cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness of Social Media Marketing: An Experimental Inquiry on College Students’ Awareness of, Interest in, and Intention to Participate in a Campus Recreation Special Event
Creators: name: Bayne, Kendra
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This study examined the effectiveness of social media marketing on college students attending a recreation special event. Facebook and Twitter were assessed via an experimental design. To measure the effectiveness of these applications (through updating statuses) on a college student’s awareness, interest, and intent of attending a special event, three groups were employed (Facebook, Twitter, and Control). A total of 134 participants were recruited via six undergraduate courses and were assigned into three groups based on their social media consumption. Subjects responded to a pre-survey, joined their respective treatment group, and completed a post-survey. Descriptive statistics revealed that awareness increased for those who received Facebook status updates and tweets. The interest level of the treatment groups decreased from the pre to the post-test and the intention of participants to participate increased slightly for the Facebook treatment group, but the intent level of participants in the Twitter and Control groups decreased.
Variability of Vertical Ground Reaction Forces in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain, Before and After Chiropractic Care
Creators: name: Russell, Brent
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Introduction: Many chiropractic articles and textbooks discuss gait, but there actually has been little research into the effects of chiropractic adjustment on gait. This pilot study used a quantitative method of gait evaluation before and after a series of chiropractic visits. Hypotheses: (1) adults with chronic low back pain (CLBP) would show increased variability in vertical ground reaction forces (VGRF) while walking, as compared to healthy control subjects, and (2) that, following chiropractic care, will show decreased variability.
Methods
VGRF data were collected for 6 controls and compared to 9 CLBP participants, who were also evaluated before and after the first visit of care and over 7 visits. Data were analyzed by Mean Standard Deviation (MSD), Mean Coefficient of Variation (MCV), and the Coefficient of Variation of loading rate. Chiropractic care consisted of “high velocity low amplitude” thrust type procedures, flexion-distraction, pelvic wedges, light mobilization, and stretching.
 Results
CLBP participants had somewhat greater variability and became slightly less variable post-care; differences were not significant. Limitations: Some participants had no impairment of walking at baseline; MSD is an uncommon measure, and more research is needed; these results (small group seen by a single doctor) may not be generalizable.
 Conclusions
Participants with CLBP had slightly more variability and had slight decreases in variability following chiropractic care. Differences were not statistically significant. With this small pilot study as a guide, more research should be done with larger groups and improved participant selection.
Supplementary document for Hybrid Modes in Gold Nanoslit Arrays on Bragg Nanostructures and Their Application for Sensitive Biosensors - 5957941.pdf
Creators: name: Lo, Shu-Cheng
name: Lee, Chia
name: Chern, Ruey-Lin
name: Wei, Pei-Kuen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Signal Processing

description: Supplemental document
A Comparative Analysis of Work-Life Balance in Intercollegiate Athletic Graduate Assistants and Supervisors
Creators: name: Ervin, Shaina
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The sport industry is a popular and competitive career field with employees drawn to work in a dynamic, yet often untraditional work environment. The challenge of achieving work-life balance has received considerable study in sport, as employees often find a conflict in balancing their job and other life responsibilities, such as family (work-family conflict) and outside activities. This study introduces a new area of potential conflict (work-extracurricular conflict), the outside activities that may be neglected due to a job, which may impact employees. This area may be especially pertinent to a younger segment of the industry which has not been studied, graduate assistants who work in athletic departments while continuing their education. The purpose of this exploratory study was to assess work-life balance in graduate assistants (GAs) and their supervisors by comparing their levels of work-family conflict, work-extracurricular conflict, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction. Secondly, the study introduced the work-extracurricular conflict construct. Data were collected from GAs and supervisors (N = 47) working in five Division I university athletic departments. Descriptive statistics and ANOVA revealed significant differences between GAs’ and supervisors’ job satisfaction, while determining they did not differ on work-family conflict, work-extracurricular conflict and life satisfaction levels. They reported moderate levels of family and extracurricular conflict. Sport managers can utilize this information to better understand the work-life balance of GAs and establish dialogue on ways to improve GAs experience in hopes of keeping these sport professionals in the industry long-term.
The Effects of Prosthetic Alignment over Uneven Terrain
Creators: name: Meurer, Linda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this study was to analyze kinetic and kinematic data of individuals with unilateral transtibial limb loss and the effect different alignments have on the individual’s gait while they walk over uneven terrain. Individuals with lower limb loss are currently having their prostheses dynamically aligned to ensure a satisfactory walking gait on level ground with smooth surfaces, usually in the clinician's office or hallway. This study was looking to determine whether or not current prosthesis alignment procedures are adequate for determining a satisfactory walking gait on non-level and non-smooth terrains as well level smooth surfaces. An effective and efficient walking pattern is necessary to prevent degenerative conditions within the bones, muscles or other tissues of the body, due to compensations of the gait pattern. Sometimes, individuals are able to mask any compensations if their safety is unaffected by their surroundings and they are able to maintain a gait that appears normal or optimal. However, if terrains used on a daily basis present a sense of insecurity, gait compensations could be more problematic to the individual and they need to be addressed and corrected as best they can. This study determined that while there were some changes in gait on the uneven surface, due to the number of subjects it is unclear whether the changes are significant. The individuals showed a decrease in walking speed and step length and an increase in step width. There were also changes in the peak axial force.
Effects of Frequency on Single Leg Hopping in Typically Developing Preadolescents
Creators: name: Beerse, Matthew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Hopping is considered a mass-spring model movement in which the leg supports the center of mass. There is a preferred hopping frequency and hopping outside of that frequency is more difficult and requires more energy.  Leg stiffness has been shown to be an important factor when hopping at different frequencies in young adult populations.  The purpose of this study was to observe how a still-developing preadolescent population would modify leg stiffness while hopping at different frequencies and if they have similar motor control strategies compared to young adults.  The subjects hopped on their dominant leg to the beat of a metronome at one of four frequency conditions based on their calculated preferred frequency, MP (preferred frequency), MM (20% increase), MF (40% increase), and MS (20% decrease).  It was found that this population could change their hopping frequency and they achieved this by manipulating their leg stiffness.  At the higher frequency conditions there was less movement of the toe and the center of mass in both the vertical and horizontal directions, including decreased hopping height, decreased COM displacement and COM range of motion.  Preadolescents demonstrated an adult-like ability to increase leg stiffness and modulate movement of the toe and the COM while adapting to a range of hopping frequencies.  This ability could translate into other mass-spring model movements such as running and jumping.
Effects of Electronic Reminders for Promoting Exercise Motivation and Adherence in University Students
Creators: name: Hamilton, Ashlee
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Less than half of all adults meet the federal exercise recommendations (CDC, 2010) and college-aged adults may be more vulnerable to the consequences of physical inactivity with about two-thirds of college students leading sedentary lifestyles (Harvey-Berino, Pope, Gold, et al., 2012; Tully & Cupples, 2011). Mobile apps provide an efficient way to track physical activity and electronic prompts can enhance mobile apps by reminding individuals to participate. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a mobile app and electronic prompts sent via Twitter for promoting exercise motivation and adherence in sedentary university students. The hypotheses tested were: (a) a significantly greater percentage of participants in the treatment group would progress through the stages-of-change (SOC) from pre- to post-program compared to the control group, and (b) the treatment group would demonstrate significantly greater exercise adherence than the control group. Thirteen participants followed an 8-week running program on a mobile app. The control group (n = 8) followed the running program while the treatment group (n = 5) also received electronic prompts sent via Twitter to remind participants to exercise. The SOC modified four stage algorithm was used pre- and post-program to assess exercise motivation. Exercise adherence was measured by total number of completed workouts out of the 24 prescribed. A significantly greater number of participants in the control group progressed at least one stage from pre- to post-program compared to participants in the treatment group, ?2 = 6.9, p = 0.008. Additionally, participants in the control group reported a greater number of completed workouts (M = 12.5, SD = 7.6) compared to the participants in the treatment group (M = 3.6, SD = 4.0). These findings suggest that while the mobile app may be beneficial for promoting exercise motivation and adherence, the electronic prompts sent via Twitter appeared to have no effect. Further studies are needed to determine the most effective way to use Twitter to increase exercise motivation and adherence of sedentary university students.
Lyrical Music Improves 5 km Time Trial Performance Compared to Non-Lyrical Music
Creators: name: Myers, Denise
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This study examined the effects of lyrical music compared to non-lyrical music on 5 km running performance. Thirteen subjects with an average age of 33.5 ± 8.3 years of age ran three separate 5 km time trials. The first trial acted as a familiarization trial where no music was present, followed by either a lyrical or non-lyrical music trial in a random counterbalanced order. Trial times, RPE, HR, and questionnaire information was analyzed using paired samples t-tests, ANOVA, and multivariate regression analyses. Lyrical music showed a significant improvement over non-lyrical music improving performance time compared to non-lyrical music, on average by 36 ± 41s (p=.000).  While not statistically significant, a trend showing lyrical music was faster than no music, followed by the slowest trial of non-lyrical music. No change was detected in HR, or RPE at the 3.05 km mark suggesting that at the end although subjects were working harder (indicated by the faster completion times) they do not perceive themselves to be working harder. A correlation between increased mileage and the decreased effects of music as an ergogenic aid was seen (p=.044 r=.638) which supports previous research. This study suggests that lyrical music may improve 5 km running performance compared to no lyrical music.
Evolution of self-gravitating fluid spheres involving ghost stars
Creators: name: Herrera, L.
name: Di Prisco, A.
name: Ospino, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact solutions are presented which describe, either the evolution of fluid distributions corresponding to a ghost star (vanishing total mass), or describing the evolution of fluid distributions which attain the ghost star status at some point of their lives. The first two solutions correspond to the former case, they admit a conformal Killing vector (CKV) and describe the adiabatic evolution of a ghost star. Other two solutions corresponding to the latter case are found, which describe evolving fluid spheres absorbing energy from the outside, leading to a vanishing total mass at some point of their evolution. In this case the fluid is assumed to be expansion-free. In all four solutions the condition of vanishing complexity factor was imposed. The physical implications of the results, are discussed
description: 32 pages PDF, 8 figures. Invited contribution published in Symmetry (SI: Nuclear Symmetry Energy: From Finite Nuclei to Neutron Stars)
The Effects of Unilateral Ankle Loading on the Long-Range Correlation of  Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters during Treadmill Walking
Creators: name: Kang, Yeon-Joo
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Long-range correlation has been observed in the time series of the human neuromuscular system and indicative of a healthy system. However, this analysis has not been used for an scenario of asymmetrical loading during walking. This study aimed to understand the effect of unilateral ankle loading on long-range correlation of spatiotemporal gait parameters in healthy young adults during treadmill walking. We used four unilateral ankle loads (A0, A25, A50, and A75, representing the increase of the moment of inertia of the leg about the knee joint by 0%, 25%, 50% and 75%, respectively) and attached it on the non-dominant leg. We used a modified lower-extremity marker set to collect kinematic data. Subjects walked on a treadmill at their self-selected speed for five minutes under each load condition. For data analysis, we used the toe and heel markers to identify the gait events of heel strike and toe off. We divided each five minute trial into three 100-second segments to investigate potential time effect. We calculated the mean and standard deviation of step length and step time, and conducted a detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and calculated the scaling exponent for every 100 seconds. For statistical analysis, we conducted three-way (2 side x 3 time x 4 load) ANOVA with repeated measures on step length and time. Our results demonstrate that mean step time and step length showed three-way interaction, in which step length increased with the load for both sides whereas step time increased on the loaded side but decreased on the unloaded side. Asymmetry between two legs decreased in step length while asymmetry in step time remained over time and across load conditions. DFA results revealed long-range correlation in step length and step time; however, step length showed only a time effect whereas step time showed neither a time nor a load effect. Our results suggest that there might be different control mechanisms on regulating spatiotemporal variables and its long-range correlation while walking with unilateral ankle load.
Moving Plasma Structures and Possible Driving Mechanisms of Solar Microflares Observed with High-Resolution Coronal Imaging
Creators: name: Wang, Qingmei
name: Bi, Yi
name: Liang, Hongfei
name: Yang, Jiayan
name: Gong, Liufan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar microflares are ubiquitous in the solar corona, yet their driving mechanisms remain a subject of ongoing debate. Using high-resolution coronal observations from the Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), we identified about a dozen distinct moving plasma structures (hereafter, `` tiny ejections'') originating from the centers of three homologous microflares out of four successive events. These tiny ejections propagate roughly perpendicular to the flaring loops. They often originate as dot-like structures with a length scale of approximately $10^{3}$ km. While these initial dot-like shapes are observable in EUI images, they remain undetectable in the images captured by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory. As they propagate, these dot-like structures consistently evolve into loop-like formations, possibly due to the heating of the surrounding magnetic field. Rather than being generated by a series of flux rope eruptions, the tiny ejections appear to result from small-angle magnetic reconnections within a bipolar field. Thus, the microflares associated with these ejections may be driven by magnetic reconnection within braided fields, a process similar to the proposed nanoflare mechanism and distinct from the standard large-scale flare model.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, to be published in ApJL
Effect of Whole-Body Vibration on Acceleration Transmission and Jumping Performance in Children
Creators: name: Lelko, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Whole-body vibration (WBV) has emerged as an exercise modality that is safe for most adults with and without clinical conditions. The aims of this research study were to investigate the effects of WBV on vertical acceleration transmission during WBV and counter-movement jump height after WBV in typically developing children ages 6-11 years old. Seventeen subjects were recruited (10M/7F) for our study. We used a side-alternating Galileo WBV and presented a total of six conditions with the combination of three vibration frequencies (20, 25, and 30 Hz) and two vibration amplitudes (1 and 2 mm). Subjects stood for one minute on the platform under each condition. We used reflective markers to register the body motion and calculate the transmission of vertical acceleration during WBV. We used a force plate to collect ground reaction force during vertical jump after WBV and calculated jump height. Results showed that vertical acceleration significantly decreased from the ankle to the head. While vertical acceleration and its transmission ratio (with respect to the platform acceleration) increased with frequency and amplitude at the ankle, body segments superior to the ankle and knee were less affected by the vibration conditions. Counter-movement jump height maintained its value after all vibration conditions. It was concluded that WBV is a safe intervention paradigm for children as little acceleration is transmitted to the head, and a single bout of WBV may not be adequate to improve jumping performance in children.
Effects of Sole Thickness on Recovery from an Unexpected Slip during Standing
Creators: name: Ahn, Jiyun
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Previous studies have tackled the effect of sole thickness on falls and suggested a significant relationship between the sole thickness and fall risk.  However, the prior studies were based on qualitative survey.  No quantitative studies have been conducted to closely examine the causal effect of the sole thickness on the risk of falls.  The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to explore the effect of the sole thickness on fall risk and the body’s reactions in response to an unexpected slip during stance among young adults.  Our overall hypothesis was that thick soles would impair dynamic stability, delay the body’s reactions to the external slip perturbation, and show effective reactional muscle activation.  Specifically, I hypothesized that 1) individuals in the groups with thin soles would display greater dynamic stability than the thick groups at recovery step onset and touchdown; 2) the step latency in the thin sole groups would be shorter than the thick groups, contributing to the observed higher stability; and 3) the leg muscles would be activated faster along with a lesser EMG burst in the thin-soled groups than thick-soled groups.  Nine young adults aged between 18 and 45 years were recruited and evenly randomized into three groups in terms of the thickness of the sole: barefoot (0 mm), thin (5 mm), and thick (10 mm).  After warmup exercise and the familiarization process with the assigned sole, all groups experienced an identical unexpected stance-slip perturbation induced by quickly moving the treadmill belt.  Full-body kinematics were collected by a motion capture system and used to calculate the kinematics of the body’s center of mass (COM).  Then dynamic gait stability, as the primary outcome measure, was determined based on the COM’s position and velocity relative to the base of support.  Other spatiotemporal parameters and electromyography of leg muscles after the slip were the secondary outcome measures, including the recovery step latency, duration, length, slip distance, muscle latency, and the EMG burst.  Both the primary and secondary outcomes were compared among groups by using one-way ANOVA followed by appropriate post-hoc tests to test three hypotheses.  The results showed instable balance status at the initiation of the recovery step with the thicker soles, changes in spatiotemporal parameters such as a prolonged step latency and duration and larger step length, and a shorter EMG latency and lower EMG burst in TA and GA.  This study will advance our understanding of the influence of sole thickness on the risk of falls.
Nyakyusa also known as “Sokile”, “Konde”, “Nkonde”, “Wangonde”, “Ngonde”, “Niakiusa”, “Nyakusa”, “Sochile”
Creators: name: Pitek, Emily
Publisher: name: Database of Religious History (DRH)
Year: 2018

description: The Nyakyusa are a group of Bantu-speaking people who inhabit the northern coastal plain of Lake Malawi and the section of the East African Rift Valley extending northward up the southern flank of Mount Rungwe. The Nyakyusa are linguistically and culturally similar to the Ngonde, who live on the northwestern coastal plain of Lake Malawi. After the establishment of European colonial regimes (ca. 1870s), the Ngonde became a part of the British Protectorate of Nyasaland (known as Malawi after independence), and the Nyakyusa were incorporated into the German colony of Tanganyika (Now Tanzania). After World War I, Tanganyika passed to the British, who assumed the territory under a League of Nations mandate and administered it until independence. (Kenny, 2011). The Nyakyusa religion is best characterized as a system of shared beliefs and ritual practices that are interwoven with Nyakyusa society at large. The major elements of their religion include ancestral spirits, mystical powers, and the presence of witchcraft. A sizeable Christian minority coexists in Nyakyusa society as a result of missionary influence; this entry focuses on the native beliefs shared among the majority of the population ca. 1930, before the more extensive incorporation of Christian ideas.
Self-Presentation of NIL-Participating Student-Athletes on Instagram
Creators: name: Peisner, Camille
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Self-presentation
subject: Name, image, and likeness
subject: Student-athletes
subject: Instagram

description: When the NCAA adopted a policy that enabled student-athletes to profit off their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) in 2021, a billion-dollar industry was born. Despite the industry's rapid growth, empirical data is limited on how athletes are student-athletes managing impressions in the NIL era, let alone how audiences are engaging with their self-presentation strategies. The present study aims to supply much-needed research into the self-presentation strategies of 100 male and 100 female student-athletes on Instagram across sponsored, athletic, and non-athletic, non-sponsored content. The study found that NIL-participating student-athletes use Instagram to present their idealized self in addition to significant differences in self-presentation strategies and audience engagement based on gender, sport characteristics, and school characteristics. The study’s findings extend existing research on front versus backstage self-presentation and on female athletes being seen as bodies first. These findings can help universities, brands, and athletes understand how student-athletes are managing impressions on Instagram in the dawn of NIL to inform self-presentation strategies.
In Shift and In Variance: Assessing the Robustness of HAR Deep Learning Models against Variability
Creators: name: Khaked, Azhar Ali
name: Oishi, Nobuyuki
name: Roggen, Daniel
name: Lago, Paula
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors can revolutionize healthcare by enabling continual health monitoring, disease prediction, and routine recognition. Despite the high accuracy of Deep Learning (DL) HAR models, their robustness to real-world variabilities remains untested, as they have primarily been trained and tested on limited lab-confined data. In this study, we isolate subject, device, position, and orientation variability to determine their effect on DL HAR models and assess the robustness of these models in real-world conditions. We evaluated the DL HAR models using the HARVAR and REALDISP datasets, providing a comprehensive discussion on the impact of variability on data distribution shifts and changes in model performance. Our experiments measured shifts in data distribution using Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) and observed DL model performance drops due to variability. We concur that studied variabilities affect DL HAR models differently, and there is an inverse relationship between data distribution shifts and model performance. The compounding effect of variability was analyzed, and the implications of variabilities in real-world scenarios were highlighted. MMD proved an effective metric for calculating data distribution shifts and explained the drop in performance due to variabilities in HARVAR and REALDISP datasets. Combining our understanding of variability with evaluating its effects will facilitate the development of more robust DL HAR models and optimal training techniques. Allowing Future models to not only be assessed based on their maximum F1 score but also on their ability to generalize effectively
title: Designs and Outcomes of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Circuits
Creators: name: Senda, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2021

description: This thesis reports the design and outcomes of several circuits intended for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) research. In simple terms, TMS circuits are composed of four main blocks: high voltage power source, energy storage bank, control switch, and coil. Each one of these blocks has characteristics that influence how well the circuit will perform for TMS procedures. A successful TMS research circuit must have the ability to emit controlled electromagnetic pulses through a coil connected to it. For the first block, voltages ranging from 50 V to 2 kV were used. In the second block, capacitances ranging from 15 µF to 660 µF were used. For the third block, four types of control switches were used, including power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (Power MOSFETs), gas discharge tubes (GDTs), insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), and silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs). Lastly, for the coil block, different types of coils with different parameters were used. All of the aforementioned block characteristics influence the overall performance of the TMS circuit. Much was learned from each testing phase, and the experience was used to improve the following designs. The latest design uses an external high voltage power supply, has a capacitance of 660 µF, uses an IGBT device as the switching device, can drive a wide variety of coils, and is successful enough to be used for TMS research.
Is the COVID-19 vaccination a ray of hope for the elimination of prevalent infectious diseases in the future?
Creators: name: Ahmad, Tauseef
name: Feeney, Kaylem M.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In recent years, many disease outbreaks and pandemics have been reported and have posed serious public health challenges. Therefore, vaccination on a large scale is the only hope to prevent and control these vaccine-preventable diseases. This letter discusses the COVID-19 vaccination’s role in preventing other infectious diseases.
I Concorsi Clementini di terza classe quali specchio dell’apprendimento dell’architettura a Roma e nel resto dello Stato Pontificio
Creators: name: Benincampi, Iacopo
Publisher: name: ABside
Year: 2024

description: Il contributo mira a corroborare il ruolo centrale già riconosciuto ai Concorsi Clementini di Terza Classe nella formazione e nell’orientamento del gusto architettonico nel Tardobarocco pontificio: un’influenza espressa certamente nella selezione dei soggetti proposti per gli esercizi scolastici svolti presso l’Accademia di San Luca ma ravvisabile altresì nelle sue ricadute anche nel resto dello Stato Ecclesiastico. Ne danno testimonianza i campionari autografi del «pittore ed architetto faentino» Giuseppe Boschi (1732-1802): manoscritti che, preparati nel corso della seconda del Settecento e successivi al perfezionamento del professionista a Roma, certificano sia l’autorità di cui l’Urbe ancora godeva all’epoca sia – soprattutto – l’ascendente tuttavia esercitato sulle realtà papali più periferiche, in bilico fra la tradizione barocca e il nuovo classicismo emergente.
description: ABside, Vol 5 (2023)
AI-Powered Interview Assistant Chatbot
Creators: name: Ayush Singh, Gaurav Gaikwad, Rahul Ranjavan, Gaurav Punyani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing howindividuals prepare for and attend job interviews. This project presents the development of an AIPowered Interview Assistant Chatbot designed to simulate real-life interviewscenarios, assist candidates in enhancing their performance, and help recruiters streamline thepreliminary screening process. The chatbot leverages cutting-edge Natural LanguageProcessing (NLP) techniques to engage in dynamic, human-like conversations, adapting its questionsand feedback based on the user's responses.Key features of the system include voice-to-text conversion, text-to-speech synthesis, and contextaware response generation, creating a seamless voice-based interaction that mirrors a humaninterviewer. The voice-to-text module ensures accurate transcription of userresponses, while the text-to-speech module enables the bot to vocalize questions in a natural tone,making the interview experience more immersive and interactive. Additionally, thechatbot is trained on diverse datasets covering various industries and job roles, allowing it to conductinterviews tailored to specific domains.To evaluate user responses, the system integrates machine learning models capable of sentimentanalysis, grammar checking, and keyword extraction, providing users withconstructive feedback on their communication skills, confidence level, and answer quality.This feedback helps users identify areas for improvement and build confidence before appearing foractual interviews.This AI-powered solution serves as a smart assistant for both job seekers and hiringprofessionals. It reduces time and resources spent on initial rounds of interviews, promotesinclusive and unbiased evaluation, and offers scalable interview practice opportunities. Futureenhancements may include emotion recognition, multilingual support, and personalizedcoaching, pushing the boundaries of AI in recruitment and career development.
title: Monitored Compression Therapy: Using Smart Technology to Optimize the Treatment of Lower Extremity Swelling
Creators: name: Skelly, James
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2021

description: Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI) and Venous Stasis Ulcers (VSUs) are symptoms which stem from diabetes – a disease effecting over 34 million people in the United States alone as of 2020. This Thesis details the design of a pressure-sensing garment used to enhance the treatment of CVI. The garment uses small force sensors (four levels: the insole of the foot, the lower leg, the lower calf, and the upper calf) to sense the pressure applied by a compression stocking. The sensed data is transmitted wirelessly via Bluetooth to a smartphone application that was developed to display the data and interface with the electronics. The data is displayed on the smartphone application and can be monitored by the patient and/or nurse to ensure that the proper pressure gradient is applied to the leg. The gradient starts at around 30-50 mmHg at the foot and decreases linearly to about 6 mmHg just below the knee. The proper application of this pressure gradient best promotes blood flow and is predicted by medical experts to potentially cut healing time for VSUs from 6 months to as little as just 60 days.
Exo-muscle: A semi-rigid assistive device for the knee
Creators: name: Zhang, Yifang
name: Ajoudani, Arash
name: Tsagarakis, Nikos G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we introduce the principle, design and mechatronics of Exo-Muscle, a novel assistive device for the knee joint. Different from the existing systems based on rigid exoskeleton structures or soft-tendon driven approaches, the proposed device leverages a new semi-rigid principle that explores the benefits of both rigid and soft systems. The use of a novel semi-rigid chain mechanism around the knee joint eliminates the presence of misalignment between the device and the knee joint center of rotation, while at the same time, it forms a well-defined route for the tendon. This results in more deterministic load compensation functionality compared to the fully soft systems. The proposed device can provide up to 38Nm assistive torque to the knee joint. In the experiment section, the device was successfully validated through a series of experiments demonstrating the capacity of the device to provide the target assistive functionality in the knee joint.
Wilcox Inertia: A Revolutionary Acoustic Framework for Inertia and Galactic Rotation
Creators: name: Wilcox, Clyde Jermaine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Theoretical physics

description: This paper introduces the Wilcox Inertia Equation (WIE), a groundbreaking theoretical framework that redefines inertia as a result of sound pressure within spacetime rather than mass. It challenges the dark matter paradigm by showing how galactic rotation curves can be explained acoustically. The model integrates principles from quantum mechanics, general relativity, and acoustic dynamics, offering testable predictions involving gravitational wave detectors (LIGO) and Bose-Einstein condensate experiments. This work presents a falsifiable, interdisciplinary alternative to mass-based inertia and aims to reshape current understanding of cosmic structure and motion.
title: The Concept Album as Postmodern Literature: A Critical Examination of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral
Creators: name: Stith, Kelly
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2021

description: With the humanities becoming progressively more open to interdisciplinary studies, there exists a space for music to be part of the discourse surrounding literature. One of the most important developments for music was the rise of the concept album, a medium where the individual tracks are defined by a larger theme or a unifying narrative. The concept album first emerged in the 1960s and became a method for musicians to experiment with expanded storylines and lyrical motifs that overthrew classical models of music albums. One of the most influential concept albums, Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral, which came out in 1994, is noteworthy due to its nuanced exploration of subject matter like mental illness, addiction, and skepticism toward authority. This is all filtered through an unnamed protagonist who is based off the personal life of Trent Reznor, the creator and frontman of Nine Inch Nails. The protagonist is forced to confront the harsh nature of his existence, which leads him down a path of nihilistic despair, echoing a literary conversion narrative, with the album making explicit references to both existentialist and postmodern philosophy.

This interdisciplinary thesis aims to explore the gap between the study of music and literature by positioning the concept album as a postmodern literary artifact, using The Downward Spiral as the basis for a critical examination. By using a combination of texts from postmodern authors Chuck Palahniuk and David Foster Wallace as well as lyrical analysis of select tracks from the album, this thesis will demonstrate that the concept album belongs to the postmodern literary genre because of its contradiction of musical conventions and through Reznor’s lyrics and recording methods, the concept album also engages in establishing aesthetic discontinuity and transgression, which shares a direct lineage within the postmodern literary tradition.
Closed Surface Dynamics: Space, Motion, and Gravitational Emergence
Creators: name: Konno, Tetsuo
name: Konno, Tetsuo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper extends closed surface theory into the domain of dynamics. It proposes that space is the result of sequential generation of closed surfaces, motion is the propagation of surface deformations, and gravity emerges as a gradient of surface tension. Through this geometric framework, physical phenomena such as mass, acceleration, and gravitational interaction are reinterpreted as manifestations of closed surface interactions. The theory presents a unified and scalable model for space, motion, and force based entirely on surface geometry.
Supplementary document for Hybrid Modes in Gold Nanoslit Arrays on Bragg Nanostructures and Their Application for Sensitive Biosensors - 5957941.pdf
Creators: name: Lo, Shu-Cheng
name: Lee, Chia
name: Chern, Ruey-Lin
name: Wei, Pei-Kuen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Signal Processing

description: Supplemental document
Unified Field Theory (Revised)
Creators: name: Wilcox, Clyde Jermaine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Unified Field Theory
subject: Advanced Theoretical physics
subject: Theoretical physics

description: This is my Final Unified Field Theory Revised,I have took a lot of time to make sure this one addresses an already great paper which was my unified field theory original,I decided to release both because I wasn't sure which one would be the science needed now, sometimes less can be more an sometimes more can be something you need an didn't even know until you get it... So here is my Unified Field Theory (AAP) Addressing All Problems,enjoy.
Pruning Literals for Highly Efficient Explainability at Word Level
Creators: name: Yadav, Rohan Kumar
name: Bhattarai, Bimal
name: Jana, Abhik
name: Jiao, Lei
name: Yimam, Seid Muhie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Designing an explainable model becomes crucial now for Natural Language Processing(NLP) since most of the state-of-the-art machine learning models provide a limited explanation for the prediction. In the spectrum of an explainable model, Tsetlin Machine(TM) is promising because of its capability of providing word-level explanation using proposition logic. However, concern rises over the elaborated combination of literals (propositional logic) in the clause that makes the model difficult for humans to comprehend, despite having a transparent learning process. In this paper, we design a post-hoc pruning of clauses that eliminate the randomly placed literals in the clause thereby making the model more efficiently interpretable than the vanilla TM. Experiments on the publicly available YELP-HAT Dataset demonstrate that the proposed pruned TM's attention map aligns more with the human attention map than the vanilla TM's attention map. In addition, the pairwise similarity measure also surpasses the attention map-based neural network models. In terms of accuracy, the proposed pruning method does not degrade the accuracy significantly but rather enhances the performance up to 4% to 9% in some test data.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
title: The Optimum Performance Program in Sports - Youth: A Case Study
Creators: name: Bastos Stucki, Karolyne
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2021

description: Ethnically and racially diverse youth athletes underutilize mental health services, resulting in social and economic costs to society (Gudiño et al., 2008; Snowden & Yamada, 2005). Almost half of all children and adolescents participate in sport, and sport participation is especially common in youth from ethnically and racially diverse neighborhoods (Holt, 2008; NSCH, 2017). Therefore, sport may be an effective strategy to permit diverse youth to receive mental health services. The current case study examines The Optimum Performance Program in Sports (TOPPS; a sport-specific family behavior therapy) in an Asian American youth athlete evidencing Social Anxiety Disorder (DSM-5). A within subjects AB experimental design was used to examine outcomes. Baseline measures were obtained, including severity of psychiatric symptoms, substance use, school attendance; mental health factors affecting sport performance in training, competition and life outside of sports; and specific to family, coaches, teammates and peers, happiness in relationships, relationships affecting sport performance, contributions of significant others to sport performance, and program satisfaction. Evangeline, an alias given to protect her identity, then received the experimental intervention. Protocol checklists were used to standardize intervention implementation. Evangeline completed outcome assessments immediately before and after treatment and at one-month follow-up. It was hypothesized that Evangeline will show improvements in all relevant outcome measures from pre- intervention to post-intervention and maintain these improvements at one-month follow-up. The results will provide preliminary support for an engaging, non-pathologically-focused optimization approach to mental wellness in ethnically and racially diverse youth, reducing health disparities in this population.
Complex plane rotation and commonalities in  multidisciplinary exponential forms
Creators: name: Riedel, Bjørn Leon Søren
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This work reveals a unifying mathematical structure underlying diverse physical phenomena, from chemical kinetics (Arrhenius equation) and radioactive decay to quantum wavefunctions and thermodynamic equilibria. By recognizing these processes as manifestations of a common exponential form, \( n = X e^{\sqrt{T}(m)/(pT)} \) (where \( r = 1 \) or \( 2 \)), we demonstrate that real and imaginary exponents correspond to rotations in the complex plane. Real exponents (e.g., \( e^{-E_a/RT} \)) describe decay or equilibria as degenerate rotations, while imaginary exponents (e.g. \( e^{i(kx-\omega t)} \)) represent oscillatory behavior. The derivative of this generalized form further highlights its universal applicability. This insight bridges disciplinary divides, offering a geometric interpretation of exponential laws and suggesting deeper connections across thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and wave theory.
title: Machine Learning Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Data to Predict Bone Mineral Density in African American Women
Creators: name: Githua Wakayu, Erick
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2021

description: Osteoporosis is a debilitating disease in which an individual’s bones weaken, making bones fragile and more susceptible to fracture. While commonly found amongst postmenopausal Caucasian and Asian women based on previous studies, those of African descent (African American/Black) have largely been ignored when it comes to osteoporotic studies, especially when it comes to Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). From GWA studies, we gain access to single nucleotide poly-morphisms (SNPs) that may contribute to certain illnesses, such as osteoporosis. With low Bone Mineral Density (BMD) being one of the primary markers of potential osteoporosis, it is prudent that proper research is done in order to help the African American population circumvent or mitigate the worst symptoms and complications of osteoporosis. In this thesis, we implemented and applied machine learning algorithms to analyze genetic data of African American women in order to make predictions that map SNPs to BMD. Using Coefficient of Determination (R2) and Mean Squared Error (MSE) for evaluation, the machine learning techniques we utilized for this regression task are: regularized linear regression (Ridge, Lasso, and ElasticNet), gradient boosted trees (XGBoost and LightGBM), and artificial neural networks.

With these models, we performed an analysis on 3 datasets, compromised of 12,600, 69,476, and 158,444 variants respectively. The first dataset, known as SNP-1, received its highest overall test R2 score of 0.227 through Lasso Regression. The second dataset, SNP-5, received its highest overall test R2 score of 0.437 through LightGBM. And lastly, the third dataset, SNP-10, received its highest overall test R2 score of 0.574 from Ridge Regression.
Applications of Superconductor-Normal Metal Interfaces
Creators: name: Lemziakov, S. A.
name: Karimi, B.
name: Nakamura, S.
name: Lvov, D. S.
name: Upadhyay, R.
name: Satrya, C. D.
name: Chen, Z. -Y.
name: Subero, D.
name: Chang, Y. -C.
name: Wang, L. B.
name: Pekola, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The importance and non-trivial properties of superconductor normal metal interfaces was discovered by Alexander Fyodorovich Andreev more than 60 years ago. Only much later these hybrids have found wide interest in applications such as thermometry and refrigeration, electrical metrology, and quantum circuit engineering. Here we discuss the central properties of such interfaces and describe some of the most prominent and recent applications of them.
description: Part of Special Issue in honor of Alexander Andreev in Journal of Low Temperature Physics. Published: 22 May 2024; Volume 217, pages 54-81