cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MagFace: A Universal Representation for Face Recognition and Quality Assessment
Creators: name: Meng, Qiang
name: Zhao, Shichao
name: Huang, Zhida
name: Zhou, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The performance of face recognition system degrades when the variability of the acquired faces increases. Prior work alleviates this issue by either monitoring the face quality in pre-processing or predicting the data uncertainty along with the face feature. This paper proposes MagFace, a category of losses that learn a universal feature embedding whose magnitude can measure the quality of the given face. Under the new loss, it can be proven that the magnitude of the feature embedding monotonically increases if the subject is more likely to be recognized. In addition, MagFace introduces an adaptive mechanism to learn a wellstructured within-class feature distributions by pulling easy samples to class centers while pushing hard samples away. This prevents models from overfitting on noisy low-quality samples and improves face recognition in the wild. Extensive experiments conducted on face recognition, quality assessments as well as clustering demonstrate its superiority over state-of-the-arts. The code is available at https://github.com/IrvingMeng/MagFace.
description: accepted at CVPR 2021, Oral
Derivation of a Matrix Product Representation for the Asymmetric Exclusion Process from Algebraic Bethe Ansatz
Creators: name: Golinelli, O.
name: Mallick, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive, using the algebraic Bethe Ansatz, a generalized Matrix Product Ansatz for the asymmetric exclusion process (ASEP) on a one-dimensional periodic lattice. In this Matrix Product Ansatz, the components of the eigenvectors of the ASEP Markov matrix can be expressed as traces of products of non-commuting operators. We derive the relations between the operators involved and show that they generate a quadratic algebra. Our construction provides explicit finite dimensional representations for the generators of this algebra.
description: 16 pages
Affect and Condom Use in a Daily Diary Study of Men Who Have Sex with Men
Creators: name: Sarno, Elissa Louise
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionally affected by HIV. Although some theoretical models created to explain why individuals engage in risky sexual behavior contain an affective component, there has been relatively little focus on the influence of affect on sexual risk-taking. The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between affect and condom use in men who have sex with men (MSM) in an archival dataset from a survey of users of a popular sex-oriented website. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze daily diary data from 2,871 MSM. At the within-person level, positive affect was positively related to risk-taking, whereas negative affect was negatively related to risk-taking. However, these results were qualified by interactions of trait affect and relationship to sex partner. These findings suggest that interventions focused on emotional regulation may have the potential to reduce sexual risk taking among MSM.
Additional file 6 of Eye acupuncture for pain conditions: a scoping review of clinical studies
Creators: name: Chi, Yuan
name: Barth, Jürgen
name: Wang, Mei
name: Robinson, Nicola
name: Li, Zan-Hua
name: Liu, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6.
High Harmonic Generation in Two-Dimensional Mott Insulators
Creators: name: Orthodoxou, Christopher
name: Zaïr, Amelle
name: Booth, George H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With a combination of numerical methods, including quantum Monte Carlo, exact diagonalization, and a simplified dynamical mean-field model, we consider the attosecond charge dynamics of electrons induced by strong-field laser pulses in two-dimensional Mott insulators. The necessity to go beyond single-particle approaches in these strongly correlated systems has made the simulation of two-dimensional extended materials challenging, and we contrast their resulting high-harmonic emission with more widely studied one-dimensional analogues. As well as considering the photo-induced breakdown of the Mott insulating state and magnetic order, we also resolve the time and ultra-high frequency domains of emission, which are used to characterize both the photo-transition, and the sub-cycle structure of the electron dynamics. This extends simulation capabilities and understanding of the photo-melting of these Mott insulators in two-dimensions, at the frontier of attosecond non-equilibrium science of correlated materials.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Grammatical elicitation: Graded past tenses, nominal tense in relatives
Creators: name: Ovelar, Irma Easty
name: Russell, Katherine
name: Bossi, Madeline
name: Dabkowski, Maksymilian
name: Drummond, Emily
name: Jarvis, Rebecca
name: Khuu, Phuong
name: Michael, Lev
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: gug

description: Recent and distant past events.
Observation of Surface-Avoiding Waves: A New Class of Extended States in Periodic Media
Creators: name: Trigo, M.
name: Eckhause, T. A.
name: Reason, M.
name: Goldman, R. S.
name: Merlin, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent time-domain optical experiments on GaAs-AlAs superlattices reveal the exis-tence of an unusually long-lived acoustic mode at ~ 0.6 THz, which couples weakly to the environment by evading the sample boundaries. Classical as well as quantum states that steer clear of surfaces are generally shown to occur in the spectrum of periodic struc-tures, for most boundary conditions. These surface-avoiding waves are associated with frequencies outside forbidden gaps and wavevectors in the vicinity of the center and edge of the Brillouin zone. Possible consequences for surface science and resonant cavity ap-plications are discussed.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
La geo-referenziazione dell’approccio oggettivo e soggettivo per la rilevazione della qualità della vita
Creators: name: Nuvolati, Giampaolo
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2013

description: The main aim of the paper is to start from the Zapf model concerning the objective and subjective dimensions of well-being in order to suggest an investigative strategy oriented toward studying urban quality of life by geo-referencing data. In particular, this approach has the main objective of explaining - thanks to the mapping of objective and subjective variables - well-being, deprivation, dissonance and adaptation attitudes of individuals. For this purpose a simulation model has been developed. The text also deals with methodological issues linked to the concrete application of the model itself.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 3 No. 5 (2013)
Η σύνδεση των 17 στόχων της βιώσιμης ανάπτυξης με τα προπτυχιακά μαθήματα των τμημάτων Νομικής, Θεολογίας και Ποιμαντικής και Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας του ΑΠΘ
Creators: name: Σιδηροπούλου, Δήμητρα Ρωμανού
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Οι 17 στόχοι της βιώσιμης ανάπτυξης
Αειφορία
Βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη
The 17 sustainability goals
Sustainability
Sustainable development

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία γίνεται ανάλυση της έννοιας της βιώσιμης ανάπτυξης, των χαρακτηριστικών της και της διαχρονικής μελέτης της από επιστήμονες και διεθνείς οργανισμούς. Η βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη είναι μια πολυδιάστατη έννοια και χαρακτηρίζεται από μια δυναμική. Οι πτυχές που τη συναποτελούν είναι ο άνθρωπος, η κοινωνία, η οικονομία και το περιβάλλον. Οι δραστηριότητές έχουν σαν στόχο την καλύτερη ικανοποίηση των αναγκών των πτυχών της. Βασική προϋπόθεση φυσικά αποτελεί η διαφύλαξη των συμφερόντων και των δικαιωμάτων των επόμενων γενεών. Οι Διεθνείς και οι Περιφερειακοί Οργανισμοί καλούμενοι να διευθετήσουν θέματα περιβαλλοντικής διαχείρισης στα πλαίσια της οικονομικής ανάπτυξης έχουν υιοθετήσει Συμβάσεις, Πρωτόκολλα, Διακηρύξεις και Οδηγίες. Στόχος της εργασίας αυτής είναι η μελέτη της βιώσιμης ανάπτυξης, της ιστορικής εξέλιξης της, η καταγραφή των 17 στόχων της βιώσιμης ανάπτυξης όπως αυτοί καθιερώθηκαν παγκοσμίως τα τελευταία χρόνια. Στο πειραματικό μέρος της εργασίας επιχειρείται η σύνδεση των προαναφερθέντων στόχων με τα προπτυχιακά μαθήματα τριών τμημάτων του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου (Νομική, Θεολογία, Κοινωνική και Ποιμαντική Θεολογία) με σκοπό να καταγραφεί το αν και πώς συμβάλλουν τα αναλυτικά προγράμματα των τμημάτων αυτών στην εκπαίδευση για την αειφορία και τη βιωσιμότητα
description: The particular thesis focuses on the analysis of the sustainable development, its characteristics and its longitudinal study by scientists and international organizations. Sustainable development is a multidimensional concept and is characterized by a dynamic. Actually, it is comprised by human, society, economy and the environment. The activities are aimed to meet the needs of its aspects in the best possible way. Of course, the most important precondition is the safeguarding of the interests and rights of future generations. International and Regional Organizations are called upon to address environmental management issues in the context of economic development and they have adopted Conventions, Protocols, Declarations and Guidelines. The aim of this work is to study the sustainable development, its historical evolution, the inventory of the 17 sustainable development goals as they have been established worldwide in recent years. The experimental part of the thesis attempts to incorporate the aforementioned goals into the undergraduate courses of three departments of the Aristotle University (Law, Theology, Social and Pastoral Theology) in order to record whether the analytical programs contribute to Sustainability Education
ИПОТЕКА БОЗОРИ ХИЗМАТЛАРИНИ БАҲОЛАШНИНГ ИЛМИЙ-МЕТОДОЛОГИК АСОСЛАРИ
Creators: name: Худойназаров, Мурод
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ипотека бозори хизматларини баҳолашнинг илмий-услубий методологияларини қатъий тизимни ўз ичига олади. У ипотека бозорида қимматли қоғозлар ишлаши, кредит риски, бозор динамикаси, активларни ва узоқ муддатли баҳолаш учун эмпирик тадқиқотлар, статистик усуллар ва молиявий моделлаштиришга таянади.
Nonlinear mean-field Fokker-Planck equations and their applications in physics, astrophysics and biology
Creators: name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a general class of nonlinear mean-field Fokker-Planck equations [P.H. Chavanis, Phys. Rev. E, 68, 036108 (2003)] and show their applications in different domains of physics, astrophysics and biology. These equations are associated with generalized entropic functionals and non-Boltzmannian distributions (Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein, Tsallis,...). They furthermore involve an arbitrary binary potential of interaction. We emphasize analogies between different topics (two-dimensional turbulence, self-gravitating systems, Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytes, porous media, chemotaxis of bacterial populations, Bose-Einstein condensation, BMF model, Cahn-Hilliard equations,...) which were previously disconnected. All these examples (and probably many others) are particular cases of this general class of nonlinear mean-field Fokker-Planck equations.
Universal phase dynamics in VO2 switches revealed by ultrafast operando diffraction
Creators: name: Sood, Aditya
name: Shen, Xiaozhe
name: Shi, Yin
name: Kumar, Suhas
name: Park, Su Ji
name: Zajac, Marc
name: Sun, Yifei
name: Chen, Long-Qing
name: Ramanathan, Shriram
name: Wang, Xijie
name: Chueh, William C.
name: Lindenberg, Aaron M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly correlated materials that exhibit an insulator-metal transition are key candidates in the search for new computing platforms. Understanding the pathways and timescales underlying the electrically-driven insulator-metal transition is crucial for uncovering the fundamental limits of device operation. Using stroboscopic electron diffraction, we perform synchronized time-resolved measurements of atomic motions and electronic transport in operating vanadium dioxide switches. We discover an electrically-triggered, isostructural state that forms transiently on microsecond timescales, stabilized by local heterogeneities and interfacial interactions between the equilibrium phases. This metastable phase bears striking similarity to that formed under photoexcitation within picoseconds, suggesting a universal transformation pathway across eight orders of magnitude of timescale. Our results establish a new route for uncovering non-equilibrium and metastable phases in correlated materials, and open avenues for engineering novel dynamical behavior in nanoelectronics.
Navigating multilingual news collections using automatically extracted information
Creators: name: Steinberger, Ralf
name: Pouliquen, Bruno
name: Ignat, Camelia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.1; H.3.3; H.3.4; H.3.5

description: We are presenting a text analysis tool set that allows analysts in various fields to sieve through large collections of multilingual news items quickly and to find information that is of relevance to them. For a given document collection, the tool set automatically clusters the texts into groups of similar articles, extracts names of places, people and organisations, lists the user-defined specialist terms found, links clusters and entities, and generates hyperlinks. Through its daily news analysis operating on thousands of articles per day, the tool also learns relationships between people and other entities. The fully functional prototype system allows users to explore and navigate multilingual document collections across languages and time.
description: This paper describes the main functionality of the JRC's fully-automatic news analysis system NewsExplorer, which is freely accessible in currently thirteen languages at http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/ . 8 pages
Effective theory of quadratic degeneracies
Creators: name: Chong, Y. D.
name: Wen, Xiao-Gang
name: Soljacic, Marin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an effective theory for the Bloch functions of a two-dimensional square lattice near a quadratic degeneracy point. The degeneracy is protected by the symmetries of the crystal, and breaking these symmetries can either open a bandgap or split the degeneracy into a pair of linear degeneracies that are continuable to Dirac points. A degeneracy of this type occurs between the second and third TM bands of a photonic crystal formed by a square lattice of dielectric rods. We show that the theory agrees with numerically computed photonic bandstructures, and discuss the resulting insight into the reflection-free edge modes induced by parity breaking.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Bjork-ειν ή [και] πώς γίγνεσθαι;
Creators: name: Πανόπουλος, Γεώργιος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: γίνεσθαι ζώον
Bjork
Deleuze & Guattari
becoming animal

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία ερευνά το συγκερασμό της οργανικότητας και της τεχνολογίας, μέσα από την ψηφιακή τέχνη του βίντεο κλιπ. Με επίκεντρο δύο βίντεο κλιπ της ισλανδής μουσικού Bjork, προσεγγίζονται οι τρόποι με τους οποίους ο άνθρωπος βιώνει συνεχείς αναδιαμορφώσεις και μετατροπές, δια μέσου της τέχνης, αλλαγές οι οποίες προκύπτουν από την αλληλεπίδραση του με τον ψηφιακό κώδικα και τα δεδομένα. Οι διαρκείς μεταμορφώσεις του ανθρώπου, οι οποίες παρατηρούνται στα βίντεο κλιπ, κατασκευάζουν μια διαδρομή εξερεύνησης των ορίων της οργανικότητας, τόσο του ανθρώπου, όσο και της ψηφιακής τέχνης. Εντοπίζοντας τα σημεία που τέμνονται οι δύο άξονες, εξετάζεται το ζήτημα της συμβίωσης ανθρώπου και δεδομένων, με αγωγό την ψηφιακή τέχνη. Αντικείμενο της έρευνάς μου θα αποτελέσουν συγκεκριμένα τα βίντεο κλιπ των κομματιών Human Behavior (1993) και Notget (2015). Θα εξεταστούν οι τρόποι αναπαράστασης της έννοιας του γίγνεσθαι των Gilles Deleuze και Felix Guattari, με σκοπό την ανάδειξη του ανθρώπινου σώματος ως ανοιχτή και συνεχώς μεταβαλλόμενη διαδικασία. Εν συνεχεία, διά μέσου της χρήσης της ψηφιακής εικόνας και των ειδικών ψηφιακών οπτικών εφέ, θα αναλυθεί ο τρόπος, με τον οποίο ανάγεται μετωνυμικά αυτή η προσέγγιση σε μια αντίληψη του ανθρώπινου σώματος αλλά και της πραγματικότητας σε σύνολο πληροφοριών. Τα βίντεο κλιπ που έχουν επιλεγεί καλύπτουν χρονικά το φάσμα της συνολικής πορείας της Bjork, μέχρι σχεδόν και σήμερα, αποκαλύπτωντας έτσι την εξέλιξη και τη διαμόρφωση της σκέψης της καλλιτέχνιδος πάνω σε αυτό το ζήτημα
description: This present thesis explores the ways organic and technological elements blend in, through the digital music video. Considering two music videos of the islandic musician Bjork, there unfolds an attempt to approach the various processes of human re-arrangement and re-molding, that take place in the experience of art – changes that emerge from human interaction with digital codes and data. The constant transformations of human, that are underlying in both music videos, renegotiate the boundaries of meanings such as organic features, human(ness) and digital art. By tracing the junctions of these axes, human/data symbiosis in digital art serves as the scope of this analysis. Case studies for this purpose are the music videos for the songs Human Behavior (1995) and Notget (2015). Incorporating different modes of representing the idea of becoming by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the the human body is promoted to an open and ever changing process. In addition, digital image and visual effects metonymically deduce this approach, to an understanding of human body, and all reality, as a body of data. The specific music videos are chosen so as to take into account a large spectrum of Bjork's carrer timeline in the analysis, in order to unravel her artistic course and the
Additional file 1 of Tumor lysis syndrome, acute kidney injury and disease-free survival in critically ill patients requiring urgent chemotherapy
Creators: name: Abdel-Nabey, Moustafa
name: Chaba, Anis
name: Serre, Justine
name: Lengliné, Etienne
name: Azoulay, Elie
name: Darmon, Michael
name: Zafrani, Lara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
The Friedrichs-Model with fermion-boson couplings II
Creators: name: Civitarese, O.
name: Gadella, M.
name: Pronko, G. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a formal solution of the extended version of the Friedrichs Model. The Hamiltonian consists of discrete and continuum bosonic states, which are coupled to fermions. The simultaneous treatment of the couplings of the fermions with the discrete and continuous sectors of the bosonic degrees of freedom leads to a system of coupled equations, whose solutions are found by applying standard methods of representation of bound and resonant states.
description: 13 pages
On the ethical challenges of innovation in eHealth
Creators: name: Bächle, Thomas Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The relationship between innovation and ethics is ambiguous. On the one hand, ethical considerations are often said to be an obstacle to social or technological progress, con- straining innovative approaches for the sake of being overly cautious. In that vein, codes of conduct, ethical review commissions or public debates on controversial topics such as genome editing might delay the implementation of technological solutions to pressing social and medical problems. On the other hand, while ethical principles reassuringly prevent an anything-goes attitude, they can even come to act as drivers of innovative approaches and even become a decisive factor in the competition for ideas. Of course, neither of these two contradictory viewpoints is valid on its own. Ethical considerations need to go hand in hand with innovation and should not be just an afterthought. It is a truism that any new technology poses a trade-off between benefits and risks. The advent of digital technologies, however, introduces challenges that concern all aspects of life but particularly the sensitive area of health, where a long tradition of ethical principles applies.
Adolescent crisis as rite of passage : an exploratory study of multigenerational themes
Creators: name: Shatzky, Lisa Joy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: There is a tremendous amount of literature on the nature of adolescence, as well as the problems and dilemmas specific to this age group. There is relatively very little written about parents' own experiences with an adolescent child, how they experience the child separating from the family and eventually leaving home. The following study is an exploratory one. Using a qualitative design, the study sets out with two fundamental purposes; (1) to understand parents' experiences of adolescence and (2) to understand the use of rituals during adolescence, particularly with regard to themes that may be present within the rituals. Fifteen couples (mothers and fathers) who have had children leave the family home, were interviewed for approximately two hours. The interviews followed a general interview guide, and were audiotaped. The findings indicate that there are an abundance of rituals parents use to mark the transition from childhood to adolescence as well as recognize the change when adolescents and/or young adults leave the family home. Another finding is that parents honor the past and play out themes from their families of origin within the rituals with their own children.
Analog Quantum Simulation: from physics to chemistry
Creators: name: J. Ignacio Cirac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: quantum science
quantum simulation
optical lattices

description: Many-body systems are very hard to simulate due to the explosion of parameters with the system size. Quantum computers can help in this task, although one may need scalable systems, something that is out of reach in the short run. An attractive alternative is provided by analog quantum simulators which, even though they are not universal, they can still be tuned to study interesting problems. Atoms in optical lattices seem to be ideally suited for that task. Most of the proposals of such simulators have focused so far on condensed matter or high energy physics problems. In this talk I will show how one can extend the range of problems to other scenarios, especially to quantum chemistry.
description: {"references": ["Sam McArdle, Suguru Endo, Al\u00e1n Aspuru-Guzik, Simon C. Benjamin, and Xiao Yua, \"Quantum computational chemistry\", Reviews of Modern Physics 92, 015003 (2020), DOI:10.1103/RevModPhys.92.015003", "Christian Gross and Immanuel Bloch, \"Quantum simulations with ultracold atoms in optical lattices\", Science 357, 995 (2017), DOI:10.1126/science.aal3837", "Javier Arg\u00fcello-Luengo, Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez-Tudela, Tao Shi, Peter Zoller, and Juan Ignacio Cirac, \"Analogue quantum chemistry simulation\", Nature 574, 215 (2015), DOI:10.1038/s41586-019-1614-4"]}
Chemodynamical Simulations of Elliptical Galaxies
Creators: name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Sanchez-Blazquez, Patricia
name: Courty, Stephanie
name: Kawata, Daisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent developments in the field of chemodynamical simulations of elliptical galaxies, highlighting (in an admittedly biased fashion) the work conducted with our cosmological N-body/SPH code GCD+. We have demonstrated previously the recovery of several primary integrated early-type system scaling relations (e.g. colour-magnitude relation, L_X-T_X-[Fe/H]_X) when employing a phenomenological AGN heating scheme in conjunction with a self-consistent treatment of star formation, supernovae feedback, radiative cooling, chemical enrichment, and stellar/X-ray population synthesis. Here we emphasise characteristics derived from the full spatial information contained within the simulated dataset, including stellar and coronal morphologies, metallicity distribution functions, and abundance gradients.
description: to appear in the proceedings of Chemodynamics: from first stars to local galaxies, Lyon, France
J-PAS: Forecasts for dark matter - dark energy elastic couplings
Creators: name: Figueruelo, David
name: Resco, Miguel Aparicio
name: Pannia, Florencia A. Teppa
name: Jiménez, Jose Beltrán
name: Bettoni, Dario
name: Maroto, Antonio L.
name: Abramo, L. Raul
name: Alcaniz, Jailson
name: Benitez, Narciso
name: Bonoli, Silvia
name: Carneiro, Saulo
name: Cenarro, Javier
name: Cristóbal-Hornillos, David
name: Dupke, Renato A.
name: Ederoclite, Alessandro
name: López-Sanjuan, Carlos
name: Marín-Franch, Antonio
name: Marra, Valerio
name: de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes
name: Moles, Mariano
name: Sodré, Laerte
name: Taylor, Keith
name: Varela, Jesús
name: Ramió, Héctor Vázquez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a cosmological model where dark matter and dark energy feature a coupling that only affects their momentum transfer in the corresponding Euler equations. We perform a fit to cosmological observables and confirm previous findings within these scenarios that favour the presence of a coupling at more than $3σ$. This improvement is driven by the Sunyaev-Zeldovich data. We subsequently perform a forecast for future J-PAS data and find that clustering measurements will permit to clearly discern the presence of an interaction within a few percent level with the uncoupled case at more than $10σ$ when the complete survey, covering $8500$ sq. deg., is considered. We found that the inclusion of weak lensing measurements will not help to further constrain the coupling parameter. For completeness, we compare to forecasts for DESI and Euclid, which provide similar discriminating power.
description: 34 pages, 17 figures, added some clarifications and discussions, matches published version
Spin transport across carbon nanotube quantum dots
Creators: name: Koller, Sonja
name: Mayrhofer, Leonhard
name: Grifoni, Milena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate linear and nonlinear transport in interacting single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that are weakly attached to ferromagnetic leads. For the reduced density matrix of a SWCNT quantum dot, equations of motion which account for an arbitrarily vectored polarisation of the contacts are derived. We focus on the case of large diameter nanotubes where exchange effects emerging from short-ranged processes can be excluded and the four-electron periodicity at low bias can be observed. This yields in principle four distinct resonant tunnelling regimes, but due to symmetries in the involved groundstates, each two possess a mirror-symmetry. With a non-collinear configuration, we recover at the 4N 4N+1 / 4N+3 4N resonances the analytical results known for the angular dependence of the conductance of a single level quantum dot or a metallic island. The two other cases are treated numerically and show on the first glance similar, yet not analytically describable dependences. In the nonlinear regime, negative differential conductance features occur for non-collinear lead magnetisations.
description: 39 pages, 19 figures; revised final published version
Seven cups to relieve stress? On the portrayal of well-being in the smartphone app market
Creators: name: Sukalla, Freya
name: Karnowski, Veronika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Are you longing for a better and happier self? There is a plethora of smartphone applications available in app stores that promise to help you reach that goal. Many, if not most, of these apps would not intuitively be considered as health apps or even medical apps. Accordingly, they often are categorised using keywords such as lifestyle instead of health, fitness, or medicine. However, by targeting aspects of human or mental well-being, they do pertain to health as defined by the World Health Organization (1948).
Towards an Architecture of Social Responsibility
Creators: name: Hickerson, Jamil Xavier
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Architecture
subject: Social Responsibility
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Sustainability

description: This thesis asserts that the built environment, as a primary stage for social and economic activity, responds to and contributes to social and economic conditions. Architects must design buildings that are appropriate not only with respect to culture, climate, and available resources, but with respect to societal needs and inequities that are often ignored. The current state of the profession of architecture must be reevaluated in light of its passivity towards questions of social justice.  The architect must assume greater responsibility as an agent for the public interest because the architect has a discernable, measureable impact on society whether he or she wants/intends to.

My goal is to advance a basic design-making framework to demonstrate how architects and designers can address social injustices in the built environment through a design project which would result in benefiting the social and environmental opportunities of diverse stakeholders.
Additional file 5 of Eye acupuncture for pain conditions: a scoping review of clinical studies
Creators: name: Chi, Yuan
name: Barth, Jürgen
name: Wang, Mei
name: Robinson, Nicola
name: Li, Zan-Hua
name: Liu, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5.
Images of justice
Creators: name: Lu, Catherine Yen-Ping
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Can we dispense with justice? This thesis seeks to defend the concept of justice against critics who characterize it as insidious, inadequate or irrelevant to human society. It will be argued that contemporary debates about justice, which have focused mainly on John Rawls' conception of liberal justice, obscure significant aspects of the concept of justice. In finding foundational flaws in Rawls1 theory, some claim to have shaken the very foundations of liberalism, overlooking the fact that there is more to liberalism than Rawls. In critiquing liberalism, some claim to have defeated the idea of the indispensability of justice to human society, overlooking the fact that there is more to justice than liberalism. Firstly, communitarians argue that justice is a cold virtue and an inadequate bond of society. Secondly, some feminists, while challenging traditional boundaries, such as the public/private dichotomy, that have been integral to liberal theories of justice, assert that justice is too harsh and biased against women. Thirdly, so-called realists in international politics argue that justice is largely irrelevant to the relations between states, or at least, secondary to the preservation of order. In place of justice, each critic offers a rival ideal, such as fellowship, care, and security, as more pertinent to human social relations. It will be argued, however, that justice is the precondition for the pursuit of all other human ideals, and without it, such values would lose their ideal qualities. I offer three images of justice that its critics ignore, devalue or misconstrue: justice as a bond, a boundary, and a balance. Justice in these images requires recognition of our commonality as human beings, our distinctness as persons, and our equality as moral subjects. Justice is a bond because it is what makes our societies morally coherent; without it, human societies would be indistinguishable from the vast morally incoherent world of nature. Justice is also a boundary in constituting the moral floor of society, which involves drawing limits on how we may treat others, as well as on what we may legitimately demand from others in the way of sacrifice. Finally, justice is a balance in its function as a reconciliator of conflicting ends, values and interests. The critics of justice, in conceiving of it in narrow, inadequate, or inaccurate terms, overlook the warmer, human, and basic qualities of justice that make it indispensable to human society.
Additional file 1 of Culturable fungal endophyte communities of primary successional plants on Mount St. Helens, WA, USA
Creators: name: Wolfe, Emily R.
name: Dove, Robyn
name: Webster, Cassandra
name: Ballhorn, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. NMDS ordination of all host species and all harvest dates. Figure S2. NMDS ordination of deciduous hosts only (Sitka alder, Sitka willow, and cottonwood) and all harvest dates.
Technology acceptance, interest in fitness and empowerment: Testing consumer responses towards a wearable technology advert
Creators: name: Koinig, Isabell
name: Diehl, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: At a time when new technologies are constantly present, individuals’ health has taken centre stage. A shift towards a performance society has affected individuals’ professional and personal lives (Hillert & Marwitz 2006). In particular, the omnipresence of social media and new technologies is fostering both “self-surveillance” and “self-optimisation” and also a new form of “self-presentation”, which is not without risks. The term “life logging” is commonly used to describe the continuous documentation of data that is used to discipline the human body to quantify the self (Selke 2013). According to Mau (2017), metric data has suddenly become a desired social value.
Additional Model Details and Sensitivity Analysis from Trade-offs between mobility restrictions and transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Gösgens, Martijn
name: Hendriks, Teun
name: Boon, Marko
name: Steenbakkers, Wim
name: Heesterbeek, Hans
name: Hofstad, Remco Van Der
name: Litvak, Nelly
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional Model Details and Sensitivity Analysis
A Takayama-type extension theorem
Creators: name: Varolin, Dror
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32L10, 14F10

description: We prove a theorem on the extension of holomorphic sections of powers of adjoint bundles from submanifolds of complex codimension 1 having non-trivial normal bundle. The first such result, due to Takayama, considers the case where the canonical bundle is twisted by a line bundle that is a sum of a big and nef line bundle and a ${\mathbb Q}$-divisor that has kawamata log terminal singularites on the submanifold from which extension occurs. In this paper we weaken the positivity assumptions on the twisting line bundle to what we believe to be the minimal positivity hypotheses. The main new idea is an $L^2$ extension theorem of Ohsawa-Takegoshi type, in which twisted canonical sections are extended from submanifolds with non-trivial normal bundle.
Family physician's perceptions of the impact of e-visit systems on patient perceptions of and interactions with their family physicians
Creators: name: Madar, Galit
name: Lev-On, Azi
name: Ash, Nachman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Information and communication technologies in general, and specifically eHealth systems, have penetrated the field of health on a significant scale in recent decades, trans- forming the relationships between physicians and their patients (Wehbe, Curcio, Gajjar, & Yadlapati 2015). The research on eHealth, however, has mainly focused on the uses and effects of the internet and social media. Conversely, the current study explores the effects of eHealth system use on the relationships between physicians and their patients and on patients’ image of physicians’ professional identities as viewed by physicians.
Obstructions to deforming curves on a 3-fold, I: A generalization of Mumford's example and an application to Hom schemes
Creators: name: Mukai, Shigeru
name: Nasu, Hirokazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14C05, 14D15, 14H10

description: We give a sufficient condition for a first order infinitesimal deformation of a curve on a 3-fold to be obstructed. As application we construct generically non-reduced components of the Hilbert schemes of uniruled 3-folds and the Hom scheme from a general curve of genus five to a general cubic 3-fold.
description: v2: 19 pages, Theorem 1.3 improved, minor errors and typos corrected, a reference added
Dielectric constant boost in amorphous sesquioxides
Creators: name: Delugas, Pietro
name: Fiorentini, Vincenzo
name: Filippetti, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-kappa dielectrics for insulating layers are a current key ingredient of microelectronics. X2O3 sesquioxide compounds are among the candidates. Here we show for a typical material of this class, ScO3, that the relatively modest dielectric constant of its crystalline phase is enhanced in the amorphous phase by over 40% (from ~15 to ~22). This is due to the disorder-induced activation of low frequency cation-related modes which are inactive or inefficient in the crystal, and by the conservation of effective dynamical charges (a measure of atomic polarizability). The analysis employs density-functional energy-force and perturbation-theory calculations of the dielectric response of amorphous samples generated by pair-potential molecular dynamics.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, submitted to APL
Additional file 1 of Eye acupuncture for pain conditions: a scoping review of clinical studies
Creators: name: Chi, Yuan
name: Barth, Jürgen
name: Wang, Mei
name: Robinson, Nicola
name: Li, Zan-Hua
name: Liu, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Predictors of dental service utilization among visually impaired people in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Creators: name: Pinpinut Wanichsaithong
name: Jiraporn Chompikul
name: Aroonsri Mongkolchati
name: Piyanart Chatiketu
Publisher: name: ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University
Year: 2015
Subjects: dental service utilization,visually impaired people,oral status,

description: 1, 13, JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Confidence bands for convex median curves using sign-tests
Creators: name: Duembgen, Lutz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G08, 62G15, 62G20 (Primary) 62G35 (Secondary)

description: Suppose that one observes pairs $(x_1,Y_1)$, $(x_2,Y_2)$, ..., $(x_n,Y_n)$, where $x_1\le x_2\le ... \le x_n$ are fixed numbers, and $Y_1,Y_2,...,Y_n$ are independent random variables with unknown distributions. The only assumption is that ${\rm Median}(Y_i)=f(x_i)$ for some unknown convex function $f$. We present a confidence band for this regression function $f$ using suitable multiscale sign-tests. While the exact computation of this band requires $O(n^4)$ steps, good approximations can be obtained in $O(n^2)$ steps. In addition the confidence band is shown to have desirable asymptotic properties as the sample size $n$ tends to infinity.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921707000000283 in the IMS Lecture Notes Monograph Series (http://www.imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 2 of Eye acupuncture for pain conditions: a scoping review of clinical studies
Creators: name: Chi, Yuan
name: Barth, Jürgen
name: Wang, Mei
name: Robinson, Nicola
name: Li, Zan-Hua
name: Liu, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Flux reversal in a simple random walk model on a fluctuating symmetric lattice
Creators: name: Casado-Pascual, Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A rather simple random walk model on a one-dimensional lattice is put forward. The lattice as a whole switches randomly between two possible states which are spatially symmetric. Both lattice states are identical, but translated by one site with respect to each other, and consist of infinite arrays of absorbing sites separated by two non-absorbing sites. Exact explicit expressions for the long-time velocity and the effective diffusion coefficient are obtained and discussed. In particular, it is shown that the direction of the steady motion can be reversed by conveniently varying the values of either the mean residence times in the lattice states or the transition rates to the absorbing and non-absorbing sites.
description: 6 pages, 3 Figures, (to appear in Physical Review E)
Optimal adaptive inspection and maintenance planning for deteriorating structural systems
Creators: name: Bismut, Elizabeth
name: Straub, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optimizing inspection and maintenance (I&M) plans for a large deteriorating structure is a computationally challenging task, in particular if one considers interdependences among its components. This is due to the sheer number of possible decision alternatives over the lifetime of the structure and the uncertainty surrounding the deterioration processes, the structural performance and the outcomes of inspection and maintenance actions. To address this challenge, Luque and Straub (2019) proposed a heuristic approach in which I&M plans for structural systems are defined through a set of simple decision rules. Here, we formalize the optimization of these decision rules and extend the approach to enable adaptive planning. The initially optimal I&M plan is successively adapted throughout the service life, based on past inspection and monitoring results. The proposed methodology uses stochastic deterioration models and accounts for the interdependence among structural components. The heuristic-based adaptive planning is illustrated for a structural frame subjected to fatigue.
Ο Εσωτερικός Έλεγχος στους Οργανισμούς Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης: (Περιπτωσιολογική μελέτη για τους Ελληνικούς Δήμους που στον οργανισμό εσωτερικής υπηρεσίας τους ενέταξαν Μονάδα Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου)
Creators: name: Ναζίρη, Αικατερίνη Πασχάλη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Εσωτερικός Έλεγχος
Τοπική Αυτοδιοίκηση
Πρότυπα Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου
Δημόσια πολιτική
Μονάδα Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου
Επιτροπή Ελέγχου
Internal Audit
Local Government
Standards of Internal Audit
Public Policy
Internal Audit Unit
Audit Committee

description: Ο Εσωτερικός Έλεγχος αναγνωρίζεται ως ένα εξαιρετικά χρήσιμο εργαλείο στη διακυβέρνηση των σύγχρονων οργανισμών. Εστιάζει στον εντοπισμό και την αξιολόγηση των κινδύνων που απειλούν το εσωτερικό και εξωτερικό περιβάλλον των οργανισμών. Στην πλειοψηφία των χωρών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης έχει υιοθετηθεί εδώ και αρκετά χρόνια η λειτουργία Μονάδων Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου στους Οργανισμούς Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης. Το παραπάνω προέκυψε από τη θετική αξιολόγηση της συμβολής του εσωτερικού ελέγχου στην διακυβέρνηση ενός Οργανισμού, όπως η βελτίωση της οργανωσιακής αποτελεσματικότητας, η αύξηση της αποδοτικότητας και η προστιθέμενη αξία. Η οικονομική κρίση στην Ελλάδα λειτούργησε ως μοχλός πίεσης για διαρθρωτικές μεταρρυθμίσεις στην δημόσια διοίκηση με την υπογραφή συμφωνιών για παροχή βοήθειας από διεθνείς και ευρωπαϊκούς φορείς, με απώτερο σκοπό την αλλαγή του τρόπου οργάνωσης και λειτουργίας της δημόσιας διοίκησης ακολουθώντας τις βέλτιστες ευρωπαϊκές πρακτικές. Μέσα σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, επιδιώκεται η εγκαθίδρυση Μονάδων Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου στις τοπικές κυβερνήσεις στοχεύοντας στην μείωση φαινομένων διαφθοράς και κακοδιοίκησης
description: Internal Audit is recognized as an extremely useful tool in the governance of modern organizations. It focuses on identifying and assessing the risks which threaten both the internal and external environment of the organizations. In most of the countries of the European Union, the operation of Internal Audit Units in Local Government Organizations has been adopted for several years. This has resulted from the positive assessment of the contribution of internal audit to the governance of an organization, such as improving organizational efficiency, increasing effectiveness and added value.The financial crisis in Greece has served as a leverage for structural reforms in public administration by signing agreements for the provision of assistance by international and European bodies, with the ultimate objective being the changing of the way public administration is organized and operate in line with the best European practices. Within this framework, it is intended to establish Internal Audit Units in local governments aiming at reducing corruption and maladministration.