cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Assessment of the Future Climate over Southeast Europe Based on CMIP5 Ensemble of Climate Indices – Part One: Concept And Methods
Creators: name: Chervenkov, Hristo
name: Ivanov, Vladimir
name: Gadzhev, Georgi
name: Ganev, Kostadin
Publisher: name: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 144-156
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Nowadays there is a strong degree of agreement that the climate change is the defining challenge of our time. The analysis based on climate indices is probably the most widely used non-parametric approach for quantification of extreme climate events. This study which consist of two parts, is dedicated on the assessment of the spatial patterns and the temporal evolution of 6 temperature-based and 3-precipitation based indices in projected future climate over south-east Europe up to the end of the century. The annual means of the daily mean and extreme temperatures are also analysed in consistent manner. The indices are computed from the bias-corrected output of 5 CMIP5 global models, forced with all 4 RCP emission scenarios. The multi model ensemble medians of the temperature-based indices shows considerable warming which is consistent with the increase of the mean temperatures and is statistically significant in most cases. The revealed changes of the precipitation-based indices are more complex when compared with temperature changes.
description: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 144-156
Literature review report
Creators: name: Costa, Vítor
name: Esgalhado, Graça
name: Cunha, Ana Isabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: deradicalization
exit programmes
radicalization
evaluation
intervention programmes

description: The current report reviews the literature on evaluation methods for exit programmes (or similar intervention programmes). After problematising on the importance of evaluation for intervention programmes, the report presents methods that can be used for the evaluation of these programmes. Multi-attribute evaluation, theory-based evaluation, contribution analysis, realist evaluation, and structural integrity assessment are presented as potentially useful evaluation methods for exit programmes. Options regarding evaluation design are presented. Different evaluation focus (i.e., impact, mechanism, process, economic) and instruments that can be used for the evaluation are also presented. The report ends with conclusions that can be relevant for the development of the evaluation framework.
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide sequencing as a first-tier screening test for short tandem repeat expansions
Creators: name: Rajan-Babu, Indhu-Shree
name: Peng, Junran J.
name: Chiu, Readman
name: Li, Chenkai
name: Mohajeri, Arezoo
name: Dolzhenko, Egor
name: Eberle, Michael A.
name: Birol, Inanc
name: Friedman, Jan M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1: Experimental repeat size data of the samples in the Coriell European Genome-phenome Archive dataset. Table S2: Short tandem repeat alleles simulated in C9orf72, FMR1, and FMR2 genes using ART simulator.
C-Field Methods for Non-Equilibrium Bose Gases
Creators: name: Davis, Matthew J.
name: Wright, Tod M.
name: Blakie, P. Blair
name: Bradley, Ashton S.
name: Ballagh, Rob J.
name: Gardiner, Crispin W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review c-field methods for simulating the non-equilibrium dynamics of degenerate Bose gases beyond the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii approximation. We describe three separate approaches that utilise similar numerical methods, but have distinct regimes of validity. Systems at finite temperature can be treated with either the closed-system projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation (PGPE), or the open-system stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation (SPGPE). These are both applicable in quantum degenerate regimes in which thermal fluctuations are significant. At low or zero temperature, the truncated Wigner projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation (TWPGPE) allows for the simulation of systems in which spontaneous collision processes seeded by quantum fluctuations are important. We describe the regimes of validity of each of these methods, and discuss their relationships to one another, and to other simulation techniques for the dynamics of Bose gases. The utility of the SPGPE formalism in modelling non-equilibrium Bose gases is illustrated by its application to the dynamics of spontaneous vortex formation in the growth of a Bose-Einstein condensate.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure. Unedited version of chapter to appear in Quantum Gases: Finite Temperature and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics (Vol. 1 Cold Atoms Series). N.P. Proukakis, S.A. Gardiner, M.J. Davis and M.H. Szymanska, eds. Imperial College Press, London (in press). See http://www.icpress.co.uk/physics/p817.html v2: Added arXiv cross-references
The economics of healthy eating
Creators: name: Lee, Helen
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Economics
subject: healthy eating
subject: Obesity

description: Obesity is a significant public health issue, and many public health programs and interventions have been developed to address it. Healthy eating at the workplace is a key component of obesity prevention, however, evidence of its cost and effectiveness is largely missing. This dissertation took a multi-faceted approach to the evaluation of a workplace healthy-eating intervention implemented in the Alberta Health Services: Calgary Area in September 2006. The first epidemiological study provides a snapshot of the relationship between healthy eating and obesity at the Canadian population level. National dietary patterns were derived from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 2.2 in 2004 and the relationship between obesity and healthy eating, as reflected by the adherence to the Canada’s Food Guide (CFG) in the CCHS sample, was explored. Over-consumption of Meat and Alternatives was prevalent, and positively associated with obesity. The second and third studies examined the immediate impact of the Healthy Eating Initiative (HEI). An online survey was developed to explore employees’ dietary patterns at work and at home. The survey did not find evidence that employees were changing their consumption of non-recommended food at work and at home. In addition, employees who ate healthily at work also ate healthily at home. The third study used cafeteria sales data to explore the impact of HEI on employees’ food purchases, especially on those items that were targeted by the Initiative. The results showed that cafeteria sales revenue did not decrease, and that sales of targeted healthy food items increased during the HEI period, after controlling for price and time. The last study modelled the effect of healthy eating in the long run using decision analysis incorporating data from the literature and the aforementioned three studies. The baseline Incremental Cost Utility Ratio (ICUR) was $9,360 per Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), but was very sensitive to changes in certain parameters, especially those that affected QALY, such as the relative risk (RR) of weight gain from healthy eating. This thesis provided some evidence about the impact of the HEI, and identified issues in the evaluation of such interventions that could be used to develop stronger evaluations in future.
PERCEPTIONS AND BARRIERS TO ICT INTEGRATION FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN EFL CLASSROOM
Creators: name: Qodiraliyeva, Durdonaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The progress in  education  brings about rapid  changes, integrating the use of  Information and  Communication Technology  (hence, ICT)  in  Indonesia. After  completing the  2013 Curriculum revision process at the end of 2015 by the Ministry  of Education  and  Culture, all primary  and  secondary schools  must prepare  themselves to  implement  2013.
title: Assessment of the Future Climate over Southeast Europe Based on CMIP5 Ensemble of Climate Indices – Part Two: Results and Discussion
Creators: name: Chervenkov, Hristo
name: Ivanov, Vladimir
name: Gadzhev, Georgi
name: Ganev, Kostadin
Publisher: name: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 157-169
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Nowadays there is a strong degree of agreement that the climate change is the defining challenge of our time. The analysis based on climate indices is probably the most widely used non-parametric approach for quantification of extreme climate events. This study which consist of two parts, is dedicated on the assessment of the spatial patterns and the temporal evolution of 6 temperature-based and 3-precipitation based indices in projected future climate over south-east Europe up to the end of the century. The annual means of the daily mean and extreme temperatures are also analysed in consistent manner. The indices are computed from the bias-corrected output of 5 CMIP5 global models, forced with all 4 RCP emission scenarios. The multi model ensemble medians of the temperature-based indices shows considerable warming which is consistent with the increase of the mean temperatures and is statistically significant in most cases. The revealed changes of the precipitation-based indices are more complex when compared with temperature changes.
description: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 157-169
Latest observations on the low energy excess in CRESST-III
Creators: name: Angloher, G.
name: Banik, S.
name: Benato, G.
name: Bento, A.
name: Bertolini, A.
name: Breier, R.
name: Bucci, C.
name: Canonica, L.
name: D'Addabbo, A.
name: Di Lorenzo, S.
name: Einfalt, L.
name: Erb, A.
name: Feilitzsch, F. v.
name: Iachellini, N. Ferreiro
name: Fichtinger, S.
name: Fuchs, D.
name: Fuss, A.
name: Garai, A.
name: Ghete, V. M.
name: Gerster, S.
name: Gorla, P.
name: Guillaumon, P. V.
name: Gupta, S.
name: Hauff, D.
name: Ješkovský, M.
name: Jochum, J.
name: Kaznacheeva, M.
name: Kinast, A.
name: Kluck, H.
name: Kraus, H.
name: Langenkämper, A.
name: Mancuso, M.
name: Marini, L.
name: Meyer, L.
name: Mokina, V.
name: Nilima, A.
name: Olmi, M.
name: Ortmann, T.
name: Pagliarone, C.
name: Pattavina, L.
name: Petricca, F.
name: Potzel, W.
name: Povinec, P.
name: Pröbst, F.
name: Pucci, F.
name: Reindl, F.
name: Rothe, J.
name: Schäffner, K.
name: Schieck, J.
name: Schmiedmayer, D.
name: Schönert, S.
name: Schwertner, C.
name: Stahlberg, M.
name: Stodolsky, L.
name: Strandhagen, C.
name: Strauss, R.
name: Usherov, I.
name: Wagner, F.
name: Willers, M.
name: Zema, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CRESST experiment observes an unexplained excess of events at low energies. In the current CRESST-III data-taking campaign we are operating detector modules with different designs to narrow down the possible explanations. In this work, we show first observations of the ongoing measurement, focusing on the comparison of time, energy and temperature dependence of the excess in several detectors. These exclude dark matter, radioactive backgrounds and intrinsic sources related to the crystal bulk as a major contribution.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures; to be published in IDM2022 proceedings; corrected several minor typos
Electric-field control of magnetic domain wall motion and local magnetization reversal
Creators: name: Lahtinen, Tuomas H. E.
name: Franke, Kévin J. A.
name: van Dijken, Sebastiaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of magnetic controllability using an electric field has potential advantages including enhanced functionality and low power consumption. Here, we report on an approach to electrically control local magnetic properties, including the writing and erasure of regular ferromagnetic domain patterns and the motion of magnetic domain walls, in multiferroic CoFe-BaTiO3 heterostructures. Our method is based on recurrent strain transfer from ferroelastic domains in ferroelectric media to continuous magnetostrictive films with negligible magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Optical polarization microscopy of both ferromagnetic and ferroelectric domain structures reveals that domain correlations and strong inter-ferroic domain wall pinning persist in an applied electric field. This leads to an unprecedented electric controllability over the ferromagnetic microstructure, an accomplishment that produces giant magnetoelectric coupling effects and opens the way to multiferroic spintronic devices.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Reticula: A temporal network and hypergraph analysis software package
Creators: name: Badie-Modiri, Arash
name: Kivelä, Mikko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the last decade, temporal networks and static and temporal hypergraphs have enabled modelling connectivity and spreading processes in a wide array of real-world complex systems such as economic transactions, information spreading, brain activity and disease spreading. In this manuscript, we present the Reticula C++ library and Python package: A comprehensive suite of tools for working with real-world and synthetic static and temporal networks and hypergraphs. This includes various methods of creating synthetic networks and randomised null models based on real-world data, calculating reachability and simulating compartmental models on networks. The library is designed principally on an extensible, cache-friendly representation of networks, with an aim of easing multi-thread use in the high-performance computing environment.
description: Accepted for publication at SoftwareX. Live documentation available at https://docs.reticula.network
Optical pulsations from isolated neutron stars
Creators: name: Mignani, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Being fast rotating objects, isolated neutron stars (INSs) are obvious targets for high-time resolution observations. With the number of optical/UV/IR INS detections now increased to 24, timing observations become more and more important in INS astrophysics.
description: 3 pages, to appear in Proc. IAU 285, "New Horizons in Transient Astronomy", Oxford, Sept. 2011
Aurora Kinase Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Approach for the Treatment of Refractory Pediatric and Infant Leukemia
Creators: name: Jayanthan, Aarthi Anita
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Oncology
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Leukemia
subject: Therapeutics

description: Leukemia is the most common pediatric malignancy, constituting more than 30% of all childhood cancers. Although cure rates have improved greatly, approximately one in four children relapse and survival rates post relapse are very low. Given this, more effective and innovative therapeutic strategies are needed in order to improve prognosis. Aurora kinases, a family of serine/threonine kinases essential for the regulation of several mitotic processes, have been identified as potential targets for cancer therapeutics. Elevated expression of Aurora kinases has been determined in several malignancies and is associated with aberrant mitotic activity, aneuploidy, alterations in chromosomal structure and genome instability. Based on this, a panel of Aurora kinase inhibitors was tested against pediatric leukemia cells and demonstrated variable cytotoxicity, the induction of apoptosis and changes in Aurora kinase activity. The dual Aurora-A/B inhibitor AT9283 was selected for further investigation, as it also targets FLT3, Jak2 and c-Abl, which are important in leukemogenesis. AT9283 promoted a polyploid phenotype, inhibited pathways involved in growth and survival and displayed synergistic activity with novel and conventional therapeutics. Of these therapeutics, ABT-737, a B–cell lymphoma 2 inhibitor, and BI 6727, a Polo-like kinase inhibitor, promoted increased Aurora kinase phosphorylation. Similarly, Aurora kinase inhibition promoted increased Bcl-2 phosphorylation and increased Plk-1 expression and activity. Furthermore, ABT-737 and BI 6727 displayed synergistic activity with several Aurora kinase inhibitors. This study establishes the effects and potential mechanisms of Aurora kinase inhibition on pediatric leukemia in vitro both as single agents and in combination with novel and conventional therapeutics targeting pathways involved in apoptosis and mitosis.
Energy Efficient Bipedal Locomotion
Creators: name: Hasaneini, Seyed Javad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Robotics
subject: legged locomotion
subject: Efficiency
subject: Optimization
subject: swing leg retraction
subject: walking

description: In this research, dynamic optimization of a minimally constrained bipedal model (free to exhibit almost any arbitrary gait) is used to find the characteristics of energy efficient gaits. I find that using a work-based cost yields gait optimization that automatically predicts many features of human locomotion. This includes the optimality of walking and running at their respective speeds. The results show the determinant energetic factors are: (i) the cost of stance-leg work to make up for energy loss during downward-to-upward redirection of body motion at each step; and (ii) the cost to move the swing leg forward and prepare it for support transfer. To minimize the net energetic cost, the calculations discover various strategies. For energy-effective walking the critical control actions are identified as: (i) a burst extension force along the support leg just before heel-strike; (ii) a burst hip torque at the start of leg-swing to accelerate the swing leg motion; and (iii) a decelerating burst torque at the end of swing to reduce foot velocity at landing, leading to less energy loss at support transfer between the legs. The burst hip torques at the beginning and end of the swing phase are also used in energy-efficient running. However, exploiting an extension force before heel-strike is not possible in running as there is no support leg during flight. Instead, energy-loss at heel-strike can be minimized by landing on a near-vertical leg. Swing-leg retraction in walking is also investigated in depth. The approach focuses on simple closed-form analytic solutions. The three principal control actions identified in my gait optimizations are replaced by impulsive forces and torques. With this simplified model it was shown analytically that: (i) it is energetically favorable to delay the retracting hip torque until the end of the pre-emptive push-off; (ii) swing-leg retraction torque reduces the push-off force; and also (iii) increases the maximum possible walking speed; and (iv) the energetic advantage of active swing-leg retraction depends on the step length, average walking speed, ratio of actuator efficiencies for positive and negative work, and percentage of active work done during heel-strike.
Gupta-Bleuler quantization of optical fibers in weak gravitational fields
Creators: name: Mieling, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of gauge-fixed Maxwell equations in linear isotropic dielectrics is developed using a generalisation of the standard $R_ξ$ gauge-fixing term. In static space-times, the theory can be quantised using the Gupta-Bleuler method, which is worked out explicitly for optical fibres either in flat space-time or at a constant gravitational potential. This yields a consistent first-principles description of gravitational fibre-optic interferometry at the single-photon level within the framework of quantum field theory in curved space-times.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
Compact continuum source-finding for next generation radio surveys
Creators: name: Hancock, Paul J
name: Murphy, Tara
name: Gaensler, Bryan M
name: Hopkins, Andrew
name: Curran, James R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of four of the most widely used radio source finding packages in radio astronomy, and a program being developed for the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. The four packages; SExtractor, SFind, IMSAD and Selavy are shown to produce source catalogues with high completeness and reliability. In this paper we analyse the small fraction (~1%) of cases in which these packages do not perform well. This small fraction of sources will be of concern for the next generation of radio surveys which will produce many thousands of sources on a daily basis, in particular for blind radio transients surveys. From our analysis we identify the ways in which the underlying source finding algorithms fail. We demonstrate a new source finding algorithm Aegean, based on the application of a Laplacian kernel, which can avoid these problems and can produce complete and reliable source catalogues for the next generation of radio surveys.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 3 of Genome-wide sequencing as a first-tier screening test for short tandem repeat expansions
Creators: name: Rajan-Babu, Indhu-Shree
name: Peng, Junran J.
name: Chiu, Readman
name: Li, Chenkai
name: Mohajeri, Arezoo
name: Dolzhenko, Egor
name: Eberle, Michael A.
name: Birol, Inanc
name: Friedman, Jan M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig S1: exSTRa plots of EGA and simulated genomes. Fig S2: Decision tree model of the default analysis of Isaac-aligned EGA genomes on the training dataset. Fig S3: Performance metrics of the decision tree model in the default analysis of Isaac-aligned EGA genomes on the test dataset. Fig S4: Decision tree model of the default analysis of BWA-aligned EGA genomes on the training dataset. Fig S5: Performance metrics of the decision tree model in the default analysis of BWA-aligned EGA genomes on the test dataset. Fig S6: exSTRa plots of EGA genomes analyzed with 100 controls. Fig S7: Decision tree model of the modified analysis of Isaac-aligned EGA genomes on the training dataset. Fig S8: Performance metrics of decision tree model in the modified analysis of Isaac-aligned EGA test dataset. Fig S9: Allele frequency distribution of analyzed disease short tandem repeat loci in the CAUSES exomes. Fig S10: Allele frequency distribution of analyzed disease short tandem repeat loci in the CAUSES and IMAGINE genomes. Fig S11: Coverage and alignment statistics of Isaac- and BWA-aligned EGA genomes. Fig S12: Analysis of the DMPK locus by ExpansionHunter version 2 with and without off-target sites in the EGA dataset.
Magnetism: the Driving Force of Order in CoPt. A First-Principles Study
Creators: name: Karoui, Sondes
name: Amara, Hakim
name: Legrand, Bernard
name: Ducastelle, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CoPt or FePt equiatomic alloys order according to the tetragonal L10 structure which favors their strong magnetic anisotropy. Conversely magnetism can influence chemical ordering. We present here {\it ab initio} calculations of the stability of the L10 and L12 structures of Co-Pt alloys in their paramagnetic and ferromagnetic states. They show that magnetism strongly reinforces the ordering tendencies in this system. A simple tight-binding analysis allows us to account for this behavior in terms of some pertinent parameters.
Fergusobia Currie 1937
Creators: name: Davies, Kerrie A.
name: Bartholomaeus, Faerlie
name: Giblin-Davis, Robin M.
name: Ye, Weimin
name: Taylor, Gary S.
name: Thomas, W. Kelley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Secernentea
Tylenchida
Fergusobiidae
Fergusobia

description: Fergusobia Currie 1937
 Type species: Anguillulina (Fergusobia) tumifaciens Currie 1937, by original designation (type lost), neotype established by Davies 2014 (in Davies et al. 2014b).
description: Published as part of Davies, Kerrie A., Bartholomaeus, Faerlie, Giblin-Davis, Robin M., Ye, Weimin, Taylor, Gary S. & Thomas, W. Kelley, 2014, Nematodes from galls on Myrtaceae. VIII. Fergusobia from small galls on shoot buds, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3857 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3857.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286985
GraphMFT: A Graph Network based Multimodal Fusion Technique for Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Creators: name: Li, Jiang
name: Wang, Xiaoping
name: Lv, Guoqing
name: Zeng, Zhigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multimodal machine learning is an emerging area of research, which has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years. Up to now, there are few studies on multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC). Since Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) possess the powerful capacity of relational modeling, they have an inherent advantage in the field of multimodal learning. GNNs leverage the graph constructed from multimodal data to perform intra- and inter-modal information interaction, which effectively facilitates the integration and complementation of multimodal data. In this work, we propose a novel Graph network based Multimodal Fusion Technique (GraphMFT) for emotion recognition in conversation. Multimodal data can be modeled as a graph, where each data object is regarded as a node, and both intra- and inter-modal dependencies existing between data objects can be regarded as edges. GraphMFT utilizes multiple improved graph attention networks to capture intra-modal contextual information and inter-modal complementary information. In addition, the proposed GraphMFT attempts to address the challenges of existing graph-based multimodal conversational emotion recognition models such as MMGCN. Empirical results on two public multimodal datasets reveal that our model outperforms the State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) approaches with the accuracy of 67.90% and 61.30%.
description: Accepted by Neurocomputing
Environmental deformations dynamically shift human spatial memory
Creators: name: Keinath, Alexandra T
name: Rechnitz, Ohad
name: Balasubramanian, Vijay
name: Epstein, Russell A
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Place and grid cells in the hippocampal formation are commonly thought to support a unified and coherent cognitive map of space. This mapping mechanism faces a chal-lenge when a navigator is placed in a familiar environment that has been deformedfrom its original shape. Under such circumstances, many transformations could plau-sibly serve to map a navigator's familiar cognitive map to the deformed space. Previ-ous empirical results indicate that the firing fields of rodent place and grid cellsstretch or compress in a manner that approximately matches the environmentaldeformation, and human spatial memory exhibits similar distortions. These effectshave been interpreted as evidence that reshaping a familiar environment elicits ananalogously reshaped cognitive map. However, recent work has suggested an alter-native explanation, whereby deformation-induced distortions of the grid code areattributable to a mechanism that dynamically anchors grid fields to the most recentlyexperienced boundary, thus causing history-dependent shifts in grid phase. Thisinterpretation raises the possibility that human spatial memory will exhibit similarhistory-dependent dynamics. To test this prediction, we taught participants the loca-tions of objects in a virtual environment and then probed their memory for theselocations in deformed versions of this environment. Across three experiments withvariable access to visual and vestibular cues, we observed the predicted pattern,whereby the remembered locations of objects were shifted from trial to trialdepending on the boundary of origin of the participant's movement trajectory. Theseresults provide evidence for a dynamic anchoring mechanism that governs both neu-ronal firing and spatial memory.
Is it just about love : Filin and politics in pre-revolutionary Cuba
Creators: name: García Yero, Cary Aileen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis is concerned with the role of Filin music in processes of social and political change. It examines how Filin, a style of Cuban urban folk music that developed in Havana in the 1940s and 50s, was constitutive of the historical context in which it developed and consequently, how Filineros expressed their social realities in their songs. Many Filineros were associated with leftist organizations such as the People’s Socialist Party, workers’ unions, and with underground activism. They lived in times of political upheaval and widespread mobilization preceding the Revolution of 1959. However, their songs’ lyrics seem to ignore Filineros’ political lives, and focus solely on romance and the intimacy of love. This thesis addresses this paradox: Why does there seem to be such a disjuncture between Filineros’ affiliative and oppositional activities and their romantic and self-contained lyrics? Drawing from Filineros memories, this paper explains Filin lyrics’ detachment from the oppositional mobilization the musicians were involved in. First, the repression against communism that followed the post-WWII years in Cuba prevented Filineros from openly expressing their leftist views and activist experiences in their songs’ lyrics. Secondly, Filineros understood Filin as a creative outlet and artistic experience, and not as an instrument for political opposition. Thirdly, some of the Filin musicians interviewed believed that music was impotent to create substantial social or political change. Nevertheless, beyond Filineros’ worldview, I argue that Filin songs not only carry aesthetic meaning as expressions of human emotions, but that the practice of Filin constituted them as political actors. Filin gatherings’ sequential participatory features, and consequently, Filin's functions as social entertainer and artistic unifier highlight this music’s agency; Filin's uniting power as a musical movement promoted a sense of affiliation among Filineros in which political practices and ideologies were shaped and solidified. In other words, it is through music making that Filineros’ ideas, values and ways of life were stimulated and mobilized. As such, Filin music was constitutive of new political identities, and constructed its political relevance more through the context of lived experience than through its musicological traits, its lyrics, or even its musicians’ intentions.
Signal Processing Techniques for Power Efficiency and Signal Quality Enhancement of SISO and MIMO Radio Systems
Creators: name: Vejdaniamiri, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Signal processing
subject: Nonlinear Systems
subject: Linearization
subject: Efficiency Enhancement
subject: Communications

description: Communications has tremendously evolved during last 30 years period with the goal to realize real-time communications wirelessly. As the communication is targeted to be real-time, there is always a need to achieve the maximum possible data rate. Moreover, link reliability should always be guaranteed to receive a reliable version of the transmitted signal. RF front-ends as the physical layer of the communication systems, suffer from non-ideal behaviour of most of the actual electronic components which causes a nonlinear dynamics. Such systems introduce some amount of distortions to the signal. The other issue which has attracted much attention is the power efficiency which mainly deals with the cost and reliability as well as recently environmental impacts of the communication systems. This dissertation proposes a couple of novel signal processing techniques to overcome the problems associated with the single input single output (SISO) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio systems. The first topic of this research is devoted to efficiently partition the linearization scheme between the base station and mobile terminal. Phase distortions are compensated at the base station transmitter and the compensation of amplitude distortions is devoted to the mobile terminal receiver. This technique improves the power efficiency of communication link and in particular the transmitter. Then, the above technique is extended to base stations to improve the efficiency while meeting the standard spectral requirements. This work employs a soft clipping technique coupled with digital predistortion such that the overall transmitter output spectrum passes the mask. The distortion in the signal amplitude is then compensated at the receiver side.The other major topic of the present research thesis is the dimensionality problem in digital-predistorter design. The information criteria have been employed to consider error along with model complexity to estimate the optimum order. The last research topic carried on in this thesis is related to mitigating numerical instability during system identification of the nonlinear MIMO radio systems suffering from cross-talk. The numerical problem in fixed point processors is resolved using orthogonal memory polynomials. Moreover, a new identification procedure is proposed to reduce computational cost during MIMO digital predistortion identification.
title: Application of Backward Trajectories and Cluster Analysеs for Study of Variations in PM10 Concentrations
Creators: name: Neykova, Rozeta
name: Hristova, Elena
Publisher: name: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 170-179
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This study is on estimation of the influence of the air mass origin on particulate matter (PM10) levels in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria during 2019. The HYSPLIT (Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) and the statistical software package “Openair” in R are applied. The cluster analysis statistical method is used to group the back-trajectories into 5 sets according to the angle, direction and speed of the air mass. The Potential Source Contribution Function (PSCF) and Concentration Weighted Trajectory (CWT) statistical methods are also applied in order to identify source areas of pollutants. The PM10 concentrations in two air quality stations in Plovdiv and some meteorological elements are also presented and discussed. The influence of the clusters on PM10 levels is explained.
description: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 170-179
Static and Fatigue Behaviour of Hybrid FRP-Concrete Bridge Truss Girder with Connections Reinforced with Double-Headed Bars
Creators: name: Moravvej Hamedani, Mohammad Hossein
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: FRP
subject: Girder
subject: Hybrid
subject: Innovative
subject: Truss
subject: Precast
subject: Prestressed

description: An innovative hybrid FRP-concrete bridge system for short- and medium-span bridges has been developed at the University of Calgary. This system is composed of concrete deck slabs composite with precast prestressed concrete truss girders, consisting of pre-tensioned top and bottom chords connected by vertical and diagonal truss members made of concrete-filled fiber-reinforced polymer tubes. The advantages of this system include reduced self-weight and enhanced durability. The objective of this research is to investigate the performance of the truss girder under static and fatigue loading. An experimental program including fabrication of ten full-scale truss girders with the number of panels varying from two to eight is presented. The effect of several parameters, such as the span-to-depth ratio and the amplitude of fatigue loading on the performance of the truss girder are investigated. The tests showed excellent performance of the girder system in terms of strength and stiffness.
On the Diophantine equation $U_n-b^m = c$
Creators: name: Heintze, Sebastian
name: Tichy, Robert F.
name: Vukusic, Ingrid
name: Ziegler, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $(U_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a fixed linear recurrence sequence defined over the integers (with some technical restrictions). We prove that there exist effectively computable constants $B$ and $N_0$ such that for any $b,c\in \mathbb{Z}$ with $b> B$ the equation $U_n - b^m = c$ has at most two distinct solutions $(n,m)\in \mathbb{N}^2$ with $n\geq N_0$ and $m\geq 1$. Moreover, we apply our result to the special case of Tribonacci numbers given by $T_1= T_2=1$, $T_3=2$ and $T_{n}=T_{n-1}+T_{n-2}+T_{n-3}$ for $n\geq 4$. By means of the LLL-algorithm and continued fraction reduction we are able to prove $N_0=1.1\cdot 10^{37}$ and $B=e^{438}$. The corresponding reduction algorithm is implemented in Sage.
description: 34 pages
Mrk 1419 - a new distance determination
Creators: name: Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette
name: Braatz, James A.
name: Kuo, Cheng-Yu
name: Reid, Mark J.
name: Lo, K. Y.
name: Henkel, Christian
name: Condon, James J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Water vapor megamasers from the center of active galaxies provide a powerful tool to trace accretion disks at sub-parsec resolution and, through an entirely geometrical method, measure direct distances to galaxies up to 200 Mpc. The Megamaser Cosmology Project (MCP) is formed by a team of astronomers with the aim of identifying new maser systems, and mapping their emission at high angular resolution to determine their distance. Two types of observations are necessary to measure a distance: single-dish monitoring to measure the acceleration of gas in the disk, and sensitive VLBI imaging to measure the angular size of the disk, measure the rotation curve, and model radial displacement of the maser feature. The ultimate goal of the MCP is to make a precise measurement of H0 by measuring such distances to at least 10 maser galaxies in the Hubble flow. We present here the preliminary results from a new maser system, Mrk 1419. Through a model of the rotation from the systemic masers assuming a narrow ring, and combining these results with the acceleration measurement from the Green Bank Telescope, we determine a distance to Mrk 1419 of 81\pm10 Mpc. Given that the disk shows a significant warp that may not be entirely traced by our current observations, more sensitive observations and more sophisticated disk modeling will be essential to improve our distance estimation to this galaxy.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 287 "Cosmic Masers- from OH to Ho", in Stellenbosch, SA
Python Scripts Made To Help Predict Bacterial Oxygen Requirements Based On Proteome Composition
Creators: name: Dan B. Jensen; Center For Biological Sequence Analysis, Department Of Systems Biology, The Technical University Of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
name: David W. Ussery; Center For Biological Sequence Analysis, Department Of Systems Biology, The Technical University Of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, And Current Address
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: Additional file 7 Title: Trainer Description: Calculating likelihoods from PFAM training matrices Additional file 8 Title: Predicter Description: Predicting the classes of a genome's PFAM domain profile, based on the likelihood file created by the trainer Additional file 9 Title: Evaluator Description: Evaluates the predictive performance of the predicter, calculated as Matthew's Correlation Coefficient
description: Please be aware that this code is not being actively developed, as it is an archive of the code as it was at the time of publication in the associated F1000Research article. For the latest version of this code, please see https://github.com/danbjensen/Oxygen_requirement_prediction
Segmentation and Classification of Multi-Sensor Data Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Creators: name: Moussa, Adel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Geotechnology
subject: Segmentation
subject: Classification
subject: Multi-sensor data
subject: Artificial Intelligence

description: Vast amounts of remotely sensed data from a variety of remote sensors deployed on satellites and other platforms are collected regularly. This includes satellite images, aerial images, and Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. The continuous advancements of the remote sensing systems offered new enhanced data specifications that need evolving processing techniques to exploit the new abilities, resolutions, and accuracies in highly automatic fashion to overcome the slow costly yet accurate human processing. The main objective of this research is to develop a framework for classification of data acquired from different sensors in object based fashion using a flexible classification engine. A segmentation approach has been proposed where many similarity measures can be used interchangeably or collaboratively. This proposed approach minimizes the needed parameters and avoids the commonly used assumption of the same scale objects. Multiple data layers from different sources and specifications could be employed collaboratively in this approach with the ability of relative weighting of these layers to represent the relevance of each data layer. The performance of this approach has been compared to human segmentation for assessment. The achieved performance shows the significance of the proposed approach. Inspired by the flexibility and expandability of human classification abilities, A flexible classification methodology is proposed that can learn through reference data sets, employ rules in accumulative fashion, tolerate missing features, and extend to include new classes. An adaptive sequential classification approach has been proposed to further improve the classification performance. Several tests of different data sources including satellite images, aerial images, and LiDAR data have been conducted using the proposed classification methodologies. The achieved classification result demonstrates the significance of the proposed segmentation and classification approaches.
Study of participant-spectator matter and thermalization in isospin asymmetric systems
Creators: name: Gautam, Sakshi
name: Puri, Rajeev K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behavior of participant and spectator matter and thermalization in neutron rich systems at the energy of vanishing flow. Our study indicates that participant-spectator matter follows a similar behavior for neutron-rich systems and for systems lie on the stability line.
description: submitted to DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics, December 26-30, 2011, Department of Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P., India
title: การพัฒนาการเลี้ยงโคเนื้อที่บ้านน้ำจอก ตำบลแก อำเภอรัตนบุรี จังหวัดสุรินทร์
Creators: name: อาริยา สุจริต
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิชาการเพื่อพัฒนาท้องถิ่น
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: การพัฒนา
การเลี้ยงโคเนื้อ
บ้านน้ำโจ๊ก

description: วารสารวิชาการพัฒนาท้องถิ่น, 3, 1, 1-10
Additional file 1 of Human-centered implementation research: a new approach to develop and evaluate implementation strategies for strengthening referral networks for hypertension in western Kenya
Creators: name: Pillsbury, Mc Kinsey M.
name: Mwangi, Eunice
name: Andesia, Josephine
name: Njuguna, Benson
name: Bloomfield, Gerald S.
name: Chepchumba, Agneta
name: Kamano, Jemima
name: Mercer, Tim
name: Miheso, Juliet
name: Pastakia, Sonak D.
name: Pathak, Shravani
name: Thakkar, Aarti
name: Naanyu, Violet
name: Akwanalo, Constantine
name: Vedanthan, Rajesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Studies on enzyme-catalysed reactions
Creators: name: Ramos, Maria João
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: QM/MM
BioExcel Virtual Workshop on Best Practices in QM/MM Simulation of Biomolecular Systems

description: Part of the BioExcel Virtual Workshop on Best Practices in QM/MM Simulation of Biomolecular Systems Abstract This talk is concerned with the computational needs that we come across to figure out results within computational enzymology. Specific problems related to the establishment of enzymatic catalytic mechanisms are put forward, as well as a way to recognise the correct one.

 Single conformation QM/MM calculations, as well as multiple PES, more specifically related to the catalytic mechanism of human pancreatic alpha-amylase are reported and, at the end, averaging over an ensemble of conformations is also explained. Comparisons are made with the previously mentioned calculations. Included is also the benchmarking of density functionals that we usually carry out to find the best suited one for the system under study.

 Therefore, we have resorted to different methodologies and altogether different studies [1-4] in order to analyze the energetics of processes related to the systems under study and evaluate their feasibility according to the available experimental data. References [1] SF. Sousa, AJM Ribeiro, RPP Neves, NF Bras, NMFSA Cerqueira, PA. Fernandes, MJ. Ramos, WIREs, 2017, 7, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1281
 [2] RPP. Neves, PA. Fernandes, MJ. Ramos, PNAS, 2017, 114, E4724-E4733. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618985114
 [3] D. Santos-Martins, AR. Calixto, PA. Fernandes, MJ. Ramos, MJ, ACS Catalysis, 2018, 8, 4055-4063. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.7b04400
 [4] P. Ferreira, NMFSA. Cerqueira, PA. Fernandes, MJ. Romão, MJ. Ramos, ACS Catalysis, 2020, 10, 16, 9276-9286. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c02627
Variational Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection in Respiratory Sounds
Creators: name: Cozzatti, Michele
name: Simonetta, Federico
name: Ntalampiras, Stavros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a weakly-supervised machine learning-based approach aiming at a tool to alert patients about possible respiratory diseases. Various types of pathologies may affect the respiratory system, potentially leading to severe diseases and, in certain cases, death. In general, effective prevention practices are considered as major actors towards the improvement of the patient's health condition. The proposed method strives to realize an easily accessible tool for the automatic diagnosis of respiratory diseases. Specifically, the method leverages Variational Autoencoder architectures permitting the usage of training pipelines of limited complexity and relatively small-sized datasets. Importantly, it offers an accuracy of 57 %, which is in line with the existing strongly-supervised approaches.
description: Published at ICANN 2022