cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards Understanding Human Functional Brain Development with Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Perspectives
Creators: name: Kiani, Mehrin
name: Andreu-Perez, Javier
name: Hagras, Hani
name: Rigato, Silvia
name: Filippetti, Maria Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The last decades have seen significant advancements in non-invasive neuroimaging technologies that have been increasingly adopted to examine human brain development. However, these improvements have not necessarily been followed by more sophisticated data analysis measures that are able to explain the mechanisms underlying functional brain development. For example, the shift from univariate (single area in the brain) to multivariate (multiple areas in brain) analysis paradigms is of significance as it allows investigations into the interactions between different brain regions. However, despite the potential of multivariate analysis to shed light on the interactions between developing brain regions, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques applied render the analysis non-explainable. The purpose of this paper is to understand the extent to which current state-of-the-art AI techniques can inform functional brain development. In addition, a review of which AI techniques are more likely to explain their learning based on the processes of brain development as defined by developmental cognitive neuroscience (DCN) frameworks is also undertaken. This work also proposes that eXplainable AI (XAI) may provide viable methods to investigate functional brain development as hypothesised by DCN frameworks.
TSAX is Trending
Creators: name: Fuad, Muhammad Marwan Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Time series mining is an important branch of data mining, as time series data is ubiquitous and has many applications in several domains. The main task in time series mining is classification. Time series representation methods play an important role in time series classification and other time series mining tasks. One of the most popular representation methods of time series data is the Symbolic Aggregate approXimation (SAX). The secret behind its popularity is its simplicity and efficiency. SAX has however one major drawback, which is its inability to represent trend information. Several methods have been proposed to enable SAX to capture trend information, but this comes at the expense of complex processing, preprocessing, or post-processing procedures. In this paper we present a new modification of SAX that we call Trending SAX (TSAX), which only adds minimal complexity to SAX, but substantially improves its performance in time series classification. This is validated experimentally on 50 datasets. The results show the superior performance of our method, as it gives a smaller classification error on 39 datasets compared with SAX.
description: 21st International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2021)
The "Nostalgia for Paradise" in Mircea Eliade’s quest for Homo Religiosus
Creators: name: Jochim, Christian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis examines Mircea Eliade's treatment of the problem of religion and modernity. It shows how his effort to grasp the meaning of religion for modern man is a hermeneutical procedure which opposes reductionism and is essentially humanistic. It demonstrates that he aims to awaken the religious sensitivity of his contemporaries through a study of premodern religious behavior that avoids the clichés and categories of the Western rationalist tradition, This demonstration divides his thought into four areas; first, his polemic against reductionism, second, his non-reductionistic method of interpreting religious phenomena, third, his description of homo religiosus by reference to transhistorical structures, and, fourth, his plan to change modern spirituality through a recovery of archaic religious awareness. The point of this thesis is to underline a certain nostalgia for the life of archaic man in Eliade's hermeneutics, but not an unhealthy one. It is a nostalgia for the origins of man's present situation, the essential condition which precedes actual human existence. It discloses itself in Eliade's quest for homo religiosus, which does not aim to return modern man to a mode of being lived in objective archaic history, but rather seeks to initiate him into a new spiritual awareness through the rediscovery of the archaic modality in himself. This rediscovery is the starting point for a new humanism, a philosophical anthropology that can grasp the unity of the species at its highest level, which is, for Eliade, the religious level. His hermeneutics is thus a spiritual exercise itself, of which the "nostalgia for paradise" is a constituent element. An examination of this fact reveals the nature of Eliade's approach to the problem of religion and modernity, and contributes greatly to an understanding of his thought as a whole.
Unconventional Vortex Dynamics in Mesoscopic Superconducting Corbino Disks
Creators: name: Lin, N. S.
name: Misko, V. R.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discrete shell structure of vortex matter strongly influences the flux dynamics in mesoscopic superconducting Corbino disks. While the dynamical behavior is well understood in large and in very small disks, in the intermediate-size regime it occurs to be much more complex and unusual, due to (in)commensurability between the vortex shells. We demonstrate unconventional vortex dynamics (inversion of shell velocities with respect to the gradient driving force) and angular melting (propagating from the boundary where the shear stress is minimum, towards the center) in mesoscopic Corbino disks.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Geburts- und Tauf-Schein.
Creators: name: :Unkn
Year: 2017

description: Name des Getauften mit "Steindl Josef Calas. Colomann" angegeben. - Geburtsdatum 4. April 1912. - Angaben zu Vater Rudolf Steindl, Mutter Leopoldine Moser und Patin Theresia Moser.
description: 1 Blatt, beidseitig beschrieben
Effetti dell'acido urico sulle cellule glomerulari mesangiali: meccanismi intracellulari di trasduzione del segnale e possibili implicazioni nella progressione del danno renale e nella sindrome infiammatoria in corso di nefropatie croniche
Creators: name: Festuccia, Francescaromana <1973>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2007
Subjects: MED/14 Nefrologia

description: Uric acid is a major inducer of inflammation in renal interstitium and may play a role in the progression of renal damage in hyperuricemic subjects with primary
nephropathies, renal vascular disease, and essential hypertension. At the same time, UA also acts as a water-soluble scavenger of reactive oxygen species. We evaluated the cellular effects of UA on cultured HMC as a potential interstitial target for abnormally elevated levels in acute and chronic renal disease. Intracellular free Ca2+
([Ca2+]i) was monitored by microfluorometry of fura 2-loaded cells, while oxidation of intracellularly trapped non-fluorescent 2,7-dichlorofluorescein diacetate (DCFHDA,
20 uM) was employed to assess the generation of reactive oxygen species during 12-hr incubations with various concentrations of UA or monosodium urate. Fluorescent metabolites of DCFH-DA in the culture media of HMC were detected at 485/530 nm excitation/emission wavelengths, respectively. UA dose-dependently lowered resting [Ca2+]i (from 102±9 nM to 95±3, 57±2, 48±6 nM at 1-100 uM UA,
respectively, p <0.05), leaving responses to vasoconstrictors such as angiotensin II unaffected. The effect was not due to Ca2+/H+ exchange upon acidification of the bathing media, as acetate, glutamate, lactate and other organic acids rather increased [Ca2+]i (to max. levels of 497±42 nM with 0.1 mM acetate). The decrease of [Ca2+]i was abolished by raising extracellular Ca2+ and not due to effects on Ca2+ channels or activation of Ca2+-ATPases, since unaffected by thapsigargin. The process rather
appeared sensitive to removal of extracellular Na+ in combination with blockers of Na+/Ca2+ exchange, such as 2’,4’-dichlorobenzamil, pointing to a countertransport
mechanism. UA dose-dependently prompted the extracellular release of oxidised DCFH (control 37±2 relative fluorescence units (RFU)/ml, 0.1uM 47±2, 1 uM 48±2, 10 uM 51±4, 0.1 mM 53±4; positive control, 10 uM sodium nitroprusside 92±5
RFU/ml, p<0.01). In summary, UA interferes with Ca2+ transport in cultured HMC, triggering oxidative stress which may initiate a sequence of events leading to interstitial injury and possibly amplifying renal vascular damage and/or the progression of chronic disease.
Entanglement entropy and monotones in scattering process
Creators: name: Fan, Jinbo
name: Deng, Gao-Ming
name: Ren, Xi-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the entanglement property of a 4-particle system. In this system, two initially entangled electrons A and C are scattered by two uncorrelated positrons B and D, respectively. We calculate the entanglements among the particles both before and after the double QED scattering ($AB\rightarrow AB, CD\rightarrow CD$). We find that the change of entanglement entropy between subsystems A and B during the scattering processs is proportional to the total cross section, $σ_{tot}=σ_{AB}\timesσ_{CD}$. Even though there is no direct interaction between subsystems A and C (or B and D), the scattering process induces entanglement change among them which is also proportional to $σ_{tot}$. This result shows some kind of entanglement sharing property in multipartite system. In order to further investigate the entanglement sharing, we calculate the entanglement monotones which quantify the genuine multipartite entanglement in a multipartite system. For our chosen scattering process, $e^+e^-\rightarrowμ^+μ^-$, however, we find that the outgoing state is a W-type 4-partite entangled state which has no genuine 4-partite entanglement.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of Using genetics to understand the role of kidney function in COVID-19: a mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Zhao, Jie V.
name: Schooling, C. Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Quark-quark interaction and quark matter in neutron stars
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Y.
name: Yasutake, N.
name: Rijken, Th. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperon ($Y$) mixing in neutron-star matter brings about a remarkable softening of the equation of state (EoS) and the maximum mass is reduced to a value far less than $2M_{\odot}$. One idea to avoid this "hyperon puzzle in neutron stars" is to assume that the many-body repulsions work universally for every kind of baryons. The other is to take into account the quark deconfinement phase transitions from a hadronic EoS to a sufficiently stiff quark-matter EoS. In the present approach, both effects are handled in a common framework. As well as the hadronic matter, the quark matter with the two-body quark-quark interactions are treated within the Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone theory beyond the mean field frameworks, where interaction parameters are based on the terrestrial data. The derived mass-radius relations of neutron stars show that maximum masses reach over $2M_{\odot}$ even in the cases of including hadron-quark phase transitions, being consistent with the recent observations for maximum masses and radii of neutron stars by the NICER measurements and the other multimessenger data.
Improved extended Hamiltonian and search for local symmetries
Creators: name: Deriglazov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a structure of the singular Lagrangian $L$ with first and second class constraints of an arbitrary stage. We show that there exist an equivalent Lagrangian (called the extended Lagrangian $\tilde L$) that generates all the original constraints on second stage of the Dirac-Bergmann procedure. The extended Lagrangian is obtained in closed form through the initial one. The formalism implies an extension of the original configuration space by auxiliary variables. Some of them are identified with gauge fields supplying local symmetries of $\tilde L$. As an application of the formalism, we found closed expression for the gauge generators of $\tilde L$ through the first class constraints. It turns out to be much more easy task as those for $L$. All the first class constraints of $L$ turn out to be the gauge symmetry generators of $\tilde L$. By this way, local symmetries of $L$ with higher order derivatives of the local parameters decompose into a sum of the gauge symmetries of $\tilde L$. It proves the Dirac conjecture in the Lagrangian framework.
Decoding gender differences: Intellectual profiles of children with specific learning disabilities
Creators: name: Giofrè, David
name: Allen, Katie
name: Toffalini, Enrico
name: Mammarella, Irene C.
name: Caviola, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: There has been a significant amount of debate around gender differences in intellectual functioning, however, most of this research concerns typically developing populations and lacks research into atypically developing populations and those with specific learning disabilities (SLD). To address this, we examined performance on the WISC-IV in children with SLDs (N=1238, N female= 539, Age range = 7-16 years). We further divided the sample into those with specific deficits in reading, mathematics, and those with mixed disorder. Results indicate that gender predicts significant differences in the working memory index and processing speed index only, indicating a small but significant female superiority. Results also show different profiles for the different disorders investigated, with some gender differences emerging. The most prominent gender difference appears to be in the coding subtest indicating a female advantage, particularly in those with SLDs with mathematical difficulties. We discuss the theoretical and clinical implications of the findings.
The influence of magnetic fields on the thermodynamics of primordial star formation
Creators: name: Schleicher, Dominik R. G.
name: Galli, Daniele
name: Glover, Simon C. O.
name: Banerjee, Robi
name: Palla, Francesco
name: Schneider, Raffaella
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effects of magnetic energy dissipation on the formation of the first stars. For this purpose, we follow the evolution of primordial chemistry in the presence of magnetic fields in the post-recombination universe until the formation of the first virialized halos. From the point of virialization, we follow the protostellar collapse up to densities of $\sim10^{12}$ cm$^{-3}$ in a one-zone model. In the intergalactic medium (IGM), comoving field strengths of $\gtrsim0.1$ nG lead to Jeans masses of $10^8 M_\odot$ or more and thus delay gravitational collapse in the first halos until they are sufficiently massive. During protostellar collapse, we find that the temperature minimum at densities of $\sim10^3$ cm$^{-3}$ does not change significantly, such that the characteristic mass scale for fragmentation is not affected. However, we find a significant temperature increase at higher densities for comoving field strengths of $\gtrsim0.1$ nG. This may delay gravitational collapse, in particular at densities of $\sim10^9$ cm$^{-3}$, where the proton abundance drops rapidly and the main contribution to the ambipolar diffusion resistivity is due to collisions with Li$^+$. After the formation of the protostar, the increased gas temperatures may enhance the protostellar accretion rate. Our model confirms that initial weak magnetic fields may be amplified considerably during gravitational collapse and become dynamically relevant. For instance, a comoving field strength above $10^{-5}$ nG will be amplified above the critical value for the onset of jets which can magnetize the IGM.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, minor clarifications, accepted at ApJ
Realtime Global Attention Network for Semantic Segmentation
Creators: name: Mo, Xi
name: Chen, Xiangyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we proposed an end-to-end realtime global attention neural network (RGANet) for the challenging task of semantic segmentation. Different from the encoding strategy deployed by self-attention paradigms, the proposed global attention module encodes global attention via depth-wise convolution and affine transformations. The integration of these global attention modules into a hierarchy architecture maintains high inferential performance. In addition, an improved evaluation metric, namely MGRID, is proposed to alleviate the negative effect of non-convex, widely scattered ground-truth areas. Results from extensive experiments on state-of-the-art architectures for semantic segmentation manifest the leading performance of proposed approaches for robotic monocular visual perception.
description: Ver1.0 for RA-L with ICRA presentation
High accuracy binary black hole simulations with an extended wave zone
Creators: name: Pollney, Denis
name: Reisswig, Christian
name: Schnetter, Erik
name: Dorband, Nils
name: Diener, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a new code for binary black hole evolutions using the moving-puncture approach, implementing finite differences in generalised coordinates, and allowing the spacetime to be covered with multiple communicating non-singular coordinate patches. Here we consider a regular Cartesian near zone, with adapted spherical grids covering the wave zone. The efficiencies resulting from the use of adapted coordinates allow us to maintain sufficient grid resolution to an artificial outer boundary location which is causally disconnected from the measurement. For the well-studied test-case of the inspiral of an equal-mass non-spinning binary (evolved for more than 8 orbits before merger), we determine the phase and amplitude to numerical accuracies better than 0.010% and 0.090% during inspiral, respectively, and 0.003% and 0.153% during merger. The waveforms, including the resolved higher harmonics, are convergent and can be consistently extrapolated to $r\to\infty$ throughout the simulation, including the merger and ringdown. Ringdown frequencies for these modes (to $(\ell,m)=(6,6)$) match perturbative calculations to within 0.01%, providing a strong confirmation that the remnant settles to a Kerr black hole with irreducible mass $M_{\rm irr} = 0.884355\pm20\times10^{-6}$ and spin $S_f/M_f^2 = 0.686923 \pm 10\times10^{-6}$
Birefringence in pseudo-Finsler spacetimes
Creators: name: Skakala, Jozef
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the analogue spacetime programme, and many other ideas currently mooted in "quantum gravity", there is considerable ongoing speculation that the usual pseudo-Riemannian (Lorentzian) manifolds of general relativity might eventually be modified at short distances. Two specific modifications that are often advocated are the adoption of Finsler geometries (or more specifically, pseudo-Finsler spacetimes) and the possibility of birefringence (or more generally, multi-refringence). We have investigated the possibility of whether it is possible to usefully and cleanly deal with these two possibilities simultaneously. That is, given two (or more) "signal cones": Is it possible to naturally and intuitively construct a "unified" pseudo-Finsler spacetime such that the pseudo-Finsler metric is null on these "signal cones", but has no other zeros or singularities? Our results are much less encouraging than we had originally hoped, and suggest that while pseudo-Finsler spacetimes are certainly useful constructs, it is physically more appropriate to think of physics as taking place in a single topological manifold that carries several distinct pseudo-Finsler metrics, one for each polarization mode.
description: 8 pages; uses jpconf.cls Talk delivered by Jozef Skakala at the NEB XIII conference, (Recent Developments in Gravity), Thessalonika, Greece, June 2008
ESSAYS ON POLICY EVALUATION
Creators: name: MARTINENGHI, FABIO ITALO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: This thesis comprises two rather different chapters. The first chapter explores the impact of increasing the exit costs of cohabitation on the stability of relationships. The second chapter explores the impact that an established environmental beach award has on the tourism sector and the balance sheet of a municipality. Notwithstanding these thematic differences, the two chapters are connected by the way in which the research therein was conducted. This particular approach to research is known as the credibility revolution". It was championed by Angrist and Pischke in Angrist and Pischke (2008) and Angrist and Pischke (2010). The approach is concerned with causality above all other issues and aims at minimising the assumptions made when estimating an object of interest; be it theoretical or technical. In order to construct well-founded economic models of behaviour based on the credibility revolution", this sort of humble policy evaluation work needs to be abundant. Without gathering sufficient evidence about the causal mechanisms that inform the behaviour of individuals; there can be no strong foundations upon which to build sound economic models. This is only likely to lead to misleading analyses and policy failures.
Viable and testable SUSY GUTs with Yukawa unification: the case of split trilinears
Creators: name: Guadagnoli, Diego
name: Raby, Stuart
name: Straub, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore general SUSY GUT models with exact third-generation Yukawa unification, but where the requirement of universal soft terms at the GUT scale is relaxed. We consider the scenario in which the breaking of universality inherits from the Yukawa couplings, i.e. is of minimal flavor violating (MFV) type. In particular, the MFV principle allows for a splitting between the up-type and the down-type soft trilinear couplings. We explore the viability of this trilinear splitting scenario by means of a fitting procedure to electroweak observables, quark masses as well as flavor-changing neutral current processes. Phenomenological viability singles out one main scenario. This scenario is characterized by a sizable splitting between the trilinear soft terms and a large mu term. Remarkably, this scenario does not invoke a partial decoupling of the sparticle spectrum, as in the case of universal soft terms, but instead it requires part of the spectrum, notably the lightest stop, the gluino and the lightest charginos and neutralinos to be very close to the current experimental limits. The above mechanism is mostly triggered by a non-trivial interplay between the requirements of negative, sizable SUSY threshold corrections to mb and an instead negligible modification of the B --> Xs gamma decay rate, in presence of various other constraints, most notably a successful EWSB and a not too large BR(Bs --> mu^+ mu^-). We present a model-building interpretation of our discussed scenario and emphasize the crucial role of SUSY spectrum determinations at the LHC for either falsifying Yukawa unification or else providing important hints on the mechanism of SUSY breaking at work.
description: 1 + 27 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables. v3: Discussion on EWSB expanded, references improved. Matches journal version
An improved linear bound on the number of perfect matchings in cubic graphs
Creators: name: Esperet, Louis
name: Kral, Daniel
name: Skoda, Petr
name: Skrekovski, Riste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15

description: We show that every cubic bridgeless graph with n vertices has at least 3n/4-10 perfect matchings. This is the first bound that differs by more than a constant from the maximal dimension of the perfect matching polytope.
title: A Policy of Consensus. The Austrian Experience.
Creators: name: Steindl, Josef
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Österreich Machtverteilung Sozialpartnerschaft Lohnentwicklung Konjunktur Wirtschaftspolitik Strukturwandel

description: Einfluss der Sozialpartnerschaft auf die österreichische Wirtschaftspolitik, Löhne und Konjunkturentwicklung.
description: Typoskript, 4 Blätter, handschriftliche Anmerkung auf Seite 3
Near-Infrared Colours of Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Kouzuma, Shinjirou
name: Yamaoka, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose near-infrared colour selection criteria to extract Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) using the near-infrared Colour-Colour Diagram (CCD) and predict near-infrared colour evolution with respect to redshift. First, we cross-identify two AGN catalogues with the 2MASS Point Source Catalogue, and confirm both the loci of quasars/AGNs in the near-infrared CCD and redshift-colour relations. In the CCD, the loci of over 70 - 80% of AGNs can be distinguished from the stellar locus. To examine the colours of quasars, we simulate near-infrared colours using Hyperz code. Assuming a realistic quasar SED, we derive simulated near-infrared colours of quasars with redshift (up to z ~ 11). The simulated colours can reproduce not only the redshift-colour relations but also the loci of quasars/AGNs in the near-infrared CCD. We finally discuss the possibility of contamination by other types of objects. We compare the locus of AGNs with the other four types of objects (namely, microquasars, CVs, LMXBs, and MYSOs) which have a radiation mechanism similar to that of AGNs. In the near-infrared CCD, each type of object is located at a position similar to the stellar locus. Accordingly, it is highly probable that the four types of objects can be distinguished on the basis of the locus in a near-infrared CCD. We additionally consider contamination by distant normal galaxies. The near-infrared colours of several types of galaxies are also simulated using the Hyperz code. Although galaxies with z ~ 1 have near-infrared colours similar to those of AGNs, these galaxies are unlikely to be detected because they are very faint. In other words, few galaxies should contaminate the locus of AGNs in the near-infrared CCD. Consequently, we can extract reliable AGN candidates on the basis of the near-infrared CCD.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
The development of an evaluation tool to measure the adaptation of spinal injury patients to disability
Creators: name: Kao, Jack J. H
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of the study was to develop an evaluation tool to measure adaptation of spinal cord injury patients to disability. The Q-Sort technique was used to develop the tool. This tool is intended to enable health professionals, especially nurses, to measure a patient's current status in adaptation to disability, to assess progress in adaptation, and to provide guidelines for intervention. Literature relevant to Q-Methodology and to conceptual frameworks of disability and adaptation to disability was reviewed. In the process of tool development, Q-Sort statements were collected from patients' own descriptions of their current status following injury. Six graduate students in nursing served as panel judges to examine the relevance and importance of the statements which were provided by the patients. Fifty-six statements were selected to be used as the Q-Sort statements. Then, following Crate's adaptation model, the fifty-six statements were distributed into four categories in terms of her four stages of adaptation: (1) denial and disbelief, (2) developing awareness, (3) reorganization and (4) adaptation. To test the validity of statements in the four categories, twenty health professionals {nurses, physiotherapists, vocational counsellors and social workers) were asked to sort the fifty-six items into these same four categories of adaptation. There was high agreement (61-81%) on the distribution of statements into the four categories. The evaluation Q-Sort was tested out on two groups of ten patients each. This test measured the degree of adaptation of each of the twenty patients. Scores showed different levels of adaptation in the two groups of patients. Relevant variables were selected for analysis. Several variables were found to be significant at the 0.05 level.
Exploring the viability of bypassing the image signal processor for CNN-based object detection in autonomous vehicles
Creators: name: Cahill, Jordan
name: Parsi, Ashkan
name: Mullins, Darragh
name: Horgan, Jonathan
name: Ward, Enda
name: EISING, CIARAN
name: Denny, Patrick
name: Deegan, Brian
name: Glavin, Martin
name: Jones, Edward
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: In the field of autonomous driving, cameras are crucial sensors for providing information about a vehicle’s environment. Image quality refers to a camera system’s ability to capture, process, and display signals to form an image. Historically, ‘‘good quality’’ in this context refers to images that have been processed by an Image Signal Processor (ISP) designed with the goal of providing the optimal experience for human consumption. However, image quality perceived by humans may not always result in optimal conditions for computer vision. In the context of human consumption, image quality is well documented and understood. Image quality for computer vision applications, such as those in the autonomous vehicle industry, requires more research. Fully autonomous vehicles inevitably encounter constraints concerning data storage, transmission speed, and energy consumption. This is a result of enormous amounts of data being generated by the vehicle from suites made up of multiple different sensors. We propose a potential optimization along the computer vision pipeline, by completely bypassing the ISP block for a class of applications. We demonstrate that doing so has a negligible impact on the performance of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) object detectors. The results also highlight the benefits of using raw pre-ISP data, in the context of computation and energy savings achieved by removing the ISP.
Influence of Sequential Changes in the Crude Oil-Water Interfacial Tension on Spontaneous Imbibition in Oil-Wet Sandstone
Creators: name: Sukee, Anupong
name: Nunta, Tanakon
name: Haruna, Maje Alhaji
name: Kalantariasl, Azim
name: Tangparitkul, Suparit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crude oil-water interfacial tension in petroleum reservoir is reduced or increased due to surfactant injection or surfactant retention, respectively. Changes in the interfacial tension crucially attribute to a governing capillary pressure and hence an oil displacement in spontaneous imbibition process. The current study attempts to elucidate an influence of such changes on spontaneous imbibition by replacing surfactant concentration consecutively with two approaches: sequential decrease and sequential increase in the interfacial tension. Two fluid flow directions were examined simultaneously: co-current and counter-current flows. With strongly oil-wet wettability, capillarity was a resisting element to oil displacement and therefore controlled by the oil-water interfacial tension. The sequential-reduced interfacial tension was found to weaken such resisting capillary force gradually and resulted in consecutive incremental oil production. On the contrary, the sequential-increased interfacial tension initiated the lowest interfacial tension fluid that produced an immediate large amount of oil, but did not much displace further oil. The current study observed a greater oil recovery obtained from a sequential reduction in the interfacial tension scheme (26.9%) compared to a conventional single reduction scheme (22.4%), with both schemes attaining same interfacial tension at last. In counter-current imbibition, same characteristics of oil displacement were observed as in co-current imbibition, with less oil produced and less sensitive to fluid changes due to negligible gravitational contribution.
title: Konvolut The Personal Distribution of Income 1
Creators: name: Steindl, Josef
Year: 2017

description: Titel fingiert. - 2 Kopien einer unveröffentlichten Version des Artikels "The Personal Distribution of Income" von August/September 1972 mit handschrifltichen Anmerkungen und Anstreichungen, zusätzlich einzelne Blätter mit teils handgeschriebenen und -gezeichneten Formeln, Tabellen und Diagrammen.
description: Konvolut aus handschriftlichen und maschinenschriftlichen Blättern (insgesamt 71)
Multifragmentation in Collisions of 4.4gev-Deuterons with Gold Target
Creators: name: Avdeyev, S. P.
name: Karnaukhov, V. A.
name: Oeschler, H.
name: Kirakosyan, V. V.
name: Rukoyatkin, P. A.
name: Budzanowski, A.
name: Karcz, W.
name: Norbeck, E.
name: Botvina, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relative velocity correlation function of pairs of intermediate mass fragments has been studied for d+Au collitions at 4.4 GeV. Experimental correlation functions are compared to that obtained by multibody Coulomb trajectory calculations under the assumption of various decay timees of the fragmenting system. The combined approach with the empirically modified intranuclear cascade code followed by the statistical multifragmentation model was used to generate the starting conditions for these calculations. The fragment emossion time is found to be less than 40 fm/c.
description: Accepted for publication in Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Physics
title: Steedman versus Kalecki
Creators: name: Steindl, Josef
Year: 2017

description: Ian Steedman, Michał Kalecki, Preistheorie.
description: Typoskript, 6 Blätter, 7 Seiten, mit zahlreichen eigenhändigen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen
Baryon Stopping in Au+Au and p+p collisions at 62 and 200 GeV
Creators: name: Dalsgaard, Hans Hjersing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BRAHMS has measured rapidity density distributions of protons and antiprotons in both p+p and Au+Au collisions at 62 GeV and 200 GeV. From these distributions the yields of so-called "net-protons", that is the difference between the proton and antiproton yields, can be determined. The rapidity dependence of the net-proton yields from peripheral Au+Au collisions is found to have a similar behaviour to that found for the p+p results, while a quite different rapidity dependence is found for central Au+Au collisions. The net-proton distributions can be used together with model calculations to find the net-baryon yields as a function of rapidity, thus yielding information on the average rapidity loss of beam particles, the baryon transport properties of the medium, and the amount of "stopping" in these collisions.
description: Proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, for the BRAHMS collaboration
Dimension, depth and zero-divisors of the algebra of basic $k$-covers of a graph
Creators: name: Benedetti, Bruno
name: Constantinescu, Alexandru
name: Varbaro, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the basic $k$-covers of a bipartite graph $G$; the algebra $\AG$ they span, first studied by Herzog, is the fiber cone of the Alexander dual of the edge ideal. We characterize when $\AG$ is a domain in terms of the combinatorics of $G$; if follows from a result of Hochster that when $\AG$ is a domain, it is also Cohen-Macaulay. We then study the dimension of $\AG$ by introducing a geometric invariant of bipartite graphs, the "graphical dimension". We show that the graphical dimension of $G$ is not larger than $\dim(\AG)$, and equality holds in many cases (e.g. when $G$ is a tree, or a cycle). Finally, we discuss applications of this theory to the arithmetical rank.
description: 31 pages
title: A Stochastic Model of Growth of the Firm in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Steindl, Josef
Year: 2017

description: Steindl versucht in diesem Manuskript sein Modell aus Kapitel 4 von "Random Processes and the Growth of Firms" mittels weiterer Konzepte wie "employment capacity of capital" oder "technological development" zu verbessern.
description: Manuskript, 13 lose Blätter, Seiten teilweise nummeriert
Millimeter characteristics of Galactic and extragalactic starbursts
Creators: name: Santangelo, Gina <1980>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010
Subjects: FIS/05 Astronomia e astrofisica

description: The goal of the thesis was to compare Galactic and extragalactic star-forming environments, to understand whether we can derive scaling relations for the extragalactic star formation from our understanding of the Galactic star formation; and to analyze the effect of the angular resolution of the observations and the molecular tracer used in extragalactic studies. 
It is therefore necessary to perform observations at the same linear resolution in both cases. With this in mind we have started a program aimed at comparing properties of mini-starburst regions in our Galaxy and starbursts in 
nearby galaxies at similar linear resolutions.
Coherent potential approximation for spatially correlated disorder
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Roland
name: Schindler, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent potential approximation (CPA) is extended to describe satisfactorily the motion of particles in a random potential which is spatially correlated and smoothly varying. In contrast to existing cluster-CPA methods, the present scheme preserves the simplicity of the conventional CPA in using a single self-energy function. Its accuracy is checked by a comparison with the exact moments of the Green's function, and with the spectral function from numerical simulations. The scheme is applied to excitonic absorption spectra in different spatial dimensions.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures. Appendix A and Fig. 8 added
Cooperative Wireless Networks for Localization
Creators: name: Severi, Stefano <1981>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2010
Subjects: ING-INF/03 Telecomunicazioni

description: This thesis adresses the problem of localization, and analyzes its crucial aspects,  within the context of cooperative WSNs. The three main issues discussed in the following are: network synchronization, position estimate and tracking.
Time synchronization is a fundamental requirement for every network. In this context, a new approach based on the estimation theory is proposed to evaluate the ultimate performance limit in network time synchronization. In particular the lower bound on the variance of the average synchronization error in a fully connected network is derived by taking into account the statistical characterization of the Message Delivering Time (MDT) .
Sensor network localization algorithms estimate the locations of sensors with initially unknown location information by using knowledge of the absolute positions of a few sensors and inter-sensor measurements such as distance and bearing measurements. Concerning this issue, i.e. the position estimate problem, two main contributions are given.
The first is a new Semidefinite Programming (SDP) framework to analyze and solve the problem of flip-ambiguity that afflicts range-based network localization algorithms with incomplete ranging information. The occurrence of flip-ambiguous nodes and errors due to flip ambiguity is studied,
then with this information a new SDP formulation of the localization problem is built. Finally a flip-ambiguity-robust network localization algorithm is derived and its performance is studied by Monte-Carlo simulations.
The second contribution in the field of position estimate is about multihop networks. A multihop network is a network with a low degree of connectivity, in which couples of given any nodes, in order to communicate, they have to rely on one or more intermediate nodes (hops).
Two new distance-based source localization algorithms, highly robust to distance overestimates, typically present in multihop networks, are presented and studied.
The last point of this thesis discuss a new low-complexity tracking algorithm, inspired by the Fano’s sequential decoding algorithm for the position tracking of a user in a WLAN-based indoor localization system.
Optimizing type-I polarization-entangled photons
Creators: name: Rangarajan, Radhika
name: Goggin, Michael
name: Kwiat, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical quantum information processing needs ultra-bright sources of entangled photons, especially from synchronizable femtosecond lasers and low-cost cw-diode lasers. Decoherence due to timing information and spatial mode-dependent phase has traditionally limited the brightness of such sources. We report on a variety of methods to optimize type-I polarization-entangled sources - the combined use of different compensation techniques to engineer high-fidelity pulsed and cw-diode laser-pumped sources, as well as the first production of polarization-entanglement directly from the highly nonlinear biaxial crystal BiB3O6 (BiBO). Using spatial compensation, we show more than a 400-fold improvement in the phase flatness, which otherwise limits efficient collection of entangled photons from BiBO, and report the highest fidelity to date (99%) of any ultrafast polarization-entanglement source. Our numerical code, available on our website, can design optimal compensation crystals and simulate entanglement from a variety of type-I phasematched nonlinear crystals.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, 1 Table
title: Distribution Theory in Marx and in Kalecki.
Creators: name: Steindl, Josef
Year: 2017

description: Verteilungstheorie bei Kalecki und Unterschiede zur marxschen Verteilungstheorie, vor allem in Bezug auf Surplus (Mehrprodukt) und Monopol.
description: Typoskript, 3 Blätter, 4 beschriebene Seiten, mit zahlreichen eigenhändigen Korrekturen und Ergänzungen
title: Accumulation and Technology
Creators: name: Steindl, Josef
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Marx, Karl (1818-1883) Kalecki, Michal (1899-1970) Technischer Fortschritt Produktivität Kapitalakkumulation Strukturwandel Arbeitslosigkeit

description: Marx, Kalecki, Rolle von Technologie/technischem Fortschritt für Akkumulation und Verteilung, technologischer Fortschritt und Arbeitslosigkeit.
description: Typoskript, 25 Blätter, mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Anstreichungen
An analysis of Canadian legislation on television advertising directed at children
Creators: name: Yeung, Rosanna Che-Yuen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The topic of this thesis is an analysis of Canadian legislation on television advertising directed at children. The purpose is to present an in-depth analysis of the present legislation and to discuss the relevance and effects it has on the advertising industry, the broadcasting industry and society as a whole. This thesis is divided into three parts. The first is concerned with a literature research of the major empirical studies done in the fields of education, psychology and sociology on the effects of television on children. The apparent lack of research data on the effects of television advertising on children is a loss but it is believed that due to the similarities of variables studied and the close interdependence of television and advertising, it is possible to infer from the evidence on effects of television on children to the effects of television advertising on children. The inference forms the major background material upon which the analysis is made. The second part is a discussion of legislation controlling advertising in general and whether it is adequate in providing protection to children. The third part is devoted to a discussion of the two provisions that deal specifically with the control of advertising directed at children, the Consumer Protection Act of Quebec and the Broadcast Code for Advertising to Children, to ascertain whether these are successful in granting the desired protection to children from objectionable advertising and whether this has been done adequately and relevantly. It is found that children devote more time to watching television than to any other activity; that they are highly imitative, especially of people they can identify with; that they are curious about almost everything and are most willing and ready to try out what they learn; that they are gullible and credulous and they do not interact the same way with television as with their parents, indicating that parental guidance and opinions are important deciding factors in their behavior patterns. While adults are usually defensive about advertising and legislation controlling advertising also takes into account our tendency to expect and condone a certain degree of puffery from advertisers, children in general lack the commercial knowledge and sophistication of cognitive development to acquire this defensive instinct and their simple mindedness and credulity make them 'preys' to advertisers. The standards of regulation of advertising directed at children are therefore necessarily higher than those used in general. There is no doubt that objective and verifiable standards of regulation are necessary. However, the tendency of present legislation to police opinions and values presented in advertising is dangerous. What we need in this society is a balanced presentation of everything and advertisement, being a reflector of society's values, should reflect all in a truthful manner.