cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Factors Related to Success and Participants’ Psychological Ownership in Collaborative Wildlife Management: A Survey of Sage-Grouse Local Working Groups
Creators: name: Belton, Lorien R
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Declines of sage-grouse (Centrocercus spp.) across the western United States have prompted the formation of numerous collaborative stakeholder partnerships, known as local working groups. These voluntary groups create and implement local sage-grouse management plans and projects, often in the hopes that their efforts may help avert a federal Endangered Species designation for the bird. Using a mail survey of participants in 54 local working groups, I examined the importance of psychological ownership in working group dynamics. Psychological ownership is conceptualized as a latent, multidimensional variable consisting of responsibility, control, and caring elements. Multiple regression analysis showed early-stage group success, representative membership structures, older group age, and respondent identity and presence during group formation to be significantly related to feelings of ownership in group work. The results also showed that psychological ownership is a strong predictor of group success at the project implementation stage, when other variables were controlled.
title: Transforming Perspectives Through Service-Learning Participation: A Case Study of the College Counts Program
Creators: name: Peacock, James O
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: A case study has been conducted on the College Counts program, a well-integrated service-learning program, to examine the experiential learning of 10 former participants. It was the objective of this investigation to view the learning of 10 college students, through the lens of transformational learning, as they reflect on their experiences as participants in the College Counts program. Transformational learning theory was used as a lens to determine if high school students have the ability to engage in transformative learning. Students reported in their own voices transformative learning in one or more of the following forms: increased cultural inclusiveness, commitment to social justice, and/or shift in personal perspective and choices. Results of the study suggested that Mezirow’s transformational learning theory should be expanded to include secondary students.
ICT Challenges and Opportunities in Building a "Bright Society"
Creators: name: Oh, Wonseok
name: Acquisti, Alessandro
name: Sia, Choon Ling
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have introduced great changes into our personal and professional lives. Although the debate over the benefits of ICTs (and how to measure them) still lingers (Remenyi, Money, and Bannister, 2007), there is a general consensus that ICTs have driven innovations in key societal dimensions, including economic development, health care, education, and connectivity. Since the 1990s, for instance, ICTs’ contribution to the U.S. GDP has increased to 25 percent1. ICTs have also significantly affected health care services across the globe and now contribute to the delivery of high-quality patient care. Furthermore, ICTs have promoted increased access to education and enhanced the quality of teaching and learning (Livingstone, 2012).
Additional file 2 of Diagnostic efficacy of circular RNAs as noninvasive, liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection of gastric cancer
Creators: name: Roy, Souvick
name: Kanda, Mitsuro
name: Nomura, Sachiyo
name: Zhu, Zhongxu
name: Toiyama, Yuji
name: Taketomi, Akinobu
name: Goldenring, James
name: Baba, Hideo
name: Kodera, Yasuhiro
name: Goel, Ajay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Clinicopathologic characteristics of Gastric Cancer (GC) patients in a pilot tissue validation cohort. Supplementary Table 2. Clinicopathologic characteristics of serum training and validation cohorts. Supplementary Table 3. List of divergent primers designed against candidate circRNAs in this study. Supplementary Table 4. Summary of diagnostic performance of individual circRNAs in tissue validation cohort. Supplementary Table 5. Summary of diagnostic performance of individual circRNAs in serum training cohort. Supplementary Table 6. Univariate analysis of individual circRNA candidates in serum training cohort. Supplementary Table 7. Summary of diagnostic performance of individual circRNAs in serum validation cohort. Supplementary Table 8. Details of candidate circRNAs discovered and validated in this study.
QCALT: a tile calorimeter for KLOE-2 upgrade
Creators: name: Cordelli, M.
name: Corradi, G.
name: Happacher, F.
name: Martini, M.
name: Miscetti, S.
name: Paglia, C.
name: Saputi, A.
name: Sarra, I.
name: Tagnani, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The upgrade of the DA$Φ$NE machine layout requires a modification of the size and position of the inner focusing quadrupoles of KLOE-2 thus asking for the realization of two new calorimeters covering the quadrupoles area. To improve the reconstruction of $K_L\to 2π^0$ events with photons hitting the quadrupoles a calorimeter with high efficiency to low energy photons (20-300 MeV), time resolution of less than 1 ns and space resolution of few cm, is needed. To match these requirements, we are designing a tile calorimeter, QCALT, where each single tile is readout by mean of SiPM for a total granularity of 2400 channels. We show first tests of the different calorimeter components.
The Citizen Science Starter Kit
Creators: name: Verbrugge, Karel
name: Veeckman, Carina
name: Keersmaekers, Floor
name: Livémont, Eline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Although citizen science is no longer a novelty, initiators are still facing challenges while implementing it. A recent survey in Flanders (Belgium) shows that the willingness to start with citizen science has not significantly increased between 2005 and 2020, with respondents indicating a fairly large need for information1. In addition to the expected difficulty of broaching an unfamiliar research approach, it may also be hard to decide whether citizen science is the right fit for your research.

 

To alleviate these issues and promote continued change towards a participatory research culture at universities, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) developed the Citizen Science Starter Kit within the Horizon 2020 EUTOPIA TRAIN project. Published in 2022, and with ongoing updates in fall 2023, the starter kit is a how-to guide for beginners with the most essential information to get started. The starter kit introduces and defines citizen science, and provides a decision-making framework for evaluating its fit. There is also a specific training module with a step-by-step plan and templates, tools, and checklists to get started with citizen science.

 

This poster session highlights the value of the starter kit and involves the audience in capturing their information needs through post-its. We would like to hear from the audience what kind of challenges they experience(d) and which support they might need. The collected results will be analysed by VUB and will serve as input for the future development of the starter kit. Eventually, we hope that the starter kit supports researchers in informed decision-making and stimulates critical debate on citizen science. In doing so, we wish to foster a change towards a more participatory research culture and increase the uptake of citizen science.

 

[1] Duerinckx, A., Hens, C, Kerckhoffs, S, Van Laer, J., Verstraelen, K. (2021) Citizen science and Flemish scientists: evolutions in knowledge, opinions and attitudes. Scivil, Leuven, Belgium. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5825397
Prediction of spectral shifts proportional to source distances by time-varying frequency or wavelength selection
Creators: name: Guruprasad, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Any frequency selective device with an ongoing drift will cause observed spectra to be variously and simultaneously scaled in proportion to their source distances. The reason is that detectors after the drifting selection will integrate instantaneous electric or magnetic field values from successive sinusoids, and these sinusoids would differ in both frequency and phase. Phase differences between frequencies are ordinarily irrelevant, and recalibration procedures at most correct for frequency differences. With drifting selection, however, each integrated field value comes from *the sinusoid of the instantaneously selected frequency at its instantaneous received phase*, hence the waveform constructed by the integration will follow the drifting selection with a phase acceleration given by the drift rate times the slope of the received phase spectrum. A phase acceleration is literally a frequency shift, and the phase spectrum slope of a received waveform is an asymptotic measure of the source distance, as the path delay presents phase offsets proportional to frequency times the distance, and eventually exceeding all initial phase differences. Tunable optics may soon be fast enough for realizing such shifts by Fourier switching, and could lead to pocket X-ray devices; sources continuously variable from RF to gamma rays; capacity multiplication with jamming and noise immunity in both fibre and radio channels, passive ranging from ground to deep space; etc.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures. Nature of Light II: Light in Nature, SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, Aug 2008
title: Approximations to Continuous Processes in Hierarchical Models
Creators: name: Cangelosi, Amanda
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Models for natural nonlinear processes, such as population dynamics, have been given much attention in applied mathematics. For example, species competition has been extensively modeled by differential equations. Often, the scientist has preferred to model the underlying dynamical processes (i.e., theoretical mechanisms) in continuous-time. It is of both scientific and mathematical interest to implement such models in a statistical framework to quantify uncertainty associated with the models in the presence of observations. That is, given discrete observations arising from the underlying continuous process, the unobserved process can be formally described while accounting for multiple sources of uncertainty (e.g., measurement error, model choice, and inherent stochasticity of process parameters). In addition to continuity, natural processes are often bounded; specifically, they tend to have non-negative support. Various techniques have been implemented to accommodate non-negative processes, but such techniques are often limited or overly compromising. This study offers an alternative to common differential modeling practices by using a bias-corrected truncated normal distribution to model the observations and latent process, both having bounded support. Parameters of an underlying continuous process are characterized in a Bayesian hierarchical context, utilizing a fourth-order Runge-Kutta approximation.
Persistence in Practice
Creators: name: van Leeuwen, J. M. J.
name: de Villeneuve, V. W. A.
name: Lekkerkerker, H. N. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scheme to accurately calculate the persistence probabilities on sequences of $n$ heights above a level $h$ from the measured $n+2$ points of the height-height correlation function of a fluctuating interface. The calculated persistence probabilities compare very well with the measured persistence probabilities of a fluctuating phase-separated colloidal interface for the whole experimental range.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures
Crack propagation in anisotropic brittle materials: from a phase-field model to a shape optimization approach
Creators: name: Suchan, Tim
name: Kandekar, Chaitanya
name: Weber, Wolfgang E.
name: Welker, Kathrin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The phase-field method is based on the energy minimization principle which is a geometric method for modeling diffusive cracks that are popularly implemented with irreversibility based on Griffith's criterion. This method requires a length-scale parameter that smooths the sharp discontinuity, which influences the diffuse band and results in mesh-sensitive fracture propagation results. Recently, a novel approach based on the optimization on Riemannian shape spaces has been proposed, where the crack path is realized by techniques from shape optimization. This approach requires the shape derivative, which is derived in a continuous sense and used for a gradient-based algorithm to minimize the energy of the system. Due to the continuous derivation of the shape derivative, this approach yields mesh-independent results. In this paper, the novel approach based on shape optimization is presented, followed by an assessment of the predicted crack path in anisotropic brittle material using numerical calculations from a phase-field model.
title: A Comparison of Social Stories and Script Fading to Increase Appropriate Social Interactions of Secondary Students with Disabilities with their Non-Disabled Peers
Creators: name: Dudleston, Kristi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The effects of social stories and script fading were investigated on increasing interactions of students with disabilities with their non-disabled peers. Social stories and script fading are treatments typically used for persons with autism spectrum disorder. This study examined effects on students with intellectual disabilities and multiple disabilities. In sequential treatments, social stories and 'scripts' were read to students just prior to their lunch, so each could be assessed on their effectiveness in increasing initiations and responses in social situations in a lunch line with typical students. Social stories and script fading were analyzed in the context of a multiple baseline design across three participants, all 12- to 14-year-old youth with significant intellectual disabilities. The study was conducted in a cafeteria as participants and other students stood in line, selected lunch items, and sat at tables to eat lunch. Data on social interactions were initially collected on five students without disabilities to serve as a benchmark for study participants. Results indicated that social stories were largely ineffective or minimally effective in increasing social interactions in the cafeteria for three participants. In contrast, the second treatment, scripts and script fading, was immediately and consistently effective in increasing social interactions. Generalization probes were consistent with intervention results. Results are discussed in terms of variables affecting efficacy of the two interventions and directions for future research.
title: The Influence of Debris Cages on Critical Submergence of Vertical Intakes in Reservoirs
Creators: name: Allen, Skyler D
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This study quantifies the influence of debris cages on critical submergence at vertical intakes in reservoir configurations. Four model debris cages were constructed of light panel material. A vertical intake protruding one pipe diameter above the floor of a model reservoir was tested in six configurations: open intake pipe, a debris grate placed directly over the intake pipe, and debris cages representing widths of 1.5*d and 2*d and heights of 1.5*c and 2*c, where d is diameter of the intake and c is height of intake above reservoir floor. A selection of top grating configurations and a submerged raft configuration were also tested for comparison. Testing of the model debris cages indicates that the roof or top grate of a debris cage dominates the influence a debris cage has on the reduction of critical submergence of air-core vortices. The side grates of a debris cage have some influence on the formation of vortices. The spacing of bars in the top grate has an influence on air-core vortex development. The presence of a debris cage at vertical intakes in still-water reservoirs reduces the critical submergence required to avoid air-core vortices and completely eliminates the air-core vortex for cases where the water surface elevation remains above the top grate of the debris cage. The potential exists for designing debris cages to fulfill a secondary function of air-core vortex suppression.
Additional file 1 of Trends and burden of diabetes in pregnancy among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia, 1998–2015
Creators: name: Ahmed, Marwan Awad
name: Bailey, Helen D.
name: Pereira, Gavin
name: White, Scott W.
name: Wong, Kingsley
name: Shepherd, Carrington C. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Maternal and neonatal characteristics of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal singleton pregnancies in Western Australia, 1998–2015.
Angular uncertainty of momentum correlations in parametric fluorescence
Creators: name: Hamar, Martin
name: Perina, Jan
name: Michalek, Vaclav
name: Haderka, Ondrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Uncertainty in the determination of emission angles of signal and idler photons is investigated. The role of divergence of the pump beam, width of the pump spectrum, and size of the crystal is elucidated. Experimental data obtained by an iCCD camera are in a good agreement with a numerical model that provides angular and spectral characteristics of the signal and idler fields.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
title: New Fruit and Vegetable Offerings and Challenges Increased Lunch-Time Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Fourth-Graders
Creators: name: Hansen, Cory Ann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Facilitating nutritional improvement in schools is an important strategy for
reversing the alarming trends of overweight and undernourishment currently observed
among children in the United States. Compared to national recommendations, many people in the United States under-consume nutrient-dense foods, such as fruits and vegetables. The objective of this study was to determine if various school-based interventions can increase fruit and vegetable consumption among 75 fourth-graders. Interventions included fruit and vegetable challenges, offering a new variety of fruit, and classroom nutrition education. To assess intake, photographs of students' school lunch trays were taken pre- and post-consumption and then analyzed to determine consumption. Differences in mean intake across time were examined and paired t-test analyses were used to assess if observed differences were statistically significant. Compared to baseline intakes, the variety intervention significantly increased mean fruit and vegetable consumption (p
The Overall Coefficient of the Two-loop Superstring Amplitude Using Pure Spinors
Creators: name: Gomez, Humberto
name: Mafra, Carlos R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the results recently obtained for computing integrals over (non-minimal) pure spinor superspace, we compute the coefficient of the massless two-loop four-point amplitude from first principles. Contrasting with the mathematical difficulties in the RNS formalism where unknown normalizations of chiral determinant formulae force the two-loop coefficient to be determined only indirectly through factorization, the computation in the pure spinor formalism can be smoothly carried out.
description: 29 pages, harvmac TeX. v2: add references
Additional file 2 of Trends and burden of diabetes in pregnancy among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia, 1998–2015
Creators: name: Ahmed, Marwan Awad
name: Bailey, Helen D.
name: Pereira, Gavin
name: White, Scott W.
name: Wong, Kingsley
name: Shepherd, Carrington C. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Crude prevalence of pre-gestational diabetes among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal pregnancies, 1998–2015.
title: Expression Analysis of Plant Defense Responses during the Establishment of Biotrophy and Role of Abiotic Stress in the Infection of Dyer’s Woad (Isatis tinctoria) by Puccinia thlaspeos
Creators: name: Thomas, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The kinetics and amplitude of the salicylic acid-responsive pathogenesis-related (PR) genes and the cytochrome P450 gene ItCYP79B2 in the compatible interaction between Puccinia thlaspeos and dyer’s woad (Isatis tinctoria) during the first 72 hours of inoculation were examined. Immediately following penetration of the host by the rust pathogen, there was a modest up-regulation of PR genes but a significant down-regulation of ItCYP79B2 expression. During haustoria formation, a significant pathogen-mediated suppression of PR genes was observed with a corresponding up-regulation of ItCYP79B2. This potentially facilitates haustoria formation by P. thlaspeos. After haustoria formation, a more significant up-regulation of PR genes was observed that was followed by a second pathogen-induced suppression of both PR and ItCYP79B2 genes. This suppression of defense responses by the pathogen was sustained and was potentially responsible for successful infections in dyer’s woad. Exogenous application of salicylic acid was done to experimentally trigger the expression of defense-related genes in dyer’s woad. In treatments not involving the pathogen, exogenous application of salicylic acid led to rapid activation of defense responses. In treatments involving both salicylic acid and the rust pathogen, a differential response was observed based on the timing of salicylic acid application. During the pre-haustorial and post-haustorial phases, the up-regulation of defense genes by salicylic acid application increased protection against rust. However, salicylic acid application during the haustorial formation could not override the pathogen-mediated suppression of defense responses. Suppression of pathogen-induced defense responses during and after haustoria formation is postulated to be vital in the establishment of biotrophy in this system. In addition, the effects of varying levels of a number of different abiotic stresses (oxidative, salt, osmotic, dehydration, and cold stresses) on the host during the infection process were examined. While moderate-to-severe levels of salinity, osmotic, dehydration, and cold stress did not decrease infection, mild abiotic stress appears to help dyer’s woad develop cross-tolerance to the rust pathogen, thereby affecting its efficacy as a biocontrol agent.
Navigating abortion in adolescence : a narrative exploration of experiences and counselling perspectives
Creators: name: Carson, Nicole
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Current research suggests adolescents navigating abortion face a complex landscape marked by challenges related to access and stigmatization. Yet, abortion research has been conducted with little consideration for this life stage within a Canadian context. More specifically, no study to date has explored the personal accounts of young adults who can reflect with insight on their abortion experience. The present study investigated this phenomenon using narrative inquiry. The primary research question for this study asked: What narratives do young adults construct about their experience of abortion during adolescence? By extending this exploration to include the perspectives of abortion counsellors involved in adolescent reproductive healthcare, this study endeavored to provide a comprehensive view of the experience. Thus, the secondary research question asked: What narratives do abortion counsellors construct about their experience working with adolescent populations? Most of the research on adolescent abortion is quantitative and few studies have utilized a narrative research design. Narrative inquiry suggests stories are an entry point through which experiences are interpreted and made meaningful. Three young adults and two abortion counsellors were interviewed and a thematic analysis was conducted within both groups using Braun and Clarke’s (2006, 2019) six-step process. Five main themes emerged from young adults' experiences: (a) Certainty and Immediacy of the Decision; (b) Logistical Hurdles; (c) Enduring Pain and Resilience; (d) Navigating Disclosure Within Support Systems; and (e) Experience as a Catalyst for Advocacy. Four additional themes emerged from abortion counsellors’ experiences: (a) Confronting Stigma and Anti-Abortion Discourse; (b) Beyond Misconceptions; (c) Private Paths; and (d) Empowered Choice. This study contributes to the academic discourse on adolescent reproductive health and provides valuable information for healthcare providers and counselling psychology practitioners about the multifaceted nature of adolescent abortion experiences.
X-ray spectra from magnetar candidates - III. Fitting SGRs/AXPs soft X-ray emission with non-relativistic Monte Carlo models
Creators: name: Zane, S.
name: Rea, N.
name: Turolla, R.
name: Nobili, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the magnetar scenario, the "twisted magnetosphere" model appears very promising in explaining the persistent X-ray emission from the Soft Gamma Repeaters and the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (SGRs and AXPs). In the first two papers of the series, we have presented a 3D Monte Carlo code for solving radiation transport as soft, thermal photons emitted by the star surface are resonantly upscattered by the magnetospheric particles. A spectral model archive has been generated and implemented in XSPEC. Here we report on the systematic application of our spectral model to different XMM-Newton and Integral observations of SGRs and AXPs. We find that the synthetic spectra provide a very good fit to the data for the nearly all the source (and source states) we have analyzed.
description: 13 Pages, 7 Figures, 4 Tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Challenges in developing a split drive targeting dsx for the genetic control of the invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi
Creators: name: Larrosa-Godall, Mireia
name: Ang, Joshua X. D.
name: Leftwich, Philip T.
name: Gonzalez, Estela
name: Shackleford, Lewis
name: Nevard, Katherine
name: Noad, Rob
name: Anderson, Michelle A. E.
name: Alphey, Luke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Creation of a Photonic Time-bin Qubit via Parametric Interaction of Photons in a Driven Resonant Medium
Creators: name: Sisakyan, N.
name: Malakyan, Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel method of preparing a single photon in temporally-delocalized entangled modes is proposed and analyzed. We show that two single-photon pulses propagating in a driven nonabsorbing medium with different group velocities are temporally split under parametric interaction into well-separated pulses. As a consequence, the single-photon "time-bin-entangled" states are generatedwith a programmable entanglement, which is easily controlled by driving field intensity. The experimental study of nonclassical features and nonlocality in generated states by means of balanced homodyne tomography is discussed.
description: minor corrections compared to the published version, 8 pages, 3 figures
Quantum isomorphism of $2$-graphs
Creators: name: Joardar, Soumalya
name: Rahaman, Atibur
name: Sharma, Jitender
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L67

description: We formulate a notion of the quantum automorphism group of a $2$-graph. After some preliminary computations, we define quantum isomorphism between a pair of $2$-graphs. We produce a `non-trivial' example of a pair of $2$-graphs that are not quantum isomorphic to each other.
description: 26 PAGES. This is an improved version of our previous article, which now includes a new section. This addition significantly enhances the article, and therefore, Jitender Sharma's contribution is recognized with the addition of a third author. To appear in International Journal Of Mathematics
Additional file 3 of Trends and burden of diabetes in pregnancy among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia, 1998–2015
Creators: name: Ahmed, Marwan Awad
name: Bailey, Helen D.
name: Pereira, Gavin
name: White, Scott W.
name: Wong, Kingsley
name: Shepherd, Carrington C. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Crude prevalence of gestational diabetes among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal pregnancies, 1998–2015.
Performance Bounds for Near-Field Localization with Widely-Spaced Multi-Subarray mmWave/THz MIMO
Creators: name: Yang, Songjie
name: Chen, Xinyi
name: Xiu, Yue
name: Lyu, Wanting
name: Zhang, Zhongpei
name: Yuen, Chau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the potential of near-field localization using widely-spaced multi-subarrays (WSMSs) and analyzing the corresponding angle and range Cramér-Rao bounds (CRBs). By employing the Riemann sum, closed-form CRB expressions are derived for the spherical wavefront-based WSMS (SW-WSMS). We find that the CRBs can be characterized by the angular span formed by the line connecting the array's two ends to the target, and the different WSMSs with same angular spans but different number of subarrays have identical normalized CRBs. We provide a theoretical proof that, in certain scenarios, the CRB of WSMSs is smaller than that of uniform arrays. We further yield the closed-form CRBs for the hybrid spherical and planar wavefront-based WSMS (HSPW-WSMS), and its components can be seen as decompositions of the parameters from the CRBs for the SW-WSMS. Simulations are conducted to validate the accuracy of the derived closed-form CRBs and provide further insights into various system characteristics. Basically, this paper underscores the high resolution of utilizing WSMS for localization, reinforces the validity of adopting the HSPW assumption, and, considering its applications in communications, indicates a promising outlook for integrated sensing and communications based on HSPW-WSMSs.
title: Pathophysiology of Arbroviral Encephalitides in Laboratory Rodents
Creators: name: Olsen, Aaron L
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV) is an arboviral pathogen naturally found in North America. The primary disease phenotype associated with WEEV infection in susceptible hosts is a relatively long prodromal period followed by viral encephalitis. By contrast, in the current work, experimental inoculation of WEEV into the peritoneum of Syrian golden hamsters produced rapid death within approximately 96 h. It was determined that direct virus killing of lymphoid cells leads to death in WEEV-infected Syrian golden hamsters, and that inflammatory cytokines have the potential to enhance virus-induced lymphoid cell destruction. It was further concluded that WEEV retains its ability to cause encephalitis in Syrian golden hamsters, if hamsters survive the early stages of virus infection or if virus is introduced directly into the CNS. Death in WEEV-infected hamsters is associated with lymphonecrotic lesions in the absence of pathological lesions in the central nervous system (CNS). Few clinical parameters were altered by WEEV infection, with the exception of circulating lymphocyte numbers. Circulating lymphocyte numbers decreased dramatically during WEEV infection, and lymphopenia was identified as a consistent indicator of eventual death. Virus infection also increased serum concentrations of the cytokines interferon and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha). Hamster peritoneal macrophages exposed to WEEV expressed TNF-alpha in a dose-responsive manner. Macrophage expression of TNF-alpha could be significantly inhibited by treatment of cells with anti-inflammatory agents flunixin meglumine (FM) or dexamethasone (Dex). Anti-inflammatory treatment also protected macrophages from cytotoxicity associated with exposure to WEEV. Treatment of WEEV-infected hamsters with either FM or Dex significantly improved survival compared to placebo-treated controls. WEEV induced cytotoxicity in hamster splenocytes exposed to WEEV in a virus dose-responsive manner. Supernatant from WEEV-exposed macrophages significantly enhanced WEEV killing of splenocytes. Hamsters that survived the early stages of WEEV infection occasionally developed signs of neurological disease and died approximately 6 to 9 d after virus inoculation. These animals had histopathological lesions in the CNS consistent with alphavirus-induced encephalitis. Inoculation of WEEV directly into the CNS caused apparent encephalitic disease. Death following CNS inoculation of WEEV was rapid and concurrent with histopathological lesions in the CNS similar to lesions seen in encephalitic hamsters following peripheral inoculation.
Performance Expectations for a Tomography System Using Cosmic Ray Muons and Micro Pattern Gas Detectors for the Detection of Nuclear Contraband
Creators: name: Gnanvo, Kondo
name: Ford, Patrick
name: Helsby, Jennifer
name: Hoch, Richie
name: Mitra, Debasis
name: Hohlmann, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a detailed GEANT4 simulation of a proposed Muon Tomography System that employs compact Micro Pattern Gas Detectors with high spatial resolution. A basic Point-Of-Closest-Approach algorithm is applied to reconstructed muon tracks for forming 3D tomographic images of interrogated targets. Criteria for discriminating materials by Z and discrimination power achieved by the technique for simple scenarios are discussed for different integration times. The simulation shows that Muon Tomography can clearly distinguish high-Z material from low-Z and medium-Z material. We have studied various systematic effects that affect the performance of the MT and the discrimination power. The implications of the simulation results for the planned development of a prototype MT station are discussed.
description: 7 pages, 14 figures, submitted to conference record of IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. 2008, Dresden, Germany
Thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for mass varying particle structures
Creators: name: Bernardini, Alex E.
name: Bertolami, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for compact structures composed by mass varying particles are discussed assuming that the so-called dynamical mass behaves like an additional extensive thermodynamic degree of freedom. It then follows that, such weakly interacting massive particles can form clusters of non-baryonic matter or even astrophysical objects that, at cosmological scales, are held together by gravity and by the attractive force mediated by a background scalar field. The equilibrium conditions for resultant static, spherically symmetric objects of uniform energy density are derived for the case where the particles share essential features with the mass varying mechanism in the context of cosmological scenarios. Physical solutions which result in stable astrophysical lumps are obtained and discussed.
description: 12 pages, 02 figures
Two remarks on the set of recurrent vectors
Creators: name: López-Martínez, Antoni
name: Menet, Quentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A16, 37B20, 46B87

description: We solve in the negative two open problems, related to the linear and topological structure of the set of recurrent vectors, asked by Sophie Grivaux, Alfred Peris and the first author of this paper. Firstly, we show that there exist recurrent operators whose set of recurrent vectors is not dense lineable; and secondly, we construct operators which are reiteratively recurrent and cyclic, but whose set of reiteratively recurrent vectors is meager.
description: 17 pages
СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ МЕХАНИЗМА УРОВНЯ ЗАНЯТОСТИ ТРУДОВЫХ РЕСУРСОВ ЧЕРЕЗ КОРПОРАЦИЯ ХОЗЯЙСТВ РЕГИОНА
Creators: name: Мавлонова, Мухлиса
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Корпоратизация фермерских хозяйств региона имеет огромный потенциал для революционного преобразования аграрного сектора, оптимизации использования трудовых ресурсов и повышения уровня занятости. В данной статье исследуется важность преобразования традиционных ферм в корпоративные предприятия для повышения производительности, эффективности и создания рабочих мест. Анализируя преимущества, проблемы и влияние корпоратизации на механизм занятости, данное исследование предоставляет ценную информацию для политиков, исследователей и заинтересованных сторон, стремящихся обеспечить устойчивое развитие в сельскохозяйственной отрасли.
Uncertainty estimation of weakly supervised predictive models for out-of-distribution detection in digital pathology
Creators: name: Abolfath Beygi Dezfouli, Parisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: The successful integration of deep learning in medical imaging relies upon the reliability and predictiveness of the models. It is important that these models provide accurate predictions for known classes while also delivering well-calibrated uncertainty estimates, especially for unseen classes and anomalies that are regarded as the out-of-distribution (OOD) data, distinct from the data used for model training. Accurate uncertainty estimates can potentially reduce the adverse effects of OOD regions on the target classification task in a clinical workflow. This, in turn, can prevent models from silently failing when confronted with unfamiliar diseases or abnormalities. Our work introduces two distinct approaches, namely M-Branch (Multi-Branch) and VPS (Virtual Patch Synthesis), for training multi-instance learning (MIL) models in histopathology, endowing them with the capability to effectively estimate predictive uncertainty. We conduct a comprehensive performance evaluation by comparing our proposed models to a state-of-the-art MIL model in whole-slide image (WSI) classification, equipped with temperature scaling for enhanced calibration, referred to as CLAM-T, focusing on the task of OOD detection. In our study, we consider the classification of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) subtypes, primarily distinguishing between LUAD (lung adenocarcinoma) and LUSC (lung squamous cell carcinoma) as in-distribution classes, while also differentiating NSCLC as in-distribution from Lower Grade Glioma (LGG) as out-of-distribution. Our top-performing model, M-Branch, efficiently estimates predictive uncertainty through the deployment of multiple branches of attention-based networks, complemented by a diversity-promoting loss. We employ two key evaluation metrics, FPR95 and AUC, to assess OOD detection performance. M-Branch excels in this regard, achieving an FPR95 of 38.39 and an AUC of 84.86, outperforming both VPS (FPR95: 49.76, AUC: 81.95) and CLAM-T (FPR95: 49.29, AUC: 83.00). Moreover, we demonstrate that the incorporation of a meta-loss function within M-Branch significantly enhances OOD detection, as evident from the improvements in FPR95 and AUC. Our research makes a substantial contribution to the field of medical image analysis by equipping MIL models with the ability to estimate predictive uncertainty effectively. These advancements have promising implications for enhancing the reliability and performance of deep learning models in medical imaging and digital pathology, particularly in real-world healthcare applications.
title: Preference, Resistance to Change, and Qualitatively Different Reinforcers
Creators: name: Podlesnik, Christopher Aaron
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Preference for one stimulus context over another and resistance to disruption within those contexts are a function of the conditions of reinforcement arranged within those contexts. According to behavioral momentum theory, these measures are converging expressions of the concept of response strength. Most studies have found that preference in concurrent chains and resistance to change are greater in contexts presenting higher rates or larger magnitudes of reinforcement. The present series of experiments attempted to extend behavioral momentum theory by examining whether differences in reinforcer type affect relative response strength with rats lever pressing for different types of food. In Experiment 1 of Chapter 2, several nonuniform disrupter types were examined that provided free access to a food type that was the same as one reinforcer type. Responding decreased more in the context presenting the same type of reinforcer as the disrupter, suggesting that many traditional disrupters (e.g., satiation) are inappropriate for examining how reinforcer type impacts response strength. Therefore, extinction was used throughout the remainder of the experiments to more uniformly disrupt responding across contexts. In Experiment 2 of Chapter 2, resistance to extinction was assessed when food pellets and a sucrose solution maintained responding across contexts. Moreover, relative reinforcer type was manipulated by changing the sucrose concentration across conditions. Relative response rates were systematically affected by changing sucrose concentration, but relative resistance to extinction was not. In Experiment 3 of Chapter 2, qualitative difference between reinforcers was enhanced and preference also was assessed to provide a converging measure of response strength. Preference and relative response rates were systematically affected, but relative resistance to extinction again was not. Finally, in Chapter 3, relative reinforcer rate and type were manipulated while assessing preference and resistance to extinction using the matching law. Preference, but not resistance to extinction, consistently was affected by changes in reinforcer rate and type. Systematic deviations in sensitivity and bias, however, suggested that different reinforcer types interacted with reinforcer rate. Overall, these findings suggest that the overall context of reinforcement, including interactions between different reinforcer types, should be considered when assessing preference and relative resistance to change.
Additional file 4 of Trends and burden of diabetes in pregnancy among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers in Western Australia, 1998–2015
Creators: name: Ahmed, Marwan Awad
name: Bailey, Helen D.
name: Pereira, Gavin
name: White, Scott W.
name: Wong, Kingsley
name: Shepherd, Carrington C. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Rates of LGA over time in the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in Western Australia, 1998–2015.
Why do I gloss Gorwaa like that? Responses to an anonymous review of a rejected paper.
Creators: name: Harvey, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Languages of Tanzania
subject: Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
subject: Gorwaa
subject: Afroasiatic
subject: Cushitic
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Exoticisation

description: This talk is given on the occasion of having a paper rejected from the linguistics journal Glossa. While rejection is nothing unusual – indeed, it is a common experience of academic publishing – some of the comments of one of the reviewers were particularly provocative, stating that my analysis of Gorwaa amounted to exoticisation of the language. Because the paper was rejected, I have had no formal channel by which to respond to these comments, which I take seriously, and consider objectionable. Because all of these comments have to do with how I represent the Gorwaa language through glosses, responding to them also presents a good opportunity to reflect on the choices I have made in describing the language, as well as to share some of my understanding of the Gorwaa language.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Harvey, Andrew. 2023. Why do I gloss Gorwaa like that? Responses to an anonymous review of a rejected paper. Talk given at the Linguistics Colloquium. University of Bayreuth, Germany. 16.05.2023.