cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Neural network backflow for ab-initio quantum chemistry
Creators: name: Liu, An-Jun
name: Clark, Bryan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground state of second-quantized quantum chemistry Hamiltonians provides access to an important set of chemical properties. Wavefunctions based on ML architectures have shown promise in approximating these ground states in a variety of physical systems. In this work, we show how to achieve state-of-the-art energies for molecular Hamiltonians using the the neural network backflow wave-function. To accomplish this, we optimize this ansatz with a variant of the deterministic optimization scheme based on SCI introduced by [Li, et. al JCTC (2023)] which we find works better than standard MCMC sampling. For the molecules we studied, NNBF gives lower energy states than both CCSD and other neural network quantum states. We systematically explore the role of network size as well as optimization parameters in improving the energy. We find that while the number of hidden layers and determinants play a minor role in improving the energy, there is significant improvements in the energy from increasing the number of hidden units as well as the batch size used in optimization with the batch size playing a more important role.
Newtonian Gravity and Galaxy Rotation Curves: An Axisymmetric Green's Function Perspective
Creators: name: Govaerts, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard proposal within the context of General relativity and its weak field Newtonian limit for the nature of dark matter is that it consists of dark matter particles of unknown type. In the present work and specifically for spiral galaxy rotation curves, an alternative possibility is explored, in the form of an axially symmetric vortex mass distribution of finite extent threading the centre of the galaxy and perpendicular to its disk. Some general considerations are developed and characteristic properties are identified, pointing to the potential interest of such an alternative to be studied in earnest.
description: 1+20 pages, 3 figures, original e-print version, published in final form in the International Journal of Theoretical Physics
SDPL: Shifting-Dense Partition Learning for UAV-View Geo-Localization
Creators: name: Chen, Quan
name: Wang, Tingyu
name: Yang, Zihao
name: Li, Haoran
name: Lu, Rongfeng
name: Sun, Yaoqi
name: Zheng, Bolun
name: Yan, Chenggang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cross-view geo-localization aims to match images of the same target from different platforms, e.g., drone and satellite. It is a challenging task due to the changing appearance of targets and environmental content from different views. Most methods focus on obtaining more comprehensive information through feature map segmentation, while inevitably destroying the image structure, and are sensitive to the shifting and scale of the target in the query. To address the above issues, we introduce simple yet effective part-based representation learning, shifting-dense partition learning (SDPL). We propose a dense partition strategy (DPS), dividing the image into multiple parts to explore contextual information while explicitly maintaining the global structure. To handle scenarios with non-centered targets, we further propose the shifting-fusion strategy, which generates multiple sets of parts in parallel based on various segmentation centers, and then adaptively fuses all features to integrate their anti-offset ability. Extensive experiments show that SDPL is robust to position shifting, and performs com-petitively on two prevailing benchmarks, University-1652 and SUES-200. In addition, SDPL shows satisfactory compatibility with a variety of backbone networks (e.g., ResNet and Swin). https://github.com/C-water/SDPL release.
description: IEEE TCSVT 2024
AI perceives like a local: predicting citizen deprivation perception using satellite imagery
Creators: name: Abascal, Angela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Data Availability

The repository includes the following datasets:

Deprivation Perception Scores: Derived from Citizen Science data.

File: Ranking_CS_trueskill.csv

Best Predictors:

From the best conventional ML models.

File: ML_Predictors.csv

From the best deep learning (DL) models.

File: Ranking_DL_best&all.csv

Geolocation Data:

File: Ranking_CS&DL.gpkg

Code Availability

The repository also includes the following code resources:

Citizen Science Web Interface:

File: partimap-app-main.zip

Further details: Partimap App GitLab Repository

True Skill Ranking Method:

File: Ranking.trueskill.ipynb

Deep Learning Models:

File: DL-main.zip

Further details: Partimap GitHub Repository
Regression-aware Inference with LLMs
Creators: name: Lukasik, Michal
name: Narasimhan, Harikrishna
name: Menon, Aditya Krishna
name: Yu, Felix
name: Kumar, Sanjiv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong results on a range of applications, including regression and scoring tasks. Typically, one obtains outputs from an LLM via autoregressive sampling from the model's output distribution. We show that this inference strategy can be sub-optimal for common regression and scoring evaluation metrics. As a remedy, we build on prior work on Minimum Bayes Risk decoding, and propose alternate inference strategies that estimate the Bayes-optimal solution for regression and scoring metrics in closed-form from sampled responses. We show that our proposal significantly improves over baselines across datasets and models.
description: EMNLP Findings 2024
Upper palaeolithic sites in the upper courses of the rivers Colne and Way, Excavations at Church Lammas and Wey Manor Farm
Creators: name: Jones, Phil M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 5
description: This volume includes reports on two sites where Late Upper Palaeolithic occupation has been revealed, and begins with a review that assesses how such fragile and elusive evidence can be more successfully identified in future archaeological work within lowland Britain.The site at Wey Manor Farm, Addlestone, was an undisturbed struck flint scatter of Creswellian type, probably belonging to the 12th millennium BC. The scatter includes almost 400 struck flints and represents a short-lived episode of butchering and re-tooling by a hunting party. Use-wear on 18 flints indicates butchering, hide working, tool and ornament manufacturing and weapon re-tooling.The site at Church Lammas, near Staines, revealed two clusters of flint debitage and tools, and animal bone fragments. They date to around 10000 to 9700 BC, and are identified as temporary camps associated with hunting of reindeer.Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometric trace element analysis was used to show a clear correlation of several artefacts from Wey Manor Farm to the Salisbury Plain source region and one from Church Lammas to the East Anglian source.
The role of polaron dressing in superradiant emission dynamics
Creators: name: Wiercinski, Julian
name: Cygorek, Moritz
name: Gauger, Erik M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cooperative effects of multiple quantum emitters are characterized by transitions via delocalized collective states with altered emission properties due to the existence of inter-emitter coherences. When realized with excitonic condensed matter nanostructures, these effects are significantly affected by the presence of strong emitter-phonon coupling, which leads to the formation of polarons. We show that, while for single-emitter emission into free space this formation has no impact on its radiative lifetime, the same is not true for superradiant emission. Considering the case of two indistinguishable quantum emitters, we analyse how polaron dressing affects collective photon emission by mixing bright and dark Dicke states. Our numerical simulations show that this mixing crucially depends on the circumstances of the excitation of the system: Depending on the pulse length of an exciting laser, one can choose to either prepare polaronic Dicke states, or bare electronic Dicke states, changing the superradiant decay characteristics of the system. Additionally, we derive analytic expressions for these limiting cases, which match the results of numerically exact calculations.
A mesolithic persistent place at North Park Farm, Bletchingley, Surrey
Creators: name: Jones, Phil M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 7
description: This volume reports on a near-continuous mantle of struck Mesolithic flints, extending over more than a hectare, found at the North Park Farm quarry in Bletchingley, Surrey. Selective excavation demonstrated that they were the debris from repeated visits, and it can be estimated that in excess of a million struck flints were present, with at least 17,000 microliths. The locations of up to twelve formal hearths were identified, with a few retaining some of their original hearth stones, and two providing reasonably secure radiocarbon dates. A 'fire pit' was the only such feature, but the multiple series of later Mesolithic dates from its burnt fills, and its primary purpose, proved enigmatic.Mesolithic activity was found to have spanned the entire period. The early period was better represented towards the western end of the valley, and discrete activities, such as axe/adze preparation and the manufacture of microliths, could be identified at other localities along its flanks. More commonly, multiple visits and subsequent movement made it impossible to distinguish the unique assemblages of discrete events. Despite this, the work has demonstrated that the valley, and its immediate hinterland, was one of five 'persistent places' within Surrey that were chosen at similar watershed positions that commanded at least two river systems.
A Neolithic ring ditch and later prehistoric features at Staines Road Farm, Shepperton
Creators: name: Jones, Phil M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 1
description: A Neolithic ring ditch on a lower Thames terrace west of London was fully excavated in 1989. It had a short causeway gap to the north-east and was segmented through its northern and western lengths. Soon after being dug, in the middle of the 4th millennium BC, it was filled or lined with white clay. If filled, the clay might then have been dug out, while respecting the shape of the original ditch. A subsequent crouched burial in the ditch terminal by the causeway was of similar date, and other placements along the ditch base include antler picks, the remains of a dog/wolf and one or more large pieces of Peterborough ware. These and the remains of the white clay were buried by a soil fill containing large quantities of struck flint, animal bone, and plain and decorated pottery sherds suggestive of a domestic site. Similar radiocarbon dates were obtained for this sealing fill except for one bone belonging to the first half of the 4th millennium BC.A Neolithic occupation deposit adjacent to the ring ditch was covered by a burnt mound layer dated to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, which also filled and sealed a probable boiling pit and its hearth, as well as another pit. A nearby large pit was dug around the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and a cluster of probable tree-throw hollows contained pottery belonging to the first half of the 1st millennium BC.Between the above and the River Ash was a pit row avenue sealed by an alluvial clay, which might have been contemporary with the henge, and further west perhaps the same river clay had buried two later prehistoric field ditches. This volume is a full report on the work, and includes detailed reports on all classes of finds, including worked flint, pottery, animal and human bone, as well as studies of macroscopic plant and invertebrate remains, palynology, and radiocarbon dates.
Settlement sites and sacred offerings, prehistoric and later archaeology in the Thames valley, near Chertsey
Creators: name: Hayman, Graham N
name: Jones, Phil M
name: Poulton, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 4
description: This monograph looks at the Prehistoric and later archaeology in the Thames valley, near Chertsey, an area which has seen a large amount of archaeological work in the last 25 years. It details the results from four of the sites investigated, and provides a review of their geological, topographic and archaeological context.Prestige artefacts, including the only Iron Age shield in Europe made entirely of bronze and a Late Bronze Age axe with wooden haft, were recovered at Abbey Meads and Shepperton Ranges, from former channels of the Thames. These votive deposits belong to all periods from the Mesolithic to the Late Saxon, and suggest that particular places along the river acquired and retained sanctity over a very long time.A trial trench sectioned the earthworks of the hillfort at St Ann's Hill, and another established that at least one area within the enclosure had been densely occupied during the Early Iron Age.Excavations at Thorpe Lea Nurseries revealed a Middle Bronze Age rectilinear field system and associated occupation sites. More intensive Iron Age occupation began in the Middle Iron Age, and one farmstead was then continuously occupied until the end of the 4th century AD. Rare and important evidence for an Iron Age iron smelting industry was widely distributed.
Curso de Escritura Académica. Edición, maquetación y revisión con MS Word
Creators: name: Torres-Salinas, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Escritura académica
Procesadores de texto
Microsoft Word
Edición
Maquetación
Revisión de textos

description: Segundo artículo de la serie de cuatro del “Curso de Escritura Académica”. Este artículo reseña las funciones esenciales de Microsoft Word. Se repasan las principales opciones desde el punto de vista de la edición, la maquetación y la  revisión de textos. En la primera sección se destacan las funciones avanzadas  de Word y, a continuación, se detallan las opciones de disposición como  configuración, orientación de página, interlineado y números de línea. Después, se examina el menú de referencias, que se enfoca en la creación de índices y  tablas de contenido entre otros. En la sección de revisión, se destacan los comentarios, la revisión ortográfica, el control de cambios y la división de pantalla. En definitiva, este artículo proporciona una guía rápida a los aspectos  de Word que debemos dominar si queremos escribir fluidamente y presentar escritos profesionales.
Measurement and modeling of traffic-related air pollution in the British Columbia Lower Mainland for use in health risk assessment and epidemiological analysis
Creators: name: Henderson, Sarah B.
name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The School of Occupational and Environmental Health was contracted to develop spatial regression models for Greater Vancouver similar to those developed or underway for the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montreal and Hamilton. This report briefly introduces the rationale for such models and gives detailed discussion of our methods and results. The objectives and deliverables are outlined below.
Archilestes californica McLachlan 1895
Creators: name: Garrison, R. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestidae
Archilestes
Archilestes californica

description: A. californica: California: Solano Co., end of Bucktown Rd., 5 mi. W of Vacaville, 18 Oct. 1975 (1 ♂); Stanislaus Co., Del Puerto Cyn. at N fork of Del Puerto Creek, about 14 mi. S of Patterson, 16-19 Sept. 1978 (2 ♂)all collected by R.W. and J.A. Garrison.
description: Published as part of Garrison, R. W., 1982, Archilestes neblina, a new damselfly from Costa Rica, with comments on the variability of A. latialatus Donnelly (Odonata: Lestidae), pp. 1-12 in Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 702 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3535422
Lymph node involvement and surgical approach in parathyroid cancer
Creators: name: Diaz-Cano, Salvador J.
name: K M Schulte
name: N Talat
name: P Sinha
name: C Moniz
name: J Miell
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer

description: The best surgical approach to parathyroid cancer is disputed. Recommendations vary and are built on incoherent evidence. High rates of recurrence and death require an in-depth review of underlying findings.
 This retrospective study includes 11 patients with parathyroid cancer who underwent surgery with central and/or lateral neck dissection by a single surgeon between 2005 and 2010. The diagnosis was based on histopathological criteria in all patients. Patterns of lymph node and soft tissue involvement of these and formerly reported patients were analysed based on full-text review of all published cases of parathyroid cancer.
 In this series only 1 of 11 patients (9.1%) manifested lymph node metastasis. In the literature, lymph node metastases have been reported in only 6.5% of 972 published patients, or in 32.1% of the 196 in whom lymph node involvement was assessed by the authors. They were, with few exceptions, localised in the central compartment. Recurrence in soft tissue is more frequent than in locoregional lymph nodes.
 Oncological en bloc clearance of the central compartment with meticulous removal of all possibly involved soft tissues, including a systematic central lymph node resection, may improve outcomes and should be included in the routine approach to the suspicious parathyroid lesion. There is no need for a prophylactic lateral neck dissection.
The clinical spectrum of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2a caused by the rare intracellular RET mutation S891A
Creators: name: Diaz-Cano, Salvador J.
name: L Fuggazzola
name: H Dralle
name: A Machens
name: S Aylwin
name: K M Schulte
name: A McGregor
name: P Beck-Peccoz
name: L Izatt
name: N Talat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Germline missense mutations of the RET protooncogene cause a clinical spectrum called multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) type 2. A strong genotype-phenotype correlation results in major implications for the clinical approach. More information on less common mutations is needed to advance specific guidance.
 We report individualized patient information on 36 carriers of the intracellular RET gene mutation S891A from three centers and clustered data of 38 former patients reported in the literature in nine additional studies.
 S891A mutation accounts for up to 5% of all patients to date reported with RET mutations and 16% of those hitherto reported with intracellular mutations. S891A mutation caused medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in 69.4%, pheochromocytoma in 2.8%, and parathyroid hyperplasia in 8.3% of the 36 patients of this case series and in 63.5, 4.1, and 4.1%, respectively, for the entire groups of 74 patients. The youngest age of onset for MTC in this group was 17 yr (median, 46 yr; range, 17-80 yr), for pheochromocytoma 46 yr (median, 46 yr), and for parathyroid hyperplasia 17 yr (median, 20 yr, range, 17-46 yr). Persistence of MTC was described in 14.3% of patients with available follow-up. Additional findings included corneal nerve thickening in three of 74 patients (4.1%).
 This intracellular mutation can initiate the full spectrum of MEN2a, initiates MTC at an early age, and causes recurrence and death if undertreated. We recommend stringent adherence to established guidance in MEN2a in this rare mutation.
Online Multi-Contact Feedback Model Predictive Control for Interactive Robotic Tasks
Creators: name: Han, Seo Wook
name: Iskandar, Maged
name: Lee, Jinoh
name: Kim, Min Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a model predictive control (MPC) that accomplishes interactive robotic tasks, in which multiple contacts may occur at unknown locations. To address such scenarios, we made an explicit contact feedback loop in the MPC framework. An algorithm called Multi-Contact Particle Filter with Exploration Particle (MCP-EP) is employed to establish real-time feedback of multi-contact information. Then the interaction locations and forces are accommodated in the MPC framework via a spring contact model. Moreover, we achieved real-time control for a 7 degrees of freedom robot without any simplifying assumptions by employing a Differential-Dynamic-Programming algorithm. We achieved 6.8kHz, 1.9kHz, and 1.8kHz update rates of the MPC for 0, 1, and 2 contacts, respectively. This allows the robot to handle unexpected contacts in real time. Real-world experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed method in various scenarios.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, 2024
Sentinel node biopsy as an adjunct to limb salvage surgery for epithelioid sarcoma of the hand
Creators: name: Seal, Alex
name: Tse, Raymond
name: Wehrli, Bret
name: Hammond, Alex
name: Temple, Claire L
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Epithelioid sarcomas of the hand are rare, high-grade tumors with a propensity for regional lymphatic spread approaching 40%. Case presentation A 54-year-old male with an epithelioid sarcoma of the palm was treated with neoadjuvant radiation, wide excision, and two-stage reconstruction. Sentinel lymph node biopsy was used to stage the patient's axilla. Sentinel node biopsy results were negative. The patient has remained free of local, regional and distant disease for the follow-up time of 16 months. Conclusion The rarity of this tumor makes definitive conclusions difficult but SLN biopsy appears to be a useful adjunct in the treatment of these sarcomas.
Foragers and farmers 10,000 years of history at Hengrove Farm, Staines, excavations between 1997 and 2012
Creators: name: Poulton, Rob
name: Hayman, Graham N
name: Marples, Nick
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 12
description: Archaeological work took place between 1997 and 2012 across an area of over 20 hectares at the Hengrove Farm sand and gravel quarry, near Staines. Several Mesolithic activity areas were identified, the earlier associated with low-lying ground and the later with a more elevated area. Two locations of Neolithic occupation, with waterholes, pits and tree-throws, may have been seasonally occupied in an era of shifting agriculture and complement the discovery of a large house and ring ditch at the adjacent Ashford Prison site.From around 1500 BC field systems were imposed across most of the site, although one area remained open, and probably common, land. Three Middle Bronze Age settlements seem likely to be the centres from which the landscape was transformed. Later Bronze Age activity was more dispersed, with seven or more focal points. By the Middle Iron Age occupation had become concentrated in one part of the site although just 300 metres away at the Ashford Prison site was another substantial settlement. The Hengrove settlement continued to develop until, either just before or soon after the conquest of AD 43, a regular complex of stock management enclosures, set within a surviving framework of the Bronze Age fields, was created. This pattern of occupation persisted until abandonment in the 4th century AD.Two Middle Saxon occupation areas include a number of waterholes. The final period of occupation, of Saxo-Norman date, was associated with a boundary that was renewed a number of times.The wealth of evidence from this large tract of land provides additional detail and new insights into the development of the landscape across the Thames terraces that was so superbly explored in the work at Heathrow to the north.
Congenital segmental emphysema: an evolving lesion
Creators: name: Diaz-Cano, Salvador J.
name: M Sellars
name: E Parkinson
name: K H Nicolaides
name: S Paramalingam
name: M Davenport
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine
Developmental Biology

description: Congenital segmental emphysema (CSE) is a newly-recognised sub-type of congenital parenchymal lung anomaly. It is characterised by antenatal detection and post-natal evolution from an initially solid segmental appearance to a hyperlucent and hyperinflated segment.
 A retrospective review of a single-centre tertiary referral database between Jan 1994 and Dec 2007 was performed.
 130 infants had antenatally detected lung anomalies, and of these 12 (9.2%) infants (initially labelled as congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM)), showed features better defined as CSE. The lesions were described antenatally as non-progressive microcystic (n=6), hyperechogenic (n=2) or both (n=2). Early post-natal CT scans showed areas of solid segmental parenchyma, initial hyperlucency or microcysts. Subsequent CT imaging, however, showed evolution to segmental hyperlucency in areas previously solid and in 2 cases a central bronchocele was noted. Ten children underwent resectional surgery (segmentectomy n=4, lobectomy n=6) at a median age of 1 (range 0.4-5.2) year and the gross appearance of the resected specimen confirmed hyperinflated (not cystic) segments. Histological review showed localised abnormally dilated alveolar spaces in 7 cases. Adjacent areas consistent with type 2 CCAM were also seen (n=3).
 CSE lies within the spectrum of both CCAM and sequestration but there is a definite post-natal evolution and volume change which presage symptoms. This may be associated with segmental bronchial atresia and progressive air trapping via collateral airways such as the interalveolar pores of Kohn.
A Roadmap for Copernicus water services
Creators: name: Kutser, Tiit
name: Spyrakos, Evangelos
name: WIlson, Harriet
name: Tyler, Andrew
name: Simis, Stefan
name: Van Duibenbode, Linda
name: Reusen, Ils
name: Laas, Alo
name: Ioana, Popescu
name: van Griensven, Ann
name: Escorihuela, Maria Jose
name: Giardino, Claudia
name: Bresciani, Mariano
name: Pesquer Mayos, Lluís
name: Ogashawara, Igor
name: Bassa, Lluis
name: Thant, Silvy
name: Walker, Peter
name: Van de Moortel, Ivo
name: Constantinescu, Adriana Maria
name: Hunter, Peter
name: Nijs, Klaas
name: Messens, Ferdinana
name: Oloibiri, Violet
name: Henkens, Symine
name: Toming, Kaire
name: Vahtmäe, Ele
name: Ligi, Martin
name: Soomets, Tuuli
name: Nejstgaard, Jens
name: Catianis, Irina
name: Dinu, Irina
name: Amditis, Angelos
name: Tsiakos, Valantis
name: Bliziotis, Dimitris
name: Costa, Clara
name: Jonoski, Andreja
name: Pareeth, Sahid
name: Gomes de Mesquita - Wever, Rafaela
name: Marconi, Flavia
name: Bertini, Claudia
name: Cremona, Fabien
name: Kangro, Kersti
name: Paun, Mihaela
name: Paun, Andrei
name: Amarioarei, Alexandru
name: Milea, Eduard
name: WEERASINGHE, Imeshi
name: CHAWANDA, Celray
name: Baltodano, Analy
name: Sterckx, Sindy
name: Knaeps, Els
name: De Keukelaere, Liesbeth
name: Hein, Thomas
name: Feldbacher, Eva
name: Tschikof, Martin
name: Prat, Ester
name: García, Cristina
name: Milcinski, Grega
name: Peters, Steef
name: Hommersom, Annelies
name: Laanen, Marnix
name: Cillero Castro, Carmen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Water
subject: Copernicus
subject: Remote sensing

description: [Roadmap]

There is no life on Earth without water and we are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change through water extremes. The provision of high-quality data and information on water quantity and quality should therefore be a key aim of the Copernicus Programme and the Copernicus Services. This Roadmap informs the Copernicus Services how to improve their impact in the inland water domain. The Copernicus Services could be a powerful tool for understanding the water related processes on Earth, supporting water management, supporting Sustainable Development Goal’s (SDG), System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), climate adaptation, and boosting European markets.  To realise this opportunity, there is a need to demonstrate commitment to requirements of current and future users, as proposed through the recommendations in this Roadmap.

The Water-ForCE project, using internal expertise of 20 partners and engagement with over 800 current and potential users, assessed the current water-related service elements and how they satisfy the needs of different stakeholders and user groups. The Water-ForCE consortium developed and analysed four scenarios to provide the European Commission, the Entrusted Entities and the Member States with possible "pathways" towards a coordinated, coherent and trusted monitoring system for inland waters
A Norman chapel and later 12th and 13th century manorial enclosure at Preston Howe, Tamworth, Surrey
Creators: name: Poulton, Rob
name: Hope-Taylor, Brian
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 27
description: Excavations by Brian Hope-Taylor at Preston Hawe in 1952-4 were undertaken on a site with well-preserved earthwork remains in an area that was to be developed as a new housing estate. His discoveries included Mesolithic and later worked flint, the latter complemented for the later Bronze Age by pottery, suggesting nearby settlement. The presence of a natural pond, in an area where there are few ready water supplies, was an undoubted attraction for human activity through this period
Implementation of a GHZ-Teukolsky puncture scheme for gravitational self-force calculations
Creators: name: Bourg, Patrick
name: Leather, Benjamin
name: Casals, Marc
name: Pound, Adam
name: Wardell, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Post-adiabatic models of extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals will require calculations of second-order gravitational self-force effects in the spacetime of a spinning, Kerr black hole. We take a step toward such calculations by implementing the recently formulated Teukolsky puncture scheme with Green-Hollands-Zimmerman metric reconstruction [CQG 39, 015019 (2022)]. This scheme eliminates the critical obstacle of gauge singularities that arise in the standard no-string metric reconstruction. Our first proof-of-principle implementation is limited to the simple case of circular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime, but the method also applies to generic orbits on a Kerr background. We conclude with a discussion of various approaches to the second-order self-force problem in Kerr.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures
The People's Participation Development Model In Solid Waste ManagementOf Local Administrative Organizations In Samutsakorn Province
Creators: name: Watcharawipat Silaparatana
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2019
Subjects: development
participation
solid waste management

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 6, 2, 225-243
Excavations at Oatlands Palace 1968-73 and 1983-4
Creators: name: Poulton, Rob
name: Cook, Alan
name: Thurley, Simon
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 3
description: Oatlands Palace was created by Henry VIII, on the site of an earlier manor house, but demolished under the Commonwealth in 1650. Research excavations began in 1968 in order to establish the exact site of the vanished buildings, their plan and their development. This work continued intermittently until 1973, and was followed by rescue excavations, which occurred when the housing estate that covered part of the site was redeveloped in 1983 and 1984. The results of all this work are presented here, and related to the evidence of documents and pictorial records.A moated manorial or sub-manorial site existed from around the late 13th century. The site was acquired by Bartholemew Read, a wealthy London goldsmith, soon after 1478, and he created a substantial brick built courtyard house. He subsequently extended this structure to create a (mock) fortified manor, with towers at three corners of the moated island, and a tower house at the fourth.This substantial house formed the core of the privy court of the Palace that Henry VIII created between 1537 and 1544. Henry's plans for the house evolved in stages, with development initially largely confined to the moated site. The moat was subsequently drained, and a middle court (with substantial ranges of accommodation) and an outer court (including the kitchen, buttery, and other offices), built in front of what became the privy court. Oatlands was primarily the queen's palace, forming part of a group within the Honor of Hampton Court, with Hampton Court (the king's palace) and Nonsuch (the prince's palace).Henry VIII and his queens made considerable use of Oatlands, and so did subsequent monarchs. The demolition of 1650 was very thorough, leaving only a wall of the outer court standing. The contents of a series of garderobes, containing material of the 1640s, were sealed by demolition rubble, and these groups form the most interesting of the finds from the excavations.
Archilestes exoletus
Creators: name: Garrison, R. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestidae
Archilestes
Archilestes exoletus

description: A, exoletus: Argentina: Prov. Misiones, Desedo, 12 Nov. 1979 (2 ♂) collected by R. Foerster.
description: Published as part of Garrison, R. W., 1982, Archilestes neblina, a new damselfly from Costa Rica, with comments on the variability of A. latialatus Donnelly (Odonata: Lestidae), pp. 1-12 in Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 702 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3535422
The Roman and medieval town of Staines, the development of the town
Creators: name: Jones, Phil M
name: Poulton, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 2
description: This monograph provides an overview of all archaeological work undertaken in the High Street of Staines, and six reports on five important sites excavated between 1977 and 1989.The High Street had been an island where the Colne met the Thames, and Pontibus, the name of the small Roman town that developed there in the pre-Flavian period, refers to the bridges carrying the London to Silchester highway over the many streams of both rivers.Refuse from the early settlement was dumped in road gravel quarries further east below the Elmsleigh Centre site, and provided large assemblages of pottery, animal bone and household items that are fully presented, but ribbon development soon extended along both sides of the High Street. These included shrines and important buildings with mosaic floors and walls with elaborately painted plaster, as well as shops and workshops that directly opened onto the highway.Decline set in towards the end of the 2nd century, perhaps partly because of flooding, and later Roman occupation, though no less diffuse than before, became less intensive.Because of the road, settlement probably continued into the Saxon period without a break, despite the main focus of activities shifting north to Binbury island, where stands the parish church. In the decayed old town a series of ditches dug along the southern river frontage may have assisted the defence of Stana from Vikings and others, and its new name may derive from the availability of Roman building debris.Patronage by the Abbot of Westminster led to its re-founding as a town, with burgage plots, a new bridge built in the 12th century, and a market granted by 1218. Despite decline and contraction in the later 14th century, the importance of Staines as a hub of river and road traffic continued to ensure its prosperity until the present day.
Extended Reality for Enhanced Human-Robot Collaboration: a Human-in-the-Loop Approach
Creators: name: Karpichev, Yehor
name: Charter, Todd
name: Hong, Jayden
name: Enayati, Amir M. Soufi
name: Honari, Homayoun
name: Tamizi, Mehran Ghafarian
name: Najjaran, Homayoun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rise of automation has provided an opportunity to achieve higher efficiency in manufacturing processes, yet it often compromises the flexibility required to promptly respond to evolving market needs and meet the demand for customization. Human-robot collaboration attempts to tackle these challenges by combining the strength and precision of machines with human ingenuity and perceptual understanding. In this paper, we conceptualize and propose an implementation framework for an autonomous, machine learning-based manipulator that incorporates human-in-the-loop principles and leverages Extended Reality (XR) to facilitate intuitive communication and programming between humans and robots. Furthermore, the conceptual framework foresees human involvement directly in the robot learning process, resulting in higher adaptability and task generalization. The paper highlights key technologies enabling the proposed framework, emphasizing the importance of developing the digital ecosystem as a whole. Additionally, we review the existent implementation approaches of XR in human-robot collaboration, showcasing diverse perspectives and methodologies. The challenges and future outlooks are discussed, delving into the major obstacles and potential research avenues of XR for more natural human-robot interaction and integration in the industrial landscape.
description: Published in IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2024
Retroperitoneal unicentric Castleman
Creators: name: Diaz-Cano, Salvador J.
name: K M Schulte
name: N Talat
name: P Sinha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine
Hematology
Cancer

description: A 78-year-old woman with B-symptoms was referred for a left adrenal incidentaloma of 5 cm. Imaging revealed features compatible with adrenal cancer. The authors excluded excess production of catecholamines or adrenal steroids. The tumour was removed by en bloc radical left retroperitonectomy with adrenalectomy, nephrectomy, interaortocaval lymphadenectomy and splenectomy. Histology demonstrated periadrenal hyaline vascular Castleman's disease with local infiltration and 14 positive lymph nodes. The lymphoid infiltrate spilled into the adjacent renal cortex. HHV8 was negative. The Ki67 proliferative index was 30-40% in germinal centres. There was no syn- or metachronous disease on extended imaging including fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-CT and narrow follow-up at 3 years. This is a rare case of unicentric hyaline vascular Castleman's disease with documented locoregional lymph node involvement. The case exemplifies the transition from unifocal unicentric disease into disseminated disease with involvement of multiple lymph node stations (multicentric disease). The authors demonstrate surgical cure by oncological resection.
The moated medieval manor and Tudor royal residence at Woking Palace excavations between 2009 and 2015
Creators: name: Poulton, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 16
description: Community excavations from 2009 to 2015 have revealed the development of Woking Palace. King Richard I granted the manor to Alan Basset and soon after he created a moated residence. By around 1300 the complex included stone buildings that thereafter always formed the core of the privy lodgings, a great hall, household and privy kitchens, and lodgings for courtiers.The aristocratic lifestyle is shown by stonework in Sussex marble, patterned floor tiles, grisaille window glass, and the consumption of swan and deer. In particular fallow deer must have come from the nearby hunting park, established in tandem with the manorial site.Woking was always held by great families with close connections to the crown. In 1485 Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, embarked on major construction work, all in the fashionable medium of brick. When Henry VII claimed the manor in 1503 the amenities were already suitable for a royal household, with suites of king's and queen's lodgings and plentiful other accommodation. His principal new work was the replacement of the great hall.The later Tudors built little new, although documents show much was spent on modernisation and improvement. In 1620 the manor was granted to Sir Edward Zouch and soon after he carried out a thorough demolition.
Эффективная государственная поддержка агропромышленного комплекса - залог обеспечения продовольственной безопасности страны
Creators: name: Дудченко О.Н.
name: Баскаков С.М.
Publisher: name: Национальные интересы: приоритеты и безопасность
Year: 2012
Subjects: ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННАЯ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ПОДДЕРЖКА
АГРОПРОМЫШЛЕННЫЙ КОМПЛЕКС

description: Вопросы обеспечения продовольственной безопасности являются одним из приоритетов национальной политики любого государства и оказывают большое влияние на эффективность функционирования всех отраслей промышленности и сфер общественной жизни. В статье проанализированы основные формы государственной поддержки АПК, проведен их сравнительный анализ с сельскохозяйственной практикой ведущих зарубежных государств. Сделан вывод о необходимости структурного пересмотра механизма сельскохозяйственного кредитования и субсидирования и введения государственного регулирования цен на сельскохозяйственную продукцию.
Scale-Dependent Gravity: A Unified Framework for Galaxy Rotation Curves, Quantum Gravity, and Faster-Than-Light Trave
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Rosendo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper proposes a new theory of gravity called Scale-Dependent Gravity (SDG). It suggests that gravity's strength changes depending on the size of the objects interacting. This could explain why galaxies rotate faster than expected without needing dark matter, and it even hints at the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The theory is still being developed, but it offers a potential solution to some of the biggest mysteries in physics.
Prehistoric and early medieval landscapes at North Park Farm, Bletchingley, Surrey
Creators: name: Marples, Nick
name: Poulton, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 21
description: Excavations at North Park Farm Quarry, Bletchingley took place between 1997 and 2014, and revealed the development of a landscape through ten millennia.An array of Mesolithic tree-throws and purposefully dug pits was identified in the areas surrounding the enormous flint scatter that lay within a valley hollow. It is unclear whether intensive usage ceased with the last of the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, but much flintwork of Neolithic date, deriving from once intact surface scatters, was recovered, as well as an important feature with placed deposits of Peterborough Ware vessels. Such ritual activity may be continued by Bronze Age cremations and a probable ring-ditch, but the evidence of scattered features and flintwork also points to more regular agricultural activity and settlement at that period.Important and rare evidence of Early Iron Age ironworking was identified but there was little later Iron Age or Roman usage of the locale. There was a greater amount of earlier Saxon occupation, indicated by a well and a number of pits.In the early medieval period, trackways and a field system, integrated with discrete areas of industrial and domestic activity, were developed. The eastern side of this regularly divided landscape was marked by a green lane. Several roadside ditches for the green lane were identified during the excavations. It seems likely that this route had been used from the Bronze Age onwards (perhaps even as far back as the Mesolithic period), as part of the seasonal relocation of livestock and settlement, linking the North Downs and the Weald. The fields and settlements were obliterated with the creation of the North (deer) Park, probably in the later 12th century.
Glassmaking in the Weald, survey, excavation and scientific analysis 2010-2018
Creators: name: Dungworth, David
name: Clark, C
name: Linford, Paul K
name: Munnery, T
name: Paynter, Sarah
name: Poulton, Rob
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2024

description: Spoilheap Monograph Series, 24
description: The archaeological remains of the Wealden industry have been revisited at intervals since the late 19th century, but scientific methods have been employed at only a few sites, and the majority have not been characterised (in terms of the date and nature of the glassmaking that took place) with any certainty. Nineteen of the 48 known sites of Wealden glass production were selected for rapid investigation involving conventional survey, fieldwalking and, especially, magnetometer survey. At only three of these sites was no clear or useful evidence revealed, and the locations or probable locations of a number of furnaces were identified together with evidence for related activity. Three of the sites were selected for small-scale investigation by excavation.
The Role of Torsion in Trans-Planckian Physics
Creators: name: Arabahmadi, Elham
name: Akhshabi, Siamak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The torsion of spacetime, if exists, plays an important role at the very early universe when the spin density of particles was very high. It is generally believed that in extremely high energies of the early universe a new physics called trans-Planckian physics should be considered. Since the initial conditions for inflation are probably a result of this new physics, here we consider spin and torsion as trans- Planckian effects and analyze their influence on the power spectrum of scalar and tensor perturbations at the end of the inflationary era.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures
Archilestes grandis
Creators: name: Garrison, R. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestidae
Archilestes
Archilestes grandis

description: A. grandis: Arizona: Pima Co., Florida Cyn., Santa Rita Mtns., 1 1 June 1978 (1 ♂)collected by J.E. Hafernik, Jr.; Texas: Uvaldc Co., Frio River at rest area, just N of Garner State Park, 23 July 1977 (1 ♂); Mexico: Veracruz, Rio Metlac about 3.5 km. WNW of Fortin, 900 m, 10 Aug. 1976 (1 ♂); Venezuela: Miranda State, Quebrada Pasaquire, just N of El Marques, Caracas, 900- 1040 m, 18 and 26 Sept. 1980 (9 ♂)all collected by R.W. and J.A. Garrison.
description: Published as part of Garrison, R. W., 1982, Archilestes neblina, a new damselfly from Costa Rica, with comments on the variability of A. latialatus Donnelly (Odonata: Lestidae), pp. 1-12 in Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 702 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3535422