cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Traffic Safety Facts 1998: State Traffic Data
title: 1998 traffic fatalities by state and percent change from 1997
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: National Center for Statistics and Analysis
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: National Center for Statistics and Analysis
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1999
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90601
subject: Traffic safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90602
subject: Highway safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90726
subject: Crash data
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93823
subject: Child restraint systems
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90848
subject: Drunk driving
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88912
subject: Laws
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/94288
subject: Motorcycle helmets
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91765
subject: Motorcyclists
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88989
subject: Sanctions
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88910
subject: Per se laws
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93814
subject: Seat belts
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90686
subject: Speeding
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97205
subject: States

description: 13p. in various pagings
description: This publication contains a map of the United States showing 1998 traffic fatalities by state and percent change from 1997 and eleven tables containing data on the following: (1) Traffic fatalities and fatality rates, 1998; (2) Traffic fatalities and percent change, 1975-1998; (3) Traffic fatality rates and percent change, 1975-1998; (4) Alcohol involvement in fatal traffic crashes, 1988 and 1998; (5) Speeding-related traffic fatalities and costs by road type and speed limit, 1998; (6) Passenger car occupants and motorcyclists killed, 1998; (7) Traffic fatalities and vehicles involved in fatal crashes, 1998; (8) Key provisions of safety belt use laws, and belt use rates as of December 1998; (9) Impaired driving high-priority legislation as of December 1998; (10) Child passenger protection laws as of December 1998; and (11) Status of state motorcycle helmet use requirements as of December 1998.
Magnetostratigraphy and stable isotope stratigraphy of the middle-Eocene succession of the Ainsa basin (Spain): New age constraints and implications for sediment delivery to the deep waters
Creators: name: Läuchli, Charlotte
name: Garcés, Miguel
name: Beamud, Elisabet
name: Valero, Luis
name: Honegger, Louis
name: Adatte, Thierry
name: Spangenberg, Jorge E.
name: Clark, Julian
name: Puigdefàbregas, Cai
name: Fildani, Andrea
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chronostratigraphy
subject: Magnetostratigraphy
subject: Stable isotopes
subject: Deep marine
subject: Sequence stratigraphy
subject: Eustatism
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Stratigraphic cycles preserved in sedimentary successions are controlled by the interaction of tectonics, climate, sediment supply and sea-level variations. Understanding the influence of these drivers on sedimentary systems dynamics is crucial to understand and extract information from sedimentary archives. In the deep marine deposits of the Ainsa foreland basin (lower to middle Eocene, southern central Pyrenees, Spain), the origin of well-preserved cyclicity between channelized sandy submarine fans and hemipelagic deposits remains subject to debate because of the absence of chronostratigraphic constraints on high resolution geochemical proxies. Here, we contrast a combination of newly acquired and legacy geochemical datasets (carbon and oxygen stable isotopes, organic matter content, major and trace elements and the mineralogical composition of bulk hemipelagic sediments) tuned by a new age model to global “target” curves to discuss the possible drivers of the stratigraphic cycles found in the deep marine sediment gravity flow deposits of the Hecho Group. Our new age model is based on magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic datasets acquired on a composite section going from the Banaston system to the distal deposits of the Sobrarbe deltaic complex. Four major polarity zones are identified in the studied succession covering the time span from C21n (lower members of the Banaston system) to C19r (Sobrarbe deltaic complex). Our age model is corroborated by the identification of the nannoplankton zone NP16 in the Guaso system (C20n). Comparison between global carbon isotope curve and local isotope dataset shows some differences, suggesting the preservation of a local isotope signal modulated by eustatism, changes in the environment of deposition and/or restriction in water circulation in the Ainsa basin. Yet, comparison of the stratigraphic record with global sea-level curves highlights that sands are mainly delivered to the basin during lowstands, pointing to the important role of eustasy even in an active foreland tectonic context. The exception to the rule is the Banaston member II, whose deposition during a sea-level highstand seems to be controlled by the growth of tectonic structures.
Representation of the nonequilibrium steady-state distribution function for sheared granular systems
Creators: name: Chong, Song-Ho
name: Otsuki, Michio
name: Hayakawa, Hisao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the representation of the nonequilibrium steady-state distribution function which is expressed in terms of the excess free energy production. This representation resembles the one derived recently by Komatsu and Nakagawa [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008), 030601] resting on the use of microscopic time-reversal symmetry, but our representation applies also to sheared granular systems in which such a symmetry is broken.
description: 16 pages, to appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
RFSC Cavities for the Detection of Gravitational Waves: Recent Updates  and  Future Trands
Creators: name: Ph. Bernard
name: A. Chincarini
name: G. Gemme
name: R. Parodi
name: E. Picasso
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2001

description: The last experimental results obtained on a detector of small harmonic displacemens, based on two coupled superconducting cavities, are presented. Starting from these results, and from a deeper understanding of the detector's working principles, new ideas for the development of a realistic gravitational waves detector, based on superconducting cavities, are discussed. The outline of the detector design and of its expected final sensitivity are also shown.
Stress Drop, Seismogenic Index and Fault Cohesion of Fluid-Induced Earthquakes
Creators: name: Shapiro, Serge A.
name: Dinske, Carsten
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Induced seismicity
subject: Hydrocarbon production
subject: Fluid injection
subject: Geo-Energy
subject: Seismic hazard
subject: Reservoir Geomechancs
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Sometimes, a rather high stress drop characterizes earthquakes induced by underground fluid injections or productions. In addition, long-term fluid operations in the underground can influence a seismogenic reaction of the rock per unit volume of the fluid involved. The seismogenic index is a quantitative characteristic of such a reaction. We derive a relationship between the seismogenic index and stress drop. This relationship shows that the seismogenic index increases with the average stress drop of induced seismicity. Further, we formulate a simple and rather general phenomenological model of stress drop of induced earthquakes. This model shows that both a decrease of fault cohesion during the earthquake rupture process and an enhanced level of effective stresses could lead to high stress drop. Using these two formulations, we propose the following mechanism of increasing induced seismicity rates observed, e.g., by long-term gas production at Groningen. Pore pressure depletion can lead to a systematic increase of the average stress drop (and thus, of magnitudes) due to gradually destabilizing cohesive faults and due to a general increase of effective stresses. Consequently, elevated average stress drop increases seismogenic index. This can lead to seismic risk increasing with the operation time of an underground reservoir.
Bala (China) – Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Hölzl, Andreas
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Bala is a Tungusic language of the Jurchenic subbranch recorded by Mu Yejun 穆晔骏 (1926‒1989) and other researchers. The language was spoken by people living in the Zhangguangcai mountain range (zhangguangcai ling 张广才岭) in Northeast China. There do not appear to be any living speakers, but information and materials may still be available from elderly people and in written documents. Data on the language encompasses word lists, grammatical items, a few sentences, and one song written in Chinese characters. The language shows some archaic features of utmost importance for comparative Tungusic linguistics. It is similar to Jurchen (jurc1239), and more distantly related to Manchu (manc1252). Bala exhibits signs of being a mixed language, evincing a certain number of borrowings from Manchu dialects, Chinese, and perhaps other Tungusic languages. There is sociolectal and dialectal variation that is poorly understood. Today, the Bala probably speak Northeastern Mandarin (nort3283).1 1 I want to thank Yadi Hölzl, an anonymous reviewer, and Peter Austin for their help.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
Evidence for weak electronic correlations in Fe-pnictides
Creators: name: Yang, W. L.
name: Velasco, P. O.
name: Denlinger, J. D.
name: Sorini, A. P.
name: Chen, C-C.
name: Moritz, B.
name: Lee, W. -S.
name: Vernay, F.
name: Delley, B.
name: Chu, J. -H.
name: Analytis, J. G.
name: Fisher, I. R.
name: Ren, Z. A.
name: Yang, J.
name: Lu, W.
name: Zhao, Z. X.
name: Brink, J. van den
name: Hussain, Z.
name: Shen, Z. -X.
name: Devereaux, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using x-ray absorption and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, charge dynamics at and near the Fe $L$ edges is investigated in Fe pnictide materials, and contrasted to that measured in other Fe compounds. It is shown that the XAS and RIXS spectra for 122 and 1111 Fe pnictides are each qualitatively similar to Fe metal. Cluster diagonalization, multiplet, and density-functional calculations show that Coulomb correlations are much smaller than in the cuprates, highlighting the role of Fe metallicity and strong covalency in these materials. Best agreement with experiment is obtained using Hubbard parameters $U\lesssim 2$eV and $J\approx 0.8$eV.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
The Study of the Noise of Silicon JFET Transistors in a Wide Temperature Range
Creators: name: C. Arnaboldi
name: A. Fascilla
name: Lund, Mark W.
name: G. Pessina
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2003

description: Different low noise JFET processes that have shown outstanding dynamic and noise performance at both room temperature and low temperatures have been selected. For most of them we have been able to detect the presence of shallow individual traps at low temperature, which create low frequency Generation-Recombination (G-R) noise. For one device type no evidence of traps has been observed at the optimum temperature of operation (around 100 K). It had a very small residual low frequency noise. This device has been cooled down to 14 K. From below 100 K down to 14 K the noise was observed to increase due to G-R noise originating from donor atoms (dopants) inside the channel. A very simple theoretical interpretation confirms the nature of G-R noise from these very shallow trapping centers. We also studied devices from a process optimized for room temperature operation and found noise corresponding to the presence of a single deep level trap. Even for this circumstance the theory was experimentally confirmed. The measurement approach used allowed us to achieve a very high accuracy in the modeling of the measured G-R noise. The ratio of the density of the atoms responsible for G-R noise above the doping concentration, NT/Nd, has been verified with a sensitivity around 10-7.
sQGP as hCFT
Creators: name: Buchel, Alex
name: Heller, Michal P.
name: Myers, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the proposal to make quantitative comparisons between the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma and holographic descriptions of conformal field theory. In this note, we calculate corrections to certain transport coefficients appearing in second-order hydrodynamics from higher curvature terms to the dual gravity theory. We also clarify how these results might be consistently applied in comparisons with the sQGP.
description: 13 pages
On Trapped Modes in the LHC Recombination Chambers: Numerical and Experimental Results
Creators: name: B. Spataro
name: D. Brandt
name: F. Caspers
name: D. Li
name: M. Migliorati
name: A. Mostacci
name: L. Palumbo
name: F. Ruggiero
name: L. Vos
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2003

description: The recombination chamber in LHC (Large Hadron Collider) allows the separated proton beams to merge into a common  vacuum chamber surrounding the interaction points. It has been subject of thorough studies concerning its interaction with the circulating beam. In this paper we present the numerical and experimental results of our investigation on an approximated geometry. We show that in the smooth  transitions between pipes of different diameters a trapped mode may exist, both in the real and in the  approximated geometry. In the real structure, the mode is weak and not harmful both for the beam stability and power loss
Le baraïn (Tchad) – Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Lovestrand, Joseph
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Barayin is a Chadic language spoken by about 5,000 people in the Guera region of Chad, in and near the town of Melfi. There are four Barayin subgroups: Jalkiya, Giliya, Komiya and Jalking. The Jalking and Giliya are linguistically and geographically very close to each other, mainly residing in Melfi and nearby villages. The Komiya and Jalking are linguistically and geographically more distant, and must use Chadian Arabic when speaking with each other or with the Jalkiya/Giliya. By the criterion of intercomprehension, Barayin is actually three different languages. The Barayin are part of the Hadjeray peoples, who share cultural traits, but differ linguistically, including Chadic, Nilo-Saharan and Adamawan languages. Chadian Arabic plays a major role in the region, and the Barayin lexicon has adopted several common Chadian Arabic words. However, there are no signs that Barayin speakers are shifting to Chadian Arabic. The documentation and description of Barayin has been taking place hand-in-hand with a local initiative for mother-tongue literacy. The results of this partnership are a literacy program running for nearly the last ten years, and a number of publications on the grammar of Barayin including a Master’s thesis, a doctoral dissertation, and several journal articles, however this ...
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
title: Bus Driver Fatigue and Stress Issues Study
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2001
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91742
subject: Bus drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91813
subject: Fatigue (Physiological condition)
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91849
subject: Stress (Psychology)
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91995
subject: Intercity bus lines

description: Tech Brief
description: Fatigue-related issues associated with motorcoach drivers differ from the issues faced by truck drivers because of the distinct nature of their jobs. For example, truck and motorcoach drivers deal with different vehicular operating characteristics, number of hours spent behind the wheel and on the road, cargo, method of driver compensation, and outside influences. A research project was conducted to identify unique aspects of operations in the motorcoach industry that produce driver fatigue and stress. This Tech Brief summarizes the study final report, which contains recommendations for driver fatigue and stress countermeasures. 4 p.
Punjabi (India and Pakistan) – Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Hussain, Qandeel
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab states of India and Pakistan. There are two major divisions of Punjabi dialects: Eastern and Western. The Eastern dialects are mainly spoken in the Indian state of Punjab while Western dialects are spoken in the Punjab state of Pakistan. Punjabi is written in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts; the former is derived from the Lahnda script and is used to write the Eastern dialects in India, the latter is based on the Perso-Arabic script and is mainly used in Western Punjab in Pakistan. All the Punjabi dialects have extensively borrowed words from Arabic, English, Persian, and Urdu. Punjabi speakers grow up in a multilingual environment. In addition to Punjabi, children are exposed to Hindi-Urdu and English. There is an ongoing language shift among Punjabi speakers, particularly those residing in Pakistan and abroad. The author is involved in the phonetic and phonological documentation of Punjabi dialects spoken in India and Pakistan.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
Non-genericity of the Nariai solutions: II. Investigations within the Gowdy class
Creators: name: Beyer, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the second of two papers where we study the asymptotics of the generalized Nariai solutions and its relation to the cosmic no-hair conjecture. In the first paper, the author suggested that according to the cosmic no-hair conjecture, the Nariai solutions are non-generic among general solutions of Einstein's field equations in vacuum with a positive cosmological constant. We checked that this is true within the class of spatially homogeneous solutions. In this paper now, we continue these investigations within the spatially inhomogeneous Gowdy case. On the one hand, we are motivated to understand the fundamental question of cosmic no-hair and its dynamical realization in more general classes than the spatially homogeneous case. On the other hand, the results of the first paper suggest that the instability of the Nariai solutions can be exploited to construct and analyze physically interesting cosmological black hole solutions in the Gowdy class, consistent with certain claims by Bousso in the spherically symmetric case. However, in contrast to that, we find that it is not possible to construct cosmological black hole solutions by means of small Gowdy symmetric perturbations of the Nariai solutions and that the dynamics shows a certain new critical behavior. For our investigations, we use the numerical techniques based on spectral methods which we introduced in a previous publication.
description: 28 pages, 12 figures, uses psfrag and hyperref, largely rewritten version essentially equal to the published version but more details, no change of conclusions
Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: How Important Are Children's Personality Characteristics?
Creators: name: Holtmann, Anne Christine
name: Menze, Laura
name: Solga, Heike
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: noncognitive skills
subject: personality
subject: aspirations
subject: social skills
subject: competences
subject: cognitive skills
subject: intergenerational transmission of education
subject: mediation
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: This study examines the role of a wide range of personality characteristics-such as the Big Five personality traits, self-esteem, goal pursuit/adjustment, social behavior, and educational aspirations-for the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany, and compares their relative importance with that of cognitive skills. We use information on more than 8,000 students from the German National Educational Panel Study. We find that personality characteristics do not mediate the association between parents' and children's attainment of the university entrance qualification (the Abitur) by age 19/20. Only educational aspirations are a strong mediator for intergenerational educational transmission. A few personality characteristics moderate intergenerational educational transmission, and they do so in favor of children with high-educated parents either as Matthew effects or compensatory advantages. In contrast to personality characteristics, cognitive skills act as strong mediators, while moderation is rather weak when accounting for personality characteristics-but again, they work in favor of privileged children. Our German study reveals similarities but also differences compared with the mostly U.S.- and U.K.-based research and inspires to rethink the importance of personality characteristics and cognitive skills for intergenerational education attainment.
title: Konpetentzia digitalak. Graduko ikasleentzako formakuntza materialak: 2. Komunikazioa eta lankidetza 2.5. Identitate digitalaren kudeaketa: 2.5.2. Identitate digitalaren kudeaketa
title: Competencias digitales. Materiales de formación para estudiantes de grado: 2. Comunicación y colaboración 2.5. Gestión de la identidad digital: 2.5.2. Gestión de la identidad digital
Creators: name: CRUE-REBIUN
name: Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Publisher: name: Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Year: 2020

description: - Identitate digitala konfiguratzeko erremintak
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Mankiyali (Pakistan) – Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Ullah, Shakir
name: Hussain, Qandeel
name: Anjum, Uzma
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Mankiyali is a severely endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 500 people in Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. It belongs to the Dardic group of Indo-Aryan and has only recently received an ISO 639-3 code (nlm). There is no established orthography or written literature. The speakers of Mankiyali are multilingual and can speak Hindko, Pashto, and Urdu. It is used in day-to-day conversations, community gatherings, festivals, and funeral ceremonies but it is not used as a medium of instruction at local schools. There is an ongoing language shift in the Mankiyali community. Speakers are migrating to the neighboring metropolitan cities and shifting to the major languages such as Hindko and Pashto. Mankiyali is in dire need of further research from a linguistic perspective. The authors are involved in the phonetic and phonological documentation of Mankiyali.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
Dawoodi (Pakistan) – Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Hussain, Qandeel
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Dawoodi is a severely endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken in Mominabad and Domyal villages, located in Hunza and Nager valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan. Dawoodi speakers are known as Dom or Dooma and formerly worked as blacksmiths and musicians. Nowadays, they are involved in various other professions. Dawoodi is closely related to geographically-isolated Indo-Aryan languages like Romani and Domari spoken in Europe and Western Asia. There are few existing detailed descriptions of Dawoodi. The current status of Dawoodi as a severely endangered language calls for urgent work on a detailed phonetic description of its various phonological contrasts, a task which the author is currently involved in.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
La Caminata del Migrante: a social movement
Creators: name: Rizzo Lara, Rosario De La Luz
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Caravan
subject: Central America
subject: social movements
subject: Honduras
subject: immigration policies
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: The literature on the October 2018 caravan from Central America to the US has offered different interpretations of the phenomenon. Some studies look at it as a strategy for mobility, others as an exodus, and others as a collective action. I synthesise these perspectives to advance the conceptualisation of the caravan to account for its main features. To do so, I perform a case study of the caravan based on a literature review and a secondary qualitative analysis. Drawing on the concept of Social Movements, this article first proposes the conceptualisation of the caravan as a social movement—understanding the different features of the caravan as axes of a social movement. Then, the article introduces the concept of ‘transnational social movements on the move’ to account for the innovations in the space and repertoires of contention and diffusion. The case study shows that the 2018 Caravan is a transnational social movement on the move composed of purposive migrants from different nationalities moving collectively across countries to challenge a system of authority at the local and international level using innovative repertoires of contention.
Colonial transformations of song and multilingualism in Tibet
Creators: name: Roche, Gerald
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: In this paper, I discuss song as both an expression and instantiation of language ideologies, examining the ways in which songs, particularly lyrics, explicitly reflect on language issues: praising, demeaning, naming, and describing languages and their use in relatively transparent terms. Secondly, I look at how music enables us to deduce implicit language ideologies, not so much through what is said, but how it is said. Examining patterns of language use in song, including forms of speech, participants, and contexts highlights the perceived value and appropriateness attached to different forms of language. My aim here is to explore how colonialism has transformed language ideologies in ways that contribute to language oppression. I focus on unrecognized or minoritized languages of Tibet, spoken by people formally designated by the People‘s Republic of China as Tibetans (most of whom accept this classification, but some do not). Each language is spoken by relatively few people (in the thousands), typically within comparatively small areas. They are almost always considered to be non-standard, non-prestigious speech forms by Tibetans who do not speak them, and are found throughout Tibet, in each of the main ethno-linguistics regions of Amdo, Kham, and U-Tsang, but concentrated in eastern Tibet. ...
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
Multibiometrics Belief Fusion
Creators: name: Kisku, Dakshina Ranjan
name: Sing, Jamuna Kanta
name: Gupta, Phalguni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.2; I.2.10

description: This paper proposes a multimodal biometric system through Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) for face and ear biometrics with belief fusion of the estimated scores characterized by Gabor responses and the proposed fusion is accomplished by Dempster-Shafer (DS) decision theory. Face and ear images are convolved with Gabor wavelet filters to extracts spatially enhanced Gabor facial features and Gabor ear features. Further, GMM is applied to the high-dimensional Gabor face and Gabor ear responses separately for quantitive measurements. Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is used to estimate density parameters in GMM. This produces two sets of feature vectors which are then fused using Dempster-Shafer theory. Experiments are conducted on multimodal database containing face and ear images of 400 individuals. It is found that use of Gabor wavelet filters along with GMM and DS theory can provide robust and efficient multimodal fusion strategy.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Southern Tepehuan (Durango and Narayit, Mexico) - Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Salido, Gabriela Garcia
name: Everdell, Michael
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Southern Tepehuan consists of three varieties: Southeastern Tepehuan, Central Tepehuan (both called O’dam) and Southwestern Tepehuan (Audam). All three varieties are endangered. Southeastern Tepehuan is the most documented, with a limited reference grammar, while Audam has very little published grammatical descriptions, and Central Tepehuan lacks published documentation entirely. Children are currently growing up learning a Southern Tepehuan variety and the Southeastern variety is taught in rural schools, although increased movement to cities is putting significant pressure on the ongoing vitality of Southern Tepehuan.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
Heartfulness in Vegans, Vegetarians, and Omnivores
Creators: name: Voll, Antonia
name: Jost, Leonardo
name: Jansen, Petra
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: mindfulness; heartfulness; diet; compassion; sustainability
subject: 640 Hauswirtschaft
subject: 796 Sport

description: Background: The primary goal of this study was to investigate the relation between the choice of a vegan or vegetarian diet as a criterion of sustainability and the aspect of heartfulness. We also analyzed which demographic, diet-related, and mindfulness practice-related variables could predict the different facets of heartfulness. Methods: In total, 419 persons participated. After providing demographic, diet-related, and mindfulness practice-related information, participants completed a gratitude questionnaire, a self-compassion scale, a compassion scale, and an equanimity scale. Results: The results show that vegans and vegetarians indicated higher scores than omnivores in some aspects of heartfulness, such as both self-compassion scales. These effects could not be shown for the two equanimity scales and for the gratitude questionnaire. Most aspects of heartfulness could either be predicted by demographic or diet-related variables. The best predictors of the elements of heartfulness were the ecological, ethical, or health-related reasons for choosing their diet stated by the participants, as well as the importance the participants attached to nutrition. Conclusion: This study provides evidence that vegans and vegetarians scored higher in several aspects of heartfulness. Vegans tended to score even higher than vegetarians. Both demographic and diet-related variables could predict heartfulness.
Reunião Presencial do Projeto SFI2
Creators: name: Carvalho, Tereza C. Carvalho
name: Martins, Joberto S. B.
name: Moreira, Rodrigo
name: Macedo. Daniel, F.
name: Cardoso, Kleber
name: Both, Cristiano
name: Correa, João H.
name: Ribeiro, Moisés N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Network Slicing
Experimental Networks
NS Architecture
Machine Learning
Sustainability
Security

description: This project deliverable summarizes the technical discussions and presents the slides and additional decisions and technical information concerning the SFI2 Project Workshop realized in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais.
 The SFI2 project (https://sites.google.com/view/sfi2/home) workshop presentations and technical discussions occurred at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) on April 12th - 13th 2023.
description: {"references": ["G. N. Dias, J. F. Rezende, L N. Ciuffo, I. Machado, Flavio Silva, Tereza C. de Brito, F. Redigolo, Joberto S. B. Martins, Leobino Sampaio, and Antonio Abelem. SFI2 - Slicing Future Internet Infrastructures project. In Proceedings of the The Global Experimentation for Future Internet, pages 1\u20133, Coimbra, Portugal, November 2019.", "Joberto S B Martins, Tereza C. Carvalho, Flavio Silva, and Rodrigo Moreira. SFI2 Network Slicing Reference Architecture. Technical Report TR03/2022, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo - USP, 2022.", "Rodrigo Moreira, Joberto S. B. Martins, Tereza C. M. B. Carvalho, and Fl\u00e1vio de Oliveira Silva. On Enhancing Network Slicing Life-Cycle Through an AI-Native Orchestration Architecture. In Leonard Barolli, editor, Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, pages 124\u2013136, Cham, 2023. Springer International Publishing.", "Joberto S B Martins. Communication Slice Allocation for Network Slicing - Position Points, volume 24 of JSMNet Networking and Technical Review. 2023."]}
Point-Set Registration: Coherent Point Drift
Creators: name: Myronenko, Andriy
name: Song, Xubo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Point set registration is a key component in many computer vision tasks. The goal of point set registration is to assign correspondences between two sets of points and to recover the transformation that maps one point set to the other. Multiple factors, including an unknown non-rigid spatial transformation, large dimensionality of point set, noise and outliers, make the point set registration a challenging problem. We introduce a probabilistic method, called the Coherent Point Drift (CPD) algorithm, for both rigid and non-rigid point set registration. We consider the alignment of two point sets as a probability density estimation problem. We fit the GMM centroids (representing the first point set) to the data (the second point set) by maximizing the likelihood. We force the GMM centroids to move coherently as a group to preserve the topological structure of the point sets. In the rigid case, we impose the coherence constraint by re-parametrization of GMM centroid locations with rigid parameters and derive a closed form solution of the maximization step of the EM algorithm in arbitrary dimensions. In the non-rigid case, we impose the coherence constraint by regularizing the displacement field and using the variational calculus to derive the optimal transformation. We also introduce a fast algorithm that reduces the method computation complexity to linear. We test the CPD algorithm for both rigid and non-rigid transformations in the presence of noise, outliers and missing points, where CPD shows accurate results and outperforms current state-of-the-art methods.
MET Final.pdf
Creators: name: abedal-majeed, Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70204 Animal Nutrition
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science
subject: 70206 Animal Reproduction

description: This paper is of interest as information on the role that methionine may have on milk production and reproductive performance could be useful. This presented study adds some novel aspects. The manuscript demonstrates that 16CP-15RPM or 16CP-25RPM enhanced the reproductive and productive performance. Furthermore, treatment of diets enhanced the steroidogenesis. Overall, this manuscript provides data to indicate that 16CP-15RPM or 16CP-25RPM with Presynch?Ovsynch synchronization protocol enhanced the reproductive of dairy heifers and reduced the open days.
Sinasina Sign Language (Chimbu, Papua New Guinea) - Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Rarrick, Samantha
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Sinasina Sign Language (SSSL) is used by both deaf and hearing people in the Kere and neighboring communities in Sinasina valley, Chimbu province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is one of only a handful of sign languages that linguists have reported in PNG (Reed & Rumsey 2020). In this language snapshot, I present early findings from our research on SSSL, highlighting: (i) past and present deaf members of these communities; (ii) vitality; and (iii) the label ‗Sinasina Sign Language‘. I conclude with an overview of our ongoing documentation and description.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
On the universal AC optical background in graphene
Creators: name: Gusynin, V. P.
name: Sharapov, S. G.
name: Carbotte, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The latest experiments have confirmed the theoretically expected universal value $πe^2/2h$ of the ac conductivity of graphene and have revealed departures of the quasiparticle dynamics from predictions for the Dirac fermions in idealized graphene. We present analytical expressions for the ac conductivity in graphene which allow one to study how it is affected by interactions, temperature, external magnetic field and the opening of a gap in the quasiparticle spectrum. We show that the ac conductivity of graphene does not necessarily give a metrologically accurate value of the von Klitzing constant $h/e^2$, because it is depleted by the electron-phonon interaction. In a weak magnetic field the ac conductivity oscillates around the universal value and the Drude peak evolves into a peak at the cyclotron frequency.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures; v2: to match New J. Phys. (Focus on Graphene issue)
Tranexamic Acid Promotes Murine Bone Marrow-Derived Osteoblast Proliferation and Inhibits Osteoclast Formation In Vitro
Creators: name: Baranowsky, Anke
name: Appelt, Jessika
name: Tseneva, Kristina
name: Jiang, Shan
name: Jahn, Denise
name: Tsitsilonis, Serafeim
name: Frosch, Karl-Heinz
name: Keller, Johannes
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: tranexamic acid
subject: osteoblast
subject: osteoclast
subject: macrophages
subject: bone regeneration
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Despite modern surgical trauma care, bleeding contributes to one-third of trauma-related death. A significant improvement was obtained through the introduction of tranexamic acid (TXA), which today is widely used in emergency and elective orthopedic surgery to control bleeding. However, concerns remain regarding potential adverse effects on bone turnover and regeneration. Therefore, we employed standardized cell culture systems including primary osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and macrophages to evaluate potential effects of TXA on murine bone cells. While osteoblasts derived from calvarial digestion were not affected, TXA increased cell proliferation and matrix mineralization in bone marrow-derived osteoblasts. Short-term TXA treatment (6 h) failed to alter the expression of osteoblast markers; however, long-term TXA stimulation (10 days) was associated with the increased expression of genes involved in osteoblast differentiation and extracellular matrix synthesis. Similarly, whereas short-term TXA treatment did not affect gene expression in terminally differentiated osteoclasts, long-term TXA stimulation resulted in the potent inhibition of osteoclastogenesis. Finally, in bone marrow-derived macrophages activated with LPS, simultaneous TXA treatment led to a reduced expression of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Collectively, our study demonstrates a differential action of TXA on bone cells including osteoanabolic, anti-resorptive, and anti-inflammatory effects in vitro which suggests novel treatment applications.
Thermonuclear explosions of rapidly rotating white dwarfs - I. Deflagrations
Creators: name: Pfannes, J. M. M.
name: Niemeyer, J. C.
name: Schmidt, W.
name: Klingenberg, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Turbulent deflagrations of Chandrasekhar mass White Dwarfs are commonly used to model Type Ia Supernova explosions. In this context, rapid rotation of the progenitor star is plausible but has so far been neglected. Aims: The aim of this work is to explore the influence of rapid rotation on the deflagration scenario. Methods: We use three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to model turbulent deflagrations ignited within a variety of rapidly rotating CO WDs obeying rotation laws suggested by accretion studies. Results: We find that rotation has a significant impact on the explosion. The flame develops a strong anisotropy with a preferred direction towards the stellar poles, leaving great amounts of unburnt matter along the equatorial plane. Conclusions: The large amount of unburnt matter is contrary to observed spectral features of SNe Ia. Thus, rapid rotation of the progenitor star and the deflagration scenario are incompatible in order to explain SNe Ia.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
Origin of Middle-Infrared Peaks in Cerium Compounds
Creators: name: Kimura, Shin-ichi
name: Iizuka, Takuya
name: Kwon, Yong-seung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have demonstrated that the middle-infrared (mid-IR) peaks in the optical conductivity spectra of Ce$X_3$ ($X$ = Pd, Sn, In) can be explained by first-principle band structure calculation with the spin-orbit interaction. The mid-IR peak shapes in these materials are not identical to one another: CePd$_3$, CeSn$_3$, and CeIn$_3$ have a triple-peak structure, double-peak structure and broad single-peak structure, respectively. These peaks can be theoretically explained by the optical transition from the occupied state to the spin-orbit splitted Ce $4f$ state. This result indicates that the mid-IR peaks originate from the simple band picture with the Ce $4f$ state near the Fermi level, not from the conventional cf hybridization gap based on the periodic Anderson model.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures. To be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 78(1) (2009)
Evaluation of neural coreference annotation of simplified German
Creators: name: Jablotschkin, Sarah
name: Benz, Nele
name: Zinsmeister, Heike
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: Leichte Sprache
einfache Sprache
LeiKo
corpus
coreference resolution
German
simplified language
easy-to-read
Easy German
Plain German
Deutsch

description: This poster presents our evaluation of a neural coreference resolver (Schröder et al. 2021) on simplified German texts as well as the results of an annotation study that we conducted in order to analyse error sources. The underlying corpus can be found on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3626763
description: This research was conducted within the scope of transfer project T1 "Information density and linguistic encoding of 'Leichte Sprache' (IDeaLite)" of SFB 1102, which has been funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). Project number: 232722074
description: {"references": ["Sarah Jablotschkin, Nele Benz & Heike Zinsmeister (2023): Evaluation of neural coreference annotation of simplified German. Posterpr\u00e4sentation auf der Computational Linguistics Poster Session im Rahmen der 45. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) in K\u00f6ln."]}
Rokdung (Sikkim, India) - Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Hima, Ktien
name: Narayanan, R. Karthick
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2020

description: Rokdung is the language of a small clan subdivision of the Rai community, mostly living in the village of Rolep, East Sikkim district, Sikkim, India. This previously undocumented language is classified in the Kiranti sub-branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language has no more than 20 speakers and is critically endangered; current speakers only have partial fluency and low lexical recall. There is no previous scholarly work available, nor is it recognized by the Indian or Sikkim governments, or other formal bodies. We provide a brief description of the linguistic milieu, vitality, and current research on the language.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 19 (2020)
Symmetric and antisymmetric kernels for machine learning problems in quantum physics and chemistry
Creators: name: Klus, Stefan
name: Gelß, Patrick
name: Nüske, Feliks
name: Noé, Frank
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: symmetry and antisymmetry
subject: reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
subject: quantum physics
subject: quantum chemistry
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: We derive symmetric and antisymmetric kernels by symmetrizing and antisymmetrizing conventional kernels and analyze their properties. In particular, we compute the feature space dimensions of the resulting polynomial kernels, prove that the reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces induced by symmetric and antisymmetric Gaussian kernels are dense in the space of symmetric and antisymmetric functions, and propose a Slater determinant representation of the antisymmetric Gaussian kernel, which allows for an efficient evaluation even if the state space is high-dimensional. Furthermore, we show that by exploiting symmetries or antisymmetries the size of the training data set can be significantly reduced. The results are illustrated with guiding examples and simple quantum physics and chemistry applications.
Generalized Mobius-type functions and special set of k-free numbers
Creators: name: Bege, Antal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A25; 11N37

description: In [3] Bege introduced the generalized Apostol's Mobius functions. In this paper we are presenting new properties of this functions. By introducing the special set of k-free numbers we have obtained some asymptotic formulas for the partial sums of these functions.