cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Systems of Innovation in Central and Eastern European countries: Path of Economic Transition and Differences in Institutions
Creators: name: Shkolnykova, Mariia
name: Steffens, Lasse
name: Wedemeier, Jan
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Central and Eastern European Countries
subject: Economic growth
subject: Innovation
subject: Institution
subject: GDP
subject: 330

description: Against the background of the current political developments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, like Ukraine, Poland, and Romania, the question arises what role the transformation of the economy and the resulting innovation linkages have played in these countries. This paper addresses this issue by exploring the impact of economic and institutional dimensions on the development of CEE countries, thereby explicitly distinguishing between European Union (EU) members and non-members. First of all, the performance development of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the CEE countries and Western European countries is observed. In a further analysis step, the development of EU members is compared with that of CEE countries that are non-members of the EU. This paper estimates the impact of such factors as innovation, institutions, and political practices on the economic development of 37 European countries for the period from 2000 until 2020 by using a panel regression. The results of the analysis show that institutions matter, especially for non-EU-member CEE countries. Stable institutions—such as freedom of the press, freedom of expression, but also high levels of the Human Development Index—help countries to achieve a higher income development over time. The role of the innovative ability of countries is also decisive for a positive development.
Additional file 1 of Drivers influencing the adoption of cryptocurrency: a social network analysis approach
Creators: name: Kajol, K.
name: Devarakonda, Srijanani
name: Singh, Ranjit
name: Baker, H. Kent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file1.
SUSY dark matter(s)
Creators: name: Catena, Riccardo
name: Covi, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review here the status of different dark matter candidates in the context of supersymmetric models, in particular the neutralino as a realization of the WIMP-mechanism and the gravitino. We give a summary of the recent bounds in direct and indirect detection and also of the LHC searches relevant for the dark matter question. We discuss also the implications of the Higgs discovery for the supersymmetric dark matter models and give the prospects for the future years.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Laser Ar-40/Ar-39 age constraints on Miocene sequences from the Bengal basin: Implications for middle Miocene denudation of the eastern Himalayas
Creators: name: Hames, Willis
name: Uddin, Ashraf
name: Zahid, Khandaker
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2010
Subjects: geochemistry
geophysics
siwalik sediments
white mica

description: Petrographic, mineral-chemistry and subsurface studies reveal that orogenic sedimentation had already begun in the Bengal basin by the early Miocene. Laser Ar-40/Ar-39 age determinations were made for detrital muscovite grains (145 total, among 4 samples) from the lower-to-middle Miocene Bhuban Formation. The laser fusion ages range from circa 12 Ma to 516 Ma, and thus suggest derivation from a combination of sources: the Himalayas, Indo-Burman ranges and possibly the Indian shield and Tibetan plateau. Modes of circa 16 Ma, 18 Ma, 26 and 40 Ma in the age distributions of these samples are most consistent with unroofing of the Higher Himalayas since the early Miocene. Detrital micas of such an early age (16 Ma) for the Bhuban Formation are interpreted to indicate that little time elapsed between the isotopic closure of Ar-40 in the muscovite and its ultimate deposition in middle Miocene strata. The detrital ages of circa 16 and 22 Ma in this study, most prominent in the highest stratigraphic levels sampled in this study, are younger than those previously reported in the western Himalayan foreland basins. These younger detrital ages are consistent with rapid middle Miocene unroofing and erosion as has been proposed for crystalline rocks of the eastern Himalayas. The minimum Ar-40/Ar-39 ages for muscovite in a particular sample seem proportional to the stratigraphic level sampled, i.e., younger ages tend to occur for samples of higher stratigraphic level. These results support earlier studies indicating that detrital geochronology can be used as an effective tool in evaluating stratigraphic ages.
Cryptomys Gray 1864
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Bathyergidae
Cryptomys

description: Cryptomys Gray, 1864. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864: 124. TYPE SPECIES: Georychus holosericeus Wagner, 1842 (= Bathyergus hottentotus Lesson, 1826). SYNONYMS: Coetomys, Typhloryctes. COMMENTS: Originally a subgenus of Georychus. See review by Nevo et al. (1987).
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 771, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["Nevo, E., R. Ben-Shlomo, A. Beiles, J. U. M. Jarvis, and G. C. Hickman. 1987. Allozyme differentiation and systematics of the endemic subterranean mole rats of South Africa. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 15: 489 - 502."]}
Synthetic light curves and spectra for three-dimensional delayed-detonation models of Type Ia supernovae
Creators: name: Sim, S. A.
name: Seitenzahl, I. R.
name: Kromer, M.
name: Ciaraldi-Schoolmann, F.
name: Röpke, F. K.
name: Fink, M.
name: Hillebrandt, W.
name: Pakmor, R.
name: Ruiter, A. J.
name: Taubenberger, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a companion paper, Seitenzahl et al. (2013) presented a set of three-dimensional delayed detonation models for thermonuclear explosions of near-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs (WDs). Here, we present multi-dimensional radiative transfer simulations that provide synthetic light curves and spectra for those models. The model sequence explores both changes in the strength of the deflagration phase (controlled by the ignition configuration) and the WD central density. In agreement with previous studies, we find that the strength of the deflagration significantly affects the explosion and the observables. Variations in the central density also have an influence on both brightness and colour, but overall it is a secondary parameter in our set of models. In many respects, the models yield a good match to normal Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia): peak brightness, rise/decline time scales and synthetic spectra are all in reasonable agreement. There are, however, several differences. In particular, the models are too red around maximum light, manifest spectral line velocities that are a little too high and yield I-band light curves that do not match observations. Although some of these discrepancies may simply relate to approximations made in the modelling, some pose real challenges to the models. If viewed as a complete sequence, our models do not reproduce the observed light-curve width-luminosity relation (WLR) of SNe Ia: all our models show similar B-band decline rates, irrespective of peak brightness. This suggests that simple variations in the strength of the deflagration phase in Chandrasekhar-mass deflagration-to-detonation models do not readily explain the observed diversity of normal SNe Ia. This may imply that some other parameter within the Chandrasekhar-mass paradigm is key to the WLR, or that a substantial fraction of normal SNe Ia arise from an alternative explosion scenario.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Inequality in Societies, Academic Institutions and Science Journals: Gini and k-indices
Creators: name: Ghosh, Asim
name: Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa
name: Chakrabarti, Bikas K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social inequality is traditionally measured by the Gini-index ($g$). The $g$-index takes values from $0$ to $1$ where $g=0$ represents complete equality and $g=1$ represents complete inequality. Most of the estimates of the income or wealth data indicate the $g$ value to be widely dispersed across the countries of the world: \textit{g} values typically range from $0.30$ to $0.65$ at a particular time (year). We estimated similarly the Gini-index for the citations earned by the yearly publications of various academic institutions and the science journals. The ISI web of science data suggests remarkably strong inequality and universality ($g=0.70\pm0.07$) across all the universities and institutions of the world, while for the journals we find $g=0.65\pm0.15$ for any typical year. We define a new inequality measure, namely the $k$-index, saying that the cumulative income or citations of ($1-k$) fraction of people or papers exceed those earned by the fraction ($k$) of the people or publications respectively. We find, while the $k$-index value for income ranges from $0.60$ to $0.75$ for income distributions across the world, it has a value around $0.75\pm0.05$ for different universities and institutions across the world and around $0.77\pm0.10$ for the science journals. Apart from above indices, we also analyze the same institution and journal citation data by measuring Pietra index and median index.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for Optimizing Limited Training Resources for Local Impact
Creators: name: Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey
name: Gutnik, Alyssa L.
name: Chandler, Thomas E.
name: Frye, Noelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Emergency management
Hurricane Sandy (2012)
Public health personnel--Training of
Continuing education

description: Professional training development, whether for a classroom, work environment, or other setting, typically follows a validated instructional design model that includes an assessment of learner needs before the development of a training. This foundational principle is integrated into federal guidance documents for emergency preparedness training. That said, local preparedness resources are sometimes in misalignment with this principle. Funding tends to favor nationally defined priorities as a proxy for the assessment of local needs. This letter explores this dynamic in the context of the response to Superstorm Sandy, and proposes a revised funding paradigm to support training development.
Cryptomys bocagei
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Bathyergidae
Cryptomys
Cryptomys bocagei

description: Cryptomys bocagei (de Winton, 1897). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 20:323. TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Hanha. DISTRIBUTION: C Angola, NW Zambia, S Zaire. SYNONYMS: kubangensis.
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 771, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
Crisis Decision-Making During Hurricane Sandy: An Analysis of Established and Emergent Disaster Response Behaviors in the New York Metro Area
Creators: name: Chandler, Thomas E.
name: Abramson, David M.
name: Panigrahi, Benita
name: Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey
name: Frye, Noelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Hurricane Sandy (2012)
Emergency management
Emergency management--Decision making
Public health personnel
Health planning

description: Objective This collective case study examined how and why specific organizational decision-making processes transpired at 2 large suburban county health departments in lower New York State during their response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The study also examined the relationships that the agencies developed with other emerging and established organizations within their respective health systems. Methods In investigating these themes, the authors conducted in-depth, one-on-one interviews with 30 senior-level public health staff and first responders; reviewed documentation; and moderated 2 focus group discussions with 17 participants. Results Although a natural hazard such as a hurricane was not an unexpected event for these health departments, they nevertheless confronted a number of unforeseen challenges during the response phase: prolonged loss of power and fuel, limited situational awareness of the depth and breadth of the storm’s impact among disaster-exposed populations, and coordination problems with a number of organizations that emerged in response to the disaster. Conclusions Public health staff had few plans or protocols to guide them and often found themselves improvising and problem-solving with new organizations in the context of an overburdened health care system.
FedSPU: Personalized Federated Learning for Resource-constrained Devices with Stochastic Parameter Update
Creators: name: Niu, Ziru
name: Dong, Hai
name: Qin, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.4; I.2.11
subject: 68U35

description: Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) is widely employed in IoT applications to handle high-volume, non-iid client data while ensuring data privacy. However, heterogeneous edge devices owned by clients may impose varying degrees of resource constraints, causing computation and communication bottlenecks for PFL. Federated Dropout has emerged as a popular strategy to address this challenge, wherein only a subset of the global model, i.e. a sub-model, is trained on a client's device, thereby reducing computation and communication overheads. Nevertheless, the dropout-based model-pruning strategy may introduce bias, particularly towards non-iid local data. When biased sub-models absorb highly divergent parameters from other clients, performance degradation becomes inevitable. In response, we propose federated learning with stochastic parameter update (FedSPU). Unlike dropout that tailors the global model to small-size local sub-models, FedSPU maintains the full model architecture on each device but randomly freezes a certain percentage of neurons in the local model during training while updating the remaining neurons. This approach ensures that a portion of the local model remains personalized, thereby enhancing the model's robustness against biased parameters from other clients. Experimental results demonstrate that FedSPU outperforms federated dropout by 7.57% on average in terms of accuracy. Furthermore, an introduced early stopping scheme leads to a significant reduction of the training time by 24.8%-70.4% while maintaining high accuracy.
description: AAAI 2025 Oral
Computation code for waveboard dynamics from Dynamics of a waveboard simplified. 21 June 2020 11 November 2020
Creators: name: DasGupta, Anirvan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanics
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Mathematica code used to generate all results incuded in the main body of the paper.
FullSWOF_Paral: Comparison of two parallelization strategies (MPI and SKELGIS) on a software designed for hydrology applications
Creators: name: Cordier, Stéphane
name: Coullon, Hélène
name: Delestre, Olivier
name: Laguerre, Christian
name: Le, Minh Hoang
name: Pierre, Daniel
name: Sadaka, Georges
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we perform a comparison of two approaches for the parallelization of an existing, free software, FullSWOF 2D (http://www. univ-orleans.fr/mapmo/soft/FullSWOF/ that solves shallow water equations for applications in hydrology) based on a domain decomposition strategy. The first approach is based on the classical MPI library while the second approach uses Parallel Algorithmic Skeletons and more precisely a library named SkelGIS (Skeletons for Geographical Information Systems). The first results presented in this article show that the two approaches are similar in terms of performance and scalability. The two implementation strategies are however very different and we discuss the advantages of each one.
description: 27 pages
Convergence of pointed non-compact metric measure spaces and stability of Ricci curvature bounds and heat flows
Creators: name: Gigli, Nicola
name: Mondino, Andrea
name: Savaré, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Aim of this paper is to discuss convergence of pointed metric measure spaces in absence of any compactness condition. We propose various definitions, show that all of them are equivalent and that for doubling spaces these are also equivalent to the well known measured-Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. Then we show that the curvature conditions $CD(K,\infty)$ and $RCD(K,\infty)$ are stable under this notion of convergence and that the heat flow passes to the limit as well, both in the Wasserstein and in the $L^2$-framework. We also prove the variational convergence of Cheeger energies in the naturally adapted $Γ$-Mosco sense and the convergence of the spectra of the Laplacian in the case of spaces either uniformly bounded or satisfying the $RCD(K,\infty)$ condition with $K>0$. When applied to Riemannian manifolds, our results allow for sequences with diverging dimensions.
description: 62 pages
Facilitating author curation pre-publication through microPublication Biology
Creators: name: Sternberg, Paul
name: Schedl, Tim
name: Raciti, Daniela
name: Yook, Karen
name: Harris, Todd
name: Stiffler, Nicholas
name: Arnaboldi, Valerio
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: To solve a long-standing problem in biocuration, we developed a platform, microPublication Biology, to bridge publishing and knowledgebase curation by embedding curation within the article submission/publishing workflow. microPublication Biology is a novel journal aimed at capturing single experimental results in peer-reviewed articles discoverable in PubMed.

 As you know, knowledgebases are most valuable when they are current. Two major bottlenecks in biocuration that impede knowledgebases remaining current are the increasing pace of scientific research and the concomitant number of publications, and that post-publication curation is time-consuming. To remove these bottlenecks, we embedded a Graphical Curation Authoring Tool (GCAT) in the publishing workflow that will be available to authors during their article submission and proofing stages. Author curation happens in two stages. First, during the submission stage, the tool presents the results of entity recognition and other text-mining algorithms to allow authors to efficiently validate entities, which aids them in adhering to community nomenclature standards and avoiding easy typos. Additionally, the tool makes predictions on new entities based on regular expressions and allows authors to submit new entities. Curators, who are invited to be part of the publication workflow as editors, vet and validate submitted data from authors and request corrections from authors before the data get published. Second, upon manuscript acceptance, the tool, relying on predefined harmonized data schemas, displays only the entities of the defined schema and allows authors to easily curate the paper, by determining the relationships between the extracted entities without knowledge of the data model.

 During prototype testing with curators, we found that the time required for curating papers with the new graphical curation module is significantly lower than the time of curation without the tool (average time with tool=6.1 minutes, average time with WormBase interface=12.7 minutes, p. < 0.01).
 With GCAT, microPublication provides a unified curation experience for both curators and authors, and thus bridges the gap between research article publication and data curation and management at knowledgebases. Besides providing the foundation for the proposed pre-publication microPublication data curation component, we foresee the graphical tool being employed by database curators and serve as a general community curation tool.
Generalized second law of thermodynamics in scalar-tensor gravity
Creators: name: Abdolmaleki, A.
name: Najafi, T.
name: Karami, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the context of scalar-tensor gravity, we explore the generalized second law (GSL) of gravitational thermodynamics. We extend the action of ordinary scalar-tensor gravity theory to the case in which there is a non-minimal coupling between the scalar field and the matter field (as chameleon field). Then, we derive the field equations governing the gravity and the scalar field. For a FRW universe filled only with ordinary matter, we obtain the modified Friedmann equations as well as the evolution equation of the scalar field. Furthermore, we assume the boundary of the universe to be enclosed by the dynamical apparent horizon which is in thermal equilibrium with the Hawking temperature. We obtain a general expression for the GSL of thermodynamics in the scalar-tensor gravity model. For some viable scalar-tensor models, we first obtain the evolutionary behaviors of the matter density, the scale factor, the Hubble parameter, the scalar field, the deceleration parameter as well as the effective equation of state (EoS) parameter. We conclude that in most of the models, the deceleration parameter approaches a de Sitter regime at late times, as expected. Also the effective EoS parameter acts like the LCDM model at late times. Finally, we examine the validity of the GSL for the selected models.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures
Discovery of a magnetic field in the CoRoT hybrid B-type pulsator HD 43317
Creators: name: Briquet, M.
name: Neiner, C.
name: Leroy, B.
name: Pápics, P. I.
name: collaboration, the MiMeS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A promising way of testing the impact of a magnetic field on internal mixing (core overshooting, internal rotation) in main-sequence B-type stars is to perform asteroseismic studies of a sample of magnetic pulsators. The CoRoT satellite revealed that the B3IV star HD 43317 is a hybrid SPB/beta Cep-type pulsator that has a wealth of pulsational constraints on which one can perform a seismic modelling, in particular, probing the extent of its convective core and mixing processes. Moreover, indirect indicators of a magnetic field in the star were observed: rotational modulation due to chemical or temperature spots and X-ray emission. Our goal was to directly investigate the field in HD 43317 and, if it is magnetic, to characterise it. We collected data with the Narval spectropolarimeter installed at TBL (Télescope Bernard Lyot, Pic du Midi, France) and applied the least-squares deconvolution technique to measure the circular polarisation of the light emitted from HD 43317. We modelled the longitudinal field measurements directly with a dipole. Zeeman signatures in the Stokes V profiles of HD 43317 are clearly detected and rotationally modulated, which proves that this star exhibits an oblique magnetic field. The modulation with the rotation period deduced from the CoRoT light curve is also confirmed, and we found a field strength at the poles of about 1 kG. Our result must be taken into account in future seismic modelling work of this star.
description: Accepted for publication as a Letter in Astronomy and Astrophysics on 12/08/2013
Updating and expanding inferred disease and phenotype annotations at Mouse Genome Informatics
Creators: name: Bello, Susan M
name: Corbani, Lori
name: Baldarelli, Richard
name: Smith, Cynthia L
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: In the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI, www.informatics.jax.org) database, phenotype and human disease annotations are created at the level of the genotype, our representation of the relevant allele and strain background of the mouse used in the studies. In order to provide the user with a summary of phenotypes and human diseases at the gene level, we developed an algorithm to infer gene-level annotations from the genotype annotations. The gene-level algorithm incorporates information about the full set of genome features associated with the alleles in a genotype, including endogenous and exogenous genes, to calculate the number of genes associated with the genotype. Additionally, tool alleles, such as reporters and recombinase expressing alleles, in the genotype are excluded prior to the final gene count. Recent improvements to the gene-level algorithm include expanding the criteria for identifying alleles that express additional genes and incorporating annotations of genes targeted by RNAi knockdown alleles. Inferred gene annotations are only created when the algorithm can identify a single gene associated with a genotype. As part of our work to integrate mouse data with other model organism data in the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance), we also create allele-level inferred annotations. To improve generation of allele-level annotations, we took advantage of enhancements to allele and genotype curation at MGI to develop an allele-specific algorithm. The allele-level algorithm uses many of the same rules as the gene level process to identify tool alleles. The primary difference between the two algorithms is that the allele-level rule set does not need to count the number of genes associated with a genotype. Thus, a genotype containing a single allele that mutates multiple genes, e.g. a multigenic deletion, may be used to create an inferred allele annotation but not an inferred gene annotation. However the allele-level algorithm does need to account for genotypes that involve multiple mutant alleles of the same locus. A genotype including two different mutant alleles of the same gene may be used to create an inferred gene annotation but not an inferred allele annotation. The inferred annotations generated by the updated gene and new allele algorithms are visible on the MGI and Alliance websites. Supported by NIH grant HG000330
Cryptomys damarensis
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Bathyergidae
Cryptomys
Cryptomys damarensis

description: Cryptomys damarensis (Ogilby, 1838). Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838:5. TYPE LOCALITY: Namibia, Damaraland. DISTRIBUTION: E Namibia, Botswana, W Zimbabwe, S Zambia, S Angola. SYNONYMS: lugardi, mietetemi, ovamboensis.
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 771, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
Women's Occupational Health Resource Center News, Volume 3, Number 6
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1981
Subjects: Women employees
Fire prevention
Genetic screening
Industrial safety
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Newsletter dated November/December 1981 produced by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC).The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. This issue features articles titled "Congress Holds Hearings on Genetic Screening" and "Preventing the Towering Inferno". The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
Compositional Kronecker Context Optimization for Vision-Language Models
Creators: name: Ding, Kun
name: Li, Xiaohui
name: Yu, Qiang
name: Wang, Ying
name: Zhang, Haojian
name: Xiang, Shiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context Optimization (CoOp) has emerged as a simple yet effective technique for adapting CLIP-like vision-language models to downstream image recognition tasks. Nevertheless, learning compact context with satisfactory base-to-new, domain and cross-task generalization ability while adapting to new tasks is still a challenge. To tackle such a challenge, we propose a lightweight yet generalizable approach termed Compositional Kronecker Context Optimization (CK-CoOp). Technically, the prompt's context words in CK-CoOp are learnable vectors, which are crafted by linearly combining base vectors sourced from a dictionary. These base vectors consist of a non-learnable component obtained by quantizing the weights in the token embedding layer, and a learnable component constructed by applying Kronecker product on several learnable tiny matrices. Intuitively, the compositional structure mitigates the risk of overfitting on training data by remembering more pre-trained knowledge. Meantime, the Kronecker product breaks the non-learnable restrictions of the dictionary, thereby enhancing representation ability with minimal additional parameters. Extensive experiments confirm that CK-CoOp achieves state-of-the-art performance under base-to-new, domain and cross-task generalization evaluation, but also has the metrics of fewer learnable parameters and efficient training and inference speed.
Logarithmic two-Point Correlation Functions from a z = 2 Lifshitz Model
Creators: name: Zingg, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Einstein-Proca action is known to have asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes as classical solutions. For dynamical exponent z=2, two-point correlation functions for fluctuations around such a geometry are derived analytically. It is found that the retarded correlators are stable in the sense that all quasinormal modes are situated in the lower half-plane of complex frequencies. Correlators in the longitudinal channel exhibit features that are reminiscent of a structure usually obtained in field theories that are logarithmic, i.e. contain an indecomposable highest weight representation. This suggests the model at hand as a candidate for a gravity dual of a logarithmic field theory with anisotropic scaling symmetry.
description: 31 pages, 2 figures
"Intelligent" controllers on cheap and small programmable devices
Creators: name: Join, Cédric
name: Chaxel, Frédéric
name: Fliess, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is shown that the "intelligent" controllers which are associated to the recently introduced model-free control synthesis may be easily implemented on cheap and small programmable devices. Several successful numerical experiments are presented with a special emphasis on fault tolerant control.
The use and calibration of read-out streaks to increase the dynamic range of the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope
Creators: name: Page, M. J.
name: Kuin, N. P. M.
name: Breeveld, A. A.
name: Hancock, B.
name: Holland, S. T.
name: Marshall, F. E.
name: Oates, S.
name: Roming, P. W. A.
name: Siegel, M. H.
name: Smith, P. J.
name: Carter, M.
name: De Pasquale, M.
name: Symeonidis, M.
name: Yershov, V.
name: Beardmore, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamic range of photon counting micro-channel-plate (MCP) intensified charged-coupled device (CCD) instruments such as the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) and the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor (XMM-OM) is limited at the bright end by coincidence loss, the superposition of multiple photons in the individual frames recorded by the CCD. Photons which arrive during the brief period in which the image frame is transferred for read out of the CCD are displaced in the transfer direction in the recorded images. For sufficiently bright sources, these displaced counts form read-out streaks. Using UVOT observations of Tycho-2 stars, we investigate the use of these read-out streaks to obtain photometry for sources which are too bright (and hence have too much coincidence loss) for normal aperture photometry to be reliable. For read-out-streak photometry, the bright-source limiting factor is coincidence loss within the MCPs rather than the CCD. We find that photometric measurements can be obtained for stars up to 2.4 magnitudes brighter than the usual full-frame coincidence-loss limit by using the read-out streaks. The resulting bright-limit Vega magnitudes in the UVOT passbands are UVW2=8.80, UVM2=8.27, UVW1=8.86, u=9.76, b=10.53, v=9.31 and White=11.71; these limits are independent of the windowing mode of the camera. We find that a photometric precision of 0.1 mag can be achieved through read-out streak measurements. A suitable method for the measurement of read-out streaks is described and all necessary calibration factors are given.
description: 11 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Code available from the calibration link at http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/uvot
PEDAGOGY AND ARCHITECTURE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY:  A NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARADOX
Creators: name: Marfatia, Sapna
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Master of Liberal Arts Program
subject: School of Humanities and Science
subject: Leland Stanford Jr. University
subject: Leland Stanford
subject: Stanford University
subject: Campus planning
subject: Campus Design
subject: Urban Design
subject: Ninteenth Century Architecture
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Pedagogy
subject: American Campus Architecture
subject: Architectural History
subject: Richardsonian Romanesque
subject: Fredrick Law Olmsted
subject: Francis Walker
subject: Main Quadrangle
subject: Memorial Church
subject: Palm Drive
subject: Sandstone
subject: Sandstone buildings

description: Today Stanford University’s celebrated Richardsonian-Romanesque Revival architecture has a traditional feel that appears to contrast with the university's reputation for innovation. Yet at Stanford's founding in 1891, this architecture was a deliberate departure from the dominant English Collegiate Gothic trend adopted by peer institutions. Within the university's Romanesque walls, the Stanfords aspired to create an experimental pedagogy that combined practical training with a greater commitment to humanitarian ideals. Exploring the ways in which architecture and pedagogy combine to create a campus, this colloquium argues that despite the classical allusion made by the round-headed arcade, symmetrical quadrangle, and church that terminates the principal axis, Stanford University’s architecture was as progressive as its pedagogy.
Additional file 1 of Prevalence and determinants of intimate partner violence in pregnancy: a multicentre, binational study
Creators: name: Ubom, Akaninyene E.
name: Ohachenu, Chidinma P.
name: Auwal, Suraiya S.
name: Usman, Safiyya F.
name: Opoku, Akwasi B.
name: Ansing, Caesar A.
name: Shehu, Jamiu S.
name: Oriji, Peter C.
name: Okpebri, Komommo O.
name: Olutoye, Ademola S.
name: Balogun, Rasheedat O.
name: Ifebude, Joshua E.
name: Obadina, Oluwole D.
name: Nyeche, Solomon
name: Bunawa, Abdurrahman A.
name: Ifeanyi, Ukeje J.
name: Mahmud, Fatima A.
name: Gumbi, Hauwa S.
name: Ojugbele, Akeem O.
name: Areo, Olubusayo O.
name: Ogunjide, Olakunle E.
name: Shiru, Mariam M.
name: Okpighe, Ada C.
name: Iornengen, Chia
name: Aqua, David M.
name: Abubakar, Suleiman Z.
name: Gabriel-Raji, Fadekemi O.
name: Gregory, Oyiana I.
name: Lawal, Lukman O.
name: Abude, Mathias
name: Walawah, David
name: Adelola, Aderopo I.
name: Ese, Akpofure H.
name: Orijani, Jane C.
name: Suobite, Ephraim A.
name: Afon, Olire C.
name: Ekwebalam, Obinna P.
name: Akanji, Baderinwa O.
name: John, Emmanuel E.
name: Awowole, Ibraheem O.
name: Ijarotimi, Omotade A.
name: Thompson, Ngozi
name: Ikimalo, John I.
name: Fasubaa, Olusola B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Winter-to-summer precipitation phasing in southwestern North America: A multicentury perspective from paleoclimatic model-data comparisons
Creators: name: Coats, Sloan John
name: Smerdon, Jason E.
name: Seager, Richard
name: Griffin, D.
name: Cook, Benjamin I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Monsoons
Dendroclimatology
Paleoclimatology--Mathematical models
Precipitation (Meteorology)--Measurement
Atmosphere
Meteorology

description: The phasing of winter-to-summer precipitation anomalies in the North American monsoon (NAM) region 2 (113.25°W–107.75°W, 30°N–35.25°N—NAM2) of southwestern North America is analyzed in fully coupled simulations of the Last Millennium and compared to tree ring reconstructed winter and summer precipitation variability. The models simulate periods with in-phase seasonal precipitation anomalies, but the strength of this relationship is variable on multidecadal time scales, behavior that is also exhibited by the reconstructions. The models, however, are unable to simulate periods with consistently out-of-phase winter-to-summer precipitation anomalies as observed in the latter part of the instrumental interval. The periods with predominantly in-phase winter-to-summer precipitation anomalies in the models are significant against randomness, and while this result is suggestive of a potential for dual-season drought on interannual and longer time scales, models do not consistently exhibit the persistent dual-season drought seen in the dendroclimatic reconstructions. These collective findings indicate that model-derived drought risk assessments may underestimate the potential for dual-season drought in 21st century projections of hydroclimate in the American Southwest and parts of Mexico.
Cryptomys foxi
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Bathyergidae
Cryptomys
Cryptomys foxi

description: Cryptomys foxi (Thomas, 1911). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 7:462. TYPE LOCALITY: Nigeria, Panyam (1212 m). DISTRIBUTION: C Nigeria. COMMENTS: Honeycutt et al. (1991:50) recognized foxi as distinct.
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 771, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["Honeycutt, R. L., M. W. Allard, S. V. Edwards, and D. A. Schlitter. 1991. Systematics and evolution of the family Bathyergidae. Pp. 45 - 65, in The biology of the naked mole rat (P. W. Sherman, J. U. M. Jarvis, and R. D. Alexander, eds.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, 518 pp."]}
Who Opts Out and Why? Results from a national survey on opting out of standardized tests
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
name: Green Saraisky, Nancy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements--Public opinion
Education--Parent participation
Educational tests and measurements
Educational evaluation

description: During the past few years the opt out movement, in which parents refuse to have their school-aged children take federally mandated educational assessments, has gained momentum. Yet many important questions about opting out remain unanswered: Who is actually opting out? What motivates parents who opt their children out of the tests? Are those who opt out trying to protect their children, or do they have broader political aims? These are some of the questions that we aim to address in this study. Data for this study come from the National Survey on Opting Out, which was conducted from January 20, 2016 through March 31, 2016. We recruited respondents online, through links on the webpages and social media channels of opt out groups. The survey was administered electronically. The sample consisted of a total of 1,641 respondents from 47 states.
Cryptomys hottentotus
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Bathyergidae
Cryptomys
Cryptomys hottentotus

description: Cryptomys hottentotus (Lesson, 1826). Zool., 1:166. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, SW Cape Prov., near Paarl (east of Capetown). DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to Tanzania, S Zaire, and Namibia. SYNONYMS: abberrans, albus, amatus, anomalus, arenarius, beirae, bigalkei, caecutiens, cradockensis, darlingi, exenticus, holosericeus, jamesoni, jorisseni, junodi, komatiensis, langi, ludwigii, mahali, melanoticus, montanus, natalensis, nemo, nimrodi, orangiae, palki; pallidus Roberts, 1917; pretoriae, rufulus, stellatus, streeteri, talpoides, transvaalensis, valschensis, vandami, vetensis, vryburgensis, whytei, zimbitiensis, zuluensis. COMMENTS: Includes darlingi, holosericeus, and natalensis (de Graaff, 1975:3-4; Honeycutt et al., 1991:51). Corbet and Hill (1991:208) recognized natalensis as a distinct species without comment.
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 771-772, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["de Graaff, G. 1975. Family Bathyergidae. Part 6.9. Pp. 1 - 5, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Honeycutt, R. L., M. W. Allard, S. V. Edwards, and D. A. Schlitter. 1991. Systematics and evolution of the family Bathyergidae. Pp. 45 - 65, in The biology of the naked mole rat (P. W. Sherman, J. U. M. Jarvis, and R. D. Alexander, eds.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, 518 pp.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp."]}
Compare Globally, Interpret Locally: International Assessments and News Media in Israel
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements
Educational evaluation

description: Scholars have documented the global spread of international large-scale assessments of student achievement (ILSAs), such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Research to date has focused on the influence of national and world characteristics on the likelihood of a country to participate in these assessments. This article investigates the role of local public discourse on the institutionalization of ILSAs “on the ground.” To do so, I use a sample of articles (n=97) from two newspapers in Israel. The analyses reveal three key patterns. First, public discourse about ILSAs developed gradually, and not immediately after the release of the first few reports. Second, policy makers are more active in the public discourse about ILSAs than other actors (e.g., students, teachers, parents, and education scholars). Third, public discourse about ILSAs constructed an achievement crisis that calls for change in policy/practice. These patterns facilitated the institutionalization of ILSAs in the Israeli context, beyond the contribution of transitional organizations.
Additional file 1 of “There’s always somebody that you can identify with”: a qualitative study of patient perspectives on buprenorphine group medical visits
Creators: name: Masyukova, Mariya
name: Hayes, Benjamin T.
name: López-Castro, Teresa
name: Fox, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary material 1
Influence of the degree of decoupling of graphene on the properties of transition metal adatoms
Creators: name: Eelbo, T.
name: Waśniowska, M.
name: Gyamfi, M.
name: Forti, S.
name: Starke, U.
name: Wiesendanger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the adsorption sites of $3d$ transition metal (TM) adatoms by means of low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Co and Ni adatoms were adsorbed on two types of graphene on SiC(0001), i.e. pristine epitaxial monolayer graphene (MLG) and quasi-free-standing monolayer graphene (QFMLG). In the case of QFMLG, two stable adsorption sites are identified, while in the case of MLG, only one adsorption site is observed. Our experimental results reveal the decoupling efficiency as a crucial parameter for determining the adsorption site as well as the electronic properties of $3d$ transition metal atoms on graphene. Furthermore, we show that Co atoms adsorbed on QFMLG are strong scattering potentials for Dirac fermions and cause intervalley scattering in their vicinity.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
The Agricultural Outlook and Business Activity, 1927-1928
Creators: name: Bean, Louis H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1927
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Excerpt: A discussion of the agricultural outlook in its relation to business conditions in 1927-28 calls primarily for an analysis of the probable money income which the agricultural industry will be able to contribute as a part of the national buying power. It also calls, in my mind, for a comparison between the current phase of the business cycle and of the agricultural price cycle; for, it may be said at the outset, there are agricultural price cycles just as there are business cycles, and furthermore, there appears to be an important relationship between them of a causal or coincidental nature which is not usually observed in current analyses of the business situation.
description: Address before the Ohio Conference of Statisticians, Business Statistics Section, Ohio State University, April 16, 1927.