cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Ontology of the ‘Now’ in Aristotle
Creators: name: Scaltsas, Theodore
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: I argue in this paper that Aristotle’s theory of time engages him in a constructive dialogue with the rest of his metaphysics, giving him the opportunity to develop novel metaphysical types of entity. In particular, I concentrate on the type of entity the now is in his theory and try to bring out the ontological makeup of the now, while identifying what about it is novel for Aristotle’s metaphysics.
Board structure and firm value of companies listed on the Singapore Exchange
Creators: name: KOH, John
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Using a unique dataset consisting of firms listed on the Singapore Exchange, I show that there is a positive relation between firm value and board size. Consistent with previous literature on board structure, firm value decreases as the proportion of insiders on the board increases. Firm size, age and ownership structure are crucial factors determining the size and composition of boards.
Nurse requirements in British Columbia : an analysis of the 1979-82 trends, part 1 : methods and preliminary findings - institutional analysis
Creators: name: Kazanjian, Arminée 1947-
name: Chan, Susan
Publisher: name: Health Human Resources Unit (HHRU); Division of Health Services Research and Development
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this part of the study is, firstly, to examine factors that have historically affected requirements for nursing services and secondly, in so doing to develop a model appropriate for estimating future requirements.
Realizing a robust, reconfigurable active quenching design for multiple architectures of single-photon avalanche detectors
Creators: name: Sachidananda, Subash
name: Gundlapalli, Prithvi
name: Leong, Victor
name: Krivitsky, Leonid
name: Ling, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most active quench circuits used for single-photon avalanche detectors are designed either with discrete components which lack the flexibility of dynamically changing the control parameters, or with custom ASICs which require a long development time and high cost. As an alternative, we present a reconfigurable and robust hybrid design implemented using a System-on-Chip (SoC), which integrates both an FPGA and a microcontroller. We take advantage of the FPGA's speed and configuration capabilities to vary the quench and reset parameters dynamically over a large range, thus allowing our circuit to operate with a wide variety of APDs without having to re-design the system. The microcontroller enables the remote adjustment of control parameters and re-calibration of APDs in the field. The ruggedized design uses components with space heritage, thus making it suitable for space-based applications in the fields of telecommunications and quantum key distribution (QKD). We characterize our circuit with a commercial APD cooled to 253K, and obtain a deadtime of 35ns while maintaining the after-pulsing probability at close to 3%. We also demonstrate versatility of the circuit by directly testing custom fabricated chip-scale APDs, which paves the way for automated wafer-scale testing and characterization.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, Included in SPIE Proceedings Volume 12008, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering IX; 1200807 (2022)
The determinants of board structure and firm long-run performance of Chinese SMEs
Creators: name: WANG, Cong
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150314 Small Business Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study examines the factors determining board structure at IPO, as well as the long-run performance of firms after their IPO in the context of China—a transitional economy. Specifically, three characteristics of the board are considered: board size, board composition (i.e outsider ratio) and board political connection (i.e CCP membership ratio). This study focuses on the roles that two contrasting institutional investors – state and venture capitalist (VC) play on board structure and the long-run performance of firms. Based on a sample of 217 Chinese SMEs listed on the SME board of Shenzhen Stock Exchange for the period of 2004 to 2010, the results suggest that state ownership is positively associated with board size and CCP membership ratio and negatively associated with outsider ratio. In addition, there is a negative relationship between state ownership and firm long-run performance and this relationship is mediated by board structure. Contrary to the findings in developed markets, this study suggests that VC involvement does not lead to more efficient board structure and superior performance in Chinese SMEs.
Role of Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) Infection
Creators: name: Dr. Palagiri Madhuri1, Dr. Ashmita Debnath2
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description:  

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) is a highly contagious pathogen affecting cloven-hoofed animals, causing significant economic losses in livestock industries. The immune response to FMDV involves both innate and adaptive immunity, which play critical roles in controlling and resolving the infection. This article explores the mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity in FMDV infection, including the roles of pattern recognition receptors, interferons, immune cells, and antibodies. Understanding these immune responses is vital for developing effective vaccines and control strategies.
To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, Dense and Sparse Retrievers
Creators: name: Li, Hang
name: Wang, Shuai
name: Zhuang, Shengyao
name: Mourad, Ahmed
name: Ma, Xueguang
name: Lin, Jimmy
name: Zuccon, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current pre-trained language model approaches to information retrieval can be broadly divided into two categories: sparse retrievers (to which belong also non-neural approaches such as bag-of-words methods, e.g., BM25) and dense retrievers. Each of these categories appears to capture different characteristics of relevance. Previous work has investigated how relevance signals from sparse retrievers could be combined with those from dense retrievers via interpolation. Such interpolation would generally lead to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper we consider the problem of combining the relevance signals from sparse and dense retrievers in the context of Pseudo Relevance Feedback (PRF). This context poses two key challenges: (1) When should interpolation occur: before, after, or both before and after the PRF process? (2) Which sparse representation should be considered: a zero-shot bag-of-words model (BM25), or a learnt sparse representation? To answer these questions we perform a thorough empirical evaluation considering an effective and scalable neural PRF approach (Vector-PRF), three effective dense retrievers (ANCE, TCTv2, DistillBERT), and one state-of-the-art learnt sparse retriever (uniCOIL). The empirical findings from our experiments suggest that, regardless of sparse representation and dense retriever, interpolation both before and after PRF achieves the highest effectiveness across most datasets and metrics.
description: Short research paper, accepted at SIGIR2022
Lifestyles, linkage and liabilities : theory and evidence justifying economic incentives for healthier lifestyles
Creators: name: Barer, M. L.
name: Evans, Robert G., 1942-
name: Stoddart, G. L.
name: Labelle, Roberta J.
name: Fulton, Jane
Publisher: name: Health Human Resources Unit (HHRU); Division of Health Services Research and Development
Year: 2014

description: The major intent of this report is to identify, and then to illustrate using a number of well known examples, the information which must be available and the conditions which must be satisfied in order for a policy of economic intervention in individual lifestyles to be successful in achieving specific public policy objectives.
The role of internal audit in ensuring the security of public finances in Poland
Creators: name: Kołcz, Bogdan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440708
subject: Public administration

description: Ensuring the stability of public finances is important for the solvency of the state, but above all, ensuring that public authorities provide an appropriate level of public services. The stability of public finances depends to a large extent on fiscal policy, and thus constitutes an important impulse for the development of the economy of individual regions. Therefore, an important task is to monitor forecasts of the public deficit and debt, as well as the risks related to the stability of public finances. These tasks belong to the internal audit and include the assessment of activities by public authorities in terms of income, expenses and financial results. In the process of stability of public finances, the role of the internal auditor in the activities of a public finance sector entity is visible. The obligation to conduct an internal audit is specified in the Public Finance Act, and its main task is to influence the processes of improving the functioning of the public finance sector unit. Striving to increase the quality and efficiency of performing public tasks by improving management is the main task of internal audit. The purpose of the audit is to ensure rational and economical management of public finances in connection with the implementation of tasks by all administrators and at all levels of management of these funds. The audit should therefore ensure an independent and objective assessment of the financial management of public funds, according to criteria that guarantee the purposefulness, credibility and economy of their spending. Internal audit ensures a common, uniform system of control of public finances, the same for all entities managing public funds at all levels of management.
title: Versuch über das V-Wort
Creators: name: Gehring, Petra
Publisher: name: Zevedi
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 6.3
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Man muss es schon zugeben: „Verantwortung“ ist zwar schnell gesagt, aber eigentlich kann niemand rasch mal angeben, was der Ausdruck wirklich meint. Auch die Philosophie tut sich mit dem Wort schwer. Zu wuchtig, irgendwie zeigefingerhaft – und eben: trotzdem kaum auf den Punkt zu bringen.
Service innovation in small and medium enterprises in Singapore
Creators: name: Haliza BEGUM
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: By means of employing surveys and quantitative empirical research methods, this paper has set out to understand the antecedents to SMEs intention to innovate in services within the Singapore context.
 Internal organisational factors such as organisational learning, mission and the firm‟s innovation experience were found to have an effect on the firm's intention to innovate, and when factored with the moderating effects of the environmental factors such as availability of external funding and societal expectations, several interesting findings emerged.
 These findings would be of consequence to the top managers of SMEs and researchers alike, in an effort to understand the behavior of SMEs in the domain of innovation in services.
Planowanie przychodów ze sprzedaży na przykładzie przedsiębiorstw z branży doradztwa związanego z zarządzaniem
Creators: name: Asdf Dsaf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Poniższy raport przedstawia prognozę sprzedaży dla przedsiębiorstw z doradztwa związanego z zarządzaniem (PKD 70). W skład raportu wchodzi wstęp, opis teoretyczny wykorzystanej metody prognostycznej oraz przedstawienie praktycznego przykładu zastosowania wraz z uzasadnieniem oraz zakończenie.
Dimensionality-controlled evolution of charge-transfer energy in digital nickelates superlattices
Creators: name: Lu, Xiangle
name: Liu, Jishan
name: Zhang, Nian
name: Xie, Binping
name: Yang, Shuai
name: Liu, Wanling
name: Jiang, Zhicheng
name: Huang, Zhe
name: Yang, Yichen
name: Miao, Jin
name: Li, Wei
name: Cho, Soohyun
name: Liu, Zhengtai
name: Liu, Zhonghao
name: Shen, Dawei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fundamental understanding and control of the electronic structure evolution in rare-earth nickelates is a fascinating and meaningful issue, as well as being helpful to understand the mechanism of recently discovered superconductivity. Here we systematically study the dimensionality effect on the ground electronic state in high-quality (NdNiO3)m/(SrTiO3)1 superlattices through transport and soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy. The metal-to-insulator transition temperature decreases with the thickness of the NdNiO3 slab decreasing from bulk to 7 unit cells, then increases gradually as m further reduces to 1 unit cell. Spectral evidence demonstrates that the stabilization of insulating phase can be attributed to the increase of the charge-transfer energy between O 2p and Ni 3d bands. The prominent multiplet feature on the Ni L3 edge develops with the decrease of NdNiO3 slab thickness, suggesting the strengthening of the charge disproportionate state under the dimensional confinement. Our work provides convincing evidence that dimensionality is an effective knob to modulate the charge-transfer energy and thus the collective ground state in nickelates.
description: 17 pages,4 figures
PLANOWANIE PRZYCHODÓW ZE SPRZEDAŻY NA PODSTAWIE PRZEDSIĘBIORSTW Z BRANŻY POŚREDNICTWA FINANSOWEGO ORAZ POZOSTAŁEJ FINANSOWEJ DZIAŁALNOŚĆI USŁUGOWEJ
Creators: name: Berliński, Tomasz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Streszczenie: Raport przedstawiania prognozę sprzedaży w przedsiębiorstwach działających w branży pozostała finansowa działalność usługowa na rok 2012, sporządzona prostą metodą prognostyczną; procentem od sprzedaży ora liniowym modelem statystycznym z uwzględnieniem sezonowości. Summary: A report presenting sales forecasts in companies operating in the sector other financial services for the year 2012, based on a simple method of predictive; percentage of sales ora linear statistical model taking into account the seasonality
Credit rating agencies and conflict of interest
Creators: name: CHEONG, Harvey Teck Wee
Publisher: name: SMU Research Data Repository (RDR)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: While formal anecdotal evidence of credit rating agencies flouting conflict of interest guidelines have been published by the SEC and the Senate, statistical evidence of this has yet to be found. Taking advantage of the bond rating refinement undertaken by Moody’s on April 26 1982, as well as the fact that rating fees are positively related to the number or size of new bond issues, we examine the relationship between the bond rating refinements and the number and size of new bond issues within the five years before and after the refinement. We find evidence that bond "upgrades" are positively correlated with the number and size of new bond issues before the refinement, and that bond "downgrades" are similarly negatively correlated, which may be indicative of a manifested conflict of interest at Moody’s during the bond rating refinement of April 26 1982.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and its Main Drivers: a Panel Assessment for EU-27 Member States
Creators: name: Jianu, I.
name: Jeloaica, S. M.
name: Tudorache, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper assesses the effects of greenhouse gas emissions drivers in EU-27 over the period 2010-2019, using a Panel EGLS model with period fixed effects. In particular, we focused our research on studying the effects of GDP, renewable energy, households energy consumption and waste on the greenhouse gas emissions. In this regard, we found a positive relationship between three independent variables (real GDP per capita, households final consumption per capita and waste generation per capita) and greenhouse gas emissions per capita, while the effect of the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption on the dependent variable proved to be negative, but quite low. In addition, we demonstrate that the main challenge that affects greenhouse gas emissions is related to the structure of households energy consumption, which is generally composed by environmentally harmful fuels. This suggests the need to make greater efforts to support the shift to a green economy based on a higher energy efficiency.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Modeling Political Activism around Gun Debate via Social Media
Creators: name: Mejova, Yelena
name: An, Jisun
name: Morales, Gianmarco De Francisci
name: Kwak, Haewoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The United States have some of the highest rates of gun violence among developed countries. Yet, there is a disagreement about the extent to which firearms should be regulated. In this study, we employ social media signals to examine the predictors of offline political activism, at both population and individual level. We show that it is possible to classify the stance of users on the gun issue, especially accurately when network information is available. Alongside socioeconomic variables, network information such as the relative size of the two sides of the debate is also predictive of state-level gun policy. On individual level, we build a statistical model using network, content, and psycho-linguistic features that predicts real-life political action, and explore the most predictive linguistic features. Thus, we argue that, alongside demographics and socioeconomic indicators, social media provides useful signals in the holistic modeling of political engagement around the gun debate.
Modal Bias in Sea Level and Sea Surface Temperature, with Applications to Remote Sensing.
Creators: name: Hsieh, William W.
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2016

description: From vertical normal mode decomposition, sea level and sea surface temperature (SST) are shown to be modally biased—higher modes are suppressed in sea level while lower modes are suppressed in SST data. Having been effectively “low passed” and “high passed” (with respect to mode number) by nature, sea level and SST contain complementary information which can in principle be combined to yield a relatively unbiased picture. The full potential of the sea level-SST pair is not appreciated in present remote sensing studies, where the two are used separately. A proposed “stereoscopic” method may in the future produce unbiased three-dimensional pictures from satellite-sensed two-dimensional pictures of sea level and SST. Modal bias in coastal trapped waves is studied in the Appendix. Copyright 1985 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.
FairSR: Fairness-aware Sequential Recommendation through Multi-Task Learning with Preference Graph Embeddings
Creators: name: Li, Cheng-Te
name: Hsu, Cheng
name: Zhang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3

description: Sequential recommendation (SR) learns from the temporal dynamics of user-item interactions to predict the next ones. Fairness-aware recommendation mitigates a variety of algorithmic biases in the learning of user preferences. This paper aims at bringing a marriage between SR and algorithmic fairness. We propose a novel fairness-aware sequential recommendation task, in which a new metric, interaction fairness, is defined to estimate how recommended items are fairly interacted by users with different protected attribute groups. We propose a multi-task learning based deep end-to-end model, FairSR, which consists of two parts. One is to learn and distill personalized sequential features from the given user and her item sequence for SR. The other is fairness-aware preference graph embedding (FPGE). The aim of FPGE is two-fold: incorporating the knowledge of users' and items' attributes and their correlation into entity representations, and alleviating the unfair distributions of user attributes on items. Extensive experiments conducted on three datasets show FairSR can outperform state-of-the-art SR models in recommendation performance. In addition, the recommended items by FairSR also exhibit promising interaction fairness.
description: ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. (TIST) 2022
Yodeling and Singing on the Alphorn: Helpful Techniques
Creators: name: Wey, Yannick
Publisher: name: Leavenworth Alphorn Workshop
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Musicology
subject: alphorn
subject: yodel
subject: music
subject: Ethnomusicology
subject: music pedagogy
subject: Educational sciences
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: music education
subject: alpine region
subject: Leavenworth

description: Yodeling and alphorn playing share a number of musical similarities. These may include the wide tonal range, the use of the harmonic series, singing and playing in the open air, or the accompaniment with low and long-held bass voices.

The way in which vowels and consonants are used in yodeling can be transferred to some situations in alphorn playing. They can help us to broaden our range of expression and ease certain technical challenges. The following examples illustrate the application of vowels and consonants used in yodels to the alphorn playing technique.
title: INTELLIGENT ALGORITHMS FOR HIGH ACCURACY INDOOR POSITIONING AND TRACKING
Creators: name: Nguyen, Q
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2022

description: The capacity to navigate and identify individuals and other devices is becoming increasingly common and more essential in the era of the Internet of Things and the blooming of Wireless Sensor Networks. Outdoor positioning has been shown very well and is commonly used in everyday life thanks to the well-known GPS scheme. However, owing to the unique problems and distinctive requirements in the indoor environment, indoor positioning is still undergrowth and has attracted a lot of research and development in recent times. It can be said that finding an extensive solution like GPS in outdoor positioning will be nearly impossible. We need to evaluate the demands of the application and system so that we can determine the appropriate technology for the navigation system. Not only diversified in demands and technology, but the range of appliances engaged in the system also affects indoor positioning. This heterogeneity covers different kinds of operating systems and communication protocols. Besides, the problems recognised for indoor conditions such as the fading impact, signal attenuation, signal blocking, noise, and interference still cause the navigation system many problems. As a prospective technology candidate for indoor navigation devices, the Bluetooth Low Energy and iBeacon have appeared. The outstanding properties of Bluetooth Low Energy such as low consumption of energy, simplicity and elevated market penetration draw the attention of scientists. In this thesis, I develop an indoor positioning system using Bluetooth Low Energy technology. My scheme is based on a range-based technique that requires knowledge of beacons before positioning. Users with Bluetooth-enabled devices situated in the system region can be positioned by gathering RSSI signals. Then the information gathered will be filtered and processed through the proposed algorithm. Experiments demonstrate that my system achieves auspicious results with the error margin under half a metre for static devices. In addition, a mobile device sensor is used to measure inertial information. Applying pedestrian dead reckoning technique, direction and target position are estimated after that. Combining this outcome with my algorithms, the tracking results of my system achieved an error of about 0.2m.
Disparities in Social Security Knowledge and the Role of Social Capital
Creators: name: Carman, Katherine
name: Atshan, Samer
name: Williams, Jhacova
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Security, communication, networks, disparities
subject: Population and Demography
subject: Social Sciences

description: In this paper, we develop a new survey that seeks to better understand how differences in information sources (both formal and informal) across racial and ethnic groups contribute to knowledge and planning for retirement. We consider several scenarios where people might be eligible for Social Security benefits in times of need and seek to understand where individuals turn for information in these scenarios. Overall, we find that there are a wide variety of information sources that people approach in these times. Notably, different racial and ethnic groups expect to make use of different information sources. Furthermore, knowledge is associated with where people turn for information. To address disparities in knowledge, information campaigns could consider differentiating channels of information to better engaged less well-informed groups. This research doesn’t identify a single information source that would reach all people.
How Does Social Security Affect the Racial Wealth Gap?
Creators: name: Sabelhaus, John
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Security, household wealth, racial wealth gap
subject: Population and Demography
subject: Social Sciences

description: The large and persistent gap by race in U.S. household wealth is a well-established empirical fact, though the causal mechanisms for wealth differentials are still a subject of much debate. Previous research on wealth inequality has shown that expanding the concept of wealth to include Social Security reduces overall wealth inequality (Sabelhaus and Volz, 2022a). These two observations motivate the questions and empirical approach in this study. Focusing on individuals born between 1936 and 1965 and observed at ages 51 to 56 in two household data sets, I first study wealth ratios and wealth rankings by race using conventional household wealth measures, and then study the implications of expanding the wealth measure to include Social Security. In the wealth measures excluding Social Security there is 23 percentage-point average wealth rank gap between Black and White individuals, and that falls to 13 percentage points after controlling earnings and other observables. Adding Social Security reduces racial wealth gaps, but also draws our attention to the fact that resolving expected Social Security funding shortfalls could have first order implications for wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap. Adding Social Security does not impact wealth rank gaps by race, however, which reinforces the need for further research on differences in wealth accumulation dynamics.
Life-cycle activity patterns of registered nurses in British Columbia : forecasting future supply and professional life expectancy
Creators: name: Kazanjian, Arminée 1947-
name: Brothers, Kent
name: Wong, Gordon
Publisher: name: Health Human Resources Unit (HHRU); Division of Health Services Research and Development
Year: 2014

description: Health manpower planning and in particular its quantitative research stage have not, until very recently, received much approbation as complex and necessary processes in the planning and operation of health care delivery systems. Recent efforts are mainly in the area of physician manpower. The first National Health Manpower Conference in Canada was held in October 1969 based on the belief that an attempt should be made to develop our human resources in the health field in some kind of rational manner. A rational planning approach is even more important for health care personnel than for those in primary markets, since microeconomic forces that equilibrate the latter do not apply as readily (if at all) to the health environment. There is also some evidence that nurses' market work behaviour is appreciably different from that of other health occupations due mainly to the gender factor. Nursing is a female dominated profession and considerable variation in the amount of time spent in market work exists among individuals. Thus, an in-depth study was undertaken to specifically quantify Registered Nurse (RN) supply/requirements in British Columbia and provide useful information to planners at various levels.
Relación El Purgatorio de San Patricio: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Relación El Purgatorio de San Patricio: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2022), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Relación El Purgatorio de San Patricio: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Blockchain Applicability for the Internet of Things: Performance and Scalability Challenges and Solutions
Creators: name: Rahman, Ziaur
name: Yi, Xun
name: Mehedi, Sk. Tanzir
name: Islam, Rafiqul
name: Kelarev, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.4

description: Blockchain has recently been able to draw wider attention throughout the research community. Since its emergence, the world has seen the mind-blowing expansion of this new technology, which was initially developed as a pawn of digital currency more than a decade back. A self-administering ledger that ensures extensive data immutability over the peer-to-peer network has made it attractive for cybersecurity applications such as a sensor-enabled system called the Internet of things (IoT). Brand new challenges and questions now demand solutions as huge IoT devices are now online in a distributed fashion to ease our everyday lives. After being motivated by those challenges, the work here has figured out the issues and perspectives an IoT infrastructure can suffer because of the wrong choice of blockchain technology. Though it may look like a typical review, however, unlike that, this paper targets sorting out the specific security challenges of the blockchain-IoT eco-system through critical findings and applicable use-cases. Therefore, the contribution includes directing Blockchain architects, designers, and researchers in the broad domain to select the unblemished combinations of Blockchain-powered IoT applications. In addition, the paper promises to bring a deep insight into the state-of-the-art Blockchain platforms, namely Ethereum, Hyperledger, and IOTA, to exhibit the respective challenges, constraints, and prospects in terms of performance and scalability.
description: 22 pages, 11 Figures, 7 Tables
BioExcel Webinar #19 - Hybrid Molecular Mechanics/Coarse-Grained approaches to model proteins
Creators: name: Calandrini, Vania
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: webinar

description: Multiscale molecular dynamics approaches couple, in the same simulation, descriptions of the system at different resolutions. In particular, the so-called Molecular Mechanics/Coarse-Grained approach has been proven to be an optimal alternative to all-atom simulations when the absence of structural experimental data and the low sequence identity with templates limit the reliability of protein models, as in the case of G protein-coupled receptor/ligand complexes. In this webinar an overview of this method with some applications and recent developments will be provided.
Tracing Astrophysical Black Hole Seeds and Primordial Black Holes with LISA-Taiji Network
Creators: name: Yang, Yuchan
name: Han, Wen-Biao
name: Yun, Qianyun
name: Xu, Peng
name: Luo, Ziren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we discuss the improvement that the joint network of LISA and Taiji could provide on exploring two kinds of black hole formation mechanisms. For astrophysical origin, we consider light seed and heavy seed scenarios, and generate populations accordingly. We find that the joint network has the potential to observe growing light seeds in the range 15 < z < 20, while single detector can hardly see, which would shed light on the light seeding mechanism. For the heavy seeds, the joint network only improves the signal-to-noise ratio. For primordial origin, we calculate the event rate at z > 20 and detection rates of LISA and the joint network. The joint network expands LISA's horizon towards lower mass end, where the event rate is high, so we have better chance observing primordial black holes with the joint network. We also estimate the parameters using Fisher matrices of LISA and the joint network, and find that the joint network significantly improves the estimation.
description: 8 pages, 13 figures
Unified Abstract Syntax Tree Representation Learning for Cross-Language Program Classification
Creators: name: Wang, Kesu
name: Yan, Meng
name: Zhang, He
name: Hu, Haibo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Program classification can be regarded as a high-level abstraction of code, laying a foundation for various tasks related to source code comprehension, and has a very wide range of applications in the field of software engineering, such as code clone detection, code smell classification, defects classification, etc. The cross-language program classification can realize code transfer in different programming languages, and can also promote cross-language code reuse, thereby helping developers to write code quickly and reduce the development time of code transfer. Most of the existing studies focus on the semantic learning of the code, whilst few studies are devoted to cross-language tasks. The main challenge of cross-language program classification is how to extract semantic features of different programming languages. In order to cope with this difficulty, we propose a Unified Abstract Syntax Tree (namely UAST in this paper) neural network. In detail, the core idea of UAST consists of two unified mechanisms. First, UAST learns an AST representation by unifying the AST traversal sequence and graph-like AST structure for capturing semantic code features. Second, we construct a mechanism called unified vocabulary, which can reduce the feature gap between different programming languages, so it can achieve the role of cross-language program classification. Besides, we collect a dataset containing 20,000 files of five programming languages, which can be used as a benchmark dataset for the cross-language program classification task. We have done experiments on two datasets, and the results show that our proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines in terms of four evaluation metrics (Precision, Recall, F1-score, and Accuracy).
Scattering of a Continental Shelf Wave by a Long Thin Barrier Lying Parallel to the Coast.
Creators: name: Buchwald, V. T.
name: Hsieh, William W.
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2016

description: The scattering of an incident shelf wave by a long thin offshore barrier located parallel to the coast is solved for a general monotonically increasing depth profile, using the unforced, inviscid barotropic shallow water equations under rigid lid and alongshore geostrophy approximation. In particular, simple analytic formulas for the scattering coefficients are derived for the exponential shelf profile. In the channel between the barrier and the coast, much of the incident shelf wave energy is transferred to the zero (or Kelvin) mode. Seaward of the barrier, substantial energy transfer from an incident second-mode shelf wave to the first mode is possible. Downstream from the barrier, the incident mode may vanish, leaving a different mode to dominate. Copyright 1985 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.
Optimizing reflectivity experiments and creating unlimited realistic data for AI using HOGBEN
Creators: name: Cooper, Joshaniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presented at the ORSO AGM meeting at SXNS 2024:

 

We present our work on a software package called HOGBEN. It allows users to plan a neutron reflectivity experiment, enabling them to gain the most information about their system possible in their limited beam time. 

The basis of our approach requires us to know how many neutron counts we will measure from a sample per unit time. This requires us to model our particular sample, in the correct conditions, on a specific instrument, in a given instrument configuration. We must therefore modify the traditional workflow of simulating a sample as a whole, and instead take account of exactly what will be measured from our sample at a given angle for a given time. This is fortunately easy to do with the assumption of Poisson error bars (no background subtraction), and is extremely fast. Our schema uses the Fisher information metric to estimate the parameter uncertainties we will measure in our experiment, which can then be optimized to give the most information (lowest uncertainties) possible for our experiment. We are also developing the ability to suggest changes to the sample structures which would result in better experimental outcomes, e.g. reference layers. Our code is based on the refnx so models and code can be easily re-used or transferred.

Using our approach rather than “rules of thumb” can give very significant gains, equivalent to measuring samples for several times longer (the gains are both sample and instrument dependent). The code developed also has the benefit of creating extremely “realistic” data, which we have thus-far been unable to differentiate from real data. Since we are able to create a dataset like this in sub-millisecond timescales, our approach can also be used to train machine learning algorithms on realistic data, with a known ground truth.
Fee practice medical service expenditures per capita, 1983-84 and full-time-equivalent physicians in British Columbia, 1979-80 to 1983-84
Creators: name: Barer, M. L.
name: Fung, Patrick Wong
Publisher: name: Health Human Resources Unit (HHRU); Division of Health Services Research and Development
Year: 2014

description: In 1983, the Division of Health Services Research and Development released a report with the same title as the present report (Barer and Wong Fung, 1983), covering fiscal year 1981-82, and providing data on physician supply and per capita fee-for-service medical expenditures in B.C. The present report contains an expanded range of information on the physician services sector, both in time and content. It covers the period 1979-80 to 1983-84, and includes more precise estimates of interprovincial referral patterns. It also contains a five year look at physician incomes. Whereas the earlier report contained supply estimates based on seventeen different approaches to full-time-equivalence (fte), the present document carries only eight definitions.
title: Künstliche Intelligenz im Kontext der Kunst Am Beispiel der Musik
Creators: name: Feige, Daniel Martin
Publisher: name: Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ms06f06
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 6
subject: FOS: Humanities
classificationCode: 6.4
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Was leistet generative KI nicht? Sind wird bald alle – nach den manuell nun auch die Wissens- und Kreativarbeitenden – überflüssig? Kann KI nun auch Kunst? Irgendwie ja? Trotz der beeindruckenden Fortschritte der KI sollten wir nicht übersehen, welche Daten – darunter auch Kunstwerke – zum Training der KI-Modelle genutzt werden. Und es sind weitere kritische Fragen an diese Nutzung zu richten. Nicht zuletzt: was daran wäre wohl Kunst?
Effect of Hormone Treatments on Cannabinoid Contents in Female Hemp (Cannabis sativa) Inflorescences
Creators: name: Dong-Gun Kim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Figure S1: Developmental stage of female hemp inflorescences analyzed in this study (After 4 weeks of hormonal treatment).Table S1: Variation of cannabinoid content (mg/g dry weight) in female hemp inflorescences at 3 days and 4 weeks after hormone treatment.Table S2: Primer pairs used for quantitative real-time PCR analysis of genes related to cannabinoid biosynthesis.
A disproportionality analysis of CDK4/6 inhibitors in the FDA adverse event reporting system (FAERS)
Creators: name: Peng, Yuan
name: Zhou, Yuying
name: Zhou, Xuanyi
name: Jia, Xu
name: Zhong, Yan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) was used to mine and evaluate adverse events (AEs) associated with cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitors, thereby providing a reference for clinical rational drug use. AE data related to CDK4/6 inhibitors from the first quarter of 2015 to the first quarter of 2023 were acquired from FAERS while the signal mining was processed using the reporting odds ratio (ROR) method and Bayesian confidence propagation neural network (BCPNN) method. The number of AE reports for CDK4/6 inhibitors was respectively 132,494 for palbociclib 56,151 for ribociclib, and 7,014 for abemaciclib. The corresponding numbers of AE signals were 319, 517, and 59, with the number of involved System Organ Class (SOC) being 23, 23, and 15, mainly involving blood and lymphatic system disorders, respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders, hepatobiliary disorders, skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders, etc. CDK4/6 inhibitors could lead to pulmonary toxicity, myelosuppression, skin reactions, etc. Special attention should be paid to abemaciclib for interstitial lung disease (ILD), erythema multiforme, and thrombosis risk; ribociclib for cardiac toxicity, hepatotoxicity, and musculoskeletal toxicity; palbociclib for neurocognitive impairment and osteonecrosis of the jaw.
ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ МИНЕРАЛЬНОЙ КОРМОВОЙ ДОБАВКИ «ЛИКВИФОС СТРОНГ» В РАЦИОНАХ ЛАКТИРУЮЩИХ КОРОВ
Creators: name: Бетин А. Н.
name: Фролов А. И.
Publisher: name: Эффективное животноводство
Year: 2020
Subjects: Коровы
ликвифос стронг
продуктивность
биохимия крови

description: Полноценное кормление – это полностью удовлетворяющее потребности коров в энергии, протеине, углеводах, жирах, витаминах и минеральных веществах, обеспечивающее хорошее здоровье, нормальное воспроизводство, увеличение продуктивности при низких затратах корма. Важной задачей для животноводческих хозяйств является использование минеральных веществ в кормах коров и для повышения эффективности производства молочной продукции. Учитывая необходимость использования минеральных кормовых добавок, при разработке новых альтернативных препаратов, позволяющих обеспечить биозащиту организма, весьма актуальна .Использование кормовой добавки позволило увеличить надой на 0,23 и 0,45 кг молока от каждой коровы в сутки и увеличить содержание белка на 0,01%.
НАНОЭМУЛЬСИОННАЯ ВАКЦИНА ПРОТИВ ИНФЕКЦИОННОГО БРОНХИТА КУР
Creators: name: Дубовой А. С.
name: Самусева Г. Н.
name: Бакулин В. А.
Publisher: name: Эффективное животноводство
Year: 2020
Subjects: инфекционный бронхит кур
вакцина
иммунитет.

description: Представлены экспериментальные данные иммуногенной активности инактивированной наноэмульсионной вакцины с использованием вариантного штамма ВНИВИП «ГС-11» вируса Инфекционного бронхита кур. Наноэмульсионная вакцина индуцировала более высокий уровень иммунного ответа, чем стандартная инактивированная эмульгированная вакцина.