cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Terminology of external validity and criteria to assess the external validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in systematic reviews: a Delphi study protocol
Creators: name: Jung, Andres
name: Braun, Tobias
name: Balzer, Julia
name: Luedtke, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: applicability
subject: delphi
subject: external validity
subject: generalizability
subject: randomized controlled trials
subject: systematic review
subject: transferability

description: The aim of this planned study is to achieve consensus regarding terminology of external validity and to create a list of criteria to assess the external validity of RCTs using the Delphi method.
Dynamic fluctuations coincide with periods of high and low modularity in resting-state functional brain networks
Creators: name: Betzel, Richard F.
name: Fukushima, Makoto
name: He, Ye
name: Zuo, Xi-Nian
name: Sporns, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate the relationship of resting-state fMRI functional connectivity estimated over long periods of time with time-varying functional connectivity estimated over shorter time intervals. We show that using Pearson's correlation to estimate functional connectivity implies that the range of fluctuations of functional connections over short time scales is subject to statistical constraints imposed by their connectivity strength over longer scales. We present a method for estimating time-varying functional connectivity that is designed to mitigate this issue and allows us to identify episodes where functional connections are unexpectedly strong or weak. We apply this method to data recorded from $N=80$ participants, and show that the number of unexpectedly strong/weak connections fluctuates over time, and that these variations coincide with intermittent periods of high and low modularity in time-varying functional connectivity. We also find that during periods of relative quiescence regions associated with default mode network tend to join communities with attentional, control, and primary sensory systems. In contrast, during periods where many connections are unexpectedly strong/weak, default mode regions dissociate and form distinct modules. Finally, we go on to show that, while all functional connections can at times manifest stronger (more positively correlated) or weaker (more negatively correlated) than expected, a small number of connections, mostly within the visual and somatomotor networks, do so a disproportional number of times. Our statistical approach allows the detection of functional connections that fluctuate more or less than expected based on their long-time averages and may be of use in future studies characterizing the spatio-temporal patterns of time-varying functional connectivity
description: 47 Pages, 8 Figures, 4 Supplementary Figures
Το αδίκημα της έκδοσης και της αποδοχής πλαστών και εικονικών φορολογικών στοιχείων
Creators: name: Αναγνώστου, Μαρία Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Αποδοχή
Εικονικά φορολογικά στοιχεία
Έκδοση
Νόθευση
Πλαστά φορολογικά στοιχεία
Φοροδιαφυγή
Οικονομικό ποινικό δίκαιο
Acceptance
Fictitious tax information
Issuance
Falsification
False tax information
Tax evasion
Financial criminal law

description: Η παρούσα εργασία ασχολείται με τις θεμελιώδεις πτυχές του άρθρου 66 παρ. 5 του ΚΦΔ και ταυτόχρονα πραγματεύεται ζητήματα όπως η νομική φύση τους, η συμβατότητά τους με γενικές συνταγματικές αρχές και η παροχή έννομης προστασίας στον φορολογούμενο. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο παρατίθεται μια σύντομη ιστορική αναδρομή και αναπτύσσεται η έννοια της φοροδιαφυγής στον ΚΦΔ. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο, αναλύεται το τυπικό αδίκημα φοροδιαφυγής του άρθρ. 66 παρ. 5 του ΚΦΔ και οι έννοιες του. Παράλληλα, περιγράφονται οι διακεκριμένες παραλλαγές, τα ειδικότερα ζητήματα που διαχρονικά προκύπτουν κατά την επιβολή τους όπως ζητήματα συρροής και συμμετοχής, καθώς και η παραγραφή του αδικήματος του άρθρου αυτού.
description: The aim of this paper is to deploy the aspects of Article 66 para. 5 of the Tax Procedure Code and discuss issues such as their legal nature, their compatibility with general constitutional principles and the provision of legal protection to the taxpayer. The first chapter offers a brief historical overview and defines the concept of tax evasion in the Tax Procedure Code. The second chapter analyzes the typical offence of tax evasion of Art. 66 para.5 of the Tax Procedure Code and its concepts. At the same time, the distinct variants, the specific issues that arise over time during their enforcement, such as issues of confluence and participation, as well as the statute of limitations of the offense of this article are cited.
description: Επισπεύδον Τμήμα: Τμήμα Νομικής ΑΠΘ, Συμμετέχει: το Τμήμα Νομικής ΔΠΘ
Evolution of public cooperation in a monitored society with implicated punishment and within-group enforcement
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaojie
name: Sasaki, Tatsuya
name: Perc, Matjaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monitoring with implicated punishment is common in human societies to avert freeriding on common goods. But is it effective in promoting public cooperation? We show that the introduction of monitoring and implicated punishment is indeed effective, as it transforms the public goods game to a coordination game, thus rendering cooperation viable in infinite and finite well-mixed populations. We also show that the addition of within-group enforcement further promotes the evolution of public cooperation. However, although the group size in this context has nonlinear effects on collective action, an intermediate group size is least conductive to cooperative behaviour. This contradicts recent field observations, where an intermediate group size was declared optimal with the conjecture that group-size effects and within-group enforcement are responsible. Our theoretical research thus clarifies key aspects of monitoring with implicated punishment in human societies, and additionally, it reveals fundamental group-size effects that facilitate prosocial collective action.
description: 9 two-column pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Scientific Reports
The accuracy of the palpation meter (PALM) for measuring scapular position in overhead athletes
Creators: name: Rondeau, M. Will
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the validity, reliability and precision of the Palpation Meter while measuring scapular position in overhead athletes and to establish differences in scapular position with dominant shoulders versus non-dominant shoulders in overhead. A correlation analyses was used to determine if there was a relationship between laboratory and clinical measures of scapular position in twenty-nine Division I or recreational college-age overhead athletes. Intra Class Correlation and SEM values were used to determine the intratester reliability and precision of the Palpation Meter. Lastly, a paired t-test was used to determine the differences in scapular position at rest and 90° of abduction in dominant shoulder versus non-dominant. The Palpation Meter was found to be valid, reliable and precise when measuring scapular position at rest. The dominant scapular position of an overhead athlete was significant upwardly rotated, scapular upward/downward rotation, anterior/posterior tipping, and pectoralis minor length.
title: Key points about gallstone ileus that all resident doctors should know
Creators: name: Martínez Fernández, Teresa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Education and training
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To check the main radiological findings with different imaging tests of gallstone ileus that all radiologists should...
UKRI Net Zero DRI Bitesize Resources: The Need for a Centralised Information Hub
Creators: name: MacRae, Molly
name: Pascoe, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These 'bitesize' resources pull together recommendations from the UKRI Net Zero DRI Scoping Project on specific key topics into one short resource.

In this resource, we discuss the benefits of a centralised information hub for sharing up-to-date expertise, gathering new best practices and promoting positive change regarding DRI use in a constantly changing landscape.
title: Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of thyroid nodules at an out-patient clinic
Creators: name: Vo, Khanh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Image verification

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is a novel ultrasound-based elastography method enabling quantitative measurement and qualitative assessment of tissue stiffness. In some recent studies, the feasibility of ARFI for evaluating the...
title: Follow-up of incidental findings from abdominal ultrasound scans in an epidemiological study: the Edinburgh type 2 diabetes study
Creators: name: Gibson, Lorna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Epidemiology

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Relatively intensive radiological investigation of research participants is becoming increasingly common in observational epidemiological studies. Incidental findings, defined as unrelated to study aims, on body imaging performed for research...
Penser la fin de la révolution et le commencement de l'Histoire chez Éric Vuillard : une lecture narrative
Creators: name: Mounir, Ayman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 470308
subject: French language

description: Cet article aborde la guerre des pauvres d'Eric Vuillard à travers l'étude de deux grands thèmes que sont la fin de la révolution et le commencement de l'histoire.
Dans ce travail romanesque, nous étudions les thèmes qui sont en rapport avec la révolte des pauvres.
Eric Vuillard manifeste un profond intérêt pour l'image du
pauvre soumis et/ou du pauvre révolté. Ces images jouent un rôle
déterminant dans la vie de l’homme ordinaire. Cette problématique étudie, avec
le genre et «la construction identitaire», la situation des pauvres victimes d’humiliation,
de soumission, de passivité et de pauvreté. Ce faisant, nous nous focalisons
sur la description critique de cette époquedurant
laquelle le soubassement de la «guerre des pauvres» est à situer dans
l’Allemagne du XVIe siècle. Il faut pour cela dépouiller un
corpus qui nous permettra de nous faire une idée de l’intérêt du discours
historico-révolutionnaire d'Eric Vuillard.
Par conséquent, nous adoptons la méthode analytique descriptive pour l'étude
que nous avons choisie de faire pour ce roman. De ce fait, nous exprimons les possibilités d'intervention de
l'événement historique sur la diffusion des
idées révolutionnaires, le changement de régimes politiques aux lourdes
conséquences sociales.
title: A software prototype for PI-RADS based classification and structured reporting in the Rondo software framework
Creators: name: Woetzel, Jan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: MR-Spectroscopy
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: Computer applications

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Improving indications for prostate cancer from multi-parametric MR imaging (mp-MRI) requires dedicated software tools for diagnosis and communication of the results in a meaningful way. The presented prototype of a novel, comprehensive software...
Rewriting History: Holocaust Survivors in the Jim Crow South and Civil Rights Era, 1945-Present
Creators: name: Herzog, Hannah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Although there is a large body of research on the Holocaust and World War II, the impact of the Nazi regime on southern Jewish life has been deeply understudied. This thesis will explore how Holocaust survivors living in Birmingham, Alabama; Atlanta, Georgia; and Charleston, South Carolina, negotiated the racial landscape of the American South between the late 1940s and 1960s. It will examine how survivors living in these three southern states experienced white nationalism and performed and received their ethnic identity in this racially divisive time in the South. This paper will interpret how survivors’ experiences with politics, gender, anti-Semitism, racism, and racial violence in the South converged with their traumas and memories of the Holocaust. Drawing from ethnographic research, archival materials, and theoretical work in folklore, Holocaust studies, and southern studies, this thesis adds to our understanding of the diversity of the South that existed in the mid-twentieth century.
Lycopodina minuta GeoBio
Creators: name: Hestetun, Jon Thomassen
name: Tompkins-Macdonald, Gabrielle
name: Rapp, Hans Tore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Cladorhizidae
Lycopodina
Lycopodina minuta

description: LYCOPODINA MINUTA (LAMBE, 1900)
(FIG. 37; TABLE 5)
Original description: Esperella minuta Lambe, 1900: 23.
Synonyms and citations: Asbestopluma minuta (Hentschel, 1929: 934; Gorbunov, 1946: 37; Koltun, 1959: 78, 1964: 163).
Material examined: GeoBio 2012, st. ROV-04 (28 July 2012, 71°17.799′N, 005°46.436′W, 501 m) st. ROV 14 (1 August 2012, 71°17.907′N, 005°46.364′W, 465 m).
Diagnosis: Small, pedunculate, Lycopodina withlaterally compressed body; mycalostyles to subtylostyles 327– 543 µm, smaller tylostyles 196–294 µm; microscleres palmate/arcuate anisochelae only, 18–19 µm.
Description: Holotype described by Lambe (1900b) as pedunculate sponge with laterally compressed body. Peduncle is 10 mm in length and 3 mm in diameter, attached to the substrate with a basal plate. The body is 3.5 mm in length, 2.75 × 1 mm in width. Several specimens with a similar morphology and spicule complement were collected at the Mid-Arctic Ridge near Jan Mayen. These are pedunculate, 8–22 mm long in total, with a body 2–3 mm in length and 2.5–5 mm in diameter which varies from solid to an uneven cup shape. The body is white to slightly grey, and the stem is either grey or coated in red clay-like sediment (Fig. 37A–E).
Skeleton: Peduncle composed of parallel mycalostyles with a slight spiral twisting, which become more loosely associated in the body. The shorter tylostyles project from the surface at right angles in the peduncle and slightly upwards in the main body.
description: Published as part of Hestetun, Jon Thomassen, Tompkins-Macdonald, Gabrielle & Rapp, Hans Tore, 2017, A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic, pp. 1-69 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181 on page 48
IVCO Think Piece "To build a bridge that unites us, and withstands the storm"
Creators: name: Baarøy, Jan Olav
name: Lindemann, Kari Anette
name: Lillesvangstu, Tone-Merete
Publisher: name: Northumbria University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440401
subject: Development cooperation
classificationCode: 440602
subject: Development geography
classificationCode: 440610
subject: Social geography
classificationCode: 441004
subject: Social change

description: This think piece is part of the materials produced in advance of the 2024 International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations Conference (IVCO 2024), hosted by Northumbria University in partnership with Comhlámh. It is available in English, Spanish and French.The think piece “To build a bridge that unites us, and withstands the storm” is written by Jan Olav Baarøy, Kari Anette Lindemann and Tone-Merete Lillesvangstu who work for the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (Norec). This think piece focuses on the importance of strong relationships over time to overcome challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and to develop resilient partnerships that can adapt to new circumstances and foster unity among people around the world. The piece uses the example of a knowledge exchange project in Lebanon, supported by the Norwegian government, to illustrate Norec’s approach and emphasis on two-way learning. The authors discuss how the partnerships supported by Norec evolve over time, highlighting how project duration, long-term commitment and personal relationships are crucial in this process.
The application of supervised machine learning to predict group- and individual-level lapse risk in smokers attempting to stop with a popular smartphone app: An exploratory study
Creators: name: Perski, Olga
name: Crane, David
name: Li, Ken
name: Pontikos, Nikolas
name: Naughton, Felix
name: Brown, Jamie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: In this exploratory study, we will use supervised machine learning algorithms (e.g. Random Forest, Support Vector Machine) to predict group- and individual-level lapse risk in smokers attempting to stop with a popular smartphone app.
Synchronization of two memristive coupled van der Pol oscillators
Creators: name: Ignatov, M.
name: Hansen, M.
name: Ziegler, M.
name: Kohlstedt, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The objective of this paper is to explore the possibility to couple two van der Pol (vdP) oscillators via a resistance-capacitance (RC) network comprising a Ag-TiOx-Al memristive device. The coupling was mediated by connecting the gate terminals of two programmable unijunction transistors (PUTs) through the network. In the high resistance state (HRS) the memresistance was in the order of MOhm leading to two independent selfsustained oscillators characterized by the different frequencies f1 and f2 and no phase relation between the oscillations. After a few cycles and in dependency of the mediated pulse amplitude the memristive device switched to the low resistance state (LRS) and a frequency adaptation and phase locking was observed. The experimental results are underlined by theoretically considering a system of two coupled vdP equations. The presented neuromorphic circuitry conveys two essentials principle of interacting neuronal ensembles: synchronization and memory. The experiment may path the way to larger neuromorphic networks in which the coupling parameters can vary in time and strength and are realized by memristive devices.
Forma e sostanza. Le copertine dai CCCP ai CSI
Creators: name: Cuoghi, Diego; Maguolo, Michela
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2024
Subjects: CCCP
CSI
Diego Cuoghi
Album covers

description: Diego Cuoghi, architect and graphic designer, designed the last three album covers of the band CCCP and all those of CSI – Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti. In this interview he recalls how covers were conceived and the reasons of some of the choices made. He discusses the task of the cover for an album, its being a reflection, mainly suggestive and not explanatory, of the record’s contents and the band's aesthetics.
UKRI Net Zero DRI Bitesize Resources: Net Zero and Climate Justice
Creators: name: MacRae, Molly
name: Pascoe, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These 'bitesize' resources pull together recommendations from the UKRI Net Zero DRI Scoping Project on specific key topics into one short resource.

In this resource we explore how integrating climate justice into net zero is essential for ensuring equitable distribution of the burdens and benefits of net zero pathways, clear communication, and proactive policies that support both sustainability and societal fairness.
Does Psychosocial Stress increase the risk of Male Infertility? A Systematic review [and Meta-analysis] on the State of the Evidence
Creators: name: Trebilco, Thomas
name: Storr, Ashleigh
name: Laattoe, Rachel
name: Cohen-Woods, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Male Urogenital Diseases
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Diseases
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Reproductive and Urinary Physiology

description: Investigating the relationship between stress and broad indices of male fertility
Generating entanglement between two-dimensional cavities in uniform acceleration
Creators: name: Regula, Bartosz
name: Lee, Antony R.
name: Dragan, Andrzej
name: Fuentes, Ivette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Moving cavities promise to be a suitable system for relativistic quantum information processing. It has been shown that an inertial and a uniformly accelerated one-dimensional cavity can become entangled by letting an atom emit an excitation while it passes through the cavities, but the acceleration degrades the ability to generate entanglement. We show that in the two-dimensional case the entanglement generated is affected not only by the cavity's acceleration but also by its transverse dimension which plays the role of an effective mass.
Effects of forward head rounded shoulder posture on shoulder girdle flexibility, range of motion, and strength
Creators: name: Sawyer, Quinton Leroy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: The objective of this study was to determine if clinical measures of flexibility, range of motion and strength were different between people with and without Forward Head Rounded Shoulder Posture (FHRSP). In this study we measured the flexibility, range of motion, and strength of the right arm of twenty two FHRSP and fifteen ideal posture subjects. All measures of flexibility and range of motion were measured with a digital inclinometer. Mean and peak values (N) of strength were measured with a hand-held dynamometer. There were no significant differences (p < 0.05) seen in flexibility, range of motion, or strength between groups. The clinical assumptions of FHRSP were not supported in this study using common clinical tests. These findings introduce the idea that differences may be in the neuromuscular control of the shoulder girdle and not in the actual strength and flexibility of muscles and tissue.
The sense of ending in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde
Creators: name: Gottschalk, Jason L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: The final moments of Das Lied von der Erde have consistently been regarded as one of the most enigmatic endings in the history of Western music. The lack of musical resolution of the last movement offers a view into eternity that strikes a potent blow to our rational conception of human experience. An understanding of Mahler's relationship to fin-de-siècle society and his interaction with previous expressions of musical endings, especially those of Beethoven's Ninth and Wagner's Tristan, helps to shed some light on the ending of Das Lied. Mahler expresses his Weltanschauung through the tension that emanates from Das Lied. The unsettling result of this tension however, is not resolution or triumph, but an eternal (ewig), never-ending dialectic struggle between the psyche and the exterior world.
PS1-10jh Continues to Follow the Fallback Accretion Rate of a Tidally Disrupted Star
Creators: name: Gezari, S.
name: Chornock, R.
name: Lawrence, A.
name: Rest, A.
name: Jones, D. O.
name: Berger, E.
name: Challis, P. M.
name: Narayan, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present late-time observations of the tidal disruption event candidate PS1-10jh. UV and optical imaging with HST/WFC3 localize the transient to be coincident with the host galaxy nucleus to an accuracy of 0.023 arcsec, corresponding to 66 pc. The UV flux in the F225W filter, measured 3.35 rest-frame years after the peak of the nuclear flare, is consistent with a decline that continues to follow a $t^{-5/3}$ power-law with no spectral evolution. Late epochs of optical spectroscopy obtained with MMT ~ 2 and 4 years after the peak, enable a clean subtraction of the host galaxy from the early spectra, revealing broad helium emission lines on top of a hot continuum, and placing stringent upper limits on the presence of hydrogen line emission. We do not measure Balmer Hδabsorption in the host galaxy strong enough to be indicative of a rare, post-starburst "E+A" galaxy as reported by Arcavi et al. (2014). The light curve of PS1-10jh over a baseline of 3.5 yr is best modeled by fallback accretion of a tidally disrupted star. Its strong broad helium emission relative to hydrogen (He II λ4686/Hα> 5) could be indicative of either the hydrogen-poor chemical composition of the disrupted star, or certain conditions in the tidal debris of a solar-composition star in the presence of an optically-thick, extended reprocessing envelope.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Stories of Integrity - Experimental evidence on how to curb corruption in the education sector in South Africa
Creators: name: Köbis, Nils
name: Vogt, Sonja
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Policymakers and scholars alike stress integrity building as a promising approach for anti-corruption, particularly among the youth in the context of universities. We will produce several films promoting integrity by varying whether the key message is reflecting an individual approach (Individual Treatment), a social approach (Social Treatment) or a combination of both approaches (Combination Treatment). These three treatments are compared to a Control Treatment.
Model-free control framework for multi-limb soft robots
Creators: name: Vikas, Vishesh
name: Grover, Piyush
name: Trimmer, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The deformable and continuum nature of soft robots promises versatility and adaptability. However, control of modular, multi-limbed soft robots for terrestrial locomotion is challenging due to the complex robot structure, actuator mechanics and robot-environment interaction. Traditionally, soft robot control is performed by modeling kinematics using exact geometric equations and finite element analysis. The research presents an alternative, model-free, data-driven, reinforcement learning inspired approach, for controlling multi-limbed soft material robots. This control approach can be summarized as a four-step process of discretization, visualization, learning and optimization. The first step involves identification and subsequent discretization of key factors that dominate robot-environment, in turn, the robot control. Graph theory is used to visualize relationships and transitions between the discretized states. The graph representation facilitates mathematical definition of periodic control patterns (simple cycles) and locomotion gaits. Rewards corresponding to individual arcs of the graph are weighted displacement and orientation change for robot state-to-state transitions. These rewards are specific to surface of locomotion and are learned. Finally, the control patterns result from optimization of reward dependent locomotion task (e.g. translation) cost function. The optimization problem is an Integer Linear Programming problem which can be quickly solved using standard solvers. The framework is generic and independent of type of actuator, soft material properties or the type of friction mechanism, as the control exists in the robot's task space. Furthermore, the data-driven nature of the framework imparts adaptability to the framework toward different locomotion surfaces by re-learning rewards.
description: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015
"'Formal' vs. 'Empirical' Approaches to Quantum-Classical Reduction"
Creators: name: Rosaler, Joshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I distinguish two types of reduction within the context of quantum-classical relations, which I designate "formal" and "empirical". Formal reduction holds or fails to hold solely by virtue of the mathematical relationship between two theories; it is therefore a two-place, a priori relation between theories. Empirical reduction requires one theory to encompass the range of physical behaviors that are well-modeled in another theory; in a certain sense, it is a three-place, a posteriori relation connecting the theories and the domain of physical reality that both serve to describe. Focusing on the relationship between classical and quantum mechanics, I argue that while certain formal results concerning singular limits as Planck's constant goes to zero have been taken to preclude the possibility of reduction between these theories, such results at most block reduction in the formal sense; little if any reason has been given for thinking that they block reduction in the empirical sense. I then briefly outline a strategy for empirical reduction that is suggested by work on decoherence theory, arguing that this sort of account remains a fully viable route to the empirical reduction of classical to quantum mechanics and is unaffected by such singular limits.
Project working title: Treating Procrastination using a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention in a Randomized Controlled Trial: Pre-registration of a Secondary Data Analysis
Creators: name: blaesing, linda
name: de Haas, Sam
name: Scheres, Anouk
name: Rozental, Alexander
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
subject: Procrastination
subject: Randomized Controlled Trial
subject: Temporal Motivation Theory
subject: University Students

description: Procrastination is a common phenomenon, especially in student samples, that is associated with a wide variety of negative outcomes on the psychological and academical level. According to the temporal motivation theory (TMT; Steel & König, 2006), several motivational factors that could be targeted by means of intervention (i.e., expectancy, impulsivity and value), play an important role in procrastination. However, as of yet little research has been performed on interventions for procrastination and only a few studies tried to reduce procrastination with the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). One study of Rozental and collegues (2018), tested a CBT-intervention for treating procrastination that was based on targeting the factors of the TMT, with promising results. The current randomized controlled trial aims to replicate the original training effect in a modified and more feasible version of the original intervention. Furthermore, it is investigated if the intervention indeed impacts the factors of the TMT that are prone to intervention (i.e., expectancy, impulsivity and value). In order to answer the research questions, 72 participants were randomly allocated to either an active intervention group, or a waitlist control condition. This pre-registration is a secondary data analysis. More specifically, several clinical master students collected data and wrote their respective unpublished master thesis’s on parts of the used dataset in 2 waves over a 2 year interval. The total dataset will be used to answer the current research questions.
Novel considerations about the non-equilibrium regime of the tricritical point in a metamagnetic model: localization and tricritical exponents
Creators: name: da Silva, Roberto
name: Fernandes, Henrique Almeida
name: de Felício, José Roberto Drugowich
name: Figueiredo, Wagner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the time-dependent regime of a two-dimensional metamagnetic model at its tricritical point via Monte Carlo simulations. First of all, we obtained the temperature and magnetic field corresponding to the tricritical point of the model by using a refinement process based on optimization of the coefficient of determination in the log-log fit of magnetization decay as function of time. With these estimates in hand, we obtained the dynamic tricritical exponents $θ$ and $z$ and the static tricritical exponents $ν$ and $β$ by using the universal power-law scaling relations for the staggered magnetization and its moments at early stage of the dynamic evolution. Our results at tricritical point confirm that this model belongs to the two-dimensional Blume-Capel model universality class for both static and dynamic behaviors, and also they corroborate the conjecture of Janssen and Oerding for the dynamics of tricritical points.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
UKRI Net Zero DRI Bitesize Resources: Navigating the Rebound Effect
Creators: name: MacRae, Molly
name: Pascoe, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These 'bitesize' resources pull together recommendations from the UKRI Net Zero DRI Scoping Project on specific key topics into one short resource.

This resource describes the rebound effect (or Jevons paradox) and how upgrades to more efficient equipment intended to reduce the carbon footprint of the DRI can lead to increased demand and utilisation instead of actual carbon savings. We suggest that a paradigm shift in the way we think about increased efficiency is necessary for avoiding the rebound effect in our journey to net zero digital research infrastructure.
title: Imaging of Candidal Liver abscesses
Creators: name: Di Pietropaolo, Marco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Abscess
subject: Infection

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Fungal infections are widespread in the environment. The most common fungus infecting the liver is the Candida species, however, this infection is diagnosed antemortem in few cases [1]. Management of fungal hepatic abscesses is not well established...
Frammenti elettrici. Intersezioni tra video e CCCP
Creators: name: Perfetti, Filippo
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2024
Subjects: CCCP
Annarella Giudici
Giovanni Lindo Ferretti
Wim Wenders
Yervant Gianikian
Angela Ricci Lucchi
Gilles Deleuze
Video
Time
Installation
Liturgy
Avantgarde theatre

description: The contribution, entitled Frammenti elettrici. Intersezioni tra CCCP e video, collects notes and reflections around some video objects that more or less directly cross the phenomenon of the band CCCP - Fedeli alla linea. The four parts - unrelated to each other except for the theme - are a reflection on the moving image, on the hermeneutic possibilities provided by the installation form of video, and on the specifics of the video image. The first of the four fragments deals with the diffusion of the personal image in the public sphere through the development of local television in Italy in the 1980s. The second is a reading of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's film Frammenti elettrici n. 6. Diario 1989. Dancing in the Dark. The third fragment presents a reflection on image and time starting from the Stanza di Fellegara set up in the exhibition "Felicitazioni! CCCP - Fedeli alla linea 1984-2024" (Reggio Emilia, Chiostri di San Pietro, 12 October 2023/10 March 2024). The last fragment starts from another installation in the same exhibition and the video it displays to illustrate some characteristics of CCCP concerts in relation to liturgy and Italian avant-garde theatre in the 1980s.
The reported effects of collaborative coaching on the professional learning and growth of participating secondary school teachers
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Barbara
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Teaching teams

description: This mixed methodology study, using comparative and content analysis, examined how engaging teachers in collaborative coaching enhanced the professional learning and growth of the participating teachers. Six secondary teachers completed monthly digital reflection logs after meeting with their collaborative coaching partner(s). At the end of the five month study the participating teachers completed a survey on the reported effects of collaborative coaching. Three themes emerged: (1) participating teachers expanded their teaching strategies, (2) collegial support was valued, and (3) opportunities for self-reflection enabled teachers to monitor their professional learning. An additional theme concerning lack of time to collaborate also emerged.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5178/McLaughlin.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
Cross-Situational Variability in Children's Personality Traits - Addendum
Creators: name: Shields, Allison
name: Kushner, Shauna
name: Herzhoff, Kathrin
name: Tackett, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This registration serves as an addendum to the original registration for this project.
COUNTER-HEGEMONIC DISCOURSE ON WOMEN: A STUDY OF JHUMPA LAHIRI'S INTERPRETER OF MALADIES
Creators: name: Dr. M. Kannadhasan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper aims to analyze the majority of the short stories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies deal with the diasporic postcolonial circumstances of Indian and Indian-American lives. Their hyphenated Indian identities have caused them to be caught between the Western world and the Indian traditions they have left behind, leading to a constant struggle to adjust between the two worlds of the two cultures. These characters' ambivalent identities are what lends the collection's receptiveness to postcolonial studies. This paper addresses the difficulties in negotiating new identities through an examination of the inevitable Self/Other confrontation that occurs during the identity-formation process. It does this by focusing on the trauma and potential success, failure, or resistance of female subjects who negotiate their new identities in their confrontations with the culture of the other.
Trained Model for the paper Language Adapters for Large-Scale MT: The GMU System for the WMT 2022 Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages Shared Task
Creators: name: Alam, Md Mahfuz Ibn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Use this model for running codes of this GitHub repository https://github.com/mahfuzibnalam/large-scale_MT_African_languages.
Lycopodina robusta Cylindrical
Creators: name: Hestetun, Jon Thomassen
name: Tompkins-Macdonald, Gabrielle
name: Rapp, Hans Tore
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Cladorhizidae
Lycopodina
Lycopodina robusta

description: LYCOPODINA ROBUSTA (LEVINSEN, 1887)
(FIG. 39; TABLE 6)
Original description: Esperella cupressiformis var. robusta Levinsen, 1887: 364.
Synonyms and citations: Possibly: Esperia bihamatifera in part (Hansen, 1885: 15); Asbestopluma cupressiformis in part (Lundbeck, 1905: 58; Hentschel, 1929: 934; Koltun, 1959: 77, 1964: 151, 163); A. cuppressiformis [sic] (Burton, 1934: 27), Cladorhiza cupressiformis (Fristedt, 1887: 457); Esperella fristedtii in part Lambe, 1900a: 157. Not: Esperia cupressiformis Carter, 1874: 215.
Material examined: GeoBio 2009, st. AGT-02 (73°35.19ʹN, 007°44.08ʹE, 2387 m, between Loki’s Castle vent field and the Schultz Massif Seamount).
52 J. T. HESTETUN ET AL.
Diagnosis: Erect elongated Lycopodina with stem and cylindrical to club-shaped body with ridges or upwards directed projections. Megascleres c. 450–900 µm, palmate anisochelae c. 20–27 µm and forceps spicules c. 22–44 µm.
Description: Single specimen 11 cm in length; a 2.5-cm-long and 1.5-mm-wide stem connected to a clearly delineated 8.5 cm long up to 5 mm wide cylindrical, ridged body. Fastened to the substrate with slightly enlarged basal plate. Surface uneven, with wispy ridges, knobs and short projection in all directions, oriented mostly upwards. White, globular embryos visible just beneath surface. Colour in ethanol is light brown (Fig. 39A, B).
Skeleton: Stem consisting of closely packed styles which become shorter and more curved in the basal plate. In the body, styles project in an upwards pattern radiating from the central stem. Palmate anisochelae are abundant in the sponge body, forceps spicules less abundant. Tylostyles and smaller anisochelae are associated with embryos.
description: Published as part of Hestetun, Jon Thomassen, Tompkins-Macdonald, Gabrielle & Rapp, Hans Tore, 2017, A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic, pp. 1-69 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181 on pages 51-52
On the $Q$-dependence of the lowest-order QED corrections and other properties of the ground $1^1S-$states in the two-electron ions
Creators: name: Frolov, Alexei M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Formulas and expectation values which are need to determine the lowest-order QED corrections ($\sim α^3$) and corresponding recoil (or finite mass) corrections in the two-electron helium-like ions are presented. Other important properties of the two-electron ions are also determined to high accuracy, including the expectation values of the qausi-singular Vinti operator and $\langle r^{-2}_{eN} \rangle$ and $\langle r^{-2}_{ee} \rangle$ expectation values. Elastic scattering of fast electrons by the two-electron ions in the Born approximation is considered. Interpolation formulas are derived for the bound state properties of the two-electron ions as the function of the nuclear electric charge $Q$.
A pragmatic enhanced supervised post operative return to sport (PRE-SPORT) program in community level athletes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Tedesco, Jordan
name: Jones, Zachariah
name: D'Lima, Corey
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: An investigation to the correlation shared between psychological and functional measures, to assess the readiness for a Return to Sport (RTS) within community level athletes following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR).
title: Femoro-femoral PTFE prosthetic implants for hemodialysis: Radiologic monitoring
Creators: name: Gonzalez Alvarado, Guillermo Alejandro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Venous access
subject: Arterial access
subject: Shunts
subject: Dilatation
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Maintaining a functioning vascular access in hemodialysis patient remains an important and difficult problem. The gold standard in these patients is the autologous arteriovenous fistula (AVF). Sometimes the situation is different and complicated. In...
Managing Cellular Billing Plan Switchings
Creators: name: Vilisov, Valery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Here we shall consider a very popular practical applied problem of managing mode switching (in this work we are considering managing billing plans). Out of the two parties (service provider and service consumer), participating in the processes modelled here, we shall consider only a consumer type of a problem. Herein we provide formal characterization of the problem as well as the elements necessary for its solution. We shall consider full predicted costs, originating when switching to a billing plan as a target index. The work contains an example that provides a detailed view of the application technology referring to the suggested problem solution algorithm. Using the example's data we have performed the analysis measuring the problem's sensitivity in relation to the growth of the traffic volume. Herein we provided a polynomial approximation of the target index value depending on the traffic volume.
Commemoration of an Assassin: Representing the Armenian Genocide
Creators: name: Vartabedian, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The role of interpretation becomes fundamental in respect to unpacking memory, and by extension, elucidating how it is that we engage, consciously or unconsciously, in the construction of representational identities through commemoration. In the case of the Armenian Genocide, interpretations are further complicated by the presence of unresolved trauma, or more concretely, the denial of the memory of genocide. This trauma results in the inability to access the events of 1915 as political/memorial/historical/material "sites" of discourse. In order to negotiate this trauma, commemorative works such as the Soghomon Tehlirian monument in Fresno, Ca, have been constructed. This rhetorical space of "genocide" offers strategic access to memories and meaning and allows for a perpetuation of historical narrative in its most palatable and controlled forms. Through this enjoinment of identities, Armenians are offered a sense of identity and agency in direct opposition to a historical experience/representation that granted them neither.