cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bi-Directional Communication Between Monocytes and Trophoblasts: in vitro Modeling and Literature Synthesis
Creators: name: Yankello, Hannah
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description:  Successful reproduction requires a complex and dynamic relationship between maternal immune cells and the placenta, to provide both immune protection for the mother and immunotolerance to the fetus. This immune adaptation is accomplished via significant intercellular communication between monocytes and trophoblasts (placental cells) at the maternal-fetal interface. We performed a scoping review of literature to describe the current research efforts investigating the bi-directional signaling between monocytes and trophoblasts, and highlighted research documenting monocyte recruitment and phenotypic changes in the intervillous space, monocyte adhesion to the syncytiotrophoblast, and monocyte interaction with syncytiotrophoblast-derived EVs. We then outlined the creation of an in vitro model to assess monocyte-trophoblast communication and demonstrated that trophoblasts under hypoxic-like conditions (elevated HIF-1α signaling) influence monocyte expression of polarization genes as well as alter monocyte functional behaviors such as adhesion, phagocytosis, and migration. We then performed preliminary work in manipulating the THP-1 cell line to mimic the altered phenotype observed in preeclampsia, in the hope that future work will assess the impact of monocyte phenotype on interactions with the trophoblast. Our remaining work focuses on preliminary investigations into the extracellular vesicle (EV) crosstalk existing between maternal and fetal cells, as well as insights into monocyte recruitment to trophoblast signals. In total, this work aims to advance the understanding of the dynamic relationship between circulating maternal monocytes and the placenta as well as to identify how maternal disease dysregulates this relationship.
Power in climate change policy-making process in South Asia
Creators: name: Vij, Sumit
name: Stock, Ryan
name: Ishtiaque, Asif
name: Gardezi, Maaz
name: Zia, Asim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Climate change policies are prepared in a power-loaded environment, where different policy actors interact to meet their personal or collective interests. This paper argues that the ‘power interplay’ between actors plays a significant role in shaping and re-shaping climate change policies. We present examples from South Asia (Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan) to show how actors’ power interplay at the local, sub-national, national and transboundary levels influences climate change policy-making. We show that negative effects of power interplay are prominent in the climate policy domain of South Asia, including short-termism of local adaptation plans, exclusion of certain policy actors in the policy-making processes, lack of transboundary-level adaptation, and lack of coordination between actors. Nuances also exist, such as the state's authority in prioritizing technical solutions, exclusionary design and implementation of climate policies, and an agenda of securitization; these can further marginalize the actors involved in climate change policy processes. The negative effects of power interplay in South Asia can limit the success of on-the-ground implementation of adaptation and mitigation strategies, limit adaptive capacity among communities, and possibly counter the development of a strong climate change solutions space. Lastly, we argue that there are no silver bullet solutions to power asymmetries and appeal to policy actors – in South Asia and elsewhere – to design context-specific and power-sensitive policy-making approaches. Negative effects of power interplay have led to the exclusion of certain policy actors (especially communities at risk) in policy-making processes and a lack of transboundary-level adaptation in South Asia. Hard infrastructure-based adaptation measures tend to exacerbate the vulnerability of the communities at risk in South Asia. Policy actors must design context-specific and power-sensitive policy-making climate adaptation and mitigation approaches to reduce the negative impacts of power interplay.
Neutrino Interactions in Matter :
Creators: name: Pal, Palash B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If a fermion is travelling through a medium, it can have matter-induced magnetic and electric dipole moments. These contributions conserve chirality, and can be non-vanishing even for a Majorana neutrino. Several implications for neutrino physics are discussed.
description: (Talk given at the `Rencontres de Moriond', to appear in the Proceedings.) 4 pages LATEX, Report number DOE-ER 40757-007, CPP-93-07
Gauge Symmetries,Topology and Quantisation
Creators: name: Balachandran, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The following two loosely connected sets of topics are reviewed in these lecture notes: 1) Gauge invariance, its treatment in field theories and its implications for internal symmetries and edge states such as those in the quantum Hall effect. 2) Quantisation on multiply connected spaces and a topological proof the spin-statistics theorem which avoids quantum field theory and relativity. Under 1), after explaining the meaning of gauge invariance and the theory of constraints, we discuss boundary conditions on gauge transformations and the definition of internal symmetries in gauge field theories. We then show how the edge states in the quantum Hall effect can be derived from the Chern-Simons action using the preceding ideas. Under 2), after explaining the significance of fibre bundles for quantum physics, we review quantisation on multiply connected spaces in detail, explaining also mathematical ideas such as those of the universal covering space and the fundamental group. These ideas are then used to prove the aforementioned topological spin-statistics theorem.e of the universal covering space and the fundamental group.
description: 74pages (Lectures)
A Microfluidic Platform for the Control and Analysis of Phase Transitions in Concentrating Droplets
Creators: name: Vuong, Sharon M.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: This work describes the development of a microfluidic platform that can be used to study suspension stability and crystallization with in droplets as a function of time and concentration. Techniques for monodisperse droplet formation, droplet trapping and storage, and droplet dehydration are developed and used to design a microfluidic platform that can be adapted for the applications of interest. A geometric model is developed to predict the droplet shape and emulsion structure generated by microfluidic nozzles. However, droplet volume and structure spacing cannot be independently controlled using microfluidic nozzles, and a design consisting of an array of traps is considered to achieve the desired structure for stable, extended droplet observation. The dehydration of aqueous droplets stored in the array is characterized as a function of relative humidity, and is shown to be reasonably estimated as a species diffusing from a sphere into an infinite medium. The microfluidic platform for droplet dehydration is combined with particle tracking to show that the stability of particle suspensions can be probed as a function of salt concentration. The flocculation behavior observed in the trapped droplets agrees well with corresponding macroscale measurements as well as with previously published studies. The platform is also used to generate substantial sample sizes to measure nucleation statistics and crystal growth rates of glycine as a function of initial concentration, environmental conditions, and the presence of additives. These applications show proof of concept that the microfluidic platform is a useful tool for the analysis of the behavior observed during particle aggregation and crystallization.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.3 (2e moitié XIIIe siècle), Cart. 168 (11 H 66), f. 0135v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2010
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.3 (2e moitié XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 168 (11 H 66), f. 0135v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.3 (2e moitié XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 168 (11 H 66), f. 0135v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Effects of scalar mixing in ${g}{g} \rightarrow \mbox{Higgs} \rightarrow \ga\ga$
Creators: name: Kileng, Bjarte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the effects of mixing of scalars belonging to left-- and right--chiral MSSM super--multiplets on the process ${g}{g}\rightarrow \hnl \rightarrow \ga\ga$, which is a promising channel for the discovery of the lightest CP--even MSSM Higgs boson at the LHC and the SSC. The effects of the left--right scalar mixing are small in most of parameter space. However, there exist regions where the mixing is important. Due to mixing, there can be large enhancements of the cross section in a region of parameter space where the no--mixing approximation yields a value that is too low for experimental discovery of the $\hnl$ at the LHC and the SSC.
description: 37 pages (including 13 figures in Postscript format avilable upon request), University of Bergen, Scientific/Technical Report No. 1993-02
How can a carbon tax benefit developing economies with informality? A CGE analysis for Côte d’Ivoire
Creators: name: Timilsina, Govinda R.
name: Dissou, Yazid
name: Toman, Michael
name: Heine, Dirk
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: This study investigates how a carbon tax could reduce fiscal and economic distortions as well as cut carbon emissions in developing-country economies. A computable general equilibrium model is developed to analyze the economic impacts of a hypothetical carbon tax in Côte d’Ivoire, a country in Sub-Saharan Africa with large losses of tax revenues due to informality and leakage. The model represents informal as well as formal production activities. The analysis shows that the economic impacts of a carbon tax and the levels of CO2 reduction vary significantly among alternatives for recycling the carbon tax revenue. A carbon tax with revenues recycled to reduce the existing value-added tax would increase GDP and economic welfare. If the revenue is used to cut the existing tax on labour, the carbon tax would not only increase GDP but also induce the migration of workers from informal to formal activities. The analysis also shows that if energy producers are not excluded from carbon tax revenue recycling, the carbon emission reduction is significantly lower due to a rebound effect. A carbon tax with lump-sum transfers of revenues to households would be progressive as the revenue is equally transferred to all households, but it reduces economic output and does not help reduce informal economic activities. A carbon tax can be beneficial to developing countries by generating fiscal co-benefits through revisions of other taxes.The size of the fiscal co-benefits depends on the carbon tax design.A carbon tax with revenue recycled to cut labour taxes incentivizes informal economic activities to move to the formal sector and to increase economic welfare.Using carbon tax revenues to reduce the value-added tax can reduce tax evasion and increase economic welfare.Unless energy producers are prevented from receiving the benefits of carbon tax revenue recycling, emission reduction is decreased due to a rebound effect. A carbon tax can be beneficial to developing countries by generating fiscal co-benefits through revisions of other taxes. The size of the fiscal co-benefits depends on the carbon tax design. A carbon tax with revenue recycled to cut labour taxes incentivizes informal economic activities to move to the formal sector and to increase economic welfare. Using carbon tax revenues to reduce the value-added tax can reduce tax evasion and increase economic welfare. Unless energy producers are prevented from receiving the benefits of carbon tax revenue recycling, emission reduction is decreased due to a rebound effect.
Anyons on a Torus
Creators: name: Hosotani, Yutaka
name: Ho, Choon-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove the equivalence between anyon quantum mechanics on a torus and Chern-Simons gauge theory. It is also shown that the Hamiltonian and total momenta commute among themselves only in the physical Hilbert space.
description: 4 pages, plain TeX, UMN-TH-1116/92
Progress, Not Perfection: A Workshop Series on Accessible Data Visualization
Creators: name: Aghassibake, Negeen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: data visualization
accessibility
instruction

description: Data visualization can improve access to and understanding of information to a wider audience. In emergencies, charts and infographics can be used to quickly communicate information and help with decision making. Despite these benefits, inaccessible data visualizations can exclude people from getting the key information they need to understand a topic or to make decisions. Accessibility is a core part of social justice work and should continue to be a critical component of the future of data.

This poster will cover a workshop series at the University of Washington that teaches attendees how to create more accessible visualizations. The workshops emphasize accessibility at the foundation of visualization creation to be more inclusive of all users, and they provide guidance on topics such as screen readers, color and vision, and more.

The next stage of this workshop series is to gather feedback on the content and presentation, then hopefully make the content, including slides and activities, open to anyone who is interested in using the material to work with their own user groups.
Mirror duality and noncommutative tori
Creators: name: Kim, Eunsang
name: Kim, Hoil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study a mirror duality on a generalized complex torus and a noncommutative complex torus. First, we derive a symplectic version of Riemann condition using mirror duality on ordinary complex tori. Based on this we will find a mirror correspondence on generalized complex tori and generalize the mirror duality on complex tori to the case of noncommutative complex tori.
description: 22pages, no figures
Angular and energy correlations in Higgs decay
Creators: name: Skjold, Arild
name: Osland, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how correlations among momenta of the decay products may yield information about the CP-parity of the Higgs particle. These are correlations of decay planes defined by the momenta of pairs of particles as well as correlations between energy differences. Our study includes finite-width effects. In the narrow-width approximation the angular correlations coincide with previously reported results. The correlations between energy differences turn out to be a much better probe for CP determination than the previously suggested angular correlations, especially for massive Higgs bosons.
description: 14 pages (4 figures in Postscript available upon request), LaTex, Bergen Scientific/Technical Report No. 1993-03
A Learning-Based Framework Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Performance Modeling
Creators: name: Juan, Da-Cheng
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Energy efficiency has become the critical factor of computing performance in platforms from embedded devices, portable electronics to servers in datacenters. Power density and peak power demands increase in each generation of microprocessors, which directly lead to a higher operating temperature that exceeds the cooling capability available on current multi-core systems. These physical constraints seriously hinder the development of the next-generation computing platform. In this thesis, we propose Gray-Box computing, the methodology of a learning-based framework that incorporates the prior domain knowledge to quantitatively model every aspect of a multi-core system, including performance, power consumption and operating temperature. Experimental results show that the learned model achieves more than 96% accuracy, compared to actual industrial measurements or full-system simulations. By exploiting the learned model, the proposed Gray-Box computing has enabled a wide variety of applications from simulation speedup to multi-constrained optimization with respect to performance, energy efficiency and reliability for a multi-core system. Gray-Box computing has also been extended to model the performance specifically, the job inter-arrivals of a datacenter, which is in the scale of tens of thousands of cores. Experimental results are poised to demonstrate the strength of Gray-Box computing. Future work will focus on applying Gray-Box computing to model the usage dynamics of datacenters.
Classical Spin Models with Broken Continuous Symmetry: Random Field Induced Order and Persistence of Spontaneous Magnetization
Creators: name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
name: Wehr, Jan
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a classical spin model, of two-dimensional spins, with continuous symmetry, and investigate the effect of a symmetry breaking unidirectional quenched disorder on the magnetization of the system. We work in the mean field regime. We show, by numerical simulations and by perturbative calculations in the low as well as in the high temperature limits, that although the continuous symmetry of the magnetization is lost, the system still magnetizes, albeit with a lower value as compared to the case without disorder. The critical temperature at which the system starts magnetizing, also decreases with the introduction of disorder. However, with the introduction of an additional constant magnetic field, the component of magnetization in the direction that is transverse to the disorder field increases with the introduction of the quenched disorder. We discuss the same effects also for three-dimensional spins.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, RevTeX4
Additional file 2 of PTENP1 is a ceRNA for PTEN: it’s CRISPR clear
Creators: name: Vitiello, Marianna
name: Evangelista, Monica
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Salmena, Leonardo
name: Pandolfi, Pier Paolo
name: Poliseno, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary methods.
PO 16 - METHEMOGLOBINEMIA: A CHALLENGE FOR THE ANESTHETIST?
Creators: name: Jiele Li1
name: Samalyuk1, Kateryna
name: Bernardino1, Ana
Publisher: name: Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia
Year: 2023

description: .
description: Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia, Vol. 31 N.º 1 (2022): SUPLEMENTO Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia
Supersymmetry and the Nelson-Barr Mechanism
Creators: name: Dine, M.
name: Kagan, A.
name: Leigh, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One possible solution to the strong CP problem is that CP is an exact symmetry, spontaneously broken at some scale. Some years ago, Nelson and Barr suggested a mechanism for obtaining $θ=0$ at tree level in this framework, and showed that radiative corrections were small in some non-supersymmetric models. Further investigations suggested that the same could be true in supersymmetric theories. In this note, we show that these analyses assumed an extraordinarily high degree of degeneracy among squark masses and among other supersymmetry breaking parameters. We argue, using naturalness as well as expectations from string theory, that this is not very plausible.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures, phyzzx format; minor adjustments made
Natural Supergravity Inflation
Creators: name: Cardoso, Gabriel Lopes
name: Ovrut, Burt A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a single uncharged chiral superfield, canonically coupled to \mbox{$N=1$} supergravity with vanishing superpotential, naturally drives inflation in the early universe for a class of simple Kahler potentials. Inflation occurs due to the one-loop generation of a Kahler anomaly proportional to $\R^2$. The coefficient of this $\R^2$ term is of the correct magnitude to describe all aspects of an inflationary cosmology, including sufficient amplitude perturbations and reheating. Higher order terms proportional to $\R^n$ for $n \geq 3$ are naturally suppressed relative to the $\R^2$ term and, hence, do not destabilize the theory.
description: 13 pages, CERN-TH.6685/92, UPR-0526T
Global anisotropy of arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: capabilities of space-based detectors
Creators: name: Kalashev, O. E.
name: Khrenov, B. A.
name: Klimov, P.
name: Sharakin, S.
name: Troitsky, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planned space-based ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray detectors (TUS, JEM-EUSO and S-EUSO) are best suited for searches of global anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic-ray particles because they will be able to observe the full sky with a single instrument. We calculate quantitatively the strength of anisotropies associated with two models of the origin of the highest-energy particles: the extragalactic model (sources follow the distribution of galaxies in the Universe) and the superheavy dark-matter model (sources follow the distribution of dark matter in the Galactic halo). Based on the expected exposure of the experiments, we estimate the optimal strategy for efficient search of these effects.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, iopart style. v.2: discussion of the effect of the cosmic magnetic fields added; other minor changes. Simulated UHECR skymaps available at http://livni.inr.ac.ru/UHECRskymaps/
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour le prieuré de Gilly : rachat de la rente due à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (c. 1501), Cart. 194 (11 H 636), 64 folios, f. 0097
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour le prieuré de Gilly : rachat de la rente due à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (c. 1501), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 194 (11 H 636), 64 folios, f. 0097, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour le prieuré de Gilly : rachat de la rente due à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (c. 1501), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 194 (11 H 636), 64 folios, f. 0097, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
A Framework for Estimating Energy Consumed by Electric Loads Through Minimally Intrusive Approaches
Creators: name: Giri, Suman
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 90799 Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This dissertation explores the problem of energy estimation in supervised Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM). NILM refers to a set of techniques used to estimate the electricity consumed by individual loads in a building from measurements of the total electrical consumption. Most commonly, NILM works by first attributing any significant change in the total power consumption (also known as an event) to a specific load and subsequently using these attributions (i.e. the labels for the events) to estimate energy for each load. For this last step, most proposed solutions in the field impart simplifying assumptions to make the problem more tractable. This has severely limited the practicality of the proposed solutions. To address this knowledge gap, we present a framework for creating appliance models based on classification labels and aggregate power measurements that can help relax many of these assumptions. Within the framework, we model the problem of utilizing a sequence of event labels to generate energy estimates as a broader class of problems that has two major components (i) With the understanding that the labels arise from a process with distinct states and state transitions, we estimate the underlying Finite State Machine (FSM) model that most likely generated the observed sequence (ii) We allow for the observed sequence to have errors, and present an error correction algorithm to detect and correct them. We test the framework on data from 43 appliances collected from 19 houses and find that it improves errors in energy estimates when compared to the case with no correction in 19 appliances by a factor of 50, leaves 17 appliances unchanged, and negatively impacts 6 appliances by a factor of 1.4. This approach of utilizing event sequences to estimate energy has implications in virtual metering of appliances as well. In a case study, we utilize this framework in order to substitute the need of plug-level sensors with cheap and easily deployable contacless sensors, and find that on the 6 appliances virtually metered using magnetic field sensors, the inferred energy values have an average error of 10:9%.
Non-Perturbative Solutions of String Theory in Gravitational Backgrounds
Creators: name: Mattos, Octavio A.
name: Rivelles, Victor O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study bosonic string theory in a gravitational background. We show that either left-movers or right-movers are the only background independent non-perturbative solutions of the field equations for an arbitrary static metric. They are stable and have a conserved topological charge being therefore topological solitons. The action vanishes for these solutions and hence they provide the dominating contribution in a path integral quantization
description: 13pp, Revtex, IFUSP/P-1017
Rethinking science in the 21st century: Universities need to be meadows
Creators: name: Policy Labs, Frontiers
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Higher Education

description: Historically universities have played a unique role in society.  As institutions they are inimitably placed to bring insight and capabilities from across a broad range of disciplines to contribute significantly to their locale, and to the world’s largest and most significant and impactful challenges - whether that is environmental sustainability transforming healthcare and education, or building a future that is more equitable. Universities are distinct from other sectors (even those that undertake research and learning activities), in the way that they can explore topics, make discoveries and offer perspectives and insight in the immediate and longer term. 

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Tunneling conductance in $s$- and d-wave superconductor-graphene junctions: Extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism
Creators: name: Linder, Jacob
name: Sudbø, Asle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the conductance spectra of a normal/superconductor graphene junction using the extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism, considering pairing potentials that are both conventional (isotropic s-wave) and unconventional (anisotropic d-wave). In particular, we study the full crossover from normal to specular Andreev reflection without restricting ourselves to special limits and approximations, thus expanding results obtained in previous work. In addition, we investigate in detail how the conductance spectra are affected if it is possible to induce an unconventional pairing symmetry in graphene, for instance a d-wave order parameter. We also discuss the recently reported conductance-oscillations that take place in normal/superconductor graphene junctions, providing both analytical and numerical results.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures. High-resolution figures available in the published version
title: Mathematikdidaktische Kompetenzen von Praxislehrpersonen und Primarstudierenden im Vergleich
Creators: name: Brunner, Esther
name: Stankovic, Sanja
name: Kreis, Annelies
name: Galle, Marco
name: Hiebler, Sonja
Publisher: name: Publikationsserver der Pädagogischen Hochschule Thurgau
Year: 2024
Subjects: Lehrerbildung
Schulpraktikum
Mentoring
mathematikdidaktische Kompetenzen

description: Die Praxisausbildung von Primarlehrpersonen erfolgt während rund eines Viertels des Studiums im Praxisfeld bei erfahrenen Lehrpersonen, die als Praxislehrperson eine Ausbildungsfunktion übernehmen. Qualifiziert werden Praxislehrpersonen durch ihre eigene Unterrichtserfahrung sowie durch gezielte Weiterbildungen, die oft auf generische Aspekte von Unterricht sowie auf die Mentoringfunktion fokussieren. Studierende realisieren im Praktikum aber auch Fachunterricht und benötigen dafür fachdidaktische Kompetenzen. Es stellt sich daher die Frage, inwiefern Praxislehrpersonen auch als fachdidaktische Expertinnen und fachdidaktische Experten betrachtet werden können. Dies wird am Beispiel mathematikdidaktischer Kompetenzen untersucht.
description: The practical training of primary-school teachers takes place during about a quarter of their studies in the practical field with experienced teachers who act in an educational function as practicum teachers. They are qualified through their own teaching experience as well as through targeted continuing education courses that often focus on generic aspects of teaching and the mentoring function. Student teachers also teach subject-specific lessons during their practicum, however, and thus need subject specific skills. This raises the question as to the extent to which practicum teachers can also be regarded as subject-specific experts. This question is examined by means of the example of skills that relate to pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics.
description: Beiträge zur Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung: Zeitschrift zu Theorie und Praxis der Aus- und Weiterbildung von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern, vol. 42, no. 3, p. 372
Log-concavity property of the error probability with application to local bounds for wireless communications
Creators: name: Conti, Andrea
name: Panchenko, Dmitry
name: Sidenko, Sergiy
name: Tralli, Velio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A clear understanding the behavior of the error probability (EP) as a function of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and other system parameters is fundamental for assessing the design of digital wireless communication systems.We propose an analytical framework based on the log-concavity property of the EP which we prove for a wide family of multidimensional modulation formats in the presence of Gaussian disturbances and fading. Based on this property, we construct a class of local bounds for the EP that improve known generic bounds in a given region of the SNR and are invertible, as well as easily tractable for further analysis. This concept is motivated by the fact that communication systems often operate with performance in a certain region of interest (ROI) and, thus, it may be advantageous to have tighter bounds within this region instead of generic bounds valid for all SNRs. We present a possible application of these local bounds, but their relevance is beyond the example made in this paper.
A Formal Approach to Provide Information Support for Troubleshooting of HVAC Related Problems
Creators: name: Yang, Xue
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 90799 Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Currently, corrective maintenance constitutes more than 55% of all maintenance activities in average facilities management groups in the US and. Among corrective maintenance activities, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) related problems require prompt attention because people spend about 90% of their time inside buildings and such problems directly affect occupants’ productivity and health. However, troubleshooting of HVAC related problems is still recognized as a complex and challenging task due to the lack of apparent causes of the problems and information access/verification issues during the troubleshooting process. Three specific challenges this research addresses include: (a) the lack of knowledge of work order characteristics that result in change of possible causes of reported problems and the lack of a formal definition of domain information for troubleshooting HVAC related problems; (b) the lack of a formalism that systematically reduces the search space of possible causes, and data access issues due to dispersed data storage; and (c) the lack of efficient ways for HVAC mechanics to synthesize and comprehend information for decision-making during troubleshooting of HVAC related problems. In order to address the challenges stated above, this research aims to develop a framework which can enable identification, retrieval and visualization of the information that is required for troubleshooting of HVAC related problems. To develop such a framework, the research work I have done includes (1) identifying generic information requirements that HVAC mechanics need during troubleshooting of HVAC related problems and characteristics of work orders that affect applicable information requirements for a given work order; (2) development of representation schema and reasoning mechanisms to automatically identify applicable causes and retrieve relevant information for a given work order; and (3) evaluation of the efficiency improvement of the decision-making process during tasks of troubleshooting HVAC related problems using visualization platform. The research findings have been validated in terms of: (1) the generality of the identified information requirements of HVAC mechanics and the characteristics of work orders for troubleshooting of HVAC related problems; (2) the efficiency and accuracy of the developed formalism in identifying applicable causes and retrieve information for different work order contexts; and (3) the efficiency improvement using an integrated visualization platform in the process of troubleshooting of HVAC related problems.
Electroweak Reactions in the Non-Perturbative Regime of QCD
Creators: name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the first part of these lectures, I consider chiral perturbation theory in the presence of matter fields. It allows to systematically work out the consequences of the broken chiral symmetry of QCD. As examples, threshold pion photo- and electroproduction and (spin-flip) nucleon Compton scattering are considered. The second part deals with the quark structure of the nucleon at low energies. The various electromagnetic and weak form factors are discussed. It is shown how parity-violating electron and (anti)neutrino scattering off nucleons and nuclei can be used as a tool to pin down strange matrix elements of the proton. The calculation of QED, QCD and heavy quark corrections to these processes is also touched upon. (Lectures given at the XXXII. Internationale Universit{ä}tswochen f{ü}r Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Schladming, Austria, February 24- March 5, 1993).
description: 29pp, TeX (Springer Macro included), BUTP-93/04
On the KP Hierarchy, $\hat{W}_{\infty}$ Algebra, and Conformal SL(2,R)/U(1) Model: I. The Classical Case
Creators: name: Yu, Feng
name: Wu, Yong-Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the inter-relationship between the integrable KP hierarchy, nonlinear $\hat{W}_{\infty}$ algebra and conformal noncompact $SL(2,R)/U(1)$ coset model at the classical level. We first derive explicitly the Possion brackets of the second Hamiltonian structure of the KP hierarchy, then use it to define the $\hat{W}_{1+\infty}$ algebra and its reduction $\hat{W}_{\infty}$. Then we show that the latter is realized in the $SL(2,R)/U(1)$ coset model as a hidden current algebra, through a free field realization of $\hat{W}_{\infty}$, in closed form for all higher-spin currents, in terms of two bosons. An immediate consequence is the existence of an infinite number of KP flows in the coset model, which preserve the $\hat{W}_{\infty}$ current algebra.
description: 29p
A Firm’s Information Disclosure And The Markets For Its Inputs And Outputs
Creators: name: Zhao, Ran
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This thesis examines the interactions between a firm’s information disclosure decision and three markets: the product market, the takeover market, and the labor market, and the impact on firms’ real decisions. Chapter 1 provides an introduction and overview of this thesis. Chapter 2 considers a product-market competition setting through which to examine firms’ investments in explorative initiatives and their choices of capitalization method regarding exploration related expenditures. The capitalization of exploration expenditures may contain information on whether a firm’s exploration investment is successful, which may then incur imitative behavior from competitors (the information spillover effect), or intimidate competitors from investing (the pre-empting effect). These two effects are driving forces that induce firms to choose different capitalization methods. I find that if regulators require firms to capitalize only expenditures of successful explorations, firms may increase innovation. This study sheds light on the real effect that recognition of exploratory success has on firms’ exploration investments. Chapter 3 considers a setup in which the takeover market plays a disciplinary role in replacing an inefficient incumbent manager to increase firm value. We show that increasing the information quality improves takeover efficiency, but more precise information induces frequent managerial turnover and discourages the manager from working hard. We find that a perfectly informative accounting system is never optimal. Moreover, current shareholders prefer even higher information quality in the presence of antitakeover laws or provisions, since in such cases, motivating a raider to bid is particularly important for current shareholders. Chapter 4 examines shareholder decisions on innovative investments and information quality in the presence of managerial career concerns. Managers’ reputation concerns are costly to shareholders because managers must be compensated for taking career risks. I show that shareholders face a tradeoff when determining the information quality: lowering the information quality can mitigate a manager’s career risk; however, it also hinders motivating managerial effort. I find that for higher managerial career concerns, shareholders with intense innovation urgency invest more in innovation and lower the information quality to protect the manager from exposure. In contrast, shareholders with lower levels of innovation urgency invest less to mitigate managerial career risk while increasing the compensation incentive to motivate higher managerial effort. My results shed light on the effects of career concerns on innovative investment, disclosure policy, and compensation incentives.
National Open Access Monitor, Ireland 1st OpenOrgs Sprint
Creators: name: Končić, Ivana
name: Žugaj, Martina
name: Pispiringas, Leonidas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: open access
deduplication
disambiguation
OpenAIRE
OpenOrgs
Curating Research Performing Organisation Affiliations

description: Identifying research organisations accurately is not a trivial task. They often have different names and IDs across various places, which can confuse and complicate things like sharing information, finding research, tracking activities, and linking academic communications. OpenAIRE has created OpenOrgs to solve this issue. It combines automated processes with human curation to make sure organisations are clearly identified. This helps make information more accessible and organisations easier to find and recognize! Join us for an engaging OpenOrgs training session where you'll dive deep into the essentials of enhancing data quality within the OpenAIRE Graph and for the Irish National Open Access Monitor. 

 

This session is structured to provide you with a blend of insightful knowledge and practical experience. The core of our session is the hands-on segment, where you'll be part of a small, interactive group led by a trainer. This is your opportunity to apply your new knowledge in a supportive, practical setting, ensuring you leave the session with the confidence to use OpenOrgs effectively. 

 

 The session include:

 - Introduction on the metadata gaps in the RPO's affiliation; 

- Presentation of OpenOrgs;

- Hands-on session using the OpenOrgs for your institution.
Salient Objects in Clutter: Bringing Salient Object Detection to the Foreground
Creators: name: Fan, Deng-Ping
name: Cheng, Ming-Ming
name: Liu, Jiang-Jiang
name: Gao, Shang-Hua
name: Hou, Qibin
name: Borji, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We provide a comprehensive evaluation of salient object detection (SOD) models. Our analysis identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets which assumes that each image contains at least one clearly outstanding salient object in low clutter. The design bias has led to a saturated high performance for state-of-the-art SOD models when evaluated on existing datasets. The models, however, still perform far from being satisfactory when applied to real-world daily scenes. Based on our analyses, we first identify 7 crucial aspects that a comprehensive and balanced dataset should fulfill. Then, we propose a new high quality dataset and update the previous saliency benchmark. Specifically, our SOC (Salient Objects in Clutter) dataset, includes images with salient and non-salient objects from daily object categories. Beyond object category annotations, each salient image is accompanied by attributes that reflect common challenges in real-world scenes. Finally, we report attribute-based performance assessment on our dataset.
description: ECCV 2018
Determination of $Z'$ Gauge Couplings to Quarks and Leptons at Future Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: del Aguila, F.
name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Langacker, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that at future hadron colliders the ratio of cross sections for $pp\to Z'\to \ell^+\ell^-$ in two rapidity bins is a useful probe of the relative couplings of the $Z'$ to $u$ and $d$ quarks. Combined with the forward-backward asymmetry, the rare decay modes $Z'\to W \ellν_\ell$, and three associated productions $pp\to Z'V$ ($V=Z,W,γ$), and assuming inter-family universality, small $Z-Z'$ mixing, and the $Z'$ charge commuting with the $SU_{2L}$ generators, three out of four normalized couplings could be extracted. An analysis of the statistical uncertainties expected for the above probes at the LHC for typical models with $M_{Z'}\simeq1$ TeV shows that one lepton coupling and two combinations of quark couplings could be determined to around 5\%, 20\%, and 30\%, respectively. This allows for a clear distinction between models.
description: (figures available on request), 12 pages, UPR-547-T