cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mapping the Imprints of Stellar and Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback in the Circumgalactic Medium with X-Ray Microcalorimeters
Creators: name: Schellenberger, Gerrit
name: Bogdán, Ákos
name: ZuHone, John A.
name: Oppenheimer, Benjamin D.
name: Truong, Nhut
name: Khabibullin, Ildar
name: Jennings, Fred
name: Pillepich, Annalisa
name: Burchett, Joseph
name: Carr, Christopher
name: Chakraborty, Priyanka
name: Crain, Robert
name: Forman, William
name: Jones, Christine
name: Kilbourne, Caroline A.
name: Kraft, Ralph P.
name: Markevitch, Maxim
name: Nagai, Daisuke
name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Ogorzalek, Anna
name: Randall, Scott
name: Sarkar, Arnab
name: Schaye, Joop
name: Veilleux, Sylvain
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Wang, Q. Daniel
name: Zhuravleva, Irina
Publisher: name: AAS
Year: 2024

description: The Astro2020 Decadal Survey has identified the mapping of the circumgalactic medium (CGM; the gaseous plasma around galaxies) as a key objective. We explore the prospects for characterizing the CGM in and around nearby galaxy halos with a future large-grasp X-ray microcalorimeter. We create realistic mock observations from hydrodynamical simulations (EAGLE, IllustrisTNG, and Simba) that demonstrate a wide range of potential measurements, which will address the open questions in galaxy formation and evolution. By including all background and foreground components in our mock observations, we show why it is impossible to perform these measurements with current instruments, such as X-ray CCDs, and why only microcalorimeters will allow us to distinguish the faint CGM emission from the bright Milky Way (MW) foreground emission lines. We find that individual halos of MW mass can, on average and depending on star formation rate, be traced out to large radii, around R 500, and for larger galaxies even out to R 200, using prominent emission lines, such as O vii, or O viii. Furthermore, we show that emission-line ratios for individual halos can reveal the radial temperature structure. Substructure measurements show that it will be possible to relate azimuthal variations to the feedback mode of the galaxy. We demonstrate the ability to construct temperature, velocity, and abundance ratio maps from spectral fitting for individual galaxy halos, which reveal rotation features, active galactic nucleus outbursts, and enrichment.
Additional file 1 of Comprehensive assessment of the genetic characteristics of small for gestational age newborns in NICU: from diagnosis of genetic disorders to prediction of prognosis
Creators: name: Xiao, Hui
name: Chen, Huiyao
name: Chen, Xiang
name: Lu, Yulan
name: Wu, Bingbing
name: Wang, Huijun
name: Cao, Yun
name: Hu, Liyuan
name: Dong, Xinran
name: Zhou, Wenhao
name: Yang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Additional method. The inclusion criteria of the China Neonatal Genomes Project (CNGP). Table S1. Uniparental disomy (UPD) types and disease associated with growth failure. Table S2. The matching results of cases and controls for gestational age, sex, and whether the pregnant mother had gestational hypertension by matching (PSM). Table S3. Characteristics of SGA newborns with different genetic diagnosis. Table S4. The OMIM diseases and detailed developmental phenotypes for SGA-related genes. Table S5. The OMIM diseases and the relevance of disease to underdevelopmental abnormalities for non SGA-related genes. Table S6. The OMIM diseases and multiple organs or systems involved for syndromic genes. Table S7. Monogenetic variants result. Table S8. Characteristics of SGA newborns with different monogenic variants results. Table S9. Chromosomal abnormalities result. Table S10. The risk genes identified based on the gene burden test. Table S11. The baseline information of the SGA-model generation dataset and the SGA-validation dataset.
Spectro-photometric follow up of the outbursting AM CVn system ASASSN-21br
Creators: name: Painter, S.
name: Aydi, E.
name: Motsoaledi, M.
name: Sokolovsky, K. V.
name: Strader, J.
name: Buckley, D. A. H.
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Maccarone, T. J.
name: Mukai, Koji
name: Shappee, B. J.
name: Stanek, K. Z.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

description: We report on spectroscopic and photometric observations of the AM CVn system ASASSN-21br, which was discovered in outburst by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae in February 2021. The outburst lasted for around three weeks, and exhibited a pronounced brightness dip for $\approx$ 4 days, during which the spectra showed a sudden transition from emission- to absorption-line dominated. Only $\approx$ 60 AM CVn systems with derived orbital periods are found in the Galaxy, therefore increasing the sample of AM CVn systems with known orbital periods is of tremendous importance to (1) constrain the physical mechanisms of their outbursts and (2) establish a better understanding of the low-frequency background noise of future gravitational wave surveys. Time-resolved photometry taken during the outburst of ASASSN-21br showed modulation with a period of around 36.65 minutes, which is likely the superhump or orbital period of the system. Time-resolved spectroscopy taken with the Southern African Large Telescope did not show any sign of periodicity in the He I absorption lines. This is possibly due to the origin of these lines in the outbursting accretion disc, which makes it challenging to retrieve periodicity from the spectral lines. Future follow up spectral observations during quiescence might allow us better constrain the orbital period of ASASSN-21br.
Emergence of a radio jet in the changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654
Creators: name: Meyer, Eileen T.
name: Laha, Sibasish
name: Shuvo, Onic Islam
name: Roychowdhury, Agniva
name: Green, David A.
name: Rhodes, Lauren
name: Hankla, Amelia M.
name: Philippov, Alexander
name: Mbarek, Rostom
name: Laor, Ari
name: Begelman, Mitchell C.
name: Sadaula, Dev R.
name: Ghosh, Ritesh
name: Bruni, Gabriele
name: Panessa, Francesca
name: Guainazzi, Matteo
name: Behar, Ehud
name: Masterson, Megan
name: Zhang, Haocheng
name: Yang, Xiaolong
name: Gurwell, Mark A.
name: Keating, Garrett K.
name: Williams-Baldwin, David
name: Bray, Justin D.
name: Bempong-Manful, Emmanuel K.
name: Wrigley, Nicholas
name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: Ricci, Federica
name: La Franca, Fabio
name: Kara, Erin
name: Georganopoulos, Markos
name: Oates, Samantha
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: Pal, Main
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

description: We present multi-frequency (5-345 GHz) and multi-resolution radio observations of 1ES 1927+654, widely considered one of the most unusual and extreme changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGN). The source was first designated a CL-AGN after an optical outburst in late 2017 and has since displayed considerable changes in X-ray emission, including the destruction and rebuilding of the X-ray corona in 2019-2020. Radio observations prior to 2023 show a faint and compact radio source not unusual for radio-quiet AGN. Starting in February 2023, 1ES 1927+654 began exhibiting a radio flare with a steep exponential rise, reaching a peak 60 times previous flux levels, and has maintained this higher level of radio emission for nearly a year. The 5-23 GHz spectrum is broadly similar to gigahertz-peaked radio sources, which are understood to be young radio jets less than ~1000 years old. Recent high-resolution VLBA observations at 23.5 GHz now show resolved extensions on either side of the core, with a separation of 0.14 pc, consistent with a new and mildly relativistic bipolar outflow. A steady increase in the soft X-ray band (0.3-2 keV) concurrent with the radio may be consistent with jet-driven shocked gas, though further observations are needed to test alternate scenarios. This source joins a growing number of CL-AGN and tidal disruption events which show late-time radio activity, years after the initial outburst.
Additional file 2 of Comprehensive assessment of the genetic characteristics of small for gestational age newborns in NICU: from diagnosis of genetic disorders to prediction of prognosis
Creators: name: Xiao, Hui
name: Chen, Huiyao
name: Chen, Xiang
name: Lu, Yulan
name: Wu, Bingbing
name: Wang, Huijun
name: Cao, Yun
name: Hu, Liyuan
name: Dong, Xinran
name: Zhou, Wenhao
name: Yang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Flowchart of SGA prognosis prediction model.
Role of chemical production and depositional losses on formaldehyde in the Community Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Multiphase Mechanism (CRACMM)
Creators: name: Skipper, T. Nash
name: D'Ambro, Emma L.
name: Wiser, Forwood C.
name: McNeill, V. Faye
name: Schwantes, Rebecca H.
name: Henderson, Barron H.
name: Piletic, Ivan R.
name: Baublitz, Colleen B.
name: Bash, Jesse O.
name: Whitehill, Andrew R.
name: Valin, Lukas C.
name: Mouat, Asher P.
name: Kaiser, Jennifer
name: Wolfe, Glenn
name: St. Clair, Jason
name: Hanisco, Thomas F.
name: Fried, Alan
name: Place, Bryan K.
name: Pye, Havala O. T.
Publisher: name: EGU
Year: 2024

description: Formaldehyde (HCHO) is an important air pollutant due to its direct health effects as an air toxic that contributes to elevated cancer risk, its role in ozone formation, and its role as a product from oxidation of most gas phase reactive organic carbon. We make several updates affecting secondary production of HCHO in the Community Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Multiphase Mechanism (CRACMM) in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Secondary HCHO from isoprene and monoterpenes is increased, correcting an underestimate in the current version. Simulated 2019 June–August surface HCHO during peak photochemical production (11 am–3 pm) increased by 0.6 ppb (32 %) over the southeastern US and by 0.2 ppb (13 %) over the entire contiguous US. The increased HCHO compares more favorably with satellite-based observations from TROPOMI and observations from an aircraft campaign. Evaluation against hourly surface observations indicates a missing nighttime sink for HCHO which can be ameliorated by adding bidirectional exchange of HCHO and a leaf wetness dependent deposition process which increases nighttime deposition, decreasing 2019 June–August nocturnal (8 pm–4 am) surface HCHO by 1.1 ppb (36 %) over the southeastern US and 0.5 ppb (29 %) over the entire contiguous US. The ability of CRACMM to capture peak levels of HCHO at midday is improved, particularly at sites in the northeastern US, while peak levels at southeastern US sites are improved though still lower than observed. Using established risk assessment methods, lifetime exposure of the contiguous U.S. population (~320 million) to ambient HCHO levels predicted here may result in 6200 lifetime cancer cases, 40 % of which are from controllable anthropogenic emissions of nitrogen oxides and reactive organic compounds. Chemistry updates will be available in CRACMM version 2 (CRACMM2) in CMAQv5.5.
Neurosymbolic Customized and Compact CoPilots
Creators: name: Roy, Kaushik
name: Chakraborty, Megha
name: Zi, Yuxin
name: Gaur, Manas
name: Sheth, Amit
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: UMBC Ebiquity Research Group

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) are credible with open-domain interactions such as question answering, summarization, and explanation generation [1]. LLM reasoning is based on parametrized knowledge, and as a consequence, the models often produce absurdities and inconsistencies in outputs (e.g., hallucinations and confirmation biases) [2]. In essence, they are fundamentally hard to control to prevent off-the-rails behaviors, are hard to fine-tune, customize for tailored needs, prompt effectively (due to the “tug-of-war” between external and parametric memory), and extremely resource-hungry due to the enormous size of their extensive parametric configurations [3,4]. Thus, significant challenges arise when these models are required to perform in critical applications in domains such as healthcare and finance, that need better guarantees and in turn, need to support grounding, alignment, and instructibility. AI models for such critical applications should be customizable or tailored as appropriate for supporting user assistance in various tasks, compact to perform in real-world resource-constraint settings, and capable of controlled,robust, reliable, interpretable, and grounded reasoning (grounded in rules, guidelines, and protocols) [5]. This special session explores the development of compact, custom neurosymbolic AI models and their use through human-in-the-loop co-pilots for use in critical applications [6].
Additional file 2 of Salmonella adhesion is decreased by hypoxia due to adhesion and motility structure crosstalk
Creators: name: Grzymajło, Krzysztof
name: Dutkiewicz, Agata
name: Czajkowska, Joanna
name: Carolak, Ewa
name: Aleksandrowicz, Adrianna
name: Waszczuk, Wiktoria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. RNA-Seq quality. Analysis of the data quality for RNA-Sequencing; The Q20, Q30, GC-content, and sequence duplication level data.
SBS suppression in fiber amplifiers with a broadband seed
Creators: name: White, Jeffrey
name: Brown, David M.
name: Goers, Andy
name: Cannon, Brice M.
name: Menyuk, Curtis
Publisher: name: Optica
Year: 2024
Subjects: Frequency modulation
Fresnel reflection
Step index fibers
Stimulated Brillouin scattering
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
Laser beams
Phase modulation

description: We present a scalar, time-dependent, plane-wave model for stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) within a fiber amplifier having a seed linewidth comparable to, or greater than, the Brillouin frequency shift. The broadband model introduces the existence of a backward anti-Stokes wave, in addition to the Stokes wave present in the narrowband model. The model also incorporates a Fresnel reflection within the fiber or at the exit face. In the absence of Fresnel reflections, the SBS threshold increases linearly with seed linewidth, up to linewidths of at least three times the Brillouin frequency shift. In the presence of Fresnel reflections that seed the Stokes wave, the threshold increases sub-linearly, which agrees with previously reported experimental results. For non-zero reflections and modulation formats with very compact spectra, the threshold can decrease with bandwidth in the region 16–24?GHz due to seeding of the Stokes wave.
WellDunn: On the Robustness and Explainability of Language Models and Large Language Models in Identifying Wellness Dimensions
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Ali
name: Raff, Edward
name: Malekar, Jinendra
name: Palit, Vedant
name: Ferraro, Francis
name: Gaur, Manas
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Computer Science - Computation and Language
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
UMBC Ebiquity Research Group

description: Language Models (LMs) are being proposed for mental health applications where the heightened risk of adverse outcomes means predictive performance may not be a sufficient litmus test of a model's utility in clinical practice. A model that can be trusted for practice should have a correspondence between explanation and clinical determination, yet no prior research has examined the attention fidelity of these models and their effect on ground truth explanations. We introduce an evaluation design that focuses on the robustness and explainability of LMs in identifying Wellness Dimensions (WD). We focus on two mental health and well-being datasets: (a) Multi-label Classification-based MultiWD, and (b) WellXplain for evaluating attention mechanism veracity against expert-labeled explanations. The labels are based on Halbert Dunn's theory of wellness, which gives grounding to our evaluation. We reveal four surprising results about LMs/LLMs: (1) Despite their human-like capabilities, GPT-3.5/4 lag behind RoBERTa, and MedAlpaca, a fine-tuned LLM fails to deliver any remarkable improvements in performance or explanations. (2) Re-examining LMs' predictions based on a confidence-oriented loss function reveals a significant performance drop. (3) Across all LMs/LLMs, the alignment between attention and explanations remains low, with LLMs scoring a dismal 0.0. (4) Most mental health-specific LMs/LLMs overlook domain-specific knowledge and undervalue explanations, causing these discrepancies. This study highlights the need for further research into their consistency and explanations in mental health and well-being.
Additional file 4 of Incidence of asymptomatic catheter-related thrombosis in intensive care unit patients: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Abbruzzese, Chiara
name: Guzzardella, Amedeo
name: Consonni, Dario
name: Turconi, Gloria
name: Bonetti, Claudia
name: Brioni, Matteo
name: Panigada, Mauro
name: Grasselli, Giacomo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S6. Characteristics of CRT patients divided by patients for whom the physician decided to start anticoagulation vs. patients not anticoagulated.
On the Internal Front Lines: Curatorial Activism and Collection Exhibitions
Creators: name: SARAH ANN FARRAR
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Museology
Art

description: Collection exhibitions are an under-analysed aspect of curatorial practice, yet they can be an important platform to challenge art historical and national narratives. Through three collection-based exhibition case studies—at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt—and a practice-based component, the “Tūrangawaewae: Art and New Zealand” exhibition at Te Papa, this exegesis tests the possibility of a critical curatorial practice within a national museum, in light of discourse around curatorial activism and ‘museums as contact zones’. The research argues for curators working in cross-cultural contexts and those committed to curatorial activism within institutions to take a critically self-reflexive approach when curating collections.
Reefs in no-take reserves host more oysters, macroparasites, and macrofauna than harvested reefs across an estuarine salinity gradient
Creators: name: Anchondo, Zofia B.
name: Tracy, Allison M.
name: Raza, Aiman
name: Meckler, Karli A.
name: Ogburn, Matthew B.
Publisher: name: Inter-Research
Year: 2024

description: No-take reserves and habitat restoration are important management tools for reversing the effects of fishing on coastal habitats, associated faunal assemblages, and host–parasite interactions. Populations of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica have declined by 99 % in areas of Chesapeake Bay, USA, due to overharvesting, disease, and other factors, and are now the focus of extensive restoration efforts. We surveyed subtidal oyster reefs using classic quantitative approaches and emerging videography methods to contrast pairs of harvested reefs and reefs protected in subtidal no-take marine reserves (oyster sanctuaries) in the Choptank, Great Wicomico, and James River tributaries of Chesapeake Bay. Overall, sanctuary oyster reefs contained more intact habitats and communities. Relative to nearby harvested reefs, sanctuary reefs (1) contained higher densities of oysters, (2) held larger oysters of lower condition, (3) hosted stronger oyster–macroparasite (boring sponge [Cliona spp.] and mud blister worm [Polydora spp.]) interactions, (4) had more complex habitat, and (5) supported a greater richness and abundance of macrofauna. Oyster and mobile macrofauna abundance increased with salinity, whereas macroparasite prevalence peaked at mesohaline (5–20 psu) sites. Our results suggest that restored, sanctuaryprotected oyster reefs are beginning to rebound from the effects of >100 yr of intensive harvest, as indicated by increased oyster density, recovery of host–parasite interactions, improved habitat characteristics, and more mobile macrofauna. Additionally, these patterns, observed across the salinity gradient in Chesapeake Bay, reflect a widespread trend in aquatic ecology: relative to fished areas, unfished areas have more complex habitats and communities, larger and higher densities of hosts, and stronger host–parasite interactions.
Supplemental Material - Association of Child Sexual Abuse Victimization and Murderous Behaviors and the Mediating Role of Psychological Adjustment among College Students in China
Creators: name: Li, Yonghan
name: Yuan, Mengyuan
name: Chang, Junjie
name: Zhang, Tingting
name: Chen, Liru
name: Xie, Guodie
name: Chen, Shanshan
name: He, Yang
name: Su, Puyu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Criminology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for Association of Child Sexual Abuse Victimization and Murderous Behaviors and the Mediating Role of Psychological Adjustment among College Students in China by Yonghan Li, Mengyuan Yuan, Junjie Chang, Tingting Zhang, Liru Chen, Guodie Xie, Shanshan Chen, Yang He, and Puyu Su in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Additional file 1 of Semicircular canal shape diversity among modern lepidosaurs: life habit, size, allometry
Creators: name: Latimer, Ashley E.
name: Sherratt, Emma
name: Bonnet, Timothée
name: Scheyer, Torsten M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional information on the life habit, inclusion tests, and sampled inner ear models.
The Ground Rent Machine: The Story of Race, Housing Inequality, and Dispossession in Baltimore, Maryland
Creators: name: Jurjevich, Jason R.
name: Mahmoudi, Dillon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: ground rent
housing and property
segregation
race

description: In Baltimore, Maryland, more than 55,000 homes—roughly 30 percent of all residential plots—are subject to ground rent, a legacy of British feudal property law. Under this landlord–tenant system, the homeowner makes payments to the ground leaseholder, who maintains rights to the land. During the early 2000s, many Baltimoreans fell behind on their ground rent due to recessionary headwinds and were “ejected” from their homes as leaseholders took ownership (as collateral). Maryland lawmakers responded by passing housing protections in 2007, but several laws were overturned by the courts (Corma 2017). Using census and ground rent administrative data, we map the geography of ground rent in Baltimore. Our results reveal that originally a tool of class dispossession, ground rent became racialized in the 1950s and 1960s and today overwhelmingly affects Black communities and low-income households. Drawing on work by critical Marxist geographers, work on the production of decline, anti-Blackness, and property relations theory, we rely on a critical quantitative framework to illustrate how people, place, power structures, and relationality produce the pernicious and predatory “ground rent machine.” Telling the story of ground rent—a largely underexplored topic—illustrates how local racialized property regimes shape the geography of urban segregation and urban inequality.
Origins of chemical pollution derived from Mid-Atlantic aircraft profiles using a clustering technique
Creators: name: Hains, Jennifer C.
name: Taubman, Brett F.
name: Thompson, Anne M.
name: Stehr, Jeffrey W.
name: Marufu, Lackson T.
name: Doddridge, Bruce G.
name: Dickerson, Russell R.
Publisher: name: ELSEVIER
Year: 2007
Subjects: Clustering
Emissions
Ozone
SO

description: Upwind sources of NOx and SO2 play a crucial role in the amount of O3 and aerosols in the lower troposphere in the Mid-Atlantic US. This paper describes a novel method of clustering trace gas and aerosol profiles allowing for the quantification of the relationship between point sources and pollution levels. This improves our understanding of pollution origins and has the potential for prediction of episodes of poor air quality. A hierarchical clustering method was used to classify distinct chemical and meteorological events from over 200 aircraft vertical profiles in the lower troposphere. Profile measurements included O3, SO2, CO and particle scattering from June to August 1997–2003, in the Mid-Atlantic US (mostly in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia). The clustering technique could discriminate distinct profile shapes including measurements made during the 2002 Canadian forest fires. Forty-eight-hour back trajectories were run for each profile and the integrated NOx and SO2 point source emissions encountered by each trajectory were calculated using data from the EPA Clean Air Market Division's emissions database. There was a strong correlation between integrated NOx emissions and O3 profiles, indicating that O3 profiles are strongly influenced by and can be predicted with point source emissions. There is a prevalent concentration of SO2 over the eastern US with mixing ratios decreasing smoothly from about 3.5ppb near the surface to 0.2ppb at 2400m.
“Malicious” Pictorials: How Alt Text Matters to Screen Reader Users' Experience of Image-Dense Media"
Creators: name: Yin, Alyson
name: Sogani, Riya
name: Oewel, Bruna
name: Phan, Karen
name: Park, Jaime Shin Young
name: Yeo, Mia Ashley
name: Yazzolino, Lindsay Ann
name: Arcos, Karen
name: Abdolrahmani, Ali
name: Blank, Emily
name: Gilbert, Michael Dean
name: Branham, Stacy M.
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024

description: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, July 1 - 5, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen Denmark
description: People who are blind face accessibility and usability barriers every time a digital image author omits or creates uninformative alternative or “alt” text. Often, content creators are simply unaware of screen reader users’ experience and accessibility best practices; there is also a lack of research knowledge about how to design accessible image-dense media, like pictorials. We present (1) a content analysis of 149 pictorials, (2) a thematic analysis of three think-aloud sessions with an expert screen reader user, and (3) practical lessons learned from a co-design workshop with three blind scholars. Our research finds that pictorials are increasingly accessible, but they are still far from providing a usable experience. We identify nine “malicious” alt text patterns that riddle pictorials and three novel accessible alt text patterns to guide authors of image-dense media.
A Comprehensive View on TD Prevention Practices and Reasons for not Preventing It
Creators: name: Freire, Sávio
name: Pacheco, Alexia
name: Rios, Nicolli
name: Pérez, Boris
name: Castellanos, Camilo
name: Correal, Darío
name: Rama?, Robert
name: Mandi?, Vladimir
name: Taušan, Nebojša
name: López, Gustavo
name: Mendonça, Manoel
name: Falessi, Davide
name: Izurieta, Clemente
name: Seaman, Carolyn
name: Spínola, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024

description: Context. Technical debt (TD) prevention allows software practitioners to apply practices to avoid potential TD items in their projects. Aims. To uncover and prioritize, from the point of view of software practitioners, the practices that could be used to avoid TD items, the relations between these practices and the causes of TD, and the practice avoidance reasons (PARs) that could explain the failure to prevent TD. Method. We analyze data collected from six replications of a global industrial family of surveys on TD, totaling 653 answers. We also conducted a follow up survey to understand the importance level of analyzed data. Results. Most practitioners indicated that TD could be prevented, revealing 89 prevention practices and 23 PARs for explaining the failure to prevent TD. The paper identifies statistically significant relationships between preventive practices and certain causes of TD. Further, it prioritizes the list of practices, PARs, and relationships regarding their level of importance for TD prevention based on the opinion of software practitioners. Conclusion. This work organizes TD prevention practices and PARs in a conceptual map and the relationships between practices and causes of TD in a Sankey diagram to help the visualization of the body of knowledge reported in this study.
sj-doc-1-whe-10.1177_17455057221095246 – Supplemental material for A survey of women’s experiences of using period tracker applications: Attitudes, ovulation prediction and how the accuracy of the app in predicting period start dates affects their feelings and behaviours
Creators: name: Broad, Anna
name: Biswakarma, Rina
name: Harper, Joyce C
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Obstetrics and Gynaecology

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-1-whe-10.1177_17455057221095246 for A survey of women’s experiences of using period tracker applications: Attitudes, ovulation prediction and how the accuracy of the app in predicting period start dates affects their feelings and behaviours by Anna Broad, Rina Biswakarma and Joyce C Harper in Women’s Health
Adjudicating Equity in Music Performance Assessments: A Literature Review
Creators: name: Kaufman, Brian
name: Kladder, Jonathan
name: Palmer, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2024

description: Music performance assessments (MPAs), also known as festivals, adjudications, or contests, are a yearly part of the music education experience for many teachers and students in school bands, orchestras, and choirs. A brief history outlining the origins and purposes of MPA is shared. Issues of equity in modern-day MPA are then explored, including the reliability and validity of adjudication instruments; adjudicator bias and evaluation forms; limitations of music lists and musical approaches allowed; and inequities related to gender, socioeconomic status, social class, and race. Challenges to classroom practice and teacher evaluation are discussed—including the potential disconnect between MPA and 21st century educational values. Implications for music teachers, music teacher educators, festival organizers, and music education association leaders are discussed.
High-velocity Blue-shifted Fe xxv He? Line during a Superflare of the RS Canum Venaticorum–type Star IM Peg
Creators: name: Inoue, Shun
name: Iwakiri, Wataru Buz
name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Uchida, Hiroyuki
name: Kurihara, Miki
name: Tsujimoto, Masahiro
name: Notsu, Yuta
name: Hamaguchi, Kenji
name: Gendreau, Keith
name: Arzoumanian, Zaven
name: Tsuru, Takeshi Go
Publisher: name: AAS
Year: 2024

description: The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) detected a superflare, releasing 5 × 1037 erg in 2?10 keV, of the RS CVn-type star IM Peg at 10:41 UT on 2023 July 23 with its Gas Slit Camera (2?30 keV). We conducted X-ray follow-up observations of the superflare with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER; 0.2?12 keV) starting at 16:52 UT on July 23 until 06:00 UT on August 2. NICER X-ray spectra clearly showed emission lines of the Fe xxv He? and Fe xxvi Ly? for ?1.5 days since the MAXI detection. The Fe XXV He? line was blueshifted with its maximum Doppler velocity reaching ?2200 ± 600 km s?1, suggesting an upward-moving plasma during the flare, such as a coronal mass ejection (CME) and/or chromospheric evaporation. This is the first case that the Fe xxv He? line is blueshifted during a stellar flare, and its velocity overwhelmingly exceeds the escape velocity of the star (?230 km s?1). One hour before the most pronounced blueshift detection, a signature of the reheating of the flare plasma was observed. We discuss the origin of the blueshift, a CME, or high-velocity chromospheric evaporation.
sj-docx-1-eup-10.1177_14651165221090743 - Supplemental material for Cautious communicators: Strategic communication of European Union commissioners in regulatory decision-making
Creators: name: Müller, Moritz
name: Braun, Caelesta
name: Fraussen, Bert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eup-10.1177_14651165221090743 for Cautious communicators: Strategic communication of European Union commissioners in regulatory decision-making by Moritz Müller, Caelesta Braun and Bert Fraussen in European Union Politics
I Hate the News June 18
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Sunil
Publisher: name: I Hate Politics Podcast
Year: 2024
Subjects: I Hate Politics

description: Listen to this episode from I Hate Politics Podcast on Spotify. The weekly news analysis from I Hate Politics: MD Governor Wes Moore pardons 175,000 criminal convictions for marijuana possession. MCPS appoints new superintendent. Montgomery County and Washington DC find money in existing education budgets to avoid the worst cuts. New noise pollution signs go up in downtown Silver Spring but enforcement remains unclear. Drought conditions temper the impact of the summer’s first heat wave. Music by Rockville singer-songwriter Andrew Glor and Drew Pictures.
66257: Letter: To Marion Scott.
Creators: name: Project Team, First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England. | File description(s):Envelope containing letter.
Thanks Marion Scott for recent letters / discusses H.N. Howells and his work / compares it to 'Time and the Soldier', which he includes / also includes 'Influences' / wonders how many poems a collected volume of his own work will need / discusses being cold / Francis Ledwidge's poems and newspapers' reaction to them / Lawrence Binyon's verses / Bach / Ernest Walker's opinion of Ivor Gurney's songs / includes 'Poor Folk' / the ending of his 'soft job' / things to look forward to back in England.
Sami Saeed’s Frustrations with School Safety in MCPS
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Sunil
name: Saeed, Sami
Publisher: name: I Hate Politics Podcast
Year: 2024
Subjects: I Hate Politics

description: Listen to this episode from I Hate Politics Podcast on Spotify. In November 2023 the Montgomery County Board of Education passed a School Safety Resolution sponsored by the Student Member of the Board Sami Saeed. But MCPS had not made any progress by April 2024. Sunil Dasgupta talks with Saeed about his frustrations over getting MCPS to act. Music from Silver Spring musician and writer Jon Brayton who performs as Myster Treefrog.
sj-docx-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X221091392 – Supplemental material for Subacute thyroiditis after SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine in a multiple myeloma patient
Creators: name: Alkis, Nihan
name: Baysal, Mehmet
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X221091392 for Subacute thyroiditis after SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine in a multiple myeloma patient by Nihan Alkis and Mehmet Baysal in SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
I Hate the News June 25
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Sunil
Publisher: name: I Hate Politics Podcast
Year: 2024
Subjects: I Hate Politics

description: Listen to this episode from I Hate Politics Podcast on Spotify. The weekly news analysis from I Hate Politics: MD Senator Jeff Waldstreicher on his 2023 criminal record expungement bill following the Governor’s mass marijuana pardon. Baltimore sues soda and snack giants for plastic pollution. Prince George’s County opposes VDOT’s plan to turn unused transit space on Wilson Bridge into express lanes. DC Public Service Commission turns down a new $700 million gas pipeline proposal. Montgomery County Animal Shelter reopens for adoption after 6 weeks of canine flu. And more. Music from Silver Spring band Airport 77s.
Thin-Disk Lasers For The 2-Micron Spectral Range Based On Ho-Doped Monoclinic Double-Tungstate Epitaxial Structures
Creators: name: Mateos, Xavier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Laser materials
Infrared and far-infrared lasers
Lasers, solidstate

description: The project aim was to develop a Ho thin-disk laser with simplified pump geometry based on the monoclinic double tungstate crystals.
Probing Light Sterile Neutrino At Ical-Ino Over A Wide $\Delta M^2_{41}$ Range
Creators: name: DIGHE, Amol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory(INO) is an upcoming atmospheric neutrino oscillation experiment. The ICAL is designed to measure muon energy and direction with fine resolutions and high detection efficiency. The detector will have a fiducial mass of 50 kt and be magnetized to distinguish between νμ
\nu_\mu
and ν⎯⎯μ
\overline{\nu}_\mu
.

In this poster, we show the limits that the ICAL can put on the sterile neutrino mixing element |Uμ4|2
|U_{\mu4}|^2
over a broad range of Δm241∼(10−5−10)
\Delta m^2_{41} \sim (10^{-5} - 10)
eV2
^2
. We also quantify the importance of the spectral information and hadron energy calibration. The ICAL sensitivity is the largest in the range Δm241∼(0.5−5)×10−3
\Delta m^2_{41} \sim (0.5 - 5) \times 10^{-3}
eV2
^2
, where matter effects in the Earth play an important role. If sterile neutrinos exist, ICAL would be able to determine the sign of Δm241
\Delta m^2_{41}
with a high significance (>3σ
> 3\sigma
with an exposure of 500 kt-yr) in the same range.
Should the County Executive be Limited to Two Terms?
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Sunil
name: Sulliven, Reardon
Publisher: name: I Hate Politics Podcast
Year: 2024
Subjects: I Hate Politics

description: Listen to this episode from I Hate Politics Podcast on Spotify. Term limits are a voter favorite. In 2016, a successful ballot question led by Robin Ficker led to council members and the county executive being limited to three consecutive terms. Sunil Dasgupta talks with Reardon Sullivan, former Republican county executive candidate from 2022, about his signature petition for a ballot question reducing the current term limit period to two terms. Music by Alexandria band Jackie and the Treehorns.
Additional file 3 of Salmonella adhesion is decreased by hypoxia due to adhesion and motility structure crosstalk
Creators: name: Grzymajło, Krzysztof
name: Dutkiewicz, Agata
name: Czajkowska, Joanna
name: Carolak, Ewa
name: Aleksandrowicz, Adrianna
name: Waszczuk, Wiktoria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Salmonella strains characterization – growth curves. A. Growth curves in stationary growth conditions (without agitation) in normoxia and hypoxia (1% of oxygen) were obtained for all the generated mutants. B. Agglutination assay. Detection of T1F expression by microplate yeast agglutination test. The numbers indicate the geometric average of the titer endpoint (N = 5) for both Salmonella strains.
sj-docx-1-pch-10.1177_21501351221088832 - Supplemental material for Quality of Life of Mothers of Infants Subjected to Neonatal Cardiac Surgery: The Importance of Psychosocial Factors
Creators: name: Lisanti, Amy Jo
name: Golfenshtein, Nadya
name: Marino, Bradley S.
name: Huang, Liming
name: Hanlon, Alexandra L.
name: Lozano, Alicia J.
name: Curley, Martha A.Q.
name: Medoff-Cooper, Barbara
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pch-10.1177_21501351221088832 for Quality of Life of Mothers of Infants Subjected to Neonatal Cardiac Surgery: The Importance of Psychosocial Factors by Amy Jo Lisanti, Nadya Golfenshtein, Bradley S. Marino, Liming Huang, Alexandra L. Hanlon, Alicia J. Lozano, Martha A.Q. Curley and Barbara Medoff-Cooper in World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
I Hate the News July 2
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Sunil
Publisher: name: I Hate Politics Podcast
Year: 2024
Subjects: I Hate Politics

description: Listen to this episode from I Hate Politics Podcast on Spotify. The weekly news analysis from I Hate Politics: 18 yo transgender former MCPS student, Alex Ye, charged with threatening mass violence at school, is denied bond. New poll finds Alsobrooks 10 points ahead of Hogan in MD’s US Senate race. MD Governor Moore finally ends debate over Baltimore’s Red Line: will it be light rail or buses. Minimum wages go up in Maryland and Washington DC. Montgomery County has really low unemployment, high office space vacancy, and dramatically rising home values. And more. Music from Silver Spring band Airport 77s.
The Physics Potential Of A Neutrino Beam From Protvino To Orca
Creators: name: BRUNNER, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The ORCA detector is part of the KM3NeT project. It is currently under construction 40 km off-shore Toulon, France. With an energy threshold of a few GeV and an effective mass of several Mtons, ORCA will make high precision measurements with atmospheric neutrinos.

A neutrino beam from the accelerator center IHEP in Protvino (Russia) to ORCA (France) with a baseline of 2590 km will add significantly to the physics potential of ORCA. Due to the long baseline both matter and CP-phase effects can be studied at comfortably high neutrino energies of 4-6~GeV without leading to degeneracies. Its large instrumented mass allows to harvest a high-statistics beam neutrino sample after few years of operations. Preliminary studies indicate that high significance measurements of both the neutrino mass ordering and the CP phase are feasible on a few years time-scale, assuming a moderate intensity upgrade of the accelerator complex.
SEEe Immersive Analytics System: Enhancing Data Analysis Experience within Complex Data Visualization Environments
Creators: name: Rajasagi, Damaruka Priya
name: Boot, Lee
name: Wilson, Lucy
name: King, Tristan
name: Zuber, James
name: Stockwell, Ian
name: Komlodi, Anita
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: Geo-referenced data visualization
Immersive analytics
Virtual reality

description: IMX '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences-June 20204 IMX '24: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences Stockholm Sweden June 12 - 14, 2024
description: The current state-of-the-art 2D data visualizations fall short in capturing the intricate complexity and depth of available information crucial for integrated decision-making. In response to this limitation, the Systems Exploration and Engagement environment (SEEe) emerges as a cutting-edge virtual immersive analytics data experience. We developed this system through a user-centered design process involving an interdisciplinary design and development team. Through virtual reality, SEEe seamlessly integrates geo-referenced spatial data, abstract data visualization, and qualitative data encompassing text, images, videos, and conceptual diagrams to support sensemaking from large amounts of multiformat data and integrated decision making. We aim to redefine the experience of analyzing extensive amounts of abstract data by creating an environment that accommodates both quantitative and qualitative data for visualization and analysis. How these novel immersive analytics experiences fit into data analysis workflows in various domains have not been studied widely. We carried out a user study with 10 public health graduate students to test the usability, learnability, and utility of the SEEe experience and to explore how these immersive data visualization experiences can fit into traditional data analysis processes. While SEEe is designed to be adaptable across various domains, we evaluated its performance within the public health context. The results of the evaluation affirm that SEEe is not only usable and useful but also provides a learnable environment conducive to immersive analytics.
Energy Calibration Of The Gerda Experiment
Creators: name: MINGAZHEVA, Rizalina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: GERDA has been designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge76. Ge76 decays with the emission of two electrons and two antineutrinos, with a Q-value of 2039 keV. If neutrinos are Majorana particles, the two emitted antineutrinos can annihilate, with the signature of the decay being a sharp peak at the Q-value, whose width is determined by the detectors energy resolution. The sensitivity of the experiment to this hypothetical decay depends on the exposure, background rate and energy resolution. The energy resolution is estimated from the regular calibrations of the experiment. Thus, to ensure reliable physics results, a precise energy scale calibration is required. In this poster we will present the analysis of the energy calibration, from which the energy scale, resolution and their uncertainties are determined.