cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Anti-semitism in Kierkegaard - with constant regard to his individualism
Creators: name: Wulff, Elsebeth
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), the Danish Philosopher, is known for his advocacy of the moral responsibility of the individual as well as his adverseness towards systems, especially the Hegelian system, and the authority of the State over the Church.

From all these points of view, it is surprising to find the oeuvre interspersed with anti-Semitic remarks. The Journals must be regarded as belonging to the oeuvre and they constitute the main part of the evidence, although the works are equally compromised.

The first half of the thesis is providing a historical background and partly forestalling the remark that in those days 'they were all at it1. It also sets up premises, definition and methodology used, in preparation for the second half.

The second half of the thesis presents the evidence which falls into three categories: Biblical, social, biological (racial) anti- Semitism. It then discusses the evidence, before, in the last chapter, it addresses the exculpatists and the surprising fact that Kierkegaard today is seen as a spokesman for the minorities. It also looks at later writers who are deeply influenced by Kierkegaard1s ideas, many of them Jewish.

In the Conclusion, there is a brief discussion of the implications of the results of this research. Can Kierkegaard go on being seen as a champion for the wronged and suppressed? Can his readers go on ignoring the sheer volume of anti-Semitism in his writings? Can one make oneself blind to parts of a philosopher's texts? Is it either/or?
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Based Speech-Emotion Recognition
Creators: name: Asiful Arefeen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Speech is considered as the widest and most naturalmedium of communication. Speech can convey a plethora ofinformation regarding one’s mental, behavioral, emotional traits. Besides, speech-emotion recognition related work can aid in averting cyber crimes. Research on speech-emotion recognition exploiting concurrent machine learning techniques has been on the peak for some time. Numerous techniques like Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Deep Neural Network (DNN), spectral feature extraction and many more have been applied on different datasets. This paper presents a unique Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based speech-emotion recognition system. A model is developed and fed with raw speech from specific dataset for training, classification and testing purposes with the help of high end GPU. Finally, it comes out with a convincing accuracy of 83.61% which is better compared to any other similar task on this dataset by a large margin. This work will be influential in developing conversational and social robots and allocating all the nuances of their sentiments.
Transformer based Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Creators: name: Yolchuyeva, Sevinj
name: Németh, Géza
name: Gyires-Tóth, Bálint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Attention mechanism is one of the most successful techniques in deep learning based Natural Language Processing (NLP). The transformer network architecture is completely based on attention mechanisms, and it outperforms sequence-to-sequence models in neural machine translation without recurrent and convolutional layers. Grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is a task of converting letters (grapheme sequence) to their pronunciations (phoneme sequence). It plays a significant role in text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this paper, we investigate the application of transformer architecture to G2P conversion and compare its performance with recurrent and convolutional neural network based approaches. Phoneme and word error rates are evaluated on the CMUDict dataset for US English and the NetTalk dataset. The results show that transformer based G2P outperforms the convolutional-based approach in terms of word error rate and our results significantly exceeded previous recurrent approaches (without attention) regarding word and phoneme error rates on both datasets. Furthermore, the size of the proposed model is much smaller than the size of the previous approaches.
description: INTERSPEECH 2019
Από τον προγραμματισμό με BEE-BOT στη μελέτη της περιμέτρου και στη γενίκευση μέσω μοτίβων
Creators: name: Βαποράκη Αικατερίνη Στυλιανός
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: προγραμματισμός
γενίκευση
μοτίβα
programming
generalization
patterns

description: H απολύμανση του νερού των κολυμβητικών δεξαμενών είναι απαραίτητη για την αδρανοποίηση των παθογόνων μικροοργανισμών και γίνεται συνήθως με τη μέθοδο της χλωρίωσης. Κατά την αντίδραση του χλωρίου με την οργανική ύλη του νερού, τις ανθρώπινες εκκρίσεις (ιδρώτας, ούρα, σάλιο), τα προϊόντα προσωπικής φροντίδας σχηματίζουν διάφορες κατηγορίες παρα¬προϊόντων απολύμανσης (Disinfection By-Products DBPs), μερικά από τα οποία έχουν τοξική, καρκινογόνο ή μεταλλαξιογόνο δράση. Στην εργασία αυτή εξετάζεται η παρουσία των εννέα αλογονοξικών οξέων (HAAs) σε εσωτερικές και εξωτερικές δεξαμενές κολύμβησης. Επιπλέον προσδιορίζονται τα ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά του νερού όπως το pH, η αλκαλικότητα, ο δια¬λυτός οργανικός άνθρακας (DOC), το ολικό άζωτο (TN), το ελεύθερο χλώριο, η απορρόφηση UV254nm και η SUVA. Στην εργασία παρουσιάζονται οι συγκεντρώσεις των HAAs, η συσχέτισή τους με τα ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά των νερών και τις συνθήκες που επικρατούν καθώς και οι πιθανοί κίνδυνοι από την έκθεση σε αυτές τις ενώσεις
description: Swimming is a year-round activity widely enjoyed for leisure as well as exercise, beneficial for human health. To conserve the positive aspects of aquatic activities attention should be paid to hygienic and chemical water quality. Chlorination is usually employed to prevent exposure to pathogenic microorganisms. However, the reaction of chlorine with organic matter from fill¬ing water and human inputs (ie constituents of sweat and urine, skin particles, personal care products) results in the formation of various disinfection by-products (DBPs), some of them are toxic, carcinogenic and genotoxic. The aim of this study is to investigate the occurrence of haloacetic acid ( HAAs) in public indoor and outdoor swimming pools. The analysis of DBPs was carried out by GC-ECD according to the EPA standard Method 552.3. Moreover, other water quality parameters such as pH, alkalinity, DOC, TN, Cl were measured. The concentra¬tions and profile of HAAs are presented. Possible correlations between HAAs and water quality parameters and characteristics of swimming pools as well as possible health/exposure risks are discussed
Current-induced phase control in charged-ordered Nd0.5Ca0.5MnO3 and Pr0.6Ca0.4MnO3 crystals
Creators: name: Parashar, Sachin
name: Sudheendra, L.
name: Raju, A. R.
name: Rao, C. N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single crystals of Nd0.5Ca0.5MnO3 and Pr0.6Ca0.4MnO3 show current-induced insulator-metal transitions at low temperatures. In addition, the charge-ordering transition temperature decreases with increasing current. The electroresistive ratio, defined as r0.5/rI where r0.5 is the resistivity at a current of 0.5 mA and rI the resistivity at a given applied current, I, varies markedly with temperature and the value of I. Thermal hysteresis observed in Nd0.5Ca0.5MnO3 and Pr0.6Ca0.4MnO3 at the insulator-metal transition indicates that the transition is first-order. The current-induced changes are comparable to those induced by magnetic fields, and the insulator-metal transition in Pr0.6Ca0.4MnO3 is accordingly associated with a larger drop in resistivity.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, first submitted to submitted to J. Phys. D; applied physics on 18th march 2003
Oreodera seabrai Monne & Fragoso 1988
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera seabrai

description: 72. Oreodera seabrai Monné & Fragoso, 1988
Type locality — Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro (Corcovado). (MNRJ). Distribution — Brazil (Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro).
 Oreodera seabrai Monné & Fragoso, 1988: 815, fig. 5; Julio et al., 2000: 45 (holotype).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Anharmonic coupling between electrons and TO phonons in the vicinity of ferroelectric quantum critical point
Creators: name: Chudzinski, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a novel coupling mechanism of electrons with the transverse optical (TO) phonon branch in a regime when the TO mode becomes highly anharmonic and drives the ferroelectric phase transition. We show that this anharmonicity, which leads to a collective motion of ions, is able to couple electronic and lattice displacement fields. An effective correlated electron-ion dynamics method is required to capture the effect of the onset of the local electric polarization due to this collective behavior close to the quantum critical point. We identify an intermediate temperature range where an emergent phonon drag may contribute substantially to thermoelectric conductivity in this regime. We find that, under optimal conditions, this extra contribution may be larger than values achieved so far in the benchmark material, PbTe. In the last part we make a case for the importance of our results in the generic problem of anharmonic electron-lattice dynamics.
Chemical composition, free radical scavenging capacity and molecular docking evaluation of essential oils from leaves, roots, and flowers of Ambrosia polystachya DC. growing in Tunisia
Creators: name: Edziri, Hayet
name: Khelifi, Nihel
name: Horchani, Mabrouk
name: Mastouri, Maha
name: Harzallah-Skhiri, Fethia
name: Flamini, Guido
name: Jannet, Hichem Ben
name: Ascrizzi, Roberta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The essential oils (EOs) isolated from fresh leaves, roots, and flowers of Ambrosia polystachya DC. growing in Tunisia were analysed by GC/MS. Twenty-four compounds were identified in the leaf EO, with β-caryophyllene (27.7%), germacrene D (27.1%), and borneol (11.4%) as the main compounds. In the root EO, nineteen compounds were identified, among which isopimara-7,15-dien-3-one (23.3%), modephene (15.5%), and α-isocomene (13.6%) were detected with the highest relative abundances. The flower EO consisted of twenty-seven compounds, the main ones being β-caryophyllene (26.5%), caryophyllene oxide (14.8%), and germacrene D (14.0%). All EOs were rich in sesquiterpene hydrocarbons and oxygenated sesquiterpenes, but with differences between the percentages of the compounds among the different studied organs. The obtained EOs also possessed good free radical scavenging activity assessed by the DPPH test. Furthermore, an in-silico evaluation against Human catalase (pdb:1DGH) of the major phytoconstituents using molecular docking analysis suggests their potential for antioxidant applications.
The Quality of Mental Health Care Received by Homeless Inpatients
Creators: name: Gregor, Louise
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: Homeless
Quality
Inpatient
Mental Health
Anxiety
Depression

description: Background: Homeless individuals are among the most vulnerable to mental health difficulties yet their access to, and utilisation of, mental health services are poor. When they do access and utilise services, their mental health needs often remain unmet, suggesting potential issues with the quality of mental health care provided to this population. This thesis aimed to compare the demographic and clinical profiles of homeless and housed service users admitted to hospital for treatment of anxiety and/or depression. It then aimed to examine the quality of care received by homeless and housed service users, including referrals for psychological therapy, and investigate demographic and clinical predictors of referrals of homeless service users for psychological therapy. Method: A secondary analysis of existing data compared homeless (n=223) and housed (n=3572) service user groups on demographic, clinical and quality of care variables using Pearson Chi-square tests. The demographic and clinical characteristics of homeless service users referred for psychological therapy were compared with those of homeless service users who were not referred. A logistic regression was performed to establish predictors of referral of homeless service users to psychological therapy. Results: The demographic and clinical profiles of homeless service users differed significantly from those of housed service users. Homeless service users were significantly more likely than housed service users to be male, younger, of ethnic minority background and unemployed. Over half were diagnosed with stress- related disorders (52.2%), more than one third had comorbid substance-related disorders (35.4%), planned admissions were infrequent (4%) and they fared worse than housed service users on nearly all quality of care variables from assessment to post-discharge. Homeless service users (27.8%) were significantly less likely than housed service users (39.7%) to be referred for psychological therapy, though there were no significant differences in the characteristics of homeless service users who were and were not referred. The logistic regression yielded no significant predictive effects of age, gender or primary diagnosis on referral of homeless service users for therapy. Conclusions: This thesis reviewed the quality of mental health care received by homeless service users from admission to post-discharge. Results underscore that homeless service users fare worse than housed service users across multiple quality of care indicators; such inequality represents a violation of the human right to health. There is a moral obligation for services to meet the needs of this marginalised faction of our communities and to address the health inequalities it faces.
A linear optimization oracle for zonotope computation
Creators: name: Deza, Antoine
name: Pournin, Lionel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A class of counting problems ask for the number of regions of a central hyperplane arrangement. By duality, this is the same as counting the vertices of a zonotope. We give several efficient algorithms, based on a linear optimization oracle, that solve this and related enumeration problems. More precisely, our algorithms compute the vertices of a zonotope from the set of its generators and inversely, recover the generators of a zonotope from its vertices. A variation of the latter algorithm also allows to decide whether a polytope, given as its vertex set, is a zonotope and when it is not, to compute its greatest zonotopal summand.
description: 22 pages, 2 figures
Observation of "Partial Coherence" in an Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer with a Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Aikawa, Hisashi
name: Kobayashi, Kensuke
name: Sano, Akira
name: Katsumoto, Shingo
name: Iye, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report experiments on the interference through spin states of electrons in a quantum dot (QD) embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. We have picked up a spin-pair state, for which the environmental conditions are ideally similar and have traced the AB amplitude in the range of the gate voltage that covers the pair. The behavior of the asymmetry in the amplitude around the two Coulomb peaks agrees with the theoretical prediction that relates a spin-flip process in a QD to the quantum dephasing of electrons. These results consist evidence of "partial coherence" due to an entanglement of spins in the QD and the interferometer.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX
Veronese representation of projective Hjelmslev planes over some quadratic alternative algebras
Creators: name: De Schepper, Anneleen
name: Van Maldeghem, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51C05, 51E24

description: We geometrically characterise the Veronese representations of ring projective planes over algebras which are analogues of the dual numbers, giving rise to projective Hjelmslev planes of level 2 coordinatised over quadratic alternative algebras. These planes are related to affine buildings of relative type $\widetilde{A}_2$ and respective absolute type $\widetilde{\mathsf{A}}_2$, $\widetilde{\mathsf{A}}_5$ and $\widetilde{\mathsf{E}}_6$.
description: 51 pages
Sampling efficiency, bias and shyness in funnel trapping aquatic newts
Creators: name: Arntzen, Jan W.
name: Zuiderwijk, Annie
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A lightweight, collapsible funnel trap designed for crayfish was furnished with a smaller mesh and then used to study adult breeding populations of five species of newts in five ponds in France. Observations were made in spring, at the peak of breeding activity, over an 11-year period. Annual experiments involved on average 7.7 traps and 5.3 overnight sampling sessions at 2.0 day intervals. In 95 out of 171 experiments (56%) the probability for an individual to go undetected was <1%. A trend was observed for catchability to increase with body size (Lissotriton < Ichthyosaura < Triturus). The two Triturus species were frequently exhaustively sampled in a single overnight session. In spite of their smaller size, L. helveticus males were more readily captured than females, presumably reflecting breeding associated locomotor activity. The numbers captured decreased over time suggesting ‘trap shyness’ to operate. We noted some predation by diving beetles (family Dytiscidae) affecting L. helveticus males in particular.
Strong chemical tagging with APOGEE: 21 candidate star clusters that have dissolved across the Milky Way disc
Creators: name: Price-Jones, Natalie
name: Bovy, Jo
name: Webb, Jeremy J.
name: Prieto, Carlos Allende
name: Beaton, Rachael
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Cohen, Roger E.
name: Cunha, Katia
name: Donor, John
name: Frinchaboy, Peter M.
name: García-Hernández, D. A.
name: Lane, Richard R.
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Nidever, David L.
name: Roman-Lopes, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemically tagging groups of stars born in the same birth cluster is a major goal of spectroscopic surveys. To investigate the feasibility of such strong chemical tagging, we perform a blind chemical tagging experiment on abundances measured from APOGEE survey spectra. We apply a density-based clustering algorithm to the eight dimensional chemical space defined by [Mg/Fe], [Al/Fe], [Si/Fe], [K/Fe], [Ti/Fe], [Mn/Fe], [Fe/H], and [Ni/Fe], abundances ratios which together span multiple nucleosynthetic channels. In a high quality sample of 182,538 giant stars, we detect twenty-one candidate clusters with more than fifteen members. Our candidate clusters are more chemically homogeneous than a population of non-member stars with similar [Mg/Fe] and [Fe/H], even in abundances not used for tagging. Group members are consistent with having the same age and fall along a single stellar-population track in logg vs. Teff space. Each group's members are distributed over multiple kpc, and the spread in their radial and azimuthal actions increases with age. We qualitatively reproduce this increase using N-body simulations of cluster dissolution in Galactic potentials that include transient winding spiral arms. Observing our candidate birth clusters with high-resolution spectroscopy in other wavebands to investigate their chemical homogeneity in other nucleosynthetic groups will be essential to confirming the efficacy of strong chemical tagging. Our initially spatially-compact but now widely dispersed candidate clusters will provide novel limits on chemical evolution and orbital diffusion in the Galactic disc, and constraints on star formation in loosely-bound groups.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Separating internal and external dynamics of complex systems
Creators: name: de Menezes, M. Argollo
name: Barabasi, A. -L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observable behavior of a complex system reflects the mechanisms governing the internal interactions between the system's components and the effect of external perturbations. Here we show that by capturing the simultaneous activity of several of the system's components we can separate the internal dynamics from the external fluctuations. The method allows us to systematically determine the origin of fluctuations in various real systems, finding that while the Internet and the computer chip have robust internal dynamics, highway and Web traffic are driven by external demand. As multichannel measurements are becoming the norm in most fields, the method could help uncover the collective dynamics of a wide array of complex systems.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Physical Review Letters
Pintura anti-hielo para palas de aerogeneradores
Creators: name: Yoldi, Maria
name: Martinez, Agurzane
name: Muñoz, Almudena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Pintura anti-hielo de palas de aerogeneradores que comprende una pintura base que comprende un disolvente y un componente hidrófobo que comprende nanopartículas, en la que la pintura base es una pintura de poliuretano de altos sólidos, y las nanopartículas son nanopartículas compuestas con forma sustancialmente esférica que comprenden un núcleo de sílice y un recubrimiento organosiliconado hidrófobo compatible con la pintura.
Physical Activity Prediction using machine learning on wearable and mobile devices data
Creators: name: Βασδέκης, Δημήτριος Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Μηχανική Μάθηση
Πρόβλεψη αριθμού βημάτων
Πρόβλεψη φυσικής δραστηριότητας
Machine Learning
Step-count prediction
Physical Activity Prediction

description: Αποτελεί αδιαμφισβήτητο γεγονός, ότι η σωματική άσκηση είναι ζωτικής σημασίας για την υγεία ενός ατόμου. Σύγχρονες καθημερινές συσκευές, όπως τα κινητά τηλέφωνα, τα έξυπνα ρολόγια κ.α., ενσωματώνουν λειτουργικότητα που επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να παρακολουθούν τα επίπεδα της φυσικής τους δραστηριότητας. Επιπλέον, σε μια προσπάθεια υιοθέτησης από τον χρήστη ενός πιο ενεργού τρόπου ζωής, οι περισσότερες τέτοιες συσκευές, είναι σε θέση να ορίσουν συγκεκριμένους στόχους δραστηριότητας (ημερήσιος αριθμός βημάτων, λεπτά άσκησης κ.α.) οι οποίοι πρέπει να επιτευχθούν εντός μιας προκαθορισμένης χρονικής λεπτότητας (24 ώρες, εβδομάδα, κ.λπ.). Ωστόσο, οι περισσότεροι από αυτούς τους στόχους δεν τίθενται με τον βέλτιστο τρόπο, δεδομένου ότι για τον καθορισμό τους, δεν λαμβάνονται υπόψη προσωπικοί και περιβαλλοντικοί παράγοντες που επιδρούν στην συμπεριφορά του κάθε χρήστη. Το γεγονός αυτό, οδηγεί σε σταδιακή μείωση της αφοσίωσης στην προσπάθεια επίτευξης, καθώς οι στόχοι μπορεί να είναι εξαιρετικά φιλόδοξοι και, ως εκ τούτου, να αποθαρρύνουν ορισμένους χρήστες, ή υλοποιήσιμοι σε τέτοιο βαθμό που να πάψουν να αποτελούν πρόκληση. Σε αυτή την εργασία, αναπτύσσουμε ένα μοντέλο Μηχανικής Μάθησης, το μοντέλο πρόβλεψης ημερήσιου αριθμού βημάτων WeMoD, το οποίο, χρησιμοποιώντας κατάλληλα προσωπικά, περιβαλλοντικά και ιστορικά δεδομένα δραστηριότητας του χρήστη, στοχεύει στην πρόβλεψη του αριθμού βημάτων του για την επόμενη μέρα και έτσι μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για τον καθορισμό ενός εφικτού και ταυτόχρονα απαιτητικού στόχου
description: It is a well-established fact that physical activity (PA) is vital for an individual's overall health. Modern activity trackers such as mobile phones and wearable fitness trackers implement functionality that enables the users to track their PA. Moreover, in an effort towards encouraging a more active lifestyle, most of them are able to set specific quantitative goals (step-count, minutes of exercise, and more) which the user has to achieve in a predefined time granularity (daily, weekly, etc.). However, most of these activity trackers do not set adaptive and personalized goals in an optimal manner since they do not take into account personal and contextual factors in the process of goal setting. This fact leads to waning adherence over time as goals may be extremely ambitious and thus discouraging for certain users or undemanding to such a degree that end-up to be unchallenging for others. In this work, we develop a Machine Learning approach, the WeMoD step-count prediction model, which by utilizing appropriate contextual features as well as user's historical PA data, aims to predict the user's step count of the next day and thus can be used to set an achievable and yet challenging goal
Non-Linear N-Parameter Spacetime Perturbations: Gauge Transformations
Creators: name: Sopuerta, Carlos F.
name: Bruni, Marco
name: Gualtieri, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce N-parameter perturbation theory as a new tool for the study of non-linear relativistic phenomena. The main ingredient in this formulation is the use of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. The associated machinery allows us to prove the main results concerning the consistency of the scheme to any perturbative order. Gauge transformations and conditions for gauge invariance at any required order can then be derived from a generating exponential formula via a simple Taylor expansion. We outline the relation between our novel formulation and previous developments.
description: 7 pages, no figures, RevTeX 4.0. Revised version to match version published in PRD
Supplier selection utilizing the AHP method. Case study of a seafood processing company
Creators: name: Νικολαΐδης Κωνσταντίνος Ραφαήλ  Σπυρίδωνος
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Διοίκηση Αλυσίδας Εφοδιασμού
Επιλογή Προμηθευτή
AHP Μέθοδος
Logistics and Supply Chain management
Supplier Selection
Analytic Hierarchy Process

description: Ο σκοπός αυτής της μεταπτυχιακής διατριβής είναι να εξετάσει περαιτέρω την μέθοδο AHP σχετικά με την επιλογή προμηθευτή, εισάγοντας έναν σημαντικό αριθμό κριτηρίων και επίσης να συγκρίνει τα ευρήματα αυτής της μεθόδου με το μοντέλο Σταθμισμένου Συντελεστή. Μέσω αυτής της ανάλυσης, η επιλογή και η αξιολόγηση προμηθευτή εξετάζονται από μια πραγματική μελέτη περίπτωσης της ΚΟΝΒΑ Α.Ε. Αφού εξετάσαμε τη βιβλιογραφία σχετικά με τις διαδικασίες προμηθειών, τις μεθόδους επιλογής προμηθευτή και τα μοντέλα λήψης αποφάσεων πολλαπλών κριτηρίων, εξετάσαμε τα βήματα θεωρίας του μοντέλου AHP. Επιπλέον, τα αποτελέσματα που λαμβάνονται μέσω αυτής της έρευνας αναλύονται σε βάθος και συγκρίνονται με ένα υπάρχον μοντέλο αξιολόγησης προμηθευτών. Η δομή και οι λειτουργίες αυτής της εταιρείας αναλύονται προκειμένου να δοθεί στον αναγνώστη μια λεπτομερής απεικόνιση του τρόπου με τον οποίο οι εταιρείες τροφίμων εκτελούν τις διαδικασίες. Πρέπει να τονιστεί ότι η διαδικασία επιλογής προμηθευτή έχει αλλάξει με την πάροδο των ετών και είναι πολύ πιο περίπλοκη και σχετίζεται με πολλά κριτήρια, όχι μόνο από την τιμή. Συμπερασματικά, πραγματοποιείται ανάλυση ευαισθησίας για να ελεγχθούν διάφορα σενάρια. Υπάρχει ένα ανοιχτό πεδίο για περαιτέρω ενασχόληση σχετικά με την επιλογή προμηθευτή και την κατανομή ποσότητας παραγγελίας. Ο συνδυασμός των αυτών των δύο θεμάτων μπορεί να είναι το επόμενο βήμα για μια πιο ολοκληρωμένη διαχείριση της εφοδιαστικής αλυσίδας
description: The purpose of this master thesis is to examine the AHP model regarding supplier selection further, introducing a considerable number of criteria and also to compare the findings of this method with the Weighted Sum Factor model. Through this analysis, supplier selection and evaluation are being examined by a real case study of KONVA S.A. After reviewing literature regarding purchasing operations, supplier selection methods, and multicriteria-decision-making models, we examined AHP model theory steps. Furthermore, the results obtained through this research are analyzed in-depth and compared with an existing model for supplier evaluation. The structure and the operations of this company are being analyzed in order to provide to the reader a detailed illustration of how food companies running processes. It must be highlighted that supplier selection procedure has changed over years and is by far more complex and related to many criteria, not only by price. In conclusion, is performed a sensitivity analysis to check several what-if scenarios. There is an open field for further elaboration regarding supplier selection and order quantity allocation. This engagement of these two topics may be the next step for a more integrated supply chain management
Singular polynomials for the symmetric groups
Creators: name: Dunkl, Charles F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 20C30, 05E10; Secondary 16S32

description: For certain negative rational numbers k, called singular values, and associated with the symmetric group S_N on N objects, there exist homogeneous polynomials annihilated by each Dunkl operator when the parameter equals k. It was shown by the author, de Jeu and Opdam (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 346 (1994), 237-256) that the singular values are exactly the values -m/n with 2 <= n <= N, m = 1,2,... and m/n is not an integer. This paper constructs for each pair (m,n) satisfying these conditions an irreducible S_N-module of singular polynomials for the singular value -m/n. The module is of isotype (n-1,(n1-1)^p,r) where n1 = n/gcd(m,n), r = N-n+1-p(n1-1) and 1 <= r <= n1-1 (thus defining p). The singular polynomials are special cases of nonsymmetric Jack polynomials. The paper presents some formulae for the action of Dunkl operators on these polynomials valid in general, and a method for showing the dependence of poles (in the parameter) on the number of variables (N). Murphy elements are used to analyze the representation of S_N on irreducible spaces of singular polynomials.
description: 22 pages
Hidden diversity within the broadly distributed Amazonian Giant Monkey Frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor: Phyllomedusidae)
Creators: name: Edvaldo Pereira Mota
name: Kaefer, Igor Luis
name: Nunes, Mario
name: Lima, Albertina Pimentel
name: Izeni Pires Farias
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Phyllomedusa bicolor is a large-sized nocturnal tree frog found in tropical rainforests throughout much of the Amazonian region of Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guianas. Very little is known about P. bicolor genetic diversity and genealogical history of its natural populations. Here, using a sampling design that included populations covering most of its distributional range, we investigated the spatial distribution of genetic variability of this species. Considering the wide geographical distribution we tested the hypothesis that P. bicolor is composed of deeply structured genetic groups, constituting more than one lineage across the Brazilian Amazonia. The results suggested two main lineages in two geographic mega-regions: Western and Eastern Amazonia, the latter consisting of three population groups distributed in the Guiana and Brazilian Shields. The present findings have implications to taxonomy, to understanding the processes that lead to diversification, and to defining strategies of conservation and medicinal use of the species.
AN ANALYSIS OF NUTRIENT INTAKE FOR SELECTED FAMILIES IN FLORIDA'S EXPAND NUTRITION PROGRAM
Creators: name: Gorham, J. Michael
name: Prato, Anthony A.
name: Gorham, J. Michael
name: Prato, Anthony A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Levels and changes in nutrient intake over four consecutive food recalls (1970-72) are computed and their relationship to 13 socioeconomic characteristics estimated by least-squares regression for a sample of 168 ENP homemakers in two Florida counties. Results indicate that most family characteristics do not significantly affect the level or changes in nutrient intake.
Covariant analysis of Newtonian multi-fluid models for neutron stars: II Stress - energy tensors and virial theorems
Creators: name: Carter, Brandon
name: Chamel, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 4-dimensionally covariant approach to multiconstituent Newtonian fluid dynamics presented in the preceding article of this series is developed by construction of the relevant 4-dimensional stress energy tensor whose conservation in the non-dissipative variational case is shown to be interpretable as a Noether identity of the Milne spacetime structure. The formalism is illustrated by the application to homogeneously expanding cosmological models, for which appropriately generalised local Bernouilli constants are constructed. Another application is to the Iordanski type generalisation of the Joukowski formula for the Magnus force on a vortex. Finally, at a global level, a new (formally simpler but more generally applicable) version of the ``virial theorem'' is obtained for multiconsituent -- neutron or other -- fluid star models as a special case within an extensive category of formulae whereby the time evolution of variously weighted mass moment integrals is determined by corresponding space integrals of stress tensor components, with the implication that all such stress integrals must vanish for any stationary equilibrium configuration.
description: 32 pages, Latex
Targeting Siglecs on Recipient Antigenpresenting Cells With Sialic Acid-Modified Alloantigen to Promote Transplantation Tolerance
Creators: name: Sen, Monica
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2020

description: Chronic transplant rejection remains a persistent barrier to transplant survival. One approach to tackle this is to target the indirect pathway of allorecognition, the major contributor to chronic mediated rejection. Modifying the recipient’s antigen- presenting cells which have a major role of presenting graft-derived donor alloantigens to recipient T cells, which proliferate and differentiate into effector cells thereby leading to an immune attack against the transplanted organ, has been undertaken. Previous studies found that targeting alloantigens derived from BALB/c MHC Class I H-2Kᵈ via specific cell surface receptors to immature dendritic cells (DCs), impaired indirect allorecognition leading to murine skin grafts survival. Siglec receptors have previously been targeted on murine DCs to induce tolerance in an autoimmune mouse model. These receptors specifically bind to sialylated ligands and have a role in downregulating immune responses due to their immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif. To date, it has not been established whether targeting these receptors can induce transplantation tolerance; therefore our aim was to target Siglecs on a heterogeneous population of recipient DCs with sialylated H-2Kᵈ alloantigen to modify the indirect pathway of allorecognition and to promote organ transplant survival. In this study it was established Siglecs were expressed on DCs, B cells and macrophages. Targeting sialylated alloantigen to DCs impaired indirect alloreactive CD4⁺ T cell proliferation and cytokine production; and were able to induce/expand CD4⁺ Foxp3⁺ Tregs in vitro following targeting. Additionally, we have demonstrated in vivo that sialylated alloantigen treatment prior to MHC-mismatch donor skin transplantation to wild-type B6 recipient mice resulted in graft prolongation and also a significant increase of CD4⁺ CD62L⁺ Foxp3⁺ Tregs in recipient blood, a possible contributor to the observed graft survival. In addition, there was a marked decrease of alloantibodies, signifying that alloreactive B cells activated via indirect pathway of allorecognition are being inhibited. This was attributed to Siglec expression on DCs requiring Batf3 transcription factor for their development (CD103⁺ and CD8α⁺ DCs). It was also observed that mice treated with sialylated alloantigen deleted indirect CD4⁺ T cells in vivo, suggesting that this could be one of the mechanisms contributing to allograft survival. In conclusion, targeting recipient DCs with sialylated alloantigen may represent a novel mechanism to regulate allorecognition and prolong allograft survival.
Takedromia longispina McLay 1993
Creators: name: Mclay, Colin L.
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Dromiidae
Takedromia
Takedromia longispina

description: Takedromia longispina McLay, 1993 (Fig. 4)
 Takedromia longispina McLay, 1993: 214, figs. 10a–j, 19c, d.
 Material. 2 males, 13.2 x 12.4 mm, 16.5 x 15.9 mm, 1 mature female, 12.1 x 11.3 mm, 200–300 m, Dec 2000, ZRC 2001.393; 2 males, 15.6 x 14.5 mm, 17.2 x 15.8 mm, 1 mature female, 13.7 x 12.8 mm, Jun 2002, ZRC 2002.634; 1 male, 12.5 x 12.5 mm, 200–300 m, 2 Mar 2004, ZRC; 1 ovigerous female, 17.1 x 17.3 mm, 200–300 m, Nov 2003 – Apr 2004, NMCR. All locations in Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines; purchased from local shell fishermen, obtained by tangle nets.
 Remarks. This is only the second report of Takedromia longispina, a species previously only known from New Caledonia and the Chesterfield Islands at depths of 230– 365 m. The present specimens are larger and come from a similar depth, increasing the maximum known size for males to 17.2 mm in carapace width and for females, 13.7 mm. The major differences between T. longispina and T. cristatipes are: rostrum tridentate (versus rostrum continuous, without teeth in T. cristatipes); and the anterolateral margin has only three long acute teeth (versus three or four blunt lacinated teeth in T. cristatipes).
 Distribution. New Caledonia, Chesterfield Islands and the Philippines.
description: Published as part of Mclay, Colin L. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2005, On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1029 (1) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1029.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050213
Multipolar second-harmonic generation from high-$Q$ quasi-BIC states in nanoresonators
Creators: name: Volkovskaya, Irina I.
name: Xu, Lei
name: Huang, Lujun
name: Smirnov, Alexander I.
name: Miroshnichenko, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multimode interference and multipolar interplay govern functionalities of optical nanoresonators and nonlinear nanoantennas. Recently, excitation of the high-quality supercavity modes (quasi-BIC states) in individual subwavelength dielectric particles has been predicted to boost the nonlinear frequency conversion at the nanoscale. Here, we put forward the multipolar model which captures the physics behind linear and nonlinear response driven by such high-$Q$ modes in nanoresonators. We show that formation of the quasi-BIC state in the AlGaAs nanodisk can be understood through multipolar transformations of coupled leaky modes. In particular, the hybridized axially symmetric TE-polarized modes can be viewed as superpositions of multipoles, with a basis of parent multipoles constituted mainly by magnetic dipoles and octupole. The quasi-BIC point in the parameter space appears where dipolar losses are totally suppressed. The efficient optical coupling to this state is implemented via azimuthally polarized beam illumination matching its multipolar origin. We establish a one-to-one correspondence between the standard non Hermitian coupled-mode theory and multipolar models that enables transparent interpretation of scattering characteristics. Using our approach, we derive the multipolar composition of the generated second-harmonic radiation from the AlGaAs nanodisk and validate it with full-wave numerical simulations. Back-action of the second-harmonic radiation onto the fundamental frequency is taken into account in the coupled nonlinear model with pump depletion. A hybrid metal-dielectric nanoantenna is proposed to augment the conversion efficiency up to tens of per cent and actualize the nonlinear parametric downconversion. Our findings delineate the in-depth conceptual framework and novel promising strategies in the design of functional elements for nonlinear nanophotonics applications.
Can a combination of the conformal thin-sandwich and puncture methods yield binary black hole solutions in quasi-equilibrium?
Creators: name: Hannam, Mark D.
name: Evans, Charles R.
name: Cook, Gregory B.
name: Baumgarte, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider combining two important methods for constructing quasi-equilibrium initial data for binary black holes: the conformal thin-sandwich formalism and the puncture method. The former seeks to enforce stationarity in the conformal three-metric and the latter attempts to avoid internal boundaries, like minimal surfaces or apparent horizons. We show that these two methods make partially conflicting requirements on the boundary conditions that determine the time slices. In particular, it does not seem possible to construct slices that are quasi-stationary and avoid physical singularities and simultaneously are connected by an everywhere positive lapse function, a condition which must obtain if internal boundaries are to be avoided. Some relaxation of these conflicting requirements may yield a soluble system, but some of the advantages that were sought in combining these approaches will be lost.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX2e, 2 postscript figures
Paraxial phasor-field physical optics
Creators: name: Dove, Justin
name: Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phasor-field (P-field) imaging is a promising recent solution to the task of non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging, colloquially referred to as "seeing around corners". It consists of treating the oscillating envelope of amplitude-modulated, spatially-incoherent light as if it were itself an optical wave, akin to the oscillations of the underlying electromagnetic field. This resemblance enables traditional optical imaging strategies, e.g., lenses, to be applied to NLoS imaging tasks. To date, however, this ability has only been applied computationally. In this paper, we provide a rigorous mathematical demonstration that P-field imaging can be performed with physical optics, viz., that ordinary lenses can focus or project P fields through intervening diffusers---despite these diffusers' broadly dispersing the light passing through them---and that they can image scenes hidden by such diffusers. Hence NLoS imaging might be carried out via P-field physical optics without the nontrivial computational burden of prior NLoS techniques.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
Paradynomene tuberculata Sakai 1963
Creators: name: Mclay, Colin L.
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Dynomenidae
Paradynomene
Paradynomene tuberculata

description: Paradynomene tuberculata Sakai, 1963
 Paradynomene tuberculata Sakai, 1963: 231, fig. 8.— Sakai 1965a: 13, pl. 6: fig. 1.— Sakai 1976: 31, pl. 7, fig. 1.—Serène 1968: 37 (list).—Miyake 1983: 196 (list).— Nagai 1989: 43.— McLay 1999: 543 (part), fig. 25d.— McLay & Ng 2004: 4, figs. 2–4, 14A.
 Material. 2 males, 18.2 x 18.5 mm, 18.1 x 18.1 mm, Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, in tangle nets, 200–300 m, coll. local shell fishermen, Dec 2000, ZRC 2001.361; 1 male, 22.5 x 23.4 mm, Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, in tangle nets, 200– 300 m, coll. local shell fishermen, 25–30 Jul 2003, ZRC; 1 female, 18.8 x 19.4 mm, Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines, in tangle nets, 200–300 m, coll. local shell fishermen, Dec 2003, NMCR.
 Remarks. This species was discovered in Sagami Bay, Japan, by Sakai (1963) and another specimen was added by Sakai (1976). For many years these remained the only records of the species until McLay (1999) reported a further 19 specimens from several Indo­West Pacific localities. At that time all of these specimens were attributed to P. tuberculata Sakai, 1963, but a revision by McLay & Ng (2004) recognized six species, two of which occur at Balicasag: P. quasimodo McLay & Ng, 2004, and P. tuberculata. The depth range of P. tuberculata is 85 to 402 m and for P. quasimodo it is 205 to 377 m. Because the Balicasag specimens were caught in tangle nets, we do not have a precise depth for them.
 Distribution. P tuberculata is known from Japan as well as the Philippine and Loyalty Islands.
description: Published as part of Mclay, Colin L. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2005, On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1029 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1029.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050213