cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An investigation of the consistency of the Language Abilities Test both cross-sectionally and longitudinally
Creators: name: Heggart, Peter.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A New Parallel Algorithm for Two-Pass Connected Component Labeling
Creators: name: Gupta, Siddharth
name: Palsetia, Diana
name: Patwary, Md. Mostofa Ali
name: Agrawal, Ankit
name: Choudhary, Alok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Connected Component Labeling (CCL) is an important step in pattern recognition and image processing. It assigns labels to the pixels such that adjacent pixels sharing the same features are assigned the same label. Typically, CCL requires several passes over the data. We focus on two-pass technique where each pixel is given a provisional label in the first pass whereas an actual label is assigned in the second pass. We present a scalable parallel two-pass CCL algorithm, called PAREMSP, which employs a scan strategy and the best union-find technique called REMSP, which uses REM's algorithm for storing label equivalence information of pixels in a 2-D image. In the first pass, we divide the image among threads and each thread runs the scan phase along with REMSP simultaneously. In the second phase, we assign the final labels to the pixels. As REMSP is easily parallelizable, we use the parallel version of REMSP for merging the pixels on the boundary. Our experiments show the scalability of PAREMSP achieving speedups up to $20.1$ using $24$ cores on shared memory architecture using OpenMP for an image of size $465.20$ MB. We find that our proposed parallel algorithm achieves linear scaling for a large resolution fixed problem size as the number of processing elements are increased. Additionally, the parallel algorithm does not make use of any hardware specific routines, and thus is highly portable.
description: Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), 2014
Additional file 10 of Identification and characterization of sugar-regulated promoters in Chaetomium thermophilum
Creators: name: Reislöhner, Sven
name: Schermann, Geza
name: Kilian, Max
name: Santamaría-Muñoz, Daniela
name: Zimmerli, Christian
name: Kellner, Nikola
name: Baßler, Jochen
name: Brunner, Michael
name: Hurt, Ed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10. Supplementary Figure 10. unprocessed data related to Supplementary Figure 5.
Ultra-Low Power Active Integrated Antenna using Tunnel Diode for Tracking Application.
Creators: name: Raisi, Pejman
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Modern tracking systems require the combination of transmitters and antenna parts into a compact and single package to minimize dimensions. In order to have a stable and efficient platform, each component should be designed with high accuracy to be compatible in the required frequency bandwidth. Today, designing small tracking systems is a big challenge in commercial navigation systems. These systems can be used to help shop store managers to increase safety. Moreover, RFID systems can be used for rescue and cellular operator applications to find unknown targets. All of these systems need special antennas and transmitters and the antennas and active parts should have low profile, wideband to cover most of the RF frequency bands (HF, VHF, UHF and S bands) and the capability to send enough RF power. Most targets and receivers do not have enough space for their antennas and RF active circuits; therefore the primary challenge for transceiver designers is proposing small antennas and active blocks. Most tracking systems typically operate in the UHF band where microstrip antennas are good candidates to be used for portable applications (9). A good candidate is the bow tie microstrip antenna. A bow tie antennas can be fed by coaxial connectors, balanced microstrip lines or unbalanced microstrip lines (10; 11; 12; 13). The best method is using a balanced line to prevent having the balun to minimize overall size and RF loss. The primary challenge of using tow tie antennas is their size at low frequencies (UHF band). Therefore, we need to design a smaller size antenna with a matching circuit. The matching circuit should compensate capacitive behavior of the antenna at the lower antenna resonant frequency.
Nycteris gambiensis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris gambiensis

description: Nycteris gambiensis (K. Andersen, 1912). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 10:548. TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal, Dialakoto. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal; Guinea; Sierra Leone; Ghana; Gambia; Togo; Upper Volta; Benin. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405005001003001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 134, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
The Effects of Rumination and Relaxation on Flexibility during Cognitive Restructuring
Creators: name: Stevens, Elizabeth Sara
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Depressive rumination is elevated among both individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) and those with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and is associated with inflexible cognitive and emotional processes. Several characteristics of rumination-related thought may contribute to its nonadaptive consequences as well as to the comorbidity between MDD and GAD, including its negatively valenced content, abstract level of construal, and passive approach to problem solving. Psychotherapies for MDD (e.g., cognitive therapy, relaxation) promote flexible responding to negative events, perhaps by altering these characteristics. We examined whether rumination inhibits or relaxation enhances flexibility during a cognitive restructuring exercise. Participants (n = 198) were randomly assigned to rumination, relaxation, or neutral thinking prior to generating alternative interpretations for their topics of depressive rumination. We examined the number and believability of alternative interpretations, as well as the valence, level of construal, and passive agency of interpretations. Relaxation did not enhance cognitive flexibility. Compared to relaxation and neutral thinking, rumination led to more concrete interpretations among individuals with minimal symptoms of GAD, but maintained levels of abstractness (versus concreteness) among individuals with elevated symptoms of GAD. In the absence of MDD, individuals with elevated versus minimal symptoms of GAD also generated more passive alternative interpretations. These findings suggest that individuals with GAD inflexibly engage in nonadaptive thought processes during and following rumination that may contribute to the maintenance of rumination and symptoms.
Magnetic Field Amplification During the Common Envelope Phase
Creators: name: Ohlmann, Sebastian T.
name: Roepke, Friedrich K.
name: Pakmor, Ruediger
name: Springel, Volker
name: Mueller, Ewald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the common envelope (CE) phase, a giant star in a binary system overflows its Roche lobe and unstable mass transfer leads to a spiral-in of the companion, resulting in a close binary system or in a merger of the stellar cores. Dynamo processes during the CE phase have been proposed as a mechanism to generate magnetic fields that are important for forming magnetic white dwarfs (MWDs) and for shaping planetary nebulae. Here, we present the first magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the dynamical spiral-in during a CE phase. We find that magnetic fields are strongly amplified in the accretion stream around the $1M_\odot$ companion as it spirals into the envelope of a $2M_\odot$ RG. This leads to field strengths of 10 to 100 kG throughout the envelope after 120 d. The magnetic field amplification is consistent with being driven by the magnetorotational instability. The field strengths reached in our simulation make the magnetic field interesting for diagnostic purposes, but they are dynamically irrelevant. They are also too small to explain the formation of the highest fields found in MWDs, but may be relevant for luminous red novae, and detecting magnetic fields in these events would support the scenario as proposed here.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Nonlinear Response of Bilayer Graphene at Terahertz Frequencies
Creators: name: McGouran, Riley
name: Al-Naib, Ibraheem
name: Dignam, Marc M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A density-matrix formalism within the length gauge is developed for the purpose of calculating the nonlinear response of intrinsic bilayer graphene at terahertz frequencies. Employing a tight-binding model, we find that interplay between the interband and intraband dynamics leads to strong harmonic generation at moderate field amplitudes. Specifically, we find that at low temperature (10 K), the reflected field of undoped suspended bilayer graphene exhibits a third harmonic amplitude that is 30% of the fundamental in the reflected field for an incident 1 THz single-cycle pulse with a field amplitude of 1.5 kV/cm. More interestingly, we find that as the central frequency of the incident radiation is increased, the third harmonic amplitude also increases; reaching a maximum of 53% for an incident frequency of 2 THz and amplitude of 2.5 kV/cm.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Interpreting the evolution of galaxy colours from $z = 8$ to $z = 5$
Creators: name: Mancini, Mattia
name: Schneider, Raffaella
name: Graziani, Luca
name: Valiante, Rosa
name: Dayal, Pratika
name: Maio, Umberto
name: Ciardi, Benedetta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We attempt to interpret existing data on the evolution of the UV luminosity function and UV colours, $β$, of galaxies at $5 \leq z \leq 8$, to improve our understanding of their dust content and ISM properties. To this aim, we post-process the results of a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation with a chemical evolution model, which includes dust formation by supernovae and intermediate mass stars, dust destruction in supernova shocks, and grain growth by accretion of gas-phase elements in dense gas. We find that observations require a steep, Small Magellanic Cloud-like extinction curve and a clumpy dust distribution, where stellar populations younger than 15 Myr are still embedded in their dusty natal clouds. Investigating the scatter in the colour distribution and stellar mass, we find that the observed trends can be explained by the presence of two populations: younger, less massive galaxies where dust enrichment is mainly due to stellar sources, and massive, more chemically evolved ones, where efficient grain growth provides the dominant contribution to the total dust mass. Computing the IR-excess - UV color relation we find that all but the dustiest model galaxies follow a relation shallower than the Meurer et al. (1999) one, usually adopted to correct the observed UV luminosities of high-$z$ galaxies for the effects of dust extinction. As a result, their total star formation rates might have been over-estimated. Our study illustrates the importance to incorporate a proper treatment of dust in simulations of high-$z$ galaxies, and that massive, dusty, UV-faint galaxies might have already appeared at $z \lesssim 7$.
description: accepted in MNRAS
Reconstruction of the phonon relaxation times using solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation
Creators: name: Forghani, Mojtaba
name: Hadjiconstantinou, Nicolas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for reconstructing the phonon relaxation time distribution $τ_ω= τ(ω)$ (including polarization) in a material from thermal spectroscopy data. The distinguishing feature of this approach is that it does not make use of the effective thermal conductivity concept and associated approximations. The reconstruction is posed as an optimization problem in which the relaxation times $τ_ω= τ(ω)$ are determined by minimizing the discrepancy between the experimental relaxation traces and solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for the same problem. The latter may be analytical, in which case the procedure is very efficient, or numerical. The proposed method is illustrated using Monte Carlo solutions of thermal grating relaxation as synthetic experimental data. The reconstruction is shown to agree very well with the relaxation times used to generate the synthetic Monte Carlo data and remains robust in the presence of uncertainty (noise).
The effects of colonialism upon education in Poland : a study of educational movements in Poland in the light of political changes from the late 1800's to the educational reform of 1932
Creators: name: Gawronski, Andrew Rawita.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Support Points of Locally Optimal Designs for Multinomial Logistic Regression Models
Creators: name: Shuai Hao
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: While multinomial logistic models have been widely applied in practice, the research on design selection has not kept pace. The complication in studying optimal/efficient designs for multinomial logistic models is the complicated structure of information matrices due to the model complexity and existence of many variants. A critical step in deriving optimal/efficient designs is to determine the number of support points needed. In this paper, we systematically characterize the optimal designs through the complete class framework. The results hold for any optimal designs, regardless of optimality criterion chosen, parameters of interest, one-stage or multi-stage designs. It provides insight in the structure of optimal designs for multinomial logistic models from theoretical perspective and makes the follow-up derivation much easier.
Equilibration, maturation and learning theories applied to classification ability
Creators: name: Davey, Marc C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Additional file 1 of Evaluation of the proper use of medication available over the counter by subsistence and emerging farmers in Mbombela Municipality, South Africa
Creators: name: Gulwako, M. S.
name: Mokoele, J. M.
name: Ngoshe, Y. B.
name: Naidoo, V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
Low Radio Frequency Observations and Spectral Modelling of the Remnant of Supernova 1987A
Creators: name: Callingham, J. R.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Zanardo, G.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Hancock, P. J.
name: Hurley-Walker, N.
name: Bell, M. E.
name: Dwarakanath, K. S.
name: Franzen, T. M. O.
name: Hindson, L.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Kapinska, A.
name: For, B. Q.
name: Lenc, E.
name: McKingley, B.
name: Offringa, A. R.
name: Procopio, P.
name: Wayth, R. B.
name: Wu, C.
name: Zheng, Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Murchison Widefield Array observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) 1987A between 72 and 230 MHz, representing the lowest frequency observations of the source to date. This large lever arm in frequency space constrains the properties of the circumstellar medium created by the progenitor of SNR 1987A when it was in its red supergiant phase. As of late-2013, the radio spectrum of SNR 1987A between 72 MHz and 8.64 GHz does not show any deviation from a non-thermal power-law with a spectral index of $-0.74 \pm 0.02$. This spectral index is consistent with that derived at higher frequencies, beneath 100 GHz, and with a shock in its adiabatic phase. A spectral turnover due to free-free absorption by the circumstellar medium has to occur below 72 MHz, which places upper limits on the optical depth of $\leq$ 0.1 at a reference frequency of 72 MHz, emission measure of $\lesssim$ 13,000 cm$^{-6}$ pc, and an electron density of $\lesssim$ 110 cm$^{-3}$. This upper limit on the electron density is consistent with the detection of prompt radio emission and models of the X-ray emission from the supernova. The electron density upper limit implies that some hydrodynamic simulations derived a red supergiant mass loss rate that is too high, or a wind velocity that is too low. The mass loss rate of $\sim 5 \times 10^{-6}$ $M_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$ and wind velocity of 10 km s$^{-1}$ obtained from optical observations are consistent with our upper limits, predicting a current turnover frequency due to free-free absorption between 5 and 60 MHz.
description: 9 pages, accepted by MNRAS
Nycteris grandis Peters 1865
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris grandis

description: Nycteris grandis Peters, 1865. Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 358. TYPE LOCALITY: " Guinea ". DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Zaire to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique; Zanzibar; Pemba. Possibly Namibia. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405005001004001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 134, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Transforming Classroom Discourse: A Multi-Layered Multimodal Exploration of Student Discourse Negotiation
Creators: name: Allen, Adrian L
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Perceived power relationships and positioning in different spaces affect the way that people contribute to the development of community practices related to doing, communicating, and making meaning with one another, referred to as ‘discourse’ here. Whether or not discourse is explicitly made ‘negotiable’ in the classroom, students and teachers alike negotiate a discourse through their choices to accept, reject, transform, or resist each other’s efforts at making meaning in the classroom space. In an attempt to more thoroughly explore the discursive ‘moves’ that students make as they negotiate for the authority to transform classroom discourse, several different mediational ‘layers’ emerged for students across three different moments of negotiation in three separate classrooms: verbal language, interaction with classroom objects, and movement through time and space. Most traditional studies of discourse tend to privilege verbal language, but if we dive deeper beyond what is explicitly said, which tends to foreground the authoritative voice of the teacher, the dynamism of these transformations and the students’ agency in these moments are more readily revealed. This dissertation makes a methodological argument about discourse analysis, decisions about transcription in particular, and presents several examples of multimodal transcriptions which foreground student agency, along with some recommendations for how this approach to analyzing multimodal discourse might be useful for teachers and researchers alike.
Low-Density Parity-Check Code Design for the AWGN Channel with Additive Radar Interference
Creators: name: Brunero, Federico
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis considers the problem of code design for a channel where communications and radar systems coexist, modeled as having both Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and Additive Radar Interference (ARI). The question of how to adapt or re-design convolutional codes (decoded by the Viterbi algorithm) and LDPC codes (decoded by the sum-product algorithm and optimized by using the EXIT chart method) to effectively handle the overall non-Gaussian ARI noise is investigated. Interestingly, it is found that codes optimized for AWGN-only noise and decoded using a decoding metric that accounts for both the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the useful signal and the Interference-to-Noise Ratio (INR) of the radar signal is only slightly outperformed by codes that are optimized for the AWGN+ARI channel.
Nycteris hispida
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris hispida

description: Nycteris hispida (Schreber, 1775). Saugethiere, 1:169, 188. TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Somalia to Angola and South Africa; Zanzibar; Bioko. COMMENT: Includes aurita; see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:377, 378. Includes pallida; see Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2: 18. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405005001005001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 134, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.", "Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
Quantum oscillations without magnetic field
Creators: name: Liu, Tianyu
name: Pikulin, D. I.
name: Franz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When magnetic field $B$ is applied to a metal, nearly all observable quantities exhibit oscillations periodic in $1/B$. Such quantum oscillations reflect the fundamental reorganization of electron states into Landau levels as a canonical response of the metal to the applied magnetic field. We predict here that, remarkably, in the recently discovered Dirac and Weyl semimetals quantum oscillations can occur in the complete absence of magnetic field. These zero-field quantum oscillations are driven by elastic strain which, in the space of the low-energy Dirac fermions, acts as a chiral gauge potential. We propose an experimental setup in which the strain in a thin film (or nanowire) can generate pseudomagnetic field $b$ as large as 15T and demonstrate the resulting de Haas-van Alphen and Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations periodic in $1/b$.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Risk-Sensitive Stopping Problems for Continuous-Time Markov Chains
Creators: name: Bäuerle, Nicole
name: Popp, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J27, 90C40

description: In this paper we consider stopping problems for continuous-time Markov chains under a general risk-sensitive optimization criterion for problems with finite and infinite time horizon. More precisely our aim is to maximize the certainty equivalent of the stopping reward minus cost over the time horizon. We derive optimality equations for the value functions and prove the existence of optimal stopping times. The exponential utility is treated as a special case. In contrast to risk-neutral stopping problems it may be optimal to stop between jumps of the Markov chain. We briefly discuss the influence of the risk sensitivity on the optimal stopping time and consider a special house selling problem as an example.
Environmental and Genetic Contributions in an ALS Animal Model
Creators: name: Schram, Sarah L
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ALS is an adult onset neurodegenerative disease characterized by spreading paralysis. The disease is poorly understood, leading to no effective therapeutics and an average survival time of only five years. While an underlying genetic factor has been identified in a small subset of familial patients (10-15%), the vast majority of patients are sporadic. This suggests a complicated genetic risk mosaic in that there maybe numerous mutations that lead to an increase risk of disease. Given the wide variations in genetic risks and variable clinical presentations with the same genetic predispositions, environmental contributions are also very important. Veterans and athletes have been shown to be at an increased risk of developing the disease, suggesting a potential role for injury. Here we explored the relative contributions of genetics and environment using a rat model to combine genetic (SOD1G93A rats) and environmental (sciatic nerve crush) factors. We showed that nerve injury led to increased central nervous system inflammation accompanied by faster disease onset and decreased survival. This was likely due to increased mutant protein aggregation and synaptic loss which was observed in the areas shown to be affected by increased inflammation. While the exact signaling pathways involved in this increased inflammation are unknown, one potential target is neuregulin. Neuregulin (NRG) is a growth factor expressed by neurons which binds to receptors on glial cells. NRG was shown here to increase expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha and Nox2, and conditioned media from high dose NRG treated microglia is toxic to motor neurons. Also at high doses, NRG induced expression of Cx3Cr1, a component of the fractalkine system that plays a role in synaptic modulation. It was also shown here that injury caused C1q tagging of synapses on injured neurons, a component of the complement system and also known to be active in synaptic strippping in neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s. Taken together, this thesis work presents a new model that that combined a genetic susceptibility with environmental injury, leading to increased NRG signaling and toxic protein aggregation which then over-activates pro-inflammatory microglia and causes complement-mediated synaptic stripping and neuronal death. While much additional research is needed, targeting this pathway could prevent pathological inflammation and prevent disease spread.
Nycteris javanica E. Geoffroy 1813
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris javanica

description: Nycteris javanica E. Geoffroy, 1813. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 20:20. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java. DISTRIBUTION: Java; Bali. COMMENT: Does not include tragata; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1955, Suppl. to Chasen, 1940, Handlist of Malaysian Mamm., p. 9. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405005001007001 as N. javanicus (sic).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 134, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1955. Supplement to Chasen (1940) A handlist of Malaysian mammals, containing a generic synonomy and a complete index. British Museum (Natural History), London, 66 pp.", "Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209."]}
Additional file 2 of Performance metrics for models designed to predict treatment effect
Creators: name: Maas, C. C. H. M.
name: Kent, D. M.
name: Hughes, M. C.
name: Dekker, R.
name: Lingsma, H. F.
name: van Klaveren, D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Derivation of the metrics measuring overall performance of models predicting treatment effect.
The tight subgiant branch of the intermediate-age star cluster NGC 411 implies a single-aged stellar population
Creators: name: Li, Chengyuan
name: de Grijs, Richard
name: Bastian, Nathan
name: Deng, Licai
name: Niederhofer, Florian
name: Zhang, Chaoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of extended main-sequence turn-off (eMSTO) regions in intermediate-age star clusters in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds is often interpreted as resulting from extended star-formation histories (SFHs), lasting $\geq$ 300 Myr. This strongly conflicts with the traditional view of the dominant star-formation mode in stellar clusters, which are thought of as single-aged stellar populations. Here we present a test of this interpretation by exploring the morphology of the subgiant branch (SGB) of NGC 411, which hosts possibly the most extended eMSTO among all known intermediate-age star clusters. We show that the width of the NGC 411 SGB favours the single-aged stellar population interpretation and rules out an extended SFH. In addition, when considering the red clump (RC) morphology and adopting the unproven premise that the widths of all features in the colour--magnitude diagram are determined by an underlying range in ages, we find that the SFH implied is still very close to that resulting from a single-aged stellar population, with a minor fraction of stars scattering to younger ages compared with the bulk of the population. The SFHs derived from the SGB and RC are both inconsistent with the SFH derived from the eMSTO region. NGC 411 has a very low escape velocity and it has unlikely undergone significant mass loss at an early stage, thus indicating that it may lack the capacity to capture most of its initial, expelled gas from stellar evolutionary processes, a condition often required for extended SFHs to take root.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepted
Nycteris macrotis Dobson 1876
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris macrotis

description: Nycteris macrotis Dobson, 1876. Monogr. Asiat. Chiroptera, p. 80. TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra Leone. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to Zimbabwe and Malawi; Zanzibar. COMMENT: Includes aethiopica, luteola, and major (of J. A. Allen, 1917, not K. Andersen, 1912); see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:378. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405005001008001 as N. macrotis. 5301405005001001001 as N. aethiopica.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 134, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
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The HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N@TNG IV. Time resolved analysis of the Ca ii H&K and Hα chromospheric emission of low-activity early-type M dwarfs
Creators: name: Scandariato, G.
name: Affer, J. Maldonado L.
name: Biazzo, K.
name: Leto, G.
name: Stelzer, B.
name: Sanchez, R. Zanmar
name: Claudi, R.
name: Cosentino, R.
name: Damasso, M.
name: Desidera, S.
name: Álvarez, E. González
name: Hernández, J. I. González
name: Gratton, R.
name: Lanza, A. F.
name: Maggio, A.
name: Messina, S.
name: Micela, G.
name: Pagano, I.
name: Perger, M.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Rebolo, R.
name: Ribas, I.
name: Rosich, A.
name: Sozzetti, A.
name: Mascareño, A. Suárez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M dwarfs are prime targets for planet search programs, particularly of those focused on the detection and characterization of rocky planets in the habitable zone. Understanding their magnetic activity is important because it affects our ability to detect small planets, and it plays a key role in the characterization of the stellar environment. We analyze observations of the Ca II H&K and Hα lines as diagnostics of chromospheric activity for low-activity early-type M dwarfs. We analyze the time series of spectra of 71 early-type M dwarfs collected for the HADES project for planet search purposes. The HARPS-N spectra provide simultaneously the H&K doublet and the Hα line. We develop a reduction scheme able to correct the HARPS-N spectra for instrumental and atmospheric effects, and to provide flux-calibrated spectra in units of flux at the stellar surface. The H&K and Hα fluxes are compared with each other, and their variability is analyzed. We find that the H and K flux excesses are strongly correlated with each other, while the Hα flux excess is generally less correlated with the H&K doublet. We also find that Hα emission does not increase monotonically with the H&K line flux, showing some absorption before being filled in by chromospheric emission when H&K activity increases. Analyzing the time variability of the emission fluxes, we derive a tentative estimate of the rotation period (of the order of a few tens of days) for some of the program stars, and the typical lifetime of chromospheric active regions (a few stellar rotations). Our results are in good agreement with previous studies. In particular, we find evidence that the chromospheres of early-type M dwarfs could be characterized by different filaments coverage, affecting the formation mechanism of the Hα line. We also show that chromospheric structure is likely related to spectral type.
Additional file 1 of Performance metrics for models designed to predict treatment effect
Creators: name: Maas, C. C. H. M.
name: Kent, D. M.
name: Hughes, M. C.
name: Dekker, R.
name: Lingsma, H. F.
name: van Klaveren, D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Sensitivity analysis of matching method.
Environmental and Genetic Contributions in an ALS Animal Model
Creators: name: Schram, Sarah L
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: ALS is an adult onset neurodegenerative disease characterized by spreading paralysis. The disease is poorly understood, leading to no effective therapeutics and an average survival time of only five years. While an underlying genetic factor has been identified in a small subset of familial patients (10-15%), the vast majority of patients are sporadic. This suggests a complicated genetic risk mosaic in that there maybe numerous mutations that lead to an increase risk of disease. Given the wide variations in genetic risks and variable clinical presentations with the same genetic predispositions, environmental contributions are also very important. Veterans and athletes have been shown to be at an increased risk of developing the disease, suggesting a potential role for injury. Here we explored the relative contributions of genetics and environment using a rat model to combine genetic (SOD1G93A rats) and environmental (sciatic nerve crush) factors. We showed that nerve injury led to increased central nervous system inflammation accompanied by faster disease onset and decreased survival. This was likely due to increased mutant protein aggregation and synaptic loss which was observed in the areas shown to be affected by increased inflammation. While the exact signaling pathways involved in this increased inflammation are unknown, one potential target is neuregulin. Neuregulin (NRG) is a growth factor expressed by neurons which binds to receptors on glial cells. NRG was shown here to increase expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha and Nox2, and conditioned media from high dose NRG treated microglia is toxic to motor neurons. Also at high doses, NRG induced expression of Cx3Cr1, a component of the fractalkine system that plays a role in synaptic modulation. It was also shown here that injury caused C1q tagging of synapses on injured neurons, a component of the complement system and also known to be active in synaptic strippping in neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s. Taken together, this thesis work presents a new model that that combined a genetic susceptibility with environmental injury, leading to increased NRG signaling and toxic protein aggregation which then over-activates pro-inflammatory microglia and causes complement-mediated synaptic stripping and neuronal death. While much additional research is needed, targeting this pathway could prevent pathological inflammation and prevent disease spread.
"StopBL2016.cxx" of "A search for $B-L$ $R$-parity-violating top squarks in $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS experiment"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2018

description: Code snippet with the implementation of the analysis selection at truth-level
description: No data abstract available.
Attitudes to ethnic groups [Manuscript] : the perceived attitudes of defined groups of Australians to ethnic groups
Creators: name: Collyer, Barbara J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Improving Energy Efficiency and Lifetime of Emerging Memory Systems
Creators: name: Pourshirazi, Bahareh
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: DRAM can no longer satisfy the memory capacity demands of the modern-day applications due to its scalability limit and considerable amount of static and refresh power consumption. Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies such as Phase Change Memory (PCM) have recently emerged as promising alternatives to DRAM. Compared to DRAM, NVMs have better scalability, higher density and zero standby power. However, NVMs generally suffer from higher access latency and energy (especially for the write operations) and limited write endurance. To benefit from the large capacity of NVM and the lower access latency and energy of DRAM, hybrid DRAM/NVM main memories, which incorporate both DRAM and NVM, have been proposed. In this thesis, we present novel schemes for improving the energy efficiency of hybrid main memories or alleviating the write-related overheads of PCM-based memories. We first focus on reducing DRAM refresh and background power in a hybrid DRAM/NVM main memory by proposing two schemes called Refree and NEMO. Then, we present WALL, a scheme that improves the energy efficiency and lifetime of a PCM-based main memory by reducing the number of writebacks from the last level cache to PCM. Finally, we present a scheme called DynaSwap to efficiently utilize DRAM space in a flat address space hybrid main memory and improve its performance and energy efficiency. Our evaluation results have shown that our schemes can effectively improve memory system energy efficiency and lifetime with negligible impact on performance.
"param_card.SM.TT.RPVdirectBL.1000.dat" of "A search for $B-L$ $R$-parity-violating top squarks in $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS experiment"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2018

description: SLHA file for 1 TeV stop signal
description: No data abstract available.
Stall Pattern Avoidance in Polynomial Product Codes
Creators: name: Condo, Carlo
name: Leduc-Primeau, Francois
name: Sarkis, Gabi
name: Giard, Pascal
name: Gross, Warren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 94B35

description: Product codes are a concatenated error-correction scheme that has been often considered for applications requiring very low bit-error rates, which demand that the error floor be decreased as much as possible. In this work, we consider product codes constructed from polynomial algebraic codes, and propose a novel low-complexity post-processing technique that is able to improve the error-correction performance by orders of magnitude. We provide lower bounds for the error rate achievable under post processing, and present simulation results indicating that these bounds are tight.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, GlobalSiP 2016
A Comparative Study of Latina Mothers and Teachers’ Experiences with Special Education Partnerships
Creators: name: Buren, Molly Kett
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Family engagement with schools, and parental involvement with the IEP process, are linked to positive student outcomes. Increased family engagement with school activities, such as helping with homework, attending parent-teacher conferences, and volunteering in schools impacts student academic achievement (Jeynes, 2007). With the re-authorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004), increased expectations for family involvement has become standard practice (Harry, 2008). However, families in Latino, Spanish-speaking communities report barriers to inclusion in school communities and often have limited engagement with school personnel (Olivos, 2009; Salas, 2004; Turney & Kao, 2009). The purpose of this comparative study was to dissect the concept of family engagement and the collaborative process through the perspectives of Latino, Spanish-speaking caregivers of children with disabilities and special education teachers. The study explored three key dimensions of collaborative relationships: (a) expectations and experiences around family engagement, (b) definitions and engagement with collaboration, and (c) the role and impact of advocacy on partnerships. The results deepen our understanding of what different stakeholders, from diverse backgrounds, expect from collaborative partnerships. The study contributes to family engagement literature by extending research on culturally relevant approaches to collaboration with Latino families. This qualitative study is designed to compare the perspectives of Latino caregivers and school professionals (special education teachers, general education teachers, principal) through focus groups, interviews, and observations with field notes. The research interprets and analyzes the experiences of each stakeholder group to identify areas of alignment and divergence around collaborative relationships, advocacy, and family engagement.
Premessa
Creators: name: Romera Pintor, Irene
name: Villari, Susanna
Publisher: name: Studi giraldiani. Letteratura e teatro
Year: 2022
Subjects: Giraldi Cinthio, progetti critico-editoriali, studi giraldiani

description: Studi giraldiani. Letteratura e teatro, V. 8 (2022)
Nycteris madagascariensis G. Grandidier 1937
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Nycteridae
Nycteris
Nycteris madagascariensis

description: Nycteris madagascariensis G. Grandidier, 1937. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 2, 9: 353. TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, Valley of the Rodo. DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 134, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Problemi filologici e critico-editoriali delle opere edite e inedite di Giraldi Cinthio
Creators: name: Villari, Susanna
Publisher: name: Studi giraldiani. Letteratura e teatro
Year: 2022
Subjects: Giraldi, edizioni critiche, Filologia dei Testi a stampa, aspetti grafici, testi in volgare, Cinquecento

description: Problemi filologici e critico-editoriali delle opere edite e inedite di Giraldi Cinthio. Con riferimento al progetto di rinnovata divulgazione scientifica delle opere giraldiane, l’articolo mette a fuoco i relativi aspetti metodologici, con particolare riferimento alla filologia dei testi a stampa (Textual bibliography) e alle scelte della resa grafica. ----- Philological and critical-editorial problems of published and unpublished Giraldi Cinthio’s works. Within the context of a renewed interest in scientific researches related to Giraldi’s works, the paper focuses on their methodological aspects, with particular reference to the philology of printed texts (Textual Bibliography) and the choices of textual rendering.
description: Studi giraldiani. Letteratura e teatro, V. 8 (2022)
Concept retention in preparatory grade one, high and low socio-economic-status children over the Christmas vacation
Creators: name: Cameron, Martin H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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