cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A symmetric matrix-variate normal local approximation for the Wishart distribution and some applications
Creators: name: Ouimet, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62E20, 62H10, 62H12, 62B15, 62G05, 62G07

description: The noncentral Wishart distribution has become more mainstream in statistics as the prevalence of applications involving sample covariances with underlying multivariate Gaussian populations as dramatically increased since the advent of computers. Multiple sources in the literature deal with local approximations of the noncentral Wishart distribution with respect to its central counterpart. However, no source has yet developed explicit local approximations for the (central) Wishart distribution in terms of a normal analogue, which is important since Gaussian distributions are at the heart of the asymptotic theory for many statistical methods. In this paper, we prove a precise asymptotic expansion for the ratio of the Wishart density to the symmetric matrix-variate normal density with the same mean and covariances. The result is then used to derive an upper bound on the total variation between the corresponding probability measures and to find the pointwise variance of a new density estimator on the space of positive definite matrices with a Wishart asymmetric kernel. For the sake of completeness, we also find expressions for the pointwise bias of our new estimator, the pointwise variance as we move towards the boundary of its support, the mean squared error, the mean integrated squared error away from the boundary, and we prove its asymptotic normality.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: [Chow Gin Ling], Yee Jack Hin, Cheong Kin Ho, Chong Jing Ho, Wong Tai Fon, Lew Cheong, Won Jing Jun, Won Duck Yee, Won Dick, Won Fon Jung.
Chemical chaperone TUDCA prevents apoptosis and improves survival during polymicrobial sepsis in mice
Creators: name: Doerflinger, M
name: Glab, Jason
name: Nedev, Christina
name: Jose, Irvin
name: Lin, A
name: O'Reilly, L
name: Allison, C
name: Pellegrini, M
name: Hotchkiss, RS
name: Puthalakath, Hamsa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 310102
subject: Cell development, proliferation and death
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Sepsis-induced lymphopenia is a major cause of morbidities in intensive care units and in populations with chronic conditions such as renal failure, diabetes, HIV and alcohol abuse. Currently, other than supportive care and antibiotics, there are no treatments for this condition. We developed an in vitro assay to understand the role of the ER-stress-mediated apoptosis process in lymphocyte death during polymicrobial sepsis, which was reproducible in in vivo mouse models. Modulating ER stress using chemical chaperones significantly reduced the induction of the pro-apoptotic protein Bim both in vitro and in mice. Furthermore, in a two-hit' pneumonia model in mice, we have been able to demonstrate that administration of the chemical chaperone TUDCA helped to maintain lymphocyte homeostasis by significantly reducing lymphocyte apoptosis and this correlated with four-fold improvement in survival. Our results demonstrate a novel therapeutic opportunity for treating sepsis-induced lymphopenia in humans.
Perspectives of measuring gravitational effects of laser light and particle beams
Creators: name: Spengler, Felix
name: Rätzel, Dennis
name: Braun, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83-10

description: We study possibilities of creation and detection of oscillating gravitational fields from lab-scale high energy, relativistic sources. The sources considered are high energy laser beams in an optical cavity and the ultra-relativistic proton bunches circulating in the beam of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. These sources allow for signal frequencies much higher and far narrower in bandwidth than what most celestial sources produce. In addition, by modulating the beams, one can adjust the source frequency over a very broad range, from Hz to GHz. The gravitational field of these sources and responses of a variety of detectors are analyzed. We optimize a mechanical oscillator such as a pendulum or torsion balance as detector and find parameter regimes such that -- combined with the planned high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC as a source -- a signal-to-noise ratio substantially larger than 1 should be achievable at least in principle, neglecting all sources of technical noise. This opens new perspectives of studying general relativistic effects and possibly quantum-gravitational effects with ultra-relativistic, well-controlled terrestrial sources.
description: Main Text: 23 pages, 1 figure. Appendix: 7 pages, 2 figures
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 80 – Law Soup
Creators: name: History, Roy Rosenzweig Center For
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Apple
subject: Books
subject: Copyright
subject: Ebooks
subject: Facebook
subject: Intellectual property
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Libraries
subject: Open access
subject: Publishing

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/).
description: Friend of the podcast Peter Hirtle stands in for Amanda to give Tom, Mills, and Dan some much needed legal education as we take on SOPA, PIPA, the Research Works Act, and the Supreme Court’s decision in Golan v. Holder. We also consider Apple’s attempts to shake up the textbook market and the sad fate of two very old University of Nevada at Reno students’ Facebook pages.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lam Young, Lam Jen, Ko Fook, Sim Juey Choy, Jang Sun, Ng Kong Lim, Hong Quon Fong, [Hong Bark Kai], Lao Gow, Lao Lap.
BADet: Boundary-Aware 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds
Creators: name: Qian, Rui
name: Lai, Xin
name: Li, Xirong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Currently, existing state-of-the-art 3D object detectors are in two-stage paradigm. These methods typically comprise two steps: 1) Utilize a region proposal network to propose a handful of high-quality proposals in a bottom-up fashion. 2) Resize and pool the semantic features from the proposed regions to summarize RoI-wise representations for further refinement. Note that these RoI-wise representations in step 2) are considered individually as uncorrelated entries when fed to following detection headers. Nevertheless, we observe these proposals generated by step 1) offset from ground truth somehow, emerging in local neighborhood densely with an underlying probability. Challenges arise in the case where a proposal largely forsakes its boundary information due to coordinate offset while existing networks lack corresponding information compensation mechanism. In this paper, we propose $BADet$ for 3D object detection from point clouds. Specifically, instead of refining each proposal independently as previous works do, we represent each proposal as a node for graph construction within a given cut-off threshold, associating proposals in the form of local neighborhood graph, with boundary correlations of an object being explicitly exploited. Besides, we devise a lightweight Region Feature Aggregation Module to fully exploit voxel-wise, pixel-wise, and point-wise features with expanding receptive fields for more informative RoI-wise representations. We validate BADet both on widely used KITTI Dataset and highly challenging nuScenes Dataset. As of Apr. 17th, 2021, our BADet achieves on par performance on KITTI 3D detection leaderboard and ranks $1^{st}$ on $Moderate$ difficulty of $Car$ category on KITTI BEV detection leaderboard. The source code is available at https://github.com/rui-qian/BADet.
description: The manuscript is accepted by Pattern Recognition on 6 Jan, 2022
title: Fortifying Multi-tenant Cloud Environments via Improved CPU Management
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: Cloud computing technology has significantly changed the computing diagram. Ever since Amazon Web Service (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services in 2006, cloud computing technology keeps maturing, developing, and offering more benefits. A cloud computing environment allows multiple cloud tenants to share the same physical or virtual host, thus called a multi-tenant environment. A cloud tenant can be an individual user or a group of users sharing cloud resources. A multi-tenant cloud environment is supposed to be secure and fair. However, due to the inevitable resource sharing among multiple tenants, one tenant’s behavior may impact the other tenants running simultaneously. It often leads to performance anomalies and security concerns.In this dissertation, I investigate these security and performance problems in the multi-tenant cloud environment and propose novel solutions to address these issues. Given that the root causes of these issues are due to resource sharing (i.e., CPU) among multiple tenants, our solutions are always centered around CPU management, as discussed below. First, I demonstrate a virtual machine (VM) is vulnerable to side-channel attacks when a malicious neighboring VM runs on the same host. To secure the host against such attacks, I design new schemes via a different CPU scheduling strategy for VMs. It can effectively defeat such side-channel attacks with a negligible performance overhead. Second, cloud computing often employs a pay-as-you-go pricing model, which relies on precise resource accounting to allocate the configured amount of resources to VMs. However, I reveal that the existing hypervisors often fail to do an accurate resource accounting, leading to allocate the incorrect amount of CPU resources to VMs. To address this issue, I propose to redefine the resource scope of VMs using its virtual CPU (vCPU). Through experiments, I show that the CPU consumption can now be correctly accounted for and managed. Third, the cloud increasingly adopts container technology these days, and the cloud sees more and more containerized applications deployed. This trend requires even stronger isolation between applications. However, I show that containerized applications’ expected performance isolation is not yet achieved. The primary reason is that the containers are inadequately managed due to complex interactions between various scheduling mechanisms in the current OS scheduler design. I propose to augment the underlying host’s scheduling mechanism to support the container orchestration system to address this problem. Extensive evaluations show that our new scheme can bring significant improvement in resource management and performance.
Training loads and injury risk in Australian football-differing acute: chronic workload ratios influence match injury risk
Creators: name: Carey, David
name: Blanch, Peter
name: Ong, Kok-Leong
name: Crossley, Kay
name: Crow, Justin
name: Morris, Meg
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology

description: Aims: (1) To investigate whether a daily acute:chronic workload ratio informs injury risk in Australian football players; (2) to identify which combination of workload variable, acute and chronic time window best explains injury likelihood. Methods: Workload and injury data were collected from 53 athletes over 2 seasons in a professional Australian football club. Acute:chronic workload ratios were calculated daily for each athlete, and modelled against non-contact injury likelihood using a quadratic relationship. 6 workload variables, 8 acute time windows (2-9 days) and 7 chronic time windows (14-35 days) were considered (336 combinations). Each parameter combination was compared for injury likelihood fit (using R 2). Results: The ratio of moderate speed running workload (18-24 km/h) in the previous 3 days (acute time window) compared with the previous 21 days (chronic time window) best explained the injury likelihood in matches (R 2 =0.79) and in the immediate 2 or 5 days following matches (R 2 =0.76-0.82). The 3:21 acute:chronic workload ratio discriminated between high-risk and low-risk athletes (relative risk=1.98-2.43). Using the previous 6 days to calculate the acute workload time window yielded similar results. The choice of acute time window significantly influenced model performance and appeared to reflect the competition and training schedule. Conclusions: Daily workload ratios can inform injury risk in Australian football. Clinicians and conditioning coaches should consider the sport-specific schedule of competition and training when choosing acute and chronic time windows. For Australian football, the ratio of moderate speed running in a 3-day or 6-day acute time window and a 21-day chronic time window best explained injury risk.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Mr. Charlie Chin, Mrs. Charlie Chin, Jame Chin, Tommy Chin, Miss. Chin Pea Moy, Mr. Lee Sak Noon, Mrs. Lee Sak Noon, Miss. Lee Him, Miss. Lee Me Gong, Master Lee Mon Jim, Chan Ben Kent, Mrs. Chan Ben Kent, Miss Leong Lai Yee, Mrs. Wong Yip She, Miss. Hong Quin Sen, Mr. Wong Gow, Mrs. Wong Gow, Mr. Lee Yee Leong, Mrs. Lee Yee Leong, Lee Yee Jong, Lee Yee Dan, Mr. Lee Sing, Mrs. Lee Sing, Lee On Ting, Lee Shue Wing.
title: U.S. Part in Berlin Festival Lauded as Anti-Red Move
Creators: name: Breen, Robert
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Medea
subject: Oklahoma
subject: ANTA
subject: Berlin Arts Festival
subject: Breen, Robert
subject: Schnitzer, Robert
subject: Cannon, John
subject: Varnay
subject: Kennen, George

description: Clipping.
title: Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 102 - Digital Campus on 2013 and the Uncertain Future of Amazon's Drones
Creators: name: Roy Rosenzweig Center For History And New Media, /
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Amazon
subject: Books
subject: Copyright
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Ebooks
subject: Elsevier
subject: Google
subject: JSTOR
subject: MOOCs
subject: Open access
subject: Publishing
subject: Year in review

description: Originally published by the Center for History and New Media through the Digital Campus podcast (http://digitalcampus.tv). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
description: In this year-end roundup/predictions episode of our Digital Campus podcast, Stephen and special guest Sharon Leon jumped in on this year’s cheers and jeers, listing the best and worst stories and events of 2013, including praise for expansion of DH centers and digital collections, as well as critiques of Elsevier‘s recent actions and the impact of the government shutdown on educational institutions. Tom, Mills, Amanda, and Dan then reviewed the successes (there were a few!) and failures (oh, MOOCs…) of their respective predictions for 2013. Once they’d finished assigning grades and debating near-misses, the group invited Sharon and Digital History Fellow Amanda Regan to join in on putting together a set of alternately optimistic and depressing predictions for 2014. Judging from these predictions, this coming year looks good for grad students working on digital dissertations and for those interested in expanding open access, but Amazon’s drones might want to look into bulletproof casings. Special thanks to multimedia whiz Chris Preperato for the plethora of pertinent sound effects in this episode, as well as for ongoing work on the podcast.
title: Attitudes and perceptions of principals in ubiquitous learning environments using a mixed method approach
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: This dissertation was conducted with a mixed methods approach to learn about the attitudes and perceptions of identified innovative school leaders and their respective professional staff in a ubiquitous learning environment where all students are provided access to learning devices. While school districts, communities, and students are prepared for the use of technology in classrooms, principals remain largely untrained in preservice and in-service with respect to innovation and technology use. However, a link exists between the use of technology by school leadership and teacher practice. The research showcased the similarities between identified innovative school leaders and self-reported measures of teachers using devices in the classroom to help build 21st century skills among their collective students, regardless of the programmatic level.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chow Yat Poy, Wong Wah , Lam Yin, Lee Jung, Ng Wo, Leong Yuen, [Fong Fan], Law Chong, [Les Gum Lee], Leong Mon.
Leaper Tours
Creators: name: Beluhov, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C38, 05C45

description: Let $p$ and $q$ be positive integers. The $(p, q)$-leaper $L$ is a generalised knight which leaps $p$ units away along one coordinate axis and $q$ units away along the other. Consider a free $L$, meaning that $p + q$ is odd and $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime. We prove that $L$ tours the board of size $4pq \times n$ for all sufficiently large positive integers $n$. Combining this with the recently established conjecture of Willcocks which states that $L$ tours the square board of side $2(p + q)$, we conclude that furthermore $L$ tours all boards both of whose sides are even and sufficiently large. This, in particular, completely resolves the question of the Hamiltonicity of leaper graphs on sufficiently large square boards.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lim Hin Kee, Lee Gin, Kong Mo, Seto An, Chow Oy Suey, Leong Jang Wun, Leong Hing Chow, Leong Bong, [Gunm Ow], Chow Yee Wah.
Microbial community dynamics in the rhizosphere of a cadmium hyper-accumulator
Creators: name: Wood, Jennifer
name: C Zhang
name: Mathews, Elizabeth
name: Caixian Tang
name: Franks, Ashley
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © The Author(s) 2016. Phytoextraction is influenced by the indigenous soil microbial communities during the remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils. Soil microbial communities can affect plant growth, metal availability and the performance of phytoextraction-assisting inocula. Understanding the basic ecology of indigenous soil communities associated with the phytoextraction process, including the interplay between selective pressures upon the communities, is an important step towards phytoextraction optimization. This study investigated the impact of cadmium (Cd), and the presence of a Cd-accumulating plant, Carpobrotus rossii (Haw.) Schwantes, on the structure of soil-bacterial and fungal communities using automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA) and quantitative PCR (qPCR). Whilst Cd had no detectable influence upon fungal communities, bacterial communities underwent significant structural changes with no reduction in 16S rRNA copy number. The presence of C. rossii influenced the structure of all communities and increased ITS copy number. Suites of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) changed in abundance in response to either Cd or C. rossii, however we found little evidence to suggest that the two selective pressures were acting synergistically. The Cd-induced turnover in bacterial OTUs suggests that Cd alters competition dynamics within the community. Further work to understand how competition is altered could provide a deeper understanding of the microbiome-plant-environment and aid phytoextraction optimization.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Lew Tai, Lee Nang, Lee Fon, Lee Wai Jong, Leong Sai Hin, Woo Song, Woo Bark Wan, Woo Lung Wei, Lee Him, Fong Yuen Sing.
Influence of grain morphology and orientation on saturation magnetostriction of polycrystalline Terfenol-D
Creators: name: Nieves, P.
name: Legut, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we computationally study the effect of microstructure on saturation magnetostriction of Terfenol-D (Tb$_{0.27}$Dy$_{0.73}$Fe$_{2}$) by means of Finite Element Method. The model is based on the equilibrium magnetoelastic strain tensor at magnetic saturation, and shows that the crystal orientation might play a more significant role on saturation magnetostriction than the morphology of the grains. We also calculate the dependence of saturation magnetostriction on the dispersion angle of the distribution of grains in the oriented growth crystal directions $<011>$ and $<111>$, finding that not highly oriented grain distributions reduce saturation magnetostriction significantly. This result evinces the importance of high-quality control of grain orientation in the synthesis of grain-aligned polycrystalline Terfenol-D, and provides a quantitative estimation for the range of acceptable values for the dispersion angle of the distribution of the oriented grains.
Draft genome sequence of Enterobacter ludwigii NCR3, a heavy metal-resistant rhizobacterium
Creators: name: Egidi, E
name: Wood, Jennifer
name: Aracic, S
name: Kannan, R
name: McDonald, L
name: Bell, Carolyn
name: Fox, EM
name: Liu, W
name: Franks, Ashley
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology

description: We report here the draft genome of Enterobacter ludwigii NCR3, a Gram-negative bacterium isolated from the Carpobrotus rossii (Haw.) Schwantes rhizosphere. The analysis of the ~4.8-Mb draft genome shows that this strain harbors several genes associated with heavy metal resistance and plant growth-promoting activity, suggesting its potential application in microbe-assisted phytoremediation.
title: The Political Economy of Tobacco in Indonesia: How “Two Fires Fell Upon the Earth”
Creators: name: Mitchell, Melissa C.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Indonesia
subject: Tobacco
subject: Political economy
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Betel
subject: Colonialism

description: By tracing the history of tobacco in Indonesia, while focusing on production and consumption, tobacco provides an avenue of exploration into processes of Dutch colonialism and the trajectories that have been set forth, creating the present-day health crisis. This multifaceted history has shaped contemporary processes, revealing Indonesia as a country with one of the largest populations of tobacco consumers. Taking into consideration history, political economy, symbolic and gender frameworks, the impacts of intensive tobacco production under the Dutch regime are explored by outlining the shift from local consumption of the betel quid to a preference for tobacco among males, leading to the emergence of kretek cigarettes. Alternative modes of discourse, modernity, nationalism, independece and gender ideologies have thus been produced in Indonesia. To adequately address these dynamic tobacco-related processes, issues of health must be intertwined with that of symbolic, social, cultural, economic, and political significations.
title: Analysis of Social Media Comments
Creators: name: Mohamed, Mazen
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social media
subject: Pandemic
subject: COVID-19

description: Fighting the COVID-19 is widespread acceptance of the covid-19 vaccines. Achieving the widespread uptake might be challenging and may be obstructed by the misinformation prevalent in social media. The social media platforms have become a common source of information and disinformation on vaccines. Vaccine’s hesitancy is more prevalent in social media, especially Twitter. Machine learning models can explain the social media comments about this topic.
Classical benchmarking for microwave quantum illumination
Creators: name: Karsa, Athena
name: Pirandola, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum illumination (QI) theoretically promises up to a 6dB error-exponent advantage in target detection over the best classical protocol. The advantage is maximised by a regime which includes a very high background, which occurs naturally when one considers microwave operation. Such a regime has well-known practical limitations, though it is clear that, theoretically, knowledge of the associated classical benchmark in the microwave is lacking. The requirement of amplifiers for signal detection necessarily renders the optimal classical protocol here different to that which is traditionally used, and only applicable in the optical domain. In this work we outline what is the true classical benchmark for microwave QI using coherent states, providing new bounds on the error probability and closed formulae for the receiver operating characteristic (ROC), for both optimal (based on quantum relative entropy) and homodyne detection schemes. We also propose an alternative source generation procedure based on coherent states which demonstrates potential to reach classically optimal performances achievable in optical applications. We provide the same bounds and measures for the performance of such a source and discuss its potential utility in the future of room temperature quantum detection schemes in the microwave.
Estimating Irregular Migration – A Review of Traditional and Innovative Methods
Creators: name: Rodriguez Sanchez, Alejandra
name: Tjaden, Jasper
Publisher: name: Krems: University for Continuing Education Krems (Danube University Krems)
Year: 2023
Subjects: irregular migration
estimation methods
hard to reach populations

description: In this paper, we provide a concise review of 20 methodological approaches to measuring irregular migration for a non-technical audience. First, we revisit established approaches covered in previous reviews (such as CLANDESTINO). Second, we review innovative approaches which apply new methodologies or make use of novel data. We include any empirically tested attempts to measure irregular migration stocks or flows. Each approach is discussed in the form of a one-page bulletin that describes the main idea behind the approach, the required data sources, the definition or coverage of irregular migrant groups, the reliability and scalability of the approach, the main assumptions of the approach as well as potential ethical issues for researchers. 
We find an increasing diversity and complexity of approaches that made important advances to overcome limitations or drawbacks of traditional approaches. Despite the progress made in estimating irregular migration in the last decade, approaches remain highly fragmented depending on the type of data source used for the estimation. Some approaches can only be applied in specific countries due to data limitations. Any evaluation of the relative performance of various approaches is still missing due to the absence of comparative assessments testing various approaches for the same context. Simulation studies could offer a way forward. One trend in the last decade has been the emergence and use of digital data which offers promising avenues for future research.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Jung Yen Jow, Mr. Hune Quon, Mrs. Hune Quon, Mr. Hune Mee, Master Hune Tan Chew, Master Hune Tan Yu, Miss Hune Mon, [?], Mrs. Jung Wah Yuen, Jsang Kwe, Mrs. Jsang Kew, Jsang Sair Chong, Jsang Mee Shew, [Lim Tow],
Smart Name Lookup for NDN Forwarding Plane via Neural Networks
Creators: name: Li, Zhuo
name: Liu, Jindian
name: Yan, Liu
name: Zhang, Beichuan
name: Luo, Peng
name: Liu, Kaihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Name lookup is a key technology for the forwarding plane of content router in Named Data Networking (NDN). To realize the efficient name lookup, what counts is deploying a highperformance index in content routers. So far, the proposed indexes have shown good performance, most of which are optimized for or evaluated with URLs collected from the current Internet, as the large-scale NDN names are not available yet. Unfortunately, the performance of these indexes is always impacted in terms of lookup speed, memory consumption and false positive probability, as the distributions of URLs retrieved in memory may differ from those of real NDN names independently generated by content-centric applications online. Focusing on this gap, a smart mapping model named Pyramid-NN via neural networks is proposed to build an index called LNI for NDN forwarding plane. Through learning the distributions of the names retrieved in the static memory, LNI can not only reduce the memory consumption and the probability of false positive, but also ensure the performance of real NDN name lookup. Experimental results show that LNI-based FIB can reduce the memory consumption to 58.258 MB for 2 million names. Moreover, as it can be deployed on SRAMs, the throughput is about 177 MSPS, which well meets the current network requirement for fast packet processing.
description: This paper has been published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. The final version can be accessed from IEEE Xplore
SNP-based linkage mapping for validation of QTLs for resistance to Ascochyta blight in lentil
Creators: name: Sudheesh, S
name: Rodda, MS
name: Davidson, J
name: Javid, M
name: Stephens, A
name: Slater, AT
name: Cogan, Noel
name: Forster, JW
name: Kaur, Sukhjiwan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 3004
subject: Crop and pasture production
classificationCode: 300404
subject: Crop and pasture biochemistry and physiology
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology

description: Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is a self-pollinating, diploid, annual, cool-season, food legume crop that is cultivated throughout the world. Ascochyta blight (AB), caused by Ascochyta lentis Vassilievsky, is an economically important and widespread disease of lentil. Development of cultivars with high levels of durable resistance provides an environmentally acceptable and economically feasible method for AB control. A detailed understanding of the genetic basis of AB resistance is hence highly desirable, in order to obtain insight into the number and influence of resistance genes. Genetic linkage maps based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers have been developed from three recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations. The IH × NF map contained 460 loci across 1461.6 cM, while the IH × DIG map contained 329 loci across 1302.5 cM and the third map, NF × DIG contained 330 loci across 1914.1 cM. Data from these maps were combined with a map from a previously published study through use of bridging markers to generate a consensus linkage map containing 689 loci distributed across seven linkage groups (LGs), with a cumulative length of 2429.61 cM at an average density of one marker per 3.5 cM. Trait dissection of AB resistance was performed for the RIL populations, identifying totals of two and three quantitative trait loci (QTLs) explaining 52 and 69% of phenotypic variation for resistance to infection in the IH × DIG and IH × NF populations, respectively. Presence of common markers in the vicinity of the AB_IH1- and AB_IH2.1/AB_IH2.2-containing regions on both maps supports the inference that a common genomic region is responsible for conferring resistance and is associated with the resistant parent, Indianhead. The third QTL was derived from Northfield. Evaluation of markers associated with AB resistance across a diverse lentil germplasm panel revealed that the identity of alleles associated with AB_IH1 predicted the phenotypic responses with high levels of accuracy (~86%), and therefore have the potential to be widely adopted in lentil breeding programs. The availability of RIL-based maps, a consensus map, and validated markers linked to AB resistance provide important resources for lentil improvement.
Optimizing the methodology for calculating the 4DCT derived  internal target volume in stereotactic radiotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC
Creators: name: Arun Balakrishnan
name: Ramesh Babu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study aimed to investigate efficient methods for determining the Internal Target Volume (ITV) using Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography (4DCT) images in Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for patients with early-stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). The study involved 55 patients who underwent SBRT for stage I NSCLC, with their 4D CT images analyzed to determine the ITVs. The Matching Index (MI) for ITV4Phases and ITV2Phases was calculated as the ratio of these volumes to ITV10Phases. Significant differences were observed among the various ITVs, with distinct orders for ITV10Phases, ITV4Phases, and ITV2Phases. Notably, the MI for ITV4Phases was significantly higher than that for ITV2Phases. Additionally, there was an inverse relationship between the MI of ITV4Phases and the Total Motion Index (TMI) (r=0.0067, p=0.5507). In a subgroup with low TMI, ITV4Phases did not show a significant difference from ITV10Phases (p=0.8003), and its MI was significantly higher than that of ITV2Phases.Therefore, ITV4Phases emerges as a potentially efficient alternative to the optimal ITV10Phases in SBRT for early-stage NSCLC, especially in cases with reduced tumor motion.
Strong-lensing source reconstruction with variationally optimised Gaussian processes
Creators: name: Karchev, Konstantin
name: Coogan, Adam
name: Weniger, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong-lensing images provide a wealth of information both about the magnified source and about the dark matter distribution in the lens. Precision analyses of these images can be used to constrain the nature of dark matter. However, this requires high-fidelity image reconstructions and careful treatment of the uncertainties of both lens mass distribution and source light, which are typically difficult to quantify. In anticipation of future high-resolution datasets, in this work we leverage a range of recent developments in machine learning to develop a new Bayesian strong-lensing image analysis pipeline. Its highlights are: (A) a fast, GPU-enabled, end-to-end differentiable strong-lensing image simulator; (B) a new, statistically principled source model based on a computationally highly efficient approximation to Gaussian processes that also takes into account pixellation; and (C) a scalable variational inference framework that enables simultaneously deriving posteriors for tens of thousands of lens and source parameters and optimising hyperparameters via stochastic gradient descent. Besides efficient and accurate parameter estimation and lens model uncertainty quantification, the main aim of the pipeline is the generation of training data for targeted simulation-based inference of dark matter substructure, which we will exploit in a companion paper.
description: 24 pages, 20 figures
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Chan Wuck Fon, Nip Chun Yip, Lam Tow, Leong Jim, Lim Chew, Hong Yow Fon, Wong Yee Hing, Lim Wah Chee, Ma Jaw Lee, [Mah Hong Jard].
title: Report: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "Town Center Study, Reston, Va." 1972
Creators: name: Institute, Virginia Polytechnic
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

description: Textual: report, copy; 9.75” x 7.25” (24.8 cm x 18.4 cm)
description: Report from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University entitled "Town Center Study, Reston, Va." dated 1972. Students and faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute produced this report during 1971-72 academic year. This study focused on Reston, Virginia and the creation of a town center and development plan for Reston. This excerpt is of an image of a model for a possible town center for Reston. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm03.13 Textual: report, copy; 9.75” x 7.25” (24.8 cm x 18.4 cm)
Supplementary document for Experimental 61-partite entanglement on a three-dimensional photonic chip - 6401024.pdf
Creators: name: Zhou, Wen-Hao
name: Jiao, Zhi-Qiang
name: Li, Hang
name: Gao, Jun
name: Wang, Xiao-Wei
name: Ren, Ruo-Jing
name: Xu, Xiao-Yun
name: Qiao, Lu-Feng
name: Jin, Xianmin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
title: Slide: Robert Llewellyn, “United States Geological Survey front exterior with American flag," May 1978
Creators: name: Llewellyn, Robert
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: U.S. Geological Survey

description: Slide: color, photograph, 2” x 2” (5.08 cm x 5.08 cm)
description: Slide by Robert Llewellyn entitled “United States Geological Survey front exterior with American flag" dated May 1978. This is an image of the United States Geological Survey headquarters in Reston, Virginia. In this image a portion of the star shaped USGS building is visible. The grounds of the building are visible in this image. Two people can be seen walking on walking paths near the building. Also, Two United States flags are visible in this image. One is on a flagpole on the right hand side of the image. The other is visible on the left side of the image. Planned Community Archives Collection, 615.10
Bitcoin: Like a Satellite or Always Hardcore? A Core-Satellite Identification in the Cryptocurrency Market
Creators: name: Börner, Christoph J.
name: Hoffmann, Ingo
name: Krettek, Jonas
name: Kürzinger, Lars M.
name: Schmitz, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Cryptocurrencies (CCs) become more interesting for institutional investors' strategic asset allocation and will be a fixed component of professional portfolios in future. This asset class differs from established assets especially in terms of the severe manifestation of statistical parameters. The question arises whether CCs with similar statistical key figures exist. On this basis, a core market incorporating CCs with comparable properties enables the implementation of a tracking error approach. A prerequisite for this is the segmentation of the CC market into a core and a satellite, the latter comprising the accumulation of the residual CCs remaining in the complement. Using a concrete example, we segment the CC market into these components, based on modern methods from image / pattern recognition.
description: 16 Pages, 2 Figures, 3 Tables, JEL Classification: C14, C46, C55, E22, G10
title: Newspaper Column: Communicating While Growing
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: The Connection
Year: 2000

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: Today, March 1, 2000, will enter the history books. This is the first day in Northern Virginia when telephoning across the street requires punching a ten-digit number. How have we come to this? Northern Virginia has grown great. If we all keep our existing phone numbers, there will soon be too many phone lines in use to permit identification by the seven-digit numbers of the past.
title: Policy Watch: China and Iraq
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.)
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: Iraq War, 2003-2010
subject: Missiles
subject: China

description: © 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.
description: Right in the midst of the Bush administration's preparations to send even more American troops to Iraq came news that China successfully fired a missile to destroy one of its own satellites earlier this month. While Chinese officials insist this test was not targeted against any country and does not pose a threat, American officials are understandably concerned. American armed forces heavily depend on satellites. Satellites, however, are vulnerable to missile attack. China's anti-satellite test raises the ominous possibility that Beijing, despite its protestations to the contrary, is developing the capacity to damage or destroy America's military satellite infrastructure. Whether China would ever actually do so is not clear, but just the growing perception that it could might serve to make the United States more cautious and hesitant about responding forcefully to growing Chinese assertiveness.
Canadian Pacific Steamships agent's stubs
Creators: name: Yip Sang Company
name: Canadian Pacific Steamships
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Ticket stubs for the following passengers: Ho Bing, Ho Yin Nan, [Hong Yiok Man], Yip Look, Woo Sik Yee, Woo Sing Dew, Lai Moo, Chow Kong, Woo Chong, Mah Chew Fay.
Changing Climates, Conservation Genetics, and Protected Areas in the Northern Rockies
Creators: name: Havlick, David G.
name: Biermann, Christine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Parks and protected areas provide baselines for ecological restoration and conservation, even though many of these sites are heavily managed and curated spaces, subject to wide-ranging anthropogenic impacts and control. As climates change, historical baselines become less tenable, creating new geographies of conservation, many of which are reconfigured by the application of emergent genetic technologies. This shift raises challenging practical and conceptual questions about where and how conservation should occur, including which species belong in particular places, which actions are appropriate to achieve desired outcomes, and the values that guide management in parks and protected areas. We examine these questions in the context of westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) conservation in the northern Rockies, drawing on document analysis and semistructured interviews with fisheries scientists, land managers, conservation professionals, and anglers. Our specific objectives are to (1) document how genetic analyses helped to shift the focus of westslope cutthroat trout conservation from a protected-areas strategy to the management of hybridization as a threat, and (2) examine how genetic insights have altered the spatial practices of westslope cutthroat trout conservation and produced new management paradigms for protected places. More broadly, we use this case to reflect on the implications of genetic science for conservation within and beyond protected landscapes.
Weak Bruhat interval modules of the 0-Hecke algebra
Creators: name: Jung, Woo-Seok
name: Kim, Young-Hun
name: Lee, So-Yeon
name: Oh, Young-Tak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C08, 05E10, 05E05

description: The purpose of this paper is to provide a unified method for dealing with various 0-Hecke modules constructed using tableaux so far. To do this, we assign a $0$-Hecke module to each left weak Bruhat interval, called a weak Bruhat interval module. We prove that every indecomposable summand of the $0$-Hecke modules categorifying dual immaculate quasisymmetric functions, extended Schur functions, quasisymmetric Schur functions, and Young row-strict quasisymmetric Schur functions is a weak Bruhat interval module. We further study embedding into the regular representation, induction product, restriction, and (anti-)involution twists of weak Bruhat interval modules.
description: 36 pages; v2: abstract, introduction, Subsection 3.1, and Subsection 3.3 are revised; reference [13] is added, v3: minor typos are revised; published in Math. Z