cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Facile Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Hirshfeld Surface Analysis, DFT Calculation and in vitro Antifungal Evaluation of 4-Arylidene-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-ones
Creators: name: Nemouchi, Sara
name: Sehout, Imène
name: Boulebd, Houssem
name: Boulcina, Raouf
name: Bramki, Amina
name: Bendjeddou, Lamia
name: Benahsene, Amani Hind
name: Debache, Abdelmadjid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Facile Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Hirshfeld Surface Analysis, DFT Calculation and in vitro Antifungal Evaluation of 4-Arylidene-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-ones
Untersuchung und Aufklärung des Polymerisationsmodells im diskontinuierlichen und kontinuierlichen Acetonprozess zur Darstellung von Polyurethandispersionen
Creators: name: Alpan, Cüneyt
Publisher: name: Universität Paderborn
Year: 2022

description: Polyurethandispersionen (PUD) sind in ihrem chemischen Aufbau vielseitig, besitzen hervorragende elastische Eigenschaften und werden in wässrigen Beschichtungssystemen, Klebstoffen und Sprühfolien eingesetzt. In dieser Arbeit wird die kontinuierliche und diskontinuierliche Synthese von Polyurethandispersionen unter Einsatz des Acetonprozesses thematisiert. Hierfür wird der Einsatz von fünf verschiedenen Prepolymeren auf Polycarbonat-, Polyester- und Polyether in Abhängigkeit der Verfahrensweise untersucht. Die kontinuierliche Synthese von PUDs führt zu größeren hydrodynamischen Teilchendurchmesser sowie zu Ablagerungen, welche während der Prepolymer-Diamin Reaktion in Aceton sowie während der Dispergierung mit Wasser auftreten und die Qualität der Dispersionen sowie die Betriebszeit der kontinuierlichen Verfahrensweise limitieren. Die Intensität der Ablagerung ist abhängig von der Polymerzusammensetzung und Polyole, welche stärker mit den Harnstoffsegmenten wechselwirken, sind instabiler. Dieser Effekt gilt für Prepolymer Reaktionen mit nicht ionischen Diaminen und verläuft als Lösungsfällungspolymerisation, während die Reaktion zwischen Prepolymeren und ionischen Diaminen als Emulsionspolymerisation verläuft. Der Einsatz der dynamischen Lichtstreuung während der Reaktion und das Rasterelektronenmikroskop zeigen das Wachstum der Polymerketten in Aceton bzw. die Emulsionsbildung von ionischen Diaminen und werden zur Aufklärung des Polymerisationsmodells verwendet.
description: Polyurethane dispersions (PUD) are varied in chemical structure and result excellent elastic properties. PUDs are used in compositions to produce waterborne coatings, adhesives, and films. The focus of this dissertation is the continuous and discontinuous synthesis of polyurethane dispersions by using the acetone process. Herby the impact of five different prepolymers based on polycarbonates, polyesters and polyethers are used to study the synthesis process as function of the continuous and discontinuous procedure. The continuous synthesis of PUDs result higher hydrodynamic particle sizes and result during the chain extension step and during the dispersion step polymer deposits in the tube reactor. This also minimizes the quality of the PUDs and the intensity of the precipitation process is influenced by the Polyol-Hard-Segment interaction and higher complexion energies between the polyols and the hard segments decrease the stability of the polymer in solution. This effect results for the reaction between prepolymers and nonionic diamines, while the reaction between prepolymers and ionic diamines are based on the emulsion polymerization model. By using the dynamic light scattering during the chain extension step and the scanning electron microscope, the growth process of polyurethane for nonionic systems and the formation of emulsion particles for ionic systems can be used to characterize the polymerization model.
Correction factors of the measurement errors of the LAMOST-LRS stellar parameters
Creators: name: Zhang, Shuhui
name: Hu, Guozhen
name: Liu, Rongrong
name: Pan, Cuiyun
name: Li, Lu
name: Shao, Zhengyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to investigate the propriety of stellar parameter errors of the official data release of the LAMOST low-resolution spectroscopy (LRS) survey. We diagnose the errors of radial velocity (RV), atmospheric parameters ([Fe/H], T eff , log g) and α-enhancement ([α/M]) for the latest data release version of DR7, including 6,079,235 effective spectra of 4,546,803 stars. Based on the duplicate observational sample and comparing the deviation of multiple measurements to their given errors, we find that, in general, the error of [α/M] is largely underestimated, and the error of radial velocity is slightly overestimated. We define a correction factor k to quantify these misestimations and correct the errors to be expressed as proper internal uncertainties. Using this self-calibration technique, we find that the k-factors significantly vary with the stellar spectral types and the spectral signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Particularly, we reveal a strange but evident trend between k-factors and error themselves for all five stellar parameters. Larger errors tend to have smaller k-factor values, i.e., they were more overestimated. After the correction, we recreate and quantify the tight correlations between SNR and errors, for all five parameters, while these correlations have dependence on spectral types. It also suggests that the parameter errors from each spectrum should be corrected individually. Finally, we provide the error correction factors of each derived parameter of each spectrum for the entire LAMOST-LRS DR7.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, 4 Tables, Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA)
title: Taiwanese shouldered axes: its function, usage and chronology
Creators: name: Chiang, Li-Chi
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2020

description: The origin of the Yuanshan Culture in Northern Taiwan has long been subjecting attracted major attention by archaeologist due to the particularity of its material culture. That particularity is not shown in the artefacts of other prehistoric cultures in Taiwan, instead, it can be found the similarity from the prehistoric culture(s) in neighbouring areas, such as southeast coast of China. For example, the shouldered axes, one of the artefacts with Yuanshan cultural characteristics. Various opinions of shouldered axe distributions across this area have been given by scholars, but no agreement so far has been drawn the issues of their source, function/usage and cultural significance. Various scientific approaches have been applied to analyse 127 shouldered axes from twenty-two Yuanshan cultural sites and eight from unknown sites for learning the production techniques and usage/function of the shouldered axes. At the same time, 61 radiocarbon dating data of three material types collected from nine Yuanshan cultural sites have been reviewed to obtain the lower and upper chronological boundaries of the Yuanshan Culture. Analytical results are used to interpret the production technology and usage/function of shouldered axes, as well as the chronology and origin of the Yuanshan Culture. The chronological analysis based on Bayesian modelling suggests that the date of the Yuanshan Culture is about c. 3600-2300 BP. There are two types of rock were ii used as raw materials by the Yuanshan people by using pXRF experiments on shouldered axes. One is in the largest number of andesite of the total, the other is the sandstone which represents in three samples. However, the quarry of andesite raw material used by the Yuanshan peopled still cannot be confirmed that it was procured from the Tatun Volcano Group. The angles and forms of shoulders on the shouldered axes have no specific group as techno-typological production standard based on analytical results yielded by the PCA and typological analysis. Some of the types of the shouldered axes are similar to that discovered from the Pearl River Delta and the Indochina Peninsula where the appearance of the shouldered axes is about 6000-2000BP. The use-wear on the shoulder of the shouldered axe is the production marks which were evaluated by both use-wear analysis and replica experiments. Shouldered axes were most likely used as a hafted hoe with a handle in the agronomic activities.
Quasi two-dimensional nature of high-Tc superconductivity in iron-based (Li,Fe)OHFeSe
Creators: name: Li, Dong
name: Liu, Yue
name: Lu, Zouyouwei
name: Li, Peiling
name: Zhang, Yuhang
name: Ma, Sheng
name: Liu, Jiali
name: Lu, Jihu
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Liu, Guangtong
name: Zhou, Fang
name: Dong, Xiaoli
name: Zhao, Zhongxian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intercalated iron selenide (Li,Fe)OHFeSe has a strongly layered structure analogous to the quasi two-dimensional (2D) bismuth cuprate superconductors, and exhibits both high-temperature (Tc) and topological superconductivity. However, the issue of its superconductivity dimensionality has not yet been fully investigated so far. Here we report that the quasi-2D superconductivity features, including the high anisotropy γ = 151 and the associated quasi-2D vortices, are also revealed for (Li,Fe)OHFeSe, based on systematic experiments of the electrical transport and magnetization and model fittings. Thus, we establish a new vortex phase diagram for (Li,Fe)OHFeSe, which delineates an emergent quasi-2D vortex-liquid state, and a subsequent vortex-solid dimensional crossover from a pancake-like to a three-dimensional state with decreasing temperature and magnetic field. Furthermore, we find that all the quasi-2D characteristics revealed here for the high-Tc iron selenide superconductor are very similar to those reported for the high-Tc bismuth cuprate superconductors.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Causal variation modelling identifies large inter- and intra-regional disparities in physical therapy offered to hip fracture patients in Estonia
Creators: name: Prommik, Pärt
name: Maiväli, Ülo
name: Kolk, Helgi
name: Märtson, Aare
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: An essential measure of hip fracture (HF) rehabilitation, the amount of physical therapy (PT) used per patient, has been severely understudied. This study (1) evaluates post-acute PT use after HF in Estonia, (2) presents causal variation modelling for examining inter- and intra-regional disparities, and (3) analyses its temporal trends. This retrospective cohort study used validated population-wide health data, including patients aged ≥50 years, with an index HF diagnosed between January 2009 and September 2017. Patients’ 6-month PT use was analysed and reported separately for acute and post-acute phases. While most of the included 11,461 patients received acute rehabilitation, only 40% of them received post-acute PT by a median of 6 h. Analyses based on measures of central tendency revealed 2.5 to 2.6-fold inter-regional differences in HF post-acute rehabilitation. Variation modelling additionally detected intra-regional disparities, showing imbalances in the fairness of allocating local rehabilitation resources between a county’s patients. This study demonstrates the advantages of causal variation modelling for identifying inter- and intra-regional disparities in rehabilitation. The analyses revealed persisting large multi-level disparities and accompanying overall inaccessibility of PT in HF rehabilitation in Estonia, showing an urgent need for system-wide improvements.Implications for rehabilitationThis study demonstrates the advantages of causal variation modelling for identifying inter- and intra-regional disparities in rehabilitation, using an essential outcome measure – used physical therapy hours.The study revealed large multi-level disparities and overall inaccessibility of physical therapy in hip fracture rehabilitation in Estonia, showing an urgent need for system-wide improvements.This study expands our knowledge on unstudied topics – hip fracture post-acute care and long-term physical therapy use.This regional analysis provides the first evidence-based regional-level basis for improving the rehabilitation system in Estonia. This study demonstrates the advantages of causal variation modelling for identifying inter- and intra-regional disparities in rehabilitation, using an essential outcome measure – used physical therapy hours. The study revealed large multi-level disparities and overall inaccessibility of physical therapy in hip fracture rehabilitation in Estonia, showing an urgent need for system-wide improvements. This study expands our knowledge on unstudied topics – hip fracture post-acute care and long-term physical therapy use. This regional analysis provides the first evidence-based regional-level basis for improving the rehabilitation system in Estonia.
Using dietary metabarcoding analyses to characterise waterbirds–agriculture interactions
Creators: name: Corriveau, Amelie
name: Klaassen, Marcel
name: Garnett, S T
name: Kaestli, M
name: Power, Matthew
name: Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, Mahsa
name: Coghlan, Megan L.
name: Christian, K
name: Bunce, Michael
name: Campbell, Hamish A.
Publisher: name: Institute of Environmental Science and Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: Behavioural ecology

description: Globally, the use of agricultural fields by waterbirds has increased, resulting in conflicts with farmers. Designing effective management strategies to resolve these conflicts requires understanding the species' resource use. Dietary analyses can shed light on the extent of consumption of agricultural crops and surrounding natural resources, as well as the potential relationship between diet and an individual's body condition and ultimately its fitness. We examined the dietary composition of the tropical magpie goose Anseranas semipalmata, seasonally utilising a mixed natural-agricultural landscape of northern Australia. We used DNA metabarcoding of intestinal contents from hunted geese to reconstruct individual diets and evaluated body condition from morphometric measurements. We compared the relative contribution of agricultural and natural foods to dietary composition, and investigated how this contribution varied spatially, temporally and among individuals that differed in body condition. We found that geese consumed both agricultural and naturally occurring plants assigned to at least 35 taxa. The most frequent and abundant taxa belonged to three families: Poaceae (grasses), Cyperaceae (sedges) and Anacardiaceae (mangoes). Dietary composition varied substantially among sampling sites and over time but not with body condition of geese. Synthesis and applications. We used a novel approach to investigate the diet of a waterbird perceived as problematic across an agricultural landscape in tropical Australia. We showed that individuals forage opportunistically, and that agricultural crops, while eaten, may not represent an essential part of geese diet across the study region. The knowledge acquired provides new insights into the species' foraging ecology offering clear alternatives for mitigating goose–agriculture interactions. Providing disturbance-free alternative foraging areas or minimising the attractiveness of targeted agricultural fields (e.g. shorter grass, alternative ground cover) may alleviate crop consumption while benefiting the species' long-term conservation. While also highlighting the limitations of DNA metabarcoding, our dietary study emphasises the potential of this methodology to improve our understanding of crop damage by wildlife, allowing effective evaluation of management requirements.
Barriers and facilitators to engaging individuals and families with autism spectrum disorder in mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies: a meta-synthesis
Creators: name: Hartley, Matthew
name: Due, Clemence
name: Dorstyn, Diana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Third-wave psychological therapies can benefit individuals and families living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To date, little is known about individuals’ perceptions and experiences of therapy. This meta-synthesis aimed to capture participants’ own reflections of mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies, including potential barriers and facilitators to therapy engagement. Database searches identified 10 independent studies targeting caregivers (Nstudies = 3), dyadic parent-child interventions (Nstudies = 6), or adults with ASD (Nstudies = 1). Studies were subject to quality assessment and thematically analysed. Caregivers highlighted a need to adapt the length and frequency of daily mindfulness practice around busy lifestyles. Adults with ASD also identified therapy barriers, although these data were less robust. Children with ASD focused on therapy benefits. All three participant groups commented on the importance of mindfulness as a method to enhance self-awareness, self-regulation and self-care. Peer support provided in group-based therapy was also seen as beneficial. Future research should examine the application of mindfulness therapies to adults with ASD, with little currently known about this cohort’s therapy experiences. Whether traditional mindfulness approaches can be effectively modified to accommodate ongoing, cumulative daily demands these families experience also requires investigation.Implications for rehabilitationIndividuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their caregivers often experience high levels of anxiety and stress.Mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies can enhance an individual’s self-awareness and self-regulation, thereby reducing distress – with benefits extending to familiesGroup-based therapy is an important adjunct to the support of caregivers developing mindfulness-awareness. Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their caregivers often experience high levels of anxiety and stress. Mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies can enhance an individual’s self-awareness and self-regulation, thereby reducing distress – with benefits extending to families Group-based therapy is an important adjunct to the support of caregivers developing mindfulness-awareness.
Security Requirements, Counterattacks and Projects in Healthcare Applications Using WSNs - A Review
Creators: name: Fatema, Nusrat
name: Brad, Remus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Healthcare applications are well thought-out as interesting fields for WSN where patients can be examine using wireless medical sensor networks. Inside the hospital or extensive care surroundings there is a tempting need for steady monitoring of essential body functions and support for patient mobility. Recent research cantered on patient reliable communication, mobility, and energy-efficient routing. Yet deploying new expertise in healthcare applications presents some understandable security concerns which are the important concern in the inclusive deployment of wireless patient monitoring systems. This manuscript presents a survey of the security features, its counter attacks in healthcare applications including some proposed projects which have been done recently.
ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ДВИГАТЕЛЬНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ДЕТЕЙ ДОШКОЛЬНОГО ВОЗРАСТА НА ОСНОВЕ ИГРЫ
Creators: name: Маматов, Улуғбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В данной статье описываются методы организации двигательных навыков детей дошкольного возраста на основе средств подвижных игр. Это исследование выявило развитие двигательной активности, физических качеств и двигательных навыков детей дошкольного возраста с помощью подвижных игр.
The Economic Effects of Droughts: Focused on Rice Production
Creators: name: Sung, Jaehoon
name: Sung, Jaehoon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: drought
subject: rice production
subject: regional input-output table

description: We analyzed the effects of drought on rice production and its economic effects. The results show that rice yields decrease by 3.0% (0.7%) when the number of days of “very severe” (“severe”) drought increases by one. However, we also found that the effects of drought decreased continuously from 2011 to 2015. Specifically, even though the drought in 2015 was more severe than the drought in 2011, the marginal effect of drought on rice yield in 2011 (-0.08%) was larger than that in 2015 (-0.02%). This result reflects the effects of the enhancement of agricultural technologies and the adaptive capacity to drought. An analysis of a regional input-output table shows that the economic losses due to “severe” or “very severe” drought were about 27.6 billion KRW in 2011, 1.1 billion KRW in 2012 and 2014, and 13.2 billion KRW in 2015. Also, we found that the negative economic effects of drought would spread over nearby provinces due to economic linkages among provinces. For example, when crop production in Incheon decreases by 1% due to drought, the total production of Seoul and Gyeonggi province decreases by 0.08% and 0.06% respectively.
title: Οι νέες εργασιακές σχέσεις υπό την επίδραση των διαμορφούμενων κοινωνικών συνθηκών και των τεχνολογικών εξελίξεων - Σύγχρονες τάσεις και προοπτικές
title: New employment relationships under the influence of emerging social conditions and technological developments – Current trends and prospects
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Αρβανιτάκη, Δήμητρα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Εργασιακές σχέσεις
Τηλεργασία
Μερική απασχόληση
Ψηφιακή κάρτα εργασίας
Δανεισμός εργαζομένων
Απεργία
Εργασία

description: Υπό το πρίσμα των συνεχώς μεταβαλλόμενων συνθηκών στην οικονομική και κοινωνική ζωή των πολιτών ενός οργανωμένου κράτους και ιδιαίτερα μετά την εμφάνιση του κορονοϊού, νέες μορφές εργασίας δημιουργήθηκαν και έχουν φέρει ανατροπές τόσο στις εργασιακές σχέσεις, όσο και στο κόστος παραγωγής. Η παρούσα εργασία θα αναλύσει τις νέες μορφές εργασίας, όπως είναι η τηλεργασία με ψηφιακά μέσα, η εργασία μέσω ηλεκτρονικής πλατφόρμας, η εργασία μέσω δανεισμού εργαζομένων, το σύστημα της διευθέτησης του χρόνου εργασίας καθώς και η εργασία με την εφαρμογή της νέας ψηφιακής κάρτας. Επίσης, θα αναλυθούν οι επιδράσεις στις εργασιακές σχέσεις και οι νέες προκλήσεις που δημιουργούνται από τις ελαστικές αυτές μορφές εργασίας. Το λειτουργικό κόστος των επιχειρήσεων μειώνεται, το ωράριο εργασίας γίνεται ευέλικτο και εναλλακτικό και μπορούν πλέον οι εργοδότες να καλύπτουν πιο πολλές εργασίες χωρίς ταυτόχρονα να δυσαρεστούνται οι εργαζόμενοι και χωρίς να επηρεάζεται η προσωπική και οικογενειακή τους ζωή. Επιπλέον, τίθενται νέες προϋποθέσεις σε σχέση με τις υπερωρίες και την υπέρβαση των χρονικών ορίων εργασίας, οι οποίες δημιουργούν πιο ευνοϊκές προϋποθέσεις για τη βιωσιμότητα και ανάπτυξη μιας επιχείρησης καθώς η έννοια του χρόνου εργασίας συναρτάται με την αμοιβή και το εργατικό κόστος. Ωστόσο, η ανάγκη για οριοθέτηση και ρύθμιση των ελαστικών μορφών απασχόλησης είναι εμφανής. Ζητούμενο παραμένει ποιος θα αναλάβει την πρωτοβουλία προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση καθώς μέχρι στιγμής τα συγκεκριμένα θέματα φαίνεται να έχουν απασχολήσει μόλις προσφάτως τον Έλληνα νομοθέτη και τους κοινωνικούς εταίρους. Η ελληνική νομολογία μέχρι σήμερα (αν και έγινε μια προσπάθεια με τον νέο Ν.4808/2021) δεν μπορεί να επιλύσει ακόμα και ζητήματα που έχουν πρότερα ανακύψει αναφορικά με την απλή ετοιμότητα1 και την έννοια του χρόνου εργασίας, σε σχέση με το δίκαιο της ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Γενικότερα, τα προβλήματα που ανακύπτουν λόγω των νέων μορφών απασχόλησης αποτελούν ζητήματα που παραμένουν ανοιχτά στο ελληνικό εργατικό δίκαιο.
title: Brazilpod Website
Creators: name: Center For Open Educational Resources And Language Learning
name: Kelm, Orlando
name: Flanzar, Vivian
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Portuguese Language, Language Learning, Open Educational Resources

description: The Brazilpod website is a collection of links to online, open access, and free-to-use materials for the learning of Portuguese as a foreign language. The website was retired in 2024. The collection of materials it contained can be found on COERLL’s Portuguese OER page.
Non-charge-transfer origin of Tc Enhancement in a Surface Superconductor Si(111)-(root7xroot3)-In with Adsorbed Organic Molecules
Creators: name: Yokota, Kenta
name: Inagaki, Shunsuke
name: Qian, Wenxuan
name: Nemoto, Ryohei
name: Yoshizawa, Shunsuke
name: Minamitani, Emi
name: Sakamoto, Kazuyuki
name: Uchihashi, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of adsorption of Zn-phthalocyanine (ZnPc) molecules on the superconductivity of the Si(111)-(root7xroot3)-In surface are studied through transport measurements under ultrahigh vacuum environment. The ZnPc molecules are found to increase the transition temperature Tc by 11% at maximum, which is about 2.7 times the Tc increase previously reported using CuPc. By contrast, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements and ab initio calculations show that charge transfer from the In atomic layers to ZnPc is substantially smaller than that to CuPc. This clearly shows that charge transfer should be excluded as the origin of the increase in Tc. The push-back effect induced by physical adsorption of molecules is discussed as a possible mechanism for the Tc enhancement.
Empirical Study of Co-Renamed Identifiers
Creators: name: Osumi, Yuki
name: Umekawa, Naotaka
name: Komata, Hitomi
name: Hayashi, Shinpei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: The renaming of program identifiers is the most common refactoring operation. Because some identifiers are related to each other, developers may need to rename related identifiers together. Aims: To understand how developers rename multiple identifiers simultaneously, it is necessary to consider the relationships between identifiers in the program and the brief matching for non-identical but semantically similar identifiers. Method: We investigate the relationships between co-renamed identifiers and identify the types of their relationships that contribute to improving the recommendation using more than 1M of renaming instances collected from the histories of open-source software projects. We also evaluate and compare the impact of co-renaming and the relationships between identifiers when inflections occur in the words in identifiers are taken into account. Results: We revealed several relationships of identifiers that are frequently found in the co-renamed identifiers, such as the identifiers of methods in the same class or an identifier defining a variable and another used for initializing the variable, depending on the type of the renamed identifiers. Additionally, the consideration of inflections did not affect the tendency of the relationships. Conclusion: These results suggest an approach that prioritizes the identifiers to be recommended depending on their types and the type of the renamed identifier.
description: 10 pages, APSEC 2022
Deuterated methanol in the pre-stellar core L1544
Creators: name: Bizzocchi, Luca
name: Caselli, Paola
name: Spezzano, Silvia
name: Leonardo, Elvira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the IRAM 30m telescope, we mapped the methanol emission in the pre-stellar core L1544 and observed singly deuterated methanol (CH$_2$DOH and CH$_3$OD) towards the dust peak of L1544. Non-LTE radiative transfer modelling was performed on three CH$_3$OH emissions lines at 96.7 GHz, using a Bonnor-Ebert sphere as a model for the source. We have also assumed a centrally decreasing abundance profile to take the molecule freeze-out in the inner core into account. The column density of CH$_2$DOH was derived assuming LTE excitation and optically thin emission. The CH$_3$OH emission has a highly asymmetric morphology, resembling a non-uniform ring surrounding the dust peak, where CO is mainly frozen onto dust grains. The observations provide an accurate measure of methanol deuteration in the cold pre-stellar gas. The derived abundance ratio is [CH$_2$DOH]/[CH$_3$OH] $= 0.10\pm 0.03$, which is significantly smaller than the ones found in low-mass Class 0 protostars and smaller than the deuterium Fraction measured in other molecules towards L1544. The low deuterium fractionation observed in L1544 and the morphology of the CH$_3$OH emission suggest that we are mainly tracing the outer parts of the core, where CO just started to freeze-out onto dust grains.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures. Accepted in A&A
Proceedings Fifth International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation
Creators: name: Oliva, Paulo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1

description: Classical Logic and Computation (CL&C) 2014 is the fifth edition of this workshop series. The workshop series intends to cover all work aiming to explore computational aspects of classical logic and mathematics. Its focus is on the exploration of the computational content of mathematical and logical principles, aiming to bring together researchers from both fields and exchange ideas. In this fifth edition we received 18 submissions of both short and full papers. Fourteen (14) of these were selected to present at the meeting in Vienna, and six (6) full papers were accepted to appear at this ETPCS special volume. Topics covered by this years submissions included: translations of classical to intuitionistic proofs, witness extraction from classical proofs, confluence properties for classical systems, linear logic, constructive semantics for classical logic (game semantics, realizability), and the study of calculi based on classical logic (lambda-mu-calculus, continuation calculus).
The ecologists versus the builders: the conflict over the Leningrad dam in the nineteen-seventies and eighties
Creators: name: Tziafetas Georgios
Publisher: name: Петербургский исторический журнал
Year: 2014
Subjects: DAM
SOCIAL MOVEMENT
LENINGRAD
SOCIAL GROUPS
ANTICOMMUNISM
RISK SOCIETY

description: This study explores confrontations over the construction of the Leningrad dam, a major engineering project designed to protect the city from flooding. During the perestroika years the project evolved into one of the biggest ecological scandals to precede the collapse of the USSR, and the leap from the socialist model of state development to capitalism. The parties to the conflict insisted on their own visions of development within the city limits, in many ways guided by the ideas behind these two fundamental models. My study focuses on communications between the lead engineers responsible for managing the construction of the dam, and an unofficial group of ecologists. Within the framework of the conflict in Soviet Leningrad, uncensored public discussion unfolded in a number of areas (the formation of new ecological requirements for urban space, the fear of high-tech installations originally created to offer protection from the destructive forces of nature, and the freedom to express one’s opinion). The conflict led not only halted construction, but also caused significant environmental damage. Politically, the conflict helped discredit the Communist Party as the governing party, and also undermined public faith in Russian science, as well as construction and industry.
Similarities and differences in the construction of dispersion laws for charge carriers in semiconductor crystals and adiabatic potentials in molecules
Creators: name: Bercha, S. A.
name: Rizak, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the group theory and the method of invariants, it is shown how the vibronic potential can be written in a matrix form and the corresponding adiabatic potentials can be found. The molecule having $D_{3d}$ symmetry is considered herein as an example. The symmetries of normal vibrations active in Jahn-Teller's effect were defined. $E-E$ vibronic interaction was considered to obtain vibronic potential energy in a matrix form and thus the adiabatic potential. Significant differences are shown in the construction of a secular matrix $D(\vec{k})$ for defining a dispersion law for charge carriers in the crystals and the matrix of vibronic potential energy, which depends on the normal coordinates of normal vibrations active in Jahn-Teller's effect. Dispersion law of charge carriers in the vicinity of $Γ$ point of Brillouin zone of the crystal with $D_{3d}^2$ symmetry was considered as an example.
description: 8 pages
The discovery of the historical past: a comparison of ancient and modern approaches to history
Creators: name: Panchenko Dmitri
Publisher: name: Петербургский исторический журнал
Year: 2014
Subjects: ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ИСТОРИИ
STUDY OF HISTORY
ГРЕЧЕСКАЯ И РИМСКАЯ ИСТОРИОГРАФИЯ
GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
СОВРЕМЕННОЕ ВОСПРИЯТИЕ ИСТОРИИ
MODERN PERCEPTION OF HISTORY

description: Although the tradition of writing history was established by the Greeks, and one should not underestimate the scope and sophistication of ancient historiography, the ancients did not develop the study of the past as a special research programme. The modern approach to history includes the systematic study of the past in its various aspects. Such a study aims to cover all important aspects of a given society, civilization or culture, to arrive at both detailed knowledge and comprehensive interpretation of a given epoch or phenomenon. This approach finds its expression in the leading role of the monographic essay, be it a book or a journal paper. Elements of the modern approach to writing history were already present before the French revolution, and it is manifest in works by Guizot and Tocqueville, Ranke and Boeck. Its appearance is related to the modern perception of history in which it is understood not only as a comprehensive process, like that of biological evolution, but also as the most important power regulating human affairs. In the postmodern world, history no longer appears as a major social agent, and the modern research programme of history will gradually undergo a corresponding change
Fornitura di servizi informatici alle imprese e outsourcing
Creators: name: Baratta, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: IUS/01 DIRITTO PRIVATO
subject: Outsourcing
subject: Sopravvenienze
subject: ODR
subject: Online dispute resolution

description: 2014 - 2015
description: The contracts for delivery of IT services to businesses and, in particular, the outsourcing IT, are highly complex negotiation figures by which the outsourcee rely on other companies the information technology management, to focus its activities on the core business. The outsourcing contracts are medium or long-term contracts, so we have to assess how the speed of the development of technology affect the contract and if the originally agreed services may be modified. We have examined the main theories about contigent and we have concluded that it is necessary to include a renegotiation clause. Then we have examined the breach of the contract, both as regards the renegotiation clause, and as regards the failure of the Service Level Agreement. In the event of serious breaches there is a dispute between parties. With the aim of avoiding long-drawn-out procedures, we have examined the main Alternative dispute resolution instruments and the possibility to apply latest Online dispute resolution also to contracts between the companies. [edited by Author]
DA-CIL: Towards Domain Adaptive Class-Incremental 3D Object Detection
Creators: name: Zhao, Ziyuan
name: Xu, Mingxi
name: Qian, Peisheng
name: Pahwa, Ramanpreet Singh
name: Chang, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Deep learning has achieved notable success in 3D object detection with the advent of large-scale point cloud datasets. However, severe performance degradation in the past trained classes, i.e., catastrophic forgetting, still remains a critical issue for real-world deployment when the number of classes is unknown or may vary. Moreover, existing 3D class-incremental detection methods are developed for the single-domain scenario, which fail when encountering domain shift caused by different datasets, varying environments, etc. In this paper, we identify the unexplored yet valuable scenario, i.e., class-incremental learning under domain shift, and propose a novel 3D domain adaptive class-incremental object detection framework, DA-CIL, in which we design a novel dual-domain copy-paste augmentation method to construct multiple augmented domains for diversifying training distributions, thereby facilitating gradual domain adaptation. Then, multi-level consistency is explored to facilitate dual-teacher knowledge distillation from different domains for domain adaptive class-incremental learning. Extensive experiments on various datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method over baselines in the domain adaptive class-incremental learning scenario.
description: Accepted by the 33rd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2022)
A Photodissociation Region study of NGC 4038
Creators: name: Bisbas, T. G.
name: Bell, T. A.
name: Viti, S.
name: Barlow, M. J.
name: Yates, J.
name: Vasta, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model of the photodissociation regions of NGC 4038, which is part of the Antennae galaxies. We have considered one-dimensional slabs of uniform density all having a maximum $A_V=10\,{\rm mag}$, interacting with plane-parallel radiation. The density range in our simulations spans four orders of magnitude ($100\le n\le 10^6\,{\rm cm}^{-3}$) and the UV field strength spans more than three orders of magnitude ($10\leχ\le10^{4.5}$ multiples of the ${\rm Draine}$ field), from which we generated a grid of about 1400 simulations. We compare our results with Herschel SPIRE-FTS, CSO and ISO-LWS observations of eight CO transition lines ($J=1-0$ to $8-7$) and the [CI] 609μm and [OI] 146μm fine structure lines. We find that the molecular and atomic emission lines trace different gas components of NGC 4038, thus single emission models are insufficient to reproduce the observed values. In general, low-$J$ CO transition lines correspond to either low density regions interacting with low UV field strengths, or high density regions interacting with high UV field strengths. Higher $J$ CO transition lines are less dependent on the UV field strength and are fitted by gas with density $n\sim10^{4.5}-10^{5.2}\,{\rm cm}^{-3}$. We find that the observed fine structure line ratio of [CI] 609μm/[OI] 146μm is reproduced by clouds subject to weaker UV fields compared to the CO lines. We make estimates of the $X_{\rm CO}$ factor which relates the CO emission with the column density of molecular hydrogen, and find that it is less than the canonical Milky Way value.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, to appear in MNRAS
Biometric system in homeland security context
Creators: name: Barra, Paola
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: INF/01 INFORMATICA
subject: Sistemi di riconoscimento biometrico da immagini

description: 2019 - 2020
description: The mission of homeland security is ensuring the safety of living communities and protecting citizens from unforeseen events. In this research field, intelligent and advanced systems are extremely useful to prevent from tragic epilogues. Homeland security systems aim at supporting humans in those continuous and tiring activities of monitoring and detecting dangerous situations occurring in a surveilled area. Fatigue and distraction can reduce the human attention over time and be the cause of risks for safety and security. This thesis highlights the recent advances in this field and proposes some contributions on the state-of-the-art to deal with difficulties of the homeland security issues. The work focuses on a specific perspective view of the problem consisting in the use of biometrics to detect and recognize individuals. The biometric traits explored in this work are both hard biometrics, i.e. the face, and soft biometrics, i.e. the gait. Face is traditionally and widely used as a strong biometric trait for recognition and authentication. A reliable and robust face biometric recognizer is based on the assumption that facial features are good in quality and number. This is achieved when the face is detected in collaborative conditions and the pose is ideal to extract the features. The pose of the face is not always frontal therefore a preprocessing phase of facial recognition involves the estimation of the pose of an acquired face. As a contribution to the state-of-the-art of head pose estimation, three different methods have been proposed that encode the face thanks to the use of facial landmarks and extract the pose. The features extracted from the face can be both static and dynamic. With static facial features we extract information from a face if its identity is not known. Dynamic facial features relate to lip movement and lip recognition. The landmarks that define the skeleton have been extracted from a series of videos of people walking; this made it possible to study the gait and classify people on the basis of gender and on the basis of their "cooperativeness", that is the aptitude to support the camera or to try to escape it. The results obtained and discussed in this thesis are strongly linked to the concepts of security, surveillance and trust and therefore may serve as insights to further explore the strengths and the limitations of software solutions applied to homeland security. [edited by Author]
The cross-cultural adaptation, construct validity, and intra-rater reliability of the functional mobility scale in Brazilian Portuguese for children and adolescents with spina bifida
Creators: name: de Queiroz Davoli, Gabriela Barroso
name: Chaves, Thais Cristina
name: Lopes, Mariane
name: Martinez, Edson Zangiacomi
name: da Rosa Sobreira, Claudia Ferreira
name: Graham, H. Kerr
name: Mattiello-Sverzut, Ana Claudia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this study was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Functional Mobility Scale (FMS) to Brazilian Portuguese and analyse its construct validity and intra-rater reliability in a sample of caregivers of children and adolescents with spina bifida (SB). The cross-cultural adaptation followed five stages: two forward translations, synthesis, back-translation, committee review and pre-testing (n = 20). Construct validity was assessed by comparing the FMS with the classifications of Hoffer and Schoenmakers (n = 40). Intra-rater reliability was assessed by comparing the ratings of 14 caregivers, on two occasions. Kendall’s tau correlation coefficient was used to test the construct validity of the FMS, while the kappa coefficient was used to test intra-rater reliability. Caregivers reported no difficulties with completing the FMS in Brazilian Portuguese. Construct validity tests showed positive correlations between the distances of 5 m (house), 50 m (school) and 500 m (community) in the FMS and the classifications of Hoffer (τ = 0.84; τ = 0.90; τ = 0.68; p < 0.01) and Schoenmakers (τ = 0.83; τ = 0.89; τ = 0.76; p < 0.01), respectively. Excellent intra-rater reliability (kappa = 0.9–1.0) was found for all three distances in the FMS. The FMS in Brazilian Portuguese showed acceptable intra-rater reliability and construct validity when used to measure the mobility level of patients with SB. We recommend its use in clinical practice and research.Implications for RehabilitationA valid and reliable instrument for assessing the mobility of patients with SB;A cross-cultural and adapted FMS in Brazilian Portuguese;An instrument for therapeutic and functional approaches outside the clinicalsetting;The FMS in the Brazilian Portuguese online version shows mistranslations. A valid and reliable instrument for assessing the mobility of patients with SB; A cross-cultural and adapted FMS in Brazilian Portuguese; An instrument for therapeutic and functional approaches outside the clinical setting; The FMS in the Brazilian Portuguese online version shows mistranslations.
Design and Evaluation of Coastal Web Atlases: Best Practices and Future Opportunities for Map Representation, Interaction, and Usability
Creators: name: Hart, David A.
name: Prestby, Timothy
name: Roth, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In this article, we examine best practices and future opportunities for the design of coastal web atlases (CWAs) supporting adaptive management. Coastal zones face significant challenges, and CWAs have emerged as a resource to organize maps and geospatial data in support of education, exploration, and decision-making about coastal issues. Our research is motivated by the Wisconsin Coastal Atlas (https://www.wicoastalatlas.net/)—one of several U.S. state-based CWAs that are members of the broader International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN: https://ican.iode.org/). Specifically, we conducted a needs assessment that bridges adaptive coastal management user needs with three tenets of interactive cartographic design relevant to CWAs: map representation, interaction, and usability. The needs assessment included two stages: a competitive analysis of 10 state CWAs and a user survey with stakeholders from those states about their experiences with and opinions on CWA design. In addition to characterizing design patterns and values, the needs assessment identified important gaps informing future CWAs, such as: inclusion of a wider range of thematic maps; provision of hybrid basemaps providing context about the land and water sides of the coastline; implementation of spatial calculations and temporal sequencing for analysis and exploration; use of story maps to support CWA learnability; improved responsiveness between mobile and non-mobile devices; and customization of advanced analytical tools that support decision making about the most pressing issues facing our coasts. This research serves coastal managers, planners, researchers, educators, outreach specialists, and related stakeholders who benefit from findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data and effective decision tools to guide management of coastal resources.