cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fighting corruption: the role of the OECD guidelines for multinantional enterprises and national contact points
Creators: name: Bogunovic, Mina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: business ethics
corporate responsibility
corruption
OECD countries
international business enterprises

description: Second semester University: Maastricht University.
description: The purpose of the thesis is to determine the role of the Guidelines and National Contact Points (hereafter NCPs) in the fight against corruption. In order to achieve that purpose, three questions are posed, firstly, what the role of the Guidelines in the fight against corruption is, secondly, what the role of NCPs is, and lastly, what can be done to improve these two roles. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part forms the theoretical framework, and the second part forms the critical analysis. The theoretical framework of the thesis focuses on defining the concept of corruption, by determining the forms in which corruption occurs, distinguishing between various types of corrupt acts, and highlighting the severity of its consequences. The rationale of this chapter lies in the understanding of the phenomenon dealt with by the thesis. Furthermore, the theoretical framework of the thesis touches upon the Organisation for Economic Development (hereafter the OECD). The understanding of the legal instruments of the OECD and its vital role in the fight against corruption is of upmost importance for the elaboration on the purpose of the thesis. In regard to the role of the OECD, an overview of the development and content of the Guidelines is also made. The critical analysis encompasses the analysis of the seventh chapter of the Guidelines, which is made by comparing the scope of the anti-bribery chapter of the Guidelines to the Anti-Bribery Convention and by analysing a number of relevant specific instances that were brought up before NCPs. Next, the effectiveness of NCPs is determined with the help of the analysis of specific instances. The main sources for these two chapters were the Guidelines, the Anti-Bribery Convention, and specific instances. Lastly, upon highlighting the remaining challenges regarding the Guidelines’ and NCPs’ fight against corruption are introduced, and recommendations are mad
Random walks on semaphore codes and delay de Bruijn semigroups
Creators: name: Rhodes, John
name: Schilling, Anne
name: Silva, Pedro V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20M07, 20M30, 60J10, 05E18

description: We develop a new approach to random walks on de Bruijn graphs over the alphabet $A$ through right congruences on $A^k$, defined using the natural right action of $A^+$. A major role is played by special right congruences, which correspond to semaphore codes and allow an easier computation of the hitting time. We show how right congruences can be approximated by special right congruences.
description: 34 pages; 10 figures; as requested by the journal, the previous version of this paper was divided into two; this version contains Sections 1-8 of version 1; Sections 9-12 will appear as a separate paper with extra material added
Towards a new model of integration in Luxembourg : the new legislative proposal on the nationality law as a major change in the understanding of the Luxemburgish citizenship
Creators: name: Zambrano Bermeo, Maria Belen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: citizenship
Luxembourg
integration
multiculturalism
nationality

description: Second semester University: University College Dublin, National University of Ireland.
description: The government of Luxembourg issued a new proposal for reforming the law on the nationality of 2008. This new proposal carries a major change in the conception of citizenship. It comes back to an ius soli base that was abolished in 1940. The pure ius sanguinis condition for being Luxemburgish at birth could be replaced by a double ius soli requirement in the month of July 2015. Luxembourg, being a multilingual and multicultural country hosting major non-national communities and a founding member of the European Union constitutes a unique place to explore the implications of this law, its causes and its consequences on the residents and to understand the purpose of this proposal in the light of democracy and representation. The concept of citizenship is being challenged by the important migratory flow and the inherent transnationality of the European space connected to the world. The main body of this thesis will be dedicated to understand the timeline of citizenship in Luxembourg, the main changes in the new legislative proposal and its causes. Hence, this work will discuss the meaning of an ius soli basis, its relation with the supranational EU citizenship status and will open on its implications on a transnational perspective.
Elaphoglossum lasioglottis Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum lasioglottis

description: Elaphoglossum lasioglottis Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot., n.s. 27: 139. 1991. (Fig. 39R–W)
 Range: —Andes from Colombia to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; saxicolous on rock faces, on road banks, and along streams, in humid forest habitats; 2000–3600(–4200) m.
 Notes: —Most similar to E. cuspidatum and E. crassipes, but these are much larger species with rounder, more closely appressed blade scales, and usually a few dark scales scattered among the orange ones.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Indigenous peoples and self-determination: a capability perspective
Creators: name: Manca, Valentina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: indigenous peoples
self-determination
development

description: Second semester University: Ruhr - University Bochum
description: According to the theory of the capability approach, individuals are the ends and means of development, understood as the expansion of capabilities people have reason to value. Development has therefore multiple dimensions that include social, cultural and spiritual elements. The intent of the proposed dissertation is to investigate to which extent the capability approach, a freedom-centred theory, can be applied to the development of indigenous peoples, and how it can contribute to the implementation of the self-determination of indigenous groups, intended as the ability to determine all aspects of their lives, including their economic, social and cultural development. For this purpose, the capability approach will be considered not in its individual connotation but in a collective dimension, which is central in the life of indigenous communities. The relationship between indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination and the capability approach is illustrated with the case study of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant, that is jeopardizing the survival of the indigenous communities leaving in the surrounding area. The dissertation will argue that the capability approach makes a significant contribution to the understanding of indigenous peoples’ values and to the implementation of political participation.
Interpretable Deep learning Framework for Improved Gait Recognition in Internet of Things (IoT).
Creators: name: Elmor, Alaa
name: Fekry, Nada
name: Manar Elghobashy
name: Omira, Farah
name: Salama, Mostafa
name: Saber, Kareem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Deep Learning
Interpretable Machine Learning
Gait Recognition
Federated Learning
Edge Computing
Internet of Things (IoT)

description: Gait recognition has been gaining increased attention in a wide variety of applications. Human identification and authentication from gait information is an extremely challenging task, especially in the Internet of Things (IoT). This can be attributed to the resource-constrained nature of IoT devices and the privacy concerns of humans. With the increasing demand for person identification and verification, human gait information has been demonstrated as an active biometric that is valuable for more human recognition in the era of big data and artificial intelligence. This project aims to automate the identification and authentication of a person based on the reflection of her gait patterns on inertial sensor measurements. Our system uses lightweight deep learning based on temporal convolutions and attention operations to efficiently process and learn gait patterns from noisy inertial measurements. The light nature of our model enables it to be easily trained and deployed on edge devices in a resource-constrained IoT environment. Our system introduces an intelligent federated learning mechanism to train our speech recognition model under mobility constraints without the need to offload the data to a central location, which preserves the data from exposure to privacy attacks. The experiments show that the proposed method achieves higher than 99.17% and 96.75% accuracy for in-person identification and authentication, respectively, on inertial data. The ubiquitousness and low cost of gait sensors present an excellent opportunity for developing long-term gait analysis systems capable of identifying and authenticating people in outdoor environments, especially in smart cities.
description: ITAC GP Support Program Round #17 - (ID:GP2022.R17.11)
Nonlinear modulation of the HI power spectrum on ultra-large scales. I
Creators: name: Umeh, Obinna
name: Maartens, Roy
name: Santos, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intensity mapping of the neutral hydrogen brightness temperature promises to provide a three-dimensional view of the universe on very large scales. Nonlinear effects are typically thought to alter only the small-scale power, but we show how they may bias the extraction of cosmological information contained in the power spectrum on ultra-large scales. For linear perturbations to remain valid on large scales, we need to renormalize perturbations at higher order. In the case of intensity mapping, the second-order contribution to clustering from weak lensing dominates the nonlinear contribution at high redshift. Renormalization modifies the mean brightness temperature and therefore the evolution bias. It also introduces a term that mimics white noise. These effects may influence forecasting analysis on ultra-large scales.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. Argument made that 3rd order terms are subdominant; clarification of various subtleties; minor corrections; Comment on EoR, typos corrected, matches published version
Taxation as a human rights issue : taxation and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Creators: name: Ambros, Julia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: economic social and cultural rights
taxation
human rights

description: Second semester University: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań
description: In recent years the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has been devoting increasing attention to matters on taxation. This thesis analyses the current state of affairs of the Committee’s work on taxation and departs from this. It is argued that the Committee should adopt a General Comment on taxation. Tax policy may not have an obvious relation to the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. The fact that tax policy is human rights policy becomes clear when three characteristics are considered. First, the progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights depends on the extent to which financial resources are made available in order to be allocated and spent. Second, tax policies have a redistributive function with the potential to redress systemic social, economic and gender inequalities. It is through the tax system that market imbalances and historical discriminations embedded in societies can be regulated and the common good protected. Third, the state’s legitimacy to levy taxes derives from a civic contract which rests on the fulfilment of the rights of the citizenry and which is strengthened by the application of the principles of participation, transparency and accountability.
In-situ forming implant system for long acting HIV prophylaxis
Creators: name: Hudson, Shelby L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Although its prevention and treatment has progressed significantly since HIV’s first known case of human infection in 1959, with a worldwide prevalence of 36.9 million and incidence of 2.0 million in the year 2014 alone there remains significant room for improvement. Along with this persistence of infection comes an ongoing drive for better preventative measures. The current pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) method available, once daily oral Truvada, exhibits variable efficacy due to differences in individual patient absorption and mandates consistent patient utilization for prevention of infection. This project aims to improve upon these PrEP methods by providing a long acting injectable for the introduction of one or more antiretrovirals (ARVs) prior to the exposure for the prevention of infection in such an event. The following is a description of a subcutaneous injection which will introduce an in-situ forming implant (ISFI) allowing the prolonged release of drug through diffusion from and degradation of the resulting solid depot. Our goal is to achieve plasma drug concentration/s in appropriate animal models greater than or equal to four times the IC90 of each drug for at least three months. Also, we would like to ultimately demonstrate that the subcutaneous route of ISFI administration will allow for emergency removal of the system if needed. This promotes safety above the currently offered oral PrEP method as well as the intramuscular nanopartical suspension based injections currently in phase II clinical trials.
title: Industrial excess heat utilisation for residential heating
Creators: name: Fritz, Markus
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2023

description: The use of excess heat is an important aspect of providing residential heating and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Although some research has determined the excess heat potential for Germany and analysed different technologies for the transportation of excess heat, no study has identified the economic site-specific excess heat potential from industrial exhaust gases in Germany, its possible contribution to residential heating and the suitable technologies for its use. This dissertation aims to determine the excess heat potential for residential heating based on different heat transport technologies, estimate the cost of excess heat transport and provide recommendations for the future dissemination of excess heat use. The focus is on which technologies suit transporting industrial excess heat, what potential the respective technologies have and how high the costs are for transporting the excess heat. Therefore, a bottom-up optimisation model is developed, that enables a site-specific modelling of the industrial excess heat potentials. Furthermore, an analysis of enabling factors for and barriers to using excess heat for residential heating is carried out. This method allows a comprehensive assessment of the excess heat potential for the provision of residential heating. In conclusion, Germany has a significant excess heat potential of 37 TWh/a. In some municipalities, the annual excess heat potential exceeds the annual heat demand. Excess heat should be used more in these municipalities. It should be noted, though, that heat storage is necessary for full utilisation, as many industrial plants do not operate continuously throughout the year. Currently, district heating is mainly used to transport heat. The results of this dissertation indicated that district heating is technically feasible and the most economical of the technologies for many applications. Nonetheless, in some cases, other technologies can also be advantageous. Finally, the results showed that many companies believe there are too few “best-practice” examples for the successful external use of excess heat. Consequently, successful projects should be further promoted and advertised through funding and communication programmes.
A 1-D evolutionary model for icy satellites, applied to Enceladus
Creators: name: Malamud, Uri
name: Prialnik, Dina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a long-term 1-D evolution model for icy satellites that couples multiple processes: water migration and differentiation, geochemical reactions and silicate phase transitions, compaction by self-gravity, and ablation. The model further considers the following energy sources and sinks: tidal heating, radiogenic heating, geochemical energy released by serpentinization or absorbed by mineral dehydration, gravitational energy and insolation, and heat transport by conduction, convection, and advection. We apply the model to Enceladus, by guessing the initial conditions that would render a structure compatible with present-day observations, assuming the initial structure to have been homogeneous. Assuming the satellite has been losing water continually along its evolution, we postulate that it was formed as a more massive, more icy and more porous satellite, and gradually transformed into its present day state due to sustained long-term tidal heating. We consider several initial compositions and evolution scenarios and follow the evolution for the age of the Solar System, testing the present day model results against the available observational constraints. Our model shows the present configuration to be differentiated into a pure icy mantle, several tens of km thick, overlying a rocky core, composed of dehydrated rock at the center and hydrated rock in the outer part. For Enceladus, it predicts a higher rock/ice mass ratio than previously assumed and a thinner ice mantle, compatible with recent estimates based on gravity field measurements. Although, obviously, the model cannot be used to explain local phenomena, it sheds light on the internal structure invoked in explanations of localized features and activities.
description: submitted to Icarus
'City' and 'human rights' in a pot : impacts, opportunities and challenges of the multi-actor structure of 'the right to the city'
Creators: name: Coşkun, Barış
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: human rights
urban areas
collective identity
democracy
social justice
sustainability
social movements

description: Second semester University: University of Padua
description: The Right to the City is a complex term to understand and realize in terms of its content, context and implications. The Right to the City is a claim for an ideal that does not exist today. This claim refers to a unitary, collective, and diffuse right to include all rights and full exercise of them in a socially just, inclusive, democratic, and sustainable city. This thesis is going to provide an analytical analysis and comparison of key actors who take place in the Right to the City issue by examining comparatively their impacts, opportunities and challenges in order to clarify complexity of this structure, including conceptualization and efforts in different levels by human rights and democratization context. This thesis is based on the argument that using and conceptualizing the term ‘’Right to the City’’ from different perspectives that belong to actors in different scales such as supranational, international, regional, national and local institutions/governmental bodies/NGO’s/social movements creates an ambiguity. Main findings of this thesis are as of the following: the Right to the City and Human Rights Cities are closely related to each other. On the other hand, there are certain differences in between conceptualization of right(s) and city affiliations of them. The Right to the City is exercised with its original notion in the Global South by predominantly urban social movements, especially in Latin American countries. Whereas, Human Rights Cities are more widespread and convenient to the European context of urban life in which human rights are exercised and protected by local administrative units. It clarifies the distinction between two different understandings of the Right to the City and Human Rights Cities because of the fact that they have sui generis historical, political, economic, social, environmental and urban spatial backgrounds. Key words: the right to the city, human rights cities, collective right, democratic cities, social justice, and sustainable cities
Media's Influence on Perceptions of Trans Women
Creators: name: Solomon, Haley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Although media representations of Trans women are becoming increasingly more common,
many real Trans women still face discrimination in their daily lives, in part due to prejudices and
stereotypes that are still perpetuated by media. This study investigated how different
representations of Trans women in media influence people's attitudes toward this community.
After providing information about their baseline attitudes toward Trans individuals, 387
participants watched either two positive, two negative, or two problematic depictions of Trans
women from a film or television show. After watching the clips, participants' attitudes toward
Trans individuals were reassessed. Comparisons across groups showed that differences in pre- and
post-test scores approached significance, and that pretest attitude scores differed according to
gender, religion, age, and political ideation. Implications of these findings are discussed in
relation to recent media attention concerning Trans women.
New results on affine invariant points
Creators: name: Mordhorst, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a conjecture of B. Grünbaum stating that the set of affine invariant points of a convex body equals to the set of points invariant under all affine linear symmetries of the convex body. As a consequence we give a short proof on the fact that the affine space of affine linear points is infinite dimensional. In particular, we show that the set of affine invariant points with no dual is of second category. We investigate extremal cases for a class of symmetry measures. We show that the center of the John and Löwner ellipsoid can be far apart and we give the optimal order for the extremal distance of the two centers.
description: Reasons for replacement: Pages 1, 2: Minor typos corrected, Page 2, 9: Reference added Reasons for replacement: Extended version with corrected typos and further consequences
Citizenship tests in Europe : keeping a low European profile
Creators: name: Le Reste, Fanny
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: citizenship
Europe

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark, Danish Institute for Human Rights.
description: During the last six years, five Western European countries have created a naturalisation test that examines the candidate’s knowledge of the society. Naturalisation tests, which have existed for different reasons in Eastern European countries since the 1990s, are one instance of the membership criteria now flourishing all over Europe at different levels of the integration process. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether national citizenship tests are reconcilable with the project of building a Union citizenship and a sense of a European identity based on shared values. The study is based on the results of a survey that was sent to experts in nine member states in order to obtain information on the content of the test. This study shows that the tests practiced in the countries under scrutiny are not designed in that perspective, but could, in theory, be used as a tool to foster the individual’s sense of having a European identity.
The Struggle for Racial Equality in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Creators: name: Tatter, Grace
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This essay is not a linear history of race and education in Chapel Hill from 1954 to the present. Instead, I examine two historical “snapshots,” each demonstrating the tenacity of racism in our public schools. The first chapter explores the limited fulfillment of the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregated schools to be “inherently unequal.” During the time between the snapshots, a new language of race, centered on colorblindness and shaped by American core values of individualism and meritocracy, emerged. The second snapshot, divided into two chapters, explores the 1990s and the first decade of the century, as leaders of the school system struggled to reintroduce race and acknowledgement of racism into the community conversation. They recognized that merely allowing black students into schools had never been enough, and that they ought to strive for true integration: the creation of “a shared community of mutual respect, common goals, and joint ownership of education within a multiracial student body.”
title: Development of a Gamow No-Core Shell-Model Framework for Nuclear Resonances
Creators: name: Müller, Julius
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2023

description: The development of sophisticated ab initio methods and the improvement of nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory allow a very precise description of nuclear bound-state observables. In recent years, the development of ab initio methods that include the continuum degrees of freedom have made significant progress. Those methods allow the description of nuclear resonances. In this work, we develop an ab initio Gamow no-core shell model (GNCSM) framework for the description of nuclear resonances. The GNCSM is an extension of the NCSM, which is a very common ab initio method for a precise calculation of bound-state observables. The GNCSM makes use of the Berggren completeness relation, which enables the use of single-particle resonance and scattering continuum states in an orthonormal single-particle basis. As a consequence, the GNCSM Hamilton matrix becomes complex symmetric. The complex eigenvalues are able to describe the decay rate of nuclear resonances. The matrix elements for the GNCSM are calculated using an expansion in harmonic-oscillator matrix elements in order to regulate the infinite single-particle continuum states. The GNCSM with the Berggren single-particle basis is used to calculate a reference state. For this reference state, we compute a set of optimized Gamow natural orbitals in order to enhance the convergence rate in a subsequent GNCSM calculation. Finally, multiple Gamow natural orbital sets are used to compute a final result with a many-body uncertainty. The GNCSM framework is applied to resonances of various light nuclei. For some of these nuclei, we present a more precise calculation than the current spread of experimental results. Furthermore, we investigate different realistic interactions derived from chiral effective field theory with respect to their influence on the resonance energy and find that the dependence on the interaction is negligible compared to the many-body uncertainty of our framework. As a final application, we study the tetraneutron and find indications for a low-lying resonance.
Elaphoglossum nigrescens Diels, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum nigrescens

description: Elaphoglossum nigrescens (Hook.) T.Moore ex Diels, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1(4): 332. 1899. (Fig. 29A–C)
 Range: — Nicaragua to Panama, Venezuela to Bolivia (CO, LP), southeastern Brazil.
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic, rarely terrestrial, in humid forests; (100–) 750–2200 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
3D UNet Mouse Embryo Live
Creators: name: A. Wolny
name: V. Bondarenko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
plantseg
unet
3d
semantic-segmentation
mouse-embryo
cell-membrane
animal
tissue
light-sheet-microscopy
pytorch
live

description: Download RDF Package
UNet3D Mouse Embryo Cells A a variant of 3D U-Net trained to predict the cell boundaries in live light sheet images of developing mouse embryo. Voxel size: (0.2×0.2×1 µm^3) (XYZ).
description: A 3D U-Net trained to predict the cell boundaries in live light sheet images of developing mouse embryo. Voxel size: 0.2×0.2×1.0 µm^3 (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Diamond Sampling for Approximate Maximum All-pairs Dot-product (MAD) Search
Creators: name: Ballard, Grey
name: Pinar, Ali
name: Kolda, Tamara G.
name: Seshadhri, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given two sets of vectors, $A = \{{a_1}, \dots, {a_m}\}$ and $B=\{{b_1},\dots,{b_n}\}$, our problem is to find the top-$t$ dot products, i.e., the largest $|{a_i}\cdot{b_j}|$ among all possible pairs. This is a fundamental mathematical problem that appears in numerous data applications involving similarity search, link prediction, and collaborative filtering. We propose a sampling-based approach that avoids direct computation of all $mn$ dot products. We select diamonds (i.e., four-cycles) from the weighted tripartite representation of $A$ and $B$. The probability of selecting a diamond corresponding to pair $(i,j)$ is proportional to $({a_i}\cdot{b_j})^2$, amplifying the focus on the largest-magnitude entries. Experimental results indicate that diamond sampling is orders of magnitude faster than direct computation and requires far fewer samples than any competing approach. We also apply diamond sampling to the special case of maximum inner product search, and get significantly better results than the state-of-the-art hashing methods.
The fatty acid composition of black soldier fly larvae: the influence of feed substrate and applications in the feed industry
Creators: name: Cattaneo, A.
name: Meneguz, M.
name: Dabbou, S.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The need to reduce, reuse and recycle materials by applying new strategies of circular economy instead of linear systems of disposal is becoming increasingly urgent. The black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), is being studied for its outstanding capacity to convert organic waste into high-value biomass and as a valuable nutrient source for animal feed. A systematic literature review identified 35 articles on BSF rearing and use in animal feed. This review summarizes our current knowledge about the lipid composition of BSF larvae, in particular their fatty acid (FA) profile and the mechanisms through which the feeding substrate influences the FA profile. BSF larvae are shown to synthesize certain FAs, such as lauric and myristic acid, even when these components are absent from their diet. Furthermore, enriching the rearing substrate with eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acid is reported to increase the accumulation of these FAs. The saturated FA content increases when BSF larvae are reared on a vegetable-based diet. Moreover, enriching the rearing media with materials high in omega-3 and omega-6 FAs increases their concentration in the larvae and enhances their value as a feed substrate for other animals. Indeed, the supplementation of animal feeds with BSF larvae products is being studied for application in the aquaculture, poultry, and pig farming sectors. BSF larval fats are shown to have a positive effect on animal growth performances, body composition, and gut histology, establishing BSF larvae as an environmentally-sustainable feed ingredient. This review highlights the importance of deepening our knowledge on the various aspects of BSF larvae rearing and treatments which enhance the accumulation of specific lipids and minimize lipid quality deterioration and loss. By summarizing the existing literature on BSF larvae, this article contributes to the advancement of circular economies and the development of sustainable feed practices.
Monitoring migration in the Central Mediterranean : a matter of border controlling or rescuing lives?
Creators: name: Paiva, Mariana Tostes Botelho
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mediterranean countries
human rights monitoring
irregular migrations
Italy
European Union

description: Second semester University: University of Padua
description: Over the past decades, the number of migrants trying to reach Europe have increased dramatically. With the establishment of European Union and a policy of strengthening border surveillance, paths taken by migrants have changed. The dangerous journey through the Mediterranean Sea became an opportunity for many people to arrive in Italy and culminates in the deadliest migration route in the world. Considering the protection of irregular migrants and the challenge of monitoring Italian frontiers, the author hopes to contribute to the debate on whereas this migration dilemma has being dealt as a humanitarian crisis or as purely matter of border control. Through a comparative study, it will be analyzed the current policies, the actors involved and the legal framework applied both to a Border-Control and to operations of Search and Rescue on the National, EU and International levels. By the end, the necessity of more interaction between these elements will be evaluated and further discussions on their alignment with human rights ideas will be carried. Recommendations will be also proposed in order to introduce more thoughts on this yet, unsolved issue. Key words: irregular migration; Central Mediterranean route; border control; rescue operations in the sea; human rights principles; balanced approach.
3D UNet Mouse Embryo Live
Creators: name: Wolny, A.
name: V. Bondarenko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
plantseg
unet
3d
semantic-segmentation
mouse-embryo
cell-membrane
animal
tissue
light-sheet-microscopy
pytorch
live

description: Download RDF Package UNet3D Mouse Embryo Cells A a variant of 3D U-Net trained to predict the cell boundaries in live light sheet images of developing mouse embryo. Voxel size: (0.2×0.2×1 µm^3) (XYZ).
description: A 3D U-Net trained to predict the cell boundaries in live light sheet images of developing mouse embryo. Voxel size: 0.2×0.2×1.0 µm^3 (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Evaluating Inter-Method Reliability of Attachment Classifications and Limitations to Concordance in Middle-Childhood
Creators: name: Adam-Houser, Mathew A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The current study examines the inter-method reliability of attachment classification paradigms in middle-childhood, and potential constraints disorganization and child-sex may have on the concordance of these measures. Two popular methods, the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST) and Projective Family Drawings, assess the internal working models of children in order to evaluate attachment. Previous research has shown the MCAST to have robust internal reliability and content validity. This study examines dependency across methodologies in order to determine the reliability and validity of the family drawings. This study used a rural, low-income, African-American sample of 176 children who had completed both the MCAST and a family drawing collected from the Family Life Project to investigate the concordance of the two measures. Chi-square analysis found significant concordance for measurements of security and avoidance. Furthermore, high disorganization in the family drawing limited concordance of avoidant classifications. These findings are discussed in the context of their utility in clinical and research settings.
Higgs and flavour as doors to new physics
Creators: name: Sala, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A natural solution to the hierarchy problem of the Fermi scale motivates signals of New Physics at current and near future experiments. After a critical synthesis of this general motivation, we concentrate our attention on the interplay between LHC searches for new resonances, and precision measurements of both Higgs couplings and flavour violating observables. We do so for i) the Higgs sectors of the NMSSM and MSSM, as paradigmatic examples of theories providing extra scalars, and for ii) CKM-like flavour symmetries, with a focus on U(2)^3. This article is mainly based on several papers by the author, but it also reviews other recent related results. Its goal is to provide a synthetic - yet comprehensive orientation on these subjects, at the dawn of several (ATLAS and CMS, LHCb, NA62 etc.) coming experimental results.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures, invited contribution to EPJ Plus. v1: submitted to journal. v2: references added, published version
Q-colourings of the triangular lattice: Exact exponents and conformal field theory
Creators: name: Vernier, Eric
name: Jacobsen, Jesper Lykke
name: Salas, Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of Q-colourings of the triangular lattice using a mapping onto an integrable spin-one model, which can be solved exactly using Bethe Ansatz techniques. In particular we focus on the low-energy excitations above the eigenlevel g_2, which was shown by Baxter to dominate the transfer matrix spectrum in the Fortuin-Kasteleyn (chromatic polynomial) representation for Q_0 <= Q <= 4, where Q_0 = 3.819671... We argue that g_2 and its scaling levels define a conformally invariant theory, the so-called regime IV, which provides the actual description of the (analytically continued) colouring problem within a much wider range, namely 2 < Q <= 4. The corresponding conformal field theory is identified and the exact critical exponents are derived. We discuss their implications for the phase diagram of the antiferromagnetic triangular-lattice Potts model at non-zero temperature. Finally, we relate our results to recent observations in the field of spin-one anyonic chains.
description: 51 pages (pdflatex). Contains a .bbl file, and 9 figures in pdf format. The tex source uses IOP and tikz macros (not included). v2 contains many changes with respect to v1. Final version published in journal
Elaphoglossum palmarum M. Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum palmarum

description: Elaphoglossum palmarum M.Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia 58(2): 112. 2006. (Fig. 11A–D)
 Range: —Central Peru to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Locally fairly common; epiphytic in humid forests; 450–1650 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Social Development of Depression under Negative Peer Experiences
Creators: name: Yorke, Brendan J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: A social developmental model that includes identity and social experience could provide
useful insight for the prevention of adolescent depression. The protective outcomes of high
ethnic identity may depend on one’s social environment. African-American and Latino-
American students were asked to self-report their depressive symptoms, ethnic identity, peer
discrimination experiences, and bicultural stress. Latent curve analyses were used to examine
predictors of the trajectory of depressive symptoms. Across ethnicities, under conditions of high
peer discrimination, results suggest that higher levels of ethnic identity were associated with less
steep decreases in depressive symptoms. Ethnic identity did not have this association under
conditions of low peer discrimination. Latino Americans experienced more Bicultural Stress
indicating potential differences between groups. Interventions that address depression in
multicultural settings should consider an individual’s peer environment.
Data Conversations: Decentralized science (DeSci)
Creators: name: Koellinger, Philipp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: desci
decentralised science
open science
data conversations
research data management
ram

description: Open data, open methods, and reproducible and transparent research are increasingly endorsed by funders, publishers, institutions, and learned societies. But is the current publishing system setup in a good way to enable transparent research and sharing of the undelrying data and code? Are there alternatives to publishing your research as a PDF? In this edition of the Data Conversations, we dive into Decentralized science, an initiative to rethink scholarly publication and to respond to its challenges by combining insights from metascience with cutting-edge technological solutions. Prof. Dr. Philipp Koellinger co-founded DeSci Labs, intoruduce the ideas behind Decentralized science.
CEDAW and local culture: effectiveness in the field : case studies of Sierra Leone and Uganda
Creators: name: Grivel, Daniele
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
women
Sierra Leone
Uganda

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon.
description: The analysis of the implementation of CEDAW in Uganda and Sierra Leone, as emphasized by the Country and Shadow Reports of the last decades, proves that these two Countries have not yet domesticated the women’s rights principles. I start then an analysis of the general effectiveness of CEDAW after more than 30 years from its entry into force. As a result of that, I argue that the strength of CEDAW resides in its capacity of persuading local cultures in order to eradicate harmful practices; compliance with international women’s rights must originate from the internal of the culture. Therefore, we must change the approach with the traditional culture. Culture must not be confused only with harmful practices. We must stop treating it as something hostile, immovable and with negative characteristics. It should be considered as a possible ally for the respect of women’s rights standards, a resource in removing harmful practices. To reach this ambitious objective, a localization of the norms of CEDAW is needed, together with the willingness to tailor the international principles to the local needs. Hence, resources already present in the traditional local cultures must be utilized. In Uganda and in Sierra Leone customary courts can represent a good starting point to relate with culture in a positive way.
Elaphoglossum pannosum M. Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum pannosum

description: Elaphoglossum pannosum M.Kessler & Mickel, Brittonia 58(2): 114. 2006. (Fig. 11E–N)
 Range: —Endemic to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Locally fairly common; epiphytic in humid forests; 2100–2200 m.
 Notes: —The dense scale cover on blades abaxially is reminiscent of E. accedens, but that species has round, pale-edged, appressed petioles scales, and much larger scales along the costae abaxially.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The Effects of BMI and Psychosocial Stress on Inflammation in College Students
Creators: name: Owens, Caroline
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Objectives: To characterize experiences with stress reported by undergraduate and graduate students and to investigate associations between levels of psychosocial stress, BMI, and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels among this population.Methods: For this study, a total of 98 undergraduate, graduate, or professional students participated through convenience sampling at flu-shot clinics held by the university during the fall semesters. Participants provided perceived stress scores (n=75), a free list of five sources of daily stress, and a blood spot for CRP levels. BMI was calculated as weight (kg)/ height (m2) from measures of height and weight. Levels of psychosocial stress and BMI were examined in relation to CRP using linear regression analysis. Sources of stress were coded and examined in relation to sex and levels of perceived stress. Results: There were no differences in mean levels of perceived stress between men and women in our study. Several codes emerged as prevalent sources of stress among the overall sample, including: school, relationships, time management, health and wellness, and the future. Different frequencies of sources of stress emerged when stratified by sex and by PSS-10 categorization. There were statistically significant differences in mean CRP between male and female students in our study. There were no associations found between CRP and PSS or BMI in men; however, the association between CRP and BMI in women was statistically significant. Conclusion: This cross-sectional study utilized mixed-methods analysis in order to examine differential levels and sources of stress among college students. Additionally, this study demonstrated a significant association between BMI and CRP in female students. Future research should consider a longitudinal design over the course of the college experience, and may incorporate more qualitative methods when examining students’ experiences with stress.