cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of Hypoxia-preconditioned mesenchymal stem cells prevent renal fibrosis and inflammation in ischemia-reperfusion rats
Creators: name: Ishiuchi, Naoki
name: Nakashima, Ayumu
name: Doi, Shigehiro
name: Yoshida, Ken
name: Maeda, Satoshi
name: Kanai, Ryo
name: Yamada, Yumi
name: Ike, Takeshi
name: Doi, Toshiki
name: Kato, Yukio
name: Masaki, Takao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3. Hypoxic preconditioning does not change expression of MSC surface markers. Flow cytometry showing expression of surface markers on 21%O2 hMSCs and 1%O2 hMSCs.
Reversibility of continuous-variable quantum cloning
Creators: name: Filip, R.
name: Fiurasek, J.
name: Marek, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a reversibility of optimal Gaussian $1\to 2$ quantum cloning of a coherent state using only local operations on the clones and classical communication between them and propose a feasible experimental test of this feature. Performing Bell-type homodyne measurement on one clone and anti-clone, an arbitrary unknown input state (not only a coherent state) can be restored in the other clone by applying appropriate local unitary displacement operation. We generalize this concept to a partial LOCC reversal of the cloning and we show that this procedure converts the symmetric cloner to an asymmetric cloner. Further, we discuss a distributed LOCC reversal in optimal $1\to M$ Gaussian cloning of coherent states which transforms it to optimal $1\to M'$ cloning for $M'
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Bias in the Relative Assessment of Happiness, Political Stance, Height and Weight
Creators: name: Proto, Eugenio
name: Sgroi, Daniel
name: Proto, Eugenio
name: Sgroi, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: bias
subject: beliefs
subject: estimating distributions
subject: happiness
subject: political stance
subject: height
subject: weight

description: Cognitive biases have been a recognised feature of research into human behaviour since at least Kahneman and Tversky’s ground‐breaking work of the 1970s. We find that such biases extend into the realm of perceptions about relative happiness and we compare and contrast this phenomenon across three other characteristics: height, weight and political stance. Our findings indicate a powerful and consistent bias in the way individuals perceive their place in the population distribution. In particular, those at extremes perceive a population distribution that is incorrectly and heavily biased towards themselves, irrespective of whether the characteristic is objective and easily observed or not.
Chrysolina (Pleurosticha) shapkini Mikhailov and Gus
Creators: name: Guskova, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chrysolina
Chrysolina shapkini

description: Chrysolina (Pleurosticha) shapkini Mikhailov and Gus ’ kova, 2013
 Reference. Mikhailov and Guskova 2013a: 126.
 Material Examined. Mankhan, 05.vii.2009, leg. E. Guskova (holotype (ISEA), paratypes (YuMC and EGC).
 Distribution. Mongolia (Hovd).
 Notes. The type series was collected in the mountain breakstone steppe at 2,200 m in the valley of the creek, under stones, at the base of bushes Salvia sp. (Lamiaceae). The species is endemic in Mongolia.
description: Published as part of Guskova, Elena V., 2017, The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai, pp. 120-130 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120, http://zenodo.org/record/4836543
Mapping the Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Applications against COVID-19
Creators: name: Bullock, Joseph
name: Luccioni, Alexandra
name: Pham, Katherine Hoffmann
name: Lam, Cynthia Sin Nga
name: Luengo-Oroz, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, which has reported over 18 million confirmed cases as of August 5, 2020. In this review, we present an overview of recent studies using Machine Learning and, more broadly, Artificial Intelligence, to tackle many aspects of the COVID-19 crisis. We have identified applications that address challenges posed by COVID-19 at different scales, including: molecular, by identifying new or existing drugs for treatment; clinical, by supporting diagnosis and evaluating prognosis based on medical imaging and non-invasive measures; and societal, by tracking both the epidemic and the accompanying infodemic using multiple data sources. We also review datasets, tools, and resources needed to facilitate Artificial Intelligence research, and discuss strategic considerations related to the operational implementation of multidisciplinary partnerships and open science. We highlight the need for international cooperation to maximize the potential of AI in this and future pandemics.
description: 39 pages, v2: much larger to reflect the significant increase in the size of the body of literature, v3: uploaded with JAIR page numbers and references
Power Indices in Large Voting Bodies
Creators: name: Leech, Dennis
name: Leech, Dennis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: There is no consensus on the properties of voting power indices when there are a large number of voters in a weighted voting body. On the one hand, in some real-world cases that have been studied the power indices have been found to be nearly proportional to the weights (eg the EUCM, US Electoral College). This is true for both the PenroseBanzhaf and the Shapley-Shubik indices. It has been suggested that this is a manifestation of a conjecture by Penrose (known subsequently as the Penrose limit theorem, that has been shown to hold under certain conditions). On the other hand, we have the older literature from cooperative game theory, due to Shapley and his collaborators, showing that, where there are a finite number of voters whose weights remain constant in relative terms, and where the quota remains constant in relative terms, while the total number of voters increases without limit - so called oceanic games - the powers of the voters with finite weight tend to limiting values that are, in general, not proportional to the weights. These results, too, are supported by empirical studies of large voting bodies (eg. the IMF/WB boards, corporate shareholder control). This paper proposes a restatement of the Penrose Limit theorem and shows that, for both the power indices, convergence occurs in general, in the limit as the Laakso-Taagepera index of political fragmentation increases. This new version reconciles the different theoretical and empirical results that have been found for large voting bodies.
Chrysolina (Pezocrosita) convexicollis
Creators: name: Guskova, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chrysolina
Chrysolina convexicollis

description: Chrysolina (Pezocrosita) convexicollis (Jacobson, 1901)
 References. Cherepanov 1956: 56; Lopatin 1971: 225, 1975: 209; Medvedev and Voronova 1977a: 333, 1979: 112; Medvedev and Zaitzev 1977b: 363, 1978: 93; Medvedev 1982: 243; Kippenberg 2010: 412.
 Material Examined. Sagsaj, 22.vii.1976, leg. L. Medvedev and N. Voronova (LMC).
 Distribution. Mongolia (Bayan-Ulegei, Hovd, Gobi-Altai, Ubsunur, Khubsugul). Russia (Tuva).
description: Published as part of Guskova, Elena V., 2017, The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai, pp. 120-130 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120, http://zenodo.org/record/4836543
FROM IMMIGRANT TO ETHNIC: A STUDY OF PORTUGUESE-AMERICANS IN BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND (AZOREANS, PARADES, FESTIVALS, NEW ENGLAND, ASSIMILATION)
Creators: name: Edelstein, Eleanor Rockwell
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Portuguese have been settling in Bristol, Rhode Island, a coastal town on Narragansett Bay, since the middle of the nineteenth century. While a few have emigrated from continental Portugal, and some from the Cape Verde Islands, the majority have been Micaelense from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azorean archipelago. There have been three principal periods of immigration to Bristol: following the industrialization of the town in the 1870s, between approximately 1900 and 1920, and from the 1970s to the present. Until the most recent period, assimilation into the host culture, defined in this study as Yankee, has been the goal and dominant adaptation process for immigrants. Among the descendants of assimilated immigrants, an ethnic identity as Portuguese-Americans began to develop in the late 1970s, marked by a vigorous interest in Portuguese language, customs, and history. Why and how this process occurred is the subject of this study. The conclusion describes and analyzes the Fourth of July celebration in Bristol as the cultural performance that has facilitated both the process of assimilation and of differentiation.
Minimum-error discrimination between symmetric mixed quantum states
Creators: name: Chou, Chih-Lung
name: Hsu, Li-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a solution of finding optimal measurement strategy for distinguishing between symmetric mixed quantum states. It is assumed that the matrix elements of at least one of the symmetric quantum states are all real and nonnegative in the basis of the eigenstates of the symmetry operator.
description: 10 pages
FROM IMMIGRANT TO ETHNIC: A STUDY OF PORTUGUESE-AMERICANS IN BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND (AZOREANS, PARADES, FESTIVALS, NEW ENGLAND, ASSIMILATION)
Creators: name: Edelstein, Eleanor Rockwell
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The Portuguese have been settling in Bristol, Rhode Island, a coastal town on Narragansett Bay, since the middle of the nineteenth century. While a few have emigrated from continental Portugal, and some from the Cape Verde Islands, the majority have been Micaelense from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azorean archipelago. There have been three principal periods of immigration to Bristol: following the industrialization of the town in the 1870s, between approximately 1900 and 1920, and from the 1970s to the present. Until the most recent period, assimilation into the host culture, defined in this study as Yankee, has been the goal and dominant adaptation process for immigrants. Among the descendants of assimilated immigrants, an ethnic identity as Portuguese-Americans began to develop in the late 1970s, marked by a vigorous interest in Portuguese language, customs, and history. Why and how this process occurred is the subject of this study. The conclusion describes and analyzes the Fourth of July celebration in Bristol as the cultural performance that has facilitated both the process of assimilation and of differentiation.
A look with BeppoSAX at the low-luminosity Galactic X-ray source 4U 2206+54
Creators: name: Masetti, N.
name: Fiume, D. Dal
name: Amati, L.
name: Del Sordo, S.
name: Frontera, F.
name: Orlandini, M.
name: Palazzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A pointed observation of the low-luminosity galactic source 4U 2206+54 was carried out in November 1998 with BeppoSAX. The light curve of 4U 2206+54 shows erratic variability on a timescale of about 1 hour; neither hardness variations nor time periodicities are detected throughout this 67 ks long observation. Thanks to the wide spectral coverage capabilities of BeppoSAX we could observe the source X-ray continuum over three energy decades, from 0.6 to 60 keV. The spectrum could be equally well fitted either with a blackbody plus Comptonization or with a high energy cutoff power law. No iron emission around 6.5 keV was detected, while a tentative detection of a cyclotron resonant feature in absorption is presented. Comparison of the present BeppoSAX data with the information available in the literature for this source suggests that 4U 2206+54 is a close binary system in which a (possibly magnetized) NS is accreting from the companion star wind.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics, main journal. Final version of the paper including the A&A Language Editor's comments
Asymptotic entropy of the Gibbs state of complex networks
Creators: name: Glos, Adam
name: Krawiec, Aleksandra
name: Pawela, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study the entropy of the Gibbs state corresponding to a graph. The Gibbs state is obtained from the Laplacian, normalized Laplacian or adjacency matrices associated with a graph. We calculated the entropy of the Gibbs state for a few classes of graphs and studied their behavior with changing graph order and temperature. We illustrate our analytical results with numerical simulations for Erdős-Rényi, Watts-Strogatz, Barabási-Albert and Chung-Lu graph models and a few real-world graphs. Our results show that the behavior of Gibbs entropy as a function of the temperature differs for a choice of real networks when compared to the random Erdős-Rényi graphs.
Phaedon (Phaedon) concinnus Stephens 1834
Creators: name: Guskova, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Phaedon
Phaedon concinnus

description: Phaedon (Phaedon) concinnus Stephens, 1834
 References. Mohr 1966: 368; Lopatin 1968: 213, 1975: 214; Medvedev and Dubeshko 1974: 190; Kaszab 1977: 65; Medvedev Voronova 1977a: 334, 1979: 115; Medvedev and Zaitzev 1978: 112; Medvedev 1982: 248; Kippenberg 2010: 397.
 Material Examined. Arshantyn-Nuruu, 12.vii.2007, leg. E.V. Guskova and R.V. Yakovlev (EGC); Mogoijn-Gol, 11.vii.2009, leg. E.V. Guskova and R.V. Yakovlev (EGC); Hundijn-Gol, 3.vii.2010, leg. E.V. Guskova and R.V. Yakovlev (EGC); Mogoijn-Gol, 30–31.v.2011, leg. R. Yakovlev (EGC).
 Distribution. Mongolia (Bayan-Ulegei, Hovd, Gobi-Altai (new aimak record), Ubsunur, Zavhan, Khubsugul, Arkhangai, Bulgan, Central, Hentiy, Bayankhong, Uverhangay, South Gobi). NNW and E Europe, Baltic States, Russia (N European part, N Siberia, Far East).
description: Published as part of Guskova, Elena V., 2017, The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai, pp. 120-130 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120, http://zenodo.org/record/4836543
Uncertainty Quantification for Data-driven Turbulence Modelling with Mondrian Forests
Creators: name: Scillitoe, Ashley
name: Seshadri, Pranay
name: Girolami, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data-driven turbulence modelling approaches are gaining increasing interest from the CFD community. However, the introduction of a machine learning (ML) model introduces a new source of uncertainty, the ML model itself. Quantification of this uncertainty is essential since the predictive capability of a data-driven model diminishes when predicting physics not seen during training. In this work, we explore the suitability of Mondrian forests (MF's) for data-driven turbulence modelling. MF's are claimed to possess many of the advantages of the commonly used random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm, whilst offering principled uncertainty estimates. An example test case is constructed, with a turbulence anisotropy constant derived from high fidelity turbulence resolving simulations. Shapley values, borrowed from game theory, are used to interpret the MF predictions. Predictive uncertainty is found to be large in regions where the training data is not representative. Additionally, the MF predictive uncertainty is found to exhibit stronger correlation with predictive errors compared to an a priori statistical distance measure, which indicates it is a better measure of prediction confidence. The MF predictive uncertainty is also found to be better calibrated and less computationally costly than the uncertainty estimated from applying jackknifing to random forest predictions. Finally, Mondrian forests are used to predict the Reynolds discrepancies in a convergent-divergent channel, which are subsequently propagated through a modified CFD solver. The resulting flowfield predictions are in close agreement with the high fidelity data. A procedure for sampling the Mondrian forests' uncertainties is introduced. Propagating these samples enables quantification of the uncertainty in output quantities of interest.
description: 27 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Computational Physics
DETECTING PATTERNS IN DATA: A NEW STATISTIC FOR SMOOTHNESS AND NONRANDOMNESS (RESIDUALS, MODELING, RANDOMNESS TESTS)
Creators: name: Munson, Peter Jonathan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The problem of detecting a pattern in data obscured by noise is common in much of science. An intuitive and often unstated assump- tion about this pattern is that it is smooth. We therefore consider the intuitive concept of "smoothness" as the basis of pattern detection. This concept is formalized in the context of mathematical splines and leads to a convenient, powerful nonrandomness measure called the curvature statistic. We define roughness of a function as the integrated squared second derivative R(f) = (INT)f''('2)dx. It is known that, of functions inter- polating a set of data, the cubic spline g is smoothest, i.e. R(g) = Inf(,f)R(f). We show that R(g) may be calcuted as a quadratic form (')y('T)A(')y in the vector of observations (')y. The matrix A is given as the product of tridiagonal and the inverse of tridiagonal matrices. The curvature statistic is defined to be T((')y) = (')y('T)A(')y/(SIGMA)(y - y)('2). Under the null assumption that the y(,i) are independent normally distributed, the distribution of T may be approximated by matching its low order moments to a Beta-Jacobi polynomial series. The curvature statistic T is closely related to the well known mean square successive differences (MSSD). The numerator of the MSSD is exactly (INT)h'('2)dx for the interpolating linear spline, h. This observation leads to a generalized MSSD (GMSSD) for unequally spaced data, specifically (SIGMA)(y(,i+1)-y(,i))('2)/(x(,i+1)-x(,i)) /(SIGMA)(y(,i)-y)('2). An analo- gous statistic, based on properties of the smoothing spline, is named the penalized curvature statistic, T(,(lamda)). In a Monte Carlo study, the curvature statistic is shown to have more power for detecting smooth patterns compared to existing approaches, when the pattern sought is moderately complex and the expected level of contamination of the underlying deterministic function is small. The advantages of using the curvature statistic increase when data are non-uniformly spaced and the number of data points is increased. The penalized curvature statistic is more resistant to large error contamination levels yet retains most of the power to detect complex patterns, and is thus to be recommended. The calculation and use of this statistic is illustrated on several problems involving regression residuals.
Thermodynamics and conformal properties of XXZ chains with alternating spins
Creators: name: Bytsko, Andrei
name: Doikou, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum periodic XXZ chain with alternating spins is studied. The properties of the related R-matrix and Hamiltonians are discussed. A compact expression for the ground state energy is obtained. The corresponding conformal anomaly is found via the finite-size computations and also by means of the Bethe ansatz method. In the presence of an external magnetic field, the magnetic susceptibility is derived. The results are also generalized to the case of a chain containing several different spins.
description: 28 pages, LaTeX2e
DETECTING PATTERNS IN DATA: A NEW STATISTIC FOR SMOOTHNESS AND NONRANDOMNESS (RESIDUALS, MODELING, RANDOMNESS TESTS)
Creators: name: Munson, Peter Jonathan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The problem of detecting a pattern in data obscured by noise is common in much of science. An intuitive and often unstated assump- tion about this pattern is that it is smooth. We therefore consider the intuitive concept of "smoothness" as the basis of pattern detection. This concept is formalized in the context of mathematical splines and leads to a convenient, powerful nonrandomness measure called the curvature statistic. We define roughness of a function as the integrated squared second derivative R(f) = (INT)f''('2)dx. It is known that, of functions inter- polating a set of data, the cubic spline g is smoothest, i.e. R(g) = Inf(,f)R(f). We show that R(g) may be calcuted as a quadratic form (')y('T)A(')y in the vector of observations (')y. The matrix A is given as the product of tridiagonal and the inverse of tridiagonal matrices. The curvature statistic is defined to be T((')y) = (')y('T)A(')y/(SIGMA)(y - y)('2). Under the null assumption that the y(,i) are independent normally distributed, the distribution of T may be approximated by matching its low order moments to a Beta-Jacobi polynomial series. The curvature statistic T is closely related to the well known mean square successive differences (MSSD). The numerator of the MSSD is exactly (INT)h'('2)dx for the interpolating linear spline, h. This observation leads to a generalized MSSD (GMSSD) for unequally spaced data, specifically (SIGMA)(y(,i+1)-y(,i))('2)/(x(,i+1)-x(,i)) /(SIGMA)(y(,i)-y)('2). An analo- gous statistic, based on properties of the smoothing spline, is named the penalized curvature statistic, T(,(lamda)). In a Monte Carlo study, the curvature statistic is shown to have more power for detecting smooth patterns compared to existing approaches, when the pattern sought is moderately complex and the expected level of contamination of the underlying deterministic function is small. The advantages of using the curvature statistic increase when data are non-uniformly spaced and the number of data points is increased. The penalized curvature statistic is more resistant to large error contamination levels yet retains most of the power to detect complex patterns, and is thus to be recommended. The calculation and use of this statistic is illustrated on several problems involving regression residuals.
CP Violation in B -> pi+ pi- and the Unitarity Triangle
Creators: name: Buchalla, Gerhard
name: Safir, A. Salim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the extraction of weak phases from CP violation in $B\toπ^+π^-$ decays. We propose to determine the unitarity triangle $(\barρ,\barη)$ by combining the information on mixing induced CP violation in $B\toπ^+π^-$, $S$, with the precision observable $\sin 2β$ obtained from the CP asymmetry in $B\toψK_S$. It is then possible to write down exact analytical expressions for $\barρ$ and $\barη$ as simple functions of the observables $S$ and $\sin 2β$, and of the penguin parameters $r$ and $ϕ$. As an application clean lower bounds on $\barη$ and $1-\barρ$ can be derived as functions of $S$ and $\sin 2β$, essentially without hadronic uncertainty. Computing $r$ and $ϕ$ within QCD factorization yields precise determinations of $\barρ$ and $\barη$ since the dependence on $r$ and $ϕ$ is rather weak. It is emphasized that the sensitivity to the phase $ϕ$ enters only at second order and is extremely small for moderate values of this phase, predicted in the heavy-quark limit. Transparent analytical formulas are further given and discussed for the parameter $C$ of direct CP violation in $B\toπ^+π^-$. We also discuss alternative ways to analyze $S$ and $C$ that can be useful if new physics affects $B_d$--$\bar B_d$ mixing. Predictions and uncertainties for $r$ and $ϕ$ in QCD factorization are examined in detail. It is pointed out that a simultaneous expansion in $1/m_b$ and 1/N leads to interesting simplifications. At first order infrared divergences are absent, while the most important effects are retained. Independent experimental tests of the factorization framework are briefly discussed.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
Square lattice walks avoiding a quadrant
Creators: name: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the past decade, a lot of attention has been devoted to the enumera-tion of walks with prescribed steps confined to a convex cone. In two dimensions, this means counting walks in the first quadrant of the plane (possibly after a linear transformation). But what about walks in non-convex cones? We investigate the two most natural cases: first, square lattice walks avoiding the negative quadrant Q 1 = {(i, j) : i \textless{} 0 and j \textless{} 0}, and then, square lattice walks avoiding the West quadrant Q 2 = {(i, j) : i \textless{} j and i \textless{} --j}. In both cases, the generating function that counts walks starting from the origin is found to differ from a simple D-finite series by an algebraic one. We also obtain closed form expressions for the number of n-step walks ending at certain prescribed endpoints, as a sum of three hypergeometric terms. One of these terms already appears in the enumeration of square lattice walks confined to the cone {(i, j) : i +j $\ge$ 0 and j $\ge$ 0}, known as Gessel's walks. In fact, the enumeration of Gessel's walks follows, by the reflection principle, from the enumeration of walks starting from (--1, 0) and avoiding Q 1. Their generating function turns out to be purely algebraic (as the generating function of Gessel's walks). Another approach to Gessel's walks consists in counting walks that start from (--1, 1) and avoid the West quadrant Q 2. The associated generating function is D-finite but transcendental.
description: 32 p in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Elsevier, 2016, Special issue for the 50th anniversary of the journal
Additional file 2 of Hypoxia-preconditioned mesenchymal stem cells prevent renal fibrosis and inflammation in ischemia-reperfusion rats
Creators: name: Ishiuchi, Naoki
name: Nakashima, Ayumu
name: Doi, Shigehiro
name: Yoshida, Ken
name: Maeda, Satoshi
name: Kanai, Ryo
name: Yamada, Yumi
name: Ike, Takeshi
name: Doi, Toshiki
name: Kato, Yukio
name: Masaki, Takao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Human and rat MSCs localize in the kidney by day 21 post-IRI. MSCs collected from enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-expressing rats or DiI-labeled human MSCs were injected through the abdominal aorta after reperfusion. a Representative immunohistochemical staining of EGFP-positive cells (arrows) in the kidney cortex at 21 days post-IRI (scale bar = 100 μm). b Representative images showing DiI-labeled human MSCs (arrowheads; scale bar = 100 μm). The right panel shows periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining in the same tissue section (scale bar = 100 μm).
DEPENDENCY AS A PROBLEMATIC: A STUDY IN THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE DEPENDENCY PERSPECTIVE (IRAN, POPULISM, ECONOMISM, VIOLENCE)
Creators: name: Mashayekhi, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is a theoretical analysis of the historical formation, evolution and decline of the dominant discourse (problematic) of Third World intellectuals in general and Iranian intellectuals in particular. Beginning with the mid-fifties, a radical nationalistic mode of thought gradually became dominant among these intellectuals and consequently conditioned their ideological thinking and political practice. This I have called the dependency problematic. It stems from the fact that the central question posed by these intellectuals and politically acted upon was national independence. The dependency problematic is a system of interrelated concepts, closely associated with the central notion of national independence. It also includes populism, economism and armed struggle. Populism defines the agent of social change as the "people." Economism reduces historical change to economic growth. And, finally, armed struggle is regarded as the means of achieving independence and of combating dependency. Third Worldism played a strong ideological role for nearly two decades in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Nevertheless, by the mid-seventies it was clear that its message for a new social order was illusive. In Iran, Third Worldism strongly influenced the post-1953 generation of critical intellectuals. They blamed the unequal and uneven form of Iranian socioeconomic development on its "dependent" nature and the cultural "Westoxication" of the dominant political and intellectual elite. Such overemphasis on the foreign domination of Iran led to an erroneous notion according to which all "anti-imperialist" social forces and ideologies were by definition progressive. The Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 was the manifestation of such ideological populism. Socialist, nationalist and Islamic intellectuals all united in a "populist bloc" in order to combat the Shah's government, blamed for the continuation of Iran's dependency. According to this study, socialist intellectuals' obsessions with the problematic of dependency prevented them from presenting a political program distinctive from radical Islamic forces. While ignoring many important issues such as democracy, the Iranian intellectuals totally focused on the populistic goal of "anti-imperialist" struggle. This dissertation considers such overemphasis on dependency a false question and instead suggests a new problematic based on the question of democracy.
Superspace Gauge Fixing of Topological Yang-Mills Theories
Creators: name: Constantinidis, Clisthenis P.
name: Piguet, Olivier
name: Spalenza, Wesley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the construction of topological Yang-Mills theories of the Witten type with arbitrary space-time dimension and number of ``shift supersymmetry'' generators, using a superspace formalism. The super-BF structure of these theories is exploited in orderto determine their actions uniquely, up to the ambiguities due to the fixing of the Yang-Mills and BF gauge invariance. UV finiteness to all orders of perturbation theory is proved in a gauge of the Landau type.
description: 26 pages, no figures, Latex
An LSTM-Based Autonomous Driving Model Using Waymo Open Dataset
Creators: name: Gu, Zhicheng
name: Li, Zhihao
name: Di, Xuan
name: Shi, Rongye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Waymo Open Dataset has been released recently, providing a platform to crowdsource some fundamental challenges for automated vehicles (AVs), such as 3D detection and tracking. While~the dataset provides a large amount of high-quality and multi-source driving information, people in academia are more interested in the underlying driving policy programmed in Waymo self-driving cars, which is inaccessible due to AV manufacturers' proprietary protection. Accordingly, academic researchers have to make various assumptions to implement AV components in their models or simulations, which may not represent the realistic interactions in real-world traffic. Thus, this paper introduces an approach to learn a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based model for imitating the behavior of Waymo's self-driving model. The proposed model has been evaluated based on Mean Absolute Error (MAE). The experimental results show that our model outperforms several baseline models in driving action prediction. In addition, a visualization tool is presented for verifying the performance of the model.
Chrysomela (Chrysomela) saliceti
Creators: name: Guskova, Elena V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chrysomela
Chrysomela saliceti

description: Chrysomela (Chrysomela) saliceti (Weise, 1884)
 References. Cherepanov 1956: 59; Medvedev and Dubeshko 1974: 191; Lopatin 1975: 216; Medvedev and Voronova 1976: 336, 1979: 114; Medvedev and Zaitzev 1978: 105; Medvedev 1982: 254; Kippenberg 2010: 391.
 Material Examined. Tachtoi-Ula, 1–8.viii.1976, leg. L. Medvedev and N. Voronova (LMC); Dod-Naryin-gol, 26.vi.2005, leg. R. Yakovlev and D. Ryzhkov (EGC); Darkhijn-Shurag-Gol, 26.v.2011, leg. R. Yakovlev (EGC); Darkhijn-Shurag-Gol, 13.vi.2011, leg. R. Yakovlev (EGC).
 Distribution. Mongolia (Hovd, Ubsunur, Arkhangai, Uverhangay, Selenge, Central, Eastern). Widespread in the Palearctic Region except for Middle Asia.
 Notes. This species was previously recorded in Hovd aimak only for the ridge Baytag-Bogdo. I have found it in the other more northern localities of this aimak.
description: Published as part of Guskova, Elena V., 2017, The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai, pp. 120-130 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120, http://zenodo.org/record/4836543
Counting quadrant walks via Tutte's invariant method (extended abstract)
Creators: name: Bernardi, O
name: Bousquet-Mélou, M
name: Raschel, Kilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the 1970s, Tutte developed a clever algebraic approach, based on certain "invariants" , to solve a functional equation that arises in the enumeration of properly colored triangulations. The enumeration of plane lattice walks confined to the first quadrant is governed by similar equations, and has led in the past decade to a rich collection of attractive results dealing with the nature (algebraic, D-finite or not) of the associated generating function, depending on the set of allowed steps. We first adapt Tutte's approach to prove (or reprove) the algebraicity of all quadrant models known or conjectured to be algebraic (with one small exception). This includes Gessel's famous model, and the first proof ever found for one model with weighted steps. To be applicable, the method requires the existence of two rational functions called invariant and decoupling function respectively. When they exist, algebraicity comes out (almost) automatically. Then, we move to an analytic viewpoint which has already proved very powerful, leading in particular to integral expressions of the generating function in the non-D-finite cases, as well as to proofs of non-D-finiteness. We develop in this context a weaker notion of invariant. Now all quadrant models have invariants, and for those that have in addition a decoupling function, we obtain integral-free expressions of the generating function, and a proof that this series is differentially algebraic (that is, satisfies a non-linear differential equation).
description: Extended abstract presented at the conference FPSAC 2016, Vancouver. FPSAC 2016, Jul 2016, Vancouver, Canada. FPSAC 2016 (Formal power series and algebraic combinatorics)
DEPENDENCY AS A PROBLEMATIC: A STUDY IN THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE DEPENDENCY PERSPECTIVE (IRAN, POPULISM, ECONOMISM, VIOLENCE)
Creators: name: Mashayekhi, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This dissertation is a theoretical analysis of the historical formation, evolution and decline of the dominant discourse (problematic) of Third World intellectuals in general and Iranian intellectuals in particular. Beginning with the mid-fifties, a radical nationalistic mode of thought gradually became dominant among these intellectuals and consequently conditioned their ideological thinking and political practice. This I have called the dependency problematic. It stems from the fact that the central question posed by these intellectuals and politically acted upon was national independence. The dependency problematic is a system of interrelated concepts, closely associated with the central notion of national independence. It also includes populism, economism and armed struggle. Populism defines the agent of social change as the "people." Economism reduces historical change to economic growth. And, finally, armed struggle is regarded as the means of achieving independence and of combating dependency. Third Worldism played a strong ideological role for nearly two decades in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Nevertheless, by the mid-seventies it was clear that its message for a new social order was illusive. In Iran, Third Worldism strongly influenced the post-1953 generation of critical intellectuals. They blamed the unequal and uneven form of Iranian socioeconomic development on its "dependent" nature and the cultural "Westoxication" of the dominant political and intellectual elite. Such overemphasis on the foreign domination of Iran led to an erroneous notion according to which all "anti-imperialist" social forces and ideologies were by definition progressive. The Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 was the manifestation of such ideological populism. Socialist, nationalist and Islamic intellectuals all united in a "populist bloc" in order to combat the Shah's government, blamed for the continuation of Iran's dependency. According to this study, socialist intellectuals' obsessions with the problematic of dependency prevented them from presenting a political program distinctive from radical Islamic forces. While ignoring many important issues such as democracy, the Iranian intellectuals totally focused on the populistic goal of "anti-imperialist" struggle. This dissertation considers such overemphasis on dependency a false question and instead suggests a new problematic based on the question of democracy.
A CASE STUDY OF A SCHOOL-WIDE DATA-BASED BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT LEVEL SYSTEM FOR SEVERELY EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED ADOLESCENTS
Creators: name: Beuchert-Klotz, Mary E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The current case study provides a unique contribution to the field of special education by presenting a detailed analysis of an innovative school-wide behavior management level system for emotionally disturbed adolescents. The 36 students enrolled in the Bridge Schools, a Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools program for emotionally disturbed adolescents, during the 1984-85 school year were the subjects for this case study. The various steps involved in developing the program; training staff, students, and parents in its use; and a description of its essential components were provided. More than half a million behavioral observations were collected to form the data base for the study. An analysis of the data-based outcomes; the impact of student variables on progress; and changes in personality attributes, as a result of participation in the Behavioral Management Level System, were also presented. Training phase outcomes were utilized as baseline data for initial level placement. In the training phase, 42% of students had successful day averages which fell in the Level 1 range. Levels 2, 3, and 4 represented 14%, 25%, and 19% of the student population, respectively. Results from the implementation phase indicated that 71% of the population progressed one or more levels and/or maintained Level 3 or 4 status. No significant effects were found between student variables and pre-post level change scores. This finding reflects the usefulness of the Behavior Management Level System as a tool in motivating a wide range of emotionally disturbed adolescents to improve their behavior. Pre-post implementation phase testing with the Million Adolescent Personality Inventory did not reveal significant improvement in the following personality attributes: impulse control, social conformity, scholastic achievement, and attendance consistency. Formative evaluation results generated from the Evaluation Questionnaire were favorable. Response rates for each questionnaire category ranged from 42% to 85%. Student behavior management preference votes revealed a tendency for students who had experienced success in the Behavior Management Level System to prefer it.
Brownian flights over a circle
Creators: name: Vladimirov, Alexander
name: Shlosman, Senya
name: Nechaev, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stationary radial distribution, $P(ρ)$, of the random walk with the diffusion coefficient $D$, which winds with the tangential velocity $V$ around the impenetrable disc of radius $R$ for $R\gg 1$ converges to the distribution involving the Airy function. Typical trajectories are localized in the circular strip $[R, R+ δR^{1/3}]$, where $δ$ is the constant which depends on the parameters $D$ and $V$ and is independent on $R$.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
The Evolution of Hadron Spectra in the Modified Leading Logarithm Approximation
Creators: name: Albino, S.
name: Kniehl, B. A.
name: Kramer, G.
name: Ochs, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform fits of $Λ_{\rm QCD}$ and the gluon fragmentation function $D(x,Q)$ at initial scale $Q_0 \ggΛ_{\rm QCD}$ to charged light hadron momentum spectra data by evolving in the Modified Leading Logarithm Approximation. Without additional assumptions, we achieve a good description of the available data for $ξ=\ln(1/x)$ up to and around the Gaussian peak, and values of $Λ_{\rm QCD}$ acceptably close to those in the literature. In particular, we find that this procedure describes the position of the peak, and, in contrast to the Limiting Spectrum, also the normalization.
description: To be published in Eur.Phys.J.C, EPJC040401
title: A comparison of the finite element and boundary element methods for solving partial differential equations associated with engineering problems
Creators: name: Pleasants, Ann Mary
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1986

description: Two numerical methods, the finite element method and the boundary element method, have been compared by studying the elastic torsion problem for various shaped cross sections including ones where there are boundary singularities. A series of numerical experiments was performed illustrating the effects of grid refinement on convergence for each method and a comparison of the amount of work involved in using each method made.
A CASE STUDY OF A SCHOOL-WIDE DATA-BASED BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT LEVEL SYSTEM FOR SEVERELY EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED ADOLESCENTS
Creators: name: Beuchert-Klotz, Mary E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The current case study provides a unique contribution to the field of special education by presenting a detailed analysis of an innovative school-wide behavior management level system for emotionally disturbed adolescents. The 36 students enrolled in the Bridge Schools, a Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools program for emotionally disturbed adolescents, during the 1984-85 school year were the subjects for this case study. The various steps involved in developing the program; training staff, students, and parents in its use; and a description of its essential components were provided. More than half a million behavioral observations were collected to form the data base for the study. An analysis of the data-based outcomes; the impact of student variables on progress; and changes in personality attributes, as a result of participation in the Behavioral Management Level System, were also presented. Training phase outcomes were utilized as baseline data for initial level placement. In the training phase, 42% of students had successful day averages which fell in the Level 1 range. Levels 2, 3, and 4 represented 14%, 25%, and 19% of the student population, respectively. Results from the implementation phase indicated that 71% of the population progressed one or more levels and/or maintained Level 3 or 4 status. No significant effects were found between student variables and pre-post level change scores. This finding reflects the usefulness of the Behavior Management Level System as a tool in motivating a wide range of emotionally disturbed adolescents to improve their behavior. Pre-post implementation phase testing with the Million Adolescent Personality Inventory did not reveal significant improvement in the following personality attributes: impulse control, social conformity, scholastic achievement, and attendance consistency. Formative evaluation results generated from the Evaluation Questionnaire were favorable. Response rates for each questionnaire category ranged from 42% to 85%. Student behavior management preference votes revealed a tendency for students who had experienced success in the Behavior Management Level System to prefer it.
Variance of the decay intensity of superdeformed bands
Creators: name: Hussein, M. S.
name: Sargeant, A. J.
name: Pato, M. P.
name: Ueda, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytic formulae for the energy average and variance of the intraband decay intensity of a superdeformed band.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, presented at the VIII International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions in Moscow (Russia) on June 17-21, 2003