cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SAveRUNNER: a network-based algorithm for drug repurposing and its application to COVID-19
Creators: name: Fiscon, Giulia
name: Conte, Federica
name: Farina, Lorenzo
name: Paci, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The novelty of new human coronavirus COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 and the lack of effective drugs and vaccines gave rise to a wide variety of strategies employed to fight this worldwide pandemic. Many of these strategies rely on the repositioning of existing drugs that could shorten the time and reduce the cost compared to de novo drug discovery. In this study, we presented a new network-based algorithm for drug repositioning, called SAveRUNNER (Searching off-lAbel dRUg aNd NEtwoRk), which predicts drug-disease associations by quantifying the interplay between the drug targets and the disease-specific proteins in the human interactome via a novel network-based similarity measure that prioritizes associations between drugs and diseases locating in the same network neighborhoods. Specifically, we applied SAveRUNNER on a panel of 14 selected diseases with a consolidated knowledge about their disease-causing genes and that have been found to be related to COVID-19 for genetic similarity, comorbidity, or for their association to drugs tentatively repurposed to treat COVID-19. Focusing specifically on SARS subnetwork, we identified 282 repurposable drugs, including some the most rumored off-label drugs for COVID-19 treatments, as well as a new combination therapy of 5 drugs, actually used in clinical practice. Furthermore, to maximize the efficiency of putative downstream validation experiments, we prioritized 24 potential anti-SARS-CoV repurposable drugs based on their network-based similarity values. These top-ranked drugs include ACE-inhibitors, monoclonal antibodies, and thrombin inhibitors. Finally, our findings were in-silico validated by performing a gene set enrichment analysis, which confirmed that most of the network-predicted repurposable drugs may have a potential treatment effect against human coronavirus infections.
description: 42 pages, 9 figures
THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD COTTON OUTLOOK
Creators: name: Johnson, James D.
name: MacDonald, Stephen
name: McKeivier, Teresa
name: Meyer, Leslie A.
name: Skelly, Carol
name: Johnson, James D.
name: MacDonald, Stephen
name: McKeivier, Teresa
name: Meyer, Leslie A.
name: Skelly, Carol
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Paper and PowerPoint Presentation
Looking for Empires: Japanese Colonialism and the Comparative Gaze
Creators: name: McDonald, Kate
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: This article surveys trends in recent English-language studies of Japanese imperialism and colonialism. Anglophone scholarship on comparative Japanese colonialism has shifted approaches in recent years. The early generation of comparative scholarship emphasized inter-imperial and inter-regional comparison. Newer scholarship builds comparative categories from the grounded analysis of liminal and transgressive subjects. Overall, the field increasingly represents the Japanese empire not as a singular phenomenon or a collection of distinct colony-metropole relationships. Instead, the field approaches the study of colonialism in the Japanese empire as an act of untangling the threads that made, and continue to make up, the many Japanese empires. The most exciting comparative work is that which does not explicitly define itself as comparative at all, yet which forces the field to re-evaluate the possibilities and limits of producing knowledge through comparison.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
IMPACT OF PARENT REARING STYLE AND SOCIETAL INFLUENCE ON THE CREATIVITY TENDENCY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: A MEDIATED MODERATION MODEL
Creators: name: LIU, Qing
Publisher: name: Asian Crime and Society Review
Year: 2024
Subjects: Parent Rearing Style
Creating Self-Efficacy
Media Literacy
Creativity Tendency

description: Asian Crime and Society Review, 11, 2, 118–126
Colonial Trajectories: On the Evolution of the German Protectorate of Southwest Africa
Creators: name: Leanza, Matthias
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: Colonialism manifests itself in a variety of forms. Through comparative case studies, we can systematically explore these varieties. However, by focusing on recurring patterns in order to determine what is typical for a given case, in contrast to other cases, comparative studies tend to neglect temporality and change. Hence the question arises: How can we acknowledge the evolving nature of the objects of comparison without rendering systematic accounts impossible? In order to answer this question, I will discuss the notion of “colonial trajectories”, which allows us to create process-sensitive typologies. I will illustrate this argument by tracing – in three steps – the evolution of the German protectorate of Southwest Africa, the precursor of present-day Namibia. Although this essay is not itself comparative, it does lay out a conceptual framework for comparing patterns of socio-political change in a colonial context.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
The Ramifications of Making Deep Neural Networks Compact
Creators: name: Jha, Nandan Kumar
name: Mittal, Sparsh
name: Mattela, Govardhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.1; I.5.2

description: The recent trend in deep neural networks (DNNs) research is to make the networks more compact. The motivation behind designing compact DNNs is to improve energy efficiency since by virtue of having lower memory footprint, compact DNNs have lower number of off-chip accesses which improves energy efficiency. However, we show that making DNNs compact has indirect and subtle implications which are not well-understood. Reducing the number of parameters in DNNs increases the number of activations which, in turn, increases the memory footprint. We evaluate several recently-proposed compact DNNs on Tesla P100 GPU and show that their "activations to parameters ratio" ranges between 1.4 to 32.8. Further, the "memory-footprint to model size ratio" ranges between 15 to 443. This shows that a higher number of activations causes large memory footprint which increases on-chip/off-chip data movements. Furthermore, these parameter-reducing techniques reduce the arithmetic intensity which increases on-chip/off-chip memory bandwidth requirement. Due to these factors, the energy efficiency of compact DNNs may be significantly reduced which is against the original motivation for designing compact DNNs.
description: Accepted as a conference paper in 2019 32nd International Conference on VLSI Design and 2019 18th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID)
Radial evolution in anti-de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Ilderton, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of Green's functions may be derived in either first or second quantisation. We illustrate this with a factorisation property for propagators in arbitrary spacetimes, and apply it to scalar fields in AdS space.
description: 6 pages. Replaced with revised version 9/Aug/05. Discussion expanded and generalised, references added
Factorization Algorithm for Parton Showers beyond the Leading Logarithmic Order of QCD
Creators: name: Tanaka, Hidekazu
name: Sugiura, Tetsuya
name: Wakabayashi, Yuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A factorization algorithm for a patron shower model based on the evolution of momentum distributions proposed in a previous work is studied. The scaling violation of initial state parton distributions is generated using parton showers to an accuracy of the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) order of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) using the information from only splitting functions and initial parton distributions at some fixed low energy. In the algorithm proposed in this paper, the total momentum of the initial state partons is conserved in any factorization scheme for mass singularities. As an example, the scaling violation of the parton distributions and the transverse momentum distributions due to initial state parton radiation are calculated with the jet calculs scheme.
description: 9 pages, PTPTeX.sty, 4 Postscript eps figures
Colonizing Colonizers: On the Colonial Transformation of “Pre-Colonial” Rwanda
Creators: name: Paul, Axel T.
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: Even before Rwanda became a German colony in the final years of the nineteenth century, the pre-colonial Rwandan kingdom ruled over western frontier territories which had already acquired a quasi-colonial status. Here, models and methods of domination and exploitation were developed that, under European colonial rule, came to serve as the blueprint for Rwanda’s pseudo-traditional socio-political structure. Yet, it was European colonialism which transformed Rwanda’s pre-colonial imperialism into a case of internal colonialism. The first part of the paper deals with general reasons for the development of statehood in interlacustrine Africa. The second part focuses on the rise and inner dynamics of the Rwandan empire from the mideighteenth century until the arrival of the European conquerors. The last part outlines to what extent the European presence in Rwanda enabled the Rwandan monarchy not only to survive, but to live up to its pretension to be the sovereign ruler of the country.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
Apache Land: Indigenous Colonialism on North America’s Borderlands
Creators: name: Lahti, Janne
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: Challenging the idea of colonialism as a European monopoly, this article uses a colonial and settler-colonial lens to frame a discussion of eighteenth-century North American borderland histories involving Apaches, Comanches and the Spanish. It centres on the idea of a shifting and contested colonial zone – Apache land – as a mosaic of competing colonial projects and intricate networks of friendship and enmity. In this zone, the Apaches, Comanches and the Spanish engaged in expansionist projects and invidious distinction, as well as elimination, replacement and assimilation. The Apaches were expansionists whose homelands enlarged, contracted and fragmented over time as a result of rival expansionist projects and the Apache’s own designs. Consequently, Apache land was a space being constantly remade by colonial projects that were not dictated or dominated by Euro-Americans.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
In Pursuit of the Sacred: Understanding Inka Colonialism in the Andes
Creators: name: A. Acuto, Félix
name: Leibowicz, Iván
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: The Inka Empire, or Tawantinsuyu, was the largest ancient empire in the Americas. During the fifteenth century and the first decades of the sixteenth century, the Inkas managed to conquer vast regions of the South American Andes, subduing a variety of groups and polities. But the Inkas did not expand their realm for the sole purpose of extracting resources and accumulating wealth. To various degrees, they developed a colonial project that aimed at reshaping the political, economic, cultural and religious institutions and practices of the colonized. There is no doubt that Inka colonialism involved, among other things, corvée labour, the strategic relocation of people(s) and the exploitation and production of staple crops and luxury goods. Nevertheless, we argue in this paper that, above all, the Inkas expanded into the Andean region to meet and relate to the Sacred. Inka expansionism was a sort of religious quest through which the Inkas built up their authority and legitimized their rule.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
Imperialism and Colonialism in the Qing Context
Creators: name: Mosca, Matthew W.
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: This paper outlines a framework for using the concepts of imperialism and colonialism to analyse the Qing empire, by relating the political goals of the Qing state with the economic and demographic centrality of China proper within the empire. In Inner Asia, state-driven imperialism often restricted the penetration of Han Chinese migrants and economic networks. In predominantly non-Han regions of southern China, by contrast, state policies often promoted migrant settlement and cultural transformation in forms that reflected a colonial dynamic. Southeast Asia was also deeply influenced by China proper’s economic growth and out-migration, but here the lack of Qing state interest prevented the emergence of a dynamic resembling that of European colonialism. After 1860, the Qing state increasingly abandoned efforts to balance the interests of various subjects, and shifted to a colonial policy of integrating all parts of the realm as closely as possible with China proper.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
title: Creating a Climatological Snowfall Map for the National Weather Service Buffalo County Warning Area Using an Ordinary Least-Squares Regression of PRISM Data with Residual Correction Scheme
Creators: name: Wood, Jefferson
Publisher: name: NOAA National Weather Service Eastern Region
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02txa8h30
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018

description: Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.)) ; 2018-01
description: An updated 30-year snowfall climatology map of the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Buffalo, NY county warning area is constructed from National Centers for Environmental Information 1981-2010 Normals point data using a Geographic Information System-driven objective analysis technique, replacing the previous map that was constructed using human-expert techniques. The new technique, henceforth referred to as Ordinary LeastSquare Regression with Residual Correction (OLRwRC), involves a regression analysis of 30year normal snowfall point data across the CWA against values derived from gridded coldseason precipitation data obtained from the PRISM Climate Group.  The resulting regression equation is applied to the gridded Parameter-elevation Regression on Independent Slopes (PRISM) precipitation data to create an initial snowfall map, which is then corrected using an interpolated grid of the residuals from the regression.  The resulting map, while not without flaws, is a significant step forward in the representation of snowfall climatology in western and north-central New York, revealing previously unresolved details and highlighting the significant variability in snowfall that is caused by the area’s unique geography.
E2GC: Energy-efficient Group Convolution in Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Jha, Nandan Kumar
name: Saini, Rajat
name: Nag, Subhrajit
name: Mittal, Sparsh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.5.1; I.5.2; I.5.5; C.0

description: The number of groups ($g$) in group convolution (GConv) is selected to boost the predictive performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) in a compute and parameter efficient manner. However, we show that naive selection of $g$ in GConv creates an imbalance between the computational complexity and degree of data reuse, which leads to suboptimal energy efficiency in DNNs. We devise an optimum group size model, which enables a balance between computational cost and data movement cost, thus, optimize the energy-efficiency of DNNs. Based on the insights from this model, we propose an "energy-efficient group convolution" (E2GC) module where, unlike the previous implementations of GConv, the group size ($G$) remains constant. Further, to demonstrate the efficacy of the E2GC module, we incorporate this module in the design of MobileNet-V1 and ResNeXt-50 and perform experiments on two GPUs, P100 and P4000. We show that, at comparable computational complexity, DNNs with constant group size (E2GC) are more energy-efficient than DNNs with a fixed number of groups (F$g$GC). For example, on P100 GPU, the energy-efficiency of MobileNet-V1 and ResNeXt-50 is increased by 10.8% and 4.73% (respectively) when E2GC modules substitute the F$g$GC modules in both the DNNs. Furthermore, through our extensive experimentation with ImageNet-1K and Food-101 image classification datasets, we show that the E2GC module enables a trade-off between generalization ability and representational power of DNN. Thus, the predictive performance of DNNs can be optimized by selecting an appropriate $G$. The code and trained models are available at https://github.com/iithcandle/E2GC-release.
description: Accepted as a conference paper in 2020 33rd International Conference on VLSI Design and 2020 19th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID)
A Colonial Empire Without Colonies: Russia’s State Colonialism in Comparative Perspective
Creators: name: Khodarkovsky, Michael
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: This paper argues that the Russian empire was a colonial empire in denial. Similar to other European empires, Russia’s policies and practices were colonial in nature. It was particularly so in the Asian parts of the empire, where Russian expansion evolved from a non-settler to a settler form of colonialism. However, unlike other European empires, Russian authorities consistently and consciously denied Russia’s colonial nature. What distinguished the Russian empire from its European counterparts was the dominant role of the state and a type of state colonialism that European empires began to practice at a much later stage.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
Pro Oriente, Ökumene - Konzil - Unfehlbarkeit, Tyrolia Innsbruck/Wien/München 1979
Creators: name: Suttner, E. Chr.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 68 (1984): Oriens christianus, Band 68
Magnetic Fields in High-Density Stellar Matter
Creators: name: Lugones, German
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I briefly review some aspects of the effect of magnetic fields in the high density regime relevant to neutron stars, focusing mainly on compact star structure and composition, superconductivity, combustion processes, and gamma ray bursts.
description: Invited review, conference "Magnetic Fields in the Universe: from Laboratory and Stars to Primordial Structures", Angra dos Reis, Brazil, Nov 28 - Dec 3, 2004, eds. E. M. de Gouveia dal Pino, G. Lugones & A. Lazarian, to be published in the AIP COnference Proceedings. 10 pages, no figures
Additional file 3 of Genomic diversity and population structure of the indigenous Greek and Cypriot cattle populations
Creators: name: Papachristou, Dimitris
name: Koutsouli, Panagiota
name: Laliotis, George P.
name: Kunz, Elisabeth
name: Maulik Upadhyay
name: Seichter, Doris
name: Russ, Ingolf
name: Bunevski Gjoko
name: Kostaras, Nikolaos
name: Bizelis, Iosif
name: Medugorac, Ivica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Tessellated projection. Spatial geographic presentation of the herein estimated diversity parameters (mA, AR, HE, HE(SNP), npA, nspA).
Gas Pixel Detectors for X-ray Polarimetry applications
Creators: name: Bellazzini, R.
name: Angelini, F.
name: Baldini, L.
name: Bitti, F.
name: Brez, A.
name: Cavalca, F.
name: Del Prete, M.
name: Kuss, M.
name: Latronico, L.
name: Omodei, N.
name: Pinchera, M.
name: Massai, M. M.
name: Minuti, M.
name: Razzano, M.
name: Sgro, C.
name: Spandre, G.
name: Tenze, A.
name: Costa, E.
name: Soffitta, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a new class of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors, the Gas Pixel Detector (GPD), in which a complete integration between the gas amplification structure and the read-out electronics has been reached. An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) built in deep sub-micron technology has been developed to realize a monolithic device that is, at the same time, the pixelized charge collecting electrode and the amplifying, shaping and charge measuring front-end electronics. The CMOS chip has the top metal layer patterned in a matrix of 80 micron pitch hexagonal pixels, each of them directly connected to the underneath electronics chain which has been realized in the remaining five layers of the 0.35 micron VLSI technology. Results from tests of a first prototype of such detector with 2k pixels and a full scale version with 22k pixels are presented. The application of this device for Astronomical X-Ray Polarimetry is discussed. The experimental detector response to polarized and unpolarized X-ray radiation is shown. Results from a full MonteCarlo simulation for two astronomical sources, the Crab Nebula and the Hercules X1, are also reported.
description: 16 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Additional file 10 of CGGBP1-regulated cytosine methylation at CTCF-binding motifs resists stochasticity
Creators: name: Manthan Patel
name: Divyesh Patel
name: Subhamoy Datta
name: Singh, Umashankar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 10. The figure shows the methylation reads distribution in CT and KD at lower methylation bins (1 to 4) in GM02639 cells.
Interacting electron systems between Fermi leads: effective one-body transmissions and correlation clouds
Creators: name: Molina, Rafael A.
name: Weinmann, Dietmar
name: Pichard, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to extend the Landauer formulation of quantum transport to correlated fermions, we consider a spinless system in which charge carriers interact, connected to two reservoirs by non-interacting one-dimensional leads. We show that the mapping of the embedded many-body scatterer onto an effective one-body scatterer with interaction-dependent parameters requires to include parts of the attached leads where the interacting region induces power law correlations. Physically, this gives a dependence of the conductance of a mesoscopic scatterer upon the nature of the used leads which is due to electron interactions inside the scatterer. To show this, we consider two identical correlated systems connected by a non-interacting lead of length $L\_\mathrm{C}$. We demonstrate that the effective one-body transmission of the ensemble deviates by an amount $A/L\_\mathrm{C}$ from the behavior obtained assuming an effective one-body description for each element and the combination law of scatterers in series. $A$ is maximum for the interaction strength $U$ around which the Luttinger liquid becomes a Mott insulator in the used model, and vanishes when $U \to 0$ and $U \to \infty$. Analogies with the Kondo problem are pointed out.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 2 of Genomic diversity and population structure of the indigenous Greek and Cypriot cattle populations
Creators: name: Papachristou, Dimitris
name: Koutsouli, Panagiota
name: Laliotis, George P.
name: Kunz, Elisabeth
name: Maulik Upadhyay
name: Seichter, Doris
name: Russ, Ingolf
name: Bunevski Gjoko
name: Kostaras, Nikolaos
name: Bizelis, Iosif
name: Medugorac, Ivica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Detailed description of the indigenous Greek and Cypriot cattle. Compilation of information on Greek indigenous cattle breeds from diverse sources [16, 33, 71–87]. This includes also information from records in Greek, which were formerly not accessible to the international scientific community due to language barriers.
Non-rectangular embedded programmable logic cores
Creators: name: Wong, Tony Yau-Wai
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: As System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design enters into mainstream usage, the ability to make post-fabrication changes will become more and more attractive. This ability can be realized using programmable logic cores. These cores are like any other intellectual property (IP) in the SoC design methodology, except that their function can be changed after fabrication. In many cases, nonrectangular programmable logic cores are required, either to better mesh with the other IP cores, or because of I/O constraints. However, most CAD algorithm and programmable logic architecture research targets standalone field programmable gate arrays (FPGA's), which are invariably square or rectangular. In this thesis, we enable researchers to evaluate nonrectangular programmable logic cores by a novel specification method and an enhanced CAD tool. We also show that existing placement and routing algorithms do not work well when targeting non-rectangular programmable logic cores, and we present enhancements to existing placement and routing algorithms that allow the algorithms to better target these cores. It is shown that the new algorithms lead to a 12% critical path improvement for "U"- shaped cores, and a 4% critical path improvement for "0"-shaped cores. The density and speed penalty for using these non-rectangular cores is significant, compared to square cores, however, we show that the penalty would be significantly larger if the original algorithms were used.
Additional file 1 of Antimicrobial resistance and toxigenic profiles of bacteria isolated from tropical shrimps (Farfantepenaeus notialis and Penaeus monodon) in Cameroun
Creators: name: Ombede, Sabine Ninelle Nga
name: Dougnon, Victorien
name: Hornel Koudokpon
name: Deguenon, Esther
name: Rajeunie Pernelle Jaelle Mindzie Ngomo
name: Tchibozo, Carine
name: Gnimatin, Jean Pierre
name: Tchoumbougnang, François
name: Anges Yadouleton
name: Dougnon, Jacques
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers of resistance genes. Table S2. Primers of virulence genes. Figure S1. Microbial population present in tropical shrimps.
Alfred Schlicht, Frankreich und die syrischen Christen 1799-1861. Minoritäten und europäischer Imperialismus im Vorderen Orient, Berlin 1981
Creators: name: Hage, W.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 68 (1984): Oriens christianus, Band 68
High Density Preheating Effects on Q-ball Decays and MSSM Inflation
Creators: name: Berkooz, Micha
name: Chung, Daniel J. H.
name: Volansky, Tomer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-perturbative preheating decay of post-inflationary condensates often results in a high density, low momenta, non-thermal gas. In the case where the non-perturbative classical evolution also leads to Q-balls, this effect shields them from instant dissociation, and may radically change the thermal history of the universe. For example, in a large class of inflationary scenarios, motivated by the MSSM and its embedding in string theory, the reheat temperature changes by a multiplicative factor of $10^{12}$.
description: 4 pages
Bertrand de Margerie, Introduction à l'histoire de l'exégèse, I : Les pères grecs et orientaux, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1980
Creators: name: Suttner, E. Chr
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 68 (1984): Oriens christianus, Band 68
The Fall 2004 SDSS Supernova Survey
Creators: name: Sako, Masao
name: Romani, Roger
name: Frieman, Josh
name: Adelman-McCarthy, Jen
name: Becker, Andrew
name: DeJongh, Fritz
name: Dilday, Ben
name: Estrada, Juan
name: Hendry, John
name: Holtzman, Jon
name: Kaplan, Jared
name: Kessler, Rick
name: Lampeitl, Hubert
name: Marriner, John
name: Miknaitis, Gajus
name: Riess, Adam
name: Tucker, Douglas
name: Barentine, J.
name: Blandford, R.
name: Brewington, H.
name: Dembicky, J.
name: Harvanek, M.
name: Hawley, S.
name: Hogan, C.
name: Johnston, D.
name: Kahn, S.
name: Ketzeback, B.
name: Kleinman, S.
name: Krzesinski, J.
name: Lamenti, D.
name: Long, D.
name: McMillan, R.
name: Newman, P.
name: Nitta, A.
name: Nichol, R.
name: Scranton, R.
name: Sheldon, E.
name: Snedden, S.
name: Stoughton, C.
name: York, D.
name: Collaboration, the SDSS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In preparation for the Supernova Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II, a proposed 3-year extension to the SDSS, we have conducted an early engineering and science run during the fall of 2004, which consisted of approximately 20 scheduled nights of repeated imaging of half of the southern equatorial stripe. Transient supernova-like events were detected in near real-time and photometric measurements were made in the five SDSS filter bandpasses with a cadence of ~2 days. Candidate type Ia supernovae (SNe) were pre-selected based on their colors, light curve shape, and the properties of the host galaxy. Follow-up spectroscopic observations were performed with the Astrophysical Research Consortium 3.5m telescope and the 9.2m Hobby-Eberly Telescope to confirm their types and measure the redshifts. The 2004 campaign resulted in 22 spectroscopically confirmed SNe, which includes 16 type Ia, 5 type II, and 1 type Ib/c. These SN Ia will help fill in the sparsely sampled redshift interval of z = 0.05 - 0.35, the so-called 'redshift desert', in the Hubble diagram. Detailed investigation of the spectral properties of these moderate-redshift SNe Ia will also provide a bridge between local SNe and high-redshift objects, and will help us understand the systematics for future cosmological applications that require high photometric precision. Finally, the large survey volume also provides the opportunity to select unusual supernovae for spectroscopic study that are poorly sampled in other surveys. We report on some of the early results from this program and discuss potential future applications.
description: 6 pages; Presentation at the 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics; minor revisions
ULSAM: Ultra-Lightweight Subspace Attention Module for Compact Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Saini, Rajat
name: Jha, Nandan Kumar
name: Das, Bedanta
name: Mittal, Sparsh
name: Mohan, C. Krishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.1; I.5.2; I.5.4

description: The capability of the self-attention mechanism to model the long-range dependencies has catapulted its deployment in vision models. Unlike convolution operators, self-attention offers infinite receptive field and enables compute-efficient modeling of global dependencies. However, the existing state-of-the-art attention mechanisms incur high compute and/or parameter overheads, and hence unfit for compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this work, we propose a simple yet effective "Ultra-Lightweight Subspace Attention Mechanism" (ULSAM), which infers different attention maps for each feature map subspace. We argue that leaning separate attention maps for each feature subspace enables multi-scale and multi-frequency feature representation, which is more desirable for fine-grained image classification. Our method of subspace attention is orthogonal and complementary to the existing state-of-the-arts attention mechanisms used in vision models. ULSAM is end-to-end trainable and can be deployed as a plug-and-play module in the pre-existing compact CNNs. Notably, our work is the first attempt that uses a subspace attention mechanism to increase the efficiency of compact CNNs. To show the efficacy of ULSAM, we perform experiments with MobileNet-V1 and MobileNet-V2 as backbone architectures on ImageNet-1K and three fine-grained image classification datasets. We achieve $\approx$13% and $\approx$25% reduction in both the FLOPs and parameter counts of MobileNet-V2 with a 0.27% and more than 1% improvement in top-1 accuracy on the ImageNet-1K and fine-grained image classification datasets (respectively). Code and trained models are available at https://github.com/Nandan91/ULSAM.
description: Accepted as a conference paper in 2020 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Effect of collector arrangement on the impaction efficiency of a multi-collector system
Creators: name: Ratnam, Jayesh Jeevesh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Air filtration systems have been an essential means to maintain a clean environment and avoid health risks. The need to develop effective air filtration systems has been evident because of the immense increase in air pollution that poses a dire risk to the ecosystem. Conventional air filters are made of fibers that act as particle collectors. These fibers have random orientation and placement, and the filter relies on closely knit fibers to collect particles. Most filtration models used to quantify the particle collection in such systems assume that each fiber captures particles independently, uninfluenced by the neighboring fibers, thereby neglecting the effect of the relative orientation and placement of neighboring fibers on the particle collection. This study investigates the effect that the arrangement of cylindrical collectors has on the particle impaction efficiency of a multi-collector system using a simple two-cylinder model which represents any arbitrary pair of collectors placed in close vicinity. A numerical model is provided to analyze such a system and a detailed discussion for a Stokes number range of 0.2 – 100 is provided. The findings suggest that for Stokes numbers less than 10, the particle impaction on the collectors is very sensitive to the collector arrangement. Moreover, it was observed that for these Stokes numbers and appropriate collector arrangements the filter performance can be enhanced significantly. For Stokes numbers between 10 and 100 slight enhancements are possible in the filter performance for appropriate arrangements whereas for Stokes numbers greater than 100 the enhancement in the filter performance was found to be negligible. Furthermore, for Stokes numbers greater than 100 the study concluded that if the collectors are separated by at least a distance equivalent to one collector diameter in the transverse direction, collector arrangement does not have any effect on the particle impaction. The results also suggest that an ordered arrangement of collectors could result in an increment in the filter performance compared to a random arrangement. Finally, this study concludes that the effects of collector arrangement should be included in models used to investigate multi-collector systems, such as fibrous air filters. As a part of this study, a novel method of filtration has been introduced and analyzed. This novel method would use liquid bridges to replace the fibers of the conventional fibrous air filtration systems, to trap particles. This hypothesis is supported by preliminary proof-of-concept experiments.
Nutrition and Health Characteristics of Low-Income Populations: Meal Patterns, Milk and Soft Drink Consumption, and Supplement Use
Creators: name: Frazao, Elizabeth
name: Frazao, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The Nutrition and Health Characteristics of Low-Income Populations study examined several eating behaviors for children and adults using 1988-94 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-III) data. The measures provide a baseline to monitor eating behaviors of Americans, focusing on the low-income population.
Additional file 1 of Genomic diversity and population structure of the indigenous Greek and Cypriot cattle populations
Creators: name: Papachristou, Dimitris
name: Koutsouli, Panagiota
name: Laliotis, George P.
name: Kunz, Elisabeth
name: Maulik Upadhyay
name: Seichter, Doris
name: Russ, Ingolf
name: Bunevski Gjoko
name: Kostaras, Nikolaos
name: Bizelis, Iosif
name: Medugorac, Ivica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sample description, group allocation, RGB (color) code assigned to the pre-defined groups within this paper, breed names, breed code, number of sampled and genotyped individuals (N), number of genotyped and unrelated individuals used to estimate the diversity parameters (Nd), current breeding purposes as well as sporadic or recent past breeding purposes in parenthesis, breed origin, and source of the samples or genotypes used in this study or from previous studies [17, 25, 28, 30, 34, 35, 67–70]. Table S2. Phenotypic, productive and reproductive traits. Description of phenotype, productive and reproductive traits of the 11 Greek and Cypriot analyzed breeds. Table S3. Evolution of bovine population sizes on the islands during the last 60 years. Statistical information regarding the evolution of cattle population on the Greek island based on [62].
REGIONAL TRENDS IN EXTENSION SYSTEM RESOURCES
Creators: name: Ahearn, Mary Clare
name: Yee, Jet
name: Bottum, John S.
name: Ahearn, Mary Clare
name: Yee, Jet
name: Bottum, John S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Cooperative Extension Service
subject: Extension
subject: full-time-equivalent
subject: FTE
subject: agricultural productivity
subject: Smith-Lever Act of 1914
subject: research and development
subject: land-grant universities

description: In 1914, the Cooperative Extension Service was established to disseminate information about agriculture and home economics from land-grant universities to the U.S. public. At that time, about 30 percent of U.S. workers were in agriculture-related occupations; by the late 1990s, that share had declined to about 1 percent. Today, the Extension System ("Extension") is largely publicly funded and links the educational and research arms of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, land-grant universities, and related institutions. The system has changed along with its audience. The number of full-time-equivalent Extension personnel dropped by 12 percent from 1977 to 1997, with the largest declines found in community resource development and 4-H youth programs, two of the four main Extension program areas. (The other two programs are agriculture and natural resources, and home economics and human nutrition.) Regional personnel FTE allocation patterns were mostly similar to the national ones.
Political complexity and the pervading role of ideology in policy-making
Creators: name: Béchard, Benoît
name: Ouimet, Mathieu
name: Hodgetts, Helen M.
name: Morneau-Guérin, Frédéric
name: Tremblay, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Journal of Dynamic Decision Making
Year: 2024

description: Policy-makers use different decision-making strategies and base their decisions – more or less explicitly – on both expert knowledge and opinions in order to cope with the sheer complexity of societal challenges and the political environment. Most politicians rely to some extent on personal ideology in the implementation of public policies. Potential decision biases such as ‘repair service behavior’ – the human tendency to try fixing what appears to be most problematic at first – also influence decision-making. While ideology plays a prominent role in politics, we know too little about its effect on political decision-making. Some researchers would argue that the use of ideology and repair service behavior facilitate the decision process, while others suggest that it adversely affects the ability to make objective decisions. Using a political microworld simulation that reproduces complex real-world problems, we investigate the effects of repair service behavior and personal ideology on performance in a dynamic decision-making task. Although repair service behavior was not associated with performance, the results suggest that personal ideology significantly impaired goal attainment. Despite clear instructions to be as objective as possible and think critically in completing the task, ideology was powerful enough to disrupt objective policy-making, as indicated by the deviation from optimal scores and the overall microworld task goal, i.e., to win votes and be re-elected by the end of the game.
description: Journal of Dynamic Decision Making, Vol. 9 (2023)
Entanglement-enhanced testing of multiple quantum hypotheses
Creators: name: Zhuang, Quntao
name: Pirandola, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum hypothesis testing has been greatly advanced for the binary discrimination of two states, or two channels. In this setting, we already know that quantum entanglement can be used to enhance the discrimination of two bosonic channels. Here, we remove the restriction of binary hypotheses and show that entangled photons can remarkably boost the discrimination of multiple bosonic channels. More precisely, we formulate a general problem of channel-position finding where the goal is to determine the position of a target channel among many background channels. We prove that, using entangled photons at the input and a generalized form of conditional nulling receiver at the output, we may outperform any classical strategy. Our results can be applied to enhance a range of technological tasks, including the optical readout of sparse classical data, the spectroscopic analysis of a frequency spectrum, and the determination of the direction of a target at fixed range.
description: 8+5+4 pages,4 figures. Published version with typos corrected
How Do Taxes Affect Food Markets?
Creators: name: Canning, Patrick N.
name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
name: Canning, Patrick N.
name: Tsigas, Marinos E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Public Economics

description: Several food market indicators would change if a flat income tax system -- that is, a system without exemptions, deductions, credits, and deferrals-replaced the current system. Our findings support the widely held view that even though a flat income tax system would increase national income, gains for consumers would be only modest. Nor would economic growth be universal. A federal flat tax structure would lead to smaller farm industries with lower than average growth rates, larger food industries with higher than average growth rates, slightly lower food production costs and consumer food prices, reduced net farm exports, and reduced net food imports. If states were to enact similar reforms, consumer food prices would drop 2.2 percent overall and over 5 percent in the Delta, Appalachian, and Southern Plains regions. Some of these indicators vary substantially by region.
Ottomans in Syria: “Turkish Colonialism”, or Something Else?
Creators: name: Reilly, James A.
Publisher: name: Comparativ
Year: 2020

description: Syria under Ottoman rule offers material for interrogating the concept of colonialism. The Ottoman Empire governed the predominantly Arabic-speaking population of the Syrian lands for four centuries (1516–1918). Ottoman rule in Syria bears at least a superficial resemblance to modern colonialism, including implantation of new populations, economic exploitation by administrators, and co-optation of “warlike” or “tribal” communities into the imperial structure. But the story of the Ottoman Empire in Syria is more complicated than a binary colonizerscolonized vision allows. The Ottoman sultanate transitioned from a powerful pre-modern empire to a beleaguered and defensive-minded modern state. Rather than representing “Turkish colonialism”, Ottoman rule in Syria illustrates an instance of how an older imperial structure tried to adapt to new and unfavourable circumstances of modern statehood.
description: Comparativ, Vol. 30 No. 3/4 (2020): Comparing Colonialism: Beyond European Exceptionalism
EFFECTS OF FOOD ASSISTANCE AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS ON NUTRITION AND HEALTH, VOLUME 2, DATA SOURCES
Creators: name: Logan, Christopher
name: Fox, Mary Kay
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Logan, Christopher
name: Fox, Mary Kay
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: USDA Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs
subject: data sources
subject: program participation
subject: nutrition outcomes
subject: health outcomes

description: This is the second of four reports completed by Abt Associates Inc., under the contract "The Nutrition and Health Outcome Study." This report is an evaluation of various data sources for their potential for analyzing the impacts of USDA's food assistance and nutrition programs (FANPs). Data sources are evaluated against three criteria: coverage of both program participants and nonparticipants; identification of participants and determination of eligibility among nonparticipants; and availability of impact measures. Each data source is classified into one of four categories: principal, potential, recognized, and insufficient. Principal and potential sources are discussed and profiled in this report.