cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Higher-order Dirac Semimetal in a Photonic Crystal
Creators: name: Wang, Zihao
name: Liu, Dongjue
name: Teo, Hau Tian
name: Wang, Qiang
name: Xue, Haoran
name: Zhang, Baile
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent discovery of higher-order topology has largely enriched the classification of topological materials. Theoretical and experimental studies have unveiled various higher-order topological insulators that exhibit topologically protected corner or hinge states. More recently, higher-order topology has been introduced to topological semimetals. Thus far, realistic models and experimental verifications on higher-order topological semimetals are still very limited. Here, we design and demonstrate a three-dimensional photonic crystal that realizes a higher-order Dirac semimetal phase. Numerical results on the band structure show that the designed three-dimensional photonic crystal is able to host two four-fold Dirac points, the momentum-space projections of which at an edge are connected by higher-order hinge states. The higher-order topology can be characterised with the calculation of the χ(6) topological invariant at different values of k_z. An experiment at microwave frequencies is also presented to measure the hinge state dispersion. Our work demonstrates the physical realization of a higher-order Dirac semimetal phase and paves the way to exploring higher-order topological semimetals phases in three-dimensional photonic systems.
Pharmacy Preceptor's Roles in the Pharmaceutical Care Clerkship
Creators: name: Aporn Jaturapatharawong
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: Pharmacy preceptor, Precepting, Mentoring, Clerkship, Role

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 3, 38-48
Development and Evaluation of a Hospital Medication Reconciliation Process: A Case Study for Diabetic In patient Service at a Mid - level General Hospital in the Northeast Region
Creators: name: Chatraporn Phromkhot
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medication Reconciliation (MR)

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 3, 49-58
Flash Colloidal Gold Nanoparticle Assembly in a Milli Flow System: Implications for Thermoplasmonic and for the Amplification of Optical Signals
Creators: name: Voisin, Florent
name: Lelong, Gérald
name: Guigner, Jean-Michel
name: Bizien, Thomas
name: Mallet, Jean-Maurice
name: Carn, Florent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The assembly and stabilization of a finite number of nanocrystals in contact in water could maximize the optical absorption per unit of material. Some local plasmonic properties exploited in applications, such as photothermia and optical signal amplification, would also be maximized which is important in the perspective of mass producing nanostructures at a lower cost. The main lock is that bringing charged particles in close contact requires the charges to be screened/suppressed, which leads to the rapid formation of micrometric aggregates. In this article, we show that aggregates containing less than 60 particles in contact can be obtained with a milli-flow system composed of turbulent mixers and flow reactors. This process allows to stop a fast non-equilibrium colloidal aggregation process at millisecond times after the initiation of the aggregation process which allows to control the aggregation number. As a case study, we considered the rapid mixing of citrate coated gold nanoparticles (NP) and AlCl3 in water to initiate a fast aggregation controlled by diffusion. Injecting a solution of polycation using a second mixer allowed us to arrest the aggregation process after a reaction time by formation of overcharged cationic aggregates. We obtained within seconds stable dispersions of a few milliliters composed of particle aggregates. Our main result is to show that it is possible to master the average aggregation number between 2 and 60 NP per aggregate by varying the a reaction time between 10 ms and 1 s.
Comparative Study of Cognitive Skills, Interpersonal Skills and Responsibility of Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education and Learning Satisfaction by Using Group Activity in Business Finance Subject
Creators: name: Mintmanta Hirannapat
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cognitive Skills
Interpersonal and Responsibility
Group Activity

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 2, 2, 46-58
A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues
Creators: name: Zhou, Xin
name: Huang, Huang
name: Zhang, He
name: Huang, Xin
name: Shao, Dong
name: Zhong, Chenxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: DevOps and microservices are acknowledged to be important new paradigms to tackle contemporary software demands and provide capabilities for rapid and reliable software development. Industrial reports show that they are quickly adopted together in massive software companies. However, because of the technical and organizational requirements, many difficulties against efficient implementation of the both emerge in real software teams. Objectives: This study aims to discover the organization, benefits and issues of software teams using DevOps & microservices from an immersive perspective. Method: An ethnographic study was carried out in three companies with different business, size, products, customers, and degree of globalization. All the three companies claimed their adoption of DevOps and microservices. Seven months (cumulative) of participant observations and nine interviews with practitioners were conducted to collect the data of software teams related to DevOps and microservices. A cross-company empirical investigation using grounded theory was done by analyzing the archive data. Results: The adoption of DevOps and microservices brings benefits to rapid delivery, ability improvements and burden reduction, whilst the high cost and lack of practical guidance were emerged. Moreover, our observations and interviews reflect that in software teams, the relationship between DevOps and microservices is not significant, which differs from the relationship described in the previous studies. Four lessons for practitioners and four implications for researchers were discussed based on our findings. Conclusion: Our findings contribute to the understanding of the organization, benefits and issues of adopting DevOps and microservices from an immersive perspective of software teams.
Hepatitis C Virus Impairs the Induction of Cytoprotective Nrf2 Target Genes by Delocalization of Small Maf Proteins
Creators: name: Carvajal-Yepes, Monica
name: Himmelsbach, Kiyoshi
name: Schaedler, Stephanie
name: Ploen, Daniela
name: Krause, Janis
name: Ludwig, Leopold
name: Weiss, Thomas S.
name: Klingel, Karin
name: Hildt, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Gene Expression General Transcription Factors Hepatitis Virus Liver Signal Transduction
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The expression of a variety of cytoprotective genes is regulated by short cis-acting elements in their promoters, called antioxidant response elements (AREs). A central regulator of ARE-mediated gene expression is the NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2). Nrf2/ARE-regulated genes are crucial for the maintenance of cellular integrity. Hepatitis C virus inhibits the induction of ARE-regulated genes, but neither induction nor inhibition of ARE-regulated gene expression affects HCV replication directly. In HCV-replicating cells the core protein triggers the delocalization of sMaf proteins from the nucleus to the replicon complex. Here sMafs bind to NS3. The extranuclear sMaf proteins prevent Nrf2 from entry in the nucleus and thereby inhibit the induction of Nrf2/ARE-regulated genes. This results in the decreased expression of cytoprotective genes. Consistent with this finding, the elimination of ROI is impaired in HCV-replicating cells as demonstrated by elevated protein oxidation or 8-OH-dG formation, reflecting DNA damage. In conclusion, these data identified a novel mechanism of Nrf2 regulation and suggest that the HCV-dependent inhibition of Nrf2/ARE-regulated genes confers to the HCV-associated pathogenesis by elevation of intracellular ROI that affect integrity of the host genome and regenerative processes.
On the Issue of Textured Crystallization of Ba(NO$_3$)$_2$ in Mesoporous SiO$_2$: Raman Spectroscopy and Lattice Dynamics Analysis
Creators: name: Shchur, Yaroslav
name: Beltramo, Guillermo
name: Andrushchak, Anatolii S.
name: Vitusevich, Svetlana
name: Huber, Patrick
name: Adamiv, Volodymyr
name: Teslyuk, Ihor
name: Boichuk, Nazarii
name: Kityk, Andriy V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lattice dynamics of preferentially aligned nanocrystals formed upon drying of aqueous Ba(NO$_3$)$_2$ solutions in a mesoporous silica glass traversed by tubular pores of approximately 12 nm are explored by Raman scattering. To interpret the experiments on the confined nanocrystals polarized Raman spectra of bulk single crystals and X-ray diffraction experiments are also performed. Since a cubic symmetry is inherent to Ba(NO$_3$)$_2$, a special Raman scattering geometry was utilized to separate the phonon modes of A$_g$ and E$_g$ species. Combining group-theory analysis and \textit{ab initio} lattice dynamics calculations a full interpretation of all Raman lines of the bulk single crystal is achieved. Apart from a small confinement-induced line broadening, the peak positions and normalized peak intensities of the Raman spectra of the nanoconfined and macroscopic crystals are identical. Interestingly, the Raman scattering experiment indicates the existence of comparatively large, $\sim$10-20 $μ$m, single-crystalline regions of Ba(NO$_3$)$_2$ embedded in the porous host, near three orders of magnitude larger than the average size of single nanopores. This is contrast to the initial assumption of non-interconnected pores. It rather indicates an inter-pore propagation of the crystallization front, presumably via microporosity in the pore walls.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, as submitted
A holistic, user-driven approach to the development of an innovative, open-access Educational Framework for six existing and emerging information-related literacies
Creators: name: Efthymiou, Foteini
name: Kouis, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: Journal of  Integrated Information Management
Year: 2020
Subjects: Information Literacy; Critical Literacy focusing on inequalities; Digital Literacy; Mobile Literacy; Data Literacy; Media and Information Literacy; Sustainable Development Literacy; Educational Framework; Open Access; Co-operative Initiatives

description: Abstract: Purpose - This article discusses a holistic, user-driven approach for the development of an innovative, open-access Educational Framework that includes six emerging information-related literacies. The Educational Framework of these literacies should be based on the structural support offered by the various Information Literacy models and is addressed to educators and librarians. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed Educational Frameworks’ possible stakeholders and partners should plan for specific activities that will lead to the achievement of three main objectives: (a) the development of a freely available Information Literacy Training Package; (b) the training of educators and librarians, in the core skills of Information Literacy, as a horizontal goal and in new literacies as vertical goals; (c) the convergence in terms of strategy, expertise and infrastructure in Information Literacy initiatives, at a co-operative and even at a transnational level. Expected impact: The open access dissemination of information-related literacies concerning: critical thinking regarding issues of equality and tackling the social injustices against marginalized groups in communities; making the most of peoples’ multiple interactions with digital technology and media; mobile tailored learning contents are cost effective and accessible for persons with learning disabilities; freedom of expression and information, empowerment of citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producers of information and media content; understanding and production of reliable news stories and scientific papers, based on data; dissemination and fostering of the Sustainable development goals, through the lenses of Information Literacy. Originality/value: The proposed Educational Framework is a conceptually, strategically, technologically and educationally pioneering endeavor in answering specific urgent demands of the current Information and Knowledge Society.
description: Journal of Integrated Information Management, Vol 4, No 2 (2019)
Supplemental Table S1
Creators: name: Sabbadin, Silvia
name: Magro, Silvia
name: Costa, Angela
name: Lorenzi, Valentina
name: Fusi, Francesca
name: Bertocchi, Luigi
name: De Marchi, Massimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300306
subject: Animal welfare

description: Definition of the 105 ClassyFarm items of the loose housing system (LHS; Figure 1). Items not present in the tied housing system (THS) checklist are marked by an asterisk (*).
Modulation of interleukin-1β-induced inflammatory responses by a synthetic cationic innate defence regulator peptide, IDR-1002, in synovial fibroblasts
Creators: name: Turner-Brannen, Emily
name: Choi, Ka-Yee
name: Lippert, Dustin N.
name: Cortens, John P.
name: Hancock, R. E. W. (Robert E. W.)
name: El-Gabalawy, Hani
name: Mookherjee, Neeloffer
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Innate defence regulator (IDR) peptides are synthetic cationic peptides, variants of naturally occurring innate immune effector molecules known as host defence peptides. IDR peptides were recently demonstrated to limit infection-associated inflammation selectively without compromising host innate immune functions. This study examined the impact of a 12-amino acid IDR peptide, IDR-1002, in pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-1β-induced responses in synovial fibroblasts, a critical cell type in the pathogenesis of inflammatory arthritis. Methods: Human fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) were stimulated with IL-1β in the presence and absence of IDR-1002. Production of enzyme matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3) and IL-1-receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) was monitored by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and various chemokines were evaluated by using multiplex cytometric bead array. Transcriptional responses were analyzed by quantitative real-time PCR. The impact on IL-1β-induced proteome was investigated by quantitative proteomics by using isobaric tags. IL-1β-induced pathways altered by IDR-1002 implicated by the proteomics analyses were further investigated by using various immunochemical assays. Cellular uptake of the peptide was monitored by using a biotinylated IDR-1002 peptide followed by microscopy probing with streptavidin-Alexa Fluor. Results: This study demonstrated that IDR-1002 suppressed the production of IL-1β-induced MMP-3 and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1); in contrast, IDR-1002 enhanced the production of IL-1RA, without neutralizing all chemokine responses. IDR-1002 altered the IL-1β-induced proteome primarily by altering the expression of members of nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathways. The proteomics data also suggested that IDR-1002 was altering the transcription factor HNF-4α-mediated responses, known to be critical in metabolic regulation. With various immunochemical assays, it was further demonstrated that IL-1β-induced NF-κB, JNK, and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activations were significantly suppressed by IDR-1002. Conclusions: This study demonstrates the ability of an innate immune-modulatory IDR-peptide to influence the IL-1β-induced regulatory pathways and selectively to suppress inflammatory responses in synovial fibroblasts. The results of this study provide a rationale for examining the use of IDR-peptides as potential therapeutic candidates for chronic inflammatory diseases such as inflammatory arthritis.
Pure cellulose paper ageing in sealed vessels. Autocatalytic depolymerization model revisited
Creators: name: Zervos, Spiros
name: Choulis, Konstantinos
name: Panagiaris, Georgios
Publisher: name: Journal of  Integrated Information Management
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cellulose ageing model; autocatalysis; tearing resistance; pH; optical properties; sealed vessels

description: Purpose - In the framework of the EU funded INVENVORG project (Thales Research Funding Program – NRSF), the natural and artificial ageing of bone, wood, textiles, parchment and paper were investigated. Design/methodology/approach - In this work, the results of accelerated ageing on pure cellulose paper in sealed vessels are reported. The properties studied include the degree of polymerization (which was converted to the percentage of broken glyosidic bonds), the tearing resistance, the pH and the L* and b* coordinates of the CIEL*a*b* color system. Ageing was performed in sealed vessels at 90°C και 76% RH for periods of 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120 and 140 days. Findings - The results indicated an overall deterioration of all paper properties, which accelerates with time because of the production of volatile acidic species (autocatalysis). The evolution of paper properties through time was modeled efficiently by use of the equations proposed by Zervos and Moropoulou (2005) for the autocatalytic acid hydrolysis of pure cellulose paper, which were shown that also apply for following the changes of tearing resistance. The applicability of the model equations was also verified for other paper properties, such as the percentage of broken bonds (δ%) and the L* and b* coordinates of the CIEL*a*b* color system.
description: Journal of Integrated Information Management, Vol 4, No 2 (2019)
Entretien de Nida Ayid al-Khazali auprès de Ali Talib al-Zaabi à propos de la mosquée Cheikh Rashid d'al-Ramtha
Creators: name: al-Zaabi, Ali Talib
name: Nida Ayid Al-Khazali (Enquêtrice)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/FileId-3139
description: Coverage: Al-Ramtha, Jordanie
The validity of reporting willingness to use a supervised injecting facility on subsequent program use among people who use injection drugs
Creators: name: DeBeck, Kora
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Lai, Calvin
name: Buxton, Jane A.
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background Innovative health programs for injection drug users (IDUs), such as supervised injecting facilities (SIFs), are often preceded by evaluations of IDUs’ willingness to use the service. The validity of these surveys has not been fully evaluated. We sought to determine whether measures of willingness collected prior to the opening of a Canadian SIF accurately predicted subsequent use of the program. Methods Data were derived from a prospective cohort of IDUs. The sample size for this study was 640 IDUs. Using multivariate logistic regression, it was assessed if a history of reporting willingness to use the program, were it available, was associated with subsequent use. In sub-analysis restricted to individuals who had a history of reported willingness, we used multivariate longitudinal analysis to identify factors associated with not attending the SIF. Results Among 442 IDUs, 72% of those who reported initial willingness to use a SIF later attended the program, and a prior willingness to use a SIF significantly predicted later attendance (adjusted odds ratio = 1.67). In sub-analyses restricted to those who had a history of reporting willingness to use the SIF, not using the program was predicted by not frequenting the neighborhood where the SIF was located. Conclusion Our findings indicate that reported willingness measures collected from IDUs regarding potential SIF program participation prior to its opening independently predicted later attendance even when variables that were likely determinants of willingness were adjusted for. These data suggest that willingness measures are reasonably valid tools for planning the delivery of health services among IDU populations.
Variational properties of the first curve of the Fuč\'ık spectrum for elliptic operators
Creators: name: Molle, Riccardo
name: Passaseo, Donato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we present a new variational characteriztion of the first nontrival curve of the Fuč\'ık spectrum for elliptic operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Moreover, we describe the asymptotic behaviour and some properties of this curve and of the corresponding eigenfunctions. In particular, this new characterization allows us to compare the first curve of the Fuč\'ık spectrum with the infinitely many curves we obtained in previous works (see R. Molle, D. Passaseo, New properties of the Fuč\'ık spectrum. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 351 (2013), no. 17/18, 681--685 and R. Molle, D. Passaseo, Infinitely many new curves of the Fuč\'ık spectrum. Ann. I. H. Poincaré - AN (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anihpc.2014.05.007): for example, we show that these curves are all asymptotic to the same lines as the first curve, but they are all distinct from such a curve.
Phenolic and flavonoids contents and antibacterial activity of ethanolic extract of propolis
Creators: name: Pattama Chailertvanitkul
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: Thai propolis extract, chemical composition, antimicrobial activity, cytotoxic effect

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 3, 59-67
Factors affecting work happiness of Silpakorn University's supporting staff
Creators: name: Chuanpit Naliang
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Happiness
Work Happiness
supporting staff
Silpakorn University

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 2, 2, 59-75
Marketing Mix Affect Choosing Services Behavior on Traditional Trade of Consumer in Ratchaburi province
Creators: name: Piyaporn Charoensawat
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Marketing Mix
Behavior
Choosing Service
Traditional Trade

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 2, 2, 76-89
Evaluation of the Archival, Library and Information Studies Department eClass at University of West Attica
Creators: name: Koulouris, Alexandros
Publisher: name: Journal of  Integrated Information Management
Year: 2020
Subjects: eClass; e-class; moodle; evaluation; teaching; distance learning; e-learning; surveys; limesurvey; higher education; users’ access policy; information policy; information management; students; faculty

description: Purpose - This paper presents and discusses the main results of a survey concerning students and faculty (academic staff) evaluation of the eClass of the Department of Archival, Library & Information Studies, University of West Attica, with the use of online questionnaire. The survey was conducted in October 2019 and it is a comparative study of a previous research-survey (about the eClass) of 2012. Design/methodology/approach - The questionnaire, consisted of open and closed-ended questions, and were sent respectively to the undergraduate and postgraduate students and the faculty’s staff (or professors) of the Department. As a result, 275 valid answers (233 undergraduates and 42 postgraduates’ valid responses) translated to a net response rate of 39%, while the faculty survey returned 29 valid answers with a 100% participation rate. Findings - The findings demonstrate that the students and the faculty agree that the eClass is essential for the Department’s courses and program (undergraduate and postgraduate). The communication and the interactions between the eClass platform and the users (faculty and students) has been very well established. Finally, the more interesting result that revealed from the regression analysis that was conducted, is that the more recent registration by the users (student and faculty), the more they visit the platform (eClass) and the higher they appreciated the system’s functionalities aspect. Originality/value – Useful findings were extracted regarding the evaluation of ALIS Dept eClass, after (almost) ten years of implementation. Useful comparison was made with the previous evaluation in 2012 and joined results extracted. The opinions gathered from the undergraduate and postgraduates’ students, and the faculty, reveal that the strategic goal of the ALIS Dept to use the eClass as a centralized component for the studies in the Dept, is a sophisticated choice.
description: Journal of Integrated Information Management, Vol 4, No 2 (2019)
EDITORIAL. For a Better Private Renting System: Learning from Ignored Geographies In: ENHR newsletter 1-2024
Creators: name: Soaita, Adriana Mihaela
name: Dubbeling, Dirk J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: housing
landlords
tenants
Romania

description: The editorial of the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) newsletter 1, 2024  in which I draw attention to the fact that, although Romanian private housing markets are fully unregulated, tenants' outcomes tend to be surprisingly positive.  A short but worthy read.

 
description: ENHR was established in 1988 to provide an organizational platform for institutions and individuals in (and outside) Europe, who are actively engaged in housing research. It now has about 150 individual members and nearly 500 employees from 75 institutional members, representing almost every country in Europe. Webpage: https://enhr.net/
Hypatia Digital Library: A novel text classification approach for small text fragments
Creators: name: Triantafyllou, Ioannis
name: Vorgia, Frosso
name: Koulouris, Alexandros
Publisher: name: Journal of  Integrated Information Management
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital libraries; Statistical natural language processing; Text classification; WEKA; Word stemming

description: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to further investigate prior work of the authors in text classification in Hypatia, the digital library of the University of Western Attica. The main objective is to provide an accurate automated classification tool as an alternative to manual assignments. Design/methodology/approach - The crucial point in text classification is the selection of the most important term-words for document representation. The specific document collection consists of 718 abstracts in Medicine, Tourism and Food Technology. Two weighting methods were investigated: classic TF.IDF and DEVMAX.DF. The last one was proposed by the authors as a more accurate term-word selection tool for smaller text fragments. Classification was conducted by applying 14 classifiers available on WEKA. Findings - Classification process yielded an excellent ~97% precision score and DEVMAX.DF proved to perform better than classic TF.IDF.
description: Journal of Integrated Information Management, Vol 4, No 2 (2019)
A Re-defined and Generalized Percent-Overlap-of-Activation Measure for Studies of fMRI Reproducibility and its Use in Identifying Outlier Activation Maps
Creators: name: Maitra, Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.9
subject: 62P10, 62P15, 62P25

description: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging~(fMRI) is a popular non-invasive modality to investigate activation in the human brain. The end result of most fMRI experiments is an activation map corresponding to the given paradigm. These maps can vary greatly from one study to the next, so quantifying the reliability of identified activation over several fMRI studies is important. The percent overlap of activation~\citep{romboutsetal98,machielsenetal00} is a global reliability measure between activation maps drawn from any two fMRI studies. A slightly modified but more intuitive measure is provided by the ~\citet{jaccard1901} coefficient of similarity, whose use we study in this paper. A generalization of these measures is also proposed to comprehensively summarize the reliability of multiple fMRI studies. Finally, a testing mechanism to flag potentially anomalous studies is developed. The methodology is illustrated on studies involving left- and right-hand motor task paradigms performed by a right-hand dominant male subject several times over a period of two months, with excellent results.
description: 12 pages; 9 figures
Three-dimensional imaging and analysis of annual layers in tree trunk and tooth cementum
Creators: name: Müller, Bert
name: Stiefel, Muriel
name: Rodgers, Griffin
name: Humbel, Mattia
name: Osterwalder, Melissa
name: von Jackowski, Jeannette
name: Hotz, Gerhard
name: Velasco, Adriana A.
name: Bunn, Henry T.
name: Scheel, Mario
name: Weitkamp, Timm
name: Schulz, Georg
name: Tanner, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growth of plants, animals, and humans can give rise to layered structures associated with annual periodicity. Thickness variations are often correlated to nutrition supply and stress factors. The annual layers in a tree trunk with millimeter thickness can be directly counted, whereas the layers in tooth cementum with micrometer thickness are made visible using optical microscopy. These optical techniques rely on the surface evaluation or thin, optically transparent slices. Hard X-ray tomography with micrometer resolution, however, provides a three-dimensional view without physical slicing. We have developed a procedure to enhance the tomography data of annual layers in human and bovid tooth cementum. The analysis of a substantial part of an archeological human tooth demonstrated that the detected number of layers depended on the selected region and could vary between 13 and 27. The related average thickness of the annual layers was found to be (5.4 $\pm$ 1.9) $μ$m for the human tooth, whereas the buffalo tooth exhibited a layer periodicity of 46 $μ$m. The present study elucidates the potential of combining computational tools with high-quality micro computed tomography data to quantify the annual layers in tooth cementum for a variety of purposes including age-at-death determination.
description: 16 pages. Event: SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2022, Long Beach, California, United States
Homelessness among a cohort of women in street-based sex work: the need for safer environment interventions
Creators: name: Duff, Putu
name: Deering, Kathleen N.
name: Gibson, Kate
name: Tyndall, Mark
name: Shannon, K.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Drawing on data from a community-based prospective cohort study in Vancouver, Canada, we examined the prevalence and individual, interpersonal and work environment correlates of homelessness among 252 women in street-based sex work. Methods Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression using generalized estimating equations (GEE) was used to examine the individual, interpersonal and work environment factors that were associated with homelessness among street-based sex workers. Results Among 252 women, 43.3% reported homelessness over an 18-month follow-up period. In the multivariable GEE logistic regression analysis, younger age (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.93; 95%confidence interval [95%CI] 0.93-0.98), sexual violence by non-commercial partners (aOR = 2.14; 95%CI 1.06-4.34), servicing a higher number of clients (10+ per week vs < 10) (aOR = 1.68; 95%CI 1.05-2.69), intensive, daily crack use (aOR = 1.65; 95%CI 1.11-2.45), and servicing clients in public spaces (aOR = 1.52; CI 1.00-2.31) were independently associated with sleeping on the street. Conclusions These findings indicate a critical need for safer environment interventions that mitigate the social and physical risks faced by homeless FSWs and increase access to safe, secure housing for women.
In situ transport characterization of magnetic states in Nb/Co superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures
Creators: name: Kapran, Olena M.
name: Morari, Roman
name: Golod, Taras
name: Borodianskyi, Evgenii A.
name: Boian, Vladimir
name: Prepelita, Andrei
name: Klenov, Nikolay
name: Sidorenko, Anatoli S.
name: Krasnov, Vladimir M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employment of the non-trivial proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) heterostructures for the creation of novel superconducting devices requires accurate control of magnetic states in complex thin-film multilayers. In this work, we study experimentally in-plane transport properties of microstructured Nb/Co multilayers. We apply various transport characterization techniques, including magnetoresistance, Hall effect, and the first-order-reversal-curves (FORC) analysis. We demonstrate how FORC can be used for detailed in situ characterization of magnetic states. It reveals that upon reduction of the external field, the magnetization in ferromagnetic layers first rotates in a coherent scissor-like manner, then switches abruptly into the antiparallel state and after that splits into the polydomain state, which gradually turns into the opposite parallel state.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.03454
SUBS: Subtree Substitution for Compositional Semantic Parsing
Creators: name: Yang, Jingfeng
name: Zhang, Le
name: Yang, Diyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although sequence-to-sequence models often achieve good performance in semantic parsing for i.i.d. data, their performance is still inferior in compositional generalization. Several data augmentation methods have been proposed to alleviate this problem. However, prior work only leveraged superficial grammar or rules for data augmentation, which resulted in limited improvement. We propose to use subtree substitution for compositional data augmentation, where we consider subtrees with similar semantic functions as exchangeable. Our experiments showed that such augmented data led to significantly better performance on SCAN and GeoQuery, and reached new SOTA on compositional split of GeoQuery.
description: 6 pages
Functional neural correlates of reduced physiological falls risk
Creators: name: Nagamatsu, Lindsay S.
name: Hsu, Liang C.
name: Handy, Todd C.
name: Liu-Ambrose, Teresa
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: It is currently unclear whether the function of brain regions associated with executive cognitive processing are independently associated with reduced physiological falls risk. If these are related, it would suggest that the development of interventions targeted at improving executive neurocognitive function would be an effective new approach for reducing physiological falls risk in seniors. Methods We performed a secondary analysis of 73 community-dwelling senior women aged 65 to 75 years old who participated in a 12-month randomized controlled trial of resistance training. Functional MRI data were acquired while participants performed a modified Eriksen Flanker Task - a task of selective attention and conflict resolution. Brain volumes were obtained using MRI. Falls risk was assessed using the Physiological Profile Assessment (PPA). Results After accounting for baseline age, experimental group, baseline PPA score, and total baseline white matter brain volume, baseline activation in the left frontal orbital cortex extending towards the insula was negatively associated with reduced physiological falls risk over the 12-month period. In contrast, baseline activation in the paracingulate gyrus extending towards the anterior cingulate gyrus was positively associated with reduced physiological falls risk. Conclusions Baseline activation levels of brain regions underlying response inhibition and selective attention were independently associated with reduced physiological falls risk. This suggests that falls prevention strategies may be facilitated by incorporating intervention components - such as aerobic exercise - that are specifically designed to induce neurocognitive plasticity. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00426881
GERMANY AND EUROPE AFTER THE UKRAINE WAR IN 2025 THREE SCENARIOS
Creators: name: Ehrhart, Hans-Georg
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: As the dynamics of war tend towards escalation, it has to be politically
hedged with the goal of war termination and prevention. This is especially valid if,
as in the case of the Ukraine war, nuclear powers are directly and indirectly involved.
Therefore, it makes sense to think about possible war termination and the period
after it has ended, allowing us to analyse trends, challenges, and options. This will
be done via three scenario analyses analysed in relation to the following aspects:
What happens in and with Russia, in and with Ukraine, and what does this mean for
NATO, Europe and Germany?
The conclusion outlines the various security policy options available to Germany,
depending on the outcome of the war in Ukraine. First, the outcome of the war will
have decisive effects on German and European security. Second, a Ukrainian vic
tory comes with a very high risk of nuclear escalation. Third, Russia will remain an
important Eastern European neighbour for Germany and EU Europe in terms of
geography and potential. Fourth, the USA will remain an indispensable player in
European security for the foreseeable future. Fifth, that China plays a significant role
in this conflict. Finally, regardless of the scenario, Berlin will have to spend more on
its own and European defence.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 23 (2023)
ONLINE ANALYTICS PORTAL AS AN INFORMATION WARFARE TOOL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND ITS IMPACT AFTER 24 FEBRUARY 2022. CASE STUDY – RUBALTIC.RU
Creators: name: Sikorski, Juliusz
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: The article attempts to analyse the information warfare tool of the proxy
source. This was done using the example of the RuBaltic.ru portal, also showing
it against the background of two other tools of warfare: news front.info and Geo
politica.ru. The study shows that after Russia’s assault on Ukraine began, the portal
essentially became a tool for internal propaganda in Russia, as well as among the
Russian diaspora in countries that did not identify it as a proxy source. Thus, it is
not currently fulfilling the role for which it was intended. Nevertheless, it should be
monitored, and democratic countries in Europe that have not done so to date should
consider restricting access to it due to the possible negative social effects of its impact
in the context of the still ongoing war.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 23 (2023)
RangeSeg: Range-Aware Real Time Segmentation of 3D LiDAR Point Clouds
Creators: name: Chen, Tzu-Hsuan
name: Chang, Tian Sheuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Semantic outdoor scene understanding based on 3D LiDAR point clouds is a challenging task for autonomous driving due to the sparse and irregular data structure. This paper takes advantages of the uneven range distribution of different LiDAR laser beams to propose a range aware instance segmentation network, RangeSeg. RangeSeg uses a shared encoder backbone with two range dependent decoders. A heavy decoder only computes top of a range image where the far and small objects locate to improve small object detection accuracy, and a light decoder computes whole range image for low computational cost. The results are further clustered by the DBSCAN method with a resolution weighted distance function to get instance-level segmentation results. Experiments on the KITTI dataset show that RangeSeg outperforms the state-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods with enormous speedup and improves the instance-level segmentation performance on small and far objects. The whole RangeSeg pipeline meets the real time requirement on NVIDIA\textsuperscript{\textregistered} JETSON AGX Xavier with 19 frames per second in average.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (2021)
VOICES FROM THE FIELDS: A GRASSROOTS EVALUATION OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
Creators: name: Salim, Al-Mansoori Ahmed
name: Hamood, Al-Harthy Fatima
Publisher: name: Zap journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: profit-making
corporate responsibility
stakeholder relationships
ustainability
ethical management

description: In today’s global business landscape, profit-making has emerged as a paramount objective for companies and their shareholders. This emphasis on profit often overshadows the consideration of broader societal and environmental impacts resulting from corporate operations. Such myopic perspectives prioritize short-term gains at the expense of long-term well-being. This paper delves into the critical issue of corporate responsibility and its multifaceted implications. This study examines the dichotomy between profit-driven organizations and those committed to societal well-being. While companies strive to meet customer demands and ensure profitability, the neglect of their impact on the environment and society can be detrimental. Neglecting the broader societal context and stakeholders—ranging from communities, publics, and suppliers to competitors—can erode trust and goodwill. Drawing on insights from previous research, this paper explores the ethical imperative of managing stakeholder relationships with integrity, credibility, and transparency. We investigate the complex interplay between profit-seeking and corporate social responsibility, shedding light on the importance of balancing these objectives for sustainable business practices.
A Real Time 1280x720 Object Detection Chip With 585MB/s Memory Traffic
Creators: name: Chang, Kuo-Wei
name: Shih, Hsu-Tung
name: Chang, Tian-Sheuan
name: Tsai, Shang-Hong
name: Yang, Chih-Chyau
name: Wu, Chien-Ming
name: Huang, Chun-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Memory bandwidth has become the real-time bottleneck of current deep learning accelerators (DLA), particularly for high definition (HD) object detection. Under resource constraints, this paper proposes a low memory traffic DLA chip with joint hardware and software optimization. To maximize hardware utilization under memory bandwidth, we morph and fuse the object detection model into a group fusion-ready model to reduce intermediate data access. This reduces the YOLOv2's feature memory traffic from 2.9 GB/s to 0.15 GB/s. To support group fusion, our previous DLA based hardware employes a unified buffer with write-masking for simple layer-by-layer processing in a fusion group. When compared to our previous DLA with the same PE numbers, the chip implemented in a TSMC 40nm process supports 1280x720@30FPS object detection and consumes 7.9X less external DRAM access energy, from 2607 mJ to 327.6 mJ.
description: 11 pages, 14 figures, to be published IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
SOME NOTES ABOUT THE NATURE OF RUSSIAN INFLUENCE ACTIVITIES AND STRATEGIC NARRATIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY INVASION OF UKRAINE 2022–2023
Creators: name: Sazonov, Vladimir
name: Sägi, Jaanus
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: In this article the authors look at Russia’s information influence activities in
the context of the first two years of the Russian military invasion in Ukraine (2022–
2023). The specific focus of this study is on analysing some examples of Russian
strategic narratives created and disseminated by the Russian Federation, pro Russian
media outlets and social media channels (e.g. Telegram) in 2022–2023, targeting
Western audiences, including examples of Russian influence activities targeting
Estonian, Ukrainian and more generally Western audiences.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 23 (2023)
Effect of Laser Acupuncture on the Activity of Antioxidant Enzymes in Focal Cerebral Ischemic Rat
Creators: name: Jinatta Jittiwat
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2017
Subjects: stroke, laser acupuncture, Baihui (GV20) point, antioxidant enzymes

description: Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 13, 3, 68-78
Shells in CO$_2$ Clusters
Creators: name: Niman, John W.
name: Kamerin, Benjamin S.
name: Kresin, Vitaly V.
name: Krohn, Jan
name: Signorell, Ruth
name: Halonen, Roope
name: Hansen, Klavs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abundance spectra of (CO$_2$)$_N$ clusters (up to $N \approx$ 500) acquired under a wide range of adiabatic expansion conditions are analyzed within the evaporative ensemble framework. Analysis reveals that cluster stability functions display strikingly universal patterns for all expansion conditions. These patterns reflect the inherent properties of individual clusters. From this analysis the size-dependent cluster binding energies are determined, shell and subshell closing sizes identified, and cuboctahedral packing ordering for sizes above $N \approx 130$ is confirmed. It is demonstrated that a few percent variation in the dissociation energies translates into significant abundance variations, especially for the larger clusters.
description: The final version can be found at the reference below