particles undergoing subdiffusion in one space dimension with linear reactions between a finite number of discrete states. In this paper, we first give a short and elementary proof of these previous results. We then show how this argument gives the evolution equations for more general cases, including subdiffusion following any fractional Fokker-Planck equation in an arbitrary $d$-dimensional spatial domain with time-dependent reactions between infinitely many discrete states. In contrast to previous works which employed a variety of technical mathematical methods, our analysis reveals that the evolution equations follow from (i) the probabilistic independence of the stochastic spatial and discrete processes describing a single particle and (ii) the linearity of the integro-differential operators describing spatial movement. We also apply our results to systems combining reactions with superdiffusion.
description: 7 pages
Additional file 3 of Medicinal plant use practice in four ethnic communities (Gurage, Mareqo, Qebena, and Silti), south central Ethiopia
Creators: name: Alemtshay Teka
name: Zemede Asfaw
name: Sebsebe Demissew
name: Damme, Patrick Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. Rank order priority (ROP) values of culturally important species (ROP ≥50%) major uses, relative popularity level and study sites
Language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) - Jerry Fodor
Creators: name: Namdarzadeh, Behnaz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Foundations

A language-like symbol structures

Able to explain possibility of causation by content

Based on computational theory of mind 

Based on representational theory of mind

Three claims of LOTH

Causation by content is ultimately determined by causal interactions between physical structures 

These physical structures have sentence-like structure, which determines how they are built up and how they interact with each other 

Causal relations between sentences in the language of thought respect logical/rational relations between the contents of those sentences
Additional file 2 of A systematic review of biomarkers multivariately associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome development and mortality
Creators: name: Zee, Philip Van Der
name: Rietdijk, Wim
name: Somhorst, Peter
name: Endeman, Henrik
name: Gommers, Diederik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Quality assessment
ESy_EB_pievų buvieniu_min_reikalavimai
Creators: name: Uogintas, Domas
name: Rašomavičius, Valerijus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EB buvienės
Pievos
Lietuva
ESy

description: Elektroninė ekspertinė sistema skirta atrinkti EB svarbos pievų buveines.
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Frequency-Based Kelly Optimal Portfolio
Creators: name: Hsieh, Chung-Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper, we consider a discrete-time portfolio with $m \geq 2$ assets optimization problem which includes the rebalancing~frequency as an additional parameter in the maximization. The so-called Kelly Criterion is used as the performance metric; i.e., maximizing the expected logarithmic growth of a trader's account, and the portfolio obtained is called the frequency-based Kelly optimal portfolio. The focal point of this paper is to extend upon the results of our previous work to obtain various optimality characterizations on the portfolio. To be more specific, using Kelly's criterion in our frequency-based formulation, we first prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the frequency-based Kelly optimal portfolio. With the aid of these conditions, we then show several new optimality characterizations such as expected ratio optimality and asymptotic relative optimality, and a result which we call the Extended Dominant Asset Theorem. That is, we prove that the $i$th asset is dominant in the portfolio if and only if the Kelly optimal portfolio consists of that asset only. The word "extended" on the theorem comes from the fact that it was only a sufficiency result that was proved in our previous work. Hence, in this paper, we improve it to involve a proof of the necessity part. In addition, the trader's survivability issue (no bankruptcy consideration) is also studied in detail in our frequency-based trading framework. Finally, to bridge the theory and practice, we propose a simple trading algorithm using the notion called dominant asset condition to decide when should one triggers a trade. The corresponding trading performance using historical price data is reported as supporting evidence.
description: Submitted to IEEE Control Systems Letter
The Particle Problem in Classical Gravity: A historical note on 1941
Creators: name: Galvagno, Mariano
name: Giribet, Gaston
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This note is based on a relatively unknown paper of Albert Einstein published in 1941 in the Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Tucuman. That work can be regarded as the prequel of the one written in 1943 in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli, where, along the same lines, a proof of the non-existence of certain non-singular solutions in Kaluza-Klein theory was given. More generally, disproving the existence of regular solutions in classical unified field theories became, specially after 1930, an important criterion leading Einstein's investigations on unified field theory. This is the context in which Einstein's paper of 1941 and its generalizations of 1943 and 1948 become important.
description: v8: Version shortened and corrected
Additional file 4 of Medicinal plant use practice in four ethnic communities (Gurage, Mareqo, Qebena, and Silti), south central Ethiopia
Creators: name: Alemtshay Teka
name: Zemede Asfaw
name: Sebsebe Demissew
name: Damme, Patrick Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4. Major use categories and list of ailments/symptoms include (for compurting ICF value)
Type 1 autoimmune pancreatitis in Europe : clinical profile and response to treatment
Creators: name: Overbeek, Kasper A.
name: Rosendahl, Jonas
name: [Und Viele Weitere]
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background & Aims: Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is an immune-mediated disease of the pancreas with distinct pathophysiology and manifestations. Our aims were to characterize type 1 AIP in a large pan-European cohort and study the effectiveness of current treatment regimens. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed adults diagnosed since 2005 with type 1 or not-otherwise-specified AIP in 42 European university hospitals. Type 1 AIP was uniformly diagnosed using specific diagnostic criteria. Patients with type 2 AIP and those who had undergone pancreatic surgery were excluded. The primary end point was complete remission, defined as the absence of clinical symptoms and resolution of the index radiologic pancreatic abnormalities attributed to AIP. Results: We included 735 individuals with AIP (69% male; median age, 57 years; 85% White). Steroid treatment was started in 634 patients, of whom 9 (1%) were lost to follow-up. The remaining 625 had a 79% (496/625) complete, 18% (111/625) partial, and 97% (607/625) cumulative remission rate, whereas 3% (18/625) did not achieve remission. No treatment was given in 95 patients, who had a 61% complete (58/95), 19% partial (18/95), and 80% cumulative (76/95) spontaneous remission rate. Higher (≥0.4 mg/kg/day) corticosteroid doses were no more effective than lower (<0.4 mg/kg/day) doses (odds ratio, 0.428; 95% confidence interval, 0.054–3.387) and neither was a starting dose duration >2 weeks (odds ratio, 0.908; 95% confidence interval, 0.818–1.009). Elevated IgG4 levels were independently associated with a decreased chance of complete remission (odds ratio, 0.639; 95% confidence interval, 0.427–0.955). Relapse occurred in 30% of patients. Relapses within 6 months of remission induction were independent of the steroid-tapering duration, induction treatment duration, and total cumulative dose. Conclusions: Patients with type 1 AIP and elevated IgG4 level may need closer monitoring. For remission induction, a starting dose of 0.4 mg/kg/day for 2 weeks followed by a short taper period seems effective. This study provides no evidence to support more aggressive regimens.
Automatic Generation of Road Geometries to Create Challenging Scenarios for Automated Vehicles Based on the Sensor Setup
Creators: name: Ponn, Thomas
name: Lanz, Thomas
name: Diermeyer, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For the offline safety assessment of automated vehicles, the most challenging and critical scenarios must be identified efficiently. Therefore, we present a new approach to define challenging scenarios based on a sensor setup model of the ego-vehicle. First, a static optimal approaching path of a road user to the ego-vehicle is calculated using an A* algorithm. We consider a poor perception of the road user by the automated vehicle as optimal, because we want to define scenarios that are as critical as possible. The path is then transferred to a dynamic scenario, where the trajectory of the road user and the road layout are determined. The result is an optimal road geometry, so that the ego-vehicle can perceive an approaching object as poorly as possible. The focus of our work is on the highway as the Operational Design Domain (ODD).
description: Accepted at the 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), October 20-23, 2020
title: Insights into the size-resolved dust emission from field measurements in the Moroccan Sahara
Creators: name: González-Flórez, Cristina
name: Klose, Martina
name: Alastuey, Andrés
name: Dupont, Sylvain
name: Escribano, Jerónimo
name: Etyemezian, Vicken
name: Gonzalez-Romero, Adolfo
name: Huang, Yue
name: Kandler, Konrad
name: Nikolich, George
name: Panta, Agnesh
name: Querol, Xavier
name: Reche, Cristina
name: Yus-Díez, Jesús
name: Pérez García-Pando, Carlos
Publisher: name: Copernicus Publications
Year: 2024

description: The particle size distribution (PSD) of mineral dust has a strong effect on the impacts of dust on climate. However, our understanding of the emitted dust PSD, including its variability and the fraction of super-coarse dust (diameter >10 µm), remains limited. Here, we provide new insights into the size-resolved dust emission process based on a field campaign performed in the Moroccan Sahara in September 2019 in the context of the FRontiers in dust minerAloGical coMposition and its Effects upoN climaTe (FRAGMENT) project. The obtained dust concentration and diffusive flux PSDs show significant dependencies upon the friction velocity (u*), wind direction and type of event (regular events versus haboob events). For instance, the number fraction of sub-micrometre particles increases with u*, along with a large decrease in the mass fraction of super-coarse dust. We identify dry deposition, which is modulated by u* and fetch length, as a potential cause for this PSD variability. Using a resistance model constrained with field observations to estimate the dry deposition flux and thereby also the emitted dust flux, we show that deposition could represent up to ∼90% of the emission of super-coarse particles (>10 µm) and up to ∼65% of the emission of particles as small as ∼5 µm in diameter. Importantly, removing the deposition component significantly reduces the variability with u* in the PSD of the emitted dust flux compared with the diffusive flux, particularly for super-coarse dust. The differences between regular and haboob event concentration and diffusive flux PSDs are suspected to result from a smaller and variable dust source fetch during the haboob events, and/or an increased resistance of soil aggregates to fragmentation associated with the observed increase in relative humidity along the haboob outflow. Finally, compared to the invariant emitted dust flux PSD estimated based on brittle fragmentation theory, we obtain a substantially higher proportion of super-micrometre particles in the dust flux. Overall, our results suggest that dry deposition needs to be adequately considered to estimate the emitted PSD, even in studies limited to the fine and coarse size ranges (<10 µm).
title: Pourcentage de données disponibles sur les courses recensées
Creators: name: Guichet, Violaine
name: Plard, Mathilde
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: dateCopyrighted: https://www.nakala.fr/page/data/11280/4a43ea4c
description: dateCopyrighted: https://www.nakala.fr/page/data/11280/d0ada45b
Effective temperature of a dissipative driven mesoscopic system
Creators: name: Arrachea, Liliana
name: Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of a mesoscopic metallic ring threaded by a time-dependent magnetic field and coupled to an electronic reservoir. We analyze the relation between the (non-stationary) real-time Keldysh and retarded Green functions and we find that, in the linear response regime with weak heat transfer to the environment, an effective temperature accounts for the modification of the equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation relation. We discuss possible extensions of this analysis.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, RevTex
Reinforcement Learning with Iterative Reasoning for Merging in Dense Traffic
Creators: name: Bouton, Maxime
name: Nakhaei, Alireza
name: Isele, David
name: Fujimura, Kikuo
name: Kochenderfer, Mykel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Maneuvering in dense traffic is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles because it requires reasoning about the stochastic behaviors of many other participants. In addition, the agent must achieve the maneuver within a limited time and distance. In this work, we propose a combination of reinforcement learning and game theory to learn merging behaviors. We design a training curriculum for a reinforcement learning agent using the concept of level-$k$ behavior. This approach exposes the agent to a broad variety of behaviors during training, which promotes learning policies that are robust to model discrepancies. We show that our approach learns more efficient policies than traditional training methods.
description: 6pages, 5 figures
Fragmentability and representations of flows
Creators: name: Megrelishvili, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54H15, 43A60

description: Our aim is to study weak star continuous representations of semigroup actions into the duals of ``good'' (e.g., reflexive and Asplund) Banach spaces. This approach leads to flow analogs of Eberlein and Radon-Nikodym compacta and a new class of functions (Asplund functions) which intimately is connected with Asplund representations and includes the class of weakly almost periodic functions. We show that a flow is weakly almost periodic iff it admits sufficiently many reflexive representations. One of the main technical tools in this paper is the concept of fragmentability (which actually comes from Namioka and Phelps) and widespreadly used in topological aspects of Banach space theory. We explore fragmentability as ``a generalized equicontinuity'' of flows. This unified approach allows us to obtain several dynamical applications. We generalize and strengthen some results of Akin-Auslander-Berg, Shtern, Veech-Troallic-Auslander and Hansel-Troallic. We establish that frequently, for linear G-actions, weak and strong topologies coincide on, not necessarily closed, G-minimal subsets. For instance such actions are ``orbitwise Kadec``.
description: 26 pages
Construction and Research of Formative Evaluation System in Fine Art Classroom Teaching in Rural Primary Schools
Creators: name: ZHU Haishan
name: WANG Ziye
name: ZHU Haishan
name: WANG Ziye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Formative evaluation, Rural primary school fine art, Evaluation system

description: With the popularization of quality education, the teaching evaluation of fine art class in rural primary schools has become an important part of the new curriculum reform, which tests whether the teaching goals are effectively achieved. This paper takes the formative evaluation system of fine art classroom teaching in rural primary schools as the research object, analyzes the research status of the formative evaluation system in rural primary schools, and expounds the theoretical basis and construction principles of the formative evaluation system. This paper constructs a formative evaluation system of fine art classroom teaching in rural primary schools from the aspects of teachers and students inside and outside the classroom, teaching process and teaching effect, in order to effectively stimulate students' interest in learning and improve their aesthetic literacy.
EKOLOGIK QONUNLARNI IJROSINI TA'MINLASHDA JAMOAT TASHKILOTLARINING ROLINI OSHIRISH MASALALARIDA GREMANIYA, FRANSIYA VA ISROIL TAJRIBASI
Creators: name: Ergashev Eldor Farhod o`g`li TDYU, Atrof-muhit va barqaror rivojlanish yo`nalishi magistri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ekologik barqarorlik bilan bog'liq xavotirlarning kuchayib borishi jarayonida jamoat tashkilotlarini ekologik qonunlarni qabul qilish va ijro etishga jalb qilishning muhimligi tobora dolzarblashib bormoqda. Ushbu tezisda jamoat tashkilotlarining atrof-muhitni boshqarishdagi rolini oshirish masalalari haqida fikr yuritiladi va ekologik qonunlarning ijrosini samarali ta’minlash va barqaror rivojlanishni ta'minlash maqsadida jamoat tashkilotlari va davlat organlari o'rtasidagi sheriklikni mustahkamlash bo'yicha ilg'or tajriba va tavsiyalarni taqdim qilinadi
Dynamical Masses of the Binary Brown Dwarf GJ 569Bab
Creators: name: Osorio, M. R. Zapatero
name: Lane, B. L.
name: Pavlenko, Ya.
name: Martin, E. L.
name: Britton, M.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained new images and high-resolution (R ~ 22400) near-infrared (1.2400-1.2575 micron) spectra of each component of the brown dwarf binary GJ 569Bab using the Adaptive Optics facility of the Keck II telescope and the NIRSPEC spectrometer. These data have allowed us to improve the determination of the astrometric orbit and to measure radial velocities of the components. We have used the astrometric and spectroscopic measurements to derive the dynamical mass of each brown dwarf and the systemic velocity of the pair by means of a chi^2 fitting technique. From various considerations, the mass of each component is likely in the range 0.034-0.070 Msol (GJ 569Bb) and 0.055-0.087 Msol (GJ 569Ba). This implies that the mass ratio, q, of the binary is greater than 0.4, being the most likely value q = 0.75-0.85. Adopting 0.072 Msol as the most conservative location of the substellar limit for solar metallicity, our analysis confirms GJ 569Bb as the first genuine brown dwarf known without any theoretical assumption. We have compared the dynamical masses of GJ 569Ba and Bb, and their effective temperatures and luminosities, to the predictions of state-of-the-art theoretical evolutionary isochrones, finding that models exhibit good performance in the regime of high substellar masses if the binary is about a few hundred million years old. However, the surface gravities of GJ 569Ba (M8.5V) and Bb (M9V) derived from our spectral analysis (the observed data have been compared to the latest synthetic spectra) appear to be smaller than the values provided by the evolutionary models.
description: 36 pages (tables and figures included). Accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 1 of A systematic review of biomarkers multivariately associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome development and mortality
Creators: name: Zee, Philip Van Der
name: Rietdijk, Wim
name: Somhorst, Peter
name: Endeman, Henrik
name: Gommers, Diederik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Literature search.
Intersection cohomology of hypertoric varieties
Creators: name: Proudfoot, Nicholas
name: Webster, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F43, 53C26, 52C35

description: A hypertoric variety is a quaternionic analogue of a toric variety. Just as the topology of toric varieties is closely related to the combinatorics of polytopes, the topology of hypertoric varieties interacts richly with the combinatorics of hyperplane arrangements and matroids. Using finite field methods, we obtain combinatorial descriptions of the Betti numbers of hypertoric varieties, both for ordinary cohomology in the smooth case and intersection cohomology in the singular case. We also introduce a conjectural ring structure on the intersection cohomology of a hypertoric variety.
description: Changed the title to agree with published version. Also corrected a mistake in Remark 2.2
Land-losing Farmers’ Citizenization in the Process of Urbanization
Creators: name: Qu, Xiao-Juan
name: Qu, Xiao-Juan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land-losing farmer
subject: Citizenization
subject: Social security
subject: Urbanization
subject: China

description: Starting from the status of citizenization of land-losing farmers, problems in the citizenization are analyzed, such as the difficulty in land-losing farmers’ economic life after turning into citizens, employment difficulties of land-losing farmers after living in the city, and the prominent problems in social security of land-losing farmers. Causations for the citizenization problems of land-losing farmers are analyzed. Firstly, institutionalized rejection is the root of the obstacle in citizenization of land-losing farmers. Secondly, exclusion from social security system is a fundamental reason. Thirdly, exclusion of land-losing farmers from both urban citizens and themselves is the subjective factor. Fourthly, exclusion of land-losing farmers from urban employment is the objective factor. Based on these, countermeasures are put forward: formulating a reasonable price of land transfer; establishing a reasonable land compensation and benefit-sharing mechanism; setting up a multi-level social security system for land-losing farmers; increasing the human capital investment in land-losing farmers to enhance their employment status; and improving the cultural quality of land-losing farmers to realize the change in lifestyle.
Practice of Mind Mapping Technology in “Re-flipped Classroom” Teaching Mode: A Case Study of the Course Principles of Residential District Planning
Creators: name: LIU Liwen
name: CHEN Xiquan
name: LI Xiaoyun
name: ZHANG Jianrong
name: LIU Liwen
name: CHEN Xiquan
name: LI Xiaoyun
name: ZHANG Jianrong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Residential district, Flipped classroom, Min map, Teaching reform

description: The present study proposed the “re-flipped classroom” teaching mode taking the course Principles of Residential District Planning as an example. Using the Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) of the iCourse platform, with the aid of the mind mapping technology, the complex content is visualized to the information that can be easily accepted by the brain, to improve the efficiency of thinking problems and apply theories to practical teaching. The results indicate that the teaching mode combined with mind mapping technology has strong appeal, can improve teacher-student interaction, and effectively improve the teaching effects. Finally, it came up with recommendations including attaching importance to the “re-flipped classroom” teaching mode, integrating teaching methods, and using online platform resources. It is concluded that the research of teaching mode has important theoretical and practical significance for ensuring the teaching quality.
Towards a solution of the Gn/Gp puzzle in the weak decay of Lambda-hypernuclei
Creators: name: Alberico, W. M.
name: Garbarino, G.
name: Parreno, A.
name: Ramos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution we discuss an evaluation of double-nucleon coincidence spectra for the non-mesonic weak decay of Lambda-hypernuclei. The results have been obtained by combining a one-meson-exchange model for the Lambda N -> nN transition in finite nuclei with a Monte Carlo code accounting for the nucleon final state interactions. A weak-decay-model independent analysis of KEK coincidence data allows us to extract Gn/Gp values around 0.3-0.4 for 5_Lambda-He and 12_Lambda-C, thus representing an important progress towards the solution of the Gn/Gp puzzle. Preliminary results for the angular asymmetries in the non-mesonic weak decay of polarized hypernuclei are also presented.
description: 4 pages, Short talk given at DAPHNE2004: Workshop on Physics at Meson Factories, 7-11 June 2004, Rome, Frascati, Italy
Free boundary regularity near the fixed boundary for the fully nonlinear obstacle problem
Creators: name: Indrei, Emanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The interior free boundary theory for linear elliptic operators in higher dimensions was developed by Caffarelli in the low regularity context. In these notes, the up-to-the boundary free boundary regularity is discussed for nonlinear elliptic operators based on a different approach.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.06618
The SAMPL6 challenge on predicting octanol–water partition coefficients from EC-RISM theory
Creators: name: Tielker, Nicolas
name: Tomazic, Daniel
name: Eberlein, Lukas
name: Güssregen, Stefan
name: Kast, Stefan M.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: SAMPL6
subject: Solvation model
subject: Quantum chemistry
subject: Integral equation theory
subject: EC-RISM
subject: log P
subject: 540
subject: Solvatation
subject: Quantenchemie
subject: Integralgleichung
subject: Octanole
subject: Wasser
subject: Verteilungskoeffizient

description: Results are reported for octanol–water partition coefficients (log P) of the neutral states of drug-like molecules provided during the SAMPL6 (Statistical Assessment of Modeling of Proteins and Ligands) blind prediction challenge from applying the “embedded cluster reference interaction site model” (EC-RISM) as a solvation model for quantum-chemical calculations. Following the strategy outlined during earlier SAMPL challenges we first train 1- and 2-parameter water-free (“dry”) and water-saturated (“wet”) models for n-octanol solvation Gibbs energies with respect to experimental values from the “Minnesota Solvation Database” (MNSOL), yielding a root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.5 kcal mol−1 for the best-performing 2-parameter wet model, while the optimal water model developed for the pKa part of the SAMPL6 challenge is kept unchanged (RMSE 1.6 kcal mol−1 for neutral compounds from a model trained on both neutral and ionic species). Applying these models to the blind prediction set yields a log P RMSE of less than 0.5 for our best model (2-parameters, wet). Further analysis of our results reveals that a single compound is responsible for most of the error, SM15, without which the RMSE drops to 0.2. Since this is the only compound in the challenge dataset with a hydroxyl group we investigate other alcohols for which Gibbs energy of solvation data for both water and n-octanol are available in the MNSOL database to demonstrate a systematic cause of error and to discuss strategies for improvement.
description: J Comput Aided Mol Des;34
title: Penetration of Nanobody-Dextran Polymer Conjugates through Tumor Spheroids
Creators: name: Bitsch, Peter
name: Baum, Eva S.
name: Beltrán Hernández, Irati
name: Bitsch, Sebastian Harald
name: Harwood, Jakob
name: Oliveira, Sabrina
name: Kolmar, Harald
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Here we report the generation of nanobody dextran polymer conjugates (dextraknobs) that are loaded with small molecules, i.e., fluorophores or photosensitizers, for potential applications in cancer diagnostics and therapy. To this end, the molecules are conjugated to the dextran polymer which is coupled to the C-terminus of an EGFR-specific nanobody using chemoenzymatic approaches. A monovalent EGFR-targeted nanobody and biparatopic version modified with different dextran average molecular weights (1000, 5000, and 10,000) were probed for their ability to penetrate tumor spheroids. For monovalent Cy5-labeled dextraknobs, the utilization of smaller sized dextran (MW 5000 vs. 10,000) was found to be beneficial for more homogeneous penetration into A431 tumor spheroids over time. For the biparatopic dual nanobody comprising MW 1000, 5000, and 10,000 dextran labeled with photosensitizer IRDye700DX, penetration behavior was comparable to that of a direct nanobody-photosensitizer conjugate lacking a dextran scaffold. Additionally, dextraknobs labeled with IRDye700DX incubated with cells in 2D and 3D showed potent cell killing upon illumination, thus inducing photodynamic therapy (PDT). In line with previous results, monovalent nanobody conjugates displayed deeper and more homogenous penetration through spheroids than the bivalent conjugates. Importantly, the smaller size dextrans did not affect the distribution of the conjugates, thus encouraging further development of dextraknobs.
Additional file 1 of Medicinal plant use practice in four ethnic communities (Gurage, Mareqo, Qebena, and Silti), south central Ethiopia
Creators: name: Alemtshay Teka
name: Zemede Asfaw
name: Sebsebe Demissew
name: Damme, Patrick Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. List of medicinal plants used to treat human ailments: scientific name; plant family; vernacular name; growth form; plant parts used; ailment treated; methods of preparation / and additives (if any); routes of administration; study sites; voucher number
Investigating how aesthetics can enhance people’s perceptual awareness of uncertainty in line graph data visualisations
Creators: name: Pinney, Joel
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330301
subject: Data visualisation and computational (incl. parametric and generative) design

description: This research aims to enhance people’s perception of uncertainty in line graph data visualisations. It will achieve this through applying aesthetics to line graph data visualisations. The author of this thesis suggests that aesthetics can promote a heightened perceptual awareness of uncertainty in line graph data visualisations and extend the more conventional uncertainty presentation techniques to offer alternative visualisation methods.The research is reflected through three studies (1) empathising with the end users both in the fields of data science and design, in which 10 (data science) and 4 (design) semi-structured interviews were conducted. (2) understanding the most influential aesthetic renderings, in which 1142 fully completed mixed-methods questionnaires were collected. (3) comparative and user tasks analysis, in which a range of aesthetic renderings (high, medium and low uncertainty) were evaluated through an art critique approach with 531 participants in the context of real-world scenarios.The findings highlight the power aesthetic renderings of uncertainty have on encouraging a lay audience’s ability to have a heightened sense of uncertainty through the visual depictions of data. Certain aesthetic depictions were shown to create a heightened awareness of uncertainty in line graphs, causing participants to respond more cautiously to a visualisation. By determining what aesthetic renderings afford different levels of uncertainty, the research opens alternative aesthetic visualisation methods for uncertainty visualisation. In an era of increased data usage, the intuitive visual representation of uncertainty is vital to creating a transparent and human-centred approach to variability in data.