cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The role of information in therapeutic decision-making for adults living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Creators: name: Wilkie, David
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Background: People with MS (pwMS) are confronted with 16 therapies. These come with risks that have led to drug withdrawals and changes to prescribing regulations. Patient autonomy is seen as desirable and has challenged the role of the health care professional (HCP). Greater scrutiny of the decisional process is necessary to determine if complex decision-making can be influenced. Methods: i) Attendees to an MS conference (n=105) and a cohort of patients on treatment (n=76) were contacted about their current treatment status and if they had decisional conflict (DC). ii) Prospective study (n=73) of pwMS offered treatment, used instruments to map pwMS through their decision post-consultation. iii) Results informed a film aimed at pwMS (n=1001) and a comparator group without MS (n=148). Participants reviewed the film with the primary aim of measuring understanding of the concepts portrayed. Results: i) Data from the cohorts in methods i-ii (n=254) were compared. The treatment status ‘not satisfied’ was present in 113/254 (44%) and 135/254 (53%) had DC. ii) DC was significantly increased in a treatment naïve subgroup 75% (27/36), p=0.013. iii) In the ‘offered treatment’ study, making a treatment decision took a mean of 29 days (range 0-308). Multivariate regression analysis found those with less confidence in their healthcare decision-making were more likely to have DC (n=72, SURE scale; adjusted R2 0.11, p=0.02; SURE-subscale adjusted R2 0.04 p=0.04; DCG adjusted R2 0.04 p=0.04). iv) The neurologist perceived significantly more consensus during the consultation (39.24±6.54) than pwMS (31.22±10.64; p<0.001). A multivariate regression analysis found that shared decision making (SDM) was associated with lower DC alongside patient engagement (n=67, adjusted R2 0.382; p<0.001). v) There was a high level of film understanding in the total population (85%). vi) A multivariate regression analysis found that ‘education’ was associated with film ‘understanding’ (n=892, adjusted R2 0.023, p=0.000). This meant having less education was associated with increased understanding. A one point increase in education was associated with a .170 reduction in understanding. Conclusions: i) PwMS have high levels of DC when making treatment decisions. ii) Low engagement is associated with increased DC but an HCP consultation with good SDM is associated with lower DC. iii) A film produced a high level of understanding in both MS and non-MS populations. Those less educated had the highest understanding overall.
The Real Corrections to the Gamma* Impact Factor: First Numerical Results
Creators: name: Kyrieleis, Albrecht
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed analytically the transverse momentum integrations in the real corrections to the longitudinal γ^*_L impact factor and carried out numerically the remaining integrations. I outline the analytical integration and present the numerical results: we have performed a numerical test and computed those parts of the impact factor that depend upon the energy scale s_0.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of "DIS 2004", XII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (April 2004, Strbske Pleso, Slovakia)
Designing Visual Learning Analytics for Supporting Equity in STEM Classrooms
Creators: name: Raza, Ali
name: Penuel, William R.
name: Sumner, Tamara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supporting equitable instruction is an important issue for teachers attending diverse STEM classrooms. Visual learning analytics along with effective student survey measures can support providing on time feedback to teachers in making instruction more culturally relevant to all students. We adopted a user-centered approach, where we engaged seven middle school science teachers in iterative testing of thirty data visualizations disaggregated over markers such as gender and race for implementation of selected displays in a visual learning analytics tool- Student Electronic Exit Ticket (SEET). This process helped us gather insights into teachers' sensemaking in identifying patterns of student data related to gender and race, selecting and improving the design of the feedback displays for the SEET [10].
Methods for data-related problems in person re-ID
Creators: name: Iodice, Sara
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: In the last years, the ever-increasing need for public security has attracted wide attention in person re-ID. State-of-the-art techniques have achieved impressive results on academic datasets, which are nearly saturated. However, when it comes to deploying a re-ID system in a practical surveillance scenario, several challenges arise. 1) Full person views are often unavailable, and missing body parts make the comparison very challenging due to significant misalignment of the views. 2) Low diversity in training data introduces bias in re-ID systems. 3) The available data might come from different modalities, e.g., text and images. This thesis proposes Partial Matching Net (PMN) that detects body joints, aligns partial views, and hallucinates the missing parts based on the information present in the frame and a learned model of a person. The aligned and reconstructed views are then combined into a joint representation and used for matching images. The thesis also investigates different types of bias that typically occur in re-ID scenarios when the similarity between two persons is due to the same pose, body part, or camera view, rather than to the ID-related cues. It proposes a general approach to mitigate these effects named Bias-Control (BC) framework with two training streams leveraging adversarial and multitask learning to reduce bias-related features. Finally, the thesis investigates a novel mechanism for matching data across visual and text modalities. It proposes a framework Text (TAVD) with two complementary modules: Text attribute feature aggregation (TA) that aggregates multiple semantic attributes in a bimodal space for globally matching text descriptions with images and Visual feature decomposition (VD) which performs feature embedding for locally matching image regions with text attributes. The results and comparison to state of the art on different benchmarks show that the proposed solutions are effective strategies for person re-ID.
Antilinearity in Bipartite Quantum Systems and Imperfect Quantum Teleportation
Creators: name: Uhlmann, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Antilinearity is quite natural in bipartite quantum systems. There is a one-to-one correspondence between vectors and certain antilinear maps, here called EPR-maps. Some of their properties and uses, including the factorization of quantum teleportation maps, is explained. There is an elementary link to twisted Kronecker products and to the modular objects of Tomita and Takesaki.
description: Conference: Quantum Probability and Infinite-dimensional Analysis
A widely tunable active CMOS radio-frequency filter
Creators: name: Allidina, Karim
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: There has always been a drive by industry to add as much functionality and flexibility to electronic devices as possible. Tunable circuits are among useful sub-blocks that facilitate achieving these goals. This thesis presents a fully integrated radio-frequency filter whose centre frequency and bandwidth are tunable. Radio-frequency filters are essential components in transceivers. However, due to the poor quality factor and large area of on-chip passive inductors, these blocks are typically implemented off-chip. The filter presented in this work uses active inductors, i.e., transistor-based structures that emulate the response of a passive inductor. Not only is the quality factor of an active inductor superior to that of its passive counterpart, but also its size is a relatively smaller fraction of the chip area. It should be noted that passive inductors have better performance in terms of noise, linearity, and power consumption as compared to their active counterparts. Special care has been taken to minimize the power, noise, and nonlinear distortions of the proposed filter. The filter is designed and fabricated in a 0.18pμm CMOS technology. Its centre frequency is tunable over the range of 580MHz to 3.3GHz and its quality factor can also be tuned, making it suitable for a variety of applications requiring different bandwidths. The fully differential filter, including the biasing circuitry and output buffers required to drive the 50Ω impedance of high-frequency measurement equipment, consumes between 12 to 26mW from a 1.8V supply and occupies a chip area of 115pμm x 70pμm
CMB and foregrounds in WMAP first year data
Creators: name: Patanchon, G.
name: Cardoso, J. -F.
name: Delabrouille, J.
name: Vielva, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a blind multi-component analysis of the WMAP 1 year foreground cleaned maps using SMICA (Spectral Matching Independent Component Analysis). We provide a new estimate of the CMB power spectrum as well as the amplitude of the CMB anisotropies across frequency channels. We show that the CMB anisotropies are compatible with temperature fluctuations as expected from the standard paradigm. The analysis also allows us to identify and separate a weak residual galactic emission present significantly in the Q-band outside of the Kp2 mask limits, and mainly concentrated at low galactic latitudes. We produce a map of this residual component by Wiener filtering using estimated parameters. The level of contamination of CMB data by this component is compatible with the WMAP team estimation of foreground residual contamination. In addition, the multi-component analysis allows us to estimate jointly the power spectrum of unresolved point source emission.
description: 13 pages, 11 Postscript figures, submitted to MNRAS
Continuous matrix product states & cavity QED
Creators: name: Enciso Dominguez, Aizar
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Existing studies [1] have proposed similarities between the continuous Matrix Product States (cMPS) which describes low energy states of quantum field theories, and the input-output formalism which describes the quantum state of electromagnetic field leaking out of an optical cavity. This research investigates the above relationship in greater detail, to understand and develop new tools to simulate exotic quantum field systems, focusing on bosonic gases in one dimension. Using the formalism developed by [2, 1] we analysed the Lieb-Liniger model which describes a bosonic one-dimensional gas subject to a delta potential interaction. We produced a simpler algorithm to find the ground state energy of the Lieb-Liniger model. We demonstrated that its expectation value in terms of matrix products states can be rewritten as the expectation value of an effective closed Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian when we use a cavity-atom system as a simulator. The Hamiltonian of this simulator corresponds to a laser-driven atom in the Jaynes-Cummings model with a lossy cavity. This analytical approach makes two contributions to existing knowledge. First, it corrects an intrinsic error in the numerical simulation of [3] due to the normal order of the annihilation operators. Second, it gives us a better understanding of why the simulator used in [3], is so effective in reproducing the correlation properties of the Lieb-Liniger model. Furthermore, we also find that depending on the Hamiltonian used as a simulator, the form of the effective Hamiltonian that would describe the Lieb-Liniger model will reflect the dynamical properties of said simulator. Finally, we derived the transformation rules that relate the Hamiltonian of the simulator with the analytical form of the effective Hamiltonian, concluding with the analysis for the case of a mixture of gases. Thus, our findings could help in the selection of appropriate simulators for any given field theory.
A uniform X-ray analysis of 79 distant galaxy clusters with ROSAT and ASCA
Creators: name: Ota, Naomi
name: Mitsuda, Kazuhisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a uniform analysis of the ROSAT HRI and the ASCA GIS/SIS data for 79 distant clusters of galaxies in the redshift range, 0.1 < z < 0.82 to study the global structures of the intracluster medium. We have constructed an X-ray catalog consisting of the largest sample of clusters in the redshift range for which pointed X-ray observations were carried out with both the observatories. We determined the emission-weighted X-ray temperatures of the clusters with ASCA, while we studied surface brightness distribution with the ROSAT HRI utilizing the isothermal beta model. We investigated the statistical properties and trends for redshift evolution of the X-ray parameters including the temperature, the density profile of the intracluster gas and the gas-mass fraction within r500. We also present correlations of the cluster parameters with the X-ray temperature and with the core radius and compare them with the predictions of the self-similar model, from which we discuss the possible origin of the double structure discovered in the core radius distribution.
description: 23 pages, 21 figures; minor corrections. To appear in A&A. Version with high-quality figures, online-only tables and figures at http://cosmic.riken.jp/ota/publications/index.html
Additional file 10 of On the origin of European sheep as revealed by the diversity of the Balkan breeds and by optimizing population-genetic analysis tools
Creators: name: Ciani, Elena
name: Mastrangelo, Salvatore
name: Silva, Anne Da
name: Marroni, Fabio
name: Ferenčaković, Maja
name: Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo
name: Baird, Hayley
name: Barbato, Mario
name: Colli, Licia
name: Delvento, Chiara
name: Dovenski, Toni
name: Gorjanc, Gregor
name: Hall, Stephen J. G.
name: Hoda, Anila
name: Li, Meng-Hua
name: Božidarka Marković
name: McEwan, John
name: Moradi, Mohammad H.
name: Otsanda Ruiz-Larrañaga
name: Ružić-Muslić, Dragana
name: Šalamon, Dragica
name: Simčič, Mojca
name: Stepanek, Ondrej
name: Curik, Ino
name: Cubric-Curik, Vlatka
name: Lenstra, Johannes A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 10: Figure S6. Spatial PCA of 507 domestic sheep without EFB, KCH and VBS, which were found to dominate the sPC2 and sPC3 just as for in the normal PCA (Additional file 8: Figure S4 left panels). The three methods of triangulation, indicated above the plots, give essentially the same results, which are similar to the supervised PCA pattern (see Additional file 8: Figure S4 right panels).
Image-Based Angular Distortion Metric of Map Projections by Using Surface Fitting for Noise Reduction
Creators: name: Yan, Jin
name: Xu, TianSheng
name: Li, Ni
name: Gong, Guanghong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90901 Cartography
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: The image-based angular distortion metric was introduced in this study:

Jin Yan, Tiansheng Xu, Ni Li, and Guanghong Gong. "Image-Based Angular Distortion Metric of Map Projections by Using Surface Fitting for Noise Reduction" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11010001

Run mt-run.bat on Windows, or run mt-run.sh on Linux by exploiting multi-threading by multiple cores of CPU for Julia.
lat.png and lon.png are predefined images
distorted_lat_bonne +lat_1=30.png and distorted_lon_bonne +lat_1=30.png are distorted images produced by mapping software, e.g., NASA's G.Projector.

proc_img.jl implements the algorithm of image-based angular distortion metric with noise reduction in Julia.

plot_img.py is used to plot distributions of angular distortions and contours in Python.

plot_bonne.png is the result image.
CORE: Frustrated Magnets, Charge Fractionalization and QCD
Creators: name: Weinstein, Marvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I explain how to use a simple method to extract the physics of lattice Hamiltonian systems which are not easily analyzed by exact or other numerical methods. I will then use this method to establish the relationship between QCD and a special class of generalized, highly frustrated anti-ferromagnets.
description: Invited talk at Light-Cone 2004, 16 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 11 of On the origin of European sheep as revealed by the diversity of the Balkan breeds and by optimizing population-genetic analysis tools
Creators: name: Ciani, Elena
name: Mastrangelo, Salvatore
name: Silva, Anne Da
name: Marroni, Fabio
name: Ferenčaković, Maja
name: Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo
name: Baird, Hayley
name: Barbato, Mario
name: Colli, Licia
name: Delvento, Chiara
name: Dovenski, Toni
name: Gorjanc, Gregor
name: Hall, Stephen J. G.
name: Hoda, Anila
name: Li, Meng-Hua
name: Božidarka Marković
name: McEwan, John
name: Moradi, Mohammad H.
name: Otsanda Ruiz-Larrañaga
name: Ružić-Muslić, Dragana
name: Šalamon, Dragica
name: Simčič, Mojca
name: Stepanek, Ondrej
name: Curik, Ino
name: Cubric-Curik, Vlatka
name: Lenstra, Johannes A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 11: Figure S7. Supervised PCA of 546 animals in which the PC (svPC1, svPC2) were calculated based on the indicated fat-tailed, Nordic and Spanish sheep.
Testing Scenarios of Lorentz Symmetry Violation Generated at the Planck Scale
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Mestres, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using new theoretical tools, which allow to better understand ultra-high energy (UHE) dynamics, several patterns of Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) are studied and compared with experiment. It is claimed that quadratically deformed relativistic kinematics (QDRK), where the parameter driving LSV varies like the square of the energy scale, remains the best suited pattern to describe LSV generated at the Planck scale. Implications of existing data are discussed and prospects are presented having in mind next-generation experiments.
description: Contributed paper to the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Tsukuba July - August 2003
Performance analysis of Viterbi decoding in Rayleigh fading with channel estimation errors
Creators: name: Lin, Dingyi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Previous studies on the effect of channel estimation errors on the bit error rate (BER) performance of Viterbi decoding (VD) concern various types of fading channels with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), modulation and interleaving schemes. Pairwise error probabilities (PEP) have been derived using Laplace transform. Studies of VD on fading channels with impulsive noise and perfect channel estimation are also available in the literature. In this thesis, the BER performance of unquantized VD with BPSK is analyzed for a frequency-nonselective slow Rayleigh fading channel with AWGN and Gaussian distributed channel estimation errors. Closed-form expressions for the PEP are derived. Upper bound and lower bound on the BER are obtained. It is shown that channel estimation errors have the same effect on BER as channel noise. Computer simulation results show that the upper bound is fairly tight. In practice, the channel might be estimated using pilot symbols, together with various interpolation filters. It is shown that the channel estimation error variances are usually unequal for different data symbol positions. The BER performance of VD optimized for unequal estimation error variances is compared with that of VD optimized for equal variances using computer simulation. The BER performance of VD in Rayleigh fading and impulsive noise with channel estimation error is also studied. The optimal metrics are derived for VD in Rayleigh fading with Gaussian channel estimation errors, for Laplacian noise and Gaussian mixture noise. The BER performances of VD’s for various scenarios are compared.
High-resolution boreal winter precipitation projections over Tropical America from CMIP5 models
Creators: name: Palomino-Lemus, Reiner
name: Córdoba-Machado, Samir
name: Gámiz-Fortis, Sonia Raquel
name: Castro-Díez, Yolanda
name: Esteban-Parra, María Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Climate change projections for boreal winter precipitation in Tropical America has beenaddressed by statistical downscaling (SD) using the principal component regression with sea-level pressure (SLP) as the predictor variable. The SD model developed from the reanalysis of SLP and gridded precipitation GPCC data, has been applied to SLP outputs from 20 CGMS of CMIP5, both from the present climate (1971-2000) and for the future (2071-2100) under the RCP2.6, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5 scenarios. The SD model shows a suitable performance over large regions, presenting a strong bias only in small areas characterized by very dry climate conditions or poor data coverage. The difference in percentage between the projected SD precipitation and the simulated SD precipitation for present climate, ranges from moderate to intense changes in rainfall (positive or negative, depending on the region and the SD GCM model considered), as the radiative forcing increases from the RCP2.6 to RCP8.5. The disparity in the GCMs outputs seems to be the major source of uncertainty in the projected changes, while the scenario considered appears less decisive. Mexico and eastern Brazil are the areas showing the most coherent decreases between SD GCMs, while northwestern and southeastern South America show consistently significant increases. This coherence is corroborated by the results of the ensemble mean which projects positive changes from 10N towards the south, with exceptions such as eastern Brazil, northern Chile and some smaller areas, such as the center of Colombia, while projected negative changes are the majority found in the northernmost part.
Heavy-light decay constants using clover valence quarks and three flavors of dynamical improved staggered quarks
Creators: name: MILC Collaboration
name: Bernard, C.
name: Datta, S.
name: DeTar, C.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Gregory, E. B.
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Osborn, J.
name: Sugar, R. L.
name: Toussaint, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting in 2001, the MILC Collaboration began a large scale calculation of heavy-light meson decay constants using clover valence quarks on ensembles of three flavor configurations. For the coarse configurations, with a=0.12 fm, eight combinations of dynamical light and strange quarks have been analyzed. For the fine configurations, with a=0.09 fm, three combinations of quark masses are studied. Since we last reported on this calculation, statistics have been increased on the fine ensembles, and, more importantly, a preliminary value for the perturbative renormalization of the axial-vector current has become available. Thus, results for f_B, f_{B_s}, f_D and f_{D_s} can, in principle, be calculated in MeV, in addition to decay-constant ratios that were calculated previously.
description: Talk presented at Lattice2004(heavy), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004; 3 pages, 3 color figures
Processo de Mapeamento das Publicações Científicas de Um Tema: Portfólio Bibliográfico e Análise Bibliométrica sobre avaliação de desempenho de cooperativas de produção agropecuária
Creators: name: Ensslin, Sandra Rolim
name: Ensslin, Leonardo
name: Imlau, Jhonatan Munaretto
name: Chaves, Leonardo Corrêa
name: Ensslin, Sandra Rolim
name: Ensslin, Leonardo
name: Imlau, Jhonatan Munaretto
name: Chaves, Leonardo Corrêa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural production cooperatives
subject: rural cooperatives
subject: performance evaluation
subject: Proknow-C.

description: he Agricultural Production Cooperatives (APC) have been consolidated in the economic and social scenario of its specific characteristic of joining the economic development and social well-being of group members. Given this specificity, how cooperatives can be helped to identify in which activities they should invest efforts? In the business area, the Performance Evaluation (PE) provides inputs. Thus, this article aims to build, in the researchers, the knowledge regarding Performance Evaluation of Agricultural Production Cooperatives and make it explicit by identifying a Portfolio Library that represents itself and by mapping its features. Such research is characterized as exploratory-descriptive and adopts the instrument Knowledge Development Process – Construtivist (Proknow-C). As a result, it was found that the subject is represented by 14 papers, where the majority has been published in journals related to the main subject of this research (Agricultural and Cooperatives), “Environmental management and firm performance : a case study” is the most relevant article and an author with research history in this subject does not exist. As a general conclusion, it was found that most of the articles adopt a theoretical affiliation PE informed under a realistic approach. The authors suggest the adoption of a constructivist perspective for further research in this area.
Affect recognition & generation in-the-wild
Creators: name: Kollias, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Affect recognition based on a subject’s facial expressions has been a topic of major research in the attempt to generate machines that can understand the way subjects feel, act and react. In the past, due to the unavailability of large amounts of data captured in real-life situations, research has mainly focused on controlled environments. However, recently, social media and platforms have been widely used. Moreover, deep learning has emerged as a means to solve visual analysis and recognition problems. This Ph.D. Thesis exploits these advances and makes significant contributions for affect analysis and recognition in-the-wild. We tackle affect analysis and recognition as a dual knowledge generation problem: i) we create new, large and rich in-the-wild databases and ii) we design and train novel deep neural architectures that are able to analyse affect over these databases and to successfully generalise their performance on other datasets. At first, we present the creation of Aff-Wild database annotated according to valence-arousal and an end-to-end CNN-RNN architecture, AffWildNet. Then we use AffWildNet as a robust prior for dimensional and categorical affect recognition and extend it by extracting low-/mid-/high-level latent information and analysing this via multiple RNNs. Additionally, we propose a novel loss function for DNN-based categorical affect recognition. Next, we generate Aff-Wild2, the first database containing annotations for all main behavior tasks: estimate Valence-Arousal; classify into Basic Expressions; detect Action Units. We develop multi-task and multi-modal extensions of AffWildNet by fusing these tasks and propose a novel holistic approach that utilises all existing databases with non-overlapping annotations and couples them through co-annotation and distribution matching. Finally, we present an approach for valence-arousal, or basic expressions’ facial affect synthesis. We generate an image with a given affect, or a sequence of images with evolving affect, by annotating a 4-D database and utilising a 3-D morphable model.
Study of 1977 Municipal Bonds Shows Rural Issues Sold Well
Creators: name: Sullivan, Patrick J.
name: Sullivan, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Public Economics

description: Long-term bonds of rural governments compete favorably in the municipal bond market. Despite disadvantages associated with selling relatively small issues, the interest rate on nonmetro debt issued in 1977 nearly equalled the rate on metro debt. Nonetheless, many rural governments incur unnecessarily high interest costs.
Experimental investigation of the effects of soil and environmental conditions on smouldering wildfires
Creators: name: Christensen, Eirik Gaard
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Smouldering peat-wildfires are the largest fires on earth and are responsible for vast economic damage, negative health effects, and significant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions. Despite their importance, limited research has focused on understanding their dynamics. Here I systematically study the influence of the three most important soil conditions: moisture content, inorganic content, and density, as well as three prevalent natural environmental conditions: wind, slope and temperature. Two novel experimental rigs were developed to study these conditions: the shallow reactor, which facilitating the simultaneous measurement of both horizontal and in-depth spread, and the Experimental Low-temperature Smouldering Apparatus (ELSA) which enables, for the first time, the experimental study of arctic wildfires by studying smouldering in low temperature conditions. The data generated is such that I put forward a new unifying theory of the governing parameters of smouldering spread which explains the influence of all three major soil properties. Horizontal spread was found to be controlled by heat sink density (the energy required to heat the soil to burning temperatures), while in-depth spread was governed by the organic density. The study of wind and slope revealed that forward and uphill spread significantly influenced horizontal spread rates due to improved heat transfer and oxygen supply, while downhill slopes and wind opposite to the spread direction had no significant effect. Evidence was found to suggest that spread on a slope can be explained as a function of the angle of spread direction relative to a horizontal plane. For the first time, I revealed that decreased soil temperatures resulted in deeper depth of burning, and heat losses reduced the critical moisture content from 160% (with an insulated reactor base) to 120% (with a cold reactor base). Spread rate and peak temperature where negligibly affected by soil temperature, even sustaining in frozen soil conditions. This thesis provides a comprehensive study of factors influencing smouldering wildfires, providing insight and data which support a new theory of smouldering spread, improving our understanding of smouldering dynamics.
Understanding Emotional Disclosure via Diary-keeping in Quarantine on Social Media
Creators: name: Deng, Yue
name: He, Changyang
name: Li, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quarantine is a widely-adopted measure during health crises caused by highly-contagious diseases like COVID-19, yet it poses critical challenges to public mental health. Given this context, emotional disclosure on social media in the form of keeping a diary emerges as a popular way for individuals to express emotions and record their mental health status. However, the exploration of emotional disclosure via diary-keeping on social media during quarantine is underexplored, understanding which could be beneficial to facilitate emotional connections and enlighten health intervention measures. Focusing on this particular form of self-disclosure, this work proposes a quantitative approach to figure out the prevalence and changing patterns of emotional disclosure during quarantine, and the possible factors contributing to the negative emotions. We collected 58, 796 posts with the "Quarantine Diary" keyword on Weibo, a popular social media website in China. Through text classification, we capture diverse emotion categories that characterize public emotion disclosure during quarantine, such as annoyed, anxious, boring, happy, hopeful and appreciative. Based on temporal analysis, we uncover the changing patterns of emotional disclosure from long-term perspectives and period-based perspectives (e.g., the gradual decline of all negative emotions and the upsurge of the annoyed emotion near the end of quarantine). Leveraging topic modeling, we also encapsulate the possible influencing factors of negative emotions, such as freedom restriction and solitude, and uncertainty of infection and supply. We reflect on how our findings could deepen the understanding of mental health on social media and further provide practical and design implications to mitigate mental health issues during quarantine.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, In Proceedings of The Eleventh International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2023)
Polarization transfer in 4He(\vec{e},e'\vec{p}) and 16O(\vec{e},e'\vec{p}) in a relativistic Glauber model
Creators: name: Lava, P.
name: Ryckebusch, J.
name: Van Overmeire, B.
name: Strauch, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarization-transfer components for 4He(\vec{e},e'\vec{p})3H and 16O(\vec{e},e'\vec{p})15N are computed within the relativistic multiple-scattering Glauber approximation (RMSGA). The RMSGA framework adopts relativistic single-particle wave functions and electron-nucleon couplings. The predictions closely match those of a relativistic plane-wave model indicating the smallness of the final-state interactions for polarization-transfer components. Also short-range correlations play a modest role for the studied observables, as long as small proton missing-momenta are probed in quasi-elastic kinematics. The predictions with free and various parameterizations for the medium-modified electromagnetic form factors are compared to the world data.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures
Caracterização da Pluriatividade e dos Plurirrendimentos da Agricultura Brasileira a partir do Censo Agropecuário 2006
Creators: name: Escher, Fabiano
name: Schneider, Sergio
name: Scarton, Luciana Maria
name: Conterato, Marcelo Antonio
name: Escher, Fabiano
name: Schneider, Sergio
name: Scarton, Luciana Maria
name: Conterato, Marcelo Antonio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Family farming
subject: non-family farming
subject: pluriactivity
subject: pluri-incomes
subject: agricultural Census 2006.

description: he article discusses the phenomenon of pluriactivity in Brazilian agriculture, referring to the diversification of economic and labour activities in rural areas, and pluri-incomes, referring to the diversification of income sources accessed by farmers and their families. Based on 2006 Agricultural Census data, an analysis for Brazil and Southern and Northeastern regions of the country is carried out, trying to compare the so-called “pluriactive households” belonging to family farming and non-family farming categories. The paper identifies and quantifies these households; characterize them according to the type of pluriactivity and the labour relations of employed persons; and identifies their distinct revenue sources, measuring the importance of each one in the formation of total revenue. The empirical finding of a higher percentage of non-family farming households classified as pluriactive (51.9%) than the family farming (34.1%) led to an intriguing theoretical question, since almost all the studies in Brazil always considered pluriactivity as a phenomenon specific to family farming. Although this question is only briefly discussed, the most significant result is that there must be an important part of family farmers who, precisely because they are pluriactive, are improperly classified as non-family farmers and, therefore, excluded from official statistics and possibly of the very public policies suitable for family farming.
Estimativa dos Coeficientes de Afetação dos Custos às Atividades Agrícolas Usando a Teoria da Máxima Entropia
Creators: name: Rosário, Maria Do Socorro
name: Fragoso, Rui Manuel De Sousa
name: Carvalho, Maria Leonor Da Silva
name: Rosário, Maria Do Socorro
name: Fragoso, Rui Manuel De Sousa
name: Carvalho, Maria Leonor Da Silva
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: maximum entropy
subject: variable costs
subject: FADN database
subject: disaggregation model.

description: This paper aims to estimate the cost allocation coefficients of agricultural activities based on incomplete information. A model to disaggregate the variable input costs based on the maximum entropy theory was developed. It was applied to the Alentejo region using data from the FADN network of 2008. Results show that entropy theory is a flexible and robust option for estimating cost allocation coefficients of agricultural activities in a context of incomplete information. Between model variants used, the model of generalized cross entropy had the best forecast capacity, once the estimated coefficients are closer to the real values.
What does inflation really predict?
Creators: name: Tegmark, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the inflaton potential has multiple minima, as may be expected in, e.g., the string theory "landscape", inflation predicts a probability distribution for the cosmological parameters describing spatial curvature (Omega_tot), dark energy (rho_Lambda, w, etc.), the primordial density fluctuations (Omega_tot, dark energy (rho_Lambda, w, etc.). We compute this multivariate probability distribution for various classes of single-field slow-roll models, exploring its dependence on the characteristic inflationary energy scales, the shape of the potential V and and the choice of measure underlying the calculation. We find that unless the characteristic scale Delta-phi on which V varies happens to be near the Planck scale, the only aspect of V that matters observationally is the statistical distribution of its peaks and troughs. For all energy scales and plausible measures considered, we obtain the predictions Omega_tot ~ 1+-0.00001, w=-1 and rho_Lambda in the observed ballpark but uncomfortably high. The high energy limit predicts n_s ~ 0.96, dn_s/dlnk ~ -0.0006, r ~ 0.15 and n_t ~ -0.02, consistent with observational data and indistinguishable from eternal phi^2-inflation. The low-energy limit predicts 5 parameters but prefers larger Q and redder n_s than observed. We discuss the coolness problem, the smoothness problem and the pothole paradox, which severely limit the viable class of models and measures. Our findings bode well for detecting an inflationary gravitational wave signature with future CMB polarization experiments, with the arguably best-motivated single-field models favoring the detectable level r ~ 0.03. (Abridged)
description: Replaced to match accepted JCAP version. Improved discussion, references. 42 pages, 17 figs
Reforma da PAC para o Período 2014-2020: uma aposta no desenvolvimento territorial
Creators: name: Moyano-Estrada, Eduardo
name: Ortega, Antonio César
name: Moyano-Estrada, Eduardo
name: Ortega, Antonio César
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform
subject: European agricultural
subject: rural development
subject: territorial development

description: This work aims to analyse the main changes introduced by the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, passed at the end of 2013 by the European Parliament, coming into effect from 2014 to 2020. According to the reform, the CAP will have a lower budget than the years before and three more countries (now, after the entry of Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, 28 countries are members). In addition to a 12% lower budget per value, it should be noticed a significant change of the general policy orientation: from a sectoral to a territorial priority. Actually, the hypothesis is that we are in the face of a reform that represents a transit from a sectoral-based policy, addressed to the agrarian sector’s productive management with direct assistance, which leads the most scathing criticisms, to a territorial-based policy, oriented to rural area management, which tries to enable rural development processes and remunerate the farmers for the public goods production. Therefore, besides evaluating the importance of having a CAP for Europe, though it does not satisfy most of the farmers anymore, but it attends part of demands of others social segments, and even of the international pressure, the purpose is to analyse the elements of the reform in a perspective that goes beyond specific aspects. In other words, the purpose is to trace the lines where it produces the transit of a policy less guided to the sector and more to the territory.
Condicionantes para Exportação no Setor Sucroenergético Brasileiro
Creators: name: Mota, Junielliny Cipriano Valois Da
name: Machado, André Gustavo Carvalho
name: Moraes, Walter Fernando Araújo De
name: Mota, Junielliny Cipriano Valois Da
name: Machado, André Gustavo Carvalho
name: Moraes, Walter Fernando Araújo De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Export
subject: sugarcane sector
subject: determinants.

description: This article aims to analyse the conditions for export activities in the Brazilian sugarcane industry. Seven determinants were selected: location, tangible resources, intangible resources, managerial choices, learning, external agents and external context. The research strategy used was the survey. The non-probability sample included 84 valid questionnaires that were collected between November and December 2011. Measures and descriptive statistical techniques were used for data analysis. It was evident that elements related to the seven selected determinants may influence the export activity in the sugarcane industry. Regarding the location, it is noticeable to highlight factors such as the natural environment, costs and access to inputs, labor, transportation and support institutions. Agricultural, industrial, financial and organizational resources, leadership style, organizational culture, reputation, reliance on external agents, social networks and knowledge of the industry were the main tangible and intangible resources. In managerial choices, the proactive attitude of intention to export is the main factor. The analysis of learning determinant reiterated that the researched industry is qualified to operate in the foreign market. The action of external agents, such as buyers and competitors is also important for export operations. From the external context perspective, exchange rate, government policies and the environmental uncertainty were determining factors.
Some Bianchi Type I Viscous Fluid Cosmological Models with a Variable Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Pradhan, Anirudh
name: Pandey, Purnima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some Bianchi type I viscous fluid cosmological models with a variable cosmological constant are investigated in which the expansion is considered only in two direction i.e. one of the Hubble parameter $(H_{1} = \frac{A_{4}}{A})$ is zero. The viscosity coefficient of bulk viscous fluid is assumed to be a power function of mass density whereas the coefficient of shear viscosity is considered as constant in first case whereas in other case it is taken as proportional to scale of expansion in the model. The cosmological constant $Λ$ is found to be positive and is a decreasing function of time which is supported by results from recent supernovae Ia observations. Some physical and geometric properties of the models are also discussed.
description: 16 pages
Additional file 1 of National survey of enhanced recovery after thoracic surgery practice in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Creators: name: Alina-Maria Budacan
name: Mehdi, Rana
name: Kerr, Amy Pamela
name: Kadiri, Salma Bibi
name: Batchelor, Timothy J. P.
name: Naidu, Babu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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

description: Additional file 1. Clinical care in patients undergoing lobectomy- A survey of Enhanced Recovery practice questionnaire.
Additional file 4 of Carbon monoxide increases utero-placental angiogenesis without impacting pregnancy specific adaptations in mice
Creators: name: Dickson, Megan A.
name: Peterson, Nichole
name: McRae, Karalyn E.
name: Pudwell, Jessica
name: Chandrakant Tayade
name: Smith, Graeme N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. Cytokine profile of GD10.5 implantation sites of control and carbon monoxide treated mice. Cytokine concentrations at the implantation sites of CO exposed and control mice on GD10.5 (n = 5 control, n = 5 CO). Data are presented as mean ± SEM, analyzed by the Mann-Whitney U test. A p value
A Distribuição Normal-assimétrica como Modelo para Produtividade de Milho Aplicada ao Seguro Agrícola
Creators: name: Santos, Caroline Oliveira
name: Scalon, João Domingos
name: Ozaki, Vitor Augusto
name: Santos, Caroline Oliveira
name: Scalon, João Domingos
name: Ozaki, Vitor Augusto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: goodness of fit
subject: APH
subject: expected payment
subject: time series.

description: The crop insurance sold in Brazil is estimated using the average of the municipal agricultural productivity of the last four or five years. Many researchers believe that using a probabilistic model for the distribution of agricultural productivity is a better methodology for this purpose. This study advocates using the skew-normal distribution as an alternative to the normal distribution to model the distribution of agricultural productivity in Brazil. We analyzed series of corn yield from 1981 to 2007, in 30 counties in Paraná State, Brazil. The skew-normal distribution showed better fits than the normal distribution for the vast majority of the counties, and, consequently, led to better estimates for the expected payment of crop insurance.