cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Green Public Procurement: Eco-friendly and cost-saving
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: German Environment Agency
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: green procurement
subject: procurement
subject: green public procurement
subject: public award procurement law
subject: ecolabel
subject: Ecolabel Blue Angel
subject: EU Ecolabel
subject: product life cycle costs
subject: technical specifications
subject: AVV Klima
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Each year, German contracting authorities purchase around €300 billion worth of products ranging from pencils to city buses. This massive purchasing power can potentially be used to reduce environmental pollution, improve the range of environmental products and services, and promote more targeted market launches of innovative eco-friendly products.This flyer provides an overview of the advantages of environmentally friendly procurement, how it can be implemented in practice and where further information can be found. Note: If a printout of the contents is required, we recommend using the factsheet for a better overview.
Luck, Control, and Why They Don't Matter
Creators: name: Thompson, Kramer
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: The concepts of luck and control are thought to play important roles in philosophical projects in epistemology, ethics, and theory of action. Epistemologists are concerned with assessing how luck undermines knowledge and whether a theory of knowledge can be constructed which precludes this undermining. Ethicists are concerned with determining the extent to which people's constitutions and actions are the product of luck due to how luck and lack of control seem to undermine desert, and some philosophers have proposed anti-luck conditions on achievement and creditworthiness. Action theorists are interested in how luck permeates agents' actions and characters and what effect this may have on free will and moral responsibility, and some philosophers have appealed to control to explain cases of deviant causation in intentional action. With the increased reliance upon the concept of luck in these philosophical projects has come many different accounts of luck, although surprisingly few accounts of control. Some of the main purposes of this thesis are to produce accounts of luck and control, determine their normative significance, and apply this to the debates that involve them. I argue that luck and control do not do any important philosophical work with respect to the phenomena mentioned in the previous paragraph. The thesis is structured as follows. Chapters II through IV are concerned with presenting and defending accounts of luck and control. Chapters V through VIII are concerned with evaluating whether luck and control are relevant with respect to various philosophical phenomena that they have been taken to impact. I argue that luck and control should be understood probabilistically and that the extent to which an event is lucky for an agent, or out of their control, can be largely determined by factors which have no actual influence on the event's occurrence. For this reason, the presence of luck or absence of control have no necessary connection to the extent to which agents act freely, morally responsibly, or intentionally. For the same reason, the presence of luck or the absence of control have no necessary connection to agents' knowledge, creditworthiness, or achievements.
Informing Individualised Behavioural Weight Loss Interventions Using Mixed-Methods, Experimental and Correlational Approaches
Creators: name: Stiff, Laura
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: Obesity management is a key research area given obesity's biopsychosocial and economic consequences, and its high global prevalence. Weight loss and, particularly weight loss maintenance, are difficult to achieve and existing interventions have yet to curb the high rates of obesity. Given the limited effectiveness of interventions to date, coupled with the high prevalence of obesity, the current research programme focuses on several strategies for increasing the effectiveness and scalability of behavioural interventions, with an emphasis on consumer involvement in the design of such programmes (Study One); taking the lead from consumers to investigate strategies for enhancing weight loss intervention engagement and motivation through video messaging (Study 2); and identifying the predictors of different forms of motivation as another means of individualising interventions targeting motivation for weight loss (Study Three). The results contribute to wider efforts to improve the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and accessibility of weight management interventions, which remains a considerable challenge and high priority area for future research. Individualising digital weight management interventions shows promise in providing a scalable low-cost solution to sustainable weight loss.
Supplementary document for Dynamics of optical vortices in van der Waals materials - 6387488.pdf
Creators: name: Kurman, Yaniv
name: dahan, Raphael
name: Sheinfux, Hanan Herzig
name: Rosolen, Gilles
name: Janzen, Eli
name: Edgar, James
name: Koppens, Frank
name: Kaminer, Ido
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nanophotonics

description: Supplementary Materials
title: Letter: C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to Editor of The Evening Star, November 17, 1961
Creators: name: Mann, Charles Harrison, Jr., 1908-1977
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: United States government

description: Letter: typescript unsigned, 8.5" x 11" (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm)
description: Letter from C. Harrison Mann, Jr. to the Editor of the Evening Star, regarding an editorial that Mann disagreed with. He thought the writer had poor knowledge of the United States government and accused the writer of being Republican biased. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 3.10
Supplementary document for Collective Transport of Particles and Cells Enabled by Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Microcavity Cascade Optical Tweezers - 7387572.pdf
Creators: name: Jiang, Jianguo
name: Shi, Qizan
name: Chen, Weida
name: Liu, Xu
name: Yao, Linzhi
name: Ji, Zhaoqi
name: Zhang, Minghui
name: wang, xiufang
name: chen, peng
name: Dong, Taiji
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Collective Transport of Particles and Cells Enabled by Wavelength Division Multiplexing in Microcavity Cascade Optical Tweezers
Machine Learning for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer: Improving Evaluation and Explanation from Technical and Domain Perspectives
Creators: name: Huang, Weitong
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: This trans-disciplinary thesis includes research targeted toward detecting biomarkers of ovarian cancer using a unique combination of machine learning and Shapley values. The study explores methods and validates conclusions using the PLCO Ovarian Biomarkers dataset, which exhibits several issues typical of medical datasets, such as small dataset volume, high dimensionality, and significant class imbalance. Several machine learning techniques were investigated and optimised in each step of a general data mining workflow to overcome these issues. Based on a series of experiments, a best-practice pipeline that alleviates the challenges in adopting machine learning methods for ovarian cancer diagnosis and biomarker discovery processes is developed. The pipeline focuses on improving the predictive ability and introducing model-agnostic explanations at a local and global level. Based on analysis and engineering of the data and stable model training, the major achievements of this pipeline include Area Under the Receive Operating Curve (AUC-ROC) scores ranging from 80% to 95%, which are higher than those measured using established methods in the field, such as the Risk of Ovarian MAlignancy (ROMA); and model explanation that allows more intuitive domain interpretation. These explanations guide further research on this topic, including rational method selection, identification of potential risks, and suggested mitigation or alternatives. The research concludes with a straightforward approach to biomarker discovery that is general, and statistically sound, and explains how machine learning models capture the underlying relationship between biomarkers and early signs of disease.
Supplementary document for Polarization-multiplexing metafiber for dual-mode bright-field and dark-field microscopy - 7386733.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Zilei
name: Li, Yingbo
name: zhang, xiaoyi
name: li, siqi
name: Wang, Guoxi
name: Zhang, Wenfu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: the supplemental materials on the simulated and experimental results
The Impermanence of Concrete: White Domination of the Canberran Landscape
Creators: name: Lechner-Scott, Anna-Marieke
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024
Subjects: space
racism
settler-colonialism
Country
Indigenous Knowing
White Supremacy
Canberra
Architectural analysis
Phenomenology
Aboriginal
Urban Planning
Urban Design

description: the author deposited 26.08.2024
description: The construction of Canberra has been analysed as a nexus of “Australian” identity, but it is yet to be analysed as a settler-colonial project. I wish to fill this gap by uncovering how White Anglo-Saxon settlers are positioned at the very top of the social power structure through the construction of a universal “Australian” identity in the central monumental district of Canberra. This thesis rests on an Indigenous epistemological practice of participant phenomenological observation. Observing the landscape as a collection of connected symbols, each have their own histories of conception, and their own position in the urban social fabric. With this data we can construct narratives that connect the disparate social messages of top-down monument construction, into a cohesive framework of settler power. This thesis finds the narratives presented in the Federal district continue to position White settlers above as both the default “Australian” body, and as natural inheritors of the “Australian” continent. Uprooting settler-nationalism requires more than the liberal multicultural expansion of the ideal of what it is to be “Australian.”
Parameter Estimation and Adaptive Design of an Autonomous Racing Car
Creators: name: Zhao, Boyu
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Vehicle Dynamics
System Identification
Parameter Estimations
Numerical Optimization

description: This thesis proposes a parameter estimation method for a scale-down autonomous racing car. The dynamic single-track model of Euler integration method is used for parameter estimation based on the measurements generated by the multi-body model in state-space form. By implementing optimization methods, the vehicle mass, moment of inertia for entire mass about z axis, distance from centre of gravity to rear/front axle, centre of gravity height of total mass and cornering stiffness coefficients of front/rear tires have been successfully estimated. The accuracies of the estimated parameters were also demonstrated. Moreover, an idea of adaptive design for the estimated parameters have been proposed in this thesis. By adjusting the selected parameters, the vehicle can achieve the performance of a complex model under a simple model.
title: Brochure: Gulf Reston, Inc., "Bryan Courts," December 1969
Creators: name: Gulf Reston, Inc.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Bryan Courts

description: Textual: brochure, original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Brochure from Gulf Reston, Inc. entitled "Bryan Courts" dated December 1969. This is a brochure for the Bryan Courts development in Reston, Virginia. This brochure contains floor plans and prices for the house types in this development. Planned Community Archives Collection, rm07.03
Secondary metabolites of dermatophytes with focus on Trichophyton mentagrophytes complex
Creators: name: Švarcová, Michaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: fungi
secondary metabolites
dermatophytes

description: Lecture presented at the H2020 MYCOBIOMICS/SEA-EU symposium, 8.8. 2024 at Department Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
Collective Identity Everywhere: Strategy and Collaboration in the Visual Communication of Ten Environmental Organisations in Chile
Creators: name: Aravena Ortiz, Sebastian
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2025

description: The possibilities offered by digital technologies to communicate ideas have strengthened the power of digital networks as spaces for public discussions, even more in a context of political intensity where groups are defined around ideas and the definition of future challenges is contested. In these digital public discussions, visual communication is essential to reach and influence audiences. This is also true in contemporary environmental crises, whose meanings are constantly negotiated in public debate. Exploring the digital visual communication of environmental organisations in the Chilean discussions about the constitutional referendum of 2022, this research develops three levels of inquiry with emphasis on collective identity: the definition of environmental discussions, the determination of strategies, and the definition of ways of collaboration between environmental organisations. This research proposes a methodological approach comprised of three levels of analysis: quantitative visual content analysis, qualitative multimodal analysis, and interrelational context analysis based on two data sets: the collection of digital images (n=1736) from ten organisations’ Instagram accounts and in-depth photo-elicited interviews (n=10) with visuals producers. The findings indicate the higher relevance of the representation of nature, the benefits of the new constitution, and the role of testimony and information to guide the public. The environmental organisations show positive messages and publicly evidenced their alliances through photography, mixed techniques, and remediation practices. The findings also present the development of two types of strategies: those profoundly related to their identity and those disconnected from it, and the different cases of uncoordinated, formal, and informal collaborations, in which visual partnership is highlighted, as well as conflicts related to their identities and technical issues. Reflecting on the Chilean case, this research illustrates the digital and visual practices in the public construction of environmental ideas and how collaboration and collective identity plays a key role in it.
Risk-aware Trajectory Prediction by Incorporating Spatio-temporal Traffic Interaction Analysis
Creators: name: Thuremella, Divya
name: Ince, Lewis
name: Kunze, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To operate in open-ended environments where humans interact in complex, diverse ways, autonomous robots must learn to predict their behaviour, especially when that behavior is potentially dangerous to other agents or to the robot. However, reducing the risk of accidents requires prior knowledge of where potential collisions may occur and how. Therefore, we propose to gain this information by analyzing locations and speeds that commonly correspond to high-risk interactions within the dataset, and use it within training to generate better predictions in high risk situations. Through these location-based and speed-based re-weighting techniques, we achieve improved overall performance, as measured by most-likely FDE and KDE, as well as improved performance on high-speed vehicles, and vehicles within high-risk locations.
 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Supplementary document for Single-exposure X-ray dark-field imaging via a dual-energy propagation-based setup - 7380336.pdf
Creators: name: Ahlers, Jannis
name: Pavlov, Konstantin
name: Kitchen, Marcus
name: Harker, Stephanie
name: Pryor, Emily
name: Pollock, James
name: Croughan, Michelle
name: How, Ying Ying
name: Zdora, Marie-Christine
name: Costello, Lucy
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medical Physics
Classical and Physical Optics
Image Processing

description: Revised supplemental doc
TripletViNet: Mitigating Misinformation Video Spread Across Platforms
Creators: name: Smolovic, Petar
name: Dahanayaka, Thilini
name: Thilakarathna, Kanchana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There has been rampant propagation of fake news and misinformation videos on many platforms lately, and moderation of such content faces many challenges that must be overcome. Recent research has shown the feasibility of identifying video titles from encrypted network traffic within a single platform, for example, within YouTube or Facebook. However, there are no existing methods for cross-platform video recognition, a crucial gap that this works aims to address. Encrypted video traffic classification within a single platform, that is, classifying the video title of a traffic trace of a video on one platform by training on traffic traces of videos on the same platform, has significant limitations due to the large number of video platforms available to users to upload harmful content to. To attempt to address this limitation, we conduct a feasibility analysis into and attempt to solve the challenge of recognizing videos across multiple platforms by using the traffic traces of videos on one platform only. We propose TripletViNet, a framework that encompasses i) platform-wise pre-processing, ii) an encoder trained utilizing triplet learning for improved accuracy and iii) multiclass classifier for classifying the video title of a traffic trace. To evaluate the performance of TripletViNet, a comprehensive dataset with traffic traces for 100 videos on six major platforms with the potential for spreading misinformation such as YouTube, X, Instagram, Facebook, Rumble, and Tumblr was collected and used to test TripletViNet in both closed-set and open-set scenarios. TripletViNet achieves significant improvements in accuracy due to the correlation between video traffic and the video's VBR, with impressive final accuracies exceeding 90% in certain scenarios.
description: This paper has already been published in ACM SCID '24
SUR QORAKO'L QO'YLARINING  MAHSULDORLIGIGA  ZOT TIPLARINING TA'SIRI
Creators: name: Hamroqulov, Behzod
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ushbu tezisda sur qorako‘l qo‘ylarining mahsuldorligiga ularning zot tiplarining va tashqi muhitning ta’siri borasida soha olimlarining olib borgan tadqiqotlarini  natijalari  keltirilgan.
VIRAL HEPATITIS, THE RELEVANCE OF IMPROVING THEIR DIAGNOSTIC METHODS AND PROMISING PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Creators: name: Fayzullaeva, Zamira
name: Agzamova, Amaliya
name: Bekjanova, Jadira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This review focuses on the most important research topics that deal with issues that are currently being solved, those that remain unresolved, and future research directions. For the hepatitis A virus, we will address epidemiology, molecular surveillance, new susceptible populations, as well as environmental and food detections; for the hepatitis B virus, we will discuss host factors related to disease, diagnosis, therapy, and vaccine. Viral hepatitis, which is caused by infection with the hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E viruses, is a significant public health issue and a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality. As for the hepatitis D virus, we describe diagnostic methodology, pathogenesis, and therapy; for the hepatitis E virus, we will discuss epidemiology (including new emerging species), diagnosis, clinical aspects, treatment, vaccine development, and environmental surveillance; and for the hepatitis C virus, we will concentrate on pathogenesis, immunological response, direct action antiviral treatment in the context of solid organ transplantation, problems associated with the development of hepatocellular carcinoma, direct action antiviral resistance due to selection of resistance-associated variants and vaccination.
Supplementary document for ON and OFF receptive field processing in the presence of optical scattering - 6387573.pdf
Creators: name: Breher, Katharina
name: Neumann, Antonia
name: Kurth, Dominik
name: Schaeffel, Frank
name: Wahl, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Figure S1: Visualization of the results from Figure 3 but with individual data points.
The axial crushing performance of bio-inspired hierarchical multi-cell hexagonal tubes
Creators: name: Gao, Zhipeng
name: Zhang, Hai
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Ruan, Dong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Both the concepts of bio-inspiration and hierarchy are found to be effective in enhancing the crushing performance of tubes. In this paper, the bio-inspired hierarchical multi-cell hexagonal tubes (BHMH) were developed by combing the bio-mimicked and hierarchical configurations in tubular structures. The crushing behaviors of BHMH tubes with various hierarchical orders and wall thicknesses were firstly investigated numerically. The results show that the peak crushing force (PCF) of all BHMH tubes is less than that of hexagonal tubes in each group, which is beneficial in minimizing possible injury and damage when tubes are crushed. With the increase of hierarchical order and wall thickness, the mean crushing force (MCF), crushing force efficiency (CFE) and specific energy absorption (SEA) of BHMH tubes also increase. The SEA of the third order BHMH tubes is approximately 2.5 times that of the zeroth order BHMH tubes (multi-cell hexagonal tubes) in each of the four groups. Compared with conventional hexagonal tubes, a maximum increase of 146% in the SEA of BHMH tubes is obtained, which demonstrates that BHMH tubes are better energy absorbers than that of traditional single and multi-cell hexagonal tubes. Subsequently, theoretical analysis based on the Simplified Super Folding Element (SSFE) theory was carried out to determine the mean crushing force of BHMH tubes. The theoretical results agree well with the simulated results for all BHMH tubes.
Θεραπευτική αντιμετώπιση της Πολλαπλής σκλήρυνσης υψηλής ενεργότητας: Βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση
Creators: name: Πιτένη, Αικατερίνη Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Πολλαπλή σκλήρυνση
Υψηλής ενεργότητας
Νοσοτροποποιητικά φάρμακα
Multiple sclerosis
Highly active
DMT´s

description: Η Πολλαπλή Σκλήρυνση (ΠΣ) αποτελεί ένα ανοσοεπαγόμενο νόσημα που οδηγεί σε προοδευτική αναπηρία. Τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες, άλματα στην κατανόηση της νόσου έχουν σημειωθεί. Ως αποτέλεσμα αυτής της γνώσης, είναι οι νοσοτροποποιητικές φαρμακευτικές αγωγές που έχουν εγκριθεί ειδικά τα τελευταία χρόνια. Στην παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζονται δεδομένα για την νόσο, η ταξινόμηση των διαφόρων τύπων της ΠΣ, ο καθορισμός των μορφών και της υψηλής ενεργότητας ΠΣ, καθώς και κλίμακες και βιοδείκτες που είναι απαραίτητοι για τη σωστή διάγνωση. Παρουσιάζονται, επίσης, τα πιο διαδεδομένα νοσοτροποποιητικά φάρμακα (Disease Modifying Treatments, DMT´s) για όλες τις μορφές της ΠΣ, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στα νοσοτροποποιητικά φάρμακα για την ΠΣ υψηλής ενεργότητας. Στόχος αυτών των φαρμάκων είναι η επιβράδυνση της εξέλιξης της ΠΣ. Βασικός πυλώνας αυτών των θεραπειών αποτελεί η καθυστέρηση και ενδεχομένως η μείωση της αναπηρίας λόγω κινητικών και νοητικών ελλειμμάτων. Περιγράφεται η φαρμακοδυναμική του κάθε φαρμάκου, τα οποία ακολουθούν χρονολογική σειρά, ξεκινώντας από τις Ιντερφερόνες και καταλήγοντας στους αναστολείς Bruton’s τυροσινικής κινάσης (ΒΤΚ), καλύπτονται σχεδόν τρεις δεκαετίες φαρμακευτικών αγωγών, που άλλαξαν τη φυσική πορεία της ΠΣ.
description: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease that leads to progressive disability. In recent decades, leaps in understanding the disease have been made. As a result of this knowledge, there are disease-modifying therapies, medications that have been approved in recent years. This review presents data on the disease, the classification of the different types of MS, the definition of highly active MS, as well as scales and biomarkers that are necessary for the correct diagnosis. The most common disease-modifying treatments (DMT's) for all forms of MS are also presented, with emphasis on DMTs for highly active MS. The goal of these medications is to slow the progression of MS. A key pillar of these treatments is the delay and possibly reduction of disability, due to motor and mental deficits. The pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic of each medication are described, which follow a chronological order, starting with Interferons and ending with Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors, covering almost three decades of medications that changed the natural course of MS.
1-067-ModelingWithSigmoidCurves-ModelingScenario
Creators: name: Hritonenko, Natali
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: The assignment considers two well-known models of population growth, Verhulst-Pearl and Gompertz models, for which qualitative and quantitative analyses are provided. The graphs of the corresponding functions have a sigmoidal or S-shape.
title: Study of Surface Heat Exchangers for High-Altitude Atmospheric Research Aircraft
Creators: name: Wang, Te-Kang
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1996

description: A flush-mounted heat exchanger concept, using the wing surface to dissipate heat, is investigated as a lower drag alternative to conventional ducted plate-fin radiators. A feasibility analysis is made for an unmanned high-altitude aircraft which will reach altitudes up to 25 kilometers. A computer code is used to calculate approximate heat transfer coefficients over the airfoil's surface. A model is tested in the Old Dominion University subsonic wind tunnel to verify the results of the computer code. The results indicate that a flush mounted heat exchanger design is able to provide 20 to 100 percent of the required heat dissipation at 25 kilometers altitude, depending upon which areas of the wing are considered usable. The attainable dissipation increases with decreasing altitude and with increasing angle of attack. The effect of surface heating on the boundary layer development is discussed. It is concluded that flush-mounted heat exchangers are a viable design option and are worthy of further study.
[Letter from C. Thomas of B.C. Fishing & Packing Co., Ltd. to the manager of Brunswick Cannery]
Creators: name: Thomas, C.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Letter from C. Thomas of the B.C. Fishing & Packing Co., Ltd. to the manager of the Brunswick Cannery in Ladner explaining a change in the collection of the Poll Tax.
title: Pathways of aging: comparative analysis of gene signatures in replicative senescence and stress induced premature senescence
Creators: name: Kural, Kamil Can
name: Tandon, Neetu
name: Skoblov, Mikhail
name: Kel-Margoulis, Olga V.
name: Baranova, Ancha
Publisher: name: BMC Genomics
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genes
subject: Aging

description: Background In culturing normal diploid cells, senescence may either happen naturally, in the form of replicative senescence, or it may be a consequence of external challenges such as oxidative stress. Here we present a comparative analysis aimed at reconstruction of molecular cascades specific for replicative (RS) and stressinduced senescence (SIPS) in human fibroblasts. Results An involvement of caspase-3/keratin-18 pathway and serine/threonine kinase Aurora A/ MDM2 pathway was shared between RS and SIPS. Moreover, stromelysin/MMP3 and N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase enzyme MGAT1, which initiates the synthesis of hybrid and complex Nglycans, were identified as key orchestrating components in RS and SIPS, respectively. In RS only, Aurora-B driven cell cycle signaling was deregulated in concert with the suppression of anabolic branches of the fatty acids and estrogen metabolism. In SIPS, Aurora-B signaling is deprioritized, and the synthetic branches of cholesterol metabolism are upregulated, rather than downregulated. Moreover, in SIPS, proteasome/ubiquitin ligase pathways of protein degradation dominate the regulatory landscape. This picture indicates that SIPS proceeds in cells that are actively fighting stress which facilitates premature senescence while failing to completely activate the orderly program of RS. The promoters of genes differentially expressed in either RS or SIPS are unusually enriched by the binding sites for homeobox family proteins, with particular emphasis on HMX1, IRX2, HDX and HOXC13. Additionally, we identified Iroquois Homeobox 2 (IRX2) as a master regulator for the secretion of SPP1-encoded osteopontin, a stromal driver for tumor growth that is overexpressed by both RS and SIPS fibroblasts. The latter supports the hypothesis that senescence-specific de-repression of SPP1 aids in SIPS-dependent stromal activation. Conclusions Reanalysis of previously published experimental data is cost-effective approach for extraction of additional insignts into the functioning of biological systems.
title: Machine Learning models for Customer Relationship Analysis to Improve Satisfaction Rate in Banking
Creators: name: Fabijanczyk, Patricia
name: Bagam, Lahari
name: Jia, Nan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine learning
subject: Finance
subject: Natural language processing

description: The purpose of this research project was to analyze customer complaint data from financial institutions and iden- tify areas of opportunity for these institutions to improve their customer satisfaction rate. In addition to pointing out areas for improvement, this paper also looks into similar research and tries to understand if themes found in this analysis are consistent with those done by other researchers. Banking is an essential piece to everyday life for all people across the world. Banks need to ensure that their products and processes are simple and accessible to all. Although banks have a monopoly on our financial needs their desire to retain existing customers and gain new ones drives the necessity of providing excellent and timely customer service. The study was conducted using a dataset of over two million customer complaint records and examining what were the top three financial institutions receiving complaints and which products received them. In addition, other aspects of complaints such as state of origination was also looked at.Analysis was done using machine learning, python, tableau and other tools to show the data points and their corre- lation. Understanding the top financial institutions methods of handling customer complaints, we are able to make rec- ommendations for further product improvements to increase customer satisfaction. Concluding the research project is a list of challenges and opportunities for further research projects. In addition, there are recommendations for the financial institutions investigated in this project on how to move forward from analyzing customer complaint data.
Protection Against Subversion Corruptions via Reverse Firewalls in the Plain Universal Composability Framework
Creators: name: Ottenhues, Astrid
name: Müller-Quade, Jorn
name: Arnold, Paula
name: Berndt, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2025
Subjects: Subversion Resilience
Universal Composability
OT

description: While many modern cryptographic primitives have stood the test of time, attackers started to expand beyond classic cryptanalysis by targeting implementations. Subversion attacks, where the attacker replaces the implementation of the cryptographic primitive to leak sensitive information about the user during a protocol execution, are among the most dangerous of such attacks. The revelations of Snowden have shown that these attacks are deployed by intelligence services. A very promising countermeasure uses cryptographic reverse firewalls that actively remove the covert channel leaking the secret. Chakraborty et al. (EUROCRYPT’22) presented the first model of such firewalls in the universal composability (UC) framework. However, using such a firewall also provides a possible new target for the attacker and in the case that an honest party uses a corrupted firewall, they were not able to prove any security guarantees. Furthermore, their model is quite complex and does not fit into the plain UC model as they restrict the environment. Hence, the authors needed to reprove fundamental theorems such as the composition theorem as well as the security of the underlying protocol. In this paper, we consider a slightly different model of subversion attacks that replace the used randomness, inspired by Dodis et al. (CRYPTO’16), that captures all known subversion attacks. Considering these realistic attacks allows us to use existing UC-secure protocols without the need to reprove their security. We also introduce additional notions of firewall properties, allowing us to reason about corrupted firewalls while maintaining strong security guarantees. To show the versatility of our model, we apply it to commitments and oblivious transfer. This demonstrates the usefulness of our plain UC model, as the only known previous subversion-resilient OT, recently provided by Chakraborty et al. (ASIACRYPT’24), is much more complicated and involved, and was also in the non-plain UC model.
title: Report: Department of Housing and Urban Development, "Outline of New Communities Assistance Programs," January 1971
Creators: name: U.S. Department Of Housing And Urban Development
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Report, original; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development entitled "Outline of New Communities Assistance Programs" dated January 1971. This report discusses the provisions of Title VII of the Urban Growth and New Communities Development Act of 1970. Specifically, this report outlines the various guarantees and interest loans that are authorized by Title VII. An appendix that discusses potential supplementary grants for new community projects is also included with this report. Planned Community Archives Collection, 638.05.02
Fiscalization and the Informal Economy in Zimbabwe: A Path to Formalization
Creators: name: Billiat Chigaga*
name: Mubanga Mpundu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fiscalization, Informal, Economy, Zimbabwe, Tax, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.

description: Abstract:

Introduction: Zimbabwe's informal economy is significant, with many businesses operating outside the formal tax net. Fiscalization policies aim to bring these businesses into the formal economy, but their effectiveness is unclear. This study examines the impact of fiscalization on informal businesses in Zimbabwe, exploring its potential as a path to formalization.

Methodology: A mixed-methods approach combined survey data from 300 informal businesses with semi-structured interviews from 20 business owners and policymakers. Logistic regression analysis examined the relationship between fiscalization policies, business characteristics, and formalization.

Results Analysis: Fiscalization policies significantly influence formalization, with a positive correlation between policy implementation and formalization likelihood. Retail businesses, urban locations, and older/more educated owners are more likely to formalize. Micro-sized businesses, male owners, and rural locations face barriers to formalization.

Conclusion: Fiscalization policies can effectively encourage informal businesses to formalize, increasing tax revenue and economic growth. Targeted support for micro-sized businesses, male owners, and rural locations can address specific barriers to formalization. Policymakers can leverage these findings to refine fiscalization policies, promoting a more inclusive and formalized economy in Zimbabwe. By understanding the complex relationships between fiscalization, business characteristics, and formalization, Zimbabwe can unlock the potential of its informal economy and foster sustainable economic development.
Supplementary document for Tight-Focusing Parabolic Reflector Schemes for Petawatt Lasers - 6388110.pdf
Creators: name: Vallières, Simon
name: Fillion-Gourdeau, François
name: Payeur, Stephane
name: Powell, Jeffrey
name: Fourmaux, Sylvain
name: Légaré, François
name: MacLean, Steve
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
title: Differential Survival and Systemic Stress in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest: A Paleoepidemiological Study of Pueblo Bonito and Hawikku
Creators: name: Ham, Allison C
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ancestral Pueblo
subject: American Southwest
subject: Bioarchaeology
subject: Paleoepidemiology

description: Recent advances in paleodemographic age estimation techniques and the integration of improved statistical methods into the bioarchaeological analysis of mortality and physiological stress has the potential to reveal levels of frailty and selective mortality within past populations. This study seeks to demonstrate how paleoepidemiological techniques can be used to advance our understanding of how behavioral and biological plasticity helped to mitigate the stressors caused by environmental perturbations in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest. By examining two skeletal samples from the Ancestral Pueblo sites of Pueblo Bonito (A.D. 800-1200) and Hawikku (A.D. 1300-1680), this study tests the relationship between survivorship and the presence of periosteal lesions, linear enamel hypoplasia, and adult body size (i.e., adult stature and body mass). Additionally, skeletal growth trajectories are compared to adult body size to understand if smaller individuals died before reaching adulthood. Results of the study indicate that individuals with healed periosteal lesions, no observed LEH, and males below average for body mass had an increased likelihood of survival, and therefore, a lower level of frailty. The skeletal growth analysis documented a probable stunting event occurring between the ages of 6 to 12, but does not appear to be indicative of selective mortality. These results demonstrate the advantages of applying a framework of mortality and survivorship, focusing on potential relationships with early life stressors and longevity, to the bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal indicators of stress in the past.
GeoMix: Towards Geometry-Aware Data Augmentation
Creators: name: Zhao, Wentao
name: Wu, Qitian
name: Yang, Chenxiao
name: Yan, Junchi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mixup has shown considerable success in mitigating the challenges posed by limited labeled data in image classification. By synthesizing samples through the interpolation of features and labels, Mixup effectively addresses the issue of data scarcity. However, it has rarely been explored in graph learning tasks due to the irregularity and connectivity of graph data. Specifically, in node classification tasks, Mixup presents a challenge in creating connections for synthetic data. In this paper, we propose Geometric Mixup (GeoMix), a simple and interpretable Mixup approach leveraging in-place graph editing. It effectively utilizes geometry information to interpolate features and labels with those from the nearby neighborhood, generating synthetic nodes and establishing connections for them. We conduct theoretical analysis to elucidate the rationale behind employing geometry information for node Mixup, emphasizing the significance of locality enhancement-a critical aspect of our method's design. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our lightweight Geometric Mixup achieves state-of-the-art results on a wide variety of standard datasets with limited labeled data. Furthermore, it significantly improves the generalization capability of underlying GNNs across various challenging out-of-distribution generalization tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/WtaoZhao/geomix.
description: Published as a conference paper at KDD 2024
Digital Banking and Customer Experience: A New Era of Financial Security and Innovation
Creators: name: Zibahalat Monfared, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Digital Banking
Customer Experience
Information Security
Cybersecurity
Financial Technology (FinTech)
Data Privacy
Digital Transformation

description: The rapid advancement of digital technologies has profoundly transformed the banking industry, redefining the ways financial services are delivered and experienced. Digitalization in banking has emerged as a strategic imperative, aiming to enhance customer experience through seamless service delivery while simultaneously raising complex challenges regarding information security. This study investigates the dual impact of banking digitalization on customer experience and information security, emphasizing the delicate balance financial institutions must achieve in the digital age.

Employing a mixed-methods approach, this research combines a comprehensive review of existing literature with an empirical analysis based on survey data collected from banking customers and cybersecurity professionals. The study evaluates key digital banking components, including online platforms, mobile applications, and AI-driven services, in relation to customer satisfaction, trust, and perceived security risks.

The findings reveal that while digitalization significantly improves service accessibility, efficiency, and personalization—enhancing overall customer satisfaction—it also amplifies vulnerabilities to cyber threats, data breaches, and privacy concerns. The results underscore the critical importance of integrating robust cybersecurity measures within digital banking infrastructures to safeguard sensitive customer data and maintain trust.

This research contributes to the existing knowledge by offering a holistic analysis of how digitalization simultaneously shapes customer experience and information security in banking. It provides practical insights for policymakers, financial institutions, and technology developers to navigate these intertwined dynamics effectively.
title: First national mineral system assessment of Australia's iron oxide copper-gold potential
Creators: name: A., Ford
name: J., Cloutier
name: A., Ford
name: D., Huston
name: M., Haynes
name: A., Schofield
name: M., Doublier
name: G., Sanchez
name: J., Duan
name: J., Goodwin
name: S., Richards
name: E., Beyer
name: D., Champion
name: A., Morfiadakis
name: G., Fraser
name: Y., Cheng
name: K., Waltenberg
name: A., Burnham
name: K., Czarnota
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EFTF – Exploring for the Future
subject: Australia’s Resources Framework
subject: mineral potential assessment
subject: mineral systems
subject: iocg
subject: iron oxide copper gold
subject: Mineral potential
subject: Resource geoscience
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Published_External

description: Output type: Exploring for the Future Extended Abstract
Short abstract: Iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits are a significant source of copper and gold and can also contain critical minerals that are required for the transition to a low carbon economy and to increase Australia’s security of mineral supply. Given their strategic importance, a national-scale assessment of the mineral potential for IOCG mineral systems in Australia has been undertaken using a hybrid data- and knowledge-driven approach. The national-scale assessment includes the evaluation of the statistical importance of mappable criteria used in previously published regional-scale IOCG models, resulting in the removal of five criteria and the inclusion of four new or revised criteria derived from datasets developed through the Exploring for the Future program. The new mineral potential model successfully predicts the location of 91.7% of known IOCG deposits and occurrences in 8.3% of the area, reducing the exploration search space by 91.7% and highlighting new areas of elevated prospectivity in under-explored regions of Australia. When compared to existing regional-scale mineral potential assessments for IOCG mineral systems published by Geoscience Australia, the new national-scale model demonstrates higher prospectivity in areas with known IOCG deposits and occurrences, while also highlighting new prospective areas for IOCG mineral systems. Areas with assessed high prospectivity but lacking known IOCG mineralisation include parts of the Curnamona, Etheridge and Musgrave provinces, and the Delamerian, Halls Creek and Tanami orogens.
Citation: Cloutier J., et al., 2024. First national mineral system assessment of Australia's iron oxide copper-gold potential. In: Czarnota, K. (ed.) Exploring for the Future: Extended Abstracts, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, https://doi.org/10.26186/149357
RSE Asia Australia 2024 Summary Report
Creators: name: Mosbergen, Rowland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461299
subject: Software engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The third online Research Software Engineer (RSE) Asia Australia Unconference was from the 10th to the 13th of September 2024. This was a joint partnership between the RSE Asia Association and the RSE Association of Australia and New Zealand.The theme for this year was “Sharing tech architectures”, we created an extra day for a Leaders Forum on the 10th based on the action items from last year, we had a live polling session to gather community feedback, and we created two Accessibility Fellowship positions as well.This report is a summary of the proceedings.The accessible version of this report is published here.The RSEAA website is here.