cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Verified Correctness and Security of mbedTLS HMAC-DRBG
Creators: name: Ye, Katherine Q.
name: Green, Matthew
name: Sanguansin, Naphat
name: Beringer, Lennart
name: Petcher, Adam
name: Appel, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We have formalized the functional specification of HMAC-DRBG (NIST 800-90A), and we have proved its cryptographic security--that its output is pseudorandom--using a hybrid game-based proof. We have also proved that the mbedTLS implementation (C program) correctly implements this functional specification. That proof composes with an existing C compiler correctness proof to guarantee, end-to-end, that the machine language program gives strong pseudorandomness. All proofs (hybrid games, C program verification, compiler, and their composition) are machine-checked in the Coq proof assistant. Our proofs are modular: the hybrid game proof holds on any implementation of HMAC-DRBG that satisfies our functional specification. Therefore, our functional specification can serve as a high-assurance reference.
description: Appearing in CCS '17
Subgroups of renin-independent aldosteronism and their association with cardiovascular risk
Creators: name: Liu, Yuqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320208
subject: Endocrinology

description: Subgroups of renin-independent aldosteronism and their association with cardiovascular risk
Polynomial decay of correlations for flows, including Lorentz gas examples
Creators: name: Balint, Peter
name: Butterley, Oliver
name: Melbourne, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove sharp results on polynomial decay of correlations for nonuniformly hyperbolic flows. Applications include intermittent solenoidal flows and various Lorentz gas models including the infinite horizon Lorentz gas.
description: Numerous corrections and clarifications. Statements for main results and examples unchanged. (Sections 1, 2 and 3 are unchanged.)
Biomarkers for personalized prevention of chronic diseases: protocol of a rapid scoping review
Creators: name: Hernández, Orlando
name: Kuhn, Isla
name: Craciun, Oana
name: García-Esquinas, Esther García
name: Perez-Gomez, Beatriz
name: Kroese, Mark
name: Pollán, Marina
name: Fernández-Navarro, Pablo
name: Blackburn, Laura
name: Fernández-Martínez, Nicolás
name: De Larrea, Nerea Fernández
name: Diez, Paul
name: Sánchez, María José
name: García-Ovejero, Ester
name: Turner, Heather
name: Jiménez-Planet, Virginia
name: Petrova, Dafina
name: Babb-De-Villiers, Chantal
name: Plans-Beriso, Elena
name: Artalejo, Fernando Rodríguez
name: Barahona-López, Cristina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: rapid review
subject: cancer
subject: biomarker
subject: cardiovascular diseases
subject: scoping review
subject: neurodegenerative diseases
subject: chronic diseases
subject: PROPHET project
subject: personalized prevention

description: The “PeRsOnalized Prevention roadmap for the future HEalThcare” (PROPHET) project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program and linked to ICPerMed, seeks to develop a Strategy Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the European Union. This protocol corresponds to one of the first steps in the PROPHET, namely a review that aims to map the evidence and highlight the evidence gaps in research or use of biomarkers in personalized prevention in the general population, as well as their integration with digital technologies.
Additional file 3 of Transcriptome and co-expression network analyses of key genes and pathways associated with differential abscisic acid accumulation during maize seed maturation
Creators: name: Niu, Liangjie
name: Du, Cui
name: Wang, Wenrui
name: Zhang, Man
name: Wang, Wei
name: Liu, Hui
name: Zhang, Jinghua
name: Wu, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. DEGs identified in vp5 and Vp5 embryos during maize seed maturation.
title: Correspondance avec Pierre Roques
Creators: name: Roques, Pierre (19..-.... ; Immunobiologiste)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Message transféré le 3 juillet à Charlotte Lessana.
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111134750515
description: created: start=2007-06-13;end=2007-07-03
PREDICTING CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY: HOW FORENSIC ACCOUNTING TOOLS AND PREDICTIVE MODELS CAN IDENTIFY  FINANCIAL RISKS EARLY
Creators: name: Mbonigaba Celestin*, Gasheja Faustin**, Butera Edison***, Jean Damascene Mvunabandi**** & Paul Johnson Asamoah*****
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study investigates the effectiveness of forensic accounting tools and predictive models in identifying financial risks and predicting corporate bankruptcy. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research integrates financial ratio analysis, machine learning models, and forensic accounting techniques to assess financial distress signals from 2020 to 2024. The study analyzes key financial indicators such as Altman’s Z-score, debt-to-equity ratio, net profit margin, and liquidity measures. Results show a significant decline in financial stability, with Altman’s Z-score dropping from 3.2 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2024, net profit margin decreasing from 8% to 2%, and the debt-to-equity ratio increasing from 42% to 60%. Statistical analysis confirms a strong correlation (r = −0.89, p < 0.001) between financial distress indicators and bankruptcy probability. Logistic regression analysis demonstrates an improved predictive accuracy of forensic models, reaching 90% in 2024. The findings highlight the critical role of forensic accounting in fraud detection and proactive risk management. The study recommends the adoption of AI-driven forensic analytics, enhanced regulatory enforcement, and comprehensive risk assessment frameworks to improve corporate financial stability.
Additional file 1 of Hospitalization costs among immobile patients with hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke in China: a multicenter cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Liu, Hongpeng
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Cao, Jing
name: Jiao, Jing
name: Song, Baoyun
name: Jin, Jingfen
name: Liu, Yilan
name: Wen, Xianxiu
name: Cheng, Shouzhen
name: Wu, Xinjuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Univariate analysis for factors associated with hospitalization costs in all patients with stroke (n = 4716). 1) Wilcoxon signed-rank test; 2) Kruskal–Wallis test. Abbreviations: Q1, 1st quartile (25%); Q3, 3rd quartile (75%); CCI, Charlson Comorbidity Index; ICU, intensive care unit; PI, pressure injury; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; UTI, urinary tract infection; UEBMI, Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance; URBMI, Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance; NCMS, New Cooperative Medical System. Table S2. Univariate analysis for factors associated with hospitalization costs in patients with hemorrhagic stroke (n = 1573). 1) Wilcoxon signed-rank test; 2) Kruskal–Wallis test. Abbreviations: Q1, 1st quartile (25%); Q3, 3rd quartile (75%); CCI, Charlson Comorbidity Index; ICU, intensive care unit; PI, pressure injury; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; UTI, urinary tract infection; UEBMI, Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance; URBMI, Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance; NCMS, New Cooperative Medical System. Table S3. Univariate analysis for factors associated with hospitalization costs in patients with ischemic stroke (n = 3143). 1) Wilcoxon signed-rank test; 2) Kruskal–Wallis test. Abbreviations: Q1, 1st quartile (25%); Q3, 3rd quartile (75%); CCI, Charlson Comorbidity Index; ICU, intensive care unit; PI, pressure injury; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; UTI, urinary tract infection; UEBMI, Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance; URBMI, Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance; NCMS, New Cooperative Medical System. Table S4. Multivariate analysis for factors associated with hospitalization costs for immobile patients with stroke. 1) Adjusted R2 = 0.512; 2) adjusted R2 = 0.536; 3) adjusted R2 = 0.421. * P < 0.001. Abbreviations: LoS, length of stay; ICU, intensive care unit; SE, standard error; DVT, deep vein thrombosis.
In vitro marker gene expression analyses in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells: A tool to assess safety of influenza vaccines in humans
Creators: name: Eita Sasaki
name: Momose, Haruka
name: Hiradate, Yuki
name: Ishii, Ken J.
name: Mizukami, Takuo
name: Hamaguchi, Isao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Vaccines are inoculated in healthy individuals from children to the elderly, and thus high levels of safety and consistency of vaccine quality in each lot must meet the required specifications by using preclinical and lot release testing. Because vaccines are inoculated into humans, recapitulation of biological reactions in humans should be considered for test methods. We have developed a new method to evaluate the safety of influenza vaccines using biomarker gene expression in mouse and rat models. Some biomarker genes are already known to be expressed in human lymphocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells; therefore, we considered some of these genes might be common biomarkers for human and mice to evaluate influenza vaccine safety. In this study, we used human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) as a primary assessment tool to confirm the usefulness of potential marker genes in humans. Analysis of marker gene expression in PBMC revealed biomarker gene expressions were dose-relatedly increased in toxic reference influenza vaccine (RE)-stimulated PBMC. Although some marker genes showed increased expression in hemagglutinin split vaccine-stimulated PBMC, their expression levels were lower than that of RE in PBMC from two different donors. Many marker gene expressions correlated with chemokine production. Marker genes such as IRF7 were associated with other Type 1 interferon (IFN)-associated signals and were highly expressed in the CD304+ plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) population. These results suggest PBMC and their marker genes may be useful for vaccine safety evaluation in humans.
Optimal Dephasing for Ballistic Energy Transfer in Disordered Linear Chains
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
name: Celardo, G. Luca
name: Borgonovi, Fausto
name: Kaplan, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interplay between dephasing, disorder, and openness on transport efficiency in a one-dimensional chain of finite length $N$, and in particular the beneficial or detrimental effect of dephasing on transport. The excitation moves along the chain by coherent nearest-neighbor hopping $Ω$, under the action of static disorder $W$ and dephasing $γ$. The system is open due to the coupling of the last site with an external acceptor system (sink), where the excitation can be trapped with a rate $Γ_{\rm trap}$, which determines the opening strength. While it is known that dephasing can help transport in the localized regime, here we show that dephasing can enhance energy transfer even in the ballistic regime. Specifically, in the localized regime we recover previous results, where the optimal dephasing is independent of the chain length and proportional to $W$ or $W^2/Ω$. In the ballistic regime, the optimal dephasing decreases as $1/N$ or $1/\sqrt{N}$ respectively for weak and moderate static disorder. When focusing on the excitation starting at the beginning of the chain, dephasing can help excitation transfer only above a critical value of disorder $W^{\rm cr}$, which strongly depends on the opening strength $Γ_{\rm trap}$. Analytic solutions are obtained for short chains.
description: 16 pages, inlcuding 9 figures
Roland's War
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: - Contributor's father (Roland Prosper Beamont) went straight from school to train as a pilot in Scotland.
- Posted straight away into the war, where he flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Typhoons and the Tempest
- He test flew Typhoons and Tempest when resting from operations.
- He won lots of medals
- He was initially posted to what is now Cardiff airport
- He was shot down twice in WWII, once in Kent when the fuel tank was hit but he managed to get over the ocean to Kent.
- He was the first pilot to break the sound barrier
- 1944 he was shot down over France, captured, and taken to a P.O.W camp.
- He was in Squadron 609 (commander of the squadron), they had the mascot of a goat.
- He taught his pilots aero acrobatics
- Roland's wife was taken into hospital 3 days after he was shot down. She died before he managed to get home.
- Roland's name is on the memorial to 'the few' next to Westminster Bridge and in Capel y Ferne in Kent.
- Roland was in the procession of the memorial of the Battle of Britain 3 times
- His actual medals (miniature ones as photographed here) are in the RAF club
- His squadron shot down more bombs than anyone else
- He was known as 'Bee' throughout the aviation world
Additional file 1 of Efficient management of the nitritation-anammox microbiome through intermittent aeration: absence of the NOB guild and expansion and diversity of the NOx reducing guild suggests a highly reticulated nitrogen cycle
Creators: name: Palomo, Alejandro
name: Azevedo, Daniela
name: Touceda-Suárez, María
name: Domingo-Félez, Carlos
name: Mutlu, A. Gizem
name: Dechesne, Arnaud
name: Wang, Yulin
name: Zhang, Tong
name: Smets, Barth F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Information, Supplementary Figures and Table S3.
Strong second harmonic generation in two-dimensional ferroelectric IV-monochalcogenides
Creators: name: Panday, Suman Raj
name: Fregoso, Benjamin M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-dimensional ferroelectrics GeS, GeSe, SnS and SnSe are expected to have large spontaneous in-plane electric polarization and enhanced shift-current response. Using density functional methods, we show that these materials also exhibit the largest effective second harmonic generation reported so far. It can reach magnitudes up to $10$ nm/V which is about an order of magnitude larger than that of prototypical GaAs. To rationalize this result we model the optical response with a simple one-dimensional two-band model along the spontaneous polarization direction. Within this model the second-harmonic generation tensor is proportional to the shift-current response tensor. The large shift current and second harmonic responses of GeS, GeSe, SnS and SnSe make them promising non-linear materials for optoelectronic applications.
description: 4 pages 3 figures, typos fixed, updated references, published version
THE FUTURE OF ONLINE LEARNING: INNOVATIONS, ACCESSIBILITY, AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Creators: name: Mbonigaba Celestin*, Tarun Pal**, Pratik Rajan Mungekar***, Hemanshu Parmar**** & Paul Johnson Asamoah*****
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study investigates the future trajectory of online learning, focusing on technological innovations, accessibility challenges, and the digital divide. Employing a qualitative research approach, the study systematically reviewed scholarly articles, case studies, and statistical reports from 2020 to 2024. Key findings reveal a significant rise in online course enrollment from 150 million in 2020 to 275 million in 2024, an 83.3% increase. A linear regression analysis confirmed a strong positive trend (R² = 0.999), with a Pearson correlation of 0.998 (p < 0.001) between investment in online education and enrollment growth. Internet penetration improved from 60% to 80%, correlating at 0.999 (p < 0.001) with online learning adoption, while the urban-rural digital divide narrowed from 45% to 36%, yet remains a critical challenge. User satisfaction scores rose from 7.0 to 8.5, with a correlation of 0.978 (p = 0.004) to enrollment growth. The overall correlation coefficient of 0.995 suggests that accessibility, investment, and engagement significantly impact online learning expansion. To bridge the digital divide, the study recommends expanding digital infrastructure, enhancing educator training, promoting affordable mobile-based learning solutions, strengthening online security, and developing clear accreditation standards to ensure global recognition of online credentials.
Coherent and incoherent Upsilon production in ultraperipheral collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Ducati, M. B. Gay
name: Kopp, F.
name: Machado, M. V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exclusive photoproduction of $Υ(nS)$ states were calculated in ultra-peripheral collisions for coherent and incoherent process in PbPb at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$= 5.5 TeV. Different dipole models were compared in the theoretical framework of light-cone color dipole formalism. Moreover, it was calculated the differential cross section for the Upsilon states and their total cross section for two intervals of rapidity: $|y|\leq 4$ 4 and $ 2 \le$ y $\le 4.5$. A systematic study is done on the theoretical uncertainties associated to the production and predictions are presented for the first time for the incoherent cross section of the radially excited states.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Version to be published in Physical Review D
Effect of Organisational Justice on Employees' Job Satisfaction in Higher Educational Institutions of Gombe State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Abdullahi, M.
name: Umar, A.M.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2025

description: The main purpose of the study is to examine the effect of Organizational Justice on Employee Job Satisfaction at Gombe State Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) Four research questions and four objectives were designed to capture the essence of this study. This study used variables such as distributive justice, procedural justice, interactive justice, compensation as proxies that measure organizational justice and employee job satisfaction. The research was conducted among teaching and non-teaching staff of Gombe State Higher Educational Institutions (HEI). Literature was reviewed on job satisfaction, organizational justice, compensation structure, empirical review of the relationships among the variables were assessed. The study is influenced by the theoretical framework of social exchange theory. This study employed a quantitative research design based. The population of the study was 2711 from the six Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) owned by Gombe State. The sample size was 338 while the sample size was calculated based on Krejcie and Morgan (1970), The data analysis was conducted through statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling (SEM) with Analysis of Moment Structure (SEM-AMOS) by using SPSS software-version 23. Findings from the study indicated that, procedural justice and compensation structure were reported to have significant and positive relation with job satisfaction while distributive justice and interactive justice reported to have insignificant relation with job satisfaction. These results suggest that Government should follow open and fair procedures, offer workers a voice, meet regularly, conduct employee surveys and keep an on-open door policy. Government must work to distribute the functions, tasks and duties equally, fairs have fairness of outcome, in addition to developing appropriate rules and regulations in order to have fairness of decision making, lastly Government should care about their employees and build good employee communication.
Designing Coalition-Proof Reverse Auctions over Continuous Goods
Creators: name: Karaca, Orcun
name: Sessa, Pier Giuseppe
name: Walton, Neil
name: Kamgarpour, Maryam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper investigates reverse auctions that involve continuous values of different types of goods, general nonconvex constraints, and second stage costs. We seek to design the payment rules and conditions under which coalitions of participants cannot influence the auction outcome in order to obtain higher collective utility. Under the incentive-compatible Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism, we show that coalition-proof outcomes are achieved if the submitted bids are convex and the constraint sets are of a polymatroid-type. These conditions, however, do not capture the complexity of the general class of reverse auctions under consideration. By relaxing the property of incentive-compatibility, we investigate further payment rules that are coalition-proof without any extra conditions on the submitted bids and the constraint sets. Since calculating the payments directly for these mechanisms is computationally difficult for auctions involving many participants, we present two computationally efficient methods. Our results are verified with several case studies based on electricity market data.
Short-Term Impacts of Solar Lanterns on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Creators: name: KUDO, Yuya
name: Shonchoy, Abu S.
name: Takahashi, Kazushi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: We implemented a 16-month randomised field experiment in unelectrified areas of Bangladesh to identify health impacts of solar lanterns among school-aged children. Our analysis of various health-related indicators – self-reporting, spirometers, and professional medical checkups – showed modest improvements in eye redness and irritation but no noticeable improvement in respiratory symptoms among treated students. Varying the number of solar products received within treatment households did not alter these results. This limited health benefit was not caused by nonutilisation of the products by treated children, spillover effects from treated to control students, or contamination resulting from unfavourable family cooking environments.
The Slowly Varying Corona: I --- Daily Differential Emission Measure Distributions Derived from EVE Spectra
Creators: name: Schonfeld, Samuel J.
name: White, Stephen M.
name: Hock-Mysliwiec, Rachel A.
name: McAteer, R. T. James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Daily differential emission measure (DEM) distributions of the solar corona are derived from spectra obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) over a 4-year period starting in 2010 near solar minimum and continuing through the maximum of solar cycle 24. The DEMs are calculated using six strong emission features dominated by Fe lines of charge states VIII, IX, XI, XII, XIV, and XVI that sample the non-flaring coronal temperature range 0.3--5 MK. A proxy for the non-XVIII emission in the wavelength band around the 93.9 Å line is demonstrated. There is little variability in the cool component of the corona (T $$ 2.0 MK) varies by more than an order of magnitude. A discontinuity in the behavior of coronal diagnostics in 2011 February--March, around the time of the first X-class flare of cycle 24, suggests fundamentally different behavior in the corona under solar minimum and maximum conditions. This global state transition occurs over a period of several months. The DEMs are used to estimate the thermal energy of the visible solar corona (of order $10^{31}$ erg), its radiative energy loss rate (2.5--8 $\times 10^{27}$ erg s$^{-1}$), and the corresponding energy turnover timescale (about an hour). The uncertainties associated with the DEMs and these derived values are mostly due to the coronal Fe abundance and density and the CHIANTI atomic line database.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Short-Term Impacts of Solar Lanterns on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Creators: name: KUDO, Yuya
name: Shonchoy, Abu S.
name: Takahashi, Kazushi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: We implemented a 16-month randomised field experiment in unelectrified areas of Bangladesh to identify health impacts of solar lanterns among school-aged children. Our analysis of various health-related indicators – self-reporting, spirometers, and professional medical checkups – showed modest improvements in eye redness and irritation but no noticeable improvement in respiratory symptoms among treated students. Varying the number of solar products received within treatment households did not alter these results. This limited health benefit was not caused by nonutilisation of the products by treated children, spillover effects from treated to control students, or contamination resulting from unfavourable family cooking environments.
Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration
Creators: name: Tao, Shiqi
name: Chen, Xiaodong
name: An, Li
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Walsh, Stephen J.
name: Bilsborrow, Richard E.
name: Song, Conghe
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
Context Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) has increasingly been used in ecological conservation efforts through implementing forest policies worldwide. However, outcomes of forest policies with PES are often mixed due to the complex social-ecological dynamics. Objectives In this study, we develop a spatially explicit agent-based model for cropland abandonment and labor migration (ABM-CALM) based on data from very high-resolution satellite images, the global positioning system, household surveys, and a population census.MethodsThe ABM-CALM is used to simulate bidirectional social-ecological feedbacks within a coupled human and natural system under two large PES programs in China. Results The simulation results show that labor migration and cropland abandonment follow nonlinear trajectories with feedback loops mediated by household capital endowment. Households tend to reduce labor allocation for migration to retain essential croplands after abandonment of marginal ones. For the reforestation program, participating households are more resilient in maintaining migration than non-participants. The model reveals the feedback mechanisms between the two concurrent PES programs through synergistic and offsetting interactions. Specifically, labor migration under higher payments of one program is more sensitive to payments of the other due to the feedback of additional cropland abandonment induced by the former program. Conclusions Using the real-world landscape and in-situ socio-economic settings, the integrated model captures the dynamics of the social-ecological systems affected by PES across space and time.
Deep Learning for Accelerated Reliability Analysis of Infrastructure Networks
Creators: name: Nabian, Mohammad Amin
name: Meidani, Hadi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Natural disasters can have catastrophic impacts on the functionality of infrastructure systems and cause severe physical and socio-economic losses. Given budget constraints, it is crucial to optimize decisions regarding mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery practices for these systems. This requires accurate and efficient means to evaluate the infrastructure system reliability. While numerous research efforts have addressed and quantified the impact of natural disasters on infrastructure systems, typically using the Monte Carlo approach, they still suffer from high computational cost and, thus, are of limited applicability to large systems. This paper presents a deep learning framework for accelerating infrastructure system reliability analysis. In particular, two distinct deep neural network surrogates are constructed and studied: (1) A classifier surrogate which speeds up the connectivity determination of networks, and (2) An end-to-end surrogate that replaces a number of components such as roadway status realization, connectivity determination, and connectivity averaging. The proposed approach is applied to a simulation-based study of the two-terminal connectivity of a California transportation network subject to extreme probabilistic earthquake events. Numerical results highlight the effectiveness of the proposed approach in accelerating the transportation system two-terminal reliability analysis with extremely high prediction accuracy.
Additional file 5 of Transcriptome and co-expression network analyses of key genes and pathways associated with differential abscisic acid accumulation during maize seed maturation
Creators: name: Niu, Liangjie
name: Du, Cui
name: Wang, Wenrui
name: Zhang, Man
name: Wang, Wei
name: Liu, Hui
name: Zhang, Jinghua
name: Wu, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S5. Gene-specific primers used in RT-qPCR.
Global Farm Metric (GFM) State of the System Assessment 2024
Creators: name: Arguile, Lisa
name: Smith, Jo
name: Woods, Anne M
name: Smith, Laurence G
name: Kipling, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Agriculture
Sustainability
Assessment
Holistic
State of the System

description: An on-farm sustainability assessment designed to evaluate the environmental, social, and economic condition of a farm, in order to identify risks to its long term viability and capacity to produce crop and livestock products for future generations.
Slopes of overconvergent Hilbert modular forms
Creators: name: Birkbeck, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give an explicit description of the matrix associated to the $U_p$ operator acting on spaces of overconvergent Hilbert modular forms over totally real fields. Using this, we compute slopes for weights in the centre and near the boundary of weight space for certain real quadratic fields. \added[id=h]{Near the boundary of weight space we see that the slopes do not appear to be given by finite unions of arithmetic progressions but instead can be produced by a simple recipe from which we make a conjecture on the structure of slopes. We also prove a lower bound on the Newton polygon of the $U_p$.
description: 22 pages, 7 figure, 7 tables. Final version, to appear in Experiment. Math. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1610.09711
Repeating probability of authors with retracted scientific publications
Creators: name: Toshio Kuroki, M.D.
name: Akira Ukawa , Ph.D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Both the scientific community and the general public have expressed concern over scientific misconduct. The number of retracted articles has increased dramatically over the past 20 years and now comprises about .02% of the 2 million articles published each year. Retraction of publications available in large public databases can be analyzed as an objective measure for scientific misconduct and errors. In this project, we analyzed retractions of scientific publications using the Web of Science (WoS) and PubMed databases. We found that a power law is applicable to distributions of retracting authors and retracted publications with exponents of about −.6 and −3.0, respectively. Application of a power-law model for retracted publications implies that retraction is not a random event. Analysis of the retraction distributions suggests that a small fraction (1–2%) of retracting authors with ≧5 retractions are responsible for around 10% of retraction. The probabilities for their repeating retraction are calculated using a statistical model: 3–5% likelihood of repeat retraction for authors with a single retraction at five years after the latest retraction and 26–37% for authors with five retractions at five years after the latest retraction. By focusing on those with repeated retractions, this analysis could contribute to identification of measures to reduce such repetition of retractions.
title: 02_0119
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Mallows Permutations and Finite Dependence
Creators: name: Holroyd, Alexander E.
name: Hutchcroft, Tom
name: Levy, Avi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G10

description: We use the Mallows permutation model to construct a new family of stationary finitely dependent proper colorings of the integers. We prove that these colorings can be expressed as finitary factors of i.i.d. processes with finite mean coding radii. They are the first colorings known to have these properties. Moreover, we prove that the coding radii have exponential tails, and that the colorings can also be expressed as functions of countable-state Markov chains. We deduce analogous existence statements concerning shifts of finite type and higher-dimensional colorings.
description: 45 pages, 5 figures
Understanding the links between well-being and rule breaking around protected areas. A Comic Series.
Creators: name: Ibbett, Harriet
name: Dorward, Leejiah
name: A Dwiyahreni, Asri
name: M Kohi, Edward
name: St John, Freya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440405
subject: Poverty, inclusivity and wellbeing
classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: A series of comics produced as part of the research project: "Resolving the links between poverty and rule breaking around protected area contexts" undertaken by the Conservation and Human Behaviour (CONHUB) research group based at Bangor University (UK), led by Dr Freya St John.
CONHUB was established in 2018 with funding from the European Research Council, and is a collaboration between the Research Centre for Climate Change Universitas Indonesia (RCCC-UI), Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI), and Queen Mary University of London (UK). Between 2019 and 2022 the project collected data to explore relationships between people and protected areas in two globally important conservation landscapes: The Leuser Ecosystem in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Ruaha-Rungwa landscape in central-southern Tanzania. Here, key themes and findings from the research are presented as a series of comics produced in English, Indonesian and Kiswahili.
Units of rotational information
Creators: name: Yang, Yuxiang
name: Chiribella, Giulio
name: Hu, Qinheping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement in angular momentum degrees of freedom is a precious resource for quantum metrology and control. Here we study the conversions of this resource, focusing on Bell pairs of spin-J particles, where one particle is used to probe unknown rotations and the other particle is used as reference. When a large number of pairs are given, we show that every rotated spin-J Bell state can be reversibly converted into an equivalent number of rotated spin one-half Bell states, at a rate determined by the quantum Fisher information. This result provides the foundation for the definition of an elementary unit of information about rotations in space, which we call the Cartesian refbit. In the finite copy scenario, we design machines that approximately break down Bell states of higher spins into Cartesian refbits, as well as machines that approximately implement the inverse process. In addition, we establish a quantitative link between the conversion of Bell states and the simulation of unitary gates, showing that the fidelity of probabilistic state conversion provides upper and lower bounds on the fidelity of deterministic gate simulation. The result holds not only for rotation gates, but also to all sets of gates that form finite-dimensional representations of compact groups. For rotation gates, we show how rotations on a system of given spin can simulate rotations on a system of different spin.
description: 25 pages + appendix, 7 figures, new results added
Single carbon nanotubes as ultrasmall all-optical memories
Creators: name: Uda, T.
name: Ishii, A.
name: Kato, Y. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Performance improvements are expected from integration of photonic devices into information processing systems, and in particular, all-optical memories provide a key functionality. Scaling down the size of memory elements is desirable for high-density integration, and the use of nanomaterials would allow for devices that are significantly smaller than the operation wavelengths. Here we report on all-optical memory based on individual carbon nanotubes, where adsorbed molecules give rise to optical bistability. By exciting at the high-energy tail of the excitonic absorption resonance, nanotubes can be switched between the desorbed state and the adsorbed state. We demonstrate reversible and reproducible operation of the nanotube optical memory, and determine the rewriting speed by measuring the molecular adsorption and desorption times. Our results underscore the impact of molecular-scale effects on optical properties of nanomaterials, offering new design strategies for photonic devices that are a few orders of magnitude smaller than the optical diffraction limit.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Gonality of dynatomic curves and strong uniform boundedness of preperiodic points
Creators: name: Doyle, John R.
name: Poonen, Bjorn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37P35 (Primary) 11G30, 14H51, 37P05, 37P15 (Secondary)

description: Fix $d \ge 2$ and a field $k$ such that $\mathrm{char}~k \nmid d$. Assume that $k$ contains the $d$th roots of $1$. Then the irreducible components of the curves over $k$ parameterizing preperiodic points of polynomials of the form $z^d+c$ are geometrically irreducible and have gonality tending to $\infty$. This implies the function field analogue of the strong uniform boundedness conjecture for preperiodic points of $z^d+c$. It also has consequences over number fields: it implies strong uniform boundedness for preperiodic points of bounded eventual period, which in turn reduces the full conjecture for preperiodic points to the conjecture for periodic points.
description: 10 pages; v2 has some improvements in exposition
Supplementary Materials for Dynamical Patterns Underlying Response Properties of Cortical Circuits from Dynamical patterns underlying response properties of cortical circuits
Creators: name: Keane, Adam
name: Henderson, James A.
name: Pulin Gong
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biophysics
Computational Biology

description: Recent experimental studies show cortical circuit responses to external stimuli display varied dynamical properties. These include stimulus strength-dependent population response patterns, a shift from synchronous to asynchronous states and a decline in neural variability. To elucidate the mechanisms underlying these response properties and explore how they are mechanistically related, we develop a neural circuit model that incorporates two essential features widely observed in the cerebral cortex. The first feature is a balance between excitatory and inhibitory inputs to individual neurons; the second feature is distance-dependent connectivity. We show that applying a weak external stimulus to the model evokes a wave pattern propagating along lateral connections, but a strong external stimulus triggers a localized pattern; these stimulus strength-dependent population response patterns are quantitatively comparable with those measured in experimental studies. We identify network mechanisms underlying this population response, and demonstrate that the dynamics of population-level response patterns can explain a range of prominent features in neural responses, including changes to the dynamics of neurons' membrane potentials and synaptic inputs that characterize the shift of cortical states, and the stimulus-evoked decline in neuron response variability. Our study provides a unified population activity pattern-based view of diverse cortical response properties, thus shedding new insights into cortical processing.
Additional file 1 of Associations of IFT20 and GM130 protein expressions with clinicopathological features and survival of patients with lung adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Li, Lianfeng
name: Chen, Yaobing
name: Liao, Wei
name: Yu, Qimei
name: Lin, Hui
name: Shi, Yuqin
name: Zhang, Ling
name: Fu, Guoqing
name: Wang, Zhenyu
name: Li, Xi
name: Kong, Xianrong
name: Zhou, Ting
name: Qin, Lingzhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1 Supplemental Table 1. The correlation between IFT20 and GM130 protein in cancerous and adjacent tissues. Supplemental Fig. 1. The forest plot of Cox proportional hazard regression models with TNM stage included. To exclude collinearity, the three types' expressions of IFT20 and GM130 protein (IOD/area, rate of positive cells, and staining intensity score) were separately included in the model.
Rota 2030: Motorcycle Detection in the Vehicle Blind Spot Using a Radar Sensor
Creators: name: Lo Presti Campos, Pietro
name: Reway, Fabio
name: Silva Ribeiro, Herick Yves
name: Aguiar Campos, Luiz Henrique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: AI
Radar
Vehicle Safety
Rota 2030
Motorcycle Detection

description: This paper was published in the AI Mobility Science journal from Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (ISBN: 978-3-00-071542-6). It presents an analysis of motorcycle detection in the vehicle blind spot using radar sensors, funded by the Rota 2030 program.
Superconducting Qubit-Resonator-Atom Hybrid System
Creators: name: Yu, Deshui
name: Kwek, Leong Chuan
name: Amico, Luigi
name: Dumke, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a hybrid quantum system, where an $LC$ resonator inductively interacts with a flux qubit and is capacitively coupled to a Rydberg atom. Varying the external magnetic flux bias controls the flux-qubit flipping and the flux qubit-resonator interface. The atomic spectrum is tuned via an electrostatic field, manipulating the qubit-state transition of atom and the atom-resonator coupling. Different types of entanglement of superconducting, photonic, and atomic qubits can be prepared via simply tuning the flux bias and electrostatic field, leading to the implementation of three-qubit Toffoli logic gate.
description: 4 figures