cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Taking stock : testing the Lehman sisters' hypothesis. Diversity and risk-taking in the finance sector
Creators: name: Hollingdale, Hazel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: After the 2008 global financial collapse, scholars and industry leaders alike hypothesized that had the Lehman Brothers instead been the Lehman Sisters, the crash might have been avoided. The “Lehman Sisters’ Hypothesis” suggests that employing more women in the sex-segregated finance sector would not only promote gender equity, but could reduce the number of reckless risks taken, resulting in more stable economic markets. At the heart of this hypothesis is a belief that women handle risk differently than men, often stemming from essentialist understandings of gendered “differences”. However, other research suggests that rather than innate differences, decision-making is improved when groups are made up of people form diverse backgrounds with unique perspectives that lead to enhanced knowledge elaboration. In this mixed-methods dissertation, I use the Lehman Sisters’ hypothesis as a point of entry to explore the effect of sex and racial compositional diversity on risk outcomes. For the quantitative portion, I draw on 10 years of sex and race occupational composition data from 245 finance firms and their subsidiary establishments in the United States to evaluate the effect of gender and race diversity on a firm’s financial violations. In a series of negative binomial regression models, I find that higher levels of racial and gender diversity can reduce financial violations in firms, but I also find that diversity effects depend on occupation. I hypothesize that different occupations offer different levels of insulation from cultural pressures that normalize reckless risk-taking. For the qualitative component, I interviewed 62 financial professionals to glean insight into the cultural context of finance firms to better understand how policy reforms have affected women’s workplace experiences. I find that 20 years on from near industry-wide gender-equity policy reform, women in finance continue to face discrimination and harassment, yet are reluctant to use the gender equity policy that is in place. Finance firms still have gendered organizational cultures which tacitly (and sometimes explicitly) penalize women who do not conform to gendered expectations. I make a series of policy recommendations that can be used by financial firms to better catalyze diversity initiatives.
Quantum Efficiency of Charge Qubit Measurements Using a Single Electron Transistor
Creators: name: Ye, Yin
name: Ping, Jing
name: Jiao, HuJun
name: Li, Shu-Shen
name: Li, Xin-Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum efficiency, which characterizes the quality of information gain against information loss, is an important figure of merit for any realistic quantum detectors in the gradual process of collapsing the state being measured. In this work we consider the problem of solid-state charge qubit measurements with a single-electron-transistor (SET). We analyze two models: one corresponds to a strong response SET, and the other is a tunable one in response strength. We find that the response strength would essentially bound the quantum efficiency, making the detector non-quantum-limited. Quantum limited measurements, however, can be achieved in the limits of strong response and asymmetric tunneling. The present study is also associated with appropriate justifications for the measurement and backaction-dephasing rates, which were usually evaluated in controversial methods.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Factors Influencing Indigenous Knowledge of Rangeland Management Practices in Borana Pastoral Areas, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tafesse, Benti
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Sustainable Development
Year: 2018

description: In most pastoral areas of Ethiopia, rangelands have traditionally been managed by customary institutions, especially in Borana but with the start of various pressures, this management system is increasingly undermined and the interventions ended up with little success story but more of in favor of environmental degradations. Looking into indigenous rangeland management practices of pastoral community is a useful way to develop sustainable rangeland productivity. Rangeland plays an essential role in the livelihood activities of Ethiopian pastoralists as well as Ethiopian economy. Numerous researches have been done on rangeland management practices, but little study has been done with respect to the determinants of indigenous rangeland management in specific social, economic and ecological context. In this case, the aim of the study was to assess the determinants of the indigenous rangeland management practices of pastoral communities and assess perception of pastoral households towards the attributing causes of rangeland degradation in Borana. The study employed descriptive and inferential statistical methods to analyze the data. The findings indicate that the indigenous practice accurately reflects the productivity of the rangeland since the Borana area is unpredictable environment and victim for severe drought every year. The results of binary logit regression showed that a unit increase in age of the household head, the odds ratio in favor of practicing in traditional rangelands management increase by 1.096. Holding other variables constant, a unit increase in cultivated farm size would decrease the odds ratio in favor of practicing traditional management by a factor of 0.618. In Borana area, grazing land and water resources are jointly handled. Hence, privately owned grazing land and water points disturb patterns of mobility in a way grazing land use becomes inefficient as grazing concentrates close to the water points, leading to degradation of the rangelands. Access to communal water point was also found to be significant influence on respondents’ traditional rangeland management practice at 10% significance level (p < 0.1). On the other hand, the result of odd-ratio indicates that, access to communal water point will increase the probability of rangeland management practice by 0.22 percent. The study recommends bases for ecologically sound and culturally appropriate indigenous rangeland management practices.
description: Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)
Additional file 14 of Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Chavez, Ivan N.
name: Brown, Taylor M.
name: Assié, Adrien
name: Bryant, Astra S.
name: Samuel, Buck S.
name: Hallem, Elissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 14: Fig. S13. The effect of P. mirabilis on S. stercoralis egg hatching is due to a direct effect on embryonic development rather than an indirect effect on mating behavior. a. Culturing individual S. stercoralis young adult females on P. mirabilis in the absence of males resulted in reduced egg hatching after 24 h (left) and 48 h (right). For these experiments, lone young adult females containing 1-5 eggs in their gonad were cultured on a lawn of either P. mirabilis or E. coli in the absence of males for 24 h, and the frequency of egg hatching was then scored at 24 and 48 h. ***p
Additional file 1 of Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Chavez, Ivan N.
name: Brown, Taylor M.
name: Assié, Adrien
name: Bryant, Astra S.
name: Samuel, Buck S.
name: Hallem, Elissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Microbial community profiles for S. stercoralis and controls. Stacked bar plots showing the bacterial families that were identified by 16S amplicon sequencing. Sequencing samples included DNA isolated from wash buffer control 1, consisting of the buffer that was used to wash the nematodes; wash buffer control 2, consisting of the buffer supernatant after washing the nematodes; S. stercoralis free-living adults; and S. stercoralis iL3s (Fig. 2a). Non-significant amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) with 60% of tested features). Those ASVs are further identified with an asterisk in the legend. The Campylobacteria are a reclassification of the Epsilonproteobacteria and a sister phyla of the Proteobacteria [72].
Spectral problems in open quantum chaos
Creators: name: Nonnenmacher, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This review article will present some recent results and methods in the study of 1-particle quantum or wave scattering systems, in the semiclassical/high frequency limit, in cases where the corresponding classical/ray dynamics is chaotic. We will focus on the distribution of quantum resonances, and the structure of the corresponding metastable states. Our study includes the toy model of open quantum maps, as well as the recent quantum monodromy operator method.
description: Compared with the previous version, misprints and typos have been corrected, and the bibliography updated
Atrial Fibrillation Risk Prediction from Row ECG - Pre-trained Deep Neural Network Models
Creators: name: Habineza, Theogene
name: Ribeiro, H. Antônio
name: Gedon, Daniel
name: Behar, A. Joachim
name: Ribeiro, P. Antonio Luiz
name: Schön, B. Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Atrial fibrillation; Deep Neural Network; ECG; Risk prediction; Survival analysis

description: This is a pre-trained deep neural network (DNN) model for risk prediction of atrial fibrillation (AF) from row ECG samples. From ECG data, the model can predict whether a patient is with AF condition, whether a patient is without the condition and without the risk or whether a patient is at risk of developing AF in the near future (within 7 years). The output from the DNN model can then be applied on a survival model for further risk analysis. The companion code can be found in: https://github.com/mygithth27/af-risk-prediction-by-ecg-dnn
Additional file 2 of Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Chavez, Ivan N.
name: Brown, Taylor M.
name: Assié, Adrien
name: Bryant, Astra S.
name: Samuel, Buck S.
name: Hallem, Elissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Heatmap summary of the genera abundance across samples for Experiment 1. Average relative abundance of different genera found in the different sample categories for Experiment 1. Sequencing samples were as described for Additional file 1: Fig. S1, in addition to an empty well negative control that was processed along with the other samples. ASVs were filtered to display only samples with an average relative abundance > 0.5%. Small columns within each category represent replicate samples.
The Hardy Space $H^1$ on Non-homogeneous Metric Spaces
Creators: name: Hytönen, Tuomas
name: Yang, Dachun
name: Yang, Dongyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B30 (Primary) 42B20, 42B35 (Secondary)

description: Let $({\mathcal X}, d, μ)$ be a metric measure space and satisfy the so-called upper doubling condition and the geometrical doubling condition. In this paper, we introduce the atomic Hardy space $H^1(μ)$ and prove that its dual space is the known space ${\rm RBMO}(μ)$ in this context. Using this duality, we establish a criterion for the boundedness of linear operators from $H^1(μ)$ to any Banach space. As an application of this criterion, we obtain the boundedness of Calderón--Zygmund operators from $H^1(μ)$ to $L^1(μ)$.
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the authors, since it has already been published
Unsupervised domain adaptation and generative model for intelligent engineering systems
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Data-driven approaches have been widely applied to intelligent engineering systems. Their performance has been improved signiﬁcantly by deep neural networks, which take advantage of large quantities of labeled data. However, the discriminative model that is trained using one dataset typically performs poorly when another different but related dataset is applied. In other words, it is difﬁcult to design a discriminative model that can perform consistently well in different application scenarios without using any adaptation strategies. To tackle this problem, a research ﬁeld called unsupervised domain adaptation, which aims at transferring knowledge from a label-rich source domain to an unlabeled target domain becomes active, has emerged. It is known that a discriminative model that is independent of the users or the environments, can be generalized by using unsupervised domain adaptation algorithms. However, there is a problem with all existing unsupervised domain adaptation methods. They cannot always learn a common representation space for the features from the two domains, making it difﬁcult for the target domain to take advantage of the discriminative source features for its classiﬁcation. To tackle this problem, speciﬁcally for engineering applications, two novel approaches, namely discriminative feature alignment and mutual variational inference, are proposed in the thesis. The proposed discriminative feature alignment can ensure that the features from the two domains can be properly constructed in a single distribution space, which is the space of a predeﬁned Gaussian prior distribution where the target input samples can maximally take advantage of the discriminative source features for their classiﬁcation tasks. The proposed mutual variational inference can indirectly transfer the knowledge learned from the source domain to the target domain via variational inference and mutual-information optimization. The developments are implemented on practical engineering problems and the performance is carefully evaluated to validate them.
Additional file 3 of Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Chavez, Ivan N.
name: Brown, Taylor M.
name: Assié, Adrien
name: Bryant, Astra S.
name: Samuel, Buck S.
name: Hallem, Elissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. Heatmap summary of order abundance across samples for Experiment 1. Average relative abundance of different orders found in the different sample categories for Experiment 1, indicating the large abundance of Escherichia-Shigella, Lactobacillus, and Solibacillus ASVs in S. stercoralis free-living adults. Sequencing samples were as described for Additional file 1: Fig. S1, in addition to an empty well negative control that was processed along with the other samples. ASVs were filtered to display only samples with an average relative abundance > 0.5%. ASV identifiers in red are those that showed a significant enrichment in S. stercoralis free-living adults vs. controls in both sequencing experiments. Small columns within each category represent replicate samples.
Selected Nutritional Values and Physicochemical Properties of Traditionally Prepared Ethiopian Fresh Butter Intended for Direct Consumption
Creators: name: Bekele, Shitaye
name: Abebaw, Alemayehu
name: Bayissa, Leta Danno
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Sustainable Development
Year: 2018

description: Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)
VALIDATION OF NUCLEAR GAUGE DENSITY-METER READINGS AGAINST SAND REPLACEMENT METHOD
Creators: name: Maregesi, Gerald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Civil geotechnical engineering

description: This paper presents wet density and moisture content comparative test results of surface nuclear gauge density-meter against sand replacement method. The test results were obtained by carrying out field density parallel testing, whereby the density and moisture readings were determined first using a nuclear gauge density-meter followed by the sand replacement method. The use of “multiple shift coefficients” developed from a linear regression model as a means of adjusting and calibrating the nuclear gauge density-meter readings against sand replacement test results is proposed.
200 A GeV Au+Au collisions serve a nearly perfect quark-gluon liquid
Creators: name: Song, Huichao
name: Bass, Steffen A.
name: Heinz, Ulrich W.
name: Hirano, Tetsufumi
name: Shen, Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The specific shear viscosity (eta/s)_QGP of a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) at temperatures T_c < T < 2T_c is extracted from the centrality dependence of the eccentricity-scaled elliptic flow measured in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Coupling viscous fluid dynamics for the QGP with a microscopic transport model for hadronic freeze-out we find that the eccentricity-scaled elliptic flow is a universal function of charged multiplicity per unit overlap area, (1/S)(dN_ch/dy), that depends only on the viscosity but not on the model used for computing the initial fireball eccentricity. Comparing with measurements we find 1 < (4pi)(eta/s)_QGP < 2.5 where the uncertainty range is dominated by model uncertainties for the eccentricity values used to normalize the measured elliptic flow.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by PRL
An alarm device for mechanical compression device displacement at femoral artery puncture sites
Creators: name: Gu, Yue-Huan
name: Ye, Shu-Jin
name: Song, Li-Wei
name: Zhao, Ai-Ping
name: Zhang, Ting
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: To develop an alarm device for the mechanical compression device displacement (MCD), and further evaluate its effectiveness in clinical use. The alarm device is mainly composed of buzzer, indicator light, magnetic sheet. This is a prospective randomized and controlled study. Four hundred patients who met the inclusion/exclusion criteria were included and randomly assigned to two groups (MCD group vs alarm + MCD group). The primary outcome measures were the sensitivity and specificity of the alarm device to detect MCD displacement, time to hemostasis (TTH), time to ambulation (TTA), time to hospital discharge (TTHD), hospital costs (HC), complication rates, and patient satisfaction. The sensitivity and specificity of the alarm device in detecting MCD displacement were 94.44% and 88.46%, respectively. The study group achieved shorter TTH (p = .034), shorter TTA (p = .021), lower complication rates (p = .025), and better patients’ satisfaction (p < .001) compared to the control group. However, no significant difference was observed in TTHD (p = .361) and HC (p = .583). The alarm device is highly sensitive in detecting MCD displacement, while achieving better clinical outcomes compared with artificial monitoring.
Halo abundances and counts-in-cells: The excursion set approach with correlated steps
Creators: name: Paranjape, Aseem
name: Lam, Tsz Yan
name: Sheth, Ravi K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Excursion Set approach has been used to make predictions for a number of interesting quantities in studies of nonlinear hierarchical clustering. These include the halo mass function, halo merger rates, halo formation times and masses, halo clustering, analogous quantities for voids, and the distribution of dark matter counts in randomly placed cells. The approach assumes that all these quantities can be mapped to problems involving the first crossing distribution of a suitably chosen barrier by random walks. Most analytic expressions for these distributions ignore the fact that, although different k-modes in the initial Gaussian field are uncorrelated, this is not true in real space: the values of the density field at a given spatial position, when smoothed on different real-space scales, are correlated in a nontrivial way. As a result, the problem is to estimate first crossing distribution by random walks having correlated rather than uncorrelated steps. In 1990, Peacock & Heavens presented a simple approximation for the first crossing distribution of a single barrier of constant height by walks with correlated steps. We show that their approximation can be thought of as a correction to the distribution associated with what we call smooth completely correlated walks. We then use this insight to extend their approach to treat moving barriers, as well as walks that are constrained to pass through a certain point before crossing the barrier. For the latter, we show that a simple rescaling, inspired by bivariate Gaussian statistics, of the unconditional first crossing distribution, accurately describes the conditional distribution, independently of the choice of analytical prescription for the former. In all cases, comparison with Monte-Carlo solutions of the problem shows reasonably good agreement. (Abridged)
description: 14 pages, 9 figures; v2 -- revised version with explicit demonstration that the original conclusions hold for LCDM, expanded discussion on stochasticity of barrier. Accepted in MNRAS
Additional file 4 of Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Chavez, Ivan N.
name: Brown, Taylor M.
name: Assié, Adrien
name: Bryant, Astra S.
name: Samuel, Buck S.
name: Hallem, Elissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Heatmap summary of the genera abundance across samples for Experiment 2. Average relative abundance of different genera found in the different sample categories for Experiment 2. Sequencing samples were as described for Additional file 1: Fig. S1, except that S. stercoralis iL3s were not included in this experiment. ASVs were filtered to display only samples with an average relative abundance > 0.5%. Small columns within each category represent replicate samples.
Vibration Analysis of Beams Using Alternative Admissible Functions with Penalties
Creators: name: Kateel, Srividyadhare M.C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vubration
Beams
Cracked Beams
Assumed Modes
Eigenvalues
Natural Frequencies
Modeshapes
Shallow Cracks
Boundary Conditions
Penalty Functions
Alternative Admissible Function

description: Establishing dynamic characteristics of structures is a challenging area of research. The dynamic characteristics of structures, such as natural frequencies, modeshapes, response levels and damping characteristics play an important role in identifying the condition of the structures. The assumed modes method is a particular analytical method used to estimate the dynamic characteristics of a structure. However, the eigenfunctions used in the assumed mode method often led to ill-conditioning due to the presence of hyperbolic functions. Furthermore, a change in the boundary conditions of the system usually necessitates a change in the choice of assumed mode. In this thesis, a set of Alternative Admissible Functions (AAF), along with penalty functions, are used to obtain closed form solutions for an Euler-Bernoulli beam with various boundary conditions. A key advantage of the proposed approach is that the choice of AAF does not depend on the boundary conditions since the boundary conditions are modelled via penalty functions. The mathematical formulation is validated with different boundary conditions, Clamped-Free (CF), Simply-Supported (SS), and Clamped-Clamped (CC). A specific relation between the penalty function and the system parameters are established for CF, SS and CC boundary conditions to obtain appropriate values of penalties. Validation of results with the reported literature indicates excellent agreement when compared with closed-form Euler-Bernoulli beam values. The AAF approach with penalties is extended to a beam with a shallow crack to estimate the dynamic characteristics. The crack is modelled as a penalty function via a massless rotational spring. This model has the advantage of simplifying parametric studies, because of its discrete nature, allowing easy modification in the crack position and depth of the crack. Therefore, once the model is established, various practical applications may be performed without reformulation of the problem. Validation of results with the reported literature on beams with shallow cracks indicates the suitability of the proposed approach.
Cochlear implantation for post-meningitis deafness with cochlear ossification: diagnosis and surgical strategy
Creators: name: Zhang, Na
name: Dong, Ruijuan
name: Zheng, Jun
name: Zhao, Yanling
name: Li, Yongxin
name: Chen, Xueqing
name: Zhao, Shouqin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Cochlear ossification (CO) after meningitis can cause profound sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). Cochlear implantation (CI) is the ideal treatment strategy for CO. To explore the strategy for CI in patients with CO after meningitis. In this retrospective study, the medical records of patients diagnosed with profound SNHL due to CO after meningitis and who underwent CI in our department between September 2010 and September 2021 were collected and reviewed. Their imaging and surgical findings were analyzed. The data of 26 patients with unilateral CI were reviewed. All patients underwent preoperative temporal high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and 22 patients magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The sensitivity of HRCT was 61.5% (10/26), whereas that of MRI was 81.8% (18/22). Combined HRCT and MRI achieved a detection rate of 92.3% (24/26). Twenty-two and four patients underwent complete and partial electrode implantations, respectively. Preoperative temporal bone HRCT and MRI are essential for determining whether a patient is suitable for CI and surgical planning. A false-negative diagnosis is possible when diagnosing CO, but combined HRCT and MRI can improve the positive rate of preoperative diagnosis of CO post meningitis. Early CI is recommended.
L'universo inevitabile: perché l'esistenza accade nella coscienza
Creators: name: Prosperi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Questo saggio propone una teoria metafisica secondo cui l’universo non può non esistere: il nulla assoluto è logicamente e ontologicamente impossibile. L’esistenza, in questa prospettiva, non è un’opzione ma una necessità strutturale.

A partire da questa intuizione, il testo sviluppa l’idea che l’universo non sia un oggetto passivo, ma un campo informazionale che si attualizza solo attraverso l’osservazione. La coscienza non è un prodotto della materia, ma il luogo stesso in cui l’essere accade.

 

Il saggio articola questa visione attraverso una sequenza di argomentazioni logiche e una teoria dei “livelli di coscienza”, culminando nell’ipotesi di una coscienza meta-osservativa. L’opera si muove al confine tra ontologia, filosofia della mente e interpretazioni della fisica contemporanea, proponendo un modello coerente in cui informazione, osservazione ed esistenza coincidono.
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Researching the effectiveness of pathfinding algorithms in Concolic Testing
Creators: name: ÐÐµÐ½ÑÑÐ¾Ð², ÐÐµÑÑ
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2021
Subjects: concolic testing
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random testing
testing
software analysis
static analysis
dynamic analysis

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description: This work is devoted to path finding algorithms in directed automatic random testing â Concolic Testing. An overview of recent research in this area is given. According to the formal description in the scientific paper, a path finding algorithm is implemented. The prototype of the algorithm was described in the framework of the white-box fuzzer for Java bytecode â KEX. A comparative assessment of the efficiency of the implemented algorithm in comparison with the known analogs is carried out.
Review on Potentials of Rhizobia-Leguminous Plants Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation for Sustainable Agriculture
Creators: name: Keneni, Asefa
Publisher: name: Journal of Science and Sustainable Development
Year: 2018

description: Agricultural sector throughout the World is facing problem of supplying sufficient amount of food for the increasing human population without affecting the sustainability of the environment. To supply sufficient food, increasing agricultural productivity is required, which in turn need sufficient application of nitrogen fertilizer which has negative effect on human health and on the environment. To overcome, the negative health and environmental effect of chemical nitrogen fertilizer in put in agriculture replacing or supplementing nitrogen inputs from biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) has been in use for more than a century. Form all Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) systems; the symbiotic nitrogen fixation between leguminous plants and rhizobia is the most efficient in supplying fixed nitrogen for the host plant. The use of Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) system to replace and or supplement the chemical nitrogen fertilizer is limited in the developing nations like Ethiopia. In addition, BNF is affected by various environmental factors like soil acidity, salinity, temperature, moisture, and the rhizobial strain(s) used. As a result, rhizobial strain (s) that has been adapted to the prevailing environmental conditions should be sought. In this review paper, the types of rhizobia and their contribution in biological nitrogen fixation, interaction of rhizobia with host plant and factors affecting symbiotic nitrogen fixation were summarized.
description: Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018)
title: How Banks Create Gridlock to Save Liquidity in Canada's Large Value Payment System
Creators: name: Garratt, Rodney
name: Lu, Zhentong
name: Tian, Phoebe
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2023

description: Using detailed data from Canada’s new high-value payment system (HVPS), we show how participants of the system save liquidity by exploiting the new gridlock resolution arrangement. These observed behaviors are consistent with the equilibrium of a “gridlock game” that captures the key incentives that participants face in the system. The findings have important implications for the design of HVPSs and shed light on financial institutions’ liquidity preference.
description: Au moyen de données détaillées provenant du nouveau système de paiement de grande valeur du Canada, nous montrons comment les participants au système économisent des liquidités grâce au mécanisme de résolution des blocages. Les comportements observés cadrent avec l’équilibre d’un « jeu de blocages » qui reproduit les principales mesures incitatives auxquelles les participants sont exposés dans le système. Nos résultats ont des conséquences importantes pour la conception des systèmes de paiement de grande valeur et mettent en lumière les préférences des institutions financières en matière de liquidités.
Testing the Concept of Quark-Hadron Duality with the ALEPH $τ$ Decay Data
Creators: name: Magradze, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a modified procedure for extracting the numerical value for the strong coupling constant $α_s$ from the $τ$ lepton hadronic decay rate into non-strange particles in the vector channel. We employ the concept of the quark-hadron duality specifically, introducing a boundary energy squared $s_{\rm p}>0$, the onset of the perturbative QCD continuum in Minkowski space \cite{BLR,Rafa,PPR}. To approximate the hadronic spectral function in the region $s>s_{\rm p}$, we use Analytic Perturbation Theory (APT) up to the fifth order. A new feature of our procedure is that it enables us to extract from the data simultaneously the QCD scale parameter $Λ_{\bar{\rm MS}}$ and the boundary energy squared $s_{\rm p}$. We carefully determine the experimental errors on these parameters which come from the errors on the invariant mass squared distribution. For the $\bar{\rm MS}$ scheme coupling constant, we obtain $α_s(m^{2}_τ)=0.308\pm 0.014_{\rm exp.}$. We show that our numerical analysis is more stable against higher-order corrections than the standard one. The extracted value for the duality point $s_{\rm p}$ is found surprisingly stable against perturbation theory corrections $s_{\rm d}= 1.71\pm 0.05_{\rm exp}\pm 0.00_{\rm th}\,\, {\rm GeV^{2}}$.Additionally, we recalculate the "experimental" Adler function in the infrared region using final ALEPH results. The uncertainty on this function is also determined.
description: 33 pages, 1 postscript figure, 14 Tables. Abstract corrected, two new Tables 1 and 7 added, numbers in Eqs. 43,45,47,52 corrected, numbers in Tables 4,5,6,9,10 corrected, new references [15,16,17,18,21,46,48,50,51] added, presentation of the material improved. see also arXiv: 1112.5958 [hep-ph](2011) a Revised version of the article published in Few-Body Syst(2010) 48:143-169; Erratum: Few Body Syst. 2012 Online First
Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics
Creators: name: Grucza, Sambor
name: Hansen-Schirra, Silvia
Publisher: name: Language Science Press
Year: 2016

description: Eyetracking has become a powerful tool in scientific research and has finally found its way into disciplines such as applied linguistics and translation studies, paving the way for new insights and challenges in these fields. The aim of the first International Conference on Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics (ICEAL) was to bring together researchers who use eyetracking to empirically answer their research questions. It was intended to bridge the gaps between applied linguistics, translation studies, cognitive science and computational linguistics on the one hand and to further encourage innovative research methodologies and data triangulation on the other hand. These challenges are also addressed in this proceedings volume: While the studies described in the volume deal with a wide range of topics, they all agree on eyetracking as an appropriate methodology in empirical research.
description: Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
Additional file 5 of Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Chavez, Ivan N.
name: Brown, Taylor M.
name: Assié, Adrien
name: Bryant, Astra S.
name: Samuel, Buck S.
name: Hallem, Elissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S5. Heatmap summary of order abundance across samples for Experiment 2. Average relative abundance of different orders found in the different sample categories for Experiment 2, indicating the large abundance of Escherichia-Shigella, Lactobacillus, and Solibacillus ASVs in S. stercoralis free-living adults. Sequencing samples were as described for Additional file 1: Fig. S1, except that S. stercoralis iL3s were not included in this experiment. ASVs were filtered to display only samples with an average relative abundance > 0.5%. ASV identifiers in red are those that showed a significant enrichment in S. stercoralis free-living adults vs. controls in both sequencing experiments. Small columns within each category represent replicate samples.
Bibliography of Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics
Creators: name: Grucza, Sambor
name: Hansen-Schirra, Silvia
Publisher: name: Language Science Press
Year: 2016

description: Eyetracking has become a powerful tool in scientific research and has finally found its way into disciplines such as applied linguistics and translation studies, paving the way for new insights and challenges in these fields. The aim of the first International Conference on Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics (ICEAL) was to bring together researchers who use eyetracking to empirically answer their research questions. It was intended to bridge the gaps between applied linguistics, translation studies, cognitive science and computational linguistics on the one hand and to further encourage innovative research methodologies and data triangulation on the other hand. These challenges are also addressed in this proceedings volume: While the studies described in the volume deal with a wide range of topics, they all agree on eyetracking as an appropriate methodology in empirical research.
description: Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
Numerical Solutions of ideal two-fluid equations very closed to the event horizon of Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Rahman, M. Atiqur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 3+1 formalism of Thorne, Price and Macdonald has been used to derive the linear two-fluid equations describing transverse and longitudinal waves propagating in the two-fluid ideal collisionless plasmas surrounding a Schwarzschild black hole. The plasma is assumed to be falling in radial direction toward the event horizon. The relativistic two-fluid equations have been reformulate, in analogy with the special relativistic formulation as explained in an earlier paper, to take account of relativistic effects due to the event horizon. Here a WKB approximation is used to derive the local dispersion relation for these waves and solved numerically for the wave number k.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0902.3766, arXiv:0807.4595
Additional file 6 of Skin-penetrating nematodes exhibit life-stage-specific interactions with host-associated and environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Chavez, Ivan N.
name: Brown, Taylor M.
name: Assié, Adrien
name: Bryant, Astra S.
name: Samuel, Buck S.
name: Hallem, Elissa A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S1. The bacterial panel selected. The table lists each bacterial species tested, its environment-type designation, the rationale for selecting it, and supporting references.
Halo bias in the excursion set approach with correlated steps
Creators: name: Paranjape, Aseem
name: Sheth, Ravi K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Excursion Set approach, halo abundances and clustering are closely related. This relation is exploited in many modern methods which seek to constrain cosmological parameters on the basis of the observed spatial distribution of clusters. However, to obtain analytic expressions for these quantities, most Excursion Set based predictions ignore the fact that, although different k-modes in the initial Gaussian field are uncorrelated, this is not true in real space: the values of the density field at a given spatial position, when smoothed on different real-space scales, are correlated in a nontrivial way. We show that when the excursion set approach is extended to include such correlations, then one must be careful to account for the fact that the associated prediction for halo bias is explicitly a real-space quantity. Therefore, care must be taken when comparing the predictions of this approach with measurements in simulations, which are typically made in Fourier-space. We show how to correct for this effect, and demonstrate that ignorance of this effect in recent analyses of halo bias has led to incorrect conclusions and biased constraints.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; v2 -- minor clarifications, accepted in MNRAS
Frammenti dipinti della Domus Augusti Studio dei materiali e delle tecniche esecutive
Creators: name: Dewinter, Clara
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2020

description: L’analisi dei frammenti di intonaci dipinti provenienti dalla Domus Augusti a Roma, appartenenti alla prima fase costruttiva dell’edificio la cui realizzazione è compresa tra il 42 e il 36 a.C., è stata svolta usando tecniche analitiche complementari a quelle di un precedente studio. La microscopia ottica a luce trasmessa è stata utilizzata per lo studio degli strati di preparazione dei frammenti; la microscopia ottica a luce incidente e la microscopia elettronica a scansione con micro-analisi chimica (SEM-EDS) hanno permesso la caratterizzazione chimica dei pigmenti utilizzati. I risultati ottenuti hanno ampliato il quadro delle conoscenze riguardanti le tecniche decorative in età romana.
Nanoscale Phenomenology from Visualizing Pair Formation Experiment
Creators: name: Abdullaev, B.
name: Park, C. -H.
name: Musakhanov, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Gomes et al. [1] have visualized the gap formation in nanoscale regions (NRs) above the critical temperature T_c in the high-T_c superconductor Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}. It has been found that, as the temperature lowers, the NRs expand in the bulk superconducting state consisted of inhomogeneities. The fact that the size of the inhomogeneity [2] is close to the minimal size of the NR [1] leads to a conclusion that the superconducting phase is a result of these overlapped NRs. In the present paper we perform the charge and percolation regime analysis of NRs and show that at the first critical doping x_{c1}, when the superconductivity starts on, each NR carries the positive electric charge one in units of electron charge, thus we attribute the NR to a single hole boson, and the percolation lines connecting these bosons emerge. At the second critical doping x_{c2}, when the superconductivity disappears, our analysis demonstrates that the charge of each NR equals two. The origin of x_{c2} can be understood by introducing additional normal phase hole fermions in NRs, whose concentration appearing above x_{c1} increases smoothly with the doping and breaks the percolation lines of bosons at x_{c2}. The last one results in disappearing the bulk bosonic property of the pseudogap (PG) region, which explains the upper bound for existence of vortices in Nernst effect [3]. Since [1] has demonstrated the absence of NRs at the PG boundary one can conclude that along this boundary, as well as in x_{c2}, all bosons disappear.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. Good quality figure one can find in published journal paper. Added 4 new references. Section of arXiv: 1010.0434
MICA IN CONCRETE
Creators: name: Maregesi, Gerald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Civil geotechnical engineering

description: The Udzungwa escarpment is located in Iringa region, extending its boundary to Morogoro region (Tanzania). The fine and coarse aggregates produced from the rocks available within these scarps contains an abundant amount of mica. The pit-run sand which is formed from mechanical and chemical disintegration of the parent rocks available within these scarps are equally contaminated with mica.  Depending upon some geological formation, the mica content [biotite, muscovite] of Udzungwa scarp aggregates is invariably high. In this paper, the effect of mica on compressive strength and on the water demand of the concrete made using fine aggregates from these scarps is presented. From the laboratory test results, it was established that the presence of mica in fine aggregates causes a reduction of the compressive strength in the range of 8-23% while the water demand of the concrete was found to increase in the range of  8-16% [17-33 l/m3]. 