cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leveraging pediatric PROMIS item banks to assess physical functioning in children at risk for severe functional loss
Creators: name: Dewalt, Darren
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Pediatric neuromuscular illnesses often result in decreased health-related quality of life (HRQL), notably in physical functioning. Generic HRQL measures have been developed for use in general populations, but may not adequately assess patients with severe functional loss. To address this measurement gap, we created two custom parent-proxy physical functioning short forms for use among children at risk for low levels of functioning, using pediatric Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) item banks for Upper Extremity and Mobility. Methods Two custom short forms from PROMIS Upper Extremity (13 items) and Mobility (13 items) parent-proxy item banks were created and administered to parents of children (ages 5 – 22 years) enrolled in an integrated care program for management of chronic respiratory insufficiency, largely due to neuromuscular illnesses. Standardized PROMIS T-scores have a mean of 50 (SD = 10); higher scores indicate better functioning. Physicians rated clinical severity. Single proxy-rated items on mental and physical health from the Child Health Rating Inventories (CHRIs) global health scale were completed by parents. Psychometric properties, including known groups comparisons, were explored. Results Fifty-seven parents completed the parent-proxy custom PROMIS short forms. The mean Upper Extremity T-score was 21 (SD = 13); the mean Mobility T-score was 22 (SD = 11). Some participants scored at the measurement floor; two items on assistive devices did not perform well in this sample and were excluded from the Mobility T-score. Known groups comparisons showed that those with lower clinical severity had better median Upper Extremity (22 vs. 14, p < 0.001) and Mobility (28 vs. 16, p = 0.004) function than those with worse clinical severity. Both Upper Extremity and Mobility T-scores were higher in the subgroups defined by better physical and mental health, as measured by the CHRIs. Conclusions Upper Extremity and Mobility T-scores were nearly three standard deviations below the PROMIS pediatric calibration population mean. Preliminary psychometrics demonstrated the potential to more accurately measure lower physical functioning using items from PROMIS item banks. However, some participants scored at the measurement floor despite targeting items at the lower end of the scale. Further short form refinement, enrichment of the item banks, and larger-scale field testing are needed.
Wire constructions of Abelian topological phases in three or more dimensions
Creators: name: Iadecola, Thomas
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Chamon, Claudio
name: Mudry, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coupled-wire constructions have proven to be useful tools to characterize Abelian and non-Abelian topological states of matter in two spatial dimensions. In many cases, their success has been complemented by the vast arsenal of other theoretical tools available to study such systems. In three dimensions, however, much less is known about topological phases. Since the theoretical arsenal in this case is smaller, it stands to reason that wire constructions, which are based on one-dimensional physics, could play a useful role in developing a greater microscopic understanding of three-dimensional topological phases. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive strategy, based on the geometric arrangement of commuting projectors in the toric code, to generate and characterize coupled-wire realizations of strongly-interacting three-dimensional topological phases. We show how this method can be used to construct pointlike and linelike excitations, and to determine the topological degeneracy. We also point out how, with minor modifications, the machinery already developed in two dimensions can be naturally applied to study the surface states of these systems, a fact that has implications for the study of surface topological order. Finally, we show that the strategy developed for the construction of three-dimensional topological phases generalizes readily to arbitrary dimensions, vastly expanding the existing landscape of coupled-wire theories. Throughout the paper, we discuss $\mathbb{Z}^{\,}_m$ topological order in three and four dimensions as a concrete example of this approach, but the approach itself is not limited to this type of topological order.
description: 38 pages, 15 figures; v2 corrects typos and includes minor improvements throughout, as well as a new Appendix, and is the version accepted to PRB
Cytokine systems approach demonstrates differences in innate and pro-inflammatory host responses between genetically distinct MERS-CoV isolates
Creators: name: Agnihothram, Sudhakar
name: Menachery, Vineet D
name: Baric, Ralph S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background The recent emergence of a novel coronavirus in the Middle East (designated MERS-CoV) is a reminder of the zoonotic and pathogenic potential of emerging coronaviruses in humans. Clinical features of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) include atypical pneumonia and progressive respiratory failure that is highly reminiscent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by SARS-CoV. The host response is a key component of highly pathogenic respiratory virus infection. Here, we computationally analyzed gene expression changes in a human airway epithelial cell line infected with two genetically distinct MERS-CoV strains obtained from human patients, MERS-CoV SA 1 and MERS-CoV Eng 1. Results Using topological techniques, including persistence homology and filtered clustering, we performed a comparative transcriptional analysis of human Calu-3 cell host responses to the different MERS-CoV strains, with MERS-CoV Eng 1 inducing early kinetic changes, between 3 and 12 hours post infection, compared to MERS-CoV SA 1. Robust transcriptional changes distinguished the two MERS-CoV strains predominantly at the late time points. Combining statistical analysis of infection and cytokine-stimulated Calu-3 transcriptomics, we identified differential innate responses, including up-regulation of extracellular remodeling genes following MERS-CoV Eng 1 infection and differential pro-inflammatory responses. Conclusions Through our genomics-based approach, we found topological differences in the kinetics and magnitude of the host response to MERS-CoV SA 1 and MERS-CoV Eng 1, with differential expression of innate immune and pro-inflammatory responsive genes as a result of IFN, TNF and IL-1α signaling. Predicted activation for STAT3 mediating gene expression relevant for epithelial cell-to-cell adherens and junction signaling in MERS-CoV Eng 1 infection suggest that these transcriptional differences may be the result of amino acid differences in viral proteins known to modulate innate immunity during MERS-CoV infection.
Declaration of Intention of Herrmann Carl August Mueller
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1911

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Herrmann Carl August MuellerApplicant age:38Occupation: painterCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 17 March 1873Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: NetherlandCity of residence at time of declaration: Mays Landing,NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 25 August 1911
Methodological Reporting Quality of Comprehensive Hypertension Guidelines in the Past Five Years
Creators: name: Wang, Zijun
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This study was to evaluate the methodological and reporting quality of the comprehensive hypertension guidelines in the past five years, and to find the problems existing in the current guidelines. So as to provide guidance for the formulation of higher quality hypertension guidelines.
Deformation Lamps: A Projection Technique to Make a Static Object Dynamic
Creators: name: Kawabe, Takahiro
name: Fukiage, Taiki
name: Sawayama, Masataka
name: Nishida, Shin'ya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.21; H.1.2; I.3.7

description: Light projection is a powerful technique to edit appearances of objects in the real world. Based on pixel-wise modification of light transport, previous techniques have successfully modified static surface properties such as surface color, dynamic range, gloss and shading. Here, we propose an alternative light projection technique that adds a variety of illusory, yet realistic distortions to a wide range of static 2D and 3D projection targets. The key idea of our technique, named Deformation Lamps, is to project only dynamic luminance information, which effectively activates the motion (and shape) processing in the visual system, while preserving the color and texture of the original object. Although the projected dynamic luminance information is spatially inconsistent with the color and texture of the target object, the observer's brain automatically com- bines these sensory signals in such a way as to correct the inconsistency across visual attributes. We conducted a psychophysical experiment to investigate the characteristics of the inconsistency correction, and found that the correction was dependent critically on the retinal magnitude of inconsistency. Another experiment showed that perceived magnitude of image deformation by our techniques was underestimated. The results ruled out the possibility that the effect by our technique stemmed simply from the physical change of object appearance by light projection. Finally, we discuss how our techniques can make the observers perceive a vivid and natural movement, deformation, or oscillation of a variety of static objects, including drawn pictures, printed photographs, sculptures with 3D shading, objects with natural textures including human bodies.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Molecular gas in absorption and emission along the line of sight to W31C G10.62-0.38
Creators: name: Liszt, Harvey
name: Gerin, Maryvonne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used the ARO 12m antenna to observe emission from the J=1-0 lines of carbon monoxide, \hcop\ and HNC and the J=2-1 line of CS toward and around the continuum peak used for absorption studies and we compare them with CH, HNC, C\p\ and other absorption spectra from PRISMAS. We develop a kinematic analysis that allows a continuous description of the spectral properties and relates them to viewing geometry in the Galaxy. As for CH, HF, C\p, \hcop\ and other species observed in absorption, mm-wave emission in CO, \hcop, HNC and CS is continuous over the full velocity range expected for material between the Sun and W31 4.95 kpc away. CO emission is much stronger than average in the Galactic molecular ring and the mean \HH\ density derived from CH, $4 \pccc \la$ 2$$ $\la 10 \pccc$ at 4 $\la$ R $\la$ 6.4 kpc, is similarly elevated. The CO-\HH\ conversion factor falls in a narrow range \XCO\ $= 1-2\times10^{20}~\HH\ \pcc~({\rm K}-\kms)^{-1}$ if the emitting gas is mostly on the near side of the sub-central point, as we suggest. The brightnesses of \hcop, HNC, and CS are comparable (0.83\%, 0.51\% and 1.1\% respectively relative to CO) and have no variation in galactocentric radius with respect to CO. Comparison of the profile-averaged \hcop\ emission brightness and optical depth implies local densities n(H) $\approx 135\pm25\pccc$ with most of excitation of \hcop\ from electrons. At such density, a consistent picture of the \HH-bearing gas, accounting also for the CO emission, has a volume filling factor 3\% and a 5 pc clump or cloud size.
description: Accepted to A&A
Declaration of Intention of Frank Muehter
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1916

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Frank Muehter Applicant age:50Occupation: laborerCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 21 November 1865Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Pretoria City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:21 August 1916
Classical and all-floating FETI methods for the simulation of arterial tissues
Creators: name: Augustin, Christoph M.
name: Holzapfel, Gerhard A.
name: Steinbach, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.8; C.5.1
subject: 65N55, 74B20

description: High-resolution and anatomically realistic computer models of biological soft tissues play a significant role in the understanding of the function of cardiovascular components in health and disease. However, the computational effort to handle fine grids to resolve the geometries as well as sophisticated tissue models is very challenging. One possibility to derive a strongly scalable parallel solution algorithm is to consider finite element tearing and interconnecting (FETI) methods. In this study we propose and investigate the application of FETI methods to simulate the elastic behavior of biological soft tissues. As one particular example we choose the artery which is - as most other biological tissues - characterized by anisotropic and nonlinear material properties. We compare two specific approaches of FETI methods, classical and all-floating, and investigate the numerical behavior of different preconditioning techniques. In comparison to classical FETI, the all-floating approach has not only advantages concerning the implementation but in many cases also concerning the convergence of the global iterative solution method. This behavior is illustrated with numerical examples. We present results of linear elastic simulations to show convergence rates, as expected from the theory, and results from the more sophisticated nonlinear case where we apply a well-known anisotropic model to the realistic geometry of an artery. Although the FETI methods have a great applicability on artery simulations we will also discuss some limitations concerning the dependence on material parameters.
description: 29 pages
Associations between emotion regulation strategies for negative emotions about sex and individuals’ and couples’ sexual well-being
Creators: name: Bouchard, Katrina
name: Bergeron, Sophie
name: Vannier, Sarah
name: Rosen, Natalie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Pre-registration for dyadic longitudinal study examining the associations between individuals' and couples' emotion regulation strategies for negative emotions about sex (problem solving, distraction, acceptance, reappraisal, avoidance, suppression) and their sexual wellbeing (sexual desire for a partner, sexual satisfaction, sexual distress) over time.
Calderón-Mityagin couples of Banach spaces related to decreasing functions
Creators: name: Mastyło, Mieczysław
name: Sinnamon, Gord
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B70 (Primary), 46E30, 46B42 (Secondary)

description: A number of Calderón-Mityagin couples and relative Calderón-Mityagin pairs are identified among Banach function spaces defined in terms of the least decreasing majorant construction on the half line. The interpolation structure of such spaces is shown to closely parallel that of the rearrangement invariant spaces, and it is proved that a couple of these spaces is a Calderón-Mityagin couple if and only if the corresponding couple of rearrangement invariant spaces is a Calderón-Mityagin couple. Consequently, the class of all interpolation spaces for any couple of spaces of this type admits a complete description by the K-method if and only if the class of all interpolation spaces for the corresponding couple of rearrangement invariant spaces does. Analogous results are proved for spaces defined in terms of the level function construction. In the main, the conclusions for both types of spaces remain valid when Lebesgue measure on the half line is replaced by a general Borel measure on R. However, for certain measures the class of interpolation spaces of these new spaces may be degenerate, reducing the "if and only if" of the main results to a single implication.
description: 19 pages
Declaration of Intention of Dorathia Justine Henriette Mohle
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Dorathia Justine Henriette Mohle Applicant age: 26Occupation: HairdresserCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 19th May 1891Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Main City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 23rd October 1917
Gene selection and cancer type classification of diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma using a bivariate mixture model for two-species data
Creators: name: Richards, Kristy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract A bivariate mixture model utilizing information across two species was proposed to solve the fundamental problem of identifying differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments. The model utility was illustrated using a dog and human lymphoma data set prepared by a group of scientists in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. A small number of genes were identified as being differentially expressed in both species and the human genes in this cluster serve as a good predictor for classifying diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients into two subgroups, the germinal center B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and the activated B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The number of human genes that were observed to be significantly differentially expressed (21) from the two-species analysis was very small compared to the number of human genes (190) identified with only one-species analysis (human data). The genes may be clinically relevant/important, as this small set achieved low misclassification rates of DLBCL subtypes. Additionally, the two subgroups defined by this cluster of human genes had significantly different survival functions, indicating that the stratification based on gene-expression profiling using the proposed mixture model provided improved insight into the clinical differences between the two cancer subtypes.
title: Pathways for sustainable technology development
title: The case of bicycle mobility in Berlin
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gausemeier, P.
name: Seidel, Johannes
name: Riedelsheimer, T.
name: Seliger, Günther
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: sustainability
subject: future studies
subject: concepts for bicycle mobility

description: Sustainability requires that quality of life and resource consumption are harmonized. The use of sustainable technologies fosters their harmonization. A scenario based method has been developed for identifying sustainable technology systems on different levels of development and in different areas of human living. The developed method consists of four elements: the surrounding field scenarios, technology pool, sustainability assessment and system creation. They can be applied in various paths with different starting points. The two technology induced paths, emanating from either a system or a system element, enable the transformation of technological potentials into useful applications. The problem induced path, emanating from future framework conditions of an observed field, allows human needs to be satisfied trough technological potentials. The application shown in this paper illustrates the usage of the method's problem induced path in mobility as one area of human living. Based on three surrounding field scenarios for bicycle mobility in Berlin, technology systems for bicycle design, operation and their repair in self-help workshops are illustrated.
Declaration of Intention of Rinaldo Di Pietrontonio
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Rinaldo Di Pietrontonio Applicant age:43Occupation: LaborerCountry of Origin: ItalyDate of Birth: 31st May 1874Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Ancona City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 15th August 1917
Degradation of Co-Evaporated Perovskite Thin Film in Air
Creators: name: Wang, Congcong
name: Li, Youzhen
name: Xu, Xuemei
name: Wang, Chenggong
name: Xie, Fangyan
name: Gao, Yongli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methylammonium lead halide perovskites have been developed as highly promising materials to fabricate efficient solar cells in the past few years. The real impact to energy applications relies on the understanding and controlling of the stability of the material. We investigated the degradation of CH3NH3PbI3 by air exposure using x-ray diffraction (XRD), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The stoichiometric sample was grown with co-evaporation of PbI2 and CH3NH3I on a Au coated Si wafer. It was found that the perovskite thin film gradually turned to PbI2 in air, accompanied with complete removal of N and substantial reduction of I. It was also observed that PbI2 crystallization roughened the film and resulted in a partial exposure of the Au substrate.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
A research utilisation framework for informing global health and development policies and programmes
Creators: name: Kim, Christine
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract A shift in the culture and practice of health and development research is required to maximise the real-world use of evidence by non-academic or non-research-oriented audiences. Many frameworks have been developed to guide and measure the research utilisation process, yet none have been widely applied. Some frameworks are simplified to an unrealistic linear representation while others are rendered overly complex and unusable in an attempt to capture all aspects of the research utilisation process. Additionally, many research utilisation frameworks have focused on the policy development process or within a clinical setting, with less application of the translation process at the programme level. In response to this gap – and drawing from over a decade of experience implementing research utilisation strategies – we developed a simple, four-phase framework to guide global health and development efforts that seek to apply evidence to policies and programmes. We present a detailed description of each phase in our framework, with examples of its relevance and application illustrated through our own case study experiences in global health. We believe the utility of this framework extends beyond the health sector and is relevant for maximising use of evidence to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
On Oscillations in the Social Force Model
Creators: name: Kretz, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Social Force Model is one of the most prominent models of pedestrian dynamics. As such naturally much discussion and criticism has spawned around it, some of which concerns the existence of oscillations in the movement of pedestrians. This contribution is investigating under which circumstances, parameter choices, and model variants oscillations do occur and how this can be prevented. It is shown that oscillations can be excluded if the model parameters fulfill certain relations. The fact that with some parameter choices oscillations occur and with some not is exploited to verify a specific computer implementation of the model.
description: accepted for publication in Physica A
Declaration of Intention of Hilde Adraissen
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1924

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Hilde Adraissen Applicant age:18Occupation: clerkCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth:26 May 1906 Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Kroonland City of residence at time of declaration: Margate NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:30 December 1924
Declaration of Intention of Raffaele Borboto
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Raffaele Borboto Applicant age:33Occupation: LaborerCountry of Origin:ItalyDate of Birth: 3rd March 1884Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Prince Louise City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 15th June 1917
Declaration of Intention of Reinhardt Dieling
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1915

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Reinhardt Dieling Applicant age: 42Occupation: CookCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 11th July 1872Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Aller City of residence at time of declaration: Smith Landing NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 2nd June 1915
Tools for efficient epistasis detection in genome-wide association study
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhang, Xiang
name: Huang, Shunping
name: Zou, Fei
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Background Genome-wide association study (GWAS) aims to find genetic factors underlying complex phenotypic traits, for which epistasis or gene-gene interaction detection is often preferred over single-locus approach. However, the computational burden has been a major hurdle to apply epistasis test in the genome-wide scale due to a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) pairs to be tested. Results We have developed a set of three efficient programs, FastANOVA, COE and TEAM, that support epistasis test in a variety of problem settings in GWAS. These programs utilize permutation test to properly control error rate such as family-wise error rate (FWER) and false discovery rate (FDR). They guarantee to find the optimal solutions, and significantly speed up the process of epistasis detection in GWAS. Conclusions A web server with user interface and source codes are available at the website http://www.csbio.unc.edu/epistasis/. The source codes are also available at SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/epistasis/.
Assessing incidental binding of verbal and spatial features
Creators: name: Morey, Candice
name: Macy, Robin
name: Langerock, Naomi
name: Vergauwe, Evie
name: Delooze, Molly
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This registration documents the state of this project when we initially submitted it for publication in Brain Sciences. We shall update the manuscript files after revisions are requested.
Secure Computation of Randomized Functions
Creators: name: Data, Deepesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Two user secure computation of randomized functions is considered, where only one user computes the output. Both the users are semi-honest; and computation is such that no user learns any additional information about the other user's input and output other than what cannot be inferred from its own input and output. First we consider a scenario, where privacy conditions are against both the users. In perfect security setting Kilian [STOC 2000] gave a characterization of securely computable randomized functions, and we provide rate-optimal protocols for such functions. We prove that the same characterization holds in asymptotic security setting as well and give a rate-optimal protocol. In another scenario, where privacy condition is only against the user who is not computing the function, we provide rate-optimal protocols. For perfect security in both the scenarios, our results are in terms of chromatic entropies of different graphs. In asymptotic security setting, we get single-letter expressions of rates in both the scenarios.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, Accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2016
Declaration of Intention of Eduard Labows
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Eduard Labows Applicant age: 50Occupation: EngineerCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 16 September 1866Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: America City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 01 March 1917
title: Gamification in factory management education
title: A case study with Lego Mindstorms
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Müller, Bastian C.
name: Reise, Carsten
name: Seliger, Günther
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 650 Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten
subject: gamification
subject: serious game
subject: university education
subject: learnstrument
subject: Lego

description: Research oriented teaching in universities provides opportunities to support the student's desire to explore. A student's learning success can benefit from gamified project work, especially when students face self-guided learning processes in demanding educational activities. Gamification is defined as the use of game elements in a non-game context. Games offer the chance to improve the motivation of students, support group work, train communication skills and introduce the capacity for experimenting in safe environments. Therefore the learning effect of prospective engineers can be increased through the integration of Gamification into educational activities. This leads to higher student participation in university courses and encourages the development of the student's social, personal and technical competences. In this paper a game concept for teaching in universities is introduced focusing on the impartment of the state of the art on manufacturing for value creation, e.g. production planning and control. The concept covers a level based storyline with rules and goals using physical artefacts of Lego Mindstorms. Due to the modular characteristic of Lego, which supports creativity by having a high number of possible combinations, a “free playing space” for students is established. In groups, the students work in a highly problem oriented way, e.g. finding cost savings for their factory due to a changing market condition. Feedback in the sense of the success of student's strategies is given directly through the designed Lego model and its functionality.
Declaration of Intention of Frederick Brennenstahl
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1925

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Frederick Brennenstahl Applicant age:21 Occupation: MechanicCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 21st May 1902Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: George Washington City of residence at time of declaration:Atlantic City NJ Declaration submitted and sworn on date: 28th April 1925
Contact electrification in aerosolized monodispersed silica microspheres quantified using laser based velocimetry
Creators: name: Alois, Stefano
name: Iversen, Jens Jacob
name: Merrison, Jonathan
name: Sesterhenn, Jörn
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 670 Industrielle Fertigung
subject: contact electrification
subject: microspheres
subject: solid aerosol
subject: laser velocimetry

description: The contact electrification of aerosolized micro particles has been studied using a novel technique involving laser velocimetry. This has allowed the simultaneous determination of size and electrical charge of individual silica microspheres (in the range 1 – 8 µm). Interestingly the particles interacting with the injector tube have been seen to become electrified with a relatively narrow range of surface charge concentration of around Q/4πr² ~ −100 e⁻/µm² (~ −0.02mC/m²) for all particle sizes. Several combinations of aerosol particle and injector tube composition were also investigated, some of which led to positive particle electrification and all of which resulted in similar values of measured surface charge concentration. The electrification was not seen to be strongly affected by gas composition and is in reasonable agreement with the expected maximum surface charge observed in previous experiments (< 0.1mC/m²). Possible explanations for this effect are discussed, including the possibility of field emission at the contact site. In the future this technique is intended also to be applied to particle-particle induced contact electrification and its material dependence.
Potential impact of infant feeding recommendations on mortality and HIV-infection in children born to HIV-infected mothers in Africa: a simulation
Creators: name: Seksaria, Vidyunmala
name: Atashili, Julius
name: Kalilani, Linda
name: Sickbert-Bennett, Emily E
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract Background Although breast-feeding accounts for 15–20% of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV, it is not prohibited in some developing countries because of the higher mortality associated with not breast-feeding. We assessed the potential impact, on HIV infection and infant mortality, of a recommendation for shorter durations of exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) and poor compliance to these recommendations. Methods We developed a deterministic mathematical model using primarily parameters from published studies conducted in Uganda or Kenya and took into account non-compliance resulting in mixed-feeding practices. Outcomes included the number of children HIV-infected and/or dead (cumulative mortality) at 2 years following each of 6 scenarios of infant-feeding recommendations in children born to HIV-infected women: Exclusive replacement-feeding (ERF) with 100% compliance, EBF for 6 months with 100% compliance, EBF for 4 months with 100% compliance, ERF with 70% compliance, EBF for 6 months with 85% compliance, EBF for 4 months with 85% compliance Results In the base model, reducing the duration of EBF from 6 to 4 months reduced HIV infection by 11.8% while increasing mortality by 0.4%. Mixed-feeding in 15% of the infants increased HIV infection and mortality respectively by 2.1% and 0.5% when EBF for 6 months was recommended; and by 1.7% and 0.3% when EBF for 4 months was recommended. In sensitivity analysis, recommending EBF resulted in the least cumulative mortality when the a) mortality in replacement-fed infants was greater than 50 per 1000 person-years, b) rate of infection in exclusively breast-fed infants was less than 2 per 1000 breast-fed infants per week, c) rate of progression from HIV to AIDS was less than 15 per 1000 infected infants per week, or d) mortality due to HIV/AIDS was less than 200 per 1000 infants with HIV/AIDS per year. Conclusion Recommending shorter durations of breast-feeding in infants born to HIV-infected women in these settings may substantially reduce infant HIV infection but not mortality. When EBF for shorter durations is recommended, lower mortality could be achieved by a simultaneous reduction in the rate of progression from HIV to AIDS and or HIV/AIDS mortality, achievable by the use of HAART in infants.
Quasi-linearization approach for the under-actuated robots
Creators: name: Albalasie, Ahmad
name: Glodde, Arne
name: Seliger, Günther
name: Abu Hanieh, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: under-actuated motion
subject: robots
subject: control
subject: optimization
subject: quasi-linearization
subject: trajectories planning

description: A novel technique to reduce energy consumption for industrial robots by using redundancy and under-actuated configurations is introduced in this paper. The study concentrates on kinematics including a passive axis which causes a highly nonlinear coupling of the Coriolis and centrifugal forces and high inertia coupling. The challenge of meeting the requirements of position accuracy, precision, and repeatability combined with the requirements for the speed, acceleration, and torque is coped with by solving a sequence of linear two point boundary value problems for controlling the movement of the end effector between two points. The advantages of this method are the ability of reducing the computation time dramatically, computer storage, and linearizing the nonlinear model. Furthermore the optimal trajectories are identified with minimizing energy consumption and enabling high speed capability. Numerical simulations are conducted to validate the theoretical analysis.
Declaration of Intention of Philip Tischler
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1915

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Philip Tischler Applicant age: 31Occupation: TinsmithCountry of Origin: AustriaDate of Birth: 28th September 1884Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Blucher City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 4th November 1915
Declaration of Intention of Emil Melly
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Emil Melly Applicant age:28 Occupation: BakerCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 25 December 1888Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Kron Prince Cecille City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:2 April 1917
Enhancing technological innovation with the implementation of a sustainable manufacturing community
Creators: name: Severengiz, Mustafa
name: Seidel, Johannes
name: Steingrímsson, Jón Gardar
name: Seliger, Günther
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: Open Knowledge
subject: sustainability
subject: Sustainable Manufacturing Community
subject: SMC

description: The global challenge of sustainable value creation can be coped with by raising human awareness about it all around the world. Increasing process effectiveness and efficiency in view of shrinking natural resources, increasing competitiveness and profitability by selling functionality and service instead of physical products give strategic references for the development of the so called sustainable manufacturing community (SMC). Ubiquitous application of modern information and communication technology (ICT) for shaping responsible global citizenship by knowledge transfer can expand learning and teaching productivity by magnitudes, can strengthen the leverage of help for self-help, can enable initiative and creativity for entrepreneurial approaches in the global village without losing local differentiation. Elements of an architecture for an SMC and the concrete case of smart wheel urban mobility with an outlook for an exemplary German Vietnamese collaboration perspective are considered.
An adaptive multiresolution method for ideal magnetohydrodynamics using divergence cleaning with parabolic-hyperbolic correction
Creators: name: Gomes, Anna Karina Fontes
name: Domingues, Margarete Oliveira
name: Schneider, Kai
name: Mendes, Odim
name: Deiterding, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta scheme for time integration. Harten's cell average multiresolution allows to introduce a locally refined spatial mesh while controlling the error. The incompressibility of the magnetic field is controlled by using a Generalized Lagrangian Multiplier (GLM) approach with a mixed hyperbolic-parabolic correction. Different applications to two-dimensional problems illustrate the properties of the method. For each application CPU time and memory savings are reported and numerical aspects of the method are discussed. The accuracy of the adaptive computations is assessed by comparison with reference solutions computed on a regular fine mesh.
description: 30 pages
COMmercial Funding In Trials: the COMFIT study
Creators: name: Nejstgaard, Camilla
name: Clayton, Gemma
name: Lundh, Andreas
name: Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Commercial funding
subject: Meta-epidemiology

description: The primary aim of COMFIT is to investigate the impact of commercial funding (i.e., commercial funding per se and risk of commercial funder influence separately) on estimated intervention effects in randomised clinical trials. COMFIT is based on a consortium of researchers, who agreed to share meta-epidemiological study datasets with information on meta-analyses and trials included in meta-epidemiological studies. The study protocol is available here: Nejstgaard CH, Lundh A, Abdi S, et al. Combining meta-epidemiological study datasets on commercial funding of randomised clinical trials: Database, methods, and descriptive results of the COMFIT study. Res Synth Methods. 2022;13:214-228. Here we present the analysis plan for the COMFIT study.
Declaration of Intention of Frank William Kautzsch
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Frank William Kautzsch Applicant age:36Occupation: waiterCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 30 August 1880Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Rotterdam City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:28 March 1917
ResBoost: characterizing and predicting catalytic residues in enzymes
Creators: name: Alterovitz, Ron
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2009

description: Abstract Background Identifying the catalytic residues in enzymes can aid in understanding the molecular basis of an enzyme's function and has significant implications for designing new drugs, identifying genetic disorders, and engineering proteins with novel functions. Since experimentally determining catalytic sites is expensive, better computational methods for identifying catalytic residues are needed. Results We propose ResBoost, a new computational method to learn characteristics of catalytic residues. The method effectively selects and combines rules of thumb into a simple, easily interpretable logical expression that can be used for prediction. We formally define the rules of thumb that are often used to narrow the list of candidate residues, including residue evolutionary conservation, 3D clustering, solvent accessibility, and hydrophilicity. ResBoost builds on two methods from machine learning, the AdaBoost algorithm and Alternating Decision Trees, and provides precise control over the inherent trade-off between sensitivity and specificity. We evaluated ResBoost using cross-validation on a dataset of 100 enzymes from the hand-curated Catalytic Site Atlas (CSA). Conclusion ResBoost achieved 85% sensitivity for a 9.8% false positive rate and 73% sensitivity for a 5.7% false positive rate. ResBoost reduces the number of false positives by up to 56% compared to the use of evolutionary conservation scoring alone. We also illustrate the ability of ResBoost to identify recently validated catalytic residues not listed in the CSA.
Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays from the "En Caul" Birth of Magnetars
Creators: name: Piro, Anthony L.
name: Kollmeier, Juna A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapidly-spinning magnetars can potentially form by the accretion induced collapse of a white dwarf or by neutron star mergers if the equation of state of nuclear density matter is such that two low mass neutron stars can sometimes form a massive neutron star rather than a black hole. In either case, the newly born magnetar is an attractive site for producing ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (particles with individual energies exceeding $10^{18}\,{\rm eV}$; UHECRs). The short-period spin and strong magnetic field are able to accelerate particles up to the appropriate energies, and the composition of material on and around the magnetar may naturally explain recent inferences of heavy elements in UHECRs. We explore whether the small amount of natal debris surrounding these magnetars allows the UHECRs to easily escape. We also investigate the impact on the UHECRs of the unique environment around the magnetar, which consists of a bubble of relativistic particles and magnetic field within the debris. Rates and energetics of UHECRs are consistent with such an origin even though the rates of events that produce rapidly-spinning magnetars remain very uncertain. The low ejecta mass also helps limit the high-energy neutrino background associated with this scenario to be below current IceCube constraints over most of the magnetar parameter space. A unique prediction is that UHECRs may be generated in old stellar environments without strong star formation in contrast to what would be expected for other UHECR scenarios, such as active galactic nuclei or long gamma-ray bursts.
description: Some additional estimates and references. Main results unchanged. 11 pages, 8 figures, version accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Declaration of Intention of Joseph Borboto
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Joseph Borboto Applicant age:30Occupation: ForemanCountry of Origin: ItalyDate of Birth: 2nd March 1887Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Luguria City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 15th June 1917