cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY IN PREVENTING YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE DISEASE OF SHOPOGOLISM
Creators: name: Arzikulov  Elboy Azim ugli National University of Uzbekistan Faculty of Social Sciences, a teacher of the Department of Ethics and Aesthetics
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: this article analyzes the role of the family in protecting young people from the disease of shopaholicism. The article reveals the purposeful direction of demand for ration and non-rational consumer products and the fulfillment of consumer desires in them without violating the requirements of moral norms.

Key words: youth, shopaholicism, depression, consumer culture, spiritual education, family, society.
Ultrafast stamping by combination of synchronized galvanometer scanning with DOE’s or SLM
Creators: name: Gafner, Markus
name: Remund, Stefan Marco
name: Chaja, Michalina
name: Mähne, Torsten
name: Neuenschwander, Beat
Year: 2020
Subjects: Laser micromachining
multi beam scanning
spatial light modulator
ultra-short laser pulses
drilling on the fly

description: The up-scaling of laser micromachining processes with ultrashort pulses is limited due to heat accumulation and shielding effects. Multi beam scanning represents one of the strategies to overcome this drawback. It is in general realized by combining a diffractive beam splitter with a galvanometer scanner. A full synchronization with the laser repetition rate offers new possibilities with minimum thermal impact. We will demonstrate this by means of a multipulse-drilling on the fly process with a regular 5x5 spot pattern having a spot to spot spacing of 160µm. At a repetition rate of 100 kHz and an average power of 16 W we were able to drill more than 2’300 holes/s in a 10µm thick steel foil. We have further extended this technology with a special light modulator for different periodic spot patterns and more complex intensity distributions.
Nesodynerus molokaiensis
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Nesodynerus
Nesodynerus molokaiensis

description: molokaiensis (Perkins)
Odynerus molokaiensis Perkins 1899: 41, male, female—“Molokai, mountains (3000 ft.)” (London, no. 18.385).— Dalla Torre 1904: 49 (in subgenus Lionotus; cat.).— Perkins 1906b: 67, 68 (key).— Swezey 1907a: 86 (Maui).— Giffard 1909a: 38 (Maui); 1913f: 233 (possibly variety of O. scoriaceus Perkins).— Swezey & Bryan 1929: 297 (Molokai).— Krauss 1944: 93 (Molokai).— Nishida 1992: 184 (Molokai; Maui; Hawaii); 1994: 173 (Molokai; Maui; Hawaii); 1997: 149 (Molokai; Maui; Hawaii); 2002: 182 (Molokai; Maui; Hawaii).
Nesodynerus molokaiensis; Evenhuis 2005: 49 (list).— Carpenter 2008: 18.— Krushelnycky 2014: e88948 (flower visitation; Maui).
Distr.: Hawaii.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 401-455 in Zootaxa 5315 (5) on page 423, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8142377
Urteilsfähigkeit, Zurechnungsfähigkeit und Schuldfähigkeit
Creators: name: Hürlimann, Daniel
name: Trachsel, Manuel
Publisher: name: Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag EMH
Year: 2015

description: Ärztinnen und Ärzte (aber teilweise auch RichterInnen, StaatsanwältInnen und VerteidigerInnen) verwenden die Begriffe Urteilsfähigkeit, Zurechnungsfähigkeit und Schuldfähigkeit oft praktisch synonym. Welche der oben genannten Fähigkeiten ist jedoch relevant, damit eine Person sich selbstbestimmt für oder gegen eine ärztlich indizierte Behandlungsoption entscheiden kann? Bei Vorliegen welcher Fähigkeit muss die Patientenentscheidung respektiert und umgesetzt werden?
Value of handgrip strength to predict clinical outcomes and therapeutic response in malnourished medical inpatients: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Tribolet, Pascal
name: Kaegi-Braun, Nina
name: Baumgartner, Annic
name: Fehr, Rebecca
name: Baechli, Valerie
name: Geiser, Martina
name: Deiss, Manuela
name: Gomes, Filomena
name: Kutz, Alexander
name: Hoess, Claus
name: Pavlicek, Vojtech
name: Schmid, Sarah
name: Bilz, Stefan
name: Sigrist, Sarah
name: Brändle, Michael
name: Benz, Carmen
name: Henzen, Christoph
name: Thomann, Robert
name: Rutishauser, Jonas
name: Aujesky, Drahomir
name: Rodondi, Nicolas
name: Donzé, Jacques
name: Stanga, Zeno
name: Mueller, Beat
name: Schuetz, Philipp
Year: 2021

description: Background: Disease-related malnutrition is associated with loss of muscle mass and impaired functional status. Handgrip strength (HGS) has been proposed as an easy-to-use tool to assess muscle strength in clinical practice. Objectives: We investigated the prognostic implications of HGS in patients at nutritional risk with regard to clinical outcomes and response to nutritional support. Methods: This was a secondary analysis of the randomized controlled, multicenter, Effect of Early Nutritional Support on Frailty, FunctionalOutcome, and Recovery of MalnourishedMedical Inpatients Trial, which compared the effects of individualized nutritional support with usual hospital food in medical inpatients at nutritional risk. Our primary endpoint was 30-d all-cause mortality. The association between sex-specific HGS and clinical outcomes was investigated using multivariable regression analyses, adjusted for randomization, age, weight, height, nutritional risk, admission diagnosis, comorbidities, interaction terms, and study center. We used interaction terms to investigate possible effect modification regarding the nutritional support intervention. Results: Mean ± SD HGS in the 1809 patients with available handgrip measurement was 17.0 ± 7.1 kg for females and 28.9 ± 11.3 kg formales. Each decrease of 10 kg in HGSwas associated with increased risk of 30-d mortality (female: adjusted OR: 2.11; 95% CI: 1.23, 3.62, P = 0.007; male: adjusted OR: 1.44; 95% CI: 1.07, 1.93, P = 0.015) and 180-d mortality (female: adjusted OR: 1.45; 95% CI: 1.0, 2.10, P = 0.048; male: adjusted OR: 1.55; 95% CI: 1.28, 1.89, P < 0.001). Individualized nutritional support was most effective in reducing mortality in patients with low HGS (adjusted OR: 0.29; 95% CI: 0.10, 0.82 in patients in the ≤10th percentile compared with OR: 0.98; 95% CI: 0.66, 1.48 in patients in the >10th percentile; P for interaction = 0.026). Conclusions: In medical inpatients at nutritional risk, HGS provided significant prognostic information about expected mortality and complication risks and helps to identify which patients benefit most from nutritional support. HGS may thus improve individualization of nutritional therapy. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02517476. Am J Clin Nutr 2021;00:1–10. Keywords: handgrip strength, malnutrition, nutritional support, functional decline, mortality
SDM-Car: A Dataset for Small and Dim Moving Vehicles Detection in Satellite Videos
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhen
name: Peng, Tao
name: Liao, Liang
name: Xiao, Jing
name: Wang, Mi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vehicle detection and tracking in satellite video is essential in remote sensing (RS) applications. However, upon the statistical analysis of existing datasets, we find that the dim vehicles with low radiation intensity and limited contrast against the background are rarely annotated, which leads to the poor effect of existing approaches in detecting moving vehicles under low radiation conditions. In this paper, we address the challenge by building a \textbf{S}mall and \textbf{D}im \textbf{M}oving Cars (SDM-Car) dataset with a multitude of annotations for dim vehicles in satellite videos, which is collected by the Luojia 3-01 satellite and comprises 99 high-quality videos. Furthermore, we propose a method based on image enhancement and attention mechanisms to improve the detection accuracy of dim vehicles, serving as a benchmark for evaluating the dataset. Finally, we assess the performance of several representative methods on SDM-Car and present insightful findings. The dataset is openly available at https://github.com/TanedaM/SDM-Car.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
U-Mamba-Net: A highly efficient Mamba-based U-net style network for noisy and reverberant speech separation
Creators: name: Dang, Shaoxiang
name: Matsumoto, Tetsuya
name: Takeuchi, Yoshinori
name: Kudo, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The topic of speech separation involves separating mixed speech with multiple overlapping speakers into several streams, with each stream containing speech from only one speaker. Many highly effective models have emerged and proliferated rapidly over time. However, the size and computational load of these models have also increased accordingly. This is a disaster for the community, as researchers need more time and computational resources to reproduce and compare existing models. In this paper, we propose U-mamba-net: a lightweight Mamba-based U-style model for speech separation in complex environments. Mamba is a state space sequence model that incorporates feature selection capabilities. U-style network is a fully convolutional neural network whose symmetric contracting and expansive paths are able to learn multi-resolution features. In our work, Mamba serves as a feature filter, alternating with U-Net. We test the proposed model on Libri2mix. The results show that U-Mamba-Net achieves improved performance with quite low computational cost.
Die Revision der Arbeitslosenversicherung von 2011 belastet die Sozialhilfe
Creators: name: Salzgeber, Renate
name: Kessler, Dorian
Publisher: name: Avenir Social
Year: 2020

description: Eine Wirkungsanalyse zeigt erstmals die Mehrkosten in der Sozialhilfe auf, die als Folge der 4. Revision der Arbeitslosenversicherung (ALV) anfallen.
Wechselwirkungen zwischen digitalen und analogen Repräsentationslogiken
Creators: name: Felsing, Ulrike
Year: 2017
Subjects: Bildhandeln
Ausstellungsjournal
Facebook
Repräsentation

description: In diesem Beitrag werden Wechselwirkungen zwischen analogen und digitalen Repräsentationsformen untersucht. Dabei werden zunächst die Unterschiede der medialen Bezugsrahmen ‚Druck’ und ‚Internet’ herausgearbeitet und anschließend in Beziehung zu Differenzen von gedruckten und digitalen Bildern gesetzt. Diese Differenzen werden in Hinsicht ihrer Einflussnahme auf unterschiedliche Formen des Handelns mit Bildern – wie Repräsentieren und Rezipieren – bezüglich analoger und digitaler Umgebungen analysiert. Das ‚Wie’ des ‚Zu-Sehen-Gebens’ und des Wahrnehmens der gleichen Bilder in Facebook und im gedruckten Ausstellungsjournal f/stop stehen sich nahezu diametral entgegen, so die These. Während Bilder beim Gestalten eines gedruckten Journals immer wieder angeschaut und das Angeschaute reflektiert werden muss, um es dann in einer neuen Ordnung zu präsentieren, fallen in Facebook ‚Zu-Sehen-Geben’ und Wahrnehmen fast in eins.
Nesodynerus monas subsp. aeneus
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Nesodynerus
Nesodynerus monas
Monas aeneus (giffard)

description: monas aeneus (Giffard)
Odynerus monas var. aeneus Giffard 1916: 225, male, female—“Above Manele, Lanai, approximately 1000 feet elevation” (Honolulu).—Timberlake 1922: 175 (holotype in coll. Hawaiian Entomological Society).
Odynerus monas aeneus; Nishida 1992: 184 (Lanai); 1994: 173 (Lanai); 1997: 149 (Lanai); 2002: 182 (Lanai).
Nesodynerus monas aeneus; Carpenter 2008: 18.
Distr.: Hawaii.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 401-455 in Zootaxa 5315 (5) on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8142377
High-throughput and high-precision laser micromachining with ps-pulses in synchronized mode with a fast polygon line scanner
Creators: name: Jaeggi, Beat
name: Neuenschwander, Beat
name: Zimmermann, Markus
name: Penning, L.
name: DeLoor, R.
name: Weingarten, K.
name: Oehler, A.
Year: 2014

description: To be competitive in laser micro machining, high throughput is an important aspect. One possibility to increase productivity is scaling up the ablation process i.e. linearly increasing the laser repetition rate together with the average power and the scan speed. In the MHz-regime high scan speeds are required which cannot be provided by commercially available galvo scanners. In this work we will report on the results by using a polygon line scanner having a maximum scan speed of 100 m/s and a 50 W ps-laser system, synchronized via the SuperSync™ technology. We will show the results concerning the removal rate and the surface quality for working at the optimum point i.e. most efficient point at repetition rates up to 8.2 MHz.
Loxodromes and geodesics on rotational surfaces in pseudo-isotropic space
Creators: name: Babaarslan, Murat
name: Sungur, Ahmet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Special curves and surfaces have an important place in mathematics, engineering and other fields of science. Loxodromes are special curves which cut all meridians on the Earth's surface at a constant angle and they are very popular in engineering. Ships sailing and airplanes flying along a fixed magnetic compass course move along this curve. The Mercator projections of the loxodromes on the sphere correspond to the lines and their stereographic projections to the logarithmic spirals. In general, loxodromes are not great circle arcs (geodesics). Geodesics correspond to the shortest distance between two points on the Earth's surface. Since loxodromes do not need to change course, they are important in navigation. Up till now, there have been many important studies of loxodromes on different surfaces (sphere, ellipsoid, rotational, helicoidal, canal, twisted, etc.) and in different ambient spaces (Euclidean, Minkowski, simply isotropic, etc.). However, there is no study on loxodromes in pseudo-isotropic space I_p^3. In I_p^3, different pseudo-isotropic angles can be defined depending on whether the vectors are space-like or time-like as in Minkowski space. In this study, we will first define these angles in I_p^3. Then, the equations of space-like and time-like loxodromes and geodesics on rotational surfaces will be obtained. Some examples will also be provided.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Analysis of sport psychology consultancy at three Olympic Games: facts and figures
Creators: name: Birrer, Daniel
name: Wetzel, Jörg
name: Schmid, Jürg
name: Morgan, Gareth
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2012
Subjects: Olympic Games Onsite interventions Brief contact intervention Crisis intervention Critical incident Psychology consultancy

description: Objectives: Despite many reports on best practises regarding onsite psychological services, little research has attempted to systematically explore the frequency, issues, nature and client groups of onsite sport psychology consultancy at the Olympic Games. The present paper will fill this gap through a systematic analysis of the sport psychology consultancy of the Swiss team for the Olympic Games of 2006 in Turin, 2008 in Beijing and 2010 in Vancouver. Design: Descriptive research design. Methods: The day reports of the official sport psychologist were analysed. Intervention issues were labelled using categories derived from previous research and divided into the following four intervention-issue dimensions: “general performance”, “specific Olympic performance”, “organisational” and “personal” issues. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, chi square statistics and odds ratios. Results: Across the Olympic Games, between 11% and 25% of the Swiss delegation used the sport psychology services. On average, the sport psychologist provided between 2.1 and 4.6 interventions per day. Around 50% of the interventions were informal interventions. Around 30% of the clients were coaches. The most commonly addressed issues were performance related. An association was observed between previous collaboration, intervention likelihood and intervention theme. Conclusions: Sport psychologists working at the Olympic Games are fully engaged with daily interventions and should have developed ideally long-term relationships with clients to truly help athletes with general performance issues. Critical incidents, working with coaches, brief contact interventions and team conflicts are specific features of the onsite consultancy. Practitioners should be trained to deal with these sorts of challenges.
Nesodynerus monas monas (Perkins
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Nesodynerus
Nesodynerus monas

description: monas monas (Perkins)
Odynerus monas Perkins, 1906b: 65 (key), 73, male—“Molokai” (London).— Giffard 1908: 179 (Lanai).— Perkins 1910: 611 (cat.).— Giffard 1913f: 232 (possibly allied forms); 1916: 226 (compared to O. kauensis n. sp.).— Nishida 1992: 184 (Molokai); 1994: 173 (Molokai).
Odynerus monas monas; Nishida, 1997: 149 (Molokai); 2002: 182 (Molokai).
Nesodynerus monas monas; Evenhuis 2005: 49 (list).— Carpenter 2008: 18.
Distr.: Hawaii.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 401-455 in Zootaxa 5315 (5) on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8142377
Calculations of some doping nanostructurations and patterns improving the functionality of high-temperature superconductors for bolometer device applications
Creators: name: Verde, J. C.
name: Viz, A. S.
name: Botana, M. M.
name: Montero-Orille, C.
name: Ramallo, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the effects of doping nanostructuration and the patterning of thin films of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) with the aim of optimizing their functionality as sensing materials for resistive transition-edge bolometer devices (TES). We focus, in particular, on spatial variations of the carrier doping into the CuO$_2$ layers due to oxygen off-stoichiometry, (that induce, in turn, critical temperature variations) and explore following two major cases of such structurations: First, the random nanoscale disorder intrinsically associated to doping levels that do not maximize the superconducting critical temperature; our studies suggest that this first simple structuration already improves some of the bolometric operational parameters with respect to the conventional, nonstructured HTS materials used until now. Secondly, we consider the imposition of regular arrangements of zones with different nominal doping levels (patterning); we find that such regular patterns may improve the bolometer performance even further. We find one design that improves, with respect to nonstructured HTS materials, both the saturation power and the operating temperature width by more than one order of magnitude. It also almost doubles the response of the sensor to radiation.
description: 37 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Theoretical Study of Nonlinear Absorption of a Strong Electromagnetic Wave in Infinite Semi-parabolic plus Semi-inverse Squared Quantum Wells by Using Quantum Kinetic Equation
Creators: name: Ba, Cao Thi Vi
name: Bau, Nguyen Quang
name: Tran, Anh-Tuan
name: Dien, Tang Thi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General analytic expressions for the total absorption coefficient of strong electromagnetic waves caused by confined electrons in Infinite semi-parabolic plus Semi-inverse Squared Quantum Wells (ISPSISQW) are obtained by using the quantum kinetic equation for electrons in the case of electron-optical phonon scattering. A second-order multi-photon process is included in the result. The dependence of the total absorption coefficient on the intensity $E_0$, the photon energy $\hbar Ω$ of an SEMW, and the temperature T for a specific GaAs/GaAsAl ISPPSISQW is achieved by using a numerical method. The computational results demonstrate that the total absorption coefficient's dependence on photon energy can be utilized for optically detecting the electric sub-bands in an ISPPSISQW. Besides, we also give theoretical rules on the dependence of the Full Width at Half Maximum on important external parameters such as temperature and perpendicular magnetic field. Furthermore, the obtained results are consistent with prior theoretical and experimental findings.
Neoverrucidae Newman
Creators: name: Newman, William A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Sessilia
Neoverrucidae

description: Family NEOVERRUCIDAE Newman in Newman & Hessler, 1989 (Recent)
DIAGNOSIS. — Distinguished from the extinct Proverrucidae and extant Verrucidae in having a primary wall elevated above the substratum by basal whorls of imbricating plates and an operculum including a median latus at least in juveniles (Newman 1989: 268).
description: Published as part of Newman, William A., 2000, A new genus and species of barnacle (Cirripedia, Verrucomorpha) associated with vents of the Lau Back-Arc Basin: its gross morphology, inferred first juvenile stage and affinities, pp. 71-84 in Zoosystema 22 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5391395
Imbricaverruca Newman 2000, n. gen.
Creators: name: Newman, William A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Sessilia
Neoverrucidae
Imbricaverruca

description: Imbricaverruca n. gen.
TYPE SPECIES. — Imbricaverruca yamaguchii n. sp.
ETYMOLOGY. — From the Latin imbric- (to cover with tiles or scales) and Verruca, in reference to its otherwise Verruca -like appearance.
DIAGNOSIS. — A neoverrucid differing from Neoverruca in numerous ways including having 1) a more verrucid-like operculum despite having the included median latus well developed rather than vestigial or absent, 2) a fixed scutum and tergum much wider than high rather than at least as high as wide, and 3) in retaining a complete set of well developed imbricating plates on the movable side of the wall.
description: Published as part of Newman, William A., 2000, A new genus and species of barnacle (Cirripedia, Verrucomorpha) associated with vents of the Lau Back-Arc Basin: its gross morphology, inferred first juvenile stage and affinities, pp. 71-84 in Zoosystema 22 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5391395
Kluge Lösungen für gewaltfreie Pflege gefragt Sicherheit sowie körperliche und psychische Unversehrtheit stehen nicht im Widerspruch
Creators: name: Hahn, Sabine
name: Siegrist-Dreier, Sandra
name: Thomann, Silvia
Publisher: name: Hogrefe
Year: 2021

description: Ältere Menschen im Akutspital sind häufiger von Gewalt im Gesundheitswesen betroffen als andere Patient_innen. Diese Gewalt erfolgt oftmals in Form von freiheitseinschränkenden Massnahmen, da die älteren Menschen beispielsweise auf Grund von Delir sowie Demenz verwirrt und /oder sturzgefähr- det sind. Fachwissen, Kreativität und Mut für neue Wege sind in der gewaltfreien Pflege älterer Men- schen gefragt.
Dimensional crossovers in the Gaussian critical fluctuations above $T_c$ of two-layer and three-layer superconductors
Creators: name: Viz, A. S.
name: Botana, M. M.
name: Verde, J. C.
name: Ramallo, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using a Ginzburg-Landau functional in the Gaussian approximation, we calculate the energy of superconducting fluctuations above the transition, at zero external magnetic field, of a system composed by a small number $N$ of parallel two-dimensional superconducting planes, each of them Josephson coupled to its first neighbour, with special focus in the $N=2$ and $3$ cases. This allows us to obtain expressions for the critical contributions to various observables (fluctuation specific heat and magnetic susceptibility and Aslamazov-Larkin paraconductivity). Our results suggest that these systems may display deviations from pure 2D behaviour and interesting crossover effects, with both similitudes and differences to those known to occur in infinite-layers superconductors. Some challenges for future related research are also outlined.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures, 7 sections + 2 appendixes + 1 supplementary information section
Observation of localization of light in photonic quasicrystals of diverse symmetries
Creators: name: Wang, Peng
name: Fu, Qidong
name: Konotop, Vladimir V.
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Ye, Fangwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasicrystals are ubiquitous in nature. Beyond crystalline solids, they can be created as optically induced or technologically fabricated structures in photonic and phononic systems, as potentials for cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). On a parwith the unusual structural properties of quasicrystals, nowadays the problem of wave propagation in such two-dimensional structures attracts considerable attention, already in earlier studies it was predicted that the lowest electronic states in five-fold quasicrystals are localized. Later on localization of BECs in an eight-fold rotational symmetric quasicrystal optical lattices was observed. Direct observation of localization in purely linear photonic quasicrystals, therefore, remains elusive. Here, using sets of interfering plane waves, we create photonic two-dimensional quasicrystals with different rotational symmetries, not allowed in periodic crystallographic structures. We demonstrate experimentally that linear localization of light does occur even in clean linear quasicrystals for probe beams propagating both in the center and off-center regions of the quasicrystals. We found that light localization occurs above a critical depth of optically induced potential and that this critical depth rapidly decreases with the increase of the order of the discrete rotational symmetry of the quasicrystal. Our results clarify a long-standing problem of wave localization in linear quasicrystals and elucidate the conditions under which this phenomenon occurs. These findings pave the way for achieving wave localization in a wide variety of aperiodic systems obeying discrete symmetries, with possible applications in photonics, atomic physics, acoustics, and condensed matter.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Lawfare: la nueva herramienta política
Creators: name: Montalvo Romero, John M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Cuando nos referimos a la política como el mecanismo para alcanzar el poder, entendiendo a este como la capacidad de dirigir un Estado, consideraremos la aparición de distintas corrientes que se ven enfrentadas por alcanzar este objetivo: el poder. Sin embargo, en esta dinámica por resultar vencedor, las propuestas políticas antagónicas hacen uso de estrategias que buscan la aceptación de la sociedad civil, en el que se involucra un nuevo fenómeno llamado lawfare . Por tanto, bajo la línea editorial, resulta menester abordar este acaecimiento, entender su origen, su instrumentación y la relevancia en el pragmatismo político contemporáneo.
Robust Semi-Supervised Learning in Open Environments
Creators: name: Guo, Lan-Zhe
name: Jia, Lin-Han
name: Shao, Jie-Jing
name: Li, Yu-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) aims to improve performance by exploiting unlabeled data when labels are scarce. Conventional SSL studies typically assume close environments where important factors (e.g., label, feature, distribution) between labeled and unlabeled data are consistent. However, more practical tasks involve open environments where important factors between labeled and unlabeled data are inconsistent. It has been reported that exploiting inconsistent unlabeled data causes severe performance degradation, even worse than the simple supervised learning baseline. Manually verifying the quality of unlabeled data is not desirable, therefore, it is important to study robust SSL with inconsistent unlabeled data in open environments. This paper briefly introduces some advances in this line of research, focusing on techniques concerning label, feature, and data distribution inconsistency in SSL, and presents the evaluation benchmarks. Open research problems are also discussed for reference purposes.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
A semiautomated web-based approach for routine evaluation of physical activity courses
Creators: name: Wanner, Miriam
name: Martin-Diener, Eva
name: Popp, Christine
name: Röthlisberger, Kurt
name: Ackermann, Beat
name: Martin, Brian W
Publisher: name: Rubmedia
Year: 2009
Subjects: Internet Web Allez Hop Switzerland Adults Physical activity promotion

description: Routine course evaluation within the nationwide physical activity promotion programme Allez Hop was introduced to monitor and optimise the programme. A semiautomated web-based system was developed to collect, store, analyse and disseminate data. The system was pilot-tested in the canton of Aargau in 2006 with strong encouragement of course instructors to participate in the evaluation. It was also openly available to Allez Hop instructors from mid-2007 until the end of 2008 with no specific measures to encourage participation. Feasibility was good in both settings. 65% of courses participated during the pilot phase and 1% of courses during the open phase, indicating that encouragement of course instructors is needed to increase participation in the evaluation.
Stressfrakturen
Creators: name: Albrecht, Silvia
name: Biedert, Roland M.
Publisher: name: Rubmedia
Year: 2004
Subjects: Stressfraktur

description: Stressfrakturen, eine häufige Verletzung bei Sportlern, sind Überlastungsschäden des Knochens durch wiederholte und stereotype Beanspruchungen. Am häufigsten ist die untere Extremität betroffen. Es werden zwei Arten von Stressfrakturen unterschieden: solche bei Überlastungen der normalen Knochenstruktur und diejenigen bei normaler Belastung, aber Insuffizienz des Knochens bei Nebendiagnosen mit Knochenschwächung. Die Trainingsgestaltung beeinflusst die Entwicklung von Stressfrakturen stark, dies wird bei der Betrachtung der Biomechanik und Pathophysiologie ersichtlich. Knochen unterliegen einem ständigen Umbau mit Knochenanbau und -abbau, welche normalerweise in dynamischem Gleichgewicht stehen. Normaler Knochen weist eine grosse Zug-, Druck-, Biege-, Scher- und Bruchfestigkeit auf. Überbelastung führt zur Zerstörung der normalen Struktur. Stressfrakturen entstehen analog den Belastungszyklen und der applizierten Kraft. Die Symptome sind unspezifisch. Typischerweise treten die Beschwerden mit der Dauer der Belastung auf und können im Verlauf sogar zum Abbruch der Aktivität führen. Im Spätstadium treten Weichteilschwellung oder Kallusbildung auf. Im Röntgenbild werden Veränderungen der Stressfraktur erst nach Wochen sichtbar. Mit der MRI-Untersuchung können Stressfrakturen frühzeitig erkannt werden, und eine genaue Stadieneinteilung wird ermöglicht. Damit können das Prozedere, die Behandlungsdauer und das Rehabilitationsprogramm bestimmt werden. Beim Auftreten einer Stressfraktur ist die genaue Analyse der Belastung, des Trainingstyps und -umfanges wie auch der möglichen Risikofaktoren für die nachfolgende Therapie und Prävention sehr wichtig. Zentraler Punkt der Behandlung von Stressfrakturen ist das Verringern der körperlichen Aktivität unter den Level der schmerzhaften Belastung. Grundsätzlich ist eine operative Therapie selten. Jedoch gibt es spezifische Stressfrakturen mit erhöhtem Risiko, die mit konservativer Behandlung nicht heilen.
Annotating References to Mythological Entities in French Literature
Creators: name: Poibeau, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we explore the relevance of large language models (LLMs) for annotating references to Roman and Greek mythological entities in modern and contemporary French literature. We present an annotation scheme and demonstrate that recent LLMs can be directly applied to follow this scheme effectively, although not without occasionally making significant analytical errors. Additionally, we show that LLMs (and, more specifically, ChatGPT) are capable of offering interpretative insights into the use of mythological references by literary authors. However, we also find that LLMs struggle to accurately identify relevant passages in novels (when used as an information retrieval engine), often hallucinating and generating fabricated examples-an issue that raises significant ethical concerns. Nonetheless, when used carefully, LLMs remain valuable tools for performing annotations with high accuracy, especially for tasks that would be difficult to annotate comprehensively on a large scale through manual methods alone.
The Topic Landscape of Disruption Research—A Call for Consolidation, Reconciliation, and Generalization
Creators: name: Hopp, Christian
name: Antons, David
name: Kaminski, Jermain
name: Salge, Torsten Oliver
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2018

description: Using a natural language processing approach, the paper takes stock of extant disruption research and analyzes the full‐text corpus of 1078 journal articles published on disruption between 1975 and 2016. This yields a topic map composed of 84 distinct topics that present the overall topic structure of this dynamic field. Topic network analyses uncover the existence of two increasingly disconnected subnetworks centered around disruptive innovation at the macro level and radical innovation at the micro level. This disconnect is consequential, as both perspectives appear to be highly interdependent and conceptually constitute two sides of the same coin. To counteract the threat of growing fragmentation and reconnect these subnetworks, three research priorities are proposed, firmly grounded in a systematic literature analysis: (1) the need to consolidate peripheral and decoupled topics, (2) the necessity to reconcile competing terminologies and refocus the theoretical core, and (3) the imperative to strengthen the generalizable empirical evidence base.
UNet--: Memory-Efficient and Feature-Enhanced Network Architecture based on U-Net with Reduced Skip-Connections
Creators: name: Yin, Lingxiao
name: Tao, Wei
name: Zhao, Dongyue
name: Ito, Tadayuki
name: Osa, Kinya
name: Kato, Masami
name: Chen, Tse-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: U-Net models with encoder, decoder, and skip-connections components have demonstrated effectiveness in a variety of vision tasks. The skip-connections transmit fine-grained information from the encoder to the decoder. It is necessary to maintain the feature maps used by the skip-connections in memory before the decoding stage. Therefore, they are not friendly to devices with limited resource. In this paper, we propose a universal method and architecture to reduce the memory consumption and meanwhile generate enhanced feature maps to improve network performance. To this end, we design a simple but effective Multi-Scale Information Aggregation Module (MSIAM) in the encoder and an Information Enhancement Module (IEM) in the decoder. The MSIAM aggregates multi-scale feature maps into single-scale with less memory. After that, the aggregated feature maps can be expanded and enhanced to multi-scale feature maps by the IEM. By applying the proposed method on NAFNet, a SOTA model in the field of image restoration, we design a memory-efficient and feature-enhanced network architecture, UNet--. The memory demand by the skip-connections in the UNet-- is reduced by 93.3%, while the performance is improved compared to NAFNet. Furthermore, we show that our proposed method can be generalized to multiple visual tasks, with consistent improvements in both memory consumption and network accuracy compared to the existing efficient architectures.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ACCV2024
Nesodynerus monobius
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Nesodynerus
Nesodynerus monobius

description: monobius (Perkins)
Odynerus monobius Perkins 1899: 55, male—“Molokai, mountains” (London, no. 18.405).— Dalla Torre 1904: 49 (in subgenus Lionotus; cat.).— Perkins 1906b: 66 (key).— Nishida 1992: 184 (Molokai); 1994: 173 (Molokai); 1997: 149 (Molokai); 2002: 182 (Molokai).
Nesodynerus monobius; Evenhuis 2005: 49 (list).— Carpenter 2008: 18.
Distr.: Hawaii.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 401-455 in Zootaxa 5315 (5) on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8142377
IVCO Think Piece "The right to solidarity as a practice that strengthens citizenship"
Creators: name: Estévez, Hernando A.
Publisher: name: Northumbria University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440401
subject: Development cooperation
classificationCode: 440602
subject: Development geography
classificationCode: 440610
subject: Social geography
classificationCode: 441004
subject: Social change

description: This think piece is part of the materials produced in advance of the 2024 International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations Conference (IVCO 2024), hosted by Northumbria University in partnership with Comhlámh. It is available in English, Spanish and French.The think piece “The right to solidarity as a practice that strengthens citizenship” is written by Hernando A. Estévez, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Arts and Literature and Professor of Philosophy at La Salle University in Bogotá, Colombia. In this piece, he explores the right to solidarity as a paradigm shift from ‘duty’ to ‘right’, proposing a conceptual framework that focuses on ‘the right to be in solidarity with others’ while recognising that our perceptions of reality are shaped by the intersections of race, class, gender, economic inequalities, among others. The piece suggests how community-based organisations, guided by the concept of solidarity as a right, can provide an entry point for individual citizenship through volunteering and the framework for transforming structures and systems of belief and action at the community level.
Ein Modell schafft den Spagat. Organisations- und Qualitätsentwicklung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Selbst- und Fremdsteuerung
Creators: name: Gehrlach, Christoph
Publisher: name: Avenir Social
Year: 2017

description: Das Departement für Gesundheit und Soziales des Kantons Aargau hat zusammen mit der Berner Fachhochschule einen Lösungsansatz für die externe Qualitätssicherung und die interne Qualitätsentwicklung in den Alters- und Pflegeheimen entwickelt. Das integrative Modell generiert für beide Seiten einen Nutzen.
title: The Structure and Dynamics of RDXF
Creators: name: Robertson, Heather
name: McDougall, Michael
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1980

description: Technical Reports 25 and 26 deal with the September 1980 version of the RDXF model, which is used to generate short-term projections of the Canadian economy. The model was developed by the analytic departments of the Bank of Canada and is based on the foundations of the Bank’s RDX2 model. Technical Report 25 contains a full documentation of the equations and exogenous variables in RDXF. Technical Report 26 presents an analysis of the equations and their dynamic properties, both at a sectoral level and in a full model context. There is some emphasis on issues related to the supply side of the model.
description: Le rapport technique n° 25, comme le n° 26 qui l'accompagne, a pour objet de présenter le modèle RDXF dans la version qui a été mise au point en septembre 1980. RDXF permet de faire des projections de courte durée sur I'économie canadienne. Construit aux départements d'analyse de la Banque du Canada, il est dérivé du modèle RDX2. Le rapport n° 25 contient une description complète des équations et variables exogènes de RDXF. Le rapport technique n° 26, de son côté, analyse ces équations et leurs propriétés dynamiques, tant du point de vue de l'ensemble du modèle que de chacun de ses différents secteurs. Il décrit également quelques aspects de RDXF se rapportant à la structure de l'offre.
Semi-supervised Credit Card Fraud Detection via Attribute-Driven Graph Representation
Creators: name: Xiang, Sheng
name: Zhu, Mingzhi
name: Cheng, Dawei
name: Li, Enxia
name: Zhao, Ruihui
name: Ouyang, Yi
name: Chen, Ling
name: Zheng, Yefeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Credit card fraud incurs a considerable cost for both cardholders and issuing banks. Contemporary methods apply machine learning-based classifiers to detect fraudulent behavior from labeled transaction records. But labeled data are usually a small proportion of billions of real transactions due to expensive labeling costs, which implies that they do not well exploit many natural features from unlabeled data. Therefore, we propose a semi-supervised graph neural network for fraud detection. Specifically, we leverage transaction records to construct a temporal transaction graph, which is composed of temporal transactions (nodes) and interactions (edges) among them. Then we pass messages among the nodes through a Gated Temporal Attention Network (GTAN) to learn the transaction representation. We further model the fraud patterns through risk propagation among transactions. The extensive experiments are conducted on a real-world transaction dataset and two publicly available fraud detection datasets. The result shows that our proposed method, namely GTAN, outperforms other state-of-the-art baselines on three fraud detection datasets. Semi-supervised experiments demonstrate the excellent fraud detection performance of our model with only a tiny proportion of labeled data.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, AAAI 2023, code: https://github.com/AI4Risk/antifraud
Land, Wealth, and Taxation
Creators: name: Brunetti, Roberto
name: Gaigné, Carl
name: Moizeau, Fabien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Public Economics
subject: mortgage market imperfections
subject: spatial sorting
subject: wealth distribution
subject: wealth taxation
subject: efficiency

description: We examine the role of land in wealth dynamics, and its consequences on efficiency and inequality by focusing on the interplay among agents’ bidding for location, mortgage market imperfections, and inheritance. We develop a model in which altruistic agents leave to their heirs a financial bequest and their housing wealth. The borrowing constraint generates a housing return premium and spatial wealth sorting, which translate into persistent inequality. Since altruism and the borrowing constraint distort land price formation, we discuss different corrective tax schedules. Land taxation cannot be disconnected from inheritance taxation, and must be levied on the inheriting generation.
Stoichiometry dependence of hardness, elastic properties, and oxidation resistance in TiN/SiNx nanocomposites deposited by a hybrid process
Creators: name: Haug, F.-J.
name: Schwaller, Patrick
name: Wloka, J.
name: Patscheider, J.
name: Karimi, A.
name: Tobler, M.
Publisher: name: American Vacuum Society (AVS)
Year: 2004

description: TiN/SiNx nanocomposite layers with Si contents between 0 and 25 at. % were deposited by a reactive arc-magnetron sputtering hybrid process. The stoichiometry of the SiNx phase was found to be related to the silicon sputter target state, i.e., elemental or nitrided. TiN/SiNx layers with a Si:N ratio close to 0.75 (silicon nitride) show a hardness maximum at overall Si contents between 5 and 7 at. %. The hardness maximum is absent for nitrogen deficient stoichiometries of SiNx. The oxidation resistance of the composite layers is three to five times better than that of pure TiN. In contrast to the effect of the stoichiometry on hardness, the oxidation resistance depends on the overall silicon content only, regardless of stoichiometry.
Signal Constellation Construction via Radio Frequency Mirrors
Creators: name: Khormuji, Majid Nasiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: By integrating feedback with Radio Frequency (RF) mirrors, we develop a closed-loop media-based modulation system for efficient utilization of the signal space. Specifically, this closed-loop construction optimizes the inherited signal constellation from the media, achieving a significantly larger minimum pairwise Euclidean distance than the original configuration. The initial signal constellation, derived from the media, is used to compute a set of complex weights for all activation patterns of the RF mirrors. These complex weights are then fed back to the transmitter to refine the transmit signal before it reaches the mirrors. This feedback mechanism ensures that the received, shaped signal constellation retains improved properties, enabling more reliable transmission. Notably, the closed-loop approach enables the media-based modulation to approach the performance of an AWGN channel, while the channel from each mirror to the single-antenna receiver is modeled as Rayleigh fading.