cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
RESPONSE TIME AND PATIENT OUTCOMES: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF AMBULANCE SERVICES IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Creators: name: Mohammed Hadi Jaber Albahish , Obaid Manan Hadi Almakayil ,  Mohammed Salem Ali Almakayil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Response time is a critical determinant of patient outcomes in emergency medicine, particularly in life-threatening scenarios such as cardiac arrests, trauma, and strokes. This article critically analyzes the impact of ambulance response times on patient survival rates and recovery outcomes. A comprehensive review of recent studies reveals a clear correlation between reduced response times and improved survival rates, highlighting the importance of timely pre-hospital interventions. Factors affecting response time, such as geographic location, dispatch efficiency, and traffic conditions, are examined to understand disparities in outcomes across different regions. Additionally, the article explores how technological advancements in dispatch systems and enhanced first responder training can help mitigate delays. Through a systematic analysis of data and case studies, this research identifies actionable recommendations to improve ambulance services, emphasizing policy reforms, increased resource allocation, and public CPR training. Findings underscore the need for continuous improvements in emergency response systems to optimize patient outcomes and advance public health.

Keywords: Ambulance response time, emergency medicine, patient outcomes, pre-hospital care, survival rates, dispatch efficiency, emergency response systems, healthcare policy, CPR training, trauma care
ГЕОРГИЙ АДАМОВИЧ И РУССКОЕ ЗАРУБЕЖЬЕ
Creators: name: Коростелев Олег Анатольевич
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: Балтийский семинар; Георгий Адамович; Серебряный век; Русское Зарубежье; издательская практика; научный комментарий.

description: Предлагаемый реферативный обзор посвящен прошедшему 7–8 ноября 2019 г. на факультете Гуманитарных наук Латвийского университета в научно-исследовательском центре Русистики очередному международному Балтийскому семинару «Георгий Адамович и ... (к проблеме изучения культуры русской диаспоры)». В работе семинара приняли участие исследователи из Латвии, Эстонии, Литвы, России и Венгрии, он вызвал большой интерес у студентов, преподавателей вузов и гимназий, латвийской общественности. Как показывает автор обзора, заявленная в заглавии семинара диалогичность проблематики проявилась в большинстве выступлений, объединяющих следующие тематические блоки: Адамович и культура диаспоры, Адамович и советская литература, Адамович – между культурой Серебряного века и Русским Зарубежьем, Адамович и послевоенная литература. Представленные на семинаре исследовательские сюжеты, актуальные по своей проблематике, так или иначе соприкасаются с ходом работы над 18-ти томным собранием сочинений литератора в московском издательстве «Дмитрий Сечин». В центре внимания докладчиков были вопросы издательской практики, архивных изысканий и научного комментария. Согласно мнениям, высказанным при подведении итогов Балтийского семинара, «монотемность» чтений успешно выявляет всю «полифоничность» проблем изучения культуры Русского Зарубежья, и особенно удачным представляется решение посвятить персональное научное заседание одному из ведущих литераторов своей эпохи – Г.В. Адамовичу.
Looking For Timing Variations in the Transits of 16 Exoplanets
Creators: name: Yalçınkaya, S.
name: Esmer, E. M.
name: Baştürk, Ö.
name: Muhaymin, A.
name: Kutluay, A. C.
name: Silistre, D. İ.
name: Akar, F.
name: Southworth, J.
name: Mancini, L.
name: Davoudi, F.
name: Karamanlı, E.
name: Tezcan, F.
name: Demir, E.
name: Yılmaz, D.
name: Güleroğlu, E.
name: Tekin, M.
name: Taşkın, İ.
name: Aladağ, Y.
name: Sertkan, E.
name: Kurt, U. Y.
name: Fişek, S.
name: Kaptan, S.
name: Aliş, S.
name: Aksaker, N.
name: Yelkenci, F. K.
name: Tezcan, C. T.
name: Kaya, A.
name: Oğlakkaya, D.
name: Aydın, Z. S.
name: Yeşilyaprak, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We update the ephemerides of 16 transiting exoplanets using our ground-based observations, new TESS data, and previously published observations including those of amateur astronomers. All these light curves were modeled by making use of a set of quantitative criteria with the EXOFAST code to obtain mid-transit times. We searched for statistically significant secular and/or periodic trends in the mid-transit times. We found that the timing data are well modeled by a linear ephemeris for all systems except for XO-2 b, for which we detect an orbital decay with the rate of -12.95 $\pm$ 1.85 ms/yr that can be confirmed with future observations. We also detect a hint of potential periodic variations in the TTV data of HAT-P-13 b which also requires confirmation with further precise observations.
description: 23 pages, 17 figures
Viagens de uma viajante
Creators: name: Araújo, Helena C.
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2021

description: Recensão à obra de Vasconcelos, Teresa (2018). Viagens de uma viajante: Ecos de vida de uma educadora-cidadã. Porto: Edições Afrontamento.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 53 (2018): Educação e pacifismo
НАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ КЛАССИКА В УСЛОВИЯХ ГЛОБАЛЬНОГО ТРАНЗИТА
Creators: name: Шулятьева Дина Владимировна
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: национальный канон; литературная классика; мировая литература; культурный трансфер; глобальный транзит.

description: Предметом обсуждения XXII Летней международной гуманитарной школы стали проблемы национальной литературной классики в условиях глобального транзита: на протяжении нескольких дней ведущие отечественные и мировые исследователи и преподаватели предпринимали попытки проблематизировать заданную тему в самых разных аспектах, как академических, так и методических. Лекции, научные семинары, круглые столы и дискуссии позволили обсудить и вопрос формирования и трансформации национального литературного канона (причем на материале не только отечественной практики), и проблему освоения литературной классики в популярной культуре, а также ее преломление в иных, отличных от литературной, медийных средах (театр, кино), и, наконец, особенности осмысления литературной классики в современной художественной практике (прежде всего, в современном романе). Не менее многообразной была и методическая часть программы Летней школы: к обсуждению предлагались как проблемы преподавания зарубежной литературы в школе (связанные с явным преобладанием отечественных произведений в школьном курсе, зачастую изучаемых без прослеживания взаимосвязей с западноевропейской литературой), так и изучение зарубежной литературы в университете: на профильных, филологических, специальностях и на непрофильных (журналистика, медиа и др.). Особое внимание было уделено обсуждению курса мировой литературы как проекта. С учетом мирового опыта, актуальной культурной ситуации и потребностей современной аудитории, как должно быть сформулировано это понятие и что (на практике) в себя включать: обязана ли «мировая литература» в университетском преломлении быть идентична «зарубежной», «зарубежная литература» – концентрироваться только на западноевропейском и североамериканском наследии, нужно ли при изучении разделять курсы отечественной и не отечественной литературы – все эти вопросы и поиски ответов на них объединили множество мероприятий, прошедших в рамках XXII Летней школы.
ExpressEdit: Video Editing with Natural Language and Sketching
Creators: name: Tilekbay, Bekzat
name: Yang, Saelyne
name: Lewkowicz, Michal
name: Suryapranata, Alex
name: Kim, Juho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Informational videos serve as a crucial source for explaining conceptual and procedural knowledge to novices and experts alike. When producing informational videos, editors edit videos by overlaying text/images or trimming footage to enhance the video quality and make it more engaging. However, video editing can be difficult and time-consuming, especially for novice video editors who often struggle with expressing and implementing their editing ideas. To address this challenge, we first explored how multimodality$-$natural language (NL) and sketching, which are natural modalities humans use for expression$-$can be utilized to support video editors in expressing video editing ideas. We gathered 176 multimodal expressions of editing commands from 10 video editors, which revealed the patterns of use of NL and sketching in describing edit intents. Based on the findings, we present ExpressEdit, a system that enables editing videos via NL text and sketching on the video frame. Powered by LLM and vision models, the system interprets (1) temporal, (2) spatial, and (3) operational references in an NL command and spatial references from sketching. The system implements the interpreted edits, which then the user can iterate on. An observational study (N=10) showed that ExpressEdit enhanced the ability of novice video editors to express and implement their edit ideas. The system allowed participants to perform edits more efficiently and generate more ideas by generating edits based on user's multimodal edit commands and supporting iterations on the editing commands. This work offers insights into the design of future multimodal interfaces and AI-based pipelines for video editing.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures, to be published in ACM IUI 2024
Viagens de uma viajante
Creators: name: Bettencourt, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: Recensão à obra de Vasconcelos, Teresa (2018). Viagens de uma viajante: Ecos de vida de uma educadora-cidadã. Porto: Edições Afrontamento.
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«Абсурд в грамматике свидетельствует не о частной трагедии» (И. Бродский): разгадывание «смыслового тупика» в пьесах А. Платонова Рецензия на книгу: Когут К.С., Хрящева Н.П. Поэтика драматургии А.П. Платонова конца 1930-х – начала 1950-х годов: межтекстовый диалог. М.: Нестор-история, 2018. 280 с.
Creators: name: Рыбальченко Татьяна Леонидовна
Publisher: name: Новый филологический вестник
Year: 2020
Subjects: А. Платонов; поэтика драмы; мотивный анализ; автодиалог писателя; ассоциативный фон художественного произведения.

description: В статье рецензируется книга екатеринбургских литературоведов, доктора филологических наук Н.П. Хрящевой и кандидата филологических наук К.С. Когута, посвященная интерпретации драматургии А. Платонова в аспекте поэтики, т.е. в разгадывании художественных кодов писателя и его трактовки советской и мировой цивилизации середины ХХ в. Обращено внимание не только на научную новизну монографии, связанную с малоизученным, неопубликованным при жизни Платонова и оцениваемым часто как маргинальный и художественно несоразмерный с повествовательной прозой Платонова наследием писателя, но и на методологию герменевтики текстов четырех пьес конца 1930-х – начала 1950-х гг.: «Голос отца», «Волшебное существо», «Ученик Лицея», «Ноев ковчег (Каиново отродье)». Признается убедительным вывод исследователей, что неканоническая драматургическая форма пьес, использование «формульных» риторических, сюжетных, образных знаков в художественной системе свидетельствует не о компромиссе с господствующими эпистемами, а о погружении в глубинные смыслы бытия в целях познания исторической реальности. Научно значимы в монографии, с одной стороны, целостный анализ каждого текста, генетическая и ассоциативная многослойность, с другой – парадигма анализа, позволяющая показать семантические и образные связи, развитие образных и тематических мотивов, выявить целостность эволюционирующей художественной системы Платонова. Продуктивен и метод выявления в пьесах Платонова затекстовых аллюзий (биографических, социально-политических), что удерживает трактовку пьес в границах авторской интенции, а не в границах филологических гипотез исследователя. Монография обосновывает одну из причин обращения писателя к драматургической форме: не просто способ сокрытия авторских смыслов («не криптография» сама по себе) от социальной цензуры, а погружение в миропонимание персонажей с целью преодоления личной субъективности автора в ответах на неразрешимые проблемы бытия. В монографии представлена принципиальная диалогичность Платонова: автодиалог, интертектуальность, диалог с бытием.
Prediction of ambient pressure superconductivity in cubic ternary hydrides with MH$_6$ octahedra
Creators: name: Zheng, Feng
name: Zhang, Zhen
name: Wu, Shunqing
name: Lin, Qiubao
name: Wang, Renhai
name: Fang, Yimei
name: Wang, Cai-Zhuang
name: Antropov, Vladimir
name: Sun, Yang
name: Ho, Kai-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exploring high-temperature superconducting (high-$T_c$) material at ambient pressure holds immense significance for physics, chemistry, and materials science. In this study, we perform a high-throughput screening of strong electron-phonon interactions in X$_2$MH$_6$ compounds (X = Li, Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ga, Rb, Sr, and In; M are $3d$, $4d$, and $5d$ transition metals). These compounds have a cubic structure featuring an MH$_6$ octahedron motif. Our screening calculations suggest that 26 compounds exhibit dynamic stability and strong electron-phonon coupling. Among these 26 compounds, Mg$_2$RhH$_6$, Mg$_2$IrH$_6$, Al$_2$MnH$_6$, and Li$_2$CuH$_6$ show promising energetic stability and $T_c$ of more than 50 K at ambient pressure. This study underscores promising high-$T_c$ compounds at ambient pressure with distinctive MH$_6$ motifs.
New second order sufficient optimality conditions for state constrained parabolic control problems
Creators: name: Casas, Eduardo
name: Mateos, Mariano
name: Rösch, Arnd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K58, 35R06, 49K20

description: We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation with pointwise control and state constraints imposed at every point of the space-time cylinder. We obtain second order sufficient optimality conditions for local optimality in the sense of $L^2(Q)$. Our results are valid for spatial domains of dimension less than or equal to three.
Persistent depressive disorder across the adult lifespan: results from clinical and population-based surveys in Germany
Creators: name: Nübel, Julia
name: Guhn, Anne
name: Müllender, Susanne
name: Le, Hong Duyen
name: Cohrdes, Caroline
name: Köhler, Stephan
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chronic depression course
subject: Persistent depressive disorder
subject: Prevalence
subject: Disease burden
subject: Health-related quality of life
subject: General population
subject: Germany
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Cross-sectional studies
subject: Clinical studies
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Although the individual and economic disease burden of depression is particularly high for long-term symptoms, little is known of the lifetime course of chronic depression. Most evidence derives from clinical samples, and the diagnostic distinction between persistent depressive disorder (PDD) and non-chronic major depression (NCMDD) is still debated. Thus, we examined characteristics of PDD among clinical vs. non-clinical cases, and the associated disease burden at a population level. Methods Data were drawn from the mental health module of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1-MH, 2009–2012, n = 4483) and a clinical sample of PDD inpatients at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (2018–2019, n = 45). The DSM-5 definition of PDD was operationalized a priori to the study using interview-based DSM-IV diagnoses of dysthymia and major depression lasting at least 2 years in both surveys. Additional depression characteristics (depression onset, self-classified course, suicidality, comorbid mental disorders, treatment history and current depressive symptoms [Patient Health Questionnaire-9]) were assessed. In the DEGS1-MH, health-related quality of life (Short Form Health Survey-36, SF-36), chronic somatic conditions, number of sick days (past 12 months) or days with limitations in normal daily life activities (past 4 weeks), and health service utilization (past 12 months) were compared for PDD vs. NCMDD. Results PDD cases from the clinical sample had a significantly earlier depression onset, a higher proportion of self-classification as persistent course, and treatment resistance than PDD and NCMDD cases in DEGS1-MH. At a population level, PDD cases showed worse outcomes compared with NCMDD cases in terms of somatic comorbidity, SF-36 mental component score, and activity limitations owing to mental health problems, as well as a higher risk for outpatient mental health care contact. Conclusions The distinction between PDD and NCMDD proposed for DSM-5 seems warranted. Early onset depression, self-classification as persistent depressive course, and treatment resistance are suggested as markers of more severe and chronic depression courses. At a population level, PDD is associated with remarkably higher individual and economic disease burden than NCMDD, highlighting the need to improve medical recognition of chronic courses and establish specific treatment concepts for chronic depression.
aprender social na educação não formal
Creators: name: Lenzi, Gabriela Poltronieri
name: Heinzle, Marcia Selpa
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: Este artigo apresenta um estudo etnográfico realizado com nove mulheres mastectomizadas que frequentam a Rede Feminina de Combate ao Câncer de uma cidade localizada no sul do Brasil. O objetivo foi compreender como uma educação não formal, propiciou o apoio social entre essas mulheres. Para geração de dados foi implementada uma oficina, chamada de Oficina do Chapéu, que as ensinou a confeccionar esse acessório da indumentária. Nesse processo a observação participante e o diário de campo serviram de alicerce para as descrições e interpretações dos dados coletados durante as oficinas. A partir dos princípios da educação não formal e o aporte teórico antropológico, a Oficina do Chapéu ensinou as técnicas desse labor assim como fatores estéticos e estilísticos desse adorno. Além disso, durante esse processo, foi possível despertar os valores humanos, que abriram um amplo espaço de troca de experiências e aprendizagens entre elas bem como de apoio social aos seus pares.
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Supplementary Information file for Haest et al. (2024) - Continental-scale patterns in diel flight timing of high-altitude migratory insects. PhilTrans.
Creators: name: Haest, Birgen
name: Liechti, Felix
name: Hawkes, Will L.
name: Chapman, Jason
name: Åkesson, Susanne
name: Shamoun-Baranes, Judy
name: Nesterova, Anna P.
name: Comor, Vincent
name: Preatoni, Damiano
name: Bauer, Silke
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Many insects depend on high-altitude, migratory movements during part of their life cycle. The daily timing of these migratory movements is not random, e.g. many insect species show peak migratory flight activity at dawn, noon or dusk. These insects provide essential ecosystem services such as pollination but also contribute to crop damage. Quantifying the diel timing of their migratory flight and its geographical and seasonal variation, are hence key towards effective conservation and pest management. Vertical-looking radars provide continuous and automated measurements of insect migration, but large-scale application has not been possible because of limited availability of suitable devices. Here, we quantify patterns in diel flight periodicity of migratory insects between 50 and 500 m above ground level during March-October 2021 using a network of seventeen vertical-looking radars across Europe. Independent of the overall daily migratory movements and location, peak migratory movements occur around noon, during crepuscular evening and occasionally the morning. Relative daily proportions of insect migration intensity and traffic during the diel phases of crepuscular-morning, day, crepuscular-evening and night remain largely equal throughout May-September and across Europe. These findings highlight, extend, and generalize previous regional-scale findings on diel migratory insect movement patterns to the whole of temperate Europe.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Towards a global toolkit for insect biodiversity monitoring’.
Educação para o desenvolvimento na era global
Creators: name: Coelho, Dalila P.
name: Caramelo, João
name: Menezes, Isabel
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: Neste artigo faz-se uma revisão de elementos relevantes para o entendimento e problematização da Educação para o Desenvolvimento promovida por organizações não governamentais. Primeiramente analisam-se questões ligadas ao desenvolvimento e à globalização, campos vitais para compreender o surgimento e evolução da temática. Segue-se uma sistematização do conceito de educação para o desenvolvimento e de outros dois conceitos frequentemente considerados sinónimos: educação global e educação para a cidadania global. Conclui-se com uma leitura de aspetos tensionais do campo à luz de uma perspetiva pós-colonial.
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Educação para a paz
Creators: name: Pimenta, Jussara Santos
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: O texto tem como objetivo compreender como Cecília Meireles se empenhou, a partir do seu trabalho no jornal carioca Diário de Notícias, onde permaneceu de junho de 1930 a janeiro de 1933, para sensibilizar e envolver os seus leitores na obra de reconstrução pedagógica pela paz. A nossa análise tomou como fonte primária os «Comentários» publicados na «Página de Educação», onde a poeta e educadora expõe as suas concepções educacionais, políticas e filosóficas. Segundo ela, ser educador equivalia a ser poeta, para compreender a criança e suas aspirações e possibilitar o nascimento de um novo mundo de paz e de pacificação da natureza combativa por meio de uma convicção profunda, de um gesto voluntário, não uma atitude meramente convencional e decorativa. Para tanto, cabia aos educadores atuar sobre a infância com eficiência e simplicidade a fim de possibilitar a construção de um mundo melhor. O ideal de educação, de acordo com Cecília, deveria ultrapassar os limites estreitos da sala de aula, derrubar as fronteiras entre os países, dissolver os estranhamentos de raça, língua, cultura, religião, pois a escola tem objetivos muito mais amplos que o simples ler, escrever e contar.
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Compromisso com a paz
Creators: name: Afonso, José António
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: Pretendemos com esta reflexão identificar e analisar a receção e reação das comunidades protestantes portuguesas, quer ao rebentar do conflito que dividiu a Europa entre 1914 e 1918 – a I Guerra Mundial –, quer nas sequelas humanas e geopolíticas do conflito. Seguiremos, através de imprensa protestante, por um lado, as principais manifestações de denúncia do conflito por parte dos metodistas, dos presbiterianos e dos elementos da Igreja Lusitana, seriando os argumentos então aduzidos, e naturalmente captaremos a adesão às posições de Portugal quando lhe é declarada guerra pelos Alemães; e, por outro lado, rastrearemos as fases de mobilização dessas mesmas comunidades, reservando particular atenção ao modo como difundiram as propostas humanitárias e ecuménicas ensaiadas nas frentes de batalha e como essas lições estruturam o modelo educacional disseminado após o Armistício.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 53 (2018): Educação e pacifismo
Working example for the coding phases of the qualitative data
Creators: name: Graziotin, Daniel
name: Fagerholm, Fabian
name: Xiaofeng Wang
name: Abrahamsson, Pekka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified

description: This document provides a working example of the qualitative coding phases for our studies related to the happiness of software developers. The first column of the table contains a response fragment. The three subsequent columns report how the three different researchers (R1, R2, and R3) open coded the fragment. The fourth column explains how the open codes were merged during the agreement phase. The remaining columns provide the higher-level codes of axial and selective coding, that are the final parts of the coding phase.
Avoiding the devil
Creators: name: Keiner, Edwin
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: The educationalisation of social problems serves as favoured instrument to transform big societal topics, e.g., peace, social justice, equality, equity and equal opportunities, inclusion, recognition, freedom and liberty, into problems of education and educational research. These topics then turn into educational visions and missions. However, they often lack their negatively connoted counterparts: war, injustice, inequality, but also failure, disappointment, even the subversive movement against its own honourable intentions. By examining the epistemological, the sociological and the historical perspective, this paper illustrates how the epistemological profile and the educationalisation of social problems contribute to constructing both positive, forward-looking theological and teleological patterns while masking the other side, the Devil. It concludes that longing for peace might just be part of the desire to create an educational vision of a perfect and harmonious world.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 53 (2018): Educação e pacifismo
Panonut360: A Head and Eye Tracking Dataset for Panoramic Video
Creators: name: Xu, Yutong
name: Du, Junhao
name: Wang, Jiahe
name: Ning, Yuwei
name: Cao, Sihan Zhou Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rapid development and widespread application of VR/AR technology, maximizing the quality of immersive panoramic video services that match users' personal preferences and habits has become a long-standing challenge. Understanding the saliency region where users focus, based on data collected with HMDs, can promote multimedia encoding, transmission, and quality assessment. At the same time, large-scale datasets are essential for researchers and developers to explore short/long-term user behavior patterns and train AI models related to panoramic videos. However, existing panoramic video datasets often include low-frequency user head or eye movement data through short-term videos only, lacking sufficient data for analyzing users' Field of View (FoV) and generating video saliency regions.
 Driven by these practical factors, in this paper, we present a head and eye tracking dataset involving 50 users (25 males and 25 females) watching 15 panoramic videos. The dataset provides details on the viewport and gaze attention locations of users. Besides, we present some statistics samples extracted from the dataset. For example, the deviation between head and eye movements challenges the widely held assumption that gaze attention decreases from the center of the FoV following a Gaussian distribution. Our analysis reveals a consistent downward offset in gaze fixations relative to the FoV in experimental settings involving multiple users and videos. That's why we name the dataset Panonut, a saliency weighting shaped like a donut. Finally, we also provide a script that generates saliency distributions based on given head or eye coordinates and pre-generated saliency distribution map sets of each video from the collected eye tracking data.
 The dataset is available on website: https://dianvrlab.github.io/Panonut360/.
description: 7 pages,ACM MMSys'24 accepted
The morphological mix of dwarf galaxies in the nearby Universe
Creators: name: Lazar, Ilin
name: Kaviraj, Sugata
name: Watkins, Aaron E.
name: Martin, Garreth
name: Bichang'a, Brian
name: Jackson, Ryan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a complete, unbiased sample of 257 dwarf (10^8 MSun < Mstar < 10^9.5 MSun) galaxies at z < 0.08, in the COSMOS field, to study the morphological mix of the dwarf population in low-density environments. Visual inspection of extremely deep optical images and their unsharp-masked counterparts reveals three principal dwarf morphological classes. 43 and 45 per cent of dwarfs exhibit the traditional `early-type' (elliptical/S0) and `late-type' (spiral) morphologies respectively. However, 10 per cent populate a `featureless' class, that lacks both the central light concentration seen in early-types and any spiral structure - this class is missing in the massive-galaxy regime. 14, 27 and 19 per cent of early-type, late-type and featureless dwarfs respectively show evidence for interactions, which drive around 20 per cent of the overall star formation activity in the dwarf population. Compared to their massive counterparts, dwarf early-types show a much lower incidence of interactions, are significantly less concentrated and share similar rest-frame colours as dwarf late-types. This suggests that the formation histories of dwarf and massive early-types are different, with dwarf early-types being shaped less by interactions and more by secular processes. The lack of large groups or clusters in COSMOS at z < 0.08, and the fact that our dwarf morphological classes show similar local density, suggests that featureless dwarfs in low-density environments are created via internal baryonic feedback, rather than by environmental processes. Finally, while interacting dwarfs can be identified using the asymmetry parameter, it is challenging to cleanly separate early and late-type dwarfs using traditional morphological parameters, such as `CAS', M20 and the Gini coefficient (unlike in the massive-galaxy regime).
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 20 pages, 19 figures (very minor textual changes to match published version)
Structural Results for the Von Neumann Algebras of Thompson-Like Groups
Creators: name: Debonis, Patrick Henry
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 490408
subject: Operator algebras and functional analysis
classificationCode: 490405
subject: Group theory and generalisations

description: When considering von Neumann algebras, a II_1 factor is said to be prime if it does not decompose as the tensor product of two II_1 factors. Using Popa’s deformation/rigidity theory, we prove that the Higman-Thompson groups Td and Vd give rise to prime group von Neumann algebras. Part of the novelty of this result is the use of deformations associated to a quasi-regular representation not weakly contained in the left regular representation. In fact, a much larger class of groups satisfy this primeness result; a certain family of generalized Thompson groups that arise as groups of local similarities of a compact ultrametric space known as CSS groups, a natural extension of Hughes’ FSS groups. This application required substantial new group theory and in the process, we proved that a subclass of CSS groups, referred to as CSS* groups, are non-inner amenable and properly proximal.While the class of non-inner amenable group is quite large, there has been particular attention to proving that generalized Thompson groups are non-inner amenable, as they were not known to fall into a class of non-inner amenable groups. In particular, our result proves that the Röver-Nekrashevych groups are non-inner amenable, answering a question of Bashwinger and Zaremsky. Properly Proximal groups are a relatively new class of non-inner amenable groups. They generalize bi-exactness and possess actions that produce von Neumann algebras with desirable properties. Thus, it is of great interest to know which groups are properly proximal.In another direction, we proved that a large class of Thompson-Like groups arising from the d-ary cloning-system construction of Skipper and Zaremsky give rise to a stable orbit equivalence relation. Consequently, they are McDuff groups, meaning that they admit a free ergodic p.m.p action on a probability space, such that the resulting crossed-product von Neumann algebra is McDuff.Together, these results exhibit the breadth of properties possible for the von Neumann
The Jiao Tong University Spectroscopic Telescope Project
Creators: name: JUST Team
name: Liu, Chengze
name: Zu, Ying
name: Feng, Fabo
name: Li, Zhaoyu
name: Yu, Yu
name: Bai, Hua
name: Cui, Xiangqun
name: Gu, Bozhong
name: Gu, Yizhou
name: Han, Jiaxin
name: Hou, Yonghui
name: Hu, Zhongwen
name: Ji, Hangxin
name: Jing, Yipeng
name: Li, Wei
name: Qi, Zhaoxiang
name: Tan, Xianyu
name: Tian, Cairang
name: Yang, Dehua
name: Yuan, Xiangyan
name: Zhai, Chao
name: Zhang, Congcong
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Zhang, Haotong
name: Zhang, Pengjie
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Zhao, Yi
name: Zheng, Xianzhong
name: Zhu, Qingfeng
name: Yang, Xiaohu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Jiao Tong University Spectroscopic Telescope (JUST) is a 4.4-meter f/6.0 segmentedmirror telescope dedicated to spectroscopic observations. The JUST primary mirror is composed of 18 hexagonal segments, each with a diameter of 1.1 m. JUST provides two Nasmyth platforms for placing science instruments. One Nasmyth focus fits a field of view of 10 arcmin and the other has an extended field of view of 1.2 deg with correction optics. A tertiary mirror is used to switch between the two Nasmyth foci. JUST will be installed at a site at Lenghu in Qinghai Province, China, and will conduct spectroscopic observations with three types of instruments to explore the dark universe, trace the dynamic universe, and search for exoplanets: (1) a multi-fiber (2000 fibers) medium-resolution spectrometer (R=4000-5000) to spectroscopically map galaxies and large-scale structure; (2) an integral field unit (IFU) array of 500 optical fibers and/or a long-slit spectrograph dedicated to fast follow-ups of transient sources for multimessenger astronomy; (3) a high-resolution spectrometer (R~100000) designed to identify Jupiter analogs and Earth-like planets, with the capability to characterize the atmospheres of hot exoplanets.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures
Testing beyond-Kerr spacetimes with GWTC-3
Creators: name: Santos, Rafael M.
name: Nunes, Rafael C.
name: de Araujo, Jose C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2
subject: 83D05

description: The Kerr spacetime is a fundamental solution of general relativity (GR), describing the gravitational field around a rotating, uncharged black hole (BH). Kerr spacetime has been crucial in modern astrophysics and it serves as a foundation for the study of gravitational waves (GWs). Possible deviations in Kerr geometry may indicate deviations from GR predictions. In this work, we consider the Johannsen-Psaltis metric, which is a beyond-Kerr metric characterized by a single free parameter, and then we probe this theory framework using several GWs observations from the third Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3). We find that, for most of the events analyzed, there are no significant deviations from the null hypothesis, i.e. the Kerr metric. Our main findings demonstrate alignment and certain enhancements when compared to previous estimates documented in the literature.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Sexualidades, gravidez e juventude
Creators: name: Joaquim, Teresa
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: Recensão à obra de Fonseca, Laura, & Santos, Sofia A. (Eds.). (2015). Sexualidades, gravidez e juventude: Relações sociais e educativas. Porto: Edições Afrontamento.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 52 (2018): Perspetivas educacionais e estratégias de ação
Four Co(II)/Zn(II) coordination polymers with a multidentate ligand: syntheses, structures, thermal, and photoluminescent properties
Creators: name: Li, Jia-Ming
name: Kun-Huan He
name: Zheng, Yun-Yun
name: Gao, Hui-Yuan
name: Jiang, Yi-Min
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Two pairs of isostructural transition metal coordination polymers, {[Co(L)(H2O)]n} (1) and {[Zn(L)(H2O)]n} (3), {[Co(L)(4,4′-bipy)(H2O)]·H2O}n (2) and {[Zn(L)(4,4′-bipy)(H2O)]·H2O}n (4) (H2L = N-pyrazinesulfonyl-glycine acid and 4,4′-bipy = 4,4′-bipyridine), have been synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy, elemental and thermogravimetric analyses. The structures show that 1 and 3 display 2-D polymeric grid frameworks with a 3-connected (4, 82) topology. 2 and 4 also exhibit a 2-D polymeric grid structure, but are constructed by a 4-connected (4, 4) topology. The adjacent 2-D polymeric grid frameworks for 1–4 are further linked by hydrogen bonding O–H⋯O interactions to form 3-D supramolecular interweaved orderly networks. The fluorescent properties of 3 and 4 were investigated in the solid state.
Swarm Body: Embodied Swarm Robots
Creators: name: Ichihashi, Sosuke
name: Kuroki, So
name: Nishimura, Mai
name: Kasaura, Kazumi
name: Hiraki, Takefumi
name: Tanaka, Kazutoshi
name: Yoshida, Shigeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The human brain's plasticity allows for the integration of artificial body parts into the human body. Leveraging this, embodied systems realize intuitive interactions with the environment. We introduce a novel concept: embodied swarm robots. Swarm robots constitute a collective of robots working in harmony to achieve a common objective, in our case, serving as functional body parts. Embodied swarm robots can dynamically alter their shape, density, and the correspondences between body parts and individual robots. We contribute an investigation of the influence on embodiment of swarm robot-specific factors derived from these characteristics, focusing on a hand. Our paper is the first to examine these factors through virtual reality (VR) and real-world robot studies to provide essential design considerations and applications of embodied swarm robots. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, we identified a system configuration to achieve the embodiment of swarm robots.
Four Co(II)/Zn(II) coordination polymers with a multidentate ligand: Syntheses, structures, thermal and photoluminescent properties
Creators: name: Li, Jia-Ming
name: Kun-Huan He
name: Zheng, Yun-Yun
name: Gao, Hui-Yuan
name: Jiang, Yi-Min
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Two pairs of isostructural transition metal coordination polymers, {[Co(L)(H2O)]n} (1) and {[Zn(L)(H2O)]n} (3), {[Co(L)(4,4’-bipy)(H2O)]·H2O}n (2) and {[Zn(L)(4,4’-bipy)(H2O)]·H2O}n (4) (H2L = N-pyrazinesulfonyl-glycine acid and 4,4’-bipy = 4,4’-bipyridine), have been synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy, elemental and thermogravimetric analyses. The structures show that 1 and 3 display 2-D polymeric grid frameworks with a 3-connected (4, 82) topology. 2 and 4 also exhibit a 2-D polymeric grid structure, but are constructed by a 4-connected (4, 4) topology. The adjacent 2-D polymeric grid frameworks for 1-4 are further linked by hydrogen bonding O-H···O interactions to form 3-D supramolecular interweaved orderly networks. The fluorescent properties of 3 and 4 were investigated in the solid state.
Estado, mercado, comunidade e avaliação
Creators: name: Afonso, Almerindo Janela
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2018

description: A centralidade da avaliação no contexto das políticas educativas contemporâneas tem sido objecto de muitos trabalhos sociológicos, embora as marcas da sua discussão entre nós continuem a ser bastante ténues. Neste sentido, procura-se neste trabalho compreender as mudanças económicas e políticas em contextos onde ocorreu mais cedo o renascimento conservador e neoliberal, para em seguida retirar algumas das implicações destes acontecimentos no tocante à reformulação das políticas educativas e avaliativas. Dado que a redefinição do papel do Estado e a revalorização da ideologia do mercado são dois dos vectores essenciais dessas mudanças, é por referência a estes elementos que se procura elucidar o papel da avaliação educacional, contrapondo, ao mesmo tempo, uma outra rearticulação para pensar a avaliação em relação com a Comunidade, numa perspectiva menos reguladora e mais emancipatória. Finalmente, tendo este quadro teórico em mente, enunciam-se de modo sucinto algumas das especificidades das mudanças na avaliação educacional que ocorreram em Portugal no início dos anos 90.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 52 (2018): Perspetivas educacionais e estratégias de ação
FastPerson: Enhancing Video Learning through Effective Video Summarization that Preserves Linguistic and Visual Contexts
Creators: name: Kawamura, Kazuki
name: Rekimoto, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quickly understanding lengthy lecture videos is essential for learners with limited time and interest in various topics to improve their learning efficiency. To this end, video summarization has been actively researched to enable users to view only important scenes from a video. However, these studies focus on either the visual or audio information of a video and extract important segments in the video. Therefore, there is a risk of missing important information when both the teacher's speech and visual information on the blackboard or slides are important, such as in a lecture video. To tackle this issue, we propose FastPerson, a video summarization approach that considers both the visual and auditory information in lecture videos. FastPerson creates summary videos by utilizing audio transcriptions along with on-screen images and text, minimizing the risk of overlooking crucial information for learners. Further, it provides a feature that allows learners to switch between the summary and original videos for each chapter of the video, enabling them to adjust the pace of learning based on their interests and level of understanding. We conducted an evaluation with 40 participants to assess the effectiveness of our method and confirmed that it reduced viewing time by 53\% at the same level of comprehension as that when using traditional video playback methods.
Learning by (more than) doing: developing staff capability through the collaborative creation of an eLearning module
Creators: name: Megan Deacon
name: Thorn, Melanie
name: Han, Yiye
name: Yates, Steven
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: A paper presented at VALA2016
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 10:50 - 11:20

Abstract
This paper describes how Monash University Library created an online learning copyright resource for university staff as an artefact of an in-house blended learning course. The Copyright Module was developed through library staff collaboration and transference of skills. The team undertook continuous evaluation from multiple perspectives to inform the design, development and implementation of the module. Through this multi-dimensional approach, the team was able to create prototype activities for the module and use them to create other resources by involving the target audience in decisions about the module’s improvement. This process has led to a template of design principles for future work on this module, making it a sustainable model for in-house development of other online learning resources.
Cieran: Designing Sequential Colormaps via In-Situ Active Preference Learning
Creators: name: Hong, Matt-Heun
name: Sunberg, Zachary N.
name: Szafir, Danielle Albers
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quality colormaps can help communicate important data patterns. However, finding an aesthetically pleasing colormap that looks "just right" for a given scenario requires significant design and technical expertise. We introduce Cieran, a tool that allows any data analyst to rapidly find quality colormaps while designing charts within Jupyter Notebooks. Our system employs an active preference learning paradigm to rank expert-designed colormaps and create new ones from pairwise comparisons, allowing analysts who are novices in color design to tailor colormaps to their data context. We accomplish this by treating colormap design as a path planning problem through the CIELAB colorspace with a context-specific reward model. In an evaluation with twelve scientists, we found that Cieran effectively modeled user preferences to rank colormaps and leveraged this model to create new quality designs. Our work shows the potential of active preference learning for supporting efficient visualization design optimization.
description: CHI 2024. 12 pages/9 figures