cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Curriculum learning for data-driven modeling of dynamical systems
Creators: name: Bucci, Alessandro
name: Semeraro, Onofrio
name: Allauzen, Alexandre
name: Chibbaro, Sergio
name: Mathelin, Lionel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reliable prediction of the temporal behavior of complex systems is key in numerous scientific fields. This strong interest is however hindered by modeling issues: often, the governing equations describing the physics of the system under consideration are not accessible or, if known, their solution might require a computational time incompatible with the prediction time constraints. Not surprisingly, approximating complex systems in a generic functional format and informing it ex-nihilo from available observations has become common practice in the age of machine learning, as illustrated by the numerous successful examples based on deep neural networks. However, generalizability of the models, margins of guarantee and the impact of data are often overlooked or examined mainly by relying on prior knowledge of the physics. We tackle these issues from a different viewpoint, by adopting a curriculum learning strategy. In curriculum learning, the dataset is structured such that the training process starts from simple samples towards more complex ones in order to favor convergence and generalization. The concept has been developed and successfully applied in robotics and control of systems. Here, we apply this concept for the learning of complex dynamical systems in a systematic way. First, leveraging insights from the ergodic theory, we assess the amount of data sufficient for a-priori guaranteeing a faithful model of the physical system and thoroughly investigate the impact of the training set and its structure on the quality of long-term predictions. Based on that, we consider entropy as a metric of complexity of the dataset; we show how an informed design of the training set based on the analysis of the entropy significantly improves the resulting models in terms of generalizability, and provide insights on the amount and the choice of data required for an effective data-driven modeling.
Creating the therapeutic reality : an ethnographic account of an outpatient therapeutic community at a university psychiatric hospital
Creators: name: Brown, John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis is an ethnographic account of the daily life of an outpatient centre for the treatment of non-psychotic patients. The centre is located in a university setting and is nominally attached to a university mental hospital. The setting is described and the case is made that it normally allows for only two categories of participant: patients and therapists. The situated activity of these two groups in structuring the setting is a major focus of the work. The roles embodied in the two categories are described in detail and the way in which these roles interlock to create the social reality that is understood by the participants as a "therapeutic community" is set out. A belief system which is embedded in, and a determinant of each role is proposed. The practice of "doing therapy" is described and a preliminary formulation of this practice as a situated activity which depends on the social structure of the setting is attempted. A section which describes the observer's experiences in the setting is included as an appendix. It is argued that because the setting allows for only two classes of participant, the observer role is seen as deviant and that this leads to mistrust on the part of both sets of participants.
Privacy-preserving and Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing using Distributed Ledgers
Creators: name: Ali, Hisham
name: Papadopoulos, Pavlos
name: Ahmad, Jawad
name: Pitropakis, Nikolaos
name: Jaroucheh, Zakwan
name: Buchanan, William J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Threat information sharing is considered as one of the proactive defensive approaches for enhancing the overall security of trusted partners. Trusted partner organizations can provide access to past and current cybersecurity threats for reducing the risk of a potential cyberattack - the requirements for threat information sharing range from simplistic sharing of documents to threat intelligence sharing. Therefore, the storage and sharing of highly sensitive threat information raises considerable concerns regarding constructing a secure, trusted threat information exchange infrastructure. Establishing a trusted ecosystem for threat sharing will promote the validity, security, anonymity, scalability, latency efficiency, and traceability of the stored information that protects it from unauthorized disclosure. This paper proposes a system that ensures the security principles mentioned above by utilizing a distributed ledger technology that provides secure decentralized operations through smart contracts and provides a privacy-preserving ecosystem for threat information storage and sharing regarding the MITRE ATT\&CK framework.
How school policies, strategies, and relational factors contribute to teacher victimization and school safety
Creators: name: Reddy, Linda A.
name: Capp, Gordon P.
name: Wu, Chaoyue
name: Martinez, Andrew
name: McMahon, Susan D.
name: Astor, Ron Avi
name: Anderman, Eric M.
name: Worrell, Frank C.
name: Benbenishty, Rami
name: Espelage, Dorothy L.
name: Watson, Kate R.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023

description:
In this study, we examined how school policies and strategies (i.e., positive discipline, hardening strategies, and positive behavioral strategies) affect teacher relational factors and teacher reports of victimization and safety. Specifically, we examined the mediational roles of teacher support of student learning, maltreatment of students by teachers, and teachers' differential treatment of students in schools. Using a sample of 6643 pre-K-12th-grade teachers, path analysis results revealed that positive behavior strategies, hardening strategies, and positive discipline were indirectly associated with teacher victimization and sense of safety. Additionally, teachers' perceptions of other teachers maltreating students had the greatest contributions to their sense of safety and victimization by students. Positive discipline was directly and indirectly associated with teacher victimization and safety. Implications and directions for future studies are discussed.
Prospects for detecting axionlike particles at the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills experiment
Creators: name: Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A.
name: Alves, D. S. M.
name: Biedron, S.
name: Boissevain, J.
name: Borrego, M.
name: Bugel, L.
name: Chavez-Estrada, M.
name: Conrad, J. M.
name: Cooper, R. L.
name: Diaz, A.
name: Distel, J. R.
name: D'Olivo, J. C.
name: Dunton, E.
name: Dutta, B.
name: Fields, D.
name: Gochanour, J. R.
name: Gold, M.
name: Guardincerri, E.
name: Huang, E. C.
name: Kamp, N.
name: Kim, D.
name: Knickerbocker, K.
name: Louis, W. C.
name: Lyles, J. T. M.
name: Mahapatra, R.
name: Maludze, S.
name: Mirabal, J.
name: Mishra, N.
name: Newmark, D.
name: deNiverville, P.
name: Pandey, V.
name: Poulson, D.
name: Ray, H.
name: Renner, E.
name: Schaub, T. J.
name: Schneider, A.
name: Shaevitz, M. H.
name: Smith, D.
name: Sondheim, W.
name: Szelc, A. M.
name: Taylor, C.
name: Thompson, A.
name: Thompson, W. H.
name: Tripathi, M.
name: Thornton, R. T.
name: Van Berg, R.
name: Van de Water, R. G.
name: Verma, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show results from the Coherent CAPTAIN Mills (CCM) 2019 engineering run which begin to constrain regions of parameter space for axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in electromagnetic particle showers in an 800 MeV proton beam dump, and further investigate the sensitivity of ongoing data-taking campaigns for the CCM200 upgraded detector. Based on beam-on background estimates from the engineering run, we make realistic extrapolations for background reduction based on expected shielding improvements, reduced beam width, and analysis-based techniques for background rejection. We obtain reach projections for two classes of signatures; ALPs coupled primarily to photons can be produced in the tungsten target via the Primakoff process, and then produce a gamma-ray signal in the Liquid Argon (LAr) CCM detector either via inverse Primakoff scattering or decay to a photon pair. ALPs with significant electron couplings have several additional production mechanisms (Compton scattering, $e^+e^-$ annihilation, ALP-bremsstrahlung) and detection modes (inverse Compton scattering, external $e^+e^-$ pair conversion, and decay to $e^+e^-$). In some regions, the constraint is marginally better than both astrophysical and terrestrial constraints. With the beginning of a three year run, CCM will be more sensitive to this parameter space by up to an order of magnitude for both ALP-photon and ALP-electron couplings. The CCM experiment will also have sensitivity to well-motivated parameter space of QCD axion models. It is only a recent realization that accelerator-based large volume liquid argon detectors designed for low energy coherent neutrino and dark matter scattering searches are also ideal for probing ALPs in the unexplored $\sim$MeV mass scale.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D, in production
Initiative Defense against Facial Manipulation
Creators: name: Huang, Qidong
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Zhou, Wenbo
name: WeimingZhang
name: Yu, Nenghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Benefiting from the development of generative adversarial networks (GAN), facial manipulation has achieved significant progress in both academia and industry recently. It inspires an increasing number of entertainment applications but also incurs severe threats to individual privacy and even political security meanwhile. To mitigate such risks, many countermeasures have been proposed. However, the great majority methods are designed in a passive manner, which is to detect whether the facial images or videos are tampered after their wide propagation. These detection-based methods have a fatal limitation, that is, they only work for ex-post forensics but can not prevent the engendering of malicious behavior. To address the limitation, in this paper, we propose a novel framework of initiative defense to degrade the performance of facial manipulation models controlled by malicious users. The basic idea is to actively inject imperceptible venom into target facial data before manipulation. To this end, we first imitate the target manipulation model with a surrogate model, and then devise a poison perturbation generator to obtain the desired venom. An alternating training strategy are further leveraged to train both the surrogate model and the perturbation generator. Two typical facial manipulation tasks: face attribute editing and face reenactment, are considered in our initiative defense framework. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our framework in different settings. Finally, we hope this work can shed some light on initiative countermeasures against more adversarial scenarios.
description: Accepted at AAAI 2021
Was bringt die NFDI für die Forschung mit Daten in den Sozial-, Verhaltens-, Bildungs- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften?
Creators: name: Strauch-Davey, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdaten
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Bibliotheken
Universitätsbibliotheken
FAIR
FAIR data
Open Science

description: KonsortSWD knüpft an die Arbeiten des Rates für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD) an. Im Rahmen der NFDI wird das Konsortium mit dem RatSWD Strategien und Dienste ausbauen. Dies sind die Präsentationsfolien zum Thema "Was bringt die NFDI für die Forschung mit Daten in den Sozial-, Verhaltens-, Bildungs- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften?"
New tools and applications for genetically engineered insect symbionts
Creators: name: Elston, Katherine Marie
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Symbiosis
subject: Synthetic biology
subject: Genetic engineering
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Insect symbiosis

description: Insects play a broad range of roles in natural ecosystems. They pollinate plants, recycle resources, and spread diseases. One integral component of the biology of many of these insects is the symbiotic bacteria that live inside of them. The relationships between symbionts and their insect hosts are well-studied in model systems like aphids, but despite this work, the ability to study genetic components of these relationships has been lacking. A major factor in this limitation is the deficit of tools that are available for genetically manipulating both non-model bacteria and insect species. In this work, I examine these limitations, along with the possibilities for the study of insect biology and control of insect pests that may arise if we can overcome them (Chapter 1). I develop methods to engineer recently isolated symbionts of aphids (Chapter 2), and fruit flies (Chapter 3). I then adapt these engineered aphid symbionts to try to alter aphid gene expression through symbiont-mediated RNAi (Chapter 4). I conclude with a summary of our results and the implications this work may have for the future of insect symbiont engineering (Chapter 5)
Persistent Hyperpigmented Macules on the Scalp and Face: Answer
Creators: name: Blasiak, Rachel C.
name: Wu, Sam B.
name: Sadeghi, Nakisa B.
name: Miedema, Jayson R.
name: Ziemer, Carolyn M.
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2024

description: Cutaneous AL amyloidosis is characterized by the
deposition of AL amyloid or amyloid-like proteins in the
dermis and subcutis. This rare entity predominantly affects
adults with a mean age of 65 years. Cutaneous AL amyloidosis
is derived from immunoglobulins produced by plasma
cells and distinguished by the deposition of lambda lightchain
amyloid, in contrast to other subtypes of primary cutaneous
amyloidosis (PCA) that originate from cytokeratin.
Although the pathogenesis of cutaneous AL amyloidosis is
unknown, there have been reports of cutaneous amyloidosis
emerging after local trauma or in the presence of immune
dysregulation.
Bioinvasão Marinha: Riscos Ecológicos e Implicações para a Segurança Marítima
Creators: name: Capitâ Cintia, Cardoso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ballast water is essential for the stabilization of ships, ensuring the safety of the vessel,cargo and crew. This practice is crucial for controlling the ship’s draft, keeping the vesselupright and preventing it from listing. Despite its importance for navigation, ballast water isthe main cause of marine bioinvasion. When ships carry ballast water, aquatic organismsare moved from their local communities to new ecosystems, which can result in theintroduction of exotic species that threaten local biodiversity. The global maritime sectortransports a variety of species in its ballast water every day, and this introduction can causeecological imbalances, negatively affecting coastal economic activities. In addition, ballastwater can contain pathogens, posing risks to public health. Awareness of the impacts onmarine ecosystems is essential, as is the development of biocide-free antifouling researchand the implementation of ballast water treatment systems
Spinor matterwave control with nanosecond spin-dependent kicks
Creators: name: Qiu, Liyang
name: Ji, Lingjing
name: Hu, Jiangyong
name: He, Yizun
name: Wang, Yuzhuo
name: Wu, Saijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Significant aspects of advanced quantum technology today rely on rapid control of atomic matterwaves with hyperfine Raman transitions. Unfortunately, efficient Raman excitations are usually accompanied by uncompensated dynamic phases and coherent spin-leakages, preventing accurate and repetitive transfer of recoil momentum to large samples. We provide systematic study to demonstrate that the limitations can be substantially overcame by dynamically programming an adiabatic pulse sequence. Experimentally, counter-propagating frequency-chirped pulses are programmed on an optical delay line to parallelly drive five $Δm=0$ hyperfine Raman transitions of $^{85}$Rb atoms for spin-dependent kick (SDK) within $τ=40$~nanoseconds, with an $f_{\rm SDK}\approx 97.6\%$ inferred fidelity. Aided by numerical modeling, we demonstrate that by alternating the chirps of successive pulses in a balanced fashion, accumulation of non-adiabatic errors including the spin-leakages can be managed, while the dynamic phases can be robustly cancelled. Operating on a phase-stable delay line, the method supports precise, fast, and flexible control of spinor matterwave with efficient Raman excitations.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, improved clarity with substantial revisions
Better Together: Advancing Tobacco Use Treatment and Lung Cancer Screening
Creators: name: Goldstein, Adam O
name: Shoenbill, Kimberly A
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer screening is a critical modality for collaboration
between primary care providers and lung cancer
specialists, including oncologists, pulmonologists, and
thoracic surgeons. Given that lung cancer remains the
second most diagnosed cancer, the leading cause of
cancer death, and that smoking remains the leading
cause of lung cancer, established interventions that increase
lung cancer screening and assist those eligible for
lung cancer screening to quit smoking are essential in
efforts to reduce lung cancer morbidity and mortality.
In 2021, the U.S. Preventive Medicine Task Force updated
its lung cancer screening recommendation to include
adults aged 50 to 80 years with at least a 20-pack year
history of smoking who currently smoke or quit smoking
within the previous 15 years.
Reflection-enhanced gain in traveling-wave parametric amplifiers
Creators: name: Kern, S.
name: Neilinger, P.
name: Iľichev, E.
name: Sultanov, A.
name: Schmelz, M.
name: Linzen, S.
name: Kunert, J.
name: Oelsner, G.
name: Stolz, R.
name: Danilov, A.
name: Mahashabde, S.
name: Jayaraman, A.
name: Antonov, V.
name: Kubatkin, S.
name: Grajcar, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The operating principle of traveling-wave parametric amplifiers is typically understood in terms of the standard coupled mode theory, which describes the evolution of forward propagating waves without any reflections, i.e. for perfect impedance matching. However, in practice, superconducting microwave amplifiers are unmatched nonlinear finite-length devices, where the reflecting waves undergo complex parametric processes, not described by the standard coupled mode theory. Here, we present an analytical solution for the TWPA gain, which includes the interaction of reflected waves. These reflections result in corrections to the well-known results of the standard coupled mode theory, which are obtained for both 3-wave and 4-wave mixing processes. Due to these reflections, gain is enhanced and unwanted nonlinear phase modulations are suppressed. Predictions of the model are experimentally demonstrated on two types of unmatched TWPA, based on coplanar waveguides with a central wire consisting of i) a high kinetic inductance superconductor, and ii) an array of 2000 Josephson junctions.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Friction force on slow charges moving over supported graphene
Creators: name: Allison, K. F.
name: Miskovic, Z. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a theoretical model that describes the dielectric coupling of a 2D layer of graphene, represented by a polarization function in the Random Phase Approximation, and a semi-infinite 3D substrate, represented by a surface response function in a non-local formulation. We concentrate on the role of the dynamic response of the substrate for low-frequency excitations of the combined graphene-substrate system, which give rise to the stopping force on slowly moving charges above graphene. A comparison of the dielectric loss function with experimental HREELS data for graphene on a SiC substrate is used to estimate the damping rate in graphene and to reveal the importance of phonon excitations in an insulating substrate. A signature of the hybridization between graphene's pi plasmon and the substrate's phonon is found in the stopping force. A friction coefficient that is calculated for slow charges moving above graphene on a metallic substrate shows an interplay between the low-energy single-particle excitations in both systems.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Nanotechnology for a special issue related to the NGC 2009 conference (http://asdn.net/ngc2009/index.shtml)
Highlights from STAR: probing the early medium in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present highlights of recent results from the STAR Collaboration at RHIC, focusing on the properties of the early medium created in heavy ion collisions. We emphasize the strangeness production including the observation of a hypernucleus (the hypertriton), the observation of reaction-plane-dependent angular correlation of charged particles searching for local strong parity violation effects in heavy ion collisions, and the evaluation of the medium viscosity from measurements of elliptic flow. We discuss STAR's plan for the "Critical Point Search" program at RHIC.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures, proceedings of the QM2009 talk Minor changes in the texts and format have been done for publication
MOESM14 of A simple and cost-effective method for screening of CRISPR/Cas9-induced homozygous/biallelic mutants
Creators: name: Guo, Jinggong
name: Li, Kun
name: Jin, Lifeng
name: Xu, Rui
name: Miao, Kaiting
name: Yang, Fengbo
name: Qi, Chaoya
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Botella, Jose
name: Wang, Ran
name: Miao, Yuchen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 14: Fig.Â 12. The sequencing and sequences analysis of different transgenic lines of NtPVY.
NeIC Dellingr Project Phase 1 Deliverable 3
Creators: name: Fagerholm, Juha
name: Nikunen, Petri
name: Lindi, Bjorn
name: Malkiewicz, Tomasz
name: Sveinbjörnsson, Hjörleifur
name: Svalgaard-Kohrt, Jens
name: Viðarsson, Máni-Maríus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Dellingr Phase 1 deliverable 3 giving the structural analysis for resource exchange.
Strong [CII] emission at high redshift
Creators: name: Maiolino, R.
name: Caselli, P.
name: Nagao, T.
name: Walmsley, M.
name: De Breuck, C.
name: Meneghetti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of the [CII]157.74um fine-structure line in the lensed galaxy BRI 0952-0115 at z=4.43, using the APEX telescope. This is the first detection of the [CII] line in a source with L_FIR < 10^13 L_sun at high redshift. The line is very strong compared to previous [CII] detections at high-z (a factor of 5-8 higher in flux), partly due to the lensing amplification. The L_[CII]/L_FIR ratio is 10^-2.9, which is higher than observed in local galaxies with similar infrared luminosities. Together with previous observations of [CII] at high redshift, our result suggests that the [CII] emission in high redshift galaxies is enhanced relative to local galaxies of the same infrared luminosity. This finding may result from selection effects of the few current observations of [CII] at high redshift, and in particular the fact that non detections may have not been published (although the few published upper limits are still consistent with the [CII] enhancement scenario). If the trend is confirmed with larger samples, it would indicate that high-z galaxies are characterized by different physical conditions with respect to their local counterparts. Regardless of the physical origin of the trend, this effect would increase the potential of the [CII]158um line to search and characterize high-z sources.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters, 5 pages, 2 figures
Yeats’s Digital Identity: Q&A with Web Editor Neil Mann
Creators: name: Antonielli, Arianna
Publisher: name: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Series, Journals and Workshop
Year: 2013

description: This interview with Dr. Neil Mann provides insight into his involve- ment with digital humanities and his interest in using experimental hypertext-like format to leverage its communicative possibilities. Dr. Mann, author and web-manager of , reveals why he was drawn to work on W.B. Yeats’s opus, with a particular attention to A Vision. He discusses his experience with approaching Yeats in the digital environment of a website, including how he first structured the site and its current possibilities of development, as well as the content organisation and cross-references. Dr. Mann also speaks about the various issues concerning digital scholarly communication, from work-in-progress models, through copyright and creative commons matters, to digital identity concepts.
description: Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, No 2 (2012)
Constraining black-hole binary spin precession and nutation with sequential prior conditioning
Creators: name: Gangardt, Daria
name: Gerosa, Davide
name: Kesden, Michael
name: De Renzis, Viola
name: Steinle, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the detectability of sub-dominant spin effects in merging black-hole binaries using current gravitational-wave data. Using a phenomenological model that separates the spin dynamics into precession (azimuthal motion) and nutation (polar motion), we present constraints on the resulting amplitudes and frequencies. We also explore current constraints on the spin morphologies, indicating if binaries are trapped near spin-orbit resonances. We dissect such weak effects from the signals using a sequential prior conditioning approach, where parameters are progressively re-sampled from their posterior distribution. This allows us to investigate whether the data contain additional information beyond what is already provided by quantities that are better measured, namely the masses and the effective spin. For the current catalog of events, we find no significant measurements of weak spin effects such as nutation and spin-orbit locking. We synthesize a source with a high nutational amplitude and show that near-future detections will allow us to place powerful constraints, hinting that we may be at the cusp of detecting spin nutations in gravitational-wave data.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, 1 table (includes edits from erratum)
Proactive Autoscaling for Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes
Creators: name: Ju, Li
name: Singh, Prashant
name: Toor, Salman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the emergence of the Internet of Things and 5G technologies, the edge computing paradigm is playing increasingly important roles with better availability, latency-control and performance. However, existing autoscaling tools for edge computing applications do not utilize heterogeneous resources of edge systems efficiently, leaving scope for performance improvement. In this work, we propose a Proactive Pod Autoscaler (PPA) for edge computing applications on Kubernetes. The proposed PPA is able to forecast workloads in advance with multiple user-defined/customized metrics and to scale edge computing applications up and down correspondingly. The PPA is optimized and evaluated on an example CPU-intensive edge computing application further. It can be concluded that the proposed PPA outperforms the default pod autoscaler of Kubernetes on both efficiency of resource utilization and application performance. The article also highlights future possible improvements on the proposed PPA.
Land use change in the orchard areas of the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia : a case study
Creators: name: Marshall, Kenneth Bradford
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The renewed interest in the preservation of agricultural land in British Columbia, brought about by the agricultural land freeze in December 1972 and the passage of Bill 42, the Land Commission Act in April 1973; established an interesting environment in which to analyze land use change in the Okanagan Valley. The loss of commercial orchard land in the Penticton area to residential and recreational uses had caused the Planning Director of the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District to require that all major development must be made under a land use contract. This relatively new planning tool had been used in an orchard area near Penticton. This thesis is primarily a micro-economic analysis of the land use and changes to that use in this area. It is a case study which discusses the reasons behind the desire to change the land use, the effects of the marketing organization of the tree-fruit industry and governmental influences which affect the industry as a whole. The International problems affecting the tree-fruit industry are also analyzed as is their effect on the individual orchardist. The contention of this study is that although Bill 42 may have attempted to correct one of the symptoms of an ailing industry, more effort will have to be extended to eliminate the causes.
Current outcomes following upper and lower extremity arterial trauma from the National Trauma Data Bank
Creators: name: Marston, William
name: Kim, Sooyeon
name: McGinigle, Katharine L
name: Pascarella, Luigi
name: Farber, Mark A
name: Schneider, Andrew
name: Ruiz, Colby
name: Raulli, Stephen
name: Wood, Jacob
name: Parodi, F Ezequiel
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: OBJECTIVE: The modern treatments of trauma have changed in recent years. We aim to evaluate the factors associated with limb salvage and mortality after extremity arterial trauma, especially with respect to the type of conduit used in revascularization.
METHODS: The National Trauma Data Bank was queried to identify patients with upper and lower extremity (UE and LE) arterial injuries between 2016 and 2020. The patients were stratified by the types of arterial repair. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality.
RESULTS: 8780 patients were found with 5054 (58%) UE and 3726 (42%) LE injuries. Eighty-three percent were men, and the mean age was 34 ± 15 years. Penetrating mechanism was the predominant mode of injury in both UEs and LEs (73% and 67%, respectively) with a mean injury severity score of 14 ± 8. For UEs, the majority underwent primary repair (67%, P < .001), whereas the remainder received either a bypass (20%) or interposition graft (12%). However, LEs were more likely to receive a bypass (52%, P < .00001) than primary repair or interposition graft (34% and 14%, respectively). Compared with the extremely low rates of amputation and mortality among UE patients (2% for both), LE injuries were more likely to result in both amputation (10%, P < .001) and death (6%, P < .001). Notably, compared with primary repair, the use of a prosthetic conduit was associated with a 6.7-fold increase in the risk of amputation in UE and a 2.4-fold increase in LE (P < .0001 for both). Synthetic bypasses were associated with a nearly 3-fold increase in return to the operating room (OR) in UE bypasses (P < .05) and a 2.4-fold increase in return to the OR in LE bypasses (P < .0001).
CONCLUSIONS: In recent years, most extremity vascular trauma was due to penetrating injury with a substantial burden of morbidity and mortality. However, both limb salvage rates and survival rates have remained high. Overall, LE injuries more often led to amputation and mortality than UE injuries. The most frequently used bypass conduit was vein, which was associated with less risk of unplanned return to the OR and limb loss, corroborating current practice guidelines for extremity arterial trauma.
An Accurate 3D Analytic Model for Exoplanetary Photometry, Radial Velocity, and Astrometry
Creators: name: Judkovsky, Yair
name: Ofir, Aviv
name: Aharonson, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We developed and provide AnalyticLC, a novel analytic method and code implementation for dynamical modeling of planetary systems, including non-coplanar interactions, based on a disturbing function expansion to fourth order in eccentricities and inclinations. AnalyticLC calculates the system dynamics in 3D and the resulting model light curve, radial velocity, and astrometry signatures, enabling simultaneous fitting of these data. We show that for a near-resonant chain of three planets, where the two super-periods are close to each other, the TTVs of the pair-wise interactions cannot be directly summed to give the full system TTVs because the super-periods themselves resonate. We derive the simultaneous three-planet correction and include it in AnalyticLC. We compare the model computed by AnalyticLC to synthetic data generated by an N-body integrator, and evaluate its accuracy. Depending on the maximal order of expansion terms kept, AnalyticLC computation time can be up to an order of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art published N-body integrator TTVFast, with smaller enhancement seen at higher order. The advantage increases for long-term observations as our approach's computation time does not depend on the time-span of the data. Depending on the system parameters, the photometric accuracy is typically a few ppm, significantly smaller than typical Kepler's and other observatories' data uncertainty. Our highly efficient and accurate implementation allows full inversion of a large number of observed systems for planetary physical and orbital parameters, presented in a companion paper.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication
Reconciling scaling of the optical conductivity of cuprate superconductors with Planckian resistivity and specific heat
Creators: name: Michon, B.
name: Berthod, C.
name: Rischau, C. W.
name: Ataei, A.
name: Chen, L.
name: Komiya, S.
name: Ono, S.
name: Taillefer, L.
name: van der Marel, D.
name: Georges, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Materials tuned to a quantum critical point display universal scaling properties as a function of temperature $T$ and frequency $ω$. A long-standing puzzle regarding cuprate superconductors has been the observed power-law dependence of optical conductivity with an exponent smaller than one, in contrast to $T$-linear dependence of the resistivity and $ω$-linear dependence of the optical scattering rate. Here, we present and analyze resistivity and optical conductivity of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ with $x=0.24$. We demonstrate $\hbarω/k_{\mathrm{B}} T$ scaling of the optical data over a wide range of frequency and temperature, $T$-linear resistivity, and optical effective mass proportional to $\sim \ln T$ corroborating previous specific heat experiments. We show that a $T,ω$-linear scaling Ansatz for the inelastic scattering rate leads to a unified theoretical description of the experimental data, including the power-law of the optical conductivity. This theoretical framework provides new opportunities for describing the unique properties of quantum critical matter.
description: Accepted version
Dexmedetomidine for Preventing Sleep Disturbance after Ambulatory Anesthesia: A Case Report
Creators: name: Quinn, Jacqueline
name: Krakowski, James C.
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2024

description: Propofol anesthesia may impact a patient's sleep quality in the immediate postprocedure timeframe. We describe a 24-year-old man presenting for gastrostomy-jejunostomy tube replacement who reported debilitating sleep-onset disturbances after 3 previous anesthetic exposures for the same procedure. Review of the patient's records revealed the recurring use of propofol infusion. We proposed using dexmedetomidine infusion to potentially avoid another extended sleep disturbance. Following a dexmedetomidine-centered plan, the patient reported experiencing his usual sleep pattern without side-effects for 5 consecutive days postprocedure. This case highlights the potential for propofol-induced sleep disturbance in the ambulatory setting, which may be avoided with dexmedetomidine administration.
Practice Abstracts BRANCHES PROJECT H2020 - PA62
Creators: name: Karttunen, Kalle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data automation
API technology
forest owner
forest product information
wood prices
statistics

description: Forest market data automation
description: BRANCHES will produce and share more than 50 case studies, considered Best Practices. The selected case studies will be summarized in Practice Abstracts (PAs), documents tailored for practitioners, shared through the project media and collected on this webpage. The numbering of the PAs only refers to chronological order of uploading. Enjoy your reading!

Files
Art, Politics and Memory: a Conversation with Colm Tóibín
Creators: name: Luppino, Claudia
Publisher: name: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Series, Journals and Workshop
Year: 2013

description: The participation to a literary festival in Florence gave the interviewer the occasion to meet one of the most prolific and best loved Irish writers of our days. In what immediately took the shape and flavour of an informal and multifarious conversation – more than a strictly academic interview – Colm Tóibín, thus, shed an insightful light on his aesthetic beliefs and practice, but also on his political views, interest in current affairs and the impact of autobiography on his fiction. His relationship with John McGahern, one of the greatest twentieth-century Irish novelists, was also thoroughly addressed.
description: Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, No 2 (2012)
Buried Points in Julia Sets
Creators: name: Curry, Clinton P.
name: Mayer, John C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F20 (Primary), 54F15 (Secondary)

description: We give an introduction to buried points in Julia sets and a list of questions about buried points, written to encourage aficionados of topology and dynamics to work on these questions.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Materials for Conducting Debugging Contests
Creators: name: Rein, Patrick
name: Beckmann, Tom
name: Geier, Leonard
name: Mattis, Toni
name: Hirschfeld, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: competitive debugging
debugging contest
debugging
teaching
training
tasks

description: This archive includes materials to conduct Competitive Debugging contests, as described in the corresponding publication "Competitive Debugging: Towards Contests Promoting Debugging as a Skill".

The archive contains the following materials

environment-main-event/: The programming environment used for the main event. To get it running, see below.

environment-training/: The programming environment participants received for training before the main event.

RealmsOfZaltia/: The source code of the game the participants worked on.

tasks/:

*.cs: The patches that introduce the faults into the game source code.

selected-task-descriptions.txt: The task descriptions for several of the patches. Not all are included, as some were not used in the contest. The file has the format: task number, steps to reproduce, observable failure.

Competitive Debugging Season 1 - Game 2 - Intro Text.pdf: A sketch of the introduction to the contest (in German).

Starting the Environment

The environment is a Squeak/Smalltalk system. To start the environment you need a corresponding Squeak virtual machine for your operating system. You can then start the VM by passing the *.image file to it.

The specifications for the image file are 64bit, Spur memory layout, SISTAV1 bytecode.
Discriminating between Lorentz violation and non-standard interactions using core-passing atmospheric neutrinos at INO-ICAL
Creators: name: Sahoo, Sadashiv
name: Kumar, Anil
name: Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar
name: Dighe, Amol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters have provided a tremendous boost to the search for sub-leading effects due to several beyond the Standard Model scenarios in neutrino oscillation experiments. Among these, two of the well-studied scenarios are Lorentz violation (LV) and non-standard interactions (NSI), both of which can affect neutrino oscillations significantly. We point out that, at a long-baseline experiment where the neutrino oscillation probabilities can be well-approximated by using the line-averaged constant matter density, the effects of these two scenarios can mimic each other. This would allow the limits obtained at such an experiment on one of the above scenarios to be directly translated to the limits on the other scenario. However, for the same reason, it would be difficult to distinguish between LV and NSI at a long-baseline experiment. We show that the observations of atmospheric neutrinos, which travel a wide range of baselines and may encounter sharp density changes at the core-mantle boundary, can break this degeneracy. We observe that identifying neutrinos and antineutrinos separately, as can be done at INO-ICAL, can enhance the capability of atmospheric neutrino experiments to discriminate between these two new-physics scenarios.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, 1 appendix. The title changed, an explanatory appendix added, the presentation of figure 6 changed (results unchanged). This version has the same contents as the published article in Physics Letters B
One-Year Comparative Effectiveness of Upadacitinib vs Tofacitinib for Ulcerative Colitis: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Creators: name: Dalal, Rahul S.
name: Cabral, Heidy J.
name: Kallumkal, Govind
name: Barnes, Edward L.
name: Allegretti, Jessica R.
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: The comparative effectiveness of upadacitinib and tofacitinib for ulcerative colitis (UC) is poorly understood.
METHODS: In this retrospective cohort study, we compared steroid-free clinical remission (SFCR) and endoscopic response/remission at 52 weeks among adults initiating upadacitinib or tofacitinib for UC.
RESULTS: A total of 155 patients initiated upadacitinib (n = 81; 30% prior tofacitinib exposure) or tofacitinib (n = 74; 0% prior upadacitinib exposure). After inverse probability of treatment-weighted logistic regression, upadacitinib was associated with significantly higher odds of SFCR (odds ratio 3.01, 95% confidence interval 1.39-6.55) vs tofacitinib. There were no differences for endoscopic response/remission.
DISCUSSION: Upadacitinib was more effective at achieving SFCR in UC at 52 weeks vs tofacitinib.
Relative cooperativity in neutral and charged molecular clusters using QM/MM calculations
Creators: name: Cisneros, G. Andrés
name: Liu, Shubin
name: Nochebuena, Jorge
Publisher: name: AIP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: QM/MM methods have been used to study electronic structure properties and chemical reactivity in complex molecular systems where direct electronic structure calculations are not feasible. In our previous work, we showed that non-polarizable force fields, by design, describe intermolecular interactions through pairwise interactions, overlooking many-body interactions involving three or more particles. In contrast, polarizable force fields account partially for many-body effects through polarization, but still handle van der Waals and permanent electrostatic interactions pairwise. We showed that despite those limitations, polarizable and non-polarizable force fields can reproduce relative cooperativity achieved using density functional theory due to error compensation mechanisms. In this contribution, we assess the performance of QM/MM methods in reproducing these phenomena. Our study highlights the significance of the QM region size and force field choice in QM/MM calculations, emphasizing the importance of parameter validation to obtain accurate interaction energy predictions.
Effects of direct-to-consumer alcohol home delivery policies on alcohol-related online searches in the United States from 2019 to 2023: A Google trends study
Creators: name: Cox, Melissa J.
name: Roudebush, McKenna
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Courtney, Jimikaye B.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2025

description:
Objective This study examined the effects of direct-to-consumer alcohol home delivery (DTC) policies enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on online searches for alcohol delivery and alcohol-related harms in the United States. Methods Google Trends data (2019–2023) were used to assess weekly relative search volume (RSV) for three terms reflecting 1) DTC and 2) potential harms associated with expanded DTC: alcohol delivery, alcohol poisoning, and alcoholic. RSV for each term was extracted for states representing four DTC policy contexts (no DTC [South Carolina], no change in existing DTC policy [Pennsylvania], new DTC policy [Georgia], expanded DTC policy [California]). Interrupted times series analyses evaluated the effect of time and policy implementation on RSV in states introducing or expanding DTC policies, while linear regressions evaluated the effect of time where DTC policies did not change. Results There was a significant positive effect of time on RSV for alcohol delivery in the state that introduced a new DTC policy (β = 0.1, p = 0.02), with RSV declining over time following policy implementation (β = −0.1, p = 0.001). In the state that expanded DTC policy, alcohol delivery RSV increased immediately after policy expansion (β = 20.9, p < 0.001) and declined in subsequent months (β = −1.5, p < 0.001). RSV for alcohol-related harms fluctuated across states. Conclusions Online search interest related to alcohol delivery and harms varied post-DTC policy implementation. These findings highlight the potential of search trends to provide real-time insights into public health impacts of evolving alcohol policies.
AtlantECO - Webinar on key sampling protocols for the sequencing and imaging of ocean microbiomes
Creators: name: PESANT, Stéphane
name: BUTTIGIEG, Pier-Luigi
name: ODONNE, Anna
name: TRABUT, Eloïse
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: During the webinar, AtlantECO presented its standard "base protocols" for the genetic and imaging analysis of ocean microbiomes in an effort to spread their use on board third party cruises and marine stations bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Following the presentation of two sampling "kits", discussions will revolve around our capacity building strategy and the challenges ahead.