cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Authorship of the Works of Chrétien de Troyes A Stylometric Examination
Creators: name: Camps, Jean-Baptiste
name: Salvati, Benedetta
name: Freijedo Aduna, Gonzalo
name: Bian, Donghan
name: Drouet, Gaëtan
name: Gaglione, Eglantine
name: Guidi, Emilie
name: Macedo, Carolina
name: Zribi, Yaelle
name: Cafiero, Florian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine learning
subject: Unsupervised learning
subject: History of literature
subject: Supervised learning
subject: Natural language processing
subject: medieval literature
subject: OCR
subject: chrétien de troyes
subject: authorship attribution
subject: stylometry

description: Numerous controversies have emerged about the exact delimitations of the works written by the hand of Chrétien de Troyes, the founder of French roman and introductor of the theme of the Holy Grail in medieval literature. In this paper, we collect a corpus made of previous digital editions and of texts OCRed and post-corrected by ourselves, to analyse it through authorship attribution techniques. Our results seem to broadly confirm expected results, such as the way Chrétien's Lancelot was finished by Godefroy de Laigny. But our analyses also add new insights. Our rolling SVM suggest the possibility that the poorly esteemed and very disputed Guillaume d'Angleterre would have been written by multiple authors, indicating a possible completion of passages previously written by Chrétien. They also highlight the fact that Perceval's ending could have been completed the same way the Lancelot was, by someone who is not Chrétien. Further analyses will be needed to confirm these new findings.

Long paper presented at DH Benelux 2024, KU Leuven, June 6th, 2024 by Florian Cafiero and Jean-Baptiste Camps. Session chaired by Federico Pianzola.
Leptura quadrifasciata Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Leptura
Leptura quadrifasciata

description: Leptura quadrifasciata Linnaeus, 1758
Material: NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Shaprikha vill., 2– 19.06.2019, 3 ex. (AR); Pervomaisk distr., 9 km E Bereschshino vill., 10– 22.07.2019, 2 ex. (AR); Voznesenskoe distr., Alamasovo vill., 27.06.2015, 4.07.2015, 3 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Regarding Edward E. Wright
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Wright was a prisoner for debt in the jail at Victoria. He states that he does not have the means of paying the fees and expenses related to a petition and asks the court to declare him a bankrupt, which it does. Includes adjudication, adjudication in forma pauperis, petition, affidavits of E. Wright, balance sheet, and statement of account.
Regarding William Culverwell (6 of 7)
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Continuation of bankruptcy case of Culverwell. Includes list of creditors, copy of meeting resolutions, appointment of trade assignees, summons to creditors assignees, costs, judgment by default of appearance, and affidavits of service & copy of writ and W.S. Green).
Examining and Comparing the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Serious Games and LEGO Serious Play for Learning Scrum
Creators: name: Gordillo, Aldo
name: López-Fernández, Daniel
name: Mayor, Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Significant research work has been undertaken related to the game-based learning approach over the last years. However, a closer look at this work reveals that further research is needed to examine some types of game-based learning approaches such as virtual reality serious games and LEGO Serious Play. This article examines and compares the effectiveness for learning Scrum and related agile practices of a serious game based on virtual reality and a learning activity based on the LEGO Serious Play methodology. The presented study used a quasi-experimental design with two groups, pre- and post-tests, and a perceptions questionnaire. The sample was composed of 59 software engineering students, 22 of which belonged to group A, while the other 37 were part of group B. The students in group A played the virtual reality serious game, whereas the students in group B conducted the LEGO Serious Play activity. The results show that both game-based learning approaches were effective for learning Scrum and related agile practices in terms of learning performance and motivation, but they also show that the students who played the virtual reality serious game outperformed their peers from the other group in terms of learning performance.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures. Journal article published in Applied Sciences
Effect of ambient air pollution on development of childhood asthma
Creators: name: Clark, Nina Annika
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Asthma prevalence is increasing worldwide and the causes of this increase are largely unknown. There is increasing recognition of the importance of early environmental exposures in childhood asthma development. Outdoor air pollution has been shown to trigger asthma symptoms but its role in incident disease remains controversial. To address these questions, I investigated the effect of in utero and first year of life exposure to ambient air pollution on risk of asthma diagnosis in a nested case-control study. All children born in Southwestern British Columbia in 1999 and 2000 (N=37,401) were assessed for incidence of asthma diagnosis at age 3 - 4 years using hospitalization and primary physician records. Exposure to ambient air pollution was estimated for the gestational period and first year of life using high-resolution pollution surfaces derived from government monitoring station data as well as land use regression models adjusted for temporal variation. Conditional logistic regression analyses were used to estimate effects of CO, NO, NO₂, PM₁₀, PM₂.₅, O₃, SO₂, black carbon, wood smoke and proximity to roads and point sources on asthma diagnosis. Elevated risks of asthma diagnosis were observed with increased early life exposure to CO, NO, NO₂, PM₁₀, SO₂, black carbon and proximity to point sources. Effects were generally larger for first year exposures than in utero exposures, and larger for girls than boys. The results indicate that early life exposure to air pollution is associated with increased risk of asthma diagnosis in early childhood. Although the effect sizes are small, air pollution exposure in urban areas is ubiquitous so may have significant effects at the population level. These results should be confirmed when children are older and asthma diagnosis is more robust.
Lamia textor
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Lamia
Lamia textor

description: Lamia textor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material: NNR: Sarov, mixed forest, 11.06.2016, 1 ex. (PC); Sarov, 25.07.2013, 1 ex. (AR).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
DEI Statements
Creators: name: Honeycutt, Nathan
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2026
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Collecting additional sample using slightly modified measures. Specifically, the UCLA DEI Rubric has been replaced with the UC Berkeley DEI Rubric. IVs, method, planned analyses, hypotheses the same as the previous pre-registrations. Revised measures attached/uploaded. This registration has been submitted a few hours after data collection for this additional sample launched. But only a couple responses have been received, and no analyses have been conducted yet.
DEI Statements
Creators: name: Honeycutt, Nathan
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2026
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Made slight update to IVs, and collecting additional sample (discovered minor errors--correcting them, and collecting additional sample to determine if the outcome is different or not as a result). Measures, Method, planned analyses, hypotheses the same as the previous pre-registration. Revised IVs attached/uploaded. This registration submitted prior to data collection for this additional sample.
Leptura thoracica Creutzer 1799
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Leptura
Leptura thoracica

description: Leptura thoracica Creutzer, 1799
Material: NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Svobodnyi sett., 2– 19.06.2019, 4 ex. (AR). NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Shaprikha vill., 2– 19.06.2019, 3 ex. (AR); Sarov, 20.06.2016, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Regarding William Culverwell (5 of 7)
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Continuation of bankruptcy case of Culverwell. Includes receipt from J. Jungerman; proofs of debt of R.E. Jackson, Jay & Co., Harris & Co., T. Long, and W.P. Sayward; and affidavits of C.W. Kammerer, E. Evans, and J. Jungerman.
FHIR in Ocular Research Environmental Scan Report
Creators: name: Bates, Karen
name: Masnick, Max
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460903
subject: Information modelling, management and ontologies
classificationCode: 460905
subject: Information systems development methodologies and practice
classificationCode: 460907
subject: Information systems for sustainable development and the public good

description: This brief environmental scan report describes applications of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) in ocular research and identifies interoperability approaches that would support ocular research. Findings in this report are based on a literature review, and conversations with researchers and subject matter experts. The report begins with general background information on uses of FHIR in research, and then describes possible applications of FHIR to ocular research specifically. Based on this, we provide recommendations on capacity-building activities that best support accelerating FHIR’s uses for ocular research. These recommendations will inform MITRE’s subsequent work on this project in support of the National Eye Institute (NEI), including development of a webinar, workshop, synthetic data module, and synthetic imaging data.
Lepturobosca virens
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Lepturobosca
Lepturobosca virens

description: Lepturobosca virens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material: NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Alamasovo vill., 27.07.2017, 30.07.2017, 30.06.2018, 3 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Monogenity and Power Integral Bases: Recent Developments
Creators: name: Gaál, István
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R04, 11D59, 11D57, 11Y50

description: Monogenity is a classical area of algebraic number theory that continues to be actively researched. This paper collects the results obtained over the past few years in this area. Several of the listed results were presented at a series of online conferences titled "Monogenity and Power Integral Bases". We also give a collection of the most important methods used in several of these papers. A list of open problems for further research is also given.
Between Sand and Sun and Other Places
Creators: name: Dixson, Kaleigh
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Between Sand and Sun is a work of original fiction that explores the power of place. Ranging geographically from the desert to farmland, from the strangeness of a silent retreat to the familiarity of one’s own home, these six linked stories illuminate how place gives and takes, paving the way for reconciliation and forgiveness, but also for displacement and stagnancy.
Competition at the feed bunk during transition changes the feeding, standing and social behaviour of Holstein dairy cows
Creators: name: Proudfoot, Kathryn Louise
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Transition dairy cows are vulnerable to negative consequences of depressed feed intake due to a transient state of negative energy balance that predisposes them to disease after calving. Competition has been identified as one factor that can decrease feeding activity in mid-lactation cows, but the effects of competition on the transition cow are less well understood. The objective of this study was to test the effect of a competition on the behaviour and feed intake of transition cows. Standing behaviour, feeding behaviour and dry matter intake (DMI) was monitored from 1 wk before to 2 wk after calving for 110 Holstein dairy cows. Social behaviour was recorded in the week before calving. Cows were assigned to a competitive (2:1 cows:bin) or non-competitive (1:1 cow:bin) treatment at the start of the study. Treatment groups were balanced for parity and baseline feeding data, resulting in 8 primiparous and 10 multiparous cows per treatment. Competition dramatically increased the number of agonistic behaviours between cows at the feeder. Primiparous cows showed no change in either feeding or standing behaviour when fed in a competitive environment; however, they increased their total meal duration and within-meal intervals in the wk -1 before and wk +1 after calving. In wk -1 before calving, competitively fed multiparous cows increased the frequency of visits to the feeder but consumed less feed at each visit, resulting in decreased daily DMI. Throughout the experiment, multiparous cows fed competitively spent less time eating at each visit and ate at a faster rate, particularly during the 2 wk after calving. Multiparous cows on the competitive treatment also increased the time they spent standing (without eating) compared to cows on the non-competitive treatment. Feeding rate was negatively correlated with social status in multiparous cows. In summary, the results of this study indicate that restricting access to the feeder increases agonistic behaviours regardless of parity, and cows of different parity and social status respond differently in terms of feeding and standing behaviour.
Monochamus sutor
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Monochamus
Monochamus sutor

description: Monochamus sutor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material: RM: Temnikov distr., Russkoe Karaevo vill., 8– 16.07.2019, 1 ex. (AR). NNR: Sarov, 29.06.2017, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Between Sand and Sun and Other Places
Creators: name: Dixson, Kaleigh
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Between Sand and Sun is a work of original fiction that explores the power of place. Ranging geographically from the desert to farmland, from the strangeness of a silent retreat to the familiarity of one’s own home, these six linked stories illuminate how place gives and takes, paving the way for reconciliation and forgiveness, but also for displacement and stagnancy.
Joint admission control and routing in IEEE 802.16-based mesh networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Shiying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: In recent years, wireless mesh networking has attracted a growing interest due to its inherent flexibility, scalability, and reliability. The IEEE 802.16 standard, commonly known as worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), is the latest technology that enables broadband wireless access over long distances. WiMAX, which emerges as a wireless alternative to cable and digital subscriber line (DSL), is an ideal candidate to serve as the infrastructure for large scale wireless mesh networks. This thesis focuses on the quality of service (QoS) provisioning techniques in WiMAX-based metropolitan area mesh networks. We study the connection admission control (CAC) and routing issues in the design and operation of wireless multihop mesh networks. We propose a joint CAC and routing scheme for multiple service classes with the objective to maximize the overall revenue from all carried connections. Connection-level QoS constraints such as handoff connection dropping probability can be guaranteed within a threshold. Multiple service classes can be prioritized by imposing different reward rates. We apply optimization techniques to obtain the optimal CAC policies. The optimality criterion is the long-run average reward. We demonstrate that the proposed scheme can the maximum revenue obtainable by the system under QoS constraints. We show that the optimal joint policy is a randomized policy, i.e., connections are admitted to the system with some probabilities when the system is in certain states. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed scheme meets our design goals and outperforms the existing scheme.
Picola Achatz & Hooge, 2006, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Achatz, Johannes G.
name: Hooge, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Xenacoelomorpha
Acoela
Proporidae
Picola

description: Genus Picola gen. nov.
Diagnosis. Convolutidae with one bursal nozzle. Male copulatory organ with seminal vesicle composed of a few muscle pairs and a glandular bladder at its distal end that surrounds an actin-rich penis-like structure.
Type species: Picola renei sp. nov.
Etymology. Genus name is a derivation of the Italian word piccola (small), and refers to the species’ extraordinarily small size for a convolutid.
description: Published as part of Achatz, Johannes G. & Hooge, Matthew D., 2006, Convolutidae (Acoela) from Tanzania, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 1362 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174702
Necydalis major Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Necydalis
Necydalis major

description: Necydalis major Linnaeus, 1758
Material: NNR: Voznesenskoe distr., Shaprikha vill., 2– 19.06.2019, 1 ex. (AR).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
Oedecnema gebleri
Creators: name: Ruchin, Alexaner B.
name: Egorov, Leonid V.
name: Alekseev, Sergei K.
name: Semishin, Gennadiy B.
name: Esin, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oedecnema
Oedecnema gebleri

description: Oedecnema gebleri (Ganglbauer, 1889)
Material: NNR: Sarov, 28.05.2019, 1 ex. (PC).
description: Published as part of Ruchin, Alexaner B., Egorov, Leonid V., Alekseev, Sergei K., Semishin, Gennadiy B. & Esin, Mikhail N., 2021, Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, pp. 12-35 in Amurian Zoological Journal XIII (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-1-12-35, http://zenodo.org/record/11088771
title: What Can 30 Years of Conference Papers Tell Us About the Digital Humanities?
Creators: name: Million, A.J.
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: Data
subject: Research methods
subject: Statistics and Numeric Data
subject: Social Sciences

description: The humanities are characterized by questions associated with human values, interpretation, and expression. The digital humanities (DH) pertain to the ways in which humans use media and computational methods for similar purposes. This paper presents a dataset of Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) conference papers presented between 1990 and 2020. First, I provide select background information about my work. Second, I describe how I collected data and provide statistics showing that, over time, DH has become more collaborative. Specifically, I describe a subset of 2,489 paper abstracts. Third, I conclude that over the past three decades years, DH scholars have increasingly written about topics not focused on text, continue providing an inclusive environment for non-dominant topics (e.g., pedagogy), and are increasingly interested in engaging with issues pertaining to ethics, at-risk populations, and minority groups.
Web Archiving as Data
Creators: name: Maches, Tori
name: Labou, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Web Archives as Topic
subject: Python

description: Put on your digital historian hat and join us for an exploration of web archiving as data! In this session we will answer questions such as: What even is web archiving? Why should I care about it? How do I access web archived stuff? What kind of analysis can I do with it? We will use as a case study UC San Diego's guidance for covid prevention, as posted on websites, from Spring 2020 - present. We'll demonstrate how to retrieve the history of a website, work with the html text data in Python, and track changes regarding campus guidance on topics like masking and remote instruction. This workshop was part of the UC Love Data Week 2023 program (https://uc-love-data-week.github.io).
SHADE: Semantic Hypernym Annotator for Domain-specific Entities -- DnD Domain Use Case
Creators: name: Peiris, Akila
name: de Silva, Nisansa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Manual data annotation is an important NLP task but one that takes considerable amount of resources and effort. In spite of the costs, labeling and categorizing entities is essential for NLP tasks such as semantic evaluation. Even though annotation can be done by non-experts in most cases, due to the fact that this requires human labor, the process is costly. Another major challenge encountered in data annotation is maintaining the annotation consistency. Annotation efforts are typically carried out by teams of multiple annotators. The annotations need to maintain the consistency in relation to both the domain truth and annotation format while reducing human errors. Annotating a specialized domain that deviates significantly from the general domain, such as fantasy literature, will see a lot of human error and annotator disagreement. So it is vital that proper guidelines and error reduction mechanisms are enforced. One such way to enforce these constraints is using a specialized application. Such an app can ensure that the notations are consistent, and the labels can be pre-defined or restricted reducing the room for errors. In this paper, we present SHADE, an annotation software that can be used to annotate entities in the high fantasy literature domain. Specifically in Dungeons and Dragons lore extracted from the Forgotten Realms Fandom Wiki.
Parametric Primitive Analysis of CAD Sketches with Vision Transformer
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaogang
name: Wang, Liang
name: Wu, Hongyu
name: Xiao, Guoqiang
name: Xu, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design and analysis of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) sketches play a crucial role in industrial product design, primarily involving CAD primitives and their inter-primitive constraints. To address challenges related to error accumulation in autoregressive models and the complexities associated with self-supervised model design for this task, we propose a two-stage network framework. This framework consists of a primitive network and a constraint network, transforming the sketch analysis task into a set prediction problem to enhance the effective handling of primitives and constraints. By decoupling target types from parameters, the model gains increased flexibility and optimization while reducing complexity. Additionally, the constraint network incorporates a pointer module to explicitly indicate the relationship between constraint parameters and primitive indices, enhancing interpretability and performance. Qualitative and quantitative analyses on two publicly available datasets demonstrate the superiority of this method.
Regarding William Culverwell (3 of 7)
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Continuation of bankruptcy case of Culverwell. Includes exhibit “D” (receipt to T. Dean); exhibit “M” (receipt to Mason); receipts to E. Levy and Dickinson Bros. Co.); proofs of debt of C.B. Young, J. James, M.W. Drake, and E. Dickinson; and affidavit of D. Scott.
Cement Dust Exposure and Risk of Hyperglycemia and Overweight among Artisans and Residents Close to a Cement Factory in Sokoto, Nigeria
Creators: name: Yahaya, T
name: Sani, KA
name: Oladele, E
name: Yawa, E
name: Musa, M
name: Abubakar, M
name: Sulaiman, R
name: Bilyaminu, M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The potential health risks of cement dust exposure are increasingly raising concern worldwide as the cement industry expands in response to rising cement demand. This necessitates the need to determine the nature of the risks in order to develop appropriate measures. This study determined the effects of cement dust exposure on the weight and blood glucose levels of people residing or working around a cement company in Sokoto, Nigeria. Demographic information was obtained using questionnaires from 72 participants, which included age, gender, educational level, exposure hours, occupation, and lifestyle. The blood glucose levels and body mass index (BMI) were measured using a Fine Test glucometer and a mechanical scale, respectively. The results showed that most of the people living or working around the cement company were middle-aged men (31-40; 42.06%) with a primary (33.33%) or secondary (45.83%) school education. It showed that 30 (41.69%) of the participants were overweight while 5 (6.94%) were obese. Additionally, 52.78% of the participants were diabetic while 31.94% were prediabetic. Participants that were exposed for long hours (> 15 hours per day) were the most diabetic (20% of the participants), followed by smokers (15%), and artisans (7%). It can be concluded that exposure to cement dust from the company increased the risk of overweight, obesity, and hyperglycemia among the participants. These health risks were worsened by daily long hours of exposure, smoking, and artisanal pollutant exposure. Human settlements and artisans should not be located near the cement company, and the company should minimize pollutant emissions.
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Deserving citizenship? Canadian immigration policy and 'low skilled' Portuguese workers in Toronto
Creators: name: Clifton, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: In this thesis I use the case study of Portuguese construction workers in Toronto to provide an assessment of how Canada’s skill-based immigrant selection policies treat workers with low human capital. Government rhetoric and much academic writing has presented skill-based immigration programs as responding effectively to the needs of the labour market, and as a progressive move away from the racist and particularistic exclusions present in previous policies. However, the case study presented in this thesis provides a less optimistic reading of the situation. A persistent labour shortage in manual trades, and a selection system that excludes ‘blue collar’ workers from permanent membership, suggest an immigration policy that is neither in synch with the needs of the labour market nor justly administered. Through a discursive policy analysis, I critique Canadian citizenship and immigration policy in two areas. First, policies have been built on flawed assumptions about how certain segments of the labour market function, leading them to place too high a premium on human capital. Second, workers with low human capital tend to be denied permanent membership and held on precarious legal statuses. The result is a differential access to key social, civic and economic rights depending on a migrant’s skill category. An image of ‘fragmented citizenship’ therefore appears more realistic than writings proclaiming an expansion of universal rights and the emergence of a postnational mode of belonging. The new exclusions of skill-based selection systems have not gone unchallenged. In the case of Toronto’s Portuguese community, protests in 2006 surrounding the deportation of undocumented construction workers served to visibly challenge the state’s definition of what constitutes a ‘desirable citizen’. The protests generated wide public support by engaging a traditional logic of national citizenship, arguing that the Portuguese fit the bill as ‘good Canadians’, though this came at the cost of reinforcing the barriers to entry for other groups of migrants.
[Teatro Guignol - ''Nuestro Tiempo'']
Creators: name: Eduardo, Manet
name: Manet, Eduardo
name: Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Théâtre
Théâtre de marionnettes
''Théâtre Guignol''

description: Spectacle de marionnettes (Théâtre Guignol). Au programme, quatre pièces dirigées par Eduardo Manet présentées à la société culturelle ''Nuestro Tiempo''. Titres des pièces  : ''Prólogo'' de Roberto Lago, ''No hay que perder la cabeza'', une adaptation de Paco Alfonso, ''La obstinación de las mujeres'', une farce française anonyme, et ''Sonatina'' de Rubén Darío (version libre). Eduardo Manet fait partie des animateurs de marionnettes.
description: Espectáculo de títeres (Teatro Guignol). En el programa se presentarán en la sociedad cultural ''Nuestro Tiempo'' cuatro obras de teatro dirigidas por Eduardo Manet. Títulos de las obras: “Prólogo” de Roberto Lago, “No hay que perder la cabeza”, adaptación de Paco Alfonso, “La obstinación de las mujeres”, farsa francesa anónima y “Sonatina” de Rubén Darío (versión libre). Eduardo Manet es uno de los animadores de títeres.
description: Notes : Deux photocopies, recto et verso, du programme avec le document.
description: Source: EM-C1-1-1951-06-15
description: Source: Localisation de la ressource : Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines (CRLA–Archivos, ITEM UMR8132). MSHS - Bât. A5, 1er étage 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre - TSA21103. 86073 Poitiers cedex 9.
description: created: 1951-06-15/1951-06-17
Nothobranchius melanospilus species group
Creators: name: Stefano Valdesalici
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Nothobranchiidae
Nothobranchius
Nothobranchius melanospilus

description: [[Nothobranchius melanospilus species group]]
The N. melanospilus species group was defined by Wildekamp et al. (1998) and includes N. melanospilus (Pfeffer, 1896), N. vosseleri Ahl, 1924, N. interruptus Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979, N. jubbi Wildekamp & Berkenkamp, 1979 (males of this species have a white marginal band on the caudal fin, and in the blue morph the red on caudal fin is variable and in some specimens/populations is limited to spots (Seegers, 1997; Wildekamp, 2004); both conditions are considered to be apomorphies), and N. elongatus Wildekamp, 1982.
description: Published as part of Stefano Valdesalici, 2007, A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal area of northeastern Mozambique., pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1587 on page 61
Nothobranchius melanospilus
Creators: name: Stefano Valdesalici
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Nothobranchiidae
Nothobranchius
Nothobranchius melanospilus

description: Nothobranchius melanospilus
Nothobranchius melanospilus. TAN 95-3, MRAC P 98008.0013-0017, 06°23'S, 37°16'E, 2 km N. of Kidete; R.Wildekamp et al., 6 June 1995. Nothobranchius melanospilus. TAN 95-10, MRAC P 98008.0001- 0002, 08°01'S, 39°01'E, 1 km N. of Ndundu; R.Wildekamp et al, 6 November 1995.
description: Published as part of Stefano Valdesalici, 2007, A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal area of northeastern Mozambique., pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1587 on page 62
Regarding William Culverwell (2 of 7)
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Continuation of bankruptcy case of Culverwell. Includes confession of judgement from Culverwell; list of creditors; affidavits of E. Levy, and R. Woods and R. Bishop; receipts (including to C. Wren); proofs of debt of G. Meldrum, W. Forte, and J.G. Shepherd; deposition of J. Grandholm; request for Culverwell’s books; notice from Bishop regarding injunction; statement regarding guarantees made on monies owed; envelope from R.H. Adamson’s office; official assignee; statement regarding proof of debt of J.G. Shepherd; and summons.
Nothobranchius melanospilus
Creators: name: Stefano Valdesalici
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Nothobranchiidae
Nothobranchius
Nothobranchius melanospilus

description: Nothobranchius cf. melanospilus
Nothobranchius cf. melanospilus. TAN 97-18, MRAC AO-071-P-0227-0229, 36 km SW of Masasi, 10°53.85' S, 38°33.02' E; R.Wildekamp et al., 6 April 1997. Nothobranchius cf. melanospilus. TAN 97-19, MRAC AO-071-P-0234- 0237, 69 km west of Masasi, 10°55.73' S, 38°17.05' E; R.Wildekamp et al., 6 April 1997. Nothobranchius cf. melanospilus. TAN 97-20, MRAC AO-071-P-0249-0256, 124 km west of Masasi, 10°55.28' S, 37°52.19'E; R.Wildekamp et al., 6 April 1997.
description: Published as part of Stefano Valdesalici, 2007, A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal area of northeastern Mozambique., pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1587 on page 62
Location embedding based pairwise distance learning for fine-grained diagnosis of urinary stones
Creators: name: Jin, Qiangguo
name: Huang, Jiapeng
name: Sun, Changming
name: Cui, Hui
name: Xuan, Ping
name: Su, Ran
name: Wei, Leyi
name: Wu, Yu-Jie
name: Wu, Chia-An
name: Duh, Henry B. L.
name: Lu, Yueh-Hsun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The precise diagnosis of urinary stones is crucial for devising effective treatment strategies. The diagnostic process, however, is often complicated by the low contrast between stones and surrounding tissues, as well as the variability in stone locations across different patients. To address this issue, we propose a novel location embedding based pairwise distance learning network (LEPD-Net) that leverages low-dose abdominal X-ray imaging combined with location information for the fine-grained diagnosis of urinary stones. LEPD-Net enhances the representation of stone-related features through context-aware region enhancement, incorporates critical location knowledge via stone location embedding, and achieves recognition of fine-grained objects with our innovative fine-grained pairwise distance learning. Additionally, we have established an in-house dataset on urinary tract stones to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. Comprehensive experiments conducted on this dataset reveal that our framework significantly surpasses existing state-of-the-art methods.
Biological classification of clinical breast cancer using tissue microarrays
Creators: name: Cheang, Maggie Chon U
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Gene expression profiles have identified five major molecular breast cancer subtypes (Luminal A, Luminal B, Basal-like, HER2+/estrogen receptor− , and Normal Breast-like) that show significant differences in survival. The cost and complexity of gene expression technology has impeded its clinical implementation. By comparison, immunohistochemistry is an economical technique applicable to the standard formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded material commonly used in hospital labs, and has the advantage of simultaneously interpretation with histomorphology. In this thesis, I hypothesize that a surrogate panel of immunohistochemical biomarkers can be developed to discriminate the breast cancer biological subtypes. The main study cohort consists of over 4000 primary invasive breast tumors, assembled into tissue microarrays. These patients were referred to the British Columbia Cancer Agency between 1986-1992 and have staging, pathology, treatment and follow-up information. In summary, our results demonstrate that (1) the rabbit monoclonal antibody, SP1, is an improved standard for immunohistochemiscal estrogen receptor assessment in breast cancer; (2) the transcription factor, GATA-3, is almost exclusively expressed among estrogen receptor positive tumors but does not seem to predict for tamoxifen response among estrogen receptor positive patients; (3) the proliferation marker, Ki-67, together with HER2 can segregate Luminal A from Luminal B subtypes, which carry distinct risks for breast cancer relapse and death; and (4) the inclusion of the basal markers EGFR and ck5/6 to “triple negative” breast cancers provides a more specific definition of basal-like breast cancer that better predicts patient survival. These results consistently demonstrate that an immunopanel of six biomarkers (estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, HER2, Ki-67, epidermal growth factor receptor and cytokeratin 5/6) can be readily applied to standard pathology specimens to subtype breast cancer samples based on their underlying molecular biology. These findings have been considered sufficient to justify application of this panel onto NCIC (MA5, MA12) and CALGB (9341 and 9741) clinical trials specimens. This followup work which is underway and will determine if the six marker immunopanel can guide decisions about which patients need aggressive systemic drug treatment, and thereby ensure patients get the most effective, individualized adjuvant systemic therapy for their breast tumor.
Regarding William Culverwell (1 of 7)
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Culverwell was indebted to the Bank of British North America for an overdrawn account, as well as to H. Nathan and other creditors for various amounts. Includes proofs of debt for C. Wren, J.G. Shepherd, and H. Nathan; and affidavits of T. Deans and R. Anderson - with Exhibit “A.”
Informe de lectura: Acerca de la categoría sociedades humanas complejas
Creators: name: Loachamin Morales, Darwin Xavier
Publisher: name: Knowledge Commons
Year: 2024

description: En el artículo se describen varios razonamientos con el fin de entender el concepto de sociedad humana compleja, además de argumentar cómo una sociedad humana puede llegar a comportarse como sistemas vivos e inteligentes, siendo esto el resultado de una serie de expresiones de la organización como una totalidad abierta, dinámicas, complejas e inacabadas, la sociedad y su comportamiento abarca un pensar, interpretar, proceder e interactuar. El deseo, el poder, el lenguaje y la acción son prácticas sociales que se manifiestan en patrones de interacción social. Estos caracterizan la organización social y definen lo específico y particular de cada sistema social. las sociedades humanas complejas van desde la perspectiva epistemológica de las teorías de la complejidad incorpora trayectorias de continuidad entre lo social y lo biológico, constituyendo un enfoque biosocial que aplica los avances científicos desde múltiples disciplinas.
Electronic Correlations in Multiferroic van der Waals CuCrP$_2$S6: Insights From X-Ray Spectroscopy and DFT
Creators: name: Guo, Yefei
name: Yang, Jiali
name: Zhou, Junhao
name: Zhu, Na
name: Jin, Yichen
name: Thiele, Günther
name: Preobrajenski, Alexei
name: Voloshina, Elena
name: Dedkov, Yuriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of high-quality van der Waals multiferroic CuCrP$_2$S6 crystals was investigated applying photoelectron spectroscopy methods in combination with DFT analysis. Using X-ray photoelectron and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy at the Cu L2,3 and Cr L2,3 absorption edges we determine the charge states of ions in the studied compound. Analyzing the systematic NEXAFS and resonant photoelectron spectroscopy data at the Cu/Cr L2,3 absorption edges allowed us to assign the CuCrP$_2$S6 material to a Mott-Hubbard type insulator and identify different Auger-decay channels (participator vs. spectator) during absorption and autoionization processes. Spectroscopic and theoretical data obtained for CuCrP$_2$S6 are very important for the detailed understanding of the electronic structure and electron-correlations phenomena in different layered materials, that will drive their further applications in different areas, like electronics, spintronics, sensing, and catalysis.
Monte-Carlo – Cecilia – Chaynes
Creators: name: Alain, Fantapié
name: Fantapié, Alain
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: Opéra
''Cecilia''

description: Critique de l’opéra ''Cécilia'', composé par Charles Chaynes, sur un livret d’Eduardo Manet, représenté à l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Une photo de scène avec la cantatrice Marisol Montalvo et le chanteur Jean-Marc Salzmann illustre l’article.
description: Reseña de la ópera ''Cecilia'', compuesta por Charles Chaynes, con libreto de Eduardo Manet, interpretada en la Ópera de Montecarlo. Una fotografía escénica con la cantante Marisol Montalvo y el cantante Jean-Marc Salzmann ilustra el artículo.
description: Notes : Informations de publication manuscrites au crayon de papier au dessous de l’article.
description: Titre de la publication : Opéra International - Le Magazine De L'art Lyrique
description: Numéro de la publication : 248
description: Périodicité : Mensuel.
description: Source: Localisation de la ressource : Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines (CRLA–Archivos, ITEM UMR8132). MSHS - Bât. A5, 1er étage 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre - TSA21103. 86073 Poitiers cedex 9.
description: Source: EM-E1-2000-07-00
description: created: 2000-07/2000-08
Diochus
Creators: name: Huang, Tian
name: Janák, Jiří
name: Zhou, Hong-Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Diochus

description: Key to species of the genus Diochus from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands (Figs 1−5)
1 Elytra extremely short, one sixth shorter than pronotum (Fig 5)........................... D. papuanus Cameron, 1939
- Elytra of normal length, about as long as pronotum.......................................................... 2
2 Antennomeres very long; antennomere 3 distinctly elongate, about 5 times longer than wide; body length 5.5−6.1 mm (Fig 2)................................................................................... D. elongatus sp. nov.
- Antennomeres shorter; antennomere 3 slightly elongate, about 2 to 4 times longer than wide; body length less than 5 mm .. 3
3 Antennomere 3 more elongate, distinctly longer than antennomere 2; head narrower at posterior angle; tube of spermatheca shorter, slightly coiled (Fig 3)............................................................... D. loebli, sp. nov.
- Antennomere 3 less elongate, nearly equal to antennomere 2; head wider at posterior angle; tube of spermatheca longer, strongly coiled (Fig 4)................................................................ D. chambrieri sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Huang, Tian, Janák, Jiří & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2024, Taxonomy of the genus Diochus Erichson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Diochini) of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands, pp. 103-118 in Zootaxa 5519 (1) on page 104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5519.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13915579
A Rule-Based Behaviour Planner for Autonomous Driving
Creators: name: Frederic, Bouchard
name: Sean, Sedwards
name: Krzysztof, Czarnecki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous vehicles require highly sophisticated decision-making to determine their motion. This paper describes how such functionality can be achieved with a practical rule engine learned from expert driving decisions. We propose an algorithm to create and maintain a rule-based behaviour planner, using a two-layer rule-based theory. The first layer determines a set of feasible parametrized behaviours, given the perceived state of the environment. From these, a resolution function chooses the most conservative high-level maneuver. The second layer then reconciles the parameters into a single behaviour. To demonstrate the practicality of our approach, we report results of its implementation in a level-3 autonomous vehicle and its field test in an urban environment.
description: Use https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-21541-4_17 for citations