cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scientific literacy and preferred resources used by Latin American medical students during COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Nicolalde, Bryan
name: Añazco, Diego
name: Jaramillo, Maria
name: Salinas, Ivonne
name: Pacheco, Aldo
name: Hernandez, Saliha
name: Moyano, Gimena
name: Teran, Enrique
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: COVID-19
subject: Medical education

description: These data contains the english and spanish version of the survey, as well as the answers obtained from the survey. The survey was about Scientific literacy and preferred resources used by Latin American medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Near-Minimax Optimal Estimation With Shallow ReLU Neural Networks
Creators: name: Parhi, Rahul
name: Nowak, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the problem of estimating an unknown function from noisy data using shallow ReLU neural networks. The estimators we study minimize the sum of squared data-fitting errors plus a regularization term proportional to the squared Euclidean norm of the network weights. This minimization corresponds to the common approach of training a neural network with weight decay. We quantify the performance (mean-squared error) of these neural network estimators when the data-generating function belongs to the second-order Radon-domain bounded variation space. This space of functions was recently proposed as the natural function space associated with shallow ReLU neural networks. We derive a minimax lower bound for the estimation problem for this function space and show that the neural network estimators are minimax optimal up to logarithmic factors. This minimax rate is immune to the curse of dimensionality. We quantify an explicit gap between neural networks and linear methods (which include kernel methods) by deriving a linear minimax lower bound for the estimation problem, showing that linear methods necessarily suffer the curse of dimensionality in this function space. As a result, this paper sheds light on the phenomenon that neural networks seem to break the curse of dimensionality.
description: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (in press)
Lagrangian antisurgery
Creators: name: Haug, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe an operation which modifies a Lagrangian submanifold $L$ in a symplectic manifold $(M, ω)$ such as to produce a new immersed Lagrangian submanifold $L'$, which as a smooth manifold is obtained by surgery along a framed sphere in $L$. Intuitively, this can be described as collapsing an isotropic disc with boundary on $L$ to a point. The inverse operation generalizes classical Lagrangian surgery. We also describe corresponding immersed Lagrangian cobordisms between $L$ and $L'$ . After removal of their singular locus, we obtain examples of embedded Lagrangian cobordisms with precisely two ends. As an application, we use this construction to produce interesting examples of Lagrangian cobordisms between Clifford and Chekanov tori.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures. v2: Major update that makes Theorem 1.2 more precise and removes erroneous claims about the existence of certain monotone Lagrangian cobordisms made in the previous version. v3: Minor update to agree with published version
Locally-symplectic neural networks for learning volume-preserving dynamics
Creators: name: Bajārs, Jānis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose locally-symplectic neural networks LocSympNets for learning the flow of phase volume-preserving dynamics. The construction of LocSympNets stems from the theorem of the local Hamiltonian description of the divergence-free vector field and the splitting methods based on symplectic integrators. Symplectic gradient modules of the recently proposed symplecticity-preserving neural networks SympNets are used to construct invertible locally-symplectic modules. To further preserve properties of the flow of a dynamical system LocSympNets are extended to symmetric locally-symplectic neural networks SymLocSympNets, such that the inverse of SymLocSympNets is equal to the feed-forward propagation of SymLocSympNets with the negative time step, which is a general property of the flow of a dynamical system. LocSympNets and SymLocSympNets are studied numerically considering learning linear and nonlinear volume-preserving dynamics. We demonstrate learning of linear traveling wave solutions to the semi-discretized advection equation, periodic trajectories of the Euler equations of the motion of a free rigid body, and quasi-periodic solutions of the charged particle motion in an electromagnetic field. LocSympNets and SymLocSympNets can learn linear and nonlinear dynamics to a high degree of accuracy even when random noise is added to the training data. When learning a single trajectory of the rigid body dynamics locally-symplectic neural networks can learn both quadratic invariants of the system with absolute relative errors below 1%. In addition, SymLocSympNets produce qualitatively good long-time predictions, when the learning of the whole system from randomly sampled data is considered. LocSympNets and SymLocSympNets can produce accurate short-time predictions of quasi-periodic solutions, which is illustrated in the example of the charged particle motion in an electromagnetic field.
Additional file 6 of Single-cell and spatial sequencing identifies senescent and germinal tumor cells in adamantinomatous craniopharyngiomas
Creators: name: Wang, Xianlong
name: Lin, Jincheng
name: Liu, Hongxing
name: Zhao, Chuan
name: Tu, Zhiwei
name: Xu, Dapeng
name: Zhang, En
name: Zhou, Zhongqing
name: Qi, Xueling
name: Wang, Xingfu
name: Lin, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S1. Dot plots for the log-transformed expression levels of CTNNB1, SOX2, SOX9 and CD44 in the tumor cells.
Relation between two-phase quantum walks and the topological invariant
Creators: name: Endo, Takako
name: Konno, Norio
name: Obuse, Hideaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a position-dependent discrete-time quantum walk (QW) in one dimension, whose time-evolution operator is built up from two coin operators which are distinguished by phase factors from $x\geq0$ and $x\leq-1$. We call the QW the {\it complete two-phase QW} to discern from the two-phase QW with one defect\cite{endosan,maman}. Because of its localization properties, the two-phase QWs can be considered as an ideal mathematical model of topological insulators which are novel quantum states of matter characterized by topological invariants. Employing the complete two-phase QW, we present the stationary measure, and two kinds of limit theorems concerning {\it localization} and the {\it ballistic spreading}, which are the characteristic behaviors in the long-time limit of discrete-time QWs in one dimension. As a consequence, we obtain the mathematical expression of the whole picture of the asymptotic behavior of the walker, including dependences on initial states, in the long-time limit. We also clarify relevant symmetries, which are essential for topological insulators, of the complete two-phase QW, and then derive the topological invariant. Having established both mathematical rigorous results and the topological invariant of the complete two-phase QW, we provide solid arguments to understand localization of QWs in term of topological invariant. Furthermore, by applying a concept of {\it topological protections}, we clarify that localization of the two-phase QW with one defect, studied in the previous work\cite{endosan}, can be related to localization of the complete two-phase QW under symmetry preserving perturbations.
description: 55 pages, 15 figures
The “Peer” in “Peer Review”
Creators: name: Perry, Gad
name: Bertoluci, Jaime
name: Bury, Bruce
name: Hansen, Robert
name: Jehle, Robert
name: Measey, John
name: Moon, Brad
name: Muths, Erin
name: Zuffi, Marco
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
ChatGPT and its Impact on Libraries
Creators: name: DiCiesare, Leah
name: Shaw, Benjamin
name: Kovisto, Joseph
name: Inge Carpenter, Lindsay
name: Asadi, Nima
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT
Librarianship

description: Artificial Intelligence and its impact on education has been a prevalent topic, especially these last six months with the release of ChatGPT. Most of the conversation regarding ChatGPT has revolved around how it affects teaching and learning, but libraries are often left out of the conversation. This panel-workshop combination will explain what ChatGPT is and help us to know the correct terminology to use when discussing artificial intelligence and machine learning. We will also discuss how ChatGPT is affecting libraries and the work that we do on campus. If you have not gotten a chance to use ChatGPT yet, this is a great opportunity to do so, as we will workshop using ChatGPT and analyze its responses. After dabbling with ChatGPT, we will discuss how we, as librarians, can respond to this new technology. Artificial intelligence is only going to become more ubiquitous and it is our responsibility to understand it and have a plan for how to handle it in our work.
Development and validation of unannounced standardized patients: a scoping review
Creators: name: Li, Xinfei
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Standardized patients play a vital role in the quality evaluation of clinical practice. In recent years, the application of unannounced standardized patients has become more and more extensive. Due to the peculiarities of unannounced standardized patients, there has been no standard for its development and verification in previous studies. This study will illustrate the current situation, problems and development of the development and validation of unannounced standardized patients applied in the quality evaluation of clinical medical practice.
Organisierte Kriminalität. Lagebild NRW 2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Organisiertes Verbrechen
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild „Organisierte Kriminalität“ Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) dient dazu, jährlich die Ergebnisse polizeilicher Kriminalitätsbekämpfung im Phänomenbereich der Organisierten Kriminalität (OK) zu dokumentieren. Auf Basis eines bundesweit abgestimmten Erhebungsverfahrens und einheitlicher Definitionskriterien werden mittels statistischer Daten und exemplarischer Falldarstellung sowohl erkannte Brennpunkte kriminellen Handelns als auch Schwerpunkte polizeilicher Ermittlungstätigkeit aufgezeigt. Die Klammerwerte im Text beziehen sich, sofern nicht anders angegeben, auf die entsprechenden Vorjahreswerte. Das Lagebild OK soll polizeiliche und politische Entscheidungsträger unterstützen, das Gefahrenund Schadenspotenzial der OK und dessen Bedeutung für die Kriminalitätslage in Nordrhein- Westfalen einzuschätzen. Gleichzeitig dient es der Information der Öffentlichkeit.
Favoring Eagerness for Remaining Items: Designing Efficient, Fair, and Strategyproof Mechanisms
Creators: name: Guo, Xiaoxi
name: Sikdar, Sujoy
name: Xia, Lirong
name: Cao, Yongzhi
name: Wang, Hanpin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the assignment problem, the goal is to assign indivisible items to agents who have ordinal preferences, efficiently and fairly, in a strategyproof manner. In practice, first-choice maximality, i.e., assigning a maximal number of agents their top items, is often identified as an important efficiency criterion and measure of agents' satisfaction. In this paper, we propose a natural and intuitive efficiency property, favoring-eagerness-for-remaining-items (FERI), which requires that each item is allocated to an agent who ranks it highest among remaining items, thereby implying first-choice maximality. Using FERI as a heuristic, we design mechanisms that satisfy ex-post or ex-ante variants of FERI together with combinations of other desirable properties of efficiency (Pareto-efficiency), fairness (strong equal treatment of equals and sd-weak-envy-freeness), and strategyproofness (sd-weak-strategyproofness). We also explore the limits of FERI mechanisms in providing stronger efficiency, fairness, or strategyproofness guarantees through impossibility results.
Cybercrime in NRW - Entwicklung und Bewertung. Lagebild 2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Computerkriminalität
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild Cybercrime stellt phänomenspezifisch und phänomenübergreifend die Entwicklung der Cybercrime im engeren Sinne sowie einzelner Delikte, die mit Hilfe des Tatmittels Internet begangen werden, im Land Nordrhein-Westfalen dar. Die Daten basieren auf Verfahren der Polizeibehörden in NRW, die nach einheitlichem Standard erhoben werden. Die Klammerwerte im Text beziehen sich, soweit nicht anders angegeben, auf die entsprechenden Vorjahreswerte. In einzelnen Phänomenen ist von einem enormen Dunkelfeld auszugehen, da der Polizei viele Straftaten nicht bekannt werden.
A skeletochronological estimation of age structure in a population of the Guenther’s frog, Hylarana guentheri, from western China
Creators: name: Li, Cao
name: Liao, Wen Bo
name: Yang, Zhi Song
name: Zhou, Cai Quan
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Age determination in amphibians is crucial to investigation of life-history traits. In this context, we studied age structure of the Guenther’s frog, Hylarana guentheri, population from southwestern China located at an altitude of 300 m using skeletochronological method. Our results showed that age in adult males ranged from 1 to 4 years, and from 2 to 6 years in adult females. Average age in females was significantly older than males in 2008 and 2009. Also, females had significantly larger average body size than males in both years. A significant relationship between age and body size within each sex was found in this species for both years. The ANCOVA analysis revealed that there was significant difference in body size between sexes when the effect of age was removed. The von Bertalanffy’s model showed that females had larger asymptotic body size than males, but growth rate of females was smaller than males.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Nighttime Activities of a Family with Adolescent Children: A Photo-Elicitation Case Study
Creators: name: Bermel, Julia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: • Increased interest in the role of sleep in adolescent health • Limited research examining adolescents and their nighttime activities • Limited research on family occupations. Research question: How do families with adolescent children enact nighttime activities?
Practice-based Implementation and Innovation SysteM (PRIISM): Back Pain Implementation Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Glennon, Vanessa
name: Moseley, G.
name: Gardner, Claire
name: Hibbert, Peter
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: ‘PRIISM Back Pain’ is a health care quality improvement project aiming to increase consistency in the delivery of evidence-based care to patients with low back pain (LBP) by physiotherapists.
3D Point Cloud Completion with Geometric-Aware Adversarial Augmentation
Creators: name: Wu, Mengxi
name: Huang, Hao
name: Fang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the popularity of 3D sensors in self-driving and other robotics applications, extensive research has focused on designing novel neural network architectures for accurate 3D point cloud completion. However, unlike in point cloud classification and reconstruction, the role of adversarial samples in3D point cloud completion has seldom been explored. In this work, we show that training with adversarial samples can improve the performance of neural networks on 3D point cloud completion tasks. We propose a novel approach to generate adversarial samples that benefit both the performance of clean and adversarial samples. In contrast to the PGD-k attack, our method generates adversarial samples that keep the geometric features in clean samples and contain few outliers. In particular, we use principal directions to constrain the adversarial perturbations for each input point. The gradient components in the mean direction of principal directions are taken as adversarial perturbations. In addition, we also investigate the effect of using the minimum curvature direction. Besides, we adopt attack strength accumulation and auxiliary Batch Normalization layers method to speed up the training process and alleviate the distribution mismatch between clean and adversarial samples. Experimental results show that training with the adversarial samples crafted by our method effectively enhances the performance of PCN on the ShapeNet dataset.
description: 11 page, 5 figures
Was Einstein Wrong on Quantum Physics?
Creators: name: Bhaumik, Mani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Einstein is considered by many as the father of quantum physics in some sense. Yet there is an unshakable view that he was wrong on quantum physics. Although it may be a subject of considerable debate, the core of his allegedly wrong demurral was the insistence on finding an objective reality underlying the manifestly bizarre behavior of quantum objects. The uncanny wave-particle duality of a quantum particle is a prime example. In view of the latest developments, particularly in quantum field theory, objections of Einstein are substantially corroborated. Careful investigation suggests that a travelling quantum particle is a holistic wave packet consisting of an assemblage of irregular disturbances in quantum fields. It acts as a particle because only the totality of all the disturbances in the wave packet yields the energy momentum with the mass of a particle, along with its other conserved quantities such as charge and spin. Thus the wave function representing a particle is not just a fictitious mathematical construct but embodies a reality of nature as asserted by Einstein.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of An exploration of prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy: a scoping review
Creators: name: McGovern, Liz M.
name: O’Toole, Laura
name: Laws, Rachel A.
name: Skinner, Timothy C.
name: McAuliffe, Fionnuala M.
name: O’Reilly, Sharleen L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Tarentola and other gekkonid records from Djebel Ouarkziz (SW Morocco)
Creators: name: Ceacero, Francisco
name: García-Muñoz, Enrique
name: Pedrajas, Luis
name: Perera, Ana
name: Carretero, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Tarentola mauritanica pallida was recorded for the first time far inland in the Djebel Ouarkziz and Oued Drâa area, in south-western Morocco. The taxonomic characters proposed to identify this subspecies, T. m. juliae, and T. boehmei are discussed in view of the specimens observed during this survey. Other observations of gekkonid lizards in this area are also reported.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
The Tensor Brain: A Unified Theory of Perception, Memory and Semantic Decoding
Creators: name: Tresp, Volker
name: Sharifzadeh, Sahand
name: Li, Hang
name: Konopatzki, Dario
name: Ma, Yunpu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.2.10
subject: 68T10

description: We present a unified computational theory of an agent's perception and memory. In our model, perception, episodic memory, and semantic memory are realized by different operational modes of the oscillating interactions between a symbolic index layer and a subsymbolic representation layer. The two layers form a bilayer tensor network (BTN). Although memory appears to be about the past, its main purpose is to support the agent in the present and the future. Recent episodic memory provides the agent with a sense of the here and now. Remote episodic memory retrieves relevant past experiences to provide information about possible future scenarios. This aids the agent in decision-making. "Future" episodic memory, based on expected future events, guides planning and action. Semantic memory retrieves specific information, which is not delivered by current perception, and defines priors for future observations. We argue that it is important for the agent to encode individual entities, not just classes and attributes. We demonstrate that a form of self-supervised learning can acquire new concepts and refine existing ones. We test our model on a standard benchmark data set, which we expanded to contain richer representations for attributes, classes, and individuals. Our key hypothesis is that obtaining a better understanding of perception and memory is a crucial prerequisite to comprehending human-level intelligence.
description: Neural Computation, Volume 35, Issue 2, February 2023
title: Factors that influence bystander CPR: A narrative review
Creators: name: Carragher, Rianne
name: Johnson, Jessie
name: Harder, Marti
Publisher: name: International Journal of Current Research
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: CPR (First aid)
subject: Assistance in emergencies
subject: Cardiac arrest--Treatment

description: Sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are the most common cause of death worldwide. This mortality rate can be significantly reduced with the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This narrative review uses a constructionist framework, and examines factors related to the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Common factors include: resistance to perform the act due to various fears, lack of cardiopulmonary resuscitation education and training, legal implications around performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and socioeconomic variables whether or not cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initiated during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.The authors developed a list of recommendations to enhance the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with the ultimate aim to enhance overall survival rates during cardiac arrest. Education around the legal implications for providing bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation needs to be widely disseminated. Support for cardiopulmonary resuscitation education and training should be provided to all individuals, including those with low socioeconomic statuses. Education should be provided around the efficacy of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the low to no risk for the bystander in relation to contracting infectious diseases.
Warmth and connectivity of neighborhood complexes of graphs
Creators: name: Dochtermann, Anton
name: Freij-Hollanti, Ragnar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05C15, 55Q05, 82B20

description: In this paper we study a pair of numerical parameters associated to a graph $G$. One the one hand, one can construct $\text{Hom}(K_2, G)$, a space of homomorphisms from a edge $K_2$ into $G$ and study its (topological) connectivity. This approach dates back to the neighborhood complexes introduced by Lovász in his proof of the Kneser conjecture. In another direction Brightwell and Winkler introduced a graph parameter called the warmth $ζ(G)$ of a graph $G$, based on asymptotic behavior of $d$-branching walks in $G$ and inspired by constructions in statistical physics. Both the warmth of $G$ and the connectivity of $\text{Hom}(K_2,G)$ provide lower bounds on the chromatic number of $G$. Here we seek to relate these two constructions, and in particular we provide evidence for the conjecture that the warmth of a graph $G$ is always less than three plus the connectivity of $\text{Hom}(K_2, G)$. We succeed in establishing a first nontrivial case of the conjecture, by showing that $ζ(G) \leq 3$ if $\text{Hom}(K_2,G)$ has an infinite first homology group. We also calculate warmth for a family of `twisted toroidal' graphs that are important extremal examples in the context of $\text{Hom}$ complexes. Finally we show that $ζ(G) \leq n-1$ if a graph $G$ does not have the complete bipartite graph $K_{a,b}$ for $a+b=n$. This provides an analogue for a similar result in the context of $\text{Hom}$ complexes.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures; V2: corrections and revisions, incorporating feedback from referees
Factors that Determine Hearing Aid Adoption and Non Adoption: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Mazzola, Heather
name: Cannon, Shauntelle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Hearing loss is a significant disability that affects many older adults. About 25% of adults aged 65 to 74 and 50% of adults 75 and older have hearing loss (Yueh et al., 2003). Presbycusis, which is defined as age related hearing loss, is most likely to affect this population. This type of hearing loss usually results in progressive, bilateral symmetric hearing loss in the high frequencies. As the aging process continues, presbycusis generally worsens. In this population, we can expect to see reduced sensitivity to sound, reduced clarity in word understanding, and poorer sound localization. Research has consistently shown that hearing loss causes many problems outside of the communication domain. Hearing loss can cause cognitive, social and emotional problems not limited to depression and social withdrawal. The most common treatment for hearing loss is traditional hearing aids. However, despite the far reaching effects hearing loss can cause, only a small number of adults who are hearing aid candidates actually pursue amplification. This research attempts to explore the most prevalent reasons adults identify for not treating their hearing loss with hearing aids.
Not by government alone: B.C. partnerships in green planning
Creators: name: Ward, Jeff
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Parks--British Columbia--Capital Regional District
subject: Natural resources conservation areas--British Columbia--Capital Regional District

description: Located on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia's Capital Regional District (CRD) is a federation of municipalities that work together to provide regional services. The district's combination of forests, mountains, rocky hilltops, ocean, rivers, creeks and lakes make it one of the most ecologically diverse regions in Canada, attracting visitors and new residents from around the world. Since the early nineties, the federal and provincial governments, along with the CRD, municipalities, and public and conservation organizations, have worked together to protect the regions' natural areas. This has been accomplished through various partnership arrangements.
description: Part of "Green planning/Urbanisme vert" section of issue.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5404/Article018.pdf?sequence=3
Predation attempt by Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler) (Mexican Vine-snake) on Basiliscus plumifrons (Cope)
Creators: name: Grant, Paul B.C.
name: Lewis, Todd R.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Observer-based Control Barrier Functions for Safety Critical Systems
Creators: name: Wang, Yujie
name: Xu, Xiangru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper considers the safety-critical control design problem with output measurements. An observer-based safety control framework that integrates the estimation error quantified observer and the control barrier function (CBF) approach is proposed. The function approximation technique is employed to approximate the uncertainties introduced by the state estimation error, and an adaptive CBF approach is proposed to design the safe controller which is obtained by solving a convex quadratic program (QP). Theoretical results for CBFs with a relative degree 1 and a higher relative degree are given individually. The effectiveness of the proposed control approach is demonstrated by two numerical examples.
description: 7 pages, 2 Figures
Additional file 7 of Proteomic profile of extracellular vesicles from plasma and CSF of multiple sclerosis patients reveals disease activity-associated EAAT2
Creators: name: D’Ambrosio, Antonella
name: Zamboni, Silvia
name: Camerini, Serena
name: Casella, Marialuisa
name: Sanchez, Massimo
name: Pietraforte, Donatella
name: Vanacore, Nicola
name: Diociauti, Marco
name: Altieri, Marta
name: Di Piero, Vittorio
name: Francia, Ada
name: Pontecorvo, Simona
name: Puthenparampil, Marco
name: Gallo, Paolo
name: Margutti, Paola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7.
Public participation and municipal strengthening in northern Peru
Creators: name: Déoux, Patrick G.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Municipal government--Peru
subject: Political participation--Peru
subject: Planning--Peru--Citizen participation
subject: Planning--International cooperation
subject: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. (U.K.)
subject: Federation of Canadian Municipalities' International Centre for Municipal Development (FCM-ICMD)
subject: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

description: The main participants in this project were Peruvian municipalities, a Peruvian team, Canadian executing agencies responsible for implementation (development consultants from the firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, working with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' International Centre for Municipal Development, or FCM-ICMD), and Canadian and Peruvian public involvement specialists. The assignment consisted of Canadians assisting Peruvians with the design and implementation of public participation processes in a number of sub-projects initiated through a project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
description: Part of "International planning/Urbanisme international" section of issue.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5406/Article016.pdf?sequence=3
Age and growth of the sand lizards (Lacerta agilis) from a high Alpine population of north-western Italy
Creators: name: Guarino, Fabio M.
name: Di Già, Ivan
name: Sindaco, Roberto
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: We studied growth and longevity of Lacerta agilis from a sample (34 adults and 2 small-sized juveniles) of a population living at high altitude in north-western Italy using skeletochronological method. Snout vent length (SVL) mean of males did not significantly differ from that of females although the latter were in average bigger (SVL ± SD, males: 69.3 ± 7.1 mm, n = 11; females: 73.9 ± 9.7 mm, n = 22; Mann-Whitney U-test, U = 1.76, P = 0.077). Age ranged from 2 to 4 years (mean age ± SD = 2.3 ± 0.2) in males and from 2 to 3 years in females (mean age ± SD = 2.59 ± 0.5 years). Age mean did not significantly differ between the sexes (Mann-Whitney U-test, U = 1.35, P = 0.174). The two juveniles were 30 and 32 mm in SVL and both were 1-2 months old. In both sexes, a significant positive correlation between SVL and age was recorded although weakly significant for males (Spearman’s correlation coefficient, males: rs = 0.70, P = 0.05; females: rs = 0.75, P < 0.001). Von Bertalanffy growth curves well fitted to the relationships between age and SVL and showed a different profile between males (asymptotics size, SVLmax = 81.9 mm; growth coefficient, k = 0.63) and females (SVLmax = 100 mm; k = 0.40). Results indicate that individuals of L. agilis studied by us are short-living when compared with other populations of the same species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Nomenclatural availability of the names applied to “varieties” of the green toad (Bufo viridis subgroup) in the Italian territory, with emphasis on the variety lineata of Ninni (Anura: Bufonidae)
Creators: name: Novarini, Nicola
name: Bonato, Lucio
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Recent molecular investigations on Eurasian green toads led to the recognition of distinct lineages and to the establishment of new taxa within the former Bufo viridis; as a consequence, significant range-wide nomenclatural changes have been proposed, although some uncertainties remained on the available names applicable within the Italian territory. In order to contribute to clarify the matter, we evaluated, under the provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the nomenclatural availability of all the names that have been applied to infrasubspecific entities of the Bufo viridis subgroup within the Italian territory. We also provided a historical overview of the usage of all these names, as well as detailed information on the original material upon which the variety lineata of A.P. Ninni was established. Our analysis supports the view that only the names crucigera Eichwald, 1831 and balearica Boettger, 1880 are available, the former being however junior synonym of B. viridis Laurenti, 1768, whereas the names acutirostris and obtusirostris of Lessona, lineata of Ninni, concolor and maculata of Camerano, and nardoi of Paolucci, Fuhn and Bruno are all not available.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
International planning
Creators: name: Strachan, Grace
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: International cooperation
subject: Planning--International cooperation

description: Summary of one of the seven themes of the 2001 CIP conference in Ottawa - "international planning".
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5418/Article015.pdf?sequence=3
Irreducible triangulations of the once-punctured torus
Creators: name: Lawrencenko, S.
name: Sulanke, T.
name: Villar, M. T.
name: Zgonnik, L. V.
name: Chávez, M. J.
name: Portillo, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C10, 57M20, 57M15

description: A triangulation of a surface with fixed topological type is called irreducible if no edge can be contracted to a vertex while remaining in the category of simplicial complexes and preserving the topology of the surface. A complete list of combinatorial structures of irreducible triangulations is made by hand for the once-punctured torus, consisting of exactly 297 non-isomorphic triangulations.
description: 38 pages, 5 figures
Unusual colour form of Siberian pit viper (Gloydius h. halys) from the northern edge of its area
Creators: name: Simonov, Evgeniy
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: In this report, I describe the unusual colour form of Siberian pit viper (Gloydius h. halys) from the marginal population in Novosibirsk region (West Siberia, Russia). This morph was named “bronze” and occurs of 16% of individuals. To the best of my knowledge, such colour pattern does not known from other parts of G. halys area.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Deep Neural Networks and Tabular Data: A Survey
Creators: name: Borisov, Vadim
name: Leemann, Tobias
name: Seßler, Kathrin
name: Haug, Johannes
name: Pawelczyk, Martin
name: Kasneci, Gjergji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Heterogeneous tabular data are the most commonly used form of data and are essential for numerous critical and computationally demanding applications. On homogeneous data sets, deep neural networks have repeatedly shown excellent performance and have therefore been widely adopted. However, their adaptation to tabular data for inference or data generation tasks remains challenging. To facilitate further progress in the field, this work provides an overview of state-of-the-art deep learning methods for tabular data. We categorize these methods into three groups: data transformations, specialized architectures, and regularization models. For each of these groups, our work offers a comprehensive overview of the main approaches. Moreover, we discuss deep learning approaches for generating tabular data, and we also provide an overview over strategies for explaining deep models on tabular data. Thus, our first contribution is to address the main research streams and existing methodologies in the mentioned areas, while highlighting relevant challenges and open research questions. Our second contribution is to provide an empirical comparison of traditional machine learning methods with eleven deep learning approaches across five popular real-world tabular data sets of different sizes and with different learning objectives. Our results, which we have made publicly available as competitive benchmarks, indicate that algorithms based on gradient-boosted tree ensembles still mostly outperform deep learning models on supervised learning tasks, suggesting that the research progress on competitive deep learning models for tabular data is stagnating. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first in-depth overview of deep learning approaches for tabular data; as such, this work can serve as a valuable starting point to guide researchers and practitioners interested in deep learning with tabular data.
Getting on Board with Open Access Publishing: A Role for Reference Librarians
Creators: name: Ghamandi, Dave S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Institutional repositories
Reference librarianship
Reference library
Open access publishing

description: Purpose: This poster examines the roles of reference librarians in the open access (OA) publishing movement and opportunities to participate in a more robust manner, as described in the literature. Methods: A literature review of reference librarians’ involvement in OA publishing, obstacles to their participation, authors’ views on open access, suggestions for future research, and evidence of the need for reference librarians to take more responsibility was performed.
Sensor-based Proximity Detection in the Face of Active Adversaries
Creators: name: Shrestha, Babins
name: Saxena, Nitesh
name: Truong, Hien Thi Thu
name: Asokan, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Contextual proximity detection (or, co-presence detection) is a promising approach to defend against relay attacks in many mobile authentication systems. We present a systematic assessment of co-presence detection in the presence of a context-manipulating attacker. First, we show that it is feasible to manipulate, consistently control and stabilize the readings of different acoustic and physical environment sensors (and even multiple sensors simultaneously) using low-cost, off-the-shelf equipment. Second, based on these capabilities, we show that an attacker who can manipulate the context gains a significant advantage in defeating context-based co-presence detection. For systems that use multiple sensors, we investigate two sensor fusion approaches based on machine learning techniques: features-fusion and decisions-fusion, and show that both are vulnerable to contextual attacks but the latter approach can be more resistant in some cases.
Introduzione all'Intelligenza Artificiale
Creators: name: Riguzzi, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper presents an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an accessible and informal but precise form. The paper focuses on the algorithmic aspects of the discipline, presenting the main techniques used in AI systems groped in symbolic and subsymbolic. The last part of the paper is devoted to the discussion ongoing among experts in the field and the public at large about on the advantages and disadvantages of AI and in particular on the possible dangers. The personal opinion of the author on this subject concludes the paper. -- -- L'articolo presenta un'introduzione all'Intelligenza Artificiale (IA) in forma divulgativa e informale ma precisa. L'articolo affronta prevalentemente gli aspetti informatici della disciplina, presentando le principali tecniche usate nei sistemi di IA divise in simboliche e subsimboliche. L'ultima parte dell'articolo presenta il dibattito in corso tra gli esperi e il pubblico su vantaggi e svantaggi dell'IA e in particolare sui possibili pericoli. L'articolo termina con l'opinione dell'autore al riguardo.
description: 27 pages, in Italian
Amphibians of the Simbruini Mountains (Latium, Central Italy)
Creators: name: Crucitti, Pierangelo
name: Brocchieri, Davide
name: Emiliani, Federica
name: Malori, Marcello
name: Pernice, Sebana
name: Tringali, Luca
name: Welby, Carlo
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Little attention has been paid to the herpetological fauna of the Simbruini Mountains Regional Park, Latium (Central Italy). In this study, we surveyed 50 sites in the course of about ten years of field research, especially during the period 2005-2008. Nine amphibian species, four Caudata and five Anura, 60.0% out of the 15 amphibian species so far observed in Latium, were discovered in the protected area: Salamandra salamandra, Salamandrina perspicillata, Lissotriton vulgaris, Triturus carnifex, Bombina pachypus, Bufo balearicus, Bufo bufo, Rana dalmatina, Rana italica. Physiography of sites has been detailed together with potential threatening patterns. For each species the following topics have been discussed; ecology of sites, altitudinal distribution, phenology, sintopy. Salamandra salamandra and Bombina pachypus are at higher risk. The importance of the maintenance of artificial/natural water bodies for the conservation management of amphibian population of this territory is discussed.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Fast A Posteriori State Error Estimation for Reliable Frequency Sweeping in Microwave Circuits via the Reduced-Basis Method
Creators: name: de la Rubia, Valentin
name: Chellappa, Sridhar
name: Feng, Lihong
name: Benner, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop a compact, reliable model order reduction approach for fast frequency sweeps in microwave circuits by means of the reduced-basis method. Contrary to what has been previously done, special emphasis is placed on certifying the accuracy of the reduced-order model with respect to the original full-order model in an effective and efficient way. Previous works on model order reduction accuracy certification rely on costly $\textit{a posteriori}$ error estimators, which typically require expensive $\textit{inf-sup}$ constant evaluations of the underlying full-order model. This scenario is often too time-consuming and unaffordable in electromagnetic applications. As a result, less expensive and heuristic error estimators are commonly used instead. Very often, one is interested in knowing about the full state vector, instead of just some output quantities derived from the full state. Therefore, error estimators for the full state vector become relevant. In this work, we detail the frequency behavior of both the electric field and the state error when an approximation to the electric field solution is carried out. Both field quantities share the same frequency behavior. Based on this observation, we focus on the efficient estimation of the electric field state error and propose a fast evaluation of the reduced-order model state error in the frequency band of analysis, minimizing the number of full-order model evaluations. This methodology is of paramount importance to carry out a reliable fast frequency sweep in microwave circuits. Finally, real-life applications will illustrate the capabilities and efficiency of the proposed approach.
description: 24 pages, 13 Figures, 6 Tables
Symmetry energy and neutron star properties in the saturated Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
Creators: name: Wei, Si-Na
name: Jiang, Wei-Zhou
name: Yang, Rong-Yao
name: Zhang, Dong-Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we adopt the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model that ensures the nuclear matter saturation properties to study the density dependence of the symmetry energy. With the interactions constrained by the chiral symmetry, the symmetry energy shows novel characters different from those in conventional mean-field models. First, the negative symmetry energy at high densities that is absent in relativistic mean-field (RMF) models can be obtained in the RMF approximation by introducing a chiral isovector-vector interaction, although it would be ruled out by the neutron star (NS) stability. Second, with the inclusion of the isovector-scalar interaction the symmetry energy exhibits a general softening at high densities even for the large slope parameter of the symmetry energy. The NS properties obtained in the present NJL model can be in accord with the observations. The NS maximum mass obtained with various isovector-scalar couplings and momentum cutoffs is well above the $2M_\odot$, and the NS radius obtained well meets the limits extracted from recent measurements. In particular, the significant reduction of the canonical NS radius occurs with the moderate decrease of the slope of the symmetry energy.
description: 7pages,5figures