cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relations among children's coping strategies and anxiety: the mediating role of coping efficacy
Creators: name: Thorne, Keoma
Publisher: name: Education
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: children
subject: anxiety
subject: Coping strategies
subject: Coping efficacy

description: Studies suggest that 5 to 14 percent of Canadian children (5 to 12 years old) have one or more anxiety disorders (Romano, Tremblay, Vitaro, Zoccolillo, & Pagani, 2001; Willms, 2002), and as such, problems with anxiety are the most prevalent psychological conditions affecting this age group (Malcarne & Hansdottir, 2001; Pollock, Rosenbaum, Marrs, Miller, & Biederman, 1995). Theory and empirical research (e.g., Aldwin, 2007; Sandler, Tein, Mehta, Wolchik, & Ayers, 2000) have recently focused on the role of coping strategies (i.e., the methods children use to manage everyday problems) and coping efficacy (i.e., perception of one’s own ability to deal with stressors) as two of the primary factors associated with the development and maintenance of problems with anxiety. Despite their potential importance, we continue to lack clarity regarding the interrelationships among coping strategies, coping efficacy, and anxiety due to empirical inconsistencies (e.g., Weems, Silverman, Rapee, & Pina, 2003), issues surrounding the instruments used to measure these constructs (e.g., Compas, Connor-Smith, Saltzman, Harding Thomsen, & Wadsworth, 2001), neglect of cross-cultural research (e.g., C. A. Essau, Aihara, Petermann, & Al Wiswasi, 2001), and a lack of comprehensive investigations of these constructs (e.g., Saavedra & Silverman, 2001). Using structural equation modeling, the current study tested a model depicting the relationships among and between active, distraction, avoidance, and support seeking coping strategies and anxiety symptoms, as mediated by coping efficacy. A large sample of Canadian children (N = 506) aged 8 to 11 years (boys = 249, girls = 245, unknown sex = 12) participated in the study. Results partially supported hypotheses demonstrating that coping efficacy is a mediator of the relations between active coping strategies and anxiety symptoms. No support was found for coping efficacy as a mediator between the other coping strategies and anxiety. This study contributes to the understanding of childhood anxiety by highlighting the importance of the relationship between anxiety and the methods children use to cope with stress and how perceptions of their coping abilities influence this relationship. Implications for the research, assessment, and treatment of childhood anxiety symptoms and suggestions for future research are discussed.
Investigating How Practitioners Use Human-AI Guidelines: A Case Study on the People + AI Guidebook
Creators: name: Yildirim, Nur
name: Pushkarna, Mahima
name: Goyal, Nitesh
name: Wattenberg, Martin
name: Viegas, Fernanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial intelligence (AI) presents new challenges for the user experience (UX) of products and services. Recently, practitioner-facing resources and design guidelines have become available to ease some of these challenges. However, little research has investigated if and how these guidelines are used, and how they impact practice. In this paper, we investigated how industry practitioners use the People + AI Guidebook. We conducted interviews with 31 practitioners (i.e., designers, product managers) to understand how they use human-AI guidelines when designing AI-enabled products. Our findings revealed that practitioners use the guidebook not only for addressing AI's design challenges, but also for education, cross-functional communication, and for developing internal resources. We uncovered that practitioners desire more support for early phase ideation and problem formulation to avoid AI product failures. We discuss the implications for future resources aiming to help practitioners in designing AI products.
title: An interdisciplinary assessment of private conservation areas in the Western United States
Creators: name: Quintas-Soriano, Cristina
name: Gibson, Dainee M.
name: Brandt, Jodi S.
name: López-Rodríguez, María D.
name: Cabello, Javier
name: Aguilera, Pedro A.
name: Castro, Antonio J.
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: conservation bundles
subject: ecosystem service
subject: private lands
subject: protected areas
subject: social-ecological system
subject: transdisciplinary science
subject: 550
subject: 630
subject: USA / Weststaaten
subject: Naturschutz
subject: Private Investition
subject: Ökosystemdienstleistung
subject: Privatbesitz
subject: Landnutzung
subject: Naturschutzgebiet
subject: Ökosystem

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
The energetics of giant radio galaxy lobes from inverse Compton scattering observations
Creators: name: Colafrancesco, S.
name: Marchegiani, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Giant radio galaxy (GRG) lobes are excellent laboratories to study the evolution of the particle and B-field energetics. However, these results are based on assumptions of the shape and extension of the GRG lobe electron spectrum. We re-examine the energetics of GRG lobes as derived by inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons (ICS-CMB) by relativistic electrons in RG lobes to assess the physical conditions of RG lobes, their energetics and their radiation regime. We consider the GRG DA 240 recently observed by Suzaku as a reference case and we also discuss other RG lobes observed with Chandra and XMM. We model the spectral energy distribution of the DA 240 East lobe to get constraint on the shape and the extension of the electron spectrum in the lobe by using multi-frequency information from radio to gamma-rays. We use radio and X-ray data to constrain the shape and normalization of the electron spectrum and we then calculate the SZ effect expected in GRG lobes that is sensitive to the total electron energy density. We show that the electron energy density U_e derived form X-ray observations yields only a rough lower limit to its actual value and that most of the estimates of U_e based on X-ray measurements have to be increased even by a large factor by considering realistic estimates of the lower electron momentum p_1. This brings RG lobes away from the equipartition condition towards a particle-dominated and Compton power dominance regime. We use the distribution of RG lobes in the U_e/U_B vs. U_e/U_CMB plane as a further divide between different physical regimes of particle and field dominance, and radiation mechanism dominance in RG lobes. We conclude that the SZ effect produced by ICS-CMB mechanism observable in RG lobes provides reliable estimate of p_1 and U_e and is the best tool to determine the total energy density of RG lobes and to assess their physical regime.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, A&A in press
หลักการให้โอกาสผู้เสพผู้ติดยาเสพติดคืนคนดีสู่สังคมในสถานประกอบการด้วยพรหมวิหาร - สังคหวัตถุ 4
Creators: name: พิศมัย ทองเที่ยง
Publisher: name: Mahidol University
Year: 2020
Subjects: การให้โอกาสผู้เสพ
ผู้ติดยาเสพติด
คืนคนดีสู่สังคม
พรหมวิหาร 4
สังคหวัตถุ 4

description: Mahidol R2R e-Journal, 7, 2, 16-29
Phospholipase A2 Receptor and α-enolase in the Immunodiagnosis of membranous nephropathy
Creators: name: Zhang, Ying
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Health
subject: M-type phospholipase A2 receptor
subject: α-enolase
subject: idiopathic membranous nephropathy

description: M-type phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) and α-enolase are two recently identified autoantigens in adult idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN). To identify their diagnostic value and the potential roles in the pathogenesis of MN, renal biopsies and sera from 23 patients with MN were investigated. In 19 IMN cases, the positivity for glomerular PLA2R and circulating anti-PLA2R antibodies was 47% and 26% respectively, while only 5% glomeruli showed positive α-enolase staining. IgG4 was often codominant with either IgG1 or IgG3 in PLA2R-positive glomeruli which also showed more prevalent and stronger C3 staining as compared with PLA2R-negative glomeruli. A positive correlation between IgG1 with complement C3C expression in glomeruli was observed. Circulating anti-PLA2R autoantibody titers and PLA2R expression in renal biopsies were associated with clinical outcomes (follow up proteinuria). The results indicate that in PLA2R related MN, autoantibody –antigen interaction activates complement C3 directly or indirectly, resulting in podocyte injury and proteinuria.
Learning Generalized Hybrid Proximity Representation for Image Recognition
Creators: name: Li, Zhiyuan
name: Ralescu, Anca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently, deep metric learning techniques received attention, as the learned distance representations are useful to capture the similarity relationship among samples and further improve the performance of various of supervised or unsupervised learning tasks. We propose a novel supervised metric learning method that can learn the distance metrics in both geometric and probabilistic space for image recognition. In contrast to the previous metric learning methods which usually focus on learning the distance metrics in Euclidean space, our proposed method is able to learn better distance representation in a hybrid approach. To achieve this, we proposed a Generalized Hybrid Metric Loss (GHM-Loss) to learn the general hybrid proximity features from the image data by controlling the trade-off between geometric proximity and probabilistic proximity. To evaluate the effectiveness of our method, we first provide theoretical derivations and proofs of the proposed loss function, then we perform extensive experiments on two public datasets to show the advantage of our method compared to other state-of-the-art metric learning methods.
description: The paper has been accepted by the IEEE ICTAI 2022
Constraining the Milky Way potential using the dynamical kinematic substructures
Creators: name: Monari, Giacomo
name: Antoja, Teresa
name: Helmi, Amina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to constrain the potential of the non-axisymmetric components of the Galaxy using the kinematics of stars in the solar neighborhood. The basic premise is that dynamical substructures in phase-space (i.e. due to the bar and/or spiral arms) are associated with families of periodic or irregular orbits, which may be easily identified in orbital frequency space. We use the "observed" positions and velocities of stars as initial conditions for orbital integrations in a variety of gravitational potentials. We then compute their characteristic frequencies, and study the structure present in the frequency maps. We find that the distribution of dynamical substructures in velocity- and frequency-space is best preserved when the integrations are performed in the "true" gravitational potential.
description: 2 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way", Le Grand Bornand (Apr. 17-22, 2011)
Evolving Flying Machines in Minecraft Using Quality Diversity
Creators: name: Medina, Alejandro
name: Richey, Melanie
name: Mueller, Mark
name: Schrum, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Minecraft is a great testbed for human creativity that has inspired the design of various structures and even functioning machines, including flying machines. EvoCraft is an API for programmatically generating structures in Minecraft, but the initial work in this domain was not capable of evolving flying machines. This paper applies fitness-based evolution and quality diversity search in order to evolve flying machines. Although fitness alone can occasionally produce flying machines, thanks in part to a more sophisticated fitness function than was used previously, the quality diversity algorithm MAP-Elites is capable of discovering flying machines much more reliably, at least when an appropriate behavior characterization is used to guide the search for diverse solutions.
description: In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '23), July 15-19, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal
Sustained Hypoxia: Respiratory Muscles and Ventilation
Creators: name: Ji, Suk Joon
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Sciences
subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Respiratory Muscle
subject: Sustained Hypoxia
subject: Diaphragm
subject: Parasternal intercostal
subject: Transversus abdominis
subject: Ventilation
subject: EMG activity
subject: Sonomicrometry
subject: Muscle length

description: The focus of this thesis was to systematically examine the effects of sustained hypoxia on ventilation and the function of the primary breathing muscles in an intact awake mammal. Successful execution of this thesis work relied upon the chronically instrumented awake canine model to test the physiologic questions and hypotheses, collaborative team work to execute the experiments, as well as development of appropriate software tools to analyze the immense physiologic dataset amassed over the years. This thesis is organized as a series of related investigative projects overarching the central theme of sustained hypoxia. Ventilation in awake canines exhibited the characteristic biphasic pattern during sustained hypoxia, like that of humans and other mammals, with an initial peak followed by a subsequent decline - “roll-off” or hypoxic ventilatory decline (HVD) - to a lesser intermediate plateau. Our findings directly contest the longstanding canine controversy that ventilation does not roll-off in this species. Examination of the principle inspiratory muscle, the diaphragm, during sustained hypoxia revealed a biphasic contraction and neural activation of the costal and crural, with differential segmental function during initial and sustained hypoxia. Persistent effects of hypoxia caused a dramatic loss of the contractile output of the primary inspiratory chest wall muscle, the parasternal intercostal, accompanied by a decline in EMG activity. Immediate response to hypoxia elicited a marked recruitment of the primary expiratory abdominal muscle, the transversus abdominis, however, sustained hypoxia caused the initial acute expiratory abdominal contribution to be nearly abolished. Excitatory and inhibitory influence of hypoxia may largely account for the past discordance of expiratory activity with hypoxia in mammals. Attenuation of central drive appeared to persist following sustained hypoxia affecting the primary respiratory muscles. We conclude that sustained hypoxic ventilatory roll-off is a universal mammalian characteristic without exception for canines. Attenuation of neural drive with sustained hypoxia is a widespread central phenomenon significantly impacting the primary respiratory muscles of the diaphragm, the chest wall and the abdominal wall, in a distinct and differential manner.
Calculating spin-lattice interactions in ferro- and antiferromagnets: the role of symmetry, dimension and frustration
Creators: name: Lange, Hannah
name: Mankovsky, Sergiy
name: Polesya, Svitlana
name: Weißenhofer, Markus
name: Nowak, Ulrich
name: Ebert, Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the interplay between spin and lattice degrees of freedom has gained a lot of attention due to its importance for various fundamental phenomena as well as for spintronic and magnonic applications. Examples are ultrafast angular momentum transfer between the spin and lattice subsystems during ultrafast demagnetization, frustration driven by structural distortions in transition metal oxides, or in acoustically driven spin-wave resonances. In this work, we provide a systematic analysis of spin-lattice interactions for ferro- and antiferromagnetic materials and focus on the role of lattice symmetries and dimensions, magnetic order, and the relevance of spin-lattice interactions for angular momentum transfer as well as magnetic frustration. For this purpose, we use a recently developed scheme which allows an efficient calculation of spin-lattice interaction tensors from first principles. In addition to that, we provide a more accurate and self consistent scheme to calculate ab initio spin lattice interactions by using embedded clusters which allows to benchmark the performance of the scheme introduced previously.
Interactions between explicit and latent covariates detect cell-type specific treatment effects in exploratory single cell analysis without clustering
Creators: name: Ahlmann-Eltze, Constantin
name: Huber, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: In single cell data analysis, after quality control and dimensionality reduction, the data is usually clustered into cell-types. Functional analysis, for example of perturbation data, identifies differentially expressed genes per cluster.
 We propose a novel method to account for arbitrary batch effect and perform joint-inference of the latent cell space and cell-population specific expression effects, by introducing interaction terms between the latent factors and the known covariates (e.g., perturbation status) in the classical factor analysis model.
PhenoExamWeb: Switching between mendelian genes space and clinical phenotypes space contributes to comparative Mendelian gene sets analysis
Creators: name: Cisterna, Alejandro
name: Vidal, Aurora González
name: Villa, Daniel Ruiz
name: Ortiz, Jordi
name: Aguado, Ana Sabater
name: Hardy, John Anthony
name: García-Prieto, Paolo Díez
name: Álvarez, Sara
name: Andrés, Mina Álvarez De
name: Botía, Juan
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: PhenoExamWeb: Switching between mendelian genes space and clinical phenotypes space contributes to comparative Mendelian gene sets analysis
Nucleon electromagnetic form factors and electroexcitation of low lying nucleon resonances in a light-front relativistic quark model
Creators: name: Aznauryan, I. G.
name: Burkert, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We utilize a light-front relativistic quark model (LF RQM) to predict the 3q core contribution to the electroexcitation amplitudes for the Delta(1232)P33, N(1440)P11, N(1520)D13, and N(1535)S11 up to Q2= 12GeV2. The parameters of the model have been specified via description of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors in the approach that combines 3q and pion-cloud contributions in the LF dynamics.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Methods for high-precision determinations of radiative-leptonic decay form factors using lattice QCD
Creators: name: Giusti, Davide
name: Kane, Christopher F.
name: Lehner, Christoph
name: Meinel, Stefan
name: Soni, Amarjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of lattice-QCD methods to determine the relevant hadronic form factors for radiative leptonic decays of pseudoscalar mesons. We provide numerical results for $D_s^+ \to \ell^+ νγ$. Our calculation is performed using a domain-wall action for all quark flavors and on a single RBC/UKQCD lattice gauge-field ensemble. The first part of the study is how to best control two sources of systematic error inherent in the calculation, specifically the unwanted excited states created by the meson interpolating field, and unwanted exponentials in the sum over intermediate states. Using a 3d sequential propagator allows for better control over unwanted exponentials from intermediate states, while using a 4d sequential propagator allows for better control over excited states. We perform individual analyses of the 3d and 4d methods as well as a combined analysis using both methods, and find that the 3d sequential propagator offers good control over both sources of systematic uncertainties for the smallest number of propagator solves. From there, we further improve the use of a 3d sequential propagator by employing an infinite-volume approximation method, which allows us to calculate the relevant form factors over the entire allowed range of photon energies. We then study improvements gained by performing the calculation using a different three-point function, using ratios of three-point functions, averaging over positive and negative photon momentum, and using an improved method for extracting the structure-dependent part of the axial form factor. The optimal combination of methods yields results for the $D_s^+ \to \ell^+ νγ$ structure-dependent vector and axial form factors in the entire kinematic range with statistical plus fitting uncertainties of order 5%, using 25 gauge configurations with 64 samples per configuration.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures
Panicum (sect. Dichotomiflora) (Hitch.) Honda 1930
Creators: name: Fernando O. Zuloaga
name: Diego Giraldo-Cañas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Panicum
Panicum dichotomiflorum

description: 2.  Panicum sect. Dichotomiflora  (Hitchc.) Honda,
J. Fac. Sci. Uni. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3 (2): 246. 1930.
 Especie tipo. Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx.
 Plantas anuales o perennes. Cañas decumbentes a erguidas. Hojas con lígulas membranáceo-ciliadas; láminas lanceoladas. Inflorescencias laxas, difusas a contraídas, pedicelos cortos a largos. Espiguillas elipsoides a lanceoladas, glabras, dispuestas en rami- ficaciones multilaterales. Gluma inferior 1/5 a 1/3 del largo de la espiguilla, 1-3-nervia. Gluma superior y lema inferior subiguales, 5-7(-9)-nervias. Antecio superior cartilaginoso, glabro, pálea con papilas hacia la porción superior. Cariopsis elipsoide o fusiforme; hilo oblongo, embrión la mitad o menos de la mitad del largo de la cariopsis.
 Composición y distribución. Sección con aproximadamente diez especies en América, que crecen desde Estados Unidos de América, México, Mesoamérica y las islas del Caribe hasta Sudamérica. Incluye especies palustres, acuáticas o de suelos húmedos, habitando usualmente en terrenos abiertos y húmedos o en riberas de diferentes cursos de agua.
 Comentarios. Plantas C4, Kranz del subtipo anatómico PS (= XyMS+), PCK; número cromosómico básico x = 9.    Clave para las especies de Panicum sect. Dichotomiflora presentes en Colombia
 1. Plantas anuales, cañas delgadas; espiguillas largamente ovoides, de (2)2.4-3 mm de largo; antecio superior casi igual al largo de la espiguilla.............................................................................................................................  2-1. Panicum dichotomiflorum
 1. Plantas perennes, cañas suculentas; espiguillas lanceoladas de (3.3-) 4.5-5.6 mm de largo; antecio superior aproximadamente 3/4 del largo de la espiguilla...............................................................................................................  2-2. Panicum elephantipes
description: Published as part of Fernando O. Zuloaga & Diego Giraldo-Cañas, 2013, 30. Panicum, pp. 1-107 in Flora de Colombia 30 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.259616
title: Optimising EvoFIT by Reducing the Number of Faces Shown during Composite Construction
Creators: name: Jackson, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Central Lancashire
Year: 2023

description: The creation of EvoFIT facial composite images enables perpetrators of crime to be identified and subsequently detained. It is therefore important to ensure that the composite construction procedure is optimised to create the most recognisable images possible. During the creation of a facial composite, eyewitnesses view and compare many images of facial shapes and textures to select those which best resemble the perpetrator. However, viewing many images may overwhelm witness working memory, resulting in cognitive overload and resultant memory capacity and decisionmaking deficits. Yet, there is currently no literature exploring the impact of cognitive load during composite construction. This thesis aims to bridge this gap in the literature by investigating the impact of cognitive load during EvoFIT construction and to investigate the importance of face Shape and Texture for composite construction to further optimise the construction procedure. In five experiments, composite images created using different population sizes to manipulate the cognitive load during the construction procedure were assessed for likeness through composite naming and likeness ratings. The results demonstrated that reducing cognitive load during the construction procedure by decreasing the population size and, therefore, displaying fewer face images to participants, was beneficial for composite likeness. Moreover, reducing the population size for selection of the face shape was particularly important, indicating that face Shape plays a more important role than face Texture in the creation of a recognisable EvoFIT facial composite. Overall, this thesis demonstrates the benefits of reducing cognitive load during EvoFIT composite construction, particularly for selection of the face shape, and develops a theoretically informed construction procedure to increase the number of criminals identified through EvoFIT facial composites.
Vortex counting and velocimetry for slitted superconducting thin strips
Creators: name: Bevz, V. M.
name: Mikhailov, M. Yu.
name: Budinská, B.
name: Lamb-Camarena, S.
name: Shpilinska, S. O.
name: Chumak, A. V.
name: Urbánek, M.
name: Arndt, M.
name: Lang, W.
name: Dobrovolskiy, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The maximal speed $v^\ast$ for magnetic flux quanta is determined by the energy relaxation of unpaired electrons and is thus essential for superconducting microstrip single-photon detectors (SMSPDs). However, the deduction of $v^\ast$ from the current-voltage ($I$-$V$) curves at zero magnetic field is hindered by the unknown number of vortices, $n_\mathrm{v}$, as a small number of fast-moving vortices can induce the same voltage as a large number of slow-moving ones. Here, we introduce an approach for the quantitative determination of $n_\mathrm{v}$ and $v^\ast$. The idea is based on the Aslamazov and Larkin prediction of kinks in the $I$-$V$ curves of wide and short superconducting constrictions when the number of fluxons crossing the constriction is increased by one. We realize such conditions in wide MoSi thin strips with slits milled by a focused ion beam and reveal quantum effects in a macroscopic system. By observing kinks in the $I$-$V$ curves with increase of the transport current, we evidence a crossover from a single- to multi-fluxon dynamics and deduce $v^\ast\simeq12\,$km/s. Our experimental observations are augmented with numerical modeling results which reveal a transition from a vortex chain over a vortex jet to a vortex river with increase of $n_\mathrm{v}$ and the vortex velocity. Our findings are essential for the development of 1D and 2D few-fluxon devices and provide a demanded approach for the deduction of $v^\ast$ at the SMSPD operation conditions.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
From SOSUS to Satellites: Sovereignty, Security and Surveillance in the Canadian Arctic
Creators: name: Carruthers, William
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies
subject: History--Canadian
subject: Political Science--International Law and Relations
subject: Sovereignty
subject: Surveillance
subject: Canada
subject: Arctic

description: This thesis will present a detailed discussion of the relationship between sovereignty and security in the Canadian Arctic. More specifically, it will analyze the historical trends and current aims of surveillance projects in the region. This thesis will argue that the government of Stephen Harper prefers to answer sovereignty challenges with military security. It concludes that despite other branches of government such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Coast Guard being the traditional enforcers of sovereignty, they have had little input in establishing the surveillance capabilities in the Arctic. Further, with the military having control over all aspects of the surveillance infrastructure, this government is positioning the military above other departments with respect to Arctic capabilities. Ultimately, the Harper Government has used sovereignty to sell a military build-up in the Arctic to Canadians. Without the guise of sovereignty, such expenditures would be difficult for the public to accept.
Blood mitochondrial DNA mutations in HIV-infected women and their infants exposed to HAART during pregnancy
Creators: name: Jitratkosol, Marissa Helene Jeanne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Background/Objectives: Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) as part of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) are given to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected pregnant women to prevent HIV vertical transmission. NRTIs can adversely affect mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and may induce mtDNA point mutations. We hypothesised that HAART-exposed/HIV-uninfected infants may show higher blood mtDNA mutation burden than controls born to HIV-uninfected mothers. Methods: Blood was collected from infants exposed in utero to HIV/HAART and controls (0-6d), as well as from a subset of their mothers (last visit before delivery). MtDNA mutation burden was measured by an assay involving cloning and sequencing mtDNA D-loop PCR amplicons. The presence of transversion mutations A → C/T → G (AC/TG) was analysed by Chi-squared and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. Relationships with amount of DNA assayed, maternal age, smoking (marijuana/cigarettes) and illicit drug/methadone use in pregnancy were examined. For the HIV/HAART group, relationships with CD4+ count and HIV plasma viral load (pVL) near delivery, as well as length of HAART exposure were also examined. Results: The Taq error rate from PCR caused a low signal (mutation) to noise (background) ratio. Therefore, only AC/TG mutations, not induced under our assay conditions, were analysed. No significant difference was found between the percentage of HIV/HAART-exposed infants with AC/TG mutations (N=15/57, 26.3%) and controls (N=10/70, 14.3%) before (p=0.090) or after (p=0.058) controlling for covariates, although a trend was observed. Furthermore, significantly more HIV/HAART-exposed mothers (N=18/42, 42.9%) harboured AC/TG mutations compared to controls (N=7/39, 17.9%) both before (p=0.015) and after (p=0.012) controlling for covariates. AC/TG mutations were more prevalent in HIV/HAART-exposed mothers than in their infants (N=42, 42.9% vs. 23.8% p=0.033), however, this difference disappeared after controlling for covariates (p=0.777). No difference was observed between control mothers and their infants (N=39, both 17.9%). In HIV/HAART-exposed group mothers, only a detectable HIV pVL near delivery predicted AC/TG mutations. Conclusion: A subset of mtDNA mutations can be quantified with the developed assay. HIV/HAART exposure in pregnancy may be associated with increased prevalence of maternal mtDNA mutations. Since mtDNA mutations have been linked with aging and age-associated diseases, this raises concerns about the long-term impact of HAART.
title: Legislative and Policy Responses to the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property in the European Union An historical inquiry into the legal means and methods employed by the EU and its northern Member states to protect cultural property from illicit trafficking
Creators: name: Oaks, Edward John Malachy
Publisher: name: IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Year: 2023

description: This doctoral dissertation is an historical analysis of the
legislative and policy responses to the phenomenon that is illicit
trafficking and the illegal movement of cultural property to, from and
within the European continent in the 20th and 21st centuries. Its intent is to
illustrate the evolution of the historic means used the restrain the illicit
trafficking of culture property, ascertain if they work(ed), and
understand the extent to which they influence the current EU legal order.
Using archival resources, comparisons of national, European and
international legislation, policy, codes of conduct, and contemporary
media commentary, this dissertation illustrates that illicit trafficking is an
old and complex illegal trade that has long posed legal and policy
headaches for governments; though the types of objects being trafficked
differ from state to state, this dissertation illustrates that the problems
faced by governments in addressing this phenomenon are often similar.
Export controls are historically the main means by which states protect
heritage from trafficking, and this dissertation agrees with this
observation. However, the EU decision to complement export controls
with import controls appears to suggest the inability of these
traditionally accepted methods to fully restrain trafficking.
The most surprising findings of this work are the extent to which
museums have influenced national and EU policy; and early stage which
the EU engaged in finding solutions to illicit trade, earlier than originally

presumed. Finally, the innovative responses by the EU are ground-
breaking, and in this sense, this dissertation further demonstrates the

potential of the EU as an emerging major partner and forward-thinking
actor in the fight against illicit trafficking.
MARKETING STRATEGY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN DEVELOPED FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Nazarov, Elbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The analysis of methodological approaches to strategic planning in bank credit institutions indicates that they are not fully developed in bank credit institutions. In this direction, the scientists of our country have not carried out fundamental work. Separate issues are considered only from the point of view of the general theory of strategic planning.
Gravity waves and non-Gaussian features from particle production in a sector gravitationally coupled to the inflaton
Creators: name: Barnaby, Neil
name: Moxon, Jordan
name: Namba, Ryo
name: Peloso, Marco
name: Shiu, Gary
name: Zhou, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possibility that particle production during inflation could source observable gravity waves on scales relevant for Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. A crucial constraint on such scenarios arises because particle production can also source inflaton perturbations, and might ruin the usual predictions for a nearly scale invariant spectrum of nearly Gaussian curvature fluctuations. To minimize this effect, we consider two models of particle production in a sector that is only gravitationally coupled to the inflaton. For a single instantaneous burst of massive particle production, we find that localized features in the scalar spectrum and bispectrum might be observable, but gravitational wave signatures are unlikely to be detectable (due to the suppressed quadrupole moment of non-relativistic quanta) without invoking some additional effects. We also consider a model with a rolling pseudoscalar that leads to a continuous production of relativistic gauge field fluctuations during inflation. Here we find that gravitational waves from particle production can actually exceed the usual inflationary vacuum fluctuations in a regime where non-Gaussianity is consistent with observational limits. In this model observable B-mode polarization can be obtained for any choice of inflaton potential, and the amplitude of the signal is not necessarily correlated with the scale of inflation.
Privatization of Probability Distributions by the Wavelet Integral approach
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Helio M.
name: Ospina, Raydonal
name: Leiva, Victor
name: Martin-Barreiro, Carlos
name: Chesneau, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2; G.3; H.4
subject: 60E05, 62E10, 62P30, 65T60, 68M18

description: A naive theory of additive perturbations on a continuous probability distribution is presented. We propose a new privatization mechanism based on a naive theory of a perturbation on a probability using wavelets, such as a noise perturbs the signal of a digital image sensor. The cumulative wavelet integral function is defined and builds up the perturbations with the help of this function. We show that an arbitrary distribution function additively perturbed is still a distribution function, which can be seen as a privatized distribution, with the privatization mechanism being a wavelet function. It is shown that an arbitrary cumulative distribution function added to such an additive perturbation is still a cumulative distribution function. Thus, we offer a mathematical method for choosing a suitable probability distribution to data by starting from some guessed initial distribution. The areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning are constantly in need of data fitting techniques, closely related to sensors. The proposed privatization mechanism is therefore a contribution to increasing the scope of existing techniques.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Non-Gaussian Error in Galaxy Survey (Part 1)
Creators: name: Harnois-Deraps, Joachim
name: Pen, Ue-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to estimate non-Gaussian error bars on the matter power spectrum from galaxy surveys in the presence of non-trivial survey selection functions. The estimators are often obtained from formalisms like FKP and PKL, which rely on the assumption that the underlying field is Gaussian. The Monte Carlo method is more accurate but involves the tedious process of running and cross-correlating a large number of N-body simulations, in which the survey volume is embedded. From 200 N-body simulations, we extract a non-linear covariance matrix as a function of two scales and of the angle between two Fourier modes. All the non-Gaussian features of that matrix are then simply parametrized in terms of a few fitting functions and Eigenvectors. We furthermore develop a fast and accurate strategy that combines our parameterization with a general galaxy survey selection function, and incor- porate non-Gaussian Poisson uncertainty. We describe how to incorporate these two distinct non-Gaussian contributions into a typical analysis pipeline, and apply our method with the se- lection function from the 2dFGRS. We find that the observed Fourier modes correlate at much larger scales than that predicted by both FKP formalism or by pure N-body simulation in a "top hat" selection function. In particular, the observed Fourier modes are already 50 per cent correlated at k\sim0.1hMpc^(-1), and the non-Gaussian fractional variance on the power spectrum (σ /P(k))^2 is about a factor of 3.0 larger than the FKP prescription. At k~0.4hMpc^(-1), the deviations are an order of magnitude.
description: 22 pages, 28 figures
Quasi-stability of the primary flow in a cone and plate viscometer
Creators: name: Azerad, Pascal
name: Bänsch, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Navier-Stokes equations
subject: shallow domains
subject: rotating fluids
subject: nonlinear stability
subject: asymptotic analysis
subject: haemodynamics
subject: flow chamber
subject: haemostasis
subject: rheometry
subject: CFD
subject: finite elements
subject: 35Q30
subject: 35B40
subject: 65M60
subject: 76D05

description: We investigate the flow between a shallow rotating cone and a stationary plate. This cone and plate device is used in rheometry, haemostasis as well as in food industry to study the properties of the flow w.r.t. shear stress. Physical experiments and formal computations show that close to the apex the flow is approximately azimuthal and the shear-stress is constant within the device, the quality of the approximation being controlled essentially by the single parameter Re ε2, where Re is the Reynolds number and ε the thinness of the cone-plate gap. We establish this fact by means of rigorous energy estimates and numerical simulations. Surprisingly enough, this approximation is valid though the primary flow is not itself a solution of the Navier-Stokes equations, and it does not even fulfill the correct boundary conditions, which are in this particular case discontinuous along a line, thus not allowing for a usual Leray solution. To overcome this difficulty we construct a suitable corrector.
Latest results on $B \to DK/D\pi$ decays at Belle
Creators: name: P. K., Resmi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The CKM angle phi3 is the least well known of the angles of the unitarity triangle and the only one that is accessible with tree-level decays in a theoretically clean way. The key method to measure phi3 is through the interference between $B^+\to D^0 K^+$ and $B^+ \to \bar D^0 K^+$ decays which occurs if the final state of the charm-meson decay is accessible to both the $D^0$ and $\bar D^0$ mesons. To achieve the best sensitivity, a large variety of D and B decay modes is required, which is possible at Belle experiment as almost any final state can be reconstructed including those with photons. This presentation discusses the results from Belle as well as the ongoing studies. It also explains the details of the planned measurement at Belle II, a substantial upgrade of the Belle detector and will operate at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider.
description: Presented at CKM 2018, On behalf of Belle Collaboration
Dynamic Identities and Ethnosectarian Conflict: The Case of Iraq Under Occupation
Creators: name: Radhi, Ali
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History--Middle Eastern
subject: Political Science--International Law and Relations
subject: Ethnic and Racial Studies
subject: Iraq
subject: Sectarian

description: This thesis argues that despite Iraq’s multi-ethnic and multi-confessional makeup, a national sentiment was created throughout decades of secular state-building during the 20th century that engendered a sense of “Iraqi-ness” among Iraq’s disparate groups. I contend that this national sentiment was disrupted largely as a result of three major events: the 1979 Iranian Revolution; the 1991 Gulf War (and sanctions regime); and the policies implemented by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) following the 2003 US occupation of Iraq. While the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the 1991 Gulf War (and sanctions regime) were instrumental in laying the foundation for growing social cleavages between Iraq’s primary ethnic and sectarian groups, the politicized nature of ethnic and sectarian identities would not be possible without the policies implemented by the CPA from April 2003 to June 2004.
Forward Pass: On the Security Implications of Email Forwarding Mechanism and Policy
Creators: name: Liu, Enze
name: Akiwate, Gautam
name: Jonker, Mattijs
name: Mirian, Ariana
name: Ho, Grant
name: Voelker, Geoffrey M.
name: Savage, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The critical role played by email has led to a range of extension protocols (e.g., SPF, DKIM, DMARC) designed to protect against the spoofing of email sender domains. These protocols are complex as is, but are further complicated by automated email forwarding -- used by individual users to manage multiple accounts and by mailing lists to redistribute messages. In this paper, we explore how such email forwarding and its implementations can break the implicit assumptions in widely deployed anti-spoofing protocols. Using large-scale empirical measurements of 20 email forwarding services (16 leading email providers and four popular mailing list services), we identify a range of security issues rooted in forwarding behavior and show how they can be combined to reliably evade existing anti-spoofing controls. We further show how these issues allow attackers to not only deliver spoofed email messages to prominent email providers (e.g., Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and Zoho), but also reliably spoof email on behalf of tens of thousands of popular domains including sensitive domains used by organizations in government (e.g., state.gov), finance (e.g., transunion.com), law (e.g., perkinscoie.com) and news (e.g., washingtonpost.com) among others.
description: The paper appeared at the 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
บริหารการเปลี่ยนแปลงอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพผ่านกระบวนการควบคุมการเปลี่ยนแปลงตามมาตรฐาน ISO27001:2013
Creators: name: อิศรา แย้มงามเหลือ
name: นิธิ ภัทรปิติตานนท์
Publisher: name: Mahidol University
Year: 2020
Subjects: การควบคุมการเปลี่ยนแปลง
ระบบบริหารจัดการความมั่นคงปลอดภัยสารสนเทศ
องค์การระหว่างประเทศว่าด้วยการมาตรฐาน

description: Mahidol R2R e-Journal, 7, 2, 30-43
การประยุกต์ใช้คะแนนประเมินภาวะเลือดออกชนิดครูเซดกับการเกิดภาวะเลือดออกชั้นใต้ผิวหนังชนิดมีก้อน
Creators: name: วาสนา ฬาวิน
Publisher: name: Mahidol University
Year: 2020
Subjects: เลือดออกชั้นใต้ผิวหนังชนิดมีก้อน
คะแนนประเมินภาวะเลือดออกชนิดครูเซด

description: Mahidol R2R e-Journal, 7, 2, 44-53
Social Protocols for Agile Virtual Teams
Creators: name: Picard, Willy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite many works on collaborative networked organizations (CNOs), CSCW, groupware, workflow systems and social networks, computer support for virtual teams is still insufficient, especially support for agility, i.e. the capability of virtual team members to rapidly and cost efficiently adapt the way they interact to changes. In this paper, requirements for computer support for agile virtual teams are presented. Next, an extension of the concept of social protocol is proposed as a novel model supporting agile interactions within virtual teams. The extended concept of social protocol consists of an extended social network and a workflow model.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure