cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of The effects of hip- vs. knee-dominant hamstring exercise on biceps femoris morphology, strength, and sprint performance: a randomized intervention trial protocol
Creators: name: Crawford, Scott K.
name: Hickey, Jack
name: Vlisides, Jessica
name: Chambers, Jennifer S.
name: Mosiman, Samuel J.
name: Heiderscheit, Bryan C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3
Bumping sequences and multispecies juggling
Creators: name: Ayyer, Arvind
name: Bouttier, Jérémie
name: Corteel, Sylvie
name: Linusson, Svante
name: Nunzi, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60C05, 60J10, 05A05, 82C23

description: Building on previous work by four of us (ABCN), we consider further generalizations of Warrington's juggling Markov chains. We first introduce "multispecies" juggling, which consist in having balls of different weights: when a ball is thrown it can possibly bump into a lighter ball that is then sent to a higher position, where it can in turn bump an even lighter ball, etc. We both study the case where the number of balls of each species is conserved and the case where the juggler sends back a ball of the species of its choice. In this latter case, we actually discuss three models: add-drop, annihilation and overwriting. The first two are generalisations of models presented in (ABCN) while the third one is new and its Markov chain has the ultra fast convergence property. We finally consider the case of several jugglers exchanging balls. In all models, we give explicit product formulas for the stationary probability and closed form expressions for the normalisation factor if known.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures (v3: final version, several typos and figures fixed)
Enlightenment Suite: Poems
Creators: name: Harris, Zachary
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Insomnia Letter 5
Plummet 6
Last Will & Testament 7
Letter to a Coalmine 8
Airport Letter 9
Parable 10
Larry: To Whom I Have Never Written 11

 Ten Things I Love More Than God 14
I Will Never Sing the Kitchen Man Blues Again 16
 Sunday 17
Why I Want To Be An Accordion Player 19
The Cellist: A Danse Macabre 20
The Blue Madonna 21
Upon the Death of a Television Comedian 22
Joy & Pain 24

In 2086, 27
February in Poland 28
 Elegy Pulled From the Ovens 29
In A Cemetery in Brooklyn 31
Balkan Honeymoon 32
The Paraplegics of Cherbourg 33
The Golem in Boca 38
The Real Weight of Everything 39

 Enlightenment Suite
Invocation of the Forces of Goodness 41
A Melody to Sever the Ego Syndrome 42
Dance of the Black Hat Masters 43
Intense Encounters of the Third Degree 44
The Snow Lion Dance 45
Optical Pulling and Pushing Forces via Bloch Surface Waves
Creators: name: Kostina, Natalia
name: Bobrovs, Vjaceslavs
name: Petrov, Mihail
name: Shalin, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Versatile manipulation of nano- and microobjects underlies the optomechanics and a variety of its applications in biology, medicine, and lab-on-a-chip platforms. For flexible tailoring optical forces, as well as for extraordinary optomechanical effects, additional degrees of freedom should be introduced into the system. Here, we demonstrate that photonic crystals provide a flexible platform for nanoparticles optical manipulation due to both Bloch surface waves (BSWs) and the complex character of the reflection coefficient paving a way for complex optomechanical interactions control. We demonstrate that appearance of enhanced pulling and pushing transversal optical forces acting on a single bead placed above a one-dimensional photonic crystal due to directional excitation of Bloch surface wave at the photonic crystal interface. Our theoretical results, which are supported with numerical simulations, demonstrate angle or wavelength assisted switching between BSW-induced optical pulling and pushing forces. Easy-to-fabricate for any desired spectral range photonic crystals are shown to be prospective for precise optical sorting of nanoparticles, especially for core-shell nanoparticles, which are difficult to sort with conventional optomechanical methods. Our approach opens opportunities for novel optical manipulation schemes and platforms and enhanced light-matter interaction in optical trapping setups.
Robust Interior Point Method for Quantum Key Distribution Rate Computation
Creators: name: Hu, Hao
name: Im, Jiyoung
name: Lin, Jie
name: Lütkenhaus, Norbert
name: Wolkowicz, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Security proof methods for quantum key distribution, QKD, that are based on the numerical key rate calculation problem, are powerful in principle. However, the practicality of the methods are limited by computational resources and the efficiency and accuracy of the underlying algorithms for convex optimization. We derive a stable reformulation of the convex nonlinear semidefinite programming, SDP, model for the key rate calculation problems. We use this to develop an efficient, accurate algorithm. The stable reformulation is based on novel forms of facial reduction, FR, for both the linear constraints and nonlinear quantum relative entropy objective function. This allows for a Gauss-Newton type interior-point approach that avoids the need for perturbations to obtain strict feasibility, a technique currently used in the literature. The result is high accuracy solutions with theoretically proven lower bounds for the original QKD from the FR stable reformulation. This provides novel contributions for FR for general SDP. We report on empirical results that dramatically improve on speed and accuracy, as well as solving previously intractable problems.
description: Accepted by Quantum; 3 figures, 8 tables, 48 pages
Transition fronts and their universality classes
Creators: name: Gorbushin, N.
name: Vainchtein, A.
name: Truskinovsky, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Steadily moving transition (switching) fronts, bringing local transformation, symmetry breaking or collapse, are among the most important dynamic coherent structures. The nonlinear mechanical waves of this type play a major role in many modern applications involving the transmission of mechanical information in systems ranging from crystal lattices and metamaterials to macroscopic civil engineering structures. While many different classes of such dynamic fronts are known, the interrelation between them remains obscure. Here we consider a minimal prototypical mechanical system, the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) chain with piecewise linear nonlinearity, and show that there are exactly three distinct classes of switching fronts, which differ fundamentally in how (and whether) they produce and transport oscillations. The fact that all three types of fronts could be obtained as explicit Wiener-Hopf solutions of the same discrete FPU problem, allows one to identify the exact mathematical origin of the particular features of each class. To make the underlying Hamiltonian dynamics analytically transparent, we construct a minimal quasicontinuum approximation of the FPU model that captures all three classes of the fronts and interrelation between them. This approximation is of higher order than conventional ones (KdV, Boussinesq) and involves mixed space-time derivatives. The proposed framework unifies previous attempts to classify the mechanical transition fronts as radiative, dispersive, topological or compressive and categorizes them instead as different types of dynamic lattice defects.
Giant outburst from the supergiant fast X-ray transient IGR J17544-2619: accretion from a transient disc?
Creators: name: Romano, P.
name: Bozzo, E.
name: Mangano, V.
name: Esposito, P.
name: Israel, G.
name: Tiengo, A.
name: Campana, S.
name: Ducci, L.
name: Ferrigno, C.
name: Kennea, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supergiant fast X-ray transients (SFXTs) are high mass X-ray binaries associated with OB supergiant companions and characterised by an X-ray flaring behaviour whose dynamical range reaches 5 orders of magnitude on timescales of a few hundred to thousands of seconds. Current investigations concentrate on finding possible mechanisms to inhibit accretion in SFXTs and explain their unusually low average X-ray luminosity. We present the Swift observations of an exceptionally bright outburst displayed by the SFXT IGR J17544-2619 on 2014 October 10 when the source achieved a peak luminosity of $3\times10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$. This extends the total source dynamic range to $\gtrsim$10$^6$, the largest (by a factor of 10) recorded so far from an SFXT. Tentative evidence for pulsations at a period of 11.6 s is also reported. We show that these observations challenge, for the first time, the maximum theoretical luminosity achievable by an SFXT and propose that this giant outburst was due to the formation of a transient accretion disc around the compact object.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters. 5 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
FDG: A Precise Measurement of Fault Diagnosability Gain of Test Cases
Creators: name: An, Gabin
name: Yoo, Shin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The performance of many Fault Localisation (FL) techniques directly depends on the quality of the used test suites. Consequently, it is extremely useful to be able to precisely measure how much diagnostic power each test case can introduce when added to a test suite used for FL. Such a measure can help us not only to prioritise and select test cases to be used for FL, but also to effectively augment test suites that are too weak to be used with FL techniques. We propose FDG, a new measure of Fault Diagnosability Gain for individual test cases. The design of FDG is based on our analysis of existing metrics that are designed to prioritise test cases for better FL. Unlike other metrics, FDG exploits the ongoing FL results to emphasise the parts of the program for which more information is needed. Our evaluation of FDG with Defects4J shows that it can successfully help the augmentation of test suites for better FL. When given only a few failing test cases (2.3 test cases on average), FDG can effectively augment the given test suite by prioritising the test cases generated automatically by EvoSuite: the augmentation can improve the acc@1 and acc@10 of the FL results by 11.6x and 2.2x on average, after requiring only ten human judgements on the correctness of the assertions EvoSuite generates.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures (to be published in ISSTA'22)
Generalized Vietoris Bisimulations
Creators: name: Enqvist, Sebastian
name: Sourabh, Sumit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce and study bisimulations for coalgebras on Stone spaces [14]. Our notion of bisimulation is sound and complete for behavioural equivalence, and generalizes Vietoris bisimulations [4]. The main result of our paper is that bisimulation for a $\mathbf{Stone}$ coalgebra is the topological closure of bisimulation for the underlying $\mathbf{Set}$ coalgebra.
CHANCES: A 4MOST public spectroscopic survey for studying cluster galaxy evolution
Creators: name: Haines, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: We present the CHileAN Cluster galaxy Evolution Survey (CHANCES), one of 18 public spectroscopic surveys that will be carried out with 4MOST over its first five years of operation (2024-2029). CHANCES will target 300,000 galaxies in and around 150 of the most massive galaxy clusters in the local Universe and out to z=0.45. CHANCES will provide comprehensive spectroscopic coverage out to 5r200 for each cluster and, in synergy with the eROSITA X-ray mission, permit in-depth studies of the mass assembly of clusters at late epochs and the impact of pre-processing on galaxies within infalling X-ray groups and connecting filamentary structures. A second science focus will be the evolution of the cluster dwarf population in nearby clusters (z<0.07) where we will push to stellar masses of 10^9 M_sun and below. We will discuss the survey design and key scientific motivations.
Levi-Civita connections from toral actions
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Suvrajit
name: Joardar, Soumalya
name: Mukhopadhyay, Sugato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L87, 16D20, 53B20

description: We construct tame differential calculi coming from toral actions on a class of $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras. Relying on the existence of a unique Levi-Civita connection on such a calculus, we prove a version of the Bianchi identity. A Gauss-Bonnet theorem for the canonical tame calculus of rank two is studied.
description: Revised version following the referee's suggestions. To appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Parteifinanzierung
Creators: name: Fabara Espin, Jorge Gonzalo
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Parteifinanzierung
subject: Parteispenden
subject: Rechtsvergleich
subject: Großspenden
subject: Ecuador
subject: Transparenz
subject: Political party financing
subject: Political Donations
subject: Comparative law
subject: Transparency
subject: 340 Recht
subject: 323 Grundrechte und politische Rechte
subject: 342 Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht
subject: Derecho comparado
subject: Financiamiento de la política
subject: Donaciones a partidos políticos
subject: Transparencia

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Problem des privaten Parteifinanzierungsrechts im Rahmen der Demokratie, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Vereinbarkeit und den Grenzen bezüglich privater (Groß)spenden. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel des Istzustands der Regulierung in Deutschland und Ecuador unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer jeweiligen leges specialis (PartG und LOE). Die Fragestellung der Arbeit lautet: Wie verhindern diese Rechtsordnungen, dass sich eine (undemokratische) Wirtschaftsmacht illegitim als politische Macht etabliert und wenn ja, mit welchem Schwerpunkt und warum? Ziel der Arbeit ist es, eine Grundlage für den Dialog zwischen beiden Rechtssystemen zur Verfügung zu stellen Dafür wird auf ein höheres Verständnis der rechtlichen Regeln und Ordnungsmuster abgezielt, die diese bestimmten Gesellschaften antreiben.
description: This research document deals with the problem of private party financing law in the context of democracy, in particular with regard to the compatibility and the limits of (large) private donations. This is done using the example of the current state of regulation in Germany and Ecuador, taking particular account of their respective special legislation (PartG and LOE). The research question is: How do these legal systems prevent an (undemocratic) economic power from being illegitimately established as a political power and, if so, with what focus and why? The aim of the work is to provide a basis for the dialogue between the two legal systems. To achieve this, a better understanding of the legal rules and patterns of order that drive these particular societies is aimed at.
Multiplicative stochastic heat equations on the whole space
Creators: name: Hairer, Martin
name: Labbé, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We carry out the construction of some ill-posed multiplicative stochastic heat equations on unbounded domains. The two main equations our result covers are, on the one hand the parabolic Anderson model on $\mathbf{R}^3$, and on the other hand the KPZ equation on $\mathbf{R}$ via the Cole-Hopf transform. To perform these constructions, we adapt the theory of regularity structures to the setting of weighted Besov spaces. One particular feature of our construction is that it allows one to start both equations from a Dirac mass at the initial time.
description: 52 pages
Bridging between soft and hard thresholding by scaling
Creators: name: Hagiwara, Katsuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this article, we developed and analyzed a thresholding method in which soft thresholding estimators are independently expanded by empirical scaling values. The scaling values have a common hyper-parameter that is an order of expansion of an ideal scaling value that achieves hard thresholding. We simply call this estimator a scaled soft thresholding estimator. The scaled soft thresholding is a general method that includes the soft thresholding and non-negative garrote as special cases and gives an another derivation of adaptive LASSO. We then derived the degree of freedom of the scaled soft thresholding by means of the Stein's unbiased risk estimate and found that it is decomposed into the degree of freedom of soft thresholding and the reminder connecting to hard thresholding. In this meaning, the scaled soft thresholding gives a natural bridge between soft and hard thresholding methods. Since the degree of freedom represents the degree of over-fitting, this result implies that there are two sources of over-fitting in the scaled soft thresholding. The first source originated from soft thresholding is determined by the number of un-removed coefficients and is a natural measure of the degree of over-fitting. We analyzed the second source in a particular case of the scaled soft thresholding by referring a known result for hard thresholding. We then found that, in a sparse, large sample and non-parametric setting, the second source is largely determined by coefficient estimates whose true values are zeros and has an influence on over-fitting when threshold levels are around noise levels in those coefficient estimates. In a simple numerical example, these theoretical implications has well explained the behavior of the degree of freedom. Moreover, based on the results here and some known facts, we explained the behaviors of risks of soft, hard and scaled soft thresholding methods.
Deconstructing and developing gender: the nonbinary search for identity
Creators: name: Xie, Jasmine
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The ways in which open internet access has enabled queer identity formation have changed significantly over the past ten years. Prior to the genesis of widespread, interconnected internet communities, people were restricted to local sources of information - sources that were often dated, biased, and required a physical component of access, whether through another person or through a local library. This localization allows for the disproportionate representation of a few dominant perspectives on queer issues, skewing discourse surrounding the question of what defines queerness, and the closed community can make it difficult for questioning youth to overcome gatekeeping behaviors, such as the holding of queer events in 18+ spaces. The physical component, whether it be a library book or a LGBTQ+ mentor, carries with it the risk of outing - one’s search history is considerably easier to keep hidden than visits to the local GSA. In comparison, with the introduction and widespread acceptance of personal computing devices, youths are able to connect to one another and discover camaraderie through online communities in a way previously unimaginable. Meeting people no longer requires them to live within one’s town, or even one’s country, while even barriers such as language can be easily overcome with translation services. In addition to the ease of finding queer communities, the vast variety of choices means that the chances of finding one that services one’s personal interests is significantly higher - a queer knitting club, while difficult to establish in the offline, can have hundreds of members spread out over North America when organized online. Online often also means anonymous, and while anonymity has been one of the double-edged swords of online interaction, for people just starting to explore their sexual and gender identities, it can often be a way to safely voice their concerns and questions without the repercussions that ‘experimentation’ can have offline. This ability to carry in-depth discussion, unrestricted by issues of embodiment or temporality, has lead to significant amounts of discourse generated about queer issues, one of which includes queer identities. Queer identities - a category whose turbulence can easily be seen in debates over whether LGBT or MOGAI1 or ‘Queer’ are the most inclusive terms - are experiencing a proliferation through the open access that internet-based communications have allowed, and online debates center around the validity and means of creating improved terminology.
Differences in Estimation and Mathematical Problem Solving Between Autistic Children and Neurotypical Children
Creators: name: Haas, Sara
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The goal of this study was to observe the differences in math learning and problem solving between typically developing children and children with autism. Strategy selection involves different networks of brain processes including executive functions to identify the problem and task at hand, and determine the most efficient strategy to use. By observing the frequencies of different strategies being used, we are hoping to learn more about the mechanisms used for strategy selection in the autistic group. Additionally, participants were shown number lines and asked to estimate where a particular number fell on the number line. No previous research has investigated the differences between autistic individuals and neurotypical individuals in numerical estimation, and this study aims to see if in fact there are differences. During the sessions, children were presented with simple addition and subtraction problems to complete, as well as the number line tasks. The researcher asked the child how he or she solved the problems. This study will help us learn more about how children with autism differ from typically developing children, so that further studies can be conducted with the aim of improving mathematical curricula. At this point there has been an observable difference noted between the two populations, and as the study continues to include more participants, we are hoping that these results will become statistically significant. As this research continues and expands, we are hoping it will serve as a basis for enhancing mathematical curricula and help individuals with autism better develop proper mathematical strategy utilization.
title: Εικαστικές αφηγήσεις επί των τειχών. Χώροι διδασκαλίας των καλών τεχνών στις νότιες παρυφές της παλιάς πόλης του Ηρακλείου (Προμαχώνας Μαρτινέγκο - πύλη Βηθλεέμ).
title: Visual(Urban) narratives on the walls. Educational spaces of Fine Arts in the southern suburbs of the old town of Heraklion (Martinego bastion–Bethleem gate).
Creators: name: Νυκταρης Νικηφορος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία επιχειρεί μέσω της ένταξης μιας Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών στις νότιες παρυφές της παλιάς πόλης του Ηρακλείου, παράλληλα να επιλύσει ζητήματα ευρύτερων συνδέσεων και μεταβάσεων μεταξύ των εντός και εκτός των τειχών τμημάτων της πόλης, μεταξύ ισόγειας κινητικότητας και κίνησης στα ισόπεδα τμήματα των τειχών και της βαθιάς τάφρου. Ακόμα, να αναδείξει ίχνη και αποσπάσματα, κυρίως της ενετικής οχύρωσης, σε ένα ενιαίο, αναγνώσιμο σύνολο με έναν χαρακτήρα πάντα σχετικό και συσχετιζόμενο με την εικαστική και μουσική παρουσία της Σχολής.
   Σε μια πρώτη ανάλυση, εστιάζουμε σε τρία σημεία όπου η διευκόλυνση της κίνησης των οχημάτων έχει προκαλέσει ρήγματα και ασυνέχειες στα τείχη. Εκεί, από τις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα, πραγματοποιούνται γεφυρώσεις, ως πράξεις αποκατάστασης, με διαφορετικό ύφος και συσχετισμό με το σώμα των τειχών κάθε φορά. Η γεφύρωση, στο ευθύγραμμο τμήμα μεταξύ προμαχώνων Μαρτινέγκο και Βηθλεέμ, θα αποτελέσει κύρια αφορμή προβληματισμού. Η νεωτερική αυτή πύλη θα είναι το κεντρικό σημείο αναφοράς της περιοχής μελέτης η οποία διαιρείται σε τρείς ενότητες, της ενετικής οχύρωσης, του εντός και του εκτός των τειχών τμήματος της πόλης.
   Ως κύρια σημεία επέμβασης  επιλέγονται, έπειτα από την αστική ανάλυση, ένα πλάτωμα εκτός της περιοχής των τειχών εφαπτόμενο στο όριο της τάφρου (contrascarpa), η νεωτερική πύλη  και το πάρκο αναγεννήσεως  εντός των τειχών, εφαπτόμενο στο όριο του πρανούς του επιπρομαχώνα Μαρτινέγκο. Εκεί εντάσσονται η Βιβλιοθήκη, το τμήμα Εικαστικών (ζωγραφική και γλυπτική) και το τμήμα Μουσικής αντίστοιχα. Παράλληλα, ένα σύνολο πεζοδρομήσεων και  διευθετήσεων των ελεύθερων χώρων, σε συνδυασμό με το Πολιτιστικό Κέντρο, διαμορφώνουν ένα αναβαθμισμένο πολιτιστικό δίκτυο.
Predictive Mutation Analysis via Natural Language Channel in Source Code
Creators: name: Kim, Jinhan
name: Jeon, Juyoung
name: Hong, Shin
name: Yoo, Shin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mutation analysis can provide valuable insights into both System Under Test (SUT) and its test suite. However, it is not scalable due to the cost of building and testing a large number of mutants. Predictive Mutation Testing (PMT) has been proposed to reduce the cost of mutation testing, but it can only provide statistical inference about whether a mutant will be killed or not by the entire test suite. We propose Seshat, a Predictive Mutation Analysis (PMA) technique that can accurately predict the entire kill matrix, not just the mutation score of the given test suite. Seshat exploits the natural language channel in code, and learns the relationship between the syntactic and semantic concepts of each test case and the mutants it can kill, from a given kill matrix. The learnt model can later be used to predict the kill matrices for subsequent versions of the program, even after both the source and test code have changed significantly. Empirical evaluation using the programs in the Defects4J shows that Seshat can predict kill matrices with the average F-score of 0.83 for versions that are up to years apart. This is an improvement of F-score by 0.14 and 0.45 point over the state-of-the-art predictive mutation testing technique, and a simple coverage based heuristic, respectively. Seshat also performs as well as PMT for the prediction of mutation scores only. Once Seshat trains its model using a concrete mutation analysis, the subsequent predictions made by Seshat are on average 39 times faster than actual test-based analysis.
Additional file 1 of A systematic review of interventions to promote HPV vaccination globally
Creators: name: Escoffery, Cam
name: Petagna, Courtney
name: Agnone, Christine
name: Perez, Stephen
name: Saber, Lindsay B.
name: Ryan, Grace
name: Dhir, Meena
name: Sekar, Swathi
name: Yeager, Katherine A.
name: Biddell, Caitlin B.
name: Madhivanan, Purnima
name: Lee, Stephanie
name: English, Amanda S.
name: Savas, Lara
name: Daly, Eliza
name: Vu, Thuy
name: Fernandez, Maria E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional files 1: Supplemental Table 1. Systematic Review of HPV Vaccination Intervention Search Terms. Supplemental Table 2. Quality Assessment of Included Articles*.
Effects of Collaborative Spatial Exercises on the Acquisition of Mental Rotation Ability
Creators: name: Taylor, Ashley
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study aims to determine whether commercially available games claiming to expand spatial awareness actually increase understanding of mental rotation and whether collaborative learning techniques are beneficial to the learning of mental rotation in this context. To test these questions, 40 children from the CMU Children’s School were randomly assigned to work individually or collaboratively to complete either building block replication tasks or mental rotation block challenges. Four and five-year-old children participated in three training sessions, flanked by a pretest and posttest using the Children’s Mental Transformation Task. Results showed a significant increase in mental rotation ability overall, but the difference between groups was not significant. These results suggest that while the commercially-available mental rotation games do improve mental rotation ability, they are not significantly more effective than building replication tasks that pose fewer overt mental rotation demands. Additionally, individuals working collaboratively did not demonstrate greater improvement in mental rotation.
The Link Between Light and Mass in Late-type Spiral Galaxy Disks
Creators: name: Swaters, Robert A.
name: Bershady, Matthew A.
name: Martinsson, Thomas P. K.
name: Westfall, Kyle B.
name: Andersen, David R.
name: Verheijen, Marc A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the correlation between the extrapolated central disk surface brightness (mu) and extrapolated central surface mass density (Sigma) for galaxies in the DiskMass sample. This mu-Sigma-relation has a small scatter of 30% at the high-surface-brightness (HSB) end. At the low surface brightness (LSB) end, galaxies fall above the mu-Sigma-relation, which we attribute to their higher dark matter content. After correcting for the dark matter, as well as for the contribution of gas and the effects of radial gradients in the disk, the LSB end falls back on the linear mu-Sigma-relation. The resulting scatter about the corrected mu-Sigma-relation is 25% at the HSB end, and about 50% at the LSB end. The intrinsic scatter in the mu-Sigma-relation is estimated to be 10% to 20%. Thus, if the surface brightness is known, the stellar surface mass density is known to within 10-20% (random error). Assuming disks have an exponential vertical distribution of mass, the average (M_L)_K is 0.24 Msun/Lsun, with an intrinsic scatter around the mean of at most 0.05 Msun/Lsun. This value for (M/L)_K is 20% smaller than we found in Martinsson et al., mainly due to the correction for dark matter applied here. This small scatter means that among the galaxies in our sample variations in scale height, vertical density profile shape, and/or the ratio of vertical over radial velocity dispersion must be small.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Active nematic defects and epithelial morphogenesis
Creators: name: Vafa, Farzan
name: Mahadevan, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by recent experiments that highlight the role of nematic defects in the morphogenesis of epithelial tissues, we develop a minimal framework to study the dynamics of an active curved surface driven by its nematic texture. Allowing the surface to evolve via relaxational dynamics leads to a theory linking nematic defect dynamics, cellular division rates and Gaussian curvature. Regions of large positive (negative) curvature and positive (negative) growth are colocalized with the presence of positive (negative) defects. Applying this framework to the dynamics of cultured murine neural progenitor cells (NPCs) in an ex-vivo setting, we find that cells accumulate at positive defects and are depleted at negative defects. In contrast, applying this to the dynamics of a basal marine invertebrate \emph{Hydra} in an in-vivo setting, we show that activity stabilizes a bound $+1$ defect state by creating an incipient tentacle, while a bound $+1$ defect state surrounded by two $-1/2$ defects can create a stationary ring configuration of tentacles, consistent with observations.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor edits
Deep neural networks based predictive-generative framework for designing composite materials
Creators: name: Ashank
name: Chakravarty, Soumen
name: Garg, Pranshu
name: Kumar, Ankit
name: Agrawal, Manish
name: Agnihotri, Prabhat K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Designing composite materials as per the application requirements is fundamentally a challenging and time consuming task. Here we report the development of a deep neural network based computational framework capable of solving the forward (predictive) as well as inverse (generative) design problem. The predictor model is based on the popular convolution neural network architecture and trained with the help of finite element simulations. Further, the developed property predictor model is used as a feedback mechanism in the neural network based generator model. The proposed predictive-generative model can be used to obtain the micro-structure for maximization of particular elastic properties as well as for specified elastic constants. One of the major hurdle for deployment of the deep learning techniques in composite material design is the intensive computational resources required to generate the training data sets. To this end, a novel data augmentation scheme is presented. The application of data augmentation scheme results in significant saving of computational resources in the training phase. The proposed data augmentation approach is general and can be used in any setting involving the periodic micro-structures. The efficacy of the predictive-generative model is demonstrated through various examples. It is envisaged that the developed model will significantly reduce the cost and time associated with the composite material designing process for advanced applications.
Perturbation-based Frequency Domain Linear and Nonlinear Noise Estimation
Creators: name: Vaquero-Caballero, F. J.
name: Ives, D. J.
name: Savory, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, a new method for the separation of noise categories based on Four-Wave Mixing is presented. The theoretical analysis is grounded in the Gaussian Noise model and verified by split step simulations. The noise categories react differently to the introduced perturbations, by performing a set of perturbations the behaviour of the different categories can be separated by means of a least-square fitting. Given ASE is independent of the induced perturbations, it is possible to separate noise contributions. The analysis includes constant and variable power perturbations. The estimation of the noise categories is discussed from two points of view: NSR evolution post-DSP processing, and over the power spectral density in a notched region. The NSR estimation can only be performed at reception, whereas the power spectral density approach can be performed along the optical link if a high resolution Optical Spectrum Analyzer is available. Additionally, we perform a simple experimental verification considering of two WaveLogic 3 transceivers for the NSR, successfully estimating the noise contributions.
description: 7 Pages
Logarithmic affine structures, parallelizable d-webs and normal forms
Creators: name: Lizarbe, Ruben
name: Loray, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the local analytic classification of affine structures with logarithmic pole on complex surfaces. With this result in hand, we can get the local classification of the logarithmic parallelizable d-webs, d $\ge$ 3.
title: Key ethical issues discussed at CDC-sponsored international, regional meetings to explore cultural perspectives and contexts on pandemic influenza preparedness and response
Creators: name: Thomas, James C.
name: Lor, Aun
name: Barrett, Drue H.
name: Ortmann, Leonard W.
name: Guibert, Dionisio J. Herrera
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Recognizing the importance of having a broad exploration of how cultural perspectives may shape thinking about ethical considerations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded four regional meetings in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Eastern Mediterranean to explore these perspectives relevant to pandemic influenza preparedness and response. The meetings were attended by 168 health professionals, scientists, academics, ethicists, religious leaders, and other community members representing 40 countries in these regions.
Methods: We reviewed the meeting reports, notes and stories and mapped outcomes to the key ethical challenges for pandemic influenza response described in the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) guidance, Ethical Considerations in Developing a Public Health Response to Pandemic Influenza: transparency and public engagement, allocation of resources, social distancing, obligations to and of healthcare workers, and international collaboration.
Results: The important role of transparency and public engagement were widely accepted among participants. However, there was general agreement that no “one size fits all” approach to allocating resources can address the variety of economic, cultural and other contextual factors that must be taken into account. The importance of social distancing as a tool to limit disease transmission was also recognized, but the difficulties associated with this measure were acknowledged. There was agreement that healthcare workers often have competing obligations and that government has a responsibility to assist healthcare workers in doing their job by providing appropriate training and equipment. Finally, there was agreement about the importance of international collaboration for combating global health threats.
Conclusion: Although some cultural differences in the values that frame pandemic preparedness and response efforts were observed, participants generally agreed on the key ethical principles discussed in the WHO’s guidance. Most significantly the input gathered from these regional meetings pointed to the important role that procedural ethics can play in bringing people and countries together to respond to the shared health threat posed by a pandemic influenza despite the existence of cultural differences.
Facial affect recognition in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis
Creators: name: Penn, David
name: Woods, Scott W.
name: Addington, Donald
name: Addington, Jean
name: Perkins, Diana O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Summary Facial affect discrimination and identification were assessed in 86 clinical high-risk individuals and compared with 50 individuals with first-episode psychosis, 53 with multiepisode schizophrenia and 55 non-psychiatric controls. On the identification task the non-psychiatric controls performed significantly better than all other groups, and on discrimination significantly better than both patient groups. Deficits in facial affect recognition appear to be present before the onset of psychosis and may be a vulnerability marker.
Linear correlation between active and resistive stresses informs on force generation and stress transmission in adherent cells
Creators: name: Delanoë-Ayari, Hélène
name: Bouchonville, Nicolas
name: Courçon, Marie
name: Nicolas, Alice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Animal cells are active, contractile objects. While bioassays address the molecular characterization of cell contractility, the mechanical characterization of the active forces in cells remains challenging. Here by confronting theoretical analysis and experiments, we calculated both the resistive and the active components of the intracellular stresses that build up following cell adhesion. We obtained a linear relationship between the divergence of the resistive stress and the traction forces, which we show is the consequence of the cell adhering and applying forces on the surface only through very localized adhesion points (whose size is inferior to our best resolution, of 400 nm). This entails that there is no measurable forces outside of these active point sources, and also that the resistive and active stresses inside cells are proportional.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Fundamental Composite Electroweak Dynamics: Status at the LHC
Creators: name: Arbey, Alexandre
name: Cacciapaglia, Giacomo
name: Cai, Haiying
name: Deandrea, Aldo
name: Corre, Solene Le
name: Sannino, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the current status of the fundamental composite electroweak dynamics paradigm after the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider experiments. Our analysis serves as universal and minimal template for a wide class of models with the two limits in parameter space being composite Goldstone Higgs models and Technicolor. This is possible because of the existence of a unified description, both at the effective and fundamental Lagrangian levels, of models of composite Higgs dynamics where the Higgs boson itself can emerge, depending on the way the electroweak symmetry is embedded, either as a pseudo-Goldstone boson or as a massive excitation of the condensate. We constrain the available parameter space at the effective Lagrangian level. We show that a wide class of models of fundamental composite electroweak dynamics, including Technicolor, are compatible with experiments. The results are relevant for future searches of a fundamental composite nature of the Higgs mechanism at the Large Hadron Collider.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures
Happiness: A Multi-Voice Narrative
Creators: name: Ellene G Mobbs
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: At its heart, this project is simply a story about happiness. It may not look like a
regular story-where you know exactly where it begins and where it ends and in what
order you must read it in order to understand it fully-but I found that tackling the
enormous (and enormously diverse) topic of happiness required an approach to
narrative-crafting that would use the topic's multidimensionality as a tool to facilitate
the telling of the story, rather than inhibit it. I wanted to create an experience for the
user that allowed for multiple readings of the same material, where each reading
highlighted a different relationship between the many voices in the story. It was also
important to me that the user discovered these multiple readings on their own, even if
it took several sessions with the material for them to do so. The idea is that happiness
itself takes on many characteristics that can change over time.
Universe in the light of LHC
Creators: name: Krawczyk, Maria
name: Matej, Malgorzata
name: Sokolowska, Dorota
name: Swiezewska, Bogumila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provides data which give information on dark matter. In particular, measurements related to the Higgs sector lead to strong constraints on the invisible sector which are competitive with astrophysical limits. Some recent LHC results on dark matter coming from the Higgs sector in the Inert Doublet Model (IDM) are presented.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, contributions to the proceedings of the Applied Nuclear Physics and Innovative Technologies 2014 Symposium, presented by M. Krawczyk. Based on arXiv:1212.4100 [hep-ph] and arXiv:1305.6266 [hep-ph]
Heart of Caution: An Analysis of Post‐Conflict State Building in Rwanda
Creators: name: Faradji, Sara
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: When one imagines the small African nation of Rwanda, it is difficult not to think of the brutal genocide that occurred over a period of about 100 days beginning in April of 1994, a national tragedy that resulted in the massacre of 20% of the national population. While the nation may be trying its best to redesign a new image for itself, it is clear that the genocide has left a lasting mark on Rwanda’s history and has strongly influenced international and scholarly perceptions of the country for decades
Entrywise Estimation of Singular Vectors of Low-Rank Matrices with Heteroskedasticity and Dependence
Creators: name: Agterberg, Joshua
name: Lubberts, Zachary
name: Priebe, Carey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an estimator for the singular vectors of high-dimensional low-rank matrices corrupted by additive subgaussian noise, where the noise matrix is allowed to have dependence within rows and heteroskedasticity between them. We prove finite-sample $\ell_{2,\infty}$ bounds and a Berry-Esseen theorem for the individual entries of the estimator, and we apply these results to high-dimensional mixture models. Our Berry-Esseen theorem clearly shows the geometric relationship between the signal matrix, the covariance structure of the noise, and the distribution of the errors in the singular vector estimation task. These results are illustrated in numerical simulations. Unlike previous results of this type, which rely on assumptions of gaussianity or independence between the entries of the additive noise, handling the dependence between entries in the proofs of these results requires careful leave-one-out analysis and conditioning arguments. Our results depend only on the signal-to-noise ratio, the sample size, and the spectral properties of the signal matrix.
Enhancing Japanese Kanji Acquisition In Non-Native Readers
Creators: name: Caitlinn  Cork
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80609 Information Systems Management
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This research shows the effects of a 4-session literacy-acquisition program for non-native readers of Japanese through development of cognitive processes and morphological awareness. This includes an assessment of logographic vs. non-logographic morphemes, description of the training and testing processes, statistical results, and an overview of necessary metalinguistic skills to encourage a functional level of literacy for cognitively mature learners of Japanese.