cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysis of Factors Affecting the Entry of Foreign Direct Investment into Indonesia (Case Study of Three Industrial Sectors in Indonesia)
Creators: name: Rolnmuch, Tracy Patricia Nindry Abigail
name: Astuti, Yuhana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The realization of FDI and DDI from January to December 2022 reached Rp1,207.2 trillion. The largest FDI investment realization by sector was led by the Basic Metal, Metal Goods, Non-Machinery, and Equipment Industry sector, followed by the Mining sector and the Electricity, Gas, and Water sector. The uneven amount of FDI investment realization in each industry and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia are the main issues addressed in this study. This study aims to identify the factors that influence the entry of FDI into industries in Indonesia and measure the extent of these factors' influence on the entry of FDI. In this study, classical assumption tests and hypothesis tests are conducted to investigate whether the research model is robust enough to provide strategic options nationally. Moreover, this study uses the ordinary least squares (OLS) method. The results show that the electricity factor does not influence FDI inflows in the three industries. The Human Development Index (HDI) factor has a significant negative effect on FDI in the Mining Industry and a significant positive effect on FDI in the Basic Metal, Metal Goods, Non-Machinery, and Equipment Industries. However, HDI does not influence FDI in the Electricity, Gas, and Water Industries in Indonesia.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 20 tables, Published with International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies (IRJEMS)
An Energy Bound in the Affine Group
Creators: name: Petridis, Giorgis
name: Roche-Newton, Oliver
name: Rudnev, Misha
name: Warren, Audie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a nontrivial energy bound for a finite set of affine transformations over a general field and discuss a number of implications. These include new bounds on growth in the affine group, a quantitative version of a theorem by Elekes about rich lines in grids. We also give a positive answer to a question of Yufei Zhao that for a plane point set P for which no line contains a positive proportion of points from P, there may be at most one line, meeting the set of lines defined by P in at most a constant multiple of |P| points.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Unpaid Care, Paid Work and Austerity: A Research Note
Creators: name: Busby, Nicole
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: The need to pursue austerity measures has been used by the UK's Coalition Government as justification for labour market deregulation alongside reductions in welfare and cuts to public services. Such reforms have resulted in reduced protection for those (women) engaged in low paid, precarious work and the loss of public sector jobs and also run the risk of upsetting the finely-tuned arrangements on which those who provide unpaid care alongside paid work depend. This research note considers the impact of recent reforms on the reconciliation of paid work and unpaid care and challenges the underlying austerity rationale.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
The Strange Temporalities of Work-Life Balance Law
Creators: name: Grabham, Emily
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: This research paper is part of a broader project on law and time. I am in the midst of studying the time-related concepts and assumptions that structure some of the key initiatives in the area of equalities regulation in the UK over the past two decades. Time fulfils certain legal and political functions in equalities law and policy, establishing the parameters through which a person might claim a legal identity in order to argue a discrimination case, for example, or providing a paradigm for thinking about the allocation of care responsibilities. Yet, far from merely tracing how legal concepts and communities symbolise time, or how they use temporal concepts in their world-making features, I am also interested in the materialisation of time and interconnections between time, matter, form and objects in the making of law. Key temporalities within work-life balance law - balance, equilibrium and flexibility, for example - therefore become amenable to inquiry through the actions of documents and documentary practices, administrative forms and the form of law itself in materialising time alongside and in relationship with human legal subjects. As Michel Serres puts it: 'Time doesn't flow; it percolates' (Latour and Serres, 1995, 58). With this in mind we might ask: how has work-life balance percolated? What role have human and non-human legal actors played in confabulating this temporal form?
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Gender and the Idea of Labour Law
Creators: name: Conaghan, Joanne
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: In recent years and as a consequence of radical changes in the world of work the idea of labour law has come under sustained interrogation. Of particular concern has been the extent to which the traditional boundaries of labour law organised around the regulation of employer-employee relations are in need of revision, as the ambit of labour regulation expands outwards to encompass a much broader range of socio-economic and political objectives. Such developments, inter alia, present feminists with an opportunity to challenge the extent to which labour law is predicated upon a paid work paradigm and to emphasise the interconnectedness of paid and unpaid labour and the significance of gender as a category of analysis in this context. Taking as a particular focus a recent collection of essays entitled The Idea of Labour Law, edited by Guy Davidov and Brian Langille (OUP 2011), this paper endeavours to gauge how far mainstream labour law debate has taken up the feminist challenge to confront the implications - for labour regulation - of acknowledging the interdependence of work and family life and the constituting significance of gender in relation to the social (and legal) organisation of work.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Abject Labours, Informal Markets: Revisiting the Law's (Re)Production Boundary
Creators: name: Kotiswaran, Prabha
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: Over the past few decades, feminist legal scholars have successfully gendered several areas of legal doctrine, inlcuding labour law. In particular, they draw extensively on feminist theorizing of social reproduction to argue for the increased labour law protection of women's care work. While sympathetic to feminist efforts to redraw the 'production boundary', I critique in this article feminists' own reluctance to include within this production boundary the reproductive labour of women like sex workers, dancers and surrogates. I argue instead for the recognition of reproductive labour performed for the market as valuable, legitimate work. I then assess the implications of this redrawing of the 'reproduction boundary' for labour law. Through an examination of three generations of Indian labour law, I suggest that labour laws geared towards the informal economy best address female reproductive labourers' demands for both recognition and redistribution, but that for this, labour law itself needs to be reconceptualized, especially as the postcolonial state re-engineers labour laws in the prevalent economic climate to deliver benefits rather than workers' rights. A slightly modified version of this article will be published in the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, vol 18, no 1 (2014).
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Cosmology in the non-linear regime : the small scale miracle
Creators: name: Lacasa, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interest rises to exploit the full shape information of the galaxy power spectrum, as well as pushing analyses to smaller non-linear scales. Here I use the halo model to quantify the information content in the tomographic angular power spectrum of galaxies, for future high resolution surveys : Euclid and SKA2. I study how this information varies as a function of the scale cut applied, either with angular cut $\ell_{max}$ or physical cut kmax. For this, I use analytical covariances with the most complete census of non-Gaussian terms, which proves critical. I find that the Fisher information on most cosmological and astrophysical parameters follows a striking behaviour. Beyond the perturbative regime we first get decreasing returns : the information keeps rising but the slope slows down until reaching a saturation. The location of this plateau is a bit beyond the reach of current modeling methods : k $\sim$ 2 Mpc$^{-1}$ and slightly depends on the parameter and redshift bin considered. I explain the origin of this plateau, which is due to non-linear effects both on the power spectrum, and more importantly on non-Gaussian covariance terms. Then, pushing further we see the information rising again in the highly non-linear regime, with a steep slope. This is the small scale miracle, for which I give interpretation and discuss the properties. Hints are shown that this information should be disentanglable from the astrophysical content, and could improve Dark Energy constraints. Finally, more hints are shown that high order statistics may yield significant improvements over the power spectrum in this regime, with the improvements increasing with kmax. Data and notebooks reproducing all plots and results will be made available at \url{https://github.com/fabienlacasa/SmallScaleMiracle}
description: 9+3 pages, 10+5 figures. Updated to answer referees comments, new model in appendix
Measuring Labour and Rethinking Value
Creators: name: Adkins, Lisa
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: In this lecture Lisa Adkins considers the form of labour which has been at the very heart of feminist theorizations of immaterial labour, namely domestic labour. She considers transformations to this labour in the context of financialization, and in particular the direct links which are being forged between domestic labour and the creation of financial value. Adkins considers the implications of these links, or more precisely, of the financialization of domestic labour, for the current state and future of the relations of social reproduction.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Exploring Human Mobility:Time-Informed pattern mining (TiPam) and Time-Aware Longest Common Subsequence (T-LCS)
Creators: name: yang, hao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401302
subject: Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery

description: Here, we introduce the Time-Informed Pattern Mining (TiPam) method for frequent pattern mining. TiPam generates frequent mobility patterns by incorporating critical time information, such as timestamps, duration, and time gaps, within a hierarchical structure, allowing for exploration across different levels. Additionally, we propose the Time-Aware Longest Common Subsequence (T-LCS) algorithm to measure the similarity between sequences. This algorithm enables the quantification of an individual's movement regularity and the comparison of similarity among people.
The Minimal UV-induced Effective QCD Axion Theory
Creators: name: Gao, Yu
name: Li, Tianjun
name: Yang, Qiaoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characteristic axion couplings could be generated via effective couplings between the Standard Model (SM) fermions to a pseudo-Goldstone from a high-scale $U(1)$ Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry breaking. Assuming that the UV-induced effective operators generate necessary couplings before the PQ symmetry breaking, and any low-scale couplings to the SM are restricted to the Yukawa sector, three minimal natural scenarios can be formulated, which provides a connection between the QCD-axions and mediators at the GUT/string scales. We find that the PQ symmetry breaking scale could be about $10^{15}$ GeV, higher than the classical QCD dark matter axion window but possible if the anthropic window is considered. We also propose an experiment to probe such scenarios. If the dark matter axion is discovered, they might suggest that we live in an atypical Hubble volume.
description: 4 pages, published version
“Employment and arthritis: making it work” a randomized controlled trial evaluating an online program to help people with inflammatory arthritis maintain employment (study protocol)
Creators: name: Carruthers, Erin C.
name: Rogers, Pamela
name: Backman, Catherine L.
name: Goldsmith, Charles H.
name: Gignac, Monique A.
name: Marra, Carlo A.
name: Village, Judy
name: Li, Linda C.
name: Esdaile, John
name: Lacaille, Diane
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions are the leading cause of long-term work disability (WD), an outcome with a major impact on quality of life and a high cost to society. The importance of decreased at-work productivity has also recently been recognized. Despite the importance of these problems, few interventions have been developed to reduce the impact of arthritis on employment. We have developed a novel intervention called “Making It Work”, a program to help people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) deal with employment issues, prevent WD and improve at-work productivity. After favorable results in a proof-of-concept study, we converted the program to a web-based format for broader dissemination and improved accessibility. The objectives of this study are: 1) to evaluate in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) the effectiveness of the program at preventing work cessation and improving at-work productivity; 2) to perform a cost-utility analysis of the intervention. Methods/Design 526 participants with IA will be recruited from British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario in Canada. The intervention consists of a) 5 online group sessions; b) 5 web-based e-learning modules; c) consultations with an occupational therapist for an ergonomic work assessment and a vocational rehabilitation counselor. Questionnaires will be administered online at baseline and every 6 months to collect information about demographics, disease measures, costs, work-related risk factors for WD, quality of life, and work outcomes. Primary outcomes include at-work productivity and time to work cessation of > 6 months for any reason. Secondary outcomes include temporary work cessation, number of days missed from work per year, reduction in hours worked per week, quality adjusted life year for the cost utility analysis, and changes from baseline in employment risk factors. Analysis of Variance will evaluate the intervention’s effect on at-work productivity, and multivariable Cox regression models will estimate the risk of work cessation associated with the intervention after controlling for risk factors for WD and other important predictors imbalanced at baseline. Discussion This program fills an important gap in arthritis health services and addresses an important and costly problem. Knowledge gained from the RCT will be useful to health care professionals, policy planners and arthritis stakeholders. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01852851 ; registered April 13, 2012; first participant randomized on July 6, 2013.
The Policing and Prosecution of Rape: What Do We Know and How Should Our Knowledge Shape Policy and Practice?
Creators: name: Stanko, With Louise Ellison
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: This is a video of a lecture given by Betsy Stanko at LSE on 11 March 2014, in which she presents the findings of her research on the investigation and prosecution of rapes reported to the Metropolitan Police Service over the 8 years from 2005-2013. The lecture is followed by comments from panellists Louise Ellison, Martin Hewitt and Harriet Wistrich. Louise Ellison addresses the treatment of rape complainants with mental health conditions; Martin Hewitt discusses the need to provide access to justice for rape victims; and Harriet Wistrich talks about the recent civil case, DSD v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2014] EWHC 436 (QB), in which two of the victims of serial rapist John Worboys successfully sued the Metropolitan Police under the Human Rights Act 1998 for failures in their investigation of the rapes. The event was organised by LSE Law, LSE Gender Institute and the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, and was chaired by Christine Chinkin.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
It Is Our Belief That Palestine is a Feminist Issue...
Creators: name: Lloyd, David
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: To date, apparently, no major Western women’s or feminist organization has declared its solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. This introduction argues that the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation and for rights, justice and equality is a fundamentally feminist issue. It is so both on the grounds of the traditions of international solidarity that have been central to feminisms that are also anti-racist and anti-imperialist and because Israel’s occupation and legalized system of discrimination targets the reproduction of Palestinian life in the fullest sense, not only as biological life but also in the larger sense of the social and cultural. The paper concludes by arguing that the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is a crucial intervention which, in consistency with feminist theory and practice, feminists internationally should endorse and act upon.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Gaussian Multiple and Random Access in the Finite Blocklength Regime
Creators: name: Yavas, Recep Can
name: Kostina, Victoria
name: Effros, Michelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: E.4

description: This paper presents finite-blocklength achievability bounds for the Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC) and random access channel (RAC) under average-error and maximal-power constraints. Using random codewords uniformly distributed on a sphere and a maximum likelihood decoder, the derived MAC bound on each transmitter's rate matches the MolavianJazi-Laneman bound (2015) in its first- and second-order terms, improving the remaining terms to $\frac12\frac{\log n}{n}+O \left(\frac 1 n \right)$ bits per channel use. The result then extends to a RAC model in which neither the encoders nor the decoder knows which of $K$ possible transmitters are active. In the proposed rateless coding strategy, decoding occurs at a time $n_t$ that depends on the decoder's estimate $t$ of the number of active transmitters $k$. Single-bit feedback from the decoder to all encoders at each potential decoding time $n_i$, $i \leq t$, informs the encoders when to stop transmitting. For this RAC model, the proposed code achieves the same first-, second-, and third-order performance as the best known result for the Gaussian MAC in operation.
description: 27 pages, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, ISIT 2020
A Physiology-Driven Computational Model for Post-Cardiac Arrest Outcome Prediction
Creators: name: Kim, Han B.
name: Nguyen, Hieu
name: Jin, Qingchu
name: Tamby, Sharmila
name: Romer, Tatiana Gelaf
name: Sung, Eric
name: Liu, Ran
name: Greenstein, Joseph
name: Suarez, Jose I.
name: Storm, Christian
name: Winslow, Raimond
name: Stevens, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.3; I.2.1; I.6.4; G.3

description: Patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest (CA) face a high risk of neurological disability and death, however pragmatic methods are lacking for accurate and reliable prognostication. The aim of this study was to build computational models to predict post-CA outcome by leveraging high-dimensional patient data available early after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). We hypothesized that model performance could be enhanced by integrating physiological time series (PTS) data and by training machine learning (ML) classifiers. We compared three models integrating features extracted from the electronic health records (EHR) alone, features derived from PTS collected in the first 24hrs after ICU admission (PTS24), and models integrating PTS24 and EHR. Outcomes of interest were survival and neurological outcome at ICU discharge. Combined EHR-PTS24 models had higher discrimination (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC]) than models which used either EHR or PTS24 alone, for the prediction of survival (AUC 0.85, 0.80 and 0.68 respectively) and neurological outcome (0.87, 0.83 and 0.78). The best ML classifier achieved higher discrimination than the reference logistic regression model (APACHE III) for survival (AUC 0.85 vs 0.70) and neurological outcome prediction (AUC 0.87 vs 0.75). Feature analysis revealed previously unknown factors to be associated with post-CA recovery. Results attest to the effectiveness of ML models for post-CA predictive modeling and suggest that PTS recorded in very early phase after resuscitation encode short-term outcome probabilities.
description: 51 pages, 7 figures, 4 supplementary figures
A vanishing identity on adjoint Reidemeister torsions of twist knots
Creators: name: Yoon, Seokbeom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a compact oriented 3-manifold with torus boundary the adjoint Reidemeister torsion is defined as a function on the $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})$-character variety depending on a choice of a boundary curve. Under reasonable assumptions, it is conjectured that the adjoint torsion satisfies a certain type of vanishing identities. In this paper, we prove that the conjecture holds for all hyperbolic twist knot exteriors by using Jacobi's residue theorem.
On the Pinned Distances Problem in Positive Characteristic
Creators: name: Murphy, Brendan
name: Petridis, Giorgis
name: Pham, Thang
name: Rudnev, Misha
name: Stevens, Sophie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C10, 11E88, 11T23, 14N10, 52C35, 51E20

description: We study the Erd\H os-Falconer distance problem for a set $A\subset \mathbb{F}^2$, where $\mathbb{F}$ is a field of positive characteristic $p$. If $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{F}_p$ and the cardinality $|A|$ exceeds $p^{5/4}$, we prove that $A$ determines an asymptotically full proportion of the feasible $p$ distances. For small sets $A$, namely when $|A|\leq p^{4/3}$ over any $\mathbb{F}$, we prove that either $A$ determines $\gg|A|^{2/3}$. For both large and small sets, the results proved are in fact for pinned distances.
description: A substantial revision of the older version. The main results are unchanged. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.04618
Palestinian Feminist Critique and the Physics of Power: Feminists Between Thought and Practice
Creators: name: Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: Grounded in my own position as a Palestinian feminist born and raised in Haifa, this paper delves into the nature of feminism for Palestinian women in the Jewish settler colonial state by asking three main questions: How does the complex socio-political reality of settler colonialism reflect itself in the lives and status of Palestinian women living in Israel? What kind of critical feminist theorizing is needed from Palestinian feminists in Israel? How can we analyze and confront the racism of the historical silence of the majority of Israeli feminists towards the historical injustice and current violence faced by Palestinian feminists? The paper underlines the importance of widening the critical feminist lens to account for the physics of power and calls for (a) the deconstruction of feminisms that have refused to regard the Nakba as a focal analytical and actual source of feminist theorization and (b) defiance in the face of global, regional, and local amnesia towards the Palestinian right to life in the face of Israel’s necropolitical regime of control.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
The rank filtration via a filtered bar construction
Creators: name: Arone, Gregory Z.
name: Lesh, Kathryn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P47, 55P42, 55N15

description: Suppose F is a special Gamma-space equipped with a natural transformation to the infinite symmetric power functor. Segal's infinite loop space machine associates with F a spectrum, denoted kF, equipped with a map to the integral Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum. In our previous work we constructed a filtration of kF by a sequence of spectra, which we called the "stable rank filtration of F". In this paper we give a new construction of the stable rank filtration. The new construction is combinatorial in nature and avoids the process of stabilization. In particular, we construct a sequence of special Gamma-spaces whose group completion yields the stable rank filtration.
description: 41 pages
Measure of tripartite quantum correlation in multiqubit symmetric pure state
Creators: name: Deb, Ram Narayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a direct measure of tripartite quantum correlation in an arbitrary symmetric pure state of N correlated two-level atoms (qubits). We compute the third order moments of the collective pseudo-spin operators in terms of the individual atomic operators of the atoms in the assembly and find that all the bipartite quantum correlation terms among the atoms cancel out leaving only the all possible tripartite quantum correlation terms among them. We observe that the third order moments are made up of solely the tripartite quantum correlations among the atoms. This helps to extract out only the tripartite quantum correlations among the N atoms and propose a measure and quantification of these correlations. We also propose the necessary and sufficient condition for the presence of tripartite quantum correlation in such multi-atomic systems. We conjecture the way of determining the third order moments of the pseudo-spin operators of the two-level atoms in the assembly, experimentally.
Network Medicine Framework for Identifying Drug Repurposing Opportunities for COVID-19
Creators: name: Gysi, Deisy Morselli
name: Valle, Ítalo Do
name: Zitnik, Marinka
name: Ameli, Asher
name: Gan, Xiao
name: Varol, Onur
name: Ghiassian, Susan Dina
name: Patten, JJ
name: Davey, Robert
name: Loscalzo, Joseph
name: Barabási, Albert-László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The current pandemic has highlighted the need for methodologies that can quickly and reliably prioritize clinically approved compounds for their potential effectiveness for SARS-CoV-2 infections. In the past decade, network medicine has developed and validated multiple predictive algorithms for drug repurposing, exploiting the sub-cellular network-based relationship between a drug's targets and disease genes. Here, we deployed algorithms relying on artificial intelligence, network diffusion, and network proximity, tasking each of them to rank 6,340 drugs for their expected efficacy against SARS-CoV-2. To test the predictions, we used as ground truth 918 drugs that had been experimentally screened in VeroE6 cells, and the list of drugs under clinical trial, that capture the medical community's assessment of drugs with potential COVID-19 efficacy. We find that while most algorithms offer predictive power for these ground truth data, no single method offers consistently reliable outcomes across all datasets and metrics. This prompted us to develop a multimodal approach that fuses the predictions of all algorithms, showing that a consensus among the different predictive methods consistently exceeds the performance of the best individual pipelines. We find that 76 of the 77 drugs that successfully reduced viral infection do not bind the proteins targeted by SARS-CoV-2, indicating that these drugs rely on network-based actions that cannot be identified using docking-based strategies. These advances offer a methodological pathway to identify repurposable drugs for future pathogens and neglected diseases underserved by the costs and extended timeline of de novo drug development.
JobViz: Skill-driven Visual Exploration of Job Advertisements
Creators: name: Wang, Ran
name: Chen, Qianhe
name: Wang, Yong
name: Shen, Boyang
name: Xiong, Lewei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online job advertisements on various job portals or websites have become the most popular way for people to find potential career opportunities nowadays. However, the majority of these job sites are limited to offering fundamental filters such as job titles, keywords, and compensation ranges. This often poses a challenge for job seekers in efficiently identifying relevant job advertisements that align with their unique skill sets amidst a vast sea of listings. Thus, we propose well-coordinated visualizations to provide job seekers with three levels of details of job information: a skill-job overview visualizes skill sets, employment posts as well as relationships between them with a hierarchical visualization design; a post exploration view leverages an augmented radar-chart glyph to represent job posts and further facilitates users' swift comprehension of the pertinent skills necessitated by respective positions; a post detail view lists the specifics of selected job posts for profound analysis and comparison. By using a real-world recruitment advertisement dataset collected from 51Job, one of the largest job websites in China, we conducted two case studies and user interviews to evaluate JobViz. The results demonstrated the usefulness and effectiveness of our approach.
Influenza immunization in Canada’s low-income population
Creators: name: Hobbs, Jennifer L.
name: Buxton, Jane A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Immunization offers the best protection from influenza infection. Little evidence describes disparities in immunization uptake among low-income individuals. Higher rates of chronic disease put this population at increased risk of influenza-related complications. This analysis examines if the type of main source of household income in low-income groups affects influenza immunization uptake. We hypothesized that individuals on social assistance have less access to immunization compared to those with employment earnings or seniors’ benefits. Methods: Data was obtained from the Canadian Community Health Survey annual component 2009-2010. A total of 10,373 low-income respondents (<20,000$ Canadian per annum) were included. Logistic regression, stratified according to type of provincial publicly funded immunization program, was used to examine the association between influenza immunization (in the last 12 months) and main source of household income (employment earnings; social assistance as a combination of employment insurance or worker’s compensation or welfare; or seniors’ benefits). Results: Overall, 32.5% of respondents reported receiving influenza immunization. In multivariable analysis of universal publicly funded influenza immunization programs, those reporting social assistance (AOR 1.24, 95% CI 1.02-1.51) or seniors’ benefits (AOR 1.56, 95% CI 1.23-1.98) were more likely to be immunized compared to those reporting employment earnings. Similar results were observed for high-risk programs. Conclusions: Among the low-income sample, overall influenza immunization coverage is low. Those receiving social assistance or seniors’ benefits may have been targeted due to higher rates of chronic disease. Programs reaching the workforce may be important to attain broader coverage. However, CCHS data was collected during the H1N1 pandemic influenza, thus results may not be generalizable to influenza immunization in non-pandemic years.
Highlighting CLEW systems trade-offs in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Lo Giudice, Camilla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: osemosys
clews
Ethiopia
energy systems

description: Ethiopia is currently facing significant challenges being the second most populated country in Africa with the population forecasted to exceed 200 million by 2050. Most of the population lacks access to modern energy, water, and sanitation services and it is still relying on biomass for residential energy demand and on rain-fed agriculture as the major source of food and income. This presentation aims at showing if water, energy and food security will be achieved with the current trends, if LT-LEDS targets are achieved and if climate change projections affect the system.
Patterns of psychotropic medicine use in pregnancy in the United States from 2006 to 2011 among women with private insurance
Creators: name: Hanley, Gillian E.
name: Mintzes, Barbara
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Psychiatric disorders are equally common during pregnancy as among non-pregnant women, and many of these conditions are treated with psychotropic medicines. Relatively little is known about patterns of use of many these agents during pregnancy, and specifically of how rates may have shifted during the last decade. We aimed to quantify the rate of pregnancy related exposures to categories of psychotropic medicines stratified according to the primary indication for use (antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and psychostimulants), trimester of pregnancy, trends over time and region, and indication for use. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of pregnancies among women in the Truven Health MarketScan database (source population 70 million Americans), which captures person-specific clinical use and includes detailed information on filled prescriptions, hospitalizations and outpatient visits for all privately insured employees and their dependents. We classified psychotropic medicines of interest using ATC level 3 accordingly: antipsychotics (N05A); anxiolytics (N05B); antidepressants (N06A); psychostimulants, agents used for ADHD and cognitive enhancement (N06B). We also examined temporal and regional trends in use. Results: We included 343,299 women who had a live birth between Jan 1, 2006 and Dec 31, 2011, of whom 10.3% were dispensed one or more psychotropic medicines during pregnancy. This rate varied from 6% to 15% between states. The rate of use of psychotropic medicines was relatively stable between 2006 and 2011. The most commonly used psychotropic medicines were selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (5.1%) and benzodiazepine or benzodiazepine-like medicines (3.9%). Among psychotropic users, the most commonly associated psychiatric diagnosis was depression (25.0%), followed by anxiety disorders (24.4%). Approximately 1.6% of women used more than one category of psychotropic medicine in pregnancy, most commonly an antidepressant and an anxiolytic medicine (1.2%). Conclusions: Given this relatively high rate of use, the lack of evidence that the most frequently used medications improve birth outcomes and the safety concerns associated with both early and late pregnancy use for many frequently-used medications, there is a need for further study of factors driving psychotropic medication use during pregnancy.
Halving spaces and lower bounds in real enumerative geometry
Creators: name: Fehér, László M.
name: Matszangosz, Ákos K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14N10, 55N91, 14M15, 57R91

description: We develop the theory of halving spaces to obtain lower bounds in real enumerative geometry. Halving spaces are topological spaces with an action of a Lie group $Γ$ with additional cohomological properties. For $Γ=\mathbb{Z}_2$ we recover the conjugation spaces of Hausmann, Holm and Puppe. For $Γ=\mathrm{U}(1)$ we obtain the circle spaces. We show that real even and quaternionic partial flag manifolds are circle spaces leading to non-trivial lower bounds for even real and quaternionic Schubert problems. To prove that a given space is a halving space, we generalize results of Borel and Haefliger on the cohomology classes of real subvarieties and their complexifications. The novelty is that we are able to obtain results in rational cohomology instead of modulo 2. The equivariant extension of the theory of circle spaces leads to generalizations of the results of Borel and Haefliger on Thom polynomials.
description: 30 pages
State Space Modelling for detecting and characterising Gravitational Waves afterglows
Creators: name: d'Antonio, Daniele
name: Bell, Martin Ellis
name: Brown, James John
name: Grazian, Clara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the usage of an innovative method for selecting transients and variables. These sources are detected at different wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum spanning from radio waves to gamma-rays. We focus on radio signals and use State Space Models, which are also referred to as Dynamic Linear Models. State Space Models (and more generally parametric autoregressive models) have been the mainstay of economic modelling for some years, but rarely they have been used in Astrophysics. The statistics currently used to identify radio variables and transients are not sophisticated enough to distinguish different types of variability. These methods simply report the overall modulation and significance of the variability, and the ordering of the data in time is insignificant. State Space Models are much more advanced and can encode not only the amount and significance of the variability but also properties, such as slope, rise or decline for a given time t. In this work, we evaluate the effectiveness of State Space Models for transient and variable detection including classification in time-series astronomy. We also propose a method for detecting a transient source hosted in a variable active galaxy, whereby the time-series of a static host galaxy and the dynamic nature of the transient in the galaxy are intertwined. Furthermore, we examine the hypothetical scenario where the target transient we want to detect is the gravitational wave source GW170817 (or similar).
Dancing embodied memory: the choreography of place in the Peruvian Andes
Creators: name: Callaghan, Michaela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article is concerned with dance as an embodied form of collective remembering in the Andean department of Ayacucho in Peru. Andean dance and fiesta are inextricably linked with notions of identity, cultural heritage and history. Rather than being simply aesthetic---steps to music or a series of movements---dance is readable as being a deeper embodiment of the broader struggles and concerns of a people. As anthropologist Zoila Mendoza writes, in post-colonial countries such as those in Africa and Latin America, dance is and was a means 'through which people contested, domesticated and reworked signs of domination in their society'. Andean dance has long been a space of contestation and resistance. It also functions as a repository, a dynamic archive which holds and tells the collective narrative of a cultural time and space. As Jane Cowan observes 'dance is much more than knowing the steps; it involves both social knowledge and social power'. In cultures where the written word has not played a central role in the construction and transmission of knowledge, dance is a particularly rich resource for understanding. 'Embodied practice, along with and bound up with other cultural practices, offers a way of knowing'. This is certainly true in the Andes of Peru where dance, music and fiesta are central to social, cultural, economic and political life.
First results from SMAUG: Insights into star formation conditions from spatially-resolved ISM properties in TNG50
Creators: name: Motwani, Bhawna
name: Genel, Shy
name: Bryan, Greg L.
name: Kim, Chang-Goo
name: Pandya, Viraj
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Smith, Matthew C.
name: Ostriker, Eve C.
name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Pillepich, Annalisa
name: Forbes, John C.
name: Belfiore, Francesco
name: Pakmor, Rüdiger
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at sub-galactic ($\sim$kpc) scales play an indispensable role in controlling the ability of gas to form stars. As part of the SMAUG (Simulating Multiscale Astrophysics to Understand Galaxies) project, in this paper, we use the TNG50 cosmological simulation to explore the physical parameter space of 8 resolved ISM properties in star-forming regions to constrain the areas of this hyperspace over which most star-forming environments exist. We deconstruct our simulated galaxies spanning a wide range of mass (M$_\star = 10^{7-11}$ M$_\odot$) and redshift ($0 \leq z \leq 3$) into kpc-sized regions, and statistically analyze the gas/stellar surface densities, gas metallicity, vertical stellar velocity dispersion, epicyclic frequency and dark-matter volumetric density representative of each region in the context of their star formation activity and galactic environment (radial galactocentric location). By examining the star formation rate (SFR) weighted distributions of these properties, we show that stars primarily form in two spatially distinct environmental regimes, which are brought about by an underlying bi-component radial SFR surface density profile in galaxies. We examine how the relative prominence of these two regimes depends on host galaxy mass and cosmic time. We also compare our findings with those from integral field spectroscopy observations and achieve a good overall agreement. Further, using dimensionality reduction, we characterise the aforementioned hyperspace to reveal a high-degree of multicollinearity in relationships amongst ISM properties that drive the distribution of star formation at kpc-scales. Based on this, we show that a reduced 3D representation underpinned by a multi-variate radius relationship is sufficient to capture most of the variance in the original 8D space.
description: Updated intro, minor text and abstract modifications. More information on the SMAUG project and the other first result papers can be found here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/center-for-computational-astrophysics/galaxy-formation/smaug/papersplash1
Enabling Compute-Communication Overlap in Distributed Deep Learning Training Platforms
Creators: name: Rashidi, Saeed
name: Denton, Matthew
name: Sridharan, Srinivas
name: Srinivasan, Sudarshan
name: Suresh, Amoghavarsha
name: Ni, Jade
name: Krishna, Tushar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep Learning (DL) training platforms are built by interconnecting multiple DL accelerators (e.g., GPU/TPU) via fast, customized interconnects with 100s of gigabytes (GBs) of bandwidth. However, as we identify in this work, driving this bandwidth is quite challenging. This is because there is a pernicious balance between using the accelerator's compute and memory for both DL computations and communication. This work makes two key contributions. First, via real system measurements and detailed modeling, we provide an understanding of compute and memory bandwidth demands for DL compute and comms. Second, we propose a novel DL collective communication accelerator called Accelerator Collectives Engine (ACE) that sits alongside the compute and networking engines at the accelerator endpoint. ACE frees up the endpoint's compute and memory resources for DL compute, which in turn reduces the required memory BW by 3.5X on average to drive the same network BW compared to state-of-the-art baselines. For modern DL workloads and different network sizes, ACE, on average, increases the effective network bandwidth utilization by 1.44X (up to 2.67X), resulting in an average of 1.41X (up to 1.51X), 1.12X (up to 1.17X), and 1.13X (up to 1.19X) speedup in iteration time for ResNet-50, GNMT and DLRM when compared to the best baseline configuration, respectively.
EllSeg: An Ellipse Segmentation Framework for Robust Gaze Tracking
Creators: name: Kothari, Rakshit S.
name: Chaudhary, Aayush K.
name: Bailey, Reynold J.
name: Pelz, Jeff B.
name: Diaz, Gabriel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ellipse fitting, an essential component in pupil or iris tracking based video oculography, is performed on previously segmented eye parts generated using various computer vision techniques. Several factors, such as occlusions due to eyelid shape, camera position or eyelashes, frequently break ellipse fitting algorithms that rely on well-defined pupil or iris edge segments. In this work, we propose training a convolutional neural network to directly segment entire elliptical structures and demonstrate that such a framework is robust to occlusions and offers superior pupil and iris tracking performance (at least 10$\%$ and 24$\%$ increase in pupil and iris center detection rate respectively within a two-pixel error margin) compared to using standard eye parts segmentation for multiple publicly available synthetic segmentation datasets.
description: Code available at https://bitbucket.org/RSKothari/ellseg/src/master/
Structure-driven intercalated architecture of septuple-atomic-layer $MA_2Z_4$ family with diverse properties from semiconductor to topological insulator to Ising superconductor
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Shi, Yongpeng
name: Liu, Mingfeng
name: Hong, Yi-Lun
name: Chen, Ming-Xing
name: Li, Ronghan
name: Gao, Qiang
name: Ren, Wencai
name: Cheng, Hui-Ming
name: Li, Yiyi
name: Chen, Xing-Qiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the fact that septuple-atomic-layer MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ can be structurally viewed as the combination of double-atomic-layer MnTe intercalating into quintuple-atomic-layer Bi$_2$Te$_3$, we present a general approach of constructing twelve septuple-atomic-layer $α_i$- and $β_i$-$MA_2Z_4$ monolayer family (\emph{i} = 1 to 6) by intercalating MoS$_2$-type $MZ$$_2$ monolayer into InSe-type A$_2$Z$_2$ monolayer. Besides reproducing the experimentally synthesized $α_1$-MoSi$_2$N$_4$, $α_1$-WSi$_2$N$_4$ and $β_5$-MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ monolayer materials, another 66 thermodynamically and dynamically stable $MA_2Z_4$ were predicted, which span a wide range of properties upon the number of valence electrons (VEC). $MA_2Z_4$ with the rules of 32 or 34 VEC are mostly semiconductors with direct or indirect band gap and, however, with 33 VEC are generally metal, half-metal ferromagnetism, or spin-gapless semiconductor upon whether or not an unpaired electron is spin polarized. Moreover, we propose $α_2$-WSi$_2$P$_4$ for the spin-valley polarization, $α_1$-TaSi$_2$N$_4$ for Ising superconductor and $β_2$-SrGa$_2$Se$_4$ for topological insulator.
description: Maintext 9 pages; 5 figures; Supplementary Materials 8 figures and 4 tables