cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the SIBHAYI SG01B station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Sibhayi
Hydrological
Pressure transducer
Ground Water level

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at SIBHAYI's SG01B station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Superconductivity and Superfluidity as Universal Emergent Phenomena
Creators: name: Guidry, Mike
name: Sun, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity (SC) or superfluidity (SF) is observed across a remarkably broad range of fermionic systems: in BCS, cuprate, iron-based, organic, and heavy-fermion superconductors, and superfluid helium-3 in condensed matter; in a variety of SC/SF phenomena in low-energy nuclear physics; in ultracold, trapped atomic gases; and in various exotic possibilities in neutron stars. The range of physical conditions and differences in microscopic physics defy all attempts to unify this behavior in any conventional picture. Here we propose a unification through the shared symmetry properties of the emergent condensed states, with microscopic differences absorbed into parameters. This, in turn, forces a rethinking of specific occurrences of SC/SF such as cuprate high-temperature superconductivity, which becomes far less mysterious when seen as part of a continuum of behavior shared by a variety of other systems.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak Mike's Pass AWS station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cathedral Peak
Meteorological
Automatic Weather Station CS
Automatic Weather Station
Wind speed
Wind direction
Air temperature
radiation
ground temperature
rainfall
Fog
barometer
UV

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Cathedral Peak's Mike's Pass AWS station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Responsiveness of PROMIS ® Pediatric Measures to Hospitalizations for Sickle Pain and Subsequent Recovery: Pediatric PROMIS Responsiveness in SCD
Creators: name: Dampier, Carlton
name: DeWalt, Darren A.
name: Jaeger, Byron
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Lui, Yang
name: Gross, Heather E.
name: Edwards, Lloyd
name: Barry, Vaughn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System® (PROMIS®) created pediatric self-report scales measuring a variety of health attributes (domains), but their responsiveness to changes in health status has not yet been determined in children with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Astrophysical constraints on massive black hole binary evolution from Pulsar Timing Arrays
Creators: name: Middleton, Hannah
name: Del Pozzo, Walter
name: Farr, Will M.
name: Sesana, Alberto
name: Vecchio, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the information that can be derived about massive black-hole binary populations and their formation history solely from current and possible future pulsar timing array (PTA) results. We use models of the stochastic gravitational-wave background from circular massive black hole binaries with chirp mass in the range $10^6 - 10^{11} M_\odot$ evolving solely due to radiation reaction. Our parameterised models for the black hole merger history make only weak assumptions about the properties of the black holes merging over cosmic time. We show that current PTA results place an upper limit on the black hole merger density which does not depend on the choice of a particular merger history model, however they provide no information about the redshift or mass distribution. We show that even in the case of a detection resulting from a factor of 10 increase in amplitude sensitivity, PTAs will only put weak constraints on the source merger density as a function of mass, and will not provide any additional information on the redshift distribution. Without additional assumptions or information from other observations, a detection cannot meaningfully bound the massive black hole merger rate above zero or any particular mass.
description: Accepted by MNRAS Letters, 6 pages, 3 figures
Eliciting the child's voice in adverse event reporting in oncology trials: Cognitive interview findings from the Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events initiative: Reeve et al.
Creators: name: Baker, Justin N.
name: Waldron, Mia K.
name: Hinds, Pamela S.
name: Martens, Christa E.
name: Weaver, Meaghann S.
name: Freyer, David R.
name: Sung, Lillian
name: Mack, Jennifer W.
name: Mowbray, Catriona
name: Pinheiro, Laura C.
name: Gold, Stuart H.
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Jackson, Kathryn D.
name: Jacobs, Shana
name: Tomlinson, Deborah
name: McFatrich, Molly
name: Palma, Diana
name: Withycombe, Janice S.
name: Gibson, Deborah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Adverse event (AE) reporting in oncology trials is required, but current practice does not directly integrate the child’s voice. The Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) is being developed to assess symptomatic AEs via child/adolescent self-report or proxy-report. This qualitative study evaluates the child’s/adolescent’s understanding and ability to provide valid responses to the PRO-CTCAE to inform questionnaire refinements and confirm content validity.
Population dynamics of Leucadendron cordatum in Sonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DA/3
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Population dynamics
Langeberg
Leucadendron cordatum
Sonderend

description: This is a scanned copy of a document on the population dynamics of Leucadendron cordatum in Sonderend, Langeberg, site 3319DA/3. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Object Pose Estimation without Direct Supervision
Creators: name: Okorn, Brian
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Currently, robot manipulation is a special purpose tool, restricted to isolated environments with a fixed set of objects. In order to make robot manipulation more general, robots need to be able to perceive and interact with a large number of objects in cluttered scenes. Traditionally, object pose has been used as a representation to facilitate these interactions. While object pose has many benefits, several limitations become apparent when we investigate how to train an object pose estimator. Traditionally, to train pose estimators, we need to collect a large dataset of annotated object images for supervision. In addition to this data collection being a potentially costly endeavor, most pose estimators trained on such datasets do not account for uncertainty in pose predictions, nor do they generalize to novel objects outside of the training dataset. Further, the pose representation itself does not capture task-specific object interactions. In this thesis we explore different methods of alleviating these limitations of training object pose estimators. First, we develop methods that can predict the pose uncertainty induced by both our training distribution and the ambiguities caused by object occlusions and symmetries. The ability to predict this uncertainty allows the robot to better understand what it does and does not know about the object’s position and orientation and how that may affect task completion. Second, we propose a method that can estimate the pose of objects that were unknown at training time. To solve this problem, we introduce a novel method for zero-shot object pose estimation in clutter that combines classical pose hypothesis generation and a learned scoring function. Third, we evaluate the convergence properties of learning pose estimation from relative pose annotations using gradient-based optimization methods. We find that naively using such supervision can lead to poor convergence. Using this analysis, we develop a method to better leverage relative annotations when training pose estimators using gradient-based optimization. Finally, we develop a method to model the object-to-object relationships required for completing a task. Rather than separately estimating the pose of each object, we show how we can learn to estimate a task-specific relative pose from a small number of demonstrations that generalizes to novel objects. We find that such a formulation is naturally translationally equivariant and is able to focus on the components of each object that are key to completing the given task.
Supplementary document for Tuning axial and lateral localization precision in 3D super-resolution microscopy with variable astigmatism - 6088449.pdf
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Rajdeep
name: Sau, Abhishek
name: Chao, Jerry
name: Sharma, Ankith
name: Musser, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Supplemental Document
Population dynamics of Protea cryophilla in the Cederberg State Forest, site 3219AC/3
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
population dynamics
Protea cryophilla
Cederberg State Forest

description: This is a scanned copy of the population dynamics of Protea cryophilla in the Cederberg State Forest, site 3219AC/3. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species.    Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.   SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Properties of potential eco-friendly gas replacements for particle detectors in high-energy physics
Creators: name: Benussi, L.
name: Bianco, S.
name: Piccolo, D.
name: Saviano, G.
name: Colafranceschi, S.
name: Kjølbro, J.
name: Sharma, A.
name: Yang, D.
name: Chen, G.
name: Ban, Y.
name: Li, Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern gas detectors for detection of particles require F-based gases for optimal performance. Recent regulations demand the use of environmentally unfriendly F-based gases to be limited or banned. This review studies properties of potential eco-friendly gas candidate replacements.
description: 38 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables. To be submitted to Journal of Instrumentation
Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in Infants and Young Children With Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: Nocera, Maryalice
name: Zolotor, Adam J.
name: Keenan, Heather T.
name: Dixon, Rebecca R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVE: To examine the use of intracranial pressure monitors and treatment for elevated intracranial pressure in children 24 months old or younger with traumatic brain injury in North Carolina between April 2009 and March 2012 and compare this with a similar cohort recruited 2000-2001.

DESIGN: Prospective, observational cohort study.

SETTING: Twelve PICUs in North Carolina.

PATIENTS: All children 24 months old or younger with traumatic brain injury, admitted to an included PICU.

INTERVENTIONS: None.

MEASUREMENT AND MAIN RESULTS: The use of intracranial pressure monitors and treatments for elevated intracranial pressure were evaluated in 238 children with traumatic brain injury. Intracranial pressure monitoring (risk ratio, 3.7; 95% CI, 1.5-9.3) and intracranial pressure therapies were more common in children with Glasgow Coma Scale less than or equal to 8 compared with Glasgow Coma Scale greater than 8. However, only 17% of children with Glasgow Coma Scale less than or equal to 8 received a monitoring device. Treatments for elevated intracranial pressure were more common in children with monitors; yet, some children without monitors received therapies traditionally used to lower intracranial pressure. Unadjusted predictors of monitoring were Glasgow Coma Scale less than or equal to 8, receipt of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, nonwhite race. Logistic regression showed no strong predictors of intracranial pressure monitor use. Compared with the 2000 cohort, children in the 2010 cohort with Glasgow Coma Scale less than or equal to 8 were less likely to receive monitoring (risk ratio, 0.5; 95% CI, 0.3-1.0), although the estimate was not precise, or intracranial pressure management therapies.

CONCLUSION: Children in the 2010 cohort with a Glasgow Coma Scale less than or equal to 8 were less likely to receive an intracranial pressure monitor or hyperosmolar therapy than children in the 2000 cohort; however, about 10% of children without monitors received therapies to decrease intracranial pressure. This suggests treatment heterogeneity in children 24 months old or younger with traumatic brain injury and a need for better evidence to support treatment recommendations for this group of children.
Computational Interferometric Imaging
Creators: name: Kotwal, Alankar
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Imaging systems typically accumulate photons that, as they travel from a light source to a camera, follow multiple different paths and interact with several scene objects. This multi-path accumulation process confounds the information that is available in captured images about the scene, and makes using these images to infer properties of scene objects, such as their shape and material, challenging. Computational light transport techniques help overcome this multi-path confounding problem, by enabling imaging systems to selectively accumulate only photons that are informative for any given imaging task. Unfortunately, and despite a proliferation of such techniques in the last two decades, they are constrained to operate only under macroscopic settings. This places them out of reach for critical applications requiring microscopic resolutions, such as medical imaging and industrial fabrication. In this thesis, we change this state of affairs by introducing a new class of techniques that we call computational interferometric imaging: These techniques realize computational light transport capabilities using optical interferometry, a technology well-suited for micron-scale applications. We achieve this by either manipulating the properties of illumination used in interferometry setups, or using naturally-available illumination with such properties. To this end, we develop a theory of interferometry with illumination of general spatial and temporal coherence, unifying concepts across incoherent and coherent imaging. We invent and implement a hardware system that realizes such illumination in a programmable and light efficient manner. We then specialize our hardware system to enable two exciting capabilities: (a) fast and robust 3D sensing at micrometer axial and lateral resolutions; and (b) passive, outdoor time-of-flight imaging with sunlight, robust to wind, vibrations and ambient light, factors traditionally considered destructive to interferometry signal. Finally, we provide concrete directions for building faster and more robust extensions of our setups that can be easily deployed in existing interferometry systems in applications ranging from industrial fabrication and inspection, to retinal and cancer imaging. We hope that this thesis will have a three-fold impact on modern imaging research: (a) providing inspiration for the theoretical investigation of interferometric and coherent imaging, to demonstrate never-before-seen capabilities; (b) inventing interferometric systems for application areas where interferometry has never been applied; and (c) translating research inspired by this thesis, combined with the development of novel reconstruction techniques, to critical applications in industrial fabrication and biomedical imaging.
Beyond relativistic mean-field approach for nuclear octupole excitations
Creators: name: Yao, J. M.
name: Zhou, E. F.
name: Li, Z. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first beyond-mean-field study of low-lying parity-doublet states in 224Ra by extending the multireference relativistic energy density functional method to include dynamical correlations related to symmetry restoration and quadrupole-octupole shape fluctuation with a generator coordinate method combined with parity, particle-number, and angular-momentum projections. We clarify full microscopically that the origin of spin-dependent parity splitting in low-spin states is related to the octupole shape stabilization of positive-parity states, the dominated shapes of which drift gradually to that of negative-parity ones.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be published as a Rapid Communication in PRC
Fire speed in Jonkershoek, Abdolskloof Catchment, site 3318DD/4
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Fire speed
Jonkershoek
fire

description: This is a scanned copy of a document on fire speed in Jonkershoek, Abdolskloof Catchment, site 3318DD/4, noting the sequence and time that each weight fell during control burn operation. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Specific Etiologies Associated With the Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in Children: Part 2
Creators: name: Bucuvalas, John C.
name: Upperman, Jeffrey S.
name: Cairns, Bruce A.
name: Doctor, Allan
name: Cox, Charles S.
name: Tamburro, Robert F.
name: Williams, Felicia N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: To describe a number of conditions and therapies associated with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) presented as part of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development MODS Workshop (March 26–27, 2015). In addition, the relationship between burn injuries and MODS is also included although it was not discussed at the Workshop.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak CAT9 AWS station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cathedral Peak
Meteorological
Automatic Weather Station CS
Automatic Weather Station
Wind speed
Wind direction
Air temperature
rainfall
Barometer
radiation

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Cathedral Peak's CAT9 AWS station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Incorporating within link dynamics in an agent-based computationally faster and scalable queue model
Creators: name: Agarwal, Amit
name: Lämmel, Gregor
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: queue model
subject: heterogeneous traffic
subject: backward travelling holes
subject: computational efficiency
subject: kinematic waves
subject: large-scale traffic simulation

description: The growing pace of urbanization increases the need of simulation models to handle large-scale scenarios in reasonable time. The present study proposes a fast spatial queue model, which is anchored to an agent-based travel demand simulation framework. The existing queue model is extended to produce more realistic flow dynamics by introducing backward travelling holes to mixed traffic conditions. In this approach, the space freed by a leading vehicle is not immediately available to the following vehicle. The resulting dynamics resembles Newell's simplified kinematic wave model. The space freed corresponding to each leaving vehicle is named as hole' and, as following vehicles occupy the space freed by leading vehicles, the hole travels backward. This results in triangular fundamental diagrams for traffic flow. The robustness of the model is tested with flow density and average bike passing rate contours. Spatio-temporal trajectories are presented to differentiate the queuing patterns. Finally, a comparison of the computational performance of the different link and traffic dynamics of the queue model is made.
Association of blood pressure variability and neurocognition in children with chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Furth, Susan L.
name: Shinnar, Shlomo
name: Matheson, Matthew B.
name: Gerson, Arlene C.
name: Lande, Marc B.
name: Mendley, Susan R.
name: Samuels, Joshua A.
name: Warady, Bradley A.
name: Hooper, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension have increased blood pressure variability (BPV). Increased BPV has been associated with lower neurocognitive test scores in adults. Children with CKD are at risk for decreased neurocognitive function. Our objective was to determine if children with CKD and increased BPV had worse performance on neurocognitive testing compared with children with CKD and lower BPV.
Creating paths for the development and application of bioinformatics in Mexico
Creators: name: Shirley, Alquicira-Hernández
name: Hernández-Álvarez Alfredo
name: Christian, Sohlenkamp
name: Julio, Collado-Vides
name: Irma, Martínez-Flores
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Training
subject: Education
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Workshops
subject: Collaborations
subject: Cooperation
subject: Networks

description: Creating paths for the development and application of bioinformatics in Mexico Since 2006, the Center for Genomic Sciences-UNAM has carried out programs to improve bioinformatics skills, mainly for students, but also for researchers, technicians and the general public, through workshops, seminars and courses, among others, promoting the bioinformatics in Mexico. and Latin America. To achieve these objectives, several efforts were made, first at the local level in 2006. Later, a more ambitious project was started, with the support of the Ibero-American Society of Bioinformatics (SoIBio), changing the perspective to an international format, including participants from Latin America. At the same time, we became the National Bioinformatics Node of Mexico based at the Center for Genomic Sciences of the UNAM (NNB-CCG). In 2010, we had the first national event called "International Bioinformatics Workshops"; and as of 2012 we carry them out internationally. All our events are focused on a Spanish-speaking public, mainly. As of 2018, to integrate all initiatives, we support the creation of the "Mexican Bioinformatics Network" (RMB) as an organization that promotes the organized collaboration of all related groups. We currently have collaboration alliances with national and international entities; and we have the support of several organizations such as Code for Science & Society, among others. We carry out events and continuous activities for the benefit of collaborating groups and users of bioinformatics.
Towards the Cardy formula for hyperscaling violation black holes
Creators: name: Bravo-Gaete, Moises
name: Gomez, Sebastian
name: Hassaine, Mokhtar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this paper is to propose a generalized Cardy formula in the case of three-dimensional hyperscaling violation black holes. We first note that for the hyperscaling violation metrics, the scaling of the entropy in term of the temperature (defined as the effective spatial dimensionality divided by the dynamical exponent) depends explicitly on the gravity theory. Starting from this observation, we first explore the case of quadratic curvature gravity theory for which we derive four classes of asymptotically hyperscaling violation black holes. For each solution, we compute their masses as well as those of their soliton counterparts obtained through a double Wick rotation. Assuming that the partition function has a certain invariance involving the effective spatial dimensionality, a generalized Cardy formula is derived. This latter is shown to correctly reproduce the entropy where the ground state is identified with the soliton. Comparing our formula with the one derived in the standard Einstein gravity case with source, we stress the role played by the effective spatial dimensionality. From this observation, we speculate the general form of the Cardy formula in the case of hyperscaling violation metric for an arbitrary value of the effective spatial dimensionality. Finally, we test the viability of this formula in the case of cubic gravity theory.
description: 8 pages
The Horizon Europe CRM-geothermal project: Deliverable 7.6 – Data Management Plan
Creators: name: Kieling, Katrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: CRM-geothermal, project management, data management

description: This document describes the type of data collected in the CRM-geothermal project and how the data is curated. It also elaborates on the relations to IPR requirements and exploitation strategies. All data from the project shall be deposited in research data repositories according to the FAIR guiding principles for scientific data management and stewardship such that it is possible for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate — free of charge for any user.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Jonkershoek Langrivier station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Fynbos Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Jonkershoek
Hydrological
Weir
Water level
water temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at Jonkershoek's Langrivier station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
title: How does the homogenisation of snow measurements impact snow climatology in the Alps? (Hom4Snow)
Creators: name: Buchmann, Moritz
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 550 Earth sciences & geology
subject: 910 Geography & travel

description: Long-term snow measurements are crucial for climatological analyses. However, the longer a time series, the more like for it to include breaks or inhomogeneities, potentially introduced by station relocation or changes of the station environment.
These inhomogeneities can have a huge effect on trends and other climatological analyses.
A possible solution to address this problem is the homogenisation of the time series.
During this thesis, the three steps of homogenisation (identify breakpoints in a time series, verify the breakpoints, and adjust the time series accordingly) are carried out in detail. Breakpoints are identified using a robust approch of combining the results from three well-established homogenisation toolboxes: ACMANT, Climatol, and HOMER.
The impact assessment is carried out using Climatol, HOMER and interpQM.
Monodisperse hard rods in external potentials
Creators: name: Bakhti, Benaoumeur
name: Karbach, Michael
name: Maass, Philipp
name: Müller, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider linear arrays of cells of volume $V_\mathrm{c}$ populated by monodisperse rods of size $σV_\mathrm{c}$, $σ=1,2,\ldots$, subject to hardcore exclusion interaction. Each rod experiences a position-dependent external potential. In one application we also examine effects of contact forces between rods. We employ two distinct methods of exact analysis with complementary strengths and different limits of spatial resolution to calculate profiles of pressure and density on mesoscopic and microscopic length scales at thermal equilibrium. One method uses density functionals and the other statistically interacting vacancy particles. The applications worked out include gravity, power-law traps, and hard walls. We identify oscillations in the profiles on a microscopic length scale and show how they are systematically averaged out on a well-defined mesoscopic length scale to establish full consistency between the two approaches. The continuum limit, realized as $V_\mathrm{c}\to0$, $σ\to\infty$ at nonzero and finite $σV_\mathrm{c}$, connects our highest-resolution results with known exact results for monodisperse rods in a continuum. We also compare the pressure profiles obtained from density functionals with the average microscopic pressure profiles derived from the pair distribution function.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures
Supplemental online material - Learning to Cycle Appendix 1
Creators: name: Mercê, Cristiana
name: Davids, Keith
name: Catela, David
name: Branco, Marco
name: Correia, Vanda
name: Cordovil, Rita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Children's literature
Public transport
Sport and leisure management
Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified

description: Cycling is a foundational movement skill which represents an important motor milestone to achieve in children’s lives. The use of a bicycle with training wheels is the most common approach for learning how to cycle, although some evidence suggests that this approach is counterproductive. Underpinned by an ecological perspective and Constraints-led approach, this study investigated whether learning how to ride a conventional bicycle in childhood can be shaped by the specific task constraints related to the kind of training bicycle used beforehand (i.e., balance bike or bicycle with training wheels). This comparison could guide pedagogical practice to facilitate children’s learning in cycling and their independent riding. The Learning to Cycle intervention programme was introduced to 25 children (M = 6.08±1.19 years) who could not previously cycle, divided into two treatment groups. One group trained with a bicycle with training wheels (BTW) and another with a balance bicycle (BB) for six sessions, followed by four sessions with a conventional bicycle (CB). The acquisition of independent cycling was assessed, based on established cycle learning milestone achievements, without help: (i) self-launch, (ii) riding for at least 10 (consecutive) metres, and (iii), braking. To be considered an independent rider, participants needed to achieve all these milestones, without any external help. During the CB sessions, the number of sessions that each child needed to acquire each learning milestone and independent cycling were recorded. The programme led to a success rate of 88% for achievement of independent cycling on a conventional bicycle, differentiated by 100% success in the BB group and 75% in the BTW group. The BB participants were significantly faster in learning to self-launch, ride, brake, and cycle independently, compared to BTW participants. The Learning to Cycle programme was effective for facilitating learning in children from three years of age onwards. Using the BB instead of the BTW seems to lead to a more effective and efficient acquisition of independent cycling at earlier ages.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak 9B station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cathedral Peak
Meteorological
Tipping bucket
Precipitation

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Cathedral Peak's 9B station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Accelerating Numerical Methods for Optimal Control
Creators: name: Jackson, Brian
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Many modern control methods, such as model-predictive control, rely heavily on solving optimization problems in real time. In particular, the ability to efficiently solve optimal control problems has enabled many of the recent breakthroughs in achieving highly dynamic behaviors for complex robotic systems. The high computational requirements of these algorithms demand novel algorithms tailor-suited to meeting the tight requirements on runtime performance, memory usage, reliability, and flexibility. This thesis introduces a state-of-the-art algorithm for trajectory optimization that leverages the problem structure while being applicable across a wide variety of problem requirements, including those involving conic constraints and non-Euclidean state vectors such as 3D rotations. Additionally, algorithms for exposing parallelization in both the temporal and spatial domains are proposed. While optimal control algorithms—such as those developed in this thesis—work well for many systems, their performance is generally limited by the provided analytical model. To address this limitation, this thesis also proposes a sample-efficient method for updating controller performance through the combination of information from an approximate model with data from the true system dynamics.
$PT$-symmetric invisible defects and confluent Darboux-Crum transformations
Creators: name: Correa, Francisco
name: Jakubsky, Vit
name: Plyushchay, Mikhail S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that confluent Darboux-Crum transformations with emergent Jordan states are an effective tool for the design of optical systems governed by the Helmholtz equation under the paraxial approximation. The construction of generic, asymptotically real and periodic, $PT$-symmetric systems with local complex periodicity defects is discussed in detail. We show how the decay rate of the defect is related with the energy of the bound state trapped by the defect. In particular, the bound states in the continuum are confined by the periodicity defects with power law decay. We show that these defects possess complete invisibility; the wave functions of the system coincide asymptotically with the wave functions of the undistorted setting. The general results are illustrated with explicit examples of reflectionless models and systems with one spectral gap. We show that the spectral properties of the studied models are reflected by Lax-Novikov-type integrals of motion and associated supersymmetric structures of bosonized and exotic nature.
description: published version
Effect of elevated blood pressure on quality of life in children with chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Lande, Marc
name: Matheson, Matthew
name: Gerson, Arlene
name: Flynn, Joseph
name: Hooper, Stephen R.
name: Kupferman, Juan
name: Warady, Bradley
name: Wong, Cynthia
name: Furth, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Although hypertension is known to have an adverse impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adults, little is known about the effects of hypertension and use of antihypertensive medications on HRQoL in hypertensive children with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Trend assessment of a forest fringe in Marloth Nature Reserve, Swellendam, Langeberg, site 3320CD/1
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
trend assessment
map
Marloth Nature Reserve
forest fringe
Langeberg
Swellendam

description: This is a scanned copy of a trend assessment, with a map, diagram and photographs, of a forest fringe in Marloth Nature Reserve, Swellendam, Langeberg, site 3320CD/1. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Jonkershoek 9B station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Fynbos Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Jonkershoek
Meteorological
Tipping bucket rain gauge
Rainfall
air temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Jonkershoek's 9B station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Design, Synthesis, DFT, TD-DFT/PCM Calculations, and Molecular Docking Studies on the Anti-COVID-19, and Anti-SARS Activities of Some New Bis-Thiazoles and Bis-Thiadiazole
Creators: name: Elwahy, Ahmed H. M.
name: Eid, Elshimaa M.
name: Abdel-Latif, Samir A.
name: Hassaneen, Huwaida M. E.
name: Abdelhamid, Ismail A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A novel synthesis of bis(thiazoles) and bis(thiadiazole), each connected to a thienothiophene moiety, is described. The DFT calculations support the favored synthesis of one of the anticipated bis(thiazole) regioisomers. The B3LYP/6-311G** level of theory was used to optimize quantum mechanical calculations of geometrical characteristics and energy of new compounds under study. The electronic absorption of the new compounds in ethanol solvent was handled and finished using time-dependent-density functional theory (TD-DFT) at the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level with the addition of the polarizable continuum solvation technique TD-DFT/PCM. The permissible singlet transitions are identified, and their involvements in the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) are described. Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis was used to investigate hyper conjugative partnerships, molecular stability, and bond strength. Mean polarizability, total static dipole moment, anisotropy of polarizability, and mean first-order hyperpolarizability have all been computed. The results reveal that the compounds are promising contenders for non-linear optical materials. The molecular docking mechanism between ligands 8a–8c and COVID-19/5epw or SARS/5wrg receptors was done to explore the binding modes of these compounds at the active sites. Molecular docking results have shown that the compounds 8a–8c can be considered as a potential agent against COVID-19/5epw and SARS/5wrg receptors.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak CAT6 Soil Pit station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
VASI
Meteorological
Automatic Weather Station CS
Automatic Weather Station
Wind speed
Wind direction
Air temperature
rainfall
relative humidity

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at Cathedral Peak's CAT6 Soil Pit station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Rare variants in tenascin genes in a cohort of children with primary vesicoureteric reflux
Creators: name: Gbadegesin, Rasheed A.
name: Wigfall, Delbert
name: Hall, Gentzon
name: Conlon, Peter
name: Homstad, Alison
name: Brophy, Patrick D.
name: Nagaraj, Shashi
name: Stout, Jennifer
name: Wiener, John S.
name: Routh, Jonathan C.
name: Ross, Sherry S.
name: Foreman, John
name: Rabinovich, C. Egla
name: Gupta, Indra R.
name: Elahi, Shan
name: Vaidya, Himani
name: Wu, Guanghong
name: Adeyemo, Adebowale
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Primary vesicoureteral reflux (PVUR) is the most common malformation of the kidney and urinary tract and reflux nephropathy is a major cause of chronic kidney disease in children. Recently, we reported mutations in tenascin XB (TNXB) as a cause of PVUR with joint hypermobility.
Population dynamics of Hakea sericea in Hawequas, Nuweberg, site 3319CD/1
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Hakea sericea
population dynamics
Nuweberg
Hawequas

description: This is a scanned copy of a document noting the population dynamics of Hakea sericea in Hawequas, Nuweberg, site 3319CD/1. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.  SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The dose–response effect of insulin sensitivity on albuminuria in children according to diabetes type
Creators: name: Dolan, Lawrence
name: Divers, Jasmin
name: Imperatore, Giuseppina
name: Marcovina, Santica
name: Pettitt, David
name: Dabelea, Dana
name: Mauer, Michael
name: Mottl, Amy K.
name: Pihoker, Catherine
name: Maahs, David M.
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Insulin resistance is associated with microalbuminuria among youth with diabetes mellitus. We sought to determine the dose-response effect of insulin sensitivity (IS) on the magnitude of albuminuria and whether there is a threshold below which urine albumin excretion increases.