cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comportement expérimental global et local des couvre-joints avec trous oblongs
Creators: name: Cavène, Edouard
name: Durif, Sébastien
name: Bouchaïr, Abdelhamid
name: Toussaint, Evelyne
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: De nos jours, l’architecture a tendance à associer différents matériaux. Ces matériaux présentent des comportements différents face aux variations thermiques. Cette association induit donc de nouvelles problématiques liées à des gradients de déformations thermiques à l’interface entre ces matériaux. Les trous oblongs présentent un intérêt particulier dans ce contexte car ils permettent de libérer les déplacements dans une direction tout en assurant une reprise totale des efforts dans la direction perpendiculaire au trou. Le comportement de tels assemblages est assez peu documenté dans la littérature. Ainsi, ce travail s’attache à étudier le comportement d’assemblages présentant des trous oblongs d’un point de vue global en terme de résistance et raideur avant d’approfondir au niveau local en utilisant une technique de mesure de champs sans contact (corrélation d’image). Ce travail pour but de développer ultérieurement des modèles analytiques pour prédire le comportement de tels assemblages.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Effet du mode constructif sur le comportement au séisme de portiques béton armé avec panneau de maçonnerie
Creators: name: Plassiard, J.P.
name: Belghiat, C.
name: Layadi, I.
name: Plé, O.
name: Perrotin, P.
name: Messabhia, A.
name: Guenfoud, M.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Ce travail concerne les structures de type portique béton armé avec remplissage en briques de terre cuite. Ces modes de contreventement sont courants en Algérie et sont exposés au risque sismique. En effet, le remplissage en maçonnerie peut subir un endommagement important durant le séisme, pouvant aller jusqu’à son chute du cadre. La résistance latérale du portique vide est alors nettement affaiblie et présente un risque de rupture conséquent. Afin d’éviter ce phénomène, le mode constructif peut être modifié : c’est le cas de la maçonnerie chainée ou de la maçonnerie harpée. L’efficacité de ces structures a été comparée lors d’une campagne expérimentale. Deux murs correspondant à chacun des modes constructifs précités ont été confectionnés en vue de les tester suivant un essai de type pushover. Chaque type de mur a été caractérisé en terme de résistance, type d’irréversibilités ou encore perte de raideur avec le chargement. Des recommandations sont alors faites concernant l’aptitude de chacune d’elles vis à vis du sollicitation sismique.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Additional file 1 of Disordered leptin and ghrelin bioactivity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS): a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Qi
name: Wang, Chi
name: Hu, Wenhao
name: Hu, Fanqi
name: Liu, Weibo
name: Zhang, Xuesong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1 PRISMA NMA Checklist of Items to Include When Reporting A Systematic Review Involving a Network Meta-analysis
The effects of brain-derived insulin loss on adult neurogenesis in aged male and female Ins2 knockout mice
Creators: name: Baehring, Stella
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Insulin resistance in the brain is associated with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia with women being more affected than men. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder signified by dysfunctional insulin release and action, and it is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease. Interestingly, administration of insulin to the brain is an effective experimental treatment to improve learning and memory impairments in Alzheimer’s Disease patients. This suggests an important role of insulin action local to the brain. Increasingly more research reports that insulin can be synthesized in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for learning and memory, and one of the only areas in which new neurons can form throughout adulthood. However, not much is known about how brain-derived insulin effects adult neurogenesis and what factors modulate its expression. This study aimed to confirm insulin production in the hippocampus, assess its modulation by diet and exercise, and identify how brain-derived insulin loss affects adult neurogenesis in female and male mice. I hypothesized that insulin expression is most abundant in the hippocampus, that a high carbohydrate diet decreases insulin expression while exercise increases its expression, and that brain-derived insulin loss decreases adult neurogenesis. To examine these aims I utilized a genetically engineered mouse model with deletion of the Ins2 gene (expressed in the brain) while leaving the Ins1 gene (expressed only in the pancreas), and thus normal glucose homeostasis, intact. In line with my prediction, Ins2 mRNA was high in the hippocampus compared to other regions. Ins2 mRNA was expressed at higher levels in hippocampi of females than males. Contrary to my prediction, Ins2 expression was higher in females eating a high carbohydrate diet and exercise blunted this effect. Surprisingly, the deletion of Ins2 alleles led to increased cell proliferation and this effect was sexually dimorphic. Overall, these results suggest brain-derived insulin differs between sexes and influences adult neurogenesis in mice, highlighting the potential of brain-derived insulin for therapeutic research of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Portfolio Optimization on NIFTY Thematic Sector Stocks Using an LSTM Model
Creators: name: Sen, Jaydip
name: Mondal, Saikat
name: Mehtab, Sidra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Portfolio optimization has been a broad and intense area of interest for quantitative and statistical finance researchers and financial analysts. It is a challenging task to design a portfolio of stocks to arrive at the optimized values of the return and risk. This paper presents an algorithmic approach for designing optimum risk and eigen portfolios for five thematic sectors of the NSE of India. The prices of the stocks are extracted from the web from Jan 1, 2016, to Dec 31, 2020. Optimum risk and eigen portfolios for each sector are designed based on ten critical stocks from the sector. An LSTM model is designed for predicting future stock prices. Seven months after the portfolios were formed, on Aug 3, 2021, the actual returns of the portfolios are compared with the LSTM-predicted returns. The predicted and the actual returns indicate a very high-level accuracy of the LSTM model.
description: The is the preprint version of our published paper listed in the IEEE Xplore. The final paper is published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Analytics for Business and Industry, pp. 364-369, Bahrain, October 25-26, 2021. The preprint consists of 6 pages and it contains 10 figures and 16 tables
Workshop: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Medizin - Reproduzierbarkeit, Data Sharing und Open Science
Creators: name: Seibold, Heidi
name: Schönbrodt, Felix
name: Plesnila, Nikolaus
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022

description: Lecture at Seminar (), ; doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/HGY49
description: Unterlagen zum Workshop 'Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Medizin' vom 01.04.2019 am Klinikum der Universität München, organisiert von der LMU Open Science Initiative in Medicine (LMU Open Science Center)
title: L’apprentissage du vocabulaire allemand à travers les jeux pédagogiques
title: L’apprentissage du vocabulaire allemand à travers les jeux pédagogiques
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schneider, Sarah
name: Steinemann, Mabel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Allemand
subject: Apprentissage
subject: Jeux pédagogiques
subject: Mots
subject: Séquences préfabriquées
subject: Vocabulaire

description: L’apprentissage d’une langue étrangère n’est jamais évident à ses débuts, car il est nécessaire d’avoir un certain bagage lexical pour entrer en communication. Selon certains auteurs, il est important de mettre en place un type de processus pour acquérir du vocabulaire. Ces derniers débutent en contextualisant le vocabulaire puis en le décontextualisant. Il n’est toutefois pas rare de constater que la pratique des enseignants diverge de cette théorie. Notre expérience en tant qu’élèves et stagiaires prouve cela. En effet, nombreux sont les professeurs qui prônent les listes de mots et de séquences préfabriquées dès le début d’une séquence. Il est également intéressant de constater que plusieurs auteurs proposent les jeux pédagogiques comme modalité de travail pour consolider les apprentissages. C’est pour cette raison que dans le cadre de notre mémoire professionnel, nous avons étudié l’acquisition du vocabulaire allemand sous l’angle des jeux pédagogiques. Notre étude a donc été menée dans le but de vérifier l’efficacité et la pertinence des jeux pédagogiques dans l’apprentissage d’une langue étrangère. Nous avons fait l’hypothèse, à la suite de lectures scientifiques, qu’il était bénéfique d’introduire les jeux pédagogiques en classe, car cela permet de varier les modalités de travail et de les rendre plus ludiques. Nous pensons également que cette modalité permet un apprentissage en profondeur, car il peut consolider les connaissances des élèves. Dans le but de vérifier nos hypothèses, nous avons transmis un questionnaire à plusieurs enseignants allemands afin qu’ils puissent partager leurs avis d’expert. Notre questionnaire est fondé sur des questions permettant de comprendre les processus que les enseignants utilisent en classe. Ces différents points seront présentés dans ce projet de mémoire professionnel.
STUDY ON MUSIC RECOMMENDATION USING USER'S FACE EMOTION USING PYTHON PROGRAMMING AND MACHINE LEARNING
Creators: name: Arun, Upendhra
name: Dr, R Vadivel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Facial Emotion Recognition
Music Recommendation System
Machine Learning in Music
Real-Time Emotion Analysis
Python-Based AI Applications

description: Music has a profound influence on human emotions and behavior. This paper presents a novel music recommendation system that leverages facial emotion recognition to curate personalized playlists. The system dynamically selects music that aligns with the user's emotional state by utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for real-time facial expression analysis. Unlike conventional recommendation systems that depend on historical user preferences, the proposed model provides an intuitive, real-time solution for emotion-based music suggestions. The results show a significant improvement in user experience and engagement.
title: An Interpretative Phenomenological Inspired Analysis of Visually Impaired Participation in a British Judo Club: Advocacy, Social Justice and Care Ethics in the Disability Sport Built Environment
Creators: name: Urban, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis provides an insider's perspective of how the current experience of Visually Impaired (VI) participants in British Judo (BJA) club environments is evolving alongside the growth of the global development of Para-Judo post London 2012. Via ethnography, the study focuses on how advocacy roles can be established within the BJA Paralympic performance pathway, an emphasis can be put upon social justice to create more ethical and accessible environments, and the experiences of past and current athletes can be learned from. Theoretically guided by phenomenological analysis of participants' lived experience and Gilligan's (1982) theorisation of care, this thesis calls upon accounts of relationships formed with coaches, and Para-Judo facilitators (facilitators being Judo coaches, club welfare officers, and other members of Judo environments whom make Judo possible for people to practice). Data for this thesis has been taken from 4 in-depth interviews conducted with athletes at varying stages in the Paralympic performance pathway, the interviews have been translated from the ethnographic perspective of this research through the development of a series of discussion and policy document analy-sis which contributes to the growing field of literature that aims to articulate the experi-ence of people living with impairments in the world of culture and leisure which is de-signed for a non-disabled audiences. The research contributes and provides a critical interrogation of how Paralympic Judo has not only evolved in Britain, but also how its' culture and priorities have been aligned to growing demands of professionalism set by the rapidly evolving global landscape of Paralympic Judo over the last 10 years since London 2012. This is evidenced in findings which suggest that there are very little physi-cal limitations in a VI person participating in Judo, but the obstacles that do exist are re-sults of the cultural, environmental, and social misunderstandings of disability in the con-text of sporting and leisure environments.
Additional file 1 of Comparison of clinical outcomes with proximal femoral nail anti-rotation versus InterTAN nail for intertrochanteric femoral fractures: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Wei
name: Liu, Jie
name: Ji, Guangrong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental List 1.
Spotting shipping container codes with deep learning methods
Creators: name: Zhang, Ran
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Automated container code reading systems are of great value to logistics management. However, previous container code spotting methods have limited recognition performance in complex outdoor environments of transportation industry. Therefore, this research focuses on designing high-performance shipping container code spotting (including detection and recognition) methods for automated container code reading. First, an adaptive deep learning framework is proposed for horizontal code spotting. Adaptive threshold and average score aggregation (ASA) are designed to remove the noisy text. The detected code regions are adaptively adjusted for code recognition in our framework. Experiments have been conducted on real horizontal code image datasets. The overall recognition accuracy has been improved from 90.17% to 93.33%. Second, a deep learning model is proposed for vertical code spotting. It aligns vertical features of container codes. In addition, it includes two recognition pipelines and an uncertainty and probability-based decision strategy to adaptively choose the final results from two pipelines. Experiments conducted on real vertical code datasets demonstrate that the overall recognition f1-score performance has been improved from 93.5% to 96.5%. Third, a visual and textual information fusion-based zero-shot deep learning framework is proposed to spot placard codes. In this framework, Logarithmic Weighted Cross-Entropy (LWCE) is designed to reduce the effects of imbalanced classes and Logarithmic Weighted Confidence Fusion (LWCF) is proposed to fuse the visual and textual information to handle unseen classes and enhance performance in seen classes. Our proposed framework has been validated on real industrial placard datasets. The overall end-to-end recognition f1-score performance has been improved from 79.97% to 92.77%. Overall, our deep learning-based code spotting methods improve the accuracy of automated container code recognition and facilitate automated container management.
Estimation des dommages pour les conduites souterraines suite aux séismes
Creators: name: Soulimane, Ilyas
name: Ameur, Mourad
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: L’estimation du risque sismique pour les conduites enterrées est très importante pour la sécurité de la population, puisqu’elles transportent des matières inflammables, ces conduites représentent des structures continues. Cette vulnérabilité se mesure par le taux de réparation RR (Repair Rate) qui traduit le nombre de réparations par kilomètre suite à un séisme. L’objectif de ce papier est de proposer une relation de dommage des conduites enterrées noté RR à partir des équations de prédiction de mouvement de sol (GMPE) ayant pour limite de validité la magnitude de moment entre 5 et 7.5, la distance Joyner & Boore allant jusqu’à 100 kilomètres et la prise en compte de l’effet de site. Ce travail consiste à utiliser les modèles d’estimations de dommages des conduites enterrées par l’un des paramètres de mouvement de sol à l’issu de nombreux séismes enregistrés. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la méthodologie développée conduit à des résultats intéressants.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Arte Poética de António de Ataíde, Vol. II. Anexos
Creators: name: Cordeiro, Adriano Milho
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2018

description: Tese (Segundo volume).
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano XI - Número 22-23 - Junho 2017 - Dezembro 2018
Arte Poética de António de Ataíde, Vol. I
Creators: name: Cordeiro, Adriano Milho
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2018

description: O presente estudo aborda pela primeira vez e de uma forma integral a obra manuscrita em vernáculo, intitulada Borrador de huma arte poetica que se intenta/ua escrever da autoria de D. António de Ataíde, 5.º conde da Castanheira e 1.º conde de Castro D’Aire. Pela primeira vez é lida, revista, se transcreve e se comenta. Trata-se de um documento manuscrito e o seu carácter crítico-literário permite-nos afirmar que foi uma das primeiras obras do género a ser escritas no contexto ibérico. A sua observação é de importância capital para a análise da teoria literária, em geral, e para o estudo e compreensão das obras de alguns autores lusos dos séculos XVI e XVII, em particular.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano XI - Número 22-23 - Junho 2017 - Dezembro 2018
On Smart Gaze based Annotation of Histopathology Images for Training of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Mariam, Komal
name: Afzal, Osama Mohammed
name: Hussain, Wajahat
name: Javed, Muhammad Umar
name: Kiyani, Amber
name: Rajpoot, Nasir
name: Khurram, Syed Ali
name: Khan, Hassan Aqeel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unavailability of large training datasets is a bottleneck that needs to be overcome to realize the true potential of deep learning in histopathology applications. Although slide digitization via whole slide imaging scanners has increased the speed of data acquisition, labeling of virtual slides requires a substantial time investment from pathologists. Eye gaze annotations have the potential to speed up the slide labeling process. This work explores the viability and timing comparisons of eye gaze labeling compared to conventional manual labeling for training object detectors. Challenges associated with gaze based labeling and methods to refine the coarse data annotations for subsequent object detection are also discussed. Results demonstrate that gaze tracking based labeling can save valuable pathologist time and delivers good performance when employed for training a deep object detector. Using the task of localization of Keratin Pearls in cases of oral squamous cell carcinoma as a test case, we compare the performance gap between deep object detectors trained using hand-labelled and gaze-labelled data. On average, compared to `Bounding-box' based hand-labeling, gaze-labeling required $57.6\%$ less time per label and compared to `Freehand' labeling, gaze-labeling required on average $85\%$ less time per label.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, journal
Influence du sulfate de zinc utilisé comme minéralisateur dans la synthèse d’un ciment alitique à basse température
Creators: name: Bouregaya, S.
name: Clastres, P.
name: Kacimi, L.
name: Mazars, V.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: L’objectif de cette étude est la synthèse d’un éco-ciment à température plus basse que le ciment ordinaire. Sa production est faite par cuisson d’un mélange composé de la vase du barrage hydraulique de Tiaret en Algérie, de la chaux éteinte, et du minéralisateur, le sulfate de zinc. Les facteurs influant sur la nature et la quantité des anhydres formés ont été optimisés. La température de cuisson, le rapport Chaux/Silice et le pourcentage de ZnSO4 utilisé ont été optimisés à 1300°C, 3,2 et 1% respectivement. Les analyses microstructurales (DRX, MEB,) et la modélisation par la méthode de Rietveld montrent une efficacité certaine du ZnSO4 dans la production de C3S et l’obtention de propriétés mécaniques adéquates des pâtes de ciment.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Le Havre, la première ville architecturée en béton armé
Creators: name: Pantet, Anne
name: Valtier, Isabelle
name: Eleta-Defilippis, Roxana
name: Chevé, Morgane
name: Bonneau-Contremoulins, Véronique
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Après-guerre, le Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l’Urbanisme (MRU) confie la reconstruction de la Ville du Havre à Auguste Perret, architecte et entrepreneur expérimenté, qui s'entoure d'un groupe d'architectes, créant ainsi l'Atelier Perret en juillet 1945. Le secteur classé de la ville du Havre sur la liste du Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 2005 correspond à la zone reconstruite. En se basant sur le vaste travail documentaire proposé dans le dossier UNESCO largement argumenté et fourni, il est apparu que la technique pouvait être aussi mise en valeur avec le travail des constructeurs, des bâtisseurs qu’ils soient ingénieurs ou ouvriers. Le chantier havrais est souvent décrit comme un chantier expérimental de grande ampleur (150 ha), avec une trame caractéristique de 6,24 m et l’emploi massif de la préfabrication. Toutefois ces constats ainsi résumés restent néanmoins généraux et des interrogations techniques sur les modes constructifs existent et méritent encore des approfondissements et des précisions.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Magnetic monopoles and Lorentz force
Creators: name: Moulin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formulation of a generalized classical electromagnetism that includes both electric and magnetic charges, is explored in the framework of two potential approach. It is shown that it is possible to write an action integral from which one can derive, by least action principle, the symmetrized set of Maxwell's equations, but also the Lorentz force law by employing the energy-momentum tensor conservation.
description: 12 pages
title: Coverage and Lifetime Optimization by Self-Optimizing Sensor Networks †
Creators: name: Seredyński, Franciszek
name: Kulpa, Tomasz
name: Hoffmann, Rolf
name: Désérable, Dominique
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: We propose an approach to self-optimizing wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which are able to find, in a fully distributed way, a solution to a coverage and lifetime optimization problem. The proposed approach is based on three components: (a) a multi-agent, social-like interpreted system, where the modeling of agents, discrete space, and time is provided by a 2-dimensional second-order cellular automata, (b) the interaction between agents is described in terms of the spatial prisoner’s dilemma game, and (c) a local evolutionary mechanism of competition between agents exists. Nodes of a WSN graph created for a given deployment of WSN in the monitored area are considered agents of a multi-agent system that collectively make decisions to turn on or turn off their batteries. Agents are controlled by cellular automata (CA)-based players participating in a variant of the spatial prisoner’s dilemma iterated game. We propose for players participating in this game a local payoff function that incorporates issues of area coverage and sensors energy spending. Rewards obtained by agent players depend not only on their personal decisions but also on their neighbor’s decisions. Agents act in such a way to maximize their own rewards, which results in achieving by them a solution corresponding to the Nash equilibrium point. We show that the system is self-optimizing, i.e., can optimize in a distributed way global criteria related to WSN and not known for agents, provide a balance between requested coverage and spending energy, and result in expanding the WSN lifetime. The solutions proposed by the multi-agent system fulfill the Pareto optimality principles, and the desired quality of solutions can be controlled by user-defined parameters. The proposed approach is validated by a number of experimental results.
Human rights, democracy, and the rule of law assurance framework for AI systems: A proposal
Creators: name: Leslie, David
name: Burr, Christopher
name: Aitken, Mhairi
name: Katell, Michael
name: Briggs, Morgan
name: Rincon, Cami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Following on from the publication of its Feasibility Study in December 2020, the Council of Europe's Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) and its subgroups initiated efforts to formulate and draft its Possible Elements of a Legal Framework on Artificial Intelligence, based on the Council of Europe's standards on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. This document was ultimately adopted by the CAHAI plenary in December 2021. To support this effort, The Alan Turing Institute undertook a programme of research that explored the governance processes and practical tools needed to operationalise the integration of human right due diligence with the assurance of trustworthy AI innovation practices. The resulting framework was completed and submitted to the Council of Europe in September 2021. It presents an end-to-end approach to the assurance of AI project lifecycles that integrates context-based risk analysis and appropriate stakeholder engagement with comprehensive impact assessment, and transparent risk management, impact mitigation, and innovation assurance practices. Taken together, these interlocking processes constitute a Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Assurance Framework (HUDERAF). The HUDERAF combines the procedural requirements for principles-based human rights due diligence with the governance mechanisms needed to set up technical and socio-technical guardrails for responsible and trustworthy AI innovation practices. Its purpose is to provide an accessible and user-friendly set of mechanisms for facilitating compliance with a binding legal framework on artificial intelligence, based on the Council of Europe's standards on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, and to ensure that AI innovation projects are carried out with appropriate levels of public accountability, transparency, and democratic governance.
description: 341 pages
Survey on Household Budget Practices
Creators: name: Istituto Per Le Ricerche Statistiche E L'Analisi Dell'Opinione Pubblica (Gallup) (DOXA)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Family member received extra monthly payment in December (2); extra pay used for paying debts/making purchases/saving (4); items purchases with extra pay (1); paying for purchases in installments (1); toys received by children in family (1); presents given to others by family member (1); presents received by family members (1); going out to eat during the holidays (1); having guests for meals during the holidays (1).
The robust desparsified lasso and the focused information criterion for high-dimensional generalized linear models
Creators: name: Pandhare, S. C.
name: Ramanathan, T. V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: The classical lasso estimation for sparse, high-dimensional regression models is typically biased and lacks the oracle properties. The desparsified versions of the lasso have been proposed in the literature that attempt to overcome these drawbacks. In this paper, we propose the outliers-robust version of the desparsified lasso for high dimensional generalized linear models. The robustness, consistency and high dimensional asymptotics are investigated rigorously in a general framework of M-estimation under potential model misspecification. The desparsification mechanism is subsequently utilized to construct the focused information criterion (FIC) thereby facilitating robust, focused model selection in high dimensions. The applications are demonstrated with the Poisson regression under robust quasilikelihood loss function. The empirical performance of the proposed methods is examined via simulations and a real data example.
Bone tumor suppression in rabbits by hyperthermia below the clinical safety limit using aligned magnetic bone cement
Creators: name: Yu, Xiang
name: Gao, Shan
name: Wu, Dian
name: Li, Zhengrui
name: Mi, Yan
name: Yang, Tianyu
name: Sun, Fan
name: Wang, Lichen
name: Liu, Ruoshui
name: He, Shuli
name: Ge, Qinggang
name: Lv, Yang
name: Andy
name: Xu
name: Zeng, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Demonstrating highly efficient alternating current (AC) magnetic field heating of nanoparticles in physiological environments under clinically safe field parameters has remained a great challenge, hindering clinical applications of magnetic hyperthermia. In this work, we report exceptionally high loss power of magnetic bone cement under clinical safety limit of AC field parameters, incorporating DC field-aligned soft magnetic Zn0.3Fe2.7O4 nanoparticles with low concentration. Under an AC field of 4 kA/m at 430 kHz, the aligned bone cement with 0.2 wt% nanoparticles achieved a temperature increase of 30 C in 180 s. This amounts to a specific loss power value of 327 W/gmetal and an intrinsic loss power of 47 nHm^2/kg, which is enhanced by 50-fold compared to randomly oriented samples. The high-performance magnetic bone cement allows for the demonstration of effective hyperthermia suppression of tumor growth in the bone marrow cavity of New Zealand White Rabbits subjecting to rapid cooling due to blood circulation, and significant enhancement of survival rate.
Renforcement et réparation des dalles en BA par tissu de fibre de carbone
Creators: name: Gherdaoui, Moufida
name: Madi, Rafik
name: Guenfoud, Hamza
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Le but de cet article concerne l'étude du comportement des dalles en béton armé, soumises au poinçonnement, renforcées et réparées par tissu en fibres de carbone afin d'augmenter leur capacité portante, réduire leur flèche et limiter l'ouverture des fissures et en assurant un meilleur comportement. Neuf dalles en béton armé ont été testées. Les paramètres d'essai sont : un pré-chargement à (80%) de la charge ultime de la dalle non renforcée et l'orientation de la fibre en tissu de fibre de carbone à (0°, 45°, 0°/90° et 45°/135°). Les résultats expérimentaux indiquent que l'utilisation de matériau composite a un effet significatif sur l’augmentation de la charge ultime d’une part et de limiter la propagation de fissures d’autre part. Ainsi, les résultats expérimentaux montrent une augmentation de, la charge de rupture de (23-60)% et une diminution du déplacement vis-à-vis de la dalle témoin.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Una crítica a Danto y Dickie desde la Sociología del arte
Creators: name: Harillo Pla, Adrià
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2018

description: En el presente artículo se presenta una crítica metodológica a los dos máximos referentes de la teoría institucional del arte desde su enfoque filosófico. Desde los principios sociológicos según los cuales la reflexión sobre las instituciones debe vertebrarse sobre los conceptos de “agente”, “interés” y “mecanismo”, plantearemos la debilidad teórica de Arthur C. Danto y George Dickie. A su vez, consideramos esta debilidad como la principal causa de las frecuentes inconsistencias lógicas en ambos.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano XI - Número 22-23 - Junho 2017 - Dezembro 2018
Learning Synthetic Environments and Reward Networks for Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Ferreira, Fabio
name: Nierhoff, Thomas
name: Saelinger, Andreas
name: Hutter, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce Synthetic Environments (SEs) and Reward Networks (RNs), represented by neural networks, as proxy environment models for training Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. We show that an agent, after being trained exclusively on the SE, is able to solve the corresponding real environment. While an SE acts as a full proxy to a real environment by learning about its state dynamics and rewards, an RN is a partial proxy that learns to augment or replace rewards. We use bi-level optimization to evolve SEs and RNs: the inner loop trains the RL agent, and the outer loop trains the parameters of the SE / RN via an evolution strategy. We evaluate our proposed new concept on a broad range of RL algorithms and classic control environments. In a one-to-one comparison, learning an SE proxy requires more interactions with the real environment than training agents only on the real environment. However, once such an SE has been learned, we do not need any interactions with the real environment to train new agents. Moreover, the learned SE proxies allow us to train agents with fewer interactions while maintaining the original task performance. Our empirical results suggest that SEs achieve this result by learning informed representations that bias the agents towards relevant states. Moreover, we find that these proxies are robust against hyperparameter variation and can also transfer to unseen agents.
Within the Fugacity: The Sublime Moments in Cinema
Creators: name: Qi, Fang
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2018

description: Romantic love has always been a major theme in cinematic representations since the very beginning of cinema´s existence. This dissertation realizes a research of sublime moments, particularly focusing in miraculous love along the history of cinema. The research takes interest in the most special moments when love reaches its climactic height in filmic images, and the representations of the occurrence of sublime miracles in the experience of love. The theories and collections of films in this dissertation will serve for a historialization of how the film apparatus visualizes these moments in its different stages of classic Hollywood cinema, modern European cinema and contemporary cinema. Special attention will be paid to the formal evolution of how miraculous love is represented based on a comparative study of different historical periods.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano XI - Número 22-23 - Junho 2017 - Dezembro 2018
Investigations on the functional modes of a thermal energy storage system for sustainable steam cooking application - an experimental study
Creators: name: Rajagopal, Velavan
name: Kumaresan, Kannan
name: Felix, Paul Gregory
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Steam cooking using parabolic trough collectors is a well-established sustainable technology. The augmentation of a thermal energy storage (TES) system with such a sustainable system will make the technology completely reliable on the renewable energy source. However, there are limited research findings to improve the thermal performance of the TES heat exchangers by adopting non-structural and non-elemental modifications. In this article, experimental studies have been performed on a TES shell and tube heat exchanger that could be envisaged for steam cooking applications. Erythritol was used as the phase change material. The heat exchanger was operated in two modes: progressive and impulsive. From the observations, the performance of the impulsive mode was better than the progressive mode. The impulsive mode of functionality witnessed a 32% decrease in the charging duration, 2.5% increase in the energy stored and 50% increase in the charging rate in comparison to the progressive mode.
Solidification of dredged sediments using hydraulic and geopolymer binders
Creators: name: Moghrabi, Ishak
name: Ranaivomanana, Harifidy
name: Bendahmane, Fateh
name: Amiri, Ouali
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Les opérations de dragage des sédiments sont nécessaires pour maintenir de bonnes conditions de navigabilité des ports et les voies navigables. La valorisation de ces sédiments est une alternative à l'immersion en mer et au stockage à terre. La stabilisation des sédiments fins nécessite la plupart du temps un traitement préalable, souvent par ajout de liants hydrauliques (chaux, ciment). Parmi les voies potentielles où les sédiments pourraient être valorisés, les filières matériau de remblai et de couche de forme routière sont les plus intéressantes du point de vue économique, environnementale et technique. La stabilisation des sédiments nécessite l’utilisation des liants hydrauliques comme le ciment et la chaux. L'utilisation intensive de ces liants, a un impact considérable sur l'environnement (émissions de CO2, la consommation d'énergie et de matières premières). Les géopolymères sont des liants alternatifs pour le ciment ordinaire. Dans la présente étude, les sédiments et les liants utilisés ont été caractérisés avant d'être mélangés. Après avoir mélangé les sédiments avec 5 à 15% de liants, ceux-ci ont été compactés dans des éprouvettes cylindriques puis testés à l’aide de l’essai d’aptitude au traitement. Les résultats ont montré que l’ajout de sable est nécessaire pour valoriser un sédiment très organique.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
O Futuro da Arquitectura Institucional da União Europeia no Pós-Brexit
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Alexandre M. Pereira
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2018

description: O recente accionar por parte do Reino Unido do Artigo 50.º do Tratado de Lisboa, a concretizar-se, não deixará de desencadear profundas transformações no âmago das instituições da União. Sendo desde sempre conhecida a firme oposição do Reino Unido a qualquer arquitectura institucional de inspiração federalista, importa perceber, neste âmbito, em que sentido caminhará a União Europeia uma vez consumada a separação britânica.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano XI - Número 22-23 - Junho 2017 - Dezembro 2018
Texture du gypse dans les mousses minérales
Creators: name: Phelipot-Mardele, Annabelle
name: Lanos, Christophe
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: La texture des cristaux de gypse au sein de mousses minérales formulées à l’aide d’anhydrites commerciales et de tensio-actif est étudiée. L’analyse de la porosité et de l’orientation des particules de gypse au sein de la matrice minérale et sur les surfaces des bulles permet de constater qu’en présence de tensio-actifs, une texture apparait en particulier sur les surfaces des bulles. La formation de gypse tapissant est favorisée par l’augmentation du dosage en tensio-actif. La méthode de moussage est également très influente. Les mécanismes et interactions mis en jeu au moment de la formation du gypse sont discutés. Les facteurs favorables à la mise en place d’une texture sont identifiés.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Relationship Between Anticholinergics and Cognitive Measures Important to the Diagnosis of Dementia
Creators: name: Keshk, Noha
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321403
subject: Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice

description: Over 50% of ambulatory older adults administer at least one anticholinergic medication. Older adults may be more susceptible to the adverse effects of anticholinergic medications, and there is evidence showing an association between anticholinergic exposure and increased risk of dementia. The primary objective of this research is to assess the impact of one-year of prescriptions for strong anticholinergics, with a score of 2 or 3 on the Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden (ACB) Scale, on cognitive measures indicative of dementia, followed by a comparative assessment of the relative impact of medication classes with anticholinergic activity.The study utilizes a retrospective observational design to evaluate the relationship between anticholinergic medication prescriptions and cognitive measures. We used one-year EMR prescription data gleaned from R2D2 and BrainSafe clinical trials’ participants prior to baseline for the exposure variable along with the cognitive measures captured at the baseline visit. Total Standardized Daily Dose (TSDD) was computed from prescription records to quantify exposure to strong anticholinergics. Generalized Linear Models and Least Square means with Tukey’s adjustment were computed to detect the relationship between anticholinergic TSDD and anticholinergic medication classes and cognitive measures in multiple models.
Sadhee sehayth (our health) project : health inequity in Canada’s universal healthcare system through the experiences of the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora living with cardiovascular disease
Creators: name: Kang, Harminder Bindy Kaur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The Sadhee Sehayth (Our Health) Project investigates how British Columbia’s health authorities support diversity, anti-racism and equity for patients and their families. I selected Post/Colonial, Critical Race and Feminist Theories to analyze the complex and pervasive ideologies that inform institutional structures. Using a Critical Ethnographic approach, I addressed the following research questions: 1. How are institutional diversity discourses and actions constructed, and how do they shape healthcare experience for racialized communities?; 2. How do institutional diversity discourses and actions shape experiences for one racialized diaspora community, the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora when seeking cardiovascular healthcare, and 3. what does this analysis tell us about how systemic structures are conceptualized and might be improved for healthcare delivery for racialized communities? Phase one examined the diversity commitments of health authorities through an analysis of mission statements, visions and values. The analysis revealed that health equity is not prioritized in the institutional statements for 7 of the 8 health authorities. The absence of these markers reaffirms that anti-racist ideologies are not conceptualized into the institutional identities of British Columbia’s healthcare delivery organizations. Phase 2 concentrated on the diversity practices of 4 health authorities. Diversity workers faced numerous obstacles including organizational resistance to maintaining diversity programming, negligible funding and minimal staffing. The most promising finding was the number of informal diversity workers who volunteered to act as diversity liaisons and educators. To gain a patient perspective, Phase 3 focused on Punjabi Sikh Diaspora patients who had experienced a myocardial infarction and recently discharged from a local hospital. Despite the availability of diversity, spiritual care, interpreter and cardiac rehabilitation programming, these participants were not asked about their cultural or religious needs; not offered spiritual care services; interpreter support was minimal to non-existent; post-surgery treatment and care plans were not adequately communicated; and they were not offered information or referrals to cardiac rehabilitation programs. The dissertation concludes with a list of recommendations to improve health equity for racialized communities.
O Encontro entre Arte e Conceito : As Propostas de Joseph Kosuth
Creators: name: Barros, José D'Assunção
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2018

description: Este artigo busca discutir a relação entre Arte, Linguagem, Filosofia e Conceito, considerando a obra artística de Joseph Kosuth, um dos principais fundadores da chamada Arte Conceitual nos anos 1960. O ensaio traz como exemplificação, alguns dos diversos trabalhos artísticos produzidos por Kosuth nos anos 1960, e ao mesmo tempo elabora-se uma comparação entre o ponto de vista deste artista e as perspectivas de outros artistas de vanguarda da mesma época.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano XI - Número 22-23 - Junho 2017 - Dezembro 2018
Valorisation de déchets minéraux par géopolymérisation
Creators: name: Molez, Laurent
name: Diop, Mouhamadou Bassir
name: Ka, Moussa
name: Lanos, Christophe
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: La valorisation de différents déchets minéraux par un procédé de géopolymérisation est étudiée. Les géopolymères sont formés à partir des aluminosilicates présents dans les matériaux étudiés. La réaction chimique est activée par ajout de soude. L’effet d’un prétraitement thermique du matériau d’origine est étudié. Les résultats montrent que ce prétraitement n’est pas toujours nécessaire. Les résistances mécaniques obtenues sont suffisantes pour envisager la fabrication de brique. La cure après fabrication est toutefois un paramètre décisif.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne