cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agile and Scalable Design and Dimensioning of NFV-Enabled MEC Infrastructure to Support Heterogeneous Latency-Critical Applications
Creators: name: Abou Haibeh, Lina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mobile edge computing

description: Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently been introduced as a key technology, emerging in response to the increased focus on the emergence of new heterogeneous computing applications, resource-constrained mobile devices, and the long delay of traditional cloud data centers. Although many researchers have studied how the heterogeneous latency-critical application requirements can interact with the MEC system, very few have addressed how to deploy a flexible and scalable MEC infrastructure at the mobile operator for the expected heterogeneous mobile traffic. The proposed system model in this research project relies on the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) concept to virtualize the MEC infrastructure and provide scalable and flexible infrastructure regardless of the underlying physical hardware. In NFV-enabled networks, the received mobile workload is often deployed as Service Function Chains (SFCs), responsible for accomplishing users' service requests by steering traffic through different VNF types and virtual links. Thus, efficient VNF placement and orchestration mechanisms are required to address the challenges of the heterogenous users' requests, various Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, and network traffic dynamicity. This research project addresses the scalable design and dimensioning of an agile NFV-enabled MEC infrastructure problem from a dual perspective. First, a neural network model (i.e., a subset of machine learning) helps proactively auto-scale the various virtual service instances by predicting the number of SFCs required for a time-varying mobile traffic load. Second, the Mixed-Integer Linear Program (MILP) is used to create a physical MEC system infrastructure by mapping the predicted virtual SFC networks to the MEC nodes while minimizing deployment costs. Numerical results show that the machine learning (ML) model achieves a high prediction accuracy of 95.6%, which demonstrates the added value of using the ML technique at the edge network in reducing deployment costs while ensuring delay requirements for different latency-critical applications with high acceptance rates. Due to the exponential nature of this MILP formulation, we also propose a scalable bender decomposition approach with near-optimal results at a significantly reduced design and dimensioning cost. Numerical results show the viability of the bender decomposition approach in its proximity to the optimal dimensioning cost and in its reasonable solution time.
PlasticsFatE Newsletter No.1 February 2022
Creators: name: Tobin, Lesley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: microplastics
nanoplastics
human health
plastic particles
environmental exposure
toxicity
FAIR data
H2020 PlasticsFatE / CUSP

description: Welcome to the PlasticsFatE Project's first newsletter. The main goal of PlasticsFatE (Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body) is to improve our present understanding of the impact of micro- and nano-plastics (MP/NP) and associated additives/adsorbed contaminants (A/C) in the human body. Human exposure to MP/NP may result from the widespread use of plastic products and their release to the environment, where they degrade to MP/NP particles. But plastics particles reach natural systems as secondary by-products, e.g., from tyre wear or abrasion of textiles. As a consequence, these particles are found in food, drinking water, air and environmental media (food chain, soils). Despite recent efforts to assess the real dimension of human risks associated with MP/NP, our current knowledge is still insufficient. One of the reasons is the lack of reliable and validated methods that are able to generate the science-based data we need. PlasticsFatE will address this challenge and associated uncertainties by implementing a comprehensive measurement and testing program ("test the test"), including inter-laboratory studies, to improve and validate the performance and applicability of available methods and tools to MP/NP. The tested and validated approaches will be used to (1) identify and detect MP/NP and A/C in a variety of complex matrices, such as food (vegetables, fruits, beverages, fish etc.), human tissues and consumer products (tooth paste, beauty products), as well as relevant environmental media (air, drinking water, soils), and to (2) assess their (also long-term) fate and toxicity in the human body by using advanced cell culture and organ models that simulate real exposure to MP/NP in the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tract. The newly developed innovative approaches will be integrated into a novel risk assessment strategy specifically designed for MP/NP to provide the policy relevant and scientifically sound data needed to support the health-relevant aims of European strategies for plastics. PlasticsFatE is part of the European MNP cluster on human health. PlasticsFatE is a 48-month project funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union under the Grant Agreement number 965367. The project will run from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2025. We hope you enjoy reading this first issue. Please feel free to register for project news and updates: https://www.plasticsfate.eu/contact
Disjunctive ASP with Functions: Decidable Queries and Effective Computation
Creators: name: Alviano, Mario
name: Faber, Wolfgang
name: Leone, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1; I.2.4

description: Querying over disjunctive ASP with functions is a highly undecidable task in general. In this paper we focus on disjunctive logic programs with stratified negation and functions under the stable model semantics (ASP^{fs}). We show that query answering in this setting is decidable, if the query is finitely recursive (ASP^{fs}_{fr}). Our proof yields also an effective method for query evaluation. It is done by extending the magic set technique to ASP^{fs}_{fr}. We show that the magic-set rewritten program is query equivalent to the original one (under both brave and cautious reasoning). Moreover, we prove that the rewritten program is also finitely ground, implying that it is decidable. Importantly, finitely ground programs are evaluable using existing ASP solvers, making the class of ASP^{fs}_{fr} queries usable in practice.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 2 of Effects of trees, gardens, and nature trails on heat index and child health: design and methods of the Green Schoolyards Project
Creators: name: Lanza, Kevin
name: Alcazar, Melody
name: Hoelscher, Deanna M.
name: Kohl, Harold W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Connection to nature survey: Inclusion of Nature with Self and Connection to Nature Index. Connection to nature survey instrument administered annually to cohort sample, based on two instruments: Inclusion of Nature with Self and Connection to Nature Index.
Atomistic spin-model based on a new spin-cluster expansion technique: Application to the IrMn3/Co interface
Creators: name: Szunyogh, L.
name: Udvardi, L.
name: Jackson, J.
name: Nowak, U.
name: Chantrell, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to derive tensorial exchange interactions and local magnetic anisotropies in itinerant magnetic systems, an approach combining the Spin-Cluster Expansion with the Relativistic Disordered Local Moment scheme is introduced. The theoretical background and computational aspects of the method are described in detail. The exchange interactions and site resolved anisotropy contributions for the IrMn3/Co(111) interface, a prototype for an exchange bias system, are calculated including a large number of magnetic sites from both the antiferromagnet and ferromagnet. Our calculations reveal that the coupling between the two subsystems is fairly limited to the vicinity of the interface. The magnetic anisotropy of the interface system is discussed, including effects of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions that appear due to symmetry breaking at the interface.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of Reliability and construct validity of the modified Finnish version of the 9-item patient health questionnaire and its associations within the biopsychosocial framework among female health-care workers with sub-acute or recurrent low back pain
Creators: name: J. H. Suni
name: T. Virkkunen
name: P. Husu
name: K. Tokola
name: J. Parkkari
name: Kankaanpää, M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. The PHQ-9-mFIN questions.
AMBER observations of the AGB star RS Cap: extended atmosphere and comparison with stellar models
Creators: name: Marti-Vidal, I.
name: Marcaide, J. M.
name: Quirrenbach, A.
name: Ohnaka, K.
name: Guirado, J. C.
name: Wittkowski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on K-band VLTI/AMBER observations at medium spectral resolution ($\sim$1500) of RS Capricorni, an M6/M7III semi-regular AGB star. From the spectrally-dispersed visibilities, we measure the star diameter as a function of observing wavelength from 2.13 to 2.47 microns. We derive a Rosseland angular diameter of $7.95 \pm 0.07$ mas, which corresponds to an effective temperature of $3160 \pm 160$ K. We detect size variations of around 10% in the CO band heads, indicating strong opacity effects of CO in the stellar photosphere. We also detect a linear increase of the size as a function of wavelength, beginning at 2.29 microns. Models of the stellar atmosphere, based on the mass of the star as estimated from stellar-evolution models, predict CO-size effects about half of those observed, and cannot reproduce the linear size increase with wavelength, redward of 2.29 microns. We are able to model this linear size increase with the addition of an extended water-vapor envelope around the star. However, we are not able to fit the data in the CO bandheads. Either the mass of the star is overestimated by the stellar-evolution models and/or there is an additional extended CO envelope in the outer part of the atmosphere. In any case, neither the water-vapor envelope, nor the CO envelope, can be explained using the current models.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Modeling the Effects of Climate Change on Forest Succession in Northern Michigan
Creators: name: Qoronfleh, Hana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: climate change
UMBS
forests
modeling

description: Following a well-known successional dynamic in eastern North America, the species composition in many northern Michigan forests is changing as early successional species that colonized after the logging and fires of the early 20th century reach the end of their life spans. What is not well-understood is how changing climate (predicted to be overall warmer and drier by the end of the 21st century) will also influence future species composition. To address this knowledge gap, in this study I modeled forest composition and succession over a regionally representative northern temperate landscape under different climate scenarios. The study site was the University of Michigan Biological Station (4046 ha) in northern Lower Michigan. My objectives were to: 1) develop the needed input data to parameterize, calibrate, and run the LANDIS-II forest landscape model and its PNet succession module at the landscape level, 2) develop three different future climate scenarios for the study region – a static climate scenario, a moderate warming scenario with up to 4 degrees of warming compared to the current climatology, and a high warming scenario with up to 8 degrees of warming compared to the current climatology, and 3) use the parameterized LANDIS-II/PNet models to predict changes in forest successional composition and biomass under the different climate scenarios, and analyze these by regionally-important species and by landform-level ecosystems. Species biomass and response to climate change varied among landform-level ecosystems. Results showed that under all climate scenarios and landforms, the early successional species of birch and aspen decreased. While later successional species like white pine, red maple, sugar maple, beech, balsam fir, oak, and hickory increased in biomass under all climate scenarios, the increase was greater for sugar maple, fir, hickory, hemlock, and oak under the high warming scenario. Red maple increased the most under both the moderate and the high warming scenarios. The overall changes were largest under the high warming scenario. All other species showed mixed or similar increases under all climate scenarios. There was little expansion of species from one landform-level ecosystem type to another within the UMBS area. These results show the influence of potential climate change, and also the continued importance that non-climactic factors such as land-use history and soil fertility have in determining species locations.
Universal features of Thermopower in High Tc systems and Quantum Criticality
Creators: name: Garg, Arti
name: Shastry, B. Sriram
name: Dave, Kiaran B.
name: Phillips, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In high Tc superconductors a wide ranging connection between the doping dependence of the transition temperature Tc and the room temperature thermopower Q has been observed. A "universal correlation" between these two quantities exists with the thermopower vanishing at optimum doping as noted by OCTHH (Obertelli, Cooper, Tallon, Honma and Hor). In this work we provide an interpretation of this OCTHH universality in terms of a possible underlying quantum critical point (QCP) at Tc. Central to our viewpoint is the recently noted Kelvin formula relating the thermopower to the density derivative of the entropy. Perspective on this formula is gained through a model calculation of the various Kubo formulas in an exactly solved 1-dimensional model with various limiting procedures of wave vector and frequency.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of the potential of Pap test fluid and cervical swabs to serve as clinical diagnostic biospecimens for the detection of ovarian cancer by mass spectrometry-based proteomics
Creators: name: Boylan, Kristin L. M.
name: Somaieh Afiuni-Zadeh
name: Geller, Melissa A.
name: Argenta, Peter A.
name: Griffin, Timothy J.
name: Skubitz, Amy P. N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Table. Protein identification details for proteins identified in the three biological samples (Pap test, cervical swab and tumor tissue). The protein names are listed alphabetically and show the corresponding protein accession number, protein molecular weight (Da), protein identification probability, exclusive unique peptide count, exclusive unique spectrum count, total spectrum count, percentage of total spectra, and percentage sequence coverage as determined by Scaffold analysis.
Remarks to Arsovski's proof of Snevily's conjecture
Creators: name: Harcos, Gergely
name: Károlyi, Gyula
name: Kós, Géza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E15 (Primary) 05B35 11B75 20K01 (Secondary)

description: Based on the recent work of Arsovski, we confirm a conjecture of Feng, Sun, and Xiang, and we give a shortened proof of Snevily's conjecture.
description: 5 pages, LaTeX2e; v2: revised version incorporating suggestions by the referee (e.g. title was changed); to appear in Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. E\"otv\"os Sect. Math.
Additional file 1 of Amyloid β and tau pathology in brains of aged pinniped species (sea lion, seal, and walrus)
Creators: name: Takaichi, Yuta
name: Chambers, James K.
name: Takahashi, Kei
name: Soeda, Yoshiyuki
name: Koike, Riki
name: Katsumata, Etsuko
name: Kita, Chiaki
name: Fuko Matsuda
name: Haritani, Makoto
name: Takashima, Akihiko
name: Nakayama, Hiroyuki
name: Uchida, Kazuyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequences and expected PCR product sizes (in base pair) used to analyze the expression of APP and tau in pinniped brains. Fig. S1. Immunohistochemistry for Aβ42 and AT8 in pinniped brains. Fig. S2. Nucleic acid and amino acid sequence analyses of the APP gene containing the Aβ region. Fig. S3. RT-PCR analysis of tau isoforms expressed in pinniped brains. Fig. S4. A Western blotting analysis of tau isoforms in pinniped brains (longer exposure time of Figure 5C).
Phytoplankton outwashing rates estimated in the Elbe estuarie
Creators: name: Steidle, Laurin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Phytoplankton, Elbe, Estuary, Particle Tracking, Oceantracker

description: We use a co-developed particle tracking model called oceantracker to predict the trajectories of phytoplankton in the Elbe estuary. It s s a full 3D model based on unstructured grids supporting several key phyical processes like stranding, (re-)suspension, dynamical dispersion to accuratly represent tidal pumping. The biotic representation is simplistic with fixed growth rates represented as “particle splitting” and threshold culling concentrations in unsuitable conditions. This doesn’t allow us to accuratly predict pop. dynamics but provide easily interpretable limits to e.g. outwashing loses. The outwashing loses are estimated by the growth rate that maintains a steady population size shown. The raster plot shows the population sizes after a year while the encircled white cases show the estimated outwashing loses.
 We also found that long living strains can be expected to be living in shallow waters (see bar plot).
title: Between the trap of completeness and the emphasis on competency – Scaffolding for designing degree courses
Creators: name: Selmayr, Anna
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsdidaktik, Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022

description: How can you design degree courses without falling into the trap of completeness? Anna Selmayr shows how a competency matrix can help bundle the content to create a coherent degree course based on the intended learning outcomes and forms of acquiring knowledge and skills.
Mobility of high-power solitons in saturable nonlinear photonic lattices
Creators: name: Naether, Uta
name: Vicencio, Rodrigo A.
name: Stepić, Milutin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the properties of one-dimensional nonlinear saturable photonic lattices exhibiting multiple mobility windows for stationary solutions. The effective energy barrier decreases to a minimum in those power regions where a new intermediate stationary solution appears. As an application, we investigate the dynamics of high-power gaussian-like beams finding several regions where the light transport is enhanced.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Optics Letters
Integrable Hamiltonian systems related to the Hilbert--Schmidt ideal
Creators: name: Odzijewicz, Anatol
name: Dobrogowska, Alina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37K10 (Primary) 37K30, (Secondary)

description: By application of the coinduction method as well as Magri method to the ideal of real Hilbert-Schmidt operators we construct the hierarchies of integrable Hamiltonian systems on the Banach Lie-Poisson spaces which consist of these type of operators. We also discuss their algebraic and analytic properties as well as solve them in dimensions N=2,3,4.
description: 36 pages
Towards improved thermal comfort predictions and building energy savings : Bayesian modelling of indoor environmental design conditions
Creators: name: Crosby, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The judgment of thermal comfort is a cognitive process that is influenced, not only by measurable indoor environmental conditions but also by less tangible aspects of an occupant’s well-being and overall satisfaction. Recent studies have examined the multi-domain nature of thermal comfort to bridge the performance gap between model-predicted and measurements of thermal comfort. This thesis seeks to inform a well-known research gap with respect to standard models of thermal comfort: that seminal data-informed models have not always accurately predicted true thermal comfort observations from independent field studies. This thesis presents a novel approach that involves the use of Bayesian inference to predict thermal comfort as a function of both thermal and non-thermal metrics of indoor environmental quality. Bayesian regression was performed on a large field dataset to investigate whether perceived thermal comfort can be attributed in a measurable and/or significant manner to one or several non-thermal parameters of indoor environmental quality. Posterior results revealed that higher CO₂ concentrations are independently correlated with lower incidences of thermal satisfaction in open-plan offices. At indoor temperatures of 23.5 ℃, the probability of an occupant feeling thermally satisfied at measured CO₂ levels of 550 ppm was 0.62 [0.54 - 0.69, 95% CrI]. This decreased to 0.28 [0.17-0.42, 95% CrI] at 750 ppm. Further, this is the first work to demonstrate that predictions of thermal comfort can be improved upon adding measurements of indoor CO₂ concentrations. The new data-driven thermal comfort model is integrated into a building energy model framework to predict occupants’ thermal satisfaction based on thermal indoor environmental conditions and ventilation rates. Four different post-COVID- 19 occupancy schedules were investigated to reflect and compare different occupancy profiles for post-COVID-19 hybrid work models. The simulation results showed that it might be possible to increase the ventilation rates with minimal building heating energy demand increase while maintaining the levels of occupants’ thermal comfort. This thesis presented a solution for building managers that have been under pressure to increase the current amounts of fresh air to lower the risk of spreading the COVID-19 virus, and other diseases, indoors.
Additional file 1 of Designing provider-focused implementation trials with purpose and intent: introducing the PRECIS-2-PS tool
Creators: name: Norton, Wynne E.
name: Loudon, Kirsty
name: Chambers, David A.
name: Merrick Zwarenstein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. PRECIS-2-Provider Strategies Toolkit.
Singapore's Newspapers' Portrayal of Gay Sex Law
Creators: name: Jiow, Hee Jhee
name: Chong, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2024

description: Section 377A (s377A) was a Singapore law that criminalised oral and anal sex between consenting male adults, making it punishable with imprisonment of up to two years. It originated from the UK and was adopted in Singapore during its British colonial rule. During the Penal Code Review on 23rd October 2007, s377A was voted by the Parliament of Singapore to be retained in the legislation. In the years leading up to its official repeal on 3rd January 2023, s377A was challenged in court five times. And being a contentious issue in Singapore, its discourse garnered extensive media coverage, yet little is known about how the media portrayed the issue. As such, we seek to investigate the media’s portrayal of the s377A discourse, spanning 15 years from the initial Penal Code Review in 2007 to its eventual repeal in 2023. Adopting framing theory, our study thematically analyses how media stories of s377A have evolved, examining how the media shapes us to think about the issue. We reviewed the coverage of The Straits Times (ST) and TODAY (TY), as they had high readership and extensive circulation which reflects the broader news landscape in Singapore.Newspaper articles were sampled by searching ‘377A’ on Lexus-Nexus and a total of 808 articles from ST and TY were derived after removing identical duplicates. To identify key themes in discussions on s377A within these articles, an investigation of the Parliamentary Reports of the Penal Code Review in 2007 was undertaken by both authors and the following themes emerged: Medical, Legal, Societal-Morality, and Religion. For large datasets, it is not uncommon to rely on auto-coding function in Nvivo, and as such, we started building the algorithm by going through 2 rounds with the pattern coding function of Nvivo to build the algorithm. In both rounds, we went through the same process – setting it to the average quantity function in order to generate references, coded via sentences, and came to an agreement on the references in the algorithm. We ensured that we exhaustively coded a minimum of 10 contextually relevant sentences under each keyword. Thereafter, the last round of pattern coding we set it to give the maximum number of references. This resulted in a total of 17,119 references coded into the 4 themes.We found that the s377A issue was featured most frequently in 2022, with peaks also found in 2007, 2009, 2013 and 2018. In terms of thematic salience across the years, we found that Legal led the way with 5637 references, followed by Societal-Morality (5523), Religion (4660) and Medical (1299). We also compared how the themes were featured between ST and TY over the years, and found that both newspapers showed similar trends. However, we found a larger gap in ST’s feature of the Medical theme (compared to other themes within ST) and as compared to TY’s. TY was also found to be relatively more erratic (large fluctuations) in the portrayal of themes over the years compared to ST. Our study will explain the findings.
Spiritual and Physical Interpretations of Dance Clap and Gesticulation in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria.pdf
Creators: name: Ogunrinade, Adewale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Religion, society and culture

description: This paper titled Spiritual and Physical Interpretations of Dance Clap and Gesticulation in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria postulated that dance, clap and gesticulation have spiritual and physical significance.
Additional file 1 of An integrated in silico immuno-genetic analytical platform provides insights into COVID-19 serological and vaccine targets
Creators: name: Ward, Daniel
name: Higgins, Matthew
name: Phelan, Jody E.
name: Hibberd, Martin L.
name: Campino, Susana
name: Taane G. Clark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Extracted data from the Immuno-analytics tool. Mutations listed here have increased significantly over the 20-week period (weeks 20 to 40, year 2020) (see Fig. S2. for spike mutations A222V, S477N and L18F). Fig. S1. Screenshots from the Immuno-analytics webpage ( http://genomics.lshtm.ac.uk/immuno ). Fig. S2. Screen capture from ‘Mutation Tracker’ page tracing spike mutations accumulating in Europe, North America and Oceania since the last week of December 2019 (week 52) into 2020 (week 1 onwards). Mutations can be traced across continents by week on the ‘Mutation Tracker’ page. Mutations shown here are in the Spike (A222V, S477N and L18F).
Muon Signals of Very Light CP-odd Higgs states of the NMSSM at the LHC
Creators: name: Almarashi, Mosleh
name: Moretti, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study here the di-muon decay mode of a very light CP-odd Higgs boson of the NMSSM, a1, produced in association with a bottom-antibottom pair and find that, despite small event rates, a significant signal should be extractable from the SM background at the LHC with high luminosity.
description: 10 pages, 16 figures, one typo correction
Euprepes undetermined
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Scincidae
Euprepes
Euprepes undetermined

description: * Euprepes sp.
verwa. m. E. frenatus Hall. DB.
Goldküste v. H. Dr. Mähly. [l]
Grosse stämmige Art. Um Mitte des Leihes 80 Längsreihen von Schuppen von welchen nur 12 (auf dem Rücken) gekielt sind. Kiele scharf. Zwischen Achse] und Weiche 36 Querreihen. Palma und plante körnig, scutella subdigitalia glatt.
6 gleiche praeanalia. Sowohl supranasalia als frontonasalia breit in Contact. 2 frontoparietalia: des interparietale nicht von den perietalen eingeschlossen, sondern mit der hintern Spitze an die 2 mittlern nuchalia stossend. Jederseits 3 gleich lange nuchalia.
Ohröffnung oval, auf einer Seite zur Hälfte von 3 langen Lappen zugedeckt, auf der andern Seite mit 4 kurzen Läppchen.
Supraorbitalia 4, des zweite am grössten. Unter denselben je 5 Suborbitalschuppen. Nasenloch mitten im Nasale; kein nasofrenale, 2 frenalia, 3 frenoocularia. Schwanzbasis 4eckig. Hintere Hälfte bei diesem Stück secundär, oben und unten mit. glatten breiten Platten belegt.
Oben hellbraun, alle Kopfschilder und Rückenschuppen dunkel gesäumt, wodurch auf dem Bücken 7 dunkle Längslinien entstehen. Flanken nech unten heller werdend, mit 5—6 Längsreihen hellbläulicher Flecke; dieselben Flecke auf der Oberseite der Extremitäten. Lippen dunkelgelb, die hintern Lippenschilder mit breiten grünlich-weissen Längsbinden. Die ganze Unterseite einfärbig hellgelb.
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 706, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Magnetic excitations in the metallic single-layer Ruthenates Ca(2-x)Sr(x)RuO(4) studied by inelastic neutron scattering
Creators: name: Steffens, P.
name: Friedt, O.
name: Sidis, Y.
name: Link, P.
name: Kulda, J.
name: Schmalzl, K.
name: Nakatsuji, S.
name: Braden, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By inelastic neutron scattering, we have analyzed the magnetic correlations in the paramagnetic metallic region of the series Ca(2-x)Sr(x)RuO(4), 0.2<=x<=0.62. We find different contributions that correspond to 2D ferromagnetic fluctuations and to fluctuations at incommensurate wave vectors (0.11,0,0), (0.26,0,0) and (0.3,0.3,0). These components constitute the measured response as function of the Sr-concentration x, of the magnetic field and of the temperature. A generic model is applicable to metallic Ca(2-x)Sr(x)RuO(4) close to the Mott transition, in spite of their strongly varying physical properties. The amplitude, characteristic energy and width of the incommensurate components vary only little as function of x, but the ferromagnetic component depends sensitively on concentration, temperature and magnetic field. While ferromagnetic fluctuations are very strong in Ca1.38Sr0.62RuO4 with a low characteristic energy of 0.2 meV at T=1.5 K, they are strongly suppressed in Ca1.8Sr0.2RuO4, but reappear upon the application of a magnetic field and form a magnon mode above the metamagnetic transition. The inelastic neutron scattering results document how the competition between ferromagnetic and incommensurate antiferromagnetic instabilities governs the physics of this system.
Additional file 1 of Patient-controlled admission contracts: a longitudinal study of patient evaluations
Creators: name: Nyttingnes, Olav
name: Jūratė Šaltytė Benth
name: Ruud, Torleif
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Structured interview forms for the discharge interview and the two year evaluation interview for patients with patient controlled admissions.
Radiative transitions in charmonium from $N_f=2$ twisted mass lattice QCD
Creators: name: Chen, Ying
name: Du, De-Chuan
name: Guo, Bao-Zhong
name: Li, Ning
name: Liu, Chuan
name: Liu, Hang
name: Liu, Yu-Bin
name: Ma, Jian-Ping
name: Meng, Xiang-Fei
name: Niu, Zhi-Yuan
name: Zhang, Jian-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study for charmonium radiative transitions: $J/ψ\rightarrowη_cγ$, $χ_{c0}\rightarrow J/Ψγ$ and $h_c\rightarrowη_cγ$ using $N_f=2$ twisted mass lattice QCD gauge configurations. The single-quark vector form factors for $η_c$ and $χ_{c0}$ are also determined. The simulation is performed at a lattice spacing of $a= 0.06666$ fm and the lattice size is $32^3\times 64$. After extrapolation of lattice data at nonzero $Q^2$ to 0, we compare our results with previous quenched lattice results and the available experimental values.
description: typeset with revtex, 15 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables
The social construction of personal identity
Creators: name: Cheng, Chieh-Ling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Can metaphysical facts about personal identity, understood as the diachronic identity of a person, be defined without making reference to our social practices? In this dissertation, I argue that personal identity is socially constructed, and therefore that metaphysical facts about personal identity cannot be defined without making reference to our social practices. I develop this argument by critically engaging with Buddhist-informed theories and social constitution theories about personal identity in the philosophy of mind. Specifically, Buddhist-informed theories suggest that personal identity is socially and conceptually constructed based on our psychophysical continuity. Nevertheless, they claim that facts about our psychophysical continuity, which are metaphysical facts about personal identity, can be defined independently of our social practices. However, I suggest that claiming this only makes meaningful social practices impossible. Building upon social constitution theories of personal identity, I argue that our psychophysical continuity is inextricably connected to our social practices, such that whether an individual meaningfully preserves their psychophysical continuity in part depends on whether there are social resources and support available for self-understanding, self-development, or recovery. For this reason, I suggest that personal identity is socially constructed, and metaphysical facts about personal identity cannot be defined without making reference to our social practices. This argument implies that the identity of a person is not only a fact to be determined but also something to be facilitated through our collective effort, including our effort to provide better resources and support in our society. I illustrate the implication by discussing the relation between narrative identity and personal well-being with examples of the imposter phenomenon and rationalization. In the end, I suggest two potential research directions for future work. The first research direction concerns how we may better facilitate personal identity to promote personal well-being. The second research direction concerns how our social infrastructure shapes our cognitive dispositions (such as memory and attention) and emotional identification (such as attachment), and thereby affects our sense of personal identity and well-being.
Additional file 2 of Patient-controlled admission contracts: a longitudinal study of patient evaluations
Creators: name: Nyttingnes, Olav
name: Jūratė Šaltytė Benth
name: Ruud, Torleif
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2 Supplement table. Results from a nominal regression model for the patients’ socializing during the patient controlled admission, adjusted for within patient correlations and site effect (ICC=0.18). Supplement figure. Illustration of odds for the different levels of the patients’ socializing as a function of the patient’s admission number.
Beyond the geodesic approximation: conservative effects of the gravitational self-force in eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Barack, Leor
name: Sago, Norichika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study conservative finite-mass corrections to the motion of a particle in a bound (eccentric) strong-field orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. We assume the particle's mass $μ$ is much smaller than the black hole mass $M$, and explore post-geodesic corrections of $O(μ/M)$. Our analysis uses numerical data from a recently developed code that outputs the Lorenz-gauge gravitational self-force (GSF) acting on the particle along the eccentric geodesic. First, we calculate the $O(μ/M)$ conservative correction to the periastron advance of the orbit, as a function of the (gauge-dependent) semilatus rectum and eccentricity. A gauge-invariant description of the GSF precession effect is made possible in the circular-orbit limit, where we express the correction to the periastron advance as a function of the invariant azimuthal frequency. We compare this relation with results from fully nonlinear numerical-relativistic simulations. In order to obtain a gauge-invariant measure of the GSF effect for fully eccentric orbits, we introduce a suitable generalization of Detweiler's circular-orbit "redshift" invariant. We compute the $O(μ/M)$ conservative correction to this invariant, expressed as a function of the two invariant frequencies that parametrize the orbit. Our results are in good agreement with results from post-Newtonian calculations in the weak-field regime, as we shall report elsewhere. The results of our study can inform the development of analytical models for the dynamics of strongly gravitating binaries. They also provide an accurate benchmark for future numerical-relativistic simulations.
description: 29 pages, 4 eps figures, matches PRD version
Additional file 1 of Associations between substandard housing and depression: insights from the Korea welfare panel study
Creators: name: Kim, Selin
name: Wonjeong Jeong
name: Jang, Bich Na
name: Eun-Cheol Park
name: Jang, Sung-In
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Interplay of energy dependent astrophysical neutrino flavor ratios and new physics effects
Creators: name: Mehta, Poonam
name: Winter, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the importance of flavor ratio measurements in neutrino telescopes, such as by measuring the ratio between muon tracks to cascades, for the purpose of extracting new physics signals encountered by astrophysical neutrinos during propagation from the source to the detector. The detected flavor ratios not only carry the energy information of specific new physics scenarios which alter the transition probabilities in distinctive ways, but also the energy dependent flavor composition at the source. In the present work, we discuss the interplay of these two energy dependent effects and identify which new physics scenarios can be distinguished from the detected flavor ratios as a function of astrophysical parameters. We use a recently developed self-consistent neutrino production model as our toy model to generate energy dependent source flavor ratios and discuss (invisible) neutrino decay and quantum decoherence as specific new physics examples. Furthermore, we identify potentially interesting classes of sources on the Hillas plot for the purpose of new physics searches. We find that sources with substantial magnetic fields 10^3 Gauss <= B <= 10^6 Gauss, such as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) cores, white dwarfs, or maybe gamma-ray bursts, have, in principle, the best discrimination power for the considered new physics scenarios, whereas AGN jets, which typically perform as pion beam sources, can only discriminate few sub cases in the new physics effects. The optimal parameter region somewhat depends on the class of new physics effect considered.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Discussion on statistics added, minor clarifications. Final version published in JCAP
Augmented Reality in Lunar Extravehicular Activities: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Industry Readiness, User Experience, and the Work Environment
Creators: name: Selvakumar, Vishnuvardhan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400199
subject: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This research explores the potential of AR for lunar missions via the xEMU spacesuit. A market analysis of commercial off-the-shelf AR devices identifies technological trends and constraints that inform the architectural decisions for AR integration with the xEMU. User evaluations in simulated work environments ensure lunar informatics align with crew needs. Drawing insights from human-in-the-loop testing of COTS AR devices, qualitative test results underscore the importance of display optimization, occlusion management, and environmental considerations for enhancing the AR experience during lunar EVAs. Grounded in a task analysis from JETT3 analog testing, crew workflows and communication dynamics are baselined, underscoring the vital role of communication and collaboration. Integrating AR into the EVA work environment holds the potential to streamline decision-making, improve navigation, and enhance overall efficiency, but may come with unintended operational consequences. The human-centered approach prioritizes crew involvement, ensuring that technology remains a facilitator rather than an encumbering element in lunar exploration. The study's significance lies in advancing AR technology for lunar EVAs, guiding hardware design, and enabling seamless integration into the EVA work environment. AR holds promise in reshaping the human-technology relationship, empowering crew members, maximizing science output, and contributing to the next chapter in lunar exploration.
Additional file 1 of Factors contributing to men’s grief following pregnancy loss and neonatal death: further development of an emerging model in an Australian sample
Creators: name: Obst, Kate Louise
name: Oxlad, Melissa
name: Clemence Due
name: Middleton, Philippa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Copy of the online survey.
Approaching the ground states of the random maximum two-satisfiability problem by a greedy single-spin flipping process
Creators: name: Ma, Hui
name: Zhou, Haijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this brief report we explore the energy landscapes of two spin glass models using a greedy single-spin flipping process, {\tt Gmax}. The ground-state energy density of the random maximum two-satisfiability problem is efficiently approached by {\tt Gmax}. The achieved energy density $e(t)$ decreases with the evolution time $t$ as $e(t)-e(\infty)=h (\log_{10} t)^{-z}$ with a small prefactor $h$ and a scaling coefficient $z > 1$, indicating an energy landscape with deep and rugged funnel-shape regions. For the $\pm J$ Viana-Bray spin glass model, however, the greedy single-spin dynamics quickly gets trapped to a local minimal region of the energy landscape.
description: 5 pages with 4 figures included. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E as a brief report
The Risk behind Measuring Risk-Taking and the Dark Personality: A replication study
Creators: name: Brusselmans, Dries
name: Vanhasbroeck, Niels
name: Vanpaemel, Wolf
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: dark factor; risk-taking

description: In this study, we seek to perform a preregistered replication of Study 2 by Tiwari, Moshagen, Hilbig, and Zettler (2021) in which they investigated the relationship between the Dark Factor of Personality (D) and risk-taking (n= 224 after data cleaning).