cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Consistency test of the AMS-02 antiproton excess with direct detection data based on the effective field theory approach
Creators: name: Cui, Ming-Yang
name: Huang, Wei-Chih
name: Tsai, Yue-Lin Sming
name: Yuan, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The potential antiproton excess in the AMS-02 data is of much interest and can probably come from dark matter annihilations. Based on the effective field theory approach, in this work we investigate the compatibility of the DM interpretation of the AMS-02 antiproton excess and the null results from direct detection experiments, LUX, PandaX-II, and XENON1T. We focus on dimension-five and -six operators with fermion DM. Only one of dimension-five and one of dimension-six operators can successfully account for the antiproton excess, while the rest either are excluded by direct detection or require very small cut-off scales which invalidate the effective field theory approach.
A Monte-Carlo Approach to Zero Energy Quantum Scattering
Creators: name: Lenz, Stefan
name: Mall, Hubertus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte-Carlo methods for zero energy quantum scattering are developed. Starting from path integral representations for scattering observables, we present results of numerical calculations for potential scattering and scattering off a schematic $^4 \rm He $ nucleus. The convergence properties of Monte-Carlo algorithms for scattering systems are analyzed using stochastic differential equation as a path sampling method.
description: 30 pages, LaTeX, 8 (uuencoded, tared and gziped) postscript figures
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0217
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0217, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour la grange et seigneurie d'Ouges (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 173 (11 H 939), 226 folios, f. 0217, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
On inference for ABC approximations of time series models
Creators: name: Ehrlich, Elena
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) are well-studied simulation based methods that have been very successful for a variety of complex inference problems. However, standard MCMC and SMC cannot deal with problems where the corresponding likelihood is intractable. By intractable we mean that the density of the likelihood cannot be calculated analytically or it is too computationally expensive to do so. This motivated the use of Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) as far back as thirty years ago, but only in the last ten years has its popularity surged due to the higher computational power available in modern computers. The focus of this thesis is to use simulation to estimate the density of the intractable likelihoods as in ABC methods and combine with MCMC and SMC methods. The flexibility and accuracy of the latter can be used to address general issues regarding inference for time series and ABC techniques can be used to deal with the intractable conditional observation likelihoods. The times series we will investigate in this thesis are Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and observation driven time series models. SMC and ABC methods have been used to perform filtering and smoothing for intractable HMMs [Jasra et al., 2012]. We will present a method that combines SMC and ABC, and uses gradient ascent to deliver maximum likelihood estimates for the model parameters. The accuracy of the method will be illustrated by theoretical results and challenging numerical examples. In regard to estimating model parameters for other time series such as intractable observation driven models, we consider methods that use MCMC together with ABC approximations. These methods can be used to perform Bayesian estimation of the model parameters. However applying ideas from ABC in this context naively will prevent the exploration of difficult regions in the parameter space. Difficult regions arise, for example, when attempting ABC approximations very close to the true model. Based on recent ideas from [Lee, 2012], we identify a new unbiased estimator for the ABC likelihood which is more robust and able to explore the difficult state-space regions. The advantage of the resulting algorithm is that it is capable of producing very accurate inference. Often one is interested in estimating the initial condition of dynamic systems based on noisy observations of its evolution. These types of inverse problems are often formulated as Bayesian inference problems. The prior used in Bayesian inference can be interpreted also as a regularization term to ensure the problem is well-posed. We show how SMC together with ABC approximations can be used for estimating the initial condition of deterministic dynamical systems that are observed with additive noise whose density is intractable. We present a method which uses SMC samplers as in [Chopin, 2002, Del Moral et al., 2006] with ABC approximations, and is applied to challenging numerical examples from data assimilation.
Tables S2 - S5; Figures S1 and S2 from Urban rats have less variable, higher protein diets
Creators: name: E. Guiry
name: M. Buckley
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Over the past 1000 years, rats (Rattus spp.) have become one of the most successful and prolific pests in human society. Despite their cosmopolitan distribution across six continents and ubiquity throughout the world's cities, rat urban ecology remains poorly understood. We investigate the role of human foods in brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) diets in urban and rural areas over a 100 year period (ca AD 1790–1890) in Toronto, Canada using stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope analyses of archaeological remains. We found that rat diets from urban sites were of higher quality and were more homogeneous and stable over time. By contrast, in rural areas, they show a wide range of dietary niche specializations that directly overlap, and likely competed, with native omnivorous and herbivorous species. These results demonstrate a link between rodent diets and human population density, providing the first long-term dietary perspective on the relative value of different types of human settlements as rodent habitat. This study highlights the potential of using the historical and archaeological record to provide a retrospective on the urban ecology of commensal and synanthropic animals that could be useful for improving animal management and conservation strategies in urban areas.
Translational application of metabolic profiling technologies in the colorectal cancer clinical pathway
Creators: name: Mirnezami, Reza
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of global cancer-related morbidity and mortality. A deeper understanding of the biological processes that drive CRC development and progression is essential in order to improve patient outcomes along the CRC clinical pathway (diagnosis; treatment; prognostication/surveillance). Metabonomics (metabolic profiling/metabolomics) is a rapidly advancing field in systems biology that generates disease-relevant micro-molecular information downstream of the genome and proteome. Metabolic profiling studies utilising nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (MS) have demonstrated early promise in cancer research. For this body of work I have designed and implemented a multi-axis metabolic profiling strategy for evaluation of fresh frozen CRC tissue; the study framework has been specifically designed to assess the translational utility of different NMR and MS –based technologies at key phases of the CRC clinical spectrum and to develop next-generation bioinformatics solutions to facilitate translational deployment of these approaches. My findings have demonstrated that: (i) High-resolution magic angle spinning NMR (HR-MAS NMR) spectroscopy allows rapid and accurate diagnosis and local staging of CRC, making it well suited to translational deployment at the diagnostic end of the CRC clinical pathway. In addition this approach can potentially be used to develop an alternative to frozen section for intra-operative tissue evaluation. (ii) Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation imaging MS (MALDI-MSI) has potential to supplement conventional histopathological methods of tissue assessment and reveals novel tumour-associated ‘field effects’ which may have translational utility in CRC prognostication. (iii) Desorption electrospray ionisation imaging MS (DESI-MSI) represents a more sophisticated method for histology-driven imaging mass spectrometry and permits ‘chemical mapping’ of the CRC tumour microenvironment in a way not possible until now. This technique can be used to derive an entirely new pool of biomolecular data with which to develop next-generation cancer biomarkers for prognostic and therapeutic personalisation. Currently, the complexity and volume of data generated by MSI experimentation represents a major rate-limiting step, hampering translational application of this approach. My work in CRC MSI profiling has concurrently led to the development of a novel bio-informatics pipeline designed to address current challenges, and this platform is also introduced in the following thesis.
Scaling and topology in the 2-d O(3) $σ$-model on the lattice with the fixed point action
Creators: name: D'Elia, M.
name: Farchioni, F.
name: Papa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study scaling properties and topological aspects of the 2--d O(3) non--linear $σ$--model on the lattice with the parametrized fixed point action recently proposed by P.~Hasenfratz and F.~Niedermayer. The behavior of the mass gap confirms the good properties of scaling of the fixed point action. Concerning the topology, lattice classical solutions are proved to be very stable under local minimization of the action; this outcome ensures the reliability of the cooling method for the computation of the topological susceptibility, which indeed reproduces the results of the field theoretical approach. Disagreement is instead observed with a different approach in which the fixed point topological charge operator is used: we argue that the discrepancy is related to the ultraviolet dominated nature of the model.
description: 24 pages (Latex) + 8 figures (PostScript) in a uuencoded compressed tar file
Acarus fungorum Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Acaridae
Acarus
Acarus fungorum

description: Acarus fungorum [spec. nov.]
A. fusco-rufescens, abdomine subgloboso glabro. Fn. svec. 1207.
Habitat in Fungis.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 618, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Realistic shell-model calculations for p-shell nuclei including contributions of a chiral three-body force
Creators: name: Fukui, T.
name: De Angelis, L.
name: Ma, Y. Z.
name: Coraggio, L.
name: Gargano, A.
name: Itaco, N.
name: Xu, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present an evolution of our derivation of the shell-model effective Hamiltonian, namely introducing effects of three-body contributions. More precisely, we consider a three-body potential at next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral perturbation theory, and the induced three-body forces that arise from many-body correlations among valence nucleons. The first one is included, in the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian for one- and two-valence nucleon-systems, at first order in the many-body perturbation theory. Namely, we include only the three-body interaction between one or two valence nucleons and those belonging to the core. For nuclei with more than two valence particles, both induced - turned on by the two-body potential - and genuine three-body forces come into play. Since it is difficult to perform shell-model calculations with three-body forces, these contributions are estimated for the ground-state energy only. In order to establish the reliability of our approximations, we focus attention on nuclei belonging to the p shell, aiming to benchmark our calculations against those performed with the ab initio no-core shell-model. The obtained results are satisfactory, and pave the way to the application of our approach to nuclear systems with heavier masses.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures, to be published on Physical Review C
Los premios: Una tentativa de clasificación formal
Creators: name: Alfred J., Mac Adam
name: Mac Adam, Alfred J.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Literatura argentina
Experimentación
Soliloquio
"Los Premios"

description: Notas: Documento procediendo del XIII Congreso de Literatura Iberoamericana, Segunda Reunión, Caracas, Agosto 1967.
description: Source: Num.Ref. : JC-CAR-09.012
description: Source: Localización del archivo: Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines (CRLA–Archivos, ITEM UMR8132). MSHS - Bât. A5, 1er étage 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre - TSA21103. 86073 Poitiers cedex 9.
description: Bibliographic citation: MacAdam, Alfred J. « "Los premios": una tentativa de clasificación formal » La novela iberoamericana (Memorias del Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana), Venezuela, (1968) p. 101-107.
Deep Learning Topological Invariants of Band Insulators
Creators: name: Sun, Ning
name: Yi, Jinmin
name: Zhang, Pengfei
name: Shen, Huitao
name: Zhai, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we design and train deep neural networks to predict topological invariants for one-dimensional four-band insulators in AIII class whose topological invariant is the winding number, and two-dimensional two-band insulators in A class whose topological invariant is the Chern number. Given Hamiltonians in the momentum space as the input, neural networks can predict topological invariants for both classes with accuracy close to or higher than 90%, even for Hamiltonians whose invariants are beyond the training data set. Despite the complexity of the neural network, we find that the output of certain intermediate hidden layers resembles either the winding angle for models in AIII class or the solid angle (Berry curvature) for models in A class, indicating that neural networks essentially capture the mathematical formula of topological invariants. Our work demonstrates the ability of neural networks to predict topological invariants for complicated models with local Hamiltonians as the only input, and offers an example that even a deep neural network is understandable.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Vehicle dynamics and personal exposure to black carbon in the vicinity of at-grade pedestrian infrastructure
Creators: name: Williams, David
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Urban areas are often subject to traffic-induced poor air quality. Variability in vehicle operating behaviours’ at traffic management infrastructure leads to increased emission rates of pollutant species harmful to health. Where these locations are also sites of pedestrian activity, exposure to pollution is increased. This thesis demonstrates this mechanism through measurement of vehicle dynamics and emissions modelling, with tailpipe emissions found to be at least 20% greater when the vehicle is delayed due to mid-link crossings. As it has no non-combustion sources, black carbon (BC) is a useful proxy for traffic related emissions. Previous research into air quality at traffic management infrastructure has been of an insufficient scale to identify the variability in pollutant concentration and exposure. This thesis addresses this gap through an investigation into BC concentration and exposure at traffic management infrastructure, demonstrating that fixed monitors over coarse temporal and spatial scales are inadequate for assessing BC concentration and exposure, and finding that public health and transport professionals are ill-equipped to make recommendations for improvements on the basis of current data and understanding. To provide data suitable for an assessment at the micro-scale, a measurement framework is specified for the use of micro-aethalometers in urban areas. This addresses problems of signal noise, aerosol loading and consistency where other studies have not, enabling measurement of BC concentration at higher temporal resolution (5-second) than previously. Micro-aethalometers are deployed at signalised intersections in London and Glasgow (UK). The variability in BC is identified, with median concentration up to 130% greater at pedestrian waiting locations across the intersection. In high traffic flow environments, the periodicity of peak concentration episodes is found to relate to traffic control cycles. High-resolution data are applied to pedestrian exposure studies, with in-transit exposure to BC varying by more than ten times as a result of activity patterns.
title: Конфиденциальное делопроизводство и защищенный электронный документооборот
title: Учебное пособие для бакалавров
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Кузнецова И.В.
name:  Хачатрян Г.А.
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2020

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены особенности ведения конфиденциального делопроизводства, организации и сопровождения электронного документооборота, представлены возможности управления документами с использованием программной среды Outlook, а также основные информационные системы управления предприятием. Учебное пособие подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования, предъявляемыми к изучению дисциплины «Конфиденциальное делопроизводство». Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению подготовки 46.03.02 «Документоведение и архивоведение».
Acarus scaber Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Acaridae
Acarus
Acarus scaber

description: Acarus scaber [spec. nov.]
A. cinereus depressus: lateribus scabris. Faun. svec. 1197.
Habitat in Europa.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 618, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Move&Connect-Youth: A Virtual Group Intervention for Youth Experiencing Persisting Symptoms After Concussion
Creators: name: Scratch, Shannon E.
name: Mallory, Kylie D.
name: Al-Hakeem, Hiba
name: Lovell, Andrew
name: Moody, Kim
name: Lam, Brendan
name: Brazill, Lindsay
name: Knapp, Patricia
name: Hickling, Andrea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Move&Connect-Youth (M&C-Y) is an interdisciplinary virtual group intervention for youth experiencing persisting symptoms after concussion (PSAC) that includes psychoeducation, active rehabilitation, and goal-setting. Using an intervention mapping framework, this paper describes the iterative development of M&C-Y and findings from initial feasibility testing. Ten youth participated in M&C-Y completing pre-intervention demographic questionnaires and semi-structured exit interviews to understand participants’ experience and gather feedback. M&C-Y was feasible based on apriori criteria and findings from interviews provided insights related to: (1) intervention structure, (2) intervention engagement, and (3) intervention takeaways. M&C-Y is a meaningful, feasible, and engaging intervention for youth with PSAC.
Nonthermal Radio Emission from Planetary Nebulae
Creators: name: Dgani, Ruth
name: Soker, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent analysis of the radio emission from the planetary nebula A30, Dgani, Evans & White (1998) claim that the emission, located in the inner region, is probably dominated by nonthermal emission. We propose a model to explain this. We assume that the fast wind, blown by the central star of A30 carries a very weak magnetic field. The interaction of this wind with a cluster of dense condensations traps the magnetic field lines for a long time and stretches them, leading to a strong magnetic field. If relativistic particles are formed as the fast wind is shocked, then the enhanced magnetic field will result in nonthermal radio emission. The typical nonthermal radio flux at 1 GHz can be up to several milli-Jansky. In order to detect the nonthermal emission, the emitting region should be spatially resolved from the main optical nebula. We list other planetary nebulae which may possess nonthermal radio emission.
description: 11 pages
Numerical modelling of scale-dependent damage and failure of composites
Creators: name: Chen, Boyang
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: A computational study of the size effects of open-hole tension composite laminates is carried out. The thickness-dependence of translaminar fracture toughness is accounted for in the numerical model, which enables the sublaminate-scaling effect of strength to be accurately predicted by a deterministic model. Neglecting delamination in modelling is found to cause mesh-dependence and over-estimation in strength predictions. A smeared crack model with cohesive elements between plies can reliably predict the failure mode, but not the strength, for laminates failed by delamination. A floating node method is developed for explicitly modelling multiple discontinuities within an element. The degree-of-freedom vectors do not have associated initial coordinates; they are assigned to new material points when needed during analysis. The proposed method is well suited for modelling strong, weak and cohesive discontinuities, for the representation of complex crack networks, and for the accurate modelling of matrix crack/delamination interactions in composites.
Oral history interview with Sarah Elbert, 1976
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Historians

description: New York City; education: Cornell University; family life, divorce, Evanston, Illinois; influence of A.S. Neill's book Summerhill; women's changing role in the 1960s; active in Unitarian Church; civil rights: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Mississippi Summer; peace movement: Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; communal living; return to Ithaca, completion of undergraduate degree, 1965; involvement with SDS, Students for a Democratic Society; Master of Arts in Teaching, Cornell, 1968: focus on Afro-American History; social studies teacher, Dewitt Junior High School: controversy over refusal to salute the flag, the teaching of Richard Wright's Black Boy; anti-Vietnam War organizing: burning of draft cards, Sheep's Head Meadow, 1967, burning of draft files, Catonsville, 1968, marries draft dodger; personal and political relationships; black take-over of the Straight, 1969; influences of Martin Luther King, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Benjamin M. Spock, Dan Berrigan; Catholic presence in Ithaca peace movement; Freedom Seder, 1969; reflections on Cornell contribution to movements of the 1960s
Additional file 1: of A family pedigree of malignancies associated with BRCA1 pathogenic variants: a reflection of the state of art in China
Creators: name: Li, Wenhui
name: Li, Lei
name: Wu, Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Table S1. Details of the genetic testing for the proband. (DOCX 16 kb)
Gaze Contingent Robotic Control in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Creators: name: Fujii, Kenko
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Recent advances in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) have allowed patients to benefit from reduced trauma, faster recover times, and shorter hospitalisation. As a result, surgeons operate in a less-than-comfortable posture which is both physically and mentally challenging. This has led to a more demanding training scheme to acquire the relevant surgical skills. Navigating and operating with flexible instruments such as endoscopes can also induce spatial disorientation within the surgeon, where such instances are associated with increased pain for the patient and more critically, risk of perforating delicate patient tissue. Furthermore, the increased physical separation between the surgeon and the operative site and newly introduced surgical instruments have significantly changed the ergonomics and surgical workflow, which in turn increases the cognitive burden on the surgeon. The perceptual and ergonomic challenges during flexible endoscope based MIS are investigated through using the wealth of perceptual information the gaze can provide. In particular, the visualisation, navigation and ergonomic issues during MIS procedures are studied. A gaze parameter based framework is introduced to assess the use of a new field-of-view expansion technique for improved visualisation and camera trajectory comprehension when disorientated. Flexible instruments such as endoscopes suffer from disorientation inducing perceptual-motor misalignment. A misalignment quantification approach and a classification method based on gaze to infer varying perceptual-motor misalignment are developed to enable ergonomic assessment during endoscopic procedures. A novel robotic assisted gaze controlled camera system is developed to improve camera navigation where the user's control intentions are conveyed to the robotic laparoscope via real-time gaze gestures. To further improve the ergonomics of the gaze contingent system, an online calibration algorithm is integrated into the system. Throughout the thesis, detailed validation and discussion of the results are conducted to demonstrate the potential clinical value of the work.
Optimal binary strategy for angular displacement estimation based upon fidelity appraisal
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Dong
name: Zhang, Zi-Jing
name: Cen, Long-Zhu
name: Hu, Jun-Yan
name: Zhao, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on an optimal binary strategy for angular displacement estimation. The measuring system is a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state carrying orbital angular momentum, and two Dove prisms are embedded in two paths. In terms of the fidelity appraisal, parity detection and Z detection are discussed, and the optimal estimation strategy is presented. We additionally study the effects of several realistic scenarios on the fidelity, including transmission loss, detection efficiency, dark counts, and those which are a combination thereof. Finally, we exhibit a proof of principle experiment and perform Bayesian estimation on data processing. The experimental results imply resolved enhancement by a factor of 1.86 suggesting super-resolving signal. Meanwhile, on the trial greater than 500, we show that the angular displacement can be precisely estimated via acquired outcome information.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
A Lattice Simulation of the SU(2) Vacuum Structure
Creators: name: Levi, A. R.
name: Polonyi, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we analyze the vacuum structure of pure SU(2) Yang-Mills using non-perturbative techniques. Monte Carlo simulations are performed for the lattice gauge theory with external sources to obtain the effective potential. Evidence from the lattice gauge theory indicating the presence of the unstable mode in the effective potential is reported.
description: 12 pages, latex with revtex style, figures avalable by e-mail: leviar@buphy.bu.edu
Some Contributions to Approximate Inference In Bayesian Statistics
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaole
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Due to the availability of larger data-sets and the complexity of Bayesian statistical models in modern applications, the need for fast and approximate inference techniques is becoming more and more prevalent. In this thesis, we contribute three approaches to approximate Bayesian inference in statistics. Firstly, we present a sequential algorithm for fast fitting of Dirichlet process mixture (DPM) models. It provides a means for fast approximate Bayesian inference for mixture data which is useful when the data-sets are so large that many standard computational methods cannot be applied efficiently. This algorithm can be used in practice, to initially interrogate the data such that exact data analysis can be applied later on. The numerical results suggest that our algorithm can prove to be an efficient tool for fast, but approximate inference for DPMs. Secondly, we develop a new particle filter for approximating Feynman-Kac models with indicator potentials. Examples of such models include approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) posteriors associated with hidden Markov models (HMMs). We also use this approach to construct a new particle Markov chain Monte Carlo (PMCMC) algorithm for static parameter estimations associated to HMMs. Lastly, we construct an ABC approximation scheme of doubly intractable HMMs whose observation and transition densities are computational intractable. This scheme is facilitated by a new collapsed state space representation. We propose state-of-the-art Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithms for filtering via this ABC approximation. In addition, we can use these SMC algorithms within MCMC algorithms for batch static parameter inference for doubly intractable HMMs.
Discovery of a 57-69 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation in GX13+1
Creators: name: Homan, Jeroen
name: van der Klis, Michiel
name: Wijnands, Rudy
name: Vaughan, Brian
name: Kuulkers, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at 61.0+/-1.7 Hz with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer in the low-mass X-ray binary and persistently bright atoll source GX 13+1 (4U 1811-17). The QPO had an rms amplitude of 1.7+/-0.2 % (2-13.0 keV) and a FWHM of 15.9+/-4.2 Hz. Its frequency increased with count rate and its amplitude increased with photon energy. In addition a peaked noise component was found with a cut-off frequency around 2 Hz, a power law index of around -4, and an rms amplitude of ~1.8 %, probably the well known atoll source high frequency noise. It was only found when the QPO was detected. Very low frequency noise was present with a power law index of ~1, and an rms amplitude of ~4 %. A second observation showed similar variability components. In the X-ray color-color diagram the source did not trace out the usual banana branch, but showed a two branched structure. This is the first detection of a QPO in one of the four persistently bright atoll sources in the galactic bulge. We argue that the QPO properties indicate that it is the same phenomenon as the horizontal branch oscillations (HBO) in Z sources. That HBO might turn up in the persistently bright atoll sources was previously suggested on the basis of the magnetospheric beat frequency model for HBO. We discuss the properties of the new phenomenon within the framework of this model.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Report of the 2018 NSF SI2 PI Meeting
Creators: name: Silva, Rafael Ferreira Da
name: Fx Timmes
name: Gesing, Sandra
name: Bauman, Paul
name: Löffler, Frank
name: Niemeyer, Kyle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: 80306 Open Software

description: This report describes the 2018 NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program PI workshop, held April 30 and May 1, 2018 in Washington D.C.
MOESM2 of A high-throughput screening identifies histone deacetylase inhibitors as therapeutic agents against medulloblastoma
Creators: name: Zhang, Shanshan
name: Gong, Zhaojian
name: Oladimeji, Peter
name: Currier, Duane
name: Deng, Qipan
name: Liu, Ming
name: Chen, Taosheng
name: Li, Yong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Compound activity and plate Z′-factor for the primary screening. (A) Compound activity distribution. Blue dots (Inhibitor Control): positive control group (10 μM staurosporine, 100% inhibition); black dots (Neutral Control): negative control group (DMSO group, 0% inhibition); yellow dots (Hit Compound): primary hits (hit compound) (125 compounds that displayed ≥ 90% inhibition chosen for a dose-response analysis); grey dots (Compound): compounds not chosen for further confirmation (% inhibition < 90%). Y-axis: % Activity is assessed as the percentage of viability inhibited. The activity from 12,800 library compounds and control compounds in each plate were shown. (B) Z′-factor calculated for each plate. (C) The dose response curves for cell viability of Daoy cells. Ten concentrations, 1:3 serially diluted ranging from 50 to 0.0025 μM, were used in triplicate.
The `Ike Wai Gateway - A Science Gateway For The Water Future of Hawaii - Science Gateways 2018 Paper
Creators: name: Cleveland, Sean
name: Geis, Jennifer A.
name: Jacobs, Gwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80306 Open Software
subject: Computer Software

description: We present the water science gateway developed at the University of Hawai‘i (UH), called the ‘Ike Wai Gateway, ‘Ike meaning knowledge and Wai meaning water in Hawai‘ian. The gateway supports research in hydrology and water management by providing tools to address questions of water sustainability in Hawai‘i. The gateway provides centralized web based user interfaces and APIs supporting multi-domain data management, computation, analysis and visualization tools to support reproducible science, modeling, data discovery and decision support for the Hawaii EPSCoR ‘Ike Wai research team and wider Hawai‘i hydrology community. By leveraging the Agave platform UH has constructed a gateway that ties data and advanced computing resources together to support diverse research domains including microbiology, geochemistry, geophysics, economics and humanities, coupled with computational and modeling workflows delivered in a user friendly web interface and REST APIs. Current features include data/metadata management and sharing, computational job execution/management, jupyter notebook integrations, and containerized computing. These capabilities form the basis for an extend-able API base that will be leveraged to tie in additional components and decision support applications as the ‘Ike Wai project continues to progress.
Supplementary Material for Pfizer Oncology – April 2025 Medical Resources
Creators: name: Becker, Mauricio
name: Garas, Sam
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Congress materials may include information for investigational products or for which the product is not approved and/or inconsistent with the product uses described in the Prescribing Information. Regulatory approval of investigational products or uses is dependent on the completion of the study programs and review by regulatory authorities. Pfizer does not suggest or recommend the use of Pfizer Products in any manner other than as described in the Prescribing Information. The clinical trial information is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov. This information is current as of April 1, 2025.
Oral history interview with Sartaj Aziz, 2001
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economic development
Food security
Food supply
Poverty
Rural development--Pakistan
Women--Social conditions.--Pakistan

description: Early family life, including education and faith, partition of India, helping Pakistanis, early interest in helping humanity. College in Lahore and Harvard, misunderstanding of Muslims, economic development in Pakistan, late 1960s work with Ayub Khan, finances of Pakistan, and Pearson Commission, relationship between hunger, poverty, development, and aid, including World Food Conference. Criteria for successful international conferences, experience as a leading food diplomat and in global food security, work with IFAD, early microlending experiences. 1976-79, president of Society for International Development, 1990s UN summit series. Officials of significance to UN system and relationship between academia and UN; efficiency and leadership. Pakistan's development and experiences as finances as finance minister. 1990s, especially rural development and women's initiatives. Future of UN ideas and policies, global cooperation
Additional file 1 of Construct validity of the OCTOPuS stratification algorithm for allocating patients with knee osteoarthritis into subgroups
Creators: name: Knoop, Jesper
name: Ostelo, Raymond W. J. G.
name: van der Esch, Martin
name: de Zwart, Arjan
name: Bennell, Kim L.
name: van der Leeden, Marike
name: Dekker, Joost
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.
Supplemental methods and results, description of data. from Latitudinal gradients in biotic niche breadth vary across ecosystem types
Creators: name: Cirtwill, Alyssa R.
name: Stouffer, Daniel B.
name: Romanuk, Tamara N.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Latitudinal gradients in biotic niche breadth vary across ecosystem types
D2.3 Network and Interconnect Platform - ver. 1
Creators: name: Toscano, Orazio
name: Vallarino, Carola
name: Cagetti, Paola
name: Ferioli, Franco
name: Lazzeri, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: PCE

description: This document deals with the first version of the PAROMA_MED network interconnect platform that has a crucial importance for a security and privacy-aware management of the network infrastructure that constitutes the interconnection layer PAROMA-MED leverage on.

It constitutes the accompanying document of the D2.3 DEM (Demonstrator, pilot, prototype) deliverable that addresses the activities and implementations committed in T2.2 of the Project Grant Agreement, that tackles the provision of Privacy-Aware Network Slices based on enhancements beyond the state of the art to achieve secure and isolated communications among sites/nodes/clinics.

The solution provided is built on top of refined definitions of the security and privacy level of the network components (whose novelty has been protected with a dedicated patent) and evolution of the classical “bandwidth/latency” optimization paradigm towards an effective multi-dimensional optimization (Security and Privacy constraints, Performance constraints, Traffic volume constraints etc.).

This task corresponds to objective O8 “Develop a secure and privacy preserving networking and interconnection solution for flexible access over the internet” and will proceed during the following period with additional tests, verifications and integrations activities in the context of the PAROMA-MED platform toward the final release foreseen for M31 D2.8 “Network andInterconnect Platform, ver.2).
Oral history interview with Sarah, 1980
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Drug addicts--United States
Imprisonment--United States
Drug abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Drug traffic--History--20th century.--United States
Opium abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Heroin abuse--History--20th century.--United States
Drugs--Prescribing
Methadone maintenance--History--20th century.--United States
Prostitution--History--20th century.--United States

description: In this interview, Sarah discusses her life in New York City, focusing on her drug use. She explains how the premature deaths of her parents affected her as a teenager. She describes the physical abuse she faced at the hands of her older sister, and how it impacted her. She describes at length her relationship with a childhood friend and neighbor who introduced her to opium, morphine, cocaine, and heroin. She discusses how she began engaging in sex work to finance her drug addiction. She describes frequenting opium dens in Chinatown in the 1930s. Sarah details the drug panic during World War II, and how she was able to maintain a supply of drugs at the time. She reviews her arrest history, and estimates her total time spent incarcerated, mentioning her experience at the Women's House of Detention. She discusses transitioning out of sex work in the late 1950s, and starting to work as a madam. She compares the price of heroin across decades in the twentieth century. She delves into her experience detoxing at the New York Medical College Hospital, and her experience seeing private doctors for Dolophine prescriptions in the 1960s. Sarah discusses joining a methadone program in 1970 through her probation officer, and shares her opinion on the effectiveness of methadone maintenance
Thermal Uhlmann Chern number from the Uhlmann connection for extracting topological properties of mixed states
Creators: name: He, Yan
name: Guo, Hao
name: Chien, Chih-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Berry phase is a geometric phase of a pure state when the system is adiabatically transported along a loop in its parameter space. The concept of geometric phase has been generalized to mixed states by the so called Uhlmann phase. However, the Uhlmann phase is constructed from the Uhlmann connection that possesses a well defined global section. This property implies that the Uhlmann connection is topologically trivial and as a consequence, the corresponding Chern character vanishes. We propose modified Chern character whose integral gives the thermal Uhlmann Chern number, which is related to the winding number of the mapping defined by the Hamiltonian. Therefore, the thermal Uhlmann Chern number reflects the topological properties of the underlying Hamiltonian of a mixed state. By including the temperature dependence in the volume integral, we also introduce the non-topological thermal Uhlmann Chern number which varies with temperature but is not quantized at finite temperatures. We illustrate the applications to a two-band model and a degenerate four-band model.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, revised version
Perfect 3-Dimensional Lattice Actions for 4-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Kerres, U.
name: Mack, G.
name: Palma, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a two-step procedure to study the order of phase transitions at finite temperature in electroweak theory and in simplified models thereof. In a first step a coarse grained free energy is computed by perturbative methods. It is obtained in the form of a 3-dimensional perfect lattice action by a block spin transformation. It has finite temperature dependent coefficients. In this way the UV-problem and the infrared problem is separated in a clean way. In the second step the effective 3-dimensional lattice theory is treated in a nonperturbative way, either by the Feynman-Bogoliubov method (solution of a gap equation), by real space renormalization group methods, or by computer simulations. In this paper we outline the principles for $φ^4$-theory and scalar electrodynamics. The Bałaban-Jaffe block spin transformation for the gauge field is used. It is known how to extend this transformation to the nonabelian case, but this will not be discussed here.
description: path to figures (in added uu-file) revised, no other changes 33 pages, 3 figures, latex
Localizability, gauge symmetry and Newton-Wigner operator for massless particles
Creators: name: Kosinski, Piotr
name: Maslanka, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion of position operator for massless spinning particles is discussed in some detail. The noncommutativity of coordinates is related to the gauge symmetry following from the freedom in definition of standard state in Wigner's construction of induced representations of Poincare group. The counterpart of Newton-Wigner operator is discussed. It is explained why the Newton-Wigner construction works only for helicity $ \midλ\mid\leq1/2$.
description: 19 pages, no figures, few references added