cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancing expressivity transfer in textless speech-to-speech translation
Creators: name: Duret, Jarod
name: O'Brien, Benjamin
name: Estève, Yannick
name: Parcollet, Titouan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Textless speech-to-speech translation systems are rapidly advancing, thanks to the integration of self-supervised learning techniques. However, existing state-of-the-art systems fall short when it comes to capturing and transferring expressivity accurately across different languages. Expressivity plays a vital role in conveying emotions, nuances, and cultural subtleties, thereby enhancing communication across diverse languages. To address this issue this study presents a novel method that operates at the discrete speech unit level and leverages multilingual emotion embeddings to capture language-agnostic information. Specifically, we demonstrate how these embeddings can be used to effectively predict the pitch and duration of speech units in the target language. Through objective and subjective experiments conducted on a French-to-English translation task, our findings highlight the superior expressivity transfer achieved by our approach compared to current state-of-the-art systems.
Strategic bidding via the interplay of minimum income condition orders in day-ahead power exchanges
Creators: name: Csercsik, Dávid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper we study the so-called minimum income condition order, which is used in some day-ahead electricity power exchanges to represent the production-related costs of generating units. This order belongs to the family of complex orders, which imply non-convexities in the market clearing problem. We demonstrate via simple numerical examples that if more of such bids are present in the market, their interplay may open the possibility of strategic bidding. More precisely, we show that by the manipulation of bid parameters, a strategic player may increase its own profit and potentially induce the deactivation of an other minimum income condition order, which would be accepted under truthful bidding. Furthermore, we show that if we modify the objective function used in the market clearing according to principles suggested in the literature, it is possible to prevent the possibility of such strategic bidding, but the modification raises other issues.
Effects of physical activity changes induced by behaviour change interventions on inflammation and patient-centred outcomes in breast cancer survivors: a systematic review
Creators: name: Ezenwankwo, Elochukwu Fortune
name: Ezeukwu, Antoninus Obinna
name: Abaraogu, Ukachukwu Okoroafor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Ample evidence supports using behaviour change interventions to increase physical activity (PA) in breast cancer survivors (BCSs). This systematic review aims to investigate if behaviour change intervention-induced changes in PA can modulate inflammation and improve patient-centred outcomes in this population. We searched six databases and synthesised evidence from 17 RCTs reporting between-group changes for inflammatory biomarkers, cancer-related fatigue (CRF), aerobic fitness, and/or quality of life (QoL). Two RCTs reported small-to-medium effect size decreases in the ratios of IL-6:IL-10 and TNF-a:IL-10 at 12 weeks. Five RCTs reported significant intervention improvements in aerobic fitness; three trials further showed sustained intervention effects at two- and three-month follow-up. Four trials reported beneficial reductions in CRF post-intervention and three trials showed sustained intervention effects at follow-up. Three trials showed significant improvements in QoL at three and six months, with two trials demonstrating sustained intervention effects at two- and three-month follow-up. Further, six trials reported significant improvements in at least one QoL variable. We found limited but plausible evidence to support the beneficial effects of PA behaviour change interventions on inflammation and patient-centred outcomes in BCSs. Larger RCTs are particularly warranted to explore the causal impact on cytokine balance and possible mediating effects on patient-centred outcomes.
How much are built environments changing, and where?: Patterns of change by neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics across seven U.S. metropolitan areas
Creators: name: Hirsch, Jana A.
name: Adar, Sara D.
name: Rodriguez, Daniel A.
name: Brines, Shannon J.
name: Schulz, Amy
name: Grengs, Joe
name: Diez Roux, Ana V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Investments in neighborhood built environments could increase physical activity and overall health. Disproportionate distribution of these changes in advantaged neighborhoods could inflate health disparities. Little information exists on where changes are occurring. This paper aims to 1) identify changes in the built environment in neighborhoods and 2) investigate associations between high levels of change and sociodemographic characteristics. Using Geographic Information Systems, neighborhood land-use, local destinations (for walking, social engagement, and physical activity), and sociodemographics were characterized in 2000 and 2010 for seven U.S. cities. Linear and change on change models estimated associations of built environment changes with baseline (2000) and change (2010–2000) in sociodemographics. Spatial patterns were assessed using Global Moran’s I to measure overall clustering of change and Local Moran’s I to identify statistically significant clusters of high increases surrounded by high increases (HH). Sociodemographic characteristics were compared between HH cluster and other tracts using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). We observed small land-use changes but increases in the destination types. Greater increases in destinations were associated with higher percentage non-Hispanic whites, percentage households with no vehicle, and median household income. Associations were present for both baseline sociodemographics and changes over time. Greater increases in destinations were associated with lower baseline percentage over 65 but higher increases in percentage over 65 between 2000 and 2010. Global Moran’s indicated changes were spatially clustered. HH cluster tracts started with a higher percentage non-Hispanic whites and higher percentage of households without vehicles. Between 2000 and 2010, HH cluster tracts experienced increases in percent non-Hispanic white, greater increases in median household income, and larger decreases in percent of households without a vehicle. Changes in the built environment are occurring in neighborhoods across a diverse set of U.S. metropolitan areas, but are patterned such that they may lead to increased health disparities over time.
Three-body bremsstrahlung and the rotational character of the 12C-spectrum
Creators: name: Garrido, E.
name: Jensen, A. S.
name: Fedorov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric quadrupole transitions between $0^+$, $2^+$, and $4^+$ states in $^{12}$C are investigated in a $3α$ model. The three-body wave functions are obtained by means of the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method, and the continuum is discretized by imposing a box boundary condition. Corresponding expressions for the continuum three-body ($3α$) bremsstrahlung and photon dissociation cross sections are derived and computed for two different $α-α$ potentials. The available experimental energy dependence is reproduced and a series of other cross sections are predicted. The transition strengths are defined and derived from the cross sections, and compared to schematic rotational model predictions. The computed properties of the $^{12}$C resonances suggest that the two lowest bands are made, respectively, by the states $\{0^+_1, 2^+_1, 4^+_2\}$ and $\{0^+_2, 2^+_2, 4^+_1\}$. The transitions between the states in the first band are consistent with the rotational pattern corresponding to three alphas in an equal sided triangular structure. For the second band, the transitions are also consistent with a rotational pattern, but with the three alphas in an aligned distribution.
description: To be published in Phys. Rev. C
Machine learning in interpretation of electronic core-level spectra
Creators: name: Niskanen, Johannes
name: Vladyka, Anton
name: Kettunen, J. Antti
name: Sahle, Christoph J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic transitions involving core-level orbitals offer a localized, atomic-site and element specific peek window into statistical systems such as molecular liquids. Although formally understood, the complex relation between structure and spectrum -- and the effect of statistical averaging of highly differing spectra of individual structures -- render the analysis of an ensemble-averaged core-level spectrum complicated. We explore the applicability of machine learning for molecular structure -- core-level spectrum interpretation. We focus on the electronic Hamiltonian using the \ce{H2O} molecule in the classical-nuclei approximation as our test system. For a systematic view we studied both predicting structures from spectra and, vice versa, spectra from structures, using polynomial approaches and neural networks. We find predicting spectra easier than predicting structures, where a tighter grid (even unphysical) of the spectrum improves prediction, possibly inviting for over-interpretation of the model. The accuracy of the structure prediction worsens when moving outwards from the center of mass of the training set in the structural parameter space, which can not be overcome by model selection based on generalizability.
Interactive Interior Design Recommendation via Coarse-to-fine Multimodal Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Zhang, He
name: Sun, Ying
name: Guo, Weiyu
name: Liu, Yafei
name: Lu, Haonan
name: Lin, Xiaodong
name: Xiong, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Personalized interior decoration design often incurs high labor costs. Recent efforts in developing intelligent interior design systems have focused on generating textual requirement-based decoration designs while neglecting the problem of how to mine homeowner's hidden preferences and choose the proper initial design. To fill this gap, we propose an Interactive Interior Design Recommendation System (IIDRS) based on reinforcement learning (RL). IIDRS aims to find an ideal plan by interacting with the user, who provides feedback on the gap between the recommended plan and their ideal one. To improve decision-making efficiency and effectiveness in large decoration spaces, we propose a Decoration Recommendation Coarse-to-Fine Policy Network (DecorRCFN). Additionally, to enhance generalization in online scenarios, we propose an object-aware feedback generation method that augments model training with diversified and dynamic textual feedback. Extensive experiments on a real-world dataset demonstrate our method outperforms traditional methods by a large margin in terms of recommendation accuracy. Further user studies demonstrate that our method reaches higher real-world user satisfaction than baseline methods.
description: Accepted by ACM International Conference on Multimedia'23. 9 pages, 7 figures
Interpersonal communication about pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages: Policy-related influences and relationships with smoking cessation attempts
Creators: name: Huang, Liling
name: Borland, Ron
name: Hardin, James
name: Bansal-Travers, Maansi
name: Yong, Hua-Hie
name: Hammond, David
name: Thrasher, James F.
name: Markovsky, Barry
name: Abad-Vivero, Erika N.
name: O'Connor, Richard J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study evaluated the relationship between interpersonal communication about cigarette health warning labels (HWLs), psychological responses to HWLs, and smoking cessation attempts. Data were analyzed from online consumer panels of adult smokers in Australia, Canada and Mexico, during implementation of new pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs. Approximately 1000 adult smokers were surveyed in each country every four months (September 2012, January 2013, May 2013, September 2013, January 2014). Only smokers followed for at least two waves were included in the analytic sample. Participants reported the frequency of talking about HWLs in the last month (in general, with family members, and with friends). For each country, poisson generalized estimating equation (GEE) models were estimated to assess the bivariate and adjusted correlates of talking about HWLs. Logistic GEE models regressed having attempted to quit by the subsequent wave on HWL talk, socio-demographics and psychological responses to HWLs. The frequency of HWL talk gradually decreased in Canada (48%–36%) after new HWLs were implemented; an increase (30%–58%) in Australia corresponded with implementation of new HWLs, after which talking stabilized; and the frequency of HWL talk in Mexico was stable over time, where new HWLs are implemented every six months. Talk about HWLs was an independent predictor of subsequent quit attempts in Canada (AOR = 1.50; 95% CI = 1.11 –2.02), Australia (AOR = 1.41; 95% CI = 1.05–1.89), and Mexico (AOR = 1.53; 95% CI = 1.11–2.10), as was cognitive responses to HWLs (Australia AOR = 1.66; 95% CI = 1.22–2.24; Canada AOR = 1.56; 95% CI = 1.15–2.11; Mexico AOR = 1.30; 95% CI = 0.91–1.85). No interaction between talk and cognitive reactions to HWLs were found. These results suggest that interpersonal communication about HWLs influences smoking cessation attempts independent of other established predictors of smoking cessation, including cessation-related HWL responses. Future research should determine ways to catalyze interpersonal communication about HWLs and thereby potentiate HWL effects.
Fermion masses and mixings and $g-2$ muon anomaly in a 3-3-1 model with $D_4$ family symmetry
Creators: name: Hernández, A. E. Cárcamo
name: Long, H. N.
name: Mora-Urrutia, M. L.
name: Thao, N. H.
name: Vien, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a predictive model based on the $SU(3)_C\times SU(3)_L\times U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry, which is supplemented by the $D_4$ family symmetry and several auxiliary cyclic symmetries whose spontaneous breaking produces the observed SM fermion mass and mixing pattern. The masses of the light active neutrinos are produced by an inverse seesaw mechanism mediated by three right handed Majorana neutrinos. To the best of our knowledge the model corresponds to the first implementation of the $D_4$ family symmetry in a $SU(3)_C\times SU(3)_L\times U(1)_X$ theory with three right handed Majorana neutrinos and inverse seesaw mechanism. Our proposed model successfully accommodates the experimental values of the SM fermion mass and mixing parameters, the muon anomalous magnetic moment as well as the Higgs diphoton decay rate and meson oscillations constraints. The consistency of our model with the muon anomalous magnetic moment requires charged exotic vector like leptons at the TeV scale.
description: Version accepted for publication in European Physical Journal C
Thermoelectricity of interacting particles: A numerical approach
Creators: name: Chen, Shunda
name: Wang, Jiao
name: Casati, Giulio
name: Benenti, Giuliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for computing the thermopower in interacting systems is proposed. This approach, which relies on Monte Carlo simulations, is illustrated first for a diatomic chain of hard-point elastically colliding particles and then in the case of a one-dimensional gas with (screened) Coulomb interparticle interaction. Numerical simulations up to $N>10^4$ particles confirm the general theoretical arguments for momentum-conserving systems and show that the thermoelectric figure of merit increases linearly with the system size.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
COVID-19 related knowledge, anxiety, depression and physical activity among Iranian people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis during COVID-19 pandemic: an online cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: ShahAli, Shabnam
name: Choobsaz, Haniyeh
name: Ebrahimi, Reyhane
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To determine COVID-19 related knowledge, assess the anxiety/depression and physical activity and their association with demographic variables among Iranian people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also attempted to find the association between COVID-19 related knowledge and physical activity with anxiety and depression. One hundred and forty MS patients participated in an online cross-sectional survey. The survey, including the COVID-19 related knowledge questionnaire, hospital anxiety, depression scale and International Physical Activity Questionnaire, was carried out through Google forms. Most of the participants had an appropriate level of knowledge regarding COVID-19 (achieved more than 70% of the total score). More than 40% of participants experienced anxiety, depression and more than 50% were lowly active during COVID-19 pandemic. Participants with higher education levels had higher knowledge, physical activity scores and lower anxiety, depression level. Younger participants were more physically active. A negative association between patients’ knowledge, physical activity and the symptoms of anxiety, depression was found. Despite the appropriate level of knowledge, it is recommended to provide updated information regarding COVID-19 to ensure MS patients' safety during the pandemic. In addition, the results emphasise the need to implement appropriate strategies to improve physical and mental health.
Revisiting Kneser's Theorem for Field Extensions
Creators: name: Bachoc, Christine
name: Serra, Oriol
name: Zémor, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11P70

description: A Theorem of Hou, Leung and Xiang generalised Kneser's addition Theorem to field extensions. This theorem was known to be valid only in separable extensions, and it was a conjecture of Hou that it should be valid for all extensions. We give an alternative proof of the theorem that also holds in the non-separable case, thus solving Hou's conjecture. This result is a consequence of a strengthening of Hou et al.'s theorem that is a transposition to extension fields of an addition theorem of Balandraud.
description: 17 pages
Integrated Sensing and Communication Neighbor Discovery for MANET with Gossip Mechanism
Creators: name: Wei, Zhiqing
name: Li, Chenfei
name: Cui, Yanpeng
name: Chen, Xu
name: Meng, Zeyang
name: Feng, Zhiyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET), supporting Machine-Type Communication(MTC), has a strong demand for rapid networking. Neighbor Discovery (ND) is a key initial step in configuring MANETs and faces a serious challenge in decreasing convergence time. Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), as one of the potential key technologies in the 6th Generation (6G) mobile networks, can obtain the sensing data as the priori information to accelerate ND convergence. In order to further reduce the convergence time of ND, this paper introduces the ISAC-enabled gossip mechanism into the ND algorithm. The prior information acquired by ISAC reduces the information redundancy brought by the gossip mechanism and thus decreases the probability of collision, which further improves convergence speed. The average number of discovered nodes within a given period is derived, which is applied as the critical metric to evaluate the performance of ND algorithms. The simulation results confirm the correctness of the theoretical derivation and show that the interplay between the prior mechanisms and the gossip mechanism significantly reduces the convergence time. In addition, to solve the problem of imperfect sensing information, reinforcement learning is applied. Under the constraints of the convergence condition, the non-Reply and non-Stop Algorithm based on Gossip and Q-learning (GQ-nRnS) proposed in this paper not only ensures the completeness of ND, but also maintains a high convergence speed of ND. Compared with the Q-learning-based ND algorithm (Q-ND), the average convergence time of the GQ-nRnS algorithm is reduced by about 66.4%.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures, in IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023
Evolutionary instability of selfish learning in repeated games
Creators: name: McAvoy, Alex
name: Kates-Harbeck, Julian
name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Hilbe, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Across many domains of interaction, both natural and artificial, individuals use past experience to shape future behaviors. The results of such learning processes depend on what individuals wish to maximize. A natural objective is one's own success. However, when two such "selfish" learners interact with each other, the outcome can be detrimental to both, especially when there are conflicts of interest. Here, we explore how a learner can align incentives with a selfish opponent. Moreover, we consider the dynamics that arise when learning rules themselves are subject to evolutionary pressure. By combining extensive simulations and analytical techniques, we demonstrate that selfish learning is unstable in most classical two-player repeated games. If evolution operates on the level of long-run payoffs, selection instead favors learning rules that incorporate social (other-regarding) preferences. To further corroborate these results, we analyze data from a repeated prisoner's dilemma experiment. We find that selfish learning is insufficient to explain human behavior when there is a trade-off between payoff maximization and fairness.
description: 73 pages; final version
title: Calculation of potentials induced by stressors on semiconducting heterostructures
Creators: name: Petticrew, David
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Electrical engineering.

description: I have calculated the potential energy induced by stressors on the surface of a semiconducting heterostructure with 43m symmetry. The stressors may be single gates of arbitrary shape or one- and two-dimensional arrays of such gates, and I give results for an arbitrary surface. When the gates are metal, the strain arises from the differential thermal contraction of the gates and the substrate. Strain can also be induced by including a deliberately strained layer in the heterostructure and partly etching it away. The strain couples to the electrons by the deformation potential and the piezoelectric effect. The deformation potential does not depend on orientation but the piezoelectric effect usually dominates, and its angular dependence breaks the symmetry of the gate. I provide direct results in real space for single stripe gates, which is useful because even fast Fourier transforms take time and computing power. I also provide results in Fourier space for arrays of stripe gates, single circular and square gates and two- dimensional arrays of such gates. I consider the (100), (110), (111) and (311) surfaces in detail. Of these, the (111) surface may prove to be attractive for experiments since the piezoelectric effect is both strong and approximately isotropic. Harnessing this potential has allowed a range of new experiments on lateral surface superlattices to be designed and carried out at Glasgow. These have utilised the piezoelectric effect to produce a potential that has half the period of the fabricated structure. The strong potential induced by the piezoelectric effect has also revealed new features in the transport through a superlattice. These calculations have also shown that the piezoelectric potential can no longer be ignored when designing or modelling structures built on piezoelectric semiconductors, which include GaAs and other III-V materials. I have shown that placing a gate on the surface will produce a potential of around 1 meV at a depth roughly equal to half the width of the gate, which will have a measurable effect on devices. I also show how the piezoelectric potential can be minimised or eliminated if possible.
Social networks, social participation, and health among youth living in extreme poverty in rural Malawi
Creators: name: Rock, Amelia
name: Barrington, Clare
name: Handa, Sudhanshu
name: Mvula, Peter
name: Tsoka, Maxton
name: Abdoulayi, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Extensive research documents that social network characteristics affect health, but knowledge of peer networks of youth in Malawi and sub-Saharan Africa is limited. We examine the networks and social participation of youth living in extreme poverty in rural Malawi, using in-depth interviews with 32 youth and caregivers. We describe youth’s peer networks and assess how gender and the context of extreme poverty influence their networks and participation, and how their networks influence health. In-school youth had larger, more interactive, and more supportive networks than out-of-school youth, and girls described less social participation and more isolation than boys. Youth exchanged social support and influence within their networks that helped cope with poverty-induced stress and sadness, and encouraged protective sexual health practices. However, poverty hampered their involvement in school, religious schools, and community organizations, directly through lack of required material means, and indirectly by reducing time and emotional resources and creating shame and stigma. Poverty alleviation policy holds promise for improving youth’s social wellbeing and mental and physical health by increasing their opportunities to form networks, receive social support, and experience positive influence.
Psychological, social and lifestyle screening of people with low back pain treated by physiotherapists in a National Health Service musculoskeletal service: an audit
Creators: name: Singh, Gurpreet
name: McNamee, George
name: Sharpe, Laura
name: Lucas, Michael
name: Lewis, Paul
name: Newton, Christopher
name: O’Sullivan, Peter
name: Lin, Ivan
name: O’Sullivan, Kieran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Psychological, social and lifestyle (multidimensional) factors predict low back pain (LBP). The Short Form Örebro Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (SFÖQ) helps clinicians identify these factors in people with LBP and was mandated in a physiotherapy department at one NHS Hospital Trust in the UK. This study examined (i) use of the SFÖQ by physiotherapists with varying levels of clinical experience; (ii) whether psychological, social, and lifestyle factors were documented in patient records; and (iii) physiotherapists views on using the SFÖQ, and screening for these factors. A retrospective audit of the physiotherapy records of 100 people referred with LBP. Eighty-one patient records were eligible for analysis. The SFÖQ was completed in 52 records. Fourteen of the completed SFÖQ’s were used by physiotherapists. Screening for, and documentation of, multidimensional factors varied between factors ((i) psychological: cognitive (20%), emotional (26%); (ii) social (41%) and (iii) lifestyle (62%)). 67% of the most senior physiotherapists screened and documented emotional factors. Physiotherapists identified a lack of training, confidence and time as barriers to screening for multidimensional factors and using the SFÖQ. Physiotherapists rarely used the SFÖQ and did not consistently screen or document multidimensional factors. However, more senior physiotherapists more consistently screened and documented emotional factors.
Gunnera herteri Osten 1932
Creators: name: Hassemer, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gunnerales
Gunneraceae
Gunnera
Gunnera herteri

description: Gunnera herteri Osten (1932: 33–34, figs. 2–4)
 Type: — URUGUAY. ROCHA: Santa Teresa, 10 m, November 1931, W. G. F. Herter 1523 (lectotype [designated here] MVM-2766 barcode MVM0000293! [Fig. 1]; isolectotypes F-864931 barcode V0060647 F!, G-00355779!, GH-00063252!, HBG-517594!, NY-00236584!).
 Distribution: —along the coast in eastern Uruguay (Rocha department) and southern Brazil, in Rio Grande do Sul and southern Santa Catarina states.
 Habitat: —humid patches among the restingas (coastal vegetation on sandy soil) (see Falkenberg 1999).
 Conservation status: —Vulnerable (VU–B2[a,b{iii}]). Extent of Occurrence (EoO): 7,710.080 km 2; Area of Occupancy (AoO): 32.000 km 2. This species is restricted to a very specific type of environment (humid patches among the restingas), which is spatially rare and highly threatened with both legal and illegal urban advance along the coast. Because only ca. 10 populations are recorded (some of which might no longer be extant), and due to the ongoing trend of decline of its environment (Falkenberg 1999, Hassemer et al. 2015), the species is here assessed as Vulnerable.
 Notes: —The protologue of G. herteri (Osten 1932: 33–34) cited the following gathering: “ URUGUAY, Dep. Rocha, Santa Teresa, in arenosis humidis subhumosis inter litus arenosum maris (“dunas”) et paludes interiores Nov. 1931 legit Dr. G. Herter”. Because Cornelius Osten did not inform the institution or collection where the type was kept, a holotype was not designated for this name (McNeill 2014). I was able to locate the following syntypes (Art. 9.6 of the ICN): F-864931, G-00355779, GH-00063252, HBG-517594, MVM-2766 and NY-00236584, all of them agreeing with the information provided in the protologue and clearly belonging to the same species. I designate the specimen MVM-2766 (Fig. 1) as lectotype, because it is kept at MVM, the collection where the Osten herbarium is conserved. It should be noted that Mora-Osejo et al. (2011: 49) incorrectly informed that the holotype is kept at GH (“ Holótipo GH; isótipos GH, NY, S”). Their statement is not effective for typification purposes, and could not be corrected to a lectotypification (Art. 9.10 of the ICN), because the work was published after 1 January 2001 and it does not include the phrase “designated here” or an equivalent (Art. 7.11 of the ICN).
description: Published as part of Hassemer, Gustavo, 2019, Notes on Gunnera (Gunneraceae) in Brazil and Uruguay, pp. 192-200 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 197, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13725437
Phenomenological modelling of eclipsing system light curves
Creators: name: Mikulášek, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed light curves of most eclipsing binaries and stars with transiting planets can be well described and interpreted by current advanced physical models which also allow for the determination of many physical parameters of eclipsing systems. However, for several common practical tasks there is no need to know the detailed physics of a variable star, but only the shapes of their light curves or other phase curves. We present a set of phenomenological models for the light curves of eclipsing systems. We express the observed light curves of eclipsing binaries and stars, transited by their exoplanets orbiting in circular trajectories, by a sum of special, analytical, few-parameter functions that enable fitting their light curves with an accuracy of better than 1%. The proposed set of phenomenological models of eclipsing variable light curves were then tested on several real systems. For XY Bootis, we also compare in details the results obtained using our phenomenological modelling with those found using available physical models. We demonstrate that the proposed phenomenological models of transiting exoplanet and eclipsing binary light curves applied to ground-based photometric observations yields results compatible with those obtained by the application of more complex physical models. The suggested phenomenological modelling appears useful to solve a number of common tasks in the field of eclipsing variable research.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures. To appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015
Tesseract: Parallelize the Tensor Parallelism Efficiently
Creators: name: Wang, Boxiang
name: Xu, Qifan
name: Bian, Zhengda
name: You, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Together with the improvements in state-of-the-art accuracies of various tasks, deep learning models are getting significantly larger. However, it is extremely difficult to implement these large models because limited GPU memory makes it impossible to fit large models into a single GPU or even a GPU server. Besides, it is highly necessary to reduce the training time for large models. Previous methods like Megatron-LM implemented a 1-Dimensional distributed method to use GPUs to speed up the training. However, these methods have a high communication overhead and a low scaling efficiency on large-scale clusters. To solve these problems, we propose Tesseract, a highly scalable tensor parallelism with a novel design. It increases efficiency by reducing communication overhead and lowers the memory required for each GPU. By introducing the novel dimension into tensor parallelism, Tesseract greatly increases the memory capacity of tensor parallelism. Concretely, this new dimension furthermore increases the degree of tensor parallelism. Compared to previous 1-D and 2-D methods, Tesseract manages to reduce the communication cost on each layer, resulting in speedups of 1.38x and 1.53x respectively with strong scaling. In weak scaling experiments, Tesseract achieves a maximum of 4.0/1.7 times inference speedup and 3.4/1.7 times throughput improvement compared to 1-D/2-D methods, respectively. By introducing Tesseract, we offer a more efficient and scalable way to implement large deep learning models with limited GPU resources.
uxSense: Supporting User Experience Analysis with Visualization and Computer Vision
Creators: name: Batch, Andrea
name: Ji, Yipeng
name: Fan, Mingming
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Elmqvist, Niklas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Analyzing user behavior from usability evaluation can be a challenging and time-consuming task, especially as the number of participants and the scale and complexity of the evaluation grows. We propose uxSense, a visual analytics system using machine learning methods to extract user behavior from audio and video recordings as parallel time-stamped data streams. Our implementation draws on pattern recognition, computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract user sentiment, actions, posture, spoken words, and other features from such recordings. These streams are visualized as parallel timelines in a web-based front-end, enabling the researcher to search, filter, and annotate data across time and space. We present the results of a user study involving professional UX researchers evaluating user data using uxSense. In fact, we used uxSense itself to evaluate their sessions.
description: 21 pages, 14 figures
Hyperdimensional Computing for Efficient Distributed Classification with Randomized Neural Networks
Creators: name: Rosato, Antonello
name: Panella, Massimo
name: Kleyko, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the supervised learning domain, considering the recent prevalence of algorithms with high computational cost, the attention is steering towards simpler, lighter, and less computationally extensive training and inference approaches. In particular, randomized algorithms are currently having a resurgence, given their generalized elementary approach. By using randomized neural networks, we study distributed classification, which can be employed in situations were data cannot be stored at a central location nor shared. We propose a more efficient solution for distributed classification by making use of a lossy compression approach applied when sharing the local classifiers with other agents. This approach originates from the framework of hyperdimensional computing, and is adapted herein. The results of experiments on a collection of datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach has usually higher accuracy than local classifiers and getting close to the benchmark - the centralized classifier. This work can be considered as the first step towards analyzing the variegated horizon of distributed randomized neural networks.
description: 1 table, 5 figures
Participatory communication for effective improvement in socio-cultural context of district swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Creators: name: Hassan, Khayam
name: Ali, Sajjad
name: Irfan, Muhammad
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2022
Subjects: Language, communication and culture

description: This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the participatory communication in socio-cultural context of district swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The study was carried out because non-governmental organizations are facing numerous problems that effecting the process and output of the projects. In the remote areas of the country, people are culture restricted where they bound to follow traditional and norms values in daily life. For, the examination of the phenomenon the researcher applied quantitative methodology, while survey research technique was used for the data collection. A questionnaire was used as data collection tool for target population, while data was collected from the district Swat based non-governmental organization practitioners through convenient sampling method. Data was collected from 230 workers of the area, while the response rate was 67.9% in this regard. Statistical Package for Social Science (version: 19) was used for the data analysis. The results of the study proved the objectives and hypotheses of the study that participatory communicators are facing cultural, social, financial, political, governmental, and organizational and project related issue in district Swat. The findings also confirmed that education is the best remedy to overcome these problems, whereas, people of the area are more dependent on culture, values, tradition and norms. The outcomes of the research also proved that political and religious figures are more influential in the area and working as opinion leaders of the residents of district Swat. It has been also found that good communication skills and use of new technology can overcome the problems of participatory communication in district Swat. This study will help the NGOs and INGOs practitioners to overcome the problems in the project implementation in the rural areas. It will also help the NGOs workers to take the influential figures of the society in confidence before implementation of the project.
Time and Fate in Shakespeare’s Othello and Cinthio’s "The Moor of Venice"
Creators: name: Nety, Suchita Patil
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2017
Subjects: Hallett Smith Prize for Essay Devoted to Shakespeare
2015.
English

description: [Introduction]Giraldi Cinthio’s short story "The Moor of Venice" forms the basis for William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. In addition to altering a number of minor aspects of the original tale, Shakespeare also introduces several overarching changes to the narrative by shortening the time frame of the story and excluding fate as a primary driving force of the plot. By diminishing the consequences of time and fate, Shakespeare allows the characters and their inner motivations to be at the forefront of the action.
The impact of strengthening cigarette pack warnings: Systematic review of longitudinal observational studies
Creators: name: Noar, Seth M.
name: Francis, Diane B.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: Sontag, Jennah M.
name: Bridges, Christy
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Cigarette pack warnings are a tobacco control strategy used globally. To understand their impact, we systematically reviewed longitudinal observational studies examining national implementation of strengthened warnings.
Slow dynamics of a colloidal lamellar phase
Creators: name: Constantin, Doru
name: Davidson, Patrick
name: Freyssingeas, Éric
name: Madsen, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy to study the dynamics in the lamellar phase of a platelet suspension as a function of the particle concentration. We measured the collective diffusion coefficient along the director of the phase, over length scales down to the interparticle distance, and quantified the hydrodynamic interaction between the particles. This interaction sets in with increasing concentration and can be described qualitatively by a simplified model. No change in the microscopic structure or dynamics is observed at the transition between the fluid and the gel-like lamellar phases.
Shakespeare’s Crafting of the Ideal King in Henry V
Creators: name: Malladi, Chaitanya Lakshmidhar
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2016
Subjects: Henry V
Shakespeare
Hallett Smith Prize
Bioengineering

description: [Introduction] In Shakespeare’s history Henry V, the playwright depicts the reign of King Harry— specifically with respect to his claim to the throne of France and his subsequent invasion. In the prequel to this play, Henry IV, Harry is shown as an impetuous young boy who engages in mischief around town with his immature friends. However, by the end of the first part of Henry IV, Harry matures and becomes a brave, strong warrior on the battlefield as well as a courageous, honorable man. He is ultimately portrayed as the rightful heir to the throne. At the beginning of Henry V, the audience sees a mature king who has been in charge of the kingdom for some time already. While Shakespeare bases his plays on historical events as documented in works like Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, the playwright uses his literary liberty to alter the chronological order of events and even sometimes the actions that certain characters take or do not take. Shakespeare’s dramatization of several historical elements of Holinshed serves to aggrandize the glory and maturity of Henry V as a just, idealized king; with his decisions to change what is written in the history books, Shakespeare highlights the king’s military aptitude, his modesty in dealing with his soldiers and citizens, and his political savviness.
Constant-moderate versus high-intensity interval training on heart adiponectin levels in high-fat fed mice: a preventive and treatment approach
Creators: name: Martínez-Huenchullán, Sergio F.
name: Fox, Sarah L.
name: Tam, Charmaine S.
name: Maharjan, Babu Raja
name: Olaya-Agudo, Luisa F.
name: Ehrenfeld, Pamela
name: Williams, Paul F.
name: Mclennan, Susan V.
name: Twigg, Stephen M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Research has described that adiponectin plays a key role in cardiomyocytes metabolism, however, the effects of exercise during obesity on cardiac adiponectin levels is unclear. To investigate the effects of constant-moderate endurance (END) and high-intensity interval training (HIIT), on heart adiponectin levels in mice. Two experiments were conducted: (1) preventive (EX1): 10 week-old male mice were fed standard (CHOW) or high-fat diet (HFD;45% fat) and simultaneously trained with END and HIIT for 10 weeks; (2) Treatment (EX2): after 10 weeks of dietary intervention, another cohort of 10 week-old mice were trained by both programmes for 10 weeks. In EX1, END and HIIT decreased low-molecular weight adiponectin (∼0.5-fold; p < 0.05) and increased GLUT4 levels (∼2-fold; p < .05). In EX2, HFD significantly decreased high-molecular weight adiponectin (∼0.7-fold; p < .05), and END reversed this change. Discussion and conclusion: HFD and exercise influence heart adiponectin isoforms and therefore might impact cardiomyocyte metabolism.
Angle-Resolved Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Gyroid Photonic Crystals
Creators: name: Khabiboulline, Emil Timergalievich
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2016
Subjects: Physics

description: Gyroid photonic crystals, which can form photonic topological insulators, offer a rich diversity of physics for fundamental study, in addition to yielding useful applications. Understanding their band structure is crucial towards advancing both fronts. An angle-resolved spectroscopy apparatus is constructed to experimentally measure band structures. Operating at wavelengths from 7.7 to 11.1 μm, it is employed to study single and double-gyroid photonic crystals, constructed of amorphous silicon in 5 μm unit cells. Transmittance and reflectance act as indicators of density of states, and are collected as spectra over angles of incidence ranging from 17 to 30 degrees. Comparison to theory confirms interesting features, such as bandgaps. Further simulation guides the design of a crystal amenable to the first experimental measurement of Weyl points at mid-infrared wavelengths.