cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adaptive Beam Search to Enhance On-device Abstractive Summarization
Creators: name: S, Harichandana B S
name: Kumar, Sumit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We receive several essential updates on our smartphones in the form of SMS, documents, voice messages, etc. that get buried beneath the clutter of content. We often do not realize the key information without going through the full content. SMS notifications sometimes help by giving an idea of what the message is about, however, they merely offer a preview of the beginning content. One way to solve this is to have a single efficient model that can adapt and summarize data from varied sources. In this paper, we tackle this issue and for the first time, propose a novel Adaptive Beam Search to improve the quality of on-device abstractive summarization that can be applied to SMS, voice messages and can be extended to documents. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first on-device abstractive summarization pipeline to be proposed that can adapt to multiple data sources addressing privacy concerns of users as compared to the majority of existing summarization systems that send data to a server. We reduce the model size by 30.9% using knowledge distillation and show that this model with a 97.6% lesser memory footprint extracts the same or more key information as compared to BERT.
description: Accepted at IEEE INDICON 2021, 19-21 December, 2021, India
Effective capacity maximization of two-way full-duplex and half-duplex relays with finite block length packets transmission
Creators: name: Lari, Mohammad
name: Gandomani, Zahra Keshavarz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In order to satisfy the delay requirements of telecommunication systems, in this paper, we present a cooperative network with the short packet transmission in the Rayleigh fading channel. The desired relay can be implemented as a two-way half-duplex (HD) or a two-way full-duplex (FD). Also, for more accurate satisfaction and reduction of communication delays, sending and receiving with short packets is considered. Effective capacity appropriately measures the transmission rate under the delay constraint. Therefore, it is considered as a performance evaluation criterion here. With a two-way relay, two nodes exchange data with each other using a relay simultaneously. The priorities and requirements of the two nodes are not necessarily the same. Therefore, to increase performance, the system is modeled and solved as a multi-objective problem. In this way, the available power in the network is divided between the relay and two nodes, and the effective capacity of the two nodes is maximized. Depending on the different conditions, the optimal amount of allocated power to relay and nodes is calculated. However, due to the complexity and time consuming calculations, an approximate method which speeds up the calculation is presented. The approximated solution has a very close performance to the optimal allocated power. Finally, various comparisons have been made in different conditions between the performance of two-way HD and two-way FD relays. The improvement of multi-objective power allocation has been shown, especially when the relay is not located in the middle of two nodes.
description: Springer Wireless Networks
The feasibility of a physical activity counselling program in children with congenital heart disease
Creators: name: Fukakusa, Bianca M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Background: Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) now have excellent survival into adulthood but have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. One important strategy to mitigate this risk is through physical activity (PA) promotion. It is currently not known how to optimally improve PA in children with CHD. We aimed to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a theoretically based virtual PA counselling intervention for children and families with CHD and explore PA changes after the intervention. Methods: We designed a 12-week family-centered, individualized, virtual PA counselling intervention based on behaviour change theory. Children ages 9 to 12 with moderate-to-complex CHD were recruited from BC Children’s Hospital. At baseline, we measured participants’ moderate-to-vigorous PA using accelerometers and readiness to change their PA using a questionnaire to determine intervention eligibility. Participants who were not meeting the PA guidelines and expressed readiness to change qualified for the PA counselling intervention. The intervention consisted of 6 sessions with a PA counsellor via Zoom where participants learned strategies to promote PA through workbook activities. We measured PA again at the intervention midpoint, post-intervention, and one year follow-up. Intervention feasibility (recruitment, retention, completion of PA measures, remote delivery, session length, and time commitment) and acceptability (intervention compliance and participant feedback via interviews and surveys) were assessed. Results: Despite lower than anticipated recruitment rates, this intervention was feasible based on high retention, completion of PA measures, and remote delivery success. Participants were committed and engaged with the intervention as seen by excellent attendance and activity completion rates, and positive participant feedback via qualitative and quantitative measures. There were no significant differences in objective or subjective PA measures from pre-intervention to post-intervention but there were likely intervention responders and non-responders, and more data is needed to determine intervention sustainability. Conclusion: This PA counselling intervention is feasible and acceptable to families and children with CHD. All measures of acceptability encourage that the intervention is engaging and well received by children with CHD. Preliminary objective PA data suggests that the intervention may have facilitated increased PA for some participants.
The Geometry of Navigation Problems
Creators: name: Barrau, Axel
name: Bonnabel, Silvere
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While many works exploiting an existing Lie group structure have been proposed for state estimation, in particular the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF), few papers address the construction of a group structure that allows casting a given system into the framework of invariant filtering. In this paper we introduce a large class of systems encompassing most problems involving a navigating vehicle encountered in practice. For those systems we introduce a novel methodology that systematically provides a group structure for the state space, including vectors of the body frame such as biases. We use it to derive observers having properties akin to those of linear observers or filters. The proposed unifying and versatile framework encompasses all systems where IEKF has proved successful, improves state-of-the art "imperfect" IEKF for inertial navigation with sensor biases, and allows addressing novel examples, like GNSS antenna lever arm estimation.
description: Published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 21 January 2022
Погребения кочевников VI-VIIвв из Северо-Западного Приазовья
Creators: name: О. В, Комар
name: А. І., Кубишев
name: Орлов, Руслан
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Комар А.В., Кубышев А.И., Орлов Р.С. Погребения кочевников VI-VIIвв из Северо-Западного Приазовья — Степи Европы в эпоху средневековья. Т.5. - Донецк, 2006. - с.245-374.
O "umwelt" da Capoeira Angola
Creators: name: Corvalán, María Laura
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2012

description: A partir de uma perspectiva co-evolutiva do corpo com o seu ambiente, este texto busca aproximar certas questões em torno da experiência corporal que acontece na capoeira angola em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil. Este ensaio propõe a idéia de Umwelt (UEXKULL, 1992) para pensar o ‘universo particular’ que se constrói no interagir dos corpos dos capoeiristas e o ambiente da capoeira. Pretende-se estudar determinadas metáforas no/do corpo do capoeirista, nas quais se transmitem conceitos e idéias da capoeira, ao mesmo tempo que se atualiza o seu ambiente. Assim, será observada, como experiência física e cultural (LAKOFF e JOHNSON, 1980), a capoeira angola que constrói um universo simbólico, político e estético que não corresponde, necessariamente, com os valores culturais da sociedade onde está inserida.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano VII - Número 15 - Maio 2012 - Novembro 2012
title: Efficient micromagnetic finite element simulations using a perturbed Lagrange multiplier method
Creators: name: Reichel, Maximilian
name: Schröder, Jörg
name: Xu, Bai-Xiang
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023

description: High performance magnets play an important role in critical issues of modern life such as renewable energy supply, independence of fossile resource and electro mobility. The performance optimization of the established magnetic material system relies mostly on the microstructure control and modification. Here, finite element based in‐silico characterizations, as micromagnetic simulations can be used to predict the magnetization distribution on fine scales. The evolution of the magnetization vectors is described within the framework of the micromagnetic theory by the Landau‐Lifshitz‐Gilbert equation, which requires the numerically challenging preservation of the Euclidean norm of the magnetization vectors. Finite elements have proven to be particularly suitable for an accurate discretization of complex microstructures. However, when introducing the magnetization vectors in terms of a cartesian coordinate system, finite elements do not preserve their unit length a priori. Hence, additional numerical methods have to be considered to fulfill this requirement. This work introduces a perturbed Lagrangian multiplier to penalize all deviations of the magnetization vectors from the Euclidean norm in a suited manner. To reduce the resulting system of equations, an element level based condensation of the Lagrangian multiplier is presented.
The maximum cardinality of trifferent codes with lengths 5 and 6
Creators: name: Della Fiore, Stefano
name: Gnutti, Alessandro
name: Polak, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A code $\mathcal{C} \subseteq \{0, 1, 2\}^n$ is said to be trifferent with length $n$ when for any three distinct elements of $\mathcal{C}$ there exists a coordinate in which they all differ. Defining $\mathcal{T}(n)$ as the maximum cardinality of trifferent codes with length $n$, $\mathcal{T}(n)$ is unknown for $n \ge 5$. In this note, we use an optimized search algorithm to show that $\mathcal{T}(5) = 10$ and $\mathcal{T}(6) = 13$.
description: Accepted for publication at Examples and Counterexamples
title: Comment la mise en place de pauses actives avec le moyen « L’école bouge » permet-elle d’améliorer les résultats des élèves du cycle 2 ?
title: Comment la mise en place de pauses actives avec le moyen « L’école bouge » permet-elle d’améliorer les résultats des élèves du cycle 2 ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Pillonel, Elodie
name: Poget, Gaëlle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Pauses actives
subject: Résultats scolaires
subject: « L’école bouge »
subject: Concentration
subject: Apprentissage
subject: Santé et bien être

description: Ce projet porte sur l’influence que peut avoir le mouvement sur les résultats scolaires des élèves du cycle 2, et en particulier, les élèves de 5 et 6P. Nous avons choisi ce thème à la suite des observations que nous avions pu faire dans nos différents stages lors de notre formation. Conscientes de la nécessité du mouvement pour les enfants, nous trouvions peu pertinent de garder des élèves assis durant une heure et demie. C’est pour cela que nous avons décidé de réaliser 5 pauses actives durant la journée. Pour mener à bien ce mémoire, nous avons choisi de réaliser les pauses actives d’une durée de cinq minutes en utilisant les exercices ainsi que leurs variantes du module Pauses Actives des moyens l’école bouge proposés par l’office fédéral du sport (OFSPO). Nous avons mené cette étude en deux phases, la première sans les pauses actives et le second en intégrant les pauses en mouvement. Deux sondages (le premier lors de la phase 1 et le second à la fin de la phase 2) ont été complétés par les élèves afin de connaître leurs ressentis lors des journées avec et sans les pauses actives. De plus, nous avons pris note de nos sentiments personnels après chaque journée d’enseignement. Notre recherche n’a pas pu aboutir à une conclusion concrète concernant les résultats scolaires des élèves. Cependant, tant les élèves que nous-mêmes avons constaté une amélioration de la concentration et de la motivation au sein de la classe.
Mass behavior of hidden-charm pentaquarks with open-strange inspired by these established $P_c$ molecular states
Creators: name: Chen, Rui
name: Liu, Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stimulated by the meson-baryon molecular interpretations of the $P_c$ states ($P_c(4312)/P_c(4440)/P_c(4457)$), we systematically study the interactions between an $S-$wave charm-strange baryon $Ξ_c^{(\prime,*)}$ and an anti-charmed meson $\bar{D}^{(*)}$ in a coupled channel analysis. Effective potentials for the $Ξ_c^{(\prime,*)}\bar{D}^{(*)}$ interactions in a one-boson-exchange model can be related to those in the $Σ_c^{(*)}\bar{D}^{(*)}$ systems by using the $SU(3)$ flavor symmetry and heavy quark symmetry. Our results can predict several promising hidden-charm molecular pentaquarks with strangeness $|S|=1$, which include the $Ξ_c^{\prime}\bar{D}$ states with $I(J^P)=0,1(1/2^-)$, the $Ξ_c^*\bar{D}$ states with $0,1(3/2^-)$, the $Ξ_c^{\prime}\bar{D}^*$ states with $0(1/2^-)$ and $0,1(3/2^-)$, and the $Ξ_c^*\bar{D}^*$ states with $0(1/2^-,3/2^-,5/2^-)$.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted by prd
Qualification de la durabilité d’un béton soumis à la carbonatation avec un plan d’essais accélérés optimisé
Creators: name: Matoiri Chaibati, Nadare
name: Bigaud, David
name: Kobi, Abdessamad
name: Colina, Horacio
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: En Europe, c’est la norme EN 206 qui est la référence pour la production du béton. Cependant, avec l'innovation, il devient de plus en plus difficile d’utiliser les seules spécifications prescriptives pour justifier la fabrication du béton. C’est ainsi, qu’une approche alternative basée sur la performance est proposée. Cette approche se concentre sur l'évaluation des indicateurs de durabilité au moyen de tests de performance. Un nouveau béton est ainsi qualifié si sa durabilité est au moins égale à celle du béton qui respecte les spécifications prescriptives de la norme. Les tests de performance représentent un coût économique pour l'industrie du béton qui cherche une solution pour le réduire et en même temps garantir la robustesse du processus de qualification de la nouvelle formule de béton. Une solution consiste à réduire la durée des tests et à contrôler le nombre d'échantillons pour les tests de durabilité. Ainsi, avec un plan d’essais accélérés optimisé, il est possible de caractériser la durabilité du béton en utilisant un processus de dégradation (processus de Wiener). Le plan d’essais optimisé donne le temps optimal et le nombre minimum d’essais permettant de prédire la durabilité du béton.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Un nouveau critère de fissuration pour les matériaux hétérogènes soumis à des sollicitations multi-physiques
Creators: name: Sellier, Alain
name: Vidal, Thierry
name: Verdier, Jérôme
name: Bucher, Raphaël
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: L’avènement du développement durable nécessite une meilleure prédiction du vieillissement des ouvrages, ce qui nécessite des modèles de plus en plus complets, capables de traiter simultanément plusieurs types de pathologies (retrait empêché, réaction alcali-granulat, réaction sulfatique interne, fluage…). Se pose alors le problème des critères de fissuration les plus pertinents à utiliser dans les modèles de calcul d’ouvrages pour traiter les couplages entre ces pathologies. Cet article propose un nouveau critère macroscopique basé sur un enrichissement de la loi de comportement par des informations mésoscopiques considérées non plus numériquement mais analytiquement dans les critères macroscopiques, ce qui devrait accélérer considérablement les temps de calculs sans ignorer la physique sous-jacente.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
HotGate : trustless cross-chain settlement protocol
Creators: name: Daneshpajooh, Mahyar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The concept of blockchain was introduced by Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper. Bitcoin enabled users to make payments in a fully-decentralized manner. In the past decade, researchers and engineers leveraged the Bitcoin idea and proposed blockchains with different characteristics (such as level of security, privacy, and decentralization), each focusing on a particular area. One way to classify blockchains is based on their programmability. A programmable blockchain enables developers to run their programs on top of it. This way, the execution of programs becomes decentralized so no one can manipulate the result. Currently, many dApps are built on top of programmable blockchains such as exchanges, lending protocols, etc. Bitcoin, although its promising security, doesn't have the programming capability to build dApp on it. In this work, I introduce and implement HotGate, a trustless cross-chain settlement protocol that enables users to move BTC from Bitcoin to other programmable blockchains. So users can leverage their BTC in dApps of other blockchains. Moreover, HotGate enables users to exchange their BTC for assets that exist on these blockchains. HotGate uses Relay, a fully-decentralized interoperability solution that connects blockchains directly together. This makes Hotgate a trustless protocol that is aligned with blockchain values. Moreover, HotGate introduces two mechanisms that enable users to move BTC in a fast and private manner, which are the weaknesses of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Refugee and migrants' involvement in participatory spaces in a US practice‐based research network study: Responding to unanticipated priorities
Creators: name: LeMaster, Joseph
name: Lutgen, Cory B.
name: Matharoo, Jagtaj
name: MACFARLANE, ANNE
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Refugees and migrants face suboptimal involvement in spaces for primary healthcare decision‐making. Given the rising numbers of resettled refugees and migrants in primary care settings in the United States, there is an urgent need for patient‐centred outcome research in practice‐based research networks (PBRNs) with diverse ethnolinguistic communities. This study explored whether researchers, clinicians and patients would achieve consensus on (1) a common set of clinical problems that were applicable across a PBRN and (2) potential clinical interventions to address those problems to inform a patient‐centred outcomes research (PCOR) study in a similar research network. Methods: In this qualitative participatory health research study, patients from diverse ethnolinguistic communities and clinicians from seven practices in a US PBRN discussed preferences for PCOR responsive to patients and the clinicians who serve them in language‐discordant settings. Researchers and an advisory panel that included patients and clinicians from each participating practice held regular advisory meetings to monitor progress on project milestones and solve emerging problems. Participants took part in 10 sessions using Participatory Learning in Action and the World Café methods to identify and prioritise their ideas, using questions set for them by the advisory panel. Data were analysed based on principles of qualitative thematic content analysis. Results: Participants identified common barriers in language‐discordant healthcare settings, principally patient‐clinician communication barriers and suggestions to overcome these barriers. A key finding was an unanticipated consensus about the need for attention to healthcare processes rather than a clinical research priority. Negotiation with research funders enabled further analysis of potential interventions for care processes to improve communication and shared decision‐making in consultations and the practice as a whole. Conclusion: PCOR studies should examine interventions for improving communication between patients from diverse ethnolinguistic communities and primary care staff if the sorts of harms experienced by patients experiencing language‐discordant healthcare are to be reduced or prevented. Flexibility and responsiveness from funders to unanticipated findings are key structural supports for participatory health research in primary care clinical settings with this population and others who experience marginalisation and exclusion. Patient or Public Contribution: Patients and clinicians participated in the study both in the formulation of the study question, data collection, analysis and dissemination of these results; consented to their individual participation; and reviewed early drafts of the manuscript.
title: Kinetics and Pore Formation of the Sodium Metal Anode on NASICON‐Type Na₃.₄Zr₂Si₂.₄P₀.₆O₁₂ for Sodium Solid‐State Batteries
Creators: name: Ortmann, Till
name: Burkhardt, Simon
name: Eckhardt, Janis Kevin
name: Fuchs, Till
name: Ding, Ziming
name: Sann, Joachim
name: Rohnke, Marcus
name: Ma, Qianli
name: Tietz, Frank
name: Fattakhova‐Rohlfing, Dina
name: Kübel, Christian
name: Guillon, Olivier
name: Heiliger, Christian
name: Janek, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, many efforts have been made to introduce reversible alkali metal anodes using solid electrolytes in order to increase the energy density of next‐generation batteries. In this respect, Na₃.₄Zr₂Si₂.₄P₀.₆O₁₂ is a promising solid electrolyte for solid‐state sodium batteries, due to its high ionic conductivity and apparent stability versus sodium metal. The formation of a kinetically stable interphase in contact with sodium metal is revealed by time‐resolved impedance analysis, in situ X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Based on pressure‐ and temperature‐dependent impedance analyses, it is concluded that the Na|Na₃.₄Zr₂Si₂.₄P₀.₆O₁₂interface kinetics is dominated by current constriction rather than by charge transfer. Cross‐sections of the interface after anodic dissolution at various mechanical loads visualize the formed pore structure due to the accumulation of vacancies near the interface. The temporal evolution of the pore morphology after anodic dissolution is monitored by time‐resolved impedance analysis. Equilibration of the interface is observed even under extremely low external mechanical load, which is attributed to fast vacancy diffusion in sodium metal, while equilibration is faster and mainly caused by creep at increased external load. The presented information provides useful insights into a more profound evaluation of the sodium metal anode in solid‐state batteries.
Погребение кочевника второй половины VIIв у села Черноморское
Creators: name: О. В, Комар
name: Орлов, Руслан
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Комар А.В., Орлов Р.С. Погребение кочевника второй половины VIIв у села Черноморское — Степи Европы в эпоху средневековья. Т.5. - Донецк, 2006. - с.387-398.The paper presents the intake nomad burial 11 of Barrow 1 near Chornomorske village at Tendrovsk Bay, the Black Sea littoral. The burial was made in a pit with little steps and is supplemented by a horse skin folded on the grave overlap, a modeled pot at the head, a knife, fire steel, and also silver parts of a composite belt of the 3rd quarter of the VII c.
Supplementary material for: MicroRNA expression profile in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of asthmatic patients and healthy individuals: the effect of age and in vitro rhinovirus exposure
Creators: name: Wardzyńska, Aleksandra
name: Małgorzata Pawełczyk
name: Rywaniak, Joanna
name: Makowska, Joanna S.
name: Jamroz-Brzeska, Joanna
name: Kowalski, Marek L.
name: MAciej Chałubiński
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: miRNA, asthma, elderly

description: This is Supplementary material for an article entitled: MicroRNA expression profile in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of asthmatic patients and healthy individuals: the effect of age and in vitro rhinovirus exposure
description: The research was funded with grant no. UMO-2013/09/B/NZ6/00746 awarded by the Polish National Science Centre
A Escrita do Outro Mundo e o Outro Mundo da Escrita: Chico Xavier, o filme
Creators: name: Zir, Alessandro
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2012

description: A discussão proposta resgata elementos que permitiriam uma abordagem da obra de Francisco Candido Xavier enquanto fenômeno de escrita, e até mesmo de escrita literária. Tal resgate é feito a partir de uma análise crítica da cinebiografia do psicógrafo mineiro, realizada por Daniel Filho. Busca-se apontar para elementos substanciais, de uma ordem ficcional, que seriam constitutivos tanto do filme quanto do trabalho do “escritor” cuja vida o filme retrata. A fim de alcançar tal resultado, confronta-se a cinebiografia com a biografia em que supostamente é baseada, e com uma das obras chaves de Xavier. No caminho, retomam-se noções desenvolvidas por Maurice Blanchot a respeito do processo de criação literária.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano VII - Número 15 - Maio 2012 - Novembro 2012
Projective Urban Texturing
Creators: name: Georgiou, Yiangos
name: Averkiou, Melinos
name: Kelly, Tom
name: Kalogerakis, Evangelos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a method for automatic generation of textures for 3D city meshes in immersive urban environments. Many recent pipelines capture or synthesize large quantities of city geometry using scanners or procedural modeling pipelines. Such geometry is intricate and realistic, however the generation of photo-realistic textures for such large scenes remains a problem. We propose to generate textures for input target 3D meshes driven by the textural style present in readily available datasets of panoramic photos capturing urban environments. Re-targeting such 2D datasets to 3D geometry is challenging because the underlying shape, size, and layout of the urban structures in the photos do not correspond to the ones in the target meshes. Photos also often have objects (e.g., trees, vehicles) that may not even be present in the target geometry. To address these issues we present a method, called Projective Urban Texturing (PUT), which re-targets textural style from real-world panoramic images to unseen urban meshes. PUT relies on contrastive and adversarial training of a neural architecture designed for unpaired image-to-texture translation. The generated textures are stored in a texture atlas applied to the target 3D mesh geometry. To promote texture consistency, PUT employs an iterative procedure in which texture synthesis is conditioned on previously generated, adjacent textures. We demonstrate both quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the generated textures.
Fiabilité fonctionnelle résiduelle d’un barrage atteint de réaction alcali-granulats
Creators: name: Ftatsi Mbetmi, Guy-De-Patience
name: De Larrard, Thomas
name: Duprat, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Cette étude propose d’utiliser le modèle microscopique de RAG développé au LMDC pour l’estimation de la fiabilité du barrage hydro-électrique de Song Loulou. Les modèles de substitution, basés sur des développements en chaos de polynômes des paramètres d’une sigmoïde, ont été constitués à plusieurs échelles, afin notamment de réduire les temps de calculs. A l’échelle de la structure, ils permettent d'obtenir les déplacements aux points d'intérêt, liés aux états limites de fonctionnement des évacuateurs de crue, et procéder ainsi à l'estimation de la fiabilité fonctionnelle résiduelle du barrage.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Reproductive isolation among Sphyrapicus sapsuckers
Creators: name: Natola, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The question “How and why do species split?” is the central motivation for this dissertation. Evolutionary biologists have long attributed this speciation process to barriers that interrupt gene flow, such as biological differences between populations that constrain gene exchange and cause isolation among formerly reproducing groups. However, more work is needed to answer what barriers are of key importance. Red-breasted, red-naped, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers are an excellent study system to understand the barriers that cause or maintain reduced gene flow because they are in the early stages of speciation. By studying both population dynamics in hybrid zones where different sapsuckers interbreed and genomic differentiation between species, I describe some of the barriers contributing to sapsucker isolation. In Chapter 2, I ask how the environment affects hybridization rates among sapsuckers. I use genomic data to demonstrate that red-breasted and red-naped sapsuckers hybridize to different extents in different environments, suggesting a strong effect of the environment on hybrid zone dynamics. Chapter 3 describes hybrid zone dynamics in an emergent tri-species hybrid zone. I show that all three species hybridize in one region in central British Columbia. However, they do not collapse into a hybrid swarm, so we propose this isolation is likely due to reduced fitness of hybrids. For Chapter 4 I examine how the level of differentiation between species varies across the genome and find that the Z chromosome shows much higher relative differentiation between species than the rest of the genome and harbors signatures of recurrent selection, high linkage disequilibrium, and likely results in epistasis among Z haplotypes. In Chapter 5, I ask what the genomic basis for sapsucker plumage is, as there are major changes in phenotype between sapsuckers, including a shift from sexually monochromatic to dichromatic forms, which likely affect sapsucker mate choice and mating success. Genome-wide association tests indicate plumage is highly associated with the different Z haplotypes identified in Chapter 4. In summary, within this dissertation I present evidence that post-zygotic isolation likely reduces hybrid fitness via both extrinsic (environmental) and intrinsic (genetic incompatibility) means.
Нова знахідка пряслиця з графіті з Вишгорода
Creators: name: Орлов, Руслан
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Орлов Р. С. 2008. Нова знахідка пряслиця з графіті з Вишгорода. Археологія, № 3. с.35-39.
Da Inadaptação do Memorando de Entendimento ao Direito Laboral Português
Creators: name: Dos Santos Regêncio, João Pedro
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2012

description: The Portuguese Government, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Specific Economic Policy Conditionality on May 17th 2011, in the context of Portugal’s request for financial aid. This agreement includes the Portuguese Government’s engagement to develop a legislative reform aimed at introducing adjustments to the cases for fair individual dismissals, namely the possibility of dismissal for unsuitability of the worker even without the introduction of new technologies or other changes to the workplace. Regarding specifically the referred amendment, this paper analysis Portugal’s current dismissal legislation, the merits of the alteration and its constitutional compatibility.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano VII - Número 15 - Maio 2012 - Novembro 2012
Influence des caractéristiques intrinsèques et environnementales sur l’endommagement des pierres de construction par cycles de gel-dégel
Creators: name: Vigroux, Martin
name: Eslami, Javad
name: Beaucour, Anne-Lise
name: Bourgès, Ann
name: Noumowé, Albert
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: L’objectif de ces travaux de recherche est d’approfondir la compréhension des mécanismes de dégradation des pierres de construction, utilisées dans le patrimoine bâti, vis-à-vis d’une sollicitation cyclique de gel-dégel. Ainsi, sept pierres de nature minéralogique différente et présentant des propriétés physico-mécaniques variées sont soumises à un vieillissement accéléré. L’évolution de l’endommagement au cours de ces cycles est assurée à travers la mesure de différents paramètres : vitesse des ondes P, résistance en compression et traction, module d’Young, porosité, ténacité. Par ailleurs, le comportement thermomécanique est également étudié par des mesures de déformations et de gradients thermiques. Les premiers résultats permettent d’établir que la vitesse des ondes P, peut être considérée comme étant le paramètre matériau traduisant le mieux l’endommagement subi. De plus, il apparaît clairement que le degré de saturation en eau joue un rôle prépondérant sur l’altération engendrée, et qu’il existe une valeur critique, pouvant être définie pour chaque type de pierre.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Культові споруди на Замковій горі м. Біла Церква у XI-XVIII ст.
Creators: name: Орлов, Руслан
name: О. В., Стародуб
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Орлов Р. С., Стародуб О. В. Культові споруди на Замковій горі м. Біла Церква у XI-XVIII ст. // Стародавній Іскоростень і слов'янські гради. Т. 2 : збірка наукових праць Міжнародної археологічної конференції (м. Коростень, 30 вересня - 3 жовтня) / Ін- т археології НАНУ (Київ). - Коростень, 2008. - С. 54-58.
A Performance e o Filme: da Fluxus à Performance Digital
Creators: name: Gomes, Clara
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2012

description: This is an historic contextualization of the relation between performance and technology in an incursion through the ways in which media – film, video, computer – where integrated in performance through the second half of the 20th century. From John Cage to Fluxus Films through Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman and into the new horizons of digital performance. We are interested in the use of technology not as a mere way to register performance but as an integral element of the creation process. Often we will make a comparison between these works of art and late 20th century digital performance works, in a dialectic approach. Este ensaio visa contextualizar temporalmente a relação entre performance e tecnologia numa incursão pela forma como os media – nomeadamente o filme, o vídeo e o computador – foram integrados na prática da performance a partir da segunda metade do século XX. Dos Fluxus Films, passando pela arte vídeo de Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci e Bruce Nauman, chegaremos aos horizontes que a performance digital nos abre hoje. Interessa-nos a utilização desses meios tecnológicos não como mero registo mas como elemento integrante do próprio processo de criação. Faremos, por vezes, um paralelo entre as obras de media performance a partir da segunda metade do século XX com trabalhos mais recentes de performance digital criados a partir dos anos 90, numa abordagem dialéctica.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano VII - Número 15 - Maio 2012 - Novembro 2012
title: Η εκπαίδευση των δημοσίων λειτουργών ως παράγοντας ανάπτυξης & άσκησης πολιτικών στην δημόσια διοίκηση
title: Public officials’ education as a factor in the development & implementation of policies in public administration
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μαρτίνος, Γεώργιος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Δημόσια διοίκηση
Δημόσιος τομέας
Εκπαίδευση
Επιμόρφωση
Δια βίου μάθηση
Αποδοτικότητα
Ποιότητα παρεχόμενων υπηρεσιών
Ευρύτερος δημόσιος τομέας

description: Βασικός σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση της γενικής έννοιας της εκπαίδευσης, η οποία αποτελεί το σύνολο όλων των δραστηριοτήτων που έχουν σαν σκοπό τους την επίδραση με δομημένο και συγκεκριμένο τρόπο στη σκέψη και , στο χαρακτήρα του ανθρώπου. Από τεχνικής πλευράς, με τη διαδικασία της εκπαίδευσης αποκτώνται και αναπτύσσονται συγκεκριμένες γνώσεις και ικανότητες που διαπλάθουν αξίες κοινωνικές αλλά και επαγγελματικές, όπως η ηθική, η ειλικρίνεια, ακεραιότητα χαρακτήρα, η αφοσίωση, ο επαγγελματισμός, Η εκπαίδευση γίνεται με βάση συγκεκριμένες μεθόδους με εξειδικευμένα προγράμματα, με συγκεκριμένους στόχους και στόχους μέσα σε συγκεκριμένο χρονικό πλαίσιο. Στην εργασία που ακολουθεί γίνεται προσπάθεια για την αναγνώριση και την ανάδειξη της ανάγκης για εκπαίδευση στο χώρο του Δημόσιου Τομέα, μέσα από μια εξελικτική διαδικασία με σκοπό την βελτίωση της απόδοσης και την αλλαγή της οργανωσιακής κουλτούρας.
Méthode de fenêtrage pour l’identification de la corrélation spatiale de grandeurs de durabilité du béton
Creators: name: Rakotovao Ravahatra, N.
name: Bastidas-Arteaga, E.
name: Schoefs, F.
name: De Larrard, T.
name: Duprat, F.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Ce travail s’intéresse à la maintenance préventive contre la corrosion des aciers dans les structures en béton armé. La prise en compte de la variabilité spatiale est nécessaire dans une telle étude. Cela requiert une quantité de données élevée. En réalité, les données disponibles sont limitées. Nous proposons une procédure pour améliorer l’identification de la corrélation spatiale à partir d’une seule trajectoire de mesures. Cela se base sur la méthode de fenêtrage et permet d’obtenir la distribution des valeurs du paramètre de la fonction d'autocorrélation. Les données utilisées ont été collectées dans le cadre du projet ANR-EVADEOS. Les paramètres mesurés sont : la porosité, le degré de saturation, la masse volumique et l’épaisseur carbonatée. En guise d’illustration, les résultats pour la porosité et profondeur de carbonatation sont présentés dans cet article.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Jogos Eletrônicos: Comunicação e Arte na Cibercultura
Creators: name: Lopes, Marcelo Silvio
name: Fernando, Fernando Camargo
name: Ghomes, Rogério Zanetti
Publisher: name: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação
Year: 2012

description: Os jogos eletrônicos têm uma relevância cada vez maior nos processos comunicativos e de mediações das interações na sociedade contemporânea, apresentando-se como um fenômeno expressivo, híbrido, de alta complexidade e interdisciplinaridade. Desta maneira é necessária a discussão sobre os jogos eletrônicos serem considerados arte. Com o surgimento da cibercultura os jogos eletrônicos conseguiram desenvolver em um curto período de tempo uma retórica própria, onde uma de suas principais características é o esforço que o jogador desempenha com a finalidade de influenciar o resultado. Com relação à Arte o artigo se apropria do conceito deleuzeano para quem a arte não trata de reproduzir ou inventar formas, mas de captar forças, de tornar visíveis forças invisíveis. Desta maneira, apesar de conter interatividade e ludicidade, o jogo não pode ser considerado arte.
description: artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação, Ano VII - Número 15 - Maio 2012 - Novembro 2012
Явление бифуркации в дружинной культуре Древней Руси
Creators: name: Орлов, Руслан
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Орлов, Руслан Сергеевич. Явление бифуркации в дружинной культуре Древней Руси // Проблеми давньоруської та середньовічної археології : зб. наук. статей до ювілею О. П. Моці / Ін- т археології НАНУ. - Київ : ІА НАНУ, 2010. - С. 151-156.
Interpretable AI-based Large-scale 3D Pathloss Prediction Model for enabling Emerging Self-Driving Networks
Creators: name: Masood, Usama
name: Farooq, Hasan
name: Imran, Ali
name: Abu-Dayya, Adnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In modern wireless communication systems, radio propagation modeling to estimate pathloss has always been a fundamental task in system design and optimization. The state-of-the-art empirical propagation models are based on measurements in specific environments and limited in their ability to capture idiosyncrasies of various propagation environments. To cope with this problem, ray-tracing based solutions are used in commercial planning tools, but they tend to be extremely time-consuming and expensive. We propose a Machine Learning (ML)-based model that leverages novel key predictors for estimating pathloss. By quantitatively evaluating the ability of various ML algorithms in terms of predictive, generalization and computational performance, our results show that Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) algorithm overall outperforms others, even with sparse training data, by providing a 65% increase in prediction accuracy as compared to empirical models and 13x decrease in prediction time as compared to ray-tracing. To address the interpretability challenge that thwarts the adoption of most ML-based models, we perform extensive secondary analysis using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) method, yielding many practically useful insights that can be leveraged for intelligently tuning the network configuration, selective enrichment of training data in real networks and for building lighter ML-based propagation model to enable low-latency use-cases.
description: Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Understanding pro-environmental collaboration amongst farmers: Management approaches and incentives underlying farmer clusters in the UK
Creators: name: Rellensmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Farmer groups
subject: Collective management
subject: Landscape scale
subject: Agri-environment scheme
subject: Participatory natural resource management
subject: Agriculture
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 43.30 - Umweltpolitik

description: Attempts for agri-environmental transformation in the EU are challenged by the need to coordinate conservation measures implemented at the farm-level across larger spatial scales. This thesis examines collaborative ‘farmer clusters’ in the UK as an approach to enable environmental outcomes on a landscape-scale. The thesis draws upon known factors of success in collaborative, decentralised resource management to unravel clusters’ performance in delivering environmental and social objectives. Literature reviews were conducted to aggregate relevant success factors which were subsequently contrasted with the farmer cluster concept by conducting a qualitative data analysis of the publicised and grey farmer cluster literature. Furthermore, clusters’ interplay with financial incentives for environmentally friendly farming (i.e., agri-environmental schemes) was investigated. It was found that clusters excel in ensuring meaningful farmer participation, integrating both local and expert knowledge in decision-making, and enhancing farmers’ capacity for self-contained agri-environmental management. Identified shortcomings were translated into 15 policy and management recommendations.
Non-destructive evaluation of concrete damages of containment walls in nuclear power plants
Creators: name: Sbartaï, Mehdi
name: Garnier, Vincent
name: Payan, Cédric
name: Piwakowski, Bogdan
name: Larose, Eric
name: Saliba, Jacqueline
name: Ranaivomanana, Narintsoa
name: Balayssac, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2019

description: Il est nécessaire d’utiliser les méthodes non-destructives pour une bonne évaluation des structures en béton et notamment les ouvrages sensibles comme les centrales nucléaires. Dans le cadre du projet ANR ENDE, plusieurs développements ont été effectués en méthodes non destructives. Cet article présente les résultats d’une large campagne expérimentale qui a pour objectif de qualifier des méthodes END nouvelles pour la détection de l’endommagement diffus et la détection et la caractérisation des fissures (position, longueur, etc.).
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 36 No 1 (2018): Special Issue - RUGC 2018 St Etienne
Estudio comparativo de otolitos provenientes de la pesca pre-colombina y contemporánea de corvinas en la Bahía de Parita
Creators: name: Abhy Verdurmen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: En este estudio, se utilizaron otolitos de corvinas del género Cynoscion previamente recuperados de basureros arqueológicos (2500 – 520 AP) de diferentes sitios localizados cerca de la Bahía de Parita en el Golfo de Panamá, una costa productiva cuyos recursos han sido explotados por poblaciones humanas durante al menos 7000 años. Para identificar las muestras arqueológicas se construyó y utilizó una guía de identificación de otolitos para las especies más comunes de Cynoscion en la pesca de las costas del Pacífico panameño. Las tres especies más representadas en las muestras pre-Colombinas son C. albus, C. squamipinnis y C. praedatorius, las cuales fueron seleccionadas para establecer bases de referencia y evaluar posibles cambios en sus historias de vida. A partir de ejemplares modernos se obtuvo la ecuación de regresión entre el largo estándar del pez y el largo del otolito para estimar el tamaño de los peces al momento de captura en periodos pre- Colombinos y se determinó que juveniles de estas especies han sido capturadas por al menos 2000 años en la Bahía de Parita. Adicionalmente, se confirma la presencia de anillos de crecimiento en los otolitos de Cynoscion en el Pacífico de Panamá cuyo análisis sugiere cambios en las tasas tempranas de crecimiento. No fue posible colectar individuos de C. praedatorius por lo que las comparaciones de anillos de crecimiento de los otolitos se realizaron solamente para las otras dos especies.