cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Reasonable Alternative Treatment in Patients With Symptomatic Adult Scoliosis for Whom Surgical Therapy Is Not Suitable? A Pilot Study
Creators: name: Lucia, Kristin
name: Nulis, Stefan
name: Tkatschenko, Dimitri
name: Kuckuck, Anja
name: Vajkoczy, Peter
name: Bayerl, Simon
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Adult degenerative scoliosis
subject: depression
subject: quality of life
subject: SCS
subject: sleep quality
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction: In adult scoliosis, dorsal instrumentation and fusion can provide significant improvement of pain and disability scores (Owestry Index); however, complication rates of up to 39% have been reported. As such, recent attempts have been made at expanding the surgical spectrum to include less invasive techniques in patients such as neuromodulation, specifically spinal cord stimulation (SCS). We therefore aimed to evaluate its use in a larger cohort of adult scoliosis patients in the form of a pilot study. Materials and Methods: We analyzed prospectively collected data from 18 adult scoliosis patients receiving SCS treatment in our institution between February 2019 and May 2020. Clinical follow-up was performed at 3, 6, and 12 months following implantation of an epidural SCS System. Patients reported numeric rating scale (NRS) values for the categories of lower back pain (LBP) and regional pain (RP) both at rest and in motion. Further, SF-36, ADS-K, PSQI, and ODI forms were completed. The study was approved by the institutional Ethics Committee (EA2/093/13). Results: Initial preoperative NRS of LBP at rest was significantly reduced following SCS at three (45% reduction, p = 0.005) and six (43% reduction, p = 0.009) months follow-up. LBP in motion was also reduced at three (27% reduction, p = 0.002) and six (33% reduction vs. preoperative, p = 0.005) months. RP at rest was reduced at three (38% reduction, p = 0.003) and six (37% reduction, p = 0.007) and in movement at three (29% reduction, 0.006) and six (32% reduction, p = 0.011). Loss of thoracic kyphosis and increased pelvic incidence were associated with worse NRS response to SCS stimulation at six months follow-up. Discussion: In overweight, older adults for whom the risks of corrective surgery must be carefully considered, neuromodulation can significantly reduce LBP as well as regional pain in the first six months following implantation. These findings may provide a reasonable alternative in patients not willing or eligible to undergo extensive corrective surgery.
Distributional robustness of K-class estimators and the PULSE
Creators: name: Jakobsen, Martin Emil
name: Peters, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While causal models are robust in that they are prediction optimal under arbitrarily strong interventions, they may not be optimal when the interventions are bounded. We prove that the classical K-class estimator satisfies such optimality by establishing a connection between K-class estimators and anchor regression. This connection further motivates a novel estimator in instrumental variable settings that minimizes the mean squared prediction error subject to the constraint that the estimator lies in an asymptotically valid confidence region of the causal coefficient. We call this estimator PULSE (p-uncorrelated least squares estimator), relate it to work on invariance, show that it can be computed efficiently as a data-driven K-class estimator, even though the underlying optimization problem is non-convex, and prove consistency. We evaluate the estimators on real data and perform simulation experiments illustrating that PULSE suffers from less variability. There are several settings including weak instrument settings, where it outperforms other estimators.
description: Published in The Econometrics Journal: https://doi.org/10.1093/ectj/utab031
A spontaneous missense mutation in the chromodomain helicase DNA‐binding protein 8 (CHD8) gene: a novel association with congenital myasthenic syndrome
Creators: name: Lee, Chae Y.
name: Petkova, Mina
name: Morales‐Gonzalez, Susanne
name: Gimber, Niclas
name: Schmoranzer, Jan
name: Meisel, Andreas
name: Böhmerle, Wolfgang
name: Stenzel, Werner
name: Schuelke, Markus
name: Schwarz, Jana M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Duplin
subject: myasthenia
subject: overgrowth
subject: macrocephalus
subject: neuromuscular junction
subject: superresolution microscopy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aims: Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) are characterized by muscle weakness, ptosis and episodic apnoea. Mutations affect integral protein components of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Here we searched for the genetic basis of CMS in female monozygotic twins. Methods: We employed whole-exome sequencing for mutation detection and Sanger sequencing for segregation analysis. Immunohistology was done with antibodies against CHD8, rapsyn, β-catenin (βCAT) and golgin on fi-bro-blasts, human and mouse muscle. We recorded superresolution images of the NMJ using 3D-structured illumination microscopy. Results: We discovered a spontaneous missense mutation in CHD8 [chr14:g.21,884,051G>A, GRCh37.p11 | c.1732C>T, NM_00117062 | p.(R578C)], the gene encoding chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 8. This is the first missense mutation affecting Duplin, the short 110 kDa isoform of CHD8. It is known that CHD8/Duplin negatively regulates βCAT signalling in the WNT pathway and plays a role in chromatin remodelling. Inactivating CHD8 mutations are associated with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability in combination with facial dysmorphism, overgrowth and macrocephalus. No muscle-specific phenotype has been reported to date. Co-immunostaining with rapsyn on human and mouse muscle revealed a strong presence of CHD8 at the NMJ being located towards the sarcoplasmic side of the rapsyn cluster, where it co-localizes with βCAT. Conclusion: We hypothesize CHD8 to have a role in the maintenance of the structural integrity and function of the NMJ. Both patients benefited from treatment with 3,4-diaminopyridine, a reversible blocker of voltage-gated potassium channels at the nerve terminal that prolongs the action potential and increases acetylcholine release.
Live‐imaging of revertant and therapeutically restored dystrophin in the Dmd EGFP‐mdx mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Creators: name: Petkova, Mina V.
name: Stantzou, Amalia
name: Morin, Adrien
name: Petrova, Olga
name: Morales‐Gonzalez, Susanne
name: Seifert, Franziska
name: Bellec‐Dyevre, Jessica
name: Manoliu, Tudor
name: Goyenvalle, Aurelie
name: Garcia, Luis
name: Richard, Isabelle
name: Laplace‐Builhé, Corinne
name: Schuelke, Markus
name: Amthor, Helge
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: CRISPR/Cas9
subject: Duchenne muscular dystrophy
subject: dystrophin-EGFP fusion protein
subject: mdx reporter mouse model
subject: revertant muscle fibre
subject: tcDNA
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Dmdmdx, harbouring the c.2983C>T nonsense mutation in Dmd exon 23, is a mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), frequently used to test therapies aimed at dystrophin restoration. Current translational research is methodologically hampered by the lack of a reporter mouse model, which would allow direct visualization of dystrophin expression as well as longitudinal in vivo studies. Methods: We generated a DmdEGFP-mdx reporter allele carrying in cis the mdx-23 mutation and a C-terminal EGFP-tag. This mouse model allows direct visualization of spontaneously and therapeutically restored dystrophin-EGFP fusion protein either after natural fibre reversion, or for example, after splice modulation using tricyclo-DNA to skip Dmd exon 23, or after gene editing using AAV-encoded CRISPR/Cas9 for Dmd exon 23 excision. Results: Intravital microscopy in anaesthetized mice allowed live-imaging of sarcolemmal dystrophin-EGFP fusion protein of revertant fibres as well as following therapeutic restoration. Dystrophin-EGFP-fluorescence persisted ex vivo, allowing live-imaging of revertant and therapeutically restored dystrophin in isolated fibres ex vivo. Expression of the shorter dystrophin-EGFP isoforms Dp71 in the brain, Dp260 in the retina, and Dp116 in the peripheral nerve remained unabated by the mdx-23 mutation. Conclusion: Intravital imaging of DmdEGFP-mdx muscle permits novel experimental approaches such as the study of revertant and therapeutically restored dystrophin in vivo and ex vivo.
Organic Farming Suffices to Feed a Country: a Large-Scale Linear Programming Model to Develop an Organic Agriculture Plan for Turkey
Creators: name: Aslan, Bulut
name: Demir, A. Yonca
name: Aslan, Bulut
name: Demir, A. Yonca
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: organic agriculture
subject: linear programming
subject: agricultural planning
subject: farming
subject: sustainability
subject: arable land
subject: fossil fuels
subject: carbon emission
subject: food miles
subject: climate change
subject: biodiversity
subject: nutrition
subject: goal programming

description: A frequently voiced critique is that due to lower yields on organically managed farmlands, one cannot feed a country using organic agriculture. In this paper, we aim to mathematically disprove this claim by developing a linear programming model and produce a detailed agriculture plan for Turkey sufficient to feed her population with a 2400 kcal daily menu on average, solely comprising of organic foods. The model uses information about population sizes and food needs of 81 cities in Turkey, and yields of 120 food, feed, forage crops, and four animal products. Intensive and extensive livestock production methods as well as food transportation between cities has been incorporated into the model. The resulting problem with 950 thousand variables and 40 thousand constraints can be solved with an optimization package in under a minute. Results, prescribing how many acres of each crop should be grown in each city, indicate that to feed the country fully on organic produce, 63% of the arable land suffices, yielding 8.9 million hectares of unused land where further organic foods could be grown for export or aid. We also run the model under different scenarios: fully vegetarian diet, omnivore model, different transportation structures, drought conditions and a limit on fruit trees. With this work, we have shown that it is possible to feed the whole population of Turkey with an agricultural practice that is not harmful to human health, soil, water and air; respects biological cycles and reduces food miles and fossil fuel consumption, thus contributing to sustainability and fighting climate change. We tested preliminary scenarios to understand the robustness of organic agriculture in the face of extreme weather events. The proposed model can also be applied to other countries when appropriate data are used.
The Application of SNiPER to the JUNO Simulation
Creators: name: Lin, Tao
name: Zou, Jiaheng
name: Li, Weidong
name: Deng, Ziyan
name: Fang, Xiao
name: Cao, Guofu
name: Huang, Xingtao
name: You, Zhengyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: JUNO is a multipurpose neutrino experiment which is designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters. As one of the important systems, the JUNO offline software is being developed using the SNiPER software. In this proceeding, we focus on the requirements of JUNO simulation and present the working solution based on the SNiPER. The JUNO simulation framework is in charge of managing event data, detector geometries and materials, physics processes, simulation truth information etc. It glues physics generator, detector simulation and electronics simulation modules together to achieve a full simulation chain. In the implementation of the framework, many attractive characteristics of the SNiPER have been used, such as dynamic loading, flexible flow control, multiple event management and Python binding. Furthermore, additional efforts have been made to make both detector and electronics simulation flexible enough to accommodate and optimize different detector designs. For the Geant4-based detector simulation, each sub-detector component is implemented as a SNiPER tool which is a dynamically loadable and configurable plugin. So it is possible to select the detector configuration at runtime. The framework provides the event loop to drive the detector simulation and interacts with the Geant4 which is implemented as a passive service. All levels of user actions are wrapped into different customizable tools, so that user functions can be easily extended by just adding new tools. The electronics simulation has been implemented by following an event driven scheme. The SNiPER task component is used to simulate data processing steps in the electronics modules. The electronics and trigger are synchronized by triggered events containing possible physics signals.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, the 22nd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2016)
Effect of Pot Volume on the Growth of Sweetpotato Cultivated in the New Hydroponic System
Creators: name: Sakamoto, Masaru
name: Suzuki, Takahiro
name: Sakamoto, Masaru
name: Suzuki, Takahiro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: sweetpotato
subject: hydroponics
subject: pot size
subject: tuberous roots
subject: pencil roots

description: Hydroponics is an effective means for promoting plant growth as it facilitates water and nutrient uptake by plant roots. For increasing the production of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas), we developed the new hydroponic cultivation system in which tuberous roots were grown in solid media in the pots whereas fibrous roots were grown in the nutrient solution. Using this method, the effect of pot volume (1.6, 3.0, and 4.5 L) on the growth of sweetpotato was investigated. When plants were grown in small-sized pots (1.6 L), the fresh weight of the top and that of tuberous roots were decreased compared with plants grown in 3.0 L and 4.5 L pots. No clear difference was observed between the top and the tuberous roots in terms of the dry weight ratio, regardless of the pot size. The number of tuberous roots per plant and the maximum tuberous root weight were not influenced by the pot size either. However, the number of tuberous roots weighing more than 100 g was decreased in plants grown in small pots. Some of the tuberous roots grown in this hydroponic system contained a non-hypertrophic parts with severely lignified metaxylems. These results suggest that the environment surrounding the tuberous root influenced by the pot volume may be important for root enlargement in this hydroponic system.
Low‐voltage shock impedance measurements: A false sense of security
Creators: name: Parwani, Abdul Shokor
name: Lacour, Philipp
name: Franke, Philip
name: Reichert, Uwe
name: Christoph, Klein
name: Beiert, Thomas
name: Supryn, Rafal
name: Rangasamy, Karthikeyan
name: Kull, Tony
name: Hohendanner, Felix
name: Heinzel, Frank
name: Kucher, Andreas
name: Boldt, Leif‐Hendrik
name: Pieske, Burkert
name: Blaschke, Florian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: electrical short circuit
subject: implantable cardioverter defibrillator
subject: lead insulation failure
subject: shock impedance
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Implantable cardioverter defibrillators use low-voltage shock impedance measurements to monitor the lead integrity. However, previous case reports suggest that low-voltage shock impedance measurements may fail to detect insulation breaches that can cause life-threatening electrical short circuits. Methods and results: We report six cases of insulation breaches in transvenous defibrillation leads that were not obvious during standard interrogations and testing of the lead beforehand. In two cases, an electrical short circuit during commanded shock delivery for internal electrical cardioversion resulted in a total damage of the ICD generator. In one of these cases, commanded shock delivery induced ventricular fibrillation, which required external defibrillation. In two cases, a shock due to ventricular tachycardia was aborted as the shock impedance was less than 20 Ω. However, in both cases the tiny residual shock energy terminated the ventricular tachycardia. In contrast, in one case the residual energy of the aborted shock did not end ventricular fibrillation induced at defibrillator threshold testing. In one case, the ICD indicated an error code for a short circuit condition detected during an adequate shock delivery. Conclusions: This case series illustrates that low-voltage shock impedance measurements can fail to detect insulation breaches. These data suggest that in patients without a contraindication, traditional defibrillator threshold testing or high voltage synchronized shock at the time of device replacement should be considered.
An overview of mesoscale aerosol processes, comparisons, and validation studies from DRAGON networks
Creators: name: Holben, Brent N.
name: Kim, Jhoon
name: Sano, Itaru
name: Mukai, Sonoyo
name: Eck, Thomas
name: Et Al.
Publisher: name: EGU
Year: 2018

description: Authors: - Brent N. Holben, Jhoon Kim, Itaru Sano, Sonoyo Mukai, Thomas F. Eck, David M. Giles, Joel S. Schafer, Aliaksandr Sinyuk, Ilya Slutsker, Alexander Smirnov, Mikhail Sorokin, Bruce E. Anderson, Huizheng Che, Myungje Choi, James H. Crawford, Richard A. Ferrare, Michael J. Garay, Ukkyo Jeong, Mijin Kim, Woogyung Kim, Nichola Knox, Zhengqiang Li, Hwee S. Lim, Yang Liu, Hal Maring, Makiko Nakata, Kenneth E. Pickering, Stuart Piketh, Jens Redemann, Jeffrey S. Reid, Santo Salinas, Sora Seo, Fuyi Tan, Sachchida N. Tripathi, Owen B. Toon, and Qingyang Xiao
description: Over the past 24 years, the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) program has provided highly accurate remote-sensing characterization of aerosol optical and physical properties for an increasingly extensive geographic distribution including all continents and many oceanic island and coastal sites. The measurements and retrievals from the AERONET global network have addressed satellite and model validation needs very well, but there have been challenges in making comparisons to similar parameters from in situ surface and airborne measurements. Additionally, with improved spatial and temporal satellite remote sensing of aerosols, there is a need for higher spatial-resolution ground-based remote-sensing networks. An effort to address these needs resulted in a number of field campaign networks called Distributed Regional Aerosol Gridded Observation Networks (DRAGONs) that were designed to provide a database for in situ and remote-sensing comparison and analysis of local to mesoscale variability in aerosol properties. This paper describes the DRAGON deployments that will continue to contribute to the growing body of research related to meso- and microscale aerosol features and processes. The research presented in this special issue illustrates the diversity of topics that has resulted from the application of data from these networks.
Localization landscape theory of disorder in semiconductors II: Urbach tails of disordered quantum well layers
Creators: name: Piccardo, Marco
name: Li, Chi-Kang
name: Wu, Yuh-Renn
name: Speck, James S.
name: Bonef, Bastien
name: Farrell, Robert M.
name: Filoche, Marcel
name: Martinelli, Lucio
name: Peretti, Jacques
name: Weisbuch, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Urbach tails in semiconductors are often associated to effects of compositional disorder. The Urbach tail observed in InGaN alloy quantum wells of solar cells and LEDs by biased photocurrent spectroscopy is shown to be characteristic of the ternary alloy disorder. The broadening of the absorption edge observed for quantum wells emitting from violet to green (indium content ranging from 0 to 28\%) corresponds to a typical Urbach energy of 20~meV. A 3D absorption model is developed based on a recent theory of disorder-induced localization which provides the effective potential seen by the localized carriers without having to resort to the solution of the Schrödinger equation in a disordered potential. This model incorporating compositional disorder accounts well for the experimental broadening of the Urbach tail of the absorption edge. For energies below the Urbach tail of the InGaN quantum wells, type-II well-to-barrier transitions are observed and modeled. This contribution to the below bandgap absorption is particularly efficient in near-UV emitting quantum wells. When reverse biasing the device, the well-to-barrier below bandgap absorption exhibits a red shift, while the Urbach tail corresponding to the absorption within the quantum wells is blue shifted, due to the partial compensation of the internal piezoelectric fields by the external bias. The good agreement between the measured Urbach tail and its modeling by the new localization theory demonstrates the applicability of the latter to compositional disorder effects in nitride semiconductors.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures, 1 table
Postmortem Interval Estimation Using Myoglobin Concentration in Different Glandular Tissues
Creators: name: Rehab H.A. Younis
name: Ahmed, Rasha F.
name: Abdelaleem, Shereen A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Postmortem interval (PMI) estimation is very important in a suspicious death investigation. Myoglobin is a hemoprotein presents in striated muscles of living body. After death, myoglobin is exuded from muscles to blood, tissues and organs. So, the aim of this study was to estimate PMI from myoglobin concentrations in glandular tissues. This study was done on rats to detect the Postmortem concentration of myoglobin in pituitary, parotid and adrenal glands at different time intervals. There was a significant correlation between myoglobin concentration in glandular tissues and PMI. By multiple stepwise linear regression analysis, the most predictable model was the combination between pituitary, adrenal and parotid myoglobin concentrations (R2 = 0.992). The second predictable model was the combination between adrenal and pituitary myoglobin concentrations (R2 =0.99). The last predictable model was adrenal myoglobin concentration (R2 = 0.980). It was confirmed that myoglobin concentration in glandular tissues is a helpful parameter in estimation of PMI.
Discovery of a dual active galactic nucleus with ~ 8 kpc separation
Creators: name: Ellison, Sara L.
name: Secrest, Nathan J.
name: Mendel, J. Trevor
name: Satyapal, Shobita
name: Simard, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Targeted searches for dual active galactic nuclei (AGN), with separations 1 -- 10 kpc, have yielded relatively few successes. A recent pilot survey by Satyapal et al. has demonstrated that mid-infrared (mid-IR) pre-selection has the potential to significantly improve the success rate for dual AGN confirmation in late stage galaxy mergers. In this paper, we combine mid-IR selection with spatially resolved optical AGN diagnostics from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey to identify a candidate dual AGN in the late stage major galaxy merger SDSS J140737.17+442856.2 at z=0.143. The nature of the dual AGN is confirmed with Chandra X-ray observations that identify two hard X-ray point sources with intrinsic (corrected for absorption) 2-10 keV luminosities of 4*10^41 and 3.5*10^43 erg/s separated by 8.3 kpc. The neutral hydrogen absorption (~10^22 cm^-2) towards the two AGN is lower than in duals selected solely on their mid-IR colours, indicating that strategies that combine optical and mid-IR diagnostics may complement techniques that identify the highly obscured dual phase, such as at high X-ray energies or mid-IR only.
description: MNRAS Letters, in press
Three types of suffering – Ācārya dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Creators: name: Timalsina, Staneshwar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tantric philosophy
anava upaya
yantra
amnaya
Shiva
Shaiva
vimarsha-foundation
consciousness
mahadeva
Vasugupta
Sarvamnaya
tripura
Durga
Kaula
Abhinavagupta
Shiva Sutra
Kula
saivadvaita
vedanta
Mahakali
Tantra
Chandi
Kali
advaita vedanta
Bhairava
shambhava
timalsina
Spanda
Kashmir Shaivism
krama
Saundaryalahari
Tripura Rahasya
Tripurasundari
Camunda
agama
Devi Mahatmya
sarvamnaya
Guhyakālī
shakti
tantraloka
Divine Mother
sarvamnaya-oral-tradition-archive
trika
sthaneshwar timalsina
Īśāna
Mālinīvijayottaratantra
shakta upāya
Kubjika
Sadāśiva

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This presentation is part of the Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive.
Vimarsha Foundation. (2025). The Sarvāmnāya Oral Tradition Archive [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15188107
Leadership Inference for Multi-Agent Interactions
Creators: name: Khan, Hamzah
name: Fridovich-Keil, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Effectively predicting intent and behavior requires inferring leadership in multi-agent interactions. Dynamic games provide an expressive theoretical framework for modeling these interactions. Employing this framework, we propose a novel method to infer the leader in a two-agent game by observing the agents' behavior in complex, long-horizon interactions. We make two contributions. First, we introduce an iterative algorithm that solves dynamic two-agent Stackelberg games with nonlinear dynamics and nonquadratic costs, and demonstrate that it consistently converges. Second, we propose the Stackelberg Leadership Filter (SLF), an online method for identifying the leading agent in interactive scenarios based on observations of the game interactions. We validate the leadership filter's efficacy on simulated driving scenarios to demonstrate that the SLF can draw conclusions about leadership that match right-of-way expectations.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Investigating the origin of cube texture during static recrystallization of fcc metals : A full field crystal plasticity-phase field study
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Supriyo
name: Patil, Chaitali S.
name: Wang, Yunzhi
name: Niezgoda, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of cube recrystallization texture in medium to high stacking-fault energy fcc metals has been debated for almost 70 years. Despite numerous experimental and simulation studies, many issues regarding the nucleation and growth of cube grains remain unresolved. Here we apply a full field crystal plasticity model utilizing a dislocation density based constitutive theory to study the deformation and texture evolution in copper (Cu) under plane strain compression. Additionally, we use the phase field method, along with a stochastic nucleation model, for static recrystallization simulations. Simulation results show that the volume fraction of the cube component during deformation decreases with increasing strain. Although cube grains are not stable during plane strain compression, some of the non-cube grains rotate towards cube and develop narrow cube bands near the grain boundary region. With increasing deformation, the cube component accumulates dislocation density faster than other texture components. High stored energy in the cube regions leads to preferential nucleation of cube grains during static recrystallization. These cube nuclei originate from the intergranular cube bands. Although the cube component has a clear nucleation advantage, none of the texture component appears to have a growth advantage. Instead, simulation results show that heterogeneous distribution of nuclei has a profound influence on the resulting grain size distribution. During recrystallization, a significant increase in cube volume fraction is observed mainly due to high nucleation frequency of cube grains.
Pallidal low‐frequency activity in dystonia after cessation of long‐term deep brain stimulation
Creators: name: Scheller, Ute
name: Lofredi, Roxanne
name: Wijk, Bernadette C. M. Van
name: Saryyeva, Assel
name: Krauss, Joachim K.
name: Schneider, Gerd‐Helge
name: Kroneberg, Daniel
name: Krause, Patricia
name: Neumann, Wolf‐Julian
name: Kühn, Andrea A.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: basal ganglia
subject: deep brain stimulation
subject: dystonia
subject: globus pallidus
subject: local field potentials
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: This study investigates the association between pallidal low-frequency activity and motor sign severity in dystonia after chronic deep brain stimulation for several months. Methods: Local field potentials were recorded in 9 dystonia patients at 5 timepoints (T1–T5) during an OFF-stimulation period of 5 to 7 hours in parallel with clinical assessment using Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale. A linear mixed effects model was used to investigate the potential association of motor signs with local field potential activity in the low frequency (3–12 Hz) and beta range (13–30 Hz). Results: A significant association of Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale scores with low-frequency activity (3–12 Hz; b = 4.4; standard error = 1.5, degrees of freedom = 43, P = 0.006, 95% confidence interval, 1.3–7.5), but not beta activity (13–30 Hz) was revealed within participants across timepoints. Conclusion: Low-frequency activity is associated with dystonic motor sign severity, even months after chronic deep brain stimulation. Our findings corroborate the pathophysiological role of low-frequency activity in dystonia and highlight the potential utility as a biomarker for adaptive neuromodulation.
Magnetism-induced topological transition in EuAs3
Creators: name: Cheng, Erjian
name: Xia, Wei
name: Shi, Xianbiao
name: Wang, Chengwei
name: Xi, Chuanying
name: Xu, Shaowen
name: Peets, Darren C.
name: Wang, Linshu
name: Su, Hao
name: Pi, Li
name: Ren, Wei
name: Wang, Xia
name: Yu, Na
name: Chen, Yulin
name: Zhao, Weiwei
name: Liu, Zhongkai
name: Guo, Yanfeng
name: Li, Shiyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the interaction between magnetism and topology in magnetic topological semimetals remains mysterious, but may be expected to lead to a variety of novel physics. We present $ab$ $initio$ band calculations, electrical transport and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements on the magnetic semimetal EuAs$_3$, demonstrating a magnetism-induced topological transition from a topological nodal-line semimetal in the paramagnetic or the spin-polarized state to a topological massive Dirac metal in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state at low temperature, featuring a pair of massive Dirac points, inverted bands and topological surface states on the (010) surface. Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations in the AFM state identify nonzero Berry phase and a negative longitudinal magnetoresistance ($n$-LMR) induced by the chiral anomaly, confirming the topological nature predicted by band calculations. When magnetic moments are fully polarized by an external magnetic field, an unsaturated and extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) of $\sim$ 2$\times10^5$ % at 1.8 K and 28.3 T is observed, likely arising from topological protection. Consistent with band calculations for the spin-polarized state, four new bands in quantum oscillations different from those in the AFM state are discerned, of which two are topologically protected. Nodal-line structures at the $Y$ point in the Brillouin zone (BZ) are proposed in both the spin-polarized and paramagnetic states, and the latter is proven by ARPES. Moreover, a temperature-induced Lifshitz transition accompanied by the emergence of a new band below 3 K is revealed. These results indicate that magnetic EuAs$_3$ provides a rich platform to explore exotic physics arising from the interaction of magnetism with topology.
description: 15 pages, with METHODS AND EXTENDED DATA
Differentiating dominant and minority group responses to ingroup transgressions: a cross-status collective guilt model
Creators: name: Saud, Lina H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Collective guilt is an aversive emotional reaction to ingroup blame that motivates corrective action. Extensive research has examined collective guilt among dominant group members for historical atrocities such as slavery or colonialism. To date, minorities’ experiences of collective guilt have been largely ignored. This dissertation tests for the first time a Cross-Status Model of Collective Guilt. Yielding to group blame was expected to predict collective guilt and intentions to repair harm from ingroup transgressions regardless of group status. Unique moderators of acquiescing to group blame were expected: ingroup identification would moderate reactions to blame for dominants, while linked fate and awareness of disadvantage would moderate responses to blame for minorities. White (dominant; N = 913) and Muslim (minority; N = 1073) Americans were recruited to assess responses to ingroup blame for violent extremists from their respective groups. Collective guilt was pervasive among Muslims. Whites resembled Muslims in their yielding to group blame, where the three aforementioned moderators behaved similarly across status in three serial moderated mediation models. Data from a replication sample of Muslims (N = 536) reaffirmed the patterns found in the original sample. The implications of these findings are discussed.
The Impact of Combined Within- and Across-Activity Choice on the Indices of Happiness and Unhappiness of Autistic Children
Creators: name: Ramey, Devon
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Behavior Analysis
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: autism
subject: choice
subject: discrete trial teaching
subject: indices of happiness
subject: indices of unhappiness
subject: task engagement

description: Interventions for autistic children should take a strengths-based approach that focuses on learning, social connection, and autonomy. Autonomy is developed through self-determination, which is a fundamental human right that contributes to a person’s quality of life (QoL). Research has found that autistic children are given limited opportunities to demonstrate self-determination. Thus, practitioners must provide meaningful opportunities for autistic children to engage in self-determined behavior, and have their choices and decisions honored. One area of instruction that could provide more choice-making opportunities is discrete trial teaching (DTT). To increase student motivation, highly preferred items are typically identified through a preference assessment, then they are used as reinforcers during teaching. Beyond this, however, autistic children are often given limited opportunities for choice within traditional DTT. Studies have shown that embedding choice into DTT is effective for improving problem behaviors and academic engagement. Yet very few studies have examined the effects of choice on more meaningful QoL indicators such as happiness. The purpose of this study was to objectively measure the individualized indices of happiness and unhappiness of three autistic children during DTT when a choice-based intervention was embedded. Through a multiple baseline across participants design, it was found that the addition of choice-making opportunities increased the indices of happiness and decreased the indices of unhappiness of all three participants. Small improvements in task engagement were also observed for two of the three participants. The findings and limitations of this study are discussed in terms of practical recommendations and areas for future research.
EPI-based Oriented Relation Networks for Light Field Depth Estimation
Creators: name: Li, Kunyuan
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Sun, Rui
name: Zhang, Xudong
name: Gao, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Light field cameras record not only the spatial information of observed scenes but also the directions of all incoming light rays. The spatial and angular information implicitly contain geometrical characteristics such as multi-view or epipolar geometry, which can be exploited to improve the performance of depth estimation. An Epipolar Plane Image (EPI), the unique 2D spatial-angular slice of the light field, contains patterns of oriented lines. The slope of these lines is associated with the disparity. Benefiting from this property of EPIs, some representative methods estimate depth maps by analyzing the disparity of each line in EPIs. However, these methods often extract the optimal slope of the lines from EPIs while ignoring the relationship between neighboring pixels, which leads to inaccurate depth map predictions. Based on the observation that an oriented line and its neighboring pixels in an EPI share a similar linear structure, we propose an end-to-end fully convolutional network (FCN) to estimate the depth value of the intersection point on the horizontal and vertical EPIs. Specifically, we present a new feature-extraction module, called Oriented Relation Module (ORM), that constructs the relationship between the line orientations. To facilitate training, we also propose a refocusing-based data augmentation method to obtain different slopes from EPIs of the same scene point. Extensive experiments verify the efficacy of learning relations and show that our approach is competitive to other state-of-the-art methods. The code and the trained models are available at https://github.com/lkyahpu/EPI_ORM.git.
title: Communiqué sur le protocole ICCARRE envoyé à un correspondant non identifié (Pinkplus Belgique?) et retransféré à lui-même
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-2019311123283037
description: created: start=1975;end=2018
Functionally Relevant Maculopathy and Optic Atrophy in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1
Creators: name: Oertel, Frederike Cosima
name: Zeitz, Oliver
name: Rönnefarth, Maria
name: Bereuter, Charlotte
name: Motamedi, Seyedamirhosein
name: Zimmermann, Hanna G.
name: Kuchling, Joseph
name: Grosch, Anne Sophie
name: Doss, Sarah
name: Browne, Andrew
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Schmitz‐Hübsch, Tanja
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: SCA-ATXN1
subject: SCA1
subject: optical coherence tomography
subject: optic atrophy
subject: maculopathy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA-ATXN1) is an inherited progressive ataxia disorder characterized by an adult-onset cerebellar syndrome combined with nonataxia signs. Retinal or optic nerve affection are not systematically described. Objectives: To describe a retinal phenotype and its functional relevance in SCA-ATXN1. Methods: We applied optical coherence tomography (OCT) in 20 index cases with SCA-ATXN1 and 22 healthy controls (HCs), investigating qualitative changes and quantifying the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness and combined ganglion cell and inner plexiform layer (GCIP) volume as markers of optic atrophy and outer retinal layers as markers of maculopathy. Visual function was assessed by high- (HC-VA) and low-contrast visual acuity (LC-VA) and the Hardy-Rand-Rittler pseudoisochromatic test for color vision. Results: Five patients (25%) showed distinct maculopathies in the ellipsoid zone (EZ). Furthermore, pRNFL (P
Ransomware Against Police: Diagnosis of Risk Factors via Application of Cyber-Routine Activities Theory
Creators: name: KS, Choi
name: TM, Scott
name: LeClair DP
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Technologically advanced hackers are able to commit a crime and leave undiscovered by the authorities. Recent increases in cyber-attacks utilizing technology known as ransomware are leaving police departments and other institutions in the serious situation of having to pay ransom to cybercriminals. The present study employs a Cyber-Routine Theoretical approach in explaining why ransomware victimization has become a viral phenomenon. Data were derived from the recent reported cases of ransomware attacks towards police departments in the US. and analyzed in order to build a victim profile. This study shows that online lifestyle and cybersecurity are the salient factors that contribute to the ransomware victimization. Future potential preventive measures and policies will be discussed.
A tight uniform continuity bound for the Arimoto-Rényi conditional entropy and its extension to classical-quantum states
Creators: name: Jabbour, Michael G.
name: Datta, Nilanjana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove a tight uniform continuity bound for Arimoto's version of the conditional $α$-Rényi entropy, for the range $α\in [0, 1)$. This definition of the conditional Rényi entropy is the most natural one among the multiple forms which exist in the literature, since it satisfies two desirable properties of a conditional entropy, namely, the fact that conditioning reduces entropy, and that the associated reduction in uncertainty cannot exceed the information gained by conditioning. Furthermore, it has found interesting applications in various information theoretic tasks such as guessing with side information and sequential decoding. This conditional entropy reduces to the conditional Shannon entropy in the limit $α\to 1$, and this in turn allows us to recover the recently obtained tight uniform continuity bound for the latter from our result. Finally, we apply our result to obtain a tight uniform continuity bound for the conditional $α$-Rényi entropy of a classical-quantum state, for $α$ in the same range as above. This again yields the corresponding known bound for the conditional entropy of the state in the limit $α\to 1$.
description: 23 pages. Changes in v2: new references added and minor corrections to existing references. Changes in v3: last version as published, minor corrections, Appendix 3 added with figures in order to illustrate the steps of the proof of Theorem 1
Reversing the Landauer's erasure: single-electron Maxwell's demon operating at the limit of thermodynamic efficiency
Creators: name: Averin, Dmitri V.
name: Pekola, Jukka P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to Landauer's principle, erasure of information is the only part of a computation process that unavoidably involves energy dissipation. If done reversibly, such an erasure generates the minimal heat of $k_BT\ln 2$ per erased bit of information. The goal of this work is to discuss the actual reversal of the optimal erasure which can serve as the basis for the Maxwell's demon operating with ultimate thermodynamic efficiency as dictated by the second law of thermodynamics. The demon extracts $k_BT\ln 2$ of heat from an equilibrium reservoir at temperature $T$ per one bit of information obtained about the measured system used by the demon. We have analyzed this Maxwell's demon in the situation when it uses a general quantum system with a discrete spectrum of energy levels as its working body. In the case of the effectively two-level system, which has been realized experimentally based on tunneling of individual electron in a single-electron box [J.V. Koski et al., PNAS 111, 13786 (2014)], we also studied and minimized corrections to the ideal reversible operation of the demon. These corrections include, in particular, the non-adiabatic terms which are described by a version of the classical fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The overall reversibility of the Maxwell's demon requires, beside the reversibility of the intrinsic working body dynamics, the reversibility of the measurement and feedback processes. The single-electron demon can, in principle, be made fully reversible by developing a thermodynamically reversible single-electron charge detector for measurements of the individual charge states of the single-electron box.
Seshadri stratifications and standard monomial theory
Creators: name: Chirivì, Rocco
name: Fang, Xin
name: Littelmann, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the notion of a Seshadri stratification on an embedded projective variety. Such a structure enables us to construct a Newton-Okounkov simplicial complex and a flat degeneration of the projective variety into a union of toric varieties. We show that the Seshadri stratification provides a geometric setup for a standard monomial theory. In this framework, Lakshmibai-Seshadri paths for Schubert varieties get a geometric interpretation as successive vanishing orders of regular functions.
description: 76 pages
Additional file 2 of JCDB: a comprehensive knowledge base for Jatropha curcas, an emerging model for woody energy plants
Creators: name: Zhang, Xuan
name: Pan, Bang-Zhen
name: Chen, Maosheng
name: Chen, Wen
name: Li, Jing
name: Xu, Zeng-Fu
name: Liu, Changning
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. The entity relationship diagram of JCDB.