cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Dynamic 18F-FET PET is a powerful imaging derived biomarker in suspected low-grade gliomas independent from the influence of molecular profiling
Creators: name: Kunz, Mathias
name: Albert, Natalie
name: Schüller, Ulrich
name: Suchorska, Bogdana
name: Tonn, Jörg-Christian
name: Kreth, Friedrich-Wilhelm
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: suspected low-grade gliomas
subject: 18F-FET PET
subject: time-activity curve
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Prognosis of adult patients with WHO grade II-III gliomas is not accurately assessed by conventional histological classification. Recently published studies suggest improved classification on the basis of three molecular markers, namely IDH- and TERT-mutational status, and 1p/19q co-deletion[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
The Influence of Context and Player Comments on Preschoolers’ Social and Partner-Directed Communicative Behavior
Creators: name: Valcke, Alanna
name: Nilsen, Elizabeth S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: To successfully navigate their social worlds, children must adapt their behaviors to diverse situations and do so in a fluid fashion. The current study explored preschool-aged children’s sensitivity to a gameplay context (cooperative/competitive) and messages from another (fictional) player (team-oriented/self-oriented) while distributing gameplay resources. To understand children’s approach to social behavior within these contexts, we focused on whether these factors affected 1) the number of resources children provided to the other player and 2) children’s verbal responses to other players. Children (4 to 6 years-old, N = 118) first provided verbal responses to audio messages, then completed a resource distribution task. Children’s verbal responses were influenced by both context and the other players’ messages; however, there was a greater influence of players’ messages in a competitive context. In contrast, children’s resource distributions were influenced primarily by the context (greater sharing of resources in the cooperative context). Children with better ToM showed a greater shift in their distributive behavior across conditions, specifically, distributing more items to the other players within a cooperative context relative to a competitive context. Also, within a cooperative context, children with better EF generated more prosocial comments for the other player. Together, the findings highlight the interplay between contextual and interpersonal factors with children’s cognitive skills for prosocial behavior.
Stable topological insulators achieved using high energy electron beams
Creators: name: Zhao, Lukas
name: Konczykowski, Marcin
name: Deng, Haiming
name: Korzhovska, Inna
name: Begliarbekov, Milan
name: Chen, Zhiyi
name: Papalazarou, Evangelos
name: Marsi, Marino
name: Perfetti, Luca
name: Hruban, Andrzej
name: Wołoś, Agnieszka
name: Krusin-Elbaum, Lia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological insulators are transformative quantum solids with immune-to-disorder metallic surface states having Dirac band structure. Ubiquitous charged bulk defects, however, pull the Fermi energy into the bulk bands, denying access to surface charge transport. Here we demonstrate that irradiation with swift ($\sim 2.5$ MeV energy) electron beams allows to compensate these defects, bring the Fermi level back into the bulk gap, and reach the charge neutrality point (CNP). Controlling the beam fluence we tune bulk conductivity from \textit{p}- (hole-like) to \textit{n}-type (electron-like), crossing the Dirac point and back, while preserving the Dirac energy dispersion. The CNP conductance has a two-dimensional (2D) character on the order of ten conductance quanta $G_0 =e^2/h$, and reveals, both in Bi$_2$Te$_3$ and Bi$_2$Se$_3$, the presence of only two quantum channels corresponding to two topological surfaces. The intrinsic quantum transport of the topological states is accessible disregarding the bulk size.
description: Main manuscript - 12 pages, 4 figures; Supplementary file - 15 pages, 11 figures, 1 Table, 4 Notes
title: Immediate titanium mesh implantation for patients with postcraniotomy neurosurgical site infections: an elegant, safe and esthetic alternative
Creators: name: Ehrlich, Gregory
name: Kindling, Stefanie
name: Wenz, Holger
name: Hänggi, Daniel
name: Schmiedek, Peter
name: Seiz-Rosenhagen, Marcel
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: surgical site infection
subject: titanium mesh
subject: cranioplasty
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the main complications after craniotomy. The incidence is up to 11% in the literature. The established procedure is craniectomy, debridement and delayed cranioplasty. Delayed cranioplasty has several disadvantages such as cosmetic deformity, vulnerability[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Automatic Melodic Harmonization from Symbolic Melody Using BLSTM Networks
Creators: name: Ioannou, Myrsini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: automatic melodic harmonization; chord generation

description: Producing chord progressions from a melody is a challenging task for multiple rea-sons but mainly because harmonic subtleties are diÿcult to describe computation-ally. In this work, we will address the problem of automatic melodic harmonization and we will attempt to provide a proof of concept of generating chord progres-sions using bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) networks from symbolic melodies. A dataset of lead sheets of various music genres will be used to extract meaningful melodic and harmonic information. To achieve uniformity of data, each track of the dataset will be transposed to either C major or C minor according to its initial key signature, while time signature will be normalized to avoid the imbalance of note durations. The result of the extraction will compose two-dimensional arrays consisting of twelve-note classes representing single notes in a sequence of four bars. After the pre-processing of data, the BLSTM network will be trained to generate chord progression vectors of four bars as output and its accuracy will be measured. Finally, a quantitative evaluation will take place where the model will be compared with other state-of-the-art algorithms to observe their performance.
Ordinality and Verbal Framing Influence Preschoolers’ Memory for Spatial Structure
Creators: name: Branyan, Helen
name: Cooper, Elisheva
name: Shaki, Samuel
name: McCrink, Koleen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: During the preschool years, children are simultaneously undergoing a reshaping of their mental number line and becoming increasingly sensitive to the social norms expressed by those around them. In the current study, 4- and 5-year-old American and Israeli children were given a task in which an experimenter laid out chips with numbers (1–5), letters (A-E), or colors (Red-Blue, the first colors of the rainbow), and presented them with a specific order (initial through final) and direction (Left-to-right or Right-to-left). The experimenter either did not demonstrate the laying out of the chips (Control), emphasized the process of the left-to-right or right-to-left spatial layout (Process), or used general goal language (Generic). Children were then asked to recreate each sequence after a short delay. Children also completed a short numeracy task. The results indicate that attention to the spatial structuring of the environment was influenced by conventional framing; children exhibited better recall when the manner of layout was emphasized than when it was not. Both American and Israeli children were better able to recall numerical information relative to non-numerical information. Although children did not show an overall benefit for better recall of information related to the culture’s dominant spatial direction, American children’s tendency to recall numerical direction information predicted their early numeracy ability.
Secrecy Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Challenges and Opportunities
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaoming
name: Ng, Derrick Wing Kwan
name: Chen, Hsiao-Hwa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless information and power transfer (WIPT) enables more sustainable and resilient communications owing to the fact that it avoids frequent battery charging and replacement. However, it also suffers from possible information interception due to the open nature of wireless channels. Compared to traditional secure communications, secrecy wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) carries several distinct characteristics. On one hand, wireless power transfer may increase the vulnerability of eavesdropping, since a power receiver, as a potential eavesdropper, usually has a shorter access distance than an information receiver. On the other hand, wireless power transfer can be exploited to enhance wireless security. This article reviews the security issues in various SWIPT scenarios, with an emphasis on revealing the corresponding challenges and opportunities for implementing SWIPT. Furthermore, we provide a survey on a variety of physical layer security techniques to improve secrecy performance. In particular, we propose to use massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques to enhance power transfer efficiency and secure information transmission simultaneously. Finally, we discuss several potential research directions to further enhance the security in SWIPT systems.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, IEEE Wireless Communications, 2016
title: Update: Imaging bei Birdshotchorioretinopathie
Creators: name: Pohlmann, Dominika
name: Macedo, S.
name: Pleyer, U.
name: Joussen, A. M.
name: Winterhalter, S.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Ziel: Beschreibung retinaler und chorioretinaler vaskulärer Veränderungen bei Birdshotchorioretinopathie (BSCR) mit aktuellen bildgebenden Verfahren, einschließlich der SPECTRALIS OCT-Angiographie (OCT-A). Methoden: Es wurden 18 Augen von 9 Patienten mittels OCT-A, Spectral-domain[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
title: Präoperative Operationsplanung mit dem SD-OCT-GapMap-Modul bei epiretinaler Gliose
Creators: name: Rajab, Wajdy
name: Ehlken, C.
name: Lange, C.
name: Bühler, A.
name: Eberwein, P.
name: Neß, T.
name: Hartkens, T.
name: Stahl, A.
name: Agostini, H.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Mit Hilfe der SD-OCT kann der Abstand zwischen einer epiretinalen Membran und neurosensorischer Netzhaut bestimmt werden. Das GapMap-Modul des Cirrus 5000 OCT (Zeiss) erlaubt es, das räumliche Verhältnis dieser für die Entfernung epiretinaler Membranen wichtigen Schichten[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
Dualization Of Rhythm Patterns
Creators: name: Kotowski, Błażej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: rhythm dualization; dimensionality reduction; rhythm analysis; sequence to sequence; autoencoder; LSTM; latent model;

description: This dissertation is a summary of the research on the task of the dualization of rhythm patterns. Rhythm pattern dualization is a transformation of a multi-instrumental rhythm pattern to another pattern composed of maximum two instruments while maintaining coherence and the perceptual essence of the original rhythm. It is a novel task, so comprehensive literature research marrying many disciplines is conducted first. The problem is approached in a multidisciplinary way. Drawing from neurology, cognitive science, and psychology, we assemble solid foundations for tackling the task. We propose two machine learning models built upon the, recently reported by Google Magenta, GrooVAE model for rhythm humanization [34]. The GrooVAE network topology is a combination of Sequence To Sequence Learning and Variational Autoencoder architectures. We treat the task of dualization as a variation of the dimensionality reduction problem. Thus, we intend to achieve the dualized version of rhythm by modifying the network’s architecture in a way, that creates a reduced intermediary representation in the process of autoencoding. We propose two models achieving rhythm compression in different ways. In the first, Autoencoders model, we first reduce the dimensionality of the original GrooVAE network, next we collect hidden state vector values from the first layer of the decoding network. Then, we train a cluster of autoencoders to find a latent, two-dimensional representation of these h-vectors, which we treat as a dualized version of the input pattern. In the second, Bottleneck model, we create a two-dimensional bottleneck layer in between the two original layers of the decoder network. We treat this two-dimensional bottleneck representation as a dualized version of the input pattern. Finally, we evaluate our models with listening experiments and report the results.
Nanotechnology enhanced surface plasmon resonance (SPR) immunosensing of small biomolecules
Creators: name: Yuan., Jing
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Rheological, Thermal, Structural, and Chemical Changes during Oxidation of Gum Arabic by Ozone
Creators: name: Özaslan, Zeynep Tuğba
name: Ibanoğlu, Şenol
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gum Arabic (GA) samples with 6% (w/v) concentration in water were ozonated for 5, 30, and 60 min, corresponding to 0.0030, 0.0125, and 0.0140 g consumed ozone/L, respectively. Ozonation steadily reduced the viscosity, flow, and consistency index of GA suspensions significantly (P < 0.05). Although no apparent changes were observed in the general chemical structure of GA samples, an increase in the absorbance of -OH bends was detected by FTIR analysis. DSC peak temperatures (292.0 ± 0.1 to 281.0 ± 0.9 °C) and pH values of samples (4.84 ± 0.13 to 2.90 ± 0.09) were decreased upon ozonation. Small but statistically significant differences (P < 0.05) were obtained for water solubility and water absorption index of samples after ozonation. Phenolic compounds and radical scavenging activities in GA were increased significantly (P < 0.05) by ozonation. Ozonation, which is an environmental-friendly unit operation, would offer valuable contributions to relevant industries with improved properties of GA.
The optical variability of SDSS quasars from multi-epoch spectroscopy. II. color variation
Creators: name: Guo, Hengxiao
name: Gu, Minfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the optical/ultraviolet (UV) color variations for a sample of 2169 quasars based on multi-epoch spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release seven (DR7) and data release nine (DR9). To correct the systematic difference between DR7 and DR9 due to the different instrumental setup, we produced a correction spectrum by using a sample of F-stars observed both in DR7 and DR9. The correction spectrum was then applied to quasars when comparing the spectra of DR7 with DR9. In each object, the color variation was explored by comparing the spectral index of the continuum power-law fit on the brightest spectrum with the faintest one, and also by the shape of their difference spectrum. In 1876 quasars with consistent color variations from two methods, we found that most sources (1755, $\sim 94\%$) show bluer-when-brighter (BWB) trend, and the redder-when-brighter (RWB) trend is only detected in 121 objects ($\sim 6\%$). The common BWB trend is supported by the bluer composite spectrum constructed from bright spectra than that from faint spectra, and also by the blue composite difference spectrum. The correction spectrum is proved to be highly reliable by comparing the composite spectrum from corrected DR9 and original DR7 spectra. Assuming that the optical/UV variability is triggered by fluctuations, RWB trend can likely be explained if the fluctuations occur firstly at outer disk region, and the inner disk region has not fully responded yet when the fluctuation being propagated inward. In contrast, the common BWB trend implies that the fluctuations are likely more often happening firstly in inner disk region.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Capturing the diversity of multilingual societies
Creators: name: Louf, Thomas
name: Sanchez, David
name: Ramasco, Jose Javier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200402 Computational Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
subject: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)

description: Cultural diversity encoded within languages of the world is at risk, as many languages have become endangered in the last decades in a context of growing globalization. To preserve this diversity, it is first necessary to understand what drives language extinction, and which mechanisms might enable coexistence. Here, we study language shift mechanisms using theoretical and data-driven perspectives. A large-scale empirical analysis of multilingual societies using Twitter and census data yields a wide diversity of spatial patterns of language coexistence. It ranges from a mixing of language speakers to segregation with multilinguals on the boundaries of disjoint linguistic domains. To understand how these different states can emerge and, especially, become stable, we propose a model in which language coexistence is reached when learning the other language is facilitated and when bilinguals favor the use of the endangered language. Simulations carried out in a metapopulation framework highlight the importance of spatial interactions arising from people mobility to explain the stability of a mixed state or the presence of a boundary between two linguistic regions. Further, we find that the history of languages is critical to understand their present state.
Learning music similarity using audio and textual input
Creators: name: Keijser, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Music Recommendation, Collaborative filtering, Content-based, Deep learning, Convolutional Neural Networks

description: The incredibly large amount of music that is available online nowadays has created a need for powerful retrieval and recommendation algorithms. Most music streaming services make use of matrix-factorisation collaborative filtering algorithms. While these systems are e˙ective, they have a number of limitations: the fact that they are content-agnostic leads to the cold-start problem (the model is unable to recommend new and unpopular songs), and the user cannot search for specific elements that can only be extracted from a song’s audio. The aim of this thesis was to develop a query-by-example system that can focus on specific aspects of a query song, such as ’instrumentation’, ’mood’, ’era’ or ’genre’, thus increasing user control. To this end, we compared two methods: (1) a feature-weighting method, that places higher weight on parts of song embeddings that are relevant to the aspect we want to focus on (2) a metric learning approach that encodes information about di˙erent aspects of a song in separate parts of its embedding. We applied the feature-weighting method to both content-based and collaborative filtering-based embeddings such as Weighted Matrix Factorisation (WMF) item factors, whereas we only the disen-tangled metric learning approach for content-based embeddings. The methods were evaluated quantitavely by inspecting tag co-occurrence between query- and retrieved songs, and qualitatively by inspecting retrieval examples and t-SNE visualisations of the song embeddings. It was found that WMF naturally groups together songs with shared semantic tags, and cannot be outperformed by the content-based dis-entangled metric learning method. However, the content-based method has the advantage of not su˙ering from the cold-start problem. Furthermore, the feature-weighting method was found to improve performance for both content-based tagging embeddings and WMF. Overall, we provide valuable insight into the di˙erences be-tween CF-based and content-based retrieval systems, and provide recommendations on how they can be combined efectively.
Defining the function of the Itsn1 gene in the brain
Creators: name: Yu., Yong
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Long-Wavelength, Free-Free Spectral Energy Distributions from Porous Stellar Winds
Creators: name: Ignace, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of macroclumps for free-free spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of ionized winds is considered. The goal is to emphasize distinctions between microclumping and macroclumping effects. Microclumping can alter SED slopes and flux levels if the volume filling factor of the clumps varies with radius; however, the modifications are independent of the clump geometry. To what extent does macroclumping alter SED slopes and flux levels? In addressing the question, two specific types of macroclump geometries are explored: shell fragments ("pancake"-shaped) and spherical clumps. Analytic and semi-analytic results are derived in the limiting case that clumps never obscure one another. Numerical calculations based on a porosity formalism is used when clumps do overlap. Under the assumptions of a constant expansion, isothermal, and fixed ionization wind, the fragment model leads to results that are essentially identical to the microclumping result. Mass-loss rate determinations are not affected by porosity effects for shell fragments. By contrast, spherical clumps can lead to a reduction in long-wavelength fluxes, but the reductions are only significant for extreme volume filling factors.
description: to appear in MNRAS
title: Comparison of urogenital function following TME with and without pelvic intraoperative neuromonitoring
Creators: name: Kauff, Daniel
name: Wachter, Nicolas
name: Hanke, Laura
name: Lang, Hauke
name: Kneist, Werner
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The purpose of pelvic intraoperative neuromonitoring (pIONM) is to maintain patients` quality of life. This study investigated the effect of pIONM on urogenital functional outcome following rectal cancer surgery. Materials and methods: A consecutive series of 97 patients (68 males)[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Spinal cord injury in the agricultural workforce : rates and rehabilitation
Creators: name: Young., Amanda E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The Optical Chirality Flux as a Useful Far-Field Probe of Chiral Near Fields
Creators: name: Poulikakos, Lisa V.
name: Gutsche, Philipp
name: McPeak, Kevin M.
name: Burger, Sven
name: Niegemann, Jens
name: Hafner, Christian
name: Norris, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To optimize the interaction between chiral matter and highly twisted light, quantities that can help characterize chiral electromagnetic fields near nanostructures are needed. Here, by analogy with Poynting's theorem, we formulate the time-averaged conservation law of optical chirality in lossy dispersive media and identify the optical chirality flux as an ideal far-field observable for characterizing chiral optical near fields. Bounded by the conservation law, we show that it provides precise information, unavailable from circular dichroism spectroscopy, on the magnitude and handedness of highly twisted fields near nanostructures.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: Relaparotomy after pancreas resection: Reasons and outcome
Creators: name: Chikhladze, Sophia
name: Sick, Olivia
name: Makowiec, Frank
name: Hopt, Ulrich Theodor
name: Wittel, Uwe
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Pancreas resection is a common procedure for benign and malignant diseases of pancreas. Despite substantial reduction or mortality, postoperative morbidity remains high. Some of the complications require relaparotomies and even salvage pancreatectomy. Our aim was to evaluate the rate,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Counting odd cycles in locally dense graphs
Creators: name: Reiher, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that for any given $\varepsilon>0$ and $d\in [0,1]$, every sufficiently large $(\varepsilon, d)$-dense graph $G$ contains for each odd integer $r$ at least $(d^r-\varepsilon)|V(G)|^r$ cycles of length $r$. Here, $G$ being $(\varepsilon, d)$-dense means that every set $X$ containing at least~$\varepsilon\,|V(G)|$ vertices spans at least $\tfrac d2\, |X|^2$ edges, and what we really count is the number of homomorphisms from an $r$-cycle into $G$. The result adresses a question of Y. Kohayakawa, B. Nagle, V. Rödl, and M. Schacht.
Eclipses of the inner satellites of Jupiter observed in 2015
Creators: name: Saquet, E.
name: Emelyanov, N.
name: Colas, F.
name: Arlot, J. -E.
name: Robert, V.
name: Christophe, B.
name: Dechambre, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the 2014-2015 campaign of mutual events, we recorded ground-based photometric observations of eclipses of Amalthea (JV) and, for the first time, Thebe (JXIV) by the Galilean moons. We focused on estimating whether the positioning accuracy of the inner satellites determined with photometry is sufficient for dynamical studies. We observed two eclipses of Amalthea and one of Thebe with the 1 m telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory using an IR filter and a mask placed over the planetary image to avoid blooming features. A third observation of Amalthea was taken at Saint-Sulpice Observatory with a 60 cm telescope using a methane filter (890 nm) and a deep absorption band to decrease the contrast between the planet and the satellites. After background removal, we computed a differential aperture photometry to obtain the light flux, and followed with an astrometric reduction. We provide astrometric results with an external precision of 53 mas for the eclipse of Thebe, and 20 mas for that of Amalthea. These observation accuracies largely override standard astrometric measurements. The (O-C)s for the eclipse of Thebe are 75 mas on the X-axis and 120 mas on the Y-axis. The (O-C)s for the total eclipses of Amalthea are 95 mas and 22 mas, along the orbit, for two of the three events. Taking into account the ratio of (O-C) to precision of the astrometric results, we show a significant discrepancy with the theory established by Avdyushev and Ban'shikova in 2008, and the JPL JUP 310 ephemeris.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
Harmonic compatibility for loops in electronic music
Creators: name: Pérez Fernández, Miguel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Harmonic compatibility; Music creation; Consonance; Harmony

description: In this work, we explore and compare a set of measures for harmonic compatibility. We focus our research on simultaneous harmonic compatibility for Loops in Electronic music. Loops are short and repetitive pieces of music meant to be played infinitely and are very popular in modern music production. The measures evaluated cover di˙erent algorithms and underlying mechanisms for harmonic compatibility. The mechanisms range from spectral matching and roughness to periodicity of the resulting signal. The measures are evaluated in an open experiment where par-ticipants are asked about their preference between pairwise comparisons of mixes suggested by the algorithms. We analyze the results with a statistical model that allows us to go from pairwise comparisons to a global ranking. We provide conclusions for this final global ranking, and also for our own observations of the suggested mixes. A complementary repository for this work is provided, containing the code, scripts, results, and links to the database of Loops. With this work, we step towards a better understanding of the underlying mech-anisms of harmonic compatibility. Also, the repository containing the code, allow future researchers to reproduce our work and explore the field of harmonic compat-ibility without having to implement the algorithms from scratch.
title: Banded Sleeve Gastrectomy shows improved weight loss in a matched pair analysis 3 years after operation
Creators: name: Fink, Jodok Matthias
name: Hoffmann, Natalie
name: Kuesters, Simon
name: Läßle, Claudia
name: Seifert, Gabriel
name: Karcz, Konrad
name: Marjanovic, Goran
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is the most frequently performed weight loss operation in Germany. Although this procedure can achieve excellent weight loss, weight regain due to sleeve dilatation is a relevant obstacle of this procedure. In our centre, banded sleeve gastrectomy (BLSG)[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
General relativity, torsion, and quantum theory
Creators: name: Singh, Tejinder P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recall some of the obstacles which arise when one tries to reconcile the general theory of relativity with quantum theory. We consider the possibility that gravitation theories which include torsion, and not only curvature, provide better insight into a quantum theory of gravity. We speculate on how the Dirac equation and Einstein gravity could be thought of as limiting cases of a gravitation theory which possesses torsion.
description: 14 pages; published in Current Science [Special Section: 100 Years of General Relativity]
Dynamical Evidence for a Late Formation of Saturn's Moons
Creators: name: Ćuk, Matija
name: Dones, Luke
name: Nesvorný, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the past evolution of Saturn's moons using direct numerical integrations. We find that the past Tethys-Dione 3:2 orbital resonance predicted in standard models likely did not occur, implying that the system is less evolved than previously thought. On the other hand, the orbital inclinations of Tethys, Dione and Rhea suggest that the system did cross the Dione-Rhea 5:3 resonance, which is closely followed by a Tethys-Dione secular resonance. A clear implication is that either the moons are significantly younger than the planet, or that their tidal evolution must be extremely slow (Q > 80,000). As an extremely slow-evolving system is incompatible with intense tidal heating of Enceladus, we conclude that the moons interior to Titan are not primordial, and we present a plausible scenario for the system's recent formation. We propose that the mid-sized moons re-accreted from a disk about 100 Myr ago, during which time Titan acquired its significant orbital eccentricity. We speculate that this disk has formed through orbital instability and massive collisions involving the previous generation of Saturn's mid-sized moons. We identify the solar evection resonance perturbing a pair of mid-sized moons as the most likely trigger of such an instability. This scenario implies that most craters on the moons interior to Titan must have been formed by planetocentric impactors.
description: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal on March 24, 2016
Quantum private comparison protocol without a third party
Creators: name: He, Guang Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To evade the well-known impossibility of unconditionally secure quantum two-party computations, previous quantum private comparison protocols have to adopt a third party. Here we study how far we can go with two parties only. We propose a very feasible and efficient protocol. Intriguingly, although the average amount of information leaked cannot be made arbitrarily small, we find that it never exceeds 14 bits for any length of the bit-string being compared.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Members of Earlham Institute Genome Acquisition Lab and Protists Project
Creators: name: Tree Of Life
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This document holds a record of the individuals from the Earlham Institute Genome Acquisition Lab and Protists Project who should be considered coauthors of publications arising from the work of the Darwin Tree of Life project (https://www.darwintreeoflife.org).
The Generalized Quasilinear Approximation: Application to Zonal Jets
Creators: name: Marston, J. B.
name: Chini, G. P.
name: Tobias, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasilinear theory is often utilized to approximate the dynamics of fluids exhibiting significant interactions between mean flows and eddies. In this paper we present a generalization of quasilinear theory to include dynamic mode interactions on the large scales. This generalized quasilinear (GQL) approximation is achieved by separating the state variables into large and small zonal scales via a spectral filter rather than by a decomposition into a formal mean and fluctuations. Nonlinear interactions involving only small zonal scales are then removed. The approximation is conservative and allows for scattering of energy between small-scale modes via the large scale (through non-local spectral interactions). We evaluate GQL for the paradigmatic problems of the driving of large-scale jets on a spherical surface and on the beta-plane and show that it is accurate even for a small number of large-scale modes. As this approximation is formally linear in the small zonal scales it allows for the closure of the system and can be utilized in direct statistical simulation schemes that have proved an attractive alternative to direct numerical simulation for many geophysical and astrophysical problems.
description: 5 pages and 5 figures
No value restriction is needed for algebraic effects and handlers
Creators: name: Kammar, Ohad
name: Pretnar, Matija
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a straightforward, sound Hindley-Milner polymorphic type system for algebraic effects and handlers in a call-by-value calculus, which allows type variable generalisation of arbitrary computations, not just values. This result is surprising. On the one hand, the soundness of unrestricted call-by-value Hindley-Milner polymorphism is known to fail in the presence of computational effects such as reference cells and continuations. On the other hand, many programming examples can be recast to use effect handlers instead of these effects. Analysing the expressive power of effect handlers with respect to state effects, we claim handlers cannot express reference cells, and show they can simulate dynamically scoped state.
Pre-operative physical, psychological and demographic/social predictors of lumbosacral surgery outcome
Creators: name: Young., Richard B.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Members of Earlham Institute Genome Acquisition Lab and Protists Project
Creators: name: Tree Of Life
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document holds a record of the individuals from the Earlham Institute Genome Acquisition Lab and Protists Project who should be considered coauthors of publications arising from the work of the Darwin Tree of Life project (https://www.darwintreeoflife.org).
title: Sind Screeninguntersuchungen bei jungen asymptomatischen MEN1 Patienten notwendig?
Creators: name: Manoharan, Jerena
name: Bartsch, Detlef Klaus
name: López-López, Caroline
name: Albers, Max Benjamin
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die multiple endokrine Neoplasie Typ 1 ist eine seltene autosomal dominant vererbte Erkrankungen, die vor allem durch das Auftreten von pHPT, duodeno-pankreatischen Tumoren, Prolaktinomen, Nebennierentumoren und neuroendokrinen Tumoren des Thymus und der Bronchien gekennzeichnet ist. Die[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
title: Netz-Augmentation in Sublay-Technik (GORE ® BIO-A ® -Netz) nach Stomarückverlagerung als Prophylaxe der Narbenhernie – Postoperative Ergebnisse und Komplikationen
Creators: name: Ceno, Marsela
name: Paul, Dietmar
name: Berger, Dieter
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: In der Klinik für Chirurgie des Klinikum Mittelbaden Baden-Baden (Prof. Dr. Dieter Berger) wurden in dem Zeitraum 15.11.2010 bis 11.03.2015 an 127 Patienten eine Stomarückverlagerungs-Operation durchgeführt. Alle 127 Patienten wurden mit einem resorbierbaren synthetischen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Musical Blind Source Separation Using Ambisonics
Creators: name: Hasti, Henry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Musical Blind Source Separation; Ambisonics; Spatial Filtering; Direction of Arrival Estimation

description: This thesis deals with the musical blind source separation problem: given multiple instrument tracks recorded together, how can each be isolated from the others given no additional knowledge about the instrument locations or sounds? There are many advantages to solving the problem: live performances can convey the energy of the performers, and the sound of the room can improve the perceptual quality of the recording, while separating the instrument tracks afterwards allows for more pre-cise equalization and mixing to improve the recording. This thesis proposes a novel approach to the problem using an ambisonic microphone array. The directionality of the microphones in the array provides information about the location of each source and allows for the implementation of a direction of arrival estimator that calculates the position of each source based on the directions that receive the most non-reverberant acoustic energy. Given the directions of arrival (DOAs), the method performs spatial filtering to virtually steer the microphone array in the desired direc-tions. This approach is compared with a classic DOA estimator, MUSIC, a classic non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) approach, and a state of the art ambisonic domain filtering approach. The proposed method outperforms NMF and MUSIC in nearly every tested configuration, and can outperform the ambisonic filtering ap-proach in certain high-reverberation cases. The proposed method is significantly more computationally efficient than the comparison methods, working much faster while introducing less algorithmic noise to the separated tracks. The results raise the question of how to best balance performance and computational complexity in different use cases.
title: Resective surgery for medically refractory epilepsy using intraoperative MR imaging and functional neuronavigation: A single center experience of 415 patients
Creators: name: Rössler, Karl
name: Hofmann, Andrea
name: Sommer, Bjoern
name: Hamer, Hajo Martinus
name: Blümcke, Ingmar
name: Buchfelder, Michael
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: epilepsy surgery
subject: intraoperative MR imaging
subject: neuronavigation
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Intraoperative underestimation of resection amount in epilepsy surgery is a well-known problem, leading to an unfavourable seizure outcome. Intraoperative MR imaging combined with neuronavigation may help to avoid this pitfall and facilitate visualisation and targeting of the sometimes ill-defined[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
A high-redshift quasar absorber without CIV - a galactic outflow caught in the act?
Creators: name: Fox, Anne
name: Richter, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of a very unusual sub-damped Lyman alpha (sub-DLA) system at redshift z=2.304 towards the quasar Q0453-423, based on high signal-to-noise (S/N), high-resolution spectral data obtained with VLT/UVES. With a neutral hydrogen column density of log N(HI)=19.23 and a metallicity of -1.61 as indicated by [OI/HI] the sub-DLA mimics the properties of many other optically thick absorbers at this redshift. A very unusual feature of this system is, however, the lack of any CIV absorption at the redshift of the neutral hydrogen absorption, although the relevant spectral region is free of line blends and has very high S/N. Instead, we find high-ion absorption from CIV and OVI in another metal absorber at a velocity more than 220km/s redwards of the neutral gas component. We explore the physical conditions in the two different absorption systems using Cloudy photoionisation models. We find that the weakly ionised absorber is dense and metal-poor while the highly ionised system is thin and more metal-rich. The absorber pair towards Q0453-423 mimics the expected features of a galactic outflow with highly ionised material that moves away with high radial velocities from a (proto)galactic gas disk in which star-formation takes place. We discuss our findings in the context of CIV absorption line statistics at high redshift and compare our results to recent galactic-wind and outflow models.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted by A&A
The elucidation of mechanisms involved in the transcriptional regulation of murine Pdha2 gene
Creators: name: Young., Julia Caitlin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: TMS recruitment curve and cortical silent period analysis: a sensitive tool to detect imminent motor deficits in brain tumor patients
Creators: name: Bährend, Ina
name: Rosenstock, Tizian
name: Mikhailov, Michael
name: Vajkoczy, Peter
name: Picht, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: nTMS
subject: motor deficits
subject: gliomas
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Recent work has demonstrated that the resting motor threshold (RMT) obtained by navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) is correlated with the probability of postoperative motor deficits in brain tumor surgery. Here, we use more sophisticated methods to assess cortical excitability,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
title: Usefulness of intraoperative infrared thermographic imaging study for successful determination of permanent implantation of spinal cord stimulation
Creators: name: Park, Jung Yul
name: Park, Kyung Jae
name: Hur, Junseok W.
name: Kim, Jong Hyun
name: Chung, Yong Gu
name: Kang, Sin Hyuk
name: Park, Dong Hyuk
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Currently, inclusion criteria for permanent IPG insertion after trial stimulation in spinal cord stimulation are induced paresthesia in whole area of pain and greater than 50% of pain relief after series of stimulations during several days after operation. These parameters, however, [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)