cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
FDCNet: Feature Drift Compensation Network for Class-Incremental Weakly Supervised Object Localization
Creators: name: Park, Sejin
name: Lee, Taehyung
name: Lee, Yeejin
name: Kang, Byeongkeun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work addresses the task of class-incremental weakly supervised object localization (CI-WSOL). The goal is to incrementally learn object localization for novel classes using only image-level annotations while retaining the ability to localize previously learned classes. This task is important because annotating bounding boxes for every new incoming data is expensive, although object localization is crucial in various applications. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to address this task. Thus, we first present a strong baseline method for CI-WSOL by adapting the strategies of class-incremental classifiers to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. These strategies include applying knowledge distillation, maintaining a small data set from previous tasks, and using cosine normalization. We then propose the feature drift compensation network to compensate for the effects of feature drifts on class scores and localization maps. Since updating network parameters to learn new tasks causes feature drifts, compensating for the final outputs is necessary. Finally, we evaluate our proposed method by conducting experiments on two publicly available datasets (ImageNet-100 and CUB-200). The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms other baseline methods.
description: ACM Multimedia 2023
Case studies of simulation gaming
Creators: name: Grosvenor, James S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Self-learning Anomaly Detection in Industrial Production
Creators: name: Meshram, Ankush
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Industrielles Steuerungssystem
Netzwerksicherheit
Netzwerk-Intrusion-Detection-System
Anomalieerkennung
selbstlernend
Industrial Control System
Network Security
Network Intrusion Detection System
Anomaly Detection
self-learning

description: Configuring an anomaly-based Network Intrusion Detection System for cybersecurity of an industrial system in the absence of information on networking infrastructure and programmed deterministic industrial process is challenging. Within the research work, different self-learning frameworks to analyze passively captured network traces from PROFINET-based industrial system for protocol-based and process behavior-based anomaly detection are developed, and evaluated on a real-world industrial system.
Η χρήση των διασημοτήτων και του χιούμορ στις ελληνικές τηλεοπτικές διαφημίσεις: Μία διαχρονική μελέτη για την περίοδο 2006-2014
Creators: name: Τασούλα, Ευαγγελία
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Διασημότητες
Χιούμορ
Ελληνικές τηλεοπτικές διαφημίσεις 2006-2014
Celebrities
Humor
Greek TV commercials 2006-2014

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να εξετάσει την σχέση που έχουν η χρήση διασημοτήτων και χιούμορ με τις διάφορες πτυχές της διαφήμισης Η εργασία χωρίζεται σε δύο κύρια μέρη. Το πρώτο αφορά την ανασκόπηση της σχετικής βιβλιογραφίας και το δεύτερο την εμπειρική εξέταση των ερευνητικών ερωτήσεων, οι οποίες απορρέουν από την βιβλιογραφία. Οι ερευνητικές ερωτήσεις είναι δέκα και μέσα από αυτές ο ερευνητής θέλει να δει την διαχρονική εξέλιξη του χιούμορ και της χρήσης διάσημων, την σχέση τους με το είδος του προϊόντος και άλλα. Το δείγμα αποτελείται από 900 τυχαίες διαφημίσεις της Ελληνικής τηλεόρασης και ο τρόπος ανάλυσης που χρησιμοποιήθηκε είναι η ανάλυση περιεχομένου. Μέσα από αυτή την ανάλυση ο ερευνητής καταλήγει στο συμπέρασμα ότι η χρήση τόσο του χιούμορ όσο και των διάσημων σχετίζονται άμεσα με την χρονιά καθώς και με το είδος του προϊόντος. Το επίπεδο ανάμιξης δεν φαίνεται να σχετίζεται με την χρήση των διάσημων, αλλά μόνο με την χρήση χιούμορ. Μία σημαντική σχέση που φαίνεται να υπάρχει είναι ανάμεσα στο χιούμορ, τους διάσημους και το είδος του προϊόντος. Τα αποτελέσματα σε αυτή την ερευνητική ερώτηση δείχνουν ότι η σχέση αυτή είναι στατιστικά σημαντική και ότι ανάλογα με το είδος χρησιμοποιείται και ο κατάλληλος συνδυασμός.
description: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between humor, celebrities and television advertisements. The study is divided into two main parts. The first concerns the review of the relevant literature and the second the empirical examination of research questions stemming from the literature. The research questions are ten, through which the researcher wants to examine the evolution of humor, the usage of celebrities, their relationship with the product type and more. The sample consists of 900 random Greek television advertisements. The analysis method used is content analysis. Through this analysis, the researcher concludes that the use of both the humor and the celebrities is directly related to the year and the type of product. The mixing level does not correlate with the use of celebrities, but only with humor. A significant relationship seems to exist between humor, celebrities and the type of product. The results in this research question show that this relationship is statistically significant and that depending on the type, the appropriate combination is used.
description: Τμήματα Πληροφορικής και Οικονομικών Επιστημών του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ)
The Audio Chip Drum Controller (ACDC)
Creators: name: Collins, Bret
name: Parkhurst, Tyler
name: Pegue, Jordon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018

description: For a typical live band sound system, an acoustic microphone is often used for a bass drum. Due
to its location near the floor, these microphones are prone to excessive feedback and
amplification of undesirable noise, such as foot falls and tapping. The intent of this project is to
replace this acoustic microphone with a digital system. The system design consists of a contact-pressure
sensitive pad or a pressure sensor that records the pressure applied to the bass drum,
sends the value to a microcontroller, which then sends out an appropriate sound to be played
from a library of generated sounds. Other products exist that perform this function, but there is
currently no product that integrates the audio function into the trigger. The product replaces a
single microphone with a single trigger/sound unit at a cost comparable to a decent microphone.
Furthermore, the device provides a balanced output and XLR jack for a direct connection to the
mixing board. Functionality has been demonstrated using two microcontrollers and two different
sensors. The microcontrollers implemented were the Cypress Programmable-System-on-a-Chip
4200L and an Arduino Uno R3. The sensors used include a force-sensitive resistor and a
piezoelectric sensor.
Tunable Schottky barrier and high responsivity in graphene/Si-nanotip optoelectronic device
Creators: name: Di Bartolomeo, Antonio
name: Giubileo, Filippo
name: Luongo, Giuseppe
name: Iemmo, Laura
name: Martucciello, Nadia
name: Niu, Gang
name: Fraschke, Mirko
name: Skibitzki, Oliver
name: Schroeder, Thomas
name: Lupina, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate tunable Schottky barrier height and record photo-responsivity in a new-concept device made of a single-layer CVD graphene transferred onto a matrix of nanotips patterned on n-type Si wafer. The original layout, where nano-sized graphene/Si heterojunctions alternate to graphene areas exposed to the electric field of the Si substrate, which acts both as diode cathode and transistor gate, results in a two-terminal barristor with single-bias control of the Schottky barrier. The nanotip patterning favors light absorption, and the enhancement of the electric field at the tip apex improves photo-charge separation and enables internal gain by impact ionization. These features render the device a photodetector with responsivity (3 A/W for white LED light at 3 mW/cm2 intensity) almost an order of magnitude higher than commercial photodiodes. We extensively characterize the voltage and the temperature dependence of the device parameters and prove that the multi-junction approach does not add extra-inhomogeneity to the Schottky barrier height distribution. This work represents a significant advance in the realization of graphene/Si Schottky devices for optoelectronic applications.
description: Research paper, 22 pages, 7 figures
Artificial Intelligence-Based Methods for Fusion of Electronic Health Records and Imaging Data
Creators: name: Mohsen, Farida
name: Ali, Hazrat
name: Hajj, Nady El
name: Shah, Zubair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Healthcare data are inherently multimodal, including electronic health records (EHR), medical images, and multi-omics data. Combining these multimodal data sources contributes to a better understanding of human health and provides optimal personalized healthcare. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly machine learning (ML), enable the fusion of these different data modalities to provide multimodal insights. To this end, in this scoping review, we focus on synthesizing and analyzing the literature that uses AI techniques to fuse multimodal medical data for different clinical applications. More specifically, we focus on studies that only fused EHR with medical imaging data to develop various AI methods for clinical applications. We present a comprehensive analysis of the various fusion strategies, the diseases and clinical outcomes for which multimodal fusion was used, the ML algorithms used to perform multimodal fusion for each clinical application, and the available multimodal medical datasets. We followed the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. We searched Embase, PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar to retrieve relevant studies. We extracted data from 34 studies that fulfilled the inclusion criteria. In our analysis, a typical workflow was observed: feeding raw data, fusing different data modalities by applying conventional machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) algorithms, and finally, evaluating the multimodal fusion through clinical outcome predictions. Specifically, early fusion was the most used technique in most applications for multimodal learning (22 out of 34 studies). We found that multimodality fusion models outperformed traditional single-modality models for the same task. Disease diagnosis and prediction were the most common clinical outcomes (reported in 20 and 10 studies, respectively) from a clinical outcome perspective.
description: Accepted in Nature Scientific Reports. 20 pages
Talking the talk but not walking the walk: barriers to person centred care in dementia
Creators: name: Hill, Heather
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: While the concept of person-centred care in dementia has been around for 15 years or more and has attracted much interest and enthusiasm, aged care facilities continue to have difficulty in actually implementing and maintaining person-centred practices. In this study I explore the experience of one aged care facility in order to identify the barriers to changing care practice.The research took place in an ethno-specific (Jewish) aged care facility, Star of David, which was in the process of setting up a program for its residents with dementia based on person-centred principles. The methodology used in the research study was ethnographic, involving participant observation and interview, with a particular focus on a limited number of participants: four residents and their families, four senior staff, four personal care attendants and the executive director. Interviews were also conducted with staff members from three other aged care facilities.The findings showed that Star of David was unable to bring about substantial change in its care practices, while the external interviews and the literature suggest that other facilities have similar difficulties. I identify three major types of barrier: procedural barriers within the institution itself; (government) policy; and barriers relating to hegemonic values and beliefs which underpin established health care practice. These three types of barrier interact with and reinforce one another. I conclude that if we are to change care practice in institutions, we must address all of these barriers at the same time.Finally, I suggest that person-centred care itself, which continues to place emphasis on professional service provision, may only be the beginning of necessary change. In order to be truly person-centred, we need to move towards a more community based or public health approach which recognizes the need of all persons to be treated both as significant individuals and accepted as part of a community.

Originally part of the Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) database.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment for the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the School of Public Health], Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Time scales and species coexistence in chaotic flows
Creators: name: Galla, Tobias
name: Pérez-Muñuzuri, Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Empirical observations in marine ecosystems have suggested a balance of biological and advection time scales as a possible explanation of species coexistence. To characterise this scenario, we measure the time to fixation in neutrally evolving populations in chaotic flows. Contrary to intuition the variation of time scales does not interpolate straightforwardly between the no-flow and well-mixed limits; instead we find that fixation is the slowest at intermediate Damköhler numbers, indicating long-lasting coexistence of species. Our analysis shows that this slowdown is due to spatial organisation on an increasingly modularised network. We also find that diffusion can either slow down or speed up fixation, depending on the relative time scales of flow and evolution.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The politics of school management : a comparative study of three school councils
Creators: name: Gronn, Peter C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Optical thermometry based on level anticrossing in silicon carbide
Creators: name: Anisimov, A. N.
name: Simin, D.
name: Soltamov, V. A.
name: Lebedev, S. P.
name: Baranov, P. G.
name: Astakhov, G. V.
name: Dyakonov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a giant thermal shift of $2.1 \,$MHz/K related to the excited-state zero-field splitting in the silicon vacancy centers in 4H silicon carbide. It is obtained from the indirect observation of the optically detected magnetic resonance in the excited state using the ground state as an ancilla. Alternatively, relative variations of the zero-field splitting for small temperature differences can be detected without application of radiofrequency fields, by simply monitoring the photoluminescence intensity in the vicinity of the level anticrossing. This effect results in an all-optical thermometry technique with temperature sensitivity of $100 \,$mK/Hz$^{1/2}$ for a detection volume of approximately $10^{-6} \,$mm$^{3}$. In contrast, the zero-field splitting in the ground state does not reveal detectable temperature shift. Using these properties, an integrated magnetic field and temperature sensor can be implemented on the same center.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Generalisation and Sharing in Triplet Convnets for Sketch based Visual Search
Creators: name: Bui, Tu
name: Ribeiro, Leonardo
name: Ponti, Moacir
name: Collomosse, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose and evaluate several triplet CNN architectures for measuring the similarity between sketches and photographs, within the context of the sketch based image retrieval (SBIR) task. In contrast to recent fine-grained SBIR work, we study the ability of our networks to generalise across diverse object categories from limited training data, and explore in detail strategies for weight sharing, pre-processing, data augmentation and dimensionality reduction. We exceed the performance of pre-existing techniques on both the Flickr15k category level SBIR benchmark by $18\%$, and the TU-Berlin SBIR benchmark by $\sim10 \mathcal{T}_b$, when trained on the 250 category TU-Berlin classification dataset augmented with 25k corresponding photographs harvested from the Internet.
description: submitted to CVPR2017 on 15Nov16
Spectral Ageing in the Most Powerful Radio Galaxies
Creators: name: Mahatma, Vijay
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2017
Subjects: spectral ageing
radio galaxies
AGN
cluster
shock
FR-II

description: Radio-loud AGN represent the most energetic and influential large-scale structures in the Universe. Through physical processes such as AGN feedback, they are suggested to play a major role in the evolution of galaxies. The key physical parameter in these studies is the jet power, which requires an accurately determined age for the source. In this thesis I present a detailed investigation of the dynamics and energetics of two powerful radio galaxies found in cluster environments, in order to probe the well known spectral age/dynamical age discrepancy. Through the use of the high-resolution and newly improved radio interferometer, the JVLA, I present the highest fidelity radio maps of 3C320 and 3C444 to date, which I then use to determine their spectral ages. I also present analysis of the deep and sensitive Chandra observation of the cluster shock surrounding 3C320, used to determine its dynamical age. Applying the most widely used models of spectral ageing I find that, although all models do not provide a reasonable fit to the data, the spectral and dynamical ages can be brought into agreement. I find that the low frequency spectral index (injection index) is relatively flat for these sources, agreeing with previously held assumptions although in contrast to recent work on spectral ageing. There is some suggestion to reject the Kardashev-Pacholczyk model as a valid ageing model for powerful radio galaxies, although this is not robust. I suggest that, since the Tribble model provides consistent fits compared to the other models while providing a more physically realistic description of spectral ageing in the lobes of radio galaxies, it may proceed to be the ageing model of choice for future studies. I argue that the combination of broad-bandwidth data at low and high frequencies with a lobe magnetic field that has a large departure from equipartition estimates can give an agreement between spectral and dynamical ages. I also argue that projection effects and a robust determination of the Mach number of the driven shock by the radio galaxy into its environment are also important factors which may cause a discrepancy in ages. I find no evidence for the conclusions drawn from previous work on powerful radio galaxies in richcluster environments, where it was suggested that their lobes are apparently under-pressured with respect to their environment and therefore require a significant contribution from non-radiating particles for pressure-balance. I therefore suggest that conclusions cannot be made regarding the effect of the environment on lobe particle content of powerful radio galaxies in these rich environments until further samples are studied.
Towards a fifth Gospel via Schillebeeckx and Solle
Creators: name: Harvey, Ann-Marie
Publisher: name: Australian Catholic University
Year: 2003

description: Summary: The aim of this thesis, Towards ajifth gospel via Schillebeeclx and Solle, is a search for God and God's gospel. It is a quest in which I combine Edward Schillebeeckx's belief that Christian life is a fifth gospel and Dorothee Solle's praxis-orientated theology into a contrapuntal theological conversation. I argue that through each theologian's vision of Christian life a theological and hermeneutical framework is established within which men and women of faith can interpret change and prepare the world and church for God's transforming newness.
AID: A Benchmark Dataset for Performance Evaluation of Aerial Scene Classification
Creators: name: Xia, Gui-Song
name: Hu, Jingwen
name: Hu, Fan
name: Shi, Baoguang
name: Bai, Xiang
name: Zhong, Yanfei
name: Zhang, Liangpei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Aerial scene classification, which aims to automatically label an aerial image with a specific semantic category, is a fundamental problem for understanding high-resolution remote sensing imagery. In recent years, it has become an active task in remote sensing area and numerous algorithms have been proposed for this task, including many machine learning and data-driven approaches. However, the existing datasets for aerial scene classification like UC-Merced dataset and WHU-RS19 are with relatively small sizes, and the results on them are already saturated. This largely limits the development of scene classification algorithms. This paper describes the Aerial Image Dataset (AID): a large-scale dataset for aerial scene classification. The goal of AID is to advance the state-of-the-arts in scene classification of remote sensing images. For creating AID, we collect and annotate more than ten thousands aerial scene images. In addition, a comprehensive review of the existing aerial scene classification techniques as well as recent widely-used deep learning methods is given. Finally, we provide a performance analysis of typical aerial scene classification and deep learning approaches on AID, which can be served as the baseline results on this benchmark.
There Grows the Neighborhood: Regenerative Neighborhood Development in South Side Chicago
Creators: name: Limary, Brandon
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: Regenerative development is an emergent field of practice aimed to address escalating climate change and urbanization trends by incorporating holistic, systems thinking approaches to urban development. The intent of this study is to investigate the key principles of an iteration of regenerative development, regenerative neighborhood development (RND), and how they align with or depart from key regenerative development principles (those being principles of wholism, change, relationships) and what might explain these similarities/differences. For this paper, I examine Sweet Water Foundation, based in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the leading practitioners of RND, as a case study. To best understand RND from a theoretical, empirical, and experiential basis, I conducted participant observation over twelve months at Sweet Water Foundation. I then extracted key themes from the qualitative data in the form of observations, field notes, reflections, and photos through thematic content analysis. I later contrasted these themes against a regenerative development evaluation framework to reveal key distinctions and similarities in core principles, and underlying assumptions, between the two development methodologies. Through its application of key regenerative development concepts at the neighborhood scale, I argue that RND incorporates and advances existing regenerative development approaches by emphasizing the locality of production and the value of place-based knowledge, culture, and subjects. However, the study also revealed differences in foundational assumptions between the two regenerative development methodologies. This study contributes to the growing literature on regenerative development and elucidates new principles of regenerative development that may better inform future urban development processes at the neighborhood scale.
Predictions on the alpha decay chains of superheavy nuclei with Z =121 within the range 290 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 339
Creators: name: Santhosh, K. P.
name: Nithya, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic study on the alpha decay half lives of various isotopes of superheavy element \textit{Z} = 121 within the range 290 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 339 is presented for the first time using Coulomb and proximity potential model for deformed nuclei (CPPMDN). The calculated $α$ decay half lives of the isotopes within our formalism match well with the values computed using Viola-Seaborg systematic, Universal curve of Poenaru et al., and the analytical formula of Royer. In our study by comparing the $α$ decay half lives with the spontaneous fission half lives, we have predicted $2α$ chain from $^{309, 311, 312}$121, $3α$ chain from $^{310}$121 and $1α$ chain from $^{313, 314}$121. Clearly our study shows that the isotopes of superheavy element \textit{Z} = 121 within the mass range 309 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 314 will survive fission and can be synthesized and detected in the laboratory via alpha decay. We hope that our predictions will provide a new guide to future experiments.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1604.00296, arXiv:1504.00872
The spatial abilities and skills of primary school children : a geographical examination
Creators: name: Gregson, John S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 509 XV. A global modeling of the broad emission lines in the Optical, UV and X-ray bands
Creators: name: Costantini, E.
name: Kriss, G.
name: Kaastra, J. S.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: Branduardi-Raymont, G.
name: Cappi, M.
name: De Marco, B.
name: Ebrero, J.
name: Mehdipour, M.
name: Petrucci, P. -O.
name: Paltani, S.
name: Ponti, G.
name: Steenbrugge, K. C.
name: Arav, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the broad emission lines present in the optical, UV and X-ray spectra of Mrk 509, a bright type 1 Seyfert galaxy. The broad lines were simultaneously observed during a large multiwavelength campaign, using the XMM-Newton-OM for the optical lines, HST-COS for the UV lines and XMM-Newton-RGS and Epic for the X-ray lines respectively. We also used FUSE archival data for the broad lines observed in the far-ultra-violet. The goal is to find a physical connection among the lines measured at different wavelengths and determine the size and the distance from the central source of the emitting gas components. We used the "Locally optimally emission Cloud" (LOC) model which interprets the emissivity of the broad line region (BLR) as regulated by powerlaw distributions of both gas density and distances from the central source. We find that one LOC component cannot model all the lines simultaneously. In particular, we find that the X-ray and UV lines likely may originate in the more internal part of the AGN, at radii in the range ~5x10^{14}-3x10^{17} cm, while the optical lines and part of the UV lines may likely be originating further out, at radii ~3x10^{17}-3x^{18} cm. These two gas components are parametrized by a radial distribution of the luminosities with a slope gamma of ~1.15 and ~1.10, respectively, both of them covering at least 60% of the source. This simple parameterization points to a structured broad line region, with the higher ionized emission coming from closer in, while the emission of the low-ionization lines is more concentrated in the outskirts of the broad line region.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
FAIR HEBT System - Status Report
Creators: name: Hagenbuck, F.
name: Bozyk, L.
name: Krämer, A.
name: Merk, B.
name: Mühle, C.
name: Ratschow, S.
name: Schlei, Bernd
name: Spiller, P.
name: Walasek-Höhne, B.
name: Welker, H.
name: Will, C.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2014
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2013 - GSI Report 2014-1
An exercise programme for patients with intermittent claudication: randomised trial of health outcomes and cost analysis
Creators: name: Guidon, Marie
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: As peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a chronic, progressive disease with a significant cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk burden, it has a considerable impact on functional capacity and quality of life (QoL). Exercise programmes result in significant improvements in walking distances but these correlate poorly with patient-reported functioning and QoL and the long-term outcomes are unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the long-term (one year) effects of participation in a 12-week supervised exercise programme for patients with intermittent claudication (IC). Primary outcome measures were the effects on disease-specific aspects of quality of life, functional capacity and cardiovascular risk factors. Secondary outcome measures were the effects on generic aspects of quality of life and a cost analysis of the exercise intervention. Patients were recruited from the Vascular Clinics (Beaumont Hospital) and randomly allocated to a Control (n= 16) or an Exercise (n=28) group. Data regarding cardiovascular risk factors, functional capacity (Walking Impairment Questionnaire WIQ), disease-specific QoL (Intermittent Claudication Questionnaire ICQ) and generic QoL (SF-36) were collected at baseline, 12 weeks and one year. Costs of participation in the exercise programme were measured. The final numbers available for analysis at 12 weeks were 31 (Exercise n=17 and Control n=14) and at one year were 30 (Exercise n=17 and Control n=13). At 12 weeks, there was a trend towards improved QoL in both groups, greater in the Exercise group (p=.066) and a trend towards improvement in functional capacity (WIQ Stair-climbing p=.093) in the Exercise group. At one year, improvements in the Exercise group (although reduced from those recorded immediately following completion of the exercise programme) were maintained from baseline. Scores in the Control group at one year reflected a continuing deterioration in QoL and functional capacity. There were no significant changes in cardiovascular risk factors. Cost associated with the exercise intervention were calculated. The implications for clinical practice and service delivery within the Irish healthcare system are discussed.
title: Уголовное право. Общая часть
title: Учебно-методическое пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Джансараева Р.Е.
name:  Маликова Ш.Б.
name:  Ергали А.М.
Publisher: name: Казахский национальный университет им. аль-Фараби
Year: 2013

description: Учебно-методическое пособие, составленное на основе действующего уголовного законодательства Республики Казахстан и своим содержанием охватывающее основные положения Уголовного кодекса, включает программу курса, задачи, задания для самостоятельных работ, тестовые задания для контроля знаний студентов по всем темам учебного курса Уголовного права и нормативный материал. Предназначено для преподавателей, магистрантов и студентов юридических вузов и факультетов.
description: Textbook, compiled on the basis of the current criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its content covering the basic provisions of the Criminal code, includes the course syllabus, objectives, tasks for independent work, test tasks for control student's knowledge on all topics of the training course of Criminal law and regulatory material. Intended for teachers, undergraduates and students of law universities and faculties.
Optical quorum cycles for efficient communication
Creators: name: Kleinheksel, Cory J.
name: Somani, Arun K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many optical networks face heterogeneous communication requests requiring topologies to be efficient and fault tolerant. For efficiency and distributed control, it is common in distributed systems and algorithms to group nodes into intersecting sets referred to as quorum sets. We show efficiency and distributed control can also be accomplished in optical network routing by applying the same established quorum set theory. Cycle-based optical network routing, whether using SONET rings or p-cycles, provides the sufficient reliability in the network. Light-trails forming a cycle allow broadcasts within a cycle to be used for efficient multicasts. Cyclic quorum sets also have all pairs of nodes occurring in one or more quorums, so efficient, arbitrary unicast communication can occur between any two nodes. Efficient broadcasts to all network nodes are possible by a node broadcasting to all quorum cycles to which it belongs (O(sqrt(N))). In this paper, we propose applying the distributed efficiency of the quorum sets to routing optical cycles based on light-trails. With this new method of topology construction, unicast and multicast communication requests do not need to be known or even modeled a priori. Additionally, in the presence of network link faults, greater than 99 % average coverage enables the continued operation of nearly all arbitrary unicast and multicast requests in the network. Finally, to further improve the fault coverage, an augmentation to the ECBRA cycle finding algorithm is proposed.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1608.05170, arXiv:1608.05172
Statement: The Metaverse as an Information-Centric Network
Creators: name: Kutscher, Dirk
name: Burke, Jeff
name: Fioccola, Giuseppe
name: Mendes, Paulo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2; E.1

description: This paper discusses challenges and opportunities of considering the Metaverse as an Information-Centric Network (ICN). The Web today essentially represents a data-centric application layer: data named by URLs is manipulated with REST primitives. However, the semantic gap with the underlying host-oriented transport is significant, typically leading to complexity, centralization, and brittleness. Popular interest in "the Metaverse" suggests that the end-user experience of the Web will evolve towards always-on eXtended Reality (XR). With the benefit of a historical perspective, computing advances, and decades of experience with a global network, there is an opportunity to holistically consider the Metaverse not as an application of the current network, but an evolution of the network itself, reducing rather than widening the gap between network architecture and application semantics. An ICN architecture offers the possibility to achieve this with less overhead, low latency, better security, and more disruption tolerance suitable to diverse uses cases, even those facing intermittent connectivity.
description: The final version of this paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of ACM ICN-2023. Please cite the published version (https://doi.org/10.1145/3623565.3623761)
The relationship between children's reading comprehension, word reading, language skills and memory in a normal sample
Creators: name: Goff, Deborah
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: The current study aimed to develop a model of reading comprehension for children in middle primary school. As part of this overall aim there was a particular focus on the contribution of different types of memory to reading comprehension. The variables selected for consideration were identified from the child and adult literature and were of three types: word reading, language, and memory. The sample comprised 180 primary school children in grades 3-5 recruited from two primary schools. Their ages ranged from 8 years 7 months to 11 years 11 months. The reading comprehension measure was in a multiple-choice format with the text available when answering the questions. The five word reading measures were phonological recoding, orthographic processing, text reading accuracy, text reading speed, and a measure of exposure to print and reading experience. It is recognised that, although exposure to print is closely associated with word reading skills, it is not a direct measure of word reading. The language measures were oral comprehension, receptive vocabulary and receptive grammatical skills. The memory measures included measures of verbal and visuospatial short-term memory, measures of verbal and visuospatial working memory, a measure of the ability to inhibit irrelevant information from working memory and a measure of longer term verbal learning and retrieval. Correlational and hierachical multiple regression analyses were used to extrapolate the relationships between and among these variables.The results revealed that, after controlling for age and general intellectual ability, the word reading and the language variables had a much stronger relationship with reading comprehension than the memory variables. The strongest independent predictors of reading comprehension were orthographic processing and oral comprehension. An additive combination of these two variables provided a more parsimonious model of reading comprehension than other models under consideration. It was concluded that for the age range in this study, language and word reading skills are the main predictors of reading comprehension and that the different types of memory do not make major contributions to reading comprehension.

Originally part of the Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) database.

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment for the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the School of Psychological Science], Faculty of Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
Boletín Informativo/Newsletter 15
Creators: name: Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte
Publisher: name: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte.
Year: 2024
Subjects: Migration
Border
Gastrodiplomacy
Democrats

description: ÍNDICE / TABLE OF CONTENTS PUBLICACIONES MIEMBROS REDAN | REDAN MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS Artículos publicados / Published Articles

• “Central and Eastern Europe in United States Strategic Vision”, Global Security and International Relations after the Escalation of the Ukrainian Crisis, 2024

• “Paradojas del trumpismo, la crisis del fentanilo y la guerra contra los cárteles”

Artículos de opinión / Opinion Articles

 • Y la situación de las personas en movilidad en México, ¿cómo se comunica?

• Estados Unidos y su control remoto de la migración Reseñas / Reviews Libros / Books

• Frontera. A Journey across the U.S.-Mexico Border

• América del Norte 2.0. Forjar un futuro continental

Proyectos de investigación y docencia / Research and Teaching Projects

• El camino en la divulgación de las experiencias migratorias. Una reseña del curso “Comunicación sobre migración, herramientas metodológicas desde el Sur global”

• Dreamers latinoamericanos visitan el cisan

• Conferencia “Gastrodiplomacias migrantes. La conexión Puebla-Passaic”

CONVOCATORIAS | CALLS FOR PAPERS FOROS ACADÉMICOS | ACADEMIC FORUMS CULTURA | CULTURE LIBROS / REVISTAS | BOOKS / JOURNALS

• Libros / Books • Lecturas de descarga abierta / Open Access Readings

• Revistas / Journals

LIGAS DE INTERÉS |LINKS OF INTEREST LA COYUNTURA EN NORTEAMÉRICA | CURRENT ISSUES IN NORTH AMERICA

• Noticias / News

• Documentos/ Documents

OPINIONES DE EXPERTOS EN LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN |EXPERTS OPINIONS IN THE MEDIA
description: Red de Norteamericanistas (REDAN). Boletín Informativo/Newsletter 15. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, julio de 2024, 27pp. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13256423)
20 Minutes of Care – 2 Chapelhow et al Enablers
Creators: name: Kendrew, Fiona Louise
Publisher: name: Links to Health and Social Care
Year: 2017

description: There are six fundamental skills that enable a health care practitioner to become an expert practitioner (Chapellhow et al 2005). This article discusses two of these skills, communication and risk management whilst feeding an individual during a work placement. An 81-year-old woman lives in a nursing home, has Alzheimer’s disease and is a type two diabetic. The element of care lasted for no more than 20 minutes but several examples of the communication and risk management enablers were present. Good communication skills promote person-centred care and examples of verbal and non-verbal communication are given. The management of risk associated with dysphagia, malnutrition, osteoarthritis and diabetes are also described.
description: Links to Health and Social Care, Vol 2 No 2 (2017)
Primary caregiver fathers : a role study
Creators: name: Grbich, Carolyn F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
Employment characteristics and partnership formation among lone mothers in Russia
Creators: name: Zabel, Cordula
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2012

description: Lone mothers’ poverty rates in Russia were very high in the period following the transition in 1991, and earnings inequalities between women increased. The aim of this paper is to examine to what extent lone mothers’ economic situation may have also influenced their rates of partnership formation. This can add to an understanding of how the influence of growing economic inequalities extends to other areas of the life course as well. The data used is from the Russian Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), and methods of event-history analysis are applied for the empirical investigations. The effect of occupation on partnership formation is compared before and after the transition, as earnings differences between those working in different occupations grew after 1991. The results indicate that lone mothers working in service occupations, in particular, had substantially higher rates of partnership formation than those working in higher-paying professional occupations requiring a university degree, both before and after the transition in 1991. However, no large changes in the effect of occupation on partnership formation are found for the period after 1991 compared to the period before transition. Zusammenfassung Armutsraten von alleinerziehenden Müttern in Russland waren in der Zeit nach dem politischen und ökonomischen Umbruch im Jahr 1991 besonders hoch, und Einkommensungleichheiten zwischen Frauen nahmen in dieser Periode ebenfalls zu. Daher ist die Fragestellung in dieser Studie, inwiefern die ökonomische Situation von Alleinerziehenden auch ihre Übergangsraten in neue Partnerschaften beeinflusst hat. Dies kann dazu beitragen, zu verstehen, inwiefern wachsende ökonomische Ungleichheiten sich auch auf andere Bereiche des Lebenslaufs auswirken. Die empirischen Analysen beruhen auf Daten des russischen Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). Es wird der Einfluss des Berufs auf Partnerschaftsbildungsraten von Alleinerziehenden vor und nach 1991 anhand von Übergangratenmodellen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Alleinerziehende, die im Dienstleistungsbereich arbeiteten, sowohl vor wie auch nach 1991 deutlich höhere Partnerschaftsbildungsraten hatten als Alleinerziehende, die in höher entlohnten Berufen arbeiteten, die einen Universitätsabschluss voraussetzten. Allerdings wurden keine bedeutenden Veränderungen im Einfluss des Berufs auf Partnerschaftsbildungsraten nach 1991, im Vergleich zu vor 1991 gefunden.
description: Journal of Family Research, Vol 24 No 3 (2012)
Quantifying quantum coherence via nonreal Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability
Creators: name: Budiyono, Agung
name: Dipojono, Hermawan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability is a quantum analog of phase space probability of classical statistical mechanics, allowing negative or/and nonreal values. It gives an informationally complete representation of a quantum state. Recent works have revealed the important roles played by the KD quasiprobability in the broad fields of quantum science and quantum technology. In the present work, we use the KD quasiprobability to access the quantum coherence in a quantum state. We show that the $l_1$-norm of the imaginary part of the KD quasiprobability over an incoherent reference basis and a second basis, maximized over all possible choices of the latter, can be used to quantify quantum coherence, satisfying certain desirable properties. It is upper bounded by the quantum uncertainty, i.e., the quantum standard deviation, of the incoherent basis in the state. It gives a lower bound to the $l_1$-norm quantum coherence, and for a single qubit, they are identical. We discuss the measurement of the KD coherence based on the measurement of the KD quasiprobability and an optimization procedure in hybrid quantum-classical schemes, and suggest statistical interpretations. We also discuss its relevance in the physics of linear response regime.
description: 23 pages, no figures
Understanding the Plasmonics of Nanostructured Atomic Force Microscopy Tips
Creators: name: Sanders, Alan
name: Bowman, Richard W.
name: Zhang, Liwu
name: Turek, Vladimir
name: Sigle, Daniel O.
name: Lombardi, Anna
name: Weller, Lee
name: Baumberg, Jeremy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structured metallic tips are increasingly important for optical spectroscopies such as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), with plasmonic resonances frequently cited as a mechanism for electric field enhancement. We probe the local optical response of sharp and spherical-tipped atomic force microscopy (AFM) tips using a scanning hyperspectral imaging technique to identify plasmonic behaviour. Localised surface plasmon resonances which radiatively couple with far-field light are found only for spherical AFM tips, with little response for sharp AFM tips, in agreement with numerical simulations of the near-field response. The precise tip geometry is thus crucial for plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, and the typical sharp cones are not preferred.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures