cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stereoselective Polymerization of 3,6-Disubstituted N‑Vinylcarbazoles
Creators: name: Sorensen, Cole C.
name: Leibfarth, Frank A.
name: Bello, Anthony Y.
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Year: 2024

description: Poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PNVC-H) is a valuable nonconjugated photoconductive polymer, but the free radical polymerization conditions typically used for its synthesis do not control polymer stereochemistry and are not tolerant to many substituted N-vinylcarbazoles. Here, we report the stereoselective cationic polymerization of a series of 3,6-disubtituted N-vinylcarbazole derivatives using a chiral scandium-bis(oxazoline) Lewis acid catalyst. The combination of asymmetric ion-pairing catalysis and inherent monomer stereoelectronics facilitated stereoselective polymerization at room temperature, which enabled the polymerization of less soluble 3,6-disubstituted-N-vinylcarbazole derivatives. Isotactic halogen-substituted PNVCs demonstrated self-assembly in solution through halogen-halogen bonding, which was not observed in their atactic counterparts. Initial spectral characterization displayed a wide range of excitation-emission profiles for substituted PNVCs, which demonstrate the promise of these materials as a new class of nonconjugated photoconductive polymers for optoelectronic applications. Overall, these results showcase a diverse class of isotactic poly(N-vinylcarbazoles), highlight the benefits of identifying alternative stereocontrol mechanisms for polymerization, and expand the suite of accessible nonconjugated hole-transport materials.
Gender and sustainability. Raising primary school children’s awareness of gender stereotypes and promoting change in their attitudes.
Creators: name: Lucchini, Nadia
name: Dodman, Martin
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: This paper examines one aspect of the importance of the concept of gender for the promotion of sustainable communities from the perspective of the role of education. It is argued that it is important and possible to deconstruct gender stereotypes already present at an early age in order to build counter stereotypes that will help individuals pursue their own personal pathways without being subjected to prejudice and discrimination. A small-scale research project conducted in a primary school in Italy, using semi-quantitative methods of data collection and analysis, is proposed as an example of how learning activities can create awareness of gender stereotypes and promote changes in attitudes in young children.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 3 (2015)
The impact of genetically modified salmon: from risk assessment to quality evaluation
Creators: name: Benessia, Alice
name: Barbiero, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: In this paper we address the complex and controversial issue of the possible commercialization of a genetically engineered (GE) salmon for human consumption: the AquAdvantage Salmon®, by one of the leading US aquaculture corporations, AquaBounty Technologies Inc (ABT). This analysis follows and deepens our reflections on the notion of impact assessment, in the framework of biotechnology for food production. In the first part, we consider the epistemic and normative implications involved in the regulatory process of the transgenic salmon, starting with a review of the scientific research on genetic engineering applied to the taxonomic family Salmonidae. We explore the inextricable relationship between facts and values, and their mutual dependence on the high stakes implied in the controversy. In the second part, we challenge the identification of impact assessment with future developments, the risks and promises of the GE salmon. We propose a shift to from prediction to diagnosis, and we provide a brief account of the driving forces that bring the transgenic fish into the world, along the path-dependent trajectory of technoscientific innovation. We conclude by proposing to open a collective space for reflection about the criteria for evaluating the quality of GE salmon in our present.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 3 (2015)
title: Les rituels pédagogiques en classe d'accueil : l'activité d'entrée dans la tâche au sein d'une classe de l'École de l'Accueil à Lausanne
title: Les rituels pédagogiques en classe d'accueil : l'activité d'entrée dans la tâche au sein d'une classe de l'École de l'Accueil à Lausanne
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Richard, Arno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: accueil
subject: rituel
subject: entrée dans la tâche
subject: éducation physique et sportive
subject: collaboration

description: Ce mémoire est consacré aux rituels pédagogiques à l’école et plus précisément à celui de l’entrée dans la tâche. Il est basé sur l’expérience réalisée dans une classe d’accueil de l’École de l’Accueil à Lausanne composée d’élèves allophones. Cette recherche questionne les effets que peuvent entraîner la verbalisation des stratégies d’entrée dans la tâche des enseignants et cherche à comprendre quels peuvent être les conséquences sur les apprentissages lorsque les élèves sont inclus dans l’élaboration de ces rituels pédagogiques. Celle-ci s’est déroulée sur une période de six semaines lors de leçons d’éducation physique et sportive. D’abord, une introduction théorique sur le sujet des rituels pédagogique a été présentée aux élèves qui ont ensuite expérimenté un rituel d’entrée dans la tâche proposé par l’enseignant (écoute d’une musique relaxante). Ensuite, les élèves ont été répartis en groupes et ont dû créer leurs propres activités d’entrée dans la tâche avant de le proposer au reste de la classe. Enfin, un questionnaire leur a été distribué afin d’interroger leurs impressions quant à la mise en place et à l’expérimentation de ces rituels. Les élèves ont également dû évaluer, à l’aide d’un post-it de couleur (vert pour un avis positif, jaune pour un avis neutre ou rouge pour un avis négatif), chaque activité d’entrée dans la tâche vécue. Cette démarche a permis d’aider les élèves quant à leur entrée dans la tâche, de les responsabiliser en prenant en main leurs apprentissages et en collaborant au sein d’un groupe et d’améliorer leur maîtrise du français. Les réponses récoltées à l’aide des évaluations et du questionnaire ont été analysées et ont fait l’objet de différents graphiques qui ont permis de mesurer les conséquences d’une telle expérience au sein d’une population d’élèves.
Posttraumatic Breast Hemorrhage With the Development of Fat Necrosis
Creators: name: Kuzmiak, Cherie
name: Johnson, William
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description: A 58-year-old woman presented to the emergency department
with right chest wall trauma after a motor vehicle collision.
Contrast-enhanced CT demonstrated multiple fractures
of the right first through eighth ribs and multiple hematomas
in the right breast along with active bleeding, likely from
a superficial branch of the right internal mammary artery
(Figure 1).
Sufficiency for Nephroid Starlikeness using Hypergeometric Functions
Creators: name: Swaminathan, A.
name: Wani, Lateef Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C45

description: Let $\mathcal{A}$ consists of analytic functions $f:\mathbb{D}\to\mathbb{C}$ satisfying $f(0)=f'(0)-1=0$. Let $\mathcal{S}^*_{Ne}$ be the recently introduced Ma-Minda type functions family associated with the $2$-cusped kidney-shaped {\it nephroid} curve $\left((u-1)^2+v^2-\frac{4}{9}\right)^3-\frac{4 v^2}{3}=0$ given by \begin{align*} \mathcal{S}^*_{Ne}:= \left\{f\in\mathcal{A}:\frac{zf'(z)}{f(z)}\precφ_{\scriptscriptstyle {Ne}}(z)=1+z-z^3/3\right\}. \end{align*} In this paper, we adopt a novel technique that uses the geometric properties of {\it hypergeometric functions} to determine sharp estimates on $β$ so that each of the differential subordinations \begin{align*} p(z)+βzp'(z)\prec \begin{cases} \sqrt{1+z}; 1+z; e^z; \end{cases} \end{align*} imply $p(z)\precφ_{\scriptscriptstyle{Ne}}(z)$, where $p(z)$ is analytic satisfying $p(0)=1$. As applications, we establish conditions that are sufficient to deduce that $f\in\mathcal{A}$ is a member of $\mathcal{S}^*_{Ne}$.
description: 14 pages, 2 tables, 7 figures
Supplementary document for Reactive laser annealing of indium tin oxide: implications to crystal structure, defect composition, and plasma energy. - 6012328.pdf
Creators: name: Hillier, James
name: Patsalas, Panos
name: Karfardis, Dimitrios
name: Cranton, Wayne
name: Nabok, Alexei
name: Mellor, Christopher
name: Koutsogeorgis, Demosthenes
name: Kalfagiannis, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Revised supplemental document
Халқаро пул ўтказмаларининг ҳисоби ва аудити
Creators: name: Сафарова Мухаббат Раджабовна, Ўзбекистон Республикаси Банк-молия Академияси магистранти
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ушбу мақолада тижорат банкларида халқаро пулўтказмаларининг моҳияти, уларнинг ҳисоби ва аудитини ташкил этишмасалалари ҳамда халқаро пул ўтказмаларининг аҳамияти кўриб чиқилади.Таҳлиллар натижасида халқаро пул ўтказмаларининг самарадорлигиниошириш ва аудити бўйича айрим тавсиялар берилган.
Comparison of Binaural RTF-Vector-Based Direction of Arrival Estimation Methods Exploiting an External Microphone
Creators: name: Fejgin, Daniel
name: Doclo, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we consider a binaural hearing aid setup, where in addition to the head-mounted microphones an external microphone is available. For this setup, we investigate the performance of several relative transfer function (RTF) vector estimation methods to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of the target speaker in a noisy and reverberant acoustic environment. More in particular, we consider the state-of-the-art covariance whitening (CW) and covariance subtraction (CS) methods, either incorporating the external microphone or not, and the recently proposed spatial coherence (SC) method, requiring the external microphone. To estimate the DOA from the estimated RTF vector, we propose to minimize the frequency-averaged Hermitian angle between the estimated head-mounted RTF vector and a database of prototype head-mounted RTF vectors. Experimental results with stationary and moving speech sources in a reverberant environment with diffuse-like noise show that the SC method outperforms the CS method and yields a similar DOA estimation accuracy as the CW method at a lower computational complexity.
description: \c{opyright} 2021 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works
HSMA: An O(N) electrostatics package implemented in LAMMPS
Creators: name: Liang, Jiuyang
name: Yuan, Jiaxing
name: Xu, Zhenli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We implement two recently developed fast Coulomb solvers, HSMA3D [J. Chem. Phys. 149 (8) (2018) 084111] and HSMA2D [J. Chem. Phys. 152 (13) (2020) 134109], into a new user package HSMA for molecular dynamics simulation engine LAMMPS. The HSMA package is designed for efficient and accurate modeling of electrostatic interactions in 3D and 2D periodic systems with dielectric effects at the O(N) cost. The implementation is hybrid MPI and OpenMP parallelized and compatible with existing LAMMPS functionalities. The vectorization technique following AVX512 instructions is adopted for acceleration. To establish the validity of our implementation, we have presented extensive comparisons to the widely used particle-particle particle-mesh (PPPM) algorithm in LAMMPS and other dielectric solvers. With the proper choice of algorithm parameters and parallelization setup, the package enables calculations of electrostatic interactions that outperform the standard PPPM in speed for a wide range of particle numbers.
Baloghacarus australis Mahunka 1983
Creators: name: Revelo-Tobar, Harol
name: Ojeda, Margarita
name: García-Ayala, Leonardo J.
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Hermanniellidae
Baloghacarus
Baloghacarus australis

description: Baloghacarus australis Mahunka, 1983.
 Distribution: Neotropical.
 Records in Mexico: Quintana Roo.
 Biogeographic province: Yucatan Peninsula.
 Habitat: Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Low flooded rainforest soil and litter.
 References: Vázquez (1999): 69; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 150; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 273; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162.
description: Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, Ojeda, Margarita, García-Ayala, Leonardo J. & Palacios-Vargas, José G., 2024, Checklist Of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) From Mexico, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 5465 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613709
Supporting change for sustainability in Dentistry
Creators: name: Kinakh, Vitalia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: This article, firstly, reviews various initiatives over the last decade across Higher Education Institutions that are aiming to increase awareness of sustainability starting from making campuses green to educating for sustainable development. There is strong support from the Head of School of Dentistry at the University of Manchester and faculty buy-in to foster understanding and awareness of social and environmental sustainability among dental graduates. If plans to be made to further awareness of the principles which underpin sustainable development among dental students, we need to establish the baseline – where are we standing from? The second part of this article will therefore explore data collected during the first Sustainability Talk about students' perception of sustainability and their awareness of the benefits for dental practices to go green. 140 students from year 3 and 5 took part in the Sustainability Talk in September 2014 and data was collected using ‘clickers’. Data revealed that environmental aspects of sustainability are familiar to students on Dentistry courses at the University of Manchester. Analysis of data alludes to variations in perceptions among year 3 and year 5 students. A forum to bring together dentists, dental businesses (e.g. Colgate, Dentsply), academics and students should be considered. The debate should encompass Education for Sustainable Development and how to effectively deliver it within the current dental curriculum.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 4 (2015)
Accelerated Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds via Discrete Constrained Variational Integrators
Creators: name: Duruisseaux, Valentin
name: Leok, Melvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A variational formulation for accelerated optimization on normed vector spaces was recently introduced in Wibisono et al., and later generalized to the Riemannian manifold setting in Duruisseaux and Leok. This variational framework was exploited on normed vector spaces in Duruisseaux et al. using time-adaptive geometric integrators to design efficient explicit algorithms for symplectic accelerated optimization, and it was observed that geometric discretizations which respect the time-rescaling invariance and symplecticity of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian flows were substantially less prone to stability issues, and were therefore more robust, reliable, and computationally efficient. As such, it is natural to develop time-adaptive Hamiltonian variational integrators for accelerated optimization on Riemannian manifolds. In this paper, we consider the case of Riemannian manifolds embedded in a Euclidean space that can be characterized as the level set of a submersion. We will explore how holonomic constraints can be incorporated in discrete variational integrators to constrain the numerical discretization of the Riemannian Hamiltonian system to the Riemannian manifold, and we will test the performance of the resulting algorithms by solving eigenvalue and Procrustes problems formulated as optimization problems on the unit sphere and Stiefel manifold.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure
The efficacy of trastuzumab-deruxtecan for the treatment of patients with advanced HER2-low breast cancer
Creators: name: Schlam, Ilana
name: Tolaney, Sara M.
name: Tarantino, Paolo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Until recently, the available human receptor epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) targeted agents were ineffective for treating patients with HER2-low expressing breast cancer (defined as immunohistochemical expression of 1+ or 2+ without amplification). The development of novel and potent HER2-directed antibody-drug conjugates, affective at treating HER2-low expressing breast cancers, have changed the way we think about HER2-low expression and expanded the treatment options for many patients with advanced disease. In this review, we summarize the current management of HER2-low breast cancer and commonly encountered challenges such as treatment sequencing and toxicity management. trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) is a treatment option for patients with advanced, HER2-low breast cancer, irrespective of the hormone receptor status. The current optimal place in treatment algorithms is after the first line of chemotherapy, both in HR-positive and triple-negative breast cancer; however, other agents are available in this setting and risks and benefits for each should be considered in shared decision making. Up to 10–15% of patients receiving T-DXd develop interstitial lung disease. Patient and clinician education are key to safely implement T-DXd in clinical practice.
Circuit-bending and sustainability transitions. Exploring ways of re-thinking and re-using technologies
Creators: name: Cagol, Michele
name: Dodman, Martin
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: This paper examines the relationship between circuit-bending - a form of adjustment of technological artifacts involving the modification of circuits in electronic devices - and sustainability. Sustainability is considered in terms of the wider context of socio-cultural and technological change and a necessary shift in patterns of human behavior related to harnessing creativity and innovation. It is argued that from both educational and environmental perspectives circuit-bending offers examples of re-thinking and re-using processes and products that are typical of human activity and which can be used to support a sustainability transition.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 4 (2015)
Baloghacarus hauseri Mahunka 1983
Creators: name: Revelo-Tobar, Harol
name: Ojeda, Margarita
name: García-Ayala, Leonardo J.
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Hermanniellidae
Baloghacarus
Baloghacarus hauseri

description: Baloghacarus hauseri Mahunka, 1983.
 Distribution: Neotropical.
 Records in Mexico: Quintana Roo.
 Biogeographic province: Yucatan Peninsula.
 Habitat: Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Pitfall traps medium rainforest. Leaf litter under trees and bushes in a secondary semi-evergreen tropical forest.
 References: Vázquez & Prieto (2001): 78–79; Alamilla-Pastrana et al. (2012): 52; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162; Ermilov & Yurtaev (2023b): 387.
description: Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, Ojeda, Margarita, García-Ayala, Leonardo J. & Palacios-Vargas, José G., 2024, Checklist Of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) From Mexico, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 5465 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613709
Constraints on Cosmographic Functions of Cosmic Chronometers Data Using Gaussian Processes
Creators: name: Velasquez-Toribio, A. M.
name: Fabris, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study observational constraints on the cosmographic functions up to the fourth derivative of the scale factor with respect to cosmic time, i.e., the so-called snap function, using the non-parametric method of Gaussian Processes. As observational data we use the Hubble parameter data. Also we use mock data sets to estimate the future forecast and study the performance of this type of data to constrain cosmographic functions. The combination between a non-parametric method and the Hubble parameter data is investigated as a strategy to reconstruct cosmographic functions. In addition, our results are quite general because they are not restricted to a specific type of functional dependency of the Hubble parameter. We investigate some advantages of using cosmographic functions instead of cosmographic series, since the former are general definitions free of approximations. In general, our results do not deviate significantly from $ΛCDM$. We determine a transition redshift $z_{tr}=0.637^{+0.165}_{-0.175}$ and $H_{0}=69.45 \pm 4.34$. Also assuming priors for the Hubble constant we obtain $z_{tr}=0.670^{+0.210}_{-0.120}$ with $H_{0}=67.44$ (Planck) and $z_{tr}=0.710^{+0.159}_{-0.111}$ with $H_{0}=74.03$(SH0ES). Our main results are summarized in table 2.
description: We add some text modifications, 19 pages, 8 figures
Early autism diagnosis based on path signature and Siamese unsupervised feature compressor
Creators: name: Yin, Zhuowen
name: Li, Gang
name: Wang, Li
name: Xu, Xiangmin
name: Wu, Zhengwang
name: Ding, Xinyao
name: Zhang, Xin
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description: Autism spectrum disorder has been emerging as a growing public health threat. Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is crucial for timely, effective intervention and treatment. However, conventional diagnosis methods based on communications and behavioral patterns are unreliable for children younger than 2 years of age. Given evidences of neurodevelopmental abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder infants, we resort to a novel deep learning-based method to extract key features from the inherently scarce, class-imbalanced, and heterogeneous structural MR images for early autism diagnosis. Specifically, we propose a Siamese verification framework to extend the scarce data, and an unsupervised compressor to alleviate data imbalance by extracting key features. We also proposed weight constraints to cope with sample heterogeneity by giving different samples different voting weights during validation, and used Path Signature to unravel meaningful developmental features from the two-time point data longitudinally. We further extracted machine learning focused brain regions for autism diagnosis. Extensive experiments have shown that our method performed well under practical scenarios, transcending existing machine learning methods and providing anatomical insights for autism early diagnosis.
Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging in distinguishing pseudoprogression from glioma recurrence: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wu, Xiaoyi
name: Zhang, Mai
name: Jiang, Quan
name: Li, Mingxi
name: Wu, Yuankui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-derived metrics mean diffusivity (MD) and fractional anisotropy (FA) in differentiating glioma recurrence from pseudoprogression. The Cochrane Library, Scopus, PubMed, and the Web of Science were systematically searched. Study selection and data extraction were done by two investigators independently. The quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies was applied to evaluate the quality of the included studies. Combined sensitivity (SEN) and specificity (SPE) and the area under the summary receiver operating characteristic curve (SROC) with the 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated. Seven high-quality studies involving 246 patients were included. Quantitative synthesis of studies showed that the pooled SEN and SPE for MD were 0.81 (95% CI 0.70–0.88) and 0.82 (95% CI 0.70–0.90), respectively, and the value of the area under the SROC curve was 0.88 (95% CI 0.85–0.91). The pooled SEN and SPE for FA were 0.74 (95% CI 0.65–0.82) and 0.79 (95% CI 0.66–0.88), respectively, and the value of the area under the SROC curve was 0.84 (95% CI 0.80–0.87). This meta-analysis showed that both MD and FA have a high diagnostic accuracy in differentiating glioma recurrence from pseudoprogression. PROSPERO protocol: CRD42024501146
Direct Detection of Dark Matter -- APPEC Committee Report
Creators: name: Billard, Julien
name: Boulay, Mark
name: Cebrián, Susana
name: Covi, Laura
name: Fiorillo, Giuliana
name: Green, Anne
name: Kopp, Joachim
name: Majorovits, Béla
name: Palladino, Kimberly
name: Petricca, Federica
name: Roszkowski, Leszek
name: Schumann, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This Report provides an extensive review of the experimental programme of direct detection searches of particle dark matter. It focuses mostly on European efforts, both current and planned, but does it within a broader context of a worldwide activity in the field. It aims at identifying the virtues, opportunities and challenges associated with the different experimental approaches and search techniques. It presents scientific and technological synergies, both existing and emerging, with some other areas of particle physics, notably collider and neutrino programmes, and beyond. It addresses the issue of infrastructure in light of the growing needs and challenges of the different experimental searches. Finally, the Report makes a number of recommendations from the perspective of a long-term future of the field. They are introduced, along with some justification, in the opening Overview and Recommendations section and are next summarised at the end of the Report. Overall, we recommend that the direct search for dark matter particle interactions with a detector target should be given top priority in astroparticle physics, and in all particle physics, and beyond, as a positive measurement will provide the most unambiguous confirmation of the particle nature of dark matter in the Universe.
description: 106 pages
Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells infusion in CKD patients: safety and feasibility study with one year follow-up
Creators: name: Atieh Makhlough
name: Soroosh Shekarchian
name: Moghadasali, Reza
name: Seyedeh Esmat Hoseyni
name: Aghdami, Nasser
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Patients with final stages of CKD share a common final pathway of progressive injury which is associated with apoptosis, oxidative damage and microvascuar rarefaction. These pathways can be attenuated but not reversed. Therefore novel therapies in order to stop or retard the kidney damage process are essential.

Endogenous & exogenous stem cells give the regeneration capacity to kidney, although it decreases by CKD progression. A recent meta-analysis revealed that cell-based therapies improved impaired renal function and structural morphology in preclinical models of CKD.

Following promising result of the stem cell transplantation in CKD models, hiring this method is taken into consideration in clinical setting with CKD.

We assessed the safety and potential efficacy of the BMMSC injection in CKD patients.
Pareto-Optimal Domino-Tiling of Orthogonal Polygon Phased Arrays
Creators: name: Rocca, Paolo
name: Anselmi, Nicola
name: Polo, Alessandro
name: Massa, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The modular design of planar phased arrays arranged on orthogonal polygon-shaped apertures is addressed and a new method is proposed to synthesize domino-tiled arrays fitting multiple, generally conflicting, requirements. Starting from an analytic procedure to check the domino-tileability of the aperture, two multi-objective optimization techniques are derived to efficiently and effectively deal with small and medium/large arrays depending on the values of the bounds for the cardinality of the solution space of the admissible clustered solutions. A set of representative numerical examples is reported to assess the effectiveness of the proposed synthesis approach also through full-wave simulations when considering non-ideal models for the radiating elements of the array.
Efficiently Fine-tuning Large Language Model: LoRA  Approach
Creators: name: Adegoke, Israel
name: Izenyi, Daniel
name: Dilli, Lwasinam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper introduces and evaluates the novel concept of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as a transformative approach to fine-tuning large language models, specifically exemplified through the GPT-2 architecture for English text generation. Leveraging the principles of low-rank decomposition, LoRA redefines weight matrix updates during model adaptation, focusing on the efficiency and resource utilization challenges inherent in the fine-tuning process. The methodology involves freezing pre-trained weight matrices while adapting lowrank matrices, offering a streamlined training process with reduced computational demands. Our experiments demonstrate a remarkable 30% reduction in training time and an impressive 35% decrease in memory usage when compared to conventional fine-tuning. The applicability of LoRA extends beyond GPT-2 to various deep learning models, emphasizing its versatility and potential impact on large-scale language models. The simplicity of our experimental setup, characterized by fixed hyperparameters and clear training metrics, underscores the practicality and effectiveness of LoRA in addressing challenges associated with model adaptation. This paper concludes by positioning LoRA as a promising avenue for enhancing the scalability, efficiency, and deployability of large language models in natural language processing tasks, marking a significant contribution to the ongoing discourse on model adaptation and resource optimization in deep learning.
The nuclear power option: exploring boundaries and limits, asking open questions
Creators: name: Camino, Elena
name: Colucci Gray, Laura
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: In this article we take up on the debate spurred by a recent paper published by Qvist & Brook on PLoS/ONE (May 2015), in which the Authors encourage ‘a large expansion of global nuclear power’. We approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, drawing on a variety of sources, in order to highlight the complexity of the issue and the social, political and educational implications of presenting the nuclear option as a plain, linear, rational choice. Adopting the paper by Qvist & brook as a ‘case in contest’ we develop a critique of conventional scientific research. We argue that for all scientific studies, authors should specify clearly and correctly the boundaries of the system under consideration which in turn, will determine the range of experimental data being collected. Results should be clearly separated from the conclusions which, in fact, are inevitably influenced by personal interpretations and collective imaginaries, which often remain unchecked. Scientists and referees of scientific journals therefore have a great responsibility when dealing with complex and controversial issues, because their voices can influence both the public and policy makers alike. By virtue of the idea, still deeply rooted in the Western world, that science describes reality, scientific evidence is deemed to 'speak truth to power'(Wildavsky, 1979). Consequently, a model of governance by numbers (Ozga, 2015) seeking to be informed by the promises of scientific certainty (Nowotny, 2015) fails to recognize the areas of uncertainty, the multiple questions which yield opportunities for disclosing alternative imaginaries and visions for sustainability. Drawing on the insights offered by feminist epistemologies, and the educational tools here derived, we point to a reformulation of the role of science education in growing democratic expertise that is, the ability of the public to unmask the value and worldviews underpinning the 'products' of science by taking into account the wider, socio-cultural and socio-material discourses in which such products are embedded. We encourage the educational system to pay greater attention towards equipping young people with reflexive abilities and conceptual tools which are appropriate to cope with the global, socio-environmental conflicts of our time.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 4 (2015)
Sustainable education for children who are ill: promoting wellbeing in hospital learning environments
Creators: name: Andreatta, Francesca
name: Robol, Caterina
name: Bolognani, Chiara
name: Dodman, Martin
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: In this paper we look at the provision of schooling in hospital for children who are ill and consider it as an example of sustainable education. Since illness is a potential cause of exclusion, we start from the perspective of promoting learning in hospital as a form of inclusive educational policy. We than consider wellbeing as an integral part of a human sustainability paradigm and examine both the characteristics of the hospital as a learning environment and psychological and social factors involved in fostering the resilience and the transformability necessary for a healing process in which learning can play a vital role.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 4 (2015)
Data and code for a pair of papers by Pinfield and Valier-Brasier entitled "Multimode multiple wave scattering in suspensions of solid particles in viscous liquids"
Creators: name: Pinfield, Valerie
name: Valier-Brasier, Tony
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we provide the dataset (model calculations and experimental data) and the code for the models presented in the papers by Valerie Pinfield and Tony Valier Brasier in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2024.Multimode multiple wave scattering in suspensions of solid particles in viscous liquids: Part 1 asymptotic resultsMultimode multiple wave scattering in suspensions of solid particles in viscous liquids: Part 2 numerical validationThe papers present asymptotic results for a mathematical model of multiple elastic wave scattering in systems of spherical particles in a viscous liquid, exploring the effects of the dipolar resonance, wave conversion contributions to multiple scattering and positional correlations between particles.
Hearing Impairment and Physical Activity and Physical Functioning in Older Adults: Baseline Results From the ACHIEVE Trial
Creators: name: Glynn, Nancy W
name: Mitchell, Christine M
name: Burgard, Sheila
name: Pike, James R
name: Betz, Joshua F
name: Mosley, Thomas
name: Reed, Nicholas S
name: Couper, David
name: Goman, Adele M
name: Zhang, Talan
name: Gravens-Mueller, Lisa
name: Cai, Yurun
name: Lin, Frank R
name: ACHIEVE Collaborative Research Group
name: Chisolm, Theresa H
name: Deal, Jennifer A
name: Schrack, Jennifer A
name: Martinez-Amezcua, Pablo
name: Coresh, Josef
name: Gmelin, Theresa
name: Huang, Alison R
name: Pankow, James S
name: Sanchez, Victoria A
name: Hayden, Kathleen M
name: Wanigatunga, Amal A
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: Hearing loss is associated with restricted physical activity (PA) and impaired physical functioning, yet the relationship between severity of hearing impairment (HI) and novel PA measures in older adults with untreated HI is not well understood.
METHODS: Analyses included 845 participants aged ≥70 years (mean = 76.6 years) with a better-hearing ear pure-tone average (PTA) ≥30 and <70 dB in the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study who wore an ActiGraph accelerometer for 7 days. Physical functioning measures included grip strength and the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB). Linear regression models estimated the association by HI level (moderate or greater [PTA ≥ 40 dB] vs mild [PTA < 40 dB]) and continuous hearing with total daily activity counts, active minutes/day, activity fragmentation, grip strength, and gait speed. Logistic regression models estimated odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of poor performance on the SPPB (≤6) and its subtests (≤2). Mixed-effects models estimated differences by HI level in activity by time of day.
RESULTS: Participants with moderate or greater HI had poorer physical functioning, particularly balance (OR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.29-3.67), versus those with mild impairment. There was no association of HI level with activity quantities or fragmentation. For diurnal patterns of activity, participants with moderate or greater HI had fewer activity counts in the afternoon (12:00 pm -05:59 pm).
CONCLUSIONS: Older adults with worse hearing had shifted diurnal patterns and poorer balance performance. Exercise programs should be tailored to older adults with different levels of HI to maintain PA and physical functioning, particularly balance control.
Eigenvalue fluctuations for random elliptic operators in homogenization regime
Creators: name: Duerinckx, Mitia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work is devoted to the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of an elliptic operator with rapidly oscillating random coefficients on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. A sharp convergence rate is obtained for isolated eigenvalues towards eigenvalues of the homogenized problem, as well as a quantitative two-scale expansion result for eigenfunctions. Next, a quantitative central limit theorem is established for eigenvalue fluctuations; more precisely, a pathwise characterization of eigenvalue fluctuations is obtained in terms of the so-called homogenization commutator, in parallel with the recent fluctuation theory for the solution operator.
description: 19 pages
Supplementary document for AIoT enabled resampling filter for temperature extraction of the Brillouin Gain Spectrum - 6012734.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Minghai
name: sui, yang
name: Zhou, Weinan
name: An, Xin
name: Dong, Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The framework of the AIOT enabled BGS-temperature sensing system.
Interconnections between environment, violence and nonviolence
Creators: name: Camino, Elena
name: Larecchiuta, Lidia
name: Battaglia, Massimo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Year: 2016

description: This paper presents an hypertext, accessible on the web, with a research on the environmental impact of military activities and wars, and with some suggestions for interdisciplinary activities in educational contexts, drawn from the nonviolent culture and perspective.
description: Visions for Sustainability, No 4 (2015)
O'ZBEK LUG'ATCHILIGI TARIXIDA SHAKLDOSH SO'ZLAR TAVSIFI
Creators: name: Murtazoyev, G'olibjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mazkur maqolada oʻzbek lug’atchiligi tarixida shakldosh so’zlar tavsifi haqida fikr-mulohazalar bildirildi.
Inverse design enables large-scale high-performance meta-optics reshaping virtual reality
Creators: name: Li, Zhaoyi
name: Pestourie, Raphaël
name: Park, Joon-Suh
name: Huang, Yao-Wei
name: Johnson, Steven G.
name: Capasso, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Meta-optics has achieved major breakthroughs in the past decade; however, conventional forward design faces challenges as functionality complexity and device size scale up. Inverse design aims at optimizing meta-optics design but has been currently limited by expensive brute-force numerical solvers to small devices, which are also difficult to realize experimentally. Here, we present a general inverse design framework for aperiodic large-scale complex meta-optics in three dimensions, which alleviates computational cost for both simulation and optimization via a fast-approximate solver and an adjoint method, respectively. Our framework naturally accounts for fabrication constraints via a surrogate model. In experiments, we demonstrate, for the first time, aberration-corrected metalenses working in the visible with high numerical aperture, poly-chromatic focusing, and large diameter up to centimeter scale. Such large-scale meta-optics opens a new paradigm for applications, and we demonstrate its potential for future virtual-reality platforms by using a meta-eyepiece and a laser back-illuminated micro-Liquid Crystal Display.
Geometric microcanonical theory of two-dimensional Truncated Euler flows
Creators: name: van Kan, Adrian
name: Alexakis, Alexandros
name: Brachet, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a geometric microcanonical ensemble perspective on two-dimensional Truncated Euler flows, which contain a finite number of (Fourier) modes and conserve energy and enstrophy. We explicitly perform phase space volume integrals over shells of constant energy and enstrophy. Two applications are considered. In a first part, we determine the average energy spectrum for highly condensed flow configurations and show that the result is consistent with Kraichnan's canonical ensemble description, despite the fact that no thermodynamic limit is invoked. In a second part, we compute the probability density for the largest-scale mode of a free-slip flow in a square, which displays reversals. We test the results against numerical simulations of a minimal model and find excellent agreement with the microcanonical theory, unlike the canonical theory, which fails to describe the bimodal statistics. This article is part of the theme issue "Mathematical problems in physical fluid dynamics".
Discrete cyclic systems and circle congruences
Creators: name: Hertrich-Jeromin, Udo
name: Szewieczek, Gudrun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A70 (Primary), 53A31, 53A35,

description: We discuss integrable discretizations of 3-dimensional cyclic systems, that is, orthogonal coordinate systems with one family of circular coordinate lines. In particular, the underlying circle congruences are investigated in detail, and characterized by the existence of a certain flat connection. Within the developed framework, discrete cyclic systems with a family of discrete flat fronts in hyperbolic space and discrete cyclic systems, where all coordinate surfaces are discrete Dupin cyclides, are investigated.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
Identifying key differences between linear stochastic estimation and neural networks for fluid flow regressions
Creators: name: Nakamura, Taichi
name: Fukami, Kai
name: Fukagata, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neural networks (NNs) and linear stochastic estimation (LSE) have widely been utilized as powerful tools for fluid-flow regressions. We investigate fundamental differences between them considering two canonical fluid-flow problems: 1. the estimation of high-order proper orthogonal decomposition coefficients from low-order their counterparts for a flow around a two-dimensional cylinder, and 2. the state estimation from wall characteristics in a turbulent channel flow. In the first problem, we compare the performance of LSE to that of a multi-layer perceptron (MLP). With the channel flow example, we capitalize on a convolutional neural network (CNN) as a nonlinear model which can handle high-dimensional fluid flows. For both cases, the nonlinear NNs outperform the linear methods thanks to nonlinear activation functions. We also perform error-curve analyses regarding the estimation error and the response of weights inside models. Our analysis visualizes the robustness against noisy perturbation on the error-curve domain while revealing the fundamental difference of the covered tools for fluid-flow regressions.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Hermannobates monstruosus Hammer 1961
Creators: name: Revelo-Tobar, Harol
name: Ojeda, Margarita
name: García-Ayala, Leonardo J.
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Hermanniellidae
Hermannobates
Hermannobates monstruosus

description: Hermannobates monstruosus Hammer, 1961.
 Distribution: Neotropical.
 Records in Mexico: Quintana Roo.
 Biogeographic province: Yucatan Peninsula.
 Habitat: Low flooded rainforest soil.
 References: Vázquez (1999): 69; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 150; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 273.
description: Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, Ojeda, Margarita, García-Ayala, Leonardo J. & Palacios-Vargas, José G., 2024, Checklist Of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) From Mexico, pp. 1-178 in Zootaxa 5465 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11613709