cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relationship between the Hyers-Ulam stability and the Moore-Penrose inverse
Creators: name: Huang, Qianglian
name: Moslehian, Mohammad Sal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A55, 46A32, 39B82, 47A05, 47A30

description: In this paper, we establish a link between the Hyers-Ulam stability and the Moore--Penrose inverse, that is, a closed operator has the Hyers-Ulam stability if and only if it has a bounded Moore-Penrose inverse. Meanwhile, the stability constant can be determined in terms of the Moore-Penrose inverse. Based on this result, some conditions for the perturbed operators having the Hyers--Ulam stability are obtained and the Hyers-Ulam stability constant is expressed explicitly in the case of closed operators. In the case of the bounded linear operators we obtain some characterizations for the Hyers-Ulam stability constants to be continuous. As an application, we give a characterization for the Hyers-Ulam stability constants of the semi-Fredholm operators to be continuous.
description: 16 pages, to appear in the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA)
Magnetic symmetry of the plain domain walls in the plates of cubic ferro- and ferrimagnets
Creators: name: Tanygin, B. M.
name: Tychko, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic symmetry of possible plane domain walls in arbitrary oriented plates of the crystal of hexoctahedral crystallographic class is considered. The symmetry classification is applied for ferro- and ferrimagnets.
Aplikasi Teknologi Inderaja Kelautan, Pemodelan Dan In-Situ Measurements Dalam Penentuan Zonasi Kawasan Konservasi Laut Daerah (KKLD)
Creators: name: Plamonia, Nicco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90905 Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Kajian dan observasi secara berkesinambungan diperlukan guna tercapainya Kawasan Konservasi Laut (KKL) yang lestari dimasa datang khususnya regional dalam hal ini Indonesia yang notabene termasuk dalam kawasan CTC (Coral Triangle Center). Pemanfaatan teknologi inderaja (remote sensing), pemodelan, dan in-situ measurements dapat dilakukan dalam kajian penentuan Kawasan Konservasi Laut Daerah (KKLD). Paper ini merupakan ulasan hasil studi yang dilakukan untuk memberikan rekomendasi penetapan zona pemanfaatan dan pengembangan sistem observasi di kawasan pesisir yang dapat diterapkan di kawasan konservasi dengan menggunakan aplikasi teknologi inderaja, pemodelan dan data lapangan. Lokasi studi adalah Kawasan Konservasi Laut Gili Sulat-Gili Lawang, Lombok Timur dan Pemuteran, Bali Utara.
Rare mendelian forms of obesity and diabetes and their implications for treatment outcomes
Creators: name: Almansoori, Sumiya Obaid
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Obesity and diabetes are becoming epidemic health issues worldwide. In recent decades, a considerable amount of work has been done to study the pathogenicity underlying those diseases, which has led to valuable insights into the genetic basis, treatment and prevention of obesity and diabetes. Nevertheless, despite our more detailed pathophysiological understanding of the rare forms of diabetes and obesity than of more common polygenic forms, we still know little about their prevalence and implications outside specialised genetics services. In the present work, I have explored the contribution of Mendelian forms of obesity in individuals with severe obesity. Initial segregation analyses of families with an obese proband, led to the identification of an oligogenic mode of inheritance for obesity. This was followed by re-analysis of pre-existing whole exome sequencing data from 91 individuals with extreme obesity, which revealed an additional 21 possible causative variants in known monogenic/syndromic obesity genes and three further cases of oligogenic inheritance. In addition, 11 candidate variants were identified in genes suggested by rodent models of obesity and/or diabetes, but not previously reported in humans. To further expand the analysis, a unique custom genotyping array focusing on, obesity and diabetes mellitus (T2D, and monogenic forms of diabetes) was designed to be applied to a larger number of samples (N=2068). Application of the array led to the identification of a total of 161 potential causative variants in 40 monogenic obesity/syndromic obesity genes, with a putative diagnostic yield of 11%. Initial analysis suggests that having one of these putative Mendelian forms of obesity resulted in no statistical difference in percentage weight loss at 2 years post-surgery and diabetes remission. Our first analysis on obesity indicates that the use of a custom-designed genotyping array for specific rare diseases may be an advantageous first level screening strategy in terms of cost and time. The work presented here also suggests that the true prevalence of Mendelian forms of obesity among bariatric surgery patients is likely to be high - this presents a significant unmet need for genetic analysis and follow-up.
title: A dependency-aware task distribution extension to the BOINC framework for
volunteer computing

Creators: name: Πισσαδακης Εμμανουηλ
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Volunteer Computing is one of the distributed computing paradigms that has gained attention in recent years. It is used by a number of scientific researchers to perform scientific projects such as climate prediction, search for extraterrestrial live and protein structure prediction. It is an innovative approach to high performance computing that relies on volunteers who donate their personal computers’ unused resources to a computationally intensive research project, as well as provides scientists with the necessary means for performing projects that require huge resources. BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is an open-source framework for solving large-scale computational problems by means of volunteer computing. In contrast to massive parallel computing, applications are distributed into a large number of heterogeneous client computers connected by the Internet where each computer is assigned individual tasks that can be solved independently without the need of communication upon the clients. A BOINC-based project provides its own servers. Hosts download application’s executables and data files from servers, carry out tasks (by running applications against specific data files) and upload the output files. However various problems exist while deploying applications over these heterogeneous machines using BOINC. The tasks of each application had to be independent due to the lack of communication between the clients, otherwise it is not compatible. Furthermore porting application to BOINC middleware is a very complex process. Several server daemons had to be implemented to achieve that. To resolve these issues, this thesis proposes a framework based on the Boinc infrastructure, the mCluster software framework. MCluster adopts a task-based programming model designed to resolve the existed dependencies. Finally, a source to source translator is included in this framework in order to transform this application into BOINC compatible tasks, ready to be executed from the available clients by implementing all the appropriate daemons that BOINC requires.
Additional file 1 of Severe Raynaud’s phenomenon from ethosuximide raised concern over possible onset of systemic vasculitis: a case report
Creators: name: Berntson, Lillemor
name: Liminga, Gunnar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Description of ANA methodology in Sweden.
A linearization for stable and fast geographically weighted Poisson regression
Creators: name: Murakami, Daisuke
name: Tsutsumida, Narumasa
name: Yoshida, Takahiro
name: Nakaya, Tomoki
name: Lu, Binbin
name: Harris, Paul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Although geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) is a popular regression for spatially indexed count data, its development is relatively limited compared to that found for linear geographically weighted regression (GWR), where many extensions (e.g. multiscale GWR, scalable GWR) have been proposed. The weak development of GWPR can be attributed to the computational cost and identification problem in the underpinning Poisson regression model. This study proposes linearized GWPR (L-GWPR) by introducing a log-linear approximation into the GWPR model to overcome these bottlenecks. Because the L-GWPR model is identical to the Gaussian GWR model, it is free from the identification problem, easily implemented, computationally efficient, and offers similar potential for extension. Specifically, L-GWPR does not require a double-loop algorithm, which makes GWPR slow for large samples. Furthermore, we extended L-GWPR by introducing ridge regularization to enhance its stability (regularized L-GWPR). The results of the Monte Carlo experiments confirmed that regularized L-GWPR estimates local coefficients accurately and computationally efficiently. Finally, we compared GWPR and regularized L-GWPR through a crime analysis in Tokyo.
Rüdiger Gogräfe, Theater im römischen Reich. Bühne für Schauspieler, die Feiern des Imperiums und die Sponsoren des Reiches
Creators: name: Schmitz, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Forum Classicum
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Rüdiger Gogräfe, Theater im römischen Reich. Bühne für Schauspieler, die Feiern des Imperiums und die Sponsoren des Reiches. Nünnerich-Asmus-Verlag: Mainz 2013, 144 S. (ISBN 978-3-943904-08-6).
description: Forum Classicum, Nr. 4 (2013): Forum Classicum
Andromeda Dwarfs in Light of MOND
Creators: name: McGaugh, Stacy
name: Milgrom, Mordehai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the recently published velocity dispersions for seventeen Andromeda dwarf spheroidals with estimates of the MOND predictions, based on the luminosities of these dwarfs, with reasonable stellar M/L values, and no dark matter. We find that the two are consistent within the uncertainties. We further predict the velocity dispersions of another ten dwarfs for which only photometric data are currently available.
description: 8 pages, 1 Figure, submitted to Astrophys. J. Changes in response to referee's comments. In particular, the range of stellar M/L values used in the MOND predictions narrowed from 1-6 to 1-4 (M/L)(sun). References added
title: СИНТЕЗ ТРАДИЦИОННОГО И СОВРЕМЕННОГО КАК ФАКТОР РАЗВИТИЯ ЯПОНСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА В XXI ВЕКЕ
Creators: name: Суханова, Мария
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье, исследующей специфику развития современного японского общества и культуры, показывается, что Япония представляет собой пример успешного осуществления социокультурной модернизации с опорой на традиционные элементы. Обращается внимание на многовековые традиции, которым жители этой страны
остаются приверженными в современном динамичном мире. Анализируются такие виды искусства, как манга и аниме, изначально возникшие как подражание американским комиксам и мультфильмам, а затем благодаря национальному колориту ставшие оригинальным явлением современной японской культуры. Как вывод
утверждается, что именно гармоничное сочетание старого и нового, самобытного и заимствованного позволяет японскому обществу быть успешным и привлекательным.
Discovering the social movement experience: an exploratory study into social movements and innovation
Creators: name: Del Castillo, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: People organised into social movements have won tremendous victories for health. Social movements are one of the most effective forms of pressure on health and care, drivers of health systems change and sources of transformative ideas. Yet, how social movements aid innovation is an unexplored subtheme within social movement and innovation research. This exploratory study utilised constructivist grounded theory to examine how social movements aid innovation development and diffusion in a health context. It involved interviewing a sampling of people working on public health issues across England and resulted in empirical findings representing over 40 health social movements. These findings were triangulated against meeting observations and supplementary documents related to social movement activity. The study starts by investigating how people make sense of social movements as a concept, which led to discovering the social movement experience (SMExp) and reinforcing the need for a people’s perspective in social movement research. The SMExp offers a new analytical tool for researchers, a sensemaking tool for social movement actors and a strategy tool for policymakers in devising social movement engagement and support strategies. Investigating the SMExp in light of theories of experience excavates new insights from the study data and surfaces new research questions. Through the application of an innovation practitioner lens to social movement empirical data, the study identifies twelve ways that social movements aid innovation development and diffusion. Broadly, it also offers insight on studying innovation in relation to social movements, new conceptual directions, opportunities for social movement innovation practice and a future research agenda at the nascent intersection of social movements and innovation. Finally, the study also contributes to health as an underrepresented issue within social movement research and reveals that social movements can be a solution to social health issues.
title: ПЕРЕВОД ФЕМИНИТИВОВ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ЖЕНСКИХ НЕМЕЦКОЯЗЫЧНЫХ ЖУРНАЛОВ)
Creators: name: Суханова, Полина
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: Статья посвящена проблеме перевода феминитивов в современном медиапространстве. Актуальность исследования обусловлена общественными изменениями, которые привели к активному использованию имен существительных, обозначающих лиц женского пола. При передаче таких существительных с одного языка на другой переводчик сталкивается как с различиями в общественно-социальных контекстах, так и с разницей систем двух языков.
title: The SEI SBOM Framework: Informing Third-Party Software Management in Your Supply Chain
Creators: name: Woody, Carol
name: Bandor, Michael
name: Wallen, Charles
name: Alberts, Christopher
Publisher: name: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023

description: This post from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute presents the SBOM Framework, which promotes the use of SBOMs and establishes a more comprehensive set of practices and processes that organizations can leverage as they build their programs.
title: Meg data analysis of evoked potentials from visual and auditory stimuli
title: Ανάλυση δεδομένων μαγνητοεγκεφαλογραφήματος από πρόκλητα δυναμικά οπτικού και ακουστικού ερεθίσματος
Creators: name: Πατσιουρα Μαρια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Magnetoencephalogram (MEG) is a useful tool towards the direction of understanding of the mechanisms of human brain having been assessed for its superior accuracy over other modalities. The scope of the present study is the extraction of synchronization features using independent component analysis (ICA) on the MEG recording from normal people after being subjected to an experiment that involves exposure to visual and auditory stimulus. The purpose of this diploma thesis is to process MEG data in order to remove artifacts contaminating the brain activity recordings and then to classify the MEG channels in order to categorize the most important ones, that are most involved in the visual and the auditory brain response, into clusters. For the first task, proper filtering procedures, BSS and ICA methods were used. The application of ICA helps to emerge hidden cerebral and non-cerebral activity and the elimination of non-cerebral activity to the independent components. For the clustering purposes, the method that was used is k-means algorithm, with the help of measures like phase lag index (PLI), energy and kurtosis. Finally, a statistical analysis was performed for the extraction of statistical differences between auditory and visual results.
title: СПЕЦИФИКА ПЕРЕВОДА РЕАЛИЙ РУССКОЙ НАРОДНОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ
Creators: name: Хабирова, Анна
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В данной статье рассмотрены основные приемы перевода реалий русской народной культуры на английский язык. Исследование проводится на основе статей иностранных интернет-блогов, где широко представлены различные способы передачи культурных реалий, способствующие выявлению особенностей перевода лексических
единиц данной тематики.
Generation of microvascular endothelium in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived myocardium
Creators: name: King, Oisín
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Physiologically relevant in vitro models of the human myocardium are required to study basic biological mechanisms, and to further the impact of disease modelling and drug discovery. In vivo, a dense network of capillaries communicates bi-directionally with beating myocardium to regulate heart homeostasis (D. L. Brutsaert, 2003; Segers et al., 2018). However, microvascular architectures subject to the contractile and haemodynamic biomechanics of the beating heart have not yet been replicated in vitro. This project aimed to establish a myocardial – endothelial coculture platform which approximated the biomechanical conditions of the human myocardium, enabling the study of myocardial – endothelial communication in the regulation of cardiac homeostasis. Here we report the generation of a fibrin hydrogel-based 3D coculture platform, in which beating human induced pluripotent stem cell derived-cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CM) are embedded in direct contact with human cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (hCMVEC) and human left ventricular fibroblasts (hLVFB), thus enabling both biochemical and biomechanical modes of heterocellular communication. We then characterise various aspects of the electrophysiology of hiPSC-CM, and demonstrate distinct regulation of action potential, calcium handling, spontaneous beating rate and arrhythmogenesis, depending on coculture condition. We then report the use of microfluidic perfusion and vasculogenic growth factor supplementation to induce spontaneous assembly of functional myocardial microvasculature in a novel Heart-on-a-chip model, with vascularised myocardium again demonstrating altered calcium handling compared to hiPSC-CM control. Additionally, this model allows observation and interrogation of human myocardial microvascular flow dynamics for the first time. Via perfusion and tracking of red blood cells through myocardial microvasculature, we report biomimetic pulsatile flow profile generated by beating hiPSC-CM. By reproducing the cellular composition and architecture of human myocardial microvasculature, while approximating cardiac contractile and haemodynamic biomechanics, we have reported novel CM-EC coculture platforms which demonstrate significant regulation of myocardial electrophysiology by a microvascular endothelium, in vitro. These results build on the increasing recognition of the myocardial endothelium as a key mediator of heart homeostasis and offer novel in vitro strategies to further explore the role of the endothelium in cardiac health and disease.
AJP heart manuscript (H-00756-2020)- supplemental data
Creators: name: Lee, Wei-Ning
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111699 Medical Physiology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 90302 Biomechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90303 Biomedical Instrumentation

description: Supplemental data1. Supplemental information (text)
2. Supplemental videos of a newly observed extension wave as well as the well-known pulse wave in the artery wall. Pulse wave propagation from the heart (left) to the head (right) sides in videos. Actual inter-frame duration is 1 ms. Video1-1: pulse wave at a playback speed of 30 frames/second. Video1-2: pulse wave at a playback speed of 3 frames/second. Video2-1: extension wave at a playback speed of 30 frames/second.
Video2-2: extension wave at a playback speed of 3 frames/second.
3. UI for finite-element simulations. Users can download and easily input key parameters to reproduce or simulate natural wave propagation. Computational time for an isotropic case is about 16 hours in a standard desktop PC. And anisotropic cases will take even more time. You are welcome to give us feedback on new functions of this UI.
[Update] The source code (.m file) is included for test in 'COMSOL Multiphysics with MATLAB' software. Please note that the auto-saved source code contains all log information, which reduces its readability.
4. MATLAB code ('TheoreticalCalculation.m') for theoretical calculation of natural wave speeds.
title: Affective analysis and modeling of spoken dialogue transcripts
Creators: name: Παλογιαννιδη Ελισαβετ
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: At this thesis we propose affective models for the emotional analysis of lexical units in
various granularity levels. We propose and evaluate the use of an affective-semantic model
to expand the affective lexica of German, Greek, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Moti-
vated by the assumption that semantic similarity implies affective similarity, we use word
level semantic similarity scores as semantic features to estimate their corresponding af-
fective scores. Various context-based semantic similarity metrics are investigated using
contextual features that include both words and character n-grams. The model produces
continuous affective ratings in three dimensions (valence, arousal and dominance) for all
five languages, achieving consistent performance. We achieve classification accuracy (va-
lence polarity task) between 85% and 91% for all five languages. For morphologically
rich languages the proposed use of character n-grams is shown to improve performance.
Moreover, we created the first Greek affective lexicon, translating the words of the English
affective lexicon ANEW and assigning them to native speakers for affective annotation. It
contains human ratings for the three continuous affective dimensions of valence, arousal
and dominance for 1034 words.
Motivated by recent advances in the area of Compositional Distributional Semantic
Models (CDSMs), we propose a compositional approach for estimating continuous affective
ratings for adjective-noun (AN) and noun-noun (NN) pairs. The ratings are computed
for the three basic dimensions of continuous affective spaces, namely, valence, arousal and
dominance. We propose that similarly to the semantic modification that underlies CDSMs,
affective modification may occur within the framework of affective spaces, especially when
the constituent words of the linguistic structures under investigation form modifier-head
pairs (e.g., AN and NN). The affective content of the entire structure is determined from
the interaction between the respective constituents, i.e., the affect conveyed by the head
is altered by the modifier. In addition, we investigate the fusion of the proposed model
with the semantic-affective model proposed in literature applied both at word- and phrase-
level. The automatically computed affective ratings were evaluated against human ratings
in terms of correlation. The most accurate estimates are achieved via fusion and absolute
performance improvement up to 5% and 4% is reported for NN and AN, respectively.
We also investigate text based models for the affective analysis of sentences that are
mainly based on affective features. We investigate various datasets including news head-
lines, movie subtitles, Twitter status updates and spoken dialogue transcriptions and the
best (state-of-the-art) perfor
Newton-Machian analysis of Neo-tychonian model of planetary motions
Creators: name: Popov, Luka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The calculation of the trajectories in the Sun-Earth-Mars system will be performed in two different models, both in the framework of Newtonian mechanics. First model is well-known Copernican system, which assumes the Sun is at rest and all the planets orbit around it. Second one is less-known model developed by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), according to which the Earth stands still, the Sun orbits around the Earth, and other planets orbit around the Sun. The term "Neo-tychonian system" refers to the assumption that orbits of distant masses around the Earth are synchronized with the Sun's orbit. It is the aim of this paper to show the kinematical and dynamical equivalence of these systems, under the assumption of Mach's principle.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
title: Mapping of stoichiometric inhomogeneities in field-stressed Li(0.29±δ)La0.57TiO3 electrolytes
Creators: name: Laa, Lisa
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: LLTO
subject: elemental mapping
subject: polarisation experiments

description: The intermittent nature of renewable electricity production as well as electro-mobility requires electrochemical storage of electrical energy. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the dominant technology due to their high energy densities and low self-discharge. However, liquid electrolytes, which are used in commercial LIBs, are flammable and extremely sensitive towards humidity. A promising alternative is the perovskite-type solid electrolyte Li(0.29±δ)La0.57TiO3 (LLTO) that can be applied to all-solid-state LIBs. The exact voltage stability limit and decomposition kinetics of this material are, however, unknown and the mapping of stoichiometric inhomogeneities in field-stressed LLTO is a powerful tool for a better understanding of these mechanisms.In this thesis, the stoichiometry of non-polarized and polarized LLTO electrolytes was investigated by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (LA-ICP-MS). Therefore, qualitative measurements of LLTO were performed and elemental distribution images were created. For the study of stochiometric changes during polarization, quantification of lithium (Li) is necessary, so matrix-matched standards were prepared. Quantitative LA-ICP-MS measurements of under different pressures polarized LLTO substrates were conducted. Moreover, various voltages (2.5 V – 8 V) were applied to LLTO substrates, subsequently investigating the effects using quantitative LA-ICP-MS analysis.The conducted measurements showed an excess of Li at the surface-near region of the investigated LLTO samples, irrespective of the applied field stress. The enrichment in this area could be removed by pre-ablation or leaching in an ultrasonic bath. In qualitative measurements of polarized LLTO, a local Li depletion beneath the anode is observed. Furthermore, pressed pellets with various quantities of lithium oxide (Li2O), lanthanum oxide (La2O3) and titanium oxide (TiO2) were found to be suitable for quantification. Quantitative measurements indicated that atmospheric pressure polarization results in a confined lithium accumulation at the cathodic terminal. In comparison, polarization in a high vacuum (10-5 mbar) led to a non-detectable lithium enrichment in a larger area surrounding the cathode. Furthermore, it was found that there is a direct correlation between the height of the applied voltage and the depth of the propagation in the depletion zone.The obtained results help to increase the knowledge about ion conductivity which is decisive for the application of LLTO as a solid electrolyte.
Disruption analytics in urban metro systems with large-scale automated data
Creators: name: Zhang, Nan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Urban metro systems are frequently affected by disruptions such as infrastructure malfunctions, rolling stock breakdowns and accidents. Such disruptions give rise to delays, congestion and inconvenience for public transport users, which in turn, lead to a wider range of negative impacts on the social economy and wellbeing. This PhD thesis aims to improve our understanding of disruption impacts and improve the ability of metro operators to detect and manage disruptions by using large-scale automated data. The crucial precondition of any disruption analytics is to have accurate information about the location, occurrence time, duration and propagation of disruptions. In pursuit of this goal, the thesis develops statistical models to detect disruptions via deviations in trains’ headways relative to their regular services. Our method is a unique contribution in the sense that it is based on automated vehicle location data (data-driven) and the probabilistic framework is effective to detect any type of service interruptions, including minor delays that last just a few minutes. As an important research outcome, the thesis delivers novel analyses of the propagation progress of disruptions along metro lines, thus enabling us to distinguish primary and secondary disruptions as well as recovery interventions performed by operators. The other part of the thesis provides new insights for quantifying disruption impacts and measuring metro vulnerability. One of our key messages is that in metro systems there are factors influencing both the occurrence of disruptions and their outcomes. With such confounding factors, we show that causal inference is a powerful tool to estimate unbiased impacts on passenger demand and journey time, which is also capable of quantifying the spatial-temporal propagation of disruption impacts within metro networks. The causal inference approaches are applied to empirical studies based on the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR). Our conclusions can assist researchers and practitioners in two applications: (i) the evaluation of metro performance such as service reliability, system vulnerability and resilience, and (ii) the management of future disruptions.
title: Development of a monitoring and control communication platform for energy efficiency of smart homes
title: Ανάπτυξη πλατφόρμας επικοινωνίας για παρακολούθηση και έλεγχο ενεργειακής αποδοτικότητας ευφυών κατοικιών
Creators: name: Τσανικλιδης Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Η παρούσα εργασία πραγματεύεται την υλοποίηση μίας πλατφόρμας παρακολούθησης ενεργειακών δεδομένων μίας ευφυούς κατοικίας από ηλεκτρονικό υπολογιστή ή από έξυπνα κινητά τηλέφωνα. Περιλαμβάνει την κυκλωματική υλοποίηση και προγραμματισμό των σταθμών βάσης αισθητήρων και ενεργοποιητών, καθώς και τον προγραμματισμό της διεπαφής χρήστη της εφαρμογής, μαζί με τον μηχανισμό άντλησης των δεδομένων από αυτήν.
Τα δεδομένα τα οποία συλλέγονται από τους αισθητήρες, οι οποίοι είναι εγκατεστημένοι στα δωμάτια της κατοικίας και εμφανίζονται στην εφαρμογή, είναι η θερμοκρασία, η υγρασία, η φωτεινότητα, η ταχύτητα ανέμου, η περιεκτικότητα του αέρα σε διοξείδιο του άνθρακα και η ανίχνευση κίνησης. Τα δεδομένα αυτά, στην συνέχεια, δύναται να χρησιμοποιηθούν για αυτοματισμό της λειτουργίας της οικίας, σε συνδυασμό με τους ενεργοποιητές.
Οι ενεργοποιητές, οι οποίοι εγκαταστάθηκαν στην οικία, περιλαμβάνουν φώτα, κινητήρες πορτών και παραθύρων και ηχεία ειδοποίησης. Τα φώτα και οι κινητήρες μπορούν, επίσης, να ελεγχθούν μέσω της υλοποιηθήσας πλατφόρμας, έπειτα από επιλογή του χρήστη στην εφαρμογή, ενέργεια για την οποία επινοήθηκε και υλοποιήθηκε προγραμματιστικά ένα βασικό πρωτόκολλο.
Η υλοποιηθήσα πλατφόρμα δύναται να επεκταθεί και να παραμετροποιηθεί, ώστε να φιλοξενήσει οποιουδήποτε είδους αισθητήρα και να εμφανίσει τα δεδομένα από αυτόν στον χρήστη. Αυτό το γεγονός, σε συνδυασμό με την ταχύτητα και την απόδοσή της, την καθιστά κατάλληλη όχι μόνο στο πλαίσιο μίας έξυπνης οικίας, αλλά και σε πλήθος άλλων εφαρμογών του διαδικτύου των πραγμάτων.
description: This paper discusses the implementation of an energy data monitoring platform of a smart home, using a computer or a smart phone device. It includes the circuit implementation and the programming of the sensors and actuators base stations, as well as, the programming of the user interface of the application, with the data acquisition mechanism.
The data collected from the sensors, which are installed in the house’s rooms and displayed in the application, are the temperature, humidity, brightness, wind speed, air concentration of carbon dioxide and motion detection. These data may be, then, used to automate the operation of the house, along with the actuators.
The actuators installed in the residence include lights, door and window motors and alarm speakers. The lights and the motors can, also, be controlled through the implemented platform, after the user has selected it through the application. For this capability, a basic protocol has been devised and implemented programmatically.
The implemented platform can be extended and customized to accommodate any type of sensor and display the data to the user. This capability, coupled with the speed and performance, make the platform suitable not only for a smart home, but also for numerous other applications in the IoT field.
Nonuniqueness of the C operator in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Bender, Carl M.
name: Gianfreda, Mariagiovanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The C operator in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics satisfies a system of three simultaneous algebraic operator equations, $C^2=1$, $[C,PT]=0$, and $[C,H]=0$. These equations are difficult to solve exactly, so perturbative methods have been used in the past to calculate C. The usual approach has been to express the Hamiltonian as $H=H_0+εH_1$, and to seek a solution for C in the form $C=e^Q P$, where $Q=Q(q,p)$ is odd in the momentum p, even in the coordinate q, and has a perturbation expansion of the form $Q=εQ_1+ε^3 Q_3+ε^5 Q_5+\ldots$. [In previous work it has always been assumed that the coefficients of even powers of $ε$ in this expansion would be absent because their presence would violate the condition that $Q(p,q)$ is odd in p.] In an earlier paper it was argued that the C operator is not unique because the perturbation coefficient $Q_1$ is nonunique. Here, the nonuniqueness of C is demonstrated at a more fundamental level: It is shown that the perturbation expansion for Q actually has the more general form $Q=Q_0+εQ_1+ε^2 Q_2+\ldots$ in which {\it all} powers and not just odd powers of $ε$ appear. For the case in which $H_0$ is the harmonic-oscillator Hamiltonian, $Q_0$ is calculated exactly and in closed form and it is shown explicitly to be nonunique. The results are verified by using powerful summation procedures based on analytic continuation. It is also shown how to calculate the higher coefficients in the perturbation series for Q.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
title: СЛОВА-РЕАЛИИ И СЛОВА-МАРКЕРЫ ЭПОХИ В ИСТОРИЧЕСКОМ ДИСКУРСЕ
Creators: name: Шипулина, Анастасия
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В этой статье рассматриваются способы перевода слов-реалий из исторического дискурса. Это исследование проведено на основе книги испанского историка Хосе Мануэля Нуньеса Сейшаса «Испанская Голубая Дивизия на восточном фронте (1941–1945)». Большая часть предыдущих исследований исторического дискурса сосредоточена на словах-маркерах эпохи. В этой статье приведены словареалии, которые также являются словами-маркерами эпохи. В данном исследовании приведены безэквивалентные лексические единицы с разным уровнем сложности
перевода. Каждый пример сопровождается переводческим комментарием.
ВАЖНОСТЬ УЛУЧШЕНИЯ КРИТИЧЕСКОГО МЫШЛЕНИЯ У БУДУЩИХ УЧИТЕЛЕЙ ИНОСТРАНННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ
Creators: name: Камалова Парвина Абдурахмоновна
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article analyses the crucial role of critical thinking skills in teaching English as a foreign language and training future specialist teachers. For undergraduate students, critical thinking is not only a key academic skill necessary to achieve the goals of the university programme, but also an individual's ability to think independently and make sound decisions in real-life situations. Consequently, preparing students to use the widest range of academic language skills through analysis, synthesis and problem solving contributes to their highest professional success and future continuous development. 
Key words: tutoring, pedagogical thinking, contextual knowledge, critical thinking, L2- foreign language, professional knowledge.
The Temperature-Density Relation in the Intergalactic Medium at Redshift =2.4
Creators: name: Rudie, Gwen C.
name: Steidel, Charles C.
name: Pettini, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new measurements of the temperature-density (T-rho) relation for neutral hydrogen in the 2.0 < z < 2.8 intergalactic medium (IGM) using a sample of ~6000 individual HI absorbers fitted with Voigt profiles constrained in all cases by multiple Lyman series transitions. We find model independent evidence for a positive correlation between the column density of HI (NHI) and the minimum observed velocity width of absorbers (bmin). With minimal interpretation, this implies that the temperature-density relation in the IGM is not "inverted", contrary to many recent studies. Fitting bmin as a function of NHI results in line width - column density dependence of the form bdmin = b_0 [NHI/N_(HI,0)]^(Gamma-1) with a minimum line width at mean density rhobar [N_(HI, 0) = 10^13.6 cm^-2] of b_0 = 17.9 +- 0.2 km/s and a power-law index of (Gamma-1) = 0.15 +- 0.02. Using analytic arguments, these measurements imply an "equation of state" for the IGM at = 2.4 of the form T = T_0 (rho/rhobar)^(gamma-1) with a temperature at mean density of T_0 = (1.94 +- 0.05) x 10^4 K and a power-law index (gamma -1) = 0.46 +- 0.05.
description: 6 pages, 2 figure, accepted for publication in ApJL
Election campaigns in rural New South Wales and Victoria, 1910-22
Creators: name: Monnox, Christopher
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In the early twentieth century, when mass political parties were relatively new, their critics likened them to machines, their electioneering methods resembling mechanical processes. To these critics, election campaigns were regimented, impersonal, and conducted on a menacing scale. Modern perspectives on this period, by contrast, present its campaigns as decentralised and conducive to local autonomy. But for historians of electioneering, the machine metaphor still merits interrogation, for while it overstated the power of early twentieth century campaigning, it conveyed much else about its style and methods. The Australian election campaigns of the 1910s had significant mechanical aspects. In the constituencies, they were mostly routine and bureaucratic, rather than creative: party members and other grassroots campaigners focused on identifying and mobilising supporters, rather than persuading undecided voters. Campaigning methods were not uniform, but most local variations related to intensity and efficiency, rather than strategy. Moreover, central party offices played a vital supporting role, their bureaucrats crafting literature and advertising, as well as deciding which constituencies needed extra funding and visits from organisers. This style of campaigning was not, however, as impersonal as its critics thought. Rather than the machine superseding the individual, organisational and personal politics co-existed. This was especially true in the country, where local candidates remained highly visible. Traversing their electorates in an effort to speak in as many places as possible, country candidates were the focus of the local press’ election coverage and the main publicists of their parties’ policies. In the late 1910s, they became even more prominent, as the Country Party, a new force in politics, stimulated debate about their backgrounds and qualities. Moreover, the machines’ power to mobilise people was not as strong as its critics suggested. Throughout the 1910s, they yielded impressive results in the form of high turnout, but few campaigners thought voters easily managed. Instead, many politicians and activists saw themselves as struggling to mobilise a tenuously engaged electorate. Many people, they believed, treated politics as entertainment, while others were apathetic and unlikely to vote unless actively pursued. These anxieties, along with low turnout in the early 1920s, informed the introduction of compulsory voting. This, in turn, started the gradual decline of machine methods, ending a distinctive era in Australian electioneering.
title: Βέλτιστος σχεδιασμός με χρήση προσομοίωσης των αντλήσεων στην περιοχή της Αγυιάς Χανίων
title: Optimal design with the use of pumping flow simulation in the area of Agia in the district of Chania
Creators: name: Αραμπατζη Παναγιωτα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2019

description: Η παρούσα μελέτη έχει στόχο την εύρεση των βέλτιστων παροχών άντλησης των γεωτρήσεων της περιοχής της Αγυιάς του νομού Χανίων.
Η εργασία βασίζεται σε μοντέλο προσομοίωσης, το οποίο έχει κατασκευαστεί με χρήση του προγράμματος PTC, για την συγκεκριμένη περιοχή. Για τις ανάγκες της μελέτης ορίζονται δέκα πηγάδια παρατήρησης και τρείς επιπρόσθετες γεωτρήσεις άντλησης στο προαναφερόμενο μοντέλο.
Αναζητούνται οι βέλτιστες παροχές άντλησης, οι οποίες καλύπτουν τις ανάγκες της περιοχής, για τρία σενάρια διαφορετικού ελάχιστου υδραυλικού ύψους του εξεταζόμενου υδροφορέα, ένα εκ των οποίων προσομοιάζει την υπάρχουσα κατάσταση του.
Η βελτιστοποίηση πραγματοποιείται με χρήση της μεθόδου Simplex, καθώς τα αποτελέσματα των υδραυλικών υψών των πηγαδιών παρατήρησης του μοντέλου προσομοίωσης μειώνονται μη γραμμικά σε συνάρτηση με την παροχή άντλησης. Για τον λόγο αυτόν απαιτείται η διαδοχική εφαρμογή της μεθόδου Simplex ώστε να πραγματοποιηθεί σταδιακή γραμμικοποίηση. Δημιουργείται και εκφράζεται αλγόριθμος από την σύγκληση του οποίου τελικά προκύπτει η βέλτιστη λύση για καθένα από τα τρία εξεταζόμενα σενάρια.
Τελικά συγκρίνονται τα αποτελέσματα των τριών σεναρίων με την υπάρχουσα κατάσταση του υδροφορέα της περιοχής της Αγυιάς και εξετάζεται κατά πόσο μπορεί αν αυξηθεί η συνολική παροχή άντλησης χωρίς να επέλθει πτώση του υδροφορέα μεγαλύτερη από το ύψος το οποίο ορίζεται σε κάθε σενάριο.

description: The present study aims to find the optimal pumping rates of the Agia area wells, in the district of Chania. The study is based on a simulation model, which is designed via the PTC software. Ten observation wells and three additional pumping wells were considered to the above-mentioned model. The optimal pumping rates which cover the region's needs were examined according to three scenarios of different minimum hydraulic heads of the aquifer, one of which is similar to the existing situation. The optimization is accomplished by using the Simplex method, as the results of the simulation model for the hydraulic heads at the observation wells decrease non-linearly in relation to the flow rate. Due to this decrease of groundwater level, the consecutive application of Simplex method is required, so that the gradual linearization can be achieved. An algorithm is created and, by its convergence, the optimal solution for each scenario separately is developed. Finally, the results of the three scenarios are compared to the data of Agia’s present aquifer state. Also, the possibility of increasing the total pumping rate without the decline of the aquifer level being greater than the level determined in each scenario, is examined.
Csontos László (előadások): A közjavak problémája és a kollektív cselekvés elmélete 1985-1986
Creators: name: László, Csontos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 441006
subject: Sociological methodology and research methods

description: Csontos László előadásai: A közjavak problémája és a kollektív cselekvés elmélete. 1985. november - 1986. február (lejegyezte: Kertesi Gábor)
title: Συσσώρευση οργανικού υλικού στα εδάφη της Κρήτης: ο ρόλος της βλάστησης
title: Organic material consentration in cretan soil: the role of vegetation
Creators: name: Κορυλλου Ελενη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2019

description: Παγκοσμίως είναι εμφανής η ανάγκη για καλύτερη διαχείριση των φυσικών πόρων. Η βελτίωση των καλλιεργητικών πρακτικών είναι σημαντική για την επίτευξη του στόχου αυτού. Καλύτερη ποιότητα εδάφους επιφέρει και επιθυμητά αποτελέσματα στον αγροτικό τομέα. Το έδαφος όμως μπορεί να αποτελέσει και περιβαλλοντικό ρυθμιστή καθώς μπορεί να αποθηκεύσει μεγάλες ποσότητες άνθρακα. Στην παρούσα εργασία εξετάζεται η επίδραση της βλάστησης στην ποιότητα του εδάφους. Η συγκέντρωση άνθρακα και αζώτου στο έδαφος, αλλά και ο τρόπος αποθήκευσης τους είναι ζωτικής σημασίας για να κατανοήσουμε την λειτουργία του ισοζυγίου του άνθρακα και του αζώτου στο έδαφος.
Η περιοχή που εξετάζεται στην παρούσα έρευνα είναι η λεκάνη απορροής του ποταμού Κοιλιάρη. Με στόχο την κατανόηση του εδαφικού υλικού συγκρίνονται αποτελέσματα από τις φυσικές και χημικές ιδιότητες εδαφών καλλιέργειας δέντρων ελιάς και αβοκάντο. Τα δύο αυτά δέντρα επιλέχθηκαν για τα αποκλίνοντα χαρακτηριστικά τους. Όπως φαίνεται και στα αποτελέσματα που παραθέτονται αργότερα στην εργασία, τα εδάφη στα οποία καλλιεργείται αβοκάντο έχουν μεγαλύτερη συγκέντρωση οργανικού υλικού και αζώτου.  Επιπλέον υπάρχει σημαντική αλληλεπίδραση ανάμεσα στα εδαφικά συσσωματώματα και το οργανικό υλικό άρα γίνεται εξέταση της δυναμικής τους.
description: Worldwide, the need for better management of natural resources is evident. Since a large fraction of these resources is used for agriculture, improving cultivation practices is important for achieving this goal. Better soil quality, brings about desirable results in the agricultural sector. But soil can also be an environmental regulator as it can store large amounts of carbon and nitrogen. This paper examines the effect of vegetation on soil quality. It is vital to understand, carbon and nitrogen concentration in the soil, as well as the way these compounds are stored.
The area under consideration in this research is the Kiliaris river basin. In order to understand the soil material, results from the physical and chemical properties of olive tree and avocado cultivation lands are compared. These two trees were selected for their divergent characteristics. As shown in the results listed later in the work, the soils cultivated with avocados have a higher concentration of organic material and nitrogen. Moreover, there is a significant interaction between the soil aggregates and the organic material, so their dynamics is examined thoroughly.