cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Creators: name: Dubourcq Dantas, Raissa Numeriano
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis has three chapters, all of which investigate applied microeconomics questions using causal inference tools. In the first paper, authored by me alone, I investigate the largest anti-corruption campaign ever undertaken in Brazil--Operation Car Wash (OCW)--to measure the effects of anti-corruption initiatives on public procurement corruption and labor markets. My findings suggest that the OCW effectively decreased public procurement corruption, increasing bidding competitiveness and transparency, but these gains came with high economic costs. The operation led to lower employment, higher firm closure rates, and firm downsizing. Young workers and those with prior links to the informal labor market were disproportionately affected, and large firms were more likely to close and downsize. This paper offers important insights to policymakers regarding the efficacy of anti-corruption campaigns and the unintended labor market effects of the corruption fight. The second chapter is co-authored with Erik Hembre and published in the Regional Science and Urban Economics journal. To uncover the effects of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) on homeownership and mortgage decisions, we use a simulated policy instrument that exploits state tax policy and housing market differentials. Our design compares households that are similar in observable characteristics but vary in state exposure to the TCJA. We find that each percentage point decline in the effective homeownership subsidy rate lowered homeownership rates by 0.57 percentage points and mortgage use by 0.70 percentage points after the TCJA was enacted. In the third chapter, co-authored with Jacob Robbins, we investigate the impact of Covid-19 shutdown and reopening policies on American consumer spending. Using high-frequency real-time spending data, we find that reopening policies substantially increased spending for categories directly impacted by the policies--for example, a 63.5 percentage point increase in nonessential in-store spending and a 13.9 percentage point increase in full-service indoor dining spending. For sectors not directly impacted--essential retail, limited-service restaurants, and online commerce--we find a limited impact of reopenings on spending. Overall, reopenings had large macroeconomic consequences, with retail reopenings responsible for 27.3% of the total trough-to-peak recovery in spending and restaurant reopenings responsible for 12.3% of the recovery.
Exploiting n-gram location for intrusion detection
Creators: name: Angiulli, Fabrizio
name: Argento, Luciano
name: Furfaro, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Signature-based and protocol-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) are employed as means to reveal content-based network attacks. Such systems have proven to be effective in identifying known intrusion attempts and exploits but they fail to recognize new types of attacks or carefully crafted variants of well known ones. This paper presents the design and the development of an anomaly-based IDS technique which is able to detect content-based attacks carried out over application level protocols, like HTTP and FTP. In order to identify anomalous packets, the payload is split up in chunks of equal length and the n-gram technique is used to learn which byte sequences usually appear in each chunk. The devised technique builds a different model for each pair and uses them to classify the incoming traffic. Models are build by means of a semi-supervised approach. Experimental results witness that the technique achieves an excellent accuracy with a very low false positive rate.
Conzelmann, Hans, Théologie du Noveau Testament. Éditions du Centurion - Paris e Labor et Fides - Genève. Vol. de 390 ps. 175x250. Genève 1969
Creators: name: Faria, Adão Salgado Vaz De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 2 (1973)
Arrenurus (Megaluracarus) rostratus Daday 1898
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus rostratus

description: Arrenurus (Megaluracarus) rostratus Daday, 1898
New records: India: Assam State, Kamrup district, SW of Guwahati city, Deeper Beel wetland, between the water hyacinth Eichhornia corniculata, 26.10903N 91.68359E, 37 m asl., 8. xii. 2009, leg. Das & Bordoloi, 5/0/0; ibid., 0/3/0.
Records from the study area: Kerala—“ Arrenurus aculeatifrons “ Walter (1928); Karnataka—Cook (1967); Uttaranchal—Smit & Pešić (2008); Prasad (1974); Smit & Pešić (2008).
Habitat: Ponds, lakes.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, New Guinea, Singapore, China, Australia.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Dias, José Alonso e Buck, Fidel, La Sagrada Escritura - Daniel y Profetas Menores. La Editorial Católica, S. A. Vol. de XXXII+610 ps. 130x200. Madrid 1971
Creators: name: Faria, Manuel Ferreira De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 2 (1973)
The origin of discrete symmetries in F-theory models
Creators: name: Leontaris, George K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While non-abelian groups are undoubtedly the cornerstone of Grand Unified Theories (GUTs), phenomenology shows that the role of abelian and discrete symmetries is equally important in model building. The latter are the appropriate tool to suppress undesired proton decay operators and various flavour violating interactions, to generate a hierarchical fermion mass spectrum, etc. In F-theory, GUT symmetries are linked to the singularities of the elliptically fibred K3 manifolds; they are of ADE type and have been extensively discussed in recent literature. In this context, abelian and discrete symmetries usually arise either as a subgroup of the non-abelian symmetry or from a non-trivial Mordell-Weil group associated to rational sections of the elliptic fibration. In this note we give a short overview of the current status and focus in models with rank-one Mordell-Weil group.
description: Contribution to the Proceedings of the "Discrete 2014" Conference at KCL, December 2014. (References added)
Cullmann, Oscar, Des sources de I’Évangile à Ia formation de la théologie chrétienne. Dechaux & Niestlé. Vol. de 188 ps. 155x225. Neuchâtel (Suisse) 1969
Creators: name: Faria, Adão Salgado Vaz De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 2 (1973)
Blinzler, J., Geist, H., Hoffmann, Leroy, H., Mussner, F., Voss, G., Jesus dans les Évangiles. Coll. Lire la Bible, n.° 29. Vol. de 135x185, 172 ps. Les Éditions du Cerf. Paris 1971
Creators: name: Faria, Adão Salgado Vaz De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 2 (1973)
Potential impact of acid precipitation on arsenic and selenium
Creators: name: Mushak, P
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: The potential impact of acidic precipitation on the environmental mobility of the metalloids arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) has not been given much attention and is poorly understood. As with other elements, the interest here is the potential effect of environmental acidification on environmental behavior in ways that are relevant to human exposure to these metalloids. Available information on acid precipitation and the environmental behavior of these metalloids do, however, permit some preliminary conclusions to be drawn. Both As and Se appear to be mobilized from household plumbing into tap water by the corrosive action of soft, mildly acidic water, while surface water catchment systems in areas impacted by acidic deposition may contain elevated soluble As levels. Acidification of aquatic ecosystems that are drinking water sources may pose the prospect of enhanced release of As from sediment to water as well as reduction in water levels of Se. Acidification of ground waters, where As appears to be especially mobile, is of particular concern in this regard. The potential impact of acidic deposition on As and Se in soils cannot readily be assessed with respect to human exposure, but it would appear that the behavior of these metalloids in poorly buffered, poorly immobilizing soils, e.g., sandy soils of low metal hydrous oxide content, would be most affected. The effect is opposite for the two elements; lowered pH would appear to enhance As mobility and to reduce Se availability. Altered acidity of both soil and aquatic systems poses a risk for altered biotransformation processes involving both As and Se, thereby affecting the relative amounts of different chemical forms varying in their toxicity to humans as well as influencing biogeochemical cycling.
Achard, Robert Martin, Approche des Psaumes. Vol. de 107 ps. 115x222. Éditions Delachaux et Niestlé s. a. Neuchâtel (Switzerland) 1969
Creators: name: Faria, Adão Salgado Vaz De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 2 (1973)
Effects of Heavy Metals on Drosophila Larvae and a Metallothionein cDNA
Creators: name: Maroni, G
name: Otto, E
name: Lastowski-Perry, D
name: Watson, D
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1986

description: Drosophila melanogaster larvae reared on food containing radioactive cadmium retained over 80% of it, mostly in the intestinal epithelium. The majority of this radioactivity was associated with a soluble protein of less than 10,000 molecular weight. Synthesis of this cadmium-binding protein was induced by the metal as demonstrated by incorporation of radioactive cysteine. Most copper ingested by larvae was also found to associate with a low molecular weight, inducible protein, but some of it was found in an insoluble fraction. Zinc was unable to, or very inefficient at, binding or inducing the synthesis of a similar protein. A D. melanogaster cDNA clone was isolated based on its more intense hybridization to copies of RNA sequences from copper-fed larvae than from control larvae. This clone showed strong hybridization to mouse metallothionein-I cDNA at reduced stringency. Its nucleotide sequence includes an open-reading segment which codes for a 40-amino acid protein; this protein was identified as metallothionein based on its similarity to the amino-terminal portion of mammalian and crab metalloproteins. The ten cysteine residues present occur in five pairs of near-vicinal cysteines (Cys-X-Cys). This cDNA sequence hybridized to a 400-nucleotide polyadenylated RNA whose presence in the cells of the alimentary canal of larvae was stimulated by ingestion of cadmium or copper; in other tissues this RNA was present at much lower levels. Mercury, silver, and zinc induced metallothionein to a lesser extent. Whether (any of) the protein(s) discussed above correspond(s) to that coded by this RNA sequence has not yet been determined.ImagesFIGURE 2.FIGURE 6.FIGURE 9.
Bubble Chambers for Experiments in Nuclear Astrophysics
Creators: name: DiGiovine, B.
name: Henderson, D.
name: Holt, R. J.
name: Rehm, K. E.
name: Raut, R.
name: Robinson, A.
name: Sonnenschein, A.
name: Rusev, G.
name: Tonchev, A. P.
name: Ugalde, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85.05

description: A bubble chamber has been developed to be used as an active target system for low energy nuclear astrophysics experiments. Adopting ideas from dark matter detection with superheated liquids, a detector system compatible with gamma-ray beams has been developed. This detector alleviates some of the limitations encountered in standard measurements of the minute cross sections of interest to stellar environments. While the astrophysically relevant nuclear reaction processes at hydrostatic burning temperatures are dominated by radiative captures, in this experimental scheme we measure the time-reversed processes. Such photodisintegrations allow us to compute the radiative capture cross sections when transitions to excited states of the reaction products are negligible. Due to the transformation of phase space, the photodisintegration cross sections are up to two orders of magnitude higher. The main advantage of the new target-detector system is a density several orders of magnitude higher than conventional gas targets. Also, the detector is virtually insensitive to the gamma-ray beam itself, thus allowing us to detect only the products of the nuclear reaction of interest. The development and the operation as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the bubble chamber are discussed.
description: Accepted manuscript in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. 12 pages, 14 figures
Beyond Model-Free Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Creators: name: Tran, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Estimating causal effects is an important problem in empirical sciences. Understanding and encoding how and why a variable can cause different outcomes is also important for developing autonomous systems that exhibit human-level intelligence. Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for causal inference, but it is often infeasible to conduct such trials due to ethical or financial concerns. Therefore, observational studies have risen in importance due to the accumulation of data in many domains, such as healthcare, social sciences, and e-commerce. Estimating how a treatment affects a population as a whole is a well-studied problem. However, individuals differ in characteristics and responses to treatment, and population-level average treatment effects cannot capture this heterogeneity. Estimating how a treatment affects different individuals, known as heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation, is important in deciding which actions to take. In the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in adapting machine learning algorithms to estimate heterogeneous effects from experimental and observational data. However, these data-driven methods often rely on strong assumptions that do not take into consideration the underlying structure of the causal model and thus can lead to incorrect estimation by taking spurious correlations into account. This thesis seeks to address the deficiencies of model-free approaches for HTE estimation by developing practical and accurate algorithms. I first start by exploring state-of-the-art, data-driven, heterogeneous treatment effect estimators, investigating how they perform under various types of underlying structural causal models, and dealing with model-free assumptions. I introduced a new algorithm, HTE-FS, that uses a greedy feature selection approach combined with local structure learning to pick out important variables in the underlying model to improve data-driven estimation. I develop a novel causal tree algorithm, CT-L, which leverages a validation set to learn heterogeneous effects. In addition, I introduce the novel problem of estimating triggers --- a threshold that leads to the most change in effect --- for heterogeneous effects. I utilized CT-L to deepen the understanding of how readers feel when reading written narratives. Finally, I introduced the problem of heterogeneous peer effect estimation and showed how this, in conjunction with the problem of estimation triggers, can be used to predict thresholds in the Linear Threshold Model.
Multi-stream portrait of the Cosmic web
Creators: name: Ramachandra, Nesar S.
name: Shandarin, Sergei F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of the first study of the multi-stream environment of dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations in the LCDM cosmology. The full dynamical state of dark matter can be described as a three-dimensional sub-manifold in six dimensional phase space - the dark matter sheet. In our study we use a Lagrangian sub-manifold x = x(q,t) (where x and q are co-moving Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates respectively), which is dynamically equivalent to the dark matter sheet but is more convenient for numerical analysis. Our major results can be summarized as follows. At the resolution of the simulation i.e. without additional smoothing, the cosmic web represents a hierarchical structure: each halo is embedded in the filamentary framework of the web predominantly at the filament crossings, and each filament is embedded in the wall like fabric of the web at the wall crossings. Locally, each halo or sub-halo is a peak in the number of streams field. The number of streams in the neighbouring filaments is higher than in the neighbouring walls. The walls are regions where number of streams is equal to three or a few. Voids are uniquely defined by the local condition requiring to be a single-stream flow region. The shells of streams around haloes are quite thin and the closest void region is typically within one and a half FOF radius from the center of the halo.
description: 12 pages, 25 figures. Matches version accepted by MNRAS
Periodicity Intensity Reveals Insights into Time Series Data: Three Use Cases
Creators: name: Smeaton, Alan F.
name: Hu, Feiyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodic phenomena are oscillating signals found in many naturally-occurring time series. A periodogram can be used to measure the intensities of oscillations at different frequencies over an entire time series but sometimes we are interested in measuring how periodicity intensity at a specific frequency varies throughout the time series. This can be done by calculating periodicity intensity within a window then sliding and recalculating the intensity for the window, giving an indication of how periodicity intensity at a specific frequency changes throughout the series. We illustrate three applications of this the first of which is movements of a herd of new-born calves where we show how intensity of the 24h periodicity increases and decreases synchronously across the herd. We also show how changes in 24h periodicity intensity of activities detected from in-home sensors can be indicative of overall wellness. We illustrate this on several weeks of sensor data gathered from each of the homes of 23 older adults. Our third application is the intensity of 7-day periodicity of hundreds of University students accessing online resources from a virtual learning environment (VLE) and how the regularity of their weekly learning behaviours changes throughout a teaching semester. The paper demonstrates how periodicity intensity reveals insights into time series data not visible using other forms of analysis
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, a
Multiparameter Digitized Video Microscopy of Toxic and Hypoxic Injury in Single Cells
Creators: name: Lemasters, John J.
name: Wray, Barnaby E.
name: Gores, Gregory J.
name: Nieminen, Anna-Liisa
name: Dawson, Thomas L.
name: Herman, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: There is no clear picture of the critical events that lead to the transition from reversible to irreversible injury. Many studies have suggested that a rise in cytosolic free Ca2+ initiates plasma membrane bleb formation and a sequence of events that lead ultimately to cell death. In recent studies, we have measured changes in cytosolic free Ca2+, mitochondrial membrane potential, cytosolic pH, and cell surface blebbing in relation to the onset of irreversible injury and cell death following anoxic and toxic injury to single hepatocytes by using multiparameter digitized video microscopy (MDVM). MDVM is an emerging new technology that permits single living cells to be labeled with multiple probes whose fluorescence is responsive to specific cellular parameters of interest. Fluorescence images specific for each probe are collected over time, digitized, and stored. Image analysis and processing then permits quantitation of the spatial distribution of the various parameters with the single living cells. Our results indicate the following: The formation of plasma membrane blebs accompanies all types of injury in hepatocytes. Cell death is a rapid event initiated by rupture of a plasma membrane bleb, and it is coincident with the onset of irreversible injury. An increase of cytosolic free Ca2+ is not the stimulus for bleb formation or the final common pathway leading to cell death. A decrease of mitochondrial membrane potential precedes the loss of cell viability. Cytosolic pH falls by more than 1 pH unit during chemical hypoxia. This acidosis protects against the onset of cell death.ImagesFIGURE 2.FIGURE 3.FIGURE 4.FIGURE 5.FIGURE 6.FIGURE 7.FIGURE 10.FIGURE 13.FIGURE 15.
Insurgent Groups During Post-Conflict Transformation: The Case of Military Strongmen in Cambodia
Creators: name: Bultmann, Daniel
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 900 Geschichte, Geografie und Hilfswissenschaften

description: This article was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: The article discusses the experiences of a group of military strongmen during the post-conflict transformation of two Cambodian insurgent movements into a society of peace after a decades-long civil war. It explains the reasons why some of these strongmen were able to transfer their high status within the insurgency into senior positions in the incumbent government, while others became impoverished and sometimes even preferred to relapse into further conflict. Even though all of these strongmen shared a very similar life course and fought until the end of the conflict, their post-conflict fates have been very different. Central to the explanation of their behaviour during the transition is their habitus, the set of resources at their disposal and the nature of their vertical and horizontal social networks.
Search-Engine-augmented Dialogue Response Generation with Cheaply Supervised Query Production
Creators: name: Wang, Ante
name: Song, Linfeng
name: Liu, Qi
name: Mi, Haitao
name: Wang, Longyue
name: Tu, Zhaopeng
name: Su, Jinsong
name: Yu, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Knowledge-aided dialogue response generation aims at augmenting chatbots with relevant external knowledge in the hope of generating more informative responses. The majority of previous work assumes that the relevant knowledge is given as input or retrieved from a static pool of knowledge. However, this assumption violates the real-world situation, where knowledge is continually updated and a chatbot has to dynamically retrieve useful knowledge. We propose a dialogue model that can access the vast and dynamic information from any search engine for response generation. As the core module, a query producer is used to generate queries from a dialogue context to interact with a search engine. We design a training algorithm using cheap noisy supervision for the query producer, where the signals are obtained by comparing retrieved articles with the next dialogue response. As the result, the query producer is adjusted without any human annotation of gold queries, making it easily transferable to other domains and search engines. Experiments show that our query producer can achieve R@1 and R@5 rates of 62.4% and 74.8% for retrieving gold knowledge, and the overall model generates better responses over strong knowledge-aided baselines using BART and other typical systems.
description: Artificial Intelligence 2023
Differential Galois Groups over Laurent Series Fields
Creators: name: Harbater, David
name: Hartmann, Julia
name: Maier, Annette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12H05, 20G15, 14H25, 34M50

description: In this manuscript, we apply patching methods to give a positive answer to the inverse differential Galois problem over function fields over Laurent series fields of characteristic zero. More precisely, we show that any linear algebraic group (i.e. affine group scheme of finite type) over such a Laurent series field does occur as the differential Galois group of a linear differential equation with coefficients in any such function field (of one or several variables).
description: 25 pages
Arrenurus (Micruracarus) bengalensis Tomar & Raychaudhury 1981
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus bengalensis

description: Arrenurus (Micruracarus) bengalensis Tomar & Raychaudhury, 1981
Records from the study area: West Bengal—Tomar & Raychaudhuri (1981); Smit & Pešić (2008).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Bruhat Order in the Full Symmetric $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ Toda Lattice on Partial Flag Space
Creators: name: Chernyakov, Yury B.
name: Sharygin, Georgy I.
name: Sorin, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our previous paper [Comm. Math. Phys. 330 (2014), 367-399] we described the asymptotic behaviour of trajectories of the full symmetric $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ Toda lattice in the case of distinct eigenvalues of the Lax matrix. It turned out that it is completely determined by the Bruhat order on the permutation group. In the present paper we extend this result to the case when some eigenvalues of the Lax matrix coincide. In that case the trajectories are described in terms of the projection to a partial flag space where the induced dynamical system verifies the same properties as before: we show that when $t\to\pm\infty$ the trajectories of the induced dynamical system converge to a finite set of points in the partial flag space indexed by the Schubert cells so that any two points of this set are connected by a trajectory if and only if the corresponding cells are adjacent. This relation can be explained in terms of the Bruhat order on multiset permutations.
Stress Test for BERT and Deep Models: Predicting Words from Italian Poetry
Creators: name: Delmonte, Rodolfo
name: Busetto, Nicolò
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present a set of experiments carried out with BERT on a number of Italian sentences taken from poetry domain. The experiments are organized on the hypothesis of a very high level of difficulty in predictability at the three levels of linguistic complexity that we intend to monitor: lexical, syntactic and semantic level. To test this hypothesis we ran the Italian version of BERT with 80 sentences for a total of 900 tokens mostly extracted from Italian poetry of the first half of last century. Then we alternated canonical and noncanonical versions of the same sentence before processing them with the same DL model. We used then sentences from the newswire domain containing similar syntactic structures. The results show that the DL model is highly sensitive to presence of noncanonical structures. However, DLs are also very sensitive to word frequency and to local non literal meaning compositional effect. This is also apparent by the preference for predicting function vs content words, collocates vs infrequent word phrases. In the paper, we focused our attention on the use of subword units done by BERT for out of vocabulary words.
description: 23 pages
Structural transitions and energy landscape for Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus capsid mechanics from nanomanipulation in vitro and in silico
Creators: name: Kononova, Olga
name: Snijder, Joost
name: Brasch, Melanie
name: Cornelissen, Jeroen
name: Dima, Ruxandra I.
name: Marx, Kenneth A.
name: Wuite, Gijs J. L.
name: Roos, Wouter H.
name: Barsegov, Valeri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Physical properties of capsids of plant and animal viruses are important factors in capsid self-assembly, survival of viruses in the extracellular environment, and their cell infectivity. Virus shells can have applications as nanocontainers and delivery vehicles in biotechnology and medicine. Combined AFM experiments and computational modeling on sub-second timescales of the indentation nanomechanics of Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus (CCMV) capsid show that the capsid's physical properties are dynamic and local characteristics of the structure, which depend on the magnitude and geometry of mechanical input. Surprisingly, under large deformations the CCMV capsid transitions to the collapsed state without substantial local structural alterations. The enthalpy change in this deformation state dH = 11.5 - 12.8 MJ/mol is mostly due to large-amplitude out-of-plane excitations, which contribute to the capsid bending, and the entropy change TdS = 5.1 - 5.8 MJ/mol is mostly due to coherent in-plane rearrangements of protein chains, which result in the capsid stiffening. Dynamic coupling of these modes defines the extent of elasticity and reversibility of capsid mechanical deformation. This emerging picture illuminates how unique physico-chemical properties of protein nanoshells help define their structure and morphology, and determine their viruses' biological function.
Structural modifications for the conversion of proteins and peptides into stable dried powder formulations: A review
Creators: name: Brytan, Wiktoria
name: Padrela, Luis
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The drying of biomolecules into powdered formulations has become the main form of long-term product stabilisation, allowing for the delivery of safe and efficient medicines. Stability of proteins and peptides during the drying process is paramount for product quality. Drying macromolecules with an appropriate excipient is often sufficient for product stabilisation, however there are limitations imposed on excipient use, particularly in the production of high-value biopharmaceuticals. Innovative approaches for the enhancement of protein stability during dehydration need to be further explored. In this review, we provide a brief discussion of the available drying methods and current stabilisation techniques available for proteins and peptides and review the current impact and limitations of excipient use. Alongside, we take a detailed look at the impact of post-translational modifications (PTMs) and structural mutations in drying stability of biomolecules. The structural modifications mentioned in this paper are discussed in light of published work on their impact on protein and peptide stability during commonly experienced stresses, particularly those which relate to drying processes, such as chemical, thermal and freeze-thaw. The aim of this review is to direct a research focus towards upstream modifications of proteins and peptides as a viable stabilisation approach during harsh drying processes.
Parental occupation and childhood cancer: review of epidemiologic studies
Creators: name: Chen, J H
name: Savitz, D A
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: Parental occupational exposures might affect childhood cancer in the offspring through genetic changes in the ovum or sperm or through transplacental carcinogenesis. The 24 published epidemiologic studies of this association have all used case-control designs, with controls generally selected from birth certificates or from general population sampling. Occupational exposures were inferred from job titles on birth certificates or through interviews. A large number of occupation-cancer associations have been reported, many of which were not addressed or not confirmed in other studies. Several associations have been found with consistency: paternal exposures in hydrocarbon-associated occupations, the petroleum and chemical industries, and especially paint exposures have been associated with brain cancer; paint exposures have also been linked to leukemias. Maternal exposures have received much less attention, but studies have yielded strongly suggestive results linking a variety of occupational exposures to leukemia and brain cancer. The primary limitations in this literature are the inaccuracy inherent in assigning exposure based on job title alone and imprecision due to limited study size. Although no etiologic associations have been firmly established by these studies, the public health concerns and suggestive data warrant continued research.
title: A Crowdsourced Global Data Set for Validating Built-up Surface Layers
Creators: name: See, L.
name: Georgieva, I.
name: Duerauer, M.
name: Kemper, T.
name: Corbane, C.
name: Maffenini, L.
name: Gallego, J.
name: Pesaresi, M.
name: Sirbu, F.
name: Ahmed, R.
name: Blyshchyk, K.
name: Magori, B.
name: Blyshchyk, V.
name: Melnyk, O.
name: Zadorozhniuk, R.
name: Mandici, M.-T.
name: Su, Y.-F.
name: Rabia, A.H.
name: Pérez-Hoyos, A.
name: Vasylyshyn, R.
name: Pawe, C.K.
name: Bilous, S.
name: Kovalevskyi, S.B.
name: Kovalevskyi, S.S.
name: Bordoloi, K.
name: Bilous, A.
name: Panging, K.
name: Bilous, V.
name: Prestele, R.
name: Sahariah, D.
name: Deka, A.
name: Nath, N.
name: Neves, R.
name: Myroniuk, V.
name: Karner, M.
name: Fritz, S.
Publisher: name: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Year: 2021

description: This collection contains data that were collected during a crowdsourcing campaign using Geo-Wiki (https://www.geo-wiki.org/). The campaign involved visual interpretation of a sample that is designed for validating any existing global built-up surface product. A zipped shapefile (ValidationGrids.zip) contains the random stratified sample of 50K locations, which consist of 80x80m grids further sub-divided into 10m cells so there are 64 cells per grid. These locations were provided to the crowd, who used very high-resolution satellite images to label the grids as built-up (i.e., containing a building), non-built-up or unsure. The file (Geo-WikiBuilt-upCentroidsAll.csv) contains the data collected in the campaign summarized by the centroid (or central point of each 80m grid location). The data collected for all 64 cells per grid can be found in Geo-WikiBuilt-upCellsAll.csv. The Geo-Wiki campaign uses visually interpreted grid locations called control points as part of the scoring mechanism of Geo-Wiki for quality control. These control points are provided by centroid (Geo-WikiBuilt-upCentroidsControls.csv) and for all cells in the 80m grid (Geo-WikiBuilt-upCellsControls.csv). Finally, the file Strata.csv contains the mapping between the grid location and the sampling stratum used in the design of the sample.
Evolution of ion acoustic solitary waves in pulsar wind
Creators: name: Singh, Kuldeep
name: Kakad, Amar
name: Kakad, Bharati
name: Saini, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the evolution of ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) in pulsar wind. The pulsar wind is modeled by considering a weakly relativistic unmagnetized collisionless plasma comprised of relativistic ions and superthermal electrons and positrons. Through fluid simulations, we have demonstrated that the localized ion density perturbations generated in the polar wind plasma can evolve the relativistic IASW pulses. It is found that the concentration of positrons, relativistic factor, superthermality of electrons, and positrons have a significant influence on the dynamical evolution of IASW pulses. Our results may provide insight to understand the evolution of IASW pulses and their role in astrophysical plasmas, especially in the relativistic pulsar winds with supernova outflow which is responsible for the production of superthermal particles and relativistic ions.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, Published in MNRAS (2021)
Comparison of Technology-Based Presentation Modalities in Multi-Stimulus Job Task Preference Assessments
Creators: name: Mucha, Lauren E
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In preparation for adult life, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires transition assessment of employment interests and preferences and the development of a postsecondary employment goal for students with disabilities. However, traditional career interest assessments do not account for the needs and characteristics of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID). Object-based work task preference assessments have been used for decades and have a large body of research supporting their use with individuals with significant disabilities. Recent studies have demonstrated the utility of electronic means of presenting choices to individuals with ASD, and videos and digital images have been used to determine the preferred jobs of participants with ID or ASD and ID. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of video and electronic pictorial presentation modalities used in multiple stimulus without replacement (MSWO) preference assessments with transition-age youth, ages 17-21, with ASD and ID. To validate results, preference hierarchies were compared between technology-based and object-based assessments, and task engagement was observed during the performance of high and low preference tasks. The electronic picture results matched object results with a moderate to strong correlation for six of eight participants, while the video results corresponded at least moderately to object results for five participants. Furthermore, task engagement data validated electronic pictorial assessment results for four participants, confirmed the high preference task for one, produced inconclusive results for one, and contradicted assessment results for two participants. Video-based assessment results were validated by task engagement for half of the participants. The object modality was accurate for nearly all participants. Results suggest that the electronic pictorial and video MSWO assessment of job task preferences are accurate and effective with some individuals and not as effective as the established object modality for others.
Alejandro, Jose M.ª de, S. J., La Lógica y el hombre. La Editorial Católica, S. A (BAC). Vol. de XIV+426 ps. 150x200. Madrid 1970
Creators: name: Paula, Manuel António De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 1 (1973)
Arrenurus (Micruracarus) gibberifrons Piersig 1906
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus gibberifrons

description: Arrenurus (Micruracarus) gibberifrons Piersig, 1906
New records: India: Assam State, Kamrup district, SW of Guwahati city, Deeper Beel wetland, between the water hyacinth Eichhornia corniculata, 26.10903N 91.68359E, 37 m asl., leg. 8. xii. 2009, leg. Das & Bordoloi, 1/0/0.
Records from the study area: Maharashtra, Karnataka—Cook (1967); West Bengal—Lundblad (1969); Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal—Smit & Pešić (2008); Prasad (1974); Smit & Pešić (2008).
Habitat: Ponds, lakes.
Distribution: India, Shri Lanka, Burma, Singapore, Indonesia and China
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Cancer risks from arsenic in drinking water
Creators: name: Smith, M T
name: Duggan, H M
name: Kosnett, M J
name: Goeden, H M
name: Hopenhayn-Rich, C
name: Hertz-Picciotto, I
name: Wood, R
name: Bates, M N
name: Smith, A H
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: Ingestion of arsenic, both from water supplies and medicinal preparations, is known to cause skin cancer. The evidence assessed here indicates that arsenic can also cause liver, lung, kidney, and bladder cancer and that the population cancer risks due to arsenic in U.S. water supplies may be comparable to those from environmental tobacco smoke and radon in homes. Large population studies in an area of Taiwan with high arsenic levels in well water (170-800 micrograms/L) were used to establish dose-response relationships between cancer risks and the concentration of inorganic arsenic naturally present in water supplies. It was estimated that at the current EPA standard of 50 micrograms/L, the lifetime risk of dying from cancer of the liver, lung, kidney, or bladder from drinking 1 L/day of water could be as high as 13 per 1000 persons. It has been estimated that more than 350,000 people in the United States may be supplied with water containing more than 50 micrograms/L arsenic, and more than 2.5 million people may be supplied with water with levels above 25 micrograms/L. For average arsenic levels and water consumption patterns in the United States, the risk estimate was around 1/1000. Although further research is needed to validate these findings, measures to reduce arsenic levels in water supplies should be considered.
Jouhaud, Michel, Le problème de l’être et de l’expérience morale chez Maurice Blondel. Éditions Nauwelaerts, S. A. Vol. de 690 ps. 160x240. Louvain 1970
Creators: name: Paula, Manuel António De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 1 (1973)
Alpha 2u-globulin nephropathy: review of the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved and their implications for human risk assessment.
Creators: name: Swenberg, J A
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: This paper reviews what is known about the induction of alpha 2u-globulin nephropathy and carcinogenesis. This unique male-rat-specific disease is associated with exposure to an ever-increasing number of chemicals. The processes leading to nephropathy and renal cancer are among the best-understood mechanisms for nongenotoxic chemicals and strongly support that it is a male-rat-specific process that is not relevant for human risk assessment. Nevertheless, the data available for individual chemicals vary greatly. This necessitates a case-by-case analysis of the available data when determining the relevance for humans of this chemically induced renal disease in male rats.
Comment on "Human Time-Frequency Acuity Beats the Fourier Uncertainty Principle"
Creators: name: Thekkadath, G. S.
name: Spanner, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the initial article [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 044301 (2013), arXiv:1208.4611] it was claimed that human hearing can beat the Fourier uncertainty principle. In this Comment, we demonstrate that the experiment designed and implemented in the original article was ill-chosen to test Fourier uncertainty in human hearing.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Computer Aided Therapeutic of Alzheimer’s Disease Eulogizing Pattern Classification and Deep Learning Protruded on Tree-based Learning Method
Creators: name: Kumar, Dr.P.S.Jagadeesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: Computer Engineering

description: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is one of the widespread form of malady, intended for no apposite alleviate or effectual cure is presently accredited. There is an anticipated bang of patients in the future days, and thus an immense pact of concern in untimely finding of the syndrome, as this possibly will guide to improved therapeutic upshots.
Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease has conventionally depended on irrefutable scrutiny and cognitive estimation. Modern crams, however, designate that image breakdown of
neuro scans might be a further consistent and susceptible method. Additional alertness has therefore been jerky in sighting biomarkers and pertaining machine learning
methods to execute involuntary untimely revealing of Alzheimer’s disease. One of the foremost research schemes in this ground, Linear Initiative of Neuroimaging (LION), has bestowed appreciably to the supplementary recognizing of the syndrome by affording consistent clinical statistics for research principles, counting a ticketed data
of patients from distinct analytic faction consisting of magnetic reverberation pictures.
Cell Cycle Controls: Potential Targets for Chemical Carcinogens?
Creators: name: Afshari, C A
name: Barrett, J C
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: The progression of the cell cycle is controlled by the action of both positive and negative growth regulators. The key players in this activity include a family of cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases, which are themselves regulated by other kinases and phosphatases. Maintenance of balanced cell cycle controls may be directly linked to genomic stability. Loss of the check-points involved in cell cycle control may result in unrepaired DNA damage during DNA synthesis or mitosis leading to genetic mutations and contributing to carcinogenesis.