cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rethinking industrial artificial intelligence: a unified foundation framework
Creators: name: Lee, Jay
name: Su, Hanqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advancements in industrial artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the industry by driving smarter manufacturing, predictive maintenance, and intelligent decision-making. However, existing approaches often focus primarily on algorithms and models while overlooking the importance of systematically integrating domain knowledge, data, and models to develop more comprehensive and effective AI solutions. Therefore, the effective development and deployment of industrial AI require a more comprehensive and systematic approach. To address this gap, this paper reviews previous research, rethinks the role of industrial AI, and proposes a unified industrial AI foundation framework comprising three core modules: the knowledge module, data module, and model module. These modules help to extend and enhance the industrial AI methodology platform, supporting various industrial applications. In addition, a case study on rotating machinery diagnosis is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, and several future directions are highlighted for the development of the industrial AI foundation framework.
description: The paper submitted to IJAMD, the International Journal of AI for Materials and Design, has been accepted
title: The Pipe Organ and Real-Time Digital Signal Processing (DSP): A Performer's Perspective
Creators: name: Blackburn, Andrew
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Realtime digital signal processing
subject: Organ music
subject: Performative space
subject: Pipe organ performance

description: The emergence of music for organ and realtime digital signal processing (dsp) has signalled major changes to the very nature and structure of music for the instrument, dramatically expanding its idiom and timbral malleability. It has also created new performance practices which mark substantial shifts in the relationship of the organist with the music, the instrument, and with co-performers. Finally, a new 'performative space' is emerging through organ and realtime dsp in concert situations, creating a sonic relocation of the instrument and enabling new audience experiences. This DMA examines organ and realtime digital signal processing (dsp) from a performer’s perspective. After tracing the history of the organ as an instrument at the forefront of musical innovation since the 1400s, it focuses on rapid developments over the past fifty years, leading to organ and dsp as a logical next step in the development and repertoire of the instrument. From there, the study revolves around the performance of four contemporary works for pipe organ with realtime dsp, contributing to understanding the performance practices this combination requires. Emphasising the experience of the organist facilitates reflection on the impact of changes brought about by dsp on the practice of a contemporary organist and his collaborators. In this way, this practice-led research project is able to focus on ‘realworld’ issues and insights that emerged and morphed during workshops and performances. Triangulating the findings of a literature review, interviews, workshops, and the series of performances, identifies major shifts in organ timbre, composition, performance practice and reception. The format of the submission, on DVD ROM, highlights the close connection between practice and reflection, between sounds and words. In doing so, it aims to add to the practice and understanding of the organ and its continuing role in innovative composition and performance.
Grayia smythii
Creators: name: Santos, Bruna S.
name: Marques, Mariana P.
name: Bauer, Aaron M.
name: Ceríaco, Luis M. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Grayia
Grayia smythii

description: Grayia smythii (Leach, 1818)
 Material (one specimen): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/ REP 196, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017398; Fig. S73), collected from Cambondo [-9.16349º, 14.66432º, 394 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Norte Province, date unknown.
 Comments: Grayia smythii is a species found north into southern Sudan, Lake Victoria west to Senegal and southwest to northern Angola (Marques et al. 2018). The label present in the jar reads “ Grayia smithi ” but has no information about its collecting locality. Ferreira (1906) cited a specimen from “Cambondo” which most likely represents this specimen. It is considered a rare species in the country with a limited number of records (Branch 2018; Marques et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton's Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5028 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5453967
Insights in pro-influenza virus activity of ANP32 proteins
Creators: name: Staller, Ecco
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: All viruses usurp the host machinery to assist their replication and influenza virus is no exception. One such host factor is the acidic nuclear phosphoprotein of 32 kilodaltons ANP32A and its closely related paralogue ANP32B. Taking a CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing approach (Chapter III) it was demonstrated that human ANP32A and ANP32B are a pair of functionally redundant essential host factors for influenza A and B virus polymerase (FluPol) activity and influenza A virus replication in human cells (Chapter IV). Ablation of either ANP32A or ANP32B has a minor effect on FluPol activity, but ablation of both paralogues leads to complete abrogation of FluPol activity and virus replication. Using these double knockout (dKO) cells it was shown that mouse ANP32A lacks proviral function due to a single amino acid substitution at position 130 (Chapter IV). Natural variation in the genes encoding ANP32A and ANP32B is investigated next (Chapter V). A missense single nucleotide variant (SNV) in the Anp32B gene codes for a mutant protein with alanine at position 130 instead of the wildtype aspartic acid (ANP32B-D130A). This variant is relatively common in carriers of Hispanic/Latino descent and it was hypothesised that carriers of this SNV may have some natural genetic protection against influenza virus. CRISPR/Cas9 editing in human cells recapitalised the homozygous mutant genotype and it was found that FluPol activity and virus replication were compromised in the presence of ANP32B-D130A. Crucially, ANP32B-D130A exerted a dominant-negative effect over wildtype ANP32B and moreover interfered with the functionally redundant paralogue ANP32A (Chapter V). Finally in Chapter VI mutational analysis was carried out in order to map the proviral activity of ANP32 proteins to further structural elements and domains.
title: Pinguicula vulgaris
title: Gewöhnliches Fettkraut (Pinguicula vulgaris)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 13 Bilder des Gewöhnlichen Fettkrauts.
title: Short communication
title: Ability of dogs to detect cows in estrus from sniffing saliva samples
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fischer-Tenhagen, Carola
name: Tenhagen, B.-A.
name: Heuwieser, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: Efficient estrus detection in high-producing dairy cows is a permanent challenge for successful reproductive performance. In former studies, dogs have been trained to identify estrus-specific odor in vaginal fluid, milk, urine, and blood samples under laboratory conditions with an accuracy of more than 80%. For on-farm utilization of estrus-detection dogs it would be beneficial in terms of hygiene and safety if dogs could identify cows from the feed alley. The objective of this proof of concept study was to test if dogs can be trained to detect estrus-specific scent in saliva of cows. Saliva samples were collected from cows in estrus and diestrus. Thirteen dogs of various breeds and both sexes were trained in this study. Five dogs had no experience in scent detection, whereas 8 dogs had been formerly trained for detection of narcotics or cancer. In the training and test situation, dogs had to detect 1 positive out of 4 samples. Dog training was based on positive reinforcement and dogs were rewarded with a clicker and food for indicating saliva samples of cows in estrus. A false indication was ignored and documented in the test situation. Dogs with and without prior training were trained for 1 and 5 d, respectively. For determining the accuracy of detection, the position of the positive sample was unknown to the dog handler, to avoid hidden cues to the dog. The overall percentage of correct positive indications was 57.6% (175/304), with a range from 40 (1 dog) to 75% (3 dogs). To our knowledge, this is the first indication that dogs are able to detect estrus-specific scent in saliva of cows.
Investigating guanylate binding protein-mediated restriction of Toxoplasma gondii in murine and human cells
Creators: name: Wright, Joseph Davidson
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The guanylate binding proteins (GBPs) are a family of 65-73kDa IFN-inducible GTPases, conserved among vertebrates, with several reported functions in intrinsic immunity to intracellular pathogens. Murine GBPs (mGBP) and human GBPs (hGBP) have been shown to contribute to IFNg-mediated immunity against the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. In this thesis, I seek to expand our knowledge of mGBP- and hGBP-mediated restriction of Toxoplasma gondii. To elucidate new functions of mGBPs, I investigate novel potential interacting partners. Specifically, a putative interaction between mGBP1 and the chromatin modifying protein RNF20 is explored. In the context of hGBPs, I investigate four as yet uncharacterised hGBPs; hGBP2, hGBP3, hGBP4 and hGBP5, in the context of Toxoplasma gondii infection in a human epithelial cell. I generate, optimise and characterise numerous tools to research these hGBPs localisation and function, including CRISPR knockout cell lines, titratable overexpression systems and novel high-throughput automated assays for phenotypic quantifications. Utilising these tools, I determine that hGBPs 2-5 do not contribute to IFNg-mediated restriction of Toxoplasma gondii in A549 epithelial cells and make an argument for these observations being a specific phenomenon of non-phagocytic human cells.
The Choice of Knowledge Base in Automated Claim Checking
Creators: name: Stammbach, Dominik
name: Zhang, Boya
name: Ash, Elliott
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Automated claim verification
Knowledge base
Evidence selection
Information retrieval
Content management

description: Automated claim checking is the task of determining the veracity of a claim given evidence found in a knowledge base of trustworthy facts. While previous work has taken the knowledge base as given and optimized the claim-checking pipeline, we take the opposite approach - taking the pipeline as given, we explore the choice of knowledge base. Our first insight is that a claim-checking pipeline can be transferred to a new domain of claims with access to a knowledge base from the new domain. Second, we do not find a "universally best" knowledge base - higher domain overlap of a task dataset and a knowledge base tends to produce better label accuracy. Third, combining multiple knowledge bases does not tend to improve performance beyond using the closest-domain knowledge base. Finally, we show that the claim-checking pipeline's confidence score for selecting evidence can be used to assess whether a knowledge base will perform well for a new set of claims, even in the absence of ground-truth labels.
description: Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021 (17)
title: Utricularia vulgaris
title: Gewöhnlicher / Großer Wasserschlauch (Utricularia vulgaris)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 4 Bilder des Gewöhnlichen / Großen Wasserschlauches.
The Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph: the green light for Galaxy Kinematics
Creators: name: Douglas, N. G.
name: Arnaboldi, M.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Kuijken, K.
name: Merrifield, M.
name: Romanowsky, A. J.
name: Taylor, K.
name: Capaccioli, M.
name: Axelrod, T.
name: Gilmozzi, R.
name: Hart, J.
name: Bloxham, G.
name: Jones, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planetary nebulae are now well established as probes of galaxy dynamics and as standard candles in distance determinations. Motivated by the need to improve the efficiency of planetary nebulae searches and the speed with which their radial velocities are determined, a dedicated instrument - the Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph or PN.S - has been designed and commissioned at the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. The high optical efficiency of the spectrograph results in the detection of typically ~ 150 PN in galaxies at the distance of the Virgo cluster in one night of observations. In the same observation the radial velocities are obtained with an accuracy of ~ 20 km/s
description: Accepted by PASP, to appear November 2002; the figures have been degraded for archival purposes
MOESM3 of Increasing access to microfluidics for studying fungi and other branched biological structures
Creators: name: Millet, Larry
name: Aufrecht, Jayde
name: Labbé, Jessy
name: Uehling, Jessie
name: Vilgalys, Rytas
name: Myka Estes
name: Guennoc, Cora Miquel
name: Deveau, Aurélie
name: Olsson, Stefan
name: Bonito, Gregory
name: Doktycz, Mitchel
name: Retterer, Scott
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 3. Dynamics of bacteria along the ‘hyphal-highway’ and cytoplasmic streaming within the mycelium.
AN ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE INVERSION APPROACH TO DETECT AND CHARACTERIZE GAS HYDRATE ACCUMULATIONS WITH SEISMIC METHODS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE MALLIK GAS HYDRATE FIELD, NWT, CANADA
Creators: name: Bellefleur, Gilles
name: Riedel, Michael
name: Mair, Stephanie
name: Brent, Tom
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Two internationally-partnered research well programs, in 1998 and 2002, studied the Mallik gas hydrate accumulation in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Gas hydrate bearing intervals were cored, logged and production tested thus establishing Mallik as an excellent site for testing geophysical imaging techniques. Here, we apply a model-based acoustic impedance inversion technique to 3D seismic reflection data acquired over the Mallik area to characterize gas hydrate occurrences and to help define their spatial extent away from well control. Sonic logs in Mallik research wells show that P-wave velocity of sediments increases with hydrate saturation, enough to produce detectable reflections for the lower two of three known gas hydrate zones. The inversion method converts these reflections into acoustic impedances from which velocity and hydrate saturation can be estimated. Acoustic impedance inversion results indicate that the deepest gas hydrate zone covers an area of approximately 900,000 m2. With some assumptions on the lateral continuity of gas hydrate saturation, porosity and thickness measured at the wells, we estimate that this zone contains approximately 771x106 m3 of gas at standard atmospheric pressure. At a regional scale, results allowed the detection of a high-velocity area near the A-06 well, about 6 km south-east of 5L-38. We infer that the high velocity area corresponds to a gas hydrate accumulation. Logging data in A-06 indicate the presence of gas hydrates in this area and support our interpretation.
Economic Interests, Worldviews and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics
Creators: name: Ash, Elliott
name: Mukand, W. Sharun
name: Rodrik, Dani
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economic interests
Identity
Narratives
Ideational politics

description: Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021 (16)
Bayesian Variable Selection for Non-Gaussian Responses: A Marginally Calibrated Copula Approach
Creators: name: Klein, Nadja
name: Smith, Michael Stanley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a new highly flexible and tractable Bayesian approach to undertake variable selection in non-Gaussian regression models. It uses a copula decomposition for the joint distribution of observations on the dependent variable. This allows the marginal distribution of the dependent variable to be calibrated accurately using a nonparametric or other estimator. The family of copulas employed are `implicit copulas' that are constructed from existing hierarchical Bayesian models widely used for variable selection, and we establish some of their properties. Even though the copulas are high-dimensional, they can be estimated efficiently and quickly using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). A simulation study shows that when the responses are non-Gaussian the approach selects variables more accurately than contemporary benchmarks. A real data example in the Web Appendix illustrates that accounting for even mild deviations from normality can lead to a substantial increase in accuracy. To illustrate the full potential of our approach we extend it to spatial variable selection for fMRI. Using real data, we show our method allows for voxel-specific marginal calibration of the magnetic resonance signal at over 6,000 voxels, leading to an increase in the quality of the activation maps.
Dirac's Contour Representation for Paraparticles
Creators: name: Jing, Sicong
name: Nelson, Charles A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Dirac's contour representation is extended to parabose and parafermi systems by use of deformed algebra techniques. In this analytic representation the action of the paraparticle annihilation operator is equivalent to a deformed differentiation which encodes the statistics of the paraparticle. In the parafermi case, the derivative's ket-domain is degree $p$ polynomials.
description: 15 pages, LaTex file, no macros, no figures
Philothamnus angolensis Bocage 1882
Creators: name: Santos, Bruna S.
name: Marques, Mariana P.
name: Bauer, Aaron M.
name: Ceríaco, Luis M. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Philothamnus
Philothamnus angolensis

description: Philothamnus angolensis Bocage, 1882
 Material (one specimen): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 182, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017392; Fig. S74), collected from unknown locality, date unknown.
 Comments: Philothamnus angolensis is a generalist species that inhabits both subtropical forest and savanna biomes and has a widespread distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in most of Angola with the exception of the southwestern desert (Marques et al. 2018; Engelbrecht et al. 2019). Marques et al. (2018) commented that Angolan records of Philothamnus irregularis (Leach, 1819) correspond mainly to P. angolensis and Philothamnus hoplogaster (Günther, 1863). Ferreira (1904) cited an adult specimen from “Chingo” as “ Philothamnus irregularis var angolensis ” that exhibited an exceptional number of temporal scales, 2+2 (MHNCUP/REP 197, see account below) and a “blueish green” specimen of “ Philothamnus irregularis ” from “Cambondo” with 1+1 temporal scales (Ferreira 1906). An additional specimen, without locality, was also cited as “ Philothamnus Guntheri ” (a synonym of P. angolensis) with 1+1 temporal scales. Upon analysis, we believe the extant specimen does not represent any of the published records, as it has 1+2 temporal scales. Engelbrecht et al. (2019) recently reported P. angolensis as a species differentiated by morphological characteristics supported by genetic analysis.
description: Published as part of Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton's Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5028 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5453967
Do I Trust this Stranger? Generalized Trust and the Governance of Online Communities
Creators: name: Hergueux, Jérôme
name: Algan, Yann
name: Benkler, Yochai
name: Fuster-Morell, Mayo
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Online experiment
Trust
Community policing
Peer production
Wikipedia

description: Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2022 (02)
Additional file 1 of Assessing the measurement properties of PROMIS Computer Adaptive Tests, short forms and legacy patient reported outcome measures in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty
Creators: name: Braaksma, C.
name: Wolterbeek, N.
name: Veen, M. R.
name: Poolman, R. W.
name: Pronk, Y.
name: Klaassen, A. D.
name: Ostelo, R. W. J. G.
name: Terwee, C. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Pinguicula alpina
title: Alpen-Fettkraut (Pinguicula alpina)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 12 Bilder des Alpen-Fettkrauts.
Critical Network Cascades with Re-excitable nodes: Why tree-like approximations usually work, when they breakdown, and how to correct them
Creators: name: Chandra, Sarthak
name: Ott, Edward
name: Girvan, Michelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Network science is a rapidly expanding field, with a large and growing body of work on network-based dynamical processes. Most theoretical results in this area rely on the so-called \emph{locally tree-like approximation}. This is, however, usually an `uncontrolled' approximation, in the sense that the magnitudes of the error are typically unknown, although numerical results show that this error is often surprisingly small. In this paper, we place this approximation on more rigorous footing by calculating the magnitude of deviations away from tree-based theories in the context of discrete-time critical network cascades with re-excitable nodes. We discuss the conditions under which tree-like approximations give good results for calculating network criticality, and also explain the reasons for deviation from this approximation, in terms of the density of certain kinds of network motifs. Using this understanding, we derive results for network criticality that apply to general networks that explicitly do not satisfy the locally tree-like approximation. In particular, we focus on the bi-parallel motif, the smallest motif relevant to the failure of a tree-based theory in this context, and we derive the corrections due to such motifs on the conditions for criticality. We verify our claims on computer-generated networks, and we confirm that our theory accurately predicts the observed deviations from criticality. Using our theory, we explain why numerical simulations often show that deviations from a tree-based theory are surprisingly small. More specifically, we show that these deviations are negligible for networks whose average degree is even modestly large compared to one, justifying why tree-based theories appear to work well for most real-world networks.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams
Creators: name: Hergueux, Jérôme
name: Henry, Emeric
name: Benkler, Yochai
name: Algan, Yann
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cooperation
Reciprocity
Social exchange
Organizational behavior
Virtual teams
Open-source software

description: Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2022 (03)
MOESM2 of Increasing access to microfluidics for studying fungi and other branched biological structures
Creators: name: Millet, Larry
name: Aufrecht, Jayde
name: LabbĂŠ, Jessy
name: Uehling, Jessie
name: Vilgalys, Rytas
name: Myka Estes
name: Guennoc, Cora Miquel
name: AurĂŠlie Deveau
name: Olsson, Stefan
name: Bonito, Gregory
name: Doktycz, Mitchel
name: Retterer, Scott
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Maturation of bacterial-fungal interactions in microfluidics.
Leveraging the Honor Code: Public Goods Contributions under Oath
Creators: name: Hergueux, Jérôme
name: Jacquemet, Nicolas
name: Luchini, Stephane
name: Shogren, Jason F.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Truth-telling oath
Public goods
Social preferences
Reciprocity
Cooperation

description: Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2022 (04)
title: Laserpitium siler
title: Berg-Laserkraut (Laserpitium siler)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 8 Bilder des Berg-Laserkrauts.
Uncovering the link between mindfulness and sustainability: does mindfulness practice influence pro-environmental behaviours?
Creators: name: Thiermann, Ute Barbara
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Environmental scientists are struggling to design interventions that promote long lasting pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) change in individuals. While researchers have gathered compelling evidence that mindfulness practices positively affect personal well-being and pro-social behaviours, less is known about their relationship with PEB and if their widespread promotion could help promoting a more sustainable society. To contribute to this knowledge gap, this thesis investigates the following research question: Do mindfulness practitioners show higher levels of PEB and if so, which mechanisms explain the link between practicing mindfulness and improved PEB? This thesis progresses through three key analytical stages: First, a comprehensive literature review looks at the common definitions and operationalisation of the four core concepts constituting the research question. The second component explores the theoretical foundations of PEB change and suggests a new theoretical framework: the 2-pathway model of pro-environmental behaviours and experiential strategies for behaviour change (e. g. nature exposure, mindfulness). The third analytical step is an empirical evaluation of the research question in form of an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. A cross-sectional survey with 300 non-practitioners, novice meditators and advanced meditators shows that advanced meditators have the lowest environmental impact associated with their animal-protein consumption and are most motivated to act in favour of the environment. The second study is based on semi-structured interviews with 18 volunteers from the survey sample and uses reflexive thematic analysis under a critical realist perspective. The analysis reveals five themes explaining the link between mindfulness practice and PEB: deepening mindfulness, awakening of the mind, awakening of the heart, internalisation of environmental motivation and eudaimonic well-being. At the end of the empirical section, the common themes and factors linking mindfulness and sustainability are presented in a dynamic network model, and the results of the mixed-methods study are triangulated in one global discussion which concludes with recommendations for policy making and future research. The thesis demonstrates that mindfulness practices classify as a successful experiential strategy to change PEB, once practitioners develop the necessary self-regulation skills, relational capacities, and moral autonomy through their long-term commitment to integrating mindful living principles into their daily lives. The process of change is personal and depends on a dynamic network of factors, all funnelling towards the development of an embodied and compassionate connection with others and the natural world that helps to internalise the motivation for sustainable living and creates eudaimonic well-being.
Mass segregation in rich clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud - III. Implications for the initial mass function
Creators: name: de Grijs, R.
name: Gilmore, G. F.
name: Mackey, A. D.
name: Wilkinson, M. I.
name: Beaulieu, S. F.
name: Johnson, R. A.
name: Santiago, B. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of core radii of rich clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) systematically increases in both upper limit and spread with increasing cluster age. Cluster-to-cluster variations in the stellar initial mass function (IMF) have been suggested as an explanation. We discuss the implications of the observed degree of mass segregation in our sample clusters for the shape of the initial mass function. Our results are based on Hubble Space Telescope/WFPC2 observations of six rich star clusters in the LMC, selected to include three pairs of clusters of similar age, metallicity, and distance from the LMC centre, and exhibiting a large spread in core radii between the clusters in each pair. All clusters show clear evidence of mass segregation: (i) their luminosity function slopes steepen with increasing cluster radius, and (ii) the brighter stars are characterized by smaller core radii. For all sample clusters, both the slope of the luminosity function in the cluster centres and the degree of mass segregation are similar to each other, within observational errors of a few tenths of power-law slope fits to the data. This implies that their INITIAL mass functions must have been very similar, down to ~0.8 - 1.0 M(sun). We therefore rule out variations in the IMF of the individual sample clusters as the main driver of the increasing spread of cluster core radii with cluster age.
description: 14 pages LaTeX (incl. 9 postscript figures), accepted for publication in MNRAS
Memory and mutualism in species sustainability: a time-fractional Lotka-Volterra model with harvesting
Creators: name: Amirian, Mohammad M.
name: Towers, I. N.
name: Jovanoski, Z.
name: Irwin, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We first present a predator-prey model for two species and then extend the model to three species where the two predator species engage in mutualistic predation. Constant effort harvesting and the impact of by-catch issue are also incorporated. Necessary sufficient conditions for the existence and stability of positive equilibrium points are examined. It is shown that harvesting is sustainable, and the memory concept of the fractional derivative damps out oscillations in the population numbers so that the system as a whole settles on an equilibrium quicker than it would with integer time derivatives. Finally, some possible physical explanations are given for the obtained results. It is shown that the stability requires the memory concept in the model.
Human-in-the-loop design with machine learning
Creators: name: Wang, Pan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Deep learning methods have been applied in design fields to randomly generate design images. However, these AI generation methods do not consider human cognitive aspects, and the randomly generated results have no human cognitive input. This leads to AI-driven design applications not considering human perception, especially in design applications where perceived qualities are important, such as fashion, graphics, advertising and product appearance. In this thesis, we seek to advance an AI method for generating design images through deep-learning-based brain decoding. We expect this could help to generate design images with human cognition interactions. We propose a human-in-the-loop design framework with machine learning for generating design images with human cognition represented by brain activity, and ultimately laying the technical foundations of a new design method that optimises human perceptions in the loop. Specifically, three cognitive mechanisms common in design have been explored: mental association, preferences and conceptual blending. Through the proposed human-in-the-loop AI design image generation framework, three types of cognitive models have been investigated for these three cognitive mechanisms. Design cases have been applied by utilising the proposed models to demonstrate the technical potential in generating design images with human cognition. In this thesis, we aim to add human cognitive aspects to AI design image generation processes. The thesis makes the following contributions: 1) We propose a human-in-the-loop AI design image generation framework with human cognition integrated during AI design generation processes. 2) To provide evidence supporting the proposed AI design framework, three cognitive models – ‘cognitive categorisation model’, ‘cognitive transformation model’ and ‘cognitive combination model’ have been demonstrated with design cases. 3) We have collected six datasets for different design tasks, including three brain signal datasets (two EEG datasets and one EEG and fMRI simultaneous recording dataset) and three corresponding images datasets, for the model training and testing of the model.
Philothamnus A.Smith 1847
Creators: name: Santos, Bruna S.
name: Marques, Mariana P.
name: Bauer, Aaron M.
name: Ceríaco, Luis M. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Philothamnus

description: Philothamnus cf. heterolepitdotus (Günther, 1863)
 Material (one specimen): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 198, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017411; Fig. S75), collected from unknown locality, date unknown.
 Comments: Philothamnus heterolepidotus is known from sub-Saharan Africa, with a distribution across Sierra Leone to Sudan, western Ethiopia and Kenya and south to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Angola (Marques et al. 2018). Ferreira cited two specimens with the same temporal formula as this specimen, 1+1 – one from “Cambondo” as “ Philothamnus irregularis ” and another without locality info as “ Philothamnus Guntheri ” (Ferreira 1906), rendering it difficult to assign the aforementioned specimen to either. After reviewing its morphology, which shows three supralabials in contact with the eye, we found it to closely resemble P. heterolepidotus, to which we here tentatively assign it.
description: Published as part of Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton's Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5028 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5453967
title: Laserpitium latifolium
title: Breitblättriges Laserkraut (Laserpitium latifolium)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 9 Bilder des Breitblättrigen Laserkrauts.
Building trust for continuous variable quantum states
Creators: name: Chabaud, Ulysse
name: Douce, Tom
name: Grosshans, Frédéric
name: Kashefi, Elham
name: Markham, Damian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we develop new methods for the characterisation of continuous variable quantum states using heterodyne measurement in both the trusted and untrusted settings. First, building on quantum state tomography with heterodyne detection, we introduce a reliable method for continuous variable quantum state certification, which directly yields the elements of the density matrix of the state considered with analytical confidence intervals. This method neither needs mathematical reconstruction of the data nor discrete binning of the sample space, and uses a single Gaussian measurement setting. Second, beyond quantum state tomography and without its identical copies assumption, we promote our reliable tomography method to a general efficient protocol for verifying continuous variable pure quantum states with Gaussian measurements against fully malicious adversaries, i.e., making no assumptions whatsoever on the state generated by the adversary. These results are obtained using a new analytical estimator for the expected value of any operator acting on a continuous variable quantum state with bounded support over the Fock basis, computed with samples from heterodyne detection of the state.
description: This paper is an extended version of a short paper accepted for the TQC2020 proceedings (15+28 pages, 2 figures)
Additional file 1 of Teachers’ perception of their students’ dietary habits in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Mekonnen Kifle, Mekdes
name: Terragni, Laura
name: Morseth, Marianne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Bootstrapping Science? The Impact of a “Return Human Capital” Programme on Chinese Research Productivity
Creators: name: Ash, Elliott
name: Cai, David
name: Draca, Mirko
name: Liu, Shaoyu
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research productivity
difference-in-difference model
Human capital
Global talent flow
Chinese institutions
Thousand Talents Plan

description: Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 06 (2022)
Skills for Open Agrobiodiversity Data - OLS 3
Creators: name: Ramos, Irene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open data
agrobiodiversity

description: Skills for Open Agrobiodiversity Data is a project developed as part of the Open Life Science program. We are designing a workshop on open data for agrobiodiversity researchers in Mexico. The goal is to encourage them to become data users apart from data collectors. We hope the workshop shows how a funding institution can promote open data practices. Here is the video of the presentation: https://youtu.be/2tezbbfJGu8?t=919
On War: The Dynamics of Vicious Civilizations
Creators: name: Ispolatov, I.
name: Krapivsky, P. L.
name: Redner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of ``vicious'', continuously growing civilizations (domains), which engage in ``war'' whenever two domains meet, is investigated. In the war event, the smaller domain is annihilated, while the larger domain is reduced in size by a fraction $\e$ of the casualties of the loser. Here $\e$ quantifies the fairness of the war, with $\e=1$ corresponding to a fair war with equal casualties on both side, and $\e=0$ corresponding to a completely unfair war where the winner suffers no casualties. In the heterogeneous version of the model, evolution begins from a specified initial distribution of domains, while in the homogeneous system, there is a continuous and spatially uniform input of point domains, in addition to the growth and warfare. For the heterogeneous case, the rate equations are derived and solved, and comparisons with numerical simulations are made. An exact solution is also derived for the case of equal size domains in one dimension. The heterogeneous system is found to coarsen, with the typical cluster size growing linearly in time $t$ and the number density of domains decreases as $1/t$. For the homogeneous system, two different long-time behaviors arise as a function of $\e$. When $1/2
description: 43 pages, plain TeX, 12 figures included, gzipped and uuencoded
title: Laserpitium halleri
title: Hallers Laserkraut (Laserpitium halleri)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 14 Bilder des Hallerschen Laserkrauts.
Facility class Rayleigh beacon AO system for the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope
Creators: name: Rutten, R. G. M.
name: Clark, P.
name: Myers, R. M.
name: Wilson, R. W.
name: Bingham, R. G.
name: Emsellem, E.
name: Gregory, T.
name: Humphreys, R. A.
name: Knapen, J. H.
name: Moretto, G.
name: Morris, S. L.
name: Talbot, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A rationale is presented for the use of a relatively low-altitude Rayleigh Laser Guide Star to provide partial adaptive optics correction across a large fraction of the sky on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. The scientific motivation is highlighted and supported by model calculations. An overview the technical implementation of the system is presented.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, to be published in 2002 SPIE Conference proceedings
title: Heracleum sphondylium
title: Wiesen-Bärenklau (Heracleum sphondylium)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 20 Bilder des Wiesen-Bärenklaus.
title: To develop a specific outcome measure for hand burn injuries informed by all levels of evidence: research evidence, specialist clinicians and consumers
Creators: name: Mc Kittrick, Andrea F
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: hand burn injuries
subject: outcome measure
subject: systematic review

description: Hand function is an important part of participation in occupations across the domains of self-care, productivity, and leisure. Interruption to hand function can be caused by injuries or conditions which limit how an individual is able to use and engage in the activities they want to, have to or need to do. Burn injuries primarily impact the skin however burn injuries which are deep dermal or full thickness in depth have the potential to disrupt underlying structures such as muscle, tendon, and bone. This depth of burn injury requires surgery to achieve wound closure in an optimal time, although this does result in scarring. Scarring resulting from burn injuries is known as hypertrophic scarring with features of reduced pliability, increased height, and vascularity. The contractile forces resulting from hypertrophic scarring can cause tightness leading to reduced hand function for the individual with a hand burn injury. This PhD program evolved from a clinical problem. Individuals with hand burn injuries reported that their hand was “not right”, and this was not consistent with their otherwise normative scores on standardised outcome measures. This disconnect in self-reported outcomes and standardised outcome measures prompted the PhD candidate to question the outcome measures used in practice and enrol in a PhD degree. The impetus was to address the clinical problem and either identify or develop a specific outcome measure for hand burn injuries. The program of research was a pragmatic, iterative process, that is the second thesis aim was directed by the findings of the first thesis aim. The first thesis aim was to investigate hand burn outcome measurement from an evidence-based perspective including: research evidence (objective 1), specialist clinicians (objective 2) and consumers (objective 3). The second aim of this thesis was to co-design (objective 4) and establish the preliminary psychometric properties (objective 5) of an outcome measure specific for hand burn injuries. [...]
MOESM1 of Increasing access to microfluidics for studying fungi and other branched biological structures
Creators: name: Millet, Larry
name: Aufrecht, Jayde
name: LabbĂŠ, Jessy
name: Uehling, Jessie
name: Vilgalys, Rytas
name: Myka Estes
name: Guennoc, Cora Miquel
name: AurĂŠlie Deveau
name: Olsson, Stefan
name: Bonito, Gregory
name: Doktycz, Mitchel
name: Retterer, Scott
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supporting methods.
Rank: Claritas (2024-08-29). PRIZM Premier - 2024: PRIZM Premier - Estimated Consumer Count | Sports and Leisure | Travel | Events attended/places visited past 12 months Any theme park | Types of vacations plan to take next 12 months Theme park vacation, 2024. Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd. (Dataset). Dataset-ID: 085-027-001
Creators: name: Claritas
Publisher: name: Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd
Year: 2025
Subjects: Consumer Behavior
Consumers

description: Presents estimated counts of adults or households by consumer behavior, by consumer segment. These statistics are used by marketers to identify segments of interest. Geographic areas with high concentrations of a particular segment(s) can be identified using statistics in P$YCLE Premier Segment Distributions.
Additional file 5 of KMT2A/C mutations function as a potential predictive biomarker for immunotherapy in solid tumors
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
name: Wu, Hao-Xiang
name: Xu, Ming
name: Xie, Xiaoyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Figure S3. Boxplot comparing the tumor mutational burden (TMB) between KMT2A/C-Mut tumors and the KMT2A/C-Wt tumors in the primary ICI-treated cohort.
title: Ligusticum mutellina
title: Alpen-Mutterwurz (Ligusticum mutellina)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 11 Bilder des Alpen-Mutterwurzes.