cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya
Creators: name: Finestone, EM
name: Plummer, TW
name: Vincent, TH
name: Blumenthal, SA
name: Ditchfield, PW
name: Bishop, LC
name: Oliver, JS
name: Herries, Andrew
name: Palfery, CV
name: Lane, TP
name: McGuire, E
name: Reeves, JS
name: Rodés, A
name: Whitfield, E
name: Braun, DR
name: Bartilol, SK
name: Rotich, NK
name: Parkinson, JA
name: Lemorini, C
name: Caricola, I
name: Kinyanjui, RN
name: Potts, R
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3104
subject: Evolutionary biology
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4301
subject: Archaeology

description: The Homa Peninsula, in southwestern Kenya, continues to yield insights into Oldowan hominin landscape behaviors. The Late Pliocene locality of Nyayanga (∼3–2.6 Ma) preserves some of the oldest Oldowan tools. At the Early Pleistocene locality of Kanjera South (∼2 Ma) toolmakers procured a diversity of raw materials from over 10 km away and strategically reduced them in a grassland-dominated ecosystem. Here, we report findings from Sare-Abururu, a younger (∼1.7 Ma) Oldowan locality approximately 12 km southeast of Kanjera South and 18 km east of Nyayanga. Sare-Abururu has yielded 1754 artifacts in relatively undisturbed low-energy silts and sands. Stable isotopic analysis of pedogenic carbonates suggests that hominin activities were carried out in a grassland-dominated setting with similar vegetation structure as documented at Kanjera South. The composition of a nearby paleo-conglomerate indicates that high-quality stone raw materials were locally abundant. Toolmakers at Sare-Abururu produced angular fragments from quartz pebbles, representing a considerable contrast to the strategies used to reduce high quality raw materials at Kanjera South. Although lithic reduction at Sare-Abururu was technologically simple, toolmakers proficiently produced cutting edges, made few mistakes and exhibited a mastery of platform management, demonstrating that expedient technical strategies do not necessarily indicate a lack of skill or suitable raw materials. Lithic procurement and reduction patterns on the Homa Peninsula appear to reflect variation in local resource contexts rather than large-scale evolutionary changes in mobility, energy budget, or toolmaker cognition.
A Review-aware Graph Contrastive Learning Framework for Recommendation
Creators: name: Shuai, Jie
name: Zhang, Kun
name: Wu, Le
name: Sun, Peijie
name: Hong, Richang
name: Wang, Meng
name: Li, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most modern recommender systems predict users preferences with two components: user and item embedding learning, followed by the user-item interaction modeling. By utilizing the auxiliary review information accompanied with user ratings, many of the existing review-based recommendation models enriched user/item embedding learning ability with historical reviews or better modeled user-item interactions with the help of available user-item target reviews. Though significant progress has been made, we argue that current solutions for review-based recommendation suffer from two drawbacks. First, as review-based recommendation can be naturally formed as a user-item bipartite graph with edge features from corresponding user-item reviews, how to better exploit this unique graph structure for recommendation? Second, while most current models suffer from limited user behaviors, can we exploit the unique self-supervised signals in the review-aware graph to guide two recommendation components better? To this end, in this paper, we propose a novel Review-aware Graph Contrastive Learning (RGCL) framework for review-based recommendation. Specifically, we first construct a review-aware user-item graph with feature-enhanced edges from reviews, where each edge feature is composed of both the user-item rating and the corresponding review semantics. This graph with feature-enhanced edges can help attentively learn each neighbor node weight for user and item representation learning. After that, we design two additional contrastive learning tasks (i.e., Node Discrimination and Edge Discrimination) to provide self-supervised signals for the two components in recommendation process. Finally, extensive experiments over five benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed RGCL compared to the state-of-the-art baselines.
description: Accepted by SIGIR 2022
Conflict adaptation in aphasia (Krason et al., 2024)
Creators: name: Krason, Anna
name: Middleton, Erica L.
name: Ambrogi, Matthew E. P.
name: Thothathiri, Malathi
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470101
subject: Communication studies
classificationCode: 470409
subject: Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition

description: Purpose: This study investigated conflict adaptation in aphasia, specifically whether upregulating cognitive control improves sentence comprehension.Method: Four individuals with mild aphasia completed four eye tracking sessions with interleaved auditory Stroop and sentence-to-picture matching trials (critical and filler sentences). Auditory Stroop congruency (congruent/incongruent across a male/female voice saying “boy”/“girl”) was crossed with sentence congruency (syntactically correct sentences that are semantically plausible/implausible), resulting in four experimental conditions (congruent auditory Stroop followed by incongruent sentence [CI], incongruent auditory Stroop followed by incongruent sentence [II], congruent auditory Stroop followed by congruent sentence [CC], and incongruent auditory Stroop followed by congruent sentence [IC]). Critical sentences were always preceded by auditory Stroop trials. At the end of each session, a five-item questionnaire was administered to assess overall well-being and fatigue. We conducted individual-level mixed-effects regressions on reaction times and growth curve analyses on the proportion of eye fixations to target pictures during incongruent sentences.Results: One participant showed conflict adaptation indicated by faster reaction times on active sentences and more rapid growth in fixations to target pictures on passive sentences in the II condition compared to the CI condition. Incongruent auditory Stroop also modulated active-sentence processing in an additional participant, as indicated by eye movements.Conclusions: This is the first study to observe conflict adaptation in sentence comprehension in people with aphasia. The extent of adaptation varied across individuals. Eye tracking revealed subtler effects than overt behavioral measures. The results extend the study of conflict adaptation beyond neurotypical adults and suggest that upregulating cognitive control may be a potential treatment avenue for some individuals with aphasia.Supplemental Material S1. Background testing and conflict adaptation results.Krason, A., Middleton, E. L., Ambrogi, M. E. P., & Thothathiri, M. (2024). Conflict adaptation in aphasia: Upregulating cognitive control for improved sentence comprehension. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4411–4430. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00768
PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL REPORTING: THE BATTLE BETWEEN TRANSPARENCY, BUREAUCRACY, AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING
Creators: name: Mbonigaba Celestin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Public sector financial reporting is crucial for ensuring transparency, accountability, and efficient governance, yet it faces persistent challenges from bureaucracy and political influence. This study examines the interplay between these factors and their impact on financial reporting integrity from 2010 to 2014. Using a secondary data research design, the study analyzed government financial reports, audit records, and international financial databases to assess transparency, bureaucratic efficiency, and political interference. Correlation analysis revealed a strong positive relationship (r = 0.81) between bureaucratic complexity and reporting delays, highlighting inefficiencies that slow down financial disclosures. Regression analysis demonstrated a significant negative impact of political interference on compliance with accrual-based reporting (β = -0.72, p < 0.01), indicating that political influence often distorts financial statements. An ANOVA test confirmed that transparency levels significantly affected foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows (F = 6.89, p < 0.01), emphasizing the economic benefits of transparent financial reporting. The overall correlation coefficient showed that reducing bureaucratic complexity and limiting political interference could enhance financial disclosure accuracy. These findings suggest that governments should prioritize digital financial reporting technologies, strengthen independent oversight bodies, and adopt international accounting standards like IPSAS to improve public sector accountability. Future research should explore the role of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, in further enhancing financial transparency.
COSPLAY: Concept Set Guided Personalized Dialogue Generation Across Both Party Personas
Creators: name: Xu, Chen
name: Li, Piji
name: Wang, Wei
name: Yang, Haoran
name: Wang, Siyun
name: Xiao, Chuangbai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Maintaining a consistent persona is essential for building a human-like conversational model. However, the lack of attention to the partner makes the model more egocentric: they tend to show their persona by all means such as twisting the topic stiffly, pulling the conversation to their own interests regardless, and rambling their persona with little curiosity to the partner. In this work, we propose COSPLAY(COncept Set guided PersonaLized dialogue generation Across both partY personas) that considers both parties as a "team": expressing self-persona while keeping curiosity toward the partner, leading responses around mutual personas, and finding the common ground. Specifically, we first represent self-persona, partner persona and mutual dialogue all in the concept sets. Then, we propose the Concept Set framework with a suite of knowledge-enhanced operations to process them such as set algebras, set expansion, and set distance. Based on these operations as medium, we train the model by utilizing 1) concepts of both party personas, 2) concept relationship between them, and 3) their relationship to the future dialogue. Extensive experiments on a large public dataset, Persona-Chat, demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines for generating less egocentric, more human-like, and higher quality responses in both automatic and human evaluations.
description: Accepted by SIGIR 2022, 11 pages, 9 figures
title: Knowledge production in a constructed field: reflections on comparative and international education
Creators: name: Nordtveit, Bjorn
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: comparative education
subject: comparative education review
subject: content analysis
subject: development
subject: international education
subject: knowledge production

description: Adopting Maria Manzon’s theoretical framework, which draws on Foucault and proposes that comparative education as an academic field is socially constructed, I suggest that the field is neither stable nor well defined. To demonstrate this, I conduct a content analysis of the Comparative Education Review, using Klaus Krippendorff’s methodological framework to study comparative and international education (CIE) researchers’ understanding of the national—and of their related knowledge production in the field. Many comparativists express interests in multiple countries, and their knowledge production takes the form of individual country studies. The countries are habitually studied using a “problem approach” focusing on one specific aspect of the country under investigation and using an associated social science methodology deemed appropriate. Few comparativists are making explicit use of or reference to any methodology that is unique to comparative education. Efforts to catalog and systematize CIE research have demonstrated that the field is becoming so inclusive that it hardly is distinguishable from educational studies as a whole. Hence, I suggest that instead of speaking about unifyingfeatures of the field, it may be more relevant to speak about frequent elements, such as a focus on the national, and a knowledge production characterized by the academic practitioner who desires to improve the education systems studied. A third frequent element may be the focus on educational development, thus justifying the label of “comparative, international, and development education.” One challenge of the field is its dependence on Western social science discourses, which may be marginalizing other voices. © 2015, Education Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Supplementary document for Intraoperative visualization and quantitative assessment of tissue perfusion by imaging photoplethysmography: Comparison with ICG fluorescence angiography - 5894296.pdf
Creators: name: Kashchenko, Victor
name: Zaytsev, Valeriy
name: Ratnikov, Vyacheslav
name: Kamshilin, Alexei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Schematic of iPPG-data processing and perfusion maps of more 5 patients
Enhanced optoelectronic performance and photogating effect in quasi-one-dimensional BiSeI wires
Creators: name: Hu, H. J.
name: Zhen, W. L.
name: Weng, S. R.
name: Li, Y. D.
name: Niu, R.
name: Yue, Z. L.
name: Xu, F.
name: Pi, L.
name: Zhang, C. J.
name: Zhu, W. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) materials are a newly arising topic in low-dimensional researches. As a result of reduced dimensionality and enhanced anisotropy, the quasi-1D structure gives rise to novel properties and promising applications such as photodetectors. However, it remains an open question whether performance crossover will occur when the channel material is downsized. Here we report on the fabrication and testing of photodetectors based on exfoliated quasi-1D BiSeI thin wires. Compared with the device on bulk crystal, a significantly enhanced photoresponse is observed, which is manifested by a series of performance parameters, including ultrahigh responsivity (7 x 10$^4$ A W$^{-1}$), specific detectivity (2.5 x 10$^{14}$ Jones) and external quantum efficiency (1.8 x 10$^7$%) when $V_{\textrm {ds}}$ = 3 V, $λ$ = 515 nm and $P$ = 0.01 mW cm$^{-2}$. The conventional photoconductive effect is unlikely to account for such a superior photoresponse, which is ultimately understood in terms of the increased specific surface area and the photogating effect caused by trapping states. This work provides a perspective for the modulation of optoelectronic properties and performance in quasi-1D materials.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures and SI
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CLINICAL EXPRESSION OF CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS IN THE GERONT-SUPERGERONT POPULATION OF THE FERGANA VALLEY BY SEVERITY LEVEL
Creators: name: Botirov, J.A.
name: Madazimov, M.M.
name: Mamasoliev, N.S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Cholecystitis as a therapeutic, surgical problem and as an almost untapped topical issue in the "field of preventive medicine", especially in the geront and supergeront population, remains until now. According to UNESCO data, hermatric groups of earthlings are considered to be the fastest growing layer [3; 5]. It is clear from this that cholecystitis is the number one problem in the geront and supergeront population and remains the most urgent topic not only in surgical gastroenterology, but also in preventive medicine.
Codes to estimate melt flux from passive microwave brightness temperature, and to display the melt distribution, trends and climatic linkages.
Creators: name: Zheng, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370704
subject: Surface water hydrology
classificationCode: 370202
subject: Climatology

description: The MATLAB scripts used to estimate melt flux from remote sensing observations and plot the main figures.
Magnetic frustration in the cubic double perovskite Ba2NiIrO6
Creators: name: Yang, Ke
name: Xu, Wenjing
name: Lu, Di
name: Zhou, Yuxuan
name: Liu, Lu
name: Ma, Yaozhenghang
name: Wang, Guangyu
name: Wu, Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid transition metal oxides continue to attract attention due to their multiple degrees of freedom ($e.g.$, lattice, charge, spin, and orbital) and versatile properties. Here we investigate the magnetic and electronic properties of the newly synthesized double perovskite Ba$_2$NiIrO$_6$, using crystal field theory, superexchange model analysis, density functional calculations, and parallel tempering Monte Carlo (PTMC) simulations. Our results indicate that Ba$_2$NiIrO$_6$ has the Ni$^{2+}$ ($t_{2g}^{6}e_{g}^{2}$)-Ir$^{6+}$ ($t_{2g}^{3}$) charge states. The first nearest-neighboring (1NN) Ni$^{2+}$-Ir$^{6+}$ ions prefer a ferromagnetic (FM) coupling as expected from the Goodenough-Kanamori-Anderson rules, which contradicts the experimental antiferromagnetic (AF) order in Ba$_2$NiIrO$_6$. We find that the strong 2NN AF couplings are frustrated in the fcc sublattices, and they play a major role in determining the observed AF ground state. We also prove that the $J_{\rm eff}$ = 3/2 and $J_{\rm eff}$ = 1/2 states induced by spin-orbit coupling, which would be manifested in low-dimensional (e.g., layered) iridates, are however not the case for cubic Ba$_2$NiIrO$_6$. Our PTMC simulations show that when the long-range (2NN and 3NN) AF interactions are included, an AF transition with $T_{\rm N}$ = 66 K would be obtained and it is well comparable with the experimental 51 K. Meanwhile, we propose a possible 2$\times$2$\times$2 noncollinear AF structure for Ba$_2$NiIrO$_6$.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
Codes to estimate melt flux from passive microwave brightness temperature, and to display the melt distribution, trends and climatic linkages.
Creators: name: Zheng, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370704
subject: Surface water hydrology
classificationCode: 370202
subject: Climatology

description: The MATLAB scripts used to estimate melt flux from remote sensing observations and plot the main figures.
title: National E-Systems for Combating VAT Evasion and Intra-EU Trade. Hungary’s ‘EAKER’ and Romania’s ‘RO e-Transport’
Creators: name: Gáspár-Szilágyi, Szilárd
name: Ianovici, Vasile
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: internal market
subject: free movement of goods
subject: border checks
subject: VAT evasion
subject: EKAER
subject: e-Transport

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(1), 55-96
description: 1. Introduction. – 2. A quick look at border and other types of checks. – 3. An overview of the two systems. – 3.1. Hungary’s EKAER. The old and the new versions. – 3.2. Romania’s e-Transport. – 4. Legal challenges. – 4.1. The CMR Convention. – 4.2. Conformity with EU free movement of goods law. – 4.3. Proving intra-EU transactions for VAT purposes. – 4.4. Conformity with Regulation 1100/2008 on the elimination of internal frontier checks. – 5. Practical challenges. – 5.1. Increased costs. – 5.2. Increased bureaucracy. – 5.3. User ‘friendliness’ and technical problems. – 5.4. Fragmentation of the internal market. – 6. Ways forward. – 6.1. Is Romania and Bulgaria’s full accession to the Schengen Area enough? – 6.2. Better awareness and enforcement of EU law. – 6.3. Would an EU-wide E-System be feasible? – 6.4. A multi-filter system and cross check for checking compliance. – 7. Conclusions. – Annex 1: Questionnaire.
description: The purpose of this paper is to critically look at two recent E-Systems – one introduced in Hungary (EKAER and more recently BIREG) and the other in Romania (RO e-Transport) – that apply or have until recently applied, among others, to the intra-EU transportation of goods to and from the countries in question. These E-Systems are meant to combat Value Added Tax (VAT) evasion. Whilst they pursue a worthy public goal, on a closer look they pose significant legal and practical challenges. From a legal perspective, these E-Systems and the compliance checks at the border that arise from their implementation amount to measures having an equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions, prohibited under Article 34 TFEU. Furthermore, they contravene secondary EU legislation, such as Regulation 1100/2008 on the prohibition of internal frontier checks, and the VAT Directive and its implementing regulations. The E-Systems also pose numerous practical challenges, such as increased direct and indirect costs for businesses and frequent technical problems. Furthermore, the introduction of national E-Systems increases the administrative burden that the transportation of goods entails and risks further fragmenting the Internal Market. Besides Romania and Bulgaria’s impending full accession to the Schengen Area and the need to increase awareness around EU law, a possible solution could be to set up an EU-wide E-System, managed by public authorities, for combating VAT evasion for the intra-EU transport of goods. Furthermore, instead of systematic border checks, compliance checks should be carried out in a country’s interior, using a multi-filter approach and cross-checks.
New Results on Pairwise Compatibility Graphs
Creators: name: Hakim, Sheikh Azizul
name: Papan, Bishal Basak
name: Rahman, Md. Saidur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A graph $G=(V,E)$ is called a pairwise compatibility graph (PCG) if there exists an edge-weighted tree $T$ and two non-negative real numbers $d_{min}$ and $d_{max}$ such that each leaf $u$ of $T$ corresponds to a vertex $u \in V$ and there is an edge $(u, v) \in E$ if and only if $d_{min} \leq d_{T}(u, v) \leq d_{max}$, where $d_T(u, v)$ is the sum of the weights of the edges on the unique path from $u$ to $v$ in $T$. The tree $T$ is called the pairwise compatibility tree (PCT) of $G$. It has been proven that not all graphs are PCGs. Thus, it is interesting to know which classes of graphs are PCGs. In this paper, we prove that grid graphs are PCGs. Although there are a necessary condition and a sufficient condition known for a graph being a PCG, there are some classes of graphs that are intermediate to the classes defined by the necessary condition and the sufficient condition. In this paper, we show two examples of graphs that are included in these intermediate classes and prove that they are not PCGs.
description: Manuscript accepted in Information Processing Letters
Perceptions of the 'good farmer' and social licence to operate in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: name: Booth, Pamela
name: Espig, Martin
name: Kirk, Nicholas
name: Sinner, Jim
name: Campbell, Hugh
name: Edwards, Peter
name: Kannemeyer, Robyn
name: Dear, Chloe
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management

description: Over the past 50 years, farming practices and public perceptions of farming in Aotearoa New Zealand have changed substantially. These changes raise questions over the future relationship between farming communities and the public. Recent research challenges the assumption that perceptions of farming differ significantly between farmers and the public. Using two recent surveys in Aotearoa New Zealand, we apply the social licence to operate concept using the 'good farmer' as a foundation. We find perceptions of 'good farming' practices held by the public and farmers are relatively aligned, but these groups may have different interpretations despite core messages aligning. Farmers were trusted as a source of information more than mainstream media by both groups. Increasing alignment of 'good farmer' perceptions between the groups can lead to an increase in perceived trustworthiness of farmers as an information source by the public. Our findings contribute to the emerging body of literature showing the perceived 'rural/urban divide' may not be as large as believed. These insights extend the literature by finding strong alignment of perceptions and nuanced interpretations of good farming practices by the public and farmers. Further investigation can contribute to constructive societal conversations about agriculture's social licence in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Consistency between the attached-eddy model and the inner-outer interaction model: a study of streamwise wall-shear stress fluctuations in a turbulent channel flow
Creators: name: Cheng, Cheng
name: Fu, Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76F02, 76F40, 76F55

description: The inner-outer interaction model (Marusic, Mathis & Hutchins, Science, vol. 329, 2010, 193-196) and the attached-eddy model (Townsend, Cambridge University Press, 1976) are two fundamental models describing the multi-scale turbulence interactions and the organization of energy-containing motions in the logarithmic region of high-Reynolds number wall-bounded turbulence, respectively. In this paper, by coupling the additive description with the attached-eddy model, the generation process of streamwise wall-shear fluctuations, resulting from wall-attached eddies, is portrayed. Then, by resorting to the inner-outer interaction model, the streamwise wall-shear stress fluctuations generated by attached eddies in a turbulent channel flow are isolated. Direct comparison between the statistics from these two models demonstrates that they are consistent to and complement each other. Meanwhile, we further show that the superpositions of attached eddies follow an additive process strictly by verifying the validity of the strong and extended self similarity. Moreover, we propose a Gaussian model to characterize the instantaneous distribution of streamwise wall-shear stress, resulting from the attached-eddy superpositions. These findings are important for developing an advanced reduced-order wall model.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted to be published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Supplementary document for Intraoperative visualization and quantitative assessment of tissue perfusion by imaging photoplethysmography: Comparison with ICG fluorescence angiography - 5894296.pdf
Creators: name: Kashchenko, Victor
name: Zaytsev, Valeriy
name: Ratnikov, Vyacheslav
name: Kamshilin, Alexei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Schematic of iPPG-data processing and perfusion maps of more 5 patients
Rectangular mesh contour generation algorithm for finite differences calculus
Creators: name: da Silva, Pedro Zaffalon
name: Romeiro, Neyva Maria Lopes
name: de Souza, Iury Pereira
name: Natti, Paulo Laerte
name: Cirilo, Eliandro Rodrigues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work, a 2D contour generation algorithm is proposed for irregular regions. The contour of the physical domain is approximated by mesh segments using the known coordinates of the contour. For this purpose, the algorithm uses a repeating structure that analyzes the known irregular contour coordinates to approximate the physical domain contour by mesh segments. To this end, the algorithm calculates the slope of the line defined by the known point of the irregular contours and the neighboring vertices. In this way, the algorithm calculates the points of the line and its distance to the closest known nodes of the mesh, allowing to obtain the points of the approximate contour. This process is repeated until the approximate contour is obtained. Therefore, this approximate contour generation algorithm, from known nodes of a mesh, is suitable for describing meshes involving geometries with irregular contours and for calculating finite differences in numerical simulations. The contour is evaluated through three geometries, the difference between the areas delimited by the given contour and the approximate contour, the number of nodes and the number of internal points. It can be seen that the increase in geometry complexity implies the need for a greater number of nodes in the contour, generating more refined meshes that allow reaching differences in areas below 2%.
description: In Portuguese language
Make your stream monitoring data count! A national quality assurance framework for community-based monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: name: Milne, Juliet
name: Valois, Amanda
name: Robbins, Jane
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: This national quality assurance framework will support community and CBM groups to collect freshwater data of a known quality that are ‘fit for purpose’. The framework will also help to increase the visibility and use of the data in freshwater management. The framework focuses on monitoring of stream health and is built around an initial set of 28 indicators. The framework provides an electronic monitoring and quality plan template, guidance document, electronic field form templates and a supporting background report.
structures and Cryo-EM maps of ASFV RNAP in complex with M1249L
Creators: name: Wang, Nan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310706
subject: Virology
classificationCode: 310112
subject: Structural biology (incl. macromolecular modelling)

description: Structures and maps of ASFV RNA polymerase and M1249L
Mammalian diversity, health, and other responses to rapid deforestation in the Interior Atlantic Forest
Creators: name: de la Sancha, Noé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pathogen Preparedness
Vouchering
Museum Collections
Deforestation
OneHealth

description: This invited talk presented by Noé de la Sancha as part of an NSF-supported Workshop: Digital Collections Data and Tracking Disease.
Microsoft Excel ATAG evaluation results
Creators: name: Alcaraz Martínez, Rubén
name: Ribera, Mireia
name: Roig Marcelino, Jordi
name: Pascual Almenara, Afra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460801
subject: Accessible computing
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction

description: Results of the Microsoft Excel ATAG evaluation results, related to the paper published in: Alcaraz Martínez, Rubén; Ribera, Mireia, Roig, Jordi; Pascual, Afra. Can we create accessible charts with Microsoft MS Excel?: a review of possibilities and limits, with a special focus to users with low vision. In Interacción '24: Proceedings of the XXIV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction.
Factors associated with physical violence against children in Haiti: a national population-based cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Flynn-O’Brien, Katherine T.
name: Rivara, Frederick P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Considering the recent sociopolitical and environmental stress in Haiti, from the COVID pandemic to repeated natural disasters, we aimed to identify risk and protective factors associated with childhood physical violence (CPV) after the 2010 earthquake. A population-based national survey was administered to 13–24-year-old Haitians in 2012. A three-stage clustered sample design was utilized. Adjusted prevalence ratios (aPR) and risk ratios (aRR). 64% of survey respondents experienced CPV were estimated. Respondents who reported emotional and/or sexual abuse prior to age 12 were twice as likely to be victims of physical violence later during childhood (emotional aRR 1.9, 95% CI 1.3–2.7; sexual aRR 2.1, 95% CI 1.4–3.1). Feeling close or very close to one’s mother was protective (aPR 0.66, 95% CI 0.47–0.92). This study is the first to describe risk and protective factors and also delineate temporality of exposures associated with CPV. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2021.1996398.
Undercover carriers: rodents as hidden reservoirs for pathogenic fungi transmission
Creators: name: Mahoney, Kailey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pathogen Preparedness
Vouchering
Museum Collections
Pathogen Transmission Vectors
Fungi

description: This invited talk presented by Kailey Mahoney as part of an NSF-supported Workshop: Digital Collections Data and Tracking Disease.
Supplementary document for Numerical study of sodalime and PDMS hemisphere photonic structures for radiative cooling of silicon solar cells - 5894866.pdf
Creators: name: Silva-Oelker, Gerardo
name: Jaramillo-Fernández, Juliana
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document with numerical validation and materials properties
Ki uta ki tai: Managing catchments for Healthy Estuaries
Creators: name: McKeague, Susie
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: This research provided a new, national overview of the current state of the estuaries. About 60% of NZ estuary catchments do not meet the NPS-FM bottom line for Total Nitrogen and 70% do not meet the Total Phosphorous bottom line standards for rivers. This study went on to determine that reducing the nitrogen load by 60% would result in more than 80% of estuary catchments achieving the Nitrogen NPS-FM bottom line. To achieve this, land managers in those catchments would need to implement runoff mitigation strategies, such as riparian planting, and consider some land-use diversification. However, it highlights that modelling using financially viable land use options to estimate the land use change required in catchments to reach the NPS-FM bottom lines shows land in forestry increasing significantly. There are many reasons why that outcome is not palatable for Aotearoa.This summary encapsulates the research report for the Our Land and Water component of the cross-National Science Challenge research project Healthy Estuaries Ki Uta Ki Tai.
Trypanosoma cruzi surveillance using salvage specimens of Mexican free-tailed bats and raccoons in Texas
Creators: name: Mosley, Illana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pathogen Preparedness
Vouchering
Museum Collections
Pathogen Surveillance
Extended Specimen

description: This invited talk presented by Illana Mosley as part of an NSF-supported Workshop: Digital Collections Data and Tracking Disease
5. Review-Interview with Roger Cooter: The Critical Intellectual in the Age of Neoliberal Hegemony
Creators: name: Omodeo, Pietro
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2015

description: This presentation of Roger Cooter’s and Claudia Stein’s recent volume (Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013) is divided into two sections. The first part will offer an overview of their most challenging views. The second consists in a series of questions related to the claims of the book. Roger Cooter kindly agreed to reply to them.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 4, No 7 (2015)
Surveillance, prevention, and control of viral zoonoses among mammals in a OneHealth context
Creators: name: Ruprecht, Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pathogen Preparedness
Vouchering
Museum Collections
OneHealth
Viral Zoonoses

description: This invited talk presented by Charles Ruprecht as part of an NSF-supported Workshop: Digital Collections Data and Tracking Disease
6. Book Reviews
Creators: name: Pasini, Enrico
name: Mammola, Simone
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2015

description: Reviews of Valery Rees, From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels, London-New York 2012; G. R. Evans, First Light. A History of Creation Myths from Gilgamesh to the God Particle, London-New York 2014.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 4, No 7 (2015)
1. The ‘Gastronomy and Revolution’ Seminar is Coming
Creators: name: Pasini, Enrico
name: Albertone, Manuela
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2015

description: After the call for papers on “Erasmian Science. The influence on Early-Modern science of Erasmus of Rotterdam and his legacy”, that we had issued in collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, we had undertaken another one, titled Gastronomie et révolution. It was issued in January 2015, in collaboration with Ludovic Frobert and Nicola Perullo.

Among the submissions we received, we have selected three abstracts, and the proposers will be invited to the G&R seminar, that is to be held in Piedmont (IT) in Autumn 2015. After the seminar, the purpose of which shall be to improve the selected contributions in an open discussion, the texts will be given their final form and will appear in a special issue of our Journal, together with other contributions.

In this number, alongside three articles by young women researchers in the peer-reviewed section, we present again a Review-Interview—this time Pietro Omodeo challenges Roger Cooter to a discussion on the critical intellectual's present role.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 4, No 7 (2015)
Alternative Feeds to Hit Emissions Targets
Creators: name: Dickey, Delwyn
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management

description: Agricultural emissions targets could be met by 2030 by increasing brassica and grains in cattle diets by 20-30%, with stocking rates reduced just 5%, finds a new agricultural model developed for the New Zealand arable farming sector.
6. A Response to: Writing for Women at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Sir Hugh Platt's Delightes for Ladies by Doina-Cristina Rusu
Creators: name: Thick, Malcolm Francis
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2016

description: A short response to Doina-Cristina Rusu's article on Sir Hugh Plat pointing out that the editorial process she described when moving recipes between two of his published works also occured between his manuscripts and books. Also, there is no evidence that Plat was much regarded during his lifetime but his work was much admired in the second half of the seventeenth century.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 4, No 8 (2015): Special Issue: Gastronomy and Revolution
1. Introduction to the special issue on “Gastronomy and Revolution”
Creators: name: Albertone, Manuela
name: Frobert, Ludovic
name: Pasini, Enrico
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2016

description: This number of our Journal is again a special, thematic issue, that brings to our readers the results of the Call on “Gastronomy and Revolution”, that we announced in 2014, and of the 2015 Seminar that followed the Call. In these few pages, we would like to provide a brief introduction to the theme of the issue.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 4, No 8 (2015): Special Issue: Gastronomy and Revolution
2. Lorsque le luxe bégaye: enquête sur les relations entre État et "choses banales" (France, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
Creators: name: Millet, Audrey
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2015

description: Cet article explore les relations étroites entre demande et économie politique durant la première industrialisation. Marquée par le déferlement des choses banales, la période est aussi représentée par la légende noire d’un colbertisme dirigiste qui privilégierait les industries du luxe. Pourtant, l’État prend part au processus de commoditization des biens réclamés par les consommateurs. Si les catégories traditionnelles d’analyse sont bien en crise, elles sont aussi en cours de reformulation. L’État soutient l’envie de confort et de bien-être. Les conséquences sont importantes. D’une part, la traditionnelle société d’ordres s’effrite et, d’autre part, un nouveau monde se met en place, celui du Made in France.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 4, No 7 (2015)
KICHIK MAKTAB YОSHIDAGI О'QUVCHILARNING PSIXОLОGIK XUSUSIYATLARI
Creators: name: Rо'zibayeva, Muhabbat
name: Xоlyigitоva, Nasiba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqоlada bоlalar va pedagоgik psixоlоgiyada markaziy о‘rinlardan birini egallagan kichik maktab yоshidagi о‘quvchilarning psixоlоgik xususiyatlariga tо‘xtalib о‘tilgan.
3. Writing for Women at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Hugh Platt’s Delightes for Ladies
Creators: name: Rusu, Doina-Cristina
Publisher: name: GISI - UniTO
Year: 2015

description: This article analyses the books of secrets and recipes written for women in the early modern period, taking as a case study Hugh Platt’s Delightes for Ladies. By comparing this book with the more famous The Jewell House of Art and Nature composed by the same author for a general audience, several conclusions can be drawn concerning the way in which women’s interest and capacities were perceived by their mail contemporaries. Shortly, the elements concerning the theoretical and philosophical aspects of some phenomena and the queries for further investigation of nature are removed from the books written from women. While women were expected to put the recipes into practice, men were assumed to be interested in various other aspects of transforming nature, not only the very practical one.
description: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 4, No 7 (2015)
Perceptions of the effectiveness of a national professional development course for EFL teachers in Vietnam using the theory of practice architectures
Creators: name: Bui, Van
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Continuous teacher professional development is one strategy that educational stakeholders have chosen to improve teacher quality as part of education reforms. The same situation occurs in Vietnam with various teacher professional development courses for EFL teachers. Drawing on the theory of practice architectures, in this study I explored the arrangements that shaped the activities of a national EFL teacher professional development course in Vietnam (hereafter called EFL Course) as well as the arrangements that shaped teachers’ teaching practices after the course. I also investigated teachers’ and teacher educators’ perceptions of the effectiveness of EFL Course. Fifty-six teachers and eight teacher educators participated in this study. I adopted a qualitative approach in which data were collected from observations, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with the teachers and the teacher educators. The findings of this study indicate that different factors acted as arrangements in shaping the activities in EFL Course and teachers’ teaching. They included enablers and constraints coming from a range of resources at Vietnamese school and society from common languages (Vietnamese and English) to the role of English in the society. Among these factors, activities in EFL Course were mainly constrained by material economic arrangements, namely EFL Course operation including its blended delivery mode, scheduling, and duration, coursebook, and location. Teachers’ teaching was constrained primarily by social-political arrangements that included school structures and educational and socioeconomic systems. Importantly, this study highlights factors acting as practice traditions that contributed to shaping activities of EFL Course and teachers’ teaching. These factors were Confucianism, teacher-centred teaching methods, and the one-off cascade traditional approaches used in teacher professional development. This study exposes a mismatch in teachers’ and teacher educators’ expectations of the course as well as a disconnect between teachers’ and teacher educators’ perceptions of the course’s effect on teachers’ teaching practices. This study also indicates that more attention needs to be paid to multilayered systems, especially traditional values, that shape teacher professional development. Implications for policymakers, course providers, course participants, and researchers are provided to improve the effectiveness of teacher professional development courses.
MoMaP: An interactive map for visualizing Mongolian mammals and parasites
Creators: name: Wooten, Litsa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pathogen Preparedness
Vouchering
Museum Collections
Software
Data visualization
Mapping

description: This invited talk presented by Litsa Wooten as part of an NSF-supported Workshop: Digital Collections Data and Tracking Disease
Conservación de la lengua castellana a través de los ámbitos de la escritura, la investigación y la publicidad. Entrevista al Dr. Ignacio Bosque Muñoz, académico de número de la Real Academia Española
Creators: name: Delgado Del Aguila, Jesús Miguel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: En esta entrevista se resolvieron las interrogantes formuladas y orientadas a la preservación de la lengua castellana en Hispanoamérica. En principio, se abordaron tres temas fundamentales derivados de esta propuesta: la escritura, la investigación y la publicidad. Con el primer tópico, se discernió la función de las normativas, los diccionarios y los manuales elaborados por la Real Academia Española. Su intervención es enjundiosa, ya que direcciona al lector y académico al perfeccionamiento de su lenguaje, con la finalidad de que no reincida en errores gramaticales. El segundo rubro abarca la investigación. Esta fue destacada porque facilita la interacción de los hablantes de la lengua castellana con las metodologías que se instauran para configurar un lenguaje totémico. Además, se asume que la única manera de difundir y contribuir a ese conocimiento sería por medio de las publicaciones científicas. La tercera variante consiste en cómo se inserta esta inquietud en torno a la lengua castellana en los ámbitos publicitarios. Esto es neurálgico por su audiencia limitada y el desinterés de respaldo por los Gobiernos. Frente a ello, consideré que el Dr. Ignacio Bosque Muñoz era la persona idónea para confrontar esta realidad sobre el castellano. Su rol importante en la RAE y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE) lo amerita, así como sus publicaciones orientadas al estudio del idioma con enfoques gramaticales. Con su interacción, la volición de este trabajo se evidenciará con la explicación del panorama vigente de la lengua y su preservación, como cuando uno desea comprender el Quijote, entender las contribuciones gramaticales y lexicales de la RAE y la ASALE o cuestionar la proliferación del idioma desde los medios de comunicación. La auscultación de esas oscilaciones será el aporte de esta entrevista.
RNA seq pipeline: ATP Citrate Lyase Drives Vascular Remodeling Diseases Development Through Metabolic-Epigenetic Reprograming.
Creators: name: Potus, Francois
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These files contain the pipeline used for RNA-seq data analysis in the paper titled "ATP Citrate Lyase Drives Vascular Remodeling Disease Development Through Metabolic-Epigenetic Reprogramming."

The package includes:

A Bash template for aligning FASTQ files using STAR

An R script for analyzing the raw count data