cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identifying categories of end users based on the abstractions that they create
Creators: name: Scaffidi, Christopher
name: Ko, Andrew
name: Myers, Brad
name: Shaw, Mary
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "Software created by end users often lacks key quality attributes that professional programmers try to ensure through the use of abstraction. Yet to date, large-scale studies of end users have not examined end user software usage at a level which is sufficiently fine-grained to determine the extent to which they create abstractions. To address this, we deployed an online survey to Information Week subscribers to ask about not only software usage but also feature usage related to abstraction creation. Most respondents did create abstractions. Moreover, through factor analysis, we found that features fell into three clusters -- when users had a propensity to use one feature, then they also had a propensity to use other features in the same cluster. These clusters corresponded to macro features, linked data structure features, and imperative features. For each of the three factors, we created a scale and used it to categorize users into two bins -- those with a high propensity to use features associated with that scale, and those with a low propensity. Compared to users with a low propensity to use imperative features, users with a high propensity to use imperative features were more likely to report testing and documenting. Propensity to use linked structure features was less strongly related to these practices. These findings represent a step toward a more complete map of end users' skills."
Baxter Q- operator and functional relations
Creators: name: Ovchinnikov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the Baxter Q-operators in the $U_q(\hat{sl}_2)$ invariant integrable models as a special limits of the quantum transfer matrices corresponding to different spins in the auxiliary space both from the functional relations and from the explicit calculations. We derive the Baxter equation from the well known fusion relations for the transfer matrices. Our method is valid for an arbitrary integrable model corresponding to the quantum group $U_q(\hat{sl}_2)$ for example for the XXZ- spin chain.
description: 10 pages, few comments added
Improving User Performance on Boolean Queries
Creators: name: Pane, John
name: Myers, Brad
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The accurate formulation of boolean expressions is a notorious problem in programming languages as well as database and web query tools. Users have demonstrated great difficulty with the common textual method for specifying these queries, which uses the boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT, partly because these words are used inconsistently in natural languages. This paper proposes a tabular boolean query language that avoids the need to use named operators, provides a concrete distinction between conjunction and disjunction, and makes grouping more explicit. A study comparing this tabular language with textual boolean expressions found that untrained users perform better when they express their queries in the tabular language, and about equally well when interpreting queries written in either language. We conclude that systems can benefit by adopting a tabular notation for query formulation.
Conflictos socioambientales en el territorio indígena Awá. Una amenaza para su pervivencia étnica. Socio-environmental conflicts in the Awá indigenous territory. A threat to their ethnic survival.
Creators: name: Terán Burgos, Maria Libia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160799 Social Work not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: El presente artículo analiza la relación que existe entre los conflictos socioambientales presentes en el territorio indígena Awá y la amenaza para su pervivencia étnica. Esta investigación se sustenta en la revisión de fuentes secundarias, en particular informes de las organizaciones que representan a esta comunidad, investigaciones académicas, documentos oficiales del Ministerio de Cultura y de organismos internacionales. La información analizada revela el riesgo que, para las comunidades y su ecosistema, representa la presencia de grupos armados que regulan las economías ilegales (cultivos de uso ilícito, minería ilegal) y las actividades de extractivismo agenciadas por el Estado.
 This article seeks to analyze the relationship between the socio-environmental conflicts present in the Awá indigenous territory and the threat to their ethnic survival. Based on the review of secondary sources, in particular reports from the organizations that represent this community, academic research, official documents from the Ministry of Culture, and international organizations. The information analyzed reveals the risk that the presence of armed groups that regulate illegal economies (coca crops, illegal mining) and extractive activities organized by the State represent to the communities and their ecosystem.
Incorporating Architecture-Based Self-Adaptation into an Adaptive Industrial Software System
Creators: name: Camara, Javier
name: Correia, Pedro
name: Lemos, Rogério De
name: Garlan, David
name: Gomes, Pedro
name: Schmerl, Bradley
name: Ventura, Rafael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Complex software-intensive systems are increasingly relied upon for all kinds of activities in society, leading to the requirement that these systems should be resilient to changes that may occur to the system, its environment, or its goals. Traditionally, resilience has been achieved either through: (i) low-level mechanisms embedded in the implementation (e.g., exception handling, timeouts, redundancies), which are unable to detect subtle but important anomalies (e.g., progressive performance degradation); or (ii) human oversight, which is costly and unreliable. Architecture-based self-adaptation (ABSA) is regarded as a promising approach to improve the resilience and reduce the development/operation costs of such systems. Although researchers have illustrated the benefits of ABSA through a number of small-scale case studies, it remains to be seen whether ABSA is truly effective in handling changes at run-time in industrialscale systems. In this paper, we report on our experience applying an ABSA framework (Rainbow) to a large-scale commercial software system, called Data Acquisition and Control Service (DCAS), which is used to monitor and manage highly populated networks of devices in renewable energy production plants. In the approach followed, we have replaced some of the existing adaptive mechanisms embedded in DCAS by those advocated by ABSA proponents. This has allowed us to assess the development costs associated with the reengineering of adaptive mechanisms when using an ABSA solution, and to make effective comparisons, in terms of operational performance, between a baseline industrial system and one that uses ABSA. Our results show that using the ABSA concepts as embodied in Rainbow enabled an independent team of developers to: (i) effectively implement the adaptation behavior required from such industrial systems; and (ii) obtain important benefits in terms of maintainability and extensibility of adaptation mechanisms
Data-Efficient Collaborative Decentralized Thermal-Inertial Odometry
Creators: name: Polizzi, Vincenzo
name: Hewitt, Robert
name: Hidalgo-Carrió, Javier
name: Delaune, Jeff
name: Scaramuzza, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a system solution to achieve data-efficient, decentralized state estimation for a team of flying robots using thermal images and inertial measurements. Each robot can fly independently, and exchange data when possible to refine its state estimate. Our system front-end applies an online photometric calibration to refine the thermal images so as to enhance feature tracking and place recognition. Our system back-end uses a covariance-intersection fusion strategy to neglect the cross-correlation between agents so as to lower memory usage and computational cost. The communication pipeline uses Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors (VLAD) to construct a request-response policy that requires low bandwidth usage. We test our collaborative method on both synthetic and real-world data. Our results show that the proposed method improves by up to 46 % trajectory estimation with respect to an individual-agent approach, while reducing up to 89 % the communication exchange. Datasets and code are released to the public, extending the already-public JPL xVIO library.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Increasing the Efficiency of Simulated Annealing Search by Learning to Recognize (Un)Promising Runs
Creators: name: Nakakuki, Yoichiro
name: Sadeh, Norman
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Simulatd Annealing (SA) procedures can potentially yield near-optimal solutions
to many difficult combinatorial optimization problems, though often at
the expense of intensive computational efforts. The single most significant source
of inefficiency in SA search is the inherent stochasticity of the procedure typically
requiring that the procedure be rerun a large number of times before a
near-optimal solution is found. This paper describes a mechanism that atteinpls
to learn the structure of the search space over multiple SA runs on a given problem.
Specifically, probability distributions are dynamically updated over multiple
runs to estimate at different checkpoints how promising a SA run appears to be.
Based on this mechanism, two types of criteria are developed that aim at increasing
search efficiency: (1) a cutoff criterion used to determine when to abandon
unpromising runs and (2) restart criteria used to determine whether to start a
fresh SA run or restart search in the middle of an earlier run. Experimental results
obtained on a class of complex job shop scheduling problems show (1) that
SA can produce high quality solutions for this class of problems, if run a large
number of times, and (2) that our learning mechanism can significantly reduce
the computation time required to find high quality solutions to these problems.
The results further indicate that, the closer one wants to be to the optimum, the
larger the speedups.
Evaluation of deterministic models for the excavator's theoretical productivity estimation in the digging and trenching operations
Creators: name: Molaei, Amirmasoud
name: Geimer, Marcus
name: Kolu, Antti
Publisher: name: European Council for Computing in Construction
Year: 2023

description: This paper investigates the automatic theoretical productivity estimation of an excavator in digging and trenching operations. The actual productivity cannot solely reveal the machine's performance since there are various operating conditions that can significantly influence the excavatorâ€™s actual productivity. The theoretical productivity estimation is certainly required because it is the highest feasible productivity level and provides a reference to evaluate the actual productivity. In this paper, two of the most pertinent deterministic models to calculate the excavator's theoretical productivity are introduced. Then, the impacts of operating conditions are investigated. Finally, estimated theoretical cycle times are evaluated by comparison with the actual cycle times.
Additional file 1 of Factors predicting mathematics achievement in PISA: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaofang Sarah
name: Perry, Laura B.
name: Malpique, Anabela
name: Ide, Tobias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Search terms used in the study.
An Improved Treatment of Cosmological Intergalactic Medium Evolution
Creators: name: Manrique, Alberto
name: Salvador-Solé, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modeling of galaxy formation and reionization, two central issues of modern cosmology, relies on the accurate follow-up of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Unfortunately, owing to the complex nature of this medium, the differential equations governing its ionization state and temperature are only approximate. In this paper, we improve these master equations. We derive new expression for the distinct composite inhomogeneous IGM phases, including all relevant ionizing/recombining and cooling/heating mechanisms, taking into account inflows/outflows into/from halos, and using more accurate recombination coefficients. Furthermore, to better compute the source functions in the equations we provide an analytic procedure for calculating the halo mass function in ionized environments, accounting for the bias due to the ionization state of their environment. Such an improved treatment of IGM evolution is part of a complete realistic model of galaxy formation presented elsewhere.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Advanced LIGO
Creators: name: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors are second generation instruments designed and built for the two LIGO observatories in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA. The two instruments are identical in design, and are specialized versions of a Michelson interferometer with 4 km long arms. As in initial LIGO, Fabry-Perot cavities are used in the arms to increase the interaction time with a gravitational wave, and power recycling is used to increase the effective laser power. Signal recycling has been added in Advanced LIGO to improve the frequency response. In the most sensitive frequency region around 100 Hz, the design strain sensitivity is a factor of 10 better than initial LIGO. In addition, the low frequency end of the sensitivity band is moved from 40 Hz down to 10 Hz. All interferometer components have been replaced with improved technologies to achieve this sensitivity gain. Much better seismic isolation and test mass suspensions are responsible for the gains at lower frequencies. Higher laser power, larger test masses and improved mirror coatings lead to the improved sensitivity at mid- and high- frequencies. Data collecting runs with these new instruments are planned to begin in mid-2015.
Navigating the "sexual wilderness": the sexual liberation movement at the University of North Carolina, 1969-1973
Creators: name: Morrow, Kelly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: This thesis asks how the "sexual liberation movement," which emerged at the nexus of the sexual revolution, the New Left, and women's liberation, began, took shape, and affected students on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1969 and 1973. Although today many people associate the sixties and seventies with sexual anarchy, an analysis of this movement reveals that its leaders saw it as bringing order to young people's sexual lives. Galvanized by the lack of sexual information and products available to students during the 1960s, female and male faculty members and students came together in the early 1970s to develop discourses and services that taught an ethic of responsibility and promoted gender equality. In doing so, the movement's leaders at this southern university rose to national prominence, and their innovative programs became models for hundreds of other schools throughout America.
Alzheimer's Disease Ontology for Diagnosis and Preclinical Classification
Creators: name: Lazarova, Sophia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ontology; Alzheimer's disease; Knowledge Sharing

description: Alzheimer's Disease Ontology for Diagnosis and Preclinical Classification (AD-DPC) supports effective knowledge sharing in multidisciplinary teams working on Alzheimer’s disease. It covers six major conceptual groups, namely Alzheimer's disease pathology, Alzheimer's disease spectrum, Diagnostic process, Symptoms, Assessments, and Relevant clinical findings. All concepts were annotated with definitions or elucidations and in some cases enriched with synonyms and additional resources. AD-DPC is defined as an extension of Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) – a top-level ontology designed to support integration of scientific data. The total number of concepts within AD-DPC including the ones inherited from BFO is 126. Version 1.0 of AD-DPC is available in .owl format.
Commodity chemicals in enantioselective iridium-catalyzed carbonyl allylation
Creators: name: Meyer, Cole Christian
name: 0000-0002-4319-7806
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Iridium
Catalysis
Commodity chemicals
Asymmetric
Enantioselective
Carbonyl addition

description: A principal characteristic of a scalable synthetic method is its ability to facilitate the formation of C-C bonds between inexpensive, abundant commodity chemicals without producing stoichiometric metallic byproducts. To this end, a suite of enantioselective iridium-catalyzed reactions for the direct transformation of commodity chemicals to value-added products is described. The reductive couplings discussed herein utilize alcohols as terminal reductants, and therefore do not produce stoichiometric metallic byproducts. The work presented in this dissertation includes 1) a review on couplings of methanol, ethanol, and formaldehyde with π-unsaturated pronucleophiles, and primary research articles describing enantioselective iridium-catalyzed carbonyl allylations involving commodity chemicals 2) allene gas, a petrochemical feedstock, 3) ethanol, a biorenewable C2 feedstock, 4) oxetan-3-one and azetidin-3-ones, abundant building blocks deployed in medicinal chemistry, 5) allyl alcohol, a reliably-sourced acrolein proelectrophile, and its application to the total synthesis of three amphidinolide natural products, and 6) acetyl 1,3-propanediol, a derivative of 1,3-propanediol, as an improved acrolein proelectrophile.
Additional file 1 of Risk factors for recurrent tuberculosis after successful treatment in a high burden setting: a cohort study
Creators: name: Cudahy, Patrick George Tobias
name: Wilson, Douglas
name: Cohen, Ted
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Comparison of participants enrolled but not included in the final analysis vs those included in the final analysis.
Compact Star Twins with a Dark Matter Core
Creators: name: Alvarez-Castillo, David
name: Marczenko, Michał
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model of compact stars with a dark matter core. The hadronic equation of state is based on the parity doublet model and does not present a phase transition to quark matter. Instead, a strong first-order phase transition to dark matter described by a constant speed of sound model leads to the scenario of compact star mass twins. Compact star structural properties which obey state-of-the-art measurements and constraints are presented.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the XXVII Cracow EPIPHANY Conference on Recent Advances in Astroparticle Physics (2022)
Integrating Utility into Face De-Identification
Creators: name: Gross, Ralph
name: Airoldi, Edoardo
name: Malin, Bradley
name: Sweeney, Latanya
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the proliferation of inexpensive video surveillance and face recognition technologies, it is increasingly possible to track and match people as they move through public spaces. To protect the privacy of subjects visible in video sequences, prior research suggests using ad hoc obfuscation methods, such as blurring or pixelation of the face. How- ever, there has been little investigation into how obfuscation influences the usability of images, such as for classification tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that at high obfuscation levels, ad hoc methods fail to pre- serve utility for various tasks, whereas at low obfuscation levels, they fail to prevent recognition. To overcome the implied tradeoff between pri- vacy and utility, we introduce a new algorithm, k-Same-Select, which is a formal privacy protection schema based on k-anonymity that provably protects privacy and preserves data utility. We empirically validate our findings through evaluations on the FERET database, a large real world dataset of facial images.
Additional file 3 of Factors predicting mathematics achievement in PISA: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaofang Sarah
name: Perry, Laura B.
name: Malpique, Anabela
name: Ide, Tobias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Appendix S3. Summary of factors.
Additional file 1 of The COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden – threats, trust, and impact on daily life: a comparative survey
Creators: name: Helsingen, Lise M.
name: Erle Refsum
name: Dagrun Kyte Gjøstein
name: Løberg, Magnus
name: Bretthauer, Michael
name: Kalager, Mette
name: Emilsson, Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1a: Questions and responses for surveys performed in Norway (March 20–21) and Sweden (April 10–15), 2020. Questions rendered in Norwegian and Swedish as they appeared for the study participants.
Super $q$-Howe duality and web categories
Creators: name: Tubbenhauer, Daniel
name: Vaz, Pedro
name: Wedrich, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use super $q$-Howe duality to provide diagrammatic presentations of an idempotented form of the Hecke algebra and of categories of $\mathfrak{gl}_N$-modules (and, more generally, $\mathfrak{gl}_{N|M}$-modules) whose objects are tensor generated by exterior and symmetric powers of the vector representations. As an application, we give a representation theoretic explanation and a diagrammatic version of a known symmetry of colored HOMFLY--PT polynomials.
description: 38 pages, many colored figures, extra section containing new results, added suggestions of two referees, comments welcome
Integration of Real-Time Software Modules for Reconfigurable Sensor-Based Control Systems
Creators: name: Stewart, David B.
name: Volpe, Richard
name: Khosla, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we develop a framework for integrating real-time software modules that comprise a reconfigurable multi-sensor based system. Our framework is based on the proposed concept of a global database of state information through which real-time software modules exchange information. This methodology allows the development and integration of reusable software in a complex multiprocessing environment. A reconfigurable sensor-based control system consists of many software modules, each of which can be modelled using a simplified version of a port automaton. Our new state variable table mechanism can be used in both statically and dynamically reconfigurable systems, and it is completely processor independent. Individual modules may also be combined into larger modules to aid in building large systems, and to reduce bus and CPU utilization. An efficient implementation of the state variable table mechanism, which has been integrated into the ChimeraII Real-Time Operating System, is also described.
Distribution of Matrixmetalloproteinase-2 in Human Coronal Dentin
Creators: name: Boushell, Lee W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: It has been reported that matrixmetalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) is present in dentin, but its distribution and significance in human dentin are not well understood. OBJECTIVE: To identify MMP-2 and determine its distribution in human coronal dentin. METHODS: Immunohistochemistry was used to investigate the distribution of MMP-2 in coronal dentin. Freshly extracted human premolars and 3rd molars (age range 12-30) were fixed with formaldehyde, demineralized with 10% EDTA (pH=7.4) and embedded in paraffin. Five [micrometer] serial sections were made and subjected to analysis using a monoclonal anti-MMP-2 antibody with an avidin-biotin-complex method. Immunoreactivity was visualized with 3,3'- diaminobenzidine substrate and observed under light microscopy. ImageJ software was used to calculate the relative amount/distribution of MMP-2. Based on immunohistochemical results, crowns of freshly extracted human 3rd molars (age range 15-32) were sectioned, pulp and predentin tissue was removed, dentin matrix was extracted with EDTA and guanidine- HCl, pH7.4, and subjected to Western blot analysis with monoclonal anti-MMP-2 antibody and zymography. RESULTS: Immunohistochemical analysis revealed immunoreactivity for MMP-2 throughout human coronal dentin. However, intense immunoreactivities were identified in a 90-200 [micrometer] zone adjacent to the pre-dentin as well as a 9-10 [micrometer] wide zone adjacent to the dentinoenamel junction (DEJ). Biochemical strategies detected MMP-2 as ~66 and ~72 kDa proteins (mature and proform of MMP-2, respectively). Furthermore, gelatinolytic activity was detected in the extracts. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that MMP-2 may be involved in extracellular matrix organization and dentin mineralization in predentin matrix. In addition, its concentration in the zone immediately adjacent to the DEJ and the retained enzymatic activity after demineralization suggest that MMP-2 may play a role in the spread of early dentin caries along DEJ. Supported by NIH grants DE10489, DE015876 and the UNC School of Dentistry.
Language Technologies for Humanitarian Aid
Creators: name: Carbonell, Jaime G.
name: Lavie, Alon
name: Levin, Lori
name: Black, Alan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Humanitarian aid missions, whether emergency famine relief, establishment of medical clinics, or missions in conjunction with peace-keeping operations, require on-demand communication with the indigenous population.  If such operations take place in countries with a commonly-spoken major language, such as English or Spanish, it proves relatively easy to find participating personnel with the appropriate linguistic fluency. However, such is not the case when the operations take place in regions where less common languages are spoken, such as Bosnia (language: Serbo-Croatian), Haiti (language: Haitian Creole), Somalia (language: Somali, a.k.a. “Soomaaliga”), or Afghanistan (language: Pashto, with subpopulations of Urdu and Tadjik speakers).  Even in Latin America, where Spanish and Portuguese dominate, there are over 100 indigenous languages, including Quechua in Peru, Aymara in Bolivia, Mapudungun in Southern Chile, and the Tucan languages in the Southern Colombian Putumayo region.  Many native speakers of these languages are not versant in either Spanish or Portuguese, especially those in remote mountainous or jungle regions, where the need for medical or educational aid, or protection from organized drug gangs, may be paramount.
How to confirm and exclude different models of material properties in the Casimir effect
Creators: name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a method allowing to confirm or exclude the alternative models of material properties at some definite confidence level in experiments on measuring the Casimir force. The method is based on the consideration of differences between the theoretical and mean measured quantities and the confidence intervals for these differences found at sufficiently high or low confidence probabilities. The developed method is applied to the data of four recent experiments on measuring the gradient of the Casimir force by means of a dynamic atomic force microscope. It is shown that in experiments with Au-Au and Ni-Ni test bodies, where the Drude model approach is excluded at a 95% confidence level, the plasma model approach agrees with the data at higher than 90% confidence. In experiments using an Au sphere interacting with either a Ni plate or a graphene-coated substrate the measurement data agree with the common prediction of the Drude and plasma model approaches and theory using the polarization tensor at 90% and 80% confidence levels, respectively.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, invited contribution to the special issue on Casimir Forces to be published in J. Phys.: Condens. Matt
Subsistence Consumption and Natural Resource Depletion: Can resource-rich low-income countries realize sustainable consumption paths?
Creators: name: Antony, Jürgen
name: Klarl, Torben
Publisher: name: Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Automation
subject: Minimum subsistence level of consumption
subject: Resource depletion
subject: Resource-rich low-income countries
subject: 330

description: This contribution is concerned with efficient use of a resource if households are characterized by Stone-Geary preferences with a minimum subsistence level of consumption. Subsistence consumption implies particular minimum requirements for initial endowments with reproducible man-made capital and resources. If these are not met, the economy is not able to cover subsistence consumption such as nutrition. Focusing on the steady state, we find that the equilibrium can be governed by zero or positive growth. The latter occurs if the rate of exogenous technical change exceeds the rate of time preference. In the former case, we can show that Hartwick’s investment rule applies in a steady state. Finally, we calibrate the model for developing but resource-rich countries and trace the full dynamic development of the economy. Furthermore, we evaluate this full adjustment process regarding several sustainability indicators.
Additional file 3 of Medical student support for vulnerable patients during COVID-19 – a convergent mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Tirion Hughes
name: Beard, Eleanor
name: Bowman, Amelia
name: Chan, Joyce
name: Gadsby, Katrina
name: Hughes, Martha
name: Humphries, Maya
name: Johnston, Aaron
name: King, Georgina
name: Knock, Megan
name: Kaveeta Malhi
name: Mickute, Gerda
name: Ebubechi Okpalugo
name: Oliver, Madeleine
name: Vimukthi Perera
name: Pickles, Florence
name: Pollock, Lily
name: Pullen, Lucienne
name: Samuels, Ffion
name: Sexton, Harriet
name: Shutler, Laura
name: Smith, Rebecca
name: Tanner, Pippa
name: Ladds, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. COREQ checklist.
Nuestra Señora de la Pobreza y el lugar de las mujeres en los relatos históricos de Ansermanuevo y Cartago (Valle del Cauca, Colombia) Our Lady of Poverty and the Historical Place of Women in Historical Narration of Ansermanuevo y Cartago
Creators: name: Rodríguez Valencia, Lina María
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130308 Gender, Sexuality and Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Resumen Este artículo presenta el lugar asignado a las mujeres –en especial, a las caladoras y bordadoras– en la configuración de la historia local de los municipios de Ansermanuevo y Cartago, Valle del Cauca, durante los siglos XIX y XX. A través de una historiografía con perspectiva de género se evidenció el lugar marginal de la mujer en los relatos históricos. Aunque existen aportes académicos que toman a las bordadoras como tema central de investigación, el tema de las caladoras es casi inexistente en los diferentes relatos. En este contexto, la imagen de “Nuestra señora de la pobreza” resulta ser un referente clave para comprender el significado otorgado a la relación entre prácticas textiles y femineidad.
 Abstract This article presents the place assigned to women –especially caladoras and embroiderers– in the configuration of the local history of Ansermanuevo and Cartago, Valle del Cauca, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through historiography with a gender perspective, the marginal place of women in historical accounts was evidenced. Although academic contributions address the embroiderers as a central research theme, the caladoras subject is practically non-existent in historical documents. In this context, the image of "Our Lady of Poverty" turns out to be a pivotal reference to understanding the meaning given to the relationship between textile practices and femininity.
Characterization of S-T$_+$ Transition Dynamics via Correlation Measurements
Creators: name: Dickel, Christian
name: Foletti, Sandra
name: Umansky, Vladimir
name: Bluhm, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear spins are an important source of dephasing for electron spin qubits in GaAs quantum dots. Most studies of their dynamics have focused on the relatively slow longitudinal polarization. We show, based on a semiclassical model and experimentally, that the dynamics of the transverse hyperfine field can be probed by correlating individual Landau-Zener sweeps across the S-T$_+$ transition of a two-electron spin qubit. The relative Larmor precession of different nuclear spin species leads to oscillations in these correlations, whose decay arises from dephasing of the nuclei. In the presence of spin orbit coupling, oscillations with the absolute Larmor frequencies whose amplitude reflects the spin orbit coupling strength are expected.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of High-quality chromosome-level scaffolds of the plant bug Pachypeltis micranthus provide insights into the availability of Mikania micrantha control
Creators: name: Wang, Xiafei
name: Zhao, Ning
name: Cai, Liqiong
name: Liu, Naiyong
name: Zhu, Jiaying
name: Yang, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Estimate of the Pachypeltis micranthus genome size with 17-mer. Fig. S2. The distribution of accumulated contigs length of Pachypeltis micranthus. Fig. S3. The GC-depth distribution of Nanopore data. Fig. S4. Chromosome-level scaffolds synteny between Apolygus lucorum and Cyrtorhinus lividipennis. Fig. S5. Characteristics of the annotated protein-coding genes in the Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Fig. S6. Timing of inferred divergence of 10 Hemiptera species. Fig. S7. Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis of species-specific genes of Pachypeltis micranthus. Fig. S8. Phylogenetic analysis of three chemoreceptor genes among Pachypeltis micranthus, Apolygus lucorum, Cyrtorhinus lividipennis, and Halyomorpha halys. Fig. S9. Sequence alignment of amino acids of Pachypeltis micranthus odorant-binding proteins (OBPs). Fig. S10. Phylogenetic analysis of odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) and polygalacturonases (PGs) among Pachypeltis micranthus, Apolygus lucorum, Cyrtorhinus lividipennis, and Halyomorpha halys.
Substrate oxidation and blood lactate responses to varying exercise intensities in breast cancer patients and healthy controls
Creators: name: Tosti, Karen P.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: Post-treated breast cancer patients were matched with healthy women based on age, physical fitness level and menopausal status. Subjects participated in low, moderate, and high intensity submaximal exercise sessions that corresponded with 40% VO2max, 60% VO2max, and 70% VO2max. Oxygen uptake and respiratory exchange ratio were taken during submaximal exercise sessions to determine substrate oxidation. Blood lactate and blood glucose were measured before and after submaximal exercise sessions. The breast cancer patients had a significantly (p less than or equal to 0.05) lower carbohydrate oxidation rate and higher fat oxidation rate at all exercise intensities compared to healthy women. The breast cancer patients had a significantly (p less than or equal to 0.05) lower blood lactate response to exercise at all intensities compared to the healthy women. The results indicate that post-treated breast cancer patients have augmented lipid metabolism and reduced carbohydrate metabolism during submaximal exercise.
Beyond Learning from Next Item: Sequential Recommendation via Personalized Interest Sustainability
Creators: name: Hyun, Dongmin
name: Park, Chanyoung
name: Cho, Junsu
name: Yu, Hwanjo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sequential recommender systems have shown effective suggestions by capturing users' interest drift. There have been two groups of existing sequential models: user- and item-centric models. The user-centric models capture personalized interest drift based on each user's sequential consumption history, but do not explicitly consider whether users' interest in items sustains beyond the training time, i.e., interest sustainability. On the other hand, the item-centric models consider whether users' general interest sustains after the training time, but it is not personalized. In this work, we propose a recommender system taking advantages of the models in both categories. Our proposed model captures personalized interest sustainability, indicating whether each user's interest in items will sustain beyond the training time or not. We first formulate a task that requires to predict which items each user will consume in the recent period of the training time based on users' consumption history. We then propose simple yet effective schemes to augment users' sparse consumption history. Extensive experiments show that the proposed model outperforms 10 baseline models on 11 real-world datasets. The codes are available at https://github.com/dmhyun/PERIS.
description: CIKM 2022
Beyond quantum mechanics? Hunting the 'impossible' atoms (Pauli Exclusion Principle violation and spontaneous collapse of the wave function at test)
Creators: name: Piscicchia, K.
name: Curceanu, C.
name: Bartalucci, S.
name: Bassi, A.
name: Bertolucci, S.
name: Berucci, C.
name: Bragadireanu, A. M.
name: Cargnelli, M.
name: Clozza, A.
name: De Paolis, L.
name: Di Matteo, S.
name: Donadi, S.
name: d'Uffizi, A.
name: Egger, J-P.
name: Guaraldo, C.
name: Iliescu, M.
name: Ishiwatari, T.
name: Laubenstein, M.
name: Marton, J.
name: Milotti, E.
name: Pietreanu, D.
name: Ponta, T.
name: Sbardella, E.
name: Scordo, A.
name: Shi, H.
name: Sirghi, D. L.
name: Sirghi, F.
name: Sperandio, L.
name: Doce, O. Vazquez
name: Zmeskal, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of mathematically complete and consistent models solving the so-called "measurement problem", strongly renewed the interest of the scientific community for the foundations of quantum mechanics, among these the Dynamical Reduction Models posses the unique characteristic to be experimentally testable. In the first part of the paper an upper limit on the reduction rate parameter of such models will be obtained, based on the analysis of the X-ray spectrum emitted by an isolated slab of germanium and measured by the IGEX experiment. The second part of the paper is devoted to present the results of the VIP (Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle) experiment and to describe its recent upgrade. The VIP experiment established a limit on the probability that the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) is violated by electrons, using the very clean method of searching for PEP forbidden atomic transitions in copper.
Metaphor and Commonsense Reasoning
Creators: name: Carbonell, Jaime G.
name: Minton, Steven
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inferences based on metaphors appear to play a major role in human common sense reasoning. This paper identifies and analyzes general inference patterns based upon underlying metaphors, in particular the pervasive balance principle. Strategies for metapnor comprehension are explored, and analogical mapping structures are proposed as a means of representing metaphorical relationships between domains. In addition, a framework for a computational model embodying principles of metaphorical common sense reasoning is discussed.
Additional file 2 of High-quality chromosome-level scaffolds of the plant bug Pachypeltis micranthus provide insights into the availability of Mikania micrantha control
Creators: name: Wang, Xiafei
name: Zhao, Ning
name: Cai, Liqiong
name: Liu, Naiyong
name: Zhu, Jiaying
name: Yang, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Statistical information of 17-kmer analysis for the Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S2. Statistics of the genome assembly of Pachypeltis micranthus. Table S3. BUSCO scores of the assembled Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S4. CEGMA assessment results. Table S5. Statistics of the mapping rates on the genome assembly for Illumina reads. Table S6. Statistic of the accuracy of single-base in the assembled genome. Table S7. Statistics of the mapping rates on the genome assembly for Hi-C sequencing data. Table S8. Statistics of the valid paired-end reads of unique mapped paired-end reads. Table S9. Statistics of chromosome-level scaffolds in Pachypeltis micranthus genome assembly. Table S10. Statistics of repeat sequences identified in Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S11. Summary of protein-coding genes annotation of the genome assembly. Table S12. Comparative statistics of protein-coding genes between Pachypeltis micranthus and other Hemiptera species. Table S13. Statistics for functionally annotated protein-coding genes. Table S14. BUSCO assessment of the protein-coding genes. Table S15. Summary statistics for non-coding RNAs. Table S16. Conserved orthologs of ten species. Table S17. Statistics of species-specific genes in Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S18. KEGG enrichment analyses of the expanded gene families in the Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S19. GO enrichment analyses of the expanded gene families in the Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S20. GO enrichment analyses of the significantly contracted gene families in the Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S21. KEGG enrichment analyses of the significantly contracted gene families in Pachypeltis micranthus genome. Table S22. KEGG enrichment analysis of positively selected genes in Pachypeltis micranthus. Table S23. GO enrichment analysis of positively selected genes in Pachypeltis micranthus. Table S24. The software, versions, and parameters used for genome assembly and annotation. Table S25. Calibrating time for estimating divergence times (Million years ago, Mya).
ACCOUNTING DATA RECOVERY. A CASE REPORT FROM INFN-T1
Creators: name: Dal Pra, Stefano
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: Accounting, Data Recovery

description: Starting from summer 2013, the amount of computational activity of the INFN-T1
 centre reported by the official accounting web portal of the EGI community
 accounting.egi.eu, was found to be much lower than the real value. Deep investigation on the
 accounting system pointed out a number of subtle concurrent causes, whose effects dated
 back from May and were responsible for a loss of collected data records over a period of
 about 130 days. The ordinary recovery method would have required about one hundred days.
 A different solution had thus to be designed and implemented. Applying it on the involved set
 of raw log files (records, for an average production rate of jobs/day) required less than 4 hours
 to reconstruct the Grid accounting records. The propagation of these records through the usual
 dataflow up to the EGI portal was then a matter of a few days. This report describes the work
 done at INFN–T1 to achieve the aforementioned result. The procedure was then adopted to
 solve a similar problem affecting another site, INFN–PISA. This solution suggests a possible
 alternative accounting model and provided us with a deep insight on the most subtle aspects
 of this delicate subject.
description: CCR Internal Note: CCR-48/2014/P, Published by SIDS–Pubblicazioni
Unitarity and non-relativistic potential energy in a higher-order Lorentz symmetry breaking electromagnetic model
Creators: name: Scatena, Eslley
name: Turcati, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lorentz-violating model proposed by Myers and Pospelov suffers from a higher-derivative pathology due to a dimension-5 operator. In particular, its electromagnetic sector exhibits an spectrum which contains, in addition to an expected massless photon, ghost contributions that could (in principle) spoil the unitarity of the model. We find that unitarity at tree-level can be assured for pure spacelike, timelike and lightlike background four-vectors (the last two under restrictions upon the allowed momenta). We then analyze the non-relativistic interparticle potential energy behavior for different background four-vectors and compare to the usual Coulomb potential.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D