cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ices in the Quiescent IC 5146 Dense Cloud
Creators: name: Chiar, J. E.
name: Pendleton, Y. J.
name: Allamandola, L. J.
name: Boogert, A. C. A.
name: Ennico, K.
name: Greene, T. P.
name: Geballe, T. R.
name: Keane, J. V.
name: Lada, C. J.
name: Mason, R. E.
name: Roellig, T. L.
name: Sandford, S. A.
name: Tielens, A. G. G. M.
name: Werner, M. W.
name: Whittet, D. C. B.
name: Decin, L.
name: Eriksson, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents spectra in the 2 to 20 micron range of quiescent cloud material located in the IC 5146 cloud complex. The spectra were obtained with NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) SpeX instrument and the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrometer. We use these spectra to investigate dust and ice absorption features in pristine regions of the cloud that are unaltered by embedded stars. We find that the H2O-ice threshold extinction is 4.03+/-0.05 mag. Once foreground extinction is taken into account, however, the threshold drops to 3.2 mag, equivalent to that found for the Taurus dark cloud, generally assumed to be the touchstone quiescent cloud against which all other dense cloud and embedded young stellar object observations are compared. Substructure in the trough of the silicate band for two sources is attributed to CH3OH and NH3 in the ices, present at the ~2% and ~5% levels, respectively, relative to H2O-ice. The correlation of the silicate feature with the E(J-K) color excess is found to follow a much shallower slope relative to lines of sight that probe diffuse clouds, supporting the previous results by Chiar et al. (2007).
description: 13 pages, 13 figures with multiple parts, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal, Feb. 2011
Powder coater monitoring for detection of anomalies in DMLM process
Creators: name: Islier, Mehmet Bora
name: Dortkasli, Kerem
Publisher: name: Journal of Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Year: 2021

description: Additive Manufacturing (AM) is becoming more and more favorable in aerospace industry applications. However, the quality standards for this type of applications are very high, therefore a thorough investigation is required not only after manufacturing but also during the AM process. The tool introduced in this study visually demonstrates if there are any anomalies during powder coating in Direct Metal Laser Melting (DMLM) process. This tool is based on an algorithm that collects and analyzes the images of powder coating and determines whether the powder was spread evenly, or an anomaly occurred during coating. In this study, also a cross validation was carried out with the AM distortion simulation results of the corresponding test part. The same layers where an anomaly was detected in the powder coating analysis tool were investigated in the simulation results and a slight indication was observed, and that validates the outcome of the tool. This study demonstrates results of process anomalies observed in a test part build.
description: Journal of Additive Manufacturing Technologies, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): J AM Tech
A comparison of the mechanical properties of pigmented silicone elastomers used in maxillofacial prostheses
Creators: name: El-Mowafy, Nora
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: To evaluate and compare the mechanical properties of various commercially available pigmented polydimethylsiloxane elastomers (silicone elastomers) utilized in the fabrication of maxillofacial prostheses. Materials & Methods: Three commonly used silicone elastomers were evaluated: A-2000 (Factor II), A-2186 (Factor II), A-103 (Factor II). The silicones was combined with opacifier: Titanium White (Factor II), and pigment: Intrinsic Pigment in Naturelle (Factor II). Specimens were fabricated through the use of aluminum and stone moulds to form trouser- and dumbbell- shaped specimens. From each material 20 specimens were prepared, 10 dumbbell-shaped and 10 trouser-shaped (n=10) for a total of 60 specimens. Mechanical properties evaluated included: Shore-A hardness, tear strength, tensile strength, and percent elongation. These properties were tested according to ASTM protocols. Data was statistically-analyzed with one-way ANOVA of each property at the 95% level of confidence as well as Tukey’s post-hoc tests for specific identification of significant differences between materials. Results: ANOVA indicated statistically-significant differences among the three materials for each of the four outcomes tested. Further statistical analysis with Tukey’s post-hoc tests showed significantly lower tensile strength and tear strength and higher % elongation for A-103 when compared to both A-2000 and A-2186. No statistically significant differences were found between A-2000 and A-2186 with respect to tensile strength, percent elongation or tear strength. All three groups were found to be significantly different from each other in terms of Shore-A hardness. A-103 exhibited the lowest hardness values, whereas A-2186 was found to have the highest hardness. iii Conclusions: Material A-103 exhibited the lowest tensile and tear strengths as well as hardness, however, it displayed the greatest percent elongation. Material A-2000 and A-2186 displayed similar characteristics with regard to tensile and tear strengths, but differed in terms of Shore-A hardness with A-2186 exhibiting the greatest hardness.
32411: No Trick or Treat
Creators: name: Project, Lockdown2020 and Beyond
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 479999
subject: Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified

description: Due to the CoVID restrictions 'Trick or Treating' was discouraged as children would be mixing too much outside of their households, handling sweets, etc. So our local neighbourhood organised a 'spooky safari' trail around the area where houses put up displays in their front windows/gardens. Families walked around it in their bubble, and parents gave 'treats' to the children every time they saw a display.
Measurement of anomalously strong emission from the 1s-9p transition in the spectrum of H-like phosphorus following charge exchange with molecular hydrogen
Creators: name: Leutenegger, M. A.
name: Beiersdorfer, P.
name: Brown, G. V.
name: Kelley, R. L.
name: Kilbourne, C. A.
name: Porter, F. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured K-shell x-ray spectra of highly ionized argon and phosphorus following charge exchange with molecular hydrogen at low collision energy in an electron beam ion trap using an x-ray calorimeter array with $\sim$6 eV resolution. We find that the emission at the high-end of the Lyman series is greater by a factor of 2 for phosphorus than for argon, even though the measurement was performed concurrently and the atomic numbers are similar. This does not agree with current theoretical models and deviates from the trend observed in previous measurements.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures Accepted for publication in PRL
Additional file 1 of Individuals with FOXP1 syndrome present with a complex neurobehavioral profile with high rates of ADHD, anxiety, repetitive behaviors, and sensory symptoms
Creators: name: Trelles, M. Pilar
name: Levy, Tess
name: Lerman, Bonnie
name: Siper, Paige
name: Lozano, Reymundo
name: Halpern, Danielle
name: Walker, Hannah
name: Zweifach, Jessica
name: Frank, Yitzchak
name: Foss-Feig, Jennifer
name: Kolevzon, Alexander
name: Buxbaum, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemntal Table 1: Genetic variants.
Mycorrhizal gateways: Advancing interpretations of fungal symbiosis in sugarcane agriculture
Creators: name: Claassens, Anders
Publisher: name: Southern Cross University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fungi
Mycology
Mycorrhizal
Sugarcane
Symbiosis

description: This thesis investigates the symbiotic relationships between sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi across diverse agricultural contexts. Through a comprehensive methodological approach combining microscopy, quantitative PCR, and DNA metabarcoding, the research provides novel insights into the ecological dynamics and functional significance of AM fungi in sugarcane cultivation systems. Initially, the research established optimised methodologies for detecting and quantifying AM fungi in sugarcane roots. Comparative analysis of sample preservation techniques demonstrated that oven-drying represents a robust alternative to liquid nitrogen for preserving AM fungal DNA in field-collected root samples, enabling high-quality molecular assessments in resource-limited contexts. Further investigations examined AM communities in both roots and soil, revealing striking differences in taxonomic composition that challenge the assumption that root colonisation directly reflects soil inoculum potential. The research demonstrates that sugarcane roots actively recruit specific AM taxa, functioning as "rhizosphere gatekeepers" through selection mechanisms that favour certain fungal partners. This selective process likely reflects host plant affinity for fungi that have been enriched through long-term sugarcane monocropping, creating non-random assemblages of AM fungi within roots. Experimental studies showed that soil abiotic factors significantly modulate AM fungal associations in sugarcane. Manipulation of soil moisture, phosphorus levels, and pH revealed differential impacts on both the extent of root colonisation and the composition of AM communities. Notably, reduced moisture conditions promoted increased colonisation and hyphal proliferation, while elevated phosphorus suppressed the formation of arbuscules and vesicles, indicating compromised symbiotic functionality. Subsequent research challenged conventional practices by demonstrating that commercial AM fungal inocula provided no substantial benefits compared to uninoculated controls with native AM communities. Despite varying propagule densities and species compositions, introduced inocula failed to enhance colonisation, alter community composition, or improve plant growth, indicating that native AM fungi possess superior adaptive traits for establishing functional symbioses with sugarcane. Collectively, this research advances our understanding of the selective mechanisms underlying AM symbioses in sugarcane and has important implications for sustainable agricultural practices. The findings suggest that management strategies should focus on optimising soil conditions to support native AM fungal communities rather than relying on commercial inoculation, with approaches tailored to specific sugarcane production environments and soil conditions.
Multimodal Evidence of Atypical Processing of Eye Gaze and Facial Emotion in Children With Autistic Traits
Creators: name: Bagherzadeh-Azbari, Shadi
name: Lau, Gilbert
name: Ouyang, Guang
name: Zhou, Changsong
name: Hildebrandt, Andrea
name: Sommer, Werner
name: Lui, Ming
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: gaze direction
subject: emotion processing
subject: face recognition
subject: N170
subject: EPN
subject: autism spectrum disorder
subject: ADOS
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: According to the shared signal hypothesis (SSH) the impact of facial expressions on emotion processing partially depends on whether the gaze is directed toward or away from the observer. In autism spectrum disorder (ASD) several aspects of face processing have been found to be atypical, including attention to eye gaze and the identification of emotional expressions. However, there is little research on how gaze direction affects emotional expression processing in typically developing (TD) individuals and in those with ASD. This question is investigated here in two multimodal experiments. Experiment 1 required processing eye gaze direction while faces differed in emotional expression. Forty-seven children (aged 9–12 years) participated. Their Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) scores ranged from 0 to 6 in the experiment. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were sensitive to gaze direction and emotion, but emotion processing did not depend on gaze direction. However, for angry faces the gaze direction effect on the N170 amplitude, as typically observed in TD individuals, diminished with increasing ADOS score. For neutral expressions this correlation was not significant. Experiment 2 required explicit emotion classifications in a facial emotion composite task while eye gaze was manipulated incidentally. A group of 22 children with ASD was compared to a propensity score-matched group of TD children (mean age = 13 years). The same comparison was carried out for a subgroup of nine children with ASD who were less trained in social cognition, according to clinician’s report. The ASD group performed overall worse in emotion recognition than the TD group, independently of emotion or gaze direction. However, for disgust expressions, eye tracking data revealed that TD children fixated relatively longer on the eyes of the stimulus face with a direct gaze as compared with averted gaze. In children with ASD we observed no such modulation of fixation behavior as a function of gaze direction. Overall, the present findings from ERPs and eye tracking confirm the hypothesis of an impaired sensitivity to gaze direction in children with ASD or elevated autistic traits, at least for specific emotions. Therefore, we conclude that multimodal investigations of the interaction between emotional processing and stimulus gaze direction are promising to understand the characteristics of individuals differing along the autism trait dimension.
"There's more to life than sport" : athletes' experiences coping with concussions
Creators: name: Epple, Brittany Nicole Tekakarewes
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Sport-related concussions are emerging as a growing health concern, with the documented occurrence doubling over the last decade (Mrazik et al., 2016). Concussions in sport are often accompanied by a negative emotional experience (Elbin at al., 2014). One key to successfully overcoming concussions is an ability to cope with emotions associated with them (Hutchison et al., 2009). A thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 13 student-athletes (5 men, 8 women) was employed to investigate how athletes cope with and appraise the emotional experience of concussions in the Canadian varsity sport context. Four main themes were identified. Firstly, participants appraised their concussion as unique, emphasizing the individuality of the injury. Concussion was viewed as challenging due to limitations as a result of symptoms, timing of the injury and a difficult emotional experience in comparison to other sport-related injuries. Secondly, the team culture of playing through pain and injury influenced how participants viewed their concussion. Participants felt they had to accept this culture in order to be a successful athlete as injury is a sign of weakness and should therefore be viewed as part of the sport experience. Thirdly, participants described distractive coping as a way to manage their injury. By continuing to be active in life, participants felt they were able to overcome their concussion, which lead to a positive reappraisal of their injury where they began to see it as an opportunity for growth in their lives. Finally, participants described the challenge of navigating their concussion recovery with limited information provided and available to them. Misunderstanding of their injury both by themselves and others resulted in feelings of loneliness and isolation. Thus, participants relied on the support of others who had experienced concussion to help them understand their injury and cope with it. Findings suggest that concussion recovery is challenging, and perception of this experience is influenced by the existent sport culture. Emotional experience of concussion is an important consideration in both concussion recovery and treatment at all levels of sport.
New York Times Upshot/Siena College: September 2020 Georgia Poll Wave 1
Creators: name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2023

description: Likelihood of voting (1); 2020 presidential election (14); method of voting (3); vote for or against candidates (13); republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (18); democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (17); libertarian candidate Jo Jorgenson (4); Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins (6); 2020 U.S. Senate election (4); democratic candidate, Jon Ossoff (3); republican candidate, David Perdue (3); libertarian candidate, Shane Hazel (2); republican candidate, Doug Collins (2); republican candidate Kelly Loeffler (2); democratic candidate Matt Lieberman (2); democratic candidate Ed Tarver (2); democratic candidate Raphael Warnock (2); President Donald Trump job approval (1); voter enthusiasm (1); Trump vs. Biden, policies (10); favorability of politicians or political movements (8); republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence (1); democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris (1); Black Lives Matter (BLM) (1); coronavirus pandemic (2); the economy (2); unifying America (1); crime/law and order (2); U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominations (1); immigration (3); China (1); trade policy (3); racism (1); tax reform (1); voter rights (4); voted in previous elections (4).
Impact of humidity, temperature, and particulate fouling on membrane-based energy exchangers
Creators: name: Engarnevis, Amin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Membrane-based energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) improve building energy efficiency by transporting heat and moisture between incoming and outgoing air streams. Although long-term studies are not available due to the recent implementation of this technology, there are preliminary indications that moisture transport might degrade with the extended operation, possibly as the result of exposure to air pollution or other environmental stresses. The scope of this dissertation is to quantify the influence of environmental factors on the permeation properties of current-generation composite membranes and the overall performance of ERV exchanger cores. First, the impact of particulate fouling was investigated via accelerated membrane- and core-level fouling experiments. The core-level experiments showed minimal impact on the effectiveness of ERV cores from coarse dust loadings. However, membrane-level examination with aerosol nanoparticles indicated that moisture transport through membranes was especially impaired when particles were hygroscopic or contained liquids. These results suggest that the optimal protection by filters and the orientation of the membrane would depend on the nature of the indoor and outdoor aerosols. Second, the effects of relative humidity and temperature on the transport of water vapor and CO₂ (as a surrogate for indoor air pollutants) was evaluated through a systematic study of some standard polymers suitable for ERV use. It was shown that the permeability and selectivity of membranes could vary up to an order of magnitude depending on the membrane material, the temperature and relative humidity on both feed and permeate sides of the membrane, as well as orientation in asymmetric composite membranes. A theoretical model for predicting permeability of composite membranes, based on a limited number of kinetic water vapor sorption tests of the selective coating polymer, was successfully developed and validated for a commercial membrane. This model was then coupled with a heat and mass transfer model of cross-flow ERV exchanger cores to interpret the membrane-level variations regarding ERV exchanger core performance. A study of the effects of outdoor air parameters showed that the effectiveness of ERV exchangers could increase or decrease significantly with outdoor air relative humidity, while outdoor air temperature had only a minimal influence on effectiveness parameters.
Increasing proportions of HIV-1 non-B subtypes and of NNRTI resistance between 2013 and 2016 in Germany: Results from the national molecular surveillance of new HIV-diagnoses
Creators: name: Hauser, Andrea
name: Hofmann, Alexandra
name: Meixenberger, Karolin
name: Altmann, Britta
name: Hanke, Kirsten
name: Bremer, Viviane
name: Bartmeyer, Barbara
name: Bannert, Norbert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: men-who-have-sex-with-men
subject: HIV-1
subject: Antimicrobial resistance
subject: Germany
subject: Mutation databases
subject: German people
subject: Europe
subject: Sequence databases
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Molecular surveillance of newly diagnosed HIV-infections is important for tracking trends in circulating HIV-variants, including those with transmitted drug resistances (TDR) to sustain ART efficacy. Methods Dried serum spots (DSS) are received together with the statutory notification of a new diagnosis. 'Recent infections' (<155 days) classified by a 'recent infection test algorithm' (BED-CEIA and clinical data) are genotyped in HIV-protease (PR), reverse transcriptase (RT) and integrase (INT) to determine the HIV-1 subtype, to calculate prevalence and trends of TDR, to predict baseline susceptibility and to identify potential transmission clusters for resistant variants. Results Between January 2013 and December 2016, 1,885 recent infections were analysed regarding the PR/RT genomic region, with 43.5% of these also being subjected to the analysis of INT. The proportion of HIV-1 non-B viruses (31.3%; 591/1,885) increased from 21.6% to 36.0%, particularly the subtypes A (5.0% to 8.3%) and C (3.2% to 7.7%; all ptrends < 0.01). The subtype A increment is mainly due to transmissions within men who have sex with men (MSM) while subtype C transmissions are associated with heterosexuals and people who inject drugs. The prevalence of TDR was stable at 11.0% (208/1,885) over the study period. Resistances to nucleotide RT inhibitors (NRTI) and PR inhibitors (PI) were 4.5% and 3.2%, respectively, without identifiable trends. In contrast, resistances to non-NRTIs (NNRTI, 4.7%) doubled between 2014 and 2016 from 3.2% to 6.4% (ptrend = 0.02) mainly due to the K103N mutation (from 1.7% to 4.1%; ptrend = 0.03) predominantly detected in recently infected German MSM not linked to transmission clusters. Transmitted INSTI mutations were present in only one case (T66I) and resistance to dolutegravir was not identified at all. Reduced susceptibility to recommended first-line therapies was low with 1.0% for PIs, 1.3% for NRTIs and 0.7% for INSTIs, but high for the NNRTIs efavirence (4.9%) and rilpivirine (6.0%) due to the K103N mutation and the polymorphic mutation E138A. These trends in therapy-naïve individuals impact current first-line regimens and require awareness and vigilant surveillance.
Widespread nanoflare variability detected with Hinode/XRT in a solar active region
Creators: name: Terzo, Sergio
name: Reale, Fabio
name: Miceli, Marco
name: Klimchuk, James A.
name: Kano, Ryouhei
name: Tsuneta, Saku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally agreed that small impulsive energy bursts called nanoflares are responsible for at least some of the Sun's hot corona, but whether they are the explanation for most of the multi-million degree plasma has been a matter of ongoing debate. We here present evidence that nanoflares are widespread in an active region observed by the X-Ray Telescope on-board the Hinode mission. The distributions of intensity fluctuations have small but important asymmetries, whether taken from individual pixels, multi-pixel subregions, or the entire active region. Negative fluctuations (corresponding to reduced intensity) are greater in number but weaker in amplitude, so that the median fluctuation is negative compared to a mean of zero. Using MonteCarlo simulations, we show that only part of this asymmetry can be explained by Poisson photon statistics. The remainder is explainable with a tendency for exponentially decreasing intensity, such as would be expected from a cooling plasma produced from a nanoflare. We suggest that nanoflares are a universal heating process within active regions.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
TOR Signalling Regulates Cdk8-Dependent Induction of the GAL Genes
Creators: name: Hawe, Nicole
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: The GAL genes in S. cerevisiae are highly regulated at the transcriptional level and make an excellent model for the study of eukaryotic transcription. GAL transcription is activated by Gal4 in response to the availability of galactose. Gal4 activity is positively regulated by Cdk8-dependent phosphorylation, by an uncharacterized mechanism that becomes essential for GAL induction in yeast lacking the galactose inducer protein Gal3. Null mutations of cdk8/ srb10, or mutation of the Cdk8-dependent phosphorylation site on Gal4 at S699, render gal3 yeast incapable of growing on galactose as the sole source of carbon. The work presented in this thesis exploited this phenotype in a genetic screen to identify mutants that prevent Cdk8-dependent GAL expression with the goal of discovering regulators of Cdk8. I isolated 16 complementation groups, termed the gal four throttle (gft) mutants. One mutant, gft1, was found to represent a recessive allele of hom3, which encodes an aspartokinase in the biosynthetic pathway for threonine and methionine. Characterization of gft1 revealed a defect in Tor signalling; strains defective for gft1/ hom3 are hyper-sensitive to rapamycin and cause constitutive Gat1 nuclear localization. Furthermore, null mutations of tor1 or tco89, encoding components of the TORC1 complex, also prevent GAL expression in gal3 yeast. Tetrad analysis revealed that gft7 is allelic to tco89. Further genetic analysis demonstrated that disruption of cdc55, encoding a regulatory subunit of the PP2A protein phosphatase downstream of Tor signalling suppresses the effect of gft1/ hom3, gft7/ tco89, and tor1 mutations on GAL expression. Additionally, a class of gft mutants hyper-sensitive to sublethal concentrations of hygromycin B were identified which led to the discovery that med2 is likely allelic to gft13-2. This group of gft mutants may represent a mechanistic explanation for the gft phenotype that is separate from Tor signalling. Together these results provide novel insight into how induction of transcription by a specific inducer can be modulated by global physiological signals.
Additional file 2 of Individuals with FOXP1 syndrome present with a complex neurobehavioral profile with high rates of ADHD, anxiety, repetitive behaviors, and sensory symptoms
Creators: name: Trelles, M. Pilar
name: Levy, Tess
name: Lerman, Bonnie
name: Siper, Paige
name: Lozano, Reymundo
name: Halpern, Danielle
name: Walker, Hannah
name: Zweifach, Jessica
name: Frank, Yitzchak
name: Foss-Feig, Jennifer
name: Kolevzon, Alexander
name: Buxbaum, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Supplemental Table 2: Neuropsychological assessments.
Topological inference for EEG and MEG
Creators: name: Kilner, James M.
name: Friston, Karl J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neuroimaging produces data that are continuous in one or more dimensions. This calls for an inference framework that can handle data that approximate functions of space, for example, anatomical images, time--frequency maps and distributed source reconstructions of electromagnetic recordings over time. Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) is the standard framework for whole-brain inference in neuroimaging: SPM uses random field theory to furnish $p$-values that are adjusted to control family-wise error or false discovery rates, when making topological inferences over large volumes of space. Random field theory regards data as realizations of a continuous process in one or more dimensions. This contrasts with classical approaches like the Bonferroni correction, which consider images as collections of discrete samples with no continuity properties (i.e., the probabilistic behavior at one point in the image does not depend on other points). Here, we illustrate how random field theory can be applied to data that vary as a function of time, space or frequency. We emphasize how topological inference of this sort is invariant to the geometry of the manifolds on which data are sampled. This is particularly useful in electromagnetic studies that often deal with very smooth data on scalp or cortical meshes. This application illustrates the versatility and simplicity of random field theory and the seminal contributions of Keith Worsley (1951--2009), a key architect of topological inference.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS337 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Κανονιστική θεμελίωση των δικαιωμάτων των προσφύγων
Creators: name: Πραπόγιας, Κωνσταντίνος Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Δικαιώματα των προσφύγων
Καντιανός κοσμοπολιτισμός
Κοινωνιολογία του προσφυγικού δικαίου
Προσβολή της ηθικής προσωπικότητας
Δεοντικές αντιφάσεις ανάμεσα σε κράτη και δικαιώματα προσφύγων
Κοσμοπολίτικο δίκαιο ως πραγμάτωση του λόγου
Refugees rights
Kantian cosmopolitanism
Sociology of refugee law
Offence of ethical personality
Deontic tention between states law and refugees rights
Cosmopolitan law as reasons reification

description: Aντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας .είναι η κανονιστική θεμελίωση των δικαιωμάτων των προσφύγων. Στην εισαγωγή επιχειρείται μια αναφορά στις νομικές και πολιτικές πρακτικές των κρατών της Ευρωπαικής ένωσης. Στο πρώτο μέρος, παρουσιάζονται τα θεμέλια του κοσμοπολιτισμού μέσα από μια συγκεκριμένη ερμηνεία της καντιανής φιλοσοφίας. Στο δεύτερο μέρος, παρουσιάζονται οι δεοντικές σχέσεις που αναπτύσσονται ανάμεσα στα κράτη και τα δικαιώματα των προσφύγων. Στο τρίτο μέρος, δίνω τη δική μου εκδοχή για την ερμηνεία του προσφυγικού δικαίου και του Καντιανού κοσμοπολιτισμού. Οι πρόσφυγες χωρίς ένα συμβολικό χώρο διαμονής αλλά και πολιτικής επικοινωνίας φέρουν ένα έλλογο δικαίωμα, μια αξίωση καθώς προσβάλλεται η ηθική τους προσωπικότητα, δηλαδή η αξιοπρέπεια και η ισότητά τους. Το κοσμοπολίτικο δίκαιο πραγματώνει τον λόγο και τα ήδη υπαρκτά δικαιώματα σε παγκόμιο επίπεδο.
description: The aim of the present thesis is the normative foundation of refugees’ rights. In the preface, a reference to the legal and political practices of the EU states is presented. In the first part, the groundings of a specific interpretation of cosmopolitanism, based in Kantian philosophy are presented. In the second part, the deontic relationship among the states and refugees rights is presented. In the third part, I give my own version for the interpretation of refugee law and Kantian cosmopolitanism. The conclusion I reach is that refugees, without a symbolic place not only to stay but also to communicate politically, have a reasonable right, they claim assertions every time their ethical personality, namely their dignity and their equality, is offended. Cosmopolitan law establishes reason and the already existent rights in a global level.
Statistical and machine learning classification methods for credit ratings
Creators: name: Hu, Xixi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Credit rating is an ordinal categorical label that serves as an important measure of a financial institution’s credit worthiness. It is frequently used to decide whether or not to grant loans as well as how much interest to charge. Companies with higher credit ratings often enjoy lower interest rate and more flexibility in obtaining loans. Due to the increased competition in the lending market, there is renewed interest in the business community in applying statistical and machine learning methods to assign credit ratings. The challenge of adapting and generalizing these methods often lies in understanding and interpreting them in addition to matching ratings accurately. Our goal is to compare the classification performance and interpretability of four statistical learning methods on a credit rating dataset from the industry, where the rating variable comes from human expert opinions. We fit the ordinal regression, ordinal gradient boosting, multinomial gradient boosting and random forest methods with the goal of finding an interpretable method that can replicate the human expert ratings as closely as possible. We find that while the linear ordinal regression is the most interpretable, it fails to achieve high classification accuracy during cross-validation. Furthermore, the ordinal models (ordinal regression and ordinal gradient boosting) produce significant amount of negative fitted probabilities in practice due to the lack of numerical constraints. While ordinal gradient boosting and random forest perform the best in our three measures of classification accuracy: perfect match rate, within one-class match rate and 80% prediction intervals, ordinal gradient boosting produces high proportions of negative values and non-unimodality in the fitted probability mass function. Thus we choose random forest as the most preferred method and focus on its interpretation using variable importance ranking, partial derivative of the probability mass function and cumulative probability function, as well as local interpretable model-agnostic explanation plots.
Advancements and Challenges in Rheumatoid Arthritis Management: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Synthory AI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This systematic review synthesizes recent advancements in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) management, focusing on tailored treatment strategies and population-based studies. Using the Synthory.AI service, 35 articles published between 2018 and 2025 were analyzed following PRISMA guidelines. Key findings highlight the efficacy of biologics and csDMARDs in improving disease activity metrics, such as DAS28 and HAQ-DI scores, through treat-to-target approaches. Despite these promising results, limitations in study designs, population diversity, and metric standardization restrict generalizability. Future research should emphasize randomized controlled trials with diverse cohorts and standardized protocols to optimize RA treatment outcomes. This review underscores the need for continued innovation in RA management.
Additional file 3 of Individuals with FOXP1 syndrome present with a complex neurobehavioral profile with high rates of ADHD, anxiety, repetitive behaviors, and sensory symptoms
Creators: name: Trelles, M. Pilar
name: Levy, Tess
name: Lerman, Bonnie
name: Siper, Paige
name: Lozano, Reymundo
name: Halpern, Danielle
name: Walker, Hannah
name: Zweifach, Jessica
name: Frank, Yitzchak
name: Foss-Feig, Jennifer
name: Kolevzon, Alexander
name: Buxbaum, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Supplemental Table 3: Medical comorbidities.
Priručnik za vršnjačke mentore: Program vršnjačkog mentorstva za mlade iz sistema socijalne zaštite
Creators: name: Jovanović, Marija
name: Bukvić Branković, Lidija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: vršnjačko mentorstvo, programi, mladi iz sistema socijalne zaštite

description: Priručnik za vršnjačke mentore nastao je u okviru Programa podrške osamostaljivanju mladih iz sistema socijalne zaštite. Program podrške razvijan je kroz veći broj projekata podržanih od strane Trag fondacije i fondacije Kinderperspectief, kao i od strane Erazmus+ programa Evropske unije. Sadržaj priručnika prilagođen je i programima vršnjačkog mentorstva namenjenim drugim ciljnim grupama.
The Stellar Kinematic Signature of Massive Black Hole Binaries
Creators: name: Meiron, Yohai
name: Laor, Ari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stalling radius of a merging massive binary black hole (BBH) is expected to be below 0".1 even in nearby galaxies (Yu 2002), and thus BBHs are not expected to be spatially resolved in the near future. However, as we show below, a BBH may be detectable through the significantly anisotropic stellar velocity distribution it produces on scales 5-10 times larger than the binary separation. We calculate the velocity distribution of stable orbits near a BBH by solving the restricted three body problem for a BBH embedded in a bulge potential. We present high resolution maps of the projected velocity distribution moments, based on snapshots of ~ 10^8 stable orbits. The kinematic signature of a BBH in the average velocity maps is a counter rotating torus of stars outside the BBH Hill spheres. The velocity dispersion maps reveal a dip in the inner region, and an excess of 20-40% further out, compared to a single BH of the same total mass. More pronounced signatures are seen in the third and fourth Gauss-Hermite velocity moments maps. The detection of these signatures may indicate the presence of a BBH currently, or at some earlier time, which depends on the rate of velocity phase space mixing following the BBH merger.
description: Accepted to MNRAS
Additional file 4 of Individuals with FOXP1 syndrome present with a complex neurobehavioral profile with high rates of ADHD, anxiety, repetitive behaviors, and sensory symptoms
Creators: name: Trelles, M. Pilar
name: Levy, Tess
name: Lerman, Bonnie
name: Siper, Paige
name: Lozano, Reymundo
name: Halpern, Danielle
name: Walker, Hannah
name: Zweifach, Jessica
name: Frank, Yitzchak
name: Foss-Feig, Jennifer
name: Kolevzon, Alexander
name: Buxbaum, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Supplemental Table 4: Dysmorphic features in the cohort.
Rings and bars: unmasking secular evolution of galaxies
Creators: name: Knapen, Johan H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Secular evolution gradually shapes galaxies by internal processes, in contrast to early cosmological evolution which is more rapid. An important driver of secular evolution is the flow of gas from the disk into the central regions, often under the influence of a bar. In this paper, we review several new observational results on bars and nuclear rings in galaxies. They show that these components are intimately linked to each other, and to the properties of their host galaxy. We briefly discuss how upcoming observations, e.g., imaging from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G), will lead to significant further advances in this area of research.
description: Invited review at "Galaxies and their Masks", celebrating Ken Freeman's 70-th birthday, Sossusvlei, Namibia, April 2010. To be published by Springer, New York, editors D.L. Block, K.C. Freeman, & I. Puerari; minor changes
Reduced basis method for source mask optimization
Creators: name: Pomplun, J.
name: Zschiedrich, L.
name: Burger, S.
name: Schmidt, F.
name: Tyminski, J.
name: Flagello, D.
name: Toshiharu, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Image modeling and simulation are critical to extending the limits of leading edge lithography technologies used for IC making. Simultaneous source mask optimization (SMO) has become an important objective in the field of computational lithography. SMO is considered essential to extending immersion lithography beyond the 45nm node. However, SMO is computationally extremely challenging and time-consuming. The key challenges are due to run time vs. accuracy tradeoffs of the imaging models used for the computational lithography. We present a new technique to be incorporated in the SMO flow. This new approach is based on the reduced basis method (RBM) applied to the simulation of light transmission through the lithography masks. It provides a rigorous approximation to the exact lithographical problem, based on fully vectorial Maxwell's equations. Using the reduced basis method, the optimization process is divided into an offline and an online steps. In the offline step, a RBM model with variable geometrical parameters is built self-adaptively and using a Finite Element (FEM) based solver. In the online step, the RBM model can be solved very fast for arbitrary illumination and geometrical parameters, such as dimensions of OPC features, line widths, etc. This approach dramatically reduces computational costs of the optimization procedure while providing accuracy superior to the approaches involving simplified mask models. RBM furthermore provides rigorous error estimators, which assure the quality and reliability of the reduced basis solutions. We apply the reduced basis method to a 3D SMO example. We quantify performance, computational costs and accuracy of our method.
description: BACUS Photomask Technology 2010
Additional file 5 of Individuals with FOXP1 syndrome present with a complex neurobehavioral profile with high rates of ADHD, anxiety, repetitive behaviors, and sensory symptoms
Creators: name: Trelles, M. Pilar
name: Levy, Tess
name: Lerman, Bonnie
name: Siper, Paige
name: Lozano, Reymundo
name: Halpern, Danielle
name: Walker, Hannah
name: Zweifach, Jessica
name: Frank, Yitzchak
name: Foss-Feig, Jennifer
name: Kolevzon, Alexander
name: Buxbaum, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Supplemental Table 5: Neurological exam.
Two-step spacetime deformation induced dynamical torsion
Creators: name: Ter-Kazarian, G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the geometrical ideas of the spacetime deformations to study the physical foundation of the post-Riemannian geometry. To this aim, we construct the theory of 'two-step spacetime deformation' as a guiding principle. We address the theory of teleparallel gravity and construct a consistent Einstein-Cartan (EC) theory with the 'dynamical torsion'. We show that the equations of the standard EC theory, in which the equation defining torsion is the algebraic type and, in fact, no propagation of torsion is allowed, can be equivalently replaced by the set of 'modified EC equations' in which the torsion, in general, is dynamical. The special physical constraint imposed upon the spacetime deformations yields the short-range propagating spin-spin interaction.
description: 17 pages, no fifures
THE ROLE OF UNDERPRICING IN STOCK RETURN DETERMINANTS
Creators: name: THORMAN LUMBANRAJA
name: LUQMAN HAKIM
name: YULI ZAIN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Earnings Management, Under-pricing, Stock Return.

description: Abstract

This study is intended to conduct an analysis and answer the presence of research gaps that occur among researchers as well as the phenomena that occur where stock returns as a problem that needs to be carried out using underpricing as an intervening variable. This type of research is a quantitative descriptive with multiple regression analysis methods that use the object of research companies that conduct initial public offering (IPOS) with underpricing results listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange. By using the Purposive Sampling method obtained the number of cross sections as many as thirty-five companies that were observed in this study and with time series for 5 years. Furthermore, this study produced a maximization of stock returns through underpricing. This study uses the approach of two research models that are integrated into one and each through the stages of the model selection test, namely the Chow Test, the Hausman Test. The results of research in the first model that uses the endogenous undergenating variable with the results of all exogenous variables can significantly explain their effect on the endogenic variable and with the highest level of sensitivity in the earnings management variable. The results of the second model research using stock return as an endogenous variable with the result that all exogenous variables can also explain their effect significantly on the endogenic variable and with the highest level of sensitivity in the underpricing variable. These results are expected to help as a guideline for public companies to get market appreciation that is proxied into stock returns.
Hell becomes other people : cinematic form and cruel fantasies of affectlessness
Creators: name: Harper, Morgan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Towards the end of Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 play, No Exit, Joseph Garcin begrudgingly recognizes that due to his misdeeds on Earth he has been punished to eternally share a single drawing room with two strangers. "Hell is---other people," he realizes (45). Instead of this recognition surfacing further anxieties amongst the new roommates, it calms them down. The realization that we cannot escape the impact of others, but will always be contingent upon them, opens up the possibility for a less strained form of co-existence. In other words, hell is not necessarily other people. However, if we do not accept and work with our capacity to be affected by others, then hell becomes other people. Despite the inescapability of our contingencies and capacity to be affected, contemporary Hollywood genre cinema is well-stocked with characters that have either seemingly achieved or are actively pursuing the fantasy of an unaffected existence. Although this lack of feeling is usually only explicitly associated with societies’ most beleaguered citizens (e.g., drug users, serial killers, etc.), this thesis argues that these cinematic fantasies of affectlessness have become ordinary and widespread. By diverting my attention away from cinema's explicit announcements, and toward cinematic form, I will explore how specific formal features encourage fantasies of affectlessness for both characters and audience members. Within this thesis, I seek a theoretical explanation of these fantasies as well as to understand the motivations that have encouraged their widespread popularity. In order to understand how cinema facilitates these fantasies for audiences, I will also examine two formal features which filmmakers have used to evoke these fantasies of an unaffected existence: coloured noise (in Solaris (Soderbergh 2002) and Mom and Dad (Taylor 2018)) as well as the erasure of affective markers (in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright 2010)). Despite these fantasies’ widespread circulation, I will argue that these fantasies encourage what Lauren Berlant has termed ‘cruel optimism’; indeed, despite the optimism these fantasies of affectlessness provide in promising a tensionless existence, in actuality they cruelly obstruct individuals from reducing their lives’ tensions.