cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prying Eyes in the Sky
Creators: name: Friedman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2002

description: Landowners owned all airspace directly above their property, prior to U.S. v. Causby, a 1946 Supreme Court ruling that made the sky a “public highway” without clearly specifying whether landowners retained any rights to restrict overhead non-transportation activities. In recent decades, technological advances have made possible aircraft and satellite surveillance that enables visual surveillance of private property. Technological advances also allow the data recorded by such surveillance to be stored and potentially sold in a market for information. As a result, landowners are left vulnerable to troubling surveillance that creates asymmetries of information, usurps the value of property, and constitutes an invasion of privacy. The privacy tort of intrusion would offer a common law remedy for landowners, if the law were applied properly, in a manner distinguishing aerial surveillance from ground-level surveillance. However, due to imperfections in intrusion doctrine, the optimal solution would be to enact legislation codifying the conclusion that visual aerial surveillance of private property subjects the observer to tort liability. Liability could be avoided where the observer points to strong countervailing considerations, such as a compelling reason for undertaking the surveillance and the demonstration of prudence in recording and storing data. Creating a presumption of tort liability would not create insurmountable practical problems and would provide analogous protection to that offered under existing wiretapping law.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 4: 2002-2003
Relación andaluza titulada Los lunares a mi niña: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
It's the Antigen Stupid:
Creators: name: Bohrer, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2004

description: The Orphan Drug Act of 1983 is an attempt at solving an important problem: how to induce a market-driven pharmaceutical industry to develop new therapeutics for diseases affecting relatively small numbers of persons. In the case of protein therapeutics produced by biotechnology, the FDA’s administration of the Act has repeatedly led to litigation and controversy. The principal and recurrent problem has been determining when a second applicant for the approval of a drug to treat an orphan disease (or “indication”) is seeking approval for the “same” drug as a previously approved orphan drug. The problem is how to provide sufficient protection for pioneering orphan drugs to stimulate the development of new drugs for smaller patient populations, while not so broadly protecting orphan drugs as to preclude additional therapeutics that make new contributions to the treatment of those diseases. In the context of antibody therapeutics, that problem is somewhat different than for other protein therapeutics. For antibodies, it is the antigen that will primarily determine the antibody’s efficacy, and it is the proof that an antigen is clinically useful in the treatment of a disease that provides the biggest risk in antibody development. The approach to orphan drug exclusivity recommended here is that the FDA presume antibodies to the same antigen, of the same immunoglobin class and with the same mechanism of action to be the same drug unless the second antibody is shown to be clinically superior to the first.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 5: 2003-2004
Conditional quantum thermometry -- enhancing precision by measuring less
Creators: name: Sone, Akira
name: Soares-Pinto, Diogo O.
name: Deffner, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Taking accurate measurements of the temperature of quantum systems is a challenging task. The mathematical peculiarities of quantum information make it virtually impossible to measure with infinite precision. In the present paper, we introduce a generalize thermal state, which is conditioned on the pointer states of the available measurement apparatus. We show that this conditional thermal state outperforms the Gibbs state in quantum thermometry. The origin for the enhanced precision can be sought in its asymmetry quantified by the Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information. This additional resource is further clarified in a fully resource-theoretic analysis, and we show that there is a Gibbs-preserving map to convert a target state into the conditional thermal state. We relate the quantum J-divergence between the conditional thermal state and the same target state to quantum heat.
description: very close to published version
Data Mining and Domestic Security
Creators: name: Taipale, K. A.
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2004

description: Official U.S. Government policy calls for the research, development, and implementation of advanced information technologies for aggregating and analyzing data, including data mining, in the effort to protect domestic security. Civil libertarians and libertarians alike have decried and opposed these efforts as an unprecedented invasion of privacy and a threat to our freedoms. This Article examines these technologies in the context of domestic security. The purpose of this Article is not to critique or endorse any particular proposed use of these technologies but, rather, to inform the debate by elucidating the intersection of technology potential and development with legitimate privacy concerns. This Article argues that security with privacy can be achieved by employing value-sensitive technology development strategies that take privacy concerns into account during development, in particular, by building in rule-based processing, selective revelation, and strong credential and audit features. This Article does not argue that these technical features alone can eliminate privacy concerns but, rather, that these features can enable familiar, existing privacy protecting oversight and control mechanisms, procedures and doctrines (or their analogues) to be applied in order to control the use of these new technologies.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 5: 2003-2004
Relación andaluza titulada Los lunares a mi niña: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2022), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Orlicz functions that do not satisfy the $Δ_2$-condition and high order Gateaux smoothness in $ h_M(Γ) $
Creators: name: Ivanov, Milen
name: Troyanski, Stanimir
name: Zlateva, Nadia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B45, 46E30, 49J50

description: We study Orlicz functions that do not satisfy the $Δ_2$-condition at zero.
 We prove that for every Orlicz function $M$ such that $\limsup_{t\to0}M(t)/t^p >0$ for some $p\ge1$, there exists a positive sequence $T=(t_k)_{k=1}^\infty$ tending to zero and such that
 $$
 \sup_{k\in\mathbb{N}}\frac{M(ct_k)}{M(t_k)} <\infty,\text{ for all }c>1,
 $$
 that is, $M$ satisfies the $Δ_2$ condition with respect to $T$.
 Consequently, we show that for each Orlicz function with lower Boyd index $α_M < \infty$ there exists an Orlicz function $N$ such that:
 (a) there exists a positive sequence $T=(t_k)_{k=1}^\infty$ tending to zero such that $N$ satisfies the $Δ_2$ condition with respect to $T$, and
 (b) the space $h_N$ is isomorphic to a subspace of $h_M$ generated by one vector.
 We apply this result to find the maximal possible order of Gâteaux differentiability of a continuous bump function on the Orlicz space $h_M(Γ)$ for $Γ$ uncountable.
The Cyber-front in the War on Terrorism
Creators: name: Hinnen, Todd
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2004

description: As an affordable, anonymous, secure, geographically unbounded, and largely unregulated medium for commerce and communication, the Internet provides users with an unprecedented global marketplace in which to conduct financial transactions and exchange ideas. These same characteristics, however, render the Internet an inviting environment for vast fraud schemes, money laundering, and communication among criminal coconspirators. It has become increasingly clear that terrorist organizations avail themselves of the opportunities afforded by the Internet to recruit and train adherents and foot soldiers, to raise and move funds, and to plan and execute attacks. This Article explores law enforcement’s ability to combat terrorist organizations’ use of the Internet to raise and move funds, communicate, and orchestrate acts of terror. First, the Article examines the online mechanisms through which terrorist organizations raise funds online, citing examples in which terrorists have raised money by soliciting funds directly over the Internet, exploiting facially-legitimate online charities, or garnering the proceeds of Internet crimes. Second, the Article explores the online commercial applications through which terrorist organizations transfer resources from these fund-raising sources to their operational corps. Third, the Article investigates the online means by which terrorist organizations communicate to recruit and indoctrinate supporters, to orchestrate fund-raising and disbursement efforts, and to devise and implement violent operations. With regard to each of these topics, the Article discusses the challenges posed to the United States government’s efforts to prevent, investigate, and prosecute such conduct under United States law.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 5: 2003-2004
Relación andaluza titulada Los lunares a mi niña: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Fermions with Electric Dipole Moment in curved spacetime
Creators: name: Filho, A. A. Araújo
name: Hassanabadi, H.
name: Reis, J. A. A. S.
name: Lisboa-Santos, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper explores the relativistic behavior of spin--half particles possessing an Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) in a curved spacetime background induced by a spiral dislocation. A thorough review of the mathematical formulation of the Dirac spinor in the framework of quantum field theory sets the foundation for our investigation. By deriving the action that governs the interaction between the spinor field, the background spacetime, and an external electric field, we establish a framework to study the dynamics of the system. Solving the resulting wave equation reveals a set of coupled equations for the radial components of the Dirac spinor, which give rise to a modified energy spectrum attributed to the EDM. To validate our findings, we apply them to the geometric phase and thermodynamics.
description: 23 pages, and 2 figures
title: Of Humanitarian Windows, Pause(s), Truces and Ceasefires, and Israel’s Right of Self-Defence Against the Hamas Terrorist Attack
Creators: name: Talmon, Stefan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 341

description: GPIL - German Practice in International Law
Digital Rights Management
Creators: name: Hoofnagle, Chris Jay
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2004

description: Digital Rights Management technologies threaten to fundamentally alter the level of privacy protection United States law and tradition currently provide to media consumers. If left unchecked, the development and implementation of DRM could lead to a “surveillance” society. This essay proposes eight policy principles to extend privacy protection to the distribution of digital media.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 5: 2003-2004
Piracy, Price Discrimination, and Development
Creators: name: Cosovanu, Catalin
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2004

description: The strengthening of intellectual property regimes in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets has failed to deliver on the much-touted promises of increasing high-technology foreign investment and faster development of homegrown information-intensive industrial sectors, especially with respect to the software industry. Considering the economics of developing and marketing software products, local programmers have little to gain from stronger copyright protection in their domestic markets, and this situation is not likely to change soon. The technological level of foreign investment and its global pattern (advanced research and development in the core, unsophisticated and low margin work in the periphery) is also unaffected by the local level of copyright protection. At the same time, piracy has turned out to be a necessary evil for the diffusion of software that is legally priced beyond the reach of most local users. Price discrimination could have provided a solution for this conundrum, but there are important economic and political factors that support the status quo, although the much-feared parallel imports are less of a problem than expected. Nevertheless, there are significant technological and cultural developments that should make the actors involved less comfortable about the status quo. These problems clearly require more innovative thinking. Open source software is likely to be a significant part of the answer, but the implementation of this solution will require serious efforts to change the approach of governments in developing countries and the international organizations involved in development assistance.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 5: 2003-2004
A Direct Approach to In-Plane Stress Separation using Photoelastic Ptychography
Creators: name: Anthony, Nicholas
name: Cadenazzi, Guido
name: Kirkwood, Henry
name: Huwald, Eric
name: Nugent, Keith
name: Abbey, Brian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4019
subject: Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy

description: The elastic properties of materials, either under external load or in a relaxed state, influence their mechanical behaviour. Conventional optical approaches based on techniques such as photoelasticity or thermoelasticity can be used for full-field analysis of the stress distribution within a specimen. The circular polariscope in combination with holographic photoelasticity allows the sum and difference of principal stress components to be determined by exploiting the temporary birefringent properties of materials under load. Phase stepping and interferometric techniques have been proposed as a method for separating the in-plane stress components in two-dimensional photoelasticity experiments. In this paper we describe and demonstrate an alternative approach based on photoelastic ptychography which is able to obtain quantitative stress information from far fewer measurements than is required for interferometric based approaches. The complex light intensity equations based on Jones calculus for this setup are derived. We then apply this approach to the problem of a disc under diametrical compression. The experimental results are validated against the analytical solution derived by Hertz for the theoretical displacement fields for an elastic disc subject to point loading.
Normal 5-edge-coloring of some snarks superpositioned by Flower snarks
Creators: name: Sedlar, Jelena
name: Škrekovski, Riste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15

description: An edge e is normal in a proper edge-coloring of a cubic graph G if the number of distinct colors on four edges incident to e is 2 or 4: A normal edge-coloring of G is a proper edge-coloring in which every edge of G is normal. The Petersen Coloring Conjecture is equivalent to stating that every bridgeless cubic graph has a normal 5-edge-coloring. Since every 3-edge-coloring of a cubic graph is trivially normal, it is suficient to consider only snarks to establish the conjecture. In this paper, we consider a class of superpositioned snarks obtained by choosing a cycle C in a snark G and superpositioning vertices of C by one of two simple supervertices and edges of C by superedges Hx;y, where H is any snark and x; y any pair of nonadjacent vertices of H: For such superpositioned snarks, two suficient conditions are given for the existence of a normal 5-edge-coloring. The first condition yields a normal 5-edge-coloring for all hypohamiltonian snarks used as superedges, but only for some of the possible ways of connecting them. In particular, since the Flower snarks are hypohamiltonian, this consequently yields a normal 5-edge-coloring for many snarks superpositioned by the Flower snarks. The second sufficient condition is more demanding, but its application yields a normal 5-edge-colorings for all superpositions by the Flower snarks. The same class of snarks is considered in [S. Liu, R.-X. Hao, C.-Q. Zhang, Berge{Fulkerson coloring for some families of superposition snarks, Eur. J. Comb. 96 (2021) 103344] for the Berge-Fulkerson conjecture. Since we established that this class has a Petersen coloring, this immediately yields the result of the above mentioned paper.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures
Gestão do Conhecimento Taxonômico Aplicado na Conservação da Flora Brasileira
Creators: name: Silva, Luís Alexandre Estevão Da
name: Jonice De Oliveira Sampaio
name: Dalcin, Eduardo
name: Zimbrão, Geraldo
name: Souza, Jano Moreira De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computational Biology
Botany
Applied Computer Science

description: Information systems for biodiversity management and monitoring
are effective tools for nature conservation. However, the taxonomic data are
difficult to handle, considering the rate of new discoveries and constant
updates of the names by the specialists. Thus, the definition of a methodology to manage and share knowledge of these researchers is needed. In this study, we present an approach to the use of collaboration technologies, ontologies and data mining, enabling the management of scientific knowledge in plant conservation.
Immortalized Parkinson's disease lymphocytes have enhanced mitochondrial respiratory activity
Creators: name: Annesley, Sarah
name: Lay, Sui
name: De Piazza, Shawn
name: Sanislav, Oana
name: Hammersley, Eleanor
name: Allan, Claire
name: Francione, Lisa
name: Bui, Minh Q
name: Chen, Zhi-Ping
name: Ngoei, Kevin RW
name: Tassone, Flora
name: Kemp, Bruce E
name: Storey, Elsdon
name: Evans, Andrew
name: Loesch-Mdzewska, Danuta
name: Fisher, Paul
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 310103
subject: Cell metabolism
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: In combination with studies of post-mortem Parkinson's disease (PD) brains, pharmacological and genetic models of PD have suggested that two fundamental interacting cellular processes are impaired-proteostasis and mitochondrial respiration. We have re-examined the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in lymphoblasts isolated from individuals with idiopathic PD and an age-matched control group. As previously reported forvarious PD cell types, the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by PD lymphoblasts was significantly elevated. However, this was not due to an impairment of mitochondrial respiration, as is often assumed. Instead, basal mitochondrial respiration and ATP synthesis are dramatically elevated in PD lymphoblasts. The mitochondrial mass, genome copy number and membrane potential were unaltered, but the expression of indicative respiratory complex proteins was also elevated. This explains the increased oxygen consumption rates by each of the respiratory complexes in experimentally uncoupled mitochondria of iPD cells. However, it was not attributable to increased activity of the stress- and energy-sensing protein kinase AMPK, a regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis and activity. The respiratory differences between iPD and control cells were sufficiently dramatic as to provide a potentially sensitive and reliable biomarker of the disease state, unaffected by disease duration (time since diagnosis) or clinical severity. Lymphoblasts from control and PD individuals thus occupy two distinct, quasi-stable steady states; a 'normal' and a 'hyperactive' state characterized by two different metabolic rates. The apparent stability of the 'hyperactive' state in patient-derived lymphoblasts in the face of patient ageing, ongoing disease and mounting disease severity suggests an early, permanent switch to an alternative metabolic steady state. With its associated, elevated ROS production, the 'hyperactive' state might not cause pathology to cells that are rapidly turned over, but brain cells might accumulate long-term damage leading ultimately to neurodegeneration and the loss of mitochondrial function observed post-mortem. Whether the 'hyperactive' state in lymphoblasts is a biomarker specifically of PD or more generally of neurodegenerative disease remains to be determined.
Saddle points in completely regular topological spaces
Creators: name: Kamburova, D.
name: Marinov, R.
name: Zlateva, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49K27, 90C47, 90C48

description: We give a characterization of completely regular topological spaces. Applying some recent results for supinf problems in completely regular topological spaces we establish a variational principle for saddle points. Well-posedness of saddle point problems is studied as well.
Holmes v. Vornado
Creators: name: Etra, Joseph
name: Etra, Joseph
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2004

description: In a recent decision, The Holmes Group, Inc. v. Vornado Air Circulation Systems, Inc., the United States Supreme Court altered the treatment of patent cases at the appellate level, and, in doing so, significantly limited Federal Circuit jurisdiction. Prior to this decision, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard both appeals of cases involving patent claims and those that involved only patent counterclaims. With the Holmes decision, the Supreme Court relied on the well-pleaded complaint rule to hold that appellate jurisdiction could only be based on claims on the face of the plaintiff’s complaint and, thus, not the defendant’s counterclaims. This decision will likely produce far-reaching effects in the world of patent litigation. In order to explore its possible monumental impact, this Note traces the development of the law prior to Holmes, and analyzes the Holmes decision in light of that history, finally concluding with a discussion of the holding’s actual and likely ramifications.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 5: 2003-2004
Wettability alteration of carbonate rock mediated by biosurfactanat produced from high-starch agricultural effluents
Creators: name: Johnson, Stephen
name: Salehi, Mehdi
name: Jenn-Tai Liang
name: Fox, Sandra
name: Bala, Gregory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A16 - 9th International Wettability Symposium, Bergen, Norway, 18-19 September 2006 ABSTRACT: Surfactants can be used to alter wettability of reservoir rock, increasing spontaneous
imbibition and thus improving oil yields. Commercial synthetic surfactants are often
prohibitively expensive and so a crude preparation of the anionic biosurfactant, surfactin,
from Bacillus subtilis, able to be grown on high-starch industrial and agricultural effluents,
has been proposed as an economical alternative. To assess the effectiveness of the
surfactin, it is compared to a commercially available surfactant. The wettability change
mediated by dilute solutions of commercial anionic surfactant (STEOL CS-330) and
surfactin was assessed using two-phase separation, and water flotation techniques; and
surfactant loss due to retention and adsorption the rock was determined. Qualitative tests
indicate that on a molar basis, surfactin is more effective than STEOL CS-330 in altering
wettability of crushed Lansing-Kansas City carbonates from oil-wet to water-wet state.
Adsorption isotherms of STEOL CS-330 and surfactin on crushed Lansing-Kansas City
outcrop and reservoir material showed that surfactin has higher specific adsorption on
these oomoldic carbonates.
Boundedness of certain linear operators on twisted Fock spaces
Creators: name: Garg, Rahul
name: Thangavelu, Sundaram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30H20, 42A38, 42B15, 44A15

description: On the twisted Fock spaces $ \mathcal{F}^λ(\mathbb{C}^{2n}) $ we consider two types of convolution operators $ S_φ$ and $ \widetilde{S}_φ$ associated to an element $ φ\in \mathcal{F}^λ(\mathbb{C}^{2n}) .$ We find a necessary and sufficient condition on $ φ$ so that $ S_φ$ (resp. $ \widetilde{S}_φ$ ) is bounded on $ \mathcal{F}^λ(\mathbb{C}^{2n}).$ We show that for any given non constant $ φ$ at least one of these two operators is unbounded.
Home-based rehabilitation for COPD using minimal resources: a randomised, controlled equivalence trial
Creators: name: Holland, Anne
name: Mahal, A
name: Hill, CJ
name: Lee, AL
name: Burge, Angela
name: Cox, Narelle
name: Moore, R
name: Nicolson, Caroline
name: O'Halloran, Paul
name: Lahham, Aroub
name: Gillies, Rebecca
name: McDonald, CF
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3201
subject: Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences

description: Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is a cornerstone of care for COPD but uptake of traditional centre-based programmes is poor. We assessed whether home-based pulmonary rehabilitation, delivered using minimal resources, had equivalent outcomes to centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation. Methods: A randomised controlled equivalence trial with 12 months follow-up. Participants with stable COPD were randomly assigned to receive 8 weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation by either the standard outpatient centre-based model, or a new home-based model including one home visit and seven once-weekly telephone calls from a physiotherapist. The primary outcome was change in 6 min walk distance (6MWD). Results: We enrolled 166 participants to receive centre-based rehabilitation (n=86) or home-based rehabilitation (n=80). Intention-to-treat analysis confirmed non-inferiority of home-based rehabilitation for 6MWD at end-rehabilitation and the confidence interval (CI) did not rule out superiority (mean difference favouring home group 18.6 m, 95% CI -3.3 to 40.7). At 12 months the CI did not exclude inferiority (-5.1 m, -29.2 to 18.9). Between-group differences for dyspnoea-related quality of life did not rule out superiority of home-based rehabilitation at programme completion (1.6 points, -0.3 to 3.5) and groups were equivalent at 12 months (0.05 points, -2.0 to 2.1). The per-protocol analysis showed the same pattern of findings. Neither group maintained postrehabilitation gains at 12 months. Conclusions: This home-based pulmonary rehabilitation model, delivered with minimal resources, produced short-term clinical outcomes that were equivalent to centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation. Neither model was effective in maintaining gains at 12 months. Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation could be considered for people with COPD who cannot access centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation.
A Systemic Challenge to the Reliability and Admissibility of Firearms and Toolmark Identification
Creators: name: Schwartz, Adina
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Law Review
Year: 2005

description: Firearms identification, often improperly referred to as “ballistics identification,” is part of the forensic science discipline of toolmark identification. Despite widespread faith in “ballistics fingerprinting,” this article contends that because of systemic scientific problems, firearms and toolmark identifications should be inadmissible across-the-board. This article explains that similarities between toolmarks made by different tools and differences between toolmarks made by the same tool imply that a statistical question must be answered to determine whether a particular tool was the source of an evidence toolmark. What is the likelihood that the toolmarks made by a randomly selected tool of the same type would do as good a job as the toolmarks made by the suspect tool at matching the characteristics of the evidence toolmark? Firearms and toolmark examiners evade this question by claiming to be able to single out a particular firearm or other tool as the source of an evidence toolmark. The article further explains that the absence of statistical empirical foundations cannot be excused on the ground that, regardless of how they do it, firearms and toolmark examiners reach accurate identity conclusions. Although firearms and toolmark examiners have feared that Daubert would lead courts to exclude their testimony, both before and after Daubert, firearms and toolmark identification testimony has largely been admitted as a matter of course. No court, including the two recent courts that have excluded particular identification testimony, has recognized the systemic scientific problems with the field. Nonetheless, because of the risk that innocent people will be convicted or even sentenced to death on the basis of erroneous identifications, all firearms and toolmark identifications should be excluded until adequate statistical empirical foundations and profiency testing are developed for the field.
description: Science and Technology Law Review, Vol 6: 2004-2005
Increasing day service staff capacity to facilitate positive relationships with people with severe intellectual disability: Evaluation of a new intervention using multiple baseline design
Creators: name: Johnson, Hilary
name: Bigby, Christine
name: Iacono, Teresa
name: Douglas, Jacinta
name: Katthagen, S
name: Bould, Emma
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4409
subject: Social work

description: Background: The social relationships model was developed to describe positive relationships between support staff and people with intellectual disability. We evaluated an educational intervention based on this model. Method: Eighteen staff supporting 5 adult service users with severe or profound intellectual disability from 3 day services received the intervention. Mixed methods were used. A multiple baseline design determined changes in relationship processes between staff and service users following intervention. Descriptive field notes and staff interviews provided qualitative data. Results: Positive changes in relationship processes were found, but the results were variable. Of note was a high effect for 1 service user, a minimal effect for 2, and no effect for 2 service users. Field notes revealed contributors to variable results, and interview data highlighted changes not captured by quantitative measures. Conclusions: An educational intervention based on the social relationship model shows promise as a means to enhance staff relationships with people with intellectual disability.
Are machine learning technologies ready to be used for humanitarian work and development?
Creators: name: Sekara, Vedran
name: Karsai, Márton
name: Moro, Esteban
name: Kim, Dohyung
name: Delamonica, Enrique
name: Cebrian, Manuel
name: Luengo-Oroz, Miguel
name: Jiménez, Rebeca Moreno
name: Garcia-Herranz, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Novel digital data sources and tools like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to revolutionize data about development and can contribute to monitoring and mitigating humanitarian problems. The potential of applying novel technologies to solving some of humanity's most pressing issues has garnered interest outside the traditional disciplines studying and working on international development. Today, scientific communities in fields like Computational Social Science, Network Science, Complex Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, and the broader AI field are increasingly starting to pay attention to these pressing issues. However, are sophisticated data driven tools ready to be used for solving real-world problems with imperfect data and of staggering complexity? We outline the current state-of-the-art and identify barriers, which need to be surmounted in order for data-driven technologies to become useful in humanitarian and development contexts. We argue that, without organized and purposeful efforts, these new technologies risk at best falling short of promised goals, at worst they can increase inequality, amplify discrimination, and infringe upon human rights.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Abordagem Colaborativa para a Melhoria da Qualidade de Dados em Bases de Dados Botânicas
Creators: name: Silva, Luís Alexandre Estevão Da
name: Barros, Ricardo Oliveira
name: Dalcin, Eduardo
name: Zimbrão, Geraldo
name: Souza, Jano Moreira De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computational Biology
Botany
Applied Computer Science

description: The purpose of this study is to consider how research in collaborative technology can assist at development of management systems for botanical collections, at sharing the knowledge of researchers and promoting the spread of identifications and taxonomic revisions. For this approach a study was conducted in order to verify the quality of data and the main types of errors found in this type of biodiversity database application. A model for the development of an architecture for the system is proposed.
Spatial data quality of herbarium datasets and implications for decision-making on biodiversity conservation in Brazil
Creators: name: Barros, Felipe Sodré
name: Fernandes, Ricardo Avancini
name: Moraes, Miguel Avila
name: Pougy, Nina Monteiro
name: Caram, Julia Sfair
name: Dalcin, Eduardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computational Biology
Botany
Applied Computer Science

description: The present level of biodiversity depletion and loss, and the diffusion of new geotechnologies create the outlines for a new paradigm, where spatial data is extremely valuable. Quality datasets may be used to support decision-making processes in public policies related to biodiversity conservation. Specimen datasets used by the scientific community for their analysis starts to become available to the public and private sectors. During the last two decades several important datasets like Species 2000, The Plant List, JABOT among others, and access platforms like GBIF or SpeciesLink have become available. On the other hand, widespread access to technologies has made geoprocessing and spatial analyses easier. However poor data quality is still critical and limits the usefulness of these datasets. Thereby, data quality assessments are important to ensure a responsible use of those datasets. The Brazilian National Centre for Flora Conservation was created in 2008, at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, with the main objective of assessing the extinction risk of plant species and to plan conservation actions. In this context, a dataset was created after the compilation of occurrence records (248,837) of 4,711 threatened species, obtained from 70 herbaria. The present study aims to assess quality of the dataset and records, and to test quality improvement after data cleaning efforts. We have used the five-component scheme for assessing dataset quality. Significance of the differences between expected and observed proportions were tested using the degree of confidence between proportions by the software R. The Mann-Whitney test was used to compare errors between the original dataset and the cleaned out one. Results indicate poor quality, not only for dataset (p<0.10) but also for records (p<0,10). Only 54,306 records (22.30%) were considered of good quality. Logical inconsistencies in the dataset were present in 8,237 records (3.37%). Historical collections of Brazilian herbaria are composed by different datasets, which were incorporated gradually over time without proper metadata. And for being able to use herbarium datasets for supporting the decision-making processes on biodiversity it is important to keep all metadata and appropriate documents that proves veracity of data.
Bounds for syzygies of monomial curves
Creators: name: Caviglia, Giulio
name: Moscariello, Alessio
name: Sammartano, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D02, 13F65, 05E40, 13F55, 20M14

description: Let G be a numerical semigroup. In this paper, we prove an upper bound for the Betti numbers of the semigroup ring of G which depends only on the width of G, that is, the difference between the largest and the smallest generator of G. In this way, we make progress towards a conjecture of Herzog and Stamate. Moreover, for 4-generated numerical semigroups, the first significant open case, we prove the Herzog-Stamate bound for all but finitely many values of the width.
description: Fixed typos. Final version, to appear on Proc. Amer. Math. Soc
Astronomy Librarians – Quo Vadis?
Creators: name: Lagerstrom, Jill
name: Grothkopf, Uta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astronomy

description: “You don’t look like a librarian” is a phrase we often hear in the astronomy department or observatory library. Astronomy librarians are a breed apart, and are taking on new and non-traditional roles as information technology evolves. This talk will explore the future of librarians and librarianship through the lens of the recent talks given at the sixth “Libraries and Information Services in Astronomy” conference held in Pune, India in February 2010. We will explore the librarian’s universe, illustrating how librarians use new technologies to perform such tasks as bibliometrics, how we are re-fashioning our library spaces in an increasingly digital world and how we are confronting the brave new world of open access, to name but a few topics.
Graph Sampling Results
Creators: name: Rietveld, Laurens
name: Guéret, Christophe
name: Schlobach, Stefan
name: Loizou, Antonis
name: Hoekstra, Rinke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Boxplots showing the quality of the sampled subgraphs. The quality/relevance is based on the recall of a given set of queries for this dataset. Whenever we can claim a statistically significant better recall than one of our baselines, we show this using + or * signs. Our significance calculations are public as well on github: https://github.com/Data2Semantics/GraphSampling/blob/master/bin/significance/getSignificance.R
On some operator-valued Fourier pseudo-multipliers associated to Grushin operators
Creators: name: Bagchi, Sayan
name: Basak, Riju
name: Garg, Rahul
name: Ghosh, Abhishek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J40, 43A85, 42B25

description: This is a continuation of our work [BBGG23, BBGG22] where we have initiated the study of sparse domination and quantitative weighted estimates for Grushin pseudo-multipliers. In this article, we further extend this analysis to study analogous estimates for a family of operator-valued Fourier pseudo-multipliers associated to Grushin operators $G = - Δ_{x^{\prime}} - |x^{\prime}|^2 Δ_{x^{\prime \prime}}$ on $\mathbb{R}^{n_1+n_2}.$
description: This work consists of results extracted from arXiv:2112.06634v1. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2112.06634
Characterization of a novel beta-barrel protein (AtOM47) from the mitochondrial outer membrane of Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Li, L
name: Kubiszewski-Jakubiak, S
name: Radomiljac, J
name: Wang, Yan
name: Law, SR
name: Keech, O
name: Narsai, Reena
name: Berkowitz, Oliver
name: Duncan, O
name: Murcha, MW
name: Whelan, James
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3004
subject: Crop and pasture production
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology
classificationCode: 310803
subject: Plant cell and molecular biology

description: In plant cells, mitochondria are major providers of energy and building blocks for growth and development as well as abiotic and biotic stress responses. They are encircled by two lipid membranes containing proteins that control mitochondrial function through the import of macromolecules and metabolites. Characterization of a novel β-barrel protein, OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN 47 (OM47), unique to the green lineage and related to the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) protein family, showed that OM47 can complement a VDAC mutant in yeast. Mutation of OM47 in Arabidopsis thaliana by T-DNA insertion had no effect on the import of proteins, such as the β-barrel proteins translocase of the outer membrane 40 (TOM40) or sorting and assembly machinery 50 (SAM50), into mitochondria. Molecular and physiological analyses revealed a delay in chlorophyll breakdown, higher levels of starch, and a delay in the induction of senescence marker genes in the mutant lines. While there was a reduction of >90% in OM47 protein in mitochondria isolated from 3-week-old om47 mutants, in mitochondria isolated from 8-week-old plants OM47 levels were similar to that of the wild type. This recovery was achieved by an up-regulation of OM47 transcript abundance in the mutants. Combined, these results highlight a role in leaf senescence for this plant-specific β-barrel protein, probably mediating the recovery and recycling of chloroplast breakdown products by transporting metabolic intermediates into and out of mitochondria.
Arithmetic with Language Models: from Memorization to Computation
Creators: name: Maltoni, Davide
name: Ferrara, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A better understanding of the emergent computation and problem-solving capabilities of recent large language models is of paramount importance to further improve them and broaden their applicability. This work investigates how a language model, trained to predict the next token, can perform arithmetic computations generalizing beyond training data. Binary addition and multiplication constitute a good testbed for this purpose, since they require a very small vocabulary and exhibit relevant input/output discontinuities making smooth input interpolation ineffective for novel data. We successfully trained a light language model to learn these tasks and ran a number of experiments to investigate the extrapolation capabilities and internal information processing. Our findings support the hypothesis that the language model works as an Encoding-Regression-Decoding machine where the computation takes place in the value space once the input token representation is mapped to an appropriate internal representation.
description: The article has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Neural Networks journal. The final version is available on the Elsevier ScienceDirect platform
A Practical Approach to Compensation of Torque Ripple in High-Precision Permanent Magnet Motor Drives
Creators: name: Brock, Stefan
name: Deskur, Jan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Engineering

description: Torque pulsation in permanent magnet synchronous motor impairs their performance in critical applications, particularly for direct-drive. A practical approach to compensation of selected torque harmonics is presented. The approach consist of two
steps: identification of dominant torque harmonics (the cogging harmonics and the flux linkage harmonics) and using simple iterative search algorithm to tune the compensation algorithm. The angular spectral analysis is used as a optimum criteria. The design of a ripple compensation scheme is based on the fast, robust 2DFC current controller. The overall control scheme and experimental results are also presented. Proposed approach can be used as an automated self-commissioning scheme
High photon-loss threshold quantum computing using GHZ-state measurements
Creators: name: Pankovich, Brendan
name: Kan, Angus
name: Wan, Kwok Ho
name: Ostmann, Maike
name: Neville, Alex
name: Omkar, Srikrishna
name: Sohbi, Adel
name: Brádler, Kamil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose fault-tolerant architectures based on performing projective measurements in the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) basis on constant-sized, entangled resource states. We present linear-optical constructions of the architectures, where the GHZ-state measurements are encoded to suppress the errors induced by photon loss and the probabilistic nature of linear optics. Simulations of our constructions demonstrate high single-photon loss thresholds compared to the state-of-the-art linear-optical architecture realized with encoded two-qubit fusion measurements performed on constant-sized resource states. We believe this result shows a resource-efficient path to achieving photonic fault-tolerant quantum computing.