cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Automated Feature Engineering for Time Series Data
Creators: name: Li, Keyi
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023

description: Feature engineering for time series data, a critical task in data science, involves the transformation or encoding of raw data to create more predictive input features.This paper introduces a novel web framework designed to automate the labor-intensive and expertise-demanding process of time series feature engineering. The framework comprises advanced methods for automated feature extraction and selection, providing a wide range of application possibilities. A Bayesian Optimization strategy is also integrated to identify optimal features and model parameters for specific datasets, thereby enhancing prediction performance. The paper thoroughly explores the framework's design principles and operational procedures, along with validation of its effectiveness across different domains using real-world datasets.
Axonopus succulentus G. A. Black, Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Axonopus
Axonopus succulentus

description: Axonopus succulentus G.A.Black, Advancing Frontiers Pl. Sci. 5: 134. 1963.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Caaguazú: Pedersen 16074 (G). Paraguarí: Rojas 6176, type (BAA, K (photo), SI, US).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Data Linkage to Improve Geriatric Oncology Research: A Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Guerard, Emily J.
name: Choi, Bong-Jin
name: Sanoff, Hanna K.
name: Deal, Allison M.
name: Williams, Grant R.
name: Meyer, Anne-Marie
name: Chang, Yunkyung
name: Lund, Jennifer L.
name: Muss, Hyman B.
name: Pergolotti, Mackenzi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Older adults (aged 65 years and older) diagnosed with cancer account for most cancer‐related morbidity and mortality in the United States but are often underrepresented on clinical trials. Recent attention from a variety of professional, research, regulatory, and patient advocacy groups has centered on data linkage and data sharing as a means to capture patient information and outcomes outside of clinical trials to accelerate progress in the fight against cancer. The development of a more robust observational research data infrastructure would help to address gaps in the evidence base regarding optimal approaches to treating cancer among the growing and complex population of older adults. To demonstrate the feasibility of building such a resource, we linked information from a sample of older adults with cancer in North Carolina using three distinct, but complementary, data sources: (a) the Carolina Senior Registry, (b) the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry, and (c) North Carolina fee‐for‐service Medicare claims data. A description of the linkage process, metrics, and characteristics of the final cohort is reported. This study highlights the potential for data linkage to improve the characterization of health status among older adults with cancer and the possibility to conduct passive follow‐up for outcomes of interest over time. Extensions of these linkage efforts in partnership with other institutions will enhance our ability to generate evidence that can inform the management of older adults with cancer.
การวิเคราะห์โครงข่ายด้วยระบบสารสนเทศภูมิศาสตร์เพื่อหาแบบจำลองที่ตั้งที่เหมาะสมสำหรับจุดรองรับขยะมูลฝอยในพื้นที่เทศบาลนครนครราชสีมา
Creators: name: ธัญญรัตน์ ไชยคราม
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2019
Subjects: waste
model
network analysis
location & allocation

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 8, 3, 226-237
Lavoro, antropologia e differenze
Creators: name: Ceschi, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The article tackle the issues of giving analytical readability and practicable socio-cultural perspectives to the blurred and dispersed features of contemporary work. The interplay between work processes and relationships and the socio-economic, cultural, political and territorial differences of workers can be a central field to explore through empirical and ethnographic approaches, and an interesting key to access processes and dynamics characterizing post-Fordist transformations. Focusing on migration and related differences and drawing from personal research experiences, the author discusses three possible analytical domains for studying effects and counter effects of the relationship between work and difference: spaces, “cultures” of work, status. Ethnography in and of the work places, to be conducted through different levels of deepness according to real constraints, is still a fundamental tool in order to increase the presence of researchers in the workplaces and to improve socio-cultural knowledge on contemporary work.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2015)
"Fistful of Tears": Encounters with Transnational Affect, Chinese Immigrants and Italian Fast Fashion
Creators: name: Krause, Elizabeth L.
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: In the made in italy fast-fashion sector, the ultimate flexible workers are Chinese migrants, whose parenting practices include circulating children back to China. This paper draws on collaborative research in Prato, Italy, to grasp how Chinese families and individuals encounter the Italian state and negotiate the terms of transnational capitalism. The project innovates an encounter ethnography framework to guide research. This paper investigates the dialectic between economics and affect. Chinese immigrants’ desires to make money are situated in three structural encounters, each at a different level of scale: the Wenzhou regional model of economic development; a Central Italian small-firm environment connected to the made in italy brand; and global restructuring of the textile and clothing industry. These encounters structure migrant experiences. Underlying sentiments expose how families cope with the demands of globalization, particularly their work in a sector demanding long hours and a fast production schedule. Adjusting to garment work is expressed as a “fistful of tears”; a decision to circulate children into the care of relatives back home is said to be “the only solution”. This paper uses the concept of “global household” (Safri and Graham 2010) to examine the transnational dispersal of kin networks and migrants’ reliance on the affective circuits of those networks. They illuminate, as Marshall Sahlins (2000) observed, how “capitalist forces are realized in other forms and finalities”, as a result of local cultural practices such mediating global systems.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2015)
Generations on the Line. Working Class Culture and Generational Conflict among Workers at an Italian Factory
Creators: name: Moro, Angelo
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: In their multiple attempts to understand the decline of the working class a number of sociologists have questioned changes in intergenerational relationships, analyzing transformations happened not only within the factory, but also outside it (in school, job market, family relations, labor activism). Inspired by this approach, particularly developed in French sociology, I conducted an ethnographic research among a group of workers employed at a automotive factory in Italy. This paper argues that, if transformations in the contexts of socialization have produced a generational gap within the working class, a conflict between “older” and “younger” workers is activated, in the context of the factory, by specific management policies. Nevertheless, the generational frame represents less a deterministic structure than a “constraining environment” that offers room for a partial composition of the generational conflict and an appropriation of the old working class culture by new generations.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2015)
การวิเคราะห์วอเตอร์ฟุตพรินต์ในกระบวนการผลิตเบนซีนและพาราไซลีน
Creators: name: เรืองรัตน์ เรืองเดช
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Water Consumption Impact, Life Cycle Assessment(LCA), Water Footprint

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 8, 3, 309-323
Key Lessons Learned from Moffitt's Molecular Tumor Board: The Clinical Genomics Action Committee Experience
Creators: name: Walko, Christine M
name: Knepper, Todd C.
name: McLeod, Howard L.
name: Vo, Teresa T.
name: Bell, Gillian C.
name: Gillis, Nancy K.
name: Mason, Neil T.
name: Teer, Jamie K.
name: Hicks, J. Kevin
name: Padron, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The increasing practicality of genomic sequencing technology has led to its incorporation into routine clinical practice. Successful identification and targeting of driver genomic alterations that provide proliferative and survival advantages to tumor cells have led to approval and ongoing development of several targeted cancer therapies. Within many major cancer centers, molecular tumor boards are constituted to shepherd precision medicine into clinical practice.
Nonequilibrium behaviors of 3D Heisenberg model in the Swendsen-Wang algorithm
Creators: name: Nonomura, Yoshihiko
name: Tomita, Yusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Y. N. showed that the nonequilibrium critical relaxation of the 2D Ising model from the perfectly-ordered state in the Wolff algorithm is described by the stretched-exponential decay, and found a universal scaling scheme to connect nonequilibrium and equilibrium behaviors. In the present study we extend these findings to vector spin models, and the 3D Heisenberg model could be a typical example. In order to evaluate the critical temperature and critical exponents precisely with the above scaling scheme, we calculate the nonequilibrium ordering from the perfectly-disordered state in the Swendsen-Wamg algorithm, and find that the critical ordering process is described by the stretched-exponential growth with the comparable exponent to that of the 3D XY model. The critical exponents evaluated in the present study are consistent with those in previous studies.
description: 11 pages, 18 figures, using RevTeX4
Lavoro, azienda e tecnologia. Riflessioni su un'esperienza di antropologia applicata
Creators: name: Balella, Chiara
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This article presents a field research as an example of anthropological study applied to the working dynamics within an Italian ICT company. This experience is narrated through three levels of reflection linked by the theme of “differences”: the disciplinary differences relating to labor studies in Italy, where anthropology is much less developed and considered than close disciplines; the differences in the analysis of working dynamics in the company, where it’s usually made a break between working climate -investigated by psychology through quantitative tools- and working culture -studied by anthropology through qualitative methods-; the differences in the perception of technological work in the company, where technology is often separated from human labor. A positive outlook towards the future and the awareness of an anthropology which is both action, commitment, participation and experimentation try to create a new balance between these differences.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2015)
I professionisti del sociale: crisi del welfare state, crisi economica
Creators: name: Gardini, Emilio
name: Ferraro, Stefania
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This article analyzes the present condition of the professional social workers through their practice activities and their biographies. The context of the ethnographic research is Naples. The first part of the paper describes the experience of social operators that work in the cooperatives of the third sector and in the private social organizations. The second one presents a focus about the condition of the social workers that take care of the homeless. The theoretical perspective of this paper is the critical approach to the “selective welfare policy” produced by the liberal governmentality. The authors focus on the distortions created by the system of governance and its impact on social workers and “users”. From the point of view of professional social workers, this article reflects on how “work, health and family” become an “individual risk” as a result of the transformation of welfare policies.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2015)
Breaking and restoration of rotational symmetry for irreducible tensor operators on the lattice
Creators: name: Lu, Bing-Nan
name: Lähde, Timo A.
name: Lee, Dean
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the breaking of rotational symmetry on the lattice for irreducible tensor operators and practical methods for suppressing this breaking. We illustrate the features of the general problem using an $α$ cluster model for $^{8}$Be. We focus on the lowest states with non-zero angular momentum and examine the matrix elements of multipole moment operators. We show that the physical reduced matrix element is well reproduced by averaging over all possible orientations of the quantum state, and this is expressed as a sum of matrix elements weighted by the corresponding Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. For our $α$ cluster model we find that the effects of rotational symmetry breaking can be largely eliminated for lattice spacings of $a\leq 1.7$ fm, and we expect similar improvement for actual lattice Monte Carlo calculations.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Elionurus lividus Hack., Monogr. Phan.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Elionurus
Elionurus lividus

description: Elionurus lividus Hack., Monogr. Phan. 6: 337-338. 1889.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Caaguazú: Balansa 294, type (BM, BR, G, K, SI). Canindeyú: Zardini & Ramírez 51316 (AS, BM, MO). Central: Hassler 1715 (G). Cordillera: Balansa 294a, type (G, K). San Pedro: Woolston 81 (K).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Multidisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer During Pregnancy
Creators: name: Sweeting, Raeshall
name: Faso, Aimee
name: Shachar, Shlomit Strulov
name: Zagar, Timothy M.
name: Muss, Hyman B.
name: Anders, Carey K.
name: Gallagher, Kristalyn
name: McGuire, Kandace
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Although breast cancer during pregnancy (BCDP) is rare (occurring with only 0.4% of all BC diagnoses in female patients aged 16–49 years), management decisions are challenging to both the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
EVALUATION OF LOW-PRESSURE WATER-BASED TRENCH DRAIN FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS IN AIRCRAFT HANGARS USING FDS MODELING
Creators: name: Braddock, Sofia Le
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering

description: The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) prohibition of PFAS-containing AFFF fire protection systems by 2024 has motivated the U.S. Department of Defense to study other alternatives. In this study, the current low-expansion AFFF foam fire suppression systems with trenches layout in NAVFAC facilities are modeled as water-based systems to determine the scale, coverage, and extinguishment times that can be expected from such systems. A reduced spacing of the trenches is then simulated to determine how spacing of the floor nozzles affects fire suppression and control. Additionally, a model of a previously identified floor-level low-pressure water mist nozzle with the incorporation of trenches is studied to validate its possibility of being a replacement option for the current NAVFAC systems. Each simulation consists of three components: fire model, sprinkler/water mist model, and extinction model. Each model is evaluated separately before inputting into the final simulations to determine the most accurate representation and minimize uncertainties. The final simulations with sprinkler nozzles show successful extinguishment up to 23 MW and better performance at earlier activation time and in setups with the current trench spacing. Little to no difference is observed between the two fuel spill fire scenarios at the same activation time and trench spacing. On the other hand, the low-pressure water mist systems do not meet adequate performance in the final hangar simulations.
Species habitat associations in an old-growth beech forest community organised by landslide disturbances
Creators: name: Torimaru, Takeshi
name: Akada, Shinji
name: Ishida, Kiyoshi
name: Narita, Machiko
name: Higaki, Daisuke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: In order to understand the processes that govern tree species’ spatial associations with habitats in landslide-affected forest communities, we investigated the habitat associations of six major tree species in an old-growth beech forest community located on a steep flank slope where landslides had occurred. All stems ≥ 5cm in diameter at breast height were mapped on a 1.14 ha polygonal plot and the topographic conditions (slope inclination and convexity), canopy state, and forest floor vegetation (i.e. dwarf bamboo and fern cover) were assessed. Most stems of Fagus crenata and Acer japonicum as well as many stems of Magnolia obovata belonging to the canopy layer were located on sites with low fern cover, whereas many stems of M. obovata below the canopy layer were associated with sites having high dwarf bamboo cover. The locations of the two Acer species belonging to the canopy and lowest layers coincided with sites having convex topography. Stems of Aesculus turbinata below the canopy layer were generally found on sites with gentle slopes, whereas most stems of Quercus crispula coincided with steeply sloping sites. While the results demonstrate that steep slopes created as landslide headscarps provide suitable habitats for species with less shade tolerance, it should be noted that there were few consistent patterns of habitat association across the layers. Our results suggest that unpredictable sporadic landslide disturbances with varying intensities and spatial scales, and their recursiveness, are at least partly responsible for habitat association patterns observed in the forest community.
DEVELOPING A VELOCITY-DENSITY CURVE FOR HIGH-DENSITY CROWD SIMULATION BY ANALYZING FOOTAGE VIDEOS
Creators: name: Zhang, Zilin
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering

description: Crowds with densities higher than 2 persons/m2 can be defined as high-density crowds. High-density crowds presenting in daily life like concerts and sports events can lead to serious people and property loss. This research work focuses on developing a new speed-density relationship for high-density crowds. The applicability of the new speed-density relationship is tested in Pathfinder, an agent-based evacuation simulation software developed by Thunderhead Engineering, to determine the impact of updating such data on the model's performance. This research also discusses several parameters and functions in Pathfinder including acceleration time and reduction factor to help model high-density crowds.Previous work is available for analyzing crowds with densities lower than 3 persons/m2. However, densities as high as 9 persons/m2 are common in many high-density crowd scenarios. The disparity between previous work and real-world situations presents a challenge for engineers to understand the crowd dynamics of high-density crowds. Developing evacuation models to predict the behavior of high-density crowds is crucial to improving the predictive ability of crowd simulation. By doing so, it helps to reduce the number of casualties in future emergencies. Real-world footage videos are analyzed in this research. With the open-source experimental footage videos provided by Jülich, a national research institution, a new speed-density curve is summarized by collecting and analyzing data from the videos. The assessment of the applicability of the new speed-density in Pathfinder focuses on four aspects: evacuation time, flow density, flow velocity, and occupants’ arrangement. Per case examined, by applying the new speed-density curve, the predicted evacuation time from Pathfinder simulation is improved from 12.6% to within 4.9% of the experimental video time. The predicted flow density is improved from 6.2% to within 0.7% of the average video density. The predicted flow velocity is improved from 25.9% to within 3.3% of the average video velocity. At the same time, it is observed that occupants in the model behave more realistically.
Master equation based steady-state cluster perturbation theory
Creators: name: Nuss, Martin
name: Dorn, Gerhard
name: Dorda, Antonius
name: von der Linden, Wolfgang
name: Arrigoni, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple and efficient approximation scheme to study electronic transport characteristics of strongly correlated nano devices, molecular junctions or heterostructures out of equilibrium is provided by steady-state cluster perturbation theory. In this work, we improve the starting point of this perturbative, nonequilibrium Green's function based method. Specifically, we employ an improved unperturbed (so-called reference) state $\hatρ^S$, constructed as the steady-state of a quantum master equation within the Born-Markov approximation. This resulting hybrid method inherits beneficial aspects of both, the quantum master equation as well as the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. We benchmark the new scheme on two experimentally relevant systems in the single-electron transistor regime: An electron-electron interaction based quantum diode and a triple quantum dot ring junction, which both feature negative differential conductance. The results of the new method improve significantly with respect to the plain quantum maste equation treatment at modest additional computational cost.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 3 pages appendix
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Home‐Based Walking Program to Reduce Moderate to Severe Aromatase Inhibitor‐Associated Arthralgia in Breast Cancer Survivors
Creators: name: Callahan, Leigh F.
name: Muss, Hyman B.
name: Arbeeva, Liubov L.
name: Hackney, Betsy S.
name: Nyrop, Kirsten A.
name: Cleveland, Rebecca J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: In postmenopausal women diagnosed with breast cancer (BC), most BC tumors are hormone receptor positive and guidelines recommend adjuvant endocrine therapy that includes an aromatase inhibitor (AI). This study investigates the impact of a 6-week, home-based, self-directed walking program on the commonly reported side effect of AI-associated arthralgia (AIAA).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this phase II trial, consented BC patients were randomized to walking Intervention (n = 31) or Wait List Control (WLC; n = 31). Eligibility criteria included: stage 0-III BC, on AI for at least 4 weeks, ≥3 on a 5-point scale inquiring about joint symptom intensity "at its worst," and exercising ≤150 minutes per week. Outcomes were self-reported joint symptoms and psychosocial measures. Analyses comparing Intervention and WLC groups were conducted on an intention-to-treat basis to assess intervention impact at 6 weeks (postintervention) and at 6-months follow-up. Adjusted means were calculated to assess differences in two groups.

RESULTS: In our final sample (n = 62), mean age was 64 years, 74% were white, and 63% had a body mass index of 30 or higher. At postintervention, Intervention group participants reported significantly increased walking minutes per week, reduced stiffness, less difficulty with activities of daily living (ADL), and less perceived helplessness in managing joint symptoms. At 6-months follow-up (postwalking period in both Intervention and WLC), walking minutes per week had decreased significantly; however, improvements in stiffness and difficulty with ADLs were maintained.

CONCLUSION: This study adds to the growing evidence base suggesting exercise as a safe alternative or adjunct to medications for the management of AIAA.

IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Breast cancer survivors whose adjuvant endocrine treatment includes an aromatase inhibitor (AI) often experience the side effect of AI-associated arthralgia (AIAA). This study investigates the impact of a 6-week, home-based, self-directed walking program in the management of AIAA. Compared with Wait List Control, women in the Intervention group reported significantly increased walking minutes per week, reduced stiffness, less difficulty with activities of daily living, and less perceived helplessness in managing joint symptoms. This study adds to the growing evidence base suggesting exercise as a safe alternative or adjunct to medications for the management of AIAA.
Entangled Views: The history, research, and educational applications of anatomical collections in the US in the wake of ethical concerns.
Creators: name: Campanacho, Vanessa
name: , Alves-Cardoso
name: de la Cova, Carlina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presented at: 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Budapeste, Hungria, 31 Agosto a 3 September European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) (Budapest, Hungria) The initial creation of documented human skeletal collections in the United States is intimately tied to the development of anatomy and physical anthropology. This paper offers a view on the history and research undertaken on these collections, discussing the current ethical concerns that may shape/transform the profile and use of anatomical collections. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, physical anthropology studied skeletal variation, with an emphasis on racial classification. To observe the wide range of human anatomical diversity, dissection of human bodies was needed. However, in the late 18th and early 19th century due to the increasing numbers of medical schools and dire need for teaching/practicing material, despite its illegality, grave-robbing was relied upon for access to human remains. Facing illegality and populace uprisings, in 1831, the first Anatomy Act was passed in Massachusetts. This legislation legalized access to the bodies of unclaimed individuals for anatomization, deterring grave-robbing. Other states followed suit in passing anatomy acts. These laws would ultimately allow anatomists and physical anthropologists to legally amass documented human skeletal collections from dissected bodies. Despite this legal frame of permissiveness, in recent years ethical concerns associated with the composition of anatomical collections are growing.These include the absence of consent, aligned with replication, in death, of structural violence individuals in these collections experienced during their lifetimes. One consequence has been the request for repatriation and reburial of many remains. Another is the calls for scientists to seek descendants’ consent before researching skeletons from ancestors or members of their community. Guidelines will be discussed on how to ethically engage with anatomical collections.
Flexible Peak Load: A German Case Study of Operation Strategies for Greenhouse Gas-Neutral Energy Systems
Creators: name: Schöb, Thomas
name: Kullmann, Felix
name: Linssen, Jochen
name: Stolten, Detlef
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: 18th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24 Sep 2023 - 29 Sep 2023
description: see attached
Achievable Rate of Rician Large-Scale MIMO Channels with Transceiver Hardware Impairments
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiayi
name: Dai, Linglong
name: Zhang, Xinling
name: Björnson, Emil
name: Wang, Zhaocheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transceiver hardware impairments (e.g., phase noise, in-phase/quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance, amplifier non-linearities, and quantization errors) have obvious degradation effects on the performance of wireless communications. While prior works have improved our knowledge on the influence of hardware impairments of single-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems over Rayleigh fading channels, an analysis encompassing the Rician fading channel is not yet available. In this paper, we pursue a detailed analysis of regular and large-scale (LS) MIMO systems over Rician fading channels by deriving new, closed-form expressions for the achievable rate to provide several important insights for practical system design. More specifically, for regular MIMO systems with hardware impairments, there is always a finite achievable rate ceiling, which is irrespective of the transmit power and fading conditions. For LS-MIMO systems, it is interesting to find that the achievable rate loss depends on the Rician $K$-factor, which reveals that the favorable propagation in LS-MIMO systems can remove the influence of hardware impairments. However, we show that the non-ideal LS-MIMO system can still achieve high spectral efficiency due to its huge degrees of freedom.
description: 7 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Television and women’s reproductive behavior: evidence from Uganda
Creators: name: Ahmed, Ishraq
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper examines the relationship between television exposure and women’s reproductive behavior in Uganda. There is very little research that has explored the impact of television on the current adoption of modern contraceptives and to our knowledge, no studies have looked at the relationship between family planning programs on TV and the use of modern birth control in Uganda. We find that watching television and specifically watching family planning programs on television is positively associated with the current use of modern contraceptives. Increased frequency of watching TV is also associated with greater use of modern contraceptives. We further find that women exposed to television also changed other aspects of reproductive behavior – preference for a certain number of children and the decision to use any birth control to avoid pregnancy. Our results indicate that continued access to television and family planning programs on television has the potential to alter reproductive behavior and provide women with information and choice to adopt modern methods of birth control.
Eragrostis triangularis Henrard, Repert. 2018, Spec. Nov.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Eragrostis
Eragrostis triangularis

description: Eragrostis triangularis Henrard, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 23(18-25): 301. 1927.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Alto Paraná: Schinini et al. 28237 (CTES, G). Amambay: Rojas 6652A (AS, BAA, MO). Caaguazú: Balansa 236, type (G, K, L, P, US); Pedersen 16073 (C, G, SI).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Strongly aligned gas-phase molecules at Free-Electron Lasers
Creators: name: Kierspel, Thomas
name: Wiese, Joss
name: Mullins, Terry
name: Robinson, Joseph
name: Aquila, Andy
name: Barty, Anton
name: Bean, Richard
name: Boll, Rebecca
name: Boutet, Sébastien
name: Bucksbaum, Philip
name: Chapman, Henry N.
name: Christensen, Lauge
name: Fry, Alan
name: Hunter, Mark
name: Koglin, Jason E.
name: Liang, Mengning
name: Mariani, Valerio
name: Morgan, Andrew
name: Natan, Adi
name: Petrovic, Vladimir
name: Rolles, Daniel
name: Rudenko, Artem
name: Schnorr, Kirsten
name: Stapelfeldt, Henrik
name: Stern, Stephan
name: Thøgersen, Jan
name: Yoon, Chun Hong
name: Wang, Fenglin
name: Trippel, Sebastian
name: Küpper, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a novel experimental implementation to strongly align molecules at full repetition rates of free-electron lasers. We utilized the available in-house laser system at the coherent x-ray imaging beamline at the Linac Coherent Light Source. Chirped laser pulses, i. e., the direct output from the regenerative amplifier of the Ti:Sa chirped pulse amplification laser system, were used to strongly align 2,5-diiodothiophene molecules in a molecular beam. The alignment laser pulses had pulse energies of a few mJ and a pulse duration of 94 ps. A degree of alignment of $\left$ = 0.85 was measured, limited by the intrinsic temperature of the molecular beam rather than by the available laser system. With the general availability of synchronized chirped-pulse-amplified near-infrared laser systems at short-wavelength laser facilities, our approach allows for the universal preparation of molecules tightly fixed in space for experiments with x-ray pulses.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Forme, significati e valori della partecipazione politica giovanile nell'Empolese Valdelsa
Creators: name: Felaco, Cristiano
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The relationship of the young people with the politics has changed in the postmodern society. The most recent surveys shows that the young prefer individualistic kinds of participation and participate mostly in cultural and social associations. This article aims to analyze the participation of the young members of the “Arci” club in “Empolese Valdelsa” in Tuscany, an area with a long political tradition. In particular, the research attempts to identify the transformation of the values belonging to local political subculture that it has oriented the political life of the people over the years.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2015)
Pappophorum hassleri Hack., Bull. Herb. Boissier
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Pappophorum
Pappophorum hassleri

description: Pappophorum hassleri Hack., Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4(3): 280. 1904.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Amambay: Hassler 12089 (G); Soria 6805 (FCQ). Caaguazú: Balansa 286 (G, K); Hassler 9305 (G); Hassler 9527 (BM, G, K). Canindeyú: (Zuloaga et al. 2015). San Pedro: Hassler 4456, type (BAA, BM, G, GOET, LIL, US).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Piccole Apostasie. Il congedo dai nuovi movimenti religiosi di Mario Cardano e Nicole Pannofino
Creators: name: Sacchi, Simona
name: Dei, Fabio
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2015)
title: Re-Imagining Place: The Eidetic Image and Vancouver's Urban-Landscape
Creators: name: Gazley, Jay
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (Art)
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00000134
subject: Imagery (Psychology)
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064451
subject: Landscape architecture
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003667
subject: Urban geography
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004295
subject: Architecture
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006611
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: In this paper I explore the eidetic image as it relates to the rethinking and imaging of architectural and urban planning concerns. An eidetic image is produced through drawing, painting, modeling, mapping, and/or computer animation from which artists, designers and architects may conduct research into complex spatiality that challenges the passive Cartesian mode of picturing prevalent in both architecture and painting conventions. The term eidetic generally refers to mental imagery, “which are revived versions of [ . . . ] impressions called up by the imagination in the absence of the objects that originally stimulated them...” (Mitchell, Iconology 10). Which is not to say that all eidetic imagery must be recalled from memory. Within the context of this paper, an eidetic image is a visual model constructed by an artist, or designer. In his essay, “Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes” landscape architect James Corner calls on researchers to use this imaging methodology as a means of stimulating discourse, creative invention, and actualizing emergent realities. In his seminal work, “The Image of the City” Kevin Lynch categorizes the contents of the imageable city into five types of architectural components: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks (46). A summary of what those components are and how they function within the urban-landscape will be provided. In addition to Lynch’s five categories, I address the phenomena of pictorial architecture. Pictorial architecture refers to the ubiquitous application of two-dimensional graphic imagery onto three-dimensional architectural structures in the form of retail signage, large-format television screens, and billboards. The thesis of my proposal is that, an artist, designer or architect may use the operational language of Lynch’s five architectural components, and pictorial architecture, within eidetic imagery, as a means of describing the contemporary urban-landscape. To elaborate how architectural components may be deployed in eidetic imagery I will review the works of contemporary artists such as Zaha Hadid, Benjamin Edwards, and Julie Mehretu who specifically deal with the urban-landscape. In addition, I have constructed my own eidetic image, Dream City: Vancouver (2008) and will describe my methodological approach towards urban exploration and image building. In relation to the exploration of cities, the works of The Situationist International and Franz Ackermann will also be discussed.
A method for space-variant deblurring with application to adaptive optics imaging in astronomy
Creators: name: La Camera, Andrea
name: Schreiber, Laura
name: Diolaiti, Emiliano
name: Boccacci, Patrizia
name: Bertero, Mario
name: Bellazzini, Michele
name: Ciliegi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Images from adaptive optics systems are generally affected by significant distortions of the point spread function (PSF) across the field of view, depending on the position of natural and artificial guide stars. Image reduction techniques circumventing or mitigating these effects are important tools to take full advantage of the scientific information encoded in AO images. The aim of this paper is to propose a method for the deblurring of the astronomical image, given a set of samples of the space-variant PSF. The method is based on a partitioning of the image domain into regions of isoplanatism and on applying suitable deconvolution methods with boundary effects correction to each region. The effectiveness of the boundary effects correction is proved. Moreover, the criterion for extending the disjoint sections to partially overlapping sections is validated. The method is applied to simulated images of a stellar system characterized by a spatially variable PSF. We obtain good photometric quality, and therefore good science quality, by performing aperture photometry on the deblurred images. The proposed method is implemented in IDL in the Software Package "Patch", which is available on http://www.airyproject.eu.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables, accepted by A&A
DETERMINING FEEDING RATES IN EASTERN OYSTERS (Crassostrea virginica) USING NATURAL SESTON FLOW- THROUGH SYSTEM
Creators: name: Wiltsee, Laura E.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Aquatic sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biofiltration
subject: Bivalve
subject: Clearance Rate
subject: Crassostrea virginica

description: Bivalves are prized for the ecosystem services they provide. The removal of particles from the water column through filter feeding and resulting water quality benefits, known as the biofiltration services, of bivalves have been studied for over a century. This has created a wealth of knowledge around the mechanistic drivers of bivalve feeding activity. Recently, Chesapeake Bay ecosystem-wide models have begun incorporating Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) biofiltration. Acute feeding variability is critically important when estimating oyster biofiltration services at ecosystem scale. Typically, natural seston clearance rate studies last a limited timeframe, with a focus on specific environmental events such as an increase in temperature, drop in salinity, or a tidal cycle.To capture the highly variable filter feeding rate of bivalves, such as the Eastern Oyster, studies have used highly controlled laboratory conditions, with single environmental variable modification. These studies often use indirect methods for estimating clearance rates that commonly lack high-resolution capability. Furthermore, these studies are labor intensive and time consuming, and as a result, few studies have monitored bivalve feeding activities over long periods to understand variation in activity or how these rates may change with seasonal shifts in conditions. These limitations have led to a shortage of knowledge around how clearance rates of oysters vary in response to ambient conditions over both short-term (hourly) and long-term (seasonal) time scales. This study leverages advances in semi-autonomous aquatic observing to track high- resolution, long-term feeding responses of bivalves to subtle variations in environmental conditions. Oyster ex situ clearance rates in the Choptank River (Maryland, USA) were estimated under flow-through conditions, and logged in real-time using fluorometers among replicate oysters over 5-day experiments for 9 months. The measured clearance rates from this system were compared to a mechanistic clearance rate model used by the Chesapeake Bay Program, which is used to estimate the role of oysters in controlling water quality in the Bay. Environmental data were evaluated to build a statistical and random forest model to predict how oyster clearance rates respond to prevailing environmental conditions. This monitoring system and resulting models enable a deeper understanding of feeding variability and how natural seston and environmental variability directly influence oyster physiology.
Harm Reduction: When Does It Improve Health, and When Does it Backfire?
Creators: name: Cawley, John
name: Dragone, Davide
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2023
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: Some harm reduction strategies encourage individuals to switch from a harmful addictive good to a less harmful addictive good. This approach is controversial, with advocates claiming it helps switching to a less harmful substance, and opponents claiming it may lead to new substance abuse. This paper builds on theories of addiction to model the introduction of a harm reduction method, and it demonstrates when each side is correct, depending on the enjoyableness of the harm reduction method, the addictiveness of the harm reduction method, and the substitutability with the original addictive good.
Pharmacokinetics and Dosing of Levofloxacin in Children Treated for Active or Latent Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis, Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of the Marshall Islands
Creators: name: Menon, Lakshmy R.
name: Chorba, Terence
name: Brostrom, Richard
name: Morris, Sapna Bamrah
name: Jereb, John A.
name: Peloquin, Charles A.
name: Martin, Fatma
name: Daley, Charles L.
name: Mase, Sundari R.
name: Gonzalez, Daniel
name: Loeffler, Ann M.
name: Fred, Dorina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and then the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), levofloxacin pharmacokinetics (PK) were studied in children receiving directly observed once-daily regimens (10 mg/kg, age >5 years; 15–20 mg/kg, age ≤5 years) for either multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) disease or latent infection after MDR TB exposure, to inform future dosing strategies.
Parametric instability of non-Hermitian systems near the exceptional point
Creators: name: Zyablovsky, Alexander A.
name: Andrianov, Evgeny S.
name: Pukhov, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to Hermitian systems, eigenstates of non-Hermitian ones are in general nonorthogonal. This feature is most pronounced at exceptional points where several eigenstates are linearly dependent. In this work we show that near this point a new effect takes place. It exhibits in energy increases in the system when its parameters change periodically. This effect resembles parametric resonance in a Hermitian system but there is a fundamental difference. It comes from the unique properties of the exceptional point that leads to parametric instability that occurs almost at any change in a parameter, while in the case of Hermitian systems it is necessary to fulfill resonance conditions. We illustrate this phenomenon by the case of two coupling waveguides with gain and loss. This phenomenon opens a wide range of applications in optics, plasmonics, and optoelectronics, where the loss is an inevitable problem and plays a crucial role.