cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Content-decoupled Contrastive Learning-based Implicit Degradation Modeling for Blind Image Super-Resolution
Creators: name: Yuan, Jiang
name: Ma, Ji
name: Wang, Bo
name: Hu, Weiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Implicit degradation modeling-based blind super-resolution (SR) has attracted more increasing attention in the community due to its excellent generalization to complex degradation scenarios and wide application range. How to extract more discriminative degradation representations and fully adapt them to specific image features is the key to this task. In this paper, we propose a new Content-decoupled Contrastive Learning-based blind image super-resolution (CdCL) framework following the typical blind SR pipeline. This framework introduces negative-free contrastive learning technique for the first time to model the implicit degradation representation, in which a new cyclic shift sampling strategy is designed to ensure decoupling between content features and degradation features from the data perspective, thereby improving the purity and discriminability of the learned implicit degradation space. In addition, we propose a detail-aware implicit degradation adapting module that can better adapt degradation representations to specific LR features by enhancing the basic adaptation unit's perception of image details, significantly reducing the overall SR model complexity. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real data show that our method achieves highly competitive quantitative and qualitative results in various degradation settings while obviously reducing parameters and computational costs, validating the feasibility of designing practical and lightweight blind SR tools.
Abstract Physical Traces
Creators: name: Abramsky, Samson
name: Coecke, Bob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We revise our "Physical Traces" paper in the light of the results in "A Categorical Semantics of Quantum Protocols". The key fact is that the notion of a strongly compact closed category allows abstract notions of adjoint, bipartite projector and inner product to be defined, and their key properties to be proved. In this paper we improve on the definition of strong compact closure as compared to the one presented in Categorical Semantics of Quantum Protocols. This modification enables an elegant characterization of strong compact closure in terms of adjoints and a Yanking axiom, and a better treatment of bipartite projectors.
description: 14 pages
title: Predictors of Recidivism in an Adolescent Substance Abusing Population
Creators: name: Pacetti, Christine
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: Many adolescents with substance use disorders have ongoing problems with abuse and/or dependence throughout their lives. Little research has been conducted examining the differences among adolescents who do and do not continue to have difficulties. This study compared adolescents who recidivate versus those who do not recidivate after receiving treatment for substance abuse. Adolescents were compared on four categories of variables: (a) demographic variables, (c) delinquency /substance use history, ( c) social/educational support, and ( d) treatment history. It was found that the most powerful predictors of recidivism within these categories were criminal history severity, age at intake, and treatment completion. The implication of this finding is discussed. It may be possible in the future for treatment providers to identify adolescents most at risk for recidivism, as these teens should perhaps receive more intensive treatment, a different type of treatment, and/or more intensive monitoring during and after treatment.
title: Assessing Cognitive Abilities in a Sample of Sioux Children Utilizing Traditional and Nonverbal Measures of Intelligence
Creators: name: Johnson, Norman C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: The disproportionate number of American Indian students receiving special education services indicates an ongoing need for research leading to improved assessment and placement practices with this population. Standardized tests are most often used to screen and select students for special education services. However, not all intelligence tests have been normed for use with all populations, especially where minority groups have been concerned.
While the merits of traditional intelligence tests must not be discounted, the emergence of new tests and assessment measures is encouraging, particularly for the assessment of American Indian students. A natural next step is to consider a traditional measure of intelligence, a more "culture fair" measure of intelligence, and behavioral indicators in the assessment of children to determine their utility with minority, in this case American Indian students. Thus, the present study investigated the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition and the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-Third Edition as measures of intelligence for American Indian children receiving special education services, gifted and talented services, and those attending regular education classes. The current study also examined whether two psychosocial variables, academic achievement and behavioral incidents, were predictive of group membership. The sample for this study consisted of 90 American Indian children from the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in northeastern South Dakota.
The results indicated that there were differences in how American Indian students performed on the various measures of intelligence. Youths in the special education group tended to have more severe behavioral incidents than the other two groups. Youths in the gifted group were more likely to have exceptional achievement than individuals in the other two groups. Examining the means on the six measures of intelligence for the three groups indicated that gifted students had the highest scores, followed by regular education students, and then special education students.
Academic achievement and behavioral incidents differentiated between the three groups in the expected manner. Therefore, teachers and administrators should be mindful of the fact that the three groups of students do not differ solely in terms of intelligence.
title: Adult Romantic Attachment Style, Global Self-Esteem, and Specific Self-Views as Predictors of Feedback Preference in Potential Romantic Relationships
Creators: name: Lin, Crystal Chi-Sheng
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: This study examined how adult romantic attachment (anxiety and avoidance dimensions), global self-esteem, and social and academic self-views relate to one another and how well they predict preference for a specific feedback type (enhancing, verifying, or no feedback) from a potential romantic partner in times of distress. It also investigated the relation between the type of feedback one receives and attraction to the partner who gives that type of feedback. Multiple regression analyses supported some predicted relations between romantic attachment and feedback preference. Neither global self-esteem nor social and academic self-views predicted preference for a particular feedback type, nor did social self-views moderate the relation between attachment and feedback preference. Although global self-esteem was found to moderate the relation between attachment style and feedback preference, the moderation effects were not in the predicted directions. However, academic self-views were found to moderate the relation between attachment and feedback preference. In addition, anxious and avoidant attachment related negatively to global self-esteem, social self-views, and academic self-view. Global self-esteem related positively to both social and academic self-views. Receiving one's preferred feedback predicted attraction to the potential romantic partner who gave that type of feedback. Limitations of the study and direction for future research are discussed.
Additional file 3 of Expanded gene and taxon sampling of diplomonads shows multiple switches to parasitic and free-living lifestyle
Creators: name: Wiśniewska, Monika M.
name: Salomaki, Eric D.
name: Silberman, Jeffrey D.
name: Terpis, Kristina X.
name: Mazancová, Eva
name: Táborský, Petr
name: Jinatham, Vasana
name: Gentekaki, Eleni
name: Čepička, Ivan
name: Kolisko, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S1. Maximum Likelihood trees showing selected virulence factors. IQ-TREE with C20+LG+G+F model, statistical support was inferred from 100 rapid bootstrap replicates computed in RAxML with LG4X+G model. Host associated diplomonads are marked in orange, free-living in blue, and green shows diplomonads whose lifestyle is uncertain. Other eukaryotes are colored in red. To improve readability of the trees, large bacterial or eukaryotic clades were collapsed. Sequences that are possible bacterial contamination were marked in grey.
The Global Inequality Boomerang
Creators: name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo
name: Sumner, Andy
name: Kanbur, Ravi
name: Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo
name: Sumner, Andy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: global inequality
subject: inequality boomerang
subject: COVID-19 pandemic

description: In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a ‘sunshine’ narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to changes in the between-country component. We find there is a potentially startling global inequality ‘boomerang’, possibly in the mid-to-late 2020s, which would have happened even if there were no pandemic, and that the pandemic is likely to bring forward the global inequality boomerang.
Ethnohistory and ceremonial representation of carrier social structure
Creators: name: Kobrinsky, Vernon Harris
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The dissertation is in two parts. The first part develops a largely conjectural reconstruction of the social history of the Carrier Indians of north-central B.C. in three stages. The history commences with the Carrier in what is believed to be their original setting amid fellow Athapaskan-speakers of the Yukon-Mackenzie woodlands. A hypothetical system of composite bands is ascribed to the Carrier at this stage, as the underlying social form out of which more recent forms have arisen. Following their move to their present location in the salmon-spawning headwaters of the Skeena and Fraser systems, a salmon-promoted segmentary elaboration of the bands (termed the sept system) is envisioned. The sept stage is then succeeded by a system involving the overlaying of the sept structure, to a considerable extent under the impetus of the burgeoning fur-trade at the turn of the 18th Century, by a system of coast-derived, territory-claiming, matrilineal crest-divisions, classes, ranks, and a potlatch cycle which ceremonially articulate these various categories of social structure. This last stage, designated the sept/phratry stage, represents the Carrier social structure described by a number of research scholars who have worked among the Carrier from the turn of the 19th Century (the Oblate missionary-scholar Father A.G. Morice) to the present (notably Jenness, Goldman, Hackler and myself). The second part of the essay is a close analysis of the seating and prestation-distribution orders of the protocols of the Carrier potlatch. The central thesis of Part II is that the ceremonial seating and distribution arrangement of the major parameters of Carrier society (chiefs, nobles, commons, clans, phratries, septs) is motivated in consideration of the epi-ceremonial connotations of these categories; especially by connotations proper to the diachronic perspective, i.e., by both ideologies of continuity, and folk-historic aspects of social structure. The spatial/temporal arrangements of the potlatch are treated, following the linguistic model, as "surface" structures which manifest meanings out of principles of motivated syntax operating at "deep" (i.e., unconscious) levels of structure. The "deep" level principles of space/time syntax are expressed as simple analogies, and it is suggested that the motivation behind these patterns may derive from certain givens of perceptual experience. Thus, inasmuch as seating and prestation distribution s render a symbolic expression of both historic and synchronic aspects of epi-ceremonial social structure, Part I of the essay provides a foundation for Part II by representing current Carrier social structure in light of its reconstructed historic sources. The conclusion discusses some of the mechanisms, elucidated by the dissertation, which contribute to the cybernetic relations between ritual and social structure.
title: Uncovering the Key of Success In The Utah Medicaid Work Incentive Program: A Grounded Theory Study
Creators: name: Nolan, Renee H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: The purpose of this grounded theory research was to determine what differentiates people with disabilities who leave Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits due to increased income from those who cannot. Fifteen individuals, former and current participants in a Medicaid Buy-In program, were interviewed. Within the context of health and disability, four theoretical propositions were identified: education, opportunity to work, interpersonal support, and secure housing. Higher benefit levels were also found to be an effective barrier for many.
Kaonic production of Lambda(1405) off deuteron target in chiral dynamics
Creators: name: Jido, D.
name: Oset, E.
name: Sekihara, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The K^- induced production of Lambda(1405) is investigated in K^- d to pi Sigma n reactions based on coupled-channels chiral dynamics, in order to discuss the resonance position of the Lambda(1405) in the KbarN channel. We find that the K^-d to Lambda(1405)n process favors the production of Lambda(1405) initiated by the KbarN channel. The present approach indicates that the Lambda(1405) resonance position is 1420 MeV rather than 1405 MeV in the pi Sigma invariant mass spectra of K- d to pi Sigma n reactions. This is consistent with an observed spectrum of the K^- d to pi^+ Sigma^- n with 686-844 MeV/c incident K^- by bubble chamber experiments done in the 70's. Our model also reproduces the measured Lambda(1405) production cross section.
description: REVTeX, 12 page, 16 figures
Three years of publishing data in ETH Zurich's Research Collection: Lessons learned and new developments
Creators: name: Hirschmann, Barbara
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Institutional repository
Data publishing
ETH Zurich
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/020
Library & information sciences

description: In June 2020, ETH Zurich’s Research Collection celebrated its 3rd anniversary. The Research Collection serves as an institutional repository for ETH Zurich that can host both publications as well as research data and is run by the E-Publishing team at ETH Library. Publishing research data and advising customers on research data specific questions in the publishing workflow has emerged as a new field of activity for the team.
With over 700 research data items published over the last years, we have now gained a good understanding of the actual uses cases for publishing data in an institutional repository at a large university for science and technology. We regularly talk to researchers about the incentives and requirements for publishing their data and monitor what kind of data, which formats and file sizes they deposit.
In this talk, we share and discuss our insights with the Swiss research data community. We will presents statistics on the types of deposited datasets and talk about the challenges of bridging publishing and preservation requirements in a research data repository. We also discuss how we set up our workflows for checking datasets for formal quality criteria and compliance with institutional policies.
Finally yet importantly, we give an overview of recently released new features and ongoing development projects such as a new interface that enables ETH researchers to deposit datasets directly from the data management tool openBIS, or a new solution to publish very large datasets via the Research Collection.
title: Социальная психология
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены основные теоретические вопросы социальной психологии и ряд социально-психологических проблем, возникающих в процессе управления организацией: мотивация труда, формирование коллектива, управление групповыми отношениями, формирование общественного мнения об организации. Практические задания по содержанию изучаемых тем направлены на закрепление и углубление знаний студентов. Подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для изучения дисциплины «Социальная психология» по укрупненной группе специальностей и направлений подготовки «Экономика и управление». Кроме того, издание будет полезно студентам других специальностей и направлений, изучающим данную дисциплину.
title: Sky Rising: An Examination of YA Steampunk Literature Exploring Themes of Prejudice, Power, and Morality
Creators: name: Cragun, Hailey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The creative writing is preceded by a critical introduction that explores the history of the steampunk genre, the YA literature movement, and many novels and short stories in both genres. The critical introduction establishes genre guidelines and expectations, as well as provides examples for important qualities of the genre.
The nature of the story required additional research into steam engines, WWI history, the RMS Olympic, tree climbing ascension techniques, and various other subjects. This informal research was used to improve the descriptions of technology in the creative work, as well as the naval terminology and battle tactics performed by steam powered ships before and during the first World War. Though not a historical novel, this information assists in building a believable steampunk world.
Physics of Large-x Nuclear Suppression
Creators: name: Nemchik, J.
name: Sumbera, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a common feature of all known reactions on nuclear targets - a significant suppression at large x. Simple interpretation of this effect is based on energy conservation restrictions in initial state parton rescatterings. Using the light-cone dipole approach this mechanism is shown to control variety of processes on nuclear targets: high-pT particle production at different rapidities as well as direct and virtual (Drell-Yan) photon production. We demonstrate universality and wide applicability of this mechanism allowing to describe large-x effects also at SPS and FNAL energies too low for the onset of coherent effects or shadowing.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee. Only minor changes in text
Spatial Domain Watermarking Scheme for Colored Images Based on Log-average Luminance
Creators: name: Hussein, Jamal A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper a new watermarking scheme is presented based on log-average luminance. A colored-image is divided into blocks after converting the RGB colored image to YCbCr color space. A monochrome image of 1024 bytes is used as the watermark. To embed the watermark, 16 blocks of size 8X8 are selected and used to embed the watermark image into the original image. The selected blocks are chosen spirally (beginning form the center of the image) among the blocks that have log-average luminance higher than or equal the log-average luminance of the entire image. Each byte of the monochrome watermark is added by updating a luminance value of a pixel of the image. If the byte of the watermark image represented white color (255) a value is added to the image pixel luminance value, if it is black (0) the is subtracted from the luminance value. To extract the watermark, the selected blocks are chosen as the above, if the difference between the luminance value of the watermarked image pixel and the original image pixel is greater than 0, the watermark pixel is supposed to be white, otherwise it supposed to be black. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is efficient against changing the watermarked image to grayscale, image cropping, and JPEG compression.
Robust 3D Multi-Source Localization with a Movable Antenna Array via Sparse Signal Processing
Creators: name: Mansourian, Amir
name: Fadakar, Alireza
name: Akhavan, Saeed
name: Maham, Behrouz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Accurately localizing multiple sources is a critical task with various applications in wireless communications, such as emergency services, including natural post-disaster search and rescue operations. However, scenarios where the receiver is moving have not been sufficiently addressed in recent studies. This paper tackles the angle of arrival (AOA) 3D-localization problem for multiple sparse signal sources with a moving receiver, which has a limited number of antennas that may be outnumbered by the sources. First, an energy detector algorithm is proposed to leverage signal sparsity for eliminating noisy samples. Subsequently, an iterative algorithm is developed to refine and estimate the AOAs accurately, initialized with previously estimated source locations and coarse elevation and azimuth AOAs obtained via the two-dimensional multiple signal classification (2D-MUSIC) method. To this end, we introduce a sparse recovery algorithm to exploit signal sparsity, followed by a phase smoothing algorithm to refine the estimates. The K-SVD algorithm is then applied to the smoothed output to accurately determine the elevation and azimuth AOAs of the sources. For localization, a new multi-source 3D-localization algorithm is proposed to estimate source positions using the refined AOA estimates over a sequence of time windows. Extensive simulations are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Additional file 1 of Reporting and communication of sample size calculations in adaptive clinical trials: a review of trial protocols and grant applications
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Dimairo, Munyaradzi
name: Julious, Steven A.
name: Lewis, Jen
name: Yu, Zihang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
title: A Tournament Approach to Price Discovery in the US Cattle Market
Creators: name: Wright, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Cattle price discovery is a process of determining the price in the market through the interactions of cattle buyers (packers) and sellers (ranchers). Locating the price discovery center or market, and estimating price interactions among the regional fed cattle markets and also among feeder cattle markets can help define a relevant fed cattle procurement market. This research identifies that the U.S. cattle markets is discovered in the futures markets, feeder cattle futures and fed futures.
Configuration Space Exploration for Digital Printing Systems
Creators: name: Denkers, Jasper
name: Brunner, Marvin
name: van Gool, Louis
name: Visser, Eelco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Within the printing industry, much of the variety in printed applications comes from the variety in finishing. Finishing comprises the processing of sheets of paper after being printed, e.g. to form books. The configuration space of finishers, i.e. all possible configurations given the available features and hardware capabilities, are large. Current control software minimally assists operators in finding useful configurations. Using a classical modelling and integration approach to support a variety of configuration spaces is suboptimal with respect to operatability, development time, and maintenance burden. In this paper, we explore the use of a modeling language for finishers to realize optimizing decision making over configuration parameters in a systematic way and to reduce development time by generating control software from models. We present CSX, a domain-specific language for high-level declarative specification of finishers that supports specification of the configuration parameters and the automated exploration of the configuration space of finishers. The language serves as an interface to constraint solving, i.e., we use low-level SMT constraint solving to find configurations for high-level specifications. We present a denotational semantics that expresses a translation of CSX specifications to SMT constraints. We describe the implementation of the CSX compiler and the CSX programming environment (IDE), which supports well-formedness checking, inhabitance checking, and interactive configuration space exploration. We evaluate CSX by modelling two realistic finishers. Benchmarks show that CSX has practical performance (<1s) for several scenarios of configuration space exploration.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures. This is an extended version of https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92124-8_24
A Hybrid Agent Based and Differential Equation Model of Body Size Effects on Pathogen Replication and Immune System Response
Creators: name: Banerjee, Soumya
name: Moses, Melanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many emerging pathogens infect multiple host species, and multi-host pathogens may have very different dynamics in different host species. This research addresses how pathogen replication rates and Immune System (IS) response times are constrained by host body size. An Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) model is used to show that pathogen replication rates decline with host body size but IS response rates remain invariant with body size. An Agent-Based Model (ABM) is used to investigate two models of IS architecture that could explain scale invariance of IS response rates. A stage structured hybrid model is proposed that strikes a balance between the detailed representation of an ABM and computational tractability of an ODE, by using them in the initial and latter stages of an infection, respectively.
description: 3 pages
title: Some Effects of Fluctuating and Falling Water Levels on Waterfowl Production
Creators: name: Wolf, Kenneth E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1952

description: There are today many areas and types of water storage. The uses to which these are put are many, and the prospect for the future can only be that there will be an increase in the number of these reservoirs. These areas are usually operated with regard only for power production, irrigation, or storage, but there is a growing concern about the effects on wildlife which this type of operation may have. Fluctuating water levels, and falling water levels are not restricted to man-made impoundments tut are characteristic of many of then. Biologists have observed that these variations in water levels are often harmful to some forms of wildlife. Fluctuating water levels generally were found to cause damage to waterfowl nests. The amount of damage, the amount of water rise and the time involved are values which have generally remained unknown, largely perhaps because some other aspects was of greater importance in the nesting studies.
There is a descending scale of values which have been placed on natural resources, and it is generally agreed that the waterfowl concerned would rank below the value derived from the impounded waters. Where it is practical, the management of these impoundments should take wildlife into consideration.
To have intentions of good management is not sufficient to effect conservation; these intentions must be implemented with the proper tools. This study was designed to discover magnitudes of cause and effect, and perhaps it will point the way to a more efficient utilization of associated resources. It was possible that the results of this study would show that there was little damage to waterfowl. On the other hand, if significant damage were to be discovered, contributing causes could be more closely delimited and so point the way toward corrective measures.
Soil carbon respiration in tropical forest soils along geomorphic and geochemical gradients
Creators: name: Bukombe, Benjamin
name: Kidinda, Laurent
name: Hoyt, Alison
name: Vogel, Cordula
name: Bauters, Marijn
name: Wilken, Florian
name: Kalbitz, Karsten
name: Fiener, Peter
name: Doetterl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Tropical ecosystems and the soils therein have been reported as one of the most important and largest terrestrial carbon (C) pools and are considered important climate regulator. Carbon stabilization mechanisms in these ecosystems are often complex, as these mechanisms crucially rely on the interplay of geology, topography, climate, and biology. Future predictions of the perturbation of the soil carbon pool ultimately depend on our mechanistic understanding of these complex interactions.

Using laboratory incubation experiments, we investigated if carbon release from soils through heterotrophic respiration in the African highland forests of the Eastern Congo Basin follows predictable patterns related to topography, soil depth or geochemical soil properties that can be described at the landscape scale and ultimately be used to improve the spatial accuracy of soil C respiration in mechanistic models. In general, soils developed on basalt and granite parent material (mafic and felsic geochemistry of parent material) showed significantly (p <0.05) higher specific respiration than soils developed on sedimentary rocks (mixed geochemistry) with highest rates measured for soils developed on granite. For soils developed on basalt, specific respiration decreased two-fold with soil depth, but not for soils developed on granite or sedimentary rocks. No significant differences in respiration under tropical forest were found in relation to topography for any soil and geochemical background.

Using a non-linear,  stochastic gradient boosting machine learning approach we show that soil biological, physical and chemical properties can predict the pattern of specific soil respiration (R2=0.41, p<0.05). An assessment of the relative importance of the included predictors for soil respiration resulted in 43 % of the model being driven by geochemistry (pedogenic oxides, nutrient availability), 12 % driven by soil texture and clay mineralogy, 34 % by microbial biomass, C:N, and C:P ratios and 11 % by topographic indices. 

We conclude that, in order to explain soil C respiration patterns in tropical forests, a complex set of variables need to be considered that differs depending on the local bedrock chemistry. Its effect is likely related to the varying strength of C stabilization with minerals as well as nutrient availability that might drive C input patterns and microbial turnover.
description: EGUsphere
Development and testing of a paired-comparisons figural scale to measure preference for complexity
Creators: name: Wichert, Shelley Gabriele
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this study was to develop and to test a paired-comparisons figural scale to measure preference for complexity. A Random Shapes Scale (RSS) consisting of 18 sets of 3 random shapes was constructed. In each set of 3, one shape was of high complexity, one of medium complexity and one of low complexity. The random shapes were chosen from the eleven hundred generated by Vanderplas. Two existing measures of preference for complexity, the Barron-Welsh Art Scale (BW) and the Revised Art Scale (RA) were also used. Students in architecture, art, education, law and engineering (N=292) were tested using the RSS. Three weeks later the same groups of students (N=184) were retested on the RSS and completed the BW and RA as well. The BW and RA were significantly correlated with the RSS in three of the five groups tested. The internal consistency of the RSS calculated over all groups combined was .66; the stability coefficient was .71. The analysis of variance showed significant differences among the five groups tested. Therefore the RSS does differentiate among groups on the dimension of preference for complexity. The majority of the items were highly correlated with total test scores. This indicates that the items are homogenous. The results of the statistical analyses lead to the conclusion that the RSS is a useful measure of a unitary dimension of preference for complexity.
High Resolution Spectroscopy of 16N_Lambda by Electroproduction
Creators: name: Cusanno, F.
name: Urciuoli, G. M.
name: Acha, A.
name: Ambrozewicz, P.
name: Aniol, K. A.
name: Baturin, P.
name: Bertin, P. Y.
name: Benaoum, H.
name: Blomqvist, K. I.
name: Boeglin, W. U.
name: Breuer, H.
name: Brindza, P.
name: Bydzovsky, P.
name: Camsonne, A.
name: Chang, C. C.
name: Chen, J. -P.
name: Choi, Seonho
name: Chudakov, E. A.
name: Cisbani, E.
name: Colilli, S.
name: Coman, L.
name: Craver, B. J.
name: De Cataldo, G.
name: de Jager, C. W.
name: De Leo, R.
name: Deur, A. P.
name: Ferdi, C.
name: Feuerbach, R. J.
name: Folts, E.
name: Fratoni, R.
name: Frullani, S.
name: Garibaldi, F.
name: Gayou, O.
name: Giuliani, F.
name: Gomez, J.
name: Gricia, M.
name: Hansen, J. O.
name: Hayes, D.
name: Higinbotham, D. W.
name: Holmstrom, T. K.
name: Hyde, C. E.
name: Ibrahim, H. F.
name: Iodice, M.
name: Jiang, X.
name: Kaufman, L. J.
name: Kino, K.
name: Kross, B.
name: Lagamba, L.
name: LeRose, J. J.
name: Lindgren, R. A.
name: Lucentini, M.
name: Margaziotis, D. J.
name: Markowitz, P.
name: Marrone, S.
name: Meziani, Z. E.
name: McCormick, K.
name: Michaels, R. W.
name: Millener, D. J.
name: Miyoshi, T.
name: Moffit, B.
name: Monaghan, P. A.
name: Moteabbed, M.
name: Camacho, C. Munoz
name: Nanda, S.
name: Nappi, E.
name: Nelyubin, V. V.
name: Norum, B. E.
name: Okasyasu, Y.
name: Paschke, K. D.
name: Perdrisat, C. F.
name: Piasetzky, E.
name: Punjabi, V. A.
name: Qiang, Y.
name: Raue, B.
name: Reimer, P. E.
name: Reinhold, J.
name: Reitz, B.
name: Roche, R. E.
name: Rodriguez, V. M.
name: Saha, A.
name: Santavenere, F.
name: Sarty, A. J.
name: Segal, J.
name: Shahinyan, A.
name: Singh, J.
name: Sirca, S.
name: Snyder, R.
name: Solvignon, P. H.
name: Sotona, M.
name: Subedi, R.
name: Sulkosky, V. A.
name: Suzuki, T.
name: Ueno, H.
name: Ulmer, P. E.
name: Veneroni, P.
name: Voutier, E.
name: Wojtsekhowski, B. B.
name: Zeng, X.
name: Zorn, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experimental study of the 16O(e,e'K^+)16N_Lambda reaction has been performed at Jefferson Lab. A thin film of falling water was used as a target. This permitted a simultaneous measurement of the p(e,e'K^+)Lambda,Sigma_0 exclusive reactions and a precise calibration of the energy scale. A ground-state binding energy of 13.76 +/- 0.16 MeV was obtained for 16N_Lambda with better precision than previous measurements on the mirror hypernucleus 16O_Lambda. Precise energies have been determined for peaks arising from a Lambda in s and p orbits coupled to the p_{1/2} and p_{3/2} hole states of the 15N core nucleus.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 1 of Seeking the aim – perspectives of asylum seekers, nurses, and authorities on the objectives of the asylum seekers’ initial health assessment: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Mustonen, K-L
name: Ismail, M.
name: Mäki-Opas, T.
name: Castaneda, A.E.
name: Kauhanen, J.
name: Atkins, S.
name: Skogberg, N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 2 of Seeking the aim – perspectives of asylum seekers, nurses, and authorities on the objectives of the asylum seekers’ initial health assessment: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Mustonen, K-L
name: Ismail, M.
name: Mäki-Opas, T.
name: Castaneda, A.E.
name: Kauhanen, J.
name: Atkins, S.
name: Skogberg, N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Does constituency analysis enhance domain-specific pre-trained BERT models for relation extraction?
Creators: name: Tang, Anfu
name: Deléger, Louise
name: Bossy, Robert
name: Zweigenbaum, Pierre
name: Nédellec, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recently many studies have been conducted on the topic of relation extraction. The DrugProt track at BioCreative VII provides a manually-annotated corpus for the purpose of the development and evaluation of relation extraction systems, in which interactions between chemicals and genes are studied. We describe the ensemble system that we used for our submission, which combines predictions of fine-tuned bioBERT, sciBERT and const-bioBERT models by majority voting. We specifically tested the contribution of syntactic information to relation extraction with BERT. We observed that adding constituentbased syntactic information to BERT improved precision, but decreased recall, since relations rarely seen in the train set were less likely to be predicted by BERT models in which the syntactic information is infused. Our code is available online [https://github.com/Maple177/drugprot-relation-extraction].
title: The Incidence of Lead Shot in Waterfowl of the Pacific Flyway, With Special Reference to the Great Salt Lake Basin
Creators: name: Heuer, Wayne H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1952

description: This study was conducted to determine basic data on the incidence of lead shot in ducks us ing the Great Salt Le.lee Basin. The study has been divided into two parts; (1) incidence of ducks carrying lead shot in their tissues and (2) incidenoe of ducks carrying ingested lead shot.
title: Harvest of Wild and Stocked Fish From the Logan River Drainage
Creators: name: Pechacek, Louis S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1950

description: The Logan River heads in the southeastern corner of Franklin County, Idaho, and runs in a south and westerly direction.· It enters the state of Utah through the northern boundary in the northeast corner of Cache County. The main stream is fed by two tributary streams which head in separate directions a few miles apart. The Franklin Basin branch is the main contributing tributary while the Beaver Creek branch is nearly as large.
Soil organic carbon stocks in tropical soil systems under rainforests controlled by geochemistry
Creators: name: Reichenbach, Mario
name: Fiener, Peter
name: Wilken, Florian
name: Six, Johan
name: Kidinda, Laurent
name: Mujinya, Basile
name: Doetterl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Soil mineralogy plays an important role in stabilizing soil organic carbon (SOC) against decomposition by forming organo-mineral complexes with reactive mineral surfaces. However, few studies take the influence of parent material geochemistry on the development of C stabilization mechanisms into account. In addition, studies evaluating C stabilization in soil are often limited to temperate climate zones with young to intermediate aged soils. This is not representative for older, deeply weathered and leached tropical systems and limits our understanding of the relationship between geology, soil formation and their effect on C stabilization.

Here, we study the relationship between soil carbon stabilization and the geochemical properties of soils developed on different parent material along geomorphic transects in pristine tropical forest systems under comparable climate. Our study is located in the eastern part of the Congo basin along the East African Rift Mountain System where we sampled 36 one meter soil cores along nine geomorphic transects on geologies ranging from mafic to felsic geochemistry.

Carbon stocks ranged between 2.67 tC ha-1 to 85.75 tC ha-1 and were on average composed of 4.5% (±5.3% SD) coarse particulate organic matter, 46.0% (±10.3% SD) (micro)aggregates associated C and 49.6% (±11.2% SD) free silt and clay associated C. Our analysis shows that the topographic position of the investigated soils had no effect on SOC stocks and the distribution of soil C fractions. Regression models and partial correlation analysis reveal that strong correlations of SOC stocks exists to geochemical properties of the solid phase of soil but not to the distribution of soil C fractions. SOC decreased strongly with soil depth on soils developed on felsic parent material, but less so on mafic or intermediate parent material. In addition, mafic geochemistry shows significantly higher SOC stocks compared to their felsic counterparts.

We conclude that despite long-lasting weathering, the contrasting geochemistry of the underlying parent material leaves a footprint in soil geochemistry that affects C stocks but less so on stabilization mechanisms. We hypothesis that carbon dynamics in these undisturbed tropical forest systems are more driven by C input and nutrient recycling than by variation in C stabilization potential.
description: EGUsphere
Gravity as BF theory plus potential
Creators: name: Krasnov, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin foam models of quantum gravity are based on Plebanski's formulation of general relativity as a constrained BF theory. We give an alternative formulation of gravity as BF theory plus a certain potential term for the B-field. When the potential is taken to be infinitely steep one recovers general relativity. For a generic potential the theory still describes gravity in that it propagates just two graviton polarizations. The arising class of theories is of the type amenable to spin foam quantization methods, and, we argue, may allow one to come to terms with renormalization in the spin foam context.
description: 7 pages, published in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Noncommutative Geometry (Lisbon, Portugal)
Interestingness Measure for Mining Spatial Gene Expression Data using Association Rule
Creators: name: Anandhavalli, M.
name: Ghose, M. K.
name: Gauthaman, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The search for interesting association rules is an important topic in knowledge discovery in spatial gene expression databases. The set of admissible rules for the selected support and confidence thresholds can easily be extracted by algorithms based on support and confidence, such as Apriori. However, they may produce a large number of rules, many of them are uninteresting. The challenge in association rule mining (ARM) essentially becomes one of determining which rules are the most interesting. Association rule interestingness measures are used to help select and rank association rule patterns. Besides support and confidence, there are other interestingness measures, which include generality reliability, peculiarity, novelty, surprisingness, utility, and applicability. In this paper, the application of the interesting measures entropy and variance for association pattern discovery from spatial gene expression data has been studied. In this study the fast mining algorithm has been used which produce candidate itemsets and it spends less time for calculating k-supports of the itemsets with the Boolean matrix pruned, and it scans the database only once and needs less memory space. Experimental results show that using entropy as the measure of interest for the spatial gene expression data has more diverse and interesting rules.