cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dash: Data Sharing Made Easy
Creators: name: Kratz, John
name: Abrams, Stephen
name: Faenza, Shirin
name: Fisher, Scott
name: Hoebelheinrich, Nancy
name: Strong, Marisa
name: Vedula, Bhavitavya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Data publication
Data curation
Data management

description: To facilitate data sharing from within the University of California system and beyond, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) is developing a new ingest and discovery layer for our data curation service, Dash. Dash uses the Merritt repository for preservation and a self-service overlay layer for submission and discovery of research datasets. The new overlay– dubbed Stash (STore And SHare)– will feature an enhanced user interface with a simple and intuitive deposit workflow, while still accommodating rich metadata. Stash will enable individual scholars to upload data through local file browse or drag-and-drop operation; describe data in terms of scientifically-meaning metadata, including methods, references, and geospatial information; identify datasets for persistent citation and retrieval; preserve and share data in an appropriate repository; and discover, retrieve, and reuse data through faceted search and browse. Stash can be implemented in conjunction with any standards-compliant repository that supports the SWORD protocol for deposit and the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting. Stash will feature native support for the DataCite or Dublin Core metadata schemas, but is designed to accommodate other schemas to support  discipline-specific applications. By alleviating many of the barriers that have historically precluded wider adoption of open data principles, Stash empowers individual scholars to assert active curation control over their research outputs; encourages more widespread data preservation, publication, sharing, and reuse; and promotes open scholarly inquiry and advancement.
Oral Health Messages for the Australian Public: Delphi Protocol
Creators: name: Welti, Rachelle
name: Silva, Mihiri
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dental Public Health and Education
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Protocol for the Delphi process to develop consensus on the oral health messages for the Australian public.
Der Schweizerische Burgenverein – gestern und heute
Creators: name: Die Redaktion
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 47 Nr. 3 (2006): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Υ(5S) Results from Belle: Strange Beauty and Other Beasts
Creators: name: Kinoshita, Kay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The B-factories have successfully exploited the unique advantages of the Υ(4S) resonance to study many aspects of the B_d and B_u mesons. The Υ(10860) resonance, also known as Υ(5S), is above mass threshold for the B_s and shares many of the same advantages. The Belle experiment has collected more than 120/fb at the Υ(5S), corresponding to 7.9 million B_s events. First results from these data are presented, including the first observation of a baryonic decay of B_s, a novel measurement of sin 2ϕ_1, and observation of h_b(1P), h_b(2P), and two charged bottomonium-like states.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
The Effects Of Polymer Concentration On Turbulent Drag Reduction
Creators: name: Leung, Chung Yin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Polymer drag reduction
Complex fluids
Turbulence
Fluid dynamics

description: In 1948 the phenomenon of turbulent drag reduction by polymers was discovered [B. Toms, Proc. Int'l Rheological Congress 2, 135 (1948)]. It was found that the addition of a small amount of polymers can significantly reduce the frictional drag in wall-bounded turbulent flows. The reduction in drag is characterized by an increase in the fluid throughput under fixed applied pressure gradient, or equivalently, a smaller pressure gradient is required to drive the flow at the same flow rate. This phenomenon has been studied extensively in the past decades but a theory that can give predictions was proposed only recently [I. Procaccia, V.L. L'ov, and R. Benzi, Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 225 (2008)]. This theory is based on the balance of momentum and energy, and shows that the effect of the polymers can be represented by a position-dependent effective viscosity.

In this thesis, we work out further predictions of this theory that can be tested by experiments. In particular, we have worked out the various effects of polymer concentration for both flexible and rodlike polymers. We have focused on the pipe geometry for easy comparison with experiments. We have calculated the relation of the friction factor with the Reynolds number and studied how this relation changes with the zero shear viscosity of the polymer solution. The zero-shear viscosity of the polymer solution depends on the concentration of the polymers in the solvent. Using additional experimental knowledge of the concentration dependence of viscosity, we have found how the friction factor relation changes with concentration for the rodlike polymer xanthan gum. We have also calculated how the Reynolds stress profile varies with the concentration of the polymer. Our results reveal a linear dependence of the maximum Reynolds stress on the position of the maximum. This linear dependence is a new theoretical prediction, which can be tested experimentally. We have found that the viscosity dependence of the percentage drag reduction at different Reynolds numbers can be collapsed into a universal curve with different functional forms for flexible and rodlike polymers. We have also compared our results with experimental observations.
description: Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Thesis
Sehnsucht Rhein Rheinlandschaften aus der ‚Sammlung Siebengebirge‘, mit neuen Gemälden
Creators: name: Die Redaktion
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 48 Nr. 1 (2007): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Extracting Connectivity Of Bidirectional Networks From Dynamics
Creators: name: Leung, Chung Yin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Network reconstruction
Complex networks
Time series analysis

description: The study of networks has become increasingly important in many disciplines ranging from physics to biology. A network consists of many elementary components which interact with one another. The elementary components are known as the nodes while the interactions among the nodes are the links or connections of the network. In order to understand the function and properties of a network, a crucial first step is to determine how the nodes are linked or connected to each other. It is often difficult to directly measure or observe the connectivity between nodes. Thus a method that infers the connectivity of an unknown network from measurements would be highly valuable. Many methods have been proposed to address this difficult inverse problem of network reconstruction. One approach is to model networks by dynamical systems with the time evolution of the nodes given by ordinary differential equations. We have recently developed a method that reconstructs the connectivity of a network using only the measured time series of the nodes. Earlier studies required additional information such as the coupling strength or the response of the network to external perturbations, which are difficult to obtain in realistic situations. Our method is based on a noise-induced relation between the network connectivity and the dynamical covariance of the nodes, and is applicable for networks in which the coupling between nodes is bidirectional. In realistic networks, the strength of interaction among nodes often varies from node to node but most network reconstruction studies focus on the simpler case of uniform coupling strength. For weighted networks with non-uniform coupling strength, it is especially hard to predict the relative strength or weight of the links. Our method can also infer the normalized coupling strength of the links for weighted networks. In this thesis, we shall present our method and demonstrate that it gives satisfactory reconstruction of the connectivity and the normalized coupling strength for different types of networks with both linear and nonlinear dynamics.
description: PhD Thesis
Polar Antiferromagnets Produced with Orbital-Order
Creators: name: Ogawa, Naoki
name: Ogimoto, Yasushi
name: Ida, Yoshiaki
name: Nomura, Yusuke
name: Arita, Ryotaro
name: Miyano, Kenjiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polar magnetic states are realized in pseudocubic manganite thin films fabricated on high-index substrates, in which a Jahn-Teller (JT) distortion remains an active variable. Several types of orbital-orders were found to develop large optical second harmonic generation, signaling broken-inversion-symmetry distinct from their bulk forms and films on (100) substrates. The observed symmetry-lifting and first-principles calculation both indicate that the modified JT q2 mode drives Mn-site off-centering upon orbital order, leading to the possible cooperation of "Mn-site polarization" and magnetism.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Cranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern
Creators: name: Die Redaktion
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 50 Nr. 3 (2009): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Das Außen in der Repräsentation / L’extérieur dans la représentation
Creators: name: Drews, Ann-Cathrin
Publisher: name: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris): Jahresbericht / Rapport annuel
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris): Jahresbericht / Rapport annuel, Jahresbericht / Rapport annuel 2018/2019
Testing quantum nonlocality for three coupled quantum dots within optical microcavity QED
Creators: name: Moradi, Shahpoor
name: Moradi, Sassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell's inequality in three coupled quantum dots (QDs) within cavity QED, including Forster and exciton-phonon interactions, is investigated theoretically. For an initially entangled state, Bell's inequality is valid for certain times and violated for some other times. It is shown that the system moves from a product state to a entangled state and back again during it's time evolution.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Sammeln im 18. Jahrhundert – zur Archäologie einer perfekten Sammlung / Collectionner au XVIIIe siècle – Archéologie d’une collection parfaite
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris): Jahresbericht / Rapport annuel
Year: 2020

description: -
description: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris): Jahresbericht / Rapport annuel, Jahresbericht / Rapport annuel 2018/2019
2009 Safety Belt Usage Survey in Kentucky
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Green, Eric R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this study was to establish 2009 safety belt and child safety seat usage rates in Kentucky. The 2009 survey continues to document the results after enactment of the original “secondary enforcement” statewide mandatory safety belt law in 1994 and the subsequent change to “primary enforcement” which was enacted in 2006. Data were collected at 160 randomly selected sites in 18 counties across Kentucky. Data from the individual sites were combined into a statewide percentage considering roadway functional classification, county, and vehicle miles traveled.  The data show that the usage rate in 2009 (79.7 percent) increased several percentage points compared to 2008 (73.3 percent). The usage rate had increased from 67 percent in 2006 to 72 percent in 2007 after the enactment of “primary enforcement” legislation. The rate had increased from 42 percent in 1993 to 58 percent in 1994 after enactment of the original mandatory safety belt law.  The 2009 statewide usage rate for children under the age of four was determined to be 98.6 percent. This continues the very high rate for this age category.  Usage rates varied by highway functional classification. The highest rate of 86.0 percent was on interstates and parkways, with the lowest rate of 72.4 percent on collector roads. The rate by county varied from a high of 85.9 percent in Fayette County to a low of 65.6 percent in Knott County. The usage rate by vehicle type varied from 83.7 percent for vans to a low of 69.0 percent for pickup trucks.  The statewide usage rate for motorcycle helmets was 63.7 percent. This shows an increase from the 2008 rate of 58 percent.
On integrability of quadratic harnesses
Creators: name: Bryc, Wlodek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15

description: We investigate integrability properties of processes with linear regressions and quadratic conditional variances. We establish the right order of dependence of which moments are finite on the parameter defined below, raising the question of determining the optimal constant.
Additional file 1 of Transforming growth factor beta 1 is associated with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Gómez-Bernal, Fuensanta
name: Quevedo-Abeledo, Juan Carlos
name: García-González, María
name: Fernández-Cladera, Yolanda
name: González-Rivero, Agustín F.
name: Martín-González, Candelaria
name: González-Gay, Miguel Á.
name: Ferraz-Amaro, Iván
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Demographics and disease characteristics relation to TFG-beta serum levels.
Model-Independent Bounds on Squarks from Monophoton Searches
Creators: name: Belanger, Genevieve
name: Heikinheimo, Matti
name: Sanz, Veronica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetry with a compressed spectrum could be responsible for the negative results from supersymmetric searches at LHC. Squarks and gluinos well below the TeV scale could have escaped detection since all search channels lose sensitivity when the mass splitting between supersymmetric particles becomes small. Even in this stealthy situation, production of colored particles is probed in processes with supersymmetric particles produced in association with a high-pT photon. We show that searches for missing energy with a monophoton are a powerful tool, and that the 2011 LHC data already surpasses the limits set by LEP and TeVatron in the compressed case. We set a model-independent bound on the mass of any up (down) type squark of 150 (110) GeV, and stronger model-dependent bounds can be set. We also comment on the expected improvement on those bounds in the 2012 LHC run.
Kentucky Highway User Survey 2008
Creators: name: O'Connell, Lenahan
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This study updates surveys of Kentucky driver opinion regarding the quality of Kentucky’s highway system. The survey was conducted in 2008. Data is presented in bar graphs and tables that allow the analysis of changes in public opinion since the first administration of the survey. For most topics, data are available from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2008. The respondents are 845 Kentucky-licensed drivers, age 18 and over. The study looked at seven characteristics of Kentucky highways and found that satisfaction levels were quite stable since 2003. In regard to overall satisfaction in 2008, 54% of drivers said they were either extremely satisfied or satisfied with the highway system; in 2003 the finding was 55%. Of the seven highway characteristics, satisfaction was lowest with maintenance response time (48%), followed closely by pavement condition (51%). When asked to prioritize four spending areas, the respondents chose maintaining roads (60% highest priority); widening roads (26%); constructing roads (8%); and general operations (6%).
Evaluation Plan for the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) Program in Kentucky
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Kentucky State Police Division of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement in cooperation with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has started a concentrated education and enforcement campaign in an effort to increase the safety and awareness of drivers around commercial vehicles. The University of Kentucky Transportation Center has evaluated this campaign and reported the effectiveness of this effort.  The campaign was focused in two high volume, high crash interstate areas: one in northern Kentucky on I‐75, and one in the Louisville area on I‐65. Several blitzes (including a media and enforcement component) were conducted throughout the year. This evaluation measured the success of the campaign by analysis of before and after surveys, video observations and crash data. The blitzes focused on public awareness, driver behavior and roadway safety.  Public awareness was measured using phone surveys. The data show that the media (and in some ways the enforcement) helped to inform motorists about the campaign as more respondents indicated that they changed their behavior around trucks compared to the data from the re‐evaluation survey. The video observations show that larger vehicles leave more space around trucks than smaller vehicles. There was twice the difference in the crash data before and after the TACT campaign as compared to the control sections during the same time periods.
Multiplicative noise, fast convolution, and pricing
Creators: name: Bormetti, Giacomo
name: Cazzaniga, Sofia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this work we detail the application of a fast convolution algorithm computing high dimensional integrals to the context of multiplicative noise stochastic processes. The algorithm provides a numerical solution to the problem of characterizing conditional probability density functions at arbitrary time, and we applied it successfully to quadratic and piecewise linear diffusion processes. The ability in reproducing statistical features of financial return time series, such as thickness of the tails and scaling properties, makes this processes appealing for option pricing. Since exact analytical results are missing, we exploit the fast convolution as a numerical method alternative to the Monte Carlo simulation both in objective and risk neutral settings. In numerical sections we document how fast convolution outperforms Monte Carlo both in velocity and efficiency terms.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures
Tidal evolution of exo-planetary systems: WASP-50, GJ 1214 and CoRoT-7
Creators: name: Yao, Dong
name: Jianghui, Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform numerical simulations to investigate tidal evolution of two single-planet systems, that is, WASP-50 and GJ 1214 and a two-planet system CoRoT-7. The results of orbital evolution show that tidal decay and circularization may play a significant role in shaping their final orbits, which is related to the initial orbital data in the simulations. For GJ 1214 system, different cases of initial eccentricity are also considered as only an upper limit of its eccentricity (0.27) is shown, and the outcome suggests a possible maximum initial eccentricity (0.4) in the adopted dynamical model. Moreover, additional runs with alternative values of dissipation factor $Q^\prime_1$ are carried out to explore tidal evolution for GJ 1214b, and these results further indicate that the real $Q^\prime_1$ of GJ 1214b may be much larger than its typical value, which may reasonably suggest that GJ 1214b bears a present-day larger eccentricity, undergoing tidal circularization at a slow rate. For the CoRoT-7 system, tidal forces make two planets migrating towards their host star as well as producing tidal circularization, and in this process tidal effects and mutual gravitational interactions are coupled with each other. Various scenarios of the initial eccentricity of the outer planet have also been done to investigate final planetary configuration. Tidal decay arising from stellar tides may still work for each system as the eccentricity decreases to zero, and this is in association with the remaining lifetime of each planet used to predict its future.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in "SCIENCE CHINA Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy "
Highway-Railway At-Grade Crossing Structures: Optimum Design/Installation Practices and Management Program – An Overview
Creators: name: Rose, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Replacing and rehabilitating highway-railway at-grade crossings represent major track maintenance expenses for the U.S. highway governmental agencies and railroad industry. The ideal crossing system is one that will maintain a smooth surface and stable highway/trackbed for a long period of time minimizing costly and inconvenient disruptions to highway and rail traffic.  This report describes the consensus goals for, and the development of, a cooperative, fast-track crossing renewal system for an ideal highway-railway crossing management program. The performance-based process utilizes premium structural materials and construction techniques to provide long-term, cost effective, smooth, and safe crossings. Specifically stressed is the desirability of using a high-modulus, waterproofing, structural layer composed of hot-mix asphalt.  Detailed descriptions are provided for several representative projects. These include typical installation processes, installation time studies, photographic documentation, and cost/economic evaluations. References are provided for Performance Measures that are documented in succeeding reports emanating from this project. These include 1) Trackbed and Surface Pressure Measurements, 2) Long-Term Settlement Measurements, 3) Rideability Measurements, and 4) Interfacial Surface Pressure Measurements.
Evaluation of the Use of Snowplowable Raised Pavement Markers
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Green, Eric R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and durability of snowplowable raised pavement markers (RPM) installed on the RPM system in Kentucky. The durability evaluation dealt with the marker housing.  The data show that continued use of the currently approved snowplowable RPM can be justified if the castings are properly installed on new pavements with a commitment that the pavement will be maintained. An evaluation of centerline rumble strips installations showed that they should be considered on rural, two-lane roads with 12-foot lane widths (having new pavements) and paved shoulders.
Additional file 2 of Experiential COVID-19 factors predicting resilience among Spanish adults
Creators: name: Álvarez, Mar Alcolea
name: Pinto, Natalia Solano
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
WORKSHOP: RNA-Seq: reads to differential genes and pathways
Creators: name: Deshpande, Nandan
name: Chew, Tracy
name: Samaha, Georgina
name: Beecroft, Sarah
name: Morgan, Steven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Analysis
subject: Transcriptomics
subject: RNA-seq
subject: Workflows
subject: Nextflow
subject: nf-co.re
subject: http://edamontology.org/topic_0091
subject: http://edamontology.org/operation_2945
subject: http://edamontology.org/topic_3308
subject: http://edamontology.org/topic_3170
subject: http://edamontology.org/topic_0769

description: This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘RNA-Seq: reads to differential genes and pathways’. This workshop took place over two, 3.5 hour sessions on 27 and 28 September 2022. Event description RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a common method used to understand the differences in gene expression and molecular pathways between two or more groups. This workshop introduces the fundamental concepts of RNA sequencing experiments and will allow you to try out the analysis using data from a study of Williams-Beuren Syndrome, a rare disease. In the first part of the workshop you will learn how to convert sequence reads into analysis ready count data. To do this we will use nf-core/rnaseq - a portable, scalable, reproducible and publicly available workflow on Pawsey Nimbus Cloud. In the second part of the workshop you will use the count data you created to identify differential genes and pathways using R/Rstudio. By the end of the workshop, you should be able to perform your own RNA-seq analysis for differential gene expression and pathway analysis! This workshop is presented by the Australian BioCommons and Sydney Informatics Hub with the assistance of a network of facilitators from the national Bioinformatics Training Cooperative. Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event. Files and materials included in this record: Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc. Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file. RNAseq reads to differential genes and pathways - Additional Resources (PDF): Additional resources compiled by the Sydney Informatics Hub rnaseq_DE_analysis_Day2.html: HTML version of code used on day 2 of the workshop rnaseq_DE_analysis_Day2.Rmd: R Markdown version of code used on day 2 of the workshop RNAseq reads to differential genes and pathways_Q_and_A (PDF): Archive of questions and their answers from the workshop Slack Channel. Materials shared elsewhere: This workshop follows the tutorial ‘RNA-seq: reads to differential gene expression workshop series’ developed by the Sydney Informatics Hub. https://sydney-informatics-hub.github.io/training.RNAseq.series-quarto/
Evaluation of the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule
Creators: name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Pigman, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule (Rule) was published in the Federal Register in September 2004 indicating that all state and local governments receiving Federal-aid funding were required to comply with provisions of the Rule no later than October 2007. Kentucky received an extension to October 2008. The objectives of this study were to review the requirements of the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule and provide recommendations for implementation of the Rule to ensure a consistent approach for designing and managing the impacts of work zones. This report documents results from: a) a review of literature and Kentucky’s policy, b) an analysis of work zone crashes in Kentucky, and c) an evaluation of the safety and training aspects of the Rule. The emphasis was on the safety aspect of the Rule.  The requirements of this Rule relating to work zone safety were reviewed along with the related procedures adopted by other states. Crash data occurring in work zones in Kentucky for the past several years were summarized. A description of the training developed to meet the requirements of the Rule is described.  Recommendations were made to implement the safety aspects of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet “Policy and Procedures for the Safety and Mobility of Traffic through Work Zones.” These include the duties of the District Work Zone Safety Coordinator (DWZSC) and the Statewide Work Zone Review Committee (SWZRC). To assist in the documentation of crashes occurring in a work zone, a form was developed to summarize information from each crash.
Pairing properties of cold fermions in the honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Grémaud, Benoît
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pairing properties of ultracold fermions, with an attractive interaction, loaded in a honeycomb (graphene-like) optical lattice are studied in a mean-field approach. We emphasize, in the presence of a harmonic trap, the unambiguous signatures of the linear dispersion relation of the band structure around half-filling (i.e. the massless Dirac fermions) in the local order parameter, in particular in the situations of either imbalance hoping parameters or imbalance populations. It can also be observed in the system response to external perturbation, for instance by measuring the pair destruction rate when modulating the optical lattice depth. Going beyond the mean-field level, we estimate the critical temperature for the "condensation" of the preformed pairs.
description: 6 pages; 6 figures
Analysis of Traffic Crash Data in Kentucky (2004 – 2008)
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Pigman, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report documents an analysis of traffic crash data in Kentucky for the years of 2004 through 2008. A primary objective of this study was to determine average crash statistics for Kentucky highways. Average and critical numbers and rates of crashes were calculated for various types of highways in rural and urban areas. These data can be used in Kentucky’s procedure to identify locations that have abnormal rates or numbers of crashes.  The other primary objective of this study was to provide data that can be used in the preparation of the problem identification portion of Kentucky’s Annual Highway Safety Plan. County and city crash statistics were analyzed. A summary of results and recommendations in several problem identification areas is presented. These general areas include; alcohol involvement, occupant protection, speed, teenage drivers, pedestrians, bicycles, motorcycles, trucks, and vehicle defects. Other areas included in the analysis for which specific recommendations were not made include drug involvement, school bus crashes, and train crashes.  The crash data are now contained in the Collision Report Analysis for Safer Highways (CRASH) data base. This data base is updated daily so the number of crashes in a given calendar year will continue to change for a substantial time after the end of that year.
Smarandache Groupoids - Abstract
Creators: name: W.B.Vasantha Kandasamy
name: J.Sujatha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Smarandache groupoids

description: In this paper we introduce the concept of Smarandache groupoids (S-groupoids for short). Groupoids are the generalization of semigroups and non-associative semigroups are termed as a groupoid. A groupoid G is said to be a S-groupoid if it has a proper subset, which is a semigroup under the operations of G.
Picosecond dynamics of hot carriers and phonons and scintillator non-proportionality
Creators: name: Kozorezov, A.
name: Wigmore, J. K.
name: Owens, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a model describing the non-proportional response in scintillators based on non-thermalised carrier and phonon transport. We show that the thermalization of e-h distributions produced in scintillators immediately after photon absorption may take longer than the period over which the non-proportional signal forms. The carrier and LO-phonon distributions during this period remain non-degenerate at quasi-equilibrium temperatures far exceeding room temperature. We solve balance equations describing the energy exchange in a hot bipolar plasma of electrons/holes and phonons. Taking into account dynamic screening we calculate the ambipolar diffusion coefficient at all temperatures. The non-proportional light yields calculated for NaI are shown to be consistent with experimental data. We discuss the implications of a non-equilibrium model, comparing its predictions with a model based on the transport of thermalised carriers. Finally, evidence for non-equilibrium effects is suggested by the shape of non-proportionality curve and wide dispersion in data observed in K-dip spectroscopy near the threshold. A comparison of the predicted curves shows good agreement for deformation potential value in the range 7-8 eV.
Smarandache Substructures In Groupoid Rings - Abstract
Creators: name: W.B.Vasantha Kandasamy
name:  J.Jon Arokiaraj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Jordan algebras

description: In this paper we introduce some Smarandache substructures in groupoid rings. Study of groupoid rings itself is totally absent in literature so the study of Smarandache substructures in groupoid rings seems to be new and innovative. The class of groupoid rings is a subclass of non-associative ring and they are different from Lie algebras or Jordan algebras or loop rings.
title: Highway-Railway At-Grade Crossings
title: Trackbed and Surface Pressure Measurements and Assessments
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rose, Jerry G.
name: Durrett, Daniel M.
name: Walker, Lindsay A.
name: Stith, Jason C.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Techniques are described for installing instrumentation within highway/railway crossings – to measure vertical pressures under moving highway and railway loadings – using earth pressure cells. Also, techniques are described for installing instrumentation between rail base/tie plate interfaces – to measure vertical pressures under moving railway loadings – using pressure sensitive ink sensors. In addition, the sensors were used to measure the surface pressures imparted by highway vehicles on crossing surfaces. Data is presented for several crossings including a wide variety of conditions and loading intensities. The data serves to quantify pressure gradients within highway/railway crossings for application to structural design analyses.
Wyner-Ziv Type Versus Noisy Network Coding For a State-Dependent MAC
Creators: name: Zaidi, Abdellatif
name: Piantanida, Pablo
name: Shamai, Shlomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider a two-user state-dependent multiaccess channel in which the states of the channel are known non-causally to one of the encoders and only strictly causally to the other encoder. Both encoders transmit a common message and, in addition, the encoder that knows the states non-causally transmits an individual message. We find explicit characterizations of the capacity region of this communication model in both discrete memoryless and memoryless Gaussian cases. The analysis also reveals optimal ways of exploiting the knowledge of the state only strictly causally at the encoder that sends only the common message when such a knowledge is beneficial. The encoders collaborate to convey to the decoder a lossy version of the state, in addition to transmitting the information messages through a generalized Gel'fand-Pinsker binning. Particularly important in this problem are the questions of 1) optimal ways of performing the state compression and 2) whether or not the compression indices should be decoded uniquely. We show that both compression à-la noisy network coding, i.e., with no binning, and compression using Wyner-Ziv binning are optimal. The scheme that uses Wyner-Ziv binning shares elements with Cover and El Gamal original compress-and-forward, but differs from it mainly in that backward decoding is employed instead of forward decoding and the compression indices are not decoded uniquely. Finally, by exploring the properties of our outer bound, we show that, although not required in general, the compression indices can in fact be decoded uniquely essentially without altering the capacity region, but at the expense of larger alphabets sizes for the auxiliary random variables.
description: Submitted for publication to the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 5 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of Development and evaluation of an online surgical elective for medical students
Creators: name: Goble, Mary
name: Chapman, Neil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Mechanics properties of Mono-layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Ab initio study
Creators: name: Peng, Qing
name: Zamiri, Amir R.
name: De, Suvranu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduced a method to obtain the continuum description of the elastic properties of mono- layer h-BN through ab initio density functional theory. This thermodynamically rigorous contin- uum description of the elastic response is formulated by expanding the elastic strain energy density in a Taylor series in strain truncated after the fifth-order term. we obtained a total of fourteen nonzero independent elastic constants for the up to tenth-order tensor. We predicted the pressure dependent second-order elastic moduli. This continuum formulation is suitable for incorporation into the finite element method.
description: 14 pages,4 figures
Vehicle Tire-Pavement Interfacial Surface Pressure Measurements and Assessments
Creators: name: Rose, Jerry G.
name: Guenther, Timothy E.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report examines a method of using Piezoelectric Pressure-Sensitive Ink (Tekscan) Pressure Measurement System to evaluate vehicle tire pressures that are exerted on the surface of pavements. Upgrades to the Tekscan system facilitated refinements from previous research and allows for procedures to be modified in order to account for these improvements. Among the most significant advances is the ability to select various sensitivities within the software program. In addition to the methodology of evaluating calibration practices, sensitivity and sensor selection, it was important to determine how accurately the pressures and wheel loads can be computed from pavement tests. Also examined are the effects of variations of the measured tire inflation pressures on the measured contact areas. The Tekscan system is recognized as being applicable for measuring pressures in a variety of settings and conditions. This pavement research testing program adds to the knowledge base. The findings will ultimately lead to an enhanced understanding of how a pavement structure functions at the surface. This will aid in improving pavement design procedures.
Efficient Design of Triplet Based Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity
Creators: name: Azghadi, Mostafa Rahimi
name: Al-Sarawi, Said
name: Iannella, Nicolangelo
name: Abbott, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) is believed to play an important role in learning and the formation of computational function in the brain. The classical model of STDP which considers the timing between pairs of pre-synaptic and post-synaptic spikes (p-STDP) is incapable of reproducing synaptic weight changes similar to those seen in biological experiments which investigate the effect of either higher order spike trains (e.g. triplet and quadruplet of spikes), or, simultaneous effect of the rate and timing of spike pairs on synaptic plasticity. In this paper, we firstly investigate synaptic weight changes using a p-STDP circuit and show how it fails to reproduce the mentioned complex biological experiments. We then present a new STDP VLSI circuit which acts based on the timing among triplets of spikes (t-STDP) that is able to reproduce all the mentioned experimental results. We believe that our new STDP VLSI circuit improves upon previous circuits, whose learning capacity exceeds current designs due to its capability of mimicking the outcomes of biological experiments more closely; thus plays a significant role in future VLSI implementation of neuromorphic systems.
A Group Key Management Protocol Based on Weight-Balanced 2-3 Tree for Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Yao, Lin
name: Liu, Bing
name: Xia, Feng
name: Wu, Guowei
name: Lin, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2
subject: 68M14

description: Multicast in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an attractive mechanism for delivering data to multiple receivers as it saves bandwidth. To guarantee the security of multicast, the group key is used to encrypt and decrypt the packages. However, providing key management services in WSNs is complicated because sensor nodes possess limited resources of computing, storage and communication. To address the balance between security and limited resources, a multicast group key management protocol based on the weight-balanced 2-3 tree is proposed to generate, distribute, and update the group key securely and efficiently. The decentralized group key management method is employed. A weight-balanced 2-3 key tree is formed in every subgroup. Instead of using the conventional symmetric and non-symmetric encryption algorithms, the Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) code technique is used to distribute the multicast key dynamically. During the key updating, a series of adjustment rules are summarized to keep the tree weight-balanced, where pseudo-nodes as leaves are added to reduce the computation and communication complexity. Compared with some other group key management protocols, our scheme shows higher superiority on security and performance.
Additional file 2 of Development and evaluation of an online surgical elective for medical students
Creators: name: Goble, Mary
name: Chapman, Neil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Reduction of Stresses on Buried Rigid Highway Structures Using the Imperfect Ditch Method and Expanded Polysterene (Geofoam)
Creators: name: Sun, Liecheng
name: Hopkins, Tommy C.
name: Beckham, Tony L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The study of earth pressure distribution on buried structures has a great practical importance in constructing highway embankments above pipes and culverts. Based on Spangler’s research, the supporting strength of a conduit depends primarily on three factors: 1. The inherent strength of the conduit; 2. The distribution of the vertical load and bottom reaction; and 3. The magnitude and distribution of lateral earth pressures that act against the sides of the structure. Rigid culverts are frequently used in Kentucky for routing streams beneath highway embankments because of rolling and mountainous terrain, numerous streams, shallow depths to bedrock, which creates unyielding foundations, and the necessity of using high fills which create large vertical stresses acting on culverts. As a means of exploring ways of reducing large vertical earth pressures acting on a buried structure, ultra-lightweight geofoam was placed in a trench above a reinforced rigid box culvert at Russell County, KY. This study provides strong evidences from both numerical model analysis and in-situ test data to indicate that geofoam is an ideal elasto-plastic material to reduce vertical load on top of rigid culvert resting on a rigid foundation. The load on the top of culvert can be reduced to 20 percent of traditional design load after two (2) feet thick of geofoam is placed on top of a culvert. Results from numerical model are more conservative when compared to actual test data. As much as 57 percent of settlement from geofoam has been recorded. Stresses on the top of culvert where geofoam was placed have reached a relatively stable level which is expected at the yield point of the geofoam. This technology can be used in applications which require controlled pressure on rigid underground structure. Whether geofoam is used or not used, the model analysis and test data show that the earth pressure acting on the sidewall does not change significantly. Although the pressure acting on the sidewall is slightly higher when geofoam is used on top of culvert only, the value is still below the design value used by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Use of geofoam placed in an imperfect trench significantly reduces the vertical stresses acting on the top of the culvert.
Additional file 1 of Barriers to using postpartum family planning among women in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Creators: name: Söderbäck, Kristina
name: Holter, Herborg
name: Salim, Sanura Abdulla
name: Elden, Helen
name: Bogren, Malin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Appendix 1. Interview guide