cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
You read my mind: Generating and minimizing intention uncertainty under different social contexts in a 2-player online game
Creators: Ma, Helen L.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

We investigate an ecologically-pertinent form of social uncertainty regarding the ability to read another’s intentions. We use classic measures (response time, accuracy) and dynamic measures (mouse trajectories) to investigate how people generate or minimize uncertainty regarding their own intentions under different social contexts, and how uncertainty regarding other’s intentions affects decision-making. 96 participants (n=48 dyads) completed a two-player online card game, where the goal was to collect cards with a certain feature (e.g., triangles), with participant cursor movements projected to both players. Participants played six games, three cooperatively and three competitively (Social Decision Context). Points were awarded for two decisions: collecting a card matching one’s goal (ability to achieve personal goal) and correctly guessing the other player’s goal (ability to guess intention). Data revealed: (1) Card scores did not vary with Social Decision Context, (2) Guess scores did vary with Social Decision Context, with more correct guesses when cooperating compared to competing, and (3) Mouse trajectories (durations and mouse distance travelled) decreased when cooperating compared to competing. These results indicate that better guessing during cooperative play is not due to explicit communication (i.e., circling desired cards), but may be due to increased speed and confidence when making decisions in a cooperative context. Additionally, participants could be actively hiding intention in a competitive context. Thus, social uncertainty when reading another's intentions is both adaptive - affected by the prescribed social context, and automatic - indirectly inferred from the way another moves their mouse when acting with intention.
Participatory budgeting's contributions to environmental justice : evaluating Green Projects funded through Greensboro PB
Creators: name: Nemetz, Maggie G.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Participatory budgeting
Environmental justice
Direct democracy

description: Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a process in which the people most affected by a budget determine how it is spent. Since its onset in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989, PB has spread to thousands of cities globally and is lauded as a solution to top-down governing that enhances democracy, boosts civic engagement, and meets growing demands for direct democracy. PB is a new practice in the U.S. and its contributions to distributive justice are not well defined. This professional report analyzes PB in Greensboro, North Carolina (Greensboro PB) and uses an environmental justice (EJ) framework to evaluate whether PB’s benefits are equitably distributed and whether PB is contributing to EJ goals. Findings from Greensboro PB indicate that winning PB projects are more likely to be located in neighborhoods with lower incomes, lower percentages of white residents, and higher percentages of Black residents. These results hold true when evaluating all PB projects as well as green infrastructure (GI) projects specifically. The analysis found no significant difference in neighborhoods that win GI projects over other types of projects. While Greensboro PB voter demographic data indicates voters are over-represented by white and wealthy residents, the outcomes do not reflect this in terms of projects won, which raises questions about the relationship between procedures and outcomes. This report makes recommendations to build the relationship between participatory budgeting and environmental justice and suggests investing in capacity building, expanding budget sizes and sources, and building solidarity networks will yield more transformative outcomes.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 146.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.07.2015, 08:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Design of Dispersive Delay Structures (DDSs) Formed by Coupled C-Sections Using Predistortion with Space Mapping
Creators: name: Zhang, Qingfeng
name: Bandler, John W.
name: Caloz, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of space mapping is applied, for the first time, to the design of microwave dispersive delay structures (DDSs). DDSs are components providing specified group delay versus frequency responses for real-time radio systems. The DDSs considered in this paper are formed by cascaded coupled C-sections. It is first shown that aggressive space mapping does not provide sufficient accuracy in the synthesis of DDSs. To address this issue, we propose a predistortion space mapping technique. Compared to aggressive space mapping, this technique provides enhanced accuracy, while compared to output space mapping, it provides greater implementation simplicity. Two full-wave and one experimental examples are provided to illustrate the proposed predistortion space mapping technique.
Thylamys velutinus
Creators: name: Gardner, Alfred L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Didelphimorphia
Didelphidae
Thylamys
Thylamys velutinus

description: Thylamys velutinus (Wagner, 1842). Archiv Naturgesch., 8(1):360. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Sâo Paulo, "Ypanema." DISTRIBUTION: SE Brazil. SYNONYMS: pimelura Reinhardt, 1851.
description: Published as part of Alfred L. Gardner, 1993, Order Didelphimorphia, pp. 15-23 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353070
Additional file 2 of Convergence on reduced aggression through shared behavioral traits in multiple populations of Astyanax mexicanus
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Morales, Roberto
name: Gonzalez-Lerma, Paola
name: Yuiska, Anders
name: Han, Ji Heon
name: Guerra, Yolanda
name: Crisostomo, Lina
name: Keene, Alex C.
name: Duboue, Erik R.
name: Kowalko, Johanna E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
MPEC 2024-S29 : 2024 RT43
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RT43

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.
Extremes and first passage times of correlated fBm's
Creators: name: Hashorva, Enkelejd
name: Ji, Lanpeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G15, 60G70

description: Let $\{X_i(t),t\ge0\}, i=1,2$ be two standard fractional Brownian motions being jointly Gaussian with constant cross-correlation. In this paper we derive the exact asymptotics of the joint survival function $$ \mathbb{P}\{\sup_{s\in[0,1]}X_1(s)>u,\ \sup_{t\in[0,1]}X_2(t)>u\} $$ as $u\rightarrow \infty$. A novel finding of this contribution is the exponential approximation of the joint conditional first passage times of $X_1, X_2$. As a by-product we obtain generalizations of the Borell-TIS inequality and the Piterbarg inequality for 2-dimensional Gaussian random fields.
description: 16 pages, title changed
STE-QUEST Mission and System Design - Overview after completion of Phase-A
Creators: name: Hechenblaikner, Gerald
name: Hess, Marc-Peter
name: Vitelli, Marianna
name: Beck, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: STE-QUEST is a fundamental science mission which is considered for launch within the Cosmic Vision programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). Its main scientific objectives relate to probing various aspects of Einstein's theory of general relativity by measuring the gravitational red-shift of the earth, the moon and the sun as well as testing the weak equivalence principle to unprecedented accuracy. In order to perform the measurements, the system features a spacecraft equipped with two complex instruments, an atomic clock and an atom interferometer, a ground-segment encompassing several ground-terminals collocated with the best available ground atomic clocks, and clock comparison between space and ground via microwave and optical links. The baseline orbit is highly eccentric and exhibits strong variations of incident solar flux, which poses challenges for thermal and power subsystems in addition to the difficulties encountered by precise-orbit-determination at high altitudes. The mission assessment and definition phase (Phase-A) has recently been completed and this paper gives a concise overview over some system level results.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures; contains additional performance figures and data
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 142.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.07.2015, 07:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Effect of Mechanical Loading Conditions on Near-neutral pH Stress Corrosion Cracking (NNpHSCC) Initiation and Early-stage Growth for Bent Pipeline
Creators: Vo, Giao NH
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Near-neutral pH Stress Corrosion Cracking (NNpHSCC) continues causing failures of steel pipelines despite the use of preventative measures such as protective coating and cathodic protection. In pipelines with bends, the issue is more profound as stress is concentrated around the bends and the protective coating layer is more prone to failure there. In this study, axial loads of 50%, 25% and 15% of Specified Minimum Yield Strength (SMYS) were applied to pipe sections bent to 20- and 40-degree angles under a near-neutral pH condition. Pit and crack distribution, as well as pit and crack depth were analyzed. Smaller maximum stresses are found to have a more profound effect on pit and crack initiation at the center of bend. While smaller bending angles experienced less compressive stress and hence pitting initiates more readily on the surface, larger bending angles suggested a more drastic change in residual stress, resulting in more pits and cracks growth. The crack distribution between the two changes near the center of bend, but no difference was found along the length of the pipe. The study also suggested that despite having a compressive residual stress near the center of bend, pits and cracks can still be initiated from the breakage of mill scale exposing the surface of the pipe, and cyclic loading changes the stress distribution along the pipe length and depth, which aids in pit and crack initiation.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 125.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.06.2015, 07:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Low-Temperature Pseudogap Phenomenon: Precursor of High-$T_c$ Superconductivity
Creators: name: Ma, Yao
name: Ye, Peng
name: Weng, Zheng-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we try to understand the pseudogap phenomenon observed in the cuprate superconductor through a model study. Specifically, we explore the so-called low-temperature pseudogap state by turning off the superconducting off diagonal long range order in an ansatz state for the $t$-$J$ model [New Journal of Physics {\bf 13}, 103039 (2011)]. Besides strong non-Gaussian superconducting fluctuations, the resulting state also exhibits a systematic pseudogap behavior in both spin and charge degrees of freedom, manifested in the uniform spin susceptibility, specific heat, non-Drude resistivity, Nernst effect, as well as the quantum oscillation associated with small Fermi pockets emerging in strong magnetic fields, etc. These anomalous `normal state' properties are found in qualitative consistency with experimental measurements in the cuprates. Such a model study establishes an intrinsic connection between the peculiar pseudogap properties and the non-BCS nature of the superconducting ground state. Critical comparison with other approaches to the doped Mott insulator is also made.
description: REVTeX4, twocolumn, 30 pages, 8 Figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 49.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.03.2015, 09:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Mixed-Timescale Precoding and Cache Control in Cached MIMO Interference Network
Creators: name: Liu, An
name: Lau, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Consider media streaming in MIMO interference networks whereby multiple base stations (BS) simultaneously deliver media to their associated users using fixed data rates. The performance is fundamentally limited by the cross-link interference. We propose a cache-induced opportunistic cooperative MIMO (CoMP) for interference mitigation. By caching a portion of the media files, the BSs opportunistically employ CoMP to transform the cross-link interference into spatial multiplexing gain. We study a mixed-timescale optimization of MIMO precoding and cache control to minimize the transmit power under the rate constraint. The cache control is to create more CoMP opportunities and is adaptive to the long-term popularity of the media files. The precoding is to guarantee the rate requirement and is adaptive to the channel state information and cache state at the BSs. The joint stochastic optimization problem is decomposed into a short-term precoding and a long-term cache control problem. We propose a precoding algorithm which converges to a stationary point of the short-term problem. Based on this, we exploit the hidden convexity of the long-term problem and propose a low complexity and robust solution using stochastic subgradient. The solution has significant gains over various baselines and does not require explicit knowledge of the media popularity.
description: accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1306.2701
Credit Derivative Model
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Credit Derivative Model

description: The credit derivative model serves the purpose of pricing and calculating sensitivities for the credit derivative products which are Credit Default Swaps (CDSs), First-to-Default swaps (FTDs), FirstNofM basket default swaps (FNMs), all level Collateral Debt Obligations (CDOs, CDO2s, and CDO3s), and forward starting CDOs.
description: https://ia601506.us.archive.org/30/items/bkTree/bkTree.pdf
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 275.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.12.2015, 10:30, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Rotational Grazing Adoption by Cow-Calf Operations
Creators: name: Whitt, Christine
name: Wallander, Steven
name: Whitt, Christine
name: Wallander, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: rotational grazing
subject: beef cattle
subject: conservation
subject: prescribed grazing
subject: Environmental Quality Incentives Program
subject: EQIP
subject: Conservation Stewardship Program
subject: CSP
subject: stocking density
subject: Agricultural Resource Management Survey
subject: intensive grazing system
subject: basic grazing system
subject: regional variation

description: Rotational grazing is a management practice in which livestock are cycled through multiple fenced grazing areas (paddocks) in order to manage forage production, forage quality, animal health, and environmental quality. USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and other organizations promote rotational grazing as an important grazing practice for providing improved environ-mental outcomes, relative to continuous grazing, in which livestock are not cycled between grazing areas. USDA, NRCS provides financial assistance for rotational grazing and related management practices through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), and technical assistances through the Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA) program. Despite the breadth of support for rotational grazing, only limited information is available on the prevalence of rotational grazing and the variation in how producers implement the practice, including details on how frequently or “intensively” grazing operations rotate livestock between paddocks and how outcomes such as stocking density and cost relate to system characteristics. This study uses data from the 2018 Agricultural Resource Management Survey Cattle and Calves Cost and Returns Report to fill this information gap. The study finds that about 40 percent of cow-calf operations use rotational grazing, but adoption rates vary by production regions. Most rotational grazing systems are relatively simple. Only 40 percent of cow-calf operations that report using rotational grazing operations use an intensive rotational grazing schedule.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 73.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 15.04.2015, 07:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 200.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.09.2015, 07:30, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Eulerian cube complexes and reciprocity
Creators: name: Scott, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be the fundamental group of a compact nonpositively curved cube complex $Y$. With respect to a basepoint $x$, one obtains an integer-valued length function on $G$ by counting the number of edges in a minimal length edge-path representing each group element. The growth series of $G$ with respect to $x$ is then defined to be the power series $G_x(t)=\sum_g t^{|g|}$ where $|g|$ denotes the length of $g$. Using the fact that $G$ admits a suitable automatic structure, $G_x(t)$ can be shown to be a rational function. We prove that if $Y$ is a manifold of dimension $n$, then this rational function satisfies the reciprocity formula $G_x(t^{-1})=(-1)^n G_x(t)$. We prove the formula in a more general setting, replacing the group with the fundamental groupoid, replacing the growth series with the characteristic series for a suitable regular language, and only assuming $Y$ is Eulerian.
description: Minor corrections. To appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
Homeowners' Risk Perceptions and Preferences for Property-Level Flood Protection
Creators: Giannitsos, Marina
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Evidence suggests that property-level risk reduction against natural hazards is worthwhile, however households often don’t make these investments. The overall objective of this thesis was to understand the decision-making process concerning household investment in property-level flood protection (PLFP) measures, analyze whether specific PLFP devices were beneficial from a household perspective, and learn which factors were most salient to household choice. Data were collected through a survey of Edmonton homeowners in four mature neighbourhoods. The principal method used was stated preference to elicit the homeowners’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for two PLFP devices: backwater valves and sump pump systems. In addition to preferences, the survey collected information on several factors that were deemed likely to influence choice regarding investment in flood protection, including households’ risk perceptions and previous flood experience. We evaluated these data using econometric analysis. A household-level cost benefit analysis was also conducted to see whether these devices were economically efficient from the homeowner’s perspective. Key findings show that the average market cost to purchase and install these devices, as stated by local plumbers, was higher than the average WTP of households in our sample. Through the econometric analysis we found that WTP was influenced by household size, age, monetary incentives, and risk perceptions. Through the cost-benefit analysis we found that the average household would have a net benefit from having PLFP devices based on their risk perception for experiencing a flood event and their expected losses, however, they were still unlikely to invest.  The results of this thesis add to the empirical literature on property-level climate adaptation and resilience, the effectiveness of incentives for private goods with positive externalities, and the economic efficiency of property-level risk reduction.
Machine Learning and Stochastic Geometry Techniques for Future Mobile Communications
Creators: Banerjee, Bitan
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Advancements in wireless communication are continuously evolving, and the progression towards the 6th generation (6G) and beyond of cellular architecture will heavily rely on the implementation of machine learning (ML) algorithms in both cellular devices and base stations (BSs), along with the deployment of highly dense networks. ML algorithms have the potential to grant devices the ability to autonomously adapt and modify themselves, while also facilitating decision-making processes involving non-deterministic polynomial-time (NP)-hard problems. Therefore, this thesis explores the potential of machine learning (ML) algorithms in shaping the future of wireless communication and cellular architecture. Specifically, it focuses on addressing the challenges faced by conventional architectures in meeting the data rate and reliability requirements of the anticipated 6G cellular architecture. The research investigates the application of machine learning and stochastic geometry techniques to propose novel approaches for enhancing performance and overcoming limitations.

The thesis presents a heterogeneous network (HetNet) model that correlates the locations of small cell base stations (SBSs) with macro base stations (MBSs) using a Poisson-Voronoi tessellation. Theoretical analysis of this deployment scheme is studied using the tools of stochastic geometry and the results indicate an improvement up to 21% in the coverage probability and up to 28% in the rate coverage. This thesis also introduces a conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN)-based algorithm for uplink (UL) to downlink (DL) channel covariance matrix (CCM)  mapping and direct UL to DL channel state information (CSI) mapping in massive MIMO systems operating in a frequency division duplex (FDD) mode.

Additionally, the research explores multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and multi-agent federated reinforcement learning (MAFRL) algorithms for access point (AP) selection and clustering in cell-free networks. The MARL and MAFRL algorithms provide a sub-optimal solution to an NP-hard problem and achieve up to 88.3% of the maximum possible sum spectral efficiency achievable if all APs were to serve all users using centralized precoding. Furthermore, the thesis investigates the combination of long short-term memory (LSTM) and CGAN for predicting downlink CSI from earlier uplink CSI estimates and estimating complete uplink CSI from incomplete information. This algorithm demonstrates the ability to provide reliable network service to users moving at vehicular speeds with limited available power.

Through these approaches, the thesis aims to contribute to the development of more efficient and reliable cellular systems for 6G and beyond. The research findings demonstrate the potential of ML algorithms and highlight the benefits of integrating stochastic geometry and machine learning techniques in wireless communication systems.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 245.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.11.2015, 08:15, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 1.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Additional file 1 of The impact of a targeted education package on the knowledge, attitudes, and utilisation of patient reported outcome measures amongst chiropractors in Australia
Creators: name: Clohesy, Natalie
name: Schneiders, Anthony
name: Barbery, Gaery
name: Obst, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Novel Anti Double-Stranded Nucleic Acids Full-Length Recombinant Camelid Heavy-Chain Antibody for the Detection of miRNA
Creators: name: Czarnecka, Malgorzata
name: Weichelt, Ulrike
name: Rödiger, Stefan
name: Hanack, Katja
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: The discovery that certain diseases have specific miRNA signatures which correspond to disease progression opens a new biomarker category. The detection of these small non-coding RNAs is performed routinely using body fluids or tissues with real-time PCR, next-generation sequencing, or amplification-based miRNA assays. Antibody-based detection systems allow an easy onset handling compared to PCR or sequencing and can be considered as alternative methods to support miRNA diagnostic in the future. In this study, we describe the generation of a camelid heavy-chain-only antibody specifically recognizing miRNAs to establish an antibody-based detection method. The generation of nucleic acid-specific binders is a challenge. We selected camelid binders via phage display, expressed them as VHH as well as full-length antibodies, and characterized the binding to several miRNAs from a signature specific for dilated cardiomyopathy. The described workflow can be used to create miRNA-specific binders and establish antibody-based detection methods to provide an additional way to analyze disease-specific miRNA signatures.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1274
An Investigation on Data Center Congestion Control Algorithms
Creators: Zhang, Kunlin
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

With the rapid growth of data-intensive applications, congestion control algorithms for datacenter networks under RDMA over Converged Ethernet protocol have become vital in managing various traffic patterns that demand ultra-low latency and high end-to-end throughput. Although many rule-based and learning-based algorithms have been proposed to enhance throughput and reduce latency, challenges still remain in ensuring fair and efficient control under dynamic, bursty, and variable-sized flows which are prevalent in datacenter networks. In this thesis, we analyze the traffic control mechanism existing in modern data center networks and propose the Fair Datacenter Congestion Control (FDCC) algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning that leverages Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and historical memory augmentation to enable predictive control. FDCC operates from a window-based perspective, and introduces a staged reward design to effectively learn from network states based on in-band network telemetry acquired from various sources along the flow path to achieve fair congestion control under dynamic traffic. We perform extensive experiments under a variety of datacenter traffic patterns, including incast flows, long-short flows, and real-world traffic flows. The results suggest that our approach significantly enhances fairness for dynamic flow patterns over a range of state-of-the-art rule-based and learning-based congestion control algorithms, while maintaining comparable flow completion time and goodput.
Band structures and intruder $π$$i_{13/2}$ state in $^{197}$Tl
Creators: name: Pai, H.
name: Mukherjee, G.
name: Bhattacharya, S.
name: Bhattacharya, C.
name: Bhattacharyya, S.
name: Bhattacharjee, T.
name: Chanda, S.
name: Rajbanshi, S.
name: Goswami, A.
name: Gohil, M. R.
name: Kundu, S.
name: Ghosh, T. K.
name: Banerjee, K.
name: Rana, T. K.
name: Pandey, R.
name: Prajapati, G. K.
name: Banerjee, S. R.
name: Mukhopadhyay, S.
name: Pandit, D.
name: Pal, S.
name: Meena, J. K.
name: Mukhopadhyay, P.
name: Chawdhury, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excited states in the odd-$A$ $^{197}$Tl nucleus have been studied by populating them using the $^{197}$Au($α$, 4$n$)$^{197}$Tl reaction at the beam energy of 48 MeV. The $γ-γ$ coincidence data were taken using a combination of clover, LEPS and single crystal HPGe detectors. Precise spin and parity assignments of the excited states have been done through the polarization and the DCO measurements. A new band structure has been identified and the evidence for a possible intruder $πi_{13/2}$ state has been found for the first time. Possible configurations of the observed bands have been discussed. The total Routhian surface calculations have been performed to study the shape of $^{197}$Tl for different configurations.
description: Accepted for publication in PRC
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 195.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.09.2015, 08:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Additional file 1 of Hoarding symptoms are associated with higher rates of disability than other medical and psychiatric disorders across multiple domains of functioning
Creators: name: Nutley, Sara K.
name: Read, Michael
name: Martinez, Stephanie
name: Eichenbaum, Joseph
name: Nosheny, Rachel L.
name: Weiner, Michael
name: Mackin, R. Scott
name: Mathews, Carol A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Separate adjusted logistic regression models predicting moderate-extreme disability in single-item WHODAS measures (Models limited to participants with hoarding symptoms; Referent group: Subclinical Hoarding Symptoms [SCHS]). Supplemental Table 2. Prevalence of moderate-extreme impairment in WHODAS single item measures, by hoarding symptoms and medical/psychiatric comorbidity. Supplemental Table 3. Odds of moderate-extreme disability corresponding to a single point increase in HRS and PHQ-9 total score. Supplemental Table 4. Prevalence of moderate-extreme impairment in ADL-H single item measures, by hoarding symptoms and medical/psychiatric comorbidity.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 24.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 01.02.2015, 11:00, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 41.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.03.2015, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
High dimensional generalized empirical likelihood for moment restrictions with dependent data
Creators: name: Chang, Jinyuan
name: Chen, Song Xi
name: Chen, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper considers the maximum generalized empirical likelihood (GEL) estimation and inference on parameters identified by high dimensional moment restrictions with weakly dependent data when the dimensions of the moment restrictions and the parameters diverge along with the sample size. The consistency with rates and the asymptotic normality of the GEL estimator are obtained by properly restricting the growth rates of the dimensions of the parameters and the moment restrictions, as well as the degree of data dependence. It is shown that even in the high dimensional time series setting, the GEL ratio can still behave like a chi-square random variable asymptotically. A consistent test for the over-identification is proposed. A penalized GEL method is also provided for estimation under sparsity setting.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 31.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.02.2015, 10:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Weak Singular Hybrid Automata
Creators: name: Krishna, Shankara Narayanan
name: Mathur, Umang
name: Trivedi, Ashutosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The framework of Hybrid automata, introduced by Alur, Courcourbetis, Henzinger, and Ho, provides a formal modeling and analysis environment to analyze the interaction between the discrete and the continuous parts of cyber-physical systems. Hybrid automata can be considered as generalizations of finite state automata augmented with a finite set of real-valued variables whose dynamics in each state is governed by a system of ordinary differential equations. Moreover, the discrete transitions of hybrid automata are guarded by constraints over the values of these real-valued variables, and enable discontinuous jumps in the evolution of these variables. Singular hybrid automata are a subclass of hybrid automata where dynamics is specified by state-dependent constant vectors. Henzinger, Kopke, Puri, and Varaiya showed that for even very restricted subclasses of singular hybrid automata, the fundamental verification questions, like reachability and schedulability, are undecidable. In this paper we present \emph{weak singular hybrid automata} (WSHA), a previously unexplored subclass of singular hybrid automata, and show the decidability (and the exact complexity) of various verification questions for this class including reachability (NP-Complete) and LTL model-checking (PSPACE-Complete). We further show that extending WSHA with a single unrestricted clock or extending WSHA with unrestricted variable updates lead to undecidability of reachability problem.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 279.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 29.12.2015, 09:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Additional file 2 of Incorporating a gender lens into nutrition and health-related policies in Fiji: analysis of policies and stakeholder perspectives
Creators: name: McKenzie, Briar L.
name: Waqa, Gade
name: Mounsey, Sarah
name: Johnson, Claire
name: Woodward, Mark
name: Buse, Kent
name: Thow, Anne Marie
name: McLean, Rachael
name: Webster, Jacqui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary table 2. Coding of stakeholder perspectives on gender considerations in nutrition and health related policy, and mapping to overarching themes.
‘To Stay or Not to Stay’: Migration Decisions and Professional Mobility of South African Educated Physicians in Rural Alberta
Creators: Hadley, Ashley V
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Introduction: Rural communities in Alberta, Canada have faced physician shortages for decades. Attracting internationally educated physicians, including many South African physicians, is one way to address this problem. While much of the research on internationally educated physicians focuses on attraction and retention, I bring a fresh approach, framing the decision to stay in light of migration decisions and professional mobility, all within a life course perspective.

Methods: Data was collected via semi-structured virtual interviews with 29 South African educated physicians who have practiced family/general medicine across Alberta. Many participants were white men, while physicians of colour and women were notable minorities. This qualitative research was guided by abductive grounded theory, a methodology that encourages theory building and contributions to ongoing debatesw. Data was transcribed verbatim and analysed using open thematic coding.

Findings: South African educated physicians made the decision to leave South Africa and to come to Canada to pursue the prestige and opportunity that was inaccessible in South Africa. Instead of freely making decisions about where to live and the sort of medicine they wanted to practice, physicians were limited to work as rural generalists. This perceived lower prestige professional work meant South African physicians occupied low status positions while more prestigious work was reserved for Canadian educated physicians. The outcome of this stratification played an important role in South African physicians’ ability to achieve what they were looking for and the professional opportunities that were available if they stayed in a rural community or migrated elsewhere.

Conclusion: Findings suggest that migration, or in this case physician attraction and retention, is an outcome of aspiration and capability, contingent on prestige and professional status. South African educated physicians have successfully and creatively managed their perceived lower status work, finding ways to bring their aspirations to life in rural communities and stay. Alternatively, when unable to stay in rural practice, South African educated physicians’ decisions to relocate to an urban centre was a matter of lifestyle over professional prestige.