cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PRE-NAS: Predictor-assisted Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search
Creators: name: Peng, Yameng
name: Song, Andy
name: Ciesielski, Vic
name: Fayek, Haytham M.
name: Chang, Xiaojun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2; I.4

description: Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture engineering in neural networks. This often requires a high computational overhead to evaluate a number of candidate networks from the set of all possible networks in the search space during the search. Prediction of the networks' performance can alleviate this high computational overhead by mitigating the need for evaluating every candidate network. Developing such a predictor typically requires a large number of evaluated architectures which may be difficult to obtain. We address this challenge by proposing a novel evolutionary-based NAS strategy, Predictor-assisted E-NAS (PRE-NAS), which can perform well even with an extremely small number of evaluated architectures. PRE-NAS leverages new evolutionary search strategies and integrates high-fidelity weight inheritance over generations. Unlike one-shot strategies, which may suffer from bias in the evaluation due to weight sharing, offspring candidates in PRE-NAS are topologically homogeneous, which circumvents bias and leads to more accurate predictions. Extensive experiments on NAS-Bench-201 and DARTS search spaces show that PRE-NAS can outperform state-of-the-art NAS methods. With only a single GPU searching for 0.6 days, competitive architecture can be found by PRE-NAS which achieves 2.40% and 24% test error rates on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet respectively.
description: Accepted by GECCO 2022
A cost-effective quantum eraser demonstration
Creators: name: Khandelwal, Aarushi
name: Tan, Jit Bin Joseph
name: Leong, Tze Kwang
name: Yang, Yarong
name: Venkatesan, T
name: Jani, Hariom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum eraser is a variation of the celebrated Young's interference experiment that can be used to demonstrate the elusive complementarity principle in quantum physics. Here we show the construction of its classical analogue for deployment in classrooms in a simple, cost-effective yet robust manner by employing a laser pointer, double-slits, and polarizers.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 4 supplementary information pages
Kaptive – How novel searches within bacterial genomic data are presented and hosted on R@CMon
Creators: name: Revote, Jerico
name: Quenette, Steve
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60503 Microbial Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Research story artefact of the Kaptive – How novel searches within bacterial genomic data are presented and hosted on R@CMon user story.
Using Self-assessment Checklists to Make English Language Learners Self-directed
Creators: name: Mahmoodi-Shahrebabaki, Masoud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Education

description: Self-directed learning (SDL) has recently gathered momentum among EFL/ESL researchers. Within
the SDL framework, learners are responsible to monitor and evaluate their own learning. Student selfassessment can play a crucial role in helping learners become more dedicated and motivated. This study aimed at examining the role of filling out self-assessment checklists by 115 Iranian EFL learners over three successive semesters with reference to the role of gender and level of proficiency. Three classes filled out a standard weekly self-evaluation checklist while three corresponding classes passed the same courses simultaneously without filling out any checklist. The result showed that there is not a significant difference between the final score of the control group and the treatment group as a whole.
However, individual analysis of mean score of parallel classes showed that there is a significant difference between the mean score of learners in third semester as the group filling out the checklist
scored significantly higher than those who did not. Individual analysis of mean score of third groups
also showed a significant difference between the mean score of females and males as female learners earned higher scores; however, overall score of learners did not show any significant difference
considering gender factor. In conclusion the implications of the present study are discussed.
Data_classroom discourse.pdf
Creators: name: Lekgoro, Beverly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390409
subject: Learning sciences

description: South African education system supports the use of previously marginalised indigenous languages as a sign of reform and to ensure inclusivity and equitable access to education. However, using indigenous languages in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is a debated subject. Nevertheless, there is an emerging interest towards the use of indigenous languages in Mathematics and science, which is evident through initiatives such as the piloted Mother Tongue based Bilingual Education (MTbBE). Such initiatives require learning resources in various indigenous languages to succeed. In addition, the effectiveness of such resources needs to be investigated.This is a qualitative research that use a case study approach to investigate the influence of scientific language register written in Sepedi on classroom interaction and discourse. The study involves three schools in Seotlong circuit, and each school is treated as a case. Each case consists of one Sepedi-speaking Natural Sciences and Technology (NST) teacher and one Intermediate Phase classroom of Sepedi-speaking learners. The data from these participants was collected using lesson observations and diary entries. Inductive Content Analysis was used to analyse the data.The results indicated that the classrooms were interactive in all three cases. This shows that Sepedi scientific language register positively influenced the classroom atmosphere and encouraged interaction. This is important in science, which aims to promote enquire based leaning. This highlights the importance of the developing and using indigenous language learning materials in NST to facilitate teaching and learning.Sepedi scientific language register brings together language and science. Thus, closing the gap between science and local languages, and allowing free interaction between learners and teachers without language barrier. Therefore, it was proven to be an effective learning resource for teaching NST. Hence, this study recommends the use of Sepedi scientific language register as a learning tool for NST.
Co-designing clouds for the data future of fintech
Creators: name: Revote, Jerico
name: Quenette, Steve
name: Aung, Swe Win
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Research story artefact of the Co-designing clouds for the data future of fintech : the next generation of StockPrice infrastructure user story.
An Investigation on the Effectiveness of Using Movie Clips in Teaching English Language Idioms
Creators: name: Mahmoodi-Shahrebabaki, Masoud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Language

description: Because idioms are ubiquitous in the authentic language to which learners are exposed, learners of a second or foreign language need to possess a good command of idioms and proficiency in idiom use to be able to comprehend and produce language effectively. A considerable body of research has sought ways to optimize learning and teaching of idioms. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of using movie clips containing idioms, as one method of teaching, on the quality of 60 intermediate EFL pupils’ idiom learning. Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was implemented to ensure homogeneity of learners in proficiency. All the groups were given two standard idiom multiple-choice tests, one as the pre-test and the other one as the post-test. In the experimental group, idioms were taught by displaying movie clips containing the idioms, while the control group followed the traditional class activities using synonyms and antonyms. The results of both Scheffe Dependent variable Post-test and paired sample t-test revealed that the participants in the movie clips group had better performance in post-test than in pre-test. This study has theoretical as well as pedagogical implications in the fields of second/ foreign language teaching and learning which are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Triptolide mitigates the inhibition of osteogenesis induced by TNF-α in human periodontal ligament stem cells via the p-IκBα/NF-κB signaling pathway: an in-vitro study
Creators: name: Chen, Hao
name: Zhang, Lina
name: Du, Simeng
name: Yang, Daiwei
name: Cui, Xiaobin
name: Zhao, Huadong
name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 1 of Bacterial isolation and genome analysis of a novel Klebsiella quasipneumoniae phage in southwest China’s karst area
Creators: name: Liu, Yanju
name: Wang, Jinfeng
name: Zhao, Ruoyu
name: Liu, Xiaoping
name: Dong, Yang
name: Shi, Wenyu
name: Jiang, Hongchen
name: Guan, Xiangyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Health effects of heavy kava use on indigenous Australians
Creators: name: Clough, Alan Robert
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2003

description: The main aim of this thesis is to provide information to more thoroughly describe kava’s health effects and to assist policy makers to gauge the health, social and economic effects of regulatory efforts. No epidemiological study has investigated kava’s health effects in Arnhem Land since 1987. In response to continued kava use, regulators have implemented controls on kava supply and distribution in the Northern Territory. However, few data are available to provide precise regulatory guidelines.
DraftRec: Personalized Draft Recommendation for Winning in Multi-Player Online Battle Arena Games
Creators: name: Lee, Hojoon
name: Hwang, Dongyoon
name: Kim, Hyunseung
name: Lee, Byungkun
name: Choo, Jaegul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a personalized character recommendation system for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games which are considered as one of the most popular online video game genres around the world. When playing MOBA games, players go through a draft stage, where they alternately select a virtual character to play. When drafting, players select characters by not only considering their character preferences, but also the synergy and competence of their team's character combination. However, the complexity of drafting induces difficulties for beginners to choose the appropriate characters based on the characters of their team while considering their own champion preferences. To alleviate this problem, we propose DraftRec, a novel hierarchical model which recommends characters by considering each player's champion preferences and the interaction between the players. DraftRec consists of two networks: the player network and the match network. The player network captures the individual player's champion preference, and the match network integrates the complex relationship between the players and their respective champions. We train and evaluate our model from a manually collected 280,000 matches of League of Legends and a publicly available 50,000 matches of Dota2. Empirically, our method achieved state-of-the-art performance in character recommendation and match outcome prediction task. Furthermore, a comprehensive user survey confirms that DraftRec provides convincing and satisfying recommendations. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/dojeon-ai/DraftRec.
description: Accepted to WWW 2022
Analysis of lowest-order characteristics-mixed FEMs for incompressible miscible flow in porous media
Creators: name: Sun, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The time discrete scheme of characteristics type is especially effective for convection-dominated diffusion problems. The scheme has been used in various engineering areas with different approximations in spatial direction. The lowest-order mixed method is the most popular one for miscible flow in porous media. The method is based on a linear Lagrange approximation to the concentration and the zero-order Raviart-Thomas approximation to the pressure/velocity. However, the optimal error estimate for the lowest-order characteristics-mixed FEM has not been presented although numerous effort has been made in last several decades. In all previous works, only first-order accuracy in spatial direction was proved under certain time-step and mesh size restrictions. The main purpose of this paper is to establish optimal error estimates, $i.e.$, the second-order in $L^2$-norm for the concentration and the first-order for the pressure/velocity, while the concentration is more important physical component for the underlying model. For this purpose, an elliptic quasi-projection is introduced in our analysis to clean up the pollution of the numerical velocity through the nonlinear dispersion-diffusion tensor and the concentration-dependent viscosity. Moreover, the numerical pressure/velocity of the second-order accuracy can be obtained by re-solving the (elliptic) pressure equation at a given time level with a higher-order approximation. Numerical results are presented to confirm our theoretical analysis.
Conductivity of Two-dimensional Dirac Electrons Close to Merging in Organic Conductor $α$-STF$_2$I$_3$ at Ambient Pressure
Creators: name: Suzumura, Yoshikazu
name: Naito, Toshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric conductivity of Dirac electrons in the organic conductor $α$-STF$_2$I$_3$ (STF = bis(ethylenedithio)diselenadithiafulvalene), which has an isostructure of ET(=bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene), has been theoretically studied using a two-dimensional tight-binding model in the presence of both impurity and electron-phonon (e-p) scatterings.In contrast to ET, which has a Dirac cone with almost isotropic velocity, STF provides a large anisotropy owing to a Dirac point that is close to merging. As a result, $σ_{x}$ becomes much larger than $σ_{y}$, where $σ_y$ and $σ_x$ are diagonal conductivities parallel and perpendicular to a stacking axis of molecules, respectively. With increasing temperature ($T$), $σ_x$ takes a broad maximum because of e-p scattering and $σ_y$ remains almost constant. The ratio $σ_x/σ_y$ is analyzed in terms of the band structure. Such an exotic conductivity of STF is compared with that of an experiment showing a good correspondence. Finally, $σ_x/σ_y$ values of ET and BETS(= bis(ethylenedithio)tetraselenafulvalene) are shown to demonstrate the dissimilarity with STF.
Amyloid precursor protein at node of Ranvier modulates nodal formation
Creators: name: De-En Xu
name: Zhang, Wen-Min
name: Yang, Zara Zhuyun
name: Zhu, Hong-Mei
name: Yan, Ke
name: Li, Shao
name: Bagnard, Dominique
name: Dawe, Gavin S
name: Ma, Quan-Hong
name: Xiao, Zhi-Cheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Amyloid precursor protein (APP), commonly associated with Alzheimer disease, is upregulated and distributes evenly along the injured axons, and therefore, also known as a marker of demyelinating axonal injury and axonal degeneration. However, the physiological distribution and function of APP along myelinated axons was unknown. We report that APP aggregates at nodes of Ranvier (NOR) in the myelinated central nervous system (CNS) axons but not in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). At CNS NORs, APP expression co-localizes with tenascin-R and is flanked by juxtaparanodal potassium channel expression demonstrating that APP localized to NOR. In APP-knockout (KO) mice, nodal length is significantly increased, while sodium channels are still clustered at NORs. Moreover, APP KO and APP-overexpressing transgenic (APP TG) mice exhibited a decreased and an increased thickness of myelin in spinal cords, respectively, although the changes are limited in comparison to their littermate WT mice. The thickness of myelin in APP KO sciatic nerve also increased in comparison to that in WT mice. Our observations indicate that APP acts as a novel component at CNS NORs, modulating nodal formation and has minor effects in promoting myelination.
Natural occurring 2-(2-phenylethyl) chromones, structure elucidation and biological activities
Creators: name: Sabrin R.M. Ibrahim
name: Mohamed, Gamal A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biochemistry

description: 2-(2-Phenylethyl) chromone (PEC), an uncommon class of chromones, possesses a phenylethyl substituent at the C2 position. They have been isolated from a few plant species. They have promising biological activities such as neuro-protective, cytotoxic, acetylcholinesterase inhibitory, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. This review focuses on the naturally occurring PEC derivatives, their sources, physical and spectral data, as well as biological activities.
Amyloid precursor protein at node of Ranvier modulates nodal formation
Creators: name: De-En Xu
name: Zhang, Wen-Min
name: Yang, Zara Zhuyun
name: Zhu, Hong-Mei
name: Yan, Ke
name: Li, Shao
name: Bagnard, Dominique
name: Dawe, Gavin S
name: Ma, Quan-Hong
name: Xiao, Zhi-Cheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Amyloid precursor protein (APP), commonly associated with Alzheimer disease, is upregulated and distributes evenly along the injured axons, and therefore, also known as a marker of demyelinating axonal injury and axonal degeneration. However, the physiological distribution and function of APP along myelinated axons was unknown. We report that APP aggregates at nodes of Ranvier (NOR) in the myelinated central nervous system (CNS) axons but not in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). At CNS NORs, APP expression co-localizes with tenascin-R and is flanked by juxtaparanodal potassium channel expression demonstrating that APP localized to NOR. In APP-knockout (KO) mice, nodal length is significantly increased, while sodium channels are still clustered at NORs. Moreover, APP KO and APP-overexpressing transgenic (APP TG) mice exhibited a decreased and an increased thickness of myelin in spinal cords, respectively, although the changes are limited in comparison to their littermate WT mice. The thickness of myelin in APP KO sciatic nerve also increased in comparison to that in WT mice. Our observations indicate that APP acts as a novel component at CNS NORs, modulating nodal formation and has minor effects in promoting myelination.
Anisotropic Infrared Response and Orientation-dependent Strain-tuning of the Electronic Structure in Nb2SiTe4
Creators: name: Wang, Fanjie
name: Xu, Yonggang
name: Mu, Lei
name: Zhang, Jiasheng
name: Xia, Wei
name: Xue, Jiamin
name: Guo, Yanfeng
name: Yang, Ji-Hui
name: Yan, Hugen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional materials with tunable in-plane anisotropic infrared response promise versatile applications in polarized photodetectors and field-effect transistors. Black phosphorus is a prominent example. However, it suffers from poor ambient stability. Here, we report the strain-tunable anisotropic infrared response of a layered material Nb2SiTe4, whose lattice structure is similar to the 2H-phase transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with three different kinds of building units. Strikingly, some of the strain-tunable optical transitions are crystallographic axis-dependent, even showing opposite shift when uniaxial strain is applied along two in-plane principal axes. Moreover, G0W0-BSE calculations show good agreement with the anisotropic extinction spectra. The optical selection rules are obtained via group theory analysis, and the strain induced unusual shift trends are well explained by the orbital coupling analysis. Our comprehensive study suggests that Nb2SiTe4 is a good candidate for tunable polarization-sensitive optoelectronic devices.
Additional file 1 of A self-controlled case series study to measure the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with attendance at sporting and cultural events: the UK Events Research Programme events
Creators: name: Douglas, Ian J.
name: Peh, Jerlyn
name: Mansfield, Kathryn E.
name: Trelfa, Anna
name: Fowler, Tom
name: Boulter, Matthew
name: Cleary, Paul
name: Smith, Jenifer
name: Edmunds, W. John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Results for all sensitivity analyses (Table S1, S2, S3) and the detailed regional COVID-19 prevalence data used in the analysis (Table S4). Table S1. Regional SARS-CoV-2 prevalence figures (per 10,000) over study period only. Table S2. Association between event attendance and testing positive for COVID-19, restricted to PCR testing. Table S3. Association between event attendance and testing positive for COVID-19, extending risk period to days 3-11 and baseline period to days 1,2 and 12-18. Table S4. Association between event attendance and testing positive for COVID-19, for individual outdoor unstructured events.
Lucina
Creators: name: Fischer, Hannah Maria Antonia
Publisher: name: Avisos de Viena
Year: 2024

description: Ovid, antique’s best-known author, paints Lucina as an ambiguous sorceress, volatilely answering prayers. Still, allegoric representations of Lucina relating to the Spanish rulers and high society are found in Spanish literature, art, architecture and tractates. The pagan gods are revived in Renaissance art and do not fit into Christian moral codes nor qualify as praiseworthy saints, but nevertheless maintain a prevailing source of allegories and figurative images. Lucina’s appearances in Francisco Núñez’s obstetrical tractate Libro intitulado del parto humano, Pedro Ruiz de Camargo’s painting in the Arch of Santa María of Burgos, Michele Parrasio’s canvas. She appears on the frontispiece of Alonso Carranzas legal treatise Disputatio de vera human partus naturalis et legitimi designatione. The painter Lorenzo Lotto portraits Lucina Brembati and the Goddess is praised in the Academias literarias on the occasion of Carlos II birth. The allegoric representations of the Goddess are described and interpreted. Lucina appears as a midwife with aspects of Juno, Venus, Luna and the Virgin Mary and is blamed when misfortune strikes.

This contribution is based on the Master Thesis Lucina - Römische Göttin der Geburt in der spanischen Frühen Neuzeit.
description: Avisos de Viena, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Dossier Lucina
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness of immunotherapies for advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review
Creators: name: Cheng, Minyu
name: Shao, Yanfei
name: Li, Li
name: Jiang, Menglao
name: Song, Zhouye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1. Search strategy
Ultra Fast Speech Separation Model with Teacher Student Learning
Creators: name: Chen, Sanyuan
name: Wu, Yu
name: Chen, Zhuo
name: Wu, Jian
name: Yoshioka, Takuya
name: Liu, Shujie
name: Li, Jinyu
name: Yu, Xiangzhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transformer has been successfully applied to speech separation recently with its strong long-dependency modeling capacity using a self-attention mechanism. However, Transformer tends to have heavy run-time costs due to the deep encoder layers, which hinders its deployment on edge devices. A small Transformer model with fewer encoder layers is preferred for computational efficiency, but it is prone to performance degradation. In this paper, an ultra fast speech separation Transformer model is proposed to achieve both better performance and efficiency with teacher student learning (T-S learning). We introduce layer-wise T-S learning and objective shifting mechanisms to guide the small student model to learn intermediate representations from the large teacher model. Compared with the small Transformer model trained from scratch, the proposed T-S learning method reduces the word error rate (WER) by more than 5% for both multi-channel and single-channel speech separation on LibriCSS dataset. Utilizing more unlabeled speech data, our ultra fast speech separation models achieve more than 10% relative WER reduction.
description: Accepted by interspeech 2021
A Branch-and-Price Approach to a Variant of the Cognitive Radio Resource Allocation Problem
Creators: name: Falsafain, Hossein
name: Heidarpour, Mohammad Reza
name: Vahidi, Soroush
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Radio-frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is a scarce resource. Cognitive radio technology has emerged as a promising solution to overcome the spectrum scarcity bottleneck. Through this technology, secondary users (SUs) sense the spectrum opportunities free from primary users (PUs), and opportunistically take advantage of these (temporarily) idle portions, known as spectrum holes. In this correspondence, we consider a variant of the cognitive radio resource allocation problem posed by Martinovic et al. in 2017. The distinguishing feature of this version of the problem is that each SU, due to its hardware limitations, imposes the requirement that the to-be-aggregated spectrum holes cannot be arbitrarily far from each other. We call this restriction as the Maximal Aggregation Range (MAR) constraint, and refer to this variant of the problem as the MAR-constrained hole assignment problem. The problem can be formalized as an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. We propose a novel binary integer linear programming (ILP) formulation to the problem. The number of constraints in this formulation is the number of spectrum holes plus the number of SUs. On the other hand, the number of binary decision variables in the formulation can be prohibitively large, as for each legitimate spectrum allocation to each SU, one variable is needed. We propose a branch-and-price (B&P) framework to tackle this challenge. This framework is in fact a branch-and-bound procedure in which at each node of the search tree, we utilize the so-called (delayed) column generation technique for solving the LP relaxation of the corresponding subproblem. As evidenced by the numerical results, the LP relaxation bounds are very tight. This allows for a very effective pruning of the search space. Compared to the previously suggested formulations, the proposed technique can require much less computational effort.
description: Accepted Manuscript - Ad Hoc Networks - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2022.102871
Theoretical study on the nature of S···H and O ··· H hydrogen bonds
Creators: name: Damanjit Kaur
name: Darpandeep Aulakh
name: Khanna, Shweta
name: Singh, Harpreet
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biophysics

description: Hydrogen bond acceptor ability of sulfur and oxygen has been analyzed in the adducts of dimethyl sulfide ((CH3)2S) and dimethyl ether ((CH3)2O) with H2O, CH3OH, HCOOH, NH2OH, CH3NH2, NH2NH2, HCONH2, HF and HCl. The stabilization energies have been evaluated using MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ, B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ, gaussian2 (G2) and complete basis set (CBS) theoretical levels. The contributors to stabilization energies are explored by employing symmetry adapted perturbation theory analysis, natural bond orbital analysis in addition to molecular orbital methods. Electrostatic component is the major contributor toward stabilization energy in both the type of adducts involving (CH3)2S and (CH3)2O which has been assigned to secondary electrostatic interactions. The second important contributor to comparable stabilization energies in the two series is the repulsive Eexch component which is relatively higher in adducts of (CH3)2O because of the relatively longer proximity of the monomeric units arising from smaller size of oxygen.
Ten-year retrospective assessment of the performance of the Food Contact Notification (FCN) programme
Creators: name: Neal-Kluever, April
name: Cooper, Jessica
name: Zebovitz, Thomas C.
name: Butts, Kyla M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: The Food Contact Notification (FCN) programme was authorised by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) Modernization Act of 1997. Manufacturers may file FCNs for food contact substances (FCSs) not already authorised or pre-sanctioned by the USFDA by demonstrating a reasonable certainty of no harm for their intended uses. The Division of Food Contact Notifications (DFCN) 10-year Retrospective Assessment Group was formed to collect and develop metrics associated with the first decade of the FCN Programme and determine the extent selected aspects of the review process contributed to the effective FCN. Comparative analysis of 924 FCNs revealed that 76% become effective, 23% were withdrawn and 1% received a not accepted status. The focus of the Group was to identify factors impacting the likelihood of an FCN becoming effective.
Additional file 1 of Antigenic drift and immunity gap explain reduction in protective responses against influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study of human sera collected in 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Creators: name: Fossum, Even
name: Rohringer, Andreas
name: Aune, Torstein
name: Rydland, Kjersti Margrethe
name: Bragstad, Karoline
name: Hungnes, Olav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1: Percentage distribution of influenza A and B subtypes from seasons 2008/09 through 2022/23, and Figure S2: Phylogeny of A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) strain tested by HAI.
Forest carbon in Amazonia: the unrecognized contribution of indigenous territories and protected natural areas
Creators: name: Walker, Wayne
name: Baccini, Alessandro
name: Schwartzman, Stephan
name: Ríos, Sandra
name: Oliveira-Miranda, María A.
name: Cicero Augusto
name: Ruiz, Milton Romero
name: Arrasco, Carla Soria
name: Beto Ricardo
name: Smith, Richard
name: Meyer, Chris
name: Jintiach, Juan Carlos
name: Campos, Edwin Vasquez
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Carbon sequestration is a widely acknowledged and increasingly valued function of tropical forest ecosystems; however, until recently, the information needed to assess the carbon storage capacity of Amazonian indigenous territories (ITs) and protected natural areas (PNAs) in a global context remained either lacking or out of reach. Here, as part of a novel north–south collaboration among Amazonian indigenous and non-governmental organization (NGO) networks, scientists and policy experts, we show that the nine-nation network of nearly 3000 ITs and PNAs stores more carbon above ground than all of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia combined, and, despite the ostensibly secure status of these cornerstones of Amazon conservation, a conservative risk assessment considering only ongoing and planned development projects puts nearly 20% of this carbon at risk, encompassing an area of tropical forest larger than that found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru combined. International recognition of and renewed investment in these globally vital landscapes are therefore critical to ensuring their continued contribution to maintaining cultural identity, ecosystem integrity and climate stability.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of self-assessment instrument to measure the digital professionalism of healthcare professionals using social media
Creators: name: Imran, Shazia
name: Yasmeen, Rahila
name: Mansoor, Memoona
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix A. Feedback of experts for qualitative content validation in phase 1. Appendix B. Results of modified Delphi Round 1 in phase 2. Appendix C. Responses of experts during cognitive pre-testing during response process validation.
HPC-Europa3 - D2.2 - First Transnational Access summary report
Creators: name: Inglis, Catherine (UEDIN-EPCC)
Publisher: name: https://b2share.eudat.eu
Year: 2018
Subjects: Transnational Access
Research visits
HPC
Europe
H2020
HPCE3
HPC-Europa

description: This document is the first report on the HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access activity. It
covers the first reporting period (Months 1-18, i.e. 1 May 2017 – 31 October 2018). In this
report, we provide statistics relating to the number of applications received, users who were
given access, and computing time used. There is also information about the outreach and
dissemination activities, selection procedure, and the first HPC-Europa3 users’ group
meeting, the Transnational Access Meeting (TAM 2018).
Optimisation of isolation procedure for pyrrolizidine alkaloids from Rindera umbellata Bunge
Creators: name: Mandić, Boris M.
name: Vlajić, Marina D.
name: Snežana S. Trifunović
name: Simić, Milena R.
name: Vujisić, Ljubodrag V.
name: Vučković, Ivan M.
name: Novaković, Miroslav M.
name: Snežana D. Nikolić-Mandić
name: Vele V. Tešević
name: Vajs, Vlatka V.
name: Milosavljević, Slobodan M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Procedure for isolation of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) from Rindera umbellata Bunge plant species was optimised. Different extraction media (methanol, ethanol and sulphuric acid), concentration and volume of sulphuric acid, pH of PA solution for alkaline extraction, extraction time and techniques (maceration, ultrasonic and overhead rotary mixer assisted extraction) were investigated. The yields of six PAs (7-angeloyl heliotridane, 7-angeloyl heliotridine, lindelofine, 7-angeloyl rinderine, punctanecine and heliosupine) were monitored by GC–MS/FID. The best results for the isolation all of six PAs were obtained when the extraction was performed with 1 M sulphuric acid (30 mL per 1.00 g of dried sample) by overhead rotary mixer during three days. Optimal pH value for alkaline extraction of PAs with CH2Cl2 was 9, and the extraction should be performed with four portions of 30 mL of CH2Cl2. This procedure could be also useful for a plant sample preparation for GC and LC analyses of PAs.
Additional file 1 of Depressive symptoms and visual attention to others’ eyes in healthy individuals
Creators: name: Suslow, Thomas
name: Hoepfel, Dennis
name: Kersting, Anette
name: Bodenschatz, Charlott Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Leptopyrine, new alkaloid from Leptopyrum fumarioides L. (Ranunculaceae)
Creators: name: Tsvetelina Doncheva
name: Amgalan Solongo
name: Kostova, Nadezhda
name: Yadamsuren Gerelt-Od
name: Dangaa Selenge
name: Philipov, Stefan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A new type of isoquinoline alkaloid leptopyrine was isolated from the aerial parts of Leptopyrum fumarioides L. (Ranunculaceae) of Mongolian origin. The known alkaloids protopine and thalifoline were isolated for the first time from this the species. All structures were established by physical and spectral analyses.
HPC-Europa3 - D2.3 - First research projects directory
Creators: name: Testi, Debora (CINECA)
Publisher: name: https://b2share.eudat.eu
Year: 2018
Subjects: HPC
Transnational access
Research visits
Scientific report
Europe
HPCE3
H2020
HPC-Europa

description: This first document in a series which collects the scientific results of some of the research visits carried out in the first year of the HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access visitor programme.
The report clearly demonstrates the highly multidisciplinary nature of the programme as well as the relevant scientific results that the researchers achieve during their visits.
Exploring black hole mechanics in cotangent bundle geometries
Creators: name: Relancio, J. J.
name: Liberati, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical and continuum limit of a quantum gravitational setting could lead, at mesoscopic regimes, to a very different notion of geometry w.r.t. the pseudo-Riemannian one of special and general relativity. A possible way to characterize this modified space-time notion is by a momentum dependent metric, in such a way that particles with different energies could probe different spacetimes. Indeed, doubly special relativity theories, deforming the special relativistic kinematics while maintaining a relativity principle, have been understood within a geometrical context, by considering a curved momentum space. The extension of these momentum spaces to curved spacetimes and its possible phenomenological implications have been recently investigated. Following this line of research, we address here the first two laws of black holes thermodynamics in the context of a cotangent bundle metric, depending on both momentum and space-time coordinates, compatible with the relativistic deformed kinematics of doubly special relativity.
description: 12 pages
HPC-Europa3 - D12.1 - Container-as-a-service analysis report
Creators: name: Wilson, Niall (ICHEC)
Publisher: name: https://b2share.eudat.eu
Year: 2018
Subjects: HPC
Virtualization
Containers
Docker
Singularity
H2020
HPCE3
Europe
HPC-Europa

description: The main goal of this report is to evaluate the use of container technology in order to streamline the deployment of HPC end-user applications. Each application to be deployed typically has a number of dependencies in terms of supported versions of the OS, compilers and linked libraries, which make the maintenance of the different installations complex and error prone on typical HPC systems. The implementation of a lightweight virtualization strategy can strongly improve both the management of the HPC systems and the portability of end-user applications to different HPC centres. This report reviews the considerations necessary and the current status of some of the competing implementations and proposes a suitable architecture relevant to HPC environments.
BBBD: Bounding Box Based Detector for Occlusion Detection and Order Recovery
Creators: name: Saleh, Kaziwa
name: Vamossy, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.8

description: Occlusion handling is one of the challenges of object detection and segmentation, and scene understanding. Because objects appear differently when they are occluded in varying degree, angle, and locations. Therefore, determining the existence of occlusion between objects and their order in a scene is a fundamental requirement for semantic understanding. Existing works mostly use deep learning based models to retrieve the order of the instances in an image or for occlusion detection. This requires labelled occluded data and it is time consuming. In this paper, we propose a simpler and faster method that can perform both operations without any training and only requires the modal segmentation masks. For occlusion detection, instead of scanning the two objects entirely, we only focus on the intersected area between their bounding boxes. Similarly, we use the segmentation mask inside the same area to recover the depth-ordering. When tested on COCOA dataset, our method achieves +8% and +5% more accuracy than the baselines in order recovery and occlusion detection respectively.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
The significance of donor gender equality policies in natural resources management
Creators: name: Coe, Kristal Lara
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2008

description: Gender inequalities in education, environment, armed conflict, health and political representation can have devastating effects on economic and human growth. Formal mechanisms to safeguard the consideration of gender equality in development activities have been implemented on a global scale. Many International donor organisations developed their own gender and equality policies that impose conditions on Research and Development (R&D) agencies to consider gender in research projects. These conditions are commonly framed as Gender and Development policies. Ostensibly, these policies prompt R&D agencies to consider gender equality issues in all research projects. However, evaluating the extent to which donors influence R&D agencies to consider gender has proved difficult. The aim of the research was to identify factors in the transition of donor gender equality policies to NRM R&D research project implementation, which enable or constrain the consideration of gender issues in NRM research. The Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), an NRM R&D organisation that resides and undertakes research in developing countries, provided a case study for the research. On the basis of interviews with CIFOR key staff and content analysis of corporate and project documents, the research concluded that there was a well established awareness in CIFOR that gender equality is strongly advocated by most donor agencies. Furthermore, researchers were concerned about gender equality issues in their research. Thus, even if a donor agency advocating gender equality does not fund a project, the research is likely to consider gender. However, because consideration of gender is not fully institutionalised within CIFOR itself, the nature of the research question, researcher/s perspicacity on the institutional context of gender issues, and judgement on whether they are crucial to the research, will significantly influence the depth and breadth to which gender is considered.
Additional file 1 of Sulfonate derivatives bearing an amide unit: design, synthesis and biological activity studies
Creators: name: Liu, You-hua
name: Li, Chang-kun
name: Nie, Mao-yu
name: Wang, Fa-li
name: Ren, Xiao-li
name: Jin, Lin-hong
name: Zhou, Xia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Forest carbon in Amazonia: the unrecognized contribution of indigenous territories and protected natural areas
Creators: name: Walker, Wayne
name: Baccini, Alessandro
name: Schwartzman, Stephan
name: Ríos, Sandra
name: Oliveira-Miranda, María A.
name: Cicero Augusto
name: Ruiz, Milton Romero
name: Arrasco, Carla Soria
name: Beto Ricardo
name: Smith, Richard
name: Meyer, Chris
name: Jintiach, Juan Carlos
name: Campos, Edwin Vasquez
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Carbon sequestration is a widely acknowledged and increasingly valued function of tropical forest ecosystems; however, until recently, the information needed to assess the carbon storage capacity of Amazonian indigenous territories (ITs) and protected natural areas (PNAs) in a global context remained either lacking or out of reach. Here, as part of a novel north–south collaboration among Amazonian indigenous and non-governmental organization (NGO) networks, scientists and policy experts, we show that the nine-nation network of nearly 3000 ITs and PNAs stores more carbon above ground than all of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia combined, and, despite the ostensibly secure status of these cornerstones of Amazon conservation, a conservative risk assessment considering only ongoing and planned development projects puts nearly 20% of this carbon at risk, encompassing an area of tropical forest larger than that found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru combined. International recognition of and renewed investment in these globally vital landscapes are therefore critical to ensuring their continued contribution to maintaining cultural identity, ecosystem integrity and climate stability.