cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Formalization of Quantum Protocols using Coq
Creators: name: Boender, Jaap
name: Kammüller, Florian
name: Nagarajan, Rajagopal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum Information Processing, which is an exciting area of research at the intersection of physics and computer science, has great potential for influencing the future development of information processing systems. The building of practical, general purpose Quantum Computers may be some years into the future. However, Quantum Communication and Quantum Cryptography are well developed. Commercial Quantum Key Distribution systems are easily available and several QKD networks have been built in various parts of the world. The security of the protocols used in these implementations rely on information-theoretic proofs, which may or may not reflect actual system behaviour. Moreover, testing of implementations cannot guarantee the absence of bugs and errors. This paper presents a novel framework for modelling and verifying quantum protocols and their implementations using the proof assistant Coq. We provide a Coq library for quantum bits (qubits), quantum gates, and quantum measurement. As a step towards verifying practical quantum communication and security protocols such as Quantum Key Distribution, we support multiple qubits, communication and entanglement. We illustrate these concepts by modelling the Quantum Teleportation Protocol, which communicates the state of an unknown quantum bit using only a classical channel.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2015, arXiv:1511.01181
Is Higher Education Economically Unsustainable?
Creators: name: Maragakis, Antonios
name: Van Den Dobbelsteen, Andy
name: Maragakis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: As students continue to review the sustainability of higher education institutions, there is a growing need to understand the economic returns of degrees as a function of a sustainable institution. This paper reviews a range of international research to summarize the economic drivers of higher education attainment. Although the cost inputs to higher education are fairly well understood, the economic return of a degree is not. Students misperception of economic returns coupled with a dynamic definition of employability create the framework for unsustainable debt loads for graduates. This paper proposes three metrics that can be used to assess the economic sustainability of students graduating higher education that can be used to supplement the broader definition of sustainability within higher education.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 3 (2017): Sustainable Academia
Luttinger liquid with complex forward scattering: robustness and Berry phase
Creators: name: Dóra, Balázs
name: Moessner, Roderich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Luttinger liquids (LLs) are one dimensional systems with well-understood instabilities due to umklapp or backscattering. We study a generalization of the Luttinger model, which incorporates a time reversal symmetry breaking interaction producing a complex forward scattering amplitude ($g_2$ process). The resulting low energy state is still a LL, and belongs to the family of interacting Schulz-Shastry models. Remarkably, it becomes increasingly robust against additional perturbations -- for purely imaginary $g_2$, both umklapp and local backscattering are always irrelevant. Changing the phase of the interaction generates a non-trivial Berry phase, with a universal geometric phase difference between ground and a one boson excited state depending only on the LL parameter.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
title: Устройство и эксплуатация автомобилей для международных перевозок
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Савич Е.Л.
name:  Ложечник В.П.
name:  Гурский А.С.
Publisher: name: Республиканский институт профессионального образования (РИПО)
Year: 2016

description: Рассмотрены конструкции и отличительные особенности современных транспортных средств для международных перевозок. Приведено подробное описание отдельных механизмов и систем автомобилей. Освещены методы и приемы экологичного и экономичного вождения, соблюдения международного природоохранного законодательства. Описаны контрольные устройства для регистрации данных о движении транспортных средств. Предназначено для учащихся учреждений профессионально-технического образования автомобильного профиля. Будет полезно для студентов, получающих высшее образование по специальностям в области технической эксплуатации автомобилей, а также практических работников автотранспортных организаций.
description: The design and distinctive features of the modern vehicles for international transport. Detailed description of the individual mechanisms and systems of vehicles. Lit methods and techniques environmentally-friendly and economical driving, compliance with international environmental law. Described control device for recording data on the movement of vehicles. Intended for students of institutions of vocational education automotive profile. Will be useful for students in higher education majoring in the field of maintenance of vehicles, as well as practical employees of transportation organizations.
Victim of merger mania?: a qualitative study on German media giant Bertelsmann AG's international strategies and growth opportunities
Creators: name: Jogis-Laats, Jan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: The developments in technology and resulting uncertainty in the global media marketplace have put media companies in search of successful business models. This qualitative research studied Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, and its realignment from an external-growth-oriented media company to a company concentrating on organic growth initiatives in core business areas. This research attempted to assess the company's outlook and to evaluate, whether Bertelsmann's repositioning could be seen as a model for success in a global economy. For this purpose, interviews with nine industry experts were conducted. The results show that Bertelsmann has a strong record in remaining profitable, but its conservative approach may pose a threat to its global top-tier position. But the findings also indicate that Bertelsmann's approach could be a key for success in a global economy. These findings can provide further studies a point of reference when evaluating the growth strategies of global media companies.
Teacher professionalization in the age of social networking sites: Identifying major tensions and dilemmas
Creators: name: Kimmons, Royce
name: Veletsianos, George
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Student teachers
Online social networks
Identity

description: As teacher education students become professionals, they face a number of tensions related to identity, social participation, and work-life balance, which may be further complicated by social networking sites (SNS). This qualitative study sought to articulate tensions that arose between professionalization influences and teacher education student participants’ SNS participation. Findings suggest that some expectations of professionalization in SNS cut deeply into participants’ self-concept and that tensions arose surrounding unclear expectations of professionalization and fears related to political and religious expression. The study’s implications are: Teachers need to (a) consider how participation in SNS may impact their identity, (b) understand how moral turpitude is defined in their communities and how their behavior aligns with these standards, and (c) carefully explore how they can maintain meaningful social connections in online spaces as they pass through new phases of life and seek to become professionals.
Value Iteration Networks
Creators: name: Tamar, Aviv
name: Wu, Yi
name: Thomas, Garrett
name: Levine, Sergey
name: Abbeel, Pieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce the value iteration network (VIN): a fully differentiable neural network with a `planning module' embedded within. VINs can learn to plan, and are suitable for predicting outcomes that involve planning-based reasoning, such as policies for reinforcement learning. Key to our approach is a novel differentiable approximation of the value-iteration algorithm, which can be represented as a convolutional neural network, and trained end-to-end using standard backpropagation. We evaluate VIN based policies on discrete and continuous path-planning domains, and on a natural-language based search task. We show that by learning an explicit planning computation, VIN policies generalize better to new, unseen domains.
description: Fixed missing table values
Prospective, comparative volumetric assessment of alveolar ridge preservation utilizing different bone grafting materials
Creators: name: Semeniuk, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: Characterize dimensional changes of the alveolus and soft tissues 3 months following post extraction ridge preservation with different grafting materials. Methods: 80 patients were recruited. Post-extraction sockets were randomly treated with Allograft, Alloplast, or Xenograft bone graft with membrane coverage, or ungrafted control with membrane alone. CBCT imaging and impressions were taken at baseline and 3 months post extraction. Dimensional changes were evaluated using 3D Slicer. Implant planning using coDiagnostiXTM was used to evaluate the need for additional bone augmentation. Results: 12 patients provided pilot data. No differences in volumetric or linear dimensional changes were seen between treatment groups, but trend for improved hard and sot tissue maintenance were suggested compared to the control group. Buccal plate thickness was inversely related to bone loss when not grafted. Ideal implant positioning in treatment groups is achieved, with the control group often requiring further bone grafting. Conclusions: Ridge preservation procedures may reduce the amount of bone loss and reduce the need for additional bone grafting prior to implant surgery.
Governing Science
Creators: name: Gläser, Jochen
name: Laudel, Grit
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: project-based research funding
subject: performance-based funding
subject: new public management
subject: academy-industry relations
subject: scientific innovations
subject: laboratory studies
subject: undone science
subject: research content

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: This review explores contributions by science policy studies and the sociology of science to our understanding of the impact of governance on research content. Contributions are subsumed under two perspectives, namely an “impact of”—perspective that searches for effects of specific governance arrangements and an “impact on”—perspective that asks what factors contribute to the construction of research content and includes governance among them. Our review shows that little is known so far about the impact of governance on knowledge content. A research agenda does not necessarily need to include additional empirical phenomena but must address the macro-micro-macro link inherent to the question in its full complexity, and systematically exploit comparative approaches in order to establish causality. This requires interdisciplinary collaboration between science policy studies, the sociology of science, and bibliometrics, which all can contribute to the necessary analytical toolbox.
Total and Partial Computation in Categorical Quantum Foundations
Creators: name: Cho, Kenta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper uncovers the fundamental relationship between total and partial computation in the form of an equivalence of certain categories. This equivalence involves on the one hand effectuses, which are categories for total computation, introduced by Jacobs for the study of quantum/effect logic. On the other hand, it involves what we call FinPACs with effects; they are finitely partially additive categories equipped with effect algebra structures, serving as categories for partial computation. It turns out that the Kleisli category of the lift monad (-)+1 on an effectus is always a FinPAC with effects, and this construction gives rise to the equivalence. Additionally, state-and-effect triangles over FinPACs with effects are presented.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2015, arXiv:1511.01181
Access control to Scientific use files under new regulations
Creators: name: Adam, Lorraine
name: Hemmer, Constance
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Scientific use files (intermediary between public use files and secure use files), called production and research files (FPR) in France, have been available to the scientific community for several years via Quetelet-Progedo diffusion. Due to the evolution of regulations with the law "pour une république numérique", which promote the open data and continuing to respect the General Data Protection Regulation, we had to find a specific legal status to the product and research files.
 In Quetelet Progedo Diffusion, the national archive of data from official statistics (ADISP) and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) have these types of files in their repositories. Thus, those two data providers have established a collaboration with the Statistical Secret Committee, the organization who guarantees the application of the rules of statistical secret in France, in order to set up an harmonized procedure for the production and research files. This presentation will focus on this specific access control we utilize in Quetelet Progedo Diffusion. A recorded version of the whole session can be found here: https://youtu.be/3xfMkiJy2-4
Sustainable Academia: Translating the Vision of a Full Sustainable University into a Measurable Reality
Creators: name: Maragakis, Antonios
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2017

description: There is a growing public expectation that universities should start focusing on delivering sustainability. The topic of sustainability in higher education has gathered a significant amount of interest from students, academics, governments and international organizations. With a plethora of declarations, initiatives, marketing and assessments, there is a need to assess what the stakeholders want in order to make decisions regarding an institutions sustainability. Ultimately, students are the ones using these sustainability marketing materials to assist in their decision at which institution they will pursue their studies. The sheer volume of interpretations of the word sustainability with regards to higher education institution leaves ample room for potentially misguided initiatives or marketing. A universal system for assessing a higher educational institution’s sustainability has not been translated into a measurable reality. It is proposed that a universal system would help create a common understanding of sustainability within higher education institutions and would help in stakeholder understanding, institutional accountability and impactful application of sustainable initiatives. This research looked to answer if a holistic framework could be created that would aid stakeholders in reviewing a university’s level of sustainability. And, if so, if this vision of a fully sustainable university could be translated into a measurable reality. The research was approached in a structured way. Each chapter represents a published and peer-reviewed step towards addressing if a holistic framework could be created that would aid students in reviewing sustainability tools, assessments and marketing. The qualitative and quantitative conclusions from each chapter influenced the subsequent chapters, eventually leading to the creation and testing of two digital tools. The interpretations of these published chapters are found in the conclusion of this dissertation. To assist the reader in effectively navigating this dissertation, an overview of the research questions, the methodology, and the summarized results are outlined below in Figure 0.1. A more detailed summary of each of the chapters follows.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 3 (2017): Sustainable Academia
Pinning of interfaces in a random elastic medium and logarithmic lattice embeddings in percolation
Creators: name: Dondl, Patrick W.
name: Scheutzow, Michael
name: Throm, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematik

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: For a model of a driven interface in an elastic medium with random obstacles we prove the existence of a stationary positive supersolution at non-vanishing driving force. This shows the emergence of a rate-independent hysteresis through the interaction of the interface with the obstacles despite a linear (force = velocity) microscopic kinetic relation. We also prove a percolation result, namely, the possibility to embed the graph of an only logarithmically growing function in a next-nearest neighbour site percolation cluster at a non-trivial percolation threshold.
Service Offshoring and Firm Employment
Creators: name: Eppinger, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: 330
subject: service offshoring
subject: employment
subject: firm-level data
subject: service trade
subject: trade in tasks

description: Major technological advances have recently spurred a new wave of offshoring in services, which used to be non-tradable. Should service workers in developed countries worry about their jobs? Trade theory has given a nuanced answer to this question, suggesting that efficiency gains from offshoring may counteract direct job losses, which leaves the predicted net effect ambiguous. This paper investigates the employment effects of service offshoring in a newly combined and exceptionally detailed panel dataset, covering almost the entire universe of German firms’ service imports over the years 2002-2013. It exploits firm-specific export supply shocks by partner countries and service types as an instrumental variable to find that service offshoring has increased firm employment. In line with the canonical trade in tasks model, the employment gains are greater in firms with higher initial levels of service offshoring.
Documentation of confidential data made available by the CASD
Creators: name: Fleureux, Raphaëlle
name: Bakia, Halima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The online display of the data made available by the Secure Access Data Center (CASD) meets a need of data users. How can one request data from the various accreditation authorities without knowing whether their content is relevant to a project's issue? The confidential nature of these data, covered by the secrecy, requires that accredited users access them only in a secure environment. This presentation will describe the documentation procedure set up by the CASD, based on the DDI3 standard and using the Colectica Designer software. Since the data made available by the CASD is confidential, the documentation process must necessarily be carried in the secure environment. The result of this documentation is then displayed on the CASD website in an open access. It describes all the databases made available, their variables and work is in progress to describe the codes. As the number of data made available is significant, only the most recent available year of each series is currently documented. A recorded version of the whole session can be found here: https://youtu.be/3xfMkiJy2-4
Asymptotic symmetries of gravity and soft theorems for massive particles
Creators: name: Campiglia, Miguel
name: Laddha, Alok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existing equivalence between (generalized) BMS Ward identities with leading and subleading soft graviton theorems is extended to the case where the scattering particles are massive scalars. By extending the action of generalized BMS group off null infinity at late times, we show that there is a natural action of such group not only on the radiative data at null infinity but also on the scattering data of the massive scalar field. This leads to a formulation of Ward identities associated to the generalized BMS group when the scattering states are massive scalars or massless gravitons and we show that these Ward identities are equivalent to the leading and subleading soft graviton theorems.
description: 30 pages
Spatial interrelations of Chinese housing markets
Creators: name: Gong, Yunlong
name: Hu, Jinxing
name: Boelhouwer, Peter
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This paper comprehensively tests the spatial interrelationships of 10 housing markets in the Pan-Pearl River Delta (Pan-PRD) in China, including the properties of spatial causality, convergence and diffusion pa
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 4 (2017): The Spatial Dimension of House Prices
Oryssomus rogeri Almeida & Santos, 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Almeida, Lúcia M.
name: Santos, Paula B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oryssomus
Oryssomus rogeri

description: Oryssomus rogeri sp. nov.
(Fig. 7)
Description of holotype (female). Length 4.92, width 3.61 mm. Form elongate oval, widest at middle of elytra, somewhat flattened dorsoventrally (Fig. 7 C). General color brownish yellow. Outline of pronotum and elytron discontinuous. Pronotum brownish yellow, with a small basal black spot, translucent at apex; finely, densely punctured; pubescence of semidecumbent yellowish hairs (Fig. 7 D). Elytra brownish yellow with a rhomboidal black spot on the middle of the dorsum (Fig. 7 A). Elytral punctures coarse, dense, slightly larger than on pronotum and sparse in the discal area. Antenna and mouthparts brownish yellow, hypomera and epipleura yellow, legs brownish yellow. Metaventrite finely, sparsely punctured medially and anteriorly; coarsely, densely punctured laterally and posteriorly with punctures large, often confluent (Fig. 7 B). Abdominal ventrites coarsely punctured, punctures separated by about a diameter or less, punctures becoming coarser laterally on first and second ventrites (Fig. 7 E). First abdominal ventrite with postcoxal line almost touching the posterior margin of the first abdominal ventrite. Genitalia with genital plates triangular, elongate, styli with setae; spermatheca very elongate, rounded at apex (Fig. 7 F).
Male. Unknown.
Etymology. This species is named in honor of Dr. Roger G. Booth, a noted specialist in Coccinellidae systematics.
Discussion. Oryssomus rogeri sp. nov. resembles O. rhombus sp. nov. in color pattern, but the spots are differently shaped; it also differs in the form of the male and female genitalia.
Type material. “ Oryssomus /sp./det. R.G. Booth 1986” “ ♀ ” [white label]. “ HOLOTYPE / Oryssomus rogeri / Almeida & Santos, 2014” [red label]. 1 ex. [BMNH].
Geographical distribution. Espírito Santo, Vila Cachoeira, Brazil (Fig. 15).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Lúcia M. & Santos, Paula B., 2014, Synopsis of Oryssomini Gordon (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from the Neotropical region with new species of Oryssomus Mulsant, Pseudoryssomus Gordon and Gordonoryssomus Almeida & Lima, pp. 42-68 in Zootaxa 3846 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/250860
Accounting for spatial variation of land prices in hedonic imputation house price indexes
Creators: name: Gong, Yunlong
name: De Haan, Jan
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Location is capitalized into the price of the land the structure of a property is built on, and land prices can be expected to vary significantly across space. We account for spatial variation of land prices in hedonic house price models using geospatial data and a semi-parametric method known as mixed geographically weighted regression. To measure the impact on aggregate price change, quality-adjusted (hedonic imputation) house price indexes are constructed for a small city in the Netherlands and compared to price indexes based on more restrictive models, using postcode dummy variables or no location information at all. We find that, although taking spatial variation of land prices into account improves the model performance, the Fisher house price indexes based on the different hedonic models are almost identical. The land and structures price indexes, on the other hand, are sensitive to the treatment of location.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 4 (2017): The Spatial Dimension of House Prices
Conclusion
Creators: name: Gong, Yunlong
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This book is a collection of five chapters dedicated to discovering and understanding the spatial dimension of house prices, especially the spatial aspects of the Chinese interurban housing market after the introduction of market forces. The free mobility of labour and capital between cities in a market-oriented economy in contemporary China following the economic reform launched in the late 1970s shapes the spatial distribution of economic activities across cities, which in turn has profound effects on nascent urban private housing markets. Chapters 2 through 5 seek to illustrate the spatial pa
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 4 (2017): The Spatial Dimension of House Prices
Quantum theory of the Generalised Uncertainty Principle
Creators: name: Bruneton, Jean-Philippe
name: Larena, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend significantly previous works on the Hilbert space representations of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) in 3+1 dimensions of the form $[X_i,P_j] = i F_{ij}$ where $ F_{ij} = f(P^2) δ_{ij} + g(P^2) P_i P_j $ for any functions $f$. However, we restrict our study to the case of commuting $X$'s. We focus in particular on the symmetries of the theory, and the minimal length that emerge in some cases. We first show that, at the algebraic level, there exists an unambiguous mapping between the GUP with a deformed quantum algebra and a quadratic Hamiltonian into a standard, Heisenberg algebra of operators and an aquadratic Hamiltonian, provided the boost sector of the symmetries is modified accordingly. The theory can also be mapped to a completely standard Quantum Mechanics with standard symmetries, but with momentum dependent position operators. Next, we investigate the Hilbert space representations of these algebraically equivalent models, and focus, specifically on whether they exhibit a minimal length. We carry the functional analysis of the various operators involved, and show that the appearance of a minimal length critically depends on the relationship between the generators of translations and the physical momenta. In particular, because this relationship is preserved by the algebraic mapping presented in this paper, when a minimal length is present in the standard GUP, it is also present in the corresponding Aquadratic Hamiltonian formulation, despite the perfectly standard algebra of this model. In general, a minimal length requires bounded generators of translations, i.e. a specific kind of quantization of space, and this depends on the precise shape of the function $f$ defined previously. This result provides an elegant and unambiguous classification of which universal quantum gravity corrections lead to the emergence of a minimal length.
description: 21 pages, no figures. Results unchanged. Unnecessary Appendix B removed. Replaced to match final version published in General Relativity and Gravitation. Title shortened at the request of the referee
Flavour perception of wine is unchanged during commercial flight: a comparative field study
Creators: name: Gram-Hanssen, Anders
name: Paulsen, Cecilie
name: Rosenberg, Jacob
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Food Studies

description: Background: It is generally accepted that the human perception of flavor and odor is altered in low-pressure environments such as airplane cabins. This has been demonstrated in several simulation studies, but never in a field study conducted in an authentic environment, and never using wine as the object of study. Methods: We performed a comparative field study composed of two wine tastings. The first tasting was conducted on board an aircraft flying at standard cruising altitude and the second tasting was conducted at ground level. Subjective taste experience and current mood were evaluated through a validated questionnaire. The study was reported according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guideline. Results: The study included 22 participants, none of whom had any special training in wine tasting. No statistically significant difference in experienced flavor intensity was found between the high and low altitude tests, with median aromatic intensities of 5 (interquartile range 3.5-6.0) and 5 (interquartile range 4.0-6.5) respectively, measured on a 9-point hedonic scale. Additionally, there was no detectable difference in several other taste parameters. Conclusions: These findings suggest that even though experimental studies have demonstrated that senses of taste and smell may be suppressed on commercial flights, the subjective wine tasting experience of non-professionals in real life testing may not be affected.
The perils of political competition: explaining participation and trust in political parties in Eastern Europe
Creators: name: Ceka, Besir
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: This thesis investigates the determinants of conventional political participation such as voting, contacting officials and attending political meetings in Eastern Europe. The central argument of this paper is that, in postcommunist Europe, vibrant and robust political competition has stifled direct political participation of the citizens. To make this case, I analyze survey data to identify the individual and country level factors that determine the likelihood of political participation at the individual level. The results point in one direction: the postcommunist polities that saw vibrant political competition in their electoral arenas also witnessed the highest levels of disillusionment with political parties and, consequently, with the political system. Decades of monopolization of the electoral arena by communist parties left Eastern Europeans ill prepared to appreciate vigorous political competition, which, depending on the intensity of the competition, tended to depress trust in political parties as an institution and, consequently, stifled political participation.
Vaginismus: Tracing the Politics of a Sexual (Dis)order in Contemporary Turkey
Creators: name: Sen, Neslihan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation traces shifting constructions of Vaginismus, a gendered sexual disorder in contemporary Turkey. Vaginismus is a specific sexual disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) characterized by the difficulty of engaging in penile-vaginal intercourse. Women diagnosed with the disorder cannot engage in coitus and in extreme cases they are unable to undergo gynecological exams because of the recurring and persistent contractions of their vaginal muscles. According to available data, Turkey has the highest number of women diagnosed with vaginismus, globally. This dissertation critically engages with this “fact,” situating the diagnosis of vaginismus in Turkey in historical, social, and political context through discourses and practices that center heterosexuality and the normative production of gender in the eyes of the Turkish state, biomedicine, the institution of marriage, and the treatment market. Drawing largely on the stories of women navigating the diagnosis, this dissertation uses vaginismus as a lens to explore and better understand reproductive governance, the construction of moral gendered selves, and the normalization of phallocentric heterosexuality by state and non-state agents. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with women diagnosed with the disorder, health care professionals who treat them, and male partners of the diagnosed women as well as participant observation in group therapy sessions, the dissertation argues that vaginismus is overproduced in contemporary Turkey, serving to make and remake gender in service of the heteronormative family, the nation and the neoliberal market. Utilizing anthropological methods, this dissertation uniquely situates a sexual disorder in the broader context of history, politics, and economics in contemporary Turkey.
ExploreData to Search, Access, and Recommend Social Sciences surveys Metadata
Creators: name: Abdulahhad, Karam
name: Klas, Claus-Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: DDI (3.2 in our case) offers a solid framework to document social sciences surveys metadata. However, DDI isn't well adapted to make metadata searchable. GESIS isn't an exception, where GESIS's data archive has rich and deeply prepared and documented data collections. In the current settings, GESIS‘s researchers use a bunch of tools to access data, such as DBKSearch or ZACAT. Many of these tools are either outdated or not sufficiently user-friendly. ExploreData aims to make these data collections easily accessible, findable, and searchable. It also seeks to replace a bunch of tools by one easy-to-use tool.

 ExploreData mainly deals with two entity types, namely study and variable. For each entity type, we maintain a bunch of fields in order to keep as much structure of the study/variable original DDI 3.2 as possible. ExploreData also supports multilingual content. During data processing, we deal with data migration, missing values, removing duplicated and redundant data, multilingual content, and sometimes generating new data. To end-users, the content can be searched via classical keyword queries, and also browsed via many pre-defined dynamic facets.

 In addition to search and browse, ExploreData presents a content-based variables recommendation functionality, where the user is able to get a list of "similar" variables of a given variable.

 Our repository contains more than 6100 studies, distributed over 193 collections such as ALLBUS and EVS. It also contains more than 215K variables. In our presentation we introduce ExploreData and describe data processing challenges. A recorded version of the whole session can be found here: https://youtu.be/3xfMkiJy2-4
Resenha
Creators: name: Bento, Miguel Da Conceição
Publisher: name: Aprender
Year: 2022

description: Paixão, C. C. (2017). Desenvolvimento de competências pessoais no cuidador informal. Lisboa: Editorial Cáritas ISBN 978 – 972 ‐9008 – 53 – 5
description: Aprender, Revista Aprender nº 43 (maio de 2022)
Quotient-Comprehension Chains
Creators: name: Cho, Kenta
name: Jacobs, Bart
name: Westerbaan, Bas
name: Westerbaan, Bram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quotients and comprehension are fundamental mathematical constructions that can be described via adjunctions in categorical logic. This paper reveals that quotients and comprehension are related to measurement, not only in quantum logic, but also in probabilistic and classical logic. This relation is presented by a long series of examples, some of them easy, and some also highly non-trivial (esp. for von Neumann algebras). We have not yet identified a unifying theory. Nevertheless, the paper contributes towards such a theory by introducing the new quotient-and-comprehension perspective on measurement instruments, and by describing the examples on which such a theory should be built.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2015, arXiv:1511.01181
Towards a Paraconsistent Quantum Set Theory
Creators: name: Eva, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we will attempt to establish a connection between quantum set theory, as developed by Ozawa, Takeuti and Titani, and topos quantum theory, as developed by Isham, Butterfield and Doring, amongst others. Towards this end, we will study algebraic valued set-theoretic structures whose truth values correspond to the clopen subobjects of the spectral presheaf of an orthomodular lattice of projections onto a given Hilbert space. In particular, we will attempt to recreate, in these new structures, Takeuti's original isomorphism between the set of all Dedekind real numbers in a suitably constructed model of set theory and the set of all self adjoint operators on a chosen Hilbert space.
description: In Proceedings QPL 2015, arXiv:1511.01181
The kangaroo and the didjeridu: Duke Ellington's engagement with world music in the Afro-Eurasian eclipse
Creators: name: McManus, Laurie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Duke Ellington's world music suite the Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (1970) has been relatively overlooked in the community of jazz scholarship. This may be due to the historiographical contexts that privilege Ellington as a composer of art music or Ellington as a champion of black cultural awareness vis-à-vis his more famous musico-political works such as the Black and Tan Fantasy (1933) and the Black Brown, and Beige suite (1943). Closer investigation reveals that an increasingly active political climate and growing awareness of globalization in the later 1960s combined with Ellington's travels and personal experiences to inspire him to adopt a more transnational attitude about music and culture. The genesis and musical content of the Afro-Eurasian Eclipse demonstate that Ellington's expression of musical identity and his role in the jazz community had changed from the early years. Accordingly, scholars should reformulate the historiographical constructs to accommodate Ellington's later engagement with world music.
Composition Operators on the Bloch space of the Unit Ball of a Hilbert Space
Creators: name: Blasco, Oscar
name: Galindo, Pablo
name: Lindström, Mikael
name: Miralles, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30D45, 46E50, 46G20

description: Every analytic self-map of the unit ball of a Hilbert space induces a bounded composition operator on the space of Bloch functions. Necessary and sufficient conditions for compactness of such composition operators are provided, as well as some examples that clarify the connections among such conditions.
description: 21 pages
Slides: The BRIDGE Framework: Robustness and Resilience in Decentralized Learning
Creators: Waheed Bajwa
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

SPS Webinar, 28 August 2024, Dr. Waheed Bajwa
In many applications, machine learning involves managing data across multiple devices without the availability of a central server, necessitating a decentralized learning approach. In such settings, nodes are susceptible to failures from malfunctions or cyberattacks, which can undermine traditional learning algorithms. This paper addresses the robustification of decentralized learning amidst Byzantine failures, where nodes can arbitrarily deviate, threatening system stability. Prior works have utilized ad-hoc methods akin to robust statistics; however, we propose a formal integration of robust statistical principles into the learning process for a more systematic approach. We introduce BRIDGE, a scalable Byzantine-resilient decentralized machine learning framework, designed to fortify resilience and offer structured analysis against Byzantine behaviors. BRIDGE comes with algorithmic and statistical convergence guarantees for both strongly convex and select nonconvex problems. Our experiments validate BRIDGE's scalability and effectiveness, underscoring its robustness and showcasing the benefits of incorporating robust statistics into decentralized learning systems formally.
Slides: Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction:  Selective Milestones and Open Problems
Creators: Xin Li
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2023

SPS Webinar, 30 November 2023, Dr. Xin Li
In this talk, the presenter will review the development of image super-resolution technology based on the evolution of key insights associated with the prior knowledge or regularization method from analytical representations to data-driven deep models. The co-evolution of super-resolution with other technical fields, such as autoregressive modeling, sparse coding, and deep learning, will be highlighted in both model-based and learning-based approaches. Model-based super-resolution will include geometry-driven, sparsity-based, and gradient-profile priors; learning-based super-resolution will cover three types of neural network architectures, namely residual networks generative adversarial networks, and pre-trained models. Both model-based and learning-based SR are united by highlighting their limitations from the perspective of model-data mismatch. The presenter will also briefly discuss several open challenges, including arbitrary-ratio, reference-based, and domain-specific super-resolution.
Generating DDI - Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) in the Language of your Choice
Creators: name: Wackerow, Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This tutorial provides the knowledge and skills on how a syntax representation (or encoding) of an UML model can be generated in any language. The focus is on the DDI – Cross Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) model, which is in many important respects independent from the social science domain and therefore suitable for cross-domain purposes (the publication is planned for 2021). The first part of the tutorial gives an overview of the model-driven approach, the model itself, used UML modeling techniques, model-to-model transformation, and the generation of syntax representations in XML Schema (for XML instances) and in OWL (for RDF instances). It describes how the UML model can be used as basis to generate a syntax representation in a chosen language. The second part provides time for exercises. Eclipse modeling tools are used for this purpose. Participants are encouraged to choose a language in which they wish to use DDI-CDI. You should bring your own laptop and be ready to install the required software (a detailed list will be provided) prior to the tutorial. Agenda Part I Overview Model-driven approach DDI-CDI model – UML subset and model structure Model-to-model transformation Generation of XML Schema for XML instances and OWL Vocabulary for RDF instances Approach for the generation of any syntax representations Part II Eclipse environment Exercises The intended target group is software developers and architects. Recorded version of this workshop: https://youtu.be/F8Zsl1DM6xQ
Null to time-like infinity Green's functions for asymptotic symmetries in Minkowski spacetime
Creators: name: Campiglia, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate on the Green's functions that appeared in [1,2] when generalizing, from massless to massive particles, various equivalences between soft theorems and Ward identities of large gauge symmetries. We analyze these Green's functions in considerable detail and show that they form a hierarchy of functions which describe `boundary to bulk' propagators for large $U(1)$ gauge parameters, supertranslations and sphere vector fields respectively. As a consistency check we verify that the Green's functions associated to the large diffeomorphisms map the Poincare group at null infinity to the Poincare group at time-like infinity.
description: 16 pages
Interurban house price gradient
Creators: name: Gong, Yunlong
name: Boelhouwer, Peter
name: De Haan, Jan
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This paper applies a general spatial equilibrium model to investigate the effect that distance within urban hierarchy can have on interurban house prices. Our spatial model predicts a negative price gradient towards higher-tier cities, which can be decomposed into a ’productivity component’ and an ’amenity component’, representing respectively the effect of wage differences and households’ valuation of access to higher-order services. The theoretical findings are tested on data for the hierarchical urban system of the Pan-Yangtze River Delta in China. Both central and subcentral cities are shown to impose statistically significant distance penalties on interurban house prices, even after we control for amenities and characteristics that are generally considered to be the determinants of house prices. According to the empirical decomposition, the negative house price gradients are largely accounted for by the productivity component.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 4 (2017): The Spatial Dimension of House Prices
Characterizing the Pregnane X Receptor’s Interactions and Biophysical Properties
Creators: name: Carnahan, Virginia Elaine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Pregnane X Receptor is a ligand-activated transcription factor critical in
protecting tissues from xenobiotics and endobiotics. PXR is shown to interact with GRIP-
1 and PGC-1α on DR-4 and XREM-CYP3A4 promoters. Experiments with full-length
PXR have been limited by the inability to produce it. This study reports production of
full-length PXR from Spodoptera frugiperda and use in peptide phage display
experiments. PXR LBD was also mapped using peptide phage display. Sequencing
results demonstrate a conserved motif consistent with class II nuclear receptor boxes but
adding an additional residue, a polar residue in the -3 position. There is a novel
intermolecular β-sheet mediating homodimerization in all PXR LBD structures.
Mammalian two-hybrid studies demonstrated that a mutant of PXR that disrupts the
homodimerization interface and eliminates basal transcriptional activity is unable to
recruit SRC-1. Thermal denaturation studies of other PXR LBD mutants that affect basal
transcriptional activity show changes in overall protein stability.