cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sorex hosonoi Imaizumi 1954
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex hosonoi

description: Sorex hosonoi Imaizumi, 1954. Bull. Natl. Sei. Mus. Tokyo, 35:94. TYPE LOCALITY: "Tokiwa Mura (Maneki, about 900 m altitude, foot of Mt. Gaki, Japan Alps), Kita-Azumi Gun, Nagano Pref., Central Honsyû [= Honshu], Japan ". DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests of C Honshu (Japan). SYNONYMS: shiroumanus. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex. Imaizumi (1970b) reported that hosonoi occurs sympatrically with shinto and therefore should be considered as separate species (Corbet, 1978c).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Imaizumi, Y. 1970 b. The handbook of Japanese land mammals. Shin-Shichoa-Sha, Tokyo, 350 pp.", "Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp."]}
A History of the Australian Natives Association 1871-1900.
Creators: name: Quartly, Marian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: In the eighteen seventies the Australian Natives Association was a small friendly society providing sickness and funeral benefits, distinguished from a hundred other such societies only by a membership limited to men born in Australia, and by a secondary aim, as yet unfulfilled, of "mutual improvement". By the end of the century the association was recognised in Victoria as an important pressure group and opinion maker on all "national" issues, especially Australian federation. […]
The History of the Mount Ophir Winery and Vineyard at Rutherglen
Creators: name: Evans, Robert Annells
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: This thesis is a narrative history of the Mount Ophir winery and vineyard at Rutherglen, Victoria from 1893 to its closure in 1955, with brief references to subsequent events including a brief revival in connection with the wine industry in the 1970s.
Mount Ophir was acquired in 1893 by an English firm of wine merchants, P.B.Burgoyne & Co, who extended the building to its present dimensions by 1904. Burgoyne & Co's investment was large enough to enable them to bring significant economies of scale to Mount Ophir, and by obtaining fruit from a wide group of local growers as well as the estate vineyard, the firm was able to produce wine of consistent quality. Burgoyne & Co exported almost all of Mount Ophir's production to the United Kingdom, where they were one of the leading firms in the trade in Australian wines […]
The "Closed" Chiral Symmetry and Its Application to Tetraquark
Creators: name: Chen, Hua-Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the chiral (flavor) structure of tetraquarks, and study chiral transformation properties of the "non-exotic" [(3_bar,3)+(3,3_bar)] and [(8,1)+(1,8)] tetraquark chiral multiplets. We find that as long as this kind of tetraquark states contains one quark and one antiquark having the same chirality, such as (q_L q_L \bar q_L \bar q_R + q_R q_R \bar q_R \bar q_L), they transform in the same way as the lowest level (\bar q q) chiral multiplets under chiral transformations. There is only one [(3_bar,3)+(3,3_bar)] chiral multiplet whose quark-antiquark pairs all have the opposite chirality (q_L q_L \bar q_R \bar q_R + q_R q_R \bar q_L \bar q_L), and it transforms differently from others. Based on these studies, we construct local tetraquark currents belonging to the "non-exotic" chiral multiplet [(3_bar,3)+(3,3_bar)] and having quantum numbers J^{PC}=1^{-+}.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure, suggestions and comments welcome
An Approach For Integration Testing In Online Retail Applications
Creators: name: Singh, Roopa
name: Khan, Imran Akhtar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retail applications has majorly fraud prevention, procurement, shipping and tax related, pricing, real time bank authentication applications integrated to make the application run successfully. Integration testing here plays an important role as it requires that all applications interact with each other and also interact correctly so that Retailer is at benefit. Different testing techniques and types are used to test the application. Different testing teams will perform integration testing but what is the correct approach and how should you proceed is the major concern of many. Here we propose at what stage of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), integration testing should be initiated. Also what should be the approach of performing the testing? An example on Online Retail Application is used to understand the approach.
description: 18 pages
The Disowned Revolution: The Reconstruction of Australian Immigration, 1945-1952
Creators: name: Kuen, Alfred Benedict
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: This Thesis places the beginnings of Australia's postwar immigration programs firmly in the continuum of Australia' post-Federation immigration history. It argues that it was, first and foremost, an attempt to reconstruct tried patterns of government encouraged and assisted British immigration which had been, for reasons more complex than has usually been acknowledged, effectively suspended since 1930. As during the interwar period, a categorically restricted intake of non-British migrants, and of numbered Jewish refugees under a 1938 agreement (Evian) was to be continued. The policy position as per January 1947 - the commencement date of government initiated immigration - indicated no new directions. It signalled no intent to widen prewar patterns of admissions, and had retired none of the discriminatory principles which had characterised Australian immigration since Federation.[…]
Phase transitions for $P$-adic Potts model on the Cayley tree of order three
Creators: name: Mukhamedov, Farrukh
name: Akin, Hasan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46S10, 82B26, 12J12, 39A70, 47H10, 60K35

description: In the present paper, we study a phase transition problem for the $q$-state $p$-adic Potts model over the Cayley tree of order three. We consider a more general notion of $p$-adic Gibbs measure which depends on parameter $ρ\in\bq_p$. Such a measure is called {\it generalized $p$-adic quasi Gibbs measure}. When $ρ$ equals to $p$-adic exponent, then it coincides with the $p$-adic Gibbs measure. When $ρ=p$, then it coincides with $p$-adic quasi Gibbs measure. Therefore, we investigate two regimes with respect to the value of $|ρ|_p$. Namely, in the first regime, one takes $ρ=\exp_p(J)$ for some $J\in\bq_p$, in the second one $|ρ|_p<1$. In each regime, we first find conditions for the existence of generalized $p$-adic quasi Gibbs measures. Furthermore, in the first regime, we establish the existence of the phase transition under some conditions. In the second regime, when $|\r|_p,|q|_p\leq p^{-2}$ we prove the existence of a quasi phase transition. It turns out that if $|\r|_p
description: 27 pages
The Blazhko modulation of TV Boo in 2010
Creators: name: Hajdu, G.
name: Jurcsik, J.
name: Sódor, Á.
name: Szeidl, B.
name: Smitola, P.
name: Belucz, B.
name: Posztobányi, K.
name: Vida, K.
name: Kun, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of the multicolour CCD observations in the 2010 season of the Blazhko RRc star TV Boo. TV Boo shows a complex Blazhko modulation dominated by two independent modulations with P_{fm1}=9.74 d and P_{fm2}=21.43 d long periods. Both modulation components appear in the frequency spectra as multiplet structures around the harmonics of the pulsation. The positive value of the asymmetry parameter (Q=+0.51) of the primary modulation suggests that it is similar in its character to the Blazhko effect of most of the modulated RRab stars. Interestingly, the secondary, lower-amplitude modulation exhibits a negative asymmetry parameter (Q=-0.22), which is an unusually low value when compared to the Blazhko-modulated RRab stars. Apart from the two modulation frequencies, the spectra also show an additional frequency f' and its linear combinations with the pulsation and the primary modulation f_{1}+f' and f_{1}-f'-f_{m1}. We conclude that the additional frequency most probably belongs to a non-radial mode.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomical Notes, proceedings of "The New Era of Helio- and Asteroseismology", 2012. 05. 20-25. Obergurgl (A)
Inverse uniqueness results for one-dimensional weighted Dirac operators
Creators: name: Eckhardt, Jonathan
name: Kostenko, Aleksey
name: Teschl, Gerald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 34L40, 34B20, Secondary 46E22, 34A55

description: Given a one-dimensional weighted Dirac operator we can define a spectral measure by virtue of singular Weyl-Titchmarsh-Kodaira theory. Using the theory of de Branges spaces we show that the spectral measure uniquely determines the Dirac operator up to a gauge transformation. Our result applies in particular to radial Dirac operators and extends the classical results for Dirac operators with one regular endpoint. Moreover, our result also improves the currently known results for canonical (Hamiltonian) systems. If one endpoint is limit circle case, we also establish corresponding two-spectra results.
description: 17 pages, in "Spectral Theory and Differential Equations: V.A. Marchenko 90th Anniversary Collection", E. Khruslov, L. Pastur, and D. Shepelsky (eds), 117-133, Advances in the Mathematical Sciences 233, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, 2014
Collections Education Coffee Break Series: Anne Basham from LepNet and SCAN on Vimeo
Creators: name: Basham, Anne
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2021

description: Anne Basham (Founder ExplorMor Labs LLC/Co-Founder Bon-Earth, LeptNet and SCAN) Presenting on Natural history collections that connect marginalized elders with memory and the natural world. ...
CrackCLF: Automatic Pavement Crack Detection based on Closed-Loop Feedback
Creators: name: Li, Chong
name: Fan, Zhun
name: Chen, Ying
name: Lin, Huibiao
name: Moretti, Laura
name: Loprencipe, Giuseppe
name: Sheng, Weihua
name: Wang, Kelvin C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Automatic pavement crack detection is an important task to ensure the functional performances of pavements during their service life. Inspired by deep learning (DL), the encoder-decoder framework is a powerful tool for crack detection. However, these models are usually open-loop (OL) systems that tend to treat thin cracks as the background. Meanwhile, these models can not automatically correct errors in the prediction, nor can it adapt to the changes of the environment to automatically extract and detect thin cracks. To tackle this problem, we embed closed-loop feedback (CLF) into the neural network so that the model could learn to correct errors on its own, based on generative adversarial networks (GAN). The resulting model is called CrackCLF and includes the front and back ends, i.e. segmentation and adversarial network. The front end with U-shape framework is employed to generate crack maps, and the back end with a multi-scale loss function is used to correct higher-order inconsistencies between labels and crack maps (generated by the front end) to address open-loop system issues. Empirical results show that the proposed CrackCLF outperforms others methods on three public datasets. Moreover, the proposed CLF can be defined as a plug and play module, which can be embedded into different neural network models to improve their performances.
Additional file 1 of High-quality single amplicon sequencing method for illumina MiSeq platform using pool of ‘N’ (0–10) spacer-linked target specific primers without PhiX spike-in
Creators: name: Naik, Tejali
name: Sharda, Mohak
name: C P, Lakshminarayanan
name: Virbhadra, Kumar
name: Pandit, Awadhesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Detailed Protocol
On diversity of configurations generated by excitable cellular automata with dynamical excitation intervals
Creators: name: Adamatzky, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excitable cellular automata with dynamical excitation interval exhibit a wide range of space-time dynamics based on an interplay between propagating excitation patterns which modify excitability of the automaton cells. Such interactions leads to formation of standing domains of excitation, stationary waves and localised excitations. We analysed morphological and generative diversities of the functions studied and characterised the functions with highest values of the diversities. Amongst other intriguing discoveries we found that upper boundary of excitation interval more significantly affects morphological diversity of configurations generated than lower boundary of the interval does and there is no match between functions which produce configurations of excitation with highest morphological diversity and configurations of interval boundaries with highest morphological diversity. Potential directions of future studies of excitable media with dynamically changing excitability may focus on relations of the automaton model with living excitable media, e.g. neural tissue and muscles, novel materials with memristive properties, and networks of conductive polymers.
Additional file 2 of High-quality single amplicon sequencing method for illumina MiSeq platform using pool of ‘N’ (0–10) spacer-linked target specific primers without PhiX spike-in
Creators: name: Naik, Tejali
name: Sharda, Mohak
name: C P, Lakshminarayanan
name: Virbhadra, Kumar
name: Pandit, Awadhesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1
Sorex hoyi Baird 1857
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex hoyi

description: Sorex hoyi Baird, 1857. Mammalia, in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):32. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Racine, Wisconsis." DISTRIBUTION: N taiga zone of Alaska, Canada and the USA, with S outliers in the montane forests of the Appalachian and Rocky Mtns. SYNONYMS: alnorum, eximius, intervectus, montanus, thompsoni, washingtoni, winnemana. COMMENTS: Formerly in Microsorex, which is a synonym of subgenus Otisorex, according to George (1988). Includes thompsoni (Diersing, 1980b). Reviewed by Long (1974, Mammalian Species, 33) and Junge and Hoffmann (1981).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["George, S. B. 1988. Systematics, historical biogeography, and evolution of the genus Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy, 69: 443 - 461.", "Diersing, V. A. 1980 b. Systematics and evolution of the pygmy shrews (subgenus Microsorex) of North America. Journal of Mammalogy, 61: 76 - 101.", "Long, C. A. 1974. Microsorex hoyi and Microsorex thompsoni. Mammalian Species, 33: 1 - 4.", "Junge, J. A., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1981. An annotated key to the long-tailed shrews (genus Sorex) of the United States and Canada, with notes on Middle American Sorex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 94: 1 - 48."]}
Michel Bur (Hrsg.), La maison forte au Moyen Âge. Actes de la Table ronde de Nancy/Pont-à-Mousson de 31 mai–3 juin 1984, 1986
Creators: name: Jäschke, Kurt-Ulrich
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 16, Nr. 1 (1989)
Simultaneous Robot-World and Hand-Eye Calibration
Creators: name: Dornaika, Fadi
name: Horaud, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, Zhuang, Roth, \& Sudhakar [1] proposed a method that allows simultaneous computation of the rigid transformations from world frame to robot base frame and from hand frame to camera frame. Their method attempts to solve a homogeneous matrix equation of the form AX=ZB. They use quaternions to derive explicit linear solutions for X and Z. In this short paper, we present two new solutions that attempt to solve the homogeneous matrix equation mentioned above: (i) a closed-form method which uses quaternion algebra and a positive quadratic error function associated with this representation and (ii) a method based on non-linear constrained minimization and which simultaneously solves for rotations and translations. These results may be useful to other problems that can be formulated in the same mathematical form. We perform a sensitivity analysis for both our two methods and the linear method developed by Zhuang et al. This analysis allows the comparison of the three methods. In the light of this comparison the non-linear optimization method, which solves for rotations and translations simultaneously, seems to be the most stable one with respect to noise and to measurement errors.
title: Mapping Interactions Between the Type-VI Secretion System Effector tAE1 and Its Putative Substrates Using NMR Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Henderson, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2016

description:
Tae1 is an amidase produced by gram negative Pseudomonas bacteria that attacks the peptidoglycan layer in the cell walls of neighboring bacteria after secretion through the Type VI secretion system (T6S). The goal of our work is mapping interactions between the type-VI-secretion system effector Tae1 and its putative substrates using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Tae1 is amenable to NMR in that we are able to collect spectra with resolved, well defined peaks that can be assigned, thereby providing valuable structural information. We have assigned 89.2% of backbone atoms and 87.4% of sidechain atoms. Assignment of Tae1 was performed with 15N-HSQC, HNCA, HNCOCA, HNCACB, CBCACONH, HCCH COSY, HCCH TOCSY, and HCONH TOCSY experiments. Peptidoglycan binding experiments were performed using via 15N-HSQC to monitor backbone residues and 13C-HSQC to monitor sidechain residues. So far, these experiments have not revealed the molecular mechanism by which Tae1 recognizes its specific substrate; however, with the very high degree of assignment achieved in NMR experimentation, once a minimal binding fragment has been isolated determination of the binding mechanism will be easily achieved.
Yvette Duval und Jean-Charles Picard (Hrsg.), L'inhumation privilégiée du IVe au VIIIe siècle en Occident. Actes du colloque tenu à Créteil les 16–18 mars 1984, 1986
Creators: name: Martin, Max
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 16, Nr. 1 (1989)
title: Narrative Processes and Well-being in the Context of Chronic Illness
Creators: name: Shucard, Hannah
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2016

description:
The purpose of the current study was to broaden research on how narrative processes relate to well-being by examining narratives of an ongoing challenge in a novel context - living with a chronic health problem- as narrative researchers have focused primarily on discrete past events. By studying self-defining illness memories of a sample of midlife adults living with chronic health problems, I was able to examine the relation between narrative processes and well-being in the context of an ongoing event. Results indicate, as hypothesized, that both positive resolution and agency were associated with well-being. However, in contrast to my hypothesis, the narrative processes did not mediate the relation between physical health and well-being. These findings have implications both for the study of narrative processes as well as for individuals living with chronic health problems.
VIS: the visible imager for Euclid
Creators: name: Cropper, Mark
name: Cole, R.
name: James, A.
name: Mellier, Y.
name: Martignac, J.
name: di Giorgio, A. -M.
name: Paltani, S.
name: Genolet, L.
name: Fourmond, J. -J.
name: Cara, C.
name: Amiaux, J.
name: Guttridge, P.
name: Walton, D.
name: Thomas, P.
name: Rees, K.
name: Pool, P.
name: Endicott, J.
name: Holland, A.
name: Gow, J.
name: Murray, N.
name: Duvet, L.
name: Augueres, J. -L.
name: Laureijs, R.
name: Gondoin, P.
name: Kitching, T.
name: Massey, R.
name: Hoekstra, H.
name: collaboration, the Euclid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Euclid-VIS is a large format visible imager for the ESA Euclid space mission in their Cosmic Vision program, scheduled for launch in 2019. Together with the near infrared imaging within the NISP instrument it forms the basis of the weak lensing measurements of Euclid. VIS will image in a single r+i+z band from 550-900 nm over a field of view of ~0.5 deg2. By combining 4 exposures with a total of 2240 sec, VIS will reach to V=24.5 (10σ) for sources with extent ~0.3 arcsec. The image sampling is 0.1 arcsec. VIS will provide deep imaging with a tightly controlled and stable point spread function (PSF) over a wide survey area of 15000 deg2 to measure the cosmic shear from nearly 1.5 billion galaxies to high levels of accuracy, from which the cosmological parameters will be measured. In addition, VIS will also provide a legacy imaging dataset with an unprecedented combination of spatial resolution, depth and area covering most of the extra-Galactic sky. Here we will present the results of the study carried out by the Euclid Consortium during the Euclid Definition phase.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: Integrating Emergency Preparedness Rules in CMS Regulated Nursing Homes: A Case Study in Hampton Roads, VA
Creators: name: Richardson, Tihara A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The purpose of this research is to examine emergency preparedness in nursing homes within the Hampton Roads region. In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) added specific emergency preparedness requirements to the existing fire safety requirements for regulated nursing homes. The Emergency Preparedness rule outlines regulations for states and long-term care facilities in four core elements: risk assessment and emergency planning; communication plan; policies and procedures; and training and testing. Although there has been an increased focus on emergency preparedness for hospitals, the long-term care industry has often fallen through the cracks as an important component of the health care system. Previous literature has identified gaps in nursing home disaster preparedness. Efforts to close those gaps and improve nursing home preparedness include involving nursing home administrators, health care associations, as well as local, state and national regulators and administrators. The population in this quantitative study include CMS regulated nursing homes in Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia. This study examines how facility size and staffing levels are related to CMS emergency preparedness rule compliance for regulated nursing homes in the Hampton Roads region. Findings from this study will highlight the progress that has been made in nursing home emergency preparedness while also identifying possible challenges for facilities in this area.
title: Re-imagining the Collegiate Ideal: An Exploration of the Higher Education Motivations and Self-Formation of Students From International Schools
Creators: name: Cruz, Natalie
name: Glass, Chris R.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: There has been a substantial growth in global student mobility in the last twenty years, with almost five million students choosing to study outside their home country for tertiary education. Likewise, P12 international schools have experienced tremendous growth, with over five million students enrolled worldwide. Students from international schools often find themselves at a crossroads when choosing a university. To unpack the college choice process and understand how students viewed their transnational identities as important factors in their self-formation, researchers interviewed 19 graduating students from international schools and countries across the world. This longitudinal phenomenological study used self-formation (Marginson, 2018) and the push-pull theory (Altbach, 1998) as theoretical frameworks. Researchers explored the key people and experiences that shaped students’ college choice process and their expectations for the future through semi-structured interviews. The conversations highlighted four main elements that shaped their views of the ideal university experience: pre-college experiences, college explorations, college choice, and post-college aspirations. The second round of interviews will explore how students’ college expectations have compared to their actual experience, and how their transnational identities and self-formation has evolved.
A Principled Approach to Grammars for Controlled Natural Languages and Predictive Editors
Creators: name: Kuhn, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Controlled natural languages (CNL) with a direct mapping to formal logic have been proposed to improve the usability of knowledge representation systems, query interfaces, and formal specifications. Predictive editors are a popular approach to solve the problem that CNLs are easy to read but hard to write. Such predictive editors need to be able to "look ahead" in order to show all possible continuations of a given unfinished sentence. Such lookahead features, however, are difficult to implement in a satisfying way with existing grammar frameworks, especially if the CNL supports complex nonlocal structures such as anaphoric references. Here, methods and algorithms are presented for a new grammar notation called Codeco, which is specifically designed for controlled natural languages and predictive editors. A parsing approach for Codeco based on an extended chart parsing algorithm is presented. A large subset of Attempto Controlled English (ACE) has been represented in Codeco. Evaluation of this grammar and the parser implementation shows that the approach is practical, adequate and efficient.
Ellipticity and prolaticity of the initial gravitational-shear field at the position of density maxima
Creators: name: Angrick, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark-matter haloes are supposed to form at the positions of maxima in the initial matter density field. The gravitational-shear field's ellipticity and prolaticity that serve as input for the ellipsoidal-collapse model, however, are derived from a distribution that does not take the additional maximum constraint into account. In this article, I quantify the variations of the most probable and the expected values of the ellipticity and the prolaticity when considering this additional constraint as well as the implications for the ellipsoidal-collapse model. Based on the statistics of Gaussian random fields, it is possible to set up a joint distribution for the eigenvalues of the gravitational-shear tensor and the matter density that incorporates the maximum constraint by invoking a vanishing first derivative and a negative definite second derivative of the density field into the calculation. In the density range relevant for cosmological structure formation, both the most probable and the expected value of the ellipticity calculated from the standard distribution used in the literature are about 3-8 per cent higher compared to the ones calculated under the additional assumption of a density maximum. Additionally, the analogous quantities for the prolaticity do not vanish but acquire slightly positive values in the range of $10^{-3}$-$10^{-2}$. For large overdensities, the predictions from both distributions converge. The values for $δ_\mathrm{c}$ and $Δ_\mathrm{v}$ derived from the ellipsoidal-collapse model using the standard distribution for the initial ellipticity and prolaticity are up to 4 and 6 per cent higher, respectively, than those obtained taking the additional maximum constraint into account in the range of $10^{13}$-$10^{15}~h^{-1}~\mathrm{M}_\odot$ in mass and 0-2 in redshift.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; typos corrected to match the version published in MNRAS
Additional file 3 of High-quality single amplicon sequencing method for illumina MiSeq platform using pool of ‘N’ (0–10) spacer-linked target specific primers without PhiX spike-in
Creators: name: Naik, Tejali
name: Sharda, Mohak
name: C P, Lakshminarayanan
name: Virbhadra, Kumar
name: Pandit, Awadhesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2
A geometric interpretation of the homotopy groups of the cobordism category
Creators: name: Bökstedt, Marcel
name: Svane, Anne Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R90

description: The classifying space of the embedded cobordism category has been identified in by Galatius, Tillmann, Madsen, and Weiss as the infinite loop space of a certain Thom spectrum. This identifies the set of path components with the classical cobordism group. In this paper, we give a geometric interpretation of the higher homotopy groups as certain cobordism groups where all manifolds are now equipped with a set of orthonormal sections in the tangent bundle. We also give a description of the fundamental group as a free group with a set of geometrically intuitive relations.
description: 23 pages
Deep learning complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifolds
Creators: name: Erbin, Harold
name: Finotello, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We review advancements in deep learning techniques for complete intersection Calabi-Yau (CICY) 3- and 4-folds, with the aim of understanding better how to handle algebraic topological data with machine learning. We first discuss methodological aspects and data analysis, before describing neural networks architectures. Then, we describe the state-of-the art accuracy in predicting Hodge numbers. We include new results on extrapolating predictions from low to high Hodge numbers, and conversely.
description: 19 pages; match version published in "Machine Learning in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics" (edited by Y.-H. He, World Scientific Press)
Effect of Exercise and Hypoxia on Plasma Telomerase
Creators: name: Aguilar, Charli D
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: Introduction: Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) is the enzyme that adds telomeric sequences to the end of linear chromosomes. Exercise has shown to upregulate acutely leukocyte TERT after just 30 minutes of running on a treadmill at 80% of VO2max (Denham et al., 2016).  Hypoxia inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is also a mediator of TERT in in vitro (Nishi et al., 2004). Moderate acute exposure to hypoxia was associated with substantial increases in plasma TERT in a recent study on rats (Wang et al., 2014). The specific aim of the current study was to identify if acute hypoxia upregulates plasma TERT in healthy adult humans. We hypothesized that TERT would be increased after cycling exercise and that exercise in hypoxia would illicit a greater increase than exercise alone.
         Methods: Ten healthy adults (5 male, 5 females 23.8 ± 4.5 yrs.) volunteered for the study. Each participant visited the lab on three separate occasions separated by 72 hours but no more than 2 weeks. The conditions were defined as normoxia (FiO2 = 20.5%) and normobaric hypoxia (FiO2 = 14.4%) created by Altitude simulation machine. On the first visit, graded exercise tests (GXT) were performed in each condition to determine the resistance at 75% of age predicted maximum heart rate (HRmax) by cycling on a cycle ergometer at 60 revolutions per minute. Exercise trials took place on subsequent visits, conditions were counterbalanced and randomized. Exercise trials were defined as 30 minutes cycling at 60 RPM at an intensity set to 75% of age predicted HRmax. 600 µL blood samples were taken from finger stick immediately before and 30 minutes after completion of exercise trials. Blood samples were then centrifuged and plasma aliquoted and stored at -80¡C until all samples were collected for later analysis. Statistical significance was accepted at p < 0.05.
         Results: ELISA analysis did not detect any levels of TERT in the plasma samples for any of the unknowns. Work load was decreased in hypoxia compared to normoxia (110.7 ± 34.5 W, 125.8 ± 49.6 W, p = 0.04) but mean exercise heart rate was not different between conditions (144.4 ± 4.5 BPM, 146.9 ± 5.5 BPM, p = 0.065).
         Discussion: Plasma TERT is not detectable by ELISA analysis in healthy adults. Intensity was matched between conditions and confirmed by mean heart rate. Further research is needed to determine if hypoxia has an effect on TERT in human tissue.
Constraining the High-Density Behavior of Nuclear Symmetry Energy with the Tidal Polarizability of Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Fattoyev, F. J.
name: Carvajal, J.
name: Newton, W. G.
name: Li, Bao-An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a set of model equations of state satisfying the latest constraints from both terrestrial nuclear experiments and astrophysical observations as well as state-of-the-art nuclear many-body calculations of the pure neutron matter equation of state, the tidal polarizability of canonical neutron stars in coalescing binaries is found to be a very sensitive probe of the high-density behavior of nuclear symmetry energy which is among the most uncertain properties of dense neutron-rich nucleonic matter. Moreover, it changes less than $\pm 10%$ by varying various properties of symmetric nuclear matter and symmetry energy around the saturation density within their respective ranges of remaining uncertainty.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Quantum interference as a resource for quantum speedup
Creators: name: Stahlke, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum states can in a sense be thought of as generalizations of classical probability distributions, but are more powerful than probability distributions when used for computation or communication. Quantum speedup therefore requires some feature of quantum states that classical probability distributions lack. One such feature is interference. We quantify interference and show that there can be no quantum speedup due to a small number of operations incapable of generating large amounts of interference (although large numbers of such operations can in fact lead to quantum speedup). Low-interference operations include sparse unitaries, Grover reflections, short time/low energy Hamiltonian evolutions, and the Haar wavelet transform. Circuits built from such operations can be classically simulated via a Monte Carlo technique making use of a convex combination of two Markov chains. Applications to query complexity, communication complexity, and the Wigner representation are discussed.
description: Various fixes and additions suggested by reviewers
Utilizing Teacher Response to Help Students Meet and Transfer First-Year Composition Course Objectives
Creators: name: Aidoo, Clyde
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: For decades, considerable scholarship has explored how teachers can respond more effectively to student writing. There has also been significant research on how first-year-composition concepts can be transferred by students to other arenas of discourse outside of this required course. This thesis begins with a brief discussion on the meaning of transfer. Then, with the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outcomes (knowledge of conventions, rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, processes) as a starting point, I redefine and pare down the seven response modes described by Elaine O. Lees to five types of response (calling for correction, reminding, explaining, suggesting, and assigning) designed to create a framework for understanding how teachers can respond to student writing more effectively.
         Additionally, four recommendations are presented for maximizing the effectiveness of teacher response, while providing students a voice in the conversation on the page. The first recommendation is for teachers to underline content in the draft, calling the student's attention to issues in the text they must revise or to a suggestion the teacher has made. The second recommendation is to use peer response as an extension of teacher response by having peer groups work together to address each comment provided by the teacher on their drafts. The third recommendation calls on teachers to take an individualized method of response based on the disciplines students plan on joining. The final recommendation is the inclusion of critical thinking challenges that inquires about the student's source vetting and tests their logic and reasoning skills through additional questioning and assigning within the teacher response. The purpose of this thesis is to theorize how the use of these recommendations and response types can serve as a catalyst for objectives to be met and for transfer to occur for FYC students.
Regression techniques employing feature selection to predict clinical outcomes in stroke
Creators: name: Majeed, YA
name: Awadalla, Saria
name: Patton, James
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It is not fully clear which measurable factors can reliably predict chronic stroke patients' recovery of motor ability. In this analysis, we investigate the impact of patient demographic characteristics, movement features, and a three-week upper-extremity intervention on the post-treatment change in two widely used clinical outcomes-the Upper Extremity portion of the Fugl-Meyer and the Wolf Motor Function Test. Models based on LASSO, which in validation tests account for 65% and 86% of the variability in Fugl-Meyer and Wolf, respectively, were used to identify the set of salient demographic and movement features. We found that age, affected limb, and several measures describing the patient's ability to efficiently direct motions with a single burst of speed were the most consequential in predicting clinical recovery. On the other hand, the upper-extremity intervention was not a significant predictor of recovery. Beyond a simple prognostic tool, these results suggest that focusing therapy on the more important features is likely to improve recovery. Such validation-intensive methods are a novel approach to determining the relative importance of patient-specific metrics and may help guide the design of customized therapy.
The Effect of Choice on Throwing Speed in Baseball Players
Creators: name: Boyd, Brooke Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: Incidental choices have been identified as one way to support the need for autonomy.  The purpose of this study was to determine if choice in type and color of wrist tape would influence throwing speed in baseball players.  Participants were experienced male baseball players from a local high school. All participants performed 10 throws under choice and no-choice conditions. Throwing speed did not differ as a function of choice versus no choice. Possible explanations and limitations of the present study are discussed.
Study of Blockchain-as-a-Service Systems with a Case Study of Hyperledger Fabric Implementation on Kubernetes
Creators: name: Yewale, Aniket Jalinder
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: Blockchain is a shared, immutable, decentralized ledger to record the transaction history. Blockchain technology has changed the world, changed the way we do the business. It has transformed the commerce across every industry, which may be supply chain, IoT, financial services, banking, healthcare, agriculture and many more. It had introduced a new way of transactional applications that bring trust, security, transparency and accountability.
To develop any blockchain use case, the main task is to develop an environment for creating and deploying the application. In our case, we created an environment on IBM Cloud Kubernetes service using Kubernetes, a container orchestration tool and implemented Hyperledger Fabric network to create and deploy blockchain applications.
Implementing Hyperledger Fabric business blockchain network on IBM Cloud Kubernetes service provides several advantages. We can have multiple users work on the same setup. Moreover, this setup can be used and reused for many different blockchain applications as well as for deploying chaincodes and smart contracts. Fabric components can accomplish high availability by deploying on Kubernetes. We can execute several isolated Fabric instances on our Kubernetes platform as it supports multi-tenancy. This makes it easier for us to develop and test the blockchain applications. Hyperledger Fabric and Kubernetes, both if used together delivers a powerful and secure platform for processing blockchain transactions.
A Distributed Real-Time Short-Term Solar Irradiation Forecasting Network for Photovoltaic Systems
Creators: name: Gacusan, Michael Adelbert
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: Solar irradiation forecasting is essential for PV connected electrical grids to maintain reliability, stability, and effective matching of real-time demand to power distribution. This research paper develops and evaluates proposed forecasting methods using wireless sensor networks. Each node of the network is capable of monitoring illuminance data and communicate it through RF and/or WiFi. The nodes are calibrated with respect to irradiance data from an industry-standard pyranometer. Power consumption of each node type is also collected at different operating states. The proposed sensor network can estimate a cloud motion vector or a cloud shadow's speed and direction from the data collected. By processing the collected data further, a forecasted solar irradiance ramp-down time-of-arrival is possible. The results are evaluated for both artificial and on-site cloud shadows.
Ferdinand Seibt, Winfried Eberhard, Europa 1500. Integrationsprozesse im Widerstreit: Staaten, Regionen, Personenverbände, Christenheit, 1987
Creators: name: Pariset, Jean-Daniel
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 16, Nr. 2 (1989)
Semigroups, d-invariants and deformations of cuspidal singular points of plane curves
Creators: name: Borodzik, Maciej
name: Livingston, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: primary: 14B07, secondary: 14H50, 32S50, 57M25

description: We apply Heegaard Floer homology to study deformations of singularities of plane algebraic curves. Our main result provides an obstruction to the existence of a deformation between two singularities. Generalizations include the case of multiple singularities. The obstruction is formulated in terms of a semicontinuity property for semigroups associated to the singularities.
description: v2. 20 pages. Minor revision. Added comparison of the semigroup semicontinuity with a criterion obtained from the upsilon function of Ozsvath, Szabo and Stipsicz
Maurice  Garden, Yves Lequin (Hrsg.), Habiter la ville, XVe–XXe siècles. Actes de la table ronde organisée avec l'aide de la D.G.R.S.T. et la Mission de la Recherche Urbaine, 1984
Creators: name: Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 16, Nr. 2 (1989)
Additional file 1 of Clinician approaches to spinal manipulation for persistent spinal pain after lumbar surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data
Creators: name: Trager, Robert J.
name: Daniels, Clinton J.
name: Meyer, Kevin W.
name: Stout, Amber C.
name: Dusek, Jeffery A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search strategies.