cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Expected $1.x$-Makespan-Optimal MAPF on Grids in Low-Poly Time
Creators: name: Guo, Teng
name: Yu, Jingjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is NP-hard to solve optimally, even on graphs, suggesting no polynomial-time algorithms can compute exact optimal solutions for them. This raises a natural question: How optimal can polynomial-time algorithms reach? Whereas algorithms for computing constant-factor optimal solutions have been developed, the constant factor is generally very large, limiting their application potential. In this work, among other breakthroughs, we propose the first low-polynomial-time MAPF algorithms delivering $1$-$1.5$ (resp., $1$-$1.67$) asymptotic makespan optimality guarantees for 2D (resp., 3D) grids for random instances at a very high $1/3$ agent density, with high probability. Moreover, when regularly distributed obstacles are introduced, our methods experience no performance degradation. These methods generalize to support $100\%$ agent density. Regardless of the dimensionality and density, our high-quality methods are enabled by a unique hierarchical integration of two key building blocks. At the higher level, we apply the labeled Grid Rearrangement Algorithm (RTA), capable of performing efficient reconfiguration on grids through row/column shuffles. At the lower level, we devise novel methods that efficiently simulate row/column shuffles returned by RTA. Our implementations of RTA-based algorithms are highly effective in extensive numerical evaluations, demonstrating excellent scalability compared to other SOTA methods. For example, in 3D settings, \rta-based algorithms readily scale to grids with over $370,000$ vertices and over $120,000$ agents and consistently achieve conservative makespan optimality approaching $1.5$, as predicted by our theoretical analysis.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2201.08976
Accuracy and Judgment Bias of Low Intensity Emotional Expression Among Individuals with Major Depression
Creators: name: Bakerman, Davina
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2013
Subjects: Facial expressions
Depression
Accuracy
Bias

description: It has been suggested that depressed individuals have difficulties decoding emotional facial expressions in others contributing to a negative cycle of interpersonal difficulties. Some studies have demonstrated global deficits in the processing of emotional facial expressions compared to non-depressed participants, whereas others have noted differences for specific emotions. Methodological issues, including the operationalization of accuracy and bias and the examination of a limited range of emotion and intensity, can partially explain the mixed findings. The aim of the current study was to examine differences in accuracy in the detection of emotional facial expressions in participants with MDD (currently depressed, partially remitted, and those with a lifetime history of MDD) and non-depressed comparisons. Methodological limitations of previous studies were addressed by: (a) using the unbiased hit rate (Wagner, 1993), which is a more precise measure of accuracy for specific emotion, (b) using a more precise measure of judgment bias, taking into account the overuse or underuse of specific emotion categories, (c) including the six basic emotions, and (d) incorporating expressions ranging from 20%-100% intensity. Of secondary interest was to determine whether transient mood state is predictive of accuracy scores regardless of diagnostic status. Thirty-seven depressed and 34 non-depressed participants recruited from the ROHCG Mood Disorders program and the University of Ottawa took part in this study. Clinical status was assessed using the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV (SCID-IV) and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). Participants also completed the Profile of Mood States-Bipolar (POMS-BI) form to assess mood state at the time of testing. The facial recognition task consisted of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise at 20%-100% intensity, presented for 500 ms. Participants pressed a computer key to identify the emotion that was presented. Results indicated that both groups of depressed participants were more accurate than non-depressed participants in detecting anger at 20% intensity. Depressed participants also showed a bias away from surprise. Group differences at high intensity were non-significant, however, participants with current depression and partial remission showed a bias towards anger at 50% intensity. Regression analyses were performed using the POMS-Agreeable Hostile (POMS-AH) and POMS-Elated Depressed (POMS-ED) scales to determine whether mood state was predictive of accuracy in the detection of anger and sadness. Regression models predicting accuracy were non-significant. Results of this study are considered in the context of cognitive and cognitive-interpersonal theories of MDD.
Meta-epidemiologic study of risk of bias assessed by Cochrane tool 2.0 and intervention effect estimates in intensive care randomised clinical trials. A protocol for the MERIT project
Creators: name: Koster, TM
name: Gluud, C
name: Jakobsen, JC
name: Van Der Horst, ICC
name: Keus, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Introduction
 Meta-epidemiological analyses have demonstrated that reported trial design characteristics (e.g. randomisation method) are associated with intervention effect estimates in randomised clinical trials, but none have systematically assessed these aspects in intensive care trials. The objective of this meta-epidemiological study is to assess the associations between reported trial design characteristics and intervention effect estimates of randomised clinical trials included in meta-analyses on intensive care medicine. Methods and analysis We will search The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, and EMBASE for systematic reviews and other reviews with meta-analyses of interventions in intensive care. We will extract data of pre-defined meta-analysed outcomes and the risk of bias assessments conducted by the authors of the reviews. We will reassess the risk of bias using the Cochrane risk of bias tool 2.0 (RoB 2.0). The primary analysis will evaluate the ratio of odds ratios (ROR) of the overall bias risk evaluation for the pre-defined outcomes. We will calculate the ROR by the OR of trials at overall some concerns on risk of bias or high risk of bias divided by the OR of trials at overall low risk of bias, so that a ROR < 1.0 indicates overestimation of beneficial intervention effects. Secondary analyses will evaluate the ROR of the individual bias risk domains. Tertiary analyses will compare the risk of bias assessments conducted by the review authors with RoB 1.0 with the one conducted by us employing RoB 2.0. Ethics and dissemination This will be a meta-epidemiological study and no patients will be involved in this study, accordingly no ethics approval is needed. Results of this study will be submitted for publication in an international peer-reviewed journal.
The ground states of hidden-charm tetraquarks and their radial excitations
Creators: name: Yu, Guo-Liang
name: Li, Zhen-Yu
name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
name: WU, Bin
name: Zhou, Ze
name: Lu, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the great progress in the observations of charmonium-like states in recent years, we perform a systematic analysis about the ground states and the first radially excited states of $qc\bar{q}\bar{c}$ ($q$=$u/d$ and $s$) tetraquark systems. Their mass spectra, root mean square (r.m.s.) radii and radial density distributions are predicted within the framework of relativized quark model. By comparing with experimental data, some potential candidates for hidden-charm tetraquark states are suggested. For $qc\bar{q}\bar{c}$ ($q$=$u/d$) system, if $Z_{c}(3900)$ is supposed to be a compact tetraquark state with $J^{PC}=1^{+-}$, $Z(4430)$ can be interpreted as the first radially excited states of $Z_{c}(3900)$. Another broad structure $Z_{c}(4200)$ can also be explained as a partner of $Z_{c}(3900)$, and it arise from a higher state with $J^{PC}=1^{+-}$. In addition, theoretical predictions indicate that the possible assignments for $X(3930)$, $X(4050)$ and $X(4250)$ are low lying $0^{++}$ tetraquark states. As for the $sc\bar{s}\bar{c}$ system, $X(4140)$ and $X(4274)$ structures can be interpreted as this type of tetraquark states with $J^{PC}=1^{++}$, and $X(4350)$ can be described as a $sc\bar{s}\bar{c}$ tetraquark with $J^{PC}=0^{++}$. With regard to $qc\bar{s}\bar{c}$ ($q$=$u/d$) system, we find two potential candidates for this type of tetraquark, which are $Z_{cs}(4000)$ and $Z_{cs}(4220)$ structures. The measured masses of these two structures are in agreement with theoretical predictions for the $1^{+}$ state.
The Calibration of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Emission as a Star Formation Rate Indicator in the AKARI NEP Survey
Creators: name: Kim, Helen Kyung
name: Malkan, Matthew A.
name: Takagi, Toshinobu
name: Oi, Nagisa
name: Burgarella, Denis
name: Miyaji, Takamitsu
name: Shim, Hyunjin
name: Matsuhara, Hideo
name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Ohyama, Yoichi
name: Buat, Veronique
name: Kim, Seong Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) dust emission has been proposed as an effective extinction-independent star formation rate (SFR) indicator in the mid-infrared (MIR), but this may depend on conditions in the interstellar medium. The coverage of the AKARI/Infrared Camera (IRC) allows us to study the effects of metallicity, starburst intensity, and active galactic nuclei on PAH emission in galaxies with $f_ν(L18W)\lesssim 19$ AB mag. Observations include follow-up, rest-frame optical spectra of 443 galaxies within the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole survey that have IRC detections from 7-24 $μ$m. We use optical emission line diagnostics to infer SFR based on H$α$ and [O II]$λλ3726,3729$ emission line luminosities. The PAH 6.2 $μ$m and PAH 7.7 $μ$m luminosities ($L(PAH\ 6.2\ μm)$ and $L(PAH\ 7.7\ μm)$, respectively) derived using multi-wavelength model fits are consistent with those derived from slitless spectroscopy within 0.2 dex. $L(PAH\ 6.2\ μm)$ and $L(PAH\ 7.7\ μm)$ correlate linearly with the 24 $μ$m-dust corrected H$α$ luminosity only for normal, star-forming ``main-sequence" galaxies. Assuming multi-linear correlations, we quantify the additional dependencies on metallicity and starburst intensity, which we use to correct our PAH SFR calibrations at $0
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 50 pages, 27 figures, 9 tables
title: Χώροι πολιτισμού στον λόφο Ξενία Κοζάνης. Επεμβάσεις στην γειτονιά Σκ'ρκα: συνδέοντας τον λόφο με την πόλη.
title: Cultural venues on Xenia hill at Kozani. Architectural interventions at Sk’rka neighborhood: connecting the hill with the city.
Creators: name: Τσαμου Βασιλικη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Στόχος της εργασίας αποτελεί η δημιουργία ενός κέντρου πολιτισμού στην πόλη της Κοζάνης. Στον πυρήνα αυτού του κέντρου βρίσκεται ένα σημαντικό μνημείο για την νεότερη ιστορία του τόπου, το ξενοδοχείο Ξενία Κοζάνης κατασκευασμένο από τον ΕΟΤ την δεκαετία του 60. Η προνομιακή θέση του Ξενία, σε συνδυασμό με την ανάγκη της πόλης να επαναπροσδιορίσει το χώρο στο δυτικό της όριο οδήγησαν στην επιλογή του θέματος της διπλωματικής. Η περιοχή επέμβασης συνορεύει με τη γειτονιά Σκ’ρκα, η οποία διατηρεί τον ιστορικό ιστό της και έχει χαρακτηριστικά οργανικής δόμησης ακολουθώντας το ανάγλυφο του εδάφους. Η επανάκτηση του δημόσιου χώρου στο λόφο γίνεται μέσω μιας νέας δομής πολιτισμού που εστιάζει στη διαφύλαξη της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς του τόπου, με την επανάχρηση του υφιστάμενου κτιρίου ως ξενοδοχείο, και με επιμέρους επεμβάσεις που καθιστούν την περιοχή προσβάσιμη από το κέντρο της πόλης. Το σύνολο της επέμβασης επιχειρεί να αποκαταστήσει την ασυνέχεια της πόλης και να γεφυρώσει αντιθέσεις που συναντώνται στην περιοχή μελέτης. Κρίνεται επίσης απαραίτητη η δημιουργία πολλαπλών αφηγήσεων, προκειμένου να καταστεί ισόρροπη η σχέση της επέμβασης τόσο για τον κάτοικο όσο και για τον επισκέπτη. Σκοπός της επέμβασης είναι η πόλη να προσελκύσει μελετητές και ενδιαφερόμενους σε ένα κέντρο φιλοξενίας με δράσεις  που αφορούν την τοπική κοινωνία.
¿COMO QUE BILINGUE?: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUALISM IN ORANGE COUNTY
Creators: name: De La Cruz, Rebeca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: qualitative
research
bilingualism
Spanish
Orange County

description: My name is Rebeca De La Cruz, and I am a President’s Scholar and University Honors student who will graduate Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Communicative Disorders, a B.A. in Spanish, a Minor in Linguistics, and a Certificate in Spanish-English Translation. While at CSUF, I served as a student leader in Best Buddies, Student Speech Therapists and Audiologists Nurturing Cultural Enrichment (STANCE), and Titan Catholic, and as a peer mentor through the President’s Scholars Student Association. Under the guidance of Dr. Minjung Kim, Dr. Rahul Chakraborty, and Dr. Reyes Fidalgo, I have conducted and presented research on sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and social justice at various state,national, and international conferences. I am a recipient of the Outstanding Student Award awarded by the California Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (CSHA), the“Titans in Action” Award from the Office of Student Life and Leadership and have been placed on the Dean’s List for all eight semesters. I have deepened my passion for the field of speech-language pathology through clinical volunteer work at Providence-St. Jude Medical Center, City of Hope National Medical Center, and the CSUF Speech and Hearing Clinic. After graduation, I plan to work as a freelance translator as I receive my master’s degree and become a certified bilingual speech-language pathologist.
Treatments for noise-induced hearing loss
Creators: name: Thom, Jadine
name: Peters, Cheryl E.
name: MacIntyre, Elaina
name: Winters, Meghan
name: Teschke, Kay
name: Davies, Hugh, 1957-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: This literature review was undertaken to review the status of research on available treatments for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) on behalf of Safety & Health in Arts Production and Entertainment (SHAPE). This review focuses on the studies that have exhibited a positive effect on NIHL in humans and that have been published since 1985 (see Appendix 1 for literature search strategies).
Nora Sausmikat, Klaus Fritsche (Hg.): Schneller, höher, weiter: China überholt sich selbst
Creators: name: C. Brod, Markus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 108 (2008): ASIEN (Juli)
Spoofing-Robust Speaker Verification Using Parallel Embedding Fusion: BTU Speech Group's Approach for ASVspoof5 Challenge
Creators: name: Kurnaz, Oğuzhan
name: Demirtaş, Selim Can
name: Büker, Aykut
name: Mishra, Jagabandhu
name: Hanilçi, Cemal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces the parallel network-based spoofing-aware speaker verification (SASV) system developed by BTU Speech Group for the ASVspoof5 Challenge. The SASV system integrates ASV and CM systems to enhance security against spoofing attacks. Our approach employs score and embedding fusion from ASV models (ECAPA-TDNN, WavLM) and CM models (AASIST). The fused embeddings are processed using a simple DNN structure, optimizing model performance with a combination of recently proposed a-DCF and BCE losses. We introduce a novel parallel network structure where two identical DNNs, fed with different inputs, independently process embeddings and produce SASV scores. The final SASV probability is derived by averaging these scores, enhancing robustness and accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed parallel DNN structure outperforms traditional single DNN methods, offering a more reliable and secure speaker verification system against spoofing attacks.
description: Accepted in ASVspoof2024 workshop
Exploring Physical Intentional Assault Injuries in Children and Youth, Ages 10 to 17 Years, in Canada : A pilot study
Creators: name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Nolan, Mhairi
name: Olsen, Lise
name: Han, Guanghong
name: Brussoni, Mariana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The objectives of the current study were to understand the characteristics and patterns of intentional physical assault injuries among children and youth aged 10 to 17 years, to identify how and why the assaults occurred, to examine relevant demographic variables of the assault victims, to use this information to inform prevention program design and to identify additional research needs. The methods used in this study include both quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative research used data from the national CHIRPP database for 1997-2001 and gives an overview of assault-related injuries across Canada. Qualitative face-to-face interviews were conducted with children and youth recent assault victims from BC in order to provide fresh insight and understanding regarding the triggers and circumstances surrounding the assaults.
Lebensspiralweg Krisenverarbeitung
Creators: name: Schuchardt, Erika
Publisher: name: [k.A.]
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::100 | Philosophie

description: Jede Krise: eine Chance! – Naseba Naru なせばなる – Auf dem Weg zum Heilsein durch den komplementären Lebens-Spiralweg Krisenverarbeitung: Vom „Warum ...?“ zum „Wozu ...!“
Enhancing Information Freshness: An AoI Optimized Markov Decision Process Dedicated In the Underwater Task
Creators: name: Xu, Jingzehua
name: Ding, Yimian
name: Yang, Yiyuan
name: Xie, Guanwen
name: Zhang, Shuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Ocean exploration utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) via reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a significant research focus. However, underwater tasks have mostly failed due to the observation delay caused by acoustic communication in the Internet of underwater things. In this study, we present an AoI optimized Markov decision process (AoI-MDP) to improve the performance of underwater tasks. Specifically, AoI-MDP models observation delay as signal delay through statistical signal processing, and includes this delay as a new component in the state space. Additionally, we introduce wait time in the action space, and integrate AoI with reward functions to achieve joint optimization of information freshness and decision-making for AUVs leveraging RL for training. Finally, we apply this approach to the multi-AUV data collection task scenario as an example. Simulation results highlight the feasibility of AoI-MDP, which effectively minimizes AoI while showcasing superior performance in the task. To accelerate relevant research in this field, we have made the simulation codes available as open-source.
Large Language Models as Efficient Reward Function Searchers for Custom-Environment Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Xie, Guanwen
name: Xu, Jingzehua
name: Yang, Yiyuan
name: Ding, Yimian
name: Zhang, Shuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Achieving the effective design and improvement of reward functions in reinforcement learning (RL) tasks with complex custom environments and multiple requirements presents considerable challenges. In this paper, we propose ERFSL, an efficient reward function searcher using LLMs, which enables LLMs to be effective white-box searchers and highlights their advanced semantic understanding capabilities. Specifically, we generate reward components for each numerically explicit user requirement and employ a reward critic to identify the correct code form. Then, LLMs assign weights to the reward components to balance their values and iteratively adjust the weights without ambiguity and redundant adjustments by flexibly adopting directional mutation and crossover strategies, similar to genetic algorithms, based on the context provided by the training log analyzer. We applied the framework to an underwater data collection RL task without direct human feedback or reward examples (zero-shot learning). The reward critic successfully corrects the reward code with only one feedback instance for each requirement, effectively preventing unrectifiable errors. The initialization of weights enables the acquisition of different reward functions within the Pareto solution set without the need for weight search. Even in cases where a weight is 500 times off, on average, only 5.2 iterations are needed to meet user requirements. The ERFSL also works well with most prompts utilizing GPT-4o mini, as we decompose the weight searching process to reduce the requirement for numerical and long-context understanding capabilities
Responsible Mixed Methods Research (RMMR)
Creators: name: Cameron, Ros
name: Herrmann, Heinz
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350799
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour not elsewhere classified

description: In the last decade, ethics has been given increased attention by mixed methods researchers (MMR) from several disciplines (Cain et al., 2019; Cameron & Herrmann, 2023; Hesse-Biber, 2010; Hesse-Biber & Johnson, 2013; Hesse-Biber & Leavy, 2010; Onwuegbuzie & Corrigan, 2014; Poth, 2018; Preissle et al., 2015). The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by MM researchers, such as machine learning and big data, is a more recent trend, owing to the increasing availability and access to large data sets from the internet in a combination of text, images, audio, and videos or multimodal data (Cameron & Herrmann, 2023; Creamer, 2020; Mills, 2019).
Modelling multivariate spatio-temporal data with identifiable variational autoencoders
Creators: name: Sipilä, Mika
name: Cappello, Claudia
name: De Iaco, Sandra
name: Nordhausen, Klaus
name: Taskinen, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modelling multivariate spatio-temporal data with complex dependency structures is a challenging task but can be simplified by assuming that the original variables are generated from independent latent components. If these components are found, they can be modelled univariately. Blind source separation aims to recover the latent components by estimating the unmixing transformation based on the observed data only. The current methods for spatio-temporal blind source separation are restricted to linear unmixing, and nonlinear variants have not been implemented. In this paper, we extend identifiable variational autoencoder to the nonlinear nonstationary spatio-temporal blind source separation setting and demonstrate its performance using comprehensive simulation studies. Additionally, we introduce two alternative methods for the latent dimension estimation, which is a crucial task in order to obtain the correct latent representation. Finally, we illustrate the proposed methods using a meteorological application, where we estimate the latent dimension and the latent components, interpret the components, and show how nonstationarity can be accounted and prediction accuracy can be improved by using the proposed nonlinear blind source separation method as a preprocessing method.
Weijian Liu: Kulturelle Exklusion und Identitätsentgrenzung. Zur Darstellung Chinas in der deutschen Literatur 1870-1930
Creators: name: Neddermann, Hauke
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 108 (2008): ASIEN (Juli)
Lessons from conducting mixed methods research prevalence studies: recommendations for overcoming the challenges of inconsistent reporting
Creators: name: Cameron, Ros
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460901
subject: Business process management

description: This chapter introduces mixed methods research (MMR) prevalence studies, their value to the MMR scholarly community and disciplines, and the challenges associated with undertaking such studies. MMR prevalence studies provide an indication as to the frequency at which MMR studies are being reported within discipline-specific literature which, over time, demonstrates the utility and acceptance of MMR within a discipline. However, as MMR studies are increasingly being reported, it is also notable that there are many inconsistencies in reporting (Skivington et al., 2021). To better understand how to overcome these inconsistencies and challenges, we draw upon an MMR prevalence study we conducted in the field of health management.
Michael Malone-Lee, Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472).
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Gianmario
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2024
Subjects: Italian Humanism
Bessarion

description: Michael Malone-Lee, Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472). Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins (Studies in Medieval History and Culture). Abingdon – New York: Routledge 2023. 216 pp., 2 ill. – ISBN 978-1-032-44240-2 (£ 135.00)
description: The Byzantine Review, Bd. 6 (2024)
FUNCTIONS OF PARALINGUISTIC MEANS
Creators: name: Abduazizova, Durdona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The article considers the functions of paralinguistic means in written and oral speech. The use of paralinguistic means is very diverse and is used in all speech acts, both in oral and written communication. In the structure of the utterance, paralinguistic means act as paraphonational and parakinesic means. The author analyzes excerpts of works by foreign writers and makes an argument about the polyfunctionality of paralinguistic means.
Lessons from conducting mixed methodsresearch prevalence studies: recommendationsfor overcoming the challenges of inconsistentreporting
Creators: name: Cameron, Ros
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460901
subject: Business process management

description: This chapter introduces mixed methods research (MMR) prevalence studies, their value to the MMR scholarly community and disciplines, and the challenges associated with undertaking such studies. MMR prevalence studies provide an indication as to the frequency at which MMR studies are being reported within discipline-specific literature which, over time, demonstrates the utility and acceptance of MMR within a discipline. However, as MMR studies are increasingly being reported, it is also notable that there are many inconsistencies in reporting (Skivington et al., 2021). To better understand how to overcome these inconsistencies and challenges, we draw upon an MMR prevalence study we conducted in the field of health management.
The Background Interstellar Medium as Observed from Off-Order Low-Resolution Spitzer-IRS Spectra
Creators: name: Boersma, Christiaan
name: Bregman, Jesse D.
name: Allamandola, Louis J.
name: Temi, Pasquale
name: Maragkoudakis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spitzer 'hidden' observations of the background are used to construct a catalog of 4,090 spectra and examine the signature of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules and their connection to extinction by dust. A strong positive correlation is recovered between WISE12, E(B-V), and the 11.2 $μ$m PAH band. For 0.06 $\leq$ E(B-V) $\leq$ 5.0, correlations of the 6.2, 11.2, and 12.7 $μ$m PAH band are positive with E(B-V). Three dust temperature regimes are revealed. Correlations with WISE12 are well-constrained and that with 12.7/11.2 is flat. Decomposition with the NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database reveals a tentative positive correlation between the 6.2/11.2 and the PAH ionization fraction, while that with 12.7/11.2 is slightly negative, suggesting PAH structural changes. The relation with PAH size and 6.2/11.2 is negative, while that with 12.7/11.2 is positive. Averaging spectra into five E(B-V) and three T$_{\rm dust}$ bins shows an evolution in PAH emission and variations in 12.7/11.2. Database-fits show an increase in $f_{\rm i}$ and the PAH ionization parameter $γ$, but a more stable large PAH fraction. While the largest $γ$s are associated with the highest T$_{\rm dust}$, there is no one-to-one correlation. The analysis is hampered by low-quality data at short wavelengths. There are indications that PAHs in the more-diffuse backgrounds behave differently from those in the general interstellar medium. However, they are often still associated with larger scale filamentary cloud-like structures. The spectra and auxiliary data have been made available through the Ames Background Interstellar Medium Spectral Catalog and may guide JWST programs.
Genia Findeisen: Frauen in Indonesien - Geschlechtergerechtigkeit durch Demokratisierung? Eine Analyse des Demokratisierungsprozesses aus Frauenperspektive
Creators: name: Holike, Christine
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 108 (2008): ASIEN (Juli)
Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 56 examines drugs for Alzheimer's disease. Conclusions: Donepezil has not been demonstrated to improve outcomes of importance to patients and caregivers (e.g. institutionalization or disability). Rivastigmine and galantamine have not been studied for these outcomes. AChE-I cause gastrointestinal, muscular, and other adverse effects and likely increase serious adverse events. There is no evidence that stopping AChE-I treatment is harmful. In advanced AD, memantine has not been demonstrated to improve outcomes of importance to patients and caregivers.
Pseudofolliculitis barbae induced by oral minoxidil
Creators: name: Diaz-Cano, Salvador J.
name: S Bashir
name: R Morris-Jones
name: H M Liew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Oral minoxidil, a drug used to treat severe hypertension, can have effects on hair growth. We report a patient with pseudofolliculitis barbae induced by oral minoxidil. A 61-year-old Afro-Caribbean man presented with a 5-year history of tender and inflamed papules and pustules, associated with keloid scarring in the beard area extending onto his cheeks and posterior scalp. His medical history included hypertension, glaucoma and gout, for which he was being treated with amlodipine, oral minoxidil 100 mg daily, doxazocin and allopurinol. On physical examination, ingrowing hairs and large pustules were evident in the patientÕs beard area (Fig. 1a,b). Microbiology swabs and tissue samples grew Proteus mirabilis, Enterococcus faecalis and mixed anaerobes. On histological examination of a biopsy taken from the affected area, an intrafollicular and perifollicular multifocal chronic inflammatory infiltrate composed mainly of lymphocytes, plasma cells and neutrophils was identified These inflam-matory infiltrates had destroyed the hair follicles, causing an adjacent giant cell-reaction and marked fibrosis (Fig. 2). A clinical diagnosis of pseudofolliculitis barbae and acne keloidalis nuchae was made.
Lightweight Transducer Based on Frame-Level Criterion
Creators: name: Wan, Genshun
name: Wang, Mengzhi
name: Mao, Tingzhi
name: Chen, Hang
name: Ye, Zhongfu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The transducer model trained based on sequence-level criterion requires a lot of memory due to the generation of the large probability matrix. We proposed a lightweight transducer model based on frame-level criterion, which uses the results of the CTC forced alignment algorithm to determine the label for each frame. Then the encoder output can be combined with the decoder output at the corresponding time, rather than adding each element output by the encoder to each element output by the decoder as in the transducer. This significantly reduces memory and computation requirements. To address the problem of imbalanced classification caused by excessive blanks in the label, we decouple the blank and non-blank probabilities and truncate the gradient of the blank classifier to the main network. Experiments on the AISHELL-1 demonstrate that this enables the lightweight transducer to achieve similar results to transducer. Additionally, we use richer information to predict the probability of blank, achieving superior results to transducer.
description: Accepted by Interspeech 2024, code repository: https://github.com/wangmengzhi/Lightweight-Transducer
Classifying health-related quality of life outcomes of total hip arthroplasty
Creators: name: Xu, Min
name: Garbuz, Donald S
name: Kuramoto, Lisa
name: Sobolev, Boris
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) is an effective treatment for hip osteoarthritis, assessed by whatever distribution-based measures of responsiveness. Yet, the group level evaluation has provided very little evidence contributes to our understanding of the large variation of treatment outcome. The objective is to develop criteria that classify individual treatment health related quality of life (HRQOL) outcome after primary THA, adjusted by preoperative scores. Methods We prospectively measured 147 patients' disease specific HRQOL on the date of consultation and 12 months post operation by Western Ontario McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC). Regression models were used to determine the "expected" outcome for a certain individual baseline score. The ceiling effect of WOMAC measurement is addressed by implementing a left-censoring method. Results The classification criteria are chosen to be the lower boundary of the 95% confidence interval (CI) of the estimated median from the regression. The robustness of the classification criteria was demonstrated using the Monte-Carlo simulation. Conclusion The classification criteria are robust and can be applied in general orthopaedic research when the sample size is reasonable large (over 500).
Heather A. Badamo, Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East.
Creators: name: Grotowski, Piotr Ł.
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2024
Subjects: Muslim-Christian relations
military saints
iconography

description: Heather A. Badamo, Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press 2023. 264 pp., 24 color and 48 b&w ill., 3 maps. – ISBN 978-0-271-09522-6
description: The Byzantine Review, Bd. 6 (2024)
ENHANCING THE SECURITY SCALABILITY OF ARBITER PUFS USING MEMORY-BASED WEAK PUFS
Creators: name: Mishra, Ashutosh
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 469999
subject: Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The vulnerability of conventional Arbiter Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) to machine learning-based modeling attacks significantly constrains their applicability in secure, resource-constrained environments. This thesis proposes an enhanced architectural solution, the Feed-Forward Memory-Based Arbiter PUF (FF-MB-APUF), which integrates volatile memory-based Weak PUFs with nonlinear feed-forward logic to improve entropy and strengthen resistance against modeling attacks. To evaluate the proposed design, a comprehensive experimental framework was developed, utilizing up to 50 million Challenge-Response Pairs (CRPs). The FF-MB-APUF variants were rigorously assessed for their statistical characteristics, including Bit Error Rate (BER), Strict Avalanche Criterion (SAC), randomness, and inter-device uniqueness. Notably, this work presents the first large-scale, systematic analysis of feed-forward loop placements across a wide configuration space. Experimental findings demonstrate that both the quantity and precise positioning of feed-forward loops critically affect modeling resilience. For adversarial benchmarking, state-of-the-art modeling strategies, including Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES), were implemented and tuned. While prior studies report a 92% prediction accuracy using 5 XORs and 8 feed-forward loops with 3 million CRPs, the proposed FF-MB-APUF achieved significantly improved robustness, with only 84% prediction accuracy even under 10 million CRPs using 63 feed-forward loops and no XOR obfuscation. This highlights the intrinsic non-linearity and increased complexity introduced by the memory-based and feed-forward mechanisms. The optimized FF-MB-APUF configuration, incorporating 63 feed-forward loops across 64 stages, demonstrated superior resistance to modeling attacks, enhanced randomness (49.23%), and improved inter-device uniqueness (49.20%), resulting in a balanced output distribution and high entropy. These results establish the FF-MB-APUF as a scalable, hardware-efficient, and secure primitive ideal for next-generation embedded systems and low-power IoT deployments.
Alessandra Bucossi – Luigi D’Amelia (eds), Nicetae Thessalonicensis dialogi sex de processione spiritus sancti
Creators: name: Pino, Tikhon Alexander
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2024
Subjects: Niketas of Thessalonike
Greek polemical literature
Filioque controversy

description: Alessandra Bucossi – Luigi D’Amelia (eds), Nicetae Thessalonicensis dialogi sex de processione spiritus sancti (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 92). Turnhout: Brepols 2021. cx + 282 pp. – ISBN 978-2-503-58640-3
description: The Byzantine Review, Bd. 6 (2024)
Dieter R. Simon – Diether R. Reinsch, Ἡ Πεῖρα – Die Peira: Ein juristisches Lehrbuch des 11. Jahrhunderts aus Konstantinopel.
Creators: name: Lauxtermann, Marc D.
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2024
Subjects: Byzantine law
Peira
Byzantine legal texts

description: Dieter R. Simon – Diether R. Reinsch, Ἡ Πεῖρα – Die Peira: Ein juristisches Lehrbuch des 11. Jahrhunderts aus Konstantinopel. Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar, Glossar (Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte. Neue Folge 4). Berlin: De Gruyter 2023. 2 volumes, 1245 pp. – ISBN 978-3-11-078629-3
description: The Byzantine Review, Bd. 6 (2024)
Cell-in-cell phenomena of intracellular neutrophils in a recurrent pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma
Creators: name: Fote, Gianna
name: Urgun, Kamran
name: Davies, Jordan
name: Himstead, Alexander S.
name: Gramajo-Aponte, Kevin
name: Lopez, Alexander
name: Hsu, Frank P.K.
name: Yong, William H.
Publisher: name: Free Neuropathology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Glioma
Brain tumor
Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma
Phagocytosis
Case report
Emperipolesis
Cell-in-cell

description: We describe a case of a young patient with a recurrent pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) showing unusual cell-in-cell (CiC) phenomena. We observed mostly viable but also necrotic neutrophils engulfed within tumor cells. The recurrent tumor was immunopositive for BRAFV600E mutant protein and showed CDKN2 homozygous deletions typical of PXA. Both genetic alterations were also reported in the original primary tumor. Unlike the original tumor that was GFAP and Olig-2 immunopositive, the recurrent neoplasm was largely negative for GFAP and Olig-2 suggesting dedifferentiation. The large malignant cells that contained the neutrophils were negative for histiocytic and lymphohematopoietic markers. Whereas CDKN2 homozygous deletion is common in PXA, its presence is rare in histiocytic neoplasms. Both reactive astrocytes and glial neoplasms very rarely may engulf neutrophils in a process resembling emperipolesis or cellular cannibalism. Future work may clarify which type of CiC pathway is involved.
description: Free Neuropathology, Bd. 5 (2024)
Development and validation of a psychosocial screening instrument for cancer
Creators: name: Linden, Wolfgang
name: Yi, Dahyun
name: Cristina Barroetavena, Maria
name: MacKenzie, Regina
name: Doll, Richard
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background We are reporting on the development of a psychosocial screening tool for cancer patients. The tool was to be brief, at a relatively low reading level, capture psychological variables relevant to distress and health-related quality-of-life in cancer patients, possess good reliability and validity, and be free of copyright protection. Method Item derivation is described, data on reliability and validity as well as norms are reported for three samples of cancer patients (n = 1057; n = 570, n = 101). Results The resulting 21-item psychological screen for cancer (PSCAN) assesses perceived social support, desired social support, health-related quality-of-life, anxiety and depression. It has good psychometrics including high internal consistency (alpha averaging .83, and acceptable test-retest stability over 2 months (averaging r = .64). Validity has been established for content, construct and concurrent validity. Conclusion PSCAN is considered ready for use as a screening tool and also for following changes in patient distress throughout the cancer care trajectory. It is freely available to all interested non-profit users.
Waibel, Nadja: „Vertrauen mit den Frauen“. Eine biografisch-empirische Studie zu Gemeindeleiterinnen in katholischen Pfarreien der deutschsprachigen Schweiz
Creators: name: Focke, Theresa
Publisher: name: Theologische Revue
Year: 2024

description: Theologische Revue, Bd. 120 (2024): August
Tumor heterogeneity: mechanisms and bases for a reliable application of molecular marker design.
Creators: name: Diaz-Cano, Salvador J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Tumor heterogeneity is a confusing finding in the assessment of neoplasms, potentially resulting in inaccurate diagnostic, prognostic and predictive tests. This tumor heterogeneity is not always a random and unpredictable phenomenon, whose knowledge helps designing better tests. The biologic reasons for this intratumoral heterogeneity would then be important to understand both the natural history of neoplasms and the selection of test samples for reliable analysis. The main factors contributing to intratumoral heterogeneity inducing gene abnormalities or modifying its expression include: the gradient ischemic level within neoplasms, the action of tumor microenvironment (bidirectional interaction between tumor cells and stroma), mechanisms of intercellular transference of genetic information (exosomes), and differential mechanisms of sequence-independent modifications of genetic material and proteins. The intratumoral heterogeneity is at the origin of tumor progression and it is also the byproduct of the selection process during progression. Any analysis of heterogeneity mechanisms must be integrated within the process of segregation of genetic changes in tumor cells during the clonal expansion and progression of neoplasms. The evaluation of these mechanisms must also consider the redundancy and pleiotropism of molecular pathways, for which appropriate surrogate markers would support the presence or not of heterogeneous genetics and the main mechanisms responsible. This knowledge would constitute a solid scientific background for future therapeutic planning.
Arme schoolleiders, arme leraren
Creators: name: Driessen, Geert
Publisher: name: Didactief
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID19
onderwijsachterstanden
evidence-based
NPO

description: OCW trekt 8,5 miljard uit voor het bestrijden van corona-achterstanden. Het ministerie gaat op zoek naar effectieve interventies voor een menukaart waaruit scholen, afhankelijk van hun specifieke populatie en problemen, kunnen kiezen. Geert Driessen is benieuwd hoe OCW die menukaart gevuld krijgt
Influence of GUP corrected Casimir energy on zero tidal force wormholes in modified teleparallel gravity with matter coupling
Creators: name: Rizwan, Mohammed Muzakkir
name: Hassan, Zinnat
name: Sahoo, P. K.
name: Övgün, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent times, the study of the Casimir effect in quantum field theory has garnered increasing attention because of its potential to be an ideal source of exotic matter needed for stabilizing traversable wormholes. It has been confirmed through experimental evidence that this phenomenon involves fluctuations in the vacuum field, leading to a negative energy density. Motivated by the above, we have investigated Casimir wormholes with corrections from the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) within the framework of matter-coupled teleparallel gravity. Our analysis includes three well-known GUP models: the Kempf, Mangano, and Mann (KMM) model, the Detournay, Gabriel, and Spindel (DGS) model, and a third model called Model II. For a broader analysis, we have considered two well-known model functions for the teleparallel theory: a linear $f(T,\mathcal{T})=αT+β\mathcal{T}$ and a quadratic model $f(T,\mathcal{T})=ηT^2+χ\mathcal{T}$. The shape function solutions corresponding to both models are examined in the absence of tidal forces in spacetime. We also demonstrate the crucial role played by the parameters of the $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ models in the violation of the energy conditions. With the increasing interest in detecting gravitational waves from astrophysical objects, we have thoroughly discussed the perturbation of the wormhole solutions in the scalar, electromagnetic, axial gravitational, and Dirac field backgrounds. We employ the $3^{rd}$ order WKB expansion to find the complex frequencies associated with the quasinormal modes of energy dissipation. Additionally, we also calculate the active mass and total gravitational energy for the wormhole geometry. The amount of exotic matter involved in sustaining these wormholes is also found in this paper. Furthermore, the physical stability of such Casimir wormholes is examined using the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation.
description: EPJC accepted version