cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Théâtre, mœurs et guerres de plume : la conception dramatique du XVIIe siècle
Creators: name: Jacobson, Charlotte Ashley
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Language and Literature
subject: Literature--Classical
subject: History--European
subject: Corneille
subject: Molière
subject: 17th century
subject: 17e siècle
subject: XVIIe siècle
subject: Cid
subject: École des femmes
subject: querelle
subject: règles du théâtre classique
subject: vraisemblance
subject: bienséance
subject: trois unités
subject: comédie
subject: tragédie
subject: tragic-comédie

description: Les règles du théâtre classique sont dans l’air du temps lorsque Corneille fait jouer le Cid en 1637 et quand Molière représente L’École des femmes en 1662. Chacune des pièces entraîne une querelle littéraire : la querelle du Cid et la querelle de l’École des femmes. Ce mémoire vise à souligner l’évolution du genre théâtral au XVIIe siècle. Pour faire ceci, nous allons examiner les périodes des querelles, la période qui les précède et la période entre 1637 et 1662. Nous comptons identifier la définition des genres théâtraux au XVIIe siècle. Nous allons aussi regarder le rapport entre les règles du théâtre classique et les genres théâtraux. Nous voulons déterminer les idées dramatiques de Corneille et de Molière pour en tirer des conclusions qui portent sur la théorie théâtrale. Avant tout, le XVIIe siècle est une période de querelles et d’évolution.
Error correction and extraction in request dialogs
Creators: name: Constantin, S.
name: Waibel, A.
Publisher: name: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Year: 2022

description: We propose a dialog system utility component that gets the two last utterances of a user and can detect whether the last utterance is an error correction of the second last utterance. If yes, it corrects the second last utterance according to the error correction in the last utterance. In addition, the proposed component outputs the extracted pairs of reparandum and repair entity. This component offers two advantages, learning the concept of corrections to avoid collecting corrections for every new domain and extracting reparandum and repair pairs, which offers the possibility to learn out of it. For the error correction one sequence labelling and two sequence to sequence approaches are presented. For the error correction detection these three error correction approaches can also be used and in addition, we present a sequence classification approach. One error correction detection and one error correction approach can be combined to a pipeline or the error correction approaches can be trained and used end-to-end to avoid two components. We modified the EPIC-KITCHENS-100 dataset to evaluate the approaches for correcting entity phrases in request dialogs. For error correction detection and correction, we got an accuracy of 97.54 % on synthetic validation data and an accuracy of 69.27 % on human-created real-world test data.
Heuristic approach to BEC self-trapping in double wells beyond mean-field
Creators: name: Rapedius, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a technically simple treatment of self-trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates in double well traps based on intuitive semi-classical approximations. Our analysis finally leads to a convenient closed form approximation for the time-averaged population imbalance valid in both the mean-field case and in the case of finite particle numbers for short times.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
title: Coastal Morphology at Mariakerke: final Report
Creators: name: Dan, Sebastian
name: Vos, Gwendy
name: Nguyen, D.
name: Montreuil, Anne-Lise
name: Verwaest, Toon
Publisher: name: Flanders Hydraulics
Year: 2023

description: The monitoring of the pilot nourishment executed at Raversijde - Mariakerke coastal area for comparing the morphological response to a combined beach and shoreface nourishment and to a beach nourishment took place from the start of the pilot nourishment in 2013 until 2018. Comprehensive data sets containing topographical (LIDAR and beach profiles) and bathymetrical (single and multibeam) measurements carried out at the study zone area have been analysed in order to evaluate the efficiency of the nourishments. Large part of the deployed sand is still in the area three years after the nourishment was carried out. The morphological trends show erosion in the intertidal beach, accumulation on the dry beach and re organization of the shoreface nourishment into one or two submerged sand bar. Numerical modelling proved that this sand bar attenuates the wave height during stormy events both at low and high tide. The large space created south-west from the Ostend port through its extension in 2011 accommodates much of the sand eroding from the two coastal areas of the pilot site. The shoreline advanced towards the sea immediately after the nourishments and it maintains similar position after three years. The dominant process for the beach evolution was the cross-shore transport immediately after execution, but alongshore transport became dominant on the medium and long term and it was calculated to have a net rate of 150 000 to 200 000 m3 in the north-east direction
description: Title : FH reports. Flanders Hydraulics: Antwerp. Volume : 00_128_16 Issue : Pagination : VII, 65 + 4 p. app.
Métadonnées et standards de documentation
Creators: name: Marie, Lucie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: metadata, SSH, DDI, DDI-Codebook, DDI-Lifecycle

description: Data Documentation Initiative est un standard international dédié aux données issues de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales, et utilisé par Centre de données socio-politiques. Sa structure XML facilite l'échange d'information et l'interopérabilité des systèmes de diffusion, enjeux centraux du mouvement d'ouverture de la science. Plusieurs versions de DDI existent, chacune répondant à des besoins spécifiques. Les versions Codebook et Lifecycle sont ici présentées, puis confrontées pour souligner leurs spécificités.
Towards Optimizing a Convex Cover of Collision-Free Space for Trajectory Generation
Creators: name: Wu, Yuwei
name: Spasojevic, Igor
name: Chaudhari, Pratik
name: Kumar, Vijay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an online iterative algorithm to optimize a convex cover to under-approximate the free space for autonomous navigation to delineate Safe Flight Corridors (SFC). The convex cover consists of a set of polytopes such that the union of the polytopes represents obstacle-free space, allowing us to find trajectories for robots that lie within the convex cover. In order to find the SFC that facilitates trajectory optimization, we iteratively find overlapping polytopes of maximum volumes that include specified waypoints initialized by a geometric or kinematic planner. Constraints at waypoints appear in two alternating stages of a joint optimization problem, which is solved by a novel heuristic-based iterative algorithm with partially distributed variables. We validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm using a range of parameterized environments and show its applications for two-stage motion planning.
A proposal for testing Quantum Gravity in the lab
Creators: name: Ali, Ahmed Farag
name: Das, Saurya
name: Vagenas, Elias C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Attempts to formulate a quantum theory of gravitation are collectively known as {\it quantum gravity}. Various approaches to quantum gravity such as string theory and loop quantum gravity, as well as black hole physics and doubly special relativity theories predict a minimum measurable length, or a maximum observable momentum, and related modifications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to a so-called generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). We have proposed a GUP consistent with string theory, black hole physics and doubly special relativity theories and have showed that this modifies all quantum mechanical Hamiltonians. When applied to an elementary particle, it suggests that the space that confines it must be quantized, and in fact that all measurable lengths are quantized in units of a fundamental length (which can be the Planck length). On the one hand, this may signal the breakdown of the spacetime continuum picture near that scale, and on the other hand, it can predict an upper bound on the quantum gravity parameter in the GUP, from current observations. Furthermore, such fundamental discreteness of space may have observable consequences at length scales much larger than the Planck scale. Because this influences all the quantum Hamiltonians in an universal way, it predicts quantum gravity corrections to various quantum phenomena. Therefore, in the present work we compute these corrections to the Lamb shift, simple harmonic oscillator, Landau levels, and the tunneling current in a scanning tunneling microscope.
description: v1: 10 pages, REVTeX 4, no figures; v2: minor typos corrected and a reference added. arXiv admin note: has substantial overlap with arXiv:0906.5396 , published in a different journal
title: Reliable dynamics in Boolean and continuous networks
Creators: name: Ackermann, Eva
name: Peixoto, Tiago P.
name: Drossel, Barbara
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2023

description: We investigate the dynamical behavior of a model of robust gene regulatory networks which possess ‘entirely reliable’ trajectories. In a Boolean representation, these trajectories are characterized by being insensitive to the order in which the nodes are updated, i.e. they always go through the same sequence of states. The Boolean model for gene activity is compared with a continuous description in terms of differential equations for the concentrations of mRNA and proteins. We found that entirely reliable Boolean trajectories can be reproduced perfectly in the continuous model when realistic Hill coefficients are used. We investigate to what extent this high correspondence between Boolean and continuous trajectories depends on the extent of reliability of the Boolean trajectories, and we identify simple criteria that enable the faithful reproduction of the Boolean dynamics in the continuous description.
Design and Testing of an Auditory Graphics Display for the Visually Impaired
Creators: name: Masternak, Christopher
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Engineering--Biomedical

description: The main objective of this thesis is to quantify and compare the relative accuracy of different auditory rendering schemes. These schemes are used in a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device that renders graphical objects as sound. The device is portable, as it only requires a tablet, stylus and headphones. Current auditory displays perform a horizontal sweep of an image and produce sounds for each column of pixels, with pixel height represented by pitch and brightness represented by loudness. This approach is noisy, has low resolution, and is difficult to interpret. We propose a more efficient encoding in which lines, curves, and shapes are traced out in time by a cursor whose position is represented by sound. This method also provides real-time auditory feedback to the blind user as he draws, thus providing a training mechanism that maps auditory cues to kinaesthetic cues. Different auditory schemes are used to represent the position of the moving stylus or cursor. We compare their relative performance quantitatively using such metrics as perceived position, size, and aspect ratio of sound-rendered points, lines and ellipses. In contrast, previous research on auditory rendering schemes has been more qualitative in nature.
"Girls don't watch porn" : a narrative analysis of women's negotiations with 'problematic spaces'
Creators: name: Snape, Tara Dawn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This research investigates the various strategies women use to negotiate, rationalize and story their sexual identities and their relationship to potentially problematic spaces. I interviewed ten women between the ages of nineteen and thirty looking for stories from, arguably, the first generation to watch pornographic films before engaging in sexual activities themselves. After listening to women’s stories, two spaces stood out as places of fracture, tension, and also possibility – mainstream, heterosexual pornography and heterosexual anal sex. I am interested in conceptualizing women who engage in socially ‘problematic’ sites as outside the traditional dichotomy of cultural victims who are unaware of their own subordination or as subjects that are entirely resistant and agentic. For example, when porn is viewed as something only men watch, it reinforces perceptions that women are not as sexual as men. This feeds into heteronormative assumptions of women’s sexuality as biologically passive. When women in the audience are considered, questions of agency, self-reflexivity and the possibility for resistant relationships with pornography are absent. Using a narrative methodology, this research works to conceptualize women’s participation in and/or avoidance of pornography and anal sex as indicative of continual and active negotiations with postfeminist and heteronormative definitions of gender, sexuality, and sex.
Cognitive Memory Network
Creators: name: James, Alex Pappachen
name: Dimitrijev, Sima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A resistive memory network that has no crossover wiring is proposed to overcome the hardware limitations to size and functional complexity that is associated with conventional analogue neural networks. The proposed memory network is based on simple network cells that are arranged in a hierarchical modular architecture. Cognitive functionality of this network is demonstrated by an example of character recognition. The network is trained by an evolutionary process to completely recognise characters deformed by random noise, rotation, scaling and shifting
A Pilot Study of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Women with Disordered Eating
Creators: name: Saraceni, Reana
Publisher: name: Education
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Guidance and Counseling
subject: Mental Health
subject: Eating Disorders
subject: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
subject: Mindfulness

description: Eating disorders are generally defined by abnormal eating habits that typically involve either the insufficient or excessive intake of food to the detriment of an individual’s physical and mental health. Eating disorders are amongst the most challenging disorders to treat, and even the treatment of choice, cognitive-behavioural therapy, only achieves moderate success. This study is in response to a call from experts in the field who recommend the piloting of promising therapies for these challenging disorders. Some of the reasons for treatment difficulties may be due to existing therapies failing to adequately respond to inflexible control strategies such as experiential avoidance, often seen in eating disorders. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) directly targets psychological inflexibility, making it a potentially ideal treatment for disordered eating. ACT is an innovative treatment that has been applied broadly to a variety of disorders. This is the first study to examine the efficacy of a complete ACT intervention for women with clinical disordered eating. This study examines change over time on measures life quality, valued living, mindful acceptance and observing, disordered eating and psychological maladjustment. The utilization of individual growth curve analyses provides a statistical modeling technique that summarizes changes about intra-individual change while simultaneously addressing inter-individual differences in change. Duration of illness was utilized as a predictor to further explain the hypothesized change over time. The results of this seven week group intervention showed positive pre-test to follow-up improvements in life quality, valued living, experiential avoidance, disordered eating, and psychological maladjustment. The mindfulness results run counter to findings from mindfulness component studies for eating disorders. The results suggest that the cognitive (mindfulness) processes did not appear to add value above and beyond the commitment and behaviour change processes. No significant differences were found on any of the measures between women who reported shorter versus much longer durations of their illness. Overall, results suggest that the commitment to living a valued-based life may be the most viable component of and ACT intervention for treating women with disordered eating. Future research is warranted to parse out the behavioural aspect of ACT’s mindfulness-based behavioural approach to treatment.
Minimax and Adaptive Inference in Nonparametric Function Estimation
Creators: name: Cai, T. Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since Stein's 1956 seminal paper, shrinkage has played a fundamental role in both parametric and nonparametric inference. This article discusses minimaxity and adaptive minimaxity in nonparametric function estimation. Three interrelated problems, function estimation under global integrated squared error, estimation under pointwise squared error, and nonparametric confidence intervals, are considered. Shrinkage is pivotal in the development of both the minimax theory and the adaptation theory. While the three problems are closely connected and the minimax theories bear some similarities, the adaptation theories are strikingly different. For example, in a sharp contrast to adaptive point estimation, in many common settings there do not exist nonparametric confidence intervals that adapt to the unknown smoothness of the underlying function. A concise account of these theories is given. The connections as well as differences among these problems are discussed and illustrated through examples.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS355 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
ZAMONAVIY INGLIZ TILIDA SO'Z TURKUMLARI MUAMMOSI
Creators: name: Эгамназаров, Қ.А.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Tilshunoslar ko'p yillar davomida so'z turkumlarini o'rganib, ularni tasniflab kelayotganiga qaramasdan, hamon aniq bir to'xtamga kelinmaganligining guvohi bo'lamiz. Bunday deyishimizga asosiy sabab leksemalarni ma'lum bir sinfini aniqlashda sub'yektiv usullar bo'lsada tilshunoslarning so'z turkumlarini turlicha tasniflashiga duch kelamiz. Ingliz tilshunosligida aksariyat ko'pchilik olimlar so'z turkumlarini asosan, uch tamoyilga asosan, ya'ni ma'no, shakl va gap qurilmasida bajaradigan vazifasiga ko'ra tasniflaydi.
STAR-ProBio Deliverable D9.2 Recommendations for Stand-ards and criteria for eco-labels for bio-based products
Creators: name: Ladu, Luana
name: Wurster, Simone
name: Briassoulis, Demetres
name: Briassoulis, Christos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: bio-based products, bioeconomy, eco-labels, standards, bioplastics, biodegradability

description: The European Bioeconomy Strategy aims at achieving an innovative, resilient and low-carbon economy that replaces fossil raw materials with biological ones, promoting resource efficiency and contributing to a more sustainable economy. Bio-based industries are aware of the need to create trust in bio-based products by implementing suitable measures to support their market uptake and by providing consumers with appropriate information on their characteristics. Eco-labels offer great opportunities to provide such consumer information, and in this report a lists of key eco-label criteria for selected case studies have been considered and analysed. Based on four case studies, the report provides a number of recommendations, which address broader public policy and existing regulations and mechanisms. They also highlight the need to update other independent mechanisms and labels.
Essays on volatility risk premia in asset pricing
Creators: name: Boguth, Oliver
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis contains two essays. In the first essay, we investigate the impact of time varying volatility of consumption growth on the cross-section and time-series of equity returns. While many papers test consumption-based pricing models using the first moment of consumption growth, less is known about how the time-variation of consumption growth volatility affects asset prices. In a model with recursive preferences and unobservable conditional mean and volatility of consumption growth, the representative agent's estimates of conditional moments of consumption growth affect excess returns. Empirically, we find that estimated consumption volatility is a priced source of risk, and exposure to it predicts future returns in the cross-section. Consumption volatility is also a strong predictor of aggregate quarterly excess returns in the time-series. The estimated negative price of risk together with the evidence on equity premium predictability suggest that the elasticity of intertemporal substitution of the representative agent is greater than unity, a finding that contributes to a long standing debate in the literature. In the second essay, I present a simple model to show that if agents face binding portfolio constraints, stocks with high volatility in states of low market returns demand a premium beyond the one implied by systematic risks. Assets whose volatility positively covaries with market volatility also have high expected returns. Both effects of this idiosyncratic volatility risk premium are strongest for assets that face more binding trading restrictions. Unlike the prior empirical literature that obtains mixed results when focusing on the level of idiosyncratic volatility, I investigate the dynamic behavior of idiosyncratic volatility and find strong support for my predictions. Comovement of innovations of idiosyncratic volatility with market returns negatively predicts returns for trading restricted stocks relative to unrestricted stocks, and comovement of idiosyncratic volatility with market volatility positively predicts returns for restricted assets.
A Case Report on Hypomethylating Agent-Induced Cardiomyopathy
Creators: name: Ugur, Mehmet Can
name: Mutlu, Cansu Atmaca
name: Bilgir, Oktay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Decitabine
Azacitidine
cardiomyopathy
hypomethylating agent
myelodysplastic syndrome

description: Hypomethylating agents, 5-azacytidine and 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (decitabine) , which have an effect by inhibiting DNA methyltransferase have been approved in Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). The most common side effects of hypomethylating agents are cytopenias, nausea, pain, and local reactions in injection zones. The toxicity associated with other organ functions is very rare. Our paper reported a case which a decrease was observed in left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) due to Decitabine treatment because of no response to Azacitidine as the fourth case in the literature. Three cases with cardiac toxicity and function loss have been reported in the literature. our case did not undergo ECHO check before starting Decitabine treatment after Azacitidine, it cannot be clearly understood whether cardiac toxicity occurred with 10 cycles of Azacitidine or 1 cycle of Decitabine treatment. Randomized controlled trials with large patient series are needed to clarify the etiology and pathophysiology of this side effect.
Always Already Just: Combinatorial Inventiveness in New Media Art
Creators: name: Grba, Dejan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Artifactual Creativity
Artificial Intelligence
Combinatorial Inventiveness
Digital Humanities
Generative Art
New Media Art

description: In this chapter I explore the creative aspects of combinatorial inventiveness in new media art practices and point to some of the conceptual parallels and shared methodologies in digital humanities. With regard to diverse manifestations of combinatorial inventiveness in new media art, I focus on generative artworks created primarily by processing the material from cinema, television, and the Internet. These artworks blend procedural thinking with bricolage, leverage complex technical infrastructures, foster curiosity, and encourage vigilance in our critical appreciation of the arts, technology, culture, society, and human nature. Throughout each section, I outline the theoretical considerations that can be abstracted from the examples and elaborate on them in the final section which examines the artists’ motives and circumstances of analogizing, generating ideas, and meaning making in relation to the cognitive implications of artifactual creativity.
description: This is a working preprint version of a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, edited by Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 9780367361426.
USMERNENIA PRE OPEN ACCESS VYDAVATEĽOV K IMPLEMENTÁCII ODPORÚČANIA UNESCO O OTVORENEJ VEDE
Creators: name: Redhead Claire
name: Iryna, Kuchma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Open Access Publishers
UNESCO

description: Dokument patrí medzi nástroje UNESCO na podporu implementácie Odporúčania UNESCO o otvorenej vede. Usmernenia poskytujú praktickú pomoc open access vydavateľom, ktorí chcú zaviesť Odporúčanie UNESCO do svojej praxe, a sú zamerané na oblasti, ktoré sa vyslovene týkajú publikovania v režime otvoreného prístupu.
Molecular chemistry and the missing mass problem in PNe
Creators: name: Kimura, Rafael K.
name: Gruenwald, Ruth
name: Aleman, Isabel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detections of molecular lines, mainly from H2$ and CO, reveal molecular material in planetary nebulae. Observations of a variety of molecules suggest that the molecular composition in these objects differs from that found in interstellar clouds or in circumstellar envelopes. The success of the models, which are mostly devoted to explain molecular densities in specific planetary nebulae, is still partial, however. The present study aims at identifying the influence of stellar and nebular properties on the molecular composition of planetary nebulae by means of chemical models. A comparison of theoretical results with those derived from the observations may provide clues to the conditions that favor the presence of a particular molecule. A self-consistent photoionization numerical code was adapted to simulate cold molecular regions beyond the ionized zone. The code was used to obtain a grid of models and the resulting column densities are compared with those inferred from observations. Our models show that the inclusion of an incident flux of X-rays is required to explain the molecular composition derived for planetary nebulae. We also obtain a more accurate relation for the N(CO)/N(H2) ratio in these objects. Molecular masses obtained by previous works in the literature were then recalculated, showing that these masses can be underestimated by up to three orders of magnitude. We conclude that the problem of the missing mass in planetary nebulae can be solved by a more accurate calculation of the molecular mass.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
MPEC 2023-M168 : 2023 MX5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 MX5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
USMERNENIA PRE OPEN ACCESS VYDAVATEĽOV K IMPLEMENTÁCII ODPORÚČANIA UNESCO O OTVORENEJ VEDE
Creators: name: Redhead Claire
name: Iryna, Kuchma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Open Access Publishers
UNESCO

description: Dokument patrí medzi nástroje UNESCO na podporu implementácie Odporúčania UNESCO o otvorenej vede. Usmernenia poskytujú praktickú pomoc open access vydavateľom, ktorí chcú zaviesť Odporúčanie UNESCO do svojej praxe; sú zamerané na oblasti, ktoré sa vyslovene týkajú publikovania v režime otvoreného prístupu.
PERFECOAT Brochure / Flyer – High-Performance Bio-Based Functional Coatings for Wood and Decorative Applications
Creators: name: Sautner, Freya
name: Banduka, Dušica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The pursuit of a climate-neutral Europe and a truly circular economy requires attention to virtually all fields of production if fossil-based materials are to be eliminated. This relates not only to manufactured goods but also the paints and coatings used to protect them; of the almost 1 million tonnes of paints and coating produced in Europe each year, more than 80% are derived from fossil resources. Reducing the impact of these coatings would represent a major advance in Europe's climate ambitions.
To address this challenge, the PERFECOAT project will develop and validate a new generation of industrial wood and decorative coatings with significantly more than 25% bio-based components. The project will address three important markets for coatings, high-volume, UV-curable clear coatings, waterborne trim paints for DIY and waterborne wall paints. These coatings will reach, and even surpass, the current quality and sustainability standards.
https://perfecoat-project.eu
CMOS Laser Diode Drivers for Supercontinuum Generation
Creators: name: He, Yuting
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: CMOS
subject: Laser Diode
subject: Supercontinuum Generation
subject: Driver Circuit
subject: Pulsed Laser
subject: Picosecond Pulses

description: There have been intense research efforts on developing compact and low-cost supercontinuum generation (SCG) systems, which have various application areas including telecommunications, spectroscopy, and optical coherence tomography. This research employs complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology to design and implement two integrated laser diode drivers for reducing the size and cost of SCG systems. A continuous-wave CMOS driver with a maximum output current of 600 mA is developed for driving a laser diode in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). A picosecond pulsed CMOS driver is designed and applied for gain-switching a laser diode to produce optical pulses with a pulse width of 200 ps and a repetition rate of 5.6 MHz. The gain-switched laser diode output is amplified by an EDFA and then launched into a highly nonlinear fiber for SCG. The generated supercontinuum has an average power of 62 mW and a spectral bandwidth of 806 nm.
Young Children's Understanding of Quantity: Conceptualizing Quantities Beyond That Which Can Be Held In Their Hand
Creators: name: Van Rosendaal, Alison
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education--Elementary
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Elementary

description: Taking a phenomenological approach, this study explores young children’s understanding of quantity beyond that which can be held in their hand. Descriptions of children’s mathematical experiences are held up against Pirie and Kieren’s theory of growth in mathematical understanding (1994), illustrating the fluid, dynamic nature of children’s ‘moving out’ and ‘folding back’ through various modes of understanding. A closer look at the Primitive Knowing, Image Making, Image Having and Property Noticing levels of the Pirie Kieren model considers the unique characteristics of each. Throughout, children’s actions and expressions, interactions with one another, gestures and facial expressions offer glimpses into the embodied, co-emergent nature of understanding. Specific to quantity, distinctions between discrete and analogue ways of knowing suggest understandings rooted in very different bodily experiences in the world.
UYUSHGAN JINOYATCHILIK TUSHUNCHASI  VA UNGA QARSHI KURASHNING AYRIM MASALALARI
Creators: name: Raximov, Nariman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Maqolada uyushgan jinoyatchilik tushunchasi, olimlarning fikrlari va uyushgan jinoyatchilikka qarshi kurashning ayrim masalalari ko'rsatib o'tilgan.
Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder Outside Treatment Settings: The Prison Community
Creators: name: Enyidah Nonyenim Solomon
name: Nonye-Enyidah Esther Ijeoma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Prison
inmates
substance use disorders
personality disorders
comorbidity
ICD-10

description: Background: Studies on comorbidity of personality disorder (PD) and substance use disorders (SUDs) have largely been done on normal and unrestricted environments and on free and unrestricted patients. Illicit drugs are used in prisons despite their highly structured controlled environment. The few studies on the health of prison inmates have indicated high levels of mental disorder, yet no studies have been done on comorbidity of SUDs and PD in the prison community. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of SUDs and PD in the prison community and the degree of comorbidity between both disorders in this community. Methods: Prison inmates who met the inclusion criteria were interviewed using (IPDE) International Personality Disorder Examination and Sections 10 and 11of the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Both instruments are semi structured questionnaires modified to conform to DSM-111-R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) and ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) classifications. ICD-10 classification was used for the diagnoses. The data was fed into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS/PC+) and cross- tabulation of the variables obtained using chi-square and t- test. Results: The study showed that out of the 213 inmates that consented to the study, (77) 36% had SUDs, and (111) 52% had PD with Borderline/ Impulsive PD Dissocial PD and Anankastic PD having the highest prevalence of comorbidity. Conclusion: The prison communities harbour inmates with SUD and PD. A strong association has been established between both disorders with a comorbid prevalence rate of 70%. An urgent need for a close medical and psychiatric care is advocated.
Effect of quantum interference on the optical properties of a three-level V-type atomic system beyond the two-photon resonance condition
Creators: name: Mousavi, S. M.
name: Safari, L.
name: Mahmoudi, M.
name: Sahrai, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of quantum interference on the optical properties of a pumped-probe three-level V-type atomic system is investigated. The probe absorption, dispersion, group index and optical bistability beyond the two-photon resonance condition are discussed. It is found that the optical properties of a medium in the frequency of the probe field, in general, are phase independent. The phase dependence arises from a scattering of the coupling field into the probe field at a frequency which in general differs from the probe field frequency. It is demonstrated that beyond the two-photon resonance condition the phase sensitivity of the medium will disappear.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Evaluation Of An Capacity-oriented, Agent-based Order Release For Matrix-structured Assembly Systems
Creators: name: Burggräf, Peter
name: Adlon, Tobias
name: Schukat, Esben
name: Weber, Nina Katharina
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Matrix-structured Assembly System
subject: Order Release
subject: Assembly Control
subject: Multi-agent System
subject: Factory Planning
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: To address growing challenges in automotive assembly with ever shorter innovation cycles, increasing variant diversity and uncertain market development, innovative concepts for assembly systems are needed. As a response, the concept of matrix-structured assembly system was introduced. Matrix-structured assembly systems break up with the rigid line structure of assembly stations and replace the cycle time-bound and product-specific station assignment of rigid line structure. A major challenge in the design of matrix-structured assembly systems is the assembly control. While certain approaches, mostly decentral and agent-based, are already capable to assign orders to assembly stations based on the availability of production resources, order release as part of the assembly control has been largely neglected. This is because routing and sequence flexibility lead to temporal uncertainty in the prediction of station-specific capacity requirements. Accordingly, the authors' previous work includes a conceptual methodology for capacity-oriented order release in matrix-structured assembly systems. After implementing this methodology, the actual benefit needs to be determined. For this purpose, the present paper suggests and applies a testing strategy based on the fundamentals of successful testing in software development domain. The testing aims to demonstrate the basic functionality of the implemented methodology as well as to compare it with other order release procedures that have been used for simulations in the context of matrix-structured assembly systems so far. It can be shown that the methodology for capacity-oriented order release in matrix-structured assembly systems achieves better adherence to delivery dates and lead times by anticipating bottlenecks compared to ConWIP control with a random order release. The knowledge gained from the testing strategy contributes to the improvement of order release procedures in matrix-structured assembly systems.
Assessment of association between smoking and all-cause mortality among Malaysian adult population
Creators: name: Hock, LIM Kuang
name: Cheong, KEE Chee
name: LIM Hui Li
name: Ling, CHEONG Yoon
name: MOHD GHAZALI Sumarni
name: TAN Cia Vei
name: GILL Balvinder Singh
name: MAT HASHIM Mohd Hazilas
name: LIM Jia Hui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Smoking
smoking-related mortality
cardiovascular disease
all-cause mortalities

description: Introduction: Smoking is a known risk factor for many chronic diseases. Illness and death due to smoking are a major public health burden in many countries. This study aims to address the information gap in smoking-related mortality in Malaysia by estimating the risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortalities More information on the poster.
description: This poster was submitted to the 14th National Conference for Clinical Research (NCCR) in August 18-20, 2021. https://nccrconference.com.my/
A Systematic Literature Review of Blockchain-Based Traceability Solutions
Creators: name: Dietrich, Fabian
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Blockchain
subject: Traceability
subject: Supply Chain
subject: Object Mapping
subject: Supply Chain Event Mapping
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Blockchain technology shows great potential in providing object-related end-to-end traceability in complex multitiered supply networks. However, the first systematic literature reviews indicate the immaturity of current blockchain-based solutions and highlight difficulties in assessing their object traceability capabilities. Therefore, this paper provides a systematic literature review of blockchain-based traceability solutions and analyses their object-related mapping capabilities. As the systematic literature reveals, the vast majority of the identified traceability solutions deal with low-complexity architectures without the ability to map objects' compositional changes. Here, food and medical supply chains represent the most dominant domains. Supply chains in the automotive and manufacturing domain place the highest requirements for mapping object-related supply chain events. In this context, solutions incorporating the tokenisation of objects show the most advanced object-related mapping capabilities. However, the identified advanced solutions show limitations regarding their ability to map object deletions, aggregations, and disaggregations. Furthermore, current blockchain-based traceability solutions provide only limited validations based on industrial case studies.
Scalable and RISC-V Programmable Near-Memory Computing Architectures for Edge Nodes
Creators: name: Caon, Michele
name: Choné, Clément
name: Schiavone, Pasquale Davide
name: Levisse, Alexandre
name: Masera, Guido
name: Martina, Maurizio
name: Atienza, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The widespread adoption of data-centric algorithms, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), has exposed the limitations of centralized processing infrastructures, driving a shift towards edge computing. This necessitates stringent constraints on energy efficiency, which traditional von Neumann architectures struggle to meet. The Compute-In-Memory (CIM) paradigm has emerged as a superior candidate due to its efficient exploitation of available memory bandwidth. However, existing CIM solutions require high implementation effort and lack flexibility from a software integration standpoint. This work proposes a novel, software-friendly, general-purpose, and low-integration-effort Near-Memory Computing (NMC) approach, paving the way for the adoption of CIM-based systems in the next generation of edge computing nodes. Two architectural variants, NM-Caesar and NM-Carus, are proposed and characterized to target different trade-offs in area efficiency, performance, and flexibility, covering a wide range of embedded microcontrollers. Post-layout simulations show up to $28.0\times$ and $53.9\times$ lower execution time and $25.0\times$ and $35.6\times$ higher energy efficiency at the system level, respectively, compared to executing the same tasks on a state-of-the-art RISC-V CPU (RV32IMC). NM-Carus achieves a peak energy efficiency of $306.7$ GOPS/W in 8-bit matrix multiplications, surpassing recent state-of-the-art in- and near-memory circuits.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures, accepted in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Derivation of MTM-UAS® analyses from virtual reality tools using MTMmotion®
Creators: name: Benter, Martin
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Digital Human Motion Data
subject: Human Work Design
subject: Automated Process Analysis
subject: MTM-UAS®
subject: MTMmotion®
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Designing human work in a productive way plays a vital role in maintaining competitiveness of industrial companies. In order to fulfil this task, practitioners can use different methods to describe, analyse and design work processes. One widely used method is the process building block system MTM-UAS. Analysing the work processes manually (with or MTM-UAS or other methods) requires manual effort for data collection and interpretation of the method user. Due to this fact, not every industrial company has the capacities to design work productively. One possibility to reduce this effort is the automatic interpretation of digitized human motion data. Motion data describes human movements and includes, for example, distances covered, joint positions or object interactions. The technology virtual reality is capable to generate this movement data. Thanks to the advances in the technology in recent years, it can be used in a large number of workplaces. This article presents an approach how one can use the motion data of virtual reality tools to derive an automated MTM-UAS analysis. The technology thus reduces the analysis effort significantly and offers the possibility of expanding the areas of application. First, the article describes a workplace example, that was modelled in a virtual reality tool. It then explains the data that is needed to automatically generate MTM-UAS analyses and that can be generated by the virtual reality tool. It then shows how the data is translated into a valid MTM-UAS analysis. The article concludes with an outlook on how this approach can be transferred to other technologies like human simulation. With such a transfer it is conceivable to design a higher number of workplaces in a productive way and thus to maintain the competitiveness of industrial companies.
Near-infrared spectroscopy of a nitrogen-loud quasar SDSS J1707+6443
Creators: name: Araki, N.
name: Nagao, T.
name: Matsuoka, K.
name: Marconi, A.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Ikeda, H.
name: Hashimoto, T.
name: Taniguchi, Y.
name: Murayama, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near-infrared spectroscopy of the z=3.2 quasar SDSS J1707+6443, obtained with MOIRCS on the Subaru Telescope. This quasar is classified as a "nitrogen-loud" quasar because of the fairly strong NIII] and NIV] semi-forbidden emission lines from the broad-line region (BLR) observed in its rest-frame UV spectrum. However, our rest-frame optical spectrum from MOIRCS shows strong [OIII] emission from the narrow-line region (NLR) suggesting that, at variance with the BLR, NLR gas is not metal-rich. In order to reconcile these contradictory results, there may be two alternative possibilities; (1) the strong nitrogen lines from the BLR are simply due to a very high relative abundance of nitrogen rather than to a very high BLR metallicity, or (2) the BLR metallicity is not representative of the metallicity of the host galaxy, better traced by the NLR. In either case, the strong broad nitrogen lines in the UV spectrum are not indication of a chemically enriched host galaxy. We estimated the black hole mass and Eddington ratio of this quasar from the velocity width of both CIV and H_beta, that results in log(M_BH/M_sun) = 9.50 and log(L_bol/L_Edd) = -0.34. The relatively high Eddington ratio is consistent with our earlier result that strong nitrogen emission from BLRs is associated with high Eddington ratios. Finally, we detected significant [NeIII] emission from the NLR, implying a quite high gas density of n~10^6 cm^-3 and suggesting a strong coupling between quasar activity and dense interstellar clouds in the host galaxy.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics