cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rational Design and Development of Polymeric Nanogels as Protein Carriers
Creators: name: López-Iglesias, Clara
name: Klinger, Daniel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: encapsulation
subject: nanogels
subject: polymers
subject: proteins
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::615 Pharmakologie, Therapeutik

description: Proteins have gained significant attention as potential therapeutic agents owing to their high specificity and reduced toxicity. Nevertheless, their clinical utility is hindered by inherent challenges associated with stability during storage and after in vivo administration. To overcome these limitations, polymeric nanogels (NGs) have emerged as promising carriers. These colloidal systems are capable of efficient encapsulation and stabilization of protein cargoes while improving their bioavailability and targeted delivery. The design of such delivery systems requires a comprehensive understanding of how the synthesis and formulation processes affect the final performance of the protein. This review highlights critical aspects involved in the development of NGs for protein delivery, with specific emphasis on loading strategies and evaluation techniques. For example, factors influencing loading efficiency and release kinetics are discussed, along with strategies to optimize protein encapsulation through protein-carrier interactions to achieve the desired therapeutic outcomes. The discussion is based on recent literature examples and aims to provide valuable insights for researchers working toward the advancement of protein-based therapeutics.
Budgetary Effects of Including the CEC into Dynamic Modulation
Creators: name: Banse, Martin
name: Grethe, Harald
name: Banse, Martin
name: Grethe, Harald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Modulation
subject: EU-enlargement
subject: CAP-budget

description: The EU Commission suggests to exclude CEC from the dynamic modulation mechanism, being part of the MTR package. This article looks at the distributional aspects of including the CEC into dynamic modulation. Under the current accession proposal the CEC would account for only 18% of the rural development budget by 2006. If modulation would be realised with the CEC being excluded this share would drop to 14% by 2010. According to the criteria proposed by the Commission for the distribution of the modulation budget the CEC would get a higher share of the modulation budget if they were included as they account for high shares in agricultural area and employment, and their GDP per capita is relatively low. Based on the assumptions made for this article they would be eligible for about 66% of the modulation budget. As a result of their participation in the modulation mechanism their share in the rural development budget would be at 30% by 2010. The financial net gains for the CEC from participation are estimated to be at 1.7 bln. €.
GA-MSSR: Genetic Algorithm Maximizing Sharpe and Sterling Ratio Method for RoboTrading
Creators: name: Zhang, Zezheng
name: Khushi, Matloob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Foreign exchange is the largest financial market in the world, and it is also one of the most volatile markets. Technical analysis plays an important role in the forex market and trading algorithms are designed utilizing machine learning techniques. Most literature used historical price information and technical indicators for training. However, the noisy nature of the market affects the consistency and profitability of the algorithms. To address this problem, we designed trading rule features that are derived from technical indicators and trading rules. The parameters of technical indicators are optimized to maximize trading performance. We also proposed a novel cost function that computes the risk-adjusted return, Sharpe and Sterling Ratio (SSR), in an effort to reduce the variance and the magnitude of drawdowns. An automatic robotic trading (RoboTrading) strategy is designed with the proposed Genetic Algorithm Maximizing Sharpe and Sterling Ratio model (GA-MSSR) model. The experiment was conducted on intraday data of 6 major currency pairs from 2018 to 2019. The results consistently showed significant positive returns and the performance of the trading system is superior using the optimized rule-based features. The highest return obtained was 320% annually using 5-minute AUDUSD currency pair. Besides, the proposed model achieves the best performance on risk factors, including maximum drawdowns and variance in return, comparing to benchmark models. The code can be accessed at https://github.com/zzzac/rule-based-forextrading-system
Die zukünftige Ausgestaltung der Direktzahlungen – Eine quantitative Analyse möglicher Reformen in einer erweiterten Europäischen Union
Creators: name: Banse, Martin
name: Nolle, Ferdinand
name: Banse, Martin
name: Nolle, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: EU Enlargement
subject: EU Mid-term Report
subject: costs of CAP
subject: partial equilibrium analysis

description: The introduction of the current Common European Agricultural Policy in ten new member states in central and eastern Europe will be a major financial challenge for the European Union. On the basis of the partial equilibrium model ESIM this article analyses potential consequences of different options for a reformed CAP. While the impact on agricultural markets will be relatively small, the financial burden of a harmonisation of agricultural policies and an introduction of direct payments in the new member states has to be carried mainly by the old member states of the EU-15. The burden of the main net-payers, especially Germany, would be significantly lower, if CAP were reformed according to the proposals of the EU-Commission's Mid-term Report. However, the remaining negative impacts on world agricultural trade and on world market prices for agricultural products, clearly show the necessity of a further reform of the CAP.
ANÁLISE SAZONAL PARA A SÉRIE E OS COMPONENTES DO CUSTO DA CESTA BÁSICA DE LAVRAS, MG.
Creators: name: Costa Carvalho, Pedro Luiz
name: Safadi, Thelma
name: Ferraz, Marcelo Inacio Ferreira
name: Costa Carvalho, Pedro Luiz
name: Safadi, Thelma
name: Ferraz, Marcelo Inacio Ferreira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Ajuste direto
subject: ajuste indireto
subject: cesta básica
subject: sazonalidade
subject: X-12 Arima
subject: Direct adjustment
subject: indirect adjustment
subject: basic basket
subject: seasonality
subject: X-12 Arima.

description: The effects of seasonal fluctuations caused by weather and natural fluctuations in demand and supply have influenced the price of various agricultural products, leading many times to an oscillation of prices to be mistakenly linked to further factors. In an attempt to better understand how the influence of the seasonal factor works for the prices of agricultural products, this paper has the objective of analyzing the seasonal behavior the Cost of Basic Basket series (basic food) in Lavras, MG, and its components, besides making a comparison between the direct and indirect form of the disseasonalize the series of Cost of Basic Basket. The data were obtained from the UFLA Department of Administration and Economics and cover the period from January 1995 to December 2005. The database consists of the time series of the 17 products that make up the Food Basket of Lavras, plus the series of the Cost of Basic Basket. The results elicited that eleven of the eighteen series analyzed presented identified seasonality, and then for each series models Sarima were adjusted. Finally, by comparing in a directly and indirectly way the removal of seasonality of the series, the research proved that the direct way is more effective.
Planning and Development Challenges in Western Gateway Communities
Creators: name: Stoker, Philip
name: Danya Rumore
name: Romaniello, Lindsey
name: Levine, Zacharia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Small towns and cities outside of national parks, scenic public lands, and other natural amenities throughout the western United States are becoming increasingly popular places to live and visit. As a result, many of these gateway communities appear to be experiencing a range of pressures and challenges. In this study we draw on the results of in-depth interviews with 33 public officials and a survey of more than 300 public officials to shed light on the planning and development concerns across western gateway communities. Our results indicate that gateway communities throughout the western United States are experiencing a range of planning and development challenges, many of which seem atypical for small rural communities, such as challenges associated with housing affordability, cost of living, and congestion. These challenges seem to be more related to population growth than increasing tourism and stand out in stark contrast against the fact that these communities strongly value and identify with their small-town character. Our findings suggest gateway communities are doing a variety of things, some quite innovative, to address their planning and development challenges but often feel overwhelmed, behind the curve, and in need of additional capacity and planning support. Our study highlights the importance of effective and proactive planning in gateway communities. It also suggests that to do forward-looking planning and to respond to the challenges they face, many gateway communities will need additional planning support and tools. We highlight gateway communities here to provide a platform for future efforts aimed at assisting these small, rural communities in protecting the qualities that make them such special places to live and visit amid the planning and development pressures and challenges they face.
“Can You Imagine What’s Happened in Durham?”
Creators: name: Ehlenz, Meagan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: As Durham’s (NC) economy collapsed in the mid-1990s, Duke established a plan to intervene. Its actions aligned with anchor institution models at many universities; its approach, however, was unique. In a city where Duke was a fixture, university leadership understood a top-down approach was not viable. Instead, administrators launched a community-led model intended to change the “story [from] ‘Look at what Duke did’, to ‘Can you imagine what’s happened in Durham?’” according to one administrator in a 2015 interview. I use a longitudinal case study to examine Duke’s anchor institution model in 12 Durham neighborhoods. I consider Duke’s approach from the mid-1990s to present, drawing from interviews with Duke administrators, community organizations, and neighborhood representatives; newspaper articles and reports; and a descriptive analysis of neighborhood change. I explore an anchor model that engages nonprofit partners and community development strategies. My findings show the potential for a multipartner anchor model that cultivates neighborhood improvement and minimizes (to an extent) gentrification pressures that can arise from anchor investment. Duke’s anchor model offers a unique perspective on university–community engagement, partnerships, and neighborhood investment. Duke’s case offers insights for how major institutions—from university anchors to local government—can recast their roles in communities; it also offers a roadmap for how institutions can engage (and benefit) neighborhoods in meaningful ways. Informed by a collaborative anchor model, Duke empowered residents to identify their own neighborhood priorities and partnered with local community organizations to meet those aims. This anchor model reveals a powerful role for intermediaries, including planners and community organizers, to connect institutional resources with neighborhood priorities. Supported by a participatory planning process, there are opportunities to realign anchor institution strategies and tools with neighborhood priorities to move toward mutually beneficial outcomes.
The mythological journey of the Kaknus and its place in Ottoman poetry
Creators: name: Aytaç, Aslı
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Myths as a product of common culture are the stories that each culture takes and kneads within itself and conveyed for generations. The source for them is human. Myths are shaped by the culture, lifestyle and beliefs of communities. Mythology has a great place in making sense of literary texts as it is in human history. Mythological narratives and items, which have changed as a result of the interaction of different cultures with each other, are cultural accumulations whose origins cannot be determined exactly, but which are believed to be true by the society. One of the fields that divan poetry, which continues as a literary tradition, makes use of while maintaining its existence is mythology. Various mythological elements in literary works play an important role in understanding the meaning of the work. Divan poetry, mostly fed by the source of Persian mythology, also benefited from the mythological animals belonging to this culture. Among mythological animals, birds are considered as mythological elements that occupy much of divan poetry. Kaknus, the subject of our study, is a mythological bird with a story in both western and eastern mythology. In Greek mythology, the mythological person Kyknos is a bird named Kaknus in Persian mythology. In this study, the mythological history of Kaknus will be discussed and the characteristics of its use in Divan poetry will be detailed.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 25 N. 2 (2021): Kervan
Rejection-free Geometric Cluster Algorithm for Complex Fluids
Creators: name: Liu, Jiwen
name: Luijten, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel, generally applicable Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of fluid systems. Geometric transformations are used to identify clusters of particles in such a manner that every cluster move is accepted, irrespective of the nature of the pair interactions. The rejection-free and non-local nature of the algorithm make it particularly suitable for the efficient simulation of complex fluids with components of widely varying size, such as colloidal mixtures. Compared to conventional simulation algorithms, typical efficiency improvements amount to several orders of magnitude.
Specifying the unitary evolution of a qudit for a general nonstationary Hamiltonian via the generalized Gell-Mann representation
Creators: name: Loubenets, Elena R.
name: Käding, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optimal realizations of quantum technology tasks lead to the necessity of a detailed analytical study of the behavior of a $d$-level quantum system (qudit) under a time-dependent Hamiltonian. In the present article, we introduce a new general formalism describing the unitary evolution of a qudit $(d\geq2)$ in terms of the Bloch-like vector space and specify how in a general case this formalism is related to finding time-dependent parameters in the exponential representation of the evolution operator under an arbitrary time-dependent Hamiltonian. Applying this new general formalism to a qubit case $(d=2)$, we specify the unitary evolution of a qubit via the evolution of a unit vector in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ and this allows us to derive the precise analytical expression of the qubit unitary evolution operator for a wide class of nonstationary Hamiltonians. This new analytical expression includes the qubit solutions known in the literature only as particular cases.
description: 26 pages
Gerald Horne. 2019. White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism versus the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.
Creators: name: Morgan, Jason
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 25 N. 2 (2021): Kervan
Non-Perturbative Gravity and the Spin of the Lattice Graviton
Creators: name: Hamber, Herbert W.
name: Williams, Ruth M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lattice formulation of quantum gravity provides a natural framework in which non-perturbative properties of the ground state can be studied in detail. In this paper we investigate how the lattice results relate to the continuum semiclassical expansion about smooth manifolds. As an example we give an explicit form for the lattice ground state wave functional for semiclassical geometries. We then do a detailed comparison between the more recent predictions from the lattice regularized theory, and results obtained in the continuum for the non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point of quantum gravity found using weak field and non-perturbative methods. In particular we focus on the derivative of the beta function at the fixed point and the related universal critical exponent $ν$ for gravitation. Based on recently available lattice and continuum results we assess the evidence for the presence of a massless spin two particle in the continuum limit of the strongly coupled lattice theory. Finally we compare the lattice prediction for the vacuum-polarization induced weak scale dependence of the gravitational coupling with recent calculations in the continuum, finding similar effects.
description: 46 pages, one figure
Lenses in Skew Brownian Flow
Creators: name: Burdzy, Krzysztof
name: Kaspi, Haya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J65 (Primary) 60J55, 60G17, 60H10 (Secondary)

description: We consider a stochastic flow in which individual particles follow skew Brownian motions, with each one of these processes driven by the same Brownian motion. One does not have uniqueness for the solutions of the corresponding stochastic differential equation simultaneously for all real initial conditions. Due to this lack of the simultaneous strong uniqueness for the whole system of stochastic differential equations, the flow contains lenses, that is, pairs of skew Brownian motions which start at the same point, bifurcate, and then coalesce in a finite time. The paper contains qualitative and quantitative (distributional) results on the geometry of the flow and lenses.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000711 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Does Local Ownership of Vacant Land Reduce Crime?
Creators: name: Stern, Matthew
name: T. William Lester
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Urban vacancy presents myriad concerns for American legacy cities, including cyclical disinvestment, property value and tax revenue decimation, increased crime, and high management costs. To address these problems, the City of Chicago (IL) has sold more than 1,200 vacant city-owned parcels in distressed communities for $1 through its Large Lots Program since 2014. Program buyers must be same-block landowners, although they are not required to live nearby. In this study we estimate the true distance between buyers and their parcels and perform a block-level difference-in-differences analysis to explore whether the program reduces crime. We find that same-neighborhood buyers have purchased 69% of parcels. Overall, sales reduce block-level crime rates by 3.5%, but sales to neighborhood residents decrease crime rates by 6.8%. These findings are agnostic to what buyers actually do with their land and could be enhanced with a better understanding of which owners achieve productive reuse. Side yard programs seek solutions to urban vacancy via decentralized community reinvestment but have so far been relatively untested. We demonstrate that Chicago’s Large Lots Program has reduced crime while providing reinvestment and wealth-building opportunities. However, attention should be paid to how program rules and outreach efforts affect how “local” parcel buyers are. More research is needed to evaluate the broader impacts of side yard programs, such as on wealth building and community redevelopment.
Measuring Competitiveness in Twos
Creators: name: Cahill, Sean A.
name: Cahill, Sean A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: competitiveness
subject: imperfect competition
subject: public infrastructure investment

description: Improvements in competitiveness can be achieved through policy initiatives, but the success of these policies will depend upon the way that firms and consumers respond. This paper establishes the conditions under which a policy change can lead to an improvement in the competitiveness of a Canadian firm. There are two firms (Canadian, U.S.) each with two brands and each making sales in two markets (Canada, U.S.) and two consumers, one in Canada and one in the U.S. Equilibrium is shown to depend on inverse compensated demand function coefficients, the conjectured best response coefficients for each firm and marginal cost functions for each firm. An improvement in competitiveness from an investment in public infrastructure in Canada is shown to depend upon initial sales ratios and the by sign and size of the best response of the Canadian firm as conjectured by the U.S. firm. It is also shown how the policy may have unintended effects. The model can be used to derive a range of other results and these potential uses are outlined.
Offline Contextual Multi-armed Bandits for Mobile Health Interventions: A Case Study on Emotion Regulation
Creators: name: Ameko, Mawulolo K.
name: Beltzer, Miranda L.
name: Cai, Lihua
name: Boukhechba, Mehdi
name: Teachman, Bethany A.
name: Barnes, Laura E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Delivering treatment recommendations via pervasive electronic devices such as mobile phones has the potential to be a viable and scalable treatment medium for long-term health behavior management. But active experimentation of treatment options can be time-consuming, expensive and altogether unethical in some cases. There is a growing interest in methodological approaches that allow an experimenter to learn and evaluate the usefulness of a new treatment strategy before deployment. We present the first development of a treatment recommender system for emotion regulation using real-world historical mobile digital data from n = 114 high socially anxious participants to test the usefulness of new emotion regulation strategies. We explore a number of offline contextual bandits estimators for learning and propose a general framework for learning algorithms. Our experimentation shows that the proposed doubly robust offline learning algorithms performed significantly better than baseline approaches, suggesting that this type of recommender algorithm could improve emotion regulation. Given that emotion regulation is impaired across many mental illnesses and such a recommender algorithm could be scaled up easily, this approach holds potential to increase access to treatment for many people. We also share some insights that allow us to translate contextual bandit models to this complex real-world data, including which contextual features appear to be most important for predicting emotion regulation strategy effectiveness.
description: Accepted at RecSys 2020
The practices and dynamics of Baalle, an indigenous governance system of Gedeo (Southwest Ethiopia)
Creators: name: Golle, Tesfatsion Petros
name: Zekareas, Yetebarek Hizekeal
name: Orkaydo, Ongaye Oda
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: This article comprehensively examines the governance quest of the Gedeo people (a Cushitic-speaking people in southern Ethiopia) and their itineraries in building an egalitarian indigenous governance system locally called Baalle. The Baalle governance system is based on the distribution of political powers and social responsibilities across nine grades, each with a life span of eight years. Our analysis focuses on three aspects of the Balle system: essence, practices, and dynamics. We have analyzed the roles of the state in the dynamics of the Baalle system by considering the different historical phases of the Ethiopian state: the Imperial regime (1889-1974), the Derg regime (1974-1991), and the EPRDF regime (1991-2018). Data were collected through narrative interviews, observation, and focus group discussions from Baalle leaders and cultural consultants during several fieldworks carried out in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Based on our findings, we argue that Baalle is a complex indigenous governance system of Gedeo’s social structure that influenced their economic, social, political and spiritual life. Moreover, given the complexity of the Baalle system, the presence of governance institution (Songo) in all the three autonomous regional territories of the Gedeo, the practices of sustainable economy that combined forestry with agriculture, and the presence of dense population, we argue that the Gedeo qualify for being a state. Since the incorporation of the Gedeo into the Ethiopian state in the late 19th century, Baalle has been structurally subordinated to the central government, and its roles in the day-to-day life of the local community have significantly declined. Although the post-1991 political developments of the EPRDF made attempts to protect Baalle from extinction, its role is still reduced to playing only supplementary roles to state conflict resolution institutions and instruments.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 25 N. 2 (2021): Kervan
Additional file 1 of The urgency of utilizing COVID-19 biospecimens for research in the heart of the global pandemic
Creators: name: Osman, Iman
name: Cotzia, Paolo
name: Moran, Una
name: Donnelly, Douglas
name: Arguelles-Grande, Carolina
name: Mendoza, Sandra
name: Moreira, Andre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Universal consent form and COVID-19 clinical database fields.
Traffic-engineering based routing and channel allocation in wired and wireless networks
Creators: name: Khan, Junaid Asim
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Goal of traffic engineering (TE) in packet networks is to improve the network performance by providing support for congestion management, higher bandwidth utilization (or throughput), and QoS. There are two ways to provide congestion management, either by avoiding congestion before routing packet flows or by eliminating congestion after routing packet flows. Congestion can be eliminated in a network by capacity re-planning, however in wired networks it is not possible to perform capacity planning periodically. Therefore, wired networks rely on congestion avoidance that can be accomplished by using explicit path support in MPLS. This thesis proposes a fuzzy logic based TE routing algorithm to calculate these explicit paths. Simulation results have shown that proposed algorithm outperforms the well-known widest shortest path (WSP) algorithm and minimum interference routing algorithm (MIRA). The thesis also provides a TE solution in broadband fixed wireless networks with directed (or physical) mesh topologies. The solution approach exploits the fact that in wireless networks it is possible to perform capacity re-planning by re-planning the frequency channel allocation to links in a network. Unlike wired networks, wireless networks do not require any infrastructure upgrade to support channel reallocation in a short scale of time. The proposed solution is based on a distributed dynamic channel allocation algorithm that is capable of finding a solution at the time of network initialization and also dynamically fine tunes the channel allocation to eliminate congestion to provide traffic engineering. The proposed distributed dynamic channel allocation is highly scalable and hence is suitable for large networks. Simulation results have shown that channel allocation based on distributed dynamic channel allocation provides much better results than a fixed channel allocation based scheme.
The Lazarus Effect: Healing Compromised Devices in the Internet of Small Things
Creators: name: Huber, Manuel
name: Hristozov, Stefan
name: Ott, Simon
name: Sarafov, Vasil
name: Peinado, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We live in a time when billions of IoT devices are being deployed and increasingly relied upon. This makes ensuring their availability and recoverability in case of a compromise a paramount goal. The large and rapidly growing number of deployed IoT devices make manual recovery impractical, especially if the devices are dispersed over a large area. Thus, there is a need for a reliable and scalable remote recovery mechanism that works even after attackers have taken full control over devices, possibly misusing them or trying to render them useless. To tackle this problem, we present Lazarus, a system that enables the remote recovery of compromised IoT devices. With Lazarus, an IoT administrator can remotely control the code running on IoT devices unconditionally and within a guaranteed time bound. This makes recovery possible even in case of severe corruption of the devices' software stack. We impose only minimal hardware requirements, making Lazarus applicable even for low-end constrained off-the-shelf IoT devices. We isolate Lazarus's minimal recovery trusted computing base from untrusted software both in time and by using a trusted execution environment. The temporal isolation prevents secrets from being leaked through side-channels to untrusted software. Inside the trusted execution environment, we place minimal functionality that constrains untrusted software at runtime. We implement Lazarus on an ARM Cortex-M33-based microcontroller in a full setup with an IoT hub, device provisioning and secure update functionality. Our prototype can recover compromised embedded OSs and bare-metal applications and prevents attackers from bricking devices, for example, through flash wear out. We show this at the example of FreeRTOS, which requires no modifications but only a single additional task. Our evaluation shows negligible runtime performance impact and moderate memory requirements.
description: In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS 20)
Exploring universals in audiovisual translation: A case study of Frozen dubbed into Persian
Creators: name: Golchinnezhad, Maryam
name: Afrouz, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Previous remarks in Translation Studies have involved generalizations based on comparing translations to their source texts (Chesterman 2010). In this article, Baker’s (1993; 1996) translation universals are examined on the animated movie Frozen (2013) and its three Persian dubbed versions. The reflection of the following translation universals on a character’s speech are attested: Simplification, Explicitation, and Normalization. Results show that Simplification and Explicitation are the most frequent strategies that were adopted in the dubbed versions. Furthermore, another strategy, namely Exaggeration, is observed in the data. It is used only for one character in the movie, i.e., an ice salesman called Kristoff. The reason for employing this conscious strategy appears to be the inequality of power distribution among characters that influenced the style of translation in the Persian dubbed versions.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 25 N. 2 (2021): Kervan
Particle Statistics in Quantum Information Processing
Creators: name: Omar, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Particle statistics is a fundamental part of quantum physics, and yet its role and use in the context of quantum information have been poorly explored so far. After briefly introducing particle statistics and the Symmetrization Postulate, I will argue that this fundamental aspect of Nature can be seen as a resource for quantum information processing and I will present examples showing how it is possible to do useful and efficient quantum information processing using only the effects of particles statistics.
IMPACTOS DA ESTABILIZAÇÃO MONETÁRIA E DA ESTRATÉGIA COMPETITIVA DA INDÚSTRIA, SOBRE O CONSUMO DE CAFÉ TORRADO NO BRASIL
Creators: name: Carvalho De Mesquita, Jose Marcos
name: Lara, Jose Edson
name: Souki, Gustavo Quiroga
name: Carvalho De Mesquita, Jose Marcos
name: Lara, Jose Edson
name: Souki, Gustavo Quiroga
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Estratégia competitiva e estratégia relacional
subject: mercado de café
subject: agronegócio
subject: Competitive strategy
subject: cooperative strategy
subject: coffee market
subject: agribusiness.

description: The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the influence of two distinct programs over the coffee consumption in Brazil. The first one is the implementation of “Plano Real” and it’s consequences in terms of monetary stabilization and income growing. The second refers to a program that aimed to increase the quality of toasted coffee, launched by Associação Brasileira da Industria do Café – ABIC -, named “Selo Pureza” (“Pureness Seal”). Macroeconomics conditions are considered external variables. However they can not be controlled by the organizations once they are able to cause high impacts on a company performance. Cooperative strategy is an association and in this case, participants have total control and can plan results. The methodology involves Multiple Regression Analysis; the the studied period is from 1990 to 2006. The results found show that the variables representing the macroeconomic conditions are not able to explain the consumption increase, although the relationship strategy is significant, suggesting that it presents a considerable importance for the consumption increase.
Star formation rates and mass distributions in interacting galaxies
Creators: name: Kapferer, W.
name: Knapp, A.
name: Schindler, S.
name: Kimeswenger, S.
name: van Kampen, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic investigation of the star formation rate (hereafter SFR) in interacting disk galaxies. We determine the dependence of the overall SFR on different spatial alignments and impact parameters of more than 50 different configurations in combined N-body/hydrodynamic simulations. We also show mass profiles of the baryonic components. We find that galaxy-galaxy interactions can enrich the surrounding intergalatic medium with metals very efficiently up to distances of several 100 kpc. This enrichment can be explained in terms of indirect processes like thermal driven galactic winds or direct processes like 'kinetic' spreading of baryonic matter. In the case of equal mass mergers the direct -kinetic- redistribution of gaseous matter (after 5 Gyr) is less efficient than the environmental enrichment of the same isolated galaxies by a galactic wind. In the case of non-equal mass mergers however, the direct -kinetic- process dominates the redistribution of gaseous matter. Compared to the isolated systems, the integrated star formation rates (ISFRs) ($\int_{t = 0 Gyr}^{t = 5 Gyr}\textnormal{SFR(t)}dt$) in the modelled interacting galaxies are in extreme cases a factor of 5 higher and on average a factor of 2 higher in interacting galaxies. Co-rotating and counter-rotating interactions do not show a common trend for the enhancement of the ISFRs depending on the interaction being edge-on or face-on. The latter case shows an increase of the ISFRs for the counter-rotating system of about 100%, whereas the edge-on counter-rotating case results in a lower increase ($\sim$ 10%).
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, 19 pages, 21 figures, 6 tables
A Comprehensive Stress Drop Map From Trench to Depth in the Northern Chilean Subduction Zone
Creators: name: Folesky, Jonas
name: Pennington, C. N.
name: Kummerow, Jörn
name: Hofman, Laurens Jan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: seismology
subject: stress drop map
subject: earthquake rupture
subject: variability
subject: segmentation
subject: depth dependency
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: We compute stress drops for earthquakes in Northern Chile recorded between 2007 and 2021. By applying two analysis techniques, (a) the spectral ratio (SR) method and (b) the spectral decomposition (SDC) method, a stress drop map for the subduction zone consisting of 51,510 stress drop values is produced. We build an extended set of empirical Green’s functions (EGF) for the SR method by systematic template matching. Outputs are used to compare with results from the SDC approach, where we apply cell-wise obtained global EGF's to compensate for the structural heterogeneity of the subduction zone. We find a good consistency of results of the two methods. The increased spatial coverage and quantity of stress drop estimates from the SDC method facilitate a consistent stress drop mapping of the different seismotectonic domains. Albeit only small differences of median stress drop, strike-perpendicular depth sections clearly reveal systematic variations, with earthquakes at different seismotectonic locations exhibiting distinct values. In particular, interface seismicity is characterized by the lowest observed median value, whereas upper plate earthquakes show noticeably higher stress drop values. Intermediate depth earthquakes show comparatively high average stress drop and a rather strong depth-dependent increase of median stress drop. Additionally, we observe spatio-temporal variability of stress drops related to the occurrence of the two megathrust earthquakes in the study region. The presented study is the first coherent large scale 3D stress drop mapping of the Northern Chilean subduction zone. It provides an important component for further detailed analysis of the physics of earthquake ruptures.
Hierarchy of Conservation Laws of Diffusion--Convection Equations
Creators: name: Popovych, Roman O.
name: Ivanova, Nataliya M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K57; 35A30

description: We introduce notions of equivalence of conservation laws with respect to Lie symmetry groups for fixed systems of differential equations and with respect to equivalence groups or sets of admissible transformations for classes of such systems. We also revise the notion of linear dependence of conservation laws and define the notion of local dependence of potentials. To construct conservation laws, we develop and apply the most direct method which is effective to use in the case of two independent variables. Admitting possibility of dependence of conserved vectors on a number of potentials, we generalize the iteration procedure proposed by Bluman and Doran-Wu for finding nonlocal (potential) conservation laws. As an example, we completely classify potential conservation laws (including arbitrary order local ones) of diffusion--convection equations with respect to the equivalence group and construct an exhaustive list of locally inequivalent potential systems corresponding to these equations.
description: 24 pages
New insights on infixed -an(n)- in Iraqi Arabic dialects
Creators: name: Hassan, Qasim
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In the few studies conducted so far on infixed -an(n)- in Iraqi Arabic, only a small area in southern Iraq was explored. Ingham, in his pioneer research on south Iraqi Arabic, considers it a characteristic feature of the dialects spoken by the dwellers of the marshy and rural areas in southern Iraq. This point of view has been widely adopted in subsequent research dealing with this infix. However, much is yet to be investigated concerning its possible presence in dialect areas other than the southern one. In this paper, I will first argue that infixed -an(n)- is not exclusive for the so-called southern continuum, to follow Ingham’s terminology, but is a regular idiosyncrasy throughout the šrūgi-dialectal area; second, I will show that this infix has, at least recently, crept into the remote qǝltu- and gǝlǝt-dialects outside the šrūgi-area.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 25 N. 2 (2021): Kervan
ASCENSAO DA AGROINDUSTRIA CANAVIEIRA PAULISTA: O CASO DE PIRACICABA NO INICIO DO SECULO XX
Creators: name: Terci, Eliana Tadeu
name: Peres, Maria Thereza Miguel
name: Terci, Eliana Tadeu
name: Peres, Maria Thereza Miguel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Central sugar factories
subject: agroindustry modernization
subject: sugar cane
subject: Engenho central
subject: modernização agroindustrial
subject: cana-de-açúcar.

description: This article analyzes the modernization of the sugar cane industry with the advent of central sugar factories in Piracicaba. Data from enterprises, legal offices and Piracicaba’s periodicals allow us to recognize the strategies that were being used by sugar cane enterprises groups to improve their business and overcome the challenges at that time. The mercantile capital ascendancy over the sugar cane industry configured a diverse enterprise organization formed by familiar companies; limited societies associated with the refineries, and anonymous societies created by foreign capital. The ascension of this industry made possible the joint of an important polarized sugar cane complex in the region of Piracicaba. A significant result was the constitution of a mechanical nucleus that produced equipment for sugar and alcohol devices.
Macroscopic, layered onion shell like magnetic domain structure generated in YIG film using ultrashort, megagauss magnetic pulses
Creators: name: Nath, Kamalika
name: Mahato, P. C.
name: Shaikh, Moniruzzaman
name: Jana, Kamalesh
name: Lad, Amit D
name: Sarkar, Deep
name: Sensarma, Rajdeep
name: Kumar, G. Ravindra
name: Banerjee, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Study of the formation and evolution of large scale, ordered structures is an enduring theme in science. The generation, evolution and control of large sized magnetic domains are intriguing and challenging tasks, given the complex nature of competing interactions present in any magnetic system. Here, we demonstrate large scale non-coplanar ordering of spins, driven by picosecond, megagauss magnetic pulses derived from a high intensity, femtosecond laser. Our studies on a specially designed Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG)/dielectric/metal film sandwich target, show the creation of complex, large, concentric, elliptical shaped magnetic domains which resemble the layered shell structure of an onion. The largest shell has a major axis of over hundreds of micrometers, in stark contrast to conventional sub micrometer scale polygonal, striped or bubble shaped magnetic domains found in magnetic materials, or the large dumbbell shaped domains produced in magnetic films irradiated with accelerator based relativistic electron beams. Through micromagnetic simulations, we show that the giant magnetic field pulses create ultrafast terahertz (THz) spin waves. A snapshot of these fast propagating spin waves is stored as the layered onion shell shaped domains in the YIG film. Typically, information transport via spin waves in magnonic devices occurs in the gigahertz (GHz) regime, where the devices are susceptible to thermal disturbances at room temperature. Our intense laser light pulse - YIG sandwich target combination, paves the way for room temperature table-top THz spin wave devices, which operate just above or in the range of the thermal noise floor. This dissipation-less device offers ultrafast control of spin information over distances of few hundreds of microns.
description: 29 pages, 3 figures, supplementary (4 figures), submitted
Additional file 1 of H1-antihistamines as antischistosomal drugs: in vitro and in vivo studies
Creators: name: Xavier, Rogério P.
name: Mengarda, Ana C.
name: Silva, Marcos P.
name: Roquini, Daniel B.
name: Salvadori, Maria C.
name: Teixeira, Fernanda S.
name: Pinto, Pedro L.
name: Thiago R. Morais
name: Ferreira, Leonardo L. G.
name: Andricopulo, Adriano D.
name: Moraes, Josué De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Molecular properties of H1-antihistamine drugs.
Additional file 1 of Preferential differences in vaccination decision-making for oneself or one’s child in The Netherlands: a discrete choice experiment
Creators: name: Hoogink, Joram
name: Verelst, Frederik
name: Kessels, Roselinde
name: Hoek, Albert Jan Van
name: Timen, Aura
name: Willem, Lander
name: Beutels, Philippe
name: Wallinga, Jacco
name: G. Ardine De Wit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. DCE Questionnaire