cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Naturalness and Focus Points with Non-Universal Gaugino Masses
Creators: name: Horton, D.
name: Ross, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relations between the gaugino masses have been shown to alleviate the degree of fine-tuning in the MSSM. In this paper we consider specific models of supersymmetry breaking with gravity mediation and demonstrate that within both GUT and string constructions it is possible to generate these relations in a natural way. We have numerically studied the degree of fine-tuning in these models, including one-loop corrections, and have found regions of parameter space that can satisfy all known collider constraints with fine-tunings less than 20%. We discuss some of the phenomenological features of these models within the regions of reduced fine-tuning.
description: 31 pages, 21 figures. Version accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B
title: Field Testing a Pre-Service Needs Inventory for the Utah State Rehabilitation Services
Creators: name: Uchida, Donald R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: A pre-service needs inventory was field tested for possible use by counselors of the Utah State Division of Rehabilitation Services. The field testing was carried out by utilizing two groups of consultants for evaluating format, content, and usability of the inventory.
Examination of the data collected from the consultants indicated that a pre-service needs inventory was helpful during the intake process and in filling out the Individual Written Rehabilitation Program. It also indicated that the checklist was broad enough to gather sufficient information and that the instructions were adequate. Finally the data indicated that over 75% of the counselors participating in the field test would use the checklist if it were optional.
Research Libraries – LIBER Open Science (up)skilling and training programmes in Europe: from selective case-studies to sharing best practices
Creators: name: Swiatek, Cecile
name: Brinken, Helene
name: Vasso Kalaitzi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Libraries
Digital Skills
Open Science
Skills
Training
Case Studies
Libraries
Universities
Academia

description: Open Science (up)skilling and training programmes in Europe for researchers and academic libraries staff: from sketching the landscape with selective case-studies to sharing best practices In a rapidly changing digital world, scholarly models, ways of working and techniques are being reinvented in the academic research landscape. Library staff and researchers need more training in order to cope with a myriad of topics: electronic resource management, data access, blockchains, and text and data mining - to name a few. Research libraries are a key force in efforts to confront this skills gap, to change cultures and to train both researchers and academic library staff. Research libraries support, create and deliver training programmes targeting Open Science digital skills development. They have strong expertise in the Open Science skilling and training field, and their knowledge is relevant not only for the library sector but for all stakeholders seeking to improve Open Science skills within their sector. This poster displays the method and results corresponding to a pan-European study. From a series of interviews and case studies, we see that many approaches are being used across Europe by universities for skilling and training library staff and research communities: from mature programmes to emerging initiatives, from acculturating to upskilling staff with open science digital skills. By identifying and learning about the most relevant Open Science training programmes and initiatives in the current academic landscape, this study aims to share best practices with the academic research community and to help them select and define digital priorities. Finally, this study is a critical starting point for establishing a first Open Science Skillset. It highlights crucial entry points into the existing Open Science digital skills frameworks and provides helpful guidance in order to build an institutional Open Science staff lifelong training programme in a research center or a higher education institution.
Complex-mass renormalization in chiral effective field theory
Creators: name: Djukanovic, D.
name: Gegelia, J.
name: Keller, A.
name: Scherer, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a low-energy effective field theory of vector mesons and Goldstone bosons using the complex-mass renormalization. As an application we calculate the mass and the width of the $ρ$ meson.
description: 7 pages, 1 fugure, REVTeX 4
title: A Comparison of Vocational Agricultural Facilities in Utah High Schools and Those in Selected States of the Western Region as Perceived by Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Creators: name: Tubbs, Ray J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: This study was limited to vocational agricultural teachers in Utah and ten agricultural teachers randomly selected from each of the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming.
Questionnaires were completed and returned by a total of 54 Utah vocational agricultural teachers and 50 teachers from the other states. The questionnaires were designed to collect data concerning class size, requirements of the physical facilities and the budget allowed for teaching agricultural mechanics.
The study revealed a larger number of non-vocational agriculture students are enrolled in the agricultural programs in Utah than in the other states. The data indicated there are more total students enrolled in Utah vocational agricultural programs than in the other states per teacher. The facilities available in Utah were generally smaller and less equipped for teaching basic agricultural mechanics as compared to other states. Many of the teachers in both groups perceived their facilities inadequate and all recommended improvements. The study also indicated that Utah teachers were receiving a lower budget based on student hours than we re the teachers from other states. Many teachers surveyed did not know the amount of their capita l or operating budgets for their vocational agricultural programs.
title: An Analysis of the Work Related Fatalities in Utah as Reported to the Utah Industrial Commission for the Years 1976-1978
Creators: name: Swiss, Dale A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: It was the objective of this study to determine the common denominators involved with the work-related fatalities and their strengths.
An analysis using the x2 statistic was conducted on all the work related fatalities reported to the Utah Industrial Commission during the period January 1, 1976, through December 31, 1978.
It was determined that Age and Time on the Job were the two areas with the greatest significance difference as common denominators. It was concluded that there was a need for training programs to offset the effects of both age and time on the job.
Acceleration and collimation of relativistic MHD disk winds
Creators: name: Porth, O.
name: Fendt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the acceleration and collimation of jets and outflows from disks around compact objects. The fiducial disk surface (respectively a slow disk wind) is prescribed as boundary condition for the outflow. We apply this technique for the first time in the context of relativistic jets. The strength of this approach is that it allows us to run a parameter study in order to investigate how the accretion disk conditions govern the outflow formation. Our simulations using the PLUTO code run for 500 inner disk rotations and on a physical grid size of 100x200 inner disk radii. In general, we obtain collimated beams of mildly relativistic speed and mass-weighted half-opening angles of 3-7 degrees. When we increase the outflow Poynting flux by injecting an additional disk toroidal field into the inlet, Lorentz factors up to 6 are reached. These flows gain super-magnetosonic speed and remain Poynting flux dominated. The light surface of the outflow magnetosphere tends to align vertically - implying three relativistically distinct regimes in the flow - an inner sub-relativistic domain close to the jet axis, a (rather narrow) relativistic jet and a surrounding subrelativistic outflow launched from the outer disk surface - similar to the spine-sheath structure currently discussed for asymptotic jet propagation and stability. The outer subrelativistic disk wind is a promising candidate for the X-ray absorption winds that are observed in many radio-quiet AGN.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ; incorporates changes according to referee
title: An Analysis of Land Use Transfers, Agricultural Production, and Rural Zoning Requirements in Selected Utah Counties, 1974 Through 1976
Creators: name: White, Eldon James
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1978

description: Increased incomes, better transportation, and the desirability of country living all create the demand for land in the agricultural-urban fringe areas to increase. High l and values, low returns on investment, and residential encroachment place farmers in a situation where continued agricultural production is difficult. As ownership transfer occurs, the use of l and is often changed. This study is directed at measuring the effects of ownership transfers in rural areas of rapidly urbanizing counties on the local agricultural industries, and the effect of zoning requirements on these transfers.
The study sample consisted of land buyers recorded at the Utah State Tax Commission . Data were obtained from (1) a mail questionnaire sent to the recorded land buyers, (2) soil classification , and (3) zoning requirements.
General conclusions from the study were:
1. The average 1 and buyer was a professional, managerial or technical middle- aged worked with an annual income of twice the average income in his area.
2. Over three- fourths of the land involved in the transfer was in agricultural use. After the transfer, one- fourth of the agricultural land changed use.
3. Area zoning requirements may have altered the development pattern and acreage bought, but no conclusive results were obtained.
The study ' s conclusions apply only to recorded land transfers on file at the Utah State Tax Commission for t he years 1974 through 1976.
title: Energy Management Study of Irrigation Pumping Plants for the Utah Power and Light Company
Creators: name: White, Jeffrey C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: All electric power utility companies are faced with yearly peak demands. They must supply sufficient generating capacity along with transmission and distribution facilities to carry these loads. In the past, peaking requirements of many utilities have been met by the use of gas turbines, which are not as efficient as base load plants, but require substantially lower capital investments. However, the fuel supplies used for gas turbines are becoming extremely difficult and expensive to procure and as a result, other means for meeting peak demands are being examined.
Energy management attempts to modify the power systems' load requirements to fit the systems' generating capacity, rather than supplying the generating capacity to meet the systems' load.
Irrigation loads comprise one of the largest single demands placed upon the Utah Power & Light (U.P.& L.) system. Because of their seasonal nature, they contribute extensively to the system load, representing nearly 30% of the peak demand, but only 5% of the kilowatt-hour sales. In Idaho alone last year, irrigation consumed 47% of U.P.& L. 's capital investment while returning only 28% to the Company's revenue.
This study examines the potential s for implementing energy management programs in pump testing, irrigation water management, and irrigation load management within U.P.& L. 's service area which might be used to help alleviate these peak demand problems.
Jet quenching in the strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Marquet, C.
name: Renk, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a hybrid model for medium-induced parton energy loss, in which the hard scales in the process are treated perturbatively, while the soft scales which involve strong coupling dynamics are modeled by AdS/CFT calculations. After fitting a single parameter on R_AA for central Au+Au collisions, we are able to predict different observables like R_AA and I_AA as a function of centrality and reaction plane. We obtain a consistent picture of how jet quenching is modified if the quark-gluon plasma is strongly interacting, and we provide quantitative predictions.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures (modified), discussions and conclusions expanded, to be published in PLB
title: Inventorying Landscape Assets in Rural Utah Communities: A Sociocultural Approach
Creators: name: Hale, Jennifer F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2007

description: A community's physical environment embodies distinct natural and built elements, which hold meanings and values that are formed through daily social interactions within that environment. Such elements, however, are not often recognized until they are dramatically changed or lost. As amenity-rich rural areas of the Intermountain West steadily attract new residents, consciously identifying these elements prior to rapid growth is critical to their preservation.
Research suggests that strong social capital has the potential to encourage the identification of a place's visual assets prior to such change. A documentary research approach was used to understand why citizens do not actively participate in community planning and to identify possible solutions from the public participation movement. A framework was built to evaluate existing participation methods and identify specific approaches and practices which could be employed by "citizen planners" to effectively engage citizenry in identifying the visual, landscape assets while strengthening social relationships.
Massera's theorems for a higher order dispersive system
Creators: name: Capistrano-Filho, Roberto de A.
name: de Jesus, Isadora Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B10, 35B15, 70K43

description: This work is devoted to present Massera-type theorems for the Kawahara system, a higher order dispersive equation, posed in a bounded domain. Precisely, thanks to some properties of the semigroup and the decays of the solutions of this equation, we are able to prove its solutions are periodic, quasi-periodic and almost periodic.
description: 20
title: How the Winter Olympics Enrich Community Legacies for Recreational Open Space: A Case Study of Selected European and American Olympic Sites
Creators: name: Brown, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2003

description: The Olympics have been a catalyst through the last century for community alteration including both the renovation of existing areas and building of new sites. This study focuses on the post-Olympic use of active and passive recreational open space infrastructure developed by Winter Olympic host cities.
This study examines four Winter Olympics. The observation of a variety of Olympic venues has provided an opportunity to compare the differences in planning due to historical, cultural, and social variables. The comparison of these Olympic sites contributes to understanding of the probability of success or failure of post game expectations for recreational open space use. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Winter Olympics on the recreational open space infrastructure of host communities. Future Olympic sites can utilize these experiences as part of a planning effort to create a successful community recreational open space legacy.
Phonetic processing in speech sound disorder (Gerwin et al., 2021)
Creators: name: Gerwin, Katelyn L.
name: Brosseau-Lapré, Françoise
name: Weber, Christine
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170205 Neurocognitive Patterns and Neural Networks

description: Purpose: A growing body of research suggests that a deficit in speech perception abilities contributes to the development of speech sound disorder (SSD). However, little work has been done to characterize the neurophysiological processes indexing speech perception deficits in this population. The primary aim of this study was to compare the neural activity underlying speech perception in young children with SSD and with typical development (TD).Method: Twenty-eight children ages 4;1–6;0 (years;months) participated in this study. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while children completed a speech perception task that included phonetic (speech sound) and lexical (meaning) matches and mismatches. Groups were compared on their judgment accuracy for matches and mismatches as well as the mean amplitude of the phonological mapping negativity (PMN) and N400 ERP components.Results: Children with SSD demonstrated lower judgment accuracy across the phonetic and lexical conditions compared to peers with TD. The ERPs elicited by lexical matches and mismatches did not distinguish the groups. However, in the phonetic condition, the SSD group exhibited a more consistent left-lateralized PMN effect and a delayed N400 effect over frontal sites compared to the TD group.Conclusions: These findings provide some of the first evidence of a delay in the neurophysiological processing of phonological information for young children with SSD compared to their peers with TD. This delay was not present for the processing of lexical information, indicating a unique difference between children with SSD and with TD related to speech perception of phonetic errors.
Supplemental Material S1. Information regarding the stimuli, including selection protocol, trial ordering, and semantic relatedness and association measures.
Gerwin, K. L., Brosseau-Lapré, F., & Weber, C. (2021). Event-related potentials elicited by phonetic errors differentiate children with speech sound disorder and typically developing peers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00203
Teacher Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Work Engagement: A Structural Equation Model on Organizational Commitment of Teachers in Region XI
Creators: name: A. Engay, Ana May
name: G. Israel, Gina Fe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The study aims to determine a best-fit model for organizational commitment as influenced by teacher efficacy, job satisfaction, and work engagement of teachers of Region XI. A non-experimental quantitative research design employing descriptive, predictive, and structural equation models to randomly selected 400 teachers in Region XI. The collected data from an adapted survey questionnaire were analyzed using mean, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, linear regression, and structural equation modelling. The findings of the study revealed that the level of teacher efficacy, job satisfaction, work engagement, and organizational commitment were described as high, which was frequently evident among the teachers in Region XI. Also, there was a strong significant correlation between teacher efficacy and organizational commitment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and work engagement and organizational commitment, as the p values of all the measures are less than the significant alpha value. Further, the result shows a significant influence of the three exogenous variables, namely, teacher efficacy, job satisfaction, and work engagement, towards the endogenous variable, which is organizational commitment. Lastly, Model 3 of the framework met all the criteria for organizational commitment and can be considered the best-fitting model. It demonstrated a reasonable fit across all aspects and can be considered the most concise and effective model. Like any other employees, teachers must be committed to their organization because they play a significant role in the educational system. Their commitment will aid in creating quality education and providing meaningful success to the students.
$η$-glueball mixing from $N_f=2$ lattice QCD
Creators: name: Jiang, Xiangyu
name: Sun, Wei
name: Chen, Feiyu
name: Chen, Ying
name: Gong, Ming
name: Liu, Zhaofeng
name: Zhang, Renqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the first lattice study on the mixing of the isoscalar pseudoscalar meson $η$ and the pseudoscalar glueball $G$ in the $N_f=2$ QCD at the pion mass $m_π\approx 350$ MeV. The $η$ mass is determined to be $m_η=714(6)(16)$ MeV. Through the Witten-Veneziano relation, this value can be matched to a mass value of $\sim 981$ MeV for the $\mathrm{SU(3)}$ counterpart of $η$. Based on a large gauge ensemble, the $η-G$ mixing energy and the mixing angle are determined to be $|x|=107(15)(2)$ MeV and $|θ|=3.46(46)^\circ$ from the $η-G$ correlators that are calculated using the distillation method. We conclude that the $η-G$ mixing is tiny and the topology induced interaction contributes most of $η$ mass owing to the QCD $\mathrm{U_A(1)}$ anomaly.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Pakistan - Empirical findings and reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Afghans
Creators: name: Mielke, Katja
name: Shahid, Muhammad Nouman
name: Khatana, Abdur Rauf
name: Zahoor, Ahmed
name: Irshad, Amber
name: Kiran, Sobia
name: Etzold, Benjamin
name: Asghari, Shamin
name: Javed, Mudassar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: protracted displacement
migration governance
connectivity
(social) mobility
immobility
refugee regime
translocal lives
social networks
agency
social class
local integration
return
repatriation
durable solution
Pakistan
Afghanistan

description: Pakistan currently hosts up to three million Afghans, a number that is likely to increase due to the Taliban's recent return to power in Afghanistan. This working paper is based on empirical research on the experience of Afghan displacement in Pakistan from 2019 until early 2021 as part of the European Union funded TRAFIG project. Findings show that Afghans’ protracted displacement is classed. Many low-skilled, low-income and largely non-educated Afghans experience barriers to upward social mobility, particularly leading the Afghan youth to consider migrating to Europe. First-generation Afghan refugees who migrated mainly in the 1980s and 1990s prefer to stay in Pakistan; only few would return if the conditions allowed it. While aiming to incentivise return, Pakistani government policies hamper the opportunity for Afghans to move around within and beyond Pakistan and remain connected to their translocal and transnational networks. Many Afghan refugees have family members who live in other parts of Pakistan or in other countries, but the potential of these networks to lift those in Pakistan out of protracteddisplacement is limited. We also found that social cohesion between Afghan refugees and the Pakistani host society has been decreasing. Local networks are highly significant in day-to-day life, but intergroup relations do not yield any emancipatory potential for Afghans. Afghans’ presence in Pakistan needs to be reconsidered by all actors, namely the country of origin, host and donor countries. The current approach of ‘administering Afghans’ keeps them in protracted displacement without the opportunity to integrate legally or sustainably. It needs to be replaced with a new narrative and operational approach—one that acknowledges Afghans’ contributions to Pakistan’s economy, society and culture, and that secures their right to remain in Pakistan. Such an approach is particularly important today given the looming prospect of more Afghans entering Pakistan to escape from living under a government headed by the Taliban.
description: TRAFIG Working Paper No. 7
SOM-CPC: Unsupervised Contrastive Learning with Self-Organizing Maps for Structured Representations of High-Rate Time Series
Creators: name: Huijben, Iris A. M.
name: Nijdam, Arthur A.
name: Overeem, Sebastiaan
name: van Gilst, Merel M.
name: van Sloun, Ruud J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Continuous monitoring with an ever-increasing number of sensors has become ubiquitous across many application domains. However, acquired time series are typically high-dimensional and difficult to interpret. Expressive deep learning (DL) models have gained popularity for dimensionality reduction, but the resulting latent space often remains difficult to interpret. In this work we propose SOM-CPC, a model that visualizes data in an organized 2D manifold, while preserving higher-dimensional information. We address a largely unexplored and challenging set of scenarios comprising high-rate time series, and show on both synthetic and real-life data (physiological data and audio recordings) that SOM-CPC outperforms strong baselines like DL-based feature extraction, followed by conventional dimensionality reduction techniques, and models that jointly optimize a DL model and a Self-Organizing Map (SOM). SOM-CPC has great potential to acquire a better understanding of latent patterns in high-rate data streams.
title: Management Advisory Memorandum on Los Angeles World Airports, City of Los Angeles
Creators: name: Mead, Kenneth M.
name: United States Department of Defense: Office of the Inspector General
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1997
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92589
subject: Airports
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88540
subject: Auditing
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88662
subject: Revenues
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88995
subject: Legal responsibility

description: A memorandum from the Office of the Inspector General to the Federal Transit Administrator regarding their audit of revenue retention at the Los Angeles World Airports, City of Los Angeles.
title: Development of Super-Dwarf Wheat Under Stress Conditions Simulating Those on the Space Station MIR
Creators: name: Jiang, Liming
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: Super-Dwarf wheat plants were grown in simulation growth chambers under 12 treatments with three photoperiods (18 h, 21 h, 24 h) and four carbon-dioxide levels (360, 1200, 3000, and 7000 11mol/mol). Carbon-dioxide concentrations affected flower initiation rates of Super-Dwarf wheat. The optimum C02level for flower initiation and development was 1200molμ•mol-1. Super-optimum C01 levels delayed flower initiation, but did not decrease final flower bud number per head. Longer photoperiods not only accelerated flower initiation rates, but also decreased deleterious effects of super-optimum C02. Flower bud size and head length at the same developmental stage were larger under longer photoperiods. But final flower bud number was not affected by photoperiod. Stomatal densities on the abaxial surface were more sensitive to the variation of photoperiod and C02 level than those on the adaxial surface for Super-Dwarf wheat. Stomatal density did not significantly change on the adaxial surface, but was significantly decreased on the abaxial surface under longer photoperiods and higher C02 levels at 27 day after planting (DAP). Cell-walls of both stem and leaf tissues did not significantly change with variation of photoperiod and carbon-dioxide levels at either seedling stage or mature stage. McDowell fixative was suitable for long-term storage of plant tissue for use in light microscopy. When stored up to 180 d, there was no significant change in leaf thickness, shape and size of mesophyll cells, and shape of chloroplasts for wheat leaves under the light microscope.
Neutralino reconstruction in supersymmetry with long-lived staus
Creators: name: Biswas, Sanjoy
name: Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a supergravity (SUGRA) scenario, with universal scalar and gaugino masses at high scale, with a right-chiral neutrino superfield included in the spectrum. Such a scenario can have a lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) dominated by the right sneutrino and a stau as the next-to lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP). Since decays of all particles into the LSP are suppressed by the neutrino Yukawa coupling, the signal of supersymmetry consists in charged tracks of stable particles in the muon chamber. We demonstrate how a neutralino decaying into a tau and the stau-NLSP can be fully reconstructed over substantial areas in the SUGRA parameter space. We also suggest event selection criteria for eliminating backgrounds, including combinatorial ones, and use a new method for the extraction of the mass of the stau-NLSP, using its three-momentum as obtained from the curvature of the charged track.
description: Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Distributed Ledger Technology based Integrated Healthcare Solution for Bangladesh
Creators: name: Islam, Md. Ariful
name: Islam, Md. Antonin
name: Jacky, Md. Amzad Hossain
name: Al-Amin, Md.
name: Miah, M. Saef Ullah
name: Khan, Md Muhidul Islam
name: Hossain, Md. Iqbal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Healthcare data is sensitive and requires great protection. Encrypted electronic health records (EHRs) contain personal and sensitive data such as names and addresses. Having access to patient data benefits all of them. This paper proposes a blockchain-based distributed healthcare application platform for Bangladeshi public and private healthcare providers. Using data immutability and smart contracts, the suggested application framework allows users to create safe digital agreements for commerce or collaboration. Thus, all enterprises may securely collaborate using the same blockchain network, gaining data openness and read/write capacity. The proposed application consists of various application interfaces for various system users. For data integrity, privacy, permission and service availability, the proposed solution leverages Hyperledger fabric and Blockchain as a Service. Everyone will also have their own profile in the portal. A unique identity for each person and the installation of digital information centres across the country have greatly eased the process. It will collect systematic health data from each person which will be beneficial for research institutes and health-related organisations. A national data warehouse in Bangladesh is feasible for this application and It is also possible to keep a clean health sector by analysing data stored in this warehouse and conducting various purification algorithms using technologies like Data Science. Given that Bangladesh has both public and private health care, a straightforward digital strategy for all organisations is essential.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables
ForestPrune: Compact Depth-Controlled Tree Ensembles
Creators: name: Liu, Brian
name: Mazumder, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tree ensembles are powerful models that achieve excellent predictive performances, but can grow to unwieldy sizes. These ensembles are often post-processed (pruned) to reduce memory footprint and improve interpretability. We present ForestPrune, a novel optimization framework to post-process tree ensembles by pruning depth layers from individual trees. Since the number of nodes in a decision tree increases exponentially with tree depth, pruning deep trees drastically compactifies ensembles. We develop a specialized optimization algorithm to efficiently obtain high-quality solutions to problems under ForestPrune. Our algorithm typically reaches good solutions in seconds for medium-size datasets and ensembles, with 10000s of rows and 100s of trees, resulting in significant speedups over existing approaches. Our experiments demonstrate that ForestPrune produces parsimonious models that outperform models extracted by existing post-processing algorithms.
Updating the State of the Pacific: Review of 'Pacific Perspectives' week at the ANU
Creators: name: Cain, Tess Newton
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2013

description: Tess Newton Cain highlights some of the key themes that emerged during the State of the Pacific Conference and the PNG and Pacific Update events, held in June 2013. She argues that forums such as these are important for all players including researchers, policymakers, politicans, and civil society actors, to ensure ongoing discussions on key issues for the region. She notes that such discussions are particularly important as key events such as the 2014 Fiji Elections, the ending of the 10-year autonomous governing period in Bougainville and the next milestone in the Noumea Accord lay ahead.
title: The Legal Environment for Landscape Architecture in Utah
Creators: name: Scarborough, Jeffrey J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: This paper explores and delineates the legal environment for the practice of landscape architecture in Utah. The national, state, and local (city and county), codes that apply to landscape architecture and the related professions of architecture, engineering, and land surveying are documented, as is pertinent case law. Figures allow comparisons to be made between the various government levels to demonstrate contradictions and congruencies, as well as the clarity of the ordinances. Major findings include significant differences among the city and county regulations of landscape architecture and the related professions, and weaknesses in the state law for landscape architecture. Major recommendations include the pursuit of a practice law, and other methods of clarifying and increasing the authority of landscape architects in the state.
title: Przyszłość pewnej utopii a widma dystopii. Uwagi o filozofii Emmanuela Lévinasa
Creators: name: Włodarczyk, Rafał
Publisher: name: Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: Esej z pogranicza filozofii kultury i filozofii żydowskiej składa się z czterech zasadniczych części. W części pierwszej Autor charakteryzuje topikę utopii, w drugiej i trzeciej – esencjalnie wskazuje na newralgiczne następstwa Holocaustu dla zachodniej kultury, w tym intelektualistów żydowskich, humanistyki i nauk społecznych. W obszernej części czwartej omawia i rozważa, w kontekście wyprowadzonych wcześniej wątków, utopizm filozofii Emmanuela Lévinasa. Esej zamyka kilka wynikających z przeprowadzonych dociekań spostrzeżeń.
Bases Para Una Modificacion del Regimen de Cobranza Coactivo en el Procedimiento Tributario Chileno
Creators: name: SILVA-RIESCO, PATRICIO
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180125 Taxation Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: bases, cobranza, impuestos, chile, tesorería, silva-riesco
Image-based Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Creators: name: Jerzak, Connor T.
name: Johansson, Fredrik
name: Daoud, Adel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.0; I.4.0
subject: 62D20

description: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for estimating the average treatment effect (ATE) of interventions. One use of RCTs is to study the causes of global poverty -- a subject explicitly cited in the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize awarded to Duflo, Banerjee, and Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." Because the ATE is a population summary, anti-poverty experiments often seek to unpack the effect variation around the ATE by conditioning (CATE) on tabular variables such as age and ethnicity that were measured during the RCT data collection. Although such variables are key to unpacking CATE, using only such variables may fail to capture historical, geographical, or neighborhood-specific contributors to effect variation, as tabular RCT data are often only observed near the time of the experiment. In global poverty research, when the location of the experiment units is approximately known, satellite imagery can provide a window into such factors important for understanding heterogeneity. However, there is no method that specifically enables applied researchers to analyze CATE from images. In this paper, using a deep probabilistic modeling framework, we develop such a method that estimates latent clusters of images by identifying images with similar treatment effects distributions. Our interpretable image CATE model also includes a sensitivity factor that quantifies the importance of image segments contributing to the effect cluster prediction. We compare the proposed methods against alternatives in simulation; also, we show how the model works in an actual RCT, estimating the effects of an anti-poverty intervention in northern Uganda and obtaining a posterior predictive distribution over effects for the rest of the country where no experimental data was collected. We make all models available in open-source software.
description: Accepted at the Second Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR), Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)
The dust-scattering X-ray rings of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408
Creators: name: Tiengo, A.
name: Vianello, G.
name: Esposito, P.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Costantini, E.
name: Israel, G. L.
name: Stella, L.
name: Turolla, R.
name: Zane, S.
name: Rea, N.
name: Götz, D.
name: Bernardini, F.
name: Moretti, A.
name: Romano, P.
name: Ehle, M.
name: Gehrels, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On 2009 January 22 numerous strong bursts were detected from the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408. Swift/XRT and XMM-Newton/EPIC observations carried out in the following two weeks led to the discovery of three X-ray rings centered on this source. The ring radii increased with time following the expansion law expected for a short impulse of X-rays scattered by three dust clouds. Assuming different models for the dust composition and grain size distribution, we fit the intensity decay of each ring as a function of time at different energies, obtaining tight constrains on the distance of the X-ray source. Although the distance strongly depends on the adopted dust model, we find that some models are incompatible with our X-ray data, restricting to 4-8 kpc the range of possible distances for 1E 1547.0-5408. The best-fitting dust model provides a source distance of 3.91 +/- 0.07 kpc, which is compatible with the proposed association with the supernova remnant G 327.24-0.13, and implies distances of 2.2 kpc, 2.6 kpc and 3.4 kpc for the dust clouds, in good agreement with the dust distribution inferred by CO line observations towards 1E 1547.0-5408. However, dust distances in agreement with CO data are also obtained for a set of similarly well-fitting models that imply a source distance of about 5 kpc. A distance of about 4-5 kpc is also favored by the fact that these dust models are already known to provide good fits to the dust-scattering halos of bright X-ray binaries.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 10 pages in emulate-apj style, 3 tables, 5 color figures. Note: abstract truncated; full abstract in the paper
Federated Multi-organ Segmentation with Inconsistent Labels
Creators: name: Xu, Xuanang
name: Deng, Hannah H.
name: Gateno, Jaime
name: Yan, Pingkun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning is an emerging paradigm allowing large-scale decentralized learning without sharing data across different data owners, which helps address the concern of data privacy in medical image analysis. However, the requirement for label consistency across clients by the existing methods largely narrows its application scope. In practice, each clinical site may only annotate certain organs of interest with partial or no overlap with other sites. Incorporating such partially labeled data into a unified federation is an unexplored problem with clinical significance and urgency. This work tackles the challenge by using a novel federated multi-encoding U-Net (Fed-MENU) method for multi-organ segmentation. In our method, a multi-encoding U-Net (MENU-Net) is proposed to extract organ-specific features through different encoding sub-networks. Each sub-network can be seen as an expert of a specific organ and trained for that client. Moreover, to encourage the organ-specific features extracted by different sub-networks to be informative and distinctive, we regularize the training of the MENU-Net by designing an auxiliary generic decoder (AGD). Extensive experiments on six public abdominal CT datasets show that our Fed-MENU method can effectively obtain a federated learning model using the partially labeled datasets with superior performance to other models trained by either localized or centralized learning methods. Source code is publicly available at https://github.com/DIAL-RPI/Fed-MENU.
description: v1: 10 pages, 5 figures; v2: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), published version available at https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2023.3270140, source code available at https://github.com/DIAL-RPI/Fed-MENU
title: Literackie dystopie dla młodzieży – wizje zbiorowej przyszłości
Creators: name: Gromysz, Jowita
Publisher: name: Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: W artykule Autorka przedstawia wybrane literackie dystopie dla młodzieży i zwraca uwagę, że mogą one być analizowane jako wizje zbiorowej przyszłości. Przyszłość zbiorowa ma charakter wyobrażony, jest ćwiczeniem społecznej wyobraźni, opiera się na tym, co chcemy zachować (lub zmienić) dla przyszłych pokoleń. Może ona przybierać charakter utopijny lub dystopijny. Projektowanie tego, jak będzie wyglądało życie kolejnych pokoleń, jest obiektem zainteresowania nie tylko filozofów, pisarzy, ale również wielu instytucji (państwa, szkoły, kościoła). Nie ulega wątpliwości, że współcześnie literackie dystopie stanowią niezwykle interesujący sposób projektowania przyszłości zbiorowej. Dystopijne wizje i sposoby ich przezwyciężanie stanowią dla nastolatków rodzaj atrakcyjnego ćwiczenia wyobraźni społecznej, w obrazowy sposób ukazują im wadliwe funkcjonowanie całych społeczności, ale też dają nadzieję na zmianę. Analizując literaturę dystopijną, skierowaną do młodych ludzi, warto skoncentrować się na obrazie szkoły, ponieważ ukazuje on, jakie znacznie dla funkcjonowania społeczności ma edukacja i co może się wydarzyć, gdy zostanie ona podporządkowana (na przykład) polityce.
title: Popkulturowe ilustracje utopii społecznych, czyli o edukacyjnym potencjale kultury popularnej
Creators: name: Jakubowski, Witold
Publisher: name: Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: Dla refleksji o edukacyjnym potencjale kultury popularnej interesujące jest, o czym opowiada się w jej tekstach, a wbrew temu, co sądzą o niej jej krytycy, nie zawsze są to sprawy banalne. W artykule omówione zostały popkulturowe teksty, które obrazują charakterystyczne elementy utopii: pogrzebanie „starego świata”, ustanowienie „doskonałego” porządku, zabezpieczenie przed destrukcją od zewnątrz oraz zabezpieczenie przed destrukcją od wewnątrz. Powstałe w różnym czasie i w oparciu o różne środki wyrazu, opowiadają o dylematach związanych z myśleniem o „lepszym świecie”. Przedstawiają „własnym językiem” mechanizmy oraz konsekwencje budowania nowego społeczeństwa. Analizie poddana została powieść polskiego pisarza science-fiction Stanisława Lema „Powrót z gwiazd” oraz filmy „Miasteczko Pleasentville” (1998) Garego Rossa i „Osada” (2004) M. Night Shyamalana.
Shaping the Phase of a Single Photon
Creators: name: Specht, H. P.
name: Bochmann, J.
name: Muecke, M.
name: Weber, B.
name: Figueroa, E.
name: Moehring, D. L.
name: Rempe, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the phase of a coherent light field can be precisely known, the phase of the individual photons that create this field, considered individually, cannot. Phase changes within single-photon wave packets, however, have observable effects. In fact, actively controlling the phase of individual photons has been identified as a powerful resource for quantum communication protocols. Here we demonstrate the arbitrary phase control of a single photon. The phase modulation is applied without affecting the photon's amplitude profile and is verified via a two-photon quantum interference measurement, which can result in the fermionic spatial behaviour of photon pairs. Combined with previously demonstrated control of a single photon's amplitude, frequency, and polarisation, the fully deterministic phase shaping presented here allows for the complete control of single-photon wave packets.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures