cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass Using the Matrix Element Technique in Dilepton Final States
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the top quark mass in ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The data were collected by the D0 experiment corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.7 fb-1. The matrix element technique is applied to ttbar events in the final state containing leptons (electrons or muons) with high transverse momenta and at least two jets. The calibration of the jet energy scale determined in the lepton + jets final state of ttbar decays is applied to jet energies. This correction provides a substantial reduction in systematic uncertainties. We obtain a top quark mass of mt = 173.93 +- 1.84 GeV.
description: 15 pages, published in Phys. Rev. D
WiSQL in der Wirtschaftsinformatik
Creators: name: Börgermann, Chris
name: Lackes, Richard
name: Siepermann, Markus
Publisher: name: Hochschuldidaktisches Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: E-Learning
subject: Wirtschaftsinformatik
subject: 370

description: Journal Hochschuldidaktik ; 22. Jahrgang 2011 Heft 1
The assessment of non-technical skills in ENT surgery: a multidisciplinary simulation programme to improve patient safety
Creators: name: Ferguson, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Surgical patients are at particular risk of harm, with 41% of all adverse events in hospital occurring in the operating theatre. Failures in Human factors are the leading cause. Despite recognition of the importance of human factors training to patient safety, there is a lack of theatre ENT crisis management simulation, and no formal assessment of the requisite skills. Aims: To Develop a psychometrically robust assessment tool for assessing Non-technical skills in the ENT theatre – to be termed ENT-NOTECHS. To Develop and validate an ENT themed multidisciplinary simulation programme for the assessment and feedback of non-technical skills. Methods: A multimodal method approach was used to create a novel behavioural marker tool to capture non-technical skills in the ENT theatre environment. Alongside this, a prospective, observational study involving a multidisciplinary team training day in ENT and airway themed crisis’ in a high fidelity simulated theatre environment was designed. Teams undertook 6 high fidelity simulation scenarios and non-technical skills were assessed using the ENT-NOTECHS tool. The ENT-NOTECHS tool was assessed for its psychometric robustness; reliability and construct validity. Candidate feedback was obtained to determine overall effectiveness of training. Results: We successfully designed and delivered a novel multidisciplinary team ENT themed training day. Over 15 months, 74 trainees (surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses) participated in 6 MDT simulation days, totalling 54 hours of simulation training and 210 assessments. Excellent Face and content validity was demonstrated. 100% of participants reported improved confidence in managing ENT crisis scenarios and demonstrated an improvement in non-technical skills (ENT-NOTECHS). The ENT-NOTECHS tool demonstrated excellent psychometric robustness. Good inter-rater reliability scores (cronbachs >0.7) were shown and the tool discriminated between novice and expert trainees (p<0.001). Conclusion: Multidisciplinary team training in ENT-themed crisis is feasible and well received training intervention. The simulated operating theatre serves as an excellent environment for the assessment and training of non-technical skills. ENT -NOTECHS is a novel assessment tool with evidence for reliability, content and construct validity in ENT teams.
Assessment of Desire for Marriage and Fertility preferences among Adolescent girls in a Senior Secondary School; Borena, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Shore, Hirbo
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: Background information: Adolescence is the transitional period from childhood to adulthood characterized by significant physiological, psychological and social changes. It is during this period that the biosocial transition is experienced, including intention and desire for future individual and societal role such as marriage and child bearing. Age at first marriage has a major effect on childbearing since women who marry early have, on average, a longer period of exposure to pregnancy and a greater number of lifetime births. In Ethiopia among women age 25-49, 63 percent married by age 18, and the median age at first marriage among women age 25-49 is 16.5 years. The fertility among adolescents age 15-19 in Ethiopia is 79 births per 1,000 women. The contribution of adolescents' fertility to the overall fertility rate in Ethiopia is significant. This study complements research on adolescents' reproductive and marital behavior by examining their desired age of marriage and family formation. Objective: The objective of the study was to assess adolescents' desire for marriage and fertility preferences among high school students in a Senior Secondary School, Borena, Ethiopia. Methods and material: School based cross-sectional study was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods among sample of 422 adolescents from senior secondary and preparatory school on their desire for marriage and fertility preferences from January 5-6, 2012. Data was entered by Epidata version 3.1 and analyzed SPSS version 16. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were carried out. Result: More than four fifth (85.4%) of adolescents desire to marry at age less than twenty four years. The mean desired age of marriage was 21.1 year (20-22.2 years). More than one fourth (29.2%) desired to have child five or more children and the mean desired number of children was 3.85 (1.85-5.85). Multivariate logistic regression showed that religion (being Muslim and Catholic), mother education (being illiterate), having married friend(s), ever had sexual intercourse, and internal locus of control (higher) were independently associated with desired age of marriage. Furthermore, ethnicity (being Amhara and Burji), places of birth (Rural), desired age of marriage, believe of parent determine when and who to marry, intension to have child and internal locus of control (higher) independently associated with desired fertility preferences. Conclusion: Great majority of adolescents desired to marry before 24 years of age. Significant proportion of adolescents desire to have five or more children. School should offer adolescents' reproductive health education with focus on increasing awareness among young people on the micro and macro advantages of late age of marriage and lower fertility preference.
title:  Forme di intenzionalità collettiva nella Sindrome di Asperger e nella schizofrenia. Una proposta fenomenologica
Creators: name: Bizzari  , Valeria
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: La sindrome di Asperger (AS) o autismo ad alto funzionamento è solitamente associata a deficit cerebrali o a disturbi comportamentali, e le difficoltà con gli aspetti cruciali della socialità incontrate dai pazienti con AS rimangono in gran parte inesplorate, portando a teorie inadeguate e, spesso, a trattamenti inadeguati. L'obiettivo principale del mio articolo è quello di comprendere questo disturbo attraverso la lente dell'intenzionalità collettiva. Per questo motivo, terrò conto del dibattito filosofico contemporaneo e confronterò il caso di Asperger con un altro disturbo che comporta un distacco sociale ed emotivo: la schizofrenia. Cercare di capire i diversi livelli di intenzionalità collettiva in gioco in queste due patologie sarà utile non solo per comprenderle e differenziarle, ma anche per comprendere meglio le strutture stesse della socialità.

Asperger’s syndrome (AS) or high functioning autism is usually associated with brain deficits or behavioral disturbances, and the difficulties with crucial aspects of sociality encountered by patients with AS remain largely unexplored, leading to inadequate theories and, often, to inadequate treatment. The main aim of my paper is to understand this disorder through the lens of collective intentionality. For this reason, I will take into account the contemporary philosophical debate and I will also compare Asperger’s case with another disorder which involves a social, emotional detachment: schizophrenia. Trying to figure out the different levels of collective intentionality at stake in these two pathologies will be helpful not only in understanding and differentiating them, but also in better comprehending the structures of sociality themselves.
description: B@belonline vol. 9 Subversion and resistance in Hegel: paradigms, figures, resonances /Sovversione e resistenza in Hegel: paradigmi, figure, risonanze
Sub-channel Assignment, Power Allocation and User Scheduling for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks
Creators: name: Di, Boya
name: Song, Lingyang
name: Li, Yonghui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study the resource allocation and user scheduling problem for a downlink nonorthogonal multiple access network where the base station allocates spectrum and power resources to a set of users. We aim to jointly optimize the sub-channel assignment and power allocation to maximize the weighted total sum-rate while taking into account user fairness. We formulate the sub-channel allocation problem as equivalent to a many-to-many two-sided user-subchannel matching game in which the set of users and sub-channels are considered as two sets of players pursuing their own interests. We then propose a matching algorithm which converges to a two-side exchange stable matching after a limited number of iterations. A joint solution is thus provided to solve the sub-channel assignment and power allocation problems iteratively. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm greatly outperforms the orthogonal multiple access scheme and a previous non-orthogonal multiple access scheme.
description: Accepted as a regular paper by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
The unique coclique extension property for apartments of buildings
Creators: name: Brouwer, Andries E.
name: Draisma, Jan
name: Güven, Çiçek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51E24, 05E18

description: We show that the Kneser graph of objects of a fixed type in a building of spherical type has the unique coclique extension property when the corresponding representation has minuscule weight and also when the diagram is simply laced and the representation is adjoint.
"Eating together" : a study of the influence of house-sharing on the eating patterns of young adults in a sample of 25 households in urban Melbourne
Creators: name: Sibbel, Anne.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Impact of insulin sensitising interventions on women with polycystic ovary syndrome and healthy humans
Creators: name: Samarasinghe, Suhaniya
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinology condition in premenopausal women, with a prevalence of 8%-12% in this population. The presentation can vary between individuals, and although obesity is not part of the current diagnostic criteria, rates of obesity can range between 50%-80% in this patient population. PCOS is a common cause of anovulatory infertility, which an increased body mass index can compound. Lifestyle interventions with or without pharmacotherapy remain the mainstay of treatment, with bariatric surgery currently considered an experimental treatment. The first part of this thesis will address the impact of insulin sensitiser pharmacotherapy on metabolic and reproductive outcomes in women with PCOS who have overweight and obesity through a comprehensive systematic review, meta-analysis and meta- regression. Following this, the BAMBINI randomised controlled clinical trial will compare the effectiveness of medical care to bariatric surgery in improving the number of ovulatory cycles over 52 weeks in women with PCOS who have obesity. The use of an insulin sensitiser in women with PCOS who have overweight, or obesity resulted in a significant improvement in metabolic outcomes and some reproductive hormones; however, there was a lack of data for hard reproductive outcomes. Bariatric surgery proved superior to medical care in improving anthropometric, metabolic, and reproductive outcomes in women with PCOS who have obesity. Further randomised controlled trials are needed to investigate this effect and its impact on pregnancy outcomes. The second part will focus on the melanocortin system and its role in glucose homeostasis through melanocortin receptor agonism. Animal studies have shown that α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) – a melanocortin receptor agonist, increases skeletal muscle glucose uptake following a glucose load. In this first-in-human, double-blind, randomised, cross-over experimental study, healthy volunteers received α- MSH (initially at three different doses) and saline during an oral glucose tolerance test and subsequent euglycaemic hyperinsulinaemic clamp. The oral glucose tolerance tests were repeated in a different group of healthy volunteers with high dose α-MSH and saline. Infusion with α-MSH significantly reduced mean plasma glucose and serum insulin concentrations compared to saline.
Selecting methods for incorporating public participation in recreation evaluation : some examples concerning Victorian inland waters
Creators: name: Edmonds, Helen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Elliptic soliton solutions of the spin non-chiral intermediate long-wave equation
Creators: name: Berntson, Bjorn K.
name: Langmann, Edwin
name: Lenells, Jonatan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33E05, 35B10, 35Q51, 35Q70, 37J35

description: We construct elliptic multi-soliton solutions of the spin non-chiral intermediate long-wave (sncILW) equation with periodic boundary conditions. These solutions are obtained by a spin-pole ansatz including a dynamical background term; we show that this ansatz solves the periodic sncILW equation provided the spins and poles satisfy the elliptic $A$-type spin Calogero-Moser (sCM) system with certain constraints on the initial conditions. The key to this result is a Bäcklund transformation for the elliptic sCM system which includes a non-trivial dynamical background term. We also present solutions of the sncILW equation on the real line and of the spin Benjamin-Ono equation which generalize previously obtained solutions by allowing for a non-trivial background term.
description: 33 pages
Seismicity prior to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
Creators: name: Nanjo, K. Z.
name: Izutsu, J.
name: Orihara, Y.
name: Furuse, N.
name: Togo, S.
name: Nitta, H.
name: Okada, T.
name: Tanaka, R.
name: Kamogawa, M.
name: Nagao, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report precursory seismic patterns prior to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, as measured by four different methods based on changes in seismicity that can be used for earthquake forecasting: the b-value method, two methods of seismic quiescence evaluation, and an analysis of seismicity density in space and time. The spatial extent of precursory patterns differs from one method to the other and ranges from local scales (typically, asperity size) to regional scales (e.g., 2 degree x 3 degree around the source zone). The earthquakes were preceded by periods of pronounced anomalies, which lasted in yearly scales (1.5 years), or longer (> 3 years). We demonstrate that a combination of multiple methods detected different signals prior to the Kumamoto earthquakes. This indicates great potential to reduce the hazard at possible future sites of earthquakes relative to long-term seismic hazard assessment. We also found that the seismic quiescence in a regional scale area, detected by using the two methods of seismic quiescence evaluation, was a common precursor to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes and 2015 Off Satsuma Peninsula earthquake. The result allows us to interpret both events as the onset that occurred at a section along the tectonic line from the Okinawa Trough through the Beppu-Shimabara graben.
The use of circumferential guided waves to monitor axial cracks
Creators: name: Rodgers, Euan Craig
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: In this thesis, a monitoring system using circumferential guided waves is developed to detect axial cracking in piping and pipe components. Guided waves inspection is attractive as it is much faster than current slow manual inspection methods deployed in nuclear reactors however it is traditionally less sensitive. The use of guided waves in a monitoring configuration as a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technique has the potential to boost the traditionally low sensitivity of the technique while retaining the large volumetric coverage. If the guided wave transducers are fixed to the inspection geometry and take continuous measurements; a dataset can be developed that can be analysed using recently developed signal processing techniques to increase the sensitivity. In this project, a novel guided wave monitoring technique was developed based on a pitch-catch configuration of two transducers offset circumferentially and a defect detection technique based on multiple revolutions of the guided waves. This technique was shown to be a viable monitoring technique with commercially relevant sensitivity. The addition of a second pair of transducers circumferentially offset from the first pair was shown to significantly increase the sensitivity of the SHM system and give full volumetric coverage for the detection of axial defects. Defect detection capability was then demonstrated on a complex component containing several pipe features and a long duration monitoring experiment was performed which highlighted to need to improve the stability of the amplification for the SHM system before commercial adoption is possible. The aid this, two viable calibration techniques based were developed to improve the stability of the system based. This work has demonstrated the real-world viability of circumferential guided waves to detect axial cracks at industrially relevant sensitivity when used as a monitoring technique.
title:  Philosophical Practices in the Context of a University Master’s Degree Program
Creators: name: Cipolletta  , Patrizia
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: The text traces the preparatory interview for 16th International Conference on Philosophical Practice organized in 2020 in S. Petersburg and postponed due to Covid. The interview presents Master’s degree programme in Philosophical Counseling, established at the University of Roma Tre in 2006, and illustrates the activities of the association Agàpe School. Training in philosophical counseling and philosophical practices within the university Master. The Master programme focuses on the importance of the dialogue between the practitioners that daily deal with the classical and grounding texts of the philosophical tradition, moved by both historical and linguistic rigorous approaches, and the counselors, who listen, in their philosophical practices, to the urgent questions that arise from the everyday life of society. In such a mutual exchange, the practical approach to philosophy allow them, on the one hand, to constantly go back to the sources of the philosophical wisdom as well as to merge into the dialogue between philosophy and sciences, and, on the other, the philosophical research can hearken the problems of the plurality, which inhabits modern societies, reenacting the ancient philosophical practice that always strives for the good and the flourishing life.

Il testo ripercorre l'intervista preparatoria per la 16a Conferenza Internazionale sulle Pratiche Filosofiche organizzata nel 2020 a San Pietroburgo e rinviata a causa della Covid. L'intervista presenta il Master in Counseling Filosofico, istituito presso l'Università di Roma Tre nel 2006, e illustra le attività dell'associazione Scuola Agàpe. Formazione in counseling filosofico e pratiche filosofiche all'interno del Master universitario. Il programma del Master si concentra sull'importanza del dialogo tra gli operatori che quotidianamente si confrontano con i testi classici e fondanti della tradizione filosofica, mossi da approcci rigorosi sia dal punto di vista storico che linguistico, e i counselor che ascoltano, nelle loro pratiche filosofiche, le domande urgenti che emergono dalla vita quotidiana della società. In questo scambio reciproco, l'approccio pratico alla filosofia permette, da un lato, di ritornare costantemente alle fonti della saggezza filosofica e di inserirsi nel dialogo tra filosofia e scienze e, dall'altro, la ricerca filosofica può ascoltare i problemi della pluralità che abita le società moderne, riproponendo l'antica pratica filosofica che si adopera sempre per il bene e la vita fiorente.
description: B@belonline vol. 9 Subversion and resistance in Hegel: paradigms, figures, resonances /Sovversione e resistenza in Hegel: paradigmi, figure, risonanze
Monitoring occupational exposure to methamidophos and related organophosphorus pesticides in Victorian farmers
Creators: name: Maher, Francis J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The exceptional simple Lie group $F_{4(-20)}$, after J. Tits
Creators: name: Valette, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E15 (Primary), 51A10 (Secondary)

description: This is a semi-survey paper, where we start by advertising Tits' synthetic construction from \cite{Tits}, of the hyperbolic plane $H^2(Cay)$ over the Cayley numbers $Cay$, and of its automorphism group which is the exceptional simple Lie group $G=F_{4(-20)}$. Let $G=KAN$ be the Iwasawa decomposition. Our contributions are: a) Writing down explicitly the action of $N$ on $H^2(Cay)$ in Tits'model, facing the lack of associativity of $Cay$. b) If $MAN$ denotes the minimal parabolic subgroup of $G$, characterizing $M$ geometrically.
A Machine Learns to Predict the Stability of Tightly Packed Planetary Systems
Creators: name: Tamayo, Daniel
name: Silburt, Ari
name: Valencia, Diana
name: Menou, Kristen
name: Ali-Dib, Mohamad
name: Petrovich, Cristobal
name: Huang, Chelsea X.
name: Rein, Hanno
name: van Laerhoven, Christa
name: Paradise, Adiv
name: Obertas, Alysa
name: Murray, Norman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The requirement that planetary systems be dynamically stable is often used to vet new discoveries or set limits on unconstrained masses or orbital elements. This is typically carried out via computationally expensive N-body simulations. We show that characterizing the complicated and multi-dimensional stability boundary of tightly packed systems is amenable to machine learning methods. We find that training an XGBoost machine learning algorithm on physically motivated features yields an accurate classifier of stability in packed systems. On the stability timescale investigated ($10^7$ orbits), it is 3 orders of magnitude faster than direct N-body simulations. Optimized machine learning classifiers for dynamical stability may thus prove useful across the discipline, e.g., to characterize the exoplanet sample discovered by the upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This proof of concept motivates investing computational resources to train algorithms capable of predicting stability over longer timescales and over broader regions of phase space.
description: Accepted in ApJ letters. 7 pages, 3 figures
Hardware-efficient data compression in wireless intracortical brain-machine interfaces
Creators: name: Savolainen, Oscar Wiljam
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) have emerged as a promising technology for restoring lost motor function in patients with neurological disorders and/or motor impairments, e.g. paraplegia, amputation, stroke, spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, etc. The past 2 decades have seen significant advances in BMI performance. This has largely been driven by the invention and uptake of intracortical microelectrode arrays that can isolate the activity of individual neurons. However, the current paradigm involves the use of percutaneous connections, i.e. wires. These wires carry the information from the intracortical array implanted in the brain to outside of the body, where the information is used for neural decoding. These wires carry significant long-term risks ranging from infection, to mechanical injury, to impaired mobility and quality of life for the individual. Therefore, there is a desire to make intracortical BMIs (iBMI) wireless, where the data is communicated out wirelessly, either with the use of electromagnetic or acoustic waves. Unfortunately, this consumes a significant amount of power, which is dissipated from the implant in the form of heat. Heating tissue can cause irreparable damage, and so there are strict limits on heat flux from implants to cortical tissue. Given the ever-increasing number of channels per implant, the required communication power is now exceeding the acceptable cortical heat transfer limits. This cortical heating issue is hampering widespread clinical use. As such, effective data compression would bring Wireless iBMIs (WI-BMI) into alignment with heat transfer limits, enabling large channel counts and small implant sizes without risking tissue damage via heating. This thesis addresses the aforementioned communication power problem from a signal processing and data compression perspective, and is composed of two parts. In the first part, we investigate hardware-efficient ways to compress the Multi-Unit Activity (MUA) signal, which is the most common signal in modern iBMIs. In the second and final part, we look at efficient ways to extract and compress the high-bandwidth Entire Spiking Activity signal, which, while underexplored as a signal, has been the subject of significant interest given its ability to outperform the MUA signal in neural decoding. Overall, this thesis introduces hardware-efficient methods of extracting high-performing neural features, and compressing them by an order of magnitude or more beyond the state-of-the-art in ultra-low power ways. This enables many more recording channels to be fit onto intracortical implants, while remaining within cortical heat transfer safety and channel capacity limits.
Zweibeinige Fußball spielende Roboter - Adaptive dynamische Bewegungssteuerung und kooperative Weltmodellierung
Creators: name: Büttner, Christian
name: Grothe, Björn
name: Huaiyoung, Yang
name: Humberg, Thorsten
name: Küch, Markus
name: Naal, Rayan
name: Schade, Tobias
name: Schmeing, Markus
name: Schoppmeyer, Christian
name: Spohr, Marc
name: Urbann, Oliver
name: Wilmshöver, Florian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 004

description: Im Folgenden wird die Arbeit und die Ergebnisse der Projektgruppe 521 an der Technischen Universität Dortmund dargestellt. Ziel der Projektgruppe war die Programmierung eines zweibeinigen Roboters um am RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou teilzunehmen. Dieser Wettbewerb wird von der RoboCup Federation organisiert, mit dem Ziel die Entwicklung in den Bereichen Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik voran zu treiben. Bis zum Jahr 2050 soll ein Team vollkommen autonom agierender Roboter in der Lage sein, gegen den menschlichen Fußball-Weltmeister anzutreten. Seit diesem Jahr wird der von Aldebaran Robotics entwickelte Roboter Nao als neuer Hardware-Standard eingesetzt. In der entsprechenden Liga steht also die Software- Entwicklung, Künstliche Intelligenz und Verhalten im Vordergrund. Alle Teams verwenden dasselbe Robotermodell, dessen Hardware in keiner Weise modifiziert werden darf. Einige Teile der Software wurden in früheren Projektgruppen entwickelt und teilweise unverändert, teilweise in modifizierter Form übernommen. Dazu gehören unter anderem Framework, Simulator und das Debug- und Remote Control Tool RoboControl XP. Da die ersten Roboter erst im April 2008 ausgeliefert wurden, musste die ersten Monate im Simulator entwickelt werden. Hardware-Entwicklung war hauptsächlich vonnöten um die Korrektheit und Genauigkeit von Sensordaten zu bestimmen. Andere Teile der Software, wie zum Beispiel Module für die Hardware-Ansteuerung, mussten an das neue Robotermodell angepasst werden und wurden daher völlig neu entworfen. Eine zentrale neue Klasse stellt das Egomodell dar, welches alle nötigen Informationen über den Zustand des Roboters enthält und als Schnittstelle zwischen den einzelnen Modulen fungiert. Um bei dem Wettbewerb konkurrenzfähig zu sein, war vor allem die Entwicklung einer neuen Walking Engine notwendig, die dynamisch auf Sensordaten reagieren kann.
Primordial black hole formation in the matter-dominated phase of the Universe
Creators: name: Harada, Tomohiro
name: Yoo, Chul-Moon
name: Kohri, Kazunori
name: Nakao, Ken-ichi
name: Jhingan, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate primordial black hole formation in the matter-dominated phase of the Universe, where nonspherical effects in gravitational collapse play a crucial role. This is in contrast to the black hole formation in a radiation-dominated era. We apply the Zel'dovich approximation, Thorne's hoop conjecture, and Doroshkevich's probability distribution and subsequently derive the production probability $β_{0}$ of primordial black holes. The numerical result obtained is applicable even if the density fluctuation $σ$ at horizon entry is of the order of unity. For $σ\ll 1$, we find a semi-analytic formula $β_{0}\simeq 0.05556 σ^{5}$, which is comparable with the Khlopov-Polnarev formula. We find that the production probability in the matter-dominated era is much larger than that in the radiation-dominated era for $σ\lesssim 0.05$, while they are comparable with each other for $σ\gtrsim 0.05$. We also discuss how $σ$ can be written in terms of primordial curvature perturbations.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, minor correction, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices on Cervical Cancer Screening among Health Service Providers at Marie Stopes International Ethiopia Centers, 2015
Creators: name: Fufa, Bogalech
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Background and Objective:Cervical Cancer is one of the major non-communicable health problems, largely preventablewith effective screening programmesandhuman papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination to prevent, detect and reduce cervical cancer.The burden of cervical cancer is disproportionately high among the developing countries. The study was conducted to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) on Cervical Cancer Screening amongHealth Service Providers (HSP) at Marie Stopes International Ethiopia Centers in 2015. Materials and Methods:An exploratorydescriptive cross-sectional study design,both quantitative and qualitative method was employed. Quantitativedata was collected by means of self-administered questionnaire from 190 health service providers and qualitative bymeans of an in-depth interviewfrom five area managers, bothemployed at Marie Stopes International Ethiopia. Result:The mean age of the study participants were 34.7 years. 50% of participants considered cancer of the cervix a public health problem in Ethiopia. They most frequently mentioned multiple sexual partners 52.6%, sexually transmitted infections (STI) 49.7%, smoking 28.1% and sexual intercourse at early age 17.5% as major risk factors; and irregular vaginal bleeding 63.8%, foul smelling vaginal discharge 52.8%, post coital bleeding 39.9% and dyspanurea 38% as major symptoms of cervical cancer.Pap smear was the most popular screening test mentioned by 62.1% andvisual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) or Lugol's iodine (VILI) by 31.1% of respondents. Participants mentioned recommended women age and screening interval inconsistently. About 66.3% of respondents believed all women should undergo screening for cervical cancer. However, 53.2% of female respondents didn't feel susceptible to cervical cancer, as well as 65.1% had never been screened. Of the male respondents, only 19.8% had partners/ wives who had ever been screened. Conclusions and Recommendations: There is high KAP gap and misconception, towards cervical cancer screening among HSP. Health service providers need to be targeted first for cervical cancer screeningbecause of their essential role in the implementation of any future screening programs and in their educative role with patients. Health service providers need to be trained to provide health education services and are expectedto be a role model to motivate and change others attitude and practices. Key Words: Knowledge,Attitude, Practice, Cervical Cancer, Ethiopia
Ein Ansatz zur Intrusion Detection für Prozessautomatisierungssysteme
Creators: name: Naedele, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 004

description: Auf Grund anwachsender Vernetzung wird Informationssystem- und Netzwerksicherheit immer stärker auch zu einem wichtigen Thema für Automatisierungs- und Prozessleitsysteme, wie sie z. B. in Fabriken oder zur Steuerung von Infrastruktureinrichtungen wie Gas-/Wasser-/Strom-Netzen verwendet werden. Ein Sicherheitskonzept für ein System, das mit öffentlichen Netzen verbunden ist, sollte nicht nur verzögernde Elemente (z. B. Firewalls), sondern auch Erkennungs- und Reaktionskomponenten besitzen. In heutigen Automatisierungssystemen werden die beiden letzten Aspekte häufig vernachlässigt, da die existierenden Mechanismen nicht mit den speziellen Anforderungen derartiger Systeme kompatibel sind und nur wenige speziell für den Automatisierungsbereich entwickelte Mechanismen existieren. In diesem Paper wird ein Ansatz zur Intrusion Detection für Prozessautomatisierungssysteme vorgestellt, der den Prozessbediener, der typischerweise kein IT-Experte ist, aufbauend auf seiner spezifische Erfahrung mit der Überwachung von Prozessen, als wichtiges Erkennungs- und Entscheidungselement in den Erkennungsprozess integriert. Neben der Begründung und Beschreibung dieses Ansatzes stellt das vorliegende Paper auch eine prototypische Implementierung vor.
The effects of fuel reduction burning of nutrient cycling, surface runoff, and sediment loss in a eucalypt forest
Creators: name: Muir-Smith, John S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Virus-specific memory T cell responses unmasked by immune checkpoint blockade cause hepatitis
Creators: name: Hutchinson, James A.
name: Kronenberg, Katharina
name: Riquelme, Paloma
name: Wenzel, Jürgen J.
name: Glehr, Gunther
name: Schilling, Hannah-Lou
name: Zeman, Florian
name: Evert, Katja
name: Schmiedel, Martin
name: Mickler, Marion
name: Drexler, Konstantin
name: Bitterer, Florian
name: Cordero, Laura
name: Beyer, Lukas
name: Bach, Christian
name: Koestler, Josef
name: Burkhardt, Ralph
name: Schlitt, Hans J.
name: Hellwig, Dirk
name: Werner, Jens M.
name: Spang, Rainer
name: Schmidt, Barbara
name: Geissler, Edward K.
name: Haferkamp, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Treatment of advanced melanoma with combined PD-1/CTLA-4 blockade commonly causes serious immune-mediated complications. Here, we identify a subset of patients predisposed to immune checkpoint blockade-related hepatitis who are distinguished by chronic expansion of effector memory CD4+ T cells (TEM cells). Pre-therapy CD4+ TEM cell expansion occurs primarily during autumn or winter in patients with metastatic disease and high cytomegalovirus (CMV)-specific serum antibody titres. These clinical features implicate metastasis-dependent, compartmentalised CMV reactivation as the cause of CD4+ TEM expansion. Pre-therapy CD4+ TEM expansion predicts hepatitis in CMV-seropositive patients, opening possibilities for avoidance or prevention. 3 of 4 patients with pre-treatment CD4+ TEM expansion who received αPD-1 monotherapy instead of αPD-1/αCTLA-4 therapy remained hepatitis-free. 4 of 4 patients with baseline CD4+ TEM expansion given prophylactic valganciclovir and αPD-1/αCTLA-4 therapy remained hepatitis-free. Our findings exemplify how pathogen exposure can shape clinical reactions after cancer therapy and how this insight leads to therapeutic innovations.
Quasicrystalline Weyl points and dense Fermi-Bragg arcs
Creators: name: Fonseca, André Grossi e
name: Christensen, Thomas
name: Joannopoulos, John D.
name: Soljačić, Marin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a general mechanism for obtaining Weyl points in a stack of 2D quasicrystals, which can be extended to any stack of aperiodic layers. We do so by driving a topological phase transition with the vertical crystal-momentum as the tuning parameter, which leads to gap closures at the critical points sourcing Berry curvature. To illustrate, we use a simple 3D generalization of the Qi-Wu-Zhang model defined on a Penrose quasicrystal. The presence of Weyl points is established via the local Chern marker, projected band structure and density of states. Interestingly, we uncover an analogue of Fermi arcs in the quasicrystalline setting, which we deem Fermi-Bragg arcs, densely distributed lines connecting the band degeneracies and indexed by the Bragg peaks. Signatures of such surface states in quantum oscillations and the prospect of a fully quasicrystalline Weyl system are also discussed. The flexibility of our proposal brings new opportunities for realizing other gapless topological phases in aperiodic systems, paving the way for a significantly expanded role for topological band theory.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Virus-specific memory T cell responses unmasked by immune checkpoint blockade cause hepatitis
Creators: name: Hutchinson, James A.
name: Kronenberg, Katharina
name: Riquelme, Paloma
name: Wenzel, Jürgen J.
name: Glehr, Gunther
name: Schilling, Hannah-Lou
name: Zeman, Florian
name: Evert, Katja
name: Schmiedel, Martin
name: Mickler, Marion
name: Drexler, Konstantin
name: Bitterer, Florian
name: Cordero, Laura
name: Beyer, Lukas
name: Bach, Christian
name: Koestler, Josef
name: Burkhardt, Ralph
name: Schlitt, Hans J.
name: Hellwig, Dirk
name: Werner, Jens M.
name: Spang, Rainer
name: Schmidt, Barbara
name: Geissler, Edward K.
name: Haferkamp, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunotherapy Melanoma, Predictive markers, Tumour immunology, Viral host response
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Treatment of advanced melanoma with combined PD-1/CTLA-4 blockade commonly causes serious immune-mediated complications. Here, we identify a subset of patients predisposed to immune checkpoint blockade-related hepatitis who are distinguished by chronic expansion of effector memory CD4+ T cells (TEM cells). Pre-therapy CD4+ TEM cell expansion occurs primarily during autumn or winter in patients with metastatic disease and high cytomegalovirus (CMV)-specific serum antibody titres. These clinical features implicate metastasis-dependent, compartmentalised CMV reactivation as the cause of CD4+ TEM expansion. Pre-therapy CD4+ TEM expansion predicts hepatitis in CMV-seropositive patients, opening possibilities for avoidance or prevention. 3 of 4 patients with pre-treatment CD4+ TEM expansion who received αPD-1 monotherapy instead of αPD-1/αCTLA-4 therapy remained hepatitis-free. 4 of 4 patients with baseline CD4+ TEM expansion given prophylactic valganciclovir and αPD-1/αCTLA-4 therapy remained hepatitis-free. Our findings exemplify how pathogen exposure can shape clinical reactions after cancer therapy and how this insight leads to therapeutic innovations.
ACFlow: An open source toolkit for analytical continuation of quantum Monte Carlo data
Creators: name: Huang, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of analytical continuation is to establish a real frequency spectral representation of single-particle or two-particle correlation function (such as Green's function, self-energy function, and dynamical susceptibilities) from noisy data generated in finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations. It requires numerical solutions of a family of Fredholm integral equations of the first kind, which is indeed a challenging task. In this paper, an open source toolkit (dubbed ACFlow) for analytical continuation of quantum Monte Carlo data is presented. We at first give a short introduction to the analytical continuation problem. Next, three primary analytical continuation algorithms, including maximum entropy method, stochastic analytical continuation, and stochastic optimization method, as implemented in this toolkit are reviewed. And then we elaborate major features, implementation details, and basic usage of this toolkit. Finally, four representative examples are shown to demonstrate usefulness and flexibility of the ACFlow toolkit.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
23, 381, 6242, 103268, 1743183, ...: Hilbert series for CP-violating operators in SMEFT
Creators: name: Kondo, Dan
name: Murayama, Hitoshi
name: Okabe, Risshin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a systematic method to classify the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) operators based on their CP properties with the Hilbert series techniques. Our method makes it possible to enumerate operators violating CP symmetry in a few seconds. We present the complete classification of dimension eight operators under CP transformation, and the number of CP-odd or CP-violating operators are listed up to dimension 14. We also provide a companion code in FORM that allows anybody to reproduce our results.
description: v3: 31 pages, one figure, 5 tables, FORM codes visible as ancillary files, version accepted by JHEP
MUS-CDB: Mixed Uncertainty Sampling with Class Distribution Balancing for Active Annotation in Aerial Object Detection
Creators: name: Liang, Dong
name: Zhang, Jing-Wei
name: Tang, Ying-Peng
name: Huang, Sheng-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent aerial object detection models rely on a large amount of labeled training data, which requires unaffordable manual labeling costs in large aerial scenes with dense objects. Active learning effectively reduces the data labeling cost by selectively querying the informative and representative unlabelled samples. However, existing active learning methods are mainly with class-balanced settings and image-based querying for generic object detection tasks, which are less applicable to aerial object detection scenarios due to the long-tailed class distribution and dense small objects in aerial scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel active learning method for cost-effective aerial object detection. Specifically, both object-level and image-level informativeness are considered in the object selection to refrain from redundant and myopic querying. Besides, an easy-to-use class-balancing criterion is incorporated to favor the minority objects to alleviate the long-tailed class distribution problem in model training. We further devise a training loss to mine the latent knowledge in the unlabeled image regions. Extensive experiments are conducted on the DOTA-v1.0 and DOTA-v2.0 benchmarks to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. For the ReDet, KLD, and SASM detectors on the DOTA-v2.0 dataset, the results show that our proposed MUS-CDB method can save nearly 75\% of the labeling cost while achieving comparable performance to other active learning methods in terms of mAP.Code is publicly online (https://github.com/ZJW700/MUS-CDB).
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
An evaluation of the Caulfield Grammar School Outdoor Education Program at Yarra Junction
Creators: name: Whitford, Ian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Rank three innately transitive permutation groups and related $2$-transitive groups
Creators: name: Baykalov, Anton A.
name: Devillers, Alice
name: Praeger, Cheryl E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20B10, 05B30, 51E30

description: The sets of primitive, quasiprimitive, and innately transitive permutation groups may each be regarded as the building blocks of finite transitive permutation groups, and are analogues of composition factors for abstract finite groups. This paper extends classifications of finite primitive and quasiprimitive groups of rank at most $3$ to a classification for the finite innately transitive groups. The new examples comprise three infinite families and three sporadic examples. A necessary step in this classification was the determination of certain configurations in finite almost simple $2$-transitive groups called special pairs.