cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Land is Shaped as Land Shapes: A Material Ecocritical Autoethnography
Creators: name: Lepori, Giulia
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: permaculture
subject: autoethnography
subject: ecocriticism

description: Situated in the environmental humanities, Land is Shaped as Land Shapes: A Material Ecocritical Autoethnography is an interdisciplinary doctoral project grounded in the permacultural site of Thar dö Ling in rural north-western Sicily, Italy. Within a theoretical and methodological framework inspired by ecocriticism, new materialism, posthumanism, and a personal land ethic, the research crafted a “collage methodology” to enact a reading and writing of the permacultural site, combining six months of autoethnographic fieldwork with material ecocritical analysis. Conceiving permaculture design as a type of more-than-human communication that can favour multispecies and elemental mutual relationality, the site is interpreted as a more-than-human inscription where to gather (another word for “read”) a shared narrative of regeneration. Following feminist and environmental humanist invitations for “storying” and “worlding” as ethical works of living and relating with more-than-human worlds, this thesis is written within an elemental and multispecies frame offering different temporal and spatial scales, from multiple perspectives. The collage methodology draws dimensions of my personal memories and familial inheritances into relation with immersive fieldwork and situated memories, to write a collage of the Thar dö Ling permacultural site in coemergence with multiple narrative agencies and design abilities. Within this research, storying and worlding are recognised as more-than-human collective practices to draw attention to the narrative agencies and design abilities of other beings, nonbeings and elements composing both the permacultural site and the thesis. Collaging a composition of multiple temporal and spatial dimensions, agencies and partial encounters, this material ecocritical autoethnography is expressed as a process of reading, gathering, and writing the more-than-human threads within the Thar dö Ling fieldwork site. This thesis comprises seven chapters, of which four are the autoethnographic parts dedicated to the fieldwork site’s recollection. Before encountering them, two chapters lay ground for this doctoral project, offering the intimate and larger context in which the research has coemerged, as well as the theoretical and methodological foundations. Across the autoethnographic chapters, the reader is invited to move within the permacultural site, guided by the topic-places of water, plants, food and waste as situated materialities emerging from the landscape in which Thar dö Ling exists. In conclusion, there is hope.
Chaotic itinerancy and thermalization in one-dimensional self-gravitating systems
Creators: name: Tsuchiya, Toshio
name: Gouda, Naoteru
name: Konishi, Tetsuro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the third paper of the series of our studies of the one-dimensional self-gravitating many-body systems. In this paper, we thus study the transition phenomena after the first transition from a quasiequilibrium. We found that irrespective of the initial conditions, the system wanders between many states which yield the same properties of the quasiequilibrium as the water-bag. This itinerancy is most prominent in the time scale $t\sim 10^5 \sim 10^6 t_c$. In the midway between two succeeding quasiequilibria, the system experiences a transient state, where one particle keeps exclusive high energy and its motion decouples with the others. Though the transient state is not the thermally relaxed equilibrium, its distribution quite resembles the isothermal distribution. Thus the macroscopic relaxation we discussed in the previous papers corresponds to the transition from one of quasiequilibria to a transient state. Averaging the behavior over a time scale much longer than the macroscopic relaxation time gives the isothermal distribution. Distribution of lifetime $τ$ of the transient states yields a power-law distribution of $τ^{-2}$. The transient state gives a clear example of chaotic itinerancy in conserved dynamical systems. The mechanism of the onset of itinerancy is examined.
description: 23 pages, postscript only
A 2017 Social Accounting Matrix for Chile
Creators: name: Marentis, Alonso Gonzalez
name: Luckmann, Jonas
name: Siddig, Khalid
name: Marentis, Alonso Gonzalez
name: Luckmann, Jonas
name: Siddig, Khalid
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Production Economics
subject: social accounting matrix
subject: copper
subject: agriculture
subject: Chile

description: A detailed Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Chile is developed for the year 2017. The main data source for developing the SAM is the Central Bank of Chile, from which a 2017 Input-output Table (IOT), the national accounts and the Integrated Economic Table (IET) are obtained. Additional sources are used to disaggregate the accounts for the SAM, including household and labor surveys. The developed SAM includes 24 activities, 37 commodities, three production factors (capital and two types of labor classified by skill level), enterprises, households (disaggregated to five income quintiles), the government, 4 types of taxes, investment, stock changes, margins, and rest of the world. To allow detailed representation of the agricultural sector, agriculture is disaggregated into 12 activities and 24 commodities, while industry and services are represented by three and 9 subsectors, respectively.
Two-dimensional active motion
Creators: name: Sevilla, Francisco J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffusion in two dimensions of non-interacting active particles that follow an arbitrary motility pattern is considered for analysis. Accordingly, the transport equation is generalized to take into account an arbitrary distribution of scattered angles of the swimming direction, which encompasses the pattern of motion of particles that move at constant speed. An exact analytical expression for the marginal probability density of finding a particle on a given position at a given instant, independently of its direction of motion, is provided; and a connection with a generalized diffusion equation is unveiled. Exact analytical expressions for the time dependence of the mean-square displacement and of the kurtosis of the distribution of the particle positions are presented. For this, it is shown that only the first trigonometric moments of the distribution of the scattered direction of motion are needed. The effects of persistence and of circular motion are discussed for different families of distributions of the scattered direction of motion.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures (published version)
Feathers, Beads and False Dichotomies: Indigenizing Urban Aboriginal Child Welfare in Canada
Creators: Schiffer, Jeffrey J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Services for
Child welfare--Government policy
Indigenous children
Ethnology
Education
Social service

description: This dissertation explores historical processes and daily practices of indigenization within the context of British Columbia's model for delegating Aboriginal agencies for child and family services.  This research draws from historical data, examining the ways in which contemporary indigenization within Aboriginal child welfare is shaped by Canada's colonial past- most notably, the historical relationship between the Indian Residential School System and Aboriginal child welfare in Canada.  Grounded in indigenous methodologies, research practice, and critical theory, this dissertation queries indigenization within the Pacific Aboriginal Child Welfare Association (PACWA).  This dissertation explores the complexity of the urban setting in which PACWA operates, providing case studies of daily practices of indigenization within the association, considering the roles of Aboriginal Elders and Knowledge Keepers throughout this process, and arguing for the need to reframe urban Aboriginal child welfare in Canada. This dissertation asserts that Indigenization at PACWA is making significant differences in the lives of children and families involved in Aboriginal child welfare and that Aboriginal families continue to have their children removed at alarming rates most often because they are living in the aftermath of colonization, amidst contemporary conditions that continue to marginalize Aboriginal peoples.  Indigenization is a process that can and is being achieved within the context of child welfare in British Columbia today.  It is a process connected to Aboriginal sovereignty, self-government, identity and mainstream-Aboriginal relations.  It is also a process that is making significant impacts in the lives of those connected to Aboriginal child welfare (Aboriginal and otherwise), while simultaneously being challenged by the structural inequalities and political eddies that continue to marginalize urban Aboriginal peoples.  This research demonstrates that successful indigenization practice, at the level of large organizations such as PACWA, requires that various levels of Canadian government view them as true partners in a project of decolonization and indigenization.  This requires a recognition and honouring of history and diversity of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, validated by means of mutual respect and sharing power.
Imagined pasts: anastylosis and the creation of the Thai national past
Creators: name: Crocker, John Victor
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Anastylosis, Restoration of Khmer monuments in Thailand

description: The UNESCO World Heritage list, growing by some thirty entries a year, currently contains 756 entries for locations from around the world, some natural and some man-made, and of the man-made objects probably the most famous entries from Southeast Asia comprise the twelfth-century Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia and the temple of the Borobudur in Java. These, together with other major monuments, like the Acropolis in Athens, and many other monuments, less imposing but equally important historically, were once in a ruinous condition due to natural or man-made forces. Their current completed and preserved state is the result of the application of a rigorous set of scientific, architectural and artistic principles designed to restore the monument to its original form by disassembling and then reassembling the monument after assuring the strength and stability of its foundations and structure. The use of new material is only sanctioned under particular conditions. This technique is known as “Anastylosis” and was only formalized in the 1930s after many successful and less successful attempts at earlier restorations, including that of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. This thesis considers the development of the technique, starting with the pioneering work of the Dutch in Borobudur in the late nineteenth century and examines its application in detail to several ancient Khmer monuments in Northeast Thailand, in the context of the restoration of a country’s cultural heritage.
Additional file 1 of Comprehensive insights into AML relapse: genetic mutations, clonal evolution, and clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Kim, Namsoo
name: Hahn, Seungmin
name: Choi, Yu Jeong
name: Cho, Hyunsoo
name: Chung, Haerim
name: Jang, Ji Eun
name: Lyu, Chuhl Joo
name: Lee, Seung-Tae
name: Choi, Jong Rak
name: Cheong, June-Won
name: Shin, Saeam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Cladonia macilenta
title: Rotfrüchtige Säulenflechte (Cladonia macilenta)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild der Rotfrüchtigen Säulenflechte.
Feature Selection for High Dimensional Causal Inference
Creators: Lu, Rui
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Educational evaluation
subject: Education and state
subject: School management and organization
subject: Machine learning--Statistical methods
subject: Inference--Mathematical models

description: Selecting an appropriate set for confounding control is essential for causal inference. The strong ignorability is a strong assumption. With observational data, researchers are unsure the strong ignorability assumption holds. To reduce the possibility of the bias caused by unmeasured confounders, one solution is to include the widest range of pre-treatment covariates, which has been demonstrated to be problematic. Subjective knowledge-based covariate screening is a common approach that has been applied widely. However, under high dimensional settings, it becomes difficult for domain experts to screen thousands of covariates. Machine learning based automatic causal estimation makes it possible for high dimensional causal estimation. While the theoretical properties of these techniques are desirable, they are only necessarily applicable asymptotically (i.e., requiring large sample sizes to be guaranteed to hold), and their performance in smaller samples is sometimes less clear. Data-based pre-processing approaches may fill this gap. Nevertheless, there is no clear guidance on when and how covariate selection should be involved in high dimensional causal estimation. In this dissertation, I address the above issues by (a) providing a classification scheme for major causal covariate selections methods (b) extending causal covariate selection framework (c) conducting a comprehensive empirical Monte Carlo simulation study to illustrate theoretical properties of causal covariate selection and estimation methods, and (d) following-up with a case study to compare different covariate selection approaches in a real data testing ground. Under small sample and/or high dimensional settings, study results indicate choosing an appropriate covariate selection method as pre-processing tool is necessary for causal estimation. Under relatively large sample and low dimensional settings, covariate selection is not necessary for machine learning based automatic causal estimation. Careful pre-processing guided by subjective knowledge is essential.
Cut-and-join structure and integrability for spin Hurwitz numbers
Creators: name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
name: Natanzon, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Spin Hurwitz numbers are related to characters of the Sergeev group, which are the expansion coefficients of the Q Schur functions, depending on odd times and on a subset of all Young diagrams. These characters involve two dual subsets: the odd partitions (OP) and the strict partitions (SP). The Q Schur functions Q_R with R\in SP are common eigenfunctions of cut-and-join operators W_Δwith Δ\in OP. The eigenvalues of these operators are the generalized Sergeev characters, their algebra is isomorphic to the algebra of Q Schur functions. Similarly to the case of the ordinary Hurwitz numbers, the generating function of spin Hurwitz numbers is a τ-function of an integrable hierarchy, that is, of the BKP type. At last, we discuss relations of the Sergeev characters with matrix models.
description: 22 pages
The affective ground: possibilities for cross-cultural dialogue
Creators: name: Hogan, Jan Margaret
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2011
Subjects: creative arts, visual language, practice-led research, cross-cultural, collaboration, dialogue, place

description: The Affective Ground: research into the possibilities for cross-cultural dialogue through the visual arts. The work explores the painting Matawhero by Peter Adsett as a model for a cross-cultural dialogue about space, place and spirituality between artists in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. A study taking the form of a 30,000 word research essay which comprises the outcome of the Theory component.
title: Capoeira and transnational culture: Investigating the social role of a globally mobile traditional cultural practice
Creators: name: Vianna Neto, Eurico Lopes Baretto
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Capoeira
subject: Martial arts
subject: Transnational culture

description: Capoeira is a syncretic cultural system that simultaneously encompasses martial-art, dance, ritual, musical performance and theatre. It was forged by the interplay of diverse ethnicities in Brazil. Over the centuries, the practice served as a form of resistance to enslaved Africans, Amerindians, mestizos and exiled Europeans to counter slavery and an oppressive establishment. It has been argued that Capoeira functions 'as a sign of history, preserving cultural patterns from former times, and as a sign in history evolving along with changes in the social order' (Lewis, 1992: 9[...]). Despite its increasing popularity and multinational acceptance since the 1970s, the majority of the research done on Capoeira over the last few decades has been in the field of history. By contrast, applying theories of globalisation and transnational culture, this thesis addresses Capoeira's process of transnationalisation and the matters of geographical and ethnic authenticity that are brought to the surface as Capoeira is practised throughout the world. The research also uses the example of Capoeira to study the application of transnationalised cultural practices in community development programmes promoting cultural understanding and social inclusion. The thesis draws on ethnographic data collected by the author, an experienced Capoeira teacher, during fieldwork conducted in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Brazil, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Norway. [...]
Cycle lengths modulo $k$ in large 3-connected cubic graphs
Creators: name: Lyngsie, Kasper S.
name: Merker, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that for all natural numbers $m$ and $k$ where $k$ is odd, there exists a natural number $N(k)$ such that any 3-connected cubic graph with at least $N(k)$ vertices contains a cycle of length $m$ modulo $k$. We also construct a family of graphs showing that this is not true for 2-connected cubic graphs if $m$ and $k$ are divisible by 3 and $k\geq 12$.
Feedback and Revision: A Self-assessment Intervention
Creators: Kim, Pyong Ho
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements
Educational tests and measurements--Methodology
Student self-assessment
Cognitive psychology

description: Teacher feedback is a useful tool that can actively engage students in learning and help them improve content knowledge. However, students are generally not motivated to use the teacher feedback. The present study investigated whether self-assessment devices can promote students’ usage of teacher feedback among 5th through 8th graders. Self-assessment is a process during which students monitor and judge their learning process often with tools that provide perspective.
      The present study hypothesized that a self-assessment intervention utilizing rubrics and guiding questions would help students to successfully revise their work as the teacher feedback intends, accurately predict their performance, become receptive to the teacher’s criticism, and increase their content knowledge. While rubrics contain a list of criteria that the teacher expects students to achieve for each problem, guiding questions ask students to identify areas where they perform well and other areas where they need improvement.
      The present study took the form of an experiment, with participants divided into two Groups: Experimental (N=89) and Control (N=84). The Experimental Group students used the intervention, whereas the Control Group students did not use the intervention. Every participant worked on solving problems, revising their work, answering questions about the experience, and expressing their preference for the type of teacher feedback in mathematics. The study hypothesized that the self-assessment devices would help students to successfully revise their work as the teacher feedback intends, more accurately predict their performance, become receptive to the teacher’s criticism, and increase their content knowledge.
      The results showed that the self-assessment intervention helped the students successfully revise their work; furthermore, specific teacher feedback was more effective than general teacher feedback in terms of assisting them to revise. Students who used the intervention demonstrated higher levels of receptivity to negative feedback. On the other hand, the self-assessment intervention showed no significant effect on students’ ability to accurately predict their own performance and it did not produce better mathematics problem solvers.
      The results suggest that teachers need to provide feedback that precisely locates errors in students’ work and offer specific direction for improvement. Teachers also need to emphasize the purpose of the self-assessment and feedback usage, so that students become more aware of its importance. Furthermore, improving the student-teacher relationship and implementing other forms of self-assessment may enhance the effect of self-assessment on the successful use of feedback by students.
Megahertz cycling of ultrafast structural dynamics enabled by nanosecond thermal dissipation
Creators: name: Domröse, Till
name: Silva, Leonardo da Camara
name: Ropers, Claus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-matter interactions are of fundamental scientific and technological interest. Ultrafast electron microscopy and diffraction with combined femtosecond-nanometer resolution elucidate the laser-induced dynamics in structurally heterogeneous systems. These measurements, however, remain challenging due to the brightness limitation of pulsed electron sources, leading to an experimental trade-off between resolution and contrast. Larger signals can most directly be obtained by higher repetition rates, which, however, are typically limited to a few kHz by the thermal relaxation of thin material films. Here, we combine nanometric electron-beam probing with sample support structures tailored to facilitate rapid specimen cooling. Optical cycling of a charge-density wave transformation enables quantifying the mean temperature increase induced by pulsed laser illumination. Varying the excitation fluence and repetition rate, we gauge the impact of excitation confinement and efficient dissipation on the heat diffusion in different sample designs. In particular, a thermally optimized support can dissipate average laser intensities of up to 200 $μW/μm^2$ within a few nanoseconds, allowing for reversible driving and probing of the CDW transition at a repetition rate of 2 MHz. Sample designs tailored to ultrafast measurement schemes will thus extend the capabilities of electron diffraction and microscopy, enabling high-resolution investigations of structural dynamics.
Level-One Highest Weight Representations of $U_q[\hat{gl(1|1)}]$ and Associated Vertex Operators
Creators: name: Yang, Wen-Li
name: Zhang, Yao-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the level-one irreducible highest weight representations of $U_q[\hat{gl(1|1)}]$ and associated q-vertex operators. We obtain the exchange relations satisfied by the vertex operators. The characters and supercharacters associated with these irreducible representations are calculated.
description: LaTex file 13 pages
title: Cladonia uncialis
title: Igel-Cladonie (Cladonia uncialis)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild der Igel-Cladonie.
title: Cladonia cervicornis ssp. verticillata
title: Etagen-Becherflechte (Cladonia cervicornis ssp. verticillata)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 2 Bilder der Etagen-Becherflechte.
Holes and chaotic pulses of traveling waves coupled to a long-wave mode
Creators: name: Herrero, Henar
name: Riecke, Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Localized traveling-wave pulses and holes, i.e. localized regions of vanishing wave amplitude, are investigated in a real Ginzburg-Landau equation coupled to a long-wave mode. In certain parameter regimes the pulses exhibit a Hopf bifurcation which leads to a breathing motion. Subsequently the oscillations undergo period-doubling bifurcations and become chaotic.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, LaTex
Analysis of the fecal microbiota of fast- and slow-growing rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Creators: name: Chapagain, Pratima
name: Arivett, Brock
name: Cleveland, Beth M.
name: Walker, Donald M.
name: Salem, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: Aquaculture
Trout
Gut
Microbiota
DNA-isolation
Breeding

description: Diverse microbial communities colonizing the intestine of fish contribute to their growth, digestion, nutrition, and immune function. We hypothesized that fecal samples representing the gut microbiota of rainbow trout could be associated with differential growth rates observed in fish breeding programs. If true, harnessing the functionality of this microbiota can improve the profitability of aquaculture. The first objective of this study was to test this hypothesis if gut microbiota is associated with fish growth rate (body weight). Four full-sibling families were stocked in the same tank and fed an identical diet. Two fast-growing and two slow-growing fish were selected from each family for 16S rRNA microbiota profiling.
Construction of Self-Adjoint Berezin-Toeplitz Operators on Kahler Manifolds and a Probabilistic Representation of the Associated Semigroups
Creators: name: Bodmann, Bernhard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81S10; 58D30 (MSC 2000)

description: We investigate a class of operators resulting from a quantization scheme attributed to Berezin. These so-called Berezin-Toeplitz operators are defined on a Hilbert space of square-integrable holomorphic sections in a line bundle over the classical phase space. As a first goal we develop self-adjointness criteria for Berezin-Toeplitz operators defined via quadratic forms. Then, following a concept of Daubechies and Klauder, the semigroups generated by these operators may under certain conditions be represented in the form of Wiener-regularized path integrals. More explicitly, the integration is taken over Brownian-motion paths in phase space in the ultra-diffusive limit. All results are the consequence of a relation between Berezin-Toeplitz operators and Schrodinger operators defined via certain quadratic forms. The probabilistic representation is derived in conjunction with a version of the Feynman-Kac formula.
description: AMS-LaTeX, 30 pages, no figures
Additional file 4: of Vision-related quality of life considering both eyes: results from the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS)
Creators: name: Nickels, Stefan
name: Schuster, Alexander
name: Elflein, Heike
name: Wolfram, Christian
name: Schulz, Andreas
name: Münzel, Thomas
name: Beutel, Manfred
name: Schmidtmann, Irene
name: Finger, Robert
name: Pfeiffer, Norbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S3a. Linear regression estimates of the influence of both the better-seeing and worse-seeing eyes on the NEI VFQ-25 visual functioning scale score in the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS), 2007–2012, restricted to participants aged younger than 65 years. (PDF 215 kb)
Supplemental Table 3 for the paper "Changes in Rumen Epithelial Morphology and Transcriptome, Rumen Metabolome, and Blood Biochemical Parameters in Lactating Dairy Cows with Subacute Rumen Acidosis Following Rumen Content Transplantation".
Creators: name: Mu, Yingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300303
subject: Animal nutrition

description: Supplemental Table S3. List of read counts from rumen epithelial transcriptome sequencing for the donor-recipient (DR) and the self-recipient (SR) cows
Prevalence and patterns of cigarette smoking before and during early and late pregnancy according to maternal characteristics: the first national data based on the 2003 birth certificate revision, United States, 2016
Creators: name: Kondracki, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: Pregnancy
Prevalence
Patterns
Smoking status
Cessation

description: The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of smoking by intensity status before pregnancy and during early (first and second trimester) and late (third trimester) pregnancy according to race/ethnicity, age, and educational attainment of women who gave birth in the United States in 2016.
Prediabetes detection in unconstrained conditions using wearable sensors
Creators: name: Tatli, Dimitra
name: Papapanagiotou, Vasileios
name: Liakos, Aris
name: Tsapas, Apostolos
name: Delopoulos, Anastasios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Prediabetes is a common health condition that often goes undetected until it progresses to type 2 diabetes. Early identification of prediabetes is essential for timely intervention and prevention of complications. This research explores the feasibility of using wearable continuous glucose monitoring along with smartwatches with embedded inertial sensors to collect glucose measurements and acceleration signals respectively, for the early detection of prediabetes. We propose a methodology based on signal processing and machine learning techniques. Two feature sets are extracted from the collected signals, based both on a dynamic modeling of the human glucose-homeostasis system and on the Glucose curve, inspired by three major glucose related blood tests. Features are aggregated per individual using bootstrap. Support Vector Machines are used to classify normoglycemic vs. prediabetic individuals. We collected data from 22 participants for evaluation. The results are highly encouraging, demonstrating high sensitivity and precision. This work is a proof of concept, highlighting the potential of wearable devices in prediabetes assessment. Future directions involve expanding the study to a larger, more diverse population and exploring the integration of CGM and smartwatch functionalities into a unified device. Automated eating detecting algorithms can also be used.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
title: Cladonia arbuscula
title: Fahlgelbe Rentierflechte (Cladonia arbuscula)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 4 Bilder der Fahlgelben Rentierflechte.
title: Cladonia squamosa
title: Schuppige Cladonie (Cladonia squamosa)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 3 Bilder der Schuppigen Cladonie.
title: Buellia subdisciformis
title: Krustenflechte (Buellia subdisciformis)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild der Krustenflechte.
title: Baeomyces rufus
title: Braunköpfchenflechte (Baeomyces rufus)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 3 Bilder der Braunköpfchenflechte.
Performance Evaluation of Tokenizers in Large Language Models for the Assamese Language
Creators: name: Tamang, Sagar
name: Bora, Dibya Jyoti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Training of a tokenizer plays an important role in the performance of deep learning models. This research aims to understand the performance of tokenizers in five state-of-the-art (SOTA) large language models (LLMs) in the Assamese language of India. The research is important to understand the multi-lingual support for a low-resourced language such as Assamese. Our research reveals that the tokenizer of SUTRA from Two AI performs the best with an average Normalized Sequence Length (NSL) value of 0.45, closely followed by the tokenizer of GPT-4o from Open AI with an average NSL value of 0.54, followed by Gemma 2, Meta Llama 3.1, and Mistral Large Instruct 2407 with an average NSL value of 0.82, 1.4, and 1.48 respectively.
The Role of Interfacial Inherent Structures in the Fast Crystal Growth from Molten Salts and Metals
Creators: name: Hawken, Alexander
name: Sun, Gang
name: Harrowell, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular dynamics simulations of the temperature dependent crystal growth rates of the salts, NaCl and ZnS, from their melts are reported, along with those of a number of pure metals. The growth rate of NaCl and the FCC-forming metals show little evidence of activated control, while that of ZnS and Fe, a BCC forming metal, exhibit activation barriers similar to those observed for diffusion in the melt. Unlike ZnS and Fe, the interfacial inherent structures of NaCl and Cu and Ag are found to be crystalline. We calculate the median displacement between the interfacial liquid and crystalline states and show that this distance is smaller than the cage length, demonstrating that crystal growth in the fast crystallizers can occur via local vibrations and so largely avoid the activated kinetics associated with the larger displacements associated with particle transport.
A Feasibility Study of a Soft, Low-Cost, 6-Axis Load Cell for Haptics
Creators: name: Veliky, Madison
name: Johnston, Garrison L. H.
name: Yildiz, Ahmet
name: Simaan, Nabil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Haptic devices have shown to be valuable in supplementing surgical training, especially when providing haptic feedback based on user performance metrics such as wrench applied by the user on the tool. However, current 6-axis force/torque sensors are prohibitively expensive. This paper presents the design and calibration of a low-cost, six-axis force/torque sensor specially designed for laparoscopic haptic training applications. The proposed design uses Hall-effect sensors to measure the change in the position of magnets embedded in a silicone layer that results from an applied wrench to the device. Preliminary experimental validation demonstrates that these sensors can achieve an accuracy of 0.45 N and 0.014 Nm, and a theoretical XY range of +/-50N, Z range of +/-20N, and torque range of +/-0.2Nm. This study indicates that the proposed low-cost 6-axis force/torque sensor can accurately measure user force and provide useful feedback during laparoscopic training on a haptic device.
MetaCarvel: linking assembly graph motifs to biological variants
Creators: name: Ghurye, Jay
name: Treangen, Todd
name: Fedarko, Marcus
name: Hervey, W. Judson
name: Pop, Mihai
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: Metagenomics
Variant detection
Scaffolding
Assembly

description: Reconstructing genomic segments from metagenomics data is a highly complex task. In addition to general challenges, such as repeats and sequencing errors, metagenomic assembly needs to tolerate the uneven depth of coverage among organisms in a community and differences between nearly identical strains. Previous methods have addressed these issues by smoothing genomic variants. We present a variant-aware metagenomic scaffolder called MetaCarvel, which combines new strategies for repeat detection with graph analytics for the discovery of variants. We show that MetaCarvel can accurately reconstruct genomic segments from complex microbial mixtures and correctly identify and characterize several classes of common genomic variants.
title: Caloplaca citrina
title: Zitronen-Schönflechte (Caloplaca citrina)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild der Zitronen-Schönflechte.
Ride-share matching algorithms generate income inequality
Creators: name: Bokányi, Eszter
name: Hannák, Anikó
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite the potential of online sharing economy platforms such as Uber, Lyft, or Foodora to democratize the labor market, these services are often accused of fostering unfair working conditions and low wages. These problems have been recognized by researchers and regulators but the size and complexity of these socio-technical systems, combined with the lack of transparency about algorithmic practices, makes it difficult to understand system dynamics and large-scale behavior. This paper combines approaches from complex systems and algorithmic fairness to investigate the effect of algorithm design decisions on wage inequality in ride-hailing markets. We first present a computational model that includes conditions about locations of drivers and passengers, traffic, the layout of the city, and the algorithm that matches requests with drivers. We calibrate the model with parameters derived from empirical data. Our simulations show that small changes in the system parameters can cause large deviations in the income distributions of drivers, leading to a highly unpredictable system which often distributes vastly different incomes to identically performing drivers. As suggested by recent studies about feedback loops in algorithmic systems, these initial income differences can result in enforced and long-term wage gaps.
description: Code for the simulation can be found at https://github.com/bokae/taxi
title: Dryland Channel Forms and Processes: A Whole Catchment Scale Study of the Diamantina River, Central Australia
Creators: name: Brunner, Peter Rene
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Diamantina River, Central Australia
subject: Dryland river research
subject: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data
subject: Channelised inner floodplain (IFP)
subject: Channelised outer floodplain (OFP)
subject: Lake Eyre Basin, Central Australia

description: Many aspects of dryland river research, such as channel forms and processes, remain poorly investigated at the catchment scale because of the practical difficulties and costs of carrying out fieldwork in remote dryland regions. Remote sensing techniques, including Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data, and modelling are partly overcoming these difficulties. This study has used fieldwork, remote sensing and computational modelling to investigate channel forms and processes along the Diamantina River at the catchment scale, a large dryland river in the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia. It focuses on comparing the fluvial morphology and hydrological characteristics associated with selected (dominant) channel forms with the primary anastomosing, meandering, anabranch and braided channel forms of the Diamantina River receiving particular attention. The Diamantina River is comprised of a channelised inner floodplain (IFP), bounded by a non-channelised outer floodplain (OFP). Channel forms within the IFP were found to be significantly different in terms of their; sediment size, cross-sectional geometry, and channel form pattern both laterally and in the downstream direction.
Pearling and Pinching: Propagation of Rayleigh Instabilities
Creators: name: Powers, Thomas R.
name: Goldstein, Raymond E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new category of front propagation problems is proposed in which a spreading instability evolves through a singular configuration before saturating. We examine the nature of this front for the viscous Rayleigh instability of a column of one fluid immersed in another, using the marginal stability criterion to estimate the front velocity, front width, and the selected wavelength in terms of the surface tension and viscosity contrast. Experiments are suggested on systems that may display this phenomenon, including droplets elongated in extensional flows, capillary bridges, liquid crystal tethers, and viscoelastic fluids. The related problem of propagation in Rayleigh-like systems that do not fission is also considered.
description: Revtex, 7 pages, 4 ps figs, PRL
title: Cetraria islandica
title: Isländisches Moos (Cetraria islandica)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 3 Bilder des Isländischen Mooses.
title: Green Destination Image: Construction, Projection, Perceptions
Creators: name: Cooper Villagran, Mary-Ann
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Green destination image
subject: Patagonian region of Chile
subject: Huilo Huilo Biological Reserve
subject: Lake Llanquihue Basin
subject: Chiloe Island
subject: Carretera Austral
subject: Torres del Paine National Park

description: This thesis reports on a program of research that investigates the meaning of green destination image (GDI). Extending traditional destination image theory, this research develops and explores a new integrated model of GDI. The new GDI model contains three phases of analysis, perspective and understanding: construction of tourism offerings by stakeholders; projection of tourism experiences through marketing channels, and perception by tourists of the destinations. It contains three psychological components, namely: cognitive (information), affective (emotions) and conative (intentions). It contains three information sources, namely induced, autonomous and organic. It also recognises that perception may be influenced by individual tourist personality factors not considered here. Using a case study approach, the GDI model is tested in the Patagonian region of Chile, which is perceived in the tourism industry as a remote, lifetime-list destination with nature and scenery as primary attractions. Five individual case study sites are compared: Huilo Huilo Biological Reserve; Lake Llanquihue Basin and surroundings; Chiloe Island; the Carretera Austral; and Torres del Paine National Park. Within each case study site, multiple sources of empirical observations were collected including in- depth interviews, site observations and content analysis of marketing materials. This multi site, multi method approach facilitated a deep investigation of how and why individual stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences contribute to the GDI model.
Additional file 5: of Vision-related quality of life considering both eyes: results from the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS)
Creators: name: Nickels, Stefan
name: Schuster, Alexander
name: Elflein, Heike
name: Wolfram, Christian
name: Schulz, Andreas
name: Münzel, Thomas
name: Beutel, Manfred
name: Schmidtmann, Irene
name: Finger, Robert
name: Pfeiffer, Norbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S3b. Linear regression estimates of the influence of both the better-seeing and worse-seeing eyes on the NEI VFQ-25 visual functioning scale score in the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS), 2007–2012, restricted to participants aged 65 years and older. (PDF 215 kb)
The initial stages of silver fluorination: a scanning tunneling microscopy investigation
Creators: name: Sánchez, Jazmín Aragón
name: Caporale, Antonio
name: Degtev, Ilya
name: Di Gaspare, Luciana
name: Persichetti, Luca
name: Sansotera, Maurizio
name: Pueyo, Adrián Gómez
name: De Seta, Monica
name: Lorenzana, José
name: Camilli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (LT-STM) to characterize the early stages of silver fluorination. On Ag(100), we observe only one adsorbate species, which shows a bias-dependent STM topography. Notably, at negative bias voltages, $V_{\rm B}<0$, the apparent shape can be described as a round protrusion surrounded by a moat-like depression (sombrero). As the voltage increases, the apparent shape changes, eventually evolving into a round depression. From the STM images, we determine the adsorption site to be the hollow position. On Ag(110) we find adsorbates with three distinct STM topographies. One type exhibits the same shape change with $V_{\rm B}$ as observed on Ag(100), that is, from a sombrero shape to a round depression as the voltage changes from negative to positive values; the other two types are observed as round depressions regardless of $V_{\rm B}$. From the STM images, we find the three adsorbates to be sitting on the short-bridge, hollow and top position on the Ag(110) surface, with a relative abundance of 60\%, 35\% and 5\%.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures