cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
TESS Experiments: Taking Race at Face Value
Creators: name: Burke, Ruth H.
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) offers researchers the opportunity to capture the internal validity of experiments. Investigators submit proposals, and TESS fields successful proposals for free on a representative sample of adults in the United States. This experiment was conducted to measure how different combinations of facial features affect perceived character traits and racial identity. Twenty-four conditions were used in this experiment, and each condition had 8 versions of an image in which the features of a human face were digitally modified. The 317 total respondents were randomly assigned to 4 groups, with each encompassing 6 of the 24 conditions. After viewing the image, respondents were asked to rate various characteristics of the individual pictured, such as friendliness, trustworthiness, and attractiveness, and then to guess at the individual’s race and ethnicity. This allowed for comparisons of how perceptions of race were affected both by a combination of facial features and by the respondent’s own racial identity.
A short term outcomes of pharmaceutical care in Thai patientswith schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Juntip Kanjanasilp
name: Chanuttha Ploylearmsang
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2016
Subjects: pharmaceutical care,schizophrenia,clinical outcomes,humanistic outcomes,cost-effectiveness,Thailand

description: 2, 38, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)
On (m, n)-ideals and (m, n)-regular ordered semigroups
Creators: name: Limpapat Bussaban
name: Thawhat Changphas
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2016
Subjects: semigroup,ordered semigroup,(m, n)-ideal,(m, n)-quasi-ideal,(m, n)-regular

description: 2, 38, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)
Purity-dependent Lorenz number, electron hydrodynamics and electron-phonon coupling in WTe$_2$
Creators: name: Xie, Wei
name: Yang, Feng
name: Xu, Liangcai
name: Li, Xiaokang
name: Zhu, Zengwei
name: Behnia, Kamran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of electrical and thermal transport in Weyl semimetal WTe$_2$ down to 0.3 K. The Wiedemann-Franz law holds below 2 K and a downward deviation starts above. The deviation is more pronounced in cleaner samples, as expected in the hydrodynamic picture of electronic transport, where a fraction of electron-electron collisions conserve momentum. Phonons are the dominant heat carriers and their mean-free-path do not display a Knudsen minimum. This is presumably a consequence of weak anharmonicity, as indicated by the temperature dependence of the specific heat. Frequent momentum exchange between phonons and electrons leads to quantum oscillations of the phononic thermal conductivity. Bloch-Grüneisen picture of electron-phonon scattering breaks down at low temperature when Umklapp ph-ph collisions cease to be a sink for electronic flow of momentum. Comparison with semi-metallic Sb shows that normal ph-ph collisions are amplified by anharmonicity. In both semimetals, at cryogenic temperature, e-ph collisions degrade the phononic flow of energy but not the electronic flow of momentum.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Materials included
Increase in production of biosurfactant from Oceanobacillus sp. BRI 10using low cost substrates
Creators: name: Parhi, Priyanka
name: VipraVijay Jadhav
name: Bhadekar, Rama
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2016
Subjects: antarctic,biosurfactant,cost effective,glycolipoprotein,sugarcane juice,yield

description: 2, 38, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)
Excitonic Instability in Ta2Pd3Te5 Monolayer
Creators: name: Yao, Jingyu
name: Sheng, Haohao
name: Zhang, Ruihan
name: Pang, Rongtian
name: Zhou, Jin-Jian
name: Wu, Quansheng
name: Weng, Hongming
name: Dai, Xi
name: Fang, Zhong
name: Wang, Zhijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By systematic theoretical calculations, we have revealed an excitonic insulator (EI) in the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer. The bulk Ta2Pd3Te5 is a van der Waals (vdW) layered compound, whereas the vdW layer can be obtained through exfoliation or molecular-beam epitaxy. First-principles calculations show that the monolayer is a nearly zero-gap semiconductor with the modified Becke-Johnson functional. Due to the same symmetry of the band-edge states, the two-dimensional polarization $α_{2D}$ would be finite as the band gap goes to zero, allowing for an EI state in the compound. Using the first-principles many-body perturbation theory, the GW plus Bethe-Salpeter equation calculation reveals that the exciton binding energy is larger than the single-particle band gap, indicating the excitonic instability. The computed phonon spectrum suggests that the monolayer is dynamically stable without lattice distortion. Our findings suggest that the Ta2Pd3Te5 monolayer is an excitonic insulator without structural distortion.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Diversity and conservation status of small mammals in Kelantan, Malaysia
Creators: name: Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran
name: Khan, Faisal Ali Anwarali
name: Isham Azhar
name: WeeChen, Ean
name: Mohd Rohanif Mohd Ali
name: Amirrudin Ahmad
name: Azrinaaini Mohd Yusof
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2016
Subjects: small mammals,Kelantan,new records,conservation

description: 2, 38, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)
Entropy Production from Maximum Entropy Principle: a Unifying Approach
Creators: name: Varizi, Adalberto D.
name: Correia, Pedro S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entropy production is the crucial quantity characterizing irreversible phenomena and the second law of thermodynamics. Yet, a ubiquitous definition eludes consensus. Given that entropy production arises from incomplete access to information, in this Letter we use Jaynes' maximum entropy principle to establish a framework that brings together prominent and apparently conflicting definitions. More generally our definition of entropy production addresses any tomographically incomplete quantum measurement and/or the action of a quantum channel on a system.
Light vector bosons and the weak mixing angle in the light of future germanium-based reactor CE$ν$NS experiments
Creators: name: Lindner, Manfred
name: Rink, Thomas
name: Sen, Manibrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, the sensitivity of future germanium-based reactor neutrino experiments to the weak mixing angle $\sin^{2}θ_{W}$, and to the presence of new light vector bosons is investigated. By taking into account key experimental features with their uncertainties and the application of a data-driven and state-of-the-art reactor antineutrino spectrum, the impact of detection threshold and experimental exposure is assessed in detail for an experiment relying on germanium semiconductor detectors. With the established analysis framework, the precision on the Weinberg angle, and capability of probing the parameter space of a universally coupled mediator model, as well as a U(1)$_{\rm B-L}$-symmetric model are quantified. Our investigation finds the next-generation of germanium-based reactor neutrino experiments in good shape to determine the Weinberg angle $\sin^{2}θ_{W}$ with $<10$ % precision using the low-energetic neutrino channel of CE$ν$NS. In addition, the current limits on new light vector bosons determined by reactor experiments can be lowered by about an order of magnitude via the combination of both CE$ν$NS and E$ν$eS. Consequently, our findings provide strong phenomenological support for future experimental endeavours close to a reactor site.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures; minor title change, figure 6 adapted (improved readability, additional limits), references and discussions added; matches published version
Gasification of municipal solid waste in a downdraft gasifier: Analysis of tar formation
Creators: name: Etutu, Tabitha Geoffrey
name: Krongkaew Laohalidanond
name: Somrat Kerdsuwan
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2016
Subjects: tar formation,tar reduction,air blown gasification,downdraft gasifier

description: 2, 38, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)
Continuously Distributing Entanglement in Quantum Networks with Regular Topologies
Creators: name: Talsma, Lars
name: Iñesta, Álvaro G.
name: Wehner, Stephanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small interconnected quantum processors can collaborate to tackle quantum computational problems that typically demand more capable devices. These linked processors, referred to as quantum nodes, can use shared entangled states to execute nonlocal operations. As a consequence, understanding how to distribute entangled states among nodes is essential for developing hardware and software. We analyze a protocol where entanglement is continuously distributed among nodes that are physically arranged in a regular pattern: a chain, a honeycomb lattice, a square grid, and a triangular lattice. These regular patterns allow for the modular expansion of networks for large-scale distributed quantum computing. Within the distribution protocol, we investigate how nodes can optimize the frequency of attempting entanglement swaps, trading off multiple entangled states shared with neighboring nodes for fewer states shared with non-neighboring nodes. We evaluate the protocol's performance using the virtual neighborhood size -- a metric indicating the number of other nodes with which a given node shares entangled states. Employing numerical methods, we find that nodes must perform more swaps to maximize the virtual neighborhood size when coherence times are short. In a chain network, the virtual neighborhood size's dependence on swap attempt frequency differs for each node based on its distance from the end of the chain. Conversely, all nodes in the square grid exhibit a qualitatively similar dependence of the virtual neighborhood size on the swap frequency.
description: 8 pages main text with 4 figures; 11 pages appendices with 7 figures; v2: minor main text refinements (more concise introduction with added reference, more complete discussion), typos corrected
Additional file 1 of miR-27a-5p, miR-21-5p, miR-1246 and miR-4508: a candidate microRNA signature in the protection and regulation of viral infection in mild COVID-19
Creators: name: Gajate-Arenas, Malena
name: Sirvent-Blanco, Candela
name: García-Pérez, Omar
name: Domínguez-de-Barros, Angélica
name: Piñero, José E.
name: Lorenzo-Morales, Jacob
name: Córdoba-Lanús, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1: Table 1. Selected assays for the analysis of the miRNAs included in the study
PERTEMUAN 5_MARET, 05, 2024_KONSOLIDASI DENGAN AKUISISI MELEBIHI NILAI TERCATAT EKUITAS_AKUNTANSI KEUANAGN LANJUTAN 2_UNIVERSITAS GRESIK
Creators: name: Dr. Rusdiyanto, SE,. M. Ak,. CH,. CHt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Capaian Pembelajaran Mata Kuliah (CPMK)

Karakteristik Konsolidasi Dengan Akuisisi Pada Nilai Tercatat Ekuitas

 Prosedur Konsolidasi

Pada  praktiknya,  transaksi  akuisisi suatu  perusahaan  oleh  perusahaan  lain sebesar nilai buku sangatlah jarang tejadi. Berdasarkan PSAK 65 (2014) laporan keuangan konsolidasian disebutkan “bahwa investor mengendalikan investee ketika investor terekspos atau memiliki hak atas   imbal   hasil   variabel   dari   keterlibatannya   dengan   investee   dan   memiliki kemampuan   untuk   memengaruhi   imbal   hasil   tersebut   melalui   kekuasaannya   atas investee”.   Salah   satu   implikasi   dari   investasi   yang   menyebabkan   pengendalian investor tehadap investee adalah munculnya istilah entitas induk (parent) dan entitas anak (subsidiary) dalam hubungan antara  investor dan investee. Induk perusahaan adalah entitas yang melakukan investasi  sehingga memiliki hak pengendalian atas entitas lain. Sedengkan entitas anak adalah entitas yang dikendalikan (investee).

Konsolidasi   laporan   keuangan   merupakan   proses   menggabungkan   dua   atau   lebih laporan keuangan yang dimiliki oleh dua atau lebih entitas sehingga menjadi sebuah laporan   keuangan   utuh   dan   menyeluruh   yang   mencerminkan   semua   hasil operasional, arus kas dan posisi keuangan. Perusahaan pengakuisisi (investor) biasanya akan melakukan uji kelayakan (due   diligence) atas bisnis yang   akan diakuisisi. Hasil akurat dari uji kelayakan tersebut dapat menunjukkan apakah bisnis yang akan diakuisisi memiliki nilai lebih atau lebih rendah dari nilai bukunya.

Faktor-faktor   yang   dapat   mempengaruhi   proses   penilaian   kelayakan   bisnis   saat   proses kombinasi bisnis antara lain prospek bisnis perusahaan yang akan diakuisisi terutama dalam   menciptakan   penghasilan   tambahan   bagi   perusahaan   pengakuisisi,   kondisi industri secara umum, nilai strategis bisnis, kualitas manajemen, dan tentunya nilai wajar   dari   asset   maupun   liabilitas   yang   dilaporkan   oleh   perusahaan   yang   akan diakuisisi.

Menurut PSAK 65 (2014) prosedur laporan keuangan konsolidasian adalah :

1.Menggabungkan aset,liabilitas,ekuitas,penghasilan,beban dan arus kas sejenis dari entitas induk dengan entitas anak.

2 Mengeliminasikan jumlah tercatat dari investasi entitas induk pada setiap entitas anak dan bagian entitas induk pada ekuitas setiap entitas anak.

3 Mengeliminasikan secara penuh aset dan liabilitas, ekuitas, penghasilan, beban dan arus kas dalam intra kelompok usaha terkait dengan transaksi antar entitas dalam kelompok usaha.

Selain itu PSAK 65 (2014) juga menyatakan entitas-entitas dalam kelompok   usaha yang akan dikonsolidasikan menggunakan kebijakan akuntansi yang berbeda dengan kebijakan akuntansi yang digunakan dalam penyajian laporan keuangan konsolidasi, maka ketika penyusana laporan keuangan konsolidasi perlu dilakuakan penyesuaian untuk memastikan keseragamaan.
Nonlocal Structural Effects of Water on DNA Homology Recognition
Creators: name: Haimov, Ehud
name: Hedley, Jonathan G.
name: Kornyshev, Alexei A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism behind mutual recognition of homologous DNA sequences prior to genetic recombination is one of the remaining puzzles in molecular biology. Leading models of homology recognition, based on classical electrostatics, neglect the short-range nonlocal screening effects arising from structured water around DNA, and hence may only provide insight for relatively large separations between interacting DNAs. We elucidate the role of the effects of the nonlocal dielectric response of water on DNA-DNA interaction and show that these can dramatically enhance the driving force for recognition.
THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION
Creators: name: Valiyeva, Irodakhon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The main problems facing modern science, technology, and education include funding constraints, ethical dilemmas, access and equity issues, misinformation, and the rapid pace of change. These challenges require collaborative efforts to address and ensure responsible and inclusive advancement in these fields.
Wood in building envelopes in the context of the European Green Deal
Creators: name: Baño, Vanesa
name: Kies, Uwe
name: García-Jaca, Javier
name: Astudillo, Julen
Publisher: name: InnovaWood
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: wood
subject: Sustainable building
subject: façades
subject: building energy renovation
subject: Biomaterials
subject: Bioeconomy
subject: circular economy
subject: timber construction
subject: insulation

description: Keynote presentation during the "Forum Internacional de Construcción con Madera", 5-6 June 2024, Navarre, Spain. https://www.forum-maderaconstruccion.com/ 

Contents:

InnovaWood presentation

European policies affecting wood construction

Opportunities and challenges of timber construction

Wood-based components for façades: case study of Basajaun project

Building envelopes in the AEGIR project: a step forward in buiding energy renovation

Funding: AEGIR project Grant No 101079961
Prenatal diagnosis and postnatal findings of cephalothoracopagus, janiceps, monosymmetros twins
Creators: name: Chawla, Anirudh
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Anatomy
subject: Bones
subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies
subject: Head and neck
subject: Liver
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Experimental
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Intraoperative
subject: Intrauterine diagnosis
subject: Congenital
subject: Fetus
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Pathology

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 24 years
description: Clinical History: A 24-year-old multigravida underwent fetal ultrasound at 24-weeks of gestation for suspected polyhydramnios. Conjoined twins were detected on ultrasound which were delivered by Cesarean section the following week and weighed 1081g. They expired immediatel... Final Diagnosis: Cephalothoracopagus, janiceps, monosymmetros twins.
Desplazamiento forzado intraurbano como estrategia de grupos armados en las ciudades : Barrancabermeja 2005- 2010
Creators: name: Cabrera Miranda, Nadia Lucía
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Conflicto armado - Estudios de caso
subject: Desplazamiento forzado - Aspectos sociales
subject: Violencia - Investigaciones
subject: Homicidios
subject: Zona rural
subject: Dinámicas

description: La dinámica del desplazamiento forzado intraurbano en Barrancabermeja corresponde a una serie de condiciones históricas. En este sentido, para su comprensión y análisis se establece el contexto y las coyunturas que se desarrollan en el territorio. El contexto se presenta por medio de dos ámbitos. El primero se da en el marco de las ideas, y se refiere a la interpretación y entendimiento del tema. El segundo se da desde la perspectiva histórica, donde se tiene en cuenta las particularidades espacio- temporales que posee Barrancabermeja. Este contexto es seguido por las coyunturas, las cuales se constituyen con sucesos que tienen injerencia y repercusiones directas sobre el tema. Entre estas situaciones y los casos concretos ocurridos durante los años 2005 al 2010, existe una interrelación que permite establecer las temporalidades, las trayectorias y las causas del desplazamiento forzado intraurbano en Barrancabermeja, durante estos años.
PERTEMUAN 5_MARET, 18, 2025_KONSOLIDASI DENGAN AKUISISI MELEBIHI NILAI TERCATAT EKUITAS_AKUNTANSI KEUANAGN LANJUTAN 2_UNIVERSITAS GRESIK
Creators: name: Dr. Rusdiyanto, SE,. M. Ak,. CH,. CHt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Capaian Pembelajaran Mata Kuliah (CPMK)

Karakteristik Konsolidasi Dengan Akuisisi Pada Nilai Tercatat Ekuitas

 Prosedur Konsolidasi

Pada  praktiknya,  transaksi  akuisisi suatu  perusahaan  oleh  perusahaan  lain sebesar nilai buku sangatlah jarang tejadi. Berdasarkan PSAK 65 (2014) laporan keuangan konsolidasian disebutkan “bahwa investor mengendalikan investee ketika investor terekspos atau memiliki hak atas   imbal   hasil   variabel   dari   keterlibatannya   dengan   investee   dan   memiliki kemampuan   untuk   memengaruhi   imbal   hasil   tersebut   melalui   kekuasaannya   atas investee”.   Salah   satu   implikasi   dari   investasi   yang   menyebabkan   pengendalian investor tehadap investee adalah munculnya istilah entitas induk (parent) dan entitas anak (subsidiary) dalam hubungan antara  investor dan investee. Induk perusahaan adalah entitas yang melakukan investasi  sehingga memiliki hak pengendalian atas entitas lain. Sedengkan entitas anak adalah entitas yang dikendalikan (investee).

Konsolidasi   laporan   keuangan   merupakan   proses   menggabungkan   dua   atau   lebih laporan keuangan yang dimiliki oleh dua atau lebih entitas sehingga menjadi sebuah laporan   keuangan   utuh   dan   menyeluruh   yang   mencerminkan   semua   hasil operasional, arus kas dan posisi keuangan. Perusahaan pengakuisisi (investor) biasanya akan melakukan uji kelayakan (due   diligence) atas bisnis yang   akan diakuisisi. Hasil akurat dari uji kelayakan tersebut dapat menunjukkan apakah bisnis yang akan diakuisisi memiliki nilai lebih atau lebih rendah dari nilai bukunya.

Faktor-faktor   yang   dapat   mempengaruhi   proses   penilaian   kelayakan   bisnis   saat   proses kombinasi bisnis antara lain prospek bisnis perusahaan yang akan diakuisisi terutama dalam   menciptakan   penghasilan   tambahan   bagi   perusahaan   pengakuisisi,   kondisi industri secara umum, nilai strategis bisnis, kualitas manajemen, dan tentunya nilai wajar   dari   asset   maupun   liabilitas   yang   dilaporkan   oleh   perusahaan   yang   akan diakuisisi.

Menurut PSAK 65 (2014) prosedur laporan keuangan konsolidasian adalah :

1.Menggabungkan aset,liabilitas,ekuitas,penghasilan,beban dan arus kas sejenis dari entitas induk dengan entitas anak.

2 Mengeliminasikan jumlah tercatat dari investasi entitas induk pada setiap entitas anak dan bagian entitas induk pada ekuitas setiap entitas anak.

3 Mengeliminasikan secara penuh aset dan liabilitas, ekuitas, penghasilan, beban dan arus kas dalam intra kelompok usaha terkait dengan transaksi antar entitas dalam kelompok usaha.

Selain itu PSAK 65 (2014) juga menyatakan entitas-entitas dalam kelompok   usaha yang akan dikonsolidasikan menggunakan kebijakan akuntansi yang berbeda dengan kebijakan akuntansi yang digunakan dalam penyajian laporan keuangan konsolidasi, maka ketika penyusana laporan keuangan konsolidasi perlu dilakuakan penyesuaian untuk memastikan keseragamaan.
Opening up to OER: Creating Open Education Awareness on a large campus
Creators: name: Lyon, Colleen
name: Bastone, Gina
name: Brandt, Sarah
Publisher: name: College & Research Libraries News
Year: 2020
Subjects: OER
open educational resources
open education

description: Like many academic libraries, the University of Texas Libraries (UT) at UT-Austin is looking for ways to increase awareness of open educational resources (OER) on our campus. Our university does not have an OER mandate from our central campus administration, so the path towards greater awareness hasn’t been straightforward. We hope that sharing our nascent attempts to start this conversation on our campus, which have included starting a working group, offering faculty workshops, and fundraising for an OER librarian position, will help others begin to champion OER on their campuses.
MAPLES-DR: MESSIDOR Anatomical and Pathological Labels for Explainable Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy
Creators: name: Lepetit-Aimon, Gabriel
name: Playout, Clément
name: Boucher, Marie Carole
name: Duval, Renaud
name: Brent, Michael H
name: Cheriet, Farida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Reliable automatic diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) and Macular Edema (ME) is an invaluable asset in improving the rate of monitored patients among at-risk populations and in enabling earlier treatments before the pathology progresses and threatens vision. However, the explainability of screening models is still an open question, and specifically designed datasets are required to support the research. We present MAPLES-DR (MESSIDOR Anatomical and Pathological Labels for Explainable Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy), which contains, for 198 images of the MESSIDOR public fundus dataset, new diagnoses for DR and ME as well as new pixel-wise segmentation maps for 10 anatomical and pathological biomarkers related to DR. This paper documents the design choices and the annotation procedure that produced MAPLES-DR, discusses the interobserver variability and the overall quality of the annotations, and provides guidelines on using the dataset in a machine learning context.
description: 1 pages, 7 figures
Supplementary Material for Perception of developers and users on the use of journey map in software requirements elicitation
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Developers Perceive
User Perceive
Requirements Elicitation
Journey Map
Persona

description: This repository contains the supplementary material for the "Perception of developers and users on the use of journey map in software requirements elicitation" article. Abstract:
 Context: Requirements elicitation is a fundamental step in a software development process since it is at this stage that the software begins to be designed. In some situations, the problems related to the failure of the software development project are due to an incomplete requirements elicitation or failure, resulting in solutions that do not understand all the necessary functionalities or do not incorporate innovation. Despite the various techniques offered by Requirements Engineering, situations such as the growing market for applications and the need for innovation further increase the importance of understanding the user's different needs. Objective: In this paper, we investigated how the personas and journey map techniques are being used in requirements elicitation in both the literature and the industry, along with the positive and negative points of using these techniques. Method: We conducted systematic literature reviews to identify the personas and journey map techniques used in requirements elicitation in the literature and industry. In addition, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 27 software developers to investigate their perception of the use of journeys map and personas techniques in the requirements elicitation phase. Results: Twenty-three primary studies were identified that address journey map and personas techniques in software requirements elicitation. In addition, most respondents stated that using these techniques facilitates understanding the requirements, providing better integration, collaboration, and leveling of knowledge among the members of the software development teams. Conclusions: Our findings allow us to conclude that most software developers, users, and managers, consider that the journey map and personas techniques are effective in understanding the software requirements to be developed by the development teams.
Structural Descriptors and Information Extraction from X-ray Emission Spectra: Aqueous Sulfuric Acid
Creators: name: Eronen, E. A.
name: Vladyka, A.
name: Sahle, Ch. J.
name: Niskanen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Machine learning can reveal new insights into X-ray spectroscopy of liquids when the local atomistic environment is presented to the model in a suitable way. Many unique structural descriptor families have been developed for this purpose. We benchmark the performance of six different descriptor families using a computational data set of 24200 sulfur K$β$ X-ray emission spectra of aqueous sulfuric acid simulated at six different concentrations. We train a feed-forward neural network to predict the spectra from the corresponding descriptor vectors and find that the local many-body tensor representation, smooth overlap of atomic positions and atom-centered symmetry functions excel in this comparison. We found a similar hierarchy when applying the emulator-based component analysis to identify and separate the spectrally relevant structural characteristics from the irrelevant ones. In this case, the spectra were dominantly dependent on the concentration of the system, whereas adding the second most significant degree of freedom in the decomposition allowed for distinction of the protonation state of the acid molecule.
Minijet quenching in non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Zhou, Fabian
name: Brewer, Jasmine
name: Mazeliauskas, Aleksas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the energy deposition and thermalisation of high-momentum on-shell partons (minijets) travelling through a non-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma using QCD kinetic theory. For thermal backgrounds, we show that the parton energy first flows to the soft sector by collinear cascade and then isotropises via elastic scatterings. In contrast, the momentum deposition from a minijet reaches the equilibrium distribution directly. For expanding non-equilibrium QGP, we study the time for a minijet perturbation to lose memory of its initial conditions, namely, the hydrodynamisation time. We show that the minijet evolution scales well with the relaxation time $τ_R \propto η/s/T (τ )$, where $T (τ )$ is the effective temperature and $η/s$ is the viscosity over entropy ratio.
description: 38 pages, 19 figures, minor corrections and figure added, published version
A Synthesis of Home-based Palliative Care on Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-effectiveness and Quality of Life: Policy Implications Explored
Creators: name: Behm, Brittany
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Background: By 2050, 27 million people will need some type of long-term care service, most of whom will have multiple chronic diseases. The population of Americans aged 65 years or older during the next 25 years to about 72 million. Long-term care and end-of-life care is going to continue growing as a significant healthcare burden.   
Purpose/Approach: This review seeks to examine literature surrounding home-based palliative care in terms of 1) clinical effectiveness, 2) cost, 3) cost-effectiveness, 4) quality of life and patient satisfaction, and 5) recommendations for healthcare policy and practices. 
Review of Literature: Evidence shows that home-based palliative care compared to palliative care in other environments may result in fewer hospitalizations, fewer hospital days, fewer ED visits, and fewer physician office visits. It reduces the likelihood of readmission to a hospital within 30 days and increases the likelihood of completing an advanced directive. It has shown to be cost-effective and result in lowered spending at a healthcare system and an individual level. Home-based care patients and their families report high levels of quality of life. 
Recommendations: Recommendations that will help remove barriers to care include revising the Medicare hospice benefit to have less restrictive eligibility for home-based care, providing incentives to healthcare providers for discussing and integrating palliative care, and systematically training and educating health professionals on palliative care issues. 
Conclusion: Ensuring affordable and timely home-based palliative care to this population is a critical step in reducing healthcare costs and improving quality of life.
¿El derecho de la propiedad intelectual de la Comunidad Andina tiene control de constitucionalidad en la República de Colombia?
Creators: name: Álvarez Bermúdez, Martín Alonso
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Gobierno representativo - Aspectos sociales
subject: Colombia - Tribunal constitucional - Legislación
subject: Derechos de autor - Estudios de caso
subject: Fundamentos constitucionales
subject: Propiedad intelectual
subject: Derecho comunitario
subject: Derechos conexos

description: La Comunidad Andina es un organismo de integración de carácter internacional conformada por Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia, quienes, en ejercicio de su soberanía, suscribieron el Acuerdo de Cartagena suscrito el 26 de mayo de 19691, con el objetivo de lograr un desarrollo Sudamericano y Latinoamericano en temas económicos, sociales, ambientales, entre otros; ello en razón a la similitud de su clima, geografía e identidad social y cultural conocidos desde su colonización. Conforme a lo precedente, la Comunidad Andina en uso del traslado de competencia soberanas dada por parte de los Países Miembros a unos órganos e instituciones internacionales crea un derecho comunitario, propio y especializado, el cual está conformado por el Acuerdo de Cartagena, sus protocolos e instrumentos adicionales; el Tratado de Creación del Tribunal de Justicia de la Comunidad Andina y sus protocolos modificatorios; las Decisiones del Consejo Andino de Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores y la Comisión de la Comunidad Andina; las Resoluciones de la Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina; y los Convenios de Complementación Industrial y otros que adopten los Países Miembros entre sí y en el marco del proceso de la integración subregional andina.
Effective Community Events: An Implementation Toolkit for Older Adult Falls Prevention
Creators: name: McKenzie, Monica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Falls among older adults are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. As the world’s population ages, fall-related morbidity and mortality are expected to rise. Due to Florida’s high percentage of older adults, Florida may experience a disproportionate burden of these increasing rates. The purpose of this capstone is to (1) guide organizations that serve older adults in planning, implementing, and sustaining community-wide fall prevention activities, and (2) institutionalize fall prevention events into the health departments’ and community agencies’ regular programming. This paper will address the epidemiology of older adult falls in Florida, the barriers to intervention, the methodology of the toolkit, and recommendations for future direction.
Turn Down For What? The Run Down Before it Goes Down: A Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Program
Creators: name: Walker, Tunicia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: The United States has seen an increase in incident HIV/AIDS rates in the past five years, especially amongst adolescents and young adults aged 13 to 24. Prior studies have shown that comprehensive sexual health education with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS education could be effective in reducing sexual risk behaviors that contribute to increases in HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) amongst adolescents, however, increased funding from congress in the past decade to promote abstinence only education has limited programs that teach this type of sexual health education, especially in states that have some of the highest rates of HIV and STIs in the United States. The purpose of this capstone project, entitled “Turn Down For What: The Run Down Before It Goes Down” is to provide a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum to schools in communities located in zip codes with high HIV rates and increasing adolescent sexually transmitted disease rates. This program will provide students with the knowledge and tools they need to negotiate safer sex, increase condom use and in turn, decrease STD incidence rates among adolescents aged 13 to 18 that reside in these zip codes. This program will serve as an update to existing programs that have already been identified as effective by including modern-day aspects such as references to social media and reality television.
Exact Ansatz of Fermion-Boson Systems for a Quantum Device
Creators: name: Warren, Samuel
name: Wang, Yuchen
name: Benavides-Riveros, Carlos L.
name: Mazziotti, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an exact ansatz for the eigenstate problem of mixed fermion-boson systems that can be implemented on quantum devices. Based on a generalization of the electronic contracted Schrödinger equation (CSE), our approach guides a trial wave function to the ground state of any arbitrary mixed Hamiltonian by directly measuring residuals of the mixed CSE on a quantum device. Unlike density-functional and coupled-cluster theories applied to electron-phonon or electron-photon systems, the accuracy of our approach is not limited by the unknown exchange-correlation functional or the uncontrolled form of the exponential ansatz. To test the performance of the method, we study the Tavis-Cummings model, commonly used in polaritonic quantum chemistry. Our results demonstrate that the CSE is a powerful tool in the development of quantum algorithms for solving general fermion-boson many-body problems.
Aharonov-Bohm interference and the evolution of phase jumps in fractional quantum Hall Fabry-Perot interferometers based on bi-layer graphene
Creators: name: Kim, Jehyun
name: Dev, Himanshu
name: Kumar, Ravi
name: Ilin, Alexey
name: Haug, André
name: Bhardwaj, Vishal
name: Hong, Changki
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Stern, Ady
name: Ronen, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-particles in fractional quantum Hall states are collective excitations that carry fractional charge and anyonic statistics. While the fractional charge affects semi-classical characteristics such as shot noise and charging energies, the anyonic statistics is most notable in quantum interference phenomena. In this study, we utilize a versatile bilayer graphene-based Fabry-Pérot Interferometer (FPI) that facilitates the study of a broad spectrum of operating regimes, from Coulomb-dominated to Aharonov-Bohm, for both integer and fractional quantum Hall states. Focusing on the $ν$=$1 \over 3$ fractional quantum Hall state, we study the Aharonov-Bohm interference of quasi-particles when the magnetic flux through an interference loop and the charge density within the loop are independently varied. When their combined variation is such that the Landau filling remains $1 \over 3$ we observe pristine Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with a period of three flux quanta, as is expected from the interference of quasi-particles of one-third of the electron charge. When the combined variation is such that it leads to quasi-particles addition or removal from the loop, phase jumps emerge, and alter the phase evolution. Notably, across all cases, the average phase consistently increases by 2$π$ with each addition of one electron to the loop.
Insurance Mandates for Diagnosis and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Autism and Evaluative Data Sources: A Case Study of Two U.S. States
Creators: name: Campos Vidal Pires, Sofia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: BACKGROUND: It is recognized among providers, parents and health organizations that the current health care system is unprepared for a rising number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) worldwide. Meanwhile, differences in mandated insurance coverage for ASD across the U.S. could drastically impact the diagnosis and treatment strategies chosen by providers and families. PURPOSE OF RESEARCH: The present case study aimed to review and compare policies and programs for children and adolescents with ASD in Pennsylvania (PA) and Georgia (GA), focusing on private insurance mandates. Additionally, the case study intended to identify and evaluate data sources that can be used to assess the implementation and impact of ASD insurance mandates in those states. METHODS: Key advocates and health agencies’ representatives were contacted to collaborate in the identification of the state regulated initiatives and potential data sources that track children and adolescents with ASD. Insurance enrollment, pharmacy care, health care service utilization, and cost of care were the indicators used to evaluate data sources in their ability to evaluate the impact of the insurance mandates. RESULTS: PA showed a more comprehensive insurance mandate and state-driven health-related initiatives for children and adolescents with ASD than GA. Among the nine data sources reviewed, including claims and survey data, none provide essential indicators for a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of the ASD insurance mandate in PA or GA. CONCLUSION: The case study indicated that for GA and PA, ASD policy tracking and evaluation can be accomplished with some of the currently available data sources, however, important gaps in the surveillance of ASD-related outcomes exist. Thus, the study suggested that efforts towards more comprehensive data sources across all states is needed in order to evaluate ASD initiatives that inform ASD related- health policy and programs.
Evaluating the Implementation of a Tobacco-Free Policy across the 30 Institutions of the University System of Georgia
Creators: name: Alyanak, Elif
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Background:
Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death, not only within the United States but now globally. Research shows that health promotion has helped to educate individuals of the harms and risks associated with usage, but tobacco control policies help to prevent individuals from initiating use and assist others with cessation, and especially help protect nonsmokers from the adverse effects of secondhand smoke. These types of policies are particularly increasing on college and university campuses, as seen with the October 2014 adoption of a 100% tobacco and smoke-free policy on the campuses of the 30 institutions that constitute the University System of Georgia (USG). This evaluation studied the development and implementation of a system-wide tobacco and smoke-free policy, examining the effectiveness of multiple intervention components adopted to prevent and control tobacco use by students, faculty, and staff.
 Methodology for Proposed Plan and Products:
The USG worked to develop an education campaign prior to the official implementation of the tobacco-free policy, creating signage, communications, promotional student and faculty videos, and two websites to provide policy information as well as implementation resources and cessation material. The USG also organized a Tobacco-Free Kick-Off Meeting, providing institutional leadership with a forum to address any questions or concerns. One individual from each institution (n= 30 individuals) then participated in a survey addressing the strategies used throughout implementation, for the purpose of collecting information on support and success six months post-policy adoption. Results indicated that the majority of institutions actively communicated the new policy (n=29; 96.7%), used signage (n=27; 90%) and accessed the website (n=24; 80%). Employees positively supported the policy (n=28; 93.3%), reporting substantial compliance on campus (n= 22; 73.3%) and sufficient support from the USG (n=24; 80%).
 Discussion:
It appears that the system-wide implementation of the tobacco-free policy was supported and successful on campuses. Further evaluation research is necessary to assess more long-term impacts of the policy, specifically health-related outcomes for faculty, staff, and students as well as methods customized to the growing concern of e-cigarettes on campus. This implementation analysis and evaluation provides further support to the national tobacco-free campus initiative with a unique system-wide perspective.
In-Depth Search for a Coupling between Gravity and Electromagnetism with Steady Fields
Creators: name: Tajmar, Martin
name: Kößling, Matthias
name: Neunzig, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Any means to control gravity like electromagnetism is currently out of reach by many orders of magnitude even under extreme laboratory conditions. Some often poorly executed experiments or pseudoscience theories appear from time to time claiming for example anomalous forces from capacitors that suggest a connection between the two fields. We developed novel and high resolution horizontal-, vertical- and rotation-balances that allow to test electric devices completely shielded and remotely controlled under high vacuum conditions to perform the first in-depth search for such a coupling using steady fields. Our testing included a variety of capacitors of different shapes and compositions as well as for the first-time solenoids and tunneling currents from Zener diodes and varistors. A comprehensive coupling-scheme table was used to test almost all combinations including capacitors and solenoids with permittivity and permeability gradients as well as capacitors and varistors within crossed magnetic fields. We also tested a crossed-coil producing helical magnetic field lines as well as interactions between a pair of shielded toroidal coils to look for proposed extensions to Maxwell's equations. No anomalous forces or torques down to the Nanonewton or Nanonewton-Meter range were found providing new limits many orders of magnitude below previous assessments ruling out claims or theories and providing a basis for future research on the topic.
Atomic scale insights into NaCl nucleation in nanoconfined environments
Creators: name: Wang, Ruiyu
name: Tiwary, Pratyush
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we examine the nucleation from NaCl aqueous solutions within nano-confined environments, employing enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations integrated with machine learning-derived reaction coordinates. Through our simulations, we successfully induce phase transitions between solid, liquid, and a hydrated phase, typically observed at lower temperatures in bulk environments. Interestingly, nano-confinement serves to stabilize the solid phase and elevate melting points. Our simulations explain these findings by underscoring the significant role of water, alongside ion aggregation and subtle, anistropic dielectric behavior, in driving nucleation within nano-constrained environments. This letter thus provides a framework for sampling, analyzing and understanding nucleation processes under nano-confinement.