cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Heavy quark symmetry of $Λ_b^0$ decays in quark models
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiabao
name: Jin, Xiang-Nan
name: Liu, Chia-Wei
name: Geng, Chao-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the heavy quark symmetry with the homogeneous bag model (HBM) and light-front quark model (LFQM) based on the decays of $Λ_b^0\toΛ_c^+\ell^-\overlineν_\ell~(\ell=e,μ,τ)$. In particular, we calculate various parameters in the heavy quark expansions, including the Isgur-Wise functions and their first order corrections. The parameters in the HBM are fitted from the mass spectra, while the ones in the LFQM are tightly constrained by the heavy quark symmetry, granting the predictive power of our results. We explicitly obtain that ${\cal B}(Λ_b^0\toΛ_c^+e^-\overlineν_e)=(5.69\pm 0.58, 5.35\pm 0.50)$, ${\cal B}(Λ_b^0\toΛ_c^+μ^-\overlineν_μ)=(5.67\pm 0.58 $, $5.33\pm 0.49)$, and $Γ(Λ_b^0\toΛ_c^+τ^-\overlineν_τ)/Γ(Λ_b^0\toΛ_c^+μ^-\overlineν_μ)=(0.3243\pm 0.0126$, $ 0.3506\pm 0.0046)$ for the numerical values of (HBM, LFQM). Our results of the branching fractions in both models agree well with the experimental data and lattice QCD calculations. In addition, we find that the hard gluon corrections decrease the branching fractions around $10\%$.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures
Experimental Observation of Resonance-Assisted Tunneling
Creators: name: Gehler, Stefan
name: Löck, Steffen
name: Shinohara, Susumu
name: Bäcker, Arnd
name: Ketzmerick, Roland
name: Kuhl, Ulrich
name: Stöckmann, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first experimental observation of resonance-assisted tunneling, a wave phenomenon, where regular-to-chaotic tunneling is strongly enhanced by the presence of a classical nonlinear resonance chain. For this we use a microwave cavity made of oxygen free copper with the shape of a desymmetrized cosine billiard designed with a large nonlinear resonance chain in the regular region. It is opened in a region, where only chaotic dynamics takes place, such that the tunneling rate of a regular mode to the chaotic region increases the line width of the mode. Resonance-assisted tunneling is demonstrated by (i) a parametric variation and (ii) the characteristic plateau and peak structure towards the semiclassical limit.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
La lunga via del soggetto
Creators: name: Martinengo, Alberto
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2015

description: Ten years after Paul Ricoeur’s death, Trópos discusses the main issues of his thought. Seven contributions deal with Ricoeur’s philosophy of the “human” from different perspectives. Starting from his hermeneutical turn in the 60’s, the contributions retrace Ricoeur’s long way toward a post- metaphysical approach to subjectivity. The aim is to investigate its resources facing new challenges: among others, the reflections on animality, the debates on the posthuman era, the issues concerning the digital identity.
description: Trópos, V. 8 N. 2 (2015): Paul Ricoeur: Human, Antihuman, Posthuman
Modular Hybrid Autoregressive Transducer
Creators: name: Meng, Zhong
name: Chen, Tongzhou
name: Prabhavalkar, Rohit
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Wang, Gary
name: Audhkhasi, Kartik
name: Emond, Jesse
name: Strohman, Trevor
name: Ramabhadran, Bhuvana
name: Huang, W. Ronny
name: Variani, Ehsan
name: Huang, Yinghui
name: Moreno, Pedro J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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: Text-only adaptation of a transducer model remains challenging for end-to-end speech recognition since the transducer has no clearly separated acoustic model (AM), language model (LM) or blank model. In this work, we propose a modular hybrid autoregressive transducer (MHAT) that has structurally separated label and blank decoders to predict label and blank distributions, respectively, along with a shared acoustic encoder. The encoder and label decoder outputs are directly projected to AM and internal LM scores and then added to compute label posteriors. We train MHAT with an internal LM loss and a HAT loss to ensure that its internal LM becomes a standalone neural LM that can be effectively adapted to text. Moreover, text adaptation of MHAT fosters a much better LM fusion than internal LM subtraction-based methods. On Google's large-scale production data, a multi-domain MHAT adapted with 100B sentences achieves relative WER reductions of up to 12.4% without LM fusion and 21.5% with LM fusion from 400K-hour trained HAT.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, in SLT 2022
L'invenzione dell'interiorità
Creators: name: Marengo, Stefano
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2015

description: Michel Foucault’s lectures on Christian hermeneutics and technologies of the Self are crucial for at least two reasons. First of all, through the study of the religious practices of confession and the notion of regime of truth, the French philosopher comes to conclude the genealogy of the western subject which he had been already developing for years. The second issue involves the active role of the subject in the relationships between power and truth. Foucault finds out that the practices of confession, since the end of the second century, have been focused on the subject’s obligation to perform reflected acts of truth. In other terms, in such rituals subject would be compelled to tell the truth about himself and tie himself to it. As a consequence, the truth he tells about himself becomes indeed the norm in accord to which he will always be compelled to behave. Therefore, Foucault argues, the Christian subject is not free at all, but prisoner of his own identity. How can he release himself? This is the question to which Foucault will try to answer in the last years of his life through the deep analysis of the technologies of the Self developed by the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers.
description: Trópos, V. 7 N. 1 (2015): Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations
Additional file 5: of Millennial-scale variability of East Asian summer monsoon inferred from sea surface salinity in the northern East China Sea (ECS) and its impact on the Japan Sea during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3
Creators: name: Kubota, Yoshimi
name: Kimoto, Katsunori
name: Tada, Ryuji
name: Uchida, Masao
name: Ikehara, Ken
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Age model for MD01-2407. AMS 14C ages for core MD01-2407 published in Yokoyama et al. (2007) were recalibrated to calendar age with Marine13 (ΔR = 45) (Reimer et al. 2013). All of the calendar age and depths are listed in Table S1. Choosing a reasonable sedimentation rate, seven datums were not employed in our age model (Table S1). Before 50 ka, we refer to datums in Kido et al. (2007). (DOCX 15 kb)
Antinomia e meontologia dell’inizio
Creators: name: Coltelluccio, Adalberto
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2015

description: Facing “the Beginning–Problem” in Metaphysics leads to aporetical outcomes. I aim to show how in this field the Aristotelian principle of non–contradiction fails: the language which attempts to talk about “the Beginning–Problem” cannot avoid to accept truth as a way of paradox. However it seems to be something deeper than a shortcoming of language. My claim in this paper is that “the Beginning” is structured as a paradox in its own metaphysical outlines.
description: Trópos, V. 7 N. 1 (2015): Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations
title: How overturning Roe v Wade may cost Republicans the midterms
Creators: name: Weisel, Zoe
Publisher: name: Eurac Research
Year: 2022

description: As we approach the U.S. midterm elections on November 8th, 2022, it is important to shine a spotlight on one of the top issues of this year's election: abortion rights. The majority of U.S. citizens disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v Wade. Even Republicans now seem to be aligning their flags with the headwind. Why? Well, the danger of losing votes is all too real.
Continuous gravitational wave detection to understand the generation mechanism of fast radio bursts
Creators: name: Kalita, Surajit
name: Weltman, Amanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the unexpected discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs), researchers have proposed varied theories and models to explain these phenomena. One such model that has recently been developed incorporates the so-called Gertsenshtein-Zel'dovich (GZ) effect, which states that when gravitational waves traverse a pulsar magnetosphere, a portion of the gravitational radiation is transformed into electromagnetic (EM) radiation. The observed properties of FRBs are consistent with the properties of this EM radiation, implying, remarkably, that the GZ effect can account for both repeating and non-repeating FRBs. If this model is correct, the pulsar's properties should not change over time, and it would continue to emit both EM dipole and gravitational quadrupole radiation for a long period of time. This article targets the gravitational radiation produced by the pulsar mechanism and shows that several proposed gravitational wave detectors can detect these gravitational waves. If such detections are performed in the future from the location of FRBs, it might validate the GZ process for FRB production and potentially rule out several other theories of FRB generation.
description: 7 pages with 5 figures; version accepted for publication in MNRAS
Reappropriating Sovereignty
Creators: name: Von Eggers, Nicolai
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2015

description: In this article I discuss and criticize Giorgio Agamben’s conception of sovereignty for being too legalistic and apolitical and thereby incapable of identifying a political and emancipatory potential in the concept of sovereignty. Through readings of Pindar and Aristotle, and Agamben’s interpretations of them, I show that Agamben sees the Greek basileus (king or kingship) as the predecessor of the modern doctrine of sovereignty rather than — what would have been more obvious — Aristotle’s notion of kyrion (supreme or supremacy). Consequently, I develop an alternative to Agamben’s reading of the genealogy of sovereignty by engaging with Aristotle and by showing how this conception of sovereignty entails both political and democratic elements — what Agamben had criticized as essentially missing from the logic of sovereignty. In the last part of the article, I use my criticism of Agamben’s conception of sovereignty and the alternative to it developed through my reading of Aristotle to discuss Agamben’s interpretation and dismissal of the political legacy of the French Revolution, which I see as symptomatic for Agamben’s (mis)comprehension of sovereignty. Due to his conception of sovereignty, Agamben argue that we should abandon it. I argue instead that it must be reappropriated.
description: Trópos, V. 7 N. 1 (2015): Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations
title: Co-circulating Arboviruses in Latin America: Zika Virus, Chikungunya Virus and Dengue Virus
Creators: name: Lobkowicz, L
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2020

description: Chikungunya (CHIKV), Dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) viruses have been of growing public health concern in Latin America. Increasing incidence of new infections alongside the continuing lack of licenced antivirals or vaccines have contributed to a rising burden of disease in populations and cost for healthcare systems. These burdens are further exacerbated due to the difficulty of achieving accurate diagnosis in settings where these viruses co-circulate. Thus, the aim of this research was to study co-circulating CHIKV, DENV and ZIKV in Latin America, particularly in relation to co-infections and the accurate identification of specific arbovirus infections. First, a systematic review of the published literature on ZIKV co-infections was conducted, assessing the co-infection frequency among ZIKV infected cases and the impact of co-infection on the clinical presentation of ZIKV. Second, the co-circulation of CHIKV and ZIKV in a cohort of pregnant women in Recife, Brazil from 2015-2017 was described and the potential to differentiate between infections at symptom presentation was assessed. The systematic review's main findings showed that the most frequent ZIKV co-infections occurred with CHIKV and DENV, and in some circumstances occurred in up to half of the ZIKV infections. Additionally, co-infection did not seem to affect the mild clinical presentation of ZIKV infections. However, the review was not able to assess a potential increase of complications associated with ZIKV co-infections compared to ZIKV mono-infections. Furthermore, the analysis of the cohort study showed that CHIKV and ZIKV infection were distinguishable upon clinical presentation in pregnant women. Our findings on ZIKV co-infections and the clinical presentation of ZIKV and CHIKV infected pregnant women contribute to improved patient management in settings of arbovirus co-circulation, through aiming to facilitate clinical diagnosis and guide laboratory testing, in order to administer appropriate follow up if needed, and consequently to reduce complications associated with arbovirus infection.
Additional file 6: of Millennial-scale variability of East Asian summer monsoon inferred from sea surface salinity in the northern East China Sea (ECS) and its impact on the Japan Sea during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3
Creators: name: Kubota, Yoshimi
name: Kimoto, Katsunori
name: Tada, Ryuji
name: Uchida, Masao
name: Ikehara, Ken
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Figure S4. Depth vs. calendar age for core MD01-2407. Data in blue are not used for the age model. (PDF 75 kb)
Cosmic Acceleration from Varying Masses in Five Dimensions
Creators: name: Moraes, P. H. R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Much effort has been made in trying to solve or at least evade the inconsistencies that emerge from general relativity as the framework for a cosmological model. The extradi- mensional models rise as superb possibilities on this regard. In this work I present cosmo- logical solutions for Wesson's Space-Time-Matter theory of gravity. A relation between mass variation at cosmological scales and the expansion velocity of the universe is ob- tained. Such a relation yields novel features on Space-Time-Matter theory of gravity, which are carefully discussed.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure. To appear in International Journal of Modern Physics D
Perfecting one-loop BCJ numerators in SYM and supergravity
Creators: name: Edison, Alex
name: He, Song
name: Johansson, Henrik
name: Schlotterer, Oliver
name: Teng, Fei
name: Zhang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We take a major step towards computing $D$-dimensional one-loop amplitudes in general gauge theories, compatible with the principles of unitarity and the color-kinematics duality. For $n$-point amplitudes with either supersymmetry multiplets or generic non-supersymmetric matter in the loop, simple all-multiplicity expressions are obtained for the maximal cuts of kinematic numerators of $n$-gon diagrams. At $n=6,7$ points with maximal supersymmetry, we extend the cubic-diagram numerators to encode all contact terms, and thus solve the long-standing problem of \emph{simultaneously} realizing the following properties: color-kinematics duality, manifest locality, optimal power counting of loop momenta, quadratic rather than linearized Feynman propagators, compatibility with double copy as well as all graph symmetries. Color-kinematics dual representations with similar properties are presented in the half-maximally supersymmetric case at $n=4,5$ points. The resulting gauge-theory integrands and their supergravity counterparts obtained from the double copy are checked to reproduce the expected ultraviolet divergences.
description: 55 pages; Dedicated to the memory of Lars Brink; v2: minor changes, published version
GALOPA: Graph Transport Learning with Optimal Plan Alignment
Creators: name: Wang, Yejiang
name: Zhao, Yuhai
name: Wang, Zhengkui
name: Li, Ling
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2024

description: Self-supervised learning on graphs aims to learn graph representations in an unsupervised manner. While graph contrastive learning (GCL - relying on graph augmentation for creating perturbation views of anchor graphs and maximizing/minimizing similarity for positive/negative pairs) is a popular self-supervised method, it faces challenges in finding label-invariant augmented graphs and determining the exact extent of similarity between sample pairs to be achieved. In this work, we propose an alternative self-supervised solution that (i) goes beyond the label invariance assumption without distinguishing between positive/negative samples, (ii) can calibrate the encoder for preserving not only the structural information inside the graph, but the matching information between different graphs, (iii) learns isometric embeddings that preserve the distance between graphs, a by-product of our objective. Motivated by optimal transport theory, this scheme relies on an observation that the optimal transport plans between node representations at the output space, which measure the matching probability between two distributions, should be consistent with the plans between the corresponding graphs at the input space. The experimental findings include: (i) The plan alignment strategy significantly outperforms the counterpart using the transport distance; (ii) The proposed model shows superior performance using only node attributes as calibration signals, without relying on edge information; (iii) Our model maintains robust results even under high perturbation rates; (iv) Extensive experiments on various benchmarks validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Identification of plasma glycosphingolipids as potential biomarkers for prostate cancer (PCA) status
Creators: name: Fontham, E.T.H.
name: Sergeant, S.
name: Franco, C.M.
name: Broeckling, C.D.
name: Lin, H.-K.
name: Bresette, W.
name: Johnstone, L.
name: Snider, J.M.
name: Bensen, J.T.
name: Dutta, R.
name: Snider, A.J.
name: Seeds, M.C.
name: Hallmark, B.
name: Mohler, J.L.
name: Chilton, F.H.
name: Parks, J.S.
name: Smith, G.J.
Publisher: name: MDPI AG
Year: 2020

description: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common male cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in United States men. Controversy continues over the effectiveness of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) for distinguishing aggressive from indolent PCa. There is a critical need for more specific and sensitive biomarkers to detect and distinguish low-versus high-risk PCa cases. Discovery metabolomics were performed utilizing ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) on plasma samples from 159 men with treatment naïve prostate cancer participating in the North Carolina-Louisiana PCa Project to determine if there were metabolites associated with aggressive PCa. Thirty-five identifiable plasma small molecules were associated with PCa aggressiveness, 15 of which were sphingolipids; nine common molecules were present in both African-American and European-American men. The molecules most associated with PCa aggressiveness were glycosphingolipids; levels of trihexosylceramide and tetrahexosylceramide were most closely associated with high-aggressive PCa. The Cancer Genome Atlas was queried to determine gene alterations within glycosphingolipid metabolism that are associated with PCa and other cancers. Genes that encode enzymes associated with the metabolism of glycosphingolipids were altered in 12% of PCa and >30% of lung, uterine, and ovarian cancers. These data suggest that the identified plasma (glyco)sphingolipids should be further validated for their association with aggressive PCa, suggesting that specific sphingolipids may be included in a diagnostic signature for PCa.
Letter from Michael Hamburger to Robin Skelton, July 28, 1967
Creators: name: Hamburger, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Periodical editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1058064
subject: Wiccans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1765210
subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Scholars
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1106878
subject: Editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902475
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769
subject: Hamburger, Michael
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/51878
subject: Translators
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1154833
subject: Skelton, Robin
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/51853
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778

description: Part of a collection of letters from poet and German-English translator Michael Hamburger to Robin Skelton. Most of the correspondence discusses work of Hamburger’s that might be included in publications put together by Skelton. In this letter, Hamburger requests a copy of The Malahat Review that includes his translation of the Günter Eich radio play. He also explains the version of an old poem of his that was sent to Penguin Books for Skelton's anthology of poetry from the forties.
Association among plasma 1,25(OH)2D, ratio of 1,25(OH)2D to 25(OH)D, and prostate cancer aggressiveness
Creators: name: Woloszynska, A.
name: Fontham, E.T.H.
name: Mohler, J.L.
name: Steck, S.E.
name: Bensen, J.T.
name: Johnson, C.S.
name: Ramakrishnan, S.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Su, L.J.
name: Arab, L.
name: Smith, G.J.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Year: 2019

description: Background: African-American (AA) men tend to present with more aggressive prostate cancer (Gleason score >7) than European-American (EA) men. Vitamin D and its metabolites are implicated in prostate cancer biology with vitamin D deficiency, indicated by its metabolite levels in serum or plasma, usually observed in AA men. Objective: To determine if 1, 25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D] plasma levels in AA and EA prostate cancer patients alter the risk of having aggressive prostate cancer. Design: Research subjects from the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (AA n = 435 and EA n = 532) were included. Plasma metabolites 1,25(OH)2D and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D] were measured using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrophotometry. Research subjects were classified into low (Gleason sum < 7, stage T1-T2, and Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) < 9 ng/mL) or high (Gleason sum > 8 or Gleason sum = 7 with 4 + 3, or PSA > 20 ng/mL, or Gleason sum = 7 and stage T3-T4) aggressive disease. Results: Research subjects in the second and third tertiles of plasma levels of 1, 25(OH)2D had lower odds of high aggressive prostate cancer (AA [ORT2vsT1: 0.66, 95%CI: 0.39-1.12; ORT3vsT1: 0.83, 95%CI: 0.49-1.41] and EA [ORT2vsT1: 0.68, 95%CI: 0.41-1.11; ORT3vsT1: 0.67, 95%CI: 0.40-1.11]) compared with the first tertile, though confidence intervals included the null. Greater 1,25(OH)2D/25(OH)D molar ratios were associated with lower odds of high aggressive prostate cancer more evidently in AA (ORQ4vsQ1: 0.45, CI: 0.24-0.82) than in EA (ORQ4vsQ1: 0.64, CI: 0.35-1.17) research subjects. Conclusions: The 1,25(OH)2D/25(OH)D molar ratio was associated with decreased risk of high aggressive prostate cancer in AA men, and possibly in EA men. Further studies analyzing vitamin D polymorphisms, vitamin D binding protein levels, and prostatic levels of these metabolites may be useful. These studies may provide a better understanding of the vitamin D pathway and its biological role underlying health disparities in prostate cancer.
Dynamic HW Priority Queue Based Schedulers for Embedded System
Creators: name: Gunasekaran, Dineshraj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: A real-time operating system (RTOs) is often used in embedded system, to structure the application code and to ensure that the deadlines are met by reacting on events by executing the functions within precise time. Most embedded systems are bound to real-time constraints with determinism and latency as a critical metrics. RTOs are generally implemented in software, increases computational overheads, jitter and memory footprint. Modern FPGA technology, enables the implementation of a full featured and flexible hardware based RTOs, which helps in reducing to greater extent these overheads even if not remove completely. Scheduling algorithms play an important role in the design of real-time systems. An Adaptive Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) based scheduler framework proposed in this article is based on the study and conclusion drawn from the research over the years in HW SW co-design domain. The proposed novel two phase FIS based adaptive hardware task scheduler minimizes the processor time for scheduling activity which uses fuzzy logic to model the uncertainty at first stage along with adaptive framework that uses feedback which allows processors share of task running on multiprocessor to be controlled dynamically at runtime. This Fuzzy logic based adaptive hardware scheduler breakthroughs the limit of the number of total task and thus improves efficiency of the entire real-time system. The increased computation overheads resulted from proposed two phase FIS scheduler can be compensated by utilising the basic characteristics of parallelism of the hardware as scheduler being migrated to FPGA.
Additional file 1: of Factors associated with dengue fever outbreak in Dire Dawa administration city, October, 2015, Ethiopia - case control study
Creators: name: Degife, Luna
name: Worku, Yoseph
name: Desalegn Belay
name: Abyot Bekele
name: Zegeye Hailemariam
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Questionnaire - Dengue Fever outbreak. Factors associated with Dengue Fever Outbreak-Dire Dawa administration city, October 2015. (DOC 173 kb)
Impact of Male Patient Information on Quality of Urine Examination (PIQUE Study)
Creators: name: Spachmann, Philipp J.
name: Rupp, Cathrin
name: Fritsche, Hans-Martin
name: Denzinger, Stefan
name: Burger, Maximilian
name: Breyer, Johannes
name: Otto, Wolfgang
name: Schnabel, Marco J.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Urine culture · Midstream urine · Urinary tract infection · Urine culture contamination · Antibiotic stewardship
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Urine examination has relevance for treatment, and reliability of positive urine culture (UC) is of importance. The technique of urine sampling (US), storage, and transportation is important. The objective of this study was to investigate if detailed patient information for the technique of US and hygiene reduces rates of contaminated UC in screened male patients, as this group was not investigated yet. Methods: All patients independently of complaints were enrolled prospectively and consecutively in an outpatient setting in 2 groups – the first group did not receive detailed information and the second group did. We examined 372 consecutive patients in 2017, 190 not receiving (median age 69 years) and 182 receiving information (median age 70 years), with comparable numbers of patients and age. The result of UC and age was imposed. Results: In all,74.2% of preclarification UC showed a contamination (n = 95) and 75.5% after clarification (n = 83), without significant differences (p = 0.827). This study is limited by the fact that adherence could not be checked. Conclusions: Similar to studies with females, no difference occurred in rates of contaminated UC, so detailed information regarding the US technique does not decrease rates of contaminated UC and vice versa does not increase the quality of midstream-sampled UC in male patients.
On the trajectories of O(1)-Kepler Problems
Creators: name: Meng, Guowu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The trajectories of the $\mathrm{O}(1)$-Kepler problem at level $n\ge 2$ are completely determined. It is found in particular that a non-colliding trajectory is an ellipse, a parabola or a branch of hyperbola according as the total energy is negative, zero or positive. Moreover, it is shown that the group $\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb R)/\mathrm{O}(1)$ acts transitively on both the set of oriented elliptic trajectories and the set of oriented parabolic trajectories. The method employed here is similar to the one used by Levi-Civita in the study of planar Kepler problem in 1920.
description: 6 pages
Calculation of rescaling factors and nuclear multiplication of muons in extensive air showers
Creators: name: Cheminant, Kevin Almeida
name: Góra, Dariusz
name: Borodai, Nataliia
name: Engel, Ralph
name: Pierog, Tanguy
name: Pȩkala, Jan
name: Roth, Markus
name: Unger, Michael
name: Veberič, Darko
name: Wilczyński, Henryk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results obtained from leading cosmic ray experiments indicate that simulations using LHC-tuned hadronic interaction models underestimate the number of muons in extensive air showers compared to experimental data. This is the so-called muon deficit problem. Determination of the muon component in the air shower is crucial for inferring the mass of the primary particle, which is a key ingredient in the efforts to pinpoint the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.In this paper, we present a new method to derive the muon signal in detectors, which uses the difference between the total reconstructed (data) and simulated signals is roughly independent of the zenith angle, but depends on the mass of the primary cosmic ray. Such a method offers an opportunity not only to test/calibrate the hadronic interaction models, but also to derive the $β$ exponent, which describes an increase of the number of muons in a shower as a function of the energy and mass of the primary cosmic ray. Detailed simulations show a dependence of the $β$ exponent on hadronic interaction properties, thus the determination of this parameter is important for understanding the muon deficit problem. We validate the method by using Monte Carlo simulations for the EPOS-LHC and QGSJetII-04 hadronic interaction models, and showing that this method allows us to recover the ratio of the muon signal between EPOS-LHC and QGSJetII-04 and the average $β$ exponent for the studied system, within less than a few percent. This is a consequence of the good recovery of the muon signal for each primary included in the analysis.
description: This work corresponds to the presentation at the ICNFP 2022 at Kolymbari, Crete, in September 2022. The proceedings will be published in Physica Scripta. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.07527
title: Dark Castle
Creators: name: Gafsen, Oliver
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: This thesis comprises the opening five chapters of my memoir, dealing with themes of addiction, masculinity, class privilege and illness. The story begins at Hammersmith Hospital, the night before I was due to have surgery to remove a tumour on my pancreas. The prologue explores the consequences of that surgery in the present tense, causing me to reflect on the sum of my life as I become increasingly unwell and am confronted with my own mortality. The subsequent chapters switch to the past tense and are written in a reflective and at times distanced style as I come to terms with the childhood influences that shaped my behaviour as a young adult. This includes an exploration of my family’s immigration story and how my parents’ differing relationships with Judaism shaped my father’s insecurities with his own identity, as well as looking at learned connections between toxic masculinity and violence. In the final chapters, I examine my school years, exploring the privilege of masculinity and class by juxtaposing my time playing for a local working-class rugby club with my experiences at a north London private school. I also begin to look at issues with mental illness, starting with my panic attacks and dealing with the public mental healthcare system, and my journey towards addiction, assessing damaging behaviours towards food and drugs. As the story continues beyond the scope of this thesis, the memoir will chart my descent into heroin addiction, mapping a confluence of themes including masculinity, body image and sexuality before a recovery that came too late for the physical toll taken by years of abusing my body. At the end of the thesis, I have included an epilogue taken from the concluding chapters of my memoir, which ties back to the themes of illness which are explored at the beginning of the piece.
Topological phases: isomorphism, homotopy and $K$-theory
Creators: name: Thiang, Guo Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equivalence classes of gapped Hamiltonians compatible with given symmetry constraints, such as those underlying topological insulators, can be defined in many ways. For the non-chiral classes modelled by vector bundles over Brillouin tori, physically relevant equivalences include isomorphism, homotopy, and $K$-theory, which are inequivalent but closely related. We discuss an important subtlety which arises in the chiral Class AIII systems, where the winding number invariant is shown to be relative rather than absolute as is usually assumed. These issues are then analyzed and reconciled in the language of $K$-theory.
description: 14 pages, revised with new references
Mononuclear phagocyte system function and nanoparticle pharmacology in obese and normal weight ovarian and endometrial cancer patients
Creators: name: Barrow, D.
name: Giovinazzo, H.
name: Starling, B.R.
name: Song, G.
name: Hendrix, L.
name: Kumar, P.
name: Zamboni, W.C.
name: Gehrig, P.
name: Farnan, L.
name: Lucas, A.T.
name: Bensen, J.T.
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: Obesity may alter mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) function and the pharmacology and efficacy of nanoparticles therapies, such as PEGylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD). We aimed to evaluate the relationships between hormone and chemokine mediators of MPS function and the pharmacokinetic (PK) exposure of PLD in obese and normal weight patients with ovarian and endometrial cancer. Methods: Hormone and chemokine mediators in obese and normal weight ovarian and endometrial cancer patients were measured. A separate pharmacology study was performed that evaluated the relationship between serum hormone concentrations, MPS function, and PK disposition of PLD in refractory ovarian cancer patients. Results: Univariate analysis revealed a significant relationship between serum estradiol and body mass index (OR 8.64, 95% CI 2.67–28.0, p < 0.001). Estrone and testosterone concentrations were positively correlated with MPS function (ρ = 0.57 and 0.53, p = 0.14 and 0.18, respectively) and inversely correlated with PLD PK exposure (ρ = − 0.75 and − 0.76, respectively, p = 0.02 for both). Conclusions: Higher MPS function resulting in reduced PLD exposure is a potential mechanism for reduced efficacy of PLD and other nanoparticles observed in obese patients with cancer. PK simulations suggest higher doses of PLD are required in obese patients to achieve similar exposures as standard dosing in normal weight patients.
The Problems with an Emancipatory Theory Based on an Aesthetics of Existence
Creators: name: Schaumann, Linda
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2015

description: With the antique practice of “aesthetics of existence” Foucault analyzed in the 1980s an approach to the subject which was one of self–formation rather than one based on the idea of a human nature. That this seemed to leave the choice of the form of conduct and life to the subject himself, corresponded to the late Foucault’s emancipatory theory, which concenters the notion that autonomy demands a critical ontology of ourselves. This ethos implies a persistent critique of what we are in order to overcome limits historically imposed on us by transforming ourselves. As neoliberal analysis explicitly encourages the transformation of the subject, Foucault appreciates it as an emancipatory theory of its own right. However, like Foucault’s emancipatory theory accepts an anthropological constant, so does neoliberalism: the human being is a rational decision maker who applies strategies in order to maximize his profit. This concept of the subject also seems to be at the bottom of Foucault’s own claim that power informs all relationships and has a penchant for domination. In this article I will show that in strategic games, especially such informed by asymmetry, decisions tend to be overwritten by the governing influences of others.
description: Trópos, V. 7 N. 1 (2015): Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations
Additional file 1: of Quality of family planning services in HIV integrated and non-integrated health facilities in Malawi and Tanzania
Creators: name: Close, Michael A.
name: Barden-OâFallon, Janine
name: Mejia, Carolina
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Description of Matched QIQ and SPA Measures in Present Study. (DOCX 15 kb)
Primordial non-gaussianity up to all orders: theoretical aspects and implications for primordial black hole models
Creators: name: Ferrante, Giacomo
name: Franciolini, Gabriele
name: Iovino, Antonio Junior
name: Urbano, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an exact formalism for the computation of the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the presence of local non-gaussianity (NG) in the curvature perturbation field. For the first time, we include NG going beyond the widely used quadratic and cubic approximations, and consider a completely generic functional form. Adopting threshold statistics of the compaction function, we address the computation of the abundance both for narrow and broad power spectra. While our formulas are generic, we discuss explicit examples of phenomenological relevance considering the physics case of the curvaton field. We carefully assess under which conditions the conventional perturbative approach can be trusted. In the case of a narrow power spectrum, this happens only if the perturbative expansion is pushed beyond the quadratic order (with the optimal order of truncation that depends on the width of the spectrum). Most importantly, we demonstrate that the perturbative approach is intrinsically flawed when considering broad spectra, in which case only the non-perturbative computation captures the correct result. Finally, we describe the phenomenological relevance of our results for the connection between the abundance of PBHs and the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background related to their formation. As NGs modify the amplitude of perturbations necessary to produce a given PBHs abundance and boost PBHs production at large scales for broad spectra, modelling these effects is crucial to connect the PBH scenario to its signatures at current and future GWs experiments.
description: 29 pages + 12 figures, v2: references added, version published in PRD
Assessment of Journal Requirements and Needs. CESSDA Work Plan 2020.
Creators: name: Alvanides, Serafeim
name: Štebe, Janez
name: Morgan De Paula, Emilie
name: Kleiner, Brian
name: Hegedus, Peter
name: Glavica, Marijana
name: Kranjec, Irena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Journals Outreach
Data sharing
Research replicability
Journal editors

description: Journals Outreach is a sub-task of the CESSDA Work Plan 2020 Task Widening Activities and Journals Outreach. The specific objective of this deliverable is to provide a better understanding of journal practices, requirements, and needs regarding the accessibility of data used in scientific publications. To this effect, a combination of secondary analysis from the policies of 3 global publishing companies and primary data analysis from 7 interviews with journal editors was conducted and is presented here. In general, the global publishers are applying blanket policies from physical sciences to social sciences, without explicit consideration for the sensitivity of social science data (e.g. qualitative data, importance of metadata, contextual information on the studies). The majority of the editors interviewed are positively predisposed towards data sharing and replication and have already implemented or are in the process of revising/implementing policies in this direction. This report highlights an opportunity for national DSPs and CESSDA as a whole to learn from some of the policies implemented by the global publishing companies (innovation, simplicity and clarity), with a focus on supporting the independent journals and national publishers to develop policies appropriate for the needs of social science research towards data sharing.
Emancipation from Rationality
Creators: name: Hütter, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2015

description: This article shows, firstly, why Rorty thinks that after the Kantian Enlightenment, which had fought for emancipation in the name of reason, we are now in need of a second Enlightenment that liberates us from rationality; it shows, secondly, the inner contradictions Rorty blunders into by (seemingly) detaching his critique of objectivity in his works after Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature from the subsequent necessary critique of subjectivity; it offers, thirdly, to explain these contradictions by reference to Rorty’s ties to the tradition of Romanticism, on which he greatly depends, albeit without adopting its major concepts, which are a dialogical theory of subjectivity, and ironic ways of writing. A second level of investigation addresses the question of Rorty’s rhetoric and how he thinks the emancipation from rationality should be accomplished, showing that his insistence on subjectivity and tradition serves his emancipatory program: Part of Rorty’s strategy is selling his emancipatory maxim as reform instead of as revolution against dualistic and representational concepts of rationality. Therewith, Rorty is insisting on dialog with supposedly incommensurable positions and he is doing so because he thinks—from a pragmatic and utilitarian perspective—that this approach is more likely to have success.
description: Trópos, V. 7 N. 1 (2015): Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations
Paul Ricœur
Creators: name: Travaglini, Graziella
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2015

description: This work assesses the interpretation of the Aristotelian concept of catharsis that Ricoeur develops in Time and Narrative. For the French philosopher, catharsis is as a key concept for understanding both the ontological and the ethical–practical values that he attributes to the experience of art. This fundamental moment of the phenomenology of tragic action points at the effect that a work of art has on the audience as a constitutive moment of its truth. Through his interpretation of the concept of catharsis, Ricoeur confronts a key issue for the definition of a horizon of experience emancipated from technical–instrumental interests. In this horizon of experience, the sensitive moment becomes constitutive to a model of rationality, the principles of which belong to praxis rather than to theoria. In this sense, the pleasure of the text is analysed through the mediation of the imagination, which in the work of Ricoeur appears in its ethical–practical functions in all its ability to redefine and renovate the world of praxis—also in the direction of opening towards a “story yet untold” of the victims. The story still to be told requires that the concept of catharsis is treated through the cross reference between historical and fictional narratives.
description: Trópos, V. 7 N. 1 (2015): Perspectives on Emancipation: Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Investigations
MOESM2 of Ellagic acid microspheres restrict the growth of Babesia and Theileria in vitro and Babesia microti in vivo
Creators: name: Beshbishy, Amani
name: Gaber Batiha
name: Naoaki Yokoyama
name: Igarashi, Ikuo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. The IC50 and selectivity index of DA, AQ and CF.