cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Non-Kondo-like Electronic Structure in the Correlated Rare-Earth Hexaboride YbB$_6$
Creators: name: Neupane, Madhab
name: Xu, Su-Yang
name: Alidoust, Nasser
name: Bian, Guang
name: Kim, Dae-Jeong
name: Liu, Chang
name: Belopolski, Ilya
name: Chang, Tay-Rong
name: Jeng, Horng-Tay
name: Durakiewicz, Tomasz
name: Lin, Hsin
name: Bansil, Arun
name: Fisk, Zachary
name: Hasan, M. Zahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present angle-resolved photoemission studies on the rare-earth hexaboride YbB$_6$, which has recently been predicted to be a topological Kondo insulator. Our data do not agree with the prediction and instead show that YbB$_6$ exhibits a novel topological insulator state in the absence of a Kondo mechanism. We find that the Fermi level electronic structure of YbB$_6$ has three 2D Dirac cone like surface states enclosing the Kramers' points, while the f-orbital which would be relevant for the Kondo mechanism is $\sim1$ eV below the Fermi level. Our first-principles calculation shows that the topological state which we observe in YbB$_6$ is due to an inversion between Yb $d$ and B $p$ bands. These experimental and theoretical results provide a new approach for realizing novel correlated topological insulator states in rare-earth materials.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Submitted in 2014. Published in 2015, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016403
Learning convergence prediction of astrobots in multi-object spectrographs
Creators: name: Macktoobian, Matin
name: Basciani, Francesco
name: Gillet, Denis
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Astrobot swarms are used to capture astronomical signals to generate the map of the observable universe for the purpose of dark energy studies. The convergence of each swarm in the course of its coordination has to surpass a particular threshold to yield a satisfactory map. The current coordination methods do not always reach desired convergence rates. Moreover, these methods are so complicated that one cannot formally verify their results without resource-demanding simulations. Thus, we use support vector machines to train a model which can predict the convergence of a swarm based on the data of previous coordination of that swarm. Given a fixed parity, i.e., the rotation direction of the outer arm of an astrobot, corresponding to a swarm, our algorithm reaches a better predictive performance compared to the state of the art. Additionally, we revise our algorithm to solve a more generalized convergence prediction problem according to which the parities of astrobots may differ. We present the prediction results of a generalized scenario, associated with a 487-astrobot swarm, which are interestingly efficient and collision-free given the excessive complexity of this scenario compared to the constrained one.
Nonequilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional hard-core anyons following a quench: Complete relaxation of one-body observables
Creators: name: Wright, Tod M.
name: Rigol, Marcos
name: Davis, Matthew J.
name: Kheruntsyan, Karen V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the role of interactions in driving the relaxation of an isolated integrable quantum system following a sudden quench. We consider a family of integrable hard-core lattice anyon models that continuously interpolates between noninteracting spinless fermions and strongly interacting hard-core bosons. A generalized Jordan-Wigner transformation maps the entire family to noninteracting fermions. We find that, aside from the singular free-fermion limit, the entire single-particle density matrix and therefore all one-body observables relax to the predictions of the generalized Gibbs ensemble (GGE). This demonstrates that, in the presence of interactions, correlations between particles in the many-body wave function provide the effective dissipation required to drive relaxation of all one-body observables to the GGE. This relaxation does not depend on translational invariance, or the tracing out of any spatial domain of the system.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, plus supplementary material (6 pages, 4 figures). v2: Text shortened, and other minor revisions. To appear in PRL
Existence of globally attracting solutions for one-dimensional viscous Burgers equation with nonautonomous forcing - a computer assisted proof
Creators: name: Cyranka, Jacek
name: Zgliczyński, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M99, 35B40, 35B41, 37B55, 65G40

description: We prove the existence of globally attracting solutions of the viscous Burgers equation with periodic boundary conditions on the line for some particular choices of viscosity and non-autonomous forcing. The attract- ing solution is periodic if the forcing is periodic. The method is general and can be applied to other similar partial differential equations. The proof is computer assisted.
description: 38 pages, 1 figure
Digitale Methoden kritisch reflektieren – Die Erweiterung des Werkzeugkastens der Historiker:innen
Creators: name: Althage, Melanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital History
Methodenkritik
Topic Modeling
Programmierung
Inhaltsanalyse
Daten
Methoden
Forschungsprozess
Werkzeuge
DHd2023

description: Eine Posterpräsentation auf der 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture
Detailed Comparison of Renormalization Scale-Setting Procedures based on the Principle of Maximum Conformality
Creators: name: Huang, Xu-Dong
name: Yan, Jiang
name: Ma, Hong-Hao
name: Di Giustino, Leonardo
name: Shen, Jian-Ming
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The {\it Principle of Maximum Conformality} (PMC), which generalizes the conventional Gell-Mann-Low method for scale-setting in perturbative QED to non-Abelian QCD, provides a rigorous method for achieving unambiguous scheme-independent, fixed-order predictions for physical observables consistent with the principles of the renormalization group. In addition to the original multi-scale-setting approach (PMCm), two variations of the PMC have been proposed to deal with ambiguities associated with the uncalculated higher order terms in the pQCD series, i.e. the single-scale-setting approach (PMCs) and the procedures based on ``intrinsic conformality" (PMC$_\infty$). In this paper, we will give a detailed comparison of these PMC approaches by comparing their predictions for three important quantities $R_{e^+e^-}$, $R_τ$, and $Γ(H \to b \bar{b})$ up to four-loop pQCD corrections. The PMCs approach determines an overall effective running coupling $α_s(Q)$ by the recursive use of the renormalization group equation, whose argument $Q$ represents the actual momentum flow of the process. Our numerical results show that the PMCs method, which involves a somewhat simpler analysis, can serve as a reliable substitute for the full multi-scale PMCm method, and that it leads to more precise pQCD predictions with small residual scale dependence.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Nuclear Physics B
Graphene with wedge disclination in the presence of intrinsic and Rashba spin orbit couplings
Creators: name: Choudhari, Tarun
name: Deo, Nivedita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, the modified Kane-Mele Hamiltonian is derived for graphene with wedge disclination and spin orbit couplings (intrinsic and Rashba). The wedge disclination changes the flat lattice into the conical lattice and hence modifies the spin orbit couplings. The Hamiltonian is exactly solved for the intrinsic spin orbit interaction and perturbatively for the Rashba spin orbit interaction. It is shown that there exists the Kramer's degenerate midgap localized spin separated fluxon states around the defect. These zero energy spin separated states occur at the external magnetic flux value $Φ\pmΔΦ$. The external magnetic flux $Φ$ is introduced to make the wave-function periodic when the electron circulates around the defect. It is found that this separation occurs due to the effect of the conical curvature on the spin orbit coupling. Further, we find these results are robust to the addition of the Rashba spin orbit interaction which is important for the application to spintronics and nanoelectronics.
description: 6 pages ,3 figures ,Change in title
Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS): psychometric properties in two Internet-based studies
Creators: name: Frewen, Paul
name: McPhail, Ian
name: Schnyder, Ulrich
name: Oe, Misari
name: Olff, Miranda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Potentially traumatic stressors can lead to various transdiagnostic outcomes beyond PTSD alone but no brief screening tools exist for measuring posttraumatic responses in a transdiagnostic manner. Objective: Assess the psychometric characteristics of a new 22-item transdiagnostic screening measure, the Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS). Method: An internet survey was administered with English speaking participants recruited passively via the website of the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress (GC-TS) (nGC-TS = 1,268) and actively via Amazon’s MTurk (nMTurk = 1,378). Exploratory factor analysis, correlational analysis, sensitivity and specificity analysis, and comparisons in response between the two samples and between male and female respondents were conducted. Results: Exploratory factor analysis revealed a single factor underlying symptom endorsements in both samples, suggesting that such problems may form a unitary transdiagnostic, posttraumatic outcome. Convergent validity of the GPS symptom and risk factors was established with measures of PTSD and dissociative symptoms in the MTurk sample. Gender differences were seen primarily at the item level with women more often endorsing several symptoms and specific risk factors in the MTurk sample, and the GC-TS recruited sample endorsed more symptoms and risk factors than the MTurk sample, suggesting that the GPS may be sensitive to group differences. A GPS symptom cut-off score of 8 identified optimized sensitivity and specificity relative to probable PTSD based on PCL-5 scores. Conclusions: The current results provide preliminary support for the validity of the GPS as a screener for the concurrent measurement of several transdiagnostic outcomes of potentially traumatic stressors and the apparent unifactorial structure of such symptoms is suggestive of a single or unitary posttraumatic outcome. Future research is needed to evaluate whether similarly strong psychometric properties can be yielded in response to completion of the GPS in other languages. Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS) is validated in English. Global Psychotrauma Screen (GPS) is validated in English.
Articulatory Coordination for Speech Motor Tracking in Huntington Disease
Creators: name: Perez, Matthew
name: Romana, Amrit
name: Roberts, Angela
name: Carlozzi, Noelle
name: Miner, Jennifer Ann
name: Dayalu, Praveen
name: Provost, Emily Mower
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Huntington Disease (HD) is a progressive disorder which often manifests in motor impairment. Motor severity (captured via motor score) is a key component in assessing overall HD severity. However, motor score evaluation involves in-clinic visits with a trained medical professional, which are expensive and not always accessible. Speech analysis provides an attractive avenue for tracking HD severity because speech is easy to collect remotely and provides insight into motor changes. HD speech is typically characterized as having irregular articulation. With this in mind, acoustic features that can capture vocal tract movement and articulatory coordination are particularly promising for characterizing motor symptom progression in HD. In this paper, we present an experiment that uses Vocal Tract Coordination (VTC) features extracted from read speech to estimate a motor score. When using an elastic-net regression model, we find that VTC features significantly outperform other acoustic features across varied-length audio segments, which highlights the effectiveness of these features for both short- and long-form reading tasks. Lastly, we analyze the F-value scores of VTC features to visualize which channels are most related to motor score. This work enables future research efforts to consider VTC features for acoustic analyses which target HD motor symptomatology tracking.
Contextuality is About Identity of Random Variables
Creators: name: Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N.
name: Kujala, Janne V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P13, 81P05, 60A99

description: Contextual situations are those in which seemingly "the same" random variable changes its identity depending on the conditions under which it is recorded. Such a change of identity is observed whenever the assumption that the variable is one and the same under different conditions leads to contradictions when one considers its joint distribution with other random variables (this is the essence of all Bell-type theorems). In our Contextuality-by-Default approach, instead of asking why or how the conditions force "one and the same" random variable to change "its" identity, any two random variables recorded under different conditions are considered different "automatically". They are never the same, nor are they jointly distributed, but one can always impose on them a joint distribution (probabilistic coupling). The special situations when there is a coupling in which these random variables are equal with probability 1 are considered non-contextual. Contextuality means that such couplings do not exist. We argue that the determination of the identity of random variables by conditions under which they are recorded is not a causal relationship and cannot violate laws of physics.
Decoupling of heavy sneutrinos in low-scale seesaw models
Creators: name: Krauss, Manuel E.
name: Porod, Werner
name: Staub, Florian
name: Abada, Asmaa
name: Vicente, Avelino
name: Weiland, Cédric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been some recent claims in the literature about large right-handed sneutrinos contributions to lepton flavor violating observables like $μ\to 3e$ or $μ- e$ conversion in nuclei in supersymmetric low-scale seesaw models. These large contributions originate from $Z$-penguin diagrams which show a much weaker dependence on the heavy masses than the photonic contributions. We have traced this to an error in the evaluation of the corresponding loop amplitudes which has propagated in the literature. We explicitly show that after correcting this mistake the $Z$-penguins show the expected decoupling behavior. Moreover, the reported dominance of the $Z$-penguin over the photonic contributions disappears as well.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes, appendix added; matches published version in PRD
Correlation function for the Grid-Poisson Euclidean matching on a line and on a circle
Creators: name: Boniolo, Elena
name: Caracciolo, Sergio
name: Sportiello, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the two-point correlation function for spin configurations which are obtained by solving the Euclidean matching problem, for one family of points on a grid, and the second family chosen uniformly at random, when the cost depends on a power $p$ of the Euclidean distance. We provide the analytic solution in the thermodynamic limit, in a number of cases ($p>1$ open b.c.\ and $p=2$ periodic b.c., both at criticality), and analyse numerically other parts of the phase diagram.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 6 of Feasibility of an app-based parent-mediated speech production intervention for minimally verbal autistic children: development and pilot testing of a new intervention
Creators: name: Saul, Jo
name: Norbury, Courtenay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Score Breakdown of Acceptability Questionnaire.
Higgs Dark Energy
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the classical dynamics of a non-abelian Higgs theory coupled to gravity in an isotropic and homogeneous Universe. For non-minimal coupling, this theory leads to a model of cosmic inflation that is very attractive due to its simplicity and consistency with the latest experimental data. We show that this theory can also explain the current accelerated expansion of the Universe, provided that all the gravitational and bosonic degrees of freedom, together with their symmetries, are correctly taken in account.
description: Expanded version, includes numerical solutions and fancy plots. Version to appear on Classical and Quantum Gravity
Additional file 2 of Feasibility of an app-based parent-mediated speech production intervention for minimally verbal autistic children: development and pilot testing of a new intervention
Creators: name: Saul, Jo
name: Norbury, Courtenay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Stage 1 Consultation.
title: Lord Kilbrandon – my grandfather
Creators: name: Shaw, Heather
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2018

description: The Kilbrandon Lecture Series, gives an opportunity to analyse and debate the impact of the 1964 Kilbrandon Report and its impact on the children's hearing system and other issues that affect children in need of care and protection. The 15th Kilbrandon Lecture was delivered by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. In this article, Lord Kilbrandon's granddaughter gives a personal account of her grandfather and family life.
Spectral distances on graphs
Creators: name: Gu, Jiao
name: Hua, Bobo
name: Liu, Shiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By assigning a probability measure via the spectrum of the normalized Laplacian to each graph and using L^p Wasserstein distances between probability measures, we define the corresponding spectral distances d_p on the set of all graphs. This approach can even be extended to measuring the distances between infinite graphs. We prove that the diameter of the set of graphs, as a pseudo-metric space equipped with d_1, is one. We further study the behavior of d_1 when the size of graphs tends to infinity by interlacing inequalities aiming at exploring large real networks. A monotonic relation between d_1 and the evolutionary distance of biological networks is observed in simulations.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures
Piloting a scalable, post-trauma psychosocial intervention in Tuvalu: the Skills for Life Adjustment and Resilience (SOLAR) program
Creators: name: Gibson, Kari
name: Little, Jonathon
name: Cowlishaw, Sean
name: Toromon, Teawa Ipitoa
name: Forbes, David
name: O’Donnell, Meaghan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: The Skills for Life Adjustment and Resilience (SOLAR) programme is a brief, scalable, psychosocial skill-building programme designed to reduce distress and adjustment difficulties following disaster. Objectives: We tested the feasibility, acceptability, efficacy and safety of a culturally adapted version of SOLAR in two remote, cyclone-affected communities in the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu. Method: This pilot adopted a quasi-experimental, control design involving 99 participants. SOLAR was administered to the treatment group (n = 49) by local, non-specialist facilitators (i.e. ‘Coaches’) in a massed, group format across 5 consecutive days. The control group (n = 50) had access to Usual Care (UC). We compared group differences (post-intervention vs. post-control) with psychological distress being the primary outcome. We also examined whether changes were maintained at 6-month follow-up. Results: Large, statistically significant group differences in psychological distress were observed after controlling for baseline scores in favour of the SOLAR group. Mean group outcomes were consistently lower at 6-month follow-up than at baseline. SOLAR was found to be acceptable and safe, and programme feedback from participants and Coaches was overwhelmingly positive. Conclusions: Findings contribute to emerging evidence that SOLAR is a flexible, culturally adaptable and scalable intervention that can support individual recovery and adjustment in the aftermath of disaster. RCTs to strengthen evidence of SOLAR’s efficacy are warranted. We report findings from the first control trial of SOLAR, a post-trauma, psychosocial intervention.SOLAR proved feasible, acceptable, safe, and effective relative to Usual Care when delivered using task-sharing to residents of the Small Island Developing State of Tuvalu. We report findings from the first control trial of SOLAR, a post-trauma, psychosocial intervention. SOLAR proved feasible, acceptable, safe, and effective relative to Usual Care when delivered using task-sharing to residents of the Small Island Developing State of Tuvalu.
Prospects of CKM elements $|V_{cs}|$ and decay constant $f_{D_{s}^+}$ in $D_s^+\toμ^+ν_μ$ decay at STCF
Creators: name: Liu, Jiajun
name: Shi, Xiaodong
name: Li, Huijing
name: Zhou, Xiaorong
name: Zheng, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a feasibility study of pure leptonic decay $D_s^+\toμ^+ν_μ$ by using a fast simulation software package at STCF. With an expected luminosity of $1~\mathrm{ab}^{-1}$ collected at STCF at a center-of-mass energy of 4.009 GeV, the statistical sensitivity of the branching fraction is determined to be 0.3\%. Combining this result with the $c\rightarrow s$ quark mixing matrix element $|V_{cs}|$ determined from the current global Standard Model fit, the statistical sensitivity of $D_s^+$ decay constant, $f_{D_s^+}$, is estimated to be 0.2\%. Alternatively, combining the current results of $f_{D_s^+}$ calculated by lattice QCD, the statistical sensitivity of $|V_{cs}|$ is determined to be 0.2\%, which helps probe possible new physics beyond. The unprecedented precision to be achieved at STCF will provide a precise calibration of QCD and rigorous test of Standard Model.
description: 8pages, 7 figures
title: Gezi-Proteste als Forschungsfeld für die Manipulation der sozialen Bruchlinien der Türkei
Creators: name: Gürbüz, Salih
Year: 2023

description: In dieser Masterarbeit werden Manipulationstätigkeiten zur Verschleierung der neoliberalen Politik in der Türkei hinterfragt. An dieser Stelle werden „soziale Bruchlinien der Türkei“ als Manipulationsinstrument bewertet. Die „laizistische-konservative Bruchlinie“ wird in diesem Zusammenhang im Kontext des Forschungsthemas diskutiert. In dieser Studie, die auf der Definition und Analyse von Manipulation des Forschers Herbert Schiller basiert, wird der Manipulationsbegriff als verdeckte Tätigkeit zum Schutz des kapitalistischen Systems angenommen. Dazu wurden theoretische Diskussionen mit kritischem Ansatz in der Forschung geführt und eine kritische Diskursanalyse anhand der Diskurse von Regierungsbeamten während der Gezi-Proteste durchgeführt. Für diese Analyse wurden nach verschiedenen Kriterien ermittelte Online-Zeitungen als Forschungsdokumente herangezogen.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Carletto, Sara
name: Malandrone, Francesca
name: Berchialla, Paola
name: Oliva, Francesco
name: Colombi, Nicoletta
name: Hase, Michael
name: Hofmann, Arne
name: Ostacoli, Luca
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: In recent years, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been applied to different psychiatric conditions beyond post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and an increasing number of studies have evaluated its effect on depression. To date, no quantitative synthesis of the efficacy of EMDR on depression has been conducted. Objective: To meta-analytically review the studies on EMDR for depression as the primary target for treatment. Method: Studies with a controlled design evaluating the effect of EMDR on depression were searched on six electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane database, and Francine Shapiro Library) and then selected by two independent reviewers. A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted. Results: Eleven studies were included for qualitative synthesis. Nine studies were included in the meta-analysis, involving 373 participants. The overall effect size of EMDR for depressive symptoms is large (n = 9, Hedges’ g = – 1.07; 95%CI [–1.66; – 0.48]), with high heterogeneity (I2 = 84%), and corresponds to a ‘number needed to treat’ of 1.8. At follow-up (range 3–6 months), the effect remains significant but moderate (n = 3, Hedges’ g = – 0.62; 95%CI [–0.97; – 0.28]; I2 = 0%). The effect of EMDR compared with active controls is also moderate (n = 7, g = – 0.68; 95%CI [–0.92; – 0.43]; I2 = 0%). No publication bias was found, although the results are limited by the small number and poor methodological quality of the included studies. Conclusions: Review findings suggest that EMDR may be considered an effective treatment for improving symptoms of depression, with effects comparable to other active treatments. However, findings need to be interpreted in light of the limited number of the studies and their quality. Further research is required to understand the longer-term of effects EMDR in treating depression and preventing depression relapse. Protocol registration: PROSPERO (CRD42018090086). This review summarizes the current evidence on the effects of EMDR for depression.Findings show that one-third of people with depression could benefit from EMDR.EMDR could be considered as an alternative to first-line treatments for depression, pending further research. This review summarizes the current evidence on the effects of EMDR for depression. Findings show that one-third of people with depression could benefit from EMDR. EMDR could be considered as an alternative to first-line treatments for depression, pending further research.
When are dynamic relaying strategies necessary in half-duplex wireless networks?
Creators: name: Kolte, Ritesh
name: Özgür, Ayfer
name: Diggavi, Suhas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study a simple question: when are dynamic relaying strategies essential in optimizing the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) in half-duplex wireless relay networks? This is motivated by apparently two contrasting results even for a simple 3 node network, with a single half-duplex relay. When all channels are assumed to be i.i.d. fading, a static schedule where the relay listens half the time and transmits half the time combined with quantize-map-forward (QMF) relaying is known to achieve the full-duplex performance. However, when there is no direct link between source and destination, a dynamic-decode-forward (DDF) strategy is needed to achieve the optimal tradeoff. In this case, a static schedule is strictly suboptimal and the optimal tradeoff is significantly worse than the full-duplex performance. In this paper we study the general case when the direct link is neither as strong as the other links nor fully non-existent, and identify regimes where dynamic schedules are necessary and those where static schedules are enough. We identify 4 qualitatively different regimes for the single relay channel where the tradeoff between diversity and multiplexing is significantly different. We show that in all these regimes one of the above two strategies is sufficient to achieve the optimal tradeoff by developing a new upper bound on the best achievable tradeoff under channel state information available only at the receivers. A natural next question is whether these two strategies are sufficient to achieve the DMT of more general half-duplex wireless networks. We propose a generalization of the two existing schemes through a dynamic QMF (DQMF) strategy, where the relay listens for a fraction of time depending on received CSI but not long enough to be able to decode. We show that such a DQMF strategy is needed to achieve the optimal DMT in a parallel channel with two relays.
description: to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Paradox of the Plankton Article Published in Austin Environmental Sciences 2023 July
Creators: name: Ussenaliyeva, Aizhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 410102
subject: Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management
classificationCode: 410405
subject: Environmental rehabilitation and restoration

description: My recent publication in Austin Environmental Sciences Journal, July 2023
title: Now and then : reflections on practice
Creators: name: Cran, Jean
name: Stevens, Irene
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2018

description: This reflective paper was inspired by the SJRCC special edition on history. The paper focusses on the experiences of the authors as residential child care workers in the 1970s, 80s and 90s in Scotland. Having worked together in two different group care settings, they used their own experiences and relationship to reflect on the 'Now and Then' – what felt right and what has changed. The authors acknowledge that some aspects of care have improved, particularly in the areas of qualifications and safeguarding. However, they also conclude that the need for warm and genuine care still exists and can be even more of a challenge to provide than it was in the past.
Additional file 1 of Sophoridine induces apoptosis and S phase arrest via ROS-dependent JNK and ERK activation in human pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Zihang Xu
name: Zhang, Fei
name: Bai, Chao
name: Yao, Chao
name: Hairong Zhong
name: Chunpu Zou
name: Chen, Xiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material and Method. (DOCX 46 kb)
title: Rolling out RESuLT : facilitators' experiences delivering a first of its kind evidence based intervention training for residential workers
Creators: name: Armitage, Lisa
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2018

description: RESuLT is a vocational training course for residential childcare workers. The programme succeeds in delivering content that brings teams' often disparate viewpoints about the impact they can make at work to an optimistic standpoint. The body of shared knowledge that teams receive, as well as the focused debates that take place throughout the training inform practise and support group cohesion allowing members to work together effectively to provide high quality care.
Helping patients connect remotely with their loved ones modulates distress in healthcare workers: tend-and-befriend hypothesis for COVID-19 front liners
Creators: name: Fino, Edita
name: Fino, Viola
name: Bonfrate, Ismaela
name: Russo, Paolo Maria
name: Mazzetti, Michela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The no-visitor policies endorsed by healthcare organizations to limit COVID-19 virus risk exposure have unfortunately contributed to the isolation of patients further exacerbating distress in relatives and frontline healthcare workers. To contrast such effects, many healthcare institutions have adopted technology-based solutions helping patients and families communicate online through the aid of virtual devices. To date, no study has investigated whether facilitating patient-family videocalls would mitigate distress levels in frontline healthcare professionals. Caring for emotional needs of patients by re-establishing affiliative connections interrupted by the pandemic through patient-family videocalls is expected to mitigate distress in engaged healthcare workers as an example of a tend-and-befriend response to stress caused by the pandemic. We tested this hypothesis in a cross-sectional study conducted during 1–30 June 2020, involving 209 healthcare workers (nurses = 146; physicians = 63) engaged in the COVID-19 frontline in Italy. Half of participants in our sample (n = 107) had assisted efforts aimed at connecting patients remotely with families through videocalls. Psychological distress measures included symptoms of burnout, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and difficulty in sleep and wakefulness. Partially in line with our expectations we found a modulation effect specific for professional category: nurses assisting patient-family videocalls reported significantly lower levels of distress and a better quality of wakefulness compared to those who did not, whereas physicians reported higher levels of distress during such virtual communications. We interpret these findings from the perspective of patient-family communication and differences in skills and training between nurses and physicians. These findings highlight that technology-based solutions aimed at reducing barriers and alleviating distress in healthcare settings should be promoted in concert with skill enhancement training for healthcare professionals especially in terms of communicating online and communicating difficult topics with patients and families. Tending to patients’ emotional needs by facilitating virtual communication with families mitigates distress in COVID-19 front-line nurses.The inverse effect was observed among physicians who reported enhanced distress putatively due to gaps in communication skills and training. Tending to patients’ emotional needs by facilitating virtual communication with families mitigates distress in COVID-19 front-line nurses. The inverse effect was observed among physicians who reported enhanced distress putatively due to gaps in communication skills and training.
title: The orphanage industry : flourishing when it should be dying
Creators: name: Cantwell, Nigel
name: Werner Gillioz, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2018

description: Deinstitutionalisation of alternative care systems is a major challenge in many countries of Africa and Asia in particular, where care provision is essentially left in the hands of non-State actors and overwhelmingly takes the form of large residential facilities. Under those conditions, private providers have a virtual monopoly and are thus in a strong position to resist change. The bulk of the funding for these so-called 'orphanages' – where the great majority of children are not in fact orphans – usually comes from well-meaning charitable sources overseas. In recent years, 'orphanage tourism' has been developed as one highly profitable means of securing support. This article looks at how this phenomenon serves to tear families apart in order to 'create orphans', and argues that convincing foreign contributors to withdraw their support will be key to stopping the ‘orphanage industry’ from flourishing.
An ethnographic study of employee digital media practices in innovative organisational settings
Creators: name: Yee, Timothy
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Organisational innovation is no longer the responsibility of an elite group of highly technical workers. Drawing on tropes of collective empowerment, entrepreneurialism, and technological progress, management increasingly expect that all employees in high-tech companies embrace disruption and constantly think of ways to improve business processes and products to create more profit. To explain how this business rhetoric dominates everyday corporate life, I analyse a range of mediated practices that are now embedded in the finding, retaining, and carrying out of work in the knowledge economy: personal branding, online collaboration, quantification, and self-care. Using ethnographic techniques, I follow research informants working under a large Australian telecommunications and media corporation’s concerted efforts to foster a company culture of innovation. This fieldwork formed the basis of my theoretical arguments as well as the creation of a small collection of creative artefacts, exhibited in the final chapter. The use of creative practice serves to address the limitations of traditional ethnography in a field site that is networked and precarious, while also providing an avenue for critical engagement with the thesis in applied environments. Set against a backdrop of short-term business goals, eroding career stability, and the ongoing turn to agile project management in traditional organisations, this study reveals some of the significant consequences concomitant with the growing corporate innovation imperative. I argue that this day-to-day operationalisation of the ideology of innovation is a dangerous management strategy that influences personal media use and places business needs ahead of workers.
A critical lattice model for a Haagerup conformal field theory
Creators: name: Vanhove, Robijn
name: Lootens, Laurens
name: Van Damme, Maarten
name: Wolf, Ramona
name: Osborne, Tobias
name: Haegeman, Jutho
name: Verstraete, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the formalism of strange correlators to construct a critical classical lattice model in two dimensions with the \emph{Haagerup fusion category} $\mathcal{H}_3$ as input data. We present compelling numerical evidence in the form of finite entanglement scaling to support a Haagerup conformal field theory (CFT) with central charge $c=2$. Generalized twisted CFT spectra are numerically obtained through exact diagonalization of the transfer matrix and the conformal towers are separated in the spectra through their identification with the topological sectors. It is further argued that our model can be obtained through an orbifold procedure from a larger lattice model with input $Z(\mathcal{H}_3)$, which is the simplest modular tensor category that does not admit an algebraic construction. This provides a counterexample for the conjecture that all rational CFT can be constructed from standard methods.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Scattering Equations and String Theory Amplitudes
Creators: name: Bjerrum-Bohr, N. E. J
name: Damgaard, P. H.
name: Tourkine, P.
name: Vanhove, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering equations for tree-level amplitudes are viewed in the context of string theory. As a result of the comparison we are led to define a new dual model which coincides with string theory in both the small and large $α'$ limit, and whose solution is found algebraically on the surface of solutions to the scattering equations. Because it has support only on the scattering equations, it can be solved exactly, yielding a simple resummed model for $α'$-corrections to all orders. We use the same idea to generalize scattering equations to amplitudes with fermions and any mixture of scalars, gluons and fermions. In all cases checked we find exact agreement with known results.
description: v2: 18 pp, 1 figure, added clarifications and comments. Version to be published in PRD
Sex differences in PTSD risk: evidence from post-conflict populations challenges the general assumption of increased vulnerability in females
Creators: name: Wilker, Sarah
name: Kolassa, Stephan
name: Ibrahim, Hawkar
name: Rajan, Vathsalan
name: Pfeiffer, Anett
name: Catani, Claudia
name: Kolassa, Iris-Tatjana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Next to the dose-dependent effect of trauma load, female sex represents a well-established risk factor for PTSD. Exposure to particularly toxic traumatic event types, different coping styles, and biological risk factors are frequently listed as potential causes for the increased PTSD vulnerability in females. Nevertheless, sex differences have not been consistently observed in all study populations. Objective: To investigate sex differences in PTSD risk in post-conflict populations from different countries while considering trauma load. Method: In civilian post-conflict samples from Northern Uganda (N = 1665), Rwanda (N = 433), Syria (N = 974) and Sri Lanka (N = 165), we investigated sex differences in PTSD risk while taking trauma load into account. PTSD and trauma load were assessed using standardized diagnostic interviews. Potential sex differences in PTSD risk were analysed by logistic regression analyses considering trauma load. Results: Across all samples, males reported more traumatic events than females. Both sexes predominantly reported war-related traumatic events. Without considering trauma load, sex effects in PTSD risk were only detected in the Syrian sample. When taking trauma load into account, evidence for an increased PTSD vulnerability in females was found in the Syrian sample, and, to a much lesser extent, in the Northern Ugandan sample. Conclusion: In contrast to the literature, we did not find evidence for a general increased PTSD vulnerability in females. The dose-response effect of trauma load was a much stronger predictor of PTSD risk than sex across all samples. In four samples of civilian conflict survivors, sex did not influence PTSD risk as strongly as commonly reported in the literature.If males and females experience similar trauma event types and a high amount of traumatic stress, sex differences in PTSD risk seem to decrease. In four samples of civilian conflict survivors, sex did not influence PTSD risk as strongly as commonly reported in the literature. If males and females experience similar trauma event types and a high amount of traumatic stress, sex differences in PTSD risk seem to decrease.
Code for: Macrogenetics reveals multifaceted influences of environmental variation on vertebrate population genetic diversity across the Americas
Creators: name: Lawrence, Elizabeth R
name: Fraser, Dylan J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Population ecology
Anthropological genetics
Genetics not elsewhere classified
Behavioural genetics

description: Code used for producing the results presented in Macrogenetics reveals multifaceted influences of environmental variation on vertebrate population genetic diversity across the Americas.
 Submitted to Molecular Ecology
Gate count estimates for performing quantum chemistry on small quantum computers
Creators: name: Wecker, Dave
name: Bauer, Bela
name: Clark, Bryan K.
name: Hastings, Matthew B.
name: Troyer, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As quantum computing technology improves and quantum computers with a small but non-trivial number of N > 100 qubits appear feasible in the near future the question of possible applications of small quantum computers gains importance. One frequently mentioned application is Feynman's original proposal of simulating quantum systems, and in particular the electronic structure of molecules and materials. In this paper, we analyze the computational requirements for one of the standard algorithms to perform quantum chemistry on a quantum computer. We focus on the quantum resources required to find the ground state of a molecule twice as large as what current classical computers can solve exactly. We find that while such a problem requires about a ten-fold increase in the number of qubits over current technology, the required increase in the number of gates that can be coherently executed is many orders of magnitude larger. This suggests that for quantum computation to become useful for quantum chemistry problems, drastic algorithmic improvements will be needed.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Added references and clarified key aspects. Accepted for publication in Physical Review A