cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Endobronchial lipoma
Creators: name: Lakis Granell, Karim
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Thorax
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 68-year-old male patient consulted the emergency department referring to dyspnoea and fever. Patient had a smoking history but did not refer to constitutional syndrome. Blood analysis showed leukocytosis and other inflammatory parameters elevation. Antibiotic treatment was given and the patient was sent to the respiratory medicine department for further study and control.

description: 68, male
DeepIntent: ImplicitIntent based Android IDS with E2E Deep Learning architecture
Creators: name: Sewak, Mohit
name: Sahay, Sanjay K.
name: Rathore, Hemant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Intent in Android plays an important role in inter-process and intra-process communications. The implicit Intent that an application could accept are declared in its manifest and are amongst the easiest feature to extract from an apk. Implicit Intents could even be extracted online and in real-time. So far neither the feasibility of developing an Intrusion Detection System solely on implicit Intent has been explored, nor are any benchmarks available of a malware classifier that is based on implicit Intent alone. We demonstrate that despite Intent is implicit and well declared, it can provide very intuitive insights to distinguish malicious from non-malicious applications. We conducted exhaustive experiments with over 40 different end-to-end Deep Learning configurations of Auto-Encoders and Multi-Layer-Perceptron to create a benchmark for a malware classifier that works exclusively on implicit Intent. Using the results from the experiments we create an intrusion detection system using only the implicit Intents and end-to-end Deep Learning architecture. We obtained an area-under-curve statistic of 0.81, and accuracy of 77.2% along with false-positive-rate of 0.11 on Drebin dataset.
Norm Based Causal Reasoning in Textual Corpus
Creators: name: Nouioua, Farid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Truth based entailments are not sufficient for a good comprehension of NL. In fact, it can not deduce implicit information necessary to understand a text. On the other hand, norm based entailments are able to reach this goal. This idea was behind the development of Frames (Minsky 75) and Scripts (Schank 77, Schank 79) in the 70's. But these theories are not formalized enough and their adaptation to new situations is far from being obvious. In this paper, we present a reasoning system which uses norms in a causal reasoning process in order to find the cause of an accident from a text describing it.
Oxidation Processes Diversify the Metabolic Menu on Enceladus
Creators: name: Ray, Christine
name: Glein, Christopher R.
name: Waite, J. Hunter
name: Teolis, Ben
name: Hoehler, Tori
name: Huber, Julie A.
name: Lunine, Jonathan
name: Postberg, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cassini mission to the Saturn system discovered a plume of ice grains and water vapor erupting from cracks on the icy surface of the satellite Enceladus. This moon has a global ocean in contact with a rocky core beneath its icy exterior, making it a promising location to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life in the solar system. The previous detection of H$_2$ in the plume indicates that there is free energy available for methanogenesis, the metabolic reaction of H$_2$ with CO$_2$ to form methane and water. Additional metabolic pathways could provide sources of energy in Enceladus' ocean, but require the use of other oxidants that have not been detected in the plume. Here, we perform chemical modeling to determine how the production of radiolytic O$_2$ and H$_2$O$_2$, and abiotic redox chemistry in the ocean and rocky core, contribute to chemical disequilibria that could support metabolic processes in Enceladus' ocean. We consider three possible cases for ocean redox chemistry: Case I in which reductants are not present in appreciable amounts and oxidants accumulate over time, and Cases II and III in which aqueous reductants or seafloor minerals, respectively, convert O$_2$ and H$_2$O$_2$ to SO$_4^{2-}$ and ferric oxyhydroxides. We calculate the upper limits on the concentrations of oxidants and chemical energy available for metabolic reactions in all three cases, neglecting additional abiotic reactions. For all three cases, we find that many aerobic and anaerobic metabolic reactions used by microbes on Earth could meet the minimum free energy threshold required for terrestrial life to convert ADP to ATP, as well as sustain positive cell density values within the Enceladus seafloor and/or ocean. These findings indicate that oxidant production and oxidation chemistry could contribute to supporting possible life and a metabolically diverse microbial community on Enceladus.
description: Accepted to Icarus 2 December 2020
Eliseo Ferrer (Entrevista): Una teoría crítica y radical sobre los orígenes y el nacimiento del cristianismo.
Creators: name: Ferrer, Eliseo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440107
subject: Social and cultural anthropology
classificationCode: 430314
subject: History of religion
classificationCode: 500404
subject: Jewish studies
classificationCode: 500401
subject: Christian studies
classificationCode: 500405
subject: Religion, society and culture
classificationCode: 500406
subject: Studies in eastern religious traditions
classificationCode: 500407
subject: Studies in religious traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions)

description: Eentrevista a Eliseo Ferrer, autor de «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado».En esta entrevista, que la periodista Sofía G. Orlowsky realizó a Eliseo Ferrer, el autor de «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado (Genealogía, antropología e historia del mito de Cristo)» resume a fondo y de manera clara el espíritu de la obra: el surgimiento del mito del Mesías-Cristo, de carácter espiritual y místico, como resultado de un largo proceso histórico iniciado en el Neolítico con la muerte y la resurrección del hijo de la diosa. En la entrevista, Ferrer aclara varios aspectos fundamentales:—La importancia del gnosticismo cristiano en el surgimiento de la Iglesia (católica) a finales del siglo segundo.—El papel de los mitos del Salvador zoroastriano y del Redentor mistérico en la construcción de la mitología cristiana primitiva.—La particular metodología dialéctica e histórica que el autor aplica a la obra, quien no oculta su aversión a los métodos analíticos desprovistos de contextualidad histórica.—Y la inexistencia de un «punto cero» en el cristianismo, dentro de un movimiento (mesianismo) puesto en marcha por judíos helenizados herederos de la tradición platónica.
title: Balo's concentric sclerosis
Creators: name: Amat, Rosana
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 48-year-old woman with no history of interest presented to the emergency department with progressive weakness and sensitivity loss in her right hand.

description: 48 years, female
FEATURES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF KUNTUGMISH DOSTON
Creators: name: Haydarova, Gulhayo
name: Haydaraliyeva, Rayhona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this research, the epic "Kuntug’mish", which is a product of folk oral creativity, its artistic features and educational significance is discussed. The characters of Kuntug’mish and Holbeka, the main characters of the epic, are analyzed.
Superconducting Nanocircuits for Topologically Protected Qubits
Creators: name: Gladchenko, Sergey
name: Olaya, David
name: Dupont-Ferrier, Eva
name: Doucot, Benoit
name: Ioffe, Lev B.
name: Gershenson, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For successful realization of a quantum computer, its building blocks (qubits) should be simultaneously scalable and sufficiently protected from environmental noise. Recently, a novel approach to the protection of superconducting qubits has been proposed. The idea is to prevent errors at the "hardware" level, by building a fault-free (topologically protected) logical qubit from "faulty" physical qubits with properly engineered interactions between them. It has been predicted that the decoupling of a protected logical qubit from local noises would grow exponentially with the number of physical qubits. Here we report on the proof-of-concept experiments with a prototype device which consists of twelve physical qubits made of nanoscale Josephson junctions. We observed that due to properly tuned quantum fluctuations, this qubit is protected against magnetic flux variations well beyond linear order, in agreement with theoretical predictions. These results demonstrate the feasibility of topologically protected superconducting qubits.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Electrically charged black holes in linear and nonlinear electrodynamics: Geodesic analysis and scalar absorption
Creators: name: Paula, Marco A. A.
name: Leite, Luiz C. S.
name: Crispino, Luís C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Along the last decades, several regular black hole (BH) solutions, i.e., singularity-free BHs, have been proposed and associated to nonlinear electrodynamics models minimally coupled to general relativity. Within this context, it is of interest to study how those nonlinear-electrodynamic-based regular BHs (RBHs) would interact with their astrophysical environment. We investigate the propagation of a massless test scalar field in the background of an electrically charged RBH solution, obtained by Eloy Ayón-Beato and Alberto García. Using a numerical approach, we compute the absorption cross section of the massless scalar field for arbitrary values of the frequency of the incident wave. We compare the absorption cross sections of the Ayón-Beato and García RBH with the Reissner-Nordström BH, showing that they can be very similar in the whole frequency regime.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures, published in Physical Review D
DOOM: A Novel Adversarial-DRL-Based Op-Code Level Metamorphic Malware Obfuscator for the Enhancement of IDS
Creators: name: Sewak, Mohit
name: Sahay, Sanjay K.
name: Rathore, Hemant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We designed and developed DOOM (Adversarial-DRL based Opcode level Obfuscator to generate Metamorphic malware), a novel system that uses adversarial deep reinforcement learning to obfuscate malware at the op-code level for the enhancement of IDS. The ultimate goal of DOOM is not to give a potent weapon in the hands of cyber-attackers, but to create defensive-mechanisms against advanced zero-day attacks. Experimental results indicate that the obfuscated malware created by DOOM could effectively mimic multiple-simultaneous zero-day attacks. To the best of our knowledge, DOOM is the first system that could generate obfuscated malware detailed to individual op-code level. DOOM is also the first-ever system to use efficient continuous action control based deep reinforcement learning in the area of malware generation and defense. Experimental results indicate that over 67% of the metamorphic malware generated by DOOM could easily evade detection from even the most potent IDS. This achievement gains significance, as with this, even IDS augment with advanced routing sub-system can be easily evaded by the malware generated by DOOM.
Angular velocity distribution of a granular planar rotator in a thermalized bath
Creators: name: Piasecki, J.
name: Talbot, J.
name: Viot, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The kinetics of a granular planar rotator with a fixed center undergoing inelastic collisions with bath particles is analyzed both numerically and analytically by means of the Boltzmann equation. The angular velocity distribution evolves from quasi-gaussian in the Brownian limit to an algebraic decay in the limit of an infinitely light particle. In addition, we compare this model with a planar rotator with a free center. We propose experimental tests that might confirm the predicted behaviors.
description: 10 Pages, 9 Figures
Uniformly well-posed hybridized discontinuous Galerkin/hybrid mixed discretizations for Biot's consolidation model
Creators: name: Kraus, Johannes
name: Lederer, Philip L.
name: Lymbery, Maria
name: Schöberl, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65F10, 65N20, 65N30, 35Q35, 86Axx, 65F08, 65M12

description: We consider the quasi-static Biot's consolidation model in a three-field formulation with the three unknown physical quantities of interest being the displacement $\boldsymbol{u}$ of the solid matrix, the seepage velocity $\boldsymbol{v}$ of the fluid and the pore pressure $p$. As conservation of fluid mass is a leading physical principle in poromechanics, we preserve this property using an $\boldsymbol{H}(\operatorname{div})$-conforming ansatz for $\boldsymbol{u}$ and $\boldsymbol{v}$ together with an appropriate pressure space. This results in Stokes and Darcy stability and exact, that is, pointwise mass conservation of the discrete model. The proposed discretization technique combines a hybridized discontinuous Galerkin method for the elasticity subproblem with a mixed method for the flow subproblem, also handled by hybridization. The latter allows for a static condensation step to eliminate the seepage velocity from the system while preserving mass conservation. The system to be solved finally only contains degrees of freedom related to $\boldsymbol{u}$ and $p$ resulting from the hybridization process and thus provides, especially for higher-order approximations, a very cost-efficient family of physics-oriented space discretizations for poroelasticity problems. We present the construction of the discrete model, theoretical results related to its uniform well-posedness along with optimal error estimates and parameter-robust preconditioners as a key tool for developing uniformly convergent iterative solvers. Finally, the cost-efficiency of the proposed approach is illustrated in a series of numerical tests for three-dimensional test cases.
title: Renal Arterial Aneurysm Rupture as a First Presentation of Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Creators: name: Ryan, Claire
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Interventional radiology
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Stents
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A healthy 33-year-old male patient presented to the Emergency Department with left flank pain, fever and haematuria. The clinical impression was of suspected renal colic. However, his blood pressure and haemoglobin levels dropped, and acute intra-abdominal haemorrhage, secondary to a ruptured renal aneurysm, was diagnosed on imaging.

description: 33 years, male
Cosmological Constraints on Invisible Decay of Dark Matter
Creators: name: Gong, Yan
name: Chen, Xuelei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cold dark matter may be in a meta-stable state and decays to other particles with a very long lifetime. If the decaying products of the dark matter are weakly interacting, e.g. neutrinos, then it would have little impact on astrophysical processes and is therefore difficult to observe. However, such a decay would affect the expansion history of the Universe because of the change of the equation of state. We utilize a high-quality type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) data set selected from several resent observations and the position of the first peak of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular spectrum given by the WMAP three-year data to constrain the dark matter decay-to-neutrino rate $Γ=αΓ_χ$, where $α$ is the fraction of the rest mass which gets converted to neutrinos, and $Γ_χ$ is the decay width. We find that $Γ^{-1} > 0.7\times10^3$ Gyr at 95.5% confidence level.
Video Summarization: Study of various techniques
Creators: name: Raj, Ravi
name: Bhatnagar, Varad
name: Singh, Aman Kumar
name: Mane, Sneha
name: Walde, Nilima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A comparative study of various techniques which can be used for summarization of Videos i.e. Video to Video conversion is presented along with respective architecture, results, strengths and shortcomings. In all approaches, a lengthy video is converted into a shorter video which aims to capture all important events that are present in the original video. The definition of 'important event' may vary according to the context, such as a sports video and a documentary may have different events which are classified as important.
Local Voids as the Origin of Large-angle Cosmic Microwave Background Anomalies I
Creators: name: Inoue, Kaiki Taro
name: Silk, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the large angular scale temperature anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background due to expanding homogeneous local voids at redshift z~1. A compensated spherically symmetric homogeneous dust-filled void with radius \~3*10^2 h^{-1}Mpc, and density contrast ~-0.3 can be observed as a cold spot with a temperature anisotropy -1*10^{-5} surrounded by a slightly hotter ring. We find that a pair of these circular cold spots separated by ~50 degree can account both for the planarity of the octopole and for the alignment between the quadrupole and the octopole in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. The cold spot in the Galactic southern hemisphere which is anomalous at the ~3sigma level can be explained by such a large void at z~1. The observed north-south asymmetry in the large-angle CMB power can be attributed to the asymmetric distribution of these local voids between the two hemispheres. The statistical significance of the low quadrupole is further reduced in this interpretation of the large angular scale CMB anomalies.
description: 8 pages, 5 eps files, Version accepted for ApJ. New maps for non-overlapping voids (Fig. 4) is added
Understanding the Role of Intermediaries in Online Social E-commerce: An Exploratory Study of Beidian
Creators: name: Chen, Zhilong
name: Cao, Hancheng
name: Xu, Fengli
name: Cheng, Mengjie
name: Wang, Tao
name: Li, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social e-commerce, as a new form of social computing based marketing platforms, utilizes existing real-world social relationships for promotions and sales of products. It has been growing rapidly in recent years and attracted tens of millions of users in China. A key group of actors who enable market transactions on these platforms are intermediaries who connect producers with consumers by sharing information with and recommending products to their real-world social contacts. Despite their crucial role, the nature and behavior of these intermediaries on these social e-commerce platforms has not been systematically analyzed. Here we address this knowledge gap through a mixed method study. Leveraging 9 months' all-round behavior of about 40 million users on Beidian -- one of the largest social e-commerce sites in China, alongside with qualitative evidence from online forums and interviews, we examine characteristics of intermediaries, identify their behavioral patterns and uncover strategies and mechanisms that make successful intermediaries. We demonstrate that intermediaries on social e-commerce sites act as local trend detectors and "social grocers". Furthermore, successful intermediaries are highly dedicated whenever best sellers appear and broaden items for promotion. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first large-scale analysis on the emerging role of intermediaries in social e-commerce platforms, which provides potential insights for the design and management of social computing marketing platforms.
description: In CSCW 2020
Inspection d’un banc naturel d’huîtres plates en cours de restauration en baie de Quiberon
Creators: name: Pouvreau, Stephane
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2019

description: Le programme FOREVER (Flat Oyster Recovery) propose d'inventorier les derniers bancs d'huîtres plates présents en Bretagne, d'analyser leur état de santé écologique et de proposer des mesures de conservation et de restauration en faisant appel à des techniques innovantes d'ingénierie écologique issues de l'économie circulaire.
Résolument ancré dans un objectif de développement durable, ce projet vise à pérenniser la production de l'huître plate, espèce emblématique et patrimoniale des côtes bretonnes, tout en conservant la biodiversité côtière.
L'huître plate, Ostrea edulis, est l'huître native des côtes européennes. Espèce autrefois dominante dans la plupart des écosystèmes côtiers, elle ne subsiste plus que dans quelques milieux restreints, notamment en Bretagne, assurant une production ostréicole inférieure à 2 000 t/an.
Sans mesures précises et organisées, cette espèce disparaitra probablement de nos eaux côtières dans un avenir proche comme c'est désormais le cas dans d'autres pays européens. FOREVER est le seul projet en France dans ce domaine, il permettra de faire écho à d'autres projets en cours ou en développement dans d'autres pays européens.
Dielectric characteristics of two BC coastal species during radio frequency heating
Creators: name: Zhou, Bingning
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dielectric properties (loss factor) of two British Columbian softwoods (western hemlock [Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.] and western red cedar [Thuja plicata Donn]) at different moisture content, temperature, and electric field strength levels. This study is expected to provide useful information for the development of a mathematical model to describe heat and moisture transfer mechanisms in wood during radio frequency/vacuum (RF/V) drying. Such a model would predict and optimise the RF/V drying behaviour of wood on a commercial scale without the requirement of experimentation. In this study, the radial direction loss factor of full-sized western hemlock sapwood and heartwood, and western red cedar heartwood timbers was measured using the direct calorimetric data method with a laboratory-scale RF/V dryer at the frequency of 13.56 MHz, moisture content range between 10 and 80%, temperature range between 25 and 55 °C, and root mean square (rms) electrode voltages 0.8 and 1.1 kV, respectively. The results indicated that the moisture content, temperature, electric field strength and species significantly affected the loss factor. Empirical regression equations were derived based on the experimental data, that made possible the calculation of the loss factor and power density within the wood mass during RF heating.
Quintessential inflation from a variable cosmological constant in a 5D vacuum
Creators: name: Membiela, Agustin
name: Bellini, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore an effective 4D cosmological model for the universe where the variable cosmological constant governs its evolution and the pressure remains negative along all the expansion. This model is introduced from a 5D vacuum state where the (space-like) extra coordinate is considered as noncompact. The expansion is produced by the inflaton field, which is considered as nonminimally coupled to gravity. We conclude from experiental data that the coupling of the inflaton with gravity should be weak, but variable in different epochs of the evolution of the universe.
description: final version (figure included)
Functional centrality in graphs
Creators: name: Rodriguez, J. A.
name: Estrada, E.
name: Gutierrez, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C65, 05C50, 05C12, 05A20, 15A42

description: In this paper we introduce the functional centrality as a generalization of the subgraph centrality. We propose a general method for characterizing nodes in the graph according to the number of closed walks starting and ending at the node. Closed walks are appropriately weighted according to the topological features that we need to measure.
Letter from the Manager of the Royal Bank of Canada in Vernon, B.C., to Rainbow Ranche Limited, June 13, 1910
Creators: name: Canada, Royal Bank Of
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to Rainbow Ranche Limited from the manager of the Royal Bank of Canada in Vernon, B.C., dated June 13, 1910, regarding that the Ranche has deposited a sum of $509.80 into their account.
Nonlinear Pseudo-Supersymmetry in the Framework of N-fold Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Lopez, Artemio
name: Tanaka, Toshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recall the importance of recognizing the different mathematical nature of various concepts relating to PT-symmetric quantum theories. After clarifying the relation between supersymmetry and pseudo-supersymmetry, we prove generically that nonlinear pseudo-supersymmetry, recently proposed by Sinha and Roy, is just a special case of N-fold supersymmetry. In particular, we show that all the models constructed by these authors have type A 2-fold supersymmetry. Furthermore, we prove that an arbitrary one-body quantum Hamiltonian which admits two (local) solutions in closed form belongs to type A 2-fold supersymmetry, irrespective of whether or not it is Hermitian, PT-symmetric, pseudo-Hermitian, and so on.
description: 10 pages, no figures; typos corrected
DISPARITIES IN EMPLOYER-BASED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR WORKING-AGE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES
Creators: name: Lida, Kerry
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: Disability
Employer-based health insurance
Employment
Health
Health Insurance
Policy

description: Evidence has shown that improving public health services, access to a usual source of care, health insurance coverage, and improving the quality of health services are all important strategies to overcome disparities for the larger population.  However, to date, scarce research is available which examines these issues for individuals with disabilities.  This study focuses on the question of employer sponsored insurance (ESI) coverage through the current main job (CMJ) for individuals with disabilities. Using the 2003-2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component data files, the study sample consisted of working-age adults (aged 18-64) who were employed at least part time during the year of reference (n=62,970).  Two research questions were examined: (a) among people with disabilities who are employed, what is the likelihood of having ESI coverage through the CMJ, relative to people without disabilities; and (b) what are the predictors of having ESI insurance through their CMJ; specifically, to what extent does the nature of the disability, individual sociodemographic characteristics, and characteristics of the job/employer predict the likelihood that an employee will have ESI through his/her main job? Multivariate analyses were conducted to evaluate how well each of four models (disability; disability and demographics; disability, demographics, and employment characteristics; and disability, demographics, employment characteristics, and firm characteristics) predicted the dependent variable of health insurance held through the CMJ. Study findings demonstrated that the presence of ESI through the CMJ was significantly associated with the type of disability, as individuals with certain disabilities had lower odds of holding employer-based coverage through the CMJ when unadjusted for sociodemographic and firm characteristics. However, study findings showed that physical limitations remained the only significant disability category when all individual sociodemographic, firm, and employment characteristics were incorporated in the final model comparing individuals with and without disabilities.  Among individuals with disabilities, those with functional limitations had lower odds of having ESI through their CMJ, relative to the reference group of individuals with work limitations.  Research results indicate that more complete models are needed to explain disparities in ESI coverage through the CMJ and the complex relationships among disabilities, firm, employment, and demographic characteristics.
Exploiting Twistor Techniques for One-loop QCD Amplitudes
Creators: name: Bjerrum-Bohr, N. E. J.
name: Dunbar, David C.
name: Ita, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we describe the recursive Approach to One-loop QCD Matrix Elements.
description: Talk presented by David C. Dunbar at Loop and Legs 2006, 5 pages
null Pädagogische Lesungen nach der politischen Wende von 1989
Creators: name: Koebe, Kristina
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock, Arbeitsstelle Pädagogische Lesungen Rostock
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 370 Education
subject: 943 General history of Europe Central Europe Germany

description: Bereits wenige Monate nach dem politischen Umbruch von 1989 droht das Format Pädagogische Lesungen in der von der DDR etablierten Form zum Erliegen zu kommen. Der hiermit vorgelegte Beitrag rekonstruiert die Bemühungen einer selbstorganisierten Arbeitsgruppe, in die sich mehrere zu DDR-Zeiten in die Arbeit mit den Pädagogischen Lesungen involvierte Akteure aktiv einbringen, um eine Weiterführung in adaptierter Form. Dabei werden sowohl die aus den bisherigen Erfahrungen gespeiste Planung der zukünftigen Ausgestaltung als auch die nun ideologisch entlastetere rückblickende Prüfung von Format und Popularisierung als aufschlussreich für die historische Einordnung betrachtet. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die rückblickende kritische Reflexion auf zwei Bereiche konzentriert: die inhaltliche pädagogische Orientierung und die Distribution. Für eine zukünftige Implementierung empfiehlt man vor allem insofern eine Neugestaltung, dass man sich einen unmittelbareren, d.h. durch wenig organisatorische Bearbeitung gebrochenen, Erfahrungsaustausch von Pädagog*in zu Pädagog*in wünscht. Dabei hält man gleichzeitig an anderen zentralen Eigenschaften des Formates fest und betont auch wiederholt den Wert einer wissenschaftlichen Verankerung.
Effect of Deep Learning Feature Inference Techniques on Respiratory Sounds
Creators: name: Balli, Osman
name: Kutlu, Yakup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Analysis of respiratory sounds increases its importance every day. Many different methods are available in the analysis, and new techniques are continuing to be developed to further improve these methods. Features are extracted from audio signals and trained using different machine learning techniques. The use of deep learning, which is a different method and has increased in recent years, also shows its influence in this field. Deep learning techniques applied to the image of audio signals give good results and continue to be developed. In this study, image filters were applied to the values obtained from audio signals and the results of the features formed from this were examined in machine learning and deep learning techniques. Their results were compared with the results of methods that had previously achieved good results.
description: 4 pages, journal of intelligent systems with applications
Probing the Earth's interior with the LENA detector
Creators: name: Hochmuth, Kathrin A.
name: Feilitzsch, Franz v.
name: Fields, Brian D.
name: Undagoitia, Teresa Marrodan
name: Oberauer, Lothar
name: Potzel, Walter
name: Wurm, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A future large-volume liquid scintillator detector such as the proposed 50 kton LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) detector would provide a high-statistics measurement of terrestrial antineutrinos originating from $β$-decays of the uranium and thorium chains. Additionally, the neutron is scattered in the forward direction in the detection reaction $\barν_e+p\to n+e^+$. Henceforth, we investigate to what extent LENA can distinguish between certain geophysical models on the basis of the angular dependence of the geoneutrino flux. Our analysis is based on a Monte-Carlo simulation with different levels of light yield, considering an unloaded PXE scintillator. We find that LENA is able to detect deviations from isotropy of the geoneutrino flux with high significance. However, if only the directional information is used, the time required to distinguish between different geophysical models is of the order of severals decades. Nonetheless, a high-statistics measurement of the total geoneutrino flux and its spectrum still provides an extremely useful glance at the Earth's interior.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures. Contributed to the proceedings of Neutrino Sciences 2005: Neutrino Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, 14-16 Dec 2005
Thermodynamics of Energy Magnetization
Creators: name: Zhang, Yinhan
name: Gao, Yang
name: Xiao, Di
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the thermodynamics of energy magnetization in the presence of gravitomagnetic field. We show that the free energy must be modified to account for the modification of the energy current operator in the presence of a confining potential. The explicit expression of the energy magnetization is derived for a periodic system, and the Streda formula for the thermal Hall conductivity is rigorously established. We demonstrate our theory of the energy magnetization and the Streda formula in a Chern insulator.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, fixed reference list
Fee-for-Service Versus Managed Care Plan Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Medicare Patients' Self-reported Health Status
Creators: name: Pertoski, Jason
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Health Sciences, Health Care Management (0769)
Political Science, Public Administration (0617)
Medicare
Quality of Care
Health Status
Managed Care
Fee-for-Service

description: An increasing number of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolling in managed care programs such as Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) as opposed to traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. As the entire Medicare population starts to expand policymakers and researchers have once again turned their attention to performance measurement in health plans and health care delivery systems. Despite recent developments in quality of care measurement, there are few studies that have focused on comparing the health outcomes of patients enrolled in one Medicare delivery system as opposed to another. The primary focus of this study was to compare two-year changes in self-reported health for elderly Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a managed care plan (MAO) versus FFS Medicare. Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) data from 1998-2000 were used to evaluate three separate health outcome measures: a) a mental and physical health measure, based on the Medicare Outcomes Study (MOS) SF-36 questionnaire, b) a general health measure, and c) a functional status measure, using the number of activities of daily living (ADLs) that a beneficiary was unable to perform. These three measures were collected for each survey respondent at baseline and follow-up (two years later) as part of the study's longitudinal research design. Ordinal and binary logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine the effect of Medicare delivery system on the likelihood of reporting worse health at follow-up. Results showed that elderly Medicare beneficiaries who were enrolled in an MAO were no more likely to report worse health for the physical health, general health and functional status measures than similar beneficiaries enrolled in FFS Medicare. There was however a negative association found with patient's self-reported mental health and enrollment in an MAO. This relationship was even more pronounced when the sample population was limited to persons with chronic conditions. This study also found that beneficiaries enrolled in for-profit MAOs and loosely managed HMOs were more likely to report worse health at follow-up than their counterparts in different types of plans. Findings from this study suggest that elderly Medicare patients report disparate levels of health which may be partially attributable to their choice to enroll in an MAO versus Medicare FFS, and additionally (where applicable), the type of MAO plan selected.
Molecular line mapping of the giant molecular cloud associated with RCW 106 - II. Column density and dynamical state of the clumps
Creators: name: Wong, T.
name: Ladd, E. F.
name: Brisbin, D.
name: Burton, M. G.
name: Bains, I.
name: Cunningham, M. R.
name: Lo, N.
name: Jones, P. A.
name: Thomas, K. L.
name: Longmore, S. N.
name: Vigan, A.
name: Mookerjea, B.
name: Kramer, C.
name: Fukui, Y.
name: Kawamura, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fully sampled C^{18}O (1-0) map towards the southern giant molecular cloud (GMC) associated with the HII region RCW 106, and use it in combination with previous ^{13}CO (1-0) mapping to estimate the gas column density as a function of position and velocity. We find localized regions of significant ^{13}CO optical depth in the northern part of the cloud, with several of the high-opacity clouds in this region likely associated with a limb-brightened shell around the HII region G333.6-0.2. Optical depth corrections broaden the distribution of column densities in the cloud, yielding a log-normal distribution as predicted by simulations of turbulence. Decomposing the ^{13}CO and C^{18}O data cubes into clumps, we find relatively weak correlations between size and linewidth, and a more sensitive dependence of luminosity on size than would be predicted by a constant average column density. The clump mass spectrum has a slope near -1.7, consistent with previous studies. The most massive clumps appear to have gravitational binding energies well in excess of virial equilibrium; we discuss possible explanations, which include magnetic support and neglect of time-varying surface terms in the virial theorem. Unlike molecular clouds as a whole, the clumps within the RCW 106 GMC, while elongated, appear to show random orientations with respect to the Galactic plane.
description: 17 pages, to appear in MNRAS
Fermion generations, masses and mixings in a 6D brane model
Creators: name: Aguilar, Silvestre
name: Singleton, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the motion of higher dimensional fermions in a non-singular 6D brane background with an increasing warp factor. This background acts as a potential well trapping fermions and fields of other spins near a 3+1 dimensional brane. By adjusting the shape of this potential well it is possible to obtain three normalizable zero mass modes giving a possible higher dimensional solution to the fermion generation puzzle. The three different zero mass modes correspond to the different angular momentum eigenvalues for rotations around the brane. This bulk angular momentum acts as the family or generation number. The three normalizable zero modes have different profiles with respect to the bulk, thus by coupling the higher dimensional fermion field to a higher dimensional scalar field it is possible to generate both a realistic mass hierarchy and realistic mixings between the different families.
description: 8 pages, 0 figures, added 2 additional references. typos corrected. Matches published version
THE FAIRY TALE GENRE OF FOLKLORE
Creators: name: Haydarova, Gulhayo
name: Muhammadjonova, Gulsanam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article describes the fairy tale genre of folklore and its educational significance, national traditions and values   reflected in them, and its specific features. Also, the origin of the term "fairy tale" and its names in different regions are discussed in detail.
Huîtres plates dans leur milieu naturel en Baie de Quiberon
Creators: name: Pouvreau, Stephane
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2019

description: Le programme FOREVER (Flat Oyster Recovery) propose d'inventorier les derniers bancs d'huîtres plates présents en Bretagne, d'analyser leur état de santé écologique et de proposer des mesures de conservation et de restauration en faisant appel à des techniques innovantes d'ingénierie écologique issues de l'économie circulaire.
Résolument ancré dans un objectif de développement durable, ce projet vise à pérenniser la production de l'huître plate, espèce emblématique et patrimoniale des côtes bretonnes, tout en conservant la biodiversité côtière.
L'huître plate, Ostrea edulis, est l'huître native des côtes européennes. Espèce autrefois dominante dans la plupart des écosystèmes côtiers, elle ne subsiste plus que dans quelques milieux restreints, notamment en Bretagne, assurant une production ostréicole inférieure à 2 000 t/an.
Sans mesures précises et organisées, cette espèce disparaitra probablement de nos eaux côtières dans un avenir proche, comme c'est désormais le cas dans d'autres pays européens. FOREVER est le seul projet en France dans ce domaine, il permettra de faire écho à d'autres projets en cours ou en développement dans d'autres pays européens, en proposant des méthodes de restauration écologique adaptées à nos milieux côtiers.
Snaking without subcriticality: grain boundaries as non-topological defects
Creators: name: Subramanian, Priya
name: Archer, Andrew J.
name: Knobloch, Edgar
name: Rucklidge, Alastair M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-topological defects such as grain boundaries abound in pattern forming systems, arising from local variations of pattern properties such as amplitude, wavelength, orientation, etc. We introduce the idea of treating such non-topological defects as spatially localised structures that are embedded in a background pattern, instead of treating them in an amplitude-phase decomposition. Using the two-dimensional quadratic-cubic Swift--Hohenberg equation as an example we obtain fully nonlinear equilibria that contain grain boundaries which are closed curves containing multiple penta-hepta defects separating regions of hexagons with different orientations. These states arise from local orientation mismatch between two stable hexagon patterns, one of which forms the localised grain and the other its background, and do not require a subcritical bifurcation connecting them. Multiple robust isolas that span a wide range of parameters are obtained even in the absence of a unique Maxwell point, underlining the importance of retaining pinning when analysing patterns with defects, an effect omitted from the amplitude-phase description.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures and 2 movies in mp4 format
Differential Gender Reactions To Independence From Ones Parents And Its Effect On Alcohol Consumption Among College Students
Creators: name: Grossman, Elyse
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Health Sciences, Public Health (0573)
Health Sciences, General (0566)
gender differences
binge drinking
independence
college students
alcohol
policy

description: Alcohol abuse is becoming more prevalent on college campuses. Although college and university administrators have begun implementing new alcohol prevention and treatment programs, these programs do not adjust for their participants' gender, thus neglecting a potentially major influence of drinking behaviors. This study examined whether independence -the physical, psychological and emotional separation from one's parents and the ramifications of that separation - affected college alcohol consumption differently for women than men. First- and second-year students at a state university (n=177) completed online surveys assessing their patterns of drinking, and their levels of college and high school independence. The study found that women's likelihood of binge drinking during college decreased among women who communicated regularly with their parents during high school but increased among women whose parents provided strict governance and discipline during high school. These findings suggest that parents may be serving as emotional anchors for their daughters, thus enabling these women to turn to their parents for support during stressful times in college instead of turning to alcohol. Moreover, increased binge drinking in college may be an act of rebellion against their parents' discipline in high school as well as a reaction to the freedom provided to students in college and the major adjustment which is thus required of them. Men's weekly alcohol consumption in college was affected by the enforcement (or lack thereof) of specific rules in high school. University administrators could acknowledge and target these gender differences thus creating better alcohol treatment programs, prevention strategies and campus policies.
Rhythmic cluster generation in strongly driven colloidal dispersions
Creators: name: Wensink, H. H.
name: Löwen, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the response of a nematic colloidal dispersion of rods to a driven probe particle which is dragged with high speed through the dispersion perpendicular to the nematic director. In front of the dragged particle, clusters of rods are generated which rhythmically grow and dissolve by rotational motion. We find evidence for a mesoscopic cluster-cluster correlation length, {\em independent} of the imposed drag speed. Our results are based on non-equilibrium Brownian dynamics computer simulations and in line with a dynamical scaling theory.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett