cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Characterization of quantum dynamics using quantum error correction
Creators: name: Omkar, S.
name: Srikanth, R.
name: Banerjee, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterizing noisy quantum processes is important to quantum computation and communication (QCC), since quantum systems are generally open. To date, all methods of characterization of quantum dynamics (CQD), typically implemented by quantum process tomography, are \textit{off-line}, i.e., QCC and CQD are not concurrent, as they require distinct state preparations. Here we introduce a method, "quantum error correction based characterization of dynamics", in which the initial state is any element from the code space of a quantum error correcting code that can protect the state from arbitrary errors acting on the subsystem subjected to the unknown dynamics. The statistics of stabilizer measurements, with possible unitary pre-processing operations, are used to characterize the noise, while the observed syndrome can be used to correct the noisy state. Our method requires at most $2(4^n-1)$ configurations to characterize arbitrary noise acting on $n$ qubits.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures; close to the published version
Trauma on duty: cognitive functioning in police officers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Creators: name: Desrochers, Alexandra Bisson
name: Rouleau, Isabelle
name: Angehrn, Andréanne
name: Vasiliadis, Helen-Maria
name: Saumier, Daniel
name: Brunet, Alain
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Neuropsychological alterations co-occur with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); yet, the nature and magnitude of such alterations in police officers remains unknown despite their high level of trauma exposure. Objective: The current research sought to examine (1) cognitive functioning among police officers with and without PTSD; (2) the clinical significance of their cognitive performance; and (3) the relationship between PTSD symptoms and cognition. Method: Thirty-one police officers with PTSD were compared to thirty age- and sex-matched trauma-exposed officers without PTSD. Clinical assessment and self-report questionnaires established PTSD status. All participants underwent a neuropsychological evaluation. Results: Police officers with PTSD displayed lower cognitive performance across several domains, notably executive functioning, verbal learning and memory, and lexical access, compared to controls. The neuropsychological decrements in the PTSD group were mild compared to normative data, with average performances falling within normal limits. Among officers with PTSD, higher levels of intrusion symptoms were associated with reduced efficacy in executive functioning, as well as attention and working memory. Moreover, increased intrusion and avoidance symptoms were associated with slower information processing speed. Conclusion: Considering that even mild subclinical cognitive difficulties may affect their social and occupational functioning, it appears important to integrate neuropsychological assessments in the clinical management of police officers diagnosed with PTSD. We examined cognitive functioning in police officers with and without PTSD.Individuals in the PTSD group displayed lower cognitive performances relative to controls.Associations were found between symptom clusters and reduced cognitive functioning. We examined cognitive functioning in police officers with and without PTSD. Individuals in the PTSD group displayed lower cognitive performances relative to controls. Associations were found between symptom clusters and reduced cognitive functioning.
Water Simulation and Rendering from a Still Photograph
Creators: name: Sugimoto, Ryusuke
name: He, Mingming
name: Liao, Jing
name: Sander, Pedro V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an approach to simulate and render realistic water animation from a single still input photograph. We first segment the water surface, estimate rendering parameters, and compute water reflection textures with a combination of neural networks and traditional optimization techniques. Then we propose an image-based screen space local reflection model to render the water surface overlaid on the input image and generate real-time water animation. Our approach creates realistic results with no user intervention for a wide variety of natural scenes containing large bodies of water with different lighting and water surface conditions. Since our method provides a 3D representation of the water surface, it naturally enables direct editing of water parameters and also supports interactive applications like adding synthetic objects to the scene.
description: Accepted for publication at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (Conference Papers). Videos, demos and updates will be on the project website: https://rsugimoto.net/WaterAnimationProject/
Inequality for Burkholder's martingale transform
Creators: name: Ivanisvili, Paata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B20, 42B35, 47A30

description: We find the sharp constant $C=C(τ,p, \mathbb{E}G, \mathbb{E}F)$ of the following inequality $\|(G^{2}+ τ^{2} F^{2})^{1/2} \|_{p} \leq C \|F\|_{p},$ where $G$ is the transform of a martingale $F$ under a predictable sequence $\varepsilon$ with absolute value 1, $1
description: 34 pages, 13 figures
Differential effect of childhood emotional abuse on present social support in borderline disorder and depression: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Grave, Ulrike
name: Glanert, Sarah
name: Borchfeld, Kristina
name: Outzen, Janne
name: Schweiger, Ulrich
name: Faßbinder, Eva
name: Klein, Jan Philipp
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Perceived social support (PSS) is a crucial factor in physical and mental health. Previous studies found a negative association between childhood maltreatment (CM) and current PSS. Objective: In this paper, we investigate whether psychopathology moderates this association in a sample of patients with Depressive Disorder (DD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Method: Sixty-nine patients with DD and 110 patients with BPD were recruited to inpatient/day clinic treatment programmes for either DD or BPD. All participants completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and the Social Support Questionnaire (F-SozU). Our hypothesis was tested with a moderator analysis in a multiple linear regression model. Results: We found a significant interaction between diagnosis and CM for the CTQ total score and the emotional abuse subscale. Post hoc analyses revealed a significant negative correlation between CM and PSS only for patients suffering from BPD and not for patients with DD. Conclusion: Our results suggest that the negative association between CM and PSS might be more pronounced in certain patient groups, particularly patients with BPD. The negative association between childhood maltreatment and perceived social support is more pronounced in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder than in patients with Depressive Disorder. The negative association between childhood maltreatment and perceived social support is more pronounced in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder than in patients with Depressive Disorder.
Additional file 1 of Can counter-advertising diminish persuasive effects of conventional and pseudo-healthy unhealthy food product advertising on parents?: an experimental study
Creators: name: Dixon, Helen
name: Maree Scully
name: Gascoyne, Claudia
name: Wakefield, Melanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Counter-advertisement voice-over script and still image. This file contains the voice-over script of the Our Kids Are Sweet Enough video produced by the Obesity Policy Coalition in Australia.
Minimizing File Transfer Time in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Model
Creators: name: Hu, Jie
name: Doshi, Vishwaraj
name: Eun, Do Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the file transfer problem in opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) model, which has been widely studied in throughput-oriented applications for max-throughput strategies and in delay-related works that commonly assume identical channel rates and fixed file sizes. Our work explicitly considers minimizing the file transfer time for a given file in a set of heterogeneous-rate Bernoulli channels, showing that max-throughput policy doesn't minimize file transfer time in general. We formulate a mathematical framework for static extend to dynamic policies by mapping our file transfer problem to a stochastic shortest path problem. We analyze the performance of our proposed static and dynamic optimal policies over the max-throughput policy. We propose a mixed-integer programming formulation as an efficient alternative way to obtain the dynamic optimal policy and show a huge reduction in computation time. Then, we propose a heuristic policy that takes into account the performance-complexity tradeoff and consider the online implementation with unknown channel parameters. Furthermore, we present numerical simulations to support our analytical results and discuss the effect of switching delay on different policies. Finally, we extend the file transfer problem to Markovian channels and demonstrate the impact of the correlation of each channel.
description: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2109.11624
Cross Section to Multiplicity Ratios at Very High Energy
Creators: name: Block, M. M.
name: Stodolsky, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent data from the LHC makes it possible to examine an old speculation that at very high energy the total multiplicity and the cross section in elementary particle interactions vary in parallel with energy. Using fits incorporating the new data, it appears that the ratios of the total, elastic, and inelastic cross sections to the average multiplicity N can in fact approach constants at very high energy. The approach to the limit is however quite slow for the total and inelastic cross sections and is not yet reached at LHC energies. The elastic ratio sigma^{el}/N at 7 TeV, however, is not far from its asymptotic value.
description: Eight pages, three figures. Two references added, minor editorial changes. No change in content, Immediately above Eq 6, erroneous word `charged' changed to `total'
Pole structure from energy-dependent and single-energy fits to $πN$ elastic scattering data
Creators: name: Švarc, Alfred
name: Hadžimehmedović, Mirza
name: Osmanović, Hedim
name: Stahov, Jugoslav
name: Workman, Ron L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pole structure of the current GW/SAID partial-wave analysis of elastic $πN$ scattering and $ηN$ production data is studied. Pole positions and residues are extracted from both the energy-dependent and single-energy fits, using two different methods. For the energy-dependent fits, both contour integration and a Laurent+Pietarinen approach are used. In the case of single-energy fits, the Laurent+Pietarinen approach is used. Errors are estimated and the two sets of results are compared to other recent and older fits to data.
description: 12 pages,5 tables,2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1401.1947, arXiv:1404.1544
Additional file 1 of Metabolism, morphology and transcriptome analysis of oscillatory behavior of Clostridium butyricum during long-term continuous fermentation for 1,3-propanediol production
Creators: name: Zhou, Jin-Jie
name: Shen, Jun-Tao
name: Wang, Xiao-Li
name: Sun, Ya-Qin
name: Xiu, Zhi-Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Fig. S1. Productions of biomass and organic acids of C. butyricum S3 in continuous fermentation at a glycerol feed concentration of 88 g/L and a stepwise decreasing dilution rate from 0.144 h-1 to 0.048 h-1. Fig. S2. Productions of biomass and organic acids of C. butyricum S3 in continuous fermentation at a glycerol feed concentration of 88 g/L and a dilution rate of 0.096 h-1. Fig. S3. Productions of biomass and organic acids of C. butyricum S3 in continuous fermentation at a glycerol feed concentration of 44 g/L and a dilution rate of 0.048 h-1. Fig. S4. Productions of biomass and organic acids of C. butyricum S3 in continuous fermentation at a glycerol feed concentration of 44 g/l and a dilution rate of 0.096 h-1. Fig. S5. Intracellular and extracellular redox status for C. butyricum S3 in continuous fermentation at a glycerol feed concentration of 88 g/L and a dilution rate of 0.048 h-1. (a) Intracellular concentrations of NAD+ and NADH; (b) the ratio of NAD+/NADH; (c) extracellular oxidation-reduction potential (ORP).
New Limits on Light Hidden Sectors from Fixed-Target Experiments
Creators: name: Morrissey, David E.
name: Spray, Andrew Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New physics can be light if it is hidden, coupling very weakly to the Standard Model. In this work we investigate the discovery prospects of Abelian hidden sectors in lower-energy fixed-target and high-precision experiments. We focus on a minimal supersymmetric realization consisting of an Abelian vector multiplet, coupled to hypercharge by kinetic mixing, and a pair of chiral Higgs multiplets. This simple theory can give rise to a broad range of experimental signals, including both commonly-studied patterns of hidden vector decay as well as new and distinctive hidden sector cascades. We find limits from the production of hidden states other than the vector itself. In particular, we show that if the hidden Abelian symmetry is higgsed, and the corresponding hidden Higgs boson has visible decays, it severely restricts the ability of the hidden sector to explain the anomalous muon magnetic moment.
description: 44 pages + appendices/references, 28 figures. Figures in secs 5 and 7 updated to correct error in hadronic exclusions; limits slightly weaker, but qualitative conclusions unchanged
Additional file 1 of Acceptability of point-of-care viral load testing to facilitate differentiated care: a qualitative assessment of people living with HIV and nurses in South Africa
Creators: name: Lindani Msimango
name: Gibbs, Andrew
name: Hlengiwe Shozi
name: Ngobese, Hope
name: Humphries, Hilton
name: Drain, Paul K.
name: Garrett, Nigel
name: Dorward, Jienchi
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1:. Topic guides for interviews and focus groups
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Connelly, Graham
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2018

description: Welcome to the April 2018 (Vol 17, No 1) issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care (SJRCC). As I write, news outlets worldwide, and especially in the USA, have been marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the cleric and civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis on 4 April 1968. The anniversary inevitably provided an opportunity to reassess King’s legacy and progress in the USA since his death in respect of the ambitions for the human rights and social justice he articulated.
A Self-Distillation Embedded Supervised Affinity Attention Model for Few-Shot Segmentation
Creators: name: Zhao, Qi
name: Liu, Binghao
name: Lyu, Shuchang
name: Chen, Huojin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Few-shot segmentation focuses on the generalization of models to segment unseen object with limited annotated samples. However, existing approaches still face two main challenges. First, huge feature distinction between support and query images causes knowledge transferring barrier, which harms the segmentation performance. Second, limited support prototypes cannot adequately represent features of support objects, hard to guide high-quality query segmentation. To deal with the above two issues, we propose self-distillation embedded supervised affinity attention model to improve the performance of few-shot segmentation task. Specifically, the self-distillation guided prototype module uses self-distillation to align the features of support and query. The supervised affinity attention module generates high-quality query attention map to provide sufficient object information. Extensive experiments prove that our model significantly improves the performance compared to existing methods. Comprehensive ablation experiments and visualization studies also show the significant effect of our method on few-shot segmentation task. On COCO-20i dataset, we achieve new state-of-the-art results. Training code and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/cv516Buaa/SD-AANet.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Bistability effect in the extreme strong coupling regime of the Jaynes-Cummings model
Creators: name: Dombi, András
name: Vukics, András
name: Domokos, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nonlinear response of a driven cavity QED system in the extreme strong coupling regime where the saturation photon number is below one by many orders of magnitude. In this regime, multi-photon resonances within the Jaynes--Cummings spectrum up to high order can be resolved. We identify an intensity and frequency range of the external coherent drive for which the system exhibits bistability instead of resonant multi-photon transitions. The cavity field evolves into a mixture of the vacuum and another quasi-classical state well separated in phase space. The corresponding time evolution of the outgoing intensity is a telegraph signal alternating between two attractors.
title: Assisting youth leaving care : understanding Udayan care's aftercare programme through the prism of ecological systems theory
Creators: name: Modi, Kiran
name: Prasad, Archana
name: Mishra, Joyti
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2018

description: Udayan Care's aftercare programme for youth is designed to support the transition of young adults leaving the umbrella of the Udayan Care Ghars (Sunshine Homes) to independent and self-reliant living. The objective of this research is to understand the aftercare programme by applying the ecological systems theory of human development formulated by Bronfenbrenner (1979). The study focuses on eight analytical domains that are important for transition of youth namely education and employment, financial management, mental and physical health, legal rights and responsibilities, housing, goals and aspirations, safety and emergency skills, and resilience. It covered 60 youth who are either presently covered under aftercare programme or are Udayan Care alumni who have already availed the organisation’s aftercare support. The life experiences of youth have been presented through five ecological systems namely microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem. The analysis highlights the contributions of multiple stakeholders to the efficacy of the ecological systems. While the success of aftercare programme of Udayan Care is evident in many domains, there are challenges that still exist in regard to building resilience.
Dissipative corrections to particle spectra and anisotropic flow from a saddle-point approximation to kinetic freeze out
Creators: name: Lang, Christian
name: Borghini, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A significant fraction of the changes in momentum distributions induced by dissipative phenomena in the description of the fluid fireball created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions actually take place when the fluid turns into individual particles. We study these corrections in the limit of a low freeze-out temperature of the flowing medium, and we show that they mostly affect particles with a higher velocity than the fluid. For these, we derive relations between different flow harmonics, from which the functional form of the dissipative corrections could ultimately be reconstructed from experimental data.
description: v2 (accepted for publication): 11 pages, 3 figures
Barockpoetik als Wikibase: Eine Datenbank zu konfessionsgeschichtlichen Aspekten in deutschen Barockpoetiken
Creators: name: Haider, Thomas Nikolaus
name: Schennach, Stephanie
name: Thelen, Julius
name: Wesche, Jörg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Wikibase
Poetik
Barock
Konfession
Religion
Linked Open Data
Modellierung
Organisation
Literatur
Metadaten
Text
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description: Eine Posterpräsentation auf der 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture
Associations of adverse and positive childhood experiences with adult physical and mental health and risk behaviours in Slovenia
Creators: name: Kuhar, Metka
name: Kocjan, Gaja Zager
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Many studies demonstrated the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and diminished health functioning in adulthood. A growing literature has shown that positive childhood experiences (PCEs) co-occurring with ACEs reduce the risks for negative outcomes. Objective: The aim was to investigate how ACEs and PCEs are simultaneously associated with health outcomes in adulthood, including self-rated health, physical and mental health outcomes, and health-risk behaviours. Methods: A panel sample of 4,847 Slovenian adults was used and the data were weighted to closely resemble the Slovenian population. A series of logistic regression analyses were performed to examine how ACEs and PCEs predict the risk of various health outcomes. Results: Significant associations, as measured by adjusted odds ratios, were found between higher ACEs exposure and each of the 16 health outcomes evaluated. Adjusting for above median PCEs attenuated the association between ACEs and 6 health outcomes (poor self-rated physical and mental health, depression, anxiety, suicide attempt, physical inactivity; OR for ≥ 4 vs. 0 ACEs, 1.48–9.34). Mirroring these findings, above median PCEs were associated with lowered odds of these 6 health outcomes after adjusting for ACEs (OR for above vs. below median PCEs, 0.46–0.67), but not with odds of physical health outcomes and most of the health-risk behaviours. Stratified analyses by ACEs exposure level showed that the association between PCEs and self-rated health remained stable across ACEs exposure levels, while the association between PCEs and mental health outcomes and physical inactivity varied across ACEs exposure levels. Conclusions: Our results suggest that above median PCEs attenuate the association between ACEs and poor self-rated health, mental health problems, and physical inactivity in later life, and are negatively associated with these health problems even in the concurrent presence of ACEs. Interventions to promote PCEs can help to reduce unfavourable long-term health outcomes following childhood adversity. ACEs were associated with various health problems evaluated in this study.After controlling for ACEs, PCEs were associated with self-rated physical and mental health, depression, anxiety, suicidal attempt, and physical inactivity.Interventions that address PCEs should be promoted. ACEs were associated with various health problems evaluated in this study. After controlling for ACEs, PCEs were associated with self-rated physical and mental health, depression, anxiety, suicidal attempt, and physical inactivity. Interventions that address PCEs should be promoted.
Maximum Entropy, Word-Frequency, Chinese Characters, and Multiple Meanings
Creators: name: Yan, Xiao-Yong
name: Minnhagen, Petter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The word-frequency distribution of a text written by an author is well accounted for by a maximum entropy distribution, the RGF (random group formation)-prediction. The RGF-distribution is completely determined by the a priori values of the total number of words in the text (M), the number of distinct words (N) and the number of repetitions of the most common word (k_max). It is here shown that this maximum entropy prediction also describes a text written in Chinese characters. In particular it is shown that although the same Chinese text written in words and Chinese characters have quite differently shaped distributions, they are nevertheless both well predicted by their respective three a priori characteristic values. It is pointed out that this is analogous to the change in the shape of the distribution when translating a given text to another language. Another consequence of the RGF-prediction is that taking a part of a long text will change the input parameters (M, N, k_max) and consequently also the shape of the frequency distribution. This is explicitly confirmed for texts written in Chinese characters. Since the RGF-prediction has no system-specific information beyond the three a priori values (M, N, k_max), any specific language characteristic has to be sought in systematic deviations from the RGF-prediction and the measured frequencies. One such systematic deviation is identified and, through a statistical information theoretical argument and an extended RGF-model, it is proposed that this deviation is caused by multiple meanings of Chinese characters. The effect is stronger for Chinese characters than for Chinese words. The relation between Zipf's law, the Simon-model for texts and the present results are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
title: Toronto's first street kids and the origins of child welfare systems in Canada part 2 : later years
Creators: name: Dunlop, Ted
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2018

description: This study focuses on the evolution of a philanthropic movement in the second half of 19th Century Canada that gave particular attention to a population of children and youth in Toronto known as newsboys and newsgirls. The plight of these children, who were largely living on the streets although in many instances still connected in varying degrees to their families, attracted growing attention in Toronto as the city emerged as a major commercial and industrial hub in Canada in the closing decades of the century. Mounting public concern about these wayward young people was fueled by alarmist (though sometimes sympathetic) newspaper accounts of an expanding population of children and youth who were plying their trade from a very young age on the streets selling newspapers, shoelaces, pencils and later working as what were called bootblacks. In establishment circles, these children and youth came to be viewed as a threat to public order whose rough apprenticeship on the streets, so it was speculated, left them vulnerable to a life of crime and prostitution later in life. However, in time, the attention that this population garnered did help usher in a new era that began giving recognition to some fundamental rights of all children. From this, we witness the begrudging acceptance in those early days of a more activist role that government might play in the development of policies that allowed for greater state intervention in protecting vulnerable and marginalised children and youth. Part 1 of this article was published in the previous issue in December 2017.
The Persistence of Pesticides in Impounded Waters
Creators: name: Lauderdale, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of Kentucky
Year: 1969

description: Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the persistance of the insecticides aldrin, dieldrin, chlordane, and DDT in water. A small drainage area was sprayed with these compounds, and the insecticides were collected in the runoff water from the area. Laboratory experiments were performed to determine the effectiveness of aeration, adsorption on silt, and adsorption on algae in removing the pesticides from water.
All of the pesticides were found in samples of water collected from the area for the full period of the tests. The amounts which were found in a small pond into which the surface water drained was consistently less than that found in the surface runoff water itself. The reduced concentrations in the pond water were apparently the result of a combination of sedimentation, adsorption on algae or silt, or volatilization of the insecticide from the water into the atmosphere. In general, the efficiency of removal of insecticide from water by any one of these processes appears to be low. However, because of the large ratio of absorbant to insecticide, the overall removal is substantial.
Funding information: The work on which this report is based was supported in part by funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.
Predictors and moderators of treatment outcome for single incident paediatric PTSD: a multi-centre randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: de Roos, Carlijn
name: Zijlstra, Bonne
name: Perrin, Sean
name: van der Oord, Saskia
name: Lucassen, Sacha
name: Emmelkamp, Paul
name: de Jongh, Ad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: With few RCTs having compared active treatments for paediatric PTSD, little is known about whether or which baseline (i.e. pre-randomization) variables predict or moderate outcomes in the evaluated treatments. Objective: To identify predictors and moderators of paediatric PTSD outcomes for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioural Writing Therapy (CBWT). Method: Data were obtained as part of a multi-centre, randomized controlled trial of up to six sessions (up to 45 minutes each) of either EMDR therapy, CBWT, or wait-list, involving 101 youth (aged 8–18 years) with a PTSD diagnosis (full/subthreshold) tied to a single event. The predictive and moderating effects of the child’s baseline sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and parent’s psychopathology were evaluated using linear mixed models (LMM) from pre- to post-treatment and from pre- to 3- and 12-month follow-ups. Results: At post-treatment and 3-month follow-up, youth with an index trauma of sexual abuse, severe symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, depression, more comorbid disorders, negative posttraumatic beliefs, and with a parent with more severe psychopathology fared worse in both treatments. For children with more severe self-reported PTSD symptoms at baseline, the (exploratory) moderator analysis showed that the EMDR group improved more than the CBWT group, with the opposite being true for children and parents with a less severe clinical profile. Conclusions: The most consistent finding from the predictor analyses was that parental symptomatology predicted poorer outcomes, suggesting that parents should be assessed, supported and referred for their own treatment where indicated. The effect of the significant moderator variables was time-limited, and given the large response rate (>90%) and brevity (<4 hours) of both treatments, the present findings suggest a focus on implementation and dissemination, rather than tailoring, of evidence-based trauma-focused treatments for paediatric PTSD tied to a single event. Given the time-limited significance of differential treatment effects on outcome, brevity and large effect size for EMDR and cognitive-behavioural writing therapy for paediatric PTSD, future focus should be on enhancing delivery of these treatments, rather than tailoring them. Given the time-limited significance of differential treatment effects on outcome, brevity and large effect size for EMDR and cognitive-behavioural writing therapy for paediatric PTSD, future focus should be on enhancing delivery of these treatments, rather than tailoring them.
Energy scaling and branched microstructures in a model for shape-memory alloys with SO(2) invariance
Creators: name: Chan, Allan
name: Conti, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Domain branching near the boundary appears in many singularly-perturbed models for microstructure in materials and was first demonstrated mathematically by Kohn and Müller for a scalar problem modeling the elastic behavior of shape-memory alloys. We study here a model for shape-memory alloys based on the full vectorial problem of nonlinear elasticity, including invariance under rotations, in the case of two wells in two dimensions. We show that, for two wells with two rank-one connections, the energy scales proportional to the power $2/3$ of the surface energy, in agreement with the scalar model. In a case where only one rank-one connection is present, we show that the energy exhibits a different behavior, proportional to the power $4/5$ of the surface energy. This lower energy is achieved by a suitable interaction of the two components of the deformations and hence cannot be reproduced by the scalar model. Both scalings are proven by explicit constructions and matching lower bounds.
Fabrikation von Erkenntnis: Experimente in den Digital Humanities
Creators: name: Dieckmann, Lisa
name: Steyer, Timo
name: Walkowski, Niels-Oliver
name: Weis, Joëlle
name: Wuttke, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Publikation
Experimente
Kooperation
Kommunikation
Community-Bildung
Veröffentlichung
Kollaboration
Kommentierung
Projektmanagement
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description: Eine Posterpräsentation auf der 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture
Additional file 1 of Relative validity of a brief dietary survey to assess food intake and adherence to national dietary guidelines among Sri Lankan adults
Creators: name: Renzella, J.
name: S. Fernando
name: B. Kalupahana
name: N. Townsend
name: M. Rayner
name: K. Wickramasinghe
name: P. Katulanda
name: P. Scarborough
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Sri Lankan Brief Dietary Survey. Table S2. Cohen’s kappa for agreement between achievement of the Sri Lankan Food Based Dietary Guideline recommendations calculated from the SLBDS and 24DR, by participant sex. Table S3. Cohen’s kappa for agreement between number of participants reporting consumption > 0 in both the SLBDS and 24DR, by participant sex. Table S4. Cohen’s kappa for agreement between number of participants reporting consumption of fast food and salt intake in both the SLBDS and 24DR, by participant sex. Table S5. Cohen’s kappa for agreement between number of participants reporting cooking oil and coconut consumption data in both the SLBDS and 24DR. Table S6. Cohen’s kappa for agreement between number of participants reporting cooking oil and coconut consumption data in both the SLBDS and 24DR, by participant sex. Table S7. Number of participants that reported zero consumption on the SLBDS and 24DR.
Power-Colours: Simple X-ray Binary Variability Comparison
Creators: name: Heil, L. M.
name: Uttley, P.
name: Klein-Wolt, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a new method of variability classification using observations of black hole X-ray binaries. Using `power colours' -- ratios of integrated power in different Fourier frequency bands -- we can clearly differentiate different canonical black hole states as the objects evolve during outburst. We analyse (~ 2400) Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of 12 transient low mass black hole X-ray binaries and find that the path taken around the power colour-colour diagram as the sources evolve is highly consistent from object to object. We discuss how the consistency observed in the power colour-colour diagram between different objects allows for easy state classification based on only a few observations, and show how the power-spectral shapes can be simply classified using a single parameter, the power-spectral `hue'. To illustrate the benefits of our simple model-independent approach, we show that the persistent high mass X-ray binary Cyg X-1 shows very similar power-spectral evolution to the transient black hole sources, with the main difference being caused by a combination of a lack of quasi-periodic oscillations and an excess of low-frequency power-law noise in the Cyg X-1 power spectra during the transitional state. We also compare the transient objects to the neutron star atoll source Aquila X-1, demonstrating that it traces a different path in the power colour-colour plot. Thus, power-colours could be an effective method to classify newly discovered X-ray binaries.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and two b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production cross section for a W boson and two b jets is measured using proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in a data sample collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 inverse femtobarns. The W + b b-bar events are selected in the W to mu nu decay mode by requiring a muon with transverse momentum pt > 25 GeV and pseudorapidity abs(eta) < 2.1, and exactly two b-tagged jets with pt > 25 GeV and abs(eta) < 2.4. The measured W + b b-bar production cross section in the fiducial region, calculated at the level of final-state particles, is sigma(pp to W + b b-bar) x B(W to mu nu) = 0.53 +/- 0.05 (stat.) +/- 0.09 (syst.) +/- 0.06 (theo.) +/- 0.01 (lum.) pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction. In addition, kinematic distributions of the W + b b-bar system are in agreement with the predictions of a simulation using MADGRAPH and PYTHIA.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
Additional file 2 of Relative validity of a brief dietary survey to assess food intake and adherence to national dietary guidelines among Sri Lankan adults
Creators: name: Renzella, J.
name: S. Fernando
name: B. Kalupahana
name: N. Townsend
name: M. Rayner
name: K. Wickramasinghe
name: P. Katulanda
name: P. Scarborough
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative studies (COREQ): 32-item checklist.
Asynchronous Transmission over Single-User State-Dependent Channels
Creators: name: Yemini, Michal
name: Somekh-Baruch, Anelia
name: Leshem, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Several channels with asynchronous side information are introduced. We first consider single-user state-dependent channels with asynchronous side information at the transmitter. It is assumed that the state information sequence is a possibly delayed version of the state sequence, and that the encoder and the decoder are aware of the fact that the state information might be delayed. It is additionally assumed that an upper bound on the delay is known to both encoder and decoder, but other than that, they are ignorant of the actual delay. We consider both the causal and the noncausal cases and present achievable rates for these channels, and the corresponding coding schemes. We find the capacity of the asynchronous Gel'fand-Pinsker channel with feedback. Finally, we consider a memoryless state dependent channel with asynchronous side information at both the transmitter and receiver, and establish a single-letter expression for its capacity.
description: The paper "On channels with asynchronous side information" was split into two separate papers: the enclosed paper which considers only point-to-point channels and an additional paper named "On the multiple access channel with asynchronous cognition" which discusses the multiuser setups
Additional file 3 of Retrospective single center cohort study: effect of intensive home hemodialysis on right ventricular systolic pressure and clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Girsberger, Michael
name: Chan, Christopher T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Cox proportional hazards analysis of the risk of the composite end point of death, technique failure and CV-related hospitalization using cut off of ≥40% for elevated RVSP.
Enhancing the ttH signal through top-quark spin polarization effects at the LHC
Creators: name: Biswas, Sanjoy
name: Frederix, Rikkert
name: Gabrielli, Emidio
name: Mele, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the impact of top-quark spin polarization effects in Higgs boson production in association with top-quark pairs and in corresponding backgrounds at the LHC. Because of the spin-zero nature of the Higgs boson, one expects, in the chiral limit for the top quarks, a substantial complementarity in $t\bar t$ spin correlations for a Higgs decaying into fermions/gauge-bosons and $t\bar{t}$ spin correlations for the corresponding irreducible $t\bar t f\bar f/VV$ backgrounds. Although top mass effects in $t\bar t H$ production are in general dominant, and seriously spoil the chiral-limit expectations, one can find observables that capture the $t \bar t$ angular spin correlations and can help in separating the signal from irreducible backgrounds. In particular, we show that, for both $H\to b\bar b$ and $H\to γγ$, taking into account $t\bar{t}$ spin correlations in $t\bar t H$ production and irreducible backgrounds could appreciably improve the LHC sensitivity to the $t\bar t H$ channel.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures; implementation of cuts corrected in figures 7-9
Additional file 1 of Retrospective single center cohort study: effect of intensive home hemodialysis on right ventricular systolic pressure and clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Girsberger, Michael
name: Chan, Christopher T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of patients with elevated RVSP defined as a cut-off of ≥40 mmHg and normal RVSP at follow-up.
Economic Analysis of Alternative Flood Control Measures
Creators: name: James, L. Douglas
name: Rachford, Thomas M.
name: Villines, James Ray
name: Dempsey, Clyde R.
name: Cline, James Norris
name: Miller, Carlos Fix
Publisher: name: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University of Kentucky
Year: 1968

description: Abstract:
Within the last few years, the growing realization that an effective flood control program must include non-structural measures (land use management and flood proofing) has resulted in Presidential Executive Order 11296 requiring Federal agencies to seek the optimum combination of structural and non-structural measures for flood control. The requirement has created a dilemma. No methodology is available for systematic evaluation of alternative combinations of structural and non-structural measures. Prospective procedures are too time consuming to be feasible under current financial and manpower limitations.
The only way out is to perform much of the planning process by digital computer. With this goal, two flood control planning programs have been developed. Each program systematically selects the optimum combination of channel improvement, flood proofing, and land use management by location within the flood plain and by time. The second program adds detention storage to the list of available alternatives. Both programs contain the entire planning process by going all the way from raw data to a selected optimum program of measure use in one run. However, the programs are not intended to produce a finished design. Their use should be followed by a final field check to verify the input data and preparation of the plans and specifications necessary for implementation.
The programs have been applied to a series of flood hazard areas in California and Kentucky and indicated an optimum flood control program in a small fraction of the time spent in current planning methods. They free the planning engineer from spending most of his time in routine calculations and allow more time for consideration of qualitative and intangible factors.
Funding information: This research report serves as a technical completion report for a project by the same name sponsored by the University of Kentucky Water Resources Institute and financially supported for the most part by funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964. Some financial help was also provided by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation.