cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lipschitz decompositions of domains with bilaterally flat boundaries
Creators: name: Krandel, Jared
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A75 (Primary) 28A78 (Secondary)

description: We study classes of domains in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1},\ d \geq 2$ with sufficiently flat boundaries that admit a decomposition or covering of bounded overlap by Lipschitz graph domains with controlled total surface area. This study is motivated by the following result proved by Peter Jones as a piece of his proof of the Analyst's Traveling Salesman Theorem in the complex plane: Any simply connected domain $Ω\subseteq\mathbb{C}$ with finite boundary length $\mathcal{H}^1(\partialΩ)$ can be decomposed into Lipschitz graph domains with total boundary length bounded above by $M\mathcal{H}^1(\partialΩ)$ for some $M$ independent of $Ω$. In this paper, we prove an analogous Lipschitz decomposition result in higher dimensions for domains with Reifenberg flat boundaries satisfying a uniform beta-squared sum bound. We use similar techniques to show that domains with general Reifenberg flat or uniformly rectifiable boundaries admit similar Lipschitz decompositions while allowing the constituent domains to have bounded overlaps rather than be disjoint.
description: Updated to accepted version. Accepted in Journal of the London Mathematical Society
Additional file 10 of Effectiveness of a standardized scenario in teaching the management of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) to residents: a simulation cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Monzani, Alice
name: Corti, Elena
name: Scalogna, Antonio
name: Savastio, Silvia
name: Pozzi, Erica
name: Sainaghi, Pier Paolo
name: Corte, Francesco Della
name: Rabbone, Ivana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 10
Design of Test Section for Modulating Heat Flux Using Acoustic Streaming in Narrow Channel Experiments
Creators: name: Butzen, Michael John Willi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Acoustics and noise control (excl. architectural acoustics)
Aerodynamics (excl. hypersonic aerodynamics)
Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified
Engineering practice
Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
Turbulent flows

description: Aircraft engines require lightweight efficient thermal management devices to improve engine performance at high pressure ratios. Acoustic streaming can provide a viable, lightweight solution to improve the heat exchanger capacity with a reduced drag penalty within engine heat exchangers. This project develops a test section that will experimentally characterize the effect of acoustic streaming on the unsteady heat flux and shear stress within a narrow channel. This is accomplished by careful selection of measurement techniques to monitor the steady and unsteady properties of the flow and iteratively designing the test section with CFD support to converge to an optimal test model. Using CFD support to revise each iteration reduces the experimental cost of developing an effective geometry. Pressure taps and K-type thermocouples are used to monitor the total inlet pressure and temperature as well as the wall surface pressure and temperature. Optical shear stress sensors are selected to monitor the unsteady wall shear stress. A thin film sensor array is designed for high frequency wall temperature measurements which serve the boundary condition for a 1-D heat flux analysis to determine the unsteady heat flux through the wall. The test model consists of two hollow Teflon airfoils that create a narrow channel within a larger flow area. The airfoils create three flow paths within the wind tunnel test section and the area ratio between the measured flow and the bypass flow controls the Mach number of within the measured flow channel. The acoustic waves drive acoustic streaming and are generated by a Rossiter Cavity with L/D =2 which produces pressure oscillations with dominant frequency of 8 kHz in a Mach 0.8 flow. The test geometry successfully achieves Mach 0.8 flow and the 8 kHz signal [BMJW1] from the Rossiter cavity. The successful commissioning sets the stage for future experiments to determine the potential of acoustic streaming as a low weight modification to improve compact heat exchangers.
Quasi-projective varieties whose fundamental group is a free product of cyclic groups
Creators: name: Cogolludo-Agustín, José Ignacio
name: Elduque, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S25, 32S55, 32S05, 32S20, 57K31

description: In this work we study smooth complex quasi-projective surfaces whose fundamental group is a free product of cyclic groups. In particular, we prove the existence of an admissible map from the quasi-projective surface to a smooth complex quasi-projective curve. Associated with this result, we prove addition-deletion Lemmas for fibers of the admissible map which describe how these operations affect the fundamental group of the quasi-projective surface. Our methods also allow us to produce curves in smooth projective surfaces whose fundamental groups of their complements are free products of cyclic groups, generalizing classical results on $C_{p,q}$ curves and torus type projective sextics, and showing how general this phenomenon is.
description: 29 pages. To appear in Rev. Mat. Iberoam
Uncovering the Fractal Nature of Water Vapor Distribution above the Surface of the Earth
Creators: name: Menon, Anirudha
name: Basu, Banasri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fractals have been at the heart of geophysical and geospatial studies in the recent past. We examine the emergent fractal character of water vapor distributions above the surface of the Earth as a function of both image resolution (number of pixels) and moisture content percentile. We calculate physically relevant quantities such as fractal dimension, number of clusters, and size of the largest cluster with varying vapor percentile using computational methods and algorithms. Our analysis unravels a potential multi-fractal character of the data which we construct using the box-counting method to calculate the generalized dimension. We examine the nature of the percolation that occurs as the vapor percentile is varied and comment on the universality class of the transition. We test the applicability of Korcak's law on our system and determine the quality of the fit using the Kolmogorov-Smirnoff statistic. We show that the fractal character of the distribution is exact as a function of image resolution and approximate in some regimes as a function of the vapor percentiles.
description: 19 pages, 21 figures
Additional file 11 of Effectiveness of a standardized scenario in teaching the management of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) to residents: a simulation cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Monzani, Alice
name: Corti, Elena
name: Scalogna, Antonio
name: Savastio, Silvia
name: Pozzi, Erica
name: Sainaghi, Pier Paolo
name: Corte, Francesco Della
name: Rabbone, Ivana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 11
Spectra of Composition Operators on the Unit Ball in Two Complex Variables
Creators: name: Pilla, Michael R
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Real and complex functions (incl. several variables)

description: Let φ be a self-map of B2, the unit ball in C2. We investigate the equation Cφf=λf where we define Cφf : -f◦φ, with f a function in the Drury Arves on Space. After imposing conditions to keep Cφ bounded and well-behaved, we solve the equation Cφf - λf and determine the spectrum σ(Cφ) in the case where there is no interior fixed point and boundary fixed point without multiplicity. We then investigate the existence of one-parameter semigroups for such maps and discuss some generalizations.
Family Grief Communication, Self-Construal, and the Functioning of Grieving College Students
Creators: name: Liew, Chye Hong
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Counselling psychology
Health psychology

description: Grieving the deaths of immediate and extended family members as well as friends is a common experience among traditional-age college students. The overarching purpose of this study was to provide a more nuanced understanding of how various family grief communication factors (i.e., frequency, quality, willingness to communicate—personal/perceived family, reasons for grief communication avoidance—self-protection/relationship-protection) and self-construal might be related to the post-loss functioning of grieving traditional-age college students. Using hierarchical multiple regressions, I analyzed survey data from 369 grieving college students who were between ages 18 and 24 and had experienced the death of at least one individual they considered as family member within the last two years. First, the current findings indicated that the more frequent grieving students communicated about their grief with their family, the stronger their grief reactions. Second, the more students reported family grief communication of high quality, the weaker their grief reactions and the higher their post-loss family satisfaction. Third, there were no relationships between grieving college students’ personal willingness or their perceived family willingness to communicate about grief and their own grief reactions. Fourth, grieving students’ post-loss family satisfaction levels were similar regardless of how personally willing they were to communicate their grief, but increased as they perceived their family members as more willing to communicate about their grief. Fifth, the more grieving students avoided family grief communicate for self-protection reasons, the stronger their grief reactions and the lower their post-loss family satisfaction. Sixth, college students reported similar levels of grief reactions and post-loss family satisfaction regardless of how much they reported avoiding grief communication to protect their family relationships. Seventh, quality, personal and family willingness to communication, and reasons for grief communication avoidance did not moderate the relationship between the frequency of family grief communication and grieving students’ post-loss functioning. Eighth, grieving students reported similar levels of grief reactions and post-loss family satisfaction regardless of how much they identified with interdependent self-construal, independent self-construal, or a combination of both. Finally, the relationships between grieving students’ reasons for grief communication avoidance (i.e., self-protection, relationship protection) and their post-loss functioning (i.e., grief reactions, post-loss family satisfaction) remained similar regardless of how much they identified with independent or interdependent self-construal. The results of this study may be used to inform clinical interventions and outreach efforts for grieving traditional-age college students and their family members.
Additional file 12 of Effectiveness of a standardized scenario in teaching the management of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) to residents: a simulation cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Monzani, Alice
name: Corti, Elena
name: Scalogna, Antonio
name: Savastio, Silvia
name: Pozzi, Erica
name: Sainaghi, Pier Paolo
name: Corte, Francesco Della
name: Rabbone, Ivana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 12
Optimizing Facial Expressions of an Android Robot Effectively: a Bayesian Optimization Approach
Creators: name: Yang, Dongsheng
name: Sato, Wataru
name: Liu, Qianying
name: Minato, Takashi
name: Namba, Shushi
name: Nishida, Shin'ya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Expressing various facial emotions is an important social ability for efficient communication between humans. A key challenge in human-robot interaction research is providing androids with the ability to make various human-like facial expressions for efficient communication with humans. The android Nikola, we have developed, is equipped with many actuators for facial muscle control. While this enables Nikola to simulate various human expressions, it also complicates identification of the optimal parameters for producing desired expressions. Here, we propose a novel method that automatically optimizes the facial expressions of our android. We use a machine vision algorithm to evaluate the magnitudes of seven basic emotions, and employ the Bayesian Optimization algorithm to identify the parameters that produce the most convincing facial expressions. Evaluations by naive human participants demonstrate that our method improves the rated strength of the android's facial expressions of anger, disgust, sadness, and surprise compared with the previous method that relied on Ekman's theory and parameter adjustments by a human expert.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Humanoids2022
Dynamic mass generation on two-dimensional electronic hyperbolic lattices
Creators: name: Gluscevich, Noble
name: Samanta, Abhisek
name: Manna, Sourav
name: Roy, Bitan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Free electrons hopping on hyperbolic lattices embedded on a negatively curved space can foster (a) Dirac liquids, (b) Fermi liquids, and (c) flat bands, respectively characterized by a vanishing, constant, and divergent density of states near the half filling. From numerical self-consistent mean-field Hartree analyses, we show that nearest-neighbor Coulomb and on-site Hubbard repulsions respectively give rise to charge-density-wave and antiferromagnetic orders featuring staggered patterns of average electronic density and magnetization in all these systems, when the hyperbolic tessellation is accomplished by periodic arrangements of even $p$-gons. Both quantum orders dynamically open mass gaps near the charge neutrality point via spontaneous symmetry breaking. Only on hyperbolic Dirac materials these orderings take place via quantum phase transitions (QPTs) beyond critical interactions, which however decrease with increasing curvature, showcasing curvature-induced weak-coupling QPTs. We present scaling of these masses with the corresponding interaction strengths.
description: Published version in PRB as a Letter (Editor's Suggestion): 6 Pages, 3 Figures & 1 Table (Supplementary Material as Ancillary file)
Cosmic muon flux attenuation methods for superconducting qubit experiments
Creators: name: Bertoldo, Elia
name: Sánchez, Victor Pérez
name: Martínez, Maria
name: Martínez, Manel
name: Khalife, Hawraa
name: Forn-Díaz, Pol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and demonstrate two practical mitigation methods to attenuate the cosmic muon flux, compatible with experiments involving superconducting qubits: shallow underground sites and specific device orientation. Using a specifically-built cosmic muon detector, we identify underground sites, widely present in urban environments, where significant attenuation of cosmic muon flux, up to a factor 35 for 100-meter depths, can be attained. Furthermore, we employ two germanium wafers in an above-ground laboratory, each equipped with a particle sensor, to show how the orientation of the chip with respect to the sky affects the amount and type of energy deposited on the substrate by ionizing radiation. We observe that the horizontal detector sees more counts at lower energy, while the vertical one is impacted by more particles at higher energy. The methods here described proposed ways to directly understand and reduce the effects of cosmic rays on qubits by attenuating the source of this type of decoherence, complementing existing on-chip mitigation strategies. We expect that both on-chip and off-chip methods combined will become ubiquitous in quantum technologies based on superconducting qubit circuits.
NVH Messungen an einer Straßenbahn
Creators: name: Kirsch, Vadim
name: Schelenz, Ralf
name: Jacobs, Georg
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2013

description: 15. Antriebstechnisches Kolloquium, ATK 2013, Aachen, Germany, 19 Mar 2013 - 20 Mar 2013
Additional file 16 of Vaginal and neonatal microbiota in pregnant women with preterm premature rupture of membranes and consecutive early onset neonatal sepsis
Creators: name: dos Anjos Borges, Luiz Gustavo
name: Pastuschek, Jana
name: Heimann, Yvonne
name: Dawczynski, Kristin
name: Schleußner, Ekkehard
name: Pieper, Dietmar H.
name: Zöllkau, Janine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 16: Fig. S6. Confusion matrices summarizing the performance of models for the prediction of EONS. Each row of the confusion matrix shows the number of samples in an actual class while each column shows the number of samples in a predicted class. Tiles showing the number of correctly classified cases are colored magenta (EONS) or green (non EONS) a, confusion matrix based on 5 V2 taxa; b, confusion matrix based on 5 V2L taxa; c, confusion matrix based on 100 meconium taxa; d, confusion matrix based on a 5 pharyngeal taxa.
Additional file 1 of The effect of social pension on health-related quality of life of the rural older people: a panel study from China
Creators: name: Liu, Siyuan
name: He, Hong
name: Gao, Hanzhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Carbon Dioxide-Mediated Preparation of Amine-Boranes
Creators: name: Reddy, Daniel O'Neal
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Organic chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Since their discovery by Burg and Schlesinger in 1937, amine-boranes have enjoyed a rich preparative history and have experienced reinvigorated interest as valuable reagents for organic syntheses. Previously, the Herbert C. Brown Center for Borane Research has reported their synthesis from NaBH4 and amines via the intermediacy of (NH4)2SO4 or NaHCO3. Described herein is a CO2-mediated amine-borane synthesis that accommodates all classes of amines, particularly long-chain trialkyl- and pyridine-like heteroarylamines.
Additional file 1 of Automatic classification of experimental models in biomedical literature to support searching for alternative methods to animal experiments
Creators: name: Neves, Mariana
name: Klippert, Antonina
name: Knöspel, Fanny
name: Rudeck, Juliane
name: Stolz, Ailine
name: Ban, Zsofia
name: Becker, Markus
name: Diederich, Kai
name: Grune, Barbara
name: Kahnau, Pia
name: Ohnesorge, Nils
name: Pucher, Johannes
name: Schönfelder, Gilbert
name: Bert, Bettina
name: Butzke, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material. Queries for retrieval of the abstracts. Annotation guidelines. Analysis of the MeSH terms. Experiments with section labels. PMIDs removed in the second rounds. Statistics of the corpus. Results for Support Vector Machines. Selection of the hyperparameters. Annotations - error analysis.
ACTIVATING IMAGINATION FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE: SPECULATIVE REALIST LITERATURE IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM
Creators: name: Ramirez, Guadalupe E
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Literary studies not elsewhere classified
Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified

description: Speculative realism/historical fantasy are labels coined by Stanford University’s Ramon Saldivar. Saldivar describes this genre as “a way of documenting things that have happened, or could happen” (the realist component), but warping realism into science fiction and fantasy, blending and bending the genres (Dickason). In his 2013 article “The Second Elevation of the Novel: Race, Form and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative,” Ramon Saldivar brings an interesting perspective to how a new generation of authors have taken this genre and exposed utopia as fraud. He argues that as many writers (often members of minorities) seek to challenge the status quo and explore new territories with their prose, a new genre has been born from the utopian and dystopian schools- the genre he coins “speculative realism.” Implicit in his labelling of a new genre is the assumption that existing genres (created and nurtured by the dominant groups in society) are inadequate vehicles for the sort of work these authors seek to do, and in order to make their unique contributions, they have had to become pioneers in the field. Specifically, these authors have focused on utopian and dystopian worlds and have exposed the ruling class ideology hidden in the resolution. This new genre provides perfect material from which to draw texts that encourage students to grapple with the difficult concepts of how society should be organized, and what means might be required to achieve it. This project was developed with high school pedagogical practice in the forefront, therefore texts are chosen based on genre, grade level/interest, and thematic/ideological content. Within each group, the texts are chosen to highlight the deliberate indoctrination present within the current curriculum, and through comparison demonstrate how substituting speculative realist and historical fantasy for dystopian and historical fiction novels both educates and empowers students. In the dystopian genre, the commonly taught Lord of the Flies by William Golding is compared and contrasted with Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series. To explore novels based on history, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd is contrasted with the historical fantasy The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
Additional file 17 of Vaginal and neonatal microbiota in pregnant women with preterm premature rupture of membranes and consecutive early onset neonatal sepsis
Creators: name: dos Anjos Borges, Luiz Gustavo
name: Pastuschek, Jana
name: Heimann, Yvonne
name: Dawczynski, Kristin
name: Schleußner, Ekkehard
name: Pieper, Dietmar H.
name: Zöllkau, Janine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 17: Fig. S7. Identification of potential biomarkers for microbial prediction of EONS. ROC curves showing 3-4 taxa logistic regression support vector machine SVM classifier performance in a training (CV) and an independent validation cohort (holdout). a, all V2 samples; b, V2L samples >6 days antibiotic treatment; c, meconium; d, pharyngeal swab community (D).
Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Creators: name: Jones, Matthew
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Kidney
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Connective tissue disorders

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 30 years
description: Clinical History: A 30-year-old male presents with acute right loin pain radiating to the right testis accompanied by vomiting.Past medical history includes sigmoid colectomy for "perforated diverticular disease."On examination he is haemodynamically ... Final Diagnosis: Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Additional file 1 of Benchmark findings from a veteran electronic patient-reported outcomes evaluation from a chronic pain management telehealth program
Creators: name: Haun, Jolie N.
name: Fowler, Christopher A.
name: Smith, Bridget M.
name: Cao, Lishan
name: Stroupe, Kevin T.
name: Lapcevic, William A.
name: Saenger, Michael S.
name: Benzinger, Rachel C.
name: French, Dustin D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Next-order correction to the Dirac exchange energy of the free electron gas in the thermodynamic limit and generalized gradient approximations
Creators: name: Corso, Thiago Carvalho
name: Friesecke, Gero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the next order correction to the Dirac exchange energy for the free electron gas in a box with zero boundary conditions in the thermodynamic limit. The correction is of the order of the surface area of the box, and comes from three different contributions: (i) a real-space boundary layer, (ii) a boundary-condition-induced small shift of Fermi momentum and bulk density, and (iii) a long-range electrostatic finite-size correction. Moreover we show that the LDA, in addition to capturing the bulk term exactly, also produces a correction of the correct order but not the correct size. GGA corrections are found to be capable of capturing the surface term exactly, provided the gradient enhancement factor satisfies a simple explicit integral constraint. For current GGAs such as B88 and PBE we find that the new constraint is not satisfied and the size of the surface correction is overestimated by about ten percent. The new constraint might thus be of interest for the design of future exchange functionals.
Everyday Sadism, Emotional Responses to Violent Images, and the Implications of Real and Fictionalized Violence
Creators: name: Monaghan, Keira Louise
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Everyday sadism
IAPS
VAST
Vicarious sadism

description: Introduction: Everyday sadism is a trait that refers to experiencing pleasure from inflicting or witnessing the suffering or harm of others. Higher levels of everyday sadism are associated with more positive emotional responses to viewing violent images, playing violent video games, trolling, or watching combative/violent sports. However, none of the existing research has considered whether the perceived reality of violent images (i.e., images believed to be real or fake) moderates the association between everyday sadism and ratings of violent images. This study investigated whether the association between everyday sadism and positive ratings of violent images would be stronger when participants believed the images were real than when they believed they were fake. Method: Undergraduate college students (N = 235) accessed this study online and were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: half of the participants were informed that the images they would view were real, while the other half were told that the images were fake. Participants controlled how long they viewed the images (3 or 10 seconds) and were asked to rate how pleasurable each image was, from 1 (very unpleasing) to 7 (very pleasing). Participants then completed self-report measures to assess everyday sadism. Results: Consistent with prior research, there was an association between everyday sadism and positive ratings of violent images. Contrary to the hypotheses, there were no effects of condition on the ratings of violent images, nor was there a significant interaction between everyday sadism and condition on the pleasure ratings of viewing violent images. Conclusions: These findings confirm previous research that higher levels of everyday sadism are positively associated with a preference to view violent images. However, this association does not appear to be influenced by the perceived reality of violent images.
Non-Local Multi-Qubit Quantum Gates via a Driven Cavity
Creators: name: Jandura, Sven
name: Srivastava, Vineesha
name: Pecorari, Laura
name: Brennen, Gavin
name: Pupillo, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two protocols for implementing deterministic non-local multi-qubit quantum gates on qubits coupled to a common cavity mode. The protocols rely only on a classical drive of the cavity modes, while no external drive of the qubits is required. In the first protocol, the state of the cavity follows a closed trajectory in phase space and accumulates a geometric phase depending on the state of the qubits. The second protocol uses an adiabatic evolution of the combined qubit-cavity system to accumulate a dynamical phase. Repeated applications of this protocol allow for the realization of phase gates with arbitrary phases, e.g. phase-rotation gates and multi-controlled-Z gates. For both protocols, we provide analytic solutions for the error rates, which scale as $\sim N/\sqrt{C}$, with $C$ the cooperativity and $N$ the qubit number. Our protocols are applicable to a variety of systems and can be generalized by replacing the cavity by a different bosonic mode, such as a phononic mode. We provide estimates of gate fidelities and durations for atomic and molecular qubits coupled to optical or microwave cavities, and suggest applications for quantum error correction.
description: v1: 7 pages + 7 pages supplementary information, 3 figures; v2: Updated references, minor edits; v3: 11 pages + 7 pages supplement, clarified and extended derivations
ANTIVIRAL INSULIN SIGNALING DURING WEST NILE VIRUS INFECTION RESULTS IN VIRAL MUTATIONS
Creators: name: Char, Aditya Bharat
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Drosophila
flavivirus
IIS
insulin signaling
mosquito
west nile

description: Arthropod-borne viruses or arboviruses, including West Nile virus (WNV), dengue virus (DENV), and Zika virus (ZIKV) pose significant threats to public health. It is imperative to develop novel methods to control these mosquito-borne viral infections. We previously showed that insulin/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling (IIS)-dependent activation of ERK and JAK-STAT signaling has significant antiviral activity. Continuous immune pressure can lead to adaptive mutations of viruses during infection. We aim to elucidate how IIS-signaling in mosquitoes selects for West Nile virus escape variants, to help formulate future transmission blocking strategies. We hypothesize that passage of WNV under activation of IIS will induce adaptive mutations or escape variants in the infecting virus. To test our hypothesis, WNV was serially passaged through Culex quinquefasciatus Hsu cells in the presence or absence of bovine insulin to activate IIS antiviral pressure. We sequenced WNV genes encoding for E, NS2B, NS3, and NS5 and identified variants in E and NS5 arising from IIS antiviral pressure. In parallel to the genetic analyses, we also report differences in the levels of virus replication and Akt activation in human cells using virus passaged in the presence or absence of insulin. Finally, using adult Culex quinquefasciatus, we demonstrated the enhancement of immune response gene expression in virus-infected mosquitoes fed on insulin, compared to control. Notably, virus collected from insulin-fed mosquitoes contained a non-synonymous mutation in NS3. These results contribute towards achieving our long-term goal of manipulating mosquito IIS-dependent antiviral immunity to reduce WNV or other flavivirus transmission to mammalian hosts.
Two-term asymptotics of the exchange energy of the electron gas on symmetric polytopes in the high-density limit
Creators: name: Corso, Thiago Carvalho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V74 (Primary) 35J05, 35P20 (Secondary)

description: We derive a two-term asymptotic expansion for the exchange energy of the free electron gas on strictly tessellating polytopes and fundamental domains of lattices in the thermodynamic limit. This expansion comprises a bulk (volume-dependent) term, the celebrated Dirac exchange, and a novel surface correction stemming from a boundary layer and finite-size effects. Furthermore, we derive analogous two-term asymptotic expansions for semi-local density functionals. By matching the coefficients of these asymptotic expansions, we obtain an integral constraint for semi-local approximations of the exchange energy used in density functional theory.
description: 28 pages, 2 figures
sj-pdf-1-dsp-10.1177_20503245211034931 - Supplemental material for Online survey into developing a model for a legal cannabis market in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: James, Edward
name: Robertshaw, Thomas L
name: Pascoe, Michael J
name: Chapman, Fiona M
name: Westwell, Andrew D
name: Hoskins, Mathew
name: Barrow, Jacob
name: Sessa, Ben
name: Doblin, Rick
name: Rosky, Renee
name: Smith, Andrew P
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-dsp-10.1177_20503245211034931 for Online survey into developing a model for a legal cannabis market in the United Kingdom by Edward James, Thomas L Robertshaw, Michael J Pascoe, Fiona M Chapman, Andrew D Westwell, Mathew Hoskins, Jacob Barrow, Ben Sessa, Rick Doblin, Renee Rosky and Andrew P Smith in Drug Science, Policy and Law
sj-docx-1-mmc-10.1177_20501579211033885 – Supplemental material for The (other) two percent also matter: The construction of mobile phone refusers
Creators: name: Rosenberg, Hananel
name: Vogelman-Natan, Kalia
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-mmc-10.1177_20501579211033885 for The (other) two percent also matter: The construction of mobile phone refusers by Hananel Rosenberg and Kalia Vogelman-Natan in Mobile Media & Communication
Investigation of Social Dysfunction and Affect in Schizophrenia
Creators: name: Beaudette, Danielle Margaret
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: Social dysfunction is a hallmark of schizophrenia and leads to significant disability and distress. Decreased positive and increased negative affect predict poorer social functioning in those with schizophrenia. Social functioning and affect have traditionally been measured in the laboratory; yet, these methods are limited. Experience sampling methods (ESM) offer more immediate, ecologically valid assessments of these constructs. The purpose of this study was to examine social functioning and affect in schizophrenia using a novel form of ESM that passively collects audio data. The two primary hypotheses were: 1) clinical status (schizophrenia versus control) will predict social functioning, level of positive affect, and level of negative affect; and 2) the relationship between clinical status and affect will be moderated by context (social versus non-social). Additional exploratory aims tested the convergent validity between traditional, laboratory-based assessments of social functioning and this novel ESM. Data was collected from 38 people with schizophrenia and 36 control participants; Results partially supported the hypotheses. As expected, laboratory measures of social functioning revealed that those with schizophrenia performed worse than controls. ESM measures of social functioning found that the schizophrenia group interacted with others at the same rate as the control group but did not exhibit as much social engagement. ESM measures of affect revealed the schizophrenia group reported more negative affect than controls, but no differences in positive affect were found. Social context did not moderate the relationship between clinical status and affect. Lastly, correlations between laboratory measures and ESM measures of social functioning were significant for the schizophrenia group but not the control group. Results further our understanding of social functioning and affect in those with schizophrenia and yield important implications for future work.
sj-docx-1-srd-10.1177_23780231211033722 – Supplemental material for Race and Income in U.S. Suburbs: Are Diverse Suburbs Disadvantaged?
Creators: name: Rastogi, Ankit
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-srd-10.1177_23780231211033722 for Race and Income in U.S. Suburbs: Are Diverse Suburbs Disadvantaged? by Ankit Rastogi in Socius
TISSUE ENGINEERING STRATEGIES FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A FUNCTIONAL LARYNX
Creators: name: Brookes, Sarah E
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified
Otorhinolaryngology

description: Laryngeal cancer affects tens of thousands worldwide every year. The standard of care of surgical resection, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy results in significant quality of life deficits including reliance on tracheostomy tubes, loss of voice, and inability to swallow. There are no therapeutic options that restore a functional larynx so that patients can live a more normal life. Laryngeal reconstruction using tissue engineering strategies offers the potential to solve this problem. Laryngeal anatomy is complex with multiple tissue types and therefore engineering approaches require consideration of a multi-layer, interfacial tissue design. Our strategy to overcome these challenges involves the use of advanced bio fabrication techniques where type I oligomeric collagen alone or in the presence of autologous stem cells is used to custom-make the cartilage, skeletal muscle, and mucosal layer of the larynx. This doctoral research project begins by describing the development of the tissue engineered skeletal muscle with aligned collagen matrix and autologous muscle progenitor cells induced to express motor endplates. Next, using this engineered muscle plus the cartilage layer developed by a colleague; we implanted the myochondral engineered construct in a rat hemilaryngectomy model. In this study we saw host-implant integration with no inflammatory foreign body response, neo cartilage and muscle formation, and some return of laryngeal function on the reconstructed side. Next, we worked to scale-up these technologies for use in a porcine model. The pig larynx is more similar in size and function to the human larynx and allows for a full thickness defect to be created. Using confined compression, we created 4-mm thick acellular and cellular cartilage constructs, as well as a 0.5-mm thick acellular mucosal layer. A 1-cm diameter muscle layer containing autologous muscle progenitor cells was created using flow alignment and cultured to induce expression of motor endplates before implantation. Tissue constructs were subjected to mechanical property analyses as well as PCR analysis to describe the differential gene expression by component cells within muscle and cartilage constructs. Each layer was individually sutured into a pig hemilaryngectomy model. The pigs recovered well from the surgery, were eating, had no difficulty breathing, and no aspiration events. At 2 months, respiratory epithelium had completely healed over the implant and was vascularized and had areas of submucosal gland growth. The motor endplate expressing muscle implants showed new, organized muscle ingrowth while the acellular implants showed a relative paucity of new, disorganized muscle. This work represents a significant advancement in the field of laryngeal reconstruction and is a first of its kind to use scalable tissue engineering technologies designed to specifically meet each layer’s functional criteria.
A mathematical analysis of the adiabatic Dyson equation from time-dependent density functional theory
Creators: name: Corso, Thiago Carvalho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81Q40, 81V55, 46N20

description: In this article, we analyze the Dyson equation for the density-density response function (DDRF) that plays a central role in linear response time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT). First, we present a functional analytic setting that allows for a unified treatment of the Dyson equation with general adiabatic approximations for discrete (finite and infinite) and continuum systems. In this setting, we derive a representation formula for the solution of the Dyson equation in terms of an operator version of the Casida matrix. While the Casida matrix is well-known in the physics literature, its general formulation as an (unbounded) operator in the N-body wavefunction space appears to be new. Moreover, we derive several consequences of the solution formula obtained here; in particular, we discuss the stability of the solution and characterize the maximal meromorphic extension of its Fourier transform. We then show that for adiabatic approximations satisfying a suitable compactness condition, the maximal domains of meromorphic continuation of the initial density-density response function and the solution of the Dyson equation are the same. The results derived here apply to widely used adiabatic approximations such as (but not limited to) the random phase approximation (RPA) and the adiabatic local density approximation (ALDA). In particular, these results show that neither of these approximations can shift the ionization threshold of the Kohn-Sham system.
Additional file 1 of Optimizing data integration in trials that use EHR data: lessons learned from a multi-center randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Raman, Sudha R.
name: Qualls, Laura G.
name: Hammill, Bradley G.
name: Nelson, Adam J.
name: Nilles, Ester Kim
name: Marsolo, Keith
name: O’Brien, Emily C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. VESALIUS-EHR Demonstration Project Feasibility Survey.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-2-tpx-10.1177_01926233211037934 - The Society of Toxicologic Pathology: Advances and Adventures in the First 50 Years
Creators: name: Benoit-Biancamano, Marie-Odile
name: Halpern, Wendy
name: Parker, George
name: Hoenerhoff, Mark
name: Fossey, Stacey
name: Keenan, Charlotte
name: Bédard, Agathe
name: Lejeune, Typhaine
name: Kerns, William
name: Patrick, Daniel
name: Quist, Erin
name: Bolon, Brad
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-2-tpx-10.1177_01926233211037934 for The Society of Toxicologic Pathology: Advances and Adventures in the First 50 Years by Mark Hoenerhoff, Stacey Fossey, Charlotte Keenan, Agathe Bédard, Typhaine Lejeune, William Kerns, Daniel Patrick, Erin Quist and Brad Bolon in Toxicologic Pathology
Additional file 1 of Incidence and development of validated mortality prediction model among asphyxiated neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021: retrospective follow-up study
Creators: name: Tegegne, Yibeltal Shitu
name: Birhan, Tilahun Yemanu
name: Takele, Habtamu
name: Mekonnen, Fantahun Ayenew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Overcoming Bottlenecks in Homomorphic Encryption for the 2024 Mexican Federal Election
Creators: name: Landquist, Eric
name: Sawhney, Nimit
name: Sawhney, Simer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68P25, 94A60

description: On June 2, 2024, Mexico held its federal elections. The majority of Mexican citizens voted in person at the polls in this historic election. For the first time though, Mexican citizens living outside their country were able to vote online via a web app, either on a personal device or using an electronic voting kiosk at one of 23 embassies and consulates in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In total, 144,734 people voted outside of Mexico: 122,496 on a personal device and 22,238 in-person at a kiosk. Voting was open for remote voting from 8PM, May 18, 2024 to 6PM, June 2, 2024 and was open for in-person voting from 8AM-6PM on June 2, 2024. This article describes the technical and cryptographic tools applied to secure the ex-patriate component of the election and to enable INE (Mexico's National Electoral Institute) to generate provable election results within minutes of the close of the election. This article will also describe how the solutions we present scale to elections on a national level.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure. Published in IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs
Topologically free actions and ideals in twisted Banach algebra crossed products
Creators: name: Bardadyn, K.
name: Kwaśniewski, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47L10, 16S35, 54H15

description: We generalize the influential $C^*$-algebraic result of Kawamura-Tomiyama and Archbold-Spielberg for crossed products of discrete transformation groups to the realm of Banach algebras and twisted actions. We prove that topological freeness is equivalent to the intersection property for all reduced twisted Banach algebra crossed products coming from subgroups, and in the untwisted case to a generalised intersection property for a full $L^p$-operator algebra crossed product for any $p\in [1,\infty]$. This gives efficient simplicity criteria for various Banach algebra crossed products. We also use it to identify the prime ideal space of some crossed products as the quasi-orbit space of the action. For amenable actions we prove that the full and reduced twisted $L^p$-operator algebras coincide.
description: Accepted for publication (and already published online) by Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Small changes, e.g. notation for L^P-algebras changed