cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1912-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Intention and competence for trust development and deterioration
Creators: name: Zheng, Xuchang
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Trust research distinguishes between intention and competence as the key antecedents of trust. Yet, we do not know exactly how people perceive and use this information for building initial trust and maintaining future trust. This thesis studies how trustee intention and competence influence trust from its initial development to its deterioration after trust violation. Specifically, Chapter 2 investigates how information about a person’s benevolence bias people’s judgment of competence and trust in this person’s competence. Drawing on desirability bias, this chapter finds a positive impact of benevolence on developing competence-based trust. However, withholding benevolence does not harm competence-based trust. In addition, Chapter 2 finds that exhibiting competence does not affect the judgment of benevolence and its ensuing trust. Chapter 3 investigates the causal inference of competence in building overall trust. Chapter 3 reveals that the impact of competence on overall trust building hinges on the impact of benevolence. While competence benefits from co-occurring benevolence for building overall trust, its positive impact diminishes when benevolence decreases. As a result, exhibiting incompetence with benevolence is more trusted than exhibiting competence without benevolence; incompetence is equally trusted as competence when benevolence is absent. Chapter 4 investigates the influence of existing trustworthiness of competence and integrity on the change of trust after trust violation. Chapter 4 finds that prior competence benefits trust by buffering the impact of competence related trust violation, whereas prior integrity harms trust by amplifying the impact of integrity related trust violation. Outcome dependency partially moderates the relationship between prior trustee quality and the aftermath trust. Overall in the context of initial trust development and trust deterioration after trust violation, the findings from this thesis contribute to the understanding the underlying mechanism of the conceptual trust model, the feedback loop in people’s trust decisions, and the dynamics of trust overtime. The implications on the trust related research are discussed.
Supplementary document for Solid-state biased coherent detection of ultra-broadband terahertz pulses generated in a spintronic emitter for high repetition rate, low pulse energy lasers - 6121080.pdf
Creators: name: Suter, Tim
name: Abreu, Elsa
name: Tomasino, Alessandro
name: Savoini, Matteo
name: Morandotti, Roberto
name: Johnson, Steven
name: Houver, Sarah
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Night Time Blood Pressure Variability Is a Strong Predictor for Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: Eguchi, Kazuo
name: Ishikawa, Joji
name: Hoshide, Satoshi
name: Pickering, Thomas G.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Shimada, Kazuyuki
name: Kario, Kazuomi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Non-insulin-dependent diabetes
Cardiovascular system--Diseases
Blood pressure--Measurement
Medicine
Medical sciences

description: Background: We aimed this study to test the hypothesis that short-term blood pressure (BP) variability and abnormal patterns of diurnal BP variation, evaluated by ambulatory BP (ABP), predicts risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

Methods: ABP monitoring (ABPM) was performed in 300 patients with uncomplicated T2DM without known CVD and without BP medications, who were followed for 54 ± 20 months. The relationships of different measures of BP variability, the presence of abnormal patterns of diurnal BP variation (nondipper, riser, or morning BP surge) and the standard deviations of awake and asleep ABP were determined. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) before and after controlling for various covariates.

Results: The mean age was 67.8 ± 9.6 years, 48% were male, 253 (84%) had a diagnosis of hypertension, and the mean of the standard deviations of awake systolic BP/diastolic BP (SBP/DBP) were 18 ± 6/11 ± 4 mm Hg, and those of sleep SBP/DBP were 13 ± 5/9 ± 3 mm Hg. During follow-up, there were 29 cardiovascular events. In multivariable analyses, the standard deviations of sleep SBP (HR = 1.08; 95% CI, 1.01–1.16, P < 0.05) and sleep DBP (HR = 1.13; 1.04–1.23, P < 0.01) were independently associated with incident CVD. Neither the nondipper and riser patterns nor the morning BP surge were associated with incident CVD events independently of clinic and 24-h BP levels.

Conclusions: Abnormal diurnal BP variation was not a predictor of CVD in patients with T2DM. Night time BP variability was an independent predictor of future incidence of CVD, suggesting that this measure could reflect pathophysiology of T2DM.
A Link Between Star Formation Quenching and Inner Stellar Mass Density in SDSS Central Galaxies
Creators: name: Fang, Jerome J.
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Koo, David C.
name: Dekel, Avishai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the correlation between galaxy structure and the quenching of star formation using a sample of SDSS central galaxies with stellar masses 9.75< log M_*/M_sun<11.25 and redshifts z<0.075. GALEX UV data are used to cleanly divide the sample into star-forming and quenched galaxies, and to identify galaxies in transition (the green valley). Despite a stark difference in visual appearance between blue and red galaxies, their average radial stellar mass density profiles are remarkably similar (especially in the outer regions) at fixed mass. The inner stellar mass surface density within a radius of 1 kpc, Σ_1, is used to quantify the growth of the bulge as galaxies evolve. When galaxies are divided into narrow mass bins, their distribution in the color-Σ_1 plane at fixed mass forms plausible evolutionary tracks. Σ_1 seems to grow as galaxies evolve through the blue cloud, and once it crosses a threshold value, galaxies are seen to quench at fixed Σ_1. The Σ_1 threshold for quenching grows with stellar mass, Σ_1 ~ M_*^{0.64}. However, the existence of some star-forming galaxies above the threshold Σ_1 implies that a dense bulge is necessary but not sufficient to quench a galaxy fully. This would be consistent with a two-step quenching process in which gas within a galaxy is removed or stabilized against star formation by bulge-driven processes (such as a starburst, AGN feedback, or morphological quenching), whereas external gas accretion is suppressed by separate halo-driven processes (such as halo gas shock heating). Quenching thus depends on an interplay between the inner structure of a galaxy and its surrounding dark matter halo, and lack of perfect synchrony between the two could produce the observed scatter in color vs. Σ_1. (Abridged)
description: 22 pages, 17 figures, ApJ accepted
Magnetism and unusual Cu valency in quadruple perovskites
Creators: name: Alippi, P.
name: Fiorentini, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a selection of Cu-containing magnetic quadruple perovskites (CaCu$_{3}$Ti$_{4}$O$_{12}$, LaCu$_{3}$Fe$_{4}$O$_{12}$, and YCu$_{3}$Co$_{4}$O$_{12}$) by ab initio calculations, and show that Cu is in an effective divalent Cu(II)-like state or a trivalent Cu(III) state depending on the choice of octahedral cation. Based on the electronic structure, we also discuss the role of Mott and Zhang-Rice physics in this materials class.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Die Weimarische Catechismus-Historie; 1727
title: wolte, als einen gesegneten Beytrag zu der bisher gewünschten allgemeinen Catechismus-Historie, anfänglich, statt einer Vorrede zu hiesigem Catechismo, jetzo aber, bey angewachener Arbeit, auch besonders, Acten-mäßgig darlegen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Zeibich, Christoph Heinrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Daselbst gedruckt und verlegt, durch Joh. Leonhard Mumbach, F. S. Hoff-Buchdr. 1727.
Audiovisual translation in education towards a universal design for accessible online content
Creators: name: Patiniotaki, Emmanouela
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this research project is to investigate the current role and the potential of Audiovisual Translation in online education environments for the purpose of enhancing accessibility for adult learners with sensory impairments, with the use of subtitling for deaf and hard-of-hearing people and audio description for blind and visually-impaired people. In order to provide a holistic theoretical background for this study, essential connections are established among Disability Studies, Audiovisual Translation, Online Education and Information Communication Technology, with focus on Accessible Web and Assistive Technology. The ultimate goal is to analyse the educational use of audiovisual content and its provision with access services in a comprehensive manner. Under the principles of Universal Design for Learning, and guided by existing standards for accessible web content as well as guidelines for accessible audiovisual material for educational purposes, a range of strategies is proposed for the successful provision of audiovisual content for the benefit of university-level learners with sensory impairments. The research also includes an investigation of the way in which a sample of universities around the world provide accessible education and online learning, the role of audiovisual content and translation practices in this context and the general framework within which these are provided. The analysis of the data collected is used as a reference indicator of current accessibility practices in higher education and can help in understanding how best to design e-learning platforms. It can also offer an understanding of the circumstances under which accessibility is provided and the level to which it is offered in a higher education context. 4 The project explores scenarios for the implementation of audiovisual translation solutions in accessible online platforms, and suggests prototypes that accommodate audiovisual content and access services. Ultimately, this project aims to highlight the importance of audiovisual translation and access services in the education of individuals with sensory impairments and to promote future research in this area.
Abrocomidae Miller & Gidley 1918
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Abrocomidae

description: Family Abrocomidae REVIEWED BY: H. Levenson (HL); M. A. Mares (MAM); C. A. Woods (CAW). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410028000000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 585, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Strategies to minimise the impact of climate change and weather variability on the welfare of dairy cattle in New Zealand and Australia
Creators: name: Jago, Jenny
name: Beukes, Pierre
name: Cuttance, Emma
name: Dalley, Dawn
name: Edwards, Paul
name: Griffiths, Wendy
name: Saunders, Katie
name: Shackleton, Liz
name: Schutz, Karin
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: This perspective paper provides industry leaders, researchers and policy developers strategic approaches to ensure that the welfare of dairy cattle is protected at the same time as the industry increases its resilience to climate change. Farm systems and practices will evolve in response to the direct impacts of climate change and/or from responses to climate change, such as mitigation strategies to reduce dairy’s greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. The five domains framework (nutrition, physical environment, health, behaviour, mental state) was used to assess the potential impacts on animal welfare and strategies to minimise these impacts are outlined. Given that the future climate cannot be certain these approaches can be applied under a range of emissions pathways to (1) ensure that the effects of GHG mitigations on animal welfare are considered during their development, (2) engage with end users and the public to ensure solutions to the effects of climate change and weather variability are accepted by consumers and communities, (3) identify and measure the areas where improved animal health can contribute to reducing GHG emissions from dairy production, (4) ensure those supporting farmers to develop and manage their farm systems understand what constitutes a good quality of life for dairy cattle, (5) ensure effective surveillance of animal disease and monitoring of welfare outcomes and farm-system performance in response to climate change and GHG mitigations. Overall, these strategies require a multi-disciplinary co-development approach to ensure that the welfare of dairy cattle is protected at the same time as the industry increases its resilience to the wider impacts of a changing climate.
Sharing preparation contextuality in Bell experiment by arbitrary pair of sequential observers
Creators: name: Kumari, Asmita
name: Pan, Alok Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the quantum violation of bipartite Bell inequality, it has been demonstrated that the sharing of non-locality can be demonstrated for at most two sequential observers at one end and at most one-pair of observers at both ends. In this work, we study the sharing of non-locality and preparation contextuality based on a bipartite Bell inequality, involving arbitrary $n$ measurements by one party and $2^{n-1}$ measurements by other party. Such a Bell inequality has two bounds, the local bound and the preparation non-contextual bound, which is smaller than the local bound. We show that while non-locality can be shared only by first pair of the sequential observers, the preparation contextuality can be shared by arbitrary pair of independent sequential observers at both ends.
description: 8 pages, 3 Figures
An extended standard model and its Higgs geometry from the matrix model
Creators: name: Steinacker, Harold C.
name: Zahn, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find a simple brane configuration in the IKKT matrix model which resembles the standard model at low energies, with a second Higgs doublet and right-handed neutrinos. The electroweak sector is realized geometrically in terms of two minimal fuzzy ellipsoids, which can be interpreted in terms of four point-branes in the extra dimensions. The electroweak Higgs connects these branes and is an indispensable part of the geometry. Fermionic would-be zero modes arise at the intersections with two larger branes, leading precisely to the correct chiral matter fields at low energy, along with right-handed neutrinos which can acquire a Majorana mass due to a Higgs singlet. The larger branes give rise to $SU(3)_c$, extended by $U(1)_B$ and another $U(1)$ which are anomalous at low energies and expected to disappear. At higher energies, mirror fermions and additional fields arise, completing the full ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetry. The brane configuration is a solution of the model, assuming a suitable effective potential and a non-linear stabilization of the singlet Higgs. The basic results can be carried over to ${\cal N}=4$ $SU(N)$ super-Yang-Mills on ordinary Minkowski space with sufficiently large $N$.
description: 41 pages, 8 figures V2: rotating background replaced by static one, stabilized by a potential. References added. V3: minor corrections and improved discussion, published version
Nocturnal nondipping of heart rate predicts cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients
Creators: name: Eguchi, Kazuo
name: Hoshide, Satoshi
name: Ishikawa, Joji
name: Pickering, Thomas G.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Shimada, Kazuyuki
name: Kario, Kazuomi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Cardiovascular system--Diseases
Hypertension--Patients
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Medicine
Medical sciences

description: Objective: It has not been established whether nocturnal nondipping of heart rate (HR) predicts future cardiovascular disease (CVD). We performed this study to test the hypothesis that nocturnal nondipping of HR predicts the risk of incident CVD independent of nocturnal blood pressure dipping pattern.

Methods: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed in 457 uncomplicated patients, who were being treated or evaluated for hypertension. They were followed for an average of 72 ± 26 months. Nondipping HR was defined as a night/day HR ratio greater than 0.90. We chose two outcomes for this analysis: CVD events (defined as stroke, myocardial infarction, or sudden cardiac death) and all-cause mortality. Cox regression analyses (stepwise method) were used to estimate hazard ratios and their 95% confidence interval after adjusting for covariates.

Results: In univariate analysis, increased sleep HR and nondipping of HR were associated with increased risk of CVD and all-cause mortality, but awake HR was not. In multivariable analyses, HR nondipping status significantly predicted an increased risk of CVD events (hazard ratio, 2.37; 95% confidence interval, 1.22–4.62; P = 0.01), but not for all-cause mortality. Increased 24-h HR was significantly associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality (hazard ratio, 1.67; 95% confidence interval, 1.11–2.51; P = 0.01).

Conclusion: The risk of future CVD was shown to be 2.4 times higher in those whose HR does not exhibit the typical nocturnal decline. The relationship was independent of nondipping of SBP and was not dependent on diabetes status or blood pressure level.
Investigation of liquid-film characteristics in downwards co-current gas-liquid annular flows with laser-induced fluorescence techniques
Creators: name: An, Jae Sik
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Liquid-film thickness is one of the key flow quantities to measure in downwards gas-liquid annular flows. However, reliable space and time-resolved measurements are highly challenging to perform due to the presence of complex and three-dimensional interfaces. Non-intrusive optical methods based on the principles of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) are widely used, and the two main types are planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) and brightness-based laser-induced fluorescence (BBLIF). PLIF uses the fluorescence emission to directly image the axial cross-section of the film; while BBLIF uses the fluorescence intensity signals or ‘brightness’ to recover the film-thickness. While both PLIF and BBLIF have their own distinct advantages, measurement limitations exist with each approach due to the various optical effects at the film free-surface. In order to better understand the optical effects, new measurements from the simultaneous application of PLIF and BBLIF were performed at the same region of interrogation (ROI) to measure the film-thickness of the identical film region in downwards annular flows. PLIF and BBLIF were directly compared to evaluate and acquire fresh insight into the capability of each approach to reliably recover the film-thickness of smooth and rough liquid-films. Based on the observations in this set of measurements, an innovative adaption of PLIF known as structured planar laser-induced fluorescence (S-PLIF) was developed and demonstrated in falling-ﬁlm flows. S-PLIF relies on structured rather than uniform illumination to substantially improve the reliability of the film-thickness data in comparison with other experimental methods. Finally, an inherent characteristic of standard annular flow measurements is the static ROI position, which can limit the interrogation time of individual disturbance waves. A unique moving-frame-of-reference brightness-based laser-induced fluorescence (MFoR-BBLIF) method was developed to generate a dynamic ROI in order to significantly increase the interrogation time of individual waves; and demonstrated in downwards annular flows to obtain pioneering data on the individual disturbance wave velocities as a function of downstream distance.
Supplementary document for Parallel Temporal Signal Processing Enabled by Polarization-multiplexed Programmable THz Metasurfaces - 6109443.pdf
Creators: name: Tahmasebi, Omid
name: Abdolali, Ali
name: Rajabalipanah, Hamid
name: Momeni, Ali
name: Fleury, Romain
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The detailed explanations of A) External Biasing, B) Differentiation transfer function, C) Fractional-order Differentiation, D) Potential applications.
Neutrino mass variability due to nonminimal coupling to spacetime curvature in neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet models
Creators: name: Onofrio, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet models, neutrinos acquire mass due to a Higgs field with vacuum expectation value of the order of 10^{-2} eV, corresponding to a Compton wavelength in the 10 micrometer range. This creates a situation in which nonminimal couplings between Higgs fields and spacetime curvature may lead to novel observable effects. Among these, we discuss the possibility of variable neutrino masses, with implications for the dependence of the neutrino oscillation frequency on the spacetime curvature, a further source of dispersion of the neutrino arrival times from supernovae events, and possibly also a mechanism leading to gravitationally-induced neutrino superluminality. Finally, we propose laboratory-scale experiments in which properly designed electroweak cavities may be used to change neutrino masses, which should be observable through time of flight experiments.
UK farmers perceptions of Agrivoltaics.
Creators: name: Evans, Megan
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Understanding - How technology and social organization are related, and how a given technology can be conceptualised and reimagined (Spijkerboer et al., 2022). Identity - Identity shapes how technology is socially constructed and reimagined (Ulucanlar et al., 2013). Acceptance - How likely a person or group is to accept a given technology (Taherdoost, 2018). Political Ecologies – Social power relations and interactions with the land can shape each other, and outcomes of sustainable technology adoption (Roberts, 2020). Instrumentalist – Views technology as inherently neutral and a solution to human’s social and economic needs and desires (Fernandez, 2021). Constructivist – Brings agency to the person choosing the technology and sketches the social construction of technology (Pinch and Bijker, 1984).

description: Agrivoltaics (A.V) is thought to help work towards the global sustainable
 transition, as we endeavour to produce more ‘green’ electricity. A.V
 combines farming, ‘agri’, and solar photovoltaics, ‘voltaics’, in attempt
 to provide a land-use and resource efficient solution to meet both food
 demands and climate incentives. There has been many studies looking at the
 efficacy of A.V on farmland and how it benefits farmers through increased
 crop growth and income diversification. Yet, there hasn’t been much
 consideration in literature to the fact that it may not be an upscaled
 solution in the UK, due to different place-based contexts such as climatic
 conditions and land quality grading. As a result, farmers are rightfully
 pragmatic, questioning its place in their farming business model. So, my
 research focuses on the agency of farmers, as a way to empower their
 decision-making in deciding to adopt new technologies. The research method
 comprises of interviewing UK farmers and land developers with various
 levels of A.V knowledge, as they are at the centre of decision-making in
 employing A.V on their land. The interviews allow for a discussion in
 terms of how they come to understand A. V’s role in the UK, and their
 personal values, which are important to consider as they inform their
 decisions in accepting or rejecting A.V on an individual level. The major
 findings in this study show that we should not assume universal acceptance
 of such technologies. The rejection of such technology should not lead to
 farmer’s being perceived as traditional, rather, we should endeavour to
 focus on how technologies come to be understood and accepted, and empower
 the farmer’s decision making, rather than focusing on how A.V acts in a
 defined set of circumstances or contexts, as A.V literature often has
 referred to.
GResilience: Trading Off Between the Greenness and the Resilience of Collaborative AI Systems
Creators: name: Rimawi, Diaeddin
name: Liotta, Antonio
name: Todescato, Marco
name: Russo, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A Collaborative Artificial Intelligence System (CAIS) works with humans in a shared environment to achieve a common goal. To recover from a disruptive event that degrades its performance and ensures its resilience, a CAIS may then need to perform a set of actions either by the system, by the humans, or collaboratively together. As for any other system, recovery actions may cause energy adverse effects due to the additional required energy. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to understand which of the above actions can better trade-off between resilience and greenness. In this in-progress work, we propose an approach to automatically evaluate CAIS recovery actions for their ability to trade-off between the resilience and greenness of the system. We have also designed an experiment protocol and its application to a real CAIS demonstrator. Our approach aims to attack the problem from two perspectives: as a one-agent decision problem through optimization, which takes the decision based on the score of resilience and greenness, and as a two-agent decision problem through game theory, which takes the decision based on the payoff computed for resilience and greenness as two players of a cooperative game.
Unlocking_Retail_Success.pdf
Creators: name: Andrade, Rômulo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461103
subject: Deep learning

description: Purpose – The gross revenue indicator contributes to the understanding of the company’s situation, and generating sales revenue forecasts is a strategy that helps the manager in directing the business. This work aims to develop a set of Machine Learning (ML) models to forecast sales in physical retail. Methodology – To carry out this work, a methodology was proposed to create, compare and evaluate ML models. Findings – When analyzing the forecast scenarios, it was observed that Hourly forecasts performed better than Day forecasts. We highlight the LIGHTGBM model, which presented the best scores in the F1-score metric with 82.95%, 79.26% and 76.53% scenario representing one hour, two hours and three hours ahead,respectively. Value – It is expected that the forecast models will help managers to find insights to support the operational decisions of physical retail contributing to carry out actions to optimize companies’ processes.
Supplementary document for Parallel Temporal Signal Processing Enabled by Polarization-multiplexed Programmable THz Metasurfaces - 6115906.pdf
Creators: name: Tahmasebi, Omid
name: Abdolali, Ali
name: Rajabalipanah, Hamid
name: Momeni, Ali
name: Fleury, Romain
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The detailed explanations of A) External Biasing, B) Differentiation transfer function, C) Fractional-order Differentiation, D) Potential applications
Sexual Networks and HIV Risk among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in 6 U.S. Cities
Creators: name: Tieu, Hong-Van
name: Liu, Ting-Yuan
name: Hussen, Sophia
name: Connor, Matthew
name: Wang, Lei
name: Buchbinder, Susan
name: Wilton, Leo
name: Gorbach, Pamina
name: Mayer, Kenneth
name: Griffith, Sam
name: Kelly, Corey
name: Elharrar, Vanessa
name: Phillips, Gregory
name: Cummings, Vanessa
name: Koblin, Beryl
name: Latkin, Carl
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: HIV infections--Risk factors
Social networks
Gay men--Health and hygiene
Gay men, Black
Male homosexuality
Public health
Epidemiology
Medicine

description: Background
Sexual networks may place U.S. Black men who have sex with men (MSM) at increased HIV risk.
Methods
Self-reported egocentric sexual network data from the prior six months were collected from 1,349 community-recruited Black MSM in HPTN 061, a multi-component HIV prevention intervention feasibility study. Sexual network composition, size, and density (extent to which members are having sex with one another) were compared by self-reported HIV serostatus and age of the men. GEE models assessed network and other factors associated with having a Black sex partner, having a partner with at least two age category difference (age difference between participant and partner of at least two age group categories), and having serodiscordant/serostatus unknown unprotected anal/vaginal intercourse (SDUI) in the last six months.
Results
Over half had exclusively Black partners in the last six months, 46% had a partner of at least two age category difference, 87% had ≤5 partners. Nearly 90% had sex partners who were also part of their social networks. Among HIV-negative men, not having anonymous/exchange/ trade partners and lower density were associated with having a Black partner; larger sexual network size and having non-primary partners were associated with having a partner with at least two age category difference; and having anonymous/exchange/ trade partners was associated with SDUI. Among HIV-positive men, not having non-primary partners was associated with having a Black partner; no sexual network characteristics were associated with having a partner with at least two age category difference and SDUI.
Conclusions
Black MSM sexual networks were relatively small and often overlapped with the social networks. Sexual risk was associated with having non-primary partners and larger network size. Network interventions that engage the social networks of Black MSM, such as interventions utilizing peer influence, should be developed to address stable partnerships, number of partners, and serostatus disclosure.
Radiative neutron capture on 16O at astrophysical energies
Creators: name: Dubovichenko, S B
name: Afanasyeva, N V
name: Dzhazairov-Kakhramanov, A V
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total cross sections of the 16O(n,gamma)17O radiative capture process is described in the framework of the modified potential cluster model with the classification of orbital states according to Young tableaux. The possibility to describe the experimental data for the total cross sections of the neutron radiative capture on 16O at the energies from 0.025 eV to 1.5 MeV is shown on the basis of E1 and M1 processes. The transitions to the bound states of 17O in the n16O channel from 2S1/2, 2P3/2 and 2D3/2 waves of the n16O scattering have been considered. These transitions have been considered in the resonance energy region at 433 and 1000 keV.
description: 20p, 8 fig, 1 tabl. 77 ref
RAMIEL: A Parallel-Wire Driven Monopedal Robot for High and Continuous Jumping
Creators: name: Suzuki, Temma
name: Toshimitsu, Yasunori
name: Nagamatsu, Yuya
name: Kawaharazuka, Kento
name: Miki, Akihiro
name: Ribayashi, Yoshimoto
name: Bando, Masahiro
name: Kojima, Kunio
name: Kakiuchi, Yohei
name: Okada, Kei
name: Inaba, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Legged robots with high locomotive performance have been extensively studied, and various leg structures have been proposed. Especially, a leg structure that can achieve both continuous and high jumps is advantageous for moving around in a three-dimensional environment. In this study, we propose a parallel wire-driven leg structure, which has one DoF of linear motion and two DoFs of rotation and is controlled by six wires, as a structure that can achieve both continuous jumping and high jumping. The proposed structure can simultaneously achieve high controllability on each DoF, long acceleration distance and high power required for jumping. In order to verify the jumping performance of the parallel wire-driven leg structure, we have developed a parallel wire-driven monopedal robot, RAMIEL. RAMIEL is equipped with quasi-direct drive, high power wire winding mechanisms and a lightweight leg, and can achieve a maximum jumping height of 1.6 m and a maximum of seven continuous jumps.
description: accepted at IROS2022 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2022, website - https://tenrobo18.github.io/ramiel-iros2022/
The prognostic assessment of rectal cancer pre- and post- neoadjuvant treatment
Creators: name: Siddiqui, Muhammed Rafay Sameem
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: Prognostic assessment of rectal cancers pre-&post-chemoradiotherapy (CRT) relies on precise definitions, reproducibility of regression-assessments and effective application in clinical contexts. Achieving confidence in regression assessment allows more accurate sub-division of known poor prognosticators, which may yield cohorts with better prognosis. Novel analysis methods examining circulating tumour DNA(ctDNA)may identify variations in tumour burden at a microscopic level. Methods: A range of methods were employed in this thesis including literature and systematic reviews, cohort studies, interobserver agreements and a multicenter prospective pilot study. Results: Histopathological good response is defined as Mandard1&2/Dworak3&4; poor response as Mandard3,4&5/Dworak0,1&2 according to published survival outcomes. A good and poor response on MRI was mrTRG1,2&3 and mrTRG4,5 respectively. The single best individual agreement between pTRG and mrTRG for good-response was 83% achieved using the RCPath, RCRG and Wotherspoon Scales and for poor-response was 89% using RCPath but interobserver agreement was 0.45. Median interobserver agreement for mrTRG was 0.57 (0.14-0.82). Proformas improved MRI report quality (98% of key metrics reported). Tumour regressed by a mean of 36% in the extramural component and 51% in the intraluminal part. T3 tumours (<5mm beyond muscularis) on baseline/post CRT MRI scans and final histopathologic specimens have better survival than T3cd(>5mm). mrEMVI tumours have a 5-fold increased rate of synchronous tumours and almost 4-fold ongoing risk of developing metastases in follow up after surgery. ctDNA has prognostic implications and intraoperative tumour manipulation could lead to a surge of tumour DNA into the circulation but detection may vary according to tumour height. New knowledge contributed to the management of rectal cancer: This thesis identified precise definitions for good and poor response for histopathology and MRI tumour regression scales, and identified the pTRG scale most closely correlated with mrTRG. pTRG scales have low interobserver agreements but mrTRG can be taught to inexperienced radiologists with higher K. Proformas help improve the quality of MRI reports. T3 tumour extension is prognostic on histopathology, MRI at baseline/after neoadjuvant therapy. Tumours regress heterogeneously. The metastatic risk associated with mrEMVI and circulating tumour DNA was quantified. ctDNA was identified in mrEMVI positive patients and a surge from intraoperative manipulation was seen, depending upon tumour height.
LSQCA: Resource-Efficient Load/Store Architecture for Limited-Scale Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Creators: name: Kobori, Takumi
name: Suzuki, Yasunari
name: Ueno, Yosuke
name: Tanimoto, Teruo
name: Todo, Synge
name: Tokunaga, Yuuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current fault-tolerant quantum computer (FTQC) architectures utilize several encoding techniques to enable reliable logical operations with restricted qubit connectivity. However, such logical operations demand additional memory overhead to ensure fault tolerance. Since the main obstacle to practical quantum computing is the limited qubit count, our primary mission is to design floorplans that can reduce memory overhead without compromising computational capability. Despite extensive efforts to explore FTQC architectures, even the current state-of-the-art floorplan strategy devotes 50% of memory space to this overhead, not to data storage, to ensure unit-time random access to all logical qubits.
 In this paper, we propose an FTQC architecture based on a novel floorplan strategy, Load/Store Quantum Computer Architecture (LSQCA), which can achieve almost 100% memory density. The idea behind our architecture is to separate all memory regions into small computational space called Computational Registers (CR) and space-efficient memory space called Scan-Access Memory (SAM). We define an instruction set for these abstract structures and provide concrete designs named point-SAM and line-SAM architectures. With this design, we can improve the memory density by allowing variable-latency memory access while concealing the latency with other bottlenecks. We also propose optimization techniques to exploit properties of quantum programs observed in our static analysis, such as access locality in memory reference timestamps. Our numerical results indicate that LSQCA successfully leverages this idea. In a resource-restricted situation, a specific benchmark shows that we can achieve about 90% memory density with 5% increase in the execution time compared to a conventional floorplan, which achieves at most 50% memory density for unit-time random access. Our design ensures broad quantum applicability.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures, 2025 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
Catalogus aller Homännischen Charten und Atlantum; [ca. 1725]
Creators: name: Homann, Johann Baptist
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Beilage zu: Grosser Atlas Uber die Gantze Welt / Johann Baptist Homann. - Blattmaß: 460 x 360 mm. - Satzspiegel: 385 x 320 mm
The Role of the Immune Response in the Pathogenesis of Thyroid Eye Disease: A Reassessment
Creators: name: Rosenbaum, James T.
name: Choi, Dongseok
name: Wong, Amanda
name: Wilson, David J.
name: Grossniklaus, Hans E.
name: Harrington, Christina A.
name: Dailey, Roger A.
name: Ng, John D.
name: Steele, Eric A.
name: Czyz, Craig N.
name: Foster, Jill A.
name: Tse, David
name: Alabia, Chris
name: Dubovy, Sander
name: Parekh, Prashant K.
name: Harris, Gerald J.
name: Kazim, Michael
name: Patel, Payal J.
name: White, Valerie A.
name: Dolman, Peter J.
name: Edward, Deepak P.
name: Alkatan, Hind M.
name: Al Hussain, Hailah
name: Selva, Dinesh
name: Yeatts, R. Patrick
name: Korn, Bobby S.
name: Kikkawa, Don O.
name: Stauffer, Patrick
name: Planck, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Immune response
subject: Gene expression
subject: Thyroid eye disease
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Ophthalmology
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Pathology

description: Background
Although thyroid eye disease is a common complication of Graves’ disease, the pathogenesis of the orbital disease is poorly understood. Most authorities implicate the immune response as an important causal factor. We sought to clarify pathogenesis by using gene expression microarray.
Methods
An international consortium of ocular pathologists and orbital surgeons contributed formalin fixed orbital biopsies. RNA was extracted from orbital tissue from 20 healthy controls, 25 patients with thyroid eye disease (TED), 25 patients with nonspecific orbital inflammation (NSOI), 7 patients with sarcoidosis and 6 patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). Tissue was divided into a discovery set and a validation set. Gene expression was quantified using Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 microarrays which include 54,000 probe sets.
Results
Principal component analysis showed that gene expression from tissue from patients with TED more closely resembled gene expression from healthy control tissue in comparison to gene expression characteristic of sarcoidosis, NSOI, or granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Unsupervised cluster dendrograms further indicated the similarity between TED and healthy controls. Heat maps based on gene expression for cytokines, chemokines, or their receptors showed that these inflammatory markers were associated with NSOI, sarcoidosis, or GPA much more frequently than with TED.
Conclusion
This is the first study to compare gene expression in TED to gene expression associated with other causes of exophthalmos. The juxtaposition shows that inflammatory markers are far less characteristic of TED relative to other orbital inflammatory diseases.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1912-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
The Adoption of Telemedicine In The Kingdom of Bahrain
Creators: name: AlKhalifa, Hamad
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 420309
subject: Health management
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 350307
subject: Technology management

description: The concept of telemedicine is not new, and it has been the focus of many previous studies over the past decades. However, such a study has not been done extensively in the context of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and there is a lack of clarity on certain important aspects as to factors that impact the adoption of telemedicine in the country. Hence, the purpose of this research is to explore the adoption of elimination in the context of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and to identify the positive and negative factors that are relevant in this context. The study makes use of a qualitative research design with the help of a structured interview that was aimed at collecting detailed responses from10 different participants, who put forward their attitude, perspectives, and opinions about telemedicine usage on an application called Doctori App. The findings of this study point towards the fact that there are numerous positive implications of telemedicine adoption in the country such as improved convenience, increased consultations, and overall improvement in the quality of health care delivery. However, there are certain challenges and barriers that stand in the way of full-fledged adoption such as lack of awareness and technological challenges. The recommendations of the study is to raise awareness of the concept, bring together all the stakeholders, and work towards enabling better infrastructure and training and development to ensure that medicine adoption can proceed smoothly in Bahrain in the future.