cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Transition to adulthood for autistic youth: Profiles of daily living skills
Creators: name: Klein, Claire Brito
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Research has consistently shown that daily living skills in autistic youth are below cognitive and age expectations. The present study examined the interplay between daily living skills and hallmarks of successful transition to adulthood in 146 (71% Male, 29% Female) autistic adolescents and young adults without intellectual disability. An exploratory factor analysis derived four factors from the Waisman Activities of Daily Living Scale (W-ADL). Results revealed that executive function problems, autistic traits, and self-determination were the main predictors of independence. Cognitive ability alone did not reflect support needs. Three classes of daily living skills were identified, with only 13% of the sample in the high independence group. Those with low independence had more executive functioning problems and lower self-determination. Future research is needed to evaluate the directionality of executive function, self-determination, and daily living skills and the utility of layering interventions together in autistic transition-age adolescents and young adults.
Bifractional Brownian motion: existence and border cases
Creators: name: Lifshits, Mikhail
name: Volkova, Ksenia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G15, 42A82

description: Bifractional Brownian motion (bfBm) is a centered Gaussian process with covariance \[ R^{(H,K)}(s,t)= 2^{-K} \left( \left(|s|^{2H}+|t|^{2H} \right)^{K}-|t-s|^{2HK}\right), \qquad s,t\in R. \] We study the existence of bfBm for a given pair of parameters $(H,K)$ and encounter some related limiting processes.
Additional file 1 of Multi-scale habitat selection and impacts of climate change on the distribution of four sympatric meso-carnivores using random forest algorithm
Creators: name: Rather, Tahir Ali
name: Kumar, Sharad
name: Khan, Jamal Ahmad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material S1. The Spatial autocorrelation report as derived from using Spatial Autocorrelation tool in ArcGIS (version 10.3).
Neural Graph Databases
Creators: name: Besta, Maciej
name: Iff, Patrick
name: Scheidl, Florian
name: Osawa, Kazuki
name: Dryden, Nikoli
name: Podstawski, Michal
name: Chen, Tiancheng
name: Hoefler, Torsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph databases (GDBs) enable processing and analysis of unstructured, complex, rich, and usually vast graph datasets. Despite the large significance of GDBs in both academia and industry, little effort has been made into integrating them with the predictive power of graph neural networks (GNNs). In this work, we show how to seamlessly combine nearly any GNN model with the computational capabilities of GDBs. For this, we observe that the majority of these systems are based on, or support, a graph data model called the Labeled Property Graph (LPG), where vertices and edges can have arbitrarily complex sets of labels and properties. We then develop LPG2vec, an encoder that transforms an arbitrary LPG dataset into a representation that can be directly used with a broad class of GNNs, including convolutional, attentional, message-passing, and even higher-order or spectral models. In our evaluation, we show that the rich information represented as LPG labels and properties is properly preserved by LPG2vec, and it increases the accuracy of predictions regardless of the targeted learning task or the used GNN model, by up to 34% compared to graphs with no LPG labels/properties. In general, LPG2vec enables combining predictive power of the most powerful GNNs with the full scope of information encoded in the LPG model, paving the way for neural graph databases, a class of systems where the vast complexity of maintained data will benefit from modern and future graph machine learning methods.
Working memory functioning in children with specific developmental language disorders
Creators: name: El-Mir, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: This study examined the functioning of working memory in children with specific developmental language disorders. The performance of the three components of working memory in the model of Baddeley and Hitch (1974) were evaluated, which are the phonological loop, the visuo-spatial sketchpad, and the central executive. The sample consisted of 40 children aged between 6 and 7 years, half of whom were children with specific developmental language disorders, and the other half were normal children. Five tests were used to assess the components of working memory, which are forward digit span, Corsi block task, pattern task, backward digit span, and backward Corsi block task. The results of this study revealed that children with specific developmental language disorders show a deficit in the ability of the phonological loop and a preservation in the ability of the visuo-spatial sketchpad, additionally we found that the capacity of the central executive, in children with specific developmental language disorders is less than that of their peers in complex verbal tasks, while the performance of the two groups was similar in complex visuo-spatial tasks. In general, the results of this study showed that working memory deficit in children with specific developmental language disorders is not global.
Universal Densities Exist for Every Finite Reference Measure
Creators: name: Dębowski, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94A29 (Primary) 62M20 (Secondary)

description: As it is known, universal codes, which estimate the entropy rate consistently, exist for stationary ergodic sources over finite alphabets but not over countably infinite ones. We generalize universal coding as the problem of universal densities with respect to a fixed reference measure on a countably generated measurable space. We show that universal densities, which estimate the differential entropy rate consistently, exist for finite reference measures. Thus finite alphabets are not necessary in some sense. To exhibit a universal density, we adapt the non-parametric differential (NPD) entropy rate estimator by Feutrill and Roughan. Our modification is analogous to Ryabko's modification of prediction by partial matching (PPM) by Cleary and Witten. Whereas Ryabko considered a mixture over Markov orders, we consider a mixture over quantization levels. Moreover, we demonstrate that any universal density induces a strongly consistent Cesàro mean estimator of conditional density given an infinite past. This yields a universal predictor with the $0-1$ loss for a countable alphabet. Finally, we specialize universal densities to processes over natural numbers and on the real line. We derive sufficient conditions for consistent estimation of the entropy rate with respect to infinite reference measures in these domains.
description: 28 pages, no figures
On Bethe eigenvectors and higher transfer matrices for supersymmetric spin chains
Creators: name: Lu, Kang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $\mathfrak{gl}_{m|n}$ XXX spin chains defined on tensor products of highest $\mathfrak{gl}_{m|n}$-modules. We show that the on-shell Bethe vectors are eigenvectors of higher transfer matrices and compute the corresponding eigenvalues, confirming Conjecture 5.15 of arXiv:2007.15573 and extending the main results of arXiv:0605015 to supersymmetric case. We then take the classical limits and obtain the corresponding results for the $\mathfrak{gl}_{m|n}$ Gaudin models.
description: 37 pages. Extending the results of arXiv:0605015 and arXiv:0804.2822
Additional file 7 of Multi-scale habitat selection and impacts of climate change on the distribution of four sympatric meso-carnivores using random forest algorithm
Creators: name: Rather, Tahir Ali
name: Kumar, Sharad
name: Khan, Jamal Ahmad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Supplementary materials S7. Showing the partial dependence plots of Indian fox, golden jackal, jungle cat, and Asiatic wildcat.
Sign Depicting a Couple Holding a Baby, for a Birth Control Campaign to Encourage Tibetans to Adhere to a One-Child Policy, Golmud, 1994
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Propaganda
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a sign located at an intersection in Golmud, as part of a birth control campaign to encourage Tibetans to adhere to a one-child policy.
Orthodox Care for the Colonial Body: Religion and Medicine in Sixteenth Century New Spain
Creators: name: Najera, Mariana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: In 1570, New Spain witnessed the formalization of the Holy Office of the Inquisition and the Royal Protomedicato. Superficially their goals appear distinct, but a closer examination reveals the existence of a vital relationship between these organizations, their respective fields, and their labor thanks to the fundamental interdependence of spiritual and physical health in the early modern period. Building upon this holistic conception of health, this work examines the Inquisition as an extension of the healthcare establishment headed by the Protomedicato due to its ability to safeguard religious and medical orthodoxy amongst lay individuals. Through two case studies related to transgressive lay healing, I contend that inquisitorial labor can only be understood in the context of this project of pastoral care, which involved medicine as much as it did religion and so points to the key role played by a Christian ideal of properly managed health in nascent New Spain
The converse of the Schwarz Lemma is false
Creators: name: Bourque, Maxime Fortier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30F45, 30F60, 32G15

description: Let $h:X \to Y$ be a homeomorphism between hyperbolic surfaces with finite topology. If $h$ is homotopic to a holomorphic map, then every closed geodesic in $X$ is at least as long as the corresponding geodesic in $Y$, by the Schwarz Lemma. The converse holds trivially when $X$ and $Y$ are disks or annuli, and it holds when $X$ and $Y$ are closed surfaces by a theorem of W. Thurston. We prove that the converse is false in all other cases, strengthening a result of Masumoto.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
The Power of Small Coalitions under Two-Tier Majority on Regular Graphs
Creators: name: Chebotarev, Pavel
name: Peleg, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C69, 05C22, 68R10, 91B14, 94C15

description: In this paper, we study the following problem. Consider a setting where a proposal is offered to the vertices of a given network $G$, and the vertices must conduct a vote and decide whether to accept the proposal or reject it. Each vertex $v$ has its own valuation of the proposal; we say that $v$ is ``happy'' if its valuation is positive (i.e., it expects to gain from adopting the proposal) and ``sad'' if its valuation is negative. However, vertices do not base their vote merely on their own valuation. Rather, a vertex $v$ is a \emph{proponent} of the proposal if the majority of its neighbors are happy with it and an \emph{opponent} in the opposite case. At the end of the vote, the network collectively accepts the proposal whenever the majority of its vertices are proponents. We study this problem for regular graphs with loops. Specifically, we consider the class $\mathcal{G}_{n|d|h}$ of $d$-regular graphs of odd order $n$ with all $n$ loops and $h$ happy vertices. We are interested in establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for the class $\mathcal{G}_{n|d|h}$ to contain a labeled graph accepting the proposal, as well as conditions to contain a graph rejecting the proposal. We also discuss connections to the existing literature, including that on majority domination, and investigate the properties of the obtained conditions.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Discrete Applied Mathematics
Signboard Depicting Figures Wearing Various Traditional Clothing Locking Arms in Unity Behind the Tiananmen, as Colorful Jackets Hang in Front
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Propaganda
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard bearing the official logo of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Tibet, illustrating figures wearing various traditional clothes and locking their arms in unity behind the Tiananmen emitting rays of light, as colorful jackets hang in front on a clothesline.
Additional file 6 of Multi-scale habitat selection and impacts of climate change on the distribution of four sympatric meso-carnivores using random forest algorithm
Creators: name: Rather, Tahir Ali
name: Kumar, Sharad
name: Khan, Jamal Ahmad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Supplementary material S6. Relative importance of variables.
Signboard Advocating City Development in Tibetan and Chinese with a Futuristic Landscape, in Front of a Building Opposite the Post Office in Lhasa, with Three Tibetans in the Foreground
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Propaganda
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard advocating city development in Lhasa, written in Tibetan and Chinese with a futuristic landscape, erected outside a building opposite the Post Office.
A Category of Surface-Embedded Graphs
Creators: name: Altenmüller, Malin
name: Duncan, Ross
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a categorical formalism for rewriting surface-embedded graphs. Such graphs can represent string diagrams in a non-symmetric setting where we guarantee that the wires do not intersect each other. The main technical novelty is a new formulation of double pushout rewriting on graphs which explicitly records the boundary of the rewrite. Using this boundary structure we can augment these graphs with a rotation system, allowing the surface topology to be incorporated.
description: In Proceedings ACT 2022, arXiv:2307.15519
ASSESSING CHANGES IN PHYSICAL FUNCTION FOLLOWING 12 WEEKS OF ANDROGEN RECEPTOR SIGNALING INHIBITOR TREATMENT FOR ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER
Creators: name: Belio, Mark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Cross-sectional studies indicate that men with metastatic prostate cancer (PC) using androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSI) have lower physical function (PF). However, the rate of change in PF remains unclear. This observational pilot study aimed to longitudinally examine objectively measured PF in men with advanced PC initiating ARSI treatment and after 12 weeks of therapy. Additionally, changes in grip strength, muscular power, and balance were determined.       From baseline to 12 weeks of ARSI, men with advanced PC (n=6) initiating ARSI experienced a 4% improvement in 400m walk that approached significance [MD: -13 s; 95% CI (-25, -1); p=0.082, d=0.88], with no changes in PF as assessed by SPPB and TUG. For the secondary outcomes, there was a 9% decline in peak power [MD: -70.5 W; 95% CI (-124, -17.2); p=0.049, d=1.06], with no other changes noted. Testing remains ongoing, with 20 anticipated subjects and an additional 24-week timepoint.
Universal security for randomness expansion from the spot-checking protocol
Creators: name: Miller, Carl A.
name: Shi, Yaoyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Colbeck (Thesis, 2006) proposed using Bell inequality violations to generate certified random numbers. While full quantum-security proofs have been given, it remains a major open problem to identify the broadest class of Bell inequalities and lowest performance requirements to achieve such security. In this paper, working within the broad class of spot-checking protocols, we prove exactly which Bell inequality violations can be used to achieve full security. Our result greatly improves the known noise tolerance for secure randomness expansion: for the commonly used CHSH game, full security was only known with a noise tolerance of 1.5%, and we improve this to 10.3%. We also generalize our results beyond Bell inequalities and give the first security proof for randomness expansion based on Kochen-Specker inequalities. The central technical contribution of the paper is a new uncertainty principle for the Schatten norm, which is based on the uniform convexity inequality of Ball, Carlen, and Lieb (Inventiones mathematicae, 115:463-482, 1994).
description: v3: The main result has been strengthened and the proofs rewritten. The paper now includes a self-contained proof of security under Renyi entropies (simplifying arXiv:1402.0489). 27 pages
Cryo-EM of a heterogeneous biochemical fraction elucidates multiple protein complexes from a multicellular thermophilic eukaryote
Creators: name: Semchonok, Dmitry A.
name: Kyrilis, Fotis L.
name: Hamdi, Farzad
name: Kastritis, Panagiotis L.
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 572

description: Biomolecular complexes and their interactions govern cellular structure and function. Understanding their architecture is a prerequisite for dissecting the cell's inner workings, but their higher-order assembly is often transient and challenging for structural analysis. Here, we performed cryo-EM on a single, highly heterogeneous biochemical fraction derived from Chaetomium thermophilum cell extracts to visualize the biomolecular content of the multicellular eukaryote. After cryo-EM single-particle image processing, results showed that a simultaneous three-dimensional structural characterization of multiple chemically diverse biomacromolecules is feasible. Namely, the thermophilic, eukaryotic complexes of (a) ATP citrate-lyase, (b) Hsp90, (c) 20S proteasome, (d) Hsp60 and (e) UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase were characterized. In total, all five complexes have been structurally dissected in a thermophilic eukaryote in a total imaged sample area of 190.64 μm2, and two, in particular, 20S proteasome and Hsp60, exhibit side-chain resolution features. The C. thermophilum Hsp60 near-atomic model was resolved at 3.46 Å (FSC = 0.143) and shows a hinge-like conformational change of its equatorial domain, highly similar to the one previously shown for its bacterial orthologue, GroEL. This work demonstrates that cryo-EM of cell extracts will greatly accelerate the structural analysis of cellular complexes and provide unprecedented opportunities to annotate architectures of biomolecules in a holistic approach.
The effects of a smartphone game training intervention on executive functions in youth soccer players : a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Heilmann, Florian
name: Formenti, Damiano
name: Trecroci, Athos
name: Lautenbach, Franziska
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Cognitive training primarily aims to improve executive functions (EFs). It has become a popular research topic, as previous studies have provided preliminary evidence that EFs relate to sports performance. However, whether a domain-generic cognitive training intervention can improve EFs in high-performance athletes is still unclear. The present randomized controlled study aimed to examine the effects of an eight-week (5 min/day, 5 days/week) smartphone-based domain-generic cognitive training intervention (i.e., the smartphone game “Fruit Ninja”) on EFs in youth soccer athletes (N = 33; intervention: n = 15, passive control: n = 18; German youth soccer academy). We assessed working memory (3-back task), inhibition (Flanker & Go/NoGo task), and cognitive flexibility (number-letter task) in a pre-post design with computerized tasks. The results showed no significant time x group differences attributable to the cognitive training between the intervention group and the control group, except for a response time variable of the Go/NoGo task. These preliminary results do not suggest an application of CT as a smartphone-based game to improve EFs performance in soccer players. However, more research is needed to establish the efficacy of domain-specific interventions in high-level team sport athletes.
Mass spectra of double-bottom baryons
Creators: name: Li, Zhen-Yu
name: Yu, Guo-Liang
name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
name: Gu, Jian-Zhong
name: Shen, Hong-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the relativistic quark model and the infinitesimally shifted Gaussian basis function method, we investigate the mass spectra of double bottom baryons systematically. In the $ρ$-mode which appears lower in energy than the other excited modes, we obtain the allowed quantum states and perform a systematic study of the mass spectra of the $Ξ_{bb}$ and $Ω_{bb}$ families. We analyze the root mean square radii and quark radial probability density distributions to deeply understand the structure of the heavy baryons. Meanwhile, the mass spectra allow us to successfully construct the Regge trajectories in the $(J,M^{2})$ plane. We also predict the masses of the ground states of double bottom baryons and discuss the differences between the structures of our spectra and those from other theoretical methods. At last, the shell structure of the double bottom baryon spectra is shown, from which one could get a bird's-eye view of the mass spectra.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2207.04167
Signboard Depicting a Female Officer Erected Outside a Tax Administration Office Encouraging Citizens to Safeguard Legal Income and Pay Taxes
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Taxation
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard erected outside a tax administration office in Tsangyu Shar Lam, encouraging citizens to safeguard their legal income and pay their taxes to the government.
A guide to time-resolved and parameter-free measures of spike train synchrony
Creators: name: Mulansky, Mario
name: Bozanic, Nebojsa
name: Sburlea, Andreea
name: Kreuz, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measures of spike train synchrony have proven a valuable tool in both experimental and computational neuroscience. Particularly useful are time-resolved methods such as the ISI- and the SPIKE-distance, which have already been applied in various bivariate and multivariate contexts. Recently, SPIKE-Synchronization was proposed as another time-resolved synchronization measure. It is based on Event-Synchronization and has a very intuitive interpretation. Here, we present a detailed analysis of the mathematical properties of these three synchronization measures. For example, we were able to obtain analytic expressions for the expectation values of the ISI-distance and SPIKE-Synchronization for Poisson spike trains. For the SPIKE-distance we present an empirical formula deduced from numerical evaluations. These expectation values are crucial for interpreting the synchronization of spike trains measured in experiments or numerical simulations, as they represent the point of reference for fully randomized spike trains.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Signboard Near Telecommunications Building Depicting Illustrated Instructions for Proper Usage of Gas Masks, with Writing in Tibetan and Chinese, Lhasa, 1994
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Safety measures
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard near a telecommunications building in Lhasa, depicting instructions written in Tibetan and Chinese, and illustrated, for the required and proper usage of gas masks.
A new thin layer model for viscous flow between two nearby non-static surfaces
Creators: name: Rodríguez, José M.
name: Taboada-Vázquez, Raquel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Mathematics 35Q35 (Primary), 76M45, 76D08, 41A60 (Secondary)

description: We propose a two-dimensional flow model of a viscous fluid between two close moving surfaces. We show, using a formal asymptotic expansion of the solution, that its asymptotic behavior, when the distance between the two surfaces tends to zero, is the same as that of the the Navier-Stokes equations. The leading term of the formal asymptotic expansions of the solutions to the new model and Navier-Stokes equations are solution of the same limit problem, and the type of the limit problem depends on the boundary conditions. If slip velocity boundary conditions are imposed on the upper and lower bound surfaces, the limit is a solution of a lubrication model, but if the tractions and friction forces are known on both bound surfaces, the limit is a solution of a thin fluid layer model. The model proposed has been obtained to be a valuable tool for computing viscous fluid flow between two nearby moving surfaces, without the need to decide a priori whether the flow is typical of a lubrication or a thin fluid layer problem, and without the enormous computational effort that would be required to solve the Navier-Stokes equations in such a thin domain.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2203.08695
Correlation between circulating miR-16, miR-29a, miR-144 and miR-150, and the radiotherapy response and survival of non-small-cell lung cancer patients
Creators: name: Bache, Matthias
name: Kadler, Frauke
name: Struck, Olivia
name: Medenwald, Daniel
name: Ostheimer, Christian
name: Güttler, Antje
name: Kessler-Silacci, Jacqueline
name: Kappler, Matthias
name: Riemann, Anne
name: Thews, Oliver
name: Seliger, Barbara
name: Vordermark, Dirk
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Despite the success of current therapy concepts, patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) still have a very poor prognosis. Therefore, biological markers are urgently needed, which allow the assessment of prognosis, or prediction of the success of therapy or resistance in this disease. Circulating microRNAs (miRs) have potential as biomarkers for the prognosis and prediction of response to therapy in cancer patients. Based on recent evidence that circulating miR-16, miR-29a, miR-144 and miR-150 can be regulated by ionizing radiation, the concentration of these four miRs was assessed in the plasma of NSCLC patients at different time points of radiotherapy by digital droplet PCR (ddPCR). Furthermore, their impact on patients’ prognosis was evaluated. The mean plasma levels of miR-16, miR-29a, miR-144 and miR-150 significantly differed intra- and inter-individually, and during therapy in NSCLC patients, but showed a strong positive correlation. The individual plasma levels of miR-16, miR-29a and miR-144 had prognostic value in NSCLC patients during or at the end of radiotherapy in Cox’s regression models. NSCLC patients with low levels of these three miRs at the end of radiotherapy had the worst prognosis. However, miR-150 plasma levels and treatment-dependent changes were not predictive. In conclusion, circulating miR-16, miR-29a and miR-144, but not miR-150, have a prognostic value in NSCLC patients undergoing radiotherapy.
Signboard Outside Tibet Autonomus Region People's Defence Office, Depicting Written and Illustrated Instructions for Proper Usage of Gas Masks, as an Unmasked Tibetan Woman Sits Underneath Working on a Sewing Machine, Lhasa, 1993
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Safety regulations
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard outside the TAR People's Defence Office, depicting written (in Tibetan and Chinese) and illustrated instructions for the required and proper usage of gas masks, as an unmasked Tibetan woman sits underneath working on a sewing machine.
Time-Domain Universal Linear-Optical Operations for Universal Quantum Information Processing
Creators: name: Yonezu, Kazuma
name: Enomoto, Yutaro
name: Yoshida, Takato
name: Takeda, Shuntaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate universal and programmable three-mode linear optical operations in the time domain by realizing a scalable dual-loop optical circuit suitable for universal quantum information processing (QIP). The programmability, validity, and deterministic operation of our circuit are demonstrated by performing nine different three-mode operations on squeezed-state pulses, fully characterizing the outputs with variable measurements, and confirming their entanglement. Our circuit can be scaled up just by making the outer loop longer and also extended to universal quantum computers by incorporating feedforward systems. Thus, our work paves the way to large-scale universal optical QIP.
title: Kinematics of the New Zealand plate boundary: Field report on GNSS surveys in Southland/Fiordland (FIOR2023)
Creators: name: Hart, Rory J.A.
name: Palmer, Neville G.
Publisher: name: GNS Science
Year: 2023

description: Between 30 January and 24 February 2023, a team from GNS Science, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and University of Otago Survey School (OUSD) re-measured a network of 90 geodetic survey markers using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) methods throughout the Southland/Fiordland region of New Zealand for monitoring the regional deformation due to tectonic processes. Previous GNSS surveys of this region have been carried out in 2016 (FIOR 2016 [Hreinsdóttir S. 2020]), 2014 (FIOR 2014 [unpublished]), 2009 (FIOR 2009, & FIOR 2010 [Palmer N.G. 2010]), 2006/07 (FIOR 2006, FIOR 2006A & FIOR 2007 [Palmer N.G. et al. 2009]) and 2003-2005 (FIOR 2003, FIOR 2003A, FIOR 2004 & FIOR 2005 [Palmer N.G. et al. 2006]). This report documents the field operations of the FIOR2023 survey. It describes the logistics of the campaign, the sites occupied, and the data collected. The observations and data collected during this survey are intended to fulfil GNS Science’s obligation to Land Information New Zealand under the contract as outlined below. Contract name: “Regional Deformation Monitoring Service”.
Non-equilibrium steady state and subgeometric ergodicity for a chain of three coupled rotors
Creators: name: Cuneo, Noé
name: Eckmann, Jean-Pierre
name: Poquet, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a chain of three rotors (rotators) whose ends are coupled to stochastic heat baths. The temperatures of the two baths can be different, and we allow some constant torque to be applied at each end of the chain. Under some non-degeneracy condition on the interaction potentials, we show that the process admits a unique invariant probability measure, and that it is ergodic with a stretched exponential rate. The interesting issue is to estimate the rate at which the energy of the middle rotor decreases. As it is not directly connected to the heat baths, its energy can only be dissipated through the two outer rotors. But when the middle rotor spins very rapidly, it fails to interact effectively with its neighbors due to the rapid oscillations of the forces. By averaging techniques, we obtain an effective dynamics for the middle rotor, which then enables us to find a Lyapunov function. This and an irreducibility argument give the desired result. We finally illustrate numerically some properties of the non-equilibrium steady state.
description: v3: minor corrections to reflect the published version
Additional file 1 of Breath-synchronized electrical stimulation of the expiratory muscles in mechanically ventilated patients: a randomized controlled feasibility study and pooled analysis
Creators: name: Jonkman, Annemijn H.
name: Frenzel, Tim
name: McCaughey, Euan J.
name: McLachlan, Angus J.
name: Boswell-Ruys, Claire L.
name: Collins, David W.
name: Gandevia, Simon C.
name: Girbes, Armand R. J.
name: Hoiting, Oscar
name: Kox, Matthijs
name: Oppersma, Eline
name: Peters, Marco
name: Pickkers, Peter
name: Roesthuis, Lisanne H.
name: Schouten, Jeroen
name: Shi, Zhong-Hua
name: Veltink, Peter H.
name: Heder J. De Vries
name: Weickert, Cyndi Shannon
name: Wiedenbach, Carsten
name: Yingrui Zhang
name: Tuinman, Pieter R.
name: Man, Angélique M. E. De
name: Butler, Jane E.
name: Heunks, Leo M. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Extended methods and results.
Signboard Written in Tibetan, Erected on Side of a Road, Encouraging Unity Between the Army and Civilians in Tibet, Nyingchi, 1994
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Propaganda
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard written in Tibetan, erected on the side of the road near Nyingchi, encouraging unity between the Chinese army and Tibetan civilians.
Fine-grained Visual-Text Prompt-Driven Self-Training for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
Creators: name: Long, Yanxin
name: Han, Jianhua
name: Huang, Runhui
name: Hang, Xu
name: Zhu, Yi
name: Xu, Chunjing
name: Liang, Xiaodan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inspired by the success of vision-language methods (VLMs) in zero-shot classification, recent works attempt to extend this line of work into object detection by leveraging the localization ability of pre-trained VLMs and generating pseudo labels for unseen classes in a self-training manner. However, since the current VLMs are usually pre-trained with aligning sentence embedding with global image embedding, the direct use of them lacks fine-grained alignment for object instances, which is the core of detection. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective fine-grained Visual-Text Prompt-driven self-training paradigm for Open-Vocabulary Detection (VTP-OVD) that introduces a fine-grained visual-text prompt adapting stage to enhance the current self-training paradigm with a more powerful fine-grained alignment. During the adapting stage, we enable VLM to obtain fine-grained alignment by using learnable text prompts to resolve an auxiliary dense pixel-wise prediction task. Furthermore, we propose a visual prompt module to provide the prior task information (i.e., the categories need to be predicted) for the vision branch to better adapt the pre-trained VLM to the downstream tasks. Experiments show that our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance for open-vocabulary object detection, e.g., 31.5% mAP on unseen classes of COCO.
Flavor instabilities in the neutrino line model
Creators: name: Duan, Huaiyu
name: Shalgar, Shashank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dense neutrino medium can experience collective flavor oscillations through nonlinear neutrino-neutrino refraction. To make this multi-dimensional flavor transport problem more tractable, all existing studies have assumed certain symmetries (e.g., the spatial homogeneity and directional isotropy in the early universe) to reduce the dimensionality of the problem. In this work we show that, if both the directional and spatial symmetries are not enforced in the neutrino line model, collective oscillations can develop in the physical regimes where the symmetry-preserving oscillation modes are stable. Our results suggest that collective neutrino oscillations in real astrophysical environments (such as core-collapse supernovae and black-hole accretion discs) can be qualitatively different from the predictions based on existing models in which spatial and directional symmetries are artificially imposed.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Weak Gravitational lensing from regular Bardeen black holes
Creators: name: Ghaffarnejad, Hossein
name: Niad, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we study weak gravitational lensing of regular Bardeen black hole which has scalar charge $g$ and mass $m.$ We investigate the angular position and magnification of non-relativistic images in two cases depending on the presence or absence of photon sphere. Defining dimensionless charge parameter $q=\frac{g}{2m}$ we seek to disappear photon sphere in the case of $|q|>{24\sqrt5}/{125}$ for which the space time metric encounters strongly with naked singularities. We specify the basic parameters of lensing in terms of scalar charge by using the perturbative method and found that the parity of images is different in two cases: (a) The strongly naked singularities is present in the space time. (b) singularity of space time is weak or is eliminated (the black hole lens).
description: 20 pages, 7 figures with some revisions
Signboard Written in Chinese, Advocating for a Modern Road with New Buildings in Lhasa, 1994
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Propaganda
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard written in Chinese, erected near Lingkor, advocating for a modern road to encourage Tibetan storeowners to occupy the new buildings in Lhasa.
A Universal Primal-Dual Convex Optimization Framework
Creators: name: Yurtsever, Alp
name: Tran-Dinh, Quoc
name: Cevher, Volkan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new primal-dual algorithmic framework for a prototypical constrained convex optimization template. The algorithmic instances of our framework are universal since they can automatically adapt to the unknown Holder continuity degree and constant within the dual formulation. They are also guaran- teed to have optimal convergence rates in the objective residual and the feasibility gap for each Holder smoothness degree. In contrast to existing primal-dual algorithms, our framework avoids the proximity operator of the objective function. We instead leverage computationally cheaper, Fenchel-type operators, which are the main workhorses of the generalized conditional gradient (GCG)-type methods. In contrast to the GCG-type methods, our framework does not require the objective function to be differentiable, and can also process additional general linear inclusion constraints, while guarantees the convergence rate on the primal problem
description: 18 pages, 2 figures (accepted for NIPS-2015)
Violation of Detailed Balance in Quantum Open Systems
Creators: name: Alicki, Robert
name: Šindelka, Milan
name: Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the dynamics of a quantum system immersed in a dilute gas at thermodynamics equilibrium using a quantum Markovian master equation derived by applying the low-density limit technique. It is shown that the Gibbs state at the bath temperature is always stationary while the detailed balance condition at this state can be violated beyond the Born approximation. This violation is generically related to the absence of time-reversal symmetry for the scattering T-matrix, which produces a thermalization mechanism that allows the presence of persistent probability and heat currents at thermal equilibrium. This phenomenon is illustrated by a model of an electron hopping between three quantum dots in an external magnetic field.
Equivalence of Adiabatic and DeWitt-Schwinger renormalization schemes
Creators: name: del Rio, Adrian
name: Navarro-Salas, Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that adiabatic regularization and DeWitt-Schwinger point-splitting provide the same result for the renormalized expectation values of the stress-energy tensor for spin-$1/2$ fields. This generalizes the equivalence found for scalar fields, which is here recovered in a different way. We also argue that the coincidence limit of the DeWitt-Schwinger proper time expansion of the two-point function exactly agrees with the analogous expansion defined by the adiabatic regularization method at any order (for both scalar and spin-$1/2$ fields). We also illustrate the power of the adiabatic method to compute higher order DeWitt coefficients in FLRW universes.
description: Misprints corrected, small change in title
Non-singular and singular flat bands in tunable acoustic metamaterials
Creators: name: Karki, Pragalv
name: Paulose, Jayson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dispersionless flat bands can be classified into two types: (1) non-singular flat bands whose eigenmodes are completely characterized by compact localized states; and (2) singular flat bands that have a discontinuity in their Bloch eigenfunctions at a band touching point with an adjacent dispersive band, thereby requiring additional extended states to span their eigenmode space. In this study, we design and numerically demonstrate two-dimensional thin-plate acoustic metamaterials in which tunable flat bands of both kinds can be achieved. Non-singular flat bands are achieved by fine-tuning the ratio of the global tension and the bending stiffness in triangular and honeycomb lattices of plate resonators. A singular flat band arises in a kagome lattice due to the underlying lattice geometry, which can be made degenerate with two additional flat bands by tuning the plate tension. A discrete model of the continuum thin-plate system reveals the interplay of geometric and mechanical factors in determining the existence of flat bands of both types. The singular nature of the kagome lattice flat band is established via a metric called the Hilbert-Schmidt distance calculated between a pair of eigenstates infinitesimally close to the quadratic band touching point. We also simulate an acoustic manifestation of a robust boundary mode arising from the singular flat band and protected by real-space topology in a finite system. Our theoretical and computational study establishes a framework for exploring flat-band physics in a tunable classical system, and for designing acoustic metamaterials with potentially useful sound manipulation capabilities.
description: 11 pages (excluding references) and 7 figures
Ahead of the Curve: UT students share how they’ve jump-started their careers
Creators: name: Chavez, Samantha
Publisher: name: ORANGE Magazine
Year: 2019
Subjects: ORANGE Magazine - Pulp
student
career
college
University of Texas at Austin

description: For most students, college is a time for self-discovery as they enjoy life before needing to commit to a full-time job. Some students, however, see college as the perfect time to cultivate their careers. “I started in November 2017,” sociology senior Oceane Maher said.
Signboard from the Water Conservancy Bureau of the Tibet Autonomous Region to Advocate for the Governmental Control of Water, Lhasa, 1991
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Signs and signboards
Propaganda
Tibetans

description: Photograph of a signboard from the Water Conservancy bureau of the Tibet Autonomous Region to advocate for governmental control of water in Lhasa.
FACTORS INFLUENCING OPTIMIZATION BASKETBALL REFEREE MANAGEMENT IN HUNAN PROVINCE CHINA
Creators: name: LI CHEN
name: SUPITR SAMAHITO
name: MONTIPA VILASTHIP
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Referee Mangement, Influencing, Factors.

description: Abstract

Since the invention of basketball in 1892, it has been 120 years of history, the founder of basketball rules James Naismith issued 13 simple rules in the "Triangle" magazine, marking the basketball into the full confrontation game stage, and introduced the referee as the leader of the game organization and the "judge" of the fair implementation of the rules. In China and most countries, basketball referees are amateur staff, which means that they are not mainly engaged in refereeing work, with the rapid development of CBA/WCBA professional league, the need for professional referees is becoming more and more urgent. With the improvement of people's living standards and the rise of the national fitness trend, the development trend of basketball in China is becoming increasingly obvious. As an indispensable part, referees assume important responsibilities. In China's professional league, there is still a big gap in the ability of referees, which is a very necessary and urgent task for the overall ability improvement of referees, the reform of management system and training mechanism.
Additional file 1 of A structured mixed method process evaluation of a randomized controlled trial of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
Creators: name: Fyhn, Tonje
name: Ludvigsen, Kari
name: Reme, Silje E.
name: Schaafsma, Frederieke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Qualitative themes.