cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Asymptotic entanglement in quantum walks from delocalized initial states
Creators: name: Orthey, Alexandre C.
name: Amorim, Edgard P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entanglement between the internal (spin) and external (position) degrees of freedom of the one-dimensional discrete time quantum walk starting from local and delocalized initial states whose time evolution is driven by Hadamard and Fourier coins. We obtain the dependence of the asymptotic entanglement with the initial dispersion of the state and establish a way to connect the asymptotic entanglement between local and delocalized states. We find out that the delocalization of the state increases the number of initial spin states which achieves maximal entanglement from two states (local) to a continuous set of spin states (delocalized) given by a simple relation between the angles of the initial spin state. We also carry out numerical simulations of the average entanglement along the time to confront with our analytical results.
description: One column, 15 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of Harmonized procedure coding system for surgical procedures and analysis of surgical site infections (SSI) of five European countries
Creators: name: Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.
name: Bruns, Caroline
name: Al-Monajjed, Rouvier
name: Cornely, Florian B.
name: Grosheva, Maria
name: Hampl, Jürgen A.
name: Jakob, Carolin
name: Koehler, Felix C.
name: Lechmann, Max
name: Maged, Bijan
name: Otto-Lambertz, Christina
name: Rongisch, Robert
name: Rutz, Jule
name: Salmanton-Garcia, Jon
name: Schlachtenberger, Georg
name: Stemler, Jannik
name: Vehreschild, Janne
name: Wülfing, Sophia
name: Cornely, Oliver A.
name: Liss, Blasius J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
On the sub-Gaussianity of the Beta and Dirichlet distributions
Creators: name: Marchal, Olivier
name: Arbel, Julyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We obtain the optimal proxy variance for the sub-Gaussianity of Beta distribution, thus proving upper bounds recently conjectured by Elder (2016). We provide different proof techniques for the symmetrical (around its mean) case and the non-symmetrical case. The technique in the latter case relies on studying the ordinary differential equation satisfied by the Beta moment-generating function known as the confluent hypergeometric function. As a consequence, we derive the optimal proxy variance for the Dirichlet distribution, which is apparently a novel result. We also provide a new proof of the optimal proxy variance for the Bernoulli distribution, and discuss in this context the proxy variance relation to log-Sobolev inequalities and transport inequalities.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Compulsory Schooling Laws, Overcrowding, and Youth Crime: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Brazilian Municipalities
Creators: name: Nishijima, Marislei
name: Pal, Sarmistha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Compulsory schooling laws are often suggested as a means of combating youth crime, but little is known about how effective they are in emerging economies. Using the exogenous changes in compulsory high school enrolment after the 2009 Brazilian Constitutional Amendment 59, we investigate its impact on youth crime indices, violent and less violent ones. We compared municipalities that received federal funding to increase high school enrolment with those that did not, using difference-in-difference models to estimate the effects on selected youth crime indices. Our findings suggest that the Amendment had little or no effects on reducing youth crime. We observe small crime reduction when the incapacitation effects of the Amendment were largely outweighed by the negative effects of sudden overcrowding in classrooms with overburdened teachers providing inadequate supervision, and insufficient crime monitoring in public schools with shorter school hours. Adverse effects of overcrowding were worse in poor municipalities with more disadvantaged students and fewer resources that exactly balanced out the incapacitation effects, producing zero effects on crime. The effectiveness of compulsory schooling laws in reducing youth crime thus depends on the balance between the incapacitation effects and overcrowding effects.
Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Event Cameras
Creators: name: Mueggler, Elias
name: Gallego, Guillermo
name: Rebecq, Henri
name: Scaramuzza, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. They offer significant advantages over standard cameras, namely a very high dynamic range, no motion blur, and a latency in the order of microseconds. However, due to the fundamentally different structure of the sensor's output, new algorithms that exploit the high temporal resolution and the asynchronous nature of the sensor are required. Recent work has shown that a continuous-time representation of the event camera pose can deal with the high temporal resolution and asynchronous nature of this sensor in a principled way. In this paper, we leverage such a continuous-time representation to perform visual-inertial odometry with an event camera. This representation allows direct integration of the asynchronous events with micro-second accuracy and the inertial measurements at high frequency. The event camera trajectory is approximated by a smooth curve in the space of rigid-body motions using cubic splines. This formulation significantly reduces the number of variables in trajectory estimation problems. We evaluate our method on real data from several scenes and compare the results against ground truth from a motion-capture system. We show that our method provides improved accuracy over the result of a state-of-the-art visual odometry method for event cameras. We also show that both the map orientation and scale can be recovered accurately by fusing events and inertial data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on visual-inertial fusion with event cameras using a continuous-time framework.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018
Female Early Marriage and Son Preference in Pakistan
Creators: name: Mughal, Mazhar
name: Javed, Rashid
name: Lorey, Thierry
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: In this study, we employ pooled data from four rounds of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) to examine whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women’s perspectives on gender preference associated with reproduction. We employ a number of econometric techniques (Probit, OLS, Cox Hazard Model, IV Probit and treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage in perpetuating disproportionate preference for boys. Women who married before turning 18 not only state a greater desire for boys but are also less likely to stop reproduction as long as they do not have a boy. Early-age marriage is associated with 7.7–12.5 per cent higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is stronger at higher birth order and also reflects in differential spacing patterns. Women’s education appears to be the strongest channel through which these effects are mediated. The divergence between early- and late-marrying women appears to have sharpened over time. The findings of this study underscore the role played by early marriage in altering the gender-specific attitudes prevalent in the society, and highlight existing gender inequality traps.
Soundscape project: Sound Pressure Levels Post Processing - snapshot
Creators: Marta Picciulin
ANTONIO PETRIZZO
Fantina Madricardo
Michol Ghezzo
Publisher: name: CNR-ISMAR
Year: 2022

description: This RO provides the Jupyter notebook used to post process the Sound Pressure Levels (SPLs) data obtained within the Soundscape Project - SOUNDSCAPES IN THE NORTH ADRIATIC SEA AND THEIR IMPACT ON MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES (https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/soundscape) where more of 1 year of continuos underwater noise data (march 2020 - june 2021) were recorded.
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition, Greek Adaptation (WAIS-IV GR): confirmatory factor analysis and specific reference group normative data for Greek Australian older adults
Creators: name: Staios, Mathew
name: Kosmidis, Mary H.
name: Nielsen, T. Rune
name: Papadopoulos, Alexandra
name: Kokkinis, Nikolaos
name: Stogiannidou, Ariadni
name: March, Evrim
name: Stolwyk, Renerus J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: In the absence of reliable and valid neuropsychological measures, accurate assessment of culturally diverse groups is a challenge facing the Australian neuropsychological community. This study aimed to investigate the construct validity and to develop specific reference group norms using the WAIS-IV Greek adaption (WAIS-IV GR) for Greek Australian older adults. A convenience sample of 90 healthy older Greek Australians (M = 77.14 ± 4.46; range = 70–85; 39 males & 51 females), with a primary school level of education (M = 5.60 ± 0.68; Range = 4–6) were recruited throughout the Melbourne metropolitan area. Regression modelling showed that age was the most significant predictor, therefore, subtest normative data were stratified according to three age bands. Normative data for all WAIS-IV GR subtests and indices were calculated, in addition to values for the 90% and 95% confidence levels. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that a four-factor solution consisting of the WAIS-IV GR Index Scores displayed a superior fit with significant parameters of acceptable magnitude. Findings support the application of the traditional WAIS-IV factor structure to a Greek Australian sample. Utilising specific reference group norms for Greek Australians with limited education will facilitate and improve access of cognitive assessment within this population. What is already known on this topic:(1) The use of existing norms can lead to underestimating cognitive function in culturally diverse groups. (2) Access to culturally appropriate norms and tests for the assessment of culturally diverse groups in Australia is limited. (3) Neuropsychological test results are influenced by age, education, and culture. What this topic adds:(1) This is the first study to validate and provide WAIS-IV norms for a culturally diverse group in Australia. (2) Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the internationally recognised WAIS-IV factor structure was appropriate for Greek Australian older adults. (3) Development of these resources will facilitate and improve access of cognitive assessment within this population.
Ab initio relaxation times and time-dependent Hamiltonians within the steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermodynamic framework
Creators: name: Kim, ILki
name: von Spakovsky, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum systems driven by time-dependent Hamiltonians are considered here within the framework of steepest-entropy-ascent quantum thermodynamics (SEAQT) and used to study the thermodynamic characteristics of such systems. In doing so, a generalization of the SEAQT framework valid for all such systems is provided, leading to the development of an ab initio physically relevant expression for the intra-relaxation time, an important element of this framework and one that had as of yet not been uniquely determined as an integral part of the theory. The resulting expression for the relaxation time is valid as well for time-independent Hamiltonians as a special case and makes the description provided by the SEAQT framework more robust at the fundamental level. In addition, the SEAQT framework is used to help resolve a fundamental issue of thermodynamics in the quantum domain, namely, that concerning the unique definition of process-dependent work and heat functions. The developments presented lead to the conclusion that this framework is not just an alternative approach to thermodynamics in the quantum domain but instead one that uniquely sheds new light on various fundamental but as of yet not completely resolved questions of thermodynamics.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Additional file 1 of Farnesyl diphosphate synthase regulated endothelial proliferation and autophagy during rat pulmonary arterial hypertension induced by monocrotaline
Creators: name: Jin, Tingting
name: Lu, Jiangting
name: Lv, Qingbo
name: Gong, Yingchao
name: Feng, Zhaojin
name: Ying, Hangying
name: Wang, Meihui
name: Fu, Guosheng
name: Jiang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The phenotypes of pulmonary artery hypertension in vivo and in vitro and the changes of other mevalonate pathway enzymes. Figure S2. Knockdown of Rac1 gene expression in PAECs by transfected with siRac1.
Continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution: Composable security against coherent attacks
Creators: name: Lupo, Cosmo
name: Ottaviani, Carlo
name: Papanastasiou, Panagiotis
name: Pirandola, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a rigorous security analysis of Continuous-Variable Measurement-Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution (CV MDI QKD) in a finite size scenario. The security proof is obtained in two steps: by first assessing the security against collective Gaussian attacks, and then extending to the most general class of coherent attacks via the Gaussian de Finetti reduction. Our result combines recent state-of-the-art security proofs for CV QKD with new findings about min-entropy calculus and parameter estimation. In doing so, we improve the finite-size estimate of the secret key rate. Our conclusions confirm that CV MDI protocols allow for high rates on the metropolitan scale, and may achieve a nonzero secret key rate against the most general class of coherent attacks after 10^7-10^9 quantum signal transmissions, depending on loss and noise, and on the required level of security.
description: v4: close to the published version (which is shorter than previous arXiv versions)
Doping dependence of charge order in electron-doped cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: Mou, Yingping
name: Feng, Shiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the recent studies of the unconventional physics in cuprate superconductors, one of the central issues is the interplay between charge order and superconductivity. Here the mechanism of the charge-order formation in the electron-doped cuprate superconductors is investigated based on the t-J model. The experimentally observed momentum dependence of the electron quasiparticle scattering rate is qualitatively reproduced, where the scattering rate is highly anisotropic in momentum space, and is intriguingly related to the charge-order gap. Although the scattering strength appears to be weakest at the hot spots, the scattering in the antinodal region is stronger than that in the nodal region, which leads to the original electron Fermi surface is broken up into the Fermi pockets and their coexistence with the Fermi arcs located around the nodal region. In particular, this electron Fermi surface instability drives the charge-order correlation, with the charge-order wave vector that matches well with the wave vector connecting the hot spots, as the charge-order correlation in the hole-doped counterparts. However, in a striking contrast to the hole-doped case, the charge-order wave vector in the electron-doped side increases in magnitude with the electron doping. The theory also shows the existence of a quantitative link between the single-electron fermiology and the collective response of the electron density.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, updated the references, accepted for publication in Philosophical Magazine
How do developments in hybrid art affect the perception of the human-technology relationship?
Creators: name: Piebalga, Alise
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Art theory

description: Debates in science and technology studies suggest that our understanding of the human–technology relationship is in crisis. There are those who argue that developments in prosthetics and human augmentation will benefit humanity. While others argue that such developments will lead us into technological oblivion. These discussions are not confined to the fields of science and technology. Artists make works that address the human–technology relationship, claiming that their artworks affect how audiences perceive it. But little research has been conducted into how such artworks affect the audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship. This research project focuses on ‘hybrid art’, which is defined by its transdisciplinary approach to making art that addresses the human–technology relationship. It surveys several notable hybrid artworks and describes the reported impact they have had on their audiences’ perceptions of the human–technology relationship. Many of these reports suggest that the audiences of these works experienced a blurring of the perceived boundary between the virtual and the real. This phenomenon has been further investigated in this research by studying audience responses to hybrid artworks created by the author. These artworks provided a case study for gathering and evaluating empirical data to test the hypothesis that hybrid artworks affect audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship. The data was gathered using a technique, which takes snapshots of an audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship before and after viewing a hybrid art installation. The study showed that in an overwhelming number of cases the artworks had affected the audience’s perceptions of the human–technology relationship. By revealing that hybrid artworks affect viewers’ perceptions of the human–technology relationship, the research suggests that artworks can play a significant role in shaping our understanding of the human–technology relationship, and perhaps what it means to be human.
When Accessibility Becomes Performance: Performativity as an Element and a Carrier of Accessibility in Sign Language Interpreted Music
Creators: name: Tarantini, Angela Tiziana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Translation, Performance, Performativity, Accessibility and Access, Sign-language-interpreted Music

description: This is a lecture that was held online for Monash University Melbourne (Australia) on 25/08/2022. A draft of the speech I prepared for the lecture and a complete reference list are also included. Note: ALL the information related to Accessibility and Access (from 17.59 to 24.55) is from GRECO, Gian Maria (2016) "On Accessibility as a Human Right, with an Application to Media Accessibility" In Matamala, Anna; Orero, Pilar: Researching Audio Description. New Approaches, Palgrave.
description: {"references": ["A complete reference list is included in the draft of the lecture"]}
Additional file 1 of Cluster randomised trials with a binary outcome and a small number of clusters: comparison of individual and cluster level analysis method
Creators: name: Thompson, Jennifer A.
name: Leyrat, Clemence
name: Fielding, Katherine L.
name: Hayes, Richard J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Supporting Information.
Long Multiplet Bootstrap
Creators: name: Cornagliotto, Martina
name: Lemos, Madalena
name: Schomerus, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applications of the bootstrap program to superconformal field theories promise unique new insights into their landscape and could even lead to the discovery of new models. Most existing results of the superconformal bootstrap were obtained form correlation functions of very special fields in short (BPS) representations of the superconformal algebra. Our main goal is to initiate a superconformal bootstrap for long multiplets, one that exploits all constraints from superprimaries and their descendants. To this end, we work out the Casimir equations for four-point correlators of long multiplets of the two-dimensional global $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal algebra. After constructing the full set of conformal blocks we discuss two different applications. The first one concerns two-dimensional (2,0) theories. The numerical bootstrap analysis we perform serves a twofold purpose, as a feasibility study of our long multiplet bootstrap and also as an exploration of (2,0) theories. A second line of applications is directed towards four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFTs. In this context, our results imply a new bound $c \geqslant \tfrac{13}{24}$ for the central charge of such models, which we argue cannot be saturated by an interacting SCFT.
description: 39 pages (32 plus one appendix), 4 figures; v2: added discussion on the non-saturation of the analytic central charge bound; v3: footnote added, small typos corrected
Perfect phylogenies via branchings in acyclic digraphs and a generalization of Dilworth's theorem
Creators: name: Hujdurović, Ademir
name: Husić, Edin
name: Milanič, Martin
name: Rizzi, Romeo
name: Tomescu, Alexandru I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motivated by applications in cancer genomics and following the work of Hajirasouliha and Raphael (WABI 2014), Hujdurović et al. (IEEE TCBB, to appear) introduced the minimum conflict-free row split (MCRS) problem: split each row of a given binary matrix into a bitwise OR of a set of rows so that the resulting matrix corresponds to a perfect phylogeny and has the minimum possible number of rows among all matrices with this property. Hajirasouliha and Raphael also proposed the study of a similar problem, in which the task is to minimize the number of distinct rows of the resulting matrix. Hujdurović et al. proved that both problems are NP-hard, gave a related characterization of transitively orientable graphs, and proposed a polynomial-time heuristic algorithm for the MCRS problem based on coloring cocomparability graphs. We give new, more transparent formulations of the two problems, showing that the problems are equivalent to two optimization problems on branchings in a derived directed acyclic graph. Building on these formulations, we obtain new results on the two problems, including: (i) a strengthening of the heuristic by Hujdurović et al. via a new min-max result in digraphs generalizing Dilworth's theorem, which may be of independent interest, (ii) APX-hardness results for both problems, (iii) approximation algorithms, and (iv) exponential-time algorithms solving the two problems to optimality faster than the naïve brute-force approach. Our work relates to several well studied notions in combinatorial optimization: chain partitions in partially ordered sets, laminar hypergraphs, and (classical and weighted) colorings of graphs.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures, extended abstract appeared in Proceedings of WG 2017, full paper accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Algorithms
STRESS MANAGEMENT:A CASE STUDY OFEMPLOYEES AT THE MUSLIM CO-OPERATIVE BANK LIMITED, PUNE.
Creators: name: Valiuddin Shaikh, Farzana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Banking, finance and securities law

description: Stress at work is a relatively new phenomenon of modern lifestyles. The nature of work has gone through drastic changes over the last century and it is still changing at whirlwind speed. They have touched almost all professions, starting from an artist to a surgeon, or a commercial pilot to a sales executive. With change comes stress, inevitably. Professional stress or job stress poses a threat to physical health.
 We cope better with stressful situation, when we encounter them voluntarily ie at our own wish. In cases of relocation, promotion or layoff, adventurous sports or having a baby, we tend to respond positively under stress. But when we are compelled into such situations against our will or knowledge, more often than not, we will be stressed at the face of unknown and imagined threats. For instance, stress may mount when one is coerced into undertaking some work against one's More over the nature of work has been shifted from physical work towards mental/intellectual work. Due to the high pressure working conditions at the bank, the employees are continuously facing fexpecting these unknown threats resulting in the increase in their stress levels.
Additional file 2 of The effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on rumination and a task-based measure of intrusive thoughts in patients with bipolar disorder
Creators: name: Lubbers, Jelle
name: Geurts, Dirk
name: Hanssen, Imke
name: Huijbers, Marloes
name: Spijker, Jan
name: Speckens, Anne
name: Cladder-Micus, Mira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and baseline measures for patients that agreed or refused to perform the experimental tasks. Table S2. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and baseline measures for patients who performed, or did not perform the experimental tasks. Table S3. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and baseline measures for patients who completed baseline and post-treatment BFT versus patients who completed baseline BFT only. Table S4. No influence of time between measures of depressive/manic symptoms (T0), self-report questionnaires (T0a), and the BFT scores (T0b), on the association between those measures at baseline. Table S5. Bootstrapped BCa 95% confidence intervals of B for the regression model regarding the brooding subscale of the RRS: RRS_br.T1 – RRS_br.T0 = group + intercept. Table S6. Bootstrapped BCa 95% confidence intervals of B for the regression model regarding the number of negative intrusive thoughts: BFT.neg.T1 – BFT.neg.T0 = group + intercept. Table S7. Bootstrapped BCa 95% confidence intervals of B for the regression model regarding the number of positive intrusive thoughts: BFT.pos.T1 – BFT.pos.T0 = group + intercept. Table S8. Bootstrapped BCa 95% confidence intervals of B for the regression model regarding the number of neutral intrusive thoughts: BFT.neutral.T1 – BFT.neutral.T0 = group + intercept. Table S9. Bootstrapped BCa 95% confidence intervals of B for the regression model regarding the number of total intrusive thoughts: BFT.total.T1 – BFT.total.T0 = group + intercept. Table S10. Bootstrapped BCa 95% confidence intervals of B for the regression model regarding the emotion-focused subscale of the RPA: RPA_ER.T1 – RPA_ER.T0 = group + intercept. Table S11. Bootstrapped BCa 95% confidence intervals of B for the regression model regarding the self-focused subscale of the RPA: RPA_SR.T1 – RPA_SR.T0 = group + intercept
Variational Monte Carlo method for fermionic models combined with tensor networks and applications to the hole-doped two-dimensional Hubbard model
Creators: name: Zhao, Hui-Hai
name: Ido, Kota
name: Morita, Satoshi
name: Imada, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional tensor-network states employ real-space product states as reference wave functions. Here, we propose a many-variable variational Monte Carlo (mVMC) method combined with tensor networks by taking advantages of both to study fermionic models. The variational wave function is composed of a pair product wave function operated by real space correlation factors and tensor networks. Moreover, we can apply quantum number projections, such as spin, momentum and lattice symmetry projections, to recover the symmetry of the wave function to further improve the accuracy. We benchmark our method for one- and two-dimensional Hubbard models, which show significant improvement over the results obtained individually either by mVMC or by tensor network. We have applied the present method to hole doped Hubbard model on the square lattice, which indicates the stripe charge/spin order coexisting with a weak $d$-wave superconducting order in the ground state for the doping concentration less than 0.3, where the stripe oscillation period gets longer with increasing hole concentration. The charge homogeneous and highly superconducting state also exists as a metastable excited state for the doping concentration less than 0.25.
description: 18 pages, 19 figures
Using Inertial Sensors for Position and Orientation Estimation
Creators: name: Kok, Manon
name: Hol, Jeroen D.
name: Schön, Thomas B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In recent years, MEMS inertial sensors (3D accelerometers and 3D gyroscopes) have become widely available due to their small size and low cost. Inertial sensor measurements are obtained at high sampling rates and can be integrated to obtain position and orientation information. These estimates are accurate on a short time scale, but suffer from integration drift over longer time scales. To overcome this issue, inertial sensors are typically combined with additional sensors and models. In this tutorial we focus on the signal processing aspects of position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors. We discuss different modeling choices and a selected number of important algorithms. The algorithms include optimization-based smoothing and filtering as well as computationally cheaper extended Kalman filter and complementary filter implementations. The quality of their estimates is illustrated using both experimental and simulated data.
description: 90 pages, 38 figures
Creative accounting: Theoretical framework for dealing with its determinants and institutional investors' involvement
Creators: name: Ramadan, Ismail Zeyad
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Accounting, auditing and accountability not elsewhere classified

description: This research examined the determinants of creative accounting as well as the influence of regulatory bodies, corporate govenance and institutional investors on the practice of creative accounting by Jordanian Manufacturing Companies. In order to meet its aims and objectives the research methodology design focused on determination of the following: (i) whether creative accounting practice is entrenched among manufacturing companies in Jordan and to what extent (ii) whether corporate governance, institutional investors and regulatory bodies exercise any influence on the practice of creative accounting by Jordani-an manufacturing companies. This research started with a desk review of the concepts and theories associated with creative accounting and its determinants. Evidence from the desk review shows the practice of creative accounting is neither illegal nor fraudulent but has lead investors into poor investment decisions. These determinants formed the basis of the primary investigation and were confirmed to have major impacts on the practice of creative accounting in Jordan. The research reveal that creative accounting to a large extent is entrenched among Jordanian manufacturing companies, and that neither institutional investors nor regulators influence the ability and willingness of Jordanian manufacturing companies to practice creative accounting. Corpo-rate governance and employees were found to be determinants in terms of top executive and employee compensation package linked to performance, hence exert some influence on the willingness of manufacturing companies to practice creative accounting. This research has added to the body of knowledge by exploring a new aspect of an existing issues. The issues of creative accounting has featured in accounting literature for a long time but has been concentrated on the advanced countries. This research has now extended this literature to include developing county perspective. It has added new perspectives to its understanding theoretically. This research has been able to examine the practice of crea-tive accounting and developed a theoretical framework which can be used to detect and mitigate the impact of creative accounting. This framework is the first of its kind in Jordan and has been adopted by some of the respondents who asked for copies. An initial review of the practicality, applicability and reliability of the framework with Jordanian manufac-turing companies and regulators confirm the framework to be fit for the intended purpose. Overall, this study has contributed both new knowledge and extended existing knowledge in accounting. Created a new understanding and perspective to deal with an issues which has been a problem for both companies and regulators.
Robust nonparametric nearest neighbor random process clustering
Creators: name: Tschannen, Michael
name: Bölcskei, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of clustering noisy finite-length observations of stationary ergodic random processes according to their generative models without prior knowledge of the model statistics and the number of generative models. Two algorithms, both using the $L^1$-distance between estimated power spectral densities (PSDs) as a measure of dissimilarity, are analyzed. The first one, termed nearest neighbor process clustering (NNPC), relies on partitioning the nearest neighbor graph of the observations via spectral clustering. The second algorithm, simply referred to as $k$-means (KM), consists of a single $k$-means iteration with farthest point initialization and was considered before in the literature, albeit with a different dissimilarity measure. We prove that both algorithms succeed with high probability in the presence of noise and missing entries, and even when the generative process PSDs overlap significantly, all provided that the observation length is sufficiently large. Our results quantify the tradeoff between the overlap of the generative process PSDs, the observation length, the fraction of missing entries, and the noise variance. Finally, we provide extensive numerical results for synthetic and real data and find that NNPC outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in human motion sequence clustering.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Utilization of FMOC-3F-PHE hydrogel for encapsulation of Zanthoxylum armatum and Cinnamomum camphora oil for enhancing their antibacterial activity
Creators: name: Shakya, Nasla
name: Budha Chettri, S.
name: Joshi, Susan
name: Rajbhandary, Annada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Generation, dynamical buildup and detection of bi- and mulipartite entangled states in cavity systems
Creators: name: Pagel, D.
name: Fehske, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We inspect different quantum optical setups from the viewpoint of entanglement generation and detection. As a first step we consider a planar semiconductor microcavity and optimize the Bell-type correlations and their robustness against dephasing to create strong bipartite entanglement between polariton branches, which subsequently can be transfered to the emitted photons. In a second step, in order to create multipartite entangled light, we place the microcavity in an optical resonator driven by pump pulses with a frequency comb spectrum. For this system we show how phase matching of all comb modes can be achieved and will lead to indistinguishable scattering processes causing entanglement among every mode. Finally we demonstrate the buildup of entanglement in the dissipative dynamics of emitters coupled to a single cavity photon mode driven by an external laser. From a Floquet master equation approach we find that entanglement production predominates during the first few laser oscillation periods.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
3D Face Reconstruction with Geometry Details from a Single Image
Creators: name: Jiang, Luo
name: Zhang, Juyong
name: Deng, Bailin
name: Li, Hao
name: Liu, Ligang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.5; I.5.4

description: 3D face reconstruction from a single image is a classical and challenging problem, with wide applications in many areas. Inspired by recent works in face animation from RGB-D or monocular video inputs, we develop a novel method for reconstructing 3D faces from unconstrained 2D images, using a coarse-to-fine optimization strategy. First, a smooth coarse 3D face is generated from an example-based bilinear face model, by aligning the projection of 3D face landmarks with 2D landmarks detected from the input image. Afterwards, using local corrective deformation fields, the coarse 3D face is refined using photometric consistency constraints, resulting in a medium face shape. Finally, a shape-from-shading method is applied on the medium face to recover fine geometric details. Our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of accuracy and detail recovery, which is demonstrated in extensive experiments using real world models and publicly available datasets.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2018
Additional file 1 of Predicting the presence of depressive symptoms in the HIV-HCV co-infected population in Canada using supervised machine learning
Creators: name: Marathe, Gayatri
name: Moodie, Erica E. M.
name: Brouillette, Marie-Josée
name: Cox, Joseph
name: Cooper, Curtis
name: Delaunay, Charlotte Lanièce
name: Conway, Brian
name: Hull, Mark
name: Martel-Laferrière, Valérie
name: Vachon, Marie-Louise
name: Walmsley, Sharon
name: Wong, Alexander
name: Klein, Marina B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Prevalence of overweight and obesity among 6-13 year old Kuwaiti school children: secular trends, risk factors and their implications
Creators: name: Alshammari, Hasan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2007

description: Evidence of childhood obesity as a strong predictor of risk of non-commnuicable diseases has been accumulating world wide over the last three decades. The focus of this study was to provide a cross-sectional picture of the influence of the demographic and epidemiological transition on health habits, lifestyle changes, dietary patterns and obesity risk among 6-13 year old Kuwaiti school children. A sample of 1536 Kuwaiti school children was recruited in 2001 through a multi-stage cluster and stratified sampling technique to investigate the impact of these environmental factors. The study design included administration of a structured and pretested socio-demographic, health habits and lifestyle questionnaire. Of these a sub-sample of 224 ramdomly selected subjects( >14% of total) (with a response rate of 86.6% n=194) undertook a 7-day dietary intake and physical activity record and anthropometric measurements. Some biochemical indices of nutritional risk were further assessed among 224 of eligible subjects (mean age 10.3± 2-4 yrs; response rate 50.9%,n =114)in 2003. Findings from this study confirm the presence of high income and increased food availability and choice the consequences of which included intake of high energy, high fat, sugar and salt-based diets (above recommended intakes) coupled with a sedentary lifestyle with low levels of daily total energy expenditure. Positive energy balance was confirmed by evidence of overweight and obesity (>65% above 85th percentile for BMI cut-off of 25k gm-2) with at least 21% obese (above 95h percentile i.e. BMI 30 kg/m2), increased ZSFT and increased WHR. Furthermore, biochemical evidence of the nutritional risk was found with high levels of serum fasting glucose, total triacylglycerols and total cholesterol levels associated with low HDL-c levels, the latter further supporting the notion that their levels of physical activity were low (mean physical activity level PAL of 1.29 ±0.13). The biochemical indices suggest that nearly 15% of subjects were at risk of the metabolic complications. These findings also evidenced by increasing trends of obesity over the last two decades in a similar age-matched cohort suggest the presence of a nutritional transition with potentially serious health consequences. This provides opportunities for action and implementation of new nutrition and public health actions to avert any health crisis in this population. A strategic framework for intervention involving school-based nutrition and health promotion, community, family and stakeholder participation and government policy reviews and interventions have been proposed as a medium to long term solution.
Tensor network state correspondence and holography
Creators: name: Singh, Sukhwinder
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, tensor network states have emerged as a very useful conceptual and simulation framework to study quantum many-body systems at low energies. In this paper, we describe a particular way in which any given tensor network can be viewed as a representation of two different quantum many-body states. The two quantum many-body states are said to correspond to each other by means of the tensor network. We apply this "tensor network state correspondence"---a correspondence between quantum many-body states mediated by tensor networks as we describe---to the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) representation of ground states of one dimensional (1D) quantum many-body systems. Since the MERA is a 2D hyperbolic tensor network (the extra dimension is identified as the length scale of the 1D system), the two quantum many-body states obtained from the MERA, via tensor network state correspondence, are seen to live in the bulk and on the boundary of a discrete hyperbolic geometry. The bulk state so obtained from a MERA exhibits interesting features, some of which caricature known features of the holographic correspondence of String theory. We show how (i) the bulk state admits a description in terms of "holographic screens", (ii) the conformal field theory data associated with a critical ground state can be obtained from the corresponding bulk state, in particular, how pointlike boundary operators are identified with extended bulk operators. (iii) We also present numerical results to illustrate that bulk states, dual to ground states of several critical spin chains, have exponentially decaying correlations, and that the bulk correlation length generally decreases with increase in central charge for these spin chains.
description: Main changes in title, abstract and introduction, and added a new section (Section 2: A tensor network as a correspondence between two quantum many-body states). Minor changes in the rest of the paper. Previously titled "A holographic correspondence from tensor network states". Also added the journal reference
Additional file 1 of Can a serious game-based cognitive training attenuate cognitive decline related to Alzheimer’s disease? Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Brill, Esther
name: Krebs, Christine
name: Falkner, Michael
name: Peter, Jessica
name: Henke, Katharina
name: Züst, Marc
name: Minkova, Lora
name: Brem, Anna-Katharine
name: Klöppel, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Description of the cognitive training app.