cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Experimental and Numerical Study of NH3/CH4 Counterflow Premixed and Non-premixed Flames for Various NH3 Mixing Ratios
Creators: name: Colson, Sophie
name: Hirano, Yuta
name: Hayakawa, Akihiro
name: Kudo, Taku
name: Kobayashi, Hideaki
name: Galizzi, Cédric
name: Escudié, Dany
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Ammonia is a promising sustainable fuel, however, its low reactivity creates challenges in industrial applications. In this study, ammonia/methane mixtures were considered for premixed and non-premixed counterflow flames. The extinction stretch rate was measured over a wide range of ammonia/methane mixing ratios and compared to 1D numerical results from four different mechanisms. Additionally, for counterflow premixed twin flames, quantitative analysis based on the comparison of experimental and numerical FWHM of OH and NO profiles was performed. Results showed that in premixed flames, all the mechanisms investigated were inadequate for predicting the extinction stretch rate, specifically for lean flames. In non-premixed flames, Okafor’s mechanism was accurately predicting the extinction stretch rate. For the FWHM analysis, the numerical mechanisms overpredicted both OH and NO apparition in the flame, except for Tian’s mechanism which underpredicted OH apparition. GRI Mech 3.0 performed well for small quantities of ammonia but failed to reproduce the pure ammonia case. Okafor’s and UCSD mechanisms gave better predictions of experimental trends, though overestimated both OH and NO apparition. In the FWHM analysis of both OH and NO, the lower R2 values in the lean region suggest that the lean region should be the focus for mechanism improvement.
Open Science. Why and how?
Creators: name: Mayer, Katja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open science
open access
open data
open evaluation
open education

description: Open Science Workshop, October 20, 2021 Open Science means making research processes and research results - including methods, processes, research data and publications - as accessible as possible. This is intended to intensify transparency, reusability and exchange with industry and society. In the workshop "Open Science - why and how?" on Oct. 20, the following questions will be discussed, among others: What is meant by Open Science/Scholarship/Research? For which problems in "traditional" science can Open Science offer a solution? What is the benefit (for me) of Open Science? Which Open Science practices can be used in everyday research? Which infrastructures and tools for Open Science exist? The speaker Dr. Katja Mayer is Senior Post-Doc and Elise Richter Fellow at the Institute for Science and Technology Research at the University of Vienna and Senior Scientist at the Center for Social Innovation in Vienna.
Atomistic simulations of kinetic processes in complex atomic environments
Creators: name: Soltanibajestani, Siavash
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Microstructure evolution of materials is derived by kinetic processes that are atomistic in nature. Phenomena like grain boundary migration, the formation and growth of crystalline phases in bulk metallic glasses and structural relaxation in amorphous materials are examples of microstructural phenomena that are derived from atomic scale dynamics. Probing such processes in disordered atomic environments is challenging experimentally since they operate at small length scales (nanometers) and time scales (nanoseconds). In this work, we employ molecular dynamics simulations and a variety of dynamical coarse-graining methods to bridge the gap between microscopic processes and macroscopic observables. First, the diffusion kinetics of carbon in Fe-C glasses is studied. By detecting individual atomic hops, we quantify the parameters that control the diffusivity, namely jump length, residence time and correlation factor. Our results help explain the experimentally observed increase in stability of metal-metalloid glasses against crystallization with increasing carbon concentration. Next, the dynamical processes and structural relaxations in a model glassy system are explored using a machine learning algorithm involving neural networks combined with Markov State Models with the aim of identifying previously unexplored dynamical processes that may be crucial for understanding the complex behaviour of metallic glasses. Finally, the kinetic processes governing grain boundary (GB) motion are studied using the same approach as was used for the glasses. The GB mobility is extracted from three GBs in iron using both conventional techniques as well as Markov State Models. The Markov State Model is shown to also provide insights into the intra-GB processes that govern the temperature dependence of GB motion.
Addressing Gender Inequality in National Academic Contexts. An Introduction to the Symposium “Don’t Fix Women, Fix Academia?”
Creators: name: Cois, Ester
name: Naldini, Manuela
name: Solera, Cristina
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: Despite the progress made in recent years, achieving gender equality in academia is still a major challenge. In general, studies have revealed that women progress more slowly up the academic ladder, that they tend not to attain essential leadership roles, and that they earn less than men in comparable posts. Using the framework of gender as a social structure in order to capture the interplay between the cultural and the structural dimensions at the micro, meso and macro levels, this essay aims to introduce a debate on how gender inequalities are produced, reproduced and combatted in academic organisations located in different countries (Spain, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, and USA), and with different experiences of external policy levers and internal networks and alliances that lead to different combinations of fixing numbers, knowledge or institutions from a gender equity perspective.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
The Complex Interventions Necessary to Push the Academy toward Gender Equality. A Commentary on the Symposium “Don’t Fix Women, Fix Academia? Gender Inequality in National Academic Contexts”
Creators: name: Risman, Barbara J.
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: Women are under-represented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines across the globe. For decades this has been recognized as a serious problem, and many governments have funded programs that address the issue. The earliest projects, towards the end of the 20th Century, attempted to “fix women” to help them succeed. These projects failed because the causes of women’s exclusion were not simply their socialization, but rather systematic institutional discrimination. Current attempts to include women in scientific disciplines focus on re-designing the institutions. In my brief introduction to the symposium, I introduce a way to think about gender that can help us evaluate what kinds of change each essay is describing and integrate their insights and findings so that they can inform future work in the area. To do this, I introduce the framework that suggests we must think about gender as a social structure. I then use the gender as a structure framework to briefly summarize the findings of each essay and suggest directions for the future for each project. I conclude with a summary of what we have learned overall from the essays in the Symposium and how this might inform future efforts at gender transformation in universities world-wide.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
Challenges and Opportunities for Building Alliances for Greater Gender Equality. A Commentary on the Symposium “Don’t Fix Women, Fix Academia? Gender Inequality in National Academic Contexts”
Creators: name: Müller, Jörg
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: This commentary on the collected essays brings into sharper focus some of the key advances, lessons learned but also continued challenges for tackling gender inequality in R&D. Adopting a comparative perspective across countries but also across analytical levels (micro-, meso-, and macro) demonstrates once more the widespread nature of gender inequality. Drawing on the provided insights from cases in Europe and the US regarding gender equality in R&D, it argues for the importance of building broader alliances beyond gender equality practitioners in science to unite against illiberal, anti-democratic tendencies within Europe and beyond.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
Choices and Historical Processes: Elisa Reis in Conversation with Luciana de Souza Leão
Creators: name: De Souza Leão, Luciana
name: Reis, Elisa P.
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: In this interview with Luciana de Souza Leão, her former student, Elisa Reis discusses her intellectual trajectory and how it shaped her research projects and teaching in sociology. Specifically, they talk about Reis’ work in political sociology, sociological theory, elite’s perceptions of poverty and inequality, comparative methodologies, and the current politics of knowledge production in the Global South.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
MOESM7 of An integrated model to evaluate the impact of social support on improving self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaojia
name: He, Linglan
name: Zhu, Keyu
name: Zhang, Shanshan
name: Xin, Ling
name: Xu, Weiqun
name: Guan, Yuxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Table S7.1. Pairwise comparison matrix on E1. According to the expert’s rating, we formed the pairwise comparison matrix on E1 (Encouragement support). Table S7.2. Pairwise comparison matrix on I2. According to the expert’s rating, we formed the pairwise comparison matrix on I2 (Guidance). Table S7.3. Pairwise comparison matrix on I3. According to the expert’s rating, we formed the pairwise comparison matrix on I3 (Feedback). Table S7.4. Pairwise comparison matrix on T1. According to the expert’s rating, we formed the pairwise comparison matrix on T1 (Healthy food). Table S7.5. Pairwise comparison matrix on T2. According to the expert’s rating, we formed the pairwise comparison matrix on T2 (Physical activity). Table S7.6. Pairwise comparison matrix on T3. According to the expert’s rating, we formed the pairwise comparison matrix on T3 (Medicine and medical instruments).
Resilience and Gender-Structural Change in Universities: How Bottom-Up Approaches Can Leverage Transformation When Top-Level Management Support Fails
Creators: name: Bustelo, María
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: This article is a reflection on my involvement in SUPERA (2018–2022), a project funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, that aims at fostering institutional and structural change in academic and research institutions for integrating gender equality through the implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs). For that, I take on my experience at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), which was both European coordinator and implementing partner in the consortium, during a period marked by global challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of the six SUPERA implementing institutions also faced local and national institutional changes of different kinds and natures, obliging, both for each partner and for the consortium, an adaptation and revision of strategies and former plans, whilst also resulting in a rich mutual learning experience. Presenting the theoretical bases of the European Structural Change Approach first, I analyse the different situations in which Higher Education and research related institutions participate as implementing partners in European structural change projects, which have  been funded by the European Commission under specific calls since the 7th Framework Research Program. I reflect on the different responses given by the project Consortium and teams, and, in the third part of the article, focus on the UCM experience, and more concretely on the changing dynamics of top-management support and bottom-up strategies during the project. Therefore, I use the case of the SUPERA for illustrating and comparing different forms of institutional commitment to gender-related structural change and transformation, and the UCM for exploring the dynamics between top-level support and bottom-up approaches, arguing that these should be balanced and mutually supportive, and highlighting how one or the other might act as a substituting force in the absence of the other.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
Investigating the Glass Ceiling in Italian Academia. Women’s Strategies and Barriers to Career Advancement
Creators: name: Cannito, Maddalena
name: Naldini, Manuela
name: Santero, Arianna
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: The underrepresentation of women in academia at the top levels, the so-called “glass ceiling phenomenon”, is still an issue also in Italian universities. Women, in fact, remain significantly underrepresented especially in full professorships and leadership positions, with only slightly changes over the years. Using 46 semi-structured interviews with 31 female associate professors and 15 female members of the departmental governance working in 4 Italian universities, the article explores this phenomenon looking at two aspects. On one side, it explores the barriers to access to full professorships and managerial positions in Italian academy, in particular the motherhood penalty, the gendered allocations of activities and the gendered construction of leadership. On the other, the essay looks at the individual strategies implemented by women to overcome or to cope with them. The analysis shows the interdependence between structural and cultural barriers and the alleged individual self-selective strategies of women.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
A Letter from the President — or: How the German Universities Excellence Initiative Became a Driver of Gender Change in the German Science Policy Discourse
Creators: name: Kahlert, Heike
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: For several years, New Public Management and new forms of governance have dominated the agendas for reforms in research organisations and higher education institutions in many countries all over the world. Neoliberalism and the idea of the “entrepreneurial university” have produced a shift in how universities and “ideal researchers” are defined. One strategic focus of the latest state-run reform programmes has been to promote “excellence” in knowledge production and scientific organisation(s). Now every researcher and every research organisation has to be or become excellent. Another concern of reform is gender equality in the academic world. However, whether and how these developments match seems unclear. This article is focused on the latest university reforms in Germany, which have been influenced by the introduction of New Public Management into research and higher education. One main outcome of these reforms has been implementation of the “German Universities Excellence Initiative”, a nationwide programme which aims at improving the “excellence” of research in German universities and research institutions by strengthening competition among them. Considering the national-programmatic policy level of the “Excellence Initiative”, the article investigates if and how the concepts of “academic excellence” and “gender equality” intertwine in the German science policy discourse. Therefore, it discusses selected science political initiatives since the 2000s in Germany and examines the results of interviews with influential actors in German science and gender equality policy. It conducts critical analysis of current reform discourses and makes suggestions for improving gender equality policies in universities.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
Co-creating Gender Equality in Czech Academia: External and Internal Factors
Creators: name: Linková, Marcela
name: Langhammerová, Gabriela
name: Andreska, Zuzana
name: Oliva, Eva
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: In the Czech Republic, gender equality in public higher education and research has been championed for over twenty years by the Centre for Gender and Science at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Nevertheless, concrete policies and measures have been slow in coming and they have always required protracted negotiations with the relevant stakeholders at the national level. In the past two years, the situation has changed significantly due to both external and internal circumstances. Externally, the introduction of gender equality plans as an eligibility criterion in Horizon Europe has had a major impact at the level of higher education and research institutions, creating demand for capacity-building support from the Centre as well as new opportunities for the work of institutional change agents. Internally, student initiatives and mobilisations have started addressing the issue of gender-based violence in higher education and research, making power a central issue. This essay will consider these two developments in the wider context of work at the national level to advance gender equality in higher education and research. It will examine the productive ways in which diverse types of stakeholders can be mobilised to push for change. In conclusion, it will emphasise the need to address issues of care (including self-care) in order to support gender equality efforts.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
Bringing the Men Back In: Catalyzing Gender Equality at Universities Through Advocates & Allies
Creators: name: Myers, Kristen
name: George, Stephanie
name: Danell, Allison S.
name: Morehead, Andrew T.
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: The United States’ National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE program awards funding to universities to improve gender equality in the faculty ranks in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Our team at East Carolina University is using our award to educate men in the university about implicit and explicit gender bias and how they can and should use their power to help disrupt these systems. The program, adapted from other universities with past NSF ADVANCE funding, is in its infancy at our university, but there are initial signs of progress. This essay analyzes early data, grounded in sociological theories of gender so as to understand and make progress on structural change in our academic institution. The timeline for action and initial outcomes, including three specific scenarios, are presented. A discussion regarding the impact of the program and how it can be expanded and strengthened is also presented. We reflect on gendered tensions, and explore the limitations of “bringing men in” to correct structural power imbalances that have disproportionately benefitted them.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
Revisiting Tangentopoli 30 Years Later: Why Have the Media Shifted from Party Collateralism to Adversarial Reporting?
Creators: name: Mincigrucci, Roberto
name: Gerli, Matteo
name: Mazzoni, Marco
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: 17th February, 2022 marked the 30th anniversary of Tangentopoli, the most important corruption scandal in Italian history. In this study we will attempt to reconstruct the controversial role of the media in the scandal in order to provide insights that help to understand the existing link between journalism and corruption. Based on a Bourdieusian perspective, we will try to see how various factors, exogenous and endogenous, have produced pressures both in terms of autonomy and heteronomy to the journalistic field. The proposed analysis will be both theoretical and empirical, with data retrieved from journalistic coverage of the time. Unlike media- and political-centric approaches, which tend to produce monocausal explanations, the article sheds light on the interplay of different factors (political, economic, judicial and media-related) that made the scandal of Tangentopoli possible.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
The Time of the Smartwatch: Taking Care or Wasting Time?
Creators: name: Zampino, Letizia
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this article — drawing on qualitative methodology — is to enlarge self-tracking studies, thus to problematise the management of time required to produce reliable and interpretable data. To do so, the essay explores the contamination between self-tracking literature and feminist technoscientific studies, focusing on the digital time enacted by the domestication practices of smartwatches, configured to be simultaneously both time-tracking devices and wearable self-tracking technologies. In the era when Google and Apple manage our well-being, is producing reliable data through smartwatches a waste of time? Or could it be a time to take care of yourself? Qualitative interviews have been carried out to investigate how women appropriate their digital time clocks by experiencing flexible and subjective time as well as strategies to balance self-care time with work and family time. Accordingly, the analysis is presented in two parts. The first section shows how self-tracking habits can become a waste of time by configuring underuse practices. The second section analyses how smartwatches become allies in the processes of re-appropriation of body self-knowledge in the lifetime of women who have to reconcile time for themselves with time for family and work.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023)
Chondrodesmus frauenfeldianus
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Chelodesmidae
Chondrodesmus
Chondrodesmus frauenfeldianus

description: frauenfeldianus Humbert & Saussure, 1870: 172 [Polydesmus (Oxyurus)].
Nova Granada. Unspecified number of ♀.
Saussure & Humbert (1872) gave a more detailed redescription. No specimens found in the MHNG or in the NHMW. The whereabouts of the type specimen(s) is unknown.
 Chondrodesmus frauenfeldianus (Humbert & Saussure, 1870)
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
Report 2 - Semantic Information Retrieval – Knowledge Hub
Creators: name: Bordogna, Gloria
name: Tagliolato, Paolo
name: Lotti, Alessandro
name: Minelli, Annalisa
name: Oggioni, Alessandro
name: Babbini, Lorenza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This deliverable is dedicated to describing the activity performed to set up a knowledge hub of heterogeneous multisource textual documents related to the project.  
The knowledge hub (KH) is intended as a facility to aid users with different backgrounds , authorizations and need to find information they need in an easy way, by either formulating queries expressed in natural language to an information retrieval systems (IRS) , and / or by navigating into a knowledge graph of "topics" and relationships among "topics", in which documents have been automatically organized.  
The techniques used to design and implement the KH and to classify the documents and the underlying IRS are based on the state-of-the-art "Large Language Models".  
An experiment of user-evaluation has been set up in which several models publicly available have been tested and evaluated on a representative subset of documents by applying distinct indexing techniques so as to identify the best performing model- representation.  
This is a first step useful to identify the baseline we will select for the fine-tuning of the model.
IA - Intelligenza Artificiale
Creators: name: Martinelli, Massimo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Intelligenza Artificiale
deep learning
etica
applicazioni

description: Una introduzione divulgativa all'Intelligenza Artificiale (IA).
 La nascita e gli approcci dell’IA. le applicazioni rese possibili dal Deep Learning; etica e rischi dell’utilizzo non controllato delle nuove tecnologie; applicazioni in ambito sanitario, industriale e nell’agricoltura di precisione co-realizzate al CNR.
 La presentazione fa parte dell'evento "Le Escursioni del domedì"
An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: gracilipes Humbert & Saussure, 1870: 172 [Polydesmus (Oxyurus)].
Brasilia. Unspecified number of ♀.
 Saussure & Humbert (1872) gave a more detailed redescription, stating that the specimen had been donated to the NHMW by Archduke Maximilian. No specimens were found in the MHNG. The NHMW contains a number of fragments, probably all from one ♀ type specimen (Inventory number 2612, Acquisition number 1866.I.146). The Acquisition Register shows that the lot contained only one specimen, so this can be considered the holotype. Attems (1898) redescribed the species based on this ♀ type specimen, and placed the species in the genus Odontopeltis. This placement was later rejected by Pena-Barbosa et al. (2013) and the actual generic position is uncertain.
 ‘Polydesmus’ gracilipes Humbert & Saussure, 1870
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
MOESM8 of An integrated model to evaluate the impact of social support on improving self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaojia
name: He, Linglan
name: Zhu, Keyu
name: Zhang, Shanshan
name: Xin, Ling
name: Xu, Weiqun
name: Guan, Yuxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 8: Table S8. Unweighted super-matrix. The unweighted super-matrix is derived from the relative importance weights of each two sub-criteria.
Polylepis granosus
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Platyrhacidae
Polylepis
Polylepis granosus

description: granosus Humbert & Saussure, 1869b: 674 [Polydesmus (Pachyurus)].
Les Moluques (Musée de Genève). Unspecified number of ♀.
 The MHNG has one card-mounted ♀ and one ♂ in alcohol under the name Pachyurus granosus. The ♀ has the label “ Pachyurus granosus ♀ H. et S. Moluques” and is a syntype. The ♂ is in fragments. A typed label in the vial reads “ Pachyurus granosus Sauss. ♂ TYPUS, ex. Mus. Genf, Moluques.” The original description only treats the ♀ and so the type status of this specimen is dubious.
 Polylepis granosus (Humbert & Saussure, 1869)
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
Rhysodesmus toltecus
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Xystodesmidae
Rhysodesmus
Rhysodesmus toltecus

description: granulosus Saussure, 1859a: 323 [Polydesmus (Leptodesmus)].
Cordova au Mexique. Unspecified series.
 Saussure (1860: 325) placed this name in the synonymy of P. toltecus Saussure, 1859 (and noted that it was a junior homonym of P. granulosus Palissot de Beauvoir, 1805), and indicated that the original description was based on the ♀. No specimens are placed under this name in the MHNG but the ♀ in alcohol placed under the name P. tolteca could be a syntype, although this seems unlikely.
 A junior synonym of Rhysodesmus toltecus (Saussure, 1859)
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 210, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
Platyrhacus javanus
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Platyrhacidae
Platyrhacus
Platyrhacus javanus

description: javanus Saussure, 1859a: 324 -325 [Polydesmus (Leptodesmus)].
L’île de Java. Unspecified series.
 Carl (1902) redescribed the species, illustrating the gonopod, on the basis of a single ♂ “Originalexemplar.” The MHNG collection contains one card-mounted specimen under the name Platyrrhacus javanus, the name used by Carl. The specimen is labelled “Java, M Melly” and should be regarded as the lectotype, designated by holotype assumption by Carl (1902: 656) who clearly stated that he had the one “Originalexemplar.” The generic placement is uncertain; here we follow Carl (1902).
 Platyrhacus javanus (Saussure, 1859)
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
Spirostreptus kandyanus Humbert 1865
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Spirostreptida
Spirostreptidae
Spirostreptus
Spirostreptus kandyanus

description: kandyanus Humbert, 1865: 49 -50, pl. 4, fig. 20, pl. 5, fig. 20 [Spirostreptus].
Peradenia près Kandy. One ♂ and two ♀.
 The MHNG collection contains one ♂ and three ♀ in alcohol under the name Spirostreptus kandijanus. As mentioned in the original description, the ♀ are paler and smaller than the ♂ (the third ♀, not mentioned in the description, is even smaller than those described). Humbert explicitly based the description solely on the ♂, adding that the ♀ specimens were found with it. de Zoysa et al. (2016) erroneously placed this name as a junior synonym of Thyropygus allevatus (Karsch, 1881), citing Hoffman (1982). However, in this publication Hoffman (1982: 36) revised specimens from Thailand identified as S. kandyanus by Daday, and identified them as T. allevatus, but his mention of “ Spirostreptus kandyanus (sensu Daday nec. Humbert, 1866 [sic])” clearly did not bring Humbert’s species into question. The generic placement is uncertain, and the genus Spirostreptus probably does not occur in Sri Lanka (de Zoysa et al., 2017).
 ‘Spirostreptus’ kandyanus Humbert, 1865
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
Overstable Convective Modes in a Polytropic Stellar Atmosphere
Creators: name: Hindman, Bradley W.
name: Jain, Rekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the convection zone of a rotating star, the presence of the Coriolis force stabilizes long-wavelength convective modes. These modes, which would have been unstable if the star lacked rotation, are called overstable convective modes or thermal Rossby waves. We demonstrate that the Sun's rotation rate is sufficiently rapid that the lower half of its convection zone could possess overstable modes. Further, we present an analytic solution for atmospheric waves that reside within a polytropic stratification. We explore in detail the properties of the overstable and unstable wave modes that exist when the polytrope is weakly unstable to convective overturning. Finally, we discuss how the thermal Rossby waves that reside within the convection zone of a star might couple with the prograde branch of the $g$ modes that are trapped within the star's radiative zone. We suggest that such coupling might enhance the photospheric visibility of a subset of the Sun's $g$ modes.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, published in the Astrophysical Journal (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acaec4/pdf)
Online learning and decision making : algorithms and Bayesian analysis
Creators: name: Lin, Meichun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Decision making under uncertainty and limited information has been a critical challenge in operations. This thesis studies three applications and sheds light on how to make sequential decisions as data for learning are collected over time. In the first chapter, we consider the data-driven newsvendor problem where a manager makes inventory decisions sequentially and learns the unknown demand distribution based on observed samples of continuous demand (no truncation). We show that the widely-used sample average approximation approach is near-optimal. Moreover, we characterize how the best achievable performance depends on not only the time horizon but also the local flatness of the demand distribution. The second chapter considers a dynamic pricing and learning problem where a seller prices multiple products and learns from sales data about unknown demand. To avoid the classical problem of incomplete learning, we propose dithering policies under which prices are probabilistically selected in a neighborhood surrounding the myopic optimal price. We show that dithering policies achieve asymptotically optimal performance in three typical settings and their extensions with demand correlation, which demonstrates dithering as a unified approach to balance exploration and exploitation. The third chapter considers a sequential search over a group of similar alternatives to select the best one. The individual value of an alternative contains two components: an observable utility and an idiosyncratic value. Once an alternative is searched, the utility can be fully revealed, but the idiosyncratic value is unobservable and needs to be learned gradually by sampling. The utilities share an unknown population distribution, which captures the similarity across the alternatives and allows for knowledge transfer within the group. A novel feature of this problem is the combination of the individual and population levels of learning. We formulate the problem as a Bayesian dynamic program and show that the optimal policy can be found by comparing the mean estimates of the current alternative and the population. We also derive other structural properties to provide managerial insights and shed light on the two levels of learning.
SigRec: Automatic Recovery of Function Signatures in Smart Contracts
Creators: name: Chen, Ting
name: Li, Zihao
name: Luo, Xiapu
name: Wang, Xiaofeng
name: Wang, Ting
name: He, Zheyuan
name: Fang, Kezhao
name: Zhang, Yufei
name: Zhu, Hang
name: Li, Hongwei
name: Cheng, Yan
name: Zhang, Xiaosong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Millions of smart contracts have been deployed onto Ethereum for providing various services, whose functions can be invoked. For this purpose, the caller needs to know the function signature of a callee, which includes its function id and parameter types. Such signatures are critical to many applications focusing on smart contracts, e.g., reverse engineering, fuzzing, attack detection, and profiling. Unfortunately, it is challenging to recover the function signatures from contract bytecode, since neither debug information nor type information is present in the bytecode. To address this issue, prior approaches rely on source code, or a collection of known signatures from incomplete databases or incomplete heuristic rules, which, however, are far from adequate and cannot cope with the rapid growth of new contracts. In this paper, we propose a novel solution that leverages how functions are handled by Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) to automatically recover function signatures. In particular, we exploit how smart contracts determine the functions to be invoked to locate and extract function ids, and propose a new approach named type-aware symbolic execution (TASE) that utilizes the semantics of EVM operations on parameters to identify the number and the types of parameters. Moreover, we develop SigRec, a new tool for recovering function signatures from contract bytecode without the need of source code and function signature databases. The extensive experimental results show that SigRec outperforms all existing tools, achieving an unprecedented 98.7 percent accuracy within 0.074 seconds. We further demonstrate that the recovered function signatures are useful in attack detection, fuzzing and reverse engineering of EVM bytecode.
Ktenostreptus lankaensis
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Spirostreptida
Harpagophoridae
Ktenostreptus
Ktenostreptus lankaensis

description: lankaensis Humbert, 1865: 50 -52, pl. 4, fig. 21, pl. 5, fig. 21 [Spirostreptus].
Trincomalie. Two ♂ and two ♀.
 Carl (1917) illustrated the posterior gonopod of the “type.” The MHNG contains five specimens in alcohol in three jars under the name Spirostreptus lankaensis and five specimens in alcohol together in one jar under the name Ktenostreptus lankaensis. The first jar contains two specimens and the label “ Spirostreptus lankaensis Humb. (type) Trincomalie, Voy. Humbert.” The second jar contains one specimen and the label “ Spirostreptus lankaensis Humb. (type) Trincomalie, Voy. Humbert.” These three specimens are clearly syntypes, and the jars have type labels on them. The third jar contains two specimens and a vial with a pair of gonopods, with the label “ Spirostreptus lankaensis Humb. Ceylan coll. Schneider” while the fourth jar with five specimens has the label “ Spirostreptus (Ktenostreptus) lankaensis Humb. Ceylan, Bugnion.” These seven specimens are not syntypes. Given the dissection, Carl presumably studied the specimens collected by Schneider.
 Ktenostreptus lankaensis (Humbert, 1865)
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
MOESM9 of An integrated model to evaluate the impact of social support on improving self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaojia
name: He, Linglan
name: Zhu, Keyu
name: Zhang, Shanshan
name: Xin, Ling
name: Xu, Weiqun
name: Guan, Yuxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Molecular Biology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 9: It describes the specific calculation steps of the CRITIC method.
Scalable Ray Tracing Using the Distributed FrameBuffer
Creators: name: Usher, Will
name: Wald, Ingo
name: Amstutz, Jefferson
name: Günther, Johannes
name: Brownlee, Carson
name: Pascucci, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image- and data-parallel rendering across multiple nodes on high-performance computing systems is widely used in visualization to provide higher frame rates, support large data sets, and render data in situ. Specifically for in situ visualization, reducing bottlenecks incurred by the visualization and compositing is of key concern to reduce the overall simulation runtime. Moreover, prior algorithms have been designed to support either image- or data-parallel rendering and impose restrictions on the data distribution, requiring different implementations for each configuration. In this paper, we introduce the Distributed FrameBuffer, an asynchronous image-processing framework for multi-node rendering. We demonstrate that our approach achieves performance superior to the state of the art for common use cases, while providing the flexibility to support a wide range of parallel rendering algorithms and data distributions. By building on this framework, we extend the open-source ray tracing library OSPRay with a data-distributed API, enabling its use in data-distributed and in situ visualization applications.
Additional file 1 of Changes in spike protein antibody titer over 90 days after the second dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in Japanese dialysis patients
Creators: name: Wakai, Haruki
name: Abe, Natsumi
name: Tokuda, Touno
name: Yamanaka, Rika
name: Ebihara, Satoshi
name: Izumaru, Kensuke
name: Ishii, Daisuke
name: Hyodo, Toru
name: Yoshida, Kazunari
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1. Correlation between ant-S IgG antibody titers (Fujirebio) and Anti-spike protein antibody titers (Roche).
Chondromorpha kelaarti
Creators: name: John Hollier
name: Edmund Schiller
name: Nesrine Akkari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Chondromorpha
Chondromorpha kelaarti

description: kelaarti Humbert, 1865: 23 -25, pl. 2, fig. 7 [Polydesmus].
Trincomalie. Unspecified series.
 Humbert mentioned a number of varieties, but did not name them. Carl (1902) made reference to “die kleinsten Originalexemplare”. Carl (1932) discussed the variation in the species. The MHNG collection contains three card-mounted specimens and three in alcohol under the name Prionopeltis kelaarti. The dry specimens are each labelled “Ceylan, Vge Humbert” while the jar contains the label “ Polydesmus kelaarti Humb. (Type) Peradenia, Ceylan, Voyage Humbert.” The gonopods of one of the specimens in alcohol, identified by a label “Gonopodes” in the vial, were illustrated by Carl (1932: 464, figs 65- 67) as the “Type”. Although the locality given for the alcohol specimens does not match the one in the original description, all of these specimens are probably syntypes. There are many other specimens in alcohol under the name Anoplodesmus kelaarti but these were collected by Carl after the publication of the original description and are therefore not syntypes. The generic placement follows de Zoysa et al. (2016).
 Chondromorpha kelaarti (Humbert, 1865)
description: Published as part of John Hollier, Edmund Schiller & Nesrine Akkari, 2017, An annotated list of the Diplopoda described by Aloïs Humbert alone and with Henri de Saussure, and the Diplopoda from Saussure's Mexico expedition, pp. 203-224 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893503
Feasibility of the KneeOA mobile application for managing knee osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Ramachandran, Smruthi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading contributor to pain, disability, and lower quality of life. Though guidelines recommend physical activity as first-line treatment for people with OA, few engage in adequate levels of physical activity. Conducting a literature review on the use of self-directed digital tools to support physical activity in people with OA revealed only a small subset of tools have improved physical activity participation. Given the need for a self-directed digital tool designed to improve physical activity in people with knee OA symptoms, the KneeOA app was developed alongside arthritis experts and patient partners. The KneeOA app has features supported by behavioral change techniques such as goal setting, action planning, self-monitoring, and being compatible with a Fitbit® activity tracker to promote physical activity participation. This feasibility study evaluated the practicality and implementation of the KneeOA app and Fitbit® based intervention using a single-group pre-post design. Participants used KneeOA with a Fitbit Inspire 2™ for 12 weeks, being encouraged to use the app at least once a week. Questionnaires about pain, OA disease status, as well as physical activity habits and behaviour were completed at 2 time points and a subset of participants completed end of study interviews. This thesis presents the preliminary analysis of the 16 participants who consented between March and September 2022. Though preliminary results suggest 5 out of 6 feasibility benchmarks were not met, practicality could be improved by increasing the frequency of self-monitoring prompts. Though there were no statistical changes, there were trends towards improvements in physical activity habits and behaviour, pain, knee-related symptoms, and activities of daily living, but deterioration in knee-related sports and quality of life measures. Usage data suggested that participants used the app on average for 3 minutes and 11 seconds during each session. Preliminary findings from the interviews suggest that the intervention has been generally acceptable with room for improvements. The feasibility study must be completed to make conclusions on feasibility benchmarks and other trends of findings. Participants will be continued to be purposively sampled and interviewed using a modified guide for the remainder of the study.
Additional file 3 of Changes in spike protein antibody titer over 90 days after the second dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in Japanese dialysis patients
Creators: name: Wakai, Haruki
name: Abe, Natsumi
name: Tokuda, Touno
name: Yamanaka, Rika
name: Ebihara, Satoshi
name: Izumaru, Kensuke
name: Ishii, Daisuke
name: Hyodo, Toru
name: Yoshida, Kazunari
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 3. a. Changes in anti-S IgG antibody titers from the day of the first dose. b. Changes in anti-S IgG antibody titers from the day of the second dose.