cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Πως τα ΚΔΑΠ μεα μπορούν να αποτελέσουν σημαντικούς πυλώνες για την κοινωνική ένταξη των παιδιών και των ενηλίκων με αναπηρία μέσω της Προσαρμοσμένης Φυσικής Αγωγής
title: How the Centers of Creative Employment for the Disabled are important pillars for the social integration of children and adults with disabilities through adapted physical education
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Παπαδημητρίου, Μαρία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Αντιληπτική-κινητική μάθηση
subject: Φυσική αγωγή για παιδιά με ειδικές ανάγκες
subject: Εκπαιδευτικοί ειδικής αγωγής - Επιμόρφωσή των
subject: Ενταξιακή εκπαίδευση
subject: Αθλητισμός για άτομα με ειδικές ανάγκες
subject: Ειδική εκπαίδευση - Κινητική μάθηση
subject: Ειδική εκπαίδευση - Προγράμματα δραστηριοτήτων
subject: Perceptual-motor learning
subject: Physical education for children with disabilities
subject: Special education teachers - Training of
subject: Inclusive education
subject: Sports for people with disabilities
subject: Special education - Motor learning
subject: Special education - Activity programs
subject: Κδαπ
subject: Κοινωνική ένταξη
subject: Αναπηρία
subject: Προσαρμοσμένη φυσική αγωγή
subject: Kdap
subject: Social integration
subject: Disability
subject: Adapted physical education

description: Η παρούσα εργασία διερευνά τον ρόλο των Κέντρων Δημιουργικής Απασχόλησης Α.με.Α, ως προς την κοινωνική ένταξη και τη βελτίωση της ποιότητας ζωής των παιδιών και ενηλίκων με αναπηρία μέσα από την ειδική φυσική αγωγή. Η έρευνα περιλαμβάνει βασική βιβλιογραφική επισκόπηση και εμπειρική μελέτη περίπτωσης. Στο πλαίσιο της βιβλιογραφικής επισκόπησης δίδεται έμφαση στο ρόλο του ειδικού γυμναστή και των λοιπών επιστημονικών ειδικοτήτων καθώς και στην ανάλυση των προγραμμάτων που υλοποιούνται στα πλαίσια της προσαρμοσμένης ειδικής φυσικής αγωγής(Ψυχοκινητική αγωγή, ομαδικό παιχνίδι, χορός). Στο πλαίσιο της εμπειρικής έρευνας μελετώνται οι απόψεις γονέων παιδιών και ενηλίκων με αναπηρία που συμμετέχουν στα Κδαπ μεα καθώς και των εκπαιδευτικών ειδικής αγωγής προκειμένου να εξαχθούν συμπεράσματα ως προς τη θετική επίδραση των Κδαπ μεα στην κοινωνική ένταξη των Α.με.Α. Σύμφωνα με τη βιβλιογραφία, υπάρχουν διάφοροι παράγοντες που συμβάλλουν στην ποιότητα ζωής των ατόμων με αναπηρία, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του μεγιστοποιημένου ατομικού ελέγχου, της αυτονομίας και της ένταξης. Καθώς σημειώνονται εξελίξεις στον τομέα των μελετών και της πρακτικής για τις διανοητικές αναπηρίες, προκύπτουν νέα, δημιουργικά μοντέλα στέγασης, τα οποία επικεντρώνονται στη βελτίωση του ατομικού ελέγχου, της αυτονομίας και της κοινωνικής ένταξης. Η βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση υπογραμμίζει την ανάγκη για περισσότερη έρευνα σχετικά με προγράμματα ανεξάρτητης διαβίωσης και αναδεικνύει την ανάγκη να διερευνηθεί περαιτέρω ο ρόλος επιμέρους δομών, όπως τα ΚΔΑΠ. Τα αποτελέσματα της εμπειρικής έρευνας με τη μορφή μελέτης περίπτωσης ( case study) που περιλαμβάνεται στην παρούσα εργασία, συνηγορούν στην άποψη πως τα ΚΔΑΠ μεα προάγουν το κοινωνικό μοντέλο αναπηρίας, αλλά οι υπηρεσίες τους υποβαθμίζονται από προβλήματα που αφορούν ανεπαρκείς υποδομές και ελλείψεις εξειδικευμένου προσωπικού.
Final state Coulomb interaction and asymmetry of pair production close to threshold in $e^+e^-$ annihilation
Creators: name: Dmitriev, V. F.
name: Milstein, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a contribution of the $d$ wave to the cross section of $e^+e^-$ annihilation to the pair of charged leptons or nucleons close to threshold of the process. In contrast to the point of view accepted in literature, due to the Coulomb final state interaction this contribution does not vanish even at zero relative velocity of produced particles. This results in the nonzero asymmetry in angular distribution at threshold. Though value of the asymmetry is small, observation of this effect is not hopeless.
description: 7 pages, no figures
Microstructural and neurochemical plasticity mechanisms interact to enhance human perceptual decision-making.
Creators: name: Ziminski, Joseph J
name: Frangou, Polytimi
name: Karlaftis, Vasilis M
name: Emir, Uzay
name: Kourtzi, Zoe
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Adult
Male
Female
Humans
Learning
Brain
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Brain Mapping
gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
Neuronal Plasticity

description: Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the MR physics and radiographer teams at the Cambridge Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, and Lilia Kukovska for their support and help with data collection. We would also like to thank Martina Callaghan, Nickolas Weiskopf, and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging for providing the MPM sequences, and Guy Williams and Steve Sawiak for their expert assistance in MR-sequence testing. We would like to thank Thora Karadottir, Sonja Hofer, Jasper Poort, and Martina Callaghan for helpful comments and suggestions.
description: Experience and training are known to boost our skills and mold the brain's organization and function. Yet, structural plasticity and functional neurotransmission are typically studied at different scales (large-scale networks, local circuits), limiting our understanding of the adaptive interactions that support learning of complex cognitive skills in the adult brain. Here, we employ multimodal brain imaging to investigate the link between microstructural (myelination) and neurochemical (GABAergic) plasticity for decision-making. We test (in males, due to potential confounding menstrual cycle effects on GABA measurements in females) for changes in MRI-measured myelin, GABA, and functional connectivity before versus after training on a perceptual decision task that involves identifying targets in clutter. We demonstrate that training alters subcortical (pulvinar, hippocampus) myelination and its functional connectivity to visual cortex and relates to decreased visual cortex GABAergic inhibition. Modeling interactions between MRI measures of myelin, GABA, and functional connectivity indicates that pulvinar myelin plasticity interacts-through thalamocortical connectivity-with GABAergic inhibition in visual cortex to support learning. Our findings propose a dynamic interplay of adaptive microstructural and neurochemical plasticity in subcortico-cortical circuits that supports learning for optimized decision-making in the adult human brain.
description: This work was supported by grants to ZK from the Wellcome Trust [grant number 205067/Z/16/Z, 221633/Z/20/Z], the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [grant numbers H012508, BB/P021255/1].
Ferromagnetic bubble clusters in Y$_{0.67}$Ca$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$ thin films
Creators: name: Kim, Jeehoon
name: Haberkorn, N.
name: Civale, L.
name: Dowden, P. C.
name: Movshovich, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the ferromagnetic topology in a Y$_{0.67}$Ca$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$ thin film with a combination of magnetic force microscopy and magnetization measurements. Our results show that the spin-glass like behavior, reported previously for this system, could be attributed to frustrated interfaces of the ferromagnetic clusters embedded in a non-ferromagnetic matrix. We found temperature dependent changes of the magnetic topology at low temperatures, which suggests a non-static Mn$^{3+}$/Mn$^{4+}$ ratio.
Comment on "State-Independent Experimental Test of Quantum Contextuality in an Indivisible System"
Creators: name: Amselem, E.
name: Bourennane, M.
name: Budroni, C.
name: Cabello, A.
name: Gühne, O.
name: Kleinmann, M.
name: Larsson, J. -Å.
name: Wieśniak, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the experiment described in the recent Letter by Zu et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 150401 (2012); arXiv:1207.0059v1] does not allow to make conclusions about contextuality, since the measurement of the observables as well as the preparation of the state manifestly depend on the chosen context.
description: 1 page, accepted in PRL
Multi-focal spherical media and geodesic lenses in geometrical optics
Creators: name: Sarbort, Martin
name: Tyc, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a general approach to designing the isotropic spherical media with complex spatial structure that provide different types of imaging for different light rays. It is based on equivalence of the spherical medium and the corresponding geodesic lens. We use this approach to design multi-focal gradient- index lenses embedded into an optically homogeneous region and multi-focal absolute instruments that provide perfect imaging of three-dimensional domains.
title: Dropped Gallstone with fistulous tract formation
Creators: name: Korsipati, Manaswini
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CNS
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Drainage
subject: Biopsy
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Drainage
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 60-year-old male patient presented with history of abdominal pain and pus discharge from a sinus in right lumbar region for 6 months. He had a past history of laparoscopic cholecystectomy 6 years back and pigtail insertion for drainage of post-op collection.

description: 60 years, male
Evidence for strong van der Waals-type Rydberg-Rydberg interaction in thermal vapor
Creators: name: Baluktsian, T.
name: Huber, B.
name: Löw, R.
name: Pfau, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evidence for Rydberg-Rydberg interaction in a gas of rubidium atoms above room temperature. Rabi oscillations on the nanosecond timescale to different Rydberg states are investigated in a vapor cell experiment. Analyzing the atomic time evolution and comparing to a dephasing model we find a scaling with the Rydberg quantum number n that is consistent with van der Waals interaction. Our results show that the interaction strength can be larger than the kinetic energy scale (Doppler width) which is the requirement for realization of thermal quantum devices in the GHz regime.
title: Development of a Guideline for the road transport industry in Poland in the context of changes in the future
Creators: name: Bogdanski, Piotr
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Transport
subject: Logistic
subject: Automotive
subject: Commercial Vehicles
subject: Risks
subject: Opportunities

description: This work analyses the current situation of the transport industry in Poland and presents the prospects for small and medium-sized enterprises in the context of changes. It shows the mega trends and risks in the next 5 years. The transport industry is one of the most important in the Polish economy and the position of Polish companies is key in Europe. These companies from Poland are currently facing with strong competition that a spires to become a leader. The aim of this work is to identify future changes in the transport business in areas such as legal, technological, social or competitive performance. The transport industry in Poland will also be influenced by global trends such as eco driving, telematics, freight digitization and electrification.The transport industry is under high cost pressure. The challenge for the companies is to develop the company into an attractive future-oriented company which is also attractive for employees. This paper shows how Polish companies are prepared and what is their knowledge about the changes that dynamically take place in the transport industry. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted among experts in the transport industry in Poland, which answer the research questions. The guideline will help practitioners and decision makers such as owners, managers or politicians to evaluate the impact of future changes to their business. The study shows how to extract the necessary fields of action and recommendations for Polish transport companies.
Supplementary material to IFAMR2022.0131: Coffee cooperatives and cross-border side-sales in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: two sides of the same coin
Creators: name: Slosse, Wannes
name: Buysse, Jeroen
name: Vijaya, Vijaya
name: Schoors, Koen
name: D’Haese, Marijke
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agricultural economics

description: In the Eastern DRC, coffee farmers combine the different sales outlets available to them. Cooperative members sell coffee to the cooperatives they belong to as well as to informal markets, which include a channel of illegal cross-border smuggling. In this conflict affected region, the informal cross-border markets persist irrespective of the presence of cooperatives. This paper seeks to understand the motivating factors of the side-selling behavior of coffee cooperative members. We study the coffee production and sales of 339 cooperative members in the region and use a double hurdle model to understand which farm characteristics relate to the side-selling behavior. The omnipresence of side-selling in the cooperatives suggest that the unstable political and economic environment is conducive to this co-existence of informal trade and cooperative membership. Side-selling seems a deliberate strategy by the farmers that is tolerated by the cooperatives. The results suggest that farmers who are in a more precarious situation are more inclined to engage with informal markets. This is further underscored by the effect of food insecurity and lack of credit. Hence, the informal market is a safety net that allows immediate payment of coffee in contrast to cooperatives that are more formally organized.
Simple zeros of modular L-functions
Creators: name: Milinovich, Micah B.
name: Ng, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M41, 11S40

description: Assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis, we prove quantitative estimates for the number of simple zeros on the critical line for the L-functions attached to classical holomorphic newforms.
description: 46 pages
Environmental Time Series Interpolation Based on Spartan Random Processes
Creators: name: Žukovič, M.
name: Hristopulos, D. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many environmental applications, time series are either incomplete or irregularly spaced. We investigate the application of the Spartan random process to missing data prediction. We employ a novel modified method of moments (MMoM) for parameter inference. The CPU time of MMoM is shown to be much faster than that of maximum likelihood estimation and almost independent of the data size. We formulate an explicit Spartan interpolator for estimating missing data. The model validation is performed on both synthetic data and real time series of atmospheric aerosol concentrations. The prediction performance is shown to be comparable with that attained by the best linear unbiased (Kolmogorov-Wiener) predictor at reduced computational cost.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures
Ab initio studies of ionization potentials of hydrated hydroxide and hydronium
Creators: name: Swartz, Charles W.
name: Wu, Xifan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ionization potential distributions of hydrated hydroxide and hydronium are computed with many-body approach for electron excitations with configurations generated by {\it ab initio} molecular dynamics. The experimental features are well reproduced and found to be closely related to the molecular excitations. In the stable configurations, the ionization potential is mainly perturbed by water molecules within the first solvation shell. On the other hand, electron excitation is delocalized on both proton receiving and donating complex during proton transfer, which shifts the excitation energies and broadens the spectra for both hydrated ions.
description: 5 pages and 4 figures
All-loop calculations of total, elastic and single diffractive cross sections in RFT via the stochastic approach
Creators: name: Kolevatov, Rodion S.
name: Boreskov, Konstantin G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the stochastic approach to the calculation of the Reggeon Field Theory (RFT) elastic amplitude and its single diffractive cut. The results for the total, elastic and single difractive cross sections with account of all Pomeron loops are obtained.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; prepared for the proceedings of the workshop 'Diffraction-2012', Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, September 10 - 15, 2012
Reply to Comment on "State-independent experimental test of quantum contextuality in an indivisible system"
Creators: name: Zu, C.
name: Wang, Y. -X.
name: Deng, D. -L.
name: Chang, X. -Y.
name: Liu, K.
name: Hou, P. -Y.
name: Yang, H. -X.
name: Duan, L. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a reply to the comment from E. Amselem et al. on our paper (Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 150401 (2012), arXiv:1207.0059).
description: 1 page, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. 2013
title: Energy-efficient design trends and performance for passive solar commercial buildings
Creators: name: Eddington, Gary Byron
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1997

description: This is a study of passive and climate responsive architecture applied to commercial buildings. Commercial buildings-ncluding offices, educational facilities, civic and governmental buildings, health care and retail businesses-lay an important role in the US energy use picture. In an attempt to be more environmentally sensitive and to preserve our natural resourses the US government and the private sector have long been involved in an effort to reduce energy consumption and our dependency on non-renewable energy in new buildings through energy conservation and innovative passive solar strategies as an alternative to the energy wasting buildings that exist all around us. This alternative approach emphasizes the use of simple technology to take advantage of the onsite energy available from the natural environment in combination with the architecture, rather than relying on mechanical components to heat, cool and light our buildings; This study reviewed a number of buildings that are considered to be on the leading edge of passive and low energy technology and examines the passive solar and energy conserving features. As part of the effort to better understand the activities in passive solar usage and to encourage a wider use of climate responsive architecture the performance of these buildings have been evaluated. Each project was examined in terms of reduction of energy costs, energy use and construction costs as compared to a comparable non-passive builDing Some of the general trends found in these buildings are described as well as actual energy consumption and initial construction cost data to indicate cost effectiveness of energy features in various climate conditions.
On Balazard, Saias, and Yor's equivalence to the Riemann Hypothesis
Creators: name: Bui, H. M.
name: Lester, S. J.
name: Milinovich, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M06, 11M26

description: Balazard, Saias, and Yor proved that the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to a certain weighted integral of the logarithm of the Riemann zeta-function along the critical line equaling zero. Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis, we investigate the rate at which a truncated version of this integral tends to zero, answering a question of Borwein, Bradley, and Crandall and disproving a conjecture of the same authors. A simple modification of our techniques gives a new proof of a classical Omega theorem for the function S(t) in the theory of the Riemann zeta-function.
description: 11 pages
Locally Lipschitz contractibility of Alexandrov spaces and its applications
Creators: name: Mitsuishi, Ayato
name: Yamaguchi, Takao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C20, 53C21, 53C23

description: We prove that any finite dimensional Alexandrov space with a lower curvature bound is locally Lipschitz contractible. As applications, we obtain a sufficient condition for solving the Plateau problem in an Alexandrov space considered by Mese and Zulkowski.
Membership of the Taiwan Primary Aldosteronism Investigation (TAIPAI) Study Group
Creators: name: Wu, Vin-Cent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Primary health care

description: Patients were enrolled from the following hospitals: TAIPAI included two medical centers (National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), Taipei, Taiwan; Taipei University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan) and five regional hospitals (Cardinal Tien Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Yun- Lin Branch of NTUH, Douliou City, Taiwan; Hsin-Chu Branch of NTUH, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan; Zhongxing Branch of Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan). The coprincipal investigators in each sites are Vin-Cent Wu1 , Tai-Shuan Lai1 , Shih-Chieh Jeff Chueh1 , Shao-Yu Yang1 , Kao-Lang Liu1 , Chin-Chen Chang1 , Bo-Chiag Lee1 , Shuo-Meng Wang1 , Kuo-How Huang1 , Po-Chih Lin1 , Yen-Hung Lin1 , Chi-Sheng Hung1 , Lian-Yu Lin1 , Shih-Cheng Liao1 , Ching-Chu Lu1 , Chieh-Kai Chan1 , Leay-Kiaw Er2 , Ya-Hui Hu2 , Che-Hsiung Wu2 , Yao-Chou Tsai2 , Zheng-Wei Chen3 , Chien-Ting Pan3 , Che-Wei Liao4 , Cheng-Hsuan Tsai5, , Yi-Yao Chang6 , Chen-Hsun Ho7 , Wei-Chieh Huang8 , Ying-Ying Chen9 1 National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Taipei Tzu-Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan; 3 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan; 4Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan 5Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Jin-Shan Branch, New Taipei City, Taiwan 6Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan 7Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 8Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 9MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Learning from Imprecise and Fuzzy Observations: Data Disambiguation through Generalized Loss Minimization
Creators: name: Hüllermeier, Eyke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Methods for analyzing or learning from "fuzzy data" have attracted increasing attention in recent years. In many cases, however, existing methods (for precise, non-fuzzy data) are extended to the fuzzy case in an ad-hoc manner, and without carefully considering the interpretation of a fuzzy set when being used for modeling data. Distinguishing between an ontic and an epistemic interpretation of fuzzy set-valued data, and focusing on the latter, we argue that a "fuzzification" of learning algorithms based on an application of the generic extension principle is not appropriate. In fact, the extension principle fails to properly exploit the inductive bias underlying statistical and machine learning methods, although this bias, at least in principle, offers a means for "disambiguating" the fuzzy data. Alternatively, we therefore propose a method which is based on the generalization of loss functions in empirical risk minimization, and which performs model identification and data disambiguation simultaneously. Elaborating on the fuzzification of specific types of losses, we establish connections to well-known loss functions in regression and classification. We compare our approach with related methods and illustrate its use in logistic regression for binary classification.
Membership of the Taiwan Primary Aldosteronism Investigation (TAIPAI) Study Group
Creators: name: Wu, Vin-Cent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Primary health care

description: Due to the importance of PA, our research team (Taiwan Primary Aldosteronism Study Group, TAIPAI Study Group) was assembled in 2006 to do multi-discipline research on this important issue. There are more than 2700 cases in our data registry which is a leading group in Asia (update in 2014 Dec). About 150 PA patient is new-diagnosed or referred to our team each year. Patients were enrolled from the following hospitals: TAIPAI included two medical centers (National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), Taipei, Taiwan; Taipei University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan) and five regional hospitals (Cardinal Tien Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Yun- Lin Branch of NTUH, Douliou City, Taiwan; Hsin-Chu Branch of NTUH, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan; Zhongxing Branch of Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan). The coprincipal investigators in each sites are Vin-Cent Wu1, Tai-Shuan Lai1, Shih-Chieh Jeff Chueh1, Shao-Yu Yang1, Kao-Lang Liu1, Chin-Chen Chang1, Bo-Chiag Lee1, Shuo-Meng Wang1, Kuo-How Huang1, Po-Chih Lin1, Yen-Hung Lin1, Chi-Sheng Hung1, Lian-Yu Lin1, Shih-Cheng Liao1, Ching-Chu Lu1, Chieh-Kai Chan1, Leay-Kiaw Er2, Ya-Hui Hu2, Che-Hsiung Wu2, Yao-Chou Tsai2, Zheng-Wei Chen2, Chien-Ting Pan3, Che-Wei Liao4, Cheng-Hsuan Tsai5, Yi-Yao Chang6, Chen-Hsun Ho7, Wei-Chieh Huang8, Ying-Ying Chen9 1 National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Taipei Tzu-Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan; 3 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan; 4Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan 5Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Jin-Shan Branch, New Taipei City, Taiwan 6Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan 7Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 8Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 9MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Training Support Vector Machines Using Frank-Wolfe Optimization Methods
Creators: name: Frandi, Emanuele
name: Nanculef, Ricardo
name: Gasparo, Maria Grazia
name: Lodi, Stefano
name: Sartori, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Training a Support Vector Machine (SVM) requires the solution of a quadratic programming problem (QP) whose computational complexity becomes prohibitively expensive for large scale datasets. Traditional optimization methods cannot be directly applied in these cases, mainly due to memory restrictions. By adopting a slightly different objective function and under mild conditions on the kernel used within the model, efficient algorithms to train SVMs have been devised under the name of Core Vector Machines (CVMs). This framework exploits the equivalence of the resulting learning problem with the task of building a Minimal Enclosing Ball (MEB) problem in a feature space, where data is implicitly embedded by a kernel function. In this paper, we improve on the CVM approach by proposing two novel methods to build SVMs based on the Frank-Wolfe algorithm, recently revisited as a fast method to approximate the solution of a MEB problem. In contrast to CVMs, our algorithms do not require to compute the solutions of a sequence of increasingly complex QPs and are defined by using only analytic optimization steps. Experiments on a large collection of datasets show that our methods scale better than CVMs in most cases, sometimes at the price of a slightly lower accuracy. As CVMs, the proposed methods can be easily extended to machine learning problems other than binary classification. However, effective classifiers are also obtained using kernels which do not satisfy the condition required by CVMs and can thus be used for a wider set of problems.
“Factors Influencing the Professional Skepticism: A Conceptual Framework
Creators: name: ALMALKI, ABDULRAHMAN
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 350102
subject: Auditing and accountability

description: Professional skepticism is one of the critical elements of the audit process. The level of professional skepticism among auditors is influenced by various factors, especially in an atmosphere characterized by the growing prevalence of financial fraud across the globe. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of personal and situational characteristics on professional skepticism of external auditors. It identifies personal and situational characteristics that significantly affect professional skepticism and presents a conceptual framework to integrate these factors. The literature review in this paper explores professional skepticism in auditing, focusing on its relationship with personal and situational characteristics that affect it. When evaluating professional skepticism of auditors, it is important to take into account both personal characteristics (gender, experience, knowledge, ethical ideals, personality traits), and situational characteristics at the auditing firm level (size, team-oriented leadership, emphasizing the importance of professional skepticism) as well as client firms (internal control systems, overoptimistic management assertions, and time budget pressure). There exists a considerable body of literature; however, research on the impact of these factors on the skepticism of external auditors remains scarce.
title: Selbst-Darstellung. Das Präparat als Bild
Creators: name: Grave, Johannes
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2015

description: kritische berichte - Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, Bd. 37, Nr. 4 (2009): kritische berichte, Beginn und Erscheinungsfrequenz: Ausgaben pro Band: 4
Fine structure collision strengths and line ratios for [Ne V] in infrared and optical sources
Creators: name: Dance, Michael
name: Palay, Ethan
name: Nahar, Sultana N.
name: Pradhan, Anil K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Improved collisions strengths for the mid-infrared and optical transitions in Ne V are presented. Breit-Pauli R-Matrix calculations for electron impact excitation are carried out with fully resolved near-threshold resonances at very low energies. In particular, the fine structure lines at 14 micron and 24 micron due to transitions among the ground state levels 1s^22s^22p^3 (^3P_{0,1,2}), and the optical/near-UV lines at 2973, 3346 and 3426 Angstrom transitions among the ^3P_{0,1,2}, ^1D_2, ^1S_0 levels are described. Maxwellian averaged collision strengths are tabulated for all forbidden transistion within the ground configuration. Significant differences are found in the low temperature range Te < 10000 K for both the FIR and the opitcal transitions compared to previous results. An analysis of the 14/24 line ratio in low-energy-density (LED) plasma conditions reveals considerable variation; the effective rate coefficient may be dominated by the very low-energy behaviour rather than the maxwellian averaged collision strengths. Computed values suggest a possible solution to the anomalous mid-IR ratios found to be lower than theoretical limits observed from planetary nebulae and Seyfert galaxies. While such LED conditions may be present in infrared sources, they might be inconsistent with photoionization equilibrium models.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
title: Paracaecal hernia manifesting as closed-loop small bowel obstruction
Creators: name: Kataria, Shweta
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 70-year-old female presented with complaints of acute onset pain abdomen in the right lower quadrant for 1 day and few episodes of vomiting. She had undergone hysterectomy 25 years ago. On examination, she had tenderness in the right iliac fossa. Her lab investigations revealed an elevated WBC count (11,100/mm3) with neutrophilic predominance.

description: 70 years, female
UniSAFE D4.1 Final UniSAFE-Survey Questionnaire
Creators: name: Lipinsky, Anke
name: Schredl, Claudia
name: Baumann, Horst
name: Lomazzi, Vera
name: Freund, Frederike
name: Humbert, Anne Laure
name: Tanwar, Jagriti
name: Bondestam, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The questionnaire will be used to collect data from staff and students on prevalence, determinants and consequences of gender-based violence in universities and research organisations. It includes several modules on e.g. prevalence, prevention, policies, and partnerships, and contains filters to take different study and work environments into consideration.
A Quality and Cost Approach for Comparison of Small-World Networks
Creators: name: Demichev, A.
name: Ilyin, V.
name: Kryukov, A.
name: Polyakov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an approach based on analysis of cost-quality tradeoffs for comparison of efficiency of various algorithms for small-world network construction. A number of both known in the literature and original algorithms for complex small-world networks construction are shortly reviewed and compared. The networks constructed on the basis of these algorithms have basic structure of 1D regular lattice with additional shortcuts providing the small-world properties. It is shown that networks proposed in this work have the best cost-quality ratio in the considered class.
description: 27 pages, 16 figures, 1 table
title: Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis on computed tomography, an infrequent pathology
Creators: name: Gonzalez Perez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Small bowel
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 32-year-old man presented with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea for two days and now complains of melena and haematochezia. The patient had history of gastric ulcer who underwent exploratory laparotomy with suspicion of intestinal perforation one year before, an exploratory laparotomy with suspicion of pneumoperitoneum was performed and multiple biopsies were taken.

description: 32 years, male
Trade in wood‐based products in the EU27 – wood content and coverage by the current EUTR and the proposed regulation on deforestation‐free value chains
Creators: name: Köthke, Margret
name: Weimar, Holger
name: Köthke, Margret
name: Weimar, Holger
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: European Timber Regulation
subject: EUTR
subject: timber trade
subject: wood-based products
subject: deforestation free value chains
subject: Europäische Holzhandelsverordnung
subject: Holzhandel
subject: holzbasierte Produkte
subject: entwaldungsfreie Lieferketten

description: This working paper provides a detailed overview of the trade in wood-based or wood-containing products1 in the EU27 in 2020 and distinguishes products already under the scope of the EUTR and the proposed regulation of the European Commission on deforestation-free value chains, from products not in the scope of those two regulations. The study considers overall 769 products (according to the 8-digit product codes of the Combined Nomenclature) from the entire list of goods for international trade statistics, provided that some wood content can be assumed. Of these products, 348 are already in the scope of the EUTR. The remaining 421 products are considered, to assess their relevance in EU27 wood-based products trade. Therefore, trade values and quantities for each product are taken from EUROSTAT foreign trade data bases. To compare the wood content related to each product, trade quantities were converted into trade volumes of cubic meters of roundwood equivalents (RWE m³). The roundwood equivalent indicates how much raw wood is required to produce the respective wood-based product. Converting the trade volumes into this physical reference value also enables a raw material-related comparison of the traded products. The working paper presents three different trade flows, which all fall within the scope of the proposed new regulation for deforestation-free products: a) Imports of wood-based products from third countries into the EU27, b) exports to third countries from the EU27, and c) intra trade within the EU27 internal market (between EU Member States). Further, detailed information on data compilation, data gaps and uncertainties and conversion factors applied are given within this working paper.
description: DOI:10.3220/WP1655114210000
title: Variations in Peak Flow Behaviour, With Reference to the Eddleston Water, Scotland
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Davies, Rowen
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2023

description: The Eddleston Water Project is a flagship natural flood management (NFM) project located in Scotland. Within the catchment there is a high density of streamflow and rain gauges that collects a high level of detailed data. Using this data the hydrological variables of time to peak, time for recession, event duration and lag have been analysed for unimodal events. Nine subcatchments of the Eddleston Water have been used to ascertain whether hydrological variables and hydrograph shape can be attributed to catchment characteristics. Examining hydrological changes after the introduction of NFM measures, time to peak was found to be the most statistically significant difference (p < 0.05) between the period before and after NFM. Out of the six catchments with flow data for analysis, Craigburn, Cowieslinn, Middle Burn and Shiplaw Burn all returned values of p < 0.05. The four catchments provided an average increase of 2.06 hours. All of these catchments were subject to some combination of construction of flow restrictors, ponds, wetlands and riparian planting. Two other catchments subject to riparian planting only did not show any significant change. Upper Burnhead (with water level data only) also provided a significant result (p < 0.05) for lag. Although not many significant results were found for the hydrological timing variables an increase in these were found from the period before NFM to after NFM with some catchments seeing increases of 30 minutes in time to peak, three hours in time for recession, four hours in event duration and one hour in lag. Mean annual flood decreased by up to 3 cumecs in some catchments. In conclusion, strong links have been demonstrated between catchment physical descriptors and hydrological response variables, and significant changes have been shown to accompany the introduction of NFM interventions. The future of NFM looks promising with these results, and continued efforts to further understand the behaviour, both empirically and using hydro-dynamic modelling, will yield wide impacting results for the literature, building on the strong empirical focus of the Eddleston Water Project.
Heavy quark transport at RHIC and LHC
Creators: name: Lang, Thomas
name: van Hees, Hendrik
name: Steinheimer, Jan
name: Yan, Yu-Peng
name: Bleicher, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the heavy quark evolution in heavy ion collisions and show results for the elliptic flow $v_2$ as well as the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ at RHIC and LHC energies. For the calculation we implement a Langevin approach for the transport of heavy quarks in the UrQMD (hydrodynamics + Boltzmann) hybrid model. As drag and diffusion coefficients we use a Resonance approach for elastic heavy-quark scattering and assume a decoupling temperature of the charm quarks from the hot medium of $130\,\text{MeV}$. At RHIC energies we use a coalescence approach at the decoupling temperature for the hadronization of the heavy quarks to D-mesons and B-mesons and a sub-following decay to heavy flavor electrons using PYTHIA. At LHC we use an additional fragmentation mechanism to account for the higher transverse momenta reached at higher collision energies.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1208.1643, arXiv:1211.6912
One-step generation of multi-atom Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states in separate cavities via adiabatic passage
Creators: name: Hao, Si-Yang
name: Xia, Yan
name: Song, Jie
name: An, Nguyen Ba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme to deterministically generate Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states of $N\geq 3$ atoms trapped in spatially separated cavities connected by optical fibers. The scheme is based on the technique of fractional stimulated Raman adiabatic passage which is one-step in the sense that one needs just wait for the desired entangled state to be generated in the stationary regime. The parametrized shapes of the Rabi frequencies of the classical fields that drive the two end atoms are chosen appropriately to realize the scheme. We also show numerically that the proposed scheme is insensitive to the fluctuations of the pulses' parameters and, at the same time, robust against decoherence caused by the dissipation due to fiber decay. Moreover, a relatively high fidelity can be obtained even in the presence of cavity decay and atomic spontaneous emission.
description: Accepted by JOSA B
title: Precision Medicine in Severe Asthma
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Chan, Rory Kai-Yun
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2023

description: Although comprising a small portion of all asthmatics, patients with severe asthma utilise a disproportionate amount of healthcare resources, have significantly higher mortality and hospitalisation and reduced quality of life compared to those with milder disease. Advances in recent years have witnessed the introduction of biologic agents that have improved patient outcomes with regards to exacerbation reduction, asthma control, quality of life and lung function. At present, type 2 biomarkers, patient comorbidities and clinician and patient preference determine choice of biologic in those who are uncontrolled on optimal inhaled and oral therapies.

The aim of this PhD is to further our knowledge regarding specific aspects of precision medicine in severe asthma including less well studied areas such as small airways dysfunction, mucus plugging, bronchial wall thickness and airway hyperresponsiveness in the context of decisions surrounding biologic therapy.

The introduction of this thesis explores evidence from the currently available pivotal studies on biologic and anti-alarmin therapies in severe asthma. Chapter 3 summarises the current literature on the effect of biologics in small airways dysfunction (SAD) with the majority of the evidence base present from trials using spirometry defined SAD. This chapter also contains cohort studies demonstrating that oscillometry exhibits high repeatability over time and good sensitivity in detecting bronchodilator responses in severe asthma. Here, the effects of combining spirometry- with oscillometry-defined SAD are analysed to identify more severe asthma patients with worse disease control and more frequent severe exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids.

Chapter 4 summarises the current evidence on biologics in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), a common comorbidity in patients with severe asthma. It also details a study with the aim of delineating phenotypic differences in asthma patients according to the presence or absence of CRSwNP.

In chapter 5, it is shown that mucus plugging, a common radiological feature of asthma, is associated with worse spirometry, greater type 2 inflammation, more frequent severe exacerbations, and higher Aspergillus fumigatus IgE titres. Furthermore, close associations 18 are demonstrated between bronchial wall thickening with severe exacerbations and lung compliance measured by oscillometry reactance area.

The final chapter of this thesis embodies the benralizumab in severe asthma (BISA) clinical trial (Eudract No. 2019-003763-22). In this study, it was shown for the first time that the antiIL5Rα biologic benralizumab attenuates mannitol airway hyperresponsiveness, improves domiciliary peak flow and improves asthma control and quality of life in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma.
The asymmetric simple exclusion process with an open boundary
Creators: name: Tracy, Craig A.
name: Widom, Harold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35

description: We consider the asymmetric simple exclusion process confined to the nonnegative integers with an open boundary at 0. The point 0 is connected to a reservoir where particles are injected and ejected at prescribed rates subject to the exclusion rule. We derive formulas for the transition probability as a function of time from states where initially there are m particles to states where there are n particles.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure
title: Lübecker Kolloquium zur Stadtarchäologie im Hanseraum III: Der Hausbau, 11. bis 14. Oktober in Lübeck-Travemünde
Creators: name: Falk, Alfred
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2015

description: Tagungsbericht zu: Lübecker Kolloquium zur Stadtarchäologie im Hanseraum III: Der Hausbau, 11. bis 14. Oktober in Lübeck-Travemünde
title: Manfred Gläser (Hrsg.), Lübecker Kolloquium zur Stadtarchäologie im Hanseraum II: Der Handel. Lübeck 1999
Creators: name: Huber, Béatrice
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2015

description: Rezension zu: Manfred Gläser (Hrsg.), Lübecker Kolloquium zur Stadtarchäologie im Hanseraum II: Der Handel. Lübeck 1999.
Drastic changes in electronic, magnetic, mechanical and bonding properties from Zr2CoH5 to Mg2CoH5
Creators: name: Matar, Samir F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite similarities in formulae and local structures of Zr2CoH5 and Mg2CoH5, they are shown from ab initio calculations to present contrasted electronic, magnetic, mechanical and bonding properties due to the environment of cobalt with hydrogen characterized by negatively charged CoHx entities (x = 4, 5 resp.) and to the chemical nature of Zr versus Mg. Zr2CoH5 is found more cohesive, harder and less ductile than Mg2CoH5. High density of states at the Fermi level arises from out-of-plane non-bonding Co-dz2 in Zr2CoH5 which is found metallic ferromagnet in the ground state, in contrast with non magnetic and insulating Mg2CoH5.
description: 17 pages ; 5 figs