cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Do public libraries impact local labour markets? Evidence from Appalachia
Creators: name: Neto, Amir Borges Ferreira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: This paper investigates the effect of public library programmes and participation on unemployment and labour force participation in Appalachia. Appalachia is an economically distressed area, mostly rural, and with a sustained lower level of labour force participation and a higher level of unemployment. As public library programmes can be cyclical to business cycles, that is, labour market outcomes, I use public library staff and the amount computers available as instruments. While ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates show no effect of adult or children’s programmes and participation on local labour market outcomes, spatial econometric estimates provide evidence of direct and indirect effects of adults programmes and participation on labour force participation.
Explanatory multivariate modeling for disability, pain, and claims in patients with spine pain via a physical therapy direct access model of care
Creators: name: Green, Christopher
name: Givens, Deborah L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: BACKGROUND: Direct access physical therapy (DAPT) may result in improved patient outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. Prognostic factors associated with spine-related outcomes and insurance claims with DAPT are needed.
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors that predict variations in outcomes for spine pain and insurance claims using DAPT.
METHODS: Individuals (N = 250) with spine pain were analyzed. Outcomes were classified into High, Low, or Did Not Meet
minimal clinically important difference (MCID) scores. Claims were categorized into low, medium, or high tertiles. Prognostic
variables were identified from patient information.
RESULTS: Females were more likely to meet High MCID (odds ratio [OR] 2.84 (95% CI = 1.32, 6.11) and Low MCID (OR
2.86, 95% CI = 1.34, 6.10). Higher initial ODI/NDI scores were associated with High MCID (OR 1.04, 95% CI = 1.07, 1.22) and Low MCID (OR 0.91, 95% CI = 0.77, 1.07). Odds of a high claim were lowered by the absence of imaging (OR 0.04, 95% CI = 0.02, 0.09) and an active versus passive treatment (OR 0.38, 95% CI = 0.18, 0.80).
CONCLUSION: Females and higher initial disability predicted favorable outcomes. The novel introduction of claims into the prognostic modeling supports that active interventions and avoiding imaging may reduce claims.
National Open Access Monitor: IReL Project Plan
Creators: name: Ferris, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: National Open Access Forum
Open Access
Ireland
IReL
Maynooth University

description: This is the Project Plan for the IReL's successful application to lead the National Open Access Monitoring action of the NORF 2022 Open Research Fund. This project will develop a monitor for open access at the national level, initially through pilot reports and a national dashboard to publish, analyse and track progress towards 100% open access. The key objectives and expected outcomes are to:
 • Work to arrive at a community-agreed definition for Open Access at the national level
 • Build on previous NORF work, engaging with national stakeholders (DFHERIS, NORF, NORF 2022 Open Research Fund projects, HEA, research funding organisation, research performing organisations, national research infrastructures, publishers etc.) to gather and validate user requirements for Open Access monitoring
 • Work with external vendors to deliver reports and a national dashboard to help Ireland publish, analyse and track open access rates at the national level.
 • Document challenges that should be addressed in long-term monitoring solutions and recommend steps to be taken, including workflows for data validation and enrichment.
 • Work to improve the quality and depth of data used for the national dashboard in line with international best practice through stakeholder collaboration with institutions, funders etc. and direct input or validation where possible.
 • Following NORF and Science Europe recommendations, ensure that the monitor uses data and bibliographic databases that are openly accessible, is built using open infrastructure, and is publicly accessible to view and analyse. This project has received funding from Ireland’s National Open Research Forum under the NORF Open Research Fund. https://norf.ie/funding/ https://norf.ie/orf-projects-announcement/
Japanese Preboundary lengthening for Data in Brief
Creators: name: Seo, Jungyun
name: Kim, Sahyang
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Phonetics and Phonology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The data presented here is the acoustic realization of preboundary lengthening in disyllabic words with different linguistic structure from fourteen Tokyo Japanese speakers.
MPEC 2023-Q109 : 2023 QB4
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 QB4

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.
Fillings of unit cotangent bundles
Creators: name: Sivek, Steven
name: Van Horn-Morris, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the topology of exact and Stein fillings of the canonical contact structure on the unit cotangent bundle of a closed surface $Σ_g$, where $g$ is at least 2. In particular, we prove a uniqueness theorem asserting that any Stein filling must be s-cobordant rel boundary to the disk cotangent bundle of $Σ_g$. For exact fillings, we show that the rational homology agrees with that of the disk cotangent bundle, and that the integral homology takes on finitely many possible values: for example, if $g-1$ is square-free, then any exact filling has the same integral homology and intersection form as $DT^*Σ_g$.
description: 14 pages; v2: updated introduction
Health Information Literacy Awareness and Capacity Building: Present and Future
Creators: name: Ottosen, Terri
name: Fratta, Megan
name: Mani, Nandita
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Health literacy is increasingly important in today’s complex information ecosystem, both nationally and globally. Across the world, whether people live in “information rich” or “information poor” societies, the role of our profession is a vital one. In the developed world, the ubiquitous nature of health information creates a wealth of accessible content and simultaneously has created confusion as to what information is reliable, how health information can be utilized, and whether or not information is produced in a meaningful manner. In the developing world, content may be non-existent, culturally inappropriate or inaccessible in terms of language and other barriers. In order to mitigate the health information crisis we are now facing, we need to collaborate and respond to the challenges raised by the complexity of health information. Librarians and other information professionals can and must play an important role in improving health literacy in their communities. This paper considers international efforts towards improving health in both information poor and information rich settings, including work showcased in recent years at IFLA’s Health & Biosciences Libraries Section Open Sessions at the World Library & Information Congress (WLIC). It discusses health literacy in the US and other developed economies, and looks in detail at innovative work by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)where the Health Sciences Library (HSL), a part of the University Libraries, has strengthened efforts surrounding health literacy in local communities and throughout the state. This paper provides examples of how to partner with multiple constituencies on health literacy and discusses future opportunities for growth and engagement.
KIC 9821622: An interesting lithium-rich giant in the Kepler field
Creators: name: Jofré, E.
name: Petrucci, R.
name: García, L.
name: Gómez, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a new exceptional young lithium-rich giant, KIC 9821622, in the \textit{Kepler} field that exhibits an unusually large enhancement of $α$, Fe-peak, and \textit{r}-process elements. From high-resolution spectra obtained with GRACES at Gemini North, we derived fundamental parameters and detailed chemical abundances of 23 elements from equivalent widths and synthesis analysis. By combining atmospheric stellar parameters with available asteroseismic data, we obtained the stellar mass, radius, and age. The data analysis reveals that KIC 9821622 is a Li-rich (A(Li)$_{NLTE}$ = 1.80 $\pm$ 0.2) intermediate-mass giant star ($M$ = 1.64 $M_{\odot}$) located at the red giant branch near the luminosity bump. We find unexpectedly elevated abundances of Fe-peak and \textit{r}-process elements. In addition, as previously reported, we find that this is a young star (2.37 Gyr) with unusually high abundances of $α$-elements ([$α$/Fe] = 0.31). The evolutionary status of KIC 9821622 suggests that its Li-rich nature is the result of internal fresh Li that is synthesized through the Cameron-Fowler mechanism near the luminosity bump. However, its peculiar enhancement of $α$, Fe-peak, and \textit{r}-process elements opens the possibility of external contamination by material enriched by a supernova explosion. Although it is less likely, planet accretion cannot be ruled out.
description: Letter, 6 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A. - Some language editing included
Microwave quantum optics as a direct probe of the Overhauser field in a quantum-dot CQED device
Creators: name: Jin, Pei-Qing
name: Jeske, Jan
name: Greentree, Andrew D.
name: Cole, Jared H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show theoretically that a quantum-dot circuit quantum electrodynamics (CQED) device can be used as a probe of the Overhauser field in quantum dots. By coupling a transmission line to the interdot tunneling gate, an electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) scheme can be established, whose Fano-type interference leads to a sharp curvature in the reflection spectrum around resonance. This sharp feature persists even in the presence of the fluctuating spin bath, rendering a high-resolution method to extract the bath's statistical information. For strong nuclear spin fields, the reflection spectrum exhibits an Autler-Townes splitting, where the peak locations indicate the strengths of the Overhauser field gradient (OFG).
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
A Fast Compiler for NetKAT
Creators: name: Smolka, Steffen
name: Eliopoulos, Spiridon
name: Foster, Nate
name: Guha, Arjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.4

description: High-level programming languages play a key role in a growing number of networking platforms, streamlining application development and enabling precise formal reasoning about network behavior. Unfortunately, current compilers only handle "local" programs that specify behavior in terms of hop-by-hop forwarding behavior, or modest extensions such as simple paths. To encode richer "global" behaviors, programmers must add extra state -- something that is tricky to get right and makes programs harder to write and maintain. Making matters worse, existing compilers can take tens of minutes to generate the forwarding state for the network, even on relatively small inputs. This forces programmers to waste time working around performance issues or even revert to using hardware-level APIs. This paper presents a new compiler for the NetKAT language that handles rich features including regular paths and virtual networks, and yet is several orders of magnitude faster than previous compilers. The compiler uses symbolic automata to calculate the extra state needed to implement "global" programs, and an intermediate representation based on binary decision diagrams to dramatically improve performance. We describe the design and implementation of three essential compiler stages: from virtual programs (which specify behavior in terms of virtual topologies) to global programs (which specify network-wide behavior in terms of physical topologies), from global programs to local programs (which specify behavior in terms of single-switch behavior), and from local programs to hardware-level forwarding tables. We present results from experiments on real-world benchmarks that quantify performance in terms of compilation time and forwarding table size.
Confidence, Collaboration, Trust: Developing An Interprofessional EMS Obstetric Skills Training Program
Creators: name: Fleisher, Jen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019
Subjects: Interprofessional education

description: Obstetric emergency calls (OB) in the City of Charlottesville are infrequent among Emergency Medical Services’ (EMS) dispatch, giving EMS providers little exposure to out-of-hospital birth and few opportunities to improve their OB field skills. In contrast, midwives have regular exposure to home birth. The purpose of this participatory research paper is to examine trends in interprofessional training with simulation as a strategy for improving critical competencies; test the effects of a midwife-led, interprofessional training curriculum on EMS workers’ self-efficacy; and foster partnerships to execute and scale the training.

Literature on interprofessional training with simulation was analyzed. Interviews, meetings, training manuals, and organization-wide surveys were assessed to measure EMS needs and certification standards. Follow-up surveys and interviews were evaluated after the training to measure outcomes.

The literature revealed evidence that interprofessional training improves participants’ confidence and skills. Initial interviews and meetings with EMS employees found low-confidence in the effectiveness of current trainings and a desire for simulations. Self-assessment surveys (n=66) showed 83.4% (n=49) of respondents lacked confidence in their OB skills. A follow-up survey was completed by 28 participants with responses matched to their pre-survey results. 50% (n=14) had at least one level of improvement in confidence.  

Interprofessional training with simulation helps improve EMS crews’ OB skills, capacity to collaborate with midwives in the field, and confidence levels. More research is needed, but initial results are promising for scaling interprofessional training to further municipalities and supporting partnerships between EMS and home birth midwives.
COVID-19: Understanding Effects and Resilience in Kenya from a Cash Transfer Experiment
Creators: name: Walker, Michael
name: Egger, Dennis
name: Haushofer, Johannes
name: Miguel, Edward
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: cash transfers
subject: COVID-19
subject: Kenya

description: This project collects phone survey data from a long-run follow-up sample of households and enterprises to study effects and resilience to COVID-19.
Detektion der Einflüsse von Konturparametern auf die Randschichtporosität in Ti-Al6-V4 in PBF-LB/M- Prozessen mittels Röntgen-Computertomographie
Creators: name: Baumgärtner, Benjamin
name: Rothfelder, Richard
name: Schmidt, Michael
name: Hausotte, Tino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In der additiven Fertigung können Konturparameter zum erreichen besserer Oberflächenqualitäten (Rauheit, Formabweichung) genutzt werden. Obwohl durch die Verwendung dieser aufwendige Nachbearbeitungsschritten eingespart werden können, kann der zusätzliche Energieeintrag zu einer erhöhten, bauteilkritischen Porosität im Randbereich führen. Zur Ermittlung geeigneter Parametersätzen, die sowohl Oberflächenrauheit und Porosität optimieren, wird bislang im Stand der Technik keine Prozedur berichtet. Da die Parameter im Randbereich stark von den genutzten Kernparametern abweichen können, müssen diese häufig aufwendig empirisch ermittelt werden. Die Ermittlung der Korrelation zwischen Oberflächenrauheit, Randschichtporosität und Konturparameter setzt einen dreidimensionalen Bezug der Porosität zur Oberfläche voraus, was eine Kernkompetenz der Röntgen-Computertomographie darstellt .
Perceived fairness of housework in the time of COVID
Creators: name: Urganci, Betul
name: Ong, Anthony
name: Balzarini, Rhonda
name: Zoppolat, Giulia
name: Slatcher, Richard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: COVID-19
subject: Division of household labor
subject: health
subject: perceived partner responsiveness
subject: Romantic relationships
subject: well-being

description: In this pre-registration, we will examine whether perceived partner responsiveness (PPR) as a relational strength moderates or mediates the association between household labor — which is considered to be a stressor— and well-being. Specifically, we will use the stress buffering model of PPR (Pressman, Jenkins, & Moskowitz, 2018; Slatcher & Selcuk, 2017), which hypothesizes that health benefits arise out of the ability of PPR to reduce unfair division of household labor and its detrimental effect on well-being.
Image matching for semi-automated die studies and their visualisation to evaluate and to improve the data quality
Creators: name: Gampe, Sebastian
name: Deligio, Chris
name: Tolle, Karsten
name: Steiner, Alina
name: Möller, Markus
name: von Nicolai, Caroline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ancient coins were produced in large quantities using several unique handmade dies.Coins produced with the same dies are very likely to be produced within a small time andgeographic distance. To understand the order of production and their geographicaldistribution it is necessary to find coins produced with the same die. A die can bereplaced for one side for several reasons, usually during the minting process, as theupper die wears out more quickly and needs to be replaced sooner. In this case, a newdie is used, which makes it possible to create links between groups of dies. A die studythat analyses such links is a common but also very time consuming manual task innumismatics. The challenge to find the die links is getting more complicated the morecoins you have. With the approach of linking existing resources by linked open data (e.g.based on Nomisma.org), the amount of coins to be analysed in a die study is increasing.Therefore, tools are needed to support the domain experts. In our previous project,“ClaReNet” (Classifications and Representations for Networks)*1, we developed a toolbased on an image matching algorithm ORB*2 and used Orange*3 in order to visualisethe results. For the Celtic hoard find of Le Câtillon II, which contains 70.000 coins, ourresults were very promising. It is important to note that our approach keeps the humanin the loop. We are currently trying to further improve the process of creating such a die               study. The aim of this paper is to show how such a computer-based die study can bedone and visualised, and further, how it can be used to improve the data quality, findingmistakes, and lastly to prepare the data for deeper analysis.

[1] https://clarenet.hypotheses.org/[2] https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/d1/d89/tutorial_py_orb.html[3] https://orangedatamining.com/
Makerspaces and Open Access for Whom?
Creators: name: Melo, Maggie
name: Robertson, Drew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019
Subjects: Educational equalization
Research
Open learning--Social aspects
Makerspaces
Open access publishing

description: This powerpoint was created for an event planned for Open Access Week. Speakers Maggie Melo, assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science, and Drew Robertson, technical supervisor at BeAM, will describe how makerspaces are resources for opening access to research, innovation, and collaboration across various communities. They will present a dichotomy often found about makerspaces that just because a resource is openly available does not mean it is accessible, and suggest various scenarios in which makerspaces can be used in different ways depending on the needs of the user. Example tools and objects created in BeAM will be passed around. An Arduino workshop in the Kenan Science Library's BeAM location will follow this presentation, at 4 p.m.
Predicting Covid-19 cases with social, political and health variables
Creators: name: Walach, Harald
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Virus Diseases

description: Linear regression modeling of influence of population parameters, health services and health status parameters as well as political measures on standardized Covid-19 cases and deaths in 40 countries.
ANTI-CD20 ANTIBODIES FOR THE FIRST-LINE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Matos, Rafael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Chemicals and Drugs
subject: Diseases
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Oncology

description: The study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of therapeutic strategies containing anti-CD20 antibodies for the first-line treatment of patients with CLL. To achieve the proposed objectives a network meta-analysis was conducted to compare different therapeutic strategies pairwise and a direct meta-analysis compared chemotherapy with or without an anti-CD20 antibody.
title: Η μελέτη ενός νέου κβαντιστή εμπνευσμένου από τις νευροεπιστήμες σε μια ολοκληρωμένη αρχιτεκτονική συμπίεσης εικόνας
title: The study of a novel neuro-inspired quantizer in an integrated image compression architecture
Creators: name: Παπαναστασιου Αναστασιος-Παναγιωτης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: Σε αυτήν τη διπλωματική εργασία μελετάται η απόδοση ενός κβαντιστή που προτάθηκε το 2021, ονόματι DUAL-SIM, εντός μιας ολοκληρωμένης αρχιτεκτονικής συμπίεσης εικόνας. Αυτός ο κβαντιστής εμπνέεται από τη δομή και τις λειτουργίες του ανθρώπινου οπτικού συστήματος και των βιολογικών νευρώνων οι οποίοι έχουν την ικανότητα να μετατρέπουν και να κωδικοποιούν ένα οπτικό ερέθισμα σε μια ακολουθία διακριτών γεγονότων ονόματι ακολουθία αιχμών βάσει των οποίων γίνεται η κβάντιση μιας εικόνας. Η ακολουθία αυτή των αιχμών επιτρέπει να γίνεται καταγραφή ενός δυναμικού σήματος, δηλαδή σήματος χρονικά μεταβαλλόμενου, και να καταγράφει μόνο την πληροφορία που αλλάζει, δίνοντας λιγότερη σημασία σε ό,τι είναι στατικό. Ο κβαντιστής λοιπόν, αξιοποιεί το χαρακτηριστικό του οπτικού συστήματος να ξεχωρίζει τη στατική από τη δυναμική πληροφορία και να καταγράφει μόνο τα νέα γεγονότα που προκύπτουν. Στην εργασία αυτή, ο εμπνευσμένος από τις νευροεπιστήμες κβαντιστής συνδυάζεται με σύγχρονα φίλτρα, όπως τον διακριτό μετασχηματισμό συνημιτόνου (DCT) και τον διακριτό μετασχηματισμό κυματιδίων (DWT), προκειμένου να μελετηθεί τόσο το αντιστάθμισμα μεταξύ της απόδοσης και της παραμόρφωσης που δημιουργεί η προτεινόμενη αρχιτεκτονική συμπίεσης εικόνας όσο και η συμπεριφορά του κβαντιστή αν αυτός εισαχθεί σε ένα συμβατικό περιβάλλον αρχιτεκτονικής συμπίεσης εικόνων, όπως αυτού των αλγορίθμων JPEG και JPEG2000.
description: In this thesis we study the performance of a of a quantizer proposed in 2021, called DUAL-SIM, within an integrated image compression architecture. This quantizer is motivated by the structure and functions of the human visual system and biological neurons which have the ability to convert and encode a visual stimulus into a sequence of discrete events called a spike train by which an image is quantized. This sequence of spikes allows a dynamic signal to be recorded, that is, a time-varying signal, and to record only the information that changes, giving less importance to what is static. The quantizer therefore exploits the characteristic of the visual system to distinguish static from dynamic information and to record only the events that emerge. In this work, the neuro-inspired quantizer is combined with state-of-the-art filters, such as the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), in order to study both the trade-off between performance and distortion created by the proposed image compression architecture and the behaviour of the quantizer if it is introduced into a conventional image compression architecture environment, such as that of the JPEG and JPEG2000 algorithms.
F1000 manuscript.docx
Creators: name: Bhargava, Pragati
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dentistry not elsewhere classified

description: Background: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma is a major health burden in Asian countries, necessitating active research in diagnosis and management. Various pro-inflammatory markers such as Interleukins, TNF Alpha, and Interferon gamma and inflammatory mediators such as Neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, and mast cells are known to be involved in the tumor-associated inflammatory status. Aim: To explore the role of Interleukin - 6, Neutrophil to Lymphocyte ratio and Platelet to lymphocyte ratio in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma in both pre and post-operative conditions. Materials and Methods: Forty subjects who were Clinically and Histo-pathologically diagnosed, graded, and staged based on TNM staging of OSCC were included in the study. Pre and Postoperative assessment of serum Interleukin-6, Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio, and Platelet Lymphocyte Ratio was carried out. Results: On evaluation, a significant difference was evident in comparison between the preoperative IL-6 and post-operative levels. On the evaluation of NLR, there was also a significant difference in preoperative NLR based on the staging of the tumor, the mean preoperative NLR was higher in stage Iva than in stage III. On the evaluation of PLR, the mean preoperative PLR differed significantly between stage III and stage IV n OSCC. However, no evaluative difference was noted in pre and post-operative PLR based on the histopathological type of OSCC. But, there was a significant difference noted in the PLR levels between the pre and post operative status. Conclusion: NLR and PLR are useful markers representing the tumor stage as higher NLR and PLR are associated with high stages of tumor. Pre and Postoperative IL-6 and PLR can also be useful in post-operative and post-treatment inflammatory status in individuals affected with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Lagrangian Description for Particle Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics -- Entangled Many-Particle Case
Creators: name: Sutherland, Roderick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Lagrangian formulation is constructed for particle interpretations of quantum mechanics, a well-known example of such an interpretation being the Bohm model. The advantages of such a description are that the equations for particle motion, field evolution and conservation laws can all be deduced from a single Lagrangian density expression. The formalism presented is Lorentz invariant. This paper follows on from a previous one which was limited to the single-particle case. The present paper treats the more general case of many particles in an entangled state. It is found that describing more than one particle while maintaining a relativistic description requires the specification of final boundary conditions as well as the usual initial ones, with the experimenter's controllable choice of the final conditions thereby exerting a backwards-in-time influence. This retrocausality then allows an important theoretical step forward to be made, namely that it becomes possible to dispense with the usual, many-dimensional description in configuration space and instead revert to a description in spacetime using separate, single-particle wavefunctions.
description: 37 pages
The impact of incentives and information processing on the truth-bias
Creators: name: Pantazi, Myrto
name: Klein, Olivier
name: Kissine, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In two previous studies we found that incentives may reduce the truth-bias when participants are incentivized to make accurate judgments after listening to true and false information about a certain affair but not when they are incentivized to form accurate memories. This study will directly test whether incentives may reduce the truth-bias depending on the task that participants are asked to perform when they process information (make accurate judgments or form accurate memories).
A Neural Prototype for a Virtual Chemical Spectrophotometer
Creators: name: Pabico, Jaderick P.
name: Micor, Jose Rene L.
name: Mojica, Elmer Rico E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A virtual chemical spectrophotometer for the simultaneous analysis of nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) was developed based on an artificial neural network (ANN). The developed ANN correlates the respective concentrations of Co and Ni given the absorbance profile of a Co-Ni mixture based on the Beer's Law. The virtual chemical spectrometer was trained using a 3-layer jump connection neural network model (NNM) with 126 input nodes corresponding to the 126 absorbance readings from 350 nm to 600 nm, 70 nodes in the hidden layer using a logistic activation function, and 2 nodes in the output layer with a logistic function. Test result shows that the NNM has correlation coefficients of 0.9953 and 0.9922 when predicting [Co] and [Ni], respectively. We observed, however, that the NNM has a duality property and that there exists a real-world practical application in solving the dual problem: Predict the Co-Ni mixture's absorbance profile given [Co] and [Ni]. It turns out that the dual problem is much harder to solve because the intended output has a much bigger cardinality than that of the input. Thus, we trained the dual ANN, a 3-layer jump connection nets with 2 input nodes corresponding to [Co] and [Ni], 70-logistic-activated nodes in the hidden layer, and 126 output nodes corresponding to the 126 absorbance readings from 250 nm to 600 nm. Test result shows that the dual NNM has correlation coefficients that range from 0.9050 through 0.9980 at 356 nm through 578 nm with the maximum coefficient observed at 480 nm. This means that the dual ANN can be used to predict the absorbance profile given the respective Co-Ni concentrations which can be of importance in creating academic models for a virtual chemical spectrophotometer.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, appeared in Proceedings (CDROM) of the 6th National Conference on IT in Education (NCITE 2008), University of the Philippines Los Ba\~nos, 23-24 October 2008
Open Call opportunity for SMEs in the automotive sector
Creators: name: Liotou, Eirini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presentation addresed by 5G-IANA project Deputy Coordinator to the members of the 5G-PPP SME Working Group, on 16th January 2023, about the 5G-IANA Open Call, an opportunity for SMEs in the automotive sector.
title: La détresse morale des infirmières dans le contexte du suicide assisté
title: La détresse morale des infirmières dans le contexte du suicide assisté
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Glauser, Rebecca
name: Vocat, Tamara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Suicide assisté
subject: Aide à mourir
subject: Rôle infirmier
subject: Détresse morale

description: Le rôle de l’infirmière dans l’accompagnement d’un patient au SA est peu documenté. De plus, l’AMM est un sujet tabou qui peut engendrer des conflits de valeurs chez les infirmières et donc de la détresse morale. Toutes les conséquences négatives de cette détresse peuvent conduire l’infirmière, dans le pire des cas, à quitter son travail. Peu d’écrits sont disponibles pour comprendre quelles stratégies sont possibles pour y pallier, nous en avons cependant trouvé certains dont nous faisons la synthèse ci-après.
Fatty acid composition as a function of latitude in barnacle cyprid larvae
Creators: name: Leal, Inês
name: Thyrring, Jakob
name: Flores, Augusto A. V.
name: Archambault, Philippe
name: Collin, Rachel
name: Sejr, Mikael K.
name: Scrosati, Ricardo A.
name: Tremblay, Réjean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Broadly distributed species need to perform well in a range of environmental conditions, but knowledge of how wide-ranging marine larvae perform along latitudinal gradients remains limited. The fatty acid composition of larvae is important for their physiological responses to changing conditions. Here, we investigated the fatty acid composition of the last, non-feeding stage of barnacle larvae (cyprids) using an integrative (larvae–environment) and comparative (latitudinal) approach. We measured fatty acids in the pelagic particulate matter and cyprids from Chthamalus bisinuatus, Chthamalus proteus, and Semibalanus balanoides from tropical to polar (Arctic) latitudes to identify potential food sources during the feeding larval stages (nauplius) that precede the cyprids and to ascertain larval capacity to integrate neutral (energetic) and polar (structural) fatty acids. We demonstrate that particulate matter in tropical waters mainly consisted of low-quality saturated fatty acids derived from detrital pathways, while particulate matter from polar waters was rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids originating from living microalgae. Across the studied regions, neutral fatty acids were assimilated from various food sources including diatoms, dinoflagellates, detritus, and microeukaryotes. Cyprids consistently retained higher essential fatty acid levels than the relative share in the particulate matter. Particularly, the essential docosahexaenoic acid (22:6ω3), which was scarce in the particulate matter, was highly retained across all species but highest for the tropical cyprids. We argue that this latitudinal pattern in fatty acid retention is related to periods of reduced nutrient intake, increased energetic and/or synthetic requirements, and responses to physical large-scale differences in environmental conditions.
Unshredding of Shredded Documents: Computational Framework and Implementation
Creators: name: Lactuan, Lei Kristoffer R.
name: Pabico, Jaderick P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A shredded document $D$ is a document whose pages have been cut into strips for the purpose of destroying private, confidential, or sensitive information $I$ contained in $D$. Shredding has become a standard means of government organizations, businesses, and private individuals to destroy archival records that have been officially classified for disposal. It can also be used to destroy documentary evidence of wrongdoings by entities who are trying to hide $I$. In this paper, we present an optimal $O((n\times m)^2)$ algorithm $A$ that reconstructs an $n$-page $D$, where each page $p$ is shredded into $m$ strips. We also present the efficacy of $A$ in reconstructing three document types: hand-written, machine typed-set, and images.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
From Needs Analysis to Power Analysis: A Framework to Examine & Broker Power in Makerspaces
Creators: name: Marshall, Brianna
name: Melo, Marijel (Maggie)
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This pre-print is a chapter to be included in the forthcoming book, Re-making the Makerspace: Critical Theories, Reflections and Practices (Melo and Nichols, 2019). 

This chapter presents a power analysis framework that extends an entry point to examine how power is wielded, concentrated, and systemically embedded within a makerspace. Power analyses are not novel concepts. People, especially women, LGBTQ+ and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), assess power dynamics in their lives routinely. Research shows that the marginalization of these communities are especially pronounced in tech-centric environments such as makerspaces (Meyer, 2018; Lewis 2015). This is especially baffling because makerspaces are notoriously promoted as open, collaborative environments where everyone is considered to be a maker (“Be a Maker”). This is where this power analysis framework intervenes: How do purportedly open and collaborative makerspaces continue to attract a narrow demographic of users, while simultaneously marginalizing certain communities (Britton 2015; Vossoughi, S., Hooper, P., & Escudé, M., 2016; Warnshuis, 2014)? This framework provides structured, not prescriptive, guidance to support persons interested in analyzing the power dynamics within a makerspace (or by extension other (in)formal STEM-rich learning spaces). In particular, the analysis offers users an instrument to examine the phenomenological properties of power with a structured approach. The intention is to give language and semblance to power -- an otherwise abstract entity (Pachecho 2018). This tool is meant to generate insights and data for the user, and is comprised of open-ended questions/suggestions on several domains where power resides. The following domains comprise this burgeoning framework: “people,” “space and equipment,” “events and programming,” and “outputs” -- these areas are further detailed later in the chapter. Similar to a 360 image, there isn’t one place to start because power is multi-directional and complex. Users are encouraged to begin with any domain of their choosing.
TimeJump-Kids
Creators: name: Brocksieper, Manuela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: science communication
children
svalbard science conference
modern communication
youth
information in creative ways
Manuela Brocksieper
con TEXT

description: A scientific poster for exhibition and presentation during the Svalbard Science Conference 2023 in Oslo. Presentation of modern science communication in the network. focus on children and young people. Based on the results of the Timeless Arctic expedition, Spitsbergen 2022.
A multi-case study of agile requirements engineering and the use of test cases as requirements
Creators: name: Bjarnason, Elizabeth
name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Borg, Markus
name: Engström, Emelie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: It is an enigma that agile projects can succeed 'without requirements' when weak requirements engineering is a known cause for project failures. While agile development projects often manage well without extensive requirements test cases are commonly viewed as requirements and detailed requirements are documented as test cases. Objective: We have investigated this agile practice of using test cases as requirements to understand how test cases can support the main requirements activities, and how this practice varies. Method: We performed an iterative case study at three companies and collected data through 14 interviews and two focus groups. Results: The use of test cases as requirements poses both benefits and challenges when eliciting, validating, verifying, and managing requirements, and when used as a documented agreement. We have identified five variants of the test-cases-as-requirements practice, namely de facto, behaviour-driven, story-test driven, stand-alone strict and stand-alone manual for which the application of the practice varies concerning the time frame of requirements documentation, the requirements format, the extent to which the test cases are a machine executable specification and the use of tools which provide specific support for the practice of using test cases as requirements. Conclusions: The findings provide empirical insight into how agile development projects manage and communicate requirements. The identified variants of the practice of using test cases as requirements can be used to perform in-depth investigations into agile requirements engineering. Practitioners can use the provided recommendations as a guide in designing and improving their agile requirements practices based on project characteristics such as number of stakeholders and rate of change.
5G-IANA Open Call: opportunity for SMEs in the automotive sector
Creators: name: Liotou, Eirini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presentation addressed on 16th January 2023 by 5G-IANA Deputy Coordinator to the members of the 5G-PPP SMEs Working Group about the 5G-IANA Open Call opportunity for SMEs in the automotive sector.
Todesreferenzen in Grabinschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Groth, Franziska
name: Jandt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Todesreferenz
Grabinschrift
historische Korpuslinguistik
Korpuslinguistik
Metaphern

description: Das Poster illustriert, mit welche Varianten sprachlicher Formen in Grabinschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts auf den Tod referiert wird und wie sich diese Varianten geschlechterspezifisch distribueren.
description: Posterpräsentation der X-Student Research Group "Berliner Inschriften als Quelle für die historische Registerforschung" (Gohar Schnelle, Dina Serova, finanziert durch die Berlin University Alliance) am 03.04.2023.
Patient Clustering via Integrated Profiling of Clinical and Digital Data
Creators: name: Choi, Dongjin
name: Xiang, Andy
name: Ozturk, Ozgur
name: Shrestha, Deep
name: Drake, Barry
name: Haidarian, Hamid
name: Javed, Faizan
name: Park, Haesun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a novel profile-based patient clustering model designed for clinical data in healthcare. By utilizing a method grounded on constrained low-rank approximation, our model takes advantage of patients' clinical data and digital interaction data, including browsing and search, to construct patient profiles. As a result of the method, nonnegative embedding vectors are generated, serving as a low-dimensional representation of the patients. Our model was assessed using real-world patient data from a healthcare web portal, with a comprehensive evaluation approach which considered clustering and recommendation capabilities. In comparison to other baselines, our approach demonstrated superior performance in terms of clustering coherence and recommendation accuracy.
description: Accepted for the Short Paper track of CIKM'23, October 21-25, 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom
title: Zur Erinnerung an Herrn Heinrich Pfisterer-Stockmeyer
title: geboren den 29. Februar 1844, gestorben den 23. Januar 1902
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Stockmeyer, K.
name: Pfisterer, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Fr. Reinhardt, Buchdruckerei
Year: 1902
Subjects: subject: 260 Kirchenorganisation, Sozialarbeit, Religionsausübung
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Pfisterer-Stockmeyer, Heinrich
subject: Basel
subject: Pauluskirche (Basel)

description: Inhalt: Personalien ; Ansprache gehalten in der Pauluskirche am 26. Januar 1902 durch Herrn Pfarrer K. Stockmeyer ; Worte, gesprochen am Grabe von Herrn Rudolf Pfisterer, Pfarrer in Fleurier
Improving COPD Care at the University of North Carolina Internal Medicine Outpatient Clinic
Creators: name: McManus, Brenna K.
name: Vick, Nelson
name: Shaheen, Amy W.
name: Powierza, Camille S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease has
encouraged symptom assessment for all chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) patients and pulmonary rehabilitation
for COPD patients with high symptom burden and risk of
exacerbations. Pulmonary rehabilitation has been shown to
improve their symptoms, quality of life, and exercise tolerance
and to reduce readmissions and mortality in patients with a
recent exacerbation (≤4 weeks from prior hospitalization).
However, many patients never have the opportunity to take
advantage of pulmonary rehabilitation because systematic ways
of assessing symptoms, identifying symptomatic patients, and
referring those who would benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation
are lacking. In the University of North Carolina general medicine
clinic, symptom assessment and pulmonary rehabilitation
referrals were not done prior to this effort. The project’s primary
goal was to systematically screen for dyspnea symptoms during
all COPD patient encounters, with secondary goals of improving
rates of screening for hypoxia, referrals to pulmonary rehabilitation
in symptomatic patients, and documentation in the
electronic health record.
Large-scale information retrieval in software engineering -- an experience report from industrial application
Creators: name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Gorschek, Tony
name: Feldt, Robert
name: Lavesson, Niklas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software Engineering activities are information intensive. Research proposes Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to support engineers in their daily tasks, such as establishing and maintaining traceability links, fault identification, and software maintenance. We describe an engineering task, test case selection, and illustrate our problem analysis and solution discovery process. The objective of the study is to gain an understanding of to what extent IR techniques (one potential solution) can be applied to test case selection and provide decision support in a large-scale, industrial setting. We analyze, in the context of the studied company, how test case selection is performed and design a series of experiments evaluating the performance of different IR techniques. Each experiment provides lessons learned from implementation, execution, and results, feeding to its successor. The three experiments led to the following observations: 1) there is a lack of research on scalable parameter optimization of IR techniques for software engineering problems; 2) scaling IR techniques to industry data is challenging, in particular for latent semantic analysis; 3) the IR context poses constraints on the empirical evaluation of IR techniques, requiring more research on developing valid statistical approaches. We believe that our experiences in conducting a series of IR experiments with industry grade data are valuable for peer researchers so that they can avoid the pitfalls that we have encountered. Furthermore, we identified challenges that need to be addressed in order to bridge the gap between laboratory IR experiments and real applications of IR in the industry.