cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Barcelona, The Innovation District: between vulnerability and social equity
Creators: name: Ballester, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The municipal actors of the Catalan capital wish to obtain a reversal of the negative representations concerning the lack of attractiveness of the district of Poblenou considered as one of the poorest and most marginalized districts of the city while having as identity the expression of "Manchester southern Europe", recalling its role as a factory for Spain and an emblem of the Industrial Revolution for the Iberian Peninsula. Conceptualization, programming and construction of a new image of the city through this large urban wasteland are made concrete thanks to an urban marketing operation. The specifications allow the construction of innovative buildings, with resolutely contemporary architecture, breaking with the regulations in force on the limitation of the height of skyscrapers in order to make this pericentral territory visible and attractive. Catalan society in the 21st century has produced a fragmented and dominating neo-capitalist space through a thoughtless real estate frenzy and complex land games. Walking through the streets of Poblenou, one is forced to think of the work of Henri Lefebvre on the production of space and the three orders of understanding the design of an urban composition. Here, the city has become a stake and the place of economic growth based on innovation. Finally, neighborhood life is in complete mutation which seems for this territory to leave a chance for a long time on the sidelines. We present an economic analysis grid of a cluster with graphs and statistics.
description: in French language
STATUS OF MANGROVES ALONG WEST COAST OF INDIA {GUJRAT, MAHARSTRA AND GOA}
Creators: name: M.J. Kothari1   D.N. PATIL2
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: The Mangroves are the tropical forest formation encircled or spread by the tidal rivers and/ or the sea water, flooded frequently by tidal water {Naskar & Guha Bakshi, 1987}. In other words these are a group of salt tolerant woody plants and characterized by typical morphological , physiological and anatomical adaptations such as evergreen woody habit , vivipary, development of pneumatophores for breathing , knee , slit , or prop roots for anchorage and salt glands , sclerophyllous tissues , sunken stomata in thick coriaceous leaves to restrict transpiration and for resistance against adverse climate forces { Kothari & Rao, 1991 } India has a 5,700 km long coast line which can be divided into west coast, east coast and island chains.
VI-Band Follow-Up Observations of Ultra-Long-Period Cepheid Candidates in M31
Creators: name: Ngeow, Chow-Choong
name: Lee, Chien-Hsiu
name: Yang, Michael Ting-Chang
name: Lin, Chi-Sheng
name: Hsiao, Hsiang-Yao
name: Cheng, Yu-Chi
name: Lin, Zhong-Yi
name: Lin, I-Ling
name: Kanbur, Shashi M.
name: Ip, Wing-Huen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ultra-long period Cepheids (ULPCs) are classical Cepheids with pulsation periods exceeding $\approx 80$ days. The intrinsic brightness of ULPCs are ~1 to ~3 mag brighter than their shorter period counterparts. This makes them attractive in future distance scale work to derive distances beyond the limit set by the shorter period Cepheids. We have initiated a program to search for ULPCs in M31, using the single-band data taken from the Palomar Transient Factory, and identified eight possible candidates. In this work, we presented the VI-band follow-up observations of these eight candidates. Based on our VI-band light curves of these candidates and their locations in the color-magnitude diagram and the Period-Wesenheit diagram, we verify two candidates as being truly ULPCs. The six other candidates are most likely other kinds of long-period variables. With the two confirmed M31 ULPCs, we tested the applicability of ULPCs in distance scale work by deriving the distance modulus of M31. It was found to be $μ_{M31,ULPC}=24.30\pm0.76$ mag. The large error in the derived distance modulus, together with the large intrinsic dispersion of the Period-Wesenheit (PW) relation and the small number of ULPCs in a given host galaxy, means that the question of the suitability of ULPCs as standard candles is still open. Further work is needed to enlarge the sample of calibrating ULPCs and reduce the intrinsic dispersion of the PW relation before re-considering ULPCs as suitable distance indicators.
description: 13 pages, with 14 Figures and 4 Tables (one online table). AJ accepted
Striggio-Monteverdi's L'Orfeo: an excursion into its neoplatonic layers (1995)
Creators: name: Chrissochoidis, Ilias
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2026
Subjects: subject: Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643
subject: Orfeo (Monteverdi, Claudio)
subject: Striggio, Alessandro
subject: Opera
subject: Neoplatonism--Influence

description: The study is divided not into chapters but into areas of questions. The first area offers a structural analysis of the Prologue which supports La Musica's claims about the power of music; the second one challenges the traditional view of Orfeo as representing a consistent statement about that power; the third, is devoted to a refutation (the first as far as I know) of McClary's reading of the opera. The study concludes with a discussion of the so-called "problem" of the opera's two finales. M.Mus. (Historical Musicology) thesis, King's College London, 1995.
Analysing the effects of apodizing windows on local correlation tracking using Nirvana simulations of convection
Creators: name: Louis, Rohan E.
name: Ravindra, B.
name: Georgoulis, Manolis K.
name: Küker, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ different shapes of apodizing windows in the local correlation tracking (LCT) routine to retrieve horizontal velocities using numerical simulations of convection. LCT was applied on a time sequence of temperature maps generated by the Nirvana code with four different apodizing windows, namely--Gaussian, Lorentzian, trapezoidal and triangular, with varying widths. In terms of correlations (between the LCT-retrieved and simulated flow field), the triangular and the trapezoidal perform the best and worst, respectively. On segregating the intrinsic velocities in the simulations on the basis of their magnitudes, we find that for all windows, a significantly higher correlation is obtained for the intermediate and high-velocity bins and only modest or weak values in the low-velocity bins. The differences between the LCT-retrieved and simulated flow fields were determined spatially which show large residuals at or close to the boundary of granules. The extent to which the horizontal flow vectors retrieved by LCT compare with the simulated values, depends entirely on the width of the central peak of the apodizing window for a given $σ$. Even though LCT suffers from a lack of spatial content as seen in simulations, its simplicity and speed could serve as a viable first-order tool to probe horizontal flows--one that is ideal for large data sets.
description: Accepted for publication in Solar Physics: 14 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Presentation: Self Disclosure Of Counseling And Counseling Students Reviewed From Academic Year And Gender
Creators: name: Chalidaziah, Wan
name: Syiva Fitria
name: Rizky Andana Pohan
name: Marimbun
name: Mawardi Siregar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This material presented in VCOSPILED 2020
Computing the nucleon sigma terms at the physical point
Creators: name: Torrero, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nucleon sigma terms are quantities that play an important role in various areas: among others, they connect the pion-nucleon and the kaon-nucleon amplitudes to the hadron spectrum and they are also relevant for the direct detection of Dark Matter. We present preliminary results for the up-down and strange sigma terms obtained from $N_f=2+1$ lattice simulations that are performed at five lattice spacings and for pion masses all the way down to its physical value.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings to the conference "Lattice 2014 - The 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory"
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF STAFF PRODUCTIVITY IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
Creators: name: Osunyikanmi,, Pius, B.Sc. (Pol. Science), M.Sc. (Pol. Science), Ph. D. (Pol. Science) LL.B., LL.M., Ph. D. (Law)
Publisher: name: ZAP Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Development, Productivity, Staff, Training, University

description: This article examined the impact of management evaluation on the training and development of staff productivity, with a particular focus on the Nigerian University system. The objectives were: to examine the personnel policy of the Nigerian University system, assess the extent to which the personnel policy has been implemented by the university, and identify the challenges faced by university management in the training and development of Staff for improved productivity. These also defined the scope and limitations of the study. The research design and methodology adopted a doctrinal approach using analytical and descriptive research methodology. The primary and secondary sources of data collection were physical and e-library sources. It was found that the personnel policy of most Nigerian Universities is not within the reach of the Staff of the University, it does not benefit the Staff of the University, and it does not positively influence Staff productivity; also that the University management does not carry out effective implementation and monitoring of the personnel policy concerning the staff of the University, and university management lacks equity in the training and development of Staff productivity. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the university senate should amend the personnel policy of the respective Nigerian university to be accordingly impactful on staff development and productivity. Moreover, the personnel policy should be made available for staff to work toward its development and productivity
Axial-vector transition form factors and $e^+ e^- \to f_1 π^+ π^-$
Creators: name: Hoferichter, Martin
name: Kubis, Bastian
name: Zanke, Marvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transition form factors (TFFs) of axial-vector mesons in the context of currently available experimental data, including new constraints from $e^+ e^- \to f_1(1285) π^+ π^-$ that imply stringent limits on the high-energy behavior and, for the first time, allow us to provide an unambiguous determination of the couplings corresponding to the two antisymmetric TFFs. We discuss how these constraints can be implemented in a vector-meson-dominance picture, and, in combination with contributions from the light-cone expansion, construct TFFs as input for the evaluation of axial-vector contributions to hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures; journal version
К ВОПРОСУ О ФОРМИРОВАНИИ И РАЗВИТИИ КУЛЬТУРЫ ПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЬСТВА
Creators: name: А.А. Адаменко
name: О.В. Жердева
name: Д.В. Петров
Publisher: name: Вестник Академии знаний
Year: 2020
Subjects: предпринимательство
управление
культура предпринимательства
экономическая культура

description: На современном уровне развития экономики предпринимательство является достаточно динамично развивающимся ее сектором. Устойчивость бизнеса характеризуется его гибкостью, способностью к быстрой адаптации к постоянно изменяющимся условиям, как внутренним, так и внешним. Направленность руководства компании на достижение долговременного успеха обусловлена созданием многоуровневой системы экономико-ценностных ориентаций. Глобальность и противоречивость проблемы перехода к новым принципам управления процессами и создания высокой культуры предпринимательства, вызывают в первую очередь необходимость изучения опыта развитых стран в этом вопросе. Главным условием успеха компании в настоящее время является управление. При этом основой эффективного управления выступает человеческий потенциал, а также построение бизнеса на культуре и этических ценностях. Как феномен сознания, экономическая культура находит свое применение во всех формах осуществления экономической деятельности.
How Good is Google Bard's Visual Understanding? An Empirical Study on Open Challenges
Creators: name: Qin, Haotong
name: Ji, Ge-Peng
name: Khan, Salman
name: Fan, Deng-Ping
name: Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
name: Van Gool, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Google's Bard has emerged as a formidable competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT in the field of conversational AI. Notably, Bard has recently been updated to handle visual inputs alongside text prompts during conversations. Given Bard's impressive track record in handling textual inputs, we explore its capabilities in understanding and interpreting visual data (images) conditioned by text questions. This exploration holds the potential to unveil new insights and challenges for Bard and other forthcoming multi-modal Generative models, especially in addressing complex computer vision problems that demand accurate visual and language understanding. Specifically, in this study, we focus on 15 diverse task scenarios encompassing regular, camouflaged, medical, under-water and remote sensing data to comprehensively evaluate Bard's performance. Our primary finding indicates that Bard still struggles in these vision scenarios, highlighting the significant gap in vision-based understanding that needs to be bridged in future developments. We expect that this empirical study will prove valuable in advancing future models, leading to enhanced capabilities in comprehending and interpreting fine-grained visual data. Our project is released on https://github.com/htqin/GoogleBard-VisUnderstand
title: A new standard radiographic reference for proximal fibular height in children
Creators: name: Frommer, Adrien
name: Niemann, Maike
name: Gosheger, Georg
name: Toporowski, Gregor
name: Laufer, Andrea Maria
name: Eveslage, Maria
name: Bröking, Jan Niklas
name: Rödl, Robert
name: Vogt, Björn
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Background and purpose — To date there is a lack of studies defining the anatomical position of the proximal fibula. This is especially relevant when planning surgical interventions affecting the knee joint such as permanent or temporary epiphysiodesis to correct leg length discrepancies or angular deformities in growing patients. The goal of this study is to establish a standardized measurement technique and radiological reference values for the position of the proximal fibula in children. Patients and methods — 500 measurements were performed in calibrated long standing anteroposterior radiographs of 256 skeletally immature patients (8–16 years; 233 female, 267 male legs). As a radiographic reference in the frontal plane, the distance between the center of the proximal tibial growth plate and a line tangential to the tip of the fibular head and horizontal to the imaging plane was measured (dPTFH). Results — The average value of dPTFH in the studied population (median age 12 years) was –2.7 mm (SD 3, CI –3.0 to –2.5) and normally distributed (p = 0.1). There were no clinically significant sex or age-dependent differences. The inter-rater reliability analysis showed excellent ICC values (ICC = 0.88; CI 0.77–0.93). Interpretation — This study provides a new radiographic reference value to assess the position of the proximal fibula in relation to the proximal tibia in children and adolescents. This reference can aid preoperative decision-making as to whether additional fibular epiphysiodesis is necessary when performing tibial epiphysiodesis to correct moderate leglength discrepancies.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Bloch dynamics in inversion symmetry broken monolayer phosphorene
Creators: name: Yar, Abdullah
name: Sultana, Rifat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Bloch oscillations of wave packets in monolayer phosphorene with broken inversion symmetry. We find that the real space trajectories, Berry and group velocities of Bloch electron undergo Bloch oscillations in the system. The strong dependence of Bloch dynamics on the crystal momentum is illustrated. It is shown that the spin-orbit interaction crucially affects the dynamics of the Bloch electron. We also demonstrate the dynamics in external electric and magnetic field within the framework of Newton's equations of motion, leading to the geometric visualization of such an oscillatory motion. In the presence of both applied in-plane electric and transverse magnetic fields, the system undergoes a dynamical transition from confined to de-confined state and vice versa, tuned by the relative strength of the fields.
Invariant subspaces of $\mathcal{H}^2(\mathbb{T}^2)$ and $L^2(\mathbb{T}^2)$ preserving compatibility
Creators: name: Burdak, Zbigniew
name: Kosiek, Marek
name: Pagacz, Patryk
name: Słociński, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A15 (Primary), 47B37 (Secondary)

description: Operators of multiplication by independent variables on the space of square summable functions over the torus and its Hardy subspace are considered. Invariant subspaces where the operators are compatible are described.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Semiclassical Quantization of the Superstring and Hagedorn Temperature
Creators: name: Bigazzi, Francesco
name: Canneti, Tommaso
name: Mück, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [1], the semiclassical quantization of a string, winding once around the compact Euclidean time circle, on a supergravity background dual to the deep infrared regime of a confining finite temperature gauge theory, was carried out. The string mass-shell condition and, by extrapolation, the Hagedorn temperature to leading order in the holographic limit was deduced. In this work, we improve on those results in three ways. First, we fix some missing details of the related light-cone quantization analysis. Second, we reconsider the problem under the lens of a background-covariant geometrical formalism. This allows us to put the semiclassical mass-shell condition on more solid grounds. Finally, going beyond the semiclassical regime, we compute the Hagedorn temperature at next-to-leading order in the holographic limit. The sub-leading correction turns out to arise entirely from the contribution of the zero modes of the massive worldsheet scalar fields. Our result matches that of a recent analysis in the literature based on the Horowitz-Polchinski stringy star effective model.
description: 44 pages, v2: version to appear in JHEP
title: Анатомия и физиология нервной системы: биологические основы поведения
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный университет экономики и управления «НИНХ»
Year: 2022

description: В учебном пособии кратко представлены история и методы изучения анатомии и физиологии нервной системы, общие методологические основы нейробиологии, принципы морфофункциональной организации нервной ткани. Рассмотрены базовые механизмы регуляции с позиции единства структуры и функции, уделено внимание особенностям филогенетического и онтогенетического развития нервной системы. Отдельные главы посвящены структурным и функциональным блокам центральной нервной системы, анализаторам. Описаны проводящие пути ЦНС, черепные нервы и отделы вегетативной нервной системы. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению 37.03.01 «Психология» и специальности 37.05.02 «Психология служебной деятельности», может быть полезно магистрантам направлений 37.04.01 «Общая психология и психология личности» и 37.04.01 «Спортивная психология».
An Ising-Anderson model of localisation in high-temperature QCD
Creators: name: Giordano, Matteo
name: Kovacs, Tamas G.
name: Pittler, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a possible mechanism leading to localisation of the low-lying Dirac eigenmodes in high-temperature lattice QCD, based on the spatial fluctuations of the local Polyakov lines in the partially ordered configurations above $T_c$. This mechanism provides a qualitative explanation of the dependence of localisation on the temperature and on the lattice spacing, and also of the phase diagram of QCD with an imaginary chemical potential. To test the viability of this mechanism we propose a three-dimensional effective, Anderson-like model, mimicking the effect of the Polyakov lines on the quarks. The diagonal, on-site disorder is governed by a three-dimensional Ising-like spin model with continuous spins. Our numerical results show that localised modes are indeed present in the ordered phase of the Ising model, thus supporting the proposed mechanism for localisation in QCD.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
title: Temporary Proximal Tibial Epiphysiodesis for Correction of Leg Length Discrepancy in Children—Should Proximal Fibular Epiphysiodesis Be Performed Concomitantly?
Creators: name: Frommer, Adrien
name: Niemann, Maike
name: Gosheger, Georg
name: Eveslage, Maria
name: Toporowski, Gregor
name: Laufer, Andrea Maria
name: Ackmann, Thomas
name: Rödl, Robert
name: Vogt, Björn
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: The need for concomitant proximal fibular epiphysiodesis (PFE) when correcting leg length discrepancy (LLD) with temporary proximal tibial epiphysiodesis (PTE) in children is controversially discussed. This single center, retrospective cohort study analyzes proximal fibular growth in patients treated by PTE with and without concomitant PFE. Radiographic measurements were conducted before implantation and at implant removal. The position of the fibular head in relation to the tibia was assessed with recently established radiographic reference values. All patients (n = 58, 19 females) received PTE to treat LLD at a mean age of 12.2 years (range 7 to 15). In 27/58 (47%) concomitant PFE was performed. Mean follow-up was 36.2 months (range 14.2 to 78.0). The position of the proximal fibula at implant removal was within physiological range in 21/26 patients (81%) with PFE and in 21/30 patients (70%) without PFE. Proximal fibular overgrowth newly developed in 2/26 patients (8%) treated with PFE and in 5/30 patients (17%) treated without PFE (p = 0.431). Peroneal nerve injury or discomfort due to proximal fibular overlength was not reported. The position of the proximal fibula should be critically assessed preoperatively under consideration of reference values before PTE. In consequence of this study, the authors do not routinely perform PFE concomitantly with PTE for correction of moderate LLD in children if the proximal fibula is localized within physiological radiographic margins determined by the established reference values.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Temperature evolution of the effective magnetic anisotropy in the MnCr$_2$O$_4$ spinel
Creators: name: Tobia, Dina
name: Milano, Julián
name: Causa, María Teresa
name: Winkler, Elin L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a study of the low temperature magnetic phases of polycrystalline MnCr$_2$O$_4$ spinel through dc magnetization and ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy (FMR). Through these experiments we determined the main characteristic temperatures: T$_C$ $\sim$41 K and T$_H$ $\sim$18 K corresponding, respectively, to the ferrimagnetic order and to the low temperature helicoidal transitions. The temperature evolution of the system is described by a phenomenological approach that considers the different terms that contribute to the free energy density. Below the Curie temperature the FMR spectra were modeled by a cubic magnetocrystalline anisotropy to the second order, with $K_1$ and $K_2$ anisotropy constants that define the easy magnetization axis along the <110> direction. At lower temperatures, the formation of a helicoidal phase was considered by including uniaxial anisotropy axis along the [1-10] propagation direction of the spiral arrange, with a $K_u$ anisotropy constant. The values obtained from the fittings at 5 K are $K_1$=-2.3x10$^4$ erg/cm$^3$, $K^2$=6.4x10$^4$ erg/cm$^3$ and $K_u$=7.5x10$^4$ erg/cm$^3$.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1: of Computational approach to predict species-specific type III secretion system (T3SS) effectors using single and multiple genomes
Creators: name: Hobbs, Christopher
name: Porter, Vanessa
name: Stow, Maxwell
name: Bupe Siame
name: Tsang, Herbert
name: Leung, Ka
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Statistical analysis of the 21 attributes for the four organisms used in this studies. SD denotes standard deviation. Attribute values that have statistically significant differences between the positive and negative sets are highlighted. (DOCX 25 kb)
title: 6th International Symposium Breeding Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (BREEDMAP 6), Quedlinburg, Germany June 19 - 23, 2016 - Abstracts of Oral Presentations and Posters
Creators: name: Marthe, Frank
name: Riegler, Heike
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2016

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv 453
title: Tibial lengthening using a retrograde magnetically driven intramedullary lengthening device in 10 patients with preexisting ankle and hindfoot fusion
Creators: name: Vogt, Björn
name: Rödl, Robert
name: Gosheger, Georg
name: Toporowski, Gregor
name: Laufer, Andrea Maria
name: Theil, Jan-Christoph
name: Bröking, Jan Niklas
name: Frommer, Adrien
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Background and purpose — Motorized intramedullary lengthening nails (ILNs) have been developed as an alter- native to external fixators for long bone lengthening. The antegrade approach represents the standard method for tibial ILN insertion. In patients with preexisting ankle and hindfoot fusion a retrograde approach provides an alternative technique that has not been evaluated so far. We report the outcome of this method in 10 patients. Patients and methods — This retrospective study included 10 patients (mean age 18 years [13–25]) with preexisting ankle and hindfoot fusion who underwent tibial lengthening with a retrograde ILN (PRECICE). The mean leg length discrepancy (LLD) was 58 mm (36–80). The underlying conditions were congenital (n = 9) and post tumor resection (n = 1). The main outcome measures were: ILN reliability, distraction achieved, distraction index (DIX), time to bone healing, consolidation index (CIX), complications, and functional results. Results — All patients achieved the goal of lengthening (mean 48 mm [26–80]). Average DIX was 0.6 mm/day (0.5– 0.7) and mean CIX was 44 days/cm (26–60). Delayed consolidation occurred in 2 patients and healed after ILN dynam- ization or nail exchange with grafting. Toe contractures in 2 other patients were resolved with physiotherapy or tenotomy. Until last follow-up (mean 18 months [12–30]) no true complications were encountered, knee motion remained unaffected, and full osseous consolidation occurred in all patients. Interpretation — In patients with LLD and preexisting ankle and hindfoot fusion distal tibial lengthening using a retrograde ILN is a reliable alternative to the standard approach with equivalent bone healing potential and low complication rates leaving the knee unaffected.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
The $γ$-process nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae. I. A novel analysis of $γ$-process yields in massive stars
Creators: name: Roberti, L.
name: Pignatari, M.
name: Psaltis, A.
name: Sieverding, A.
name: Mohr, P.
name: Fülöp, Zs.
name: Lugaro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $γ$-process nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae is generally accepted as a feasible process for the synthesis of neutron-deficient isotopes beyond iron. However, crucial discrepancies between theory and observations still exist: the average production of $γ$-process yields from massive stars are too low to reproduce the solar distribution in galactic chemical evolution calculations, and the yields of the Mo and Ru isotopes are by a further factor of 10 lower than the yields of the other $γ$-process nuclei. We investigate the $γ$-process in 5 sets of core-collapse supernova models published in literature with initial masses 15, 20, and 25 M$_{\odot}$ at solar metallicity. We compared the $γ$-process overproduction factors from the different models. To highlight the possible effect of nuclear physics input, we also considered 23 ratios of two isotopes close to each other in mass, relative to their solar values. Further, we investigated the contribution of C-O shell mergers in the supernova progenitors as an additional site of the $γ$-process. Our analysis shows that a large scatter among the different models exists for both the $γ$-process integrated yields and the isotopic ratios. We found only 10 ratios that agree with their solar values, all the others differ by at least a factor of 3 from the solar values in all the considered sets of models. The $γ$-process within C-O shell mergers mostly influence the isotopic ratios that involve intermediate and heavy proton-rich isotopes with $\rm A>100$.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 20 pages, 17 figures
Atomic source selection in space-borne gravitational wave detection
Creators: name: Loriani, S
name: Schlippert, D
name: Schubert, C
name: Abend, S
name: Ahlers, H
name: Ertmer, W
name: Rudolph, J
name: Hogan, J M
name: Kasevich, M A
name: Rasel, E M
name: Gaaloul, N
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent proposals for space-borne gravitational wave detectors based on atom interferometry rely on extremely narrow single-photon transition lines as featured by alkaline-earth metals or atomic species with similar electronic configuration. Despite their similarity, these species differ in key parameters such as abundance of isotopes, atomic flux, density and temperature regimes, achievable expansion rates, density limitations set by interactions, as well as technological and operational requirements. In this study, we compare viable candidates for gravitational wave detection with atom interferometry, contrast the most promising atomic species, identify the relevant technological milestones and investigate potential source concepts towards a future gravitational wave detector in space.
The RG flow of Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model at finite temperature and density
Creators: name: Aoki, Ken-Ichi
name: Yamada, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model at finite temperature and finite density by using the functional renormalization group. The RG flows of the four-fermi coupling constant in the NJL model are investigated. We obtain the chiral phase boundary in cases of the large-$N$ leading approximation and an improved approximation. The large-$N$ non-leading term at the vanishing temperature has a singularity at the fermi surface. We show that the quantum corrections by the large-$N$ non-leading term largely influence the phase boundary at the low temperature and high density region.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, published version
Nontrivial paths and periodic orbits of the $T$-fractal billiard table
Creators: name: Lapidus, Michel L.
name: Miller, Robyn L.
name: Niemeyer, Robert G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce and prove numerous new results about the orbits of the $T$-fractal billiard. Specifically, in Section 3, we give a variety of sufficient conditions for the existence of a sequence of compatible periodic orbits. In Section 4, we examine the limiting behavior of particular sequences of compatible periodic orbits and, more interesting, in Section 5, the limiting behavior of a particular sequence of compatible singular orbits. The latter seems to indicate that the classification of orbits may not be so straightforward. Additionally, sufficient conditions for the existence of particular nontrivial paths is given in Section 4. The proofs of two results stated in [LapNie4] appear here for the first time, as well. A discussion of our results and directions for future research is then given in Section 6.
description: 20 Figures, 35 pages, two results from arXiv:1210.0282 are generalized and proved in this article. Many new results appear here. Comments welcome. Version 3 contains minor grammatical changes and the presentation of some results has greatly improved. To appear in the journal Nonlinearity
Characterizing the Global Crowd Workforce: A Cross-Country Comparison of Crowdworker Demographics
Creators: name: Posch, Lisa
name: Bleier, Arnim
name: Flöck, Fabian
name: Lechner, Clemens M.
name: Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina
name: Helic, Denis
name: Strohmaier, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.4

description: Since its emergence roughly a decade ago, microtask crowdsourcing has been attracting a heterogeneous set of workers from all over the globe. This paper sets out to explore the characteristics of the international crowd workforce and offers a cross-national comparison of crowdworker populations from ten countries. We provide an analysis and comparison of demographic characteristics and shed light on the significance of microtask income for workers situated in different national contexts. With over 11,000 individual responses, this study is the first large-scale country-level analysis of the characteristics of workers on the platform Appen (formerly CrowdFlower and Figure Eight), one of the two platforms dominating the microtask market. We find large differences between the characteristics of the crowd workforces of different countries, both regarding demography and regarding the importance of microtask income for workers. Furthermore, we find that the composition of the workforce in the ten countries was largely stable across samples taken at different points in time.
description: 36 pages, 20 figures, final version as published in Human Computation
Ilias Chrissochoidis, Early Music Works, Sketches, and Exercises, 1982-1984
Creators: name: Chrissochoidis, Ilias
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2026
Subjects: subject: Ilias Chrissochoidis
subject: Composers
subject: Piano music
subject: Music--Manuscripts
subject: Greece--music

description: Manuscripts of early music works and skecthes. Greece, 1982 to 1984. Documents the artist's transition from music theory student to aspiring composer influenced by Mozart and, especially, Beethoven.
Temporal Landscapes: A Graphical Logic of Behavior
Creators: name: Fong, Brendan
name: Speranzon, Alberto
name: Spivak, David I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an elementary introduction to a new logic for reasoning about behaviors that occur over time. This logic is based on temporal type theory. The syntax of the logic is similar to the usual first-order logic; what differs is the notion of truth value. Instead of reasoning about whether formulas are true or false, our logic reasons about temporal landscapes. A temporal landscape may be thought of as representing the set of durations over which a statement is true. To help understand the practical implications of this approach, we give a wide variety of examples where this logic is used to reason about autonomous agents.
description: In Proceedings ACT 2021, arXiv:2211.01102
Integrated microcavity optomechanics with a suspended photonic crystal mirror above a distributed Bragg reflector
Creators: name: Manjeshwar, Sushanth Kini
name: Ciers, Anastasiia
name: Monsel, Juliette
name: Pfeifer, Hannes
name: Peralle, Cindy
name: Wang, Shu Min
name: Tassin, Philippe
name: Wieczorek, Witlef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Increasing the interaction between light and mechanical resonators is an ongoing endeavor in the field of cavity optomechanics. Optical microcavities allow for boosting the interaction strength through their strong spatial confinement of the optical field. In this work, we follow this approach by realizing a sub-wavelength-long, free-space optomechanical microcavity on-chip fabricated from an (Al,Ga)As heterostructure. A suspended GaAs photonic crystal mirror is acting as a highly reflective mechanical resonator, which together with a distributed Bragg reflector forms an optomechanical microcavity. We demonstrate precise control over the microcavity resonance by change of the photonic crystal parameters. The interplay between the microcavity mode and a guided resonance of the photonic crystal modifies the cavity response and results in a stronger dynamical backaction on the mechanical resonator compared to conventional optomechanical dynamics.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures + Supplementary Material with 10 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables
title: The Disposition Effect, Emotion and Mindful Emotion Regulation
Creators: name: Wong, Ernest K. S.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022

description: The disposition effect is investors’ propensity to sell more gains than losses. Prior research shows this divestment pattern to be associated with inferior investment performance. Using a free trading simulation in an online, 2 × 2 factorial experimental study, this research investigated the respective roles of mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal in influencing retail investors’ disposition effect and its behavioural components, at the state and trait levels. At the state level, mindfulness was hypothesised to lessen the disposition effect, and perspective-taking as a financial advisor was hypothesised to reduce the disposition effect (via participants’ felt responsibility for their trading decisions), relative to the role of trading for their account. At the trait level, trait mindfulness and trait positive reappraisal were hypothesised to reduce the disposition effect, while trait catastrophising was proposed to increase the disposition effect.

 The primary hypotheses for the thesis were broadly disconfirmed. Findings suggest that state mindfulness does not reduce the disposition effect. The think-as-an-advisor cognitive reappraisal intervention failed its manipulation check, so hypotheses associated with this variable could not be adequately tested. Reasons for the failure were explored, as were implications for interpreting prior research using the perspective-taking intervention. Trait mindfulness, trait positive reappraisal, and trait catastrophising showed no significant association with the disposition effect. A reasonably large sample (N = 820) combined with the randomised control experiment lends credence to these null results.

 However, significant effects were detected when examining the cognitive-affective processes with the constituent divesting behaviours. A heightened state of mindfulness caused significantly reduced levels of selling of gains and losses. Trait catastrophising was associated with increased divestment of gains and losses, and elevated state mindfulness correlated to a lower tendency to catastrophise. It is well established that a common reason for investor under-performance is overtrading. The findings suggest that cognitive-affective processes helping investors become more mindful or less vulnerable to the tendency to catastrophise can be fruitful in reducing overtrading and thus, improving performance.
Centralized and Distributed Machine Learning-Based QoT Estimation for Sliceable Optical Networks
Creators: name: Panayiotou, Tania
name: Savva, Giannis
name: Tomkos, Ioannis
name: Ellinas, Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Dynamic network slicing has emerged as a promising and fundamental framework for meeting 5G's diverse use cases. As machine learning (ML) is expected to play a pivotal role in the efficient control and management of these networks, in this work we examine the ML-based Quality-of-Transmission (QoT) estimation problem under the dynamic network slicing context, where each slice has to meet a different QoT requirement. We examine ML-based QoT frameworks with the aim of finding QoT model/s that are fine-tuned according to the diverse QoT requirements. Centralized and distributed frameworks are examined and compared according to their accuracy and training time. We show that the distributed QoT models outperform the centralized QoT model, especially as the number of diverse QoT requirements increases.
description: accepted for presentation at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019
Exploring Scholarly Data by Semantic Query on Knowledge Graph Embedding Space
Creators: name: Tran, Hung Nghiep
name: Takasu, Atsuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The trends of open science have enabled several open scholarly datasets which include millions of papers and authors. Managing, exploring, and utilizing such large and complicated datasets effectively are challenging. In recent years, the knowledge graph has emerged as a universal data format for representing knowledge about heterogeneous entities and their relationships. The knowledge graph can be modeled by knowledge graph embedding methods, which represent entities and relations as embedding vectors in semantic space, then model the interactions between these embedding vectors. However, the semantic structures in the knowledge graph embedding space are not well-studied, thus knowledge graph embedding methods are usually only used for knowledge graph completion but not data representation and analysis. In this paper, we propose to analyze these semantic structures based on the well-studied word embedding space and use them to support data exploration. We also define the semantic queries, which are algebraic operations between the embedding vectors in the knowledge graph embedding space, to solve queries such as similarity and analogy between the entities on the original datasets. We then design a general framework for data exploration by semantic queries and discuss the solution to some traditional scholarly data exploration tasks. We also propose some new interesting tasks that can be solved based on the uncanny semantic structures of the embedding space.
description: TPDL 2019; add appendix for the KG20C scholarly knowledge graph benchmark dataset
Survey report on the future needs
Creators: name: Szekér, Lise
name: Smits, Ine
name: Lenaerts, Karolien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This user survey report on the future needs described the main insights from a user survey that reached out to data users in the fields of living and working conditions, poverty, vulnerability or precariousness, inclusion, social and labour policy, and related domains. The user survey focuses on identifying and prioritising data users’ needs to gather further insight into the main challenges regarding the European scientific and policy communities concerned with inclusive growth. The results of this user survey can be used to expand the current state of data, indicators, methods and tools, as well as opportunities for training and networking in the discussed areas. This report first describes the applied methodology. Then it focuses on the users’ needs regarding data, indicators and methods and stipulates how InGRID-2 or resembling futuring projects can address these needs. Next data users’ opinions on availability and shortages regarding training and networking activities in the respondents’ respective fields of interest are described with special attention for the visiting grants offered for transnational access, which is also partly an evaluation of the ongoing InGRID-2 activities.