cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards a data-driven characterization of behavioral changes induced by the seasonal flu
Creators: name: Gozzi, Nicolò
name: Perrotta, Daniela
name: Paolotti, Daniela
name: Perra, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we aim to determine the main factors driving behavioral change during the seasonal flu. To this end, we analyze a unique dataset comprised of 599 surveys completed by 434 Italian users of Influweb, a Web platform for participatory surveillance, during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons. The data provide socio-demographic information, level of concerns about the flu, past experience with illnesses, and the type of behavioral changes implemented by each participant. We describe each response with a set of features and divide them in three target categories. These describe those that report i) no (26 %), ii) only moderately (36 %), iii) significant (38 %) changes in behaviors. In these settings, we adopt machine learning algorithms to investigate the extent to which target variables can be predicted by looking only at the set of features. Notably, $66\%$ of the samples in the category describing more significant changes in behaviors are correctly classified through Gradient Boosted Trees. Furthermore, we investigate the importance of each feature in the classification task and uncover complex relationships between individuals' characteristics and their attitude towards behavioral change. We find that intensity, recency of past illnesses, perceived susceptibility to and perceived severity of an infection are the most significant features in the classification task. Interestingly, the last two match the theoretical constructs suggested by the Health-Belief Model. Overall, the research contributes to the small set of empirical studies devoted to the data-driven characterization of behavioral changes induced by infectious diseases.
Proposal on the specifications for P4P project data
Creators: name: , Grillone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Energy efficiency
Renovation Wave
Pay-for-performance
Energy efficiency measures

description: This report is aimed at defining a list of indicators that can be used to evaluate the impact of implemented Pay-for-Performance (P4P) programs for energy efficiency. Firstly, an introduction to P4P schemes is provided, including a description of the advantages of this type of program and more specifically, the benefits of aggregating energy efficiency projects into programs. Then, the SENSEI model is introduced, and the interaction between the different actors taking part in this scheme is specified. After that, the indicators to evaluate P4P project data are defined. The factors taken into account for the definition of these indicators are; the size, impact, cost-effectiveness, and timing of the program, as well as characteristics of the implemented Energy Efficiency Measures (EEMs) and the buildings, included in the programs. The indicators have been defined so that they can easily be included in the De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform (DEEP), an open-source database that includes information about energy efficiency investments and achieved savings. The platform has the goal of up-scaling energy efficiency investments in Europe by providing data about existing projects in buildings and industry. In the final section of this report, the DEEP platform is presented and a recommendation for inclusion of the defined indicators in their database is provided. The inclusion of the defined indicators in the DEEP platform will allow the collection of empirical data on the effectiveness of P4P schemes and could possibly help build a case for the implementation of such programs in place of regular energy efficiency projects.
title: FS Sonne Fahrtbericht/Cruise Report SO193
title: MANIHIKI ; temporal, spatial, and tectonic evolution of oceanic plateaus ; Suva/Fiji - Apia/Samoa 19.05. - 30.06.2007
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Werner, Reinhard
Publisher: name: IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel
Year: 2007

description: report
Mindfulness Mediates Neuroticism as a Predictor of Self-Control and Impulsivity: Potential Implications for Behavioral Regulation
Creators: name: Rush, Christina
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Mindfulness, a concept described as an open and detached but engaged manner of relating to internal and external stimuli (Brown, Ryan & Creswell, 2007) has been found in previous research to fully mediate the neuroticism-impulsivity and neuroticism-self-control relationships (Fetterman, Robinson, Ode, & Gordon, 2010). The current study replicated Fetterman et al.'s study to evaluate mindfulness as a mediator of the neuroticism-impulsivity and neuroticism-self-control relationships in a new sample (n = 287). A multiple regression was run in which neuroticism and mindfulness were evaluated as simultaneous predictors of impulsivity (Baron & Kenny, 1986). In this multiple regression, mindfulness remained a significant predictor of impulsivity, (Beta = -.443, p < .001), but neuroticism was no longer a significant predictor, (Beta = .099, p = .107). In addition, neuroticism and mindfulness were simultaneously evaluated as predictors of self-control. The results here partly diverge from previous findings in Fetterman et al.'s research. In both the previous research and the current findings, mindfulness remained a significant predictor, (Beta = .394, p < .001); however unlike in the previous research, neuroticism also remained a significant predictor, (Beta = -.293, p < .001), but to a lesser degree than when mindfulness was not evaluated as a predictor, suggesting that in the current sample mindfulness partially rather than fully mediates the relationship between neuroticism and self-control. These results, though slightly distinct from previous findings, could point to the usefulness of mindfulness for addressing behavioral dysregulation correlates to neuroticism. Future research should explore the subtleties of mindfulness as a mediator in these relationships, in particular the neuroticism-self-control relationship, and practical uses for mindfulness to potentially address behavioral dysregulation and enhance self-regulation.
More on supersymmetric tensionless rotating strings in AdS_5 x S^5
Creators: name: Mateos, David
name: Mateos, Toni
name: Townsend, Paul K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotating IIB strings in AdS_5 x S^5 become ultra-relativistic, and hence effectively tensionless, in the limit of large angular momentum on S^5. We have shown previously that such tensionless strings may preserve supersymmetry. Here we extend this result to include a class of supersymmetric tensionless strings with arbitrary SO(6) angular momentum. We close with some general comments on tensionless strings in AdS_5 x S^5.
description: Contribution to the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries (QTS3), Cincinnati, 10-14 Sep 2003
Source-Relaxed Domain Adaptation for Image Segmentation
Creators: name: Bateson, Mathilde
name: Kervadec, Hoel
name: Dolz, Jose
name: Lombaert, Herve
name: Ayed, Ismail Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Domain adaptation (DA) has drawn high interests for its capacity to adapt a model trained on labeled source data to perform well on unlabeled or weakly labeled target data from a different domain. Most common DA techniques require the concurrent access to the input images of both the source and target domains. However, in practice, it is common that the source images are not available in the adaptation phase. This is a very frequent DA scenario in medical imaging, for instance, when the source and target images come from different clinical sites. We propose a novel formulation for adapting segmentation networks, which relaxes such a constraint. Our formulation is based on minimizing a label-free entropy loss defined over target-domain data, which we further guide with a domain invariant prior on the segmentation regions. Many priors can be used, derived from anatomical information. Here, a class-ratio prior is learned via an auxiliary network and integrated in the form of a Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence in our overall loss function. We show the effectiveness of our prior-aware entropy minimization in adapting spine segmentation across different MRI modalities. Our method yields comparable results to several state-of-the-art adaptation techniques, even though is has access to less information, the source images being absent in the adaptation phase. Our straight-forward adaptation strategy only uses one network, contrary to popular adversarial techniques, which cannot perform without the presence of the source images. Our framework can be readily used with various priors and segmentation problems.
Mindfulness Mediates Neuroticism as a Predictor of Self-Control and Impulsivity: Potential Implications for Behavioral Regulation
Creators: name: Rush, Christina
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Mindfulness, a concept described as an open and detached but engaged manner of relating to internal and external stimuli (Brown, Ryan & Creswell, 2007) has been found in previous research to fully mediate the neuroticism-impulsivity and neuroticism-self-control relationships (Fetterman, Robinson, Ode, & Gordon, 2010). The current study replicated Fetterman et al.'s study to evaluate mindfulness as a mediator of the neuroticism-impulsivity and neuroticism-self-control relationships in a new sample (n = 287). A multiple regression was run in which neuroticism and mindfulness were evaluated as simultaneous predictors of impulsivity (Baron & Kenny, 1986). In this multiple regression, mindfulness remained a significant predictor of impulsivity, (Beta = -.443, p < .001), but neuroticism was no longer a significant predictor, (Beta = .099, p = .107). In addition, neuroticism and mindfulness were simultaneously evaluated as predictors of self-control. The results here partly diverge from previous findings in Fetterman et al.'s research. In both the previous research and the current findings, mindfulness remained a significant predictor, (Beta = .394, p < .001); however unlike in the previous research, neuroticism also remained a significant predictor, (Beta = -.293, p < .001), but to a lesser degree than when mindfulness was not evaluated as a predictor, suggesting that in the current sample mindfulness partially rather than fully mediates the relationship between neuroticism and self-control. These results, though slightly distinct from previous findings, could point to the usefulness of mindfulness for addressing behavioral dysregulation correlates to neuroticism. Future research should explore the subtleties of mindfulness as a mediator in these relationships, in particular the neuroticism-self-control relationship, and practical uses for mindfulness to potentially address behavioral dysregulation and enhance self-regulation.
title: Atmospheric, oceanic and hydrological contributions to seasonal variations in length of day
title: paper presented at the XXV General Assembly, European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, 25-29 April 2000
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Höpfner, Joachim
Publisher: name: GFZ, Helmholtz-Zentrum
Year: 2000

description: report
Spin Current in Spin-Orbit Coupling Systems
Creators: name: Hu, Jiangping
name: Bernevig, Bogdan A.
name: Wu, Congjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple and pedagogical derivation of the spin current as the linear response to an external electric field for both Rashba and Luttinger spin-orbital coupling Hamiltonians. Except for the adiabatic approximation, our derivation is exact to the linear order of the electric field for both models. The spin current is a direct result of the difference in occupation levels between different bands. Moreover, we show a general topological spin current can be defined for a broad class of spin-orbit coupling systems.
Zelotes talpinus
Creators: name: Isaia, Marco
name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Chiarle, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Zelotes
Zelotes talpinus

description: Zelotes talpinus (L. Koch, 1872)
NEW DATA. — Valdieri: southern slope of Monte Bourel, Vallone della Meris, Sant’Anna di Valdieri, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1500-2300 m, 1-31.VIII.2011 (pitfall traps), 2♂; Vernante: Palanfrè, Pascariund, Alpine pastures, 1600 m, 30.VII-30.VIII.2010 (pitfall traps), 4♂.
 LITERATURE. — Paschetta et al. (2013).
CHOROTYPE. — SEU.
MACROHABITAT. — Alpine pastures, Alpine prairies.
description: Published as part of Isaia, Marco, Paschetta, Mauro & Chiarle, Alberto, 2015, Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation " Alpi Marittime " (NW Italy), pp. 57-114 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4577680
Multigenerational psychometric evaluation of health promotion practices to identify determinants for sustaining worklife expectancy in aging population
Creators: name: Vatsalya, Vatsalya
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Growth of older population in United States requires multi-generational evaluation to characterize health indices for sustaining workability. The objective of this study was to assess the available health promoting practices that are being used by the working population to sustain their workability and also to identify additional health promoting practices that can be used as markers to sustain workability. Forty (40) non-treatment seeking, non-diagnosed otherwise healthy working population residing within United States with minimum age of 22 years up to 75 years were included in this study. Research data was collected as responses to two paper based questionnaires - the Customized Employee Biographical Questionnaire (EBQ) and Occupational Health Surveillance Questionnaire (OHRQ). Processed data was tabulated for the parameters with age-groups distribution as 22-31, 32-41, 42-51, 52-61 and 62+ groups and statistically analyzed. Length of working showed significant Between-Subjects effects with hours of physical training at moderate levels, though this effect increased when age was included as a covariate, which demonstrates that continuous physical training is important for all age-groups to sustain workability. Education and level of training strongly associated with hours of training as measure interactions with age as a covariate as well. The analysis of the data gathered for this investigation identified that workability was strongly associated with hours of physical training and is a significant marker for sustaining workability. Further investigation of measures in larger working population who use their work-life in an attempt to stay healthy and fit could potentially reveal significant associations that could extend workability as well as enhance work productivity in such areas as performance, presenteeism, and job satisfaction.
A Complete Sample of Soft X-ray Selected AGN: II. Statistical Analysis
Creators: name: Grupe, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct correlations and a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) are presented for a complete sample of 110 soft X-ray selected AGN of which about half are Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s). The direct correlation analyses show that narrower FWHM(H-beta) correlates with steeper X-ray spectrum, stronger optical FeII emission, weaker [OIII] emission and stronger short-term X-ray variability. This direct correlation analysis and the PCA confirm the Boroson & Green (1992) Eigenvector 1 relationship for AGN: FeII strength anti-correlates with [OIII] line strength. Eigenvector 1 is well-correlated with the Eddington luminosity ratio L/L_Edd while Eigenvector 2 shows a very good correlation with the mass of the central black hole and the mass accretion rate. The Eddington ratio L/L_Edd correlates with the X-ray spectral index alpha-X and the black home mass anti-correlates with the X-ray variability chi^2/nu. The Eddington ration L/L_Edd may be interpreted as the age of an AGN: AGN with steep X-ray spectra, strong FeII, and weak [OIII] are AGN in an early phase of their evolution. In this hypothesis NLS1s are young AGN.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ (April 2004), 21 pages, 13 figures
Multigenerational psychometric evaluation of health promotion practices to identify determinants for sustaining worklife expectancy in aging population
Creators: name: Vatsalya, Vatsalya
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Growth of older population in United States requires multi-generational evaluation to characterize health indices for sustaining workability. The objective of this study was to assess the available health promoting practices that are being used by the working population to sustain their workability and also to identify additional health promoting practices that can be used as markers to sustain workability. Forty (40) non-treatment seeking, non-diagnosed otherwise healthy working population residing within United States with minimum age of 22 years up to 75 years were included in this study. Research data was collected as responses to two paper based questionnaires - the Customized Employee Biographical Questionnaire (EBQ) and Occupational Health Surveillance Questionnaire (OHRQ). Processed data was tabulated for the parameters with age-groups distribution as 22-31, 32-41, 42-51, 52-61 and 62+ groups and statistically analyzed. Length of working showed significant Between-Subjects effects with hours of physical training at moderate levels, though this effect increased when age was included as a covariate, which demonstrates that continuous physical training is important for all age-groups to sustain workability. Education and level of training strongly associated with hours of training as measure interactions with age as a covariate as well. The analysis of the data gathered for this investigation identified that workability was strongly associated with hours of physical training and is a significant marker for sustaining workability. Further investigation of measures in larger working population who use their work-life in an attempt to stay healthy and fit could potentially reveal significant associations that could extend workability as well as enhance work productivity in such areas as performance, presenteeism, and job satisfaction.
Philodromus cespitum
Creators: name: Isaia, Marco
name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Chiarle, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Philodromidae
Philodromus
Philodromus cespitum

description: Philodromus cespitum (Walckenaer, 1802)
NEW DATA. — Entracque: Tetti Violin, grassland with bushes, 900-1100 m, 10.VI.2011, 1♀ (collected within the PIT Summer School 2011).
CHOROTYPE. — OLA.
MACROHABITAT. — Shrublands.
NOTES. — New record for the study area.
description: Published as part of Isaia, Marco, Paschetta, Mauro & Chiarle, Alberto, 2015, Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation " Alpi Marittime " (NW Italy), pp. 57-114 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4577680
Multiple domain formation induced by modulation instability in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Kasamatsu, Kenichi
name: Tsubota, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of multiple domain formation caused by the modulation instability of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in an axially symmetric trap are studied by numerically integrating the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. The modulation instability induced by the intercomponent mean-field coupling occurs in the out-of-phase fluctuation of the wave function and leads to the formation of multiple domains that alternate from one domain to another, where the phase of one component jumps across the density dips where the domains of the other exist. This behavior is analogous to a soliton train, which explains the origin of the long lifetime of the spin domains observed by Miesner {it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {bf 82}, 2228 (1999)].
description: 4pages, 3figures, final version
The peak algebra and the Hecke-Clifford algebras at $q=0$
Creators: name: Bergeron, Nantel
name: Hivert, Florent
name: Thibon, Jean-Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using the formalism of noncommutative symmetric functions, we derive the basic theory of the peak algebra of symmetric groups and of its graded Hopf dual. Our main result is to provide a representation theoretical interpretation of the peak algebra and its graded dual as Grothendieck rings of the tower of Hecke-Clifford algebras at $q=0$.
description: Final version, 17 pages, LaTex, 1 PDF figure, graphicx
Unique Class Group Based Multi-Label Balancing Optimizer for Action Unit Detection
Creators: name: Rieger, Ines
name: Pahl, Jaspar
name: Seuss, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Balancing methods for single-label data cannot be applied to multi-label problems as they would also resample the samples with high occurrences. We propose to reformulate this problem as an optimization problem in order to balance multi-label data. We apply this balancing algorithm to training datasets for detecting isolated facial movements, so-called Action Units. Several Action Units can describe combined emotions or physical states such as pain. As datasets in this area are limited and mostly imbalanced, we show how optimized balancing and then augmentation can improve Action Unit detection. At the IEEE Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition 2020, we ranked third in the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) challenge for the Action Unit detection task.
description: Accepted at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2020, Workshop "Affect Recognition in-the-wild: Uni/Multi-Modal Analysis & VA-AU-Expression Challenges". arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2002.03238
title: The relative sensitivity of algae to inhibitors from plant litter
Creators: name: Martin, Derek
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: Decomposing barley straw (Hordeum vulgare) and oak leaves (Quercus robur) have previously been shown to inhibit the growth of a limited number of algae and cyanobacteria. Bioassays were conducted on a range of algae and cyanobacteria to evaluate their relative sensitivities to litter-derived inhibitor(s). A range of sensitivities were found, including some species that were stimulated by litter-derived inhibitor(s). Susceptibility to decomposing plant litter did not appear to be related to general taxonomic or structural features since susceptibility differed widely, even amongst members of the same genus. A microcystin-producing strain of Microcystis aeruginosa was very susceptible to decomposing barley straw.

No specific effect on cell structure or morphology could be attributed solely to the litter-derived inhibitor(s). Evidence suggested that cell division, rather than cell expansion, was slowed or inhibited. Bioassays using Euglena gracilis showed the inhibitory compounds were not derived from the phototransformation of litter decomposition products and were not acting primarily by inhibiting photosynthesis.

Barley straw inhibited the growth of filamentous algae in a drainage channel and, subsequently, the channel was recolonized by macrophytes. A one-year treatment with barley straw inhibited algal growth, but this reduction in growth was not maintained when the straw was removed. After three-years treatment with barley straw, macrophytes retained dominance after the removal of the straw. No inhibition of algal growth was observed in a different straw-treated drainage channel. The implications for water management are discussed.
Measurement of calcite crystallographic-preferred orientations by magnetic anisotropy and comparison to diffraction methods
Creators: name: Schmidt, Volkmar
name: Hirt, Ann M.
name: Burlini, Luigi
name: Leiss, Bernd
name: Walter, Jens M.
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Year: 2006

description: The anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) of rocks reflects the preferred orientations of minerals. Therefore AMS is a quick and easy way to characterize rock fabrics (Hrouda 1982,Borradaile 1988); the obtained result is also called the magnetic fabric of the rock. The method has been often used to measure the orientation of ferromagnetic minerals, mainly magnetite, but in recent studies it has been increasingly used to measure textures of paramagnetic minerals as phyllosilicates (Lüneburg et al. 1999, Cifelli et al. 2004). A further application is the measurement of diamagnetic textures, especially calcite textures. Calcite is suitable for the AMS method, because it has a high magnetic anisotropy with the minimum susceptibility along the crystallographic c-axis. Therefore a preferred orientation of the c-axes, which can be induced by deformation, generates a magnetic fabric...
description: conference
Assessing the Impact of the Small Farmer-Tuskegee University-Walmart Project on the Household Economy of Small and Limited Resource Farmers in Alabama
Creators: name: Karki, Lila B.
name: Hill, Walter A.
name: Shange, Raymon
name: Hargrove, Tasha M.
name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Vaughan, Barrett
name: Baharanyi, Ntam R.
name: Wall, Gertrude
name: Hunter, George
name: Pace, Konnie D.
name: Karki, Lila B.
name: Hill, Walter A.
name: Shange, Raymon
name: Hargrove, Tasha M.
name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Vaughan, Barrett
name: Baharanyi, Ntam R.
name: Wall, Gertrude
name: Hunter, George
name: Pace, Konnie D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Household Economy
subject: Small and Limited Resource Farmers
subject: Walmart Initiative

description: This study focused on the impact of the Small Farmer-Tuskegee University-Walmart Project, an agribusiness opportunity for small and limited resource farmers in rural Alabama. The Project provided a package of programs that strengthened the farmers’ entrepreneurial capacity and secured a market with Walmart for contracted produce. The study applied the triangulation approach to collect field data, and conducted a case study using quantitative and qualitative tools to measure socioeconomic and environmental impacts. The results revealed that the target group benefitted enormously, as desired variables, namely, family income; technical knowledge; agribusiness entrepreneurial skill; leadership quality; factor productivity; direct, indirect, and induced impacts; and employment in the community, changed positively.
Flux-driven integrated modelling of main ion pressure and trace tungsten transport in ASDEX Upgrade
Creators: name: Linder, O.
name: Citrin, J.
name: Hogeweij, G. M. D.
name: Angioni, C.
name: Bourdelle, C.
name: Casson, F. J.
name: Fable, E.
name: Ho, A.
name: Koechl, F.
name: Sertoli, M.
name: Team, the EUROfusion MST1
name: Team, the ASDEX Upgrade
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neoclassical and turbulent heavy impurity transport in tokamak core plasmas are determined by main ion temperature, density and toroidal rotation profiles. Thus, in order to understand and prevent experimental behaviour of W accumulation, flux-driven integrated modelling of main ion heat and particle transport over multiple confinement times is a vital prerequisite. For the first time, the quasilinear gyrokinetic code QuaLiKiz has been applied for successful predictions of core kinetic profiles in an ASDEX Upgrade H-mode discharge in the turbulence dominated region within the integrated modelling suite JETTO. Neoclassical contributions are calculated by NCLASS; auxiliary heat and particle deposition profiles due to NBI and ECRH prescribed from previous analysis with TRANSP. Turbulent and neoclassical contributions are insufficient in explaining main ion heat and particle transport inside the $q=1$ surface, necessitating the prescription of further transport coefficients to mimic the impact of MHD activity on central transport. The ion to electron temperature ratio at the simulation boundary at $ρ_\mathrm{tor} = 0.85$ stabilizes ion scale modes while destabilizing ETG modes when significantly exceeding unity. Careful analysis of experimental measurements using Gaussian process regression techniques is carried out to explore reasonable uncertainties. In following trace W impurity transport simulations performed with additionally NEO, neoclassical transport under consideration of poloidal asymmetries alone is found to be insufficient to establish hollow central W density profiles. Reproduction of these conditions measured experimentally is found possible only when assuming the direct impact of a saturated $(m,n)=(1,1)$ MHD mode on heavy impurity transport.
description: 26 pages, 17 figures
The Small Farmer-Tuskegee University-Walmart Project: Observations of the Steps within Commercial Supply
Creators: name: Vaughan, Barrett
name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Zeigler, Audrey
name: Hunter, George X.
name: Wall, Gertrude
name: Brown, John
name: Vaughan, Barrett
name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Zeigler, Audrey
name: Hunter, George X.
name: Wall, Gertrude
name: Brown, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Small Farmers
subject: Produce Markets
subject: Commercial Supply
subject: Capacity

description: Observations of the various efforts necessary in an initiative, the Small Farmer-Tuskegee University-Walmart Project, to assist small farmers to comply with produce industry standards and supply produce to a major retailer over a six-year period were documented through an illustrative case study. The observations were taken from meetings with commercial buyers and farmers, site visits to processing centers and corporate farms, conference calls, and, mainly, from the authors’ “hands-on” participation with the functioning and preservation of this initiative. Consequently, these observations were organized into a framework of criteria that must be successively satisfied to be able to supply produce commercially. These criteria were capacity, capability, quality, food safety, consistency, sustainability, and market ability. A key finding was that for small farmers to meet these criteria, they required organization and support. It was concluded that although the effort was successful, the information gained through the effort was perhaps more valuable.
UNISECO Project Selected key findings and possible contributions to the preparation of the European R&I partnership on agro ecology and CAP strategic plans
Creators: name: Schwarz, Gerald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: UNISECO H2020 project
key findings
agroecology
CAP Strategic Plans
system-based approach
co-learning
participatory case studies
biophysical and socio-economic modelling
Socio-ecological Systems (SES) framework
strategies of agro-ecological transitions
multi-actor platforms
sustainability performance assessments

description: Presentation at the UNISECO H2020 Final Conference, 18-19 March 2021
 https://uniseco-project.eu/final-conference UNISECO is a European research project aiming to develop innovative approaches to enhance the understanding of socio-economic and policy drivers and barriers for further development and implementation of agro-ecological practices in EU farming systems. Learn more about the project: https://uniseco-project.eu/ This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 773901.
Approximation of rough paths of fractional Brownian motion
Creators: name: Millet, Annie
name: Sanz-Solé, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60G15; Secondary 60H05, 60H07

description: We consider a geometric rough path associated with a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in]{1/4}, {1/2}[$. We give an approximation result in a modulus type distance, up to the second order, by means of a sequence of rough paths lying above elements of the reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
description: 28 pages
title: Designing together apart : computer supported collaborative design in architecture
Creators: name: Kvan, Thomas
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: The design of computer tools to assist in work has often attempted to replicate manual methods. This replication has been proven to fail in a diversity of fields such as business management, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer- Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW). To avoid such a failure being repeated in the field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Design (CSCD), this thesis explores the postulation that CSCD does not have to be supported by tools which replicate the face-to-face design context to support distal architectural design. The thesis closely examines the prevailing position that collaborative design is a social and situated act which must therefore be supported by high bandwidth tools. This formulation of architectural collaboration is rejected in favour of the formulation of a collaborative expert act. This proposal is tested experimentally, the results of which are presented. Supporting expert behaviour requires different tools than the support of situated acts. Surveying research in computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), the thesis identifies tools that support expert work. The results of the research is transferred to two contexts: teaching and practice. The applications in these two contexts illustrate how CSCD can be applied in a variety of bandwidth and technological conditions. The conclusion is that supporting collaborative design as an expert and knowledge-based act can be beneficially implemented in the teaching and practice of architecture.
Adaptive binarization based on fuzzy integrals
Creators: name: Bardozzo, Francesco
name: De La Osa, Borja
name: Horanska, Lubomira
name: Fumanal-Idocin, Javier
name: Priscoli, Mattia delli
name: Troiano, Luigi
name: Tagliaferri, Roberto
name: Fernandez, Javier
name: Bustince, Humberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4; I.5
subject: 68W25

description: Adaptive binarization methodologies threshold the intensity of the pixels with respect to adjacent pixels exploiting the integral images. In turn, the integral images are generally computed optimally using the summed-area-table algorithm (SAT). This document presents a new adaptive binarization technique based on fuzzy integral images through an efficient design of a modified SAT for fuzzy integrals. We define this new methodology as FLAT (Fuzzy Local Adaptive Thresholding). The experimental results show that the proposed methodology have produced an image quality thresholding often better than traditional algorithms and saliency neural networks. We propose a new generalization of the Sugeno and CF 1,2 integrals to improve existing results with an efficient integral image computation. Therefore, these new generalized fuzzy integrals can be used as a tool for grayscale processing in real-time and deep-learning applications. Index Terms: Image Thresholding, Image Processing, Fuzzy Integrals, Aggregation Functions
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 3 algorithms, Journal paper under a revision of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
All you need is love - and an international organization : the role of the Inter-American Commission and Court on Human Rights in improving conditions in Latin America
Creators: name: Campbell, Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights and its partner Court have been major players in the improvement of human rights in Latin America. Since their creation, the two organizations have had a profound effect on the behaviour of states in the region, and have helped to bring the worst abuses of various regimes to the light of international scrutiny. Thanks to the support of the US, but avoiding the restrictions hegemon sponsorship tends to imply, the IACHR and Court have been given the means with which to pursue allegations of human rights violations and punish the offending states. The diffusion of international human rights norms through the channel of human rights law has given these two institutions the necessary framework in which they can operate, and their institutional independence has ensured that their actions have generally been successful and accepted by member states. This provides an important case study in the utility of international organizations, as the Commission and Court have proved that these organizations do indeed have the potential to affect state actions and policies.
Microscopic thermal machines using run-and-tumble particles
Creators: name: Kumari, Aradhana
name: Lahiri, Sourabh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microscopic thermal machines that are of the dimensions of around few hundred nanometers have been the subject of intense study over the last two decades. Recently, it has been shown that the efficiency of such thermal engines can be enhanced by using active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (AOUP). In this work, we numerically study the behaviour of tiny engines and refrigerators that use an active run-and-tumble particle (RTP) as the working system. We find that the results for the engine mode are in sharp contrast with those of engines using AOUP, thus showing that the nature of activity has a strong influence on the qualitative behaviours of thermal machines for nonequilibrium cycles. The efficiency of an engine using a run-and-tumble particle is found to be smaller in general than a passive microscopic engine. However, when the applied protocol is time-reversed, the resulting microscopic refrigerator can have a much higher coefficient of performance under these conditions. The effect of variation of different parameters of the coefficient of performance has been explored. A non-monotonic variation of coefficient of performance with active force has been found.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
The Small Farmers Agricultural Cooperative Today
Creators: name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Brown, John
name: Paris, Alice
name: Hill, Walter A.
name: Hargrove, Tasha M.
name: Vaughan, Barrett
name: Shange, Raymon
name: Hooks, Al
name: Hooks, Demetrius
name: Turner, Thomas
name: England, Bobby
name: Zeigler, Audrey
name: Robinson, Miles D.
name: Brown, John
name: Paris, Alice
name: Hill, Walter A.
name: Hargrove, Tasha M.
name: Vaughan, Barrett
name: Shange, Raymon
name: Hooks, Al
name: Hooks, Demetrius
name: Turner, Thomas
name: England, Bobby
name: Zeigler, Audrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Cooperative
subject: Produce Marketing
subject: Small Farmers
subject: Small Farmer-Tuskegee University-Walmart Project

description: The Small Farmer-Tuskegee University-Walmart Project was designed to provide technical support to train at least 200 farmers on best practices in marketing produce to large companies such as Walmart. Activities included specialized training, workshops, and informational group meetings, and overall awareness of market opportunities. The specialized trainings included food safety standards and food safety certification requirements, efficient production techniques, harvesting, grading, packaging, refrigeration/cold chain requirements, transportation, fiscal responsibility, financial management, record-keeping, and insurance and product liability. As part of the process, Tuskegee University assisted with the formation of the Small Farmers Agricultural Cooperative, which is comprised of members from Central and South Alabama. Cooperative training included the benefits of farmers working together; internal management and controls; sharing of knowledge, resources and experience; doing business at higher volumes/quantities, and operating at a higher level of quality assurance; thus, ensuring the improvement in marketing opportunities.
Repositórios de dados de pesquisa: critérios CoreTrustSeal
Creators: name: Araujo, Lyvia Rocha de Jesus
name: Príncipe, Eloísa
name: Alencar, Maria Simone de Menezes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão Pecha Kucha II da 13ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, formato híbrido, de 10 a 12 de outubro de 2022.
Zelotes subterraneus
Creators: name: Isaia, Marco
name: Paschetta, Mauro
name: Chiarle, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Zelotes
Zelotes subterraneus

description: Zelotes subterraneus (C. L. Koch, 1833)
NEW DATA. — Valdieri: Pian del Valasco, Alpine pasture with rocks, 1764 m, 29. VI.2009, 1♀; southern slope of Monte Bourel, Vallone della Meris, Sant’Anna di Valdieri, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1500-2300 m, 1-31.VIII.2011 (pitfall traps), 2♂; V ernante: Palanfrè, beech forest, 1450 m, 11.VIII.2011, 1♀ (MRSN); Palanfrè, beech forest, 1600 m, 11.VIII.2011, 2♂ (MRSN); surroundings of Gias Vilazzo, Vallone degli Alberghi, Alpine prairies with rocky debris, 1850 m, 26.VII.2011, 1♀ (MRSN).
CHOROTYPE. — PAL.
MACROHABITAT. — Alpine prairies, broadleaved woods.
NOTES. — New record for the study area.
description: Published as part of Isaia, Marco, Paschetta, Mauro & Chiarle, Alberto, 2015, Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation " Alpi Marittime " (NW Italy), pp. 57-114 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4577680
Efficiency optimization in a correlation ratchet with asymmetric unbiased fluctuations
Creators: name: Ai, Bao-Quan
name: Wang, Xian-Ju
name: Liu, Guo-Tao
name: Wen, De-Hua
name: Xie, Hui-Zhang
name: Chen, Wei
name: Liu, Liang-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The efficiency of a Brownian particle moving in periodic potential in the presence of asymmetric unbiased fluctuations is investigated. We found that there is a regime where the efficiency can be a peaked function of temperature, which proves that thermal fluctuations facilitate the efficiency of energy transformation, contradicting the earlier findings (H. kamegawa et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 5251). It is also found that the mutual interplay between asymmetry of fluctuation and asymmetry of the potential may induce optimized efficiency at finite temperature. The ratchet is not most efficiency when it gives maximum current.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: An evaluation of the therapeutic alliance: a comparison between clients sexually abused as children and non-abused clients
Creators: name: Middle, Claire
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1999

description: This exploratory study aimed to investigate whether clients who have experienced childhood sexual abuse (CSA) differ from clients who have not disclosed such abuse, in the quality of the therapeutic alliance, level of interpersonal difficulties and in the elements viewed as important in the alliance. The study used both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Standardised questionnaires were used to investigate differences in alliance and interpersonal difficulties. Grounded theory was used to investigate the factors that were important in the therapeutic alliance for clients with a history of CSA. The women interviewed in the CSA group reported significantly lower scores than women in the non-CSA group on the Working Alliance Inventory, although overall scores for both groups were high. There were no overall significant differences in the level of interpersonal difficulties between the two groups, although the groups did differ on one sub-scale of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems 32. The qualitative analysis suggested that clients from both groups raised many similar issues as important in the therapeutic alliance. These included factors relating to the therapist, to the therapy and to the client's perception of the relationship. The issues of commitment, being believed, and the therapist not showing negative reactions were mentioned only by the survivors of CSA. Overall, the qualitative analysis revealed that a wide range of factors were relevant to both groups of clients, although the factors of commitment and therapist's reactions may be particularly relevant to work with survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Stochastic evolution and multifractal classification of prokaryotes
Creators: name: Berryman, Matthew J.
name: Allison, Andrew
name: Abbott, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We introduce a model for simulating mutation of prokaryote DNA sequences. Using that model we can then evaluated traditional techniques like parsimony and maximum likelihood methods for computing phylogenetic relationships. We also use the model to mimic large scale genomic changes, and use this to evaluate multifractal and related information theory techniques which take into account these large changes in determining phylogenetic relationships.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
DIGITAL ENGINEERING STRATEGY, DATA MODEL, AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR [PROGRAM] WHITE PAPER
Creators: name: Waugh, Stephen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: DIGITAL ENGINEERING, DATA MODEL, DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

description: The white paper describes a strategy that designs the data model for a DoD acquistion project, driving transformation: digitalizing existing documents, combining existing cross-functional data, and modeling necessary processes. Once populated, this digital transformation results in a shared Decision Support System (DSS) with digitalized processes that are transparent, data models that are internally fluid and externally relevant, and accessible decision aids.