cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Innovative Teaching Methodology for Developing Digital Competence in Future Engineering Pedagogues
Creators: name: Расулова, Насибахон
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: This article focuses on the development of a methodology aimed at fostering the digital competence of future engineering pedagogues through the utilization of digital tools. With the digital transformation of the education system, it becomes imperative to adapt the methods of working with educational stakeholders. The creation of a digital educational environment involves equipping organizations with modern equipment and advancing digital services and content. Future engineering pedagogues require digital competencies to effectively integrate digital technologies into the educational process. This article presents a concept for the methodology, which involves the design of practical tasks at three levels: basic, intermediate, and advanced. The results of an experiment conducted with students demonstrate that the proposed methodology yields higher grades compared to traditional methods. The findings underscore the importance of empowering engineering pedagogues with digital competences to prepare students for the digital era.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
title: Barriers to information and financing in small and medium-sized enterprises in central Vancouver Island
Creators: name: Kaur, Harpreet
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Small business--Finance
subject: Small business--Growth

description: This study sought to identify key support needs of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and the services required by SMEs to expand and improve. The purpose of the study was to identify barriers that prevent SMEs from accessing business information and financing from Community Futures Central Vancouver Island (CFCI). There were four research questions: 1. What business services do owners require for their businesses? 2. Where are business owners currently going for business service(s)? 3. What factors affect business owners when they seek financing or business-related service(s)? 4. What is the awareness and perception of SMEs of the services offered by CFCI? Convenience sampling was used in this study. A survey was designed based on previous research study conducted by Community Futures North Cariboo with SMEs, and (a) was distributed to 1377 SME owners listed with CFCI, (b) published on CFCI social media websites, (c) Gabriola, Nanaimo, Ladysmith, Parksville and Qualicum Beach Chambers Newsline, and (d) sent to businesses associated with CFCI. In total N=174 responses were received, with 77% being current and 10% past business operators, and 11% who want to operate a business in future. A mixed method explanatory research approach was adopted. Qualitative methodologies were used to identify prominent themes and quantitative methodologies were used to analyse responses numerically. Lack of familiarity with programs was the main barrier to SMEs utilizing CFCI counselling and coaching services, and financing (such as; loans, low interest rate) was the major concern of SMEs. Other important barriers included, startup/ working/expansion capital, qualified & experienced staff, new business/clients, finding additional time and marketing help. The study also includes recommendations to the CFCI for improving SMEs access to business information and financing for future research.
Biomass combustion and emission studies using an homogeneous burner in conditions representative of wildfires and prescribed fires
Creators: name: Vignat, Guillaume
name: Toepperwien, Karl
name: Ihme, Matthias
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: chemical safety
compressed gases
flammable gas
methane
biomass combustion
wildfire
oxygen-enriched combustion
smoke

description: This procedure describes how to conduct an experiment to characterize the pollutant emissions from the combustion of small pieces of woody biomass. This experiment is meant to reproduce at a small scale conditions encountered in wildfires and prescribed fires. The conditions in which the combustion of the sample occurs are finely controlled. This includes the composition, temperature, and velocity of the atmosphere surrounding the burning sample, as well as the heat flux to the sample. The mass loss rate of the sample, as well as the pollutant emissions are measured continuously during the combustion process.
The Impact of Stellar Activity on Our Ability to Detect Exoplanets
Creators: name: Roettenbacher, Rachael M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Stellar magnetism of cool stars is expected to manifest on the stellar surfaces in a variety of ways that are analogous to those on the Sun. The localized concentrations of stellar magnetic fields can suppress convection leading to a variety of regions brighter or darker than the photosphere. The presence, rotational modulation, and long-term evolution of these dark and bright regions impacts observational data such that their signatures have been mistaken for exoplanets. Here, the impact of starspots, faculae, plages, networks, and magnetic activity cycles on observational data will be reviewed, including photometric, spectroscopic, and interferometric observations. Researchers are actively developing new techniques to understand the contributions of stellar activity in observational data in hopes of mitigating it and revealing exoplanets. Some of the latest efforts to account for the impact of stellar activity on exoplanet detection will also be discussed here.
Public Policies Urban Development and Strategies for the Competitiveness of Metropolitan Regions in Brazil_A brief Case Study on the State of Goias Brazil_JoseLEsteves.pdf
Creators: name: Esteves, Jose
name: Esteves, José
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 380114
subject: Public economics - publicly provided goods
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management

description: The growth and competitiveness of metropolitan regions represent central challenges for planning and public management in Brazil. In the State of Goiás, for example, the Undersecretariat for Urban and Transportation Policies has played a strategic role in formulating and implementing policies aimed at strengthening the Metropolitan Regions of Goiânia and the surrounding area of the Federal District. These initiatives range from improving infrastructure and urban services to implementing innovative methodologies and expanding social participation.
Additional file 1 of Everything counts - a method to determine viral suppression among people living with HIV using longitudinal data for the HIV care continuum - results of two large, German, multi-center real-life cohort studies over 20 years (1999–2018)
Creators: name: Schmidt, Daniel
name: Kollan, Christian
name: Stoll, Matthias
name: Osamah Hamouda
name: Bremer, Viviane
name: Kurth, Tobias
name: Bartmeyer, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Geometric Hyperplanes of the Near Hexagon L_3 times GQ(2, 2)
Creators: name: Saniga, Metod
name: Levay, Peter
name: Planat, Michel
name: Pracna, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Having in mind their potential quantum physical applications, we classify all geometric hyperplanes of the near hexagon that is a direct product of a line of size three and the generalized quadrangle of order two. There are eight different kinds of them, totalling to 1023 = 2^{10} - 1 = |PG(9, 2)|, and they form two distinct families intricately related with the points and lines of the Veldkamp space of the quadrangle in question.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures and 2 tables; Version 2 - more detailed discussion of the properties of hyperplanes
Old Norse Reception
Creators: name: Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Old Norse
reception
digital exhibit
museum
Icelandic
Danish

description: This is an archive of contents from two exhibits prepared as part of the "Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse in Time and Space" project available on https://oldnorsereception.omeka.net between February 2021 - February 2024. The exhibits are: 1. Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna. 2021. “Writing (hi)stories,” Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse in Time and Space, accessed 17/02/2023, https://oldnorsereception.omeka.net/exhibits/show/writing-histories 2. Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna and Dale Kedwards. 2021. "Paired Objects," Reception and Reinvention: Old Norse in Time and Space, accessed 17/02/2023, https://oldnorsereception.omeka.net/exhibits/show/paired-objects It contains - PDF files with screenshots of the exhibit pages.
 - web archives
 - HTML files Additionally it contains a report created with Google Analytics on 18/07/2023. This archive has been created on 17/02/2023 by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, University of Oxford (katarzyna.kapitan@ell.ox.ac.uk).
Mass determination of young directly-imaged exoplanets by means of indirect stellar ages
Creators: name: Squicciarini, Vito
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: exoplanets
direct imaging
kinematics
stellar ages
demographics

description: Direct imaging is rapidly emerging as a promising technique to discover exoplanets. Contrary to transits and radial velocities, direct imaging is preferentially sensitive to young giant planets in wide orbits. This little-studied class of exoplanets looks especially interesting, since it can shed light on the still poorly-constrained early phases of planet formation, with important consequences on the architecture and the demographics of more evolved planetary systems. Being detected in the NIR through their thermal emission -related to their residual formation heat-, these planets appear as brighter sources if younger; but, of course, more massive planets are brighter too. To break the age-mass degeneracy, constraining the age of the stellar host is of utmost importance. Here we show how, starting from astrometric data from Gaia EDR3 and radial velocities from GALAH and APOGEE, we identified subgroups of coeval stars within the 5-11 Myr old Upper Scorpius association employing a novel kinematic method (Squicciarini et al. 2021). These results are particularly valuable for the ongoing planet-hunting BEAST survey (Janson et al. 2021), as strong constraints on the ages of the stellar targets are needed to correctly interpretate the forthcoming planet detections.
First-Year Students' Satisfaction by E-Learning
Creators: name: Puntsag, Orkhontuya
name: Altansuvd, Javkhlantuya
name: Radnaa, Tuvshinjargal
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: Universities around the world have been using electronic learning systems more and more in recent years. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mongolian universities are changing the way of teaching online and thus starting from the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The purpose of this study is to investigate the satisfaction of students towards e-learning and the factors affecting it.


321 first-year students of the School of Nursing of NUMS participated in this survey, the survey questionnaire filled in Google form, and received by electronically. The relationship between satisfaction and its influencing factors was evaluated by using the Pearson test (correlation coefficient).


According to the indicators of the research results, students' satisfaction is the most satisfied with learning materials (4.16), student engagement (4.15), and the lowest with e-educational technology (3.25). Due to this, there is a didactic need to improve the quality of e-learning and to update the lesson technology.


Students' satisfaction level had a direct strong positive correlation (r=0.65) with grade (r=0.65) and a weak direct positive correlation (r=0.38) with lesson access (p<0.001), and e-learning satisfaction scores had a direct correlation (p<0.001) to the quality of teaching, supply of learning materials, assessment, and student engagement.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
The efficacy of isotope thermometry: examining in the S-matrix approach
Creators: name: Samaddar, S. K.
name: De, J. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isotope thermometry, widely used to measure the temperature of a hot nuclear system formed in energetic nuclear collisions, is examined in the light of S-matrix approach to the nuclear equation of state of disassembled nuclear matter. Scattering between produced light fragment pairs, hitherto neglected, is seen to have an important bearing on the extraction of system temperature and volume at freeze-out from isotope thermometry. Taking due care of the scattering effects and decay of the primary fragments, a more reliable way to extract the nuclear thermodynamic parameters is suggested by exploiting least-squares fit to the observed fragment multiplicities.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
A multiscale deep learning model for soil moisture integrating satellite and in-situ data
Creators: name: Jiangtao, Liu
name: Rahmani Farshid
name: Kathryn, Lawson
name: Chaopeng, Shen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Multiscale
Deep learning
Satellite data
In-situ data

description: Model codes for the article: "A multiscale deep learning model for soil moisture integrating satellite and in-situ data"
Bridging In-Silico and Experimental: Chemoinformatics Investigation for Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics Study of Soybean
Creators: name: Karade, Divya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cheminformatics, Soybean, Glycine max , secondary metabolites, LC-MS/MS, Untargeted mass spectrometry, Univariate and Multivariate data analysis, virtual screening, virtual library, text mining

description: Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) is a globally important legume crop and contains various small organic molecules that are valuable sources for drug development. This study intended to identify, analyze and design a virtual library of prioritized novel and promising drug-like molecules based on the analysis of secondary metabolites of soybean using chemoinformatics and untargeted mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) approaches. In this study, we performed chemoinformatics analysis of previously reported and unreported secondary metabolites from four soybean varieties. The secondary metabolites were identified by UHPLC-MS/MS analysis and text mining, and a virtual library of novel molecules was generated. The metabolomics data were analyzed using machine learning-based quantitative and qualitative methods for identifying putative metabolites by spectral matching and multivariate statistical analysis. A representative virtual library of novel molecules was generated and prioritized further by virtual screening methods. We detected 6628 annotated mass features for small molecules that have not been reported in soybean before, in addition to 443 mass features of molecules that were previously reported in the literature. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) confirmed the presence of 14 new and six previously reported soybean molecules. We found high molecular diversity in seed and leaf tissues of four soybean varieties (NRC-119, JS-335, JS-7105, and JS-9305). We identified 25 common scaffolds and 231 molecules through scaffold-molecule networks between soybean molecules and known drugs. Five representative scaffolds were used to build a focused virtual library of novel molecules (n= 1225), which were virtually screened to obtain potential drug-like candidates (n= 815) for further studies. We developed a novel virtual library of molecules with drug-like and lead-like properties for further drug discovery-related studies. This study suggests that a combinatorial approach employing high-throughput metabolomics and chemoinformatics methods can efficiently identify new drug-like and lead-like candidates from plant metabolites.
description: Supplementary Data
Public Policies Urban Development and Strategies for the Competitiveness of Metropolitan Regions in Brazil_A brief Case Study on the State of Goias Brazil_JoseLEsteves.pdf
Creators: name: Esteves, Jose
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 380114
subject: Public economics - publicly provided goods
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management

description: The growth and competitiveness of metropolitan regions represent central challenges for planning and public management in Brazil. In the State of Goiás, for example, the Undersecretariat for Urban and Transportation Policies has played a strategic role in formulating and implementing policies aimed at strengthening the Metropolitan Regions of Goiânia and the surrounding area of the Federal District. These initiatives range from improving infrastructure and urban services to implementing innovative methodologies and expanding social participation.
Evaluation of Python Error Message Interpretation: Study on Students with Different Levels of Programming Experience
Creators: name: Oyunbat, Gantogoo
name: Hamdy Sayed Hassanien, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: Error messages are a helpful tool for everyone interested in learning a programming language. Even after learning the language, novice and experienced programmers alike, have to interact with an error message one way or another. However, there is no single programming language that is used
across all platforms and systems, so the programmers have to write programs in many different languages. If the programming languages have similar structures, working with a new language is relatively easy. We have asked the question, whether the same effect could be observed in case of error messages. We designed an online survey which was conducted internationally to measure whether the general experience of programmers from any programming language influences the programmer’s ability to correct python error message. The survey was aimed at students who have some experience with programming. We find in comparison with novices, on average the experienced
programmers find and fix an error in the code given the same
error message with its corresponding code snippet. Additionally,
we see correlations between the average of correctly fixed errors
and number of programming languages that the participants had
experience with, as well as their chosen major and their age.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
Opportunity Knocks? ANU-PIFS Workshop on Regional Dimensions of Urbanisation
Creators: name: Keen, Meg
name: Bryar, Tim
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: The Pacific Islands are rapidly becoming more urbanised, with the mounting pressures on infrastructure, services and social relations well documented in recent Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Australian National University (ANU) publications. But the impacts of urban development go far beyond city boundaries — urban ecological footprints, economic multiplier effects and service catchments spill into surrounding regions. At the request of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Secretary General, the ANU and the PIF Secretariat jointly held a workshop in December 2017 on the regional implications of urbanisation, including how countries can together address the challenges and opportunities. This In Brief summarises some of the issues discussed at that workshop by leading experts and elaborates on urban issues covered in the State of the Pacific Regional Report 2017.
The Synergy of Copolymerization Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence
Creators: name: VAN DE REYDT, EMMA AUGUST J
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Polymers and plastics
Machine learning not elsewhere classified

description: Monomers are part of the building blocks chemist use to make materials with certain characteristics, but it takes a lot of time, effort and money to find the optimal way of combining them into polymers with the desired properties. This work focusses on finding a more efficient way of getting these polymers by combining conventional chemistry and the power of artificial intelligence and statistics to predict the characteristics even before any work in the lab needs to be done.
Reply to Comment by Galapon on 'Almost-periodic time observables for bound quantum systems'
Creators: name: Hall, Michael J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [1] (also at http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0803.3721), I made several critical remarks on a 'Hermitian time operator' proposed by Galapon [2] (also at http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0111061). Galapon has correctly pointed out that remarks pertaining to 'denseness' of the commutator domain are wrong [3]. However, the other remarks still apply, and it is further noted that a given quantum system can be a member of this domain only at a set of times of total measure zero.
description: 3 pages
The significance of some insular characteristics in birds
Creators: name: Grant, Peter R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The reported tendency for island birds to possess larger wings and bills than their mainland counterparts, was investigated by a study of the passerine birds of the Tres Marias Islands, Mexico. It was found that several species showed this bill trend, but that a tendency for birds to possess larger wings was less apparent; an unexpected tendency for the tarsus of island birds to be large was also demonstrated. On The other hand, there is no apparent tendency for the body-size of island birds to be larger than that of their mainland counterparts. The bill and tarsus characteristics of the Tres Marias birds are also shown by many other passerine birds in islands situations elsewhere in Mexico and North America. The differences in dimensions between mainland and Tres Marias birds cannot be explained as adaptations to different climatic conditions (Allen’s rule). Observations of feeding behaviour and analysis of gizzard contents of collected specimens reveal that some island species have a diet which is different from that of their mainland counterparts and that their use of perches is different too. This suggests that the bill and tarsus are used differently in the two regions. It is postulated that large bill and tarsus are adaptations to a greater exploitation of the environment. Differences inhabit at between the mainland and islands do not account for differences in feeding behaviour, but the relative paucity of specie on the islands offers and explanation. It suggests that there is some more environment available for exploitation to each of those present on the islands that to those on the mainland, assuming that there are approximately equal resources in the two regions. There is additional indirect evidence to suggest that the absence of several species has important effects upon those present. Island birds tend to be more drab in plumage that mainland birds on the Tres Marias and elsewhere and at least one species on the Tres Marias has reduced vocal repertoire. In view of the value of distinctive plumage and song as specific recognition characteristics the futures displayed by the Tres Marias birds may be attributed to the absence of systematically closely-related species. At least one species nests considerably lower in the vegetation On the Tres Marias Islands than on the mainland, which may be due to the relative absence of predators on the islands. There is evidence to suggest that the ecological conditions which have permitted the evolution of bill and tarsus characteristics in island birds, have permitted the evolution of large body-size in island rodents also. If this is true, then it is possible that the recorded tendency for animals to become larger in the course of evolution is related to an increase in the amount of environment available for exploitation.
Hydrogen dissociation on the Mg(0001) surface from quantum Monte Carlo calculations
Creators: name: Pozzo, M.
name: Alfe`, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations to calculate the energy barrier for H$_2$ dissociation on the Mg(0001) surface. The calculations employ pseudopotentials and systematically improvable B-spline basis sets to expand the single particle orbitals used to construct the trial wavefunctions. Extensive tests on system size, time step, and other sources of errors, performed on periodically repeated systems of up to 550 atoms, show that all these errors together can be reduced to $\sim 0.03$ eV. The DMC dissociation barrier is calculated to be $1.18 \pm 0.03$ eV, and is compared to those obtained with density functional theory using various exchange-correlation functionals, with values ranging between 0.44 and 1.07 eV.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Physical Review B
Chemoinformatics Investigation on Chemical Defense in Plants
Creators: name: Karade, Divya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cheminformatics, Chemical defense , allelochemicals, pesticides, virtual screening, virtual library, text mining

description: Chemical defense against predation has been studied for a long time. Plants produce many secondary metabolites called allelochemicals to protect themselves against herbivores, pests and pathogens. In this study, we performed chemoinformatics investigations to build combinatorial libraries of allelochemicals that were then quantitatively evaluated for their pesticide properties. We identified five common scaffolds and 15 common molecules through scaffold-molecule networks between allelochemicals and pesticides. Scaffolds (74) were extracted from allelochemicals used for building a focused virtual library of novel molecules (380). We propose new virtual molecules with pesticide-likeness properties according to rules published by Hao et al. (2011) (Hao, Dong and Yang 2011) for further agrochemical studies. Their LC-50 and EC-50 values for daphnid, mysids, algae, and fishes like Fathead minnow, etc., were predicted by ECOSAR- QSAR methods. These values indicate their lethal concentration for lower aquatic organisms, which will be used for their pesticide activities. This study shows that a combinatorial approach employing QSAR studies provides a novel perspective to the future directions for pesticides of natural origin.
description: Supplementary Data
Summary : the challenge of peace : God's promise and our response : a pastoral letter on war and peace = Sintesis : el desafio de la paz : promesa de Dios y nuestra respuesta : la carta pastoral de la guerra y la paz.
Creators: name: Catholic Church.
name: National Conference Of Catholic Bishops.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 Publication no. 894.
Additional file 1 of Diagnostic efficiency of whole-body 18F-FDG PET/MRI, MRI alone, and SUV and ADC values in staging of primary uterine cervical cancer
Creators: name: Steiner, Aida
name: Narva, Sara
name: Rinta-Kiikka, Irina
name: Hietanen, Sakari
name: Hynninen, Johanna
name: Virtanen, Johanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Parameters for diagnostic MR sequences.
Automated Identification of Wood Surface Defects Based on Deep Learning
Creators: name: Syla, Besfort
name: Saleh, Shadi
name: Hardt, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: Wood plates are widely used in the interior design of houses primarily for their aesthetic value. However, considering its esthetical values, surface defect detection is necessary. The development of computer vision and CNN-based object detection methods has opened the way for wood surface defect detection process automation. This paper investigates deep-learning applications for automatic wood surface defect detection. It includes the evaluation of deep learning algorithms, including data generation and labeling, preprocessing, model training, and evaluation. Many adjustments regarding the dataset size, the model, and the modification of the neural network were made to evaluate the model's performance in the specified challenge. The results indicate that modifications can increase the YOLOv5s performance in detection. The model with GCNet added and trained in 4800 images has achieved 88.1% of mAP. The paper also evaluates the time performance of models based on different GPU units. The results show that in A100 40GB GPU, the maximum time to process a wood plate is 2.2 seconds. Finally, an Active learning approach for the continual increase in performance while detecting with the smaller size of manual labeling has been implemented. After detecting 500 images in 5 cycles, the model achieved 98.8% of mAP. This scientific paper concludes that YOLOv5s modified model is suitable for wood surface defect detection. It can perform with high accuracy in real time. Moreover, applying the active learning approach can facilitate the labeling process by increasing the performance during detection.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
Epistemological Letters 16
Creators: name: Mayants, L.S.
name: Costa de Beauregard, O.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: Issue 16 is a written symposium on the foundations of quantum physics, edited by François Bonsack, Abner Shimony, and others. It was published and distributed to a limited mailing list by Association Ferdinand Gonseth.
Tunable Indistinguishable Photons From Remote Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Patel, R. B.
name: Bennett, A. J.
name: Farrer, I.
name: Nicoll, C. A.
name: Ritchie, D. A.
name: Shields, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single semiconductor quantum dots have been widely studied within devices that can apply an electric field. In the most common system, the low energy offset between the InGaAs quantum dot and the surrounding GaAs material limits the magnitude of field that can be applied to tens of kVcm^-1, before carriers tunnel out of the dot. The Stark shift experienced by the emission line is typically 1 meV. We report that by embedding the quantum dots in a quantum well heterostructure the vertical field that can be applied is increased by over an order of magnitude whilst preserving the narrow linewidths, high internal quantum efficiencies and familiar emission spectra. Individual dots can then be continuously tuned to the same energy allowing for two-photon interference between remote, independent, quantum dots.
AI-driven Solutions for Sustainable Environment Monitoring
Creators: name: Saleh, Shadi
name: Battseren, Batbayar
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into environmental monitoring has opened up unprecedented possibilities for safeguarding our planet's ecological health. As climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss present pressing challenges, innovative technologies are essential for efficiently monitoring and preserving our natural ecosystems. In pursuit of this transformative potential, our esteemed journal invites researchers, scientists, and AI experts to contribute to a special issue focusing on "AI-driven Solutions for Sustainable Environment Monitoring."

The urgency of environmental issues demands a collective effort to harness the power of AI in monitoring and sustaining our ecosystems. This special issue aims to showcase cutting-edge research and breakthroughs in AI-driven solutions, addressing various facets of environment monitoring and sustainability. By exploring the intersection of AI and environmental sciences, we seek to foster a deeper understanding of the role AI plays in shaping a greener, more resilient future.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 8 (2023): AI-driven Solutions for Sustainable Environment Monitoring
Religion, Tradition, and Restorative Justice in Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Graybill, Lyn S.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: \u000aIn this groundbreaking study of post-conflict Sierra Leone, Lyn Graybill examines the ways in which both religion and local tradition supported restorative justice initiatives such as the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and village-level Fambul Tok ceremonies.\u000a \u000aThrough her interviews with Christian and Muslim leaders of the Inter-Religious Council, Graybill uncovers a rich trove of perspectives about the meaning of reconciliation, the role of acknowledgment, and the significance of forgiveness. Through an abundance of polling data and her review of traditional practices among the various ethnic groups, Graybill also shows that these perspectives of religious leaders did not at all conflict with the opinions of the local population, whose preferences for restorative justice over retributive justice were compatible with traditional values that prioritized reconciliation over punishment.\u000a \u000aThese local sentiments, however, were at odds with the international community's preference for retributive justice, as embodied in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which ran concurrently with the TRC. Graybill warns that with the dominance of the International Criminal Court in Africa-there are currently eighteen pending cases in eight countries-local preferences may continue to be sidelined in favor of prosecutions. She argues that the international community is risking the loss of its most valuable assets in post-conflict peacebuilding by pushing aside religious and traditional values of reconciliation in favor of Western legal norms.\u000a
Some Results of the Study on Determining Digital Competence Needs of Citizens
Creators: name: Sed, Sanjaabadam
name: Altangerel, Munkhmagnai
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: Nowadays, when the digitalization is happening around the world, someone who uses computers, mobile devices and other equipment well, easily browses, searches and filters data, information and is able to create digital content, is considered as a person with basic digital skills. In this context, the Government of Mongolia announced to become a "Digital Nation" and to form competitive and creative citizens as well as enhance the quality of life of Mongolian citizens. At the core of this policy, there will be citizens who have the appropriate skills of utilizing ICT. The research was carried out with the aim to identify the digital skills needed by citizens on a daily basis and determining the current state of digital skills. There is a need to review some of the competences included in the 12 competency frameworks with 3 domains developed by the Universal ICT Competency Framework Working Group, and improve and compare to competences in other countries. Newly identified competence groups need to be redefined based on the research. In order to support/develop citizens’ digital skills necessary for everyday use, special programs will be required to be implemented that reflect\consider their place of residence, age, gender, employment and household income.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
Bethe Ansatz Matrix Elements as Non-Relativistic Limits of Form Factors of Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Kormos, M.
name: Mussardo, G.
name: Pozsgay, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the matrix elements of integrable models computed by the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz can be put in direct correspondence with the Form Factors of integrable relativistic field theories. This happens when the S-matrix of a Bethe Ansatz model can be regarded as a suitable non-relativistic limit of the S-matrix of a field theory, and when there is a well-defined mapping between the Hilbert spaces and operators of the two theories. This correspondence provides an efficient method to compute matrix elements of Bethe Ansatz integrable models, overpassing the technical difficulties of their direct determination. We analyze this correspondence for the simplest example in which it occurs, i.e. the Quantum Non-Linear Schrodinger and the Sinh-Gordon models.
description: 10 pages
Optical constants of silicon carbide for astrophysical applications. II. Extending optical functions from IR to UV using single-crystal absorption spectra
Creators: name: Hofmeister, A. M.
name: Pitman, K. M.
name: Goncharov, A. F.
name: Speck, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Laboratory measurements of unpolarized and polarized absorption spectra of various samples and crystal stuctures of silicon carbide (SiC) are presented from 1200--35,000 cm$^{-1}$ ($λ\sim$ 8--0.28 $μ$m) and used to improve the accuracy of optical functions ($n$ and $k$) from the infrared (IR) to the ultraviolet (UV). Comparison with previous $λ\sim$ 6--20 $μ$m thin-film spectra constrains the thickness of the films and verifies that recent IR reflectivity data provide correct values for $k$ in the IR region. We extract $n$ and $k$ needed for radiative transfer models using a new ``difference method'', which utilizes transmission spectra measured from two SiC single-crystals with different thicknesses. This method is ideal for near-IR to visible regions where absorbance and reflectance are low and can be applied to any material. Comparing our results with previous UV measurements of SiC, we distinguish between chemical and structural effects at high frequency. We find that for all spectral regions, 3C ($β$-SiC) and the $\vec{E}\bot \vec{c}$ polarization of 6H (a type of $α$-SiC) have almost identical optical functions that can be substituted for each other in modeling astronomical environments. Optical functions for $\vec{E} \| \vec{c}$ of 6H SiC have peaks shifted to lower frequency, permitting identification of this structure below $λ\sim4μ$m. The onset of strong UV absorption for pure SiC occurs near 0.2 $μ$m, but the presence of impurities redshifts the rise to 0.33 $μ$m. Optical functions are similarly impacted. Such large differences in spectral characteristics due to structural and chemical effects should be observable and provide a means to distinguish chemical variation of SiC dust in space.
description: 46 pages inc. 8 figures and 2 full tables. Also 6 electronic-only data files. Accepted by ApJ
Closed-Form Power and Sample Size Calculations for Bayes Factors
Creators: name: Pawel, Samuel
name: Held, Leonhard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Determining an appropriate sample size is a critical element of study design, and the method used to determine it should be consistent with the planned analysis. When the planned analysis involves Bayes factor hypothesis testing, the sample size is usually desired to ensure a sufficiently high probability of obtaining a Bayes factor indicating compelling evidence for a hypothesis, given that the hypothesis is true. In practice, Bayes factor sample size determination is typically performed using computationally intensive Monte Carlo simulation. Here, we summarize alternative approaches that enable sample size determination without simulation. We show how, under approximate normality assumptions, sample sizes can be determined numerically, and provide the R package bfpwr for this purpose. Additionally, we identify conditions under which sample sizes can even be determined in closed-form, resulting in novel, easy-to-use formulas that also help foster intuition, enable asymptotic analysis, and can also be used for hybrid Bayesian/likelihoodist design. Furthermore, we show how power and sample size can be computed without simulation for more complex analysis priors, such as Jeffreys-Zellner-Siow priors or non-local normal moment priors. Case studies from medicine and psychology illustrate how researchers can use our methods to design informative yet cost-efficient studies.
Additional file 1 of Brewers’ spent grain as substrate for dextran biosynthesis by Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides DSM20193 and Weissella confusa A16
Creators: name: Prabin Koirala
name: Ndegwa Henry Maina
name: Nihtilä, Hanna
name: Katina, Kati
name: Coda, Rossana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The qPCR primers used in transcription analysis of dextransucrase genes in L. pseudomesenteroides DSM20193 (Lp−) and W. confusa A16(Wcon−) and for sequencing of dextransucrae gene of W. confusa A16 (Wcon-DSA16-F/R). Figure S1. Nucleotide of partial gene of Weissella confusa A16 encoding dextransucrase (accession number: MW216679) and pairwise gene alignment of partial dextransucrase encoding gene of W. confusa A16 (A16DS) with dextransucrase encoding gene present in W. confusa strain VTT E- E90392 (VTTE9).
Vision-based Propeller Damage Inspection Using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Harras, Mohamed Salim
name: Saleh, Shadi
name: Battseren, Batbayar
name: Hardt, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2023

description: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly pivotal role in day-to-day rescue operations, offering crucial aerial support in challenging terrain and emergencies, such as drowning. Drone hangars are strategically deployed to ensure swift response in remote locations, overcoming range-limiting constraints posed by battery capacity. However, the UAV's airworthiness, typically ensured through conventional inspections by a technical individual, is paramount to guarantee mission safety. Over time, UAVs are prone to degradation through contact with the external environment, with propellers often being the cause of flight instability and potential crashes. This paper presents an innovative approach to automate UAV propeller inspection to avert incidents preemptively. Leveraging visual recordings and deep learning methodologies, we train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model using both passive and active learning strategies. Our approach successfully detects physical damage on propellers with an impressive accuracy of 85.8%, promising a significant improvement in maintaining UAV flight safety and effectiveness in rescue operations.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol. 10 No. 7 (2023): Special Issue - Proceedings of ISCSET 2023
Perturbation Analysis of Complete Synchronization in Networks of Phase Oscillators
Creators: name: Toenjes, R.
name: Blasius, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of weakly coupled self-sustained oscillators can often be well described by phase equations. Here we use the paradigm of Kuramoto phase oscillators which are coupled in a network to calculate first and second order corrections to the frequency of the fully synchronized state for nonidentical oscillators. The topology of the underlying coupling network is reflected in the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the network Laplacian which influence the synchronization frequency in a particular way. They characterize the importance of nodes in a network and the relations between them. Expected values for the synchronization frequency are obtained for oscillators with quenched random frequencies on a class of scale-free random networks and for a Erdős-Rényi random network. We briefly discuss an application of the perturbation theory in the second order to network structural analysis.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance
Creators: name: Kaasch, Alexandra
name: Martens, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Global social policy
subject: Global governance
subject: agency
subject: policy actors
subject: legitimacy
subject: 300

description: The introduction paves the way for an actor-centred approach to global social governance. The chapter highlights the necessity to think beyond existing conceptualizations and approaches, by combining different analytical tools from social policy, international relations, global governance research and comparative politics research. Different notions of agency and governance mechanisms at the disposal of different groups of actors are introduced, and applied to specific groups of actors. That includes both, individual legitimacy (e.g. institutional characteristics, constitutions, mandates), and structural contexts to global social governance. The chapter introduces the key questions running through the volume: what constitutes global social governance actors? How can global social policy actors be classified? What makes global social policy actors legitimate? What is the relationship between global social policy actors? By what mechanisms do global social policy actors exert influence?