cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constraining cosmic deceleration-acceleration transition with type Ia supernova, BAO/CMB and H(z) data
Creators: name: Santos, Marcelo Vargas dos
name: Reis, Ribamar R. R.
name: Waga, Ioav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the kink-like parametrization of the deceleration parameter q(z), which considers a transition, at $z_t$, from cosmic deceleration to acceleration. In this parametrization the initial, at $z \gg z_t$, value of the q-parameter is $q_i$, its final, z=-1, value is $q_f$ and the duration of the transition is parametrized by $τ$. By assuming a flat space geometry we obtain constraints on the free parameters of the model using recent data from type Ia supernovae, BAO, CMB and the Hubble parameter H(z). The use of H(z) data introduces an explicit dependence of the combined likelihood on the present value of the Hubble parameter $H_0$, allowing us to explore the influence of different priors when marginalizing over this parameter. We also study the importance of the CMB information in the results by considering data from WMAP7, WMAP9 and Planck. We show that the contours and best fit do not depend much on the different CMB data used and that the considered new BAO data is responsible for most of the improvement in the results. Assuming a flat space geometry, $q_i=1/2$ and expressing the present value of the deceleration parameter $q_0$ as a function of the other three free parameters, we obtain $z_t=0.67^{+0.10}_{-0.08}$, $τ=0.26^{+0.14}_{-0.10}$ and $q_0=-0.48^{+0.11}_{-0.13}$, at 68\% of confidence level, with an uniform prior over $H_0$. If in addition we fix $q_f=-1$, as in flat $Λ$CDM, DGP and Chaplygin quartessence that are special models described by our parametrization, we get $z_t=0.66^{+0.03}_{-0.04}$, $τ=0.33^{+0.04}_{-0.04}$ and $q_0=-0.54^{+0.05}_{-0.07}$, in excellent agreement with flat $Λ$CDM for which $τ=1/3$. We also obtain for flat wCDM, another dark energy model described by our parametrization, the constraint on the equation of state parameter -1.22 < w < -0.78 at more than 99% confidence level.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
What does the future tell us about the present? Learning pathways as future models for universities and a stimulus for student reflection
Creators: name: Lübcke, Maren
name: Seyfeli, Funda
name: Wannemacher, Klaus
Publisher: name: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal
Year: 2020

description: The research project AHEAD took a glimpse into the future of the higher education landscape in 2030 by drawing four models of learning pathways. The models all involve different forms and degrees of individualized study and place different demands on students’ self-organization and self-regulation learning (SRL) skills. By talking to students within the scope of the SIDDATA project, it becomes clear that SRL is not only a competence of the students but must also be provided for as precondition in the organization of studies.
description: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V.
Year: 2022

description: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V., Bd. 28 (2017): Der Antike Sudan
ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ИГРОВЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В ПОДГОТОВКЕ СТУДЕНТОВ ПСИХОЛОГО-ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОГО НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ
Creators: name: Щелина Светлана Олеговна
name: Чудакова Анна Олеговна
Publisher: name: Межпоколенческие отношения: современный дискурс и стратегические выборы в психолого-педагогической науке и практике
Year: 2020
Subjects: профессиональное образование
игровые технологии
психолого-педагогическое направление.

description: В статье рассматриваются актуальность использования игровых форм в процессе подготовки студентов психолого-педагогической направленности, приводятся примеры практического применения деловых, ролевых, приключенческих и настольных игр в обучении и воспитания студентов Арзамасского филиала ННГУ им. Н.И. Лобачевского
Quiver polynomials in iterated residue form
Creators: name: Rimanyi, R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Degeneracy loci polynomials for quiver representations generalize several important polynomials in algebraic combinatorics. In this paper we give a nonconventional generating sequence description of these polynomials, when the quiver is of Dynkin type.
Disentangled Representations for Short-Term and Long-Term Person Re-Identification
Creators: name: Eom, Chanho
name: Lee, Wonkyung
name: Lee, Geon
name: Ham, Bumsub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We address the problem of person re-identification (reID), that is, retrieving person images from a large dataset, given a query image of the person of interest. A key challenge is to learn person representations robust to intra-class variations, as different persons could have the same attribute, and persons' appearances look different, e.g., with viewpoint changes. Recent reID methods focus on learning person features discriminative only for a particular factor of variations (e.g., human pose), which also requires corresponding supervisory signals (e.g., pose annotations). To tackle this problem, we propose to factorize person images into identity-related and unrelated features. Identity-related features contain information useful for specifying a particular person (e.g., clothing), while identity-unrelated ones hold other factors (e.g., human pose). To this end, we propose a new generative adversarial network, dubbed identity shuffle GAN (IS-GAN). It disentangles identity-related and unrelated features from person images through an identity-shuffling technique that exploits identification labels alone without any auxiliary supervisory signals. We restrict the distribution of identity-unrelated features or encourage the identity-related and unrelated features to be uncorrelated, facilitating the disentanglement process. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of IS-GAN, showing state-of-the-art performance on standard reID benchmarks, including Market-1501, CUHK03, and DukeMTMC-reID. We further demonstrate the advantages of disentangling person representations on a long-term reID task, setting a new state of the art on a Celeb-reID dataset.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1910.12003
(890) Alfred George Barrs
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
ScRNAseq Reveals Macrophage reprogramming and Macrophage-targeted Therapy in Myeloma
Creators: name: Li, Jing
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Transcriptome or Gene expression
Multiisolate
Medical

description: ScRNAseq data from the bone marrow cells of 14 patients with plasma cell disorder (MGUS=4, NDMM=5, RRMM=5).
(889) Alice Bywater Nelson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
ПОДГОТОВКА БУДУЩИХ УЧИТЕЛЕЙ К ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНО- ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ: МЕЖПОКОЛЕНЧЕСКИЙ ПОДХОД
Creators: name: Югфельд Ирина Александровна
Publisher: name: Межпоколенческие отношения: современный дискурс и стратегические выборы в психолого-педагогической науке и практике
Year: 2020
Subjects: теория поколений
милениалы
«снежинки»
педагогическая практика
диагностика
школьные учителя

description: В статье представлен вариант использования теории поколений в психологопедагогической подготовке студентов. Приведены результаты диагностики учителей, их отношение к теории. Автор показал, что знакомство студентов с основными характеристиками поколений полезно для самопознания, грамотного общения с родителями школьников, организации адекватного образовательного процесса, предупреждения конфликтных ситуаций с учетом специфики учащихся
Whether detection of gene mutations could identify low-or high- risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma?
Creators: name: 闫娜(Na Yan)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Monoisolate
Medical

description: To explore the application of the next-generation sequencing (NGS) in the assessment of the possibility of identification of high- or low-risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) patients.
(888) Percy Nelson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ ПРЕЕМСТВЕННОСТИ В РАЗВИТИИ ТВОРЧЕСКИХ СПОСОБНОСТЕЙ ДЕТЕЙ ДОШКОЛЬНОГО И МЛАДШЕГО ШКОЛЬНОГО ВОЗРАСТА
Creators: name: Юшкевич Елена Васильевна
Publisher: name: Межпоколенческие отношения: современный дискурс и стратегические выборы в психолого-педагогической науке и практике
Year: 2020
Subjects: развитие творческих способностей
дети дошкольного и младшего школьного возраста
реализация преемственности
дополнительное образование

description: В статье рассматриваются вопросы реализации преемственности в развитии творческих способностей детей дошкольного и младшего школьного возраста, определяются основные аспекты творческой деятельности в педагогике, выявляется сущность преемственности в развитии творческих способностей
(887) Emily Ada Nelson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An online interactive monitoring system as an instrument for data-driven self-reflection on education policy and quality assurance processes at faculty and study programme level
Creators: name: De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
name: Van Puyenbroeck, Hilde
name: Vanacker, Janis
name: Uytterschout, Sien
name: Claeys, Joke
name: De Cock, Katrijn
name: Mahieu, Nele
Publisher: name: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal
Year: 2020

description: Future-ready universities take into account the challenges posed by a “VUCA World”. The question, then, is how to prepare study programmes for such an uncertain, complex and rapidly evolving future. Ghent University considers adaptability, co-leadership and self-governance as crucial aspects of study programme management. It has recently developed an online interactive monitoring system for faculties and study programmes that supports self-evaluation and stakeholder engagement. Via the “education monitors” of this system, faculty and programme management can document, argue, and reflect on their mission/vision, processes, actions, quality indicators and results. The structure of the monitors is based on the PDCA principle, and allows detailed reporting on each of the pre-determined topics’ vision and policy (PLAN), implementations (DO), monitoring (CHECK), and improvement actions (ACT). This paper gives an insight into how the monitors are built, how they operate technically, how they stimulate self-reflection and monitor quality, and how they go beyond learning and teaching.
description: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
Inbred line resequencing data
Creators: name: 霍雨来(Yulai Huo)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multiisolate
Agricultural

description: The genome size of bottle gourd was 298 Mb. The two bottle gourd materials were subjected to 30X resequencing using the Illumina HiSeq platform. The average Q30 was 92.53, and the GC content ranged from 32.06 to 32.88 %. The average alignment efficiency between the sample and the reference genome ( ZAAS _ Lsic _ 2.0 ) was 99.34 %, the average coverage depth was 26.75 X, and the genome coverage was 99.28 % ( at least one base coverage ).
(886) Robert Henry Nelson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
СУБЪЕКТИВНО-ОБЪЕКТИВНЫЕ ПРОЕКЦИИ ОЦЕНИВАНИЯ ПИСЬМЕННОГО УЧЕНИЧЕСКОГО ТЕКСТА НА НАЧАЛЬНОМ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОМ ЭТАПЕ
Creators: name: Георгиева Снежанка Добрева
Publisher: name: Межпоколенческие отношения: современный дискурс и стратегические выборы в психолого-педагогической науке и практике
Year: 2020
Subjects: письменный текст
качественное оценивание
стимулирующая функция
субъективность.

description: В статье представлены результаты экспериментального исследования, реализованного с 38 учителями, работающими на начальном образовательном этапе, в отношении качеств их оценочной деятельности по трем школьным текстам четвертого класса с различной жанровой характеристикой (диктовка, пересказ, сочинение). Количественные данные из 114 отзывов учителей указывают на выводы об усиленной субъективности оценивания, о недостаточно эксплицированных в отзывах учителей стимулирующих, мотивирующих и поддерживающих учеников моделях
A study of network intrusion detection systems using artificial intelligence/machine learning
Creators: name: Vanin, Patrick
name: NEWE, THOMAS
name: Luxmi Dhirani, Lubna
name: O'CONNELL, EOIN
name: O'Shea, Donna
name: Lee, Brian
name: Rao, Muzaffar
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: The rapid growth of the Internet and communications has resulted in a huge increase in transmitted data. These data are coveted by attackers and they continuously create novel attacks to steal or corrupt these data. The growth of these attacks is an issue for the security of our systems and represents one of the biggest challenges for intrusion detection. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a tool that helps to detect intrusions by inspecting the network traffic. Although many researchers have studied and created new IDS solutions, IDS still needs improving in order to have good detection accuracy while reducing false alarm rates. In addition, many IDS struggle to detect zero-day attacks. Recently, machine learning algorithms have become popular with researchers to detect network intrusion in an efficient manner and with high accuracy. This paper presents the concept of IDS and provides a taxonomy of machine learning methods. The main metrics used to assess an IDS are presented and a review of recent IDS using machine learning is provided where the strengths and weaknesses of each solution is outlined. Then, details of the different datasets used in the studies are provided and the accuracy of the results from the reviewed work is discussed. Finally,observations, research challenges and future trends are discussed.
(885) Louisa Nelson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
ПРОЕКТНАЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ: ВАРИАНТЫ В ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ
Creators: name: Попова Татьяна Анатольевна
Publisher: name: Межпоколенческие отношения: современный дискурс и стратегические выборы в психолого-педагогической науке и практике
Year: 2020
Subjects: проектная деятельность
артлогопроект
образование
проект
научно-образовательный проект.

description: В статье рассматривается варианты проектной деятельности в различных образовательных учреждениях и с разными стратегиями – в вузах (студенческая проектная деятельность), в школах (работа с педагогами, работа со школьниками, работа по формированию навыков для осуществления проектной деятельности и описание проектной деятельности в рамках научно-образовательного проекта).
Fostering a culture of innovation in teaching and learning in research-intensive universities: Implications for academic developers
Creators: name: Briseño-Garzón, Adriana
name: Cattell-Holden, Karin
name: Freeman, Hannah Lora
name: Miller, Jeff
name: Reinhardt, Andreas
Publisher: name: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal
Year: 2020

description: In this paper we present the goals, structure and impact of five different programs currently operating in four international research-intensive universities, and discuss how these initiatives foster a culture of innovation in T&L at their home institutions. We also discuss the contributions and roles played by academic developers as well as the current dilemmas and open questions we face.
description: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
Geometric proofs of Horn and saturation conjectures
Creators: name: Belkale, Prakash
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: We provide a geometric proof of the Schubert calculus interpretation of the Horn conjecture, and show how the saturation conjecture follows from it. The geometric proof gives a strengthening of Horn and saturation conjectures. We also establish transversality theorems for Schubert calculus in non-zero characteristic.
INFORME TÉCNICO DE PROYECTO CENPEN-18-012 SEGUNDA ETAPA
Creators: name: VEGA, ARACELLY
name: HIDALGO, JESSICA
name: DE LEÓN, JAVIER
name: MONASTERIOS, PILAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: BIODIVERSIDAD
DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE
THINK TANKS
REGIÓN OCCIDENTAL PANAMA

description: Informe técnico de proyecto "Sostenibilidad en el uso de los recursos naturales y conservación de la Biodiversidad de la Región Occidental de Panamá". Cenpen -18-012. Segunda Etapa
TERD: A Unified Framework for Safeguarding Diffusion Models Against Backdoors
Creators: name: Mo, Yichuan
name: Huang, Hui
name: Li, Mingjie
name: Li, Ang
name: Wang, Yisen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Diffusion models have achieved notable success in image generation, but they remain highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which compromise their integrity by producing specific undesirable outputs when presented with a pre-defined trigger. In this paper, we investigate how to protect diffusion models from this dangerous threat. Specifically, we propose TERD, a backdoor defense framework that builds unified modeling for current attacks, which enables us to derive an accessible reversed loss. A trigger reversion strategy is further employed: an initial approximation of the trigger through noise sampled from a prior distribution, followed by refinement through differential multi-step samplers. Additionally, with the reversed trigger, we propose backdoor detection from the noise space, introducing the first backdoor input detection approach for diffusion models and a novel model detection algorithm that calculates the KL divergence between reversed and benign distributions. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that TERD secures a 100% True Positive Rate (TPR) and True Negative Rate (TNR) across datasets of varying resolutions. TERD also demonstrates nice adaptability to other Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE)-based models. Our code is available at https://github.com/PKU-ML/TERD.
Metadata
Creators: name: Vleminckx, Jason
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: 60208 Terrestrial Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Metadata describing the Supplementary information for the article “Abiotic filtering and competitive exclusion both influence species edaphic distribution along decoupled niche dimensions”. Jason Vleminckx, Oscar Valverde Barrantes, Claire Fortunel, C.E. Timothy Paine, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Nállaret Dávila, Marcos Rios, Elvis Harry Valderrama Sandoval, Italo Mesones, Elodie Allié, Jean-Yves Goret, Freddie Draper, Juan Guevara, Solène Béroujon, David Bauman, Paul V. A. Fine, Christopher Baraloto. Ecology
An “excellence turn”? Rethinking teaching excellence awards for a future-ready South African university
Creators: name: Cattell-Holden, Karin
Publisher: name: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal
Year: 2020

description: This paper examines the teaching excellence awards at a research-led South African university, a post-colonial institution which functions in both a neo-liberal higher education environment and a society characterised by inequity and inequality. The awards demonstrate an understanding of teaching excellence in terms of de-contextualised and performative values focused on the individual good. The paper proposes a social re-contextualisation of the awards, based on collaboration among all role-players, in order to reclaim teaching at the institution as a public good.
description: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
Adaptive Visual Servoing for On-Orbit Servicing
Creators: name: Aghili, Farhad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents an adaptive visual servoing framework for robotic on-orbit servicing (OOS), specifically designed for capturing tumbling satellites. The vision-guided robotic system is capable of selecting optimal control actions in the event of partial or complete vision system failure, particularly in the short term. The autonomous system accounts for physical and operational constraints, executing visual servoing tasks to minimize a cost function. A hierarchical control architecture is developed, integrating a variant of the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm for image registration, a constrained noise-adaptive Kalman filter, fault detection and recovery logic, and a constrained optimal path planner. The dynamic estimator provides real-time estimates of unknown states and uncertain parameters essential for motion prediction, while ensuring consistency through a set of inequality constraints. It also adjusts the Kalman filter parameters adaptively in response to unexpected vision errors. In the event of vision system faults, a recovery strategy is activated, guided by fault detection logic that monitors the visual feedback via the metric fit error of image registration. The estimated/predicted pose and parameters are subsequently fed into an optimal path planner, which directs the robot's end-effector to the target's grasping point. This process is subject to multiple constraints, including acceleration limits, smooth capture, and line-of-sight maintenance with the target. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed visual servoing system successfully captured a free-floating object, despite complete occlusion of the vision system.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2209.02156
On irregular threefolds and fourfolds with numerically trivial canonical bundle
Creators: name: Jiang, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that for a smooth projective irregular $3$-fold $X$ with $K_X\equiv 0$ and a nef and big divisor $L$ on $X$, $|mL+P|$ gives a birational map for all $m\geq 3$ and all $P\in \text{Pic}^0(X)$. We also use the same method to deal with $4$-folds, and prove that for a smooth projective irregular $4$-fold $X$ with $K_X\equiv 0$ and an ample divisor $L$ on $X$, $|mL+P|$ gives a birational map for all $m\geq 5$ and all $P\in \text{Pic}^0(X)$. These results are also optimal.
description: 21 pages. Final version, to appear in Math. Zeit
(884) Charlotte Bywater
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching
Creators: name: Wu, Jiaxin
name: Zhou, Haiyan
Publisher: name: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal
Year: 2020

description: Research (Cook-Sather et al., 2014; Healey et al., 2016) indicates the importance of student- faculty partnership. Students as Partners (SaP) initiatives, mainly in the form of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), have been seen in but are not limited to universities in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. Despite that, it is still an emerging yet contested topic in higher education to actively and intellectually engage students as partners in learning and teaching, considering the inclusivity of involvement, faculty buy-in and so on (Matthews et al., 2018; Matthews, 2019). Thus, this case study of a pilot SaP initiative at Duke Kunshan University, a young joint venture university in China, aims to enrich the literature and inform further discussion about its values, challenges and practices.
description: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
Supplementary information for the article “Abiotic filtering and competitive exclusion both influence species edaphic distribution along decoupled niche dimensions”.
Creators: name: Vleminckx, Jason
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60208 Terrestrial Ecology

description: Supplementary information for the article “Abiotic filtering and competitive exclusion both influence species edaphic distribution along decoupled niche dimensions”. Jason Vleminckx, Oscar Valverde Barrantes, Claire Fortunel, C.E. Timothy Paine, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Nállaret Dávila, Marcos Rios, Elvis Harry Valderrama Sandoval, Italo Mesones, Elodie Allié, Jean-Yves Goret, Freddie Draper, Juan Guevara, Solène Béroujon, David Bauman, Paul V. A. Fine, Christopher Baraloto. Ecology
Faculty Fellows: A promising program using the power of Dialogue Education
Creators: name: Winfrey, Nancy V.
name: Dentith, Audrey M.
Publisher: name: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal
Year: 2020

description: Centers for Teaching and Learning play a key support role in the enhancement of the instructional skills of faculty, yet many Centers are not adequately staffed or funded. One solution has been to leverage the knowledge and enthusiasm of successful faculty members by embedding them within their colleges as “extension agents” of the Center to provide faculty support services. One of the dilemmas of this approach is the question of Faculty Fellows delivering consistently high-quality educational workshops to their peers. These proceedings provide a brief overview of a Dialogue Education model that worked to frame all workshop designs created and delivered by Faculty Fellows across campus, and which served, as an added benefit, to improve their own teaching as well.
description: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
White Matter Hyperintensities, Systemic Inflammation, Brain Growth, and Cognitive Functions in Children Exposed to Air Pollution
Creators: name: Styner, Martin
name: Zhu, Hongtu
name: Medina-Cortina, Humberto
name: Solorio-López, Edelmira
name: Torres-Jardón, Ricardo
name: Carlos, Esperanza
name: Kavanaugh, Michael
name: Mora-Tiscareño, Antonieta
name: Calderón-Garcidueñas, Lilian
name: D'Angiulli, Amedeo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Air pollution exposures are linked to neuroinflammation and neuropathology in young urbanites. Forty percent of exposed children and young adults exhibit frontal tau hyperphosphorylation and 51% have amyloid-β diffuse plaques compared to 0% in low pollution controls. In older adults, white matter hyperintensities (WMH) are associated with cognitive deficits while inflammatory markers correlate with greater atrophy than expected for age. We investigated patterns of WMH, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volume growth, blood inflammatory mediators, and cognition in matched children from two urban cohorts: one severely and one minimally exposed to air pollution. Baseline and one year follow-up measurements of cognitive abilities, brain MRI volumes, and blood were collected in 20 Mexico City (MC) children (10 with WMH+, and 10 without WMH−) and 10 matched controls (WMH−). MC WMH− children display the profile of classical pro-inflammatory defensive responses: high interleukin 12, production of powerful pro-inflammatory cytokines, and low concentrations of key cytokines and chemokines associated with neuroprotection. MC WMH+ children exhibit a response involved in resolution of inflammation, immunoregulation, and tissue remodeling. The MC WMH+ group responded to the air pollution-associated brain volumetric alterations with white and grey matter volume increases in temporal, parietal, and frontal regions and better cognitive performance compared to MC WMH−. We conclude that complex modulation of cytokines and chemokines influences children’s central nervous system structural and volumetric responses and cognitive correlates resulting from environmental pollution exposures. Identification of biomarkers associating systemic inflammation to brain growth is critical for detecting children at higher risk for cognitive deficits and neurodegeneration, thereby warranting early implementation of neuroprotective measures.
(883) Henry Nelson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Back to the future – Challenging traditional positions and hierarchies in academic development
Creators: name: Wallin, Patric
Publisher: name: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal
Year: 2020

description: With the emphasis on evidence in academic development, it is important to consider how research on higher education is conducted, who influences its direction and what questions are being raised. In this work, I will take a closer look at students’ research projects in the “Environments for learning in higher education” course and, based on experiences from that course, explore how to involve students as researchers in higher education and how to provide opportunities for students to influence academic development through research. In the discussion, I argue that challenging traditional positions and knowledge hierarchies at higher education institutions are central for the future direction of academic development.
description: ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: ICED 2020 proceedings
The 12-th roots of the discriminant of an elliptic curve and the torsion points
Creators: name: Fukuda, Kohei
name: Yoshikawa, Sho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given an elliptic curve over a field of characteristic different from 2,3, its discriminant defines a $μ_{12}$-torsor over the field. In this paper, we give an explicit description of this $μ_{12}$-torsor in terms of the 3-torsion points and of the 4-torsion points on the given elliptic curve. %In addition, we show that such a description involves the Weil pairing in a certain way. As an application, we generalize a result of Coates on the 12-th root of the discriminant of an elliptic curve.
Fitting Skeletal Models via Graph-based Learning
Creators: name: Gaggion, Nicolás
name: Ferrante, Enzo
name: Paniagua, Beatriz
name: Vicory, Jared
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Skeletonization is a popular shape analysis technique that models an object's interior as opposed to just its boundary. Fitting template-based skeletal models is a time-consuming process requiring much manual parameter tuning. Recently, machine learning-based methods have shown promise for generating s-reps from object boundaries. In this work, we propose a new skeletonization method which leverages graph convolutional networks to produce skeletal representations (s-reps) from dense segmentation masks. The method is evaluated on both synthetic data and real hippocampus segmentations, achieving promising results and fast inference.
description: This paper was presented at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
(882) William Crawford
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Nubian place names on Mograt Island, Sudan
Creators: name: Weschenfelder, Petra
Publisher: name: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V.
Year: 2022

description: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V., Bd. 29 (2018): Der Antike Sudan
Detecting multiple breaks in financial market volatility dynamics
Creators: name: Andreou, Elena
name: Ghysels, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: The paper evaluates the performance of several recently proposed tests for structural breaks in conditional variance dynamics of asset returns. The tests apply to the class of ARCH and SV type processes as well as data-driven volatility estimators using high-frequency data. In addition to testing for the presence of breaks, the statistics identify the number and location of multiple breaks. We study the size and power of the new tests for detecting breaks in the second conditional variance under various realistic univariate heteroskedastic models, change-point hypotheses and sampling schemes. The paper concludes with an empirical analysis using data from the stock and FX markets for which we find multiple breaks associated with the Asian and Russian financial crises. These events resulted in changes in the dynamics of volatility of asset returns in the samples prior and post the breaks
(881) Caroline Margarette Blanshard
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Optical blocking of electron tunneling into a single self-assembled quantum dot
Creators: name: Kurzmann, A.
name: Merkel, B.
name: Labud, P. A.
name: Ludwig, A.
name: Wieck, A. D.
name: Lorke, A.
name: Geller, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-resolved resonance fluorescence (RF) is used to analyse electron tunneling between a single self-assembled quantum dot (QD) and an electron reservoir. In equilibrium, the RF intensity reflects the average electron occupation of the QD and exhibits a gate voltage dependence that is given by the Fermi distribution in the reservoir. In the time-resolved signal, however, we find that the relaxation rate for electron tunneling is independent of the occupation in the charge reservoir. Using a master equation approach which includes both the electron tunneling and the optical excitation/recombination, we are able to explain the experimental data by optical blocking, i. e. a reduced electron tunneling rate when the QD is occupied by an exciton.
Health insurance and retirement of married couples
Creators: name: Blau, David
name: Gilleskie, Donna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: In this study we propose a new explanation for the fact that labor force participation of older married couples is strongly positively correlated, and we develop and estimate a model that allows us to determine its importance. Our explanation is based on the observations that (1) most health insurance is provided by employers until eligibility for Medicare begins at age 65, (2) many individuals are covered by health insurance from the spouse’s employer, and (3) there is substantial variation across employer health insurance plans in coverage for retirees and the spouses of retirees. Descriptive evidence shows that couples who face employment incentives arising from shared health insurance appear to respond strongly to those incentives. We build a dynamic behavioral model of the employment and medical care decisions of older couples. The model places no restrictions on either the degree of complementarity of leisure hours of spouses in utility or the value of health insurance (i.e., risk aversion): these two key aspects of behavior are determined by parameters identified by variation in health risk and health insurance constraints and the behavior of couples in response to these constraints. Estimates of the model therefore allow us to determine the empirical importance of the explanation we propose. Estimates of the model using data from the Health and Retirement Survey indicate that couples have a strong preference for shared leisure and a relatively low degree of risk-aversion. The risk-reducing feature of health insurance does not contribute much to the observed correlation in labor force decisions of spouses.
Amanakhareqerema – a Meroitic King of the 1st Century AD
Creators: name: Kuckertz, Josefine
Publisher: name: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V.
Year: 2022

description: Der Antike Sudan. Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e. V., Bd. 29 (2018): Der Antike Sudan
РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ ПРАВОВОЙ РЕАЛЬНОСТИ В ИНФОРМАЦИОННО-КОММУНИКАЦИОННЫХ СИСТЕМАХ ОБЩЕСТВА XXI ВЕКА И ЕЕ ВЛИЯНИЕ НА ПРАВОСОЗНАНИЕ ГРАЖДАН
Creators: name: КАРНАУШЕНКО ЛЕОНИД ВЛАДИМИРОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Закон и право
Year: 2020
Subjects: ОБЩЕСТВО
ПРАВО
ПРАВОВАЯ РЕАЛЬНОСТЬ
ПРАВОВОЕ СОЗНАНИЕ
ИНФОРМАЦИОННО-КОММУНИКАЦИОННЫЕ СИСТЕМЫ
ИНТЕРНЕТ
ВИРТУАЛИЗАЦИЯ
SOCIETY
LAW
LEGAL REALITY
LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
INTERNET
VIRTUALIZATION

description: В статье отмечается, что постиндустриальное общество XXI в. изменяет характер восприятия правовой реальности, которая, репрезентируясь в информационно-коммуникационных системах, масс-медиа, Интернете, кинематографе и т.д., оказывает значительное влияние на правовое сознание. При этом виртуальные образы права могут быть не только соответствующими действительности, но и искаженными. Именно виртуализация правовой реальности является одним из рисков деформации правосознания.
Dust Formation in Milky Way-like Galaxies
Creators: name: McKinnon, Ryan
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a dust model for cosmological simulations implemented in the moving-mesh code AREPO and present a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations to study dust formation within galactic haloes. Our model accounts for the stellar production of dust, accretion of gas-phase metals onto existing grains, destruction of dust through local supernova activity, and dust driven by winds from star-forming regions. We find that accurate stellar and active galactic nuclei feedback is needed to reproduce the observed dust-metallicity relation and that dust growth largely dominates dust destruction. Our simulations predict a dust content of the interstellar medium which is consistent with observed scaling relations at $z = 0$, including scalings between dust-to-gas ratio and metallicity, dust mass and gas mass, dust-to-gas ratio and stellar mass, and dust-to-stellar mass ratio and gas fraction. We find that roughly two-thirds of dust at $z = 0$ originated from Type II supernovae, with the contribution from asymptotic giant branch stars below 20 per cent for $z \gtrsim 5$. While our suite of Milky Way-sized galaxies forms dust in good agreement with a number of key observables, it predicts a high dust-to-metal ratio in the circumgalactic medium, which motivates a more realistic treatment of thermal sputtering of grains and dust cooling channels.
description: 28 pages, 24 figures. Accepted by MNRAS. Simulation movies available at http://www.mit.edu/~ryanmck/#research
(880) Florence Evelyn Bolam
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: The National Care Standards : hearing the voices of young people in residential care
Creators: name: Stevens, Irene
name: Boyce, Pauline
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2006

description: The National Care Standards describe what each child or young person can expect from their residential care home in Scotland. The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (SCRC) invited the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care to carry out a study eliciting the views of young people. This article presents a selection of the findings where young people give their views about the Standards. Twenty-four young people between 15 and 19 years took part in the study, with each of the young people taking part in focus groups.