cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Patch or pursue? the role of regulatory focus in social capital aspects of the reentry decision
Creators: name: Simmons, Sharon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores the role of regulatory focus in the social capital aspects of the reentry decision. Whereas prior research has focused on the evolution of social capital through the lifespan of a venture, this paper focuses on self-regulated shifts in social capital that occur during the afterlife of a failed venture. Building upon social capital and regulatory focus theories, the main proposition in this paper is that failure triggers self-reflective and reactive cognitive processes that motivate failed entrepreneurs to actively manage their social capital portfolio. Promotion focused entrepreneurial leaders are proposed to more likely to pursue structural shifts in social capital. Prevention focused entrepreneurial leaders are proposed to be more likely to patch and preserve the social capital embedded in failed ventures. The paper concludes that the lessons learned from prior failure experiences not only shape entrepreneurial intentions for social capital exchanges in future ventures but also may provide insight into heterogeneous means for value maximizing combinations of social assets and liabilities that are a regulatory fit to the outcomes that entrepreneurs expect.
Timely and Painless Breakups: Off-the-grid Blind Message Recovery and Users' Demixing
Creators: name: Daei, Sajad
name: Razavikia, Saeed
name: Skoglund, Mikael
name: Fodor, Gabor
name: Fischione, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the near future, the Internet of Things will interconnect billions of devices, forming a vast network where users sporadically transmit short messages through multi-path wireless channels. These channels are characterized by the superposition of a small number of scaled and delayed copies of Dirac spikes. At the receiver, the observed signal is a sum of these convolved signals, and the task is to find the amplitudes, continuous-indexed delays, and transmitted messages from a single signal. This task is inherently ill-posed without additional assumptions on the channel or messages. In this work, we assume the channel exhibits sparsity in the delay domain and that i.i.d. random linear encoding is applied to the messages at the devices. Leveraging these assumptions, we propose a semidefinite programming optimization capable of simultaneously recovering both messages and the delay parameters of the channels from only a single received signal. Our theoretical analysis establishes that the required number of samples at the receiver scales proportionally to the sum-product of sparsity and message length of all users, aligning with the degrees of freedom in the proposed convex optimization framework. Numerical experiments confirm the efficacy of the proposed method in accurately estimating closely-spaced delay parameters and recovering messages.
Species Distribution Models for Mesopelagic Mesozooplankton Community
Creators: name: Egorova, Yulia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310402
subject: Biogeography and phylogeography

description: We aimed to enhance our understanding on distribution of mesopelagic mesozooplankton using species distribution models, assess the performance of various modelling techniques, identify key environmental predictors for mesopelagic mesozooplankton distribution, and compute their habitat suitability indices.
Development of an integrated device based on the gain/phase detector and Arduino platform for measuring magnetoelastic resonance
Creators: name: Silva, Wenderson R. F.
name: Cunha, Rafael O. R. R.
name: Mendes, Joaquim B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study presents the development of an integrated device for measuring magnetoelastic resonance, utilizing a gain/phase detector and the Arduino platform. The device stands out for its simplicity, low cost, and efficiency. It employs the Arduino's ATmega328P microcontroller, coupled with the AD8302, and an intuitive graphical interface developed in Python, which facilitates the measurement of magnetoelastic signals in sensors. The device's validation is carried out through measurements of mass deposits on magnetoelastic sensors, confirming its accuracy and functionality. This advancement offers a practical and portable solution for detecting magnetoelastic resonances, promoting the use of these technologies in field environments and in diverse scientific applications. The integration of components into a compact, robust, and low-cost electronic circuit, along with an easy-to-operate graphical interface, significantly simplifies the complexity of the components, making the equipment complete and readily operational.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
title: RPL Cluster 8 : the refugee WORK and WORK-LEARNING
Creators: name: Chaiwat, Pamanee
name: Neis, Hajo
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This article sketches out a tentative direction towards potentials that might be opened by the formalization of place through place-based GIS for the study of urban form. In particular, models of place based on function and affordances are touched upon to explore their relevance within the domain of urban morphology under contemporary urban conditions. Established morphological relations and hierarchies of elements of urban form become more and more fragmented as new complex hybrid typologies emerge and proliferate. Such new types of spaces, being highly flexible, multi-layered, ever increasing in complexity, entangling built forms and open spaces, merging inside and outside, featuring stacks of green spaces in sophisticated vertical programming, call for an equally complex and multidimensional vision of urban form, its generative and operational principles. There is thus a need to search for new ways and approaches to take the conceptualization of urban form further, beyond its mere geometrical properties. Functional imperatives inter alia drive formation and transformation of urban form. Could then a place, understood through its functions or affordances, offer deeper insights into formation, emergence, and operation of urban form today? Could such formalization, embedded into GIS, allow for richer data flows to be analysed, opening up new experiential and operational facets of urban form? Could it lead towards better integration of a human-centred perspective allowing us to see ‘lived’ or ‘experienced’ urban form not only through phenomenological, subjective, individual accounts or narratives, but also as it is embedded in abstract blank space? Such are the questions touched upon by the article.
Associations Between Childhood Trauma and Non-Fatal Overdose Among People Who Inject Drugs
Creators: name: Lake, Stephanie L.
name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Wood, Evan
name: Dong, Huiru
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Introduction Although people who inject drugs (IDU) remain at a high risk of accidental overdose, interventions that address overdose remain limited. Accordingly there is a continuing need to identify psychological and social factors that shape overdose risk. Despite being reported frequently among IDU, childhood trauma has received little attention as a potential risk factor for overdose. This study aims to evaluate relationships between non-fatal overdose and five forms of childhood maltreatment among a cohort of IDU in Vancouver, Canada. Methods Data was obtained from two prospective cohorts of IDU between December 2005 and May 2013. Multivariate generalized estimating equations (GEE) were used to explore relationships between five forms of childhood trauma and non-fatal overdose, adjusting for potential confounders. Results During the study period, 1697 IDU, including 552 (32.5%) women, were followed. At baseline, 1136 (67.0%) participants reported at least one form of childhood trauma, while 4–9% reported a non-fatal overdose at each semi-annual follow-up. In multivariate analyses, physical [adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 1.36, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08–1.71], sexual (AOR: 1.48, CI: 1.17–1.87), and emotional abuse (AOR: 1.54, CI: 1.22–1.93) and physical neglect (AOR: 1.28, CI: 1.01–1.62) were independently associated with non-fatal overdose (all p < 0.05). Conclusions Childhood trauma was common among participants, and reporting an experience of trauma was positively associated with non-fatal overdose. These findings highlight the need to provide intensive overdose prevention to trauma survivors and to incorporate screening for childhood trauma into health and social programs tailored to IDU.
title: Continuity and discontinuity in the urban form
Creators: name: Carlotti, Paolo
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Methods of urban morphology offer an opportunity to develop holistic approaches to sustaining heritage cities, which address local cultures and identities, through an analysis of the evolution of the place and its interpretation in spatial and architectural practices. Particularly, the dialectical relationships of elements of urban form on different scales or instances of the same element can be investigated. For example, the structure of plots is a result of the sequence of transformations, description of the history of the part of territory: multi-level diagrams with a representation of the chronological sequence of structural development could be a key to the logic of a dynamic process, even when the urban fabric presents an orthogonal grid. In fact, in these cases, we can recognize the process of transformation of the urban fabric throughout the hierarchically produced order between the roads that have come to be determined over time (readable in the arrangement of the entrances of the buildings, in the distribution of commercial activities, the height of building and largeness of the street). However, there is a difficulty in finding the key specificities of a particular piece of urban fabric, especially for specialists who investigate their indigenous environments (which they take for granted), at the stage of familiarization with the method. The paper illustrates the evidential efficiency of the comparative method, presenting the intermediate results of the ongoing comparative morphological case study of the development of an urban form of colonial cities Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia) and Quebec (Canada), which were both established in the 17th century in a similar climate, and have clear morphological similarities and evident differences. The first could speak about objective features inherent in the construction of cities, regardless of the socio-political and economic context, the second can indicate the unique specificities that are most characteristic of the place under consideration.
title: Increasing level of detail of buildings for improved simulation of 4D urban digital twin
Creators: name: Bulatov, Dimitri
name: May, Marie
name: Strauß, Eva
name: Mancini, Francesco
name: Kottler, Benedikt
name: Helmholz, Petra
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Buildings represent a crucial component of urban morphology, and their accurate modeling is essential for a number of applications involving Urban Digital Twins. With respect to thermal simulation aiming to identify Urban Heat Islands, a trade-off between accurate modeling of a single building type and large-scale reconstruction of virtual city models needs to be found. In the proposed paper, we analyzed an Australian suburb containing approximately 1700 residential buildings with challenging roof structures. Building outlines are provided by geo-information data and converted into prismatic models of LOD1. Using airborne sensor data (digital orthophotos, high-resolution images, and digital surface models), we identified two ways to increase the LOD and thus, the accuracy of the simulation. Firstly, we used common Computer Aided Graphics software to model interactively a few selected buildings, a process denoted as geo-specific modeling. Here, the outlines were used as foundations for constructing the ground-level walls. We relied on airborne data to retrieve building heights and roof structures. Number of floors and positions of façade elements were modeled on standard typological assumptions and building practices. We developed an interface to import automatically LOD1- based data and to export LOD3 buildings into the simulation. Secondly, we reproduce these models to model other buildings of the dataset. For this so-called geo-typical modeling, a similarity measure based on the outlines was implemented. The final scene consists of triangles modeling LOD3 buildings, terrain, and trees, retrieved using machinelearning- based methods on land cover classification. Together with the semantic class, we store the geometrical and physical properties of every triangle. The environmental data (e.g., cloud coverage, air temperature) is available by means of the weather services. Surface temperature is modeled by considering conductive, convective, and radiative heat transfer. The simulation of updated LOD3 buildings shows a significantly increased realism of the temperature distribution in an urban area. It can used to verify sustainable design of appropriate morpho-typologies for a particular precinct in a given context.
title: Analysis and modelling of the multilevel transport network : the metro and railway system in greater London
Creators: name: Chen, Po Nien
name: Karimi, Kayvan
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Transport development has become more and more important among all aspects of urban development in recent years. To accommodate the rising demand for daily travel and commutes, the public transport system, especially the rail system, is considered the better solution for sustainable mobility, instead of the road system for vehicles. Studies in urban morphology usually focus on the model of urban form without concerning the multi-dimensional network of public transport, whereas transport planning and engineering emphasise the capacity and travel demand within the road network, which disregards the spatial effect of the urban form. This research aims to bridge the gap between these two disciplines by developing an Integrated Urban Model (IUM), which combined various layers of urban information and dataset, including spatial network, land use and census. It seeks to identify the complex interrelationship between urban form networks and the socio-economic community by the synthetic analysis of the IUM. A multilevel multimodal network model has been built for the case of Greater London to combine the street network with the Metro/Rail network to investigate the network accessibility. In addition, this study applied space syntax theory and methodology as the primary approach to reveal the potential flow and movement pattern of the multilevel multimodal network. The result indicated that the multilevel network model with space syntax accessibility measurements could provide an interpretative overview of spatial distribution in both global and local scales. The IUM also allowed the spatial impact of public transport network to be uncovered through geodatabase modelling and spatial analysis.
Concussion Awareness Training Tool for Parents, Players & Coaches : Evaluation Report
Creators: name: Babul, Shelina
name: Turcotte, Kate
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this evaluation for CATT was to determine if attitudes and knowledge were significantly improved among parents with a child registered in an organized sport following completion of CATT. Parents were recruited to complete pre and postintervention surveys designed to measure changes in attitudes and knowledge around concussion recognition and management. The survey was administered using FluidSurveys (www. fluidsurveys.com), a secure Canadian online survey company. Participants completed the survey before the intervention (before completing CATT) and subsequently completed the same survey again 3 to 4 months post intervention. A total of 35 parents completed the study. The recruitment period for this study was extended due to low response rates.
2): Results of Experiment 2 --- Lack of Requirements
Creators: name: Compsac
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461208
subject: Software testing, verification and validation
classificationCode: 461203
subject: Formal methods for software

description: Results of Experiment 2 — One New Property Found
This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.
Perge'den İki Procurator Yazıtı
Creators: name: Onur, Fatih
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: F. Onur, Perge'den İki Procurator Yazıtı, in: N. E. Akyürek Şahin - Burak Takmer - Fatih Onur (edd.), Eskiçağ Yazıları 3 [AKRON 3], İstanbul 2013, 55-76. Makalenin aslı: F. Onur, Two Procuratorian Inscriptions from Perge, Gephyra 5, 2008, 53-66. Kısa bir süre önce Aşkım Özdizbay Perge’den iki adet Latince yazıtın kopyasını ve çevirisini, Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoğlu için hazırladıkları armağan kitabında yayımlamıştır. Verdiği bilgilere göre, bu yazıtlar 2004 – 2005 yılları Perge kazılarında, bir silmeli kaide üzerine sonradan yerleştirilmiş olarak ele geçmiştir. T. Claudius Plocamus’un onurlandırmalarını içeren metinler üzerine yapılan kısa bir araştırma ve sonuçlarının I.v.Perge (IK 54)’te yayınlanmış bazı yazıtlarla yapılan karşılaştırma, bu yazıtların bilinen iki Perge yazıtının alt kısımları olduğunu göstermektedir. Yazıt A’da onurlandırılan kişinin Claudius ve Nero dönemlerinde praefectus praetorio olduğunu görüyoruz. Bu kişi, Suetonius (Nero 35.5), Tacitus (Ann. 12.42.1), Cassius Dio (61.3-4; 62.13.1-3) ve Gallia Narbonensis’ten bir yazıt (CIL XII 5842) aracılığıyla bilinmekte olup, söz konusu dönemde tek başına praefectus praetorio olan Sextus Afranius Burrus’tur. Dolayısıyla yazıtın eksik olan baş kısmında bu kişinin künyesi olmalıdır. Nitekim daha önce yayınlanmış olan bir Perge yazıtında da (I.v. Perge I, no. 222) söz konusu kişiye ait bilgiler olduğu tespit edilmiş ve bunun Yazıt A’nın baş kısmı olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Yazıt B’de onurlandırılan kişi ala Picentianae birliğinde komutan olmuş ve daha sonra Claudius ve Nero dönemlerinde Galatia–Pamphylia eyaletinde procurator olarak görevlendirilmiştir. Bu vasıflara uygun kişi, Iconium’dan bir yazıtta (CIG 3991) Claudius tarafından Galatia eyaletinde procurator olarak görevlendirildiği belirtilen Lucius Pupius Praesens’tir. Daha önce yayınlanmış ve sadece ilk üç satırı mevcut olup aynı kişinin adı geçen bir Perge yazıtının (I.v. Perge I, no. 24) ölçüleri harf biçimleri, metin içeriği incelenmiş ve Yazıt B’nin üst kısmı olduğu anlaşılmıştır.
title: Hong Kong as a contemporary laboratory for the future scenarios of vertical growth
Creators: name: Ciotoli, Pina
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: During its brief history, the skyscraper has experienced radical transformations that have profoundly changed its character, redefining the system of urban relations that it establishes with the city. Among the main typological changes of the skyscraper, there is the passage from “single vertical building” to “aggregation of several buildings”. Over the last few years, the relationship between the skyscraper and the city has been enriched by connections operated through skybridges which have altered its fruition methods. The paper aims to focus on the city of Hong Kong, which is emblematic as regards the vertical experimentation and the construction of public pedestrian infrastructures (called CEW). There will be analyzed 2 paradigmatic points for understanding Hong Kong’s vertical tissues: the osmotic relationship between interior/exterior and the intersection with the infrastructural system (and the formation of covered squares). This research aims to develop this theme through a theory of Vertical Fabric, a critical system that investigates the spatial conformation inside and outside the skyscrapers in the light of a morpho-typological criterion. Considering the skyscraper as a vertical fabric, it is possible to highlight the relationship between the urban path and the building, and the implications of the service core in the spatial articulation of the skyscraper itself. Central and Admiralty districts testify as vertical growth is linked to the phenomenon of internalization of the paths that governs the relationships between skyscrapers and horizontal connective structures. As an immediate result of this phenomenology, we find the definition of a new paradigm of urban mobility, realized through a ground plan at altitude which performs the function of access, exchange and meeting. The paper also intends to focus on the changes in relational dynamics between the high building and the metropolis, outlining the possibility of considering individual buildings as micro-cities that host gathering places.
title: Horizontal densification : portraits of alternative cities
Creators: name: Chizzoniti, Domenico
name: Maruelli, Elisa
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Today the conditions affecting the transformation of cities are multiple and linked to phenomena of global range, such as the increase in population and the number of inhabitants in urban centres, the pressures of the global economic model, the climate emergency, the digital revolution and the issues connected to the recent SARS-Cov-2 pandemic. The relationship between the containment of natural soil use and population growth tends to be resolved by designing vertical cities, implemented through the typology of the tower and skyscraper: design models that generate a controversial relationship between urban morphology and architectural typology in most of European cities. The subject of this study is to verify how in the design, planning and construction of new urban fabrics, it is possible to find credible alternatives to the typical scenario of vertical development, albeit declined in its many variants, and to verify what other examples can be found that explore the possibility of developing cities through horizontal densification. The research presented here proposes to address this study through the choice of a methodological-critical approach capable of intercepting experiences and case studies already underway in those areas of critical social, economic and cultural concentration and select those case studies considered more incisive and bearers of positive experiences, and to analyse the different treatment of land use in the various experiences of vertical and horizontal densification.
title: From reclamation to new city : a case study on the mechanism and development strategies of town spatial expansion in Hangzhou urban fringe
Creators: name: Chen, Yufan
name: Zhao, Jing
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: With the acceleration of the spatial expansion of big cities, the cities and towns in their marginal areas have increasingly become among the most active areas of urbanization. Based on the spatial development process and expansion mechanism of Guali town in Hangzhou analysis, this paper summarizes the characteristics of its urban function and spatial structure, and highlights factors affecting Guali town's development such as market economy, regional environment, and public policy. Under the background of 2022 Asian Games' construction plan, it is highly significant to study the evolution characteristics and mechanism of its spatial form for the public policy-making and institutional arrangement of small towns around metropolis
Helicity is a topological invariant of massless particles: C=-2h
Creators: name: Palmerduca, Eric
name: Qin, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is an elementary but indispensable relationship between the topology and geometry of massive particles. The geometric spin $s$ is related to the topological dimension of the internal space $V$ by $\dim V = 2s + 1$. This breaks down for massless particles, which are characterized by their helicity $h$, but all have 1D internal spaces. We show that a subtler relation exists between the topological and geometry of massless particles. Wave functions of massless particles are sections of nontrivial line bundles over the lightcone whose topology are completely characterized by their first Chern number $C$. We prove that in general $C = -2h$. In doing so, we also exhibit a method of generating all massless bundle representations via an abelian group structure of massless particles.
description: 13 pages
3): Results of Experiment 3 --- Lack of UPPAAL Model
Creators: name: Compsac
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461208
subject: Software testing, verification and validation
classificationCode: 461203
subject: Formal methods for software

description: Results of Experiment 3 — One New Property Found
This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.
Machine Learning for Improved Current Density Reconstruction from 2D Vector Magnetic Images
Creators: name: Reed, Niko R.
name: Bhutto, Danyal
name: Turner, Matthew J.
name: Daly, Declan M.
name: Oliver, Sean M.
name: Tang, Jiashen
name: Olsson, Kevin S.
name: Langellier, Nicholas
name: Ku, Mark J. H.
name: Rosen, Matthew S.
name: Walsworth, Ronald L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reconstruction of electrical current densities from magnetic field measurements is an important technique with applications in materials science, circuit design, quality control, plasma physics, and biology. Analytic reconstruction methods exist for planar currents, but break down in the presence of high spatial frequency noise or large standoff distance, restricting the types of systems that can be studied. Here, we demonstrate the use of a deep convolutional neural network for current density reconstruction from two-dimensional (2D) images of vector magnetic fields acquired by a quantum diamond microscope (QDM) utilizing a surface layer of Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Trained network performance significantly exceeds analytic reconstruction for data with high noise or large standoff distances. This machine learning technique can perform quality inversions on lower SNR data, reducing the data collection time by a factor of about 400 and permitting reconstructions of weaker and three-dimensional current sources.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures. Includes Supplemental Information
title: Preference and visual texture as a measure of performance : articulating the principles of biophilia
Creators: name: Cooper, Jon
name: Kropf, Karl
name: Oskrochi, Gholamreza
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: There is growing evidence showing contact with nature has benefits for mental and physical health. Within the design community, evidence has been encapsulated in the concept of biophilic design. The underlying principle is that humans have evolved in nature and therefore share 'an innate love of contact with other living organisms' (Wilson 2017). , there are however a number of philosophical, ethical and practical issues that arise with the application of the 'biophilic hypothesis' in urban and architectural design. This paper reports on research that expands on these issues, centred on the computational method of visual texture analysis as developed by one of the authors (Cooper). The output of the method is the generation of a numerical measure, visual texture level, drawing on fractal geometry, combined with the identification of texture types. Looking at the results of a number of investigations and applications, the paper suggests the combination of texture level and texture type can provide an effective link between people's preferences and different types of urban tissue. Applications include the identification of character areas for urban design coding and preference filtering for property search. The paper concludes by reflecting on the potential for visual texture analysis to complement and improve on traditional methods of urban morphological and tissue analysis and provide a basis for extending and articulating the principles of biophilia.
4): Results of Experiment 4 --- Complete Information
Creators: name: Compsac
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461208
subject: Software testing, verification and validation
classificationCode: 461203
subject: Formal methods for software

description: Results of Experiment 4 — One New Property Found
This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible.
ANALISIS PENGGUNAAN LAHAN TERTINGGI DAN TERBAIK PADA LAHAN DI JALAN KRAMAT 1 KEBAYORAN LAMA ASET KEMENTERIAN PUPR
Creators: name: Achmad Syafii
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Barang Milik Negara, pemanfaatan aset lahan pemerintah, penggunaan lahan tertinggi dan terbaik
The curious case of church branding and its impact on church participation
Creators: name: Mulyanegara, Riza Casidy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There are mixed opinions in the literature in regards of the appropriateness, relevance, and significance of church branding in encouraging church participation. This study developed and applied 'perceived brand orientation' construct in church context and examine its impact on church participation. The results indicate that 'perceived brand orientation' is significantly related to 'perceived social benefits', 'perceived spiritual benefits', and church participation. This study highlights the importance of being brand-oriented in order to attract members' participation. Relevant implications for church leaders and non-profit researchers are also identified.
title: Agency in the formation of West Lake landscape : the governance of Hangzhou 1949-2006
Creators: name: Deng, Luchuan
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The landscape of West Lake, Hangzhou plays an important role in the formation of Hangzhou city and the modern Chinese nation – its designation of World Heritage Cultural Landscape was regarded as an outstanding achievement which transcended many of its predecessors. However, the formation of West Lake landscape, though has been studied by myriad researchers, has not been fully investigated through the lens of social governance, especially during the years 1949-2006. This paper is devoted to the study of the agencies behind the changing landscape to figure out the interaction between agents. The actions of different governmental, societal and international agents in Hangzhou local politics considering the governance of West Lake during 1949 – 2006 are studied. In this way, it is hoped to unveil the local dynamism in the making of West Lake and the city of Hangzhou, which stresses the background forces behind the evolvement of urban landscape.
The syzygy distinguisher
Creators: name: Randriambololona, Hugues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a new distinguisher for alternant and Goppa codes, whose complexity is subexponential in the error-correcting capability, hence better than that of generic decoding algorithms. Moreover it does not suffer from the strong regime limitations of the previous distinguishers or structure recovery algorithms: in particular, it applies to the codes used in the Classic McEliece candidate for postquantum cryptography standardization. The invariants that allow us to distinguish are graded Betti numbers of the homogeneous coordinate ring of a shortening of the dual code.
 Since its introduction in 1978, this is the first time an analysis of the McEliece cryptosystem breaks the exponential barrier.
description: 31+8 pages; v5: Eurocrypt 2025 version, expanded, with supplementary material and errata
title: Towards a quantitative approach to morphological regions in GIS
Creators: name: Diniz, Mariana
name: Serra, Miguel
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The urban landscape is the result of a cumulative, historical stratification process, in which urban entities acquire formal and physical aspects that reflect the cultural and social functioning codes of the precedent periods in the city's formative process. Within this perspective, the concept of Morphological Regions and the method of Morphological Regionalisation, stand out as very important contributions to the study of the historico-geographical structure of the urban landscape. Central to that method, is the understanding of the way in which urban landscapes are structured: the existence of unitary areas which comprise an individualized combination of the three basic form complexes – namely the town plan, the building fabric and the land and building utilization — delimited by their degree of internal morphological similarity. However, from a methodological point of view, the identification of such areas (or morphological regions) remains based on qualitative visual analysis and on the personal expertise of the analyst. We propose to address the method of morphological regionalisation from a quantitative perspective, based on typological descriptions of urban form components derived by algorithmic means. The paper identifies and addresses the underlying premises of the method of regionalisation, arguing that its qualitative procedures can be translated into quantitative and objective parameters, through multi-variable geometric descriptions of urban form in GIS and through statistical clustering techniques. We attempt to contribute to the construction of a more robust method of morphological regionalisation, supported by a systematic and quantitative approach, applicable to large-scale comparative analysis of contemporary urban forms, which often elude previous historical typologies.
Factors associated with willingness to take extended release naltrexone among injection drug users
Creators: name: Ahamad, Keith
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Nguyen, Paul
name: Uhlmann, Sasha
name: Johnson, Cheyenne
name: Korthuis, Todd P
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Wood, Evan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Although opioid-agonist therapy with methadone or buprenorphine/naloxone is currently the mainstay of medical treatment for opioid use disorder, these medications often are not well accepted or tolerated by patients. Recently, extended release naltrexone (XR-NTX), an opioid antagonist, has been advanced as an alternative treatment. The willingness of opioid-addicted patients to take XR-NTX has not been well described. Methods: Opioid-using persons enrolled in a community-recruited cohort in Vancouver, Canada, were asked whether or not they would be willing to take XR-NTX. Logistic regression was used to independently identify factors associated with willingness to take the medication. Results: Among the 657 participants surveyed between June 1, 2013, and November 30, 2013, 342 (52.1%) were willing to take XR-NTX. One factor positively associated with willingness was daily heroin injection (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.53; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.02–2.31), whereas Caucasian ethnicity was negatively associated (AOR = 0.59; 95% CI = 0.43–0.82). Satisfaction with agonist therapy (13.4%) and unwillingness to stop opioids being used for pain (26.9%) were the most common reasons for being unwilling to take XR-NTX. Conclusions: A high level of willingness to take XR-NTX was observed in this setting. Interestingly, daily injection heroin use was positively associated with willingness, whereas Caucasian participants were less willing to take XR-NTX. Although explanations for unwillingness were described in this study, further research is needed to investigate real-world acceptability of XR-NTX as an additional option for the treatment of opioid use disorder.
title: Grounded patterns : creating a socio-spatial language for residents’ participation in cohousing landscapes
Creators: name: Felstead, Aimee Louise
name: Thwaites, Kevin
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Since 'A Pattern Language' was published in 1977, it has inspired students, practitioners and communities to create places that reflect a timeless human quality. The purpose of a pattern is to succinctly document, communicate, and implement commonly occurring and well-functioning ideas in a particular setting, to offer anyone the ability to replicate them in their everyday environment. Despite this, methods for identifying patterns and collating them into a language remain ambiguous. This paper advances a grounded approach to identifying patterns and collating them into a language through the study of cohousing residents' participation in shared outdoor spaces. As well as outlining a grounded pattern methodology, the research aims to test the pattern language as a collaborative tool for residential communities and design practitioners and explore the wider contribution to urban theory.
SCIsegV2: A Universal Tool for Segmentation of Intramedullary Lesions in Spinal Cord Injury
Creators: name: Karthik, Enamundram Naga
name: Valošek, Jan
name: Farner, Lynn
name: Pfyffer, Dario
name: Schading-Sassenhausen, Simon
name: Lebret, Anna
name: David, Gergely
name: Smith, Andrew C.
name: Weber, Kenneth A.
name: Seif, Maryam
name: Group, RHSCIR Network Imaging
name: Freund, Patrick
name: Cohen-Adad, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating incidence leading to permanent paralysis and loss of sensory-motor functions potentially resulting in the formation of lesions within the spinal cord. Imaging biomarkers obtained from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can predict the functional recovery of individuals with SCI and help choose the optimal treatment strategy. Currently, most studies employ manual quantification of these MRI-derived biomarkers, which is a subjective and tedious task. In this work, we propose (i) a universal tool for the automatic segmentation of intramedullary SCI lesions, dubbed \texttt{SCIsegV2}, and (ii) a method to automatically compute the width of the tissue bridges from the segmented lesion. Tissue bridges represent the spared spinal tissue adjacent to the lesion, which is associated with functional recovery in SCI patients. The tool was trained and validated on a heterogeneous dataset from 7 sites comprising patients from different SCI phases (acute, sub-acute, and chronic) and etiologies (traumatic SCI, ischemic SCI, and degenerative cervical myelopathy). Tissue bridges quantified automatically did not significantly differ from those computed manually, suggesting that the proposed automatic tool can be used to derive relevant MRI biomarkers. \texttt{SCIsegV2} and the automatic tissue bridges computation are open-source and available in Spinal Cord Toolbox (v6.4 and above) via the \texttt{sct\_deepseg -task seg\_sc\_lesion\_t2w\_sci} and \texttt{sct\_analyze\_lesion} functions, respectively.
description: Accepted at MICCAI AMAI 2024 workshop
title: The "hidden" city : morphological developments and knotting phenomena in the commercial fabric from the passage to the mall
Creators: name: Falsetti, Marco
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Several examples, over the course of history, testify to the formation of specialized fabrics and buildings starting from commercial paths: the linear conception of the market has in fact often determined the creation of complex structures which, over time, have reached an autonomous dimension, typologically coded. The market-type has evolved processually starting from the dimension of a path up to defining a real building organism, that very often, due to the progressive extension of the phenomenon, has assumed an urban character, involving large portions of fabric: gallerias, bazaars and shōtengai are therefore structured according to these aggregative logics, translating an idea with a temporary origin into a stable form. The knotting processes, transformations of originally temporary elements into buildings, have been structured with different levels of complexity, developing the typical characteristics of the fabric in which they were going to settle. In fact, in the absence of an architectural organism suitable to contain the functional principle, the latter has always developed giving rise to “special” spaces, without a typological determination, but which reflect the characteristics of the place in which they are located. And yet the typological migration of a path-function within a fabric and the transformation that it entails are a phenomenon with much more ancient origins: starting from the great plants of the Hellenistic period such as the colonnaded streets of Syria, a taxonomy of “internal” urban spaces has evolved closely linked to the market type. The particular fortune of these typologies in the Near East has given rise to type-morphological families of commercial fabric-buildings such as the souk, the arasta and the bazaar, whose characters have remained unchanged until modernity. Passages and gallerias therefore represent morphological configurations of a characteristic phenomenon of the contemporary city, in which a further evolution of the specialized urban fabric is manifested.
title: The compact city and contemporary urbanization processes : discussing alternative interpretations of urban compactness
Creators: name: Endemann, Henry
name: Bruyns, Gerhard
name: Buehring, Joern
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The Compact City is a paradigm that is widely promoted as a sustainable way of development. However, the desirability of urban compactness is frequently questioned in urban theory, and empirical research shows that the effects of compaction are highly ambiguous. Furthermore, contemporary urbanization processes fundamentally change the scales and complexities that urbanism has to deal with. Therefore, new interpretations of the Compact City are needed. This paper discusses alternative interpretations of urban compactness in order to initiate the exploration of design and planning principles that are geared to today's urban challenges, and thereby deepen insights into the links between the Compact City and urban morphology. The paper starts by outlining the current debate on the sustainability of compact urban form and giving a short overview of three theories that capture contemporary processes of urbanization - Planetary Urbanization, Mega-regionalization, and Peri-urbanization. This gives an impression of the phenomena to be considered. Subsequently, alternative interpretations of urban compactness are presented and discussed based on their relation to the urbanization processes presented beforehand. The chosen interpretations - compactness through autonomy; regional compactness; compactness of flows; and relational compactness - originate from existing theoretical literature. The review shows that except for regional compactness, each of the interpretations adequately responds to the theory on contemporary urbanization processes. A set of hypothetical diagrams that tries to translate the interpretations into empirical measures shows that each of them has the potential to point towards types of morphological analysis that go beyond the conventional focus of urban compactness on population and building densities. It is therefore concluded that if alternative interpretations of urban compactness are developed with consideration of urbanization theory, and they implement a variety of empirical measure, they can make valuable contributions to urban issues beyond the disciplinary limits of urban morphology.
Superior Scoring Rules for Probabilistic Evaluation of Single-Label Multi-Class Classification Tasks
Creators: name: Ahmadian, Rouhollah
name: Ghatee, Mehdi
name: Wahlström, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2; I.2.6; G.3
subject: 68Txx, 68T05, 68T37, 68Q32,

description: This study introduces novel superior scoring rules called Penalized Brier Score (PBS) and Penalized Logarithmic Loss (PLL) to improve model evaluation for probabilistic classification. Traditional scoring rules like Brier Score and Logarithmic Loss sometimes assign better scores to misclassifications in comparison with correct classifications. This discrepancy from the actual preference for rewarding correct classifications can lead to suboptimal model selection. By integrating penalties for misclassifications, PBS and PLL modify traditional proper scoring rules to consistently assign better scores to correct predictions. Formal proofs demonstrate that PBS and PLL satisfy strictly proper scoring rule properties while also preferentially rewarding accurate classifications. Experiments showcase the benefits of using PBS and PLL for model selection, model checkpointing, and early stopping. PBS exhibits a higher negative correlation with the F1 score compared to the Brier Score during training. Thus, PBS more effectively identifies optimal checkpoints and early stopping points, leading to improved F1 scores. Comparative analysis verifies models selected by PBS and PLL achieve superior F1 scores. Therefore, PBS and PLL address the gap between uncertainty quantification and accuracy maximization by encapsulating both proper scoring principles and explicit preference for true classifications. The proposed metrics can enhance model evaluation and selection for reliable probabilistic classification.
description: 21 Pages, 3 Figures, 3 Tables