cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Geometry of neutral metrics in dimesnion four
Creators: name: Davidov, Johann
name: Grantcharov, Gueo
name: Mushkarov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B30; 53C50

description: The purpose of this article is to review some recent results on the geometry of neutral signature metrics in dimension four and their twistor spaces. The following topics are considered: Neutral Kähler and hyperkähler surfaces, Walker metrics, Neutral anti-self-dual 4-manifolds and projective structures, Twistor spaces of neutral metrics.
description: 20 pages, invited talk at the Thirty Seventh Spring Connference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, Borovets, April 2-6, 2008
Bulk Universality and Related Properties of Hermitian Matrix Models
Creators: name: Pastur, L.
name: Shcherbina, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a new proof of universality properties in the bulk of spectrum of the hermitian matrix models, assuming that the potential that determines the model is globally $C^{2}$ and locally $C^{3}$ function (see Theorem \ref{t:U.t1}). The proof as our previous proof in \cite{Pa-Sh:97} is based on the orthogonal polynomial techniques but does not use asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials. Rather, we obtain the $sin$-kernel as a unique solution of a certain non-linear integro-differential equation that follows from the determinant formulas for the correlation functions of the model. We also give a simplified and strengthened version of paper \cite{BPS:95} on the existence and properties of the limiting Normalized Counting Measure of eigenvalues. We use these results in the proof of universality and we believe that they are of independent interest.
Electronic surveillance and the police : a comparative study of the Canadian and Japanese systems
Creators: name: Ishikawa, Shoichiro
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: "Electronic Surveillance", the mechanical technique to monitor private communications of the suspect is one of the most powerful weapons of the police in modern crime-prevailing societies. In Canada the attempt to set up a legal framework to balance the police need for electronic surveillance against the citizen's right to privacy resulted in the Protection of Privacy Act proclaimed on June 30, 1974. In Japan, in contrast, with no specific legislation governing electronic surveillance, the police refrain from resorting to this enchanting method of criminal investigation. The purpose of this study is to propose a desirable electronic surveillance law in Japan, taking advantage of the Canadian precedent in this field. The introductory portion of this study focuses on the concept of privacy in the West and Japan. Despite the vast difference in traditional privacy consciousness between Canada and Japan, privacy has been recognized as a legally protected interest in both countries. In the first half of the main portion, the study analyzes the Canadian electronic surveillance legislation from the standpoint of the police. While providing the most powerful investigative tool, the law also has had a negative impact upon the Canadian police in that it brought about undue interference, judicial or otherwise, in the operation of criminal investigation. In the last half of the main portion, the study deals with the Japanese system for electronic surveillance. The conclusion reached is that the Canadian legislative precedent can, with some necessary modification, be an appropriate model for Japan, and that Japan should introduce an electronic surveillance system with less intrusive power than in Canada while preserving the traditional independent authority of the police in criminal investigation.
Spin and charge orders and their hole-doping dependence in single layered cobaltate La2-xCaxCoO4(0.3
Creators: name: Horigane, K.
name: Hiraka, H.
name: Uchida, T.
name: Yamada, K.
name: Akimitsu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron scattering experiments were performed on single crystals of layered cobalt-oxides La2-xCaxCoO4 (LCCO) to characterize the charge and spin orders in a wide hole-doping range of 0.3
description: 11pages, 9 figures. Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Additional file 2 of Improving the understanding of how patients with non-dystrophic myotonia are selected for myotonia treatment with mexiletine (NaMuscla): outcomes of treatment impact using a European Delphi panel
Creators: name: Chapman, Ann-Marie
name: Schurer, Marieke
name: Weijers, Laure
name: Omar, Amer
name: Lee, Hiba
name: Weidenfeller, Alla Zozulya
name: Ellis, Crispin
name: Sonecha, Shaneil
name: Schneider-Gold, Christiane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2.
Additional file 1 of Improving the understanding of how patients with non-dystrophic myotonia are selected for myotonia treatment with mexiletine (NaMuscla): outcomes of treatment impact using a European Delphi panel
Creators: name: Chapman, Ann-Marie
name: Schurer, Marieke
name: Weijers, Laure
name: Omar, Amer
name: Lee, Hiba
name: Weidenfeller, Alla Zozulya
name: Ellis, Crispin
name: Sonecha, Shaneil
name: Schneider-Gold, Christiane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1.
Stereo Radiance Fields (SRF): Learning View Synthesis for Sparse Views of Novel Scenes
Creators: name: Chibane, Julian
name: Bansal, Aayush
name: Lazova, Verica
name: Pons-Moll, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent neural view synthesis methods have achieved impressive quality and realism, surpassing classical pipelines which rely on multi-view reconstruction. State-of-the-Art methods, such as NeRF, are designed to learn a single scene with a neural network and require dense multi-view inputs. Testing on a new scene requires re-training from scratch, which takes 2-3 days. In this work, we introduce Stereo Radiance Fields (SRF), a neural view synthesis approach that is trained end-to-end, generalizes to new scenes, and requires only sparse views at test time. The core idea is a neural architecture inspired by classical multi-view stereo methods, which estimates surface points by finding similar image regions in stereo images. In SRF, we predict color and density for each 3D point given an encoding of its stereo correspondence in the input images. The encoding is implicitly learned by an ensemble of pair-wise similarities -- emulating classical stereo. Experiments show that SRF learns structure instead of overfitting on a scene. We train on multiple scenes of the DTU dataset and generalize to new ones without re-training, requiring only 10 sparse and spread-out views as input. We show that 10-15 minutes of fine-tuning further improve the results, achieving significantly sharper, more detailed results than scene-specific models. The code, model, and videos are available at https://virtualhumans.mpi-inf.mpg.de/srf/.
description: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Noise and aliases in off-axis and phase-shifting holography
Creators: name: Gross, Michel
name: Atlan, Michael
name: Absil, Emilie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have compared the respective efficiencies of off-axis and phase-shifting holography in terms of noise and aliases removal. The comparison is made by analyzing holograms of an USAF target backlit with laser illumination, recorded with a charge-coupled device camera. We show that it is essential to remove the LO beam noise, especially at low illumination levels.
Environmental Law Survey 2014
Creators: name: Timoteo, Marina
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2014
Subjects: IUS/02 Diritto privato comparato
IUS/10 Diritto amministrativo
IUS/13 Diritto internazionale
IUS/14 Diritto dell'Unione Europea
IUS/15 Diritto processuale civile
IUS/16 Diritto processuale penale

description: Within the EGP Project “The Capacity Building of Environmental Justice and Guarding Environmental Rights in Western China”, the scholars of the University of Bologna, partner of the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) and its Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV), have worked on an Environmental Law Survey so as to provide to the interested public – in particular, Chinese judges, lawyers, academics, and civil society as a whole – with the most interesting and recent judicial decisions or pieces of Environmental Law legislations developed in the most relevant legal fields. The choice has fallen on the scientific juridical disciplines of Administrative Law, Civil Procedural Law, Comparative Law, Criminal Procedural Law, EU Law and International Law, since these disciplines express highly relevant perspectives for the promotion of an effective environmental protection within the European Union, European Countries, and the International Community. We hope that the carefully selected rulings and pieces of legislation may provide the Chinese interpreter, practitioner or judge involved in Environmental Law issues in China or concerning China, with legal reasoning and innovative juridical solutions which may inspire their extremely demanding daily activities, constantly involving a balance between the right to a clean and healthy environment of the citizens and the rights of economic operators and undertakings.
Photon mass and quantum effects of the Aharonov-Bohm type
Creators: name: Spavieri, G.
name: Rodriguez, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic field due to the photon rest mass $m_{ph}$ modifies the standard results of the Aharonov-Bohm effect for electrons, and of other recent quantum effects. For the effect involving a coherent superposition of beams of particles with opposite electromagnetic properties, by means of a table-top experiment, the limit $m_{ph}x10^{-51}g$ is achievable, improving by 6 orders of magnitude that derived by Boulware and Deser for the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
description: 5 pages
Unified Analysis for Variational Time Discretizations of Higher Order and Higher Regularity Applied to Non-stiff ODEs
Creators: name: Becher, Simon
name: Matthies, Gunar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65L05, 65L20, 65L60

description: We present a unified analysis for a family of variational time discretization methods, including discontinuous Galerkin methods and continuous Galerkin-Petrov methods, applied to non-stiff initial value problems. Besides the well-definedness of the methods, the global error and superconvergence properties are analyzed under rather weak abstract assumptions which also allow considerations of a wide variety of quadrature formulas. Numerical experiments illustrate and support the theoretical results.
description: 35 pages
Development and proposed evaluation of a mindfulness based therapy group for trauma
Creators: name: Gladstone, Adam J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: While effective in a number of contexts, exposure therapies for PTSD have significant limitations. Treat-ments such as Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) produce high dropout rates, struggle to treat the full sequelae of PTSD and may be inappropriate for more complex or severe manifestations of the disorder (Najavits, 2015; Talkovsky & Lang, 2017; Vujanovic et al., 2011). In re-sponse to these issues, there is considerable research interest in alternative or adjunctive mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) that are more tolerable than exposure therapy, prepare clients for more inten-sive trauma treatment, and treat the residual symptoms exposure often struggles to address (e.g. guilt/shame, depression, and attachment disturbances). The nascent literature on this topic does not yet include more contemporary MBIs, which more explicitly emphasize how mindfulness helps cultivate self-compassion, positive affective experiences and interpersonal connections. This is a non-trivial gap in the literature, as these features of more contemporary MBIs may be uniquely well suited for trauma survivors with more complex and severe manifestations of PTSD who most need alternatives to exposure therapy. With the needs of this population in mind, this dissertation offers a novel MBI for trauma survivors which will integrate Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), a third-wave behavior therapy, and the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, a contemporary MBI. This is a relatively novel contribution to the literature as the vast majority of MBIs adapted for PTSD and other clinical disorders integrate first and second wave behavioral principles to form their theoretical basis. There will be a discussion on the way the principles of CFT encourage a more holistic treatment philosophy to trauma when compared to the ‘front-line’ or ‘gold-standard’ exposure therapies that dominate the literature today. This dissertation will also suggest an alternative class of trauma treatments to be used alongside the proposed curriculum including compassionately augmented exposure therapy. Concerns regarding the dissemination and implementation of this package of treatments into an integrated care setting will be discussed as well. Lastly, this dissertation will offer quantitative and qualitative research methods for a hypothetical pilot study of the proposed curriculum.
Additional file 3 of Improving the understanding of how patients with non-dystrophic myotonia are selected for myotonia treatment with mexiletine (NaMuscla): outcomes of treatment impact using a European Delphi panel
Creators: name: Chapman, Ann-Marie
name: Schurer, Marieke
name: Weijers, Laure
name: Omar, Amer
name: Lee, Hiba
name: Weidenfeller, Alla Zozulya
name: Ellis, Crispin
name: Sonecha, Shaneil
name: Schneider-Gold, Christiane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3.
Charged-Higgs Collider Signals with or without Flavor
Creators: name: Dittmaier, Stefan
name: Hiller, Gudrun
name: Plehn, Tilman
name: Spannowsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A charged Higgs boson is a clear signal for an extended Higgs sector, as for example predicted by supersymmetry. Squark mixing can significantly change the pattern of charged-Higgs production and most notably circumvent the chiral suppression for single Higgs production. We evaluate the LHC discovery potential in the light of flavor physics, in the single-Higgs production channel and in association with a hard jet for small and moderate values of tan beta. Thoroughly examining current flavor constraints we find that non-minimal flavor structures can have a sizeable impact, but tend to predict moderate production rates. Nevertheless, charged-Higgs searches will probe flavor structures not accessible to rare kaon, bottom, or charm experiments, and can invalidate the assumption of minimal flavor violation.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures; references and comments on backgrounds added, typos removed, appendix extended
Planetpol polarimetry of the exoplanet systems 55 Cnc and tau Boo
Creators: name: Lucas, P. W.
name: Hough, J. H.
name: Bailey, J. A.
name: Tamura, M.
name: Hirst, E.
name: Harrison, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present very sensitive polarimetry of 55 Cnc and tau Boo in an attempt to detect the partially polarised reflected light from the planets orbiting these two stars. 55 Cnc is orbited by a hot Neptune planet (55 Cnc e) at 0.038 AU, a hot Jupiter planet (55 Cnc b) at 0.11 AU, and at least 3 more distant planets. The polarisation of this system is very stable, showing no sign of the periodic variations that would be expected if a short period planet were detected. The measured standard deviation of the night averaged Stokes Q/I and U/I parameters is 2.2x10^{-6}. We derive upper limits on the geometric albedo, A_G and planetary radius using Monte Carlo multiple scattering simulations of a simple model atmosphere. We assume Rayleigh-like scattering (scaled by the maximum polarisation, p_m at 90 degrees) and pressure insensitive extinction. Atmospheres in which multiple scattering plays only a small role have an almost linear relation between polarisation and A_G. In this case, the 4 sigma upper limits is A_G<0.13(R/1.2 R_{Jup})^{-2}p_m^{-1} for 55 Cnc e. This suggests that 55 Cnc e is relatively small and not a pure H-He planet. The data do not give a useful upper limit for 55 Cnc b. tau Boo is orbited by an unusually massive hot Jupiter planet. The standard deviation in the night averaged Stokes Q/I and U/I polarisation parameters is 5.1x10^{-6}. The 4 sigma upper limit is A_G<0.37(R/1.2 R_{Jup})^{-2}p_m^{-1} for tau Boo b. This extends the similar upper limits reported previously for this planet to longer wavelengths. The larger scatter in the tau Boo data may be due to the spot activity detected photometrically by the MOST satellite. These results contrast markedly with the recent claim of a 3 sigma detection of a periodic polarisation signal from HD189733 with amplitude P=2x10^{-4}, attributed to the planet HD189733 b.
description: Accepted by MNRAS. 18 pages, 9 figures. The definitive version will be available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
The Nature of Quantum Hall States near the Charge Neutral Dirac Point in Graphene
Creators: name: Jiang, Z.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Stormer, H. L.
name: Kim, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quantum Hall (QH) states near the charge neutral Dirac point of a high mobility graphene sample in high magnetic fields. We find that the QH states at filling factors $ν=\pm1$ depend only on the perpendicular component of the field with respect to the graphene plane, indicating them to be not spin-related. A non-linear magnetic field dependence of the activation energy gap at filling factor $ν=1$ suggests a many-body origin. We therefore propose that the $ν=0$ and $\pm1$ states arise from the lifting of the spin and sub-lattice degeneracy of the $n=0$ LL, respectively.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 1 of Detecting low blood concentrations in joints using T1 and T2 mapping at 1.5, 3, and 7 T: an in vitro study
Creators: name: van Leeuwen, Flora H. P.
name: Lena, Beatrice
name: Zwanenburg, Jaco J. M.
name: van Vulpen, Lize F. D.
name: Bartels, Lambertus W.
name: Fischer, Kathelijn
name: Nap, Frank J.
name: de Jong, Pim A.
name: Bos, Clemens
name: Foppen, Wouter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Detailed description of the position of the samples in the phatom in the different batches scanned. Percentages correspond to the blood percentage in the sample. a) First batch scanned at all field strenghts. b) Second batch scanned at all field strengths. c) Third batch scanned at 3T. Figure S2. (A) Signal intensity in the ROI vs IR delays for the 0% blood tube at 3T: the experimental data are indicated with blue ● and the fitting with a red line. (B) Analysis of the residuals: each ● represents the residual of each experimental data point from the one predicted with the fitting. The mean of the residual is also reported as dotted line. Figure S3. T2 mapping at 1.5T with different echo spacing on dependence on the blood concentration. Figure S4. T2 mapping at 1.5T (A) and 3 T (B) with a multi-slice accelerated scans and single slice non accelerated scans.
A Low-Power Optical Electron Switch
Creators: name: Huang, Wayne Cheng-Wei
name: Bach, Roger
name: Beierle, Peter
name: Batelaan, Herman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electron beam is deflected when it passes over a silicon nitride surface, if the surface is illuminated by a low-power continuous-wave diode laser. A deflection angle of up-to $1.2 \,\textrm{mrad}$ is achieved for an electron beam of $29 \,μ\textrm{rad}$ divergence. A mechanical beam-stop is used to demonstrate that the effect can act as an optical electron switch with a rise and fall time of $6 \,μ\textrm{s}$. Such a switch provides an alternative means to control electron beams, which may be useful in electron lithography and microscopy.
Text Data Mining: Theory and Methods
Creators: name: Solka, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62-01 (Primary) 62A01 (Secondary)

description: This paper provides the reader with a very brief introduction to some of the theory and methods of text data mining. The intent of this article is to introduce the reader to some of the current methodologies that are employed within this discipline area while at the same time making the reader aware of some of the interesting challenges that remain to be solved within the area. Finally, the articles serves as a very rudimentary tutorial on some of techniques while also providing the reader with a list of references for additional study.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-SS016 the Statistics Surveys (http://www.i-journals.org/ss/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
An Empirical Testing of Autonomous Vehicle Simulator System for Urban Driving
Creators: name: Seymour, John
name: Ho, Dac-Thanh-Chuong
name: Luu, Quang-Hung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Safety is one of the main challenges that prohibit autonomous vehicles (AV), requiring them to be well tested ahead of being allowed on the road. In comparison with road tests, simulators allow us to validate the AV conveniently and affordably. However, it remains unclear how to best use the AV-based simulator system for testing effectively. Our paper presents an empirical testing of AV simulator system that combines the SVL simulator and the Apollo platform. We propose 576 test cases which are inspired by four naturalistic driving situations with pedestrians and surrounding cars. We found that the SVL can imitate realistic safe and collision situations; and at the same time, Apollo can drive the car quite safely. On the other hand, we noted that the system failed to detect pedestrians or vehicles on the road in three out of four classes, accounting for 10.0% total number of scenarios tested. We further applied metamorphic testing to identify inconsistencies in the system with additional 486 test cases. We then discussed some insights into the scenarios that may cause hazardous situations in real life. In summary, this paper provides a new empirical evidence to strengthen the assertion that the simulator-based system can be an indispensable tool for a comprehensive testing of the AV.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables
Additional file 1 of Which role models are effective for which students? A systematic review and four recommendations for maximizing the effectiveness of role models in STEM
Creators: name: Gladstone, Jessica R.
name: Cimpian, Andrei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Complete list of articles included in the systematic review.
An entire function with simply and multiply connected wandering domains
Creators: name: Bergweiler, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F10, 30D05

description: We modify a construction of Kisaka and Shishikura to show that there exists an entire function which has both a simply connected and a multiply connected wandering domain. Moreover, these domains are contained in the set of fast escaping points.
description: 10 pages
Sagnac-loop phase shifter with polarization-independent operation
Creators: name: Ng, Tien Tjuen
name: Gosal, Darwin
name: Lamas-Linares, Antia
name: Kurtsiefer, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A bulk-optics, polarization-independent phase shifter for photonic quantum information applications is demonstrated. A transverse mode electro-optic modulator using lithium niobate is placed in a Sagnac-like loop containing Faraday rotators. This direction-dependent polarization rotation in the loop is combined with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer to form an optical switch with an on/off contrast of 96% and a switching time of 1.6 ns.
The extent to which information skills have been integrated into primary curricula in British Columbia
Creators: name: Harper, Joan E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study addressed the question of whether or not information skills actually were being taught in context with curriculum units of study. The three questions it attempted to answer were: 1. To what extent have primary teachers and teacher-librarians integrated information skills into primary curriculum subjects in British Columbia? 2. Have teacher-librarian qualifications and/or hours of employment in a school library resource centre influenced the integration process? 3. Has the handbook. Primary Library Activities facilitated the integration of information skills into primary curricula? Data collection included both a written questionnaire and oral telephone interviews. The sample for the study was purchasers of Primary Library Activities. in the years 1984 and 1983. The responses to each question were tabulated and an analysis of variance was conducted to compare the variables in question two with other data. The researcher found that: - a majority of educators stated they were teaching information skills by integration. - there was no relationship between the courses a teacher-librarian had completed and/or the hours he/she was employed in a school library resource centre and integration. - a considerable difference was observable in the amount of flexible scheduling between schools located in rural areas and those located in cities. - Primary Library Activities, had been helpful in integrating information skills. A limitation in this study was the small sample. The results of the study can be viewed as an indication only and need to be replicated by further research.
Additional file 1 of Safety, clinical and laboratory characteristics of donors with thalassemia minor in living donor kidney transplant: a case series
Creators: name: Dinh, Nhan Hieu
name: Beaupha, Suzanne Monivong Cheanh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Molecular gas kinematics in the nuclear region of nearby Seyfert galaxies with ALMA
Creators: name: Belete, A. Bewketu
name: Andreani, P.
name: Fernández-Ontiveros, J. A.
name: Hatziminaoglou, E.
name: Combes, F.
name: Sirressi, M.
name: Slater, R.
name: Ricci, C.
name: Dasyra, K.
name: Cicone, C.
name: Aalto, S.
name: Spinoglio, L.
name: Imanishi, M.
name: De Medeiros, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of the molecular gas in the nuclear regions of NGC 4968, NGC 4845, and MCG-06-30-15, with the help of ALMA observations of the CO(2-1) emission line. The aim is to determine the kinematics of the gas in the central (~ 1 kpc) region. We use the 3D-Based Analysis of Rotating Object via Line Observations ($^{3D}$BAROLO) and DiskFit softwares. Circular motions dominate the kinematics of the gas in the central discs, mainly in NGC 4845 and MCG-06-30-15, however there is a clear evidence of non-circular motions in the central ($\sim$ 1 kpc) region of NGC 4845 and NGC 4968. The strongest non-circular motion is detected in the inner disc of NGC 4968 with velocity $\sim 115\, \rm{km\,s^{-1}}$. The bisymmetric model is found to give the best-fit for NGC 4968 and NGC 4845. If the dynamics of NGC 4968 is modeled as a corotation pattern just outside of the bar, the bar pattern speed turns out to be at $Ω_b$ = $52\, \rm{km\,s^{-1}\,kpc^{-1}}$ the corotation is set at 3.5 kpc and the inner Lindblad resonance (ILR) ring at R = 300pc corresponding to the CO emission ring. The 1.2 mm ALMA continuum is peaked and compact in NGC 4968 and MCG-06-30-15, but their CO(2-1) has an extended distribution. Allowing the CO-to-H$_{2}$ conversion factor $α_{CO}$ between 0.8 and 3.2, typical of nearby galaxies of the same type, the molecular mass M(H$_{2}$) is estimated to be $\sim 3-12\times 10^{7} ~{\rm M_\odot}$ (NGC 4968), $\sim 9-36\times 10^{7}~ {\rm M_\odot}$ (NGC 4845), and $\sim 1-4\times 10^{7}~ {\rm M_\odot}$ (MCG-06-30-15). We conclude that the observed non-circular motions in the disc of NGC 4968 and likely that seen in NGC 4845 is due to the presence of the bar in the nuclear region. At the current spectral and spatial resolution and sensitivity we cannot claim any strong evidence in these sources of the long sought feedback/feeding effect due to the AGN presence.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in the Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) journal
THOUGHTS OF THE ORIGIN OF MINOAN CIVILIZATION - Overviews and conclusions
Creators: name: Nagy, Gábor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Minoan, Crete, Thera, Sumer Origin Theory (SOT), Uruk Origin Theory, Luwian theory, luwi connection, Cretan hieroglyphic, Linear-A

description: Abstract The article, in preparation for paleographic research, reviews the already encyclopedically accepted and recent results of several relevant scientific disciplines to delimit the temporal, geographic, and civilizational relationships of the formation of Minoan civilization from the assumptions of the Sumerian Origin Theory. He concludes that the archaic Sumerian population that flourished civilization c. 3100 BC moved to South, Southwest Anatolia, where they lived with the Luwi people for c. 900 years, then around 2200 BC they settled on the Cyclades, Thera, and Crete, forming a palace farming system, transforming the social system of the neolithic natives, bringing in more advanced agriculture, crafts, and extensive maritime trade. He states that the Minoan writing systems are the descendants of a proto-writing created as a result of a coevolution took place in a Luwi environment, conveying an archaic Sumerian language. By reinterpreting a number of oddities, he hypothesizes that the power center of the Minoan world was in fact Thera. The confirmation of this assumption related to Crete, would clarify many open question so far.
Entanglement in fermionic systems
Creators: name: Bañuls, Mari-Carmen
name: Cirac, J. Ignacio
name: Wolf, Michael M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anticommuting properties of fermionic operators, together with the presence of parity conservation, affect the concept of entanglement in a composite fermionic system. Hence different points of view can give rise to different reasonable definitions of separable and entangled states. Here we analyze these possibilities and the relationship between the different classes of separable states. We illustrate the differences by providing a complete characterization of all the sets defined for systems of two fermionic modes. The results are applied to Gibbs states of infinite chains of fermions whose interaction corresponds to a XY-Hamiltonian with transverse magnetic field.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables
De-identification of Unstructured Clinical Texts from Sequence to Sequence Perspective
Creators: name: Anjum, Md Monowar
name: Mohammed, Noman
name: Jiang, Xiaoqian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we propose a novel problem formulation for de-identification of unstructured clinical text. We formulate the de-identification problem as a sequence to sequence learning problem instead of a token classification problem. Our approach is inspired by the recent state-of -the-art performance of sequence to sequence learning models for named entity recognition. Early experimentation of our proposed approach achieved 98.91% recall rate on i2b2 dataset. This performance is comparable to current state-of-the-art models for unstructured clinical text de-identification.
description: Accepted in Poster Track for ACM CCS 2021
Additional file 1 of Enhancing cold resistance in Banana (Musa spp.) through EMS-induced mutagenesis, L-Hyp pressure selection: phenotypic alterations, biomass composition, and transcriptomic insights
Creators: name: Liu, Yumeng
name: Li, Yujia
name: Wang, Anbang
name: Xu, Zhuye
name: Li, Chunfang
name: Wang, Zuo
name: Guo, Borui
name: Chen, Yan
name: Tang, Fenling
name: Li, Jingyang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Using Clouds for Big Cancer Data Analysis
Creators: name: Yuen, Denis
name: Baker, Jared
name: Duncan, Andrew
name: Brazas, Michelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The Cancer GenomeCollaboratory is a compute cloud environment that was set up to facilitate analysis on big cancer genome data projects, including the ICGC and PCAWG. The Collaboratory provides access to configurable virtual machines (VM) with which to compute on this data and the Dockstore provides container packages of common genomic analysis tools and workflows. The CBW has developed a half-day course providing a hands-on introduction to launching and configuring your own virtual machine (VM), logging into your VM, copying unaligned sequence files into your VM, and performing sequence analysis on these files and saving the results.
Additional file 2 of Body mass index is not associated with survival outcomes and immune-related adverse events in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma treated with the immune checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab
Creators: name: De Filippi, Rosaria
name: Morabito, Fortunato
name: Santoro, Armando
name: Tripepi, Giovanni
name: D’Alò, Francesco
name: Rigacci, Luigi
name: Ricci, Francesca
name: Morelli, Emanuela
name: Zinzani, Pier Luigi
name: Pinto, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Cumulative incidence of immune-related and non-immune related adverse events of any grade, of grade 3–4 and of those leading to treatment discontinuation in patients with relapsed and refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma treated with nivolumab monotherapy.
Exciting gauge field and gravitons in a brane-anti-brane annihilation
Creators: name: Mazumdar, A.
name: Stoica, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we point out the inevitability of an explosive production of gauge field and gravity wave during an open string tachyon condensation in a cosmological setting. We will be particularly studying an example of brane-anti-brane inflation in a warped throat where inflation ends via tachyon condensation. We point out that a tachyonic instability helps fragmenting the homogeneous tachyon and excites gauge field and contributes to the stress energy tensor which also feeds into the gravity waves.
description: 4 pages 8 figs
Big-bounce and future time singularity resolution in Bianchi I: the projective invariant Nieh-Yan case
Creators: name: Bombacigno, Flavio
name: Boudet, Simon
name: Olmo, Gonzalo J.
name: Montani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the notion of the Nieh-Yan invariant to generic metric-affine geometries, where both torsion and nonmetricity are taken into account. Notably, we show that the properties of projective invariance and topologicity can be independently accommodated by a suitable choice of the parameters featuring this new Nieh-Yan term. We then consider a special class of modified theories of gravity able to promote the Immirzi parameter to a dynamical scalar field coupled to the Nieh-Yan form, and we discuss in more detail the dynamics of the effective scalar tensor theory stemming from such a revised theoretical framework. We focus, in particular, on cosmological Bianchi I models and we derive classical solutions where the initial singularity is safely removed in favor of a big-bounce, which is ultimately driven by the non-minimal coupling with the Immirzi field. These solutions, moreover, turn out to be characterized by finite time singularities, but we show that such critical points do not spoil the geodesic completeness and wave regularity of these space-times.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
In-field high throughput grapevine phenotyping with a consumer-grade depth camera
Creators: name: Milella, Annalisa
name: Marani, Roberto
name: Petitti, Antonio
name: Reina, Giulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Plant phenotyping, that is, the quantitative assessment of plant traits including growth, morphology, physiology, and yield, is a critical aspect towards efficient and effective crop management. Currently, plant phenotyping is a manually intensive and time consuming process, which involves human operators making measurements in the field, based on visual estimates or using hand-held devices. In this work, methods for automated grapevine phenotyping are developed, aiming to canopy volume estimation and bunch detection and counting. It is demonstrated that both measurements can be effectively performed in the field using a consumer-grade depth camera mounted onboard an agricultural vehicle.
Additional file 3 of Body mass index is not associated with survival outcomes and immune-related adverse events in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma treated with the immune checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab
Creators: name: De Filippi, Rosaria
name: Morabito, Fortunato
name: Santoro, Armando
name: Tripepi, Giovanni
name: D’Alò, Francesco
name: Rigacci, Luigi
name: Ricci, Francesca
name: Morelli, Emanuela
name: Zinzani, Pier Luigi
name: Pinto, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3. Inclusion criteria and participating centers and investigators.
Controlling instabilities along a 3DVar analysis cycle by assimilating in the unstable subspace: a comparison with the EnKF
Creators: name: Carrassi, A.
name: Trevisan, A.
name: Descamps, L.
name: Talagrand, O.
name: Uboldi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hybrid scheme obtained by combining 3DVar with the Assimilation in the Unstable Subspace (3DVar-AUS) is tested in a QG model, under perfect model conditions, with a fixed observational network, with and without observational noise. The AUS scheme, originally formulated to assimilate adaptive observations, is used here to assimilate the fixed observations that are found in the region of local maxima of BDAS vectors (Bred vectors subject to assimilation), while the remaining observations are assimilated by 3DVar. The performance of the hybrid scheme is compared with that of 3DVar and of an EnKF. The improvement gained by 3DVar-AUS and the EnKF with respect to 3DVar alone is similar in the present model and observational configuration, while 3DVar-AUS outperforms the EnKF during the forecast stage. The 3DVar-AUS algorithm is easy to implement and the results obtained in the idealized conditions of this study encourage further investigation toward an implementation in more realistic contexts.
The effects of indirect traumatization on therapist relationships: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Golden, Samuel Austin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: The current qualitative study investigates the nature of indirect trauma, or the ways in which therapists are negatively affected by working with trauma survivors. This study provides an in-depth exploration into the experiences of indirectly traumatized therapists, paying particular attention to the effects on their relational lives. Imprecise use of the terms vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue has contributed to inconsistent evidence regarding mechanisms of development, risk and protective factors, and implications for the support and protection of mental health workers. The present study utilizes the term indirect trauma as an umbrella construct incorporating the other three terms as distinct manifestations. This study aims to increase clarity in the empirical and conceptual literature in the field while providing a new focus on how therapists’ relational lives are affected by working with trauma. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight therapists self-identifying as having experienced negative effects of treating trauma survivors. A modified grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss, 1990; McCracken, 1988) was used to analyze the data. Three primary effects on the therapists’ relational lives were found: 1) Therapists experienced a drained or exhausted emotional state, which reduced their capacity to provide support to others and resulted in a renegotiating of their relational boundaries. 2) Therapists experienced distressing beliefs and affects that led to an increased need for emotional support and understanding from others. 3) Therapists both anticipated and experienced misunderstanding and invalidation from others, which contributed to increased isolation.The discussion features directions for future research as well as recommendations for individuals and organizations aimed at supporting therapists in this challenging, yet rewarding work. Key recommendations include: increasing dissemination of indirect trauma information in both academic institutions and clinical organizations, and encouraging trauma therapists to participate in routine interpersonal dialogue, including the discussion of indirect trauma symptoms, with other trauma-informed clinicians via supervision or consultation.
Additional file 1 of A survey of nursing teachers’ awareness of discrimination and inequity in telephone nursing care
Creators: name: Holmström, Inger K
name: Kaminsky, Elenor
name: Höglund, Anna T
name: Carlsson, Marianne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Early Matter Domination from Long-Lived Particles in the Visible Sector
Creators: name: Allahverdi, Rouzbeh
name: Osiński, Jacek K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a nonstandard cosmological history with a period of early matter domination driven by a sub-TeV visible-sector particle can arise rather naturally. This scenario involves a long-lived standard model singlet that acquires a thermal abundance at high temperatures from decays and inverse decays of a parent particle with SM charge(s), and subsequently dominates the energy density of the Universe as a frozen species. Entropy generation at the end of early matter domination dilutes the abundance of dangerous relics (such as gravitinos) by a factor as large as $10^4$. The scenario can accommodate the correct dark matter relic abundance for cases with $\langle σ_{\rm ann} v \rangle_{\rm f} \lessgtr 3 \times 10^{-26}$cm$^3$s$^{-1}$. More importantly, the allowed parameter space can be directly probed by proposed searches for neutral long-lived particles at the energy frontier, allowing us to use particle physics experiments to reconstruct the cosmological history just prior to big bang nucleosynthesis.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures; reference added
SINDROME ADERENZIALE POST-OPERATORIA IN CHIRURGIA COLO-RETTALE: ANALISI ETIOPATOLOGICA, CONFRONTO TRA I PRINCIPALI SISTEMI BIOLOGICI DI PREVENZIONE
Creators: name: Borrelli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2009

description: Le aderenze chirurgiche possono essere ridotte o controllate attraverso vari meccanismi possibili: riduzione dell’infiammazione iniziale, inibizione della coagulazione, fibrinolisi, separazione meccanica di superfici peritoneali, inibizione della proliferazione fibroblastica. Le tecniche attualmente utilizzate per prevenire la formazione di adesioni post chirurgiche hanno dimostrato limitato successo. L’utilizzo di un biomateriale che non complica la procedura chirurgica o impedisce la cicatrizzazione  mentre si controlla la formazione di adesioni postchirurgiche, rappresenterebbe un risultato eccellente. Il presente studio ha esplorato l’eziopatologia e l’epidemiologia della sindrome aderenziale, le metodiche già utilizzate nella nostra esperienza e l’utilizzo di una pellicola bioriassorbibile in polimero di polilattide.