cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ΜΙΚΡΟΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΗ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΗ CMOS VLSI
title: ΜΙΚΡΟΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΗ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΗ CMOS VLSI
Creators: name: Patsis, George
Publisher: name: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
Year: 2023
Subjects: ΜΙΚΡΟΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΗ
ΨΗΦΙΑΚΑ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΑ
ΑΝΑΛΟΓΙΚΑ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΑ
ΗΜΙΑΓΩΓΙΚΕΣ ΔΙΑΤΑΞΕΙΣ
ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΗ
ΟΛΟΚΛΗΡΩΜΕΝΑ ΚΥΚΛΩΜΑΤΑ
CMOS
VLSI

description: Θεωρία λειτουργίας τρανζίστορς MOS. Μοντέλα περιγραφής και προσομοίωσης MOS. Σχεδίαση / Προσομοίωση κυκλωμάτων CMOS Σχεδίαση / Προομοίωση σε επίπεδο χωροθεσίας (layout) κυκλωμάτων ψηφιακής λογικής CMOS
description: Θεωρία λειτουργίας τρανζίστορς MOS. Μοντέλα περιγραφής και προσομοίωσης MOS. Σχεδίαση / Προσομοίωση κυκλωμάτων CMOS Σχεδίαση / Προομοίωση σε επίπεδο χωροθεσίας (layout) κυκλωμάτων ψηφιακής λογικής CMOS
Meeting the Needs of Justice-Involved People With Serious Mental Illness: In Reply
Creators: name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Munetz, Mark R
name: Bonfine, Natalie
Publisher: name: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Year: 2020

description: IN REPLY: As admirers of their work, we thank Drs. Lamberti and Weisman for their comments on our article. We agree that the evolution of forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) they describe is exactly the type of community-based, multi-pronged, comprehensive service approach needed to address the high rates of justice involvement among people with serious mental illness. We also agree that the FACT service delivery model as described by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is one example of how our proposed vision can be put into action.
Three-dimensional mesh calculations for covariant density functional theory
Creators: name: Tanimura, Y.
name: Hagino, K.
name: Liang, H. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to the non-relativistic approaches, three-dimensional (3D) mesh calculations for the {\it relativistic} density functional theory have not been realized because of the challenges of variational collapse and fermion doubling. We overcome these difficulties by developing a novel method based on the ideas of Wilson fermion as well as the variational principle for the inverse Hamiltonian. We demonstrate the applicability of this method by applying it to $^{16}$O, $^{24}$Mg, and $^{28}$Si nuclei, providing detailed explanation on the formalism and verification of numerical implementation.
description: 18 pages, 16 figures
title: Minimum Mean Square Error Spectral Peak Envelope Estimation for Automatic Vowel Classification
Creators: name: Venugopal, Jaishree
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2001

description: Spectral feature computations continue to be a very difficult problem for accurate machine recognition of speech. In this work, which focuses on vowels, a new spectral peak envelope method for vowel classification is developed, based on a missing frequency components model of speech recognition. According to the missing frequency components model, vowel recognition depends only on the spectral (harmonic) peaks. Smoothing and interpolation of the spectra, performed in the standard cepstral analysis method commonly used in automatic speech recognition, actually loses valuable information and results in reduced recognition accuracy. The new method for feature extraction presented in this thesis is based on minimum mean square error curve fitting of cosine-like basis vectors to all peaks in the speech spectrum. A mathematical model for smoothly tracking spectral envelopes using only spectral peak information and ignoring other parts of the spectrum is presented. A software algorithm in Matlab for the model was developed and tested for various speaker types using a neural network classifier. Vowel classification experiments were conducted based on the features derived from the spectral peaks. The classification rates of the peak method under various signal to noise ratios was also studied. The basic conclusion is that the new features perform about the same as cepstral (also referred to as DCTCs, or Discrete Cosine Transform Coefficients) features for clean speech, but have advantages when the signal is degraded by noise.
Variation in Criminogenic Risks by Mental Health Symptom Severity: Implications for Mental Health Services and Research
Creators: name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Van Deinse, Tonya B.
name: Cuddeback, Gary S.
name: Edwards, Daniel
name: Lambert, Michael
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2020

description: Although a growing body of literature has demonstrated that justice-involved people with mental illnesses have criminogenic risk factors at similar or elevated rates as compared to justice-involved people without mental illnesses, more information about how criminogenic risks vary by intensity of mental health symptoms is needed. This information is particularly important for probation agencies who supervise the vast majority of justice-involved individuals with mental illnesses and who are increasingly implementing specialty mental health supervision approaches. To this end, this study examines the relationship between criminogenic risk and intensity of self-reported symptoms of mental illnesses among 201,905 individuals on probation from a large southeastern state. Self-report measures of symptoms of mental illnesses were categorized as low, moderate or high and criminogenic risks were compared among the following three groups: (1) those with no or low self-reported symptoms of mental illness; (2) those reporting moderate levels of symptoms; and (3) those reporting high or elevated levels of symptoms. Our findings suggest that the strength of relationships between symptoms of mental illnesses and criminogenic risks varies by type of criminogenic risk. Also, elevated symptoms of mental illness are associated with higher levels of criminogenic risks. More research about interventions that address mental illnesses and criminogenic risks is needed to inform practice and policy.
Improved texture image classification through the use of a corrosion-inspired cellular automaton
Creators: name: da Silva, Núbia Rosa
name: Van der Weeën, Pieter
name: De Baets, Bernard
name: Bruno, Odemir Martinez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, the problem of classifying synthetic and natural texture images is addressed. To tackle this problem, an innovative method is proposed that combines concepts from corrosion modeling and cellular automata to generate a texture descriptor. The core processes of metal (pitting) corrosion are identified and applied to texture images by incorporating the basic mechanisms of corrosion in the transition function of the cellular automaton. The surface morphology of the image is analyzed before and during the application of the transition function of the cellular automaton. In each iteration the cumulative mass of corroded product is obtained to construct each of the attributes of the texture descriptor. In a final step, this texture descriptor is used for image classification by applying Linear Discriminant Analysis. The method was tested on the well-known Brodatz and Vistex databases. In addition, in order to verify the robustness of the method, its invariance to noise and rotation were tested. To that end, different variants of the original two databases were obtained through addition of noise to and rotation of the images. The results showed that the method is effective for texture classification according to the high success rates obtained in all cases. This indicates the potential of employing methods inspired on natural phenomena in other fields.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures
Multilinearity of two-point correlation functions in one-dimensional models out of equilibrium
Creators: name: Redig, Frank
name: Ruszel, Wioletta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we consider non-equilibrium steady states of one-dimensional models of heat conduction (wealth exchange) which are coupled to some reservoirs creating currents. In particular we will give sufficient and necessary conditions which will depend only on the first two moments of the reservoir measures and the redistribution parameter under which the two-point functions are multilinear. This presents the first example of multilinear two-point functions in the absence of product stationary measures.
description: 11 pages
What is the influence of the blueberry intervention on blood pressure? A graded, dose-response systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Akhgarjand, Camellia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Hypertension is a chronic condition regarding elevated blood pressure (BP) within the vascular system. Changes in vascular function have a leading role in the occurrence of high blood pressure. Blueberries are one of the main sources of flavonoids and fiber. It is full of hydrocinnamic acid, ferulic acid, and proanthocyanidins. The phenolic content of blueberries is twice as high per serving in comparison to other fruit such as apples. Anthocyanin, compose more than 50% of the total polyphenol compounds in blueberries. It has been shown that taking blueberry more than one to three portions per week has many life-related benefits. There is evidence from epidemiological studies indicating that blueberry has lots of health benefits including antiinﬂammatory, antiobesity, antihypertensive, antihyperlipidemic, and antidiabetic effects. However, blueberry has been shown to affect some of the main CVD risk factors including arterial stiffness, blood pressure, and endothelial function. Blueberry consumption via way of means of animals has been proven to lower blood stress and enhance endothelium-established vasodilation. According to the inconclusive results, the antihypertensive and vasoprotective possible effects of blueberry need to be illustrated in a dose-response manner. In general, a comprehensive meta-analysis summarizing all available evidence in this area is required
Anna Peirats y Rubén Gregori (2023). Meditation and Contemplation: Word and Image at the Service of Medieval Spirituality. Religions, 2023, 14, 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020188
Creators: name: Peirats Navarro, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 430314
subject: History of religion
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory
classificationCode: 470520
subject: Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
classificationCode: 470521
subject: Middle Eastern literature

description: The use of images in intimate piety in the XIV–XV centuries responded to the need to create a mental reality that would be complemented by the imitation of Jesus’, Mary’s and the saints’ lives turned into models of permanent emulation. The faithful were expected to show the same qualities as these divine characters, so spiritual practices acquired ethical and public implications. Devotional objects played a central role in meditation, affecting the senses and the soul directly. The religious effigy provoked an empathy with what was viewed and helped by jogging the memory and feelings about the holy figures in all stages of their lives, varying the emotions to the detriment of each event. If one thought, for example, of the risen Christ, one would experience joy, but if one meditated on His Passion, one would become afflicted by sorrow. The dissemination of these habits of contemplating the images and the numerous treatises concerned with directing evocation are sufficient evidence to confirm the triumph of visuality for the excitement of piety.
Improving predictability of time series using maximum entropy methods
Creators: name: Chliamovitch, Gregor
name: Dupuis, Alexandre
name: Chopard, Bastien
name: Golub, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how maximum entropy methods may be applied to the reconstruction of Markov processes underlying empirical time series and compare this approach to usual frequency sampling. It is shown that, at least in low dimension, there exists a subset of the space of stochastic matrices for which the MaxEnt method is more efficient than sampling, in the sense that shorter historical samples have to be considered to reach the same accuracy. Considering short samples is of particular interest when modelling smoothly non-stationary processes, for then it provides, under some conditions, a powerful forecasting tool. The method is illustrated for a discretized empirical series of exchange rates.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
The Promise of Research to Advance Smart Decarceration
Creators: name: Epperson, Matthew W.
name: Fedock, Gina
name: Wilson, Amy Blank
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2020

description: This paper describes the concept of "Smart Decarceration" and introduces the special issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior entitled Research to Advance Smart Decarceration Policies, Programs, and Interventions. The concept of Smart Decarceration originated nearly a decade ago as the United States reached a tipping point in mass incarceration, and it focuses on three interrelated outcomes: substantially reducing the use of incarceration and other forms of punishment; reversing racial disparities and other inequities in the criminal justice system; and promoting safety and well-being, particularly for communities that have been most impacted by mass incarceration. Ultimately, Smart Decarceration efforts should prioritize reducing the overall footprint of the criminal justice system, while building capacity outside of the system to support safety, health, and well-being. Research plays a critical role in advancing Smart Decarceration, as new forms of knowledge and evidence must be developed to replace ineffective and unjust policies and practices associated with mass incarceration. The paper discusses approaches to research that move beyond typical criminal justice outcomes and focus on the multifaceted goals of Smart Decarceration. The six articles in this special issue are introduced, highlighting their foci across ecological levels and the breadth of the criminal justice continuum, centering populations most impacted by incarceration, and identifying practice and policy innovations.
Bayesian mass and age estimates for transiting exoplanet host stars
Creators: name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Serenelli, A. M.
name: Southworth, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean density of a star transited by a planet, brown dwarf or low mass star can be accurately measured from its light curve. This measurement can be combined with other observations to estimate its mass and age by comparison with stellar models. Our aim is to calculate the posterior probability distributions for the mass and age of a star given its density, effective temperature, metallicity and luminosity. We computed a large grid of stellar models that densely sample the appropriate mass and metallicity range. The posterior probability distributions are calculated using a Markov-chain Monte-Carlo method. The method has been validated by comparison to the results of other stellar models and by applying the method to stars in eclipsing binary systems with accurately measured masses and radii. We have explored the sensitivity of our results to the assumed values of the mixing-length parameter, $α_{\rm MLT}$, and initial helium mass fraction, Y. For a star with a mass of 0.9 solar masses and an age of 4 Gyr our method recovers the mass of the star with a precision of 2% and the age to within 25% based on the density, effective temperature and metallicity predicted by a range of different stellar models. The masses of stars in eclipsing binaries are recovered to within the calculated uncertainties (typically 5%) in about 90% of cases. There is a tendency for the masses to be underestimated by about 0.1 solar masses for some stars with rotation periods P$_{\rm rot}< 7$d. Our method makes it straightforward to determine accurately the joint posterior probability distribution for the mass and age of a star eclipsed by a planet or other dark body based on its observed properties and a state-of-the art set of stellar models.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 9 pages, 4 figures. Source code for the software described is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bagemass
Towards an automated detection of changes in the urban chameleon skin
Creators: name: Wild, Benjamin
name: Verhoeven, Geert J.
name: Pfeifer, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: 3D
Change detection
Danube channel
Donaukanal
Graffiti
IBM (Image-Based Modelling)
Synthetic image
Texture mapping
Vienna

description: Colourful and ever-changing: Graffiti can be considered the urban chameleon skin. At the Donaukanal (Eng. Danube Channel), Vienna's central waterway and one of the largest and most active graffiti-scapes worldwide, this metaphor applies like hardly anywhere else. Every day a multitude of graffiti is destroyed by the creation of new works. Recently, efforts have been made to mitigate this constant loss of cultural heritage along the Donaukanal by systematically documenting the graffiti, mainly using photography and photogrammetry. However, keeping track of the newly added works is very time-consuming and often like finding needles in a haystack, considering the large extent and high volatility of the monitored area. Thus, an automated graffiti change detection would significantly reduce the effort and avoid overlooking graffiti.
In this presentation, the main challenges in image-based change detection for an extensive graffiti-scape are outlined. Furthermore, we will showcase a camera-based monitoring framework that provides a robust foundation of data, which serves as input for a novel hybrid method of image-based change detection. The investigated method exploits and combines an established pixel-based change detection algorithm, the Iteratively Multivariate Alteration Detection, with a descriptor-based method. The latter relies on image features rather than pixels as an analysis unit and can robustly filter false alarms from the high-performing but noise-prone pixel-based approach. Overall, the results indicate that the proposed method can largely automate image-based change detection of graffiti-scapes. It can uncover graffiti-related changes and robustly distinguish them from other image differences such as shadows but tends to overlook small-scale graffiti, indicating the need for further finetuning.
description: The INDIGO graffiti project is funded by the Heritage Science Austria programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
title: Analysis of phytosterols by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fed novel lipid sources
Creators: name: Perry, Judy F.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: Fishmeal and fish oil have been considered the most digestible and nutritious ingredients for farmed fish, but there is a shift towards more sustainable alternatives. In this study, fish oil was replaced with four alternative oil sources, oil from Camelina sativa seeds, oil from rapeseed, oil from Pavlova sp., and a microbial oil produced from Schizochytrium sp.. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were fed experimental diets, including either microbial oil or camelina oil at low and high levels of inclusion, as well as a control diet containing traditional fish oil. Sterol content was investigated to determine if added phytosterols were incorporated by the salmon, and subsequently transferred to the fish tissue for human consumption. Sterols were identified, and quantified where possible, in the alternative oil sources and then in salmon muscle tissue after feeding trials. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography/flame ionization detection (GC-FID) were used in the analysis. Five sterols were identified in camelina oil: cholesterol, brassicasterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, and β-sitosterol. In the experimental diets from the 16-week feeding trial containing various inclusion levels of camelina oil, brassicasterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, and β-sitosterol were also identified, however in the muscle tissue from salmon fed these diets, only campesterol and β-sitosterol were detected. In the microbial oil experiment, cholesterol, lathosterol, brassicasterol, 24-methylenecholesterol, 24-methylenelophenol, stigmasterol, and spinasterol were the sterols identified. In the experimental diets containing 5% or 10% microbial oil, cholesterol, brassicasterol, lathosterol and stigmasterol were found, with the addition of campesterol, and two other sterols (23,24-dimethylcholest-5-en-3β-ol and 24-ethyl-5α-cholest-7-en-3β-ol). In the muscle tissue from salmon fed the diets containing microbial oil, cholesterol, cholestanol, campesterol, stigmasterol, and dinosterol were detected. Campesterol and β-sitosterol from the camelina oil were transferred from the diet to the tissue, and with the microbial oil, stigmasterol was also detected in both the diets and the salmon tissues. This indicates that sterols in microbial oil can be transferred to the fish by consumption, but not all sterols were found to do so. Also, phytosterols can be metabolized to other sterols by the fish, as was seen with cholesterol and cholestanol.
Meeting the Needs of Justice-Involved People With Serious Mental Illness Within Community Behavioral Health Systems
Creators: name: Munetz, Mark R.
name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Bonfine, Natalie
Publisher: name: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Year: 2019

description: The overrepresentation of people with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system is a complex problem. A long-standing explanation for this phenomenon, the criminalization hypothesis, posits that policy changes that shifted the care of people with serious mental illness from psychiatric hospitals to an underfunded community treatment setting resulted in their overrepresentation within the criminal justice system. This framework has driven the development of interventions to connect people with serious mental illness to needed mental health and substance use treatment, a critical component for people in need. However, the criminalization hypothesis is a limited explanation of the overrepresentation of people with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system because it downplays the social and economic forces that have contributed to justice system involvement in general and minimizes the complex clinical, criminogenic, substance use, and social services needs of people with serious mental illness. A new approach is needed that focuses on addressing the multiple factors that contribute to justice involvement for this population. Although the authors' proposed approach may be viewed as aspirational, they suggest that an integrated community-based behavioral health system-i.e., intercept 0-serve as the focal point for coordinating and integrating services for justice-involved people with serious mental illness.
Dyonic non-Abelian vortex strings in supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric theories: tensions and higher derivative corrections
Creators: name: Eto, Minoru
name: Murakami, Yoshihide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dyonic non-Abelian local/semi-global vortex strings are studied in detail in supersymmetric/non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theories. While the BPS tension formula is known to be the same as that for the BPS dyonic instanton, we find that the non-BPS tension formula is approximated very well by the well-known tension formula of the BPS dyon. We show that this mysterious tension formula for the dyonic non-BPS vortex stings can be understood from the perspective of a low energy effective field theory. Furthermore, we propose an efficient method to obtain an effective theory of a single vortex string, which includes not only lower derivative terms but also all order derivative corrections by making use of the tension formula. We also find a novel dyonic vortex string whose internal orientation vectors rotate in time and spiral along the string axis.
description: 51 pages, 12 figures
Persons With Severe Mental Illnesses and Sex Offenses: Recidivism After Prison Release
Creators: name: Cuddeback, Gary S.
name: Van Deinse, Tonya
name: Morrissey, Joseph P.
name: Grady, Melissa
name: Wilson, Amy Blank
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2019

description: Individuals who have committed sex offenses (ISOs) with severe mental illnesses are a complex population to serve and more research is needed to guide practice and policy, especially around community supervision, enrollment in Medicaid, housing, employment, criminal justice contacts, and reincarceration after prison reentry. To further the literature in this area, we used logistic regression to model recidivism and admissions to violator or prison facilities among 127 ISOs with severe mental illnesses and 2,935 people with severe mental illnesses who were incarcerated in prison for other crimes. Compared to prison releasees with severe mental illnesses who committed crimes other than sex offenses, prison releasees with severe mental illnesses who committed sex offenses were admitted to violator facilities at higher rates, when controlling for substance use, Medicaid enrollment, homelessness, and unemployment. Implications for practice, policy and research are discussed.
'Against the norm' mothering: A reflexive thematic analysis of autistic motherhood
Creators: name: Sanchez, Paula
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2023

description: The idea of the autistic mother, and interest in autistic mothering and motherhood, is an emergent area of popular and academic interest which, until very recently, was missing from both autism and motherhood literature. Seeking to improve awareness and understanding of autistic motherhood and to make recommendations to improve our lives, this ‘insider’ research is underpinned by the disability rights slogan ‘nothing about us without us’ and the feminist slogan ‘the personal is political’. Situating this research within matricentric feminism, alongside its more typical setting within critical autism studies, enables a deeper analysis of the social and cultural expectations of motherhood and their influence on autistic mothers. Asynchronous virtual interviews, conducted using WhatsApp (n=10) and email (n=2), and with a ‘friendship as method’ approach to generating data, were conducted with 12 autistic mothers of autistic children in the UK. Data were analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis, resulting in the development of six themes representing patterns of shared meaning organised conceptually around identity, masking, support, mothering, motherhood and knowledge. My analysis shows how poor awareness, understanding and support of autistic mothers contributes to a perpetuation of mother blame narratives, despite participants demonstrating considerable autism expertise and being highly skilled at meeting the needs of their children. Through seeking to understand how autistic mothers negotiate being autistic, navigate motherhood and how being a autistic affects experiences of motherhood, I am able to reveal how autistic mothers are resisting normative ideals of the ‘good mother’ and how we are in the process of co-constructing our own ideal of the ‘good autistic mother’.
A Scientific Trigger Unit for Space-Based Real-Time Gamma Ray Burst Detection, I - Scientific Software Model and Simulations
Creators: name: Schanne, Stéphane
name: Provost, Hervé Le
name: Kestener, Pierre
name: Gros, Aleksandra
name: Cortial, Marin
name: Götz, Diego
name: Sizun, Patrick
name: Château, Frédéric
name: Cordier, Bertrand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The on-board Scientific Trigger Unit (UTS) is designed to detect Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in real-time, using the data produced by the ECLAIRs camera, foreseen to equip the future French-Chinese satellite mission SVOM (Space-based Variable Objects Monitor). The UTS produces GRB alerts, sent to the ground for GRB follow-up observations, and requests the spacecraft slew to repoint its narrow field instruments onto the GRB afterglow. Because of the diversity of GRBs in duration and variability, two simultaneously running GRB trigger algorithms are implemented in the UTS, the so called Image Trigger performing systematic sky image reconstruction on time scales above 20 s, and the Count-Rate Trigger, selecting a time scale from 10 ms to 20 s showing an excess in count-rate over background estimate, prior to imaging the excess for localization on the sky. This paper describes both trigger algorithms and their implementation in a library, compiled for the Scientific Software Model (SSM) running on standard Linux machines, and which can also be cross-compiled for the Data Processing Model (DPM), in order to have the same algorithms running on both platforms. While the DPM permits to validate the hardware concept and benchmark the algorithms (see paper II), the SSM allows to optimize the algorithms and estimate the GRB trigger-rate of ECLAIRs/UTS. The result of running on the SSM a dynamic photon by photon simulation based on the BATSE GRB catalog is presented.
description: 5 pages, 10 figures, published in Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), Issue Date: Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013
Generalization of Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory to particle-hole mixing boundary conditions: π-shift and conductance dips
Creators: name: Catapano, M.
name: Romeo, F.
name: Citro, R.
name: Giubileo, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory considering non-diagonal boundary conditions in the Bogoliubov-de Gennes scattering problem, to describe anomalous conductance features often reported for normal-metal/superconductor contacts. We calculate the differential conductance spectra showing that conductance dips, not expected in the standard formulation, are explained in terms of phase π-shift, between the bulk and the interface order parameter, possibly induced by a localized magnetic moment. A discretized model is used to give quantitative evaluation of the physical conditions, namely the polarization and transparency of the interface, needed to realize the phase gradient.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Myxococcus xanthus as host for the production of benzoxazoles
Creators: name: Winand, Lea
name: Lernoud, Lucia
name: Meyners, Saskia Anna
name: Kuhr, Katharina
name: Hiller, Wolf
name: Nett, Markus
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Benzoxazole
subject: Combinatorial biosynthesis
subject: Heterologous expression
subject: Ligases
subject: Myxococcus xanthus
subject: 660
subject: Benzoxazol
subject: Kombinatorische Synthese
subject: Biosynthese
subject: Heterologe Genexpression
subject: Ligasen
subject: Myxococcus xanthus

description: Benzoxazoles are important structural motifs in pharmaceutical drugs. Here, we present the heterologous production of 3-hydroxyanthranilate-derived benzoxazoles in the host bacterium Myxococcus xanthus following the expression of two genes from the nataxazole biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces sp. Tü 6176. The M. xanthus expression strain achieved a benzoxazole titer of 114.6±7.4 mg L−1 upon precursor supplementation, which is superior to other bacterial production systems. Crosstalk between the heterologously expressed benzoxazole pathway and the endogenous myxochelin pathway led to the combinatorial biosynthesis of benzoxazoles featuring a 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,3-DHBA) building block. Subsequent in vitro studies confirmed that this crosstalk is not only due to the availability of 2,3-DHBA in M. xanthus, rather, it is promoted by the adenylating enzyme MxcE from the myxochelin pathway, which contributes to the activation of aryl carboxylic acids and delivers them to benzoxazole biosynthesis.
description: ChemBioChem;24(5)
title: Dynamic and Interactive 3D Simulation Over the World Wide Web
Creators: name: Vennam, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1999

description: The thesis presents the development of a new and novel three-dimensional simulation tool over the WWW using Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). VRML is a 3D analog to HTML and serves as a simple, multiplatform language for publishing 3D Web pages. In general, most people use VRML for developing three-dimensional models or worlds that provide little or no interaction for the users. This tool combines interaction and dynamic object creation. A thorough study of VRML is done to explore the features of VRML that could be combined to develop methodologies for creation of dynamic and interactive 3D objects over the WWW. These methodologies are used to develop an urban simulation tool. This tool allows the users to plan and build their own cities interactively. The users can draw plot lines, add buildings, parking lots, road ways, trees, berms, hedges as well as lamp posts. Then it also allows them to view the scene from various viewpoints. In addition, it also provides the users a fly through tour (bird's eye view) through the city they planned and constructed.
Supplementary document for Decoupling Absorption and Radiative Cooling in Mid-Wave Infrared Bolometric Elements - 6415496.pdf
Creators: name: Ware, Alexander
name: Bergthold, Morgan
name: Mansfield, Noah
name: Sakotic, Zarko
name: Scott, Ethan
name: Harris, Charles
name: Wasserman, Dan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Decoupling Absorption and Radiative
Preparation of micron and submicron particles via spray drying and electrostatic precipitation
Creators: name: Justen, Anna
name: Kurth, Christopher
name: Schaldach, Gerhard
name: Thommes, Markus
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Electrostatic precipitation
subject: Micronized particles
subject: Spray drying
subject: Ultrasonic atomization
subject: 660
subject: Elektroentstaubung
subject: Teilchengröße
subject: Zerstäubungstrocknung
subject: Zerstäubung

description: Small particles are of great interest in a variety of applications. Spray drying is a common technique for particle synthesis, but it is limited with respect to sizes below 10 μm. Therefore, a new laboratory-scale spray dryer was designed to address this issue. A novel aerosol generator consisting of a piezo crystal in a swirl chamber was designed to obtain droplets in the low micrometer range. After drying and cooling, particles were deposited in a molten carrier, using melt electrostatic precipitation. The median particle size of three pharmaceutical drug substances was 2 μm. The size distribution was particularly narrow, with span values of about 1.1. Spray drying is a sufficient technique to produce small drug particles below 5 μm with ultrasonic atomization at high frequencies. Electrostatic precipitation in a molten carrier is a suitable method to capture these particles.
description: Chemical engineering & technology;46(2)
Studying the radio continuum from nuclear activity and star formation in Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Creators: name: Mishra, Alka
name: Kantharia, N. G.
name: Das, M.
name: Srivastava, D. C.
name: Vogel, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multifrequency radio continuum study of seven giant low surface brightness (GLSB) galaxies using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). GLSB galaxies are optically faint, dark-matter dominated systems that are poorly evolved and have large HI gas disks. Our sample consists of GLSB galaxies that show signatures of nuclear activity in their optical spectra. We detect radio emission from the nuclei of all the seven galaxies. Five galaxies have nuclear spectral indices that range from 0.12 to -0.44 and appear to be core-dominated; the two galaxies have a steeper spectrum. Two of the galaxies, UGC 2936 and UGC 4422 show significant radio emission from their disks. In our 610 MHz observations of UGC 6614, we detect radio lobes associated with the radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN). The lobes have a spectral index of -1.06+/-0.12. The star formation rates estimated from the radio emission, for the entire sample range from 0.15 to 3.6 M{solar} yr^{-1} . We compare the radio images with the near-ultraviolet (NUV) images from GALEX and near-infrared (NIR) images from 2MASS. The galaxies present a diversity of relative NUV, NIR and radio emission, supporting an episodic star formation scenario for these galaxies. Four galaxies are classified members of groups and one is classified as isolated. Our multiwavlength study of this sample suggests that the environment plays an important role in the evolution of these galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Exponential growth of systematic reviews assessing artificial intelligence studies in medicine: challenges and opportunities
Creators: name: von Groote, Thilo Caspar
name: Ghoreishi, Narges
name: Björklund, Maria
name: Porschen, Christian
name: Puljak, Livia
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement is stepping up its efforts to assess medical artificial intelligence (AI) and data science studies. Since 2017, there has been a marked increase in the number of published systematic reviews that assess medical AI studies. Increasingly, data from observational studies are used in systematic reviews of medical AI studies. Assessment of risk of bias is especially important in medical AI studies to detect possible “AI bias”.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Assessment of indoor bioaerosol exposure using direct-reading versus traditional methods—potential application to home health care
Creators: name: Addor, Yao S.
name: Newman, Nicholas
name: Baumgardner, Darrel
name: Indugula, Reshmi
name: Hughes, Dagen
name: Jandarov, Roman
name: Reponen, Tiina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Home healthcare workers (HHCWs) can be occupationally exposed to bioaerosols in their clients’ homes. However, choosing the appropriate method to measure bioaerosol exposures remains a challenge. Therefore, a systematic comparison of existing measurement approaches is essential. Bioaerosol measurements with a real-time, fluorescence-based Wideband Integrated Bioaerosol Sensor (WIBS) were compared to measurements with four traditional off-line methods (TOLMs). The TOLMS included optical microscopic counting of spore trap samples, microbial cultivation of impactor samples, qPCR, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) of filter samples. Measurements were conducted in an occupied apartment simulating the environments that HHCWs could encounter in their patients’ homes. Descriptive statistics and Spearman’s correlation test were computed to compare the real-time measurement with those of each TOLM. The results showed that the geometric mean number concentrations of the total fluorescent aerosol particles (TFAPs) detected with the WIBS were several orders of magnitude higher than those of total fungi or bacteria measured with the TOLMs. Among the TOLMs, concentrations obtained with qPCR and NGS were the closest to the WIBS detections. Correlations between the results obtained with the WIBS and TOLMs were not consistent. No correlation was found between the concentrations of fungi detected using microscopic counting and any of the WIBS fluorescent aerosol particle (FAP) types, either indoors or outdoors. In contrast, the total concentrations detected with microbial cultivation correlated with the WIBS TFAP results, both indoors and outdoors. Outdoors, the total concentration of culturable bacteria correlated with FAP-type AC. In addition, fungal and bacterial concentrations obtained with qPCR correlated with FAP types AB and AC. For a continuous, high-time resolution but broad scope, the real-time WIBS could be considered, whereas a TOLM would be the best choice for specific and more accurate microbial characterization. HHCWs’ activities tend to re-aerosolize bioaerosols causing wide temporal variation in bioparticle concentrations. Thus, the advantage of using the real-time instrument is to capture those variations. This study lays a foundation for future exposure assessment studies targeting HHCWs.
Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to examine implementation determinants of specialty mental health probation
Creators: name: Cuddeback, Gary S.
name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Bunger, Alicia
name: Van Deinse, Tonya B.
name: Burgin, Stacey
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019

description: Background Specialty mental health probation (SMHP) is designed to improve outcomes for the large number of people with serious mental illnesses who are on probation and/or parole. The evidence for specialty mental health probation is promising; however, little is known about the implementation challenges and facilitators associated with SMHP. To address this gap, we used the consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) to analyze 26 interviews with stakeholders representing multiple agencies involved in the implementation of SMHP. Results Results indicate a number of challenges and facilitators related to the inner setting, outer setting, implementation process, and characteristics of individuals. Conclusions Findings suggest that complex and cross-sectoral interventions are context-dependent and introduce a number of challenges and facilitators related to multiple CFIR domains. Consequently, agency administrators implementing these types of interventions should consider small pilot studies and develop implementation strategies tailored to the local implementation context.
Conceptualizing Restorative Justice for People with Mental Illnesses Leaving Prison or Jail
Creators: name: Draine, Jeffrey
name: Wilson, Amy Blank
name: Bilger, Andrea
name: Thomas, Elizabeth C.
Publisher: name: American Psychological Association (APA)
Year: 2019

description: Individuals with psychiatric disabilities who are involved in the criminal justice system face a number of challenges to community integration upon release. There is a critical need to develop and evaluate interventions for these individuals that connect them to the community by enhancing naturalistic social connections and helping them to participate meaningfully in valued roles. The purposes of this article are to describe, provide a theoretical rationale, and propose a conceptual model for the use of a particular restorative justice model, circles of support and accountability, to meet this need. We describe the principles of restorative justice (repairing harm, stakeholder involvement, and the transformation of community and governmental roles and relationships) and how these map on to elements of the circles intervention. These elements include a focus on community participation, positive social support, democratic decision making, collective ownership of crime problems, and connection to community-based resources. We then suggest how changes in identity transformation, moral development and motivation, and collective efficacy might mediate relationships between these intervention elements and community integration outcomes. Finally, we encourage the systematic evaluation of the circles intervention for people with mental health conditions leaving custody and provide recommendations for policy and practice.
keV Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter and Low Scale Leptogenesis
Creators: name: Kang, Sin Kyu
name: Patra, Ayon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a simple extension of the Standard Model to consistently explain the observation of a peak in the galactic X-ray spectrum at 3.55 keV and the light neutrino masses along with the baryon asymmetry of the universe. The baryon asymmetry is generated through leptogenesis, the lepton asymmetry being generated by the decay of a heavy neutrino with TeV mass scale. The extra singlet fermion introduced in the model can be identified as a dark matter candidate of mass 7.1 keV. It decays with a lifetime much larger than the age of the universe, producing a final state photon. The Yukawa interactions between the extra singlet neutrino and a heavier right-handed neutrino play a crucial role in simultaneously achieving low scale leptogenesis and relic density of the keV dark matter candidate.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures