cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Rule-Based Short Query Intent Identification System
Creators: name: De, Arijit
name: Kopparapu, Sunil Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using SMS (Short Message System), cell phones can be used to query for information about various topics. In an SMS based search system, one of the key problems is to identify a domain (broad topic) associated with the user query; so that a more comprehensive search can be carried out by the domain specific search engine. In this paper we use a rule based approach, to identify the domain, called Short Query Intent Identification System (SQIIS). We construct two different rule-bases using different strategies to suit query intent identification. We evaluate the two rule-bases experimentally.
description: 5 pages, 2010 International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP)
Burkholderia gladioli: Five year experience in a cystic fibrosis and lung transplantation center
Creators: name: Wedd, Joel
name: Donaldson, Scott
name: Kennedy, Marcus
name: Knowles, Michael
name: Gilligan, Peter
name: Coakley, Raymond
name: Yankaskas, James
name: Aris, Robert
name: Hohneker, Kathy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Background: The impact of infection with Burkholderia gladioli in cystic fibrosis, other chronic airway diseases and immunosuppressed patients is unknown. Methods: A six-year retrospective review of all patients with B. gladioli infection was performed in a tertiary referral center with cystic fibrosis and lung transplantation programs. In addition, a targeted survey of all 251 lung transplant recipients was performed. Available B. gladioli isolates were analyzed via pulsed field gel electrophoresis. Results: Thirty-five patients were culture positive for B. gladioli, including 33 CF patients. No bacteremia was identified. Isolates were available in 18 patients and all were genetically distinct. Two-thirds of these isolates were susceptible to usual anti-pseudomonal antibiotics. After acquisition, only 40% of CF patients were chronically infected (≥2 positive cultures separated by at least 6 months). Chronic infection was associated with resistance to ≥2 antibiotic groups on initial culture and failure of eradication after antibiotic therapy. The impact of acquisition of B. gladioli infection in chronic infection was variable. Three CF patients with chronic infection underwent lung transplantation. One post-transplant patient developed a B. gladioli mediastinal abscess, which was treated successfully. Conclusions: The majority of patients' culture positive for B. gladioli at our center have CF. B. gladioli infection is often transient and is compatible with satisfactory post-lung transplantation outcomes.
Perceptual-Distortion Balanced Image Super-Resolution is a Multi-Objective Optimization Problem
Creators: name: Zhu, Qiwen
name: Wang, Yanjie
name: Cai, Shilv
name: Chen, Liqun
name: Zhou, Jiahuan
name: Yan, Luxin
name: Zhong, Sheng
name: Zou, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Training Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) models using pixel-based regression losses can achieve high distortion metrics scores (e.g., PSNR and SSIM), but often results in blurry images due to insufficient recovery of high-frequency details. Conversely, using GAN or perceptual losses can produce sharp images with high perceptual metric scores (e.g., LPIPS), but may introduce artifacts and incorrect textures. Balancing these two types of losses can help achieve a trade-off between distortion and perception, but the challenge lies in tuning the loss function weights. To address this issue, we propose a novel method that incorporates Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) into the training process of SISR models to balance perceptual quality and distortion. We conceptualize the relationship between loss weights and image quality assessment (IQA) metrics as black-box objective functions to be optimized within our Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Super-Resolution (MOBOSR) framework. This approach automates the hyperparameter tuning process, reduces overall computational cost, and enables the use of numerous loss functions simultaneously. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MOBOSR outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both perceptual quality and distortion, significantly advancing the perception-distortion Pareto frontier. Our work points towards a new direction for future research on balancing perceptual quality and fidelity in nearly all image restoration tasks. The source code and pretrained models are available at: https://github.com/ZhuKeven/MOBOSR.
Bonding Hierarchy and Coordination Interaction Leading to High Thermoelectricity in Wide Bandgap TlAgI2
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoying
name: Li, Mengyang
name: Feng, Minxuan
name: Li, Xuejie
name: Hao, Yuzhou
name: Shi, Wen
name: He, Jiangang
name: Ding, Xiangdong
name: Gao, Zhibin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High thermoelectric properties are associated with the phonon-glass electron-crystal paradigm. Conventional wisdom suggests that the optimal bandgap of semiconductor to achieve the largest power factor should be between 6 and 10 kbT. To address challenges related to the bipolar effect and temperature limitations, we present findings on Zintl-type TlAgI2, which demonstrates an exceptionally low lattice thermal conductivity of 0.3 W m-1 K-1 at 300 K. The achieved figure of merit (ZT) for TlAgI2, featuring a 1.55 eV bandgap, reaches a value of 2.20 for p-type semiconductor. This remarkable ZT is attributed to the existence of extended antibonding states Ag-I in the valence band. Furthermore, the bonding hierarchy, influencing phonon anharmonicity, and coordination bonds, facilitating electron transfer between the ligand and the central metal ion, significantly contribute to electronic transport. This finding serves as a promising avenue for the development of high ZT materials with wide bandgaps at elevated temperatures.
title: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Accused Scientists, and Their Research
Creators: name: Widmann, Rainer
name: Rose, Michael
name: Chugunova, Marina
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2023

description: Does the scientific community sanction sexual misconduct? Using a sample of scientists accused of sexual misconduct at US universities, we find that their prior work is cited less after allegations surface. The effect weakens with distance in the coauthorship network, indicating that researchers learn about allegations through their peers. Among the closest peers, male authors react more strongly, suggesting that they feel a greater need to disassociate themselves from the accused. In male-dominated fields, the effects on citations are more muted. Accused scientists are more likely to leave academic research, to move to non-university institutions, and to publish less.
Apresentação
Creators: name: Araújo, Joaquim Renato Ferreira De
Publisher: name: Revista da Universidade de Aveiro. Geociências
Year: 1986

description: Atrasos vários levam a que seja eu a subscrever este texto que se quer de afirmação face à dinâmica de um conjunto de docentes e de um departamento; contudo esta edição deve muito ao interesse que o Prof. José Ernesto Mesquita Rodrigues, como Reitor, sempre manifestou pela publicação de trabalhos produzidos pela Universidade de Aveiro. (...)
description: Revista da Universidade de Aveiro. Geociências, vol. 1 n.º 1-2 (1986)
MAKTABGACHA TA'LIM TASHKILOTI TARBIYACHILARNING KASBIY RIVOJLANISHI
Creators: name: Rustamova, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ушбу илмий мақолада тарбиячи-педагоглар болалар боғчасидаги фаолияти ва ўз касбий муносабатлари келажакда ёш болаларга таъсири масалалари ёритилган.
(102418) Albert Marshall
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Synchronized molecular-dynamics simulation for the thermal lubrication of a polymeric liquid between parallel plates
Creators: name: Yasuda, Shugo
name: Yamamoto, Ryoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Synchronized Molecular-Dynamics simulation which was recently proposed by authors [Phys. Rev. X {\bf 4}, 041011 (2014)] is applied to the analysis of polymer lubrication between parallel plates. The rheological properties, conformational change of polymer chains, and temperature rise due to the viscous heating are investigated with changing the values of thermal conductivity of the polymeric liquid. It is found that at a small applied shear stress on the plate, the temperature of polymeric liquid only slightly increases in inverse proportion to the thermal conductivity and the apparent viscosity of polymeric liquid is not much affected by changing the thermal conductivity. However, at a large shear stress, the transitional behaviors of the polymeric liquid occur due to the interplay of the shear deformation and viscous heating by changing the thermal conductivity. This transition is characterized by the Nahme-Griffith number $Na$ which is defined as the ratio of the viscous heating to the thermal conduction at a characteristic temperature. When the Nahme-Griffith number exceeds the unity, the temperature of polymeric liquid increases rapidly and the apparent viscosity also exponentially decreases as the thermal conductivity decreases. The conformation of polymer chains is stretched and aligned by the shear flow for $Na<1$, but the coherent structure becomes disturbed by the thermal motion of molecules for $Na>1$.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1401.1244
(102409) Roger Whitfield
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: La pratique du renforcement musculaire au secondaire I
title: La pratique du renforcement musculaire au secondaire I
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Odbang, Kenji
name: Pellet, Maïlis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: renforcement musculaire
subject: santé
subject: EPS
subject: formation
subject: secondaire 1
subject: bien-être
subject: sport
subject: routines

description: Ce mémoire professionnel dans l’enseignement du sport traite, analyse et expose l’observation de deux méthodes d’enseignement du renforcement musculaire, dans des classes du secondaire I, en Suisse. Parmi les évaluations d’éducation physique du secondaire, certaines portent sur le renforcement musculaire. Ce travail est issu d’interrogations d’enseignants, se questionnant sur la manière d’enseigner ce renforcement à leurs élèves. C’est au travers de routines de musculation, réparties sur trois mois, et d’une séquence d’enseignement de cinq semaines, que des élèves se sont entraînés pour leurs évaluations. Ce travail recense les résultats de ces élèves, l’analyse de leurs performances et discute leurs résultats, en relation avec les recherches et les théories pédagogiques existantes.
Understanding the Role of Hypusine Biosynthesis in Exocrine-Endocrine Crosstalk
Creators: name: Dale, Dorian
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cell development, proliferation and death

description: Traditionally, the exocrine and endocrine cellular compartments of the pancreas have been considered distinct functional systems. However, recent studies suggest a more intricate relationship between the exocrine and endocrine, which may impact pancreatic growth and health. Additionally, translational control mechanisms have been linked to organ development. Our lab has shown that the mRNA translation factor eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF5A), when in its post-translationally modified “hypusinated” form, plays a role in pancreas development. The hypusination of eIF5A requires the rate-limiting enzyme deoxyhypusine synthase (Dhps) to post-translationally modify a critical lysine residue which in turn produces the active form of eIF5A that functions in mRNA translation. When we generated animals with a deletion of Dhps in the pancreatic progenitor cells, there was no alteration in islet mass but significant exocrine insufficiency at embryonic (E) day 18.5 concomitant with downregulation of proteins required for exocrine pancreas development and function. Resultantly these animals died by 6 weeks-of-age. These observations prompted the question, is the phenotype caused by the absence of hypusinated eIF5A or the increase of unhypusinated eIF5A? To address this, we generated a mouse model wherein Eif5a is deleted in the pancreas (eIF5A∆PANC) and these mutant animals also display exocrine insufficiency. Interestingly, beta cell mass is increased at E18.5, and the mutant animals maintain euglycemia and survive up to 2 years. Ongoing analyses are interrogating the differences between these animal models with the goal to determine if mRNA translation facilitates cellular communication between the exocrine and endocrine pancreas.
Bilinear forms with $GL_3$ Kloosterman sums and the spectral large sieve
Creators: name: Young, Matthew P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11L05, 11F72

description: We analyze certain bilinear forms involving $GL_3$ Kloosterman sums. As an application, we obtain an improved estimate for the $GL_3$ spectral large sieve inequality.
description: v4. Version incorporating referee suggestions and corrections
Mid-order wavefront control for exoplanet imaging: preliminary characterization of the segmented deformable mirror and Zernike wavefront sensor on HiCAT
Creators: name: Buralli, B.
name: N'Diaye, M.
name: Pourcelot, R.
name: Carbillet, M.
name: Por, E. H.
name: Laginja, I.
name: Canas, L.
name: Steiger, S.
name: Petrone, P.
name: Nguyen, M. M.
name: Nickson, B.
name: Redmond, S. F.
name: Sahoo, A.
name: Pueyo, L.
name: Perrin, M. D.
name: Soummer, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a mid-order wavefront sensor (MOWFS) to address fine cophasing errors in exoplanet imaging with future large segmented aperture space telescopes. Observing Earth analogs around Sun-like stars requires contrasts down to $10^{-10}$ in visible light. One promising solution consists of producing a high-contrast dark zone in the image of an observed star. In a space observatory, this dark region will be altered by several effects, and among them, the small misalignments of the telescope mirror segments due to fine thermo-mechanical drifts. To correct for these errors in real time, we investigate a wavefront control loop based on a MOWFS with a Zernike sensor. Such a MOWFS was installed on the high-contrast imager for complex aperture telescopes (HiCAT) testbed in Baltimore in June 2023. The bench uses a 37-segment Iris-AO deformable mirror to mimic telescope segmentation and some wavefront control strategies to produce a dark zone with such an aperture. In this contribution, we first use the MOWFS to characterize the Iris-AO segment discretization steps. For the central segment, we find a minimal step of 125 $\pm$ 31 pm. This result will help us to assess the contribution of the Iris-AO DM on the contrast in HiCAT. We then determine the detection limits of the MOWFS, estimating wavefront error amplitudes of 119 and 102 pm for 10 s and 1 min exposure time with a SNR of 3. These values inform us about the measurement capabilities of our wavefront sensor on the testbed. These preliminary results will be useful to provide insights on metrology and stability for exo-Earth observations with the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: Dopo “Les aveux de la chair”
Creators: name: Marchetti, Valerio
Publisher: name: Università di Pisa
Year: 2020

description: Michel Foucault dedicated an essential part of Les aveux de la chair to the figure of the monk. From the 4th to the 7th century, the monks put in writing the experience of the desert. In this book, Foucault “criticizes” the genealogy he had previously advocated of the origins of confession and prepares a comeback to the modern age: «I have more than a draft of a book about sexual ethics in the sixteenth century, in which also the problem of the techniques of the self, self-examinations, the cure of souls is very important, both in protestant and catholic churches» (1983). This article examines the adaptations and translations into Italian of the Conferences of John Cassian (360-435) and John Climacus (579-649). In particular, it analyzes their inclusion in the most popular piece of Jesuits’ Exercises of perfection and their exclusion from the Pratiche of Paolo Segneri and Alfonso de’ Liguori.
Grazing Impacts of Rotifer Zooplankton on a Cyanobacteria Bloom in a Large, Shallow Temperate Lake (Vancouver Lake, WA, USA)
Creators: name: Sweeney, Kathryn Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: cyanobacteria
dilution
grazing
incubation
lake
rotifer

description: Zooplankton grazers’ consumption of phytoplankton can often influence and control phytoplankton community dynamics, including those affected by harmful cyanobacteria blooms. While the trophic roles of copepods and some microzooplankton on cyanobacteria have been investigated, much less is known about the influence of rotifer grazing. Therefore, experiments with field-collected rotifers grazing upon a natural microplankton prey community were performed from July through October 2019, utilizing water and organisms from Vancouver Lake, a large shallow lake in western Washington State (USA) annually affected by severe cyanobacteria blooms. Results show that rotifers directly ingested cyanobacteria at rates significantly higher than for other prey categories each month, yet usually preferred dinoflagellates. Rotifers also had an substantial grazing impact (%) on dinoflagellates and ciliates after the bloom in September and October, indicating that rotifers’ consumption of cyanobacteria is not enough to control blooms, but their high impact on other prey groups may indicate other multi-trophic grazing dynamics in autumn. Results from supplemental microzooplankton community grazing experiments with the rotifer grazing results together suggest that micrograzers were largely responsible for the dissipation of the cyanobacteria bloom in Vancouver Lake. Thus, the present study provides novel contributions to our previous understanding of plankton dynamics in this model eutrophic lake and further supports past conclusions that micrograzers are important in controlling harmful cyanobacteria blooms.
Building topological device through emerging robust helical surface states
Creators: name: Wang, Zibo
name: Song, Juntao
name: Liu, Haiwen
name: Jiang, Hua
name: Xie, X. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a nonlocal manipulation method to build topological devices through emerging robust helical surface states in Z_2=0 topological systems. Specifically, in a ribbon of Z_2=0 Bernevig- Hughes-Zhang (BHZ) model with finite-size effect, if magnetic impurities are doped on the top (bottom) edge, the edge states on the bottom (top) edge can be altered according to the strengths and directions of these magnetic impurities. Consequently, the backscattering between the emerging robust helical edge states and gapped normal edge states due to finite-size confinement is also changed, which makes the system alternate between a perfect one-channel conductor and a perfect insulator. This effect allows us to fabricate topological devices with high on-off ratio. Moreover, it can also be generalized to 3D model and more realistic Cd3As2 type Dirac semimetals.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Anti-inflammatory effect of miglustat in bronchial epithelial cells
Creators: name: Bezzerri, Valentino
name: Gambari, Roberto
name: Rizzotti, Paolo
name: Dechecchi, Maria Cristina
name: Cabrini, Giulio
name: Mancini, Irene
name: Borgatti, Monica
name: Ribeiro, Carla
name: Nicolis, Elena
name: Becq, Frederic
name: Norez, Caroline
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The role of CFTR deficiency in promoting inflammation remains unclear. Perez et al. [A. Perez, A.C. Issler, C.U. Cotton, T.J. Kelley, A.S. Verkman and P.B. Davis, CFTR inhibition mimics the cystic fibrosis inflammatory profile. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2007; 292:L383-L395.] recently demonstrated that the inhibition of function of w/t CFTR produces an inflammatory profile that resembles that observed in CF patients, whereas we found that correction of F508del-CFTR function with MPB-07 down-modulates the inflammatory response to P. aeruginosa in CF bronchial cells [M.C. Dechecchi, E. Nicolis, V. Bezzerri, A. Vella, M. Colombatti, B.M. Assael, et al., MPB-07 reduces the inflammatory response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis bronchial cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2007; 36, 615-624.]. Since both evidence support a link between CFTR function and inflammation, we extended our investigation to other F508del-CFTR correctors, such as miglustat (Norez, 2006), an approved drug for Gaucher disease, in comparison with the galactose analogue NB-DGJ. We report here that miglustat but not NB-DGJ restores F508del-CFTR function in CF bronchial epithelial IB3-1 and CuFi-1 cells. Miglustat and NB-DGJ reduce the inflammatory response to P. aeruginosa in both CF and non-CF bronchial cells, indicating that the anti-inflammatory effect is independent of the correction of F508del-CFTR function. Miglustat also inhibits the inflammatory response induced by the supernatant of mucopurulent material obtained from the lower airway tract of cystic fibrosis patients with chronic bacterial colonization (Ribeiro, 2005). Both compounds do not interfere with the adherence of P. aeruginosa to the cells and reduce the expression of IL-8 not only after challenge with P. aeruginosa but also after exposure to TNF alpha or IL-1 beta, suggesting an effect on transduction proteins downstream and in common with different receptors for pathogens. Finally, miglustat has no major effects on overall binding activity of transcription factors NF-kappaBNF-kB and AP-1. Since miglustat is an approved drug, it could be investigated as a novel anti-inflammatory molecule to ameliorate lung inflammation in CF patients.
European cystic fibrosis bone mineralisation guidelines
Creators: name: Aris, Robert
name: Elkin, Sarah
name: Wolfe, Susan
name: Compston, Juliet
name: Hardin, Dana
name: Bianchi, Maria Luisa
name: Morton, Alison
name: Garabédian, Michèle
name: Castanet, Mireille
name: Sermet-Gaudelus, Isabelle
name: Conway, Steven
name: Haworth, Charles
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are at risk of developing low bone mineral density (BMD) and fragility fractures. This paper presents consensus statements that summarise current knowledge of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of CF-related skeletal deficits and provides guidance on its assessment, prevention and treatment. The statements were validated using a modified Delphi methodology.
(102413) Charles Edward Emmet
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A Fused Large Language Model for Predicting Startup Success
Creators: name: Maarouf, Abdurahman
name: Feuerriegel, Stefan
name: Pröllochs, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Investors are continuously seeking profitable investment opportunities in startups and, hence, for effective decision-making, need to predict a startup's probability of success. Nowadays, investors can use not only various fundamental information about a startup (e.g., the age of the startup, the number of founders, and the business sector) but also textual description of a startup's innovation and business model, which is widely available through online venture capital (VC) platforms such as Crunchbase. To support the decision-making of investors, we develop a machine learning approach with the aim of locating successful startups on VC platforms. Specifically, we develop, train, and evaluate a tailored, fused large language model to predict startup success. Thereby, we assess to what extent self-descriptions on VC platforms are predictive of startup success. Using 20,172 online profiles from Crunchbase, we find that our fused large language model can predict startup success, with textual self-descriptions being responsible for a significant part of the predictive power. Our work provides a decision support tool for investors to find profitable investment opportunities.
Novel Multidimensional Models of Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks
Creators: name: Parsegov, Sergey E.
name: Proskurnikov, Anton V.
name: Tempo, Roberto
name: Friedkin, Noah E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Unlike many complex networks studied in the literature, social networks rarely exhibit unanimous behavior, or consensus. This requires a development of mathematical models that are sufficiently simple to be examined and capture, at the same time, the complex behavior of real social groups, where opinions and actions related to them may form clusters of different size. One such model, proposed by Friedkin and Johnsen, extends the idea of conventional consensus algorithm (also referred to as the iterative opinion pooling) to take into account the actors' prejudices, caused by some exogenous factors and leading to disagreement in the final opinions. In this paper, we offer a novel multidimensional extension, describing the evolution of the agents' opinions on several topics. Unlike the existing models, these topics are interdependent, and hence the opinions being formed on these topics are also mutually dependent. We rigorous examine stability properties of the proposed model, in particular, convergence of the agents' opinions. Although our model assumes synchronous communication among the agents, we show that the same final opinions may be reached "on average" via asynchronous gossip-based protocols.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control (to be published in May 2017)
Recommendations for the classification of diseases as CFTR-related disorders
Creators: name: De Boeck, K.
name: Schwarz, M.
name: Wilschanski, M.
name: Dodge, J.
name: Pignatti, P.F.
name: Zielenski, J.
name: Stuhrmann, M.
name: Elborn, J.S.
name: Kerem, E.
name: Macek, M.
name: Girodon, E.
name: Drevínek, P.
name: Jarvi, K.
name: Kerem, B.
name: Knowles, M.
name: Cuppens, H.
name: Bareil, C.
name: Southern, K.W.
name: Sermet, I.
name: Bombieri, C.
name: Farrell, P.
name: Bilton, D.
name: Claustres, M.
name: Sheppard, D.N.
name: Castellani, C.
name: Derichs, N.
name: Seia, M.
name: Ferec, C.
name: Munck, A.
name: Tzetis, M.
name: Cutting, G.R.
name: Tullis, E.
name: Radojkovic, D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Several diseases have been clinically or genetically related to cystic fibrosis (CF), but a consensus definition is lacking. Here, we present a proposal for consensus guidelines on cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)-related disorders (CFTR-RDs), reached after expert discussion and two dedicated workshops.A CFTR-RD may be defined as "a clinical entity associated with CFTR dysfunction that does not fulfil diagnostic criteria for CF".The utility of sweat testing, mutation analysis, nasal potential difference, and/or intestinal current measurement for the differential diagnosis of CF and CFTR-RD is discussed. Algorithms which use genetic and functional diagnostic tests to distinguish CF and CFTR-RDs are presented.According to present knowledge, congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens (CBAVD), acute recurrent or chronic pancreatitis and disseminated bronchiectasis, all with CFTR dysfunction, are CFTR-RDs.
Classification and Prediction of Heart Diseases using Machine Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Osei-Nkwantabisa, Akua Sekyiwaa
name: Ntumy, Redeemer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Heart disease is a serious worldwide health issue because it claims the lives of many people who might have been treated if the disease had been identified earlier. The leading cause of death in the world is cardiovascular disease, usually referred to as heart disease. Creating reliable, effective, and precise predictions for these diseases is one of the biggest issues facing the medical world today. Although there are tools for predicting heart diseases, they are either expensive or challenging to apply for determining a patient's risk. The best classifier for foretelling and spotting heart disease was the aim of this research. This experiment examined a range of machine learning approaches, including Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, and Artificial Neural Networks, to determine which machine learning algorithm was most effective at predicting heart diseases. One of the most often utilized data sets for this purpose, the UCI heart disease repository provided the data set for this study. The K-Nearest Neighbor technique was shown to be the most effective machine learning algorithm for determining whether a patient has heart disease. It will be beneficial to conduct further studies on the application of additional machine learning algorithms for heart disease prediction.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
(102368) George Watson Jones
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(102397) Harold Thomas
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(102437) William Knight Smyth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(102375) Evan Evans
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Tensor products of higher almost split sequences
Creators: name: Pasquali, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G10 (Primary), 16G70 (Secondary)

description: We investigate how the higher almost split sequences over a tensor product of algebras are related to those over each factor. Herschend and Iyama gave a precise criterion for when the tensor product of an $n$-representation finite algebra and an $m$-representation finite algebra is $(n+m)$-representation finite. In this case we give a complete description of the higher almost split sequences over the tensor product by expressing every higher almost split sequence as the mapping cone of a suitable chain map and using a natural notion of tensor product for chain maps.
description: 20 pages
Jiří Flaišman, Lucie Kořínková, Michal Kosák und Jakub Říha (hrsg.): František Gellner, Dílo, Bd. 1 (1894–1908) und 2 (1909–1914)
Creators: name: Boutan, Jean
Publisher: name: Apparatus. Film, Medien und digitale Kulturen in Mittel- und Osteuropa
Year: 2021

description: Rezension
description: Apparatus. Film, Medien und digitale Kulturen in Mittel- und Osteuropa, No. 12 (2021): Pandemic Cinema in Central and Eastern Europe
title: Naissance de la clinique et l’invisible de la maladie. Une histoire du corps malade
Creators: name: Boccolino, Gennaro
Publisher: name: Università di Pisa
Year: 2020

description: Following the transformations occurred within the structure of the medical gaze, at the end of 18th century, this study aims to analyze the articulation between death, illness and body inThe Birth of the clinic. At first we will consider the constitution of the medicine of symptoms as it introduces a temporal dimension structuring the invisibility of the illness by replacing the spatial organization of the medicine of species. Secondly, we will describe the encounter between the medicine of symptoms and Bichat’s anatomopathology, which inaugurates modern medicine through an epistemological integration of death to medical experience: it is in the visibility of the death that the sayability of the illness comes to be founded. We will evaluate the way this reconstruction operates as an external critique of a linear and progressive model for the history of the knowledge. At the end, we will problematize the consequences this event implies by giving birth to the modern constitution of human sciences.
Review: Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA in cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Muhlebach, Marianne
name: Goss, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is one of the earliest bacteria detected in infants and children with cystic fibrosis (CF). The rise of methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in the last 10 years has caused a lot of attention to this organism. RESULTS: The aim of this review is to provide a general overview of methicillin sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) and MRSA, discuss special aspects of S. aureus in cystic fibrosis, and to review treatment concepts. Microbiology of the organism will be reviewed along with data regarding the epidemiology of both MSSA and MRSA. Antibiotic treatments both in regards to acute management and eradication of MSSA and MRSA will be reviewed. Prophylaxis of MSSA in CF remains controversial. Treatment with anti-staphylococcal agents reduces the infection rate with MSSA but may lead to a higher rate of infection with P. aeruginosa. In regards to MRSA, there is a paucity of clinical data regarding approaches to eradication. CONCLUSIONS: To advance the care of CF patients, controlled clinical trials are urgently needed to find the optimal approach to treating CF patients who are infected with either MSSA or MRSA.
Understanding Fairness in Recommender Systems: A Healthcare Perspective
Creators: name: Kecki, Veronica
name: Said, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fairness in AI-driven decision-making systems has become a critical concern, especially when these systems directly affect human lives. This paper explores the public's comprehension of fairness in healthcare recommendations. We conducted a survey where participants selected from four fairness metrics -- Demographic Parity, Equal Accuracy, Equalized Odds, and Positive Predictive Value -- across different healthcare scenarios to assess their understanding of these concepts. Our findings reveal that fairness is a complex and often misunderstood concept, with a generally low level of public understanding regarding fairness metrics in recommender systems. This study highlights the need for enhanced information and education on algorithmic fairness to support informed decision-making in using these systems. Furthermore, the results suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach to fairness may be insufficient, pointing to the importance of context-sensitive designs in developing equitable AI systems.
description: Accepted to the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
Attraction between topological defects in graphene
Creators: name: Podlivaev, A. I.
name: Openov, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction of Stone-Wales topological defects in graphene has been studied through computer simulation. This simulation has revealed configurations of two defects with energies below the energy of a monolayer with two spaced defects. This indicates the attraction between defects and the possibility of the formation of their clusters. The attraction is due to the interference between defect-induced wavy distortions of the structure of the monolayer. In this case, the amplitude of transverse displacement of atoms near a pair of defects reaches 2-3 angstroms. Such a strong deformation of graphene by Stone-Wales defects can be one of the reasons for its experimentally observed "crumpled" texture.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
The K3 category of a cubic fourfold
Creators: name: Huybrechts, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Smooth cubic fourfolds are linked to K3 surfaces via their Hodge structures, due to work of Hassett, and via Kuznetsov's K3 category A. The relation between these two viewpoints has recently been elucidated by Addington and Thomas. In this paper, both aspects are studied further and extended to twisted K3 surfaces, which in particular allows us to determine the group of autoequivalences of A for the general cubic fourfold. Furthermore, we prove finiteness results for cubics with equivalent K3 categories and study periods of cubics in terms of generalized K3 surfaces.
description: 40 pages, minor corrections, comments on the order of the Brauer classes added, further corrections, to appear in Compositio
Geometric convergence of the Kähler-Ricci flow on complex surfaces of general type
Creators: name: Guo, Bin
name: Song, Jian
name: Weinkove, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that on smooth minimal surfaces of general type, the Kähler-Ricci flow starting at any initial Kähler metric converges in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a Kähler-Einstein orbifold surface. In particular, the diameter of the evolving metrics is uniformly bounded for all time and the Kähler-Ricci flow contracts all the holomorphic spheres with $(-2)$ self-intersection number to isolated orbifold points. Our estimates do not require a priori the existence of an orbifold Kähler-Einstein metric on the canonical model.
description: 15 pages, v2 final version, minor corrections, to appear in IMRN, v3 includes a clarification (footnote p.11)
Quantum multi-row iteration algorithm for linear systems with non-square coefficient matrices
Creators: name: Lin, Weitao
name: Tian, Guojing
name: Sun, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the field of quantum linear system algorithms, quantum computing has realized exponential computational advantages over classical computing. However, the focus has been on square coefficient matrices, with few quantum algorithms addressing non-square matrices. Towards this kind of problems defined by $ Ax = b $ where $ A $$ \in\mathbb{R}^{m \times n} $, we propose a quantum algorithm inspired by the classical multi-row iteration method and provide an explicit quantum circuit based on the quantum comparator and Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM). The time complexity of our quantum multi-row iteration algorithm is $ O(K \log m) $, with $ K $ representing the number of iteration steps, which demonstrates an exponential speedup compared to the classical version. Based on the convergence of the classical multi-row iteration algorithm, we prove that our quantum algorithm converges faster than the quantum one-row iteration algorithm presented in [Phys. Rev. A, 101, 022322 (2020)]. Moreover, our algorithm places less demand on the coefficient matrix, making it suitable for solving inconsistent systems and quadratic optimization problems.
Treatment intensity and characteristics of MRSA infection in CF
Creators: name: LaVange, Lisa
name: Muhlebach, Marianne
name: Mayhew, Greg
name: Miller, Meredith
name: Goodrich, Jennifer
name: Miller, Melissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Background: Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and interchange of hospital-associated strains carrying the staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec-II (SCCmec-II) with those in the community (SCCmec-IV) has increased. This study assesses the impact of MRSA and different MRSA types on clinical outcomes, medication use, and antibiotic sensitivities. Methods: MRSA isolates from CF patients at our center were typed by SCCmec- and pvl status. Patient characteristics, lung function and nutrition are compared between MRSA types and to age, gender and Pseudomonas aeruginosa matched patients with chronic methicillin sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) infection. Results: Seventy-two percent of patients carry pvl negative SCCmec-II isolates. Seventeen percent of all MRSA were SCCmec-IV pvl positive (USA300). These patients were younger and fewer had chronic P. aeruginosa infection, whereas pvl-negative SCCmec-IV isolates show highest antibiotic resistance. Nutritional outcomes and FEV1 percent predicted (75.1±2.7 versus 77.9±2.7) did not differ in patients with MRSA compared to those with MSSA but MRSA patients received more pulmonary maintenance but not oral antibiotic medications. Conclusion: Patients with chronic MRSA are treated more intensely than age, gender and Pseudomonas aeruginosa matched MSSA-positive patients but clinical characteristics within MRSA patients vary depending on MRSA types.