cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spin-induced dynamical scalarization, de-scalarization and stealthness in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity during black hole coalescence
Creators: name: Elley, Matthew
name: Silva, Hector O.
name: Witek, Helvi
name: Yunes, Nicolás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Particular couplings between a scalar field and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant lead to spontaneous scalarization of black holes. Here we continue our work on simulating this phenomenon in the context of binary black hole systems. We consider a negative coupling for which the black-hole spin plays a major role in the scalarization process. We find two main phenomena: (i) dynamical descalarization, in which initially scalarized black holes form an unscalarized remnant, and (ii) dynamical scalarization, whereby the late merger of initially unscalarized black holes can cause scalar hair to grow. An important consequence of the latter case is that modifications to the gravitational waveform due to the scalar field may only occur post-merger, as its presence is hidden during the entirety of the inspiral. However, with a sufficiently strong coupling, we find that scalarization can occur before the remnant has even formed. We close with a discussion of observational implications for gravitational-wave tests of general relativity.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
Population aging from 1950 to 2010 in seventeen transitional countries in the wider region of South Eastern Europe
Creators: name: Jakovljevic, Mihajlo
name: Laaser, Ulrich
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Aim: Population aging has profoundly reshaped demographic landscapes in all South Eastern European (SEE) countries. The aim of this study was to provide a thorough comparative inter-country assessment on the speed of population aging in the entire SEE region for the period 1950-2010. Methods: Descriptive observational analysis of long-term trends on core primary and composite indicators of population aging across seventeen countries of the wider SEE region, with panel data sets at a national level. Results: During the past six decades, the entire SEE region has experienced a rapid increase in the median age (from 25.2 years in 1950 to 37.9 years in 2010), with a simultaneous fall of fertility rates for two children per woman (from 3.55 children per each childbearing woman in 1950 to 1.49 in 2010), coupled with significant rise in the population of elderly citizens. The speed of population aging has vastly accelerated (with a 2.5 fold increase) over the past three decades. The percentage of individuals over 65 years has doubled from 7% in 1950 to 14% in 2010. Conclusion: Complex national strategies are needed to cope with the shrinking labour force coupled with the growing proportion of the older population. With all likelihood, population aging will further accelerate in the near future. This profound long-term demographic transition will threaten financial sustainability of current health systems in all SEE countries.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
Beta Function of k Deformed AdS_5 x S^5 String Theory
Creators: name: Appadu, Calan
name: Hollowood, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the one loop beta function for the would-be marginal coupling on the world sheet of the k deformed sigma models associated to a quantum group with q=exp(i pi/k). This includes the bosonic principal chiral models and symmetric space sigma models but also the k deformed semi-symmetric space sigma model describing strings in a deformation of AdS_5 x S^5. The world sheet sigma model is a current-current deformation of the gauged WZW model for the supergroup PSU(2,2|4) with level k. In the string theory context the beta function is shown to vanish because of the vanishing of the Killing form of PSU(2,2|4) which is another piece of evidence that the k deformed theories define consistent string theories.
description: 26 pages, some typos corrected
Cooper pairing and tripling in one-dimensional spinless fermions with attractive two- and three-body forces
Creators: name: Guo, Yixin
name: Tajima, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate in-medium three-body correlations in one-dimensional spinless fermions with antisymmetrized two- and three-body attractive interactions. By investigating the variational problem of three-body states above the Fermi sea, we illuminate the fate of the in-medium three-body cluster states both in the special case with pure attractive three-body interaction as well as in the case with the coexistence of two- and three-body interactions. Our results testify that the fermion-dimer repulsion is canceled by including the three-body interactions, and stable three-body clusters can be formed. We further feature a phase diagram consisting of the $p$-wave Cooper pairing and Cooper tripling phases in a plane of $p$-wave two- and three-body coupling strengths.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (2)]
Creators: name: Brepodius Bocacolus
name: Rosionus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1202
Subjects: subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Brepodius Bocacolus und Rosionus aus Lodi urteilen in einer Streitsache zwischen Guilelmus, presbyter der Kirche St. Andreae in Casanova di Morbasco und Johannes Bellinus de Cornu um einen Zehnt.
DatasetDM: Synthesizing Data with Perception Annotations Using Diffusion Models
Creators: name: Wu, Weijia
name: Zhao, Yuzhong
name: Chen, Hao
name: Gu, Yuchao
name: Zhao, Rui
name: He, Yefei
name: Zhou, Hong
name: Shou, Mike Zheng
name: Shen, Chunhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current deep networks are very data-hungry and benefit from training on largescale datasets, which are often time-consuming to collect and annotate. By contrast, synthetic data can be generated infinitely using generative models such as DALL-E and diffusion models, with minimal effort and cost. In this paper, we present DatasetDM, a generic dataset generation model that can produce diverse synthetic images and the corresponding high-quality perception annotations (e.g., segmentation masks, and depth). Our method builds upon the pre-trained diffusion model and extends text-guided image synthesis to perception data generation. We show that the rich latent code of the diffusion model can be effectively decoded as accurate perception annotations using a decoder module. Training the decoder only needs less than 1% (around 100 images) manually labeled images, enabling the generation of an infinitely large annotated dataset. Then these synthetic data can be used for training various perception models for downstream tasks. To showcase the power of the proposed approach, we generate datasets with rich dense pixel-wise labels for a wide range of downstream tasks, including semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and depth estimation. Notably, it achieves 1) state-of-the-art results on semantic segmentation and instance segmentation; 2) significantly more robust on domain generalization than using the real data alone; and state-of-the-art results in zero-shot segmentation setting; and 3) flexibility for efficient application and novel task composition (e.g., image editing). The project website and code can be found at https://weijiawu.github.io/DatasetDM_page/ and https://github.com/showlab/DatasetDM, respectively
Optimization of Biomass and Oil Production of Scenedesmus obliquus Grown in Photobioreactor
Creators: name: El-Baz, Farouk K.
name: Sayeda M. Abdo
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: Photobioreactor
Scenedesmus obliquus
Biomass
Dilution rate
Oil enhancement

description: EnvironmentAsia, 12, 1, 1 - 9
Multispecies TASEP and combinatorial $R$
Creators: name: Kuniba, Atsuo
name: Maruyama, Shouya
name: Okado, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81R50, 60C99

description: We identify the algorithm for constructing steady states of the $n$-species totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) on $L$ site periodic chain by Ferrari and Martin with a composition of combinatorial $R$ for the quantum affine algebra $U_q(\widehat{sl}_L)$ in crystal base theory. Based on this connection and the factorized form of the $R$ matrix derived recently from the tetrahedron equation, we establish a new matrix product formula for the steady state of the TASEP which is expressed in terms of corner transfer matrices of the $q$-oscillator valued five-vertex model at $q=0$.
description: 16 pages, minor corrections
Optimisation and Stabilisation of Cellulase and Xylanase Production by Beauveria bassiana
Creators: name: Wanida Petlamul
name: Sawai Boukaew
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: Beauveria bassiana
Cellulase
Optimisation
Stabilty
Xylanase

description: EnvironmentAsia, 12, 1, 10 -19
Painful Temporomandibular Disorder: Decade of Discovery from OPPERA Studies
Creators: name: Sanders,
name: Bair,
name: Meloto,
name: Smith,
name: Greenspan,
name: Slade,
name: Maixner,
name: Dubner, Ronald
name: Fillingim,
name: Dubner,
name: Diatchenko,
name: Ohrbach,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In 2006, the OPPERA project (Orofacial Pain: Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment) set out to identify risk factors for development of painful temporomandibular disorder (TMD). A decade later, this review summarizes its key findings. At 4 US study sites, OPPERA recruited and examined 3,258 community-based TMD-free adults assessing genetic and phenotypic measures of biological, psychosocial, clinical, and health status characteristics. During follow-up, 4% of participants per annum developed clinically verified TMD, although that was a “symptom iceberg” when compared with the 19% annual rate of facial pain symptoms. The most influential predictors of clinical TMD were simple checklists of comorbid health conditions and nonpainful orofacial symptoms. Self-reports of jaw parafunction were markedly stronger predictors than corresponding examiner assessments. The strongest psychosocial predictor was frequency of somatic symptoms, although not somatic reactivity. Pressure pain thresholds measured at cranial sites only weakly predicted incident TMD yet were strongly associated with chronic TMD, cross-sectionally, in OPPERA’s separate case-control study. The puzzle was resolved in OPPERA’s nested case-control study where repeated measures of pressure pain thresholds revealed fluctuation that coincided with TMD’s onset, persistence, and recovery but did not predict its incidence. The nested case-control study likewise furnished novel evidence that deteriorating sleep quality predicted TMD incidence. Three hundred genes were investigated, implicating 6 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as risk factors for chronic TMD, while another 6 SNPs were associated with intermediate phenotypes for TMD. One study identified a serotonergic pathway in which multiple SNPs influenced risk of chronic TMD. Two other studies investigating gene-environment interactions found that effects of stress on pain were modified by variation in the gene encoding catechol O-methyltransferase. Lessons learned from OPPERA have verified some implicated risk factors for TMD and refuted others, redirecting our thinking. Now it is time to apply those lessons to studies investigating treatment and prevention of TMD.
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (3 a)]
Creators: name: Jacopus
name: Matheus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1201
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Die Brüder Jacopus und Matheus, Söhne des verstorbenen Guido Gabbus, verkaufen Sicardus, Bischof von Cremona, ein Stück Land, gelegen in Braida Botera.
Geophagia: A cultural-nutrition health-seeking behaviour with no redeeming psycho-social qualities
Creators: name: Norman, Ishmael D.
name: Binka, Fred N.
name: Godi, Anthony H.
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Aim: We investigated if Geophagia is restricted to only pregnant and lactating women in Ghana. We also investigated if the key driver of Geophagia is poverty and other socio-cultural factors. Methods: This analysis was part of a broader national study of resilience among the population of Ghana (N=2,000). Regional comparisons were made possible due to the stratified and random selection of representations that were similar in characteristics such as being urban or rural, ethnicity, religion and gender. Results: It was found that Geophagia was present among both females and males and was not restricted to pregnant and lactating women. Geophagia was not driven by poverty or the lack of formal education or the presence of gainful employment. Geophagia was practiced by both urban and rural residents irrespective of religious proclivities and devotion. The assertion that Geophagia was an instinctive primordial response to gastro-intestinal disturbances was not sustained by the data in this study, although the literature review suggested such in calves and lambs. Conclusion: In order to address the potential health threats posed by Geophagia, the key cultural drivers need to be studied and understood. We also need to appreciate the shocks and stresses that create such desires. It is not a case of mental illness and it cannot be concluded that Geophagia is driven by a psychiatric disorder. This paper would be disseminated to inform policy in Ghana and beyond.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 2 (3 b)]
Creators: name: Jacopus
name: Martinus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1201
Subjects: subject: Sonstige weltliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Jacopus, Verkäufer eines Stückes Land an den Bischof, und Martinus de Ponco versichern auf Ersuchen des [Sicardus], Bischof von Cremona, die Verbindlichkeit des Verkaufs auch für die Erben des Jacopus und [seines Bruders] Matheus.
The U.S. educational effort in unsaturated zone hydrology
Creators: name: Davidson, James
name: Hornberger, George
name: Molz, Fred
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 1978
Subjects: STEM education

description: The region of the earth below the land surface and above the water-saturated zone plays a major role in determining the behavior of hydrologic systems. To help educators and other interested individuals evaluate and continue molding the U.S. educational effort in the hydrology of the unsaturated zone, the AGU Hydrology Section Committee on Water in the Unsaturated Zone conducted a study of the number and level of university educational programs involved in unsaturated zone hydrology. The basis for this report was the questionnaire shown here as Figure 1. A total of 189 questionnaires were sent to departments in schools of engineering, earth science, and agriculture. Nine of the 114 returns were rejected because of mistakes or duplication. The remaining 105 could be divided almost half and half into those from departments in schools of engineering and schools of earth science (58) and those from schools of agriculture (47).
Geodesic flows around charged black holes in two dimensions
Creators: name: Kuniyal, Ravi Shankar
name: Uniyal, Rashmi
name: Nandan, Hemwati
name: Zaidi, Alia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of timelike geodesics for two dimensional black hole spacetimes arising in string theory and general theory of relativity by solving the Raychaudhuri equation for expansion scalar as an initial value problem. The possibility of geodesic focusing/defocusing is then examined accordingly with different settings of black hole parameters. In view of the geodesic focusing/defocusing, the critical value of expansion scalar is also calculated in each case. The effect of the charge and the cosmological constant on the evolution of expansion scalar for timelike geodesics is discussed in detail.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Public health leadership competency level among health professionals in a South Eastern European country
Creators: name: Pampuri, Orjola
name: Czabanowska, Katarzyna
name: Hysa, Bajram
name: Roshi, Enver
name: Burazeri, Genc
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the current and the required leadership competency level of health professionals in Albania, employing a recently established international instrument. Methods: A nationwide cross-sectional study was conducted in Albania in July-December 2014 including a representative sample of 267 health professionals (162 men and 105 women; mean age: 44.7±10.3 years; overall response rate: 89%). A structured questionnaire was administered to all health professionals aiming at self-assessing the current level of leadership competencies and the required (desirable) level of leadership competencies for their current job position. The questionnaire included 52 items grouped into eight subscales/domains. Answers for each item of the tool ranged from 1 (“minimal competency level”) to 5 (“maximal competency level”). An overall summary score (range: 52-260) and a subscale summary score for each domain were calculated for both the current and the required leadership competency levels. Wilcoxon signed ranks test was employed to compare the overall scores and the subscale scores of the current and the required level of leadership competencies among health professionals. Results: Mean value of the overall summary score for the 52 items of the instrument was significantly lower for the current leadership competency level compared with the required leadership competency level (138.4±11.2 vs. 159.7±25.3, respectively; P<0.001). Most of the subscales’ scores were significantly higher for the required than for the current leadership competency level. Conclusion: Our study provides useful evidence about the current and the required level of leadership competencies among health professionals in transitional Albania. Findings of this study may help policymakers in Albania to identify the gap between the required and the current level of leadership competencies among health professionals. Furthermore, findings of this study should be expanded in the neighbouring countries of the South Eastern European region and beyond.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
Health seeking behaviour among caregivers of under-five children in Edo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Aigbokhaode, Adesuwa Q.
name: Isah, Essy C.
name: Isara, Alphonsus R.
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Aim: Timely and appropriate healthcare seeking behaviours if practiced by caregivers of under-five children can have a significant impact on child survival. This study assessed the knowledge of, and general health seeking practices among mothers of under-five children in Nigeria. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among caregivers of under-five children in Edo State, Nigeria, in 2013. A multi-staged sampling technique was used to recruit respondents. Data collection was done by means of a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire adapted from UNICEF/IMCI household baseline survey questionnaire. Results: A total of 370 caregivers (mean age: 31.1±5.9 years) participated in the study. Almost all of them were females 368 (99.5%), 234 (63.2%) had secondary education and 283 (76.5%) were in the unskilled social class. Over 70%, 76%, 72%, 76% and 82% of participants did not know that being unable to eat/drink, fast breathing, blood in stool and convulsion, respectively, were symptoms of a child not feeling well. The place of primary care of children by caregivers was at home 142 (38.4%), chemist shop 91 (24.6%) and health facility 80 (21.6%). Cost and long waiting time were major reasons for not seeking care in health facilities. Conclusion: This study showed poor health seeking practices among caregivers of under-five children in Edo State, Nigeria. There should be continuous education of caregivers on recognition of danger signs in children and the need to seek appropriate medical care in health facilities.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
Anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania
Creators: name: Harizi (Shemsi), Edlira
name: Rroji, Arben
name: Cekaj, Elton
name: Gabrani, Sazan
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Aim: The purpose of this study was twofold: i) in a case-control design, to determine the relationship between anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents; ii) to assess the association between anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and aneurisms among patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Methods: A case-control study was conducted in Albania in 2013-2014, including 100 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage and 100 controls (individuals without cerebrovascular accidents). Patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage underwent a CT angiography procedure, whereas individuals in the control group underwent a magnetic resonance angiography procedure. Binary logistic regression was used to assess the association between cerebrovascular accidents and the anatomical variations of the circle of Willis. Conversely, Fisher’s exact test was used to compare the prevalence of aneurisms between subarachnoid hemorrhage patients with and without anatomical variations of the circle of Willis. Results: Among patients, there were 22 (22%) cases with anatomical variations of the circle of Willis compared with 10 (10%) individuals in the control group (P=0.033). There was no evidence of a statistically significant difference in the types of the anatomical variations of the circle of Willis between patients and controls (P=0.402). In age- and-sex adjusted logistic regression models, there was evidence of a significant positive association between cerebrovascular accidents and the anatomical variations of the circle of Willis (OR=1.87, 95%CI=1.03-4.68, P=0.048). Within the patients’ group, of the 52 cases with aneurisms, there were 22 (42.3%) individuals with anatomical variations of the circle of Willis compared with no individuals with anatomical variations among the 48 patients without aneurisms (P<0.001). Conclusion: This study provides useful evidence on the association between anatomical variations of the circle of Willis and cerebrovascular accidents in transitional Albania. Furthermore, findings from this study confirm the role of the anatomical variations of the circle of Willis in the occurrence of cerebral aneurisms.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
A perfect fluid hydrodynamic picture of domain wall velocities at strong coupling
Creators: name: Janik, Romuald A.
name: Jarvinen, Matti
name: Soltanpanahi, Hesam
name: Sonnenschein, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that for a range of strongly coupled theories with a first order phase transition, the domain wall or bubble velocity can be expressed in a simple way in terms of a perfect fluid hydrodynamic formula, and thus in terms of the equation of state. We test the predictions for the domain wall velocities using the gauge/gravity duality.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
The South Eastern Europe Health Network: A model for regional collaboration in public health
Creators: name: Ruseva, Maria
name: Chichevalieva, Snezhana
name: Harris, Meggan
name: Kostova, Neda Milevska
name: Jakubowski, Elke
name: Kluge, Hans
name: Martin-Moreno, Jose M.
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Inter-country alliances, articulated through regional approaches, have increasingly been used to drive economic development and social progress in the past several decades. The South Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) stands out among these types of initiatives for the tangible improvements it has achieved in regional governance for health, with several important lessons for public health leaders worldwide. This review paper, written by several key participants in SEEHN operation, follows the main milestones in network development, including its foundation under the Stability Pact’s Initiative for Social Cohesion and the three ministerial forums that have shaped its evolution, in order to show how it can constitute a model for regional collaboration in public health. Herewith we summarise the main accomplishments of the network and highlight the keys to its success, drawing lessons that both international bodies and other regions may use in their own design of collaborative initiatives in health and in other areas of public policy.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
Ultra Dual-Path Compression For Joint Echo Cancellation And Noise Suppression
Creators: name: Chen, Hangting
name: Yu, Jianwei
name: Luo, Yi
name: Gu, Rongzhi
name: Li, Weihua
name: Lu, Zhuocheng
name: Weng, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Echo cancellation and noise reduction are essential for full-duplex communication, yet most existing neural networks have high computational costs and are inflexible in tuning model complexity. In this paper, we introduce time-frequency dual-path compression to achieve a wide range of compression ratios on computational cost. Specifically, for frequency compression, trainable filters are used to replace manually designed filters for dimension reduction. For time compression, only using frame skipped prediction causes large performance degradation, which can be alleviated by a post-processing network with full sequence modeling. We have found that under fixed compression ratios, dual-path compression combining both the time and frequency methods will give further performance improvement, covering compression ratios from 4x to 32x with little model size change. Moreover, the proposed models show competitive performance compared with fast FullSubNet and DeepFilterNet.
description: Proceedings of INTERSPEECH
The history of European public health education accreditation in perspective
Creators: name: Goodman, Julien D.
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Aim: The aim of this paper is to investigate the history of accreditation of academic public health education and understand why there is a 65 year gap between the first system in America and the uptake of accreditation in Europe. The paper intends to search for parallels and dissimilarities between the development in America and Europe and then consider if any parallels could be used for determining the future role of accreditation in Europe. Methods: The paper draws heavily upon a literature review and analysis and the examination and interpretation of primary and secondary sources. Firstly there is an exploration of the American development which is complemented by an evaluation of the developments in Europe. Results: The paper demonstrates that there are two key features required for the development of accreditation: interstate collaboration and a liberalisation or opening up of the education market. Conclusions: Since the Second World War, Europe has embraced interstate collaboration which has led to a liberalisation of certain economic markets. The future for sector based accreditation of public health education will be determined by the extent Europe pursues liberalisation and whether a competitive environment will bring into question the transparency and trust in state sponsored accreditation agencies.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
Bioethanol Production from an Agrowaste, Deoiled Rice Bran by Saccharomyces cerevisiae MTCC 4780 via Optimization of Fermentation Parameters
Creators: name: Agrawal, Tripti
name: Shailesh Kumar Jadhav
name: Afaque Quraishi
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agro waste
Biofuel
Biomass
Fermentation
Deoiled rice bran

description: EnvironmentAsia, 12, 1, 20-24
Magma-facilitated transpressional strain partitioning within the Sawtooth metamorphic complex, Idaho: A zone accommodating Cretaceous orogen-parallel translation in the Idaho batholith
Creators: name: Ma, Chong
name: Foster, David A.
name: Mueller, Paul A.
name: Dutrow, Barbara L.
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sawtooth metamorphic complex
western Idaho shear zone
transpression
strain partitioning
Cordillera

description: Structural data from metasedimentary rocks and geochronologic data from intrusive rocks in the Idaho batholith provide evidence for the relationship between deformation and magmatism in the northern U.S. Cordillera. The Sawtooth metamorphic complex (SMC), Idaho, is exposed as an inlier in the central Idaho batholith and contains strongly deformed metasedimentary and intrusive rocks. Geologic mapping reveals north-south-striking, alternating contraction- and shear-dominated domains across strike. The contraction-dominated domains consist of centimeter- to tens of meter-scale, shallowly to steeply plunging upright folds with subhorizontal lineations. The shear-dominated domains are characterized by highly strained subvertical foliations, subhorizontal lineations, and syntectonic intrusive sheets. Pervasive S-C structures, winged porphyroclasts, and asymmetric folds indicate dextral strike-slip shearing. The fabrics in the two types of domains are structurally compatible and are interpreted to be broadly synchronous. This work suggests that the SMC structures represent a wrench-dominated transpressional zone, in which the regional strain partitioned into the contraction- and shear-dominated domains and the partitioning was facilitated by emplacement of syntectonic magmas. Zircon U-Pb data of the syntectonic intrusions indicate that the SMC transpressional deformation occurred mainly between ca. 95-92Ma and ca. 84Ma and had ended by ca. 77Ma. The transpressional deformation in the SMC and the western Idaho shear zone (WISZ) were kinematically compatible and partially coeval. This suggests that the SMC and WISZ represent a regional transpression system and that crustal deformation inboard of the continental margin may have contributed to the northward orogen-parallel translation of accreted terranes during the Late Cretaceous.
Mechanical Properties of Environment-Friendly Sugar Palm Fibre Reinforced Vinyl Ester Composites at Different Fibre Arrangements
Creators: name: Ishak Muhammad Ammar
name: Mohd Roslim Muhammad Huzaifah
name: Salit Mohd Sapuan
name: Zulkiflle Leman
name: Ishak, Mohamad Ridzwan
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: Fibre arrangements
Vinyl ester
Sugar palm
Mechanical properties
Natural fibrecomposites

description: EnvironmentAsia, 12, 1, 25-35
Characteristics of Concrete Bricks After Partially Substituting Portland Cement Type 1 with Cement and Seashell Waste and Partially Substituting Sand with Glass Waste
Creators: name: Punthama, Chanya
name: Nuta Supakata
name: Vorapot Kanokkantapong
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: Concrete bricks
Cement waste
Seashell waste
Glass waste

description: EnvironmentAsia, 12, 1, 36-48
Predicting Dental Caries Outcomes in Children: A “Risky” Concept
Creators: name: Divaris,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In recent years, unprecedented gains in the understanding of the biology and mechanisms underlying human health and disease have been made. In the domain of oral health, although much remains to be learned, the complex interactions between different systems in play have begun to unravel: host genome, oral microbiome with its transcriptome, proteome and metabolome, and more distal influences, including relevant behaviors and environmental exposures. A reasonable expectation is that this emerging body of knowledge can help improve the oral health and optimize care for individuals and populations. These goals are articulated by the National Institutes of Health as “precision medicine” and the elimination of health disparities. Key processes in these efforts are the discovery of causal factors or mechanistic pathways and the identification of individuals or population segments that are most likely to develop (any or severe forms of) oral disease. This article critically reviews the fundamental concepts of risk assessment and outcome prediction, as they relate to early childhood caries (ECC)—a common complex disease with significant negative impacts on children, their families, and the health system. The article highlights recent work and advances in methods available to estimate caries risk and derive person-level caries propensities. It further discusses the reasons for their limited utility in predicting individual ECC outcomes and informing clinical decision making. Critical issues identified include the misconception of defining dental caries as a tooth or surface-level condition versus a person-level disease; the fallacy of applying population-level parameters to individuals, termed privatization of risk; and the inadequacy of using frequentist versus Bayesian modeling approaches to derive individual disease propensity estimates. The article concludes with the notion that accurate caries risk assessment at the population level and “precision dentistry” at the person level are both desirable and achievable but must be based on high-quality longitudinal data and rigorous methodology.
Code Comparison for Fast Flavor Instability Simulation
Creators: name: Richers, Sherwood
name: Duan, Huaiyu
name: Wu, Meng-Ru
name: Bhattacharyya, Soumya
name: Zaizen, Masamichi
name: George, Manu
name: Lin, Chun-Yu
name: Xiong, Zewei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fast flavor instability (FFI) is expected to be ubiquitous in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. It rapidly shuffles neutrino flavor in a way that could impact the explosion mechanism, neutrino signals, mass outflows, and nucleosynthesis. The variety of initial conditions and simulation methods employed in simulations of the FFI prevent an apples-to-apples comparison of the results. We simulate a standardized test problem using five independent codes and verify that they are all faithfully simulating the underlying quantum kinetic equations under the assumptions of axial symmetry and homogeneity in two directions. We quantify the amount of numerical error in each method and demonstrate that each method is superior in at least one metric of this error. We make the results publicly available to serve as a benchmark.
description: Accepted to PRD
The Maastricht Treaty 1992: Taking stock of the past and looking at future perspectives
Creators: name: Stein, Hans
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: Aim: The article contains a personal view of the history as well as the future of the European Union‟s (EU) health policy. Describing and evaluating the developments on the road from the Treaty of Maastricht to a new Europe it asks and tries to answer the question if weespecially the EU Member States – really know where we want to go to and how to get there. Method: Based on personal experiences, countless EU documents, as well as scientific publications the paper shows the impact EU Health policy has had in the Member States in the past. Historical development: Considering that the legal basis for health has been and remains to be very weak limiting EU action to support, coordinate, and supplement actions of Member States – which, as a rule, still consider health to be first and foremost a national responsibility and therefore do not want interference from international institutions – the amount and content of EU health activities in the past years has been quite remarkable. Health policy may not be an EU priority and as a crosscutting policy sector it is dominated by many other EU policies. However, especially the “hard law” regulations and directives of the Internal Market give EU the power and competence to achieve health objectives. The size of this growing influence is shown by direct interventions, made possible by the legal acts to improve economic policy coordination. Health and health care in this context are considered as a key policy area for economic growth and EU macroeconomic policy. On the other hand, there isrisk that such regulations affecting health policy and population health may be dominated too much by economic institutions and their interests, whereas health authorities play onlyminor role to date. Conclusion: For the future of EU health policy it is essential that its position is considerably strengthened, in order to assure that health interests of the EU population are sufficiently safeguarded.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
Eccentric Jupiters via Disk-Planet Interactions
Creators: name: Duffell, Paul C.
name: Chiang, Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical hydrodynamics calculations are performed to determine conditions under which giant planet eccentricities can be excited by parent gas disks. Unlike in other studies, Jupiter-mass planets are found to have their eccentricities amplified --- provided their orbits start eccentric. We disentangle the web of co-rotation, co-orbital, and external resonances to show that this finite-amplitude instability is consistent with that predicted analytically. Ellipticities can grow until they reach of order the disk's aspect ratio, beyond which the external Lindblad resonances that excite eccentricity are weakened by the planet's increasingly supersonic epicyclic motion. Forcing the planet to still larger eccentricities causes catastrophic eccentricity damping as the planet collides into gap walls. For standard parameters, the range of eccentricities for instability is modest; the threshold eccentricity for growth ($\sim$$0.04$) is not much smaller than the final eccentricity to which orbits grow ($\sim$$0.07$). If this threshold eccentricity can be lowered (perhaps by non-barotropic effects), and if the eccentricity driving documented here survives in 3D, it may robustly explain the low-to-moderate eccentricities $\lesssim 0.1$ exhibited by many giant planets (including Jupiter and Saturn), especially those without planetary or stellar companions.
description: Accepted to ApJ with added references and minor revisions
The rise and fall of the “Massively Open Online Courses”
Creators: name: Laaser, Wolfram
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2015

description: The paper summarizes the actual debate about “massive open online courses” (MOOC), a concept that swept over like a “Tsunami” to European educators and universities since its first development in 2008. The definition of the so-called MOOCs, also referred to as a “disruptive educational innovation”, however, is not very precise and has led to some irritations and scepticism. Therefore, the ideas MOOCs rely on, will be described and the pedagogical and technological background will be explained by detailed descriptions of concrete examples. After setting the scene, the factors responsible for the initial hype about MOOCs will be analyzed as well as the upcoming criticism raised against the arguments of the MOOC proponents. The model of the Gartner hype cycle serves as a useful illustration of the ups and downs of expectations related to the introduction of educational innovations. The discussion will be supplemented by a brief flash back on prior developments in distance education. Furthermore, some recent empirical data retrieved from Google Trends are presented to underline that MOOCs are already on the descent. Finally, the conditions for a survival of some specific applications of MOOCs at “the plateau of the cycle of expectations” will be outlined. In conclusion, MOOCs seem to have promoted, especially in the US, the use of online teaching and learning as well as the reflection about open educational resources. However, the blurred definition of the term MOOC combined with exaggerated expectations turned down the initial hype about a “disruptive innovative concept of teaching and learning” to a more modest consideration of its potential.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume III, 2015
The Natural TeV Cutoff of the Higgs Field from the Multiplicative Lagrangian
Creators: name: Supanyo, Suppanat
name: Tanasittikosol, Monsit
name: Yoo-Kong, Sikarin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The various types of the non-standard Lagrangian can be added to the standard Lagrangian with the invariant of the equation of motion in the low energy limit. In this paper, we construct the multiplicative Lagrangian of a complex scalar field giving the approximated Klein-Gordon equation from the inverse problem of the calculus of variation. Then, this multiplicative Lagrangian with arbitrary high cutoff is applied to the toy model of the Higgs mechanism in U(1)-gauge symmetry in order to study the simple effects in the Higgs physics. We show that, after spontaneous symmetry breaking happens, the Higgs vev is free from the Fermi-coupling constant and the Higgs field gets the natural cutoff in TeV scale. The other relevant coupling constants, the UV-sensitivity of Higgs mass due to the loop correction, some applications on the strong CP problem as well as anomalous small fermion mass, and the cosmological constant problem are also discussed.
Proceedings Second International Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment
Creators: name: Dubois, Catherine
name: Masci, Paolo
name: Méry, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This volume contains the proceedings of F-IDE 2015, the second international workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment, which was held as an FM 2015 satellite event, on June 22, 2015, in Oslo (Norway). High levels of safety, security and also privacy standards require the use of formal methods to specify and develop compliant software (sub)systems. Any standard comes with an assessment process, which requires a complete documentation of the application in order to ease the justification of design choices and the review of code and proofs. Thus tools are needed for handling specifications, program constructs and verification artifacts. The aim of the F-IDE workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research efforts as well as experience returns on design, development and usage of formal IDE aiming at making formal methods "easier" for both specialists and non-specialists.
Stroke-based Neural Painting and Stylization with Dynamically Predicted Painting Region
Creators: name: Hu, Teng
name: Yi, Ran
name: Zhu, Haokun
name: Liu, Liang
name: Peng, Jinlong
name: Wang, Yabiao
name: Wang, Chengjie
name: Ma, Lizhuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stroke-based rendering aims to recreate an image with a set of strokes. Most existing methods render complex images using an uniform-block-dividing strategy, which leads to boundary inconsistency artifacts. To solve the problem, we propose Compositional Neural Painter, a novel stroke-based rendering framework which dynamically predicts the next painting region based on the current canvas, instead of dividing the image plane uniformly into painting regions. We start from an empty canvas and divide the painting process into several steps. At each step, a compositor network trained with a phasic RL strategy first predicts the next painting region, then a painter network trained with a WGAN discriminator predicts stroke parameters, and a stroke renderer paints the strokes onto the painting region of the current canvas. Moreover, we extend our method to stroke-based style transfer with a novel differentiable distance transform loss, which helps preserve the structure of the input image during stroke-based stylization. Extensive experiments show our model outperforms the existing models in both stroke-based neural painting and stroke-based stylization. Code is available at https://github.com/sjtuplayer/Compositional_Neural_Painter
description: ACM MM 2023