cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Subcutaneous trigeminal nerve field stimulation for chronic and neuropathic pain: case series
Creators: name: Jakobs, Martin
name: Unterberg, Andreas
name: Ahmadi, Rezvan
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: chronioc trigeminal pain
subject: neuromodulation
subject: subcutaneous stimulation
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Neuropathic and chronic trigeminal pain can be difficult to treat. Minimally invasive neuromodulation techniques are required. Subcutaneous stimulation (sQS) is certified to treat chronic lower back pain. We present the results of our case series using this technique in the trigeminal area.[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Thin accretion disks are stabilized by a strong magnetic field
Creators: name: Sadowski, Aleksander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By studying three-dimensional, radiative, global simulations of sub-Eddington, geometrically thin black hole accretion flows we show that thin disks which are dominated by magnetic pressure are stable against thermal instability. Such disks are thicker than predicted by the standard model and show significant amount of dissipation inside the marginally stable orbit. Radiation released in this region, however, does not escape to infinity but is advected into the black hole. We find that the resulting accretion efficiency ($5.5\pm0.5\%$ for the simulated $0.8\dot M_{\rm Edd}$ disk) is very close to the predicted by the standard model ($5.7\%$).
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS
title: Adjacent segment degeneration after ACDF. Is it a natural course of degeneration or associated to fusion Comparison of adjacent and non-adjacent segments in a long-term follow-up
Creators: name: Burkhardt, Benedikt W.
name: Dehnen, Matthias
name: Körner, Heiko
name: Reith, Wolfgang
name: Oertel, Joachim M. K.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Adjacent segment disease
subject: Cervical spine
subject: ACDF
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is an accepted procedure for the treatment of degenerative cervical disc disease. Postoperative excellent neurological outcome have been reported. However, degenerative changes at adjacent discs are observed radiologically in up to 60% of[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Gravitational scattering of stars and clusters and the heating of the Galactic disk
Creators: name: Gustafsson, Bengt
name: Church, Ross
name: Davies, Melvyn B.
name: Rickman, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Could the velocity spread, increasing with time, in the Galactic disk be explained as a result of gravitational interactions of stars with giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and spiral arms? Do the old open clusters high above the Galactic plane provide clues to this question? We explore the effects on stellar orbits of scattering by inhomogeneities in the Galactic potential due to GMCs, spiral arms and the Galactic bar, and whether high-altitude clusters could have formed in orbits closer to the Galactic plane and later been scattered. Simulations of test-particle motions are performed in a realistic Galactic potential. The effects of the internal structure of GMCs are explored. The destruction of clusters in GMC collisions is treated in detail with N-body simulations of the clusters. The observed velocity dispersions of stars as a function of time are well reproduced. The GMC structure is found to be significant, but adequate models produce considerable scattering effects. The fraction of simulated massive old open clusters, scattered into orbits with |z| > 400 pc, is typically 0:5%, in agreement with the observed number of high-altitude clusters and consistent with the present formation rate of massive open clusters. The heating of the thin Galactic disk is well explained by gravitational scattering by GMCs and spiral arms, if the local correlation between the GMC mass and the corresponding voids in the gas is not very strong. Our results suggest that the high-altitude metal-rich clusters were formed in orbits close to the Galactic plane and later scattered to higher orbits. It is possible, though not very probable, that the Sun formed in such a cluster before scattering occurred.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures
title: Intravitreale Chirurgie in der Behandlung intraokularer Tumoren
Creators: name: Krause, Lothar
name: Grajewski, L.
name: Kneifel, C. E.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: In der Behandlung intraokularer Tumoren spielt die Strahlentherapie die größte Rolle. Viele Tumoren lassen sich mit einer Brachytherapie z.B. mit einem Ruthenium Applikator behandeln. Der limitierende Faktor dieser Therapie ist die insbesondere die Tumorhöhe, sodass sehr [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
The effect of stirring on the heterogeneous nucleation of water and of clathrates of tetrahydrofuran/water mixtures
Creators: name: Wilson, P. W.
name: Haymet, A. D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistics of liquid-to-crystal nucleation are measured for both water and for clathrate-forming mixtures of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and water using an automatic lag time apparatus (ALTA). We measure the nucleation temperature using this apparatus in which a single sample is repeatedly cooled, nucleated and thawed. The effect of stirring on nucleation has been evaluated numerically and is discussed. We find that stirring of the solution makes no difference to the nucleation temperature of a given solution in a given tube.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
title: Terson Syndrome (TS) in patients suffering from subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH): Incidence, visual rehabilitation after surgery and the effect of ocular ultrasound (OUS) as an easy applicable tool for detection of TS
Creators: name: Skevas, Christos
name: Knospe, V.
name: Richard, G.
name: Wagenfeld, L.
name: Westphal, M.
name: Regelsberger, J.
name: Czorlich, P.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Terson syndrome (TS) is commonly defined as the occurrence of an intraocular hemorrhage (IOH) associated with a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). IOH may be subretinal, intraretinal, preretinal, subhyaloid, or intravitreal, and, at present, any type of intracranial hemorrhage accompanied by [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
Exploring structural sections in EDM DJ-created radio mixes with the help of automatic music descriptors
Creators: name: Zurita, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Disc Jockeys are the most likely the ultimate experts at mixing music to “move the crowd”. In this work, structural sections based on “levels of emotional experience” in electronic dance music (EDM) are investigated by analyzing DJ-created radio mixes using automatic music descriptors in order to get audio content information. Mixes are first manually annotated to categorise structural sections and then, their characteristics and patterns between them are investigated. Finally, various evaluations are performed to explore the accuracy with which a system could automatically detect, with the given information, the different sections within randomly chosen independent ten seconds excerpts. Results prove the reliability of the chosen descriptors to achieve a successful classification with moderate number of errors. Moreover, a solution for improving the prediction’s accuracy by taking in account patterns between structural sections is proposed.
Spectro-polarimetry confirms central powering of a Ly$α$ nebula at z=3.09
Creators: name: Beck, Melanie
name: Scarlata, Claudia
name: Hayes, Matthew
name: Dijkstra, Mark
name: Jones, Terry J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a follow-up study to the imaging polarimetry performed by Hayes et. al. 2011 on LAB1 in the SSA22 protocluster region. Arguably the most well-known Lyman-$α$ "blob", this radio-quiet emission-line nebula likely hosts a galaxy which is either undergoing significant star formation or hosts an AGN, or both. We obtain deep, spatially resolved spectro-polarimetry of the Ly$α$ emission and detect integrated linear polarization of $9$-$13\%\pm2$-$3\%$ at a distance of approximately 15 kpc north and south of the peak of the Lyman-$α$ surface brightness with polarization vectors lying tangential to the galactic central source. In these same regions, we also detect a wavelength dependence in the polarization which is low at the center of the Ly$α$ line profile and rises substantially in the wings of the profile. These polarization signatures are easily explained by a weak out-flowing shell model. The spectral dependence of the polarization presented here provide a framework for future observations and interpretations of the southern portion of LAB1 in that any model for this system must be able to reproduce this particular spectral dependence. However, questions still remain for the northern-most spur of LAB1. In this region we detect total linear polarization of between $3$ and $20\%$ at the $5\%$ significance level. Simulations predict that polarization should increase with radius for a symmetric geometry. That the northern spur does not suggests either that this region is not symmetric (which is likely) and exhibits variations in columns density, or that it is kinematically distinct from the rest of LAB1 and powered by another mechanism altogether.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Studies on intestinal epithelia
Creators: name: Tutton., Peter J. M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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On instability and mixing on the UK Continental Shelf
Creators: name: Liu, Zhiyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of stratified flows at locations in the Clyde, Irish and Celtic Seas on the UK Continental Shelf is examined. Flows are averaged over periods of 12-30 min in each hour, corresponding to the times taken to obtain reliable estimates of the rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy per unit mass, $\varepsilon$. The Taylor-Goldstein equation is solved to find the maximum growth rate of small disturbances to these averaged flows, and the critical gradient Richardson number, $\textrm{Ri}_\textrm{c}$. The proportion of unstable periods where the minimum gradient Richardson number, $\textrm{Ri}_{\textrm{min}}$, is less than $\textrm{Ri}_\textrm{c}$ is about 35%. Cases are found in which $\textrm{Ri}_\textrm{c}
Frequency-Domain Response Based Timing Synchronization: A Near Optimal Sampling Phase Criterion for TDS-OFDM
Creators: name: Gao, Zhen
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Zhang, Hang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In time-domain synchronous OFDM (TDS-OFDM) system for digital television terrestrial multimedia broadcasting (DTMB) standard, the baseband OFDM signal is upsampled and shaping filtered by square root raised cosine (SRRC) filter before digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Much of the work in the area of timing synchronization for TDS-OFDM focuses on frame synchronization and sampling clock frequency offset recovery, which does not consider the sampling clock phase offset due to the upsampling and SRRC filter. This paper evaluates the bit-error-rate (BER) effect of sampling clock phase offset in TDS-OFDM system. First, we provide the BER for M-order quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) in uncoded TDS-OFDM system. Second, under the condition of the optimal BER criterion and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, we propose a near optimal sampling phase estimation criterion based on frequency-domain response. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed criterion also has good performance in actual TDS-OFDM system with channel coding over multipath channels, and it is superior to the conventional symbol timing recovery methods for TDS-OFDM system.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) Demographics
Creators: name: Kochanek, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We survey the properties of stars destroyed in TDEs as a function of BH mass, stellar mass and evolutionary state, star formation history and redshift. For Mbh<10^7Msun, the typical TDE is due to a M*~0.3Msun M-dwarf, although the mass function is relatively flat for $M*
description: submitted to MNRAS
Bilinear quark operator renormalization at generalized symmetric point
Creators: name: Bell, J. M.
name: Gracey, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute Green's functions with a bilinear quark operator inserted at non-zero momentum for a generalized momentum configuration to two loops. These are required to assist lattice gauge theory measurements of the same quantity in matching to the high energy behaviour. The flavour non-singlet operators considered are the scalar, vector and tensor currents as well as the second moment of the twist-2 Wilson operator used in deep inelastic scattering for the measurement of nucleon structure functions.
description: 19 latex pages, 4 figures, anc directory contains electronic version of amplitudes
Hexaphonic Guitar Transcription and Visualization
Creators: name: Angulo, Iñigo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Music representation has been a widely researched topic through centuries. Transcription of music through the conventional notation system has dominated the field, for the best part of the last centuries. However, this notational system often falls short of communicating the essence of music to the masses, especially to the people with no music training. Advances in signal processing and computer science over the last few decades have bridged this gap to an extent, but conveying the meaning of music remains a challenging research field. Music visualization is one such bridge, which we explore in this work. This research presents an approach to visualize guitar performances, transcribing musical events into visual forms. To achieve this, hexaphonic guitar processing is carried out (i.e. processing each of the six strings as an independent monophonic sound source) to get music descriptors, which reflect the most relevant features of a sound to characterise it. Once this information is obtained, our goal is to analyse how different mappings to the visual domain can meaningfully/intuitively represent music. As a final result, a system is proposed to enrich the musical listening experience, by extending the perceived auditory sensations to include visual stimuli.
Null conformal Killing-Yano tensors and Birkhoff theorem
Creators: name: Ferrando, Joan Josep
name: Sáez, Juan Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the space-times admitting a null conformal Killing-Yano tensor whose divergence defines a Killing vector. We analyze the similitudes and differences with the recently studied non null case (Gen. Relativ. Grav. (2015) {\bf 47} 1911). The results by Barnes concerning the Birkhoff theorem for the case of null orbits are analyzed and generalized.
description: 10 pages
Channel Estimation for mmWave Massive MIMO Based Access and Backhaul in Ultra-Dense Network
Creators: name: Gao, Zhen
name: Dai, Linglong
name: Wang, Zhaocheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO used for access and backhaul in ultra-dense network (UDN) has been considered as the promising 5G technique. We consider such an heterogeneous network (HetNet) that ultra-dense small base stations (BSs) exploit mmWave massive MIMO for access and backhaul, while macrocell BS provides the control service with low frequency band. However, the channel estimation for mmWave massive MIMO can be challenging, since the pilot overhead to acquire the channels associated with a large number of antennas in mmWave massive MIMO can be prohibitively high. This paper proposes a structured compressive sensing (SCS)-based channel estimation scheme, where the angular sparsity of mmWave channels is exploited to reduce the required pilot overhead. Specifically, since the path loss for non-line-of-sight paths is much larger than that for line-of-sight paths, the mmWave massive channels in the angular domain appear the obvious sparsity. By exploiting such sparsity, the required pilot overhead only depends on the small number of dominated multipath. Moreover, the sparsity within the system bandwidth is almost unchanged, which can be exploited for the further improved performance. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms its counterpart, and it can approach the performance bound.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Millimeter-wave (mmWave), mmWave massive MIMO, compressive sensing (CS), hybrid precoding, channel estimation, access, backhaul, ultra-dense network (UDN), heterogeneous network (HetNet). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1604.03695, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'16), May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Rhythmic arrangement from finger-tapping audio signals
Creators: name: Nistal, Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: We present a novel study on the behavior of human finger-tapping. This technique can be understood as the casual and rhythmic hitting of objects for the expression of a musical idea, even when it is unconscious or sometimes just for stress relief or because of nervousness. The idea that underlies this project is the connection of spontaneous finger-tapping with human-computer interaction and automatic arrangement of percussion. An application under this functional concept would certainly be a useful tool for the home-studio producer. Our first step was to study the behavior of spontaneous rhythmic expression as well as the needs of inexperienced users in the context of rhythm expression. To this end, we first collected a dataset by recording spontaneous finger-tapping patterns performed by subjects from different music backgrounds. Then, an online survey gathering information about the recording was submitted to the volunteers. Further analysis of the survey answers and several spectro-temporal features extracted from the audio content allowed to infer meaningful information about this behavior. Results of this experiment suggested that there are two clear ways for finger-tapping depending on the music training of the performer. We demonstrate the former hypothesis by conducting a classification task between onsets from both finger-tapping methods. We achieved a 99% of accuracy in recognizing drumming expertise levels (expert vs. nave) by means of using onset-related acoustic features. This suggested that people with percussion training are more concerned about timbre aspects and, thus, they take advantage of this quality of sound to provide differences to each stroke when finger-tapping, as opposed to non-expertise individuals. Secondly, we aimed to convert all the gathered knowledge into a creative tool for arranging drum patterns. Therefore, we describe a system for finger-tapping transcription as an underlying step in the usage of this behavior as a mean for improving humancomputer interaction in the context of computer music creation. The system can be divided into three parts: an onset detection and feature extraction step, in which a set of frame-wise time-dependent features are calculated. These features are fed into a k-Means clustering/classification step, in which the feature representation of the finger-tapped onsets are clustered, assigned to a drum sound class and then translated into a drum MIDI-like symbolic representation.
A Simple, Heuristic Derivation of our "No Backreaction" Results
Creators: name: Green, Stephen R.
name: Wald, Robert M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a simple discussion of our results on the backreaction effects of density inhomogeneities in cosmology, without mentioning one-parameter families or weak limits. Emphasis is placed on the manner in which "averaging" is done and the fact that one is solving Einstein's equation. The key assumptions and results that we rigorously derived within our original mathematical framework are thereby explained in a heuristic way.
description: 13 pages
N$_2$H$^+$ and N$^{15}$NH$^+$ towards the prestellar core 16293E in L1689N
Creators: name: Daniel, F.
name: Faure, A.
name: Pagani, L.
name: Lique, F.
name: Gérin, M.
name: Lis, D. C.
name: Hily-Blant, P.
name: Bacmann, A.
name: Roueff, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the processes that could lead to enrichment of molecules in $^{15}$N atoms is of particular interest in order to shed light on the relatively large variations observed in the $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratio in various solar system environments. Currently, the sample of molecular clouds where $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratios have been measured is small and has to be enlarged in order to allow statistically significant studies. In particular, the N$_2$H$^+$ molecule currently shows the largest spread of $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratios in high-mass star forming regions. However, the $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratio in N$_2$H$^+$ was obtained in only two low-mass star forming regions (L1544 and B1b). The current work extends this sample to a third dark cloud. We targeted the 16293E prestellar core, where the N$^{15}$NH$^+$ $J$=1-0 line was detected. Using a model previously developed for the physical structure of the source, we solved the molecular excitation with a non-local radiative transfer code. For that purpose, we computed specific collisional rate coefficients for the N$^{15}$NH$^+$-H$_2$ collisional system. As a first step of the analysis, the N$_2$H$^+$ abundance profile was constrained by reproducing the N$_2$H$^+$ $J$=1-0 and 3-2 maps. A scaling factor was then applied to this profile to match the N$^{15}$NH$^+$ $J$=1-0 spectrum. We derive a column density ratio N$_2$H$^+$ / N$^{15}$NH$^+$ = $330^{+170}_{-100}$. The current estimate $\sim$330 agrees with the value typical of the elemental isotopic ratio in the local ISM. It is however lower than in some other cores, where values as high as 1300 have been reported.
Phil Anderson's Magnetic Ideas in Science
Creators: name: Coleman, Piers
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Philip W. Anderson's research, magnetism has always played a special role, providing a prism through which other more complex forms of collective behavior and broken symmetry could be examined. I discuss his work on magnetism from the 1950s, where his early work on antiferromagnetism led to the pseudospin treatment of superconductivity - to the 70s and 80s, highlighting his contribution to the physics of local magnetic moments. Phil's interest in the mechanism of moment formation, and screening evolved into the modern theory of the Kondo effect and heavy fermions.
description: References fully hypertexed with live links to historic papers. "PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence", editors P. Chandra, P. Coleman, G. Kotliar, P. Ong, D. Stein and C. Yu, pp 187-213, World Scientific (2016)
The flaring HI disk of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2683
Creators: name: Vollmer, B.
name: Nehlig, F.
name: Ibata, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New deep VLA D array HI observations of the highly inclined nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2683 are presented. Archival C array data were processed and added to the new observations. To investigate the 3D structure of the atomic gas disk, we made different 3D models for which we produced model HI data cubes. The main ingredients of our best-fit model are (i) a thin disk inclined by 80 degrees; (ii) a crude approximation of a spiral and/or bar structure by an elliptical surface density distribution of the gas disk; (iii) a slight warp in inclination; (iv) an exponential flare; and (v) a low surface-density gas ring. The slope of NGC 2683's flare is comparable, but somewhat steeper than those of other spiral galaxies. NGC 2683's maximum height of the flare is also comparable to those of other galaxies. On the other hand, a saturation of the flare is only observed in NGC 2683. Based on the comparison between the high resolution model and observations, we exclude the existence of an extended atomic gas halo around the optical and thin gas disk. Under the assumption of vertical hydrostatic equilibrium we derive the vertical velocity dispersion of the gas. The high turbulent velocity dispersion in the flare can be explained by energy injection by (i) supernovae, (ii) magneto-rotational instabilities, (iii) ISM stirring by dark matter substructure, or (iv) external gas accretion. The existence of the complex large-scale warping and asymmetries favors external gas accretion as one of the major energy sources that drives turbulence in the outer gas disk. We propose a scenario where this external accretion leads to turbulent adiabatic compression that enhances the turbulent velocity dispersion and might quench star formation in the outer gas disk of NGC 2683.
description: accepted for publication in A&A
Structure Analysis of Beijing Opera Arias
Creators: name: Yang, Yile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Music has been playing an important role in the society. With the wide spread of digital and mobile devices, the consumption of music has been increasing significantly. Therefore, the demand for automatic processing and analyzing music with computational technologies has also been pushed to a new ground. It has opened up opportunities for a variety of applications which were not possible before. Structure, being a fundamental entity of music, is being used in a lot of those applications to help people organize, navigate, and understand music. It is also of great importance for the academic areas such as Computational Musicology and Music Information Research (MIR). However, such application and research are mostly focused on western music, while there is increasing demand for non-western music as well. Beijing opera, being one of the most famous traditional operas in China, has influence all over the world. But few efforts have been made in the study of Beijing opera music with a computational perspective. In this work, we propose computational tools for the structure analysis of Beijing opera arias. Literature review of state of the art research on related topics are performed. Methodologies, data, and challenges of these topics are analyzed. Then we proceed to the specific tasks chosen for the structure analysis of Beijing opera arias on different levels. The first task is the segmentation of singing, percussion and instrumental sections. Features have been chosen to reflect the nature of the sound in these sections. An Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is built using these features. Experiments on a 34 aria dataset have shown the effectiveness of this method. The influence of features have also been analyzed. The second task is lyrics-to-audio alignment. For this task, two datasets of a capella singing have been created, with human annotations on the phoneme level. The study of the datasets have been performed and have shown interesting characteristics of the lyrics of Beijing opera singing. An approach based on Duration-aware Hidden Markov Model (DHMM) has been proposed to address the challenge of long syllable durations in Beijing opera arias. The evaluation results demonstrate the ability of the proposed method to tackle the task of lyrics-to-audio alignment in the case of Beijing opera arias. The thesis is concluded with main conclusions and a summary of the contributions of this work.
title: Oral Propranolol Therapy For Infantile Hemangioma: Resonable Initial Diagnostics And Predictors Of Adverse Events After Treatment Discontinuation In 231 Infants
Creators: name: Frongia, Giovanni
name: Byeon, Ji-Oun
name: Mehrabi, Arianeb
name: Günther, Patrick
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Oral propranolol therapy (OPT) has emerged as an effective first-line treatment for infantile hemangiomas (IH). The purpose of the study was to identify the sensible initial diagnostics prior to OPT, as well as the predictors of adverse events after treatment discontinuation in own cohort[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Tools for building new MIR datasets
Creators: name: Tsukanov, Roman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Datasets are a very important part of research in the Music Information Retrieval. Unfortunately, some of the most used datasets have issues related to their annotation quality and coverage. We develop tools for building datasets with a goal to fix these issues. Our tools work within the AcousticBrainz project. It already has a significant collection of descriptors extracted from user’s music collections. We try to make dataset creation tools more accessible and flexible by providing multiple ways to create and share datasets. These datasets are then used to generate machine learning models for extracting high-level descriptors like mood and genre. In order to encourage people to build datasets we organize challenges where people can compete by building a dataset for specific classification task. One of the main goals is to make datasets open and easily accessible to encourage their use and improvement. Finally, we provide a way for data consumers to provide feedback on high-level output that they see on the website.
Systematic or Signal? How dark matter misalignments can bias strong lensing models of galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Harvey, David
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Jauzac, Mathilde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore how assuming that mass traces light in strong gravitational lensing models can lead to systematic errors in the predicted position of multiple images. Using a model based on the galaxy cluster MACSJ0416 (z = 0.397) from the Hubble Frontier Fields, we split each galactic halo into a baryonic and dark matter component. We then shift the dark matter halo such that it no longer aligns with the baryonic halo and investigate how this affects the resulting position of multiple images. We find for physically motivated misalignments in dark halo position, ellipticity, position angle and density profile, that multiple images can move on average by more than 0.2" with individual images moving greater than 1". We finally estimate the full error induced by assuming that light traces mass and find that this assumption leads to an expected RMS error of 0.5", almost the entire error budget observed in the Frontier Fields. Given the large potential contribution from the assumption that light traces mass to the error budget in mass reconstructions, we predict that it should be possible to make a first significant detection and characterisation of dark halo misalignments in the Hubble Frontier Fields with strong lensing. Finally, we find that it may be possible to detect ~1kpc offsets between dark matter and baryons, the smoking gun for self-interacting dark matter, should the correct alignment of multiple images be observed.
description: 7 Pages
Repeated acute elevation of cortisol did not affect reproduction in female pigs
Creators: name: Turner., Anna Isabella
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Supplementary materials for: Estimating the nonlinear interaction between somatic cell score and differential somatic cell count on milk production in various parities of cows using generalized additive models
Creators: name: Huang, Che Hsuan
name: Furukawa, Kenji
name: Kusaba, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal production not elsewhere classified
Animal management
Environmental studies in animal production

description: This supplementary file provides additional information to the article “Estimating the nonlinear interaction between somatic cell score (SCS) and differential somatic cell count (DSCC) on milk production in various parities of cows using generalized additive models (GAMs)”. In this file, we fit a linear mixed model with categorized variables to analyze the effects of SCS and DSCC on milk yield and compare the results with those obtained from fitting a GAM. This comparison aims to address the question of why a GAM should be used instead of a linear mixed model, by which the interaction effects are estimated by categorizing continuous variables. Specifically, we will show the differences in the estimates of the effects of SCS and DSCC on milk yield between both models and other potential issues regarding categorization of continuous variables.
Free Electron Laser - FEL and Plasma Acceleration for Applications
Creators: name: Adamidi, Eleni
name: Alexopoulos, Theodoros
name: Gazis, Evangelos
name: Maltezos, Stavros
name: Gazis, Nick
name: Bignami, Andreas
name: Emmanuil Trachanas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Accelerating Technology, Free Electron Laser, Plasma Acceleration

description: Our research is aiming to a major effort for transferring the Accelerating technology to Greece, by participation to the Compact Linear Collider - CLIC Project, the Compact Light Collaboration -XLS project and the EuPRAXIA Plasma Acceleration project.
title: Unterschiedliche Nervenleitgeschwindigkeiten des Nervus laryngeus recurrens und des Nervus vagus
Creators: name: Tuncer, Tuncay
name: Lauzana, Ester
name: Nor, Shazana
name: Béchu, Maren
name: Lamadé, Wolfram
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Das intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM) bei Schilddrüseneingriffen hat in den letzten Jahren an großer Akzeptanz gewonnen und bildet eine wichtige Ergänzung zum Goldstandard der visuellen Darstellung des Nervus laryngeus recurrens. Beurteilungsgrößen des IONM sind[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
A versatile dual-species Zeeman slower for caesium and ytterbium
Creators: name: Hopkins, S. A.
name: Butler, K.
name: Freytag, R.
name: Guttridge, A.
name: Kemp, S.
name: Hinds, E. A.
name: Tarbutt, M. R.
name: Cornish, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the design, construction and operation of a versatile dual-species Zeeman slower for both Cs and Yb, which is easily adaptable for use with other alkali metals and alkaline earths. With the aid of analytic models and numerical simulation of decelerator action, we highlight several real-world problems affecting the performance of a slower and discuss effective solutions. To capture Yb into a magneto-optical trap (MOT), we use the broad $^1S_0$ to $^1P_1$ transition at 399 nm for the slower and the narrow $^1S_0$ to $^3P_1$ intercombination line at 556 nm for the MOT. The Cs MOT and slower both use the D2 line ($6^2S_{1/2}$ to $6^2P_{3/2}$) at 852 nm. We demonstrate that within a few seconds the Zeeman slower loads more than $10^9$ Yb atoms and $10^8$ Cs atoms into their respective MOTs. These are ideal starting numbers for further experiments on ultracold mixtures and molecules.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables, revtex4-1
Atomically flat reconstructed rutile TiO2(001) surfaces for oxide film growth
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
name: Lee, Shinbuhm
name: Vilmercati, Paolo
name: Lee, Ho Nyung
name: Weitering, Hanno H.
name: Snijders, Paul C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The availability of low-index rutile TiO2 single crystal substrates with atomically flat surfaces is essential for enabling epitaxial growth of rutile transition metal oxide films. The high surface energy of the rutile (001) surface often leads to surface faceting, which precludes the sputter and annealing treatment commonly used for the preparation of clean and atomically flat TiO2(110) substrate surfaces. In this work, we reveal that stable and atomically flat rutile TiO2(001) surfaces can be prepared with an atomically ordered reconstructed surface already during a furnace annealing treatment in air. We tentatively ascribe this result to the decrease in surface energy associated with the surface reconstruction, which removes the driving force for faceting. Despite the narrow temperature window where this morphology can initially be formed, we demonstrate that it persists in homoepitaxial growth of TiO2(001) thin films. The stabilization of surface reconstructions that prevent faceting of high-surface-energy crystal faces may offer a promising avenue towards the realization of a wider range of high quality epitaxial transition metal oxide heterostructures.
description: Includes supplementary info
title: Minimally Invasive Surgery of Retroperitoneal Paragangliomas – Single-Center Experiences of 91 Tumors in 66 Patients
Creators: name: Karakas, Elias
name: Alesina, Pier Francesco
name: Seeliger, Barbara
name: Neumann, Hartmut P. H.
name: Zschiedrich, Stefan
name: Walz, Martin K.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Surgery is the primary treatment of choice in retroperitoneal paragangliomas (rPG) as these tumors are potentially lethal by catecholamine excess. Up to now only very few and limited studies have demonstrated the option of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in these patients. In the following[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Vita intima delle lettere (con una nota sugli scrittoi)
Creators: name: Saggini, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: letter
epistolography
communication
material culture
history of reading
modern era

description: Doctoral seminar (University of Pisa) on the materiality of modern epistolarity. This research is part of the Horizon 2020 project called "Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences"(OpeRaNew) ID 892230 within the ERC programme Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2019. The PI is Francesca Saggini. See CORDIS website at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/892230
Bayesian Inference of Discrete Weibull Regression Model for Excess Zero Counts
Creators: name: Monthira Duangsaphon
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bayesian estimation
Discrete count data
Hurdle model
Random walk Metropolis algorithm
Zero-inflated model

description: Science & Technology Asia, 27, 4, 152-174
title: Predictors for preoperative seizures in patients with skull base meningioma – a retrospective single center cohort study
Creators: name: Rother, Christian
name: Noell, Susan
name: Schittenhelm, Jens
name: Tabatabai, Ghazaleh
name: Tatagiba, Marcos
name: Skardelly, Marco
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: meningioma
subject: skull base
subject: seizure
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Patients with skull base meningioma develop seizures less often than patients with falx, convexity and parasagittal meningioma. However, there is a large variety of seizure rates within the group of skull base meningioma. In this study, we determined predictors for the occurrence of preoperative[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Non-Relativistic Scale Anomalies
Creators: name: Arav, Igal
name: Chapman, Shira
name: Oz, Yaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the cohomological analysis in arXiv:1410.5831 of anisotropic Lifshitz scale anomalies. We consider non-relativistic theories with a dynamical critical exponent $z=2$ with or without non-relativistic boosts and a particle number symmetry. We distinguish between cases depending on whether the time direction does or does not induce a foliation structure. We analyse both $1+1$ and $2+1$ spacetime dimensions. In $1+1$ dimensions we find no scale anomalies with Galilean boost symmetries. The anomalies in $2+1$ dimensions with Galilean boosts and a foliation structure are all B-type and are identical to the Lifshitz case in the purely spatial sector. With Galilean boosts and without a foliation structure we find also an A-type scale anomaly. There is an infinite ladder of B-type anomalies in the absence of a foliation structure with or without Galilean boosts. We discuss the relation between the existence of a foliation structure and the causality of the field theory.
title: Prevalence of complications in concurrent intraoperative neuromonitoring and ioMRI
Creators: name: Bozinov, Oliver
name: Burkhardt, Jan-Karl
name: Neidert, Marian
name: Fierstra, Jorn
name: Regli, Luca
name: Sarnthein, Johannes
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Intraoperative neurophysiology
subject: intraoperative MRI
subject: complications
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: The combination of Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) and high-field intraoperative MRI (ioMRI) with the use of conductive cables in the MR scanner may lead to unexpected problems. We investigated the prevalence of complications and tested MR-heating experimentally. Method:[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
title: Size of cortical motor area representation in accordance to sports- or musical- activity measured in patients planned for tumor or cavernoma- resection in eloquent brain areas using nTMS
Creators: name: Ott, Stephanie E.
name: Jedlicka, Sheila I.
name: Krammer, Matthias
name: Schul, David
name: Lumenta, Christianto B.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Brain plasticity and remodeling are the reasons for successful rehabilitation after stroke, tumor operations or other brain tissue destructive disorders. Objective: This study was aimed to investigate whether physical training leads to a greater representation of one or more extremities[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Studies on the gastric mucosa of young pigs
Creators: name: Tudor., Elizabeth McIntyre
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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F0 Modeling For Singing Voice Synthesizers with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks
Creators: name: Özer, Serkan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: In singing voice synthesis process, score and lyrics for a target song are converted to singing voice expression parameters such as F0, spectra and dynamics. However, this study aims to model and automatically generate F0 parameter by assuring expressiveness and human-likeness in final synthesized singing voice. Musical contexts are important factor on evolution of F0 through a singing performance. Thus, we propose a machine-learning framework that learns F0 of the singing from a set of real human singing recordings with respect to musical contexts, at the same time, capturing expressiveness and naturalness of the human singer. Then, we can automatically generate F0 parameter from our trained model given musical contexts of the score. Recurrent Neural Networks with Long Short Term Memory networks are employed for first time to this specific problem due to their flexibility and strong power in modeling complex sequences. Two recurrent neural networks are trained to learn baseline and vibrato parts of F0 separately. Then, F0 sequences are generated from the trained networks and applied to a singing voice synthesizer. Finally, synthesized songs are evaluated with AB preference tests.
Application of Fuzzy Multicriteria Group Decision-Making to Prioritize Infectious Waste Incineration Development in Phayao Province Hospitals Lacking Supportive Information
Creators: name: Wipop Paengwangthong
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2022
Subjects: Fuzzy multicriteria group decision-making
Infectious waste incineration
Priority for development

description: Science & Technology Asia, 27, 4, 195-206