cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pathfinding algorithm based on rotated block AOR technique in structured environment
Creators: name: Dahalan, A'qilah Ahmad
name: Saudi, Azali
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences

description: Harmonic potential fields are commonly used as guidance in a global approach for self-directed robot pathfinding. These harmonic potentials are generated using Laplace's equation solutions. The computation of these harmonic potentials often requires the use of immense amounts of computing resources. This study introduces a numerical technique called Rotated Block Accelerated Over-Relaxation (AOR), also known as Explicit Decoupled Group AOR (EDGAOR), to deal with pathfinding problem. Several robot navigation simulations were performed in a static, structured, known indoor environment to validate the efficiency of the suggested approach. The paths generated by the simulations are shown using several different starting and target positions. The performance of the proposed approach in computing harmonic potentials for solving pathfinding problems is also discussed.
MPEC 2023-M167 : 2023 MW5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 MW5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Models and Strategies for Variants of the Job Shop Scheduling Problem
Creators: name: Grimes, Diarmuid
name: Hebrard, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, a variety of constraint programming and Boolean satisfiability approaches to scheduling problems have been introduced. They have in common the use of relatively simple propagation mechanisms and an adaptive way to focus on the most constrained part of the problem. In some cases, these methods compare favorably to more classical constraint programming methods relying on propagation algorithms for global unary or cumulative resource constraints and dedicated search heuristics. In particular, we described an approach that combines restarting, with a generic adaptive heuristic and solution guided branching on a simple model based on a decomposition of disjunctive constraints. In this paper, we introduce an adaptation of this technique for an important subclass of job shop scheduling problems (JSPs), where the objective function involves minimization of earliness/tardiness costs. We further show that our technique can be improved by adding domain specific information for one variant of the JSP (involving time lag constraints). In particular we introduce a dedicated greedy heuristic, and an improved model for the case where the maximal time lag is 0 (also referred to as no-wait JSPs).
description: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2011, Perugia : Italy (2011)
Gluon matter plasma in the compact star core within fluid QCD model
Creators: name: Nugroho, C. S.
name: Latief, A. O.
name: Djun, T. P.
name: Handoko, L. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of compact star core filled by gluon matter plasma is investigated within the fluid-like QCD framework. The energy momentum tensor, density and pressure relevant for gluonic plasma having the nature of fluid bulk of gluon sea are derived within the model. It is shown that the model provides a new equation of state for perfect fluid with only a single parameter of fluid distribution ϕ(x). The results are applied to construct the equation of state describing the gluonic plasma dominated compact star core. The equations of pressure and density distribution are solved analytically for small compact star core radius. The phase transition of plasma near the core surface is also discussed.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
The roots of categorization : 4-month-old infants extract feature correlations to form audio-visual categories
Creators: name: Greuel, Alison Jeanne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Is information from vision and audition mutually facilitative to categorization in infants? Ten-month-old infants can detect categories on the basis of correlations of five attributes of visual stimuli; four- and seven-month-olds are sensitive only to the specific attributes, rather than the correlations. If younger infants can detect specific attributes of visual stimuli, is there a way to facilitate the perception of these attributes as a meaningful correlation, and hence, as a category? The current studies investigate whether integrating information from two domains—speech within the auditory system together with shapes in the visual domain—could facilitate categorization. I hypothesized that 4-month-old infants could categorize audio-visual information by pairing correlation-based stimuli in the auditory domain (monosyllables) with correlation-based stimuli in the visual domain (line-drawn animals). In Experiment 1, infants were exposed to a series of line-drawn animals whose features were correlated to form two animal categories. During test, infants experienced three test trials: a novel member of a previously-shown category, a non-member of the categories (that shared similar features), and a completely novel animal. Experiment 2 used the same animals and paradigm, but each animal was presented with a speech stimulus (a repeating monosyllable) whose auditory features were correlated in order to form two categories. In Experiment 3, categorization of the auditory stimuli was investigated in the absence of the correlated visual information. Experiment 4 addressed some potential confounds of the findings from Experiment 2. Results from this series of studies show that 4-month-olds fail categorize in both visual-only and auditory-only conditions. However, when each visual exemplar is paired with a corresponding, correlated speech exemplar, infants can categorize; they look longer at a new, within-category exemplar than a new, category violator. These findings provide evidence that infants extract correlated information from two domains, enabling cross-modal categorization at a very young age. Infants’ sensitivity to correlated attributes across two domains and the implications for categorization are discussed.
Role of Vocabularies in Inter-system interoperability
Creators: name: Atkinson, Rob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: vocabularies
semantics

description: Controlled vocabularies are critical to the transfer of information, however the effectiveness of reuse depends on the way such vocabularies are discovered and accessed in the context of system operations. In this presentation we look at the role of vocabularies in different system architecture patterns and how vocabularies might be best integrated into a review of the OGC Reference Model.
The Role of Personality in Person-Organization Fit: An Examination of Fit Styles
Creators: name: McDouall, Joanna
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychology--Industrial
subject: Personality
subject: Fit style
subject: Person-organization fit

description: Person-organization fit has often been examined as a predictor of important workplace outcomes, but research examining the antecedents of PO fit is lacking. To date there is little information on how fit perceptions form, or if individuals react similarly to different types of fit. The present program of research aimed to gain further insight into the role that personality has on perceptions of PO fit by examining the possibility of fit styles. Data was collected online cross-nationally from 300 employees spanning various organizations and industries. Results demonstrated that personality is predictive of some fit styles, and that work outcomes are affected by interactions between fit styles and fit perceptions. Furthermore, personality was predictive of fit perceptions, suggesting that the salience of fit dimensions is partly affected by individual differences such as personality.
Operational Oncology
Creators: name: Horvath, Teodor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Surgery
premalignancy
malinancy
locally advanced malignant tumour
metastatic disease

description: The decision making process in the surgery of premalignancy including overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis, key principles in the treatment of surgical stage of oncological disease, locally advanced, and metastatic disease from the view of the surgeon involved into precision personalized medicine.
Usefulness classes of travelling entangled channels in noninertial frames
Creators: name: Metwally, Nasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a general two qubits system in noninetrial frame is investigated analytically, where it is assumed that both of its subsystems are differently accelerated. Two classes of initial travelling states are considered:self transposed and a generic pure states. The entanglement contained in all possible generated entangled channels between the qubits and their Anti-qubits is quantified. The usefulness of the travelling channels as quantum channels to perform quantum teleportation is investigated. For the self transposed classes, we show that the generalized Werner state is the most robust class. We show that starting from a class of pure state, one can generate entangled channels more robust than self transposed classes.
title: Raman study of the Verwey transition in magnetite thin films
Creators: name: Baghaie Yazdi, M.
name: Choi, K.-Y.
name: Wulferding, D.
name: Lemmens, P.
name: Alff, L.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2023

description: We have grown epitaxial thin films of magnetite on MgO and Al₂O₃ substrates with sharp and distinct signatures of the Verwey transition in resistivity and magnetization. We have used Raman scattering to separate the footprint of purely structural changes from the effect of additional charge and orbital order. Raman modes related to the structural phase transition occur first at temperatures above the Verwey transition temperature. In contrast, newly emerging modes indicating additional charge and orbital order appear at the Verwey transition. These results suggest that the completion of the structural phase transition in magnetite is a necessary precursor triggering a transition into a complex charge and orbitally ordered state.
Identifying the Sources and Tracing the Fate of Phosphate in the Bow River Basin, Alberta, Canada, Using Oxygen Isotope Analyses
Creators: name: Fau, Veronique
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology
subject: Hydrology
subject: phosphate
subject: River
subject: isotope

description: This study tested the possibility to use oxygen isotope analyses (δ18OPO4) to identify the sources and trace the fate of phosphate in the Bow River Basin. The key hypothesis was that δ18OPO4 values are different for major phosphate sources. Therefore, the main sources of phosphate in this watershed(manure, compost, phosphate-containing fertilizers and effluents from six waste-water treatment plants) were characterized for δ18OPO4.Phosphate concentrations in the Bow River were also investigated.Results show that phosphate concentrations increase from upstream to downstream, with a major increase respectively within and downstream of Calgary. δ18OPO4 analyses on sediments revealed that phosphate in the Bow River seems to come from a mixture of synthetic fertilizers and wastewater effluents. This study demonstrated that most phosphate released into the river seems to be taken up by vegetation or is retained in superficial fluvial sediments, and showed that δ18OPO4 is a good tracer in this watershed.
Speaking the same language: co-creation of inclusive vocabularies and standards for data use
Creators: name: Anderson, Theresa
name: Marshall, Ruth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: vocabularies
semantics

description: Our recent work developing an international standard and operational framework for the ethical use of data has focused our attention on finding, defining and using the right language to make sometimes esoteric concepts both accessible and actionable. This talk shares our experiences tackling the challenges of building sufficient flexibility into vocabulary systems to allow community to contribute interpretation and categorisation into its construction.

 How do you define “the ethical use of data”? What language do you use? Who has a voice in the process?

 In the context of a specific scenario you can talk about the specific steps you need to take and outcomes you should seek. So, the challenge is to use terms that convey intended meaning to a specific community or audience, though the same meaning may be conveyed with different terms. In the standards world there is also the problem of multiple meanings for the same term depending, mainly, on the context or circumstances around the term’s definition. These include the time of writing and the natural mutation of language and domain. These are not problems to be solved but to be acknowledged and lived with. They are the joy of a living language.

 At a more generalized or abstract level however, it is difficult not to fall back on describing what the term is not: the avoidance of harm or bias for example. Like many such practices, if you’re doing it well, nobody notices a thing. So, when looking for wording to define a concept you should also consider the meaning or importance of its absence or opposites to affected community members.

 In this talk we discuss the importance of exploring vocabulary as synonyms, homonyms and antonyms with our stakeholder community to define terms that meet people on their own ground. It also shares ideas about how to capture and locate language in a particular context which accommodates its mutability and the use of web 3.0 technology to support this in an inclusive approach.
On a 2-path problem
Creators: name: Song, Haotian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Computer Science
Engineering--Operations Research

description: An electric power supplier needs to build a transmission line between 2 jurisdictions. Ideally, the design of the new electric power line would be such that it optimizes some user-defined utility function, for example, minimizes the construction cost or the environmental impact. Due to reliability considerations, the power line developer has to install not just one, but two transmission lines, separated by a certain distance from one to another, so that even if one of the lines fails, the end user will still receive electricity along the second line. We discuss how such a problem can be modelled and prove the general graph-based problem to be NP-hard. At the same time, we propose a polynomial-time approximation scheme to handle this problem. Although the worst-case performance of the latter scheme is not fully understood yet, we note that under two mild practical assumptions, the scheme yields the optimal solution to the original problem. The novel scheme appears to be extremely efficient numerically. Our implementation scheme vastly outperforms more conventional solution methods, such as mixed-integer based models. In turn, this allows us to solve realistically sized problems on graphs nearing a hundred thousand nodes.
Cosmological constraints on the generalized holographic dark energy
Creators: name: Lu, Jianbo
name: Wang, Yuting
name: Wu, Yabo
name: Wang, Tianqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Markov ChainMonte Carlo method to investigate global constraints on the generalized holographic (GH) dark energy with flat and non-flat universe from the current observed data: the Union2 dataset of type supernovae Ia (SNIa), high-redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), the observational Hubble data (OHD), the cluster X-ray gas mass fraction, the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO), and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. The most stringent constraints on the GH model parameter are obtained. In addition, it is found that the equation of state for this generalized holographic dark energy can cross over the phantom boundary wde =-1.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: significant text overlap with arXiv:1105.1868
The Use of Real-Time Feedback to Improve Kinematic Marker Placement Consistency Among Novice Examiners
Creators: name: Macaulay, Charles Andrew John
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Gait
subject: Biomechanics
subject: Reliability
subject: Repeated measures

description: Marker placement deviation contributes the largest amount of error in gait kinematic data. The study purpose was to determine whether a novel, real-time marker-placement tool could improve consistency of gait kinematic data. Twelve novice examiners placed retroreflective markers on a single runner. For each examiner, a running trial was analyzed using two static trials: (1) PRE and (2) POST implementation of the feedback tool. The protocol was repeated a second time, one week later, resulting in PRE1, POST1, PRE2, and POST2 conditions. The 95% confidence interval (CI) of the mean joint angles for the entire stride, was compared between the PRE1/POST1, and PRE2/POST2 conditions. POST1 feedback trials showed a reduced 95%CI range for eight of nine joint angles compared to PRE1. POST2 trials reduced the 95%CI for five of nine joint angles compared to PRE2. The results indicate a real-time feedback tool improves kinematic marker placement consistency for novice examiners.
Association of Smoking with Overall obesity and Central Obesity among Malaysian Adults
Creators: name: AFFANDI Nor Anita
name: SEMAN Zamtira
name: HAIROMAN Nor Farahdila
name: MOHD YUNOS Rozita
name: OMAR Mohd Azahadi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: obesity
smoker
Smoking
NHMS

description: Introduction:
 Smoking and obesity are major public health problems in Malaysia. A study in Korea showed that current smokers were more likely to be centrally obese than never smokers. While, other study showing a different result. This study aimed to examine the association between smoking status and obesity among Malaysian adults. Method:
 This study was using data from the 2015 NHMS. Respondents aged 18 years and above (n=18,366) were included in the analysis. Respondents with no information about weight, height, body mass index, waist circumference and smoking status were excluded in the analysis. Smoking was examined in term of smoking status and the quantity of cigarettes smoked by current smokers. Overall obesity was defined as BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 and central obesity was a waist circumference ≥ 95 cm for males and ≥ 85 cm for females. Descriptive and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to assess the association between smoking status and obesity. Results:
 A statistically significant difference was found in overall obesity and central obesity with smoking status. Current smokers were less likely to be obesity (BMI) than never smokers (adjusted odds ratio, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.64 to 0.82) and also were less likely to be central obesity than never smokers (adjusted odds ratio, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.66 to 0.88). However, among current smokers, there is no statistically significant association was found between the daily amount of smoking (cigarettes) with overall obesity or central obesity. Conclusion:
 Smoking was positively associated with overall obesity and central obesity. Further study should be done to see whether categories of current smoker (light/moderate/heavy) will give a different result. Disclaimer: Abstract text might vary slightly from what is displayed in the e-poster.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
Developing Energy Forecasting Tools in Power Systems: Application to Microgrids
Creators: name: Chitsaz, Hamed
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Power Systems
subject: Microgrid
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Artificial Neural Networks
subject: Machine Learning

description: In recent years, distributed energy resources and microgirds have attracted a great deal of interests in the power industry. The development of microgrids has required engineers and operators to enhance the efficiency and the energy management of such small-scale power systems. To do so, energy forecasting plays a key role in their optimal operation. In particular, Short-termWind Forecasting (STWF), Short-term Load Forecasting (STLF) and Short-term Price Forecasting (STPF) are important tools for reliable operation scheduling of grid-connected microgrids with renewable energy sources (e.g., wind). The generated energy forecasts are used in an optimization platform to ensure the most economical operation for microgrids as the end goal of this thesis. The main focus of this thesis is the development of forecasting models that are tailored for the application to grid-connected microgrids. An STWF model is developed based on artificial intelligence and an evolutionary algorithm to provide wind forecasts. This model can be applied to generate wind predictions at the power system, wind farm and/or wind turbine levels. By statistically analyzing the behavior of electricity consumption at campus/building levels, an STLF methodology is developed based on neural networks to provide satisfactory forecasts for volatile electricity loads in microgrids. Further, an STPF is designed to improve the economics of grid-connected microgrids by taking advantage of energy arbitrage opportunities with the grid. It is noted that the microgrid is assumed to be large enough to have transactions based on market prices. Numerical results in Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this thesis are provided based on Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia, California, Texas and NewYork power systems, and two campuses. The simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed neural networks for STWF and STLF. The statistical and economic evaluations show the satisfactory performance of the developed STPF model in scheduling a storage system in a microgrid. Moreover, deterministic and probabilistic optimization platforms are developed for the optimal operation of microgrids, which can help the operator apply the most effective approach under different scenarios of generation and market conditions.
Formal verification of a deadlock detection algorithm
Creators: name: Verbeek, Freek
name: Schmaltz, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deadlock detection is a challenging issue in the analysis and design of on-chip networks. We have designed an algorithm to detect deadlocks automatically in on-chip networks with wormhole switching. The algorithm has been specified and proven correct in ACL2. To enable a top-down proof methodology, some parts of the algorithm have been left unimplemented. For these parts, the ACL2 specification contains constrained functions introduced with defun-sk. We used single-threaded objects to represent the data structures used by the algorithm. In this paper, we present details on the proof of correctness of the algorithm. The process of formal verification was crucial to get the algorithm flawless. Our ultimate objective is to have an efficient executable, and formally proven correct implementation of the algorithm running in ACL2.
description: In Proceedings ACL2 2011, arXiv:1110.4473
FAIR-IMPACT project response to "FAIR Assessment Tools: Towards an "Apples to Apples" Comparisons"
Creators: name: Verburg, Maaike
name: Huber, Robert
name: Jonquet, Clement
name: Garijo, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FAIR
FAIR data
FAIR-IMPACT
Response document
EOSC Task Force
FAIR Assessment Tools
Harmonisation

description: At the end of 2022, the FAIR Metrics subgroup of the EOSC Association Task Force on FAIR Metrics and Data Quality published “FAIR Assessment Tools: Towards an "Apples to Apples" Comparisons” which describes some work done and suggestions for future developments in the area of FAIR assessment tools and specifically their harmonisation. The FAIR-IMPACT project appreciates the opportunity to respond to this document to detail our views and intended contributions.
Whistle: Data-Efficient Multilingual and Crosslingual Speech Recognition via Weakly Phonetic Supervision
Creators: name: Yusuyin, Saierdaer
name: Ma, Te
name: Huang, Hao
name: Zhao, Wenbo
name: Ou, Zhijian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: There exist three approaches for multilingual and crosslingual automatic speech recognition (MCL-ASR) - supervised pretraining with phonetic or graphemic transcription, and self-supervised pretraining. We find that pretraining with phonetic supervision has been underappreciated so far for MCL-ASR, while conceptually it is more advantageous for information sharing between different languages. This paper explores the approach of pretraining with weakly phonetic supervision towards data-efficient MCL-ASR, which is called Whistle. We relax the requirement of gold-standard human-validated phonetic transcripts, and obtain International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) based transcription by leveraging the LanguageNet grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) models. We construct a common experimental setup based on the CommonVoice dataset, called CV-Lang10, with 10 seen languages and 2 unseen languages. A set of experiments are conducted on CV-Lang10 to compare, as fair as possible, the three approaches under the common setup for MCL-ASR. Experiments demonstrate the advantages of phoneme-based models (Whistle) for MCL-ASR, in terms of speech recognition for seen languages, crosslingual performance for unseen languages with different amounts of few-shot data, overcoming catastrophic forgetting, and training efficiency. It is found that when training data is more limited, phoneme supervision can achieve better results compared to subword supervision and self-supervision, thereby providing higher data-efficiency. To support reproducibility and promote future research along this direction, we release the code, models and data for the entire pipeline of Whistle at https://github.com/thu-spmi/CAT/tree/master/egs/cv-lang10.
description: Accepted by IEEE-TASLP
Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF) and Cornerstone: An Open Framework to Build Web-based Imaging Applications
Creators: name: Harris, Gordon J., Ph.D.
name: Ziegler, Erik, Ph.D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF)
Cornerstone.js
Open source
Web viewer
Medical imaging

description: Despite recent advancements in web technologies and cloud computing, radiology research applications remain largely confined to individual workstations. In order to support the transition from desktop to web-based tools, researchers need well-supported frameworks to build upon. We developed the Open Health Imaging Foundation (OHIF) Viewer and its underlying libraries, such as Cornerstone, to allow researchers to build customized, web-based imaging applications and web-enable existing desktop systems based on our open source framework.
 OHIF provides reusable libraries delivering core functionality common to medical imaging viewers, as well as an extensible web viewer, reducing the barriers to creating novel biomedical imaging tools. Since its inception in 2015, the framework has achieved widespread adoption in the community and become the de facto standard for building innovative web-based imaging applications among both academic and industry groups.
Moral Obligation, Luck, and Alternative Possibilities
Creators: name: Murphy, Tess Laurenne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Luck
subject: Moral Obligation
subject: Alternatives
subject: Frankfurt-type Examples
subject: Free Will
subject: Moral Responsibility
subject: Kant's Law
subject: "ought" implies "can"

description: The way in which luck impacts moral obligation has not been given sufficient philosophical attention. It is the subject of this thesis. I argue that just as there is a control condition that must be met in order for one to be morally responsible, so too there is a control condition that must be met in order for one to perform a morally obligatory action. The requisite control is captured by the principle that “ought” implies “can” (Kant’s Law). Exercising such control requires alternatives--namely that one both can and can refrain from performing any given action. However, through a series of cases, I will show that having such alternatives is often a matter of luck.
title: Personality Disorder and Late Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Condition in Secondary Mental Health Services
title: Experiences of individuals with a diagnosis of personality disorder being diagnosed with autism spectrum condition whilst in secondary mental health services
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dalton, Jade
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2024

description: This thesis is comprised of four sections including a systematic
 literature review, an empirical paper, a critical appraisal, and an ethics
 section. The systematic literature review is a thematic synthesis of 18
 papers exploring the impact of autism spectrum condition and attention
 deficit hyperactivity disorder in adulthood on mental health and
 wellbeing. Three themes were generated: (1) Beliefs about diagnoses impact
 adults’ experiences of being diagnosed, (2) Diagnosis inspires new
 perspectives on relationships with self and others, and (3) Diagnosis
 provides a new lens for the past and the future. Clinical implications to
 support mitigating the negative impact of adult diagnosis on mental health
 and wellbeing are discussed, alongside implications for future research.
 The empirical research paper explores the lived experience of secondary
 mental health services from the perspective of autistic adults who were
 diagnosed with a personality disorder prior to their diagnosis of autism
 spectrum condition. Six participants engaged in semi-structured interviews
 which were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. The
 analysis generated four themes: (1) Realising the nuances of having a
 diagnosis and having a diagnostic label, (2) “A steep learning curve”:
 seeking understanding amongst misconceptions, (3) Having a voice in
 secondary mental health services: a dichotomy of control and helplessness,
 and (4) Compassion cultivates compassion: service and individual level
 disparities in care. Clinical implications for secondary mental health
 services are explored alongside implications for future research. The
 critical appraisal expands on the clinical and r3esearch implications for
 both papers, alongside the strengths and limitations of the papers, and
 critical reflections on the papers and the research process.
Modulation of Human Rhinovirus-Induced Epithelial Responses by Cigarette Smoke
Creators: name: Hudy, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Human rhinovirus
subject: Cigarette Smoke
subject: Airway epithelium
subject: Innate immunity
subject: Chemokines
subject: Asthma
subject: COPD

description: Human rhinovirus (HRV) is the major viral pathogen associated with exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Cigarette smoke is the predominant risk factor for the development of COPD and approximately 25% of asthmatics smoke. Moreover, smokers experience longer and more severe respiratory tract infections compared to non-smokers, but the mechanisms responsible have not been delineated. Since the airway epithelial cell is the only cell type shown to be infected with HRV in vivo, and is one of the first cells in contact with cigarette smoke, the aim of this thesis was to investigate if and how cigarette smoke modulates epithelial responses to HRV infection using an in vitro tissue culture model system in conjunction with HRV and cigarette smoke extract (CSE). HRV-induced expression of CXCL10, a chemokine linked to antiviral immunity, was potently inhibited by CSE via multiple mechanisms. CSE suppressed HRV-induced transcription of CXCL10 via inhibition of nuclear factor-ĸB (NF-ĸB), interferon regulatory factor (IRF)-1 and signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)-1 pathways. CSE also suppressed HRV-induced expression of the viral sensors melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA5) and retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I), but only MDA5 was shown to be directly involved in HRV-induced CXCL10 production. CSE also suppressed HRV-induced chromatin accessibility around the CXCL10 transcriptional start site. By contrast, epithelial production of the neutrophil chemoattractant CXCL8, was induced by CSE or HRV infection alone, and was further enhanced by the combination of these stimuli. This enhancement was mediated via mRNA stabilization and involved the mRNA stabilizing protein human antigen R (HuR). This study provides the first demonstration that CSE differentially modulates HRV-induced chemokine responses in airway epithelial cells and provides insights into the underlying mechanisms of altered chemokine production. HRV-induced CXCL10 was suppressed by CSE via a combination of multiple mechanisms, while CXCL8 enhancement was mediated via mRNA stabilization. These results provide potential insights into how cigarette smoke alters HRV-induced inflammatory responses in vivo and how this could lead to more severe clinical outcomes in COPD patients and asthmatics who smoke during HRV-induced disease exacerbations.
Charming Surgery: A Reflection on the Surgical Specialty
Creators: name: T. Horváth
name: V. Švec
name: P. Moravčík
name: M. Španková
name: Z. Kala
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Surgery
education
perspective
charming surgery

description: The perfect examination, a clinical working diagnosis and its paraclinical confirmation, decision making processes, the suitability of the procedure, the cooperation of colleagues both our own and from different specialisations. Surgery is a profession of the heart and soul, serving the widest common community and, at the same time, the most inward expression of the individuality of every person involved in its range – professional, personal, family, physical, psychological, spiritual, civil, academic and social.
Exploring nonlinear dynamics in periodically driven time crystal: from synchronized to chaotic motion
Creators: name: Greilich, Alex
name: Kopteva, Nataliia E.
name: Korenev, Vladimir L.
name: Bayer, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupled electron-nuclear spin system in an InGaAs semiconductor as testbed of nonlinear dynamics can develop auto-oscillations, resembling time-crystalline behavior, when continuously excited by a circularly polarized laser. We expose this system to deviations from continuous driving by periodic modulation of the excitation polarization, revealing a plethora of nonlinear phenomena that depend on modulation frequency and depth. We find ranges in which the system's oscillations are entrained with the modulation frequency. The width of these ranges depends on the polarization modulation depth, resulting in an Arnold tongue. Outside the tongue, the system shows a variety of fractional subharmonic responses connected through bifurcation jets when varying the modulation frequency. Here, each branch in the frequency spectrum forms a devil's staircase. When an entrainment range is approached by going through an increasing order of bifurcations, chaotic behavior emerges. These findings can be described by an advanced model of the periodically pumped electron-nuclear spin system. We discuss the connection of the obtained results to different phases of time matter.
title: Fast transport, atom sample splitting and single-atom qubit supply in two-dimensional arrays of optical microtraps
Creators: name: Schlosser, M.
name: Kruse, J.
name: Gierl, C.
name: Teichmann, S.
name: Tichelmann, S.
name: Birkl, G.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2023

description: Two-dimensional arrays of optical microtraps created by micro-optical elements present a versatile and scalable architecture for neutral atom quantum information processing, quantum simulation and the manipulation of ultra-cold quantum gases. In this paper, we demonstrate the advanced capabilities of this approach by introducing novel techniques and functionalities as well as the combined operation of previous separately implemented functions. We introduce piezo-actuator-based transport of atom ensembles over distances of more than one trap separation, examine the capabilities of rapid atom transport provided by acousto-optical beam steering and analyse the adiabaticity limit for atom transport in these configurations. We implement a spatial light modulator with 8 bit transmission control for the per-site adjustment of the trap depth and the number of atoms loaded. We combine single-site addressing, trap depth control and atom transport in one configuration for demonstrating the splitting of atom ensembles with variable ratio at predefined register sites. Finally, we use controlled sub-poissonian preparation of single trapped atoms from such an ensemble to show that our approach allows for the implementation of a continuous supply of single-atom qubits with high fidelity. These novel implementations and their combined operation significantly extend available techniques for the dynamical and reconfigurable manipulation of ultra-cold atoms in dipole traps.
Association Rule Mining Based On Trade List
Creators: name: Shaikh, Sanober
name: rao, Madhuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper a new mining algorithm is defined based on frequent item set. Apriori Algorithm scans the database every time when it finds the frequent item set so it is very time consuming and at each step it generates candidate item set. So for large databases it takes lots of space to store candidate item set .In undirected item set graph, it is improvement on apriori but it takes time and space for tree generation. The defined algorithm scans the database at the start only once and then from that scanned data base it generates the Trade List. It contains the information of whole database. By considering minimum support it finds the frequent item set and by considering the minimum confidence it generates the association rule. If database and minimum support is changed, the new algorithm finds the new frequent items by scanning Trade List. That is why it's executing efficiency is improved distinctly compared to traditional algorithm.
description: 15 pages
Implications on $η$-$η'$-glueball mixing from $B_{d/s} \to J/Ψη^{(')}$ Decays
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
name: Li, Hsiang-nan
name: Xiao, Zhen-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that the recent Belle measurements of the $B_{d/s} \to J/Ψη^{(')}$ decays imply large pseudoscalar glueball contents in the $η^{(\prime)}$ meson. These decays are studied in the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach, considering the $η$-$η'$-$G$ mixing, where $G$ represents the pseudoscalar glueball. It is shown that the PQCD predictions for the $B_{d/s} \to J/Ψη^{(')}$ branching ratios agree well with the data for the mixing angle $ϕ_G\approx 30^\circ$ between the flavor-singlet state and the pure pseudoscalar glueball. Extending the formalism to the $η$-$η'$-$G$-$η_c$ tetramixing, the abnormally large observed $B_d\to Kη'$ branching ratios are also explained. The proposed mixing formalism is applicable to other heavy meson decays into $η^{(\prime)}$ mesons, and could be tested by future LHCb and Super-$B$ factory data.
description: Improved version, references added, 7 pages, 1 figure
Person perception informs understanding of cognition during visual search
Creators: name: Brennan, Allison Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Does person perception – the impressions we form from watching others’ behavior – hold clues to the mental states of people engaged in cognitive tasks? We investigate this with a two-phase method: in Phase 1 participants search on a computer screen (Experiment 1) or in an office (Experiment 2); in Phase 2 other participants rate their video-recorded behavior. We find ratings are sensitive to stable traits (search ability), temporary states (cognitive strategy), and environment (task difficulty). We also find that the visible behaviors critical to success vary between settings (e.g., eye movements are important in search on computer screens; head movements for search in an office). Positive emotions are linked to search success in both settings. These findings demonstrate that person perception can inform cognition beyond traditional measures of performance, and as such, offer great potential for studying cognition in natural settings with measures that are both rich and relatively unobtrusive.
Exponential energy decay of solutions for a system of viscoelastic wave equations of Kirchhoff type with strong damping
Creators: name: Li, Gang
name: Hong, Linghui
name: Liu, Wenjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B40, 35L70, 35L53

description: The initial boundary value problem for a system of viscoelastic wave equations of Kirchhoff type with strong damping is considered. We prove that, under suitable assumptions on relaxation functions and certain initial data, the decay rate of the solutions energy is exponential.
Evaluation of the importance of spin-orbit couplings in the nonadiabatic quantum dynamics with quantum fidelity and with its efficient "on-the-fly" ab initio semiclassical approximation
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Tomas
name: Vanicek, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to measure the importance of spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) in the nonadiabatic molecular quantum dynamics rigorously with quantum fidelity. To make the criterion practical, quantum fidelity is estimated efficiently with the multiple-surface dephasing representation (MSDR). The MSDR is a semiclassical method that includes nuclear quantum effects through interference of mixed quantum-classical trajectories without the need for the Hessian of potential energy surfaces. Two variants of the MSDR are studied, in which the nuclei are propagated either with the fewest-switches surface hopping or with the locally mean field dynamics. The fidelity criterion and MSDR are first tested on one-dimensional model systems amenable to numerically exact quantum dynamics. Then, the MSDR is combined with "on-the-fly" computed electronic structure to measure the importance of SOCs and nonadiabatic couplings (NACs) in the photoisomerization dynamics of CH2NH2+ considering 20 electronic states and in the collision of F + H2 considering six electronic states.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Malaria in Children in Guediawaye, Senegal: A Retrospective Study
Creators: name: A. Noubadoum
name: J. B. Diouf
name: N. M. Sougou
name: P. Adomson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Malaria
children
senegal
pediatric

description: Introduction: Malaria is one of the leading causes of infant and child mortality, despite the efforts made in Senegal. The epidemiological profile of malaria in Senegal is linked to climatic conditions that can influence the abundance and survival of mosquitoes. The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiological, clinical, Para clinical, therapeutic and evolutionary aspects of malaria in children in a pediatric ward of a Dakar hospital. Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective descriptive study, with an analytical focus over a 5-year period from January 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2017, in the pediatrics department of Roi Baudouin Hospital Center, involving 259 children hospitalized for malaria. Results: The frequency of hospitalization during the period was estimated at 7.7%.The mean age was 82.9 months, with a median of 84 months, and the age range from 1 month to 5 years was the most representative (35.9%) with extremes from 1 to 180 months. The majority of cases occurred in the last quarter of the year, with a peak in October (19.7%). Clinical manifestations on admission were dominated by fever, which was found in 93.1% of cases. More than 30.9% of the children showed clinical signs of severity on entry, with jaundice (37.5%) in the foreground, followed respectively by disturbances of consciousness (29.0%) and respiratory distress (19.0%). The majority of patients were treated with quinine (80.3%) and overall progress was satisfactory with a cure rate of 97.7%. Factors associated with death were represented by a time to management more than 7 days and the presence of co-infections, with a p value equal to 0.002 and 0.04 respectively.
Performing for the Nazis: Foreign Musicians in Germany, 1933-1939
Creators: name: Bailey, Robert Warren
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Music
subject: History--European
subject: Music
subject: Third Reich
subject: Foreign Musicians
subject: Performers
subject: Nazi cultural policy
subject: Reichsmusikkammer

description: This thesis focuses on foreign musicians in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939. What place did foreign musical performers have in Germany’s increasingly xenophobic employment market during the 1930s? Likewise, how did the Nazis deal with those musicians, and what margin of manoeuvre were foreigners given to carry out their craft? These are the questions that form the basis of this thesis. To answer them, I examine a collection of primary Reichsmusikkammer (Reich Music Chamber) records that are now held on microfilm in the United States National Archives, grouped under the description “Auftrittsgenehmigungen für Ausländer” (Performance Permits for Foreigners; specifically musicians). The information gleaned from these records is used to demonstrate how the Nazis brought the activity of foreign musicians under their jurisdiction. It is also used to reveal stories of individuals who became entangled in the Nazis’ arbitrary and racist cultural policies, and to explain how performances by foreign musicians and orchestras were appropriated by the Nazis for the purposes of cultural diplomacy and propaganda.