cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Demystifying the dramatic degree: a study of post secondary theatre education in Canada
Creators: name: Johns, Christine Alison
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2008

description: Bibliography: p. 269-275
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: This dissertation explores the current state of undergraduate theatre education in Canadian universities through an examination of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BF A) degree. This study focuses on identifying the curricular variations within BFA (Theatre) degree programs across the country and attempts to understand how these variations are understood and if and how these differences affect the expectations, satisfaction, and employability of recent program graduates. In attempting to demystify the BFA (Theatre) degree, this study reveals the complex environment of university theatre programs in Canada which includes both the BA and BFA degree. The literature defines a BA (Theatre) degree as an academic liberal arts style degree that primarily emphasises advanced communication and research skills while providing some practical components. A BFA (Theatre) degree is defined as a professional conservatory­style intensive training program that emphasises hands-on practical work while providing some academic components. Over the last 40 years however, an exponential growth of theatre programs in Canada has created a blurring of this BA (academic) and BFA (professional) line. This study begins with a historical examination of theatre education and specifically the development of the BFA (Theatre) degree in Canada and connects this development to changes in the Canadian theatre scene. The second stage of he study maps out the current BFA (Theatre) degree programs offered in Canada including program overviews, curriculum and courses offered. Based on this data, universities are grouped as offering either conservatory-style or liberal arts-style BFA (Theatre) programs. The final stage of the study examines the students' experience in the BFA (Theatre) programs and provides a snapshot of he expectations, satisfaction and employability of graduates from both conservatory-style and liberal arts-style theatre programs. The final chapter provides a summary of the findings of the study and makes recommendations for further study and inquiry. The results of this study provide a comprehensive overview to the current FA (Theatre) degree in Canada. The findings provide clarity to the program options available to theatre students and produce an updated understanding of what constitutes a Canadian BFA (Theatre) degree.
Efficient computation of the Zassenhaus formula
Creators: name: Casas, Fernando
name: Murua, Ander
name: Nadinic, Mladen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A new recursive procedure to compute the Zassenhaus formula up to high order is presented, providing each exponent in the factorization directly as a linear combination of independent commutators and thus containing the minimum number of terms. The recursion can be easily implemented in a symbolic algebra package and requires much less computational effort, both in time and memory resources, than previous algorithms. In addition, by bounding appropriately each term in the recursion, it is possible to get a larger convergence domain of the Zassenhaus formula when it is formulated in a Banach algebra.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Comput. Phys. Commun
The Gigabit per Second Isochronet Switch
Creators: name: Florissi, Danilo
name: Yemini, Yechiam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Computer science

description: This paper overviews the electronic and all-optical design and the gigabit per second electronic implementation of a switch based on the Isochronets highspeed network architecture. The absence of frame processing in the Isochronets architecture is core to the switch efficiency and multi-protocol support. The electronic design is low cost and uses simple off-the-shelf components, while the optical design can be realized with current optical devices. The switch interface is simple and provides novel services such as propagation of synchronization signals to upper protocol layers. The switch makes it possible the negotiation of Quality of Service (QoS) while promoting flexible resource sharing. The modular switch designs are scaleable in number of nodes and link speed. Using faster implementation technology, the electronic design can reach scores of gigabits per second, while the all-optical design can potentially operate at terabits per second.
Non-Single Viewpoint Catadioptric Cameras: Geometry and Analysis
Creators: name: Swaminathan, Rahul
name: Grossberg, Michael D.
name: Nayar, Shree K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Computer science

description: Conventional vision systems and algorithms assume the camera to have a single viewpoint. However, sensors need not always maintain a single viewpoint. For instance, an incorrectly aligned system could cause non-single viewpoints. Also, systems could be designed to specifically deviate from a single viewpoint to trade-off image characteristics such as resolution and field of view. In these cases, a locus of viewpoints is formed, called a caustic. In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of the viewpoint loci for catadioptric cameras with conic reflectors. Properties of these viewpoint loci with regard to field of view, resolution and other geometric properties are presented. In addition, we present a simple technique to calibrate such non-single viewpoint catadioptric cameras and estimate their viewpoint loci (caustics) from known camera motion.
Preventing Spam For SIP-based Instant Messages and Sessions
Creators: name: Srivastava, Kumar
name: Schulzrinne, Henning G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Computer science

description: As IP telephony becomes more widely deployed and used, tele-marketers or other spammers are bound to start using SIP-based calls and instant messages as a medium for sending spam. As is evident from the fate of email, protection against spam has to be built into SIP systems otherwise they are bound to fall prey to spam. Traditional approaches used to prevent spam in email such as content-based filtering and access lists are not applicable to SIP calls and instant messages in their present form. We propose Domain-based Authentication and Policy-Enforced for SIP (DAPES): a system that can be easily implemented and deployed in existing SIP networks. Our system is capable of determining in real time, whether an incoming call or instant message is likely to be spam or not, while at the same time, supporting communication between both known and unknown parties. DAPES includes the deployment of reputation systems in SIP networks to enable real-time transfer of reputation information between parties to allow communication between entities unknown to each other.
Dual-language books: addressing linguistic and cultural diversity in french immersion classrooms
Creators: name: Appelt, Liana
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2008

description: Bibliography: p. 107-117
description: Students in French Immersion (F .I) in many parts of Canada are now bringing with them home languages other than French or English. This diversity requires extensive modifications in the classroom to attend to the needs of children with linguistic roots from around the world. Typically the focus and delivery of early elementary F .I. teaching is on French alone. However, a growing body of literature suggests that qualified inclusion of the child's first language is also advantageous. The main objective of the research was to study one method of employing dual-language books written in both French and a variety of mother tongue languages spoken by the parents of children in a selected Kindergarten F .I. classroom. The results of the study demonstrated that there was no negative effect of using dual-language books in the classroom. On the contrary, there was strong support of dual language book use by the classroom teacher and the volunteers who participated in the study. The most significant finding was that dual language books offer a meaningful volunteer experience in F.I. classrooms. As well, this study supports past research, which demonstrated that dual-language books allow students to share their linguistic knowledge and cultural roots with their teacher and peers.
Using Process Technology to Control and Coordinate Software Adaptation
Creators: name: Valetto, Giuseppe
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Computer science

description: We have developed an infrastructure for end-to-end run-time monitoring, behavior/performance analysis, and dynamic adaptation of distributed software applications. This feedback-loop infrastructure is primarily targeted to pre-existing systems and thus operates outside the application itself without making assumptions about the target system's internal communication/computation mechanisms, implementation language/framework, availability of source code, etc. This paper assumes the existence of the monitoring and analysis components, presented elsewhere, and focuses on the mechanisms used to control and coordinate possibly complex repairs/reconfigurations to the target system. These mechanisms require lower-level actuators or effectors somehow attached to the target system, so we briefly sketch one such facility (elaborated elsewhere). The core of the paper is the model, architecture, and implementation of Workflakes, the decentralized process engine we use to tailor, control, coordinate, respond to contingencies, etc. regarding a cohort of such actuators. We have validated our approach and the Workflakes prototype in several case studies, related to different application domains. Due to space restrictions we concentrate primarily on one case study, elaborate with some details a second, and only sketch others.
Coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis : identifying disease mediators
Creators: name: Poffenberger, Maya Chikako
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Myocarditis-induced dilated cardiomyopathy is a major cause of heart disease and sudden death in young adults. Development of myocarditis is thought to involve both genetic and environmental factors such as pathogen infection, with the most commonly associated pathogen being the enterovirus coxsackievirus. Herein is a summary of three research projects aimed at identifying genes associated with coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis. In the first project, the role of IL-6 in coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis was investigated. IL-6 was found to have a protective role in disease development as IL-6 deficient mice developed increased chronic disease pathology following viral infection. Recombinant IL-6 treatment in these mice decreased the disease severity, suggesting that IL-6 production during the initiation of the disease regulates myocarditis severity. The second research project was aimed at identifying genetic loci that confer susceptibility to coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis. Using chromosome substitution mouse strains (CSS) and congenic mice generated from the CSS mice, three loci on chromosome 17 were shown to confer susceptibility to chronic myocarditis. Two of the loci, Vam1 and Vam2, do not contain any genes previously associated with myocarditis development. Real-time PCR analysis identified Igf2r and Cacna1h to be strong candidates for the susceptibility genes in the Vam1 and Vam2 loci, respectively. In the third research project, the immune response following coxsackievirus infection was monitored in four inbred mouse strains in order to identify immune factors involved in disease development. Three of the strains, A/J, NOD and BALB/c, were susceptible to disease while the fourth strain, C57BL/6, was resistant to disease. Two interesting responses were observed. The first was increased TNFα levels in the resistant mice and the second was increased PD-L1 expression in the susceptible mice. Administered recombinant TNFα to the susceptible A/J mice was sufficient to increase their survival, indicating a disease protective role for TNFα in virus-induced myocarditis. All together, these data indicate that a network of many genes, both immune and non-immune, is involved in myocarditis development following virus infection. Identifying and elucidating the role of these genes in myocarditis induction could suggest ways to limit disease progression by developing therapies to target these disease modifiers.
Additional file 3 of Association of plasma and CSF cytochrome P450, soluble epoxide hydrolase, and ethanolamide metabolism with Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Borkowski, Kamil
name: Pedersen, Theresa L.
name: Seyfried, Nicholas T.
name: Lah, James J.
name: Levey, Allan I.
name: Hales, Chadwick M.
name: Dammer, Eric B.
name: Blach, Colette
name: Louie, Gregory
name: Kaddurah-Daouk, Rima
name: Newman, John W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3 : Figure S3. Control and AD group MoCA and log(t-Tau/Aβ42).
Dynamic nuclear spin polarization in resonant laser spectroscopy of a quantum dot
Creators: name: Högele, A.
name: Kroner, M.
name: Latta, C.
name: Claassen, M.
name: Carusotto, I.
name: Bulutay, C.
name: Imamoglu, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant optical excitation of lowest-energy excitonic transitions in self-assembled quantum dots lead to nuclear spin polarization that is qualitatively different from the well known optical orientation phenomena. By carrying out a comprehensive set of experiments, we demonstrate that nuclear spin polarization manifests itself in quantum dots subjected to finite external magnetic field as locking of the higher energy Zeeman transition to the driving laser field, as well as the avoidance of the resonance condition for the lower energy Zeeman branch. We interpret our findings on the basis of dynamic nuclear spin polarization originating from non-collinear hyperfine interaction and find an excellent agreement between the experimental results and the theoretical model.
A Case Study In Software Adaptation
Creators: name: Valetto, Giuseppe
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Computer science

description: We attach a feedback-control-loop infrastructure to an existing target system, to continually monitor and dynamically adapt its activities and performance. (This approach could also be applied to 'new' systems, as an alternative to 'building in' adaptation facilities, but we do not address that here.) Our infrastructure consists of multiple layers with the objectives of 1. probing, measuring and reporting of activity and state during the execution of the target system among its components and connectors; 2. gauging, analysis and interpretation of the reported events; and 3. whenever necessary, feedback onto the probes and gauges, to focus them (e.g., drill deeper), or onto the running target system, to direct its automatic adjustment and reconfiguration. We report on our successful experience using this approach in dynamic adaptation of a large-scale commercial application that requires both coarse and fine grained modifications.
Tree Machines: Architectures and Algorithms A Survey Paper
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Hussein
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1984
Subjects: Computer science

description: Recent advances in very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit technology have lead to a surge in research aimed at finding new computer organizations that support a great deal of concurrency computer organizations based on tree structures appear well-suited to several kinds of parallel computations. In this paper we will discuss the performance of tree machines as well as Issues related to their implementation in VLSI. Examples of tree machines are presented, with an emphasis on the way the processing elements communicate in the machine. A taxonomy of tree algorithms based on a taxonomy of parallel algorithms proposed by Kung in 1979 is Introduced. Examples of tree algorithms are also given.
Additional file 1 of S100A6 inhibits MDM2 to suppress breast cancer growth and enhance sensitivity to chemotherapy
Creators: name: Qi, Mengxin
name: Yi, Xianglan
name: Yue, Baohui
name: Huang, Mingxiang
name: Zhou, Sheng
name: Xiong, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Raw data for western blot and colony formation assay.
title: Schriftlichkeit und Botschaften auf Pfennigen des Ostalpenraums und Bayerns im 13. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Wedam, Raphael
Year: 2023

description: Die Arbeit setzt sich mit dem Phänomen der Schrift auf Pfennigen des 13. Jahrhunderts auseinander. Der räumliche Fokus liegt auf den Prägungen des Herzogtum Bayern sowie auf jenen des Wiener und Grazer Pfennigs. Im Einführungskapitel wird Schrift und Schriftlichkeit sowie Lesekompetenz im 13. Jahrhundert behandelt und ein Überblick über die im 13. Jahrhundert üblichen Schriftformen gegeben. Im Kapitel Schrift und Handel steht die Verbindung der Prägestätten an der Donau im Vordergrund, deren schrifttragende Pfennige durch eine Analyse der Aversstempel genauer betrachtet werden. Da einige schrifttragende Pfennige in die gleiche Zeit datiert wurden, stellt sich die Frage, ob es Anfang des 13. Jahrhunderts eine gemeinsame Werkstatt existierte, die Prägestempel mit Schrift für mehrere Münzstätten anfertigte. Im Zuge der Aversanalyse wird durch den paläographischen Vergleich diese Theorie widerlegt, da die Buchstabenformen zu unterschiedlich sind. Im Kapitel Schrift und Herrschaft wir die Frage genauer untersucht, inwieweit die sich schnell ändernden politischen Verhältnisse des „österreichischen Interregnums“ als Impuls für die stärkere Verwendung von Schrift auf Münzen dienten. Die alte Vorstellung der numismatischen Forschung von Schriftpfennigen als Anfangsgeprägen einer Herrschaft wird hier kritisch hinterfragt und zum Teil revidiert. Als besserer Lösungsansatz dient hier die Wanderung von Motiven aus anderen Regionen in den Ostalpenraum. In den meisten Fällen wanderte die Idee Schrift aus den Regionen mit ein, aus der der Herrscher dieser Region stammte. Der Weiteren wird in diesem Kapitel auf den beschreibenden Charakter der Schrift im Zusammenhang mit heraldischen Darstellung näher eingegangen. Am Ende der Arbeit steht noch der Ausblick auf das 14. und 15. Jahrhundert und die Frage wie sich die Form der Schrift nach dem 13. Jahrhundert verändert.
Japan's Economy: The Idiosyncratic Recovery Continues
Creators: name: Patrick, Hugh T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: This paper considers a range of issues affecting Japan's contemporary economic well-being. Japan has continued toward sustained, full-employment growth, though its path has been idiosyncratic and its pace has been erratic. GDP growth in 2006 was a respectable 2.2 percent, driven by business fixed investment and exports. Private consumption has failed to support demand, which reflects very low wage increases. The combination of economic expansion with mild deflation is the big idiosyncrasy of Japan's economic performance. The decoupling of growth and deflation is explained primarily by the ongoing structural transformation of the labor market. Slow growth in wage income and consumption imply that inflationary pressures will not emerge in the near future, despite economic growth. The likelihood that wage stagnation will persist and consumption's share of GDP will also continue to decline presents inadequate aggregate demand as a major constraint on growth and Japan's most important macroeconomic policy issue. Corporate performance continues to improve, but faces new restructuring challenges that involve divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. Activist shareholders are playing an increasingly important yet controversial role in evolving Japanese companies. Export growth, propelled by a weak yen, has continued to be a major source of aggregate demand and corporate profits. Recent appreciation of the yen, as a result of the global credit crunch and financial turbulence, is a major concern only if it persists. Japan's trade has shifted away from the United States to Asia. East Asian economic cooperation is increasingly promoted, though the main impetus is political, not economic. Obstacles are currently too great for significant bilateral or regional PTAs, which is not a bad thing. I remain fundamentally optimistic about Japan's ability to solve its basic problems.
Baryon chiral perturbation theory
Creators: name: Scherer, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a short introduction to the one-nucleon sector of chiral perturbation theory and address the issue of power counting and renormalization. We discuss the infrared regularization and the extended on-mass-shell scheme. Both allow for the inclusion of further degrees of freedom beyond pions and nucleons and the application to higher-loop calculations. As applications we consider the chiral expansion of the nucleon mass to order ${\cal O}(q^6)$ and the inclusion of vector and axial-vector mesons in the calculation of nucleon form factors. Finally, we address the complex-mass scheme for describing unstable particles in effective field theory.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, invited talk given at the Third International Conference on Hadron Physics, TROIA'11, 22 - 25 August 2011, Canakkale, Turkey
The Cord Approach to Extensible Concurrency Control
Creators: name: Heineman, George T.
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Computer science

description: Database management systems (DBMSs) have been increasingly used for advanced application domains, such as software development environments, workflow management systems, computer-aided design and manufacturing, and managed healthcare. In these domains, the standard correctness model of serializability is often too restrictive. The authors introduce the notion of a concurrency control language (CCL) that allows a database application designer to specify concurrency control policies to tailor the behavior of a transaction manager. A well-crafted set of policies defines an extended transaction model. The necessary semantic information required by the CCL run-time engine is extracted from a task manager, a (logical) module by definition included in all advanced applications. This module stores task models that encode the semantic information about the transactions submitted to the DBMS. They have designed a rule-based CCL, called CORD, and have implemented a run-time engine that can be hooked to a conventional transaction manager to implement the sophisticated concurrency control required by advanced database applications. They present an architecture for systems based on CORD and describe how they integrated the CORD engine with the Exodus Storage Manager to implement altruistic locking.
Crisis moderates the expansion of Israeli multinationals
Creators: name: Hirsch, Seev
name: Hashai, Niron
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Business
Finance

description: The fourth annual survey of Israeli multinationals is being released today. It was conducted by a joint team composed of the Foreign Trade Division of the Manufacturers Association of Israel; The Recanati School of Business, Tel Aviv University; the School of Business Administration, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC), a joint undertaking of the Columbia Law School and The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. The survey is part of a long-term, multi-country study of the rapid global expansion of multinationals from emerging markets. The results released today cover the year 2009.
The RB Language
Creators: name: Smith, Jonathan M.
name: Maguire, Gerald Q.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Computer science

description: Typical algorithms for distributed or parallel computations are cooperative, meaning that the sequential component is broken down into cooperating pieces, which are distributed across available hardware. An approach which has recently gained some attention is competitive processing, where several versions of a sequential program are distributed across available processors to gain performance from algorithmic diversity. There is also potential for fault tolerance from available hardware by executing the sequential versions, called alternatives, on a distributed configuration. Schemes for implementing competitive concurrent processing have been described in the literature, but there is little implementation experience. RB is a practical step towards gaining such experience. RB is a programming language for specifying alternative methods of performing a computation, where at most one of the results of the alternatives is used. Our prototype implementation uses a combination of a language preprocessor for C and a runtime library to provide the desired semantics. Using other base programming languages, e.g., Ada, or other methods of managing alternatives is straightforward.
The Development of Studies of the Japanese Economy in the United States: A Personal Odyssey
Creators: name: Patrick, Hugh T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Commerce

description: This is essentially a personal reminiscence rather than a comprehensive or objective evaluation of the development of the study of the Japanese economy in the United States since the end of World War II. As such, it reflects my own research odyssey. It is weighted more heavily toward the earlier years and most of the people mentioned are those active when the field was first developing in the 1950s and early '60s — that is, my generation and our teachers. (It is a pleasure to note many of us are still active. I apologize to those not mentioned, as well as those mentioned but not described adequately.) The expository style is deliberately informal. After all, I am writing about friends. I trace five interrelated themes: the emergence of Japanese economic studies as a field; the development of core personnel engaged in teaching courses and doing research on the Japanese economy; the increasingly complex and beneficial interaction between Japan-based and US-based economists; the attracting of a number of outstanding American economists who are not specialists on the Japanese economy into comparative research; and the evolving research agenda of the past 50 years.
Additional file 6 of Eravacycline susceptibility was impacted by genetic mutation of 30S ribosome subunits, and branched-chain amino acid transport system II carrier protein, Na/Pi cotransporter family protein in Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Wang, Zhanwen
name: Lin, Zhiwei
name: Bai, Bing
name: Xu, Guangjian
name: Li, Peiyu
name: Yu, Zhijian
name: Deng, Qiwen
name: Shang, Yongpeng
name: Zheng, Jinxin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6 Table S6 PCR primers used for the overexpression vector constructions in this study.
Isotropic-medium three-dimensional cloaks for acoustic and electromagnetic waves
Creators: name: Urzhumov, Yaroslav
name: Landy, Nathan
name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a generalization of the two-dimensional eikonal-limit cloak derived from a conformal transformation to three dimensions. The proposed cloak is a spherical shell composed of only isotropic media; it operates in the transmission mode and requires no mirror or ground plane. Unlike the well-known omnidirectional spherical cloaks, it may reduce visibility of an arbitrary object only for a very limited range of observation angles. In the short-wavelength limit, this cloaking structure restores not only the trajectories of incident rays, but also their phase, which is a necessary ingredient to complete invisibility. Both scalar-wave (acoustic) and transverse vector-wave (electromagnetic) versions are presented.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 9 of Association of plasma and CSF cytochrome P450, soluble epoxide hydrolase, and ethanolamide metabolism with Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Borkowski, Kamil
name: Pedersen, Theresa L.
name: Seyfried, Nicholas T.
name: Lah, James J.
name: Levey, Allan I.
name: Hales, Chadwick M.
name: Dammer, Eric B.
name: Blach, Colette
name: Louie, Gregory
name: Kaddurah-Daouk, Rima
name: Newman, John W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9 : Table S6. Spearman's rank order correlation between AD-related markers and plasma lipid mediators. Analysis performed utilizing only subjects predicted to be fasted with the probability >60%, including 60 AD patients and 96 healthy controls. Only associations with the p<0.05 are displayed. Associations colored based on Spearman's ρ (values shown in the table), with blue color for negative and orange for positive associations.
End-User Regression Testing for Privacy
Creators: name: Sheth, Swapneel Kalpesh
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer science

description: Privacy in social computing systems has become a major concern. End-users of such systems find it increasingly hard to understand complex privacy settings. As software evolves over time, this might introduce bugs that breach users' privacy. Further, there might be system-wide policy changes that could change users' settings to be more or less private than before. We present a novel technique that can be used by end-users for detecting changes in privacy, i.e., regression testing for privacy. Using a social approach for detecting privacy bugs, we present two prototype tools. Our evaluation shows the feasibility and utility of our approach for detecting privacy bugs. We highlight two interesting case studies on the bugs that were discovered using our tools. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first technique that leverages regression testing for detecting privacy bugs from an end-user perspective.
Dilepton excess from local parity breaking in baryon matter
Creators: name: Andrianov, A. A.
name: Andrianov, V. A.
name: Espriu, D.
name: Planells, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that local parity breaking induced by a large-scale fluctuation of topological charge at large temperatures and/or condensation of pseudoscalar mesons in the isotriplet channel for large baryon densities may be responsible for the substantial dilepton excess that is found for low invariant masses and moderate values of $p_T$ in central heavy ions collisions. This insofar unexplained enhancement could be understood by a combination of two effects leading both to an excess of $e^+e^-$ and $μ^+ μ^-$ pairs with respect to theoretical predictions based on conventional hadronic processes: (a) a modification of the dispersion relation of photons and vector mesons propagating in such a nuclear medium due to local parity breaking; (b) the appearance of new decay channels, forbidden by parity conservation in QCD in the usual vacuum. Possible signatures of this effect and perspectives for its detection are discussed.
description: 11 pages, refs corrected, PLB version
Binary-coded modulation and applications in free-space optics
Creators: name: Nguyen, Trung Thanh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Binary-coded modulation techniques such as bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) and multilevel coding (MLC) are pragmatic methods to achieve both high power and bandwidth efficiencies in digital communications. These techniques enable the combination of powerful and popular off-the-shelf binary codes with bandwidth-efficient multilevel signaling without considerable performance loss compared to joint coding and modulation designs. Today, binary-coded modulation has become almost universal in digital communication systems. This thesis concerns several aspects of binary-coded modulation and its applications. For BICM, we study the use of approximate decoding metrics to reduce detection complexity. Specifically, we propose metric correction functions which can improve achievable rates. We further propose a metric scaling which can improve throughput performance of symbol-by-symbol (SBS) decoding, which is the basis of state-of-the-art error-control coding systems. To this end, we also discover an intriguing relationship between the generalized Gallager function and the performance of sum-product SBS decoding. For MLC, we develop the concept of reduced-layer coding that facilitates a trade-off between performance and structural complexity. We then propose a novel rateless MLC scheme which can seamlessly adapt to the instantaneous channel quality and achieve throughput gains compared to BICM in a number of transmission scenarios. Finally, we apply binary-coded modulation techniques to free-space optics (FSO). FSO is an interesting transmission technology which has recently emerged as a low-cost solution to a range of communication challenges. We consider advanced signaling schemes such as channel coding diversity with mismatched decoding metrics and multipulse pulse-position modulation (MPPM). Combined with binary codes, these schemes are practical means to improve rate and reliability in FSO systems.
Towards the Unification of the Functional and Performance Analysis of Protocols or, Is the Alternating-Bit Protocol Really Correct?
Creators: name: Yemini, Yechiam
name: Kurose, James F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: Computer science

description: In the past 15 years the alternating-bit protocol has been perhaps the most widely verified protocol, the benchmark of protocol verification techniques; is it really correct? We claim that the answer is negative. The problem is that existing concepts of correctness do not capture an important sense in which a protocol may be incorrect. Specifically, although protocol goals (e.g., delivering messages) may be attained eventually, the time periods to achieve these goals may increase indefinitely. A notion of correctness which allows one to consider both the probability of reaching a goal as well as the time or computational effort required to achieve the goal is required. We present a novel approach to protocol correctness which unifies functional and performance considerations using a recently proposed probabilistic semantics for programs.
Quantifying intermittency in the open drivebelt billiard
Creators: name: Dettmann, Carl P.
name: Georgiou, Orestis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A "drivebelt" stadium billiard with boundary consisting of circular arcs of differing radius connected by their common tangents shares many properties with the conventional "straight" stadium, including hyperbolicity and mixing, as well as intermittency due to marginally unstable periodic orbits (MUPOs). Interestingly, the roles of the straight and curved sides are reversed. Here we discuss intermittent properties of the chaotic trajectories from the point of view of escape through a hole in the billiard, giving the exact leading order coefficient $\lim_{t\to\infty} t P(t)$ of the survival probability $P(t)$ which is algebraic for fixed hole size. However, in the natural scaling limit of small hole size inversely proportional to time, the decay remains exponential. The big distinction between the straight and drivebelt stadia is that in the drivebelt case there are multiple families of MUPOs leading to qualitatively new effects. A further difference is that most marginal periodic orbits in this system are oblique to the boundary, thus permitting applications that utilise total internal reflection such as microlasers.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ ГЕНДЕРНОГО НАСИЛИЯ И РОЛЬ СУДЕБНОЙ СИСТЕМЫ
Creators: name: Мирзаева Азиза Асатовна Старший помощник судьи Самаркандского областного  суда по уголовным делам
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В статье рассматриваются теоретические основы гендерного насилия и анализируется роль судебной системы в его предупреждении и наказании. Приведены основные теоретические подходы к изучению гендерного насилия, его виды и причины. Особое внимание уделено правовому регулированию и роли национальных и международных актов в борьбе с данным явлением. Рассматриваются проблемы правоприменительной практики, связанные с защитой прав пострадавших, а также предлагаются возможные пути совершенствования судебной системы и законодательной базы.

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Гендерное насилие, судебная система, правовое регулирование, правоприменительная практика, защита пострадавших, законодательные меры, международные акты.
Creating a Story-Telling Universe
Creators: name: Lebowitz, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1983
Subjects: Computer science
Artificial intelligence

description: Extended story generation, such as the creation of soap opera stories, is a difficult and interesting problem for Artificial Intelligence. We present here the first phase of the development of a program, UNIVERSE, to tell such stories. In particular, we introduce a method for creating universes of characters appropriate for extended story generation. This method concentrates on the need to keep story-telling universes consistent and coherent. We also describe the information that must be maintained for characters and interpersonal relations, and the use of stereotypical information about people to help motivate trait values. Finally, we present an example of the kind of characters UNIVERSE generates.
MOESM1 of Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases as potential drug targets of the Panthera pathogen Babesia
Creators: name: Chhibber-Goel, Jyoti
name: Joshi, Sarthak
name: Sharma, Amit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Dataset S1. Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase sequences used to generate the HMM profiles.
AN ANALYSIS OF EN ROUTE AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES
Creators: name: Sanz, Santiago Javier
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Transportation
subject: Air Traffic Control
subject: Data Visualization
subject: Traffic Management Initiatives

description: Ensuring the safety and efficiency of flights is a large mission the FAA is tasked with. Since the early 2000’s the FAA has been working on implementing their next generation air transportation system that aims at modernizing the way flights are managed. Some of the changes brought on by the implementation of next gen include additions and modifications to the time management initiatives (TMIs) that the FAA uses for managing flights. For that reason, the FAA is interested in how these TMIs compare with each other. This document focuses on comparing different TMIs by conducting statistical analysis on the available data and examining the results.
Jacobi vector fields for Lagrangian systems on algebroids
Creators: name: Jozwikowski, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70H03, 53D17, 70H25, 17B66

description: We study the geometric nature of the Jacobi equation. In particular we prove that Jacobi vector fields (JVFs) along a solution of the Euler-Lagrange (EL) equations are themselves solutions of the EL equations but considered on a non-standard algebroid (different from the tangent bundle Lie algebroid). As a consequence we obtain a simple non-computational proof of the relation between the null subspace of the second variation of the action and the presence of JVFs (and conjugate points) along an extremal. We work in the framework of skew-symmetric algebroids.
description: 28 pages
A method for integrating multi-region flexible-route bus services
Creators: name: Sharma, Garima
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Transportation
subject: bus service
subject: flexible route
subject: transit planning

description: A flexible route bus system, serving an area and providing pick-up and drop-off at the users’ doorsteps may be more effective than a conventional bus system in areas with relatively low demand density. Thus, it may reduce the cost per trip and avoid the time and cost to users of accessing bus stops. However, depending on the demand density and circuity of routes, passengers might experience longer travel times and longer wait times. The objective of the thesis is to combine individual many-to-one flexible route services operating in multiple regions, which serve both internal and external demand, and optimize them into an integrated flexible route bus service that offers complete many-to-many transit services for large urban and suburban regions. A total cost function is formulated, and an optimized headway is found for the system. The sensitivity analyses evaluate the influence of input variables on the headway and system effectiveness measures.
GRB 120422A: A Low-luminosity Gamma-ray Burst Driven by Central Engine
Creators: name: Zhang, Bin-Bin
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Shen, Rong-Feng
name: Xu, Dong
name: Zhang, Fu-Wen
name: Wei, Da-Ming
name: Burrows, David N.
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Gehrels, Neil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GRB 120422A is a low-luminosity Gamma-ray burst (GRB) associated with a bright supernova, which distinguishes itself by its relatively short T90 ~ 5 s and an energetic X-ray tail. We analyze the Swift BAT and XRT data and discuss the physical implications. We show that the early steep decline in the X-ray light curve can be interpreted as the curvature tail of a late emission episode around 58-86 s, with a curved instantaneous spectrum at the end of the emission episode. Together with the main activity in the first ~ 20 s and the weak emission from 40 s to 60 s, the prompt emission is variable, which points towards a central engine origin, in contrast to the shock breakout origin as invoked to interpret some other nearby low-luminosity supernova GRBs. The curvature effect interpretation and interpreting the early shallow decay as the coasting external forward shock emission in a wind medium both give a constraint on the bulk Lorentz factor Γto be around several. Comparing the properties of GRB 120422A and other supernova GRBs, we found that the main criterion to distinguish engine-driven GRBs from the shock breakout GRBs is the time-averaged luminosity, with a separation line of about ~ 10^48 erg s^-1.
description: ApJ accepted version; 6 pages, 1 table, 5 figures; minor changes; references updated
Delay-enhanced coherent chaotic oscillations in networks with large disorders
Creators: name: Senthilkumar, D. V.
name: Suresh, R.
name: Sheeba, Jane H.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
name: Kurths, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of coupling delay in a regular network with a ring topology and in a more complex network with an all-to-all (global) topology in the presence of impurities (disorder). We find that the coupling delay is capable of inducing phase-coherent chaotic oscillations in both types of networks, thereby enhancing the spatiotemporal complexity even in the presence of 50% of symmetric disorders of both fixed and random types. Furthermore, the coupling delay increases the robustness of the networks up to 70% of disorders, thereby preventing the network from acquiring periodic oscillations to foster disorder-induced spatiotemporal order. We also confirm the enhancement of coherent chaotic oscillations using snapshots of the phases and values of the associated Kuramoto order parameter. We also explain a possible mechanism for the phenomenon of delay-induced coherent chaotic oscillations despite the presence of large disorders and discuss its applications.
description: 13 pages, 20 figures
Generalized quantum tomographic maps
Creators: name: Asorey, M.
name: Facchi, P.
name: Man'ko, V. I.
name: Marmo, G.
name: Pascazio, S.
name: Sudarshan, E. C. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some non-linear generalizations of classical Radon tomography were recently introduced by M. Asorey et al [Phys. Rev. A 77, 042115 (2008), where the straight lines of the standard Radon map are replaced by quadratic curves (ellipses, hyperbolas, circles) or quadratic surfaces (ellipsoids, hyperboloids, spheres). We consider here the quantum version of this novel non-linear approach and obtain, by systematic use of the Weyl map, a tomographic encoding approach to quantum states. Non-linear quantum tomograms admit a simple formulation within the framework of the star-product quantization scheme and the reconstruction formulae of the density operators are explicitly given in a closed form, with an explicit construction of quantizers and dequantizers. The role of symmetry groups behind the generalized tomographic maps is analyzed in some detail. We also introduce new generalizations of the standard singular dequantizers of the symplectic tomographic schemes, where the Dirac delta-distributions of operator-valued arguments are replaced by smooth window functions, giving rise to the new concept of "thick" quantum tomography. Applications for quantum state measurements of photons and matter waves are discussed.
description: 8 pages