cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A deep Chandra observation of the interacting star-forming galaxy Arp 299
Creators: name: Anastasopoulou, K.
name: Zezas, A.
name: Ballo, L.
name: Della Ceca, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a 90 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of the X-ray luminous interacting galaxy system Arp 299 (NGC 3690/IC 694). We detect 25 discrete X-ray sources with luminosities above 4.0x10^38 erg s^-1 covering the entire Ultra Luminous X-ray source (ULX) regime. Based on the hard X-ray spectra of the non-nuclear discrete sources identified in Arp 299, and their association with young, actively star-forming region of Arp 299 we identify them as HMXBs. We find in total 20 off-nuclear sources with luminosities above the ULX limit, 14 of which are point-like sources. Furthermore we observe a marginally significant deficit in the number of ULXs, with respect to the number expected from scaling relations of X-ray binaries with the star formation rate (SFR). Although the high metalicity of the galaxy could result in lower ULX numbers, the good agreement between the observed total X-ray luminosity of ULXs, and that expected from the relevant scaling relation indicates that this deficit could be the result of confusion effects. The integrated spectrum of the galaxy shows the presence of a hot gaseous component with kT = 0.72+-0.03 keV, contributing 20% of the soft (0.1-2.0 keV) unabsorbed luminosity of the galaxy. A plume of soft X-ray emission in the west of the galaxy indicates a large scale outflow. We find that the AGN in NGC 3690 contributes only 22% of the observed broad-band X-ray luminosity of Arp 299.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures, 9 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Regulation of signal transduction factors by the glucocorticoid-induced molecules MIF and MKP-1 in rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Toh., Myew-Ling
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Audio-based computational stylometry for electronic music
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Algarra, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Identifying artists and their stylistic signatures is a difficult problem, especially when only audio files and not symbolic sources are available. This is the most common situation when dealing with Electronic music, so the application of different constructs and techniques that have been proved useful when studying composers that wrote scores is needed. In addition to that, Electronic music increases the complexity of these problems, as timbre and rhythm tend to get more relevance than pitches, durations and chords, facets traditionally emphasized in musical style analysis. The research presented in this dissertation aims at the exploration of the usage of Music Information Retrieval tools and techniques for the stylistic analysis of Electronic Music. For that purpose we have curately constructed a music collection specially addressed for the above-mentioned problems, containing more than 3000 tracks of 64 different Electronic Music artists. The collection has been analyzed with the help of different software libraries, and the extracted features cover different musical facets such as timbre, rhythm, and tonality aspects, and include different temporal scopes (short-term analysis windows, central tendency and dispersion measures for whole tracks, and section summaries). The extracted features are tested in a traditional Artist Identification task, overperforming the previously reported results in similar studies when training a Support Vector Machines model and evaluating it with a holdout test. We also propose a categorization of the most relevant features for capturing the style of Electronic Music artists, distiguishing between “discriminative” and “descriptive” features. Both types are tested experimentaly, achieving satisfactory results. Finally, a detailed qualitative analysis of the results obtained when considering a small group of artists is performed, demonstrating the potential of the analyses that have been developed.
A High-Quality Speech and Audio Codec With Less Than 10 ms Delay
Creators: name: Valin, Jean-Marc
name: Terriberry, Timothy B.
name: Montgomery, Christopher
name: Maxwell, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With increasing quality requirements for multimedia communications, audio codecs must maintain both high quality and low delay. Typically, audio codecs offer either low delay or high quality, but rarely both. We propose a codec that simultaneously addresses both these requirements, with a delay of only 8.7 ms at 44.1 kHz. It uses gain-shape algebraic vector quantisation in the frequency domain with time-domain pitch prediction. We demonstrate that the proposed codec operating at 48 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s out-performs both G.722.1C and MP3 and has quality comparable to AAC-LD, despite having less than one fourth of the algorithmic delay of these codecs.
description: 10 pages
title: Das Aderhautmelanom: Teil eines Syndroms?
Creators: name: Nissen, Ebba J.
name: Riechardt, A. I.
name: Seibel, I.
name: Doblhofer, M.
name: Joussen, A. M.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Zuweilen sind Tumore Ausdruck syndromaler Erkrankungen. Bekannt sind z.B. das Gardner-Syndrom mit der Familiären Adenomatösen Polyposis coli. In molekulargenetischen Untersuchungen wurden bei Patienten mit einem Aderhautmelanom Mutationen des BAP1-Gens gefunden. Bei einem mutationsbedingten[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
Recovering quantum properties of continuous-variable states in the presence of measurement errors
Creators: name: Shchukin, E.
name: van Loock, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two results which combined enable one to reliably detect multimode, multipartite entanglement in the presence of measurement errors. The first result leads to a method to compute the best (approximated) physical covariance matrix given a measured non-physical one. The other result states that a widely used entanglement condition is a consequence of negativity of partial transposition. Our approach can quickly verify entanglement of experimentally obtained multipartite states, which is demonstrated on several realistic examples. Compared to existing detection schemes, ours is very simple and efficient. In particular, it does not require any complicated optimizations.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Transforming Javascript Event-Loop Into a Pipeline
Creators: name: Brodu, Etienne
name: Frénot, Stéphane
name: Oblé, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The development of a real-time web application often starts with a feature-driven approach allowing to quickly react to users feedbacks. However, this approach poorly scales in performance. Yet, the user-base can increase by an order of magnitude in a matter of hours. This first approach is unable to deal with the highest connections spikes. It leads the development team to shift to a scalable approach often linked to new development paradigm such as dataflow programming. This shift of technology is disruptive and continuity-threatening. To avoid it, we propose to abstract the feature-driven development into a more scalable high-level language. Indeed, reasoning on this high-level language allows to dynamically cope with user-base size evolutions. We propose a compilation approach that transforms a Javascript, single-threaded real-time web application into a network of small independent parts communicating by message streams. We named these parts fluxions, by contraction between a flow (flux in french) and a function. The independence of these parts allows their execution to be parallel, and to organize an application on several processors to cope with its load, in a similar way network routers do with IP traffic. We test this approach by applying the compiler to a real web application. We transform this application to parallelize the execution of an independent part and present the result.
Automatic Classication of Musical Sounds in the context of Freesound
Creators: name: Hespanhol, Nuno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Freesound.org is an online sound database with over 200.000 sounds now, which everyday serves the purpose of sound designers, composers and creative artists, providing them with Creative Commons license sounds for them to build musical compositions, interactive installations, build applications, movie soundtracks, etc. The need for optimized ways to serve musical content in this platform, as in others, is much needed, in order not to avoid leaving many sounds to be unexplored and never retrieved. What this work proposes is to develop a content based approach to classify sounds into a two level taxonomy. The first level consists of the classes Speech, Sound Effects, Soundscape, Mu- sic and Instrument. The second level, consists of musically meaningful concepts, such as Chord, Single Note, Melody, among others. Two different set of features are evaluated, MFCC and spectral features against low level features, and two different classification schemes too, at against hierarchical. For classification, K-Nearest Neighbour, Support Vector Machines and Decision Trees classifiers are used. Evidence is shown the MFCCs and spectral features combined with a hierarchical model works the best. The dataset used is also made available.
title: (Hydroxy-) Chloroquin-Retinopathie: Neue Erkenntnisse zu einer bekannten Erkrankung
Creators: name: Kellner, Ulrich
name: Kellner, S.
name: Weinitz, S.
name: Farmand, G.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Epidemiologische Daten und aktuelle Befunde der retinalen Bildgebung haben zu einer Änderung der Screening-Empfehlungen (Marmor et al, 2016) für die Früherkennung einer (Hydroxy-)Chloroquin-Retinopathie geführt. Methode: Evaluation retinaler Bildgebung bei 33 Patienten,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
SADC Open Educational Resources - Game-based Support for Teachers
Creators: name: Montero, Calkin Suero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The board games (open educational resources, OERs) presented here have been co-designed and co-created by the teachers that participated in the Erasmus+ Schools as Drivers of Change (SADC) project. The games are put forward to support future teachers and students in their journey as change agents. The OERs can also be accessed via the project website: https://sites.uef.fi/youngstudentsaschangeagents/oers/
A ring-like concentration of mm-sized particles in Sz 91
Creators: name: Canovas, H.
name: Caceres, C.
name: Schreiber, M. R.
name: Hardy, A.
name: Cieza, L.
name: Ménard, F.
name: Hales, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models of planet formation and disc evolution predict a variety of observables in the dust structure of protoplanetary discs. Here we present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band-6 and Band-7 observations of the transition disc Sz\,91 showing that the continuum emission at 870$μ$m, which is dominated by emission from large dust grains, is localized in an optically thin narrow ring. We find that most of the emission ($\sim95\%$) is concentrated in a ring located at 110 au from the central star that is only about 44 au wide. In contrast, the $^{12}\mathrm{CO}$ (2-1) emission peaks closer to the star and is detected up to $\sim488$ au from the star. The concentration of large grains in a ring-like structure while the gas disc extends much further in and further out is in qualitative agreement with predictions of hydrodynamical models of planet-disc interactions including radial drift and gas drag.
description: MNRAS, in press. Proof corrected version
Evaluation of set-class similarity measures for tonal analysis
Creators: name: Harley, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: This work explores the limitations of exiting approaches to computational modelling and description of tonality. Set class theory is presented as alternative or complement to existing approaches. Set class similarity is presented as a tool for the representation of set class information for structural analysis. A survey of set class similarity measures from the literature is conducted as well as a rendering of traditional musicological terminology in the language of set class theory. Six of the most suitable measures are chosen for further evaluation. An analysis methodology is outlined which emphasises systematicity and perceptual relevance. This methodology consists of a number of computational techniques and is used to analyse specific musical examples. The analytical potential of the similarity measures is evidenced through the reconstruction of basic music intuition and analysis using the proposed methodology.
Masses of doubly charmed baryons in the extended on-mass-shell renormalization scheme
Creators: name: Sun, Zhi-Feng
name: Vacas, M. J. Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate the mass corrections of the doubly charmed baryons up to $N^2LO$ in the extended-on-mass-shell (EOMS) renormalization scheme, comparing with the results of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. We find that the terms from the heavy baryon approach are a subset of those obtained in the EOMS scheme. By fitting the lattice data, we can determine the parameters $\tilde{m}$, $α$, $c_1$ and $c_7$ from the Lagrangian, while in the heavy baryon approach no information on $c_1$ can be obtained from the baryons mass. Correspondingly, the masses of $m_{Ξ_{cc}}$ and $m_{Ω_{cc}}$ are predicted, in the EOMS scheme, extrapolating the results from different values of the charm quark and the pion masses of the lattice QCD calculations.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures
Dark Energy and Dark Matter from an additional adiabatic fluid
Creators: name: Dunsby, Peter K. S.
name: Luongo, Orlando
name: Reverberi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dark Sector is described by an additional barotropic fluid which evolves adiabatically during the universe's history and whose adiabatic exponent $γ$ is derived from the standard definitions of specific heats. Although in general $γ$ is a function of the redshift, the Hubble parameter and its derivatives, we find that our assumptions lead necessarily to solutions with $γ= $ constant in a FLRW universe. The adiabatic fluid acts effectively as the sum of two distinct components, one evolving like non-relativistic matter and the other depending on the value of the adiabatic index. This makes the model particularly interesting as a way of simultaneously explaining the nature of both Dark Energy and Dark Matter, at least at the level of the background cosmology. The $Λ$CDM model is included in this family of theories when $γ= 0$. We fit our model to SNIa, $H(z)$ and BAO data, discussing the model selection criteria. The implications for the early-universe and the growth of small perturbations in this model are also discussed.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Cosmic rays from multiwavelength observations of the Galactic diffuse emission
Creators: name: Orlando, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic rays (CRs) generate diffuse emission while interacting with the Galactic magnetic field (B-field), the interstellar gas and the radiation field. This diffuse emission extends from radio, microwaves, through X-rays, to high-energy gamma rays. Diffuse emission has considerably increased the interest of the astrophysical community due to recent detailed observations by Planck, Fermi-LAT, and by very-high-energy Cherenkov telescopes. Observations of this emission and comparison with detailed predictions are used to gain information on the properties of CRs, such as their density, spectra, distribution and propagation in the Galaxy. Unfortunately disentangling and characterizing this diffuse emission strongly depends on uncertainties in the knowledge of unresolved sources, gas, radiation fields, and B-fields, other than CRs throughout the Galaxy. We report here on recent multiwavelength observations of the Galactic diffuse emission, and discuss the diffuse emission produced by CRs and its model uncertainties, comparing observations with predictions. The importance for forthcoming telescopes, especially for the Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA) and the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), and for future missions at MeV energies is also addressed.
description: Proceedings of the TAUP 2015 - XIV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, September 2015 Torino, Italy
Exploring the spatiality of a non-modern narrative: mapping myth, tracing connections, linking data. A roundtable discussion with Elton Barker, Flint Dibble, Anna Foka, Greta Hawes and Brady Kiesling
Creators: name: Barker, Elton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This roundtable takes a critical look at several important themes in the application of Spatial Humanities methods and tools to the spatial exploration of a non-modern witness. It will address aspects of mapping imaginary dimensions of space; tracing mobility and spatial connections through the network analysis of place relations in texts; and using common references to places that link data to bring text and material culture into dialogue. It will also raise issues related to gazetteer development and public scholarship, as well as the challenges of visualising complex data, such as narrative space. The discussants are all experts in the application of Spatial Humanities techniques for displaying and interrogating the spatiality of texts and archaeological excavation, and run or are involved in a number of ground-breaking Spatial Humanities initiatives.
Mit welchen filmischen Mitteln gelingt es dem Kurzfilm "Blinder Passagier" das Thema Behinderung kindgerecht darzustellen?
Creators: name: Wilfert, Eva
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 360

description: Die Bachelorarbeit untersucht, welche filmische Mittel dazu beitragen, das Thema Behinderung in einem Kinderfilm kindgerecht und differnziert darzustellen. Als Beispiel dient der auf FIlmfestivals mehrfach ausgezeichnete Kurzfilm "Blinder Passagier".
Emotion detection from EEG signals: correlating cerebral cortex activity with musicEMOTION
Creators: name: Yurci, Erim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: This master project aims to study music evoked emotion using electroencephalography (EEG) techniques. In particular, the first goal of the research is studying the correlation between EEG signal characteristics and three emotional states that are evoked by music; which are happy, sad and relax. A secondary goal of the research is correlating musical features obtained by music information retrieval (MIR) techniques with the EEG signals. An experiment was designed for proper EEG recording while subjects were listening to emotionally relevant songs. Six songs with emotional content (happy, sad and relax) were selected; three of them, were selected by us from a dataset of songs previously classified according to their emotional content by MIR techniques. The other three songs were selected by each participating subject according to their own preferences. The obtained data, EEG signals and music audio, were analyzed in order to investigate correlation among them. The EEG signals have been analyzed in order to extract features, some of them emotionally related, and these features have been used to predict the type of music to which the subject is listening. The obtained classifiers are able to predict the music type with up to 98% accuracy (base-line accuracy is 16%). The musical features were extracted in order to be correlated with the extracted EEG features. More than 10 correlations found with the correlation coefficient value greater than 0.25 and p-value smaller than 0.05.
title: Longitudinales Telomerscreening adipöser Patienten
Creators: name: Ulmer, Florian
name: Kroh, Andreas
name: Alizai, Hamid
name: Beier, Fabian
name: Neumann, Ulf Peter
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Telomere dienen als Schutzkappen („capping function“) an den Enden eines jeden Chromosoms. Bei jeder Zellteilung verkürzen sie sich und können als Marker des biologischen Alters angesehen werden. Die Verkürzung wird durch oxidativen Stress und Entzündung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
title: Volumetric tumor measurements in pediatric low-grade gliomas in comparison to standard measurements
Creators: name: Sarikaya-Seiwert, Sevgi
name: Schmitz, Ann Kristin
name: Beez, Thomas
name: Janßen, Gisela
name: Schaper, Jörg
name: Steiger, Hans-Jakob
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: low-grade glioma
subject: pediatric
subject: tumor volume
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Tumor measurement is important in children with unresectable low-grade gliomas (pLGG) to determine the need for treatment or assessment of response. Standard measurements are usually ascertained by the biggest dimension in the transverse, anterior-posterior and cranio-caudal and the product[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
title: ICP telemonitoring: The worlds first setting of ICP home-monitoring
Creators: name: Heckelmann, Michael
name: Huthmann, Alexandra
name: Antes, Sebastian
name: Tschan, Christoph Albrecht
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Telemonitoring
subject: ICP monitoring
subject: Hydrocephalus
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: As technical progress advances, telemonitoring has become a important part of patient care in many areas medical treatment. Here we report on a new home monitoring setup which enables for the first time telemonitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP). Method: 15 patients with complex hydrocephalic[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Exploring Interactive Representations of Chord Sequences for Mobile 2D Interfaces using Harmony Expert Agents
Creators: name: Emre-Tez, Hazar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: 2D GUI, chord progressions, probabilistic models, real-time music interaction

description: The areas such as physics, music visualization, 2D displays and force-feedback have great potentials for discovering new musical interaction ways. In this research, these fields, which have never been put together before, will be investigated, analyzed and combined to explore new ways of musical interaction for composition on tablets using probabilistic models of tonality. The interface will have inherent music knowledge (expert agents) which will be integrated in order to give intuition about tonal movements via the objects on 2D space. The action of these objects are designed in the light of these diverse areas.
Evolution of the jet opening angle distribution in holographic plasma
Creators: name: Rajagopal, Krishna
name: Sadofyev, Andrey V.
name: van der Schee, Wilke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use holography to analyze the evolution of an ensemble of jets, with an initial probability distribution for their energy and opening angle as in proton-proton (pp) collisions, as they propagate through an expanding cooling droplet of strongly coupled plasma as in heavy ion collisions. We identify two competing effects: (i) each individual jet widens as it propagates; (ii) the opening angle distribution for jets emerging from the plasma within any specified range of energies has been pushed toward smaller angles, comparing to pp jets with the same energies. The second effect arises because small-angle jets suffer less energy loss and because jets with a higher initial energy are less probable in the ensemble. We illustrate both effects in a simple two-parameter model, and find that their consequence in sum is that the opening angle distribution for jets in any range of energies contains fewer narrow and wide jets. Either effect can dominate in the mean opening angle, for not unreasonable values of the parameters. So, the mean opening angle for jets with a given energy can easily shift toward smaller angles, as experimental data may indicate, even while every jet in the ensemble broadens.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor clarifications
title: Effect of heparin on secondary brain injury in subarachnoid hemorrhage
Creators: name: Won, Sae-Yeon
name: Bruder, Markus
name: Kashefiolasl, Sepide
name: Brawanski, Nina
name: Seifert, Volker
name: Konczalla, Jürgen
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: subarachnoid hemorrhage
subject: vasospasm
subject: delayed cerebral infarction
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: Cerebral vasospasm (CVS) and delayed cerebral infarctions (DCI) after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) are associated with poor neurological outcome. Besides the anticoagulatory effect, heparin is suspected to influence SAH associated DCI, implicating a possible treatment option. [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC), 1. Joint Meeting mit der Koreanischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (KNS)
Unveiling the origin of the radio emission in radio-quiet quasars
Creators: name: Ruiz, Noelia Herrera
name: Middelberg, Enno
name: Norris, Ray P.
name: Maini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the radio emission in radio-quiet quasars (RQQs) has been a matter of debate for a long time. It is not well understood whether the emission is caused by star formation in the host galaxy or by black hole activity of the active galactic nuclei (AGN). We shed some light on these questions using the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technique to search for RQQs in the field of the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS). The extensive multi-wavelength coverage of the field (from radio to X-rays) was used to classify RQQs, and the milli-arcsecond resolution of VLBI provides a direct way to identify AGNs. In a sample of 18 RQQs we detected 3 using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.4 GHz. In this letter we report for the first time on a sample of RQQs with a measured lower limit on the fraction of radio emission coming from the AGN, thus demonstrating that the radio emission of at least some RQQs is dominated by an AGN.
description: 4 pages, letter to the editor, accepted for publication in A&A
title: Inzidenz und Therapie der submakulären Blutung bei exsudativer AMD unter Anti-VEGF Therapie
Creators: name: Carasco, Eva
name: Kreusel, K. M.
name: Willerding, G.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Die subretinale Makulablutung ist eine Komplikation der exsudativen altersbedingten Makuladegeneration (AMD) welche zu einer erheblichen Verschlechterung der Visusprognose führen kann. Therapeutisch stehen verschiedene Verfahren zur Verfügung, unter anderem die intravitreale rTPA,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
title: Navigierte retinale Laserkoagulation (NaviLas ® ) als Therapiealternative bei Patienten mit therapierefraktärer Chorioretinopathia centralis serosa
Creators: name: Klonner, Jan
name: Schlomberg, J.
name: Rübsam, A.
name: Dietrich-Ntoukas, T.
name: Winterhalter, S.
name: Joussen, A. M.
name: Müller, B.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Bei der Behandlung der Chorioretinopathia centralis serosa (CRCS) gibt es derzeit verschiedene Therapiestrategien. Die Laserkoagulation von, in der Fluoreszenzangiographie sichtbaren Quellpunkten ist eine Möglichkeit der Behandlung, in der Regel bei Patienten, bei denen sich weder [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 29. Jahrestagung der Retinologischen Gesellschaft
q-Gamow States for intermediate energies
Creators: name: Plastino, A.
name: Rocca, M. C.
name: Zamora, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [Nuc. Phys. A {\bf 948}, (2016) 19] we have demonstrated the possible existence of Tsallis' q-Gamow states. Now, accelerators' experimental evidence for Tsallis' distributions has been ascertained only at very high energies. Here, instead, we develop a different set of q-Gamow states for which the associated q-Breit-Wigner distribution could easily be found at intermediate energies, for which accelerators are available at many locations. In this context, it should be strongly emphasized [Physica A {\bf 388} (2009) 601] that, empirically, one never exactly and unambiguously "detects" pure Gaussians, but rather q-Gaussians. A prediction is made via Eq.(3.30)
description: 14 pages, no figures
From gesture to sound: A study for a musical interface using gesture following techniques
Creators: name: Christopoulos, Charalampos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Gestures are an integral part of our daily life for communication, expression and scientific research. This work deals with the task of implementation of a real-time sound synthesis interface for artistic purposes, based on gesture recognition and trajectory tracking techniques. Gesture recognition is being carried out using Hidden Markov Models and Gaussian Observations. We define a "gestural vocabulary" that consists of three different shapes which after evaluation are assigned to a specific sound using explicit mapping strategies.
Ejection of the massive Hydrogen-rich envelope timed with the collapse of the stripped SN2014C
Creators: name: Margutti, Raffaella
name: Kamble, A.
name: Milisavljevic, D.
name: De Mink, S.
name: Zapartas, E.
name: Drout, M.
name: Chornock, R.
name: Risaliti, G.
name: Zauderer, B. A.
name: Bietenholz, M.
name: Cantiello, M.
name: Chakraborti, S.
name: Chomiuk, L.
name: Fong, W.
name: Grefenstette, B.
name: Guidorzi, C.
name: Kirshner, R.
name: Parrent, J. T.
name: Patnaude, D.
name: Soderberg, A. M.
name: Gehrels, N. C.
name: Harrison, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present multi-wavelength observations of SN2014C during the first 500 days. These observations represent the first solid detection of a young extragalactic stripped-envelope SN out to high-energy X-rays. SN2014C was the explosion of an H-stripped progenitor star with ordinary explosion parameters. However, over the time scale of ~1yr, SN2014C experienced a complete metamorphosis and evolved from an ordinary H-poor supernova of type Ib into a strongly interacting, H-rich supernova of type IIn. Signatures of the SN shock interacting with a dense medium are observed across the spectrum. Coordinated observations with Swift, Chandra and NuSTAR have captured the evolution in detail and revealed the presence of a massive shell of ~1 Msun of hydrogen-rich material at ~6d16 cm from the explosion site. We estimate that the shell was ejected by the progenitor star in the decades to centuries before core collapse. This result poses significant challenges to current theories of massive star evolution, as it requires a physical mechanism responsible for the ejection of the deepest hydrogen layer of H-poor SN progenitors synchronized with the onset of stellar collapse. Theoretical investigations point at binary interactions and/or instabilities during the last stages of nuclear burning in massive stars as potential triggers of the time-dependent mass loss. We constrain these scenarios utilizing the sample of 183 SNe Ib/c with public radio observations. Our analysis identifies SN2014C-like signatures in ~10% of SNe with constraining radio data. This fraction is somewhat larger but reasonably consistent with the expectation from the theory of recent envelope ejection due to binary evolution IF the ejected material can survive in the close environment for 1000-10000 yrs. Alternatively, nuclear burning instabilities extending all the way to the core C-burning phase might also play a critical role.
description: Submitted
The effect of melatonin on female rat circadian rhythms
Creators: name: Thomas., [manuscript] Elena Maria Virginia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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A Guitar Controller for People with Cerebral Palsy
Creators: name: Schmidt, Marcel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: It has been proven that playing a musical instrument brings with it several benefits such as increased intelligence and improvements in fine motor skills. Unfortunately, people with motor disabilities are often excluded from these benefits. This thesis aims to improve this situation by proposing a guitar controller which gives people with Cerebral Palsy the possibility of creating music, hence enabling them to access the aforementioned benefits. For the design of the interface, the movement abilities of a person with Cerebral Palsy were analysed and, based on the findings, a tangible user interface was implemented. Besides this individual tangible user interface, universal software was designed and implemented. The interface was given to a patient with Cerebral Palsy and was tested by using different evaluation methods. Firstly, the patient's playing accuracy was measured and analysed over a period of nine weeks. Secondly, a usability and user experience test were conducted. Next the patient's supervisor was interviewed to see how the interface influenced the user's life. Finally, the interface was reviewed by a music therapist to evaluate its potential in the field of music therapy. The results indicate a slight improvement in the user's technical (fretting) ability. An improvement in the patient's strumming performance, however, could not yet be seen. Nevertheless, the interviews indicate that the interface had a positive effect on the patient due to increased self-confidence and identification with the instrument. Even though the results look promising, we should bear in mind that the results gained are from a single patient and therefore cannot be generalised.
Using HistCite software to identify significant articles in subject searches of the Web of Science
Creators: name: Barreiro, Enrique Wulff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: HistCite TM is a large-scale computer tool for mapping science. Its power of visualization combines the production of historiographs on the basis of the analysis of co-citations of documents, with the use of bibliometrics specific indicators. The objective of this article is, to present the advantages of the new bibliometrics configuration of HistCite TM (2004) when identifying articles. The analysis of the histograms that produces HistCite TM , in terms of cumulative advantage and aging of the citations. And the comparative study of the results of HistCite TM , in its indicators of amplitude and recognition. Also is examined its treatment of the sampling problems, by formalizing the Kendall method of estimating the robust standard deviation.
Time-delayed quantum coherent Pyragas feedback control of photon squeezing in a degenerate parametric oscillator
Creators: name: Kraft, Manuel
name: Hein, Sven Moritz
name: Lehnert, Judith
name: Schöll, Eckehard
name: Hughes, Stephen
name: Knorr, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum coherent feedback control is a measurement-free control method fully preserving quantum coherence. In this paper we show how time-delayed quantum coherent feedback can be used to control the degree of squeezing in the output field of a cavity containing a degenerate parametric oscillator. We focus on the specific situation of Pyragas-type feedback control where time-delayed signals are fed back directly into the quantum system. Our results show how time-delayed feedback can enhance or decrease the degree of squeezing as a function of time delay and feedback strength.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Perceptual Validation of Chord Estimation Evaluation Standards
Creators: name: Cuarón-Sánchez, Jorge A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: In the last years chord estimation has become important in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). The abundance of algorithms has driven a need for effective evaluation methods that are able to depict correctly their accuracy. In the last six years, one of the greatest efforts for this task has been done by MIREX, improving progressively with each yearly edition. To better portray the results, MIREX makes use of different chord vocabularies for this task. For the simpler chord vocabularies, more complex chords are mapped to simpler versions that contain shared notes. This simplification makes the assumption that the chords are very similar and can be considered as equivalent for said vocabulary. In this work, a test is proposed in order to validate that the mappings of more complex chords to simpler chords are perceptually relevant from a user centered perspective.
Percussive spaces: Definition and use of percussive spaces for analysis and interaction
Creators: name: Gómez-Marín, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: This text presents the technical details of a system used to generate new rhythms based on similarity metrics to a reference pattern. Several important steps were done before the realization of such a system. First a thorough revision of the music cognition scientific knowledge that backs up the perception of rhythm was carried out. Then the algorithms from the most developed theories, namely the edit distance and the syncopation distance, were implemented, and compared and tested in a music genre classification task. The experience drawn from these activities is used as raw material to build up an interactive application for rhythm generation. The application produces rhythmic variations of a reference pattern using distance metrics such as the edit distance and the syncopation distance. Throughout this work it is realized that the apparently simple question of similarity between rhythms is still an open subject under current research. This fact makes of a cognition driven percussive system an interesting topic for research and development. Some contributions resulting from this project are the compilation of up to date scientific literature on the topic, the comparison of existing models of similarity, the development of new open source tools for rhythm analysis, the proof of concept of this tools in a real life analysis task and finally a working system for rhythm production and performance. Results show that the rhythmic metrics used are useful to generate new rhythmic patterns based on perceptual distances to a reference pattern.
Aggregation of the polyglutamine protein ataxin-3
Creators: name: Thomas., Bronwen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Supplementary materials for: Estimating the nonlinear interaction between somatic cell score and differential somatic cell count on milk production by parity using generalized additive models
Creators: name: Huang, Che Hsuan
name: Furukawa, Kenji
name: Kusaba, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal production not elsewhere classified
Animal management
Environmental studies in animal production

description: This supplementary file provides additional information to the article “Estimating the nonlinear interaction between somatic cell score (SCS) and differential somatic cell count (DSCC) on milk production in various parities of cows using generalized additive models (GAMs)”. In this file, we fit a linear mixed model with categorized variables to analyze the effects of SCS and DSCC on milk yield and compare the results with those obtained from fitting a GAM. This comparison aims to address the question of why a GAM should be used instead of a linear mixed model, by which the interaction effects are estimated by categorizing continuous variables. Specifically, we will show the differences in the estimates of the effects of SCS and DSCC on milk yield between both models and other potential issues regarding categorization of continuous variables.
title: Ensdoscopic closure of a chronic gastrocutaneous fistuale with the Apollo Overstich suture device
Creators: name: Chopra, Sascha
name: Junghans, Tido
name: Pratschke, Johann
name: Zorron, Ricardo
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Chronic gastrocutaneous fistula is a rare clinical condition usually addressed by open or laparoscopic surgery. An innovative endoscopic suture system (Apollo Overstich®) allows full-thickness running sutures of the gastric wall. We demonstrate the first case of successful closure [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
title: Todesfälle nach Schilddrüsenoperation durch Streptokokken
Creators: name: Hofmeister, Sebastian
name: Meier, Beate
name: Deimel, Judith
name: Walz, Martin K.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die Mortalität nach Schilddrüsenoperationen ist mit unter 1% außerordentlich gering. Wir berichten jedoch über zwei Todesfälle nach cervikalen Eingriffen. Material und Methoden: Patientin 1: Bei einer 64-jährigen Patientin entwickelten sich am 2. postoperativen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
title: Die sphinktererhaltende TAMIS TME bei der Behandlung des ultratiefen Rektumkarzinoms
Creators: name: Aigner, Felix
name: Biebl, Matthias
name: Zorron, Ricardo
name: Ritschl, Paul
name: Weiss, Sascha
name: Pratschke, Johann
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Der zusätzliche transanale minimal invasive Zugang zur mesorektalen Exzision (TAMIS-TME) stellt eine Alternative zur rein abdominellen Technik der totalen mesorektalen Exzision dar und verspricht bessere funktionelle und onkologische Ergebnisse durch eine bessere Übersicht. [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 133. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
Jordan counterparts of Rickart and Baer $*$-algebras
Creators: name: Ayupov, Shavkat
name: Arzikulov, Farhodjon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 17C10, 17C27, Secondary 17C20, 17C50, 17C65

description: There are Jordan analogues of annihilators in Jordan algebras which are called Jordan annihilators. The present paper is devoted to investigation of those Jordan algebras every Jordan annihilator of which is generated by an idempotent as an inner ideal. We prove that a finite dimensional unital Jordan algebra satisfies this condition if and only if it has no nilpotent elements, and in this case it is a direct sum of simple Jordan algebras.
description: 15 pages
Studying the effects of bass estimation for chord segmentation in pop-rock music
Creators: name: Capablo-Riazuelo, Urbez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: In this thesis we present the research work we have carried out on bass line extraction and transcription and audio segmentation for chord estimation. First, we introduce the task and we define important musical concepts to be taken into account. Next, we review the scientific background to our work, both in the chord estimation and the bass extraction/transcription tasks. We then present a set of modifications to the Essentia's predominant melody algorithm to adapt it for bass line estimation. Bass information along with beat positions are then used to propose a novel type of audio segmentation for chromagram smoothing related to the chord estimation problem. Next, we present the evaluation methodology, music collections and metrics used in our research, followed by the evaluation results. The results show a considerable improvement in the bass extraction task by using our approach and promising results in the bass transcription task. They also show very promising results regarding our novel audio segmentation method for chromagram smoothing, compared to the beat-synchronous chromagram approach used by current state-of-the-art algorithms. The thesis concludes with the contributions of our dissertation, the challenges found during the research process and the future work.