cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Variance-Gamma (VG) model: Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT)
Creators: name: Nzokem, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper examines the Fractional Fourier Transform (FRFT) based technique as a tool for obtaining the probability density function and its derivatives, and mainly for fitting stochastic model with the fundamental probabilistic relationships of infinite divisibility. The probability density functions are computed, and the distributional proprieties are reviewed for Variance-Gamma (VG) model. The VG model has been increasingly used as an alternative to the Classical Lognormal Model (CLM) in modelling asset prices. The VG model was estimated by the FRFT. The data comes from the SPY ETF historical data. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) goodness-of-fit shows that the VG model fits the cumulative distribution of the sample data better than the CLM. The best VG model comes from the FRFT estimation.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2104.07580
Fault tolerant authenticated quantum dialogue using logical Bell states
Creators: name: Ye, Tian-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two fault tolerant authenticated quantum dialogue (AQD) protocols are proposed in this paper by employing logical Bell states as the quantum resource, which combat the collective-dephasing noise and the collective-rotation noise, respectively. The two proposed protocols each can accomplish the mutual identity authentication and the dialogue between two participants simultaneously and securely over one kind of collective noise channels. In each of two proposed protocols, the information transmitted through the classical channel is assumed to be eavesdroppable and modifiable. The key for choosing the measurement bases of sample logical qubits is pre-shared privately between two participants. The Bell state measurements rather than the four-qubit joint measurements are adopted for decoding. The two participants share the initial states of message logical Bell states with resort to the direct transmission of auxiliary logical Bell states so that the information leakage problem is avoided. The impersonation attack, the man-in-the-middle attack, the modification attack and the Trojan horse attacks from Eve all are detectable.
description: 10 pages, 3 tables
Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency
Creators: name: Duinkharjav, Budmonde
name: Chakravarthula, Praneeth
name: Brown, Rachel
name: Patney, Anjul
name: Sun, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We aim to ask and answer an essential question "how quickly do we react after observing a displayed visual target?" To this end, we present psychophysical studies that characterize the remarkable disconnect between human saccadic behaviors and spatial visual acuity. Building on the results of our studies, we develop a perceptual model to predict temporal gaze behavior, particularly saccadic latency, as a function of the statistics of a displayed image. Specifically, we implement a neurologically-inspired probabilistic model that mimics the accumulation of confidence that leads to a perceptual decision. We validate our model with a series of objective measurements and user studies using an eye-tracked VR display. The results demonstrate that our model prediction is in statistical alignment with real-world human behavior. Further, we establish that many sub-threshold image modifications commonly introduced in graphics pipelines may significantly alter human reaction timing, even if the differences are visually undetectable. Finally, we show that our model can serve as a metric to predict and alter reaction latency of users in interactive computer graphics applications, thus may improve gaze-contingent rendering, design of virtual experiences, and player performance in e-sports. We illustrate this with two examples: estimating competition fairness in a video game with two different team colors, and tuning display viewing distance to minimize player reaction time.
Multi-Graph based Multi-Scenario Recommendation in Large-scale Online Video Services
Creators: name: Zhang, Fan
name: Peng, Qiuying
name: Wu, Yulin
name: Pan, Zheng
name: Zeng, Rong
name: Lin, Da
name: Qi, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, industrial recommendation services have been boosted by the continual upgrade of deep learning methods. However, they still face de-biasing challenges such as exposure bias and cold-start problem, where circulations of machine learning training on human interaction history leads algorithms to repeatedly suggest exposed items while ignoring less-active ones. Additional problems exist in multi-scenario platforms, e.g. appropriate data fusion from subsidiary scenarios, which we observe could be alleviated through graph structured data integration via message passing. In this paper, we present a multi-graph structured multi-scenario recommendation solution, which encapsulates interaction data across scenarios with multi-graph and obtains representation via graph learning. Extensive offline and online experiments on real-world datasets are conducted where the proposed method demonstrates an increase of 0.63% and 0.71% in CTR and Video Views per capita on new users over deployed set of baselines and outperforms regular method in increasing the number of outer-scenario videos by 25% and video watches by 116%, validating its superiority in activating cold videos and enriching target recommendation.
description: Accepted to WWW 2022 Graph Learning workshop
Galaxy and black hole co-evolution in synthetic galaxy catalogues
Creators: name: Bernyk, Maksym
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis a model of galaxy formation is built and added to a newly developed online virtual observatory infrastructure. The galaxy model includes a new physical description of active galactic nuclei jet feedback and its evolution. Mock observations are constructed with the virtual observatory and compared to real observations to study the properties of AGN. These mocks make predictions for upcoming galaxy surveys and can be used to interpret past survey results and other theoretical work.
Depletion of Resources by a Population of Diffusing Species
Creators: name: Grebenkov, Denis S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Depletion of natural and artificial resources is a fundamental problem and a potential cause of economic crises, ecological catastrophes, and death of living organisms. Understanding the depletion process is crucial for its further control and optimized replenishment of resources. In this paper, we investigate a stock depletion by a population of species that undergo an ordinary diffusion and consume resources upon each encounter with the stock. We derive the exact form of the probability density of the random depletion time, at which the stock is exhausted. The dependence of this distribution on the number of species, the initial amount of resources, and the geometric setting is analyzed. Future perspectives and related open problems are discussed.
Distribution of products of shifted primes in arithmetic progressions with increasing difference
Creators: name: Rakhmonov, Zarullo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11N05

description: We obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of primes $p\leq x_1$, $p\leq x_2$ such that $p_1(p_2+a)\equiv l \pmod q$ with $(a,q)=(l,q)=1$, $q\leq x^{κ_0}$, $x_1\geq x^{1-α}$, $x_2\geq x^α$, $$ κ_0=\frac{1}{2.5+θ+\varepsilon}, \quad α\in \left[(θ+\varepsilon)\frac{\ln q}{\ln x}, 1-2.5\frac{\ln q}{\ln x}\right], $$ where $θ=1/2$, if $q$ is a cube free and $θ=\frac{5}{6}$ otherwise. This is the refinement and generalization of the well-known formula of A.~A.~Karatsuba.\\ Keywords: {Dirichlet character, shifted primes, short sum of characters with primes}\\ Bibliography: 39 references
Implementation and evaluation of the Graded Repetitive Arm Supplementary Program (GRASP) for people with stroke in a real-world community setting : Case Report
Creators: name: Yang, Chieh-Ling
name: Bird, Marie-Louise
name: Eng, Janice
Publisher: name: Physical Therapy
Year: 2022

description: Objective: Exercise programs to improve upper extremity function following stroke in the community setting are needed as the length of hospital stay continues to reduce. However, little has been done to understand how to translate an evidence-based rehabilitation intervention to real-world programs. The purpose of the study is to undertake a process evaluation of the implementation of an evidence-based upper extremity rehabilitation intervention for stroke, the Graded Repetitive Arm Supplementary Program (GRASP), in a community setting. Case Description: A partnership between a nonprofit support organization and a local community center was established to deliver the program in the community. The RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) framework with mixed methods was used to evaluate the implementation. Results: REACH: Twenty people were screened, 14 people were eligible, and 13 consented to participate in the study. The program reached approximately 1.25 % of the potential target population. EFFECTIVENESS: Stroke participants demonstrated significant improvement in upper extremity function and quality of life as measured by the Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Scale, Action Research Arm Test, Rating of Everyday Arm-use in the Community and Home Scale, and Stroke Impact Scale. ADOPTION: Factors that facilitate program uptake were well planned implementation and the workplace coaching based on the audit results. Factors contributing to ongoing participation were the social support within the group environment and the instructor’s capability of engaging the group. IMPLEMENTATION: A partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local community center was established successfully. The program was implemented as intended as verified by a fidelity checklist. Participants’ adherence was high as confirmed by the average attendance and practice time. MAINTENANCE: Both the partner organization and community center continued to offer the program. Conclusion: The program had good fidelity of the critical principles and core components, and was effective in improving upper extremity function and quality of life. This partnership model may serve as the first step for future larger-scale implementation and can be used to move other stroke rehabilitation interventions into community settings.
Quartz Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonator with Microfluidic Chip as Sensor for Permittivity Measurement of Liquids
Creators: name: Gubin, Alexey I.
name: Protsenko, Irina A.
name: Barannik, Alexander A.
name: Vitusevich, Svetlana
name: Lavrinovich, Alexandr A.
name: Cherpak, Nickolay T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of biological solutions require high measurement accuracy, the ability to detect low changes in substance concentration, and small amounts of the liquid under test. A microwave complex permittivity measurement technique based on a high-quality-factor whispering-gallery-mode resonator with a microfluidic chip allows small amounts of dielectric liquids to be investigated with high accuracy. An existing technique based on a sapphire resonator does not provide for a low-concentration detection limit for substances with low molecular weight. Here, we present an advanced technique based on a quartz dielectric resonator. The detection limit obtained for glucose in water solution was found to be about one order of magnitude lower for the quartz resonator cell than for the sapphire-resonator-based measurement cell. The limit is about or lower than the concentration of glucose in human blood. This fact means that the technique can be used as the sensor for investigations of biological solutions in the microwave range. A study of glucose, lactalbumin, and bovine serum albumin was successfully performed in the Ka -band using the developed sensor.
Generating Simple Directed Social Network Graphs for Information Spreading
Creators: name: Schweimer, Christoph
name: Gfrerer, Christine
name: Lugstein, Florian
name: Pape, David
name: Velimsky, Jan A.
name: Elsässer, Robert
name: Geiger, Bernhard C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online social networks are a dominant medium in everyday life to stay in contact with friends and to share information. In Twitter, users can connect with other users by following them, who in turn can follow back. In recent years, researchers studied several properties of social networks and designed random graph models to describe them. Many of these approaches either focus on the generation of undirected graphs or on the creation of directed graphs without modeling the dependencies between reciprocal (i.e., two directed edges of opposite direction between two nodes) and directed edges. We propose an approach to generate directed social network graphs that creates reciprocal and directed edges and considers the correlation between the respective degree sequences. Our model relies on crawled directed graphs in Twitter, on which information w.r.t. a topic is exchanged or disseminated. While these graphs exhibit a high clustering coefficient and small average distances between random node pairs (which is typical in real-world networks), their degree sequences seem to follow a $χ^2$-distribution rather than power law. To achieve high clustering coefficients, we apply an edge rewiring procedure that preserves the node degrees. We compare the crawled and the created graphs, and simulate certain algorithms for information dissemination and epidemic spreading on them. The results show that the created graphs exhibit very similar topological and algorithmic properties as the real-world graphs, providing evidence that they can be used as surrogates in social network analysis. Furthermore, our model is highly scalable, which enables us to create graphs of arbitrary size with almost the same properties as the corresponding real-world networks.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures; published at ACM Web Conference 2022
HBM4EU combines and harmonises human biomonitoring data across the EU, building on existing capacity
Creators: name: Fiddicke, Ulrike
name: Gilles, Liese
name: Govarts, Eva
name: Rambaud, Loïc
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Vogel, Nina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring

description: As part of the Human Biomonitoring for Europe (HBM4EU) initiative a human biomonitoring (HBM) survey is conducted in 21 countries. This survey builds on existing HBM capacity in Europe by aligning national or regional HBM studies. The survey targets 3 age groups (i) children aged 6-11 years, (ii) teenagers aged 12-19 years and (iii) young adults aged 20-39 years and includes a total of 9493 participants (3151 children, 2953 teenagers and 3389 young adults). Depending on the age group, internal exposure to phthalates and substitute Hexamoll® DINCH, brominated and organophosphorus flame retardants, per-/poly-fluorinated compounds, cadmium, bisphenols and/or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are assessed. The main goal of the programme is to obtain quality controlled and comparable HBM data of exposure to chemicals, prioritized under HBM4EU, with European wide coverage to inform the development of environment and health policies. This paper describes the framework of the HBM4EU survey and the approach that has been applied to align European HBM initiatives across Europe. © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
Are GAN-based Morphs Threatening Face Recognition?
Creators: name: Sarkar, Eklavya
name: Korshunov, Pavel
name: Colbois, Laurent
name: Marcel, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Morphing attacks are a threat to biometric systems where the biometric reference in an identity document can be altered. This form of attack presents an important issue in applications relying on identity documents such as border security or access control. Research in generation of face morphs and their detection is developing rapidly, however very few datasets with morphing attacks and open-source detection toolkits are publicly available. This paper bridges this gap by providing two datasets and the corresponding code for four types of morphing attacks: two that rely on facial landmarks based on OpenCV and FaceMorpher, and two that use StyleGAN 2 to generate synthetic morphs. We also conduct extensive experiments to assess the vulnerability of four state-of-the-art face recognition systems, including FaceNet, VGG-Face, ArcFace, and ISV. Surprisingly, the experiments demonstrate that, although visually more appealing, morphs based on StyleGAN 2 do not pose a significant threat to the state to face recognition systems, as these morphs were outmatched by the simple morphs that are based facial landmarks.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2012.05344
Recent developments in population policy in Australia: the demographic setting
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The major parties are moving away from an exclusive pre-occupation with immigration to a broader focus on population policy and the Minister for Immigration has expressed an implicit preference for a population of 23 million. The contributions in this section of People and Place document his concerns together with those of the shadow Minister. They also provide demographic analyses which show that the Minister's goal will be hard to achieve. This is largely because of the exceptionally high migration of the Hawke years.
Exome sequencing enables diagnosis of X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia in patient with eosinophilic esophagitis and severe atopy
Creators: name: Modi, Bhavi P.
name: Del Bel, Kate L.
name: Lin, Susan
name: Sharma, Mehul
name: Richmond, Phillip A.
name: Van Karnebeek, Clara D. M.
name: Chan, Edmond S.
name: Avinashi, Vishal
name: Rehmus, Wingfield E.
name: Biggs, Catherine M.
name: Wasserman, Wyeth W.
name: Turvey, Stuart E.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XLHED) is the most common form of ectodermal dysplasia. Clinical and genetic heterogeneity between different ectodermal dysplasia types and evidence of incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity increase the potential for misdiagnosis. We describe a family with X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XLHED) presenting with variable expressivity of symptoms between affected siblings. In addition to the classical signs of hypohidrosis, hypotrichosis and hypodontia, the index patient—a 5 year old boy, also presented with a severe atopy phenotype that was not observed in the other two affected brothers. Exome sequencing in the index and the mother identified a pathogenic nonsense variant in EDA (NM_001399.4: c.766 C>T; p. Gln256Ter). This study highlights how exome sequencing was crucial in establishing a precise molecular diagnosis of XLHED by enabling us to rule out other differential diagnoses including NEMO deficiency syndrome, that was initially presented as a clinical diagnosis to the family.
Parallel Parking: Optimal Entry and Minimum Slot Dimensions
Creators: name: Vlasak, Jiri
name: Sojka, Michal
name: Hanzálek, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of path planning for automated parking is usually presented as finding a collision-free path from initial to goal positions, where three out of four parking slot edges represent obstacles. We rethink the path planning problem for parallel parking by decomposing it into two independent parts. The topic of this paper is finding optimal parking slot entry positions. Path planning from initial to entry position is out of scope here. We show the relation between entry positions, parking slot dimensions, and the number of backward-forward direction changes. This information can be used as an input to optimize other parts of the automated parking process.
description: 14 pages (title + 9 of paper + 4 of appendix), 11 (paper) + 4 (appendix) figures, sent to VEHITS 2022 conference
title: Подготовка архивной реформы 1870-х гг. и создание Археологического института
Creators: name: Колышницына, Н. В.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: На рубеже 1860–1870-х гг. сенатор Н. В. Калачов, возглавлявший архив Министерства юстиции, вышел с предложением об устройстве в губерниях центральных исторических архивов с целью наилучшего сохранения и дальнейшего правильного использования архивных документов. С этой целью в 1878 г. и было открыто первое в России специальное учебное заведение, осуществлявшее подготовку специалистов в области архивоведения и археологии.

Ключевые слова: археологический съезд, Археологический институт, архивная реформа, вольнослушатели.
Parametric Reshaping of Portraits in Videos
Creators: name: Tang, Xiangjun
name: Sun, Wenxin
name: Yang, Yong-Liang
name: Jin, Xiaogang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sharing short personalized videos to various social media networks has become quite popular in recent years. This raises the need for digital retouching of portraits in videos. However, applying portrait image editing directly on portrait video frames cannot generate smooth and stable video sequences. To this end, we present a robust and easy-to-use parametric method to reshape the portrait in a video to produce smooth retouched results. Given an input portrait video, our method consists of two main stages: stabilized face reconstruction, and continuous video reshaping. In the first stage, we start by estimating face rigid pose transformations across video frames. Then we jointly optimize multiple frames to reconstruct an accurate face identity, followed by recovering face expressions over the entire video. In the second stage, we first reshape the reconstructed 3D face using a parametric reshaping model reflecting the weight change of the face, and then utilize the reshaped 3D face to guide the warping of video frames. We develop a novel signed distance function based dense mapping method for the warping between face contours before and after reshaping, resulting in stable warped video frames with minimum distortions. In addition, we use the 3D structure of the face to correct the dense mapping to achieve temporal consistency. We generate the final result by minimizing the background distortion through optimizing a content-aware warping mesh. Extensive experiments show that our method is able to create visually pleasing results by adjusting a simple reshaping parameter, which facilitates portrait video editing for social media and visual effects.
Effect of oxide scale failure in hot steel rolling on subsequent hydraulic descaling: numerical simulation
Creators: name: Krzyzanowski, M.
name: Beynon, J. H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A thermal-solid model has been applied to simulate the behaviour of secondary oxide on the surface of the strip during hydraulic de scaling. This model uses the finite element method with detailed modelling of the roll, stock and an oxide layer on the stock. The model allows for the analysis of deformation, viscous sliding along the oxide/metal interface, cracking and spallation of the oxide scale from the metal surface. The oxide scale failure is predicted taking into account temperature dependence of the main physical phenomena, namely thelmal expansion, stress-directed diffusion, fracture and adhesion. A water jet impinging on a hot stock surface with oxide scales, cracked and partly spalled after the rolling pass, is simulated as transient boundary conditions for pressure and heat transfer on the basis of available results of experimental investigations and theoretical assumptions of hydraulic descaling. The boundary conditions are dependent on descaling conditions, such as spraying pressure, discharge rate, spray angle and spraying distance. The mechanism of descaling at hot rolling temperature is investigated from the analysis of operational factors in hot strip rolling and the study of oxide scale and oxide/metal interface properties. An investigation is made of the temperature fields during hydraulic descaling of heated steel strip and the associated thermal stresses contributing to separation the scale from the metal surface. The descalability of steel is strongly influenced by the state of failure in the scale after rolling, characterised by the presence of through-thickness cracks and partly spalled scale fragments. The measurement of separation loads, critical for the modelling of through-thickness cracking or failure due to crack propagation along the oxide/metal interface, is discussed. The results of the computer-based modelling are discussed with regard to the availability of measured data and model assumptions and simplifications.
A Camera Intrinsic Matrix-Free Calibration Method for Laser Triangulation Sensor
Creators: name: Chen, Xuzhan
name: Chen, Youping
name: Chen, Bing
name: He, Zhuo
name: Ma, Yunxiu
name: Zhang, Dailin
name: Najjaran, Homayoun
name: Najjaran, Homayoun
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Laser triangulation sensors (LTS) are widely used to acquire depth information in industrial applications. However, the parameters of the components, e.g., the camera, of the off-the-shelf LTS are typically unknown. This makes it difficult to recalibrate the degenerated LTS devices during regular maintenance operations. In this paper, a novel one-dimensional target-based camera intrinsic matrix-free LTS calibration method is proposed. In contrast to conventional methods that calibrate the LTS based on the precise camera intrinsic matrix, we formulate the LTS calibration as an optimization problem taking all parameters of the LTS into account, simultaneously. In this way, many pairs of the camera intrinsic matrix and the equation of the laser plane can be solved and different pairs of parameters are equivalent for displacement measurement. A closed-form solution of the position of the one-dimensional target is proposed to make the parameters of the LTS optimizable. The results of simulations and experiments show that the proposed method can calibrate the LTS without knowing the camera intrinsic matrix. In addition, the proposed approach significantly improves the displacement measurement precision of the LTS after calibration. In conclusion, the proposed method proved that the precise camera intrinsic matrix is not the necessary condition for LTS displacement measurement.
Sustainable control of mosquito larvae in the field by the combined actions of the biological insecticide Bti and natural competitors
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biologische Schädlingsbekämpfung
Besiedlung
Insektizid

description: Integrated management of mosquitoes is becoming increasingly important, particularly in relation to avoiding recolonization of ponds after larvicide treatment. We conducted for the first time field experiments that involved exposing natural populations of the mosquito species Culex pipiens to: a) application of the biological insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), b) the introduction of natural competitors (a crustacean community composed mainly of Daphnia spp.), or c) a combined treatment that involved both introduction of a crustacean community and the application of Bti. The treatment that involved only the introduction of crustaceans had no significant effect on mosquito larval populations, while treatment with Bti alone caused only a significant reduction in the abundance of mosquito larvae in the short-term (within 3-10 days after treatment). In contrast, the combined treatment rapidly reduced the abundance of mosquito larvae, which remained low throughout the entire observation period of 28 days. Growth of the introduced crustacean communities was favored by the immediate reduction in the abundance of mosquito larvae following Bti administration, thus preventing recolonization of ponds by mosquito larvae at the late period (days 14-28 after treatment). Both competition and the temporal order of establishment of different species are hence important mechanisms for efficient and sustainable mosquito control.Quelle: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Real-time Controllable Motion Transition for Characters
Creators: name: Tang, Xiangjun
name: Wang, He
name: Hu, Bo
name: Gong, Xu
name: Yi, Ruifan
name: Kou, Qilong
name: Jin, Xiaogang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Real-time in-between motion generation is universally required in games and highly desirable in existing animation pipelines. Its core challenge lies in the need to satisfy three critical conditions simultaneously: quality, controllability and speed, which renders any methods that need offline computation (or post-processing) or cannot incorporate (often unpredictable) user control undesirable. To this end, we propose a new real-time transition method to address the aforementioned challenges. Our approach consists of two key components: motion manifold and conditional transitioning. The former learns the important low-level motion features and their dynamics; while the latter synthesizes transitions conditioned on a target frame and the desired transition duration. We first learn a motion manifold that explicitly models the intrinsic transition stochasticity in human motions via a multi-modal mapping mechanism. Then, during generation, we design a transition model which is essentially a sampling strategy to sample from the learned manifold, based on the target frame and the aimed transition duration. We validate our method on different datasets in tasks where no post-processing or offline computation is allowed. Through exhaustive evaluation and comparison, we show that our method is able to generate high-quality motions measured under multiple metrics. Our method is also robust under various target frames (with extreme cases).
Is there a home ground advantage in one-day cricket? Using sport as a catalyst for the study of statistics
Creators: name: Allsopp, Paul
name: Clarke, Stephen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The analysis of sport generally stimulates widespread interest but unfortunately a great deal of the statistical detail made available for public consumption is not as informative as it. could be. One area of sport that attracts constant discussion is home ground advantage. A team's perceived home ground advantage is generally considered to be a contributing factor to their winning potential when playing at home, Familiarity of conditions and home crowd support are just two factors that could contribute to a team's advantage on its home turf, As a consequence home ground advantage has undergone extensive analysis in a range of sports but the game of cricket has only attracted marginal interest. In this paper ',re will briefly explore a number of methods that can be used to investigate home ground advantage in one-day cricket and then specifically look at home ground advantage in the Australian domestic one-day cricket competition.
title: Заболеваемость колоректальным раком
Creators: name: Жарникова, Т. Н.
name: Иванов, П. М.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Результаты проведенного ретроспективного анализа статистики заболеваемости населения злокачественными опухолями ободочной и прямой кишки по полу и возрасту позволяют прийти к обоснованному выводу, что в Республике Саха колоректальный рак относится к опухолям с довольно быстрым темпом роста заболеваемости. Рост числа больных, заболевших раком прямой и ободочной кишки, в основном обусловлен наличием неблагоприятной для Якутии демографической ситуации, характеризующейся «постарением» населения.
Abfall - globales Problem oder globales Potenzial?
Creators: name: Rechenberg, Bettina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Abfallvermeidung
Abfall
Recycling
Schrott
Abfallwirtschaft
Rohstoff
Kreislaufwirtschaft

description: Seit Mitte 2019 nahmen Schlagzeilen über einen zunehmenden Export von Kunststoffabfällen aus Europa in asiatische Länder wie Indonesien und Malaysia zu, nachdem China im Februar 2018 einen Importstopp verhängt hatte. Bilder von riesigen Halden von aus Europa importierten Elektrogeräten in Agbogbloshie am Rand der Hauptstadt Accra machten schon vorher die mediale Runde. Abfall scheint ein zunehmendes globales Problem zu sein. Doch im Abfall steckt ein riesiges Rohstoffpotenzial, das genutzt werden muss. Quelle: https://www.westermann.de
Is Australia another Anglo-American country? A review of the Australian business cultural stereotype
Creators: name: Rees, Murray
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper links Hofstede's work with more recent research comparing the Australian business culture with that of the United States to see if Australia is another Anglo-American culture or does it have its own unique cultural stereotype. Findings include support for Hofstede’s dimensions, except Power Distance and Individualism. There are also some dichotomies between Hofstede’s dimension connotations for the Australian business culture too. There is a need to scientifically measure the Australian Business Culture against other cultures to develop a more complete Australian stereotype.
On the Turbulent Behavior of a Magnetically Confined Plasma Near the X-Point
Creators: name: Montani, Giovanni
name: Carlevaro, Nakia
name: Tirozzi, Brunello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a model for the turbulence near the X-point of a Tokamak device and, under suitable assumptions, we arrive to a closed equation for the electric field potential fluctuations. The analytical and numerical analysis is focused on a reduced two-dimensional formulation of the dynamics, which allows a direct mapping to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. The main merit of this study is to outline how the turbulence near the X-point, in correspondence to typical operation conditions of medium and large size Tokamaks, is dominated by the enstrophy cascade from large to smaller spatial scales.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures
Beyond Proteostasis: Lipid Metabolism as a New Player in ER Homeostasis
Creators: name: Xu, Jiaming
name: Taubert, Stefan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Biological membranes are not only essential barriers that separate cellular and subcellular structures, but also perform other critical functions such as the initiation and propagation of intra- and intercellular signals. Each membrane-delineated organelle has a tightly regulated and custom-made membrane lipid composition that is critical for its normal function. The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) consists of a dynamic membrane network that is required for the synthesis and modification of proteins and lipids. The accumulation of unfolded proteins in the ER lumen activates an adaptive stress response known as the unfolded protein response (UPR-ER). Interestingly, recent findings show that lipid perturbation is also a direct activator of the UPR-ER, independent of protein misfolding. Here, we review proteostasis-independent UPR-ER activation in the genetically tractable model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. We review the current knowledge on the membrane lipid composition of the ER, its impact on organelle function and UPR-ER activation, and its potential role in human metabolic diseases. Further, we summarize the bi-directional interplay between lipid metabolism and the UPR-ER. We discuss recent progress identifying the different respective mechanisms by which disturbed proteostasis and lipid bilayer stress activate the UPR-ER. Finally, we consider how genetic and metabolic disturbances may disrupt ER homeostasis and activate the UPR and discuss how using -omics-type analyses will lead to more comprehensive insights into these processes.
Experimental study of the interaction of two laser-driven radiative shocks at the PALS laser
Creators: name: Singh, R. L.
name: Stehle, C.
name: Suzuki-Vidal, F.
name: Kozlova, M.
name: Larour, J.
name: Chaulagain, U.
name: Clayson, T.
name: Rodriguez, R.
name: Gil, J. M.
name: Nejdl, J.
name: Krus, M.
name: Dostal, J.
name: Dudzak, R.
name: Barroso, P.
name: Acef, O.
name: Cotelo, M.
name: Velarde, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiative shocks (RS) are complex phenomena which are ubiquitous in astrophysical environments. The study of such hypersonic shocks in the laboratory, under controlled conditions, is of primary interest to understand the physics at play and also to check the ability of numerical simulations to reproduce the experimental results. In this context, we conducted, at the Prague Asterix Laser System facility (PALS), the first experiments dedicated to the study of two counter-propagating radiative shocks propagating at non-equal speeds up to 25-50 km/s in noble gases at pressures ranging between 0.1 and 0.6 bar. These experiments highlighted the interaction between the two radiative precursors. This interaction is qualitatively but not quantitatively described by 1D simulations. Preliminary results obtained with XUV spectroscopy leading to the estimation of shock temperature and ion charge of the plasma are also presented.
Foresight: learning from the future
Creators: name: Conway, Maree
name: Voros, Joseph
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Universities are undergoing a process of transformation as their purpose, their relevance and the way their work is carried out is challenged. The increasingly global marketplace for higher education requires a perspective very different to traditional strategic planning. What will be the impact of transformation and globalisation on the university as an organisation? How should universities respond to position themselves for the future, 10-20 years hence? And how should individual universities plan for the future? Foresight is a process which allows people in an organisation to develop a coherent forward view and to imagine, explore and assess a range of possible futures. It is not about prediction, but it is about informing strategy. Foresight is used extensively by both business and governments across the world including the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan, Germany and Australia. In education, foresight is manifested in academic programs in futures studies and in scenario planning. Thinking about the future is not new – foresight is an innate human capacity and we all do it to some degree already. Foresight seeks to tap into these existing capacities to inform organisational planning and to use the outcomes in organisationally useful ways. This paper will Research report on how foresight is being introduced into the strategy processes at Swinburne University of Technology. Initial implementation is by the use of scenarios within the framework of a broader educational process designed to introduce the organisation to foresight, its purpose, methodologies and benefits. The paper will provide information about the process, the results to date and, perhaps most importantly, the challenges and surprises encountered in introducing an approach which sounds a bit too much like crystal ball gazing.
title: Заболеваемость раком почки в биоклиматических и экологических зонах Приморского края
Creators: name: Писарева, Писарева
name: Алексеева, Г. Н.
name: Ляхова, Н. П.
name: Гурина, Л. И.
name: Чердынцева, Н. В.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: На различных территориях выявлены причинно-следственные связи влияния неблагоприятных факторов на заболеваемость раком почки населения Приморского края, установлена связь с воздействием антропотехногенной нагрузки (природных социальных факторов среды обитания), что дало возможность раз-работать научно обоснованные комплексные приоритетные профилактические мероприятия для конкретных территорий, направленные на снижение заболеваемости и смертности от рака почки.
500 W rod-type 4x4 multi-core ultrafast fiber laser
Creators: name: Klenke, A.
name: Steinkopff, A.
name: Aleshire, C.
name: Jauregui, C.
name: Kuhn, S.
name: Nold, J.
name: Hupel, C.
name: Hein, S.
name: Schulze, S.
name: Haarlammert, N.
name: Schreiber, T.
name: Tünnermann, A.
name: Limpert, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a coherently-combined femtosecond fiber CPA system based on a rod-type, Ytterbium-doped, multicore fiber with 4x4 cores. A high average power of up to 500 W (after combination and compression) could be achieved at 10 MHz repetition rate with an excellent beam quality. Additionally, <500 fs pulses with up to 600 uJ of pulse energy were also realized with this setup. This architecture is intrinsically power scalable by increasing the number of cores in the fiber.
HASS Data Curation Framework (DCF)
Creators: name: Jones, Mike
name: Mihelcic, Joanne
Publisher: name: The University of Melbourne
Year: 2020
Subjects: classificationCode: 430204
subject: Digital heritage
classificationCode: 470201
subject: Arts and cultural policy

description: The final report product of an investigation into data curation requirements with data custodians and Humanities Arts and Social Science (HASS) researchers. The Tinker (HASS DEVL) Project began with a scoping study, identifying existing frameworks and principles, and developing a high-level Data Curation Framework to test with experts around Australia. Also attached is an excerpt of a deeper case study into two significant research collections which informed and complimented the DCF.Elements of this work became the focus for round table discussions, held in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide. These invaluable sessions provided an opportunity to talk about the concept of "data curation", existing frameworks, and gaps in existing resources. The discussions also aimed to find out more about what a HASS data curation framework contains, and how it should be represented to potential users. Findings from the workshops are available here.Building on data curation capability for HASS the activity was viewed as an ongoing process. These first steps are considered foundations to be continued, that can aid in connecting existing resources through key data curation concepts, to provide case studies and other material to help make collections of data more usable, interoperable, and sustainable. The DCF aims to provide:A clear common language: - shared understanding between collaborators/custodians - to work through the challenges associated with data curation - consistent means for describing curation that has been applied - conceptual model to understand tools, standards, systems, processes to improve DC - conceptual lens to explore gaps - towards HASS data increasingly accessible, understandable, and usable over timeSpecifically for HASS researchers, research teams, and other custodians responsible – for the curation of reference datasets, of current or ongoing value.To help researchers and data custodians understand, evaluate, and apply these existing standards and policies more effectively.
'Orientation module' to increase ease of access to online discussion forum for postgraduate students
Creators: name: Brace-Govan, Jan
name: Luxton, Sandra
name: Wagstaff, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Evidence from evaluation studies indicated that ensuring a smooth start to the semester would enhance the experience of online learning for both students and staff. The development and evaluation of an 'Orientation Module', that combined technical and social purposes, is reflected on here. The module was found to significantly increase the ease with which students accessed their online learning environment.
In-situ reactions between recycled polythene terephthalate and nylon 6 blends
Creators: name: Kegel, Mark
name: Sbarski, Igor
name: Iovenitti, Pio
name: Masood, Syed
name: Kosior, Edward
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The interaction between nylon 6 and recycled polyethylene terephthalate was investigated by extrusion blending followed by heating in a vacuum oven for various periods of time. The products were analysed by DSC and FTIR, and the results are discussed in terms of the in-situ formation of a compatibiliser between the two incompatible phases in the blend, by a condensation reaction between ester and amine groups.
Assessing the efficacy of tablet-based simulations for learning pseudo-surgical instrumentation
Creators: name: Kryklywy, J. H.
name: Roach, Victoria A.
name: Todd, Rebecca M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Nurses and surgeons must identify and handle specialized instruments with high temporal and spatial precision. It is crucial that they are trained effectively. Traditional training methods include supervised practices and text-based study, which may expose patients to undue risk during practice procedures and lack motor/haptic training respectively. Tabletbased simulations have been proposed to mediate some of these limitations. We implemented a learning task that simulates surgical instrumentation nomenclature encountered by novice perioperative nurses. Learning was assessed following training in three distinct conditions: tablet-based simulations, text-based study, and real-world practice. Immediately following a 30-minute training period, instrument identification was performed with comparable accuracy and response times following tablet-based versus text-based training, with both being inferior to real-world practice. Following a week without practice, response times were equivalent between real-world and tablet-based practice. While tablet-based training does not achieve equivalent results in instrument identification accuracy as real-world practice, more practice repetitions in simulated environments may help reduce performance decline. This project has established a technological framework to assess how we can implement simulated educational environments in a maximally beneficial manner. [The datasets for this publication are available in cIRcle: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/76845]
Design pattern modelling and instantiation using DPML
Creators: name: Mapelsden, David
name: Hosking, John
name: Grundy, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We describe the Design Pattern Modelling Language, a notation supporting the specification of design pattern solutions and their instantiation into UML design models. DPML provides a set of modelling constructs allowing design pattern solutions to be modelled and reused. A corresponding notation links design pattern solution elements to UML model elements, verifying fulfilment of the design pattern in the UML model. A prototype tool is described, together with an evaluation of the language and tool.