cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detection of White Matter Hyperintensities in Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hyperspectral Subpixel Detection
Creators: name: Chang, Yung-Chieh
name: Chang, Chein-I
name: Ouyang, Yen-Chieh
name: Chai, Jyh-Wen
name: Chen, Wen-Hsien
name: Kuan-JungPan
name: Wang, Hsin-Che
name: Chen, Clayton Chi-Chang
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024
Subjects: Neuroimaging
White matter
3-Dimensions Receiver Operating Characteristic (3D-ROC)
Constrained energy minimization (CEM)
Alzheimer's disease
Iterative KCEM (IKCEM)
Magnetic resonance imaging
Iterative CEM (ICEM)
Energy measurement
Iterative methods
Hyperspectral imaging
Manuals
Medical diagnostic imaging
white matter hyperintensities (WMHs)
UMBC Remote Sensing and Image Process Laboratory
Energy management
Brain modeling
Kernel-based Constrained Energy Minimization (K-CEM)

description: White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are lesion in brain magnetic resonance images generally associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cognitive decline. Finding WMHs of AD poses a great challenge for diagnosis. This paper interprets a brain MR image as a hyperspectral image so that a well stablished hyperspectral subpixel detection algorithm, constrained energy minimization (CEM), is applicable to solving the WMHs detection problem at mixed pixel and subpixel level. To resolve nonlinear mixing in detecting WMHs nearby boundaries, a nonlinear CEM, called kernel CEM (KCEM) is also developed. Since CEM is a hyperspectral technique without taking spatial correlation into account, CEM was also extended to iterative CEM (ICEM) by including spatial filters to capture spatial information for WMHs detection. This paper combines ICEM and KCEM to derive a new WHMs detection algorithm, iterative KCEM (IKCEM) to improve ICEM and KCEM on WMHs detection. To evaluate the WMHs detection performance, two criteria, Dice similarity index (DSI) and 3D ROC analysis are used as evaluation tools. In order to show the superiority of IKCEM, two commonly used software packages, statistical parametric mapping (SPM)-based algorithms, SPM-lesion growthalgorithm (SPM-LGA) and SPM-lesion prediction algorithm (SPM-LPA) are implemented for validation and comparison.
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a marine interstitial tetraflagellate with putative endosymbionts: Auranticordis quadriverberis n. gen. et sp. (Cercozoa)
Creators: name: Chantangsi, Chitchai
name: Esson, Heather J.
name: Leander, Brian S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Comparative morphological studies and environmental sequencing surveys indicate that marine benthic environments contain a diverse assortment of microorganisms that are just beginning to be explored and characterized. The most conspicuous predatory flagellates in these habitats range from about 20–150 μm in size and fall into three major groups of eukaryotes that are very distantly related to one another: dinoflagellates, euglenids and cercozoans. The Cercozoa is a diverse group of amoeboflagellates that cluster together in molecular phylogenies inferred mainly from ribosomal gene sequences. These molecular phylogenetic studies have demonstrated that several enigmatic taxa, previously treated as Eukaryota insertae sedis, fall within the Cercozoa, and suggest that the actual diversity of this group is largely unknown. Improved knowledge of cercozoan diversity is expected to help resolve major branches in the tree of eukaryotes and demonstrate important cellular innovations for understanding eukaryote evolution. Results A rare tetraflagellate, Auranticordis quadriverberis n. gen. et sp., was isolated from marine sand samples. Uncultured cells were in low abundance and were individually prepared for electron microscopy and DNA sequencing. These flagellates possessed several novel features, such as (1) gliding motility associated with four bundled recurrent flagella, (2) heart-shaped cells about 35–75 μm in diam., and (3) bright orange coloration caused by linear arrays of muciferous bodies. Each cell also possessed about 2–30 pale orange bodies (usually 4–5 μm in diam.) that were enveloped by two membranes and sac-like vesicles. The innermost membrane invaginated to form unstacked thylakoids that extended towards a central pyrenoid containing tailed viral particles. Although to our knowledge, these bodies have never been described in any other eukaryote, the ultrastructure was most consistent with photosynthetic endosymbionts of cyanobacterial origin. This combination of morphological features did not allow us to assign A. quadriverberis to any known eukaryotic supergroup. Thus, we sequenced the small subunit rDNA sequence from two different isolates and demonstrated that this lineage evolved from within the Cercozoa. Conclusion Our discovery and characterization of A. quadriverberis underscores how poorly we understand the diversity of cercozoans and, potentially, represents one of the few independent cases of primary endosymbiosis within the Cercozoa and beyond.
Association between pre-hip fracture depression and days at home after fracture and assessing sex differences
Creators: name: Mehta, Rhea
name: Orwig, Denise L.
name: Chen, Chixiang
name: Dong, Yu
name: Shardell, Michelle D.
name: Yamashita, Takashi
name: Falvey, Jason R.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024
Subjects: sex difference
hip fracture
depression
Medicare

description: Background Hip fracture and depression are important public health issues among older adults, but how pre-fracture depression impacts recovery after hip fracture is unknown, especially among males who often experience greater depression severity. Days at home (DAH), or the days spent outside a hospital or healthcare facility, is a novel, patient-centered outcome that can capture meaningful aspects of fracture recovery. How pre-fracture depression impacts DAH after fracture, and related sex differences, remains unclear. Methods Participants included 63,618 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65+ years, with a hospitalization claim for hip fracture surgery between 2010 and 2017. The primary exposure was a diagnosis of depression at hospital admission, and the primary outcome was total DAH over 12 months post-discharge. Longitudinal associations between pre-fracture depression and the count of DAH among beneficiaries were estimated using Poisson regression models after adjustment for covariates; sex-by-depression interactions were also assessed. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) reflecting relative differences were estimated from these models. Results Overall, beneficiaries with depression were younger, White females, and spent 11 fewer average DAH compared to counterparts without depression when demographic factors (age and sex) (IRR = 0.91; 95% CI = 0.90, 0.92; p < 0.0001) and social determinants of health (race, Medicaid dual eligibility, and poverty) were adjusted for (IRR = 0.92; 95% CI = 0.91, 0.93; p < 0.0001), but this association attenuated after adjusting for medical complexities (IRR = 0.99; 95% CI = 0.98, 1.01; p = 0.41) and facility and geographical factors (IRR = 1.0037; 95% CI = 0.99, 1.02; p = 0.66). There was no evidence of effect modification by sex. Conclusions The comorbidity burden of preexisting depression may impact DAH among both male and female Medicare beneficiaries with hip fracture. Results suggest a holistic health approach and secondary prevention of depressive symptoms after hip fracture.
Adjustments to climate perturbations -mechanisms, implications, observational constraints
Creators: name: Quaas, Johannes
name: Andrews, Timothy
name: Bellouin, Nicolas
name: Block, Karoline
name: Boucher, Olivier
name: Ceppi, Paulo
name: Dagan, Guy
name: Doktorowski, Sabine
name: Eichholz, Hannah Marie
name: Forster, Piers
name: Goren, Tom
name: Gryspeerdt, Edward
name: Hodnebrog, Øivind
name: Jia, Hailing
name: Kramer, Ryan
name: Lange, Charlotte
name: Maycock, Amanda C.
name: Mülmenstädt, Johannes
name: Myhre, Gunnar
name: O'connor, Fiona M.
name: Pincus, Robert
name: Samset, Bjørn Hallvard
name: Senf, Fabian
name: Shine, Keith P.
name: Smith, Chris
name: Stjern, Camilla Weum
name: Takemura, Toshihiko
name: Toll, Velle
name: Wall, Casey J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: Since the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR5) an extended concept of the energetic analysis of climate change including forcings, feedbacks and adjustment processes has become widely adopted. Adjustments are defined as processes that occur in response to the introduction of a climate forcing agent, but that are independent of global-mean surface temperature changes. Most considered are the adjustments that impact the Earth energy budget and strengthen or weaken the instantaneous radiative forcing due to the forcing agent. Some adjustment mechanisms also impact other aspects of climate not related to the Earth radiation budget. Since AR5 and a following description by Sherwood et al. (2015), much research on adjustments has been performed and is reviewed here. We classify the adjustment mechanisms into six main categories, and discuss methods of quantifying these adjustments in terms of their potentials, shortcomings and practicality. We furthermore describe aspects of adjustments that act beyond the energetic framework, and we propose new ideas to observe adjustments or to make use of observations to constrain their representation in models. Altogether, the problem of adjustments is now on a robust scientific footing, and better quantification and observational constraint is possible. This allows for improvements in understanding and quantifying climate change.
Role of USP4 in the regulation of gene expression
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Tania
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: USP4 is a deubiquitinating enzyme whose levels have been shown to be elevated in certain human lung tumors. USP4 is thought to possess oncogenic properties due to its ability to promote tumors in nude mice assays. The lack of an overall effect on ubiquitin levels in overexpression studies has led to the hypothesis that USP4 may act on a few select substrates to edit their ubiquitination status. Although the structure/function relationship is more documented, the physiological substrates and role in vivo are not. In order to elucidate the mechanism by which USP4 could potentially exert its tumorigenic effect, an RNA knockdown approach was undertaken. The effect of changes in USP4 levels was investigated to determine if USP4 plays a role in transcription or mRNA stability. The data suggest that USP4 does not affect levels of mRNAs containing an ARE sequence in NIH-3T3 or Cos-7 cells. Although USP4 was not shown to have an mRNA stabilizing effect, USP4 was found to bind CBP in vivo using an immunoprecipitation experiment and to exert an effect on basal transcription levels. This data suggests that USP4 levels may affect global transcription, perhaps through binding with the transcriptional co-activator CBP.
D3.1  State-of-the-Art on PHY Mechanisms Energy Consumption and Specification of Efficiency Enhancement Solutions
Creators: name: Sark, Vladica
name: Gutiérrez Teran, Jesús
name: Perez-Romero, Jordi
name: Sallent Roig, José Oriol
name: Sánchez-González, Juan
name: Umbert Juliana, Anna
name: Castellanos, German
name: Berozashvili, Revaz
name: Pryor, Simon
name: Mohandoss, Govindarajan
name: Salvat Lozano, Josep Xavier
name: Ayala-Romero, Jose A.
name: Eger, Ory
name: Koffman, Israel
name: Municio, Esteban
name: Ghoraishi, Mir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: BeGREEN proposes an evolved radio access network (RAN) that aims to improve the energy efficiency of this segment of beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks, targeting the European vision for a green digital society and economy by 2030. The strategies proposed in the project seek the maximisation of the performance demanded by current and future networks, considering power consumption as a factor.

This document, BeGREEN D3.1, titled “State-of-the-Art on PHY Mechanisms Energy Consumption and Specification of Efficiency Enhancement Solutions”, presents the strategies and functionalities that may be deployed at lower layers (L1 to L3) targeting energy efficiency enhancements to B5G systems.

Firstly, the suitability of the widely used software-based implementations for RAN operations in general purpose processors (GPP), given their virtualisation benefits, is analysed and options such as opting for different architectures, e.g., ARM instead of x86 or using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are studied.

Secondly, O-RAN-based strategies that allow an optimal operation of the radio units (RUs) are presented. These include power optimisation in the power amplifiers (PAs) and the applications and developments that can be deployed at the RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) to manage the RUs.

Finally, this document includes various BeGREEN elements that are being proposed as extensions to the envisioned 3GPP/O-RAN network architectural framework at the physical (PHY) later. Examples are the implementation of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) strategies, the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), PHY-layer strategies for the optimisation of the RUs and, finally, the interference management in relay-enhanced scenarios. These developments share BeGREEN goals on energy efficiency improvements and reducing energy consumption.

For every development, enhancement, or optimisation strategy that BeGREEN proposes to reduce power consumption of the RAN, a State-of-the-Art (SotA) section is presented. Then, a brief description of the proposed enhancements and strategies are included.

BeGREEN D3.1 serves as the reference to BeGREEN D3.2 that is expected to provide the initial results and evaluations stemming from the different developments.
Structural basis for a highly conserved RNA-mediated enteroviral genome replication
Creators: name: Das, Naba Krishna
name: Vogt, Jeff
name: Patel, Alisha
name: Banna, Hasan Al
name: Koirala, Deepak
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2024

description: Enteroviruses contain conserved RNA structures at the extreme 5′ end of their genomes that recruit essential proteins 3CD and PCBP2 to promote genome replication. However, the high-resolution structures and mechanisms of these replication-linked RNAs (REPLRs) are limited. Here, we determined the crystal structures of the coxsackievirus B3 and rhinoviruses B14 and C15 REPLRs at 1.54, 2.2 and 2.54 Å resolution, revealing a highly conserved H-type four-way junction fold with co-axially stacked sA-sD and sB-sC helices that are stabilized by a long-range A•C•U base-triple. Such conserved features observed in the crystal structures also allowed us to predict the models of several other enteroviral REPLRs using homology modeling, which generated models almost identical to the experimentally determined structures. Moreover, our structure-guided binding studies with recombinantly purified full-length human PCBP2 showed that two previously proposed binding sites, the sB-loop and 3′ spacer, reside proximally and bind a single PCBP2. Additionally, the DNA oligos complementary to the 3′ spacer, the high-affinity PCBP2 binding site, abrogated its interactions with enteroviral REPLRs, suggesting the critical roles of this single-stranded region in recruiting PCBP2 for enteroviral genome replication and illuminating the promising prospects of developing therapeutics against enteroviral infections targeting this replication platform.
ALGORITHMS FOR CALCULATING EXACT INTEGRALS IN C++
Creators: name: Usnatdinova, Gulayim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Integrals are a fundamental concept in calculus that is used to calculate the total area under a curve or the accumulated effect of a changing quantity over a specific interval. In many scientific and engineering applications, the ability to compute integrals accurately is crucial for understanding and analyzing various phenomena. In this article, we will discuss different algorithms and methods for calculating exact integrals in C++. These algorithms are essential for numerically approximating the exact value of integrals when analytical solutions are not feasible or too complex. We will explore various numerical integration techniques, such as the Riemann sum method, the Trapezoidal rule, Simpson's rule, and adaptive quadrature methods. These algorithms provide different approaches to approximating integrals with varying levels of accuracy and computational efficiency. By understanding and implementing these algorithms in C++, developers and researchers can efficiently calculate exact integrals for a wide range of applications, from physics and engineering to finance and data analysis.
Aki Aneha: Nōkajosei no sengoshi: nihon nōgyōshinbun “onna no kaidan” no gojyūnen (The History of Rural Women in Postwar Japan)(農家女性の戦後 史:日本農業新聞「女の階段」の五十年)
Creators: name: Kwon-Hein, Joak
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: Asien, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
LAMINA: a tool for rapid quantification of leaf size and shape parameters
Creators: name: Bylesjö, Max
name: Segura, Vincent
name: Soolanayakanahally, Raju Y
name: Rae, Anne M
name: Trygg, Johan
name: Gustafsson, Petter
name: Jansson, Stefan
name: Street, Nathaniel R
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: An increased understanding of leaf area development is important in a number of fields: in food and non-food crops, for example short rotation forestry as a biofuels feedstock, leaf area is intricately linked to biomass productivity; in paleontology leaf shape characteristics are used to reconstruct paleoclimate history. Such fields require measurement of large collections of leaves, with resulting conclusions being highly influenced by the accuracy of the phenotypic measurement process. Results: We have developed LAMINA (Leaf shApe deterMINAtion), a new tool for the automated analysis of images of leaves. LAMINA has been designed to provide classical indicators of leaf shape (blade dimensions) and size (area), which are typically required for correlation analysis to biomass productivity, as well as measures that indicate asymmetry in leaf shape, leaf serration traits, and measures of herbivory damage (missing leaf area). In order to allow Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to be performed, the location of a chosen number of equally spaced boundary coordinates can optionally be returned. Conclusion: We demonstrate the use of the software on a set of 500 scanned images, each containing multiple leaves, collected from a common garden experiment containing 116 clones of Populus tremula (European trembling aspen) that are being used for association mapping, as well as examples of leaves from other species. We show that the software provides an efficient and accurate means of analysing leaf area in large datasets in an automated or semi-automated work flow.
Infrared Spectroscopic and Physical Properties of Methanol Ices—Reconciling the Conflicting Published Band Strengths of an Important Interstellar Solid
Creators: name: Hudson, Reggie L.
name: Gerakines, Perry A.
name: Yarnall, Yukiko
Publisher: name: IOP
Year: 2024

description: Infrared spectroscopic observations have established the presence of solid methanol (CH₃OH) in the interstellar medium and in solar system ices, but the abundance of frozen CH₃OH cannot be deduced without accurate band strengths, optical constants, and reference spectra. In this paper we identify disagreements, omissions, and gaps in the literature on infrared (IR) intensities of methanol ices, including unaddressed concerns that reach back several decades. New spectra are presented with intensity measurements aided by new data on the index of refraction and density of solid CH₃OH. The result is that the large discordant results from different laboratory groups can now be reconciled. Multiple ices have been used to determine, apparently for the first time, IR intensities of H₂O + CH₃OH mixtures of accurately known composition for use with observations of interstellar ices. Also for the first time, measurements on CH₃OH ices with different thicknesses have allowed us to report both near-IR band strengths and optical constants for two near-IR features used by planetary scientists. We have used our new IR results to determine vapor pressures of solid CH₃OH and have compared them to measurements made with a quartz-crystal microbalance. Thermal annealings of methanol ices have been carried out and phase changes in the solid state examined. Comparisons of our results to earlier work are presented where possible, and electronic versions of our new results are made available.
Acquisition, modalities of usage, and domestication of mobile phones in the cultural context of Haiti: The case of high school students
Creators: name: Cormier, Margareth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mass Communications.

description: In the last few years, the use of mobile telephony has become increasingly popular amongst various social and age groups around the world. Out of a need to understand this phenomenon, scholars have conducted a number of studies on the use of mobile phones and their characteristics such as mobility and accessibility. Few of these studies however, have focused their attention on this phenomenon in less developed countries. This thesis examines the key dimensions associated with the motivations and social implications of the use of mobile phones in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by high school students. I specifically address the relationship between the motivational factors that lead to the purchase and use of mobile phones as well as the implications for interpersonal relationships and the social structure. I used the Domestication model (Silverstone and Haddon, 1996) along with the notions of 'context', 'rappropriation' and 'revelation' to answer the main research questions and attain the objectives of the study. The overall research findings of this thesis are based on data collected via questionnaire, interviews, and observations held in public places during a two-month field study in Port-au-Prince. The data analysis reveals several findings; the participants' main motives for acquiring and using mobile phones are to provide a sense of security in emergency situations, as a means to communicate with friends and family members and as a symbol to display their status. Keywords. Less developed countries, mobile phone, mobility, immediacy, domestication, motivation, interpersonal relationships, culture, rappropriation.
Human-Interpretable Adversarial Prompt Attack on Large Language Models with Situational Context
Creators: name: Das, Nilanjana
name: Raff, Edward
name: Gaur, Manas
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: UMBC Ebiquity Research Group
UMBC Discovery, Research, and Experimental Analysis of Malware Lab (DREAM Lab)
UMBC Interactive Robotics and Language Lab (IRAL Lab)
Computer Science - Computation and Language

description: Previous research on testing the vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) using adversarial attacks has primarily focused on nonsensical prompt injections, which are easily detected upon manual or automated review (e.g., via byte entropy). However, the exploration of innocuous human-understandable malicious prompts augmented with adversarial injections remains limited. In this research, we explore converting a nonsensical suffix attack into a sensible prompt via a situation-driven contextual re-writing. This allows us to show suffix conversion without any gradients, using only LLMs to perform the attacks, and thus better understand the scope of possible risks. We combine an independent, meaningful adversarial insertion and situations derived from movies to check if this can trick an LLM. The situations are extracted from the IMDB dataset, and prompts are defined following a few-shot chain-of-thought prompting. Our approach demonstrates that a successful situation-driven attack can be executed on both open-source and proprietary LLMs. We find that across many LLMs, as few as 1 attempt produces an attack and that these attacks transfer between LLMs. The link to our code is available at \url{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Situation-Driven-Adversarial-Attacks-7BB1/README.md}.
Simulation approach to understanding materials in contact
Creators: name: Klement, Nils
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Generative design techniques offer a promising approach to improve product development
to meet specific needs more efficiently. This thesis explores advanced design methods for
the enhanced development of electrical contacts. Additionally, techniques for obtaining
real data to validate the methods being explored are provided.

The focus is on developing a novel model to accurately simulate the contact area resulting
from elastic-plastic deformation on electrical contacts. After successful validation of the
model with real data, the contact resistance based on the simulated contact areas is computed
to predict the electrical performance. This enables targeted design improvements,
such as reducing power loss, selecting appropriate materials, and optimizing geometry.
Furthermore, the thesis aims to optimize insertion forces and the number of insertion cycles,
which are also crucial factors that influence the dynamic performance of electrical
contacts. Modeling the maximum insertion forces and the number of insertion cycles
provides insights into handling and expected lifespan. This holistic approach enables the
design of electrical contacts capable of withstanding varying operating conditions while
maintaining electrical performance.

The methodologies presented in this thesis extend beyond electrical contacts and offer
insights applicable to various systems involving surface contact or friction. This contribution
advances engineering design processes and product performance.
MeV+R: using MeV as a graphical user interface for Bioconductor applications in microarray analysis
Creators: name: Chu, Vu T
name: Gottardo, Raphael
name: Raftery, Adrian E
name: Bumgarner, Roger E
name: Yeung, Ka Y
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: We present MeV+R, an integration of the JAVA MultiExperiment Viewer program with Bioconductor packages. This integration of MultiExperiment Viewer and R is easily extensible to other R packages and provides users with point and click access to traditionally command line driven tools written in R. We demonstrate the ability to use MultiExperiment Viewer as a graphical user interface for Bioconductor applications in microarray data analysis by incorporating three Bioconductor packages, RAMA, BRIDGE and iterativeBMA.
Karen Chen Wins NSF CAREER Award To Build Tools To Empower Students With Data
Creators: name: Meyers, Catherine
Publisher: name: UMBC News
Year: 2024
Subjects: Zhiyuan Chen
UMBC Information Systems Department
John Fritz
UMBC Instructional Technology & New Media
Andrea Kleinsmith
Karen Chen

description: Photographer - Marlayna Demond
description: UMBC's Karen Chen has won an NSF CAREER award to advance data science and student-centered learning analytics.
Batis soror subsp. pallidigula van Someren
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Platysteiridae
Batis
Batis soror
Batis soror pallidigula van someren

description: Batis soror pallidigula van Someren
 Batis soror pallidigula van Someren, 1921: 103 (Lumbo).
 Now Batis soror Reichenow, 1903. See Traylor, 1986: 382, and Urban et al., 1997: 587–588.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 649125, adult female, collected at Lumbo, 15.00S, 40.40E (Times Atlas), Mozambique, on 17 July 1918, by V.G.L. van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren noted that his type, a female collected on 17 July 1918, was in the Rothschild Collection. AMNH 649125 is the only female from the van Someren collection collected on that date. Later he (van Someren, 1932: 297) said that he had had five specimens. Only one of these in addition to the holotype came to AMNH: paratype AMNH 649123, male, collected at Lumbo on 17 July 1918; it is marked ‘‘Cotype s pallidigula’’.
 There are two specimens from the Rothschild Collection in AMNH collected by Arthur Loveridge at Lumbo: AMNH 649124, male, 17 July 1918, and AMNH 649126, female, undated. Both are identified as pallidigula by Loveridge and marked by him ‘‘Co-type of race’’. Although they were collected at the type locality and one of them on the same day as the type, I find no evidence that they were in van Someren’s possession when he named the subspecies. I consider them topotypes. Loveridge (in Friedmann and Loveridge, 1937: 15) noted that he had collected at Lumbo in the vicinity of the British camp from June to November 1918.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Le capitalisme cybernétique dans la "société globale de l'information": Une approche culturelle de l'économie politique internationale
Creators: name: Ouellet, Maxime
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations.

description: Cette thèse analyse le rôle de la communication dans les transformations de l'économie mondiale. Elle questionne la "nouveauté" du capitalisme avancé, rebaptisé fréquemment "société globale de l'information". L'idée générale développée est que la "nouveauté", ou le caractère "révolutionnaire" de l'ère de l'information réfère davantage à une transformation d'ordre culturel liée à l'apparition d'un nouvel imaginaire économique qu'à une transformation strictement technologique. L'objectif de la thèse est de développer certains éléments théoriques d'une approche culturelle de l'économie afin d'expliquer comment le capitalisme mondialise, financiarise, et informatise---décrit comme une structure abstraite, auto-reproductive et déconnectée des rapports sociaux---s'enchasse dans des pratiques culturelles et des espaces sociaux spécifiques, qui participent à la reproduction symbolique et matérielle de l'économie mondiale. Notre lecture de l'économie politique critique s'appuie sur le concept d'imaginaire développé par Cornelius Castoriadis, en vue d'analyser les transformations épistémologiques néolibérales qui ont accompagné la restructuration des rapports sociaux globaux et locaux en fonction du paradigme de la communication cybernétique. Au coeur du nouveau régime d'accumulation financiarisé, cette transformation de la philosophie politico-économique constitue une victoire de certaines forces sociales, notamment des banques transnationales et des corporations qui oeuvrent dans les secteurs des services informationnels (assurance, informatique, télécommunication) face aux anciennes élites associées au compromis fordiste-keynésien. Un ensemble de discours et de pratiques sociales sont analysés en vue d'insister sur le rôle constitutif de la culture dans le régime d'accumulation financiarisé, qui normalise une forme de subjectivité "auto-régulée". La complémentarité institutionnelle entre la dérèglementation du secteur financier, des télécommunications et des droits de propriété intellectuelle à l'échelle locale et globale est également étudiée afin d'expliciter l'enchassement institutionnel du régime d'accumulation financiarisé. Ces transformations institutionnalisent l'imaginaire du capitalisme cybernétique et participent à une profonde reconfiguration des rapports de domination. Il est soutenu qu'une nouvelle forme de domination dépersonnalisée assure l'ordre dans la société globale de l'information. La spécificité de cette nouvelle forme de domination réside dans sa prétention "démocratique", dans la mesure ou les désirs d'émancipation sont instrumentalisés pour assurer la légitimation du régime d'accumulation et la reproduction élargie du capital.
Nuancing the narrative: understanding Asian American opposition to NYC’s selective high school admissions reform
Creators: name: Fu, Shuang
name: Blissett, Richard
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Critical discourse analysis
meritocracy
diversity
specialized high schools
Asian Americans

description: In this study, the authors conduct a qualitative analysis to examine discourses embedded in the New York City specialized public high schools’ admission reform. Undertaking Critical Discourse Analysis, the article engages with historical and contextual understandings of Asian Americans in the race-conscious admission policy to elite public high schools. The findings reveal themes of racism and anti-Asian American discrimination, meritocracy and colorblindness, and systematic issues and segregation swirling around the policy debate. The authors aim to illuminate the competing values, ideologies, and fundamental issues shaping the epistemological conversation of race, power, and education equity. These discourses shed light on the challenges, benefits, and limitations of the current approach to diversifying elite public high schools in the United States.
Genetic evidence links invasive monk parakeet populations in the United States to the international pet trade
Creators: name: Russello, Michael A.
name: Avery, Michael L.
name: Wright, Timothy F.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Severe ecological and economic impacts caused by some invasive species make it imperative to understand the attributes that permit them to spread. A notorious crop pest across its native range in South America, the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) has become established on four other continents, including growing populations in the United States. As a critical first step to studying mechanisms of invasion success in this species, here we elucidated the geographical and taxonomic history of the North American invasions of the monk parakeet. Specifically, we conducted a genetic assessment of current monk parakeet taxonomy based on mitochondrial DNA control region sequences from 73 museum specimens. These data supported comparative analyses of mtDNA lineage diversity in the native and naturalized ranges of the monk parakeet and allowed for identification of putative source populations. Results There was no molecular character support for the M. m. calita, M. m. cotorra, and M. m. monachus subspecies, while the Bolivian M. m. luchsi was monophyletic and diagnosably distinct. Three haplotypes sampled in the native range were detected within invasive populations in Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island, the two most common of which were unique to M. m. monachus samples from eastern Argentina and bordering areas in Brazil and Uruguay. Conclusion The lack of discrete morphological character differences in tandem with the results presented here suggest that M. m. calita, M. m. cotorra and M. m. monachus are in need of formal taxonomic revision. The genetic distinctiveness of M. m. luchsi is consistent with previous recommendations of allospecies status for this taxon. The geographic origins of haplotypes sampled in the four U.S. populations are concordant with trapping records from the mid-20th century and suggest that propagule pressure exerted by the international pet bird trade contributed to the establishment of invasive populations in the United States.
China-Programm der Stiftung Asienhaus: Wohin führen die Neuen Seidenstraßen? Chinas „Belt and Road Initiative“
Creators: name: Lafrenz, Jürgen
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
title: Géopolitique de la Normandie dans le monde, circulations des idées et des hommes, une perspective longue
Publisher: name: La forge numérique
Year: 2024

description: Une géopolitique de la Normandie dans son rapport au monde. Une géopolitique des idées et des hommes et des femmes qui les portent, lue au prisme de moments historiques où les événements qui s'y sont produits ont été en résonance avec l'histoire de l'Europe et parfois du Monde
Motor sequence learning occurs despite disrupted visual and proprioceptive feedback
Creators: name: Vidoni, Eric D.
name: Boyd, Lara A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Recent work has demonstrated the importance of proprioception for the development of internal representations of the forces encountered during a task. Evidence also exists for a significant role for proprioception in the execution of sequential movements. However, little work has explored the role of proprioceptive sensation during the learning of continuous movement sequences. Here, we report that the repeated segment of a continuous tracking task can be learned despite peripherally altered arm proprioception and severely restricted visual feedback regarding motor output. Methods Healthy adults practiced a continuous tracking task over 2 days. Half of the participants experienced vibration that altered proprioception of shoulder flexion/extension of the active tracking arm (experimental condition) and half experienced vibration of the passive resting arm (control condition). Visual feedback was restricted for all participants. Retention testing was conducted on a separate day to assess motor learning. Results Regardless of vibration condition, participants learned the repeated segment demonstrated by significant improvements in accuracy for tracking repeated as compared to random continuous movement sequences. Conclusion These results suggest that with practice, participants were able to use residual afferent information to overcome initial interference of tracking ability related to altered proprioception and restricted visual feedback to learn a continuous motor sequence. Motor learning occurred despite an initial interference of tracking noted during acquisition practice.
Evidence for Glaciovolcanic, Phreatomagmatic Tuff Dominated Ridges at Pavonis Mons, Mars
Creators: name: Scanlon, Kat
name: Garry, W. Brent
name: Head, James W.
Publisher: name: AGU
Year: 2024
Subjects: volcanism
glaciovolcanism
volcano-ice interactions
phreatomagmatism
Mars
Late Amazonian

description: HiRISE images and digital elevation models (DEMs) of outcrops in candidate Martian glaciovolcanoes provide more detailed evidence for glaciovolcanic processes than has previously been available for Mars. A group of ridges in the Pavonis Mons fan-shaped glacial deposit features pervasive layering, evidence for local collapse and slumping, and steeper faces in the direction of paleoglacier flow inferred from other features in the deposit. After comparison with terrestrial analogs, we conclude that these ridges are excellent candidates for tephra-dominated tindar, formed in phreatomagmatic subglacial eruptions. The englacial meltwater lakes required for a phreatomagmatic origin represent a rare example of voluminous surface water bodies in the Late Amazonian of Mars.
Widespread rape does not directly appear to increase the overall HIV prevalence in conflict-affected countries: so now what?
Creators: name: Anema, Aranka
name: Joffres, Michel R
name: Mills, Edward
name: Spiegel, Paul B
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is severely affected by HIV/AIDS and conflict. Sexual violence as a weapon of war has been associated with concerns about heightened HIV incidence among women. Widespread rape by combatants has been documented in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sudan and Uganda. To examine the assertion that widespread rape may not directly increase HIV prevalence at the population level, we built a model to determine the potential impact of varying scenarios of widespread rape on HIV prevalence in the above seven African countries. Discussion Our findings show that even in the most extreme situations, where 15% of the female population was raped, where HIV prevalence among assailants was 8 times the country population prevalence, and where the HIV transmission rate was highest at 4 times the average high rate, widespread rape increased the absolute HIV prevalence of these countries by only 0.023%. These projections support the finding that widespread rape in conflict-affected countries in SSA has not incurred a major direct population-level change in HIV prevalence. However, this must not be interpreted to say that widespread rape does not pose serious problems to women's acquisition of HIV on an individual basis or in specific settings. Furthermore, direct and indirect consequences of sexual violence, such as physical and psychosocial trauma, unwanted pregnancies, and stigma and discrimination cannot be understated. Summary The conclusions of this article do not significantly change current practices in the field from an operational perspective. Proper care and treatment must be provided to every survivor of rape regardless of the epidemiological effects of HIV transmission at the population level. Sexual violence must be treated as a protection issue and not solely a reproductive health and psychosocial issue. It is worth publishing data and conclusions that could be misconstrued and may not make much of a programmatic difference in the field. Data, if collected, analysed and interpreted carefully, help to improve our understanding of complicated and nuanced situations. Ultimately, our understanding of what the outcomes of such interventions can achieve will be more realistic. It also helps decision-makers prioritise their funding and interventions.
Femme-sujet ou femme-objet Le corps féminin chez Marie-Sissi Labrèche, Nelly Arcan et Clara Ness
Creators: name: Bouchard, Valérie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Literature, Comparative.
subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Literature, Canadian (French).

description: Dans plusieurs romans québécois récents, nous observons une tendance chez les auteurs féminins à exploiter le corps de la femme dans des écrits, souvent à connotation érotique. Ce corps devient un outil de séduction et sert au personnage féminin dans une quête quelconque (attention, affection, admiration, etc.) Cette approche surprend si nous considérons la démarche entreprise par les féministes des années 1970-80 pour libérer la femme de l'emprise qu'exercaient les hommes sur son corps et pour la faire passer d'objet à sujet, entre autres au sein d'une littérature féministe. Nous abordons donc, dans cette analyse d'oeuvres de nouvelles écrivaines, la conception du personnage féminin ainsi que son rôle, pour savoir si ce dernier renvoie à une fonction de sujet où s'il exerce plutôt un retour à la fonction d'objet, idéologie véhiculée par les valeurs patriarcales. À l'aide de romans contemporains, Borderline de Marie-Sissi Labrèche, Putain de Nelly Arcan et Ainsi font-elles toutes de Clara Ness, nous constatons que les personnages féminins donnent l'impression d'être sujets par la façon dont ils usent de leur corps pour se forger une identité et une personnalité forte. Par contre, les romancières récupèrent des idées misogynes entourant la femme, la ramenant à sa condition de femme-objet dont le corps sert au plaisir des hommes. Des études sur l'érotisme et la pornographie permettent de déterminer les limites et les différences entre ce qui est conçu pour le regard masculin et ce qui renvoie aux intérêts féminins. De plus, les théories sur l'agentivité qui étudient le pouvoir et le contrôle qu'exercent les personnages féminins sur leur propre vie nous permettent de mieux délimiter les frontières entre femme-objet, femme-objet "volontaire" et "assumée" et femme-sujet.
Batis ituriensis Chapin 1921
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Platysteiridae
Batis
Batis ituriensis

description: Batis ituriensis Chapin
 Batis ituriensis Chapin, 1921: 5 (Gamangui, on Nepoko River, Ituri District, Belgian Congo).
 Now Batis ituriensis Chapin, 1921. See Urban et al., 1997: 600–601.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 159881, adult female, collected at Gamangui, 02.10N, 27.15E (Chapin, 1954: 663), Nepoko River, Ituri District, Congo (Kinshasa), on 4 February 1910, by James P. Chapin (no. 957) on the American Museum Congo Expedition.
 COMMENTS: The description of ituriensis was based on a single specimen.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
D2.1 - BeGREEN Reference Architecture
Creators: name: Bielsa, Guillermo
name: Esteban Rivas, Juan Francisco
name: Castellanos, German
name: Pryor, Simon
name: Berozashvii, Revaz
name: Perez-Romero, Jordi
name: Sallent Roig, José Oriol
name: Sánchez-González, Juan
name: Umbert Juliana, Anna
name: Catalan-Cid, Miguel
name: Municio, Esteban
name: Briggs, Keith
name: Koffman, Israel
name: Armstrong, Joss
name: Eger, Ory
name: Abhishek, Allaukik
name: Salvat Lozano, Josep Xavier
name: Ayala-Romero, Jose A.
name: Sark, Vladica
name: Gutiérrez, Jesús
name: Ghoraishi, Mir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: BeGREEN proposes an evolved radio network that targets not only improved wireless communication’s efficiency by maximising performance but also reducing energy consumption. It aims to go beyond the current 5G wireless system specifications to accommodate increasing traffic and services but also consider power consumption as a factor. Determining the metrics by which power consumption should be included is a key feature which will be studied as first stage of the project. This will include not only the cost of the energy but also societal factors.

This deliverable delves into describing current energy efficient frameworks and strategies that aim to model the radio access network (RAN) that serve for identifying and quantifying the parts of this network segment that can allow for improved energy efficiency and reduced energy consumption.

It also provides an initial description of the proposed use cases and their specific requirements, focusing on the scenarios that are subject to study and the reference Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will be later evaluated and captured in subsequent BeGREEN documents.

Additionally, this deliverable presents a high-level analysis of the BeGREEN RAN architecture along with the optimization strategies that can be applied to the RAN components, supported by those additional components that can are being currently considered in 3GPP latest releases (e.g. relays) and others that offer improved wireless communication at low energy cost.

Finally, it provides the energy control mechanisms that can be applied in a 5G disaggregated RAN and mechanisms enhanced by artificial intelligence and/or machine learning (AI/ML).