cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: 02_1417
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Machine Learning: Metrics and Embeddings
Creators: name: Chu, Timothy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: In this thesis, we analyze new theories of clustering, one of the most fundamental tasks in machine learning. We use methods drawing from multiple disciplines, including metric embeddings, spectral algorithms, and group representation theory.
 1.We propose a metric that adapts to the shape of data, and show how to quickly compute it. These metrics may be useful for improving k-means clustering methods.
 2. We build a spectral partition method with provable theoretical guarantees. This may lead to more theoretically principled spectral clustering methods, as existing methods do not have any such guarantees. Spectral clustering is one of the most popular methods of clustering.
 3. We classify all Manhattan distance kernels. Kernel methods are one of the oldest and most established methods of clustering data. This result is a Manhattan distance analog of one of the fundamental results on machine learning kernels.
 Each of these contributions answers natural questions in machine learning theory. We develop multidisciplinary tools from disciplines ranging from linear algebra to group theory, and combine these with key ideas from metric embeddings and computational geometry.
Allosteric modulation of GABAA receptors by extracellular ATP
Creators: name: Liu, Jun
name: Wang, Yu T
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor (GABAAR) is the primary receptor mediating fast synaptic inhibition in the brain and plays a critical role in modulation of neuronal excitability and neural networks. Previous studies have demonstrated that ATP and its nucleotide analogs may regulate the function of GABAARs via Ca²⁺-dependent intracellular mechanisms, which require activation of purinergic 2 (P2) receptors or cross-talk between two receptors. Results Here, we report a potentiation of GABAARs by extracellular ATP via a previously un-recognized allosteric mechanism. Using cultured hippocampal neurons as well as HEK293 cells transiently expressing GABAARs, we demonstrate that extracellular ATP potentiates GABAAR mediated currents in a dose-dependent manner with an EC50 of 2.1 ± 0.2 mM. The potentiation was mediated by a postsynaptic mechanism that was not dependent on activation of either ecto-protein kinase or P2 receptors. Single channel recordings from cell-free excised membrane patches under outside-out mode or isolated membrane patches under cell-attached mode suggest that the ATP modulation of GABA currents is achieved through a direct action of ATP on the channels themselves and manifested by increasing the single channel open probability without alteration of its conductance. Moreover, this ATP potentiation of GABAAR could be reconstituted in HEK293 cells that transiently expressed recombinant rat GABAARs. Conclusions Our data strongly suggest that extracellular ATP allosterically potentiates GABAAR-gated chloride channels. This novel mode of ATP-mediated modulation of GABAARs may play an important role in regulating neuronal excitability and thereby in fine-tuning the excitation-inhibition balance under conditions where a high level of extracellular ATP is ensured.
Foundations for 3D Machine Knitting
Creators: name: Narayanan, Vidya
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 80103 Computer Graphics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Industrial knitting machines are programmable systems that can fabricate complex soft objects. However, this traditional manufacturing system has largely been overlooked as a technology for custom and rapid fabrication. For machine knitting to be widely adopted for custom fabrication, end users must be allowed to work in an intuitive design space instead of low-level machine operations. In this thesis, I lay out foundational tools for machine knitting that allow users to think about what they want to create in terms of 3D shapes instead of how the machine constructs by showing that programming for machine knitting can be organized to decouple high-level design challenges from low-level machine input decisions. Such an organization allows exploration of various aspects of machine-knitting independently: pattern design, layout planning, and machine-code generation. I classify the space of shapes that can be constructed with industrial knitting machines. I present a new data-structure to represent 3D shapes as knitting programs. I describe geometric algorithms to create patterns from 3D models and an editing framework to modify patterns in 3D. For fabrication, I describe a scheduling algorithm to translate patterns into low-level machine code. Together, these tools and techniques allow designers and end-users to treat 3D machine knitting as an accessible 3D-printing-like soft fabrication system.
title: Note n°104 (Introduction générale, précisions sur la clause de nationalité) : Réponse à une question parlementaire posée par M. Girard dans sa lettre du 17 janvier 1917 (48 AQ 3379)
Creators: name: CCFN, Compagnie du chemin de fer du Nord
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: Question posée par M. Girard dans sa lettre du 17 janvier 1917
Compagnie du chemin de fer du Nord : entrée 48 AQ (administration centrale). > Secrétariat général. > Dossiers. > Dossiers permanents. > Personnel (Série P 14). 48 AQ 3379 conservée aux archives Nationales du monde du travail.
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Ethical leadership required to lead Europe beyond instrumental rationality
Creators: name: April, Kurt
name: April, Amanda
name: Blass, Eddie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: This paper questions the extent to which our interpretation of diversity has been socially-constructed through a pro-conformity lens, and hence undermines the nature of diversity itself and space in which identity can be determined. Approach: The authors reflect on practice and policy in Europe resulting from the expansion of the European Union. Findings: The incumbent and emerging leaders in Europe need to better understand the issues and consequences that are emerging from the dualistic nature of the newly expanded unified Europe. Most Western European countries and companies have previously opted to either implement the minimum requirements, normally driven through law and legislation in its companies and societies, e.g., implement demographic targets to be achieved, or focus narrowly on context-relevant multiculturalism. This stems from Anglo-American practice based on the premise of instrumental reasoning, which has been adopted wholesale in Western societies with little challenge or cultural contextualisation. This contrasts with the approach that the newer EU members adopt, due largely to their experience of heightened individualism as well as communalism throughout their long political and economic histories. Now that the EU has expanded, there is both the opportunity and need for a new form of diversity management to emerge. Practical Implications: The fundamental flaw thus far is that too much of the focus has been on efficiently boxing people into certain categories, typically geographic cultural ones, and then seeking to lead them through those categorical lenses rather than fully embracing the uncertainty of diversity. Leaders need to fully engage in a more diverse discourse and the deconstruction of instrumental reasoning. Originality/value: This paper challenges the accepted interpretation of diversity in Europe by challenging the historical foundations from which it developed, arguing that this was an Anglo- American construction aimed at maximising efficiency rather than appreciating difference.
A Vlogger-augmented Graph Neural Network Model for Micro-video Recommendation
Creators: name: Lai, Weijiang
name: Jin, Beihong
name: Li, Beibei
name: Zheng, Yiyuan
name: Zhao, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing micro-video recommendation models exploit the interactions between users and micro-videos and/or multi-modal information of micro-videos to predict the next micro-video a user will watch, ignoring the information related to vloggers, i.e., the producers of micro-videos. However, in micro-video scenarios, vloggers play a significant role in user-video interactions, since vloggers generally focus on specific topics and users tend to follow the vloggers they are interested in. Therefore, in the paper, we propose a vlogger-augmented graph neural network model VA-GNN, which takes the effect of vloggers into consideration. Specifically, we construct a tripartite graph with users, micro-videos, and vloggers as nodes, capturing user preferences from different views, i.e., the video-view and the vlogger-view. Moreover, we conduct cross-view contrastive learning to keep the consistency between node embeddings from the two different views. Besides, when predicting the next user-video interaction, we adaptively combine the user preferences for a video itself and its vlogger. We conduct extensive experiments on two real-world datasets. The experimental results show that VA-GNN outperforms multiple existing GNN-based recommendation models.
CHARTER OF TRIESTE Accessibility to services for all persons [ESOF2020 - Sept 5th 2020] - DRAFT
Creators: name: Manca, Marco
name: Bertinato, Luigi
name: Gabbrielli, Francesco
name: Kercher, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: inclusion; innovation; healthcare

description: In 2017 Federsanità ANCI FVG in collaboration with the Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region, the Regional FVG Health System, the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), and with the specific support of the National Centre for Telemedicine and New Healthcare Technologies, launched the project “Accessibility and Health Safety for All” to support strategies in ensuring the adequate accessibility to services for all people, considering the digital innovations.
 Following the results of that previous study and the scientific debates during the EuroScience Open Forum 2020 at Trieste, they announce with “EIDD – Design for All Europe” and “SCImPULSE Foundation” the following text as the “Charter of Trieste on the accessibility to services for all persons”.
Towards Elastic and Resilient In-Network Computing
Creators: name: Kim, Daehyeok
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 100503 Computer Communications Networks
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recent advances in programmable networking hardware technology such as programmable switches and smart network interface cards create a new computing paradigm called in-network computing. This new paradigm allows functionality that has been served by servers or proprietary hardware devices, ranging from network middleboxes to components of distributed systems, to now be performed in the network. The demand for higher performance and the commercial availability of programmable hardware have driven the popularity of in-network computing. While many recent efforts have demonstrated the performance benefit of innetwork computing, we observe a significant gap between what it offers today and evolving application demands. In particular, we argue that in-network computing lacks resource elasticity and fault resiliency which are essential building blocks for practical computing platforms, limiting its potential. Elasticity can address the shortcoming that today’s in-network computing only supports a simple deployment model where a single application runs on a single device equipped with fixed and limited resources. Similarly, fault resiliency is critical for managing prevalent device failures for the correctness and performance of applications, but it has gained little attention. Although resource elasticity and fault resiliency have been extensively studied for traditional CPU server-based computing, we find that enabling them on programmable networking devices is challenging, especially due to their low-level abstractions, hardware constraints, heterogeneity, and workload characteristics. In this thesis, we argue that by designing high-level abstractions and runtime environments that help leverage compute and memory resources available outside of one type of device, we can make in-network computing more elastic and resilient without any hardware modifications. This concept, which we call device resource augmentation, is a key enabler for resource elasticity and fault resiliency for stateful in-network applications written for programmable switches. In particular, we design three systems, named TEA, ExoPlane, and RedPlane, that use this concept to support elastic memory and elastic compute/memory, and fault resiliency, respectively. Each of these systems consists of a key abstraction, programming APIs, and a runtime environment. We demonstrate their feasibility and effectiveness with prototype implementations and evaluations using various in-network applications. Putting all the pieces together, developers can easily enable resource elasticity and fault resiliency for their applications without worrying about underlying complexities.
Energy-Efficient Data Reduction Techniques for Wireless Seizure Detection Systems
Creators: name: Chiang, Joyce
name: Ward, Rabab Kreidieh
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The emergence of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has motivated a paradigm shift in patient monitoring and disease control. Epilepsy management is one of the areas that could especially benefit from the use of WSN. By using miniaturized wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors, it is possible to perform ambulatory EEG recording and real-time seizure detection outside clinical settings. One major consideration in using such a wireless EEG-based system is the stringent battery energy constraint at the sensor side. Different solutions to reduce the power consumption at this side are therefore highly desired. The conventional approach incurs a high power consumption, as it transmits the entire EEG signals wirelessly to an external data server (where seizure detection is carried out). This paper examines the use of data reduction techniques for reducing the amount of data that has to be transmitted and, thereby, reducing the required power consumption at the sensor side. Two data reduction approaches are examined: compressive sensing-based EEG compression and low-complexity feature extraction. Their performance is evaluated in terms of seizure detection effectiveness and power consumption. Experimental results show that by performing low-complexity feature extraction at the sensor side and transmitting only the features that are pertinent to seizure detection to the server, a considerable overall saving in power is achieved. The battery life of the system is increased by 14 times, while the same seizure detection rate as the conventional approach (95%) is maintained.
A novel recurrent mutation in ATP1A3 causes CAPOS syndrome
Creators: name: Demos, Michelle K.
name: Van Karnebeek, Clara D.
name: Ross, Colin J.
name: Adam, Shelin
name: Shen, Yaoqing
name: Zhan, Shing H.
name: Shyr, Casper
name: Horvath, Gabriella
name: Suri, Mohnish
name: Fryer, Alan
name: Jones, Steven J. M.
name: Friedman, J. M. (Jan Marshall), 1947-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: We undertook genetic analysis of three affected families to identify the cause of dominantly-inherited CAPOS (cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, pes cavus, optic atrophy and sensorineural hearing loss) syndrome. Methods We used whole-exome sequencing to analyze two families affected with CAPOS syndrome, including the original family reported in 1996, and Sanger sequencing to assess familial segregation of rare variants identified in the probands and in a third, apparently unrelated family with CAPOS syndrome. Results We found an identical heterozygous missense mutation, c.2452G > A (p.(Glu818Lys)), in the Na+/K+ ATPase α3 (ATP1A3) gene in the proband and his affected sister and mother, but not in either unaffected maternal grandparent, in the first family. The same mutation was also identified in the proband and three other affected members of the second family and in all three affected members of the third family. This mutation was not found in more than 3600 chromosomes from unaffected individuals. Conclusion Other mutations in ATP1A3 have previously been demonstrated to cause rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism (also called dystonia-12) or alternating hemiplegia of childhood. This study shows that an allelic mutation in ATP1A3 produces CAPOS syndrome.
Generalizations and Applications of Hypercontractivity and Small-Set Expansion
Creators: name: Zhao, Yu
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 80201 Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hypercontractive inequalities and small-set expansion are two fundamental topics closely related to each other and play important roles in many fields, including hardness of approximation, probability theory, social choice theory, information theory, and cryptography. This thesis studies generalizations and applications of hypercontractivity and small-set expansion in the following areas: ? The recent breakthrough proof of the 2-to-2 games conjecture was completed by showing a pseudorandom-set expansion result on Grassmann graphs [KMS18]. A similar property has also been shown on Johnson graphs [KMMS18]. These results can be seen as an improved version of small-set expansion on pseudorandom sets. We prove the pseudorandom-set expansion result on general product probability spaces, with a very clean and short proof. A key step in the proof involves a new hypercontractive-style inequality. ? The communication-assisted agreement distillation problem is about two parties with noisy private randomness trying to extract a common random string via communication. We give the optimal upper bound on the amount of communication necessary for achieving constant success probability for this problem. In addition, we calculate the optimal communication for the reverse binary erasure channel case by studying properties of extreme points in its hypercontractivity region. The proof technique is highly related to the equivalence of hypercontractivity and small-set expansion. ? “Decoupling” refers to the idea of analyzing a complicated random sum involving dependent random variables by comparing it to a simpler random sum where some independence is introduced between the variables. We present a new kind of “one-block decoupling” with better parameters than the classical results. We use decoupling and hypercontractivity to show tight tail bounds of low-degree Boolean functions and tight versions of several theorems from [DFKO07]. ? A probability distribution over f {-1,1}n is k-wise uniform if its marginal distribution on every subset of k coordinates is the uniform distribution. These k-wise uniform distributions have the property that all low-degree Fourier coefficients of their density functions are equal to zero. Motivated by this, we use hypercontractive inequalities to study the properties of low-degree Fourier weights of Boolean function. In particular, we show better bounds for the Closeness and Testing problems of k-wise uniformity.
Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade
Creators: name: Elsik, Christine G.
name: Worley, Kim C.
name: Bennett, Anna K.
name: Beye, Martin
name: Camara, Francisco
name: Childers, Christopher P.
name: De Graaf, Dirk C.
name: Debyser, Griet
name: Deng, Jixin
name: Devreese, Bart
name: Elhaik, Eran
name: Evans, Jay D.
name: Foster, Leonard J.
name: Graur, Dan
name: Guigo, Roderic
name: Hoff, Katharina J.
name: Holder, Michael E.
name: Hudson, Matthew E.
name: Hunt, Greg J.
name: Jiang, Huaiyang
name: Joshi, Vandita
name: Khetani, Radhika S.
name: Kosarev, Peter
name: Kovar, Christie L.
name: Ma, Jian
name: Maleszka, Ryszard
name: Moritz, Robin F. A.
name: Munoz-Torres, Monica C.
name: Murphy, Terence D.
name: Muzny, Donna M.
name: Newsham, Irene F.
name: Reese, Justin T.
name: Robertson, Hugh M.
name: Robinson, Gene E.
name: Rueppell, Olav
name: Solovyev, Victor
name: Stanke, Mario
name: Stolle, Eckart
name: Tsuruda, Jennifer M.
name: Vaerenbergh, Matthias V.
name: Waterhouse, Robert M.
name: Weaver, Daniel B.
name: Whitfield, Charles W.
name: Wu, Yuanqing
name: Zdobnov, Evgeny M.
name: Zhang, Lan
name: Zhu, Dianhui
name: Gibbs, Richard A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The first generation of genome sequence assemblies and annotations have had a significant impact upon our understanding of the biology of the sequenced species, the phylogenetic relationships among species, the study of populations within and across species, and have informed the biology of humans. As only a few Metazoan genomes are approaching finished quality (human, mouse, fly and worm), there is room for improvement of most genome assemblies. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome, published in 2006, was noted for its bimodal GC content distribution that affected the quality of the assembly in some regions and for fewer genes in the initial gene set (OGSv1.0) compared to what would be expected based on other sequenced insect genomes. Results: Here, we report an improved honey bee genome assembly (Amel_4.5) with a new gene annotation set (OGSv3.2), and show that the honey bee genome contains a number of genes similar to that of other insect genomes, contrary to what was suggested in OGSv1.0. The new genome assembly is more contiguous and complete and the new gene set includes ~5000 more protein-coding genes, 50% more than previously reported. About 1/6 of the additional genes were due to improvements to the assembly, and the remaining were inferred based on new RNAseq and protein data. Conclusions: Lessons learned from this genome upgrade have important implications for future genome sequencing projects. Furthermore, the improvements significantly enhance genomic resources for the honey bee, a key model for social behavior and essential to global ecology through pollination.
Implications of the Projected High Demand for Electricity in Kenya- An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: Mwango, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This presentation constitutes the outcome of a three-weeks capacity building activity on GEP-OnSSET as part of the 2024 Energy Modelling Platform - Global workshop. The authors collected input data, set parameters, calibrated the model, and run electrification investment scenarios for Kenya in order to explore pathways leading to the achievement of electrification targets. The results of this analysis are not conclusive, but rather the output of experimentation with the model and thus only indicative. You may contact the author for more information and/or questions about the methodology, limitations, and follow-up activities of this study.
Training Deep Networks with Material-Aware Supervision
Creators: name: Zhi, Tiancheng
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning is a strong tool for predicting scene properties from images. Typical supervised methods require large scale real data with ground truth, which is hard to obtain. This situation demands techniques with little ground truth real data. Without annotations, an apparent question is: Where does the supervision signal come from for training deep networks? In this thesis, we demonstrate that the awareness of materials provides such easy-to-obtain signals. We also present a framework that can be used for different tasks to exploit material-aware supervisions. We consider four forms of supervision signals in the framework: ground truth and photometric supervisions from appearance models, and adversarial and confidence supervisions from appearance locations. Specifically, given a task, an approximate appearance model can be built to describe the whole or part of the scene. With this model, we could render synthetic images for ground truth supervision or optimize the networks using photometric supervision. The scene may also contain spatially-varying materials providing additional appearance location information. Such information can be used for separating special appearances using adversarial supervision, or fixing failure cases using confidence supervision. We present four applications to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. In the first application, we introduce an approach for fine-grained recognition of powders on complex backgrounds, to provide an example of synthetic ground truth supervision from translucent material awareness. We build a blending model for synthesizing images of translucent powders on various backgrounds. As a second contribution, we demonstrate a method for recovering human texture and geometry from an RGB-D video, as an example of photometric supervision from Lambertian material model. In the third task, we propose a floor appearance decomposition approach for realistic object insertion, as an example of adversarial supervision for diffuse-specular separation and direct sunlight detection. We obtain coarse locations of specular and sunlight appearances based on layout geometry and the awareness of emissive and transparent materials. Lastly, we present a cross-spectral stereo matching method for road scenes, to show that the confidence supervision from non-Lambertian appearance locations helps fix regions of failure. We believe that the method proposed in this thesis can be used in more real applications, including interior design, medical imaging, and autonomous driving, especially when ground truth real data are not easy to obtain.
Structure and Spectroscopy of Squaramide based Foldamers
Creators: name: PANDEY, AMAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340505
subject: Physical organic chemistry

description: This thesis provides an overview of the key findings in a thesis. It discusses the synthesis of squaramates and squaramides with varying alkyl chain lengths, primarily for foldamer formation. However, intermolecular interactions in the crystal structures led to open molecular structures. Unique crystal packing was observed in different cases. The crystal structures revealed catemers with N–H ···O hydrogen bonding and π-stacking. Some cases also exhibited H ···H bonding. The relationship between crystal structure and mechanical properties was explored using nanoindentation, showing exceptional properties for specific squaramates and squaramides due to crystal packing. Anion binding capabilities of phenyl alkyl squaramides were investigated through spectroscopic methods. Macrocyclic squaramides were synthesized using lysine but didn't yield desired results in anion encapsulation.
Adaptive query relaxation and processing over heterogeneous XML data sources
Creators: name: Li, Jianxin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Traditionally, searching XML data with a structured query often identifies the exact matches for the query and returns them as the qualified results. However, the structural heterogeneity of the large number of XML data sources will make it difficult to answer the structured queries exactly. As such, query relaxation is necessary when the exact results do not exist or the number of the exact results is not enough. Previous work on XML query relaxation poses the problem of unnecessary computation of a big number of unqualified relaxed queries. This thesis addresses several fundamental issues in ranking a set of heterogeneous XML data sources, designing the adaptive relaxation rules and efficiently processing the relaxed queries over the data sources. Relaxing the specified queries may loose the constraints of the users' original preferences, which can increase the number of relevant results significantly. Therefore, in this work the users' queries would be answered with a ranked list of the best matched results, e.g., top-k problem means that only the top k relevant results are interesting to users. In addition, at each time we prefer to evaluate the relaxed queries over the data source that is the most relevant to the specified queries, and incrementally output the retrieved results that are guaranteed to have the higher relevance to the queries than the candidates in the other data sources, thus minimizing query processing time. However, query relaxation would become time-consuming and ineffective in some cases, such as the data structure is too complex for users to write structured queries, or the users do not know structured query languages. To address this problem, we allow users to issue keyword queries. Different from previous keyword search methods, we first construct structured query templates based on the given keyword query and the underlying source schemas and then evaluate the query templates to answer the original keyword query based on our proposed ranking model.
From ladders of participation to networks of participation: social media and museum audiences
Creators: name: Kelly, Lynda
name: Russo, Angelina
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Given increasing access to the Internet and the rise of social networking, it is becoming imperative for museums to understand not only who use the Internet, but also how and why they are using it. Previous ways of classifying users typically used demographic data or analysed search and visiting patterns. However, these methods often lack the depth of information needed to understand why people engage in certain behaviours. This paper will explore recent examples of types of on-line participation and classifications, reporting on three recent studies undertaken at the Australian Museum.
Reproductive trade-offs maintain bract color polymorphism in Scarlet Indian paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)
Creators: name: Kim, Eun Sun
name: Zaya, David N
name: Fant, Jeremie B
name: Ashley, Mary
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Populations of scarlet Indian paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea) in the Midwestern United States exhibit a bract color polymorphism, with each population having predominantly yellow or scarlet bracts. We investigated a possible mechanism for this maintenance of bract color polymorphism in C. coccinea by conducting hand-pollination experiments in two nearby populations, one predominantly yellow and one predominantly scarlet. The hand-pollination treatments were either self-pollination or cross pollination using pollen from within and between populations. Both color morphs were used as pollen donors for the within and between crosses. We found that both color morphs of C. coccinea were self-compatible. When the scarlet morph was the maternal plant it had higher seed set. When pollinators were excluded, the yellow morph outperformed the scarlet morph in fruit set and seed set. The apparent trade-offs between a higher reproductive output in the scarlet morph and a reproductive assurance advantage in the yellow morph may explain the maintenance of the polymorphism in C. coccinea. While many previous studies have provided evidence for pollinator preference playing a role in floral color polymorphism, the results of the current study indicate that reproductive assurance, which would be important for fluctuations in pollinator abundance or colonizing new areas, may act as a selective agent to maintain such polymorphisms.
Correspondence between T. Bayles Minuse, Ward Melville and Edward R. Hoehl regarding construction and the clearing of Charles Forsyth's Field, August 1955
Creators: name: Minuse, T. Bayles
name: Melville, Ward
name: Hoehl, Edward R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Stony Brook
Concert halls
Amphitheaters
Construction
Correspondence

description: These letters between T. Bayles Minuse, Ward Melville and Edward R. Hoehl regard construction and the clearing of Charles Forsyth's Field, dated for August 1955.
Regularized Hierarchical Models for Remotely Sensed Forest Inventories.
Creators: name: Rutenbeck, Nathan E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Management and conservation of the world’s forests is critical for maintaining global timber supply, as well as for the ecosystem services forestlands provide. Forest biometrics remains a field focused on traditional methods in sampling and regression, despite the fact that these methods are ill equipped to utilize the profusion of remote sensing data now available. When remote sensing data is used, it is often deployed within simple population-level regression models that simultaneously leave out information regarding known forest structure and sample design, and are prone to overfitting of effects at the population level. Using Stan, we show that for the prediction of forest basal area (a key inventory attribute) incorporating known structural attributes (forest stands) and sample design information into a hierarchical modeling framework along with remote sensing data can yield beneficial results in terms of reducing overfitting and improving predictive performance when compared to more conventional methods. We fit and compared four candidate models, examining their performance with respect to one another and to the conventional frequentist inferences that are so widely used for operational forest inventory. The four models we examined are 1) a hierarchical model incorporating forest stand and sample design effects; 2) a population-level remote sensing principal components model; 3) the hierarchical model with the addition of remote sensing principal component effects at the population level; and 4) the hierarchical and remote sensing model with the addition of regularizing horseshoe priors on remote sensing effects. The hierarchical model without remote sensing effects showed the expected shrinkage of stand-level mean basal area predictions toward the global mean. The addition of remote sensing effects showed overall reductions in prediction error in comparison to the sample design model. Incorporating regularizing priors on the remote sensing principal components effects retained signal from the remote sensing data but showed further shrinkage of predictions of stand-level mean basal area toward sample means. Our results suggest that the penalized hierarchical model can be used in developing operational forest inventories that balance information from known forest structural heterogeneity, the sample design, and remote sensing data.
Evaluating the tension with a not-for-profit organization, when developing a business model for the maintenance of a sustainable profitable business venture
Creators: name: Mosek, Linda
name: Gillin, Murray
name: Katzenstein, Liora
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research examined the affect of social capital on venture performance in a not-for-profit. Using longitudinal case study methodology, triangulation was achieved through analysing historical documentation, social capital measures and financial indicators. Results showed that social capital provides crucial resources and information in the business development process, according to a time line. The model for 'the opportunity creation process' (Guclu, Dees and Anderson 2002) was then employed, as a tool for the presentation of data, when testing the process of developing a business model in the third sector; with the addition of social capital concepts, as the social impact theory.
Deer Florivory Is Associated with Changes in Clonal Structure of the Woodland Plant Bluebead Lily
Creators: name: Palagi, Jason M
name: Ashley, Mary
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Premise of research. Many plant species balance resource allocation between sexual and asexual reproduction. Ecological factors that alter this balance can have important effects on plant populations. By eliminating flowers, floral herbivory (florivory) reduces sexual reproduction and consequently shifts reproductive allocation toward asexual reproduction. Over time, the clonal structure of the population may change. To investigate long-term effects of florivory, we characterized clonal structure in patches of the woodland herb Clintonia borealis (Liliaceae), or the bluebead lily. Methodology. A common understory species of North American boreal forests, bluebead lily is a favorite spring food of Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer. We sampled patches of bluebead lily located on islands in the Great Lakes, which either had or did not have white-tailed deer. Genotyping using newly developed microsatellite markers allowed clones to be identified. Pivotal results. The clonal structure, measured as the genet-to-ramet ratio (G∶N) of a patch, averaged 0.104 genets per ramet on islands with deer, compared with 0.458 genets per ramet on islands without deer. The difference was significant, based on a linear mixed effects model (∆AICc = 3:94, Akaike weight = 0.878), and the effect size, as measured by Cohen’s d was 1.995. We also observed significantly lower clonal diversity and clonal evenness on islands with deer, which in turn could further limit sexual reproduction due to self-sterility or inbreeding. Conclusions. While the effects of white-tailed deer on plant community structure have been well documented, our results suggest that they may also have significant effects on the reproductive dynamics of individual plant species.
Metamagnetic multiband Hall effect in Ising antiferromagnet ErGa$_2$
Creators: name: Kurumaji, Takashi
name: Fang, Shiang
name: Ye, Linda
name: Kitou, Shunsuke
name: Checkelsky, Joseph G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frustrated rare-earth-based intermetallics provide a promising platform for emergent magnetotransport properties through exchange coupling between conduction electrons and localized rare-earth magnetic moments. Metamagnetism, the abrupt change of magnetization under an external magnetic field, is a signature of first-order magnetic phase transitions; recently, metamagnetic transitions in frustrated rare earths intermetallics have attracted interest for their accompanying nontrivial spin structures (e.g. skyrmions) and associated non-linear and topological Hall effects. Here, we present metamagnetism-induced Hall anomalies in single-crystalline ErGa$_2$, which recalls features arising from the topological Hall effect but wherein the strong Ising type anisotropy of Er moments prohibit noncoplanar spin structures. We show that the observed anomalies are neither due to anomalous Hall effect nor topological Hall effect, instead, can be accounted for via 4f-5d interactions which produce a band-dependent mobility modulation. This leads to a pronounced multiband Hall response across the magnetization process -- a metamagnetic multiband Hall effect that resembles a topological-Hall-like response but without nontrivial origins. The present findings may be of general relevance in itinerant metamagnetic systems regardless of coplanar/non-coplanar nature of spins and are important for the accurate identification of Hall signals due to emergent magnetic fields.
description: Main 15 pages, 4 figures, Supple 22 pages, 9 figures, 1 Table
T. Bayles Minuse to the Manager of Newsday, Regarding Reduced Advertising Rates, August 11, 1955
Creators: name: Minuse, T. Bayles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Stony Brook
Newspapers
Advertisements
Correspondence

description: This letter is written by T. Bayles Minuse to Newsday on August 11, 1955, in regards to a reduced rate for advertisement.
Interpretable classification of wiki-review streams
Creators: name: Méndez, Silvia García
name: Leal, Fátima
name: Malheiro, Benedita
name: Rial, Juan Carlos Burguillo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wiki articles are created and maintained by a crowd of editors, producing a continuous stream of reviews. Reviews can take the form of additions, reverts, or both. This crowdsourcing model is exposed to manipulation since neither reviews nor editors are automatically screened and purged. To protect articles against vandalism or damage, the stream of reviews can be mined to classify reviews and profile editors in real-time. The goal of this work is to anticipate and explain which reviews to revert. This way, editors are informed why their edits will be reverted. The proposed method employs stream-based processing, updating the profiling and classification models on each incoming event. The profiling uses side and content-based features employing Natural Language Processing, and editor profiles are incrementally updated based on their reviews. Since the proposed method relies on self-explainable classification algorithms, it is possible to understand why a review has been classified as a revert or a non-revert. In addition, this work contributes an algorithm for generating synthetic data for class balancing, making the final classification fairer. The proposed online method was tested with a real data set from Wikivoyage, which was balanced through the aforementioned synthetic data generation. The results attained near-90 % values for all evaluation metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure).
V Reunión de Coordinación de las Redes LILACS y BVS: La importancia del control bibliográfico para la visibilidad de la producción científica y técnica de AL&C
Creators: name: Suga, Sueli Mitiko Yano
name: Abdala, Carmen Verônica Mendes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: LILACS database
LILACS network coordination
LILACS methodology

description: V Reunión de Coordinación de las Redes LILACS y BVS Fecha: 04/05/2022 Agenda del día La importancia del control bibliográfico para la visibilidad de la producción científica y técnica de AL&C, por Verônica Abdala ¿Como alcanzamos el control bibliográfico? por Sueli Suga Compartiendo Experiencia: Control bibliográfico en el área de Enfermería en Colombia por Prof Wilson Cañon, coordinador de la Red BVS Enfermería de Colombia
ontology of becoming
Creators: name: Delahousse Jean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ontology, knowledge graph, temporality

description: Ontologies of becoming Time passes, the objects of the world evolve. How to take this into account in knowledge graphs? The description of a domain often requires taking into account the passage of time and the evolution of the objects described: a concert is presented in a program before being played, a legislative project evolves according to amendments to the European Parliament, the educational programs change from year to year, the list of countries changes with political events, a pokemon undergoes evolutions, a project is planned, entrusted and carried out by an organization, the medical parameters of a patient vary, the cell is transformed and divided, the taste of wine evolves over time, the organization chart of the company changes…. Ontologies, whether philosophical or computer-based, are often concerned with describing a fixed world where the objects of the world, their classification, and the value of their properties are immutable. Yet we need every day to describe resources in their dynamics, in their continual changes. Some philosophers have reflected on this issue, some knowledge graph ontologies have taken this need into account, but generally only partially.
Dispersal ability correlates with range size in Amazonian habitat-restricted birds
Creators: name: Capurucho, João MG
name: Ashley, Mary
name: Tsuru, Brian R
name: Cooper, Jacob C
name: Bates, John M
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Understanding how species attain their geographical distributions and identifying traits correlated with range size are important objectives in biogeography, evolutionary biology and biodiversity conservation. Despite much effort, results have been varied and general trends have been slow to emerge. Studying species pools that occupy specific habitats, rather than clades or large groupings of species occupying diverse habitats, may better identify ranges size correlates and be more informative for conservation programmes in a rapidly changing world. We evaluated correlations between a set of organismal traits and range size in bird species from Amazonian white-sand ecosystems. We assessed if results are consistent when using different data sources for phylogenetic and range hypotheses. We found that dispersal ability, as measured by the hand-wing index, was correlated with range size in both white-sand birds and their non-white-sand sister taxa. White-sand birds had smaller ranges on average than their sister taxa. The results were similar and robust to the different data sources. Our results suggest that the patchiness of white-sand ecosystems limits species' ability to reach new habitat islands and establish new populations.
Patient experiences with outpatient cancer care in British Columbia, 2012/13
Creators: name: Black, Charlyn, 1954-
name: Mooney, Dawn
name: Peterson, Sandra
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this report is to describe British Columbians’ perceptions and reported experiences with outpatient cancer care, to compare their responses to those of other Canadians, and to determine if there have been changes in patient experiences for comparable BC patients who were surveyed in 2005/06. This is the second report to provide descriptive information about this sector of the health care system. The first, published in 2007, described the results of the 2005/06 survey.