cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Αριθμητική επίλυση των διδιάστατων εξισώσεων ρηχών υδάτων σε παράλληλες αρχιτεκτονικές υπολογισμών με επιταχυντές
Creators: name: Μπομπολακης Δημητρης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2014

description: Αρχικός σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να δημιουργήσουμε μία μέθοδο η οποία θα προσομοιώνει φαινόμενα ροής υδάτων σε συγκεκριμένο χωρίο. Οι εξισώσεις ρηχών υδάτων διακριτοποιημένες με τη μέθοδο των πεπερασμένων όγκων μπορούν να κατασκευάζουν ένα αριθμητικό σχήμα ικανό να προσομοιώσει τέτοια φαινόμενα. Για την  επίλυση του προβλήματος  Riemann που εμφανίζεται  στο μέτωπο κάθε κελιού του πλέγματος εφαρμόζουμε τον προσεγγιστικό επιλύτη του Roe, ενώ διάφορες μετατροπές εφαρμόζονται ώστε το αριθμητικό σχήμα να αποκτήσει συγκεκριμένες ιδιότητες για πετύχουμε μία ρεαλιστική προσομοίωση των φαινομένων. Εφαρμόσαμε το αριθμητικό σχήμα σε πλέγματα μεγαλύτερων διαστάσεων με σκοπό την εξαγωγή ποιοτικότερων αποτελεσμάτων, όμως η ραγδαία αύξηση του χρόνου εκτέλεσης σε αυτές τις εφαρμογές μας ανάγκασαν να διερευνήσουμε τρόπους επιτάχυνσης του αριθμητικού σχήματος. Μετατρέψαμε το αριθμητικό σχήμα ώστε να εφαρμόζεται το πρότυπο OpenMP το οποίο εκμεταλλεύεται πολυεπεξεργαστικά συστήματα υπολογισμών και απέδωσε μειωμένους χρόνους εκτέλεσης. Το ίδιο, αλλά με πολύ καλύτερα αποτελέσματα, απέδωσε και η δεύτερη μετατροπή του αριθμητικού σχήματος ώστε να εφαρμόζεται το πρότυπο OpenACC το οποίο εκμεταλλεύεται συστήματα με επιταχυντή (κάρτα γραφικών). Το άμεσο αριθμητικό σχήμα που αναπτύξαμε εφαρμόζοντας το πρότυπο OpenACC αποδίδει τόσο συρρικνωμένους χρόνους εκτέλεσης που επιτρέπει την ποιοτική προσομοίωση φαινομένων ροής υδάτων σε πραγματικό χρόνο.
Additional file 4 of Prediction of biological age and all-cause mortality by 12-lead electrocardiogram in patients without structural heart disease
Creators: name: Hirota, Naomi
name: Suzuki, Shinya
name: Arita, Takuto
name: Yagi, Naoharu
name: Otsuka, Takayuki
name: Yamashita, Takeshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Comparison of AUCs.
Action-based flood forecasting for triggering humanitarian action
Creators: name: Coughlan De Perez, Erin R.
name: Van Den Hurk, Bart
name: Van Aalst, Maarten K.
name: Amuron, Irene
name: Bamanya, Deus
name: Hauser, Tristan
name: Jongma, Brenden
name: Lopez, Ana
name: Mason, Simon J.
name: Mendler De Suarez, Janot
name: Pappenberger, Florian
name: Rueth, Alexandra
name: Stephens, Elisabeth
name: Suarez, Pablo
name: Wagemaker, Jurjen
name: Zsoter, Ervin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Long-range weather forecasting
Emergency management
Natural disaster warning systems
Floods
Climatic changes

description: Too often, credible scientific early warning information of increased disaster risk does not result in humanitarian action. With financial resources tilted heavily towards response after a disaster, disaster managers have limited incentive and ability to process complex scientific data, including uncertainties. These incentives are beginning to change, with the advent of several new forecast-based financing systems that provide funding based on a forecast of an extreme event. Given the changing landscape, here we demonstrate a method to select and use appropriate forecasts for specific humanitarian disaster prevention actions, even in a data-scarce location. This action-based forecasting methodology takes into account the parameters of each action, such as action lifetime, when verifying a forecast. Forecasts are linked with action based on an understanding of (1) the magnitude of previous flooding events and (2) the willingness to act “in vain” for specific actions. This is applied in the context of the Uganda Red Cross Society forecast-based financing pilot project, with forecasts from the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS). Using this method, we define the “danger level” of flooding, and we select the probabilistic forecast triggers that are appropriate for specific actions. Results from this methodology can be applied globally across hazards and fed into a financing system that ensures that automatic, prefunded early action will be triggered by forecasts.
The two-dimensional Gabor function adapted to natural image statistics: A model of simple-cell receptive fields and sparse structure in images
Creators: name: Loxley, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The two-dimensional Gabor function is adapted to natural image statistics, leading to a tractable probabilistic generative model that can be used to model simple-cell receptive-field profiles, or generate basis functions for sparse coding applications. Learning is found to be most pronounced in three Gabor-function parameters representing the size and spatial frequency of the two-dimensional Gabor function, and characterized by a non-uniform probability distribution with heavy tails. All three parameters are found to be strongly correlated: resulting in a basis of multiscale Gabor functions with similar aspect ratios, and size-dependent spatial frequencies. A key finding is that the distribution of receptive-field sizes is scale-invariant over a wide range of values, so there is no characteristic receptive-field size selected by natural image statistics. The Gabor-function aspect ratio is found to be approximately conserved by the learning rules and is therefore not well-determined by natural image statistics. This allows for three distinct solutions: a basis of Gabor functions with sharp orientation resolution at the expense of spatial-frequency resolution; a basis of Gabor functions with sharp spatial-frequency resolution at the expense of orientation resolution; or a basis with unit aspect ratio. Arbitrary mixtures of all three cases are also possible. Two parameters controlling the shape of the marginal distributions in a probabilistic generative model fully account for all three solutions. The best-performing probabilistic generative model for sparse coding applications is found to be a Gaussian copula with Pareto marginal probability density functions.
Additional file 1 of Unmet needs for social support and diabetes-related distress among people living with type 2 diabetes in Thai Binh, Vietnam: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Thi, Diep Khong
name: Xuan, Bai Nguyen
name: Le Duc, Cuong
name: Gammeltoft, Tine
name: Søndergaard, Jens
name: Meyrowitsch, Dan Wolf
name: Bygbjerg, Ib Christian
name: Nielsen, Jannie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Informal support for people living with diabetes.
Interview with Lang Weiwei (scholar), 2000
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: History
Ethnic relations
Politics and government
Minorities

description: Lang Weiwei, young director of the Sichuan Institute of Minority Studies, discusses the history of Sino-Tibetan relations since the Yuan dynasty. XXX At 23 minutes, another older scholar speaks and clarifies that not just Tibet, but other provinces also claimed independence from the Qing Dynasty, and central China's power over Tibet was weak at the time, but it doesn't mean that Tibet was independent in the early 20th century.
TALABALARNING INTELLEKTUAL QOBILIYATLARINI RIVOJLANTIRISH USULLARI
Creators: name: Turakulov, Olim
name: Ernazarov, Alisher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Usbu maqolada raqobatbardosh malakali kadrlar tayyolash jarayonida oliy ta'lim muassasalari talabalarining intellektual qobiliyatlarini rivojlantirish usullari, modeli va ayrim xulosa va takliflar bayon qilingan.
Oral history interview Tibetan monk doctor at Tibetan Hospital, 2000
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physicians
subject: Tibetans
subject: Medicine, Tibetan
subject: Hospitals
subject: Clinical medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Interview with Tibetan doctor in contemporary clinic who previously treated aristocrats in Shigatse from 1957 to 1965/66 when he was then sent to the countryside to treat farmers. As a Tibetan Buddhist monk, he also served as a member of the Buddhist Association and traveled in China. He has practiced medicine for more than 40 years, in most recent years in Lhasa Tibetan Hospital (Sman rtsis khang), Tibetan medical training; on the changes in public health and medical practice in Tibet in the late 20th century, his training in the monastery, etc.; includes footage of doctor diagnosing woman patient with husband. Includes some footage of Lhasa street scenes, Potala Palace, stele inscription, and aerial photography of Tibetan valley areas.
Betelgeuse: a Review
Creators: name: Wheeler, J. Craig
name: Chatzopoulos, Emmanouil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Betelgeuse has fascinated people since they first looked at the sky. Here we present a contemporary summary of the observations and theory that lead to our understanding of Betelgeuse as a massive red supergiant doomed to collapse and explosion. At only ~200 parsecs from Earth, Betelgeuse can be spatially resolved yet uncertainties in its distance remain a critical impediment to deeper understanding. The surface of Betelgeuse is rent with a complex structure as deep convective eddies arise to the surface affecting most of its measured physical properties. Determination of the equatorial rotation velocity is critical since some current estimates indicate that Betelgeuse is rotating anomalously rapidly, a property that cannot be explained by single-star evolutionary models. Betelgeuse is also moving through space at relatively high velocity that indicates that it received a boost, likely via collective interaction with other stars in its birth cluster. A bow shock and other structure in the direction of the star's motion suggest that it has affected the organization of the circumstellar and interstellar medium. Betelgeuse varies in brightness on a variety of time scales with 200, 400 and 2000 days being prominent. Betelgeuse is probable to have been born in a binary system, and the high space velocity and apparent rotation have been related to binary star evolution. One possibility is that Betelgeuse underwent common envelope evolution culminating in a final merger with the core of a massive primary. Such merger models have been invoked to account for the anomalous rotation velocity. Betelgeuse underwent a Great Dimming in 2020 that received widespread attention. Explanations have focused on large cool spots on the surface and the expulsion of a cloud of dust that obscured the surface. We sketch the nature of the explosion to come and discuss perspectives for further research.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.08880
title: Στα ίχνη των βράχων, χώροι συλλογικών δραστηριοτήτων ως συρραφές του λατομείου με την Πετρούπολη
Creators: name: Τσουτσανης Παναγιωτης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία  διερευνά τις δυνατότητες συνδιαλλαγής και αλληλεπίδρασης του πρώην λατομείου Αίμου (θέατρο Πέτρας), με την Πετρούπολη και το Ποικίλο όρος. Μελετώνται οι σχέσεις μεταξύ των ενοτήτων καθώς και οι δυνατότητες ανάδειξης της ταυτότητας και του χαρακτήρα ενός πρώην βιομηχανικού χώρου. Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι ο επαναπροσδιορισμός της σχέσης  πόλης και  λατομείου καθώς και η ανάδειξη των εγκαταλελλημένων βιομηχανικών εγκαταστάσεων ως φορείς της μνήμης και της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς. Το βάρος της επέμβασης μετατίθεται στο ενδιάμεσο μεταξύ των διαφορετικών ενοτήτων (πόλης -λατομείου) και στη δημιουργία μιας τοπιακής αφήγησης που σκοπό έχει την ανάδειξη της βιομηχανικής κληρονομιάς.
	Το κτίριο του σπαστήρα , το εγκαταλελλειμένο καμίνι, η υπερμεγέθης χοάνη του λατομείου, το θέατρο πέτρας και η αχανής διάχυτη πόλη συνθέτουν ένα χαρακτηριστικό τοπίο με ζωντανές μνήμες και αφηγήσεις του παρελθόντος. Τα ετερόκλητα στοιχεία δημιουργούν αποσπάσματα-"θραύσματα" με αναφορές στην πόλη, την φύση και την βιομηχανία.Η πρόταση εστιάζει στην ενοποίηση των "θραυσμάτων" αυτών μέσω της αξιοποίησης των εγκαταλελειμμένων βιομηχανικών εγκαταστάσεων και στη σύνδεση της πόλης με το λατομείο μέσω "συρραφών". Κομβικό ρόλο στην όσμωση των ετερόκλητων καταστάσεων διαδραματίζει το  μεταβατικό τοπίο μεταξύ λατομείου, Πετρούπολης και Ποικίλου όρους, που σήμερα χρησιμοποιείται ως parking. Επαναπροσδιορίζοντας την σημασία του χρησιμοποιείται ως το "κατώφλι" που ενοποιεί τα ετερόκλητα στοιχεία και εισάγει την πόλη στο λατομείο και το Ποικίλο όρος.
 	Παράλληλα, μέσω ενός νέου πολιτιστικού κέντρου που εντάσσεται στο έντονο ανάγλυφο της ενδιάμεσης περιοχής συνδέονται οι εγκαταλελλειμένες βιομηχανικές εγκαταστάσεις δημιουργώντας μια αφήγηση της λατομικής διαδικασίας. Το πολιτιστικό κέντρο λειτουργεί αφενός βοηθητικά σε σχέση με τα δρώμενα του θεάτρου πέτρας (κυρίως τους καλοκαιρινούς μήνες) και αφετέρου δημιουργεί ένα πυρήνα πολιτισμού που στεγάζει τοπικές καλλιτεχνικές ομάδες και εκφράζει την τοπική ιδιαιτερότητα. Η περιοχή μετασχηματίζεται έτσι απο υποβαθμισμένος μή-τόπος σε συλλογικό τόπο μνήμης και καλλιτεχνικής δημιουργίας τόσο για την Πετρούπολη όσο και για ολόκληρη την Αττική.
	Συμπληρωματικά στην είσοδο του λατομείου δημιουργείται ενα κτίριο περιβαλλοντικής ευαισθητοποίησης που αποσκοπεί στην ενημέρωση για τις δράσεις σχετικά με το περιβάλλον.Στο εσωτερικό του λατομείου επιλέγονται ήπιες χειρονομίες που σκοπό έχουν την ανάδειξη των υφιστάμενων ποιοτήτων του τοπίου.Δημιουργούνται πορείες που κατευθύνουν τον περιπατητή προς την θεατρική σκηνή ενώ διατηρούνται τα μονοπάτια των λατόμων. Εκθεσιακά περίπτερα κατα μήκος των πορειών λειτουργούν συμπληρωματικά με τα δρώμενα του θεάτρου.
Climate forecasts in disaster management: Red Cross flood operations in West Africa, 2018
Creators: name: Braman, Lisette M.
name: Van Aalst, Maarten K.
name: Mason, Simon J.
name: Suarez, Pablo
name: Ait‐Chellouche, Youcef
name: Tall, Arame
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Long-range weather forecasting
Emergency management
Natural disaster warning systems
Floods
Climatic changes

description: In 2008, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) used a seasonal forecast for West Africa for the first time to implement an Early Warning, Early Action strategy for enhanced flood preparedness and response. Interviews with disaster managers suggest that this approach improved their capacity and response. Relief supplies reached flood victims within days, as opposed to weeks in previous years, thereby preventing further loss of life, illness, and setbacks to livelihoods, as well as augmenting the efficiency of resource use. This case demonstrates the potential benefits to be realised from the use of medium-to-long-range forecasts in disaster management, especially in the context of potential increases in extreme weather and climate-related events due to climate variability and change. However, harnessing the full potential of these forecasts will require continued effort and collaboration among disaster managers, climate service providers, and major humanitarian donors.
Interview with Cao Ziqiang, director of and vice president of senior research at the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College (Beijing), 2000
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Local officials and employees
Buddhist education
Buddhism and state
Education
Government policy
Religious Aspects

description: Interview with Cao Ziqian, director of and vice president of senior research at the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College (Beijing), 2000; discusses monastic administration, religious policy, the Panchen Lama, etc.
Oral history interview with Yin Fatang (official), 2000
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Officials and employees, retired
Chinese leaders
Politics and government

description: Interview with Yin Fatang, who served as Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region from 19980-1985; discusses conditions in Tibet since the 1950s and its status as an inseperable part of China.
Evaluation of IRI's seasonal climate forecasts for the extreme 15% tails
Creators: name: Barnston, Anthony G.
name: Mason, Simon J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Long-range weather forecasting
Precipitation (Meteorology)
Temperature
Climatic extremes

description: This paper evaluates the quality of real-time seasonal probabilistic forecasts of the extreme 15% tails of the climatological distribution of temperature and precipitation issued by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) from 1998 through 2009. IRI’s forecasts have been based largely on a two-tiered multimodel dynamical prediction system. Forecasts of the 15% extremes have been consistent with the corresponding probabilistic forecasts for the standard tercile-based categories; however, nonclimatological forecasts for the extremes have been issued sparingly. Results indicate positive skill in terms of resolution and discrimination for the extremes forecasts, particularly in the tropics. Additionally, with the exception of some overconfidence for extreme above-normal precipitation and a strong cool bias for temperature, reliability analyses suggest generally good calibration. Skills for temperature are generally higher than those for precipitation, due both to correct forecasts of increased probabilities of extremely high (above the upper 15th percentile) temperatures associated with warming trends, and to better discrimination of interannual variability. However, above-normal temperature extremes were substantially underforecast, as noted also for the IRI’s tercile forecasts.
Improved seasonal prediction skill of rainfall for the Priera season in Central America
Creators: name: Alfaro, Eric J.
name: Chourio, Xandre
name: Muñoz, Ángel G.
name: Mason, Simon J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Long-range weather forecasting
Precipitation (Meteorology)
Precipitation forecasting--Statistical methods
Canonical correlation (Statistics)

description: This study explores the predictive skill of seasonal rainfall characteristics for the first rainy (and planting) season, May–June, in Central America. Statistical predictive models were built using a Model Output Statistics (MOS) technique based on canonical correlation analysis, in which variables that forecast with the Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) were used as candidate predictors for the observed total precipitation, frequency of rainy days and mean number of extremely dry and wet events in the season. CFSv2 initializations from February to April were explored. The CFSv2 variables used in the study consist of rainfall, as in a typical MOS technique, and a combination of low-level winds and convective available potential energy (CAPE), a blend that has been previously shown to be a good predictor for convective activity. The highest predictive skill was found for the seasonal frequency of rainy days, followed by the mean frequency of dry events. In terms of candidate predictors, the zonal transport of CAPE (uCAPE) at 925 hPa offers higher skill across Central America than rainfall, which is attributed in part to the high model uncertainties associated with precipitation in the region. As expected, dynamical model predictors initialized in February provide lower skill than those initialized later. Nonetheless, the skill is comparable for March and April initializations. These results suggest that the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Central America, and the Central American Regional Climate Outlook Forum, can produce earlier more skilful forecasts for May–June rainfall characteristics than previously stated.
Additional file 5 of Proteomics informed by transcriptomics for a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the sialoproteome of adult Ornithodoros moubata ticks
Creators: name: Oleaga, Ana
name: Carnero-Morán, Angel
name: Valero, M. Luz
name: Pérez-Sánchez, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S3. Proteins detected by SWATH-MS that are differentially expressed (P
Oral history interview with Mongolian lama in Beijing, 2000
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Reincarnate lamas
Mongols
Buddhism

description: Oral history interview with unnamed elderly Tibetan Buddhist reincarnate lama (tulku ; Tib. sprul sku) from Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, who is now in Beijing at the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China; discusses the history of Buddhism, it's spread across Inner Asia, and Buddhist doctrine and practice.
Children’s experience of autonomy in a flexible learning environment.
Creators: name: Starkey, Anne
name: Valera, Alvin
name: Donn, Michael
name: Anslow, Craig
name: Ackley, Aniebietabasi
name: Starkey, Anne
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Classrooms are being built and redesigned in new and different ways. There is limited research to inform policy and practice on how children and young people experience the physical environment, particularly in contexts where they have agency in their decisions about their use of space. This article outlines research that explored how aspects of the physical classroom environment influences students’ experiences of learning at an elementary school in New Zealand. Data were gathered through environmental sensors which measure light, sound, CO2, air quality, temperature and humidity. Students and teachers were fitted with wearable technology that tracked their position and use of space. Students were surveyed, and teachers interviewed to identify pedagogical decisions and how children used the space. Data were synthesised using data visualisation. Five socio-material aspects were identified
CLIP2Protect: Protecting Facial Privacy using Text-Guided Makeup via Adversarial Latent Search
Creators: name: Shamshad, Fahad
name: Naseer, Muzammal
name: Nandakumar, Karthik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The success of deep learning based face recognition systems has given rise to serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Existing methods for enhancing privacy fail to generate naturalistic images that can protect facial privacy without compromising user experience. We propose a novel two-step approach for facial privacy protection that relies on finding adversarial latent codes in the low-dimensional manifold of a pretrained generative model. The first step inverts the given face image into the latent space and finetunes the generative model to achieve an accurate reconstruction of the given image from its latent code. This step produces a good initialization, aiding the generation of high-quality faces that resemble the given identity. Subsequently, user-defined makeup text prompts and identity-preserving regularization are used to guide the search for adversarial codes in the latent space. Extensive experiments demonstrate that faces generated by our approach have stronger black-box transferability with an absolute gain of 12.06% over the state-of-the-art facial privacy protection approach under the face verification task. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for commercial face recognition systems. Our code is available at https://github.com/fahadshamshad/Clip2Protect.
description: Accepted in CVPR 2023. Project page: https://fahadshamshad.github.io/Clip2Protect/
MATERNAL TRAITS AND REPRODUCTION IN RICHARDSONS GROUND-SQUIRRELS
Creators: name: Dobson, F. Stephen
name: Michener, Gail R.
Publisher: name: Ecological Society of America
Year: 1995
Subjects: ALBERTA
BODY MASS
BODY CONDITION
LITTER SIZE
NEONATE MASS
PATH ANALYSIS
SPERMOPHILUS
STRUCTURAL SIZE

description: Differences among conspecifics in body mass result from underlying differences in structural size and physiological condition. To determine whether the structural or physiological component of body mass has a stronger influence on reproductive traits at parturition, we studied the body composition (lean dry mass and fat content), structural size (1st principal component scores computed from 10 skeletal measurements), and body condition (residuals from regression of body mass on structural size) of yearling and older female Richardson's ground squirrels (Spermophilus richardsonii). At parturition, differences among yearlings in body mass primarily reflected differences in structural size associated with continuing structural growth. Older females appeared to reach a deterministic adult structural size, and body mass of older females was most strongly associated with body condition. Structural size of yearling females and body condition of older females had significant positive effects on litter mass. For older females, date of parturition had a significant negative influence on litter size. Both yearling and older females exhibited significant positive effects of parturition date and body condition on neonate mass. In older females, a trade-off resulted in smaller litters of heavier neonates as the breeding season progressed, perhaps reflecting the need for rapid growth of offspring before hibernation. Maternal size, maternal condition, and seasonal timing were important aspects of reproduction in Richardson's ground squirrels, but these characteristics are seldom considered concurrently in studies of life histories.
TECNOLOGIA E O DESENVOLVIMENTO INFANTIL
Creators: name: Oliveira, Ebenézer Do Vale
name: Arantes, Luiza Helena Rodrigues
name: Quadros, Silvia Cristina De Oliveira
name: Souza, Francislê Neri De
Publisher: name: Internet Latent Corpus Journal
Year: 2023

description: O uso dos dispositivos digitais entre as crianças nascidas na última década aumentou devido ao seu crescimento com a internet, levando a criação do termo 'nativos digitais'. Hoje, eles são conhecidos também como 'falantes nativos' na linguagem digital, já que se conectam com facilidade à internet e aos dispositivos digitais, bem como com os recursos disponibilizados na web. Cada vez mais cedo as crianças têm tido interação através das novas tecnologias. Estudos demonstram que a utilização da tecnologia e dos dispositivos digitais entre as crianças e adolescentes têm causado danos no desenvolvimento da inteligência, bem como no desenvolvimento cognitivo. Os indivíduos que estão nascendo na era digital apresentam elevada habilidade no uso de aplicativos digitais básicos, além de comprar produtos online e baixar músicas e filmes com facilidade. O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar a influência da tecnologia no desenvolvimento da inteligência à luz do vídeo "'Geração Digital': por que, pela 1a vez, filhos tem QI inferior aos dos pais." Para essa análise foram observados os comentários postados no vídeo em questão. O vídeo é uma entrevista disponível no canal do Youtube da BBC News, em áudio, de Michel Desmurget, neurocientista francês. Os estudos apresentados no vídeo analisado mostram que a utilização inadequada dos dispositivos digitais estão afetando o desenvolvimento neural e contribuindo para a diminuição da qualidade e quantidade das interações intrafamiliares, além da influência das mídias sociais sobre os indivíduos.
description: Internet Latent Corpus Journal, vol. 12 n.º 2 (2022): AUTOMAÇÃO DOS SERVIÇOS EDUCACIONAIS E O FUTURO DAS UNIVERSIDADES
Oral history interview with former Party Secretary at Teachers Training College, Shigatse, 2000
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education
History
Tibetans

description: Oral history interview with former Party Secretary at Teachers Training College, Shigatse, 2000; on his childhood in poverty, his education at a late age in 1960 in Shenyang, his role as head of the Shigatse Teachers Training College and its founding. Also provides details on education policy from the 1960s to 2000, language of instruction, and some discussion with Chinese colleague responsible for the school's curriculum. Some footage of the two interviewees outside in school courtyard.
Theory of the solid-state physics on the turn: II. Importance of the spin-orbit coupling for 3d-ion compounds: the case of NiO
Creators: name: Radwanski, R. J.
name: Ropka, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orbital and spin moment of the Ni2+ ion in NiO has been calculated at 0 K to be 0.54mB and 1.99 mB respectively. Such large orbital moment, more than 20% of the total moment of 2.53 mB, proves the need for the ''unquenching'' of the orbital moment in compounds containing 3d ions. It turns out that the spin-orbit coupling is indispensable for description of magnetic and electronic properties of 3d-ion compounds. These two findings, largely ignored at the nowadays in-fashion solid-state thories, call for an advanced solid-state physics theory.
description: 4 page in RevTex
Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate change to the carbon cycle in China's ecosystems
Creators: name: Mu, Qiaozhen
name: Zhao, Maosheng
name: Running, Steven
name: Liu, Mingliang
name: Tian, Hanqin
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2008

description: Atmospheric CO2 and China's climate have changed greatly during 1961-2000. The influence of increased CO2 and changing climate on the carbon cycle of the terrestrial ecosystems in China is still unclear. In this article we used a process-based ecosystem model, Biome-BGC, to assess the effects of changing climate and elevated atmospheric CO2 on terrestrial China's carbon cycle during two time periods: (1) the present (1961 2000) and (2) a future with projected climate change under doubled CO2 (2071-2110). The effects of climate change alone were estimated by driving Biome-BGC with a fixed CO2 concentration and changing climate, while the CO2 fertilization effects were calculated as the difference between the results driven by both increasing CO2 and changing climate and those of variable climate alone. Model simulations indicate that during 1961-2000 at the national scale, changes in climate reduced carbon storage in China's ecosystems, but increasing CO2 compensated for these adverse effects of climate change, resulting in an overall increase in the carbon storage of China's ecosystems despite decreases in soil carbon. The interannual variability of the carbon cycle was associated with climate variations. Regional differences in climate change produced differing regional carbon uptake responses. Spatially, reductions in carbon in vegetation and soils and increases in litter carbon were primarily caused by climate change in most parts of east China, while carbon in vegetation, soils, and litter increased for much of west China. Under the future scenario (2071-2110), with a doubling CO2, China will experience higher precipitation and temperature as predicted by the Hadley Centre HadCM3 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment. The concomitant doubling of CO2 will continue to counteract the negative effects of climate change on carbon uptake in the future, leading to an increase in carbon storage relative to current levels. This study highlights the role of CO2 fertilization in the carbon budget of China's ecosystems, although future studies should include other important processes such as land use change, human management (e. g., fertilization and irrigation), environmental pollution, etc.
Oral history interview with Rezha Rinpoche, 2010
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: History
Amdo (Tibetan people)
Dge-lugs-pa lamas
Refugees, Tibetan
Amdo (China : Region)

description: Oral history interview with Rezha Rinpoche from Kotse (Tib. Kho tshe) near Labrang; describes events in his home area in pre-Communist period, later tribal fighting with Chinese troops and massacre of Tibetan nomads by the People's Liberation Army, Democratic Reforms, background on some Amdo lamas at the time, his recognition as a reincarnation, relations between the monastery and local people, as well as relations between Repkong (Reb gong), Labrang (Bla brang), Kotse (Kho tshe ), and Dowi (Rdo sbis). He also describes monastic administration, the "Shis tsang lha sde", his flight from Labrang in 1956, etc.
title: Ανάπτυξη και υλοποίηση ολοκληρωμένου διαδικτυακού Γεωγραφικού
Πληροφοριακού Συστήματος με χρήση ανοιχτού λογισμικού και εφαρμογή
σε αρχιτεκτονικές κινητών υπολογιστικών συστημάτων
Creators: name: Πετρακης Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Η εξάπλωση του Ελεύθερου Λογισμικού και του Λογισμικού Ανοιχτού Κώδικα σε συνδυασμό με την διάδοση της χρήσης των γεωχωρικών εφαρμογών οδήγησε στην υλοποίηση λογισμικών και προτύπων διαλειτουργικότητας ανοιχτού κώδικα με σκοπό την αποδοτική και ασφαλή ανταλλαγή γεωχωρικής πληροφορίας μέσω του διαδικτύου. Με την πάροδο του χρόνου και την συνεχώς αυξανόμενη ανάγκη για τη δημιουργία κυβερνητικών Υποδομών Γεωγραφικών Πληροφοριών (SDI) αναπτύχθηκαν πλατφόρμες ανοιχτού κώδικα με σκοπό την υλοποίηση ισχυρών γεωχωρικών εφαρμογών με βάση τις πλατφόρμες αυτές. Στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής εργασίας αναπτύχθηκε μια Υποδομή Γεωγραφικών Πληροφοριών (SDI) βασισμένη στην πλατφόρμα GeoNode, στα πρότυπα του οργανισμού OGC καθώς και σε άλλα λογισμικά ανοιχτού κώδικα, με σκοπό να αποτελέσει μία ολοκληρωμένη Υποδομή Γεωγραφικών Πληροφοριών για την περιοχή της Κρήτης.
Η υποδομή ονομάστηκε Crete – GIS και αναπτύχθηκε έτσι ώστε να αποτελέσει ένα επεκτάσιμο, ευέλικτο και εύχρηστο σύστημα γεωχωρικού προσανατολισμού για τους πολίτες και τους κυβερνητικούς φορείς. Συνδυάζει υπηρεσίες καταλόγου γεωχωρικών δεδομένων και διαδικτυακής χαρτογράφησης ενώ προσφέρει δυνατότητες κοινωνικής δικτύωσης. Κατά τη διερεύνηση του προβλήματος της επεκτασιμότητας του συστήματος, αναπτύχθηκαν δύο επιπλέον εφαρμογές οι
οποίες ενσωματώθηκαν στο σύστημα και ονομάστηκαν e – Urban και e – Road back-end. Το e –Urban έχει ως σκοπό την αυτοματοποίηση χρονοβόρων καθημερινών διαδικασιών που σχετίζονται με την αναζήτηση πληροφοριών πολεοδομικής και χωροταξικής φύσεως ενώ το e – Road back-end
αποτελεί το οπίσθιο σύστημα της εφαρμογής κινητού τηλεφώνου e – Road και έχει ως στόχο την άμεση ενημέρωση των αρμόδιων φορέων για τις προβληματικές περιοχές του οδικού δικτύου της Κρήτης που αναφέρουν μέσω της εφαρμογής e – Road οι πολίτες. Τέλος διερευνήθηκε η δυνατότητα της αυτοματοποιημένης εισαγωγής δορυφορικών δεδομένων του προγράμματος Sentinel της Ευρωπαϊκής Υπηρεσίας Διαστήματος, στο σύστημα Crete – GIS με αποτέλεσμα τη
δημιουργία του λογισμικού Sentinel – Engine το οποίο αν και βρίσκεται ακόμα σε πειραματικό στάδιο, διενεργεί τις διαδικασίες της αναζήτησης, λήψης, επεξεργασίας, και εισαγωγής νέων δορυφορικών δεδομένων στο σύστημα Crete – GIS. Η Υποδομή Γεωγραφικών πληροφοριών που αναπτύχθηκε στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής εργασίας, ανταποκρίνεται σε πολύ μεγάλο βαθμό στον
αρχικό στόχο που είχε τεθεί, αποτελώντας ένα αξιόπιστο και πολύπλευρο σύστημα. Για την υλοποίησή του σε περιβάλλον ανάπτυξης καθώς και σε περιβάλλον παραγωγής χρησιμοποιήθηκε το λειτουργικό σύστημα Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
Oral history interview with Klu-rgyal (Labrang), 2010
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: History
Politics and government
Uprising of 1959 (Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
Refugees, Tibetan
Tibet Region

description: Oral history interview with Lugyal (Tib. Klu rgyal, also Lugyel), born in Labrang; describes Democratic Reforms in Labrang, his escape to India and his eyewitness account of the uprising of 2008 during his return visit to Labrang.
title: Διάγνωση προβλημάτων λειτουργίας μεταφορικών ταινιών με χρήση ανέπαφων αισθητήρων
Creators: name: Δασκαλακης Αριστειδης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Στην εργασία αυτή επιχειρήθηκε μέσω μιας σειράς δυναμικών μετρήσεων που πραγματοποιήθηκαν σε βιομηχανική εγκατάσταση σε πραγματικές συνθήκες λειτουργίας ,να εκτιμηθεί η δυνατότητα μέτρησης της απόδοσης των μεταφορικών ταινιών αλλά και της διάγνωσης των λειτουργικών τους προβλημάτων με χρήση ανέπαφου αισθητήρα τύπου Lidar.
Additional file 1 of Childhood-onset dystonia-causing KMT2B variants result in a distinctive genomic hypermethylation profile
Creators: name: Ciolfi, Andrea
name: Foroutan, Aidin
name: Capuano, Alessandro
name: Pedace, Lucia
name: Travaglini, Lorena
name: Pizzi, Simone
name: Andreani, Marco
name: Miele, Evelina
name: Invernizzi, Federica
name: Reale, Chiara
name: Panteghini, Celeste
name: Iascone, Maria
name: Niceta, Marcello
name: Gavrilova, Ralitza H.
name: Schultz-Rogers, Laura
name: Agolini, Emanuele
name: Bedeschi, Maria Francesca
name: Prontera, Paolo
name: Garibaldi, Matteo
name: Galosi, Serena
name: Leuzzi, Vincenzo
name: Soliveri, Paola
name: Olson, Rory J.
name: Zorzi, Giovanna S.
name: Garavaglia, Barbara M.
name: Tartaglia, Marco
name: Sadikovic, Bekim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Chromatograms showing the KMT2B variants identified in the 18 patients included in the study.
Observations of Cyclone-Induced Storm Surge in Coastal Bangladesh
Creators: name: Chiu, Soyee
name: Small, Christopher
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cyclones
subject: Storm surges
subject: Storm surges--Measurement
subject: Water levels--Measurement
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Water-level measurements from 15 tide gauges in the coastal zone of Bangladesh are analyzed in conjunction with cyclone tracks and wind speed data for 54 cyclones between 1977 and 2010. Storm-surge magnitude is inferred from residual water levels computed by subtracting modeled astronomical tides from observed water levels at each station. Observed residual water levels are generally smaller than reported storm-surge levels for cyclones where both are available, and many cyclones produce no obvious residual at all. Both maximum and minimum residual water levels are higher for west-landing cyclones producing onshore winds and generally diminish for cyclones making landfall on the Bangladesh coast or eastward producing offshore winds. Water levels observed during cyclones are generally more strongly influenced by tidal phase and amplitude than by storm surge alone. In only 7 of the 15 stations does the highest plausible observed water level coincide with a cyclone. Whereas cyclone-coincident residual water-level maxima occur at a wide range of tidal phases, very few coincide with high spring tides. Comparisons of cyclone-related casualties with maximum wind speed, hour of landfall, population density, and residual water level (inferred storm surge) show no significant correlations for any single characteristic. Cyclones with high casualties are often extreme in one or more of these characteristics but there appears to be no single extreme characteristic shared by all high-casualty cyclones.
A test of reproductive power in snakes
Creators: name: Boback, Scott M.
name: Guyer, Craig
Publisher: name: Ecological Society of America
Year: 2008
Subjects: body size
ectotherm
energetics
life history
macroecology
optimal size
reproduction

description: Reproductive power is a contentious concept among ecologists, and the model has been criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds. Despite these criticisms, the model has successfully predicted the modal (optimal) size in three large taxonomic groups and the shape of the body size distribution in two of these groups. We tested the reproductive power model on snakes, a group that differs markedly in physiology, foraging ecology, and body shape from the endothermic groups upon which the model was derived. Using detailed field data from the published literature, snake-specific constants associated with reproductive power were determined using allometric relationships of energy invested annually in egg production and population productivity. The resultant model accurately predicted the mode and left side of the size distribution for snakes but failed to predict the right side of that distribution. If the model correctly describes what is possible in snakes, observed size diversity is limited, especially in the largest size classes.
A Direct Evaluation of the Periods of the Weierstrass Zeta Function
Creators: name: Zemel, Shaul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33E05, 30B99, 30D30

description: We show how to obtain the difference function of the Weierstrass Zeta function very directly, by choosing an appropriate order of summation for the series defining this function. As a byproduct, we show how to obtain the quasi-modularity of the weight 2 Eisenstein series immediately from the fact that it appears in this difference function and the homogeneity properties of the latter.
description: 10 pages, minor corrections
From rain to famine: assessing the utility of rainfall observations and seasonal forecasts to anticipate food insecurity in East Africa
Creators: name: Coughlan De Perez, Erin R.
name: Van Aalst, Maarten K.
name: Choularton, Richard J.
name: Van Den Hurk, Bart
name: Mason, Simon J.
name: Nissan, Hannah J.
name: Schwager, Saroja
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Long-range weather forecasting
Precipitation (Meteorology)
Rain and rainfall--Observations
Food security

description: East Africa experiences chronic food insecurity, with levels varying from year-to-year across the region. Given that much can be done to prevent this level of suffering before it happens, humanitarian agencies monitor early indicators of food insecurity to trigger early action. Forecasts of total seasonal rainfall are one tool used to monitor and anticipate food security outcomes. Factors beyond rainfall, such as conflict, are key determinants of whether lack of rainfall can become a problem. In this paper, we present a quantitative analysis that isolates the value of rainfall information in anticipating food security outcomes across livelihood groups in East Africa. Comparing observed rainfall and temperature with food security classifications, we quantify how much the chance of food insecurity increases when rainfall is low. Results differed dramatically among livelihood groups; pastoralists in East Africa more frequently experience food insecurity than do non-pastoralists, and 12 months of low rainfall greatly increases the chances of "crisis" and "emergency" food security in pastoralist regions. In non-pastoralist regions, the relationship with total rainfall is not as strong. Similar results were obtained for livelihood groups in Kenya and Ethiopia, with slightly differing results in Somalia. Given this, we evaluated the relevance of monitoring and forecasting seasonal total rainfall. Our quantitative results demonstrate that six months of rainfall observations can already indicate a heightened risk of food insecurity, a full six months before conditions deteriorate. Combining rainfall observations with seasonal forecasts can further change the range of possible outcomes to indicate higher or lower risk of food insecurity, but the added value of seasonal forecasts is noticeable only when they show a strong probability of below-normal rainfall.
title: Single well tracer test for residual oil estimation
Creators: name: Karimi Masood
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Tracer techniques are a powerful diagnostic tool in numerous Scientific disciplines (Bjornstad et al.,1990; Divine and McDonnell, 2005) and for technologies in many industrial sectors. Tracer tests were first used in the early 1900s in hydrology (Du and Guan, 2005; Guan etal.,2005). Today, these tests are used with increasing frequency in oil field applications (Bingyu et al.,2002; Bjornstad, 1991; Jin et al.,1997) when no other investigation technique is applicable. Tracer tests provide a better understanding of the studied oil reservoir (including inter well connections, connections between layers and heterogeneities) (Coronado and Ramirez-Sabag, 2008; Coronado et al., 2009; Guan and Du, 2004; Manich and et al., 2010; Nugroho and Ardianto, 2010; Sinha e tal., 2004).
The Single-well Tracer Test is a test used extensively to measure the S_or (Residual oil) in watered-out reservoirs. Also, it is implemented in order to evaluate enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using chemicals, such as Alkaline/Surfactant/Polymer flooding.
Single-Well Chemical Tracer (SWTT) tests offer an in-situ method for determining the Residual Oil Saturation (R_OS) of a reservoir that has numerous advantages, compared to more conventional methods such as core analysis and well logging. It can also be used to enhance the understanding of heterogeneity in the subsurface. Over the past 50 years numerous SWCT and IWCT (Inter-Well Chemical Tracer) tests have been conducted in fields around the world. Most of these tests focused on measuring the R_OS as an aid to planning improved oil recovery processes, and to understand the results of these tests.
In this work, tracer responses to two different commercial simulators (C.M.G. Stars and Eclipse Schlumberger) are analysed using numerical modelling. Two methods are applied: use of a multi-component reservoir simulation model, with chemical reactions to represent the reactive hydrolysis behaviour of the tracer (C.M.G. Stars); and a simplified approach using tracer tracking in a conventional black oil simulation model (Eclipse, Schlumberger). The models’ results are validated against field data and it is shown that the simulation results are consistent when varying grid thickness and keeping other parameters unchanged. When different rock and fluid properties are introduced, numerous peaks are observed, illustrating delays in tracer arrival times due to flow irreversibility.
The reservoir simulation models can be used for forward modelling and sensitivity studies to design SWTT tests, and for interpreting saturation measurements obtained in such tests. They can also be used for other applications, in conjunction with other data sources such as well logs.
Oral history interview with the Seventh Ling Rinpoche, 2010
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Dge-lugs-pa lamas
Reincarnation
Buddhism
History
Dalai lamas

description: Oral history interview with the Seventh Ling Rinpoche Tenzin Lungtok (Tib. Bstan 'dzin lung thog), born in 1985 in Bir, India; on the history of the previous Ling lineage incarnations and their relationships as tutors of the Dalai Lama; includes some scenes of the Tibetan settlement in Mundgod, India.
Xenophon: Die Verfassung der Spartaner. Hrsg., übers. u. erl. v. Stefan Rebenich
Creators: name: Wölke, Hansjörg
Publisher: name: Forum Classicum
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Xenophon: Die Verfassung der Spartaner. Hrsg., übers. u. erl. v. Stefan Rebenich. Darmstadt: Wiss.Buchges. 1998. 156 S. (Texte zur Forschung. Bd 70; ISBN 3-534-13203-3).
description: Forum Classicum, Nr. 1 (2000): Forum Classicum