cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analyzing Consumer's Calculation Factors in the Purchase Decision of Goat Meat
Creators: name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Nelson, Mack K.
name: Ibrahim, Mohammed
name: Liu, Xuanli
name: Nelson, Mack K.
name: Ibrahim, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This study identifies the major meat attributes preferred by consumers in the goat meat market. Based on data from a consumer survey in 2004, the study examines consumer rankings of major attributes of goat meat, identifies discrepan­cies among the rankings, and pinpoints most influencing attributes. The findings indicate a shift of consumer emphasis toward experience and credence attributes, especially low cholesterol content and safety assurance. The results have important implications for developing effective strategies to promote the goat meat market.
MOESM1 of Effects of combining functional exercises with exercise training on daily physical activities and functionality in patients with COPD: a protocol for a randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Lima, Fabiano
name: Camillo, Carlos
name: Grigoletto, Isis
name: Uzeloto, Juliana
name: Franciele Vanderlei
name: Dionei Ramos
name: Ercy Ramos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
MOESM1 of Type 2 diabetes and healthcare resource utilisation in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Creators: name: Rabha Salman
name: AlSayyad, Adel
name: Ludwig, Craig
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Diabetes impact in Bahrain questionnaire.
Heterogeneity of Inverted Calcium II H:K Ratio Cluster Galaxies
Creators: name: Pimbblet, K. A.
name: Crossett, J. P.
name: Fraser-McKelvie, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ratio of calcium II H plus H$ε$ to calcium II K inverts as a galaxy stellar population moves from being dominated by older stars to possessing more A and B class stars. This ratio - the H:K ratio - can serve as an indicator of stellar populations younger than 200 Myr. In this work, we provide a new method to determine H:K, and apply it to spectra taken of cluster galaxies in Abell~3888. Although H:K is on average systematically lower for the cluster than for a wider field sample, we show that H:K does not have a simple relationship with other indices such as the equivalent widths of H$δ$ and [OII]. Moreover, strongly inverted galaxies with H:K>1.1 have no preferred location within the cluster and are only slightly lower in their velocity dispersions around the cluster compared to strongly emitting [OII] galaxies. Our results indicate that selecting galaxies on H:K inversion results in a heterogeneous sample formed via a mixture of pathways that likely includes, but may not be limited to, merging spiral galaxies, and quiescent galaxies accreting lower mass, gas rich companions. In concert with other selection criteria, H:K can provide a means to select a more `pure' passive sample or to aid in the selection of highly star-forming galaxies, especially where other spectral line indicators such as H$α$ may not have been observed.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A model structure on the category of pro-simplicial sets
Creators: name: Isaksen, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18E35, 55Pxx, 55U35 (primary), 14F35, 55P60 (secondary)

description: We study the category pro-SSet of pro-simplicial sets, which arises in etale homotopy theory, shape theory, and pro-finite completion. We establish a model structure on pro-SSet so that it is possible to do homotopy theory in this category. This model structure is closely related to the strict structure of Edwards and Hastings. In order to understand the notion of homotopy groups for pro-spaces we use local systems on pro-spaces. We also give several alternative descriptions of weak equivalences, including a cohomological characterization. We outline dual constructions for ind-spaces.
Making a (Counterfactual) Difference One Rationale at a Time
Creators: name: Plyler, Mitchell
name: Green, Michael
name: Chi, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rationales, snippets of extracted text that explain an inference, have emerged as a popular framework for interpretable natural language processing (NLP). Rationale models typically consist of two cooperating modules: a selector and a classifier with the goal of maximizing the mutual information (MMI) between the "selected" text and the document label. Despite their promises, MMI-based methods often pick up on spurious text patterns and result in models with nonsensical behaviors. In this work, we investigate whether counterfactual data augmentation (CDA), without human assistance, can improve the performance of the selector by lowering the mutual information between spurious signals and the document label. Our counterfactuals are produced in an unsupervised fashion using class-dependent generative models. From an information theoretic lens, we derive properties of the unaugmented dataset for which our CDA approach would succeed. The effectiveness of CDA is empirically evaluated by comparing against several baselines including an improved MMI-based rationale schema on two multi aspect datasets. Our results show that CDA produces rationales that better capture the signal of interest.
Adversarial Music: Real World Audio Adversary Against Wake-word Detection System
Creators: name: Li, Juncheng B.
name: Qu, Shuhui
name: Li, Xinjian
name: Szurley, Joseph
name: Kolter, J. Zico
name: Metze, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Voice Assistants (VAs) such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant rely on wake-word detection to respond to people's commands, which could potentially be vulnerable to audio adversarial examples. In this work, we target our attack on the wake-word detection system, jamming the model with some inconspicuous background music to deactivate the VAs while our audio adversary is present. We implemented an emulated wake-word detection system of Amazon Alexa based on recent publications. We validated our models against the real Alexa in terms of wake-word detection accuracy. Then we computed our audio adversaries with consideration of expectation over transform and we implemented our audio adversary with a differentiable synthesizer. Next, we verified our audio adversaries digitally on hundreds of samples of utterances collected from the real world. Our experiments show that we can effectively reduce the recognition F1 score of our emulated model from 93.4% to 11.0%. Finally, we tested our audio adversary over the air, and verified it works effectively against Alexa, reducing its F1 score from 92.5% to 11.0%.; We also verified that non-adversarial music does not disable Alexa as effectively as our music at the same sound level. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first real-world adversarial attack against a commercial-grade VA wake-word detection system. Our code and demo videos can be accessed at \url{https://www.junchengbillyli.com/AdversarialMusic}
description: 9 pages, In Proceedings of NeurIPS 2019 Conference
SURUNKАLI SАLPINGOOFORIT BILАN KАSАLLАNGАN REPRODUKTIV YOSHDАGI АYOLLАRDА OVАRIАL ZАXIRА HOLАTINI O'RGANISH
Creators: name: Usmonova, Gavxaroy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Tuxumdon zahirasi  - tuxumdonlarning urug'lanishga qodir bo'lgan etuk oositlarni ishlab chiqarish qobiliyati. Tuxumdonlar zahirasining kamayishi ayollarning tug'ilishiga ta'sir qiluvchi asosiy omillardan biridir. Surunkali salpingo-ooforit  uzoq muddatli yallig'lanish kasalligi bo'lib, bachadon qo'shimchalariga, shu jumladan tuxumdonlar va fallop naychalariga ta'sir qiladi. Bu holat, ayniqsa, o'z vaqtida tashxis qo'yilmasa va to'g'ri davolanmasa, ayolning sog'lig'i va tug'ilishiga sezilarli ta'sir ko'rsatishi mumkin.
Annihilation range and final-state interaction in the antiproton-proton annihilation into pi-pi+
Creators: name: El-Bennich, Bruno
name: Kloet, W. M
name: Loiseau, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large set of accurate data on differential cross section and analyzing power from the CERN LEAR experiment on $\bar pp \to π^+π^-$ in the range from 360 to 1550 MeV/c is well reproduced within a distorted wave approximation approach. The initial $\bar pp$ scattering wave functions originate from a recent $\bar N N$ model. The transition operator is obtained from a combination of the $^3P_0$ and $^3S_1$ quark-antiquark annihilation mechanisms. A good fit to the data, in particular the reproduction of the double dip structure observed in the analyzing powers, requires quark wave functions for proton, antiproton, and pions with radii slightly larger than the respective measured charge radii. This corresponds to an increase in range of the annihilation mechanisms and consequently the amplitudes for total angular momentum J=2 and higher are much larger than in previous approaches. The final state $ππ$ wave functions, parameterized in terms of $ππ$ phase shifts and inelasticities, are also a very important ingredient for the fine tuning of the fit to the observables.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures (Revtex 4), revised version with one additional figure. Accepted for publication in PRC
Speeding-up Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics with Hybrid Functionals using Adaptively Compressed Exchange Operator based Multiple Timestepping
Creators: name: Mandal, Sagarmoy
name: Nair, Nisanth N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations using hybrid density functionals and plane waves are of great interest owing to the accuracy of this approach in treating condensed matter systems. On the other hand, such AIMD calculations are not routinely carried out since the computational cost involved in applying the Hartree Fock exchange operator is very high. In this work, we make use of a strategy that combines adaptively compressed exchange operator formulation and multiple time step integration to significantly reduce the computational cost of these simulations. We demonstrate the efficiency of this approach for a realistic condensed matter system.
|Vcb|, |Vub|, and Hqet at Cleo
Creators: name: Ecklund, Karl M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I report results from the CLEO collaboration on semileptonic B decays, highlighting measurements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements Vcb and Vub. I describe the techniques used to obtain the recent improvements in precision for these measurements, including the use of the b -> s gamma photon spectrum to reduce hadronic uncertainties in semileptonic B decays. I also report new measurements of Vcb using the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction BF(B -> X e nu) and of Vub through study of the q^2 dependence of B -> pi l nu and B -> rho l nu.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, uses svjour.cls, submitted to Proceedings of EPS 2003
Probing the magnetism of topological end-states in 5-armchair graphene nanoribbons
Creators: name: Lawrence, James
name: Brandimarte, Pedro
name: Berdonces, Alejandro
name: Mohammed, Mohammed S. G.
name: Grewal, Abhishek
name: Leon, Christopher C.
name: Sanchez-Portal, Daniel
name: de Oteyza, Dimas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extensively characterize the electronic structure of ultra-narrow graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with armchair edges and zig-zag termini that have 5 carbon atoms across their width (5-AGNRs), as synthesised on Au(111). Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy measurements on the ribbons, recorded on both the metallic substrate and a decoupling NaCl layer, show well-defined dispersive bands and in-gap states. In combination with theoretical calculations, we show how these in-gap states are topological in nature and localised at the zig-zag termini of the nanoribbons. Besides rationalising the driving force behind the topological class selection of 5-AGNRs, we also uncover the length-dependent behaviour of these end states which transition from singly occupied spin-split states to a closed-shell form as the ribbons become shorter. Finally, we demonstrate the magnetic character of the end states via transport experiments in a model two-terminal device structure in which the ribbons are suspended between the scanning probe and the substrate that both act as leads.
D-Box: DMA-enabled Compartmentalization for Embedded Applications
Creators: name: Mera, Alejandro
name: Chen, Yi Hui
name: Sun, Ruimin
name: Kirda, Engin
name: Lu, Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Embedded and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have seen an increase in adoption in many domains. The security of these devices is of great importance as they are often used to control critical infrastructure, medical devices, and vehicles. Existing solutions to isolate microcontroller (MCU) resources in order to increase their security face significant challenges such as specific hardware unavailability, Memory Protection Unit (MPU) limitations and a significant lack of Direct Memory Access (DMA) support. Nevertheless, DMA is fundamental for the power and performance requirements of embedded applications. In this paper, we present D-Box, a systematic approach to enable secure DMA operations for compartmentalization solutions of embedded applications using real-time operating systems (RTOS). D-Box defines a reference architecture and a workflow to protect DMA operations holistically. It provides practical methods to harden the kernel and define capability-based security policies for easy definition of DMA operations with strong security properties. We implemented a D-Box prototype for the Cortex-M3/M4 on top of the popular FreeRTOS-MPU (F-MPU). The D-Box procedures and a stricter security model enabled DMA operations, yet it exposed 41 times less ROP (return-orienting-programming) gadgets when compared with the standard F-MPU. D-Box adds only a 2% processor overhead while reducing the power consumption of peripheral operation benchmarks by 18.2%. The security properties and performance of D-Box were tested and confirmed on a real-world case study of a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) application.
description: Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022
Recent CLEO CKM Results
Creators: name: Ecklund, Karl M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I report B physics results from the CLEO collaboration, highlighting measurements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements |Vcb| and |Vub|. I report a recent measurement of |Vub| through study of the q^2 dependence of B -> pi l nu and B -> rho l nu. I also describe new measurements of the inclusive semileptonic branching fraction BF(B -> X e nu) and of moments of the hadronic invariant mass spectrum in B -> X l nu, with impact on |Vcb|.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Proceedings of Beauty 2003
title: Analysing curriculum development as an activity system
title: A study based in English universities
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Burke, Anthony
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: This study is concerned with the curriculum development process at English universities. The underlying premise for the study is that the challenges of curriculum development can only be fully understood by viewing the process holistically. An extensive literature review identifies the key influences on curriculum development and the sources that guide course design. The review shows that curriculum development is a highly complex process involving multiple parties. Much of the literature in this field focuses either on conceptualisations of the curriculum or on the mechanics of the curriculum process. A theoretical framework based on cultural-historical activity theory is presented as a means of locating curriculum development in its broader social context. Interviews were conducted at twelve English universities and the data was analysed by framing curriculum development as an activity system. The analysis identifies inherent structural tensions in the system and considers the implications of those tensions. The study concludes that activity system analysis provides a valuable tool in analysing curriculum development holistically. The findings suggest that universities need to foster a deeper understanding of curriculum development and to take a more strategic approach to integrating the contributions of the parties involved.
MOESM2 of Anti-HIV-1 protease activity of the crude extracts and isolated compounds from Auricularia polytricha
Creators: name: Chanin Sillapachaiyaporn
name: Nilkhet, Sunita
name: Ung, Alison
name: Siriporn Chuchawankul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 2: Table S1 List of hydrolysed products and their corresponding fatty acids of F1 hydrolysis from GC-MS analysis.
New Relations for Excited Baryons in Large N_c QCD
Creators: name: Cohen, Thomas D.
name: Lebed, Richard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that excited baryons in large N_c QCD form multiplets, within which masses are first split at O(1/N_c). The dominant couplings of resonances to various mesons are highly constrained: The N(1535) decays at leading 1/N_c order exclusively to eta-N rather than pi-N, and vice versa for the N(1650). This multiplet structure is reproduced by a simple large N_c quark model, well studied in the literature, that describes resonances as single-quark excitations.
description: 4 pages, no figures, ReVTeX 4. Includes new discussion of previous work on excited baryon towers
Polarimetric Radar Cross-Sections of Pedestrians at Automotive Radar Frequencies
Creators: name: Deep, Yoshana
name: Held, Patrick
name: Ram, Shobha Sundar
name: Steinhauser, Dagmar
name: Gupta, Anshu
name: Gruson, Frank
name: Koch, Andreas
name: Roy, Anirban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Simulation of radar cross-sections (RCS) of pedestrians at automotive radar frequencies forms a key tool for software verification test beds for advanced driver assistance systems. Two commonly used simulation methods are: the computationally simple scattering center model of dynamic humans; and the shooting and bouncing ray technique based on geometric optics. The latter technique is more accurate but due to its computational complexity, it is usually used only for modeling scattered returns of still human poses. In this work, we combine the two methods in a linear regression framework to accurately estimate the scattering coefficients or reflectivies of point scatterers in a realistic automotive radar signal model which we subsequently use to simulate range-time, Doppler-time and range-Doppler radar signatures. The simulated signatures show a normalized mean square error below 10% and a structural similarity above $81\%$ with respect to measurement results generated with an automotive radar at 77 GHz.
description: 10 pages
Eating More Sustainably by Trimming off the Excess—What About Discretionary Food?
Creators: name: Hadjikakou, M
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 2016

description: The notion of sustainable food consumption has acquired a broader definition in recent years: as the incidence of obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases rises, “sustainable” consumption has come to refer to not only planetary health but also human health. The food sustainability debate has thus far centered largely on reducing red meat consumption. However, this paper argues that we cannot seek to align health and environmental objectives without considering the role of discretionary food, defined as foods and drinks not necessary to provide the nutrients the body needs, such as soft drinks and sweets. These foods are typically highly processed and high in sodium, sugar, and saturated fat, and while their negative impacts on health are well documented, their broader environmental sustainability impacts deserve more attention. This is particularly true given that their affordability and palatability is a result of a food system that aggressively promotes the overconsumption of such products. The paper combines unique nutrition and expenditure data from Australia, including a detailed classification of discretionary products, along with environmentally extended input-output analysis to estimate the life cycle environmental impacts of discretionary food consumption across diverse socioeconomic groups. The novelty of the approach lies first in a multi-indicator approach to measuring sustainability, simultaneously taking into account water use, energy use, carbon dioxide equivalent, and land use. Second, the approach accounts for equity considerations and distinguishes, on the basis of dietary intake, whether discretionary foods can be simply eliminated (excess consumption) or require substitution. The latter is typically the case for poorer socioeconomic groups who are currently malnourished because discretionary food has replaced core foods. On average, discretionary foods account for a significant 30 to 40% of overall diet-related water use, energy use, carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, and land use, although these percentages vary depending on the types and quantities of foods consumed by each socioeconomic group. These results suggest that a reduction in the production and consumption of discretionary foods should be seen as an essential priority for a sustainable food system. We should continue to explore ways to encourage reduced discretionary food consumption, but more importantly, we should also consider proactively reducing production. A general call for divestment away from such food products, which are harmful to health and create an unnecessary burden on the environment,
description: International Society for Ecology Economics (ISEE) 2016 - Transforming the Economy Sustaining Food, Water, Energy and Justice; Washington D.C; 2016-06-26 - 2016-06-29
Systolic freedom of loop space
Creators: name: Katz, Mikhail G.
name: Suciu, Alexander I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C23 (Primary); 55Q15 (Secondary)

description: Given a pair of integers m and n such that 1 < m < n, we show that every n-dimensional manifold admits metrics of arbitrarily small total volume, and possessing the following property: every m-dimensional submanifold of less than unit m-volume is necessarily torsion in homology. This result is different from the case of a pair of complementary dimensions, for which a direct geometric construction works and gives the analogous theorem in complete generality. In the present paper, we use Sullivan's telescope model for the rationalisation of a space to observe systolic freedom.
description: This is an updated version of the published paper
Spatially resolved spectroscopy of the debris disk HD 32297: Further evidence of small dust grains
Creators: name: Bhowmik, T.
name: Boccaletti, A.
name: Thébault, P.
name: Kral, Q.
name: Mazoyer, J.
name: Milli, J.
name: Maire, A. L.
name: van Holstein, R. G.
name: Augereau, J. -C.
name: Baudoz, P.
name: Feldt, M.
name: Galicher, R.
name: Henning, T.
name: Lagrange, A. -M.
name: Olofsson, J.
name: Pantin, E.
name: Perrot, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectro-photometry of debris disks in total intensity and polarimetry can provide new insight into the properties of the dust grains therein (size distribution and optical properties). We aim to constrain the morphology of the highly inclined debris disk HD 32297. We also intend to obtain spectroscopic and polarimetric measurements to retrieve information on the particle size distribution within the disk for certain grain compositions. We observed HD 32297 with SPHERE in Y, J, and H bands in total intensity and in J band in polarimetry. The observations are compared to synthetic models of debris disks and we developed methods to extract the photometry in total intensity overcoming the data-reduction artifacts, namely the self-subtraction. The spectro-photometric measurements averaged along the disk mid-plane are then compared to model spectra of various grain compositions. These new images reveal the very inner part of the system as close as 0.15". The disk image is mostly dominated by the forward scattering making one side (half-ellipse) of the disk more visible, but observations in total intensity are deep enough to also detect the back side for the very first time. The images as well as the surface brightness profiles of the disk rule out the presence of a gap as previously proposed. We do not detect any significant asymmetry between the northeast and southwest sides of the disk. The spectral reflectance features a "gray to blue" color which is interpreted as the presence of grains far below the blowout size. The presence of sub-micron grains in the disk is suspected to be the result of gas drag and/or "avalanche mechanisms". The blue color of the disk could be further investigated with additional total intensity and polarimetric observations in K and H bands respectively to confirm the spectral slope and the fraction of polarization.
An investigation on the effect of pigments on the texture ability and mechanical properties of polypropylene BCF yarns
Creators: name: Ghasem Bagheri
name: Tavanai, Hossein
name: Ghiaci, Mehran
name: Morshed, Mohammad
name: Shamsabadi, Amir Shahin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In this work, the effect of five pigments on the mechanical and texturing properties of polypropylene BCF yarns has been investigated. The results showed that depending on the type, pigments may have a significant decreasing or increasing effect on the mechanical properties of polypropylene BCF yarns, although some of these differences may not be practically significant. As far as the bulk properties of the BCF yarns are concerned, a trend could not be established for the effect of pigments on crimp contraction and crimp modulus, but increasing the amount of pigments decreased the crimp stability of all BCF yarns. XRD and DSC analyses showed that the addition of pigments decreased the crystallinity index of the yarns depending on the type of pigment. DSC analysis showed a higher onset melting point after adding pigments with the exception of white one. FTIR spectra show no considerable reaction or interaction between polypropylene and the pigments employed in the masterbatch.
Examining and Mitigating the Impact of Crossbar Non-idealities for Accurate Implementation of Sparse Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Abhiroop
name: Bhatnagar, Lakshya
name: Panda, Priyadarshini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently several structured pruning techniques have been introduced for energy-efficient implementation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with lesser number of crossbars. Although, these techniques have claimed to preserve the accuracy of the sparse DNNs on crossbars, none have studied the impact of the inexorable crossbar non-idealities on the actual performance of the pruned networks. To this end, we perform a comprehensive study to show how highly sparse DNNs, that result in significant crossbar-compression-rate, can lead to severe accuracy losses compared to unpruned DNNs mapped onto non-ideal crossbars. We perform experiments with multiple structured-pruning approaches (such as, C/F pruning, XCS and XRS) on VGG11 and VGG16 DNNs with benchmark datasets (CIFAR10 and CIFAR100). We propose two mitigation approaches - Crossbar column rearrangement and Weight-Constrained-Training (WCT) - that can be integrated with the crossbar-mapping of the sparse DNNs to minimize accuracy losses incurred by the pruned models. These help in mitigating non-idealities by increasing the proportion of low conductance synapses on crossbars, thereby improving their computational accuracies.
description: Accepted in Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, 2022
Characterising the surface magnetic fields of T Tauri stars with high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy
Creators: name: Lavail, Alexis
name: Kochukhov, Oleg
name: Hussain, Gaitee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to characterise the surface magnetic fields of a sample of 8 T Tauri stars from high-resolution near-IR spectroscopy. Some stars in our sample are known to be magnetic from previous spectroscopic or spectropolarimetric studies. Our goals are 1) to apply Zeeman broadening modelling to T Tauri stars with high-resolution data, 2) to expand the sample of stars with measured surface magnetic field strengths, 3) to investigate possible rotational or long-term magnetic variability by comparing spectral time series of given targets, and 4) to compare the magnetic field modulus  tracing small-scale magnetic fields to those of large-scale magnetic fields derived by Stokes V Zeeman Doppler Imaging. We modelled the Zeeman broadening of magnetically sensitive spectral lines in the near-IR K-band from high-resolution spectra by using magnetic spectrum synthesis based on realistic model atmospheres and by using different descriptions of the surface magnetic field. We developped a Bayesian framework that selects the complexity of the magnetic field prescription based on the information contained in the data. We obtain individual magnetic field measurements for each star in our sample using four different models. We find that the Bayesian Model 4 performs best in the range of magnetic fields measured on the sample (from 1.5 kG to 4.4 kG). We do not detect a strong rotational variation of  with a mean peak-to-peak variation of 0.3 kG. Our confidence intervals are of the same order of magnitude, which suggests that the Zeeman broadening is produced by a small-scale magnetic field homogeneously distributed over stellar surfaces. A comparison of our results with mean large-scale magnetic field measurements from Stokes V ZDI show different fractions of mean field strength being recovered, from 25-42% for relatively simple poloidal axisymmetric field topologies to 2-11% for more complex fields.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Imaging dark charge emitters in diamond via carrier-to-photon conversion
Creators: name: Lozovoi, Artur
name: Vizkelethy, Gyorgy
name: Bielejec, Edward
name: Meriles, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of color centers in wide-bandgap semiconductors to nanoscale sensing and quantum information processing largely rests on our knowledge of the surrounding crystalline lattice, often obscured by the countless classes of point defects the material can host. Here we monitor the fluorescence from a negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) center in diamond as we illuminate its vicinity. Cyclic charge state conversion of neighboring point defects sensitive to the excitation beam leads to a position-dependent stream of photo-generated carriers whose capture by the probe NV- leads to a fluorescence change. This "charge-to-photon" conversion scheme allows us to image other individual point defects surrounding the probe NV, including non-fluorescent "single-charge emitters" that would otherwise remain unnoticed. Given the ubiquity of color center photo-chromism, this strategy may likely find extensions to material systems other than diamond.
Casimir Energies due to Matter Fields in $T^{2}$ and $T^{2}/Z_{2}$ Compactifications
Creators: name: Ito, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the Casimir energies due to matter fields with various boundary conditions along two compact directions in $T^{2}$ compactification. We discuss whether the Casimir energies generate attractive or repulsive forces. On the theories with extra dimensions, the Casimir energy plays a crucial role in the mechanism for stabilizing the size of extra dimensions. Finally we argue a procedure of the application to $Z_{2}$ orbifold.
description: 17 pages, no figure, title modified, to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
An Overview of the Status of Cattle Tick Boophilus microplus in Queensland
Creators: name: Davis, Rex
name: Davis, Rex
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: cattle tick
subject: Queensland
subject: Boophilus microplus

description: The common cattle tick Boophilus microplus has been a major economic pest to cattle producers in the tick-infested area of Queensland since its arrival from Java in 1872. Boophilus microplus affects cattle directly by reducing potential yield and indirectly through the transmission of blood parasites. Estimates by the Cattle Tick Commission (1973) placed the total cost of control and lost production caused by Boophilus microplus at approximately $33 million per annum (approximately $183 million in 1995 dollar terms). The long-standing policy of the Queensland Government towards the cattle tick is the maintenance of a ‘tick-line’ which divides Queensland into tick-free and tick-infested (ticky) areas. Regulations apply to the movement of cattle from the tick-infested to the tick free areas. This policy has been developed on a historical rather than economic basis and no real analysis of the costs and benefits of the current regulatory stance has been undertaken. In recent years, however, a range of issues have emerged which have elements within the cattle industry and government questioning the long-term effectiveness of the current tick control strategies and regulations. These issues include: • increased levels of resistance to the current stock of pesticides and the lack of development of new chemical compounds designed to treat Boophilus microplus; • chemical residues in Queensland beef being found in the United States and Japan and the possibility of Queensland beef products being excluded from key export markets; and • changing demands in the domestic and international markets for beef and greater productivity in the face of present and potential competitors in key export markets. This paper presents a review of the status of the cattle-tick in Queensland and identifies issues that need to be addressed and quantified in order to evaluate the economic consequences of the current tick regulations. It also examines the issues involved in developing alternative strategies, such as the removal of the tick-line or eradication of ticks.
Shaping Magnetite Nanoparticles from First-principles
Creators: name: Liu, Hongsheng
name: Di Valentin, Cristiana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are stimuli-responsive materials at the forefront of nanomedicine. Their realistic finite temperature simulations are a formidable challenge for first-principles methods. Here, we use density functional tight binding to open up the required time and length scales and obtain global minimum structures of Fe3O4 NPs of realistic size (1400 atoms, 2.5 nm) and of different shapes, which we then refine with hybrid density functional theory methods to accomplish proper electronic and magnetic properties, which have never been accurately described in simulations. On this basis, we develop a general empirical formula and prove its predictive power for the evaluation of the total magnetic moment of Fe3O4 NPs. By converting the total magnetic moment into the macroscopic saturation magnetization, we rationalize the experimentally observed dependence with shape. We also reveal interesting reconstruction mechanisms and unexpected patterns of charge ordering.
On the resolution of the sensitivity conjecture
Creators: name: Karthikeyan, Rohan
name: Sinha, Siddharth
name: Patil, Vallabh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68R10, 05C35, 05-02 (Primary) 68Q17, 94C10, 41A10, 42A16, 05E05, 15A24 (Secondary)

description: The Sensitivity Conjecture is a long-standing problem in theoretical computer science that seeks to fit the sensitivity of a Boolean function into a unified framework formed by the other complexity measures of Boolean functions, such as block sensitivity and certificate complexity. After more than thirty years of attacks on this Conjecture, Hao Huang (2019) gave a very succinct proof of the Conjecture. In this survey, we explore the ideas that inspired the proof of this Conjecture by an exposition of four papers that had the most impact on the Conjecture. We also discuss progress on further research directions that the Conjecture leads us to.
description: 25 pages; added new section on open problems, typos corrected, submitted for publication
DAHANCA 33: functional image-guided dose-escalated radiotherapy to patients with hypoxic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (NCT02976051)
Creators: name: M. Saksø
name: H. Primdahl
name: J. Johansen
name: K. Nowicka-Matus
name: J. Overgaard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: DAHANCA 33: functional image-guided dose-escalated radiotherapy to patients with hypoxic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (NCT02976051)
A Review of the Economics of Controlling Diseases in Livestock and the Modelling of Control Policies
Creators: name: Murphy, Thomas
name: Murphy, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Foot and mouth disease
subject: Thailand
subject: control of livestock disease

description: International health organisations point to the need to improve the efficiency of prevention, control and eradication programs for animal diseases. In order to achieve this and justify national and international support it has become essential to apply techniques of economic analysis (Ellis, 1993). A review of the literature indicates that techniques of economic analysis such as cost benefit analysis and simulation modelling are commonly applied in assessment of disease control programs. It is argued however that such applications fail to satisfy the principles of optimal economic analysis. It is suggested in this paper that Mathematical programming techniques in principle help determine optimality better than competing techniques, appropriately integrating economics and epidemiology into the analysis. This paper will provide a review of the economics of controlling diseases in livestock and outline the possible application of optimal control modelling to assessing disease control policies. This review and application will be conducted with special reference to foot-and-mouth disease in Thailand.
Additional file 1 of Weak faults at megathrust plate boundary respond to tidal stress
Creators: name: Tonegawa, Takashi
name: Kimura, Toshinori
name: Shiraishi, Kazuya
name: Yabe, Suguru
name: Fukao, Yoshio
name: Araki, Eiichiro
name: Kinoshita, Masataka
name: Sanada, Yoshinori
name: Miura, Seiichi
name: Nakamura, Yasuyuki
name: Kodaira, Shuichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Parameters for Chikyu on November 20, 2018. a Temporal variation of depth of the drill-bit from the sea surface. The water depth is around 2,000 m. b Temporal variation of RPM (rotation per minute). c Schematic for the geometry of two sensors, drill-bit, and the stationary zones. Figure S2. Transverse-deconvolved waveforms (TDWs) at each OBS. (a–e) Same as Figures 4b and CC in 4d, but for a OBS01, b OBS02, c OBS04, d OBS05, and e OBS06. Figure S3. Location of the center position of Chikyu and the stability of the TDWs. a Dots indicate the center position of Chikyu, which are the same as those in Fig. 2c. Red circle represents the radius of 1 m from the central location of dots. Regions are divided into eight regions; A: 1 quadrant inside 1 m, B: 2 quadrant inside 1 m, C: 3 quadrant inside 1 m, D: 4 quadrant inside 1 m, E: 1 quadrant outside 1 m, F: 2 quadrant outside 1 m, G: 3 quadrant outside 1 m, H: 4 quadrant outside 1 m. b Histogram for the Chikyu positions in the four-quadrant. The position was measured at each minute, and the number of 1-min segment during 1–57 Julian days in 2019 was counted. c (top) Waveforms at OBS03 in which the TDWs are stacked during 1–57 Julian days when the Chikyu is located in the region (black) A, (red) B, (blue) C, and (light-blue) D. (bottom) Same as the top panel, but for the region (black) E, (red) F, (blue) G, and (light-blue) H. Figure S4. Envelope functions at high and low tide. a Same as Fig. 6a, with uncertainties in pink and gray lines for the other OBSs. Arrows indicate large amplitudes at high tide at lag times between 5.5 and 7.5 s. b Same as Fig. 6b, but for OBS06.
A Decomposition and Metric-Based Evaluation Framework for Microservices
Creators: name: Taibi, Davide
name: Systä, Kari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Migrating from monolithic systems into microservice is a very complex task. Companies are commonly decomposing the monolithic system manually, analyzing dependencies of the monolith and then assessing different decomposition options. The goal of our work is two-folded: 1) we provide a microservice measurement framework to objectively evaluate and compare the quality of microservices-based systems; 2) we propose a decomposition system based on business process mining. The microservice measurement framework can be applied independently from the decomposition process adopted, but is also useful to continuously evaluate the architectural evolution of a system. Results show that the decomposition framework helps companies to easily identify the different decomposition options. The measurement framework can help to decrease the subjectivity of the decision between different decomposition options and to evaluate architectural erosion in existing systems.
Optimal Livestock Disease Control Models and Their Possible Application to Thailand
Creators: name: Murphy, Thomas
name: Murphy, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Foot and Mouth disease
subject: Thailand
subject: livestock disease
subject: disease control

description: There is an increasing focus on disease control programs in developing countries such as Thailand and a growing use of techniques of economic analysis to assist in optimal policy on disease- control. In Thailand, while national vaccination programs have been applied, maintenance of disease free zones in the south and central regions is becoming an increasingly important objective given recent changes in international trade protocol. While several economic assessment techniques can be applied to evaluate disease control programs (Murphy 1996b), this paper will provides a simple bio-economic model that integrates deterministic epidemiological modelling with economic optimising techniques. The model attempts to highlight important economic considerations in the optimal control of FMD within a zoning framework. However as outlined in Murphy (1996b), while this approach provides a useful conceptual framework for determining optimal economic conditions, it is limited in its direct application particularly to national control programs. It is in this framework that cost-benefit approaches, despite their inability to provide essentially optimal solutions, are better able to attribute values to such factors as shadow prices and incorporate the distributional welfare issues associated with national control programs.
Chiral four-dimensional string compactifications with intersecting D-branes
Creators: name: Uranga, Angel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the construction of chiral four-dimensional compactifications of type IIA string theory with intersecting D6-branes. Such models lead to four-dimensional theories with non-abelian gauge interactions and charged chiral fermions. We discuss the application of these techniques to building of models with spectrum as close as possible to the Standard Model, and review their main phenomenological properties. We also emphasize the advantages/disadvantages of carrying out this idea using supersymmetric of non-supersymmetric models.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the TMR meeting `The quantum structure of spacetime', Leuven, September 2002