cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Environmental Scan of Virtual “Walk-In” Clinics in Canada : Comparative Study
Creators: name: Matthewman, Spencer
name: Spencer, Sarah
name: Lavergne, M. Ruth
name: McCracken, Rita
name: Hedden, Lindsay
Publisher: name: JMIR Publications
Year: 2021

description: Background: Canada has been slow to implement virtual care relative to other countries. However, in recent years, the availability of on-demand, “walk-in” virtual clinics has increased, with the COVID-19 pandemic contributing to the increased demand and provision of virtual care nationwide. Although virtual care facilitates access to physicians while maintaining physical distancing, there are concerns regarding the continuity and quality of care as well as equitable access. There is a paucity of research documenting the availability of virtual care in Canada, thus hampering the efforts to evaluate the impacts of its relatively rapid emergence on the broader health care system and on individual health. Objective: We conducted a national environmental scan to determine the availability and scope of virtual walk-in clinics, cataloging the services they offer and whether they are operating through public or private payment. Methods: We developed a power term and implemented a structured Google search to identify relevant clinics. From each clinic meeting our inclusion criteria, we abstracted data on the payment model, region of operation, services offered, and continuity of care. We compared clinics operating under different payment models using Fisher exact tests. Results: We identified 18 virtual walk-in clinics. Of the 18 clinics, 10 (56%) provided some services under provincial public insurance, although 44% (8/18) operated on a fully private payment model while an additional 39% (7/18) charged patients out of pocket for some services. The most common supplemental services offered included dermatology (15/18, 83%), mental health services (14/18, 78%), and sexual health (11/18, 61%). Continuity, information sharing, or communication with the consumers’ existing primary care providers were mentioned by 22% (4/18) of the clinics. Conclusions: Virtual walk-in clinics have proliferated; however, concerns about equitable access, continuity of care, and diversion of physician workforce within these models highlight the importance of supporting virtual care options within the context of longitudinal primary care. More research is needed to support quality virtual care and understand its effects on patient and provider experiences and the overall health system utilization and costs.
D2.2: Release (publishing in the sense of DOI provision) of Cycle 2 Simulations
Creators: name: Mieslinger, Theresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: About this document

A subset of the data from Cycle 2 simulations will be attributed a DOI and will be made available to the NextGEMS consortium and the wider scientific community. (Task 2.2)

Work package in charge

WP2

Executive summary

We provide a subset of the Cycle 2 storm-resolving Earth-system simulation output freely available to the nextGEMS consortium and the wider scientific community. The subset includes a selection of frequently used 2D data fields, such as surface temperature and net radiation at the top of the atmosphere, at full spatial resolution (4km for IFS / 5km for ICON). The dataset is published at WDCC(World Data Center for Climate)1, findable via the DOI:10.26050/WDCC/nextGEMS_cyc2 (Wieners et al., 2023) and accessible via WDCC.

Conclusion & Results

A first dataset resulting out of the nextGEMS model development phase is published with a DOI attributed to it. The publication with DOI took longer than anticipated, however, with the result that we have a recipe for succeding data publications within the project.
Creating a " choose your own adventure " computer-based simulation to promote competency development in undergraduate students
Creators: name: Roberts, Michele Livich
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Curricular Innovation

description: The NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory 2 was applied to develop the learning activity, initially by:
description: o aligning course and simulation learning outcomes
description: o mapping scenario content to Essentials 1 domains and competencies
description: o creating " challenge " activities (e.g., puzzles, next-generation 3 exam questions, medical dosage calculations) to advance the scenario.
description: Faculty content experts reviewed the written case, and the CYOA game was designed using:
description: o image and audio files to depict the patient and patient care environment
description: o interactive digital objects to facilitate patient assessments and add environmental realism
description: o skip, branch, and display logic within a web-based survey platform to allow the case to unfold in varying ways according to students' clinical decisions.
description: Pilot testing was completed, IRB approval obtained, and the CSCE was implemented over two semesters. Learning effectiveness was evaluated using the Simulation Effectiveness Tool-Modified 4 (SET-M).
BIP! DB: A Dataset of Impact Measures for Scientific Publications
Creators: name: Vergoulis, Thanasis
name: Kanellos, Ilias
name: Atzori, Claudio
name: Mannocci, Andrea
name: Chatzopoulos, Serafeim
name: La Bruzzo, Sandro
name: Manola, Natalia
name: Manghi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The growth rate of the number of scientific publications is constantly increasing, creating important challenges in the identification of valuable research and in various scholarly data management applications, in general. In this context, measures which can effectively quantify the scientific impact could be invaluable. In this work, we present BIP! DB, an open dataset that contains a variety of impact measures calculated for a large collection of more than 100 million scientific publications from various disciplines.
The critical pedagogy of nonprofit management education: teaching for social justice
Creators: name: Mason, Dyana P.
name: Jones, Jennifer A.
name: McDougle, Lindsey
name: Suarez, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2020
Subjects: Critical pedagogy
Nonprofit Management
Social Justice

description: Nonprofit organizations often exist to serve vulnerable, marginalized, and underrepresented communities. Yet a lack of diversity and inclusion plagues the nonprofit sector. This chapter argues that when instructors engage in more “critical” perspectives, students of nonprofit management will not only be able to consider questions of power and privilege within nonprofit organizations, but will also be able to understand the impact of power and privilege imbalances within the communities that they serve. It provides a theoretical framework for critical pedagogies, and offers two exercise that instructors may use to provide examples of the way critical pedagogy can inform nonprofit management education (NME).
Bootstrapping Multilingual AMR with Contextual Word Alignments
Creators: name: Sheth, Janaki
name: Lee, Young-Suk
name: Astudillo, Ramon Fernandez
name: Naseem, Tahira
name: Florian, Radu
name: Roukos, Salim
name: Ward, Todd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop high performance multilingualAbstract Meaning Representation (AMR) sys-tems by projecting English AMR annotationsto other languages with weak supervision. Weachieve this goal by bootstrapping transformer-based multilingual word embeddings, in partic-ular those from cross-lingual RoBERTa (XLM-R large). We develop a novel technique forforeign-text-to-English AMR alignment, usingthe contextual word alignment between En-glish and foreign language tokens. This wordalignment is weakly supervised and relies onthe contextualized XLM-R word embeddings.We achieve a highly competitive performancethat surpasses the best published results forGerman, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.
Classical simulation and theory of quantum annealing in a thermal environment
Creators: name: Oshiyama, Hiroki
name: Suzuki, Sei
name: Shibata, Naokazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum annealing in the quantum Ising model coupled to a thermal environment. When the speed of quantum annealing is sufficiently slow, the system evolves following the instantaneous thermal equilibrium. This quasistatic and isothermal evolution, however, fails near the end of annealing because the relaxation time grows infinitely, therefore yielding excess energy from the thermal equilibrium. We develop a phenomenological theory based on this picture and derive a scaling relation of the excess energy after annealing. The theoretical results are numerically confirmed using a novel non-Markovian method that we recently proposed based on a path-integral representation of the reduced density matrix and the infinite time evolving block decimation. In addition, we discuss crossovers from weak to strong coupling as well as from the adiabatic to quasistatic regime, and propose experiments on the D-Wave quantum annealer.
description: 8 pages, 6 fugures
The Legacy of Babel: Language in Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion
Creators: name: Triggs, Jeffery A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1988
Subjects: film
foreign language
World War, 1914-1918
Grand illusion (Motion picture)
Motion pictures
Language and languages
Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979

description: It has become fairly commonplace to assert that film, like music, transcends the nationality of its audience.1 Stanley Kauffmann has argued that film “is the only art involving language that can be enjoyed in a language of which one is ignorant.” This depends, of course, on the role language plays in a particular film, the extent to which it functions as an integral part of a film’s meaning, and the way it functions with the film’s other constituents. In some films a foreign language provides a real barrier to full appreciation, while in other films the language may play a relatively insignificant role (as in opera) and do little to hinder the viewer’s appreciation beyond focusing his attention on other, perhaps more important, elements. In polyglot films the issue of language is seemingly most transparent. We are exposed to languages as we encounter them in life. Awash in such a Babel, we are frustrated not by an artistic barrier but by the conditions of life itself.In fact, the polyglot text is a conscious artistic strategy feigning linguistic nat- uralism, and we should attend carefully to its motive and function. The polyglot text of Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion, for instance, is the central constituent of the film’s meaning.
Moderate Seasonal Dynamics Indicate an Important Role for Lysogeny in the Red Sea
Creators: name: Abdulrahman Ashy, Ruba
name: Suttle, Curtis Arnold, 1955-
name: Agustí, Susana
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Viruses are the most abundant microorganisms in marine environments and viral infections can be either lytic (virulent) or lysogenic (temperate phage) within the host cell. The aim of this study was to quantify viral dynamics (abundance and infection) in the coastal Red Sea, a narrow oligotrophic basin with high surface water temperatures (22–32 °C degrees), high salinity (37.5–41) and continuous high insolation, thus making it a stable and relatively unexplored environment. We quantified viral and environmental changes in the Red Sea (two years) and the occurrence of lysogenic bacteria (induced by mitomycin C) on the second year. Water temperatures ranged from 24.0 to 32.5 °C, and total viral and bacterial abundances ranged from 1.5 to 8.7 × 10⁶ viruses mL-¹ and 1.9 to 3.2 × 10⁵ bacteria mL-¹, respectively. On average, 12.24% ± 4.8 (SE) of the prophage bacteria could be induced by mitomycin C, with the highest percentage of 55.8% observed in January 2018 when bacterial abundances were low; whereas no induction was measurable in spring when bacterial abundances were highest. Thus, despite the fact that the Red Sea might be perceived as stable, warm and saline, relatively modest changes in seasonal conditions were associated with large swings in the prevalence of lysogeny.
Nonparametric C- and D-vine based quantile regression
Creators: name: Tepegjozova, Marija
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Claeskens, Gerda
name: Czado, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantile regression is a field with steadily growing importance in statistical modeling. It is a complementary method to linear regression, since computing a range of conditional quantile functions provides a more accurate modelling of the stochastic relationship among variables, especially in the tails. We introduce a non-restrictive and highly flexible nonparametric quantile regression approach based on C- and D-vine copulas. Vine copulas allow for separate modeling of marginal distributions and the dependence structure in the data, and can be expressed through a graph theoretical model given by a sequence of trees. This way we obtain a quantile regression model, that overcomes typical issues of quantile regression such as quantile crossings or collinearity, the need for transformations and interactions of variables. Our approach incorporates a two-step ahead ordering of variables, by maximizing the conditional log-likelihood of the tree sequence, while taking into account the next two tree levels. Further, we show that the nonparametric conditional quantile estimator is consistent. The performance of the proposed methods is evaluated in both low- and high-dimensional settings using simulated and real world data. The results support the superior prediction ability of the proposed models.
Universal non-Hermitian skin effect in two and higher dimensions
Creators: name: Zhang, Kai
name: Yang, Zhesen
name: Fang, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Skin effect, experimentally discovered in one dimension, describes the physical phenomenon that on an open chain, an extensive number of eigenstates of a non-Hermitian hamiltonian are localized at the end(s) of the chain. Here in two and higher dimensions, we establish a theorem that the skin effect exists, if and only if periodic-boundary spectrum of the hamiltonian covers a finite area on the complex plane. This theorem establishes the universality of the effect, because the above condition is satisfied in almost every generic non-Hermitian hamiltonian, and, unlike in one dimension, is compatible with all spatial symmetries. We propose two new types of skin effect in two and higher dimensions: the corner-skin effect where all eigenstates are localized at one corner of the system, and the geometry-dependent-skin effect where skin modes disappear for systems of a particular shape, but appear on generic polygons. An immediate corollary of our theorem is that any non-Hermitian system having exceptional points (lines) in two (three) dimensions exhibits skin effect, making this phenomenon accessible to experiments in photonic crystals, Weyl semimetals, and Kondo insulators.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures
Experimental quantum teleportation of propagating microwaves
Creators: name: Fedorov, K. G.
name: Renger, M.
name: Pogorzalek, S.
name: Di Candia, R.
name: Chen, Q.
name: Nojiri, Y.
name: Inomata, K.
name: Nakamura, Y.
name: Partanen, M.
name: Marx, A.
name: Gross, R.
name: Deppe, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modern field of quantum communication thrives on promise to deliver efficient and unconditionally secure ways to exchange information by exploiting quantum laws of physics. Here, quantum teleportation stands out as an exemplary protocol allowing for the disembodied and safe transfer of unknown quantum states using quantum entanglement and classical communication as resources. The experimental feasibility of quantum teleportation with propagating waves, relevant to communication scenarios, has been demonstrated in various physical settings. However, an analogous implementation of quantum teleportation in the microwave domain was missing so far. At the same time, recent breakthroughs in quantum computation with superconducting circuits have triggered a demand for quantum communication between spatially separated superconducting processors operated at microwave frequencies. Here, we demonstrate a realization of deterministic quantum teleportation of coherent microwave states by exploiting two-mode squeezing and analog feedforward over macroscopic distances $d = 42\,$cm. We achieve teleportation fidelities $F = 0.689 \pm 0.004$ exceeding the no-cloning $F_\mathrm{nc} = 2/3$ threshold for coherent states with an average photon number of up to $n_\mathrm{d} = 1.1$. Our results provide a key ingredient for the teleportation-based quantum gate for modular quantum computing with superconducting circuits and establish a solid foundation for future microwave quantum local area networks.
Simultaneous Conjugacy Classes of Finite $p$-groups of rank $\leq 5$
Creators: name: Kaur, Dilpreet
name: Prajapati, Sunil Kumar
name: Prasad, Amritanshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a finite group $G$, we consider the problem of counting simultaneous conjugacy classes of $n$-tuples and simultaneous conjugacy classes of commuting $n$-tuples in $G$. Let $α_{G,n}$ denote the number of simultaneous conjugacy classes of $n$-tuples, and $β_{G,n}$ the number of simultaneous conjugacy classes of commuting $n$-tuples in $G$. The generating functions $A_G(t) = \sum_{n\geq 0} α_{G,n}t^n,$ and $B_G(t) = \sum_{n\geq 0} β_{G,n}t^n$ are rational functions of $t$. This paper concern studied of normalized functions $A_G(t/|G|)$ and $B_G(t/|G|)$ for finite $p$-groups of rank at most $5$.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1905.07957
Hadronic molecules in B decays
Creators: name: Chen, Hua-Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are eighteen possibly existing $D^{(*)} \bar D^{(*)}$, $D^{(*)} \bar K^{(*)}$, and $D^{(*)} D_s^{(*)-}$ hadronic molecular states. We construct their corresponding interpolating currents, and calculate their masses and decay constants using QCD sum rules. Based on these results, we calculate their relative production rates in $B$ and $B^*$ decays through the current algebra, and calculate their relative branching ratios through the Fierz rearrangement, as summarized in Table III. Our results support the interpretations of the $X(3872)$, $Z_c(3900)$, $Z_c(4020)$, and $X_0(2900)$ as the molecular states $D \bar D^*$ of $J^{PC} = 1^{++}$, $D \bar D^*$ of $J^{PC} = 1^{+-}$, $D^* \bar D^*$ of $J^{PC} = 1^{+-}$, and $D^* \bar K^*$ of $J^P = 0^{+}$, respectively. Our results also suggest that the $Z_{cs}(3985)$, $Z_{cs}(4000)$, and $Z_{cs}(4220)$ are strange partners of the $X(3872)$, $Z_c(3900)$, and $Z_c(4020)$, respectively. In the calculations we estimate the lifetime of a weakly-coupled composite particle $A = |BC\rangle$ to be $1/t_A \approx 1/t_B + 1/t_C + Γ_{A \to BC} + \cdots$, with $\cdots$ partial widths of other possible decay channels.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, accepted by PRD. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2011.07187
Using Molecular Embeddings in QSAR Modeling: Does it Make a Difference?
Creators: name: Sabando, María Virginia
name: Ponzoni, Ignacio
name: Milios, Evangelos E.
name: Soto, Axel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the consolidation of deep learning in drug discovery, several novel algorithms for learning molecular representations have been proposed. Despite the interest of the community in developing new methods for learning molecular embeddings and their theoretical benefits, comparing molecular embeddings with each other and with traditional representations is not straightforward, which in turn hinders the process of choosing a suitable representation for QSAR modeling. A reason behind this issue is the difficulty of conducting a fair and thorough comparison of the different existing embedding approaches, which requires numerous experiments on various datasets and training scenarios. To close this gap, we reviewed the literature on methods for molecular embeddings and reproduced three unsupervised and two supervised molecular embedding techniques recently proposed in the literature. We compared these five methods concerning their performance in QSAR scenarios using different classification and regression datasets. We also compared these representations to traditional molecular representations, namely molecular descriptors and fingerprints. As opposed to the expected outcome, our experimental setup consisting of over 25,000 trained models and statistical tests revealed that the predictive performance using molecular embeddings did not significantly surpass that of traditional representations. While supervised embeddings yielded competitive results compared to those using traditional molecular representations, unsupervised embeddings tended to perform worse than traditional representations. Our results highlight the need for conducting a careful comparison and analysis of the different embedding techniques prior to using them in drug design tasks, and motivate a discussion about the potential of molecular embeddings in computer-aided drug design.
Scalable, flow-sensitive type inference for statically typed object-oriented languages
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Ramkrishna
name: Ryder, Barbara G.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1997

description: An important problem in the analysis of programs written in object-oriented languages like C++/Java is to determine the values that a pointer variable ( a reference to an object in Java ) can have at run-time. This information can be used for applications such as virtual function resolution, side-e ect analysis, detecting memory errors etc. We address issues involved in designing a scalable, ow-sensitive solution for this and related compile-time analysis questions. First we present a ow-sensitive solution which uses conditional points-to analysis. Although we show that it is better than a solution using alias analysis, it has several limitations which a ect its scalability and precision. Next we identify properties necessary for any scalable, ow-sensitive algorithm solving these problems. Using this characterization, we propose two techniques: preprocessing using types and analysis-usingabstract-values, which remove many of these limitations. We show that these techniques can represent a part of the solution implicitly, and thus facilitate ecient demand-driven computation. We introduce analysis-using-abstract-values by presenting an algorithm for nding the precise solution for may points-to in the presence of only single-level pointers (pointers with a single level of indirection). We show that this algorithm improves the worst-case bound from O(n5 ) to O(n4 ). Finally, we present an extension of this technique for multi-level pointers (pointers with multiple levels of indirection), with examples to show improvements in eciency as well as precision. We also show that this technique can adaptively change ow-sensitivity when it is pro table to do so. We also show that analysis-using-abstract-values aids in modular analysis by allowing the analysis of part of a program and avoiding the need to keep the whole program in memory.
DEDEP.eu Webinar 2 Slide deck: Empowering Digital Europe Projects Through Tailored Dissemination & Exploitation Pilot Actions
Creators: name: Ferguson, Nicholas
name: David De Godoi, Tamires
name: Quattrocchi, Gabriele
name: Seldeslachts, Ulrich
name: Rowan, Brendan
name: Ivankovich, Pablo
name: Hackl, Daniela
name: Valeriani, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Many projects under the DIGITAL EUROPE Programme develop groundbreaking digital solutions, yet their visibility, adoption, and long-term impact often remain limited due to fragmented dissemination efforts and siloed approaches. 

To address this challenge, DEDEP.eu is launching a series of pilot actions aimed at equipping both DIGITAL officers and beneficiaries with the necessary tools, strategies, and collaborative frameworks to enhance their dissemination and exploitation (D&E) capabilities. 

This highly interactive webinar, scheduled for 12 March 2025 at 15:00 CET, introduced the upcoming pilot actions that will be launched in spring 2025. 

The webinar offers participants an overview of their objectives, methodology, and expected impact. The session will also feature inspiring project clustering examples, illustrating how DIGITAL projects can better exchange knowledge, break down siloes across Specific Objectives, and optimise D&E efforts. These pilot actions will provide hands-on guidance, tools, and support to enhance the outreach, collaboration, and commercialisation of DIGITAL-funded results.
Limit theorems for quasi-arithmetic means of random variables with applications to point estimations for the Cauchy distribution
Creators: name: Akaoka, Yuichi
name: Okamura, Kazuki
name: Otobe, Yoshiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F10, 62F12, 62E20, 60F15, 26E60

description: We establish some limit theorems for quasi-arithmetic means of random variables. This class of means contains the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means. Our feature is that the generators of quasi-arithmetic means are allowed to be complex-valued, which makes considerations for quasi-arithmetic means of random variables which could take negative values possible. Our motivation for the limit theorems is finding simple estimators of the parameters of the Cauchy distribution. By applying the limit theorems, we obtain some closed-form unbiased strongly-consistent estimators for the joint of the location and scale parameters of the Cauchy distribution, which are easy to compute and analyze.
description: 24 pages, Example 1.2 revised and Lemma 2.4 added, to appear in Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics
Evaluation of Darolutamide (ODM201) Efficiency on Androgen Receptor Mutants Reported to Date in Prostate Cancer Patients
Creators: name: Lallous, Nada
name: Snow, Oliver
name: Sanchez, Christophe
name: Parra Nuñez, Ana Karla
name: Sun, Bei
name: Hussain, Ahmed
name: Lee, Joseph
name: Morin, Helene
name: Leblanc, Eric
name: Gleave, Martin E.
name: Cherkasov, Artem
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Resistance to drug treatments is common in prostate cancer (PCa), and the gain-of-function mutations in human androgen receptor (AR) represent one of the most dominant drivers of progression to resistance to AR pathway inhibitors (ARPI). Previously, we evaluated the in vitro response of 24 AR mutations, identified in men with castration-resistant PCa, to five AR antagonists. In the current work, we evaluated 44 additional PCa-associated AR mutants, reported in the literature, and thus expanded the study of the effect of darolutamide to a total of 68 AR mutants. Unlike other AR antagonists, we demonstrate that darolutamide exhibits consistent efficiency against all characterized gain-of-function mutations in a full-length AR. Additionally, the response of the AR mutants to clinically used bicalutamide and enzalutamide, as well as to major endogenous steroids (DHT, estradiol, progesterone and hydrocortisone), was also investigated. As genomic profiling of PCa patients becomes increasingly feasible, the developed “AR functional encyclopedia” could provide decision-makers with a tool to guide the treatment choice for PCa patients based on their AR mutation status.
Error rate reduction of single-qubit gates via noise-aware decomposition into native gates
Creators: name: Maldonado, Thomas J.
name: Flick, Johannes
name: Krastanov, Stefan
name: Galda, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the current era of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology, the practical use of quantum computers remains inhibited by our inability to aptly decouple qubits from their environment to mitigate computational errors. In this work, we introduce an approach by which knowledge of a qubit's initial quantum state and the standard parameters describing its decoherence can be leveraged to mitigate the noise present during the execution of a single-qubit gate. We benchmark our protocol using cloud-based access to IBM quantum processors. On ibmq_rome, we demonstrate a reduction of the single-qubit error rate by $38\%$, from $1.6 \times 10 ^{-3}$ to $1.0 \times 10 ^{-3}$, provided the initial state of the input qubit is known. On ibmq_bogota, we prove that our protocol will never decrease gate fidelity, provided the system's $T_1$ and $T_2$ times have not drifted above $100$ times their assumed values. The protocol can be used to reduce quantum state preparation errors, as well as to improve the fidelity of quantum circuits for which some knowledge of the qubits' intermediate states can be inferred. This work presents a pathway to using information about noise levels and quantum state distributions to significantly reduce error rates associated with quantum gates via optimized decomposition into native gates.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Bio-analytical screening and characterization of antioxidant compounds using online liquid chromatography techniques and mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Bashir, Rashida
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis is positioned in the fields of natural product and bioanalytical chemistry. It has increased the awareness and the importance of Australian native plants and mushrooms as a source of medicines. Pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries are interested in the identification and characterization of new antioxidant compounds from natural products, which is a challenging task. In the recent years conventional online post column antioxidant assays coupled with chromatographic techniques have been used. In this study, an advanced online chromatography technique, namely Reaction Flow Chromatography is used. Untargeted metabolomics using high resolution orbitrap mass spectrometry has further explored ethnopharmacological potential of native species. All the evaluated Australian native plants were found to contain antioxidants with known therapeutic potential in cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and other chronic diseases that play a major role in the prevention/delay of oxidative stress mediated diseases.
Anoxic events
Creators: name: Browne, Kathy
name: Sahl, Lauren
name: Freeman, Rebecca
name: Smalley, Gabriella
name: White, Carol
name: Lichtenwalner, Charles S.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019

description: This exercise is a case study that, if used in full, takes students through the entire learning cycle from invitation to reflection as applied to a dead zone on the Oregon continental shelf. Pieces of the exercise can be used as appropriate for the instructor goals.
Symmetry reduction to optimize a graph-based polynomial from queueing theory
Creators: name: Polak, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90Cxx (Primary), 26B25, 05E18 (Secondary)

description: For given integers $n$ and $d$, both at least 2, we consider a homogeneous multivariate polynomial $f_d$ of degree $d$ in variables indexed by the edges of the complete graph on $n$ vertices and coefficients depending on cardinalities of certain unions of edges. Cardinaels, Borst and Van Leeuwaarden (arXiv:2111.05777, 2021) asked whether $f_d$, which arises in a model of job-occupancy in redundancy scheduling, attains its minimum over the standard simplex at the uniform probability vector. Brosch, Laurent and Steenkamp [SIAM J. Optim. 31 (2021), 2227--2254] proved that $f_d$ is convex over the standard simplex if $d=2$ and $d=3$, implying the desired result for these $d$. We give a symmetry reduction to show that for fixed $d$, the polynomial is convex over the standard simplex (for all $n\geq 2$) if a constant number of constant matrices (with size and coefficients independent of $n$) are positive semidefinite. This result is then used in combination with a computer-assisted verification to show that the polynomial $f_d$ is convex for $d\leq 9$.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure and 1 table. Revisions have been made based on comments of the referees. Accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry
Hadron resonance gas model with repulsive mean-field interactions: specific heat, isothermal compressibility and speed of sound
Creators: name: Pal, Somenath
name: Kadam, Guruprasad
name: Bhattacharyya, Abhijit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of repulsive interaction between hadrons on the specific heat ($C_V$), isothermal compressibility ($κ_{T}$) and the speed of sound ($C_s^2$) of hot and dense hadronic matter. The repulsive interactions are included through a mean-field approach where the single particle energy picks correction term due to mean field interactions between hadrons. This correction term is proportional to the number density of hadrons. We assume different mean-field interactions for mesons and baryons. We also confront $C_V$ and $C_s^2$ with existing lattice QCD simulation results. We find that the repulsive interactions have very strong effect on $C_V$ and $C_s^2$ while its effect on $κ_T$ is very mild. We finally discuss the implications of our results in the context of heavy-ion collision experiments.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures
Roots of polynomials by Newton's iteration
Creators: name: Beaucage, David R.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1971

description: An iterative method is described which finds all the roots of a square-free polynomial at once, using the original coefficients in each step (thus minimizing round off error). Since the iteration is basically Newton's, the usual convergence criteria and quadratic-convergence behavior obtain. Except for the facts about polynomial coefficients and contraction mappings, the paper is self-contained.
The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU): Human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for the aprotic solvents N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone (NEP)
Creators: name: Apel, Petra
name: David, Madlen
name: Gerofke, Antje
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Lange, Rosa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Epidemiologie
Forschungspolitik
Gesundheit
Human-Biomonitoring
Risikoanalyse
Stoffwechselprodukt
Toxizität

description: Toxicologically and/or epidemiologically derived guidance values referring to the internal exposure of humans are a prerequisite for an easy to use health-based interpretation of human biomonitoring (HBM) results. The European Joint Programme HBM4EU derives such values, named human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs), for priority substances which could be of regulatory relevance for policy makers and have been identified by experts of the participating countries, ministries, agencies and stakeholders at EU and national level. NMP and NEP are such substances for which unresolved policy relevant issues should be clarified by targeted research. Since widespread exposure of the general population in Germany to NMP and NEP was shown for the age groups 3-17 years and 20-29 years, further investigations on exposure to NMP and NEP in other European countries are warranted. The HBM-GVs derived for both solvents focus on developmental toxicity as decisive endpoint. They amount for the sum of the two specific urinary NMP metabolites 5-HNMP and 2-HMSI and likewise of the two specific urinary NEP metabolites 5-HNEP and 2-HESI to 10 mg/L for children and 15 mg/L for adolescents/adults. The values were determined following a consultation process on the value proposals within HBM4EU. A health-based risk assessment was performed using the newly derived HBM-GVGenPop and exposure data from two recent studies from Germany. The risk assessment revealed that even when considering the combined exposure to both substances by applying the Hazard Index approach, the measured concentrations are below the HBM-GVGenPop in all cases investigated (i.e., children, adolescents and young adults). © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
Beating Carnot efficiency with periodically driven chiral conductors
Creators: name: Ryu, Sungguen
name: López, Rosa
name: Serra, Llorenç
name: Sanchez, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classically, the power generated by an ideal thermal machine cannot be larger than the Carnot limit. This profound result is rooted in the second law of thermodynamics. A hot question is whether this bound is still valid for microengines operating far from equilibrium. Here, we demonstrate that a quantum chiral conductor driven by AC voltage can indeed work with efficiencies much larger than the Carnot bound. The system also extracts work from common temperature baths, violating Kelvin-Planck statement. Nonetheless, with the proper definition, entropy production is always positive and the second law is preserved. The crucial ingredients to obtain efficiencies beyond the Carnot limit are: i) irreversible entropy production by the photoassisted excitation processes due to the AC field and ii) absence of power injection thanks to chirality. Our results are relevant in view of recent developments that use small conductors to test the fundamental limits of thermodynamic engines.
description: 7 pages (including references)+ 7 pages (supplemental material); More references are included
The onset of turbulence in particle-laden pipe flows
Creators: name: Hogendoorn, Willian
name: Chandra, Bidhan
name: Poelma, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scaling law for the onset of turbulence in pipe flow of neutrally buoyant suspensions. This scaling law, based on a large set of experimental data, relates the amplitude of the particle-induced perturbations ($ε$) to the critical suspension Reynolds number, $Re_{s,c}$. Here $ε$ is a function of the particle-to-pipe diameter ratio and the volume fraction of the suspended particles, $ε= (d/D)^{1/2} ϕ^{1/6}$. $Re_{s,c}$ is found to scale as $ε^{-1}$. Furthermore, the perturbation amplitude allows a distinction between classical, intermediate and particle-induced transition.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Shoestring Budgets, Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, and Corporate Sponsorship: Programming & Marketing the library in the 21st century.
Creators: name: Lotts, Megan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Corporate sponsorship
subject: Cross disciplinary collaboration
subject: Shoestring budgets
subject: Woodblock Woodstock

description: This poster will look at the ideas of how to create programming and market the library while working on a shoe-string budget. I will provide ideas and tips while comparing the two projects Woodblock Woodstock on the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus in April 2011, as well as the recent event in New Brunswick, NJ, Navigating Rutgers 101: mapping your way around campus. This poster will also include a library literature review of how corporate sponsorship and cross-disciplinary collaboration can play a role in the everyday lives of libraries and librarians.
description: Presented at the ACRL/NY Symposium Poster Session, Baruch College, December 7, 2012.
Spectral Monte Carlo Simulation of Collimated Solar Irradiation Transfer in A Water-Filled Prismatic Louver
Creators: name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Cai, Yaomin
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Radiative transfer
Optical properties
Solar Energy
Absorption

description: A Monte Carlo model was developed to simulate collimated solar irradiation transfer and energy harvest in a hollow louver made of silica glass and filled with water. The full solar spectrum of air mass 1.5 database was adopted and divided into various discrete bands for spectral calculations. The band-averaged spectral properties for the silica glass and water were obtained. Ray tracing was employed to find the solar energy harvested by the louver. Computational efficiency and accuracy were examined through intensive comparisons of different band partition approaches, various photon numbers and element divisions. The influence of irradiation direction on solar energy harvest efficiency was scrutinized. It was found that within 15°polar angle of incidence the harvested solar energy in the louver was high, and the total absorption efficiency reached to 61.2% under normal incidence for the current louver geometry.
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : présentation de l'équipement mécanique de l'atelier et historique de son acquisition
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Bikesharing in Philadelphia: do lower-income areas generate trips?
Creators: name: Caspi, Or
name: Noland, Robert B.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bikeshare
Philadelphia
Equity

description: Many bikeshare programs seek to equitably serve residents from different income strata. Experience from other cities in the US and elsewhere in the developed world suggest that bikeshare systems are used mostly by more affluent populations. In order to encourage more bikeshare usage among low-income populations, the City of Philadelphia sited docking stations in low-income neighborhoods, allowed cash payments, and provided discounts to those receiving food-stamps. We examined one-year of data for Philadelphia’s Indego bikeshare system between April 2017 and March 2018. Travel patterns were examined and suggested that bikeshare trips taken from docking stations in lower-income areas are for work commute trips. Multivariate regression models confirmed that lower-income areas generate fewer trips while controlling for other factors such as transit access and whether the station is proximate to a bicycle lane. Our results suggest that despite Indego’s efforts, more work is needed to generate bikeshare trips in lower income neighborhoods.
Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Well-Being of Adults with Physical Disabilities and/or Chronic Diseases during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Review
Creators: name: De Boer, Diederik R.
name: Hoekstra, Femke
name: Huetink, Kimberley I. M.
name: Hoekstra, Trynke
name: Krops, Leonie A.
name: Hettinga, Florentina J.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Background: People with physical disabilities and/or chronic diseases report lower levels of physical activity and well-being than the general population, which potentially is exacerbated through the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explored the international literature on physical activity, sedentary behavior and well-being in adults with physical disabilities and/or chronic diseases during the first wave of the pandemic. Method: In a rapid review, we included studies reporting on physical activity, sedentary behavior and/or well-being in adults with physical disabilities and/or chronic diseases. Four databases (Pubmed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Embase) were searched for studies published until 30 September 2020. Results: We included twenty-nine studies involving eleven different types of disabilities or health conditions from twenty-one different countries. Twenty-six studies reported on physical activity, of which one reported an increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, four studies reported no difference, and twenty-one studies reported a decrease. Thirteen studies reported a decline in well-being. Only one study measured sedentary behavior, reporting an increase. Conclusion: Despite the variety in methods used, almost all studies reported negative impacts on physical activity and well-being in people with physical disabilities and/or chronic disease during the first wave of the pandemic. These findings highlight the importance of supporting this population, especially in times of crisis.
Power fluctuations in sheared amorphous materials: A minimal model
Creators: name: Ekeh, Timothy
name: Fodor, Étienne
name: Fielding, Suzanne M.
name: Cates, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The importance of mesoscale fluctuations in flowing amorphous materials is widely accepted, without a clear understanding of their role. We propose a mean-field elastoplastic model that admits both stress and strain-rate fluctuations, and investigate the character of its power distribution under steady shear flow. The model predicts the suppression of negative power fluctuations near the liquid-solid transition; the existence of a fluctuation relation in limiting regimes but its replacement in general by stretched-exponential power-distribution tails; and a crossover between two distinct mechanisms for negative power fluctuations in the liquid and the yielding solid phases. We connect these predictions with recent results from particle-based, numerical micro-rheological experiments.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures