cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Selaroides leptolepis
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Carangidae
Selaroides
Selaroides leptolepis

description: Selaroides leptolepis (Cuvier, 1833) Material examined. MALAYSIA • 3, 120– 128 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (69) 00010. • 5, 122– 130 mm; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (69) 00010.
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 621, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
On Static Charged Black Holes in Type IIA on a Nearly-Kahler Coset
Creators: name: Kimura, Tetsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in four-dimensional N=2 gauged supergravity with one vector multiplet and one hyper-tensor multiplet. This is derived from massive type IIA theory compactified on the nearly-Kahler coset space G2/SU(3). It is well-known that the Romans' mass parameter yields the Stuckelberg-type deformation of the gauge field strengths in the four-dimensional system. This deformation requires that all the (covariant) derivatives of the scalar fields must vanish and the two-form field is closed. It turns out that charged solutions are forbidden. This implies that only AdS vacua or Schwarzschild-AdS black holes are allowed as the static, spherically symmetric solutions.
description: 13 pages
title: Design and Fabrication of Lubricant-Infused Poly(vinyl alcohol)-Based Biointerfaces for Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Oustadi, Fereshteh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biomedical Engibeering
subject: Antifouling
subject: Lubricant-infused Surfaces
subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: Biofluid-contacting medical devices are highly prone to biofouling, resulting in thrombus formation and bacterial biofilm growth, diminish device functionality, and posing very serious health implications. Traditional antifouling strategies, using hydrophilic polymers and heparin coatings, often show limited stability and reduced bioactivity over time. Lubricant-infused surfaces (LIS) have emerged as a promising alternative due to their stability and broad-spectrum repellency. However, traditional method of fabricating LIS relies on multi-step processes, including pre-coating the devise surface through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or liquid-phase deposition (LPD) to create a silicon- or fluorine-based layer, followed by lubricant infusion. These complicated steps limit LIS application to surface layers, often compromising performance under mechanical stress. This thesis presents a new, simplified approach to overcome these limitations by developing a bulk-modified poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) film that inherently supports LIS properties without requiring an additional coating step. These super-flexible lubricant-infused silane-crosslinked PVA samples were fabricated by the crosslinking of the PVA chains by n-propyltrichlorosilane (nPTCS), followed by infusion with silicone oil as a lubricant. This modification creates a chemical affinity between the film and the lubricant directly within the bulk and surface of the material, enabling lubricant infusion at any stage, simplifying the process, and ensuring long-lasting LIS functionality. Comprehensive analysis of the films showed that the Lubricant-infused silane-crosslinked PVA films inhibit blood and plasma clot formation significantly, along with a reduction in bacterial adhesion. More importantly, these films present enhanced mechanical performance in elasticity and flexibility, compared to an unmodified PVA films. This method provides a versatile method for developing high-performance antifouling biointerfaces, providing improved performance and durability under mechanical stress and representing a significant advancement over traditional antifouling strategies.
Gene copy number variation in natural populations of Plasmodium falciparum in Eastern Africa
Creators: name: Simam, Joan
name: Rono, Martin
name: Ngoi, Joyce
name: Nyonda, Mary
name: Mok, Sachel Shu Li
name: Marsh, Kevin
name: Bozdech, Zbynek
name: Mackinnon, Margaret
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genomics
subject: Plasmodium falciparum
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Adaptation (Biology)

description: Background
                Gene copy number variants (CNVs), which consist of deletions and amplifications of single or sets of contiguous genes, contribute to the great diversity in the Plasmodium falciparum genome. In vitro studies in the laboratory have revealed their important role in parasite fitness phenotypes such as red cell invasion, transmissibility and cytoadherence. Studies of natural parasite populations indicate that CNVs are also common in the field and thus may facilitate adaptation of the parasite to its local environment.

                Results
                In a survey of 183 fresh field isolates from three populations in Eastern Africa with different malaria transmission intensities, we identified 94 CNV loci using microarrays. All CNVs had low population frequencies (minor allele frequency  0.3) and nine exhibited significant clines in population frequency across a gradient in transmission intensity. The clearest example of this was a large deletion on chromosome 9 previously reported only in laboratory-adapted isolates. This deletion was present in 33% of isolates from a population with low and highly seasonal malaria transmission, and in
title: Automating Asset Identification in SystemVerilog Hardware Designs
Creators: name: Nath, Subroto Kumer Deb
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hardware Security
subject: Asset Identification
subject: RTL
subject: Verilog
subject: SystemVerilog
subject: Hardware Designs
subject: SoC
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

description: The increasing complexity of hardware designs and the growing demand for secure systems have extended the responsibility of the designers. The early detection and mitigation of security flaws and vulnerabilities in the designs have increased the need for robust methodologies to identify and protect security-critical assets in the Register Transfer Level (RTL) source code. Knowing the security assets in a design is fundamental to downstream security analyses, such as threat modeling, weakness and attack point identification, and verification. This thesis presents two frameworks for automating the identification of potential primary security assets within RTL code in an Intellectual Property (IP) block. The asset identification process is traditionally performed manually and is highly resource-intensive. The first framework uses IP-specific keywords and behavioral patterns we manually identified by analyzing open-source hardware designs. The second framework identifies the signal’s behavioral and structural patterns, flow, and distribution throughout an IP block. We apply both frameworks to open-source hardware design projects and explore the outcomes. Through complex algorithms and iterative refinement, the frameworks provide a potential set of primary security assets and thus help to reduce the manual search space.
Rasgos de vulnerabilidad y pobreza en las trabajadoras del hogar de Zacatecas
Creators: name: Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena
name: Morales Díaz, Zayra Yadira
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 380111
subject: Labour economics
classificationCode: 440503
subject: Feminist theory
classificationCode: 440504
subject: Gender relations
classificationCode: 440405
subject: Poverty, inclusivity and wellbeing
classificationCode: 440407
subject: Socio-economic development
classificationCode: 440404
subject: Political economy and social change
classificationCode: 440806
subject: Gender and politics
classificationCode: 440899
subject: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: The objective is to reveal the particular attributes of vulnerability and poverty currently reported by domestic workers (TDH) in Zacatecas; peculiarities related to their de facto working conditions and the status of informality that persist, despite the public attention received in recent years. The issue is approached from the feminist economic perspective, making visible a critical social problem and uncertainty that the devaluation of domestic work entails. The results obtained with the application of a survey and ten in-depth interviews show the relative prevalence of labor exclusion; lack of continuity with the same employer with permanence in the same occupation; deficient contractual terms with respect to the legal floor, which extend to the absence of social protection and employment instability, and in addition, violation of physical integrity and human dignity in the workplace. Likewise, the analysis of evidence suggests that the precariousness of this labor segment is not only the responsibility of the employers, but rather that it responds to a systemic framework that prevents TDHs from obtaining better employment conditions and, therefore, of life.
Revisiting the large extra dimension effects on $W$-pair production at the LHC in NLO QCD
Creators: name: Yu-Ming, Bai
name: Lei, Guo
name: Xiao-Zhou, Li
name: Wen-Gan, Ma
name: Ren-You, Zhang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the large extra dimensions (LED) model, we investigate the effects induced by the Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons up to the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) on the $W$-pair production followed by a subsequential $W$-decay at the CERN LHC. We depict the regions in the $\mathcal{L}-M_{S}$ parameter space where the LED effect can and cannot be observed from the analyses of the $pp \to W^+W^- + X$ and $pp \to W^+W^- \to W^{\pm}l^{\mp}\stackrel{(-)}ν + X$ processes. We find that the ability of probing the LED effects can be improved by taking the cutoffs for the invariant mass of $W$-pair and the transverse momentum of the final lepton. Our results demonstrate that the NLO QCD corrections to observables are significant, and do not show any improvement for the renormalization/factorization scale uncertainty on the QCD NLO corrected cross section, because the LO result underestimates the scale dependence.
description: 25 pages, 14 figures
title: LAD Method for Detecting Variable Stars in Large-Scale Telescopic Survey
Creators: name: Thomsen, Charmaine
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astronomy and Astrophysics
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The huge technological leaps in the last few decades in the field of telescopic surveys have necessitated the use of faster and more accurate computational methods. Stellar lightcurves which demonstrate variability are often used to determine inter-galactic distances, predict the age of stellar clusters, and locate dark objects. In this thesis, we propose to use a novel approach to identify these variable-type stars, i.e. applying a least absolute deviations (LAD) regression to a wavelet-based model of the lightcurve data. When comparing our new method to an established method – maximum a posteriori (MAP) weighted regression - I find that the LAD approach is much more conservative and misclassifies many of the variable stars. However, I also find that the MAP method is overly permissive. Thus to take advantage of the strengths of each method, I propose and construct a two-tier voting classifier based on both. This final classifier correctly predicts 70% of the 5412 variable-type test stars while simultaneously classifying 82% of the non-variable-type test stars correctly.
Perceived importance of substance use prevention in juvenile justice: a multi-level analysis
Creators: name: Sales, Jessica M.
name: Wasserman, Gail A.
name: Elkington, Katherine
name: Lehman, Wayne
name: Gardner, Sheena
name: McReynolds, Larkin
name: Wiley, Tisha
name: Knudsen, Hannah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Juvenile justice, Administration of
Youth--Substance use--Prevention
Child psychiatry
Juvenile delinquents--Psychology

description: Background
                Youth under juvenile justice (JJ) supervision are at high-risk of adverse outcomes from substance use, making prevention important. Few studies have examined prevention-related attitudes of JJ employees, yet such attitudes may be important for implementing prevention programs. Attitudes toward prevention may reflect individual characteristics and organizational contexts.

                Methods
                Mixed effects regression was used to analyze data from 492 employees in 36 sites participating in the Juvenile Justice—Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) cooperative agreement. JJ employees’ perceived importance of substance use prevention was measured. Staff-level variables included attitudes, job type, and demographic characteristics. Site-level variables focused on use of evidence-based screening tools, prevention programs, and drug testing.

                Results
                On average, JJ employees rated substance use prevention as highly important (mean = 45.9, out of 50). JJ employees generally agreed that preventing substance use was part of their agency’s responsibility (mean = 3.8 on scale ranging from 1 to 5). At the site level, 72.2% used an evidence-based screening tool, 22.2% used one or more evidence-based prevention program, and 47.2% used drug testing. Reported importance of prevention was positively associated with site-level use of screening tools and drug testing as well as staff-level attitudes regarding prevention being consistent with the agency’s mission.

                Conclusions
                The associations between screening and prevention attitudes suggest that commitment to identifying youth needs may result in greater openness to preventing substance use. Future efforts to implement substance use prevention within JJ agencies charged with supervising youth in the community may benefit from highlighting the fit between prevention and the agency’s mission.
Additional file 1 of High rumen degradable starch decreased goat milk fat via trans-10, cis-12 conjugated linoleic acid-mediated downregulation of lipogenesis genes, particularly, INSIG1
Creators: name: Zheng, Lixin
name: Wu, Shengru
name: Shen, Jing
name: Han, Xiaoying
name: Jin, Chunjia
name: Chen, Xiaodong
name: Zhao, Shengguo
name: Cao, Yangchun
name: Yao, Junhu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Ingredients and chemical composition of diets. Table S2. The specific primers for the qRT-PCR of GAPDH and the tested mRNAs. Table S3. The specific primers used for qRT-PCR of eubacteria. Table S4. Concentration of major fatty acids in the different RDS diets. Table S5. Identified differential metabolites in MRDS vs. LRDS, HRDS vs. LRDS and HRDS vs. MRDS. Table S6. The differentially expressed genes in the compared groups of MRDS vs. LRDS, HRDS vs. LRDS and HRDS vs. MRDS. Table S7. Gene Ontology analysis of differentially expressed genes among the treatments. Table S8. KEGG pathway analysis of differentially expressed genes among the treatments. Figure S1. OPLS-DA score of MRDS vs. LRDS, HRDS vs. LRDS and HRDS vs. MRDS in positive mode and negative mode. Note: a, b, and c represent the OPLS-DA scores of MRDS vs. LRDS, HRDS vs. LRDS and HRDS vs. MRDS in positive mode, respectively. d, e, and f represent the OPLS-DA scores of MRDS vs. LRDS, HRDS vs. LRDS and HRDS vs. MRDS in negative mode, respectively.
Neutron-skin thickness from the study of the anti-analog giant dipole resonance
Creators: name: Krasznahorkay, A.
name: Stuhl, L.
name: Csatlós, M.
name: Algora, A.
name: Gulyás, J.
name: Timár, J.
name: Paar, N.
name: Vretenar, D.
name: Boretzky, K.
name: Heil, M.
name: Litvinov, Yu. A.
name: Rossi, D.
name: Scheidenberger, C.
name: Simon, H.
name: Weick, H.
name: Bracco, A.
name: Brambilla, S.
name: Blasi, N.
name: Camera, F.
name: Giaz, A.
name: Million, B.
name: Pellegri, L.
name: Riboldi, S.
name: Wieland, O.
name: Altstadt, S.
name: Fonseca, M.
name: Glorius, J.
name: Göbel, K.
name: Heftrich, T.
name: Koloczek, A.
name: Kräckmann, S.
name: Langer, C.
name: Plag, R.
name: Pohl, M.
name: Rastrepina, G.
name: Reifarth, R.
name: Schmidt, S.
name: Sonnabend, K.
name: Weigand, M.
name: Harakeh, M. N.
name: Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N.
name: Rigollet, C.
name: Bagchi, S.
name: Najafi, M. A.
name: Aumann, T.
name: Atar, L.
name: Heine, M.
name: Holl, M.
name: Movsesyan, A.
name: Schrock, P.
name: Volkov, V.
name: Wamers, F.
name: Fiori, E.
name: Löher, B.
name: Marganiec, J.
name: Savran, D.
name: Johansson, H. T.
name: Fernández, P. Diaz
name: Garg, U.
name: Balabanski, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gamma-decay of the anti-analog of the giant dipole resonance (AGDR) has been measured to the isobaric analog state excited in the p(124Sn,n) reaction at a beam energy of 600 MeV/nucleon. The energy of the transition was also calculated with state-of-the-art self-consistent random-phase approximation (RPA) and turned out to be very sensitive to the neutron-skin thickness (\DeltaR_(pn)). By comparing the theoretical results with the measured one, the \DeltaR_(pn) value for 124Sn was deduced to be 0.175 \pm 0.048 fm, which agrees well with the previous results. The energy of the AGDR measured previously for ^(208)Pb was also used to determine the \DeltaR_(pn) for ^(208)Pb. In this way a very precise \DeltaR_(pn) = 0.181 \pm 0.031 neutron-skin thickness has been obtained for 208Pb. The present method offers new possibilities for measuring the neutron-skin thicknesses of very exotic isotopes.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Trachinotus blochii
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Carangidae
Trachinotus
Trachinotus blochii

description: Trachinotus blochii (Lacepède, 1801) Material examined. MALAYSIA • 2, 303– 311 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 4 Mar. 2019; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (69) 00021.
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 621, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
Canonical curves and Kropina metrics in Lagrangian contact geometry
Creators: name: Ma, T.
name: Flood, K. J.
name: Matveev, V. S.
name: Žádník, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 53A40, 32V30, 53B40, 53A20, 58E10. Secondary: 32V05, 32V20, 53C22

description: We present a Fefferman-type construction from Lagrangian contact to conformal structures and examine several related topics. In particular, we concentrate on describing the canonical curves and their correspondence. We show that chains and null-chains of an integrable Lagrangian contact structure are the projections of null-geodesics of the Fefferman space. Employing the Fermat principle, we realize chains as geodesics of Kropina (pseudo-Finsler) metrics. Using recent rigidity results, we show that ``sufficiently many'' chains determine the Lagrangian contact structure. Separately, we comment on Lagrangian contact structures induced by projective structures and the special case of dimension three.
description: 25 pages, no figures
Domination Value in Graphs
Creators: name: Yi, Eunjeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69, 05C38

description: A set $D \subseteq V(G)$ is a \emph{dominating set} of $G$ if every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$. A dominating set of $G$ of minimum cardinality is called a $γ(G)$-set. For each vertex $v \in V(G)$, we define the \emph{domination value} of $v$ to be the number of $γ(G)$-sets to which $v$ belongs. In this paper, we study some basic properties of the domination value function, thus initiating \emph{a local study of domination} in graphs. Further, we characterize domination value for the Petersen graph, complete $n$-partite graphs, cycles, and paths.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, v2: A few minor changes made. This is the final version, to appear in Contrib. Discrete Math
Limitations of synthetic aperture laser optical feedback imaging
Creators: name: Glastre, Wilfried
name: Jacquin, Olivier
name: Hugon, Olivier
name: De Chatellus, Hugues Guillet
name: Lacot, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the origin and the effect of amplitude and phase noise on Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI) associated with Synthetic Aperture (SA) imaging system. Amplitude noise corresponds to photon noise and acts as an additive noise, it can be reduced by increasing the global measurement time. Phase noise can be divided in three families: random, sinusoidal and drift phase noise; we show that it acts as a multiplicative noise. We explain how we can reduce phase noise by making oversampling or multiple measurements depending on its type. This work can easily be extended to all SA systems (Radar, Laser or Terahertz), especially when raw holograms are acquired point by point.
Global lung function initiative 2012 reference values for spirometry in Asian Americans
Creators: name: Zhang, Jingzhou
name: Hu, Xiao
name: Tian, Xinlun
name: Xu, Kai-Feng
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Spirometry
Epidemiology
Asian Americans
Lungs

description: Background
                Spirometry reference values specifically designed for Asian Americans are currently unavailable. The performance of Global Lung Function Initiative 2012 (GLI-2012) equations on assessing spirometry in Asian Americans has not been evaluated. This study aimed to assess the fitness of relevant GLI-2012 equations for spirometry in Asian Americans.

                Methods
                Asian subjects who never smoked and had qualified spirometry data were extracted from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2012. Z-scores of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), and FEV1/FVC were separately constructed with GLI-2012 equations for North East (NE) Asians, South East (SE) Asians, and individuals of mixed ethnic origin (Mixed). In addition, Proportions of subjects with observed spirometry data below the lower limit of normal (LLN) were also evaluated on each GLI-2012 equation of interest.

                Results
                This study included 567 subjects (250 men and 317 women) aged 6–79 years. Spirometry z-scores (z-FEV1, z-FVC, and z-FEV1/FVC) based on GLI-2012 Mixed equations had mean values close to zero (− 0.278 to − 0.057) and standard deviations close to one (1.001 to 1.128); additionally, 6.0% (95% confidence interval (CI) 3.1–8.9%) and 6.4% (95% CI 3.7–9.1%) of subjects were with observed data below LLN for FEV1/FVC in men and women, respectively. In contrast, for NE Asian equations, all mean values of z-FEV1 and z-FVC were smaller than − 0.5; for SE Asian equations, mean values of z-FEV1/FVC were significantly smaller than zero in men (− 0.333) and women (− 0.440).

                Conclusions
                GLI-2012 equations for individuals of mixed ethnic origin adequately fitted spirometry data in this sample of Asian Americans. Future studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these findings.
Asymptotics for numbers of line segments and lines in a square grid
Creators: name: Haukkanen, Pentti
name: Merikoski, Jorma K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05A99, 11N37, 11P21

description: We present an asymptotic formula for the number of line segments connecting q+1 points of an nxn square grid, and a sharper formula, assuming the Riemann hypothesis. We also present asymptotic formulas for the number of lines through at least q points and, respectively, through exactly q points of the grid. The well-known case q=2 is so generalized.
Cynoglossus arel
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Pleuronectiformes
Cynoglossidae
Cynoglossus
Cynoglossus arel

description: Cynoglossus arel (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Figure 5F Material examined. MALAYSIA • 3, 264– 312 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 4 Mar. 2019; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (84) 00007.
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 621, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
Constraining the dark energy and smoothness parameter with type Ia Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Busti, V. C.
name: Santos, R. C.
name: Lima, J. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of inhomogeneities in the observed Universe modifies the distance-redshift relations thereby affecting the results of cosmological tests in comparison to the ones derived assuming spatially uniform models. By modeling the inhomogeneities through a Zeldovich-Kantowski-Dyer-Roeder (ZKDR) approach which is phenomenologically characterized by a smoothness parameter $α$, we rediscuss the constraints on the cosmic parameters based on Supernovae type Ia and Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) data. The present analysis is restricted to a flat $Λ$CDM model with the reasonable assumption that $Λ$ does not clump. A $χ^{2}$-analysis using 557 SNe Ia data from the Union2 Compilation Data (Amanullah {\it et al.} 2010) constrains the pair of parameters ($Ω_m, α$) to $Ω_m=0.27_{-0.03}^{+0.08}$($2σ$) and $α\geq 0.25$. A similar analysis based only on 59 Hymnium GRBs (Wei 2010) constrains the matter density parameter to be $Ω_m= 0.35^{+0.62}_{-0.24}$ ($2σ$) while all values for the smoothness parameter are allowed. By performing a joint analysis, it is found that $Ω_m = 0.27^{+0.06}_{-0.03}$ and $α\geq 0.52$. As a general result, although considering that current GRB data alone cannot constrain the smoothness $α$ parameter our analysis provides an interesting cosmological probe for dark energy even in the presence of inhomogeneities.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, corrected version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Cynoglossus puncticeps
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Pleuronectiformes
Cynoglossidae
Cynoglossus
Cynoglossus puncticeps

description: Cynoglossus puncticeps (Richardson, 1846) Material examined. MALAYSIA • 1, 104 mm TL; Kedah State, Kampung Batu Lintang, Pompang Batu Lintang; 05.625°N, 100.394°E; 17 Jul. 2019; Sébastien Lavoué leg.; USMFC (84) 00003. • 1, 90 mm TL; Kedah State, Merbok, Pompang Sungai Merbok; 05.664°N, 100.381°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (84) 00006.
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 621, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
title: Downstream impacts of glacial retreat in the Peyto Glacier basin, Banff National Park, Canada
Creators: name: Basiuk, Holly
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mountains
subject: Alberta
subject: Proglacial Environment
subject: Proglacial
subject: Proglacial Hydrology
subject: Suspended Sediment
subject: Glacier
subject: Climate Change
subject: Peyto Lake
subject: Peyto Glacier
subject: Physical Geography
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Hydrology

description: Glacier retreat strongly influences the surrounding environment and downstream through landscape evolution, diurnal meltwater generation, sediment production, and sediment export. Proglacial environments, located in front of glaciers, are dynamic systems by continuous landscape processes seeking to reach a new equilibrium. An increasingly common feature in these environments is proglacial lakes, which act like dammed reservoirs, slowing water, and allowing for sediments to settle out of suspension. Peyto Basin has long been of interest to scholars and tourists; however, little research has focused on the development of Lake Munro, an ice-contact proglacial lake at the terminus of Peyto Glacier. To understand the implications of Lake Munro’s development, a multipronged approach was employed, examining lake area growth, glacier length changes, and downstream channel braiding. Additionally, ion contributions from waterbodies in the basin, sediment samples, and suspended sediment concentrations were analyzed and compared with available historic data. Our results show that Peyto Glacier has retreated 2048 +/- 5 m between 1952 and 2023, while Lake Munro expanded from non-existence to 0.305 +/- 0.010 km2 between 2008 and 2023, and is estimated to be trapping suspended sediments, with rough estimates suggest up to 60% of sediments being captured by Lake Munro. However, downstream proglacial channels rapidly replenish the larger grain sizes in the suspended sediment of Peyto Creek. Caldron Creek was identified as the highest contributor of ions to Peyto Creek, and downstream, Peyto Lake now exhibits a strong thermal stratification and has higher suspended sediment concentrations compared to historic data. Channel braiding is more variable in recent years, but further seasonal and intra-annual data should be analyzed before stronger relationships can be drawn. The findings highlight how glacial retreat, and the development of a proglacial lake impact downstream sediment concentrations, channel patterns, and grain size distribution in the Canadian Rockies. Continued research within the Peyto Basin will continue to highlight processes in the proglacial environment as Peyto Glacier retreats.
Aging behavior of flexcast® Al-Mg alloys with Sc and Zr additions
Creators: name: Sohi, Mojan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: AA5xxx series Al alloys have presented great potential in recent decades for packaging and automotive applications. A recent further development of these alloys has been the addition of Sc and Zr. The presence of these elements is known to develop strengthening phases that also influence other metallurgical phenomena such as recovery and recrystallization. However, the low solubility of both Sc and Zr in Al requires high cooling rates during casting in order to attain a supersaturated solid solution which conventional DC casting is unable to achieve. In this study, two Al- 3%Mg alloys, one Sc-free and the other containing 0.4% Sc were cast using the Flexcaster® available at the Novelis Global Technology Center (Kingston, Ontario). The Flexcaster® is a strip casting technology that transforms liquid aluminum into a directly rollable cast ingot that is not subject to scalping or homogenization processing. This technology is characterized by relatively high solidification and cooling rates. Aging experiments were performed on as-cast and cold-rolled samples of the two alloys to study the evolution of strengthening phases and their impact on recovery and recrystallization. Both alloys were artificially aged following casting at 200, 300 and 400°C for times ranging from 30s to 72 hours. The alloys were characterized by hardness and tensile tests and electrical resistivity measurements as well as optical and electron microscopy in order to monitor the aging behavior of the alloys. Results show enhanced strengthening in the Sc-containing alloy and superior high temperature microstructural stability in comparison to the Sc-free alloy as well as conventionally cast AlMgSc alloys.
Polyocollection ideals and primary decomposition of polyomino ideals
Creators: name: Cisto, Carmelo
name: Navarra, Francesco
name: Veer, Dharm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B50, 05E40

description: In this article, we study the primary decomposition of some binomial ideals. In particular, we introduce the concept of polyocollection, a combinatorial object that generalizes the definitions of collection of cells and polyomino, that can be used to compute a primary decomposition of non-prime polyomino ideals. Furthermore, we give a description of the minimal primary decomposition of non-prime closed path polyominoes. In particular, for such a class of polyominoes, we characterize the set of all zig-zag walks and show that the minimal prime ideals have a very nice combinatorial description.
description: To appear in Journal of Algebra. 24 pages, 16 figures
Cynoglossus cynoglossus cynoglossus (Hamilton 1822
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Pleuronectiformes
Cynoglossidae
Cynoglossus
Cynoglossus cynoglossus

description: Cynoglossus cynoglossus (Hamilton, 1822) Figure 5E Material examined. MALAYSIA • 1, 82 mm TL; Kedah State, Kampung Batu Lintang, Pompang Batu Lintang; 05.625°N, 100.394°E; 17 Jul. 2019; Sébastien Lavoué leg.; USMFC (84) 00002. • 3, 95– 135 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (84) 00005.
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 621, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
Some Extremal Self-Dual Codes and Unimodular Lattices in Dimension 40
Creators: name: Bouyuklieva, Stefka
name: Bouyukliev, Iliya
name: Harada, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, binary extremal singly even self-dual codes of length 40 and extremal odd unimodular lattices in dimension 40 are studied. We give a classification of extremal singly even self-dual codes of length 40. We also give a classification of extremal odd unimodular lattices in dimension 40 with shadows having 80 vectors of norm 2 through their relationships with extremal doubly even self-dual codes of length 40.
description: 30 pages
title: Inkrementelle Rekonstruktion von planaren Volumenmodellen mit handgehaltenen Tiefenkameras
Creators: name: Sand, Maximilian
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 3D-Rekonstruktion
subject: SLAM
subject: 004

description: In vielen Anwendungsbereichen, wie der Computergrafik, der Robotik oder beim computergestützten Entwerfen spielen 3D-Modelle eine große Rolle. Die sensorgestützte Erzeugung von 3D-Modellen ist dabei eine einfache Möglichkeit, Modelle von realen Objekten oder Räumen zu erstellen, indem mit einer Kamera ein digitales Abbild erstellt wird. Im Gegensatz zur manuellen Erzeugung ist dabei kein Expertenwissen im Umgang mit 3D-Grafikprogrammen vonnöten. Um einen manuellen Eingriff so weit wie möglich zu reduzieren, ist die Vision, einen allumfassenden intelligenten 3D-Scanner zu besitzen, der alle benötigten Informationen schnell und in einfacher Art und Weise erfasst.
Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel, dieser Vision einen Schritt näher zu kommen. Dazu wird ein Verfahren entwickelt, das erlaubt, mit handgehaltenen Tiefenkameras inkrementell und online ein kontinuierliches Volumenmodell in Form eines planaren Boundary-Representation (B-Rep) Modells zu erzeugen. Diese Kombination schließt die in bestehenden Scan-Systemen vorherrschende Lücke von robuster, online-fähiger Erfassung bei gleichzeitiger Erzeugung eines hochwertigen Ausgabemodells mit algebraischer Geometriebeschreibung und Topologieinformationen, das Grundlage vieler CAD-Systeme ist. Durch die inkrementelle Vorgehensweise ist bereits zu jedem Zeitpunkt während der Rekonstruktion ein hochwertiges partielles Modell verfügbar.
Zur Bewältigung dieser Aufgabe werden mehrere Teilprobleme identifiziert und Lösungen vorgestellt: Das Konzept partieller B-Rep Modelle beantwortet die Frage nach einer geeigneten Modellrepräsentation für eines solches System. Ein Verfahren zur direkten Rekonstruktion und anschließenden Fusion ermöglicht eine online-fähige Rekonstruktion bei bekannter Kamerapose. Eine Methode zur merkmalsbasierten Registrierung von Einzelbildern vervollständigt den Ansatz zu einem kompletten Simultaneous-Localization-And-Mapping (SLAM) System, sodass frei bewegliche, handgehaltene Tiefenkameras verwendet werden können. Ansätze zur Unterstützung des Anwenders vereinfachen die Handhabung und helfen, ein Objekt oder eine Szene vollständig zu erfassen.
Anhand einer Evaluation aller Teilschritte werden die Leistungsfähigkeit und die Grenzen des Systems analysiert und diskutiert. Zudem wird eine prototypische Umsetzung für drei unterschiedliche Sensoren und zwei Plattformen (Desktop-Rechner und Mobilgerät) beschrieben, die die Praxistauglichkeit des Ansatzes aufzeigt.
Effects of adaxial-abaxial signalling on leaf polarity
Creators: name: Nowak, Julia S.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The unifying theme of this thesis is adaxial-abaxial or dorsiventral patterning in leaves. The adaxial-abaxial axis sets the thickness of a leaf and without the appropriate juxtaposition of the adaxial and abaxial domains, radialized leaves develop. The underlying genetic mechanisms of the development of these polarity defects started to be elucidated only over the past 20 years in the model Arabidopsis, in particular. I investigated this patterning in a variety of non-model species. Firstly, I investigated the variability of dorsiventral polarity in plants with naturally occurring radialized leaves including Allium, Nepenthes, Krishna fig, Pelargonium, several Cactaceae species, and popREVOLUTA mutant of a poplar hybrid. Subsequent chapters aimed to incorporate morphology and anatomy with molecular genetics in order to elucidate the underlying basis of the phenotype of interest in species that have not been used as model systems for leaf development, including canola and poplar. A novel mutant (lamina epiphylla, lip) was identified in canola, which has adaxialized leaves and leaf-derived organs. Some of the HD-ZIPIII candidate genes were sequenced in canola, but I was unable to determine the location of the LIP mutation. The rest of this thesis focuses on the abaxial greening and unifacial petiole phenotypes seen in some species of poplar that have isobilateral leaves (others in the genus have bifacial leaves). YABBY, KANADI, and HD-ZIPIII genes are some of the major contributors to setting proper adaxial-abaxial polarity and I investigated the relationships of these genes by identifying the orthologs in Arabidopsis, poplar, and eucalyptus (a genus that shares the abaxial greening phenotype with poplar). Further, I studied the species relationships within the genus Populus in order to establish the ancestral state of leaf type. I determined that bifacial leaves are likely derived within the genus. Finally, two poplar species (black cottonwood with bifacial leaves and hybrid aspen with isobilateral leaves) were compared on the basis of morphology, anatomy, and molecular genetics in order to determine the underlying basis of the abaxial greening and unifacial petiole phenotypes in hybrid aspen. I identified a subset of genes that may be involved in determining these phenotypes, but further investigation is needed.
Cynoglossus lingua Hamilton 1822
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Pleuronectiformes
Cynoglossidae
Cynoglossus
Cynoglossus lingua

description: Cynoglossus lingua Hamilton, 1822 Material examined. MALAYSIA • 3, 225– 240 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 4 Mar. 2019; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (84) 00008.
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 621, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
QARV: Quantization-Aware ResNet VAE for Lossy Image Compression
Creators: name: Duan, Zhihao
name: Lu, Ming
name: Ma, Jack
name: Huang, Yuning
name: Ma, Zhan
name: Zhu, Fengqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper addresses the problem of lossy image compression, a fundamental problem in image processing and information theory that is involved in many real-world applications. We start by reviewing the framework of variational autoencoders (VAEs), a powerful class of generative probabilistic models that has a deep connection to lossy compression. Based on VAEs, we develop a novel scheme for lossy image compression, which we name quantization-aware ResNet VAE (QARV). Our method incorporates a hierarchical VAE architecture integrated with test-time quantization and quantization-aware training, without which efficient entropy coding would not be possible. In addition, we design the neural network architecture of QARV specifically for fast decoding and propose an adaptive normalization operation for variable-rate compression. Extensive experiments are conducted, and results show that QARV achieves variable-rate compression, high-speed decoding, and a better rate-distortion performance than existing baseline methods. The code of our method is publicly accessible at https://github.com/duanzhiihao/lossy-vae
description: Full version (19 pages, includes appendix) of the paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI
Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in”
Creators: name: Schaaf, Marta L.
name: Fox, Jonathan
name: Topp, Stephanie M.
name: Warthin, Caitlin
name: Freedman, Lynn P.
name: Robinson, Rachel S.
name: Thiagarajan, Sundararaman
name: Scott, Kerry
name: Maboe, Thoko
name: Zanchetta, Margareth
name: Ruano, Ana L.
name: Kok, Maryse
name: Closser, Svea
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Community health aides
World health
Medical care
Equality--Health aspects

description: Community health workers (CHWs) are frequently put forward as a remedy for lack of health system capacity, including challenges associated with health service coverage and with low community engagement in the health system, and expected to enhance or embody health system accountability. During a ‘think in’, held in June of 2017, a diverse group of practitioners and researchers discussed the topic of CHWs and their possible roles in a larger “accountability ecosystem.” This jointly authored commentary resulted from our deliberations. While CHWs are often conceptualized as cogs in a mechanistic health delivery system, at the end of the day, CHWs are people embedded in families, communities, and the health system. CHWs’ social position and professional role influence how they are treated and trusted by the health sector and by community members, as well as when, where, and how they can exercise agency and promote accountability. To that end, we put forward several propositions for further conceptual development and research related to the question of CHWs and accountability.