cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Online Model-based Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series: Taxonomy, Survey, Research Challenges and Future Directions
Creators: name: Correia, Lucas
name: Goos, Jan-Christoph
name: Klein, Philipp
name: Bäck, Thomas
name: Kononova, Anna V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Time-series anomaly detection plays an important role in engineering processes, like development, manufacturing and other operations involving dynamic systems. These processes can greatly benefit from advances in the field, as state-of-the-art approaches may aid in cases involving, for example, highly dimensional data. To provide the reader with understanding of the terminology, this survey introduces a novel taxonomy where a distinction between online and offline, and training and inference is made. Additionally, it presents the most popular data sets and evaluation metrics used in the literature, as well as a detailed analysis. Furthermore, this survey provides an extensive overview of the state-of-the-art model-based online semi- and unsupervised anomaly detection approaches for multivariate time-series data, categorising them into different model families and other properties. The biggest research challenge revolves around benchmarking, as currently there is no reliable way to compare different approaches against one another. This problem is two-fold: on the one hand, public data sets suffers from at least one fundamental flaw, while on the other hand, there is a lack of intuitive and representative evaluation metrics in the field. Moreover, the way most publications choose a detection threshold disregards real-world conditions, which hinders the application in the real world. To allow for tangible advances in the field, these issues must be addressed in future work.
Additional file 11 of Niche-DE: niche-differential gene expression analysis in spatial transcriptomics data identifies context-dependent cell-cell interactions
Creators: name: Mason, Kaishu
name: Sathe, Anuja
name: Hess, Paul R.
name: Rong, Jiazhen
name: Wu, Chi-Yun
name: Furth, Emma
name: Susztak, Katalin
name: Levinsohn, Jonathan
name: Ji, Hanlee P.
name: Zhang, Nancy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11. Review history.
sj-docx-1-tcn-10.1177_10436596221119484 – Supplemental material for The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Inequities: A Photovoice Study With Nursing Students
Creators: name: Andina-Díaz, Elena
name: Siles-González, José
name: Solano-Ruiz, MCarmen
name: Welch, Lindsay
name: Delblanco-Ubiergo, Gema
name: Serrano-Fuentes, Nestor
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tcn-10.1177_10436596221119484 for The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Inequities: A Photovoice Study With Nursing Students by Elena Andina-Díaz, José Siles-González, MCarmen Solano-Ruiz, Lindsay Welch, Gema Delblanco-Ubiergo and Nestor Serrano-Fuentes in Journal of Transcultural Nursing
Establishing Quantum-Secured Channels in Large-Scale Optical Networks
Creators: name: Toudeh-Fallah, Farzam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum-secured optical channels based on Quantum Key Distribution technology have generated a significant global interest. Although the maturity level of the short distance (less than 100 km) quantum-secured channels is at a deployment level, instituting such channels over long distance faces technological challenges, which is the subject of a world-wide research. In this article an industry perspective on establishing quantum-secured channels in large-scale optical networks in operational environments will be discussed, including the vision, requirements, and technical analysis of different approaches for establishing such channels.
description: 5 pages. Information regarding the SPIE Conference Proceedings, where this preprint article was published later on was added to the second version
sj-pdf-2-pmj-10.1177_02692163221116763 – Supplemental material for Evaluating a partnership model of hospice enabled dementia care: A three-phased monitoring, focus group and interview study
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Dorry
name: Hasson, Felicity
name: Reid, Joanne
name: Brazil, Kevin
name: Rutherford, Lesley
name: Stone, Carol
name: van der Steen, Jenny T
name: Ballentine, Joanne
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-pmj-10.1177_02692163221116763 for Evaluating a partnership model of hospice enabled dementia care: A three-phased monitoring, focus group and interview study by Dorry McLaughlin, Felicity Hasson, Joanne Reid, Kevin Brazil, Lesley Rutherford, Carol Stone, Jenny T van der Steen and Joanne Ballentine in Palliative Medicine
Supplemental Material - Foreign Military Intervention and Cabinet Government Stability
Creators: name: Pickering, Jeffrey
name: Kisangani, Emizet F.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material for Foreign Military Intervention and Cabinet Government Stability by Jeffrey Pickering and Emizet Kisangani in Political Research Quarterly
Negative relationship between body mass and home range size in three-toed sloths of the Amazon rainforest
Creators: name: Vidal, Leandro Vieira
name: Muramatsu, Daisuke
name: Sawada, Akiko
name: Yabe, Tsuneaki
name: Gordo, Marcelo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The spatial use of habitat is key to understanding the ecology of animals and their area requirements. In the current study, the locations of 11 wild pale-throated three-toed sloths (Bradypus tridactylus) were tracked using GPS loggers across 92 days in a 776 ha forest fragment in the central Amazon. Although male home ranges were slightly smaller than those of females, there were no significant differences in size or its expansion patterns. For nine of 11 individuals, home range size reached a plateau within 45 days of study start, indicating that 45 days can be the basal minimum days to establish the home range size of B. tridactylus. There was a negative relationship between body mass and home range size in our study. This counterintuitive result may be caused by disparities in the food-exploring abilities between individuals. Smaller and presumably younger individuals, who have less experience, may require more time and a larger area in which to search for food, while older and more experienced individuals may be able to find food efficiently in a smaller area. Further work on the distribution of food plants and the food-exploring pattern of each animal in relation to age and/or size is thus encouraged.
Laser-cooling Cadmium Bosons and Fermions with Near Ultraviolet Triplet Excitations
Creators: name: Gibble, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cadmium is laser-cooled and trapped with excitations to triplet states with UVA light, first using only the $67\,$kHz wide $326\,$nm intercombination line and subsequently, for large loading rates, the $25\,$MHz wide $361\,$nm $\,^3P_2$$\,\rightarrow\,$$\,^3D_3$ transition. Eschewing the hard UV $229\,$nm $^1S_0$$\,\rightarrow$$\,^1P_1$ transition, only small magnetic fields gradients, less than $6\,$G$\,$cm$^{-1}$, are required enabling a 100\% transfer of atoms from the $361\,$nm trap to the $326\,$nm narrow-line trap. All 8 stable cadmium isotopes are straightforwardly trapped, including two nuclear-spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermions that require no additional repumping. We observe evidence of $^3P_2$ collisions limiting the number of trapped metastable atoms, report isotope shifts for $^{111}$Cd and $^{113}$Cd of the $326\,$nm $^1S_0$$\,\rightarrow$$\,^3P_1$, $480\,$nm $^3P_1$$\,\rightarrow$$\,^3S_1$, and $361\,$nm $^3P_2$$\,\rightarrow$$\,^3D_3$ transitions, and measure the $^{114}$Cd 5s5p$\,^3P_2$$\,\rightarrow\,$5s5d$\,^3D_3$ transition frequency to be $830\,096\,573(15)\,$MHz.
Quarkyonic equation of state with a momentum dependent interaction and neutron star structure
Creators: name: Folias, K.
name: Moustakidis, Ch. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure and basic properties of dense nuclear matter still remain one of the open problems of Physics. In particular, the composition of the matter that composes neutron stars is under theoretical and experimental investigation. Among the theories that have been proposed, apart from the classical one where the composition is dominated by hadrons, the existence or coexistence of free quark matter is a dominant guess. An approach towards this solution is the phenomenological view according to which the existence of quarkyonic matter plays a dominant role in the construction of the equation of state (EOS). According to it the structure of the EOS is based on the existence of the quarkyonic particle which is a hybrid state of a particle that combines properties of hadronic and quark matter with a corresponding representation in momentum space. In this paper we propose a phenomenological model for quarkyonic matter, borrowed from corresponding applications in hadronic models, where the interaction in the quarkyonic matter depends not only on the position but also on the momentum of the quarkyonic particles. This consideration, as we demonstrate, can have a remarkable consequence on the shape of the EOS and thus on the properties of neutron stars, offering a sufficiently flexible model. Comparison with recent observational data can place constraints on the parameterization of the particular model and help improve its reliability.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Comments are welcome
Association between depression and COPD: results from the NHANES 2013–2018 and a bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis
Creators: name: Ran, Bi
name: Zhang, Yutian
name: Wu, Yanqiu
name: Wen, Fuqiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Observational studies showed a bidirectional association between depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, it is unclear whether the observed association is causal. Thus we estimated the relationship using observational studies combined with bidirectional Mendelian randomization [MR]. The study included 9977 participants from the 2013–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and used weighted logistic regression analysis to assess the association between depression and COPD, followed by a bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis to verify their causality. Adjusted-weighted logistic regression in observational studies showed a significant association between COPD and mild depression (OR (95% CI): 1.81 (1.30, 2.52), P = 0.002) and COPD and depression (OR (95% CI): 1.93 (1.49, 2.50), P < 0.001). MR suggested depression may play a causal role in COPD risk (OR (95% CI): 1.45 (1.32, 1.60), P < 0.001), but more evidence for reverse causation is lacking (reverse MR OR (95% CI): 1.03 (0.99, 1.07), P = 0.151). In conclusion, our study found depression may play a potential causal role in the morbidity of COPD suggesting depression might be the etiology of COPD. This finding needs to be validated in further prospective cohort studies with large sample sizes and adequate follow-up time.
Time series forecasting of multiphase microstructure evolution using deep learning
Creators: name: Tiwari, Saurabh
name: Satpute, Prathamesh
name: Ghosh, Supriyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microstructure evolution, which plays a critical role in determining materials properties, is commonly simulated by the high-fidelity but computationally expensive phase-field method. To address this, we approximate microstructure evolution as a time series forecasting problem within the domain of deep learning. Our approach involves implementing a cost-effective surrogate model that accurately predicts the spatiotemporal evolution of microstructures, taking an example of spinodal decomposition in binary and ternary mixtures. Our surrogate model combines a convolutional autoencoder to reduce the dimensional representation of these microstructures with convolutional recurrent neural networks to forecast their temporal evolution. We use different variants of recurrent neural networks to compare their efficacy in developing surrogate models for phase-field predictions. On average, our deep learning framework demonstrates excellent accuracy and speedup relative to the "ground truth" phase-field simulations. We use quantitative measures to demonstrate how surrogate model predictions can effectively replace the phase-field timesteps without compromising accuracy in predicting the long-term evolution trajectory. Additionally, by emulating a transfer learning approach, our framework performs satisfactorily in predicting new microstructures resulting from alloy composition and physics unknown to the model. Therefore, our approach offers a useful data-driven alternative and accelerator to the materials microstructure simulation workflow.
Distribution, morphology, and natural history observations of the Colombian weasel, Neogale felipei
Creators: name: Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E.
name: Giraldo, Alexandra Cardona
name: Henao-Osorio, Jose J.
name: Bueno-Cano, Lida
name: Rojas, Andrés Felipe Marín
name: Tamayo-Zuluaga, Andrés F.
name: Ospina-Pérez, Erika M.
name: Pisso-Flórez, Gustavo Adolfo
name: Echeverry-Pérez, Juan S.
name: Rivera-Páez, Fredy A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The Colombian weasel, Neogale felipei, is a rare carnivoran known only from nine localities, eight in Colombia and one in Ecuador. Recent records have expanded our understanding of the distribution and threats that this mammal faces, but the species is still among the rarest Neotropical carnivores. Here, we present an update to the distribution of N. felipei based on a recent record obtained in the Cordillera Occidental (Western Cordillera) of Colombia, and information on internal and external morphology using noninvasive technique such as X-rays of museum preserved specimens. We also documented the presence of lice, Neotrichodectes minutus, which is the first documented ectoparasite of the species. With the new records, the species is currently known from 12 localities (11 in Colombia and one in Ecuador). We also present the first radiographic analyses for N. felipei and the obtained vertebral formula (49 total vertebrae) fits into the range reported for the species and other mustelids. Considering that the Colombian weasel is one of the rarest carnivores of the Neotropics, our work represents a noteworthy contribution to several aspects of the anatomy, distribution, and natural history of this rare carnivoran.
A GPU-accelerated semi-coherent hierarchical search for stellar-mass binary inspiral signals in LISA
Creators: name: Bandopadhyay, Diganta
name: Moore, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searching for gravitational waves from stellar-mass binary black holes with LISA remains a challenging open problem. Conventional template-bank approaches to the search are impossible due to the prohibitive number of templates that would be required. This paper continues the development of a hierarchical semi-coherent stochastic search, extending it to a full end-to-end pipeline that is then applied to multiple mock LISA data streams which include simulated noise. Particle swarm optimization is used as a stochastic search algorithm, tracking multiple maxima of a semi-coherent search statistic defined over source parameter space. The pipeline is accelerated by the use of graphical processing units (GPUs). No prior information from observations by ground-based detectors is used; this is necessary in order to provide advance warning of the merger. We find that the pipeline is able to detect sources with signal-to-noise ratios as low as $ρ\sim 17$, we demonstrate that these searches can directly seed coarse parameter estimation in cases where the search trigger is loud. An example of how the false-alarm probability can be estimated for this type of GW search is also included.
description: 15 pages + appendices, 7 figures, submitted to PRD
Saving Transition in Asia
Creators: name: Athukorala, Prema-Chandra
name: Suanin, Wanissa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper examines the national saving behaviour in the process of economic growth through a comparative analysis of countries in developing Asia from a historical perspective. Developing Asia provides an ideal laboratory for the study with considerable differences in the saving behaviour among countries and over time within individual countries, notwithstanding the ‘model saver’ image of the region that is based mainly on the experience of high-performing East Asian economies. The empirical analysis distinguishes between private and government saving rates, with specific emphasis on the former. The results of the empirical analysis are consistent with the view of a ‘virtuous circle’ between growth and saving, with growth initiating the saving transition. No evidence to suggest that a prior phase of promoting saving through specific policy initiatives is needed to initiate the process of growth and structural transformation. The private saving rate is also associated positively with export orientation of the economy, and net foreign capital inflows and negatively with the young dependency ratio of the population and domestic credit availability.
FSUDAQ -- A general purpose GUI data acquisition program for the CAEN x725, x730, x740 digitizers
Creators: name: Tang, T. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FSUDAQ is a versatile, multi-threaded, lightweight data acquisition software with a graphical user interface, designed to fully utilize the capabilities of first-generation CAEN x725, x730, and x740 series digitizers equipped with various Digital Pulse Processing (DPP) firmware, including Pulse-Height Analysis (PHA), Pulse-Shape Discrimination (PSD), and Charge-Digital Conversion (QDC). It emphasizes user-friendliness, stability, scalability, high throughput, and low latency. The software includes features such as an online waveform scope, scalar panel, and real-time single spectrum display for each input channel, along with an online event builder and analyzer capable of generating 1D and 2D histograms and applying graphical cuts. Users can also create and integrate custom online analyzers to meet specific experimental requirements. FSUDAQ has been successfully tested at the John D. Fox Laboratory at FSU, including with the Encore, ANASEN, and Super-Enge Split-Pole Spectrograph experiments. In terms of performance, FSUDAQ can handle up to approximately 500k triggers per second per channel without waveform recording, or data rates of around 65 MB/s per optical fiber, with or without waveform recording.
description: 31 pages, 8 figures
sj-docx-1-vet-10.1177_03009858231171669 – Supplemental material for Experimental acute Clostridium perfringens type D enterotoxemia in sheep is not characterized by specific renal lesions
Creators: name: Giannitti, Federico
name: García, Jorge P.
name: Adams, Vicki
name: Armendano, Joaquín I.
name: Beingesser, Juliann
name: Rood, Julian I.
name: Uzal, Francisco A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-vet-10.1177_03009858231171669 for Experimental acute Clostridium perfringens type D enterotoxemia in sheep is not characterized by specific renal lesions by Federico Giannitti, Jorge P. García, Vicki Adams, Joaquín I. Armendano, Juliann Beingesser, Julian I. Rood and Francisco A. Uzal in Veterinary Pathology
Entanglement Witness for Indistinguishable Electrons using Solid-State Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Liu, Tongtong
name: Xu, Luogen
name: Liu, Jiarui
name: Wang, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterizing entanglement in quantum materials is crucial for advancing next-generation quantum technologies. Despite recent strides in witnessing entanglement in magnetic materials with distinguishable spin modes, quantifying entanglement in systems formed by indistinguishable electrons remains a formidable challenge. To solve this problem, we introduce a method to extract various four-fermion correlations by analyzing the nonlinearity in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectra. These correlations constitute the primary components of the cumulant two-particle reduced density matrix. We further derive bounds for its eigenvalues and demonstrate the linear scaling with fermionic entanglement depth, providing a reliable witness for entanglement. Using the material-relevant strongly correlated models as examples, we show how this entanglement witness can efficiently quantify multipartite entanglement across different phase regions, highlighting its advantage over quantum Fisher information.
description: 28 pages, 15 figures
Power corrections to quasi-distribution amplitudes of a heavy meson
Creators: name: Han, Chao
name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhang, Jia-Lu
name: Zhang, Jian-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently demonstrated that lightcone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) for a heavy meson, defined in the heavy quark limit, can be extracted by simulating quasi-distribution amplitudes on the lattice with a large meson momentum $P^z$. This extraction involves a two-step procedure. In the first-step, the quasi-distribution amplitudes are matched onto the QCD LCDAs in the large $P^z$ limit. In the second step, the QCD LCDAs are matched onto the desired LCDAs defined in HQET. In this work, we present the $m_H^{2n}/(P^z)^{2n}$ and $Λ_\text{QCD}^2/(P^z)^2$ corrections in the first step with $m_H$ being the heavy meson mass. To account for $m_H^{2n}/(P^z)^{2n}$ corrections, we employ two methods: the moment relation that can provide mass corrections to all orders, and a leading-twist projector that gives the leading-order mass corrections. For the $Λ_\text{QCD}^2/(P^z)^2$ corrections, we employ a renormalon model that addresses the renormalon ambiguity stemming from the divergence of the perturbative series. We adopt two parametrizations for QCD LCDAs to conduct a numerical analysis. The results suggest that these corrections are typically smaller than 20\% in most regions, and should be included in a precision analysis. These findings will serve as a valuable guide for future studies on heavy meson LCDAs, particularly in the context of Lattice QCD, where accounting for such corrections is crucial for improving the accuracy and reliability of the results.
description: 12 pages,7 figures
New Insights into Type-I Solar Noise Storms from High Angular Resolution Spectroscopic Imaging with the Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
Creators: name: Mondal, Surajit
name: Kansabanik, Devojyoti
name: Oberoi, Divya
name: Dey, Soham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Type-I solar noise storms are perhaps the most commonly observed active radio emissions from the Sun at meter-wavelengths. Noise storms have a long-lived and wideband continuum background with superposed islands of much brighter narrowband and short-lived emissions, known as type-I bursts. There is a serious paucity of studies focusing on the morphology of these two types of emissions, primarily because of the belief that coronal scattering will always wash out any features at small angular scales. However, it is important to investigate their spatial structures in detail to make a spatio-temporal connection with observations at extreme-ultraviolet/ X-ray bands to understand the detailed nature of these emissions. In this work, we use high angular resolution observations from the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope to demonstrate that it is possible to detect structures with angular scales as small as $\sim 9\arcsec$, about three times smaller than the smallest structure reported to date from noise storms. Our observations also suggest while the individual type-I bursts are narrowband in nature, the bursts are probably caused by traveling disturbance(s) inducing magnetic reconnections at different coronal heights, and thus leading to correlated change in the morphology of the type-I bursts observed at a wide range of frequencies.
description: Published at the Astrophysical Journal, 14 pages, 10 figures
Supplemental Material - Controlling the Minimum Item Exposure Rate in Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Two-Stage Sympson–Hetter Procedure
Creators: name: Chao, Hsiu-Yi
name: Chen, Jyun-Hong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material for Controlling the Minimum Item Exposure Rate in Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Two-Stage Sympson–Hetter Procedure by Hsiu-Yi Chao and Jyun-Hong Chen in Applied Psychological Measurement
Achieving Sourdough Status: The Diary, Photographs, and Letters of Samuel Baker Dunn, 1898-1899
Creators: name: Melatti, Robert Nicholas
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This thesis examines Samuel Baker Dunn and other prospectors from Montgomery County in Southwestern Iowa who participated in the Yukon Gold Rush of 1896-1899. The thesis explores three min research questions: Why was there such an exodus of people to the Yukon from Montgomery County and the town of Villisca in particular? 2) How did Montgomery County citizens experience the Yukon Gold Rush and furthermore, what meaning did they attribute to the journey and the mining experience? How did they measure success? 3) What particular insights do letters, diaries, and photographs – and in particular Samuel Baker Dunn’s personal documents – provide historians interested in the Gold Rush? S.B. Dunn’s compendium represents a unique interrelated set of sources that include his daily diary, photographs, writings on the versos of the developed photographs and various letters to the editors of the three local Montgomery County newspapers. The thesis focuses on the many influences motivating Iowans and in particular, S.B. Dunn, to sell his business to raise the needed investment for the journey. Among the influences discussed are familial connections to a Gold Rush superstar, the Panic of 1893, meteorological factors such as drought, the value of gold both perceived and real, the influence of the Populist Movement and the power of the pioneer spirit that was particularly strong in Montgomery County. The thesis argues that to Samuel Baker Dunn and his Iowan companions “success” in the Yukon was less dependent on finding gold than it was on the feeling that they had survived over the challenges and experiences of the journey by employing the pioneer spirit that had been, in part, responsible for pushing them from Iowa to the gold fields
D3.3: System integration and dry-run testing feedback report (1st version)
Creators: name: Roumeliotis, Anargyros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The purpose of this deliverable in its first version is to provide ‘isolated’ measurements about technical key

performance indicators (KPIs) for different last mile connectivity technologies and edge processing solutions in

laboratory environments. The Partners participating in the six use cases (UCs), with the infrastructure and

equipment that are available at the time of writing this deliverable, have provided these measurements. The

execution of the testing and evaluation procedures, presented in detail in the following sections, requires

appropriate software (SW) and hardware (HW) that is also provided.
How Does Fertility Affect Female Employment? Evidence from Albania
Creators: name: Cinque, Andrea
name: Poggi, Cecilia
name: Miluka, Juna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: This article inspects the relationship between fertility and employment, providing an explanatory mixed-method analysis to gauge their nexus for rural and urban Albania over the 2000s. We instrument reproductive decisions with having two first-born daughters in a 2SLS model of employment. We show that having an additional child negatively influences employment probability for rural mothers, but not for women in urban areas. Heterogeneous analyses show that rural women who lack education or wealth are more dependent on their fertility decisions, whilst there are no relevant differences by occupation types. We further show that the fertility effect is reinforced by the characteristics of the rural household, such as the presence of seniors in the household or if the partner is working. We then examine qualitatively how structural and contextual settings influence women in their decisions. We inspect the experience of rural women and employers from three distinct rural municipalities. Interviews reveal several obstacles that create a gap between employer and employee expectations, resulting in females refusing job offers. The qualitative findings suggest that targeted policies on transport, childcare, and employment services are essential aspects of policy-making to favour rural and distant women’s integration.
A Survey on Small-Scale Testbeds for Connected and Automated Vehicles and Robot Swarms
Creators: name: Mokhtarian, Armin
name: Xu, Jianye
name: Scheffe, Patrick
name: Kloock, Maximilian
name: Schäfer, Simon
name: Bang, Heeseung
name: Le, Viet-Anh
name: Ulhas, Sangeet
name: Betz, Johannes
name: Wilson, Sean
name: Berman, Spring
name: Paull, Liam
name: Prorok, Amanda
name: Alrifaee, Bassam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Connected and automated vehicles and robot swarms hold transformative potential for enhancing safety, efficiency, and sustainability in the transportation and manufacturing sectors. Extensive testing and validation of these technologies is crucial for their deployment in the real world. While simulations are essential for initial testing, they often have limitations in capturing the complex dynamics of real-world interactions. This limitation underscores the importance of small-scale testbeds. These testbeds provide a realistic, cost-effective, and controlled environment for testing and validating algorithms, acting as an essential intermediary between simulation and full-scale experiments. This work serves to facilitate researchers' efforts in identifying existing small-scale testbeds suitable for their experiments and provide insights for those who want to build their own. In addition, it delivers a comprehensive survey of the current landscape of these testbeds. We derive 62 characteristics of testbeds based on the well-known sense-plan-act paradigm and offer an online table comparing 23 small-scale testbeds based on these characteristics. The online table is hosted on our designated public webpage https://bassamlab.github.io/testbeds-survey, and we invite testbed creators and developers to contribute to it. We closely examine nine testbeds in this paper, demonstrating how the derived characteristics can be used to present testbeds. Furthermore, we discuss three ongoing challenges concerning small-scale testbeds that we identified, i.e., small-scale to full-scale transition, sustainability, and power and resource management.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. This work was accepted by the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Additional file 1 of Valuing selected WAItE health states using the Time Trade-Off methodology: findings from an online interviewer-assisted remote survey
Creators: name: Robinson, Tomos
name: Hill, Sarah
name: Orozco-Leal, Giovany
name: Kernohan, Ashleigh
name: King, William
name: Oluboyede, Yemi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Rezeption gegenwärtiger Gesellschaftsstrukturen im Fokus zeitgenössischer Kunst in Polen
Creators: name: Mertens, Ina
Year: 2008

description: ABBILDUNGEN: nur in PRINTAUSGABE! -- Am Beispiel der polnischen Künstler Rafał Bujnowski, Marcin Maciejowski und Wilhelm Sasnal, die durch ihre ehemalige Zugehörigkeit zur „Grupa Ładnie“ ein Näheverhältnis zueinander aufweisen und doch sehr unterschiedliche Zugänge in ihrer künstlerischen Praxis haben, wird ein Ausschnitt der zeitgenössischen Kunstverhältnisse in Polen aufgezeigt, der die Leerstelle westlicher Theoriebildung im deutschsprachigen Raum zum Thema der gegenwärtigen polnischen Kunst ein wenig kitten soll. Der Versuch besteht darin, eine kritische Befragung der Verhältnisse künstlerischer Produktion in Polen, sowie der historischen Dimension, auf dessen Boden sie sich verortet, abzugeben. Sowohl in politischer, ökonomischer, gesellschaftlicher als auch in kultureller Hinsicht markiert das Jahr 1989 dabei einen Referenzpunkt, der die künstlerischen Handlungsweisen und ihre Bezugspunkte in den Gegensätzen von Ökonomie und Bewusstsein sucht. Dabei weist die vorliegende Arbeit zwei Schwerpunkte auf. Zum einen wurde ein historischer, politischer und gesellschaftlich-kultureller Bogen gespannt, der die moderne und zeitgenössische Kunstproduktion in Polen seit der Nachkriegszeit skizziert. Hans Beltings Ausführungen zur Unterdrückung der „Kunstgeschichte des Ostens“ bot hier das theoretische Konstrukt, auf das die Dichotomie der immer noch währenden Identitätskonstruktionen von „Ost“ und „West“ und ihre gegenseitige Charakterisierung als „das Andere“ nach Igor Zabel aufbaut. Zum anderen sollte durch das Beispiel der „Grupa Ładnie“ ein Einblick in die Verfahren der zeitgenössischen Kunst in Polen gewährt werden. Das „Werkzeug“ sich diesen Arbeiten zu nähern, stellte hier Ludwig Jägers Theorie der „transkriptiven Verfahren“ dar. Wie Jäger darlegt, unterliegt jede Form des Informationsaustauschs und der Informationsaneignung, inter- wie intramedial, der Transkription. Transkriptive Verfahren sind damit – nach Jäger – die einzige Strategie Inhalte lesbar zu machen und von einer ihnen immanenten potentiellen Deutungsoffenheit geprägt. Abschließend wird das Thema der Transkription als Bestandteil einer sich an globalen Mechanismen orientierenden Popbewegung nachvollzogen. Das Besondere an der gegenwärtigen Inszenierung der Populärkultur ist, dass sie sich zwar im globalen Netz ihrer Äußerungen verortet, in lokalen Kontexten aber zunehmend ausdifferenziert interpretiert und angeeignet wird – so auch in den Arbeiten der „Grupa Ładnie“. Der Abbildungsteil der Arbeit kann nur in der Druckversion eingesehen werden.
Trust region based moving asymptotes method: A stabilized optimizer for stress-constrained topology optimization
Creators: name: Hu, Xueyan
name: Lund, Erik
name: Li, Zonghao
name: Chen, Weiqiu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: Inconsistent topologies and oscillations during iterations are commonly observed when solving stress-constrained problems, indicating inadequate stability in topology optimization. The trust region based moving asymptotes (TRMA) method is proposed in this paper. To comprehensively investigate the stability of the TRMA method, the Trinity Evaluation Framework is proposed in this paper. It focuses on three types of dependencies in topology optimization, i.e. mesh dependence, parameter dependence, and initial topology dependence. The corresponding evaluation vector is proposed to measure the stability of the TRMA method. Numerical examples are given, indicating strong stability of the TRMA method in topology optimization of stress-constrained problems.
Multi-Class Plant Leaf Disease Detection: A CNN-based Approach with Mobile App Integration
Creators: name: Foysal, Md Aziz Hosen
name: Ahmed, Foyez
name: Haque, Md Zahurul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Plant diseases significantly impact agricultural productivity, resulting in economic losses and food insecurity. Prompt and accurate detection is crucial for the efficient management and mitigation of plant diseases. This study investigates advanced techniques in plant disease detection, emphasizing the integration of image processing, machine learning, deep learning methods, and mobile technologies. High-resolution images of plant leaves were captured and analyzed using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect symptoms of various diseases, such as blight, mildew, and rust. This study explores 14 classes of plants and diagnoses 26 unique plant diseases. We focus on common diseases affecting various crops. The model was trained on a diverse dataset encompassing multiple crops and disease types, achieving 98.14% accuracy in disease diagnosis. Finally integrated this model into mobile apps for real-time disease diagnosis.
sj-docx-3-eqs-10.1177_87552930231206399 – Supplemental material for Bayesian analysis of ground motion models using chimney fragility curves: 2021, 5.9-Mw Woods Point intraplate earthquake, Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: La Greca, James
name: Quigley, Mark
name: Vaculik, Jaroslav
name: Rayner, Peter
name: Allen, Trevor
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-eqs-10.1177_87552930231206399 for Bayesian analysis of ground motion models using chimney fragility curves: 2021, 5.9-Mw Woods Point intraplate earthquake, Victoria, Australia by James La Greca, Mark Quigley, Jaroslav Vaculik, Peter Rayner and Trevor Allen in Earthquake Spectra
sj-docx-1-trr-10.1177_03611981231198839 – Supplemental material for Safety Risk of Nonmotorized Vehicles from the Perspective of Motorized Vehicle Drivers
Creators: name: Ahmed, Niaz
name: Chowdhury, Shoumic Shahid
name: Tanim, Md Fardeen
name: Ahammed, Dewan Tanvir
name: Raihan, Md Asif
name: Hossain, Moinul
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-trr-10.1177_03611981231198839 for Safety Risk of Nonmotorized Vehicles from the Perspective of Motorized Vehicle Drivers by Niaz Ahmed, Shoumic Shahid Chowdhury, Md Fardeen Tanim, Dewan Tanvir Ahammed, Md Asif Raihan and Moinul Hossain in Transportation Research Record
Additional file 2 of Valuing selected WAItE health states using the Time Trade-Off methodology: findings from an online interviewer-assisted remote survey
Creators: name: Robinson, Tomos
name: Hill, Sarah
name: Orozco-Leal, Giovany
name: Kernohan, Ashleigh
name: King, William
name: Oluboyede, Yemi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Polar order in a fluid like ferroelectric with a tilted lamellar structure -- observation of a polar smectic C (SmC${_\textrm{P}}$) phase
Creators: name: Hobbs, Jordan
name: Gibb, Calum J.
name: Pociecha, Damian
name: Szydłowska, Jadwiga
name: Górecka, Ewa
name: Mandle, Richard. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of fluid states of matter with spontaneous bulk polar order is appreciated as a major discovery in the fields of soft matter and liquid crystals. Typically, this manifests as polar order superimposed atop conventional phase structures and is thus far limited to orthogonal phase types. Here we report a family of materials which exhibit a previously unseen state of matter which we conclude is a polar smectic C phase, and so we term it SmC${_\textrm{P}}$. The spontaneous polarisation of the SmC${_\textrm{P}}$ phase is over two orders of magnitude larger than that found in conventional ferroelectric SmC phase of chiral materials used in some LCD devices. Fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations faithfully and spontaneously reproduce the proposed structure and associated bulk properties; comparison of experimental and simulated X-ray scattering patterns shows excellent agreement. The materials disclosed here have significantly smaller dipole moments than typical polar liquid crystals such as RM734 which suggests the role of molecular electrical polarity in generating polar order is perhaps overstated, a view supported by consideration of other molecular systems.
sj-docx-1-cet-10.1177_14777509231210770 - Supplemental material for Communicating conviction: A pilot study of patient perspectives on guidance during medical decision-making in the United States
Creators: name: Celie, Karel-Bart
name: Auslander, Allyn
name: Kuschner, Stuart
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Ethics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cet-10.1177_14777509231210770 for Communicating conviction: A pilot study of patient perspectives on guidance during medical decision-making in the United States by Karel-Bart Celie, Allyn Auslander and Stuart Kuschner in Clinical Ethics
QSO MUSEUM II: Search for extended Ly$α$ emission around eight $z \sim 3$ quasar pairs
Creators: name: Herwig, Eileen
name: Battaia, Fabrizio Arrigoni
name: Lobos, Jay González
name: Farina, Emanuele P.
name: Man, Allison W. S.
name: Bañados, Eduardo
name: Kauffmann, Guinevere
name: Cai, Zheng
name: Obreja, Aura
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extended Ly$α$ emission is routinely found around single quasars (QSO) across cosmic time. However, few studies have investigated how such emission changes in fields with physically associated QSO pairs, which should reside in dense environments and are predicted to be linked through intergalactic filaments. We present VLT/MUSE snapshot observations (45 min./source) to unveil extended Ly$α$ emission on scales of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around the largest sample of physically associated QSO pairs to date, encompassing 8 pairs (14 observed QSOs) at $z$~3 with $i$-band magnitude between 18 and 22.75. The pairs are either at close (~50-100 kpc, 5 pairs) or wide (~450-500 kpc, 3 pairs) separation with velocity differences of $Δ$v < 2000 km s$^{-1}$. We detect extended emission around 12 of the 14 targeted QSOs and investigate the luminosity, size, kinematics and morphology of these Ly$α$ nebulae. On average, they span 90 kpc and are 2.8 $\times 10^{43}$ erg s$^{-1}$ bright. Irrespective of the QSOs' projected distance, the nebulae often (~45 %) extend toward the other QSO in the pair, leading to asymmetric emission whose flux-weighted centroid is at an offset position from any QSO location. We show that large nebulae are preferentially aligned with the large-scale structure as traced by the two QSOs, and conclude that the cool gas (10$^4$ K) in the CGM traces well the direction of cosmic web filaments. Additionally, the radial profile of the Ly$α$ surface brightness around QSO pairs can be described by a power law with a shallower slope (~$-1.6$) with respect to single QSOs (~$-2$), indicative of increased CGM densities out to large radii and/or enhanced contribution from the intergalactic medium (IGM). The sample presented in this study contains excellent targets for ultra-deep observations to directly study filamentary IGM structures in emission.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures, 3 appendices; published in A&A
Additional file 3 of Valuing selected WAItE health states using the Time Trade-Off methodology: findings from an online interviewer-assisted remote survey
Creators: name: Robinson, Tomos
name: Hill, Sarah
name: Orozco-Leal, Giovany
name: Kernohan, Ashleigh
name: King, William
name: Oluboyede, Yemi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 3
Son Targeting Fertility Behaviour in Albania
Creators: name: Robitaille, Marie-Claire
name: Milla, Joniada
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is well-known, little is known about other forms taken by revealed son preference, such as differential stopping behaviour and birth spacing. Pooling data from the Demographic Health Surveys in 2008–2009 and 2017–2018, we find evidence of a higher proportion of boys being born at the last birth, indicating that parents practice differential stopping behaviour. Using a logit model, we also show that in sonless households parents shorten the birth intervals significantly, endangering mothers’ and children’s health. We conclude that differential stopping behaviour and short birth spacing are prevalent in all regions and across the socio-economic spectrum.