cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Enhancing water resource management: a comparative analysis of expensive and affordable lorawan sensors for using soil as a water reservoir
Creators: name: Thanipparambu Narayanan Kutty, Harikrishnan
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hof
Year: 2024

description: Approximately 71% of Earth's surface is covered by water, with only 3% being fresh water suitable for human use, a majority of which is trapped in glaciers and permafrost. Freshwater ecosystems, vital for sustaining life and biodiversity, face heavy utilization by humans, mainly for agriculture, industry, and municipal needs, leading to an annual freshwater consumption of 32,928 km³. Agriculture is responsible for approximately 70% of this consumption, highlighting the critical need to enhance water-use efficiency in the face of escalating scarcity and the projected requirement for a 15% increase in freshwater withdrawals, necessary to support a 50% growth in agricultural production by 2050. Soil health plays a pivotal role in sustainable agriculture, influencing plant production, water quality, and nutrient recycling. In this context, precision agriculture, particularly sensor-based approaches like LoRaWAN, emerges as a key solution with its low power usage, long-range capabilities, and cost-effectiveness. However, their adoption is limited in small to medium-scale farms, primarily in regions lacking mechanized farming, due to high initial investments and extended return periods. Challenges include the cost of new technology adoption, training, and the high expense of purchasing and maintaining advanced hardware.
This thesis focuses on making precision agriculture more accessible to smaller farms by exploring affordable hardware alternatives based on LoRaWAN technologies. This involves establishing a LoRaWAN test station at Hochschule Hof to test both affordable and expensive sensors variants in agricultural-like conditions for generating valuable data. The objective is to assess the practicality of using more economical sensor variants against their expensive counterparts and to develop a method for a data-driven comparative analysis of these sensors' performance in agricultural applications.
The conclusion of the thesis reveals that the LoRaWAN test station at Hochschule Hof successfully tested both affordable and expensive sensor variants. The affordable sensors effectively measured parameters like air temperature, humidity, and light intensity, but were less precise for scientific research in aspects like wind direction. Notable deviations in some weather and soil profile measurements indicate the necessity of additional studies. The research also evaluated the independent system set up at the university, noting its effectiveness and economic benefits compared to the Decentlab platform, albeit lacking in data visualization. Ultimately, the feasibility of replacing expensive sensors with affordable variants in precision agriculture was explored, with detailed findings and recommendations presented.
Scalable Optimal Transport Methods in Machine Learning: A Contemporary Survey
Creators: name: Khamis, Abdelwahed
name: Tsuchida, Russell
name: Tarek, Mohamed
name: Rolland, Vivien
name: Petersson, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optimal Transport (OT) is a mathematical framework that first emerged in the eighteenth century and has led to a plethora of methods for answering many theoretical and applied questions. The last decade has been a witness to the remarkable contributions of this classical optimization problem to machine learning. This paper is about where and how optimal transport is used in machine learning with a focus on the question of scalable optimal transport. We provide a comprehensive survey of optimal transport while ensuring an accessible presentation as permitted by the nature of the topic and the context. First, we explain the optimal transport background and introduce different flavors (i.e., mathematical formulations), properties, and notable applications. We then address the fundamental question of how to scale optimal transport to cope with the current demands of big and high dimensional data. We conduct a systematic analysis of the methods used in the literature for scaling OT and present the findings in a unified taxonomy. We conclude with presenting some open challenges and discussing potential future research directions. A live repository of related OT research papers is maintained in https://github.com/abdelwahed/OT_for_big_data.git
description: Accepted @ TPAMI 24
NL2TL: Transforming Natural Languages to Temporal Logics using Large Language Models
Creators: name: Chen, Yongchao
name: Gandhi, Rujul
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Fan, Chuchu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Temporal Logic (TL) can be used to rigorously specify complex high-level specification for systems in many engineering applications. The translation between natural language (NL) and TL has been under-explored due to the lack of dataset and generalizable model across different application domains. In this paper, we propose an accurate and generalizable transformation framework of English instructions from NL to TL, exploring the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) at multiple stages. Our contributions are twofold. First, we develop a framework to create a dataset of NL-TL pairs combining LLMs and human annotation. We publish a dataset with 28K NL-TL pairs. Then, we finetune T5 models on the lifted versions (i.e., the specific Atomic Propositions (AP) are hidden) of the NL and TL. The enhanced generalizability originates from two aspects: 1) Usage of lifted NL-TL characterizes common logical structures, without constraints of specific domains. 2) Application of LLMs in dataset creation largely enhances corpus richness. We test the generalization of trained models on five varied domains. To achieve full NL-TL transformation, we either combine the lifted model with AP recognition task or do the further finetuning on each specific domain. During the further finetuning, our model achieves higher accuracy (>95%) using only <10% training data, compared with the baseline sequence to sequence (Seq2Seq) model.
description: 25 pages, 18 figures
Antibiotic residues from aquaculture farms and their ecological risks in Southeast Asia: a case study from Malaysia
Creators: name: Thiang, Ee Lean
name: Lee, Choon Weng
name: Takada, Hideshige
name: Seki, Kanako
name: Takei, Ayaka
name: Suzuki, Satoru
name: Wang, Aijun
name: Bong, Chui Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Background and Objectives: One major source of antibiotic contamination in the sea is from aquaculture. We monitored the concentration of commonly used antibiotic classes and antibiotic resistance genes (tet(M), sul1, sul2 and sul3) in aquaculture farms in Peninsular Malaysia. Methods: Antibiotic residues and resistance genes were quantified using high-performance liquid chromatography and real-time PCR respectively. Risk quotients in European technical guidance document on risk assessment was used to assess the potential environmental risk. Results: We detected 23 antibiotics with tetracyclines, sulfonamides and quinolones were the most frequently detected classes, indicating a wide distribution of antibiotics in Malaysian aquaculture farms. The dendrogram and heatmap revealed three groups of antibiotic concentration patterns but with no differences in the types of antibiotics usage among aquaculture farms. The ARGs (10−3 copies/16S) were detected in >90% of the sites except for sul3. Ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, norfloxacin and lincomycin posed risks to cyanobacteria and algae in Kelantan, Perak and Pahang. Conclusion: Relative to Asian aquaculture farms, the residues detected here were at low or moderate levels except for quinolones. This study will be useful to develop effective management of aquaculture wastewater in order to mitigate antibiotic pollution and transmission of ARGs to humans through the food chain.
Sexuelle Gewalt und ihre Primärprävention in der Schule: Handlungsansätze für Fachkräfte der Schule, damit Primärprävention zu sexueller Gewalt für Kinder und Jugendliche an ihre Lebenswelt anschlussfähig wird
Creators: name: Kronenberg, Cindy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Gegenstand der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit von Cindy Kronenberg ist sexuelle Gewalt und ihre Prävention in der Schule. Prävention beinhaltet Primär-, Sekundär- und Tertiärprävention, welche den Aufgabenfelder der Sozialen Arbeit in der Schule entspricht. Da die Primärprävention die Verminderung von zukünftigen Problemen als Ziel hat, wurde durch Literatur geprüft, wie in der Schule Primärprävention anschlussfähig an die Lebenswelt von Schüler*innen vermittelt werden kann. Es zeigte sich, dass Sexualität bereits ab dem Kindesalter vorhanden ist und deshalb bereits dann mit Prävention gestartet werden sollte. Um die sexuelle Gesundheit nachhaltig zu sichern, müssen einerseits Selbstkompetenzen wie Selbstvertrauen, kennen von Gefühlen und Grenzen, Förderung der emotionalen Entwicklung, in Sozialkompetenzen wie Freundschaft und Respekt, und durch Fachwissen zu Sexualität, gestärkt werden. Andererseits sollen gesellschaftliche Ungleichheitsverhältnisse aufgedeckt werden. Es braucht zudem eine schulintern gelebte Haltung, welche diese Ungleichheitsverhältnisse beachtet und Diskriminierungen nicht toleriert. Die übermittelnde Person soll Empathie, Offenheit und genügend Zeit mitbringen. Für Schulsozialarbeitende bedeutet das, dass sie Lehrpersonen bei der Übermittlung der Prävention von sexueller Gewalt unterstützen oder selbst durchführen. Zudem weisen sie Schulleitungen auf die Problematik sexueller Gewalt hin und machen auf Ungleichheitsverhältnisse aufmerksam.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask 2020 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
title: CFPR: interview avec FRA2019_0003
Creators: name: Delafontaine, François
name: Avanzi, Mathieu
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Français
subject: fra

description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Source: https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.a2db3qh3.v2#805f543f82c95951ce6f9f2dea0937f8ab609225
Supercurrent mediated by helical edge modes in bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Rout, Prasanna
name: Papadopoulos, Nikos
name: Peñaranda, Fernando
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Prada, Elsa
name: San-Jose, Pablo
name: Goswami, Srijit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bilayer graphene encapsulated in tungsten diselenide can host a weak topological phase with pairs of helical edge states. The electrical tunability of this phase makes it an ideal platform to investigate unique topological effects at zero magnetic field, such as topological superconductivity. Here we couple the helical edges of such a heterostructure to a superconductor. The inversion of the bulk gap accompanied by helical states near zero displacement field leads to the suppression of the critical current in a Josephson geometry. Using superconducting quantum interferometry we observe an even-odd effect in the Fraunhofer interference pattern within the inverted gap phase. We show theoretically that this effect is a direct consequence of the emergence of helical modes that connect the two edges of the sample. The absence of such an effect at high displacement field, as well as in bare bilayer graphene junctions, confirms this interpretation and demonstrates the topological nature of the inverted gap. Our results demonstrate the coupling of superconductivity to zero-field topological states in graphene.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures
Optimized protocols for duplex quantum transduction
Creators: name: Wang, Zhaoyou
name: Zhang, Mengzhen
name: Wong, Yat
name: Zhong, Changchun
name: Jiang, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum transducers convert quantum signals through hybrid interfaces of physical platforms in quantum networks. Modeled as quantum communication channels, performance of unidirectional quantum transduction can be measured by the quantum channel capacity. However, characterizing performance of quantum transducers used for duplex quantum transduction where signals are converted bidirectionally remains an open question. Here, we propose rate regions to characterize the performance of duplex quantum transduction. Using this tool, we find that quantum transducers optimized for simultaneous duplex transduction can outperform strategies based on the standard protocol of time-shared unidirectional transduction. Integrated over the frequency domain, we demonstrate that rate region can also characterize quantum transducers with finite bandwidth.
Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables Under Model Instability
Creators: name: Pettenuzzo, Davide
name: Timmermann, Allan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We compare different approaches to accounting for parameter instability in the context of macroeconomic forecasting models that assume either small, frequent changes versus models whose parameters exhibit large, rare changes. An empirical out-of-sample forecasting exercise for U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth and inflation suggests that models that allow for parameter instability generate more accurate density forecasts than constant-parameter models although they fail to produce better point forecasts. Model combinations deliver similar gains in predictive performance although they fail to improve on the predictive accuracy of the single best model, which is a specification that allows for time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
A Parametric Model for Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos
Creators: name: Yang, Daneng
name: Nadler, Ethan O.
name: Yu, Hai-Bo
name: Zhong, Yi-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a parametric model for studying self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. The model uses an analytical density profile, calibrated using a controlled N-body SIDM simulation that covers the entire gravothermal evolution, including core-forming and -collapsing phases. By normalizing the calibrated density profile, we obtain a universal description for SIDM halos at any evolution phase. The model allows us to infer properties of SIDM halos based on their cold dark matter (CDM) counterparts. As a basic application, we only require two characteristic parameters of an isolated CDM halo at $z=0$. We then extend the model to incorporate effects induced by halo mass changes, such as major mergers or tidal stripping, making it applicable to both isolated halos and subhalos. The parametric model is tested and validated using cosmological zoom-in SIDM simulations available in the literature.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures, typos fixed, added example rotation curves and an appendix for the model based on the CORE-NFW ("Read") profile; example scripts provided through a link
title: An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method for the Direct Numerical Simulation of Wetting Processes
Creators: name: Gründing, Dirk
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: The process of wetting is present in virtually all technologies that involve liquids. Hence, the modeling and simulation of the involved physics is a key element in modern product design processes. To investigate the wetting process, an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method is developed in OpenFOAM. The extension includes new Navier and a free slip boundary conditions that are introduced into the framework. Furthermore, a flexible contact angle library is provided. The implementation allows to combine heuristic models on arbitrary contact line topologies. Various test cases ranging from simple channel flows, over oscillating droplets and even local surface geometries provide a sound verification basis. Special emphasis is given to the extension of available reference cases for moving contact lines, specifically, the case of a liquid rising in a capillary. For this purpose, an ordinary differential equation (ODE) is derived from the continuum mechanical description for free surface flows. This model incorporates a Navier slip boundary condition and outlines necessary assumptions for a comparison to a numerical solution of the associated continuum mechanical model. In addition, the derivation explains the origin of the singularity in the classical rise model that is closely related to a precise computation of the stationary height of the liquid column. Moreover, it is shown that a convective contribution is missing in standard rise models. An extensive code to code comparison between the extended ALE-imple\-mentation, a geometric as well as an algebraic Volume of Fluid code, and a level-set approach has been executed in a collaborative effort. This provides novel benchmark data for the capillary rise test case that allows for a comprehensive comparison to the considered class of ODE rise models. Furthermore, the influence of numerical slip and Navier slip boundary condition on the rise behavior are analyzed. Finally, an overview of different applications and a comparison to experimental results highlights the new capabilities of the implemented extensions.
Antibiotic residues from aquaculture farms and their ecological risks in Southeast Asia: A case study from Malaysia
Creators: name: Thiang, Ee Lean
name: Lee, Choon Weng
name: Takada, Hideshige
name: Seki, Kanako
name: Takei, Ayaka
name: Suzuki, Satoru
name: Wang, Aijun
name: Bong, Chui Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: One major source of antibiotic contamination in the sea is from aquaculture. We monitored concentration of commonly used antibiotic classes and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs: tet(M), sul1, sul2 and sul3) in seven main aquaculture production stations in Peninsular Malaysia and detected twenty-three antibiotics. Tetracyclines, sulfonamides and quinolones were the most frequently detected antibiotic classes, indicating a wide distribution of antibiotics in Malaysian aquaculture farms. Oxytetracycline, tetracycline and minocycline were the common tetracyclines (LOQ-2.45× 102 ng/L) detected, while sulfamerazine and sulfathiazole were commonly detected sulfonamides (LOQ-2.82× 102 ng/L) among the farms. For quinolones (LOQ-9.58 × 105ng/L), enrofloxacin, nalidixic acid, and ofloxacin were the most common. Relative to Asian aquaculture farms, the residues detected here were at low or moderate levels except for quinolones. The dendrogram and heatmap revealed three groups of antibiotic concentration patterns but with no differences in the types of antibiotics usage among aquaculture farms were observed. The ARGs (10−3 copies/16S) were detected in more than 90% of the sites except for sul3. There was also high ecological risks of ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, norfloxacin and lincomycin for cyanobacteria and algae in Kelantan, Perak and Pahang. This is the first study to shed light on the antibiotic contamination, ARGs in aquaculture systems and its potential ecological risk in the coasts of Malaysia. This study will be useful to develop effective management of aquaculture wastewater in order to mitigate antibiotic pollution and transmission of ARGs to humans through the food chain.
title: Basilii Epistola ad Julianum Imperatorem. E MSS. Regiis 1112. 1327. 1334. 2281. & Joliano. Basilius Iuliano.
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: created: -
title: CFPR: interview avec FRA2019_0002
Creators: name: Delafontaine, François
name: Avanzi, Mathieu
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Français
subject: fra

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Source: https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.b48971tr.v4#ba4083a4681eb272b23ae4782b2f8694d5832e7b
Optical coupling control of isolated mechanical resonators
Creators: name: Onah, F. E.
name: Jaramillo-Ávila, B. R.
name: Maldonado-Villamizar, F. H.
name: Rodríguez-Lara, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Hamiltonian model describing two pairs of mechanical and optical modes under standard optomechanical interaction. The vibrational modes are mechanically isolated from each other and the optical modes couple evanescently. We recover the ranges for variables of interest, such as mechanical and optical resonant frequencies and naked coupling strengths, using a finite element model for a standard experimental realization. We show that the quantum model, under this parameter range and external optical driving, may be approximated into parametric interaction models for all involved modes. As an example, we study the effect of detuning in the optical resonant frequencies modes and optical driving resolved to mechanical sidebands and show an optical beam splitter with interaction strength dressed by the mechanical excitation number, a mechanical bidirectional coupler, and a two-mode mechanical squeezer where the optical state mediates the interaction strength between the mechanical modes.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Nuclear Dilemma: Conceptualising the Cold War
Creators: name: Stirling, Hamish
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020
Subjects: Reinhold Niebuhr; Cold War; Nuclear Dilemma; National Interest; Realism; Cold War Consensus

description: This article re-examines the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr through the framework of his views on the nuclear dilemma. Recent historiography has questioned the theoretical consistency of Niebuhr’s approach to this issue. However, the article demonstrates that his approach is based on a common misunderstanding of the ‘realist’ thrust of Niebuhr’s thought, particularly his conception of the national interest and the potential for limiting conflict between states. In exploring his political philosophy more deeply, we can also clarify his more general Cold War stance and distinguish it from those of some of his contemporaries in important ways.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol 3 (2020)
Addressing Racial Conflict in Antebellum America: Women and Native Americans in Lydia Maria Child’s and Margaret Fuller’s Literary Works
Creators: name: Mocci, Serena
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020
Subjects: Margaret Fuller; Lydia Maria Child; Women Reformers; Nineteenth Century; Native Americans; Expansionism

description: Through an analysis of two lesser-known works, Summer on the Lakes (1844) and The First Settlers of New-England: or, Conquest of the Pequods, Narragansets and Pokanokets (1829),the essay aims to investigate the ways in which two American thinkers, Margaret Fuller and Lydia Maria Child, used literature as a means of resistance against American expansionist policies and as an instrument for portraying, addressing and resolving racial conflict at U.S. borders during two crucial moments in antebellum American history.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol 3 (2020)
Family and Nation in America
Creators: name: Vaudagna, Maurizio
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020
Subjects: Family History; American Family; Nation and Family; Public Narratives; Gender Roles

description: Public narratives regarding what constitutes a ‘healthy family’ change over time and are closely linked with national history and contingent needs. This essay analyses the interdependence between the American family and the nation from the 1950s to the emergence of the so-called pluralist family in the 1960s and 1970s, up to the revival of family values from the 1980s to the present. It exemplifies how the connection between family and nation tends to strengthen during circumstances of danger, such as wars and economic crises, and to weaken when multiple familial setups are considered.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol 3 (2020)
title: Study on the importance of green buildings focussing on stormwater management using a water balance calculation model
Creators: name: Mundackal, Jasmin Rose
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hof
Year: 2024

description: Maintaining balance in the hydrological cycle is crucial for nature, but extreme weather events such as droughts and heavy downpours can disrupt it. Unfortunately, the frequency of such events has increased in recent years and is expected to continue in the future (IPCC, 2021). Urban areas are particularly vulnerable to this condition, due to its sealed surfaces and limited green spaces resulting from anthropogenic activities. Decentralized stormwater management strategies are realised to be better in mitigating the effects of such events, and this research aims to explore the importance of green buildings in managing stormwater in the selected catchment areas. Two properties have been chosen for the study: an elementary school in Schauenstein and Hof University of Applied Science. The study examines in detail the general characteristics of the chosen areas, their historical climatic data, and the KOSTRA DATA (refer 3.7). The research analyses the selected buildings and their surrounding properties, the various components of their water balance involved, the methods to calculate them, its advantages, limitations, and requirements were also compared. Based on the study, an excel-based calculation model has been developed focusing on the stormwater management aspect, to find out the major components involved in the water balance of the green building and its surrounding properties that can control surface runoff from the property. The developed calculation model works on the major aspects of water accumulation and consumption of selected green buildings and its surroundings. The tool can be used to predict runoff from the properties during different storm events, based on which the volume of a stormwater collection tank can be calculated, which can store runoff from the catchment area and can be used during droughts for irrigation purposes, thereby reducing the pressure on drainage flow and water treatment plants. The study also tries to identify the effects of water balance parameters like rainfall, evapotranspiration and storage on runoff from a property. The model also checks the tank's condition for future storm events with a 3, 5,10 and 100-year return period, using KOSTRA DATA 2020. Both the study areas are assumed to have green roofs, and the runoff results from the roofs occupied by them are validated using detention modeller software developed by green roof diagnostics.
Controlling the Photon Number Coherence of Solid-state Quantum Light Sources for Quantum Cryptography
Creators: name: Karli, Yusuf
name: Vajner, Daniel A.
name: Kappe, Florian
name: Hagen, Paul C. A.
name: Hansen, Lena M.
name: Schwarz, René
name: Bracht, Thomas K.
name: Schimpf, Christian
name: da Silva, Saimon F. Covre
name: Walther, Philip
name: Rastelli, Armando
name: Axt, Vollrath Martin
name: Loredo, Juan C.
name: Remesh, Vikas
name: Heindel, Tobias
name: Reiter, Doris E.
name: Weihs, Gregor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum communication networks rely on quantum cryptographic protocols including quantum key distribution (QKD) using single photons. A critical element regarding the security of QKD protocols is the photon number coherence (PNC), i.e. the phase relation between the zero and one-photon Fock state, which critically depends on the excitation scheme. Thus, to obtain flying qubits with the desired properties, optimal pumping schemes for quantum emitters need to be selected. Semiconductor quantum dots generate on-demand single photons with high purity and indistinguishability. Exploiting two-photon excitation of a quantum dot combined with a stimulation pulse, we demonstrate the generation of high-quality single photons with a controllable degree of PNC. Our approach provides a viable route toward secure communication in quantum networks.
description: 17 pages
Radical Motown, Radical Heritage: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Creators: name: Maheo, Olivier
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020
Subjects: African American History; Black Power; Black Working Class; New Left; Detroit

description: The essay proposes a short history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a radical left-wing organization founded in Detroit in 1969. Even though the League disappeared in 1971, its role was significant, and it allows us to write a more complex history of the Black Power Movement by linking the Old Left with the New Left. Its internal quarrels were not only due to clashes of ego but, instead, reflected actual political differences.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol 3 (2020)
Survival Bias When Assessing Risk Factors for Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Tutorial with Application to the Exposure of Smoking
Creators: name: McGuinness, Myra B.
name: Karahalios, Amalia
name: Kasza, Jessica
name: Guymer, Robyn H.
name: Finger, Robert P.
name: Simpson, Julie A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: We illustrate the effect of survival bias when investigating risk factors for eye disease in elderly populations for whom death is a competing risk. Our investigation focuses on the relationship between smoking and late age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in an observational study impacted by censoring due to death. Methods: Statistical methodology to calculate the survivor average causal effect (SACE) as a sensitivity analysis is described, including example statistical computing code for Stata and R. To demonstrate this method, we examine the causal effect of smoking history at baseline (1990–1994) on the presence of late AMD at the third study wave (2003–2007) using data from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. Results: Of the 40,506 participants eligible for inclusion, 38,092 (94%) survived until the start of the third study wave, 20,752 (51%) were graded for AMD (60% female, aged 47–85 years, mean 65 ± 8.7 years). Late AMD was detected in 122 participants. Logistic regression showed strong evidence of an increased risk of late AMD for current smokers compared to non-smokers (adjusted naïve odds ratio 2.99, 95% confidence interval, CI, 1.74–5.13). Among participants expected to be alive at the start of follow-up regardless of their smoking status, the estimated SACE odds ratio comparing current smokers to non-smokers was at least 3.42 (95% CI 1.57–5.15). Conclusions: Survival bias can attenuate associations between harmful exposures and diseases of aging. Estimation of the SACE using a sensitivity analysis approach should be considered when conducting epidemiological research within elderly populations.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Koopman-based Optimal Control: Technical Report
Creators: name: Hespanha, João
name: Camsari, Kerem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm based on Gibbs sampling with parallel tempering to solve nonlinear optimal control problems. The algorithm is applicable to nonlinear systems with dynamics that can be approximately represented by a finite dimensional Koopman model, potentially with high dimension. This algorithm exploits linearity of the Koopman representation to achieve significant computational saving for large lifted states. We use a video-game to illustrate the use of the method.
title: Fragment, Field and Frame: Reflection on Heritage, Contemporary City and its Identity. The case of Perth, WA
Creators: name: Mancini, Francesco
name: Glusac, Tanja
Publisher: name: Conference Proceedings XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation A Multidisciplinary Perspective/Lodz University of Technology Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: Urban identity, Urban form, Heritage, Collective memory, Post-Fordism.

description: Unlike industrial buildings which have been subject to adaptive reuse, heritage buildings have been increasingly prevented from playing an active role in the recent transformations of the contemporary city due to an excessive preoccupation with their preservation. Heritage sites in urban areas, according to modernist planning, are often defined as extended portions of territory, precincts with clear boundaries, limiting the continuity of the city in its form and experience. Exceptions to this are the centres of European cities like Rome, Paris and London which for instance all still have their historical nuclei essential for the recognition of their city’s identity.
What happens when the strong historic nucleus is missing, and isolated buildings scattered across the urban landscapes are supposedly entrusted with the role of perpetuating a city's heritage and associated identity, as is the case in Perth, Western Australia? This paper argues that to date urban design has not conceived of itself as a frame that recombines heritage fragments in an urban field by re-establishing successful habitus (Bourdieu [in:] Glusac 2015) – a balanced set of socially, economically, and politically conditioned systems of dispositions to let people experience a city's contemporary and former past.
We propose to consider heritage as defined through Aldo Rossi’s concepts of urban form being both 'the locus of the collective memory (1982:130) and the most representative tangible artefact of such memory as a way of responding to the pervasive loss of contemporary cities’ identity. A loss that, according to Richard Sennett, is due to recent changes in urban modes of production and living which let the individual, social, and cultural identity of a post-colonial city inhabitant’s psyche diminish, making any connections between heritage and identity in places like Perth difficult.
We further argue that from the perspective of contemporary development of global and specifically post-colonial cities, both individual, social, and urban identities are indispensable requisites for culturally sustainable cities. The case study of Perth’s Cultural Centre precinct evolution via the recently completed Boola Bardip Western Australian Museum helps with demonstrating that the preservation and recognition of heritage through a carefully integrated manipulation of existing and new built forms is essential in enabling multicultural social relations through the acknowledgment of indigenous and non-indigenous cultures by means of their urban re-signification.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement in the American Radical Tradition
Creators: name: Mendel, Ronald
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020
Subjects: Occupy Wall Street; Radicalism; Participatory Democracy; Horizontal Movements

description: Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was well placed in the American radical tradition. As did many of its predecessors which targetted inequality, OWS offered a moral critique of political and economic institutions. Likewise, OWS's emphasis on direct action, had its precedent in earlier protest movements. In addition, OWS contained features of a "horizontal movement" that drew from feminist "consciousness raising" and "affinity" groups within the anti-nuke movement in the 1970s. OWS was fervently egalitarian and reaffirmed the practice of participatory democracy as advanced by the Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol 3 (2020)
Fundamental bound on topological gap
Creators: name: Onishi, Yugo
name: Fu, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a universal tight bound on the energy gap of topological insulators by exploring relationships between topology, quantum geometry, and optical absorption. Applications of our theory to infrared absorption near topological band inversion, magnetic circular dichorism in Chern insulators, and topological gap in moiré materials are demonstrated.
description: 1+10 pages, 1 figure
Enhancing Worker Recruitment in Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing: A Graph Neural Network Trust Evaluation Approach
Creators: name: Zhan, Zhongwei
name: Wang, Yingjie
name: Duan, Peiyong
name: Sai, Akshita Maradapu Vera Venkata
name: Liu, Zhaowei
name: Xiang, Chaocan
name: Tong, Xiangrong
name: Wang, Weilong
name: Cai, Zhipeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing (CMCS) allows platforms to recruit worker teams to collaboratively execute complex sensing tasks. The efficiency of such collaborations could be influenced by trust relationships among workers. To obtain the asymmetric trust values among all workers in the social network, the Trust Reinforcement Evaluation Framework (TREF) based on Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNs) is proposed in this paper. The task completion effect is comprehensively calculated by considering the workers' ability benefits, distance benefits, and trust benefits in this paper. The worker recruitment problem is modeled as an Undirected Complete Recruitment Graph (UCRG), for which a specific Tabu Search Recruitment (TSR) algorithm solution is proposed. An optimal execution team is recruited for each task by the TSR algorithm, and the collaboration team for the task is obtained under the constraint of privacy loss. To enhance the efficiency of the recruitment algorithm on a large scale and scope, the Mini-Batch K-Means clustering algorithm and edge computing technology are introduced, enabling distributed worker recruitment. Lastly, extensive experiments conducted on five real datasets validate that the recruitment algorithm proposed in this paper outperforms other baselines. Additionally, TREF proposed herein surpasses the performance of state-of-the-art trust evaluation methods in the literature.
description: The article has been accepted by IEEE TMC, and its DOI is 10.1109/TMC.2024.3373469
Dual policy as self-model for planning
Creators: name: Yoo, Jaesung
name: de la Torre, Fernanda
name: Yang, Guangyu Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Planning is a data efficient decision-making strategy where an agent selects candidate actions by exploring possible future states. To simulate future states when there is a high-dimensional action space, the knowledge of one's decision making strategy must be used to limit the number of actions to be explored. We refer to the model used to simulate one's decisions as the agent's self-model. While self-models are implicitly used widely in conjunction with world models to plan actions, it remains unclear how self-models should be designed. Inspired by current reinforcement learning approaches and neuroscience, we explore the benefits and limitations of using a distilled policy network as the self-model. In such dual-policy agents, a model-free policy and a distilled policy are used for model-free actions and planned actions, respectively. Our results on a ecologically relevant, parametric environment indicate that distilled policy network for self-model stabilizes training, has faster inference than using model-free policy, promotes better exploration, and could learn a comprehensive understanding of its own behaviors, at the cost of distilling a new network apart from the model-free policy.
MiR-942 decreased before 20 weeks gestation in women with preeclampsia and was associated with the pathophysiology of preeclampsia in vitro
Creators: name: Yonggang Zhang
name: Guoqing Huang
name: Yipeng Zhang
name: Hongling Yang
name: Long, Yan
name: Qihua Liang
name: Zaoxiong Zheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: To investigate the possible relationship between miR-942 levels and the pathogenesis of preeclampsia using in vitro assays and to investigate circulating miR-942 levels in the early phase of mid-of pregnancy in women who later developed preeclampsia and in women with uncomplicated pregnancies. Methods: Plasma samples were collected from pregnant women between 12 and 20 weeks of gestation. MiR-942 levels were determined by stem-loop real-time PCR for 26 cases who subsequently developed preeclampsia as well as for 52 controls. Bioinformatics software was used to predict the target genes of miR-942, and a dual-luciferase reporter system was utilized to validate target gene regulation. Finally, MTT proliferation assays, transwell invasion assays, and endothelial cell tube formation assays were performed to further explore the function of miR-942 using a human extravillous trophoblast cell line (TEV-1). Result: Circulating miR-942 levels were significantly lower in mid-pregnancy (12–20 weeks gestation) in women who later developed preeclampsia compared with those with an uncomplicated pregnancy (p < 0.05). Endoglin (ENG) is an miR-942 target gene. MiR-942 had a sensitivity of 0.673, a specificity of 0.875, and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.718 [95% CI, 0.594–0.822] for the possible screening of preeclampsia. In vitro, decreased miR-942 expression decreased the invasive ability of TEV-1 cells, and inhibited the HUVEC angiogenesis assay, both effects that are similar to what is observed in preeclampsia (both p <0.05). Conclusion: MiR-942 may be involved in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia via the regulation of its target gene ENG. Multicenter studies must be performed and a greater number of samples must be analyzed to ascertain whether circulating miR-942 levels can serve as a novel early diagnostic marker for preeclampsia.
BiOCl/FeOCl/SiO2 nanocomposite as an efficient novel catalyst toward the synthesis of 2-aryl-1H-benzimidazoles in mild aerobic condition
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Hadi
name: Changiz Karami
name: Mahboobeh Bahri
name: Marayam Mahmoudian Gilany
name: Taher, Mohammad Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60506 Virology

description: BiOCl/FeOCl nanorods composited by SiO2 spherical nanoparticles as a novel nanocatalyst and also it has been synthesized using a co-precipitation procedure. Additionally, its structural along with the catalyst activity have been determined by transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, as well as Fourier transforminfrared spectroscopy. In addition, this nanocomposite was utilized efficiently in the synthesis of 2-arylbenzimidazole derivatives, which is described by the condensation of some aldehydes and o-phenylenediamines in the presence of BiOCl/FeOCl/SiO2 nanocomposite as a novel nanocatalyst. Besides the investigated variables such as the amount of catalyst, reaction temperature, the synergistic effect of BiOCl and FeOCl, and effect of various solvents, the possible reusability of the catalyst is also studied. In conclusion, the synthesized BiOCl/FeOCl/SiO2 nanocomposite has several remarkable advantages like non-toxic nanocatalyst, has a recovering and recycling for three runs minimally without a significant loss of catalytic activity under the aerobic mild condition, short reaction times, and being solvent-free.