cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Arylidene Pyruvic Acids Motif in the Synthesis of New 2H,5H-Chromeno[4′,3′:4,5]thiopyrano[2,3-d]thiazoles via Tandem Hetero-Diels–Alder-Hemiacetal Reaction
Creators: name: Lozynskyi, Andrii
name: Zimenkovsky, Borys
name: Gzella, Andrzej K.
name: Lesyk, Roman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hematology
Developmental Biology
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: We have developed a tandem hetero-Diels–Alder-hemiacetal reaction using arylidene pyruvic acids with 5-(ortho-hydroxybenzylidene)-substituted 4-thioxo-2-thiazolidinones, leading to 6-hydroxy-2-oxo-5-phenyl-3,5a,6,11b-tetrahydro-2H,5H-chromeno[4′,3′:4,5]thiopyrano[2,3-d][1,3]thiazole-6-carboxylic acids. The stereochemistry of cycloaddition was confirmed by NMR spectra and a single-crystal x-ray diffraction analysis.
Plectocryptus digitatus
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Plectocryptus
Plectocryptus digitatus

description: Plectocryptus digitatus (GMELIN, 1790)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap2:1♁20.iv.-5.v.; trap 4: 1♁ 1-15.vi., 1♀ 13-27.vii.; trap 7: 1♀ 3♁♁ 23.iv.-5.v., 2♀♀ 5-20.v., 1♁ 13-27.vii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Western Palaearctic, known from Azerbaijan (JONAITIS & ALIEV 1983b, ALIEV 1988), new record for Georgia.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Continuous-Space Stochastic Games
Creators: name: Altabaa, Awni
name: Yongacoglu, Bora
name: Yüksel, Serdar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stochastic games are a popular framework for studying multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Recent advances in MARL have focused primarily on games with finitely many states. In this work, we study multi-agent learning in stochastic games with general state spaces and an information structure in which agents do not observe each other's actions. In this context, we propose a decentralized MARL algorithm and we prove the near-optimality of its policy updates. Furthermore, we study the global policy-updating dynamics for a general class of best-reply based algorithms and derive a closed-form characterization of convergence probabilities over the joint policy space.
hUTP24 is essential for processing of the human rRNA precursor at site A1, but not at site A0
Creators: name: Tomecki, Rafal
name: Labno, Anna
name: Drazkowska, Karolina
name: Cysewski, Dominik
name: Dziembowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Production of ribosomes relies on more than 200 accessory factors to ensure the proper sequence of steps and faultless assembly of ribonucleoprotein machinery. Among trans-acting factors are numerous enzymes, including ribonucleases responsible for processing the large rRNA precursor synthesized by RNA polymerase I that encompasses sequences corresponding to mature 18S, 5.8S, and 25/28S rRNA. In humans, the identity of most enzymes responsible for individual processing steps, including endoribonucleases that cleave pre-rRNA at specific sites within regions flanking and separating mature rRNA, remains largely unknown. Here, we investigated the role of hUTP24 in rRNA maturation in human cells. hUTP24 is a human homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae putative PIN domain-containing endoribonuclease Utp24 (yUtp24), which was suggested to participate in the U3 snoRNA-dependent processing of yeast pre-rRNA at sites A0, A1, and A2. We demonstrate that hUTP24 interacts to some extent with proteins homologous to the components of the yeast small subunit (SSU) processome. Moreover, mutation in the putative catalytic site of hUTP24 results in slowed growth of cells and reduced metabolic activity. These effects are associated with a defect in biogenesis of the 40S ribosomal subunit, which results from decreased amounts of 18S rRNA as a consequence of inaccurate pre-rRNA processing at the 5′-end of the 18S rRNA segment (site A1). Interestingly, and in contrast to yeast, site A0 located upstream of A1 is efficiently processed upon UTP24 dysfunction. Finally, hUTP24 inactivation leads to aberrant processing of 18S rRNA 2 nucleotides downstream of the normal A1 cleavage site.
Additional file 1 of Mutations in SilS and CusS/OmpC represent different routes to achieve high level silver ion tolerance in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Creators: name: Woolley, Charlotte A.
name: Sutton, J. Mark
name: Wand, Matthew E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Addtional file 1.
Power-to-Frequency Conversion in Cryogenic Sapphire Resonators
Creators: name: Ivanov, Eugene
name: Tobar, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied how the cryogenic sapphire resonator responds to fast variations of the dissipated microwave power. The experiments were carried out with sapphire resonators cooled to 6 K at frequencies around 11 GHz. We found that the power-to-frequency conversion of the resonator depends on Fourier frequency as the transfer function of the 1st-order low-pass filter with corner frequency close to the resonator loaded half-bandwidth. Having measured the power-to-frequency conversion of the cryogenic sapphire resonator, we predicted the phase noise of the microwave oscillator based on such resonator.
description: The paper is three pages long and contains five figures
Boundary current fluctuations for the half space ASEP and six vertex model
Creators: name: He, Jimmy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82C23 (Primary), 60K35, 82C22 (Secondary)

description: We study fluctuations of the current at the boundary for the half space asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) and the height function of the half space six vertex model at the boundary at large times. We establish a phase transition depending on the asymptotic density of particles at the boundary, with GSE and GOE limits as well as the Baik--Rains crossover distribution near the critical point. This was previously known for half space last passage percolation, and recently established for the half space log-gamma polymer and KPZ equation in the groundbreaking work of Imamura, Mucciconi, and Sasamoto.
 The proof uses the underlying algebraic structure of these models in a crucial way to obtain exact formulas. In particular, we show a relationship between the half space six vertex model and a half space Hall--Littlewood measure with two boundary parameters, which is then matched to a free boundary Schur process via a new identity of symmetric functions. Fredholm Pfaffian formulas are established for the half space ASEP and six vertex model, indicating a hidden free fermionic structure.
description: v3: final version. 60 pages, many figures. Comments are welcome!
Additional file 1 of Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales
Creators: name: Wallace, Matthew
name: Wilson, Ben
name: Darlington-Pollock, Frances
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Original regression models.
Additional file 1 of The contribution of latent factors of executive functioning to mind wandering: an experience sampling study
Creators: name: Marcusson-Clavertz, David
name: Persson, Stefan D.
name: Cardeña, Etzel
name: Terhune, Devin B.
name: Gort, Cassandra
name: Kuehner, Christine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Descriptive summaries of cognitive tasks and experience sampling questionnaire and additional correlational and multilevel analyses on experience sampling questionnaire data.
Tips dan Trik SKB CPNS Dosen
Creators: name: Lubis, Azhar Aziz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: tips dan trik cpns
seleksi kompetensi bidang (SKB)
calon pegawai negeri sipil (cpns)
formasi dosen
kemendikbud, kemenag, kemenristekdikti

description: Materi salindia ini merupakan refleksi penulis saat menjalani proses Seleksi Kompetensi Bidang (SKB) CPNS formasi Dosen Asisten Ahli pada Kementrian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan d/h Kemenristekdikti tahun 2017. Materi ini disampaikan pada kegiatan “Webinar Tips & Trik SKB CPNS Dosen Kemendikbud & Kemenag”, Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah & Keguruan UIN Sumatera Utara secara daring via Zoom hari Sabtu 5 September 2020. Semoga bermanfaat.
Wobble↔Watson-Crick tautomeric transitions in the homo-purine DNA mismatches: a key to the intimate mechanisms of the spontaneous transversions
Creators: name: Ol’ha O. Brovarets’
name: Hovorun, Dmytro M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The intrinsic capability of the homo-purine DNA base mispairs to perform wobble↔Watson–Crick/Topal–Fresco tautomeric transitions via the sequential intrapair double proton transfer was discovered for the first time using QM (MP2/DFT) and QTAIM methodologies that are crucial for understanding the microstructural mechanisms of the spontaneous transversions.
Arylidene Pyruvic Acids Motif in the Synthesis of New 2H,5H-Chromeno[4′,3′:4,5]thiopyrano[2,3-d]thiazoles via Tandem hetero-Diels–Alder-Hemiacetal Reaction
Creators: name: Lozynskyi, Andrii
name: Zimenkovsky, Borys
name: Gzella, Andrzej K.
name: Lesyk, Roman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hematology
Developmental Biology
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: We have developed a tandem hetero-Diels–Alder-hemiacetal reaction using arylidene pyruvic acids with 5-(ortho-hydroxybenzylidene)-substituted 4-thioxo-2-thiazolidinones, leading to 6-hydroxy-2-oxo-5-phenyl-3,5a,6,11b-tetrahydro-2H,5H-chromeno[4’,3':4,5]thiopyrano[2,3-d][1,3]thiazole-6-carboxylic acids. The stereochemistry of cycloaddition was confirmed by NMR spectra and a single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.
Topological error correcting processes from fixed-point path integrals
Creators: name: Bauer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a unifying paradigm for analyzing and constructing topological quantum error correcting codes as dynamical circuits of geometrically local channels and measurements. To this end, we relate such circuits to discrete fixed-point path integrals in Euclidean spacetime, which describe the underlying topological order: If we fix a history of measurement outcomes, we obtain a fixed-point path integral carrying a pattern of topological defects. As an example, we show that the stabilizer toric code, subsystem toric code, and CSS Floquet code can be viewed as one and the same code on different spacetime lattices, and the honeycomb Floquet code is equivalent to the CSS Floquet code under a change of basis. We also use our formalism to derive two new error-correcting codes, namely a Floquet version of the $3+1$-dimensional toric code using only 2-body measurements, as well as a dynamic code based on the double-semion string-net path integral.
description: version accepted for publication in Quantum
hUTP24 is essential for processing of the human ribosomal RNA precursor at site A1, but not at site A0
Creators: name: Tomecki, Rafal
name: Labno, Anna
name: Drazkowska, Karolina
name: Cysewski, Dominik
name: Dziembowski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Production of ribosomes relies on more than 200 accessory factors to ensure the proper sequence of steps and faultless assembly of ribonucleoprotein machinery. Among trans-acting factors are numerous enzymes, including ribonucleases responsible for processing the large rRNA precursor synthesized by RNA polymerase I that encompasses sequences corresponding to mature 18S, 5.8S, and 25/28S ribosomal RNA. In humans, the identity of most enzymes responsible for individual processing steps, including endoribonucleases that cleave pre-rRNA at specific sites within regions flanking and separating mature rRNA, remains largely unknown. Here, we investigated the role of hUTP24 in ribosomal RNA maturation in human cells. hUTP24 is a human homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae putative PIN domain-containing endoribonuclease Utp24 (yUtp24), which was suggested to participate in the U3 snoRNA-dependent processing of yeast pre-rRNA at sites A0, A1, and A2. We demonstrate that hUTP24 interacts to some extent with proteins homologous to the components of the yeast small subunit (SSU) processome. Moreover, mutation in the putative catalytic site of hUTP24 results in slowed growth of cells and reduced metabolic activity. These effects are associated with a defect in biogenesis of the 40S ribosomal subunit, which results from decreased amounts of 18S rRNA as a consequence of inaccurate pre-rRNA processing at the 5′-end of the 18S rRNA segment (site A1). Interestingly, and in contrast to yeast, site A0 located upstream of A1 is efficiently processed upon UTP24 dysfunction. Finally, hUTP24 inactivation leads to aberrant processing of 18S rRNA two nucleotides downstream of the normal A1 cleavage site.
Long-lived valley states in bilayer graphene quantum dots
Creators: name: Garreis, Rebekka
name: Tong, Chuyao
name: Terle, Jocelyn
name: Ruckriegel, Max Josef
name: Gerber, Jonas Daniel
name: Gächter, Lisa Maria
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Ihn, Thomas
name: Ensslin, Klaus
name: Huang, Wei Wister
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bilayer graphene is a promising platform for electrically controllable qubits in a two-dimensional material. Of particular interest is the ability to encode quantum information in the so-called valley degree of freedom, a two-fold orbital degeneracy that arises from the symmetry of the hexagonal crystal structure. The use of valleys could be advantageous, as known spin- and orbital-mixing mechanisms are unlikely to be at work for valleys, promising more robust qubits. The Berry curvature associated with valley states allows for electrical control of their energies, suggesting routes for coherent qubit manipulation. However, the relaxation time of valley states -- which ultimately limits these qubits' coherence properties and therefore their suitability as practical qubits -- is not yet known. Here, we measure the characteristic relaxation times of these spin and valley states in gate-defined bilayer graphene quantum dot devices. Different valley states can be distinguished from each other with a fidelity of over 99%. The relaxation time between valley triplets and singlets exceeds 500ms, and is more than one order of magnitude longer than for spin states. This work facilitates future measurements on valley-qubit coherence, demonstrating bilayer graphene as a practical platform hosting electrically controlled long-lived valley qubits.
description: Rebekka Garreis and Chuyao Tong contributed equally to this paper. Nat. Phys. (2024)
Pleolophus brachypterus
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Pleolophus
Pleolophus brachypterus

description: Pleolophus brachypterus (GRAVENHORST, 1815), det. Schwarz
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 8: 2♁♁ 15-29.vi.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Azerbaijan (JONAITIS & ALIEV, 1983b), new record for Georgia.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Lessons learned from the Gamified Solutions in Healthcare Project: usability studies of digital game-based physical exercises for elderly people
Creators: name: Pyae, Aung
name: Joelssen, T. N.
name: Luimula, M.
name: Saarenpaa, T.
name: Smed, Jouni
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, we discuss usability lessons in designing physical activity games for the elderly. Physical activity games in this study refer to game-based activity that can enhance the elderly’s experiences in doing physical exercise and improve their physical well-being. We learned these usability lessons through the usability testing of different physical activity games including commercial games as well as the games produced by the Gamified Solutions in Healthcare (GSH) project. The discussion is based on the findings from the observational study, interview, and questionnaires in the usability testing. These usability lessons are insightful and useful for our future game design and development as well as for researchers working on game usability for the elderly.
In-Distribution and Out-of-Distribution Self-supervised ECG Representation Learning for Arrhythmia Detection
Creators: name: Soltanieh, Sahar
name: Hashemi, Javad
name: Etemad, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a systematic investigation into the effectiveness of Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods for Electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmia detection. We begin by conducting a novel analysis of the data distributions on three popular ECG-based arrhythmia datasets: PTB-XL, Chapman, and Ribeiro. To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to quantitatively explore and characterize these distributions in the area. We then perform a comprehensive set of experiments using different augmentations and parameters to evaluate the effectiveness of various SSL methods, namely SimCRL, BYOL, and SwAV, for ECG representation learning, where we observe the best performance achieved by SwAV. Furthermore, our analysis shows that SSL methods achieve highly competitive results to those achieved by supervised state-of-the-art methods. To further assess the performance of these methods on both In-Distribution (ID) and Out-of-Distribution (OOD) ECG data, we conduct cross-dataset training and testing experiments. Our comprehensive experiments show almost identical results when comparing ID and OOD schemes, indicating that SSL techniques can learn highly effective representations that generalize well across different OOD datasets. This finding can have major implications for ECG-based arrhythmia detection. Lastly, to further analyze our results, we perform detailed per-disease studies on the performance of the SSL methods on the three datasets.
description: This paper has been published in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI). Copyright IEEE. Please cite as: S. Soltanieh, J. Hashemi and A. Etemad, "In-Distribution and Out-of-Distribution Self-Supervised ECG Representation Learning for Arrhythmia Detection," in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 789-800, Feb. 2024
Additional file 1 of Overlap of high-risk individuals predicted by family history, and genetic and non-genetic breast cancer risk prediction models: implications for risk stratification
Creators: name: Ho, Peh Joo
name: Ho, Weang Kee
name: Khng, Alexis J.
name: Yeoh, Yen Shing
name: Tan, Benita Kiat-Tee
name: Tan, Ern Yu
name: Lim, Geok Hoon
name: Tan, Su-Ming
name: Tan, Veronique Kiak Mien
name: Yip, Cheng-Har
name: Mohd-Taib, Nur-Aishah
name: Wong, Fuh Yong
name: Lim, Elaine Hsuen
name: Ngeow, Joanne
name: Chay, Wen Yee
name: Leong, Lester Chee Hao
name: Yong, Wei Sean
name: Seah, Chin Mui
name: Tang, Siau Wei
name: Ng, Celene Wei Qi
name: Yan, Zhiyan
name: Lee, Jung Ah
name: Rahmat, Kartini
name: Islam, Tania
name: Hassan, Tiara
name: Tai, Mei-Chee
name: Khor, Chiea Chuen
name: Yuan, Jian-Min
name: Koh, Woon-Puay
name: Sim, Xueling
name: Dunning, Alison M.
name: Bolla, Manjeet K.
name: Antoniou, Antonis C.
name: Teo, Soo-Hwang
name: Li, Jingmei
name: Hartman, Mikael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Details on the study populations, DNA isolation and genotyping, polygenic risk score (PRS) calculation, and methods to obtain absolute risk by PRS and the Gail model.
Polytribax perspicillator
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Polytribax
Polytribax perspicillator

description: Polytribax perspicillator (GRAVENHORST, 1807)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 7: 2♁♁ 5-20.v.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018, RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Adapting housing and water sector infrastructure to population dynamics
Creators: name: Faure, Julie Charlotte
name: 0000-0003-4047-414X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Water
Housing
Infrastructure
Population dynamics
Refugees
Institutions
Gentrification

description: In a world increasingly urban and subject to large and sudden population displacements—resulting from factors such as political instabilities, urban mobility, or disasters—understanding interdependencies between infrastructure and population dynamics is critical for decision-makers to be able to face challenges in the near future. To help provide such an understanding, this dissertation addresses two complimentary aspects of population dynamics in urban environments of developed countries and their impacts on the housing and water sector infrastructure. On the one hand, this dissertation analyzes the institutional response of the housing and water sector to influxes of displaced persons during the European Refugee Crisis of 2015 and 2016. Semi-structured interviews of 52 German stakeholders were conducted and qualitatively analyzed to understand decision-making processes during this period of emergency. On the other hand, hydraulic simulations of the effects of population dynamics occurring during gentrification were performed to determine the relative criticality of changes in socio-economic statuses versus changes in population density. Arising from the results are the following recommendations to decision-makers of the housing and water infrastructure sector when facing large and rapid population dynamics: (1) Develop new and unusual collaborations. The interviews conducted in Germany revealed that large-scale in-person meetings between all organizations involved (e.g., firemen, governmental agencies, non-profits) were critical to effective responses to the Refugee Crisis. (2) Seek accurate information about the type of population dynamics. In the case of gentrification, it is critical to quantify the fluxes of populations, and to assess sociodemographic characteristics of populations involved. In cities such as Washington, DC, overlooking sociodemographic characteristics can hinder the ability of utilities to provide adequate water services. In the case of the Refugee Crisis, making uninformed assumptions about displaced persons’ habits and needs can lead to poor decision-making. (3) Use moments of crisis as an opportunity to improve institutional resilience. This dissertation shows that, during crises, most stakeholders can be enthusiastic about committing to responding to such event, regardless of their political opinion. However, results indicate that these efforts should be monitored and continued in the long-term to enhance the ability of institutions to react to future crises.
A Characterization of Maps of Bounded Compression
Creators: name: Schiavo, Lorenzo Dello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A60

description: A measurable map between measure spaces is shown to have bounded compression if and only if its image via the measure-algebra functor is Lipschitz-continuous w.r.t. the measure-algebra distances. This provides a natural interpretation of maps of bounded compression/deformation by means of the measure-algebra functor and corroborates the assertion that maps of bounded deformation are the natural class of morphisms for the category of complete and separable metric measure spaces.
description: 5 pages
Comparison of non-invasive individual monitoring of the training and health of athletes with commercially available wearable technologies
Creators: name: Dueking, Peter
name: Hotho, Andreas
name: Holmberg, Hans-Christer
name: Fuss, Franz
name: Sperlich, Billy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Athletes adapt their training daily to optimize performance, as well as avoid fatigue, overtraining and other undesirable effects on their health. To optimize training load, each athlete must take his/her own personal objective and subjective characteristics into consideration and an increasing number of wearable technologies (wearables) provide convenient monitoring of various parameters. Accordingly, it is important to help athletes decide which parameters are of primary interest and which wearables can monitor these parameters most effectively. Here, we discuss the wearable technologies available for non-invasive monitoring of various parameters concerning an athlete's training and health. On the basis of these considerations, we suggest directions for future development. Furthermore, we propose that a combination of several wearables is most effective for accessing all relevant parameters, disturbing the athlete as little as possible, and optimizing performance and promoting health.
Wobble↔Watson-Crick tautomeric transitions in the homo-purine DNA mismatches: A key to the intimate mechanisms of the spontaneous transversions
Creators: name: Ol’ha O. Brovarets’
name: Hovorun, Dmytro M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The intrinsic capability of the homo-purine DNA base mispairs to perform wobble(w)↔Watson-Crick(WC)/Topal-Fresco(TF) tautomeric transitions via the sequential intrapair double proton transfer was discovered for the first time using QM (MP2/DFT) and QTAIM methodologies that are crucial for understanding of the microstructural mechanisms of the spontaneous transversions.
Constraining the onset density for the QCD phase transition with the neutrino signal from core-collapse supernovae
Creators: name: Largani, Noshad Khosravi
name: Fischer, Tobias
name: Bastian, Niels Uwe F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The occurrence of a first-order hadron-quark matter phase transition at high baryon densities is investigated in astrophysical simulations of core-collapse supernovae, to decipher yet incompletely understood properties of the dense matter equation of state (EOS) using neutrinos from such cosmic events. It is found that the emission of a nonstandard second neutrino burst, dominated by electron antineutrinos, is not only a measurable signal for the appearance of deconfined quark matter but also reveals information about the state of matter at extreme conditions encountered at the supernova (SN) interior. To this end, a large set of spherically symmetric SN models is investigated, studying the dependence on the EOS and the stellar progenitor. General relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics is employed featuring three-flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport and a microscopic hadron-quark hybrid matter EOS class. Therefore, the DD2 relativistic mean-field hadronic model is employed, and several variations of it, and the string-flip model for the description of deconfined quark matter. The resulting hybrid model covers a representative range of onset densities for the phase transition and latent heats. This facilitates the direct connection between intrinsic signatures of the neutrino signal and properties of the EOS. In particular, a set of linear relations has been found empirically. These potentially provide a constraint for the onset density of a possible QCD phase transition from the future neutrino observation of the next galactic core-collapse SN, if a millisecond electron anti-neutrino burst is present around or less than 1s.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
Energy absorption and performance relevant to thermal wear comfort evaluation of existing impact protective pad and materials intended for impact protective pad
Creators: name: Wardiningsih, Wiah
name: Troynikov, Olga
name: Fuss, Franz
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reported an evaluation of the absorption energy and performance relevant to thermal wear comfort of existing hip protective pad and materials intended for use in hip protective pad. For energy absorption evaluation the experimental pads were compressed using Instron Tester, while dry thermal resistance and evaporative resistance of experimental pads were tested using sweating guarded hot plate. The stress-strain compression curves from the experimental results were used to analyze the absorption energy of the pads. It was determined that knitted spacer fabric had better relative energy absorption than closed cell foams, and better absolute energy absorption when treated with shear-thickening fluid. Also, the dead mass of spacer fabrics is the lower than the one of foams. Physical form and morphology of knitted spacer fabric allowed easier thermal and vapour transfer to the environment in comparison to those of closed-cell foam, where knitted spacer fabric had both lower dry thermal resistance and evaporative resistance values than closed cell foam which makes the knitted spacer fabric suitable for protective pads used in high sport activity and hot environmental environments. This study concluded that knitted spacer fabric could successfully be used as alternative material for impact protective pad.
Identifying the Correlation Between Language Distance and Cross-Lingual Transfer in a Multilingual Representation Space
Creators: name: Philippy, Fred
name: Guo, Siwen
name: Haddadan, Shohreh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prior research has investigated the impact of various linguistic features on cross-lingual transfer performance. In this study, we investigate the manner in which this effect can be mapped onto the representation space. While past studies have focused on the impact on cross-lingual alignment in multilingual language models during fine-tuning, this study examines the absolute evolution of the respective language representation spaces produced by MLLMs. We place a specific emphasis on the role of linguistic characteristics and investigate their inter-correlation with the impact on representation spaces and cross-lingual transfer performance. Additionally, this paper provides preliminary evidence of how these findings can be leveraged to enhance transfer to linguistically distant languages.
description: SIGTYP Workshop 2023 (co-located with EACL 2023)
Ctenopelma tomentosum
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Ctenopelma
Ctenopelma tomentosum

description: Ctenopelma tomentosum (DESVIGNES, 1856)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap4: 1♀ 20.v.-1.vi.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (KASPARYAN 2004).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Additional file 1 of A thematic analysis of system wide learning from first wave Covid-19 in the East of England
Creators: name: Jackson, Carolyn
name: Manley, Kim
name: Webster, Jonathan
name: Hardy, Sally
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Coherent interface between optical and microwave photons on an integrated superconducting atom chip
Creators: name: Petrosyan, David
name: Fortágh, József
name: Kurizki, Gershon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sub-wavelength arrays of atoms exhibit remarkable optical properties, analogous to those of phased array antennas, such as collimated directional emission or nearly perfect reflection of light near the collective resonance frequency. We propose to use a single-sheet sub-wavelength array of atoms as a switchable mirror to achieve a coherent interface between propagating optical photons and microwave photons in a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator. In the proposed setup, the atomic array is located near the surface of the integrated superconducting chip containing the microwave cavity and optical waveguide. A driving laser couples the excited atomic state to Rydberg states with strong microwave transition. Then the presence or absence of a microwave photon in the superconducting cavity makes the atomic array transparent or reflective to the incoming optical pulses of proper frequency and finite bandwidth.
Additional file 1 of FOXO transcriptional activity is associated with response to chemoradiation in EAC
Creators: name: Creemers, A.
name: van der Zalm, A. P.
name: van de Stolpe, A.
name: Holtzer, L.
name: Stoffels, M.
name: Hooijer, G. K. J.
name: Ebbing, E. A.
name: van Ooijen, H.
name: van Brussel, A. G. C.
name: Aussems-Custers, E. M. G.
name: van Berge Henegouwen, M. I.
name: Hulshof, M. C. C. M.
name: Bergman, J. J. G. H. M.
name: Meijer, S. L.
name: Bijlsma, M. F.
name: van Laarhoven, H. W. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Poor responder phenotype in patient samples. A Pathway signal transduction activity of six key signal transduction pathways was measured in the resectable disease cohort (i). Pre-treatment biopsy pathway activity scores were subtracted from all matched resections that both passed QC, i.e. delta activity score (N = 69). Two-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank statistical tests were performed between all post-nCRT (N = 56) and surgery only (N = 13) patients. p-values are indicated in the figures. Boxplots represent median with interquartile range. B All post-nCRT resection specimens from the resectable disease cohort were assessed for correlations between FOXO and TGF-β activity. Spearman correlations were performed, N = 138, separated for low (1–2, N = 17, all Mandard 2), middle (3, N = 59) and high (4–5, N = 47) Mandard score. C Pre-treatment biopsies were assessed for correlations between FOXO and TGF-β activity. Spearman correlations were performed, N = 77, separated for low (1–2, N = 22), middle (3, N = 37) and high (4–5, N = 18) Mandard score obtained after nCRT. D Disease free survival of patients with combined low FOXO and TGF-β pathway activity versus combined high pathway activities in post-nCRT resection specimens (N = 83). Cut-off by median pathway activity score.
Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning for Engineering Design and Health Prognostics: A Tutorial
Creators: name: Nemani, Venkat
name: Biggio, Luca
name: Huan, Xun
name: Hu, Zhen
name: Fink, Olga
name: Tran, Anh
name: Wang, Yan
name: Zhang, Xiaoge
name: Hu, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: On top of machine learning models, uncertainty quantification (UQ) functions as an essential layer of safety assurance that could lead to more principled decision making by enabling sound risk assessment and management. The safety and reliability improvement of ML models empowered by UQ has the potential to significantly facilitate the broad adoption of ML solutions in high-stakes decision settings, such as healthcare, manufacturing, and aviation, to name a few. In this tutorial, we aim to provide a holistic lens on emerging UQ methods for ML models with a particular focus on neural networks and the applications of these UQ methods in tackling engineering design as well as prognostics and health management problems. Toward this goal, we start with a comprehensive classification of uncertainty types, sources, and causes pertaining to UQ of ML models. Next, we provide a tutorial-style description of several state-of-the-art UQ methods: Gaussian process regression, Bayesian neural network, neural network ensemble, and deterministic UQ methods focusing on spectral-normalized neural Gaussian process. Established upon the mathematical formulations, we subsequently examine the soundness of these UQ methods quantitatively and qualitatively (by a toy regression example) to examine their strengths and shortcomings from different dimensions. Then, we review quantitative metrics commonly used to assess the quality of predictive uncertainty in classification and regression problems. Afterward, we discuss the increasingly important role of UQ of ML models in solving challenging problems in engineering design and health prognostics. Two case studies with source codes available on GitHub are used to demonstrate these UQ methods and compare their performance in the life prediction of lithium-ion batteries at the early stage and the remaining useful life prediction of turbofan engines.
Ctenopelma rufiventre
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Ctenopelma
Ctenopelma rufiventre

description: Ctenopelma rufiventre (GRAVENHORST, 1829)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4: 1♁ 20.iv.-5.v.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: West Palaearctic, known from Armenia (KASPARYAN 2004), new record for Georgia.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10788481
Bands renormalization and superconductivity in the strongly correlated Hubbard model using composite operators method
Creators: name: Haurie, L.
name: Grandadam, M.
name: Pangburn, E.
name: Banerjee, A.
name: Burdin, S.
name: Pépin, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the composite operator method (COM) to analyze the strongly correlated repulsive Hubbard model, investigating the effect of nearest-neighbor hoppings up to fourth order on a square lattice. We consider two sets of self-consistent equations, one enforcing the Pauli principle and the other imposing charge-charge, spin-spin, and pair-pair correlations using a decoupling scheme developed by L. Roth. We extract three distinct solutions from these equations: COM1 and COM2 by imposing the Pauli principle and one from Roth decoupling. An overview of the method studying the validity of particle-hole symmetry and the Luttinger theorem for each solution is presented. Additionally, we extend the initial basis to study superconductivity, concluding that it is induced by the Van Hove singularity. Finally, we include higher-order hoppings using realistic estimates for tight binding parameters and compare our results with ARPES measurements on cuprates.
Dynamics of spin bowling: The normalized precession of the spin axis analysed with a smart cricket ball
Creators: name: Fuss, Franz
name: Doljin, Batdelger
name: Ferdinands, Rene E. D.
name: Beach, Aaron
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: As torque is imparted on a cricket ball before release, the spin vector precesses into the torque vector. Normalising the precession speed to the torque and the angular velocity yields the 'normalised precession', i.e. the angle between the spin vector and the torque vector. The maximal normalised precession was analysed in spin bowling, specifically in finger- and wrist spin, and topspin, sidespin and backspin deliveries. The data were recorded with a smart cricket ball and a Cortex motion analysis system. The maximal normalised precession at the beginning of the finger torque increased from topspin to backspin. The reason for this behaviour is that the motion of the bowling arm imparts a topspin on the ball, and therefore the spin axis does not have to change its direction if the fingers impart further topspin on the ball.
Subverting autocracy: emancipative mass values in competitive authoritarian regimes
Creators: name: Zavadskaya, Margarita
name: Welzel, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Competitive elections in authoritarian regimes are inherently ambiguous: do they extend regime persistence or, vice versa, operate as subversive events? This article tests Inglehart and Welzel's “emancipatory theory of democracy”, which has not been tested for competitive elections in autocracies: when emancipative values grow strong, autocratic power appears increasingly illegitimate in people's eyes, which motivates subversive mass actions against authoritarian rule. For electoral outcomes this suggestion implies, first, that authoritarian incumbents are more likely to suffer electoral defeat when emancipative values have become more widespread. Second, post-electoral protest against fraudulent elections is more likely when emancipative values have become more widespread. To test these hypotheses, we analyse 152 elections among 33 electoral authoritarian regimes over 21 years from 1990–2011. We find that emancipative values are indeed strongly conducive to incumbent defeat while their effect on post-electoral protest is conditional: it only occurs in elections won by the incumbent. These findings intertwine two separately developed literatures: one on authoritarian regime subversion and the other on emancipatory cultural change.