cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary material for the manuscript titled "The effectiveness of the Iranian building code in mitigating climate change in Bandar Abbas"
Creators: name: Azimi Fereidani, Nazanin
name: Rodrigues, Eugénio
name: Gaspar, Adélio R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Building science, technologies and systems
Sustainable design

description: The supplementary material includes of two sections; Section 1 of the supplementary material provides information on the internal gain specifications used to validate a real building in Iran. In Section 2, graphs depict the monthly electricity consumption of buildings with varying energy levels across different scenarios and timeframes.
Widespread 1-2 MeV Energetic Particles Associated with Slow and Narrow Coronal Mass Ejections: Parker Solar Probe and STEREO Measurements
Creators: name: Zhuang, Bin
name: Lugaz, Noé
name: Lario, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Suprathermal ions in the corona are thought to serve as seed particles for large gradual solar energetic particle (SEP) events associated with fast and wide coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A better understanding of the role of suprathermal particles as seed populations for SEP events can be made by using observations close to the Sun. We study a series of SEP events observed by the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (IS$\odot$IS) suite on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) from 2020 May 27 to June 2, during which PSP was at heliocentric distances between $\sim$0.4 and $\sim$0.2 au. These events were also observed by the Ahead Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO-A) near 1 au, but the particle intensity magnitude was much lower than that at PSP. We find that the SEPs should have spread in space as their source regions were distant from the nominal magnetic footpoints of both spacecraft, and the parent CMEs were slow and narrow. We study the decay phase of the SEP events in the $\sim$1-2 MeV proton energy range at PSP and STEREO-A, and discuss their properties in terms of both continuous injections by successive solar eruptions and the distances where the measurements were made. This study indicates that seed particles can be continuously generated by eruptions associated with slow and narrow CMEs, spread over a large part of the inner heliosphere, and remain there for tens of hours, even if minimal particle intensity enhancements were measured near 1 au.
description: Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal on 2021.Nov.16
Additional file 3 of Individual or combined transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma: a time-to-event meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jiang, Chuang
name: Cheng, Gong
name: Liao, Mingheng
name: Huang, Jiwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Figure 3. The subgroup analysis of TACE+RFA vs TACE or RFA alone for HCC based on the tumor size. (A) TACE+RFA vs TACE:OS;(B)TACE+RFA vs TACE:RFS;(C)TACE+RFA vs RFA:OS;(D)TACE+RFA vs RFA:RFS.
Development of NavIC synchronized fully automated inter-building QKD framework and demonstration of quantum secured video calling
Creators: name: Jain, Adarsh
name: Khanna, Abhishek
name: Bhatt, Jay
name: Sakhiya, Parthkumar V
name: Kumar, Shashank
name: Urdhwareshe, Rohan S
name: Desai, Nilesh M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a revolutionary communication technology that promises ultimate security assurance by exploiting the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. In this work, we report design and development of a fully automated inter-building QKD framework for generation and distribution of cryptographic keys, securely and seamlessly, by executing weak coherent pulse based BB84 protocol. This framework is experimentally validated by establishing a quantum communication link between two buildings separated by ~300m of free-space atmospheric channel. A novel synchronization technique enabled with indigenous NavIC (IRNSS) constellation is developed and implemented. This QKD system demonstrates generation of secure key rate as high as 300 Kbps with QBER< 3% for mean photon no. per pulse ($μ$) of 0.15. The intercept-resend eavesdropping attack has been emulated within the system and evaluated during experiment. A novel quantum secured end-to-end encrypted video calling app (QuViC) is also developed and integrated with QKD framework to demonstrate unconditionally secure two-way communication over Ethernet, functioning alongside with quantum communication.
Discuit – a tool for dividing items into equal sets
Creators: name: De Kok, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In psycho- and neurolinguistic research, items often need to be partitioned into a specified number of subsets that are as comparable as possible regarding multiple variables. This enables a reliable comparison between experimental conditions. With Discuit (De Kok, 2023), we created a tool that can do this task automatically, using clustering algorithms. The tool takes a spreadsheet as input and generates the required number of sets, matched on the provided data. These data can be categorical (e.g. ‘word class’) and/or continuous (e.g. ‘word frequency’). Finally, one variable can be marked as “primary”. The items will be split perfectly even with regard to this variable (e.g. ‘accuracy in pre- treatment assessment’). We have piloted the tool in a recent aphasia treatment study to split the diagnostic items into to-be- trained and not-to-be-trained items for each of the two participants. In this presentation or poster, I will explain the underlying mechanism of the tool, illustrate how it can be used for different purposes and discuss our pilot study as an example use case.
description: This project was supported by a Fellowship from The Netherlands eScience Center
Memoria e historia: acerca de la memoria del dolor y la memoria del rencor
Creators: name: Kancyper, Luis
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2014
Subjects: memoria; olvido; duelo; identidad; Jorge Luis Borges; Amos Oz

description: Starting from different memories as fundamental elements in the configuration of the identity process in individuals and in the culture of the peoples in the diaspora, as well as in mourning processes - normal and pathological - these memories are here analyzed from a psychoanalytical perspective in some contemporary literary works.

The first part deals with the memories of resentment, pain, dread, and splendor in the poetical work of Jorge Luis Borges, which is as much a denunciation of the capturing power of that memory of resentment which prevents change, as well as a defense of the liberating memory – memory of splendor -, oriented towards a fraternizing humanity. The reading of the Borgesian work makes it possible to discover certain psychological dynamics that come into play in the configuration of memory and oblivion. The second part of the paper is focused on Amos Oz’ Historia de amor y oscuridad, an example of how these memories are manifested in mass psychology. Particular attention is here paid to the memory of resentment in the complex battles governed by unconscious and conscious  mournings between Arabs and Israelites.
description: Altre Modernità, 2014: NUMERO SPECIALE Migrazioni, diaspora, esilio nelle letterature e culture ispanoamericane
A simple guide for your Master Thesis - A student bible written from not scientific students
Creators: name: Arn, Christof
name: Bekasova, Anastasiia
name: Leonardi, Gaia
name: Tonghua Shen
name: Jovicic, Anastasija
name: Tomoff, Magdalena
name: Sofiia Kaminska
name: Kseniia Marchenko
name: Leush, Daria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: scientific thinking
master thesis
bachelor thesis
student's work

description: Understand the spirit of scientific thinking to find five points that make a student paper science-oriented.
The formation and early evolution of embedded star clusters in spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Rieder, Steven
name: Dobbs, Clare
name: Bending, Thomas
name: Liow, Kong You
name: Wurster, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Ekster, a new method for simulating star clusters from birth in a live galaxy simulation that combines the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method Phantom with the $N$-body method PeTar. With Ekster, it becomes possible to simulate individual stars in a simulation with only moderately high resolution for the gas, allowing us to study whole sections of a galaxy rather than be restricted to individual clouds. We use this method to simulate star and star cluster formation in spiral arms, investigating massive GMCs and spiral arm regions with lower mass clouds, from two galaxy models with different spiral potentials. After selecting these regions from pre-run galaxy simulations, we re-sample the particles to obtain a higher resolution. We then re-simulate these regions for 3 Myr to study where and how star clusters form. We analyse the early evolution of the embedded star clusters in these regions. We find that the massive GMC regions, which are more common with stronger spiral arms, form more massive clusters than the sections of spiral arms containing lower mass clouds. Clusters form both by accreting gas and by merging with other proto-clusters, the latter happening more frequently in the denser GMC regions.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Monitoring the hard X-ray sky with SuperAGILE
Creators: name: Feroci, M.
name: Costa, E.
name: Del Monte, E.
name: Donnarumma, I.
name: Evangelista, Y.
name: Lapshov, I.
name: Lazzarotto, F.
name: Pacciani, L.
name: Rapisarda, M.
name: Soffitta, P.
name: Di Persio, G.
name: Frutti, M.
name: Mastropietro, M.
name: Morelli, E.
name: Porrovecchio, G.
name: Rubini, A.
name: Antonelli, A.
name: Argan, A.
name: Barbiellini, G.
name: Boffelli, F.
name: Bulgarelli, A.
name: Caraveo, P.
name: Cattaneo, P. W.
name: Chen, A. W.
name: Cocco, V.
name: Colafrancesco, S.
name: Cutini, S.
name: D'Ammando, F.
name: De Paris, G.
name: Di Cocco, G.
name: Fanari, G.
name: Ferrari, A.
name: Fiorini, M.
name: Fornari, F.
name: Fuschino, F.
name: Froysland, T.
name: Galli, M.
name: Gasparrini, D.
name: Gianotti, F.
name: Giommi, P.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Labanti, C.
name: Liello, F.
name: Lipari, P.
name: Longo, F.
name: Mattaini, E.
name: Marisaldi, M.
name: Mauri, A.
name: Mauri, F.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Moretti, E.
name: Morselli, A.
name: Pellizzoni, A.
name: Perotti, F.
name: Piano, G.
name: Picozza, P.
name: Pilia, M.
name: Pittori, C.
name: Pontoni, C.
name: Preger, B.
name: Prest, M.
name: Primavera, R.
name: Pucella, G.
name: Rappoldi, A.
name: Rossi, E.
name: Sabatini, S.
name: Santolamazza, P.
name: Tavani, M.
name: Stellato, S.
name: Tamburelli, F.
name: Traci, A.
name: Trifoglio, M.
name: Trois, A.
name: Vallazza, E.
name: Vercellone, S.
name: Verrecchia, F.
name: Vittorini, V.
name: Zambra, A.
name: Zanello, D.
name: Salotti, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SuperAGILE is the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE gamma ray mission, in orbit since 23$^{rd}$ April 2007. It is an imaging experiment based on a set of four independent silicon strip detectors, equipped with one-dimensional coded masks, operating in the nominal energy range 18-60 keV. The main goal of SuperAGILE is the observation of cosmic sources simultaneously with the main gamma-ray AGILE experiment, the Gamma Ray Imaging Detector (GRID). Given its $\sim$steradian-wide field of view and its $\sim$15 mCrab day-sensitivity, SuperAGILE is also well suited for the long-term monitoring of Galactic compact objects and the detection of bright transients. The SuperAGILE detector properties and design allow for a 6 arcmin angular resolution in each of the two independent orthogonal projections of the celestial coordinates. Photon by photon data are continuously available by the experiment telemetry, and are used to derive images and fluxes of individual sources, with integration times depending on the source intensity and position in the field of view. In this paper we report on the main scientific results achieved by SuperAGILE over its first two years in orbit, until April 2009.
description: Accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics
Reflecting Team als Intervisionsmethode – Kurzanleitung
Creators: name: Arn, Christof
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Intervision
Intervisionsmethode
reflecting team
Hochschuldidaktik
Lehre
agile Didaktik
agile teaching

description: Intervision gehört zu den besonders wirksamen Lernformen und Problemlösestrategien, u.a. für Fachpersonen, die in ihrem Gebiet bereits weit fortgeschritten sind, aber auch für AnfängerInnen. Eine Intervisionsgruppe besteht aus rund 3 bis 7 Personen und trifft sich regelmässig. Die Gruppenmitglieder bringen zu Beginn eines Treffens ihre Anliegen/Fallsituationen/aktuellen Fragestellungen ein. Gemeinsam wird entschieden, welche von diesen bzw. in welcher Reihenfolge die Gruppe diese bearbeitet. Es lohnt sich, für die nun folgende Bearbeitung der jeweiligen Anliegen/Fallsituationen/aktuellen Fragestellungen nicht immer dieselbe, sondern besonders passende Methoden zu verwenden. Dazu hilft ein gewisses Repertoire. Tom Andersen erfand die Methode "reflecting team" für die systemische Therapie. Inzwischen wurde die Idee über die therapeutische Arbeit im engeren Sinn hinaus beispielsweise in die Felder der Beratung und des Coachings übertragen, weil sie erfahrungsgemäss oft zu produktiven Innovationen verhilft. Auch in die Arbeit als Intervisionsgruppe lässt sich das Prinzip gut übertragen. Hier ein breit erprobtes Vorgehen kurz und knapp und Schritt für Schritt erläutert.
Tenth-Order Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment -- Second-Order Vertex Containing Two Vacuum Polarization Subdiagrams, One Within the Other
Creators: name: Aoyama, T.
name: Hayakawa, M.
name: Kinoshita, T.
name: Nio, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports the tenth-order QED contribution to the g-2 of electron and muon from two gauge-invariant sets, Set I(g) and Set I(h). In the case of electron g-2 Set I(g) consists of 9 Feynman diagrams which have a 4th-order vacuum-polarization loop containing another 4th-order vacuum-polarization loop. Set I(h) consists of 30 Feynman diagrams which have a proper 6th-order vacuum-polarization loop containing a second-order vacuum-polarization loop. The results of numerical integration, including mass-dependent terms containing one closed loop of muon, are 0.028 597 (4) (alpha/pi)^5 for Set I(g) and 0.001 685 (13) (alpha/pi)^5 for Set I(h), respectively. We also report the contributions of Set I(g) and Set I(h) to the muon anomaly. Diagrams included are those containing electron, muon, and tau-lepton loops. Their sums are 2.640 9 (4) (alpha/pi)^5 and -0.564 8 (11) (alpha/pi)^5, respectively. The sum of contributions of Sets I(g) and I(h) containing only electron loops are in fair agreement with the recently obtained asymptotic analytic results.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures. References are added
A two-stage algorithm for extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks
Creators: name: Slater, Paul B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The central problem of concern to Serrano, Boguna and Vespignani ("Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks", Proc Natl Acad Sci 106:6483-6488 [2009]) can be effectively and elegantly addressed using a well-established two-stage algorithm that has been applied to internal migration flows for numerous nations and several other forms of "transaction flow data".
description: 1 page, letter accepted by PNAS in response to the article by MA Serrano, M Boguna, and A Vespignani, "Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks", Proc Natl Acad Sci 106:6483-6488 (2009)
Additional file 9 of Individual or combined transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma: a time-to-event meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jiang, Chuang
name: Cheng, Gong
name: Liao, Mingheng
name: Huang, Jiwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9: Supplementary Table 5A. Major complications reported among the included studies.
From Optimality to Robustness: Dirichlet Sampling Strategies in Stochastic Bandits
Creators: name: Baudry, Dorian
name: Saux, Patrick
name: Maillard, Odalric-Ambrym
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The stochastic multi-arm bandit problem has been extensively studied under standard assumptions on the arm's distribution (e.g bounded with known support, exponential family, etc). These assumptions are suitable for many real-world problems but sometimes they require knowledge (on tails for instance) that may not be precisely accessible to the practitioner, raising the question of the robustness of bandit algorithms to model misspecification. In this paper we study a generic Dirichlet Sampling (DS) algorithm, based on pairwise comparisons of empirical indices computed with re-sampling of the arms' observations and a data-dependent exploration bonus. We show that different variants of this strategy achieve provably optimal regret guarantees when the distributions are bounded and logarithmic regret for semi-bounded distributions with a mild quantile condition. We also show that a simple tuning achieve robustness with respect to a large class of unbounded distributions, at the cost of slightly worse than logarithmic asymptotic regret. We finally provide numerical experiments showing the merits of DS in a decision-making problem on synthetic agriculture data.
Effect of an atom on a quantum guided field in a weakly driven fiber-Bragg-grating cavity
Creators: name: Kien, Fam Le
name: Hakuta, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interaction of an atom with a quantum guided field in a weakly driven fiber-Bragg-grating (FBG) cavity. We present an effective Hamiltonian and derive the density-matrix equations for the combined atom-cavity system. We calculate the mean photon number, the second-order photon correlation function, and the atomic excited-state population. We show that, due to the confinement of the guided cavity field in the fiber cross-section plane and in the space between the FBG mirrors, the presence of the atom in the FBG cavity can significantly affect the mean photon number and the photon statistics even though the cavity finesse is moderate, the cavity is long, and the probe field is weak.
description: Accepted for Phys. Rev. A
Measuring source code conciseness across programming languages using compression
Creators: name: Bergmans, Lodewijk
name: Schrijen, Xander
name: Ouwehand, Edwin
name: Bruntink, Magiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is well-known, and often a topic of heated debates, that programs in some programming languages are more concise than in others. This is a relevant factor when comparing or aggregating volume-impacted metrics on source code written in a combination of programming languages. In this paper, we present a model for measuring the conciseness of programming languages in a consistent, objective and evidence-based way. We present the approach, explain how it is founded on information theoretical principles, present detailed analysis steps and show the quantitative results of applying this model to a large benchmark of diverse commercial software applications. We demonstrate that our metric for language conciseness is strongly correlated with both an alternative analytical approach, and with a large scale developer survey, and show how its results can be applied to improve software metrics for multi-language applications.
EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL WASTES WITH FLY ASH ON STRENGTH OF GEOPOLYMERS
Creators: name: Chayanee Tippayasam, Cristina Leonelli
Publisher: name: SUT
Year: 2014
Subjects: Geopolymer, fly ash, bagasse ash, rice husk ash, compressive strength, carbon tax

description: 1, 21, Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology
The Largest Gravitational Lens: MACS J0717.5+3745 (z=0.546)
Creators: name: Zitrin, Adi
name: Broadhurst, Tom
name: Rephaeli, Yoel
name: Sadeh, Sharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify 13 sets of multiply-lensed galaxies around MACS J0717.5+3745 ($z=0.546$), outlining a very large tangential critical curve of major axis $\sim2.8\arcmin$, filling the field of HST/ACS. The equivalent circular Einstein radius is $θ_{e}= 55 \pm 3\arcsec$ (at an estimated source redshift of $z_{s}\sim2.5$), corresponding to $r_e\simeq 350\pm 20 kpc$ at the cluster redshift, nearly three times greater than that of A1689 ($r_e\simeq 140 kpc$ for $z_{s}=2.5$). The mass enclosed by this critical curve is very large, $7.4\pm 0.5 \times 10^{14}M_{\odot}$ and only weakly model dependent, with a relatively shallow mass profile within $r<250 kpc$, reflecting the unrelaxed appearance of this cluster. This shallow profile generates a much higher level of magnification than the well known relaxed lensing clusters of higher concentration, so that the area of sky exceeding a magnification of $>10\times$, is $\simeq 3.5\sq\arcmin$ for sources with $z\simeq 8$, making MACS J0717.5+3745 a compelling target for accessing faint objects at high redshift. We calculate that only one such cluster, with $θ_{e}\ge 55\arcsec$, is predicted within $\sim 10^7$ Universes with $z\ge 0.55$, corresponding to a virial mass $\ge 3\times 10^{15} M_{\odot}$, for the standard $ΛCDM$ (WMAP5 parameters with $2σ$ uncertainties).
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted to the ApJ Letters; title modified; minor changes
Teacher, parent and student differences concerning curriculum objectives : the physical education case
Creators: name: Hunt, Edmund Arthur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of the study was to investigate the condition of agreement-disagreement concerning the ranked importance of secondary school curriculum objectives as perceived by teachers, parents and students. The methodology by which this was accomplished was to be tested by an intensive examination of the objectives of one subject at one particular level of curriculum formulation and selection. The curriculum objectives of physical education, a subject typical of public schools, were identified and presented to groups of teachers, parents and students. The objectives were ranked for their importance to the welfare of the students at the member school. The respondents were selected from school communities of high, medium and low occupational status and were instructed to rank physical education objectives according to importance by using a "forced choice" Q sorting technique. The results were analyzed in order to determine the extent of agreement-disagreement between groups identified by school role, school location, occupational status, sex and grade. It was concluded that the methodology followed in this study could identify physical education curriculum differences between teacher, parent and student groups. No reason was apparent why this methodology could not be used to examine the department objectives of other subjects within a school. It was found that all groups placed physical education as a subject in a position of middle importance relative to the total school program. As to the ranking of the twenty physical education objectives, it was found that school role (teacher, parent, student) was the most powerful discriminator between group preferences. This factor identified eleven important ranking differences between the groups. School location (west and east) identified the locus of two important rank differences. Occupational status (I, II, III) identified one important rank difference. The student group was divided by sex and grade (eight and eleven). The results showed important rank differences between the sexes on five of the twenty objectives. There were three important ranking differences between the grade levels. The agreement between groups, divided by school location, showed that western teachers agreed with western parents on nineteen of the objectives. These same teachers agreed with western students on sixteen objectives. Eastern teachers agreed with eastern students on the rank order of sixteen objectives and agreed with the eastern parents on only fifteen of the twenty. These mixed results cast doubt upon the possibility that teachers, under the freedom of the first stages of curriculum decentralization, were consistently meeting the preferences of their clients.
A co-design approach for a rehabilitation robot coach for physical rehabilitation based on the error classification of motion errors
Creators: name: Devanne, Maxime
name: Nguyen, Sao Mai
name: Rémy-Néris, Olivier
name: Gales-Garnett, Beatrice Le
name: Kermarrec, Gilles
name: Thépaut, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rising number of the elderly incurs growing concern about healthcare, and in particular rehabilitation healthcare. Assistive technology and assistive robotics in particular may help to improve this process. We develop a robot coach capable of demonstrating rehabilitation exercises to patients, watch a patient carry out the exercises and give him feedback so as to improve his performance and encourage him. The HRI of the system is based on our study with a team of rehabilitation therapists and with the target population.The system relies on human motion analysis. We develop a method for learning a probabilistic representation of ideal movements from expert demonstrations. A Gaussian Mixture Model is employed from position and orientation features captured using a Microsoft Kinect v2. For assessing patients' movements, we propose a real-time multi-level analysis to both temporally and spatially identify and explain body part errors. This analysis combined with a classification algorithm allows the robot to provide coaching advice to make the patient improve his movements. The evaluation on three rehabilitation exercises shows the potential of the proposed approach for learning and assessing kinaesthetic movements.
description: IRC 2018 : Second IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, Jan 2018, Laguna Hills, CA,, United States
Spin transport at finite temperatures: A first-principles study for ferromagnetic$|$nonmagnetic interfaces
Creators: name: Gupta, Kriti
name: Wesselink, Rien J. H.
name: Yuan, Zhe
name: Kelly, Paul J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry lowering at an interface leads to an enhancement of the effect of spin-orbit coupling and to a discontinuity of spin currents passing through the interface. This discontinuity is characterized by a "spin-memory loss" (SML) parameter $δ$ that has only been determined directly at low temperatures. Although $δ$ is believed to be significant in experiments involving interfaces between ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic metals, especially heavy metals like Pt, it is more often than not neglected to avoid introducing too many unknown interface parameters in addition to often poorly known bulk parameters like the spin-flip diffusion length $l_{\rm sf}$. In this work, we calculate $δ$ along with the interface resistance $AR_{\rm I}$ and the spin-asymmetry parameter $γ$ as a function of temperature for Co$|$Pt and Py$|$Pt interfaces where Py is the ferromagnetic Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ alloy, permalloy. We use first-principles scattering theory to calculate the conductance as well as local charge and spin currents, modeling temperature-induced disorder with frozen thermal lattice and, for ferromagnetic materials, spin disorder within the adiabatic approximation. The bulk and interface parameters are extracted from the spin currents using a Valet-Fert model generalized to include SML.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919
Creators: name: Schneider, Eric B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: There is a complex inter-relationship between nutrition and morbidity in human health. Many diseases reduce nutritional status, but on the other hand, having low nutritional status is also known to make individuals more susceptible to certain diseases and to more serious illness. Modern evidence on these relationships, determined after the introduction of antibiotics and vaccines, may not be applicable to historical settings before these medical technologies were available. This paper uses a historical cohort study based on records from the London Foundling Hospital to determine the causal effect of nutritional status of children, proxied by weight- and height-for-age Z-scores, on the odds of contracting five infectious diseases of childhood (measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and whooping cough) and on sickness duration from these diseases. I identify a causal effect by exploiting the randomisation of environmental conditions as foundling children were removed from their original homes, then fostered with families in counties nearby London and later returned to the Foundling Hospital’s main site in London. I find no effect of nutritional status on the odds of contracting the five diseases, but I do find a historically important and statistically significant effect of nutritional status on sickness duration for measles and mumps. These findings have three implications. First, historical incidence of these diseases was unrelated to nutritional status, meaning that poor nutritional status during famines or during the Colombian Exchange did not affect the spread of epidemics. However, undernutrition in these events may have exacerbated measles severity. Second, improving nutritional status in the past 150 years would have reduced the severity of measles and mumps infections but not affect the decline in whooping cough mortality. Finally, selective culling effects from measles would be larger than those from whooping cough since whooping cough severity was not correlated with underlying nutritional status.
Proceedings Second Workshop on Formal Aspects of Virtual Organisations
Creators: name: Bryans, Jeremy
name: Fitzgerald, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: FAVO2009 was the second workshop on Formal Aspects of Virtual Organisations. The purpose of the FAVO workshops is to encourage an active community of researchers and practitioners using formal methods in the research and development of Virtual Organisations.
The Way to my Heart is through Contrastive Learning: Remote Photoplethysmography from Unlabelled Video
Creators: name: Gideon, John
name: Stent, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ability to reliably estimate physiological signals from video is a powerful tool in low-cost, pre-clinical health monitoring. In this work we propose a new approach to remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) - the measurement of blood volume changes from observations of a person's face or skin. Similar to current state-of-the-art methods for rPPG, we apply neural networks to learn deep representations with invariance to nuisance image variation. In contrast to such methods, we employ a fully self-supervised training approach, which has no reliance on expensive ground truth physiological training data. Our proposed method uses contrastive learning with a weak prior over the frequency and temporal smoothness of the target signal of interest. We evaluate our approach on four rPPG datasets, showing that comparable or better results can be achieved compared to recent supervised deep learning methods but without using any annotation. In addition, we incorporate a learned saliency resampling module into both our unsupervised approach and supervised baseline. We show that by allowing the model to learn where to sample the input image, we can reduce the need for hand-engineered features while providing some interpretability into the model's behavior and possible failure modes. We release code for our complete training and evaluation pipeline to encourage reproducible progress in this exciting new direction.
description: Code available at https://github.com/ToyotaResearchInstitute/RemotePPG
Conditional Neural Process for non-parametric modeling of AGN light curve
Creators: name: Cvorovic-Hajdinjak, Iva
name: Kovacevic, Andjelka B.
name: Ilic, Dragana
name: Popovic, Luka C.
name: Dai, Xinyu
name: Jankov, Isidora
name: Radovic, Viktor
name: Sanchez-Saez, Paula
name: Nikutta, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The consequences of complex disturbed environments in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole are not well represented by standard statistical models of optical variability in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Thus, developing new methodologies for investigating and modeling AGN light curves is crucial. Conditional Neural Processes (CNPs) are nonlinear function models that forecast stochastic time-series based on a finite amount of known data without the use of any additional parameters or prior knowledge (kernels). We provide a CNP algorithm that is specifically designed for simulating AGN light curves. It was trained using data from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, which included 153 AGN. We present CNP modeling performance for a subsample of five AGNs with distinctive difficult-to-model properties. The performance of CNP in predicting temporal flux fluctuation was assessed using a minimizing loss function, and the results demonstrated the algorithm's usefulness. Our preliminary parallelization experiments show that CNP can efficiently handle large amounts of data. These results imply that CNP can be more effective than standard tools in modeling large volumes of AGN data (as anticipated from time-domain surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time).
description: The manuscript was accepted for publication in the Astronomische Nachrichten Special Issue
Efficient single-photon pair generation by spontaneous parametric down-conversion in nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces
Creators: name: Jin, Boyuan
name: Mishra, Dhananjay
name: Argyropoulos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is one of the most versatile nonlinear optical techniques for the generation of entangled and correlated single-photon pairs. However, it suffers from very poor efficiency leading to extremely weak photon generation rates. Here we propose a plasmonic metasurface design based on silver nanostripes combined with a bulk lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal to realize a new scalable, ultrathin, and efficient SPDC source. By coinciding fundamental and higher order resonances of the metasurface with the generated signal and idler frequencies, respectively, the electric field in the nonlinear media is significantly boosted. This leads to a substantially enhancement in the SPDC process which, subsequently, by using the quantum-classical correspondence principle, translates to very high photon-pair generation rates. The emitted radiation is highly directional and perpendicular to the metasurface on the contrary to relevant dielectric structures. The incorporation of circular polarized excitation further increases the photon-pair generation efficiency. The presented work will lead to the design of new efficient ultrathin SPDC single-photon nanophotonic sources working at room temperature that are expected to be critical components in free-space quantum optical communications. In a more general context, our findings can find various applications in the emerging field of quantum plasmonics.
EFFECT OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE SOLUTION ON THE PROPERTIES OF GEOPOLYMER BASED ON FLY ASH AND ALUMINIUM WASTE BLEND
Creators: name: Sujitra Onutai, Thanakorn Wasanapiarnpong
Publisher: name: SUT
Year: 2014
Subjects: Geopolymer, fly ash, aluminium waste

description: 1, 21, Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology
Electron energy loss spectroscopy of bulk gold with ultrasoft pseudopotentials and the Liouville-Lanczos method
Creators: name: Motornyi, Oleksandr
name: Vast, Nathalie
name: Timrov, Iurii
name: Baseggio, Oscar
name: Baroni, Stefano
name: Corso, Andrea Dal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The implementation of ultrasoft pseudopotentials into time-dependent density-functional perturbation theory is detailed for both the Sternheimer approach and the Liouville-Lanczos (LL) method, and equations are presented in the scalar relativistic approximation for periodic solids with finite momentum transfer q. The LL method is applied to calculations of the electron energy loss (EEL) spectrum of face-centered cubic bulk Au both at vanishing and finite q. Our study reveals the richness of the physics underlying the various contributions to the density fluctuation in gold. In particular, our calculations suggest the existence in gold of two quasi-separate 5d and 6s electron gasses, each one oscillating with its own frequency at resp. 5.1 eV and 10.2 eV. We find that the contribution near 2.2 eV comes from 5d to 6s interband transitions modified by the intraband contribution to the real part of the dielectric function, which we call a mixed excitation.
Effect of boron nitride defects and charge inhomogeneity on 1/f noise in encapsulated graphene
Creators: name: Kumar, Chandan
name: Das, Anindya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low frequency 1/f noise is investigated in graphene, encapsulated between hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate in dual gated geometry. The overall noise magnitude is smaller as compared to graphene on Si/SiO2 substrate. The noise amplitude in the hole doped region is independent of carrier density while in the electron doped region, a pronounced peak is observed, at Fermi energy, EF ~ 90 meV. The physical mechanism of the anomalous noise peak in the electron doped region is attributed to the impurity states originating from the Carbon atom replacing the Nitrogen site in hBN crystal. Furthermore, the noise study near Dirac point shows characteristic "M-shape", which is found to be strongly correlated with the charge inhomogeneity region near Dirac point.
description: Accepted in Applied Physics Letters
Compositional Studies of Metals with Complex Order by means of the Optical Floating-Zone Technique
Creators: name: Bauer, Andreas
name: Benka, Georg
name: Neubauer, Andreas
name: Regnat, Alexander
name: Engelhardt, Alexander
name: Resch, Christoph
name: Wurmehl, Sabine
name: Blum, Christian G. F.
name: Adams, Tim
name: Chacon, Alfonso
name: Jungwirth, Rainer
name: Georgii, Robert
name: Senyshyn, Anatoliy
name: Pedersen, Björn
name: Meven, Martin
name: Pfleiderer, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The availability of large high-quality single crystals is an important prerequisite for many studies in solid-state research. The optical floating-zone technique is an elegant method to grow such crystals, offering potential to prepare samples that may be hardly accessible with other techniques. As elaborated in this report, examples include single crystals with intentional compositional gradients, deliberate off-stoichiometry, or complex metallurgy. For the cubic chiral magnets Mn$_{1-x}$Fe$_{x}$Si and Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$Si, we prepared single crystals in which the composition was varied during growth from $x = 0 - 0.15$ and from $x = 0.1 - 0.3$, respectively. Such samples allowed us to efficiently study the evolution of the magnetic properties as a function of composition, as demonstrated by means of neutron scattering. For the archetypical chiral magnet MnSi and the itinerant antiferromagnet CrB$_{2}$, we grew single crystals with varying initial manganese (0.99 to 1.04) and boron (1.95 to 2.1) content. Measurements of the low-temperature properties addressed the correlation between magnetic transition temperature and sample quality. Furthermore, we prepared single crystals of the diborides ErB$_{2}$, MnB$_{2}$, and VB$_{2}$. In addition to high vapor pressures, these materials suffer from peritectic formation, potential decomposition, and high melting temperature, respectively.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
Launching of Poynting Jets from Accretion Disks
Creators: name: Lovelace, R. V. E.
name: Romanova, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The jets observed to emanate from many compact accreting objects may arise from the twisting of the magnetic field threading a differentially rotating accretion disk which acts to magnetically extract angular momentum and energy from the disk. Two main regimes have been discussed, hydromagnetic outflows, which have a significant mass flux and have energy and angular momentum carried by both matter and electromagnetic field and, Poynting outflows, where the mass flux is negligible and energy and angular momentum are carried predominantly by the electromagnetic field. We describe recent theoretical work on the formation of relativistic Poynting jets from magnetized accretion disks and new relativistic, fully-electromagnetic, particle-in-cell simulations of the formation of jets from accretion disks.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Published in: Triggering Relativistic Jets (Eds. William H. Lee & Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz) Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 27, Contents of Supplementary CD, p.240; 2007RMxAC..27..240L
Nonlocal sets of orthogonal multipartite product states with less members
Creators: name: Zuo, Hui-Juan
name: Liu, Jia-Huan
name: Zhen, Xiao-Fan
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the constructions of nonlocal orthogonal product states in multipartite systems that cannot be distinguished by local operations and classical communication. We first present two constructions of nonlocal orthogonal product states in tripartite systems $\mathcal{C}^{d}\otimes\mathcal{C}^{d}\otimes\mathcal{C}^{d}~(d\geq3)$ and $\mathcal{C}^d\otimes \mathcal{C}^{d+1}\otimes \mathcal{C}^{d+2}~(d\geq 3)$. Then for general tripartite quantum system $\mathcal{C}^{n_{1}}\otimes\mathcal{C}^{n_{2}}\otimes\mathcal{C}^{n_{3}}$ $(3\leq n_{1}\leq n_{2}\leq n_{3})$, we obtain $2(n_{2}+n_{3}-1)-n_{1}$ nonlocal orthogonal product states. Finally, we put forward a new construction approach in $\mathcal{C}^{d_{1}}\otimes \mathcal{C}^{d_{2}}\otimes\cdots\otimes \mathcal{C}^{d_{n}}$ $(d_1,d_2,\cdots d_n\geq3,\, n>6)$ multipartite systems. Remarkably, our indistinguishable sets contain less nonlocal product states than the existing ones, which improves the recent results and highlights their related applications in quantum information processing.
description: 15 pages
Health and lifespan of Swiss men born in an alpine region in 1905–1907
Creators: name: Ziegler, Ella
name: Postma, Erik
name: Matthes, Katarina L.
name: Floris, Joël
name: Staub, Kaspar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
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: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Body height and body mass index (BMI) are associated with later life outcomes in present and historical populations. We examine the case study of the Swiss Alpine canton of Glarus, which was highly industrialised at the beginning of the 20th century. Our study links conscription registers to genealogical registers at the individual level in Switzerland for the first time. We analyse whether body height, BMI, socioeconomic position (HISCLASS), region of residence, fitness to serve (as a proxy for health status in a military context), and goitre status (as a proxy for iodine deficiency) in young adulthood are associated with lifespan. We transcribed conscription records of 1073 men born between 1905 and 1907 and recruited between 1925 and 1927 (coverage birth cohorts 96%). Of the 827 young men residing within the canton, we were able to identify 635 (76.8%) in the cantonal genealogical register. Using body height, chest circumference, and upper arm circumference, we estimated BMI. We find socioeconomic differences for height and estimated BMI at conscription age. Young men with a recorded goitre were taller. We also present a positive association between body height and lifespan, with small men being particularly disadvantaged. In a small subsample of two municipalities, we estimated the heritability of height to be 65%.
СПЕЦИФИКА АВТОРСКОЙ РЕЧИ ПОЭМЫ Н.В. ГОГОЛЯ «МЕРТВЫЕ ДУШИ»
Creators: name: Кимсанова, Мадина
name: Валиева, Фарангизбону
name: Пахриддинов, Асрор
name: Гончарова, Н.В.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В статье рассмотрены особенности языка поэмы Гоголя «Мертвые души». Проанализированы народные истоки поэмы, средства поэтической выразительности, стилистические особенности авторской речи.