cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Droplet-level thermo-mechanical analysis of the microcasting process
Creators: name: R. K. Chin
name: Beuth, Jack L.
name: Amon, Cristina H.
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Abstract: "Thermal and mechanical modeling of the microcasting stage of Shape Deposition Manufacturing is presented. Thermal modeling is needed because during the solidification and subsequent cooling of deposited molten metal, thermal aspects determine important effects such as substrate remelting, microstructure development, and build-up of residual stress. Also, temperature control is needed to protect existing machined features. Mechanical modeling is needed because thermally-induced residual stresses can lead to detrimental effects such as part warping, debonding between deposited layers, and reduced apparent strength or life. In this study, thermo-mechanical models of carbon steel deposited onto an existing carbon steel substrate are described. Current thermal modeling is centered on reliably predicting localized remelting of previously deposited substrate material by newly deposited molten droplets. Temperatures from a one-dimensional model are compared to those obtained at the axis of an axisymmetric model. In this region, the axisymmetric model predicts temperatures that agree with those from the simpler one-dimensional model for times less than that needed for complete droplet solidification. Current mechanics modeling is centered on the issue of residual stress buid-up. The effects of yielding and creep on the build-up of residual stresses are shown. Results show that thermal cycling from newly applied droplets drastically changes the stress state in the top of the substrate. Originally unstressed regions go through a cycle of yield in compression followed by yield in tension. Residual stresses close to the yield stress are predicted during part manufacture. It is likely that these stresses will be substantially relaxed, however, after a part is completed and then separated from the pallet upon which it is built."
Energetics and kinetics of the c(2 × 2) to (2√2 × √2)R45◦ transition during the early stages of Cu(100) oxidation
Creators: name: Minyoung  Lee
name: McGaughey, Alan J.H.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: The energetics and kinetics of the c(2 × 2) to (2√2 × √2)R45◦ missing-row reconstruction transition on the Cu(100) surface are investigated using density functional theory calculations. First, oxygen-molecule-induced surface restructuring on the unreconstructed Cu(100) surface is compared to that on the missing-row reconstructed surface. We find that the surface-oxide energy decrease on the missing-row reconstruction (−0.149 eV/A˚ 2) is larger than that on the unreconstructed surface (−0.080 eV/A˚ 2). Cu2O-like structures, which are found on the reconstructed surface, are not found on the unreconstructed surface. These results indicate that the missing-row reconstruction is necessary for the formation of Cu2O on the Cu(100) surface. Then, we investigate copper ejection from the c(2 × 2) phase using the nudged elastic band method. A series of ejections onto the nearest-neighbor copper atom is found to be the most probable mechanism for the formation of the missing row. The barriers for the subsequent copper diffusion events are comparable to those on the perfect c(2 × 2) phase and the clean copper surface, suggesting that the c(2 × 2) phase acts as a copper diffusion channel during surface oxidation.
Experimental comparison of torque control methods on an ankle exoskeleton during human walking
Creators: name: Juanjuan  Zhang
name: Cheah, Chien Chern
name: Collins, Steven
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Few comparisons have been performed across torque controllers for exoskeletons, and differences among devices have made interpretation difficult. In this study, we designed, developed and compared the torque-tracking performance of nine control methods, including variations on classical feedback control, model-based control, adaptive control and iterative learning. Each was tested with four high-level controllers that determined desired torque based on time, joint angle, a neuromuscular model, or electromyography. Controllers were implemented on a tethered ankle exoskeleton with series elastic actuation. Measurements were taken while one human subject walked on a treadmill at 1.25 m·s-1 for one hundred steady-state steps. The combination of proportional control with damping injection and iterative learning resulted in the lowest errors for all high-level controllers. With time-based desired torque, root-mean-squared errors were 0.6 N·m (1.3% of peak desired torque) step by step, and 0.1 N·m (0.2%) on average. These results indicate that model-free, integration-free feedback control is suited to the uncertain dynamics of the human-robot system, while iterative learning is effective in the cyclic task of walking.
Developing and Testing a Model of the Assisted Living Environment
Creators: name: Holmes, Sarah
name: Resnick, Barbara
name: Galik, Elizabeth
name: Kusmaul, Nancy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Assisted living
environment
long-term care
measurement
residential care

description: The assisted living (AL) environment plays an important role in supporting residents’ satisfaction and helping them to age in place. The AL environment is multidimensional and has many interrelated components including staffing (e.g. direct care workers, nursing, activity staff), services provided (e.g. medical, mental health, pharmacy), amenities offered at the setting (e.g. beauty salon, library, exercise facilities), and the physical environment. Evidence suggests that aspects of the AL environment can enhance or detract from the physical function, well-being, social engagement, and behavioral outcomes among residents. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a multidimensional AL environment measurement model that includes indicators of staffing, services, amenities, and the physical environment. Baseline data was used from a study testing the Dissemination and Implementation of Function Focused Care in AL. A total of 54 AL facilities across three states were included in the sample. Settings ranged in size from 31 to 164 beds with an average size of 82.2 (SD = 26.2) beds and the majority were for profit facilities (n = 41, 74.5%). Structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed model. Results showed that the model fit the data (?2/df = 1.861, p < .05; CFI = .858, RMSEA = .126). Having a comprehensive AL environment measurement model will advance future research that explores the impact of the environment on resident outcomes. Findings from this study will inform interventions and programs designed to modify AL environments to optimize residents’ satisfaction with AL.
sj-docx-1-srd-10.1177_23780231221142677 – Supplemental material for Work-Family Policies and Gender Inequalities in Childcare Time
Creators: name: Gao, Melody Ge
name: Ruan, Hangqing
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-srd-10.1177_23780231221142677 for Work-Family Policies and Gender Inequalities in Childcare Time by Melody Ge Gao and Hangqing Ruan in Socius
Numerical Simulation of Contrail Microphysical and Radiative Properties
Creators: name: Chen, Jen-Ping
name: Lin, Ruei-Fong
Publisher: name: Atmospheric Science
Year: 2001

description: The late-dispersion phase of contrails is simulated with a high-resolution cloud model in which the size distributions of ice crystals are explicitly computed. The cloud optical properties derived from this model are then used to compute the cloud reflectivity using the Monte Carlo method for the shortwave radiation, as well as the outgoing longwave radiative fluxes at the top of atmosphere using the absorption approximation method. Simulations for both the dissipating and persistent contrail scenarios in typical ambient conditions over Taiwan showed that the evolution of contrail morphology is critically controlled by the ambient humidity. Also, contrails may effectively after the local radiative budget, more so for the persistent contrails than the dissipating contrails.
High gain control system design with gain plots
Creators: name: Kurfess, Thomas R.
name: Nagurka, Mark L.
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Abstract: "This paper quantifies and summarizes in a general theorem the asymptotic high gain behavior of closed-loop eigenvalues. The theorem is founded on fundamental principles of classical control theory, and its implications are demonstrated conclusively via specialized plots, the Gain Plots (Kurfess and Nagurka, 1991), that offer a new and revealing graphical perspective. The theorem defines the rate (with respect to change in gain) at which closed-loop eigenvalues migrate towards both finite and infinite transmission zeros. This sensitivity information is essential for complete design of control systems in terms of gain selection and its relationship to stability, performance, and robustness. The general theory is graphically related to the classical control definition of sensitivity."
Supplemental Material - Greater exercise tolerance in COPD during acute intermittent compared to continuous shuttle walking protocols: A proof-of-concept study
Creators: name: Alexiou, Charikleia
name: Chambers, Francesca
name: Megaritis, Dimitrios
name: Wakenshaw, Lynsey
name: Echevarria, Carlos
name: Vogiatzis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material for Greater exercise tolerance in COPD during acute intermittent compared to continuous shuttle walking protocols: A proof-of-concept study by Charikleia Alexiou, Francesca Chambers, Dimitrios Megaritis, Lynsey Wakenshaw, Carlos Echevarria and Ioannis Vogiatzis in Chronic Respiratory Disease
sj-docx-1-jre-10.1177_15562646221146043 - Supplemental material for Informed Consent: Research Staff's Perspectives and Practical Recommendations to Improve Research Staff-Participant Communication
Creators: name: Eeckhout, Delphine
name: Aelbrecht, Karolien
name: Van Der Straeten, Catherine
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jre-10.1177_15562646221146043 for Informed Consent: Research Staff's Perspectives and Practical Recommendations to Improve Research Staff-Participant Communication by Delphine Eeckhout, Karolien Aelbrecht and Catherine Van Der Straeten in Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
Additional file 1 of Impairing Gasdermin D-mediated pyroptosis is protective against retinal degeneration
Creators: name: Sekar, Rakshanya
name: Wooff, Yvette
name: Cioanca, Adrian V.
name: Kurera, Melan
name: Ngo, Chinh
name: Man, Si Ming
name: Natoli, Riccardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Gasdermin D characterisation in DR and PD retina. A Western blots showing bands of ~ 50 kDa for full-length GSDMD and 37 kDa for GAPDH reference protein in DR retinal lysates of WT and GsdmdI105N/I105N mice. B Representative image showing GSDMD expression in WT and GsdmdI105N/I105N DR retinal sections. C Representative image showing co-localisation of GSDMD and IBA-1 in 5d PD retinal sections from GsdmdI105N/I105N and WT mice.
Additional file 7 of Impairing Gasdermin D-mediated pyroptosis is protective against retinal degeneration
Creators: name: Sekar, Rakshanya
name: Wooff, Yvette
name: Cioanca, Adrian V.
name: Kurera, Melan
name: Ngo, Chinh
name: Man, Si Ming
name: Natoli, Riccardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 7: Figure S7. iBMDM inhibition using GW4869. A Experimental paradigm showcasing in-vitro EV inhibition followed by inflammasome activation of iBMDM. B Representative, cropped western blots showing bands of 42 kDa for CASP-1, ~50 kDa for full-length GSDMD and ~30 kDa for cleaved GSDMD and 37 kDa for GAPDH reference protein, in iBMDM lysates. C EV concentration measured using NTA in the supernatant of iBMDM with GW4869 compared to DMSO control post-LPS/ATP stimulation, showing a reduction in EV number but no significant change (p > 0.05, N = 4). D Total EV IL-1β release from iBMDM post-LPS/ATP stimulation, as measured by ELISA (p > 0.05, N = 4).
Linear quadratic optimal control design using Chebyshev-based state parameterization
Creators: name: Ssu-Kei  Wang
name: Nagurka, Mark L.
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Abstract: "A computationally attractive method for determining the optimal control of unconstrained linear dynamic systems with quadratic performance indices is presented. In the proposed method, the difference between each state variable and its initial condition is represented by a finite-term shifted Chebyshev series. The representation leads to a system of linear algebraic equations as the necessary condition of optimality. Simulation studies demonstrate computational advantages relative to a standard Riccati-based method, a transition matrix method, and a previous Fourier-based method."
sj-docx-15-tan-10.1177_17562864221138144 – Supplemental material for Effects of non-invasive brain stimulation in dystonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Morrison-Ham, Jordan
name: Clark, Gillian M.
name: Ellis, Elizabeth G.
name: Cerins, Andris
name: Joutsa, Juho
name: Enticott, Peter G.
name: Corp, Daniel T.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-15-tan-10.1177_17562864221138144 for Effects of non-invasive brain stimulation in dystonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jordan Morrison-Ham, Gillian M. Clark, Elizabeth G. Ellis, Andris Cerins, Juho Joutsa, Peter G. Enticott and Daniel T. Corp in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Comparing activation typicality and sparsity in a deep CNN to predict facial beauty
Creators: name: Tieo, Sonia
name: Bardin, Melvin
name: Bertin-Johannet, Roland
name: Dibot, Nicolas
name: Mendelson, Tamra
name: Puech, William
name: Renoult, Julien P.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: Processing fluency, which describes the subjective sensation of ease with which information is processed by the sensory systems and the brain, has become one of the most popular explanations of aesthetic appreciation and beauty. Two metrics have recently been proposed to model fluency: the sparsity of neuronal activation, characterizing the extent to which neurons in the brain are unequally activated by a stimulus, and the statistical typicality of activations, describing how well the encoding of a stimulus matches a reference representation of stimuli of the category to which it belongs. Using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as a model for the human visual system, this study compares the ability of these metrics to explain variation in facial attractiveness. Our findings show that the sparsity of neuronal activations is a more robust predictor of facial beauty than statistical typicality. Refining the reference representation to a single ethnicity or gender does not increase the explanatory power of statistical typicality. However, statistical typicality and sparsity predict facial beauty based on different layers of the CNNs, suggesting that they describe different neural mechanisms underlying fluency.
Additional file 4 of JAK2 as a surface marker for enrichment of human pluripotent stem cells-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes
Creators: name: Liew, Lee Chuen
name: Poh, Boon Min
name: An, Omer
name: Ho, Beatrice Xuan
name: Lim, Christina Ying Yan
name: Pang, Jeremy Kah Sheng
name: Beh, Leslie Y.
name: Yang, Henry He
name: Soh, Boon-Seng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S1. Representative images of SIRPA + only CMs co-stained with MLC2V and MLC2A antibodies, followed by quantification of the percentage of MLC2V + and MLC2A + CMs. All values are expressed as mean ± SD. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001 (t test). Data were collected from duplicate experiments.
sj-docx-1-jls-10.1177_0261927X221147274 - Supplemental material for The Effect of Anticipatory Apology and Appreciation in Online Support-Seeking Messages on Support Provision in the U.S. and Korea
Creators: name: Jang, JooYoung
name: Feng, Bo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jls-10.1177_0261927X221147274 for The Effect of Anticipatory Apology and Appreciation in Online Support-Seeking Messages on Support Provision in the U.S. and Korea by JooYoung Jang and Bo Feng in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Dielectric energy storage materials for space sensors: effect of processing on the performance
Creators: name: Prasad, Narasimha
name: Trobare, Amalthea
name: Tauraso, Aria
name: Su, Ching-Hua
name: Arnold, Bradley
name: Choa, Fow-Sen
name: Cullum, Brian
name: Mandal, K. D.
name: Singh, Narsingh
Publisher: name: SPIE
Year: 2024

description: SPIE 13059, Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology XXI, 1305903 (6 June 2024);
description: This paper explores the development of innovative materials for the dielectric energy storage for space components. The CaCu3Ti4O12 or CCTO belonging to perovskite family is of interest due to its colossal dielectric constant. It was demonstrated that materials synthesized at low temperature show nonequilibrium state and exhibit differences in the dielectric and resistivity values. The goal is to obtain high dielectric constant along with high resistivity values for achieving enhanced breakdown voltage. By using other members of the perovskite structures, it was demonstrated that similar colossal dielectric constant is observed and is dependent on processing methods. We have used heterovalent and dissimilar sized atom to replace Ca+2 ion. Accordingly, we replaced Ca+2 ion with heavy Ga+3 ion and developed gallium-based material system, Ga2/3 Cu3Ti4O12. Following successful synthesis, we measured its dielectric constant and resistivity and compared with CCTO material system. Results of five sets of samples showed that lower temperature processing demonstrated mechanism of grain growth, but due to copper flow in high temperature processed samples dielectric constant and resistivity values were different.
International Mutual Recognition: A Description of Trust Services in US, UK, EU and JP and the Testbed “Hakoniwa”
Creators: name: Kai, Satoshi
name: Kondo, Takao
name: Karimi, Naghmeh
name: Mersinas, Konstantinos
name: Sel, Marc
name: Yus, Roberto
name: Tezuka, Satoru
Publisher: name: ScitePress
Year: 2023

description: The 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2023), Rome, Italy, 10– 12 July, 2023
description: With the proliferation of digital transactions, trust is becoming increasingly important, as exemplified by the World Economic Forum’s Data Free Flow with Trust. Digital signatures are utilized to establish trust to prevent spoofing and unauthorized modification of transmitted digital data. However, the extent of trust is limited by jurisdictions, trusted lists and bridge certificate authorities, and does not have international coverage. For this reason, mutual recognition is needed, i.e. trust relationships established across countries. Establishing mutual recognition is complex and time-demanding due to the legislations, systems, and technologies involved. In parallel, electronic signatures consist of complex systems and structures and, thus, focusing on the technical requirements and solutions can enhance mutual recognition processes. The purpose of our approach is to develop a testbed that can verify technical aspects of mutual recognition. This paper describes the concept of the testbed “Hakoniwa” which includes analyzing the requirements, simulating and testing mutual recognition trust services across US, UK, EU and JP.
Additional file 5 of JAK2 as a surface marker for enrichment of human pluripotent stem cells-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes
Creators: name: Liew, Lee Chuen
name: Poh, Boon Min
name: An, Omer
name: Ho, Beatrice Xuan
name: Lim, Christina Ying Yan
name: Pang, Jeremy Kah Sheng
name: Beh, Leslie Y.
name: Yang, Henry He
name: Soh, Boon-Seng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Full-length blots of MLC2V (left blot), MLC2A (right blot) and the respective GAPDH expressions in SIRPA+/JAK2+ and SIRPA+/JAK2− populations for BJ cell line. Red boxes indicate the cropped blots shown in Fig. 2C.
Efficient scheduling of smart building energy systems using AI planning
Creators: name: Hassan, Houssam Hajj
name: Ma, Jun
name: Bouloukakis, Georgios
name: Yus, Roberto
name: Kattepur, Ajay
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: UMBC Ebiquity Research Group

description: International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), IEEE, Jun 2024, Stockholm, Sweden
description: Buildings account for a significant share of global energy consumption, with Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems being responsible for up to 60% of a building’s energy usage. For this purpose, existing scheduling and control solutions can be used to design more sustainable energy systems and limit their environmental impact. However, these approaches mainly consider HVAC, ignoring other energy systems in buildings such as lighting control and plug loads. In addition, these solutions have to be customized for a specific building instance, hindering portability across different application domains. This paper presents a holistic approach for efficiently scheduling smart building energy systems through AI planning methodologies. AI planning enables decoupling domain knowledge from problem representations, enhancing portability and allowing for straightforward runtime adaptation when needed. We evaluate our approach in a smart office setting and show how AI planning enables reducing energy consumption by up to 30%.
sj-docx-1-ire-10.1177_00471178221140000 – Supplemental material for No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis
Creators: name: Egeland, Kjølv
name: Pelopidas, Benoît
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ire-10.1177_00471178221140000 for No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis by Kjølv Egeland and Benoît Pelopidas in International Relations
Towards the acceleration of human learning capabilities through AI-assisted knowledge-tree building
Creators: name: Hwang, Kevin
name: Challagundla, Sai
name: Alomair, Maryam
name: Janssen, Douglas
name: Morton, Kendall
name: Chen, Lujie Karen
name: Choa, Fow-Sen
Publisher: name: SPIE
Year: 2024

description: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, United States
description: Modern ubiquitous sensing produces immense information collections that offer unprecedented amounts of data for knowledge extraction, inference, and learning. Consequently, the significance of harnessing available artificial intelligence tools to boost human learning capabilities and accelerate the learning process is growing exponentially. Human learning relies on the activation of brain regions containing multi-level trees of knowledge that can be effectively built into human pretrained libraries through asking key questions at each level. In this pursuit, Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are frequently used due to their efficiency in grading and providing feedback. In particular, well-designed MCQs can assess knowledge across different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, a framework that classifies different levels of cognitive skills and abilities that students use to learn. Thus, by asking these MCQs, we help learners to activate neural pathways involved in perception, cognition, and high-level functions such as meta-cognition, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis, as well as those related to information encoding, retrieval, and long-term memory formation. This study explores an AI-driven approach to creating and evaluating Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in domain-independent scenarios. The methodology involves generating Bloom's Taxonomy-aligned questions through zero-shot prompting with GPT-3.5, validating question alignment with Bloom’s Taxonomy with RoBERTa–a language model grounded in transformer architecture–, evaluating question quality using Item Writing Flaws (IWF)--issues that can arise in the creation of test items or questions--, and validating questions using subject matter experts. Our research demonstrates GPT-3.5's capacity to produce higher-order thinking questions, particularly at the "evaluation" level. We observe alignment between GPT-generated questions and human-assessed complexity, albeit with occasional disparities. Question quality assessment reveals differences between human and machine evaluations, correlating inversely with Bloom's Taxonomy levels. These findings shed light on automated question generation and assessment, presenting the potential for advancements in AI-driven human-learning enhancement approaches.
It's in the seasoning : revealing ingredients of identity through cultural stereotypes and the resistance of blackness
Creators: name: Lenard, Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Stereotypes and forms of resistance in Black American culture is the focus of this dissertation. I explore experiences of blackness in society and how art engages with and questions perceptions surrounding these experiences. My research examines perspectives of stereotypes from within and outside of the Black American community. American racial attitudes beginning in the second half of the twentieth century informs the framework of my artistic consciousness. The Black American culture is varied and complex. I have produced, for this research, works that alludes to the contradictory nature that can also define the Black American experience. I have documented new work for this research through a series of photographs, cultural specific objects, text, and a series of blank (text free) books. Originally descendants from Africa, I examine how African Americans (Black Americans) redefine themselves through cultural expression. Food is an integral cultural expression that symbolizes how Black Americans embrace and resist, challenge or subvert stereotyping. I also examine other artist that have informed and influenced the development and context for my research.
Radiative properties of plasmoids and plasmoid mergers in magnetic reconnection
Creators: name: Zhang, Haocheng
name: Dong, Lingyi
name: Giannios, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2024

description: Magnetic reconnection is often considered as the primary particle acceleration mechanism in a magnetized blazar zone environment. The majority of radiation in the reconnection layer comes from plasmoids and their mergers. In particular, plasmoid mergers can produce strong multi-wavelength flares and major variations in synchrotron polarization signatures. However, radiative properties of plasmoid mergers have not been well explored due to difficulties in tracking the merging processes. Here we use an image processing method that combines the magnetic vector potential and density to identify isolated and merging plasmoids. We find that this method can clearly distinguish radiation contributions from isolated plasmoids, merging plasmoids, and the primary current sheet of reconnection. This new method enables us to study the radiative properties of plasmoids and mergers statistically. Our results show that isolated plasmoids have similar emissivity regardless of their sizes, and they generally have nonzero polarization degree (PD) due to their quasi-circular shape. Flares due to plasmoid mergers have relative amplitudes that are anti-proportional to the size ratio of the plasmoids participating in the mergers. Finally, only mergers between plasmoids of comparable sizes (width ratio ? 5) can lead to significant spectral hardening and polarization angle (PA) variations; the amplitude of the PA variations is between 0 and 180? and has a mean value of 90?. Our analyses on 2D simulations can pave the way for future analyses and machine learning techniques on radiative properties of 3D magnetic reconnection simulations.
Additional file 6 of JAK2 as a surface marker for enrichment of human pluripotent stem cells-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes
Creators: name: Liew, Lee Chuen
name: Poh, Boon Min
name: An, Omer
name: Ho, Beatrice Xuan
name: Lim, Christina Ying Yan
name: Pang, Jeremy Kah Sheng
name: Beh, Leslie Y.
name: Yang, Henry He
name: Soh, Boon-Seng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S3. Full-length blots of MLC2V (left blot), MLC2A (right blot) and the respective GAPDH expressions in SIRPA+/JAK2+, SIRPA+/JAK2−, SIRPA+/CD200+ and SIRPA+/CD200− populations. Red boxes indicate the cropped blots shown in Fig. 2C (H7 SIRPA/JAK2) and Fig. 3C (BJ SIRPA/CD200).
sj-docx-1-sms-10.1177_20563051221146182 – Supplemental material for From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter
Creators: name: Guo, Jing
name: Liu, Shujun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sms-10.1177_20563051221146182 for From #BlackLivesMatter to #StopAsianHate: Examining Network Agenda-Setting Effects of Hashtag Activism on Twitter by Jing Guo and Shujun Liu in Social Media + Society
sj-pdf-1-ijb-10.1177_13670069221139155 – Supplemental material for A longitudinal study of episodic memory recall in multilinguals
Creators: name: Vega-Mendoza, Mariana
name: Eriksson Sörman, Daniel
name: Josefsson, Maria
name: Ljungberg, Jessica K.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ijb-10.1177_13670069221139155 for A longitudinal study of episodic memory recall in multilinguals by Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Daniel Eriksson Sörman, Maria Josefsson and Jessica K. Ljungberg in International Journal of Bilingualism
Stereo Calorimetry In Juno: Physics Motivation And Instrumentation
Creators: name: HAN, Yang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will install 25k 3-inch PMTs (SPMTs) in the gaps between 18k closely packed 20-inch PMTs (LPMTs). The SPMT system will significantly enhance JUNO’s physics capabilities by mitigating the non-stochastic term of the energy resolution, providing a semi-independent measurement of the solar oscillation parameters, and improving the reconstruction of cosmic-ray muon and supernova burst events. This poster will discuss the physics benefits of the SPMT system as well as the instrumentation. About 200 electrical junction boxes will be deployed underwater to power and read out the SPMTs. Each of these boxes will manage 128 PMTs, and will contain densely packed equipment with high reliability. In particular, a dedicated 128 channel front-end board based on the CATIROC ASIC has been developed and prototyped. Among several benefits, the system will allow to read the SPMTs in triggerless mode for event rates ranging from a few kHz to a few MHz.
High-velocity blue-shifted Fe XXV He? line during a superflare of the RS CVn-type star IM Peg
Creators: name: Inoue, Shun
name: Iwakiri, Wataru Buz
name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Uchida, Hiroyuki
name: Kurihara, Miki
name: Tsujimoto, Masahiro
name: Notsu, Yuta
name: Hamaguchi, Kenji
name: Gendreau, Keith
name: Arzoumanian, Zaven
name: Tsuru, Takeshi Go
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

description: Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) detected a superflare, releasing 5 × 1037 erg in 2?10 keV, of the RS CVn-type star IM Peg at 10:41 UT on 2023 July 23 with its Gas Slit Camera (GSC; 2?30 keV). We conducted X-ray follow-up observations of the superflare with Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER; 0.2?12 keV) starting at 16:52 UT on July 23 until 06:00 UT on August 2. NICER X-ray spectra clearly showed emission lines of the Fe XXV He? and Fe XXVI Ly? for ? 1.5 days since the MAXI detection. The Fe XXV He? line was blue-shifted with its maximum Doppler velocity reaching ?2200 ± 600 km s?1, suggesting an upward-moving plasma during the flare, such as a coronal mass ejection (CME) and/or chromospheric evaporation. This is the first case that the Fe XXV He? line is blue-shifted during a stellar flare and its velocity overwhelmingly exceeds the escape velocity of the star (?230 km s?1). One hour before the most pronounced blueshift detection, a signature of reheating the flare plasma was observed. We discuss the origin of the blueshift, a CME or high-velocity chromospheric evaporation.
sj-docx-1-cpx-10.1177_21677026221120236 – Supplemental material for Prediction of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis Using Brief, Low-Cost Clinical Measures: A Competitive Model Evaluation
Creators: name: Mooney, Michael A.
name: Neighbor, Christopher
name: Karalunas, Sarah
name: Dieckmann, Nathan F.
name: Nikolas, Molly
name: Nousen, Elizabeth
name: Tipsord, Jessica
name: Song, Xubo
name: Nigg, Joel T.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-cpx-10.1177_21677026221120236 for Prediction of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis Using Brief, Low-Cost Clinical Measures: A Competitive Model Evaluation by Michael A. Mooney, Christopher Neighbor, Sarah Karalunas, Nathan F. Dieckmann, Molly Nikolas, Elizabeth Nousen, Jessica Tipsord, Xubo Song and Joel T. Nigg in Clinical Psychological Science
Effectiveness of stormwater control measures in protecting stream channel stability
Creators: name: Khan, Sami Towsif
name: Wynn-Thompson, Theresa
name: Sample, David
name: Al-Smadi, Mohammad
name: Behrouz, Mina Shahed
name: Miller, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024
Subjects: unified stormwater sizing criteria
HEC-RAS
stormwater control measures
SWMM
sediment transport
channel stability

description: While research on the hydrologic impact of different types of stormwater control measures (SCMs) is extensive, little research exists linking urbanization, widespread implementation of SCMs and channel stability in headwater streams. This study evaluated whether the unified stormwater sizing criteria (USSC) regulations in the state of Maryland, USA, which require the use of both end-of-pipe and distributed, small-scale SCMs, protect channel stability. To achieve this goal, a coupled hierarchical modelling approach utilizing the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) and the Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System 6.3 (HEC-RAS) was developed to predict changes in streamflow and sediment transport dynamics in a first-order gravel-bed, riffle-pool channel. Storm event discretization revealed that 88% of observed storm events during the 16 years (2004–2020) had durations less than 18 h and that the greatest peak flows resulted from storm events with durations less than 24 h. HEC-RAS simulation results also showed that both channel degradation and aggradation, as high as 1.2 m, will likely occur due to regulations which require the use of 24 h duration design storms with a target stormwater detention time rather than bed material sediment transport limits. Overall, this study provides valuable insights into the complex interactions between SCM practises, flow regimes and sediment transport dynamics in heavily urbanized watersheds. It is recommended that SCMs be designed using a continuous simulation model with at least 10 years of continuous rainfall data. Furthermore, to protect channel stability, the SCM design goal should focus on maintaining pre-development sediment transport regimes across a range of flows.
Additional file 3 of Impairing Gasdermin D-mediated pyroptosis is protective against retinal degeneration
Creators: name: Sekar, Rakshanya
name: Wooff, Yvette
name: Cioanca, Adrian V.
name: Kurera, Melan
name: Ngo, Chinh
name: Man, Si Ming
name: Natoli, Riccardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. WT and Gsdmd-/- mice DR Western Blot. A Western blots showing bands of ~50 kDa for full-length GSDMD and 37 kDa for GAPDH reference protein in DR retinal lysates of WT and Gsdmd-/- mice.
Celebrity Recommender
Creators: name: Zimmerman, John
name: Lesh  Parameswaran
name: Kurapati, Kaushal
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: This paper presents both a rationale and a pilot study for using
celebrities to present computer generated content recommendations. The
rationale explores how people's parasocial relationships with celebrities
influence decision-making. The pilot study examines if celebrity presentation of
recommendations influences subjects' qualitative assessment of a recommender.
Statistical tests on a small sample indicate that the use of a celebrity did not
significantly enhance users’ perceptions of a recommender. However, the
results suggest that influence between same-sex and cross-sex matches of
subjects and celebrities should be further explored.
sj-docx-1-joo-10.1177_14653125221144059 – Supplemental material for Comparative assessment of chewing sugar-free gum and conventional analgesic drugs in alleviating self-reported pain associated with fixed orthodontic appliances: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jabr, Luay
name: Altuhafy, Maryam
name: Barmak, Abdul Basir
name: Rossouw, Paul Emile
name: Michelogiannakis, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-joo-10.1177_14653125221144059 for Comparative assessment of chewing sugar-free gum and conventional analgesic drugs in alleviating self-reported pain associated with fixed orthodontic appliances: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Luay Jabr, Maryam Altuhafy, Abdul Basir Barmak, Paul Emile Rossouw and Dimitrios Michelogiannakis in Journal of Orthodontics
Lidar measurements during Aerosols99
Creators: name: Voss, Kenneth J.
name: Welton, Ellsworth
name: Quinn, Patricia K.
name: Johnson, James
name: Thompson, Anne M.
name: Gordon, Howard R.
Publisher: name: AGU
Year: 2001

description: The Aerosols99 cruise (January 14 to February 8, 1999) went between Norfolk, Virginia, and Cape Town, South Africa. A Micropulse lidar system was used almost continually during this cruise to profile the aerosol vertical structure. Inversions of this data illustrated a varying vertical structure depending on the dominant air mass. In clean maritime aerosols in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres the aerosols were capped at 1 km. When a dust event from Africa was encountered, the aerosol extinction increased its maximum height to above 2 km. During a period in which the air mass was dominated by biomass burning from southern Africa, the aerosol layer extended to 4 km. Comparisons of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) derived from lidar inversion and surface Sun photometers showed an agreement within ±0.05 RMS. Similar comparisons between the extinction measured with a nephelometer and particle soot absorption photometer (at 19 m altitude) and the lowest lidar measurement (75 m) showed good agreement (±0.014 km?1). The lidar underestimated surface extinction during periods when an elevated aerosol layer (total AOD > 0.10) was present over a relatively clean (aerosol extinction < 0.05 km?1) surface layer, but otherwise gave accurate results.
NASA FIre Light Detection Algorithm (FILDA) Fire Modified Combustion Efficiency Products
Creators: name: Wang, Zhuosen
name: Zhou, Meng
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: The NASA LAND-SIPS VIIRS FILDA 375m/750m fire modified combustion efficiency product integrates the Day/Night Band (DNB), Medium-Wave InfraRed (MWIR), and long wavelength infrared (LWIR) channels to simultaneously improve the fire detection and retrievals of radiative power (FRP), fire visible energy fraction (VEF), and fire modified combustion efficiency (MCE) at nighttime from the holistic use of those multiple-spectral radiances measured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard Suomi-NPP (VNP) and NOAA-20/JPSS-1 (VJ1) satellites. FILDA algorithm generates the Level 2 active fire data products at 375m Imagery resolution and 750m Moderate resolution, respectively. Each data product includes the following key parameters describing the characteristics of a fire pixel: (a) its location in terms of latitude and longitude; (b) FRP; (c) VEF, (d) MCE. The future plan may includes the Level 3 tiled data and Level 4 grided to the processing chain.
Linear quadratic optimal control system design by Chebyshev-based state parameterization
Creators: name: Nagurka, Mark L.
name: Ssu-Kei  Wang
name: V  Yen
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Abstract: "A Chebyshev-based representation of the state vector is proposed for designing optimal control trajectories of unconstrained, linear, dynamic systems with quadratic performance indices. By approximating each state variable by a finite-term, shifted Chebyshev series, the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem can be cast as a quadratic programming (QP) problem. In solving this QP problem, one approach is to treat the state initial conditions as constraints that are included in the performance index using a Lagrange multiplier technique.A computationally more efficient approach is to tailor the state representation such that the boundary conditions (which include the known initial conditions) are decoupled from the coefficients of the Chebyshev series. In both approaches the necessary condition of optimality isderived as a system of linear algebraic equations from which near optimal trajectories can be designed."
Global cloud optical depth daily variability based on DSCOVR/ EPIC observations
Creators: name: Delgado-Bonal, Alfonso
name: Marshak, A.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Oreopoulos, L.
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2024
Subjects: Daily variability
Cloud optical depth (COD)
Clouds diurnal cycle
Climate Change
DSCOVR EPIC

description: When investigating the potential effects of cloud changes on climate, inter- and intraday variability should be distinguished. Historically, the focus has been placed on long-term changes and the intraday cycles of cloud properties have been mostly ignored, partly due to the limited availability of global datasets to study the higher frequency variability. In this regard, DSCOVR's vantage point at Lagrange L1 point overcomes the temporal limitations of polar orbiters, but also the limited spatial views of geostationary satellites, allowing us to characterize the daytime variability of cloud properties using a single sensor. In previous analyses, we used DSCOVR’s EPIC instrument to characterize the diurnal cycles of cloud height and cloud fraction and here we expand the previous studies to also investigate the variability of cloud optical thickness. We observe a recurring diurnal pattern of cloud optical thickness for different latitudinal zones that reaches a maximum around noon regardless of the underlying surface. Once we separate clouds based on their optical thickness into optically thin (0-3), intermediate (3-10), and thick (10-25), we find that these cloud classes follow different optical thickness diurnal cycles on global scales. We further explore those differences by combining the evolution of cloud fraction and optical thickness of each group to obtain the diurnal evolution of cloud fraction weighted optical depths.
Multiphysics modeling of a micro-scale Stirling refrigeration system
Creators: name: Dongzhi  Guo
name: McGaughey, Alan J.H.
name: Jinsheng  Gao
name: Fedder, Gary K.
name: Minyoung  Lee
name: Shi-Chune  Yao
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: A new micro-scale refrigeration system composed of arrays of silicon MEMS cooling elements that operate on the Stirling cycle has been designed. In this paper, we describe a multiphysics computational approach for analyzing the system performance that considers compressible flow and heat transfer with a large deformable mesh. The regenerator pressure drop and effectiveness are first explored to determine the optimal porosity. A value near 0.9 is found to maximize the coefficient of performance. To overcome the computational complexity brought about by the fine pillar structure in the regenerator, a porous medium model is used to allow for modeling of a full element. Parametric studies demonstrate the effect of the operating frequency on the cooling capacity and the coefficient of performance.