cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Movement Effects on Policy Adoption and Socio-Economic Outcomes: The Case of Affordable Housing Mobilization in the United States
Creators: name: Al-Turk, Akram
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Do social movement organizations (SMOs) have varying effects on policy adoption and on policy impact? I address this question by testing whether affordable housing SMOs in U.S. cities have an effect on two outcomes: the adoption of either a housing trust fund or inclusionary zoning ordinance (policy adoption), and the number of affordable housing units built with federal tax credits (policy impact). I find that SMOs have a more direct effect on policy adoption than they do on impact, but that SMOs have a moderating effect on the latter. Specifically, they dampen the negative effects of poverty on the number of affordable housing units built, they bolster the effects of administrative spending on units built, and they lessen the effects of an affordable housing policy on units built. The latter finding indicates that outcomes (e.g., policy adoption) that SMOs attained in earlier stages of the policy process may in fact dampen their effects in latter stages. This finding suggests that research on SMO outcomes that examines multiple policy stages can provide insights into why SMOs affect those outcomes differently. The paper’s findings also show that structural conditions such as poverty were the strongest predictors of both policy adoption and impact, suggesting that future research should consider how such structural conditions moderate or are moderated by SMOs.
Formulations and Formalisms in Software Architecture
Creators: name: Shaw, Mary
name: Garlan, David
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software architecture is the level of software design that addresses the overall structure and properties of software systems. It provides a focus for certain aspects of design and development that are not appropriately addressed within the constituent modules. Architectural design depends heavily on accurate specifications of subsystems and their interactions. These specifications must cover a wide variety of properties, so the specification notations and associated methods must be selected or developed to match the properties of interest. Unfortunately, the available formal methods are only a partial match for architectural needs, which entail description of structure, packaging, environmental assumptions, representation, and performance as well as functionality. A prerequisite for devising or selecting a formal method is sound understanding of what needs to be formalized. For software architecture, much of this understanding is arising through progressive codification, which begins with real-world examples and creates progressively more precise models that eventually support formalization. This paper explores the progressive codification of software architecture: the relation between emerging models and the selection, development, and use of formal systems.
Additional file 1 of The compact genome of the sponge Oopsacas minuta (Hexactinellida) is lacking key metazoan core genes
Creators: name: Santini, Sébastien
name: Schenkelaars, Quentin
name: Jourda, Cyril
name: Duchesne, Marc
name: Belahbib, Hassiba
name: Rocher, Caroline
name: Selva, Marjorie
name: Riesgo, Ana
name: Vervoort, Michel
name: Leys, Sally P.
name: Kodjabachian, Laurent
name: Le Bivic, André
name: Borchiellini, Carole
name: Claverie, Jean-Michel
name: Renard, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 1: Characterization of the microbiome of Oopsacas minuta. Table S1. Main features and taxonomic assignment of Oopsacas minuta’s metagenome assembly. Table S2. Taxonomic assignment of non-Eukaryotic and non-Archaeal Taxa. Figure S1. Phylogenetic positions of the main microbial species associated with O. minuta. Table S3. Genome features of Candidatus Cenarchaeum massiliensis compared to other Thaumarchaea. Table S4. Annotation of the predicted protein-coding genes of Ca. C. massilliensis. Figure S2. Characterization of the genome of Ca. C. massiliensis. Figure S3. The cobalamin synthesis genes in Thaumarchaeota. Figure S4. Localization of Ca. C. massiliensis in the tissues of O. minuta by Card-FISH.
Collaborative SQL-injections detection system with machine learning
Creators: name: Lodeiro-Santiago, M
name: Caballero-Gil, C
name: Caballero-Gil, P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data mining and information extraction from data is a field that has gained relevance in recent years thanks to techniques based on artificial intelligence and use of machine and deep learning. The main aim of the present work is the development of a tool based on a previous behaviour study of security audit tools (oriented to SQL pentesting) with the purpose of creating testing sets capable of performing an accurate detection of a SQL attack. The study is based on the information collected through the generated web server logs in a pentesting laboratory environment. Then, making use of the common extracted patterns from the logs, each attack vector has been classified in risk levels (dangerous attack, normal attack, non-attack, etc.). Finally, a training with the generated data was performed in order to obtain a classifier system that has a variable performance between 97 and 99 percent in positive attack detection. The training data is shared to other servers in order to create a distributed network capable of deciding if a query is an attack or is a real petition and inform to connected clients in order to block the petitions from the attacker's IP.
Estructura de mercado, márgenes de intermediación y evolución del sector financiero colombiano. Market structure, intermediation margins and evolution of the Colombian financial sector
Creators: name: Pájaro Gallego, Juan Camilo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Economics

description: Desde la década de 1970, el sector financiero colombiano sirvió como puente entre el gobierno y sectores económicos considerados prioritarios. Este papel implicó un cambio en la estructura de mercado del sector financiero y generó una serie de efectos en los márgenes de intermediación. En este sentido, el presente trabajo analiza el proceso de determinación de los márgenes de intermediación mediante el estudio de la estructura del mercado. Para ello, se hace un análisis descriptivo de la evolución del sector financiero en el periodo 1970-2000 y un análisis exploratorio de las condiciones actuales del sector bancario por medio del cálculo del índice Herfindahl-Hirschman para concentración y del índice de Lerner para poder de mercado. La investigación arrojó como resultado que el actual sector bancario experimenta niveles considerados de concentración y poder de mercado, mientras se presenta una tendencia creciente en los márgenes de intermediación financiera en los últimos cinco años.
 Since the 1970s, the Colombian financial sector has served as a bridge between the government and economic sectors considered priorities. This role implied a change in the market structure of the financial sector and generated a series of effects on intermediation margins. This article analyzes the process of determining intermediation margins by studying the market structure. For this, a descriptive analysis of the financial sector's evolution in the period 1970-2000 and an exploratory analysis of the banking sector's current conditions are made by calculating the Herfindahl-Hirschman index for concentration and the Lerner index for the power of the market. The investigation showed that the recent banking sector experiences considered levels of concentration and market power. At the same time, there has been a growing trend in financial intermediation margins in the last five years.
International Responses to Climate-Induced Migration
Creators: name: Crooks, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Climate change mitigation
subject: Forced migration
subject: Human rights

description: Gabby Crooks’ capstone project aims to interrogate how the issue of climate migration has been approached at the international level and how treaty bodies like the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Human Rights Committee have litigated this issue. She notes that while climate-induced migration has become increasingly relevant to the discourse surrounding the global climate crisis and migration worldwide, still, climate refugees are not a protected class according to international law, particularly in looking at the Refugee Convention. This project further analyzes case studies on climate-induced migration, in addition to looking to the future to see where climate-induced migration can be protected, especially as the climate crisis accelerates at a concerning pace, impacting millions of marginalized individuals globally.
Low-energy V t2g orbital excitations in NdVO3
Creators: name: Laverock, J.
name: Chen, B.
name: Preston, A. R. H.
name: Newby, D.
name: Piper, L. F. J.
name: Tung, L. D.
name: Balakrishnan, G.
name: Glans, P. -A.
name: Guo, J. -H.
name: Smith, K. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of NdVO3, YVO3 has been investigated as a function of sample temperature using resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering at the V L3-edge. Most of the observed spectral features are in good agreement with an atomic crystal-field multiplet model. However, a low energy feature is observed at ~0.4 eV that cannot be explained by crystal-field arguments. The resonant behaviour of this feature establishes it as due to excitations of the V t2g states. Moreover, this feature exhibits a strong sample temperature dependence, reaching maximum intensity in the orbitally-ordered phase of NdVO3, before becoming suppressed at low temperatures. This behaviour indicates that the origin of this feature is a collective orbital excitation, i.e. the bi-orbiton.
Heartbeat: Measuring active user base and potential user interest in FLOSS projects
Creators: name: Wiggins, Andrea
name: Howison, James
name: Crowston, Kevin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel method and algorithm to measure the size of an open source project’s user base and the level of potential user interest that it generates. Previously unavailable download data at a daily resolution confirms hypothesized patterns related to release cycles. In short, regular users rapidly download the software after a new release giving a way to measure the active user base. In contrast, potential new users download the application independently of the release cycle, and the daily download figures tend to plateau at this rate when a release has not been made for some time. An algorithm for estimating these measures from download time series is demonstrated and the measures are examined over time in two open source projects.
Cryptanalysis of a privacy-preserving behavior-oriented authentication scheme
Creators: name: Eskeland, Sigurd
name: Baig, Ahmed Fraz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Continuous authentication has been proposed as a complementary security mechanism to password-based authentication for computer devices that are handled directly by humans, such as smart phones. Continuous authentication has some privacy issues as certain user features and actions are revealed to the authentication server, which is not assumed to be trusted. Wei et al. proposed in 2021 a privacy-preserving protocol for behavioral authentication that utilizes homomorphic encryption. The encryption prevents the server from obtaining sampled user features. In this paper, we show that the Wei et al. scheme is insecure regarding both an honest-but-curious server and an active eavesdropper. We present two attacks: The first attack enables the authentication server to obtain the secret user key, plaintext behavior template and plaintext authentication behavior data from encrypted data. The second attack enables an active eavesdropper to restore the plaintext authentication behavior data from the transmitted encrypted data.
description: Eskeland, S. and Baig, A. (2022). Cryptanalysis of a Privacy-preserving Behavior-oriented Authentication Scheme. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989- 758-590-6; ISSN 2184-7711, pages 299-304
A Generic Privacy-Preserving Protocol For Keystroke Dynamics-Based Continuous Authentication
Creators: name: Baig, Ahmed Fraz
name: Eskeland, Sigurd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Continuous authentication utilizes automatic recognition of certain user features for seamless and passive authentication without requiring user attention. Such features can be divided into categories of physiological biometrics and behavioral biometrics. Keystroke dynamics is proposed for behavioral biometrics-oriented authentication by recognizing users by means of their typing patterns. However, it has been pointed out that continuous authentication using physiological biometrics and behavior biometrics incur privacy risks, revealing personal characteristics and activities. In this paper, we consider a previously proposed keystroke dynamics-based authentication scheme that has no privacy-preserving properties. In this regard, we propose a generic privacy-preserving version of this authentication scheme in which all user features are encrypted -- preventing disclosure of those to the authentication server. Our scheme is generic in the sense that it assumes homomorphic cryptographic primitives. Authentication is conducted on the basis of encrypted data due to the homomorphic cryptographic properties of our protocol.
description: Baig, A. and Eskeland, S. A Generic Privacy-preserving Protocol for Keystroke Dynamics-based Continuous Authentication.In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2022), pages 491-498 ISBN: 978-989-758-590-6; ISSN: 2184-7711
Additional file 2 of The compact genome of the sponge Oopsacas minuta (Hexactinellida) is lacking key metazoan core genes
Creators: name: Santini, Sébastien
name: Schenkelaars, Quentin
name: Jourda, Cyril
name: Duchesne, Marc
name: Belahbib, Hassiba
name: Rocher, Caroline
name: Selva, Marjorie
name: Riesgo, Ana
name: Vervoort, Michel
name: Leys, Sally P.
name: Kodjabachian, Laurent
name: Le Bivic, André
name: Borchiellini, Carole
name: Claverie, Jean-Michel
name: Renard, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 2: Genomic characteristics of Oopascas minuta. Table S5. Genome features of the glass sponge O. minuta. Table S6. Respective number of predicted and annotated sequences in the genome of O. minuta. Figure S5. Gene ontology at the first two levels for the 7,737 genes that received GO annotations. Figure S6. a) Orthology clustering on predicted proteomes of six sponges. b) Gene Ontology at level3 for orthogroups absent in O. minuta and present in all other sponge lineages. Table S7. ORFING report, Comparison of protein sequence lengths and BUSCO scores between the different versions of the genome masked or unmasked. Table S8. Types and relative abundances of repeats in the genome of O. minuta.
Formal Methods for Functional Verification
Creators: name: Bryant, Randal
name: Kukula, James H.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Formal hardware verification ranges from proving that two combinational circuits compute the same functions to the much more ambitious task of proving that a sequential circuit obeys some abstract property expressed in temporal logic. In tracing the history of work in this area, we find a few efforts in the 1970s and 1980s, with a big increase in verification capabilities the late 1980s up through today. The advent of efficient Boolean inference methods, starting with Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) and more recently with efficient Boolean satisfiability (SAT) checkers has provided the enabling technology for these advances.
Cost-efficient Auto-scaling of Container-based Elastic Processes
Creators: name: Sheganaku, Gerta
name: Schulte, Stefan
name: Waibel, Philipp
name: Weber, Ingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In business process landscapes, a common challenge is to provide the necessary computational resources to enact the single process steps. One well-known approach to solve this issue in a cost-efficient way is to use the notion of elasticity, i.e., to provide cloud-based computational resources in a rapid fashion and to enact the single process steps on these resources. Existing approaches to provide elastic processes are mostly based on Virtual Machines (VMs). Utilizing container technologies could enable a more fine-grained allocation of process steps to computational resources, leading to a better resource utilization and improved cost efficiency. In this paper, we propose an approach to optimize resource allocation for elastic processes by applying a four-fold auto-scaling approach. The main goal is to minimize the cost of process enactments by using containers. To this end, we formulate and implement a multi-objective optimization problem applying Mixed-Integer Linear Programming and use a transformation step to allocate software services to containers. We thoroughly evaluate the optimization problem and show that it can lead to significant cost savings while maintaining Service Lev
Locally covariant quantum field theory and the problem of formulating the same physics in all spacetimes
Creators: name: Fewster, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The framework of locally covariant quantum field theory is discussed, motivated in part using "ignorance principles". It is shown how theories can be represented by suitable functors, so that physical equivalence of theories may be expressed via natural isomorphisms between the corresponding functors. The inhomogeneous scalar field is used to illustrate the ideas. It is argued that there are two reasonable definitions of the local physical content associated with a locally covariant theory; when these coincide, the theory is said to be dynamically local. The status of the dynamical locality condition is reviewed, as are its applications in relation to (a) the foundational question of what it means for a theory to represent the same physics in different spacetimes, and (b) a no-go result on the existence of natural states.
description: 21pp. To appear in the themed issue "New Geometric Concepts in the Foundations of Physics" of Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society
Additional file 3 of The compact genome of the sponge Oopsacas minuta (Hexactinellida) is lacking key metazoan core genes
Creators: name: Santini, Sébastien
name: Schenkelaars, Quentin
name: Jourda, Cyril
name: Duchesne, Marc
name: Belahbib, Hassiba
name: Rocher, Caroline
name: Selva, Marjorie
name: Riesgo, Ana
name: Vervoort, Michel
name: Leys, Sally P.
name: Kodjabachian, Laurent
name: Le Bivic, André
name: Borchiellini, Carole
name: Claverie, Jean-Michel
name: Renard, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 3: Survey of candidate genes for epithelia, multicilliogenesis, signaling pathways, transcription factors, neuro-sensory functions, biosilicification. Table S9. Blastp search of proteins involved in bilaterian epithelial functions. Figure S7. Domain prediction of integrins and of laminins. Table S10. Blastp search concerning proteins involved in bilaterian multiciliogenesis. Table S11. Blast Search of core genes involved in three main ancestral signalling pathways. Table S12. Blastp search results concerning G-proteins. Table S13. Blastp search and protein domain analyses concerning basic Helix Loop Helixtranscription factors. Figure S8. Phylogenetic relationships among bHLH Transcription factors. Figure S9. Phylogenetic position of Oopsacas bHLH-PAS Transcription factors. Table S14. Blastp search, domain and phylogenetic analyses performed on various transcription factor types. Figure S10. Domain Prediction of HD transcription factors. Figure S11. Phylogenetic positions of Oopsacas Homeobox Transcription factors of the ANTP class. Table S15. Survey of candidate genes for photoreception. Table S16. Blastp search for proteins involved in chemical signaling. Table S17. HHMER searches in O. minuta for voltage gated ion channels. Figure S12. Diversity and phylogenetic positions of Oopsacas calcium channels. Figure S13. Phylogenetic positions of Oopsacas potassium channels. Table S18. Blastp search of proteins involved in bilaterian synapses. Table S19. Results of HMMER searches for SNARES proteins. Table S20. Blast P search of proteins involved in silica biogenesis. Table S21. List of sequences used for phylogenetic analyses of silicatein and cathepsin.
Finite-time Lyapunov dimension and hidden attractor of the Rabinovich system
Creators: name: Kuznetsov, N. V.
name: Leonov, G. A.
name: Mokaev, T. N.
name: Prasad, A.
name: Shrimali, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Rabinovich system, describing the process of interaction between waves in plasma, is considered. It is shown that the Rabinovich system can exhibit a {hidden attractor} in the case of multistability as well as a classical {self-excited attractor}. The hidden attractor in this system can be localized by analytical-numerical methods based on the {continuation} and {perpetual points}. For numerical study of the attractors' dimension the concept of {finite-time Lyapunov dimension} is developed. A conjecture on the Lyapunov dimension of self-excited attractors and the notion of {exact Lyapunov dimension} are discussed. A comparative survey on the computation of the finite-time Lyapunov exponents by different algorithms is presented and an approach for a reliable numerical estimation of the finite-time Lyapunov dimension is suggested. Various estimates of the finite-time Lyapunov dimension for the hidden attractor and hidden transient chaotic set in the case of multistability are given.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.7667
Additional file 4 of Medical student support for vulnerable patients during COVID-19 – a convergent mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Tirion Hughes
name: Beard, Eleanor
name: Bowman, Amelia
name: Chan, Joyce
name: Gadsby, Katrina
name: Hughes, Martha
name: Humphries, Maya
name: Johnston, Aaron
name: King, Georgina
name: Knock, Megan
name: Kaveeta Malhi
name: Mickute, Gerda
name: Ebubechi Okpalugo
name: Oliver, Madeleine
name: Vimukthi Perera
name: Pickles, Florence
name: Pollock, Lily
name: Pullen, Lucienne
name: Samuels, Ffion
name: Sexton, Harriet
name: Shutler, Laura
name: Smith, Rebecca
name: Tanner, Pippa
name: Ladds, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Interview Questions.
Getting Users to Pay Attention to Anti-Phishing Education: Evaluation of Retention and Transfer
Creators: name: Ponnurangam  Kumaraguru
name: Rhee, Yong
name: Sheng, Steve
name: Sharique  Hasan
name: Acquisti, Alessandro
name: Cranor, Lorrie F
name: Hong, Jason
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Educational materials designed to teach users not to fall for
phishing attacks are widely available but are often ignored by
users. In this paper, we extend an embedded training methodology
using learning science principles in which phishing education is
made part of a primary task for users. The goal is to motivate
users to pay attention to the training materials. In embedded
training, users are sent simulated phishing attacks and trained after
they fall for the attacks. Prior studies tested users immediately
after training and demonstrated that embedded training improved
users’ ability to identify phishing emails and websites. In the
present study, we tested users to determine how well they retained
knowledge gained through embedded training and how well they
transferred this knowledge to identify other types of phishing
emails. We also compared the effectiveness of the same training
materials delivered via embedded training and delivered as regular
email messages. In our experiments, we found that: (a) users learn
more effectively when the training materials are presented after
users fall for the attack (embedded) than when the same training
materials are sent by email (non-embedded); (b) users retain and
transfer more knowledge after embedded training than after nonembedded
training; and (c) users with higher Cognitive Reflection
Test (CRT) scores are more likely than users with lower CRT
scores to click on the links in the phishing emails from companies
with which they have no account.
Heegaard Floer Homologies: lecture notes
Creators: name: Lipshitz, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57R57, 57R58

description: These are lecture notes from a series of lectures at the SMF summer school on "Geometric and Quantum Topology in Dimension 3", June 2014. The focus is on Heegaard Floer homology from the perspective of sutured Floer homology.
description: 31 pages, 15 figures
Social Responsibility in the Heart of Capitalism
Creators: name: Bedoya, Saray
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social responsibility of business
subject: business and human rights

description: Saray Bedoya’s human rights capstone explores whether companies and corporations can truly exercise corporate social responsibility in a capitalist society, and explores this relationship through the lens of Capitalism, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Business and Human Rights (BHR), and Human Rights. She examines and introduces case studies to demonstrate companies that have utterly failed and companies that are on the right track of social responsibility, and further shows how human rights violations have been rampant both in subtle and flagrant ways within the business world despite governments and companies attempting to mitigate these issues. Despite what seems like total darkness, Saray posits that corporations can be socially responsible when they restructure their business model to center social wellbeing, human rights, and conscious consumption.
Differentiating Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: The Diagnostic Utility of the BIS/BAS Scales
Creators: name: Ong, Mian Li
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Psychometrics
subject: Clinical psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Quantitative research

description: The present study examined discriminative validities of the Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Approach System (BIS/BAS) scales in differentiating bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs) from other disorders. Participants were youth recruited from a combination of community mental health center and university medical facility. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses tested the BIS/BAS scales in distinguishing between BSD-positive and BSD-negative youth. We calculated diagnostic likelihood ratios in keeping with recommendations from evidence-based medicine. Binary logistic regressions tested for incremental value in combining subscales. BAS subscales discriminated between participants with BSD-positive and BSD-negative diagnoses, with areas under the curve ranging from .54 to .64. The BIS/BAS scales achieved statistical significance in identifying cases with BSDs, but effect sizes for discriminative comparisons were too small to be clinically useful. Upgrading clinical training to: (a) include prevalence of BSDs and (b) teaching clinicians more evidence based assessment strategies is important to improve assessment and diagnosis of BSDs.
Factoring Games to Isolate Strategic Interactions
Creators: name: Davis, George B.
name: Benisch, Michael
name: Carley, Kathleen M.
name: Sadeh, Norman
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Game theoretic reasoning about multi-agent systems has been made more tractable by algorithms
that exploit various types of independence in agents’ utilities. However, previous work has assumed
that a game’s precise independence structure is given in advance. This paper addresses the
problem of finding independence structure in a general form game when it is not known ahead of
time, or of finding an approximation when full independence does not exist. We give an expected
polynomial time algorithm to divide a bounded-payout normal form game into factor games that
isolate independent strategic interactions. We also show that the best approximate factoring can
be found in polynomial time for a specific interaction that is not fully independent. Once known,
factors aide computation of game theoretic solution concepts, including Nash equilibria (or ǫequilibria
for approximate factors), in some cases guaranteeing polynomial complexity where previous
bounds were exponential.
Intrinsic Noise Induced Coherence Resonance in a Glow discharge Plasma
Creators: name: Shaw, Pankaj Kumar
name: Saha, D.
name: Ghosh, S.
name: Janaki, M. S.
name: Iyengar, A. N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental evidence of intrinsic noise induced coherence resonance in a glow discharge plasma is being reported. Initially the system is started at a discharge voltage (DV) where it exhibited fixed point dynamics, and then with the subsequent increase in the DV spikes were excited which were few in number and with further increase of DV the number of spikes as well as their regularity increased. The regularity in the interspike interval of the spikes is estimated using normalized variance (NV). Coherence resonance was determined using normalized variance curve and also corroborated by Hurst exponent and power spectrum plots. We show that the regularity of the excitable spikes in the floating potential fluctuation increases with the increase in the DV, upto a particular value of DV. Using a Wiener filter, we separated the noise component which was observed to increase with DV and hence conjectured that noise can be playing an important role in the generation of the coherence resonance. From an anharmonic oscillator equation describing ion acoustic oscillations, we have been able to obtain a FHN like model which has been used to understand the excitable dynamics of glow discharge plasma in the presence of noise. The numerical results agree quite well with the experimental results.
Additional file 2 of The COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden – threats, trust, and impact on daily life: a comparative survey
Creators: name: Helsingen, Lise M.
name: Erle Refsum
name: Dagrun Kyte Gjøstein
name: Løberg, Magnus
name: Bretthauer, Michael
name: Kalager, Mette
name: Emilsson, Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 1b: Questions and responses for surveys performed in Norway (March 20–21) and Sweden (April 10–15), 2020. English version.
Finding all gravitationally stable orientations of assemblies
Creators: name: Mattikalli, Raju
name: Baraff, David
name: Khosla, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Previous work by Mattikalli et al.[1] considered the stability of assemblies of frictionless contacting bodies with uniform gravity. A linear programming-based technique was described that would automatically determine a single stable orientation for an assembly (if such an orientation existed). In this paper, we give an exact characterization of the entire set of stable orientations of any assembly under uniform gravity. Our characterization reveals that the set of stable orientations maps out a convex region on the unit-sphere of directions. The region is bounded by a sequence of vertices adjoined with great arcs. Linear programming techniques are used to automatically find this set of vertices, yielding a precise description of the range of stable orientations for any frictionless assembly.
Numerical treatment of the Boltzmann equation for self-propelled particle systems
Creators: name: Thüroff, Florian
name: Weber, Christoph A.
name: Frey, Erwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinetic theories constitute one of the most promising tools to decipher the characteristic spatio-temporal dynamics in systems of actively propelled particles. In this context, the Boltzmann equation plays a pivotal role, since it provides a natural translation between a particle-level description of the system's dynamics and the corresponding hydrodynamic fields. Yet, the intricate mathematical structure of the Boltzmann equation substantially limits the progress toward a full understanding of this equation by solely analytical means. Here, we propose a general framework to numerically solve the Boltzmann equation for self-propelled particle systems in two spatial dimensions and with arbitrary boundary conditions. We discuss potential applications of this numerical framework to active matter systems, and use the algorithm to give a detailed analysis to a model system of self-propelled particles with polar interactions. In accordance with previous studies, we find that spatially homogeneous isotropic and broken symmetry states populate two distinct regions in parameter space, which are separated by a narrow region of spatially inhomogeneous, density-segregated moving patterns. We find clear evidence that these three regions in parameter space are connected by first order phase transitions, and that the transition between the spatially homogeneous isotropic and polar ordered phases bears striking similarities to liquid-gas phase transitions in equilibrium systems. Within the density segregated parameter regime, we find a novel stable limit-cycle solution of the Boltzmann equation, which consists of parallel lanes of polar clusters moving in opposite directions, so as to render the overall symmetry of the system's ordered state nematic, despite purely polar interactions on the level of single particles.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures
Multi-photon absorption properties of semiconducting nanomaterials
Creators: name: Nalla, Venkatram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiphoton absorption (MPA) is a nonlinear optical process that involves simultaneous absorption of two or more photons by a material to promote its ground state to an excited state. Multiphoton absorption promises many important applications such as multi-dimensional fluorescence imaging, three dimensional (3D) data storage. Physical and chemical properties of nanometer sized semiconductor materials change drastically due to quantum size effect. Combination of both multiphoton absorption and quantum effects will be an interesting study. Multiphoton absorption of semiconducting nanomaterials is an exciting phenomenon which promotes many important applications. This paper reviews multi-photon absorption properties of different kinds of semiconducting nanomaterials starting from chalcogenide-based nanomaterials to perovskites nanomaterials and their applications in various fields.
Linear Maximum Margin Classifier for Learning from Uncertain Data
Creators: name: Tzelepis, Christos
name: Mezaris, Vasileios
name: Patras, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a maximum margin classifier that deals with uncertainty in data input. More specifically, we reformulate the SVM framework such that each training example can be modeled by a multi-dimensional Gaussian distribution described by its mean vector and its covariance matrix -- the latter modeling the uncertainty. We address the classification problem and define a cost function that is the expected value of the classical SVM cost when data samples are drawn from the multi-dimensional Gaussian distributions that form the set of the training examples. Our formulation approximates the classical SVM formulation when the training examples are isotropic Gaussians with variance tending to zero. We arrive at a convex optimization problem, which we solve efficiently in the primal form using a stochastic gradient descent approach. The resulting classifier, which we name SVM with Gaussian Sample Uncertainty (SVM-GSU), is tested on synthetic data and five publicly available and popular datasets; namely, the MNIST, WDBC, DEAP, TV News Channel Commercial Detection, and TRECVID MED datasets. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
description: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (c) 2017 IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2772235 Author's accepted version. The final publication is available at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103808/
Games Programs Play: Obstacles to Data Reuse
Creators: name: Scaffidi, Chris
name: Shaw, Mary
name: Myers, Brad
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information workers often reuse data by taking it from an existing representation, recombining it to create new data, and storing the new data in another representation. The sources and destinations include databases, spreadsheets, web sites, text documents, and emails. Recombination activities are similarly diverse and include copy/pasting, concatenating, visual reformatting, arithmetic/calculating, and so forth. Yet many obstacles impede such reuse. In this paper, we summarize the problems that users face as well as some strategies for overcoming these problems.
Gestion de Connaissances Personnelles et Contextuelles et Respect de la Vie Privée
Creators: name: Gandon, Fabien L.
name: Sadeh, Norman
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nous montrons comment les mécanismes de confidentialité peuvent
évoluer pour exploiter les modèles orientés ontologie et suivre le déploiement
de Webs sémantiques. Testée dans le projet myCampus, l'architecture distribuée
que nous présentons ici repose sur des règles pour le Web sémantique et le
respect de la confidentialité ainsi que des services Web pour représenter les
ressources personnelles et publiques. Des agents logiciels gèrent les échanges,
notamment les agents e-Wallets responsables des ressources des utilisateurs.
title: Assessing the Early Adoption of Double Materiality
title: A Content Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Practices of Swiss Public Corporations
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Berlinger, Florian
Publisher: name: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
Year: 2025

description: This thesis examines the early adoption of the double materiality concept in the sustainability reporting of companies listed in the Swiss Market Index Expanded (SMI Expanded). Double materiality, which encompasses both financial and impact materiality, has become a critical requirement under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), significantly influencing corporate disclosure of sustainability information. This study provides an in-depth analysis of how Swiss companies have integrated double materiality into their sustainability reports ahead of formal regulatory mandates. Through a systematic literature review and content analysis of sustainability reports from 2022 and 2023, the study identifies substantial shifts in reporting practices, including a significant rise in double materiality adoption—from less than one-third of companies in 2022 to nearly two-thirds in 2023. The findings indicate a reduction in the number of reported material topics post-adoption, with a shift away from external stakeholder-oriented topics, such as social commitment and environmental impacts, towards internal priorities like employee engagement and sustainable finance. The study highlights the challenges of implementing double materiality, including inconsistencies in materiality interpretations and the lack of standardized reporting methodologies. These findings underscore the necessity for enhanced regulatory guidance and robust assurance processes to ensure alignment with emerging standards. This research offers valuable insights for Swiss companies, regulators, and stakeholders, emphasizing the need to align sustainability practices with evolving regulatory frameworks. By providing empirical evidence from the Swiss context, this thesis contributes to the academic discourse on double materiality, serving as a benchmark for future research and guiding companies in navigating complex sustainability disclosure requirements.
Helping Everyday Users Establish Confidence for Everyday Applications
Creators: name: Shaw, Mary
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: End users obtain their desired results by combining elements of information and computation from different applications. Software engineering provides little support for identifying, selecting, or combining these elements – that is, for helping end users to design computational support for their own tasks. Software engineering provides even less support to help end users to decide whether the resulting system is sufficiently dependable –whether it will meet their expectations. Many users, especially end users, base judgments about software on informal and undependable information, and they draw conclusions with informal rather than rational decision methods. We have been developing support for everyday dependability, with an emphasis on expressing expectations in abstractions familiar to the user and on obtaining software behavior that reasonably satisfies those expectations. In this Dagstuhl I would like to explore the differences between everyday informal reasoning and the rational processes of computer science in order to develop means for establishing credible indications of confidence for end users.
Additional file 2 of Medical student support for vulnerable patients during COVID-19 – a convergent mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Tirion Hughes
name: Beard, Eleanor
name: Bowman, Amelia
name: Chan, Joyce
name: Gadsby, Katrina
name: Hughes, Martha
name: Humphries, Maya
name: Johnston, Aaron
name: King, Georgina
name: Knock, Megan
name: Kaveeta Malhi
name: Mickute, Gerda
name: Ebubechi Okpalugo
name: Oliver, Madeleine
name: Vimukthi Perera
name: Pickles, Florence
name: Pollock, Lily
name: Pullen, Lucienne
name: Samuels, Ffion
name: Sexton, Harriet
name: Shutler, Laura
name: Smith, Rebecca
name: Tanner, Pippa
name: Ladds, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Case Study 2. Personal case study of student participant in intervention.
Exploring the Nature of the Hard X-ray/ Soft Gamma-ray Emission of Cen A
Creators: name: Rodi, James
name: Jourdain, Elisabeth
name: Roques, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Despite decades of observations, the nature of the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray emission of Cena, the brightest radio-loud AGN in the hard X-ray sky, is still unclear. The two main competing models are thermal Comptonization and synchrotron self-Compton emission. They predict a spectral cutoff of roughly 300 keV or > 1 MeV, respectively, and require spectral coverage to the MeV region to differentiate. Using archival data and observations from the current INTEGRAL AO, we investigate Cen A's spectrum using both SPI and IBIS/ISGRI to better understand the soft gamma-ray emission and the process at work in that energy range. Also, we search for spectral variability in light of recent results from Swift/BAT. We find that INTEGRAL spectra can be described by either a cutoff power law model with Ecut~550 keV or by a log parabola model.
Low Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRAL, bridging classes of weakly magnetized neutron star binaries.
Creators: name: Papitto, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Low-mass X-ray binaries dominate the energy X-ray output of our Galaxy. They are ideal systems to study the details of accretion onto a compact object and phenomena occurring at the surface of neutron stars (e.g. pulsations, thermonuclear burning). During 20 years of INTEGRAL operations, the large field of view, good angular, spectral and temporal resolution of its instruments up to the hard X-ray/soft γ-ray band ensured it a key role to measure the properties of LMXBs. I will review the main results obtained from low-mass X-ray binaries hosting weakly magnetized neutron stars. In particular, I will focus on the study of the spectral states and transitions up to hard X-rays and to the discovery and characterization of several accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars.
description: Invited talk at INTEGRAL 2022 conference, Darmstadt, 17-21 October 2022
Additional file 3 of The COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden – threats, trust, and impact on daily life: a comparative survey
Creators: name: Helsingen, Lise M.
name: Erle Refsum
name: Dagrun Kyte Gjøstein
name: Løberg, Magnus
name: Bretthauer, Michael
name: Kalager, Mette
name: Emilsson, Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Appendix 2b: Questions and responses from survey performed in Norway, April 4–8, 2020. English version.