cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Adapting a Child Interview Framework for use with Adult Sexual Assault Complainants
Creators: name: Ali, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: investigative interviews
subject: sexual assault
subject: memory
subject: adult complainants

description: The investigative interview forms the evidential pillar in cases of adult sexual assault. Yet, the police have been criticised for undermining the strength of evidence in these cases and re-victimising complainants. Broader research suggests that this may be because the Cognitive Interview (CI) – the major framework used by police to interview adults including those alleging sexual assault – does not align entirely with the characteristics of sexual assault cases. To address these criticisms, I adapted a child interviewing framework for use with adult complainants of sexual assault. I did so by adopting a multistage mixed-method approach. Stage one identified components in the CI that are (or are not) meeting the needs of stakeholders (i.e., investigators, prosecutors, and victims) and considered how frameworks used with children may be applied with adults. The latter question was guided by studies showing that child interviewing researchers have successfully found ways to enhance the evidential quality of children’s accounts whilst tending to their emotional needs. Stage two experimentally tested the utility of discrete elements of the child interviewing framework identified as holding promise with adults and compared the two frameworks in the laboratory prior to future implementation of the new framework in field settings. [...]
Additional file 1: of Comprehensive genomic characterization of breast tumors with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations
Creators: name: Lal, Avantika
name: Ramazzotti, Daniele
name: Ziming Weng
name: Keli Liu
name: Ford, James
name: Sidow, Arend
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1. Boxplots showing the ratio between exposures to Signature 6 (DNA CpG methylation) and the background signature, in BRCA1/2-mutated tumors and various classes if sporadic breast tumors. (PDF 6 kb)
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight & C.G. summary, Nov. 1/58
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight and C.G. summary, Nov. 1/58
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
Empowerment and Revelation Through Literature: a Digital Book Club for Post-incarceration
Creators: Smith, Anderson Patrick Collin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bibliotherapy
Prisoners
Prison psychology
Prisoners--Services for
Book clubs (Discussion groups)

description: Bibliotherapy—the use of books to facilitate the recovery of people in distress from an emotional disturbance—has a history of nurturing metacognition to achieve a cathartic expression by verbal and nonverbal means. The support of a community with shared traumatic experiences, such as incarceration, can help sustain the benefits of bibliotherapy. This exploratory qualitative research study is focuses on a digital book club consisting of men and women with criminal conviction histories (CCH), along with the ways in which a work of fiction could promote self-reflection and resilience necessary for self-rehabilitation. Post-Incarceration Syndrome (PICS) is the leading cause of recidivism among both males and females in the United States, many of whom may have other mental disorders as well. Among those with PICS, incarceration transcends a physical location and becomes a state of mind: mental incarceration. The study’s participants were people who had served over one year of time in a minimum- to maximum-security or federal prison, and who had agreed to participate in an optional four-week digital book club focused on a selected work of fiction. This study contributes to the body of literature surrounding self-rehabilitation and social change by informing administrators, faculty, and staff involved in correctional education that a digital book club could be a viable means of self-empowerment for a person with a CCH, post-incarceration.
Additional file 2: of Comprehensive genomic characterization of breast tumors with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations
Creators: name: Lal, Avantika
name: Ramazzotti, Daniele
name: Ziming Weng
name: Keli Liu
name: Ford, James
name: Sidow, Arend
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S2. Boxplots showing the average beta-value (extent of DNA cytosine methylation) across 3081 CpA sites, in BRCA1/2-mutated and sporadic breast tumors, based on data from TCGA. (PDF 31 kb)
Cyladinae Schoenherr 1823
Creators: name: Kuschel, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae

description: Subfamily CYLADINAE   Cylas formicarius Fabricius, 1798: 174. Check New Caledonia, Vanuatu.
description: Published as part of Kuschel, Guillermo, 2008, Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae, pp. 99-250 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197 on page 117
Interferencing in coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Michoel, T.
name: Verbeure, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an exactly soluble model of two Bose-Einstein condensates with a Josephson-type of coupling. Its equilibrium states are explicitly found showing condensation and spontaneously broken gauge symmetry. It is proved that the total number and total phase fluctuation operators, as well as the relative number and relative current fluctuation operators form both a quantum canonical pair. The exact relation between the relative current and phase fluctuation operators is established. Also the dynamics of these operators is solved showing the collapse and revival phenomenon.
title: The Contradictions and Compatibilities of Regional Overlap
title: The Dynamics of Mexico's Complementary Membership in NAFTA and the Pacific Alliance
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Clarkson, Stephen
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: When a state joins two regional organizations (ROs) pursuing such different objectives in the same region as integration and security, international relations scholarship focuses on whether the obligations defined by the one organization are compatible with those laid down in the other. On the other hand, when a state belongs to two ROs with the same policy scope but in different regions, the possibility that this “regional overlap” creates conflicts between differing normative and institutional commitments that can generate contradictions rather than complementarities for the government involved is considerably more challeng­ing for analysts. These dilemmas were raised in 2012 by Mexico when, already a member of the North American Free Trade Agreement since 1994, it founded the Pacific Alliance with three far-off countries, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. This paper tackles four puzzles that the resulting regional overlap presented: Why, when its trade was overwhelmingly directed at the North American market, did Mexico join the Pacific Alliance offering poor prospects for increasing its foreign commerce? How, as a third world rule-taker on trade issues, did it become a first world rule-maker which urged the new Alliance to adopt NAFTA’s foreign direct investment protection norms and institutions? In border security matters, was Mexico finding allies who could help the country resist overbearing US demands for collaboration in its “wars” on drugs and ter­rorism or was it diffusing Washington’s norms southwards to its fellow member states in the Andes? Were the geopolitical implications of Mexico’s regional overlap to reaffirm its credentials in Latin America or to support the United States’ efforts to offset the consolidation there of China’s trade, investment, and security presence? Our discussion of these four puzzles will reveal a surprising set of complementarities rather than contradictions between Mexico’s policy obligations, actions, and prospects in these two distinct ROs.
An Efficient Framework for Visible-Infrared Cross Modality Person Re-Identification
Creators: name: Basaran, Emrah
name: Gokmen, Muhittin
name: Kamasak, Mustafa E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visible-infrared cross-modality person re-identification (VI-ReId) is an essential task for video surveillance in poorly illuminated or dark environments. Despite many recent studies on person re-identification in the visible domain (ReId), there are few studies dealing specifically with VI-ReId. Besides challenges that are common for both ReId and VI-ReId such as pose/illumination variations, background clutter and occlusion, VI-ReId has additional challenges as color information is not available in infrared images. As a result, the performance of VI-ReId systems is typically lower than that of ReId systems. In this work, we propose a four-stream framework to improve VI-ReId performance. We train a separate deep convolutional neural network in each stream using different representations of input images. We expect that different and complementary features can be learned from each stream. In our framework, grayscale and infrared input images are used to train the ResNet in the first stream. In the second stream, RGB and three-channel infrared images (created by repeating the infrared channel) are used. In the remaining two streams, we use local pattern maps as input images. These maps are generated utilizing local Zernike moments transformation. Local pattern maps are obtained from grayscale and infrared images in the third stream and from RGB and three-channel infrared images in the last stream. We improve the performance of the proposed framework by employing a re-ranking algorithm for post-processing. Our results indicate that the proposed framework outperforms current state-of-the-art with a large margin by improving Rank-1/mAP by 29.79%/30.91% on SYSU-MM01 dataset, and by 9.73%/16.36% on RegDB dataset.
title: Cardamine trifolia
title: Dreiblättriges / Kleeblättriges Schaumkraut (Cardamine trifolia)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Zahnwurz
subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild des Dreiblättrigen / Kleeblättrigen Schaumkrauts.
Empowering Foster Care Youth
Creators: Batista, Tara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Child welfare
Power (Social sciences)
Foster home care
Social service
Organizational behavior
Social sciences--Research

description: This study explores various youth empowerment programs for young people aging out of foster care in the U.S. Youth Empowerment Programs (YEPs) are interventions that encourage youth to make meaningful decisions about program design, implementation, and/or evaluation. This dissertation employed three methods to contribute to the evidence-base on the effect of YEPs for youth aging out of foster care: a qualitative historical study, a comprehensive literature review, and a quantitative cross-sectional survey that utilized a contemporaneous comparison group.
      	The historical study examined the different program aspects of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) to see if there were any empowering parts. CAS was the precursor to the modern day foster care system in the U.S. The study found that much of the programming that occurred in the Boys Lodging Houses in New York City could be classified as youth-led or youth-informed. Specifically, the children's bank, lending library, and military cadet companies provide detailed examples of youth participating in meaningful programmatic decision-making. Other program aspects in the boys lodging houses could be classified as youth dominated or anarchical. The child placement process was found to be disempowering. There was very little evidence of younger children and girls engaging in programmatic decision-making.
      	The literature review included four studies from 2,631 potentially relevant titles and abstracts. Three of the four studies were qualitative and no randomized controlled trials were found, thus meta-analysis was not possible. The review found that the state of the evidence of the effectiveness of YEPs for youth aging out of foster care is sparse and methodologically weak. All four studies found that YEP participation improved various youth development outcomes. One study reported three iatrogenic effects for a subset of youth.
      	The cross-sectional survey examined the level of psychological empowerment of 193 foster care alumni (ages 18-25) who did (n= 99) and did not (n=94) participate in at least one YEP in Florida. Those who participated in a YEP experienced significantly higher perceived control (B = .25, p =.007), motivation to influence their environments (B = .30, SE B =.09, p =.001), self-efficacy for socio-political skills, and participatory behavior (B = .586, SE B= .136, p =.000), than non-YEP participants even when controlling for age at program entry, gender, race, time in foster care, number of placements, and Pinellas County location.
      	Findings from this dissertation suggest that youth empowerment is possible in child welfare and might be beneficial. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
title: Cardamine flexuosa
title: Wald-Schaumkraut (Cardamine flexuosa)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 8 Bilder des Wald-Schaumkrauts.
Automorphisms of Kronrod-Reeb graphs of Morse functions on 2-sphere
Creators: name: Kravchenko, Anna
name: Maksymenko, Sergiy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E30, 22F50

description: Let $M$ be a compact two-dimensional manifold and, $f \in C^{\infty}(M,\mathbb{R})$ be a Morse function, and $Γ_f$ be its Kronrod-Reeb graph. Denote by $\mathcal{O}_{f}=\{f \circ h \mid h \in \mathcal{D}\}$ the orbit of $f$ with respect to the natural right action of the group of diffeomorphisms $\mathcal{D}$ on $C^{\infty}(M,\mathbb{R})$, and by $\mathcal{S}(f)=\{h\in\mathcal{D} \mid f \circ h = f\}$ the corresponding stabilizer of this function. It is easy to show that each $h\in\mathcal{S}(f)$ induces a homeomorphism of $Γ_f$. Let also $\mathcal{D}_{\mathrm{id}}(M)$ be the identity path component of $\mathcal{D}(M)$, $\mathcal{S}'(f)= \mathcal{S}(f) \cap \mathcal{D}_{\mathrm{id}}(M)$ be group of diffeomorphisms of $M$ preserving $f$ and isotopic to identity map, and $G_f$ be the group of homeomorphisms of the graph $Γ_f$ induced by diffeomorphisms belonging to $\mathcal{S}'(f)$. This group is one of the key ingredients for calculating the homotopy type of the orbit $\mathcal{O}_{f}$. Recently the authors described the structure of groups $G_f$ for Morse functions on all orientable surfaces distinct from $2$-torus $T^2$ and $2$-sphere $S^2$. The present paper is devoted to the case $M=S^{2}$. In this situation $Γ_f$ is always a tree, and therefore all elements of the group $G_f$ have a common fixed subtree $\mathrm{Fix}(G_f)$, which may even consist of a unique vertex. Our main result calculates the groups $G_f$ for all Morse functions $f:S^{2}\to\mathbb{R}$ whose fixed subtree $\mathrm{Fix}(G_f)$ consists of more than one point.
description: 5 pages
title: Consolida regalis
title: Acker-Rittersporn (Consolida regalis)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 5 Bilder des Acker-Rittersporns.
Empowering Women’s Labor Mobilization in Cambodia: The Role of Global Enterprise
Creators: Rullo, Matthew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Human rights
Clothing workers
Freedom of association
International business enterprises

description: Cambodian garment workers continue to suffer deplorable working conditions and face severe barriers to their meaningful labor organization. This study explores the unique opportunity and emerging responsibility of multinational apparel brands to actively shape and protect freedom of association (FOA) for women workers in the Cambodian garment industry. It examines the extent to which global brands sourcing from Cambodia’s garment sector have taken positive action to protect FOA space for women labor organizers throughout their global supply chains. This research aims to contribute to the wider Business and Human Rights (BHR) discourse, building an argument that apparel brands should leverage their unique positions of political and economic influence, not only to passively respect but, to actively protect FOA rights of garment workers—especially in politically volatile and oppressive domestic contexts. This work goes on to reveal how such protective human rights advocacy measures on the part of multinational corporations are helping to drive the BHR discourse forward.
Formality conjecture for minimal surfaces of Kodaira dimension 0
Creators: name: Bandiera, Ruggero
name: Manetti, Marco
name: Meazzini, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F05, 14D15, 16W50, 18G55

description: Let F be a polystable sheaf on a smooth minimal projective surface of Kodaira dimension 0. Then the DG-Lie algebra RHom(F,F) of derived endomorphisms of F is formal. The proof is based on the study of equivariant $L_{\infty}$ minimal models of DG-Lie algebras equipped with a cyclic structure of degree 2 which is non-degenerate in cohomology, and does not rely (even for K3 surfaces) on previous results on the same subject.
description: Post-print version; accepted for publication in Compositio Mathematica
Modular Architecture and Unique Teichoic Acid Recognition Features of Choline- Binding Protein L (CbpL) Contributing to Pneumococcal Pathogenesis
Creators: name: Gutierrez-Fernandez, Javier
name: Saleh, Malek
name: Alcorlo, Martin
name: Gomez-Mejia, Alejandro
name: Pantoja-Uceda, David
name: Trevino, Miguel A.
name: Voss, Franziska
name: Abdullah, Mohammed R.
name: Galan-Bartual, Sergio
name: Seinen, Jolien
name: Sanchez-Murcia, Pedro A.
name: Gago, Federico
name: Bruix, Marta
name: Hammerschmidt, Sven
name: Hermoso, Juan A.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pathogens
subject: X-ray crystallography
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is decorated with a special class of surface-proteins known as choline-binding proteins (CBPs) attached to phosphorylcholine (PCho) moieties from cell-wall teichoic acids. By a combination of X-ray crystallography, NMR, molecular dynamics techniques and in vivo virulence and phagocytosis studies, we provide structural information of choline-binding protein L (CbpL) and demonstrate its impact on pneumococcal pathogenesis and immune evasion. CbpL is a very elongated three-module protein composed of (i) an Excalibur Ca2+-binding domain -reported in this work for the very first time-, (ii) an unprecedented anchorage module showing alternate disposition of canonical and non-canonical choline-binding sites that allows vine-like binding of fully-PCho-substituted teichoic acids (with two choline moieties per unit), and (iii) a Ltp_Lipoprotein domain. Our structural and infection assays indicate an important role of the whole multimodular protein allowing both to locate CbpL at specific places on the cell wall and to interact with host components in order to facilitate pneumococcal lung infection and transmigration from nasopharynx to the lungs and blood. CbpL implication in both resistance against killing by phagocytes and pneumococcal pathogenesis further postulate this surface-protein as relevant among the pathogenic arsenal of the pneumococcus.
title: Actaea spicata
title: Christophskraut (Actaea spicata)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 6 Bilder des Christophskrauts.
BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTORS ON CANADA'S EAST COAST MARGIN: EVIDENCE FOR GAS HYDRATE.
Creators: name: Mosher, David C.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The presence of gas hydrates offshore of eastern Canada has long been inferred from estimated stability zone calculations, but the physical evidence is yet to be discovered. While geophysical evidence derived from seismic and borehole logging data provides indications of hydrate occurrence in a number of areas, the results are not regionally comprehensive and, in some cases, are inconsistent. In this study, the results of systematic seismic mapping along the Scotian and Newfoundland margins are documented. An extensive set of 2-D and 3-D, single and multi-channel, seismic reflection data comprising ~45,000 line-km was analyzed for possible evidence of hydrate. Bottom simulating reflectors (including one double BSR) were identified at five different sites, ranging between 300 and 600 m below the seafloor and in water depths of 1000 to 2900 m. The combined area of the five BSRs is 1720 km2, which comprises a small proportion of the theoretical stability zone area along the Scotian and Newfoundland margins (~635,000 km2). The apparent paucity of BSRs may relate to the rarity of gas hydrates on the margin or may be simply due to geophysical limitations in detecting hydrate.
Modeling the Spectral Signatures of Accretion Disk Winds: A New Monte Carlo Approach
Creators: name: Long, Knox S.
name: Knigge, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bipolar outflows are present in many disk-accreting astrophysical systems. In disk-accreting cataclysmic variables (CVs), these outflows are responsible for most of the strong features in the ultraviolet spectra of these systems. However, there have been few attempts to model these features quantitatively. Here, we describe a new, hybrid Monte Carlo/Sobolev code, which allows us to synthesize the complete spectrum of a disk-dominated, mass-losing CV. The line profiles we calculate for C IV resemble those calculated by previous workers when an identical geometry is assumed. However, our synthetic spectra exhibit not only the well-known resonance lines of O VI, N V, Si IV and C IV, but, with an appropriate choice of mass-loss rate and wind geometry, also many lines originating from excited lower states. Many of these lines have already been seen in the far ultraviolet spectra of CVs obtained with HUT, FUSE, and HST. In order to illustrate the degree to which we are currently able to reproduce observed spectra, we finally present a preliminary fit to the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope spectrum of the dwarf nova Z Cam in outburst.
description: 41 pages, 9 figures, to be published in ApJ
Extended Self-Similarity in Turbulent Systems: an Analytically Soluble Example
Creators: name: Segel, Daniel
name: L'vov, Victor
name: Procaccia, Itamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In turbulent flows the $n$'th order structure functions $S_n(R)$ scale like $R^{ζ_n}$ when $R$ is in the "inertial range". Extended Self-Similarity refers to the substantial increase in the range of power law behaviour of $S_n(R)$ when they are plotted as a function of $S_2(R)$ or $S_3(R)$. In this Letter we demonstrate this phenomenon analytically in the context of the ``multiscaling" turbulent advection of a passive scalar. This model gives rise to a series of differential equations for the structure functions $S_n(R)$ which can be solved and shown to exhibit extended self similarity. The phenomenon is understood by comparing the equations for $S_n(R)$ to those for $S_n(S_2)$.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett., submitted, RevTeX, 4 pages, two figures by request from Daniel Segel: daniel@dvir.weizmann.ac.il
title: Climate policy under firm relocation
title: the implications of phasing out free allowances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Nachtigall, Daniel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: unilateral climate policy
subject: relocation
subject: lock-in effect
subject: rebating
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::336 Öffentliche Finanzen
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::337 Weltwirtschaft

description: The allocation of free allowances for firms belonging to the carbon leakage list of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) was found to lead to substantial overcompensation, which is why some stakeholders recently have called for a phasing out of free allowances in the near term. This paper analyzes the consequences of phasing out free allowances in a dynamic two- period model when one group of countries unilaterally implements climate policies such as an emissions trading scheme. A carbon price induces firms to invest in abatement capital, but may also lead to the relocation of some firms. The social planner addresses the relocation problem by offering firms transfers, i.e. free allowances, conditional on maintaining the production in the regulating country. If transfers are unrestricted in both periods, then the social planner can implement the first best by setting the carbon price equal to the marginal environmental damage and using transfers to prevent any relocation. However, if transfers in the future period are restricted, it is optimal to implement a declining carbon price path with the first period price exceeding the marginal environmental damage. A high carbon price triggers investments in abatement capital and thus creates a lock-in effect. With a larger abatement capital stock, firms are less affected by carbon prices in the future and therefore less prone to relocate in the second period where transfers are restricted.
title: Phase Spectrum Based Speech Processing and Spectral Energy Estimation for Robust Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Stark, Anthony
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Digital speech processing
subject: Speech recognition
subject: Fourier spectral magnitude
subject: Automatic speech recognition

description: Speech is the dominant mode of communication between humans; simple to learn, easy to use and integral for modern life. Given the importance of speech, development of a human-machine speech interface has been greatly anticipated. This challenging task is encapsulated in the digital speech processing research field. In this dissertation, two specific areas of research are considered: 1) the use of short-time Fourier spectral phase in digital speech processing and 2) use of the minimum mean square error spectral energy estimator for environment-robust automatic speech recognition. In speech processing and modelling, the short-time Fourier spectral phase has been considered of minor importance. This is because classic psychoacoustic experiments have shown speech intelligibility to be closely related to short-time Fourier spectral magnitude. Given this result, it is unsurprising that the majority of speech processing literature has involved exploitation of the short-time magnitude spectrum. Despite this, recent studies have shown useful information can be extracted from the spectral phase of speech. As a result, it is now known that spectral phase possesses much of the same intelligibility information as spectral magnitude. It is this avenue of research that is explored in greater detail within this dissertation. In particular, we investigate two phase derived quantities – the short-time instantaneous frequency spectrum and the short-time group delay spectrum. The properties of both spectra are investigated mathematically and empirically, identifying the relationship between known speech features and the underlying phase spectrum. We continue the investigation by examining two related quantities – the instantaneous frequency deviation and the group delay deviation. As a result of this research, two novel phase-based spectral representations are proposed, both of which show a high degree information applicable to speech processing.
Directional Direct Detection of MeV Scale Boosted Dark Matter in Two Component Dark Matter Scenario via Dark Photon Interaction
Creators: name: Nagao, Keiko I.
name: Naka, Tatsuhiro
name: Nomura, Takaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study explores a two-component dark matter model in which one component, heavier dark matter, annihilates into a lighter dark matter. The lighter dark matter is expected to generate detectable signals in detectors due to its enhanced momentum, enabling direct detection even for MeV-scale dark matter. We investigate the effectiveness of directional direct detections, especially the nuclear emulsion detector NEWSdm, in verifying these boosted dark matter particles through nuclear recoil. In particular, we focus on light nuclei, such as protons and carbon, as suitable targets for this detection method due to their high sensitivity to MeV-scale dark matter. By modeling the interactions mediated by a dark photon in a hidden U(1)$_D$ gauge symmetry framework, we calculate the expected dark matter flux and scattering rates for various detector configurations. Our results show that nuclear emulsions have the potential to yield distinct, direction-sensitive dark matter signals from the Galactic center, providing a new way to probe low-mass dark matter parameter spaces that evade conventional detection methods.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
MOESM8 of DNA methylation mediates BmDeaf1-regulated tissue- and stage-specific expression of BmCHSA-2b in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
Creators: name: Xu, Guanfeng
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Lyu, Hao
name: Song, Qisheng
name: Feng, Qili
name: Xiang, Hui
name: Zheng, Sichun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8. Fig. S8. mRNA levels of SlCHSA-2b (black), SlDnmt1 (blue) and SlDeaf1 (red) in S. litura wing disk. 6LDn: n-day-old sixth instar larvae, PDn: n-day-old pupae, PP: prepupae.
Additional file 1: of Traditional healersâ role in the detection of active tuberculosis cases in a pastoralist community in Ethiopia: a pilot interventional study
Creators: name: Bezawit Sima
name: Tefera Belachew
name: Bjune, Gunnar
name: Fekadu Abebe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Questionnaire on post interventional assessments of traditional healersâ knowledge regarding TB and Presumptive TB case referral practice. (PDF 169 kb)
Uniform Bounds for the Least Almost-Prime Primitive Root
Creators: name: Martin, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11N69

description: We investigate, using the weighted linear sieve, the distribution of almost-primes among the residue classes (mod p) that generate the multiplicative group of reduced residue classes. We are concerned with finding an upper bound for the least prime or almost-prime primitive root (mod p) that holds uniformly for all p, analogous to Linnik's Theorem on a uniform upper bound for the least prime in a single arithmetic progression (mod p).
description: 15 pages
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight & C.G. summary, Oct. 1/58
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight and C.G. summary, Oct. 1/58
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
Balancing Passenger Transport and Power Distribution: A Distributed Dispatch Policy for Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles
Creators: name: Robbennolt, Jake
name: Li, Meiyi
name: Mohammadi, Javad
name: Boyles, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Shared autonomous electric vehicles can provide on-demand transportation for passengers while also interacting extensively with the electric distribution system. This interaction is especially beneficial after a disaster when the large battery capacity of the fleet can be used to restore critical electric loads. We develop a dispatch policy that balances the need to continue serving passengers (especially critical workers) and the ability to transfer energy across the network. The model predictive control policy tracks both passenger and energy flows and provides maximum passenger throughput if any policy can. The resulting mixed integer linear programming problem is difficult to solve for large-scale problems, so a distributed solution approach is developed to improve scalability, privacy, and resilience. We demonstrate that the proposed heuristic, based on the alternating direction method of multipliers, is effective in achieving near-optimal solutions quickly. The dispatch policy is examined in simulation to demonstrate the ability of vehicles to balance these competing objectives with benefits to both systems. Finally, we compare several dispatch behaviors, demonstrating the importance of including operational constraints and objectives from both the transportation and electric systems in the model.
Entiminae INCLUDING SOME FROM WOODLARK
Creators: name: Kuschel, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae

description: KEY TO GENERA OF ENTIMINAE, INCLUDING SOME FROM WOODLARK  1 Claws free............................................................................................................................................................ 2
— Claws connate or single.................................................................................................................................. 26
description: Published as part of Kuschel, Guillermo, 2008, Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: Basal families and some Curculionidae, pp. 99-250 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 197 on page 118
Transversal torus knots
Creators: name: Etnyre, John B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50, 57M25, 53C15

description: We classify positive transversal torus knots in tight contact structures up to transversal isotopy.
description: 16 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol3/paper11.abs.html
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight & C.G. summary, Sept. 1/58
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight and C.G. summary, Sept. 1/58
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight & C.G. summary, Aug. 1/58
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight and C.G. summary, Aug. 1/58
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
title: Helleborus foetidus
title: Stinkende Nieswurz (Helleborus foetidus)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 6 Bilder des Stinkenden Nieswurzes.
Invariant manifolds of hypercyclic vectors for the real scalar case
Creators: name: Bes, Juan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A15; 47A99

description: We show that every hypercyclic operator on a real locally convex space admits a dense, invariant linear manifold of hypercyclic vectors.
description: 4 pages
Enablers of Circular Economy at the Urban Scale: A Case Study of the Circular Fashion Ecosystem in New York City
Creators: Wu, Savannah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Printed fashion apparel industry
City planning--Economic aspects
Textile industry--Government policy
Refuse and refuse disposal--Management

description: The fashion industry is one of the largest industrial sectors with the opportunity to transform from a linear take-make-waste approach, to a circular model that extends a fashion product’s lifespan and minimizes nonrenewable resource consumption and landfilling of textiles. This paper examines New York City’s circular fashion stakeholders and collaborations that seek novel ways of closing the loop of the fashion value chain. The stakeholders’ current strategies and main challenges are analyzed after an overview of New York City’s legacy of fashion manufacturing, in order to assess opportunities for collaborations on technological and policy interventions. While innovations such as digital product identification have great potential to increase feedback loops and transparency throughout the fashion product value chain, it is crucial to understand the context in which to apply these technologies and assess policy and regulatory incentives that need to be accompanied. This paper provides an explorative overview of the experiences in New York City to guide policy makers, organizations, and individuals interested in understanding the practices, challenges, and opportunities in applying circular economy principles to the fashion industry.
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight & C.G. summary, July 1/58
title: Arrow 2 production A/C: weight and C.G. summary, July 1/58
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Handwritten correction of report number--"43" replaced with "34".
description: Corrections à la main du rapport numéro « 43 » remplacé par le numéro « 34 ».
description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
Additional file 1: of Compliance among infants exposed to hepatitis B virus in a post-vaccination serological testing program in four provinces in China
Creators: name: Zheng, Hui
name: Zhang, Guo-Min
name: Chan, Po-Lin
name: Wang, Fu-Zhen
name: Rodewald, Lance
name: Miao, Ning
name: Sun, Xiao-Jin
name: Yin, Zun-Dong
name: Edwards, Jeffrey
name: Wang, Hua-Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations. (PDF 616 kb)
Enabling Automated, Conversational Health Coaching with Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Creators: Mitchell, Elliot Griffith
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Information science
Computer science
Medical sciences
Health coaches
Artificial intelligence--Medical applications
Nutrition--Education
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes--Nutritional aspects

description: Health coaching is a promising approach to support self-management of chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes; however, there aren’t enough coaching practitioners to support those in need. Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have the potential to enable innovative, automated health coaching interventions, but important gaps remain in applying AI and ML to coaching interventions. This thesis aims to identify computational approaches and interactive technologies that enable automated health coaching systems. First, I utilized computational approaches that leverage individuals’ self-tracking and health data and used an expert system to translate ML inferences into personalized nutrition goal recommendations. The system, GlucoGoalie, was evaluated in multiple studies including a 4-week deployment study which demonstrated the feasibility of the approach. Second, I compared human-powered and automated/chatbot approaches to health coaching in a 3-week study which found that t2.coach — a scripted, theoretically-grounded chatbot designed through an iterative, user-centered process — cultivated a coach-like experience that had many similarities to the experience of messaging with actual health coaches, and outlined directions for automated, conversational coaching interventions. Third, I examined multiple AI approaches to enable micro-coaching dialogs — brief coaching conversations related to specific meals, to support achievement of nutrition goals — including a knowledge-based system for natural language understanding, and a data-driven, reinforcement learning approach for dialog management. Together, the results of these studies contribute methods and insights that take steps towards more intelligent conversational coaching systems, with resonance to research in informatics, human-computer interaction, and health coaching.
title: Lathyrus maritimus
title: Strand-Platterbse (Lathyrus maritimus)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 7 Bilder der Strand-Platterbse.
GEDI: Gammachirp Envelope Distortion Index for Predicting Intelligibility of Enhanced Speech
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Katsuhiko
name: Irino, Toshio
name: Araki, Shoko
name: Kinoshita, Keisuke
name: Nakatani, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this study, we propose a new concept, the gammachirp envelope distortion index (GEDI), based on the signal-to-distortion ratio in the auditory envelope, SDRenv to predict the intelligibility of speech enhanced by nonlinear algorithms. The objective of GEDI is to calculate the distortion between enhanced and clean-speech representations in the domain of a temporal envelope extracted by the gammachirp auditory filterbank and modulation filterbank. We also extend GEDI with multi-resolution analysis (mr-GEDI) to predict the speech intelligibility of sounds under non-stationary noise conditions. We evaluate GEDI in terms of speech intelligibility predictions of speech sounds enhanced by a classic spectral subtraction and a Wiener filtering method. The predictions are compared with human results for various signal-to-noise ratio conditions with additive pink and babble noises. The results showed that mr-GEDI predicted the intelligibility curves better than short-time objective intelligibility (STOI) measure, extended-STOI (ESTOI) measure, and hearing-aid speech perception index (HASPI) under pink-noise conditions, and better than HASPI under babble-noise conditions. The mr-GEDI method does not present an overestimation tendency and is considered a more conservative approach than STOI and ESTOI. Therefore, the evaluation with mr-GEDI may provide additional information in the development of speech enhancement algorithms.
description: Preprint, 37 pages, 6 tables, 9 figures