cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving the Aggregation and Evaluation of NBA Mock Drafts
Creators: name: Fisher, Jared D.
name: Montague, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many enthusiasts and experts publish forecasts of the order players are drafted into professional sports leagues, known as mock drafts. Using a novel dataset of mock drafts for the National Basketball Association (NBA), we analyze authors' mock draft accuracy over time and ask how we can reasonably use information from multiple authors. To measure how accurate mock drafts are, we assume that both mock drafts and the actual draft are ranked lists, and we propose that rank-biased distance (RBD) of Webber et al. (2010) is the appropriate error metric for mock draft accuracy. This is because RBD allows mock drafts to have a different length than the actual draft, accounts for players not appearing in both lists, and weights errors early in the draft more than errors later on. We validate that mock drafts, as expected, improve in accuracy over the course of a season, and that accuracy of the mock drafts produced right before their drafts is fairly stable across seasons. To be able to combine information from multiple mock drafts into a single consensus mock draft, we also propose a ranked-list combination method based on the ideas of ranked-choice voting. We show that our method provides improved forecasts over the standard Borda count combination method used for most similar analyses in sports, and that either combination method provides a more accurate forecast over time than any single author.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Classical Density Functional Theory: The Local Density Approximation
Creators: name: Jex, Michal
name: Lewin, Mathieu
name: Madsen, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that the lowest free energy of a classical interacting system at temperature $T$ with a prescribed density profile $ρ(x)$ can be approximated by the local free energy $\int f_T(ρ(x))dx$, provided that $ρ$ varies slowly over sufficiently large length scales. A quantitative error on the difference is provided in terms of the gradient of the density. Here $f_T$ is the free energy per unit volume of an infinite homogeneous gas of the corresponding uniform density. The proof uses quantitative Ruelle bounds (estimates on the local number of particles in a large system), which are derived in an appendix.
FPO++: Efficient Encoding and Rendering of Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields by Analyzing and Enhancing Fourier PlenOctrees
Creators: name: Rabich, Saskia
name: Stotko, Patrick
name: Klein, Reinhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fourier PlenOctrees have shown to be an efficient representation for real-time rendering of dynamic Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Despite its many advantages, this method suffers from artifacts introduced by the involved compression when combining it with recent state-of-the-art techniques for training the static per-frame NeRF models. In this paper, we perform an in-depth analysis of these artifacts and leverage the resulting insights to propose an improved representation. In particular, we present a novel density encoding that adapts the Fourier-based compression to the characteristics of the transfer function used by the underlying volume rendering procedure and leads to a substantial reduction of artifacts in the dynamic model. Furthermore, we show an augmentation of the training data that relaxes the periodicity assumption of the compression. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our enhanced Fourier PlenOctrees in the scope of quantitative and qualitative evaluations on synthetic and real-world scenes.
Surgical Management and Outcome of Atresia Coli in a Holstein Calf
Creators: name: Sulu, Kadir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Atresia coli is a congenital defect in neonatal calves characterized by the absence or obstruction of a segment of the colon, resulting in intestinal blockage. In such cases, treatment options are limited to surgical intervention or euthanasia. Treatment decisions should primarily consider the animal’s general condition, postoperative care, potential complications, and associated costs. In this case report, a colonic fistula (colostomy) was created in a Holstein calf, which was hospitalized and monitored for six months. No significant complications were recorded during the observation period. The calf adapted well to the farm environment; however, its development was slower compared to its peers, and it appeared visibly weak at six months of age. This case highlights the importance of early diagnosis, appropriate surgical techniques, and meticulous postoperative care in achieving favorable outcomes.
Truly altruistic, or just fitting in: exploring motivations of philanthropic Millennials
Creators: name: Mills, Jenna E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2016

description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2016
description: This study reviews the existing literature and research on the Millennial generation and how their participation in collegiate student groups influences their nonprofit support preferences. Although most research revolves around the idea that the Millennial generation is one of the most philanthropic generations, this study reveals how both egotism and altruism impact the decision of this generation to support nonprofits through both community service and philanthropic activities. Drawing on responsive interviews with 19 Millennials from Towson University, research found that the requirement to complete service hours with their groups was a main motivator for their participation. In addition, research showed that individuals in this study benefited from the participation through personal, professional and organizational development. Finally, the forced requirement was explored to determine how the benefits would impact the Millennials’ support of nonprofit organizations in the future. Future research topics and both theoretical and practical implications were also revealed.
description: http://library.towson.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd/id/50686
Black Holes in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet model probed with scattering amplitudes
Creators: name: Latosh, Boris
name: Park, Miok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examined the quantum properties of scalar-tensor gravity with a coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet term in the low energy limit, exploring both linear and quadratic couplings. We calculated the leading-order corrections to the non-relativistic one-body gravitational potential and the metric by studying the gravitational field of a point-like scalar particle. We studied light-like scattering and compared it with the classical theory. We found that the non-minimal coupling does not contribute to the small-angle scattering for the quadratic coupling but does in the case of linear coupling. The results provide an opportunity to constrain the linear non-minimal coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet term with forthcoming observational data.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures
When Fairness Meets Privacy: Exploring Privacy Threats in Fair Binary Classifiers via Membership Inference Attacks
Creators: name: Tian, Huan
name: Zhang, Guangsheng
name: Liu, Bo
name: Zhu, Tianqing
name: Ding, Ming
name: Zhou, Wanlei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Previous studies have developed fairness methods for biased models that exhibit discriminatory behaviors towards specific subgroups. While these models have shown promise in achieving fair predictions, recent research has identified their potential vulnerability to score-based membership inference attacks (MIAs). In these attacks, adversaries can infer whether a particular data sample was used during training by analyzing the model's prediction scores. However, our investigations reveal that these score-based MIAs are ineffective when targeting fairness-enhanced models in binary classifications. The attack models trained to launch the MIAs degrade into simplistic threshold models, resulting in lower attack performance. Meanwhile, we observe that fairness methods often lead to prediction performance degradation for the majority subgroups of the training data. This raises the barrier to successful attacks and widens the prediction gaps between member and non-member data. Building upon these insights, we propose an efficient MIA method against fairness-enhanced models based on fairness discrepancy results (FD-MIA). It leverages the difference in the predictions from both the original and fairness-enhanced models and exploits the observed prediction gaps as attack clues. We also explore potential strategies for mitigating privacy leakages. Extensive experiments validate our findings and demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.
description: Accepted by IJCAI 2024
The optimal design of agri-environmental contracts aimed at reducing methane emissions from dairy production in Poland
Creators: name: Was, Adam
name: Kobus, Paweł
name: Majewski, Edward
name: Rawa, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Dairy Farming
subject: Dairy Production/Industries
subject: Research Research Methods/Statistical Methods
subject: Result-based contracts
subject: Agri-environmental measures
subject: GHG emission
subject: dairy farms
subject: Discrete Choice Experiment

description: Methane emission from cattle production is considered an essential part of total GHG emissions from the agricultural sector. Common Agricultural Policy introduced agri-environment climate measures (AECM) based on voluntary contracts between farmers and state authorities, which can be used as instruments to reduce GHG emissions, including methane. The paper presents the study’s results1 aimed at identifying farmers’ preferences regarding actions for mitigating methane emission at dairy farms and an optimal solution for the most efficient, assuming a given mitigation target, set of actions. Discrete Choice Experiment and optimisation procedure were applied. The results show that the most efficient from taxpayers’ point of view are biofilters supported by Result-Based contracts.
Digital Urban Frontier - Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Anonymous, Researcher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This repository contains supplementary material for the study The digital urban frontier: Disparities in social media activity between consolidated and newly urbanized areas in Africa.

The supplementary material is structured as follows:

Supplement A - Study Sites

A1-Selection of study sites.docx Describes the selection process for the 135 study sites

A2-Geospatiality_study_sites.gpkg Spatial objects of the boundaries of the 135 study sites

Supplement B - Digital Density Skew

B-Digital Density Skew.docx - Describes and illustrates the computation of the Digital Density Skew (DDS) measure for Digital Disparity, and compares it with other measures considered.

Supplement C - Sensitivity Tests

C1-Sensitivity test towards GPS errors.docx  Describes the tests conducted to estimate the impact of GPS inaccuracies on the results of the study and briefly summarizes the results.

C2-Sensitivity test towards low numbers of tweets.docx Describes the tests conducted to estimate the effect of low data availability on the results of the study and briefly summarizes the results.

C3-Sensitivity test towards highly active accounts.docx Provides an overview of the test conducted to estimate the impact of excluding (or focusing on) highly active accounts.

C4-Sensitivity tests summary.docx Briefly summarizes the results and their implication for the interpretation of the study.

Supplement D - Permutation Test

D-Illustration of permutation test.docx Illustrates the permutation test which is used in the study to assess significance of the DDS.

Supplement E - Spatial Metrics

E-List of spatial metrics.docx  Lists the spatial metrics used to test for a relationship between DDS and spatial structure of the settlements.

Supplement F - Results DDS

F-Digital_Urban_Frontier_results DDS.xlsx Lists the results of the permutation test and the computed DDS for all study sites.
Risk-aware Scheduling and Dispatch of Flexibility Events in Buildings
Creators: name: Scharnhorst, Paul
name: Schubnel, Baptiste
name: Carrillo, Rafael E.
name: Alet, Pierre-Jean
name: Jones, Colin N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Residential and commercial buildings, equipped with systems such as heat pumps (HPs), hot water tanks, or stationary energy storage, have a large potential to offer their consumption flexibility as grid services. In this work, we leverage this flexibility to react to consumption requests related to maximizing self-consumption and reducing peak loads. We employ a data-driven virtual storage modeling approach for flexibility prediction in the form of flexibility envelopes for individual buildings. The risk-awareness of this prediction is inherited by the proposed scheduling algorithm. A Mixed-integer Linear Program (MILP) is formulated to schedule the activation of a pool of buildings in order to best respond to an external aggregated consumption request. This aggregated request is then dispatched to the active individual buildings, based on the previously determined schedule. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated by coordinating up to 500 simulated buildings using the Energym Python library and observing about 1.5 times peak power reduction in comparison with a baseline approach while maintaining comfort more robustly. We demonstrate the scalability of the approach by solving problems with 2000 buildings in about 21 seconds, with solving times being approximately linear in the number of considered assets.
Digital Urban Frontier - Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Anonymous, Researcher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This repository contains supplementary material for the study The digital urban frontier: Disparities in social media activity between consolidated and newly urbanized areas in Africa.

The supplementary material is structured as follows:

Supplement A - Study Sites

A1-Selection of study sites.docx Describes the selection process for the 135 study sites.

A2-Geospatiality_study_sites.gpkg Spatial objects of the boundaries of the 135 study sites.

Supplement B - Digital Density Skew

B-Digital Density Skew.docx - Describes and illustrates the computation of the Digital Density Skew (DDS) measure for Digital Disparity, and compares it with other measures considered.

Supplement C - Sensitivity Tests

C1-Sensitivity test towards GPS errors.docx  Describes the tests conducted to estimate the impact of GPS inaccuracies on the results of the study and briefly summarizes the results.

C2-Sensitivity test towards low numbers of tweets.docx Describes the tests conducted to estimate the effect of low data availability on the results of the study and briefly summarizes the results.

C3-Sensitivity test towards highly active accounts.docx Provides an overview of the test conducted to estimate the impact of excluding (or focusing on) highly active accounts.

C4-Sensitivity tests summary.docx Briefly summarizes the results and their implication for the interpretation of the study.

Supplement D - Permutation Test

D-Illustration of permutation test.docx Illustrates the permutation test which is used in the study to assess significance of the DDS.

Supplement E - Spatial Metrics

E-List of spatial metrics.docx  Lists the spatial metrics used to test for a relationship between DDS and spatial structure of the settlements.

Supplement F - Results DDS

F-Digital_Urban_Frontier_results DDS.xlsx Lists the results of the permutation test and the computed DDS for all study sites.
Digital Urban Frontier - Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Anonymous, Researcher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This repository contains supplementary material for the study The digital urban frontier: Disparities in social media activity between consolidated and newly urbanized areas in Africa.

The supplementary material is structured as follows:

Supplement A - Study Sites

A1-Selection of study sites.docx Describes the selection process for the 135 study sites.

A2-DUF_study_sites.gpkg Spatial objects of the boundaries of the 135 study sites and the urban extent present in 1985 (OBA) and added between 1985 and 2020 (NBA).

Supplement B - Digital Density Skew

B-Digital Density Skew.docx - Describes and illustrates the computation of the Digital Density Skew (DDS) measure for Digital Disparity, and compares it with other measures considered.

Supplement C - Sensitivity Tests

C1-Sensitivity test towards GPS errors.docx  Describes the tests conducted to estimate the impact of GPS inaccuracies on the results of the study and briefly summarizes the results.

C2-Sensitivity test towards low numbers of tweets.docx Describes the tests conducted to estimate the effect of low data availability on the results of the study and briefly summarizes the results.

C3-Sensitivity test towards highly active accounts.docx Provides an overview of the test conducted to estimate the impact of excluding (or focusing on) highly active accounts.

C4-Sensitivity tests summary.docx Briefly summarizes the results and their implication for the interpretation of the study.

Supplement D - Permutation Test

D-Illustration of permutation test.docx Illustrates the permutation test which is used in the study to assess significance of the DDS.

Supplement E - Spatial Metrics

E-List of spatial metrics.docx  Lists the spatial metrics used to test for a relationship between DDS and spatial structure of the settlements.

Supplement F - Results DDS

F-Digital_Urban_Frontier_results DDS.xlsx Lists the results of the permutation test and the computed DDS for all study sites.
Graph GOSPA metric: a metric to measure the discrepancy between graphs of different sizes
Creators: name: Gu, Jinhao
name: García-Fernández, Ángel F.
name: Firth, Robert E.
name: Svensson, Lennart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a metric to measure the dissimilarity between graphs that may have a different number of nodes. The proposed metric extends the generalised optimal subpattern assignment (GOSPA) metric, which is a metric for sets, to graphs. The proposed graph GOSPA metric includes costs associated with node attribute errors for properly assigned nodes, missed and false nodes and edge mismatches between graphs. The computation of this metric is based on finding the optimal assignments between nodes in the two graphs, with the possibility of leaving some of the nodes unassigned. We also propose a lower bound for the metric, which is also a metric for graphs and is computable in polynomial time using linear programming. The metric is first derived for undirected unweighted graphs and it is then extended to directed and weighted graphs. The properties of the metric are demonstrated via simulated and empirical datasets.
description: Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. The code is available at https://github.com/JinhaoGu/The-graph-GOSPA-metric
Supplementary document for Experimental Demonstration of Nanolaser with sub-μA Threshold Current - 6477983.pdf
Creators: name: Dimopoulos, Evangelos
name: xiong, meng
name: Sakanas, Aurimas
name: Marchevsky, Andrey
name: dong, gaoneng
name: Yu, Yi
name: Semenova, Elizaveta
name: Mork, Jesper
name: Yvind, Kresten
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Revised Supplement
Additional file 1 of A prevalence and molecular characterization of novel pathogenic strains of Macrococcus caseolyticus isolated from external wounds of donkeys in Khartoum State –Sudan
Creators: name: Ali, Dania E.
name: Allam, Mushal
name: Altayb, Hisham N.
name: Mursi, D.
name: Adalla, M. A.
name: Mohammed, N. O.
name: Khaier, Mona A. M.
name: Salih, Manal H.
name: Abusalab, Sarah
name: Abbas, M. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
ENLIGHT RISE - Deliverable 8.3 - Toolkit for monitoring and assessing R&I impact #V2
Creators: name: ENLIGHT RISE WP8-Impact assessment and and frontiers of the common R&I agenda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: European Universities
Impact assessment
Toolkit

description: The Digital toolkit for monitoring and assessing R&I impact acts as a self-assessment resource.  Deliverable D37 described the design and development process of this toolkit, while this deliverable D38 reviews the results from the initial uptake of the toolkit and tracks changes in research impact awareness, literacy and readiness at ENLIGHT universities.
Cold trapped molecular ions and hybrid platforms for ions and neutral particles
Creators: name: Deiß, Markus
name: Willitsch, Stefan
name: Denschlag, Johannes Hecker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress in the field of cold trapped molecular ions. A new generation of collision and cold chemistry experiments between atoms and ions has emerged, where cold atoms and ions are brought into contact in a controlled way in novel hybrid atom-ion platforms. Furthermore, new possibilities for the preparation and detection of molecular quantum states with high sensitivity and precision have been demonstrated based on quantum-logic schemes. These advances represent important stepping stones for new directions in fundamental research and technological applications across various domains including precision measurements, quantum technologies and chemical dynamics.
description: review article, 10 pages, 6 figures
Critical non-Hermitian topology induced quantum sensing
Creators: name: Sarkar, Saubhik
name: Ciccarello, Francesco
name: Carollo, Angelo
name: Bayat, Abolfazl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian physics predicts open quantum system dynamics with unique topological features such as exceptional points and the non-Hermitian skin effect. We show that this new paradigm of topological systems can serve as probes for bulk Hamiltonian parameters with quantum-enhanced sensitivity reaching Heisenberg scaling. Such enhancement occurs close to a spectral topological phase transition, where the entire spectrum undergoes a delocalization transition. We provide an explanation for this enhanced sensitivity based on the closing of point gap, which is a genuinely non-Hermitian energy gap with no Hermitian counterpart. This establishes a direct connection between energy-gap closing and quantum enhancement in the non-Hermitian realm. Our findings are demonstrated through several paradigmatic non-Hermitian topological models in various dimensions and potential experimental implementations.
description: Close to published version, title edited
TulipaProfileFitting.jl: A Julia package for fitting renewable energy time series profiles
Creators: name: Tejada-Arango, Diego A.
name: Morales-España, Germán
name: Siqueira, Abel S.
name: Özdemir, Özge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper introduces the TulipaProfileFitting.jl package, a tool developed in Julia for generating renewable energy profiles that fit a specified capacity factor. It addresses the limitations of naive methods in adjusting existing profiles to match improved technology efficiency, particularly in scenarios lacking detailed weather data or technology specifications. By formulating the problem mathematically, the package provides a computationally efficient solution for creating realistic renewable energy profiles based on existing data. It ensures that the adjusted profiles realistically reflect the improvements in technology efficiency, making it an essential tool for energy modellers in analyzing $CO_2$-neutral energy systems.
Uniqueness of dissipative solutions for the Camassa-Holm equation
Creators: name: Grunert, Katrin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A02, 35L45, 35B60

description: We show that the Cauchy problem for the Camassa-Holm equation has a unique, global, weak, and dissipative solution for any initial data $u_0\in H^1(\mathbb{R})$, such that $u_{0,x}$ is bounded from above almost everywhere. In particular, we establish a one-to-one correspondence between the properties specific to the dissipative solutions and a solution operator associating to each initial data exactly one solution.
description: 41 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 7 of A prevalence and molecular characterization of novel pathogenic strains of Macrococcus caseolyticus isolated from external wounds of donkeys in Khartoum State –Sudan
Creators: name: Ali, Dania E.
name: Allam, Mushal
name: Altayb, Hisham N.
name: Mursi, D.
name: Adalla, M. A.
name: Mohammed, N. O.
name: Khaier, Mona A. M.
name: Salih, Manal H.
name: Abusalab, Sarah
name: Abbas, M. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 7.
The evaluation of an app-based therapy program for auditory processing disorder: a pilot study
Creators: name: Moses, Hanna T.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2016

description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2017
description: Individuals with auditory processing disorder (APD) have listening difficulties despite normal hearing thresholds (Chermak, 2002; Moore, 2006). This population presents heterogeneously. They can have deficits in one or more different areas of auditory processing, and commonly have co-occurring disorders (AAA, 2010; Chermak, 2002; Witton, 2010). This variability in presentation and symptoms can make it challenging to develop intervention strategies to treat this population. Throughout the years there have been computer-based programs that claim to treat APD (e.g., Earobics, and Fast ForWord), and more recently, an application (app)-based therapy has been developed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential benefit of a new app-based therapy for children with APD . Five children, aged 7 to 11 years with confirmed or suspected APD were recruited for this study. Prior to starting therapy, their language, nonverbal intelligence, and hearing levels were screened. They were also administered two clinically used tests of auditory processing (the Frequency Pattern Test and the Dichotic Double Digits Test) and an app based diagnostic evaluation . Each participant was seen twice a week for 6 weeks of therapy. All participants engaged in the two app therapies regardless of their auditory weakness (temporal and/or dichotic listening deficits). Each therapy session lasted approximately 30-45 minutes in duration. After completion of the 6 week therapy, each participant was re administered the same tests of auditory processing and the app-based diagnostic evaluation again. Statistical analyses revealed there were no significant differences in test scores pre vs. post-therapy for either the tests of auditory processing or the app-based diagnostic evaluation for all participants. Improvements in test scores and therapy progress were variable among participants. The results from the pilot data indicated the benefit of the app was difficult to predict and results were conflicting at times (e.g., the app indicated a need for therapy, yet the participant completed therapy in one week). The findings from this study indicate the need for a larger scale study to more accurately determine the efficacy of this app-based therapy for the treatment of APD.
description: http://library.towson.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd/id/50900
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication du tambourin, pinçage de la peau de chèvre sur le cercle avec une épingle
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Upper Bound on Thermal Gravitational Wave Backgrounds from Hidden Sectors
Creators: name: Drewes, Marco
name: Georis, Yannis
name: Klaric, Juraj
name: Klose, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot viscous plasmas unavoidably emit a gravitational wave background, similar to electromagnetic black body radiation. We study the contribution from hidden particles to the diffuse background emitted by the primordial plasma in the early universe. While this contribution can easily dominate over that from Standard Model particles, we find that both are capped by a generic upper bound that makes them difficult to detect with interferometers in the foreseeable future. We illustrate our results for axions and heavy neutral leptons. Finally, our results suggest that previous works overestimated the gravitational wave background from particle decays out of thermal equilibrium.
description: 46 pages, 6 figures
Supplementary document for DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR FAST, MODEL-FREE BLOOD FLOW IMAGING WITH MULTIPLE EXPOSURE SPECKLE IMAGING - 6478194.pdf
Creators: name: YU, CHAO-YUEH
name: CHAMMAS, Marc
name: gurden, hirac
name: Lin, Hsin-Hon
name: Pain, Frederic
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary_Figures_S1_S2_S3
Enhanced Latent Multi-view Subspace Clustering
Creators: name: Shi, Long
name: Cao, Lei
name: Wang, Jun
name: Chen, Badong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Latent multi-view subspace clustering has been demonstrated to have desirable clustering performance. However, the original latent representation method vertically concatenates the data matrices from multiple views into a single matrix along the direction of dimensionality to recover the latent representation matrix, which may result in an incomplete information recovery. To fully recover the latent space representation, we in this paper propose an Enhanced Latent Multi-view Subspace Clustering (ELMSC) method. The ELMSC method involves constructing an augmented data matrix that enhances the representation of multi-view data. Specifically, we stack the data matrices from various views into the block-diagonal locations of the augmented matrix to exploit the complementary information. Meanwhile, the non-block-diagonal entries are composed based on the similarity between different views to capture the consistent information. In addition, we enforce a sparse regularization for the non-diagonal blocks of the augmented self-representation matrix to avoid redundant calculations of consistency information. Finally, a novel iterative algorithm based on the framework of Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is developed to solve the optimization problem for ELMSC. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our proposed ELMSC is able to achieve higher clustering performance than some state-of-art multi-view clustering methods.
Gate-tunable crossover between vortex-interaction and pinning dominated regimes in Josephson-coupled Lead-islands on graphene
Creators: name: Gupta, Suraina
name: Jana, Santu Prasad
name: Pervin, Rukshana
name: Gupta, Anjan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resistance of a Josephson junction array consisting of randomly distributed lead (Pb) islands on exfoliated single layer graphene shows a broad superconducting transition to zero with an onset temperature close to the transition temperature of bulk Pb. The transition evolves with the back-gate voltage and exhibits two peaks in temperature derivative of resistance. The region above the lower temperature peak is found to be well described by Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless model of thermal unbinding of vortex anti-vortex pairs while that below this peak fits well with the Ambegaokar- Halperin model of thermally-activated phase slip or vortex motion in Josephson junction arrays. Thus a gate-tunable crossover between interaction and pinning dominated vortices is inferred as the Josephson energy, dictating the pinning potential magnitude, increases with cooling while the effective screening length, dictating the range of inter-vortex interaction, reduces.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Migdal-Eliashberg superconductivity in a Kondo lattice
Creators: name: Awelewa, Samuel
name: Dzero, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the Migdal-Eliashberg theory of superconductivity to heavy-fermion and mixed valence materials. Specifically, we extend the Anderson lattice model to a case when there exists a strong coupling between itinerant electrons and lattice vibrations. Using the saddle-point approximation, we derive a set of coupled nonlinear equations which describe competition between the crossover to a heavy-fermion or mixed-valence regimes and conventional superconductivity. We find that superconductivity at strong coupling emerges on par with the development of the many-body coherence in a Kondo lattice. Superconductivity is gradually suppressed with the onset of the Kondo screening and for strong electron-phonon coupling the Kondo screening exhibits a characteristic re-entrant behavior. Even though for both weak and strong coupling limits the suppression of superconductivity is weaker in the mixed-valence regime compared to the local moment one, superconducting critical temperature still remains nonzero. In the weak coupling limit the onset of the many body coherence develops gradually, in the strong coupling limit it emerges abruptly in the mixed valence regime while in the local moment regime the $f$-electrons remain effectively decoupled from the conduction electrons. Possibility of experimental realization of these effects in Ce-based compounds is also discussed.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
In-silico Analysis of Hemodynamic Indicators in Idealized Stented Coronary Arteries for Varying Stent Indentation
Creators: name: Ranno, Anna
name: Manjunatha, Kiran
name: Glitz, Anne
name: Schaaps, Nicole
name: Reese, Stefanie
name: Vogt, Felix
name: Behr, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate the effects of stent indentation on hemodynamic indicators in stented coronary arteries. Our aim is to assess in-silico risk factors for in-stent restenosis (ISR) and thrombosis after stent implantation. The proposed model is applied to an idealized artery with Xience V stent for four indentation percentages and three mesh refinements. We analyze the patterns of hemodynamic indicators arising from different stent indentations and propose an empirical frequency analysis of time-averaged WSS (TAWSS), oscillatory shear index (OSI), and relative residence time (RRT). We observe that higher indentations display higher frequency of critically low TAWSS and non-physiological OSI and RRT. Furthermore, an appropriate mesh refinement is needed for accurate representation of hemodynamics in the stent vicinity. The results provide physics-based evidence for the correlation between high indentation and ISR.
Additional file 1 of Harnessing changes in open chromatin determined by ATAC-seq to generate insulin-responsive reporter constructs
Creators: name: Merrill, Collin B.
name: Montgomery, Austin B.
name: Pabon, Miguel A.
name: Shabalin, Andrey A.
name: Rodan, Aylin R.
name: Rothenfluh, Adrian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. ATAC-seq quality control metrics.
Identity in the presence of adjunction
Creators: name: Stroiński, Mateusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a theory of adjunctions in semigroup categories, i.e. monoidal categories without a unit object. We show that a rigid semigroup category is promonoidal, and thus one can naturally adjoin a unit object to it. This extends the previous results of Houston in the symmetric case, and addresses a question of his. It also extends the results in the non-symmetric case with additional finiteness assumptions, obtained by Benson-Etingof-Ostrik, Coulembier and Ko-Mazorchuk-Zhang. We give an interpretation of these results using comonad cohomology, and, in the absence of finiteness conditions, using enriched traces of monoidal categories. As an application of our results, we give a characterization of finite tensor categories in terms of the finitary 2-representation theory of Mazorchuk-Miemietz.
description: 33 pages
The Cadaver in the Machine: The Social Practices of Measurement and Validation in Motion Capture Technology
Creators: name: Harvey, Emma
name: Sandhaus, Hauke
name: Jacobs, Abigail Z.
name: Moss, Emanuel
name: Sloane, Mona
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motion capture systems, used across various domains, make body representations concrete through technical processes. We argue that the measurement of bodies and the validation of measurements for motion capture systems can be understood as social practices. By analyzing the findings of a systematic literature review (N=278) through the lens of social practice theory, we show how these practices, and their varying attention to errors, become ingrained in motion capture design and innovation over time. Moreover, we show how contemporary motion capture systems perpetuate assumptions about human bodies and their movements. We suggest that social practices of measurement and validation are ubiquitous in the development of data- and sensor-driven systems more broadly, and provide this work as a basis for investigating hidden design assumptions and their potential negative consequences in human-computer interaction.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures. To appear in the 2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24)
PressProtect: Helping Journalists Navigate Social Media in the Face of Online Harassment
Creators: name: Han, Catherine
name: Li, Anne
name: Kumar, Deepak
name: Durumeric, Zakir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social media has become a critical tool for journalists to disseminate their work, engage with their audience, and connect with sources. Unfortunately, journalists also regularly endure significant online harassment on social media platforms, ranging from personal attacks to doxxing to threats of physical harm. In this paper, we seek to understand how to make social media usable for journalists who face constant digital harassment. To begin, we conduct a set of need-finding interviews with Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists to understand where existing platform tools and newsroom resources fall short in adequately protecting journalists, especially those of marginalized identities. We map journalists' unmet needs to concrete design goals, which we use to build PressProtect, an interface that provides journalists greater agency when engaging with readers on Twitter/X. Through user testing with eight journalists, we evaluate PressProtect and find that participants felt it effectively protected them against harassment and could also generalize to serve other visible and vulnerable groups. We conclude with a discussion of our findings and recommendations for social platforms hoping to build defensive defaults for journalists facing online harassment.
Synthesis, crystal structure and DFT study of a new compound (E)-3-(2-chlorobenzyl)-2-(propan-2-ylidenehydrazineylidene)-2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one
Creators: name: Deng, Liyuan
name: Liao, Tianhui
name: Sun, Hong
name: Hu, Weiyin
name: Zhou, Zhixu
name: Zhao, Chunshen
name: Pan, Hongyan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: (E)-3-(2-chlorobenzyl)-2-(propan-2-ylidenehydrazineylidene)-2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one is an organic intermediate. The structure of the target compound was confirmed using 1H NMR, 13C NMR, HRMS and FT-IR spectroscopy. The precise structure of (E)-3-(2-chlorobenzyl)-2-(propan-2-ylidenehydrazineylidene)-2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one was analyzed using single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Furthermore, the crystal structure of the title compound was optimized via DFT calculations, and the optimized structure was compared with the crystal structure after single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The results showed that the crystal structures determined via single crystal X-ray diffraction and DFT calculations were consistent with each other. Additionally, the molecular electrostatic potential and frontier molecular orbitals of the title compound were further studied using DFT calculations.
The origin of magnetism in a supposedly nonmagnetic osmium oxide
Creators: name: Agrestini, S.
name: Borgatti, F.
name: Florio, P.
name: Frassineti, J.
name: Mosca, D. Fiore
name: Faure, Q.
name: Detlefs, B.
name: Sahle, C. J.
name: Francoual, S.
name: Choi, J.
name: Garcia-Fernandez, M.
name: Zhou, K. -J.
name: Mitrovic, V. F.
name: Woodward, P. M.
name: Ghiringhelli, G.
name: Franchini, C.
name: Boscherini, F.
name: Sanna, S.
name: Sala, and M. Moretti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A supposedly nonmagnetic 5d$^1$ double perosvkite oxide is investigated by a combination of spectroscopic and theoretical methods, namely resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, magnetic circular dichroism, and multiplet ligand field calculations. We found that the large spin-orbit coupling admixes the 5d $t_{2g}$ and $e_g$ orbitals, covalency raises the 5d population well above the nominal value, and the local symmetry is lower than $O_h$. The obtained electronic interactions account for the finite magnetic moment of Os in this compound and, in general, of 5d$^1$ ions. Our results provide direct evidence of elusive Jahn-Teller distortions, hinting at a strong electron-lattice coupling.
Agricultural policies and biodiversity: impact of the CAP greening on bird abundance and diversity in France
Creators: name: Chort, Isabelle
name: Hasni, Aicha
name: Öktem, Berk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agriculture
subject: biodiversity
subject: agricultural policies
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Ecological Focus Areas
subject: France

description: In 2013, the European Union Common Agricultural Policy introduced a set of compulsory greening measures in its subsidies scheme in order to achieve environmental goals. We analyse the impact of this reform, and particularly the definition of Ecological Focus Areas (EFA), on bird diversity in France. We match bird observations from the French Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) to parcel level information on agricultural land use and type of crops. We exploit the heterogeneous exposure of bird observation sites to the reform depending on their ex-ante extent of arable area in a continuous difference-in-differences approach. We find evidence of an increase in overall bird abundance after 2015 in sites with a higher ex-ante proportion of arable land, driven by a small number of generalist species, and no impact on species richness and phylogenetic diversity. A decomposition by diet type suggests that vertebrate eaters were positively impacted by the reform. By contrast, cropland species experienced the most dramatic decline after 2015 in sites with a higher share of arable area. Estimations of the dynamic effects of the reform suggest that the observed positive effects on bird abundance were limited to the first two years after its implementation. Based on observational data, our findings confirm previous concerns regarding the effectiveness of the 2013 reform in preserving biodiversity.