cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Space Observation by the Australia Telescope Compact Array: Performance Characterization using GPS Satellite Observation
Creators: name: Nosrati, Hamed
name: Smith, Stephanie
name: Hayman, Douglas B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In order to operationalize the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) for space situational awareness (SSA) applications, we develop a system model for range and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation based on the interferometric data. We employ the observational data collected from global positioning system (GPS) satellites to evaluate the developed model and demonstrate that, compared to a priori location propagated from the most recent two-line element (TLE), both range and direction information are improved significantly.
Hybrid war, hybrid freedom of expression? Restrictions on media over threats to national security in the Baltic states and Ukraine
Creators: name: Matviyishyn, Iryna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: freedom of expression
Ukraine
Baltic States
media
national security
warfare
human rights

description: Second semester University: University of Coimbra
description: The emergence and practical development of the concept of hybrid war multiplied challenges for affected governments and the international community. While hybrid adversaries take advantage of gaps in international law, resorting to conventional and unconventional methods of war, targeted states seek their own ways to counter the new type of warfare. In their struggle, information operations come as some of the primary threats able to disrupt the country’s stability and jeopardize human rights, including such as freedom of expression. In their will to defend national security Ukraine and the Baltic states resorted to a range of severe limitations on freedom of the media. With their dynamic examples, this text scrutinizes states’ practice in opposing Russia’s disinformation and propaganda and their compliance with international standards. Whereas hybrid threats in these countries persist in parallel to international criticism for violations of the fundamental freedom, the research elaborates on how democratic states can protect their integrity, simultaneously, preserving freedom of expression under circumstances of hybrid war.
MPEC 2023-F163 : 2022 OD4
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

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.
Subtraction method in the second random--phase approximation: first applications with a Skyrme energy functional
Creators: name: Gambacurta, D.
name: Grasso, M.
name: Engel, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make use of a subtraction procedure, introduced to overcome double--counting problems in beyond--mean--field theories, in the second random--phase--approximation (SRPA) for the first time. This procedure guarantees the stability of SRPA (so that all excitation energies are real). We show that the method fits perfectly into nuclear density--functional theory. We illustrate applications to the monopole and quadrupole response and to low--lying $0^+$ and $2^+$ states in the nucleus $^{16}$O. We show that the subtraction procedure leads to: (i) results that are weakly cutoff dependent; (ii) a considerable reduction of the SRPA downwards shift with respect to the random--phase approximation (RPA) spectra (systematically found in all previous applications). This implementation of the SRPA model will allow a reliable analysis of the effects of 2 particle--2 hole configurations ($2p2h$) on the excitation spectra of medium--mass and heavy nuclei.
description: 1 tex, 16 figures
Up in arms: contradictions and gaps of the arms transfer policy of the EU
Creators: name: Aguirre Arteaga, Eva
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: arms control
arms trade
European Union

description: Second semester University: Panteion University, Athens
description: The consolidation of the inclusion of Human Rights standards within the main legal instruments that regulate arms transfers is as such a big step further in the field of arms control. This fact becomes specially important in a world where armed conflicts are experiencing an upwards trend and the humanitarian needs increase in complexity and number. The European Union, which collectively has an important role in the global arms trade scenario, has adopted the legal requirements that should guide and harmonize the action of the 28 member states. However, this thesis is intended to identify the shortcomings of the legal instruments that allow a deficient and unbalanced implementation of both the Arms Trade Treaty and the Common Position of the EU on arms transfers. ! What is more, this failure in the application leads to several contradictions in different fields: on the one hand, an irresponsible arms transfer activity might incur into a breach of the legal obligations that the EU member states have deriving from other legal instruments. On the other hand, it may collide with the values proclaimed and spread by the EU. Finally, it might also be undermining the work, efforts and resources invested in the other areas of the organisation that fight, precisely, to alleviate the humanitarian needs, so often consequence of armed conflicts.
Prevalence of slow wave patterns during baseline recordings of the jejunum
Creators: name: Nagahawatte, Nipuni
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400399
subject: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 320899
subject: Medical physiology not elsewhere classified

description: This file contains the prevalence of different slow wave patterns in the jejunum of the small intestine in a healthy pig under anaesthesia. This data corresponds to the data included in the following journal article:
N. D. Nagahawatte, R. Avci, N. Paskaranandavadivel, and L. K. Cheng, “Optimization of pacing parameters to entrain slow wave activity in the pig jejunum,” Sci Rep, vol. Under revi, 2023.
The end of the end of history? : the Western concept of liberal democracy and Russia's struggle for normative hegemony : analisys of Russia's official discourse on democracy
Creators: name: Hošková, Jana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: democracy
cross cultural studies
Russian Federation
foreign policy
national identity
national security

description: Second semester University: University of Tartu.
description: By annexing a territory of the sovereign neighbouring state, Russia contradicted the very ideas that underpin the Western concept of liberal democracy, which sets the core principles cementing post-Cold War order. In the context of the Ukrainian crisis that started in November 2013, this thesis aims to explore Russia’s current interpretation and implementation of democracy, a notion which grossly differs from the liberal concept that was established and promoted by the West. Contrary to the Western perception of liberal democracy that aspires to potential promotion globally regardless of local political, economic and cultural systems, this thesis argues that democracy needs to be studied in the context of national identity formation. Therefore, Russia’s official discourse on democracy is analysed, tracing the conservative turn in Russia’s politics since 2012 when Vladimir Putin was elected for a third term as the President of the Russian Federation. Moreover, this thesis perceives democracy as an empty signifier that is hegemonically controlled by the West and open to various interpretations by other, non-Western civilisations, and which can be construed to serve their particular national agenda and contexts. This thesis further reveals how Russia’s official discourse on democracy is centred around three important nodal points. These are traditional values, the Near Abroad and information security. Russia often refers to, and uses the content of Western democracy rhetorically, yet in practice it re-interprets the meaning of democracy promotion as threatening its sacred values, violating stability in the post-Soviet space and the ‘Far Abroad’, and interfering with its information space. Lastly, this thesis concludes that Russia’s official discourse on democracy is predominantly about national security preservation and should be interpreted within the context of Russia’s relations with the West.
Grandhotel Cosmopolis : a lesson taught by civil society
Creators: name: Wündsch, Melanie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: asylum seekers
Germany
Augsburg
civil society

description: Second semester University: Université de Montpellier.
description: The Grandhotel Cosmopolis is one out of eight collective accommodation centres for asylum seekers in Augsburg, Germany. It was initiated and is now run by a collective of artists and activists with a housing capacity for 56 asylum seekers. The thesis at hand aims at analysing appraisal of asylum seekers as well as the policy preferences towards asylum seeking persons of staff members in the centres. The author will conduct a comparison of the activists, the so-called hoteliers, working in the Grandhotel Cosmopolis on the one hand, and the directors of all eight collective accommodation centres in Augsburg, who are employed by the government of Swabia, on the other hand. To be able to conceive the staff members’ appraisal and policy preference, interviews with standardized questionnaires have been conducted and evaluated. Findings show that appraisal of asylum seekers as beneficial or threatening to the receiving society predict support for immigration policy directed either at defending immigrants’ rights or defending the receiving society. Furthermore, a difference in attitudes and policy preferences could be found for the hoteliers in the Grandhotel Cosmopolis and the directors of the collective accommodation centres. Directors’ appraisals revealed an ambivalent relationship towards asylum seekers.
The association between implicit attitudes toward physical activity and physical activity behavior: A systematic review and correlational meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chevance, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: As a result of recent calls to attend to the implicit processes that regulate health behaviors, the study of implicit attitudes and physical activity behavior has grown rapidly in the past decade. The aim of this study was to summarize existing evidence on the extent to which implicit attitudes toward physical activity are directly associated with physical activity behavior.
Dark matter as a cancer hazard
Creators: name: Chashchina, Olga
name: Silagadze, Zurab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We comment on the paper "Dark Matter collisions with the Human Body" by K. Freese and C. Savage (Phys. Lett. B 717, 25 (2012) [arXiv:1204.1339]) and describe a dark matter model for which the results of the previous paper do not quite apply. Within this mirror dark matter model, potentially hazardous objects, mirror micrometeorites, can exist and may lead to diseases triggered by multiple mutations, such as cancer, though with very low probability.
description: 7 pages, revtex4, some text and references added, version to be published in Physics Letters B
Depression and Diabetes in Filipino Women
Creators: name: Chukrun, Tamar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: As both depression and type 2 diabetes are becoming recognized problems
beyond the developed world, it is imperative that more research be focused on the
populations of low and middle-income countries. An understanding of depression
and its comorbidities could have considerable implications for the health of such
populations.
The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) provides a
unique opportunity to test for an association between depressive symptoms and
type 2 diabetes incidence in the less studied setting of a middle income country. The
large sample size and robust longitudinal data allow for establishment of
temporality and a sequential analysis of the two illnesses. The survey measured
depressive symptoms and type 2 diabetes using standardized measures in a large
cohort of middle to older aged Filipino women, followed from 2005-2012. Since
both depression and diabetes were measured using standardized measures (CES-D
derived depression scale and blood glucose/HbA1c), the cohort allows for precision
that has not been consistently possible in other previous studies. We conducted
prospective analysis of depressive symptoms in 2005 as predictors of type 2
diabetes incidence in 2012. Because the survey included measurements of
socioeconomic factors, weight, adiposity, education, we were able to explore these
factors as possible confounders.
Neutron spectroscopic study of crystal-field excitations and the effect of the crystal field on dipolar magnetism in Li$R$F$_4$ ($R$ = Gd, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb)
Creators: name: Babkevich, P.
name: Finco, A.
name: Jeong, M.
name: Piazza, B. Dalla
name: Kovacevic, I.
name: Klughertz, G.
name: Krämer, K. W.
name: Kraemer, C.
name: Adroja, D. T.
name: Goremychkin, E.
name: Unruh, T.
name: Strässle, T.
name: Di Lieto, A.
name: Jensen, J.
name: Rønnow, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic study of the crystal field interactions in the Li$R$F$_4$, $R$ = Gd, Ho, Er, Tm and Yb, family of rare-earth magnets. Using detailed inelastic neutron scattering measurements we have been able to quantify the transition energies and wavefunctions for each system. This allows us to quantitatively describe the high-temperature susceptibility measurements for the series of materials and make predictions based on a mean-field approach for the low-temperature thermal and quantum phase transitions. We show that coupling between crystal field and phonon states leads to lineshape broadening in LiTmF$_4$ and level splitting in LiYbF$_4$. Furthermore, using high resolution neutron scattering from LiHoF$_4$, we find anomalous broadening of crystal-field excitations which we attribute to magnetoelastic coupling.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
Why Europe struggles with the combat against antisemitism : an analysis of debates about antisemitism in Europe
Creators: name: Resch, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: antisemitism
Europe

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles.
description: The rationale of this literature-based thesis is to explore and interpret contemporary European debates about antisemitism while focussing on the German and Austrian context without ignoring the phenomenon’s historical evolvement in order to render visible potential challenges as well as dangers in the combat against modern antisemitism in Europe. The first part is dedicated to terminological questions as well as the task of defining the phenomenon itself. Subsequently, the main part of this thesis deals with manifestations of antisemitism especially after 1945 and identifies essential issues such as secondary antisemitism and philosemitism, anti-Zionism in particular after 1967, Islamised antisemitism, semantics of modern antisemitism and the debate on “new antisemitism”. On the basis of an examination of the prevalent controversies about antisemitism in Europe, the following challenges in the combat against antisemitism revealed: first, the lack of consensus over what antisemitism is and the therewith connected lack of comparable official data on antisemitism; second, the Shoah lead to a modification of antisemitism so that the phenomenon manifests itself camouflaged and under the surface; third, anti-Zionism and critique of Israel do not equal antisemitism but they overlap; fourth, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the cause of antisemitism but complicates the combat against it and fifth, migration of Muslims to Europe does not cause the rise of antisemitism but Islamised antisemitism is a problem and the combat against it risks perpetuating anti-Muslim racism. This thesis strives to fill the gap of knowledge why Europe faces difficulties in the combat against antisemitism to enable a reconceptualization of strategies against it in order to foster social cohesion in the multicultural societies of Europe.
Gone without a bang: An archival HST survey for disappearing massive stars
Creators: name: Reynolds, Thomas
name: Fraser, Morgan
name: Gilmore, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been argued that a substantial fraction of massive stars may end their lives without an optically bright supernova (SN), but rather collapse to form a black hole. Such an event would not be detected by current SN surveys, which are focused on finding bright transients. Kochanek et al. (2008) proposed a novel survey for such events, using repeated observations of nearby galaxies to search for the disappearance of a massive star. We present such a survey, using the first systematic analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope images of nearby galaxies with the aim of identifying evolved massive stars which have disappeared, without an accompanying optically bright supernova. We consider a sample of 15 galaxies, with at least three epochs of Hubble Space Telescope imaging taken between 1994 and 2013. Within this data, we find one candidate which is consistent with a 25-30 solar mass yellow supergiant which has undergone an optically dark core-collapse.
description: 19 pages, 17 figures, revised version submitted to MNRAS
Building new fences? : security concerns and protection of aliens at the European borders
Creators: name: Isla, Lorena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: boundaries
Europe
European Convention on Human Rights
immigration
European Union
security

description: Second semester University: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
description: This research paper aims to examine the compatibility of border controls with the human rights standards that the EU and its Member States are bound to. For that purpose, expulsion has been chosen as the comparative element, since the non refoulement principle is one of the most developed constrains to the faculty of the State to expel non citizens. The human rights mechanisms available for the protection against expulsion will be examined and compared with the most representative EU regulations regarding forced removal of aliens. The analysis on the compliance of the EU policy with human rights standards is illustrated with a case study about Spain, which is one of the “guardians” of the Southern borders. The protection of citizens against security threats is the most common justification for the downgrading of the safeguards available for third country nationals aiming to reach Europe. The question is whether a balance between the interests at stake can be stroke, and to which extent the apparent clash between citizens and non citizens’ rights is illusory. In fact, the non refoulement principle has been reinforced in Europe thanks to the case law of the ECtHR. This development challenges the idea that aliens can be deprived of protection on account of an artificial equilibrium between their rights and the well being of the host community.
Quantifying the colour appearance of displays.
Creators: name: Kwak, Youngshin
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2003
Subjects: Colour appearence
Colour appearence model
Display characterization model
S-Curve model
CII-Derby data set
Kwak03

description: The LUTCHI data are the main colour appearance data used as the basis of many colour appearance models including CIECAM97s. It was shown in the LUTCHI data that projected colours are very different from reflective colours however there are relatively fewer data for projected colours than for reflective colours. In this study, it is intended to expand the colour appearance data of projected and self-luminous colours. The additional colours would then help investigate the performance of existing colour appearance models and, if necessary, enable the derivation of a new model to improve performance for projected and self-luminous colours. Before the colour appearance study, firstly the performances of the instruments and the displays used in the study were investigated. It was found that LCD displays perform very differently from CRT monitors. Two mathematical characterisation models for LCD displays were developed named S-Curve Model I and S-Curve Model II. The new colour appearance data set, CII-Kwak, was accumulated by a series of psychophysical experiments. The magnitude estimation technique was applied with the same experimental set-up as for LUTCHI experiments. The CII-Kwak data set has 20 phases with a total of 28,608 estimations covering various displays, luminance of a reference white, background luminance factors, surround conditions and stimulus sizes. Based on the CII-Kwak and the LUTCHI data set, the colour appearance phenomena were analysed. It was found that there are systematic colour appearance changes by the viewing factors investigated. Also eight colour appearance models were tested using the CII-Kwak and LUTCHI data sets. CIECAM97s-based models performed similarly well, but all models tested failed to predict several colour appearance changes, especially under dark surround conditions, which lead to suggest a new colour appearance model to have a better performance for colour appearance predictions. The Kwak03 model was derived from the CIECAM02 with several major modifications such as the cone signal ratios and the omission of the dynamic function. The Kwak03 model was shown to outperform all the other colour appearance models tested and also to be capable of predicting all colour appearance phenomena found in this study with good accuracy.
The necessity of a holistic peace building approach for effective conflict transformation : a case study of the Republic of Colombia: an opportunity to break the conflict cycle
Creators: name: Casasbuenas, Laura
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: peace processes
conflict prevention
Colombia

description: Second semester University: University of Ljubljana
description: The myriad of obstacles surrounding the post-conflict scenario poses a risk of potentially of entering a conflict trap. Engaging in a multidimensional conflict transformation process seeks to address the underlying sources of incompatibility between actors in a non-violent way through the incorporation of constructive dialogue that promotes security, political cooperation, state capacity, and implementation of the peace agreement. Too often, only some of these components are applied, yet research falls short in explaining how these gaps can be utilized in a beneficial way. By applying this framework to the case-study of the Republic of Colombia, this research will evaluate the impact of holistic peace building in negating the relapse of violence. Expanding on this comprehensive understanding, the author argues that by identifying the weak links in the implementation efforts, Colombia is in a position to break the conflict cycle and allow for a peaceful future to become a reality.
Metamemory for Performed and Observed Actions: Within-Subjects
Creators: name: Horschler, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The term "metamemory" is used to describe one's knowledge and understanding of one's own
memory. Research into metamemory has generally neglected actions in favor of verbal materials.
In the few action metamemory studies published though, an interesting trend has emerged. In
general, predictions of recall appear to be less accurate for subject-performed-tasks (SPTs) than
for experimenter-performed tasks (EPTs) or verbal tasks (VTs). The present study seeks to
determine whether or not these differences persist using a within-subjects design. Results
showed that judgments of learning (JOLs) were higher for SPTs than EPTs or VTs, but actual
recall did not differ across these conditions. Additionally, JOLs were positively correlated with
actual recall for EPTs, but not SPTs or VTs. Future studies should look to demonstrate the
enactment effect (better recall for SPTs than EPTs or VTs) through the use of list-end JOLs,
which may help eliminate strengthened encoding across all conditions and/or distraction during
encoding.
MAQUI: Interweaving Queries and Pattern Mining for Recursive Event Sequence Exploration
Creators: name: Law, Po-Ming
name: Liu, Zhicheng
name: Malik, Sana
name: Basole, Rahul
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: clickstream
subject: event sequence
subject: pattern mining

description: Exploring event sequences by defining queries alone or by using mining algorithms alone is often not sufficient to support analysis. Analysts often interweave querying and mining in a recursive manner during event sequence analysis: sequences extracted as query results are used for mining patterns, patterns generated are incorporated into a new query for segmenting the sequences, and the resulting segments are mined or queried again. To support flexible analysis, we propose a framework that describes the process of interwoven querying and mining. Based on this framework, we developed MAQUI, a Mining And Querying User Interface that enables recursive event sequence exploration. To understand the efficacy of MAQUI, we conducted two case studies with domain experts. The findings suggest that the capability of interweaving querying and mining helps the participants articulate their questions and gain novel insights from their data.
Development of a laboratory scale metric to predict large scale algae productivity
Creators: name: Mullin, Peggy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Marine microalgae, the tiny photosynthetic powerhouses of base-level trophic productivity in marine environments, possess enormous potential to address global climate change, food security and water security issues through large-scale use as a source of biofuel. Presently, the substantial cost of large-scale algae biofuel cultivation is the main obstacle to market-ready algae biofuels. Efficient algae cultivation operations are inherently cost-intensive, requiring specialized equipment, specialized technical oversight and management of the culture. Predicting the growth rates of algae in large-scale industrial raceway ponds is a useful way to assess the overall biomass and lipid yield of a particular algae, which are directly tied to the economic feasibility of this algae as a biofuel. This study looks at the predicted large-scale growth potential of one particularly strong microalgal contender, Desmodesmus sp. D046, in large-scale outdoor raceway ponds of 950L and 8700L capacities located at Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina. Growth potential was assessed using laboratory-derived metric analysis of predicted yield compared to the actual yield of outdoor ponds during the exponential phase of growth. Initial results calculated a light compensation point of 6E-06 μmol O2/mL/min at 177.78 μmol Q/m2/sec for Desmodesmus sp. D046, and metric analysis yielded a predicted growth rate of 99.1%, while the actual growth rate was 73.9%. Further metric analysis, refined through a layer-based methodology, resulted in a predicted growth rate of 66.1%. The limited scope and assumptions of this metric analysis are addressed as possible sources of error, as well as differences in the environmental conditions of an isolated culture as opposed to culture in an outdoor pond. This analysis offers a basis of methodology for assessing the productivity of a large-scale outdoor raceway pond over the full biomass accumulation cycle of a biofuel culture. Further expansion of this research is anticipated to further explain the relationship between predicted and actual yield.
Child trafficking: an overview of the phenomenon and the case of Greece
Creators: name: Tsikkou, Dora
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: trafficking in young people
Greece

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast
description: Trafficking in persons and particularly in children is one of the most illegal actions against humanity. The phenomenon affects the population of all the countries, while it is estimated that 600.000 to 800.00 people are trafficked every year globally; yet 50% out of them are considered children, who are the easiest victims due to their age vulnerability. Family poverty, social gaps and the high demand for cheap labour and sex trade are some of the factors causing such phenomenon to become more and more extreme. Trafficking activities focusing on children are a real scourge. Children are forced to participate in sexual and labour actions, while their freedom is restricted even vanished and their human rights are violated. The international community provides several instruments to cope with such crimes against children and the states are encouraged to enforce their obligations in order to combat effectively the phenomenon. However, Greece does not comply fully with the international law and regulations deriving from the various conventions. Children working or becoming beggars can be daily encountered in the streets there.
MPEC 2023-F164 : 2023 FS4
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 FS4

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.
H ingestion into He-burning convection zones in super-AGB stellar models as a potential site for intermediate neutron-density nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Jones, S.
name: Ritter, C.
name: Herwig, F.
name: Fryer, C.
name: Pignatari, M.
name: Bertolli, M. G.
name: Paxton, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution of super-AGB thermal pulse (TP) stars for a range of metallicities (Z) and explore the effect of convective boundary mixing (CBM). With decreasing metallicity and evolution along the TP phase, the He-shell flash and the third dredge-up (TDU) occur closer together in time. After some time (depending upon the CBM parameterisation), efficient TDU begins while the pulse-driven convection zone (PDCZ) is still present, causing a convective exchange of material between the PDCZ and the convective envelope. This results in the ingestion of protons into the convective He-burning pulse. Even small amounts of CBM encourage the interaction of the convection zones leading to transport of protons from the convective envelope into the He layer. H-burning luminosities exceed $10^9$ (in some cases $10^{10}$) $\mathrm{L}_\odot$. We also calculate models of dredge-out in the most massive super-AGB stars and show that the dredge-out phenomenon is another likely site of convective-reactive H-$^{12}$C combustion. We discuss the substantial uncertainties of stellar evolution models under these conditions. Nevertheless, the simulations suggest that in the convective-reactive H-combustion regime of H ingestion the star may encounter conditions for the intermediate neutron capture process (i process). We speculate that some CEMP-s/r stars could originate in i-process conditions in the H-ingestion phases of low-Z SAGB stars. This scenario would however suggest a very low electron-capture supernova rate from super-AGB stars. We also simulate potential outbursts triggered by such H-ingestion events, present their light curves and briefly discuss their transient properties.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 17 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables
SeeDS: Semantic Separable Diffusion Synthesizer for Zero-shot Food Detection
Creators: name: Zhou, Pengfei
name: Min, Weiqing
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Song, Jiajun
name: Jin, Ying
name: Jiang, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Food detection is becoming a fundamental task in food computing that supports various multimedia applications, including food recommendation and dietary monitoring. To deal with real-world scenarios, food detection needs to localize and recognize novel food objects that are not seen during training, demanding Zero-Shot Detection (ZSD). However, the complexity of semantic attributes and intra-class feature diversity poses challenges for ZSD methods in distinguishing fine-grained food classes. To tackle this, we propose the Semantic Separable Diffusion Synthesizer (SeeDS) framework for Zero-Shot Food Detection (ZSFD). SeeDS consists of two modules: a Semantic Separable Synthesizing Module (S$^3$M) and a Region Feature Denoising Diffusion Model (RFDDM). The S$^3$M learns the disentangled semantic representation for complex food attributes from ingredients and cuisines, and synthesizes discriminative food features via enhanced semantic information. The RFDDM utilizes a novel diffusion model to generate diversified region features and enhances ZSFD via fine-grained synthesized features. Extensive experiments show the state-of-the-art ZSFD performance of our proposed method on two food datasets, ZSFooD and UECFOOD-256. Moreover, SeeDS also maintains effectiveness on general ZSD datasets, PASCAL VOC and MS COCO. The code and dataset can be found at https://github.com/LanceZPF/SeeDS.
description: Accepted by ACM Multimedia 2023
Vertically-coupled dipolar exciton molecules
Creators: name: Cohen, Kobi
name: Khodas, Maxim
name: Laikhtman, Boris
name: Santos, Paulo V.
name: Rapaport, Ronen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the interaction potential between two dipoles residing in a single plane is repulsive, in a system of two vertically adjacent layers of dipoles it changes from repulsive interaction in the long range to attractive interaction in the short range. Here we show that for dipolar excitons in semiconductor heterostructures, such a potential may give rise to bound states if two such excitons are excited in two separate layers, leading to the formation of vertically coupled dipolar exciton molecules. Our calculations prove the existence of such bound states and predict their binding energy as a function of the layers separation as well as their thermal distributions. We show that these molecules should be observed in realistic systems such as semiconductor coupled quantum well structures and the more recent van-der-Waals bound heterostructures. Formation of such molecules can lead to new effects such as a collective dipolar drag between layers and new forms of multi-particle correlations, as well as to the study of dipolar molecular dynamics in a controlled system.
Comparative genomic analysis of eutherian genes
Creators: name: Premzl, Marko
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Comparative genomics
subject: Eutheria
subject: RRID:SCR_014401

description: Free available eutherian reference genomic sequence data sets ushered in new era in biological and medical sciences. Nevertheless, due to potential genomic sequence errors and incompleteness of reference genomic sequence assemblies, future revisions and updates of eutherian genomic sequence data sets were expected. Specifically, the potential genomic sequence errors included analytical and bioinformatical errors (erroneous gene annotations, genomic sequence misassemblies) and DNA sequencing errors (artefactual nucleotide deletions, insertions and substitutions). The project established eutherian comparative genomic analysis protocol RRID:SCR_014401 as guidance in protection against potential genomic sequence errors in public eutherian reference genomic sequence data sets. The protocol integrated gene annotations, phylogenetic analysis and protein molecular evolution analysis with new test of reliability of public eutherian genomic sequences and new protein molecular evolution test into one framework of eutherian gene descriptions. The protocol curated and published 11 major eutherian gene data sets, including 1504 complete coding sequences deposited in European Nucleotide Archive as third party data gene data sets under accession numbers: FR734011-FR734074, HF564658-HF564785, HF564786-HF564815, HG328835-HG329089, HG426065-HG426183, HG931734-HG931849, LM644135-LM644234, LN874312-LN874522, LT548096-LT548244, LT631550-LT631670 and LT962964-LT963174.
Patterns and characteristics associated with the surface contamination of hazardous drugs in hospital pharmacies
Creators: name: Salch, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: To summarize the surface contamination levels of five commonly used hazardous drugs in hospital pharmacies, identifying practice patterns associated with contamination. Methods: Contamination testing data was compiled to evaluate surface contaminants of five hazardous drugs (docetaxel, paclitaxel, cyclophosphamide, ifosfamide, and 5-fluorourcil). Data from 799 wipe events over 6 years was collected from 338 hospital pharmacies.  The contamination level for each drug was categorized as non-detectable (ND; ≤ 10 ng/ft2), low (between 10 and ≤ 100ng/ft2), medium (between 100 and ≤ 1,000ng/ft2) or high (> 1,000ng/ft2). Surface exposures for each drug were summarized based on location, contamination at first and subsequent wipe events, and the use of a closed system transfer device (CSTD).  Results: The majority of contamination results corresponded to locations at or near hazardous drug preparation, but also occurred in areas were hazardous drug was not prepared. There was a higher incidence of contamination levels (high, medium, and low, respectively) at first wipe event (10.2%, 17.4%, and 17.7%) compared to subsequent wipe events (5.8%, 12.2%, and 13.6%) (P<0.0001). There was a lower incidence of contamination levels at institutions that used CSTDs (6.3%, 12.8%, and 14.4%) compared to institutions that did not use CSTDs (14.2%, 17.9%, and 17.3%) (P<0.0001).Conclusions: The majority of highest contamination levels corresponded to locations where hazardous drugs were prepared. While the incidence of contamination was lower at subsequent wipe events and at institutions that used CSTDs, contamination was not completely eliminated in either scenario, suggesting that routine contamination testing is beneficial in recognizing and correcting practices that lead to surface exposures.
Handling cultural factors in human-computer interaction
Creators: name: Bourges-Waldegg, Paula
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 1998
Subjects: Usability
Cultural factors
HCI
Interfaces
Meaning
Context
Design
GUI
Internationalization
Localization

description: The main objective of the research described in this thesis was to investigate and understand the origins of culturally-determined usability problems in the context of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to develop a method for treating this issue, when designing systems intended to be shared by culturally-heterogeneous user groups, such as Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) systems and the Internet. The resulting approach supports HCI designers by providing an alternative to internationalisation and localisation guidelines, which are inappropriate for tackling culturally-determined usability problems in the context of shared-systems. The research also sought to apply and test the developed approach in order to assess its efficacy and to modify or improve it accordingly.
Cold atoms: A field enabled by light
Creators: name: Fallani, Leonardo
name: Kastberg, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Besides being a source of energy, light can also cool gases of atoms down to the lowest temperatures ever measured, where atomic motion almost stops. The research field of cold atoms has emerged as a multidisciplinary one, highly relevant, e.g., for precision measurements, quantum gases, simulations of many-body physics, and atom optics. In this focus article, we present the field as seen in 2015, and emphasise the fundamental role in its development that has been played by mastering.
description: Invited article for the "2015 International Year of Light (IYL)" EPL Perspective series (7 pages, 5 figures)
Gravity : the role and assessment of ‘gravity’ at the International Criminal Court
Creators: name: Witten-Sage, Timothy
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: International Criminal Court
international criminal law
legal theory

description: Second semester University: Maastricht University
description: This thesis investigates the concept and role of ‘gravity’ in the law of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Gravity most importantly relates to assessing admissibility of situations and cases before the Court and acts as ‘gatekeeper’ to ensure only the gravest examples are investigated and prosecuted. Gravity therefore influences where the ICC focuses its attention, which has significant ramifications for the Court’s perceived legitimacy internationally. The thesis draws on ICC case law, academic literature and the ICC Prosecutor’s policy papers to investigate how gravity is assessed in admissibility decisions. Gravity decision-making processes are analysed with reference to the concepts of a ‘gravity threshold’, ‘relative gravity’ and the Prosecutor’s discretion. The ICC has developed mandatory factors for assessing gravity that are appropriately broad in scope allowing many relevant factors to be considered. The use of consistent criteria is beneficial because it increases transparency of gravity decisions. The concepts of a ‘gravity threshold’ and ‘relative gravity’ are implicit in gravity assessments in admissibility decisions. This thesis argues that relative gravity should become a mandatory aspect of assessing gravity to ensure the gravest situations and cases come before the ICC. While the ‘gravity threshold’ concept is useful, thresholds change in response to changing circumstances and for this reason should remain an implicit rather than mandatory aspect of gravity assessments. Inseparable from assessing gravity is the Prosecutor’s discretion and this thesis argues the Prosecutors is the most appropriate person to assess gravity.
"If he beats you, it means he does not love you" : what prevents female IDPs from Eastern Ukraine from talking about domestic violence
Creators: name: Bender-Säbelkampf, Theresa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ukraine
domestic violence
internally displaced persons
conflict

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon
description: This thesis aimed to investigate the reasons that prevent internally displaced women from eastern Ukraine from talking about domestic violence which is becoming a concerning issue with the ongoing armed conflict. Although most of them tend to suffer in silence, we know that they are struggling with this problem: In 2016, 90,1% of the total number of calls received by the National toll “Free Hotline“ of the leading Ukrainian women’s rights organisation “La Strada“– some 38,292 calls – were made by men, women and children worrying about violence in their homes, covering both Ukrainian and occupied Ukrainian territory. 1,486 of those callers were internally displaced persons. Of them, 4,4% asked for consultation concerning domestic violence, an amount that was six times higher than in the previous year. Women who have to leave their homes due to armed conflict or other disasters are particular vulnerable during their flight and in their host communities with regards to violence and therefore deserve our particular attention. During my field trip to the eastern parts of Ukraine and the capital in May 2017, I investigated the reasons behind women’s silence with the help of experts and one affected woman and defined several reasons. Furthermore, I gained broader knowledge of the topic by scrutinizing the Analytical report (2016) by the All-Ukrainian Charitable Organisation “Konviktus”, which in particular assessed domestic violence against female IDPs. Women’s tendency to remain silent with regard to domestic violence in Ukrainian society is deeply rooted in strong thinking patterns, which create the wrong perception of violence and dealing with it. Victim-blaming and secondary victimisation is still a common practice in society, even among authorities, and indicates how women’s behaviour about domestic violence (and other forms of violence) is supposedly meant to be – namely silent. In order to defeat domestic violence against women, legal expert Katarina Borosdina recommends: “First of all, women must know what is violence. ‘If he beats you, it means he loves you’ is a stereotype. You must not love and beat!”
Review of Machine Learning Techniques for Power Electronics Control and Optimization
Creators: name: Bahrami, Maryam
name: Khashroum, Zeyad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In the rapidly advancing landscape of contemporary technology, power electronics assume a pivotal role across diverse applications, ranging from renewable energy systems to electric vehicles and consumer electronics. The efficacy and precision of these power electronics systems stand as cornerstones of their functionality. Within this context, the integration of machine learning techniques assumes paramount significance. This article endeavors to present an extensive and comprehensive review of the machine learning techniques that find application in power electronics control and optimization. Through meticulous exploration, we aim to elucidate the profound potential of these methods in shaping the future of power electronics control and optimization.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Towards Developing an Immersive Virtual Reality Applications for Supporting Vision Screening – A User Study
Creators: name: Dæhlen, Are
name: Heldal, Ilona
name: Katona, József
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences
Year: 2022

description: Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences, Vol. 12 No. 4 (2022): 2022/4