cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Derivative Condition: A Present Inquiry into the History of Futures
Creators: name: Nestler, Gerald
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: finance, financial markets, derivatives, art, artistic research, postdisciplinary research, aesthetics, resolution, renegade, counter-fiction, speculation, uncertainty, risk, volatility, futures, algorithms, automation, leverage, quantification, innovation, neoliberalism, financialization, capitalism, social relations

description: The thesis revisits the innovations that have reshaped financial markets since the 1970s in order to access their contemporary efficacy in shaping the space-time of the market as well as those of politics and social relations. 

The future emerges today within a derivative paradigm – the implementation of data-intensive, algorithmic processes based on scientific modelling and mathematical equations that allow the dynamic recalibration of contingent claims at present. Financial markets are exposed to volatility, which corresponds to uncertainty. Risk, defined as “measurable uncertainty” (Knight, 10921), is the powerful tool that keeps the complex circulation of leveraged capital operating (primarily by applying probability calculus to random or historic data).

The promise of history succumbs to a quantitative archive of data whose “sense” is to produce claims on probable futures at present. The thesis argues that the derivative paradigm by the power given to financial markets has effectively been re-orienting not only market relations but social relations as well. As this derivative condition includes every underlying and derivative (all expectations traded) in their complex and volatile interrelation, the market regime – both embodying and exceeding the neoliberal framework– expands the derivative paradigm into society and the contingent becoming of subjectivities.

While the thesis proposes a critique of the derivative condition, the practice part explores the “aesthetics of resolution.” This postdisciplinary project works through the semantic field of the term – from visualization technologies to knowledge-production to decision-making – in order to propose an expanded and radical form of artistic engagement.

The question for both the theoretical and the practice part is whether derivatives are a technology and ultimately not confined to capitalism. Can they serve the needs and desires within complex societies? Can they help us decide which risks we should avoid and which risks we can embrace for the common good?
Additional file 1 of Exploring Heterogeneity in perinatal depression: a comprehensive review
Creators: name: Waqas, Ahmed
name: Nadeem, Mahnoor
name: Rahman, Atif
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Details of studies presenting heterogeneous symptoms profiles of PND. Table S2. Details of studies presenting longitudinal trajectory of PND symptoms based on severity and chronicity. Table S3. Study details for longitudinal trajectory of PND symptoms based on time of onset.
title: An Aesthetic Inheritance: Investigating the Picturesque Photograph and its Vantage Point
Creators: name: Hopgood, Roger
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Landscape; photography; picturesque

description: The focus of the investigation is the relationship between photography and The Picturesque. The principles of the Picturesque movement of the 18th century are drawn into a discussion of our current understanding of the picturesque photograph with the aim of revealing continuity in aesthetic values and subjective relationships with landscape.

Vantage point is explored as an integral element of the Picturesque effect, with compositional structure being recognised as a means of centring the viewer within a subject/object dynamic. Lacan's notion of a subjectivity initiated by vision, and desirous of a state of wholeness, is connected with a pictorial form that is compositionally self-contained, and inviting of a view of rural Otherness where a resilient Picturesque figure appears embedded in 'nature'. The instability of the subject of language (the symbolic order) is in this way related to a pursuit of the corporeal in a wild (but imaginary) landscape.

In addition to an engagement with the visual motifs that define the Picturesque, such as irregular form and ruin and decay, the temporal register of the Picturesque is examined. Associations with nostalgia are developed to consider the Picturesque photograph as a crystallization of actual and virtual conceptions of time, where the captured instant resonates with echoes of the past and alludes to future desire.
With a renewed understanding of Picturesque principles, recent photography is examined with the intention of revealing a continuing presence of the original Picturesque aesthetic. Documentary, as a form commonly associated with factual recording, is scrutinized for tropes of Picturesque effect with presumptions of photography's indexical link with the real being reassessed. The empirical and aesthetic realms, often seen as distinct, are located in the photograph (and act of photographing) as immeshed and made complex by subjective desire.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ENERGY USAGE MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS USING MODULAR IIOT FRAMEWORK
Creators: name: Chheta, Monil Vallabhbh
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital processor architectures
Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified
Software engineering not elsewhere classified
Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics not elsewhere classified
Industrial electronics

description: This project aims to develop a cloud-based platform that integrates sensors with business intelligence for real-time energy management at the plant level. It provides facility managers, an energy management platform that allows them to monitor equipment and plant-level energy consumption remotely, receive a warning, identify energy loss due to malfunction, present options with quantifiable effects for decision-making, and take actions, and assess the outcomes. The objectives consist of:Developing a generic platform for the monitoring energy consumption of industrial equipment using sensorsControl the connected equipment using an actuatorIntegrating hardware, cloud, and application algorithms into the platformValidating the system using an Energy Consumption Forecast scenarioA Demo station was created for testing the system. The demo station consists of equipment such as air compressor, motor and light bulb. The current usage of these equipment is measured using current sensors. Apart from current sensors, temperature sensor, pres- sure sensor and CO2 sensor were also used. Current consumption of these equipment was measured over a couple of days. The control system was tested randomly by turning on equipment at random times. Turning on the equipment resulted in current consumption which ensured that the system is running. Thus, the system worked as expected and user could monitor and control the connected equipment remotely.
title: Specialization of the motor system in typically developing infants and infants with Down syndrome
Creators: name: Kyjonkova, Hana
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 246

description: A growing body of evidence suggests that, compared to later in development, the infant brain starts out less specialized, producing more widespread activation in response to stimuli. Such theorizing has hitherto been mainly applied to perceptual and socio-cognitive development. In this thesis, I investigate whether a similar process of gradual specialization operates in motor development in infancy. I examine whether purposeful actions are initially ‘broadly tuned’ and widespread across limbs by measuring developmental changes in extraneous movements (movements in the other limbs that accompany the movement of a limb engaged in goal-directed action). In Study 1, I found a decrease in extraneous movements between 9- and 12-months of age in typically developing infants. I showed that this decrease is related to improvements in selective attention and amount of motor experience. In Study 2, I demonstrated that spatiotemporal coupling of both arms is a general characteristic of motor functioning in early infancy, and that this coupling declines between 9- and 12-months of age. Furthermore, I observed increased coupling with speed. In Study 3, I showed that extraneous movements are linked to, and likely limit, functional behaviour (in this case, intermanual coordination). Based on this series of studies with typically developing infants, I concluded that infant motor activity starts out broadly tuned and becomes progressively specialized over development. I subsequently extended my investigation to include atypically developing infants and toddlers (with Down syndrome). In Study 4, I showed that motor specialization in Down syndrome was more delayed than expected for children at their developmental level. Taken together with evidence that motor difficulties often appear before the onset of other behavioural symptomatology in disorders of unclear aetiology (e.g., ASD, ADHD), this opens up an important line of research in the possibility of using extraneous movements as an early marker of neurodevelopmental difficulties.
Into the Comfort Zone: Understanding Swine Thermal Preference
Creators: name: Robbins, Lindsey A
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Animal behaviour

description: Exposure to thermal stress can negatively impact an animals' overall welfare, resulting in decreased body condition, lower reproductive success, and in severe cases, mortality. The swine industry has prioritized efficient production and as a result has gained rapid improvements in lean growth and increase litter sizes. Unfortunately, modern swine are unable to cope with the negative effects of heat stress. Thus, it is crucial to understand the preferred temperature of swine to create recommendations on when to initiate mitigation strategies to combat the negative effects of thermal stress. However, several different factors contribute to an animals' thermal comfort and thermal preference will differ based on age, reproductive stage, social context, early life thermal stress, and behavior. Thus, making it exceptionally difficult to classify an animal's thermal comfort zone. These studies aim to highlight how those factors influence thermal comfort in pigs and help guide recommendation polices for housing pigs in their preferred temperatures.
sj-docx-1-anp-10.1177_00048674211043455 – Supplemental material for Suicide mortality after a nonfatal suicide attempt: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Demesmaeker, Alice
name: Chazard, Emmanuel
name: Hoang, Aline
name: Vaiva, Guillaume
name: Amad, Ali
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-anp-10.1177_00048674211043455 for Suicide mortality after a nonfatal suicide attempt: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Alice Demesmaeker, Emmanuel Chazard, Aline Hoang, Guillaume Vaiva and Ali Amad in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
sj-docx-1-jpc-10.1177_21501327211041862 – Supplemental material for Learning From Cervical Cancer Survivors: An Examination of Barriers and Facilitators to Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women in the United States
Creators: name: Senkomago, Virginia
name: Greek, April
name: Jackson, J. Elizabeth
name: Thomas, Cheryll C.
name: Richardson, Lisa C.
name: Benard, Vicki B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jpc-10.1177_21501327211041862 for Learning From Cervical Cancer Survivors: An Examination of Barriers and Facilitators to Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women in the United States by Virginia Senkomago, April Greek, J. Elizabeth Jackson, Cheryll C. Thomas, Lisa C. Richardson and Vicki B. Benard in Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
sj-docx-1-eup-10.1177_14651165211032766 - Supplemental material for The Brexit deterrent? How member state exit shapes public support for the European Union
Creators: name: Hobolt, Sara B
name: Popa, Sebastian Adrian
name: Van der Brug, Wouter
name: Schmitt, Hermann
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eup-10.1177_14651165211032766 for The Brexit deterrent? How member state exit shapes public support for the European Union by Sara B Hobolt, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Wouter Van der Brug and Hermann Schmitt in European Union Politics
Solid State Crystallization of Amorphous Pharmaceuticals in an Aqueous Environment: Factors Impacting Crystallization and the Role of Additives
Creators: name: Parker, Andrew S
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Pharmaceutical sciences

description: Amorphous materials play an important role in pharmaceutical formulations due to their ability to generate supersaturation above the crystalline solubility, which is particularly advantageous for improving the bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. Unfortunately, the high free energy of the amorphous state also means it has a propensity to crystallize, jeopardizing formulation performance. There is considerable interest in understanding the mechanisms of crystallization as well as means of mitigating this undesired phase transformation. Formulation additives such as polymers and surfactants are commonly used as stabilizers, though the ability to inhibit crystallization is specific to the drug and additive pair and the actual mechanisms of inhibition are not fully understood.
This dissertation outlines a project to study one particular trajectory of amorphous pharmaceutical formulations and the influence of additives on the fate of drug molecules. During dosing, it is possible for a sufficiently high supersaturation to occur such that the miscibility limit between water and drug is achieved and the supersaturated solution undergoes a liquid-liquid phase separation event. Liquid-liquid phase separation results in colloidal drug particles which are not intimately mixed with stabilizers and are prone to undergo solid-state crystallization. Thus, it is the intent of this project to study the solid-state phase transformation of amorphous drug surfaces exposed to aqueous media, as well as the impact of dissolved additives on surface evolution.
Experimental crystallization investigations employing the imaging techniques of atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy paired with complementary lattice Monte Carlo models reveal the non-classic nucleation and growth mechanisms driving glass-to-crystal phase transformations. Evidence is also found of the previously uninvestigated role of the amorphous surface energy on the morphology of evolving surface crystals. Additive inhibitory effects are demonstrated to occur through competitive adsorption onto high surface energy sites, reducing surface mobility and blocking lattice integration, while crystallization promotion effects occur by additives partitioning at the drug-water interface and creating a more hydrophobic solution region which enhances molecular mobility. Finally, fundamental transport studies are described for quantitative determination of surface transport properties as well the regulatory effects of additives on surface transport.
sj-docx-1-eup-10.1177_14651165211035675 - Supplemental material for Euroscepticism and the use of negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament election: A winning combination
Creators: name: Nai, Alessandro
name: Medeiros, Mike
name: Maier, Michaela
name: Maier, Jürgen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eup-10.1177_14651165211035675 for Euroscepticism and the use of negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament election: A winning combination by Alessandro Nai, Mike Medeiros, Michaela Maier and Jürgen Maier in European Union Politics
Additional file 1 of Transition of care from post-acute services for the older adults in Quebec: a pilot impact evaluation
Creators: name: Ghai, Shashank
name: Chassé, Kathleen
name: Renaud, Marie-Jeanne
name: Guicherd-Callin, Lilian
name: Bussières, André
name: Zidarov, Diana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Topological phases of unitary dynamics: Classification in Clifford category
Creators: name: Haah, Jeongwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) or a causal unitary is by definition an automorphism of local operator algebra, by which local operators are mapped to local operators. Quantum circuits of small depth, local Hamiltonian evolutions for short time, and translations (shifts) are examples. A Clifford QCA is one that maps any Pauli operator to a finite tensor product of Pauli operators. Here, we obtain a complete table of groups $\mathfrak C(\mathsf d,p)$ of translation invariant Clifford QCA in any spatial dimension $\mathsf d \ge 0$ modulo Clifford quantum circuits and shifts over prime $p$-dimensional qudits, where the circuits and shifts are allowed to obey only coarser translation invariance. The group $\mathfrak C(\mathsf d,p)$ is nonzero only for $\mathsf d = 2k+3$ if $p=2$ and $\mathsf d = 4k+3$ if $p$ is odd where~$k \ge 0$ is any integer, in which case $\mathfrak C(\mathsf d,p) \cong \widetilde{\mathfrak W}(\mathbb F_p)$, the classical Witt group of nonsingular quadratic forms over the finite field $\mathbb F_p$. It is well known that $\widetilde{\mathfrak W}(\mathbb F_2) \cong \mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z$, $\widetilde{\mathfrak W}(\mathbb F_p) \cong \mathbb Z/4\mathbb Z$ if $p = 3 \bmod 4$, and $\widetilde{\mathfrak W}(\mathbb F_p)\cong \mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z \oplus \mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z$ if $p = 1 \bmod 4$. The classification is achieved by a dimensional descent, which is a reduction of Laurent extension theorems for algebraic $L$-groups of surgery theory in topology.
description: 48 pages (v2) minor revision in Sec.5.7 (v3) typo correction
Additional file 2 of Transition of care from post-acute services for the older adults in Quebec: a pilot impact evaluation
Creators: name: Ghai, Shashank
name: Chassé, Kathleen
name: Renaud, Marie-Jeanne
name: Guicherd-Callin, Lilian
name: Bussières, André
name: Zidarov, Diana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
The impact of auditory distractors on visual search performance in individuals with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Mallory, Courtney Lynn
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Public health not elsewhere classified

description: Enrollment in post-secondary education for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is increasing; however, students with ASD are less likely to complete a degree than students with other disabilities. Classroom performance requires attending to course-related information while filtering distractions. These attentional functions are critical for academic achievement. However, ASD is associated with pervasive impairments in attentional filtering. The present study used visual search, a task in which individuals with ASD excel, to investigate filtering of irrelevant social and non-social auditory information in college students with and without ASD. Results of the present study suggest a filtering deficit for individuals with ASD and indicate that this filtering impairment is present for both social and non-social information. Importantly, these deficits are present on a task in which individuals with ASD excel. Our findings suggest that irrelevant social and non-social sounds may adversely affect performance in college-aged students with high-functioning ASD and highlight the importance of minimizing competing background noise for these students.
Investigating Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in First-Year Composition
Creators: name: Sims, Rebekah E
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Globalisation and culture
Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: University writing programs increasingly serve student populations of growing diversity: more international students, first-generation students, disabled students, racial and ethnic minority students, and LGBTQ+ students, for example. Instructors thus teach in classrooms with many cultures and subcultures represented. Amid increasing demographic diversity, many writing programs seek to internationalize. In this dissertation, I investigate the current state of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) in a university writing program as a potential avenue for internationalization. Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) is a social-justice-oriented, transformative approach to education that views cultural diversity as a resource, restructuring education settings to affirm students’ identities and home cultures. I evaluate CRT among a sample of 10 instructor participants and their students, propose a CRT assessment method, and suggest implementation of CRT as a sustainable, just, and resource-efficient method for writing program internationalization. I implement a mixed-methods research design that draws on both observational and self-report measures of CRT. Results indicate that instructor capabilities for CRT fall along a developmental spectrum. This developmental spectrum provides a useful model for assessment of CRT in a writing program context, as well as a basis for developing the CRT capabilities of instructors at both individual and programmatic levels.
An adversarially robust data-market for spatial, crowd-sourced data
Creators: name: Kharman, Aida Manzano
name: Jursitzky, Christian
name: Zhou, Quan
name: Ferraro, Pietro
name: Marecek, Jakub
name: Pinson, Pierre
name: Shorten, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe an architecture for a decentralised data market for applications in which agents are incentivised to collaborate to crowd-source their data. The architecture is designed to reward data that furthers the market's collective goal, and distributes reward fairly to all those that contribute with their data. We show that the architecture is resilient to Sybil, wormhole, and data poisoning attacks. In order to evaluate the resilience of the architecture, we characterise its breakdown points for various adversarial threat models in an automotive use case.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Supporting Metaphor Elicitation in Asymmetric Virtual Environments
Creators: name: Jyothula, Sai Priya
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are shared virtual spaces that bring users together and allow them to interact with each other and virtual objects. In asymmetric CVEs, users have varied roles, interaction capabilities, perspectives, and device configurations, which can be leveraged to achieve user objectives. The main objective of my research is to use these asymmetric virtual environments as a means to augment people and enable them to transcend their physical, sensory and cognitive limitations (Kenyon and Leigh, 2011). Specifically, I focus on facilitating the expression and access of deeper metaphors of the mind.
The two exploratory studies that I discuss in this dissertation aim to understand the usage context and evaluate the effectiveness of utilizing asymmetrical virtual environments to augment metaphor elicitation. Understanding the usage context helps to design guidelines for future systems that not only focus on the efficiency of the system individually but also consider how the system augments human capabilities (Novak et al., 2016). With this objective, this work also introduces a systematic approach for developing future systems, which integrates the insights from the two studies to improve the prototype system and the metaphor elicitation process.
NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO CHINESE UNIVERSITY ESP TEACHERS’ TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING
Creators: name: Gao, Fang
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: English as a second language

description: The overarching objective in undertaking this study is to examine the impact of the implementation of EGP and ESP program for ESP teachers in China, to explore into tertiary-level ESP teachers’ transformative learning experiences as well as the personal, institutional and societal factors that either facilitate or constrain such transformation. I employed narrative inquiry as the research methodology to reflect teachers’ profound transformative learning experiences from story collections through co-construction and collaboration with participant teachers in all phases of research. Five ESP teachers’ unique trajectories mirror their unique learning and professional development roadmap. Through detailed examination, I concluded that teachers stepped into the new territory of ESP instruction with various degrees of hesitation and resistance. Their non-linear transformative learning experiences shed lights on the uncertainty and struggles they confronted along the journey, and demonstrate how teachers hold their own stance adjusting the complex instructional ecosystem to enhance their potential success being as an ESP instructor. The significance of this study lies in the exploration of ESP teachers’ transformative learning from a critical perspective. By taking into consideration the essence of a teacher as an adult learner, this study will not only break through the existing studies’ inadequate attention to teacher’s transformative learning, but also emphasizes the value of teacher learning for their own transformation, emancipation and professional advancement.
Additional file 1 of Medical interns in district health services: an evaluation of the new family medicine rotation in the Western Cape of South Africa
Creators: name: Hutton, Lauren
name: Jenkins, Louis Stander
name: Mash, Robert
name: von Pressentin, Klaus
name: Reid, Steve
name: Morgan, Jennie
name: Kapp, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-3-ajh-10.1177_10499091211041079 - Clinician Ethical Perspectives on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Practice
Creators: name: Piscitello, Gina M.
name: Bermea, Rene S.
name: Stokes, John W.
name: Gannon, Whitney D.
name: Kanelidis, Anthony J.
name: Konopka, Megan
name: Shappell, Claire
name: Frye, Laura K.
name: Lyons, Patrick G.
name: Siegler, Mark
name: Parker, William F.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-3-ajh-10.1177_10499091211041079 for Clinician Ethical Perspectives on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Practice by Gina M. Piscitello, Rene S. Bermea, John W. Stokes, Whitney D. Gannon, Anthony J. Kanelidis, Megan Konopka, Claire Shappell, Laura K. Frye, Patrick G. Lyons, Mark Siegler and William F. Parker in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
Applications of Deep Neural Networks in Computer-Aided Drug Design
Creators: name: Ghouchani, Ahmadreza Ghanbarpour
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational chemistry
Cheminformatics and quantitative structure-activity relationships
Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
Structural biology (incl. macromolecular modelling)

description: Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained tremendous attention over the recent years due to their outstanding performance in solving many problems in different fields of science and technology. Currently, this field is of interest to many researchers and growing rapidly. The ability of DNNs to learn new concepts with minimal instructions facilitates applying current DNN-based methods to new problems. Here in this dissertation, three methods based on DNNs are discussed, tackling different problems in the field of computer-aided drug design.
The first method described addresses the problem of prediction of hydration properties from 3D structures of proteins without requiring molecular dynamics simulations. Water plays a major role in protein-ligand interactions and identifying (de)solvation contributions of water molecules can assist drug design. Two different model architectures are presented for the prediction the hydration information of proteins. The performance of the methods are compared with other conventional methods and experimental data. In addition, their applications in ligand optimization and pose prediction is shown.
The design of de novo molecules has always been of interest in the field of drug discovery. The second method describes a generative model that learns to derive features from protein sequences to design de novo compounds. We show how the model can be used to generate molecules similar to the known for the targets the model have not seen before and compare with benchmark generative models.
Finally, it is demonstrated how DNNs can learn to predict secondary structure propensity values derived from NMR ensembles. Secondary structure propensities are important in identifying flexible regions in proteins. Protein flexibility has a major role in drug-protein binding, and identifying such regions can assist in development of methods for ligand binding prediction. The prediction performance of the method is shown for several proteins with two or more known secondary structure conformations.
title: Composing with Schizo-narratives and Sonic Chorographies:
The Territory of Disembodied Voices and the Perception of
Acousmatic Identities
Creators: name: Spinelli, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: soundscape, phonography, acousmatic music, identity, disembodied voice, narrative, schizo-narrative, sound art, dark tourism, Auschwitz, Folklore, Deleuze, Hereford, Golem, Body without Organs, sound and politics, sound and history, chorography, twin language, soundscape composition, Jewish history, myth, myth-making, Holocaust studies, memory, sonic remains

description: This PhD focusses on the body of work that has emerged from the author’s compositional practice
between 2008 and 2015. It tackles a range of issues including (dark) tourism, identity and
remembrance, and the tensions between history, narrative and myth; from folklore practices to
postwar Eastern Europe and the Holocaust.

Three extended projects using field recordings and interviews as their primary source material are
examined: a soundscape study of Padstow, a composition dealing with the soundscapes of
historically-charged places, and an ongoing project that further explores issues of memory, narrative,
and myth-making. Through a detailed contextual investigation of these sound-works, the text
endeavours to provide a dialogue between the phonographies of the sites and voices featured in the
compositions and the social, historical, political and economic forces that have contributed to the
making (and metamorphosis) of these places and communities.

The author develops a number of notions including the construction of schizo-narratives: an editing
technique where fragments of interviews are reorganised to create unexpected and non-linear
narratives, and sonic chorographies: the use of field recordings to represent not only the fragmentary
delineations of a soundscape but also to operate a re-scaling of the elements depicted to highlight
crucial aspects of the socio-political fabric of a specific place. These elements lead to an investigation
of the territory of disembodied voices – the phenomenological mechanisms of interaction between
disembodied voices and the sonic environment – as well as a reflection on the perception of
acousmatic identities.

From the multitude of conflicting histories that underpin the origins and beliefs associated with the
Mayday festival to the problematic site transformations that have occurred in Krakow and Auschwitz
as a result of the Holocaust tourist trade; from the dislocated narratives of ‘twin language’ to the
imagined myths of the lost Jewish community of thirteenth century Hereford, this PhD endeavours to
show how disembodied voices and soundscapes might be creatively and conceptually explored
through plurality and contradiction, as a territory where no element is fixed, where no narrative is
crystallised, where identities are in constant motion, where meaning is always transient.
Additional file 1 of Concept analysis of health system resilience
Creators: name: Al Asfoor, Deena
name: Tabche, Celine
name: Al-Zadjali, Manal
name: Mataria, Awad
name: Saikat, Sohel
name: Rawaf, Salman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Annex 1. Data extraction form. Annex 2. Some definitions of resilience. Annex 3. Surrogates of resilience in the context of health system. Annex 4. Frameworks used in measuring health system resilience (HSR).
sj-pdf-5-hpq-10.1177_13591053211042075 – Supplemental material for Relationship quality and objectively measured physical activity before and after implementation of COVID-19 stay-home orders
Creators: name: Cornelius, Talea
name: Denes, Amanda
name: Webber, Katrina T
name: Guest, Chelsea
name: Goldsmith, Jeff
name: Schwartz, Joseph E
name: Gorin, Amy A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-5-hpq-10.1177_13591053211042075 for Relationship quality and objectively measured physical activity before and after implementation of COVID-19 stay-home orders by Talea Cornelius, Amanda Denes, Katrina T Webber, Chelsea Guest, Jeff Goldsmith, Joseph E Schwartz and Amy A Gorin in Journal of Health Psychology
Quantifying implicit and explicit constraints on physics-informed neural processes
Creators: name: Zheng, Haoyang
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
Statistics not elsewhere classified

description: Due to strong interactions among various phases and among the phases and fluid motions, multiphase flows (MPFs) are so complex that lots of efforts have to be paid to predict its sequential patterns of phases and motions. The present paper applies the physical constraints inherent in MPFs and enforces them to a physics-informed neural network (PINN) model either explicitly or implicitly, depending on the type of constraints. To predict the unobserved order parameters (OPs) (which locate the phases) in the future steps, the conditional neural processes (CNPs) with long short-term memory (LSTM, combined as CNPLSTM) are applied to quickly infer the dynamics of the phases after encoding only a few observations. After that, the multiphase consistent and conservative boundedness mapping (MCBOM) algorithm is implemented the correction the predicted OPs from CNP-LSTM so that the mass conservation, the summation of the volume fractions of the phases being unity, the consistency of reduction, and the boundedness of the OPs are strictly satisfied. Next, the density of the fluid mixture is computed from the corrected OPs. The observed velocity and density of the fluid mixture then encode in a physics-informed conditional neural processes and long short-term memory (PICNP-LSTM) where the constraint of momentum conservation is included in the loss function. Finally, the unobserved velocity in future steps is predicted from PICNP-LSTM. The proposed physics-informed neural processes (PINPs) model (CNP-LSTM-MCBOM-PICNP-LSTM) for MPFs avoids unphysical behaviors of the OPs, accelerates the convergence, and requires fewer data. The proposed model successfully predicts several canonical MPF problems, i.e., the horizontal shear layer (HSL) and dam break (DB) problems, and its performances are validated.
Topology of irregular isomonodromy times on a fixed pointed curve
Creators: name: Douçot, Jean
name: Rembado, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20F55, 20F36, 55R10

description: We will define and study (moduli) spaces of deformations of irregular classes on Riemann surfaces, which provide an intrinsic viewpoint on the `times' of irregular isomonodromy systems in general. Our aim is to study the deeper generalisation of the G-braid groups that occur as fundamental groups of such deformation spaces, with particular focus on the generalisation of the full G-braid groups.
description: v3: small improvements, added references, comments welcome!
Exploring Bias Mitigation Techniques for Predictive Analytics in College Student Success
Creators: name: Picchiarini, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: This dissertation explores the pressing issue of algorithmic fairness and bias in machine learning (ML) models, with a particular focus on educational contexts. While ML models traditionally aim to maximize predictive accuracy, this research scrutinizes the fairness of predictions, especially concerning racially minoritized students in college success prediction models. The study emphasizes group fairness and investigates techniques to mitigate racial bias in predictive outcomes. Utilizing a nationally representative dataset, this research evaluates the effectiveness of various ML models and bias mitigation strategies. The findings contribute to the creation of a data science toolkit specifically designed for higher education institutions. This toolkit aims to enhance the accuracy and fairness of college success predictions, fostering more equitable academic outcomes for diverse demographic groups.
sj-docx-1-sph-10.1177_19417381211041072 – Supplemental material for Return to Work and Sport After Distal Femoral Osteotomy: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Bassi, Jaspal S.
name: Chan, Justin P.
name: Johnston, Tyler
name: Wang, Dean
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sph-10.1177_19417381211041072 for Return to Work and Sport After Distal Femoral Osteotomy: A Systematic Review by Jaspal S. Bassi, Justin P. Chan, Tyler Johnston and Dean Wang in Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Training Deep Spiking Neural Network: Enabling Spike-based Learning
Creators: name: Lee, Chankyu
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer vision
Digital processor architectures
Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In this era of data deluge with real-time contents continuously generated by distributed sensors, intelligent neuromorphic systems are required to efficiently deal with the massive amount of data and computations in ubiquitous automobiles and portable edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), often regarded as third generation neural networks, can be highly power-efficient and have competitive capabilities to deal with numerous cognitive tasks. However, the typical shallow spiking network architectures have limited capacity for expressing complex representations while training a very deep spiking network has not been successful so far.
The first part of this thesis explores several pathways to effectively train deep SNNs using unsupervised, supervised and semi-supervised schemes, and neuron model analysis. First, we present a layer-wise unsupervised Spike-Timing-Dependent-Plasticity (STDP) for training deep convolutional SNNs. Second, we propose an approximate derivative method to overcome the discontinuous and non-differentiable nature of spike generation function and to enable training deep convolutional SNNs with input spike events using supervised spike-based backpropagation algorithm. Third, we develop a pre-training scheme using biologically plausible unsupervised learning, namely STDP, in order to better initialize the network parameters prior to supervised spike-based backpropagation. In addition, we present a comprehensive and comparative analysis between neuron models with and without leak to analyze the impacts of leak on noise robustness and spike sparsity in deep SNNs.
The later part of this thesis explores the combination between SNNs and event camera that provides highly temporal information in the form of spike streams. Event-based cameras display great potential for a variety of tasks such as high-speed motion detection and navigation in low-light environments where standard frame-based cameras suffer critically. However, conventional computer vision methods as well as deep Analog Neural Networks (ANNs) are not compatible in their native form with the asynchronous and discrete nature of event camera outputs. In this regard, SNNs serve as ideal paradigms to directly handle event camera outputs. However, deep SNNs suffer in terms of performance due to the spike vanishing phenomenon. To overcome these issues, we present Spike-FlowNet, a deep hybrid neural network architecture integrating SNNs and ANNs for efficiently estimating optical flow from sparse event camera outputs without sacrificing the performance. Furthermore, we propose Fusion-FlowNet, a sensor/architecture fusion framework for accurately estimating dense optical flow. In essence, we leverage the complementary characteristics of event- and frame-based sensors as well as ANNs and SNNs.
Additional file 1 of Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models
Creators: name: White, Nicole
name: Parsons, Rex
name: Collins, Gary
name: Barnett, Adrian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Examples of qualitative descriptors for AUC thresholds.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183211026202 - A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020
Creators: name: Hammoud-Gallego, Omar
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183211026202 for A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020 by Omar Hammoud-Gallego in International Migration Review
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183211026202 - A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020
Creators: name: Hammoud-Gallego, Omar
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183211026202 for A Liberal Region in a World of Closed Borders? The Liberalization of Asylum Policies in Latin America, 1990–2020 by Omar Hammoud-Gallego in International Migration Review
EVOLUTION AND GROWTH OF PAYMENT SYSTEMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Creators: name: Diksha Pawar
name: Dr Vijay Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Digital payment, payment modes, NEFT, UPI, volume and value transact.

description: Abstract: Changes in technology brings in changes in the way we live and that holds true for every aspect of human living. With such change in technology our banking habits and needs have evolved as well. And the paper throws light on some interesting recent data siphoned from the rbi reports. We studied the dynamics of modern credit payment systems in terms of their volume and values on year-on-year basis from 2018 -19 to 2022-23. The data indicated some interesting revelations as to how successful the modern child of digital banking namely UPI really is and how all the credit payments faired against each other in this technological race. Some thrived and grew and some even went extinct. We also see how NEFT payment system has been so potent in carrying retail transactions of larger absolute amount. Overall, a great picture is seen on all round basis for the development of India and its financial inclusion of larger population.
sj-pdf-1-dst-10.1177_19322968211043162 – Supplemental material for Methods for Insulin Bolus Adjustment Based on the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Trend Arrows in Type 1 Diabetes: Performance and Safety Assessment in an In Silico Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Noaro, Giulia
name: Cappon, Giacomo
name: Sparacino, Giovanni
name: Boscari, Federico
name: Bruttomesso, Daniela
name: Facchinetti, Andrea
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-dst-10.1177_19322968211043162 for Methods for Insulin Bolus Adjustment Based on the Continuous Glucose Monitoring Trend Arrows in Type 1 Diabetes: Performance and Safety Assessment in an In Silico Clinical Trial by Giulia Noaro, Giacomo Cappon, Giovanni Sparacino, Federico Boscari, Daniela Bruttomesso and Andrea Facchinetti in Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology