cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the local in time well-posedness of an elliptic-parabolic ferroelectric phase-field model
Creators: name: Luo, Yongming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a state-of-the-art ferroelectric phase-field model arising from the engineering area in recent years, which is mathematically formulated as a coupled elliptic-parabolic differential system. We utilize a fixed point theorem based on the maximal parabolic regularity theory to show the local in time well-posedness of the ferroelectric problem. The well-posedness result will firstly be proved under certain general assumptions. We then give precise geometric and regularity conditions which will guarantee the fulfillment of the assumptions.
description: Accepted by Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications
Shaping Territories
Creators: name: Mitchell, Scott
name: Hester, Bianca
name: Bird, Terri
name: Barikin, Amelia
name: Hughes, Helen
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330399
subject: Design not elsewhere classified

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Scott Mitchell is one of three members of OSW, a collaborative group whose projects emerge from exploratory workshops. With Dr Terri Bird (Monash University) and Dr Bianca Hester (Uni of Sydney) he wrote 'Shaping Territories' for this edited anthology of writing by artists, art historians, curators and writers who are also science fiction fans. The essays are linked by the idea of science fiction as a platform for the building of alternate art histories. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Constructed as three parallel texts this chapter explores relations between narrative fiction, forces of colonisation, the writings of Manuel De Landa and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The work highlights the role matter plays in the shaping of our world, emphasising the intertwined nature of geological, biological, economic and social systems. The parallel texts support this argument through the use of organic and inorganic material as the central character within a social and economic narrative. The work contributes to discussions of 'new materialism' and aligns with this fields focus on the immaterial dimension of matter and its role within philosophical and cultural discourse. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This essay was commissioned by editors Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes. The quality of the contributors to this anthology is a further measure of its significance. 'Shaping Territories' appears alongside work of academics and writers with international reputations. Other contributors include film and art critic Adrian Martin (2013/14 Distinguished Visiting Professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt); Ryan Johnston (head of art at Australian War Memorial, Canberra); and Associate Prof Rex Butler (University of Queensland) and Dr Chris McAuliffe (director Ian Potter Museum of Art, Uni of Melb 2010-2012).
Multiparameter analysis of double strand breaks and associated biomarkers during genome editing
Creators: name: Schneider, Jens
name: Sauer, Lysann
name: Michał Burdukiewicz
name: Reddig, Annika
name: Reinhold, Dirk
name: Schierack, Peter
name: Roggenbuck, Dirk
name: Schröder, Christian
name: Rödiger, Stefan
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Objective: Genome editing by programmable sequence-specific DNA nuclease technologies offers molecular tools to modify endogenous genomic sequences. Specific genome editing empowers scientists to understand fundamental cellular processes and has the potential to be translated in gene therapy approaches. In particular, the clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR/Cas9) nuclease system is intensively investigated. Cas9 guided by small RNAs induces targeted double-strand breaks (DSB) at specific genomic loci, which are predominantly repaired by non-homologous end joining leading to indel mutations. However, the cellular delivery of the CRISPR/Cas9 components and off-target mutations need to be further addressed.

Conclusion: Our approach can be used to analyze DSBs via γH2AX and associated biomarkers. This approach will be further investigated to understand off-target effects. Since the imaging platform is fully automatized it is possible to screen large sample collections under reproducible conditions. Besides HEK293, LoVo and HEp-2, we will integrate HeLa, HepG2 and Caco-2. Another specific SFPQ sgRNA (px458-SFPQ42) will be used as the mutation efficiency can vary between target sites. Furthermore, we will use Fluorescence in situ hybridization to detect possible off-target effects. The mdcr package is a useful bioinformatics helper tool to find information from peer-reviewed databases in an automatized fashion. However, the functionality of the package it still immature and needs to be extended.
Syrphoctonus flavidus
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphoctonus
Syrphoctonus flavidus

description: 9.3.4 Syrphoctonus flavidus (Dasch, 1964) *
Distribution. Chile: Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (Dasch 1964; Lanfranco 1974a).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Increasing skin self-examination after melanoma: an intervention using text and tablet delivery
Creators: name: Johnston, Marie
name: Allan, Julia
name: Brandt, Billy
name: Dennis, Matt
name: Hall, Susan
name: Masthoff, Judith
name: Walter, Fiona
name: Murchie, Peter
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: This programme of research is developing and evaluating a digital intervention to increase the rate of total skin self-examination (TSSE) for patients following surgery for melanoma.  There is a high risk of recurrence but the practice of TSSE is sub-optimal. The Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare (ASICA) intervention was developed based on clinical evidence and experience and informed by behaviour change theory [Information-Motivation-Behavioural skills model (IMB) and Control Theory]. The intervention involves text message prompts from the nurse-lead (N), information and TSSE demonstration by tablet, monitoring of TSSE, photographing any skin changes and sending to N via tablet, feedback and follow-up by N. Interviews were conducted with 21 people previously treated for cutaneous melanoma.

This study assessed acceptability and feasibility of ASICA.

Conclusions: The ASICA intervention was acceptable to most patients and feasible following small technical adjustments. It is now proposed to evaluate the intervention in a randomised controlled trial.
Fluid inertial torque is an effective gyrotactic mechanism for settling elongated micro-swimmers
Creators: name: Qiu, Jingran
name: Cui, Zhiwen
name: Climent, Eric
name: Zhao, Lihao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Marine plankton are usually modeled as settling elongated micro-swimmers. For the first time, we consider the torque induced by fluid inertia on such swimmers, and we discover that they spontaneously swim in the direction opposite to gravity. We analyze the equilibrium orientation of swimmers in quiescent fluid and the mean orientation in turbulent flows using direct numerical simulations. Similar to well-known gyrotaxis mechanisms, the effect of fluid inertial torque can be quantified by an effective reorientation time scale. We show that the orientation of swimmers strongly depends on the reorientation time scale, and swimmers exhibit strong preferential alignment in upward direction when the time scale is of the same order of Kolmogorov time scale. Our findings suggest that the fluid inertial torque is a new mechanism of gyrotaxis that stabilizes the upward orientation of micro-swimmers such as plankton.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
The flexible mould: creative projects as individuating creatures pages
Creators: name: Ednie-Brown, Pia
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330199
subject: Architecture not elsewhere classified

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND The need to more effectively approach and support open ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed, generative interactions is being registered internationally in research occurring across diverse cultural fields. The articulation of clear methods of approach and support remain difficult and elusive, because these kinds of interactions/events rely on highly complex relations and qualities. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION The essay 'The Flexible Mould: creative projects as individuating creatures' describes, through example, a qualitative 'method' or armature referred to as 'a flexible mould' as a way to approach and support open ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed generative interactions. This method overcomes the barriers to explication (referred to above) through outlining an armature that can be described in simple terms while still being intrinsically generated via complex means. It offers a simple but non-reductive answer to a complex problem. The essay draws upon a week-long creative practice workshop, which aimed to explore the issues described above, run in Montreal, Canada, in 2011. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE The significance of this workshop, and the essay theorising the experience of that workshop, is that it offers a way of understanding and articulating methods for approaching and supporting open ended, undetermined, lightly programmed or un-programmed generative interactions through empirical research (the experience and knowledge gained for the workshop) and theoretical reflection on that empirical research. Value is attested by the calibre of workshop organisers, internationally renowned philosophers Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, and the fact that this workshop contributed significantly to gaining a successful seven year partnership project grant through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - a very high esteem Canadian granting body. RMIT is a partner on that grant with many others.
Burst of Point Vortices and Non-Uniqueness of 2D Euler Equations
Creators: name: Grotto, Francesco
name: Pappalettera, Umberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a rigorous construction of solutions to the Euler point vortices system in which three vortices burst out of a single one in a configuration of many vortices, or equivalently that there exist configurations of arbitrarily many vortices in which three of them collapse in finite time. As an intermediate step, we show that well-known self-similar bursts and collapses of three isolated vortices in the plane persist under a sufficiently regular external perturbation. We also discuss how our results produce examples of non-unique weak solutions to 2-dimensional Euler's equations -- in the sense introduced by Schochet -- in which energy is dissipated.
description: 30 pages
Εφαρμογή της θεωρίας της πολλαπλής νοημοσύνης στη διδακτική προσέγγιση παιδιών του νηπιαγωγείου
Creators: name: Πλαγερινού, Κλεαρέτη Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Πολλαπλή νοημοσύνη
Διαπροσωπική νοημοσύνη
Εκπαιδευτικά μοντέλα Montessori και Reggio Emilia
Multiple intelligence
Interpersonal intelligence
Educational models Montessori and Reggio Emilia

description: Η εργασία εστιάζει στη θεωρία της πολλαπλής νοημοσύνης του Howard Gardner και την εφαρμογή της στην προσχολική εκπαίδευση. Αρχικά, εξετάζονται η έννοια της νοημοσύνης και οι επτά τύποι που πρότεινε ο Gardner, όπως η γλωσσική, λογικομαθηματική, χωρική, μουσική, και σωματική νοημοσύνη. Έπειτα, αναλύονται στρατηγικές εφαρμογής της θεωρίας στην εκπαίδευση μικρών παιδιών και τα παιδαγωγικά οφέλη που προκύπτουν από αυτές. Τέλος, παρουσιάζονται παραδείγματα καλών πρακτικών και μελέτες περίπτωσης, αλλά και μια συγκριτική ανάλυση με άλλες εκπαιδευτικές μεθόδους όπως το μοντέλο Montessori.Λέξεις κλειδιά:Πολλαπλή νοημοσύνη, Στρατηγικές διδασκαλίας, Διαπροσωπική νοημοσύνη, Ενδοπροσωπική νοημοσύνη, Εκπαιδευτικά μοντέλα Montessori και Reggio Emilia.
description: The paper focuses on Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences and its application in preschool education.First,the concept of intelligence and the seven types proposed by Gardner,such as linguistic,logical-mathematical,spatial,musical ,and physical intelligence,are examined.Then,strategies for applying the theory to the education of young children and the pedagogical benefits resulting from them are analyzed.Finally,examples of good practices and case studies are presented ,as well as a comparative analysis with other educational methods such as the Montessori model.
Syrphoctonus limbatus
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphoctonus
Syrphoctonus limbatus

description: 9.3.5 Syrphoctonus limbatus (Dasch, 1964) *
Distribution. Chile: Región de Arica y Parinacota (Dasch 1964); Región de Coquimbo (Dasch 1964); Región Metropolitana (Dasch 1964).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Finite-Function-Encoding Quantum States
Creators: name: Appel, Paul
name: Heilman, Alexander J.
name: Wertz, Ezekiel W.
name: Lyons, David W.
name: Huber, Marcus
name: Pivoluska, Matej
name: Vitagliano, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce finite-function-encoding (FFE) states which encode arbitrary $d$-valued logic functions, i.e., multivariate functions over the ring of integers modulo $d$, and investigate some of their structural properties. We also point out some differences between polynomial and non-polynomial function encoding states: The former can be associated to graphical objects, that we dub tensor-edge hypergraphs (TEH), which are a generalization of hypergraphs with a tensor attached to each hyperedge encoding the coefficients of the different monomials. To complete the framework, we also introduce a notion of finite-function-encoding Pauli (FP) operators, which correspond to elements of what is known as the generalized symmetric group in mathematics. First, using this machinery, we study the stabilizer group associated to FFE states and observe how qudit hypergraph states introduced in arXiv:1612.06418v2 admit stabilizers of a particularly simpler form. Afterwards, we investigate the classification of FFE states under local unitaries (LU), and, after showing the complexity of this problem, we focus on the case of bipartite states and especially on the classification under local FP operations (LFP). We find all LU and LFP classes for two qutrits and two ququarts and study several other special classes, pointing out the relation between maximally entangled FFE states and complex Butson-type Hadamard matrices. Our investigation showcases also the relation between the properties of FFE states, especially their LU classification, and the theory of finite rings over the integers.
description: Comments welcome
Approach on environmental risk assessment of nanosilver released from textiles
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Nanosilber
Textilien

description: Based on the increased utilization of nanosilver (silver nanomaterials=AgNM) as antibacterial agent, there is the strong need to assess the potential environmental implication associated with its new application areas. In this study an exemplary environmental risk assessment (ERA) of AgNM applied in textiles was performed. Environmental exposure scenarios (via municipal sewage treatment plant (STP)) with wastewater supply from domestic homes) were developed for three different types of textiles equipped with AgNM. Based on these scenarios predicted environmental concentrations (PECs) were deduced for STPs and for the environmental compartments surface water, sediment as well as soil. These PECs were related to PNECs (predicted no effect concentrations). PNECs were deduced from results of ecotoxicity tests of a selected AgNM (NM-300K). Data on ecotoxicology were derived from various tests with activated sludge, cyanobacteria, algae, daphnids, fish, duckweed, macrophytes, chironomids, earthworms, terrestrial plants as well as soil microorganisms. Emission data for the AgNM NM-300K from textiles were derived from washing experiments. The performed ERA was based on the specifications defined in the ECHA Guidances on information requirements and chemical safety assessment. Based on the chosen scenarios and preconditions, no environmental risk of the AgNM NM-300K released from textiles was detected. Under conservative assumptions a risk quotient for surface water close to 1 indicated that the aquatic compartment may be affected by an increased emission of AgNM to the environment due to the high sensitivity of aquatic organisms to silver. Based on the successful retention of AgNM in the sewage sludge and the still ongoing continual application of sewage sludge on farmland it is recommended to introduce a threshold for total silver content in sewage sludge into the respective regulations. Regarding potential risk mitigation measures, it is emphasized to preferably directly introduce AgNM into the textile fiber since this will strongly minimize the release of AgNM during washing. If this is not possible due to technical limitations or other reasons, the introduction of a threshold level controlling the release of AgNM from textiles is suggested. It has to be noted that this study is a case study which is only valid for the investigated NM-300K and its potential application in textiles.Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com
Drinfeld Hecke algebras for symmetric groups in positive characteristic
Creators: name: Krawzik, Naomi
name: Shepler, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C08, 20C20, 16E40

description: We investigate deformations of skew group algebras arising from the action of the symmetric group on polynomial rings over fields of arbitrary characteristic. Over the real or complex numbers, Lusztig's graded affine Hecke algebra and analogs are all isomorphic to Drinfeld Hecke algebras, which include the symplectic reflection algebras and rational Cherednik algebras. Over fields of prime characteristic, new deformations arise that capture both a disruption of the group action and also a disruption of the commutativity relations defining the polynomial ring. We classify deformations for the symmetric group acting in its natural (reducible) reflection representation.
description: 17 pages, updated to align with published version
Four Catalogue Essays
Creators: name: Horn, Kipps
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360306
subject: Musicology and ethnomusicology

description: The work submitted constitutes a portfolio of essays published in the catalogue for the 2013-2014 RMIT Gallery exhibition Music, Melbourne + Me. As such they follow the tradition of scholarly writing presented in gallery and museum exhibitions. The essays aimed to address aspects of Melbourne's cultural history and the nature of media and communication in the field of popular music and sound in our urban environment. The text and images explore themes of popular music culture uniquely associated with Melbourne and its connections with the global phenomenon of popular music. The work (alongside the exhibition) also demonstrates ideas about University and Industry partnerships (in this case RMIT and The Mushroom Group) and examines a potential for future University, industry and city connections and the possibilities for research and scholarship in the field of popular culture, media and communication. The catalogue was (and remains) available for purchase throughout the three month long exhibition.
COVID-19 Cough Classification using Machine Learning and Global Smartphone Recordings
Creators: name: Pahar, Madhurananda
name: Klopper, Marisa
name: Warren, Robin
name: Niesler, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present a machine learning based COVID-19 cough classifier which can discriminate COVID-19 positive coughs from both COVID-19 negative and healthy coughs recorded on a smartphone. This type of screening is non-contact, easy to apply, and can reduce the workload in testing centres as well as limit transmission by recommending early self-isolation to those who have a cough suggestive of COVID-19. The datasets used in this study include subjects from all six continents and contain both forced and natural coughs, indicating that the approach is widely applicable. The publicly available Coswara dataset contains 92 COVID-19 positive and 1079 healthy subjects, while the second smaller dataset was collected mostly in South Africa and contains 18 COVID-19 positive and 26 COVID-19 negative subjects who have undergone a SARS-CoV laboratory test. Both datasets indicate that COVID-19 positive coughs are 15\%-20\% shorter than non-COVID coughs. Dataset skew was addressed by applying the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE). A leave-$p$-out cross-validation scheme was used to train and evaluate seven machine learning classifiers: LR, KNN, SVM, MLP, CNN, LSTM and Resnet50. Our results show that although all classifiers were able to identify COVID-19 coughs, the best performance was exhibited by the Resnet50 classifier, which was best able to discriminate between the COVID-19 positive and the healthy coughs with an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.98. An LSTM classifier was best able to discriminate between the COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative coughs, with an AUC of 0.94 after selecting the best 13 features from a sequential forward selection (SFS). Since this type of cough audio classification is cost-effective and easy to deploy, it is potentially a useful and viable means of non-contact COVID-19 screening.
description: This paper has been accepted in "Computers in Medicine and Biology" and currently under production
Syrphoctonus macrogaster
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphoctonus
Syrphoctonus macrogaster

description: 9.3.6 Syrphoctonus macrogaster (Dasch, 1964) *
Distribution. Chile: Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (Dasch 1964; Lanfranco 1974a).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Memória Coletiva e Identidade Cultural como Alicerces da Sustentabilidade
Creators: name: MOSER, GIANCARLO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Este artigo aborda a relação entre a sustentabilidade do patrimônio cultural e o Turismo de Base Comunitária (TBC), destacando a importância da preservação cultural e ambiental como pilares para o desenvolvimento local. Por meio de revisão bibliográfica, são analisadas as contribuições de autores brasileiros e estrangeiros renomados, que discutem a integração entre comunidades, turismo e patrimônio. Enfatiza-se a relevância da memória coletiva e da identidade cultural como fundamentos essenciais na construção de práticas sustentáveis, capazes de fortalecer o sentimento de pertencimento e de continuidade histórica nas comunidades envolvidas. Conclui-se que o TBC, quando bem planejado, pode ser uma ferramenta eficaz para a valorização e conservação do patrimônio cultural, promovendo a inclusão social e a sustentabilidade.
PEG Conjugated Zein Nanoparticles for In Vivo Use
Creators: name: Van Ballegooie, Courtney
name: Wretham, Nicole
name: Ren, Tanya
name: Popescu, Ioana-Mihaela
name: Yapp, Donald T.
name: Bally, Marcel B., 1956-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Zein can be utilized to form nanoscale particles for drug delivery applications. Despite the ease of synthesis, these particles often aggregate when exposed to physiologically relevant conditions (e.g., pH and salt concentrations). This instability has prevented their further development in applications requiring intravenous administration. To mitigate this colloidal instability, this research explored Zein nanoparticles (NP)s that were modified with polyethylene glycol (PEG) either through functionalized PEG pre- or post-NP formation. The results suggest that the pre-functionalization of the Zein using N-hydroxysuccinimide ester terminated PEG is the method of choice for synthesizing Zein NPs with conjugated PEG (Zein:PEG-Zein NPs). Zein:PEG-Zein NPs formed using this method displayed excellent stability in physiologically relevant conditions over 72 h and were stable at 4 °C for at least 3 months. When the NPs were cultured with cells for 72 h, no cytotoxicity or early signs of apoptosis were identified. Cellular uptake of the Zein:PEG-Zein NPs did not seem to be impacted by the amount of PEG incorporated in the NP but were concentration-, time-, and temperature-dependent. The lowest percent, stable Zein:PEG-Zein NP formulation (80% unmodified Zein and 20% PEG-modified Zein) induced no observable toxicity over 14 days in CD-1 mice dosed at 70 mg/kg via the tail vein. However, repeat dose pharmacokinetic (PK) studies demonstrated that following the first dose, the second dose caused health issues that required euthanasia shortly after administration. For those animals that survived, there was faster plasma elimination of the Zein:PEG-Zein NPs. Despite this, the Zein:PEG-Zein NPs represent a significantly improved formulation approach, one that displays a long circulation half-life and is suitable for single-use administration. Repeat dose applications will require additional methods to silence the immune response that is generated when using these NPs intravenously.
Supplementary document for A plasmonic tapered-fiber interference sensor for simultaneously detecting refractive index and temperature - 5530237.pdf
Creators: name: Chen, Xinghong
name: LI, Xuejin
name: Yi, Duo
name: Hong, Xue Ming
name: chen, yuzhi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Information
A multi-agent evolutionary robotics framework to train spiking neural networks
Creators: name: Das, Souvik
name: Shankar, Anirudh
name: Aggarwal, Vaneet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A novel multi-agent evolutionary robotics (ER) based framework, inspired by competitive evolutionary environments in nature, is demonstrated for training Spiking Neural Networks (SNN). The weights of a population of SNNs along with morphological parameters of bots they control in the ER environment are treated as phenotypes. Rules of the framework select certain bots and their SNNs for reproduction and others for elimination based on their efficacy in capturing food in a competitive environment. While the bots and their SNNs are given no explicit reward to survive or reproduce via any loss function, these drives emerge implicitly as they evolve to hunt food and survive within these rules. Their efficiency in capturing food as a function of generations exhibit the evolutionary signature of punctuated equilibria. Two evolutionary inheritance algorithms on the phenotypes, Mutation and Crossover with Mutation, are demonstrated. Performances of these algorithms are compared using ensembles of 100 experiments for each algorithm. We find that Crossover with Mutation promotes 40% faster learning in the SNN than mere Mutation with a statistically significant margin.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Syrphoctonus ruficauda
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphoctonus
Syrphoctonus ruficauda

description: 9.3.7 Syrphoctonus ruficauda (Dasch, 1964) *
Distribution. Chile: Región del Biobío (Dasch 1964); Región de La Araucanía (Dasch 1964).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
An Asynchronous Kalman Filter for Hybrid Event Cameras
Creators: name: Wang, Ziwei
name: Ng, Yonhon
name: Scheerlinck, Cedric
name: Mahony, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Event cameras are ideally suited to capture HDR visual information without blur but perform poorly on static or slowly changing scenes. Conversely, conventional image sensors measure absolute intensity of slowly changing scenes effectively but do poorly on high dynamic range or quickly changing scenes. In this paper, we present an event-based video reconstruction pipeline for High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenarios. The proposed algorithm includes a frame augmentation pre-processing step that deblurs and temporally interpolates frame data using events. The augmented frame and event data are then fused using a novel asynchronous Kalman filter under a unifying uncertainty model for both sensors. Our experimental results are evaluated on both publicly available datasets with challenging lighting conditions and fast motions and our new dataset with HDR reference. The proposed algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both absolute intensity error (48% reduction) and image similarity indexes (average 11% improvement).
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, published in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021
Degeneration of curves on some polarized toric surfaces
Creators: name: Christ, Karl
name: He, Xiang
name: Tyomkin, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D20, 14H10, 14T90

description: We address the following question: Given a polarized toric surface (S,L), and a general integral curve C of geometric genus g in the linear system |L|, do there exist degenerations of C in |L| to general integral curves of smaller geometric genera? We give an affirmative answer to this question for surfaces associated to h-transverse polygons, provided that the characteristic of the ground field is large enough. We give examples of surfaces in small characteristic, for which the answer to the question is negative. In case the answer is affirmative, we deduce that a general curve C as above is nodal. In characteristic 0, we use the result to show irreducibility of Severi varieties of a large class of polarized toric surfaces with h-transverse polygon.
description: v1: 34 pages, 11 figures. v2: improved the bound on the characteristic, the result is now sharp for characteristic at least 3. 35 pages, 12 figures. v3: changes according to a referee report: changes in presentation throughout, fixed a gap in Proposition 5.5 and strengthened Theorem 6.1 slightly. Final version, to appear in J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle). 39 pages, 12 figures
Influence-Driven Data Poisoning in Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Classifiers
Creators: name: Franci, Adriano
name: Cordy, Maxime
name: Gubri, Martin
name: Papadakis, Mike
name: Traon, Yves Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning (GSSL) is a practical solution to learn from a limited amount of labelled data together with a vast amount of unlabelled data. However, due to their reliance on the known labels to infer the unknown labels, these algorithms are sensitive to data quality. It is therefore essential to study the potential threats related to the labelled data, more specifically, label poisoning. In this paper, we propose a novel data poisoning method which efficiently approximates the result of label inference to identify the inputs which, if poisoned, would produce the highest number of incorrectly inferred labels. We extensively evaluate our approach on three classification problems under 24 different experimental settings each. Compared to the state of the art, our influence-driven attack produces an average increase of error rate 50\% higher, while being faster by multiple orders of magnitude. Moreover, our method can inform engineers of inputs that deserve investigation (relabelling them) before training the learning model. We show that relabelling one-third of the poisoned inputs (selected based on their influence) reduces the poisoning effect by 50\%.
title: Luftqualität für unterwegs: Die UBA-App "Luftqualität"
title: Air quality to go: UBA's "air quality" app
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Luftqualität für unterwegs: Die UBA-App "Luftqualität"
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kessinger, Susan
name: Mues, Andrea C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Die Luftqualität wird deutschlandweit stündlich überwacht. Rund 99 Prozent der Daten stammen von Messstationen der Bundesländer, die der Überwachung der Luftqualität zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit dienen. Im Umweltbundesamt (UBA) werden die aktuellen Messdaten von circa 400 automatischen Stationen zusammengeführt und stehen mit einer Verzögerung von einer Stunde via App und Luftdatenportal auf der UBA-Webseite zur Verfügung. Somit ist es überall und jederzeit möglich, sich über die aktuelle Luftqualität an einer Station der Wahl oder über die Gesamtsituation in Deutschland zu informieren. Die kostenlose und werbefreie Android- und iOS-App "Luftqualität" des Umweltbundesamtes stellt stündlich Daten für die gesundheitsgefährdenden Schadstoffe Feinstaub (PM10), Stickstoffdioxid und Ozon zur Verfügung. Ein Luftqualitätsindex informiert zudem auf einen Blick über die Luftqualität an jeder Station und gibt Gesundheitstipps für Aktivitäten im Freien. Auch der Empfang von Warnhinweisen kann aktiviert werden, um bei schlechter Luftqualität schnell informiert zu sein. Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser- - (2020), Heft 1, Seite 59
description: The air quality in Germany is monitored every hour. About 99 percent of the data are delivered by monitoring stations of the federal states. The monitoring stations are operated by the federal states to monitor the air quality for the protection of human health. The up-todate measured data of about 400 monitoring stations are collected by the German Environment Agency (UBA). One hour after the data is recorded, the data are available via app and internet. Thereby it is possible to obtain information on the current air quality at a selected station or across Germany. The free and ad-free app "Luftqualität" (which means air quality) for Android and iPhone devices by the German Environment Agency is launched in August 2019. The app posts hourly updated data on harmful pollutants such as particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen dioxide and ozone. Furthermore, an air quality index provides an instant view of the air quality at every station and issues health advices about doing outdoor activities. Users can choose to receive warning alerts when air quality is poor. Quelle: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser- - (2020), Heft 1, Seite 59
Syrphoctonus stictonotus
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphoctonus
Syrphoctonus stictonotus

description: 9.3.8 Syrphoctonus stictonotus (Dasch, 1964) *
Distribution. Chile: Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (Dasch 1964; Lanfranco 1974a).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Scattering resonances of large weakly open quantum graphs
Creators: name: Ingremeau, Maxime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we consider a sequence of open quantum graphs, with uniformly bounded data, and we are interested in the asymptotic distribution of their scattering resonances. Supposing that the number of leads in our quantum graphs is small compared to the total number of edges, we show that most resonances are close to the real axis. More precisely, the asymptotic distribution of resonances of our open quantum graphs is the same as the asymptotic distribution of the square-root of the eigenvalues of the closed quantum graphs obtained by removing all the leads.
Practicing and Presenting Social Research
Creators: name: Robinson, Oral
name: Wilson, Alexander
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This open-access textbook is for those who want to write exemplary social research. It provides an extensive outline of each step of the research process: outlining practical tools for conceptualizing its beginnings, generating proposals, getting ethics approval, relaxing from the stresses of research, writing academically, conducting a literature review, drafting a methods section, collecting the right data, formulating the findings, and sharing the results. Woven throughout each chapter are testimonies of other students who have likewise persevered through the research process, relating their obstacles, solutions, and motivations to each stage of the research process to illuminate not only the technical goals of research, but also the emotional maturity that research entails. OER Description: This sociology research methods textbook was developed to support lower and upper-level undergraduate students. Using mixed interactives, including testimonials, examples, summaries, research checklists, and critical thinking questions, this open educational resource supports students building skills in the research process. The most recent version of this OER can be found in the Open UBC Pressbooks Catalogue.
Syrphoctonus trachysoma
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Syrphoctonus
Syrphoctonus trachysoma

description: 9.3.9 Syrphoctonus trachysoma (Dasch, 1964) *
Distribution. Chile: Región del Biobío (Dasch 1964); Región de La Araucanía (Dasch 1964).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Zeros of Gaussian Weyl-Heisenberg functions and hyperuniformity of charge
Creators: name: Haimi, Antti
name: Koliander, Günther
name: Romero, José Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60G15, 60G55, 94A12, 42A61

description: We study Gaussian random functions on the complex plane whose stochastics are invariant under the Weyl-Heisenberg group (twisted stationarity). The theory is modeled on translation invariant Gaussian entire functions, but allows for non-analytic examples, in which case winding numbers can be either positive or negative. We calculate the first intensity of zero sets of such functions, both when considered as points on the plane, or as charges according to their phase winding. In the latter case, charges are shown to be in a certain average equilibrium independently of the particular covariance structure (universal screening). We investigate the corresponding fluctuations, and show that in many cases they are suppressed at large scales (hyperuniformity). This means that universal screening is empirically observable at large scales. We also derive an asymptotic expression for the charge variance. As a main application, we obtain statistics for the zero sets of the short-time Fourier transform of complex white noise with general windows, and also prove the following uncertainty principle: the expected number of zeros per unit area is minimized, among all window functions, exactly by generalized Gaussians. Further applications include poly-entire functions such as covariant derivatives of Gaussian entire functions.
description: 43 pages
Local criteria for the unit equation and the asymptotic Fermat's Last Theorem
Creators: name: Freitas, Nuno
name: Kraus, Alain
name: Siksek, Samir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D41

description: Let F be a totally real number field of odd degree. We prove several purely local criteria for the asymptotic Fermat's Last Theorem to hold over F, and also for the non-existence of solutions to the unit equation over F. For example, if 2 totally ramifies and 3 splits completely in F, then the asymptotic Fermat's Last Theorem holds over F.
Woldstedtius Carlson 1979
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Woldstedtius

description: 9.4 Genus Woldstedtius Carlson, 1979
Woldstedtius Carlson, 1979: 719.
Type species Bassus biguttatus Gravenhorst, 1829, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
2D Euler equations with Stratonovich transport noise as a large scale stochastic model reduction
Creators: name: Flandoli, Franco
name: Pappalettera, Umberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The limit from an Euler type system to the 2D Euler equations with Stratonovich transport noise is investigated. A weak convergence result for the vorticity field and a strong convergence result for the velocity field are proved. Our results aim to provide a stochastic reduction of fluid-dynamics models with three different time scales.
description: 30 pages
Partially dissipative one-dimensional hyperbolic systems in the critical regularity setting, and applications
Creators: name: Crin-Barat, Timothée
name: Danchin, Raphael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Here we develop a method for investigating global strong solutions of partially dissipative hyperbolic systems in the critical regularity setting. Compared to the recent works by Kawashima and Xu, we use hybrid Besov spaces with different regularity exponent in low and high frequency. This allows to consider more general data and to track the exact dependency on the dissipation parameter for the solution. Our approach enables us to go beyond the L^2 framework in the treatment of the low frequencies of the solution, which is totally new, to the best of our knowledge. Focus is on the one-dimensional setting (the multi-dimensional case will be considered in a forthcoming paper) and, for expository purpose, the first part of the paper is devoted to a toy model that may be seen as a simplification of the compressible Euler system with damping. More elaborated systems (including the compressible Euler system with general increasing pressure law) are considered at the end of the paper.
Woldstedtius erythromelas
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Woldstedtius
Woldstedtius erythromelas

description: 9.4.1 Woldstedtius erythromelas (Dasch, 1964) *
Distribution. Chile: Región del Maule (Dasch 1964; Lanfranco 1974a); Región de Ñuble (Dasch 1964); Región del Biobío: (Dasch 1964); Región de La Araucanía (Dasch 1964); Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (Dasch 1964; Lanfranco 1974a).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657